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Guess Inc. aims to hit $3 billion in sales by 2019, and the apparel manufacturer is counting on its growing e-commerce business to achieve that goal.
Guess, No. 327 in the Internet Retailer 2015 Top 500 Guide, reported fiscal Q4 2016 online sales in the Americas region of $33.0 million, up 9.3% from $30.2 million in the year-ago period. During the quarter ended Jan. 30, e-commerce accounted for 5.0% of sales, compared to 4.3% last year.
For fiscal 2016 online sales in the Americas were $89.5 million, up 14.2% from $78.4 million last year. Online accounted for 4.1% of Guess's overall sales in fiscal 2016, compared to 3.2% last year.
While online sales are growing, total sales are not. Guess reported Q4 net revenue of $658.3 million, down 5.5% from $696.7 million last year. It was a similar story for all of fiscal 2016, with net revenue of $2.204 billion, down 8.9% from $2.418 billion last year.
Guess CEO Victor Herrero told analysts on the company's fourth quarter earnings call that despite declining overall revenues, he plans to grow sales by $800 million over the next three years. E-commerce, he said, will play a key role in that plan.
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David Remnick has a short piece in the New Yorker, "Aflame," lamenting the current Gaza conflict. For me, it illustrates what is often wrong with the New Yorker these days: he's glib and gets the essence wrong.
Remnick is a great writer. But the trouble with elegant prose is it can camouflage bad judgment. Remnick has been known to carry water for war hawks before. (For example, here he is advocating for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.)
Remnick is good buddies with Ari Shavit and helped peddle his book on these shores. The main messages of Shavit's book ("My Promised Land," a book, Remnick said, "that if it's not in your hands, you're very foolish") is that 1) the world hates the Jews, and it always will, so the Jews need their own state armed to the teeth; 2) If the Jews don't have their own state, they'll intermarry and live happily assimilated lives—and we can't have that; 3) Iran is out to bomb Israel with nuclear weapons (See point 1); 4) Yes the "pioneers" who formed the state engaged in ethnic cleansing; it was necessary (but it means the Palestinians hate the Jews, they'll never get over it, so we need to keep a tight lid on the occupation); 5) Israel should abandon the West Bank—but it can't happen for the next generation or four, so get used to it. I doubt Shavit would entirely agree with this characterization, but read the book and tell me that this is not the gist of it.
Remnick doesn't display much wisdom in this latest New Yorker piece either. He locates the source of this conflict with the kidnapping of the three yeshiva students on June 2. This misses the point and is misleading. To be sure Remnick adds wise-sounding weasel words —but that's where he puts his finger: the kidnappings. However, even without unspooling to 1917 (the type of casting back that Remnick deplores here), the cause of the present flare up is the Hamas/PA reconciliation pact, which Netanyahu went more or less apoplectic about. That's where Remnick should point his finger.
Here's the timeline:
Hamas and the PA announced their intention to form a unity government on April 24, 2014 (while I was in Israel). This was to be followed by elections within six months. The U.S. indicated guarded support. The EU felt it was an important step towards a two-state solution. Israel harshly condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for choosing a pact with Hamas and Netanyahu promptly cut off the Kerry led peace negotiations.
The technocratic unity government was sworn in on June 2, 2014.
Ten days later, on June 12, three Israeli yeshiva students were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank by a rogue element loosely associated with Hamas. This group has acted in the past to undermine any softening of Hamas's position.
Israeli investigators knew the next morning the three had been killed because one of them placed an emergency "100" call, and there was an open recorded line as they were shot. The police soon found a burned-out Hyundai which contained a pair of tefillin (leather-bound texts that religious Jews strap on for prayer), DNA evidence that was quickly matched to the boys' parents, and eight bullet holes. But Netanyahu put a gag order on the press and for three weeks pursued Hamas on the West Bank, destroyed homes, arrested about 400—including every Hamas guy they could find, and killed at least five Palestinians, all the while professing they were hoping to find the boys alive.
This led to a barrage of Gaza rockets, Israeli bombing, an Israeli ground invasion and, as of this writing, 1,221 Palestinian dead, 56 Israeli dead, thousands wounded, and Gaza being demolished.
Remnick, rightly laments the politics of all this:
The politics are as disheartening as the casualties are heartbreaking. Last year, Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned that if the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, did not find a way to make serious progress on ending the occupation and creating feasible borders and mutual guarantees, the outlines of which have been clear for decades, the consequences would likely be catastrophic—from a third intifada to the end of a two-state solution. Moshe Ya'alon, Netanyahu's Defense Minister, made plain the leadership's attitude toward the peace talks by telling associates that Kerry was "obsessive" and "messianic." "He should take his Nobel Prize and leave us alone," Ya'alon said.
But what is he saying? This seems like unintelligible gibberish aimed at sounding smart, while saying nothing. Is he criticizing Kerry, or supporting Kerry? Who knows. Is he seconding Israel's criticism of Kerry, or holding it up for ridicule. The reader can take away what she may.
Remnick did an excellent piece on the new right in Israel, Naftali Bennet, Avigdor Lieberman, and Moshe Feiglin, in January '13. But to suggest that Natanyahu was ever seriously behind a two state solution, as Remnick does in his penultimate paragraph (referencing the 2009 Bar Ilan speech), is not really credible. What's more believable is that Benzion Netanyahu, an unrepentant racist whose motto was "never give up any part of the land," is presently smiling proudly down on his son as I write this.
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Last week, Reuven Rivlin, the scion of an old, right-wing Jerusalem family, took the oath of office as Israel's President. The post is largely ceremonial, but there was meaning in the occasion. Rivlin was replacing Shimon Peres, who was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1994, for his role in forging the Oslo Accords. Peres, who is ninety, is a champion of the two-state solution. Rivlin is a champion of the Israeli settlers. As he has put it, "I wholeheartedly believe that the land of Israel is ours in its entirety." Tragically, it is Rivlin's absolutist view that is in the ascendance for so many, both in Palestine and in Israel.
It's true, Rivlin is a one state guy, but he's willing to give everybody citizenship. Netanyahu's heart lies with the Greater-Israel-without-any-Palestinians crowd. Peres was an old hawk who became a fig leaf for the "we are so peaceful, and would like to compromise, really—if only we had a peace partner—but we-don't-so-we-really-must-settle-and occupy-forever" crowd. Give me Rivlin over Peres any day.
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Drexel University recently invited me to speak about football, brain damage and the future of the sport at their Sports for Social Change Conference. My talk centered around how this is much more than a sports issue, and how finding the right answers depends on first asking the right questions.
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A new video from up-and-coming hip hop outfit Smoke Screen. To me, just about everything with this track seems to be on fire. The drum beat on this beat, the dense flows, and the hook. Actually, I can't say my fire analogy really makes sense considering the title of the song, but whatever.
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Since my first reality show concept, America's Next Top Dictator, failed to attract any attention from the major television networks (I'm looking at you Fox… you accepted Battle of the Bods but denied me? I mean COME ON – Alright, calm down Vivek. You can't let emotions cloud proper writing flow). In any case, my latest reality show proposal is guaranteed to spark an epic network bidding war. The name of this new television gem? IT Wars.
IT Wars will unveil the mysterious, exciting, and occasionally sexy world of the IT Professional to American audiences, creating a new reality TV series that is destined to top the ratings charts.
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Forget the "vote-off" gimmicks involved in other reality shows, IT War contestants won't get booted off an island or voted out of some camera-filled house, these IT professionals will actually be fired from their jobs when they fail a challenge. However, they will be promoted to hefty seven figure bonuses when they succeed. The power to make or break careers has always been a vital recipe for the successful reality show, and watching these sorry souls bust their balls for 24 hours straight with the fear of a ruined career nipping at their tail will be truly entertaining television.
Since our contestants only have 24 hours to complete their challenges, I suggest we incorporate something from the popular action show 24. Come to think of it, Kiefer Sutherland would be an ideal IT Wars host. Can you imagine listening to Jack Bauer's intense narration as the camera pans over a goofy IT Professional furiously typing and chugging Mountain Dew as he desperately attempts to rekindle a dying piece of financial data?
Like any reality show, the producers and I will inject a variety of contrived situations into each episode that are designed solely to whore in additional viewers. For example, I would break into a contestant's World of Warcraft account and counterfeit a dirty affair with a fellow female WOW user. I would then accidentally plant evidence of some illicit WOW cybering into the hands of the IT Professional's wife and make sure the camera was rolling when she confronted the poor guy. It would be vintage reality television!
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BREAKING: Gunman On The Run After School Shooting In Denver
A gunman is still at large after a shooting at a US school.
Police in Denver have reported that three people were shot and have now been taken to hospital.
The shooting allegedly occurred at Manual High School in Denver, Colorado.
Investigations have been opened however, police currently have no information on the shooter.
#DPD Officers are in the 1700 block of E. 28th Ave investigating a shooting. 3 victims transported to the hospital. No suspect information available at this time. pic.twitter.com/lUn3wKr5dA— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) November 23, 2017
They have revealed that one of the victims was shot multiple times, another shot in the leg and a third person shot in the arm. The condition of the three victims is currently unknown.
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I fact-check Garden & Gun magazine and edit pieces such as this and this (if you love dogs, you might enjoy these.)
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"We belonged to a country club that didn't have any money." An interview with Amy Sedaris.
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After my last hot fuck on the edge of the Danube, I discovered a place where I really wanted to have a bit of fun ... On a quiesced railway bridge, which leads directly over the Danube and directly on a busy street and the jetty of tourist boats lies. Here you had almost a panoramic view of our great game. Being so tarnished correctly turned me on. Directly under the bridge drive through the boats and next to the cars. Perfect to drive it really dirty in different positions. First I ride him Mega cool on the railing of the bridge from with a clear view of the passing cars and then he fucks me on the other side of the bridge towards the tourist dock and gas station. Of course, he worried me in doggy while a boat is just off and in the end we fuck right next to the road at the passing cars. That makes him so horny that he injected me right there his huge load in the face. On the passing cars of course have the perfect view ... and do not forget to leave your rating for sufficient reviews are more horny public videos of me;)


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ASTOP stands for "ASOCIACION SALVEMOS LAS TORTUGAS DE PARISMINA" or "SAVE THE TURTLES OF PARISMINA".
In May of 2014 Kimberly Vale, Managing Director at DMD embarked on a life changing trip to Parismina, Costa Rica to join ASTOP volunteers in helping to save and protect the sea turtle population. Kimberly has just returned from Costa Rica once again, making this her second year in a row as an ASTOP volunteer.
Every year from March to October these sea turtles come to the beaches of Parismina to lay their eggs. Unfortunately their numbers are dwindling due to poachers who are stealing the eggs and in some cases the turtles themselves, and selling them in the black market. As a volunteer Kimberly had to patrol the beaches at night with limited light for many hours to ensure the turtles had a safe environment where they could lay their eggs. During the day the volunteers helped the local community with gardening, painting, and they helped teach English to the village children.
Conditions on the island were harsh, they endured extremely hot and humid temperatures, swarms of insects and overall physical exhaustion, but thanks to Kimberly, other volunteers and the local community's participation, the poaching of these incredible creatures has decreased by 38% since the program began.
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House Passes Stopgap Funding Bill
The latest round of the funding fights has been resolved. The House passed a bill that funds the government through Nov. 18, with only a conservative bloc of 66 members opposing. The Senate passed the bill last week. The bill includes $2.65 billion for FEMA's disaster-relief fund, but other agencies, including the Department of Defense, have their budgets cut by 1.5 percent. But more, and more bitter, budget fights are on the horizon: lawmakers are finishing work on 12 spending bills to fund the government for the current fiscal year, including a bill proposed by House Republicans that denies funding to President Obama's health-care overhaul and his education program.


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I'm currently at in Plano, TX. The TWC and Spectrum WiFi hotspots are so slow they are unusable. I find this issue happens far too often when I try to use these public hotspots. You sold me on the ability to join wifi when I am out and about, but I'm finding this service more useless than useful. What gives? The app doesn't let me report issues. I'm connected to my phone with my PC right now burning my data plan to complain to anyone who will listen.
complain to the hotspot support group, sounds like it's modem has a connectivity issue..
The business owner may be able to call this in as well as they will know their account number.
It has it's own seperate modem and is not on the same as the separate business data and telephone modems...


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Sunday, July 19, 2009
You CAN travel for a week with only carry on luggage.
Well, I did it. I was able to travel for a week with only carry on luggage. It took some thinkin' and some organizin' but I made it happ'n. I'm still talkin' like I was out West, 'cuz I wuz.
Anyway, we flew out from the east coast on Saturday and flew into Phoenix, AZ. We then drove down to Flagstaff and spent the night. The next day we drove to Williams, AZ and took the Grand Canyon Railway up into the Grand Canyon. If you ever get the chance to go to the canyon, TAKE THE TRAIN! It was great and we didn't have to worry about parking. We met an adorable family from New York on the train and became instant friends. The next few days found us traveling east through the Painted Desert and The Petrified Forest. We ended up in Amarillo, TX to visit with family and celebrate my grandma's 90th birthday. It was a great trip.
Now, about the packing of the luggage. I packed items in 2 1/2 gallon ziploc bags. I packed like items with like. Then I smooshed the air out of the bag.
Here is a list of the items I packed:
Bag #1:tennis shoes, white sandals, black sandals
Bag #2:1 pair pajamas, 7 pair underwear, 2 bras, 3 pairs of socks, 1 bathing suit
Bag #3:4 sleeveless shirts, 4 short sleeve shirts, 1 long sleeve shirt
Bag #4:1 pair khaki shorts, 1 pair denim shorts, 1 pair jeans, 1 pair black crop pants, 1 knit skirt
Jewelry bag: 1 bracelet, 1 necklace, 1 pair earrings
curling iron, medications, feminine needs, make-up samples in a 1 quart ziploc bag.
I also carried a backpack on the plane. In the backpack I took:
reading material, SNACKS, light-weight jacket, wallet, day planner (for phone numbers and addresses), my hiking aqua pack (for drinking water during the hike in the Grand Canyon), phone, and first aid kit and maps for travel.
We were able to zip around the airports quickly and go in and out of hotels without much effort. One of the good things about packing like this is that it limits what you can purchase while you travel. We always buy a Christmas ornament whenever we travel, so we had to vote on a small ornament that would pack easily in the bags. I was able to buy a beautiful pair of silver earrings for myself and a charming bracelet for our daughter (who couldn't come on the trip). There is ALWAYS a way to fit jewelry in a bag.
When we returned home, I had everyone dump their ziploc bags (which were full of DIRTY clothes) in the laundry room and I started washing clothes.
Tonight, I'll sit down to look at the map. I wonder where we'll go next?
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- Sheri O.July 19, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Okay, so it's obvious to me that packing this many clothes in a small carry on bag has everything to do with the size of the wearer! This exact same list of clothes in my size would never fit in a carry on!ReplyDelete
Well, it's good to know it can be done - I should have known you would be able to do it! Sounds like you had a wonderful time!
That is SERIOUSLY impressive.ReplyDelete
I am so impressed. Last summer my publisher was sending me to all sorts of conferences and I brought half the house and had more luggage than anyone. I had one bag that was almost entirely snacks because I don't like to eat much junk food and I don't like to ever be hungry. I really need to learn to pack stuff in one carry-on before I start traveling again. I can really used these tips!ReplyDelete


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Having given his legal justification for being in Birmingham, Dr. King then provides a greater reason for his presence: "I am here because injustice is here." He compares the SCLC to 8th century prophets who carried the word of Jesus far away from their homes, and himself implicitly to Paul of Tarsus, who brought the gospel to "the far corners of the Greco-Roman world." Dr. King is attempting to carry "the gospel of freedom" to areas far and wide (170).
He further argues that "all communities and states" are interrelated. As a man devoted to justice, he cannot ignore injustice simply because it happens outside of his hometown. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," since everyone feels the sting of injustice, even if indirectly. As a result, nobody in the United States should ever be considered an outsider anywhere else in the country (170).
Following this, Dr. King gently chides the clergymen. for criticizing the demonstrations without simultaneously criticizing "the conditions [of racial discrimination] that brought about the demonstrations." Knowing that they would not suggest a "social analysis" that only studies effects and not causes, he suggests they must not realize the extent to which Birmingham's "white power structure" has left the black community no option but to demonstrate (170-171).
Dr. King then describes in detail the process of organizing nonviolent action. These include investigating "whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action" (171).
He insists that all steps have been taken. Citing many facts of Birmingham's singularly egregious institutionalized racism and segregation, he argues that the SCLC had little reason to doubt there was cause for demonstrations, especially after the city's leaders "refused to engage in good-faith negotiation" (171).
He specifically describes an attempt in the previous September to meet with business leaders in Birmingham, and how several leaders of the SCLC agreed to cease demonstrations on the basis of promises that businesses across town would be integrated. However, these promises were never kept.
As a result, the SCLC planned to use "direct action," meaning they would put themselves on the front lines of demonstrations to appeal to the local and national consciences. However, they first underwent the process of "self-purification," holding workshops to ensure that they were prepared to proceed non-violently, to suffer arrest without allowing rage to consume them. After deciding they were capable of this approach, they chose Easter for the demonstrations, since it was a period of heavy shopping. The hope was that by targeting profits, they might facilitate more cooperation from business owners (171).
The SCLC plan was complicated when they realized that Birmingham's mayoral election was soon happening. They decided to postpone demonstrations, to determine whether Eugene "Bull" Connor. a notoriously vicious racist, would win. He lost, but they decided to proceed.
He then anticipates that the clergymen might wonder whether continued negotiations would be a better tactic than "sit-ins, marches, and so forth." Dr. King answers the rhetorical question by insisting that negotiation is the best tactic, and that "non-violent direct action" is designed explicitly to force negotiation. However, the means of such direct action is to create "crisis" and "tension" so that negotiations become necessary (172).
Acknowledging that words like "tension" and "crisis" are frightening to moderates, Dr. King nevertheless insists that he embraces such concepts, provided they are "constructive [and] nonviolent." In fact, he believes that tension is necessary for growth. He alludes to Socrates, who believed there must a "tension in the mind" so that individuals could transcend superstition and embrace truth, and insists that men like himself must force external tension so that men can "rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood" (172).
Therefore, he absolutely agrees that "negotiation" and "dialogue" should be the end game, but believes that it will not happen without a "crisis-packed" scenario (172).
Throughout this first section, Dr. King's tone remains consistently unemotional and logical. Considering the highly emotional nature of the content here, Dr. King's restraint is admirable. In a fashion that evokes a legal complaint, Dr. King acknowledges the clergymen's criticisms one at a time. He first notes the complaint that he is an outsider, then that he was too quick to action by encouraging demonstrations, and then that he is uninterested in negotiations. In fact, he often speaks directly in their voice, attempting to articulate their concerns and questions. Consider when he asks, "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" This attempt at empathetic understanding, at acknowledging that their voices matter, is both a reflection of Dr. King's theories on interconnectedness between people, and an effective way to argue a point without directly stating that point (172).
The basic legal structure – which will be discussed in more detail below – is to first stipulate certain facts, usually by acknowledging what is justifiable in the clergymen's complaints, and then to illustrate the fallacy behind those criticisms based on the stipulations. In this way, the "Letter" serves to attack an ambiguous hypocrisy in the clergymen, without ever explicitly accusing them of anything. In fact, even in the portion of this initial section in which he does criticize the clergymen – noting that they have only attacked the effects of segregation, and not its causes – he goes out of his way to give them the benefit of the doubt, to assume that they must have been misled. "None of them would want to rest content with the "superficial kind of social analysis" that operates that way; he does not accuse, but rather implies their deficiencies in reasoning or moral character (171).
Immediately after justifying his 'jurisdiction' in Birmingham, Dr. King makes his first intense challenge to the clergymen, using a moral sentiment – "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." The implication is that geographical boundaries are superficial and silly compared to the geographies of justice, which are far more fluid. This is obviously not a challenge that a professed Christian man would wish to disagree with. By not mentioning it right away, Dr. King has forced his audience to confront it not as an angry assertion, but as a logical extension of his reasoning (170).
That is, we should not consider these two paragraphs purely as a logical argument – they contain without any doubt powerfully emotional, moral, and transcendent assertions. The "Letter" has already moved between its two most notable appeals – to logos (the mind, the intellect) and to pathos (emotion). That Dr. King can move between logos and pathos so fluidly speaks to his command of rhetoric. By restraining himself from making the "Letter" an angry tirade, these shifts into emotional address are made all the more powerful.
Interestingly enough, he does not delve into the theology of this assertion about injustice, but rather places it forward as a stipulation. His support for its validity is provided mostly through unimpeachable allusions. Dr. King's lack of humility in comparing himself to Paul of Tarsus, and the SCLC to the first Christian missionaries, is easily forgiven when one realizes the implications of the argument. In effect, he is asking: How can these moral clergymen refuse to recognize the chance to practice their faith? How can they celebrate those early missionaries while now attacking a missionary who preaches an extension of such Christian justice? Without having to articulate these questions, which would naturally come off as a challenge or a suggestion of hypocrisy, Dr. King allows the allusions to pose the challenge. He leaves this first section having established the sanctity and righteousness of his cause as self-evident.
Another crucial aspect of this defense is the discussion on interrelatedness. The famous assertion - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" – implies within it one of Dr. King's most important philosophies: that the white man is a victim of discrimination same as the black man is. Though Dr. King's lifelong sentiments about the differences between races are complicated and dynamic, the "Letter" takes great pains to suggest that discrimination affects everyone. Again, this argument functions in the "Letter" less as a controversial argument and more as a factual stipulation, largely due to his controlled and almost apologetic tone.
Dr. King then makes his most direct criticism on the clergymen, in questioning why they do not show "concern for the conditions" of racism. As noted above, he is quick to excuse the clergymen, to assume they have been misled. His language implicitly distinguishes between them and the "white power structure," suggesting that their morality is simply confused, whereas the power structure is actively facilitating segregation.
And yet the clergymen's attack implies that there was some level of peace that existed between blacks and whites in Birmingham, a harmonious status quo that the demonstrators seek to upset. In turn, Dr. King implicitly but certainly denies that assumption. Later in the "Letter," he will deliberately confront the clergymen for praising the "white power structure" but not the black protestors in turn, but he is already in this early portion refusing to admit that there is equilibrium. The protestors have been left no option (172).
His description of the process the SCLC undertook before beginning demonstrations is amongst the most defensive sections of the "Letter." His description of the process is mechanical, almost dry, as he lists the four steps that the organization insists upon. Even the more controversial decisions – like the choice to begin demonstrations in the Easter season – are defended from a logical standpoint. It is clearly important to Dr. King that he not allow demonstrations to seem like expressions of 'angry black men,' but rather as events deliberately designed to achieve the justice that he has already stipulated his audience must know is desirable.
By first establishing this logical approach, Dr. King prepares his audience for the first challenging section of the "Letter": his defense of tension. Impressively, he approaches the topic from a didactic, almost scholarly place, so as to broach it without evoking the fear it might cause for his audience. His first tactic towards this roundabout approach involves the allusion to Socrates.
In fact, the allusion to Socrates is an effective way to understand both his argument and the letter's overall structure. Socratic dialogues are structured through questions that Socrates asks of another person. Through that person's answers, Socrates illustrates the limitations in that person's thinking. In other words, Socrates rarely if ever expresses a defined philosophy; instead, he merely forces a person to confront his own assumptions in order to bring that person closer to truth. While Dr. King certainly has a defined philosophy of justice, he structures the "Letter" around the criticism voiced by other people, and then uses undeniable truths (like 'injustice is bad') to illustrate the shortcomings of that thinking.
His argument is that intellectual growth happens only when one allows such tension to surface, and that he must similarly engender social tensions for greater change. Clearly, he knows that this section is what frightens and worries white society most of all, which is why he approaches it relatively late in the "Letter." And yet his argument is almost unimpeachable, especially as he insists that the purpose of "direct action" is to spur negotiation. People must be forced to confront themselves. This argument is important to establish since it prefigures his more direct attack on "moderates" that comes later in the "Letter."
Implicit in this argument is Dr. King's view of people in general. First, it goes without saying that the core of Dr. King's method was non-violent. For him, tension was about challenging, not threatening. Society must confront itself, but not harm itself; the goal was always constructive. This philosophy necessarily assumes that people are inherently good, or at least have the potential for such goodness. And yet the fact that "tension" and "crisis" are prerequisites to change also implies that we will not come to our better selves naturally. Instead, we must be forced to change ourselves. It is in this distinction that Dr. King's view of humanity can be seen as less naïve than it initially appears. One must have tension and protests if negotiations are actually to happen. Without individual action, unless someone forces us to confront our limitations, we might not do so (172).
Finally, it is important to note that while this "Diplomat" portion of the "Letter" is indeed focused on logic and reasoning, Dr. King's training in and natural inclinations towards preaching are nevertheless apparent. Frequently, he falls into soaring, emotional rhetoric even in the midst of otherwise legalistic arguments. One of many examples can be found in his discussion of initial negotiations with Birmingham business leaders, in which he says, "our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us" (171). The point here could simply be that Dr. King was accustomed to preaching, but it also indicates that even at its most straightforward, the stakes of Dr. King's mission are hardly simple. He might argue as a lawyer more than as a preacher, but his lapses into emotional rhetoric remind us that he is fighting not for a legal victory, but for the future of justice everywhere, for the fate of mankind and America's soul.
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The reaction of markets seems pretty apt to Macro Man: the US curve steepened and the dollar got whacked. The latter development seemed very much in line with how the dollar traded in the last few months of 2007; while it may have confounded the emerging consensus of a dollar rebound, it came as little surprise to Macro Man.
A dollar-bearish thesis is even easier to embrace when one considers that a 0.50% easing at the end of the month, which one must consider as a realistic possibility, would give the United States the third lowest policy rate in the G10. Assuming that market rates follow, this would mean that the dollar would re-enter the G10 carry basket....as a funding currency.
Does this have implications for the buck? Macro Man ran a simple study to find out. Using data back to 1983, he constructed a simple model wherein he follows the following rules:
* If the USD has one of the 3 highest interest rates in the G10, he goes long dollars against an equally-weighted basket of the three lowest-yielding currencies
* If the USD has one of the 3 lowest interest rates in the G10, he goes short dollars against an equally-weighted basket of the three highest-yielding currencies
* Positions are held as long as the dollar is in the top or bottom three yielding currencies; when it is not, the model has no position.
The return curve of the strategy is displayed below.
For the entire 25 year period, the strategy delivers an annual return of 4% with an annualized volatility of 6.2%; a return/risk ratio of 0.65. That is pretty darned good for such a simple strategy.
It's interesting to note that the vast majority of the returns have come in the last decade or so, a period of time which has seen the explosion of quantitative carry-based hedge fund and overlay models. Since 1997, the annualized return has has jumped to 8.4%, albeit with a concomitant rise in volatility to 7.2%. That represents a return/risk ratio of 1.15, a performance figure that the vast majority of market participants would be happy to exchange for their actual 10-year performance track records.
So while there is no guarantee that the dollar will continue to fall, the weight of evidence suggests that it is a reasonable proposition.
Meanwhile, BB's demonstration of willingness to cut aggressively even with inflation remaining an issue is a classic recipe for curve steepening. This has cut Macro Man in two ways: his 2 year payer swap has been run over, while his TIPS position has eroded a little value as well (strangely, breakevens have narrowed!) While he's happy to keep the latter, the former needs addressing.
Macro Man is happy to keep his Euro 2 year position, so an alternative spread trade might be a cross-currency steepener: receiving 2 year euro and paying 10 year US. This strategy entails small negative carry, but much less than a US steepener on its own. The profit potential, particularly once Trichet relents (in March, perhaps?), should be substantial.


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Are you ready for some Oysters?
Are you ready for some Oysters?
Oyster season officially begins today, October 15th and we kick it off in style each year by celebrating the North Carolina Oyster Festival. October 16 & 17, 2010 is the 30th anniversary of the ever popular NC event held at Ocean Isle Beach, NC and hosted by Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce. With over 45,000 people attending, you don't have to be an oyster lover to enjoy the sites, sounds & smells of a good time for all ages. In fact, the NC Oyster Festival won the 2007 award for North Carolina event of the year! Admission is only $5 per person while kids 8 & under are FREE.
The sites include Arts & Crafts Vendors, live music with dancing, a kid's area, a FREE NASCAR simulator, and of course, the Oyster Shucking Contest (Sat 4-6pm) which is truly a thrill to witness.
The smells include delicious food vendors serving a variety from Gyros, chowders & BBQ sandwiches to homemade ice cream & funnel cakes. Be sure to taste the succulent local oysters and pick your personal favorite in the Oyster Stew Cook-off Sunday at Noon.
The sounds of the bands will make you smile. The music starts early on Sat. and will end with a Shag Contest on Sunday.
Music Schedule:
Saturday Sunday
10am-12pm Craig Woolard Band 10am-12pm New Beginnings Praise Band
12pm-2pm Coastline Band 12pm-2pm Band of Oz
2pm-4pm Legends of the Beach Band 2pm-5pm The Imitations (Shag Contest)
4pm-6pm The Painted Man
Are you a runner? If so, be sure to enter the Road Race which includes a Fun Run, a 5K and a 10K for whatever level runner you are.
We sure hope you come to enjoy the Oyster Festival or visit our area this fall. The weather is perfectly comfortable usually in the 70's, the summer crowds have faded, and the island feels like a private paradise once more. And yes, as of today, we still have the old Sunset Beach Bridge in operation. The Bridge Dedication, held Oct. 1st, was a success as well as the Sunset at Sunset Celebration which was Oct. 2nd. Our sources tell us traffic will be directed on to the new bridge sometime next week (around the 20th of October)- so come take one more drive over our historic Sunset Beach bridge.
So, if you are ready, let's go walk on Sunset Beach this gorgeous morning down to the "Kindred Spirit" mailbox, head to Calabash for some roasted oysters for lunch and then welcome some weekend guests over at The Sunset Inn. I hope to see you!


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Donald Trump flew into Turnberry earlier and declared the course as the favourite of all the players.
He held an extraordinary press conference at the same time the women's best golfers were doing battle out on the Ailsa Course, during which he showed his support to keep the United Kingdom together.
Addressing media from across the globe, Trump said: "It's great we have the Women's Open here and all the players are coming off the course and saying how great the course is.
"This is the favourite of all the players and what I'm doing to it is going to make it even better."
Trump was also asked about the possibility of a second referendum on Scottish Independence which he branded 'ridiculous'.
The Trump Turnberry owner said: "I think it's ridiculous. "I would be extremely upset if that was even thought about. I had heard it would be 50 years before it would happen again.
"I don't know if it would happen again but it was a very bad period for Scotland. It was very divisive and I was here and I was watching.
"I thought that staying together was the better thing. I didn't want to make my points very clearly on that, because I felt it wasn't up to me.
"But I feel the people made the right decision and I can't imagine they would want to go through that again."
He also spoke at length about his current bid to be US President and made the claim he'd win the Hispanic vote if he receives the Republican nomination.
"If I get the nomination which I believe I will then I will get the Hispanic vote. I'm number one among Hispanics in the polls.
"Illegal immigration is a huge subject in the USA and I believe I've won the argument on it and people are now thanking me for bringing it up."
Trump, who was sporting a cap with the slogan "Make America Great Again", also added; "If I became President, I think I'd get on well with Vladimir Putin."


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For the record, Drac and Thalia are dressed as Dell Comics' superheroic Dracula and his sidekick Fleeta! Kind of a deep cut, that one.
For the record, Drac and Thalia are dressed as Dell Comics' superheroic Dracula and his sidekick Fleeta! Kind of a deep cut, that one.
Dracula the Unconquered #2: Captives of the Catacombs
Dracula and Thalia may have escaped from the Tower of London, but when they return to Dracula's estate, they're in more danger than ever! Who is the madman that has caged them with a house full of deathtraps, and what does he want from the greatest of all vampires? Find out if Dracula and Thalia can survive becoming Captives of the Catacombs!
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We're inching ever closer to the release of Dracula the Unconquered #2, but if you need something to tide you over, here's a nice surprise from our friends over at Geek: Drac writer Chris Sims was profiled in the very first issue of the relaunched magazine, with a focus on Dracula!
The magazine is on sale now at finer bookstores everywhere, so check it out, or watch for their website at GeekExchange.com, and special thanks to Brian Rubin for writing the piece!
We know it's been a long wait since Dracula the Unconquered #1, but don't worry: #2 is on the way soon! And to prove it, here's a look at Drac and Thalia from Steve's pencils for the second issue, coming soon right here at DraculaTheUnconquered.com!
What lies within that mysterious building, and what does it mean for Dracula and Thalia? Find out soon in Dracula the Unconquered #2!
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Dracula the Unconquered #2: Dracula and Thalia may have escaped from the Tower of London, but when they return to Dracula's estate, they're in more danger than ever! Who is the madman that has caged them with a house full of deathtraps, and what does he want from the greatest of all vampires? Find out when Chris Sims, Steve Downer and Josh Krach tell the story of our heroes becoming "Captives of the Catacombs!"
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We're less than a week away from the release of Dracula the Unconquered #1, and Chris Sims has been making the interview rounds again!
First, Chris appeared as the very first guest on the Geekin' Out podcast, where he spent almost two hours talking about everything from Dracula's pop culture connections to writing Thalia to the Canadian teen boat comedy, Breaker High.
In antoher first, this time at Nerdcenaries, interviewer Luke Herr talks to Chris about the math behind Dracula and whether or not he considers himself an expert on vampires in general.
Finally, Geoffrey D. Wessel at the Comics Bulletin gives us an extremely in-depth interview about the roots of the series and where it's going to go, with questions about "strip-mining pop culture," the notion of character by consensus, and Chris's preparedness to take the criticism he hands out at his day job. Plus, thoughts on the original Dracula:
Wessel: Then again, most people's ideas of Dracula come nowhere close to what Stoker actually wrote. Sad to think that the god-awful '90s film got it the closest.
Sims: That's one of the things that attracted me to the character, though. The idea that we have this idea of Dracula that's so much bigger and different than his portrayal in the novel. I made a joke that Dracula in Dracula isn't really any scarier than any weird foreign dude who invites you to his castle and then locks you up and tries to steal your girlfriend. He's just kind of a creep.
Check out the links for more information on the series, and be here next monday, October 31, for the debut of Dracula the Unconquered!


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Mark Ruffalo, Rian Johnson, Rachel Weisz, and Adrien Brody, on the set of Brothers Bloom
Rian Johnson established himself as a master stylist four years ago with his first movie, Brick, a neo-noir set in high-school, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As is customary, Mother Hollywood rewarded his freshman success with a bigger budget, bigger cast, and a creative carte blanche for a more ambitious second film. The result is the The Brothers Bloom, a conman movie starring Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz. In the process of writing his third movie, a darker time-travel tale, Johnson spoke to VF Daily about the debt the brothers Bloom owe to the brothers Marx, among other things.
The hardest part of writing a con-artist movie, I would imagine, would be figuring out how to fool an audience the way your protagonists have been fooling everybody else.
Well, in a way, yeah. But that was the kind of the aspect of it I was least focused on with Bloom. The origin of Bloom was actually the notion of doing a very character-based conman movie. But that was its own specific challenge, within this genre, just because it's a genre where, because the audience is expecting the payoff to be kind of a cool twist at the end, they come into it with a certain amount of emotional distance from the characters. And overcoming that, and doing a conman film that was structured around the journey of this character rather than the classically structured 'gotcha' twist at the end, was the challenge for me.So you made it character-driven. The core of the film is this unbreakable bond between these two very different brothers.
Right, right.
Do you have a brother?
Yeah, I have two brothers, actually.
Did you base the film on them at all?
No, no. Luckily, my relationships with my two brothers are much healthier than the one between Bloom and Stephen . It seemed to me that kind of an instant way to buy back a little bit of that automatic emotional distance I was talking about earlier was to bring the element of family into it. Have them be brothers And then for me, I have a very big family, and we were all—I have like twenty younger cousins, and we were all really close growing up. Yeah, it's a huge, huge family. And my cousin, you know, Nathan, did the music for the movie, and his brother Zach drew the illustrations for the film.
Sort of a cottage industry, then.
We're keeping it in the family. But just the tone of the movie, to a large extent, for me, comes from hanging out with family, the intimacy of it. Humor-wise, it's something I've always connected with the Marx Brothers movies. For some reason, their films remind me of how it feels to hang out with my family, oddly enough.
And you said you had a healthy relationship with them?
Good question, yeah. I guess I need to explain that. By that I mean the feeling that there's a level of controlled chaos going on. But that's coupled with this odd feeling of security. And with the Marx Brothers movies, for example, that's—maybe that's it: maybe it's the fact that it feels like there's all that there's all this dangerous stuff whizzing around your head, but at the same time you feel kind of safe throughout the whole thing. You almost feel like these brothers are just having a good time and playing. And that weird combination of—obviously anytime you've got a family, there's dangerous stuff in the air, and there's always going to be emotionally volatile things happening.
Probably especially so because you know that there's that safety net.
Exactly. It allows you to let those things be in the air. I guess that's the main aspect of my family that seeps into the movie, I guess.
And there's that wild variable, which is Rachel Weisz's eccentric but brilliant rich girl.
How did you conceive of that character?
Just in terms of the structure, she was kind of the opposite pole of Stephen. You know, it becomes kind of a triangle with Bloom caught in the middle. You know, Stephen builds the hedge maze, Penelope smells the flowers on the hedges. I got a handle on the brothers first, and Penelope's character was a little tougher to crack for me. And a big part of it is—I kind of intentionally left the character a little undiscovered in my mind and the script, because I knew the only thing that was really going to bring it to life was an amazing. So, I mean, most of, so much of what's up there is Rachel. But for me, Diane Arbus was one thing that I clicked with that made a lot of—that finally gave Penelope a beating heart for me, in the writing process.
Did Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody develop a bond off the set?
Yeah, they did actually. We shot this over in Eastern Europe, and we were kind of a traveling circus for about three months. We were—and actually, that's one of the benefits of the—when I say "limited budget," I guess it's limited for what's on the screen, limited compared to big Hollywood movies. For me, this was a huge budget.
Much more than Brick?
Oh, extraordinary, hugely more than Brick. Almost comically more than Brick. But, at the same time, it was limited enough that we weren't on sound stages building everything. Our production designer, Jim Clay, did an amazing job of using existing locations, and augmenting and dressing them. And so that meant that we were basically just on the road, just going from location to location. Combine that with the fact that we hardly ever repeat a location in the movie, we were traveling a lot. And that had the nice effect of—I guess any time you shoot on location, everyone bonds together a little tighter, just because, you know, you're not going home at night. Everyone either had to bond or slit each other's throat.
Like a big family.
Precisely. Nicely put.
You directed the first movie you wrote [Brick]. How did you learn the tricks of the trade?
Oh, I don't know if I [laughs]
To the extent that you think you did
I don't really have a good answer. I mean, I feel like anything I know at this point about movies, besides the gargantuan amount that I learned making these two films, my training was mostly just making movies with friends growing up. Just grabbing a video camera, and that's kind of how I got through high school, basically. You know, hiding behind a video camera. And getting together on the weekend with friends. And that's what we would do: we would hang out, and we would make a movie. And I never really worked—I never did television, I never really worked doing commercials, or I never had filmmaking as a job, I guess.
And did you go to school for it?
I went to film school at USC. But I feel like—I don't know, I feel like the benefits of film school are largely in the friendships that you make there. I don't really know that you can learn filmmaking in a classroom.
When you really get down to the work of telling a story on film, there's essentially very little difference between making a movie with a camcorder and your friends and making a movie with a 35-millimeter camera and Adrien Brody. The fundamentals are the same, and the things that you learn doing the one carry directly over into doing the other. The essential honesty that you're reaching for is the same no matter what format or how many crew members are gathered around you, I guess.
Would you direct a movie that wasn't written by you?
Right now I'm not interested in doing that. I've still got stories that I want to tell, and as long as I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I can keep fooling them into letting me make them, I'll keep doing that. Who knows, down the line. The well hasn't run dry.
The Brothers Bloom comes out in wide release on May 29th.