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WASHINGTON — Mixing modest curbs on spending with tax increases reviled by Republicans, President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget on Wednesday that would raise taxes on smokers and wealthy Americans and trim Social Security benefits for millions.
Obama's 2014 blueprint combines a $242 billion infusion of new spending for road and rail projects, early education and jobs initiatives — all favored by Democrats — with longer-term savings from programs including Medicare and the military. It promises at least a start in cutting huge annual federal deficits.
The president pitched his plan as a good-faith offer to his GOP rivals since it incorporates a proposal he made to Republicans in December that wasn't radically different from a GOP plan drafted by House Speaker John Boehner. But it follows January's bitterly fought 10-year, $600 billion-plus tax increase that has stiffened GOP resolve against further tax hikes.
"I have already met Republicans more than halfway, so in the coming days and weeks I hope that Republicans will come forward and demonstrate that they're really as serious about the deficit and debt as they claim to be," Obama said.
He was having a dozen Senate Republicans to the White House for dinner Wednesday evening in hopes of building a dialogue on the budget and other topics.
After four years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits in his first term, Obama's plan projects a $973 billion deficit for the current budget year and red ink of $744 billion for the 2014 fiscal year starting in October. By 2016, the deficit is seen as dropping below 3 percent of the size of the economy, a level that many economists say is manageable.
Obama cast his budget as a compromise offer that would bridge differences between Republicans and their desire for reducing government spending and Democrats who want more revenue from taxpayers. But it's difficult to overstate the gulf between Obama and the conservatives who are in the GOP driver's seat in Congress.
While the budget proposal will not prompt any immediate congressional action, it will probably surface this summer when Republicans are expected to demand additional reductions in the deficit in exchange for increasing the nation's borrowing authority.
Obama claims $1.8 trillion in deficit savings over the coming decade, but the budget tables show the savings are actually $1.4 trillion. And $1.2 trillion of that is devoted to reversing automatic, across-the-board spending cuts required because of Washington's inability to follow up a 2011 budget pact with further deficit action.
"This is worse than a status quo budget," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. He said it has about $1 trillion in new taxes, $1 trillion in new spending with deficit reduction of only $119 billion over 10 years under GOP math that sorts through questionable interpretations employed by the White House.
For instance, Obama claims $167 billion in lower war costs — money the administration never intended to spend — and uses that "savings" for road projects and other undertakings it bills as jobs initiatives.
The real cuts include $400 billion scrubbed from health care programs like Medicare over the coming decade, including cuts in payments to drug companies and higher Medicare premiums for people who are better off.
The administration would modestly cut the annual operating budgets for both the Pentagon and domestic agencies while reprising ideas like higher Transportation Security Administration fees on airline tickets, the end of Saturday mail delivery and higher pension contributions for federal workers.
"He does deserve some credit for some incremental entitlement reforms," said Boehner, R-Ohio. "But I would hope that he would not hold hostage these modest reforms for his demand for bigger tax hikes. Listen, why don't we do what we can agree to do?"
That's not the way it works, countered Gene Sperling, the director of Obama's National Economic Council. "The offer that is there for Speaker Boehner is not an a la carte menu."
And Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he had reservations about the White House making concessions without getting anything in return. He said, "The president will have to remain firm in his insistence that this is a package deal."
The White House budget claims $580 billion in tax increases on the wealthy over 10 years, including a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions that's never gotten anywhere on Capitol Hill.
The total climbs closer to $1 trillion in tax increases after adding in ideas like a 94 cents-per-pack increase in taxes on cigarettes, changes for corporate foreign earnings, slower inflation adjustments to income tax brackets, elimination of oil and gas production subsidies, an increase in the estate tax, a new "financial crisis responsibility" fee on banks and new taxes on trading of exotic financial instruments known as derivatives.
Republicans predictably slammed Obama's plan for its tax increases, while his Democratic allies generally held their tongues over cuts to Social Security benefits.
"It's not the budget I would write on my own, and it includes several policies that I don't think are the best ways to tackle the deficit and debt," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash.
Reacting more strongly, the senior citizens advocacy group AARP said it was "deeply dismayed that President Obama would propose cutting the benefits of current and future Social Security recipients, including children, widows, veterans and people with disabilities, to reduce the deficit." And AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, whose organization spent tens of millions of dollars helping re-elect Obama, called the cuts "wrong and indefensible."
The Social Security cuts would come from a slightly stingier inflation adjustment known as "chained CPI" that would reduce annual cost-of-living increases for a variety of programs by about 0.3 percentage points a year. It would reduce federal spending on government programs over 10 years by $130 billion and promises to save far more in subsequent decades.
Once the change was fully phased in, Social Security benefits for a typical middle-income 65-year-old would be about $136 less a year, according to an analysis of Social Security data. At age 75, annual benefits under the new index would be $560 less. But after age 75, Social Security recipients would receive larger-than-scheduled benefit increases by 0.5 percentage points a year through age 85.
Obama promises to ease the burden of the proposal on the poor and the very elderly by not applying it to programs meant for low-income Americans. That means annual increases in assistance programs such as Social Security Supplemental Security Income and Pell Grants for student aid would not be calculated by using the lower inflation formula.
Despite Obama's vows not to raise taxes on the middle class, the chained CPI proposal also would result in higher taxes because tax brackets would be adjusted for inflation more slowly, with much of the effect felt by middle class taxpayers. The provision would raise about $100 billion over 10 years. At the same time, raising the cigarette tax from $1.01 to 1.95 per pack would be disproportionally felt by the poor. That tax increase would raise $78 billion over 10 years.
Obama's plan generally tracks a nonbinding budget measure that passed the Senate last month, though Democrats controlling the chamber left out the chained CPI proposal.
House Republicans, by contrast, muscled through a far more austere plan in March that contains big cuts to Medicaid and would reduce domestic agency budgets by about 20 percent below levels contemplated in a hard-fought 2011 budget pact that set tight "caps" on spending passed by Congress each year.
"I don't think we should be talking about grand bargains because that implies the president and Senate Democrats are ready to embrace fundamental entitlement reform, which they have shown absolutely no indication of doing," said House Budget Chairman Ryan, his party's vice presidential nominee last year.
Such pessimism is also felt by Democrats. Asked this week about the prospects for a broad budget deal, Murray said: "I think we're a long ways from there right now."
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OCEAN CITY – Six illegal aliens were taken into custody last week after an early morning raid at two restaurants and a private residence in West Ocean City.
Armed with three federal search warrants, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, with the assistance of local law enforcement agencies, raided the Mikayo Sushi and Seafood Buffet on Route 50 and the Panda Buffet in the White Marlin Mall, both in West Ocean City, early last Thursday morning. Following the raids, the restaurants were chained shut and temporary closing signs were posted.
ICE officials also raided a private residence on Godspeed Ave. in the nearby Oyster Harbor community, which was covered by one of the federal search warrants. The Oyster Harbor residence is owned by Zhu Bo Hao, who is believed to be the owner of the two restaurants raided on Thursday.
Six arrests were made during the operation including individuals from Mexico and the People's Republic of China. ICE spokeswoman Ernestine Fobbs this week confirmed the raids and the arrests, but could not say much about the charges against the defendants other than they involved illegal immigration infractions.
Fobbs said the six people were transported to the ICE regional office in Baltimore for processing and remain in custody. A process has been initiated to make arrangements for their removal from the U.S.
"They remain in custody pending removal proceedings," said Fobbs. "It is likely they will be deported, but there is a process, steps we must follow, before that can happen."
That process included determining first if they are illegal aliens and the immigration infractions against them are valid. Once that is established, ICE officials will follow a protocol including the preparation of travel documents, making arrangements with their host countries to accept them and other steps, according to Fobbs.
"It is only a formality," she said. "There are steps we have to take in the process. In most cases, they are amenable to going back and we are happy to accommodate them."
The ICE raids in West Ocean City last Thursday was the second operation by federal immigration officials carried out in Worcester County in the span of a week. Two weeks ago, federal law enforcement officials with ICE and the FBI raided two businesses and a residence in Snow Hill as part of a sting operation targeting 45 suspects nationwide and around the world including 24 linked to Snow Hill, Ocean City and other spots on the shore.

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Best way to check and fix corrupt disk?
Hi folksss,
What is the best way to check for corrupt sector and fix it on
FreeBSD? I check FSCK to see if there is any option but I can
not find one ... maybe I'm wrong. You know like windows
have scandisk with fix option. My little baby press the reset button
on the computer a couple of time and now the system found
an "incorrect block count I=32 ..." I would like to know if there
are any other way to check and fix this beside FSCK.
Thanks folks.
FSCK should fix those errors. Boot into single user and run just bare "fsck" and wait. Depending on the size of your drive and how you partitioned it, it may take a long time.
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by fleeing the scene of the accident!
Thanks for the reply.
I just google on how to fix corrupt sector in FreeBSD and I got this
in more detail. I just want to share with all the newbie or anyone how need
this info.
Boot into Single-user mode
Reboot your machine:
# reboot
When you see the initial boot menu, select "Boot FreeBSD in single user mode" (option 4). The kernel will boot up as
usual, but instead of starting all the system processes, only a single root shell will be provided. Hit Enter when you see
this message:
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
Now check what filesystems are mounted:
# mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
You should see that only "/" (the root filesystem) and the devices under /dev are mounted, and furthermore the root
filesystem is mounted read-only. There are also no virtual consoles and no daemons running. This is the simplest and
safest possible state for the system to be in.
Filesystem repairs
Since the filesystems are not mounted, you can run the filesystem repair tool "fsck" on them (fsck = File System Check).
Its job is to make corrupted filesystems functional again. If individual files have been damaged then they may not be
recoverable, but at least the filesystem will be working again and the other files on it can be accessed.
Firstly, have a look at which partitions are normally mounted; this information is kept in the fie "/etc/fstab"
# cat /etc/fstab
Pick one of these partitions, and run fsck on it. For example, if you decide to check the partition /dev/ad0s1d, then you
would type
# fsck -y /dev/ad0s1d
(The -y flag gives fsck permission to carry out any repairs it suggests). If your filesystem is "clean", that is, it was
unmounted properly at system shutdown, fsck may not do anything. In that case almost certainly it's not needed, but you
can force it to check the filesystem like this:
# fsck -f -y /dev/ad0s1d
There's no need to run fsck in single-user mode like this unless during bootup FreeBSD tells you that there's a filesystem
error which it can't handle. Make a note of which partition is at fault, reboot into single user mode, and run fsck on that partition only.
back using 5.x I always had to boot single-user to fsck properly
now ( using _7, the last 10 or so times) I just boot normally and
it completes fine. Maybe useful to know.
FreeBSD 13-STABLE
Besides file checking, run this one:
Chances are, when ran a couple of times, that you will implement proper backup|sync procedures
As most of us do, usually we run fsck -y
in the hope evrything gets fixed.
Remember that a hard disk is a table with entries and pointers.
"Formatting" only set those entries as "re-writable".
Proper test is destructive, as most manufacturer's hard drive utilities, but these will actually "zero" your drive, mark bad sectors (in yet another table), eventually give you a report to use for a RMA.
Watch fine prints in the warranty (or browse the manufacturer's site): some drives carry five years (wheter manufacturer's, or national distributor, or local outlet).
I keep a table of serial numbers and dates and test in due time.
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
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Dignitaries from across Hudson County, and indeed, from around the state, gathered in the auditorium of West New York School No. 4 to not merely acknowledge the change of school's name, but to acknowledge the contributions Rep. Albio Sires has made to improving education during his long career as mayor, state Assemblyman, Assembly speaker, and Congressman.
"Albio is the reason we got funding to rebuild our schools," said WNY Schools Superintendent John Fauta prior to the hour-long event on Oct. 3.
In gratitude for all he did for education, Rep. Albio Sires was on hand as West New York municipal and school officials named School No. 4 in his honor, a school Sires attended after his family came to the United States from Cuba.
Schools in West New York had gone from aging facilities with dilapidated infrastructure to state-of- the-art school buildings. Sires, particularly as speaker of the Assembly a decade ago, managed to bring needed state funding for reconstruction of schools to municipalities throughout his district. This was one reason why so many officials came to mark the renaming of the school after Sires. His handiwork as a legislator had wrought similar improvements in other towns, too.
Sires recalled his early days in School No. 4 when he was one of only three Hispanics, himself, his brother, and a Latina girl.
"She didn't talk to us because she spoke English," he said. "Back then, we didn't have ESL, we had a teacher who held up a card with a word on it and told us to pronounce it."
The naming of the school was a tribute from Mayor Felix Roque, who lobbied the West New York School Board for it to happen, a tireless Sires advocate, Sires said. Though Sires' wife is currently president of the West New York School Board, plans for the renaming of the school started prior to her tenure.
Although not born in a log cabin, Sires' career was compared to that of President Abraham Lincoln, someone who worked hard, sometimes failed, but persistently tried until he achieved success.
"He never forgot his humble beginnings," Fauta said.
Sires constantly spoke of his roots, growing up in West New York, and even after he was seated in Congress frequently walking the streets of his beloved city, stopping at favorite eateries or local businesses to talk to people.
But his impact on education, said Freeholder Chairman Anthony Romano, went far beyond West New York since nearly every community in the state—especially urban communities in Hudson County—were able to upgrade or replace aging schools thanks to legislation Sires pushed through when Speaker of the Assembly.
"His contribution to education was felt everywhere," Romano said.
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez interrupted his legislative session to fly back to Hudson County to help honor his friend and colleague. He was among a host of other officials who had come to pay tribute to Sires, including State Senator Ray Lesniak, Assemblyman Joe Cryan, Freeholder Jeff Dublin, Freeholder Junior Maldanado, Harrison Mayor Ray McDonough, Hoboken Councilman Ravinda Bahla (representing Mayor Dawn Zimmer), Brian Platt (aid to the Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop), Kearny Mayor Al Santos, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise, Hudson County Clerk Barbara Netchert, Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari and Hudson County Registrar Pam Gardner.
The dignitaries also included West New York commissioners, Carridad Rodriguez, Fior D'Aliza Frias, Ruben Vargas, Dr. County Wiley and Mayor Felix Roque as well as WNY Board of Education members President Adrienne K Sires, Vice President Vilma Reyes, Dr. Christine Piscitelli, Sara Gastanaduri, Nasrin (Rita) Alam, and Angela Duvall.
Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith was scheduled to attend but was in Washington D.C. at a conference on water utilities. He sent a comment later noting that Bayonne benefited significantly from legislation for school construction Sires pushed through the legislature a decade ago.
"The naming of a school for Albio Sores is an altogether fitting and proper tribute to an excellent legislator and a terrific friend," Smith said. "Albio Sires knows full well the value of education as the great equalizer. He has been a steadfast champion for better schools and real education reform during his time in Trenton and Washington."
A Cuban native
Born in Cuba, Sires' family fled Communist Cuba in January 1962. He attended School No. 4 prior to going to Memorial High School where he became a basketball star and received a four-year basketball scholarship to St. Pater's College. He later received his master's degree from Middlebury College in Vermont.
He was a teacher and a business owner before taking public office. He served as mayor of West New York from 1995 to 2006 during which time his administration created more affordable housing than any other municipality in the state. He received numerous statewide honors, and was named "Mayor of the Year" in 2004 by the New Jersey Bar Association. Sires also served in the state Assembly, and during his two terms as speaker of the Assembly, he was instrumental in pushing through legislation that helped rebuild aging school facilities throughout the state. Numerous schools in Hudson County were upgraded or replaced as a result of this legislation.
In Washington, Sires served and continues to serve on critical committees that affect Hudson County, including Homeland Security, Transportation, and International Relations.
Roque, who lobbied the school board to rename the school, called the event very exciting.
"I remember when Albio was mayor and I was just a humble little doctor on 60th Street, and West New York was the place to live. The town was clean. The taxes were stable. The streets were safe. There was a sense of pride in saying `I'm from West New York.' Business was thriving and it was a good place to live."
Roque said Sires knows education from "the inside out."
"I can't think of a better role model for our children," Roque said. "He has led by example and has shown them what they can make of their lives and how important it is to give back to the community that he was raised in. Albio Sires has always made education a priority in Trenton and in Washington."
County Executive DeGise said he first heard of Sires as a basketball player in the 1960s but got to know him at St. Peter's College where they both attended. Sires, DeGise said, used his athletic prowess to get himself a good education.
"And when he got that education he came right back to his hometown as a teacher and coach," DeGise said.
Senator Menendez said Sires came from another country and worked hard to make his dreams come true, and that the naming of a school after him is a realization of some of those dreams.
"At the end of the day it is about getting a good education and having the opportunity to follow your dreams," Menendez said. "Albio did it all, he built a career as educator and understands the value of a good education in his own life and in the lives of those he taught. It is the key that opens economic opportunity in our country."
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate Apple based on a complaint filed by handset maker HTC, the Commission said on Friday.
The agency is already investigating HTC after Apple filed its own complaint against the company. The dispute highlights how competitive the smartphone market has become.
HTC makes smartphones based on Google's Android software, as well as Windows Mobile devices. In May it asked the ITC to block the import of iPhone, iPad and iPod products to the U.S., charging Apple with infringing five of its patents.
It hasn't stated publicly which patents it believes Apple infringed, but the ITC offered some hints. "The products at issue in this investigation are portable electronic devices that utilize certain power management methods and may incorporate hardware and software for telephone directories within mobile telephone systems," the agency said.
An administrative law judge for the ITC will hold an evidentiary hearing to look into HTC's complaint. The agency has 45 days to set a target date for completing the investigation.
The ITC has already agreed to investigate HTC based on a similar complaint filed earlier by Apple. Apple says that HTC uses patents related to the iPhone's user interface and a range of hardware and software technologies.
As the market for smartphones heats up, the main players are becoming increasingly litigious. Apple is also in a dispute with Nokia over patents. Research In Motion and Motorola settled a patent lawsuit on Friday.
Separately, HTC agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for technology used in all of its phones running Android. Google, which designed Android and has an increasingly acrimonious relationship with Apple, has largely stayed out of the battle. After Apple filed its complaints against HTC, Google said it stood by the operating system and the partners that helped develop it.


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|Rabbi Benjamin Hecht,the Founding Director of NISHMA, is recognized throughout North America and Israel for his study, insights and perspectives in the fields of Torah law and ethics. He serves as the editor of the NISHMA Journal and NISHMA Introspection and writes prolifically on Jewish thought and its interaction with the world political scene and the human condition. Rabbi Hecht is active in Nishma's ongoing research and education projects and is about to complete a new book on Jewish identity. In addition to his rabbinical ordination, he holds degrees in law, psychology and business. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1982. Rabbi Hecht provides audiences with provocative and enlightening messages in an entertaining and educational manner.
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Submitting Contributions
As webOS Ports is a community project we're very happy about accepting patches. But there are some things you have to know before and to respect when submitting patches.
How We Accept Contributions
The Contribution Process
For big changes, the contributor communicates with the Project via mailing lists or Bug Tracker tickets to get feedback before submitting code
- Contributor adds the Open webOS DCO signoff to each commit message during development - see [1] for more info
- Contributor makes a GitHub pull request (see https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request)
- Maintainer conducts code review, verifies DCO signoff, runs tests and asks for adjustments from contributor as necessary
- Maintainer merges the commits into the repo and closes the pull request
Criteria for Making a Pull Request
- Contributor has verified that their changes do not break any of the builds
- Contributor has provided or updated unit tests, if there is an existing unit test structure for any of the components affected
- If there is no unit test structure, the contributor has thoroughly tested their changes manually, and can describe the results
- Code is in the style of the code that surrounds it
- Contributor has followed the commit guidelines
During Review the Maintainer Will:
- Look to see that your signoff is in all your commit messages, including format, and presence of real name and real email address
- If you are someone entirely new to the Project, they may get in touch with you via the contact information you have provided
- If there are anomalies such as inconsistent name or email address between signoffs, they may ask you to clarify
This process may take some time, since we may conduct testing, and there may be concurrent activity which must be checked for merge conflicts, architectural issues, etc.
What You Will See Once Your Pull Request Has Been Reviewed and Accepted:
- Your commits will be merged onto the master branch, with your SHA-protected signoff included
- The maintainer's identity who accepted your pull request will be recorded in the merge
- The pull request will be closed
Congrats, your contribution is in!
If Your Existing Pull Request Contains Commits that Don't Have the Signoff:
One way you can fix this:
Assuming no one has forked from your fork, or you don't mind breaking them use "rebase -i" to edit the existing commit messages (Google it) Open a new pull request with the fixed commits Close the existing pull request, with a comment showing the new one that it has superseded If you'd like to discuss what's required, please join us on the openwebos-general mailing list, starting with searching the archives on this topic (e.g. Google "site:mailman.openwebosproject.org DCO signoff").


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Bill Black: Pres. Obama cannot expect growth in the economy when he continues the policies of austerity
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore.
On Thursday, President Obama was in Austin, Texas, saying that the economy is poised for progress. Here's a little bit of what he said.
BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: Thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, we've cleared away the rubble of the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes. So we're poised for progress.
JAY: Now joining us to give us his take on President Obama's plan and vision is Bill Black. He's an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He's a white-collar criminologist, a former financial regulator, and he's the author of the book The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One.
Thanks for joining us again, Bill.
BILL BLACK, ASSOC. PROF. ECONOMICS AND LAW, UMKC: Thank you.
JAY: So what do you make of President Obama's comment, the economy is poised for progress?
BLACK: So President Obama believes in the magic bullet theory of macroeconomics, which is it doesn't matter whether you're running a stimulus, it doesn't matter whether you're running austerity. As long as you have a few good programs in there, they will somehow miraculously produce an economic turnaround. And that's not how economies work at all, and indeed nobody in economics thinks that.
So we are not going to get progress if we get progress through these kind of tech centers. These tech centers could be perfectly rational, but you need a policy of non-austerity, and President Obama has been leading us into ever deeper austerity for about 18 months. And so these programs will prove to be ineffective.
JAY: And these programs, just to–are–he's actually asked Congress for $1 billion, but he's started some already. They want to create these high-tech centers which are government, private, and nonprofit cooperation to create technical innovation in various sectors of the economy, and this is supposed to attract more investment and create more jobs. That's the theory.
BLACK: Right. And, again, these programs might be perfectly sensible, but the problem is jobs. And $1 billion is, frankly, trivial in terms of the macroeconomic problem of having austerity. And this fits into a couple of the other things we've been talking about in the last several weeks and what I've been writing about.
First, there's the whole question of, you know, Bangladesh. So Bangladesh is the example of where the industrial manufacturing jobs have gone. The garment industry is now massive in Bangladesh, to the tune of about $20 billion. And what we're seeing–the death toll is now over 800 confirmed in Bangladesh, which makes it the worst industrial accident probably in world history. And, of course, it could have been considerably worse, because there were many more workers in these factory buildings when it collapsed. If it had collapsed in a nastier fashion, the death toll would have been even higher. And the injury rate is roughly twice the death toll. And the injuries are often incredibly severe–amputations, head traumas, and such–that are going to cause permanent disabilities, and if you're in Bangladesh, that's terrible.
What's the point of all this? The point of all this is it isn't really necessarily cheaper to manufacture clothes in Bangladesh. You simply transferred a lot of the costs of manufacturing–called safety–to the workers, where we don't allow that in the United States or Canada or in Europe. And so as–unless and until we change how the international globalization works, where the foreign competitors can simply gain a cost advantage–and a very large cost advantage–in manufacturing by simply endangering their workers' lives, you're not going to have a success in bringing back manufacturing. So that is a pipe dream.
JAY: It seems to me President Obama's model, if you read between the lines, is that, number one, the objective is the United States should become more competitive globally, and the recovery will be led by exports, not by domestic demand, and what will fuel that is lower wages–he doesn't say that, but that's the model created in the auto industry, where starting wages went from $26 an hour to $14 an hour. So if you have lower wages in the United States and then you combine that with investing in innovation, so the United States stays or moves even further out front in terms of innovation in various areas, low wages plus innovation leads to more exports, and that's supposed to lead to a recovery. Do you think that's what he's essentially talking about? And if so, what do you make of it?
BLACK: Well, yes, and we've talked about this before. You can't have all nations be net exporters, right? My export is your import. So this is not a strategy that can work globally, this is not a strategy that can work for all nations. So my export is your import. So we can't all be net exporters.
Is it an area where the U.S. has a big competitive advantage? Well, no, because of our wage structure, but even more because we actually try to keep our workers alive. So if you go this route, which we call the road to Bangladesh strategy, everybody globally competes to have the lowest possible wage that people simply don't die under. Well, we're not going to win that kind of competition. Bangladesh already, from a large number of its garment workers, they work full-time and they just barely make what the World Bank and the UN define as extreme poverty. So, you know, you could impoverish tens of millions of American workers, and that of course would simply weaken the country, not strengthen it.
More broadly, what they're doing is austerity. And that brings us to the other shoe that dropped this last week, and that was this wonderful reduction–you know, reductio ad absurdum, of the debate between the extremely conservative historian Niall Ferguson and Paul Krugman about whether you should have stimulus or austerity. This was a debate back in 2009. And, of course, it was right in the expertise of Krugman, so if it had been a boxing fight, it would have been stopped in the first round as a technical knockout type of thing.
But Ferguson eventually comes along and admits, well, I was wrong about all of that, and then says, but actually I didn't say what I said. And then Krugman actually brought out the words that Ferguson had used endorsing austerity and claiming that stimulus was going to destroy us by creating massive hyperinflation and huge interest rates. Interest rates, by the way, are at record lows. So that didn't go well.
So Ferguson got his great revenge last week, or at least he tried to. But he ended up shooting himself in the torso. And it fits in with the discussion we've just been having. So Ferguson got asked a question about whether the United States was in what we call a liquidity trap. And that's an economic concept where monetary policy is very ineffective, and it's one of the big ideas associated with John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist. And as part of the question the questioner who is, you know, a biggie in finance asked Ferguson–the questioner mentioned Keynes' famous line about the long run may not have very good policy guidance for what makes sense in the short run; in the long run we're all dead. So queue up Ferguson. And Ferguson chooses not, of course, to answer the liquidity trap argument at all about what's really going on substantively in the economy, launches instead into a gay-bashing attack on John Maynard Keynes, saying that John Maynard Keynes was childless, and this is because he was a homosexual, and even though he was married, he probably just talked poetry to his wife instead of having sex, and because Keynes was childless, he didn't care about future generations. And then Ferguson said this line about in the long run we're all dead meant that we shouldn't worry about any future generations, and so, you see, that's what's wrong, and Keynes has destroyed our economy because of that short-run perspective.
And so this is all crazed, made-up stuff that is designed to say, hey, austerity, well, I was wrong, but I'm always right, we need austerity, we need austerity. So this is the same disease that fundamentally affects Obama's financial advisers. And it's weird in terms of economics, because, as I said, we've had this debate. We had the austerity forces predict that if we followed their policies, all would be well. Europe did, and it's disastrous. And the United States followed insufficient, mild stimulus, and the results were quite good according to the economic studies. Even the International Monetary Fund, which is the home of austerity, now admits that austerity has been a disaster and that stimulus has been very effective.
So where does that leave us? Well, the people trying to oppose it at this point are going crazy with this gay-bashing type stuff and disregarding economics entirely. And we have the president of the United States sending our economic advisers to Europe saying, stop this austerity, stop this austerity, it's insane, it's destroying the world economy, and then they come back home and they inflict increasing austerity over the last 18 months in the Obama administration, and, again, as I say, with the theory that Obama has, and only Obama has, that there can be a magic bullet, that you can have austerity shrinking the economy or really slowing down the recovery dramatically, and then if you just have a program and you spend $1 billion on it, you will somehow turn around unemployment and turn around exports.
JAY: So what is the logic of Obama and his economic advisers? They obviously are smart people. They model this. They have economic projections. I mean, they just seem to have this sort of faith, is it, or some logic that the economy just necessarily comes back, or what?
BLACK: Well, it depends on which economic advisers at which time. So his initial economic advisers, who he listened to with the stimulus program, were actually pretty good economists, you know, excellent technical economists, and they told him he needed stimulus, and he largely did that.
Over time, Geithner became his principal economic adviser. And, of course, Geithner is not an economist, doesn't know really much of anything about economics, and is a Republican, after all, that simply as a fig leaf became an independent to take the job. And so Geithner believes in austerity. It's, you know, a good Republican belief. And for reasons that pass all understanding, Obama chose this guy, who was of course a disaster as a regulator and helped produce the crisis, as the guy that he had, you know, in the books, the man crush on–not a gay, just, you know, really liked the guy and they really melded and such. And so that's who he got his advice from.
And since that time, he's tended to get his advice from Lew, and Lew is, you know, now the Treasury secretary, was again the guy that was the principal person at OMB pushing for austerity.
So there is this very strong Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party very much associated with Rubin and his proteges, and they include people like Lew and Geithner who are still all through the Obama administration. And Wall Street doesn't much care whether Republicans or Democrats are in power; it just wants these kinds of policies that have proven so destructive for the world.
JAY: And they just believe that, one, you cut these programs, you have austerity, you reduce government spending, you reduce public debt, and somehow that either prevents inflation or gives–continues confidence in the dollar. And two, they just believe–what?–eventually the economy bottoms out, and eventually it comes back, because it always does.
BLACK: It's very difficult to figure out what they think they mean economically. Again, these are not people who are economists. So they–.
JAY: But these are people that–but hold on. These are people that represent people that know how to make money, and these guys are not, you know, detached from the economy. They know how to take advantage of it, and, you know, they watch trends, and they want to make money. They're motivated.
BLACK: Yeah, but making money doesn't mean that you have to understand the real economy, right? The real economy has almost nothing to do with the stock market, and they largely make their money off the stock market or they largely make their money in debt plays, where understanding fundamental economics isn't necessarily the great advantage.
But there's something broader going on, and that is simply there have been some really interesting studies recently of what the very wealthy believe. And the very wealthy are not like other Americans in their belief systems. So their big thing is the budget deficit. You know, when they rank problems, they rank the budget deficit. And they rank–for example, 25 percent of them rank inflation as a principal fear. Now, inflation is essentially nonexistent in the United States and the great bulk of the world. We should be so lucky as to have some inflation. That would actually help the recovery in many parts of the world.
So you shouldn't assume that these really rich guys that run financial institutions actually are very good about economics at all. And, yeah, they get rich, but they could get richer by having a strong economy instead of an economy that is constantly in crisis.
JAY: Well, maybe then you could take some of Ferguson's logic and apply it to them, because many of the rich do have children. On the other hand, they think their children's future is secure because they're so rich and they don't much care about other children. So they don't think long-term. If they're making money today, that's good enough.
BLACK: Now there's something more direct. The United States is no longer the nation that is so socially dynamic. In other words, we're actually now one of the least socially mobile nations in the developed world.
JAY: By that you mean people who start in classes without much money, and some individuals are able to rise to classes that have money.
BLACK: That's right. So both directions. So people that started out in low-class circumstances and end up in high-class circumstances, we're very low on that, but also the other direction. If you're white in particular or Asian American and you start out in a very wealthy class situation, your chances of your kids ending up in that position are very strong in the United States, much stronger than in many other, European nations. So the very wealthy know that the system now is very successfully rigged in terms of their kids.
JAY: Alright. Thanks for joining us, Bill.
BLACK: Thank you.
JAY: Thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
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David Redick
Those of you who long ago figured out that George Bush lied about, and twisted, 9-11, the role of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Osama, and WMDs to justify the invasions of Afghanistan, and Iraq, and to create the War on Terror, will not be surprised to learn that our prior Presidents, and their complicit henchmen, have lied us into every war since our Revolution. Their true reasons have not been legal, constitutional, or politically acceptable, so they invent one or more false reasons that they can sell to the people. The recent WikiLeaks disclosures confirm how our foreign policy is riddled with lies. Surprise!
Sadly, most people, especially the troops and their families, believe the lies and proudly support these "wars for defense of our Liberties." It doesn't occur to them that our leaders would be so evil as to spend the lives of our troops to gain their hidden goals for Empire-USA (oil, power, land, etc.).
The secret plan of the Bush-Obama gang is to:
A. Take over all oil in the greater mid east (including the east of Caspian 'xxstans', and North Africa), which holds the world's last reserves of easy-cheap oil, so we don't have to share it with China, India, and others
B. Defend Israel at any cost (this helps congressmen and presidents get Israel's AIPAC support for re-election). Control of oil was the hidden reason for the Balkans, Afghan, and Iraq wars.
Iran is their next target
Thus, the war drums are beating in DC to justify bombing Iran, so this is a good time to consider whether our leaders are lying again.
The sole purpose of our military is to defend the homeland from damage or invasion, or a serious threat thereof. It is not for managing world affairs as a global police force, or to build an empire to gain economic or political control of foreign lands and control our "interests" there. Unfortunately, these two missions have been the primary secret agenda for all of our wars since 1898.
Below are the facts on how we got into a few major wars. Each one could be (and has been) a book, and many other smaller wars also could be shown, so please forgive the brevity. The format is: war name; the lying President and the year it started; the stated reasons/lies for the war; and the real reasons.
1. War of 1812 (Madison, 1812) — Lies: In 1812, Congress declared war on England based primarily on their kidnapping ('impressment') of our sailors at sea. Truth: To drive England out of N. America, so the war started with our failed invasion of Canada at Detroit. DC "expansionists" took advantage and started incursions to acquire Spanish Florida, and Mexican Texana territories.
2. Mexican-American (Polk, 1845) — Lies: Fight to defend our Texas border with Mexico. Truth: The disputes started when residents stole The Republic of Texas from Mexico. We invaded and took the northern half of Mexico, now our entire SW region of five states.
3. Civil (Lincoln, 1865) — Lies: Fight to end slavery and preserve the union. Truth: The South got tired of economic abuse by the North and had a perfect right to secede. It was not a civil war and it was unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral for the North to start a war to stop them. The Northern states who had the votes to control Congress, wanted to retain the South as a source of cotton and a customer for their manufactured goods (hence the high tariffs on imports in southern ports). Slavery was ended later by the Emancipation Proclamation, but only in Southern states, because the Union wanted the slaves as soldiers. Lincoln was a tyrant beholden to the railroad and canal interests; he jailed journalists and draft resisters who opposed him. Yet, to this day he is revered as a great President who saved the Union.
4. Spanish-American (McKinley, 1898) — Lies: Spain blew up the US battleship Maine in Cuba's Havana harbor. Truth: Hearst publicized, and Teddy Roosevelt mobilized, to use the accidental explosion to take over Cuba by starting a war in April, 1898. We then invaded the Philippines in May and annexed Hawaii in July. A busy time for the beginning of Empire-USA!
5. WWI (Wilson, 1917) — Lies: Join Europe to "Make the World Safe for Democracy." Truth: Wilson was convinced to join by US and European industrialists who wanted to sell munitions and guns to the allies, and get paid when they won.
6. WWII (FDR, 1941) — Lies: Defend the US from unprovoked attacks by Japan. Truth: FDR wanted to help his pal Winston Churchill, so poked Japan until he got his "incident."
7. Korean (Truman, 1950) — Lies: Defend America. Truth: Truman and the Generals wanted a reason to have troops in the Far East area of our Empire.
8. Vietnam (Kennedy, Johnson, 1964) — Lies: Johnson said Vietnam attacked our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in August, 1964. Truth: The US didn't want to lose the southeast Asia region, and its oil and sea lanes, to China. This "attack" was convenient. Kennedy initiated the first major increase in US troops (over 500).
9. Gulf War (G.H.W. Bush, 1991) — Lies: To defend Kuwait from Iraq. Truth: Saddam was a threat to Israel, and we wanted his oil and land for bases.
10. Balkans (Clinton, 1999) — Lies: Prevent Serb killing of Bosnians. Truth: Get the Chinese out of Eastern Europe (remember the "accidental" bombing of their embassy in Belgrade?) so they could not get control of the oil in the Caspian region and Eastward. Control land for bases such as our huge Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, and for the proposed Trans-Balkan Oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea area to the Albanian port of Valona on the Adriatic Sea.
11. Afghan (G.W. Bush, 2001) — Lies: The Taliban were hiding Osama. Truth: To build a gas/oil pipeline from Turkmenistan and other northern 'xxstan' countries to a warm water (all year) port in the Arabian Sea near Karachi (same reason the Russians were there), plus land for bases.
12. Iraq (G.W. Bush, 2003) — Lies: Stop use of WMDs — whoops, bring Democracy, or whatever. Truth: Oil, defense of Israel, land for permanent bases (we were kicked out of Saudi Arabia) to manage the greater Middle East, restore oil sales in USD (Saddam had changed to Euros).
13. Possible Iran War (Obama, 201?) — Lies: They almost have an atom bomb; they are a threat to Israel; major killer of our troops in Iraq. Truth: Control their oil, defend Israel, and restore oil sales in USD only (they changed to add Euros and others). We created the regional conflict and shouldn't be surprised that all neighbors (including our "friends" in Saudi Arabia) are helping Iraq. We exaggerate the threat to Israel, especially as Iran has allowed inspections and Israel has not.
If you approve of the current Bush-Obama wars, but are resting safely at home, you should join the Army's Chicken Hawk Brigade. There is no restriction on age or sex, and you will get an exciting front-line assignment promptly. Then, you won't feel badly about sending others to fight your wars for oil, religion, and Empire-USA.
Better yet, write, call, and vote against the NeoCon gang in Congress to stop their plans for war against Iran and others.
David Redick is a Madison, WI businessman, author, and President of Forward-USA, which seeks ways to improve government so we have more peace, prosperity, and justice.


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Second Product in Vernalis' Cough Cold Pipeline Achieves Proof-of-Concept
Vernalis plc and Tris Pharma, Inc. today announce the achievement of proof-of-concept (POC) for CCP-07, the second programme to achieve this milestone in their US prescription cough cold collaboration. Under this collaboration, POC requires the successful completion of several activities, including a successful human pilot comparative study against an immediate release reference product. Assuming continued success, an NDA for CCP-07 is expected to be filed in the second half of 2015. As a result of achieving POC, Vernalis will make a milestone payment to Tris.
Under the deal announced in February 2012,Vernalis is paying Tris to develop up to six unique OralXR+™ based extended release liquid equivalents to existing immediate release prescription cough/cold treatments. The financial terms of this licensing deal are not disclosed.
Ian Garland, CEO of Vernalis commented "CCP-07 is the second of five programmes currently in development under our collaboration with Tris to achieve proof-of-concept, with the most advanced, CCP-01, on-track for NDA filing in the middle of this year. We are delighted with the continuing progress of our pipeline of cough cold programmes and look forward to further successes over the remainder of 2014".
Ketan Mehta, CEO of Tris commented "Tris is excited with the continued progress of the prescription cough/cold portfolio. The products are a great application of our OralXR+™ technology and will ultimately improve patient care".
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Vernalis is a revenue generating development stage pharmaceutical company with significant expertise in drug development. The Group has one marketed product, frovatriptan for the acute treatment of migraine, an exclusive licensing agreement to develop and commercialise multiple novel products focussed on the US prescription cough cold market as well as seven programmes in its NCE development pipeline. Vernalis has also significant expertise in fragment and structure based drug discovery which it leverages to enter into collaborations with larger pharmaceutical companies. The Company's technologies, capabilities and products have been endorsed over the last five years by collaborations with leading pharmaceutical companies, including AKP, Biogen Idec, Endo, GSK, Genentech, Lundbeck, Menarini, Novartis, Servier and Tris.
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You may be wondering whether pursuing Online Psychology Graduate Programs is a good idea. All you know is you want to advance your knowledge in the field, open yourself to a variety of potential careers in Psychology and start to narrow down a concentration area that has become important to you in your undergraduate years.
If you are already working, you may also be questioning how to do all of the above, maintain your job, and excel in university. Perhaps taking a look inside an Online Psychology Graduate Program will help you make your decisions.
The word 'online' means that instead of attending courses on a college campus, your courses are available via a computer and Internet. If the program is called 'asynchronous', it means that your seminars are prerecorded with audio and video. Otherwise, if the program is 'synchronous', it means that you need to be present to log in at a specific time for live-streaming classes. Now, some programs may be 'partially online', requiring some on-site work, especially as you may be learning how to apply psychology principles and theory to direct patient care, and real patients. In other words, not all online Psychology Graduate programs are the same, although they involve distance-learning.
If you are a prospective psychology grad student, it is highly recommended to attend a degree program that is accredited, and meets high standards. At some point, when you go forward with continued education or applying for jobs, this will be important too. The American Psychological Association (APA) provides accreditation for doctoral psychology programs. Other regional and national agencies provide accreditation for other graduate psychology
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Since many Psychology Grad Schools offer both campus and online formats, you can find Graduate Certificates, Masters and Doctorate Degrees in distance-learning programs, although we hope to convey that just because a program is called 'online' doesn't mean they all have the same curriculum or coursework. Furthermore, within each program there may be different degrees awarded, including programs ike online clinical psychology graduate programs, online forensic psychology graduate programs, online school psychology graduate programs, industrial organizational psychology graduate programs online, and many more, each with different outcomes.
If you are looking into an online Masters degree in psychology, you should consider whether you are:
Why? You want to make sure that one decision supports the other. If you want to work as a clinical psychologist, for instance, this career requires licensure, and a doctoral psychology degree. Thesis options are usually considered good ideas if you are looking towards a PhD or PsyD. On the other hand, if you wanted to work as an Industrial Organizational Psychologist, a Masters degree might be adequate.
Just so you know: A Master of Arts degree might indicate a stronger focus of study on the liberal arts and practitioner model, whereas a Master of Science degree might indicate a stronger focus on research and the science behind the brain, behavior, and psychological processes.
Some of the listings for Online programs you might consider may include: Master of Arts in Psychology, Master of Applied Industrial/Organizational Psychology (M.A.I.O.P), Master of Science in Psychology, MS in Educational Psychology. Take a look inside Online Psychology Masters Programs.
Here too, there are choices based on what you aspire to do with your career. By this stage in your education, likely you know what your area of concentration is. Perfect. Expect to research it! Remember for doctoral programs, the APA does accredit programs (not schools) and this is important. Keep in mind that
A Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D. in psychology is a research degree that is obtained after taking a comprehensive exam and writing a dissertation based on original research
A Doctor of Psychology - Psy.D. is a clinical degree and is often based on practical work and examinations rather than a dissertation.
An Education Specialist degree -Ed.S. is the advanced degree needed by school psychologists.
Some of the listings for online programs might include: PhD in Infant and Early Childhood Development, PsyD, PhD in General Psychology with an emphasis in Performance Psychology. Take a look inside Online Psychology Doctorate Programs.
Maybe you already hold a Masters degree. If so, you might pursue a Post Graduate Certificate, which is usually earned to delineate a specific focus for practicing Psychologists. Or, maybe you are applying for a Master's program in Psychology. In that case, adding a certificate displays your commitment to the field, your focus and may enhance your application.
Some of the listings you might find for online grad certificates in psychology might include Graduate Certificate: Applied Behavior Analysis, Graduate Certificate of Completion in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Take a look inside Online Graduate Certificates in Psychology
Educational technology has made many degrees accessible to students who have limited time or need a convenient study format. Some people suit the independence and self-pacing, and some people just live too far from the grad school they want to attend. There are many reasons why online study is popular. Just keep in mind that you should be as prepared for the next step as possible; whether this means making sure your computer is in good shape, checking that you have all the prerequisites in place for a graduate degree, or that your program is actually a path to the career you aspire to succeed in.
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Teeth can be restored to their naturally white color with teeth whitening. Depending on the level of whitening needed, teeth whitening can either be done at home with store bought products, or at the dentistry facility by a trained professional. In order to choose the teeth whitening methods that is best for you, use the advice from the following article.
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Store all teeth whitening products in the refrigerator to keep them as fresh as possible. Old whitening gels that have been exposed to changes in temperature can acquire an off-taste and lose their effectiveness quickly. For those with some gum sensitivities, whitening products applied right out of the refrigerator help alleviate that bit of burning sting that some products have.
To help prevent your teeth from getting stained, try to stay away from foods and drinks that are known to stain your teeth. Avoid foods like blueberries and soy sauce. In moderation, these foods are okay, but try not to over do it. Drinks like tea and coffee will also cause stains on your teeth.
A great tip that can help you whiten your teeth is to look into alternative whitening methods. If you're someone that has sensitive teeth, an alternative method such as using baking soda can work for you. Rinse your mouth with a little bit of baking soda in water and your teeth will get white in no time.
Use dried, crushed holy basil leaves to whiten your teeth. This is a known method for naturally whitening your teeth and is very effective. It is also very good for your keeping your gums healthy. This is a great way to whiten your teeth and has positive oral health benefits.
Remember that why you are getting your teeth whitened, you may experience quite a bit of sensitivity immediately afterwards. This is completely normal, and should go away within a day or so. Try to eat soft foods, and give your teeth a break for the remainder of the day.
Approximately half of all patients who try some sort of whitening treatment, especially those at home, will experience some level of tooth sensitivity as a result. If this happens to you, try lowering the concentration of the product that you are using, and see if that corrects the problem.
Save your orange peel and have a teeth whitening session. The inside of the orange peel has citric acid and can help to remove stains and whiten teeth. Either rub it directly on your teeth or get some dried peel, organically grown and some ground up bay leaves to create a paste that you can brush on. Remember to brush after your session to remove any acid that may harm the enamel over time.
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Do you have a favorite pie? I always think of pies falling in two categories, the prom queens, the blue ribbon prize winners, the ones that the president can't keep out of his thoughts, and the rest of them. In the latter category there are the soggy bottoms, the overly-gelled fillings, the mortarboard crusts, the treacly sweet and those flawlessly latticed, magazine-ready specimen that turn out to have [insert your least favorite pie filling here] under their pretty lids.
I was invited to participate in a "cooking smackdown" yesterday on The Takeaway, a morning radio show (produced by WNYC, The New York Times, BBC, WGBH and Public Radio International) in which a pie of my choice would go up against a cherry pie from New York Times columnist and collaborator on more cookbooks than I can count on two hands and all of my toes, Melissa Clark and my first reaction was: nope, no way. Because as far as I'm concerned, cherry pie is at the top of the pie heap; it's epic, it's iconic and it even has a metal song this kid likes to watch me head bang to dedicated to it. Strawberry-rhubarb pie? Not so much.
But oh man, I love strawberry-rhubarb pie, in spite of or perhaps because of its old-timey charm; at their best, cooked strawberries taste like cotton candy and rhubarb is the perfect almost citrusy-sour contrast. And I love a challenge so I took this as an opportunity to revisit my standard recipe. It's delicious, but is has always vexed me because it's, well, sloshy. Nothing seems to get that baby to firm up to more than a (delicious) puddle, not swapping flour for cornstarch, cornstarch for more cornstarch and not even trying to "vacuum" a little overflow out of the pan while it bakes. I consulted your comments on my recipe, I consulted Martha Stewart's cookbooks and Cooks Illustrated too and declared instant tapioca pearls to be the answer. I made my usual crust, tweaked the filling's flavors a little, dialed back the sugar and enlisted those tapioca gems to drink, drink, drink… and still, the pie puddled on the judge's plate.
Loser pie it may be but I don't know when to quit, so I swept through the Greenmarket on my way home and came home with some last-gasp strawberries and rhubarb (the rhubarb season was especially short here this year) and went at it again with a little more tapioca and oh man, I think I've finally got it. Sure, a day late and a buck short but it's impossible to have a slice of this and feel like anything less than a champ.
The Takeaway: Here's the link to yesterdays' segment. Despite having an abundance of unwanted practice waking up at the crack of dawn these days, being coherent on-air at 6:49 a.m. was a challenge, but a fun one. The judge was the charming Emily Elsen, a third generation pie maker from South Dakota, who runs a pie shop with her sister in Brooklyn called Four and Twenty Blackbirds. I cannot wait to check it out. And here's the link to Melissa Clark's winning sour cherry pie, with an article about her process. Mmm, pie.
All Things Considered: Actually, while we're on the subject, I was on a different NPR/WNYC show two weeks ago, part of a segment of All Things Considered called Last Chance Foods, talking about rhubarb along with the CEO of Red Jacket Orchards, Joe Nicholson. I took this as an opportunity to try this beloved vegetable-parading-as-a-fruit in a savory dish and discovered it made it absolutely lemony. What a fun bit that must be for those who try to cook local in regions where lemons are not grown! That spring couscous recipe and the audio clip from the show can be found over here.
Pies, previously: Slab pies! Nectarine galettes! Bourbon peach hand pies! They're all waiting for you, over here.
One year ago: Chocolate Yogurt Snack Cakes
Two years ago: Sweet Cherry Pie
Three years ago: Lemon Risotto
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
The major changes I've made to my previous version are that I now use an all-butter crust, I've nixed the cinnamon and added lemon instead, swapped cornstarch for tapioca (read why above) I swapped some white sugar for the brown so that it is not overwhelmed by the flavor. I also reduced the sugar. The resulting pie is refreshing in that it's not overly sweet, in fact, the rhubarb makes it a little tart. If you think this wouldn't be something you'd enjoy, dial the white sugar up to 3/4 cup.
1 recipe All Butter, Really Flaky Pie Dough or double-crust pie dough of your choice
3 1/2 cups (about 1 1/2 pounds, untrimmed) rhubarb, in 1/2-inch thick slices
3 1/2 cups (about 1 pound) strawberries, hulled and sliced if big, halved if tiny
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup quick-cooking tapioca
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 large egg yolk beaten to blend with 1 teaspoon water (for glaze)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. On a well-floured counter, roll half of pie dough into a 12-inch circle and carefully transfer to a 9-inch pie plate. (I like to fold my gently into quarters, to transfer it more easily, then unfold it in the pie plate.)
Stir together rhubarb, strawberries, sugars, lemon, salt and tapioca in a large bowl. Mound filling inside bottom pie crust and dot with bits of unsalted butter. Roll second half of pie dough into an 11-inch circle and cut decorative slits in it. Transfer it to center over the pie filling. Trim top and bottom pie dough so that their overhang beyond the pie plate lip is only 1/2-inch. Tuck rim of dough underneath itself and crimp it decoratively.
Transfer pie to a baking sheet and brush egg yolk mixture over dough. Bake for 20 minutes then reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 25 to 30 minutes, until the pie is golden and the juices bubble visibly.
Transfer pie to wire rack to cool. When full cool (several hours later) the juices gel.
Do ahead: Pie should keep for up to three days at room temperature but I have never, ever seen one last that long.


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3D printing is the newest technology to enhance the speed and accuracy of making precise 3D objects. We've written about it before and it's always been fascinating. From creating personal toys, to helping major motion pictures speed up their production, 3D printing is poised to make its mark on the world. What if, 3D printing can not only help create objects, but help create food?
Recently the BBC released a story about a start-up company called Modern Meadow that believes it can do just that- make artificial raw meat using a 3D bioprinter. The article states, "[I]nstead of traditional ink or a material like plastic, the 3D printer cartridge contains something called bioink made of hundreds of thousands of live cells. Once printed in the desired shape, the bioink particles naturally fuse to form living tissue."
The time and cost are so incredible right now, that to develop a single burger with the material would cost an estimated $300,000. An interesting concept, potentially leading to ending hunger, or developing a way to regenerate any tissue, including healing human tissue. The final results of the technology is far off, but who knows what the future knows. Until then, we will just have to make our own burgers, or visit our favorite fast-food chain.


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PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Hundreds of protestors descended on downtown Portland Saturday for a rally, calling for an end to tar sands oil extraction.
Tar sands oil opponents say the process to harvest tar sands oil irreversibly harms sensitive forest lands, uses a substantial amount of energy to gather and refine, and adds greatly to the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere helping speed up the process of climate change.
"This is the last, best chance we have to keep the oil in the ground," said Harvey Ammerman. "We have to move on to solar, wind and tidal power alternative energy. We can't burn this planet up."
"I'm concerned about the future of the planet," said Larry Hamilton, who traveled to Maine from Vermont for the rally. "The future for my children, for my grandchildren, because the tar sands, the whole operation in Alberta, is a total disaster for tipping us toward inevitable global catastrophe."
The protestors chose Portland to stage their rally in because they believe the Portland Montreal Pipeline Company is planning to reverse the flow of its pipeline and pump tar sands oil from Canada to ships in Casco Bay, where the oil can be transported to refineries along the East Coast and in the Canadian Maritimes.
Judy Berk with the Natural Resources Council of Maine says energy company representatives have met with Governor Paul LePage to discuss the possibility of reversing the pipeline's flow and have been handing out pamphlets touting the benefits of tar sands oil to residents and towns in Maine that the pipeline passes through.
She says while there may be no permit actively pending, all signs point to it happening because the energy companies that control the pipeline have interests involved in tar sands oil extraction in the western Canadian province of Alberta.
Ted O'Meara, a spokesperson for the Portland Montreal Pipeline, says there is no current plan or project in the works to pump tar sands oil into Maine via their pipeline. He says the pipeline has its own management and sets its rules and procedures, not Exxon Mobile as protestors claim.
He says while they continue to explore ways to use the pipeline which currently pumps crude oil from South Portland to Montreal, and that there could be a plan for reversal in the future, there are no plans to do so currently.
O'Meara says if the pipeline were to decide to pump tar sands oil into Maine, they would be very public with those plans and allow for an open discussion.
Protestors say they believe tar sands oil harvesting not only pollutes the environment, but continues to enable our addiction to oil and fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. They say the money being invested by energy companies to extract tar sands oil would be better used to create more renewable and environmentally friendly forms of energy generation.


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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 GPU Performance In-depthBy
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PC gamers are no strangers to the Battlefield franchise, making its first appearance in 2002 with the multiplayer focused Battlefield 1942. Several other titles and expansion packs have followed in recent years, though Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the direct sequel to a game released in 2008 that only made it to consoles.
So, if for a second you were left wondering when was that you missed the first Bad Company game, now you know why as there was no PC version to talk about. Instead we received Battlefield 2142 in 2006, and the cartoon-style free to play Battlefield Heroes last year.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 made it to store shelves just last week, built around the Frostbite 1.5 engine, the same engine used in Battlefield 1943. One addition in particular called Destruction 2.0, which adds bullet drop and the ability to destroy entire buildings instead of only walls should make this latest title a little more exciting. The developer claims this revision of the Frostbite engine features multiple enhancements with a lot of effort gone into building the PC version.
DICE (Digital Illusions CE) is said to be working on the Frostbite 2 engine at the moment. This upcoming engine will carry native support for DirectX 10.1 and DirectX 11, as well as parallelized processing supporting 2-8 parallel threads, allowing it to use the full capacity of a Core i7 processor, for example. The Frostbite 1.5 engine used on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, on the other hand, is mostly DirectX 10 based with a few additions catered to DX11 users, namely softened dynamic shadows and presumed performance improvements. A cut-down rendering version that only uses DX9 is also included, so Windows XP users can still enjoy the game.
A few other notes relevant to hardware support on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is that the game has received official Eyefinity support by AMD. In other words, owners of Radeon HD 5000 graphics cards can play this game using the Eyefinity rendering mode, where you can have 3 or even 6 monitors connected to a single graphics card. The game will detect the mode and switch to the very wide aspect ratio, render using a wide horizontal field of view and keep the menus & HUDs on the middle display. Nvidia has also given support to DICE and their 3D Vision and 3D Vision Surround features should be supported via a patch later on.
In terms of visual quality and gameplay Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is highly impressive and in my opinion provides Crysis-like graphics on a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 type feel.
Any game that looks this good is going to be demanding. What we experienced is that tuning down visual settings along with the resolution still hurt budget and even some mid-range graphics cards. DICE recommends at least a GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4870 graphics card to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and it is rare to find this kind of high performance GPUs falling under the recommended specifications.
However, having now performed hours of testing with Battlefield: Bad Company 2, we could not agree more. Read on for our in-depth findings on GPU performance and CPU scaling.


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Norquist: Put fiscal cliff talks on TV
Closed-door negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff haven't yielded much progress so far, so anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has a suggestion: Put them on TV.
Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform who's become Democrats' favorite bogeyman, said if President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders in front of cameras the American people will be able to better judge who is being "reasonable" about compromise.
(Also on POLITICO: Grover's not over)
"It's the president who is threatening to raise taxes on the middle class if he doesn't stamp his feet and get his way," Norquist said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "He should get into a room with C-Span cameras there and negotiate. Lets have it in front of C-Span cameras. And if the Republicans are being reasonable, we'll see that. If they're not, we'll see that. Gotta have cameras in that room."


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Safari tentalows are the accommodation of choice for travellers who like to get out and about in the great outdoors but still want just an edge of luxury and style to enjoy when they return from those bush walks and wildlife-spotting trips. The upshot is that most of these sorts of stays sit far away from the bustle of urban life. They are out between the dunes of deserts. They are nestled in thick forests. They are perched on bluffs. In other words, if you're here to really get stuck into the outdoors, you can fully prepare to enjoy the wilder side of Windhoek.
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RIVERDALE, N.J. – A northern New Jersey condominium complex is taking a scientific approach to catch dog owners who don't scoop the poop.
The Grand at Riverdale has told residents their dogs' mouths will be swabbed for DNA and any droppings found on the property will be tested in order to fine the owners. The first offense will cost $250 and subsequent fines will rise as high as $1,000.
Grand resident Clara Humphrey tells The Record newspaper she guesses people spoiled it for themselves because they didn't pick up.
The condo complex of 8 four-story buildings will use the Tennessee-based DNA-matching service PooPrints to track down offenders.
Dog owners face a $100 fine if they don't have their pets tested by Nov. 1.


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