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Notice of Meeting
Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Place: Department of Administration
State of Wisconsin
101 East Wilson Street
Yahara Room
Madison, Wisconsin
- Call to order and introductions
- Minutes of Meeting September 22, 2011 (blue)
- Secretary Reggie Newson
- Financial report on the Unemployment Reserve Fund
- Recent federal legislation
- Status of Council agreed bill – SB-219 / AB-310
- Senator Robert Wirch and Representative Mark Pocan
SB-346 Benefits for employees affected by strike
- Representative Mark Honadel
AB-450 Training for benefit claimants
- Representative Joan Ballweg
AB-457 Various changes to unemployment law
- Senator Frank Lasee
- Department proposals for change to unemployment law
- Correspondence
- Future Meetings
- Other Business
- The Council may not address all agenda items or follow the agenda order.
- The Council may take up action items at a time other than that listed.
- The Council may discuss other items, including those on any attached lists.
- The employee members and/or the employer members of the Council may go into closed session at any time during the meeting to deliberate any matter for potential action and/or items posted in this agenda, pursuant to sec. 19.85(1)(ee), Stats.
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Ghost House Underground: Stag Night (US - BD RA)
Gabe watches another movie about cannibals living under New York...
On the way home from a strip club bachelor party, four friends (Kip Pardue, Breckin Meyer, Scott Adkins, Karl Geary) have a minor altercation with two young women (Vinessa Shaw, Sarah Barrand) aboard a New York City subway train. When one of the women unleashes a bit too much mace, the group is forced to leave the car when it stops briefly at a closed station, and are trapped when the train leaves. This minor inconvenience turns into a catastrophe when crazy, bloodthirsty cannibals show up, and proceed to chase them up and down the New York subway tunnels.
The Ghost House Underground series releases have really shrunk in the last three years. The first release date featured eight films, the second only four, and now we've got two releases separated by a week. I've compared the series to After Dark's Horrorfest titles in the past, as both seem to feature medium-low budgeted horror flicks that aren't impressive enough for Lionsgate to spend the extra cash for a proper theatrical release (truth be told: on average the Ghost House flicks are slightly better than After Dark's). Stag Night follows this lead, and doesn't disappoint based on these incredibly low expectations. There's not a lot going on here, but there isn't a lot to complain about either. This is a meat movie – the smorgasbord is spread with good looking victims, the monsters are introduced (they look like '90s era Rob Zombies), and the dinner bell is rung. The monsters chase the victims and whittle them down in violent ways. There's no reason given to like any of the characters, monster or human, which is par for the course, but is a bummer for the actors, which are otherwise not bad. Director Peter A. Dowling does his best to cover his lack of skill with rough camera work and lots of gore, though not enough gore to set his film apart from a very busy field. The most troubling problem is that even at 83 minutes, this one overstays its welcome.
Stag Night's most memorable attributes are those it shares with other, better movies. The first thing that springs to mind is the obvious – Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, a film I'm pretty sure Dowling wants us to draw comparisons to (Lionsgate even includes a quote from 'STV-TV' on the front of the box that reads 'Reminiscent of 28 Days Later, which doesn't strike as a ringing endorsement). Keeping in the realms of more recent productions, my attention was then aimed at Ryuhei Kitamura's adaptation of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train which also features flesh eating man-creatures dwelling in the New York subways. The locations and shaky camera work recall the monster-lice scenes from Matt Reeve's Cloverfield. In the classic sense I'm reminded of Tobe Hooper's seminal 'crazy cannibal family' movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wes Craven's thematic follow-up The Hills Have Eyes, but the one '70s era film that Stag Night resembles on almost every level, from look to concept, and that is Gary Sherman's Raw Meat (aka Death Line). Raw Meat takes place in London, and is based around a series of murders around the tube system that are eventually attributed to an assemblage of cannibalistic humans that live in a collapsed section of underground tunnels. Pretty much the same thing, just with a plot, interesting characters, and fun explanation for the monsters (based, apparently, on a 'true' story).
When I first started the film I assumed the pixilated edges on the bright red text were a stylistic choice, but the problem persists in a less serious capacity throughout the entire film. This is the only obvious shortcoming on the transfer, as Dowling and cinematographer Toby Moore aim for a modern cinema verite look, which doesn't lend itself to gorgeous video quality. The camera (which I'm guessing is a digital model rather than a film model) is constantly wiggling about like a news camera trying to capture the action. This style isn't conducive to sharp and clean images, especially not when the moody, dark lighting is taken into account. It's often impossible to tell what's happening during the more action driven sequences, but thanks to the HD video at least minor key lights can be discerned through squinting eyes. There's a whole lot of grain, which keeps any of the harsher elements from appearing particularly pure, especially the more vibrant colours and brighter whites. Blacks are pretty solid, and remain so throughout the production.
Stag Night comes fitted with the Lionsgate standard 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Most of the busywork is delegated to the center channel, including dialogue (obviously), and the vast majority of sound effects, even stand out items like scare noises and ambient echoes. It's almost impressive how many of the aggressive elements are left in the center channel. I listened very carefully, but didn't notice many major directional effects anywhere in the track, with the exception of some brief movement during the louder subway train moments. Stag Night starts with an outstanding little theme that is reminiscent of John Carpenter's earlier music, but later defaults mostly to a more modern (and boring) rhythm and ambience based score. The music fills the otherwise empty stereo and surround channels, and features a decent LFE presence, both in terms of pumping rhythms, and throbbing ambience.
The extras are mercifully brief, including a brief making-of featurette (34:50, SD), complete with fluffy interviews with the director and cast interspliced with footage from the film, a trailer, and trailers for other Lionsgate horror releases.
I'd recommend skipping Stag Night and going for one of the films that obviously inspired it, especially Raw Meat, which continues to go under-seen. If cheaply made, New York based pseudo-zombie movies with shaky, 28 Days Later inspired camera work is more your thing, than I suggest Jim Mickle's Mulberry Street, which was released as part of the 2007 After Dark Horrorfest. The actors aren't as professional, but the plot is a more interesting use of genre clichés, and the energy is of a higher octane.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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i pretty much agree w/ your review Gabe. this was like a less interesting/less well done CREEP. STAG isn't bad but it's easily forgettable. Chris Smith's CREEP is a really good and (no pun) creepy movie that i would recommend before STAG. and EVERY time the antagonists were on the screen, i'm like "IT'S ROB ZOMBIE!". lol. they literally look like him in when he's with White Zombie! (and i say that as a fan of Rob Zombie! LOL).
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th February 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH
Extras: Behind the Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Peter A. Dowling
Cast: Breckin Meyer, Scott Adkins, Kip Pardue, Karl Geary
Genre: Horror
Length: 83 minutes
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Intel denies Core i7 glitch
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Intel was tilting at the internet rumor mill this morning as word circulated that its newly-launched Core i7 chips suffer from a technical glitch similar to the one that previously dogged AMD's Phenom and Opteron cores.
A recent Core i7 software programmer's manual update seems to indicate the chips have some Translation Lookaside Buffer-related issues. But Intel says it isn't so.
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Several months earlier, TLB bugs soured AMD's launch of its four-core Opteron chips despite the company's shouts it wouldn't manifest in real world conditions.
With inklings of similar Core i7 problems, cue jokes about Intel copying AMD's chip design so faithfully, they took the errors along too.
Intel spokesman George Alfs tells El Reg the incriminating paragraph relates to a Core 2 Duo issue which was fixed via a BIOS update before the launch of the Core i7. The programmer's manual was first written in April 2007 and hasn't been properly pruned.
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"Ban the Box" cries echoed over downtown streets on Dec. 17 as about 20 citizens rallied outside the Hood River County Courthouse to protest a "massive" Wal-Mart development.
That gathering took place as county officials inside waited for the national chain to submit its formal building plans for a 185,000 square foot super center on about 16 acres of commercial property at the junction of Frankton and Country Club roads.
On Dec. 14 Wal-Mart representatives informed Mike Benedict, county planning director, that those plans would be delivered sometime during the afternoon of Dec. 17.
Monday evening the County Commission was poised to consider emergency action that would temporarily halt large-scale construction within the urban growth boundaries while a permanent code was under review.
About 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Scott Franklin from Pacific Land Designs, the company laying the regulatory groundwork for the development, delivered the formal building application to the planning office. Will Carey, county land-use attorney, said under Oregon law that action guaranteed the national chain store the right to have its plans reviewed under existing zoning criteria which does not limit the size of single commercial structures.
However, Donna Gray-Davis, spokesperson for the protesters, said Wal-Mart should not be allowed to have "grandfathered" rights when its application was submitted on the same day as the hearing.
"Well, I can properly dot every `i' and cross every `t' and make many proper and honorable requests, but you'd jolly well better not grant them until you consider the well-being of the entire rest of the population," said Gray-Davis in a written statement to the county board.
Three hours after Wal-Mart's building application was submitted, the third-floor courtroom and adjacent hallway were packed with citizens as the County Commission convened.
At issue was whether the elected body would enact temporary law to limit the contiguous "footprint" of structures on commercial property to 50,000 square feet. Although Wal-Mart would still be allowed the same overall square footage under that code, it would have been forced to have several buildings in the complex to comply with the new code.
After taking more than three hours of pro and con testimony, the county board began its deliberations. Some audience members cried out, "Shame on You!" and numerous people immediately left, interrupting Commissioner Les Hastings as he began to speak against the emergency action.
His statement followed those of Commissioners Les Perkins and Chuck Thomsen who believed that the adoption of a "big box" ordinance should follow standard procedure. The commissioners said emergency action should be used only in situations that were life-threatening, such as an epidemic or natural disaster.
"Some people say it's an emergency and others don't, but what we have to look at is if it affects life, health and property," said Thomsen, citing the three provisions for an emergency ordinance listed in the county's Home Rule Charter.
"I think from my standpoint those things are pretty sacred and I'd like to save an emergency ordinance for an actual emergency -- if we allow a large group of people to influence their elected officials to declare an emergency I don't think that's too good," he continued.
The board voted 4-1 against the emergency ordinance, with Commissioner Carol York supporting the stand of Citizens for Responsible Growth (CRG), an activist group opposed to any "big box" retailer, not Wal-Mart specifically.
"I do think it's very important that we look at size, location and compatibility and I would propose we do that sooner rather than later," said York.
Maureen Milton, CRG representative, submitted 1,056 signatures from citizens who did not want large-scale development to change the rural character of the community.
"Our group is not against growth, we're for it," said CRG member Maui Meyers. "What we have now is an emergency on our hands, the lights are red clear across the dashboard."
Conversely, Jack Brooks, general manager for the local Wal-Mart, added 300 more names to the 1,600 signatures already submitted in early December that backed the concept of a super center.
"I hate to mention it but Wal-Mart is winning and they must be winning because they are filling a need," said resident Ladd Henderson.
The debate at Monday's hearing waged largely over the potential gain or loss of local jobs that would result from construction of a "monolithic" store and the impact it would have on the community's rural character. The arguments were watched by several Boy Scouts from Troops No. 370 and 372, who received credit toward their citizenship merit badge by observing the political process at work.
"I thought it was kind of exciting but I was kind of appalled at how the people at the end acted," said Scout Matthew Kirby, 13, referring to the audience outburst.
Benedict said on Tuesday morning that many residents might have been upset at the meeting because they were unaware that ample opportunity will be provided for public input during the application review process.
"Most of the issues that people brought up concerning traffic, wetlands and safety are all required to be addressed by the developer in the normal application process," said Benedict.
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Amal Alamuddin, 36, wore an Oscar de la Renta gown to her wedding to George Clooney, 53, Saturday night in Venice, the Guardian reports. During the wedding weekend the British lawyer also wore outfits by Alexander McQueen, Dolce and Gabbana and Giambattista Valli. [The Guardian]
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Wabash Day Has Impact Across Countryby Howard Hewitt • October 6, 2009 Share:
Approximately 300 Wabash graduates along with their families and friends gathered in small groups across the nation October 3-4 and worked to better their communities as part of the fifth-annual W.A.B.A.S.H. Day.
The variety of projects and impact illustrated Wabash Alumni Benefiting And Serving Humanity. This fall brought new projects and projects continuing in their fifth year.
Closest to campus, members of Wabash's Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Jim Amidon '87 helped coordinate a Breast Cancer Walk that collected more than $32,000. More than 250 people turned out for the event.
"This was definitely different than most WABASH Day events," Amidon said. "When we were approached about hosting the Making Strides Walk, we were able to lock in October 3 so that it could be our signature local WABASH Day event. Now we're hoping to make it an annual tradition."
Josh Robinson '97 put together a Wabash Day project in Boston. The first-ever effort brought 11 Wabash men to the Franciscan Hospital for children. Alums visited children in two residential units while playing board games, creating art, and sharing a pizza party. (Group photo on homepage!)
Wabash Day is a coast-to-coast operation. In Seattle, Andrew Naugle '98 organized a group of alums to work at the Ryther Child Center where Lee Grogg '68 works as executive director. A half dozen Wabash men helped Ryther by painting an indoor playroom and completing some yard work.
Back in Indiana, Rob Paugh '92 put together a trail cleanup project in Westfield and had a really big turnout. He had more than 20 people in attendance, mostly graduates, along with a local Brownie troop.
"Thank you so much for organizing the great group of volunteers for Westfield's Wabash Day," Westfield Parks Director Melody Jones wrote to Paugh. "They worked so hard and we got so much accomplished. Please express my thanks to all that participated."
Matt Ripley '06 didn't have a large alumni base in Bowling Green, KY, to work with but found Mike Heighway '08 and together they helped out at a local library.
Another first-time project was food distribution in Fort Wayne, IN. John Powell '79 put a group together that helped distribute food to about 500 people.
Wabash Day's reputation has grown far and wide. Former Wabash College President Thaddeus Seymour didn't want to be left out in Florida. So when he headed out Saturday to work on a local Habitat for Humanity project he put on his Wabash tshirt.
"I was so pleased and proud to read about W.A.B.A.S.H. Day, remembering Jon Pactor well as an undergraduate (forty years ago!) and admiring his (and his son's) continuing loyalty and service to Wabash over the years," Seymour wrote. "Wabash Day is a great idea and a practical expression of the liberal arts in action. The message came through loud and clear here in Florida, so I wore my Wabash shirt to our Habitat work site last Saturday. We are building our 46th house here in Winter Park."
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Limbaugh: "Obama is uppity, but not as a black. He is an elitist"
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LIMBAUGH: From InsideHigherEducation.com, you will not believe -- well yeah, you will believe it. Everything that used to be unbelievable is not only believable it is happening. "Barack Obama has been called a lot of things since he hit the national stage: Celebrity, elitist and even one who 'pals around with terrorists.' But as his poll numbers come back down to earth, and an emboldened conservative movement sharpens its attacks, the label that seems to be sticking to Obama as much as any lately is that of 'professor.' Speaking to Tea Party activists in Nashville last week, Sarah Palin did her part to keep the 'professor' dig in circulation. The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee told a frenzied crowd, 'They know we're at war, and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.' The use of 'professor' as a term of derision may have hit its stride in the 1950s, but it dates back to scolding characterizations of Socrates, according to Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley."
OK, fine. Frankly, I didn't know that "professor" had become the number one dig. But if it is, fine and dandy. Now get this: "Charles Ogletree, Harvard law professor, founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for race and Justice says that he sees the 'professor' label as a thinly veiled attack on Obama's race."
Yes, my friends, you heard me read that. I heard myself read it. So now when we call Obama a professor, we are racist. "Calling Obama the professor walks dangerously close to labeling him uppity, a term with racial overtones that has surfaced in the political arena before, Ogletree said. Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a circus, Justice Thomas called the proceedings a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deigned to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. It's perhaps ironic, then, that the Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill, now sees a bit of the 'uppity' label being placed on Obama."
This is two different kinds of uppity that are being discussed about here. So now is professor the P-word? We've got the N-word, we have the R-word, and now we have the P-word? We can't -- we gotta -- we gotta speak in code? And only people who don't know what P-word is will understand what we're saying.
"The idea that he's not one of us, Ogletree says of the professor label. He has these ideas on that are left-wing that are socialist, that he's palling around with terrorists. Those are buzzwords, but the reality was that they were looking at this president as an African-American who is out of place." You know, Professor Ogletree, I hate to burst the balloon, but the single most important reason Obama was elected was his race.
A bunch of white people who thought electing a black president would assuage all of their guilt and erase our racial past voted for Obama. They couldn't of cared less what he thought, what he said. He didn't think of his as uppity, they were being selfish. They didn't like feeling guilty over our racists past, slavery, and so they thought pulling the lever for Obama would absolve them. It wasn't for his policies, as we are now quickly learning.
What Clarence Thomas meant by uppity, meaning he wasn't a liberal black. When Clarence Thomas said uppity black thinks for himself means he's off the reservation, so to speak. He's not following the civil rights speech codes set forth by the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton and whoever else is in charge of them. But nobody -- Obama is uppity, but not as a black. He is an elitist. He does think he's smarter and better than everybody else. That's what he was taught. He's a Harvard man.
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What was the point of building up Sasuke as a bad guy if even after turning to the evil side all he does is help the leaf village(don't care if meant to or not) and naruto in some way or another?I mean after reading the last two chapters you couldn't guess that he wanted to destroy Konoha.
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I have a feeling after this it will go like this:
Sasuke: Argh I need to kill somebody!
Naruto: But every konoha ninja is wearing the same headband as everyone else so don't kill them, try tobi
Sasuke: Oh okay then
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Naruto: Wanna be friends again?
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Im curious if it's the same ppl complaining about sasuke not talking about revenge and killing, are the same ppl who complain about him talking about revenge and killing. I doubt a lil side quest to capture somebody he already considered to be his enemy in exchange for answers he wants from his brother is going to magically make him a good guy. Also, why can't he have a normal conversation without ppl criticizing the story? How realistic is a blood thirsty psycho that only thinks about killing?
All that said, let's get back to naruto vs tobi now. Tobi was finally about to start fighting himself, which i dont know why im so excited to see. I mean honestly, tobi has never really been that impressive. I just want to see the unmasking i guess.
|2012-03-28, 08:25
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people asked for sasuke to talk more. lots of people complained that he was turned into a mindless killing machine with no dialogue. now he has dialogue. complaining persists...
the whole reason sasuke went psycho was because of itachi. it stands to reason that the very source of his psychosis (itachi) would have a calming effect on him and bring him back to earth a little
|2012-03-28, 08:34
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|2012-03-28, 08:58
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Dunno if it's the scan I saw or the art as is but I didn't like it this chap. All bleached out and those thin lines... Well, guess it might have to do with Kabuto's light/noise jutsu thingy, maybe in the anime it will look better if the whole cave is flooded in light ...
As for plot, not much there, I think it's a bit premature to come to conclusions about how Sasuske will handle it from here. For now I see no problem with the tagteam, Sasuske is intelligent enough to know it would be stupid to take on Kabuto alone at this point so it makes sense he teams up. I dare say I hope it's gonna take some more that "remember how we killed some stupid pig TOGETHER" to bring him back to the side of Konoha.
BTW, whatever happens between him and Itachi might not influence his attitude towards the village at all: They might well reconcile before Itachi bites it and then he still might feel it's all Konoha's fault for leading him and Itachi astray and still go on hating and act accordingly.
I'd rather think that IF he really changes, it is gonna be something that either Tobi or Madara do later that will have him reconsider...
Another small thing, I'll laugh my ass off if Kabuto's sensing ability is now limited because Sasuske took of that horn: maybe the horns are like a cat's whiskers
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|2012-03-28, 09:28
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Pretty meh chapter. we got a glimpse of how sasuke and itachi would be like if not for uchiha massacre. I understand why some people a complain, a couple of chapters ago sasuke was going psycho have quickly turned to the little bro from long ago. but I think this precisely shows how psycho sasuke actually is, he has bipolar disorder and doesn't need much to completely change his mood. as soon as itachi fades away he will once again go back being an angry kid. I think.....
lol I got this funny image in my head with sasuke lying in a boat with his arms wrapped around itachi's decapitated head...
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By Richard Rayner
"He had the build of a plunging halfback, with big shoulders and a neck like the stump of a Douglas fir," wrote Malcolm Cowley, who taught Ken Kesey in a writing class at Stanford in 1960. "Chapters of a novel were read aloud in a writing class and they aroused a mixed but generally admiring response." The novel was "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Penguin Classics Deluxe: 320 pp., $15), and among the other students were Peter S. Beagle, Wendell Berry, Ernest Gaines and Larry McMurtry. That must have been some writing class. "Cuckoo's Nest" was published in 1962, to a response that was more than somewhat "generally admiring" -- the book was turned into a Broadway play and, later, the Milos Forman movie with Jack Nicholson.
A much bigger, and greater, novel, "Sometimes a Great Notion" (Penguin: 736 pp.,$16), followed with amazing speed, in 1964. Kesey must have thought he could fly. Or perhaps he already sensed that he'd never do anything so good again. His friend, the novelist Robert Stone, reckons that Kesey was a natural performer, always requiring an audience, with little liking for the writer's lonely life. For whatever reason, Kesey became a test case in the nature of American celebrity. He got hold of an old bus, painted it in Day-Glo colors, gathered some friends, and set off on the cross-country road trip that was recorded by Tom Wolfe in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." Kesey became famous for being an acid-head, for being jailed, for being Kesey and, though he later published more books, was never quite the same writer again. He passed into part of that doomed legend, the Sixties. He died, much mourned, in 2001, and the odd and wonderful thing is, those first two novels not only hold up -- they seem better than ever.
The journals that Kesey kept while composing those books detail how serious he was about the craft of writing, and how good. He poured every chaotic impulse and vision he had into "Cuckoo's Nest" and "Notion" but found ways to keep the basic storylines clear and simple. In "Cuckoo's Nest," the "wild goose" renegade Randle P. McMurphy rolls into the mental ward like Shane coming to town and is at once set in opposition to Big Nurse Ratched who, if not exactly the villain of the fable, is certainly the representative of society's cruel and oppressive forces. In "Notion," our first clue about the logger Hank Stamper is given by an arm that Stamper has affixed to a pole in his yard, a dead man's arm with defiant middle finger sticking upward. Both books are set in Kesey's native Oregon, and both have the same blunt plot motor that served Ayn Rand in "The Fountainhead": the guy who just refuses to give in.
Rand uses the device to tell her favored story about the triumph of the individual will, while Kesey takes it in a diametrically opposed direction. The resistance of McMurphy and Hank Stamper is glorious but destroys them and brings death to others. Thus a dilemma is raised: Does America want brute individualism or the comfort and suffocation of social order? Kesey's life tells us which side he came down on, but in his fiction he didn't answer the question; instead, he explored its ambiguities in dramatic and shattering ways.
Kesey's subject was "the great wild American hollow, which is scarier than hell." Each of these books tackles the theme, though in tones that are very different, largely because of technique. "Cuckoo's Nest" is narrated solely by Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic Indian who pretends to be deaf and dumb. That's his way of surviving, and the Chief tells his story in a style that is everyday yet hallucinated, flashing with electricity and dangerous hot metal. Here he describes Big Nurse: "She's swelling up, swells till her back's splitting out the white uniform and she's let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the three of them five, six times. . . . She blows up bigger and bigger, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load."
The Chief is the enlightened witness who both brings us the awful news and is liberated by it, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk notes in his foreword to this new edition featuring jacket and flap art by graphic novelist Joe Sacco. But the Chief is paranoid too, and his voice tingles with dread of "the Combine," the malign and skewed democracy for which Big Nurse is a ruthless enforcer. "I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and what current to send up to get the results she wants," says the Chief, and we shiver with his fear.
"Notion," on the other hand, sweeps across history and is told through an intricate chain of changing points of view. To compensate, the prose itself always sits closer to what it describes. The superb opening pages establish a Western landscape that dwarfs and intimidates the men and woman that live within it. A river doesn't serve the loggers, but threatens to devour them. The forests tower with sun-blotting trees and drip with fog. So powerful and effective is the writing that these pages seem moist as you turn them. "This bounteous land, where plants grew overnight, where Jonas had watched a mushroom push through the carcass of a drowned beaver and in a few gliding hours swell to the size of a hat -- this bounteous land was saturated with moist and terrible dying," Kesey writes. Stamper and his half-brother Lee match wills and egos over Hank's wife, Viv. They both lose, but the river rolls on, eating away at everything.
It's staggering that Kesey published these two novels before he was 30. They're extraordinary in their drive, their capaciousness, their poetry, their human sympathy, and their laughter, which is always joined, in a Whitmaneseque way, by their feeling for death. Excesses may sometimes abound, but here are two American masterpieces. Dive in. Or, as Viv says to the crew-cut union organizer in "Notion": "Come on, it's fun. Look."
Richard Rayner's Paperback Writers column appears monthly.
The Short List: Also New in Paperback
"The Gift" by Lewis Hyde (Vintage)
A 25th anniversary edition of Lewis Hyde's brilliant and unclassifiable exploration of the nature, and value, of creativity. "All cultures and all artists have felt the tension between gift exchange and the market, between the self-forgetfulness of art and the self-aggrandizement of the merchant, and how that tension is to be resolved has been a subject of debate since before Aristotle," Hyde writes. He muses on where creativity comes from, and why it might be worth more than commerce tends to think. Which makes this book sound heavier than it is: "The Gift" is an inspiring dance around the subject of what the artist can expect.
"Black Hole" by Charles Burns (Pantheon)
A sexually transmitted disease, causing hideous transformations, plagues teenagers in the suburbs of Seattle, circa 1974. Charles Burns' graphic novel, parts of which were hailed as the "Ulysses" of the genre when they appeared serially, utilizes the conventions of shlock-horror while deftly upending them. Teenagers smoke weed, drink beer, exchange bodily fluids -- and grow weird appendages. In Burns' drawings, sex means physical horror; blackness dominates the pages, but real emotion too. This edition, with witty and ghoulish endpapers, is artwork in itself.
"Oil!" by Upton Sinclair (Penguin)
When Sinclair wrote his muckraking novel about the booming Los Angeles of the 1920s, he called it, not "Motion Picture!" but "Oil!" L.A. was still an oil town back then, thanks to strikes made by Edward L. Doheny in the 1880s and 1890s and later discoveries around Signal Hill in Long Beach, where forests of oil derricks sprang up in people's backyards. The whole city went, in the words of the Saturday Evening Post, "stark, staring, oil mad." Sinclair seized on this milieu, and the real-life, oil-driven political scandals of the 1920s, to depict an utterly corrupt world that spreads all the way to the White House. This magnetic and under-explored book is now the basis for a new movie by Paul Thomas Anderson.
"Delano" by John Gregory Dunne (University of California)
Dunne, who died four years ago, was both a sumptuous stylist and an incisive, sensitive reporter. Here he examines the impact of the California grape strike of the mid-1960s, the dispute that catapulted Cesar Chavez to prominence. "One day Chavez and a Catholic priest from Sacramento flew over the vineyards trying to make contact, via a bullhorn, with workers out of range of roadside pickets; they were both arrested for violating the grower's airspace," writes Dunne, chronicling a key moment in both Latino/American politics and the process of his own education about the state of California. His first book, and still, in some ways, his best.
"The Poems of Catullus" translated by Peter Green (University of California)
In one of his autobiographies, novelist Anthony Burgess wrote about his friend Peter Green retiring to a Greek island "to translate Juvenal at retsina-lubricated leisure." A nice picture. Green still sojourns in Greece but teaches in Texas too and, having finished with Juvenal, moved onto Catullus, a Roman poet who speaks even more clearly to the modern ear. "My friend Varus saw me lounging in the Forum,/dragged me off with him to meet his girlfriend./'Little scrubber' was my first impression/Not unsmart, though. Not entirely witless." Catullus wrote lots about sex, a subject that he treated sometimes with tenderness, other times with obscene venom. Green catches all that in his jazzy translations and erudite notes.
"Collected & New Stories" by Alan Sillitoe (Carroll & Graf)
Sillitoe shot to fame in the early 1960s when two of his early works -- the novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and the long story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (included here)-- were filmed with Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, respectively, part of the British New Wave. Sillitoe was working class and came from Nottingham, meaning he was automatically compared to D.H. Lawrence. Another story, "The Match," in which a guy goes to see a crappy football (soccer) game, returns home and rows with his wife, who then leaves him, might more properly be compared to Raymond Carver. It has the same exact prose and the low-key, seemingly effortless style. Sillitoe is still writing, after 50 years -- a distinct British voice.
"The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
Another landmark graphic novel, Satrapi's "Persepolis" tells of her childhood and coming of age during the Iranian revolution, when, as a little girl more interested in listening to Kim Wilde and buying jeans than wearing a veil, she witnessed the overthrow of the shah and the arrival of the Islamic republic. The clear simplicity of Satrapi's art mingles the personal and the political with a daring that can shock and move too. Thus a huge story becomes close and intimate, like Spiegelman's "Maus," which Satrapi must have taken into her blood somewhere along the way. A film, co-written and co-directed by Satrapi herself, is soon to be released.
"The Sylph" by Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (Northwestern)
Georgiana, the subject of an excellent recent biography by Amanda Foreman, lived a scandalous life in the highest echelons of the British aristocracy in the late 18th century. She also wrote, and published, a fact that her social standing precluded her from acknowledging in her own lifetime. "The Sylph," her novel in letters, which tells of a young beauty's marriage to a man she discovers to be a rake, sits somewhere between Jane Austen and Laclos' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." The cool-headed wit of the writing, and Georgiana's adroit handling of gambling and sex, and of how women were treated as commodities, make this feel very contemporary.
"Wolves of the Crescent Moon" by Yousef Al Mohaimeed (Penguin)
A one-eared Bedouin tribesman, sick of humiliation, quits his job as a low-level civil servant in the big city and goes to the bus station planning to flee. But he doesn't know where to go, so while he waits, other voices, other stories of loss and alienation are woven into the narrative. People run away from misfortune to find themselves facing new tragedies, and Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, in this tight novel, his first to be published in English, draws a bleak but clear and gripping picture of a Saudi society terribly divided between old and new, rich and poor. The book was banned in Saudi Arabia.
"Memoirs of an Anti-Semite" by Gregor von Rezzori ( New York Review Books)
"It was at this time I learned we had done Mr. Malik an injustice by calling him a Jew. On the contrary he was a man of high moral standards," writes one of Von Rezzori's shocking and capering Nabokovian narrators, telling the story of his life in prewar Vienna, complete with unexamined and unquestioned anti-Semitism. The effect, like a slap in the face at first, becomes funny, then bitter and sad, and has the effect of taking us afresh into a terrible historical period. Von Rezzori caused a massive stir when the work was first published in the New Yorker, and his book, newly introduced by Deborah Eisenberg, has lost none of its haunting power.*


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Published 1 day ago on December 13, 2018 By Federico Pieraccini Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation: The decision by Qatar to abandon OPEC threatens to redefine the global energy market, especially in light of Saudi Arabia's growing difficulties and the growing influence of the Russian Federation in the OPEC+ mechanism. In a surprising statement, Qatari energy minister Saad al-Kaabi warned OPEC on Monday December 3 that his country had sent all the necessary documentation to start the country's withdrawal from the oil organization in January 2019. Al-Kaabi stressed that the decision had nothing to do with recent conflicts with Riyadh but was rather a strategic choice by Doha to focus on the production of LNG, which Qatar, together with the Russian Federation, is one of the largest global exporters of. Despite an annual oil extraction rate of only 1.8% of the total of OPEC countries (about 600,000 barrels a day), Qatar is one of the founding members of the organization and has always had a strong political influence on the governance of the organization. In a global context where international relations are entering a multipolar phase, things like cooperation and development become fundamental; so it should not surprise that Doha has decide to abandon OPEC. OPEC is one of the few unipolar organizations that no longer has a meaningful purpose in 2018, given the new realities governing international relations and the importance of the Russian Federation in the oil market. Besides that, Saudi Arabia requires the organization to maintain a high level of oil production due to pressure coming from Washington to achieve a very low cost per barrel of oil. The US energy strategy targets Iranian and Russian revenue from oil exports, but it also aims to give the US a speedy economic boost. Trump often talks about the price of oil falling as his personal victory. The US imports about 10 million barrels of oil a day, which is why Trump wrongly believes that a decrease in the cost per barrel could favor a boost to the US economy. The economic reality shows a strong correlation between the price of oil and the financial growth of a country, with low prices of crude oil often synonymous of a slowing down in the economy. It must be remembered that to keep oil prices low, OPEC countries are required to maintain a high rate of production, doubling the damage to themselves. Firstly, they take less income than expected and, secondly, they deplete their oil reserves to favor the strategy imposed by Saudi Arabia on OPEC to please the White House. It is clearly a strategy that for a country like Qatar (and perhaps Venezuela and Iran in the near future) makes little sense, given the diplomatic and commercial rupture with Riyadh stemming from tensions between the Gulf countries. In contrast, the OPEC+ organization, which also includes other countries like the Russian Federation, Mexico and Kazakhstan, seems to now to determine oil and its cost per barrel. At the moment, OPEC and Russia have agreed to cut production by 1.2 million barrels per day, contradicting Trump's desire for high oil output. With this last choice Qatar sends a clear signal to the region and to traditional allies, moving to the side of OPEC+ and bringing its interests closer in line with those of the Russian Federation and its all-encompassing oil and gas strategy, two sectors in which Qatar and Russia dominate market share. In addition, Russia and Qatar's global strategy also brings together and includes partners like Turkey (a future energy hub connecting east and west as well as north and south) and Venezuela. In this sense, the meeting between Maduro and Erdogan seems to be a prelude to further reorganization of OPEC and its members. The declining leadership role of Saudi Arabia in the oil and financial market goes hand in hand with the increase of power that countries like Qatar and Russia in the energy sectors are enjoying. The realignment of energy and finance signals the evident decline of the Israel-US-Saudi Arabia partnership. Not a day goes by without corruption scandals in Israel, accusations against the Saudis over Khashoggi or Yemen, and Trump's unsuccessful strategies in the commercial, financial or energy arenas. The path this doomed trio is taking will only procure less influence and power, isolating them more and more from their opponents and even historical allies. Moscow, Beijing and New Delhi, the Eurasian powerhouses, seem to have every intention, as seen at the trilateral summit in Buenos Aires, of developing the ideal multipolar frameworks to avoid continued US dominance of the oil market through shale revenues or submissive allies as Saudi Arabia, even though the latest spike in production is a clear signal from Riyadh to the USA. In this sense, Qatar's decision to abandon OPEC and start a complex and historical discussion with Moscow on LNG in the format of an enlarged OPEC marks the definitive decline of Saudi Arabia as a global energy power, to be replaced by Moscow and Doha as the main players in the energy market. Qatar's decision is, officially speaking, unconnected to the feud triggered by Saudi Arabia against the small emirate. However, it is evident that a host of factors has led to this historic decision. The unsuccessful military campaign in Yemen has weakened Saudi Arabia on all fronts, especially militarily and economically. The self-inflicted fall in the price of oil is rapidly consuming Saudi currency reserves, now at a new low of less than 500 billion dollars. Events related to Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) have de-legitimized the role of Riyadh in the world as a reliable diplomatic interlocutor. The internal and external repression by the Kingdom has provoked NGOs and governments like Canada's to issue public rebukes that have done little to help MBS's precarious position. In Syria, the victory of Damascus and her allies has consolidated the role of Moscow in the region, increased Iranian influence, and brought Turkey and Qatar to the multipolar side, with Tehran and Moscow now the main players in the Middle East. In terms of military dominance, there has been a clear regional shift from Washington to Moscow; and from an energy perspective, Doha and Moscow are turning out to be the winners, with Riyadh once again on the losing side. As long as the Saudi royal family continues to please Donald Trump, who is prone to catering to Israeli interests in the region, the situation of the Kingdom will only get worse. The latest agreement on oil production between Moscow and Riyad signals that someone in the Saudi royal family has probably figured this out. Countries like Turkey, India, China, Russia and Iran understand the advantages of belonging to a multipolar world, thereby providing a collective geopolitical ballast that is mutually beneficial. The energy alignment between Qatar and the Russian Federation seems to support this general direction, a sort of G2 of LNG gas that will only strengthen the position of Moscow on the global chessboard, while guaranteeing a formidable military umbrella for Doha in case of a further worsening of relations between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. 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Wall Street raids RBS for debt traders as McEwan shrinks lender
Royal Bank of Scotland Group has lost at least six senior debt traders and salesmen in the past month to rival firms as the British lender shrinks its investment bank and faces political pressure to reduce bonuses.
Chris Wagner, a high-yield corporate debt salesman, left the firm's Stamford office to join Nomura Holdings, said two people with knowledge of that move. Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit hired mortgage-bond salesmen Arin Chilcote, who worked in Chicago, and Matt Zisette, who was based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., as regional sales heads, one source said.
John Gousias, a trader in London, left this month for HSBC Holdings to help run its corporate-debt brokering business known as flow credit trading, Shani Halstead, an HSBC spokeswoman, said in an email.
Cass Tokarski, who trades U.S. government-backed home-loan bonds known as collateralized mortgage obligations, will join Cantor Fitzgerald, while Alan Johannsen, who trades securities backed by assets other than mortgages, is taking a similar role at KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, according to people with knowledge of the moves, who asked not to be named because they haven't been publicly announced.
RBS, which posted its largest annual loss since 2008 last year, is being weighed down by legal bills and risky assets that are still on its books five years after receiving the biggest bank bailout in history. Ross McEwan, who took over as chief executive officer in October, is combining divisions, scaling back the investment bank and cutting jobs.
The Edinburgh-based lender, which is planning to cut costs by 5 billion pounds ($8.4 billion) over the next four years, planned to pay employees 576 million pounds in bonuses for 2013, a 15 percent cut in the pool from the previous year. The payouts still prompted criticism from both U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and opposition lawmaker Chris Leslie.
Sarah Lukashok, an RBS spokeswoman, declined to comment, as did Zisette. Gousias, Wagner and Chilcote didn't respond to e mails, texts or phone messages, while no phone numbers or e-mail addresses could be found for Tokarski or Johannsen.
Sheryl Lee, a spokeswoman for New York-based Cantor Fitzgerald, declined to comment, as did Zia Ahmed of Bank of America, Jonathan Hodgkinson at Nomura in New York and KGS general counsel Fred Krieger.
Gousias, Wagner and Tokarski were no longer registered as working at RBS this month, according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority records. At HSBC, Gousias will be co-head of a trading unit focusing on bank bonds, indexes, options and exchange-traded funds, according to Halstead. He'll report to Asif Godall, head of credit trading for Europe.


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The new program provides students with new internship opportunities as well as part-time and full-time jobs through the center's longtime partnership with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, and several of the 22,000 small businesses located throughout the borough.
Dennis Anderson, chair of the Department of Business Management and Information Technology and executive chair of the new center, said he hopes to be the "clearing house" for small and medium businesses in the borough.
"Anyone looking to start a business or who already has one will be able to come to us to get the tools they need to be successful," Anderson said. "They'll learn things like which banks provide funding and who to contact, where to get legal advice, and how to take advantage of pro-bono services."
In the future, coursework in the new center is expected to cover legal issues, finance, human resources, marketing and social media, and provide a platform for a number of networking functions.
"External relationships are key," said Mary Gelormino, the new center's executive in residence. "By bringing in professionals, we give students the value of meeting people who are successful in unique areas."
Classes quickly filled to capacity at the start of the fall semester this year, and Gelormino expects the spring session will be just as much of a success.
"There was a huge demand for the first class," she said. "Our students know that a program like this is not limited to business majors. We want to teach the skills of creativity and inspire people to follow purpose and passion. It can be taught to anyone."
Management professor Patrice Perry-Rivers, assistant director of the center, said it is key to the fabric of the Brooklyn community.
"The importance of entrepreneurship is particularly apparent in a market like New York, where immigrant and minority entrepreneurship drive job creation and community economic vitality at a rate higher than most other cities," Perry-Rivers said. "Our center is poised to help fuel the economic vitality created by our region's melting pot of entrepreneurs by training and educating future entrepreneurship leaders."


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Australopyrum Calcis
Plants perennial, stoloniferous.
Culms 17-60 cm tall, 0.5-2 mm thick, geniculate and decumbent at the base; basal branching extravaginal; nodes swollen, dark brown to nearly black; internodes mostly glabrous but retrorsely lanate below the infloresence.
Leaves: sheaths 2.5-5 cm long, glabrous or retrorsely hairy, lower portion becoming fibrous with age; auricles 0.1-.5 mm, glabrous, barely clasping; ligule 0.25-0.6 mm, lacerate; blade 6-25 cm long, 0.5-3.5 mm wide, flat, abaxial surface with midrib and 2 lateral ribs conspicous, white, adaxial surface hirsute or scabridulous on the ribs.
Inflorescence spikelike3-13 cm long, subtended by a small, hair-fringed bract, with 4-13 nodes, each node with a solitary spikelet, spikelets overlapping; rachis internodes 4-5 mm long at the middle of the inflorescence, scabrous on the margins, antrorsely lanate or glabrous on the surfaces.
Spikelets 10-14 mm, solitary, pedicellate, with 4-6 florets, tangential to the rachis and widely diverging at maturity; pedicels about 0.3 mm, hairy.
Glumes unequal, shorter than the spikelet, narrowly to broadly triangular, adaxial surface hairy, abaxial surface scabrous distally, veins 3-5 veins, eccentrically keeled, acute, lower glume 2.5-4 mm long; upper glume 3.7-5.5 mm long. Callus 0.25-4 mm long, with short, stiff hairsLemmas 9-11 mm long, 5-veined, obscurely keeled on the lower portion, scabrous, margins narrowly herbaceous, awn-tipped, awn 1.5-4 mm, canaliculate at the base. Palea 5.3-7 mm long, keels denticulate, stiffly hairy between the keys. Anthers 2.4-2.75 mm long. Caryopses 3.5-4 mm long.
There are two subspecies.
Australopyrum calcis subsp. calcis is stouter, has leaf blades that are hairy on the adaxial surface, antrorsely hairy rachises, and lemmas that are more scabrous than A. calcis subsp. optatum
Australopyrum calcis is known from only three areas. It apears to be confined to limestone habitats.
subsp. calcis: South Island, Marlborough
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Mozilla's Dave Mason, when asked by derStandard.at what the most scary part of Firefox' roadmap is: "It has to be Firefox OS which is a huge step for Mozilla. It is exciting and scary at the same time. This is the first time we had to partner with some other companies to get to the end results so that's a hard transition for us." I commend Mozilla for attempting this. I've been trying out Firefox on my Nexus 7 today, and it's really, really good (save for the interface, which needs some serious Holo love). If this is an indication for what Firefox OS is going to be like - good on 'm.


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"I am beaming with pride over this honor for Nemours," said Roger Oxendale, president of Nemours Children's Hospital. "Each day we set out to deliver the safest possible care for patients and families. The Top Hospital award from the Leapfrog Group is an important recognition of the hard work of many Associates who work very hard to achieve that goal."
"Leapfrog's Top Hospital award is widely acknowledged as one of the most prestigious distinctions any hospital can achieve in the United States. It recognizes institutions for their excellence in quality of care and patient safety, as well as their commitment to transparency. By achieving Top Hospital status, Nemours Children's Hospital has proven it's a premier institution and deserves to be recognized for its dedication to the families and patients in Florida," said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group.
The Top Hospital award is given to less than seven percent of all eligible hospitals. Nemours Children's Hospital was one of 94 Top Hospitals recognized nationally.
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When House Republicans took up a measure to speed the government's reviews of applications to export natural gas, a move long sought by energy companies, the unexpected happened: The bill won "yes" votes from 47 Democrats.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Cory Gardner (R., Colo.), anticipated some Democratic backing, but not that much. Rep. Steve Israel of New York, who leads the Democrats' House campaign arm, was a yes, as was House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland. Both voted in 2012 to restrict oil and gas exports....


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The great thing about RIMC 2011 is that there are two tracks running simultaneously. Following the first session, there are now two choices for guests. In hall 2 we have "Is social media all you need" and in hall 4 the subject will be in-house SEO
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This session takes on the wonders of social media and asks the question, "Is Social Media All You Need?". With the growing influence of Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks, marketers can choose between more and more channels to market through.
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YC Crushes The Bears
The #4 ranked Roughrider soccer team will be hosting their 21st NJCAA Region I Championship match thanks to a convincing 10-0 victory over Phoenix College Wednesday evening in Prescott Valley. The 10 goals ties a team record for most goals scored in a playoff match held by the 1993 Roughriders also in a 10-0 victory against Rockland Community College, NY. With this victory, Yavapai won their 496th (496-39-18) match overall and 95 of those victories have come in the post-season.
Goalkeepers Daniel Sellitti and Augustin Rey combined in goal for the team's 8th shutout of the season. Yavapai is now 19-0-3 overall and a perfect 40-0-0 in Prescott Valley.
Scoring Summary
- 12th minute – Marius Stensby unassisted
- 20th minute – Chris Luu assisted by Stuart Bryant
- 21st minute – Julien Dragomir unassisted
- 24th minute – Beto Godinez assisted by Kyle Morris
- 44th minute – Kyle Morris unassisted
- 71st minute – Viktor Rodakovic assisted by William Mecier
- 73rd minute – Frankie Halley assisted by Donovan Rico
- 73rd minute – Frankie Halley assisted by Donovan Rico
- 87th minute – Donovan Rico assisted by Rysen Barnett
- 90th minute – Victor Rodakovic assisted by Frankie Halley
On Saturday, YC will be be seeking their 20th Region I Championship since 1990. The opponent will be long time nemesis Pima Community College, winners over #9 ranked Arizona Western College on Wednesday in Yuma, 2-1. In two meetings this season, Yavapai has beaten the Aztecs 6-3 in Prescott Valley and 2-0 in Tucson. Saturday night's match will be played at Ken Lindley Field in Prescott and will kick-off at 6:00 PM.


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Gore Needs A Fact-Checking Brigade
by L. Brent Bozell III
June 20, 2000
After the 1988 election of George Bush the Elder, the nation's media elite pulled their chins in forums and seminars up and down the East Coast, proclaiming in unison: Never again. Bush had crushed Michael Dukakis with withering negative advertising and campaign rhetoric, they believed, and the media had been far too passive in defending the Democrat against Republican fusillades.
So in 1992 they premiered the "ad watch," a regular feature where media experts in civility and statistics predictably singled out the Republicans, regularly flogging the Bush campaign for being "misleading" and "wrong" -- for outrageous claims such as Bill Clinton would raise taxes on the middle class. The historical record absolves the Bush team: Slick Willie did just that.
In the 2000 election cycle, Al Gore should be a great challenge for the media's fact checkers. With his penchant for truth-twisting, the press might need a whole brigade working around the clock.
For example, see his performance in a June 15 interview with PBS anchorman Jim Lehrer. Mr. Lehrer asked Gore about who could take credit for the economy: "Let me read you what Governor Bush said about it. 'The momentum of today's prosperity began in the 1980s with sound money, deregulation, the opening of global trade and a 25% tax cut.' Has he got it wrong?"
To hear Gore's response is to be amazed at the degree to which this man, like his boss, will shamelessly....lie. "Oh yeah, of course. Because we had a miserable economic performance in the 1980's, and you don't have to take my word for that. Just ask anybody on the street who went through it. We had the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930's."
How on earth can anyone pretend that we had a "miserable economic performance" on a national scale in the 1980s? Reagan saved America from Jimmy Carter economics: inflation went down from 13.5 to 4.1 percent; unemployment, from 9.5 to 5.2 percent; the federal discount rate, from 14 to 6.5 percent; the number of jobs up almost 20 million; median family income up every year from 1982 to 1989. It was the greatest peacetime expansion in history.
As for Gore's claim that "anybody on the street" (presumably this includes his almost-evicted tenants?) would agree with him about the 1980s, if Gore is counting on voters giving him credit for today's booming economy, perhaps the media's fact-checking brigade could consult the election returns in 1984 and 1988, when allegedly despairing Americans kept re-electing allegedly recession-maintaining Republicans.
Gore said the economy never quite got going in the Decade of Greed: "Every time the economy started to pick up a little steam, it drove interest rates up and it slipped right back into recession."
But Gore wasn't done with the statistical whoppers. He added: "We had a quadrupling of our national debt. We had $300 billion budget deficits stretching out as far as the eye could see....There was no hope in the minds of many people that the deficits would ever be taken care of."
Fact: The national debt did not "quadruple" in the 1980s. Fact: The United States has never had a nominal budget deficit of $300 billion. Fact: the Democrat-controlled congress refused Reagan's pleas to control deficit spending. Fact: The last three budget deficits of the Reagan years came in around $150 billion.
And fact: The big deficits came after Gore and his Democratic colleagues pressured George Bush into breaking his no-new-taxes pledge with the 1990 budget deal, after which they really opened the spigot on deficit spending. As for hopelessness about deficits "as far as the eye could see," that sounds exactly like projections from President Clinton's budget analysts -- until the Republican Congress forced them into supporting a balanced budget.
Why all these deficits in the 1980s? Gore explained: "There was no plan to do anything about it. The policymaking process was paralyzed; nothing got done."
That would ignore the Kemp-Roth tax cuts in the early '80s, the Gramm-Rudman attempts at fiscal discipline, not to mention the 1986 tax reform bill. In 1982, Reagan expected Democrats to approve two or three dollars of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases he signed -- which they never honored.
Jim Lehrer didn't jump on these outrageous Gore statements, and neither has any other journalist on the campaign trail. If the media's fact-checking brigade are going to just take the day off when the Democrats defy all logic on public television, they risk the appearance of appearing interested in only one goal: not letting the wrong President get elected.
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