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Another View -- Shannon McGinley: Republicans will win only when they embrace their platformSHANNON McGINLEY
November 22. 2012 8:29PM
In today's technology-driven election climate, it's not enough for Cornerstone to promote pro-family candidates among issue advocates to make sure a conservative agenda resonates with voters. If Republicans want to win, the Republican Party and its top-ticket candidates must develop recognizable pro-family concepts in their campaigns and fully embrace the conservative cause.
Cornerstone can preach to the choir all it wants, but without a modern political party machine to research, target and reach out to new voters and then get them to the polls armed with conservative facts, the choir just won't add up to a winning tally. The Democrats understood this dynamic, which is why they won, despite their underlying extremism. Republicans denied they were under attack as the enemy overcame them. They assumed voters would pretend social issues aren't part of modern politics at the same time that Democrats defined Republican positions on these issues for them.
It didn't help matters that taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood spent between $5 million and $7 million on the election, joining Democrats in their misinformation campaign that alleged Republicans want to take away women's birth control options. According to The Hill, the abortion business saw a 98 to 99 percent return on its election spending investment. This type of spending is certainly a formidable enemy for Republicans who, in large part, simply want to reduce the number of abortions and make sure taxpayers aren't paying for men and women's contraceptives against their will.
All it would have taken to set the record straight was some defensive Republican messaging explaining Republican positions on these issues and an offensive strike explaining the Democratic lies and their underlying extremism. Yes, Republicans are at a monetary disadvantage because they don't rely on taxpayers to fund their campaigns and they use private donations instead. But Republicans have to prove their more frugal approach will work in government by making it work electing conservatives to office.
The Democratic Party just removed the last quasi pro-family issue from their platform; namely, that "abortion should be safe . and rare." To add insult to injury, Democrats included a new provision that promotes taxpayer-funded abortions. President Obama has consistently defended barbaric procedures such as partial-birth abortion and leaving an infant out to die of starvation when an abortion procedure fails. If the new Democratic platform becomes reality, people who morally object to abortion would be forced to pay for these procedures against their will.
These are easy pickings for Republicans. According to Gallup polls this year, most Americans are pro-life, and the great majority of those who think abortion should be legal would restrict the procedure to rare circumstances. In other words, voters prefer the Republican platform, and if they knew about it, they would find the Democratic platform outrageous.
When Democrats said Republicans were at war with women, Republicans remained silent on the issues and let themselves be defined that way. When Democrats said Republicans planned to eliminate access to contraceptives, Republicans didn't explain that they simply believe men and women should pay for their own birth control, vasectomies or condoms. When Democrats said Republicans wanted to stifle immigration reform or end public support for higher education, Republicans didn't approach single-issue voters with their actual positions. Republicans let single-issue voters believe the fabrications and exaggerations of Democrats across the board, and those voters responded accordingly.
Likewise, Democrats exclaimed that Republicans planned to take away Medicare from seniors. Yet, it was the President himself, in his infamous Obamacare bill, who took away millions of dollars from successful free market elements of the program and devoted them to the failing Medicaid system, instead. He added millions of Americans to Medicaid at a time when doctors are fleeing the program or their practice altogether because the numbers don't add up for them. Republicans didn't explain that the President was making Medicare less accessible for seniors; they didn't explain that Democrats were making it harder for lower income families to get good medical care. These were easy targets for Republicans, but they let Democrats define the issues instead. Seniors and lower-income families came out and voted Democrat because of it.
If the Republican Party has any hope of returning to power, Republicans must embrace their party's platform and reach out to voters with it. Republicans can't rely on their old sources of information about voters, they have to get out in the world and find new voters who believe in the same things but just don't know it. In short, Republicans have to ask for votes and explain why their way is better, or they just simply won't win elections.
Shannon McGinley is acting executive director of Cornerstone Action, a conservative think tank "dedicated to preserving New Hampshire's traditional values, limited government, and free markets through education, information, and advocacy."


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Baylor Students Compete in American Model United Nations Conference
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WACO, Texas (Dec. 12, 2013) - Fourteen Baylor students traveled to Chicago Nov. 23 to 26 to participate in the American Model United Nations Conference, where more than 1,000 college students from across the country participate in a simulation of the United Nations.
During the conference, the Baylor team represented the nation of Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country, and negotiated issues including counter-terrorism strategies, abolishing malaria, promoting science and technology for development, eliminating torture and promoting children's rights.
Through negotiations with other "countries," resolutions were reached and presented to the floor for debate with at least 20 percent endorsement from the delegates.
Tiffany Clark, a master's student in international relations at Baylor, has participated in five collegiate model UN conferences and said the team worked to set a high standard at the conference.
"Baylor is a smaller team compared to some of the other schools represented at AMUN, but we worked hard to be leaders in all the committees," she said.
Clark was elected the president of the International Court of Justice committee at the conference, which required her to guide the group through their deliberations as they crafted opinions in three cases.
"I was honored to be elected president...and even more honored to work with committee members who were incredibly bright and had researched the cases very thoroughly," she said.
Tyler Kopas, a senior professional selling major and the head delegate for the Baylor model UN team, was recognized as "Outstanding Delegate" by his committee, the highest award that an individual student can receive at the conference.
The team's faculty advisor, Rebecca Flavin, is a lecturer in political science at Baylor and holds tryouts for the team each semester. She looks for students who have the "whole package," which includes the ability to research, debate, communicate clearly and work well in a team. This semester's team was chosen from more than 30 students who tried out for a spot in the group.
In the spring, Baylor Model UN will travel to the Second Annual Howard Payne University Security Council Simulation in Brownwood, Texas, and the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City.
by Kristen Bennett, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805
Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference
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SNARL unveils 2012 lecture series
The Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) this week announced its 2012 Lecture Series.
The free lectures are a staple of early summer in Mammoth. They are at the Green Church on Benton Crossing Road and U.S. 395.
The series schedule, released by Leslie Dawson, is as follows:
•May 8: A Field Study of Storm Snow Slab Avalanches
Dr. Ned Bair, Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
•May 15: Mighty Mammoth: Geological Insights into Eastern California's Most Majestic Volcano Dr. Brandon Browne, Dept. of Geological Sciences, CSU Fullerton
•May 22: Glaciers, Granite, and Moraines of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Dr. Allen Glazner, Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina
•May 29: Dragonflies of the Eastern Sierra Ronald A. Oriti, Outdoor Photographer, Retired Astronomer
June 5: Bats in Peril
Dr. Patricia Berry-Brown, Dept. of Physiological Sciences, UCLA, retired
June 12: Rediscovery of the Sierra Nevada Red Fox in the Southern Sierra Nevada
Sherri Lisius, Wildlife Biologist, Bureau of Land Management, Bishop
For more information, call Dawson at (760) 935-4356 or email email@example.com


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Room by room, interior designer Rachel Reider has worked with the homeowners to update this Sudbury Colonial. Throughout the multiyear process, a neutral color scheme prevailed. But when it came time to focus on the family room, the owners were ready for a more vibrant palette. "It was exciting to try something different in this space," says Boston-based Reider, who selected furnishings with shades of lime green, blue-gray, lavender, and orange and a mix of patterns and textures. Located off the kitchen, the room has a creative, casual vibe that promotes togetherness for the family of four, says Reider. "They love it. It's where they always want to be."
1 > A LARGE-SCALE PIECE by Amy Maas and bought at Jules Place in the South End incorporates the room's dominant hues and serves as a focal point; the multiple layers of oil paint and high-gloss varnish offer textural appeal.
2 > THE SLEEK GAS FIREPLACE with a surround of dark wood and Pietra Cardosa replaced a traditional wood-burning brick one, giving the room a more modern flair.
3 > THE OTTOMAN was custom made by Plantation Design in durable faux snakeskin. "You can eat at it, put your feet on it, and it wipes clean," says Reider. Its round shape also promotes easy circulation around the room.
4 > THE ULTRASUEDE SECTIONAL and wool carpet are light gray. If you're not used to rooms with lots of color, Reider says, it's best to have a neutral foundation. "Layer the color and pattern in smaller accent pieces. That way it doesn't feel like a huge commitment."
5 > CERAMIC BOWLS made by Heather Knight serve as eclectic wall art. "We sent her paint chips of the room's color palette, and she matched the glazes to them," says Reider. "They bring a 3-D quality to the space and are a great conversation starter."
6 > A COMFORTABLE BENCH by Charles Stewart Co. upholstered in velvet provides additional seating as well as soft texture.
7 > A CARVED WOOD TABLE from Pfeifer Studio adds a "fun and funky" element, says Reider. "Someone once described it as a chess piece, and I really liked that."


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George the cleaner (1st visit)
The Stierngranat faimly's house (1st visit)
The ground floor
The upper floor
The ground floor
Graphic #1
The upper floor
Graphic #2
If you have difficulty solving this puzzle, please read on:
If you still have problems solving this puzzle, please look at the graphic #2, and:
Press the 4 switches in the following order: Bottom right; Top left; Bottom left; Top right.
The attic
The ground floor
Go back to the walk-in closet to the left at the end of the long corridor. Use the stepladder to reach the shelf.
Graphic #3
The symbols etc. from the storage room in the attic are a clue to opening the box.
Graphic #4
If you have trouble solving this puzzle:
If that is not sufficient:
Press the top right button once, so that the 3 colours of the symbols on the lid of the box match the colours on the drawing i.e. from top to bottom… blue; red; green. Then press the buttons in the following order: Bottom right, bottom left, top left.
Examine the contents of the metal box by reading the birthday card which has highly coloured flowers on one side and birthday greetings from Carin to Martin on the reverse side.
George the cleaner (2nd visit)
Martin's room (1st visit)
View the fruit box to the right of the bed – and open the envelope in it. Carol says: "The Blood Falls? Maybe I can ask Stina about that". Stina appears on the map.
Stina (1st visit)
The Blood Falls (1st visit)
Home (2nd visit)
The Blood Falls (2nd visit)
Walk close to the waterfall and remember the bright colours! reflected from the water there.
Carol automatically picks up her cell-phone. Left click on the phone to take a picture of the waterfall, and get a photo of The Blood Falls in inventory.
Graphic #5
Home (3rd visit)
Martin's room (2nd visit)
Graphic #6
If you find this difficult take a good look at the colours of the waterfall – if you don't remember them refer to Graphic #5.
Press the 4 coloured buttons in the same order that you saw the colours of the waterfall (from left to right) i.e. Black; Blue; Red; Yellow.
Carol's allotment (1st visit)
Stina (2nd visit)
The barn (1st visit)
The Malte Stierngranat Museum (1st visit)
The pyramid (1st visit)
George the cleaner (3rd visit)
Martin's room (3rd visit)
Monica (1st visit)
The Church Museum (1st visit)
Note that four digits are considerably dirtier than the rest.
The dirtier digits are: 1; 6; 9; 0 .The door has to be opened by trying possible combinations of these four digits. There are 24 different combinations altogether. You have to try each one until you reach the correct one!!
The code is 6910.
Graphic #7
The School Museum (1st visit)
Graphic #8
If you have trouble entering the Church Museum read further!
Look in inventory at the photo of the die's six faces. First note the 4 faces (only) which have red dots on them. There is one red dot on the number-6 face of the die and hence the 1st digit (from the left) of the code is 6. There are two red dots on the number-3 face of the die and hence the 2nd digit (from the left) of the code is 3. In a similar way, 3 red dots leads to the 3rd digit (from the left) of the code which is 4 – and finally , 4 red dots indicates the 4th and last digit (from the left) of the code which is therefore 5.
Hence the complete code is 6345,
George the cleaner (1st visit)
Carin's studio (1st visit)
The Sonic Forge (1st visit)
Home (4th visit)
The Malte Stierngranat Museum (2nd visit)
The Johansson Peak (1st visit)
Graphic #9
Graphic #10
We know from the brochure close to the statues that the painting at the beginning of the area provides a clue to this code.
The painting consisted of four vertical stripes-: One with two lines, one with a letter V, one with nothing in it at all, and one with four dots. The two vertical lines represent the number 2; the letter V the number 5, the empty stripe represents nothing (zero); and the four dots the number 4.
Thus the code is 2504.
The Saint Maria Church (1st visit)
Jonas (1st visit)
The car graveyard (1st visit)
The allotment (2nd visit)
The car graveyard (2nd visit)
The Sonic Forge (2nd visit)
Home (5th visit)
Martin's room (4th visit)
Emhart Zurich (1st visit)
Radiot's cabin (1st visit)
The sister's house (1st visit)
Graphic #11
Graphic #12
You may have trouble with this puzzle – if so please read on:
Actually what you see in graphics 11 and 12 is NOT the top of the box itself but the mirror image of the box – it is what is known as 'lateral inversion' whereby everything on the right appears on the left and vice versa (but there is NO inversion from top to bottom).
Look carefully at graphic # 11 and click 4 buttons in order as marked on the graphic 11 in order from 1 thro' 4. However don't click the buttons as seen in graphic #12 but their mirror images as described above.
If that is not clear, click the buttons as follows…
[1] Right side second button down from the top.
[2] Top, first button on the left.
[3] Bottom; second button from the left.
[4] Bottom; fifth button from the left.
Take the key from the box – it is now in inventory.
Radiot's cabin (2nd visit)
Graphic #13
Graphic #14
Martin's room (5th visit)
Graphic #15
Open the wooden box with the help of the colours on the logotype for Martin's gaming company as seen in Graphic # 14.
They are pink, blue, and green in that order.
The Malte Stierngranat Museum (2nd visit)
The car graveyard (3rd visit)
The pyramid (2nd visit)
The School Museum (2nd visit)
Graphic #16
Graphic #17
Carin's studio (2nd visit)
In order to solve this puzzle you have to examine carefully and compare Graphic #'s 13, 16, and 17.
First pay attention to the abacus on Graphic #13.
We see that the only number 4 which is replaced by an asterisk is on the top line and 6 places along from the left. Likewise the only number 6 which is replaced by an asterisk is on the second line down and two places along from the left. The only number 2 which is replaced by an asterisk is on the bottom line and two places along from the left. And finally, the only number 3 which is replaced by an asterisk is on the top line and on the very left side.
So you have to press on the buttons in the following order:
[1] Top line and 6 places along from the left.
[2] Second line down and two places along from the left.
[3] Bottom line and two places along from the left.
[4] Top line and on the very left side.
The Church Museum (2nd visit)
Graphic #18
How many poor souls do we see
Inside the human tree?
Five persons can be seen inside the egg-shaped human tree.
How many spears
Pierce the human ears?
One spear only pierces the (white) ears.
How many ladders can we see
In these paintings totally?
There are a total of four ladders, all in the half in the Church Museum.
The Saint Maria Church (2nd visit)
The Prince of Hell is at his seat.
How many does he crap and eat?
The Prince of Hell is in the process of eating one person, while two people are seen emerging from his posterior!!
How many playing cards have hearts
In the painting's lower parts?!
We can see two 'hearts-suit' cards in the lower left part of the painting.
Pyramid (3rd visit)
By using the code that we deduced from Malte's poem, we can now open the door to the pyramid.
The code is 5 1 4 3 2. The buttons must be pressed in that order from left to right.
Malte's train wagon (1st visit)
Graphic #19
The pyramid (4th visit)
George the cleaner (5th visit)
The skiing house (1st visit)
The rented house (1st visit)
Graphic #20
Graphic #21
Note that the pattern on the note with grid (Graphic #20) resembles the code lock (Graphic #21). The single dot represents the first number that should be pressed, a dot with a circle around it represents the second number, a dot with two circles around it represents the third number, and a dot with three circles around it represents to fourth number.
This means that the code is 1970.
Graphic #22
The skiing house (2nd visit)
Graphic #23
Look at its lock in close-up (Graphic #23). It is unusual in that it can be rotated by using the arc-arrows at the left and right sides of the lock. It has 10 symbols, of which 3 are identical to the ones on the note from the diary in the rented house (Graphic #22).
View the symbols on Graphic #22 and remember what they look like - in order from left to right. Then rotate the ring of symbols on the lock until the first of the 3 symbols (on the note) is illuminated on the lock. Press the green section in the middle of the lock in order to "set" that symbol. Repeat the process for the remaining 2 symbols and the lock opens!
The Church Museum (3rd visit)
Graphic #24
The pyramid (5th visit)
Graphic #25
Graphic #26
Compare the photo of the psalm board from the Church Museum (Graphic #24) with the miniature of the psalm board that Erik handed to Carol (Graphic#26). Note that the uppermost full star replaces the number 3 and the lower star with a hole replaces the number 2.
If we now examine the note from the train wagon (Graphic #19) we AGAIN see that the uppermost star, the 'full' star, is equivalent to a green star, and the lower star with a hole is equivalent to a blue star.
Thus the uppermost full black star points both to the number 3 and to the green star, whilst the lower black star with a hole points both to the number 2 and to the blue star.
Hence it is logically correct to assume that the number 3 is associated with a green star in the pyramid whereas the number 2 is associated with a blue star in the pyramid.
Therefore, a reasonable assumption is that we should first press the green star on the pyramid's psalm board three times and afterwards the blue star twice - the red star plays no active function in this puzzle.
A brick moves, and the hidden painting is revealed.
Grab the painting - Eureka!


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The name was given by the American Automobile Association during planning; they believed it would be a useless road, an alley for alligators. However, since alligators often frequent the waterways beside the road, the nickname has a somewhat literal meaning. (Information from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Alley)
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Roger Zelazny
American speculative fiction writer
Roger Joseph Zelazny (13 May 1937 – 14 June 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times, with 14 nominations, and the Hugo award six times, also with 14 nominations, including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965; subsequently published under the title This Immortal, 1966) and the novel Lord of Light (1967).
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- At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.
- First lines of Zelazny's first published short story, Passion Play (1962)
- Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant — you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.
Trust your demon.
- Introduction to Passion Play (1962)
- Two days like icebergs—bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind—drifted by and were good to put behind.
- The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth (1965)
- Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.
- The Agnostic's Prayer from the novel Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969)
- Yeah, the mythology is kind of a pattern. I'm very taken by mythology. I read it at a very early age and kept on reading it. Before I discovered science fiction I was reading mythology. And from that I got interested in comparative religion and folklore and related subjects. And when I began writing, it was just a fertile area I could use in my stories.
I was saying at the convention in Melbourne that after a time I got typed as a writer of mythological science fiction, and at a convention I'd go to I'd invariably wind up on a panel with the title "Mythology and Science Fiction". I felt a little badly about this, I was getting considered as exclusively that sort of writer. So I intentionally tried to break away from it with things like Doorways in the Sand and those detective stories which came out in the book My Name Is Legion, and other things where I tried to keep the science more central.
But I do find the mythological things are creeping in. I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.
- I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.
- "A Conversation With Roger Zelazny" (8 April 1978), talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2 (June 1978)
- All of these things considered, it is not surprising that one can detect echoes, correspondences and even an eternal return or two within the work of a single author. The passage of time does bring changes, yea and alas; but still, I would recognize myself anywhere.
- In the introduction for the short-story collection Unicorn Variations (1983)
- A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature — swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.
- Unicorn Variation (1982)
- "It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game."
"I am pleased that you were not wholly bored," Martin said. "Now will you tell me what you were talking about concerning the destruction of my species?"
"Oh, that," Tlingel replied.
- Unicorn Variation (1982)
- Death is the only god that comes when you call.
- 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai (1985) - Review of 24 views, with images
- Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it and sort of reassess it, and see if you've fallen into bad habits or there's something you'd like to get better at. One way of reexamining your own work is to work with somebody else. It's a learning experience. I don't want to get into a rut.
- As quoted in "Forever Amber" (October 1991)
- I got the idea for that story in May of 1979. I didn't know what it was going to be; I just thought it would be neat to write something about Jack the Ripper's dog, and ask Gahan Wilson to illustrate it, partly because of the fact that a dog is such an unusual person. No matter who owns a dog, if that person is nice to the animal, the dog is going to love him. I thought at the time, if you take a really despicable person, a serial killer or someone like that, and tell a story from his dog's point of view it would make him look pretty good.
- Explaining the origins of his last book, A Night in the Lonesome October in an interview (Absolute Magnitude Autumn/Winter 1994)
- Oh, I don't know — that's a hell of a question — I don't tend to look at my stuff that way. I just look at it a book at a time. Something like the Amber books are in a different class. I try not to anticipate. I don't know what I'll be writing a few years from now. I have some ideas — I have lots of different things I want to try. I almost don't really care what history thinks. I like the way I'm being treated right now.
- On how he would like to be remembered (1994)
He Who Shapes (1965)Edit
- The novella He Who Shapes (1965) was subsequently expanded into the novel The Dream Master (1966)
- "I sank Atlantis," he said, "personally. It was about three years ago. And God! it was lovely! It was all ivory towers and golden minarets and silver balconies. There were bridges of opal, and crimson pennants and a milk-white river flowing between lemon-colored banks. There were jade steeples, and trees as old as the world tickling the bellies of clouds, and ships in the great sea-harbor of Xanadu, as delicately constructed as musical instruments, all swaying with the tides. The twelve princes of the realm held court in the dozen-pillared Coliseum of the Zodiac, to listen to a Greek tenor sax play at sunset."
- You don't know what it's like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli! To know that a Mongoloid idiot can experience something you can never know — and that he cannot appreciate it because, like you, he was condemned before birth in a court of biological happenstance, in a place where there is no justice — only fortuity, pure and simple.
- The fact remains that you would be dealing, and dealing constantly, with the abnormal. The power of a neurosis is unimaginable to ninety-nine point et cetera percent of the population, because we can never adequately judge the intensity of our own — let alone those of others, when we only see them from the outside. That is why no neuroparticipant will ever undertake to treat a fullblown psychotic. The few pioneers in that area are all themselves in therapy today. It would be like driving into a maelstrom. If the therapist loses the upper hand in an intense session he becomes the Shaped rather than the Shaper. The synapses respond like a fission reaction when nervous impulses are artificially augmented. The transference effect is almost instantaneous.
- The power to hurt... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
- Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.
- He flowed. Away from all the rooms of the world. Away from the stifling lack of intensity, from the day's hundred spoon-fed welfares, from the killing pace of forced amusements that hacked at the Hydra, leisure; away.
And as he fled down the run he felt a strong desire to look back over his shoulder, as though to see whether the world he had left behind and above had set one fearsome embodiment of itself, like a shadow, to trail along after him, hunt him down, and to drag hem back to a warm and well-it coffin in the sky, there to be laid to rest with a spike of aluminum driven through his will and a garland of alternating currents smothering his spirit.
- "Beware," she recited a personal beatitude, "those who hunger and thirst after justice, for we will be satisfied."
"And beware the meek," she continued, "for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth."
This Immortal (1965)Edit
- First published abridged in two parts as ...And Call Me Conrad in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October and November 1965; later published in book form as This Immortal in 1966. There are no chapters in this book. All page numbers here are from the hardcover edition published in the Garland Library of Science Fiction by Ace Books
- I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking—by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.
- pp. 9-10
- I wasn't disappointed, inasmuch as I expected nothing.
- p. 29
- The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
- p. 60
- Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
- p. 83
- "Nothing we did in those days has caused a change."
"Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.
- p. 131
- My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best....
- p. 169
Isle of the Dead (1969)Edit
- Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.
- Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands — alternately cool, warm, moist and dry — a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.
- Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.
- The dead are too much with us.
- "Could Yarl the Omnipotent create a stone so heavy he couldn't lift it?" asked Green Green.
"No," replied Courtcour.
"Why not?"
"He wouldn't."
"That's no answer."
"Yes, it is. Think about it. Would you?"
- I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.
Jack of Shadows (1971)Edit
- All page numbers are from the first mass market edition published by Signet, first printing, August 1972
- "Then it is impossible to get an honest answer from you."
"If by 'honest answer' you mean for me to say what you want me to say, whether or not it is true, then I would say that you are correct."
- Chapter 1 (p. 11)
- He doubted that his petition would be heard, however, since he did not feel that the gods would devote much attention to anything emitted from this particular portion of the world.
- Chapter 2 (p. 16)
- Toward the bright stars, from the dark ground, he hurled another petition, for whatever it was worth.
- Chapter 2 (p. 19)
- There's no need for your pretty lies now. It makes no difference to an old woman the things a young girl believed.
- Chapter 3 (p. 32)
- "From the shape of a cloud I know that a man in a distant city will quarrel with his wife three seasons hence and a murderer will be hanged before I finish speaking. From the falling of a stone I know the number of maidens being seduced and the movements of icebergs on the other side of the world. From the texture of the wind I know where next the lightning will fall. So long have I watched and so much am I part of all things, that nothing is hidden from me."
"You know where I go?"
"And what I would do there?"
"I know that, too."
"Then tell me if you know, will I succeed in that which I desire?"
"You will succeed in that which you are about, but by then it may not be what you desire."
"I do not understand you, Morningstar."
"I know that, too. But that is the way it is with all oracles, Jack. When that which is foreseen comes to pass, the inquirer is no longer the same person he was when he posed the question. It is impossible to make a man understand what he will become with the passage of time; and it is only a future self to whom a prophecy is truly relevant."
- Chapter 6 (p. 62)
- So do not speak to me of souls when you have never seen one, man.
- Chapter 6 (p. 63)
- "You were both correct," said Morningstar. "It is the same thing that you both describe, although neither of you sees it as it really is. Each of you colors reality in keeping with your means of controlling it. For if it is uncontrollable, you fear it. Sometimes then, you color it incomprehensible. In your case, a machine; in theirs, a demon."
- Chapter 6 (p. 63)
- I have noted, too, that when it comes to matters of security the laws are considerably relaxed.
- Chapter 8 (p. 85)
- "Mercy, I have learned, is a thing that is withheld from one whenever he most needs it," he said. "Yet when he is in a position to grant it himself, those who withheld it previously cry out for it."
- Chapter 9 (p. 99)
- Is not love itself a form of a spell, where one is loved and the other loves, and the one who loves is compelled to do the other's bidding? Of course. It is the same thing.
- Chapter 11 (p. 118)
Home is the Hangman (1975)Edit
- This novella won both the 1976 Hugo Award and the 1976 Nebula Award
- On the water, aboard the Proteus, the crowding, the activities, the tempo, of life in the cities, on the land, are muted, slowed—fictionalized—by the metaphysical distancing a few meters of water can provide. We alter the landscape with great facility, but the ocean has always seemed unchanged, and I suppose by extension we are infected with some feelings of timelessness whenever we set out upon her.
- I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.
- "Cute," she said, smiling. "If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace."
- Times have changed since the Good Book was written, and you can't hold with a purely Fundamentalist approach in complex times.
- I had troubles of my own, and even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
- The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)Edit
- Nominated for the 1994 Nebula Award
- The chapters in this book are designated by the days of October
- All page numbers here are from the mass market edition published by AvoNova
- "Why do you tell me this?"
"Perhaps because I am a cat and it amuses me to be arbitrary and do you a good turn."
- October 2 (p. 9)
- Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.
- October 6 (p. 28)
- I thought about the Elder Gods and wondered at how they might change things if the way were opened for their return. The world could be a good place or a nasty place without supernatural intervention; we had worked out our own way of doing things, defined our own goods and evils. Some gods were great for individual ideals to be aimed at, rather than actual ends to be sought, here and now. As for the Elders, I could see no profit in intercourse with those who transcend utterly. I like to keep all such things in abstract, Platonic realms and not have to concern myself with physical presences.
- October 21 (pp. 138-139)
- It is a city of neat cottages and cobbled streets where wander cats without number, for the enlightened legislators of long ago laid down laws for our protection. A good, kind village, where travelers take their ease and pet the cats, making much of them, which is as it should be.
- October 22 (p. 160)
- "When you talk about being an 'anticipator,' of having a pretty good idea of when something's going to happen—or how, or who will be there—isn't that a kind of divination?"
"No. I think it's more a kind of subconscious knack for dealing with statistics, against a fairly well-known field of actions."
- October 23 (p. 173)
Phlogiston interview (1995)Edit
- An Interview with Roger Zelazny a few months before his death, by Alex Heatley in Phlogiston Forty Four (1995)
- Well, I decided that as a teenager that I really didn't know enough to describe character well and I was wasting my time. I'd learned as much as I could about story telling techniques and it wasn't a matter of technique any more. It was a matter of substance. As a result I said I was going to wait until I was a lot older and had more experience. So it was that after I got out of college I'd been away from SF for about four years. I'd read SF steadily from when I was eleven until I started college. When I started college I said, "I'm not going to read that while I'm here, I'm going to learn poetry and other things of that sort" in fact I wrote a lot of poetry then.
- I'd had a long talk with Bob Silverberg, who was very influential on my early career. He'd, out of the kindness of his heart, at a convention told me that he thought I'd made several mistakes in the way I was disposing of my stories. And I said, "I don't understand what you mean, but I'll be glad to buy you a few drinks, if you'll tell me about it". So we adjourned to the bar and sat there a couple of hours. He was drinking Bloody Marys back then; I was drinking Black Russians. And he told me all sorts of things which carried me over the next several years; it was a lot of information for a couple of drinks. He told me that the first thing I should do if I wanted to write full-time was to get a really good agent. He said that after a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end.
Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.
- I try to write every day. I used to try to write four times a day, minimum of three sentences each time. It doesn't sound like much but it's kinda like the hare and the tortoise. If you try that several times a day you're going to do more than three sentences, one of them is going to catch on. You're going to say "Oh boy!" and then you just write. You fill up the page and the next page. But you have a certain minimum so that at the end of the day, you can say "Hey I wrote four times today, three sentences, a dozen sentences. Each sentence is maybe twenty word long. That's 240 words which is a page of copy, so at least I didn't goof off completely today. I got a page for my efforts and tomorrow it might be easier because I've moved as far as I have".
- When I started writing my first novel, ...And Call Me Conrad, they always say: "Write about what you know" and I said "Well, if I get a nice sort of combination SF and Fantasy with these resonances from Greek Mythology it might be pretty good. It would also give me a chance to start filling in my background on all those things I don't know much about but should if I want to be an SF writer."
So I sat down and made a list of everything I felt I should know more about. Astrophysics, oceanography, marine biology, genetics... Then when I'd finished the list I read one book in each of these areas. When I'd finished I went back and read a second book until I'd read ten books in each area. I thought that it wouldn't turn me into a terrific, fantastic expert but I'd at least have enough material there to know if I was saying something wrong. And I'd also know where to turn to get the information I want to make it right.
While I was doing this, to keep the words and cheques flowing I wrote books involving mythology. And once I started picking up things involving astrophysics I'd write stories that played with those sorts of things. So that's why I started out with mythology.
- My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.
Quotes about ZelaznyEdit
- Listed alphabetically by author
- The work ... abounds in literary, historical and mythological allusions. The sensitivities revealed are far-ranging, capable of fine psychological and sociological analysis, and are as responsive to the contemporary as to the traditional... There is no other writer who, dealing with the struggle between life and death on such a fantastically rarefied level can evoke so much hunger for the stuff of living itself.
- Samuel R. Delany, talking about Zelazny in his book "The Jewel-hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction" (1977)
- His stories are sunk to the knees in maturity and wisdom, in bravura writing that breaks rules most writers only suspect exist. His concepts are fresh, his attacks bold, his resolutions generally trenchant. Thus leading us inexorably to the conclusion that Roger Zelazny is the reincarnation of Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Harlan Ellison, in his editorial introduction to the Zelazny story "Auto-da-Fé" in Dangerous Visions (1967), p. 524
- Zelazny, telling of gods and wizards, uses magical words as if he himself were a wizard. He reaches into the subconscious and invokes archetypes to make the hair rise on the back of your neck. Yet these archetypes are transmuted into a science fictional world that is as believable — and as awe-inspiring — as the world you now live in.
- Philip José Farmer, in a promotional blurb for The Last Defender of Camelot (1980) by Roger Zelazny
- Roger Zelazny died as I completed the first chapter of The Wake and his memorial informed the second chapter.
- Neil Gaiman, in his Afterword to The Wake (1996), the final set of stories in The Sandman.
- For absent friends — Kathy Acker and Roger Zelazny, and all points between.
- Neil Gaiman, in his dedication for American Gods (2001)
- Zelazny likes to develop different systems of magic, but his emphasis is on systems. He feels the magic should be worked out and contain no contradictions. It should run more like science and not be too supernatural in which anything goes. That route leads to magic being a crutch to move the plot along. He also likes to use the mystery plot. He feels that there is an elegance to having a puzzle overlaid on a fantasy or SF novel. The mystery helps build the mythic elements in fantasy, but is also akin to the process of discovery in science.
- He was a poet, first, last, always. His words sang.
He was a storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen.
- Sadly, at least two wonderful "untold tales" of the Sleeper were lost when Roger Zelazny passed away. I know that Roger had always intended to bring back Croyd's boyhood friend Joey Sarzanno, and tell the story of the crystallized woman that Croyd kept in his closet. But he never had the chance, and now he never will. Croyd will continue to be a part of Wild Cards — Roger deliberately crafted the character so he would be easy for the other writers to use, and always delighted in seeing what we did with him — but it would take an unusual amount of hubris for any of us to attempt to write either of those two stories, and it is not something I would encourage. They were Roger's stories. No one else could do 'em justice.
- He always seemed to come at a subject through a perspective slightly askew, as if he viewed reality through a glass lightly.
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Obama reminds his own party to keep its head and the other party to stop losing its mind.
Slate on the State of the Union: John Dickerson says Obama returned to the themes he campaigned on.Christopher Beam describes the partisan disharmony on the floor of the House. Fred Kaplan argues the federal spending freeze should extend to the Pentagon, too. See images from Obama's first year in office, as well as past presidential speeches, from Magnum Photos.
Despite the trappings of power, Washington runs on something else: panic. People in politics, after all, are like everyone else: We prefer to do what we're good at. So for the past week, in the aftermath of Scott Brown's victory and in anticipation of President Obama's State of the Union address, Democrats in the nation's capital have been politicians on the verge of a nervous breakdown, with each day bringing another mad run on the political bank.
America hired Barack Obama in November 2008 because he didn't panic—and Wednesday night, he showed he remains as calm and determined as ever. Surrounded by anxious Democrats and overanxious Republicans, Obama sounded a bit like Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you/ … If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken/ Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools."
Keeping one's head isn't easy in Washington, and as the president saw this week, those who do often feel a little lonely. In the run-up to the State of the Union, backseat drivers gave the White House a slough of bad advice, much of it urging Obama to show an electorate that's mad as hell that he's even madder.
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On education, the sleeper hit of his first year, Obama showed that reform is here to stay. "We have broken through the stalemate between left and right," he said. "Instead of funding the status quo, we only reward reform." As he sets out to tackle America's other broken systems, from health care to politics, the president should make "only reward reform" the Obama Doctrine.
Obama put his finger on the two deficits that irk and worry Americans most: the bleak long-term budget outlook and its partner in crime, the "deficit of trust" in government and in how Washington works. The past week gave America ample reason to worry on both fronts. As the president pointed out, congressional Republicans turned tail and killed a binding deficit commission, thereby proving that they won't even work together to cut government, the one cause they profess to believe in.
Some Democrats showed they're apparently not serious about governing, either, by unfairly savaging Obama's modest, sensible spending freeze as a Hoover-esque move that won't "excite the base." Plenty of Americans were cheering at home when they heard the president's irrefutable explanation: "Families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions. The federal government should do the same."
Obama offered an honest and proportionate response to both sides. "I'm speaking to both parties now," he ad-libbed. He reminded Democrats that if Washington doesn't reduce our debt and spend taxpayers' dollars well, ordinary families and the recovery itself will be the ones who suffer. At the same time, he put Republicans on notice that if they walk away from governing, he will take them to task for it—and if they don't come up with any new ideas, he'll remind the country that their old ones didn't work.
In the face of considerable pressure to raise his voice, Obama stuck to the central promise of his campaign—to usher in a post-partisan era and change the tone of our politics, even if it takes awhile. That's the path to a successful new decade, not a lost one.
In Obama's second year, like his first, nothing but hard choices lie ahead—health reform, the deficit, the economy. Reminding members on one side to be serious and the other to grow up doesn't mean enough will come around. But Obama's State of the Union address offers a reassuring, common-sense blueprint in an anxious time.
Every president faces setbacks. What separates those who recover from those who don't is the courage to challenge orthodoxy and solve problems. Running the country is serious business and the best politics is results. In times of panic more than ever, Washington must not forget: Governing well is the best revenge.


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Isaias Guzman is only 18, but he was immediately able to state that it costs the San Francisco-based Gay-Straight Alliance Network about $5 to raise $100.
Guzman, co-chair of the fundraising committee of GSA Network's board, learned the figure at a meeting where members were planning how to spend the nonprofit's money. The network does everything from assisting GSA clubs around the country to supporting school safety legislation.
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Jennifer Lopez Talks Collaborating with Chris Brown on New Album
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Jennifer Lopez has collaborated with a slew of artists throughout her career — from Ja Rule to Pitbull to Fabolous. On her next project, she teamed up with an unlikely artist — Chris Brown.
In a new interview with PopCrush, J.Lo says she enjoyed working with Breezy on her new album.
"He came in and wrote a few songs for me on the album," she tells PopCrush. "We had a great time working together. He's a very talented boy."
Brown helped Lopez pen her hometown anthem 'Same Girl' and other tracks for her tenth album, which is due out this summer.
"I mean, he knew he was writing for me, but at the same time it was very organic to what he does," she explains. "But when you hear the songs, I don't think you would think, like, 'Oh, he wrote 'Same Girl.' He wrote 'Emotions." There's very different things that he did for me on the album."
Meanwhile, Lopez flipped the rap video cliche with her glossy video for 'I Luh Ya Papi.' The 'I'm Real' singer says it was fun to turn the tables and feature some eye candy for the ladies.
"The director came up with the concept to kind of flip the rap video — to make me the rapper and, you know, just turn the tables in that way…instead of having girls in bathing suits, have guys in bathing suits," she said. "Instead of having me be the soft girl in the video, be the rapper who's in the mansion and the yacht. It was all meant to be in good fun, but you know, I knew people would get the joke."
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Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity: Enhancing Performance and
Improving Safety is the first text to provide an in-depth discussion of
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Thomas Reilly, PhD, DSc, FErgS, FIBiol, was a professor of sport
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research focused on the field of sport ergonomics. He conducted research
for a wide range of companies and organizations, including
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Reilly was a founding member of the European College of Sport Science,
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Iceland will honor its obligations - Interview with Gylfi Magnusson, Minister for Business Affairs
However, from the point of view of Icelandic taxpayers the the problem with the Landbanki accounts in the UK and the Netherlands, is bigger. It seems now inevitable that when all accounts have been settled, some part of the Icelandic debts will be paid by the Icelandic government and then, of course, also by the Icelandic taxpayers. Read more:
President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson said in a German newspaper last week that German Kaupthing customers should understand, that Icelanders lost everything and therefore shouldn't carry the burden of paying the deposit guarantees.
The government and you contradicted and said that Iceland will fulfill its obligations. But isn't the president right also? How do you explain to people, that now that they have lost everything they will also have to pay the banks' foreign debts?
I am glad to get the chance to clear up this misunderstanding. First of all, with regard to Kaupthing Edge in Germany I have been told, it seems almost certain that there are sufficient assets within the bank to pay off depositors. There is a much bigger problem from the point of view of the Icelandic taxpayers in the UK and the Netherlands. But those accounts were with Landsbanki, not Kaupthing. It seems now inevitable that when all accounts have been settled, some part of the Icelandic debts will be paid by the Icelandic government and then, of course also, the Icelandic taxpayers.
How is the government going to raise the money for that? Iceland is seriously in debt. So where does the money come from then? The taxpayer?
Well, in a way yes. That's basically the only revenue that the government has. But you must also look at the economy from a larger perspective. What is really needed is that the Icelandic economy generates enough trade surpluses to pay off the debts. It is vital for everyone involved, the Icelandic government, the Icelandic people and the creditors, that the Icelandic economy gets back on its feet and manages to keep the export industries going in order to to generate the Euros or Pounds or Yen needed to pay off these debts.
... to raise foreign currencies?
Yes. So we must take a dramatic U-turn from the trade deficit of recent years to a trade surplus. In the last few months we have managed to do this and hopefully will continue to be able to do so. There are several factors that are working with us: the fact that the currency has fallen so dramatically, reduces imports and helps strengthen exports. There are of course also factors that may not work in our favour. In particular, the deterioration of global economy will hurt exports everywhere. But there is really no reason to think that Iceland will be significantly worse affected by this than other countries.
Do you think that any Icelandic bank, if re-privatised in the future, will be able to participate in international competition for private clients, to offer money market deposit accounts, etc.?
Well, not like they did before, that is quite clear. They over-extended very dramatically and reached far beyond what was reachable. So, we will not see anything like that. At the moment, our main concern is to get the New Banks fully functional in order to be able to serve the domestic economy. So, basically all their foreign operations have either been seized or are waiting to be sold off. There will be no significant foreign operations of Icelandic banks. We will have a domestic banking system to start with. At some point their finances and reputation may recover, and then they may be able to expand a little bit abroad but that won't happen in the immediate future.
Are the Icelandic banks doomed to stay in the country just because Iceland is such a small country and the banks shouldn't exceed the GDP?
You can say that for now they are in this situation. And of course we want to set up a banking system that has solid finances, a solid balance sheet and limit the scope of the new banks' activities. We have to do everything that it is needed for the domestic business and will not spend resources on expansion abroad. International expansion wouldn't be feasible anyway given the current banking climate and the seriously damaged reputation of the Icelandic banks abroad. I'm sure that the Icelandic government will set up a regulatory framework to make sure that nothing similar to what happened in the recent past will be repeated. Obviously a number of things went wrong in Iceland. There were some bad decisions made by the bankers and the owners of the banks, but there was also regulatory failure.
In what way?
In many ways. Our regulatory framework put very little limit on how large the banks could become and there were no serious attempts made to try to reduce their growth. There was domestic and foreign criticism before the banks collapsed. But those voices were not listened to at least not by the ones that made decisions
Why not?
Well... (pause)... that is probably a long story, but I think that there were several factors involved. One was that on the surface everything looked extremely rosy. The banks were growing rapidly, generating huge profits. They were hiring people left and right on very high salaries. The stock market was booming. The real estate market was booming. And anybody, who pointed out that maybe we didn´t have the necessary financial support and that we were running too fast, was ignored. The banks were relying to an ever-increasing degree on a horrendous amount of borrowing, both for funding and also to keep asset prices high. There was a real danger, that if there was some disruption in the flow of foreign capital, we could have a very rapid negative spiral where the asset prices could fall and the krona could depreciate. Which is unfortunately what happened. Many people, including me in my previous job, very seriously pointed out this possibility, not just as a theoretical possibility, but as an actual threat.
Don't you think that the banks would have had the obligation towards the Icelandic customers to advise them not to take loans in foreign currencies, which is – given the devaluation of the Krona - the reason why most Icelanders can't pay their loans back now?
I'm certain that they should have done that. They have obviously advertised risky behavior and risky products, assets and loans. And it's quite clear, that when a banker tells a customer, who has no foreign currency earnings, to make a huge bet on the Icelandic krona by taking a foreign loan, the current exchange rate fluctuations can make the customer bankrupt overnight. One more reason why people were taking all these foreign loans was that interest rates in Iceland were very high. This was a policy mistake by the Icelandic Central Bank. It should have used all different kinds of means, rather than just increasing interest rates to reach its economic goals.
After Landsbanki's seizure Gordon Brown froze all assets of Icelandic banks in the U.K. using anti-terror-legislation. Subsequently Kaupthing had to be put into receivership, the official explanation being that Kaupthing was in technical default of its foreign loan relations after a run on the bank. Do you think that Gordon Brown precipitated the fall of Kaupthing?
This is of course one of the issues between Iceland and the UK. The UK government claims that these actions were justifiable; the Icelandic government sees it differently. I don't really want to state how much damage the action of the British authorities against Singer & Friedlander, the British Kaupthing subsidiary, actually did. But Iceland was in dire straits, obviously trying desperately to keep a part of its banking system afloat. And the actions taken by the British government certainly didn't help.
How highly is Iceland in debt now?
(sigh) This is a very complicated story. The government will take on sizable debts as part of the IMF programme and the settlement of the Icesave deposits and also some domestic debts due to the refinancing of the Icelandic banking sector. Then there are some other liabilities, for example due to the fact that we will have a very sizable budget deficit this year and next year as well. So Iceland's government debt will rise dramatically, going from being one of the least indebted countries in the world to one of the most indebted ones in Western Europe, at least temporarily.
That said; the gross debt - I'm reluctant to give you a precise estimate because of too many uncertainties involved – will be somewhere around one year's GDP. That means that the situation here is somewhat worse than the situation in Belgium or Italy before the worldwide financial crisis. But a considerable part of that is temporary.
If we look at the IMF loan for getting assets there is little reason to think that we will use up all of the assets. So when things get calm again, we can repay the loan by returning the assets. There will be costs due to interest rates, but we should be able to significantly reduce the government's debt when things stabilize and when we don't need these huge currency reserves that the IMF programme has in its plan.
But how is Iceland supposed to pay all these debts considering the depression, companies going bankrupt, consumption decreasing and interests piling?
It's certainly going to be tough. I don't want to say a year or two, because it will most likely take somewhat longer than that, but the immediate future looks pretty grim because of all those factors that you mentioned and with government tax receipts falling at the same time. Demands towards the government are also rising, for example unemployment benefits are increasing.
The financial crisis has devastating effects on financial assets, but we have to keep in mind that it doesn't destroy real assets. They are all there. We have more or less all the human capital. We certainly hope that we will not face too much of a brain drain abroad, although there will be some. But even then we will still have a very well educated and hard-working, flexible labor force.
We have infrastructure and real assets, including the natural resources. There is nothing that says that - once we have gone through this painful financial reorganization - we can't pick up speed and use these real assets to generate goods and services, including exports.
And we must also keep in mind that the government is getting a lot of assets as well. For example, it now owns the banks and even if they won't be sold - which is of course a political question whether you want to privatize the banking system again - these should become healthy companies that provide revenues to the government. So, the government's net debt should fall below one year's GDP and end up similar to many Western European countries, maybe 50-60% of the GDP, even if we don't paint a very rosy picture.
History tells us of course that a lot of countries have gone through financial crises – this one of course is fairly severe by international historical standards - but there is no insurmountable problem.
Do you think that other countries might soon face the danger of bankruptcy like Iceland in the course of the worldwide economic crisis, like Greece, Portugal, Ireland?
I certainly hope not. And what is strikingly different in these countries is the fact that they don't have a small floating currency like we have and they have the backup of EU Central Bank and maybe even some fiscal backup from their fellow governments within the EU. All of that makes it less likely that these countries will have a financial sector that collapses as spectacularly as the Icelandic one.
On the other hand, our currency, being very weak now, will probably help us faster than other countries that are stuck with the Euro. Because the Euro is so strong now that it doesn't help exports. So our currency contributed to the downfall and the big problems that we have now with foreign debts. But then again we are probably better situated to recover through exports than countries with a strong currency.
When he resigned, Björgvin Sigurdsson, your predecessor said that he regretted not having pushed Iceland more towards EU-membership. Do you think EU-membership would have prevented or reduced the consequences of the worldwide crisis for Iceland?
It would not have prevented a crisis but it would have made the dynamics different, especially when it comes to debts and the loans and the crushing exchange rates. But I doubt that Iceland as a EU-member with the Euro would have escaped the financial crisis, if nothing else had changed.
Should Iceland join the EU now?
This is a very controversial question. Many people are in favor of many aspects of EU-membership, in particular of adopting the Euro. And most economists claim that having its own floating currency without any ties to another currency, is really not a viable option for Iceland in the long-run. But the main stumbling block on Iceland's way to EU-membership is domestic opposition to adopting the EU fishery policy.
Are you personally in favor of EU-membership?
I am in favor of finding out what it would entail. We should start negotiating with the full intention of entering but of course not deciding to enter until we know what the framework would look like for Iceland's entry into the EU. Icelandic negotiators would presumably call for some sort of exemption or special treatment with regard to the fishing industry. After completing the negotiations, it would be possible for the Icelandic people to take an informed decision on whether to join or not. But a deal, where we lose all sovereignty over the fishing rights would never be politically viable in Iceland.
Iceland already enjoys almost all other benefits of EU-membership through the EEA agreement. We already have labor mobility, freedom of investment, free-trade and all the economic aspects of being a EU-member so it really boils down to the fishing rights. EU-membership won't happen in the immediate future, no matter how we rush it.
But I think that a reasonable plan of entering and – when we have entered – then starting moving towards adopting the Euro would be very helpful to bringing financial stability to Iceland. It would maybe not restore full trust in the Icelandic financial system, but it would contribute significantly to building trust in the financial system both in Iceland and in the international community.
Iceland would have to meet the economic requirements also to join the EU?
It would be one of our challenges, that we brought Icelandic interest and inflation rates down to the Euro-zone average within a few years, which is one of the pre-requisites for adopting the Euro. But having a plan that would bring us on that path would be immensely helpful for getting a calmer economic environment in Iceland.
Last question: David Odsson refused to resign when the current Prime Minister asked the Board of Directors of the Icelandic Central Bank to resign. Will he have to go?
This matter is before the Parliament at the moment. There is a bill for discussion in the Parliament, which will change the legislation regarding the Central Bank. I think it's most likely that the bill will be passed and then we get not just a new bank government but also new monetary policy board.
Gylfi Magnusson, Minister for Business Affairs