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America's plans to extend the reach of broadband have become mired in bureaucracy, E&T investigates.
The US economic stimulus bill set aside $7.2bn to spend on the delivery of broadband connectivity to rural and other 'unserved and under-served' locations.
As the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) became law in February 2009, there was talk of a two-fold benefit from its communications provisions. Equipment suppliers, network operators and construction companies would receive the short-term Keynesian boost.
Then, once fibre was in the ground and 3G/4G basestations transmitting, the money would help bridge the digital divide between the cities and the prairies, fostering longer-term economic growth in some of the country's more deprived regions.
So, how have things gone? Well, the agencies charged with distributing the money - the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Services (RUS) division of the Department of Agriculture - did not make any awards whatsoever until late December 2009. Even then, they allocated only $183m, less than 10 per cent of the $2.4bn allotted to the scheme's first phase.
The good news was that NTIA and RUS had by then rejected 1,400 of the 1,800 first-round applications they had received, and were working hard to progress the remainder. Inevitably, lessons had been learned - one of the best being that the agencies had perhaps underestimated the challenge when they hired just 40 salaried staff and 1,000 people who were 'practically volunteers' to assess detailed submissions.
Apart from tackling the lack of appropriate human resources, the NTIA and RUS said that they would simplify the applications process for the second phase - containing the remaining $4.8bn - and make their own priorities much clearer.
However, while they defined a tight month-long window for applications, which ended in mid-March, they have still given themselves until September 2010 to announce where all the cash is going.
Senator Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, recently described the broadband stimulus as the poster child for wasteful spending. Meanwhile, Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat who might be expected to go easier on the Obama administration's efforts, showed how frayed tempers are getting during a Capitol Hill committee hearing on the NTIA's work in January.
'Our question is, 'When the hell is this going to create jobs?',' she said.
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From the start, there was widespread fear that the broadband stimulus would lumber when it should leap. The stimulus legislation divided the work between two agencies: $4.5bn to the NTIA's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and $2.7bn to the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) at RUS. The programme was then split again, into a first phase of $2.4bn and a second phase of $4.8bn.
Whilst it was widely assumed that this meant the NTIA would handle urban and suburban projects while the RUS provided aid in the country, this was not made clear at first. The only thing that was clear was that you could not take the same application to both agencies. Meanwhile, both grants and loans were made available under the scheme - with grants reaching up to 80 per cent of a project's value - but it was debatable what kind of project would qualify for each scheme, what kind of assistance each project would qualify for, and how much they might receive.
There was always plenty of scope for delay here and the federal agencies explored much of it. But many of the potential recipients must also shoulder some of the blame. Part of the problem can be found by visiting the NTIA website, where the agency lists the applications and the various public comments made on them. Many - arguably most - are challenged for not meeting the 'under-served' criterion.
A typical scenario finds a local authority applying to run Wi-Fi in its metropolitan area, only for a carrier to object because it has plans to offer a 3G or 4G data service in the same place - some day. The wireless operators are not alone in doing this. A wired carrier might step forward and say that a co-op-proposed area is on its roadmap - but again, not just yet. Naturally, this game of claim and counter-claim is also taking place among the various communications companies themselves.
Nor do the co-ops emerge entirely blameless. Phase one payments came with a more 'liberal' set of conditions for network management and net neutrality requirements than many private-sector players felt comfortable with, so co-ops quite often placed bids for what were effectively overbuilds rather than new capacity.
Each of these objections has had to be investigated, further congesting a system already prone to blockages.
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Nobody is saying it out loud, but at some point late last year, it looks like the White House decided to intervene. A report EF restating the aims of the broadband stimulus was published in December by the National Economic Council (NEC), part of the Executive Office of the President rather than a division of the NTIA or its Federal Communications Commission overlord.
The report more tightly defines the NTIA's role as supporting the 'middle mile' - 'the critical link between the Internet backbone and the local networks that connect homes, businesses and community institutions'. In other words, it will encourage operators to extend their networks into districts that might be less economically attractive, but it will not pay to take the cable to the door of a domestic subscriber.
There is a further trade-off.
'Middle-mile projects are designed to improve connections to community institutions such as schools, hospitals and libraries, to enhance the quality of their critical services and reach large numbers of people,' the NEC says. 'By focusing on these institutions, federal investment will connect more workers to broadband at their jobs, empower more children with digital skills through schools and libraries, and lead to increased broadband adoption in homes and businesses.'
The RUS is then tasked with supporting the 'last mile', projects that 'facilitate connections to homes and businesses that would otherwise be left behind in the digital economy'.
'In highly rural areas of the country, low population-density may mean that middle-mile investment is not enough to make last-mile service cost effective for private providers. For these communities, the government has an important role to play in bringing broadband service to homes, businesses and rural anchor institutions,' the report says.
This is a much clearer definition of the roles of BTOP and BIP than anyone had last year. It also sets two other important markers.
First, the explicit inclusion of connections to public institutions among the goals for middle- and last-mile projects provides a measure that will make it much more difficult for traditional telcos to challenge proposals from local co-operatives. An emphasis on public-service broadband and utility provision has been placed above the traditional market-based notion of connectivity being offered predominantly according to a network's commercial potential.
Second, the original Keynesian driver for the stimulus has largely disappeared. After all the delays, it would be hard - perhaps even comical - to promote the idea that this scheme is funnelling money into the economy to fight a downturn. Progress has been, to say the least, ponderous.
Instead, the government has firmly stated that the money will now be dispersed to garner longer-term benefits that will accrue by making broadband more accessible to more people, especially those who are either financially or geographically disadvantaged.
But is it enough?
For the first time since commercial broadband began to be tracked in the US in late 2000, overall penetration fell in the period from April to December 2009, to 60 per cent of the population from 63 per cent, according to the latest data from the Pew Research Center.
The recession's impact on spending on communications and thereby the operators' willingness to invest is no surprise. Data from the Telecommunications Industry Association has total 2009 investment falling to just under $29bn, compared to $31.6bn in 2008, and projects spending in 2010 to contract further, to $27.7bn.
There is another number to consider here, bearing in mind that those cited in the last paragraph are what telecoms companies have spent or will spend regardless of the recession. The new number is $19bn, representing the total value of all the grant applications that NTIA and RUS received for the first phase of the broadband stimulus.
It is likely that stimulus applications were made for projects that were going to be funded anyway, and that there were genuine cases of duplication where successful applications would have competed with commercial ventures. That said, the $19bn total suggests the scale of the work be done far exceeds the $7.2bn on the table from Washington.
The Pew Center user data suggests that there is, however, plenty of demand to underwrite the cost of a full build-out - just perhaps not on as fast a return as commercial players would like. Broadband penetration in urban America stands at 61 per cent, but in rural America, it is 47 per cent. However, the difference for all Internet usage is far narrower: 74 per cent urban against 70 per cent rural. If they build it, chances are that rural users will come to use it.


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Bozo's restaurant never gave off much glitz, not at its original location tucked away in Mid-City nor during its second chapter on a Metairie side street off Causeway Boulevard.
But the memorably named restaurant was renowned for the quality of its raw oysters and fried seafood, and during a heyday that stretched for decades beginning in the 1950s, it was known as a place for figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sports and the media to see and be seen.
The good times always seemed to be rolling at Bozo's, remembered Ed McIntyre, a Metairie-based restaurateur who grew up with regular family visits to both locations. But he knew it all stemmed from the tenacious work ethic embodied by its proprietor, Chris "Bozo" Vodanovich.
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"He was an icon of our industry, for New Orleans restaurants, and if you get closer, an icon for Louisiana seafood and for oysters in particular," said Tommy Cvitanovich, proprietor of Drago's Seafood Restaurant. "He took such pride in what he did, especially the oysters. He insisted on frying them himself, always. No one fried oysters like Mr. Chris."
Known for his avid interest in racehorses and his devotion to his wife, Bernadine, Vodanovich got an early start in the restaurant business and had deep roots in the oyster industry of southeast Louisiana.
His father, Bozo Vodanovich — the first name is the Croatian equivalent of Chris — emigrated to the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century. He found his way to Buras, a Plaquemines Parish bastion of the region's Croatian community, as well as a hub for the oyster business and the hometown of his future wife, Marie. They later moved to New Orleans and opened Bozo's Oyster Bar & Beer Parlor at 2713 St. Ann St. on April 1, 1928. Chris Vodanovich was born two months later.
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They continued to run the business directly, with Chris minding the fryers and Bernadine a constant presence at the cashier's station, until they retired in 2008.
New operators took over Bozo's that same year, but the restaurant closed in early 2013. Vodanovich had retained ownership of the building, however, and he soon sold the property to McIntyre, who reopened the business later in 2013 as Mr. Ed's Oyster Bar & Fish House.
Vodanovich visited his old restaurant frequently over the past year, McIntyre said, and he seemed to enjoy spending time at the oyster bar with customers and sharing stories, and advice, with the restaurant's staff.
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address here on c-span. >> coming up, "newsmakers," with chris van hollen bought by senators discussing immigration. later, president obama speaking in leesburg, >> our guest on "newsmakers" is representative chris van hollen. he is a senior democrat on the budget committee. his district has several contractors waiting on the result of the sequestration. we are speaking to you on friday afternoon and you have just returned from a democratic retreat. nancy cook is the tax and budget reporter for the "national journal." lori montgomery is with "the washington post." lori, you're up first. >> house democrats have prepared their own bill for dealing with
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the rest of the fiscal year. tax increases, republicans have said they will not go for any tax increases. everyone thinks the sequester is a bad idea. what is the plan to forge a compromise? >> we want to ask the republicans to take a balanced approach and i think there is growing pressure among other republicans to replace the sequester through a combination of cuts that take place over a longer time because they do not want to harm the economy in the short term even as you try to reduce the deficit in the long term. also by closing some of the tax loopholes. we heard in the last presidential campaign from mitt romney and paul rand that there are all these tax breaks and loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. speaker john boehner said he
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could come up with $800 billion through a tax reform plan. we're simply saying to the house republicans that we want to do with speaker john boehner said he could do. use some of their revenue from closing loopholes to close the deposit. you are right. republicans so far have said they're not willing to close one tax loophole, not for a corporate jet or big oil companies for the purpose of reducing the deficit. when it is that trade-off, are they more interested in protecting the economy and defense spending? then i think he will begin to see a little bit of a change in attitude. >> what is there is not a change in attitude and calculations? this deadline is different than previous ones. we were facing the prospect of a default. it was a stone wall. we could not afford to hit it. where were facing taxes
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immediately going up. it was a pretty hard stonewall we could not afford to hit. this time, they're saying we really do not want this to happen, but if it does it is the other guy's fault. is that kind of what we are seeing here? >> the president has been very clear. he does not want this to happen. it would be bought for the economy and very disruptive to important services right across the board whether it delays your social security checks, air traffic controllers. it is just a very disruptive to the economy. >> it is a less damaging deadline. it gives us more room to pressure. >> i'm concerned that the republicans will not really come to the table until we actually tripped over the march 1st date and the sequester actually begins. one thing that should be concerning to everyone is now
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have a lot of members in the house republican caucus who say they want to see these very disruptive across-the-board cuts take place. that is a significant part of the house republican caucus. on the other side of the caucus you have folks like the chairman of the armed services committee, mr. mckeon, saying, "wait a minute, i do not know if we want to put at risk defense spending, these national security investments." so, that will play out. i would much prefer to see us resolve this before we hit the march 1 trigger date, but i do believe if we go over it -- i certainly hope republican colleagues will come to their senses. >> what is the game plan, say we do go over the march 1 deadline, just as we went over the fiscal cliff deadline? what is the game plan to deal with it and how much time do you think congress and the white house has to deal with it before this becomes an economic drag?
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>> i think it is already becoming an economic drag looking at the last quarter of last year. you saw a downturn in economic activity in a factor behind that has been, many analysts believe, the anticipation of these across-the-board cuts. so, are you getting this slowdown -- if you are getting this slowdown in anticipation of the cuts, it will get worse once the march 1 date hits. my view is we have to deal with this now, and you are raising a broader question about these things upon us. we have the march 1 deadline and the sequester. march 27 is when the government's authority to operate ends, and then, of course, republicans moved the big debt ceiling debate to may 18. so, you have these self-imposed economic wounds, and really what we should be doing is dealing with them all at once in a
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comprehensive manner. if we cannot deal with it for a 10-year period, at least deal with it through the remainder of this fiscal year and that is exactly what the house democratic alternative did. we would replace that sequester with deficit reduction achieved over a longer time. in suburban maryland, represent a lot of people that would be directly affected if the sequester hits. do you think the administration is doing a good job of preparing federal workers and folks whose paychecks depend on what happens in the next few weeks for how it will work and how to plan their lives? >> we have been urging them to provide guidance to federal employees because as we get closer to the date there is more and more anxiety, understandably. they are trying to provide notice to employees about things that can be expected, but the problem is it affect each agency differently, so there is not one
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rule of thumb that will apply to every federal agency. part of the impact will depend on the extent to which employees make up most of the budget, as opposed to agencies that have more of a procurement budget or their budget is contracted out. i should emphasize that while it will hit federal employees and that is not good for anyone, that will hurt -- it will hurt around the country. let's take the national institutes of health, for example. yes, it will impact the people that will work there, but the national institutes of health provides grants to universities and scientists around the country who are doing research into ways to save lives, cure diseases, treating diseases and a lot of that will seize up. so, it is not simply the federal employees. i mean, that is very disruptive, but throughout the country you will see negative impacts and
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that is just one small example on medical research, which is important to the economy. >> i just came from a briefing at the white house where it was the first time they talked about how this will be implemented. they have been reluctant to advertise the role they will have to play in implementing this thing -- the executive branch will have to play. do you think that was a wise move, not to be more open about how this will happen? we are only starting to hear, well, there can be furloughs with a 30 day notice and the specifics of what will happen, if it happens. >> that is because we and the white house have been focused on trying to look for ways to avoid the sequester. the president put forward his large year 10-year budget plan to do that in a balanced way, and more recently the president called for replacing it with a next. we were able to avoid the first two months of the sequester.
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it was originally scheduled to take place beginning january 1, and we provided a mix of cuts and revenues over a time to replace those, and that is the model for replacing the sequester going forward. we set a precedent for doing it that way as part of the agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff and we think that is the model that should be applied going forward. that is exactly why in the house that democrats oppose this -- proposed this balanced approach. >> how likely is it -- i know the senate, kretz are trying to figure out a bill legislation to unravel the sequester, a short term one or a long term one, but would he be effective if we came off with another short-term solution and then it would come up again? would that be successful in your mind? >> well, the most successful thing would be to solve this longer-term, right? the sequester represents $1.2 trillion over 10 years.
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the best case would be to replace the full length of the alternatively, we should adopt something like the house proposal which at least replaces it for the remainder of this fiscal year, but even a short- term replacement would prevent the across-the-board cuts from taking place and provide a little more time to work on a longer-term solution. when i say "replacement," i do not mean kicking the can down the road in allowing the deficit to increase but it would be a balanced substitute. this does bring up the overall issue that because we are so focused on these deadlines, we are ignoring the larger issue, which is trying to get greater investment in the economy right now, help put more people back
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to work in construction, investments in science and research, as we deal with the long-term deficit in a smart way. we need to do both of those things, but our focus has to be on jobs and the economy now and all of these artificial outlines are just disrupting. >> so, the debt is not an immediate concern for you? >> well, the debt is primarily a longer-term concern. as you know, when the economy was falling through the floor, it was important for the government to pass the recovery bill, the stimulus bill, to put people back to work and that stop the freefall and helped to turn the corner. now we need to reduce the deficit so it does not grow faster, stabilize the debt as a percentage of gdp -- no doubt about it, but the biggest impact, on the out years as you see more baby boomers retiring.
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it is not that we should ignore the problem until then. we could act now, but we could take measures now that kick in six or seven years down the road to bend that curve. the focus has to be economic growth. right now, the danger is too much austerity immediately. we saw from european friends that it does not work. certainly, in the out years if we do not bring the deficit down, that will also be a drag on the economy. >> 11 minutes left. >> your colleagues on the republican side of the aisle have said that the only kind of cuts that they would be willing to trade the sequester for our entitlement cuts, and the white house has put some things on the table that are really relatively modest in the full panoply of entitlement changes that you could make, like reining in the measure of inflation that you
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apply to social security benefits, reducing the eligibility age for medicare -- are those things that democrats are willing to accept now as we approach this next round of deficit reduction? what more are democrats willing to do to rein in those programs because the affects of those two has touted are relatively modest on the long picture. >> remember, the president cost budget that he submitted last year, actually achieves more healthcare savings, or medicare savings, then the ryan republican budget, but the president does it in a different way, as did the house democratic alternative budget. our approach to health issues has been to improve the coordination of care, to try to change incentives, moving away from fee-for-service, where no one has an incentive to contain
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costs, to one where we focus on reimbursing providers based on the value of care, not the volume. we would ask pharmaceutical companies to pay higher rebates, the kind they were paying in early-2000's. yes, we need to achieve savings in medicare, but, it is a we do not want to simply transfer the rising healthcare costs onto onto the back of seniors, which is what the ryan voucher plan would do. they would not reduce overall healthcare spending spending, which is 18% of gdp. they would transfer those rising healthcare costs on to seniors, and i should emphasize the latest rational budget office reports show the per capita increase in medicare is quite low historically speaking and the growth has been slower in
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the medicare program than the private healthcare system. simply taking a senior and transferring rising costs on them not only puts a burden on seniors, but it does not save more money for the health care system as a whole. we need to contain those costs, but we have different approaches. we do not want to put the risk on the back of seniors. >> what about social security? >> on social security we think you need to look at reforms and the revenue side. if we could do together on a bipartisan basis, and some people have called for another commission, not as a way to kick the can down the road, but to really try and come up with solutions. again, i want to emphasize social security is fully solvent until the year 2034 or thereabouts, right now. after that, if we did nothing at all, it would still pay $.75 on
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the dollar. a lot of people who try to say social security is going bankrupt, they are trying to push for changes that would put seniors at risk. so, we do not like some of the proposals that are, again, just increasing the costs and risks for seniors. if you look back to the tip o'neill/ronald reagan summit over social security, that is the kind of process that might be able to lead to a solution. >> i am curious about the house democratic retreat to you just came from. we are facing a lot of these goods coming up, the sequester, many cliffs coming up, the sequester, the debt ceiling -- what were you talking about to strategize for these self often
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imposed fiscal crises, as you talked about? >> we heard from a range of folks, the vice president, former president clinton, the head of the imf, christine lagarde, and panels where the focus was on jobs and the economy, and how we do more to expand economic growth, share prosperity and deal with the long-term deficit in a balanced way so that we are able to sustain economic growth in the out years. we looked at a lot of ideas on trying to make our economy more competitive, how to encourage more innovation and more investment in everything from infrastructure to broadband, to new ideas -- i mean, remember, it was taxpayer dollars that helped to see the internet in the beginning. investing in technology at the basic research phase is important to long-term economic growth. so, there are a lot of ideas that we focused on there, as
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well as trying to look for that balanced approach to the long- term deficit and the particular proposal house democrats have proposed to prevent that very destructive sequester from taking place. >> it seems that your ideal with the sequester with house democrats did not go far. stimulus measures on job training are not getting through congress. it seems until these physical -- fiscal fights, resolution there, until we see that, nothing is getting through. >> that is the concern. we look at that issue. the president, of course, will deliver his state of the union address this coming week him and he will address those kind of questions. we are so caught up in dealing with these short- term, self-imposed crises, that it is undermining our ability to
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come up with a long-term, comprehensive plan. it is a philosophical difference. some republican colleagues do not believe there is any role for the government beyond providing for the defense and funding the pentagon. it is the view of some. it is not the view of the great majority of the american people. i think the president will propose -- nobody knows what the president will say, but i think he will propose ideas about how to spur innovation in the country and the fact that the government has had an important role in research. i mentioned the national institutes of health. you have other agencies, energy or other sectors, that can provide seed money for those sorts of things. you are absolutely right. we still have this standoff over these short-term crises and we have proposed a way to deal with
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them in a balanced way that i, again, point out that republican colleagues recognized for months, leading up to the november election that there are tax loopholes and benefits that benefit wealthy people. they are still there. what they refuse to do, at least today, is say that we should get rid of those loopholes to reduce the deficit, and i hope that will change as the public engages. >> four minutes left. >> it is really hard, to be honest with you, to see how we get through the debt ceiling fight in the summer. your republican friends are working on a budget that balances in 10 years as their banner for how to solve our problems. the white house has indicated that we were only trying to do $4 trillion, we have already done 2.5 trillion, let's move on to other issues and spend more money in the meantime.
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two different issues. nobody has articulated, so far, a way for the two sides to compromise and get us past this next major crisis. do you have thoughts on how we get past it? >> well, in addition to the fact that it has not enabled us to get beyond the crisis, we also need to tackle big issues like immigration reform. we want to take on the issue of gun violence and gun safety. the overriding issue remains the economy and jobs. this hinders the effort. the solution is what the president laid out and what a speaker boehner seemed to want to do at one point, which was to get the grand bargain, a comprehensive solution, so that you deal with this once and for all. if we can at least replace the sequester between march 1 and the end of the year with a mix of alternative revenue deficit reduction, we do have the time
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to do bigger things through tax reform and other reform efforts that deal with the long-term deficit and provide, from our perspective, some of that important investment in infrastructure. so, again, i understand why people would be skeptical given we are really hoping that as the american people engage in the debate and the president, be on the state of the union address, has said he will keep people engaged through the old campaign apparatus, we think we can move forward. it will require the engagement of the american public. people will have to focus on these issues, call their members of congress and let them know where they stand. we want to get beyond these short-term crises and deal with the problem. >> you reference the model of
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the early 1980's with president ronald reagan and tip o'neill. a group of legislators went offsite in a room together and solved the social security out of the time. -- problem of the time. is that model workable today? >> i think it can be. if there was a willingness -- >> is the president inclined to ask for it, because that is where it came from, the white house? >> i do not want to speak for the president, but i think the president would welcome the idea of a bipartisan group getting together to tackle these issues. i think it is an important model. the president said just a few days ago that the proposal that he put on the table in his conversations with speaker john boehner remain on the table, so let's pick up those conversations where we left off, and it gets back to the question they were really on their way, in my view, to try to resolve these issues in a more comprehensive way. what happened, as we know, a
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speaker boehner recognized he could not sell the idea of any party faction in his caucus, so he walked away from that round of talks. i think really engaging is the way to go. again, the house republican caucus'politics are very tricky, and we stand ready to provide the boats for a rational solution which is happened for other things. >> with that point, thank you for being with us this week. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> "newsmakers" is back with nancy cook and lori montgomery after 20 minutes with chris van hollen. the conversation was about the sequester and the march 1 deadline. who has the levers of power to craft a deal?
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>> well, i do not think anybody does because i am not sure anybody thinks there is going to be a deal. it was interesting that chris van hollen, who represents suburban maryland, and would be one of the least likely to want to see this hit, is acknowledging that he is growing concern that republicans will not come to the table until we trip the march 1 date. he is joining a chorus of people saying they are concerned that this is going to happen. there are incentives on both sides to want to have it happen. republicans want the spending cuts, and democrat's want to republicans for the spending cuts, so i am not sure anyone is exercising leverage right now.
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>> the discussion about the big issues -- nancy, you talked about the short-term deadlines of the focus on longer-term fiscal economic crisis with economic -- aging baby boomers. how do you get past that, get to honest discussion about the huge fiscal issues? >> it is really tricky. congress is so partisan and divided, perhaps more so than it has been and the parties have different visions. we see that again and again. representative chris van hollen is talking about more stimulus spending while republicans talk about much deeper spending cuts. i think the spring will be illuminating as senate democrats and house republicans put out their budgets, but i do not see
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the chance for a resolution this spring. >> well, we go from crisis to crisis, then. >> well, what is interesting is that republicans have a strategy. they have not had a strategy before, and now the strategy is to get to their budget and force the senate to put out a budget, and it would be the first time since obama cost first year in budget that we -- in office -- obama's first year in office that we would have a democratic budget, and the theory is if we can get these visions on the table we could have a discussion and maybe we even use the budget conference committee process as a vehicle to hash all of this down -- all out. they do not really have a plan
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for the next step, which is to solve the actual problem because if you have a balanced budget plan from the house here, and more taxes in spending and -- and spending, it is hard to see >> even the democrats remain the president is still ok with certain things the rest of the democrats are not, like cpi and cuts to medicare. house republicans and liberal democrats do not see them as politically palatable. those are issues that democrats will have to face because the congressional budget office reports show health care costs will rise given the number of baby boomers that will take advantage of federal programs and the democrats have yet to
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talk about ways in which they would really, honestly, be willing to over -- overhaul those programs. >> as we close, why not the model of the reagan/tip o'neill compromise? it is different than the president's negotiations, but getting a wider group around the table, why is that not percolating in this town? >> look at the needle -- leaders. mitch mcconnell is not interested in doing more deals. he has been saving them a lot, and he is worried about it. boehner has demonstrated that he can not necessarily lead his conference. that is part of the problem. who are the negotiators that will solve the problem in any will solve the problem in any room?
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Back in Black
So first off, if was only a flesh wound.
Secondly? I got betta.
This post of Choose Death is coming to you from 9,000 feet above sea level, deep within the Colorado Rocky Mountains. I don't expect many folks are still reading after my absence, but for anyone still hanging around, this one's for you.
So what happened? For about 4 weeks I had a nasty lung condition. For 4 long weeks I had wet corn flakes coming out of my lungs. No joke. No fun.
That month bled into Christmas, about the same time that H decided she had had enough of being alone in Colorado. THIS also coincided with deadlines for two projects that came to a total of around 30,000 words.
It was time to get busy. So, busy I got.
Unfortunately, it also meant dropping out of netspace. Every word I've typed in the last two months has gone to one of these two projects.
Christmas came and went with H's family and we hit the open road.
H and I put up 4'x8' plywood sheets on either side of my truck bed, filled the bed with everything we owned and headed west. Those of you that have ridden in the Reverend know just how small my truck is. That size translates to a very narrow wheel base, which, when combined with plywood "wings" made for a very tipsy drive West.
Things were passable until we reached Wyoming. Radio static gave way to dire warnings of "gusts up to 70 miles per hour," and "danger for high-profile vehicles." We weren't really ALL that high profile --- no more than 7' tall --- but that's relative to wheel base.
The wind picked up and progress slowed to 35 mph. I'm not sure driving slow would have prevented a roll-over if a real gust had come along, but at least it would have lessened the chance of dying in the wreck.
H and I pulled into my parent's ranch and literally had to park behind a barn to keep the truck from rolling over in the wind. In the morning we pulled off the plywood and ditched half our load for a later return trip.
H and I hopped back in the truck and made the push over the Great Divide. We rolled into Our Little Mountain Town and finally set up shop as husband and wife.
OLMTs can be tricky places to live. Usually they are ski towns, or are very close to ski towns. The demographic breakdowns are incredibly dramatic. One third of the population lives in mansions. One third of the population lives in mobile home trailers. And the last third lives in very tight condos.
That's where we're at right now, sharing a 2 bedroom with a second-grade teacher and her daughter. But that's not too shabby, since my last "apartment" was a refurnished wood-shed.
Finding work can be tricky as well. I showed up at an advertised call for prep cooks and dishwashers, and was thirtieth in line. Of the 300+ applicants, me and 29 of my best friends made the cut --- that masters degree might have made all the difference. :)
But don't forget that this is a OLMT near Aspen. I'm a scrub, sure, but a scrub for the X-Games. :)
Fortunately, I've got bigger plans. H's school needs a administrator, and the interview process has been going well. From scrub to headmaster --- almost a Cinderella Story, but you and I both know better. We're all shooting for that .1% that makes a living telling stories about elves and dragons.
So where are the elves and dragons these days? It's been a busy year, and a retrospective is in order:
Realms of the Dragons II is coming out this summer.
Ed "Arm Breaker" Gentry knocked heads until he, Kam, some other notaries (and little ol' me) finally got an article into Dragon Magazine. Don't know the publishing date, but it will probably fall near Realms.
Goodman Games is publishing two modules before this year's Gen Con : Legacy of the Savage Lords, and Iron Crypt of the Heretic. They also commissioned (just last night) two more works for an anthology of low-level adventures. Thanks again to Alunic, Chrissy, and the Knights for their work as play testers, and now Lara (and perhaps Ed!) for play testing the latest dungeon crawls.
And finally, Zeitgeist Games bought an 18k behemoth that will be used as a freebie on their website. The first of 3 parts is going up on the 19th. PLEASE feel free to drop in on the "Blackmoor Serial forums" and tell Dustin Clingman how much you loved/hated it.
As of today I'm committed to another 14k, with another potential 60k+ looming on the horizon. Really - at this point - I can't afford to win Eberron.
But it's not all sunshine and dancing elves. Let's recap a few of my more dramatic failures:
Goblin Tales:
Somewhere out in RPG land are 30+ copies of the book. I've asked sent multiple demands asking for them, along with the proceeds from the online sales. I even went up the chain of command and finally got an apology and a promise.
But still, no copies of GT and no check to hand out to the writers. I'm still working on it, but the change of address will only serve to royally complicate matters. "Yes, still please send them. No, my address is now ...."
2005 Antho:
Scrubs don't make enough to fund printers --- yet. The big mother of all fantasy anthos is on hold until I can scrape together the $5,000 necessary to do a real printing and distribution. It will happen, but it is on hold for now.
Whew. So there we go. Some triumphs, some failures, pretty much just like everything else.
The best part, to me, is this: while a stranger might mistake me for Sorta Cool, you all know better. Each and every person that reads this can write better than I can. I know this. I've read your works. Your ideas, your prose, makes me look like a fumbling newbie (which isn't too far off the mark). You've forgiven my typos. You've corrected my use of the - and the ---. You've read this blog and never pointed out my errors.
You know, or at least SHOULD know, in your heart of hearts, that I'm Nothing Special.
In the end, it just breaks down to something as simple as persistence. Over the last 15+ years I've scored a 100% rejection rate, followed by 1 year of marginal success.
For me, that's the real lesson. I might not sell another word for the next 15 years, but if I choose not to try for 16, or 17, or 18, I might as well stop typing right now.
Not a great ratio by any means. Certainly not an indicator of future performance. A rational person could reasonably choose to find a different avocation. A rational person could choose to dedicate their to anything that doesn't result in scathing rejection letters on a regular basis. A rational person could choose any number of meaningful other ways to spend their finite hours on this planet.
I'll Choose Death.
Okay. So that was more than a little cheesy. Sorry, but it's in the blood. Just ask my Saurus with his 100+ B Movie collection. But if you're still reading, let me just give a final thank you to Marce. Mother, Wife, Author, she was also the first person to read this blog. I don't knoww how she's doing in Arizona, but I hope she's doing well.
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We, the former prisoners of conscience from the group of Catholic and Protestant youth who were arbitrarily arrested in 2011, jointly denounce the Vietnamese communist authorities' ongoing harassment and intimidation of former prisoner of conscience Tran Minh Nhat and his family.
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Since his release, Tran Minh Nhat and his family have faced ongoing acts of intimidation and harassment from local authorities including the following incidents:
- His house has been regularly stoned, causing considerable damage including broken windows and lights as well as leading to physical injuries and mental stress from the ongoing threats to the family. Most recently, during the eve and evening of this Lunar New Year, stones were thrown into the house, causing serious distress for Tran Minh Nhat's family.
- Authorities have continually sent people to destroy the family's livelihood like, poison their livestocks and cause serious damage to the property and farmland that once had hundreds of coffee plants, avocado trees, and pepper vines. Lam Ha authorities in Lam Dong Province have ignored the family's report of these incidences, and no proper investigation has been conducted.
- At midnight on February 10, 2016, intentional fires were set to their fields near their house, causing the family much distress. Nhat's home may have been burnt down if his family had not been able to discover the fire in time.
- On November 8 and November 17, 2015, Tran Minh Nhat was physically attacked by security police in Dinh Van Police Station as well as on his way to a doctor. His family members are regularly threatened and harassed.
These acts of intimidation, threat, physical assault and arson over the past few months make life seem like a "Hell on Earth" for Tran Minh Nhat and his family. The family's attempt to submit complaints to local authorities have not been resolved, and instead the harassment has only increased.
In the face of these brutal and very serious actions by Lam Ha local authorities in Lam Dong Province on Tran Minh Nhat's family, we call upon Vietnamese people around the world, governments of free countries, international organisations and human rights groups to jointly condemn the Vietnamese authorities' actions and call for the end to these inhumane crimes against Tran Minh Nhat's family.
We also demand Hanoi authorities to properly investigate these matters and actions of Lam Ha security police in Lam Dong Province. We also demand for the outcome of these investigations to be publicised and proper prosecution of those who have abused the constitution and the law.
If these actions do not cease in the near future, it is a clear sign that the Hanoi authorities lack responsibility to protect basic human rights as stated in the constitution. This inaction from government authorities is also synonymous with the fact that the Hanoi authorities are tolerating these actions of harassment and intimidation.
We would like to thank all civil society organisations in Vietnam who have spoken up regarding these abuses committed by Lam Ha Security Police towards Tran Minh Nhat and his family.
We would like to thank all elected representatives, governments and organisations around the world who have expressed concern and condemned the acts of harassment by security police in Lam Dong Province aimed at intimidating Tran Minh Nhat and his family over the past few months.
We would also like to thank Vietnamese and foreign media news outlets that have reported on and raised awareness about Tran Minh Nhat's harassment by local authorities.
We hope various civil organisations and supporters inside Vietnam and around the world, elected representatives, governments and international organisations will speak up and work alongside with Tran Minh Nhat. This is so we can bring an end to these inhumane actions Nhat and his family must suffer as well as a way for us to build together a Vietnamese society based on peace, justice and compassion.
Catholic youth activists and former prisoners of conscience
Co-signed by:
1. Nguyen Xuan Anh
2. Nguyen Dinh Cuong
3. Dau Van Duong
4. Thai Van Dung
5. Nguyen Van Duyet
6. Tran Huu Duc
7. Dang Ngoc Minh
8. Tran Minh Nhat
9. Nguyen Van Oai
10. Ho Van Oanh
11. Nguyen Dang Vinh Phuc
12. Chu Manh Son
13. Le Van Son


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The world's first drone taxi to hit Dubai?
Drone Magazine Technical Editor Andy Willmott investigates the Ehang 184 one-person drone taxi, and reckons it should carry a parachute.
Recently it was announced that in Dubai you will soon be able to take a pilot-less taxi drone from A to B. Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Matter al-Tayer, the head of Dubai's Roads & Transportation Agency said "I am glad to inform you that hopefully we will be able to have these drones available starting from July 2017".
I don't know about you, but I won't be at the front of the line to take a ride. I mean I love drones, but we are in a world where we are still struggling to integrate autonomous drones in our cities to deliver pizzas whilst navigating flight zones and safely avoiding other aircraft and obstacles.
To have them carry live people through a major city with skyscrapers and helicopters everywhere by mid this year seems ambitious and a little scary to me.
Dubai does indeed like to push the boundaries with world firsts, and it has a whole lot of money to play with, so if anyone is going to make this vision of the future a reality, it is going to be Dubai.
A lot of people will be watching to see how they make this work from a logistics and safety point of view. It may very well become a model for the rest of the world.
The drone they are talking about was first shown to the world at CES in January 2016. It is the Ehang 184, produced by Chinese company Ehang and was in development for 3 years before its launch.
With a range of 40-50 kilometres and about 30 minutes of flight time, it can carry about 100kg and has a luggage compartment for a small suitcase. It can only carry 1 passenger, and hopefully has room for a parachute.
Monitored by a command centre, a passenger will be able to call a drone taxi with an app, like Uber, and use another app inside the drone to set your destination and hit GO.
Most of the videos I have seen of the Ehang 184 have involved a lot of CGI graphics and no-one in the passenger seat of real life footage. So I am a little sceptical they can pull this all off in the next few months, but I will be eagerly watching.
Stay tuned for more updates and check out the videos below in the meantime. The one on how they developed the Ehang 184 is particularly interesting.
Dubai drone taxi promo:
This is an interesting video by Ehang of how they developed the Ehang 184:
Here is an interview with Derrick Xiong, CO-Founder of Ehang at CES2017:


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So I am now four days into my 40 day challenge and yesterday I faced my first real test. If you follow me on Instagram you will have seen that last night I went bouldering for the first time. I am not going to lie, when I woke up this morning muscles I didn't know I had ached but I loved the experience and will definitely try it again. It is a great example of how a sport can test you both mentally and physically. You need the physical strength and flexibility to manoeuvre your body across the wall but equally important is having the mental dexterity to work out where you should place you foot or hand next. Frustratingly there was one particular climb I couldn't conquer and I really want to go back and do it.
As much fun as bouldering was the thing that gave me greatest pleasure last night was making a healthy choice at Nando's. It may seem like a strange thing to say but the one part of my fitness journey that I have struggled with most is my nutrition. Far too often my good work at the gym is undone by bad food choices. I love food and have very little willpower went it comes to eating out which is a nightmare combination! So as we headed into Nando's last night I knew I had to fight the urge to order a whole chicken and a couple of sides.
As I sat reading the menu I thought about how good I had been for the first 68 hours of my 40 day challenge and vowed not to mess it up. Luckily for me all my friends wanted to order quickly as they were really hungry so I didn't get time to dwell on the menu. This meant no time to contemplate what delicious temptations there were, instead I just went for something simple and straight forward. So what did I order? Well I went for a grilled chicken breast burger with a side of houmous, a delicious blend of carbs and protein!
I have only completed four days of my challenge but already I have managed a couple of small wins and that has left me feeling pretty good. When I hit the gym at 6:30 tomorrow morning there is going to be a big smile on my face!
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The MegaBus "no frills" intercity bus system, recently introduced to the American Midwest from the UK. The MegaBus has become a popular, cheaper alternative to Greyhound in many cities. See also Dirty Dog.
I can get from Minneapolis to Chicago on the Filthy Feline for twenty bucks.
by Turd Savant November 16, 2006
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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.
On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.
On Christianity
I'm convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let's not plant the cross before we carry it. I'm not trying to con you.
On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.
On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.
On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.
On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.
On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?
On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.
On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.
On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?
On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Life moves fast. and it's easy to forget that as it flutters by, new memories are being made. athalia and i have started a blog together called These glorious days. i like to think that it arrests the everyday mundane moments so that we can grow old safe in the knowledge that we're leaving behind a trail with which we can use to reminisce.
you can journey with us by clicking here.
Labels: growing old, identity, internet, memory and nostalgia
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Thursday, December 03, 2009World Cup fever is back. And with the draw taking place on Friday, I just want to get a theory out of the way, and to do it now, so that when it happens, you can point your amazed fingers back to this blog and say that Fergus said it first.
South Africa will get an easy group. They are the hosts. They'll get all the help FIFA can give to make sure they get out of the group stage. And to fix this, they will be placed in a group of easy teams. The pots go like this:
Pot 1: South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Spain, England, Argentina, Holland
Pot 2: France, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia, Denmark, Slovakia
Pot 3: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay
Pot 4: Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Honduras
My theory goes like this:
(1) The draw is likely to have been rigged in some way if South Africa completely avoids any of the following teams:
Pot 2: France or Portugal
Pot 3: Ivory Coast
Pot 4: South Korea or Australia
(2) The draw is almost surely to have been rigged if South Africa final draw comprises, from each pot, the following teams:
Pot 2: Slovenia or Slovakia
Pot 3: Algeria
Pot 4: North Korea, New Zealand or Honduras
(3) The draw is definitely 100% shamelessly rigged if South Africa's group ends up looking like this:
South Africa / Slovakia / Algeria / Honduras
(4) The draw is definitely not rigged if South Africa's group looks like this:
South Africa / Portugal / Ghana / South Korea
And while I'm at it, here's my vision of the deadliest possible group of death:
Spain / France / Ivory Coast / Australia
Labels: football
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When designer and sample maker Chris Bowlen comes to work he's thinking of the ten different projects in the works…
"I've gotta finish our new Herrick Brook Collection… 8 items to complete in 24 hours for a photo shoot… so I'm busy! [chuckles with a smile]…"
Written by Eric Henzie, Marketing Executive
When I started work here, I found a story. I found a story about a proud family-owned business. I found a story about a company that has evolved over three generations. I found a story that I think deserves to be told. I find it entertaining to listen to the company's history. I find it inspiring.
There is a consistent theme for our team here at the Mill, loyalty. One quarter of the team has been working here for over twenty-five years… Bev since Day One. Our President six months after it started. The median employee tenure is nearly fifteen years. We are very proud of this. Our company's proprietors, the Eriksen's view this as an immense responsibility. At the core of Manchester Wood principles… focus on sustaining jobs for American workers.
One of those team members is Chris. Chris, like me is relatively new to Manchester Wood. Chris is a craftsman; He is a talented artist, meticulous designer, a builder and a genuinely interesting guy.
We asked Chris about featuring him for a series of posts over the next month… Some that highlight him; some that highlight all of us and our community here. Because despite all the noise out there on TV, home is still so very important to all of us. It's where this series of writing proudly starts with #MyNeckoftheWoods.
There are those that love to get their hands dirty, fix or build things. They start their week days with a strong cup of coffee, drive into work, and you wouldn't be surprised to see them fixated on one of the half dozen additional projects they are working to complete.
Chris has two 'official' jobs, and works on pet projects during his 'free' time. He started working here last year, while also at a custom furniture artisan in nearby Dorset, VT.
This particular part of America lacks corporate America's presence, the notion of job juggling stems from the history and geography of the Vermont-New York countryside. From the very beginning of exploration and settlement, people would improvise, innovate and carve one or more livelihoods out of the land up here. The whole tradition of holding multiple jobs goes right back to the beginning. We define ourselves by our strong sense of identity. People who live in this area have a strong sense of self. They identify themselves by their self reliance and independent spirit.
There is a significant amount of skill and expertise required to take a design through each phase of the building process in furniture making.
The team recently embarked on several new projects to develop, and it's offered up a design Chris and Luke [Eriksen] initiated several months ago. We plan to release their new Herrick Brook Collection at the conclusion of this series of #MyNeckoftheWoods posts.
After you've spent time with Chris, you'll begin to notice that he routinely sketches as he talks about products and ideas. I get a sense that he wants you to see the vision that's in his head. There is a noticeable drive behind his desire to create. It's not only that, it's the drive behind his desire to create change to perfect our design technique here for the next generation of Manchester Wood products.
Stay tuned for Part 2…


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New colours: coral, barely black and electric blue.
Made on vintage machines from the 1950s from the same legendary 100% nylon non-stretch yarn as the classic Gio fully fashioned stockings. As the name suggests, reinforced heel and toe (RHT) stockings have distinctive reinforced heel and toe, but are made in a circular way and therefore don't have a seam at the back. They're the authentic modern recreation of a vintage classic!
Please note, the sizes have now been tweaked to better match the Gio fully fashioned range.
We send parcels WORLDWIDE from our warehouse in the UK. Most orders leave the same day or next working day. All orders are sent in plain packaging. Standard delivery is just £1.75 for the UK, £5.95 for Europe and £7.50 for the rest of the world. Standard delivery is FREE on UK orders over £25.
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Having been a fan of Gio FFs, it was great to see these back in stock. A present to myself for Christmas. They look and feel fantastic. Sizing true to the FF range. A must for lovers of retro hosiery
My GF is 5ft 5" tall and wears size 8 or 10. I bought the smallest size for her which were a perfect fit. Unfortunately the large welt means that she can't wear them with most of her dresses but the stockings themselves are lovely. Very sheer and very sexy!


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PYONGYANG – North Korean Supreme Commander Kim Jong-un is enlisting help from an unexpected source in his efforts to make his own mark on the world: US Representative, Michele Bachmann (R-Minn).
"Father was a tower of bat-shit-crazy," Jong-un said of the former Supreme Commander, Kim Jong-il, in a statement to the Korean Central News Agency. "The only way I can make a mark of my own on the world for the glory of North Korea is to get training from number one bat-shit-crazy political leader left after Father's death: the American, Michele Bachmann."
Sources close to Jong-un say that while he has struggled to get out of his father's shadow, hopes in North Korea are now high that with Bachmann's help he will soon outdo the notoriously insane Jong-il.
"If anyone can help the Supreme Commander surpass his glorious father," an unidentified source said, "it is Bachmann. Her unscientific, paranoid, self-aggrandizing style was long admired and mimicked by the late Kim Jong-il."
Bachmann, however, denied having anything to do with North Korea or its leadership. "This is an effort by Democrats to distract attention from North Korea's weapons program," she said from her tinfoil-lined office in Washington, DC. "Democrats are fascist-communists giving American children autism so North Korea can take over the world!"


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By Antone Gonsalves, CSO | August 22nd, 2014 University researchers have built an Android app that secretly snatches valuable personal data from other mobile apps, such as webmail, shopping and online banking. The app, demonstrated Friday at the USENIX Security
Black Hat 2014: How to steal security codes from home alarm systems
By Tim Greene, Network World | August 4th, 2014 A $50 device made with off the shelf hardware can. For $50 attackers can build a radio device that cracks home alarm systems and other common security devices, Black Hat 2014


text: Hi All: DBT defaults to North American by default. The display under the international dialogue is only a display. No matter what, everything still has to emboss using the North American table. When you use the country specific tables, they still refer to the North American ascii/unicode equivalents. The problem here is that the actual braille characters' ascii values change, using North American as the default. The fault lies with embosser manufacturers, who should design their tables in such a way that the braille patterns are reassigned to conform to the country for which the table is needed. There is simply nothing Joe can do about this. I can't load DBT right now, but I am sure there is an uncontracted Italian braille table. Enabling technologies should have the Italian configuration you need. If not, Brltty, the Linux engine that drives a braille display should have one. As I write this, I have found one, which I attached. a table for Window-eyes but it is a text file, even though the extension is .bwe ----- Original Message ---- Hope this helps Cheers Jack :. Hope this helps Jack - From: "David Holladay" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: [duxhelp] Request for input on DBT installation > Hello, Testers; > > I need you opinion on an issue regarding what happens when DBT boots up for > the first time. > > This involves the Global, Internationalization, Braille Code for Display > > Some background is necessary here. > > In DBT, if you are looking at a braille file in braille dot font, you see > the actual dot pattern that will hopefully be embossed. If you are looking > at a braille file with an inkprint font, things get more interesting. > > In North America, we are used to seeing a full cell represented with an > equal sign. Why? Because that is the way we do it, and all braille devices > set for North American braille know that an equal sign means a full cell. > If you are using a braille display device with a screen review program, the > screen review program looks at the equal sign on the screen and puts a full > cell on the braille display. > > But in France, they prefer an accented e as the print representation of a > full cell. > > DBT has several different tables. If you want to, you can experiment with > them by selecting Global, Internationalization, Braille Code for Display. > Be sure to have a braille file, and select an inkprint font to view it > (otherwise, nothing changes). > > ----------------------------------------- > > Where things get interesting is that the French do not like the system as > it is. Up till now, when you first boot up > DBT, it defaults to North American. This does not bother Americans at all. > But it is annoying to those who give tech support in France who have to > keep telling people to go to Global, Internationalization, Braille Code for > Display, and then choose "French" > > To deal with this, Pete has put in some code that says "If this is the > first time this code is being used, and you are in France", set for French > Braille Code for display. > > That is all well and good. But if someone were using a computer 100 meters > into Belgium, (and had told Windows that their nation was Belgium), then > DBT would still default to North American because the nation is not French. > > ---------------------------------------- > > I think it would be a good idea to extend Peter's idea. I offer a proposal. > If we can come to some agreement, then DBT can wake up more > internationalized than before. > > ---------------------------------------- > > Step 1: > > If located in France, use French display code > If located in Germany, use German display code > If located in Spain, use Spanish display code > If located in the UK, use the British display code > > Step 2: > > If located in Europe (i.e. the nation's telephone country code starts with > 3 or 4) > and the language of interface is French, the use French display code > and the language of interface is German, use the German display code > and the language of interface is Spanish, use the Spanish display code > ?? if the language of interface is English, do we use North American or > Britich display code > (the question is, does nayone outside of the UK ever use the British > display code) > > Step 3: > If located outside of Europe ... > (I have no idea of anything but to default to North American) > (I do not know if those in South America use North American settings or > Spanish settings on their braille devices) > > Some of you may have noticed that DBT does not have any Italian tables for > braille display. At this point, I do not > have a valid table (defined as a unique, single ASCII character for every > 64 braille symbols; no braille symbols left out). > I would welcome a valid Italian table. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > Please respond to this. I would like to work this out quickly. > > -- David Holladay > > > * * * > * This message is via list duxhelp at freelists.org. > * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with > * unsubscribe > * as the subject to <duxhelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also > * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription > * options by visiting http://www.freelists.org. The list archive > * is also located there. > * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com > * * *


text: Adam Blatchford Associate Adam helps Equiteq clients prepare their companies for sale or grow through acquisition. He focuses on designing plans to meet the goals of shareholders, advising them on building firms for sale, and working with large firms to identify strategic acquisitions. Value to clients Worked with over 150 consulting firms to develop their strategies, and to prepare them for successful transactions Develops solutions to align shareholder teams with business goals Skilled in identifying acquisition targets to fulfil strategic objectives Experienced in designing benchmarking interventions to enhance business' Unique Value Propositions Experience Adam has over 5 years' experience in the consulting industry. He has been part of Equiteq as it has grown from 10 people to more than 50, delivering value to clients and building internal processes to allow the business to scale. He previously worked in the charity sector, after gaining a master's degree in Environmental Management and Business from the University of Pennsylvania. Other things about Adam Adam is a keen cyclist, rugby and tennis player