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This is a rush transcript from "Journal: Editorial Report," November 28, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
PAUL GIGOT, FOX HOST: This week on the "Journal: Editorial Report," fellow Republicans begin a campaign to take down Donald Trump but will the strategy really hurt the GOP front runner? And who is the most likely to benefit?
Plus, as protests continue to spread at colleges across the country, is free speech the latest casualty of the campus left.
All that, and Wall Street Journal columnist, Peggy Noonan, on culture, politics and the time of our lives.
But first, these headlines.
GIGOT: Welcome to the "Journal: Editorial Report." I'm Paul Gigot.
Well, as Donald Trump continues to hold his lead in national polls in an early primary state, the "Wall Street Journal" reported last week that some GOP super PACs are setting their sights on the Republican front-runner. This week, one supporting Ohio Governor John Kasich released its first direct attack featuring some of Trump's more controversial comments.
DONALD TRUMP, R-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He's not a war hero.
TRUMP: He's a war hero because he was captured.
If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's so weird.
TRUMP (voice-over): I have a great relationship with the blacks. I have always had a great relationship with the blacks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The blacks.
TRUMP: Well, I just don't respect her as a journalist. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her -- wherever.
Somebody's doing the raping, Don. You know, I mean, somebody is doing it. There are women being raped. Who's doing the raping?
It moves this way. It moves this way.
How stupid are the people of Iowa?
GIGOT: Joining the panel this week, Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor, Dan Henninger; columnist, Jason Riley; and columnist, Kim Strassel.
So, Kim, let's stipulate since the Paris attack, Donald Trump has risen in the polls a few points in Iowa and the early states. It hasn't hurt them. Is this kind of saying he isn't presidential, shouldn't be trusted to be commander-in-chief? Is this the kind of attack that will work against Donald Trump?
KIM STRASSEL, COLUMNIST: The people putting it out there hope this one will work. They have tried pretty much everything else. They have gone after him for his past liberal positions. They have gone after his policy positions that he has now, things like eminent domain, which aren't necessarily Kentucky. This is a new attempt to say, do you really want this guy in charge?
GIGOT: What do you think, Kim? Is it going to work?
STRASSEL: There is a possibility that it will. The electorate is unsettled after Paris. They want steady leadership. Some immediate things he said have given him help in the polls. As people look at it more closely and as the ad made clear, there will be more to come, this is a renewed focus on bringing him down.
GIGOT: Kim doesn't sound confident that it will work.
JASON RILEY, COLUMNIST: It's interesting. This Kasich super PAC is merely a vessel for a lot of people to put forward the attacks --
GIGOT: Oh, absolutely.
RILEY: -- Donald Trump. A lot of people putting money into this aren't even John Kasich supporters.
GIGOT: That's correct.
RILEY: So there are a lot of people. I think there is some desperation on the part of the Republican Party. They fear that if Donald Trump is the nominee, they could lose in a landslide to Hillary Clinton, presumed Democratic nominee. And it is simply because he's managed to offend so many subgroups from Muslims to blacks to --
GIGOT: Hispanics.
GIGOT: -- Hispanics. The country is so diverse. The Republican Party feels it needs to tap in to some of these voters come the next election. He's just offended too many people.
GIGOT: These are the quotes, Dan. They are using Donald Trump's words against him. I talked to Republicans and their reaction is who cares what he says? It doesn't matter. He's just sticking it to the man. He's standing up to all the media, you, me, media elites. Standing up to them so good for him.
DAN HENNINGER, COLUMNIST & DEPUTY EDITOR: Yeah. I think that has a lot to do with it. His support seems to be solid at around 25 percent. Goes up sometimes, down a little bit. I think Trump is conveying contempt for the political system. That reflects that 25 percent. They, too, have contempt for what's going on in the political system and can't be moved off --
GIGOT: So do we sometimes.
HENNINGER: Having said that, I think since the Paris attacks and the elevation, again, of the war on terror and what we are going to do about it. Donald Trump has suddenly become vulnerable. Questions will be asked whether he could serve as commander-in-chief. I believe the rise of Ted Cruz in the latest poll this week in Iowa, at the expense of Ben Carson, the one who is immediately suffering because he may not have the --
GIGOT: The commander-in-chief credentials.
HENNINGER: -- commander-in-chief. Is beginning to show that people are focused now on substance. Trump could have a problem there.
RILEY: I agree. Carson clearly has shown since Paris he doesn't have a command of foreign policy that people are looking for. Cruz is able to take advantage of it. Trump doesn't have the expertise either, by the way. He just has bluster. Carson doesn't do bluster.
GIGOT: He has attitude.
RILEY: Yeah. So I see that. The problem I think Cruz has is he's managed to consolidate the most conservative elements of the GOP base. You still have more moderate elements, business folks that are not satisfied with Cruz. He'll have to work on getting people outside of his conservative base. There is work to be done there.
GIGOT: Kim, who else? Ted Cruz might benefit. Who else might benefit if Donald Trump slides in the polls for the reasons Jason mentioned?
STRASSEL: Potentially anyone. And I think that his why you see --
GIGOT: Anyone?
STRASSEL: -- so many of the donors willing to put money into the super PACs to go after him. There are so many people in this race. Things remain so fluid. You talked about Ben Carson. He shed a few points and it went to Ted Cruz and now people are talking about Ted Cruz as a contender in Iowa. All of these other candidates are thinking if they could pull off seven or eight points from Donald Trump and it went to one of them or any of them that would be the opportunity to break out. You have seen Chris Christie up in New Hampshire. He's been very dogged in the work he's doing up there. But he's having a moment, too, taking some points away from other people. This is just still a very fluid race.
GIGOT: I agree. I agree with you, Kim. People should watch Chris Christie. The New Jersey governor is somebody who is trying to hit the theme of commander-in-chief. Somebody, day one, serious. He has a really solid, blunt manner, but not with some of the extreme statements Donald Trump has.
All right. When we come back, as protests continue to spread at colleges nationwide, is free speech the latest casualty of the campus left?
GIGOT: Well, from California to New Hampshire, protests have now spread to an estimated 100 college campuses with students alleging systematic racial injustice. At Dartmouth last week, about 150 protesters stormed the library chanting "Black Lives Matter" and reportedly cussing at students as they studied. The protests at Dartmouth and elsewhere follow the resignation earlier this month of the University of Missouri's president after students there claimed he didn't do enough to address issues of racial intolerance on campus.
We are back with Dan Henninger and Jason Riley. And Wall Street Journal assistant editorial features editor, Kate Bachelder, also joins us.
So, Kate, these institutions we're talking about are some of the most racially and gender conscious in the history of mankind, if I can use that word.
Yet, these students are protesting racial and gender insensitivity. What's going on?
KATE BACHELDER, ASSISTANT EDITORIAL FEATURES EDITOR: These are also, Paul, some of the most prestigious institutions in American history, right? That sends students into the world to accomplish huge things. What's going on here is students have basically been allowed to demand whatever they want, different curriculum, different faculty, and they are succeeding with administrators. So why not? Some tossed in "Please renovate our dorms."
GIGOT: Better health care!
BACHELDER: Right.
BACHELDER: If you have administrators willing to give you what you want, you will ask for a lot.
HENNINGER: Honestly, I think this has been going on for a long time. You have the office of diversity affairs in place for at least 15 years. They have gotten bigger and bigger. The left supported it. I would go so far as to say what's happening here is a coup d'etat. Coup de university. They are trying to seize power at these universities.
GIGOT: A children's coup?
HENNINGER: A children's coup.
At the University of Missouri they drove the president out of office. They did with the dean at Claremont McKenna. They will ruin these places once they gain control of them but I don't think they care about that.
GIGOT: Isn't free speech implicated here, Kate? One of the things they don't like is when people dissent or speak up. At Dartmouth, the protesters said they were criticizing the students because the students were studying instead of joining them in the protest. They were accused of racial insensitivity for not joining the protest.
BACHELDER: Yes. There is a disconnect between what students are asking for and what the sympathizers in the press are saying. Oh, no, they are not trying to kill free speech. The students say we don't want what offends us, programs and courses we don't like from people who are sinners and bad people. This is -- basically there is a disconnect. People aren't believing them for what they are saying, which is that we don't want free speech on campus.
GIGOT: Banishing Woodrow Wilson from Princeton.
RILEY: These kids are not victims of discrimination. They're victims of liberalism, is what they are. For the past 50 years, the left has controlled these campuses. They have bent over backwards to make them more inclusive, more diverse using affirmative action, creating ethnic and gender studies program and so forth. What they have inadvertently created is a culture of grievance, which is what we are seeing on display here. To the extent they give in to these demands, they will only exacerbate the problem. These kids mistake slogans like Black Lives Matter for arguments. They don't know how to coherently address issues and policies. It's sad. These are bright kids who have been, I think, nurtured to the point where they are unable to coherently express a point of view.
GIGOT: Is there any pushback on administrators, students, anywhere across this system?
BACHELDER: At Princeton, a group of students sent a letter requesting a meeting with the president, not occupying his office --
-- and asking to discuss concerns that the university is an intellectual space, not a safe space, is under threat.
GIGOT: Will they get the meeting?
BACHELDER: That's a good question.
He should have said, come right now, I'm free immediately.
GIGOT: The larger question is why is there so little pushback other than isolated incidents like this, by a few students who, let's face it, will probably be vilified for doing this once word gets out who they are.
HENNINGER: I think often the presidents feel there is federal money at risk. They don't want to inflame the federal government that controls the purse strings. But the real question is, where are --
GIGOT: Because the federal government is pushing these kinds of --
HENNINGER: Student loans, Pell grants, plus --
HENNINGER: The government under Obama has been suggesting there should be more of this sort of thing. But where are the boards of trustees of the universities, the adults who supposedly are trying to maintain them as places of learning instead of places of chaos?
GIGOT: Is that the answer, Kate? Basically, we'll hold your checkbook if you're a donor? I mean, you know.
BACHELDER: I'm not sure. I think being more involved in going to campus, putting pressure on these trustees and presidents and saying, hey, this isn't what the institution stands for is a better route.
GIGOT: I don't think that's going to happen, as much as I wish it would.
All right, thank you all.
When we come back, Wall Street Journal columnist, Peggy Noonan, joins us with her take on campus culture and campaign politics.
GIGOT: There's nobody better to weigh in on the current battles being waged on college campuses and the campaign trail than Wall Street Journal columnist, Peggy Noonan. She is the author of the new book "The Time of Our Lives, A Collection of Writings on Politics and Culture."
Peggy, welcome back to the show.
PEGGY NOONAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMNIST: Thank you, Paul. Thank you.
GIGOT: So a question I get a lot about is this is a book of a collection of your writings and some auto biographical information on how you became a writer. Is it harder in your estimation to write for somebody else as you did for politicians and presidents or under your own name?
NOONAN: It's very funny. A variation on what you just asked is the question I get, which is how do you find your voice? I tell people, you have a voice, you sound just like you when you write because you are you.
When I was writing for Ronald Reagan, we knew what he knew, what he'd read. You could listen to him and hear a certain rolling speech, a kind of easy, ambling speech.
GIGOT: You have to find his voice.
NOONAN: You have to find his voice. That's how I imagined him. I have never quite defined how I expressed myself. I would probably get self- conscious --
-- if I did. It just occurred to me.
GIGOT: And we'd see what that is.
NOONAN: It's easier for you to be yourself, sure.
GIGOT: OK. Let's talk about the college campus uprisings. You've watched them. What do you make of this?
NOONAN: I think it is a real movement that we are properly alarmed about.
This is an actual movement that is a censorship movement that is being carried out by people who seem to have no awareness of, understanding of, or appreciation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. They seem to me -- they claim to be intimidated. "I need a safe space. You can't say things that hurt me." In fact, when you watch them on videotape at all of these schools, they're surrounding people, trying to push them away. They seem not intimidated, but intimidators. It feels -- I've been trying to figure out, what is the right word? Is this Stalinist? Is this like the Chinese cultural revolution? The most irritating thing about it perhaps is that these young people are very lucky and don't seem to know it. They're operating at America's greatest universities. They are so lucky.
GIGOT: Some of them are elite. They're going to run the country.
NOONAN: Yes. They come from something lucky is sort of what you can infer from the pictures of them. And what they have from that is bitterness and wild anger, which doesn't make sense.
But anyway, I think they should be stopped. I wish an administrator would stand up and say, guess what, we stand for academic freedom here, intellectual freedom. The free exchange of ideas, they may hurt you, they may make you happy, it doesn't matter. This is life. We stand for that. If you can't take it, you're allowed to leave. This isn't prison. It's a college you paid to go to.
GIGOT: Let's talk about the presidential campaign. You've written a lot about the outsiders in the campaign, the populist, for lack of a better word, mood out there in the general electorate. What do you make of the Trump phenomenon? Could he win the nomination?
NOONAN: I think he could win the nomination. I think it might come down, as Dan Henninger says, it might come down to a heck of a fight at the convention between --
GIGOT: We're not that lucky, Petty. I don't know.
NOONAN: -- forces and establishment forces, whatever these words mean now.
But one of the things going on about Trump is that he's making a big mistake. When Trump first came forward and announced and garnered popularity, he got that popular because he hit a nerve about immigration --
GIGOT: Right.
NOONAN: -- illegal immigration. I am going to stop. I'm going to build an actual wall. I'm going to make that end. People want that. They like it. You can see it in the polls. Then he goes to, and by the way, we're going to deport 10 million immigrants that live here. Nobody really knows the number. Everybody is fibbing or really just unformed. Here's the thing. I talked to Trump supporters all the time. They are in love with this stop illegal immigration. They're not in love with this deportation stuff. They never talk about it. I think they believe he's kidding about deporting people, but serious about the wall.
GIGOT: Fascinating.
NOONAN: Yeah.
GIGOT: Very interesting. Peggy Noonan, thank you.
The book, "The Time of Our Lives."
Thanks for coming. We have to take one more break. When we come back, "Hits and Misses" of the week.
GIGOT: Time now for our "Hits and Misses" of the week.
Kim, start us off.
STRASSEL: A hit to Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley who is simply refusing to let this Clinton e-mail scandal fade away. In the past week, Senator Grassley has sent a letter to the woman who we now know was in charge of deleting some of Hillary Clinton's e-mails to ask more about that process. He's got a hold on a senior State Department senior official that the president has nominated and says he will not allow that appointment to go forward until he gets more documents from the State Department. The Clintons depend on this, on the media and the public losing interest in their misdeeds, so good for Senator Grassley for not letting it drop.
GIGOT: All right, thanks, Kim.
BACHELDER: This is a miss for a Texas family who is suing a city and school district for $15 million in damages. A young boy brought in a clock and his teachers overreacted and thought it was a bomb. But as an apology for this, he won an invitation to the White House to chat with the president.
He got internship offers from Twitter messages from Mark Zuckerberg and many more. But this was not enough. And the family announced they are moving to Qatar, but not before shaking down a school district.
GIGOT: All right.
HENNINGER: This is a miss that even Democrats themselves talk about, which is that once you get past Barack Obama, the only conceivable Democrats who could run for president are all oldies but goods, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry. There's just no up-and-comers in the party. Look no further than the announcement this week by Congressman John Conyers, of Detroit, that he would run again. He has been in Congress since 1964. 27 terms. These impenetrably safe House seats and Senate seats are the reason the Democrats have turned into a gerontocracy.
GIGOT: All right, Dan, thank you.
Remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us @jeronfnc.
That's it for this week's show. Thanks to my panel and especially to all of you for watching. I'm Paul Gigot. Hope to see you right here next week.
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Rappers as Fast Food Restaurants: An Absurdly Detailed Investigation
If you don't understand why Kanye West is Taco Bell, we can't be friends.
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Just another example of Bill Murray Doing Bill Murray Things.
It's hard being a Lupe fan.
Kanye's Midas touch might not be what it once was, but his resume is quite impressive.
Thanks to "red tape," Lupe Fiasco's three-album retirement plan is on hold.
10 Years after the release of Food & Liquor we revisit Lupe's critically acclaimed debut and pose the question, is it a classic?
Be excited for this K.R.I.T. verse - we are.
Lupe is toying with the idea of not allowing his next two projects to receive annotation on Genius, but is he doing it for the right reasons?
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The Noble Group of companies plans to put its Oil and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) units up for sale following a loss of about $1.9 billion during the first half of the year. Formerly one of Asia's largest commodities traders, the company has been forced to sell assets and cut jobs due to financial losses and incurred debts.
Noble Group Limited commenced the trading of the capital-intensive oil liquids unit in July. The Singapore-listed organization declared in a statement to the press that they envisage the sale being finalized by December 31st, 2017. The Chairman of Noble Group Limited, Paul Brough, announced to shareholders earlier in September that they had accepted the second round of bids and would give notice of an agreement by the end of the month. However, no explanation was given for the brief delay in the sale.
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Obamacare could help fuel a tech start-up boom
The arrival of Obamacare may make it easier for some employees to quit their full-time jobs to launch tech start-ups, work as a freelance consultant or pursue some other solo career path.
The insurance that's available for sign-up beginning Tuesday on the state health exchanges doesn't exclude people with pre-existing conditions or penalize them with high rates.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that anywhere from 19% to 50% of non-elderly Americans have some type of pre-existing condition. For older American, between 55 and 64 years of age, that figure may be as high as 86%.
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"A relatively short stay in a hospital can bankrupt someone," said Bruce Bachenheimer, a professor of management at Pace University and director of its Entrepreneurship Lab. He said that, anecdotally, he's seen many people who will take a job they don't even care about just to get health coverage. "It's become such an important factor," he said.
The average age of people who create a tech start-up is 39, and not 20-something," said Bachenheimer, despite the famous examples created by people such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. On top of that, there are twice as many tech start-up founders who are over the age of 50 as those who are younger than 25, he said.
Entrepreneurs are willing to take on risks, but health care is not a manageable risk, said Bachenheimer.
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Donna Harris, the co-founder of the 1776 incubation platform in Washington, believes the healthcare law will encourage more start-ups.
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One Laptop Per Child vs. Africa
Diary of an African Entrepreneur posted an interesting idea a couple of weeks ago (that I just now got around to sharing) about the One Laptop Per Child project:
I have a lot of admiration for Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) team. By in large, they got the technology right. They brought the right partners together and created an unbelievable product. The technological advances that are found in the $100 (OK, $300) laptop will certainly impact the way computers are built tomorrow.
OLPC has not had the expected success. There is nothing technically wrong with it. The pricing is reasonable. So why hasn't the laptop caught on in the developing world it was designed for?
The name says it all: ONE laptop PER child. The idea might be appealing to the western world but it is not a cultural fit for the developing world, or at least Africa where I am blogging from. Africans are very communal in nature. Outside of the wealthy elite that is not the target of the OLPC anyway, Africans don't individually own things, especially not children. Whoever has a radio or a television shares it with not just the immediate family, but the entire community. One never watches TV alone and one does not sit in a corner and read alone or get on a computer alone. People still do things together. Not because they are forced to but because that is the way they prefer it.
This shines some light on general Western approaches to Africa: we have certain ideas embedded unconsciously in our culture that don't always transfer. Now, I happen to really like the idea of not sharing all my possessions with family, friends, roommates, neighbors, or whomever, and presumably the people behind OLPC are the same way. It didn't even occur to them that this idea just doesn't make sense to Africans. (I'm taking AE's word for it here, since between us he has about 100% of the knowledge of African culture.)
It seems like this is probably an effect of a less-developed economy. Back in the early days of radio in the US, I'm given to understand that listening to the radio was a communal event also. As more families got radios, and as more households got multiple radios, this changed into the system we have today, in which it'd be a miracle if two people could even agree on what to listen to. Nowadays it's inconceivable to think of sharing your radio or television with a neighbor, because it's almost a statistical guarantee that they have their own.
Or of course that might not be the reason and my Western mind just doesn't have enough experience with African cultures to think of the real reason. I admit that possibility.
One way or the other, the kinds of changes that the OLPC project hopes to effect have to happen in context or they won't come off at all. Hopefully they're reading Diary of an African Entrepreneur for ideas.
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I haven't been to Africa. Everywhere else I've been, people are pretty much the same as in the US. Latin America, Europe, and Asia. I spent most of my time in Latin America, in a developing country. People are pretty much the same. I doubt Africans are that different. I don't doubt that Africans share televisions. Back when there was only one television on a given street, people would invite over the neighbors to watch TV. I'm talking about the US. It's not a matter of culture but of economics. If only one person in an area has something, then the upside of sharing is a lot greater than it is otherwise, since the other people on the street are enjoying a TV as opposed to not enjoying a TV, which is a greater difference than enjoying someone else's TV as opposed to enjoying one's own TV. And similarly, as we've been transitioning to high definition televisions, there's been a bit more inviting people over than normal to enjoy the TV. As more people get their own HDTV, there will be less of an advantage to inviting people over. That is not cultural. It is not a cultural difference. The mistake being made here is similar to the fundamental attribution error (falsely believing that character causes behavior, when in fact it is the situation that causes behavior). Here it's culture rather than character which is being falsely credited.
The name is irrelevant. If people called a brand of TV the "OTVPC", then why should that block adoption? Whatever you call the OTVPC, it is still a TV, and similarly, whatever you call that OLPC, it is still a laptop. The name, and the idea of the creator, doesn't matter once the machine is in the hands of the customers. Furthermore, if the "one per child" were seriously implemented, then the very situation that gives rise to the communal sharing would be reversed, since the situation giving rise to communal sharing is that there is not one per child. But as I just pointed out, even if the OPC part is just rhetoric, it still doesn't matter. The car maker Volkswagen has a meaningful name, but does anybody buy (or not buy) the car because of the name? No. Does the name have any significant effect on how the car is used by the customer? No.
I never expected the OLPC to be much of a success. But cultural differences had nothing to do with my expectation. I generally don't expect any particular new thing to have much success. There is no particular need to explain lack of success. Failure is the norm. It is success that is surprising. Some do-gooder gets an idea into his head - how many times have such ideas bombed? Almost every time.
There is a fundamental problem with do-gooders. They typically (and the do-gooders behind the OLPC are no different) want to decide for other people, what those other people will do. If we want to help a random African, why not give him $200, rather than gifting him a laptop? Why isn't he a much better judge of what he needs than we are? Why presume that we know better than he does how that $200 should be spent? The market doesn't suck all that much. The things that people need most urgently, if they can be provided at all, will tend to be provided without some do-gooder calling the shots. It will be provided by self-interested entrepreneurs provided the people have the cash - so the obvious thing for do-gooders to do is to give people the cash. For this reason it is very hard for do-gooders to do better in making decisions for other people, than those other people would do if they made their own decisions. (And if you want to argue that giving a homeless guy money is just throwing money down a black hole because his homeless is a result of his lack of judgment, for the sake of argument I will grant the point but add that the poverty of Africa is not due to the poor judgment of the individuals in making choices for themselves; the kleptocrats and bandits of the third world, who are largely to blame for the poverty, are making wise choices for themselves. If you want to argue that the bandits and kleptocrats will simply steal the money we give to individual Africans, then this acknowledges that the key problem is kleptocracy and banditry, which the OLPC is not going to fix, and presumably will fall victim to, unless the OLPC sucks so much that bandits don't want it.)
I also have problems with the OLPC itself. To repeat remarks I made some time ago, if there are no regular PCs in your environment, why learn computer skills from OLPCs? But if there are regular PCs, then who needs OLPCs? If I had $200 to spend and I had to choose between a used PC costing $200 and an OLPC, I would go with the used PC. You might be surprised at what you can get these days for $200. It's not bad. Furthermore - well, actually, the "African Entrepreneur" says it himself:
"Maybe they could change the target from children to families. It might
not sound very politically correct but a business owner could leverage
the technology a lot more and turn the laptop into increased revenue.
By keeping track of inventory, accounting, communicating with customers
and vendors electronically, the businessperson would use it in the day
and his/her kids could use it in the evening."
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Dear Supporters and Interested,
"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" (Eph. 1:2). What a wonderful work God has given us in Romania, India, and Myanmar (Burma) this just completed trip. I am so proud of the Christians in each of these countries developing the Lord's work.
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India continues to be a very bright spot in world evangelism. Thousands of people in India are becoming Christians each year. Hundreds of new churches of Christ are started each year. More churches are either appointing elders and deacons or working very hard to that end.
Churches in Myanmar are increasing. Around twenty of our Burma students from National Bible College have no returned to that country and started congregations that are now growing. We know of at least two schools of preaching now functioning there. We know of no institution or college in India that has had a more profound influence for the Lord's church in India and surrounding countries than National Bible College (NBC) in Chennai, India. We have now graduated more than 300 preachers and workers from NBC; 22 were from Burma. A good number of other schools of preaching have been started by our graduates; Aurangabad Bible College, North India Bible College in Chandagar, and schools in Nepal and Myanmar, to name just a few. All are good schools.
Facts about Myanmar (Burma)
- Burma is now renamed Myanmar.
- Rangoon is now renamed Yangon.
- Yangon (used to be Rangoon) is no longer the capital of Myanmar. The capitol is Nyipidaw.
- We believe there are now thirty to forty churches of Christ in Myanmar.
- Kalay School of Preaching has a 3-year course and ten students.
- Myanmar School of Preaching meets for five weeks in the spring and five weeks in the fall. There are forty to sixty students who attend each session. Some of these students are members of the church and some are not.
- In most parts of Myanmar, the church assembles in someone's house. Only fifteen or twenty individuals can gather in one place. The exception is in Kalay where one hundred or so meet each Lord's day. John O'Neal and I put money in place to complete a building there that will serve as a building for Sunday worship assembly, a school of preaching, and a residence for the lead preacher.
- Bill and Mary McDonald live in Myanmar and help with the Lord's work there.
This trip we were privileged to work with two other Americans. Vendall Dollarhide worked with us for two weeks. Vendall is head of Mission Printing in Arlington, TX. Not only does he do a good job there, but he did a really good job in India. He was well received by all. John O'Neal was my preaching partner in Myanmar for the five days we worked in that country. All went well.
Statistics from this just completed work
- Presented 66 lessons.
- We saw 151 baptized on this trip.
- We worked in the three countries named above.
- We worked in two states in India: Andrea Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
- Delivered Bibles, song books, New Testaments, worship supplies, good religious books in their languages, and bicycles to hundreds of churches and preachers.
- We worked out the dates for lectures and graduations from one end of India to the other in January and February 2010 as follows:
1) Bangalore with C.H. Jacob, January 29-31.
2) Mumbai Lectures with Craig Phillips, February 3-8.
3) Aurangabad Bible College with Amel B. and Regendrea C., February 9-12.
4) National Bible College, Chennai, Peter Solomon, February 14-15.
5) Chandagar North India Bible College, Earnest Gill, February 17-19.
- Started two new congregations. In one there were ten baptized; in the other 44 were baptized.
- Sister Patricia's Orphanage now has 87 children.
- Spoke at the Kavali Teacher's College.
2010 India Evangelism Projects
|10,000 full Bibles
|10,000 New Testaments
|10,000 Telugu song books
|100 bicycles, transportation for preachers
|400 sets of worship supplies (communion trays,
bread trays, collection sticks)
|200 portable pulpits
|help on 104 permanent church buildings
|Sister Patricia's Orphanage
|Plane tickets, hotels, food, etc.
|Office supplies and stamps
|Total needed for 2010
All of the above items were purchased and delivered to good churches and preachers in 2009. We want to provide the same in 2010 in my 49th and 50th trips to preach and teach in India. Will you help?
Here is my plan to raise this $95,000. I am asking churches and individuals to donate $300 to $1,000 each. Some churches and individuals are donating twice each year and others are donating monthly. Any amount would be helpful and appreciated.
You can send your donations now or at any time. Please make checks payable to INDIA EVANGELISM or CHURCH OF CHRIST and send to either of the addresses on this letterhead or use the self-addressed envelope enclosed. Thank you for your support.
Things look good at Sister Patricia's Orphanage. We spent two days there with the 87 children.
There are now more churches of Christ in India than in the U.S. They are growing in number and maturity. Your donations to this ministry are helping to achieve this. God bless you.
Special thanks to the LaPoynor, TX, Church of Christ for overseeing our work. Also, special thanks to all the churches and individuals who support us, as well as provide the $95,000 for our listed India Evangelism Projects. My books, "Rightly Dividing the Word of God," volumes I, II, III, IV and V, are available at $5 each; and "God Man Money" at $10 per copy, postage paid. All money from the sales of these books go to India Evangelism.
My next work in India will be January 12th through February 22nd, 2010.
If you have any questions, call or write. God bless you.
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There was something perverse in me that wanted to dislike this story. Hilary Mantel has won the Booker Prize twice for her lengthy novels. It seems unfair that she should be such a good short story writer as well. As this particular story had already become famous, the judges knew who had written it before reading. Surely then, they had only shortlisted it because of the name attached? No. Hilary Mantel's talent shone through.
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I would just love the option to go back to the old style before the fall update. Bare in mind this is an aesthetic argument rather than functionality.
True, it was no wave/there was no wave, its just continuous banning.
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Panic over they checked our passports, and we boarded the plane, after settling in and being taken through the usual safety briefings we were off into the night skies, destination Hong Kong then onto Changsha.
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internal flight, lasting just over an hour we arrive in good time.
Once again we were headed into a line to go through security and passport checks. After a little wait I stepped up to the counter, and after a short talk with the friendly face behind the counter, he told me to wait and then gestured to a fellow college sat behind him at another desk he started to sing while waiting. After a couple of minutes, a woman with a blank expression approached took my passport and told me to follow her. She led me into a giant padded cell with a CCTV camera in the corner and a 2ft thick steel padded door. I was told sit and wait while being watched over by a guard in impressive full uniform.
After a few more checks and about ten mins of waiting I was released back into the hustle bustle of the airport. I gathered my bags and made my way to arrivals; Friends greeted me after some quick hellos we go into the 4×4 and joined the highway toward Liuyang.
Rather than heading to the hotel to check in, we decided to grab some dinner as it was late in the evening, we said we prefer to eat local food rather than the everyday western food that we can get from home.
After a short journey we arrived in the bright city of Liuyang, we made our way to the Dumpling Bar our friends order for us, and we sat down eager to eat. The waitress came over after a short while with five trays of freshly steamed dumplings, Congee rice porridge, chicken wings and legs, pickled quail eggs, tofu with ginger, spicy beef and beef soup.
The smells and colours of all the food were fantastic, and it tasted even better than it looked. After filling our bellies, we got back in the land cruiser and made our way through the busy streets of Liuyang towards the Yintian Hotel to check in and rest for the night ready for another busy day and the start of our two weeks in China.


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Mercury Retrograde: Perfect Way to Usher in 2017/
(An herbal and moon calendar for 2017, www.thymeherbal.com. Also available at a new shoppe love of mine: www.crosenest.com.)
Goodness, how precious life is. The late afternoon sun is warmer today-temps reaching nearly 50 degrees- it softly streams through the picture window I'm nestled beside. I sit snuggled under a thick mossy green blanket pausing, thinking about this time as one year wanes and the next has yet to arrive. The mantle's fairy lights twinkle, the christmas tree keeps me company. All is still here except for the occasional whir of a passing car. Moments like these are special and welcome, and the news just in of actress Carrie Fisher's death on the heels of singer George Michael's passing on Christmas day, make them all the more appreciated. Death, the ultimate attention grabber, sobers me, providing its perennial message of urgency. Don't fritter away your time, be about the business of living. Enjoy, connect, use your gifts, make a difference. Show up for the messy and hard stuff. Leave this place better than you found it.
I like what KV has to say about this Mercury Re-trograde, productivity through Re-building, Re-creating. I've come to understand these astrological influences in a more constructive way, moving beyond the typical doom and gloom, duck and cover reaction it garners. The message fits in with the upcoming New Year (though I celebrate mine on Samhain-the Celtic New Year on October 31st/November 1st). As many sift through the past year taking stock of what has passed and consider what may come to be in 2017, it is only natural to look back to Re-examine what worked and what didn't. We might take to heart the advice to work with the energy of this Re-trograde to lay a foundation of greater strength and cohesion based on learning from our past actions and outcomes. We could slow the pace, here in this last week of 2016, and make time for the stillness of a special moment to influence us, carry us across a threshold into the realm of spirit and truth. We might listen deeply, expectantly, discerning the path that will lead us to our yes.
A significant yes for me this year is indeed found in looking back- to the tracks of my ancestors. This March the boys and I are trekking "down South" to Tennessee on a pilgimage to trace roots and belonging. We will visit with my paternal relatives and journey to the homes of my family present and of yesteryear. We will bring the video, audio and photography equipment to capture the stories and sights along the way. Place, belonging, the land and my relationship to it, is a central interest, theme and direction for me as I enter my Saging years, and this trip is one that will bring so much to us, especially Niko, and I -as we really don't know much about the history of our roots. I sense that a Legacy will be born from this experience too. A looking ahead to what I can give back to those whose shoulders I stand on. That if not for them, there would be no me, no crazy D'Onofrio family, here at the Little House. What can I pay forward, what can I continue on with, keep alive or perhaps even Re-surrect in their memory, in their honor, in homage to what can be.
We have much to consider this year in particular, as history takes a turn with the insertion of this new president. I wonder if you feel like I do- the time of living history is upon us. The time to live our legacy is now. In whatever ways the stillness reveals your mission for the year ahead, may you strike out on the road full of vigor and willingness. May you make the most of what was, and kindle the future with its lessons. May you be full of yourself. May you bring that self to everything you do, with awareness, fully invested, sails billowing, compass pointed true North.
To 2017, and to working your Mercury Re-trograde with grace!


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Monument Valley # 2
I made this image on my way to meet up with a friend and fellow photographer in Flagstaff, AZ. Since I had arrived a few days early I thought I would venture into Monument Valley and do a little exploring. I had not been here before but I had seen photographs made by others so I was excited about the possibilities of what I might find.
Driving down the long road from Goulding Inn I passed the many stands of the Navaho Indians, selling some of the most beautiful blankets, pottery and jewelry. The Navaho are great artisans and create some of the most beautiful designs.
For the most part photography in Monument Valley is best accomplished at dawn and dusk. The long shadows created by adjacent buttes can help create a foreground and accentuate your subject. The side lighting also creates depth.
Along the drive I noticed many possibilities for compositions. But it was late in the morning and the light was rather flat and uninteresting. After making some mental notes in reference to where I wanted to return I headed back to Goulding for some nourishment. After lunch I went to the very interesting Navajo Culture Center and the Navajo Code Talker Exhibit which is a must see exhibit for anyone visiting the area. It will add to your understanding, appreciation and the respect we should have for this area and the very kind Navajo people.
The afternoon sun was getting lower in the sky and it was time to head back and relocate some of my compositions that I scouted earlier. This particular view was chosen to include the two small buttes framing the larger butte, which had a fair amount of side lighting. While keeping the larger butte on the top third and to the right of the center of the composition the foreground shadow created a nice framing on the bottom. While calculating exposure I was cautious to maintain detail in this area.
By making images in the late afternoon the sidelight brings out the shadows in the rock formations and the chances for clouds are greater as well.
I used a yellow filter to darken the blue section of the sky. I have also burned down the sky and foreground during printing process.
To calculate exposure I metered the darkest shadows area which indicated f-22 @ 1/8 which I placed on Zone III. I allowed one stop for the yellow filter.
Exposure was f-22 @ 1/15 sec.
To maintain foreground detail I used a slight downward tilt of the 210mm lens was required. The 4 x 5 inch negatives were developed in D-76 1:1
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I'm Masayo, Tokyo Guided Tour planner.
I introduce where to explore with family members in Tokyo.
Today, I introduce the business hours of museums in Tokyo on the first three days of the New Year.
If you travel in Japan at the New Year, please check the business hours in advance.
Many shops and facilities close.
1.Edo Tokyo Museum
Edo Tokyo Museum is a museum which you can know the lives of people from Edo period to Syowa period (from 1603 to 1989).
Edo period is an interesting time because a lot of cultures were developed.
To know the lives of general people means to know the real history of Japan.
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➡Edo Tokyo Museum is the best spot to enjoy and learn Japan's history!
Opening hours
|Edo-Tkyo Museum
|Dec 25th~31st
|Jan 1st
|Jan 2nd& 3rd
|9:30am ~5:30pm
*They accept to enter until 5:00pm.
Don't miss it!
The admission fee to Permanent Exhibition is fee on January 2nd and 3rd!!
Please visit the entrance on 6th floor.
2.Nezu Museum
Nezu Museum is a museum of a great collection of old Japanese paintings, ceramics, archeological treasures, calligraphy, and lacquerware.
As if you escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city, Tokyo, you will find tranquility behind the building.
More about Nezu Museum↓
➡Fantastic oasis in the bustling city, Tokyo is Nezu museum.
Openiong hours
It close from December 19th to January 6th.
It will open on January 7th.
More info
It will start a new exhibition.
>>Sometsuke: Celebrating Four Centuries of Japanese Porcelain
Please check the detail on the website.
3.Samurai Museum
This photo of Samurai Museum is courtesy of TripAdvisor
Samurai Museum is a museum to know Samurai spirits.
Opening hours
It opens as usual all days, even at the end of the year and the New Year.
Opening hours: 10:30 am ~9:00 pm (final entry is 8:30 pm)
4.Sumo Museum in Ryogoku Kokugikan
Sumo Museum is a museum to know Sumo's history and culture.
Opening Hours
It closes from December 27th to January 3rd.
It will open on January 4th. (10:00 am~ 4:30 pm)
*From January 8th, you need to get Sumo tickets to enter Sumo Museum.
5.Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo National Museum is the oldest museum in Japan.
It has 87 national treasures, 634 important cultural properties.
It has 116,932 collections.
Opening Hours
It closes from December 24th to January 1st.
It will open on January 2nd.
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If you want to know how to get the museums,
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In this capacity he is responsible for leading the Manufacturing Organisation, Supply Chain Operations and managing the Contract Manufacturers. Having more than 30 years experience in operational management and consulting for major Engineering, Pharma and Biotech companies, Peter joined Finox in 2014.
Prior to that Peter held the position of Global Supply Chain Leader in F. Hoffmann – La Roche's Pharma division. In this function he was responsible for building the commercial supply chain and launching many of Roche's major brand products. Additionally, he represented Technical Operations in the Life Cycle Team for all products in his portfolio. In 1994 he was asked to join Roche as Head of Supply Chain Planning and Control for the Diagnostics Division where he had previously been working as a consultant for several years. As a consultant Peter supported global players in developing logistics strategies and MRPII implementation projects.
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A Guantanamo Bay Version 2.0 may be in the works.
A Democratic representative is developing a unique proposal that attempts to strike a middle path in the debate as to whether the U.S. should permanently close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay next year or keep it open indefinitely.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) said Thursday that he is open to keeping a more transparent Guantanamo facility, complete with more aggressive third party monitors, open beyond the White House January 2010 closure deadline to hold the most dangerous inmates.
"If we have transparency and accountability, than you can leave Gitmo just like it is," he said. "The physical plant of Guantanamo is built to hold people. And therefore I argue and will pursue the administration to give a look at legislation that I am developing that will give transparency and accountability and may satisfy our allies as well," Hastings said, noting that he would enable groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Red Cross to have better access to monitor the facility.
Hastings has yet to seriously discuss the proposal with the White House but asserts that it could be a viable solution given that the new Gitmo comes with a guarantee of no torture.
Hastings, a former U.S. District Court judge, cited a problematic prison he once ordered closed, renovated and eventually reopened.
"I went in-same facility-we just changed what was going on inside and therefore the perception changed," he said, when asked about President Obama's assertion Guantanamo poses a international perception problem for the nation.
Given that Obama has vowed that no torture will take place at the facility, Hastings said Obama will be able to declare that "the new Guantanamo is open."
He said that his plan could proceed once the administration's review of the 241 detainees concludes and the president determines which suspects to put on trial, deport or move to prisons in the U.S. Hastings estimates the new Guantanamo will have to accommodate about 30 of the ultra-dangerous detainees.
"So you try the ones you can and the ones that ultimately cannot be handled at all-where are you gonna put them?" Hastings asked.
He said that he doesn't see another short-term solution to the "political brouhaha, not in my backyard" problem the White House faces on Capitol Hill where numerous Democrats have joined with Republicans to say no to housing Gitmo detainees in their states and districts.


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That was a pleasant and drama free passage to the fifth round of the FA Cup, just what we needed really. Not quite the 9-0 pasting that we hoped for after the Spurs defeat but, never mind, we'll save that backlash for the next time we play Tottenham. Now to the second of our double header against the barcodes, this time in the league. We need to win, and win well. Make up the six goal gap in the goal difference and go back top. We're second by the exact amount of goals that Newcastle shipped in at Old Trafford. Cheers for that. United have Portsmouth, Spurs and Manchester City as their next three games. Certainly potential for dropped points there, and we need to make sure that we put the pressure on by going top on Tuesday. By three points ideally. Although our next two matches after this are Man City away and Blackburn at home. Not exactly a guaranteed six points, but certainly games we should be looking to win in our current form. Current form minus the aberration last week, of course.
The barcode back four certainly won't be looking forward to another ninety minutes against Adebayor. In the last twelve games he's played a part in, he's scored eleven goals. Including six in our last four matches. He really does continue to surprise everyone. Not only that, but he's now actually starting to connect with the ball properly when he shoots, which was unheard of before the last couple of weeks. The goal against Spurs and the first against Newcastle on Saturday, were both shots that we're used to seeing go out for a throw in when they've come from Ade's boot. But now they're sailing into the net with power and accuracy. If he makes a habit of that, as well as his new found heading prowess, then we're looking at a very, very dangerous forward. Or, this could just be the usual salivating over him when he scores in a few games in a row, then calling him the worst forward to ever don the Arsenal shirt when he goes a few games without. But, his game is still improving, he is still getting better and he is still scoring goals. Fifteen league goals so far, and if he continues this rate to the end of the season, he'll end up with around twenty five league goals. That used to be considered a good return for Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy. As Eduardo gets better at the English game and we see his clinical finishing more often, and van Persie, one day, in the distant future, gets himself injury free, we'll have quite the potent attack force.
Team News
van Persie, Denilson, Djourou and Rosicky injured. With Rosicky's inevitable two to three week layoff, either Walcott or Diaby will play. Although apparently the injury is nothing serious, that doesn't normally stop it being a two to three week absence. Diaby probably caused Newcastle more problems on Saturday, so I think Diaby on the left and Hleb on the right is likely. While Diaby drifts inside far too often, it allows room for Clichy to bomb forward and do some damage, while Abou shores up the centre of midfield and tries to shoot from every angle around the box. He's got to score another Derby-esque goal soon. The side will be strengthened by Sagna, Hleb and Eduardo starting, and Almunia will be back in goal. Van Persie is back in training, but we won't see him for a couple of weeks at the earliest. Although, going by this season so far, he'll start in a game that is a week early, and he'll be re-injured for two months.
Subs: Lehmann, Hoyte, Gilberto, Walcott, Bendtner.
Newcastle United
It's fairly likely Keegan will give the eleven that started on Saturday another shot at glory, as Emre is still suspended, although Viduka will probably start. There could be a drop of rotation with maybe Rozenhal starting, but that's about it really. Barton's bail conditions have been changed, but reading Keegan's comments ahead of this game I suspect he'll be on the bench if he's involved in the squad.


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2016 is the year for New Beginnings
Hi My Name is "Judith Sudulic", also known as "Curvy and Content" an Aussie girl from N.S.W.
With my Children well and truly on their way to adulthood, I am now presented with the freedom and time to pursue my many passions further.
For well over a year I have fiddled and toyed around with this Blog without any real Direction, Focus or Purpose.
Since Joining Pinterest I have come to the conclusion that I have a very long list of Eclectic Hobbies & Addictions.
I am still very passionate about Curvy Clothing and inspiring us curvy girls to feel comfortable and content with our bodies.
However I feel that I wish to broaden my blog and inspire further and share with you ladies other Addictions on my List as part of my 2016 NEW BEGINNINGS
Please Take the time to look around My New Look Blog.
You may also feel inspired to take on a new Hobby,Become involved in a challenged or two, Create and Complete a DIY project, Read some Aussie Articles or
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Thursday at her weekly press briefing, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said if the Republican Party rejects the will of the voters and does not nominate the eventual front-runner Republican presidential candidate, Democrats would reap the benefits in November.
Pelosi said, "So I do believe the person that wins in the public arena — in the campaigns— will be the person who will be our nominee. On the Republican side, where they really don't have so much as super delegates, I dont think they have any. On the Republican side, if they reject the public will, they will really hand us a bigger victory than I'm even anticipating now, because that will be an implosion of the Republican Party."
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