text:
Dr. Peter Linnerooth spent nearly five years wearing an Army uniform, including the bloodiest 12 months in Iraq at the height of the surge. As a mental-health professional, his top mission was to keep troops from killing themselves. After he returned home, he spent another two years trying to save the vets he loved, working for the VA in California and Nevada.
Few who wore the uniform in the nation's post-9/11 wars better understood the perverse alchemy that can change the rush and glory of combat into a darkening cloud of anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress. But strikingly, all that understanding — and the knowledge, education and firsthand experience that nurtured it — didn't save Linnerooth.
"Pete struggled with PTSD and depression after his deployment to Iraq," an Army comrade says. "Pete is a good example of how serving in combat can change someone. Pete was one of us," he adds. "He's the first Army psychologist that I know who killed himself."
(MORE: Battling PTSD and TBI)
Linnerooth died in Mankato, Minn., on Jan. 2. He was 42.
He spoke eloquently in recent years about the need to care for the troops' mental woes. He also warned of the grinding stress that providing such care inflicted on Army mental-health workers like him. He talked of it in the pages of TIME, and the New York Times. He was the lead author of a 2011 piece on such "professional burnout" among his peers who, like him, had gone off to witness the worst of war, day after day, patient after patient.
"Despite the resilience that may result from training and experience, it is reasonable to assume that professional burnout occurs at a relatively high rate among the vulnerable and overstretched population of clinical military psychologists," Linnerooth wrote in an American Psychological Association journal. He was, eerily, telegraphing his own fate.
Linnerooth was a captain in the Army from 2003 to 2008. He served as the mental-health officer in charge of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (Dagger), 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One), in and around Baghdad from August 2006 to August 2007. The Army awarded him a Bronze Star for exemplary service at the end of the deployment.
(MORE: Study: 911 Dispatchers Experience PTSD Symptoms Too)
The Lives He Touched
Word of Linnerooth's death last week spread quickly among those with whom he had served, in Iraq and elsewhere. Dozens have posted memories on a Facebook memorial page. "Pete helped more than a thousand soldiers through direct counseling" in Iraq, said Angela Sales Landchild, whose Army medic husband served alongside him in Iraq. He "improved the lives of countless more due to his tireless efforts to improve the mental health resources available to them."
"Heartbreaking," posted Sarah Murray, wife of the brigade nurse. "I will never forget his contribution to the mental health of the brigade."
"What a terrible loss and tragedy!" said Colonel Keith Sledd, Linnerooth's battalion commander, from Afghanistan. "Pete was an outstanding person, Soldier, and doctor."
"I don't know how many times in my current counseling sessions I mentioned Pete the 'Wizard,' " Army medic Jedidiah Ayers said. "We will never know how many lives he has saved through his caring."
He achieved a lot. But it came at a high cost, personally and professionally. "He was really, really suffering," his widow Melanie says. "And it didn't matter than he was a mental-health professional, and it didn't matter than I was mental-health professional — I couldn't help him, and he couldn't help himself."
(VIDEO: Are Female Troops More Likely to Get PTSD?)
It seemed there was no one to help an Army hero who spent his career helping others. "The resources aren't what they should be," Melanie says. "The death toll for suicide is now higher than combat, and he was very frustrated by that."
He shared those frustrations. Linnerooth told TIME three years ago that he first realized that Army mental-health workers were overwhelmed during a two-month stint at Fort Hood, Texas, two years before he went to Iraq. It was early 2004, and the first troops to deploy to Iraq had just started coming home with mental problems. "We were told you have to hold soldiers to a higher standard of severity and symptoms to diagnose PTSD," he recalled being instructed. "Meanwhile, I'm looking at the DSM 4 [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition] — the standard of my profession — and saying 'It doesn't f—— say that here.' "
He said he was ordered to cut the standard 50-minute counseling sessions to 20 minutes. "You'd have to resist that," Linnerooth said. But when he'd complain, the response was always the same: "This is a war," he said his superiors told him.
The Army's mental-health cadre, like other slices of the U.S. military, wasn't prepared for a lengthy conflict. "You're looking at 350 [clinical psychologists] to support the entire Army of about a half a million," Linnerooth said in that 2010 conversation. "That's way too little, and it's led to way too much burnout."
(MORE: Army Policy: Deferring Mental-Health Diagnoses in War Zones)
Marching Off to War
Then he went to Iraq. Once there, he said, he realized the situation was even more dire on the front lines. There was relentless pressure to get bodies into the fight. "When they tell you to make a soldier deployable, what are you going to do?" he recalled asking himself. "The Army has been criminally negligent — but I'm a captain — what am I going to say to a battalion commander who's going to oppose my decision?"
He said he wasn't alone. "When we were in Iraq, a chaplain, almost with tears in his eyes, said the Army is criminally negligent in its mental-health care of soldiers," Linnerooth recalled. "And I believed that to be true as well."
He was haunted by the procession of bodies, alive and dead, that he witnessed coming into the Riva Ridge Troop Medical Clinic. Even mental-health workers had to pitch in to help after mascals — mass-casualty events. The recollection of an explosion that ripped into four Iraqis — two grownups and two kids — especially tormented him. "The adults died quickly, but the kids didn't give up," Melanie recalls Pete telling her. "So they screamed in agony for hours until they finally died. Their skin was falling off, and the bone was showing through and there was nothing these guys could do for them except try to manage their pain while they died."
Headed Home
Linnerooth, according to friends and colleagues, came back from Iraq a different man. After leaving the Army, he taught psychology for a year at Minnesota State University at Mankato, but found it dispiriting. "I was tired of 19-year-old college kids bitching to me about how hard I graded them," he said, "when the 19-year-old soldiers that I was used to working with were hoping they would survive to see the next day."
In 2009, the Minneapolis VA awarded him 100% disability for PTSD. It worked out to about $2,300 a month, tax-free. His 17-year marriage fell apart.
So he headed to the California coast in late 2009, near Santa Cruz. He moved across the street from his Iraq war buddy, Brock McNabb, who had worked alongside Linnerooth as a combat medic specializing in mental health. The pair worked for the VA, tending to mentally ailing vets at the Santa Cruz County Vet Center center in Capitola.
Given their work and their shared background, dark thoughts were routine. "We talked about suicide all the time," McNabb says. "It is something that many vets are comfortable with talking about. Especially the two of us, since we dealt with suicidal ideation and completed suicides in our careers. He was not afraid of death, I think he was just afraid that he wasn't going to mean as much as he did in the Army for the rest of his life."
(MORE: The Army's Continuing Dearth of Mental-Health Workers)
A Fresh Start
Then he fell in love with Melanie and decided to move to her place in Reno, Nev., and work for the VA there. His PTSD had ebbed while he was living alone in California, but it returned when he moved to Reno to live with Melanie and her two kids and had visits from his two children. "He had more control over his environment in Santa Cruz," Melanie says.
Things did not go well at the Reno VA, where he had been hired to help vets afflicted with PTSD. For one thing, he was coming up on the two-year deadline to get a state psychologist's license since being hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"The Reno VA told him, 'Don't worry about it. Come on board even though you're about to hit your two-year mark,'" McNabb recalls. Linnerooth's VA bosses said the family-leave time he had taken while in California to spend time with his kids in Minnesota would extend the deadline, McNabb recalls. "But within a couple of weeks he was told by Reno's human resources department, 'Hey, we forgot to tell you, since you're not licensed, we have to terminate you,' " McNabb says. "He was essentially fired."
After that, his PTSD grew worse. The VA, McNabb said, denied his request to get help from a VA-funded private mental-health professional. "They wanted him to get treatment at the facility where he was supposed to work," a second close friend says. "He just felt betrayed by the organization that was supposed to take care of him."
McNabb recalls the Catch-22-iness of it all. "He was planning to go through a formal grievance process as a disabled veteran to get his job back," McNabb says. "He said, 'I obviously don't want to see anyone there who I might end up working with in the future.' "
The VA said Jan. 14 it was "forced" to terminate Linnerooth after he failed to get the required license, but told him the agency would take him back once he got it. "To VA's knowledge," no one told him he'd get an extension because of the family leave he took, it added. "The Reno staff also says they did not limit his access to PTSD treatment," the VA said. "They informed us they never would have done this."
(MORE: Military Psychiatrists at War: True Life and Death Decisions)
Returning Home
As he spiraled deeper into PTSD, his second marriage began crumbling. He went to Oregon for a VA residential program, but it didn't work out. So he headed back to Minnesota last summer. Melanie says that while the marriage was rocky, it wasn't irrevocably broken. Pete visited her just before Christmas, and things went well. "He started getting some treatment and was becoming the person that I knew Pete was," his widow says. "But he couldn't quite get there fast enough."
Yet Linnerooth kept trying. "He even started seeing a VA mental-health provider recently and thought it might go well," McNabb says. But a combat veteran's life can careen out of control in a flash. "More often than not, suicide is an impulsive act," McNabb says, trying to explain what happened to his best friend. "It's always a viable option in dealing with pain and loss. And it was for Pete."
McNabb, now working for the VA in Hawaii, says his battle buddy found himself adrift, without a mission or even a job. "The only time that he felt that he truly mattered in his whole life wasn't as the university professor or the VA counselor, but as the Army psychologist whose sole purpose in life was to help his soldiers get through just one more day," McNabb recalls. "He once said, 'See one more day past this one. That's how you will make it through.' I sure wish he did."
His widow, who works for the VA in Reno, is profoundly frustrated by what happened. "We didn't know," she says, "how to get him the help that he needed."
As is generally the case in suicides, there was no one cause. McNabb believes there were "many straws" involved. But the VA was part of it. "They could have given him more of a chance — all a person needs is that hope," McNabb says. "Pete needed to feel like he still mattered. My God, he was a Bronze Star–winning Army psychologist. But the VA just looked at him as another psychologist who couldn't get his licensure in two years." McNabb knows about such things: he serves on a national VA special committee for PTSD.
But perhaps Linnerooth himself put it best in that 2010 chat with TIME. The military's mission is to fight and win. "The Army is focused on the short term — 'I need a warm body manning a gun in a Humvee,' " Linnerooth said. "That's great — until that warm body is crazy and eats his gun."
In the early morning hours of the second day of the new year, alone in his apartment, that's just what Linnerooth did, after mixing Jack Daniels with Diet Coke with a telephone argument with his wife.
He will be buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis on 11 a.m. Monday.
He is survived by his widow, and three children — a son, 10, and a daughter, 6, from his first marriage, and a four-month-old son from his second — his mother, Gayle, and a sister, Mary Linnerooth Gonzalez. He is also survived, among the hundreds he treated for the PTSD that killed him, by an unknowable number – one? two? dozens? – of the grunts he loved, whose names are known but to God.
In His Own Words: Dr. Pete Linnerooth writes about a tough day at war. [link]
In His Own Words: Dr. Pete Linnerooth speaks to TIME in 2010: [audio http://nation.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2013/01/linnerooth.mp3]


text:
Correction: This post was mistakenly attributed to Issandr El Amrani when first published. It was actually written by Paul Mutter — apologies.
The Washington Post, stating what ought to be obvious about the US "secret war" in Yemen:
In Yemen, U.S. airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaeda
Since January, as many as 21 missile attacks have targeted suspected al-Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen, reflecting a sharp shift in a secret war carried out by the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command that had focused on Pakistan.
But as in the tribal areas of Pakistan, where U.S. drone strikes have significantly weakened al-Qaeda's capabilities, an unintended consequence of the attacks has been a marked radicalization of the local population.
The evidence of radicalization emerged in more than 20 interviews with tribal leaders, victims' relatives, human rights activists and officials from four provinces in southern Yemen where U.S. strikes have targeted suspected militants. They described a strong shift in sentiment toward militants affiliated with the transnational network's most active wing, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.
Presumably, the CIA would disagree that this sort of approach is undermining US counterterrorism efforts - even though it it is said that it deeply disturbs the White House when "errors" like this occur:
On December 17 [2009], the Yemeni government announced that it had conducted a series of strikes against an Al Qaeda training camp in the village of al Majala in Yemen's southern Abyan province, killing a number of Al Qaeda militants. As the story spread across the world, Shaye traveled to al Majala. What he discovered were the remnants of Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs, neither of which are in the Yemeni military's arsenal. He photographed the missile parts, some of them bearing the label "Made in the USA," and distributed the photos to international media outlets. He revealed that among the victims of the strike were women, children and the elderly. To be exact, fourteen women and twenty-one children were killed. Whether anyone actually active in Al Qaeda was killed remains hotly contested.
Or rather, we believe it deeply disturbs the White House, since as the Daily Kos diarist Jesselyn Radack notes, the White House "can neither confirm nor deny" the air war in Yemen and invokes a black ops non-disclosure rule to keep the books closed.
But the US is not "involved in some domestic conflict," of course. Why? Because President Obama himself said so:
"We're not in Yemen to get involved in some domestic conflict. We're going to continue to stay focused on threats to the homeland—that's where the real priority is."
This distinction is patently absurd — and, as Esquire's Charles Pierce noted, awfully like what JFK talked up in cabinet meetings about Vietnam. What is going in Yemen is first and foremost a domestic conflict, and by taking a side in that conflict — alongside the Saudi-backed government in Sana'a, against AQAP and the Ansar al-Shariah — we have involved ourselves in a domestic conflict — perhaps even deeper than the CIA will admit. I would be inclined to just dismiss this statement as a "he kept us out of war" promise in campaign mode, if it weren't for the fact that so many reports out of Yemen — including leaked State Department cables — illustrate that the US really is so fixated on al Qaeda it seems to disregard any suggestions that it's air war is destabilizing the country, and that all the "collateral damage" is helping anti-government Islamists in southern Yemen make greater inroads towards Sana'a, and more willing to cut deals with al Qaeda cells "in order to place themselves in a better bargaining position with the central government." Some of those likely involved in the US war effort seem to understand this, but the present policy does not seem to reflect their qualifiers on the composition of the anti-government forces. These qualifiers are not unlike the distinction between the Taliban and the original al Qaeda organization — i.e., that the Taliban emerged independently in the 1990s from al Qaeda and ran Mullah Omar ran his own war effort while maintaining a special relationship with bin Laden's lieutenants and, in particular, the "55th Arab Brigade" that fought against the Northern Alliance, which, while linked to al Qaeda, was a distinct entity.
Yemen watcher Gregory Johnsen notes that AQAP, formerly the refuge of several dozen hardline Saudi clerics and thugs, has greatly expanded to take in hundreds of members from neighboring Somalia, and more importantly, many Yemenis as well. The now Yemeni-heavy AQAP would therefore have several units composed of foreign fighters and sympathetic Yemenis — in effect, "international brigades"[1] — serving among (loosely) aligned anti-government tribal militias in Yemen like the Ansar al-Shariah. But even so, AQAP is not the same as Ansar al-Shariah, a view seemingly accepted even by members of the Beltway's inner circle of counterterrorism:
"While AQAP has grown in strength over the last year, many of its supporters are tribal militants or part-time supporters who collaborate with AQAP for self-serving, personal interests rather than affinity with al-Qaeda's global ideology," [National Security Council spokesman Tommy] Vietor said. "The portion of hard-core, committed AQAP members is relatively small."
The danger in this reading, therefore, is that the US' actions, by generating sympathy for AQAP, will blur the line between mainly tribal actors (especially Ansar al-Shariah) and AQAP by popularizing the latter among Yemeni Islamists — which could help AQAP build up its networks and resources to the point where it actually does succeed in one of its plots against US targets… or, against "softer" Saudi ones. And then the chips would be down for whichever administration is sitting in the White House at the time.
But the main American diplomatic concern — one shared by the Yemeni military, whose airforce does not have the capacity to carry out "signature strikes" — is apparently that the US not be too closely associated with the drone strikes. The secondary concern, that there are underlying ethnic and economic tensions in Yemen which require addressing to keep the country from turning into another Afghanistan, is simply secondary. In part, this is because the central Yemeni government, despite its dependent on US largesse, really has no desire to help US observers go around the country to better report back to Washington on the civil strife. All the practical issues — and there are many — of doing so aside, the central government really has no real desire to enable this because such a survey of the country would probably make it very clear just how divided society is and how many tribes are so resentful towards the government in Sana'a (the US's limited historical interest in Yemen certainly helps keep things in the dark). Given the choice of adding more drones to the aerial armada or recruiting civil society monitors, the White House is, from its past record, certainly going to chose the tech over the people because identifying the larger problems does not immediately produce deliverables — i.e., the AQAP body count. That fixation, Johnsen believes, is helping to blur distinctions between AQAP and Ansar al-Shariah.
The head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center (CTC), one of the key behind-the-scenes players in all this (only those "in the loop" know his name) — embodies these discrepancies quite well, it seems: "We're killing these sons of bitches[2] faster than they can grow them," he reportedly said in 2011 regarding the "signature strikes" program implemented in Pakistan and now practiced in Yemen (and possibly Somalia too) under the designation "terrorist-attack-disruption strikes" (TADS). And yet the "sons of bitches" quote comes from a man who has also reportedly conceded to his close associates that "this is not a war you're going to be able to kill your way out of."
Unfortunately, it appears to be precisely what the US is trying to do in Yemen.
Note: We'll follow this post up with a detailed breakdown of the forthcoming PBS Frontline documentary on Yemen from one of our contributors.
To be clear, my analogy is based on seeing a similarity in an order of battle - foreign fighters in units fighting alongside a homeland "liberation" movement — not that the "original" al Qaeda is somehow running the show with AQAP, or Ansar al-Shariah. ↩
It's not clear if he meant actual militants, or any male capable of bearing arms in the target zone, since the White House's casualty assessments rely on the assumption that all males capable of bearing arms in the target zone are "militants" unless proven otherwise. ↩

subset: commoncrawl


text:
- Description
- Additional information
- Stock Check
- Product Compliance
Environment Friendly, Flexible, Flame Retardant, Heat Shrinkable Tubing
2:1 Shrink Ratio
An environment friendly, flame retardant shrink tubing. Specially designed formulation to meet UL 224 and CSA 22.2 on the basis of no harmful substance such as PBB, PBBE, PBBO and toxic metal compounds. Widely used for insulation, strain relief, harnessing, bundling and color coding of wire with a low shrink temperature. Good Flexibility and superior mechanical strength in such fields as electronics, communication and automobile
Operating temperature: -55°C to +125°C
Minimum shrink temperature: 70°C
Full recovery temperature: 100°C
Approvals: UL File No. E236137, CSA File No. 242540, 125°C,VW-1, 600V
Meets: Sony SS-00259,
Material: No PBB's, PBBO's, PBBE's
Cadmium content <5 ppm, Lead content <10 ppm
Standard colors: Black, red, blue, yellow, green, white
Other colors are available upon request.
RoHS Compliant
Additional information
Series | |
Diameter | |
Type | |
As Supplied ID (min) | |
Recovered ID (max) | |
Recovered Wall Thickness | |
Color | |
Min Operating Temperature (°C) | |
Max Operating Temperature (°C) | |
Length | |
Shrink Ratio | |
Material |
powered by Advanced iFrame. Get the Pro version on CodeCanyon.
June 22, 2024
Certificate of RoHS Compliance
Qualtek Electronics certifies the following part number Q2-Z-8MM-07-SS100M is RoHS Compliant 2011/65/EU Ammended to 2015/863/EU
Certificate of REACH Compliance
We, Qualtek Electronics Corporation, declare that the following part number Q2-Z-8MM-07-SS100M does not contain any SVHC substances listed in ECHA's website: http://echa.europa.eu/chem_data/authorisation_process/candidate_list_table_en.asp of January 2024 in concentrations greater than 0.1% (w/w), and does not contain any substances as described in Annex XVII.
EU PoP
Qualtek Electronics Corporation products do not contain any chemicals considered PoP, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Directive (EU) 2019/1021.
EU Biocides
Qualtek Electronics Corporation certifies that bicoides are not used in products or packaging materials and meet the requirements set by the Biocidal Regulation (BPR) EU 528/2012.
California Proposition 65 Information Can be found at:
Qualtek Electronics • 7610 Jenther Drive • Mentor, OH 44060 USA


text:
Dj Byrd Productions
930 53 St
Brooklyn, NY
DjByrdproductions Dj /Karaoke/Photo service for all Occasions,music from The 60,s 70,s 80,s 90,s 00,s and today, With top of the line equipment and a Vest Music collection no Party is to big or to Small we do them all We will work with you well before Your event date to found out your Preferences to have just the right music for your special day..So give as A call or e-mail very reasonable prices. Fully insured/We also take request, lights included
More DJs near Brooklyn, New York
Creative EncoresPO BOX 1252, Bayonne, NJ★Featured ListingCreative Encores is an event and media specialist team of professionals. We have over 10 years of experience to offer your event. Whether it be a personal, professional or corporate event and you are l...Read more
Elite Tarot2503D N. Harrison Street 1019, New York, NY★Featured ListingTravels Nationwide:
From black-tie galas to birthdays, corporate events to celebrations, Eve of Elite Tarot, known as the MBA Psychic, entertains your guests with unique, fun, and above all, profess...Read more -
★Featured ListingProfessional Event DJ, MC, and Sound Lighting Specialists.
"Defining Excellence For Your Dream Event"
Visit www.DjSunnyP.com
Call for your next special occasion - 732-428-6114
With over 10...Read more -
Entertainers Worldwide10th Floor East, 152 - 160 City Ave, New York, NY★Featured ListingHire an entertainer for a wedding celebration or corporate event.
Hire live bands and groups or book a solo singer to charm your guests. Musicians are always wanted and we can fulfil demand.
With...Read more -
Paparazzi EntertainmentPO Box 756, Uniondale, NY★Featured ListingBilingual MCs, MCs, Photographers, and Videographers Specializing in Multicultural and Diverse Entertainment for Weddings, Sweet 16s, Quinces, Birthday Parties, Corporate Galas, Holiday Parties, Block...Read more
Master Entertainers552 McBride Avenue, Woodland Park, NJWe offer entertainment that comes to you.
Master Entertainers is an entertainment company that's focused on karaoke and DJ services.
Our karaoke team provides you with a large compilation of kara...Read more -
Johnny The Oldies Singer502 Narraganset villas, Lindenhurst, NY★Featured ListingJohnny The Oldies Singer - Long Island NY Singing DeeJay http://www.oldiessinger.com Johnny is a veteran professional entertainer. He Sings, DJ's MC's and interacts with his audience. He performs at al...Read more
SOUNDfx Entertainment Disc Jockeys9 Westbrook Ave, Hillsborough, NJ★Featured Listingwww.soundfxentertainment.com ~ With SOUNDfx Entertainment Disc Jockeys, you'll find experienced professionals who are always courteous, friendly, energetic and looking to stand out from other larger ...Read more
Sugar Foot DJ'sPO Box 84, Jackson, NJ★Featured ListingGet moving and grooving to the spectacular sounds of our party DJ service based in Jackson, New Jersey. At Sugar Foot DJs, we have more than 12 years' experience in mobile DJ services. Playing only the...Read more
Holly Party Rentals8 Holland Brook Rd, Whitehouse Station, NJ★Featured ListingHolly Party Rentals specializes in superb customer service and a personal approach to helping you fulfill all of your party rental equipment needs throughout Central New Jersey and Eastern PA. Please ...Read more
Children's Party DJ NYC (New York City)3155 Brighton Ave 4th Street, Brooklyn, NYAlthough we are a Children's Party based service provider, we are also an inexpensive full service DJ Company in business for 15 years in the NEW YORK CITY area to Philadelphia. We provide services to ...Read more
Dj Byrd Productions930 53 St, Brooklyn, NYDjByrdproductions Dj /Karaoke/Photo service for all Occasions,music from
The 60,s 70,s 80,s 90,s 00,s and today, With top of the line equipment and a Vest Music collection no Party is to big or to...Read more -
Party in Motion DJ's1250 Hylan Blvd., Suite 1B, Staten Island, NYParty in Motion D.J's is a full service entertainment company with over 15 years of experience.
Our background ranges from (but not limited to) radio, private/corporate events, sweet sixteen's, enga...Read more -
DJ Phinam / PodBoyz ProductionsProspect Heights, Brooklyn, NYHonest Amateur DJ with experience in music production, podcast production, and video production. An effective listener who will ensure that your musical needs are met, because music is better by collab...Read more
Espionage Ent inc337 chauncey st, Brooklyn, NYEspionage Entertainment Brooklyn's number 1 source for musical Entertainment and event planning since 1999.
Whether it be a weddings,school events private parties or a corporate event you can trust ...Read more -
Stylistic DJ'sNy, NYStylistic DJ Service provides NYs best DJs, VJs, Photographers, Lighting Specialists & More. Experience the difference with Sylistic DJs!
Fully insured and a registered vendor with NYC Dept. of Edu...Read more -
Stylistic DjsNew York, NYStylistic DJ Service provides NYs best DJs, VJs, Photographers, Lighting Specialists, & More. Experience the difference with Sylistic DJs!
Fully insured and a registered vendor with NYC Dept. of E...Read more


text:
A few months ago, we announced our intentions to work on and release Dolphin 5.0 with a new release method. By using a stable branch, we hoped to avoid doing a feature freeze so that devs could both work on new features and continue to stomp out regressions. Unfortunately... that didn't work. Users wanted the newest features to be in Dolphin 5.0, developers were confused on what features needed to go to what branches, and things more or less ended up not working out the way we hoped.
Sometimes, it's best to just admit a mistake and do things right, so, in order to provide users and developers with the clearest path for Dolphin 5.0, we will be restarting the Dolphin 5.0 release process from scratch. That means abandoning the stable branch (along with merging all unique fixes over into Master) and eventually implementing a full feature freeze in order to give time to close all regressions and make Dolphin 5.0 the special release it needs to be.
We hope that users are understanding of the delay. With that, let us continue with our regularly scheduled Progress Report action!


text: Based out of Portland, Oregon, Thunderegg Productions is an indie RPG publisher. We take our name from the thunderegg, state stone of Oregon. Just as a newly-found thunderegg holds a surprise for whomever was fortunate enough to find it, we hope that our products will have the same effect for your gaming sessions. Taking our inspiration from the stone, our motto is "Wonders Within," and we will do everything possible to live up to that statement!


text:
Altering the course of U.S social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado set up a showdown with federal authorities by legalizing recreational use of marijuana.
The outcomes for those ballot measures Tuesday were a milestone for persistent but often thwarted advocacy groups and activists who for decades have pressed the causes of gay rights and drug decriminalization.
"Today the state of Washington looked at 70 years of marijuana prohibition and said it's time for a new approach," said Alison Holcomb, manager of the campaign that won passage of Initiative 502 in Washington.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who opposed legalization, was less enthused. "Federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug, so don't break out the Cheetos or gold fish too quickly," he said.
The results in Maine and Maryland broke a 32-state streak, dating to 1998, in which gay marriage had been rebuffed by every state that voted on it. They will become the seventh and eighth states to allow same-sex couples to marry.
In another gay-rights victory, Minnesota voters defeated a proposed constitutional amendment that would banned same-sex marriage in the state. Similar measures were approved in 30 other states, most recently in North Carolina in May.
"The tide has turned — when voters have the opportunity to really hear directly from loving, committed same-sex couples and their families, they voted for fairness," said Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign, a California-based gay rights group. "Those who oppose the freedom to marry for committed couples are clearly on the wrong side of history."
Washington state also voted on a measure to legalize same-sex marriage, though results were not expected until Wednesday at the soonest.
The outcomes of the marriage votes could influence the U.S. Supreme Court, which will soon consider whether to take up cases challenging the law that denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages. The gay-rights victories come on the heels of numerous national polls that, for the first time, show a majority of Americans supporting same-sex marriage.
Maine's referendum marked the first time that gay-rights supporters put same-sex marriage to a popular vote. They collected enough signatures to schedule the vote, hoping to reverse a 2009 referendum that quashed a gay-marriage law enacted by the Legislature.
In Maryland and Washington, gay-marriage laws were approved by lawmakers and signed by the governors this year, but opponents gathered enough signatures to challenge the laws.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who campaigned vigorously for the marriage measure, spoke to a jubilant crowd in Baltimore. Christopher Wold, 31, danced with his partner of four years after the result became clear. He said they would like to marry now that it's legal in Maryland.
"It feels so good to be accepted by so many people of all different backgrounds," he said. "It just feels wonderful."
The president of the most active advocacy group opposing same-sex marriage, Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage, insisted Tuesday's results did not mark a watershed moment.
"At the end of the day, we're still at 32 victories," he said. "Just because two extreme blue states vote for gay marriage doesn't mean the Supreme Court will create a constitutional right for it out of thin air."
Heading into the election, gay marriage was legal in six states and the District of Columbia — in each case the result of legislation or court orders, not by a vote of the people.
The marijuana measures in Colorado and Washington will likely pose a headache for the U.S. Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which consider pot an illegal drug. The DOJ has declined to say how it would respond if the measures were approved.
Colorado's Amendment 64 will allow adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, though using the drug publicly would be banned. The amendment would allow people to grow up to six marijuana plants in a private, secure area.
Washington's measure establishes a system of state-licensed marijuana growers, processors and stores, where adults can buy up to an ounce. It also establishes a standard blood test limit for driving under the influence.
The Washington measure was notable for its sponsors and supporters, who ranged from public health experts and wealthy high-tech executives to two former top Justice Department's officials in Seattle, U.S. Attorneys John McKay and Kate Pflaumer.
"Marijuana policy reform remains an issue where the people lead and the politicians follow," said Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, which opposes the co-called "war on drugs." "But Washington state shows that many politicians are beginning to catch up."
Estimates show pot taxes could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but the sales won't start until state officials make rules to govern the legal weed industry.
The Washington measure was opposed by Derek Franklin, president of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention.
"Legalizing is going to increase marijuana use among kids and really create a mess with the federal government," Franklin said. "It's a bit of a tragedy for the state."
In Oregon, a marijuana-legalization measure was defeated. In Massachusetts, voters approved a measure to allow marijuana use for medical reasons, joining 17 other states. Arkansas voters rejected a similar measure.
In all, 176 measures were on the ballots Tuesday in 38 states, according to the Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California.
Other notable results:
— Maryland voters approved a measure allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition, provided they attended a state high school for three years and can show they filed state income tax returns during that time. About a dozen other states have similar laws, but Maryland's is the first to be approved by voters.
— In Oklahoma, voters approved a Republican-backed measure that wipes out all affirmative action programs in state government hiring, education and contracting practices. Similar steps have been taken previously in Arizona, California, Michigan, Nebraska and Washington.
— In Michigan, labor unions suffered a big loss. Voters rejected a first-of-its-kind ballot initiative that would have put collective bargaining rights in the state constitution.
Contributing to this report were Brian Witte in Annapolis, Md.; Nicholas K. Geranios and Gene Johnson in Seattle; Clarke Canfield in Portland, Maine, and Kristen Wyatt in Denver.
Follow David Crary on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CraryAP
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press


text:
Merlin's weekly podcast with Dan Benjamin. We talk about creativity, independence, and making things you love.
Merlin's weekly podcast with Dan Benjamin. We talk about creativity, independence, and making things you love.
"What's 43 Folders?"
43Folders.com is Merlin Mann's website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.
Revenge of the Smart Playlist: 5 tricks for packrats & power users
Merlin Mann | Nov 10 2006
The success of yesterday's post on the basics of Smart Playlists makes me think you might enjoy seeing a few more. So, today I want to show you how to get control of a very large iTunes library -- to save space by getting rid of stuff you're not enjoying or listening to, as well as bubble up stuff you may not even realize you like. If you are an iTunes packrat but feel overwhelmed by your collection (or are simply running out of drive space), try these recipes for Smart Playlists to help you get it together. Step 0: BackupBefore doing anything too fancy with your iTunes (or with anything else for that matter), always do a backup. This could be as simple as dragging your library to an external drive, although personally I'd recommend a smarter tool -- I recommend rsync for geeks, and ChronoSync for civilians. In any case, don't yell at me if you get confused and permanently delete your heirloom recordings. 'Nuff said. Big and UselessThis is the dullest instrument in our drawer, but if you're on deadline for a video editing project and suddenly realize you have 200mb of disk space left -- well, you need to delete some shit fast. This Smart Playlist, as you can see, looks for the biggest bang for the buck in terms of deletion. It's the fastest way to find very large files that you aren't listening to much. You could also use something like What Size for this, but, you know, that would be cheating. Basic CullingThis one's not much more sophisticated, but, if you're doing regular backups, it's my favorite way to quickly and responsibly reduce the disk space used by your library. As with many of these lists, you'll start to see the value of rating your music; in addition to improving the quality of your lists and listening experience, it eventually becomes a quick way to determine which music you can afford to dump in a pinch. Old PodcastsMan, if you aren't careful, podcasts will eat your lunch. Although iTunes provides useful tools for managing the number of eps you keep, per podcast series, you'll be amazed how quickly old episodes will fill up your drive. This little fella does something insanely simple but critical; it pulls up any podcasts that you've already listened to, making it easy to select them all and delete quickly (without lots of COMMAND- clicking in the "Podcasts" window) Sure you really like that?This simple auditor calls you on your ratings. It looks at your higher-rated songs and sees if you're skipping them often -- a good sign you don't like them as much as you claim. Very helpful way to refactor if you realize you've gotten too enthusiastic with the 5-star ratings. Rate theseThis does something like the opposite of the previous list -- it pulls up songs that you've listened to a lot but have never rated. Again, if you're going to get the most out of your Smart Playlists, it pays to rate stuff you have a strong opinion about. This is one of the fastest ways to do that. You get the basic idea at this point. By tagging the crap out of your songs, adding correct genres, and rating rating rating, you can produce a library that is both more enjoyable and way more manageable. Even if you save every track you've ever added, you can always benefit from the history of your behavior that iTunes has collected and exposed. POSTED IN:
For those who haven't seen... by evilspoons (not verified)
These are a few of... by As Canadian as Possible... under the circumstances (not verified)
Oooh, this cleaned my drive... by Jeff (not verified)
Is Chronosync "better" than SuperDuper,... by rish (not verified)
Wo! I didn't know itunes... by Ben (not verified)
The ability to rate the... by rish (not verified)
Great tips, Merlin! Now only... by isb (not verified)
This is interesting but why... by mike (not verified)
http://There is a great blog... by Shane (not verified)
About MerlinBio Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster. He's best known for being the guy who created the website you're reading right now. He lives in San Francisco, does lots of public speaking, and helps make cool things like You Look Nice Today, Back to Work, and Kung Fu Grippe. Also? He's writing this book, he lives with this face, he suffers from this hair, he answers these questions, and he's had this life. So far. Merlin's favorite thing he's written in the past few years is an essay entitled, "Cranking." |
EXPLORE 43Folders | THE GOOD STUFF |


text:
Poor Rutherford B. Hayes. It wasn't bad enough that the 19th president, a Republican, was called "His Fraudulency" by Democrats during his one term in office (1877-1881) because of the unusual circumstances of how he "won."
Now, the current occupant of the White House, President Obama, was spreading a most assuredly inaccurate story, according to experts, about Hayes' reaction to an early telephone.
In a speech Thursday, Obama accused critics of his administration's energy policy of being Luddites, just like Hayes was of earlier technology. Obama said:
"One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, 'It's a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?' (Laughter.) That's why he's not on Mt. Rushmore — (laughter and applause) — because he's looking backward. He's not looking forward. (Applause.) He's explaining why we can't do something, instead of why we can do something ..."
Unfortunately for Obama, Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post's The Fact Checker blog, makes a very compelling case for why the president may owe any Hayes family members still around an apology for this phone story.
(Not that there aren't things to hold against Hayes, like his removal of federal troops from the South, which essentially left newly freed and vulnerable blacks unprotected.)
Hayes apparently was just the opposite of how Obama portrayed him, at least when it came to the telephone. He's what we would now call an early adopter. The story Obama relied on was one of those scurrilous tales that should have been debunked by Snopes.com by now but they evidently haven't gotten around to it yet.
As Kessler writes:
"The quote cited by Obama does exist on the Internet, but we would expect the White House staff to do better research than that. (This line was in the president's prepared text, so it was not ad-libbed.)"
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


text:
The simple spreadsheet is one of the most powerful data analysis tools that exists, and it's available to almost anyone. Major corporations and small businesses alike use spreadsheet models to determine where key measures of their success are now, and where they are likely to be in the future. But in order to get the most out of a spreadsheet, you have the know-how to use it. This course is designed to give you an introduction to basic spreadsheet tools and formulas so that you can begin harness the power of spreadsheets to map the data you have now and to predict the data you may have in the future. Through short, easy-to-follow demonstrations, you'll learn how to use Excel or Sheets so that you can begin to build models and decision trees in future courses in this Specialization.
Basic familiarity with, and access to, Excel or Sheets is required.


text:
Pivot Point manufactures Clevis Pins in-house. Clevis Pins may also be called Hitch Pins, Cold Headed Pins, Headed Pins or Cold Formed Pins.
Standard Clevis Pins are cold headed per IFI standards except for hole and point dimensions. All Clevis Pin holes are chamfered for a superior part finish! Only the finest cold heading quality wire is used. Some Cotter Pins that we have available for use with Clevis Pins include Bow-Tie Locking Cotters, Rue-Ring Locking Cotters, Circle Cotters and Hair Pin Cotters.
Standard Clevis Pins are made from low carbon steel and stocked plain finish. Additional plating finishes are offered as required. Stainless Steel Clevis Pins are also stocked in various sizes, with other sizes available upon request.
Special Clevis Pin configurations and grades are available, with various material options including medium carbon steel and alloy steel. Heat treated clevis pins are available per your requirements, including Grade 5 and Grade 8 Clevis Pins. Different head styles are available including button heads, truss heads and pan heads. For Quick-Release applications, see our Detent Clevis Pins. Also available are Clevis Pins with grooves for retaining rings.
Choose a clevis pin made to your exact specifications! We offer free engineering assistance and samples!
Basic Shank Diameter [in] | 3/16 |
Length under Head: To Edge of Hole (Approx.) [in] | 1.609 |
Length under Head: To Center of Hole (Approx.) [in] | 1.656 |
Shank Diameter - A | 0.181 to 0.186 |
Length [in] | 1 3/4 |
Head Diameter - B [in] | 0.310 |
Head Height - C [in] | 0.060 |
Head Chamfer - D [in] | 0.020 |
Pivot Point Std. Hole - E [in] | 3/32 |
Optional Point Diameter - F [in] | 0.140 |
Optional Point Length - L [in] | 0.045 |
Weight per 100 Pieces (Approx.) [lb] | 1.400 |
Material | Plain Finish Steel |
Finish | Plain Finish |
Note | Plating may add, up to, .001" to diameter of pin |
Clevis Pins with Grooves | |
SLIC Pins™ | |
Bow-Tie Locking Cotters™ | |
Rue Ring™ | |
Circle Cotters | |
Hair Pin Cotters | |
Detent Clevis Pins |
No quantity too small, no quantity too large! We specialize in Personalized Engineered Solutions! We'll work with you to develop the ideal fastener solution to suit your specific application; and we'll provide preliminary prints and samples. Click here to see a brief representation of our custom capabilities.
Send us your sketch and receive a quote. Simply fax it or email it. We can often recommend cost saving alternatives. We offer a diverse range of production capabilities, including screw machining, cold heading, drilling, ball detenting, machining, assembly and more. We love a challenge, so let us help you develop the prefect solution!
Copyright © 2020 Pivot Point, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Site: Marketing Metrics Corp.


text:
Before the sun was even up here in Iowa this morning, the Mitt Romney campaign bus was rolling on its way to a stop at J's Homestyle Cooking in Cedar Falls.
No matter which direction he goes in Iowa today, the former Massachusetts governor will seem to have the wind at his back. A new Time/CNN poll puts Romney in the lead in the first state to weigh in on the GOP nominee, and campaign staffers expect big crowds again today at Romney events, similar to what he saw yesterday.
Romney also has a new TV ad airing in Iowa, a positive message giving his closing argument to Republican voters ahead of next Tuesday's caucuses.
Meantime, much of the chatter on the media bus is about the latest defection from Michele Bachmann's campaign, as a key leader jumped ship and joined Ron Paul's campaign.
On Wednesday, Bachmann's Iowa chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson, resigned from Bachmann's campaign to back Paul, who he characterized as in a "top-tier" battle with Romney.
After campaigning in Cedar Falls, Romney was to continue heading across northern Iowa today, visiting Mason City and ending the day with a campaign rally in Ames.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


text:
No results have been found for your search
There are no results for your search.
You might want to...
- Check your spelling
- Expand your search terms
- Use a less specific location (place instead of postcode).
For further help on how to use the search, see the Help with searching section.
If you feel that there should be results for your search or you think there is an error please contact us.


text:
May I start by "saying" that you, my fellow food bloggers and readers, are fantastic? Thank you for all the poppy seed offers and also for the best wishes for my new home! You have put a huge smile on this exhausted girl's face. :)
I still have things to unpack, but at least now the place looks like a home, and not a warehouse. :)
I haven't baked in my new kitchen yet and the only cooking I did was a quick spaghetti for lunch yesterday – Joao and I couldn't stand sandwiches anymore. Luckily, I have a couple of recipes to post while I organize my house.
This cake was a hit – I shared it with a number of people and everyone loved it. It was moist and tender. I was a bit worried when the center of the cake sank, but Joao saw the original recipe and said that it looked like the one on the photo had sunk, too. I decided not to be so hard on myself and believe my husband's opinion – even though boiling water is the only thing he can do in the kitchen. :)
Dorset apple cake
from Delicious magazine
225g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
450g Granny Smith apples
finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
225g caster sugar, plus extra for dredging
3 large eggs
225g self-raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
25g ground almonds
1 ½ tablespoons light brown sugar
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/355ºF. Grease a deep 25cm springform cake pan – I used one with removable bottom - and line the bottom with baking paper.
Peel, core and cut the apples into 1cm pieces, and toss with the lemon juice.
Using an electric hand whisk or stand in mixer, cream together the butter, caster sugar and lemon zest in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth.
Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and fold in with the ground almonds. Drain the apple pieces well, then stir into the mixture.
Spoon into the prepared cake pan, lightly level the top and sprinkle with the brown sugar. Bake in the oven for 1 hour or until well-risen, brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. If the cake starts to look a little too brown, cover with a sheet of baking paper after about 45 minutes.
Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the tin and place on a serving plate. Dredge heavily with the extra caster sugar. Cut the cake into generous wedges and serve warm with a spoonful of clotted cream, if you like – I served it with thick yogurt.
Serves 8


text:
Add a spotting hotel at Phan Rang Air Base
Do you know of a hotel that offers spotting opportunities at Phan Rang Air Base? Let the rest of the spotters community know by adding it to the Spottingmode website.
Please add as much information about that hotel as you know, so others may stay at the hotel as well and use those opportunities. The more information you can share the better, but even the smallest bit of information can help others, so feel free to share even just the name of an hotel.
All information provided will be checked before it shows up on the website and missing information (like exact location or link to the hotel site) will be added were possible.


text:
I looked around for different fillings and was confused which one to choose.We are not really fond of pastry and such and the only one we liked were these Jam tarts.I knew I had to tread in carefully to make it like-able.I'd thought of making Butterscotch filling from scratch but then had a better idea.
Chocolate Caramel Tarts
Recipe source for the Tart - Thankam Philip book of Baking
Ingredients[Makes 12 tarts]
[I halved the recipe]
Butter-60g [chilled]
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Water-4-5 drops
For the filling
Dulce de leche - 1/4 cup
Chocolate Ganache - 1/2 cup
Mix flour and baking powder together.
Add the butter and rub it with your fingertips till it resembles breadcrumbs.
Now add water little by little and form a dough[do not knead,just mix slightly with your fingertips].
Divide the dough into 12 parts.Flatten each ball using a rolling pin and line the tart moulds.
Bake at 180 degress for 15 mins or till done.
- I refrigerated the tart dough for about 20 minutes before rolling it since it was quite hot and humid in the kitchen.This makes it easier to roll the dough.
- Make sure you do not knead the dough,it just needs a little help to come together,if you work the dough too much the tart would turn out hard.
- The combination of caramel and chocolate is worth trying out,I feared it would be too sweet for our choice,but it was just perfect.
- You could fill the tart with anything of your choice,it could be whipped cream and fruits or some nutella or even jam and marmalade,choice is yours!!


text:
Thousands of Venezuelans have been filling the streets this week, listening to music and lining up to see the coffin of their leader, Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday. Leaders from around the world have also come to the capital city, Caracas, for a funeral which formally takes place today. And in keeping with his often larger-than-life persona, the Venezuelan government plans to embalm Chavez and keep his body on display under glass, in perpetuity. NPR's Juan Forero is in Caracas, following events there. Hi, Juan.
JUAN FORERO, BYLINE: Hello, Steve.
INSKEEP: What was it like, being out among those crowds?
FORERO: Well, it was fantastic, really. I mean, there was just huge crowds. On Wednesday, a day after Chavez died, he was taken from the hospital, where he died, to the military academy. And there were just huge throngs of people in the streets, following along as the hearse took the casket all the way over to the military academy. And since then, the government has basically set up this public viewing. So streets have been closed, and people have just gotten in line from early in the morning, until late at night to see their comandante, as he's been known.
INSKEEP: Okay. And when we hear this plan to put his body under glass, I'm reminded of what the people in the old Soviet Union did with the body of Lenin. That's the plan, not to let him go?
FORERO: Well, exactly. Yesterday, Nicolas Maduro, who's the vice president, came on television, and he said that they are going to be embalming Chavez. And he said that for eternity, people are going to have him. This is something that's been done before in the world. He said it was just like Mao, just like Lenin in the old Soviet Union.
INSKEEP: Well, maybe this is telling us something we need to know, here, because people have been wording if Venezuela's policies, either at home or abroad, might change, might begin to evolve once Chavez was gone. But if the leaders of the government don't even want to let him go, maybe that tells us our answer.
FORERO: Well, they don't want to let him go, and the people who supported Chavez say they want a continuation of his policies. You know, they say we want Chavismo - as the movement is known - without Chavez. And Nicolas Maduro, tonight, is going to be sworn in as the new president, and he's been a longtime Chavez loyalist. So we would expect that the policies would continue. We'll just have to see.
INSKEEP: Okay. So Maduro becomes the president, at least for now. But isn't there supposed to be an election rather quickly?
FORERO: Well, yes. The constitution says that once a president dies, there has to be an election, and it has to be in about 30 days. I think that an election that would take place soon would also benefit Maduro, because there is the sympathy vote right now. And polls have shown that people probably would be supporting Nicolas Maduro. So a good chance that Chavismo is going to continue far into the future.
INSKEEP: Although, let me ask about that, Juan Forero, because this is a man who overcame his opposition throughout his rule, but nevertheless, did have an opposition that seemed gradually to be getting more organized in recent years. Is there a chance for them to make significant gains with the personality that they fought against out of the way?
FORERO: I think that's a clear possibility, because Chavez really was the heart and soul of all of this. I mean, everything revolved around Chavez. And the opposition was able to unite, and they united under a young politician named Henrique Capriles, who ran against Chavez in October. He did pretty well on the campaign trail, but in the end, he did lose the election in October. And then in December, the opposition also lost a whole host of governorships around the country.
So they were a bit of a disarray after that. And really, at this point, it does look difficult, because people really are out in the streets, and they're talking about how they want a continuation of this.
INSKEEP: Does Chavez's successor - if it proves to be Maduro in the longer term, or somebody else - have the money to continue Chavez's socialist policies both at home and abroad?
FORERO: Well, I think, you know, a big question is: Did Chavez have the money, too? Because this country is in a serious economic problem right now. The deficit is absolutely huge. And, of course, they turn on the spigot when the elections come, and they start to spend. And we would expect the same thing now. But the economy really is dysfunctional at the moment, and I think that that's one of the key problems that whoever winds up in the presidency's going have to face.
I mean, they're going to have to pay for everything that's happened before.
INSKEEP: NPR's Juan Forero is in Caracas, Venezuela. Juan, thanks very much.
FORERO: Thank you, Steve. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.