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IN THE WAKE of September 11, 2001, journalists around the world faced a press freedom crisis that was truly global in scope.
In the first days and weeks after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., governments across the globe--in China, Benin, the Palestinian Authority Territories, and the United States--took actions to curb reporting on the assault and its aftermath. While the world focused on Manhattan and Kabul, leaders in Eritrea and Zimbabwe seized the moment, launching crackdowns to silence all independent media.
And in Afghanistan itself, where hundreds of journalists deployed to cover the "war on terrorism," reporters and photographers were assaulted, censored, and even murdered. In 16 deadly November days, eight journalists were killed in Afghanistan, pushing the year's worldwide total to 37.
The 2001 death toll was up dramatically from the 24 who died a year earlier, and it was the worst since the first half of the 1990s, when dozens of journalists died during conflicts in Algeria, Bosnia, and Tajikistan. The toll is just one of the year's grim statistics and stories:
- After four years of steady decline, the number of journalists in prison jumped nearly 50 percent--from 81 in 2000 to 118 in 2001. More than two-thirds of that alarming increase came from little-noticed crackdowns in Eritrea and Nepal, carried out after September 11. China, already the world's leading jailer of journalists, arrested eight more, ending the year with a total of 35 journalists behind bars.
- Invoking "national security," governments around the world sought new restrictions on the press or unleashed new intimidation. As justification, some cited U.S. actions after September 11, such as the State Department's attempt to censor a Voice of America interview with Taliban leader Mullah Omar. "If the most celebrated democracies in the world won't allow their national interests to be tampered with, we will not allow it, too," said Zimbabwean information minister Jonathan Moyo. Then he denounced as "terrorists" the country's independent journalists, who have endured violence, jail, and torture at the hands of the state.
- The United States and Israel ignited press freedom controversies by bombing two media outlets. Al-Jazeera's bureau in Kabul was bombed in November by the United States as part of its attack on Taliban territories. In a letter to Al-Jazeera, the Pentagon offered no apology to the Arabic-language satellite television station and called its building "a known al-Qaeda facility," referring to the Taliban-supported terrorist group blamed for the September 11 attacks. Israel was equally unrepentant for its December bombing and bulldozing of Voice of Palestine's radio facilities in the West Bank. In January 2002, Israel struck again, this time destroying the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation building in Ramallah. International humanitarian law prohibits deliberate attacks on civilian facilities unless they are used for military purposes.
These incidents represent major setbacks for press freedom, but is the damage permanent? Some international experts suggest that the war on terrorism, which is likely to continue for years, signals an end to the era of human rights--the post-Cold War period when building democracy and respect for fundamental liberties became central foreign policy objectives.
A decade ago, the collapse of authoritarian communist regimes brought an explosion of press freedom around the world. More recently, the gains have slowed, with key indicators of press abuse tending to rise and fall each year in concert with conflicts around the world. In 1994, for example, wars in the Balkans, Rwanda, and Algeria sent the death toll soaring to 72, while 173 journalists languished in jail--74 of them in a single country, Turkey, which harshly suppressed reporting on Kurdish separatists. As the conflict in Turkey has abated, the number of journalists in jail has declined, though 13 remained there at the end of 2001, a record surpassed only by China and Nepal. Burma, another perennial offender, held 12 journalists at year's end.
The conflict in Afghanistan and the larger war on terrorism have already taken a toll on press freedom, but it seems premature to draw conclusions about a long-term impact. In the two decades since CPJ's 1981 founding, press freedom has become a worldwide movement, supported not just by international organizations such as CPJ but also by dozens of grassroots journalists' groups around the world. The press freedom gains achieved by all of them form a crucial bulwark against more general human rights violations.
Despite the conflict in Afghanistan, there were important gains in 2001, even in countries with some of the worst press freedom histories. Yugoslavia's independent journalists, scrappy survivors of Slobodan Milosevic's ruthless dictatorship, breathed easier, if not completely freely, for the first time in a decade. In 2001, Syrians finally read independent newspapers--the first published outside of state control in nearly 40 years. And formal censorship was lifted in Sri Lanka, although other pressures remain.
Some of the year's other positive developments affirmed our conviction that documenting and publicizing press freedom violations can force recalcitrant countries to take action. CPJ's Africa program conducted intensive advocacy on Ethiopia prior to a fact-finding mission in September, with the result that seven journalists were released from prison; at year's end, only one journalist remained in an Ethiopian jail. Meanwhile, two CPJ International Press Freedom awardees, in prison when their awards were announced in 1999 and 2000, were each released in 2001, before serving out their full sentences. Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández, the 1999 awardee from Cuba, was freed after serving half of his four-year sentence, while 2000 awardee Mashallah Shamsolvaezin was spared a year of his 30-month sentence when Iran freed him in September.
These releases are powerful evidence that even the most hard-line opponents of press freedom are not immune to international pressure. (Cuba and Iran were both on CPJ's 2001 Ten Worst Enemies of the Press list.) By documenting and publicizing abuses against journalists around the world, CPJ tries to ensure that those who would suppress critical reporting will only attract greater scrutiny.
This strategy applies both to governments and nonstate actors who violate press freedom, such as the guerrillas in Colombia and the kidnappers who took Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in January 2002. As this book went to press in late February, CPJ learned that Pearl had been killed. This cruel and pointless murder served no purpose, political or otherwise. Pearl's killers gained nothing, not even publicity for their views.
An important question, though, is whether the international spotlight will continue to shine as brightly on press freedom violations in the post-September 11 world. Will Western governments--many of which have frequently denounced press freedom abuses since the Cold War era ended--now be more reluctant to speak up?
The war on terrorism, for example, gives Uzbekistan a new strategic importance because of its border with Afghanistan. Will that make democracies turn a blind eye to Uzbekistan's undemocratic regime of prior censorship and its dubious distinction as the region's leading jailer of journalists?
Does Russia's enthusiasm for the new war mean the West will forgive President Vladimir Putin's wily tactics for wresting control of private broadcasting, and his military's fierce intimidation of journalists who dare report on the army's human rights abuses in Chechnya?
And in exchange for China's support of the war, will the international community be silent about its imprisonment of journalists such as 2001 CPJ International Press Freedom awardee Jiang Weiping? Jiang exposed sensational abuses by a local official after the government encouraged reporters to help ferret out official corruption. But taking the government at its word earned him eight years in prison, while the powerful, corrupt official won a promotion.
Jailing journalists is a highly effective means of stifling dissent or unwelcome questions, so the international community must continue to make it costly for those countries that do imprison their journalists. But there are signs that the political cost has declined somewhat since the war on terror was declared; the crackdowns that left 11 in prison in Eritrea and 17 in Nepal, for example, were carried out swiftly and with little international outcry.
An American example in 2001 could embolden leaders in countries eager to suppress reporting. For the first time in CPJ's 20-year history, a U.S. journalist is included on the annual imprisoned list. Houston-based free-lancer Vanessa Leggett spent more than five months in jail for refusing to turn over her research to a grand jury. (Leggett was finally released on January 4, 2002).
In a letter sent to U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft in August, CPJ noted that, "By detaining Vanessa Leggett, the U.S. government is effectively reducing the stigma associated with the jailing of journalists. This sends exactly the wrong signal to authoritarian governments, who may now show even less restraint in using state power to restrict press freedom."
It is no exaggeration that the United States, with its First Amendment and its fiercely competitive media, is the world's press freedom beacon. While the government does attempt to influence the work of U.S. journalists, they are in a strong position to resist such pressure.
But in 2001, when the U.S. government complained about Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war on terror and urged American networks to censor tapes of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, other governments took careful note, and their journalists watched in alarm. While no U.S. journalists suffered reprisals from those actions, President Putin's spokesperson in Russia said that the stern talk from U.S. officials just might make a good model for new restrictions on Russia's media.
In response, one journalist lamented, "Here in Russia the authorities are always most eager to borrow from the worst elements of western experience."
Ann Cooper is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Before joining CPJ in 1998, she was a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio for nine years, serving as bureau chief in Moscow and Johannesburg.


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Friday, April 23, 2010
Let's Save What's Left on Chouteau
So much of Chouteau Avenue has been cleared of street-facing historic buildings that the character remaining is hard to find. The mention of Chouteau is more likely to conjure suburban-style industrial buildings with front lawns and parking lots than a measured urban environment. I hold no complaint against the presence of businesses like Villa Lighting and Andy's Seasoning, since they provide jobs in a centrally-located part of the city within easy travel of city residents. However, I do lament that the influx of larger uses has meant destruction of the character of the street. Chouteau used to be very different, even just a few decades ago.
But all is not lost -- yet.
The three-story building housing Preston Art Glass Studio is a reminder of the historic density of Chouteau Avenue. Although the front wall was once relaid, the building retains historic features including a lovely cast iron storefront. The difference between walking past this building and the newer buildings on Chouteau could not be more stark.
Across the street is a row of six historic buildings, two of which are occupied and four of which are now endangered. Right at the corner of Jefferson and Chouteau is a two-story brick building (barely visible here) housing a dental office. There is a Chinese restaurant in the building to the west. There are two gaps in the street face, but this group provides a welcome transition between the residential streets of the Gate District and Lafayette Square, with front gardens and street trees, and the harsh contemporary industrial environment on Chouteau to the west and, to a lesser extent, on the east.
Gas station operator Crown 40 Inc. applied to demolish the four buildings from 2612-2630 Chouteau, and had its application denied last month by the city's Cultural Resources Office. Crown 40's appeal is on Monday's agenda of the St. Louis Preservation Board.
Perhaps the showiest of the buildings is the two-story building at 2612 Chouteau, with a fine cast iron storefront.
No matter how shabby the buildings of the row are, they sure are easier on the eyes -- and on the pedestrian -- than newer outposts of commerce on Chouteau.
The end building once housed a crude industrial use -- it was a print shop for the Lindstrom Wagon Company around the turn of the 20th century. The graceful transition to the street kept the use from oppressing its surroundings. I wish that the same could be said about what is getting built on Chouteau a century later.
The potential for a higher use is strong. There is a lot of consumer power in the vicinity of Jefferson and Chouteau, and the Gate District is woefully under served by neighborhood business -- because planners tore down most of the corner storefronts inside of the Duane Plater Zyberk-planned urban experiment. Well, some old urbanism exists here and could serve both the neighborhood and the hundreds of workers employed on Chouteau and the nearby LaSalle Street floral row. A gas station might be handy -- of course, there already is a new Crown Mart just north at I-40 and Jefferson -- but how about a deli or a neighborhood bar and grille?
The Preservation Board meets at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 26 at 4:00 p.m. in the 12th floor conference room at 1015 Locust Street downtown. Send written testimony to Adona Buford at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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villa could at least plant some trees on the lawn between their blank wall and the sidewalk.
a quick question (to which i'm pretty sure i already know the answer):
would a letter from an STL native, long time resident, expatriate, and hopefully future resident, make any impression on the review board or would i be wasting ink?
- 10:58 AM, April 23, 2010
- andy said...
email sent. Thanks Michael.
- 11:32 AM, April 23, 2010
- Eric said...
Once these buildings are saved (hopefully), you may start to see row buildings built in the same style.
- 11:40 AM, April 23, 2010
- STLgasm said...
I will try to make the pres. board meeting. I have a photo that I took in the late '90s of some old rowhouses on Chouteau and Compton. They were pretty shabby, but still inhabited and ALIVE. Sadly, they were demolished about eight years ago, and in true St. Louis fashion, an empty lot remains. Auguste Chouteau would be rolling in his grave he saw how St. Louis has butchered his namesake!
- 12:29 PM, April 23, 2010
Why Chouteau?
- 6:45 PM, April 23, 2010
- Michael R. Allen said...
Last Anonymous -- could you elaborate on your question?
- 9:53 AM, April 24, 2010
- shaun said...
If we want to get our city back on the map we need to norture these areas like Chouteau back to life. We need to push for strict zoning laws to save these areas. For example, only allowing new structures that are built to uphold the historic integrity of the neighborhood. I know unfortunately few people have the time and money to rehab these old beauties back into homes. It doesnt mean that the new homes built in there place cant hold some of that old St. Louis mystic in their facade. Look at some of the new homes in Soulard, they did it.
- 7:13 PM, April 24, 2010
Chouteau has parts near Lafayette Square that are inspiring, especially between Mississippi, the James Eads House, and Truman Parkway. West of there things are pretty suburban. Lots of loss. Lots of new construction.
What makes Chouteau more special than Manchester, Natural Bridge, or North or South Broadway? Dollar for dollar, it's probably doing better than those other areas, even though they have more intact historic fabric.
- 9:35 PM, April 24, 2010

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Rapid Fire House Fire That Killed 4 Caused by Children
RAPID CITY - Authorities say a fire that killed four people in a Rapid City housing complex was caused by children.
The November blaze at the five-apartment home killed 51-year-old Marcia Rock and her grandchildren, 9-year-old Thomas Rosado, 5-year-old Dustin Rosado and 3-year-old Marquez Hawk Wing.
Fire Department officials say the four victims were overwhelmed by smoke and heat before they could escape.
Mike Maltaverne, the Rapid City fire chief, calls it a tragic event. He says one of the worst problems in the community is children playing with fire, matches and fireworks.
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I enter the backyard like the Cat in the Hat, hairy legged and bent on mischief. I carry a tray full of steaks and a pair of tongs longer than your arm. There is a splotch of what looks like dragon's blood on my shirt. It's marinade. Why? Because it makes me taste better.
At this time of year, how come so many men are so enamored with scorching meat over an open flame? Why does a smoky grill make us as happy as a cartoon character? It's not primal. It goes deeper than that.
Men like to grill because it doesn't matter if they spill. They like to grill because it reminds them of the bonfires of their youth. Men like to grill:
• Because even middle-aged guys look good by firelight.
• Because for days afterward, our fingers taste like baby-back ribs and our hair smells like Oktoberfest.
• Because tongs are the only kitchen tool with an opposable thumb. With a good pair of tongs, most men could change a spark plug. Or put panties on an octopus.
• Because grilling is best done with a cold drink in your left hand. And another one on deck.
• Because grilling gets you out of the air-conditioning, which on long summer days leaves your leg muscles as chilled as grocery meat.
• Because grilling gives us time for idle conversations, such as:
Wife: You know the house next to Chris and Debbie's?
Me: The one where the guy is always peeking over the fence?
Wife: Yes. Guess what they're asking?
Me: A billion-six?
Wife: More.
Me: Three trillion?
Wife: More.
• Because a grill is like a jukebox of summer hits. The sound of a steak sizzling. A bratwurst zippering itself open. These sounds inspire us on every level. The way birdsong inspired Bach.
• Because it's the only way men will eat vegetables.
• Because the art of grilling runs through families like freckles, Roman noses or a taste for gin.
• Because in the evening, the mountains surrounding L.A. turn purple, then black, and the moon moves through the trees as if looking for lost children. Hey, what's that rustling in the bushes? An 800-pound raccoon? The neighborhood's full of them.
• Because in the backyard, you can't hear the TV.
• Because in the backyard, you can't hear the phone.
• Because it takes the kids 2 minutes, 55 seconds to realize that you've left the house and to hunt you down.
• Because in the name of seeing whether it's done, you can lop off a chunk of charred sirloin and pop it into your mouth.
• Because the first bite of flank steak, properly marinated, is tastier than a wedding kiss.
• Because grilling lets you spend quality time with the kids:
Boy: Dad?
Me: Huh?
Boy: Can I have some money?
Me: Huh?
Boy: Can I have some money?
Me: I'm sorry, my English … it's not so good.
Boy: Dad, can I have some money?
Me: Huh?
Boy: Can I have some money?
• Because grilling is a good time to ponder life's questions: What is love? How much does it cost? When will Costco carry it?
• Because it also gives us time to ponder life's injustices: Why did Cadillac kill the Eldorado? When will Hack Wilson make the Hall of Fame?
Because grilled meat sends up smoke signals — a lost art, at least in our little suburb of privilege and petty jealousies. Tonight the prevailing winds blow teriyaki smoke across the neighbors' pool, where their dog lies plotting my murder.
• Because the smoke also blows across the freeway to a nearby hospital, where the scent of crisped meat gives hope to all those dining on boiled chicken that tastes like a phone book. "Hurry home," the smoke says. "The grill is ready."
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The importance of willpower
Should one need a more practical sales pitch for the importance of willpower, Messrs. Baumeister and Tierney point to empirical work showing its over-riding importance for academic, personal, career and financial success. (Remarkably, for example, self-control is a better predictor of students' college grades than IQ or SAT scores.) So crucial is self-discipline to individual flourishing, the authors suggest, that "research into willpower and self-control is psychology's best hope for contributing to human welfare."
In "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength,", authors Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney report that willpower can be viewed as a "moral muscle", with similarities to a physical muscle.
- It can be overused and temporarily depleted.
- It is fueled by glucose, so hunger can weaken our willpower.
- It can be strengthened by training.
But "mind over matter" also plays a role in willpower.
Recent research suggests that "Willpower" may exacerbate the very problem it is trying to reduce by promoting the idea of self-control as a limited resource. Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck and her colleagues have found, both in the laboratory and in the real world, that one's willpower is depleted through exertion only if one thinks it will be. Losses of self-control may sometimes "result not from a true lack of resources after an exhausting task," Ms. Dweck and her colleagues wrote last year, "but from people's beliefs about their resources."


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USL Pro championship prediction
The USL Pro season has come down to two teams. One was expected to be playing for a championship; the other didn't even have a playoff berth clinched until the final day of the season. That's how it's gone in USL Pro this season. Eighth-seeded Harrisburg plays at No. 2 Sacramento at 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The first 25 minutes are going to be fascinating. Sacramento likes to apply the high press at home and does it quite well. The City… Read More »


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Verge Funds N M Tech Management Department Speaker Series
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., July 19, 2007 – Verge, an Albuquerque-based venture capital fund, has agreed to provide financial support for an ongoing speaker series at New Mexico Tech, in conjunction with an introductory management course offered by the university's Department of Management.
Through funding provided by Verge, invited guest speakers for "Modern Management Issues," or Management 101, will now be afforded small honoraria by the Tech Department of Management to recoup some of the costs involved with traveling to lecture at the research university in Socorro.
"We maintain good working relationships with all the venture capital funds in the state, but Verge always seems to go 'above and beyond' in their support of our academic degree program," says Peter Anselmo, professor of management at New Mexico Tech and chair of the Department of Management.
"We have worked with New Mexico Tech's management department for many years, and have found their students to be extremely capable," says Verge managing general partner Tom Stephenson. "This new support will allow the students to gain greater real-world perspectives from the lecture series, as they further develop their own skills to become the next generation of business leaders in New Mexico."
Management 101, which is offered every fall semester at New Mexico Tech, focuses on modern management issues and the role of managerial personnel in today's technology firms, and fully utilizes guest speakers in its curriculum to present timely overviews of current issues and research topics.
Verge is a seed and pre-seed venture capital fund, which invests in promising technology opportunities in New Mexico. More information about Verge and its limited partner interests can be found on its corporate website at www.vergefund.com.


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18 Aug 2008
Each year the tobacco industry spends many billions of dollars around the globe on advertising, promotion and sponsorship. [1] While the tobacco industry claims that its marketing is aimed merely at increasing market share of existing demand for tobacco products, rather than creating new demand, [2] evidence clearly shows that tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship increases tobacco consumption, particularly among young people, [3] and can favourably influence attitudes towards smoking and the tobacco industry, inhibiting tobacco control efforts. [4]
As traditional means of promotion (such as television commercials, billboards, and print advertisements in magazines and newspapers) have been increasingly restricted by laws and policies aimed at reducing tobacco consumption, the range of industry marketing strategies has expanded. Contemporary tobacco industry marketing utilizes a wide range of means of promotion, including:
- content delivered through modern commercial communication technologies such as the internet, satellite television, and mobile telecommunications;
- sales and distribution arrangements, including display of products at points of retail sale, internet sales, vending machines, and distribution of free and discounted products;
- packaging and product design features (such as logos, colours, pictures, shapes and materials) that promote products and cultivate and promote brand identity;
- payments and other contributions to retailers and venue operators to induce them to promote and sell tobacco products;
- contributions to sporting, arts and entertainment, charitable and political organizations and events, and to individual sportspeople, artists, entertainers and politicians;
- association of tobacco products to non-tobacco products and services (such as clothing, jewellery, food and entertainment services) through brand stretching and brand sharing;
- loyalty schemes, competitions and gifts; and
- communication about "socially responsible" corporate activities (such as community and environmentally 'friendly' activities).
Studies show that if bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship apply only to some marketing strategies, the tobacco industry simply shifts its focus towards means of promotion that continue to be permitted. [5] Similarly, if marketing opportunities are significantly restricted in some countries but not others, the tobacco industry adjusts its global marketing strategies accordingly: means of promotion now banned in many developed countries are being aggressively employed in developing markets, contributing significantly to the global increase in tobacco consumption. [6] In addition, many contemporary forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship are cross-border in nature, meaning that they cannot be effectively banned by countries acting alone. The elimination of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship will therefore require a global effort to comprehensively ban all activities which promote tobacco products and their use.
[1] See J Mackay, M Eriksen and O Shafey, The Tobacco Atlas (2 nd ed, 2006) 60-63.
[2] See H Saffer 'Tobacco advertising and promotion' in P Jha and F Chaloupka (eds), Tobacco Control in Developing Countries (2000) 215-236, 215.
[3] See M Wakefield, 'Influence of tobacco marketing on smoking behaviour', in US National Cancer Institute, Monograph 19: … (July 2008) 211-291 ; H Saffer and F Chaloupka, ' The effect of tobacco advertising bans on tobacco consumption ' (2000) 19 Journal of Health Economics 1117-1137.
[4] WHO, WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008: The MPOWER Package (2008) 36.
[5] See M Wakefield, 'Influence of tobacco marketing on smoking behaviour', in US National Cancer Institute, Monograph 19: … (July 2008) 211-291 (not yet released ) ; H Saffer and F Chaloupka, ' The effect of tobacco advertising bans on tobacco consumption ' (2000) 19 Journal of Health Economics 1117-1137.
[6] World Health Organization, WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008: The MPOWER Package (2008) 21.


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May is here and it is full of celebrations like graduations, Mother's Day and end of school parties. Before the craziness begins, celebrate the first day of May with your girlfriends. Enjoy this tasty Lemonade Champagne Cocktail from Sandra Lee.
She also has a recipe for a May Day Centerpiece Cake.
Martha shares the recipe for this Maypole Cake and Cupcakes.
An old May Day custom is to hang a basket on a loved ones door. Martha also shares some great ideas on how to make your own May Basket.
As we say good bye to April Showers, I hope that everyone has a wonderful start to May!


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Want to poke fun at the royal family? Not while the royal wedding is being broadcast, you can't.
The Australian TV show "The Chaser," which had planned an irreverent commentary to accompany images of the ceremony, has been pulled from ABC2's schedule, after learning that footage of the event is banned from being used in any comedy or satirical program.
The incident is likely to increase unease about the special treatment the British monarchy receives, particularly when it comes to suppressing criticism from those with antiroyal views. While many people are sympathetic with the royal family's desire to maintain a degree of control over the event, critics believe restrictive measures, which include the police's intended hard-line toward protesters on Friday, illustrate an unacceptable level of influence the monarchy continues to exert over the state and beyond.
ABC TV director Kim Dalton said he was "surprised and disappointed" that "The Chaser" could not be aired, while one of the show's stars, Julian Morrow, described the rule as "out of step with a modern democracy."
Comedy? Satire? Forget it.
Clarence House, which oversees the affairs of Prince William and drew up the broadcast contract with the BBC, issued a statement saying that it was "standard practice for these kinds of religious ceremonies to include a clause which restricts usage in drama, comedy, satirical, or similar entertainment programs."
Organizations championing freedom of expression have questioned whether the royals should have the right to impose such restrictions, especially given that the taxpayer will pick up most of the costs involved in organizing the event.
Padraig Reidy, news editor at Britain's Index on Censorship, describes the royal family's control of the coverage as "bizarre." He adds that plans for preemptive arrests and restrictions on the right to protest were even more concerning, branding as "unprecedented" the police's intended approach.
"The level of stage management with such an event might not be surprising, but certainly the police promise to use the Public Order Act on the day to deal with anyone who even slightly tries to interfere with the spectacle is rather worrying in our view," he says.
Republican groups are incensed over suggestions by Metropolitan Police Commander Christine Jones that antiroyal placards in the vicinity of the ceremony would be removed on the day. Graham Smith, spokesman for Republic, a group that advocates a "democratic alternative to the monarchy," says, "Republicans have every right to make their voice heard on the day of the royal wedding, and the police have a fundamental duty to protect that right. The idea that political dissent should be silenced in order to protect the image of the royals goes against every democratic principle."
In a recent interview with the BBC, Commander Jones said, "There are 364 other days of the year when people can come to London and demonstrate and frankly it's not appropriate on the day of the royal wedding for people to come to London with that intent."
Attack on freedom of speech?
Smith thinks those remarks are outrageous. "What Commander Jones appears to be saying is that the she has been co-opted into the royal family's PR campaign. By doing so she's not only compromising the neutrality of her officers, but also making a disgraceful attack on freedom of speech. We're seeking urgent clarification so that republicans are reassured that their rights won't be trampled on," he said.
The hostility toward some of the constraints imposed as a result of the wedding is bound to reignite condemnation of the royal family's privileged position. The monarchy has often been criticized for the special treatment it receives, particularly with regard to the law. Correspondence between members of the royal family and government departments are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, for example.
"The whole system is designed so that the royals are not above the law but slightly outside of it," said Index on Censorship's Mr. Reidy. "We know Prince Charles very regularly speaks his mind and writes to government on various matters such as healthcare and public architecture. If someone is trying to influence government policy in any way, then it does seem rather unfair that they should be exempt from freedom of information."
MPs may not make critical remarks about the monarcy
The special treatment extends even to Parliament. Under House of Commons rules, MPs are banned from making critical remarks about the royals. In March, Labour MP Paul Flynn was prevented from speaking about the behavior of Prince Andrew, whose role as a UK trade envoy has recently come under scrutiny.
"It's quite outrageous that as elected parliamentarians, we aren't allowed to criticize," said Mr. Flynn. "It's crazy that we have our mouths bandaged about matters of important public interest, in this case how we're represented abroad."
Describing the treatment the royal family received as "very privileged," he added, "The Queen is shielded from all criticism and her family are protected in the same way. It's a piece of the privileged litter from the past and has no place in a modern parliament."


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A couple of weeks ago we began an extended RV trip to the southwest and with all the driving he has been wearing the shoulder rig exclusively and finds it very comfortable.
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My max table height is 120mm
Calibrated Z-axis, 0 table at bottom, thread under tension +Z is up
Can't figure out why it is different from your build?
Your python program sets table start at 151.
If I change the 151 in the python code in wally segmentize.py to 120
I get errors and no output generated
I am using the 05mm-thin-wall.stl calibration item as input (20x20x10 hollow cube 1 layer wall)
Using Slic3r with your Slic3r.ini file (Slic3r.Wally_0.3.ini)
The slic3r.ini when loaded doesn't seem to populate all the configuration settings?
With my extruder extender and Bed build-up I'll never be able to
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A lot of things seem to happen in 5D:
1) There's only 3 regular polytopes in 5D and above
2) there infinitly many Johnson polytopes in 5D and above (cartesian product of polygons to the Johnson solids and above)
3) the demicube ceases to be regular in 5D and is the only dimension where it is semiregular (regular faceted)
4)the unit-radius hypersphere is at maximum volume in a dmension between 5 and 6 but in whole numbers 5 is the largest size.
5) uncomfirmed: the sausage conjecture states that in 5D and above the comvex hull of any number of hypersheres is smallest when they're arranged in a line (i.e. when the convex hull is a sausage)
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100 days after Haiyan, the Philippines transitions to recovery
14 Feb 2014 by Jo Scheuer
February 16th marks 100 days since Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines. The emergency response is almost over and the beginning of long-term recovery has begun.
I have been to the Philippines twice since Haiyan struck. In the early days, I went to help coordinate the response to this tragedy. Just recently I returned, to advise on the transition to long-term recovery. The progress over 100 days has been remarkable.
Immediately after the storm, UNDP began helping the government prepare for recovery. For example, only weeks after Haiyan, we facilitated a visit to the Philippines from the Government of Indonesia, bringing Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, who led the reconstruction effort in Aceh-Nias after the 2004 Tsunami. He attended a Philippines cabinet meeting on recovery, sharing with his colleagues the challenges and lessons learned from Indonesia. This visit may have been low-key – but was very valuable to the Philippines authorities – and it led to UNDP experts starting to work with the government to plan, prepare and budget the recovery.
But attention must now shift beyond the first 100 days and focus on the future. It is essential that we build resilience into the new cities that rise from the rubble. Disaster risk reduction must be an integral component of all future development. Time and time again we have seen that ignoring natural hazards invites disaster and erases development.
For example, while a great deal of attention will focus on rebuilding infrastructure, better recovery is not just about bricks and mortar, it is about the mechanics and systems behind the construction. This means that the laws enabling construction must be revisited and reinforced. Better building practices must be mandatory if they are to be effective.
We have been supporting governments and communities in preparing for disasters, with for example, early warning systems and rapid response teams. These must be codified in institutional policy and backed up with budgets and resources.
At the local level we have to emphasize area based reconstruction. Communities need to understand the risks they face. UNDP will help Philippine villagers to assess risk, through such tools as hazard maps, and learn the lessons from Haiyan. Color-coded building zones, denoting whether it is safe or not to reconstruct, should be instituted in rural areas.
Finally, we need to work with the private sector to rebuild. UNDP has experience training local construction firms in safer methods and has helped supply retailers with better quality materials. It is essential that the private sector sees reduced risk as something that is in their best interests, and that they adhere to the new laws and regulations on development.
While a long-term and challenging task, the integration of risk concerns into development through these kinds of risk governance measures will pay off in the long-term, as it is the only way to really protect development investment from disasters.


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A Filipino businessman said Thursday that the Philippines' elevation of its territorial dispute with China to international arbitration further complicates his company's already delayed bid to explore for oil and gas at the Reed Bank in the South China Sea.
The issue is no longer just commercial or a question of sovereignty but has become a global one, said Manuel Pangilinan. He is head of Philex Petroleum Corp., majority owner of London-based Forum Energy PLC, the contractor for oil and gas exploration off the Philippines' western Palawan Island.
Pangilinan said it was difficult to say when his group can proceed with the exploration since arbitration can last years.
The Philippines on Tuesday formally notified Beijing it is seeking arbitration before a tribunal operating under the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. It wants China's claims to virtually the entire South China Sea declared unlawful.
"We just have to wait to see how things will turn out and get our directive from the government," Pangilinan told reporters.
John D. Negroponte, a former U.S. national intelligence director and deputy secretary of state, welcomed the Philippines action.
"The main message I take from the Philippine government action is that it seeks to resolve this issue by peaceful means and that is very consistent with the line that the United states government has been advocating all these years," Negroponte said. He is visiting Manila as Pangilinan's co-chairman in the US-Philippines Society that seeks to raise the Philippines' profile in the United States and encourage investment.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Tuesday his department summoned Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and handed her a note saying that the Philippines is seeking international arbitration.
Six governments have overlapping claims across the vast South China Sea, with China claiming it has sovereignty over virtually all of it. Chinese paramilitary ships confronted Philippine vessels last year in a monthslong standoff over a shoal that both countries claim.


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So you've just dipped into one of Sergio Aragones' cartoons. Relax. Make yourself at home. The artist would like you to feel perfectly at ease in the miniature cosmos he has created, which, you may have observed, is as spatially balanced and packed with information as a Medieval prayer book.
Notice the careful detailing -- of the rustic Mexican village street, the rock concert, the battlefield, whatever. Aragones, the 71-year-old master of Mad magazine cartoon marginalia, is obsessed with such accuracy and verisimilitude. No matter how outlandish the premise or bizarre the subject, he inspires his loyalists, some of whom have been following his work for 50 years, to believe in the well-ordered truthfulness of what they're seeing, and sense the elegant, disciplined mind behind it.
"My cartoons are always in equilibrium," says Aragones, arching his bushy eyebrows over round-rimmed glasses and a formidable Zapata mustache. "They do what I want them to do. They're very obedient."
"The viewer feels comfortable," continues the artist, a tall, solidly built, still-handsome man in shorts, sneakers and a sky-blue guayabera shirt, with a small graying ponytail that jiggles like a nervous question mark when he laughs. "It's a natural, subliminal encounter with a little universe. And the people who look at my comics, they get hooked. And I think it's because of the attention to detail."
There's a plethora of reasons why Aragones is being honored over the next few weeks with what the Ojai Valley Museum is billing as the first exhibition about his life and work, "Mad About Sergio" (through Oct. 4).
He's a distinguished artist who has carted off many awards, including the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame Award. Besides his "Marginal Thinking" cartoons for Mad, which have embroidered the fringes of the humor magazine's comic panels for decades, he has acquired a worldwide audience for his comic book character Groo the Wanderer, a dim-witted but well-meaning warrior-ubermensch -- Don Quixote's benign cluelessness matched with Conan the Barbarian's brawny bloodlust -- created with his frequent collaborator, Mark Evanier. And he's been tapped by Matt Groening to provide the entire contents as well as the cover art for the 50th issue of Bart Simpson Comics, due in October.
Aragones and his family have lived in this artsy, upscale community for a quarter-century, after his wife was first drawn here to attend talks by the philosopher-spiritualist Jiddu Krishnamurti. A familiar figure downtown, where he often can be spotted drawing at a favorite coffee shop, he's an entertaining, neighborly presence, a highly cultivated and engaging practical joker.
"He's very charming and he's very affable with people," says Bobbie Boschan, vice president of the museum's board of trustees, explaining why the museum is toasting Aragones. With the exhibition, she said, "we thought we would add some humor to life in Ojai."
The show offers glimpses of the artist's creative process and hints at the odyssey that propelled the artist from his native Spain, which his parents fled as civil war refugees, to Mexico City, where he grew up playing on the back lots of the national film studio, to the giant sandbox for adults that was Mad in New York in the early 1960s.
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Fred Kidder, the museum's art director, said that Aragones helped design the exhibition to reflect the way he constructs a creative environment. Drawings and panels are used to illustrate how his art evolves from a preliminary idea or sketch into a full-fledged illustration. "We're going to let him create it, like he would one of his comic books," Kidder said. "When you walk in the door, you've got to be like, 'Oh, I've walked right into Mad magazine.' "
Aragones' work reveals a restless, eclectic intellect, a fascination with subjects as wide-ranging as sports, the history of the Mexican Revolution and the humorously mannered behavior of people in love. He freeze-frames action and comic epiphanies in a single image, like a filmmaker. And he regards accuracy as an imperative; he considers historical anachronisms in cartooning to be practically sacrilegious.
His cinematic eye and talent for summoning entire miniature worlds with an ink pen dates from his youth. Some of his earliest flights of fancy took place in movie palaces, and even on the grounds of Mexico's national dream factory. His father, an actor who helped form the national actors' union, built his family a house near the Churubusco film studios. It was a golden age for Mexican movie production, and as a boy Aragones would play on western film sets equipped with weapons and other props.
"It was a magic grow-up," he says in accented, occasionally quirky English. "I had a great youth, and of course that gives a great imagination."
The expert sense of comic timing and dramatic happenstance that's a hallmark of his drawings has another source in Aragones past. As a young man he saw Marcel Marceau, the French pantomime godfather, perform. "I wanted to apply the pantomime to my cartoons," he recalls. "I realized that that man [Marceau] knew his body so well. He could pick a flower and you saw the flower."
That encounter also inspired Aragones to apprentice for a while with one of Marceau's acolytes, Alejandro Jodorowsky, who helped develop the so-called Panic Movement, based on a radical performance style that combined surreal imagery with hyper-kinetic, shock-effect action.
Aragones began drawing cartoons for Mexican humor magazines and hanging out with prominent Modern artists and members of the bohemian intelligentsia, all while ostensibly studying to become an architect. Feeling that his destiny lay outside Mexico, he moved to New York in 1962 and paid his rent by working at a Greenwich Village coffee house. He also began shopping around his cartoon portfolio, at first with little success. "They would look at my work and they would say, 'These cartoons are crazy, you should go to Mad!' "
To the young Mexican beatnik, Mad represented a pinnacle of the cartoon industry, stocked with some of the business' top talent, such as Jack Davis and Fold-In inventor Al Jaffee. "Suddenly, I am amidst them," says Aragones, his voice still awash in amazement. "I didn't have time to think about it. I was in glory."
His colleagues were as generous as they were skilled, helping him with his English and tutoring him in the more arcane aspects of U.S. pop culture (high school proms, lesser-known comedians). "Mad is not just a magazine," Aragones says. "It is a family." (Another of Mad's signature artists, Basil Wolverton, is being given an exhibition this summer at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York.) As devoted as he is to the discipline of hard work, Aragones is equally committed to the ideal of a well-lived, wide-ranging life. A world traveler ("from Bhutan to Antarctica"), he has spent countless hours engaged in woodworking, ceramics and other folk art, examples of which will be displayed in the exhibition. He likes to carve replicas of traditional Mexican saints and whimsical versions of African fertility goddesses. After learning to knit, he made his wife a scarf and a shawl.
Fateful encounter
On a few occasions he has played bit parts in film and television, including a role as an armed policeman in the 1985 mystery thriller "To Kill a Stranger," opposite Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence. That led to a surreal encounter between Aragones and Marty Feldman, the bug-eyed British comic actor, who happened to be shooting "Yellowbeard" on an adjacent set.
Aragones was a fan of Feldman's and greeted the actor with enthusiasm. But Feldman only perceived a large man in a police uniform striding toward him, gesticulating and speaking loudly. "Scared the hell out of him," Aragones says.
A few hours later, Feldman died of a heart attack, likely induced by some combination of Mexico City's high altitude, Feldman's heavy smoking habit and possible food poisoning. But Aragones feared he might've partially frightened the actor to death, and later dramatized the episode of how "I Killed Marty Feldman" in a DC Comics book.
Lingering over coffee at a sidewalk cafe near his home, Aragones recounts the story with a rueful laugh. A shadow momentarily skitters across his mirthful features.
But soon he is re-engaged with the business of present life. He expresses a touch of uncertainty for the future of the medium he has devoted his life to. Although he believes that "the content of comics has never been better," the medium is changing rapidly, and not necessarily for the better.
"Newspaper is no longer the mainstream because it doesn't pay very well, and when it doesn't pay very well, young talent doesn't want to go there," he says. "So talented young artists don't want to go there. And they leave the field to very mediocre talent."
As for comic books, Aragones thinks they "abandoned kids to cater for the adult readership," thereby losing "a very important part of the readership." "Our craft hasn't been killed by the lack of quality, it's been killed by the kids discovering something better, which is texting to their friends."
But Aragones own routines are undisturbed. He still works until 6 in the evening. He carries a small looseleaf notebook with him to jot down ideas or make doodles and stream-of-consciousness scribbles, which he also stuffs into his shirt pocket. He doesn't blog or Twitter, professing that he doesn't have the time and is "still very ignorant about the computer." And he still draws everything by hand. "I've been doing it so long," he says, "it would be impossible to change."
'Mad About Sergio'
Where: Ojai Valley Museum, 30 W. Ojai Ave., Ojai
When: Thursdays through Sundays, through Oct. 4
Price: $1 to $4
Contact: (805) 640-1390; www.ojaivalleymuseum.org
For more examples of Aragones' work, go to latimes.com/arts.


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Some links to WordPress articles I've come across recently that may be of future benefit. Post them here so I don't forget.
Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress (tutorial) – how to create a write panel (in a metabox) to gather very specific, categorized information. Could be handy if, for instance, a Service Overview or Product Overview template were to be built as a custom entry screen in place of the standard WP page content dialogue.
FAQ for Universities Interested in WordPress – no explanation needed.
Wpazo – The Best of WordPress Stuff – links, news, announcements … all related to WordPress.
Users, Roles, and Capabilities in WordPress – Great explanation of how these components work in WordPress, with some common assumptions debunked.
Members – a WP plugin for creating custom roles and assign capabilities to those roles. Integrated with Gravity Forms, which is how I found this link.
WPshout – another links, news, announcements site for WordPress-related stuff.


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Tunisia: 3 arrested in alleged terror plot
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities arrested three suspected Islamist militants near the Libyan border on Sunday and said they uncovered a terror plot targeting industrial and tourist sites and politicians.
The three were Tunisians believed to have been living recently in Libya with backing by armed groups that train Tunisians in Libyan camps, said Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui.
"The goal of the terrorists was to strike directly at the national economy to spread chaos in the country," Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa told local radio stations.
The government has blamed a string of political assassinations and terrorist attacks over the last two years on the radical Islamist Ansar al-Shariah group, also suspected in an attack by a mob in 2012 against the U.S. embassy and a nearby American school. Cars were burned and the school was destroyed before the mob of 2,000 was driven away by authorities.
Ansar al-Shariah was banned in Tunisia and its leader, Seifallh Ben Hassine, fled the country after that attack. He is believed to be hiding out in Libya with his supporters.
Sunday's arrests were made after security forces backed by tanks stormed a home in Ben Guerdane, a town along the border with Libyan border. They found anti-tank mines, explosive belts and other weapons, said Defense Ministry spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni.
The raid was the culmination of a series of operations over the past week in which 13 other suspects were taken into custody and revealed information about the planned attacks against Tunisia's important tourism industry and industrial sites and the politicians, Aroui said. He did not offer further details.
Tunisians overthrew their secular dictator in January 2011, launching the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings around the region. Since the revolution, there has been a rise in pro-Islamist parties, including some radical elements.
Armed groups with links to al-Qaida have battled Tunisian troops in the mountains near its border with Algeria. Two left-wing politicians were gunned down by assassins in 2013.
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By the way, any idea why the loading went bad?
I haven't changed anything in months so looks like a temporary glitch on that server. Can I see your XML?
I am just creating a new file for the Colonial Africa map and have encountered this problem again. Any thoughts?
Also, it would be nice if the Show XML feature could retain the character references (for accented characters). As it is, a reference like é gets translated to the actual character é. If I copy out that text to a file, then reload it later, the tool rejects the character.


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Karl Rove and Super PACs
Watching the election results, and how Karl Rove spent $300 million through his super PAC on candidates that all lost, it's easy to forgive the non-role super PACs seemed to have played in deciding the 2012 election.
The thing is, coming to that conclusion is short-sighted. It's incorrect.
The fact that there are organizations that raise hundreds of millions from billionaires to influence elections is an egregious abuse of inequality and, frankly, antidemocratic.
Allowing unlimited funding still gives wealthy people yet another political leg up on everybody else in getting their message out there.
Because donating tons and tons of dollars isn't necessarily about winning. It's about investing in a party that will fight for you when the politicking starts:
Because a political donation of, let's say, a million dollars, isn't just a one-time purchase. It's communicating that I could give you a million more in the future. Therefore the party that ends up reaping that benefit (and both parties now rely on this) must now slave away for your demands, lest they risk those nine-figure donation checks going to the other party.
Despite the horrific results of the 2012 elections for Karl Rove, he is still very much in control of the GOP. And the wealthy remain very much in control of both parties.
Karl Rove and his super PAC vow to press on
By Karen Tumulty,
Nov 10, 2012 11:58 PM EST
In the post-mortems of the 2012 election campaigns, it is already being written that the much-feared super PACs — those ostensibly independent, billionaire-funded outside organizations and their hundreds of millions in negative ads — turned out to be a bust.
At the center of the wreckage stands Karl Rove, the GOP strategist and supposed dark genius who for more than a decade has figured in the mythos of both parties.
With more than a little glee, Democrats and even some Republicans say the electoral defeat of so many candidates backed by his brainchild, a behemoth super PAC called American Crossroads, is proof that politics has finally passed Rove by.
It will be no surprise that Rove, not known for self-doubt, differs with that assessment.
"We did good things this year," Rove said in an interview from California, where he had just given a speech with former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs at an Association of Equipment Manufacturers convention. "But look, it's the way of politics that you're going to have some good years, and you're going to have some bad years."
As Rove sees it, the campaign proved that American Crossroads and its more secretive issue-advocacy arm, Crossroads GPS — which allows donors to remain anonymous — are here to stay.
Rove is pondering new missions for Crossroads to address weaknesses laid bare by the GOP's back-to-back failures to win the White House and the fact that the party fell short when expected to win back the Senate.
Where until now it battled only in general elections and against Democrats, Crossroads is considering whether to start picking sides in Republican primaries. The idea would be to boost the candidate it deems most electable and avoid nominating the kind of flawed and extreme ones who cost the party what should otherwise have been easy Senate wins in Florida, Missouri and Indiana.
That, however, could put Crossroads at odds with the tea party and other groups that devote their energies to promoting the most ideologically pure contenders.
Crossroads also is likely to invest more deeply in organizations such as the Republican State Leadership Committee, which has been trying to build a more appealing GOP farm team by, among other things, recruiting Hispanic candidates to run for state-level office.
And it is raising money to run advertising shoring up the congressional Republicans during the upcoming negotiations to avert the "fiscal cliff."
For Crossroads, 2012 was a $300 million learning experience.
"We've got to carefully examine, as we did after 2010, an after-action report looking at everything with fresh eyes and questioning and figuring out what worked and what didn't work," Rove said.
The failure of Crossroads to live up to expectations is not the only thing that has put Rove back into the news and revived the intrigue that surrounds a man whose seen and unseen hand works in so many places in politics.
In his role as an election-night pundit on Fox News, Rove got into a much-talked-about, on-air argument with the network when it decided to call Ohio for President Obama.
He also created a stir two days later, when he accused Obama's campaign of "suppressing the vote," using language that Democrats apply to measures such as voter ID laws that make it more cumbersome for people to cast ballots. Rove said he was referring to the denigration of Mitt Romney that made him less palatable to voters looking for an alternative to Obama.
Rove's is the most famous name associated with Crossroads, but he said he receives no money from it, not even travel expenses, for his work as a strategist and fundraiser. Its day-to-day operations are run by its president, Steven Law.
Outside their circle, many of the performance reviews have been scathing.
The Sunlight Foundation, which tracks money in politics, calculated that only 6 percent of Crossroads money went to winners; by comparison, the Service Employees International Union, an old war horse of Democratic politics, had a 70 percent victory rate.
Celebrity real estate developer Donald Trump taunted on Twitter: "Congrats to @KarlRove on blowing $400 million this cycle. Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads in, the Republicans lost. What a waste of money."
And Obama strategists David Axelrod said: "If I were one of those billionaires funding Crossroads and other organizations, I'd be wanting to talk to someone and asking where my refund is, because they didn't get much for their money."
However, Romney's campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, insisted Crossroads and the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future "had a very positive impact on leveling the playing field in key target states."
"Obama for America had a strategy to put Gov. Romney and his campaign away early," Rhoades wrote in an e-mail. "In looking back, it might have worked if these organizations hadn't countered them in the spring and summer."
Others in the Romney campaign, speaking on the condition of anonymity, were bitter that the super PACs didn't do more to defend the Republican nominee and his business record, particularly in the late summer, when the campaign had run through its own primary-season funding.
"We didn't have any air cover," lamented one senior adviser.
That, Rove suggested, was the result of a missed signal.
The law forbids super PACs from coordinating with candidates, so it sets up an interaction that Rove compares to playing bridge, a game in which players make their moves based on cues from their partners.
"We can't talk to the campaigns," he said. "But we've got to understand what the candidate's message is by closely following their public statements and campaign activities, do a lot of research to understand what the weaknesses of their opponents are, and read the tea leaves."
In July, after Obama and his allies began pounding Romney's record at the private equity firm Bain Capital, Crossroads spent $9.3 million on ads in nine states, in which a female narrator asked: "What happened to Barack Obama? The press and even Democrats say his attacks on Mitt Romney's business record are misleading, unfair and untrue."
The response from the Romney campaign? Radio silence, which the Crossroads team read to mean the strategists in Boston did not believe engaging on that issue was important. So Crossroads quit running the spots.
Another lapse, in the view of some, was Crossroads's failure to air positive ads that would acquaint voters with Romney's biography and his achievements.
"They ran basically the same ad over and over. They were working from a theory of the case that turned out to be extraordinarily flawed," said Obama adviser Anita Dunn. "Their theory was that making it a referendum on Obama's stewardship of the economy was all they had to do."
Rove's reputation for seeing the Next Big Thing in politics goes back to the late 1970s, when he arrived in Texas to set up a direct-mail operation. At the time, Republicans held only one statewide elected office; when he left in 2001, Republicans were in all 29 of them — and most of those officials had at one time or another been Rove's clients.
When Rove started touting the prospects of George W. Bush in the late 1980s, the future governor and president was a failed oilman with little more than his famous last name going for him. Rove sold his business and moved to Washington with Bush, becoming so instrumental in his 2004 reelection that the president memorably dubbed him "the architect."
The idea for Crossroads was born shortly after the 2008 election, when Rove wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal lamenting the fact that the Republicans had no equivalent to the alliance of organized labor and liberal interest groups that had spent $194 million on independent advertising for Democrats during the previous two years.
The next day, Rove recalled, he heard from former Republican chairman Ed Gillespie, who said, "Great idea. What are we going to do about it?"
As they talked to potential donors, Rove said, they realized "there was just a generalized sense that too much of this kind of activity was basically of, by and for the consultants. Donors said, 'Consultants set these things up, pay a commission to fundraisers, hire themselves to do the work and pay themselves too much.' "
"Major donors said, 'We write checks to these groups, but we're not enthusiastic, given how they are going about their business,' " Rove said.
He and Gillespie also began sounding out the Senate Republican leadership, which recommended Law, a former aide to Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), to run it. The two talked him into the job, though it meant that Law had to leave a far more lucrative post as general counsel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In January 2010, the Supreme Court lifted the restrictions on political contributions by corporations and unions, a move that campaign finance experts say also spawned the growth of super PACs, by giving a green light to big contributions from individuals. Rove insists that Crossroads could and would have happened even without that decision.
In April, Rove and Gillespie invited representatives of 18 conservative groups to a lunch of chicken pot pie at Rove's Weaver Terrace home and unveiled their idea for a coordinated effort.
"You could tell there was a lot of skepticism," Rove recalled. "It was palpable."
That was until they met again the following month and, at Law's suggestion, passed around their $45 million budget. They explained which Senate races they wanted to become involved in, their polling budget and the amount of advertising they could buy.
"It was, like, jaw dropping. You could just sort of see people saying, 'What is going on?' But it helped set in motion a wonderful collegial process," Rove said.
In the 2010 midterm election, "we were able to make sure we weren't running ads on top of each other. We were coordinating on message. We arrived at an agreed-upon list of congressional races in priority order," he recalled.
They tried running a get-out-the-vote operation in Las Vegas that year, Rove said, but discovered they couldn't do it as economically or efficiently as a political party could.
Rove boasts that Crossroads remains an efficient operation.
He noted it has a relatively small staff of 19 and said it pays its ad makers only 3 percent of the amount spent, the bottom in an industry where 10 and 15 percent fees used to be common. Ninety-five cents out of every dollar that Crossroads spends "goes onto the target," he said.
And his wealthy donors? "They all went into this eyes wide open," Rove said, "and their attitude is, beat them next time."
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Though... correct me if I'm wrong, but McCain refused public financing too.
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Q: Did John McCain borrow money using public financing as collateral?
A: Lawyers for McCain and Fidelity & Trust Bank say he did not. The DNC says he did and should not have been allowed to withdraw from public financing during the primaries. The Federal Election Commission may have the final word.
It was my understanding that John McCain took out a loan for the primary based on his participation in the fall campaign and the chair of the FEC ruled that he had to participate in the fall campaign even though he overspent in the primary. Maybe Im not stating this properly. Can you respond?
The full question isnt stated correctly: Our reader is actually referring to circumstances surrounding Sen. John McCains participation in public financing for the primary campaign. Candidates that use public financing in campaigns must abide by various Federal Election Commission rules, which we explained in a previous Ask FactCheck, while those using private funds can raise and spend as much as they want.
In August 2007, McCain became the first presidential candidate of the 2007-2008 presidential campaign to be declared eligible for public financing by the FEC, although it wasnt clear at the time whether his financially troubled campaign would actually use the money.
Then, late last year McCains campaign took out loans totaling $4 million (an initial $3 million loan and then another for $1 million) from the Maryland-based Fidelity & Trust Bank. The Washington Post reported that in order to secure the additional loan, McCain pledged "incoming but unprocessed contributions as collateral." According to the Post, when the bank asked what would happen if the campaign didnt go well, Trevor Potter, McCains attorney, said McCain could "reapply in the future for federal matching funds, and would agree to use the FEC certifications for those funds as collateral." And the Associated Press reported that the loan agreement "did not include McCains right to the public funds," but that it did require him to reapply for public financing if he withdrew and lost in early primary contests.
Matthew S. Bergman and Scott E. Thomas, outside counsel for Fidelity & Trust, wrote a letter to Potter in late February, saying that public financing hadnt been considered as collateral:
Further complicating matters for McCain, the Democratic National Committee has decided to file a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court to require the FEC to launch an investigation into whether McCain violated the conditions of the public funds program. The DNC says it believes he did. It filed a complaint back in February, but the FEC wasnt able to act on the matter since, with only two members, the commission lacked a quorum (it usually has six members). The DNC argued that McCain could not "unilaterally withdraw" from the matching funds program because he had signed a binding agreement with the FEC and had to abide by the conditions of it, which included the approval of the FEC to withdraw. The DNC further argued that McCain "already violated a key condition for being let out of the program pledging matching funds as collateral for a private loan." An additional concern is that McCain may have violated the conditions by spending more than the $54 million he was limited to under the program.
Will there be a ruling by the commission any time soon? On June 24, the Senate confirmed five commissioners to the FEC. This will allow the commission to return to operating status for the first time since the beginning of the year and make rulings on this and other campaign finance matters.
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Doesn't matter anyway. The argument I'm making stands whether McCain accepted public financing or not.
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If you had the government paying for campaigns, , you would have to do it for all of them. Would you really want the taxpayers money going to the Goat ****er Party or Communitst Party or the Christian Party or the Muslim Party, every group would want in on the action.
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And I've already addressed this multiple times with you. The electorate spoke and this time evidently they didn't agree with the message all these rich people were trying to sell.
The system worked. That's something I've said multiple times and you haven't addressed.
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glyndwr posted a topic in Ford Focus Clubhi all i have a st170 focus 52 plate the 12v charger not working iv checked the fuse it seems ok ????? any ideas please
glyndwr started following Sticking Temp Gauge, Cigar Lighter // 12V Charger, Cutting Out ?????????????????????? and and 2 others
no mate iv done nothing really
lets see if the ford dealership finds out
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glyndwr posted a topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubmy 2003 tdci mondeo cuts out ,, as soon as glow plug starts flashing engine cuts out happened last Thursday doing 80 mph on way to work (scary ) then AA came out told me cam sensor so they replaced it then Friday night on way home from work again cuts out got recovery to garage ,, today cut out again ?????? garage could find nothing ,,, now gone to ford dealership to look at ,, not looking good :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
cheers Lenny
scangauge not suitable for my car im told ,, wont work only from 2004 onwards ???? the suggest i try somebody elses to try it first lol
cancel the cooking oil i think lol ,,, cheers all
so really i could buy oil from cash and carry and put straight in ,,,, would it affect the car ???
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glyndwr posted a topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubjust wondering could you run a mondeo tdci mk3 off cooking oil ???? ;) ;)
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glyndwr posted a topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale ClubHow to identify EURO 3 type EURO 4 type below If the vacuum type valve has one electrical plug on it, then it should be treated as a Euro 4 Note the piggy back motor, and it should not be unplugged when the plate is fitted When EGR valve sticks open air supplied to engine by turbo above 1800rpm is diverted into exhaust pipe by stuck open EGR valve, engine management system thinks all this air is going into engine (detected by MAF mass air flow sensor which is located near air filter outlet) so EMS injects fuel to match air it thinks is going into engine, this results in too little air and too much fuel which = Black Smoke.Fitting blanking plate blocks air going back to exhaust so all air boost from turbo goes to engine to burn with fuel. Also stops exhaust going into the engine, which also makes it smoke, and lowers fuel consumption.
i dont have anything on my indicator stalk ,,,i dont have any idea what "ScangaugeIl is i will google now
sounds good Lenny cheers lets see ehhh ;) ;) ;)
cheers Lenny ,,dezwez ,, i bought the mondeo like that not sure if lowered , im looking to do a few simple but subtle mods to her all iv done so far is blank egr off ,,wow what a difference in power and no smoke simple but very effective
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glyndwr posted a topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale ClubHi just wondering if anyone can help , my 2003 mondeo tdci temp gauge sticks halfway i turn engine off stays there , i then tap dash a few times needle will then drop , turn key in ignition needle will bounce straight back to halfway point ,, i phone local ford dealership was told needs new cluster at cost of £435 plus vat and labour ,, any help please im hopeless with these things . cheers martin
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When I bought the Woods Hole Inn, my attempts to purchase the web address woodsholeinn.com led me to Sam and Marsha Smalley of Folsom, Louisiana. Yes, turns out there was another Woods Hole Inn, down in the bayou near New Orleans.
When I called in 2008, I discovered that the southern Woods Hole Inn had been wiped out by Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the memory of the disaster that ruined the Smalley's quiet life was still very fresh. Sam Smalley was kind enough to sell me the web address for a reasonable sum plus the promise that he and Marsha would visit as my guest one day.
Well, here we are five years later, and I am pleased to tell you that the Smalleys drove up this week — took them four days — and I was lucky enough to get a minute to hear more of their incredible story.
The Smalley's bought their property in Folsom, opening a three-room inn in the late 1990's. Sam ran the place and Marsha kept her day job in real estate. Things were going pretty well for them by 2005 – favorable reviews in Southern Living and plus Sam's involvement in the local tourist bureau created a strong demand from New Orleans which was a scenic hour drive north across the longest bridge in the world, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Sam told me that he used to get bookings all the time that would end with, …and so how far is the drive from Boston? …Well, that's quite a ways, he would drawl with a smile.
As Hurricane Katrina approached, the Smalleys decided to tough the storm out. One guest who was booked (a woman on dialysis) chose to remain home, thank goodness. Another guest took one look at the swaying pine trees and drove north. By nightfall of the first day of the storm, they were solo on their heavily wooded property.
What followed was the epic and now famous storm that hovered longer than expected and brought down over 40 trees in, on and around their house, cottage and garage. Trees came up with their entire root balls intact, erupting the earth. A tree crushed their garage. A tree in their courtyard destroyed one side of the main house while they hid in the foyer hoping for the best. As the storm cleared, the Smalleys realized they were lucky to be alive, but contacting worried family took another five days. Their beloved property was damaged beyond repair.
As Sam told the sad story of how it all ended, both he and Marsha's eyes pooled with tears. And yet the Smalley's have kept their good sense of humor and spirit of generosity. They have six kids, scads of grandkids and they profess to love the northern Woods Hole Inn, talking about coming back for a family reunion and appreciative of the breakfast, the staff, the service.
They brought me the sign that stood at the end of their front driveway, and I will hang this with pride. Connections like this make inn-keeping special: living in hurricane country is scary, but the world is a better place when we share it with people like the Smalleys.


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Are You Sick of Hearing About the 'Steroid Era'? — Sports Survey of the Day
It appears that the "steroid era" in Major League Baseball is still going strong. Will baseball ever be out from under its shadow?
A new report is out that lists several players, including Alex Rodriguez and Melky Cabrera, as buying performance-enhancing drugs from the now-closed Biogenesis clinic as recently as last season. The list was given to the Miami New Times by a former employee of the company.
Just when everyone thought that we might be done with the steroid era, it rears its ugly head once again. Do baseball fans want to keep hearing about theses alleged incidents, or move on?


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2 Viking relay teams keep state hopes alive at swimming sectional
Friday, February 15, 2013 9:08 AM
A pair of Huntington North High School relay teams are still in the hunt for a spot in the state swim championships next week as they reached their event finals at the Warsaw Boys' Swim-ming Sectional on Thursday, Feb. 14.
The Viking's 200-yard medley relay team and the 400-yard freestyle relay team made the sec-tional finals on Saturday, Feb. 16, by finishing in the top eight of their respective events.
Only the first place finisher in the finals and any individual or team meeting the state time stan-dard in each event advance on to the state championships, to be held Feb. 22-23 at Indiana-Purdue Indianapolis.
Both relay teams got in the sectional finals with eighth place finishes.
The medley relay team of sophomore Walter Hacker, junior Kellen Hughes, sophomore Nathan Lundy and junior Josh Lundy grabbed the final qualifying spot in 1:59.61, edging out Plymouth by less than a second.
The free relay team of Hacker, sophomore Austin Lange, Josh Lundy and Nathan Lundy got their go-ahead by placing eighth in 3:57.05, almost seven seconds better than its seed time.
Several Vikings also will swim in the consolation finals, to determine ninth through 16th place points, on Saturday, led by Hacker, who earned two ninth place finishes in the prelims. Hacker got edged out for the last finals spot by 7/100ths of a second in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:01.16, and then got edged out in the 100-yard backstroke by a half-second with a time of 1:02.47.
Also scheduled to swim in the consolation finals were freshman Zane Cozad, who placed 15th in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:09.30; Lange and Nathan Lundy in the 200-yard individual medley, where they placed 12th and 15th, respectively, in 2:28.77 and 2:33.20; Josh Lundy in the 50-yard freestyle, where he placed 16th in :25.82; Josh Lundy in the 100-yard freestyle, where he placed 13th in :56.39; Cozad in the 500-yard freestyle, where he placed 12th in 5:48.11; the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Cozad, Hughes, Lange and senior Dakota Wibel, placing 10th in 1:50.80; and Lange in the 100-yard breaststroke, where he placed 12th in 1:13.57.


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My late mother, Bella (Martin) used to sing a wee ditty occasionally. It went:
"There's a big ship sailing down the Eely Ally Oh,
The Eely Ally Oh,The Eely Ally Oh
There's a big ship sailing down the Eely Ally Oh,
On a cold and frosty morning".
If there was any more to it than that, I have forgotten it.
When I was a wee boy, a year or two back, the outlet of a burn ran, through a stone arch, into the sea across the road from the War Memorial - mebbe a wee bit nearer Dalintober. This was known to me as the 'Eely Ally Oh'. I never did get a reply to my question to my mother as to just how a 'big ship' got into this burn!
Years later, I recall that wonderful teacher, 'Big Bob' Graham, trying to cram some French into the brain of one who struggled with English and as I remember it the French phrase, 'il y a l'eau' meant 'there is water' in English.
Do any readers know where this burn originated; when and why the outlet into the Loch disappeared; are there any more verses to the song and is my 'French connection' correct?


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Asian Investors Wary of Protectionism from Obamaby Steve Charles • November 24, 2008 Share:
As Chief Investment Officer in Asia for Credit Agricole Asset Management, the eighth largest retail banking group in the world, Ray Jovanovich '84 recently shared his initial assessment on the implications of the Presidency of Barack Obama for economic relations between China and the United States.
Living in Hong Kong for decades, Jovanovich oversees Credit Agricole's investments throughout Asia. His words offer an interesting perspective on the U.S. elections and what Asian economic leaders and investors will be watching for as the Obama transition begins.
"In sharp contrast to the 2004 Presidential Election, China was rarely in focus during the 2008 Presidential campaign; uniquely absent from the debate," Jovanovich writes. "Perhaps this was due to more pressing matters in focus: the American housing crisis, the global financial meltdown, surging unemployment and the twin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"Outsourcing of jobs fared a bit better as a hot-button topic so I assume will get more attention once the next Congressional session opens. This is not good news for Asia given the following: Obama will operate with unprecedented Democratic control over all parts of the legislative process, rare in American politics. While it is true Presidential candidates campaign in poetry and govern in prose, this time could very well be different given the realities of this commanding Democratic majority on Capitol Hill."
Jovanovich sees the possibility of "protectionist legislation" as the greatest concern among Asia's emerging economies.
"Protectionist trade legislation never comes from the Oval Office; it is the provision of Capitol Hill," Jovanovich writes. "But the Dems actually don't even need to achieve the magic 60 seats, and one can bet at some point over the next 18 months, if the White House is deemed to be too soft on China on the subject of (unfair) trade, then it is reasonable to anticipate one of the nearly 30 pending bills in Congress (New York Senator Charles Schumer's bi-partisan bill being the most damaging calling for punitive tariffs on all Chinese imports) addressing one or more aspects of China's unfair advantages will come to a floor vote. It will most certainly pass, as the Dems no longer must contend with any obstacle, given the magic 60, but 57 will more than suffice. Then it will go to Obama for signature.
"Would he reject his own Party, keeping in mind Democratic control of both the House and the Senate passed to the Dems over the past two election cycles precisely with the mandate to protect American jobs and stop unfair trade? But surely Obama recognizes the damaging aspects of protectionist legislation for the U.S., the dollar and the world?"
While recognizing the "legacy mess" of the Bush Administration, Jovanovich points out that the Bush Administration took comprehensive relations with China to an unprecedented level.
For the most part, this was due to the careful and measured diplomacy delivered by U.S. Ambassador to China, Sandy Randt," Jovanovich says. "In fact, Ambassador Randt is the longest serving and only full two-term Ambassador to any country; having served the entire eight-year Bush Presidency. China was significant for the Bush Administration and Randt the instrument of engagement. Randt's departure creates the most significant foreign policy relationship vacuum. It remains to be seen who Obama appoints; the stakes could not be higher given the current environment. It will take time to adjust the new Ambassador into this role as Randt leaves behind a big shadow."
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