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The lines at Disneyland were longer than a typical weekday in January on Tuesday, as the park moved to impose a new identification system for people who purchase multi-day passes, a spokeswoman said.
People with passes for several days' worth of entry to the Walt Disney Co.'s Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks had to stop on the way in and get their pictures taken, Suzi Brown said Wednesday.
It's part of a months-long effort to crack down on ticket brokers who are re-selling the multi-day passes – which offer discounted admission over a period of days – to a number of guests, instead of to just one person, Brown said.
Tuesday was the first day of the new policy, so guests experienced delays getting into the park as clerks snapped their pictures on iPads at the entry booths.
Going forward, Brown said, people who buy multi-day tickets will get their pictures taken on the first day that they use them. The lines were longer on Tuesday, she said, because workers were photographing everyone who had a pass that was good for several days – not just the ones who were using them for the first time.
"Now they don't have to show an ID every time," Brown said. "We're looking at it as a way we can expedite the process and not make people stop and show their IDs."
The new policy replaces an earlier effort to crack down on abusers that was started last fall, Brown said.
That plan, which started in October of last year, required people with multi-day passes to present a photo ID such as a driver's license every time they entered one of the parks.
Under the new system, visitors will not have to stop and show their IDs, because the park's workers will be able to check their photographs.
The procedure is similar to one that Disney has been using at the parks for years to identify people who have purchased annual passes.
Other companies use similar methods to identify pass-holders and visitors.
Some hospitals, for example, snap photos of guests and print them on visitor badges. Universal Studios, which like NBC is owned by Comcast, Corp., records a fingerprint image of guests who buy annual passes.


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Learn Catching Hard Hits in Mobile Linebacker for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Mobile Linebacker puts you in the defense line of football as a linebacker. The developer guys at VIVA! Vision Inc. and VODA digital LLC probably figured that kids nowadays are woosies and should learn to catch some hits. After all, offense is just a matter of having guts; defense is all about being a real man and fighting 'til the end!
The game includes about 20 new plays, and was developed in collaboration with some kings of defense such as Joe Tafoya of the Arizone Cardinals, Chike Okeafor of the San Francisco 49ers and Running Back Kerry Carter of the Seattle Seahawks amongst others.
Today, a new update for the game was released, a reason for us to finally write about this game as it's unique in the field of sports games for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Read the rest of this entry »

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According to a recent report from Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports, cornerback Darrelle Revis is not happy in Tampa because he's chafing at the strict style employed by coach Greg Schiano and the team's choice to play more zone coverage on defense than the man coverage that Revis rode to great success with the Jets.
Revis is aware of the report and took to Twitter on Tuesday to refute the allegations that he's feeling blue about his new team.
Revis' denial isn't likely to do all that much to quell the tensions around the Buccaneers all on its own. Winning is the only way to do that and you can be sure that chatter about unrest in the Buccaneer ranks will continue until Tampa starts doing that with some regularity.


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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today voted to conduct a full five-year ("sunset") review concerning the antidumping duty orders on mechanical transfer presses from Japan (Inv. No. 731-TA-429 (Review)).
As a result of today's vote, the Commission will conduct a full review to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on this product would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act requires the Department of Commerce to revoke an antidumping or countervailing duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless the Department of Commerce and the ITC determine that revoking the order or terminating the suspension agreement would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping or subsidies (Commerce) and of material injury (ITC) within a reasonably foreseeable time. Reviews of outstanding antidumping and countervailing duty orders in existence as of January 1, 1995, began in July 1998.
The Commission's notice of institution in five-year reviews requests that interested parties file with the Commission responses that discuss the likely effects of revoking the order and provide other pertinent information. Generally within 95 days from institution, the Commission will determine whether the responses it has received reflect an adequate or inadequate level of interest in a full review. If responses to the ITC's notice of institution are adequate, or if other circumstances warrant a full review, the Commission conducts a full review, which includes a public hearing and issuance of questionnaires.
Chairman Lynn M. Bragg, Vice Chairman Marcia E. Miller, and Commissioners Carol T. Crawford, Jennifer A. Hillman, Stephen Koplan, and Thelma J. Askey concluded that both the domestic and the respondent group responses in this review were adequate and voted for a full review.
A record of the Commission's vote on this matter is available from the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may be made by telephone by calling 202-205-1802.
The record of the Commission's vote is also posted on the ITC's Internet server at www.usitc.gov (under "Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews"/"Five-Year Reviews Listing"/ "Mechanical Transfer Presses from Japan").
The Federal Register notice will indicate whether any further information or statements will be available. The Commission will issue a report after it completes its review.


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The owner of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" has been revealed. Leon Black, the New York financier and head of the investment firm Apollo Global Management, is reported to be the person who paid $119.9 million for the highly coveted masterpiece.
The Wall Street Journal first reported Wednesday that "several people close to the collector" confirmed Black's purchase.
The version of "The Scream" sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on May 2. The $119.9-million price set a record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction. Petter Olsen, the scion of a Norwegian shipping dynasty, had put the painting on the auction block.
INTERACTIVE | Expensive art: Can you guess the price?
Black and his wife, Debra, are considered to be one of the world's top art collectors. Black sits on the boards of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His wife is a theater producer who has backed a number of Broadway productions, including "August: Osage County" and "Frost/Nixon."
The identity of the buyer was not revealed at the time of the sale. Black bid by telephone.
The Journal said a spokesman for Black declined to comment for its story. Black has amassed one of the largest art collections in the world. Collectors of his caliber are frequently courted by major museums to donate art from their personal troves.
There are four versions of "The Scream." This is the only one to have appeared at auction; the others reside in museums in Norway.
An exodus of artwork from Los Angeles
Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' goes for $119.9 million at Sotheby's
Who will pay $80 million (or so) for Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'?


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VIDEO: The Knicks thump the Nets in a 30-point win
BROOKLYN — As the Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks accumulated a surprisingly sad 8-26 cumulative record, it became abundantly clear that neither team could defend to save its season. Entering Thursday's matchup of the busted boroughs, the Knicks ranked 28th defensively and the Nets ranked 30th.
Only one of the two teams took advantage of this fact, and the Knicks ran away with a 113-83 victory at Barclays Center, ending their nine-game losing streak.
On Wednesday, Carmelo Anthony said his team was "the laughingstock of the league." But 24 hours later, they've been stripped of that title.
The Nets have the worst 3-point defense in the NBA, allowing their opponents to shoot 40.3 percent from beyond the arc entering Thursday's game. They're slow and deliberate on both ends of the floor, but really lack the foot speed to help in the paint and then recover to the 3-point line. So it only takes a dribble drive or a ball reversal for their opponent to get an open look from the outside.
The Knicks knew this, moved the ball and fired away on Thursday, hitting a season-high 16 threes on 27 attempts. Anthony (six assists and only 12 shots) shared the ball, Iman Shumpert (5-for-7 from 3-point range) shot with confidence, and the Knicks looked like the team they were last season, when they set an NBA record for 3-point makes and attempts, ranked third in offensive efficiency, and racked up 54 wins.
Against the league's third-worst defense, the Nets should have been similarly efficient. With Andrea Bargnani and Amar'e Stoudemire as two of their three rotation bigs, the Knicks have consistently been torched on pick-and-rolls this season, often escorting opposing ball-handlers to the basket.
Yet the Nets went a good 10 minutes of the first quarter without running a pick-and-roll once. They too often tried to run their offense through the post, which allowed Bargnani and Stoudemire to stay stationary. The few times they did make those guys move, they got good shots.
Part of that is coaching. Though Brook Lopez led all scorers with 24 points, the Nets' offense could have been a lot more effective as a whole if he was catching the ball on the move more than in the post. Jason Kidd has to find a way to get the ball and his players moving offensively. It's far too early to say that hiring him was a mistake, but we've seen enough to say that he's not a very good coach right now.
Injuries are obviously an issue. The Nets are still without Deron Williams, by far their biggest threat off the dribble. With Williams sitting out for the 10th time in the last 11 games, point guard duties were again left to Shaun Livingston and Tyshawn Taylor. Livingston is athletic, but not all that quick. Taylor is quick, but shaky and inexperienced.
Still, Brooklyn could have run more pick-and-rolls with both, or with Joe Johnson, and just tried to make the New York defense move. They didn't and they lost by 30.
Both Kidd and Kevin Garnett cited the injuries when discussing their struggles after the game. Garnett added that the Nets are making changes in the wake of Lawrence Frank's sudden departure from the bench.
"Those things play a big part into this," Garnett said. "I'm a firm believer when we're whole and we have our team full throttle, then that's what I believe in. Obviously, I believe in the guys that's put on the floor and we're going to give it an effort, but when you're playing teams, you want to play at your whole. That's what I believe in. And I'm not going to believe anything else until we are whole."
Before the game, Kidd said that "we all feel confident we have enough to win." After the game, he asked not to be judged until his team is healthy.
"I think you get evaluated by being whole," he said. "It starts there. And then once that occurs, then you're evaluated. That's as simple as it gets."
Yes, the Nets are missing four of their top eight guys. And Williams' importance became even more clear on Thursday. But the Nets still lost at home … by 30 points … to a team that hadn't won in three weeks and is missing its most important player. The injury excuse only goes so far. And while Williams will help the Brooklyn offense, the defense isn't going to start looking like that of the Heat upon his return.
Tyson Chandler's eventual return isn't going to solve all New York's problems either. The Knicks are still a long way from digging out of the hole they've dug for themselves, especially because they don't get to play the Nets again until Jan. 20. But they do have a relatively soft schedule over the next two weeks and certainly found some confidence Thursday.
Will that translate into a run up the standings? Even if it doesn't, at least they're not the laughingstock of the league anymore.


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A pathetic excuse for a human who beats women to make himself feel big. Is so deluded by the rubbish that goes on in his own head that he actually believes he is somewhat sane. Has fantasy's of murdering women and putting them in the boot of his car. Lives out of his mothers pocket because he is too lazy to get off his arse to do anything with his life, a full time "student" what a disgrace
im tired of this bitch i think i will iain taylor her
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Seib & Wessel: New Hope With Iran Relations
WSJ's Carol E. Lee explains why the U.S. and Iran are seeing a warming in long-cold relations. Now, the White House says that President Obama could meet face-to-face with Iran's new president next week. What's changed?
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It has become a familiar way to break in a new year for football teams from the state of Alabama.
It has become a familiar way to break in a new year for football teams from the state of Alabama.
This time it was the Alabama Crimson Tide shutting out LSU in New Orleans for the BCS national title in January to bring a football-shaped crystal trophy home to the state for the third straight year.
The Tide's second national championship in three years — sandwiching Auburn's own BCS triumph — is the Associated Press's choice for the state's top sports story of 2012 even as Bama is gearing up for a run at another one.
But that's for next year's list.
Coach Nick Saban and Alabama certainly seem to have the preparation plan down going into the Jan. 7 meeting with No. 1 Notre Dame in Miami.
"We're doing the exact same thing I'm pretty sure, day for day, as we did last year," Tide defensive lineman Jesse Williams said.
It worked well then with the Tide beating LSU 21-0 in a rematch of the team's lone regular season loss.
Other top stories in 2012 included Auburn's woes during a 3-9 season (No. 2) that culminated in Gene Chizik's firing and the hiring of former offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn (No. 3) to try to lift the program back up the Southeastern Conference ranks.
While the state's two most prominent athletic programs dominated the headlines in 2012, there were some notable coaching changes at UAB (No. 9) and schools like Jacksonville State, Samford and North Alabama (No. 10).
The big one came in the Big Easy just nine days into 2012, though.
The Tide and the college football world have moved on, but it's never too late for a brief look back.
Alabama's defense — which would send three first-rounders into the subsequent NFL draft, plus No. 35 pick Courtney Upshaw — held LSU to just 92 yards and five first downs. It was the first shutout in the BCS' 14-year history. LSU didn't cross midfield until there were less than 8 minutes remaining in the game, and the next morning Saban admitted he probably enjoyed this one more than the Tide's first BCS title game win over Texas two years earlier.
"To be honest with you, I think I maybe did," he said then. "This team was a special team, not that the 2009 team was any different. It's certainly an honor and privilege to be with a group that made the kind of commitment that you look for from a competitive character standpoint."
Turns out the 2012 team made a pretty strong commitment, too.
Alabama is 12-1 with only a loss to No. 10 Texas A&M marring a season that was highlighted by dramatic comeback wins over No. 6 Georgia and No. 9 LSU.
The Tide is in familiar territory with some veterans having been around for two previous national title teams.
Linebacker Nico Johnson believes that experience helps in the weeks leading up to the championship.
"I don't think we have that much anxiety about the game," Johnson said. "We'll be able to treat it as another game and go in calm and focused in more on what we have to do. I think we understand what we have to do to win the national championship and we're going to have to do it even more than the first two times so I mean, Notre Dame is a dang good team and we're going to have to play our butts off for 60 minutes."
If the Tide wins, most of the players already know the drill. Tight end Michael Williams said Saban made sure the focus turned quickly to the next season.
"I think we have a meeting a week after the game or something like that," Williams said. "Then you realize real quick that that team hasn't done anything yet."
The Top 10 sports stories in the state of Alabama for 2012, as chosen by the Associated Press:
1. TIDE'S TITLES: Alabama is still rolling. The Crimson Tide opened the year by winning its second national title in three seasons with a 21-0 victory over LSU in New Orleans, and is aiming for another against Notre Dame on Jan. 7 in Miami. This time Bama already has won the Southeastern Conference championship.
2. AUBURN'S WOES: Two years removed from a national title, the Tigers plummeted to 3-9 and didn't win a Southeastern Conference game in the program's worst season in six decades. Coach Gene Chizik was fired the day after the season ended.
3. MALZAHN HIRED: Auburn turned to former offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn on Dec. 4, giving him a five-year contract worth $2.3 million annually to right the program after getting one season's worth of college head coaching experience at Arkansas State.
4. IRON BOWL ROUT: One team headed for another national title shot, the other bound for an offseason of rebuilding. The result was Alabama's 49-0 victory over Auburn in the most lopsided Iron Bowl in 64 years. Only the Tide's 55-0 victory in 1948 had a bigger margin.
5. TITLE TOWN: Football wasn't the only Bama sport claiming national titles. The Tide also won in softball, women's golf and gymnastics — the most in any calendar year for the athletic program even without the football title from the 2011 season. It was the first women's golf title and the softball program's first in eight trips to the Women's College World Series. Sarah Patterson's gymnastics team has won two in a row and six overall.
6. AND THE WINNER IS...: Alabama's football program raked the awards in. Barrett Jones — a former Outland Trophy winner — won the Rimington Award as the nation's best center. He also won the William V. Campbell Trophy as the top scholar-athlete in college football. Jones, guard Chance Warmack, cornerback Dee Milliner and linebacker C.J. Mosley were all first-team AP All-Americans.
7. BACK TO TOURNAMENT: Anthony Grant's Alabama team ended a six-year NCAA tournament drought. The Tide lost 58-57 to Creighton in the first round after Josh Jones blocked Trevor Releford's 3-point attempt as the clock expired.
8. UAB-HAASE: The Blazers turned the basketball program over to North Carolina assistant and former Kansas player Jerod Haase in March, replacing Mike Davis and trying to restore the program to its days as regular NCAA tournament participants.
9. OLYMPIC MEDALS: Ex-Alabama runner Kirani James (Grenada) won the 400-meter gold medal while former Auburn swimmers Tyler McGill and Eric Shanteau were part of the winning 4x100 medley relay team. Auburn athletes collected six medals.
10. SMALL COLLEGE SWITCHES: Some of the big moves included Jacksonville State firing football coach Jack Crowe after 13 seasons and hiring South Alabama defensive coordinator Bill Clark. Samford fired men's basketball coach Jimmy Tillette and hired Bennie Seltzer. Bobby Wallace returned in January to North Alabama, where he won three Division II football titles in the 1990s. South Alabama men's basketball coach Ronnie Arrow retired 10 games into the current season.


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We have oil… we will strengthen our army.
We have oil… we will upgrade our transportation system.
We have oil… we will have universal healthcare, retirement systems, etc…
Our highway is flooded with pictures from Lebanon's ministry of energy to "celebrate" the presence of copious amounts of natural gas and oil under Lebanese waters. Of course, any talk about potential economic benefits for such wealth is still purely theoretical because we won't know the extent of our reserves until we start digging.
The best and most optimistic estimates as to when Lebanon starts capitalizing on its natural reserves is 2017-2018. Such estimates assume the following:
- A smooth security situation,
- No bureaucratic hassle that would pose delays,
- A decent political environment with no dead-locks on the matter
- International cooperation with the upcoming venture,
- No drastic governmental changes that could affect the bidding process which is essential in early stages.
I don't know about you but those 2017-2018 hopes are looking to be more and more far-fetched to me. The government already collapsed. We need to wait on a new one to form in order to proceed with the bidding on whoever's going to get drilling rights in our waters. That's not to mention any near-certain precipitations of the Syrian war over here or, as usual, political blocks that lead to a handful of laws being passed in any parliament's given lifetime or even the sectarian calculations that have to go in with every single oil-related decision. You can call that the "Orthodox Oil Law."
These oil reserves were discovered back in 2009 across three countries in the region: Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel. I don't know about Cyprus – they might be too busy with their credit problems at the moment – but when it comes to Lebanon and Israel, we are at the losing end of this economic battle in our ongoing conflict with our most hated enemy.
From 2009 till 2013, we managed to ratify one law and form a committee regarding the oil matter. The committee took a long time to be formed because we had to find the proper sectarian balance. The law took an almost equally long time as well to be ratified by parliament.
Meanwhile, our neighbor to the South had started drilling and as of March 31st, 2013 has actually started storing the natural gas being extracted in its quest to reach energy independence. It has already started making billions off its reserves with deals surpassing $20 billion.
Many seem to disregard the fact that there are more aspects to our conflict with Israel than military gains or losses here and there. The economical aspect of the conflict, which is one of the main motives behind certain Israeli policies, is more dangerous and far more reaching.
The economic aspect of these natural reserves isn't restricted to who gets there first. As of now, Lebanon doesn't have a strategy to how our oil money will be used: are we going to use it to lessen the national debt? Are we going to use it for some much-needed developments that go beyond Beirut? How will we use the fund that will be set up for profits from these sources?
Our politicians believe it's too early to discuss such things. We, as a nation, never plan ahead. We rarely try to build towards the future as opposed to things that bring profit here and now because it's always too early for us to plan. Instead of forming a road-map to clearly illustrate how the benefits from Lebanon's natural resources will be used, we go by the common Lebanese saying "bass neje 3laya, mensalle 3laya." (We'll see once we get there) .The problem is that we will eventually "neje 3laya" and history has taught us that dead-ends is all we'll manage to build.
Instead of being one of the more pressing matters facing this country, Lebanon's oil reserves have been dropped down to something second-rate. Our political class is keeping its head firmly stuck in sand, with hopes of a better future years from now, ignoring how an economically-growing Israel with clear plans for its development and sustainability will negatively affect any Lebanese attempt at growth of an economy that is in dire need of any form of extra income it can find.
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Tasha Tudor Recipes:
• Gingerbread
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Tasha Tudor borrows her life from another century and wraps it around her tightly. Her days unfold with a gentle rhythm, from earliest light, when she sets out barefoot to milk her goats, until she settles in the parlor by the fireplace with a cup of chamomile tea at nightfall. She welcomes the crisp autumn mornings in Vermont because they herald winter, when temperatures plunge to 30 below and she burrows even further into her nest. The modern world seldom intrudes.
This celebrated artist and children's illustrator is about 80 years old ("That's not a polite question to ask a lady," she tells an interviewer), and she is still a tough, fiercely independent woman of strong opinions and plainspoken ways. Her weathered house, built for her in 1972 by one of her sons, sits on 250 acres in the rural mountains of southern Vermont. She shares it with her beloved Welsh corgis, Nubian goats, a cat, chickens, birds in antique cages, geese, and other animals. She wears her long frocks, petticoats, aprons, lacy kerchiefs, and handknit shawls with an unconscious grace, as if she truly lived 150 years earlier. She weaves, spins, knits, reads The Dairy Goat Journal, and works on her drawings in the soft lamplight. But nothing gives Tasha as much comfort these days as her sprawling garden; thoughts of the garden sustain her even in winter.
Tasha Tudor's life is interwoven with the land. You won't find a television in her house—she has never had one and never will—and her clock is likely to have wound down, so she's often not sure what time it is. But the garden tells her when it's time to get ready for winter, to fill her root cellar, replenish her woodpile, cover the flower beds with goat manure, gather herbs to hang in bundles from the rafters, and harvest a bushel of pears.
This fall, Houghton Mifflin published a book by Tovah Martin and Richard W. Brown called Tasha Tudor's Garden. Tasha has herself written and/or illustrated more books than she can keep track of—75 or 80, she thinks, starting in 1938 with Pumpkin Moonshine. Her garden is familiar to her readers because it has worked its way into many pieces, but the Martin/Brown book is the first devoted entirely to this subject so dear to her heart. Drawings by Tasha are sprinkled through its pages.
A Garden In The Woods
"I can't tell you why," she says quietly when asked what draws her so strongly to her garden. "Why do you like ice cream? I guess it runs in my genes. I like the smell of my garden, and I like to see things grow. I've always gardened. I gardened as a child with my mother, back when seed packets only cost ten cents apiece."
Most of Tasha's property is undisturbed forestland, and she has several pastures for her goats, but the two or three acres surrounding the house and barns contain her wandering, overflowing gardens, edged and defined by stone terraces that descend into the countryside. At the height of summer, the garden is a vibrant display of spontaneity, exuberance, and an intense love of plants, and it was never planned on paper. "I've never made a garden design in my life. It just grows," she says. It is cottage garden style—or, as she describes it, "a good messy garden."
Tasha's orchard contains pear trees and crab apples that flower spectacularly in pink and white; thousands of bulbs, and more each year, flaunt their bright blossoms in early spring; the vegetable garden gives her steady harvests, much of which she puts by for the leaner seasons; and old-fashioned flowers bloom throughout the summer. Tasha has many garden passions, among them old roses, an heirloom dianthus collection planted in a fairy ring, peonies, huge stands of bleeding-hearts. Another is a mature, graceful herb garden with a massive, thirty-two-year-old potted bay tree at its center.
"I grow a lot of culinary herbs because I'm famous for my good cooking, of which I am inordinately proud—and it's wholly due to herbs," she says. Friends testify to Tasha's expertise in the kitchen, learned in childhood from her Scottish nanny.
Tasha admits to having no modesty concerning her garden either. She loves the thymes and basils, and she grows marjoram, chives, the savories, and tarragon. She bundles and dries sage to sprinkle on her goat cheese. Chamomile seeds itself everywhere, and for tea and tonics she also gathers nettles and red clover that grow wild in the meadows.
Tasha enjoys shaping various herb plants into standards. The old bay that she brings into the house each winter (it wouldn't survive outside in her climate, which straddles zones 4 and 5) can be seen in the watercolor painting of her herb garden that appears on The Herb Companion's cover this issue. In real life, the bay is about 4 feet tall and "bigger than you can get your arms around," Tasha says. She speaks nostalgically of a huge rosemary standard she had for many years that finally succumbed: "I'm going to get my son to carve me a spoon from the rosemary wood." She even makes short-lived standards from thymes.
Tasha has said that fragrance is the foremost asset of any flower, which explains why the lavenders and rosemaries rank among her favorites in the entire garden. Clumps of valerian send up white clouds of flowers, and stalks of foxgloves tower over her head. Tasha grows these not for their medicinal value, but for the beauty or fragrance of their flowers, alongside her hollyhocks, delphiniums, and Canterbury bells, and she'd rather call them by their common names, so much more evocative and euphonious than proper Latin botanical names. She collects flowers much as she does her other favorite things, such as old toys, animals, and antique clothing.
Because her life is so closely tied to the land, it's not surprising that Tasha is a believer in herbal medicine not only for herself but for her animals. She plants garlic each fall, much of which she feeds to her corgis. "They don't have fleas as a result," she says triumphantly. When a goat is sickly and off its feed, a few leaves of comfrey usually seem to set it straight. A large stand grows beneath a crab apple, restrained from rambunctiousness by its proximity to a stone wall.
From Garden To Table
On a dependable old wood cookstove, Tasha concocts her "receipts", as she calls them: pies, breads, Irish stew, soups, gingerbread cookies. A tiny, wiry woman, she herself probably eats no more than one of her birds, but any visitor is an excuse to fire up the stove.
In The Tasha Tudor Cookbook (Little, Brown, 1993), Tasha's generous use of fresh herbs in the kitchen is apparent. Thyme, chervil, tarragon, and basil flavor her favorite French dressing. Nasturtium blossoms or violets garnish her summer chicken salad, which contains big handfuls of fresh sweet marjoram, chives, summer savory, parsley, thyme, and tarragon. Rosemary leaves impart their flavor to her slow-roasted leg of lamb, which she serves with a spearmint sauce. One of her specialties ("of which I am inordinately proud") is her iced tea receipt, which combines loose-leaf English or Irish breakfast tea with freshly squeezed fruit juices, ginger ale, a sugar syrup, and fresh spearmint. She writes in the cookbook:
The first pitcher of iced tea is marked yearly on the kitchen door where I keep all important records, including births, deaths, marriages, goat-kid arrivals, corgi whelpings, goings as well as comings home, first frosts, first snows, sightings of birds in the springtime, and so on. I never fail to mislay paper records, but a wall is not to be lost.
Sometimes in the fall, Tasha brings sweet Annie or goldenrod into the house for dried bouquets, but there's little time in her life for fripperies. Raising her own herbs and vegetables, canning, drying, and root-cellaring are all ways in which Tasha asserts her independence. "I don't think progress is beautiful, so I'm really behind the times," she says, adding: "Look what people have done to this beautiful planet. They'll discover too late that they've gone too far."
Enriching all parts of her garden is a large compost pile fueled by goat manure. "My compost pile is marvelous. It looks like Mount Everest," she says. "I don't spray anything. You could call me an organic gardener. You know, if you plant enough, you'll have enough of most things. A few worms in an apple never hurt anybody—it's good protein."
The Art Of Living
Tasha views her artwork with this same brand of horse sense. "My drawing is only a means to an end. When people talk about my creativity, that's nonsense. It's a case of the wolf at the door. I do it to support my corgis and my four children." Her remarkable publishing record, the number of magazine stories that have been written about her over the years, and her legion of admirers haven't swayed her from a hard-headed practicality about the need to earn a living. Her elaborate, delicate artwork, often framed by borders filled with vignettes from her life, supports her garden, her menagerie, and her implacable mind-set.
Much of Tasha's artwork and her reading are done in the wintertime. "I love the winter. It's delightful," she says. "I don't have to go anywhere because I work at home. If I'm snowed in, I can stay this way for months." She hopes for early, deep snow to protect her garden from the harshness of the New England winter, and when it comes she puts on snowshoes when she needs to get down the mile-long dirt path that leads to the road.
Given her enjoyment of winter and her fantasy way of life, it's not surprising that Tasha's Christmas is a storybook holiday. She hangs garlands of laurel over the front door and swags of hemlock in the barn. Her tree comes from the woods, and it goes up on Christmas Eve, lit by homemade candles of carnauba wax and beeswax and decorated with her great-grandmother's collection of delicate ornaments that date from 1850, as well as cornucopias filled with homemade pralines, butter toffees, vanilla cream caramels, taffy, and fudge. In a place of honor on the tree are large gingerbread cookies cut into the shapes of her animals. (The recipe for these cookies, which also adorned the White House Christmas tree during the Johnson administration, is given below, along with her good-eating gingerbread recipe. Both are from The Tasha Tudor Cookbook by Tasha Tudor, ©1993 by Tasha Tudor, reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company.)
The grandchildren and other young relatives and friends get presents from Tasha's old dolls; the animals receive goodies, including sardines in the dogs' stockings, and they have their own Christmas tree. "Of course, it's a known fact that all the animals talk on Christmas Eve," she has written. Small, handmade gifts fill a big wooden chest. Christmas music plays on an old music box.
At the end of each year, Tasha can look back and know that the fabric of her life is intact, that she has again ignored the twentieth century, that the magic continues. And for the rest of us, here's a bit of advice, Tasha style: "Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more."
Kathleen Halloran, writer and associate editor of The Herb Companion, would spend more time rocking on the porch if she had a porch. Her home and garden are in Laporte, Colorado.


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The interesting parts for me are not the assertions I agree with but the assertions I disagree with - and asking myself why I disagree with them
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Real (sic.) Source of the British Riots
The interesting parts for me are not the assertions I agree with but the assertions I disagree with - and asking myself why I disagree with them
21 comments:
- paul said...
maybe just me, but it seems the young trouble makers 'free market relations' are completely in order.
As above,so below
- 11 August 2011 at 22:53
- Stef said...
/ assumes the position
- 11 August 2011 at 23:21
- Stef said...
no, it's not just you
hence my caveat
this relentless RW libertarian harping on about 'markets' for everything, attempting to reduce all human interactions to traded commodities gets on my tits
but Molyneux does refer to points which are not being made much elsewhere - the UK's 'Treasure Island' status for corporate retailers and tax harvesters/ rentiers, the 300+ to 0 scoresheet for deaths in custody vs convictions for illegal killing, the suggestion that whatever people in the UK are experiencing is chicken shit compared to what's being done in their name overseas...
just between you and me, the pundit expressing opinions on the causes of the riots most similar to my own is Max Keiser but I reached a point where I couldn't bear his self-serving silver and AGW ramping any longer
though I note he steers clear of the AGW ramping on other peoples' shows presumably because he knows the pounding he'll take - which at the very least demonstrates that he's a shifty fucker
- 11 August 2011 at 23:33
- Bridget said...
Leading Economist Nourial Roubini: 'Karl Marx Was Right' | Death and Taxes
Economist Nourial Roubini—famous for having accurately predicted the financial meltdown in 2008 that lead us to our current situation—gave an interview to Wall Street Journal in which he affirms what Death and Taxes' own DJ Pangburn often calls capitalism's schizophrenia: The 2 sides of the marketplace, sellers (companies) and buyers (consumers), have directly conflicting self interests. Both are individually motivated to save and stockpile cash. But the more companies save the less they hire, hence the less money flows into the hands of workers, hence the less money they spend and the less money therefore flows back to companies. Meanwhile, the more consumers save the less they spend, and the less they spend the less money companies have and the less confident they feel about hiring, and hence the less money flows back into the hands of consumers.
It's a Mexican standoff.
In a particularly bleak assessment, Roubini suggests that the current craziness in the markets may be the result of almost a century of trying to bargain our way out of a notion that's been chasing us down since the Great Depression and which we've been barely outrunning: that markets, quite simply, might not work.
"Karl Marx had it right," Roubini says. "At some point capitalism can self-destroy itself. We thought that markets work. They are not working. What's individually rational… is a self-destructive process."
- 13 August 2011 at 02:38
- gyg3s said...
I'm wondering how much of a comparison there is between the Peasants' Revolt and the Chavs' Revolt. Peasants were an integral part of the economy of medieval society; unfortunately, Chavs are an integral part of the economy of the UK. We've created a huge underclass from which the middle classes feed. Consider the benefits that the unemployed receive, the largest beneficiaries of these benefits are the middle classes. A transparent example of one such benefit is housing benefit, the money never touches the claimant's pocket, instead going to some greedy/grubby landlord. The education of these people is not for their benefit but for the benefit of people earning money out of doing it (or at least going through the motions of it). The same can be said for health care and the provision of all statutory entitlements eg housing etc.
Lastly, my deliberate use of the word Chav. I regard it as akin to the word nigger in the US; a term used so that people can be hamstrung from the off. A legitimated form of contempt.
- 13 August 2011 at 09:38
- Stef said...
Roubini's opinion are supposed to carry more weight because he was the economic genius who predicted the 2008 crash
Which doesn't impress me much as plenty of people, yours truly included, saw it coming
There's so much wrong with that Roubini interview I'm not sure where to start
Hmmm, so the markets have locked up because companies and consumers are stockpiling cash?
Funny, I was under the impression that people were skint because inflation is going through the roof and ordinary peoples' income isn't. People were making up the difference with credit, but that's maxed out now, even with record low interest rates
And the wealth hasn't all disappeared into the industrial capitalists' pockets. It's being hoovered up by the finance capitalists and rentier class
Marx may or may not have been right about capitalism's inherent flaws but what's going on right now is outright, deliberate thievery; not the conclusion of some mathematical progression
Roubini's blowing smoke
- 13 August 2011 at 10:23
- Stef said...
There are some who might suspect that your point of view could be used as a trojan horse argument to attack the provision of social welfare
It could be I suppose
But there again that doesn't mean it's invalid
- 13 August 2011 at 10:51
- Stef said...
... I think I've expressed my antipathy to landlord benefit here on previous occasions
Another is example is the changing role of local councils as they axe front-line (working class) staff but retain their management teams. Council tax payers are forking out ever-increasing amounts of dosh for what is becoming precisely fuck all in the way of services
So, then the question becomes who does the council exist to serve? The people or its managers?
- 13 August 2011 at 11:00
- Bridget said...
@gyges I think the demonisation of the working class has been prevalent in British culture since the defeat of the miners culminating in Blair's 'everyone is middle class now'. A review of a couple of books that attempt to understand this phenomenon:
The new condition of the working class | Counterfire
Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto:
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.
From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.
Stef, I was surprised by your outright rejection of Roubini's analysis, especially as he appears to be more than just a talking head.
IMO people aren't spending, they are using the little cash they have spare to pay off mortgages and credit cards and fear of unemployment leads to stashing away as much as possible for the inevitable.
To categorise Marx's analysis of Capital as merely a mathematical progression is disingenuous. Capital contains inherent contradictions which Marx revealed, including booms and bust. 'Deliberate thievery' is inherent to Capital via exploitation and Imperialism. Whether markets can recover is questionable without the sort of pauperisation experienced in the 20's and 30's.
In these crises, writes Marx, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity - the epidemic of over-production.
Capitalism has produced too much! Not too much to satisfy the world's population - poverty and starvation persist - but too much to be sold for an acceptable profit.
Just how many goods there are was revealed by the rioters and looters - and we could produce for need not profit - there are plenty of goods available but going unsold!
Capital is uncertain whether government's can make the poor pay enough for this present crisis (Greece, Spain, Ireland etc) so don't be surprised to find the true face of finance capital, fascism, just waiting in the wings.
How easy it would be to install fascism in this creaky little country! No need to torch the Reichstag all you'd have to do would be to burn a few more sports shops.
- 13 August 2011 at 11:42
- Stef said...
Did you listen to the actual interview rather than the somewhat imperfect summary? I did
The masses aren't stockpiling cash, they're just taking on less debt. The value of what money they have is being aggressively eroded through central banks giving speculators cash to drive up commodity prices
Roubini's blowing smoke
And I'm not reducing all of Marx to a mathematical expression I'm talking about the specific prediction Marx made about over-production killing capitalism. That's not what's behind the current economic market turmoil. It's down to the excesses of finance capital not industrial production
- 13 August 2011 at 11:59
- Stef said...
"Just how many goods there are was revealed by the rioters and looters - and we could produce for need not profit - there are plenty of goods available but going unsold!"
By and large, people were nicking trainers, TVs, computer games and bottles of scotch
Whatever 'need' there was for those goods was manufactured as surely as the goods themselves
And an awful lot of market research and advertising goes into ensuring that 'need' is never sated
- 13 August 2011 at 12:05
- Stef said...
PS I'm not dissing the over-production argument
Under capitalism, in a future where automated factories could meet all our material needs without any labour component, how could the ex-factory workers earn the money to pay for the goods?
That's a fundamental question, sure enough but, at the moment, I'm more focused on the multi-trillion derivative bubble and acts of brazen larceny taking place in broad daylight. Roubini apparently isn't
- 13 August 2011 at 12:26
- Bridget said...
Stef, I did listen although it was somewhat late when I did. You'll also note he talks about the unwinnable wars under Bush:
`Guns and butter require high taxes!`
He also describes the riots as not being about criminality but about being about poverty and desperation, massive social and political instability. And how the US uses its prisons to quell any unrest (US police measures can work in UK says 'supercop' William Bratton - Crime, UK - The Independent).
Debt as the basis for any economy, whether domestic or global, appears to be at the root of his analysis, and the fear of further debt traps.
Whatever way you choose to look at this Marx is pointing to the basis of Capital as being profit: from where or rather whom will Capitalism extract this profit?
I think Roubini's analysis is honest, he understands that taxation was what what replaced the gold standard when the Bretton Woods agreement was terminated by the US. Without higher taxation (which he has described as at 14% rather than 19% for stability) there is no way out for the US, of course the US has recently voted this down preferring to make the poor pay by cuts in social welfare.
There is much there to ponder rather than dismiss.
- 13 August 2011 at 12:28
- Stef said...
I don't deny that Roubini made statements I personally agree with but there's a reason why more people have heard of Roubini than, say, Michael Hudson
Hudson is much more on target than Roubini imho
The reason why Hudson doesn't get airtime is because he talks about deliberate criminal intent alongside his structural analyses
Roubini = limited hang out, big time
- 13 August 2011 at 12:36
- Bridget said...
I'm not sure you answered any of the points I actually raised but after having a read of a few Hudson articles, you can also see Marx was right:
EU: Class War Declared | Michael Hudson
My own memory is that socialist idealism after World War II was world-weary in seeing nation states as the instruments for military warfare. This pacifist ideology came to overshadow the original socialist ideology of the late 19th century, which sought to reform governments to take law-making power, taxing power and property itself out of the hands of the classes who had possessed it ever since the Viking invasions of Europe had established feudal privilege, absentee landownership and financial control of trading monopolies and, increasingly, the banking privilege of money creation.
My UMKC colleague, Prof. Bill Black commented recently in the UMKC economics blog: "One of the great paradoxes is that the periphery's generally left-wing governments adopted so enthusiastically the ECB's ultra-right wing economic nostrums – austerity is an appropriate response to a great recession. … Why left-wing parties embrace the advice of the ultra-right wing economists whose anti-regulatory dogmas helped cause the crisis is one of the great mysteries of life. Their policies are self-destructive to the economy and suicidal politically."[8]
Greece and Ireland have become the litmus test for whether economies will be sacrificed in attempts to pay debts that cannot be paid. An interregnum is threatened during which the road to default and permanent austerity will carve out more and more land and public enterprises from the public domain, divert more and more consumer income to pay debt service and taxes for governments to pay bondholders, and more business income to pay the bankers.
If this is not war, what is?
I don't see a lot of difference in the substance of their arguments or the conclusions they draw.
- 13 August 2011 at 15:18
- Bridget said...
^ Best remember they are referring to the Socialism of the Social Democratic parties rather than the Socialism of the Russian Revolution!
- 13 August 2011 at 15:21
- Stef said...
"I don't see a lot of difference in the substance of their arguments or the conclusions they draw."
I didn't pick Hudson at random
Hudson leaves less out/ says more
- 13 August 2011 at 15:26
- Stef said...
I'm not sure you answered any of the points I actually raised"
My intention was not to be evasive
I've acknowledged inherent flaws in capitalism (which isn't the same thing as endorsing a planned economy)
And no you certainly can't keep shifting income to capital away from labour indefinitely
But I take exception to Roubini depicting the current economic turmoil as being a result of producers and consumers hoarding cash (in this case, a euphemism for not taking on more debt)
The people who are sitting on mounds of actual cash are Roubini and his zillionaire clients in the financial speculator class
In that interview Roubini downplays the role played by the finance capitalists. For example, he refers to the probability of QE3 and QE4 (gifting money to the banking system) and uses the euphemism 'monetary easing' with barely any comment at all
At one point the interviewer asks Roubini point blank 'The US' fiscal woe at present - whose fault is that?' and Roubini answers 'George Bush'
For feck's sake
Roubini then goes on to say that Obama needs to undertake *more* fiscal stimulus - which in recent years has become another euphemism for printing money and giving it to the banks
Contrast with Hudson who talks about deliberate agency as well as structural issues, the wilfull destruction and looting of the tangible economy by finance capitalists, the evils of a rentier economy and neo-serfdom, and the moral and pressing need for debt default
- 13 August 2011 at 19:25
- Stef said...
...and, personally, I wouldn't point to well stocked shops as being proof of a crisis of capitalism
If there was sod all available to buy would that be proof of its success?
The fact that shops are largely stocked with old tat which will break down or become out of fashion before you get back home *is* evidence of capitalism destroying its surpluses, and choking the planet in shit in the process
- 13 August 2011 at 19:31
- Stef said...
This man appears to be a tad more aware of the extraction process than Nouriel
- 13 August 2011 at 21:22
- Bridget said...
Whatever way economists attempt to explain the present global crisis, and there are as many explanations as there are economists it would seem, it remains an intrinsic fact that Capital in the form of finance Capital prowls the globe for one thing and one thing only, profit.
The desperation and panic expressed by Ratigan is just another expression of an economist attempting to 'fix it' - this time by calling for a sort of strong man dictator to overthrow a 'bought congress' but conveniently forgetting that Obama is as 'bought' as they are.
Whatever reasons or solutions these commentators are fixated on, Marx WAS right, Capitalism just as with previous economic systems predicated on exploitation and oppression, will not last indefinitely as it becomes consumed within its own contradictions.
Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.
Roubini sees this as does Hudson, whatever fix might work in the short term there is absolutely no long-term solution within the current system. Unless we wish to return to the feudalism from which modern Capitalism sprung there'll have to be new solutions that we are capable of imagining. It is precisely this imagination that is lacking within any of these commentators. We are free to imagine though!
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Best Buy Co. founder Richard Schulze will make a fully financed offer to purchase the consumer electronics giant by the end of the week, possibly on Friday, the Star Tribune has learned.
Schulze will submit a formal proposal to the board of directors before a "hard" deadline of Sunday, said one source. The offer is expected to be at least $5 billion to $6 billion.
"This is going down to the wire," the source said.
Over the past weekend, Schulze and his team secured agreements to finance the deal from bankers and private equity investors, which includes Cerberus, Leonard Greene & Partner and the Texas Pacific Group, the source said. Schulze will meet with his top advisers, including former CEO Brad Anderson and former president Al Lenzmeier, in Minnesota on Thursday and Friday as they prepare to move forward.
Best Buy declined to comment on Wednesday.
Founded by Schulze as a single store in St. Paul in 1966, Best Buy has grown into a global retail powerhouse with more than $50 billion in annual sales and more than 100,000 employees.
While it remains unclear how much Schulze will offer for the company, investors expect the bid to be much lower than the range of $24 to $26 per share that Schulze first outlined over the summer. Since late June, Best Buy stock has fallen 45 percent, closing Wednesday at $12.20 per share.
The recent stock plunge surprised Schulze so much that he requested a 30-day extension from the original deadline of mid-November to see how Best Buy's holiday numbers would hold up, sources said.
At this point, institutional investors and analysts speculate that shareholders would be open to selling their stake to Schulze, although they would prefer at least $17 per share, a 40 percent premium over the company's current stock price. In after hours trading Wednesday, Best Buy stock jumped 3.6 percent.
Now that Schulze appears ready to make a credible bid, the big question will center on how the board responds to the offer. Under the original negotiating terms between Schulze and Best Buy, Schulze can make a second offer in January if the board rejects his initial bid. Indeed, a source close to Schulze previously told the newspaper that he expected the board to say no the first time.
Schulze's relationship with the company has improved considerably over the past several months after a tense parting earlier this year.
In May, the Best Buy board, led by G. "Mike" Mikan, forced Schulze to resign as chairman after it determined the founder withheld information about allegations that then CEO Brian Dunn had an affair with a female employee.
At the time, much of Wall Street believed Mikan, who was named interim CEO, would get the job permanently. But in a surprise move, Best Buy in September named Hubert Joly, a former Carlson CEO with close ties to Anderson, as its new leader.
Joly has since worked hard to improve Best Buy's relationship with Schulze. At the behest of the board, Joly had arranged for Schulze's buyout team to speak to executives throughout the company. Joly also kept Schulze updated about key hires, including Sharon McCollam as chief financial officer and Shawn Score as U.S. retail chief.
Joly also has publicly praised Schulze several times to analysts and reporters. Last month, Joly met with Schulze, Anderson, and Lenzmeier to discuss turnaround strategies.
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OTTAWA — The Conservative party and its main call bank company rejected as false a sworn affidavit from a former phone worker who alleges she and her colleagues were concerned they had misdirected voters in the days leading up to the recent federal election.
In an affidavit released Wednesday, Annette Desgagne said in the last few days before the May 2 election, scripts for callers at the Responsive Marketing Group's phone bank in Thunder Bay, Ont., instructed them to identify themselves as calling from the "Voter Outreach Centre" and to tell voters about last-minute changes Elections Canada had made to polling stations.
One caller, Desgagne claimed, identified himself as calling from Elections Canada.
Desgagne's affidavit was filed as part of a series of court challenges launched by the Council of Canadians. The group alleges fraudulent phone calls in the last election affected the outcome of votes in seven ridings and wants the Federal Court to set the results aside.
The Conservatives dismissed the litigation as an attempt by the losers to change the outcome of the election.
"This is a transparent attempt to overturn certified election results simply because this activist group doesn't like them," said party spokesman Fred DeLorey in an emailed statement.
RMG issued its own statement, saying it called only Conservative supporters in the days leading up to the vote and that the scripts used by call workers clearly indicated they were calling on behalf of the party.
"(It) would make no sense for RMG to give identified Conservative supporters incorrect voting information," the company said.
Desgagne, who began working in the Thunder Bay call centre about three weeks before the election, says for her first few weeks on the job, workers at the phone bank were engaged in voter-identification calls.
About three days before the election, Desgagne says, the scripts she was reading off a computer screen were changed to change-of-address calls.
"I started to become concerned about the change-of-address calls, because several of the listeners with whom I spoke questioned me about the new polling location I was providing," Desgagne said.
One woman from Winnipeg told Desgagne the new poll location she provided was more than an hour from her home, Desgagne said. In another call, she says, she gave a new poll location to a woman who already had voted in the lobby of her seniors residence.
"As these calls grew in number, I became increasingly concerned that I was giving out incorrect information to voters."
RMG claims its callers did not make change-of-location calls, but, rather, made get-out-the-vote (GOTV) calls that included polling address confirmations.
"The scripts indicated that Elections Canada had changed 'some' polling locations — not that 'their' (that individual's) location had changed," the company said.
"The caller then asked the voter if they knew their location and, if that location was different from what the caller had onscreen, informed them of the onscreen location."
One of the results being challenged by the Council of Canadians is the Northern Ontario riding of Nipissing-Timiskaming, where Liberal incumbent Anthony Rota lost to Conservative Jay Aspin by only 18 votes.
Desgagne said in her statement that she specifically remembers making calls about a poll in Nipissing-Timiskaming because she had trouble pronouncing the name when speaking to voters.
The council has obtained a statement from Elections Canada's lawyer stating that of the ridings involved in the litigation, only one — on Vancouver Island — had polling stations moved.
That suggests that, at the least, the information Desgagne provided about changing polling locations in Nipissing-Timiskaming was incorrect.
It also casts doubt on the Conservatives' contention that calls misdirecting voters may have been the result of honest mistakes.
Desgagne said she also heard other RMG call workers raising concerns about the poll change calls.
"Many callers were still indicating during our breaks that listeners were telling them the change-of-address information we were giving was wrong."
She says she told a supervisor she was worried she was sending people to the wrong locations, but was told to stick to the scripts provided.
"Our concerns were ignored and we had to keep reading and repeating the same scripts about changes of address for polling stations made by Elections Canada."
Desgagne also said she heard another RMG call centre employee claim to be phoning from Elections Canada. She claims she told him, "Dude, you're not from Elections Canada."
Elections Canada never makes telephone calls about poll changes and, to avoid confusion, discourages parties from making them. Desgagne said she remembers RMG supervisors telling the callers on election day that it was important that they say they were calling from the Conservative Party of Canada, after several days where they did not identify the party.
When Desgagne heard reports on the radio about misleading calls, she said, "I became very concerned that I was participating in something that involved giving voters wrong information.
"My internal radar went off. I wrote down what I could recall from the script I was asked to read about change-of-address calls and I arranged for the information to go to the RCMP."
The Council of Canadians is using a rarely used provision of the Elections Act that allows any elector to ask a court to set aside the result in his or her riding if there is convincing evidence of illegal or fraudulent activity that changed the outcome.
The council has focused on closely contested seats where there have been reports of alleged voter suppression calls. So far, none of the winning candidates in the seven ridings has filed their statements of defence. Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton has suggested in an interview with the Toronto Star that the claims will not withstand legal scrutiny.
The council launched its legal challenges in Federal Court after the Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia News reported on an Elections Canada investigation into robocalls made in Guelph, Ont., and a pattern of suspicious live calls in other ridings.
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand told a parliamentary committee last month that his agency has lodged about 800 complaints over live and automated election calls from 200 different ridings.
The Conservative party repeatedly has stated it did not engage in voter suppression calls in the last election, and has complained that it is the victim of a smear campaign.
The Citizen and Postmedia News reported earlier this week that Elections Canada investigators have been asking questions about an apparent gap in voter database access logs that the agency received from the party. The logs track who accesses the party's Constituency Information Management System.
Investigators also have inquired about a May 1 phone call that a member of the Conservatives' target seat team made to the voice broadcast company that was used to send deceptive robocalls in Guelph on election day.
On Tuesday, the New Democrats seized on the report of the apparent gap in data logs, and accused the Conservatives of erasing electronic records, comparing the missing information to a mysterious gap in audiotapes in the Watergate scandal in the United States.
In reaction, the Conservatives sent an email to supporters denying that Elections Canada is investigating the party.
"Contrary to media reports, the Conservative Party of Canada is not under investigation for what went on in Guelph," said the email.
Party spokesman DeLorey did not respond to an email Wednesday asking how the party would know whether it was being investigated. Elections Canada does not typically confirm or deny facts about ongoing investigations.
In February, after reports of the apparent pattern of deceptive and fraudulent election calls, Elections Canada received thousands of online "contacts" calling for a full investigation, mostly as the result of an online petition.
The agency hired about 12 administrative workers to sort through the flood of electronic messages, passing specific allegations of wrongdoing on to Elections Canada's veteran investigators, most of whom are former RCMP officers. Several people who filed complaints about seemingly deceptive calls have reported receiving subsequent calls from Elections Canada investigators.
Most complainants are opposition party supporters who received a voter-identification call from the Conservatives early in the campaign, then received a live call in the last days of the campaign instructing them that their polling station had moved.
Conservatives point out that the party made millions of voter-identification and get-out-the-vote calls during the campaign, and suggest that misdirecting calls may be explained by bad data, caller error or incorrect recollections by the people who received the calls.
Both the Conservative party and RMG say they have reached out proactively, seeking to help Elections Canada in its investigation.


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It's also worth reminding yourself that people who aren't happy are not that way out of a deliberate first choice - The 'New Agers' have got it wrong there. Instead, samsara as a whole is characterised by the false belief that conditions are in and of themselves the causes of happiness or suffering, and the human realm (in particular) features a further irrational belief that the mere absence or deviation of positive conditions observed elsewhere constitutes a negative set of conditions. Thus, a being who observes that most of his or her conditions (and/or absences/variations of conditions) are generally considered to result in suffering may inadvertently choose suffering (and therefore negative actions of mind) by grasping onto other conditions (generally considered to result in happiness) that are not currently-ripening effects of that being's past karma. Conversely, if a being finds potential positive conditions beginning to ripen, then he or she may perform negative actions of body'or of speech out of impatience.Johnny Dangerous wrote:Padma, you are lucky to wake up happy, or have the good karma for it, or whatever.
@Padma: What I've read elsewhere seems to supports a view that your repeated take on positive and negative karma relates more to merit and enlightenment -the cessation of karma- than to karma itself. A focus on one's negative or "missing" conditions would seem to result from a prime motivator for negative actions (the ignorant grasping of reified conditions as bringing happiness or suffering to a reified self) and lead to a greater risk of performing those actions, rather than being the heinous and blameworthy Original Sin that you appear to me to view it as. There's probably a misunderstanding, but perhaps your greater experience of happiness is reflected in your emphases.
While many people atleast claim, conversely, to disregard negatives in favour of positives, these are often those with either fewer negative conditions or less insight into their negative conditions (partial knowledge being a dangerous thing), rather than beings who find that their level of positive conditioning is well below average for their environment and who -through dharma practice and realisation- rightly treat that fact as inconsequential.


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Stichting Vrienden Fastservice ( in english: Foundation Friends Fastservice)
THE BRANCHE/INDUSTRY ( where we use the word BRANCHE you can also read INDUSTRY)
Like in the rest of the world many people in the Netherlands visit Quick Service Restaurants like McDonald's, Burgerking, KFC. Apart from these well-known fastfoodrestaurants, we consider also outlets where food and drinks are being served (fast) to consume on the spot or to go/take away, being part of a branche called "Fastservice": a blend of (quick)foodservice, retail and hospitality industry..
Not only in Holland the branche has a negative image: for as well as the food ( unhealthy) as working ( so called Mcjobs). And we want to improve this image here in Holland.
This Dutch foundation has the following goal:
Improving the image, including working and learning, in the fastservice branche.
We want to reach these goals by doing:
- research and investigations in the branche in order to support entrepreneurs and companies to improve running and profits of their business/outlet.
- organizing and distribution of knowledge
- improve knowledge by education, training and workshops. Creating career opportunities. So the branche is attractive to work in/for.
The foundation needs participants who support the foundation with knowledge, financially(donations) or stimulating employees to follow education, training or workshops. These participants are called: Vrienden (friends).
We are a modern and transparent foundation who need the support of "friends" in the Netherlands. Our audience are suppliers/ companies delivering to the branche such as Coca-Cola, McCain, But also fastservice companies/franchise chains with employees being trained or educated in fastservice such as McDonald's, and local well-known fastservice companies likes Servex, Verhage foods, etc.
(see also their websites). But also NGO's and education partners who support our goals.
Examples of sites of friends of the foundation
http://www.kenwerk.nl ( educational partner)
http://www.kenniscentrumhoreca.nl ( knowledge partner)
http://www.nederlandschoon.nl ( educational partner)
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- The website needs to reflect the feeling of "doing things/business together" in order to improve the image/conception of the branche.
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Today I went to Annapolis, Maryland with Bev. I haven't had a chance to practiced using my GPS, so I was trying to figure it out while Bev drove. Annapolis was nice, but I expected that it would be easy to find the US Naval Academy. I had fond memories of watching "Men of Annapolis" on television in the 1950's. Well we were driving around and finally I was able to use the GPS to navigate to the Academy. Success! It wasn't far, but we just didn't happen to get on the right streets. What a very nice campus. We walked around town and did some people watching too. The midshipmen were walking by as Bev and I sat at an outdoor cafe by the water. Their must have been a special function because the cadets were in full uniforms and had dates wearing formal dresses. I didn't realize Annapolis was also a historic and quaint town - and the capitol of Maryland. The State House is pictured on one of the new quarter coins. It was an enjoyable day, and I was happy to have visited this famous town. Back to Silver Springs for the night, then I leave to West Virginia tomorrow then on to check out where my ancestors traveled in the Shenandoah Valley. Below are some photos from Annapolis.
This blog is a reprint of my internet journal from 2001 to 2002 in which I documented my "vagabond" solo journey in a Chevy Conversion Van tracing my roots. I not only traced their paths and found their homes and final resting places, but I did extensive genealogical research in court houses, libraries, historical societies, genealogical societies, cemeteries, and talked to the local people. I traveled with a laptop to upload my notes and photos, and use e-mail. It was a fantastic journey which lasted two years. I had no other home except my van to sleep in...just a bed and video player. My household goods were put into storage for two years. My mail was delivered to me at general delivery when I phoned "MailBox, etc." and told them where to send it. At night I stayed in campgrounds, motels, friends' backyards, friends' homes, and those of the few living relations I've tracked down. As I traveled I collected so much genealogy information, that I had to get rid of items that I had originally thought essential to my travels (like a microwave oven). Between ancestral sites, I visited any tourist sites I could find and got to know alot about the USA. This was a trip of a lifetime and I'm still sorting through all the wonderful memories, photos and invaluable genealogical data I found. I will post to this blog as I can - one or a few days at a time of that journey from 2001 to 2002
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
19 May 2001 - Saturday - Annapolis, Maryland
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You will simply not believe this. Our 8th District US Congressional representative, the Hon. Gabrielle Giffords, in a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee, asked General David Petraeus the following question: "General Petraeus, what are you doing to reduce carbon emissions in the war on terror?" Wow. I had to read, and re-read this several times to believe it. Folks, there are American sons and daughters dying every week on the foreign battlefields of southwest Asia. The nation is completely bankrupt and ... quite literally, borrowing 43 cents for every dollar in federal spending. We have the largest environmental disaster in the nation's history in the Gulf of Mexico, and we have Mexican drug armies invading our nation. And yet ....A member of Congress from Arizona's 8th congressional district took the time to ask our battlefield commander what he is doing to curb carbon emissions in the war. Gabrielle Giffords is the poster-child for what is wrong with the US Congress. We are being led by imbeciles. To the rest of America reading this blog, and to Gen. Petraeus if this e-mail makes it to your inbox ... my sincerest apologies for the stupid question asked of you by my US congressional representative. General ... I am sure you have better things to worry about than carbon emissions on the battlefield. I assure you, as a registered voter in Arizona's 8th congressional district, I will do everything I can to ensure Rep. Giffords is voted out of office in November, and I pray you'll get back to business of fighting the war on terror without worrying about such petty and nonsensical matters as your carbon footprint in the war.
Mark Beres, Maj. USAF (ret.)
Tucson, Arizona
FYI: The 8th District surrounds Tucson to the north, south and east (Tucson is in the 7th District) and covers the south-east corner of AZ.
She also suggested that the Army "put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output."
I think we ought to put her on the front lines so she can stab or club the enemy. God help us if this is the type of idiots that are elected to office. Walk softly and carry a big knife or big stick to save the environment.