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The Bethabara Hortus Medicus is the oldest known, well-documented American Medical Garden.
Historic Bethabara Park contains archaeological and landscape evidence of the importance of agriculture in the life of the colonial Moravian settlement. The museum has reconstructed an early timber-framed barn, on an original 1765 Calf Barn site, where farm implements are exhibited.
On the hill overlooking the Park from the west may be seen the outlines of the 1758 grape arbor, the earliest (though unsuccessful) colonial experiment in grape culture for wine in the North Carolina backcountry. The hill overlooking the Park from the east contains an example of a small apple orchard with varieties that may have been grown in the colonial period when Bethabara was the center for local apple cultivation. Later in the early 19th Century the surrounding Surry County became a major producing area for apples, more than likely based upon early Moravian stocks. Before the Civil War, Southern farmers migrated to the Middle West and carried these stocks with them to begin the great apple industry there in the later 19th and earlier 20th centuries. The 1803 Herman Buttner House in Bethabara is the oldest distiller's house in the United States and reminds us of the importance of apples and hard cider distilleries in the economy of early America.
As a part of our interest in colonial agriculture, Historic Bethabara Park has undertaken archaeology to discover the original sites of the 1759 Community Garden and the 1761 Medical Garden. Based upon maps drawn by the Moravian surveyor Christian Reuter, as well as his extensive plant list, these gardens demonstrate how European settlers created gardens in the New World patterned after those they had known in the Old. As far as is known, these documents represent the earliest extant garden plans with plant lists in America today. The two gardens have been reconstructed on their original locations as revealed by archaeology and illustrated in the maps. The reconstructed Community Garden is the only known, well-documented colonial Community Garden in the United States. The Medical Garden is the earliest known, well-documented American colonial medical garden.
Today, the Medical Garden is a reconstruction, based on Christian Reuter's map, garden list, and archaeology. The first medical garden (Hortus Medicus) was planted at Bethabara in 1756 for Dr. Hans Martin Kalberlahn. Reuter's map indicates the plants for each bed. Reuter's map [pdf/187kb/1p]
The Community Gardens have been developed as a public education project. Garden plots are cultivated today by interested gardeners in the community. The Bethabara community gardeners plant either heritage plants or their cultivars from Reuter's plant list. The Community Garden today, an example of colonial gardening, is not an exact reconstruction. Both the Medical and Community Gardens contain reconstructed architectural elements, based again upon the archaeology, the maps, and old colonial drawings of the sites.
The Community Garden is surrounded by a hand-split picket fence and contains a reconstructed arched, wooden grape arbor and a timber-framed summerhouse, all based upon contemporary illustrations and examples of colonial designs. These reconstructions were built either by Wake Forest University students or as Eagle Scout projects. The summerhouse in the Medical Garden is an illustration of experimental archaeology. Documents indicate that the original was probably constructed by teenage apprentices working under a master carpenter, in preparation for the building of Salem in 1766. The modern-day construction of the summerhouse became an Eagle Scout project — a parallel to the colonial example.
Colonial agriculture at Bethabara is manifested in our reconstructions, which serve as living exhibits, and in our agricultural-related activities. Also to carry out the Park's mission, we hold an Apple Fest every fall to remind ourselves of our proud heritage, when the apples of Bethabara were the basis of an important distillery industry and when the orchards at Bethabara may have furnished the fruit stock for what ultimately became the great orchards of the Middle West.
Because the members of the Moravian religious community at Bethabara shared the effort of raising crops, herding cattle, and harvesting fruits, they were able to escape the subsistence agriculture that was the usual practice on the Carolina Backcountry frontier. Since through community cooperation a relative few members were able to raise food for the many, the community as a whole was able to suport a thriving group of over 30 different tradesmen and such professionals as doctors and ministers. At first this trade attracted non-Moravians to settle around the borders of the nearly 100,000 acre Wachovia Tract, and then it attracted trade from settlers as far as sixty miles away.
The configuration of the Herman Buttner House kitchen garden is based on the original design of this 1803 house. An addition at the rear of the House was constructed in approximately 1938, when it became the parsonage for the 1788 Gemeinhaus (Bethabara Moravian Church).
The Buttner House would have had a kitchen garden from the time it was built.
The present kitchen garden has been a work in progress for over 100 years. In the 1980s, Jo Walker, an historic interpretive guide at Bethabara and a former member of the Garden Club Council, researched and restored 18th century plantings and maintained the garden. The Audubon Garden Club took the garden on as a project in the 1990s. Since that time members have been faithfully committed to maintaining the garden, providing both plantings and upkeep, with regular watering, mulching and weeding as needed.
The Audubon Garden Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary in June of 2006, and its members, under the leadership of Jean Sohmer, have chosen to undertake the rehabilitation of this historic kitchen garden as a special project to mark this event. The rock walls required stabilization, and replenishment of mulch and soil was needed in the garden's three levels. The stones Mrs. Sohmer utilized to restore the three levels of the kitchen garden are native rock from the Bethabara site; the large, rounded and flat stones are similar to those used in buildings dating from the time of the early settlers in the 18th century.
Utilizing her experience as a sculptor, talented Club President Jean Sohmer devoted considerable time and energy to rebuilding the garden's extensive rock walls, which had become loose and unstable over the years. Club members secured mulch and dirt, at the club's expense, and replanted the three levels of the garden. They also cleared the original brick path leading to the steps at the back of the house, which had become covered with grass over the years. Heirloom kitchen vegetables and native wildflowers were taken from the Old Salem flower list and Christian Reuter's 250-year-old plant survey. The research, hard work, and exceptional commitment to the preservation of this important garden evidenced by the members of the Audubon Garden Club is, we believe, worthy of recognition by the Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission with a 2006 Preservation Award.
The 1803 Herman Buttner Distillers House is a National Historic Site, and is included in the 1999 Historic Bethabara Park's National Historic Landmark designation.
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A few weeks after they named their baby Blue Ivy, Jay Z and Beyonce filed an application to trademark her name. They weren't the first. A fashion designer had already tried to trademark "Blue Ivy Carter NYC" and someone else asked for "Blue Ivy Carter Glory IV" for a line of perfumes. Apparently famous parents with a taste for the original in names have to issue a preemptive strike.
Actually, the U.S. trademark office already said no to the imposter filings, because the office is supposed to block trademarks that will make buyers think a product is approved by a celebrity who hasn't actually signed off. That seems like the right rule. But if the trademark office is already enforcing it, why do Jay Z and Beyonce think they need to do more?
Fordham law school professor Sonia Katyal explains: "When you register a mark for federal protection, you get the ability to stop anyone from using a similar mark throughout the country." With their Blue Ivy trademark, Beyonce and Jay Z would be the only ones who could use the name in connection with certain goods and services–in this case, baby stuff. "it also conveys a certain kind of recognition," Katyal says.
Beyonce and Jay Z could market Blue Ivy products, or they could just stop other people from doing that. Angelina Jolie tried to do the latter after her baby Shiloh was born. A French perfume maker wanted to use the name for a scent that was in development, and said it was a coincidence that the names were the same. Jolie filed in opposition to the perfume maker, but later dropped it. Just don't think of her baby when you wear Shiloh perfume.
One more wrinkle from Katyal: To register a surname as a trademark, you need evidence of "secondary meaning." That means the name has to be associated with your brand because of advertising or long-time use. Once you've proved that and gotten your trademark, other people can't use the surname on confusingly similar goods, even if they have the same name. "That's why Jane McDonald could not open a restaurant called "MCDONALDS",and Joel Hyatt can't open HYATT MOTEL," as the website Bitlaw puts it.

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At the Byron Bay Dive Centre you can complete a range of PADI and SSI dive courses but be prepared to share your classroom with giant sea turtles and friendly blue gropers.
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text: For three nights the sky above Woodward Avenue in Detroit was filled with bellows of smoke and light as the artist studio Minimaforms transformed the Detroit Institute of Art into a transient light environment. The ephemeral clouds acted as smoke signals, each cloud carrying a unique message and story. Memory Cloud Detroit was a platform that offered the people of Detroit an opportunity to engage in a dialogue about the city. This interactive space animated the DIA Woodward entrance with stories collected from the public. During the two weeks leading up to the event, messages consisting of memories, stories and personal aspirations for the city of Detroit were collected and archived on-line at Voice Of Detroit. Each individual expression became a part of a continuous story about the city, a narrative written by participants over the duration of the project transforming the steps of the DIA into a dynamic space for communication. Audience members were also able to contribute messages via text-message during the performance each night. These collected text messages will be added to the Voice of Detroit archive, becoming part of an evolving diary and a voice that will speak of Detroit's past, Detroit's present and Detroit's future. An archive of collected stories and documentation of three day performance will go live at Voice Of Detroit in the coming weeks.


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Authorities in Fremont County are investigating the death of a 28 year old Riverton woman whose body was recovered from a local reservoir on Saturday. Doug Randall has the details. The Bureau of Land Management is taking public comment on a proposed wild horse sanctuary about 30 miles west of Laramie. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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Good verbal communication
This list is from a 5th grade reader that was written about 70 years ago. It appears in a chapter about patriotism that urges the readers to express their patriotism with "good speech." These standards still apply to speaking today -- whether in conversation or more formally.
1. I will have something interesting to say.
2. I will stand correctly when I speak and sit correctly as I listen.
3. I will look at and talk to my audience.
4. I will speak in a friendly manner.
5. I will speak loud enough to be easily heard.
6. I will speak distinctly.
7. I will try to pronounce all words correctly.
8. I will use correct English.
9. I will leave out unnecessary words.
10. I will be a courteous listener.
From The World Around Us, by Gerald Yoakam, M. Madilene Veverka, and Louise Abney, published by The State of Kansas, Topeka. Copyright 1941, Laidlaw Brothers. Page 194.


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New Mexico Tech Receives $34 Million in Federal Budget, Oct. 3, 2008
for Observatory, First Responder Training
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 3, 2008 – President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed the appropriations budget that funds several important research projects at New Mexico Tech.
New Mexico Tech will receive more than $37 million for research projects in the appropriations bill. The bill will also maintain federal government funding from Oct. 1 to March 6, 2009. The state-supported university in Socorro will receive funding for first-responder training and Magdalena Ridge Observatory.
"We're very pleased that the President has signed a budget that will continue to help New Mexico Tech support our national security work, especially in counter-terrorism and first responder training," Tech President Daniel H. López said. "Collectively, these programs provide us funding to play a role in supporting national defense and homeland security."
Magdalena Ridge Observatory will receive $7 million to continue to develop optics systems. The expenditure comes from the U.S. Navy's research and development funds.
Van Romero, New Mexico Tech Vice President of Research and Economic Development, said the funding will ensure that the university can complete building and installing specialized equipment and instruments for the state-of-the-art facility.
The $69 million project had already received $52 million for construction and development. The interferometer, which will ultimately feature 10 optical telescopes, is scheduled for "first light" in 2010. This round of funding will keep the facility on schedule. The facility also includes a separate 2.4-meter optical telescope that recently entered the operational phase.
The Playas Training and Research Center will receive $4.8 million in Department of Defense research and development funding to continue its training and exercise capabilities for homeland defense and joint-force training exercises. The center received $3.2 million last year.
Tech trains more than 10,000 first responders every year, many of whom spend time at Playas, a former mining town in southwest New Mexico. The university purchased the entire town in 2002 and converted the facilities to a training center. Students at Playas do not pay for their training. Federal funding allows the Center to offer free instruction to the nation's firefighters, police officers, military personnel and other first responders.
From the Department of Homeland Security budget, Tech will receive $23 million for its work through the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium. Tech trains first responders to be ready for terrorist attacks and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, through its division, Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center. Romero said the appropriation marks a $1 million increase over the 2008 budget.
"We're happy to see that budget increase," Romero said. "That will help pay for the increasing transportation costs of bringing first responders to New Mexico."
Tech was the founding member of the consortium, which now includes Texas A&M, the Nevada Test Site, the Transportation Technology Center at Pueblo, Colo., and the University of Hawaii. The consortium members received a total of $102 million from DHS.
The appropriations bill also includes $3.2 million for the University Strategic Partnership, which includes New Mexico Tech. This defense-wide research and development expenditure will support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, whose mission is to safeguard America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction in the current unstable world, Romero said.
The Agency solicited help several years ago from universities to address global issues of safety. Tech, along with the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, won the original competitive bid to create and manage the University Strategic Partnership.
Domenici, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the end-of-session appropriations package is a $600 billion package to keep the federal government open after the Oct. 1 start of the 2009 fiscal year.
"Frankly, progress on appropriations in Congress has been abysmal this year. A continuing resolution is not the best option for funding the federal government and allowing agencies to plan ahead. It is an abdication of our constitutional responsibility to fund the government, a process that has a real-world impact on the lives of people in New Mexico and across the country," Domenici said.


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We (Oskar Conle und Frank Hennemann) first met each other on the international insect-fair in Frankfurt a. M. in the early 1990's from which resulted a great friendship, close collaboration and common enthusiasm for the insect order Phasmatodea.
Oskar & Frank in French Guiana 2001 (left) and Peru 2004 (right)
In addition to breeding phasmids, we became increasingly interested in the taxonomy and classification of the Phasmatodea since 1995. It was in this year, that we published our first taxonomic papers in the German journal "Entomologische Zeitschrift" and described the first new Phasmid species. Due to our growing interest in taxonomic research on the Phasmatodea, with the faunas of North and South America as the focal point, we have since published more than 50 mostly taxonomic papers in various renowned zoological journals around the world, which up to now (early 2009) have resulted in the descriptions of almost 100 newly discovered species/subspecies and 20 new genera. Since 1996 we visit at least one Natural History Museums or institution per year in order to compile catalogues of the contained type-material, as well as taking pictures, measurements and data of all specimens that are of importance for our studies. These research-works, which are of fundamental importance for any serious taxonomic studies, have led us to almost every relevant museum or institution world-wide which contains an important Phasmid-collection.
In the course of our studies contacts to other entomologist were made from which has developed good cooperation and collegial collaboration with numerous renowned entomologists and zoological institutions all around the world, to whom we want to express our thanks! This cooperation has several resulted in co-publications with other authors, which had not been possible to compile in any other way. We furthermore act as referees for several renowned journals checking and commenting on submitted manuscripts prior to their publication. As phasmid-specialists we are also taking part in several official research-projects mainly in South America and the Caribbean, with our task being the identification, examination and publication of all Phasmid material collected. Since 2003 we are collaborators in the "Section Rhynchota" of the State Zoological Collections in Munich (ZSMC).
Left: Frank & Oskar with Kristien Rabaey and Rob Simoens (leaders of the community "Phasma") 2007 in Veurne. Right: Oskar & Frank with Prof. Klaus Schönitzer (State Zoological Collections Munich, ZSM; left) and Dr. Hans Mühle (Vizepresident of the Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft, MEG; right) receiving the science-award "Förderpreis der MEG" in 2009
Since our first common expedition in 1996 we have frquently conducted collecting-trips to the tropics all of which were precisely planned and organized. Apart from collecting-trips to e.g. Malaysia, Borneo, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Australia or the Seychelles our current studies and projects have mainly made us visit South and Central America including Costa Rica, French Guiana, Peru, Ecuador or Mexico. The scientific results of these expeditions and collecting-trips are subsequently published in zoological journals, but due to these studies are rather complex may take several years to finish. Detailed information and many photos of our expeditions can be found in the section "Expeditions" of this website.
During the past 15 years we have both built up hughe scientific reference-collections of dried and pinned Phasmatodea, each containing several thousands of labelled specimens. Our two closely connected collections (coll. FH & coll. OC) together represent the perhaps largest Phasmid-collection in the world. In addition to rich material from all zoogeographical regions our collections contain a large number of type-specimens mostly of species that we have described during the past 15 years but also of species described by colleagues.
In addition to our interest in Phasmatodea we were leaders of the "Coleoptera Breeding Group" and editors od the "Coleoptera Breeding Group Newsletter" from 1996 to 1998. During these years we also reared and collected many beetles (Order Coleoptera) and reared many different species, some of which we kept in cages with a volume up to 4m³.
However, since the late 1990's we entirely restricted to breeding Phasmatodea and frequently keep 50 to 60 different species in our laboratories. Up to date we have reared more than 300 different species most of which we were able to reproduce successfully. Amongst these are frequently several species that are either newly cultured in Europe, or not at all scientifically recognized yet.
In late 2000 our website "Phasmatodea – the world of stick and leaf-insects" went online. It has since already seen several fundamental updates, but the most extensive update was made by switching to a new content-management system and completely new layout in March 2009. The main aim of our website is to provide an extensive source of information, photos and possibility for the identification of species of this fascinating insect-order, not only for scientists but also for breeders and anyone interested in the Phasmatodea. The forum, which allows to upload photos since the 2009 update, enables the amateur and Phasmid enthusiast to get in contact with other people interested in the Phasmatodea world-wide and obtaining answers, advice and support by the "Phasmatodea-community" in any way.
All those searching for special information or intending to contact us, may directly send us a message via the contact-sheet provided on the website. We are always thankful for constructive ideas and comments!
At this place we want to express our sincere thanks to all our friends and colleagues for several years of good cooperation and support!
Oskar & Frank in "Panguana" Peru im September 2004


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Subversion is one of a class of programs that has been used by programmers for decades: the source code control system, which developers use to manage changes to program source code. Such software has features that enable large teams to work in a distributed environment on the same files while keeping track of who has done what, and when. But even if you work by yourself on spreadsheets and word processing documents, you can harness the power of Subversion to eliminate the need to litter your directories with files like "forcast.xlsOLD" and "Presentation.docFirstDraft."
To get started with Subversion you'll need to download the latest version from the Subversion Web site. If you're using a Linux system, you should install Subversion from the program repository for your distribution (using apt, yum, or up2date). For Microsoft Windows users, the Subversion team has made a Windows-style installer.
If you are using a Windows system, you should install TortoiseSVN as well. TortoiseSVN allows you to execute Subversion commands directly from the Windows Explorer file manager by adding a set of right-click context menus to your files and folders.
Once you've installed Subversion and TortoiseSVN on your system, you'll need to set up a Subversion repository where the program can keep the copies of the documents that you've "checked in" to its database. Subversion saves only the differences between versions of files that you're storing in its repository, saving space in comparison with keeping multiple copies of the files. Subversion can always recreate any revision of a file.
To create a repository, at a command prompt issue the following command:
svnadmin create --fs-type=fsfs/data/SvnRepository
The directory you specify should be an existing empty directory.
Alternatively, using TortoiseSVN, right-click on an empty directory (we'll assume C:\SvnRepository). Select the "TortoiseSVN->Create Repository Here..." menu item. You'll be prompted to select a repository type. As with the command-line example, choose
We'll assume that you intend to keep all of your Subversion-controlled documents in a single directory called ProjectDocs. If you'd like to set up more directories to work with Subversion, repeat the setup steps below for each directory in question.
Before Subversion can manage your documents, you must import them into the Subversion repository. To do so, change directory to your ProjectDocs directory. Make sure the directory (and its children) contain only the files you wish to store in the Subversion repository. Issue the following command:
svn import . file:///data/SvnRepository/ProjectDocs
You'll note that we've used a file:// URL to specify a location within the SvnRepository that we created earlier. When you issue this command, you'll be placed in an editor in which you can enter a description of this directory. When you save and exit the editor buffer, all of the files (and subdirectories) in your ProjectDocs directory will be copied into your Subversion repository.
The process with TortoiseSVN is about as simple. Right-click on your ProjectDocs directory and select "TortoiseSVN->Import...". In the resulting dialog, you can browse to the Subversion repository you created and add to the URL the directory within the repository you want to import into. In our example, the URL to import to will be file:///C:/SvnRepository/ProjectDocs. As with the command line, you'll be given an opportunity to describe the change you've made.
When you import a directory into Subversion, it is not converted into what is called a working directory -- that is, a directory that's connected to the Subversion repository and allows you to commit revisions or changes to your documents to the repository. To create a working copy of your ProjectDocs directory, first rename the one you just imported to something like ProjectDocs.presvn. Then issue the following command to check out your working copy:
svn co file:///data/SvnRepository/ProjectDocs ProjectDocs
When you issue this command, Subversion will create a new "working copy" of your ProjectDocs directory. After you've verified that it's complete and correct, you can delete the one that you'd moved out of the way.
To create a working copy with TortoiseSVN, right-click in the directory in which you want to create your working copy and select "Check Out...". You'll need to use the same URL that you used to import the directory (it should be in the drop-down list).
Now any time you make changes to one of the files in your ProjectDocs directory you can "commit" them to the Subversion repository by issuing the command
svn commit while in the directory. With TortoiseSVN, right-click on the file or directory you wish to commit and select "Commit...". When you issue the command, Subversion will scan the files in the directory and copy all of the changes you've made to the repository. As with the import command, you'll be given the opportunity add a comment describing the changes you've made. If you want to commit only a particular file, you can pass the name of the file as an argument to the
commit command.
Now that you've set up your ProjectDocs directory you can work with your documents as usual. Whenever you reach a point that you'd like to preserve, simply commit the file or the directory. In the future, if you create a new file in your ProjectDocs directory (say NewFile.doc) issue the command
svn add NewFile.doc. After that, you can commit the file as usual. TortoiseSVN provides a "TortoiseSVN->Add" context menu for the same purpose.
Whenever you commit anything to your repository, Subversion increments a revision number. You refer to previous versions of your files by this revision number. To see the revisions of a particular file (say MyDoc.doc) execute the command:
svn log MyDoc.doc
This will show you the revisions of your file and the descriptions you entered when you committed the changes. To get an older revision (say 6) of your file, make sure you've committed any changes to the file. Then issue the command:
svn update -r 6 MyDoc.doc
Your current copy of the file will be replaced with the file from back at revision 6 of your repository. When you want the current version back, just issue the update command without the
-r option. TortoiseSVN has "Show log...", "Update to revision...", and "Update..." context menu items that let you accomplish the same things.
Those are the basics of working with Subversion as a private data management utility. Obviously software that's designed to work with hundreds of files and developers at a time has significantly more features and capabilities. If you'd like to learn more about how Subversion works, the excellent Subversion Book is the place to start.
Day-to-day use of Subversion is easy. Just commit your files whenever you've reached a point that's worth saving and describe the changes that you're committing. It's remarkably liberating to be able to attempt significant changes to a document when you know that it's a simple matter to recover a previous version with a single command or click of the mouse.


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Obtaining the job of your dreams does not begin with the job search just before graduation. It begins now with course selection, extracurricular activities, skill-building, and part-time employment. It also begins with networking – making connections in the community, meeting potential future employers, and practicing professional communication skills. Not sure when or how to begin with networking? Plan to attend Career Services' "Networking Nights"! Networking Nights are regular opportunities to connect with professionals from diverse career areas. You can find out more about the program at: http://www.uwgb.edu/careers/NetworkingNights.htm. Upcoming dates (and attending organizations) are listed below. Several of them are businesses, but keep in mind that many of our Psychology and Human Development students take entry-level positions in businesses as their first jobs. Please also note that local human service agencies will be on campus one evening next semester.
October 20 – M&I Bank
November 3 – Nsight/Cellcom
November 17 – Sherwin Williams
February 9 – Schenck Business Solutions
February 23 – Area human service organizations
March 9 – Associated Bank
March 30 – LaForce
April 13 – BayLake Bank
April 27 – Virchow Krause


text: Corey Crawford is a professional hockey goaltender who plays for the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks. His number is 50. In 2003, he was drafted by the Blackhawks in the second round (52nd pick). He was on the team when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010 and made one appearance during the playoffs. He became the team's starting goaltender during the 2010-11 season. He was the starter for every game during the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs, when the Blackhawks won the cup again. Crawford was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1984; he has never played internationally for Canada.


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Leigh Williamson, IBM Distinguished Engineer for Mobile and I had the opportunity to present at IBM Pulse 2013. The conference, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was huge. With over 8,000 attendees, it was one of the largest conferences I had ever presented at. Our session, officially titled: Agile and DevOps – the "Perfect Couple" [...]
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Governing catastrophes: security, health and humanitarian assistance
Recent catastrophes, and predictions of an increasing potential for more, have stimulated thinking about the best policy responses to these threats. This article explores how security concepts influence catastrophe governance. It considers how globalization affects thinking about catastrophes, describes ways in which catastrophes have been conceptualized as governance challenges and explains how health and humanitarian assistance experienced "securitization" in the post-Cold War period.


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There have been several parodies made of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," but there's one that is creating more buzz than the rest.
In a video the Huffington Post calls the "parody that trumps all others," a student group called the Law Revue Girls from New Zealand's Auckland University call out what they say is bigotry in Thicke's song, and are shown in the video surrounded by three men in their underwear with awkward dance moves.
The parody is called "Defined Lines" and its first line is "every bigot shut up." Watch below, and you decide if this is the best parody of Thicke's sensual summer hit, which has been criticized for being sexist for many reasons, one being the original version features topless women. One blogger also bashed the song for containing "rape lyrics."
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Technical Issues
The unresolved issue about "concepts" focused on the distinction between explicit and implicit "concept" maps (see [BS2009]):
- Should a type that meets the requirements of a "concept" automatically be accepted where the "concept" is required (e.g. should a type X that provides +, -, *, and / with suitable parameters automatically match a "concept" C that requires the usual arithmetic operations with suitable parameters) or should an additional explicit statement (a "concept" map from X to C) that a match is intentional be required? (My answer: Use automatic match in almost all cases).
- Should there be a choice between automatic and explicit "concepts" and should a designer of a "concept" be able to force every user to follow his choice? (My answer: All "concepts" should be automatic).
- Should a type X that provides a member operation X::begin() be considered a match for a "concept" C<T> that requires a function begin(T) or should a user supply a "concept" map from T to C? An example is std::vector and std::Range. (My answer: It should match).
The answers "status quo before Frankfurt" all differ from my suggestions. Obviously, I have had to simplify my explanation here and omit most details and most rationale.
I cannot reenact the whole technical discussion here, but this is my conclusion: In the "status quo" design, "concept" maps are used for two things:
- To map types to "concepts" by adding/mapping attributes and
- To assert that a type matches a "concept."
Somehow, the latter came to be seen an essential function by some people, rather than an unfortunate rare necessity. When two "concepts" differ semantically, what is needed is not an assertion that a type meets one and not the other "concept" (this is, at best, a workaround -- an indirect and elaborate attack on the fundamental problem), but an assertion that a type has the semantics of the one and not the other "concepts" (fulfills the axiom(s) of the one and not the other "concept").
For example, the STL input iterator and forward iterator have a key semantic difference: you can traverse a sequence defined by forward iterators twice, but not a sequence defined by input iterators; e.g., applying a multi-pass algorithm on an input stream is not a good idea. The solution in "status quo" is to force every user to say what types match a forward iterator and what types match an input iterator. My suggested solution adds up to: If (and only if) you want to use semantics that are not common to two "concepts" and the compiler cannot deduce which "concept" is a better match for your type, you have to say which semantics your type supplies; e.g., "my type supports multi-pass semantics." One might say, "When all you have is a 'concept' map, everything looks like needing a type/'concept' assertion."
At the Frankfurt meeting, I summarized:
- Why do we want "concepts"?
- To make requirement on types used as template arguments explicit
- Precise documentation
- Better error messages
- Overloading
- To make requirement on types used as template arguments explicit
Different people have different views and priorities. However, at this high level, there can be confusion -- but little or no controversy. Every half-way reasonable "concept" design offers that.
- What concerns do people have?
- Programmability
- Complexity of formal specification
- Compile time
- Run time
My personal concerns focus on "programmability" (ease of use, generality, teachability, scalability) and the complexity of the formal specification (40 pages of standards text) is secondary. Others worry about compile time and run time. However, I think the experimental implementation (ConceptGCC [Gregor2006]) shows that run time for constrained templates (using "concepts") can be made as good as or better than current unconstrained templates. ConceptGCC is indeed very slow, but I don't consider that fundamental. When it comes to validating an idea, we hit the traditional dilemma. With only minor oversimplification, the horns of the dilemma are:
- "Don't standardize without commercial implementation"
- "Major implementers do not implement without a standard"
Somehow, a detailed design and an experimental implementation have to become the basis for a compromise.
My principles for "concepts" are:
- Duck typing
- The key to the success of templates for GP (compared to OO with interfaces and more)
- Substitutability
- Never call a function with a stronger precondition than is "guaranteed"
- "Accidental match" is a minor problem
- Not in the top 100 problems
My "minimal fixes" to "concepts" as present in the pre-Frankfurt working paper were:
- "Concepts" are implicit/auto
- To make duck typing the rule
- Explicit refinement
- To handle substitutability problems
- General scoping of "concept" maps
- To minimize "implementation leakage"
- Simple type/"concept" matching
- To make vector a range without redundant "concept" map
For details, see [BS2009].
No C++0x, Long Live C++1x
Even after cutting "concepts," the next C++ standard may be delayed. Sadly, there will be no C++0x (unless you count the minor corrections in C++03). We must wait for C++1x, and hope that 'x' will be a low digit. There is hope because C++1x is now feature complete (excepting the possibility of some national standards bodies effectively insisting on some feature present in the formal proposal for the standard). "All" that is left is the massive work of resolving outstanding technical issues and comments.
A list of features and some discussion can be found on my C++0x FAQ. Here is a subset:
- atomic operations
- auto (type deduction from initializer)
- C99 features
- enum class (scoped and strongly typed enums)
- constant expressions (generalized and guaranteed; constexpr)
- defaulted and deleted functions (control of defaults)
- delegating constructors
- in-class member initializers
- inherited constructors
- initializer lists (uniform and general initialization)
- lambdas
- memory model
- move semantics; see rvalue references
- null pointer (nullptr)
- range for statement
- raw string literals
- template alias
- thread-local storage (thread_local)
- unicode characters
- Uniform initialization syntax and semantics
- user-defined literals
- variadic templates
and libraries:
Even without "concepts," C++1x will be a massive improvement on C++98, especially when you consider that these features (and more) are designed to interoperate for maximum expressiveness and flexibility. I hope we will see "concepts" in a revision of C++ in maybe five years. Maybe we could call that C++1y or even "C++y!".


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What's your definition of "chutzpah"?
The classic case involves the kid who murders his parents, then begs for mercy as an orphan.
Lately, though, I've discovered a few cases that bring the concept into sharper focus. The truth is, they add up to one big story, in which the American labor movement — and the broader American commitment to fair play for working people — play the part of those poor parents. Let's examine the cases, one at a time.
Case One: The Chutzpah of Cablevision.
On January 26, 2012, the 282 technicians of the telecom giant's Brooklyn division voted 2–1 to join the Communications Workers of America. They would be the first Cablevision employees ever to unionize.
Cablevision agreed to recognize the union and begin negotiating a contract, but over the next year, the union claims, the company acted repeatedly to stymie talks and discredit the union: reducing service, giving raises to everyone but the Brooklyn techs, threatening Bronx techs with punishment if they voted to unionize. The company denies the accusations.
In January, two dozen Brooklyn technicians asked to meet with an executive. They were kept waiting for nearly an hour, then were fired for failing to report for work. They were later rehired, but tempers were heating up. In April, two regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board charged the company with violating labor law. The case goes before an NLRB administrative law judge in July. On May 23, Cablevision President and CEO James Dolan was quoted as saying he looked forward to the hearing, certain he'd be vindicated.
Seven days later he went nuclear. Cablevision sued in the D.C. Circuit federal court of appeals to block the July hearing. The company claims that the labor board lacks a required three-member quorum, and so everything it does is illegal.
Some background: Under the 1935 act that created the labor board, a five-member governing committee, which is also called "the board," governs the agency. All five members require Senate confirmation. Any action requires a minimum of three.
That's a tough number to meet. Republicans have been blocking new nominations since the summer of 2010. President Obama has filled empty seats by making so-called recess appointments — emergency, no-confirmation nominations allowed when the Senate is in recess.
In January, though, the D.C. Circuit voided Obama's recess appointments. It said the Senate was in the wrong kind of recess. Seriously. Yet without a quorum, anything the board did was void.
Cablevision's suit ups the ante. It claims "the board" refers not just to the five members, but also to the entire agency and all its regional offices. Everything the board does is invalid until the Senate approves new board members. Which it won't, as long as the GOP has anything to say about it. That's chutzpah.
Case Two: The Chutzpah of the Federal Courts.
This is one for the books. To see real chutzpah in action, watch the above-mentioned D.C. Circuit court of appeals. It's often called the nation's second most powerful court, with jurisdiction over key federal agencies. It's also notoriously conservative. Until a few weeks ago, the Senate wouldn't let Obama fill vacancies, so it's missing three of its 11 judges. This is the court that invalidated the NLRB for being understaffed.
The court's January recess-appointments decision involved a PepsiCo Inc. bottling plant, Noel Canning, that was accused of ignoring its union contract. The NLRB administrative judge agreed. Noel appealed to the national board and lost. It then appealed to the D.C. Circuit, claiming the NLRB didn't have a quorum.
The circuit judge, David Sentelle, a Reagan appointee, produced a ruling worthy of Groucho Marx. He agreed with the NLRB that the company wasn't honoring the contract. But the company was right that Obama's recess appointments were invalid, meaning there was no quorum, so the NLRB couldn't do anything about it.
What made Obama's appointments invalid? Well, the Constitution says the president may "fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate." Sentelle decided that "the Recess" was different from a mere "recess," based partly on 18th-century uses of "the." He concluded that recess appointments are permitted only during a brief window, from late December to January 3, in alternate years. Obama acted on January 4. Tough break.
The judge noted that outside-the-window recess appointments were unknown before the Civil War, meaning the founders didn't plan them, meaning they're unconstitutional. The fact that they've been standard since the 1940s, that hundreds have been made — including appointments of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger — impressed him not at all.
Sentelle admitted that a parallel federal appeals court, the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, had actually upheld those outside-the-window appointments in a 2004 ruling. In his view, the court didn't know what it was talking about.
That's chutzpah.
Case Three: The Chutzpah of the GOP Union-Busters.
Sentelle opened a floodgate. In April the House of Representatives voted to freeze all NLRB funding until there's a quorum, meaning forever. In May the D.C. Circuit struck down an NLRB rule that employers must post notices telling workers of their right to form a union. The judge, A. Raymond Randolph, a George H.W. Bush appointee, ruled that it violated the employers' freedom of speech — meaning their right not to post on their shop walls statements they disliked.
On June 13, House Republicans introduced two new bills overturning existing NLRB rulings on election procedures and bargaining units. The next day, June 14, the NLRB's poster rule was overturned again, this time by an appeals court in Richmond, Va. The judge, Allyson Duncan, a George W. Bush appointee and onetime Clarence Thomas aide, ruled that the board has no legal authority to make rules at all — it can only oversee elections and respond to complaints.
The board argued that the law defines its mission as protecting employees' rights to organize and as "encouraging" unionization — and gives it explicit authority "to make, amend, and rescind… such rules and regulations as may be necessary" to do its job. Duncan wasn't impressed. That's chutzpah.
What's going on here? Some House Republicans say they need to "counter the NLRB, which has become an activist pro-labor group under President Obama." They say the board is supposed to be "a referee between management and unions."
In fact, that's the opposite of what the law says. The board exists, the labor act says, to balance "the inequality of bargaining power" between employees exercising their rights and employers who hold the cards. It's there to defend and encourage unions.
The notion of the NLRB as unbiased referee was brought to Washington in 1981 by the Reagan administration. Reagan openly aimed to tip the balance back to pre-New Deal days and to put business back in the driver's seat. He succeeded. Encouraging unions has disappeared from the national agenda. By no coincidence, union membership in the private sector, the core of the economy, has dropped to just 6.6% today from nearly 20% of the workforce in 1980.
No coincidence, either, that with declining union bargaining power came skyrocketing income inequality. Companies could spend less of each dollar on wages and distribute more in profits and executive pay.
Growing numbers of Americans are alarmed at our widening inequality, stagnant wages and narrowing opportunity. That scares the GOP and its business allies. They see themselves as victims.
Sort of like that orphan.
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The awards program, which includes honoring one team from each of the league's 15 championship sports, will also recognize one institution with the 'Institution of the Year Sportsmanship Award.'
The program presents an award following each championship season to the team in that sport that best exemplifies the spirit of sportsmanship and generally conducts themselves with a high degree of integrity, character and class. The team award is selected by other teams who compete in that sport. Points are awarded based on how each team finished in the voting and in June, the institution with the highest totals will receive the 'PBC Institution of the Year Sportsmanship Award.'
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Eddy Faulkner started songwriting in 2008 and in 2009 started composing music to his songs. In 2010 Eddy started his solo career and started putting his own music and covers of other artists on Facebook, YouTube, and many other places. His music at the start was more of a singer/songwriter, folk, acoustic, rock and blues/funk sound. It was about personal experiences, life, and love. Eddy's main influence was John Mayer back then, and other great artists such as Eric Clapton, BB King, Jason Mraz, and many others. At the start of 2012 Eddy started to gain influence from other areas of music such as Top 40, Pop Rock, and Rock music moving away from his original singer/songwriter roots. He started to move towards more of a mainstream feel finding his voice fitted actually better with the new songs.
Since 2010, Eddy continued to expand his songwriting, singing, and instrument technique and is always trying something new while still evolving. Eddy's mission since starting his career has always been to create music that is universal both sonically and lyrically. Eddy's music does not fit into one genre, but instead crosses over into many different genres. In the summer in 2013 Eddy wrote a song called "I Won't Give Up" which turned out to be his first release through Premier in 2014. The reception from "I Won't Give Up" was received enthusiastically by the masses with personal messages to Eddy about how it changed their lives, and even saved some of their lives just from the words. "I Won't Give Up" has since climbed the National Radio Airplay Charts and is now in the Top 100 Mainstream Charts and Top 50 Independent Charts. This shows that people not only enjoy the song, but they get what it is saying. Eddy loves making music and wants to keep making music that everyone around the world can enjoy and relate to for many years to come.


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Fox's Liz Trotta On Sexual Assault In Military: "What Did They Expect? These People Are In Close Contact"
During a segment about new rules [1] regarding women in the military, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta attacked the Department of Defense for increasing spending on support programs for victims of sexual assault. Trotta also reacted to a Pentagon report [2] showing a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults since 2006 by stating: "Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact."
Trotta began by claiming "we have women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time" and later added that feminists "have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims' advocates, sexual response coordinators. ... you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much."
When Fox News anchor Eric Shawn said that "many would say that they need to be protected," Trotta replied: "That's funny, I thought the mission of the" armed forces "was to defend and protect us, not the people who were fighting the war."
From the February 12 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ:
ERIC SHAWN (co-anchor): So this is now causing a controversy?
LIZ TROTTA (Fox News contributor): Well, it's a controversy that won't be a controversy because of political correctness. But we have women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time. So what is the news? The news is that the Pentagon is going to add 14,000 more jobs for women in the military, but the overall ban against serving in the infantry, in special operations units, and combat tank units, is still in place. Well, you may ask, why did 140 women die in Afghanistan and Iraq if this ban was in place? Well the whole way we wage war has changed enormously. No front lines, no clear delineation of where troops are. Women can be attached to battalions, but they can't actually be in battalions. That would get down to the real guts of how we fight wars -- and that is being a member of the infantry.
But while all of this is going on, just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military. I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it's strictly been a question of pressure from the feminist.
And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims' advocates, sexual response coordinators. Let me just read something to you from McClatchy Newspapers about how much this position on extreme feminism is costing us. "The budget for the Defense Department's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office leapt from $5 million in fiscal 2005 to more than $23 million in fiscal 2010. Total Defense Department spending on sexual assault prevention and related efforts now exceeds $113 million annually." That's from McClatchy Newspapers.
So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much.
SHAWN: Well, many would say that they need to be protected, and there are these sexual programs, abuse programs, are necessary --
TROTTA: That's funny, I thought the mission of the Army, and the Navy, and four services was to defend and protect us, not the people who were fighting the war.
SHAWN: Well, you certainly want the people fighting the war to be protected from anything that could be illegal.
TROTTA: Oh, look, I mean, that's -- nice try Eric. This whole question of women in the military has not been aired properly, and it's the great sleeping giant.
Trotta also appeared on Fox News yesterday to discuss a Newsweek story [3] about the persecution of Christians globally. During the segment, the topic of CBS News reporter Lara Logan's [4] sexual assault was raised, and Trotta said:
TROTTA: I think the Lara Logan thing is a completely separate thing. Any woman - and I've been in those crowds - any woman who's going to be in one of those highly passionate crowds in the Middle East where Islamics are running around yelling "Allahu Akbar" is taking her life in her hands. And so, I mean, you know the least that can happen to you is that you'll get felt up, so you have to know that going in. But I think that's separate from what's happening to Christians. They are being sacrificed for their religion.
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I am using xfterm4 0.2.5.4 beta 2. It, like older versions, does not seem to respond when a console program produces an audible bell. If you are using irssi (irc), for example, and some one sends you a message you do not hear a beep. If I run irssi in any other terminal program my pc speaker beeps when this happens.
Is there an option I am missing when I build xfterm? Does it beep for anyone else?
I have noticed that too. It would not produce a beep in the console. Here is what I did. I just installed konsole. I think it is supposed to be for kde but all of its dependencies were installed without a problem. If you have synaptic package manager or adept you could probably find it in there or if you are using debian or debian-based or ubuntu, you could do this:
apt-get install konsole
I have never used anything else then debian or debian based so i have no idea how to install stuff on redhat or slackware. I think you use something called yum on redhat.
Hope that helps
I do not use any Qt based apps and I am not going to start now just to get my pc speaker to beep. It is a moot point anyway since I can just use any of the other dozen or so console programs like xterm, aterm, or rvxt.
I was just trying to make use of the xfce app since it integrates well and has clickable url's etc.
It seems like a console app should be able to make the pc speaker beep when there is an audible bell. If there isn't something we are missing to turn this feature on maybe it should be reported as a bug.
Indeed... search bugs.xfce.org to see if there is an open feature request/bug, if not file one
Well, I made a bug.
It seems it was right in front of our noses and we all missed it.
The audible bell is disabled by default. See the user manual for details (i.e.
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Governor Lifts Moratorium On Purchasing Land for GF&P
Governor Dennis Daugaard has ended a two year moratorium on land acquisitions for the Department of Game, Fish, and Parks.
Governor Daugaard said in his news release:
"I believe the state should be prudent about land acquisition. I want to consider local preferences and priorities as we make sure that all South Dakotans have great hunting and outdoor opportunities now and in the future."
New procedures to buy land have been implemented. County Commissioners will receive advance notice of possible acquisitions of 80 acres or more. Opportunity for meetings and comments will be provided. Individuals who wish to offer input will have and additional 30 days to comment.
All acquisitions must be with a willing seller. No condemnations. The state will continue to pay property taxes on all acquired lands.
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I am delighted with Governor Daugaard's announcement and pleased to see that all stakeholders in protecting and preserving our wonderful natural resources in South Dakota for now and generations to come will be provided this tool for the public interest. It is a win/win decision for all involved especially those who support the principle that private landowners have the right to sell their land to whom they prefer. This is especially critical for those private landowners who have a charitable commitment to the public interest—creating parks, nature trails, lake access, wildlife production areas, bike trails etc. The process and procedures set forth in the Governor's press release are fair, practicable and reasonable. The Governor's decision represents a clear understanding and appreciation that public and private interests can be balanced, mutually supportive and beneficially served.
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Baltimore one day, New York the next, Los Angeles the next: Such is the life of Fallston's Jonathon Ruckman, who has spent much of the past decade carving out a career as an actor. He's made commercials, appeared in soap operas, re-enacted crimes, played heavies and heroes. Sunday, he gets to sample the TV big time with a one-line guest role on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
"I play a recurring character," says Ruckman, though quickly adding that HBO isn't letting on about just how long his character will be around. But given what usually happens on the Atlantic City-set crime drama, chances are looking good for his return. "They did not shoot me. They did not kill me," he says.
Ruckman, 43, lives in Fallston with his wife, Lisa, and their two children, 11-year-old Ryan and 7-year-old Melanie. Lives there, that is, when he's not heading to an audition. With his series debut just days away, we asked the former Edgewood High Ram about life as a working actor.
Tell us about your appearance on 'Boardwalk Empire' this weekend.
I am playing one of Mickey Doyle's henchmen.
Have you seen the finished episode?
I have not, but they called up the other day to make sure they spelled my name correctly. So that's a good sign. I was not invited to the premiere, but it is what it is.
How did the acting bug first bite you?
Long story short, I basically — as any teenage boy would do — I was chasing a girl. It led me into a church, and as soon as I walked in the door, they were directing their little Christmas pageant back in '86, and the guy simply said, "Hey, I want you to play Mark."
How long have you been able to be a full-time actor?
Pretty much for the last eight years, I've been full-time. I have done a lot of the [crime] re-enactment shows on the Discovery Channel, a lot of the re-enactment shows on Biography, TMZ. They're doing a re-enactment show for the Oprah Winfrey Network, and I know I'm in line to do one of their episodes.
What is it about the acting life that appeals to you?
People go to work every day and do the same thing, day in and day out. For me, today I can play a cop, tomorrow I can play the serial killer, the next day I can play the father. I would define myself as a character actor. And just when I say I don't ever do one of the leading roles, I'm right in the middle of a movie right now, called "Masse," where I play the comic relief, of all things. I'm a star in that one.
Has life as an actor been easy?
It's the rejection that gets to you. I auditioned for a Harrison Ford movie in Philadelphia in June. I auditioned for a part in it, and just when you think you nailed the audition — you don't get called.
That's the toughest part about this business, not knowing why they rejected you. And usually it has nothing to do with the person they're rejecting, it's just, somebody had a look, they needed someone who was an inch taller. They never tell you that.
Sounds like there must be a lot of traveling involved.
I put 25,000 to 30,000 miles on my car a year. I do a lot of driving, a lot of flying, a lot of trains, a lot of buses.
Do you make a comfortable living?
I make a comfortable living. I have not hurt for money since the mid-'90s. All this recession stuff, it doesn't affect me.
Do you have a favorite kind of role?
I really enjoy playing the bad guy. I do it well.


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Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), German Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, Germany's oldest political party and one of the country's two main parties (the other being the Christian Democratic Union). It advocates the modernization of the economy to meet the demands of globalization, but it also stresses the need to address the social needs of workers and society's disadvantaged.
The SPD traces its origins to the merger in 1875 of the General German Workers' Union, led by Ferdinand Lassalle, and the Social Democratic Workers' Party, headed by August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht. In 1890 it adopted its current name, the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party's early history was characterized by frequent and intense internal conflicts between so-called revisionists and orthodox Marxists and by persecution by the German government and its chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The revisionists, led at various times by Lassalle and Eduard Bernstein, argued that social and economic justice could be achieved for the working class through democratic elections and institutions and without a violent class struggle and revolution. The orthodox Marxists insisted that free elections and civil rights would not create a truly socialist society and that the ruling class would never cede power without a fight. Indeed, German elites of the late 19th century considered the very existence of a socialist party a threat to the security and stability of the newly unified Reich, and from 1878 to 1890 the party was officially outlawed.
Despite laws prohibiting the party from holding meetings and distributing literature, the SPD attracted growing support and was able to continue to contest elections, and by 1912 it was the largest party in the Reichstag ("Imperial Diet"), receiving more than one-third of the national vote. However, its vote in favour of war credits in 1914 and Germany's disastrous fate in World War I led to an internal split, with the centrists under Karl Kautsky forming the Independent Social Democratic Party and the left under Rosa Luxemburg and Liebknecht forming the Spartacus League, which in December 1918 became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
The right wing of the SPD, under Friedrich Ebert, joined with liberals and conservatives to crush the Soviet-style uprisings in Germany in 1918–20. Following World War I, the SPD played a central role in the formation of the Weimar Republic and in its brief and tragic history. In the general election of 1919 the SPD received 37.9 percent of the vote (while the Independent Social Democrats received another 7.6 percent), but the party's failure to win favourable terms from the Allies at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 (terms embodied in the Treaty of Versailles) and the country's severe economic problems led to a drop in support. Nevertheless, together with the Roman Catholic and liberal parties, it was part of several coalition governments, but it was forced to expend much effort on its competition with the KPD for the support of the working class. In 1924 the SPD, which had by then reunited with the Independents, won only one-fifth of the vote. Although its core support among blue-collar workers remained relatively stable, the SPD lost support among white-collar workers and small businessmen, many of whom switched their allegiance to the conservatives and later to the Nazi Party. By 1933 the SPD held only 120 of 647 seats in the Reichstag to the Nazis' 288 and the Communists' 81.
The SPD was outlawed soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933. However, in 1945, with the fall of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, the SPD was revived. It was the only surviving party from the Weimar period with an unblemished record of opposition to Hitler; unlike other Weimar parties, the SPD had maintained exile organizations in Britain and the United States during the Third Reich. In addition, an underground organization had operated within Germany and managed to survive fairly intact. Thus, when democratic elections resumed in occupied Germany after the war, the SPD had a large advantage over its rivals, and it was expected to become the country's governing party.
The SPD did indeed do very well in most Land- (state-) level elections held between 1946 and 1948. However, in West Germany's first national election, held in 1949, the SPD was narrowly defeated by the newly formed Christian Democrats, who were able to put together a majority coalition with several smaller centre-right parties. The 1949 loss was followed by decisive defeats in 1953 and 1957.
Following the 1957 election, a group of reformers drawn largely from areas where the party was strongest (e.g., West Berlin, North Rhine–Westphalia, and Hamburg) initiated a reassessment of the party's leadership, organization, and policies. They concluded that the SPD had badly misread postwar public opinion. Most Germans, they believed, were tired of ideological rhetoric about the class struggle, economic planning, and government takeovers of industry—policies then central to the party's program. Voters were also satisfied with West Germany's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Economic Community and had little interest in the SPD's emphasis on reuniting the country through a neutralist foreign policy. Thus, at a special party conference in Bad Godesberg in 1959, the SPD formally cast off nearly a century of commitment to socialism by embracing the market economy; the party also endorsed the NATO alliance and abandoned its traditional anticlerical attitude.
The Bad Godesberg program proved successful. From 1961 to 1972 the SPD increased its national vote from 36 to nearly 46 percent. In 1966 it entered a grand coalition with its chief rival, the Christian Democratic Union–Christian Social Union (CDU-CSU) alliance, and from 1969 to 1982 the SPD governed as the dominant coalition partner with the Free Democratic Party (FDP). During the party's tenure in office in this period, both SPD chancellors, Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, initiated major changes in foreign and domestic policy; for example, Brandt pursued a foreign policy of peace and reconciliation with eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and Schmidt successfully guided Germany through the turbulent economic crises of the 1970s. By 1982, however, 16 years of governing had taken their toll. The party was deeply divided over both environmental and military policies, and the party's leaders had lost support among much of the rank and file. For example, Schmidt's support for a new generation of NATO nuclear missiles to be deployed in Germany was opposed by the great majority of the party's activists. In 1982 the party's coalition partner, the FDP, ousted the SPD from office and in turn helped elect the CDU's Helmut Kohl chancellor.
The SPD remained out of power at the national level from 1982 to 1998, suffering four successive election losses. In 1998, led by Gerhard Schröder, the SPD, running on a centrist agenda, was able to form a governing coalition with the Green Party. Schröder had campaigned on a platform of lower taxes and cuts in government spending to spur investment and create jobs. Despite the inability of Schröder's government to revive the economy and reduce unemployment, the SPD was narrowly reelected in 2002, a victory largely credited to the popular appeal of Schröder's response to historic floods in the country and his pledge not to endorse or participate in U.S. military action against Iraq.
During its second term in government, the SPD was unable to reduce unemployment or revive the country's stagnant economy, and it suffered a series of devastating losses in state elections. Thousands of party members left the SPD in protest over cuts in what were considered sacred programs, such as unemployment benefits and health care, and some ex-SPD members formed an alternative party under former SPD leader Oskar Lafontaine; the new party jointly campaigned in 2005 with the eastern-based Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). Despite the split and dissatisfaction with the SPD government, Schröder still retained widespread popularity, and the SPD captured 34 percent of the national vote. It fell only four seats shy of the CDU-CSU, but neither was able to form a majority government with its preferred coalition partner because of the success of Lafontaine's new party and the PDS. After negotiation, the SPD entered into a grand coalition with the CDU-CSU as the junior partner, and Schröder resigned the chancellorship.David P. Conradt
In Germany's 2009 parliamentary elections, the SPD experienced a devastating drop in support. The party won just 23 percent of the national vote, and its number of seats in the Bundestag fell from 222 to 146—a number well below the CDU-CSU's 239 seats. The SPD was thus forced out of Germany's coalition government and into a position of opposition. Its position improved as a result of the 2013 parliamentary elections. Although it finished second with about 26 percent of the vote, the SPD joined the government of the election-winning CDU-CSU alliance in a "grand coalition." The CDU-CSU's previous coalition partner, the FDP, had failed to reach the threshold necessary for representation in the Bundestag.
Participation in the grand coalition did not help the SPD's popularity, and minor parties saw their support increase in the face of steady, if unspectacular, economic growth and rising anti-immigrant feeling. In the September 2017 general election, the SPD won just 20 percent of the vote, its worst performance in the postwar era. Although party leader Martin Schulz had vowed that the SPD would not participate in another grand coalition, months of failed talks and the prospect of fresh elections led Schulz to reverse his pledge. In March 2018 party members approved a continuation of the grand coalition with Angela Merkel's CDU-CSU.The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Policy and structure
Although the SPD still proclaims its allegiance to social justice and the welfare state, the majority of the party recognizes that economic growth and employment require a favourable investment climate and that Germany's traditionally high labour and nonwage labour costs (e.g., pensions, unemployment and health benefits, and accident insurance) were sometimes a hindrance to the creation of new jobs. Reluctantly, the SPD has come to support comprehensive reductions in the costs of these programs. In foreign policy the party is firmly committed to the European Union, and it has at various times been lukewarm to the country's partnership with the United States.
Historically, the SPD has been a mass-membership party that has sought to encourage individuals to become active, dues-paying members. As a result, the SPD has had the largest membership of any German political party, and it receives more financial support (about one-third of its overall income) from membership dues than any other party.
The SPD's internal organization is highly democratic, a characteristic that also extends to its procedures. The core unit of the party organization is the local association (Ortsverein), of which there are more than 12,000 throughout the country. These are grouped into subdistrict, district, and state organizations. At the national level a party congress is convened every two years to determine policy and to elect a party leader, the members of the Executive Committee, and the arbitration and control commissions. The Executive Committee, which manages the party's internal affairs, in turn elects the 13-member Presidium, which serves as the party's ruling inner circle. Women must make up at least two-fifths of both the Executive Committee and the Presidium. The Presidium meets at least weekly at the party's headquarters in Berlin to formulate and announce party positions on major issues and to schedule major party events. In 1998 the office of General Secretary was created largely to coordinate the party's electoral campaigns.
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German Empire: The attack on the Social DemocratsBismarck always believed that every political system needed an enemy. The Centre had been the whipping boy of the liberal era, and the Socialists were now chosen to take its place. Bismarck genuinely believed that the Social Democrats, as the followers of Karl…
history of Europe: Political patternsBy the 1880s the German socialist party was clearly winning working-class support away from the liberal movement despite Bismarck's antisocialist laws. By 1900 the party was a major political force, gaining about two million votes in key elections and seating a large minority of parliamentary deputies. By 1913 the German…
history of Europe: The lottery in WeimarThey gave the Social Democrats 163 seats, the Catholic Centre Party 89, and the new and progressive Democratic Party 75; other parties won smaller numbers of seats. These three groups were like-minded enough to form a coalition and powerful enough—for the present—to dominate the new republic. Their rivals…
Germany: Allied occupation and the formation of the two Germanys, 1945–49…era quickly revived: the moderate Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; SPD) and the German Communist Party (Kommunistiche Partei Deutschlands; KPD), which was loyal to the Soviet Union. These were soon joined by a new creation, the Christian Democratic Union (Christlich-Demokratische Union; CDU), with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian…
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