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It may be easy for a destination like the Dominican Republic to get typecast. After all, what is one of the most visited spots in the Caribbean offers exactly what the area is famous for -- balmy weather, lush beaches, a bevy of water sports and spectacular golf. But to limit a visit to the Dominican Republic to resorts, cocktails and sun worship would mean missing out on a comprehensive and eclectic travel experience, where history, culture and a wonderful array of attractions make travel here memorable. Here are a few examples:
Go Native, Leave the Beach
Leaving your fellow beachgoers behind might take some motivation, but it can offer you a chance to go native. The Tainos settled in the Dominican Republic in the seventh century and developed its original culture; these are the people Christopher Columbus encountered when he arrived in 1492. Their lifestyle was simple enough: They hunted, fished and farmed; they lived in vine huts and slept on hammocks; they carved wood to pay homage to their gods; they passed the time with dance and song. The Taino influence is alive today in the names of many towns and the cuisine, and several museums throughout the Dominican Republic – such as the Museum of Taino Art in Puerto Plata and the Museum of Dominican Man in Santo Domingo – offer a glimpse into this important past.
See Colonial, Skip the Sand
The history of colonial expansion in this part of the Caribbean is not without controversy. But from an experiential aspect, leaving the beach for the city streets of Santo Domingo, this nation's capital, is a step back in time. The sector known as the Colonial City, replete with cobblestone streets, was declared a World Heritage Site in 1990 and is a study in juxtapositions: modern buildings next to 15th century houses and new cars next to horse-drawn carriages. It's considered the oldest city in the New World and boasts its very first street, its first hospital and its first university; the Cathedral de Santa Maria la Menor, the oldest church in the Americas, features a golden façade made of coral limestone. And if you want your Christopher Columbus fix, Santo Domingo is home to the Alcazar de Colon, a palace holding Columbus family artifacts, the Ozama Fort, where he was once imprisoned, and the Faro a Colon lighthouse, which houses the explorer's remains.
Get High, Get Low
The Dominican Republic is home to both the highest and lowest elevations in the Caribbean; both can make for fascinating visits, especially for the experienced adventurer. At more than 10,000 feet, the Pico Duarte peak is part of a mountain range that cuts across the Dominican Republic from east to west. Guided tours are most prevalent when the weather is best – January through March – and five trails will get you there; the shortest, La Cienega, runs about 15 miles from the city of Santiago and reaches Duarte's zenith in about two days. If getting low is more your style, consider Lago Enriquillo, the Caribbean's largest lake and lowest elevation. Plan ahead for this trek; located 12 miles from the Haitian border, it's intermittently attended by park personnel. But getting here will reward you with a plethora of reptilian life and a rustic wooden pier that jets more than 60 feet across the lake.
Smell the Flowers, Not the Sunscreen
Trade the scent of suntan lotion for the waft of native flora. The National Botanical Garden in Santo Domingo takes up just one square mile but is replete with trails that lead you to many of the plants indigenous to the Dominican Republic, such as orchids, palms and aquatic flowers. There's also a lovely Japanese garden.
Go Underground, Visit a Cave
Its lush tropical topography affords the Dominican Republic myriad parks that can range from natural habitats to zoological reserves; many are home to ancient caves. At Caberete, a resort town near Puerto Plata, you can ride a horse through El Choco National Park and then swim inside its many caves. West of La Romana, the Maravillas National Park houses the "Cave of Miracles," which holds old Taino paintings. Nearby, the caves at Fun Fun Cave – the largest in the Caribbean – lure adventurers with their dark corridors and the four-mile underground river that runs through them. And don't miss Los Tres Ojos, near Santo Domingo, named for the three lakes nestled inside three caves; bats and turtles abound, and you'll find a series of stalagmites.
Go for Fine Dining, Skip the Resort Food
Your all-inclusive might tempt you to stay put; there's plenty to fill your plate. But because many resort towns are at the epicenter of the country's burgeoning cuisine scene, that other hotel down the beach might be serving up something worth exploring. Take Punta Cana, where destination eateries include the Blue Marlin inside the Secrets Sanctuary Cap Cana Resort; this eatery exudes South Pacific charm and runs its own fleet of fishing boats to nab the freshest catch of the day. The quiet, upscale Sivory Resort is home to three distinguished eateries; Gourmand Restaurant gets marks for quintessential French fare and an awesome wine list. Captain Cook Restaurant is not in a resort; it's got a prime setting right on the beach. But this casual eatery is worth mentioning for the high marks it gets. It draws diners with a value price point and wows with the Creole-style langostinos.
Skip the Crowds, See the Peninsula
The Saona Peninsula misses out on the crowds that flock, instead, to spots like Punta Cana and La Romana. So this can be a real haven, with its towering mangroves, sandy beaches and intense biodiversity. The Los Haitises National Park is here, with its Taino petroglyphs, lush rain forest and plethora of parrots. The village of Las Terrenas is home to many European descendants, and several quality pastry shops. And the shores of the town of Samana offer prime viewing, especially January through March, when humpback whales come here by the pod-loads to mate.
Gabe Saglie is senior editor for Travelzoo, which features hotel, airfare and a bevy of local deals in the Dominican Republic.


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- Stalin to his wife: "I miss you. ... I'm as lonely as a horned owl"
- Mussolini to his beloved: "Will you say, once again, that you alone love me?"
- Hitler was less flowery about Eva Braun, called her "calm, intelligent"
Stalin was to the point. Napoleon went on and on. Hitler did it as if he were writing an employee's job review.
"Evil may walk among us, but that doesn't mean evil never wrote a love letter," said John Kirkland, an author who has plundered the depths of cheesy writing throughout history by revered, infamous and just plain awful people. His book "Love Letters of Great Men" is mostly filled with leaders acting honorably. But it also features several who had an affection for tyranny.
"I found that almost all powerful people are very passionate, and that naturally can make them over the top in their personal lives," Kirkland said.
"Another truth I learned," the author said, "is that it's never a good idea to hook up with a dictator."
Nadya Stalin's family sheltered Joseph Stalin after one of his escapes from Siberian exile during 1911, and the two reconnected later when she worked as a clerk in Vladimir Lenin's office. Their romance began when she was a teenager. When they married in 1919, he was 41. They had a boy, Vasily, and a girl, Svetlana.
It's unclear exactly what the brown-eyed young woman saw in the stout and swarthy older man. Perhaps she developed an attachment to him when she was a child, or maybe it was because she too was a diehard Bolshevik. Like Stalin, she had an unpredictable temper and exceptionally bold political ambitions, especially for a woman of her time, rising up eventually through party ranks to pull her own weight. While historians describe her as conservative in dress and manner -- at least publicly -- Stalin wore his heart on his sleeve for his wife.
In June 1930, Stalin was busy revamping the Soviet Union's economy, which led to millions of people being deported and exiled and a catastrophic famine. His plans would later lead to the slaughter of millions.
He wrote to his wife, using his pet name for her, while she was away having her headaches treated in Germany.
"I miss you so much Tatochka. ... I'm as lonely as a horned owl."
The dictator didn't discuss his job in letters to his wife, Kirkland said.
"I'm not going out of town on business," Stalin wrote. "I'm just finishing up my work and then I'm going to go out of town to the children tomorrow ... so goodbye, don't be too long, come home sooner! My kisses! Your Joseph."
She replied to him by writing, "I am kissing you passionately."
While Stalin's letters were lengthy in the beginning of their courtship, he sometimes wrote the equivalent of a refrigerator Post-It to his wife.
"I forgot to send the money, but I've now sent it (120 roubles) with colleagues leaving today," he wrote. "Kiss you, Joseph."
Their correspondence flew back and forth quickly, carried by secret police couriers, writes historian Simon Sebag Montifiore, author of "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar."
Nadya and Stalin were an explosive match, both quick to anger and not afraid to snap at each other at dinner parties. They had epic fights.
In 1926, she took the kids to Leningrad and he begged her to come back, so she did.
"Both were selfish, cold with fiery tempers, though she had none of his cruelty and duplicity," Montifiore wrote.
The two fought one night at a party. She ended up dead by dawn of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Russian officials told the public she died of illness. Some people believe Stalin killed her.
Loving Benito Mussolini ended similarly for Ida Dalser, a beautician who some sources say was his first wife. The Italian tyrant ordered her and their son, Benito Jr., institutionalized.
But in the beginning, it was all kisses and sweetness. He called her "my little friend" and signed a letter "your wild friend and lover."
"My little Ida," he wrote, "I have just arrived after twelve endless hours on a train that left me completely covered in soot. I washed it off as best as I could and my first thought, even before going to dinner, is you. Are you pleased? Will you say, once again, that you alone love me, while I don't love you? I love you too, my dear Ida, even though I haven't been able to prove it to you."
Another letter: "How happy I would have been to have you with me, today, while the train was racing along under a cloudless sky, through a countryside displaying all of autumn's melancholic seduction, towards this beautiful Rome which appeared before me just as the sunset was setting ablaze the horizon of the seven hills of the Eternal City."
"When they met, he was pretty much a nobody, enlisting and heading off to World War I," said Kirkland. "After the war, his career takes off. He has his minions declare her insane, locks her and her son up and she dies."
Josephine de Beauharnais was much more in control of her relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte, a notoriously temperamental military commander. Kirkland said that the French emperor seemed to perform better in battle when Josephine returned his smothering affection.
"She wore the pants," the author said. "He was completely in love and obsessed with her."
Shortly after they were married, Napoleon left to command the French army near Italy. Much of his correspondence to Josephine bordered on begging, particularly in April 1796. He wanted her to join him closer to battle so they could have a honeymoon.
"I have your letters of the 16th and 21st. There are many days when you don't write. What do you do, then? No, my darling, I am not jealous, but sometimes worried. Come soon; I warn you, if you delay, you will find me ill. Fatigue and your absence are too much."
"Your letters are the joy of my days, and my days of happiness are not many," he writes, saying that he's racked with "hopeless sorrow, inconsolable misery, sadness without end."
"But you are coming, aren't you? You are going to be here beside me, in my arms, on my breast, on my mouth? Take wing and come, come! A kiss on your heart, and one much lower down, much lower!"
Napoleon appears to have written multiple letters on the same day, like a guy who leaves a half dozen increasingly desperate voice mails back to back.
"I am going to bed with my heart full of your adorable image. ... I cannot wait to give you proofs of my ardent love," he writes in November 1796. "... How happy I would be if I could assist you at your undressing, the little firm white breast, the adorable face, the hair tied up in a scarf a la creole. You know that I will never forget the little visits, you know, the little black forest. ... I kiss it a thousand times and wait impatiently for the moment I will be in it. To live within Josephine is to live in the Elysian fields. Kisses on your mouth, your eyes, your breast, everywhere, everywhere."
Most of Napoleon's letters were flowery, as were those of the many other leaders in Kirkland's book.
"Almost everyone was descriptive and seemed to put a lot of care into what they wrote," he said. "Except Hitler."
Eva Braun met Adolf Hitler in Munich when she was a teenager. By every standard, Braun had a terrible experience. She tried to kill herself twice during their relationship. She was married to the Fuhrer for only 40 hours before she bit a capsule of cyanide in his bunker and they both died there in April 1945.
There are no surviving letters between the two. But there are accounts, Kirkland said, of what Hitler said about Braun to his inner circle.
Braun had a "calm, intelligent and objective way of being," Hitler remarked.
"There's a coldness, like he's evaluating her," said Kirkland. "He controlled everything."
Perhaps the only control Napoleon had over Josephine was that he gave her that name. Her real name was Rose. And Rose lost interest in her French fighter not long after they married.
During the First Italian Campaign, according to a PBS documentary, rumors reached Napoleon that Josephine was cheating on him.
When he returned to her home in Milan, she wasn't there. Historians believe she might have taken off with her lover. Napoleon waited for nine days for her to come back and wrote, "I don't love you anymore; on the contrary, I detest you. You are a vile, mean, beastly slut."
No couples therapy could help them. Napoleon grew resentful and took a lover -- and kept taking them -- while Josephine came back to him and tried to persuade him to stay with her. But his ego was trampled and he divorced her, claiming that that was best for France. Napoleon married a 19-year-old who bore him a son.
In 1814, a coalition of enemies invaded France. Napoleon went off to war, lost and was exiled.
He learned that the love of his life had died of a cold by reading about it in a newspaper. Napoleon locked himself in a room for two days.
For the rest of his life he wore a locket around his neck containing tiny violets he gathered in Josephine's garden.


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"The recently enacted health care reform law created a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and accompanying board of directors tasked with improving patient care in the U.S. by advancing a patient-focused comparative effectiveness research agenda. Three of the 21 seats on the PCORI board were dedicated to innovative companies representing the biopharmaceutical, diagnostics and medical device sectors, which all share the common mission of helping patients win their battles against disease.
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So when was the actual turning point for the team? All-Pro tight end Jimmy Graham believes it happened in Week Six.
"I think it was Tampa game," Graham told Erik Kuselias of Pro Football Talk on NBC Sports Network. "Going up to Tampa Bay and having players like Malcolm Jenkins, one of our captains, run the receiver down and stop him on the one-yard line and then for our defense to step up and get a stop and get a turnover there. Plays like that, those are the things that have helped us to turn this thing around."
The fact that Graham, who had a sprained ankle at the time, wasn't even in the state of Florida when that game happened demonstrates its importance.
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Microsoft Speech API: iOS Speech-to-Text Client Library and Samples
This repo contains the iOS client library and samples for Speech-to-Text in Microsoft Speech API, an offering within Microsoft Cognitive Services on Azure, formerly known as Project Oxford.
The Client Library
To add the Speech Client Library dependency to an existing XCode Project:
- Select your target application, and open the menu
Add Files to ...
- Navigate to
iPhoneOS, select
SpeechSDK.framework, and click
- Go to your project settings, by single clicking your project, and navigate to the
Generaltab. You will notice that SpeechSDK.framework exists under the
Linked Frameworks and Librariessection.
- In the
Generaltab, under the
Embedded Binariessection, click the (+) button. In the dialog, select
SpeechSDK.frameworkand click the
- If you wish to run on the iOS Simulator or MacOSX, repeat steps 2-4 but choose either
The Client Library Reference for iOS can be found here.
The Sample
This sample demonstrates the following features using a wav file or external microphone input:
- Short-form recognition
- Long-form dictation
- Recognition with intent
Build the sample
- First, you must obtain a Speech API subscription key by following the instructions on Subscriptions.
- Start XCode and choose the menu
File, and
Open...the workspace file
Cognitive-Speech-STT-iOS > SpeechSDK.xcworkspace.
- Use one of your subscription keys as the primaryKey in
- If you want to use Recognition with intent, you also need to sign up for Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) and set the key values in
- In XCode, select menu
Product > Buildto build the sample and
Runto launch the sample app.
Running the sample
In XCode, select the menu
Product, and
Run to launch this sample app.
- In the application, press the button
Change Modeto select which recognition mode you would like to use.
- To Start recognition, press the Start button.
We welcome contributions. Feel free to file issues and pull requests on the repo and we'll address them as we can. Learn more about how you can help on our Contribution Rules & Guidelines.
You can reach out to us anytime with questions and suggestions using our communities below:
- Support questions: StackOverflow
- Feedback & feature requests: Cognitive Services UserVoice Forum
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact email@example.com with any additional questions or comments.
All Microsoft Cognitive Services SDKs and samples are licensed with the MIT License. For more information, see LICENSE.
Sample images are licensed separately, please refer to LICENSE-IMAGE.
Developer Code of Conduct
Developers using Cognitive Services, including this client library and sample, are expected to follow the "Developer Code of Conduct for Microsoft Cognitive Services", found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=698895.


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Deutsche Bank Rallies on Capital Boost
FRANKFURT— Deutsche Bank AG DB 2.28% shares rallied as much as 7% Tuesday after the bank completed a €2.96 billion ($3.88 billion) capital raising and reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings.
The capital increase, announced late Monday along with the earnings figures, led analysts at several banks including Nomura, J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse to raise their recommendations on the stock, saying that the German bank now looks more attractive than its rivals.
J.P. Morgan analysts said the bank is "finally starting to address its capital issues," and had set a "new capital bar for Eurobank peers."
The new stock was priced at €32.90, equal to Deutsche Bank's closing share price Monday. Share placements typically come at a discount to encourage investor buying.
However, some analysts said they aren't convinced Deutsche Bank has succeeded in its stated aim of taking the capital issue "off the table." Espírito Santo's Andrew Lim said the amount raised probably isn't enough to alleviate concerns about what he called an "enormous equity deficit."
"Our concern is that the admission of the need for capital merely raises scrutiny that the bank needs even more. There is no need for investors to expose themselves to this risk," Mr. Lim said.
Deutsche Bank, in a reversal, said Monday it would raise about €2.8 billion ($3.65 billion) in fresh capital, giving in to months of pressure from investors and regulators to improve its capital base.
Europe's No. 2 lender by assets has long faced doubts from investors and analysts about whether it has enough capital to absorb potential future losses and to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. On paper, Deutsche Bank had one of the thinnest capital ratios among large European banks.
After insisting for years that the bank had plenty of capital and that it could bridge any shortfall through churning out billions of euros in annual profit and reducing risk, Deutsche Bank executives Monday suddenly changed course.
In a brief statement after European markets closed, the bank said it would issue 90 million new shares to institutional investors and that it might issue an additional €2 billion of other securities to further increase its capital over the next year.
The bank had about 930 million shares outstanding before the new issue.
Deutsche Bank said the move would increase an important capital ratio to 9.5% of its risk-adjusted assets from 8.8% currently. That would move Deutsche Bank ahead of most of its European and U.S. peers.
In 4 p.m. New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Deutsche Bank shares rose $1.58, or 3.7%, to $43.85, as the share sale assuaged investor concerns about the bank's capital ratios.
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The bank Monday evening also reported robust preliminary first-quarter earnings, with a 19% increase in net profit to €1.65 billion from €1.39 billion a year earlier. The earnings were buoyed by stronger revenue, which was up 2%, and a reduction in total expenses.
Since taking the German bank's helm last year, its co-chief executives have said increasing capital was a top priority. But they promised not to do so by issuing new shares, which erodes the value of existing investors' shares.
"The bank aims to apply all capital levers at its disposal before considering raising equity from investors," co-CEO Anshu Jain said during a conference call with analysts last July. In January, he again repeated that the bank had no plans for a capital increase and that it wasn't in the best interest of shareholders, while adding he couldn't rule out any options.
Instead, the bank managed to strengthen its capital by reducing risk-weighted assets by about €80 billion through the end of the year. The bank's so-called core Tier 1 capital ratio under new regulations known as Basel III rose to 8% from 6% a year earlier, then dropped to 7.8% after the bank provisioned for legal costs. The ratio rebounded to 8.8% in the first quarter after an additional reduction in risk-weighted assets of approximately €20 billion.
The Basel rules don't fully kick in until 2019, but banks across Europe are under pressure from regulators and investors to comply with the rules before then. Few investors or analysts expected the bank to meet the targets in 2013.
The capital increase allows Deutsche Bank to act from a position of strength with only modest dilution to shareholders, while putting the bank's ultimate 10% capital-ratio target within reach, the lender said in a slide show for an analyst call scheduled for Tuesday morning.
It also addresses "repeated investor feedback to move [the] capital topic 'off the table,' " the bank added.
Christopher Wheeler, a London-based banking analyst with Mediobanca , said investors will see the capital increase as a positive for the bank now that it is in line or ahead of most peers on capital.
"They said they wouldn't raise equity, but they did," he said, adding that both former CEO Josef Ackermann and Mr. Jain had expressed concerns about diluting shareholders in the past. "They are biting the bullet, and this is absolutely the right way to go."
The size of Deutsche Bank's capital increase is relatively modest compared with what some bankers, analysts and investors think it needs. Analysts previously estimated the bank needs as much as €10 billion.
Deutsche Bank executives have been meeting in recent weeks with senior investment bankers to sound them out about how much capital the bank would need to raise to placate investors, according to people who participated in the meetings. The bankers' response: Deutsche Bank should come up with at least €6 billion and possibly as much as €10 billion to put the capital concerns behind it, these people said.
The bank's change of heart apparently stemmed from executives' frustration with the lack of reaction among investors to Deutsche Bank's strategic changes, according to industry officials. The bank's management felt it could raise a token amount to alleviate market concerns without destroying credibility, these people said.
The timing of the capital increase could raise questions because earlier this year, with Deutsche Bank's stock trading at more than 15% above its current levels, executives insisted they had no plans to raise new capital. If they had proceeded with the share sale at the time, they could have raised more capital by selling fewer shares, a preferable outcome for existing shareholders.
While Deutsche Bank didn't disclose the terms of the share sale, industry officials said the deal's structure would likely involve a small number of big institutional money managers picking up the shares at a small discount to the stock's current trading price. Because the share sale is relatively small, Deutsche Bank doesn't need to offer all existing shareholders the right to participate, a potentially costly and complex process that executives were eager to avoid.
In its earnings report, the bank said net revenue rose to €9.4 billion in the first quarter from €9.2 billion a year earlier. This was helped by revenue increases in asset management and global transaction banking, while the investment bank saw a 4% decline in revenue, which the bank attributed to reduced client activity in a weaker market environment. Revenue in the retail clients business was also slightly lower.
The bank's efforts to control costs as part of its new strategy also kicked in, with noninterest expenses down 5% to €6.6 billion as it lowered administrative costs, compensation and benefits.
Analysts reacted positively to the earnings. "The figures will give Deutsche Bank tailwind for selling their shares in the capital increase," said Dirk Becker, a banking analyst with Kepler Capital Markets in Frankfurt. Deutsche Bank had already done well on reaching its capital goals through internal measures and didn't need to boost capital, he added. "The market gets what it wants," he said, adding that the move will greatly curtail discussions at investor roadshows.
—Dana Cimilluca, David Enrich and Ulrike Dauer contributed to this article.
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Actor Woody Harrelson recently talked on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" about a religious experience he had while in college.
Actor Woody Harrelson recently talked on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" about religious experiences he had while in college.
Harrelson, who visited the show last week to promote his upcoming film "Solo: A Star Wars Story," said he attended a Presbyterian college, Hanover College, to study theology and consider entering the ministry.
At Hanover he met U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.
"I knew him!" Harrelson said. "We were both very religious."
Harrelson said Pence "was involved with the, you know, church activities."
He added, "I remember I actually quite liked him. I thought he was a pretty good guy. He was very religious, very committed."
Harrelson said he studied the Bible pretty thoroughly in college until he suffered a faith crisis, deciding to put religious studies "on hold."
Now, he studies all forms of religion.
Watch the interview here.
Harrelson admitted, however, that he wasn't sure if he and Pence would get along now.
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This accommodation features an ensuite bathroom, main bedroom (linen provided and bed made) separate from living room, kitchen facilities include cooking utensils, crockery, cutlery, fridge and grill element, cooktop, microwave, television, heating and/or air conditioning, iron & ironing board available. Second bedroom has 2 sets of bunks. Linen for the bunk bed is available upon request for $15.00 per linen pack.
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George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2)
Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3)
Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote book divulging agency secrets (Jan. 7)
Leo Janos, 74, former speechwriter for President Johnson and coauthor of autobiography of test pilot Chuck Yeager (Jan. 11)
Hone Tuwhare, 86; the first Maori poet to be published in English (Jan. 16)
Edward D. Hoch, 77; prolific short-story writer was fixture in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Jan. 17)
Margaret Truman Daniels, 83; the only child of President Truman, wrote well-received mystery novels set in Washington, D.C. (Jan. 29)
Rudy Abramson, 70; former Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote a widely praised biography of W. Averell Harriman (Feb. 13)
Robin Moore, 82; author best known for nonfiction works "The French Connection" and "The Green Berets" (Feb. 21)
George Marsh Fredrickson, 73; an authority on the history of racism whose work comparing the histories of South Africa and the American South helped spawn a new field of study (Feb. 25)
Arthur C. Clarke, 90; visionary titan of science fiction who collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on "2001: A Space Odyssey" (March 19)
Jon Hassler, 74; novelist chronicled small-town life in America (March 20)
Arthur Lyons, 62; wrote detective novels set in California and co-founded the Palm Springs Film Noir Festival (March 21)
Simon Michael Bessie, 92; book publisher guided literary efforts of eight Nobel Prize winners (April 7)
William W. Warner, 88; retired Foreign Service officer won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on Chesapeake Bay fishermen (April 18)
William Frankel, 91; editor guided the Jewish Chronicle of London for nearly two decades (April 18)
Charles Hillinger, 82; longtime Los Angeles Times feature writer developed a loyal following for his quirky reports on the weird and wonderful in California and around the world (April 28)
Elaine Dundy, 86; author wrote of her turbulent life with critic Kenneth Tynan (May 1)
Nuala O'Faolain, 68; Irish journalist and memoirist (May 9)
Oakley Hall, 87; author and teacher whose novels set in California and its environs helped define contemporary Western literature and who helped launch the careers of such writers as Michael Chabon, Richard Ford and Amy Tan (May 12)
George Garrett, 78; author of more than 30 books of fiction, poetry and biography, including an acclaimed trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England (May 26)
Eliot Asinof, 88; author who invited readers behind the scenes of the sports world with books such as "Eight Men Out" (June 10)
Tasha Tudor, 92; children's book illustrator and author whose delicate and dreamy artwork was featured in about 80 books, including a 1944 edition of "Mother Goose" (June 18)
Clay Felker, 82; innovative founding editor of New York magazine who was widely considered one of the great post- World War II magazine editors in America and a key figure in the emergence of New Journalism in the 1960s (July 1)
Jules Tygiel, 59; baseball historian and author who wrote "Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy" (July 1)
Sue Alexander, 74; wrote such children's books as "Nadia the Willful" and helped found the L.A.-based Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (July 3)
Thomas M. Disch, 68; prolific and unconventional science fiction writer (July 4)
Roger Hall, 89; World War II spy wrote the bestselling memoir "You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger" (July 20)
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, 89; Nobel laureate's writing mirrored turmoil and repression of his beloved Russia (Aug. 3)
Ted Solotaroff, 79; founder of New American Review and editor to E.L. Doctorow, Bobbie Ann Mason and Richard Ford, among others (Aug. 8)
Mahmoud Darwish, 67; leading Palestinian poet was a political and cultural icon (Aug. 9)
Dale Pitt, 77; who co-wrote with her husband "Los Angeles A to Z," the first encyclopedia on the city and county of Los Angeles (Aug. 10)
L. Rust Hills, 83; longtime fiction editor at Esquire magazine who published the work of the best writers in America (Aug. 12)
Dave Freeman, 47; co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die" (Aug. 17)
Manny Farber, 91; iconoclastic and influential film critic and artist (Aug. 18)
Ralph Kovel, 88; pioneered pricing of antique items with popular books (Aug. 28.)
Edwin O. Guthman, 89; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former national editor of the Los Angeles Times and confidant of Robert F. Kennedy (Aug. 31)
Robert Giroux, 94; giant of 20th century publishing helped guide the careers of T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Susan Sontag and Bernard Malamud (Sept. 5)
Gregory McDonald, 71; author whose bestselling "Fletch" mystery books also were made into films (Sept. 7)
David Foster Wallace, 46; novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his tome "Infinite Jest" (Sept. 12)
Charlotte Kohler, 99; editor cultivated distinguished writers for the Virginia Quarterly Review (Sept. 15)
James Crumley, 68; revered and influential crime novelist whose hard-boiled detective tales set in Montana and other Western locales were praised for both their grittiness and lyrical quality (Sept. 17)
Richard M. Sudhalter, 69; jazz critic and biographer whose history of white jazz musicians brought gales of protest (Sept. 19)
Nancy H. Maynard, 61; former Washington Post reporter and co-founder of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (Sept. 21)
Osborn Elliott, 83; former editor of Newsweek magazine who turned the publication's focus to social issues (Sept. 28)
Hayden Carruth, 87; award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont (Sept. 29)
Marilyn Ferguson, 70; author of the 1980 bestseller "The Aquarian Conspiracy" and a galvanizing influence on participants in scores of alternative groups that coalesced as the New Age movement (Oct. 19)
Mireille Marokvia, 99; French author of two critically acclaimed memoirs of life in wartime Europe (Oct. 19)
Peter J. Levinson, 74; jazz publicist also wrote biographies of key figures from the big-band era (Oct. 21)
Tony Hillerman, 83; author of the bestselling series of mystery novels set in the Southwest featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee (Oct. 26)
Studs Terkel, 96; made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives and turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career (Oct. 31)
Bill Stall, 71; Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times (Nov. 2)
Michael Crichton, 66; creator of "Jurassic Park" and "ER" was a towering figure in pop culture (Nov. 4)
John Leonard, 69; literary and cultural critic who was an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors (Nov. 5)
Joe Hyams, 85; former Hollywood columnist and bestselling author of books, including biographies of Humphrey Bogart and James Dean as well as a popular tome on Eastern philosophy (Nov. 8)
Richard Shortway, 84; former longtime publisher of Vogue magazine and a senior executive at Conde Nast (Nov. 10)
Clive Barnes, 81; avuncular and quotable critic who covered New York's theater and dance scene for more than 40 years (Nov. 19)
George C. Chesbro, 68; author's inventive private-eye novels had a dwarf as the main character (Nov. 18)
Vera Glaser, 92; reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance fueled the hiring of women during the Nixon administration (Nov. 26)
Carol Houck Smith, 85; edited several leading American poets (Nov. 29)
Doris J. Dungey, 47; influential blogger on the mortgage meltdown (Nov. 30)
Dorothy Sterling, 95; a significant figure in 20th century children's literature who wrote an early biography of Harriet Tubman (Dec. 1)
Forrest J Ackerman, 92; author, magazine editor and collector of memorabilia was considered the grand old man of science fiction (Dec. 4)
Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91; an Irish iconoclast who led several lives as a diplomat, government minister, author and newspaper editor (Dec. 18)
Paul Hofmann, 96; an Austrian who informed on his Nazi commanders and later became a longtime New York Times correspondent (Dec. 30)
Donald E. Westlake, 75; prolific mystery writer who won three Edgar Awards and the elite title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America (Dec. 31)


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Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies I-X' started by Flying Spaghetti Monster, Apr 17, 2009.
Thanks to Praetor for suggesting that I start a new thread!
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"Now we go to Starfleet?"
Chekov to Spock. ST VI.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Kirk after being asked if Enterprise should raise shields after Qo'nos One approaches.
Watch your futures end.
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ontact: The Borg Queen to Picard at the climactic moment.
"You're looking well, Jean-Luc. Rested."
Admiral Dougherty to Picard in INSURRECTION?
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Chekov, TMP?
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Scotty to the Excelsior turbolift in TSFS.
Captain Styles to Excelsior helmsman, TSFS.
"I don't doubt it."
First one that comes to mind is Bones to Spock, re: Spock's receipt of "Numerous Distress Calls."
"Stop...competing with me." (yes, there's more, I cut it off to obscure the giveaway)
Kirk to Decker, TMP.
"I ought to knock you on your goddamn ass."
Kirk to Spock in the 1701-A brig in TFF.
"What did you have in mind?"
Dr. Nicholas to Scotty in Voyage Home
"No. Not like this..."
Kirk. ST II. talking about death.
"Time is a luxury you don't have."
Khan to Kirk in TWOK.
"Scanning. Indications negative at this time."
McCoy with Spock's katric voice in TSFS.
"The time has come for truth between us."
Saavic to David regarding protomatter in ST3.
"Where you off to now?"
Kirk to Spock after leaving the simulator at the beginning of TWOK.
"Commander Uhura is experiencing technical difficulties, sir."
Valeris "exaggerating" to Spock in the galley in TUC.
"We'll be going to warp speed."
Kirk to Scotty in TWOK, upon taking command.
"Is that a lot?"
Kirk. ST IV. inquiring if $100.00 is reasonable for his glasses.
"Who the hell are you?"
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When Air Force Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first American to fly faster than the speed of sound on 14 October 1947, it was an event heralded throughout much of the world.1 Far less publicity was forthcoming two years later when a Navy-Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket became the first manned vehicle to fly twice the speed of sound.
In June 1945, as World War II was winding down in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy issued a letter of intent to the Douglas Aircraft Company for the construction of six Douglas Model D-558 research aircraft to obtain data on transonic and supersonic flight. This was the Navy's part of an effort agreed on the previous year by the Army, Navy, and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor to NASA) on the need to explore problems related to aircraft speeds approaching the speed of sound—Mach 1.2 The Douglas model designation D-558 indicated the aircraft would be strictly experimental and would not reflect any military requirements.
Aviation genius Ed Heinemann and Leo Devlin of Douglas would supervise the design team under Robert Donovan. According to Heinemann:
There were some vigorous debates about what configuration the research plane should take. The navy, naturally enough, leaned toward an aircraft with military oriented features, so that derivatives of it could be used in combat. NACA, on the other hand, preferred a strictly research vehicle. I agreed with the latter, since there was salient concern for learning what we were up against in the transonic area. We had to identify the problems inherent in this regime before building combat machines to operate within it.3
The initial D-558s would be designed around the General Electric TG-180 turbojet, the most powerful engine then available.4 Named Skystreak, the D-558-1 had a straightforward design that featured a cylindrical-section fuselage with a nose air intake, a small canopy over the forward-positioned cockpit, and short, stub wings mounted low on the fuselage. Two 50-gallon wingtip tanks could be fitted to supplement the 230 gallons of fuel carried in the fuselage. The initial aircraft were fitted with the J35-A-11 turbojet, an Allison-built version of the TG-180.
The first D-558-1—painted bright red—took off from the Muroc Dry Lake (later Edwards Air Force Base) on 15 April 1947, flown by a Douglas test pilot. On 20 August, Commander Turner Caldwell reached 640 mph, setting a world speed record. This flight marked the first time since 1923 that a Navy aircraft exceeded an Army speed record—by 17 mph. Five days later Marine test pilot Major Marion Carl broke Caldwell's mark, pushing a Skystreak to 650.796 mph.
The two D-558-1 aircraft flown by Navy, Marine Corps, and Douglas pilots were subsequently turned over to the NACA for further research flights. A third D-558-1 was delivered to NACA. The second aircraft crashed on takeoff on 3 May 1948, killing NACA test pilot Howard C. Lilly, the first committee test pilot to die in the line of duty.
The third D-558-1 aircraft continued in NACA service, being used to develop data for handling high-speed subsonic aircraft. Its last flight was on 10 June 1953. (The first D-558-1 was used by NACA to provide spares for the other aircraft.) Meanwhile, Douglas responded to an August 1945 request by the Navy to begin design studies for a more advanced research aircraft that would be capable of supersonic speeds.
This project became the D-558-2 Skyrocket. The aircraft would have both turbojet and rocket engines, the latter with sufficient fuel for two minutes of operation to provide supersonic flight. While Douglas initially looked at a swept-wing variant of the D-558-1 aircraft, it soon became obvious that a complete redesign was needed to accommodate the composite power plant. In January 1947 the Navy approved the change of the last three D-558-1 Skystreaks to be produced as D-558-2 Skyrockets.
Again, Ed Heinemann would supervise the project, with Kermit E. Van Every leading the design team. The D-558-2 had a larger circular-section fuselage with mid-mounted swept wings. The pilot sat in a jettisonable compartment in the nose of the aircraft. As initially configured, the D-558-2 would have a Westinghouse J34-WE-40 turbojet and a Reaction Motors XLR-8-RM-5 four-chamber rocket engine. The turbojet's air intakes were fitted aft of the cockpit, low in the fuselage.
The initial flights were without the rocket engine. On 4 February 1948 a Douglas pilot lifted the first D-558-2 from Muroc on its maiden flight. According to aviation historian Ren?
Francillon, the initial test flights "indicated that with only the turbojet installed the aircraft had a sluggish performance, particularly on take-off, that visibility from the cockpit was poor, and that directional stability was inadequate."5
Modifications were made to the aircraft, and the first D-558-2 was restricted to subsonic tests until mid-1949 when the rocket engine was installed. From the first flight with a composite power plant in October 1949, the aircraft was flown only by Douglas and, on one occasion in 1956, by NACA pilots. (That plane was officially retired in March 1957.)
The second D-558-2, also sans rocket engine, was delivered in late 1948 and began a rigorous flight-test program by Douglas and NACA pilots. It was then returned to Douglas for installation of the rocket motor. The third aircraft began flight tests on 8 January 1949. During the manufacturer's tests, it exceeded Mach 1 on 24 June 1949.
By this time the Navy and Douglas decided that air-launch of the D-558-2 would be more efficient, and the two later aircraft were modified to be carried aloft by a P2B-1S, a modified B-29 Superfortress, and released in flight (as was the Bell XS-1). The first air launch, with a Douglas pilot at the controls, was by the second D-558-2 from an altitude of 24,850 feet, on 8 September 1950. It had been extensively modified, with the turbojet removed and a more powerful XLR-8-RM-6 four-chamber rocket installed.
Flown by Douglas test pilot William B. Bridgeman, the second D-558-2 set several records, reaching Mach 1.88 on 7 August 1951, and 74,494 feet on 15 August. Then, it too was turned over to NACA for continued flight testing, with advisory committee and service pilots at the controls.
Marion Carl reached a record 83,235 feet in that aircraft on 21 August 1953, and three months later, on 20 November, NACA's Scott Crossfield pushed the D-558-2 into a dive from 72,000 feet and reached Mach 2.005—1,291 mph—the first vehicle to exceed Mach 2. (A month later the Air Force's Bell X-1A exceeded that speed.) The Skyrocket continued flying until 20 December 1956.
At Douglas, studies were begun on a follow-up research aircraft, sometimes referred to as a D-558-3 or Douglas Model 671. This aircraft was intended to explore hypersonic flight. In a ballistic trajectory the aircraft was envisioned to reach an altitude of about 700,000 feet and on the return to earth attain hypersonic speeds, possibly as high as Mach 9. The lack of funds and the availability of the North American X-15 to explore high-speed flight, however, led to cancellation of that project.
Rene Francillon summarized the Douglas effort: "the D-558 programme in general and the D-558-2 in particular were both highly useful and truly spectacular. While very different in nature from the better known Douglas achievements, they contributed most brilliantly to the Douglas share in the development of aviation."6
1. Yeager reached Mach 1.015—670 mph at an altitude of 42,000 feet—flying a Bell XS-1 rocket-propelled aircraft. The aircraft was released in flight from a B-29 Superfortress over Muroc, California.
2. Mach numbers express aircraft speed as the ratio of the velocity of a moving body to the local velocity of sound. Thus Mach 1 equals 760.98 mph at sea level at 59?? F. The term is named for Dr. Ernest Mach.
3. Edward H. Heinemann and Rosario Rausa, Ed Heinemann: Combat Aircraft Designer (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980), p. 143.
4. A comprehensive description of the D-558 project is found in Ren?
J. Francillon, McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920 (London: Putnam, 1979), pp. 434-439, 447-455.
5. Francillon, p. 449.
6. Francillon, p. 455.


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Having played blues exclusively for the last 5 years I recently joined a cover band, replacing their lead guitar player, who left because of "other interests".
After 5 rehearsals I am having serious second guesses
First of all about myself:
1 - I still don't know the songs, I can play them - with my 'cheat sheet' - but it seems to be very hard for me to memorize them, probably because
2 - I don't "feel" (most of) the songs
3 - I asked them if they wanted note for note reproductions, since that is one thing I won't do. "NO, we play our own version of the songs" – up till now I've had at least 6 times (in 5 rehearsals) where the keyboard player starts "but that's not like on the CD, he does 'deedeedee-dwah-dooh' and you go…" _ I am getting tempted to tell him to put on the cd then, since I have no intention to learn songs note for note and no time to even if I wanted to (which I told them up front, even BEFORE I went to the audition)
and about the band
4 – singing is off key A LOT (I know, I am not Pavarotti either, but…) by both singers, and neither of them is displaying a lot of charisma (may change once they are out of rehearsal and on stage, but I have my doubts, especially about the girl
5 – NO DYNAMICS – every song starts full blast and goes on full blast till it ends, PERIOD – I tried to introduce them to dynamics, having them play softer while backing singer, going a bit louder in instrumental passages and full tilt during solo's, but that lasted about half a tune
6 – tempo is wobbly to say the least – I have been blessed with VERY solid rhythm sections the last couple of years, but yesterday's rehearsal it was RIDICULOUS
7 - NOTHING is happening, we're just reproducing the same thing again and again
now they have ONE gig lined up for next month, so I'll play that one, but do I tell them I'm quitting before or after the gig and more importantly do I tell them WHY – or do I make up some excuse


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Monthly lunch notes (wines tasted blind):
2003 Ch. Tour de Mirambeau Cuve Passion – a white Bordeaux to start off seemed fitting. This one was certainly not trumpeting it's origin, mind you. The SB was muted and it was a bit hard to tell where this was from, although the fruit was quite good both in the nose and on palate, and it had a smooth tasty presence, finishing reasonably long.
Went well with sable fish and black beans
1996 Chopin Bourgogne Pinot Noir – certainly a good choice to be next up. Obvious pinot nose, decent fruit in the middle, perhaps a bit overwhelmed right at the end by the tannins which suddenly assert themselves. Pretty good length.
1929 Ch. Margaux – this was to say the least a big surprise. I thought maybe 60s, but when told it was older, wasn't surprised to find a 28 or 29 despite the considerable depth of colour it exhibited. The nose was the best thing about this wine – mature fruit with some cedar, road dust and a sweetness peaking out from under, and it developed for quite awhile, even after the wine had faded on palate. In the mouth it was slightly flat but had a nice feel to it, losing fruit on the palate over about 10 minutes and then doing a quick fade. Amazing to think that when this wine went into vat, it was raining stockbrokers in New York and Chicago…. This wine lingered on the tongue – and in our thoughts.
1990 Lungarotti San Giorgio – guess whose wine got to follow the 77 year old first growth? Yup, yours truly. I tried to tell them it needed to sit in the glass for a half hour, but they plunged in anyway. This blend of cab, sangiovese and cannaiolo from Umbria impressed me in it's youth. It now shows good fruit, a fair bit of acidity, and enough Bordeaux character to fool most of the attending into thinking it another wine from that region. My only concern with it is that the tannins are still a bit hard and the fruit is not as abundant as it was five years ago. Nevertheless a pleasant bottle and a wine I'll follow for a few more years.
With quail salad
1995 Ch. Cantenac (St. Emilion) – this merlot based wine had a big if simple fruit nose, with hints of burnt sugar and dill. Slight bitterness at the end which didn't bother me, but a bit short on fruit on palate, which did.
2001 L'Ecole 41 Merlot Seven Hills Vineyard – big sweet blackberry nose with some obvious oak, jammy on the tongue and a nice long sweet finish.
With smoked rabbit tenderloin in pasta (bunny spaghetti)
1998 Vieux Donjon – always a favourite. My friend's last bottle sacrificed for our luncheon pleasure (psst – Bruce – I've got you covered – I have a couple of cases of this I haven't opened yet….) This wine is no longer hiding it's charms. The nose was doing the herb and anise thing and it has lots of fruit in the middle with a nice long finish. No rush at all on this one – it is just getting into prime time.
with cheese
1998 Cascabel Shiraz, Fleurieu Peninsula – an obvious Ozwine, but harder to place within Australia. Dark in the glass with heavy legs and nose to match, lots of flavour intensity and sweetness in the mouth, but not to excess as so many recent wines have been. Good length, not much in the way of tannin, and a nice little tickle of cinnamon that shaded the finish briefly. Probably best over the next 5 years or so.
A lunch we won't quickly forget.


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Review of the New 'M&M's Premiums': Fancy-Pants, Expensive, and Kinda Gross
Do you find M&M's annoyingly lowbrow? You're in luck! Mars has launched a posh line of M&M's called M&M's Premiums that they hope will "attract a young, fashion-conscious consumer to the product," the New York Times reports. The candies will even make an appearance at New York Fashion Week in September.
These novel M&M's bear scant resemblance to the originals. They are made from an entirely different chocolate recipe and sport a speckled metallic skin instead of the famous uniform-colored M&M candy shell. That means there's no crunch, just an exterior sheen.
They come in five flavors—mint chocolate, mocha, triple chocolate, raspberry almond, and chocolate almond. We tried mint chocolate ("sinfully good white chocolate mint wrapped in dark chocolate") and triple chocolate ("truly tempting layers of milk chocolate, white chocolate and dark chocolate").
Truly tempting they are not. The newfangled candy has an unappealingly viscous mouthfeel and none of that lovely crunch that make original M&M's so fun to eat. They are also cloyingly sweet and completely one-dimensional in flavor.
The quality of the chocolate is too lackluster to warrant its "premium" label and price—a six-ounce package of upscale M&M's costs $3.99, or more than $10 a pound. For that price, I want damn good chocolate. Instead, I got cheap Easter candy-quality chocolate.
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Commentary By Sydnicated Radio Host Tom Joyner
We've all expressed our opinions, vented, aired it out, and in my heart of hearts, no matter how we got to this point, I believe most of us share a common goal – to re-elect President Obama.. That can only happen if we take all the time and energy we've been using to debate, defend – and yes, digress (Tavis didn't patent that word, did he?) and move forward. Like the mamas on my staff tell their little boys when they're distracted by whatever is on the PSP, DS or Wii screen, "Let's focus."
If we can learn anything from Republicans, it is that they have the ability to not just rally together, but to grab onto a single candidate, issue, piece of propaganda, whatever, and clamp down like a pit bull. Once they
make a decision, they will not be swayed. How many times have you listened to one of them recite the party line, and you t hink to yourself, I KNOW they don't really believe that? Maybe not, but by being consistent and
steady until the end, they come out victorious – or, at the least, united.
That's what we need to do more. Of course, we are not all "like minded" across the board, and no one is
expected to believe that every single thing that President Obama says or does is perfect and beyond reproach. But, let's look at the big picture and remember that if he's going to win, he needs all of our votes – every last one of them. At one time, I didn't see the harm in the public criticisms from black leaders, but a conversation I had with a friend and colleague who voted for Obama last time around made me think differently. This guy is black, high school-educated and gets most of his news from our show, CNN, MSNBC and C-SPAN. A few weeks ago, when Tavis Smiley and Cornel West began to make the rounds on the cable networks, he started to h ave second thoughts about
He actually began to let the negativity seep into his brain and said, "What IS Obama doing for Black people?
Look at how many of us are unemployed; he's not doing nothing about that." That's when I knew that more harm was being done than some people realize. Keep in mind, that was just one person who happened to express his opinion to me. How many more black people will stay home from the polls this November because they think the prez is turning his back on black people?
Forget that that's a lie – that he has done plenty for African-Americans and will do more if he gets the chance to serve another term. Forget that
bin Laden was captured and killed under his watch. Let's not even deal with the facts right now. Let's deal with just our blackness and pride – and loyalty. We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American
president, and that's what we ought to be doing. And I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man.
There are a great number of people who are against him because he's a black man. That should be enough motivation for us to band together and get it done.
I'll be making an announcement soon about voter registration and what we'll do on the TJMS to make sure that everybody is ready come November. In the
meantime, we need to start showing the same kind of enthusiasm as we did when we were electing the president ………. the first time. Please don't think it's
going to be any easier because we made it happen before. In fact, this time it will be harder.
For years, I've heard people who weren't around during the civil rights movement say that they wished they had been there. They have a deep need to be a part of some great historic moment that will make a difference, not just to us but to future generations as well. Well, t his is our moment. And before I hear the haters say President Obama is no Dr. Martin Luther King,
of course he isn't. There will never be another Dr, King, Malcolm X, JFK … and there doesn't need to be.
We're not dwelling on the past – not 50 years ago, not even 50 days ago. Whether you're in a race to the finish line, the goal post or to making history, you've got to keep your eye on the prize if you're going to win.
The naysayers have a vested interest in chunking rocks. We can't stop that. What's our interest? What are we willing to stand up for, fight for, make a sacrifice for?
When is the last time we did more than talk about how much we support the president? When is the last time you mailed a check to his campaign? When you hear people who claim to represent you and black America saying things you don't believe or support, you ought to light up the phones, send emails, tweets, write blogs, fax. Every litt le bit helps. Don't let hate, pettiness, jealousy, whatever, overshadow truth. We're on a mission, and a mission isn't always fun, sexy or comfortable.
When you step out there and believe in what you say and what you do, you've got to take the heat and keep it moving. In the words of that great philosopher Jay-Z, on to the next. Focus on November. We're moving forward. Can we do it together? That's the only way we will be victorious.


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French newspapers are taking a look at former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's diary and speculating on what his future might hold. Same-sex marriage is also back in the headlines, with opposition from politicians, the church and local authorities.
Le Parisien puts Nicolas Sarkozy on its front page, running an article on his rendez-vous with a Brazilian investment bank.
Online paper Rue89 suggests that his decision to speak to the bankers was a little hypocritical, since he'd always refused to associate himself with these types of financial institutions.
Libération evokes the opposition that the government could face in passing a law to allow same-sex marriage. An editorial explores the ideological obstacles to homosexuality in French history.
And Paris gets in line to see Edward Hopper: the American artist's work is going on show at the Grand Palais. Le Monde gives us a preview.