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A San Francisco designer peppers her graceful 1930s home with a tasteful mix of vintage treasures and youthful verve
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Michelin-rated taco truck in the front, Reposado margaritas in the back, and designer touches all around. This house knows how to party—in impeccable style.
Of course, it's not like this every day at designer Kari McIntosh Dawdy's San Mateo, California, home. Usually it's husband Kevin at the backyard grill, not a Bay Area chef in a food truck; it's another couple or two and their children, not 70 guests and a preschool's worth of kids swarming around the courtyard's lemon tree and its piñata full of candy-covered promises.
But after six months in renovation solitary, Kari, Kevin, and their 3-year-old son, Max, were more than ready to break out the whole enchilada. They invited every one of their friends over for a look at their new digs—starting with the inviting outdoor spaces that were the biggest lure for a young couple who had been cooped up in a San Francisco apartment with a rambunctious toddler.
Spanish-style architecture defines the 1932 house.
Photography: John Merkl
Produced by Lisa Mowry
Interior designer: Kari McIntosh Dawdy, Kari McIntosh Design, San Mateo, CA 94402; 415/341-1466, karimcintoshdesign.com.
Landscape architect: John Hykes Landscape Architect, Oakland, California.
Patio Dining
"All that boy energy was really the impetus for us moving to this house," Kari says with a laugh. "Max needed to be outside."
Kevin envisioned father-son play sessions on the lawn. Kari saw friends coming over for conversation and cocktails on the tree-shaded patio. "Outdoor living was a focus for us," she says. "We wanted to be able to throw open the French doors in the living room and dining room and let the party flow."
On the patio, a table and chairs from RH are the perfect spot for outdoor dinner parties.
Dining table ("Costa Rectangular Dining Table"); dining side chairs ("Provence High Back Chair"); host chairs ("Provence Armchair"): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Pillow on host chair ("Senji"/Red): Martyn Lawrence Bullard, martynlawrencebullard.com.
Tray on table (product line varies); pitcher on table (product line varies): Williams Sonoma, williams-sonoma.com.
Large vase on table ("Wood Bark Trophy Vase"/Frost White, faux bois resin detail): Oly, olystudio.com.
Grill: Weber, weber.com.
Patio Seating
Like the fun, Kari's signature style flows from room to room in this 1930s home, located in San Mateo's oldest neighborhood. Subdivided in the late 1800s, the neighborhood has seen its old turnabouts for horse-drawn buggies turned into fountains, the trickling water bringing nature's music to well-loved patios. "When I saw the lion's head on the fountains, I knew it was a sign," Kari says. "I'm a Leo, after all."
Details from the fountain to the arched doorways to the intricately hand-painted ceiling beams give the house a history that Kari was careful to preserve. "It's such a graceful Spanish-style home. The house has a romance about it," she says. "I wanted to honor the house and, at the same time, give it a relaxed elegance that feels light and comfortable for our family."
Kari added a wall around the courtyard to sneak in bench seating.
Tile (Saltillo tile): existing.
Striped seat cushion on banquette ("Paddington Stripe"/Pumice #205-208); gray pillow ("Chelsea Square"/Pumice #765-208); peach pillow ("Chelsea Square"/Sunset #765-12): Perennials, perennialsfabrics.com.
Red-patterned pillow ("Senja"/Red): Martyn Lawrence Bullard, martynlawrencebullard.com.
Patterned pillow in corner of banquette ("Magnifikat," colorway discontinued): Kravet, kravet.com.
Small and medium lanterns ("Malta"): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Tall lantern ("Filagree Lantern," discontinued): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Fountain: existing.
Planters: Giannini Garden, gianninigarden.com.
This designer's unique brand of California cool deftly blends high and low, new and old. And by old, we mean a flea market's worth of finds from nearly a lifetime of collecting.
"I'm kind of a collector-slash-hoarder," Kari admits with a grin. She and her mother have a cherished history of girls' trips to Texas, where they're regulars at Round Top Antiques Fair stops, while Kari and Kevin have scored treasures from destinations as near as Santa Barbara and as far as South America, Europe, and Asia.
Designer Kari McIntosh Dawdy keeps style family-friendly in the home she shares with husband Kevin and their son, Max.
Wall paint ("Stoneware" #CSP-245): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring: oak.
Hide rug (Argentina): Maison K, maisonkstyle.com.
Chair (French); clock: antique.
Chair fabric: vintage linen.
Pillow (Turkish kilim): Summer House, summerhouse57millvalley.com.
Throw on upper landing railing: vintage Suzani from Turkey.
Wrought-iron railing: original to house.
Entry Console
A vintage Suzani throw from the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul puts a punch of color in the entry, where the curves of a timeworn Swedish Mora clock play to the pattern of the existing stair rail's ornate ironwork. A vintage console table wears the same green as the home's original ceiling beams.
Hand-painted details on the beams, in fact, sparked Kari's whole-house palette. She paired their earthy oranges and greens with plenty of blue—her family's favorite color—and soothing, sophisticated gray.
A vintage table and mirror from San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood mix with a John Derian plate and new Nate Berkus baskets.
Console table (painted teak); lamps on console: vintage.
Mirror: custom.
Box on console: owner's collection.
Plates: John Derian, johnderian.com.
Baskets under console (by Nate Berkus, product line varies): Target, target.com.
In the living room, twin sofas covered in well-wearing gray velvet form a conversation zone next to the fireplace, while accessories introduce splashes of energizing blue and orange. A Lucite-and-glass coffee table interjects an airy note and intensifies the light pouring in from muntined windows and doors. Collected pieces, such as the vintage rug, layer in personal history. "It was one of the first things Kevin and I bought together," Kari says.
Found sconces from the 1920s frame the Spanish-style fireplace.
Upholstered chairs; sofa: owner's collection.
Sofa fabric ("Alice Dark Gray Velvet"): Bolt Textiles, bolttextiles.com.
Sconces (vintage, 1920s): Rejuvenation, rejuvenation.com.
Medallion on fireplace: antique.
Curtain fire screen (custom): Steven Handelman Studios, stevenhandelmanstudios.com.
Fireplace: original to house.
Art to right of fireplace (by Larry Powell): Mediterranee Antiques, mediterraneeantiques.com.
Coffee table (1970s lucite and glass): vintage.
Area rug (vintage, Turkish): Summer House, summerhouse57millvalley.com.
Living Room
Kari's collected style shines in her living room, where a chandelier originally intended for a dining room crowns a space that's full of the unexpected. A Lucite table feels just as at home here as an oak cabinet that her parents gave her as a wedding gift. The horse is an old German toy found at Marburger Farm.
Wall and ceiling paint ("Stoneware" #CSP-245): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring: oak.
Area rug (vintage, Turkish): Summer House, summerhouse57millvalley.com.
Chandelier (vintage, 1930s): Rejuvenation, rejuvenation.com.
Drapery ("Belgian Linen"/Sand); drapery hardware ("Classic Knurled Finial & Rod Set"/Bronze): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Sofa; daybed; upholstered chairs: owner's collection.
Sofa and daybed fabric ("Alice Dark Gray Velvet"): Bolt Textiles, bolttextiles.com.
Blue pillows on sofa ("Velvet Pillow Cover"/Cyan): Williams Sonoma Home, williams-sonoma.com.
Patterned pillows: vintage Fortuny.
Striped pillow (Thai silk): owner's collection.
Throw ("New Classic Avalon Blanket"): Hermès, usa.hermes.com.
Table behind sofa (discontinued): Noir, noirfurniturela.com.
Table lamps ("Culloden Table Lamp"/Pebbled Aquamarine with Linen Shade #ARN3608, by Aerin for Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Box on table (Chinese); tall cabinet (oak linen press); horse on cabinet (German toy): antique.
Coffee table (1970s lucite and glass): vintage.
Heart dish on coffee table ("Heart Dish Gold"): Michael Aram, michaelaram.com.
Pottery holding flowers (antique French confit pot): Sonoma Country Antiques, sonomaantiques.com.
Wicker planter to right of sofa: vintage.
Living Room Curiosities
This Provence antique sits beneath a grid of Sid Dickens tiles.
Wall and ceiling paint ("Stoneware" #CSP-245): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring: oak.
Trunk: antique.
Art above trunk (tiles): by Sid Dickens, siddickens.com.
Drapery ("Belgian Linen"/Sand): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Floor lamp: owner's collection.
Dining Room
History, with a fresh spin, also lives in the dining room, where Kari's first pick was a Groves Bros. drapery fabric. "They do Venetian-style printing based on old documents," the designer says. "This one, based on a Spanish document from the 17th century, has a Spanish-dog pattern, so it's perfect for this house—it looks like lions."
Kari had the pattern enlarged, then put decorative artist Caroline Lizarraga and her crew to work hand-painting the dining room walls with the leonine design. "Max sat on the floor and played the ukulele while they worked," Kari says. "It's an amazing memory."
A shell-encrusted mirror that Kari had in the bedroom in her old house found a new home, meshing with the hand-painted wallcovering.
Table (English): antique.
Mirror: custom.
Sconces (1920s): Rejuvenation, rejuvenation.com.
Dining Room
The wood-paneled ceiling and chandelier are original to the house. A Spanish trestle table is juxtaposed against Design Within Reach chairs. The hide rug keeps things light and bright.
Ceiling paneling; flooring (oak); chandelier: original to house.
Wall treatment (hand-painted): by Caroline Lizarraga Decorative Artist, carolinelizarraga.com.
Drapery ("Kahn"): Groves Bros., grovesbros.com.
Area rug ("Diamond Cowhide Rug"/Ivory): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Photograph (by Markham Johnson): Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, sbfinearts.com.
Dining table (Spanish): antique.
Dining chairs ("Antica Armchair" #3799); chair leather (colorway discontinued): Design Within Reach, dwr.com.
Table runner (handmade lace from Mexico): Maison K, maisonkstyle.com.
Vases and pitcher (by Astier de Villatte); : Sue Fisher King, suefisherking.com.
Pedestal: antique.
Vase on pedestal (vintage): Summerland Antique Collective, summerlandantiquecollective.com.
Breakfast Room
The neighboring breakfast room is characterized by its simplicity. A built-in china cabinet wears a charming gray-green color.
Wall paint ("Stoneware" #CSP-245): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring: oak.
Dining table (discontinued): Crate & Barrel, crateandbarrel.com.
Dining chairs: owner's collection.
Bell jar: flea market find.
Built-in china cabinet: original to home.
Pottery on top of china cabinet (antique): Dead People's Stuff Antiques, deadpeoplesstuff.ca.
White dinnerware (by la Cote): owner's collection.
Handcrafted terra-cotta tiles bring a Spanish accent to the backsplash topping Kari's dream La Cornue range.
Cabinets: Omega Cabinetry, omegacabinetry.com.
Countertop: Silestone by Cosentino, silestoneusa.com.
Cabinetry hardware ("Gunmetal Twist Pull" and "Felicity Knob"): Restoration Hardware. rh.com.
Wall tile: by Tabarka Studio, tabarkastudio.com.
Range: La Cornue, lacornueusa.com.
Microwave: Bosch, bosch-home.com/us.
Kitchen Corner
A brick column in the corner displays pots and pans and adds rustic charm to the kitchen.
Home Office
Treasured moments also live in Kari's office, where an art wall holds pieces collected over time. "Each piece is a memento from my travels," she says. "I bought them from street vendors—the painting of the woman in Argentina, the bulls in Spain, and the boats in Venice. They bring back great memories."
Art amassed during travels to Europe and South America decorates Kari's work space.
Wall paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Desk (discontinued): Design Within Reach, dwr.com.
Lamp: owner's collection.
Art, top left (from street vendor in Spain); art, bottom left (lithograph by Rebesco, from vendor in Venice); art, center (lithograph by Garraffo, from street vendor in Argentina); art, top right (vintage illustration); art, bottom right (lithograph by Garraffo, from street vendor in Argentina): owner's collection.
Tray: vintage.
Container (by Missoni, discontinued): Target, target.com.
Laundry Room
Zak + Fox window shades and gray-and-white floor tiles add pattern to the laundry room.
Wall paint ("Penthouse" #CSP-35); trim and cabinetry paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Floor tiles ("Lille-25"/White and Gray, Echo Collection): Granada Tile, granadatile.com.
Cabinetry ("Bridgeport Flat"/Glacier): Merit Kitchens, merit-kitchens.com.
Cabinetry hardware (discontinued): Restoration Hardware. rh.com.
Washer: LG, lg.com/us.
Window shades (discontinued): Zak + Fox, zakandfox.com.
Laundry basket (discontinued): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Powder Room
The powder room connects to the first floor laundry room. Red accents draw out the color from the patterned window shades.
Sink ("Palladio Vitreous China Pedestal Lavatory Sink"); towel rings ("Crystal 7-inch Brass Towel Ring"): Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Mirror ("Kensington Pivot Round Mirror"); shelf (product line varies): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Sconce ("Bing Single Arm Sconce" #AH2004, by Alexa Hampton for Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Toilet: Toto USA, totousa.com.
Master Bedroom
Today, though, travel takes a back seat to a feisty 3-year-old. So Kari and Kevin smartly shaped their bedroom into a serene sanctuary colored with quiet blue-grays. "It's all about the textiles," Kari says. A tactile headboard and bed coverings mingle with silk draperies in a subtle faux-bois pattern. They're from the same era as the house, the 1930s.
Luscious layers of textiles include an antique French drapery panel and a Moroccan wedding blanket draped over the linen headboard.
Wall paint ("Perspective" #CSP-5): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug ("Lumina Silk Rug"): Santa Barbara Design Center, santabarbaradc.com.
Drapery panels (French): antique.
Bed (custom): Pandora de Balthazar, pandoradebalthazar.com.
Headboard fabric: vintage linen.
Throw over headboard: antique Moroccan wedding blanket.
Bed cover (discontinued); blanket at end of bed (discontinued): Yves Delorme, yvesdelorme.com.
Bedside table ("Antique Moroccan Mother of Pearl Dresser"): William Laman, williamlaman.com.
Table lamp (vintage mid-century): Monument, 415/861-9800.
Wooden chair (Italian): antique
Bedroom Chest
The dresser, meanwhile, a 1920s antique from North Africa, puts the exclamation point on the room with its stunning mother-of-pearl and bone inlay.
Master Balcony
A cast-plaster lion on the wall echoes the fountain below. The tile "floor" is actually a vinyl rug from Spicher and Company.
Vinyl floorcloth: Spicher and Co., spicherandco.com.
Chair: vintage.
Side table (product line varies): Target, target.com.
Wall art: Raoul Textiles, raoultextiles.com.
Master Bath
Glamorous and casual, globe-trotting and family-friendly, this historical-meets-modern home feels equally at ease hosting a big designer bash or a simple taco Tuesday dinner at the kitchen table. "Our house is a mix of everything we love," Kari says. "It expresses our personality. It's our own mix of California style."
Wall paint ("Super White" #OC-152): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Wall and flooring ("Studio Stone"); faucets ("Highgate Low Profile Three Hole Deck Mounted Lavatory Faucet with White Porcelain Lever Handles" #HGLS10); towel ring ("Crystal 7-inch Brass Towel Ring" #CRTB52); silver accessories (Studio Wallingford): Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Vanity ("Kent Double Vanity"/Charcoal with "Italian Carrara Marble" countertop); sinks: Restoration hardware, rh.com.
Mirrors (discontinued): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Sconces ("Cross Bouillotte Small Sconce"/Antique Nickel #CHD1190): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Vase; art: vintage.
Area rug (vintage Turkish): Summer House, summerhouse57millvalley.com.
Max's Room
A blue-and-white design was born out of a trip to South Africa, where Kari fell in love with the country's Dutch-influenced folk art. The animal-print Lulu DK fabric is almost as fun as an elephant rocker, and Max won't grow out of it as fast as he outgrew his onesies. The Surya rug from its Smithsonian collection has even more staying power.
Window shades (by Paul Smith): Maharam, maharam.com.
Area rug ("Smithsonian SMI-2113): Surya, surya.com.
Art to left of window ("Babar" pages): vintage.
Alphabet art: owner's collection.
Crib/bed ("Robin," discontinued, for similar, "Rhea"): Oeuf, oeufnyc.com.
Bedding ("Organic Star"): Pottery Barn Kids, potterybarnkids.com.
Chair and ottoman: vintage.
Chair-and-ottoman fabric ("Jungle Jubilee"/Blueberry #66250): Schumacher. fschumacher.com.
Pillow on chair ("Diane Von Furstenberg Beaded Border 21x21-inch Throw Pillow"/White): amazon.com.
Side table: owner's collection.
Rocker ("Nursery Elephant Plush Rocker"): Pottery Barn Kids, potterybarnkids.com.
Guest Bedroom
Greens and browns continue the home's sophisticated, earthy palette in the guest bedroom. Vintage nightstands and bedside lamps are a nod to Kari's love of collecting.
Wall paint ("Ally's Earring"#CSP-125); ceiling paint ("Super White" #OC-152); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Ceiling light: original to home.
Sisal area rug ("Metallic Suede & Hemp Rug"): Serena & Lily, serenaandlily.com.
Turkish rug: owner's collection.
Drapery: ivory muslin.
Bed ("Slipcovered Parsons Platform Bed"); headboard fabric ("Belgian Linen"/Sand: Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Rug on headboard ("Chilean Woven Rug"); brown-patterned pillows on bed (vintage silk velvet, Turkish); pillows on chairs (vintage Turkish silk bvelvet): Upstairs at Pierre Lafond, shopupstairs.com.
Bed cover ("Cozy Cotton Blanket"): Coyuchi, coyuchi.com.
Duvet and shams (discontinued): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Pink pillow (vintage Suzani): Maison K, maisonkstyle.com.
"Tout est possible" words above bed: Gaugenyc, gaugenyc.com.
Bedside tables (vintage): Botanik botanikinc.com.
Lamps on bedside tables; upholstered chairs; wicker basket; lamp on dresser (alabaster): vintage.
Dresser, mirror above dresser; trunk: antique.
Art above chest of drawers (Otomi): St. Frank, shop.stfrank.com.
Ottoman (Guatemalan): Artisan Connect, artisanconnect.com.
Floor lamp: owner's collection.


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We Show You How To Install A Complete DSE Suspension, And Get The Most Out Of It By Fine-Tuning The Corner Weights And Alignment.
The art of engineering, unfortunately, is often a compromise dictated by the lowest common denominator. How else can you explain the existence of Macintosh computers, Jitterbug cell phones, and TiVo? The factory suspension design of a typical muscle car is no different. In retrospect, while it may seem like Detroit engineers of the '60s were absolutely clueless, they knew exactly what they were doing. With rippling big-blocks, squirmy bias-ply tires, and four-speed sticks shocking the driveline with each powershift, saving drivers from their own incompetence took precedence over trying to set new lap records at the Nürburgring. Spindles that pointed toward the wrong end of the car (forward) and front tires that gained positive camber as the suspension compressed were common tricks used to ensure loads of easy-to-manage understeer at the expense of sharp handling. Our '65 Olds Cutlass project car is no exception, and to fix what the factory intentionally messed up, we decided to install a complete Detroit Speed and Engineering front suspension system.
DSE's comprehensive Speed Kit 3 (PN 031326) includes tubular upper and lower control arms, forged drop spindles, coilovers, a splined sway bar, a quick-ratio steering box, and tie rods. When matched with the DSE four-link we installed last month, the result is a state-of-the-art suspension, designed and built to modern standards, that can fend off the most agile of autocross aggressors. Nevertheless, merely installing the parts is only half the battle. Maximizing the cornering potential of any chassis requires meticulously scaling, aligning, and corner-weighting the suspension. To help us get everything dialed in, stepping up to the plate once again is Brent Jarvis of Performance Restorations. Not only does Jarvis build Pro Touring muscle machines for a living, he's a diehard A-Body man who's been racing them since 1974. He's logged hundreds of miles on the road course and autocross behind the wheel of various A-Bodies over the decades, and drives to work every day in a big-block-powered '68 Chevelle-on R-compound tires! Here's a step-by-step outline of how to install a trick front suspension, and just as importantly, how to fine-tune the alignment and cornerweights in preparation for high-g combat.
"To properly align a car, you first need to determine the real usage of the vehicle. It should always be done with the simulated weight of the driver in the car. McGaffin intends on driving his car a lot on the street and taking it to the autocross, but doesn't want to have to switch his alignment back and forth. I've been carefully monitoring tire wear on all the street and race cars that we build, and have come up with some great all-around specs that work well on a dual-purpose car like this Olds. On a setup like this, I like to dial in 1.5 degrees of negative camber, 6.5 degrees of positive caster, and set the toe-in 1/8 inch. I like a lot of caster for a couple reasons. It gives great steering wheel feel. It prevents the car from climbing the sides of uneven roads. It counteracts negative camber on the inside tire when turning, and increases negative camber on the outside tire when turning.
"After assembling the suspension, the caster and camber were almost perfect, while the toe only needed some minor adjusting to get it close. I only needed to remove one shim to tweak the camber and set the toe, and we were done. I see lots of guys camber in the front ends over 3 degrees and run toe out at the autocross, and while it does help the cornering a bunch, it will just grind the rubber off the inside edges of the tires when driving around town. There is always some give and take when it comes to alignment, however, my '68 Chevelle tips the scales at 4,000 pounds with me in it, and I've run these same specs as in the Olds for over 6,000 miles this summer. I've road raced, autocrossed, and drag raced on a set of R-compound tires, and they still have plenty of tread left." -Brent Jarvis
Tire Pressure
"Road racing and autocrossing A-Bodies for years has revealed that you need a huge difference in front-to-rear tire pressure. A-Bodies are front-heavy and almost always have smaller tires on the front. Consequently, we preset the tire pressures at 37 psi up front and 32 psi in the rear. Autocross will always use a little less air pressure than when road racing because you don't have the same high-speed lateral g-forces on the tires. Tire pressure is one of the best adjusting points on the car when on the autocross. As a general rule of thumb, if the car is experiencing oversteer, either lower the rear pressure or raise the front pressure. If the car is experiencing understeer, either raise the rear pressure or lower the front pressure. This is assuming you have the car dialed in fairly close to ideal, and you're watching the tires closely for even wear and heat transfer across the tread." -Brent Jarvis
Corner Weights
"After setting the alignment and tire pressure, the corner weights can be dialed in. If a car's corner weights are out of whack, you'll end up with a car that turns in one direction better than the other. That's because the tires and sway bars will be loaded unevenly. It makes a huge difference if you set up the corner weights right, and you will definitely turn faster lap times. That said, it is impossible to get any lefthand or righthand drive car perfect unless you build it from scratch with weight placement in mind. With the exception of a select few high-end sports cars, all cars are front heavy, with most of that weight biased toward the left side. The weight of the driver, steering wheel and column, steering box, brake master cylinder and booster, power steering pump, gauges, foot pedals, and sometimes the battery all add up to one big unbalanced mess. As a suspension tuner, it's our mission to get these weights as close as we can without making the car lean to one side or the other. The beauty of coilovers is that they allow you to fine-tune the corner weights, raising or lowering one corner of the car individually." -Brent Jarvis
|PHR Issue:
|'65 Olds Cutlass
|Jan. 2010
|DSE four-link suspension
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|DSE front suspension
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The FDA is to be commended for consistently raising the vomit-bar when it comes to cigarette warnings. Next month, they're rolling out nine graphic new labels — collect them all! — featuring the most impressive-looking cancer lungs and sliced-open cadavers we've seen to date. Take that, Saw movie campaign! But your favorite nic-pushers are done playing Mr. Nice Tobacco Conglomerate: They're fighting back! With lawyers!
Four of the five biggest U.S. tobacco companies, led by R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard Tobacco Co., have filed suit against the FDA, saying the new packaging requirements "no longer simply convey facts" that smokers can use to arrive at their own conclusions about whether or not their deadly, cancer-causing product will kill them with cancer:
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Here in Houston, summer lasts 10 months–and then there's July and August. In other words, it's hot here most of the time, and the thought of heating up the house does not exactly, shall we say, warm my heart. But I do want to serve dinner each night, so I need some way to cook.
The Nesco Jet Stream oven lets you fry, broil, bake, steam, roast, and grill–up to 3 times faster than a conventional oven and twice as fast as a convection oven. Cook pizza, bake bread, brown and cook your meat, all without heating up the house or wasting energy.
Most of the parts are dishwasher safe for easy cleanup. The downside? At around $150, I'd want this to be a one-time investment, but Amazon reviewers caution that the unit will need to be replaced in 1 to 3 years–though they rave about it when it's working. Have one? Love to hear how it's working for you.


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Editor's note: Sarah Cook is a senior research analyst for East Asia at Freedom House and author of report The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship, which was released October 22 by the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance. The views expressed are her own.
The efforts of China's leaders to prevent its citizens from circulating information inconvenient to the ruling Communist Party are well known. But while censorship is a daily reality for media outlets inside mainland China, their counterparts abroad are increasingly finding themselves under pressure as well.
China's leaders, it seems, have become more ambitious in their attempts to control the news.
Take last year, when reports surfaced that China's ambassador to the United States met with Bloomberg's editor-in-chief to try to persuade the outlet not to run a story about the finances of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's family. Last May, meanwhile, popular Taiwanese talk show host Cheng Hung-yi resigned after station executives allegedly tried to stop his program from touching on topics sensitive to Beijing. And back in 2011, reportedly at Beijing's urging, a court in Hanoi sentenced two Vietnamese citizens who practice Falun Gong to prison for transmitting radio broadcasts about human rights abuses and corruption from their farm to listeners in China.
These are far from the only examples of how the Chinese Communist Party's media controls extend past China's borders, in a push documented in a report published last week by the Center for International Media Assistance, which examines a range of media outlets based outside China, from major international media to local outlets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and elsewhere. And the findings are clear: the "China Factor" looms over newsrooms across the globe.
As the report notes, the pressure has sometimes been overt, with Chinese officials impeding independent reporting by barring foreign correspondents from the sites of significant incidents, pressuring senior executives not to publish content, or simply refusing to issue visas.
But more common – and arguably more effective – has been the carrot and stick approach that induces subtle self-censorship among media owners and outlets. Those perceived as friendly to Beijing might, for example, be rewarded with advertising, access to Chinese audiences, lucrative contracts for non-media enterprises, and even political appointments. Those deemed too critical can face not just visa restrictions for reporters, but lost advertising and blocked websites. As a result, some outlets have become increasingly wary over covering "hot button" issues such as the persecution of Tibetans, Uighurs and Falun Gong practitioners.
More from CNN: China 'employs 2 million to police internet'
Indirect pressure can also be applied via proxies, including advertisers, satellite firms, and foreign governments, with out-of-favor outlets likely to be boycotted or have their transmission signals cut.
Thus, it has not only been media organizations themselves that have moved to restrict access to information. Earlier this month, CNN reported that Apple had been accused of "kowtowing to the Chinese government" after "pulling from its China App Store a product enabling users to circumvent firewalls and access restricted sites." This wasn't the first time since 2011 that Apple had removed apps that people in China used to access independent overseas Chinese media or bookstores.
A more extreme example of how Western businesses can get caught in the middle of transnational Chinese censorship occurred in 2007. Last year, a WikiLeaks cable suggested that Chinese security officials had summoned and interrogated NASDAQ's chief representative in China, U.S. citizen Lawrence Pan.
According to the cable, the questioning focused on a journalist who had been reporting from the exchange's New York headquarters for New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), an outlet founded by Falun Gong practitioners in the United States to broadcast news and cultural programming to Chinese audiences. The cable added that Pan, "to secure his release, may have pledged to Chinese authorities that NASDAQ would no longer allow" such access. Indeed, starting in February 2007, NTDTV's correspondent was suddenly barred from the building after reporting from there on a daily basis for more than a year.
Some international companies have been more proactive in their assistance to Chinese censors. In 2008, Reporters Without Borders released the transcript of a telephone recording in which a representative of the French satellite company Eutelsat admitted that the firm had cut the signal of that same television station to "show a good gesture to the Chinese government."
While some of these dynamics date back to the 1990s, they have intensified and expanded over the past five years. Physical assaults against foreign reporters in China have become more violent, while Beijing's efforts to influence newsroom decisions in Hong Kong have intensified, expanding to topics touching on the territory's internal politics. In Taiwan, meanwhile, self-censorship is increasing, as media owners seek new sources of revenue from mainland entities. And major Western news outlets have found themselves facing the kinds of restrictions – including wholesale website blocking and intrusive cyber-attacks – usually reserved for dissident Chinese websites.
The paradoxical combination of the Communist Party feeling emboldened internationally and insecure domestically has only fueled this trend. With more than half of China's population now accessing the Internet, and with some political content going viral despite domestic censors' efforts, the Party's nervousness of overseas news trickling in has increased.
These dynamics have a damaging real-world impact. For international audiences, the information targeted for censorship includes topics that have global implications, such as human rights abuses, high-level corruption, and environmental pollution. For Chinese, the stakes are even higher. Overseas media outlets offer a vital source of information on matters with life-or-death consequences and a precious forum for debating the past, present, and future of their country.
Still, there are clear limits to Beijing's reach. Media outlets around the world daily put out news that the Communist Party would likely prefer unreported, while journalists, activists, owners, and independent courts have pushed back against pressure and scored some important victories. The result is a complex and ever-changing negotiation over where the "red line" lies.
As China's international role expands, this transnational tug-of-war will become more important. Supporters of media freedom – be they journalists, policymakers, or news consumers – must therefore develop an open-eyed strategy for protecting and expanding the free flow of information about one of the world's most prominent nations.
I live in bay area & I see so many diferent faces like no other places in the world & I like it. Many of us coming from very diferent cultures like myself. Im asian grown up in latinoamerica. My parent were a very open mind individuals and always told me to understand and respect others cultures even with behaviors we don't like ( like cutting in front of you @ bus line or markt line , o spitting openly in public ). And yes, we are racist. Like the rest of the world. Who is not in some degree ?
But this cnn article is about government censorship. What is all this fuss about culture ? In the era of massive fly transportation, we live in a very complicated world of culture clash. Lets don't make it worse. This the way I see. Thanks
This article is about the Chinese government, not about Chinese people, so immigration has absolutely nothing to do with it.
China can whine all they want. If any media executive actually listens to them then it's their own fault.
The only leverage China has is to prevent publications from being sold in China. They already do that.
So if media executives want to put profit first and kiss chinese butt then they are no better than the Chinese government.
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Over the course of our lives, we wear many hats. After 53 years, I've worn a few that fit well and others that weren't exactly my style or size.
Starting out my adult life as a hairdresser, I discovered that there is some confusion about the word "beautician." Because it rhymes with "magician," there are misconceptions about the job description, and after awhile, wearing that hat got to be not-so-magical.
I tried working around food a bit, too, but because of my pre-disposition to setting things on fire, decided that if I couldn't take the heat, I'd better get out of the kitchen.
Then I saw an ad in the paper for the DeMotte Library; they were hiring. I'd always loved books, so I tried on that hat. That was nearly 22 years ago, and to this day, that hat feels just right.
Now I'm going to give you a magical description of some great, new fiction that will light a fire in you. Try these on for size!
The faulty heart; the brain tumor, the fractured femur; all of these medical problems have the potential to become disastrous statistics in the operating room. After all, surgeons are only as good as their skills. At Chelsea General, the Morbidity and Mortality Conference, also known as M & M, is where doctors answer for the bad outcomes of surgeries that started out with good intentions. Follow the lives of five surgeons who push their skills to the limit in "Monday Mornings: A Novel" by Sanjay Gupta.
Wyatt has a job; just a routine, run of the mill, simple jewel heist and plans for a fast getaway afterward. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this heist will include Eddie Oberin because his very intelligent ex-wife is the one who set it all up. Nothing should go wrong; but well laid plans go awry for Wyatt in a hurry, making for an adventurous journey through the unexpected in "Wyatt" by Garry Disher.
A hazing scandal at the prestigious school where her adopted son, Scott, teaches sends recently widowed Sylvie McAllister into a world of chaos, complete with a tangled web of secrets. Determined to unravel the truth behind all of the mystery, Sylvie and her family travel across state lines in search of the truth in "Everything We Always Wanted" by Sara Shepard.
Timothy Van Bender's perfect life is about to be upended by tragedy. His previously thriving hedge-fund business has run aground because of a bad bet, and his beautiful wife, Katherine, has seemingly committed suicide. Timothy's perfect life is unraveling at a rapid rate, and to make matters even worse, Tricia, his secretary, has shown up on his doorstep claiming to be his dead wife, and the fact that she knows things that only Katherine would have known sends chills up Timothy's spine in "Switchback," a dark and gripping thriller by Matthew Klein.
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For our 2019 symposium, we offered continuing education for attorneys, chiropractors, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, rehabilitation counselors (CCM, CDMS and CRC*), physicians and psychologists. Experts nationwide are learning about our innovative approaches and programs in caring for Ohio's workers.
Attendees received up to 12 continuing education credit for these professions: CCM, CDMS, CLE, CME, CRC, Chiropractor, OT, PT, Psychology and RN.
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November 18, 2018, 12:59 amSteven AdamsC, Oklahoma City Thunder
Steven Adams scored a season-high 26 points against the Suns on Saturday.
Adams added 10 rebounds and a steal while going 11-for-15 from the field. There's not much left to say about Adams' consistently excellent production, so fantasy owners should kick back and enjoy his exploits.
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November 15, 2019, 1:25 amPaul MillsapPF, Denver Nuggets
Paul Millsap had a throwback game on Thursday, scoring 18 points on 7-of-14 shooting with nine rebounds, two assists and two triples.
Millsap continues to turn back the clock with his performances and he did so in only 27 minutes tonight. This is all with Jerami Grant (12 points, six rebounds, two blocks and two triples) also providing value. Mason Plumlee (10 points, seven rebounds and two assists) was actually vital in tonight's double-digit deficit comeback. The main guy to own right now is Millsap, but beware of his mileage.
November 15, 2019, 1:25 amTaurean PrinceSF, Brooklyn Nets
Tauren Prince had an inefficient night shooting the ball on Thursday, going 5-for-15 from the floor on his way to 12 points with eight rebounds, two assists and two triples.
Prince should be able to churn out some standard-league value while Caris LeVert (thumb) is sidelined for the next few weeks. He won't be as good as he was on the Hawks. but the points, triples and steals are still there and he's a top-90 player so far this year.
November 15, 2019, 1:24 amJoe HarrisSF, Brooklyn Nets
Joe Harris scored nine points on 4-of-11 shooting with three rebounds, a steal and a 3-pointer on Thursday.
Harris was held to only nine points tonight and only attempted three shots from deep. He should be much better on the next one and while he won't light up the scoreboard, the triples should come at a higher rate.
November 15, 2019, 1:15 amNikola JokicC, Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic led the Nuggets to their 101-93 win over the Nets on Thursday with 18 points on 8-of-14 shooting to go with 10 rebounds, three assists and two 3-pointers.
Jokic's line is still under what he usually delivers and again, we're preaching patience here. He always takes a bit of time to warm up and there's no doubt in our minds that he'll be due for a top-15 finish.
November 15, 2019, 1:14 amWill BartonSG, Denver Nuggets
Will Barton played a game-high 38 minutes on Thursday, scoring 17 points on 8-of-17 shooting with six rebounds and four assists.
Barton had another solid night scoring the ball and the Nuggets offense should have enough usage for him to provide some decent value. The Nuggets are actually sputtering on offense, ranked 22th in ORTG on the year and they'll need Barton to continue to be himself on offense.
November 15, 2019, 1:13 amMalik BeasleySG, Denver Nuggets
Malik Beasley sat out Thursday's game vs. the Nets with an illness.
Beasley sitting gave more time for Monte Morris (19 minutes, 10 points, three rebounds, seven assists, a steal and a triple) and it's a known fact that Morris is standard-league value when he gets enough time. It's just a short-term injury though, so Beasley should be re-inserted again soon.
November 15, 2019, 1:12 amJamal MurrayPG, Denver Nuggets
Jamal Murray had an awful game on Thursday, scoring four points on 1-of-11 shooting to go with five rebounds, four assists, a steal and a 3-pointer.
Murray was getting all of the attention and collapsed on every time he drove in the paint. He's prone to some shooting slumps like this, but as we've seen before, he busts out of them in a huge way.
November 15, 2019, 1:11 amGary HarrisSG, Denver Nuggets
Gary Harris filled up the stat sheet on Thursday, scoring ten points on 4-of-7 shooting with seven rebounds, two assists, two steals, a block and two triples.
Harris's line was exactly what owners should be seeking. He got it done across the board and hit his triples. The top-40 days are long gone, but Harris is more than serviceable for standard leagues as the main man in Denver at shooting guard.
November 15, 2019, 1:10 amKyrie IrvingPG, Brooklyn Nets
Kyrie Irving scored 17 points on 8-of-20 shooting to go with six rebounds, nine assists, a steal and a 3-pointer in Thursday's 93-101 loss to the Nuggets.
Irving couldn't get his shot to fall in the second half, but he still delivered on the dimes tonight. He's still one of the top players in the league and if a slow stretch can pry open even the smallest buy-low window, you have to pounce on it. The only warning sign is his health as he played through a shoulder injury today.
November 15, 2019, 1:09 amJarrett AllenC, Brooklyn Nets
Jarret Allen scored 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting to go with 10 rebounds and a block on Thursday.
Allen had a monster game, contesting almost every shot in the paint, but the Nets just couldn't keep things going in the second half. He's clearly the better player between he and DeAndre Jordan (17 minutes, zero points, 11 rebounds, three assists and a block) and it's good to see the minutes reflect that.


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Dimensional gateways are magical gateways between worlds similar to the Dark Portal. However, where the Dark Portal was securely fixed as a doorway between two temporal worlds — Azeroth and Draenor — with a single terminus on both planets, dimensional gateways are less stable and are tunnels between the worlds, as opposed to mere doorways.[citation needed] This feature is part of what caused Draenor's explosion.
There were four dimensional gateways, left over from Ner'zhul's experiments, outside of Magtheridon's Black Temple. They brought demons in from the Twisting Nether which Magtheridon brought under his control. Illidan Stormrage shut down the gateways, which cut off the flow of demons and ended the extra stresses on the remnants of the planet.[1]
It is likely that Kel'Thuzad opened such a gateway, or a variation thereof, in Dalaran to summon Archimonde.
The gateway used to summon Hakkar the Houndmaster and the other demons in the War of the Ancients was closer to the Dark Portal than a dimensional gateway — the terminus of that portal was located on Legion-controlled world.
The gates in The Burning Crusade Edit
Several of the dimensional gateways that Illidan closed can be found in Outland with World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. There are only three currently in the game, though four exist in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
- At the Portal Clearing on the shores of Marshlight Lake in western Zangarmarsh. (Not currently functional)
- At Twilight Ridge in western Nagrand. (Not currently functional)
- At Death's Door east of Thunderlord Stronghold in the Blade's Edge Mountains. (Functional, but not open)
Blizzard's original plans Edit
The "portals to other worlds" make up a collection of portals of which Chris Metzen revealed in the Developer Panels that Illidan closed these in Outland. Nevertheless, MagusRogue, a World of Warcraft RPG Game Designer from White-Wolf revealed the following: "The portals were shut down by Illidan, actually. However, some of the quests in the Burning Crusade Expansion have you re-opening these and going to new dimensions, fighting the legion in new worlds. Should be awesome." Source: MagusRogue, a World of Warcraft RPG Game Designer
"One of the things we're most excited about," says Metzen, "is the chance to create environments unlike anything you've seen in previous games. We really want to ramp it up for the players now. We're saying, 'Hey, you've graduated, you're over level 60 now, so let's get crazy with some really alien worlds and creatures." Even better, this is something that's infinitely expandable for us in updates and expansions down the line. There can always be more portal worlds." Source: Computer Gaming World, December, 2005 by Jeff Green
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Unrest shatters press freedom gains in the Democratic Republic of Congo with attacks and imprisonments surging yet again.
A Special report by Julia Crawford
The fragile state of press freedom in the Democratic Republic of Congo was shattered when the eastern city of Bukavu fell briefly to Rwandan-backed rebels in early June. State-imposed restrictions and imprisonment, as well as rebel-backed threats and attacks, limited independent reporting. With the flow of information constricted, rumors flourished and apprehension spread throughout this central African nation of 53 million.
In a two-month period surrounding the unrest, the government issued at least three directives restricting coverage, authorities imprisoned at least four journalists, and attackers allegedly led by an army officer severely beat another journalist, an investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.
During that same time, CPJ found, rebels forced Bukavu's three main community radio stations to close and threatened at least four journalists, forcing them to flee. Rebels were also blamed for killing the brother of radio station director Joseph Nkinzo, whom they mistakenly believed was the journalist.
A CPJ delegation traveled to the DRC in June, confirmed the deteriorating conditions for journalists, and met with government officials and press leaders. The new attacks against the press, CPJ found, reflect ongoing and fundamental obstacles to press freedom in the DRC. They are:
- The government continues to issue edicts to restrict and censor press coverage.
- Continuing violence and insecurity, especially in eastern parts of the country, threaten the safety of journalists.
- Abusive and outdated laws--the legacy of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko--are still used to imprison and silence journalists who dare offend government officials.
- The profession is chronically beset by economic problems and a lack of training.
Government tightens grip
Just weeks before the unrest, optimism had marked World Press Freedom Day (May 3) in the DRC, where journalists had been frequent targets for violence, harassment, and imprisonment during two civil wars in 1996-97 and 1998-2003.
Media groups noted that no DRC journalist was in prison and that reporters were working more freely and safely. Press conditions had gradually improved, they said, since the Kinshasa government of President Joseph Kabila and the main rebel groups signed an agreement in December 2002 to end years of civil war.
Their optimism soon evaporated. Two groups of Rwandan-backed rebels in the east, led by dissident army commanders Col. Jules Mutebusi and Gen. Laurent Nkunda, joined forces to take control of Bukavu on June 2 and hold the city for a week. The rebellion prompted violent demonstrations in Kinshasa and elsewhere against the United Nations, which had been unable to prevent Bukavu's fall, and political parties participating in the transition. And on June 11, the government had to turn back an attempted coup by Maj. Eric Lenge, a member of the presidential guard. Lack of official information about the coup and Lenge's whereabouts helped fuel more rumors and speculation.
With fighting around Bukavu in the east and political tensions running high elsewhere, the government sought to restrict the press and warned of sanctions against those who did not follow the government line. A May 27 communiqué signed by Vital Kamerhe, the press and information minister at that time, said that all TV and radio stations were "strictly forbidden to broadcast messages likely to aggravate the situation."
On June 5, Kamerhe summoned editors of media outlets in Kinshasa and issued further warnings. According to CPJ sources, Kamerhe told them the country was on a war footing, that there should be no speech or images to discourage the population or the army, and that editorial lines should be patriotic. This was followed by a June 12 circular in which he cautioned the media against "words that might demoralize the Congolese Armed Forces" or "treating lightly the unfortunate events that threaten the peace process." He again warned of sanctions.
Saying the minister's note contained "barely veiled threats," the local press freedom group Journaliste en Danger (JED) denounced "repeated attempts to muzzle the press or dictate the editorial line of press outlets." JED said that since no state of emergency had been declared, the minister had no right to issue circulars that contravened articles 27, 28 and 29 of the transition constitution, which guarantee freedom of expression and of the press.
In a June 13 meeting, Kamerhe told CPJ that the directives were necessary because of the crisis and his belief that the press was capable of "inventing anything" to sell newspapers. As examples, Kamerhe said media reports had accused Vice President Azerias Ruberwa, head of the former rebel RCD party, of conspiring with Rwanda, and had accused the United Nations of plotting with rebel commander Mutebusi.
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To the government of DRC:
"We are a young democracy to trust journalists 100 percent to censor themselves," Kamerhe said. Under the 2002 peace accord, Kabila will remain in power until 2005 with four vice presidents from both the armed and unarmed opposition. In 2005, the DRC is to hold its first democratic elections since independence in 1960.
For now, dissent is not easily tolerated. On July 19, Lumbana Kapassa, director-general of private TV station RTKM, was summoned to the government security services office in Kinshasa and questioned for three hours.
The focus of the interrogation: an RTKM broadcast showing Honoré Ngbanda Nzambo ko Atumba, former defense minister and special security adviser to Mobutu, addressing exiled officers of the dictator's former army. In his speech, shown in a recorded broadcast from Brussels, Ngbanda criticized the current regime in Kinshasa but urged the exiled soldiers to return to the DRC and join a new integrated army being created under the peace agreement, according to JED.
Interrogators threatened Kapassa and confiscated tapes of the broadcast, JED reported. Kapassa was told that RTKM should never again broadcast anything featuring Ngbanda.
Threats and assaults from rebels
Threats have come from rebels as well. Rebel forces that took Bukavu in June threatened and attacked three of the city's main radio stations--Radio Maria, Radio Maendeleo, and Radio Sauti ya Rehema--forcing them off the air until government forces retook the town a week later. Joseph Nkinzo, director of Radio Sauti ya Rehema (Voice of Mercy), narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when rebels came looking for him and murdered his younger brother Mukamba Mwanaume, whom they thought was the journalist.
Ben Kabamba, director of Radio Maria; Kizito Mushizi, director of Radio Maendeleo; and Nkinzo had been receiving death threats by telephone since May 29. CPJ sources said the rebels began hunting for the three station directors shortly after taking the town. The rebels accused the stations of "genocidal ideology" against Congolese Tutsis known as Banyamulenge, but JED and other independent observers said they found no evidence of this. Nkinzo, Kabamba, and Mushizi took refuge in the U.N. compound in Bukavu and were then temporarily evacuated to Kinshasa, with the help of JED, CPJ, and others.
Although the rebels withdrew from Bukavu on June 9, there were continuing reports of clashes in eastern parts of the DRC and of rebel elements targeting journalists. Soldiers close to rebel army commander Laurent Nkunda began hunting for Déo Namujimbo, the Goma (North-Kivu Province, eastern DRC) correspondent for the France-based news agency Syfia, after an article he wrote denouncing a "reign of terror" by Nkunda's men appeared on Syfia's Web site on July 15.
In his article, Namujimbo claimed that "for the last month and a half, the population of Minova, not far from Goma, has been living in terror because of harassment by soldiers of Nkunda encamped in the region. Racketeering and rape are frequent." His article was reprinted in newspapers in Kinshasa, including the July 17 edition of the daily Le Potentiel.
Namujimbo's neighbors told JED that soldiers came looking for him on the night of July 17, asking when the journalist would return home. The next day, Namujimbo was forced to flee with his family to Bukavu and go into hiding.
At least one attack is allegedly linked to a government soldier. On June 20, 2004, Modeste Shabani, director of the community radio station Sauti ya Mkaaji (Voice of the Farmer) in Kasongo, eastern DRC, was severely beaten and later hospitalized in intensive care, according to JED. An army officer from the former rebel movement RCD, Col. Bokeone Alumba Okoko, allegedly led the attackers, according to JED. Sauti ya Mkaaji had broadcast reports denouncing alleged human rights abuses by Bokeone in Kasongo. The armed men stormed Sauti ya Mkaaji's studio and threatened its staff before attacking Shabani.
JED reported that Shabani suffered hip and rib fractures and acute pain at the base of his neck. The day of the attack, a commission of inquiry launched by Maniema Provincial Governor Koloso Sumahili suspended Bokeone from his army post. Human rights activists are calling for the colonel to be prosecuted.
Outdated laws, new abuses
DRC legislation, notably the 1996 Press Law and the Penal Code, criminalizes a wide array of "press offenses" and allows journalists to be prosecuted under vague and outdated statutes introduced under Mobutu.
The charge most frequently invoked is defamation, which carries prison sentences of up to five years. The penal code defines defamation as attributing "maliciously and publicly" to a person "a precise fact which is of a nature to damage the honor or standing of that person or expose him to public humiliation." It does not specifically say the "precise fact" must be untrue.
In a recent report, the local press freedom group African Media Institute (AMI) wrote: "By sentencing [journalists] systematically on the basis of defamation charges, the courts are in fact asking the press to avoid any words that could damage the honor and reputation of the politicians." And JED President Donat M'baya Tshimanga told CPJ: "I think that wanting to protect people's reputation over and above the public's right to know, especially in the case of those in posts of public responsibility, is a violation of freedom of expression. I think it is a violation of the principles of transparency which should characterize the functioning of the state."
Journalists in the DRC are often placed in so-called preventive detention--imprisonment without due process--as soon as charges are brought against them.
When the CPJ delegation arrived in the DRC, three journalists had been imprisoned on defamation charges in Kinshasa. Another was imprisoned on spying and trespassing charges related to filming for a story. And a fifth journalist had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, although he was free on appeal, for defaming a businessman.
CPJ and JED visited the four jailed journalists in Kinshasa Prison on June 6. The prison was overcrowded, and inmates complained of bad food and unsanitary conditions.
- Lucien-Claude Ngongo, deputy editor of the weekly newspaper Fair Play, was detained May 19 on defamation charges brought by wealthy expatriate businessman William Damseaux. Local journalists said he was questioned about articles denouncing Damseaux's actions in a court battle with Berge Nanikian, another expatriate businessmen. Ngongo was released on July 28, after paying bail, according to JED. His trial began on August 2.
- Albert Kassa Khamy Mouya, former publication director of the weekly newspaper Le Lauréat, was imprisoned on May 27, after Damseaux's lawyer brought defamation charges in connection with a March article, according to JED. The article also related to the legal battle between Damseaux and Nanikian. Kassa, who is diabetic, appeared to be in fragile health at the time of CPJ's visit. CPJ and JED pressed for his release on health grounds. He was released on June 29, pending further proceedings, after being hospitalized a week earlier.
- Rakys Bokela,editor of newspaper Le Collecteur, was imprisoned on May 21 on criminal defamation charges. The former president of the Congolese boxing federation, Aimé Luvumbu, filed the charges in connection with a February 18, 2004, article in Le Collecteur that accused him of malfeasance when he was head of the federation. Bokela was released on June 13, pending further proceedings.
- Gustave Kalenga Kabanda, editor and director of the independent weekly La Flamme du Congo, was arrested on June 7 at his home in Kinshasa. He was jailed on charges of filming illegally at the Gemena residence of Jean-Pierre Bemba, one of DRC's four vice presidents, after Bemba accused him of spying and trespassing. Gemena, in Equateur Province, northern DRC, is a stronghold of Bemba's former rebel movement, the MLC. Kalenga had led a team of seven Congolese journalists who visited Gemena from May 29 to June 5. The journalists filmed plantations and property belonging to the Bemba family, including a luxurious new residence being built by the vice president. Kalenga was released from Kinshasa Prison on June 26 after paying bail.
On June 19, Nicaise Kibel-Bel-Oka, publisher and editor of the private weekly Les Coulisses in the northeastern town of Beni, was convicted of defamation, sentenced to six months in prison, and ordered to pay US$5,000 in damages. Intelligence agents arrested him that same day. The charges stemmed from a December 2003 Les Coulisses article that accused local businessman Jacques Kiangu of failing to pay taxes on goods he imported from Uganda, according to JED. On July 10, Kibel-Bel-Oka was granted a provisional release on appeal.
Kamerhe, who was information minister at the time of CPJ's visit, told CPJ that the government's policy was "zero journalists in prison." Asked about the frequent jailing of journalists as soon as they are accused, he said it was an anomaly, and that the government would reform the 1996 Press Law.
"You are right," Kamerhe told CPJ. "You shouldn't start immediately arresting and locking up journalists without a legal hearing, just because they have been accused."
Yet changes in government leadership threaten such assurances. In July, Kamerhe became secretary-general of the presidential party PPRD and was replaced at the Information Ministry by Henri Mova Sakanyi, who was until then the deputy minister of foreign affairs. Journalists and independent groups are still assessing the new minister's positions.
Low standards and pay
Early this year, journalists in DRC launched a campaign for the removal of criminal sanctions for press offenses. Kamerhe told them that he supported this in principle but said he believed that it should be done in stages.
"That should not be the starting point," he told CPJ, "because if you decriminalize completely in an environment where the culture of the journalist and his level of training are not the same as in the countries which have decriminalized, that might open the door to abuses."
Media Regulatory groups in the DRCSeveral media regulatory groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have powers that include suspending programming and journalists' press credentials. The three main bodies are:
High Authority on Media (Haute Autorité des Médias, HAM)
HAM is a public agency that can impose sanctions, such as the suspension of radio and TV programs that are deemed to break the law. As one of the "institutions of support for the transition" created under the 2002 peace accords, it comprises representatives from all parties in the transition government. Its president is Modeste Mutinga, a veteran journalist and former CPJ awardee who founded the Kinshasa daily Le Potentiel.
Congolese National Press Union (Union Nationale de la Presse Congolaise, UNPC, formerly UPC)
In March 2004, a national congress of journalists took steps to revitalize the national press union (formerly UPC) and create within it a Press Card Commission. UNPC President Pindi Pasi says all professional journalists will be required to hold a press card. A work contract and diploma in journalism or the equivalent are prerequisites. A UNPC disciplinary committee may suspend or withdraw cards. Charles Dimandja, information director of the private TV station RTKM, heads the Press Card Commission.
Observatory of Congolese Media (Observatoire des Médias Congolais, OMEC)
The journalists' congress also created the OMEC. It is a self-regulatory body that will act on ethics complaints. It may issue public rebukes or recommend the withdrawal of press credentials. The OMEC comprises mainly professional journalists. Its president is Polydor Muboyayi, a veteran journalist and editor of the Kinshasa daily Le Phare.
Poverty, he said, was a factor. "People are always saying that we have huge natural resources, that we are a potentially rich country, but the reality is that people are living in poverty comparable to that of Somalia," Kamerhe said. "And somebody who lives like that, he might be using his pen just to get something to eat and will not hesitate to violate the rules of the profession."
And though journalists believe that poverty is no excuse for keeping criminal sanctions for press offenses on the books, many who spoke with CPJ also expressed concerns about the quality of journalism in the DRC. They cited the weak economy, low salaries, and poor working conditions as threats to the independence of journalists and media outlets. According to Kabeya Pindi Pasi, president of the Congolese Press Union UNPC, most journalists do not have work contracts, and many lack training.
Some of these problems were evident during the crisis in Bukavu.
Anti-Rwanda and anti-U.N. articles were particularly prevalent following the fall of Bukavu. For example, the daily newspaper L'Avenir ran an unsubstantiated claim that the U.N. escorted Rwandan troops into Bukavu. This same article appeared at least twice on the paper's front page, on June 3 and 7. The June 7 edition also carried an article on inside pages reporting unsubstantiated claims that Rwandan women had infiltrated Kinshasa to seduce and poison Congolese men.
A front-page headline in the June 3 edition of daily Le Palmarès claimed that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had sent 4,000 troops to help the rebels in Bukavu but gave no source for this information.
For some, the answer to these problems lies in professional regulatory groups, three of which have been created recently (see box above).
JED Secretary-General Tshivis Tshivuadi said the need to raise standards has been readily acknowledged and is being addressed. Now, he said, it is time for the government to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely.
"All the conditions have been fulfilled for the government to take a political step," he said, "to give a signal to say that it wants to let the press work freely, instead of working always under the shadow of that fear, that pressure, of knowing you could go to prison at any moment."
Julia Crawford is CPJ's Africa program coordinator.


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Population Density by concentration camp, January 15, 1945. Erik Steiner, Dayana Elhazari, Natalia Figueredo, Andrew Fomil, Washington, DC, 2010.
Actual evacuation routes. Erik Steiner, Dayana Elhazari, Natalia Figueredo, Andrew Fomil, Washington, DC, 2010.
Gradations of experience. Erik Steiner and Marc J. Masurovsky, April 2010.
View from the road to Zory, west of Pszczyna. The camera is pointing south towards the forest of Suszek, through which thousands of women from Birkenau marched on their way to Wodzislaw. Marc Masurovsky, February 2010.
Microgeography of community. Erik Steiner, April 2010.
Representing the Evacuations from the Auschwitz Camp System, January 1945
The maps and visualizations represented in this case study are a representative sample of the methodologies employed to explore the spatial, temporal, and experiential dimensions of the evacuations of more than 57,000 Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Auschwitz camp system between January 17 and January 25, 1945 (see Image 1: Population of Concentration Camps). The evacuations ceased two days before the camp system was liberated by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. For these evacuees, liberation would be deferred. By leaving the camp, they stepped out of the "Final Solution" and back into the landscapes of war. Walking initially on foot and then transported by train to Germany from the regional centers of Gliwice and Wodzislaw, the routes of the inmates were a direct reflection of the chaotic command and brutal administration of camp guards and SS regional leaders in determining the least hostile landscapes and civilian areas to transport the inmates. Where did prisoners go? What were they told? How did they respond? Whom did they lean on for support during these long, treacherous, deadly forced marches?
A geo-political parameter is evident in the planning and spatial supervision of the evacuations. Although there was a planned evacuation path, the paths that eventuated over the course of the first two days were entirely different (see Image 2: Camp Evacuation Routes). The routes eventually taken were in constant flux as the disintegrating and chaotic Nazi command structure desperately tried to avoid the rapidly advancing Soviet forces in the region. The disorder in the command structure and the unusually cold January winter landscape exacerbated the guards' cruelty and further diminished the chances of evacuees surviving the punishing distances (see Image 3: Gradations of Experience). Evacuees had to endure the rigors of the foot journey with the last vestiges of what they had or could salvage from the camp before being evacuated. Provisions for the evacuation were not uniform. Deprived of items brought with them into the camp, evacuees left with next to nothing. At times, cardboard sheets were used as shoes, while others were more "fortunate," being given a piece of bread, butter, and jam for the journey. The lack of available train transport at designated departure points also meant that waiting times were prolonged for inmates who had already walked anywhere between forty and sixty kilometers—some without stopping—at a pace ranging from 2.2 to 2.8 km per hour in the harsh winter landscape (see Image 4: Winter Landscape).
The deaths that occurred en route from fatigue, hypothermia, and shooting for failing to maintain the pace undoubtedly increased the level of terror experienced by the evacuees but also caused them to adopt survival strategies that would increase their chances of staying alive. They learned to quickly form walking groups or physical alliances. The column formations of evacuees initially replicated the organization of the camp barrack layout of inmates and retained the physical and emotional intensity of closeness and community. This column-like intensity was, however, fragmented by time, distance, and fatigue. As a result, evacuees sought resilience and support in each other within the overall group formation of two to three people per row. This clustering also provided a point of connection and re-familiarization for marchers who had lost contact either during deportations or after entering the camp. In order to survive these distances, the weather, and most threateningly, the guards, evacuees had no other option but to form a spatial strategy to survive. They formed resilience clusters, an embodied form of what historian Barbara Rosenwein has termed emotional communities (see Image 5: Micro-geography of Community).
Scale: Lower Silesia
Time: January 17, 1945–January 25, 1945
Place: Auschwitz I, II, III, subcamps of Auschwitz, stopping points of Psczczyna, Mikolow, and Źory, destinations of Gliwice and Wodzislaw Slaskie
Experience: Evacuation as mobile camp, sub-freezing temperatures, glacial winds, hunger, fatigue, illness, despair, fear, resilience, expectation, anxiety, leaving, stopping, walking, running, stumbling, night marching, day marching, rest stops, passage of time, perception of landscape, guards, dogs, witnesses—those who help, those who watch, those who turn away—prisoners in evacuee's immediate midst.
Simone Gigliotti, Marc Masurovsky, and Erik Steiner


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The 3rd annual Lake Placid IRONKIDS Dip 'n' Dash along with the Fun Run will be taking place in mirror lake again! The Dip 'n' Dash is a fun and fast-growing sport that combines swimming and running. The swim will take place in the Lake Placid, Mirror Lake. The Dip 'n' Dashes will allow the athlete to follow in their parents footsteps and will get their feet wet in the multisport movement. Limited to 60 spots.
Date: Friday, July 26, 2019
Time: 2 p.m.
Water: Mirror Lake
Run: Road
Event Distances:
Ages 7-15 100 meter swim and 1 mile run
Price: $30
*$10 USAT Annual youth pass not included in price.Each participate will be required to have a valid USAT Annual Youth membership or will need to purchase a $10 USAT Annual Youth Membership during the registration process.
Onsite Registration and Packet Pick up times: Thursday, July 25th from 9am to 5pm at the IRONMAN Lake Placid Expo Area (Oval) and Friday, July 26th on the beach near Mirror Lake.
Entry Includes: Each athlete receives a race bib, finisher shirt, Transition towel, medal, goodie bag and the pride of calling themselves an IRONKID! (Please pick up goodie bag at registration).
Contact Information: [email protected]


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Tuning Your Guitar to Itself
Relative tuning is so named because you don't need any outside reference to which you tune a guitar. As long as the strings are in tune in a certain relationship with each other, you can create sonorous and harmonious tones. Those same tones may turn into sounds resembling those of a catfight if you try to play along with another instrument, however; but as long as you tune the strings relative to one another, the guitar is in tune with itself.
To tune a guitar using the relative method, choose one string as the starting point — say, the 6th string. Leave the pitch of that string as is; then tune all the other strings relative to that 6th string by using the fifth-fret method.
The fifth-fret method derives its name from the fact that you almost always play a string at the fifth fret and then compare the sound of that note to that of the next open string. You need to be careful, however, because the fourth fret (the fifth fret's jealous understudy) puts in a cameo appearance toward the end of the process.
Here's how to get your guitar in tune by using the fifth-fret method:
1. Play the fifth fret of the 6th (low E) string (the fattest one, closest to the ceiling) and then play the open 5th (A) string (the one next to it).
Let both notes ring together. Their pitches should match exactly. If they don't seem quite right, determine whether the 5th string is higher or lower than the fretted 6th string. If the 5th string seems lower, or flat, turn its tuning key with your left hand to raise the pitch. If the 5th string seems sharp, or higher sounding, use its tuning key to lower the pitch. You may go too far with the tuning key if you're not careful; if so, you need to reverse your motions. In fact, if you can't tell whether the 5th string is higher or lower, tune it flat intentionally (that is, tune it too low) and then come back to the desired pitch.
2. Play the fifth fret of the 5th (A) string and then play the open 4th (D) string.
Let both of these notes ring together. If the 4th string seems flat or sharp relative to the fretted 5th string, use the tuning key of the 4th string to adjust its pitch accordingly. Again, if you're not sure whether the 4th string is higher or lower, "overtune" it in one direction — flat, or lower, is best — and then come back.
3. Play the fifth fret of the 4th (D) string and then play the open 3rd (G) string.
Let both notes ring together again. If the 3rd string seems flat or sharp relative to the fretted 4th string, use the tuning key of the 3rd string to adjust the pitch accordingly.
4. Play the fourth (not the fifth!) fret of the 3rd (G) string and then play the open 2nd (B) string.
Let both strings ring together. If the 2nd string seems flat or sharp, use its tuning key to adjust the pitch accordingly.
5. Play the fifth (yes, back to the fifth for this one) fret of the 2nd (B) string and then play the open 1st (high E) string.
Let both notes ring together. If the 1st string seems flat or sharp, use its tuning key to adjust the pitch accordingly. If you're satisfied that both strings produce the same pitch, you've now tuned the upper (that is, "upper" as in higher-pitched) five strings of the guitar relative to the fixed (untuned) 6th string. Your guitar's now in tune with itself.
You may want to go back and repeat the process, because some strings may have slipped out of tune.
When you tune in the normal way, you use your left hand to turn the tuning peg. But after you remove your finger from the string that you're fretting, it stops ringing; therefore, you can no longer hear the string you're trying to tune to (the fretted string) as you adjust the open string. However, there's a way to tune the open string while keeping your left-hand finger on the fretted string. Simply use your right hand! After you strike the two strings in succession (the fretted string and the open string), take your right hand and reach over your left hand (which remains stationary as you fret the string) and turn the tuning peg of the appropriate string until both strings sound exactly the same.


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We like broccoli best in this tofu stir-fry, but any mixture of vegetables you have on hand will work. One way to get great tofu texture without deep-frying is to toss the tofu in cornstarch before stir-frying. Let it cook for several minutes without stirring to help it develop a little crust. Serve with: Chinese egg noodles or rice noodles and a glass of Riesling.
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Several international organizations are investigating the plight of over 1,000 migrant laborers in construction camps in Qatar who have opted to strike in response to at least three months without pay.
Amnesty International confirmed they are aware of the situation after workers on sites being developed by a construction company linked to Qatar's ruling family revealed toWikiTribune that over 1,100 of them are currently without a steady supply of food, water or electricity.
The laborers, predominantly from India and Nepal, are also in bureaucratic limbo as their right to work is tied to their troubled employer, a situation that could draw scrutiny on the Gulf state's promise to abolish a tied visa system opponents have said leads to exploitative employment practices.
The workers, some earning around 3,000 riyals ($820) per month, told WikiTribune that they stopped receiving their monthly salaries in January, but they worked through to March after they were assured by construction company HKH they would be paid. During this period, the workers, who live in four camps near the coastal town of Al Khor, were able to use credit to purchase food and supplies in supermarkets in their camps.
After their salaries failed to materialize, the workers went on strike on March 28. Three weeks later, their main supplies of water and electricity were cut off after HKH failed to pay for utility services. They said a lot of their subsistence since then has come from food, water, and cash donations from people in Qatar, and some donations from the Indian embassy and the Red Crescent.
HKH was founded in 1995 and developed into one of the country's best-known construction companies. According to the company's website, high-profile construction projects include the headquarters of the state-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera and the Doha Sheraton hotel.
Its founder, Hamad bin Khalid Al Thani, who died in 2012, was a member of the royal family. He was chief of Qatar's police force and a cousin of Qatar's former Emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
According to HKH's website, the company holds an "A" rating in construction – the highest band available under Qatar's building regulations.
HKH did not respond to phone calls or emails for this story.
More than 500 of the migrant workers are from India, with around 450 from Nepal. Others come from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kenya, and the Philippines.
A driver who has worked for HKH for a decade told WikiTribune the laborers were working on three projects – a 32-floor tower block, a power station, and a complex of 110 villas – when the company stopped paying its staff.
Migrant workers in Qatar
Employment rights and the living conditions for migrant workers in Qatar have been subject to close international scrutiny in recent years, in part due to an extensive infrastructure overhaul in advance of hosting the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar is currently home to around 1.7 million migrant workers, many of whom have been subject to abusive working conditions according to research by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Qatar responded to criticism last November by announcing commitments to establish a minimum wage for migrant workers. The government also announced it would abolish its heavily criticized visa system, which links a worker's right to work to its original employment sponsor.
However, Amnesty International said on April 27 that a timetable for abolishing the tied visa system has yet to be been provided. The human rights organization said addressing the vulnerable status of Qatar's migrant laborers should be a priority for the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The United Nations agency has been working closely with the Qatari government and opened its first project office in Doha on April 30, calling it a "testament to the commitment of the State of Qatar to safeguard workers' rights."
Nicholas McGeehan, an expert in labor rights in the gulf, told WikiTribune "if a situation like this can't be resolved swiftly at this most critical juncture, it does not augur well for the ability of the ILO to convince the Qatari government to process with an effective and wide-ranging reform process."
The ILO declined to confirm it is involved in resolving the situation in the HKH camps, as the organization does not comment on individual cases.


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I will be doing GIMP tutorials every couple of days, so stay tuned!
Tutorial Number 1: Animated text
Things you need to previously know...
1. Somewhat knowledge of the GIMP interface.
2. Some terminology.
Now, let's get right into it.
Start off by creating a new project. (I chose 350x125 because that is generally a good SIG size.)
You can also just do a previously done project, etc.
Now, create a new layer for your text, and DON'T merge it down..
After this, click on the blend tool (Gradients), and choose a FG (Foreground) color you want. In this case I chose blue.
Click on the Gradients, and chose FG to TRANSPARENT. Set the shape to BI-LINEAR.
Create a new layer and call it Highlight, or something other than New Layer, it will help later on. Use the tool and drag it across the first letter of the word. So it looks like this...
Now keep duplicating that layer, and moving it over so the ENTIRE word is filled with it. (Be sure to space it out a little)
Now, right click on your text layer and click ALPHA to SELECTION
Press CTRL+i
Click a highlighted layer and press DELETE, it should delete the part of the GRADIENT that was outside the borders of the text.
Do this for all of the HIGHLIGHTED layers.
You can now MERGE down the TEXT layer to the BACKGROUND layer.
Duplicate the BACKGROUND layer and place it in between ALL of the HIGHLIGHTED layers.
It should look like this when finished...
Now merge down all of the HIGHLIGHTED layers ONLY
And once this is done, click on FILTERS>ANIMATION>PLAYBACK, and review it.
That's it!
This should be the outcome, or close to in when finished...
Remember to save as a .GIF ANIMATION!
Please CnC, and if you have any ideas on tutorials, just post or PM me. If not, I will be updating pretty frequently.
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Thanks for this one. Easy to follow.
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As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Barack Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory.
Unless he emerges from this, the last major crisis of his first term, with the appearance of political strength and skill in navigating it, he risks losing public confidence that he has the stuff to take the country where he wants it to go in his second term.
More than the specific details of any deal with House Speaker John Boehner and his resistant Republican cohorts on taxes and spending, Mr. Obama needs to demonstrate more steel in confronting GOP obstructionism than he showed in the previous showdown over deficit reduction.
In that earlier round, the president allowed the Republicans to hold hostage the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans. The GOP succeeded in retaining the cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent as well. But throughout his re-election campaign, Mr. Obama insisted that this kind of political bondage must be broken.
With wails of "class warfare" from the opposition ringing in his ears, he repeatedly argued the injustice of middle-class voters facing slashes in bedrock social programs so that the rich could continue to enjoy tax cuts they didn't need to maintain their lush lifestyles.
The pitch might have been overly simplistic, but it got across the message in a campaign in which the Republican nominee was a super-rich business whiz who seemingly dismissed middle- and lower-income Americans as moochers. Tales in the news media of Mitt Romney's second home with an elevator for his cars (and his wife's two Cadillacs) helped make the case for the president.
Having won re-election with that argument, Mr. Obama cannot afford to be seen as yielding on it now if he wants to retain political credibility, particularly among liberal Democrats disillusioned with the president's perceived willingness to compromise with proven obstructionists.
The Republicans' hitherto airtight opposition to raising taxes now seems to be developing leaks, as several key GOP legislators have expressed willingness to break anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge. This should stiffen Mr. Obama's spine somewhat. So should growing indications that many Republican politicians have gotten the message of voters, particularly in the Hispanic community, that they want real immigration reform.
This awareness, sharpened by the fact that more than 70 percent of that ethnic bloc flocked to Mr. Obama's support on Nov. 6, presents the president with an opportunity to launch his second term with a major reform that went unachieved, and essentially not seriously addressed, in his first term.
His politically adept pre-election action in giving certain minor dependents of undocumented immigrants a route to escape deportation was a gesture that no doubt encouraged Hispanic voters in his favor. While opposition to further such reform in states on the Southern border remains, it may not be of the dimensions that Mr. Obama had to fight in winning his health care insurance initiative of the first term.
Critics, especially vocal tea party leaders, made Obamacare a household word that became a rallying cry for Republican turnout in the party's 2012 presidential primaries. It was voiced even by Mr. Romney, who sought to deny paternity of the basic plan that Mr. Obama called a model for his own controversial scheme. Fortunately for the president, and unexpectedly, the Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable Care Act and helped deflate much of the Republican pushback.
The results of the election could likewise take wind out of the sails of a disappointed and temporarily disunited Grand Old Party as it seeks to reposition itself for another four years of President Obama. The party remains, however, a troublesome player in continued divided government on Capitol Hill.
Mr. Obama meanwhile, in facing the fiscal cliff, is going to the country to act on his recent contention that if change is to come to Washington, it must come from outside. The bully pulpit, which served him well this fall leading up to Election Day, seems headed for a heavier presidential workout in his second term.
Jules Witcover is a former longtime writer for The Baltimore Sun. His latest book is Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption" (William Morrow). His email is email@example.com.