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The "September strife" involving President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) coincides with widening controversy over demolitions in Dapu Borough (大埔) in Miaoli County's Jhunan Township (竹南). Many social movements are saying that the government that should be demolished instead. Angry protesters have taken to throwing shoes at images of Ma and other politicians, denouncing Ma, laughing at him or besieging his office.
Meanwhile, director Yang Li-chou's (楊力州 ) documentary film Bridge Over Troubled Water (拔一條河) is moving many viewers to cry and laugh at the same time. The film records the lives of people in then-Kaohsiung County's isolated Jiashian Township (甲仙) in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot and the floods it caused in August 2009. This tale is interwoven with the story of a tug-of-war contest between teams of rural youth, many of whom were born to immigrant mothers.
There is, after all, a big difference between colonists and migrants. The "September strife," which has become a prolonged "autumn turmoil," was launched by a colonial regime to settle accounts with the accomplices who helped it consolidate power. Meanwhile, countless women who came to Taiwan from Southeast Asia to marry Taiwanese men are caring for their families or toiling in the fields. To use a Taiwanese turn of phrase, migrant spouses lay eggs, while the colonists only give us chicken shit.
Ma comes from a family of spies, and he is said to have spied on his fellow students from Taiwan while studying in the US. He has a knack for denigrating others, while whitewashing his own performance. He has no concept of democracy, but he enjoys the fruits of Taiwan's democratic movement, to which he contributed nothing.
Ma was elected president on a wave of unrealistic expectations, but he has turned out to be an incompetent and malicious political hack. He sees himself as heir to the ruling circle that came to Taiwan following the end of World War II fleeing from the Chinese Communist Party.
The forces that Ma represents cannot countenance the prospects raised by democratic reforms following the reigns of former presidents Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國). They are determined to restore the old regime and snuggle up to communist China.
Compare the colonist Ma with the migrants who appear in the film. Colonists are here to exploit the land, but migrants are here to cultivate it. Ma's Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) often tries to open rifts between communities by saying that all Taiwan's people, including the Hoklo and Hakka-speaking Taiwanese — everyone but the Aborigines — came to Taiwan from somewhere else.
It would never occur to the KMT that those who arrived in Taiwan from other places are also divided into colonists and migrants. Migrants arrive and settle down, while colonists come and go like the wind. Immigrant wives get busy "laying eggs," and their children will grow up to do the same, but the colonists just dump more chicken shit.
The key question is not where you come from, but where you are going. Colonists should be rejected, but migrants should be welcomed. Among Taiwanese politicians, there are some who choose to hang around the KMT colonist regime and speak in its name. They expect to be rewarded with a share in the regime's power. However, even if they get into the top ranks, like Wang did, all they can do if they get stabbed in the back is keep smiling. If the Taiwanese KMT does not turn over a completely new leaf, the Chinese KMT will always see them as a corrupted lot who can be used as scapegoats.


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Will you "pay to save"? What negative interest rates mean for investors
With negative interest rate policy (NIRP) imposed in Japan and across much of Europe, we explain what it means and look at its effects.
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What are negative interest rates?
Negative interest rates mean that banks have to pay – rather than receive – interest on the reserves they hold with their central bank. In turn, the banks are then faced with the choice of whether they pass on that cost by charging savers to hold deposits with them.
Why are negative interest rates being used?
Following the 2008/09 financial crisis, the economic gears of the global economy have struggled to grind into action.
Despite central banks trying to lubricate the cogs using unprecedented monetary policy, such as quantitative easing, economic growth has been weak. The World Bank says global growth has been around 2.5% for the past three years compared with 3.8% to 4.5% in the four years before the credit crisis.
Growth is urgently needed to help prevent a global recession and not least to ease the debt burden weighing on economies.
NIRP is one of the last remaining options available to central banks to stimulate growth.
What do negative interest rates mean for investors?
Negative interest rates mean that investors, potentially, face greater uncertainty. NIRP seems logical: make saving expensive so people go out and spend. But we live in an illogical post credit crisis era.
Central banks have already been using unprecedented monetary policy, such as quantitative easing and low interest rates, for the best part of a decade, yet robust growth remains illusive.
Investors seem reluctant to spend despite central banks' best efforts; there are no guarantees that NIRP is working where it's already deployed or that it might be the right option for the UK.
Additionally, QE and ultra low interest rates have already suppressed income yields in "safer" asset classes, such as government bonds, potentially creating asset bubbles. It forces investors to look elsewhere for income and consider higher risk investments, such as equities. The chart (below) shows how QE has trickled through the financial system, pushing up the prices of different assets.
Source: Schroders
NIRP could force investors further down that route.
The outlook for investors, in particular those with large savings and/or those heading towards retirement, is confused.
Why are retirees so affected?
In short, pensioners and those approaching retirement will face more of the same issues that they have endured for the past seven years – falling savings rates, falling annuity rates and increasing difficultly finding low-risk income elsewhere.
Once retired, savers could rely on their nest egg to pay an income or they buy an annuity, which would pay regular income for life. Often it is a bit of both.
But it has been harder to find income on investments, and most notably on savings accounts due to all of the central bank measures mentioned above. With negative rates, savers may even have to pay banks to hold their deposits.
There is a further complication for those heading towards retirement.
Usually, investors who are approaching the retirement age would begin to shift their investments away from more risky assets such as equities, and into lower risk assets, such as government bonds, which provide more guaranteed long-term (albeit lower) returns.
Those government bonds are now expensive and their yields are at or close to zero. In some cases, they are already negative.
So, facing a potential shortfall in retirement, investors might be forced to take on more risk than they might otherwise have wanted. This potentially builds up bubbles in the future which, if they pop, can cause longer-term damage.
Timline for central banks' NIRP
Denmark's Nationalbank – July 2012
- cut its deposit rate to -0.20%
European Central Bank (ECB) – June 2014
- cut its deposit rate to -0.10%
Swiss National Bank (SNB) – December 2014
- cut its deposit rate to -0.25%
Swedish Riksbank – February 2015
- cut its repurchase rate to -0.10%
Bank of Japan (BoJ) – January 2016
- Applied a rate of negative 0.1% to excess reserves that financial institutions place at the bank.
National Bank of Hungary – March 2016
- cut its deposit rate to -0.05%
It is worth noting that so far, few banks have imposed negative rates on savers, or asked them to pay to save.
Some banks in Switzerland tried this and then backtracked. At least one bank in the UK – NatWest – has told business customers it may need to pass the costs on should the Bank of England (BoE) adopt NIRP. However, it is widely seen as potentially unpopular and difficult policy to enact.
A more likely scenario is that banks might trim generous benefits that they offer elsewhere to attract new customers.
For instance, most of the biggest banks offer generous income on current accounts, sometimes up to 5%. These could be trimmed to avoid "pay to save" stipulations for existing customers.
Has NIRP worked?
Whether NIRP has worked in the countries that have adopted it is a difficult question to answer.
If the aim is to get people spending and accelerate economic growth then even the most ardent supporter of NIRP would say this has so far failed, given the extremity of the measures taken.
The problem is that countries such as Switzerland, Japan and Sweden have adopted NIRP primarily to weaken their currencies.
However, with central banks around the globe competing with similar policies the potential effect is being cancelled out. For instance, Japan's currency has actually strengthened following the cut in rates.
The answer is not straightforward. Would it be better to ask where the global economy might be if these types of policy, including quantitative easing, were not to have been adopted?
What is the solution?
Central banks are running out of options. Despite measures that have been adopted by central banks, consumers and businesses have so far not been coaxed out of their shells.
Possibly stung by credit crisis and fearful of future fallouts occurring, investors are stuck in a crisis mindset.
Investors are saving and hoarding as they lack faith in the financial system, despite little return on their investments.
Those that are spending and investing are being cascaded into ever riskier investments. The BoE appears acutely aware of this. Mark Carney, the bank's Governor, expressed reservations about the effectiveness of negative rates in a speech in February, recognising that such a policy would also put further pressure on bank business models.
While it is expected the BoE's monetary policy committee may vote to cut rates to zero by the end of 2016, the market is not anticipating interest rates to go negative in the UK.
One thing seems certain, once a central bank has opted for negative rates, its already limited options for sparking sustained economic recovery shrink further.


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- Place: Manuden, Essex, England
- Creator: photographer : Muggeridge, Donald William, Mr.
- Date: 2.2.1941
- Description: Black and white negative and print made from it of a derelict smock mill in Manuden, Essex, showing side view, taken on 2nd February 1941.
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This is a MUST attend for any dental office that is looking to implement a Sleep Protocol, or learn how to increase existing Sleep revenues.
Day 1
● Sleep 101 – sleep stages, disorders and the need for sleep apnea treatment
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● Improving Case Acceptance - Treating snoring and sleep apnea in a dental office.
● Prepare overnight home sleep study for select course attendees
● Hands on with Pharyngometer / Rhinometer for airway testing
● Working with Sleep Physicians and Building relationships with local MD's
Day 2
● Download previous night's Home Sleep Tests study and review study data and sleep report with class
● Dental Sleep Medicine step-by-step protocol flow chart
● Oral Appliance Pro's & Con's: Dorsal, Herbst, EMA, TAP, Panthera, and SomnoMed
● Case presentations and How to Market a Sleep Practice
● Review of the latest codes, fees, procedures with medical billing and Medicare.
About the SGS Course Instructor: Dr. Jason R Doucette
Dr. Jason R. Doucette is a diplomate with the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM) as well as American Sleep and Breathing Academy (ASBA). He is a Nevada native that was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. Further pursuing his education in 1991, Dr. Doucette ventured north to Reno where he attended the University of Nevada, Reno and received his bachelor's degree of science in 1995. He then attended Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon where he received his Doctor of Dental Medicine in 1999. Due to his love for the mountains and the great outdoors, Dr. Doucette returned to Reno shortly after to begin his career in dentistry.
After his first few years in practice and countless hours of continuing education, Dr. Doucette developed a passion for cosmetic dentistry and began to focus on smile revitalization through the use of technologically advanced surgical/restorative cosmetic dental procedures. In 2009 after surgically placing dental implants for nearly ten years, Dr. Doucette successfully expanded his focus to the planning and placement of fixed-full-arch-implant-supported-prosthetics via CT-Guided technology when multiple implants were indicated to restore a smile. Furthermore, as a result of Dr. Doucette's extensive training and background in comprehensive dentistry over the last eighteen years, coupled with his concern for every individual's overall health, Dr. Doucette has become acutely aware of the vital role that efficient sleep plays in the optimal health and healing of his patients. Therefore in recent years, Dr. Doucette has become very passionate about heavily screening and treating all of his patients for sleep breathing disorders such as snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Doucette continues to pursue excellence while remaining on the cutting-edge of dental and sleep health technology.


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You know when someone super nerdy stands next to something super nerdy the nerdy-ness of the two combined more than doubles? This is why Comic-Con is so awesome. When thousands of them are nerd herding there together, their individual nerd components bump together and, like heating matter in a flask, it expands to explosive levels.
Check out Prince Albert of Monaco standing in front of that crazy looking giant Santa today. These pictures are cracking me up. Was it made in his likeness?
Dork Prince was joined by his wife at the Arbre de Noel for Monaco Children today. You'll note that Her High Serenity has worn this coat on multiple occasions, already twice this week in public. How very Catherine Cambridge.
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Type 1 Diabetes: Treatment
Type 1 diabetes treatment goals should generally fall into two categories:
- Short term: Make lifestyle changes, and treat high blood sugar levels and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), if it is present. High blood sugar and DKA can cause you to be quite sick and even hospitalized.
- Long term: Manage blood sugar level and body weight, and prevent complications. Also, treat complications should they occur.
Here's how you can achieve those goals:
Lifestyle. Besides taking medication, some of the best ways you can regulate your blood sugar are to quit smoking, maintain a recommended weight, exercise and eat a healthy diet. Specifically, this means counting carbohydrates, exercising for about 3 1/2 hours each week and regularly monitoring your blood-sugar levels.
Establishing a daily routine will make it easier for you to stick to new health habits. For example, plan healthy meals in advance. Also commit to eating and taking your insulin at the same time each day, so that your blood sugar doesn't rise too high or fall too low. And go to bed at the same time each night, so you are well rested.
This is a learning process. But each new day is an opportunity to practice good health.
Medication. Insulin is the primary medication for people with type 1 diabetes. The goal of insulin therapy is to help you maintain blood sugar levels between 70 milligrams/deciliter (mg/dL) and 130 mg/dL before eating, and below 180 mg/dL within two hours after a meal. Insulin must be injected, but you can administer it with a syringe, a pen-type device or an insulin pump.
Your insulin dosage—and the type of insulin you use—depends on your body's unique needs. Your doctor also may prescribe other oral medications to help you manage your blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Routine management and monitoring. Since the number-one goal is to maintain healthy blood sugar levels, your doctor probably will want to see you at least every 3-6 months to adjust your treatments, if necessary, and recommend lifestyle modifications to help you maintain a high quality of life.
Plan to see your healthcare team for routine checkups regularly, as often as they recommend. In particular, your healthcare team will want to review your daily blood sugar levels, which you'll monitor by using a glucose meter. Your doctor also may advise you to test your urine for ketones (compounds that result when body fat is broken down) when you are experiencing specific symptoms.
Additionally, your healthcare provider will review your medications, diet, physical activity and emotional well-being. He or she may order A1c and blood lipid tests. You'll likely be referred to other specialists as well to check specific areas of your body.
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Dong Xuan Market, or Cho Dong Xuan, is the oldest and largest market in Hanoi. It is located at Dong Xuan Street, at the end of Hang Dao Street, on the northern part of the Old Quarters. The original building was constructed in 1889, on the site of one of Hanoi's lakes. It is a street market spreading over a surface of 600 square meters, occupying half of the street. Approximately fifty businesses are operating the forty stands selling food, artifacts, souvenirs and tour packages among others.
If you want to shop and at the same time peeping into the corridors of history, then Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi is the place for you. This large multi- storied market sells anything and everything. From fresh foods to home appliances, you will have it all here. But, what is more fascinating about this market is its historical significance which you still can experience if you visit this place. It witnessed fierce battle between the Vietnamese resistance units and the French. Dong Xuan Market is also a historical place where there was a combat of soldiers of "Quyết tử quân" ("Deciding to die") against the French attack to the heroic zone I, in February 1947. Being the biggest market and locating in the downtown, Dong Xuan Market is a crowded and bustling exchanging, tracsaction, business place of the capital.
It was built in 1889, in the basis of combination and removal of two markets, Cau Dong and Bach Ma on the shore of To River. It was positioned in area of Dong Xuan Ward with 5 vault-like roofs, steel frames; each frame is 52m long, 19m high supplying area for hundreds of goods.
Typical characteristics
Unlike other Hanoi night markets selling agricultural products in Long Bien and Quang Ba, Dong Xuan Market has been mainly created for tourists. With its eleven stalls, the brightly-lit food zone is the most animated, serving late night guests until early morning. There are numerous kinds of goods and products selling in the market. The crowded and dense situation of Dong Xuan Market was highly praised in many old folk song of Hanoi. This large three-story market to the north of Hanoi's Old Quarter offers a varied cornucopia of goods of all sorts. Hundreds of stalls, with thousands of workers, trade extremely fresh produce, dried foods, household goods, appliances and more. The market has an interesting history. It saw fierce fighting between Vietnamese resistance units and the French. Later, in 1994, the market was destroyed in a fire that resulted in the death of five people and the loss of an estimated USD4.5 million in stock.
River networks formed the economic hub of Hanoi by providing a system of waterways which fed the city and markets. Located at the confluence of the To Lich and Red Rivers, the Dong Xuan Market was once one of the busiest urban areas in Southeast Asia.
You might have your curiosity and appetite titillated as you try to choose from a wide selection of exotic Hanoi dishes: fried frog or fish meat pastes, rice and duck meat soup, fried rice, tiet canh (duck blood uncooked, only if you have a brave heart and strong stomach!), rice vermicelli and beef cooked in the south Vietnamese style and even just beefsteak and bread. Here you can find real Hanoi food, as favored by true-blue Hanoians. The dishes might cost a little more than elsewhere but, you have to taste it to believe it, they are truly delicious, such as a steamy hot dish of pho cuon (beef wrapped in long wispy strips of rice vermicelli, served with aromatic herbs and spicy sweet-sour fish sauce).
In artifact shops on Dong Xuan Street you will find traditional Dong Ho drawings, Bat Trang ceramics. Binh Da embroideries and laces, and sand paintings, the new craze of Hanoi's young people. For a modest sum, you can choose one of those 'raw' pictures with different designs and patterns.
The trend...
Like other markets such as Sapa's Cho Tinh, Nam Dinh's Cho Vieng, Lang Son's Cho Ky Lua and Can Tho's Cho Tay Do, Dong Xuan Market has been set up to meet the needs of locals and tourists. With the advantage of having long history of culture, traditions and being located in the community of ancient quarter of Hanoi, Dong Xuan Market is one of attractive tourist destinations of the capital and is the only one of Hanoi' s many efforts to develop tourism and attract international visitors.
To advertise the image of Dong Xuan Market, creating favorable conditions for citizens to sell and buy products (consumer products and handicrafts), Dong Xuan JSC is now organizing to exploit tours at the market. Currently, Dong Xuan travel is now establishing tours to exploit potentials of tourism of the market to develop the tourism of culture, research for development of tourist products. From 2010 on wards, the company will build up Dong Xuan Market to archive the standards of tourist destination of the city; research development of services and accommodations of visitors.
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More Tourist Attractions In Hanoi:
- Hanoi – the antique & dynamic capital of Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh complex, the heart of Vietnamese people
- Ho Hoan Kiem (Ho Guom) - Lake of the Restored Sword
- Temple of Literature (Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam)
- Tran Quoc Pagoda
- One-Pillar Pagoda (Chùa Một Cột)
- Hanoi's Old Quarter
- Bat Trang Ceramic Village
- Van Phuc Silk Village
- Vietnam Ethnology Museum
- Vietnam Military History Museum
- Bao Son Paradise
- Duong Lam ancient village


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Canastota girls bowling earns first victory
COOPERSTOWN -- Canastota's girls bowling team earned its first win of the season with a 5-0 shutout of Cooperstown Thursday. Traci Abel led the way for the Raiders (0-3, 1-7) with a high game of 158 and a high series of 445. Kira Bryant led Cooperstown (1-2, 1-5) with a 121-344.
"I'm very, very happy for the girls to get their first win under their belt this year," said Canastota coach Eric Van Slyke. "They did a very, very nice job."
Cooperstown (2-2, 5-2) came out on top 4-1 in the boys match, thanks to Chris Harloff's 203-515. Jason Kirik rolled a 204-579 to lead Canastota (1-3, 1-8).


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Here I am, standing before you asking for forgiveness
Here I am an atheist.
I want to confess before you for my perverse, racist and patronizing believe for 17 years, as yeshiva student, newlywed and head of community.
For sinned by preferring god over human.
For sinned by my arrogance and disdainfulness.
For sinned by discrimination and humiliation.
For sinned by intolerance.
For sinned by hating the foreigner.
For sinned by oppressing a living being.
For all those I am sorry and express deep regret.
Process turning heart, maturation, sobriety and opening of one's eyes following with deep long period mental procedures Not an easy for a human to lose a handiwork; pattern of the work of his hands
All the more so hard to understand creation you created is not of the master pieces of creations. In the end to acknowledge that light of torah, candle of virtue and shine of faith, are not but darkness, fog and gloom – naivety blend within viciousness and cruelty.
Voyage of my maturity I went through – acceptance of reality and nature, making peace with them – gave me strength to expel the god in my heart. No more fiction, no more false fantasy; no more throwing responsibility upon unknown; but straight gaze into my heart, without god; the observance at nature without fear and awe; without the entity I have fabricate.
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- Place chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap, and use a rolling pin or your fist to pound them until they are ½-inch thick throughout.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper, then coat with the flour.
- Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken, and cook about 4 minutes on each side, until cooked through. Remove chicken from pan and set aside.
- Add broth and juice to pan, and cook for 4 minutes, until thickened. Drizzle sauce over chicken and serve.


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Carmel's historic La Playa Hotel reopens
Carmel gets its cherished "Grande Dame" back next week when the La Playa Hotel, closed since October, reopens after a $3.5 million renovation that is as notable for what it did not change as for what's new. Generation after generation has gathered at the 100-year-old landmark for weddings, retreats, business meetings, salons or a simple glass of wine at sunset, and the new owners took a straightforward approach that puts tradition ahead of bling; they didn't try to fix what wasn't broken.
"The owners are very down-to-earth," says Mary Crowe, who was lured from Napa Valley's Villagio Inn and Spa to become La Playa's general manager. "They wanted the hotel to have a very residential quality, where people could have breakfast whenever they want, have a snack in the afternoon, use the Internet without having to think about it. The philosophy is that the accommodation should include everything you do at home, so you can relax and not do math."
The core of the 75-room hotel, where the main entrance is today, began life in 1905 as a mansion designed by landscape artist Christian Jorgensen for his wife, a member of the Ghirardelli family. It was a fantasy inspired by the Carmel Mission — his stained-glass star window remains near the entrance, in what started out as a stone tower — presiding over a bluff looking over the cypress- and pine-fringed Pacific coastline. As it turns out, the couple didn't live in their dream house for long. A magnet for artists and writers during Carmel's seminal bohemian period, it became a popular salon, and the Jorgensens moved to Pebble Beach in search of privacy.
In 1916, Alice Signor turned the mansion into what local papers called a "home hotel" — an upscale boarding house. Her nephews, the Godwin Brothers, later turned it into a full-service hotel. They added 20 rooms, a kitchen and dining room, and charged $2.50 a night. The hotel changed hands a few more times, acquiring Carmel's first swimming pool, a new building next to the original mansion, a two-level brick patio and ever more elaborate landscaping. It was last remodeled in 1984 by Newton Cope, who also owned San Francisco's Huntington Hotel.
The official grand opening for the newly renovated hotel, now called La Playa Carmel, is Aug. 1, though it has already been accepting guests for a "soft opening." The new incarnation pulls off a clever feat in this era of overwrought luxury: It doesn't feel remodeled at all, coming across instead as traditional and impeccably maintained. The hotel's exterior and the public spaces hew close to its past; to most guests, La Playa will seem like a hotel from another era that happens to have airy, beach cottage-style rooms with pillow-top mattresses, high-thread-count sheets, and flat-screen cable TV. The classic casement windows, the well-used doorknobs, the solidly built-in full-length mirrors, the shell ceiling lights, all belong to another era. Fit into the property's evolution from private mansion to resort hotel, each room is unique.
The hotel's legions of longtime repeat guests might notice the different pitch of the banquette in the bar, the giant chess board on the patio and absence of the hulking wrought-iron gazebo, and the soundproofing that spares them from partaking of neighbors conversations and sneezes. But the bar itself wasn't changed a bit, and the lobby looks more like it did in the 1940s than in the 1980s. The same stained-glass window illuminates the curved, tiled stairway where brides have posed with their wedding trains fanned out decade after decade.
Some of the most important changes are invisible, such as the soundproofing and brand-new plumbing, electrical wiring and Internet cable. The entire renovation was undertaken with sustainability in mind. The rooms reveal that sensibility in the divided wastebaskets designating one side for recyclables, and in the card indicating the now-common practice of not changing linens unless specifically requested. Less obvious are the choice of rapidly renewable materials for the furniture, carpeting and even the picture frames. The hotel employs a full-time sustainability manager.
La Playa's past is, if anything, more present after this renovation than it has been for decades. The building itself is the greatest repository of Carmel history, but its walls are a virtual museum as well, holding historic photos, posters, covers of the 19th century satire magazine "The Wasp" and Jo Mora's intricately detailed and wittily annotated maps of San Francisco and Carmel.
"The tradition here is just amazing," Crowe says. "We intend to continue that tradition and hopefully start some new ones."
La Playa Carmel, Camino Real at Eighth Avenue, Carmel. (800) 582- 8900 (reservations) or (831) 293-6100. www.laplayahotel.com. Rooms from $330; off-season from $249.
This article has been corrected since it first appeared online.
Former Chronicle travel editor Christine Delsol also writes the Mexico Mix column at sfgate.com/mexico.


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Some defendants in a federal civil lawsuit filed by five Tobyhanna men cleared of rape are going to trial, while other defendants have been dismissed from the suit, a federal judge has ruled.
Some defendants in a federal civil lawsuit filed by five Tobyhanna men cleared of rape are going to trial, while other defendants have been dismissed from the suit, a federal judge has ruled.
William Spiess, Jose Lacen, Jaleel Holden and brothers Kasheen and Gene Thomas II filed the February 2010 suit after being cleared in the 2008 rape of two teenage girls in Coolbaugh Township.
The girls admitted to testifying falsely under oath at a preliminary hearing, leading to charges being dismissed in 2009 prior to trial.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police detectives Chris Wagner, John Bohrman, Lucas Bray and Richard Luthcke, Monroe County District Attorney's Detective Wendy Bentzoni and Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski are the defendants going to trial, U.S. District Judge James Munley decided Tuesday.
The Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department and commission, Coolbaugh, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock townships and Mount Pocono Borough were dismissed as defendants from the suit.
The judge's ruling found:
Detectives were aware of "glaring inconsistencies" in the girls' statements and had time to reconcile those inconsistencies, but did not do so. Detectives did not include one girl's prior recent history of reporting unfounded rape allegations. The plaintiffs, four of whom are African-American or Latino, allege the case against them was racially motivated. Regardless of whether this is true, the question definitely exists as to whether police did, in fact, have probable cause to charge them, the judge ruled. Bentzoni, who says her role was limited to obtaining a search warrant and being a liaison between the prosecutor's office and police detectives, and Rakaczewski, who says he was a prosecutor and not an investigator, are not immune to the plaintiffs' allegations, Munley ruled.
Bentzoni was significantly more involved in the investigation while Rakaczewski, having the final say as a prosecutor on whether police have probable cause to file charges, decided there was probable cause in this case.
The plaintiffs claim Lewis, the police department and commission and the municipalities did not identify or try remedying the police detectives' deficient training, which led to the plaintiffs' rights being violated. This claim isn't supported because it was not a matter of deficient training, but rather of the detectives not utilizing the basic police training they already possessed, the judge ruled.
The civil trial will be scheduled at a future date.


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A friend of mine in the MeeGo community brought my attention to an interesting concept he calls MeeGoVerse, which translates common gaming elements to real-life work as a sort of "massive multiplayer" endeavor. One important aspect is the use of achievements to reward people for attacking necessary community evils, like bug reporting. I can envision Meegon badges for each achievement. People love to contribute, and especially be recognized for it.
Badges can be found in unusual places and contexts. While updating my LinkedIn profile recently I took stock of a couple of icons I had not really thought much about before.
Right there beside the YOU indicator you'll note an in and, next to it, a circular array graphic. The first indicates a Premium account, meaning for one that you get to harass potential connections with InMails. Very valuable when I was searching for a new job two years ago. The circle of circles shows profile viewers that I'm a member of an OpenLink network and thus open to said harassment. Fair, after all, is fair. Continue reading


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given the Negro people a bad check ...
It would be fatal for the Nation to overlook the urgency of the movement and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. So I say to you ... I still have a dream ... deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this Nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In August 1963, approximately 250,000 Americans of all races march in Washington, D.C. for racial equality and justice. The large peaceful gathering assembles in front of the Lincoln Memorial to hear speakers, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech. This is the largest protest for racial justice in the country's history up to that time.
In September 1963, four black children are killed when Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist church is fire bombed by individuals opposing integration efforts.
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The purpose of The Arc Community Work Services Program is to provide whatever level of training, assistance and support that is necessary for persons with developmental disabilities to obtain and maintain paid, competitive work in an integrated community setting.
The purpose of The Arc Respite Program is to provide relief to families/primary caregivers who have a family member with a developmental disability and thus, enabling the person to stay in their home and community, keeping the family together by giving them time apart.
The purpose of The Arc Habilitation Program is to assist persons with developmental disabilities in acquiring, retaining and improving self-help, social, and adaptive skills necessary to continue residing in their home and community, while maximizing their presence in the community and enhancing the global quality of their lives.
The Arc is excited to announce that we will be implementing a new web based time reporting and scheduling system. The implementation is on track and we expect to go live in early January!! Please check this website for system training information. We expect to have availabe training dates posted within the week or two.


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You'll learn how to best organize the Photoshop interface to streamline your workspace for web design, eliminating the clutter and making creating web pages fast and easy. Explore the various grid systems that can be used as templates to build professional looking web pages. Next, it's on to wireframing and UI design, where you'll learn how to create a mockup that can be sent to clients for approval, or simply kept for personal reference. You'll also discover how to build upon a wireframe to design a beautiful, and functional web page. Once you're satisfied with your design, this course will show you how to extract the HTML and CSS that will bring your design to life, and how to customize the code to suit your needs. So if you're interested in web design for fun or profit, this course will set you up with everything you will need. 2KO International delivers consulting services, in the IT and Business space, as well as being a training provider for IT certification and user level courses. Training can be any blend of bespoke, classroom and online learning.
Module 1: Welcome To Building Websites With Dreamweaver CS6!
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Creating New Documents
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Getting the Layout Started, Part 1
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Earlier in the week YouTube announced the launch of its first YouTube Spaces production facility in Tokyo. That facility is now being shown off in a new YouTube video.
The video platform already runs production facilities in Los Angeles and London.
YouTube Spaces are meant to provide top notch YouTube content creators with the facilities they need to produce high quality content.
Receiving access to the Tokyo studio requires filling out an application. Content providers chosen to use the facility receive three months of access. [Read more…]


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When a 23 year old introduces an electric super car to the world with a claimed 1,088 hp, 2,802 lb-ft of torque and a top speed of 189 MPH, people are going to listen—very suspiciously. That is exactly what Croatian designer Mate Rimac did at the Frankfurt Auto Show when he introduced the "Concept One".
Beyond the impressive figures we've already mentioned Rimac claims the car—powered by four electric motors controlled in front and rear sectors—will be capable of a 2.8 second 0-60 time as well as being able to travel 366 miles on a single charge.
All of these claims sound fantastic on paper, but we've yet to see any proof of the car's ability to do any of these things. We liked Rimac's Electric E30 and the Concept One sounds awesome if it can live up to the claims being made about it. For these reasons we'd love to tell you this video demonstrates the Concept One's impressive performance capabilities—it doesn't.
What it does show is the fact the Concept One can move under its own power and it looks fantastic doing it. It doesn't sound like much, but it's certainly more convincing than seeing the car sitting on a podium in Frankfurt as far as making us believe the Concept One will deliver on it's promises. When you're talking about a 23 year old's electric brainchild that could challenge the supercar establishment, every little bit of evidence helps.
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As Younique's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Derek Maxfield oversees all of the company's strategic initiatives and growth objectives. His primary focus is on Younique's mission, and he always seeks to provide Younique Presenters with the tools and support they need to succeed.
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As Chief Sales Officer, Tori Poulter is responsible for ensuring that Younique Presenters—Younique's direct sales force—have everything they need to succeed. This encompasses the company's events, field support, and customer care departments in all local markets.
Joey Toscano is Younique's Chief Experience Officer. In his role, Joey focuses on the company's digital innovation strategy, including e-commerce, mobile apps, Back Office, and other digital tools for Younique Presenter success.
Joao Rodrigues is Chief Marketing Officer at Younique. In this role, Joao applies his extraordinarily robust experience in overseeing the company's global marketing, user experience, product development, communications, and recognition teams.
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text: Outside his primary roles as André 3000's partner in OutKast and as one of the central members of the Dungeon Family, Big Boi (born Antwan André Patton) appeared on tracks by Missy Elliott ("All N My Grill"), Trick Daddy ("In da Wind"), Jay-Z ("Poppin' Tags"), Killer Mike ("A.D.I.D.A.S."), Beyoncé ("Hip Hop Star"), Brooke Valentine ("Girlfight"), Sleepy Brown ("Margarita"), and Fantasia ("Hood Boy"). As a solo artist, the MC had a minor hit in 2005 with "Kryptonite (I'm on It)," one of the year's best rap singles; it was the lead single from the officially released showcase for his Purple Ribbon label, the eclectic Got Purp?, Vol. 2, which featured the likes of Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown, as well as protégé Janelle Monáe. Also involved in film (ATL, OutKast's Idlewild, Who's Your Caddy?) and even the stage (he worked with the Atlanta Ballet in 2008), Big Boi prepped his first solo album, the loose and rollicking Sir Lucious Left Foot...The Son of Chico Dusty, which was released on Def Jam in July 2010. It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart. Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, issued in December 2012, was just as packed with guest appearances but extended far beyond the realm of rap to involve the likes of Little Dragon, Wavves, and Phantogram. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi


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Trump Loves Sending the Press Into Orbit
Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported that Trump didn't even want to do this national address, that he didn't even think it was gonna matter, but that his communications staff was telling him he had to do it, and so he was gonna do it but that he didn't think it was gonna matter. Well, CNN is reporting that Trump said not only did he not want to deliver Tuesday night's televised speech, but he doesn't want to go to the border today, either!
He didn't want to do either, because he doesn't think it's gonna matter. So what we have here is glaring media malpractice. This leak to the New York Times (if it even was a leak) is a direct violation of a long tradition where the president briefs selected reporters and network anchors before a major address. It's always off the record. But with Trump, all of the norms are gone and all the ethics are gone. If they can embarrass Trump, they'll do it -- and the closer to get to Trump claiming access, then they'll do it even more.
So they accept the invitation, they lie to him and his staff saying they'll accept off the record, and then after the lunch they go out and they start telling people what happened in there, probably making this up. So Maggie Haberman reports (impression), "Yeah, Trump didn't even want to do this prime-time address! He's smart enough to know isn't gonna work! Manufactured crisis. Trump knows it isn't gonna work. His staff's making him do it."
Now they're reporting that Trump didn't even want to go to the border today, and for the same reason. (summarized) "It isn't gonna matter. Trump thinks it's a waste of time," they're telling us. "It's a waste of energy. It isn't gonna matter a hill of beans and he didn't want to go. But the only reason he's going is because his staff made him go." Something about that doesn't ring true. I mean, he's not married to the staff. So the staff telling him what to do just doesn't fit.
If Trump doesn't want to do something, Trump doesn't do it. I think this is more... It's as manufactured as this business that is Chuck Schumer reporting Trump had a temper tantrum and acted like a spoiled child and ran out of the meeting with he and Pelosi today or yesterday. CNN, I'm telling you, they just cannot stop themselves. Trump had this little gaggle today outside the White House. He talked to them for 16 minutes, impromptu, before getting on Marine One to head to the airport to get on the plane to go down to Texas.
At this little gaggle, he dubbed the media the opposition party. He accused them of working with Democrats. He called out NBC News as the most dishonest that he's ever seen, and he unloaded on a reporter from ABC News named Jonathan Karl. Trump was discussing the shutdown in the Oval Office after signing an anti-human trafficking bill. Jonathan Karl asked why the president wouldn't sign other bills that would allow certain workers to get paid while a solution to the shutdown's negotiated.
Trump said to Jonathan Karl (paraphrased exchange), "You think I should do that? You think I should do that, Jon? I mean, I watch your one-sided reporting. You think I should do that?" Karl tried to say, "Hey, Mr. President, it's not my decision. Not my decision. I'm just asking." But Trump didn't back down. "Hey, Jon? No, seriously, Jon. You think I should just sign it? Just tell me, tell me. You think I just sign?" Karl responded that if he signed, certain workers would get paid.
Trump said, "So you would do it? If you were in my position, you would do it?" Jonathan Karl started to explain that he's not in President Trump's position; Trump cut him off again. "I'm asking you, 'Would you do that if you were in my position?' Because if you would do that, you'd never be in this position, 'cause you'd never get anything done. Good-bye, everybody."
What Trump was doing... I have been so tempted to do this myself. These clowns, these reporters get in there, and they assume this position of superior judgmentalism, and they go in there with an assumption that anybody would sign this. "Why won't you sign it?" So Trump calls him out. "Oh, you think I should sign it? What would you do, Jon? You've got all the answers? What would you do?" Of course, he doesn't want to answer. Never put themselves on the line. No way. Karl will never say, "Well, I would sign it." That would be crossing a line.
He'll never say that, even though he assumes this superiorist position that Trump is an idiot and inhumane for not signing it. So it's purposefully adversarial. It's not productive. It is designed to portray Trump in one way, and Trump is not gonna get the guy to get away it. "What would you do? You think you can do this better than I'm doing it? Come and tell me what you would do."
And of course, "Oh, no, Mr. President! I can't. (sputtering) I'm not..."
"Well, then stop the hell acting like you are smarter than everybody else. Stop the hell acting like it is your job. Stop acting the hell like you have all the answers. If you're not even willing to go on record about what you would do, then stop b-i-itching," is what Trump's message was. I'm just telling you, I recognize this air of superiority like they've got all the answers, like they've never done anything wrong. They've never made any mistakes. They have never got a DUI.
They have never had an illegal alien cross into their yard to work. They have never gotten anybody pregnant out of wedlock. Never done anything, paragons of virtue! They sit there with this uppity judgmentalism, and everybody acts afraid and defensive around them, and Trump doesn't. Let's go a couple audio sound bites on this. No. 1 and No. 2. This is from this little 15-, 16-minute press gaggle, Trump talking with reporters on his way to the helicopter.
THE PRESIDENT: We're negotiating and having tremendous success with China -- and I find China, frankly, in many ways to be far more honorable than Cryin' Chuck and Nancy. I really do. I think that China is actually much easier to deal with than the opposition party.
RUSH: Oh! Well, folks, you can imagine how that went over. That went over like a lead balloon. That did not sit well, that the ChiComs are more honorable than Cryin' Chuck and Nancy, that they're much easier to deal with because they're more up front and honest than Chuck and Nancy. It's much more productive dealing with the ChiComs than it is with the Democrats. (chuckles) The media? Oh!
They were righteously indignant -- which to me, if they'd have been consistent, they should have taken that as a compliment. The media loves communists, they idolize communists, and for Trump to think that they're tougher than communists? The media ought to be proud of that. But somehow, for some reason they're insulted that a ChiCom leader is considered to be more upstanding and decent and honorable than lying Chuck and Nancy. So the media was just lobbing questions. It was not a formal press conference.
One of the reporters said, "Mr. President! Mr. President! Given how the meeting went yesterday, are you now gonna decide to declare a national emergency? Is that the only option left?"
THE PRESIDENT: I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency. The lawyers have so advised me. I'm not prepared to do that yet. But if I have to, I will. I would like to do the deal through Congress. And because it makes sense to do it through Congress. The easy route for me would have been to call a national emergency and do it. And I will tell you, this is a tremendous crisis at the border. Look at President Obama's statements from the past, numerous statements where he calls it a crisis. This is a crisis.
RUSH: Let's, in fact, replay that statement from Obama. Grab sound bite number seven. This is what the president was referring to when he talks about Obama acknowledging that the border is a crisis.
OBAMA: We now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all. In recent weeks we've seen a surge of unaccompanied children arrive at the border, brought here and to other countries by smugglers and traffickers. The journey is unbelievably dangerous for these kids.
President Obama, thank you for your great support – I have been saying this all along! pic.twitter.com/L506g9Aq4z
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 10, 2019
RUSH: So Trump is now tweeting his thanks to President Obama for supporting him in this, that he appreciates Obama's support. The media is just beside itself with rage and anger that The One is being incorporated by Trump to advocate for his side of the issue. But it's undeniable. You heard Trump say it.
Now, later in the morning on CNN, Poppy Harlow could barely contain her rage at Trump during an interview with Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana.
RUSH: CNN Newsroom this morning. Poppy Harlow had as her guest Senator John Kennedy. Here we go. Let's just roll the bite.
HARLOW: You heard the president many times during campaign say that Mexico would pay for the wall, right?
KENNEDY: Yes.
HARLOW: Okay. So he just said this morning, quote, "I never said this." That's not true, he did. Do you think, senator, that the president has misled the American people on who will actually pay for this?
KENNEDY: No, and I don't think that's relevant to the discussion.
HARLOW: Of course it's relevant. Respectfully, Senator, of course it's relevant to the discussion. Either you tell the American people the truth about more than $5 billion or you don't. Has he misled the American people or has he been honest with them?
KENNEDY: Poppy, I understand your point. I just don't agree with it. I just don't think it's relevant to this discussion. The only real relevant issue to this, if you strip away the politics and the personalities and the dislike for each other, is can you seal a 1900-mile border without using, in part, a wall or a physical barrier?
RUSH: I actually think that this is so flimsy. Is this all they got, they got a Republican senator on to ask him if he's upset that the president lied about Mexico paying for the wall and the five billion and so forth? And the Senator says, "This is irrelevant. We're not even talking about this."
"Senator, I beg to disagree with you. Either you tell the American people the truth about more than five billion or you don't. Has he misled the American people or has he been honest?" You want to talk about misleading the American people, grab audio sound bite number 5. Barack Hussein Obama.
OBAMA: If you have your plan and you like it and you like your doctor, then you don't have to change plans. The government is not going to make you change plans. You're going to have a plan that lowers premiums by $2,500. If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. We will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family. You can keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan. The only thing we're gonna do is lower costs, cut the average family's premium by about $2,500 per year.
RUSH: You want to talk about lying to the American people, Poppy Harlow? I mean, Trump can't even hold a candle to this guy and his whoppers and Bill Clinton before him. But I don't remember CNN being the slightest bit upset over Barack Obama just blatantly lying to people about their health care, that if they like it they can keep it. If they like their doctor, they can keep the doctor, that their premiums are coming down $2,500.
But here she is so exercised that the president said he never said Mexico would pay for the wall directly. He lied to the American people. He lied. Senator, how can you say it's not relevant?
Because it isn't relevant who pays for the wall. And the evidence of this, you think Trump supporters care? You think they're gonna oppose the wall if Mexico doesn't pay for it? Hell, no! Everybody in Trump land knows that that was Trump goosing everybody. "And Mexico's gonna pay for the wall." Goosing the media, goosing Mexico, goosing Democrats. It doesn't matter to people that support Trump. The wall itself and stopping this insanity, this invasion is what matters.
I gotta take a break. We'll be back with much more right after this, folks.
RUSH: Of the many things today that just sent the media into orbit, including the now infamous Poppy Harlow at CNN, this was Trump again in the press gaggle outside the White House. It's a15-minute little gathering and he's on his way to the helicopter to go out to Air Force One to take the trip to the wall, the border in Texas. And he said this.
THE PRESIDENT: During the campaign I would say Mexico's going to pay for it. Obviously I never said this, and I never meant, they're gonna write out a check. I said they're gonna pay for it. They are. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made called the United States Mexico and Canada, USMCA deal. It's a trade deal. They are paying for the wall indirectly many, many times over by the really great trade deal we just made. Congress has to approve the deal.
RUSH: "Obviously I never said this," has sent them into orbit. "Obviously I never said this. I never said they were gonna write a check." Now, here's the thing. And I mentioned this a moment ago. I think this is a classic illustration of just how the people in Washington have no idea about Trump. They clearly have no idea, even after two years now, of why Trump supporters support Trump.
When Trump made the statement -- you know, this thing Mexico's gonna pay for it is no different than Trump asking the Russians to find Hillary's emails. Everybody knows that he's just goosing people. You know, he's up there, he's improving, he's not on a teleprompter. He's a real guy. He's having a rally, and everybody's into it, and everybody's reacting to what he says. He's loving it. They're loving it.
He knows he's already goosed 'em by talking about the kind of people crossing the border illegally when he came down the escalator, you know, the rapists, the thugs, the murderers, the purse snatchers and so forth. And this guy, like me, loves provoking these people. I love tweaking the media. I'm having so much fun with this business that they think that I'm running the presidency right now. We got another sound bite of this coming up. It's still not over. They're still talking about this.
Trump loves tweaking these people. He loves calling them the enemy of the people. He loves calling them the opposition party. He loves calling them out because he knows how they're gonna react. They're gonna react like spoiled brat little kids. They're gonna act like they're above any criticism whatsoever because they are mentioned in the Constitution. They are mentioned in the First Amendment. "You can't criticize us. Nobody can criticize us. You can't investigate us. You can't do profiles on us. You can't find out what we've done in our lives. We're journalists. We're protected. You can't."
And Trump just bores in. So he's out there saying we're gonna build the biggest, beautiful wall, and it's gonna be the greatest wall in the history of walls. It's gonna be beautiful, it's gonna be the best designed wall, and Mexico's gonna pay for it. The crowd goes nuts. These people taking him literally like this? When is the last time they ever took a president literally? They had to ignore literal with Barack Obama every waking moment of the day! And they happily did so!
They simply -- folks, they fired their best at this guy, and they can't dent the battleship. And they're kind of at their wits' end. You know, they think they're on the way to defeating Trump, they won back the House last November in the elections. But they can't get Trump's approval numbers below 44%! Much less down to the twenties or thirties that they're targeting. And they're beside themselves.
And so now they're latching onto every little lie he might have told. You think that they might have figured out by now that the way they are going about trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his voters isn't working? Well, no, I think they're too arrogant. In a way they're kind of like bullies in this regard. You can't teach a bully anything, and you can't really open the mind of an arrogant person. And they don't have the capacity nor the humility to accept the possibility that they might be wrong or misjudging somebody or something.
This is kind of comical to watch. Poppy Harlow going nuts. By the way, grab audio sound bite number 6. This is Dana Bash. Now, Dana Bash, you need to know this if you don't. Dana Bash and Pelosi, I think, for all intents and purposes, are from the same womb. I mean, not literally. That's the kind of thing Trump would say to describe how close they are. But she is protective of Pelosi. I'm sure that there is a pipeline. Dana Bash is close to a slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill. And she will defend them like a mother protecting her children. And it's so patently obvious.
And so when Trump said today that he finds the ChiComs more honorable to deal with than crying Nancy and Chuck, that he finds Xi Jinping to be a nicer, more decent, honorable guy than Chuck, she just lost it. She was having a tough time dealing with that insult. So she goes on CNN and she's talking to the cohost, Jim Sciutto, and here's what she said.
BASH: Just the notion of saying that the elected leaders of Congress are less honorable in terms of negotiating than China, the country that steals our intellectual property, that has people in jail for trying to speak out. I mean, I'm talking to a person who lived there for a long time. You can probably list all of the egregious things that they do more than I. You can make your point and stand on what you think is your political high ground without going there. I mean, that just undermines the arguments that he's making.
RUSH: You know, if not Dana Bash, the media has gone out of its way to defend socialists and communists all their lives. Communism kills, it doesn't matter where it is, China, Soviet Union, Nicaragua, Cuba, communism kills. And these people have been defending communists for as long as I've been alive! And they defended Stalin, they defend all of the Soviet leaders, they defended the Soviet client state, Nicaragua. They lionized Fidel Castro.
So what is this? Getting on Donald Trump for sidling up to Xi Jinping? These people have done all of this and worse and for far longer! The media in this country is known to have a fetish and almost a groupie association with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. They were enamored of Mao Tse-tung. Obama's people loved Mao Tse-tung, thought he was a brilliant strategist in the cultural revolution which is basically wiping out an entire society.
The idea that Dana Bash is offended because the Trumpster happened to say he has a better time getting along with a ChiCom leader than Chuck and Nancy. Well, I'll guaran-damn-tee, the Drive-By Media would much rather go to dinner with Fidel Castro than they would Newt Gingrich. And one of the reasons they admired Obama and all these other totalitarians is that they are envious of the power these people have.
So I'm sorry if I don't take this all that seriously. I think this is a little bit of a straw dog to be so righteously indignant because China kills people and puts people -- everywhere there's communism that happens, and you don't condemn it anywhere, Ms. Bash. Nobody condemns communism in the Drive-By Media. They excuse it! In some cases they lionize it.
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In the windy city of Chicago, where temperatures can rise to sweltering highs in the summer and routinely plummet below freezing in the winter, weatherization is a crucial line of defense against the elements. The weatherization agency I work for, the Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, Incorporated, (CEDA), processes more than 6,000 weatherization applications annually, and with numbers like these, good customer service is paramount to achieving the program's weatherization goals throughout the city and its suburbs.
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Back down New Mexico and through Glover Park and Georgetown. It's been more than a year since this was my regular route home and it's funny what the lapse in time will do to your attitude about riding through a neighborhood. I was much more free riding down hill and much more, um, slow, riding up the hill (the one by the Russian Embassy) and the rhythm of the ride was one I knew also like one anew. There were very few cars about. I guess the war on them is finally yielding dividends. (P.S.- Don't tell drivers)
Definitely something wrong with my rear cogs. I think they might have gotten bent a little in a manner that totally doesn't have anything to do with my falling down a lot when riding through the woods yesterday. I'll give them a closer look tomorrow because maybe it's not that.
One of the more disconcerting things you can see a driver do is take a shot of something when driving. I'll assume it was an energy drink.
If you're ever riding through Georgetown, southbound, you should go out of your way to ride down 34th street and its surprisingly narrow but adequate bike lane. And then, if something miraculous happens, you could tell everyone about the Miracle on 34th street (a movie, I believe, about how Santa Claus was on the 1980 Olympic hockey team) and then be like "no, 34th Street NW. In DC" because maybe you just like to remind people that there's more to the world than what happens in New York. Because what happens in New York, doesn't stay in New York. And what happens in DC, zzzzzzzzzz (oh, I'm sorry. I dozed off there for a second. Nothing happens in DC.)nExcept for certain 37th most popular DC bike bloggers getting interviewed by certain reporters for certain local public radio stations for certain radio programs. That happens in DC, and it happened today near the start of the L Street Cycle Track. So, if you like banalities about cycling (and if you're reading this, you've kind of outed yourself) and you like those banalities to come from nasally voices, then you might want to listen to Metro Connection this week. On the off chance your reading this, it was great talking with you, Jacob! I really enjoyed your "gotcha" journalism and your biased liberal media ways. I plan to record the program and unskew it at my leisure.
Afterward, I rode down L. No UPS trucks or FedEx trucks or USPS trucks, but two Metro Access vans. I feel really awkward complaining about Metro Access vans. But I feel pretty awkward pretty much doing anything.
Is there a name for it when you take the lane to block traffic to allow the cyclist in front of you to move around a Metro Access van (or any other kind of van) when exiting the cycle track? It's like sherpa-ing, but sherpas go in front, right? I'm not a sherpa expert, also known as a sherpert. Rainbow sherpert is my favorite.
11th street to E. On E I rode behind a woman wearing a reflective orange vest and a helmet and she had a side mirror on her handlebars, so clearly she was concerned, generally speaking, about safety and yet there were no lights on her bike. LIGHTS AT NIGHT! Come on, dude.
I happened to notice the Sharrows button of the rider in front of me at E and 4th and if you're sporting a Sharrows button, I'm going to talk to you, whether you want me to or not. Turns out it was Adam, friend of the blog, Best Buddies rider, and, so I learned tonight, a Mainer. We talked Thanksgiving and pizza and school and we rode our bikes around past Union Station and to Stanton Park and beyond before he went straight on 11th and I turned left at the park. I encourage everyone to run into someone they know on the way home. And if you don't think this is likely because you don't know a lot of people who ride bikes, just convince people you do know to ride their bikes. Solutions!
Ride Home 11/26: Obtuse Caboose
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60 seconds on three reasons for optimism about European credit in 2015
In the latest 60 second video, European and UK fixed income manager Mike Scott reveals the three factors behind his optimistic outlook for European credit for the remainder of 2015.
For the rest of 2015 we continue to have a positive view on European credit markets, which is driven by three factors:
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- The European Central Bank monetary policy will remain highly accommodative well into 2016
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