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In 2000, Clinton ran for the New York Senate seat vacated by the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]. Backed by the White House, she obtained the Democratic nomination for this Senate seat, and then won easily against Republican Rick Lazio (who entered the race when [[Rudy Giuliani]] withdrew). She ran for the [[United States Presidential Election, 2008 - Primaries|2008 Democratic presidential candidacy]], winning more primaries than any woman in history. On June 7th, 2008 she conceded defeat to [[Barack Obama]] after a closely challenged campaign, although she did not release her delegates until the convention itself. She is a [[pro-abortion]] advocate, supports the death penalty, does not support same sex marriage but does support civil unions, and supports federal funding for embryotic stem-cell research.
In 2000, Clinton ran for the New York Senate seat vacated by the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]. Backed by the White House, she obtained the Democratic nomination for this Senate seat, and then won easily against Republican Rick Lazio (who entered the race when [[Rudy Giuliani]] withdrew). She ran for the [[United States Presidential Election, 2008 - Primaries|2008 Democratic presidential candidacy]], winning more primaries than any woman in history. On June 7th, 2008 she conceded defeat to [[Barack Obama]] after a closely challenged campaign, although she did not release her delegates until the convention itself. She is a [[pro-abortion]] advocate, supports the death penalty, does not support same sex marriage but does support civil unions, and supports federal funding for embryotic stem-cell research.
==Early life==
==Early life==
Revision as of 13:48, 20 January 2012
|Hillary Rodham Clinton
|67th United States Secretary of State
From: January 21, 2009-Present
|Barack Hussein Obama
|Condoleezza Rice
|Incumbent (no successor)
|Former U.S. Senator from New York
From: January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009
|Daniel Patrick Moynihan
|Kirsten Gillibrand
|Bill Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (b. 1947) is the 67th Secretary of State of the United States. From 2001 to 2008 she was a Senator from New York, and from 1993 to 2001 was First Lady of the United States while her husband Bill Clinton was president.
In 2000, Clinton ran for the New York Senate seat vacated by the Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Backed by the White House, she obtained the Democratic nomination for this Senate seat, and then won easily against Republican Rick Lazio (who entered the race when Rudy Giuliani withdrew). She ran for the 2008 Democratic presidential candidacy, winning more primaries than any woman in history. On June 7th, 2008 she conceded defeat to Barack Obama after a closely challenged campaign, although she did not release her delegates until the convention itself. She is a pro-abortion advocate, supports the death penalty, does not support same sex marriage but does support civil unions, and supports federal funding for embryotic stem-cell research.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Early Career
- 3 1992 Presidential Campaign
- 4 First Lady
- 5 Accusations of Stolen Gifts
- 6 U.S. Senate
- 7 2008 Presidential campaign
- 8 Secretary of State
- 9 See also
- 10 External links
- 11 References
Early life
She was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois to a middle class family. Her father Hugh Rodham operated a small business. He was born into a coal mining family in Pennsylvania, graduated from Penn State University, voted Republican and was known as a martinet. Hillary grew up in Park Ridge, an upscale suburb of Chicago along with two older brothers. Hillary attended Maine East High School, where she was involved in many extracurricular activities, was active in the Methodist church, and worked for Republican campaigns as a Goldwater Girl. As a tenth-grader, she heard the Rev. Martin Luther King speak in person. In the eleventh grade, she was class vice-president. She attended Wellesley College, an elite woman's college near Boston and was elected class president in 1968.
Goldwater Girl
Speaking at Selma, Alabama's First Baptist Church on the 42nd anniversary of the "bloody Sunday" freedom march Hillary Clinton declared: "As a young girl I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963....[Dr. King] called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union." In her memoirs Hillary Clinton described herself in 1964 as "an active Young Republican" and "a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit." Columnist Robert Novak observed, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King."[1]
Starting college as a Republican activist, she became a liberal by her senior year. During the summer of 1968, she participated (as a Republican) in Wellesley's Washington internship Program. where she worked as an intern in the office of Melvin Laird, then congressman from Wisconsin, and attended the Republican convention in Miami as a Nelson Rockefeller supporter (he lost the nomination to Richard Nixon). She was the commencement speaker at her graduation from Wellesley in 1969, during which she argued forcefully against the war in Vietnam and said, "And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible." In her speech, she also acknowledged the influence of her roomate and friend Eleanor D. Acheson in helping Hillary become the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver its commencement address.[2] Ms. Acheson, a lawyer and lesbian lobbyst,.[3] - the granddaughter of President Harry Truman's secretary of state Dean Acheson - is credited for having introduced the young Hillary to political circles. A photo and the report of her Wellesley commencement speech were featured in Life Magazine.
Early Career
In 1969, she attended Yale law school, where she was one of only 27 women among 235 law students. On May 7, 1970, she addressed the League of Women Voters in Washington, a sign of her growing prominence. Always active in campus politics, she ended up becoming something of a communications facilitator, as she had been at Wellesley, between potentially radical student elements and the college administration during the era of extreme student unrest in 1970. She was written up on hometown and New England newspapers, and was interviewed on Irv Kupcinet's nationally syndicated TV talk show from Chicago. That summer, she worked in Washington for Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she conducted research on migrant children's health and education difficulties, especially in the South. Her subsequent studies at Yale were concentrated on how the law affected children. At Yale in 1971, she met Bill Clinton, her future husband, also a law student at Yale.
She graduated from Yale Law School (JD 1973) a year later than necessary, having remained an extra year to be near Bill. As a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund, she specialized in children's advocacy law. She married Bill on October 11, 1975; daughter Chelsea was born in 1980.
As her husband built a political career in Arkansas as governor, she was a partner in the locally prestigious Rose Law Firm, 1976-1992. Nationally she continued her legal advocacy for children and chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which played a pioneering role in raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay.
During the 1970s and '80s, the Clintons invested in the Whitewater Development Corporation which later became the subject of a federal investigation, prosecutions and convictions. Jim and Susan McDougal, and then-Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of multiple counts of financial fraud, even though President Clinton testified for four hours for the defense.[4]
On the evening Bill Clinton lost his bid for a Congressional seat in 1974, Hillary is reported to have cursed out a Jewish aide using nasty words. [5]
Legal Services Corporation
Hillary Clinton was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the controversial Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in 1978 and remained on the Board until 1983. [6] Under Hillary Clinton's leadership, the LSC began moving away from its legislated task of providing poor people with free lawyers and began an activist agenda to influence public policy through class action lawsuits. One case involved bringing lawsuits to force New York's Transit Authority to hire heroin addicts. The LSC also violated its own rules by organizing political campaigns against a state referendum and against Ronald Reagan. [7]
Clinton failed the District of Columbia Bar Exam in the 1970s.[8]
1992 Presidential Campaign
Domestic Spying
The Hill magazine reported Hillary Clinton may have been involved in civil rights violations by monitoring illegal wiretaps and domestic spying on political opponents during the 1992 camapaign.[9] After the revelations came to light in a book entitled, Her Way [5] by Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at the New York Times, and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, a Republican official remarked,
|it is rather unbelievable that [Hillary] Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, but refuse to allow our intelligence agencies to listen in to conversations being conducted by terrorists as they plot and plan to kill us.[10]
First Lady
During Bill Clinton's presidency, Hilliary initially played an important role. Immediately after his inauguration in 1993, she led a task force to create a national health care system. The secrecy of the Task Force was at issue in court cases which resulted in disclosures to comply with the law.
Her friend Vincent Foster supervised the defense of the litigation, but died under mysterious circumstances at the height of the controversy; the death was officially ruled a suicide. The Task Force proposals lacked public support and support from the Democrats in Congress, and came to nothing but an ambarassment for the Clinton presidency.
Subsequently, the Republicans won a landslide victory in 1994, taking over both Houses of Congress.
Health Care Task Force
- Main article: Clinton health care plan
Hillary played a central role in secretly crafting the Health Care plan, unveiled in late 1993. Democrats were divided, and conservatives counterattacked. The plan failed without a vote in Congress because Democrats could not unite. The long-term impact was an embarrassment to Hillary, especially in her 2008 presidential campaign.
Conspiracy Theories and Enemies List
- Main article: Vast right wing conspiracy theory
Hillary Clinton branded attacks on the Administration as "a vast right-wing conspiracy." White House staffers made up an enemies list of persons and organizations who subsequently endured IRS audits and harassment. [11]
Reaction to Monica Lewinsky scandal
As the full extent of the scandal became known, however, Clinton forgave her husband, and the two appear to once again have a trusting, love-filled relationship. [12]
'Why didn't you leave the White House when you found out about the cheating of your husband?' Gaddafi's daughter Aisha Gaddafi.
Accusations of Stolen Gifts
When the Clintons left the White House, they were accused of taking furniture that belonged not to them, but to the White House. It was explained that the movers "inadvertently' packed the wrong items. Most of the articles were quietly returned. [13]
U.S. Senate
Elected to the Senate in 2000 after her main Republican opponent dropped out, Clinton was a high visibility show horse. Working hard to develop a base in upstate regions, she initiated no major legislation.[14]
Since joining the Senate, Clinton has belonged to a conservative prayer group with the expressed purpose of "bringing Jesus back to Capitol Hill."[15] A few of her collaborators in the group include Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan) and Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa).
FEC fined campaign for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions
In January 2006 Hillary Clinton's New York Senate 2000 campaign was fined $35,000 for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions. [16]
Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction
Hillary Clinton speaking on Saddam Hussein's possession of Weapons of mass destruction said,
|I have to say that this is something that I have followed for a decade. If he [Saddam] were serious about disarming, he would have been much more forthcoming. There may be progress, we may be destroying his missiles, there is no accounting for the chemical and biological stocks.[17]
Hillary Clinton further described the situation after weapons inspectors we're expelled during the time when America had two in the position of presidential leadership, "for the price of one."[18]
|In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.[19]
Failure to reform earmark process
The noted newspaper which covers legislative affairs, The Hill, reported Hillary Clinton received more earmarks for Congressional pork barrel projects than only one other United States Senator. Reforming the earmark process had been among the Democrats top priorities in the 110th Congress, up until the time Democrats voted to rescind the rules aimed at reform that were passed in the first 100 hours of the new Congress in January. Ethics reform and the earmark process is widely attributed as the cause why Republicans lost control of both Houses of Congress after several members had been caught up in ethical scandals. The Hill reported Sen. Clinton received 26 earmarks worth about $148.4 million total, much going to Pentagon contractors. [20]
Voted against raising the minimum wage
After voting to send troops to Iraq Hillary Clinton voted against funding the troops in Iraq. In May of 2007 Clinton voted against raising the minimum wage. [21]
2008 Presidential campaign
Alleged embellishment of career events
What is Mrs. Clinton doing? She is having the worst case of cognitive dissonance in the history of modern politics. She cannot come up with a credible, realistic path to the nomination. ... But she is a scrapper, a fighter, and she's doing what she knows how to do: scrap and fight. Only harder. So that she ups the ante every day. She helped Ireland achieve peace. She tried to stop NAFTA. She's been a leader for 35 years. She landed in Bosnia under siege and bravely dodged bullets. It was as if she'd watched the movie "Wag the Dog," with its fake footage of a terrified refugee woman running frantically from mortar fire, and found it not a cautionary tale about manipulation and politics, but an inspiration. - Peggy Noonan [22]
Promises Made, Promises Broken
In late August 2007 Senator Bill Nelson and other members of Florida's Congressional delegation protested the Democratic National Committee's scheme[23] to deprive Floridians of equal voting rights protection[24] in selection of delegates to the 2008 DNC Presidential nominating convention. A letter sent to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, threatened legal action "to determine whether this could violate any state or federal laws governing and protecting individual voting rights.... It always has been a priority of our party to protect the rights of every eligible American to vote...We would hope the DNC will continue to honor this right."[25] The move prompted Hillary Clinton to pledge not to campaign in Florida.[26] A week later she was campaigning in Florida.[27]
The Nuclear Option
Barbara Olson in her 1990 book Hell to Pay [28] made a convincing case that the former Goldwater girl, raised in a Republican home, while working for the staff of the House Judiciary Committee preparing impeachment Articles against President Nixon, studied Nixon very closely. Olson and others have now commented how Hillary Clinton built her political career by learning to think and act as Nixon did, and modeling herself after him. These writers cite instance after instance of such behavior. [29] When Democratic competitor Barack Obama made a public statement vowing not to use nuclear weapons, Hillary Clinton shot back,
|I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or nonuse of nuclear weapons
|Eisenhower said... "You should never let the enemy know what you will do, but it's more important that you never let the enemy know what you will not do."
Nixon referred to it as "the Madman theory,"
|... statements that appear to rule out the use of force, while perhaps meant to be unprovocative, will in fact provoke an antagonist to push for more. ...we should not make statements that we will never launch a preemptive strike. Whether or not we would ever exercise that option, we should always leave open the possibility that in extreme circumstances we might. [30]
Abuse of Mother Teresa
Hillary Clinton was chastised by a Catholic Advocacy group for using an image of Mother Teresa in a campaign ad. Clinton continues to support abortion. [31] The U.S. Catholic-based advocacy group Fidelis, an organization working with people of faith to defend the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty rights, called for Hillary Clinton to remove the image of Mother Teresa from their campaign video. In a press release the group declared the video, narrated by her Bill Clinton,
|is wholly inappropriate, disrespectful and disturbing ...using an image of blessed Mother Teresa as a political tool, especially given their radically different views on abortion...Mother Teresa tirelessly fought to protect unborn children, while Hillary Clinton staunchly supports abortion on demand in all nine months of pregnancy, including partial birth abortion and taxpayer funding of abortion
When the image of Hillary and Mother Teresa appears in the video the former president is heard saying "Hillary, in effect, was the face of America … in India;" the video then cuts to a clip of the former first lady addressing the 1995 Beijing Conference where an effort was made to declare abortion a fundamental "human right."
PolitiFact Awards
Hillary received a "Pants on Fire" award from PolitiFact for saying Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."[32]
Hillary received a second "Pants on Fire" award from PolitiFact for this false statement to a Washington, D.C. crowd on March 17th, 2008. [33]
|I remember landing under sniper fire.
Secretary of State
After Barack Obama won the election, Hillary was widely speculated to be offered a role in the upcoming Obama Administration. On 1 December 2008 Obama announced that he was nominating Hillary to become his Secretary of State, succeeding Condoleezza Rice in January 2009. Hillary touted her role as "Tough Smart Foreign Policy." It was later revealed by Mrs. Biden that Joe was first offered the Secretary of State position, an unintended swipe at Hillary. She would criticize the White House for delaying a key appointment to her staff saying, "White House vetting process as a "nightmare," "frustrating beyond words" and "ridiculous."
Mark Rudd of Progressives for Obama said of the appointment, "the mere mention of the names Hillary Clinton and Lawrence Summers alone conjure up a litany of horrendous right-wingers appointed to top level positions.... On foreign policy and the wars and the use of the military there will be no change at all. That's what keeping Gates at the Pentagon and Clinton at State..." [34]
In June 2008, she injured herself in a fall. Important multilateral conferences in Europe had to be cancelled and she was unable to travel with Obama to Russia.
In July 2009, Bill Clinton won the release of Americans held hostage by North Korea. She was asked by a Congolese university student what her husband thought of international relations. She responded annoyed, "My husband is not secretary of state, I am," and "I am not going to be channeling my husband." Diplomats laughed when Clinton took umbrage at a Congolese questioner whom she took to be asking her husband's opinion but it later surfaced that the question had been mistranslated.
In addition, a U.S. senator flew to Burma to bargain for the release of yet another American. Also, envoys of the reclusive North Korean regime have come to the U.S. for a meeting privately with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. All this has America wondering if Hillary has been marginalized in her Obama Administration role.
Foreign Policy
East Asia
Clinton's first major foreign visits were toChina China, where she tried to maintain the status quo, with China buying American treasury notes to finance the U.S. deficit. She told [[Japan[[ that the US-Japan alliance is a "cornerstone" of American foreign policy. She met publicly with Yukio Hatoyama, the opposition leader, who won a landslide election in Sept, 2009. The question is whether the new government will continue to follow a strongly pro-American foreign policy regarding economic affairs, North Korea, and the issue of 47,000 troops American troops stationed there. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in his electioncampaign vowed to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa. The base has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with U.S. servicemen; while in opposition Hatoyama suggested it could be moved off the island altogether, a move Washington has strongly opposed.
Clinton went to Africa to demonstrate the administration is giving Africa a higher priority than usual. Clinton has long been outspoken on causes like development, health, poverty, and gender violence. Her first stop was Kenya, where the U.S. policy is to stabilize the political situation which has been on the brink of civil war. Also important is economic development, with a continentwide economic conference. Under Bill Clinton the "African Growth and Opportunity Act" expanded the number of tariff-free goods sub-Saharan countries could export to the United States. Kenya is an economic engine in eastern Africa, and needs encouragement to seek economic growth and leadership rather than risk an ethnic civil war.
South Africa is the superpower on the continent, but relations were strained with the U.S. under the country's erratic former president, Thabo Mbeki. He for example, fought against American effortt to stamp out AIDS, sugginsting the disease was a Western conspiracy. The new president, Jacob Zuma, is an unknown quantity. South Africa is in its first recession in more than a decade. With riots on the streets over his failure to deliver on promises to the country's poor, Zuma may hope to capitalize on improved relations with the United States. That bodes well for Clinton.One of the biggest splits was over Zimbabwe, where Bush wanted Mbeki to take a more pro-active role, while Mbeki wanted the United States to stay out of his tyranny. Angola is now the top oil exporter in Africa, with the usual corrupt pattern of concentrated oil wealth, wobbly, and a 48% unemployment rate. American oil companies are active and the U.S. is providing business and military support. American support for Angola causes resentlment in the rest of Africa, where critics attack the American friendship with President José Eduardo Dos Santos, who has held power for more than 30 years. President Bush's oft-stated concern for human rights and democracy in Angola was seen by African nationalists as little more than a pretense.
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, embarked on an official African trip that took her to Zambia, Tanzania and Ethiopia. In a press conference in Lusaka, Clinton is reported to have warned her host continent about 'new colonialism' in Africa from external actors and investors interested only in extracting Africa's natural resources... Clinton did not mention China by name, but as her officials later confirmed to reporters, she wanted to stress that African countries should beware of the Chinese and hold their investors to high standards.[6]
Middle East
In November 2009, Clinton finally took a foreign policy initiative in the highly sensitive Palestine-Israeli peace process. However, she offended the Palestinians by praising Israel for offering to curb its settlement-building program in the West Bank. [35] The Palestinians accused her of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks(the Palestinians want to see all settlements dismantled). To try and make amends and smooth over Palestinians, she issued a new statement saying the US wants Israel settlement halt forever, "We do not accept the legitimacy of settlement activity and we have a very firm belief that ending all settlement activity, current and future, would be preferable." [36]
Once again, Clinton's failure as Secretary of State comes into question as John Kerry plans a visit to Iran, which Iran rejected. [37] Kerry's name has been mentioned as the replacement of Hillary Clinton for the foreign policy arm of the Obama administration. [38]
Libyan civil war
Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Libya. She was a skeptic on whether the United States should take military action in Libya (It is said that that day (March 14) she met in Paris with members of the Libyan rebels committee and Bernard Henri Levy). Mrs. Clinton changed course, forming an unlikely alliance with a handful of top administration aides who had been arguing for intervention. Within hours, Mrs. Clinton and the aides had convinced Mr. Obama that the United States had to act, and the president ordered up military plans, which Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hand-delivered to the White House the next day. On Thursday (March 17), during an hour-and-a -half meeting, Mr. Obama signed off on allowing American pilots to join Europeans and Arabs in military strikes against the Libyan government... The president had a caveat, though. The American involvement in military action in Libya should be limited — no ground troops — and finite. "Days, not weeks," a senior White House official recalled him saying. [7]
On March 17, in Tunisia, Hillary said: "Gadhafi must go," calling him "a ruthless dictator that has no conscience and will destroy anyone or anything in his way." "If Gadhafi does not go, he will just make trouble," she said. "That is just his nature. There are some creatures that are like that." [8]
In joining Ms. Susan Rice and Ms. Samantha Power, Mrs. Clinton made an unusual break with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who, along with the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, and the counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, had urged caution. Libya was not vital to American national security interests, the men argued, and Mr. Brennan worried that the Libyan rebels remained largely unknown to American officials, and could have ties to Al Qaeda. [[9]]
And later:
"We are currently doing everything we can to bomb, strafe and use missiles to carry the rebels into power in Libya. We want them to win. We just don't know who they are." Hillary Rodham Clinton. [10]
South America
Hillary's trip to Argentina became controversial as she meddled into a touchy subject by attempting to force Britain to accept talks on the future of the Falkland Islands. This action will undoubtedly strain relationships between the U.S., the U.K. and Argentina. Residents of the Falklands were outraged. [39]
See also
- Bill Clinton
- Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee
- Freedom of Choice Act
- Articles about Hillary Clinton from previous "Breaking News"
- Charles Schumer
- Abbottabad raid
External links
- Hillary's No Liberal, Wendy Kaminer, The Nation, July 22, 1999 (August 9, 1999 issue).
- Interpreting Clinton's 'new colonialism'.
- ↑ Hillary, King and Goldwater, by Robert D. Novak, Townhall.com, March 12, 2007.
- ↑ Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech. Wellesley College (31 May 1969). Retrieved on 30 June 2011.
- ↑ Changes under way in Task Force Public Policy & Government Affairs Department. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (19 December 2006). Retrieved on 30 June 2011.
- ↑ Once upon a Time in Arkansas, Transcript of Clinton's Sworn Deposition, PBS.
- ↑ Jerry Oppenheimer, State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton (2000_ cites three witnesses to the incident.
- ↑ Thwarting the Will of Congress: How the Legal Services Corporation Evaded, Diluted, and Ignored Reform, Testimony of Kenneth F. Boehm before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, House Judiciary Committee, February 28, 2002.
- ↑ Michael Barone , Taking Hillary seriously, Jewish World Review, July 8, 1999.
- ↑ On Today, Bernstein omitted key fact in purported disclosure of Clinton's D.C. bar exam failure: It's not news, MediaMatters June 1, 2007. Retrieved from MediaMatters.org October 4, 2007.
- ↑ GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping, By Alexander Bolton, The Hill, October 16, 2007.
- ↑ GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping, By Alexander Bolton, The Hill, October 16, 2007.
- ↑ Larry Klayman, WorldNetDaily 7/9/99. [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ "Clinton Shipped Furniture Year Ago," Washington Post, February 10, 2001.
- ↑ Hillary Clinton's spending of taxpayer money, National Review, April 22, 2002.
- ↑ http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html
- ↑ Federal Elections Commission Press Release, January 26, 2006.
- ↑ Hillary Clinton's views on going to war, Saddam, and WMD
- ↑ Two For the Price of One, By Charles Krauthammer, November 2, 2007.
- ↑ Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), October 10, 2002. Retrieved from Zmag.org December 4, 2007.
- ↑ Clinton can boast wealth of earmarks, By Roxana Tiron and Ilan Wurman, The Hill, June 13, 2007.
- ↑ Senate Concurrence on HR 2206 Title 8 Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, Record Vote Number 181, 05/24/2007. [3]
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
- ↑ Fla. Democrats warn of voting rights probe if state sanctioned, By Rasha Madkour, Associated Press, Aug 23, 2007. Retrieved from St. Petersburg Times August 24, 2007.
- ↑ Fla. Democrats warn of voting rights probe if state sanctioned, By Rasha Madkour, Associated Press, Aug 23, 2007. Retrieved from St. Petersburg Times August 24, 2007.
- ↑ Letter from Florida Congressional Democrats to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, August 22, 2007. Retrieved from nelsonforsenate.com/feature/dean/ September 13, 2007.
- ↑ Clinton, Obama and Edwards Join Pledge to Avoid Defiant States, By Jeff Zeeleny, New York Times, September 2, 2007.
- ↑ Candidates have events in Florida despite pledge, By Charlotte Eby, Sioux City Journal, September 11, 2007.
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ Hillary's Secret War, The plan to silence Internet journalists, Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2005.
- ↑ The Real War, Richard Nixon, Warner Books, May 1980, pgs. 253 - 260.
- ↑ Fidelis Covered by Catholic News Agency on Mother Teresa Video Controversy, Catholic News Agency, 05-18-2007.
- ↑ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/375/ Et tu, Clinton?
- ↑ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/411/ Video shows tarmac welcome, no snipers
- ↑ http://www.markrudd.com/?organizing-and-activism-now/lets-get-smart-about-obama-nov-2008.html
- ↑ Palestinians Accuse Clinton of Undermining Peace Talks With Shift on Settlements, FoxNews, November 1, 2009
- ↑ "In Cairo, Clinton clarifies settlement position," Jewish Journal, November 4, 2009
- ↑ Kerry Floats Plan to Visit Tehran, Wall Street Journal. December 24, 2009
- ↑ Kerry plays key role for the president, Philly.com, October 22, 2009
- ↑ Argentina celebrates diplomatic coup as Hillary Clinton calls for talks over Falklands, Timesonline.uk, March , 2010


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MoD kit chief: Blighty unsure of supersonic stealth jumpjet
'Does it do what it says on the tin?'
The head equipment purchaser at the UK's ministry of defence (MoD) has implied that Britain maintains an open mind on whether it will purchase the new F-35B supersonic stealth jumpjet to operate from its new aircraft carriers. General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue, Chief of Defence Materiel, seemed to confirm that there was a backup plan in which the F-35C catapult launch variant might be used instead.
At present the MoD plans to build the carriers without catapults or arrester wires, meaning that only helicopters and Short Takeoff, Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft - jumpjets - will be able to fly from them. Thus the UK has always planned to buy the B version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (aka "Lightning II"), which features a vertical-thrust fan mounted centrally and a cunning swivelling nozzle allowing its jet exhaust to point downwards.
Possibly not the future Royal Navy fighter after all.
But the F-35B has long been dogged by weight issues, and though the prototype aircraft has now flown, engine problems have meant that so far it has operated purely as a normal runway aeroplane. Only after fitting with a new engine will the F-35B be able to carry out vertical-thrust flight tests, probably starting early next year.
The Royal Navy is particularly worried about issues of weight and performance in a vertical landing, as the service intends to use the F-35B as a carrier fighter rather than mainly as a strike plane like most of the other customers. A carrier fighter needs to be able to take off fully armed, fly a patrol and then land back on the ship without having to dump its missiles beforehand.
The late, great Sea Harrier fighter could just about manage this, but only in cold weather (cold air lets jet engines deliver more thrust). In warm climates, to make a safe deck landing, the Sea Harrier would normally need to dump weapons - which would be unacceptably expensive. Hence it was binned to much regret some years ago.
US programme chiefs are adamant that the F-35B will be able to meet the UK's weapons bring-back requirement, but there is plainly some doubt in Whitehall. The UK is carrying out research into a "Shipboard Rolling Vertical Landing" (SRVL) where jets would still be moving forward as they landed, but not fast enough to necessitate arrester wires. This would add some lift from the wings, allowing a safe landing with more weight.
The issue is plainly an important one for the UK, which is now committed to building new carriers and needs planes which can operate from them effectively. This is what led MPs to question General O'Donoghue on the matter at a meeting of the Parliamentary Defence Committee on Tuesday.
Asked how many F-35Bs the UK might buy, the general said:
"Well, at the moment we're looking at buying three, which are the operational test and evaluation aircraft."
In other words, the UK will use the initial three F-35Bs to find out if they really can be the carrier fighter the Royal Navy needs. Sir Kevin plainly doesn't regard this as a foregone conclusion. Asked how many jumpjets the UK might buy after the tests, he said:
"Why don't we wait and see what the operational test and evaluation comes out with ... Does it do what it says on the tin?"
Some have suggested that if the F-35 couldn't meet the UK carrier requirement, a "marinised" carrier version of the Eurofighter might be used instead. This was raised in response to the General's evident uncertainty regarding the F-35B.
"It's not being looked at, no," replied Sir Kevin.
The F-35C carrier variant, intended for catapult launch and arrested landing by the US Navy, then came up. The F-35C, not requiring the heavy vertical-thrust equipment of the VSTOL jumpjet, will perform better. It will also be significantly cheaper - perhaps enough to offset much of the cost of providing the carriers with catapults and arrester wires. Much more money could then be saved by purchasing existing, highly capable carrier radar planes rather than an exotic rotary-wing option such as the TOSS version of the Osprey tiltrotor.
The carriers "could be fitted for the carrier variant," General O'Donoghue confirmed. "If STOVL went, then carrier variant must be an option."
This seems to confirm rumours that the MoD has a backup plan to equip the carriers with catapults and arrester wires early on in their lives, or even during building. This isn't an entirely simple matter. Though space has been included in the designs for the necessary machinery under the flight deck, current naval catapults require steam to operate.
The UK carriers, however, are to be propelled by gas turbines rather than nuclear reactors, so as to save money. But a gas ship, unlike a nuclear one, has no ready source of steam.
Word has it that the UK would, if forced to it, equip the carriers with a separate steam boiler plant for the catapults as well as the gas-turbine propulsion. This wouldn't be cheap: a similar plan in France put the cost of a steam'n'gas double power solution around 90 per cent of what a nuclear ship would cost - without the nuke ship's advantages of endurance and extra hangar space. (Fossil-fuel plants need a lot of thick funnel and intake trunks running up and down through the hangar deck.)
But a catapult carrier would offer a much more capable air group, which also be much cheaper.
From the MoD's point of view, however, this plan is not desirable as more money would have to be spent earlier on - on the ships, which have now been ordered - and the savings would only come later. The MoD is desperate for savings right now, and doesn't really mind if this leads to more cost down the road - as jumpjet carriers would do, needing pricey STOVL jumpjets and custom-made rotary radar birds.
General O'Donoghue makes it quite plain that the only way the UK will go for the cheaper and more powerful catapult carriers is if the F-35B can't do what it says on the tin.
Those who want to see the Royal Navy with the best available carriers and jets - and paying less to get them, to boot - might justifiably hope that the miracle jumpjet's trials next year are a failure. ®
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Graphr is a Windows Presentation Foundation-based GUI program implemented in C# that allows you to generate a dataset based on a rule (expression) such as "(x-3) * (x-5)" for a given range of values. Graphr then displays a graph on the screen. Graphr is interesting because it is a polyglot application. It is a C# application that hosts an embedded IronPython engine. It allows you to write your rules in Python and even use any function from Python's math library, such as sin() or cos(). The best part is that you don't need to parse and evaluate the expression. Python will do this for you. The other interesting aspect of Graphr is its architecture. Graphr is a plugin-based system. It utilizes the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to load graph plugins dynamically and use them in a totally decoupled fashion. You can add additional graphs and Graphr will be happy to automatically use them without touching Graphr itself. This is a useful practice that can be applied in many situations.
In this article, we will demonstrate Graphr, explain in detail how to embed IronPython in any application, and explore MEF and its use in a plugin architecture. In a separate article, which you can access immediately here, we've done a walkthrough of Graphr's architecture. Finally, we'll talk a little about the future of Graphr.
Graphr in Action
Before we delve into the code, let's have some fun playing with Graphr. You need Visual Studio 2010 and IronPython 2.7. Both are free (Visual Studio 2010 has non-free versions, too, but they are not needed to build Graphr).
When you launch Graphr, you see a window divided into two panes. The left pane contains the rule and range text boxes and a "Visualize" button on top, and a graph selector and graph properties on the bottom. The right pane (empty initially) contains the graph display area. Click the "Visualize" button and a yellow line graph is displayed (Figure 1).
The graph properties area allows you to customize the appearance of the graph. The LineColor text box contains four double-digit hex numbers (A, R, G, B). The first two digits control transparency (00 fully transparent, FF fully opaque), the other digits control the red, green, and blue values of the color. The LineThickness text box controls the thickness of the line.
You can also change the rule and the range. When you change the rule and/or the range, you must click the "Visualize" button again. The graph selector dropdown box allows you to select a different graph type. Figure 2 shows a bar graph that uses a different rule and a range that includes negative numbers. Note that each graph type has its own graph properties. The bar graph uses a gradient brush to paint the bars, so the bar color changes gradually from the selected color at the top to white at the bottom of the bar.
Graphr is also fully resizable. You can resize the entire window and the graph will adjust and fit into the new size. You can also change the ratio between the left and right pane by dragging the splitter left and right.
Graphr also supports a pie graph, which displays slices that are proportionate to the values of the rule. The color of each slice is selected randomly, and you can only control the border color. If you play with the pie graph, it is recommended that you use a range of up to 50 values because it takes longer to render (especially if you resize the window).
Embedding IronPython
Graphr is able to parse and evaluate complicated expressions. Implementing a custom parser and evaluator in C# is possible, but would take a long time. Instead, we opted to take advantage of Python, which provides out of the box dynamic evaluation capability.
IronPython is an open source implementation of Python for the .NET platform. IronPython 2.7, which is what we used in Graphr can be downloaded here.
Dynamic Evaluation with IronPython
IronPython makes it easy to dynamically evaluate any valid Python expression and, in particular, mathematical expressions. The key is the built-in eval() function, which takes a Python expression as a string, executes it dynamically, and returns the resulting Python object. Here is a short interactive session that demonstrates it:
>>> eval('5 + 5') 10 >>> x = 3 >>> eval('x + 2') 5 >>> x = 'hello' >>> eval('x + " world"') 'hello world' >>>
Graphr needs to evaluate an expression that contains an x variable multiple times, where x is assigned different values from the range. The Evaluatr.py Python module provides this functionality. It imports all the functions in Python's math library so they can be evaluated as part of the expression. It contains two functions: evaluateSingleValue() and evaluate(). The evaluateSingleValue() function gets an expression (rule) and an x value. It substitutes all the x's in the expression with the value of x and evaluates it, as shown here:
import os from math import * def evaluateSingleValue(expr, x): # replace the 'X' in the expression with the current value e = expr.replace("x", str(x)) # evaluate the substituted expression string using the eval() function return eval(e)
The evaluate() function is used directly by Graphr. It accepts an expression and a list of values. It iterates over the values and evaluates each one using evaluateSingleValue(). Note that evaluate() is a Python generator, which means that values are computed only as they are needed. The yield keyword returns control to the caller, which allows efficient streaming in case of large ranges that don't need to be fully evaluated (such as a graph that displays a window of 100 values regardless of the entire range), as shown next:
def evaluate(expr, values): """Evaluate an expression with an X variable over a range of X values expr - a string that represents a Python expression with a variable values - a list of floating point values return a generator that yields pairs of (x, eval(expr)) """ expr = expr.lower() for x in values: try: yield (x, evaluateSingleValue(expr, x)) except: yield (None, None)
Embedding IronPython in a C# Program
Now, that we have a good Python evaluator that can dynamically evaluate Python expressions, it's time to embed it in your C# program. IronPython is built on top of the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime). The DLR exposes hosting APIs designed to support this use case. We isolated all embedding code into a single C# class called IronPythonEvaluator. The IronPythonEvaluator relies on the Evaluatr.py module to perform the actual computation. This raises the question of how to deploy the Evaluatr.py module with the Graphr app. The most straightforward approach is just to provide it as an additional file, but we chose a more integrated approach where the source code for the module is embedded as a resource in the Graphr.exe assembly (Figure 3).
When the IronPythonEvaluator is initialized, it loads the resource and saves it to a file. This file is used later by the IronPython runtime engine. Before we dive into the IronPythonCalculator, here are the assemblies it uses:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; // The following assemblies are needed to host IronPython using IronPython.Hosting; using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting; using Graphr.Properties; using System.IO;
The IronPythonEvaluator has a constructor and two overloaded evaluate() methods. The constructor creates an IronPython engine with a "Debug" option. This is useful because it allows stepping from C# into IronPython code when debugging in VisualStudio. Also, the debugger will present you with a unified call stack from C# to Python if an exception is raised in the Python code (Figure 4). This polyglot debugging is a unique feature of the .NET platform.
The constructor then adds the IronPython Lib directory to the engine's search path. That allows IronPython to import any standard library module. The next step is to write the embedded Evaluatr.py module to a temporary file, then load this file into the engine's runtime and assign the resulting Python module into the evaluatr dynamic member. Once the file has been loaded into the runtime, it can be deleted. Note, that this code is not industrial strength and doesn't handle exceptions so the temporary file will not be deleted if an exception is thrown.
namespace Graphr { class IronPythonEvaluator { public IronPythonEvaluator() { //Creating a new script runtime Dictionary<string, object> options = new Dictionary<string, object>(); options["Debug"] = true; var env = Python.CreateEngine(options); // Set the default search path for IronPython (not set by default) var searchPaths = env.GetSearchPaths(); // Note: this is hard-coded path to the IronPython 2.7 lib directory var p = "C:/Program Files (x86)/IronPython 2.7/Lib"; if (!Directory.Exists(p)) { p = "C:/Program Files/IronPython 2.6 for .NET 4.0/Lib"; } searchPaths.Add(p); env.SetSearchPaths(searchPaths); var filename = Path.GetTempPath() + "Evaluatr.py"; // Write the Evaluatr.py script (loaded from resource) using (var fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) { BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs); bw.Write(Resources.Evaluatr); } evaluatr = env.Runtime.UseFile(filename); // Delete the file File.Delete(filename); }
The main evaluate() method has the following signature:
public IList<KeyValuePair<double, double>> evaluate(string expr, IEnumerable<double> values)
It accepts a mathematical expression as a string and a list of doubles (the X values). It returns a list of pairs of doubles (the X,Y pairs). The evaluate() method starts by declaring an empty result list and calling the evaluate method of the embedded IronPython evaluatr module:
var result = new List<KeyValuePair<double, double>>(); //Invoke the method var r = evaluatr.evaluate(expr, values);
The return value r is a dynamic object, which actually contains an IronPython.Runtime.PythonGenerator object. This is not the type of object we want to expose to the rest of the program (the idea is to hide the implementation). So, we iterate over the generator and push every pair to the result list.
If the expression is invalid, then an IronPython exception is raised (in Python, you raise exceptions instead of throwing them), and we translate that to a C# exception, which we then throw, as shown next:
foreach (var s in r) { try { double x = s[0]; double y = s[1]; var pair = new KeyValuePair<double, double>(x, y); result.Add(pair); } catch (Exception) { throw new Exception("Invalid expression: '" + expr + "'"); } } return result;
The other evaluate() method is pretty much the same but it accepts integer values. Internally it converts them to doubles and calls the main method:
public IList<KeyValuePair<double, double>> evaluate(string expr, IEnumerable<int> values) { // Convert integers to doubles var xValues = values.Select(i => (double)i); // Call the evaluate() method that operates on doubles return evaluatr.evaluate(expr, xValues); }
Managed Extension Framework (MEF)
MEF was released as part of the .NET framework 4 and Silverlight 4. It provides a standard way for applications to discover and load extensions and to expose application services to extensions. In addition, the application extensions may depend on each other.
The main parts of MEF are the catalog and the composition container. The catalog is responsible for locating composable parts, and the container is responsible for creating parts and their dependencies (which are other parts). Parts have import and export contracts and they interact with other parts using these contracts. MEF provides an attribute-based programming model, which is very easy to use and yet provides good error messages when things go wrong. For further MEF information, we recommend http://mef.codeplex.com/documentation.
Plugin-based Applications
We prefer the term "plugin" instead of "application extension," so that's what we'll use from now on. My definition of a plugin is a piece of code that has an interface and is loaded by some application dynamically at runtime; then, the application interacts with the plugin through the interface. The application may provide certain services to the plugin though its interface.
The application and the plugins are loosely coupled and interact through interfaces. The application discovers and loads the plugin through some standard mechanism that (often) can be reused by other applications. We usually prefer to have a well-known directory that contains plugins. Developers and/or administrators may add or remove plugins from this directory. The benefit of such a programming model is that it is very easy to evolve an application and develop major parts of its functionality in isolated plugins that are easy to test and deploy and don't require modifying the application code itself. It also makes it very easy to create custom apps with different functionality (just pick a custom set of plugins). Finally, application startup time can be dramatically reduced if plugins are loaded only when they are needed.
Graphr is a plugin-based application. It has a MainWindow class that's responsible for interacting with the user, the embedded IronPython evaluator, and configuring the active graph properties. It has a GraphManager class that's responsible for loading the graph plugins and managing the active graph. And it has graph plugins that are responsible for displaying the current graph data.
All the components interact through interfaces and promote decoupling. The interfaces are defined in their own assembly (Graphr.Contract) and are referenced by Graphr itself and by each plugin. Graphr and the plugins don't reference each other. Their main interface is IGraph. There is an additional interface, IGraphMetadata, that is used by MEF.
The IGraph interface
The IGraph interface has three methods: PopulateCanvas(), DoGraphLayout(), and ConfigSpec.
The PopulateCanvas() method is called whenever the data is modified. It accepts a Canvas object (where the graph is displayed), the data as a list of x,y values, and a config object, which is a dictionary of graph specific items like color and stroke thickness. The graph plugin that implements the interface should construct the visual elements that represent the current data and the graph properties. For example, a bar graph will create a bar object for each x,y pair,and set its border color and fill color based on the graph properties.
The DoGraphLayout() method is called every time the graph needs to be redrawn. This happens whenever the canvas is resized (when the whole window is resized or the splitter between the left and right pane is moved). It accepts the canvas and the data. You could argue that the plugin could store the canvas and the data when PopulateCanvas() is called then the DoGraphLayout() method could be simpler with no arguments. This is true, but since the MainWindow that calls DoGraphLayout() must have the canvas and data anyway, it is better not to store the same information in each plugin, too.
The ConfigSpec property is a dictionary that maps names to type and object. Each graph plugin supports a different set of named configuration items of different types. A dictionary of typed objects is a generic way to represent this set. The ConfigSpec contains the initial values of these items (e.g., StrokeThickness = 2). The graph properties pane displays these initial values and the user may modify them and change the appearance of the displayed graph. Here is the entire IGraph interface:
public interface IGraph { void PopulateCanvas( Canvas c, IList<KeyValuePair<double, double>> data, IDictionary<string, object> config); void DoGraphLayout( Canvas c, IList<KeyValuePair<double, double>> data); // The config spec is a triplet of config items // name: string // type: Type // initial value: object of the item's type IDictionary<string, Tuple<Type, object>> ConfigSpec { get; } }


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The Babies 'R' Us Jungle Friends Cot Mobile, with item number 171271, and marked mfr. 7731, could present danger following the discovery that the raindrops that form part of the toy can detach.
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Babies 'R' Us have today (Tuesday Augusy 29th) released the following statement: "On 15 June, we issued a voluntary recall of Babies"R"Us Jungle Friends Cot Mobile in the U.K. due to a potential choking hazard from 3-tier raindrops suspended from the centre of the mobile.
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In the midst of my illness laden life a week ago, I managed to catch the announcement that Tor was going to drop DRM from its books starting in July. Perhaps it was the fever, but it seemed to generate a lot of buzz and speculation about whether this would be the beginning of the end for eBook DRM. It was wrapped up in optimism as to which publishers would follow suit and when, as if it was a logical conclusion.
In following up on it for this post, the first thing I noticed in the BBC article is that Macmillan called it an "experiment". This phrase alone raises enough flags to starts its own color guard. Sure, it's a fancier term for "trying something out", but it means there are metrics that are being followed and measured closely. For myself, this raises a few more questions to ponder. What kind of timeline is this experiment going to run? Months? Years? What are the variables that are being tracked? Sales? Bit torrent file movements? Just how big a dataset are we talking here?
Like other recent moves in publishing, I have a hunch that this is going to be watched by the other publishers before making their own move. This isn't something for the short term, it's going to be for the long term; however, it does mean that attitudes are shifting within the industry. But in the meantime, I highly advise against holding your breath.
In the meantime, I don't believe DRM is going anywhere. The fear of piracy is such an emotional trigger that anything that appears to make it easier will have a hard time offering a logical argument for removing a barrier. It's a very human response to overestimate risks that involve an emotional aspect when the actual facts and statistics prove that the risk is low or non-existent. Consider the fear of dying from an act of terrorism (extremely low) versus dying from a car accident (statistically much more likely). The former kept us from flying commercially for a year after 9/11 while fatal car accidents can be found in the news nearly everyday. After years of sensational news stories about file sharing and bit torrents, it's hard not to imagine that the first reaction to any discussion about eBooks and DRM is not an emotional one.
If there is one group that will not see the end of DRM anytime soon (if ever), that would be libraries. Given the current apprehension to eBook lending, DRM is the only assurance that companies like Overdrive can give to publishers to ensure that these eBooks don't virtually walk on them. It will be the 'friction' that publishers want to ensure that the retail transaction is smoother than the library one and to offer a non-existent guarantee that a book does not overstay in someone's device. With eBooks, purchasing will always be encouraged over lending, whether it is from the library or one person to the next.
And so it begins, the long wait while the Tor experiment runs its course. DRM is not dead, it's just in a transitional period; it is especially not dead for libraries.


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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final nuclear deal by a July 20 deadline.
Rouhani told a press conference it is still possible to reach a comprehensive accord before the deadline and that his government will in any case remain committed to its policy of constructive interaction with the West.
"If we can't reach a final agreement in negotiations by July 20 ...conditions will never go back to the past. The sanctions regime has been broken," he told reporters.
Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany reached an interim deal in November in Geneva that limited Iran's uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of some sanctions. The agreement was intended to buy time for the negotiation of a comprehensive deal to resolve the decade-long impasse.
Western nations and Israel have long suspected Iran of secretly pursuing a nuclear weapon capability alongside its civilian program. Iran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.
Rouhani said it is still possible that a final accord will be achieved between Iran and the six-nation group — the U.S., France, U.K., Germany, Russia and China — before the deadline expires.
"We believe the issue can be settled by July 20. We are very serious at the talks," he said.
Top diplomats from Iran and the U.S. have held direct talks in recent days in the hopes of narrowing differences ahead of formal talks early next week.
Under the historic Geneva deal, Tehran stopped enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity in exchange for the easing of some Western sanctions. However, Iran will continue uranium enrichment up to the level of 5 percent. Uranium must be enriched to more than 90 percent in order to be used in a nuclear weapon.
Rouhani said Iran would continue uranium enrichment and that all sanctions would be lifted under a comprehensive accord.


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*UPDATE: 5/28. Turner has moved his Greek crawfish boil to Nosh Bistro, 3963 Kirby, where's he is currently acting as sommelier. There's more parking and a full kitchen, so he'll served a few added food items in addition to crawfish, Greek wine and beer. It's still 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 9.
When sommelier Evan Turner announced his June 9 Greek-style crawfish boil on Facebook last week, he did so under the name of Helen: Greek Food & Wine. That's the name not only for his event company that will be staging pop-up wine dinners over the coming months, but also for the contemporary Greek restaurant he's been planning over the past year.
Turner won his reputation superintending the wine programs at 17 restaurant and Gravitas, then opening the late Branch Water Tavern with David Grossman. At Branch Water the beverage program — from wine to whiskey — was a particular attraction.
For the past year and a half Turner has taken a series of small wine jobs while pursuing his Greek restaurant dream. It was fostered when he lived in Greece for a time, falling in love with the food and the wines, which he has championed on the Houston scene. As wine director for Memorial Wine Cellar last year, he staged an all-Greek wine tasting with a buffet of regional Greek dishes he prepared with his wife and a chef friend.
"You've got to open a restaurant," I remember telling Turner as I went back for thirds on the meatballs in a fluff of egg-and-lemon sauce, and poked through a pan trying to find the last shrimp cooked with ouzo, fennel and a jot of red chile. Contemporary Greek is one of the missing categories on the Houston food scene, right along with modern Chinese and maybe Tibetan or Nepalese.
I always make a point of seeking out such updated Greek places whether I'm in Montreal or Portland, Maine, and the prospect of having a local source of serious regional Greek dishes that go beyond the expected warhorses, as well as an ambitious all-Greek wine list, is pretty exciting.
That's what Turner is planning for Helen, and what he'll showcase at series of pop-up wine dinners and events starting with the June 9 all-you-can-eat crawfish boil, which for $30 will include a promised "crisp, delicious, aromatic Greek white wine," or beer if you'd rather. (He's working on bringing in a wine new to the Houston market, but whatever he ends up pouring is bound to be really good.)
So what are Greek-style crawfish, anyway? Turner says the crustaceans are done in several ways in Greece, but he has chosen a variant cooked with ouzo, white wine, tomato, fennel, paprika and a red-chile flake that gives it a little bit of heat. If they taste anything like those drunken shrimp I fell in love with at Turner's wine buffet, I plan on eating pounds and pounds of them.
The June 9 crawfish boil will take place in the big backyard at the Thairapy studio at 1721 Waugh, where there's lots of parking, starting at 3 p.m. Wine dinners will follow as Turner keeps up his active search for locations and backing. (He's already got a chef in mind, but he is not ready to announce the name.)
The concept for Helen, he said, is very much an informal taverna rather than the starchier kind of Greek restaurant known as an estiatorio. "The taverna is more of an everyman, utilitarian restaurant that doesn't close, that's open all day, where you can go early for a coffee or late for an ouzo."
Turner said the take on Greek cuisine will involve very traditional regional dish of a type seldom seen in America, along with more "stereotypical" classics turned on their head. And there will be an emphasis on Greek ideas carried out with locally sourced ingredients, particularly Gulf seafood.
The all-Greek wine list will be Turner's baby, and a leap of faith in what he believes is the quality of Greek wines. There will be Texas beer and Turner jokes, "we WILL serve retsina."
The better grades of the frequently maligned tourist favorite can, he said, "do a wonderful job of pairing with the right Greek salty cheeses and fried foods."
Turner said his quest for a suitable location and funds "won't take as long as a Homeric poem," alluding to the 10 years it took Odysseus to get home.
"If nothing else, we'll keep doing events under the name Helen," said Turner.
Helen is for Helen of Troy. Helen was born the famously beautiful Helen of Sparta, who appears in Homer's Iliad as the cause of the Trojan War.


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No one ever really expects a truck to crash into their house, especially not a driverless one.
But that's exactly what happened to an eldery woman in Houston last night when someone allegedly stole her neighbor's truck, put bricks on the gas pedal, and let it go. Police are still scratching their heads on this one, and have neither motive nor suspect to work with.
As far as motive goes, that seems pretty simple. Whoever it was is a huge jackass and doesn't care about smashing a little old lady's house. According to neighbors, she's a really sweet little old lady, too. For shame!
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WASHINGTON – Supporters of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are seeking a swift election-year Senate vote on legislation to approve the project that environmentalists oppose strongly and the Obama administration has delayed indefinitely.
Pipeline advocates in the Senate, including several Democrats on the ballot next fall, hold a clear majority. They also may command more than the 60 votes needed to overcome blocking tactics by opponents, but appear to be short of the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override any veto by President Barack Obama.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana chairs the Senate Energy Committee and says she will seek a vote in a few weeks. Republicans want the vote to occur as part of the debate on energy-efficiency legislation or as a stand-alone bill.


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CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. We work to influence decisions regarding the development and use of computers because those decisions have far-reaching consequences and reflect our basic values and priorities.
As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policy makers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society.
Every project we undertake is based on five principles:
- We foster and support public discussion of, and public responsibility for decisions involving the use of computers in systems critical to society.
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- We encourage the use of information technology to improve the quality of life.
This chapter is populated but not currently organizing activities. CPSR members can quickly come to life when approached via email@example.com to rise to the occassion to:
*answer inquiries
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*create and maintain a web page
*create and use a mailing list
*host conferences, panel discussions, speakers, and/or talks
*meet informally to discuss current events
*present expert testimony
*study a local issue
*write and publish, etc. etc. etc.
One of the most important missions of CPSR is to help people communicate with their government. For this reason, we have these links:
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Other links of interest:
Hotwired's Hotbot Search Engine
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Cinnamon and Spice Sweet Potato Bread
Sweet potatoes are always a winner no matter how they're prepared.
But when baked into sweetly spiced soft bread, they become even better.
I had a couple sweet potatoes to use and rather than just roasting them or making fries with them, I mashed them and baked them into bread. I do it with bananas all the time. Why not sweet potatoes.
I was blown away by the results. The bread turned out ridiculously soft, moist, tender, and richly spiced. It's almost like cake it's so soft, tender, and springy. If you like carrot cake or pumpkin-based recipes, you'll love this bread.
It's easy to make, and no mixer is needed. Stir everything together and pop the loaf into the oven for about an hour. And your house will smell heavenly during that hour.
Begin by steaming two medium sweet potatoes or one very large sweet potato. Peel the potatoes, dice into one-inch chunks, place in a shallow bowl with a splash of water, cover with plasticwrap and microwave for about 15 minutes, or until fork tender. Drain off any water that's pooled, and mash with a fork.
If you have another method for steaming, go for it. I do it this way because it's fast and easy. You could roast the sweet potatoes, but that takes almost an hour, the potatoes will be drier from being roasted than steamed, and you'd need to make some tweaks with dry and wet ingredient ratios in your batter.
After the potatoes cool just a bit so you don't scramble the eggs, crack two eggs over them, add oil, vanilla, buttermilk (or yogurt or sour cream) and whisk.
In another bowl, combine flour, sugars, baking soda, and a variety of spices. I used cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. Feel free to mix-and-match the spices based on what you have and enjoy. Try pumpkin pie spice, cardamom, or other favorites.
I love cinnamon and the bread is well-spiced and robust, without being overpowering. Many times sweet potato, pumpkin, or carrot-based cakes and breads can be so bland and blah. Orange root vegetables are very hearty and can really soak up, and necessitate, plenty of spice. I made sure to account for that, but add spices to taste.
Add the wet to the dry, and mix until combined. I had to really stir and stir. And stir some more. The dry ingredients seemed to just multiply in the bowl and in the folds of the batter. Every time I thought I had it all folded together, I'd scape the bottom of the bowl and find more stray white bits. Take your time and make sure everything is well combined, but use a gentle hand when stirring so you don't over-develop the gluten, resulting in tougher bread.
Turn the batter out into a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan or two 8-by-4-inch pans. I used one 9×5 and will probably opt for two 8×4 loaves next time or bake as a Budnt. It's a cake-like bread and I think it would bake beautifully in a Bundt pan. Or try it as muffins.
The sweet potatoes, oil, and buttermilk all do a wonderful job of keeping the bread supremely soft and moist. Although I've compared it to cake, it's not cakey if that makes sense. It doesn't have an airy, flaky crumb that many cakes have; otherwise known as being dry.
The interior is tender, springy, and bouncey with a dense crumb. The crust is firmer and slightly chewy. Normally I shun crust and edge pieces on bread, but I found myself seeking them out, like chewy edge pieces on brownies.
The bread is sweet, but not too sweet. A slice or two for breakfast, as a snack, or as a healthier after-dinner treat is how we've been enjoying it.
The spices are homey and comforting. Warming spices like the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves are my favorites. I have to restrain myself from making Molasses Cookies and other similar treats for most of the year because they're out-of-season, so to speak. The spices give the bread such great flavor and squelch my cravings. I want to snuggle up on the couch with a blanket and a cup of chai tea to wash it down with.
It's perfect on it's own and doesn't even need butter. It's that moist and flavorful. But twist my arm and a little butter never hurts. Or try a Vanilla Browned Butter Glaze for an extra treat.
Sweet potatoes can do no wrong.
Cinnamon and Spice Sweet Potato Bread
Sweet potatoes do a wonderful job of keeping the bread extremely soft and moist. It's almost like cake it's so soft, springy, and bouncey. The interior is tender with a dense, moist crumb, and the crust is firmer and slightly chewy. The sweet potatoes are complimented by a variety of comforting and warming spices including, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves. The bread is robustly spiced and full of hearty flavor. If you like sweet potatoes, carrot cake, or pumpkin-based recipes, you'll love this bread.
about 1 1/2 cups mashed sweet potatoes (2 medium or 1 very large)
3 tablespoons water
2 large eggs
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
1/4 cup buttermilk (or yogurt, Greek yogurt, sour cream, or buttermilk powder)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
pinch salt, optional and to taste
- Preheat oven to 350F. Spray one 9-by-5-inch loaf pan (what I used), or two 8-by-4-inch loaf pans, or a 10-cup Bundt pan, or a muffin pan with floured cooking spray or grease and flour the pan(s); set aside.
- Peel the sweet potatoes and chop them into 1-inch sized chunks. Place chunks in a large, shallow microwave-safe bowl. Add 3 tablespoons water, cover with plasticwrap, and cook on high power for 15 to 17 minutes, or until potatoes are very fork-tender. Pour off any water. Mash sweet potatoes with a fork. Allow them to cool momentarily so you don't scramble the eggs.
- To the sweet potatoes, add the eggs, oil, buttermilk, vanilla and whisk until combined; set aside. (I used buttermilk powder and added 1 tablespoon powder to the dry ingredients and 1/4 cup water to this wet mixture)
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients – flour, sugars, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, optional salt, and whisk to combine. Pour the wet sweet potato mixture over the dry ingredients, and stir to incorporate. Take your time stirring until no stray bits of dry ingredients are visible, folding and scraping the bottom of the bowl with a spatula as necessary because it's very easy to miss dry ingredients hiding at the bottom of the bowl in this batter. Stir and fold with a gentle hand as to not over-mix and over-develop the gluten, which results in tougher bread.
- Turn batter out into prepared pan(s), smoothing the top lightly with a spatula. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes for a 9×5 pan, or until top is domed, golden, loaf is springy to the touch, and cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Tent pan with foil in the last 15 minutes of cooking if top is browning a bit fast before interior has cooked through. I estimate that 8×4 loaves will take about 40 to 45 minutes, a Bundt about 1 hour, muffins about 18-20 minutes, but I haven't tried those versions and they are just guesstimates.
- Allow bread to cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Bread will keep at room temperature for up to 1 week. I store my bread by wrapping the completely cooled loaf in plasticwrap, and then placing loaf inside a gallon-sized Ziplock.
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Related Recipes
Carrot Cake Loaf with Cream Cheese Frosting – My favorite carrot cake recipe of all time and I bake it in a loaf pan rather than cake pans. The recipe is similar to the sweet potato bread except uses carrots rather than sweet potatoes but the spices and ingredients are similar
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Chocolate Ganache – My favorite cake on my site. If you crossed the buttery-est yellow cake with pumpkin, added chocolate chips, and draped it all in a rich ganache, this is what you'd get. It's a one-bowl, whisk-together cake that takes minutes to make, with amazing results. Moist, tender, flavorful, easy and everyone who's made this cake writes to tell me they make it…again. Always a hit and the flavors, spices, and texture reminds me of the sweet potato bread
Sweet Potato Graham Cracker "French Toast" Sticks – Don't judge a book by it's cover. This recipe is how you make potatoes taste like French Toast sticks
Pumpkin Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting – This quickbread pairs two of my favorites, pumpkin bread and banana bread, with plenty of cinnamon-and-spice and scrumptious frosting to boot
Coconut Spice Cheesecake Bars – Part cheese cake, part spice cake,with the flavors of carrot cake and cream cheese frosting. Chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and coconut are baked in between the cake and cream cheese layers for richly spiced bars that are very fast and easy to make since there's a shortcut involved
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting – Swap out the pumpkin for sweet potatoes in these easy, fast cupcakes that make a batch size of just 6
Sweet Potato Red Pepper and Coconut Milk Soup (vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, microwave-friendly) – Fast, easy, and ready in 15 minutes flat
Roasted Sweet Potato and Goat Cheese Pizza on 1-Hour Whole Wheat Pizza Crust – Those are sweet potato rounds, not pepperoni, and so good. Never buy storebought pizza crust again with this easy, healthy, one-hour dough
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Paul Ingalls readily admits that there's no shortage of players trying to carve new businesses in the arena of social sports. But so far, at least in his view, no one has quite "nailed it."
As the co-founder of Fanzo, Ingalls hopes his startup is the first to make it to the end zone. The young startup is very much in the early stages of development, but it has already pulled in $115,000 in cash from angel investors such as former Smilebox CEO Andrew Wright (Ingalls' former boss). It also is one of the Seattle area companies participating in the new Windows Azure Accelerator.
"We are here because we believe sports fans are some of the most passionate people in the world," said Ingalls, the former vice president of technology at Smilebox and computer science grad from Notre Dame. "We believe that sports fans unite in a way that creates the ultimate community and sense of home. Sports fans help their teams win and are there for their teams when they lose. We are here to create something for them in a way that does not exist today."
The company was formed after former news reporter and PR veteran Dana Dysterhuis provided a 15-second pitch of the concept at a Lean Startup event that Ingalls was attending.
Ingalls was intrigued, and they were off to the races. At this point, the Fanzo site is live, but Ingalls said they are simply using it to test various hypotheses.
"We are taking this data, along with the learning from our second round of customer development, and using it to refine our strategy and identify our next steps," he said.
I played around with Fanzo a bit Thursday night (while watching the World Series). It's easy to use and the design is fresh, allowing users to quickly sign up via Facebook to track various teams. (Guess which three I followed?) But the big challenge for Fanzo will be — well to put it bluntly — attracting fans of their own.
That's no small undertaking.
And, as I noted before, there's no shortage of news outlets and social networks where people can chat about sports with other like-minded fans.
Obviously, with the advent of social media, the way people interact and consume sports information is changing radically. For those who don't think things are different than the era of crusty newspaper columnists, just check out this story about Bleacher Report which ran earlier this month in The Seattle Weekly.


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It's worth mentioning that Microsoft now has Office 365 groups, which contain distribution groups, but also include other group-related collaboration features, such as a library for storing and working on group files and folders, a tool for organizing and assigning tasks, and getting updates on project progress. Learn more about Office 365 Groups from Microsoft.


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In addition, all Foundation members will receive a 20 percent discount on visitor center merchandise throughout the day.There is a State Park parking fee of $8 per vehicle. For more information, call the Donner Memorial Museum at 530-582-7892.Improved website for seniors, caregivers and professionalsIt can be difficult to find public services such as transportation, legal advice, and support for family caregivers. Area 4 Agency on Aging (A4AA) presents their newly redesigned website: http://www.a4aa.comFor almost 40 years, A4AA has contracted with fellow nonprofit organizations to provide federal, Older Americans Act (OAA) services to people age 60 and older. Meals on Wheels is the program people know best. Area 4 is the major funding source for Meals on Wheels, senior lunch sites and many other services in Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba Counties.By law, OAA services are free to eligible seniors, regardless of income; although donations are encouraged. To learn more about services and for news, facts and event announcements visit http://www.a4aa.com.To speak to someone in person call your local Senior Information & Assistance program at 800-510-2020 or call the Area 4 office directly at 916-486-1876.Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe Pet PantryHelp the less fortunate in this holiday season by supporting the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe's Pet Pantry program. The economy continues to affect dogs, cats and people, forcing some families to give up their beloved pets for financial reasons. HSTT wants to help keep furry friends in their homes through the Pet Pantry program. With the slogan "Give what you can, take what you need," this program collects pet food and distributes it to needy families and their pets in the Truckee-Tahoe area.If you have extra food or want to donate some, collection barrels are available at the following locations: Safeway in Truckee and Kings Beach, Pet Station, and Scraps Dog Bakery in Truckee.Dog food will be handed out at the Humane Society Shelter every Saturday noon-2 p.m. at the old Truckee Corporation Yard, 10720 Riverview Drive, Truckee. If you are in need of pet food, call HSTT at 530-587-5948.Ski and Ride for $40 or less to benefit local schoolsTake advantage of discounted lift tickets and support local education when you pre-purchase Skiing for Schools lift tickets to participating resorts. 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Cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, sledding and equipment rentals will be offered, as well as a restaurant, bar, outdoor fire pits, and dog friendly course. The Park will be open Friday-Monday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. with extended hours during the holiday periods. As part of the Grand Opening, the partners are on putting on a fun-filled, town holiday party on Sunday, Dec. 23 beginning at 4 p.m. at the Winter Sports Park. The event includes family fun and games, holiday activities, music, s'mores by the fire, a family-style dinner and silent auction. Santa will be stopping by to visit all the kids as well. Purchase dinner tickets in advance at 530-583-3796, adults $15 in advance or $20 at the door and kids, ages 5-13, are only $5 (kids under 5 are free!).Nevada County furlough days coincide with holiday closingsNevada County wants to remind residents County offices will close Monday, Dec. 24 through Tuesday, Jan. 1, in observance of the December holidays and previously announced furlough days.Closures will not impact access to public-safety and other 24-hour operations. The following Departments will be open during designated furlough days: Departments of District Attorney, Sheriff, Probation, Public Works, Registrar of Voters, Clerk-Recorder, and Public Defender. The County encourages residents to plan ahead for needed services and to visit http://www.mynevadacounty.com for on-line services and for additional information on county departments.Nevada County apologizes for any inconvenience closures might cause to citizens who rely on County services. 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