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As you probably know, I am a big fan of small flashes. (*cough* Strobist *cough), but sometimes small flashes just don't have the juice to light up a scene. It may be a big place that needs tons of power or a huge light sucking modifier that eats up all the light from your strobe. (Try using the SB 900 on the westcott 2.15 meters octabank, that would be an interesting strobe challenge). So I do have one big 400WS flash. (Ok, just before you hit me with the "you call 400WS big?? ppffffhhh!", I'd say that it was big enough for me when I bought it, and it was I could afford.
So anyway, if you are in a studio this is no biggy. Plug the flash to the wall socket, dial up the power and you are good to go. But what if you are outside the studio. On the beach, park, moon? [Image by andyarmstrong]
Then you need portable power. Now, I am a big fan of the ExplorerXT, and I think it provides great value for money. However there are cheaper (and DIYer) alternatives.
Reader Hee Soo Shin (Flickr) tipped me about some great way to build a power pack at home by Tim Kemple. So here comes the answer to the question at the top of the post: You get a lightweight 220V/110V power source that is just right for your A, prophoto or whatever big guns you use. The basic idea is simple and sits at the base of any portable power pack. Store power with low voltage battery. Supply the power via a converter at required voltage.
Wait, it does not end here. Hee Soo Shin has also coolingly made a short video showing how this flux capacitor works. And how it all fits in a tiny bag. This is great if you plan on building one yourself.
So where are the pitfalls with this kind of DIY power pack? Well the first thing is that the power is limited to what the battery can hold. So you'd want a big battery. Alas big batteries are heavy; heavy means less portable. Any idea how to tackle this one?
A second issue is discharge rate. Charging flashes are fast eaters when it comes to filling up their huge capacitors. So you want to make sure that your battery can discharge fast enough.
Lastly there is the issue of heating up. Make sure your converter is well ventilated. Why, oh there is just the minor issue of inverters heating to a melt burn down point. Some inverters have built in fans, if you can not ventilate well, consider using one of those.
And to wrap up this power bonanza, there is another flavor of this converter made by Ron Uriel. A bit heavier – but this is good. If you're planning on an outside session, you might as well double your battery as sandbag. Ron built a dedicated aluminum rail for this.
OK, OK, there is also a power pack for strobes. Get them small flashes juiced till they say no more, pleeeeeease.


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Web developers with social media savvy are in hot demand. Imagine what it would be like to promise your clients a web presence that is fully integrated with their Twitter strategy and makes it easier for their content to go viral on Twitter. Would be nice, no? Well -- why imagine? The tools for web developers to add a touch of Twitter to any site are out there and easy to use. Trust us -- your clients will love you for it!
There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. Here are 10 of the most useful ways to start turning your site readers (or your client's customer base) into Twitter followers, and vice versa.
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If you're just getting started with wanting to integrate Twitter into your site, than simply adding the traditional Twitter widget to your site's sidebar is a great start. It's not sexy, but it's a great way to show your latest tweets on your website. It's an effective way to get readers involved into your Twitter updates, without taking up too much screen real estate.
Twitter widgets can be used with virtually any site or blog, including HTMl-only pages. While they may not require the most exciting development hack to incorporate Twitter into a website (copy + paste), simplicity is not a bad thing.
2. Twitter Buttons
Twitter Buttons is a nifty little service that helps you quickly create a badge to promote your Twitter account. You can choose from over 40 different well-designed Twitter buttons, spanning different shapes and sizes. The service also allows you to automatically create the HTML needed to build the badge without any programming knowledge, not even a teensy bit. Easy peasy.
3. Twitter Tools
Thanks to Wordpress' dominance in the blog software world, many blog owners are using Alex King's excellent Twitter Tools to integrate Twitter into their blogs. Twitter tools is a Twitter Swiss Army knife for Wordpress, adding almost limitless functionality to an otherwise Twitter-less blog. The nifty plugin allows you to:
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a daily digest post of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
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Twitter is a powerful promotional tool. Many influential Twitterers have thousands of followers, and an endorsement from one of the "Twitterati" could send a wave of traffic to your site. If you factor in that those followers might tweet to their followers, than you have a very viral social marketing tool.
TwitThis is a little button that you can place in your HTML or in your blog template to allow your readers to quickly and easily share what they're reading with their Twitter followers. Aside from an HTML button, users can also "tweet" their findings via a bookmarklet, and Wordpress users have a nifty plugin they can install as well.
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TweetSuite is one of the most compelling uses of the Twitter API in a blog plugin. TweetSuite is a Wordpress plugin that furrows among the Twitter API and finds the tweets that reference the current page. It adds another aspect to commenting, showing more of the total conversation around the blog post. Aside from that, TweetSuite boasts some impressive functionality like a Retweet button and a "Tweet this" button (like the famed "Digg this" button).
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That's a lot of marketing potential for sites wanting to tap into Twitter.
7. Tweet This
Tweet This is a Wordpress plugin that has much of the same functionality as TwitThis, with a few more bells and whistles. Tweet This automatically shortens your website or blog post URL with a URL shortening service, and also allows you to easily configure the look and feel of the service, without having to dig around in the template code too much. It's a simple drop-in solution for Wordpress blogs, but a powerful way to help spread your content among readers on Twitter.
8. IntenseDebate
IntenseDebate is one of the best 3rd-party commenting systems on the web. The service is famous for its threaded comments, user system and rating, excellent design and ease of installation. Yet one of the most progressive features in IntenseDebate's deep feature set is the ability to notify Twitter when you've made a comment. Not only does this feature help the commenter showcase what he's yakking about online, it also gives the originating site some more attention on Twitter.
9. Aweber
Prized for it's stellar email marketing features, Aweber has an excellent feature for any newsletter marketer: The ability to tweet the newsletter. The newsletter delivery service has actually created a way to convert RSS to Email to Tweet (if you can wrap your head around that).
There are many site owners who run incredibly successful email newsletters, so this feature is very useful for those wanting to bring that extra bit of awareness to a newsletter.
10. Twitterfeed
Last, but certainly not least, is a pioneer of website and Twitter integration: Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed allows you to automatically insert tweets into your Twitter stream from any RSS feed. Many blogs utilize this functionality to let their Twitter followers know when new content is available. You can tailor the format of the generated tweets, and it's a great way to keep your Twitter followers engaged on your blog.


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Facebook on Thursday unveiled Gifts, the company's major initiative into the world of social gift giving and e-commerce.
It's exactly what it sounds like. Users can choose, mail and pay for real-world, physical gifts — not the lame virtual ones Facebook offered a few years ago — to send to one another, all completely inside of Facebook. They're tied to the significant event reminders that pop up on occasion — say, a friend's anniversary, or a birthday. Or even better for Facebook, users can also just buy gifts for others for the heck of it.
It's a major undertaking for Facebook, tackling an entire new segment of online commerce and adding a brand new revenue stream to its business. And to a degree, we've known it was coming for some time — after all, on the same day Facebook went public, it acquired Karma, the social gifting application upon which all of Gifts is based and built.
Perhaps more significant, however, is that users aren't limited to just the desktop to send and receive gifts; the entire Gifts program is accessible on mobile phones.
"This is truly the heart and soul of Karma, re-imagined inside of Facebook," Lee Linden, head of Facebook Gifts, told me in an interview. "And it all works perfectly on the phone."
This is crucial. Since the company first filed for its IPO, we've known that Facebook was weak on monetizing mobile. More than half of Facebook's hundreds of millions of monthly active users access Facebook through a mobile device, signaling a massive shift away from the desktop in just the past few years. But mobile screens aren't friendly to advertising, which is currently Facebook's primary revenue driver.
Gifts, however, work just as well on Facebook's apps and mobile Web site as they do on the desktop. Now, along with notes and photos, users can posts Gifts directly to their friends' Timelines with the addition of a "Gift" button, squarely placed inside of the text box on each profile.
The selection of gifts is impressive. Facebook is starting strong, joining with over 100 retail partners at launch, from which users can choose gifts to send to others. The selection covers the expected gift-giving bases: Food and drink, fashion, home and kitchen and, yes, kids. So if you want to send, say, a teddy bear to your mom for her birthday, Facebook lets you choose from partner Gund's selection of stuffed animals. What's more, if your mom doesn't like the white teddy bear you chose, she can swap it out for a brown one before it's delivered.
Starbucks is far and away the biggest launch partner. Starbucks cards are the de facto gift for many on practically every occasion, and can come in relatively low-cost increments. My hunch is that Facebook hopes that users ramp up to gifting larger things by starting small, with users sending five-dollar gift cards all across their friend networks to jumpstart the entire Gifts ecosystem.
From there, users can send gifts to their friends, who will then receive a notification via phone and desktop that there is a present waiting. After the gift is received and accepted, the sender receives a notification in return (again, across both platforms).
The individual retailers handle all the shipping, while Facebook's payments platform — the same one used for Facebook Games — handles the money-changing part.
Another key component of the process: Just like when you pay for Facebook Games, sending a gift requires that you give Facebook your credit card information. From there on out, Facebook has your credit card on file, streamlining and eliminating friction from the payments process in subsequent transactions. In a nutshell: Buy once, and it's way easy to buy again.
And voila! In a matter of days, expect a package to show up on your friend's doorstep (complete with a fancy Facebook card personalized by you, pictured above). Facebook's online system tracks the process from gift selection to payment to delivery, so both gifter and giftee can keep tabs on the status of the package.
Right now, Facebook is rolling out the launch on a small scale before going wider: It's live in select U.S. cities as of Thursday, and will roll out to more in the coming months. Additionally, it'll spread virally as its use widens — once a user sends a gift, the giftee can then start sending gifts to others. (Sort of a Google, Gmail-type roll-out.)
Gifts will first be available on Android devices, the mobile Web and of course desktop, with a wider roll-out to iOS devices in a few weeks.
Facebook obviously has lots of competition in the e-commerce space; Amazon and eBay already dominate, not to mention existing gifting apps like Wrapp and Boomerang. But Facebook's scale, engagement and the prominent placement of the new Gifting option makes the company a strong contender in the area.
And really, while the e-commerce competition is obviously important to consider, Facebook's really tough nut to crack is still mobile. The company is slowly rolling out new ad products aimed at mobile devices, but it's far too early to tell whether or not they've proven effective. Gifts is another massive stab at the mobile problem, while also hedging its bets by continuing to invest in revenue streams outside of its core advertising business.
Now it's up to users to decide whether or not they actually feel comfortable buying and giving gifts inside their Facebook pages.
At the very least, naysayers will no longer be able to say that Facebook is ignoring mobile.


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CRS: THE GROWTH OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA'S ACCESSION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, March 28, 2001
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Title: THE GROWTH OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA'S ACCESSION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
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Author(s): Wayne M. Morrison, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: March 28, 2001
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Underground "Fossil Water" Running Out
Underground "Fossil Water" Running Out
This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic's Freshwater website.
In the world's driest places, "fossil water" is becoming as valuable as fossil fuel, experts say.
This ancient freshwater was created eons ago and trapped underground in huge reservoirs, or aquifers. And like oil, no one knows how much there is—but experts do know that when it's gone, it's gone. (See a map of the world's freshwater in National Geographic magazine.)
"You can apply the economics of mining because you are depleting a finite resource," said Mike Edmunds, a hydrogeologist at Oxford University in the Great Britain.
In the meantime, though, paleowater is the only option in many water-strapped nations. For instance, Libya is habitable because of aquifers—some of them 75,000 years old—discovered under the Sahara's sands during 1950s oil explorations.
The North African country receives little rain, and its population is concentrated on the coasts, where groundwater reserves are becoming increasingly brackish and nearing depletion.
Since Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi launched his Great Man-Made River Project in the 1980s, an epic system of pipes, reservoirs, and engineering infrastructure is being built. It will be able to pump from some 1,300 paleowater wells and move 230 million cubic feet (6.5 million cubic meters) of H2O every day.
But while fossil water can fill critical needs, experts warn, it's ultimately just a temporary measure until conservation measures and technologies become status quo.
Radioactive Worries
Engineers in Jordan hope that the country's large fossil-water resources can help stem its chronic water shortage.
They envision a system that can move 3.5 billion cubic feet (99 million cubic meters) of water each year over a mostly uphill, 200-mile-long (320 kilometer-long) stretch from the remote southern desert to the capital city of Amman.
The U.S. $600 million project aims to tap Jordan's last primary water reserve, the Disi aquifer, on the border with Saudi Arabia.
But the project has encountered an unexpected stumbling block. The Disi's fossil water was recently found to contain 20 times the radiation levels considered safe for drinking. The water is contaminated naturally by sandstone, which has slowly leached radioactive contaminants over the eons.
Geochemist and water-quality expert Avner Vengosh of Duke University, one of the scientists who first discovered the problem, said the Disi's situation is not unusual.
Radiation contamination has been found in Israel, Egypt, Saudia Arabia, and Libya, Vengosh said.
Fortunately, radiation contamination can be fixed through a simple water-softening process, though it does cost money and creates radioactive waste that must be disposed of properly, he noted.
Troubled Waters
Bringing fossil water to the surface may cause other water quality issues. When aquifers are depleted, they can be subject to an influx of surrounding contaminants such as saltwater—a particular problem near coastal areas.
Also, like oil fields, depleting fossil water aquifers too quickly can reduce underground pressures and render large quantities of water essentially irretrievable.
Like the Jordanians, the Saudis already draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Disi, which Saudis call the Saq aquifer.
Saudi Arabia has also attempted tapping fossil waters. In 2008 a long-running program to sustain a nascent wheat industry with fossil water was scrapped; it simply sucked up too much rare water. The government intends to rely entirely on wheat imports by 2016, experts say.
(Learn more about global agriculture's thirst for water.)
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Oxford's Mike Edmunds said desert nations are only the obvious users of fossil water. In fact, many people may be using it, and using it up, without knowing.
(See: "Vast Buried 'Fossil Lake' Reported in Darfur.")
Globally, wells are often drilled to about 320 feet (100 meters), Edmunds said. "Quite possibly only the top couple of meters of that are recent water. It's pretty obvious in Saudi Arabia or Libya, but that may be the case even in many places that aren't particularly arid.
"People think about quantity when they are pumping, they don't ask about renewability as much—and that's the big issue."
Though determining the vintage of such water isn't easy, said Duke's Vengosh, telltale signatures can help: Scientists look for radioactive isotopes that have been present in Earth's atmosphere only since humans initiated the nuclear era.
"In a very arid region one could argue that it doesn't matter" how old the water is, Vengosh said. "But in semi-arid areas, the ability to delineate between fossil water and replenished groundwater is always important."
Testing the Waters With New Technologies
Technological advances are also helping scientists get a handle on just how much water can be found in a given locale.
For instance, the European Space Agency's AQUIFER project uses satellite imagery to estimate water resources from space and help aid transborder management, according to geophysicist Stefan Saradeth.
The team examined parts of the Sahara and Sahel deserts, using proxies such as irrigation patterns, crop patterns, and changes in soil after pumping water.
"If there's exploitation going on in terms of water or hydrocarbons, you see a minute lowering of the land surface, which we can measure from space on a millimeter scale," Saradeth said.
Such water-availability information is intended to help nations work together and share a critical resource.
"Every country can look beyond its own borders and see what's going on," he said.
Other technologies can measure fossil water reserves more directly. In northern India, where New Delhi and Jaipur are draining fossil-water reserves along with water recharged by the annual monsoons, scientists used NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) to measure aquifer use.
When underground reservoir levels change, they slightly alter Earth's gravitational field—just enough to be detected by GRACE satellites 300 miles (480 kilometers) above the surface. That data is used to map water use. In northern India, they produced a disturbing picture.
The NASA study found that humans are using more water than rains can replenish, and area groundwater levels declined by an average of one foot (30 centimeters) per year between 2002 and 2008.
(Explore an interactive on our hidden water use.)
Time—and Water—Running Out
In other nations the crisis is far more immediate—especially in Yemen, said Oxford's Mike Edmunds. The Middle Eastern country depends on fossil water—but can't expect to do so for much longer, according to Edmunds. "The Sana'a Basin is down to its last few years of extractable water," he said.
Worsening the situation is Yemen's tenuous government, shaky economy, and role as a haven for terrorists.
No one knows what will happen when it runs out—but Yemen's fossil water will soon be a thing of the past.


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The EA NewsCatcher Pro (previously Multivalut) is used for trading on Forex markets using the platform MetaTrader 4. NewsCatcher Pro is capable of derutinizing the process of trading several currency pairs. It opens deals when economic data is released.
Latest update May 10, 2016. Now the EA shows next events in the chart, so it is no longer required to look at the calendar page to know what is going to happen next. The new parameter SLIP monitors the value of spread, and if this value becomes to big (the market is agonizing), the EA tries to close any pending orders. The new parameter STOPS_FOLLOW_PRICE allows the EA to modify not only the open price, but also target values of stoploss and takeprofit.
4 calendars are available: 1) full, 2) popular, 3) conservative, and 4) custom. Popular calendar includes data voted by users on the calendar page http://mt4.numerika.ru/en/. Conservative calendar includes data recommended by savvy traders. Custom calendar allows to tag only pieces of economic data that you want to trade.
The EA goes online and downloads economic calendars for the current week from mt4.numerika.ru. You do not have to use this website to work with the EA, though. You may rely on your preferred sources of economic information.
NewsCatcher Pro opens two stop orders before a piece of economic data is released. If data for different currency pairs is released simultaneously and you set a multi-currency trade mode, NewsCatcher Pro will easily handle when and what should be opened, traced and closed. The EA will update stop orders if the price moves substantially before data is released. If the market does not make a move for a predefined period of time, NewsCatcher Pro will remove orders.
NewsCatcher Pro can trace its deals using a simple trail or a trail based on iParabolic. You can set your value for the simple trail. You can use both trails at a time. Takeprofits are either defined by a value (for example, takeprofit=200) or calculated automatically for nearest 4-hour extrema.
Takeprofits and stoplosses are set in two stages: the EA first opens a deal and then it modifies target levels. Thus, the EA can trade in any execution environment. The EA can handle both usual and extended price quotes. Lot can be either be set as a fixed value or as a percentage of available equity. You add the percentage sign % at the end for the latter. With NewsCatcher Pro, you can trade several currency pairs from one chart.
The market is often agonizing when actual data differs from the expected forecast. This is when the direction of stop orders does not matter. The most important thing is to open orders and then remove those, which never worked, in due time It´s this important function which is easily handled by NewsCatcher Pro.
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Upon purchase, you will instantly receive a link to a ZIP-archive which includes a detailed help file (English version), sets for different currency pairs (currently 9 pairs are suggested) and your copy of EX4-compiled EA. To start trading, you will need to send an e-mail to us and have your account number added to the group of valid accounts. You may add one live account and one demo account every six months.
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Side 24 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Side 307 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Side 79 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Side 29 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Side 515 - Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
Side 43 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Side 212 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Side 166 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Side 176 - And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Side 83 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The state representative who sponsored the bill that became Florida's "stand your ground" law believes the state should end its ban on guns in schools.
Responding to the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting that left 20 children dead, Rep. Dennis Baxley said Monday that schools would be safer if principals and teachers were authorized to carry guns.
Baxley said that declaring schools to be gun-free zones makes them targets for deranged people who know they can't be stopped because guns aren't allowed in schools.
The Ocala Republican said schools need to be in a position of meeting force with force when events like that happen.
The state's largest teacher's union said it isn't in favor of allowing anyone to have guns in schools.


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A literary anniversary is an odd occasion, a faux holiday pieced together by municipal boosters and university administrators, supported by casual readers and probing scholars—and, above all, marketed by publishers. And who can blame them? The hubbub gives publishing houses a perfect occasion to release new editions of famous fictions, poems, and plays, and, if the author is particularly popular (albeit posthumously), a couple of new biographies.
The author received an advance of a thousand dollars. Today, the novel, in its various editions, sells a hundred thousand copies annually.
Jack Kerouac is the latest to be feted with a big literary anniversary. The original white–T-shirted rebel in blue jeans (or, more accurately, white button-down and chinos) has been showing up everywhere lately. That's because September 5 marks the fiftieth anniversary of what many refer to as the "bible of the Beat Generation," Kerouac's On the Road. And, on cue, a series of books are arriving this fall in synchronized celebration. It's no surprise that Viking, the book's original publisher, is responsible for the lion's share, with On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition, On the Road: The Original Scroll, and John Leland's book-length critical essay Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) all slated for release this month. The Library of America is publishing Road Novels 1957–1960, which includes the obvious one—On the Road—along with four others, as well as selections from Kerouac's journals. And City Lights Books is taking a slightly tangential approach, publishing a memoir by Kerouac's first wife, Edie Kerouac-Parker, titled You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac.
Of course, as can often be said of literary classics, Kerouac's novel is more "known of" than "known," famous mostly for how it was written and by whom. It was, after all, a new "spontaneous prose" hatched from the mind of a half-mad genius, written in a single three-week, Benzedrine-fueled torrent in April 1951, on a 120-foot roll of taped-together Teletype paper. Over time the "roll" came to be known as a "scroll" and thus the sacred legend was born.
Also well known is the book's troubled publication history. After his friends gave the manuscript a lukewarm reception, Kerouac retyped and edited the scroll into standard pages and submitted it to Robert Giroux, his editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, the publisher of his first novel, The Town and the City, in 1978. Giroux rejected it. In fact, the book was roundly rejected before finally finding a home at Viking. Even then, it took a series of revisions—the original was more sexually explicit—before Viking accepted it in January 1957. The author received an advance of a thousand dollars. Today, the novel, in its various editions, sells a hundred thousand copies annually.
On the Road, like the very first modern novel, Don Quixote, is a series of misadventures—in Kerouac's case, four journeys across America (and one into Mexico) taking place between 1947 and 1951. The book's dueling protagonists, Sal Paradise (Kerouac's psychological double) and Dean Moriarty (a thinly veiled Neal Cassady), accompanied often by Carlo Marx (Allen Ginsberg), together and separately struggle to understand and find a place for themselves in a tightly wound postwar America. To a soundtrack of new bop jazz, these characters and their friends work and live and love and keep moving on. At the core of the book is the drive to understand the individual journey, the human condition, and the purpose and promise of the artist and writer in America.
And yet the author of the book isn't understood much at all. Hoping to set the record straight on what he believes are a number of misconceptions about Kerouac, John Leland, author of Hip: A History (Ecco, 2004), wrote Why Kerouac Matters, one of the more interesting books to be published this anniversary season. "The biggest misunderstanding is that On the Road is about running away from your responsibilities, and it isn't," Leland says. "Second—that it is not a spiritual book, because it certainly is." He says the third misperception of Kerouac's novel is that it is not a love story, when in fact "the book has the structure of a love story. It's what gives the story its arc."
In addition to the various new books—and new versions of old books—being released this month, the anniversary of On the Road is being celebrated with numerous events across the country. The original scroll, which was purchased for $2.4 million in 2001 by Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and has been on exhibition at museums and libraries for the past three years, is currently at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, through October 14. From November 9 through February 22, 2008, it will be on display at the New York Public Library, and later in 2008 it will make its way to the University of Texas, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and at Columbia College in Chicago. Finally, in 2009, it will be at the University of Birmingham in England and at University College Dublin in Ireland.
Over this past summer, Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, home to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, hosted the inaugural Kerouac Festival, a three-day event that included readings, scholarly panels, film screenings, and a gala dinner. And through next month, in the author's hometown of Lowell, a variety of Kerouac-related activities—panel discussions, concerts, readings, even a bus tour and dedication of the author's historic home—will be held under the rubric of On the Road in Lowell.
LZ Nunn, project director of Lowell's events and executive director of the Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL), promises that the Kerouac festivities will carry on long after the fiftieth anniversary. "We hope to sustain the energy of this programming and have an annual weeklong Jack Kerouac literary festival in Lowell that attracts nationally known authors and poets," she says. "Kerouac is too often associated with his decline at the end of his life. Our goal is to celebrate his incredible legacy as a writer and visionary. He influenced a generation of writers with his passion for the word."
Leland would likely agree with Nunn's sentiment—that Kerouac's reputation as a writer needs saving, threatened as it is by the attention paid his dark personal history: the isolation from his friends in his final days, his drug use, and the heavy drinking that ultimately led to his early death in 1969, at the age of forty-seven, from cirrhosis of the liver. "There are things about Kerouac that are not attractive, but his work ethic as a writer is really powerful, particularly when you consider he wrote so much in the face of rejection," Leland says.
Contrived as literary anniversary celebrations are, they do offer readers the opportunity to get acquainted—or, more often, reacquainted—with famous authors, as well as a chance to reconsider what made them and their work important in the first place. Nunn puts it nicely: "In Kerouac's On the Road, we can see a vision of ourselves—he captures an America full of heartbreak, full of promise; a landscape at once fertile and desolate and teeming with possibility. Kerouac provided a road map for a new generation of imaginative minds." Judging from all the pomp and circumstance, he still does.
Joe Woodward's previous work in Poets & Writers Magazine includes profiles of Bret Easton Ellis, Carol Muske-Dukes, Neal Pollack, and David Foster Wallace.


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The No-Dig Gardening Alternative
Say goodbye to tilling, digging and costly garden chemicalsBy John Bruce
No-dig gardening is a proven way to grow vegetables and flowers naturally — and with less work.
No-dig gardeners realize that worms, bugs and microbes are necessary for nutrients and prevention of disease. Plants deliver into the soil part of the carbon energy they produce. Microbes convert this energy into organic materials and minerals that plants need.
The rationale for traditional row gardening and tilling is to remove weeds, loosen and aerate the soil and bury organic matter. Tilling can remove existing weeds, but it almost always brings dormant weed seeds to the surface where they can germinate. When organic materials are moved deeper, less oxygen is available for converting the materials into nutrients. Then the nutrients need to be replaced. Traditional gardeners usually rely on synthetic fertilizers to amend the soil and replace the lost nutrients.
No-dig gardening lets nature do the work. One strategy is first to remove all weeds and grass from a garden area. Materials such as rotten manure, decayed sawdust or compost go straight on the surface as a layer of mulch 2 to 6 inches deep. Worms, beneficial bugs and microbes get busy beefing up the soil. They create a healthy habitat for roots to flourish.
Newspapers & mulch
Celebrated no-dig gardening author Patricia Lanza bubbles over with enthusiasm when she explains why gardeners should consider the shovel-free approach. She gardens in Tennessee.
"As an old hand at this game of gardening, I remember my own 'Ahhhh!' moment when I put all the pieces together that allowed me to make wonderful growing spaces without the use of power tools or purchased material," Lanza says. "Whether you choose to layer, grid, mulch or straw bale, you can't go wrong. Just do it!"
Lanza says with no-dig methods, there's less fuss over the planting area. Free organic material, such as grass clippings and compost, are used in layers on top of a newspaper ground cover. Don't cut through the paper before planting.
First, Lanza recommends picking a spot and marking it (a garden should receive six to eight hours of sunlight and not be subject to strong wind). Cover the area with thick layers of wet newspapers, overlapped. Cover the paper with several inches each of peat moss, compost, grass clippings, chipped leaves, humus, spoiled hay, seaweed, aged manure or whatever is handy.
Water the layers of organic material until they feel like a squeezed-out sponge. Pull the layers back to the paper. Place your plants on the paper and pull the organic material back around the plant roots. Press the soil to push out the air and water. Try to use one part nitrogen-rich material (grass clippings, compost or manure) to four parts carbon-rich material (chopped leaves, peat moss, straw, spoiled hay or peat humus) for a perfect mix. Use what is readily available and free.
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A similar no-dig method is sheet mulching. Newspaper or cardboard is spread out on the garden area and topped with landscape mulch. Again, weeds should be removed first if there's no time to let them die out and decay under a new blanket of sheet mulch.
Sheet mulch blocks daylight and suffocates existing grass and weeds that, over time, decompose (before the actual sheets do) to become part of the biosphere that garden plants need to thrive. Ideally, the newspaper or cardboard should be spread out before a heavy rain, but otherwise a garden hose can do what's necessary to keep the sheet thoroughly wet. When ready to plant, use a hand shovel to cut out holes for planting seeds or seedlings.
Raised beds
Raised-bed gardening — essentially planting in containers made of wood or masonry and filled with compost or manufactured soils — has been in practice for centuries. Like other no-dig approaches, raised-bed gardening keeps soil aerated, allows for more crops to grow in less space, reduces weeding and requires less fertilizer than traditional row gardens.
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President's Proposal to Raise Rents on Some of the Nation's Poorest Households Would Cause Serious Hardship
The President's budget proposes to raise the rents charged to more than 500,000 of the nation's poorest families. It would do this by raising to $75 a month the "minimum rent" charged to the poorest families in the rental assistance programs that the Department of Housing and Urban Development administers and eliminating state and local housing agencies' discretion to set the minimum rent below that level.
Half a million families with incomes below $250 per month, or $3,000 per year, would face rent increases that many would have difficulty affording. For the vast majority of these households — about 400,000 of them — rents would increase by 50 percent or more. A substantial number of families in every state would face rent increases (see Appendix I), although the severity of the impact would vary due to differences across the states in such factors as joblessness and the strength of other safety-net programs (see Appendix II). The affected families include 725,000 children, and are disproportionately minority.
This proposal comes even as a study by leading poverty researchers finds that the number of U.S. families with children living below a standard the World Bank uses to measure serious poverty in third-world countries — income of less than $2 per person per day — has more than doubled since the mid-1990s, to 1.46 million families with 2.8 million children. [1]
The President's proposal is similar to (although harsher than) one in the version of the Affordable Housing and Self-Sufficiency Improvement Act (AHSSIA) that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee approved on February 7, which would require housing agencies and owners to charge these families a minimum rent of $69.45 a month in rent (and more in future years).[2] The full House Financial Services Committee is likely to consider the legislation in the next few weeks.
Families that receive federal rental assistance are generally required to pay 30 percent of their income for rent. Local housing agencies may require families in the public housing and housing voucher programs to pay a minimum rent of $50 per month, however, if 30 percent of their income is less than that amount. For very poor households who live in project-based section 8 rental units, HUD has established a minimum rent of $25.[3] The minimum rent generally affects only the most impoverished recipients, including many who would be at high risk of homelessness in the absence of rental assistance.
The proposal would also force the more than 1,000 local housing agencies that have elected to set minimum rents below the current $50-a-month limit to raise their rents. A housing agency that has set a minimum rent of $25 a month for destitute families would be forced to triple the rent it requires such families to pay. A 2010 HUD-sponsored study found that 26 percent of local housing agencies surveyed set minimum rents below the $50 limit.[4] A mandatory $75 minimum rental charge would force those agencies to raise rents on close to 100,000 families.
|Table 1:
Households Facing Rent Increase if Minimum Rent Set at $75
By Program
|Housing Choice Vouchers
|Public Housing
|Project-based Section 8
|Supportive Housing for Elderly and Disabled[5]
|Source: CBPP analysis of HUD 2010 administrative data. The analysis excludes households served by agencies participating in the Moving to Work demonstration, under which the minimum rent can be set at $75 or more.
Proposal Would Mostly Affect Families with Children
Two-thirds of the households the proposal would affect are families with children. These families include 725,000 children.
The recent National Poverty Center study on the doubling of extreme poverty among American families found that the increase occurred disproportionately among families affected by sharp reductions since the mid-1990s in the cash assistance benefits provided by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The basic cash assistance levels that TANF programs provide have fallen 25 percent in real dollars since 1996 in the typical (or median) state; in the majority of states, these benefits now fail to lift families with children who have no other income even to 30 percent of the poverty line. Moreover, the share of poor families with children who receive any cash assistance through TANF has plummeted. In 1996, for every 100 families with children living in poverty, 68 received cash assistance through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, TANF's predecessor. By 2010, only 27 such families received TANF cash assistance for every 100 in poverty.[6]
As a result, the number of families with children that receive neither earnings nor cash assistance (or receive only miniscule amounts) has sharply increased.[7] This is the principal reason for the finding that the number of families with children living on less than $2 per person per day has doubled since the mid-1990s. These are among the families that now would be required to pay $75 a month in rent despite their lack of income.
Moreover, these problems would be aggravated by two factors. First, due to the sharp decrease in the share of poor families with children that receive any TANF benefits, more than five of every six of the very-poor families with children that would face increased rental charges receive no TANF cash aid at all. Second, among the families facing higher rents that do rely primarily on income from TANF, nearly half (44 percent) live in one of the 10 states with the lowest TANF benefits. In these states, TANF benefits for a mother and two children with no other income equal only between 11 percent and 18 percent of the poverty line, leaving these families in difficult straits.[8] (Appendix II includes state TANF benefit levels.)
Most of the families that would face these rent increases have pre-schoolchildren, who likely are even more vulnerable than older children to the effects of reductions in disposable family income as a result of rent increases. Consistent findings from welfare-to-work programs and other anti-poverty experiments suggest that "income plays a causal role in boosting younger children's achievement" in preschool and elementary school. Contrary to claims by some policymakers that children's well-being depends more on how much their parents work than how much they earn, leading poverty researchers Greg Duncan and Katherine Magnuson have found that boosting the incomes of poor families had a significant impact on children's educational performance whether or not these programs increased the number of hours that the parents worked.[9]
About a quarter of the affected households — some 130,000 people — are non-disabled adults under age 62 who are not raising children. Many of these are formerly homeless individuals who would be at risk of becoming homeless again. Some have very low earnings, and only 13 percent receive any cash income from public assistance. (Nearly all of the remaining households in this group live in states that provide no cash income support for childless adults who do not qualify as disabled or otherwise unemployable.[10] See Appendix II.)
Most elderly or disabled households have sufficient income — typically from SSI or Social Security benefits — that they already pay rent above the proposed $75 minimum. Nevertheless, about 47,000 elderly or disabled households would face rent increases, because their rent (set at 30 percent of their adjusted income) is less than $75. Some of these individuals may be able to qualify for an exemption from the minimum rent (see below) because they are awaiting a disability determination to qualify for SSI or Social Security benefits.[11] But others are not yet eligible for those benefits because they are between 62 and 65 and don't qualify as disabled. (Federal law defines "elderly" for housing-program purposes as age 62 or older.)
The proposal would disproportionately affect minority families. Fully three-fourths of all households at risk of a rent increase under a $75 minimum rent policy are Black, Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, or Hispanic. By comparison, 63 percent of all households assisted by HUD low-income rental assistance programs are members of a racial or ethnic minority group.[12]
Hardship Exemptions Ineffective at Protecting Those Most Vulnerable to Rent Increase
Federal law includes a "hardship" exemption that, in theory, could protect many of the neediest households from unaffordable rental increases. But the hardship exemption functions poorly. The criteria for these exemptions are vague, few affected tenants appear to be aware that such exemptions are even possible, and agencies and owners rarely grant them.
A 2010 HUD-sponsored study found that among agencies that had adopted minimum rents, 82 percent reported granting exemptions to fewer than 1 percent of the very-poor families subject to the minimum rent, and only 5 percent of agencies said they had exempted more than 10 percent of affected families. In total, about 4 percent of households potentially subject to the current minimum rent policy of up to $50 for families with vouchers and residents of public housing and $25 for families in privately-owned assisted housing — or about 14,000 of 373,000 families — received a hardship exemption, despite these families' deep poverty.
HUD has not assessed the level of hardship experienced by families that pay the minimum rent, but the data strongly suggest that many families at risk of homelessness or other serious hardship do not receive exemptions. Exemptions generally are available only to families that apply for them; if a housing agency does not take effective action to make sure families are cognizant of the exemption policy, or if the affected households — many of which include people with mental and physical disabilities or very low education levels — do not understand that an exemption may be available or do not manage to apply for it, then families that meet the criteria for a hardship exemption will not receive one.
In addition, some of the most destitute households — such as people who experience repeated bouts of homelessness — may not qualify for an exemption, which typically requires a showing of a change in circumstances.[13] Furthermore, families that receive exemptions because of temporary hardships must pay the accumulated rent arrears when their situation improves, even if they still are very poor— or else face eviction.
Rationale for Minimum Rent Increase Unsound
The Administration has provided two reasons for its proposed mandatory $75 minimum rent: taking inflation in recent years into account and generating savings. Neither rationale withstands scrutiny.
In his testimony and briefings about the budget, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated that the increase to $75 in the minimum rent would adjust the $50 level set in 1998 for inflation since then, though he acknowledged that saving costs in this way was a difficult choice. It is true that rents have gone up since the late 1990s. But the incomes of extremely poor families generally do not rise with inflation in rents or prices generally. As noted, basic cash assistance levels under TANF have fallen 25 percent in real dollars since 1996 in the typical state; they continue to fall further with each passing year. In 2011, 48 states either froze benefits or cut them in nominal terms.[14]
Indeed, the above-noted finding that the number of U.S. families living on less than $2 per person per day has more than doubled since the mid-1990s — roughly the same period that the $50 minimum rent policy has been in place — demonstrates the lack of connection between general inflation and the appropriate level of a minimum rent.[15]
HUD estimates that its minimum rent proposal would reduce program costs by slightly more than $150 million in 2013, with the savings divided roughly equally among the three large rental assistance programs. Yet HUD's estimates of the cost savings for the housing voucher and public housing programs are based on the implausible assumption that housing agencies would impose the minimum rent at the beginning of 2013 for every family now paying a lesser amount (except those currently receiving a hardship exemption), rather than implement the change on a rolling basis at families' annual recertifications.[16] Even if Congress were to approve the policy, it would likely not enact the change before late 2012, which would make it extremely burdensome for housing agencies (and disruptive for assisted households) to implement the policy by January 1, 2013. This is particularly true for the approximately 1,000 local housing agencies that currently set minimum rents below the current maximum limit of $50 per month. Many of these agencies would find it impossible to adequately review requests for a hardship exemption prior to the January 1 deadline.
Moreover, the savings estimate of $150 million assumes no increase in the number of families receiving a hardship exemption despite the substantial rent increases the proposal would impose on hundreds of thousands of very poor families. Particularly if Congress strengthens the hardship policy so that fewer households fall through the cracks — as it should, whether or not it raises the minimum rent —more than the current 4 percent of households would likely receive exemptions from the higher rent. For example, in the project-based Section 8 program, where 3.6 percent of households subject to the minimum rent receive hardship exemptions and where the majority of households affected by a rent increase would see their rent triple from $25 to $75, it is reasonable to expect that more families would receive an exemption.
If the minimum rent increase is imposed at families' regular annual recertification in 2013, and more households receive hardship exemptions, the savings from the proposal would likely be less than half as large as the Administration's estimate. Policymakers can find much better ways to secure $75 million or so in savings to help comply with the $501 billion statutory cap on non-defense appropriations for fiscal year 2013 than by making some of the poorest American families and children still more destitute, an approach that would abrogate a core principle of the Bowles-Simpson commission report that deficit reduction be done in ways that do not increase poverty and hardship.[17]
Appendix I: Number of Households Facing Rent Increase if Minimum Rent is Set at $75 by State and Program
Appendix II: State Safety Net Programs and Share of HUD-Assisted Households Facing Rent Increase Under $75 Mandatory Minimum Rent
End Notes
[1] H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, "Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011," National Poverty Center Policy Brief #28, February 2012, http://npc.umich.edu/publications/policy_briefs/brief28/policybrief28.pdf. The authors found that about 300,000 of these extremely poor families with children had housing assistance in 2011; this nearly matches our estimate, based on HUD administrative data, that 346,000 families with children (some of whom have income of slightly more than $2 per person per day) would face rent increases under the proposal.
[2] See http://financialservices.house.gov/UploadedFiles/BILLS-112hr-PIH-AHAdd.pdf.
[3] For the roughly 34,000 households assisted by the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation programs, which include a 1980s-era program that assists about 20,000 households, primarily families with children, and a current program that provides single-room-occupancy units for formerly homeless individuals, the minimum rent may be up to $50 and is determined by the public housing agency that administers the rental assistance contract. The data for these households are included in the project-based section 8 category in Table 1 and Appendix I.
[4] Abt Associates et al, Study of Rents and Rent Flexibility, prepared for HUD Office of Public and Indian Housing, May 26, 2010, http://www.huduser.org/publications/pdf/Rent%20Study_Final%20Report_05-26-10.pdf.
[5] Currently, a minimum rent applies only to programs under the U.S. Housing Act. HUD's budget proposes to amend the laws that govern several other smaller programs to make them subject to the same policy. Of the approximately 140,000 households assisted by the Supportive Housing Programs for the Elderly (Section 202) and Disabled (Section 811), HUD data indicate that about 3,000 could face higher rents under the new policy. All owners of these properties would be required to implement a hardship exemption policy. HUD also proposes to apply the minimum rent policy to households assisted under the Rent Supplement and Rental Assistance programs, small programs that together assist about 20,000 households. HUD data indicate that 775 of these households may face a rent increase under the proposal.
[6] Danilo Trisi and LaDonna Pavetti, "TANF Weakening as a Safety Net for Poor Families," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 13, 2012, https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/3-13-12tanf.pdf; Ife Finch and Liz Schott, "TANF Benefits Fell Further in 2011 and Are Worth Much Less Than in 1996 in Most States," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 21, 2011, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3625.
[7] Pamela J. Loprest and Austin Nichols, "Dynamics of Being Disconnected from Work and TANF," Urban Institute, May 2011, http://www.urban.org/publications/412393.html.
[8] These states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. See Ife Finch and Liz Schott, "TANF Benefits Fell Further in 2011 and Are Worth Much Less Than in 1996 in Most States," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 21, 2011, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3625.
[9] Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson, "The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty," Pathways, Winter 2011, http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/pathways/winter_2011/PathwaysWinter11_Duncan.pdf.
[10] Only 12 states allow non-disabled individuals without other income to receive General Assistance. Liz Schott and Clare Cho, "General Assistance Programs: Safety Net Weakening Despite Increased Need," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, December 19, 2011, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3603.
[11] Individuals waiting for an eligibility determination under a federal, state or local assistance program may qualify for an exemption from minimum rent based on financial hardship. 24 C.F.R. 5.630(b)(1)(i). Lengthy waiting periods occur primarily among individuals applying for assistance based on disability.
[12] Of the more than 520,000 households facing a rent increase, 52.4 percent are Black non-Hispanic, 20.5 percent are Hispanic, and 3.3 percent are "other" minorities.
[13] Families that would be evicted due to inability to pay the minimum rent ought to qualify for an exemption, but HUD policies do not require agencies or owners to establish procedures to ensure that families behind on payment of the minimum rent are flagged to avoid eviction actions against them. See 24 C.F.R. § 5.630.
[14] See Ife Finch and Liz Schott, "TANF Benefits Fell Further in 2011 and Are Worth Much Less Than in 1996 in Most States," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 21, 2011, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3625.
[15] H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, "Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011," National Poverty Center Policy Brief #28, February 2012, http://npc.umich.edu/publications/policy_briefs/brief28/policybrief28.pdf
[16] That HUD's estimates are based on this assumption was confirmed by HUD staff during a stakeholder call on February 22. In the case of Section 8 PBRA, HUD apparently assumed that the policy would be phased in during 2013.
[17] As fiscal commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson stated in their report, deficit reduction should not increase the extent or depth of poverty. See Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, "Our advice to the debt supercommittee: Go big, be bold, be smart," Washington Post, September 30, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-advice-to-the-debt-supercommittee-go-big-be-bold-be-smart/2011/09/30/gIQAPzjBBL_story.html.


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(Hawkins' Note: Conor Friedersdorf challenged me to a debate. I accepted. This is the first of 3 posts from the two of us on this subject. A link to Conor Friedersdorf's piece will be listed at the end of the article. The follow-ups will run Wed and Fri. Neither of us read the other's piece before writing our initial piece)
In some ways, the conservative movement is in better shape than it has ever been before. We've got a larger media presence, more intellectual firepower, better organization, and a mass movement in the streets, in the form of the tea parties.
But, we have some structural weaknesses that need to be addressed as well.
1) The movement has been fractured by infighting and some conservatives have unreasonable expectations of what can be accomplished.
2) The welfare state has grown tremendously. We may be getting to a tipping point.
3) Ideologically, too many conservatives are latching on to a 30 year-old Reagan agenda.
4) America is changing demographically and conservatives haven't even begun to do an adequate amount of outreach to minority groups and younger Americans.
Let's address these issues point by point.
1) The Republican Party is the tool which conservatives use to enact our policies and quite frankly, it's not serving our purposes as well as it should. Conservatives provide the overwhelming amount of money, intellectual energy, and manpower to the Republican Party and yet moderates seem to run everything. Conservatives should no longer tolerate that.
That's not to say moderates should be purged or not allowed to have any say, but the Republican Party has to better reflect the ideology of its members. That means it needs to be a center-right party with a center-right ideology instead of an organization that abandons key conservative concerns to cater to the middle.
2) There's always a debate over whether conservatives can win if they tout fiscal conservatism as opposed to giveaways from the treasury. However, we're spending so much and leading so many people into dependency that the debate is now academic: Either we start to hone back the size and scope of the welfare state or the country is doomed to go into a deep decline. That makes it a do or die issue for conservatives. After all, what good is being captain of a ship after it has already hit the iceberg and is destined to sink beneath the waves?
3) Too many conservatives confuse principles with a political agenda. Political agendas can and should change based on the political landscape. Principles should not.
Conservatives WILL NOT win by following the "Reagan agenda" because Reagan's agenda was designed, using conservative principles, to deal with the political situation of his day. Some of those battles have been won. Others have been irrevocably lost. Some have grown in importance. Others have lessened.
What we need to do is take the same conservative principles Reagan used and apply them to today's issues. We've got to do what we can, with what we have, on the issues that matter to Americans today.
It's too bad, for example, that Republicans weren't really pushing health care reform during the Bush years. How about environmentalism? Instead of making it all about whether we buy into global warming alarmism, how about we emphasize a positive, reasonable clean air, clean water, clean environment agenda as opposed to the extremism offered by the Democrats? On trade, instead of just repeating the words "free trade" over and over, why aren't conservatives demanding that our government reduce barriers to American manufacturing overseas? We can go on and on with examples like this one — and it's important that we do so instead of relying on a static agenda.
4) The biggest problem with conservative minority outreach is that we talk about it, but don't do it. We don't support even friendly minority organizations, we make no effort to reach out to younger Americans, and we give people the impression we don't care. Since that's the case, it's no surprise the GOP has done so poorly with minorities and younger Americans.
I have had more than one conservative Hispanic activist tell me that Hispanics get the idea that Republicans don't like people like them because we simply don't show up at anything. Hispanic groups hold events and a dozen Democrats show up, but no Republicans. Hispanic radio shows do debates about immigration and the only person willing to appear will be a Democrat who tells everyone that no Republican is around because the GOP hates Hispanics. It's no different with young Americans. The GOP has been slow to embrace social media and to reach out.
With black Americans, Democrats treat people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton as "spokesmen" for the black community and black Americans respond to it. Instead of insisting that black Americans, about a third of whom are actually conservative, meet us on our terms, why not use the same tactics as the Democrats? Why not have a conservative NAACP? Why not have black conservative "spokesmen" whom we look to, to: determine what's racist and what's not? Some people may not like the idea, but conservatives have to play by the rules of the game as it is and is likely to be for the foreseeable future, not as we'd like it to be.
The long and short of it is that conservatives should adhere to our principles, but make some changes to our agenda and our tactics and help lead this country into the future.
You can read Conor Friedersdorf's part of the debate here.


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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Thrifty Treasures: Shoe Parade
Y'all know I love me some Retail Therapy, and shoe shopping is a great form of therapy. I love to dress up my feet. I've found some great bargains recently that I just had to share.
These babies were marked $1.99 at Sears on Labor Day. At the register, they rang up for $1.20.
These little slouch boots came home with me after a Buy-One, Get One Half Off foray into Payless with Michaela Byrd and a 20% off coupon.
I don't spend a whole lot on tennis shoes for my kids because they don't wear them all that often. So when I spotted these for around $10 at Wal-Mart, I snatched them up for Michaela Byrd, who outgrew her tennis shoes over the summer.
My house puts off an Arctic chill in the winter months, so when I spotted these adorable sets of girls' slippers, I picked them up in Natalie and Michaela Byrd's sizes. They want to wear them now, even though it's 82 degrees outside.
I'm wishing for cooler weather so I can get into those boots!
{Have you found any Thrifty Treasures lately?}
Linking to Rhoda's Thrifty Treasures party!
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$1.20??!! That's fabulous! I love shopping clearance racks at the end of the season for next year; you get the best deals! You really scored on those flip-flops.ReplyDelete
I don't go to Sears much either, but I did find some boots there a few weeks ago. $1.20 for shoes is a super deal! I'm always buying summer stuff for cheap during the fall...I have to wait awhile to wear it but the price makes it worth the wait!ReplyDelete
I love the clearance rack at rackroom shoes, esp during their BOGO sells :) I spent a total of 30 dollars for 4 pairs of designer shoes, two pairs of heels for me (I have a sickness... someone needs to cure me) and two pairs of sneakers for the mini... I LOVEEEE clearance...ReplyDelete
AND Old Navy in August... I bought $240 worth of back to school clothes for $120 I was so happy! I used 3 coupons 2 were 15 off 50 dollars when you use an old navy credit card and another was just 10 off any 50 dollar purchase! combine that with the deals and I was STOKED.
^ obviously I am still excited. I'll shut up now. LOL.
I love the boots and the slippers. So cute... ;)
Wow! You really found some great deals =)ReplyDelete
great deals! love those purple sandals! i jusy got some great deals on summer clothes for my son for next year at carter'sReplyDelete
That was a great deal! Love them boots to!ReplyDelete
You found some great deals. Next spring when you rediscover those cute fringed flip-flops in your closet, you are going to be so happy! I hardly ever go into Sears unless it is to look at tools or appliances. Maybe I should venture that way when I make a rare mall trip.ReplyDelete
Great buy - I can't believe the flip flops were only $1.20 :)ReplyDelete
Wow, love the boots. I used to have slouchy boots years ago when they were stylish the first time around. I haven't been in Payless lately - I'll have to check them out.ReplyDelete
You did awesome. It's been my own personal experience that the shoes I buy retail never seem to get worn while my thrifty finds are often my best! I love the slouchy boots!ReplyDelete
I love finding good deals... Especially on shoes =) But, I do tend to splurge a bit on my heels... If I'm going to wear them all day, I want them to be comfortable lol!ReplyDelete
I buy almost all my kids' shoes at Payless or Target. For me though, I need a little something more real because I have bad feet. But I try to not spend more than $40 per pair. I love those boots. I want some!ReplyDelete
Loves those flip flops and best of all the PRICE!!!ReplyDelete
I love to hear your feedback! Please feel free to leave comments...just don't send me spam asking me to buy stuff off your website! I've got three kids and no money to purchase your magic weight-loss pill or bust enhancement, or whatever else you might be selling. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you! :)
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Donna Kerger, who is on the Historic Foundation, gave me an invitation to mail in. It had two dates, June 23 at 5 pm and June 24 at 2 pm, but no number of seats or locations or names of the plays or anything else. I emailed the Role Players for the names of the plays and more information.
"Hi Rosalind
The plays are The Pretty Trap, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Case of the Crushed Petunias.
Look forward to seeing you 'on the farm'
Wendy Cooper"
So now I knew which plays, but I was still confused about reserving seats or the odd start times. I wanted to ask my sister and her husband in San Francisco if they want to come out on Sunday afternoon for the 2 pm show. My sister said they had to get back by 5 pm. They have an active social life in SF. So I contacted Wendy again for more information. I also found the Danville Theatre website with a front-page invitation to the show.
"Hi Roz
We still have plenty of Sunday afternoon tickets. Unfortunately it is going to be a longish event since we are serving food in between the plays they could probably take part in two of the receptions and one play - the second play would probably finish about 4:30 or so and everything around 6 pm. It would be easy to leave at any time since it is a casual event.
Could you all make Saturday night instead? If by any chance this will work somehow, we do not have credit cards or PayPal. You would need to send a check to Role Players Tennessee on the Farm, Box 304 Danville, 94526. $50 per ticket, with the date you have chosen and the names of your party. We are not sending tickets but will have name tags for you at the door.
I emailed my sister that the show isn't a sit-down but would be acted out in different parts of the farm. They are very familiar with Forest Home Farm because my brother-in-law likes to come out for the annual Sheep Shearing day. He's a big fan of the Border Collies.
My sister wanted to come but my brother-in-law was hit by a car almost a year ago. He was in a crosswalk in San Francisco and knocked down and hurt his hand breaking his fall. It didn't seem too serious at the time. He and my sister came out for my birthday last October and he seemed to be recovering well.
He was scheduled for hand surgery a week or two later and improved after the surgery, but now my sister said he's having trouble balancing and is using a cane to get around.
She felt he wouldn't be able to walk around the farm to see the plays while standing and eating in between. I offered to lend him my walker, which I haven't needed since I bought a new mattress, but she said it would be too uncomfortable for him even with a walker.
So I contacted Wendy again and decided to go to the Saturday night show instead. I mailed my order last Friday. Wendy confirmed receiving my check for $50 last Saturday. So I'm going tomorrow evening.
I offered to promote the show, so that's why I'm writing about it in this Friday's blog but it might be too late to reserve tickets, especially since the Role Players don't take credit cards or PayPal. If you are interested in attending Saturday night or Sunday afternoon, email the Danville Role Players at email@example.com or phone (925) 820-1278. I hope to see you all there!


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Andre 3000: 'No Plans for Another Outkast Album'
Sorry, Outkast fans. Andre 3000 has poo-pooed any talk of a reunion with Big Boi anytime soon.
In a conversation with GQ (via Pitchfork), Andre 3000 revealed, "There's been a lot of talk on the Internet about an Outkast album and I have to say that as of now, there are no plans for another Outkast album."
Andre's take is different from Big Boi's, who said in July that Andre would likely duet with him for his next solo album, 'Daddy Fat Sax.' "I think it's very much possible because we have L.A. Reid in our corner now, and he was the first to sign OutKast," he told Rolling Stone, referring to the 'X Factor' judge's new position as CEO & Chairman of Epic Records. "L.A. has permission to make it happen now. So I hope it does, and I don't really see why it won't."
This isn't to say there won't be new material from Andre 3000, though. "There's a lot of music on the horizon. I've been living off the excitement of new artists," he gushed. "I've been privileged to have these new artists kind of reach out and grab back and say, 'Hey, Andre, we want you on this song.' So I've been taking those calls and for the last two years, I've been doing collaborations. So these new artists have kind of been keeping me alive." We guess he really digs his work with Kesha, Young Jeezy and B.o.B.!
What else does Andre 3000 have in store? "I've just really been feeding off of that and this year I think I'm planning to do a solo project. I don't know when it will come out, but hopefully it'll come out this year. As far as Outkast, I really don't know if or when that will happen."


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Today was my last day at Pixar. It was so sad saying goodbye but so beautiful. All I felt today was love, nothing but beautiful, incredible love. Nothing can ever replace the experience or the wonderful, beautiful talented people who I was so blessed and fortunate to work with there. May you all be happy and do what you love and love what you do. As for me, I'm about to start a new adventure and it's going to be amazing:)
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Mozilla and Microsoft said Thursday they are revoking trust in all certificates issued by Digicert, a Malaysian intermediate certificate authority (CA) , after it was found that it had issued 22 certificates with weak 512-bit keys and missing certificate extensions and revocation information.
The Malaysian company was issued an intermediate CA certificate in July, 2010 by Entrust in Dallas, Texas, which was licensed for distribution with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) certificates.
Entrust said in a bulletin on its website that it had been discovered that Digicert Malaysia has issued certificates with weak 512-bit RSA keys and missing certificate extensions. Entrust has revoked the 512-bit certificates issued by Digicert and made them available to major browser vendors to blacklist if found appropriate, it added.
Digicert in Malaysia does not have any relationship with DigiCert, a CA based in Utah.
Digicert in Malaysia could not be immediately reached for comment. It said on its website that it is at the center of an effective trust model that the Malaysian government is creating to address the issue of information security, and the negative perception about online transactions. The company said it was licensed by the Malaysia government, and its "trust solutions are legally recognized under Malaysian law".
Entrust said it will revoke the intermediate CA certificate on or before Tuesday, to give Digicert Malaysia's customers a "modest amount of time" to replace their SSL server certificates. Entrust has meanwhile made the intermediate certificate available to the browser vendors for blacklisting.
The certificates in question were issued to a mix of Malaysian government websites and internal systems, Mozilla said in its security blog. "We do not believe other sites are at risk," it added.
Mozilla is revoking trust in all certificates issued by Digicert in Malaysia, while clarifying that it was not a Firefox specific issue, and the update will be in Firefox 8 and Firefox 3.6.24. Mozilla said the issue was reported to it by Entrust.
Firefox 3.6.24 is scheduled for release on Nov. 8 while Firefox 8 will release on Nov. 17, according to Mozilla.
Microsoft will revoke trust in Digicert Malaysia in an update to be released through Windows Update. said Jerry Bryant, group manager, response communications for Trustworthy Computing at the company, in a blog post.
"There is no indication that any certificates were issued fraudulently, however, these weak keys have allowed some of the certificates to be compromised," Bryant said. The compromised certificates could allow an attacker to impersonate the legitimate owner thus making the user believe they are trusting a website or signed software that was created for malicious use, he added.
There is no evidence that the Digicert Malaysia certificate authorities have been compromised, Entrust said.
Close to 300,000 unique IP addresses from Iran requested access to google.com using a rogue certificate issued by Dutch CA DigiNotar, according to a report released in September by security firm, Fox-IT. A total of 531 digital certificates were issued for domains that included google.com, the CIA, and Israel's Mossad, after a security breach.