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October 3, 2013 – The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is pleased to share the announcement of a major transaction under President Obama's Power Africa Initiative. Gary Linden, USAID Ethiopia Acting Mission Director, noted the significance of the new project:
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Michelle is a marketing analyst by day, and has recently started her own baking business selling cakes, cupcakes, and cookies to a clientele of local Pittsburgh-area customers. Readers of her blog who live too far away may also soon be able to taste these goodies for themselves; she's currently working on making a selection of her cookies available for online purchase and shipping.
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This may be a biased selection since I've just spent the entire summer churning ice cream, but this book IS sticky! Since I was new to homemade ice cream, I wanted a book that could serve not only as a source for great recipes, but also as a resource I could use as I delved into the world of homemade ice cream. This book delivered in every way I had hoped. The book has an entire section devoted to equipment and techniques, and dozens of incredibly delicious recipes. I could have eaten the Tin Roof Ice Cream all by myself (and just about did!). The Chocolate Ice Cream is the richest, most intense chocolate ice cream I have ever eaten. On top of these great recipes, I was able to use the methods and techniques to create my own recipes for things like Pistachio Ice Cream.
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Loving this series! That Dorie Greenspan book is a treasure.ReplyDelete
Yay! Nice to meet Michelle & since I only have one of her three choices for cookbooks, I'm gonna have to do some shopping :)ReplyDelete
Hehe, one of those books is one of my choices as well and the other two are books I've been lusting after for a while!ReplyDelete
Lovely to know more about the 'Brown Eyed baker' who I've tweeted with often on good old Twitter. Wonderful to meet Michelle. All 3 books are on top of my lust list...living in India makes the book so much more expensive...sigh! Great post!ReplyDelete
very cool series!:)ReplyDelete
Thank you for having me! This was so much fun to do!ReplyDelete
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Likely Winner: There Will Be Blood
A tough call, since this Paul Thomas Anderson anti-epic is just starting to get a wide release. For this very forbidding drama to win, audiences will have to feel at least some of the rapture critics have lavished on it. But I have to take my Oscar physical today. So my heart says Atonement; my head says No Country; but my gut says that, on Oscar night, there will be Blood.
Corliss Pick: No Country for Old Men
I'm figuring some Oscar voters will not forgive this movie for its ultimate switcheroo: the deflation at the climax of what had been the year's tautest, most involving chase film. And the Coens are not the Academy's most beloved brother act: only one Oscar so far, for their Fargo script. But the intelligent pleasure they give here is matched only by the movie's old-fashioned bone-chilling tension. It'd have my vote.
Robbed: Sweeney Todd
Once the Depp fans realized this was a musical a musical drama, without the saving nostalgia of rock 'n roll pastiche they stayed away. (The Academy didn't care either, depriving it of nominations for cinematography, art direction and costume design.) But director Tim Burton was not only faithful to the old Sondheim musical; he clarified and improved it.
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Leo Messi and Kobe Bryant
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Biot special!
Jul 20
Not so fast!
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Old city of Menton
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Guest post: Infinite loop, 1
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Here is Edouard posing at the number of on the Infinite Loop.
Bastion of Menton
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Menton is the French city on the mediteranean sea near the Italian border. You see here the Bastoin in the old port. It is now the home of the Museum Jean Cocteau.
A yacht in Antibe
May 23
Adoplh Sax in Dinant
Apr 26
Flemish flag in Dinant
Apr 25
Being in Dinant, I saw this flemish flag and thought it was pretty cool that in these times of political deadlock a wallon city would expose the flemish flag. A pessimistic mind might say they put flags of foreign countries…. Anyway, I found it cool enough for a picture. And just so that you know it, if I see a walloon flag in a flemish city, I'll take an equivalent picture! Let me know if you spot one.
In the background you see the Collegiate Church of Notre Dame.
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Break me off a piece of that....
We don't typically buy candy bars very often, if we have a taste for something we sometimes try to recreate them. When we do buy some, it is usually because it is something new or a different flavor in a favorite candy. The last one we tried was a coffee flavored version of Kit Kat Bars. They were awesome, but limited edition and we only saw them once in the stores. At the store today, we saw they came out with another new flavor so we jumped at the chance to try this one.
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Tonight's Netflix movie is The Perfect Man with Heather Locklear and Hilary Duff. The menu is set for the week with quite a fun variety of dishes. Until then...
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This is so cool! I love malted milk flavor, this kit kat can only be good!ReplyDelete
Hope I can buy this one soon here in NC! (as I have never seen the coffee flavor one...)
Wow, one year of blog, and you sure did make lots of good recipes!
Ana - Hopefully you can find them! Do you have a super target or something like that? I have a few more months to go to hit 1 year - but the time is flying by for sure!ReplyDelete
Wow, I wish I had seen the coffee ones. I recently saw caramel Kit Kats here.ReplyDelete
So funny, I just saw these and picked up one of each last Thursday. I just started a diet so I haven't opened them yet. Which one should I try first, the coffee or the milk shake?ReplyDelete
Esurientes has a whole Kit Kat thing going on. I must open my eyes in the candy aisle!ReplyDelete
I wonder how long it will take to get those KitKats up here in Toronto. I finally found some dark chocolate ones and they were great.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to the milkshake version.
Thanks for sharing
Great stuff. I had some of the coffee-flavored ones; but I really have to stay away or I'll eat whole bags full. Here's a new meme you MIGHT like; tag. You're it.ReplyDelete
I guess I should add the link for the meme!ReplyDelete
Oh, WOW! Those sound so good. I am going to hunt them down at my Super Target!! I absolutely adore the way you presented them in the blender for the photo. So clever :-)ReplyDelete
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thanks for the heads up. I will definitely be on the look out for those. love ovaltine and malteasers (similar to whoppers, but much better).ReplyDelete
dang, and I was just at target and walmart today.
I made a most luscious chocolate chocolate cookie yesterday, Joe. Check out the blog for the link to the recipe. OUTSTANDING!
Wow, coffee taste kit kat..that would be my idea of heaven as I adore kit kats (their crunchiness together with the chocolate flavour) plus coffee which is an obsession I have..I haven't seen them in the UK yet. Shall keep my eyes peeled.ReplyDelete
Patti - Caramel Kit Kats? Hmm! Hope I see them soon!ReplyDelete
cookbook junkie - If you like coffee, then try them first. They have a very upfront taste. The malt version is more subtle.
AK - Cool! Thanks for sending the link!
Ruth - I don't think I've tried the dark chocolate ones yet, I'll be watching for them too!
Cyndi - I'm pretty far behind on meme's - I'll go take a look!
Teresa - Thanks! I saw them first at SuperTarget - They also had Orange Creme, but skipped that for now.
Christina - I'm off to check out the cookies!
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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has rebuked Fernando Alonso for comments the team disapproved of.
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We've finally been vindicated: Members of Generation X have a representative who is anything but a slacker.
GOP Congressman Paul Ryan—the tireless, wonky, 42-year-old workout freak—has made history by becoming the first member of our generation to join a presidential ticket. It should come as a surprise to no one that his calling card is reforming entitlements.
We hear incessantly about how members of today's screwed generation face the prospect of less prosperous lives than those lived by their parents. But the maiden generation to stare down that gloomy prognosis was Generation X, the tiny slice of America born between about 1965 and 1980. (Ryan was born in 1970.) We were the first generation to be told we would never get Social Security or Medicare even though we would be forced to pay into these programs.
When many X-ers graduated from college, stocking shelves at the Gap was considered a career choice, as jobs were few and far between amidst a major economic downturn. I won't bore you with the horror show of the low-paying and miserable jobs I had for the first three years after college.
Unfortunately, the future looks as bleak for today's young people. No amount of coddling by their well-provided-for Boomer parents can save Generation Y and the Millennials from the dire economic conditions they face, including criminal levels of educational debt. Pensions have gone the way of the horse and buggy. You want to retire with health-care benefits, as both my professor parents did? Good luck. As the 1994 movie turned Gen-X mantra has it: Reality Bites.
Generation X chronicler Jeff Gordinier, has written that Gen-Xers suffer from "athazagoraphobia"—"an abnormal and persistent fear of being forgotten or ignored." Except it's not really a phobia; it's been reality for a long time. Maybe that is about to change.
Enter Ryan. While Democrats attack his Medicare plan as "radical" and portray him as pushing granny off the cliff, young people don't seem to be buying this caricature. Or maybe "radical" is what they want.
A Zogby/JZ Analytics poll Tuesday showed increased support among voters 18-29 for the Romney ticket, which pollster John Zogby attributed to the Ryan pick. President Obama received just 49 percent of the youth vote, versus Romney's 41 percent. (Obama took home 66 percent of the youth vote against McCain in 2008.)
For those who think those numbers are an anomaly, take a look at Pew's 2011 polling that found that among 18-29 year olds, 46 percent supported Ryan's proposed Medicare changes with only 28 percent opposing (the rest had no opinion). Among 30-49 year olds it was 38 percent approving and 36 percent opposed. The strongest opposition to Ryan's plan comes from those over 65, who ironically won't even be affected by his plan since it would only apply to those 55 and under. Pew found that age, not party identification was the biggest predictor of how a person would feel about his plan.
Jon Cowan, the CEO of the centrist think tank Third Way told me, "Ryan is doing the country a huge service by putting this on the table." Cowan is the former founder of Lead or Leave, a Gen X group that gained prominence in the 1990s as it rang the alarm bells for reducing the deficit and dealing with entitlements. He doesn't believe Ryan's plan is the best way to reform Medicare, though he concedes that it is a serious plan. He cautions that Democrats may find themselves in political peril in the next 10 years if they don't come up with a substantive alternative plan. He says, "There are a lot of younger voters who say of the Ryan plan, 'at least I get something… at least there is a plan'. If you don't get in there and offer a plan you give up the high ground on policy."
Yes, our expectations for government benefits when we retire have been lowered so much that the idea that we would get anything at all seems like a bonanza. Ryan's plan also seems a lot less scary when you consider that his partner on it is the liberal Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.
Still, the attacks by Democrats on Ryan and his plans for entitlement reform are scaring Boomers—who don't want to lose the good deal they have and don't realize Ryan's plans wouldn't impact anyone collecting Medicare now or who will start in the next 10 years—and could indeed cost Romney in November.
But Ryan is young and is poised to be the intellectual leader of the conservative movement for the next generation. He will be a force to be reckoned with. Name-calling and distortions of his plan by Democrats is not an effective long-term strategy, nor is it good for the country.


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RIM: We can't flog phones, would you like our nuke plant OS instead?
QNX licences up for grabs to anyone with a chequebook
Troubled phone biz Research in Motion wants to license its new BlackBerry 10 operating system to anyone who can afford it in the hope of climbing out of its rut.
RIM has coyly rebuffed rumours of companies wanting to use its mobile OS, and has tried to focus on its own phone handset launches with the new software. But now chief exec Thorsten Heins has said, in an interview with Bloomberg, that his firm will consider pimping out BlackBerry 10 after all.
At the heart of BB 10 is Unixish operating system QNX: this is a neat little real-time microkernel-powered bit of tech that's aimed at cars, music players, military drones, nuclear power plants and other embedded electronics. It was snapped up by RIM in 2010 and immediately put to use in the BlackBerry Playbook tablet.
"QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector - we could do that with BB10 if we chose to," Heins beamed. "The platform can be licensed."
The new operating system has been delayed one time too many for investors, who have been shifting their shares in droves as the Canadian company's phones fail to excite consumers. BB10 is supposed to be the magic bullet that turns the one-time smartphone king around, but punters have been buying Apple and Android mobes while RIM's QNX-in-a-dress is busy scrubbing up.
The interview with Bloomberg was more about telling as many people as possible that RIM's OS, and everything else, is on the table, so if you're in the process of developing an embedded system and don't fancy using a tiny Linux, QNX rival VxWorks nor Google's Android, then RIM would be delighted to talk to you, as long as you've "ten sovereigns bright".
Licensing out an OS that would interact with RIM's still-popular messaging platform BBM, and the company's Enterprise Server app platform, would be contentious: those are the products that still attract users to BlackBerry, along with its unparalleled focus on security, so making them available to other manufacturers would turn RIM into a platform company which might not be a bad thing but remains entirely theoretical for the moment.
Samsung is one of the rumoured firms that could be interested in slapping BB10 into its gear, being an equal opportunities OS user with phones running Android, Windows and its own system Bada.
Meanwhile, IBM could be keen on hoovering up its enterprise services unit if that came on the market.
No one seems to be interested in taking on RIM's mobile-making biz, however, though the company has said that once BB10 comes along, it can swing that business around and hang onto it. But lately, the company line has shifted to chatting about "beyond smartphones" and "expanding product lines" and other euphemisms that suggest the firm could leave mobile-making behind, or at least reduce its importance. ®


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Evanescence Announce Nobel Peace Prize Concert Gig, January Tour
Evanescence are set to rock the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The Amy Lee-fronted band will perform in Oslo, Norway on Dec. 11 as part of the Nobel Peace Prize concert, with additional American tour dates to follow in January.
The Peace Prize concert will take place one day after the actual ceremony, which honors Peace Prize recipients President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. Evanescence will join Sugarland, Matthew Morrison of 'Glee' and others for the concert, which will be shown in more than 130 countries and stream live on CNN International.
Next month, Evanescence will head out for short mini-tour covering seven shows in southern U.S. states, beginning Jan. 13 in Clemson, South Carolina and finishing in the group's home base of Little Rock, Arkansas. The band continues to tour in support of their self-titled album, which hit No. 1 upon its release in October.
Evanescence also announced they have a new music video on the way. The clip for 'My Heart is Broken' will premiere in January.
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1/13 – Clemson, S.C. | Littlejohn Coliseum
1/14 – Atlanta, Geor. | Tabernacle
1/16 – Tampa, Fla. | Morsani Hall
1/17 – Hollywood, Fla. | Hard Rock Live
1/18 – Orlando, Fla. | House of Blues
1/20 – Biloxi, Miss. | IP Casino
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Today saw the launch of Britain's newest political party. Left Unity is officially alive. Since Ken Loach called for a left alternative to Labour back in March, there has been a tortuous road to today's official start, as the cpgb's coverage and comment has demonstrated in anything but gripping detail. Yet 10,000 Facebook likes, 1,000 paid up members, and a founding conference later, the new party is with us. The closing speaker remarked Saturday 30th November *could* be a historic day. Is this boosterism for the troops, the usual left hype that attends these sorts of events; or, *gasp*, could Left Unity be a real contender?
Let's be blunt. Unity initiatives on the far left have a chequered history. It got to the point of absurdity when the two main Trotskyist outfits - the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party - had their own unity/recomposition projects. Off the top of my head, since 1996 we've had the Socialist Labour Party, the Scottish Socialist Party, the Socialist Alliances in England and Wales, Forward Wales, Respect, The United Socialist Party, Socialist Green Unity Coalition, Campaign for a New Workers' Party, Solidarity, Left List, No2EU, and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. This does not count fringe-of-the-fringe projects like Republican Communist Network, Campaign for a Marxist Party, and Anti-Capitalist Initiative. There's probably more I've missed. The point is all at best were still born or worst fractured, ironically leaving the constituent parts at a further remove than was the case at the outset.
If the best indicator of future behaviour is past behaviour, the odds are stacked against Left Unity breaking the sectarian mould. That said, there is something slightly different about LU that gives them an edge over these failing and failed projects.
The cpgb argues that if the revolutionary left practiced democratic centralism Bolshevik-style, i.e. open factions, open platforms, open debate and discussion, but unity in action, then the intractability of far left sectarianism would be resolved. Remember what I said about latter day Leninists unwilling to use Marxism to look at themselves? Sectarianism exists not because everyone bar the cpgb have misread Lenin's writings, but because they negatively express the outlook of the petty apparatuses/bureaucracies each far left organisation possesses, the material imperative to compete against revolutionary Others in a small but crowded marketplace, the strategic orientations to the different milieux they target, and the need to main discrete party identities. Sectarianism is deeply rooted in the far left's conditions of existence, and is reproduced unreflexively in a party's outlook. One can easily pay lip service to overcoming sectarianism, while obliviously reproducing that sectarianism. Hence self-decribed Leninist organisations share slight variations on a 'party-first' theme that structures their activity. This is why "unity" between different parties ostensibly standing for exactly the same thing has always come undone, and is never likely to be superseded.
LU is immediately at an advantage because it avoids this. The SWP aren't interested, not that anyone would have anything to do with this increasingly depraved cult anyway. And the SP think their self-important TUSC front is a significant step toward a mk II Labour Party. If only the misleaders of the working class and Elvis could be shoved aside. LU therefore can't be turned on and off at will by unaccountable cliques of ultra-correct revolutionary leaders. Smaller Trot outfits like Workers Power are in, and will no doubt make a pain of themselves in the LU branches they live in, but they are very much a minority - even in a membership as low as 1,000.
Neither is LU beholden to a Galloway-like figurehead. Ken Loach might make films lefties hold dear, but a man with the populist touch he isn't. And to be fair he has not sought such a position. He has used his platform to cohere a regroupment process that has led to today. He does not claim to be the leader. He has no wish to stamp the new party with the semi-Trot politics he holds. Despite the grumbles of the cpgb and the various tiny platforms recognised prior to conference, LU appears to break fundamentally with two key drivers that have wrecked unity projects of the past.
Well, perhaps not fundamentally. From casually observing LU's comments section on occasion, and seeing who gets named in Weekly Worker reports, there's more than a few folk involved who've been through the sorry experience of unities past. Most are veterans of the left, of activists without an abode to call their own. And had either the SWP or SP been involved, I'd have bet my bottom dollar that many would not have touched LU with someone else's. The second point regarding sectarianism is that LU is now a proper "player". It might have the ambition to reach out to the great mass of working people, but along the way it will have to compete with the Trots who are doing the same. Especially the SP's TUSC, who despite mustering tiny of handfuls of votes think they're The Most Significant Thing Ever because Bob Crow every year convinces RMT conference to endorse them. It will mean clashes in council and parliamentary votes, and perhaps a jostling for position on future demonstrations.
Nevertheless, as tenuous a bureaucratic relationship the SP's TUSC has with the RMT, on paper it does have that labour movement link. What of LU? Among its members are union activists, branch secretaries and so on. Yet, as the SP might argue, they represent no one but themselves. The party is a coming together of atomised lefties and micro-Trots. But then again, unlike TUSC, LU exists for itself. There is a possibility, however remote, that it could become something other than it is. That will never be the case with the SP's electoral vehicle.
Ah, prospects. Ruminating on the prospects of a 'left UKIP' earlier this year, I then argued there is some political space to the left of Labour. It is much tighter than was the case during the Blair/Brown years, but a constituency of pissed off ex-Labour voters and leftish anti-politics types does exist. Typically this manifests itself in the 1-2% you can expect to vote for far left candidates at election time. And as the Greens, BNP, and UKIP have shown, if you can sort out unity among your milieu you can face outward instead of inward. There's a few more percentage points to be grabbed and theoretically LU could build up a presence equal to the Greens.
This is only if it plays its cards right, and at present the new party holds only dud hands. To make its mark it has to exhaustively contest as many elections as it can, but unlike TUSC LU has to work them consistently to build up a base. To build its profile it has to work systematically in the labour movement and the procession of protest movements that come and go. To be fair (again? What's up with me?) there is no suggestion from what I've seen that they anticipate nothing but a slog.
But the single biggest thing, the challenge I think LU will find insurmountable is, as always, Labour. Only the most blinkered pretend the party is fundamentally the same beast as it was in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010. It might be more complex than the rigid schemas of the far left allow, but Labour has shifted back to social democratic politics. It has cottoned on that living standards are being hammered and, as a result, the party is the only one addressing those concerns. When the two main parties find themselves on opposite sides on the bedroom tax, NHS privatisation, house building, energy prices, apprenticeships, economic strategy, care for the elderly, breaking up the banks, and workplace rights, it's obvious who should form the next government. And while LU is something looking to become something else, so is Labour. Who, for instance, is going to listen to LU when Labour has a realistic chance of putting its policies into practice? Who will be tempted to support LU when it will be massively squeezed by the next election's high stakes?
Ultimately, while LU has got the potential to be much better than its various Trotty forerunners, as far as its prospects go the most it can ever hope for is minor party status. And I don't think it will ever come close to UKIP levels of support. If so, then what is the point?


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Are you very much comfortable with Wave Broadband and other Google services, but using the iPhone? Well, using these two different service providers in one place has become very easy. You can use your Wave Broadband mail in iPhone by setting up the IMAP setup. Previously Google has not launched this service for Wave Broadband but after it has added IMAP protocols for Wave Broadband users it has become so easy to sync the mail in iPhone. The IMAP service allows Wave Broadband user to access their email service in iPhone, iPod, and other devices or client services as well.
To access your mail in iPhone you have to change Wave Broadband settings, after that only you will be able to access mail in iPhone. Though, there are two ways through which you can sync your Wave Broadband mail in iPhone,
IMAP is the most recommended settings in Wave Broadband to configure in the iPhone. Your previous mails and messages will download to your phone and be stored in the built-in mail app. Therefore, it will allow users to send messages from your Wave Broadband account.
Why IMAP Over POP?
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Demand That Congress Actually Debate FISA Amendments Act
from the about-time dept
We've pointed out that the unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act (along with its secret interpretation), look likely to get renewed before the end of the year. Senator Wyden is willing to drop his hold, but if he doesn't get certain amendments in, he wants to limit the length of the extension to a short period for the sake of having a debate. Of course, that's the same thing that happened almost exactly one year ago.
Techdirt has joined a number of organizations, including EFF, Free Press, the ACLU, the American Library Association and many, many more in asking the Senate to actually debate the issue. The folks at EFF have set up a tool to help anyone reach out to their own Senators on the subject as well.
We write to share our concern about the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act and the dwindling time remaining to have a meaningful debate and amendment process before your target adjournment at the end of next week. We ask that you contact your party leadership and let them know that you expect ample time for floor debate, privacy and transparency amendments, and possible conference with the House on ultimate legislation.
The FISA Amendments Act is a sweeping authority that allows the government to collect international communications without a warrant, even if an American in the US is on one end. After four and a half years, there is no information publicly available describing how many Americans are caught up in this surveillance program or what is done with the information once collected. There also hasn't been a single minute of Senate floor time scheduled for debating the merits of this program or to considering amendments that would increase transparency of this program and insert basic privacy protections for our sensitive information in preparation for this reauthorization.
Is it really that ridiculous to think that the open debate we've been promised for years should be had before we reauthorize these tools? Is it really ridiculous to think that the NSA and other intelligence officials should be required to publicly reveal such basic things as how many Americans have had records swept up by intelligence agencies under these loose rules?
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February 26, 2004
Hi Folks,
Sometimes you can get yourself into situations
without thinking about it. I've done this when hiking many times.
I go out with a plan to turn back at a certain time or distance,
and before I know it I'm further along that I'd expected and just
better off just finishing the full hike. I do it on the mountain
bike all the tiime. I did the same thing on Wednesday up in Huntington's
Ravine. One minute I'm just playing around on the first pitch of
Pinnacle, the next I'm topping out in the Alpine Garden.
I got a bit of a late start and left Pinkham at about 8:15. About
10 minutes up the trail I crossed paths with a young man headed
rapidly in the other direction. He paused long enough to tell me
that his name was Mike, he had soloed Pinnacle that morning, it
was thin and if I stayed to the sides I "probably" wouldn't
punch through. He was in a hurry because he had to make it back
to school in time for his classes at Plymouth State. Needless to
say I rolled all this over in my mind multiple times in the next
couple of hours.
It was a beautiful morning in the Ravine. It was obvious that
the only person up there that day was the young climber and I followed
his tracks, and postholes, all the way up through the fan. I kept
expecting to see someone behind me, but it never happened. There
was some amount of ice in all the gullies. Damnation had
snow from top to bottom and Central actually
looked pretty good. Of course Pinnacle was
hidden until I turned the corner around the buttress. I was a bit
surprised when I saw it because of the picture my friend Tim had
sent on Friday. That one made it look pretty fat, but to me it
looked, shall we say, somewhat anemic. Couple that with the fact
that as I cramponed up to the base of the climb I could hear water
running under snow on the shield, and I was getting just a tiny
bit antsy. I don't want you to think that I didn't have some plan
in my mind to do the full climb, I most certainly did. Actually
I wouldn't have gone all the way to the base of the route if I
hadn't thought that I would actually climb it. That said there
was a part of me that was fully prepared to back off if I thought
it was too iffy.
At this time I say to myself, "Self... You can always back
down if you don't like what you see." (FWIW I spend a lot
of early-season time practicing that sort of thing.) So at the
stroke of noon I start up. The very right side looked better from
the standpoint of running water, or lack thereof, and I headed
up there. It was my first climb of the season and the tools and
crampons felt great. It was almost as if I hadn't skipped the past
8 months of rock season. I had also forgotten just how solid my
Cobras feel in alpine conditions. Every swing was solid and sweet,
except where it was thin and I hit the rock. <grimace>
As usual I don't look down past my feet when I'm climbing. The
focus is totally on where I am going, not where I've been. So by
the time I looked down at all I was 40' up. Where the corner ice
ran out I stepped left into the main flow. Right about now I was
just a bit concerned as I could see the water was rushing and bubbling
an inch or two beneath the ice. Still, each stick and kick was
solid and it just kept egging me onward until I was parallel to
the belay. The ice started to run out and the snow pitch took over.
There was a nice stance on the left so I took a breather. If
there was any place I was going to back down from, this had to
be it.
Another tidbit was that I didn't bring a rope or harness, so I
would have to downclimb. Sometimes when I solo I will wear my harness,
bring my 8mm rap line and a couple of screws and threads. This
time I decided to do the light and fast thing and brought none
of that. It allowed me to bring my big digital SLR instead. I'm
not sure if that was the best trade off, but hey... I took a picture
looking down,
one looking up and
then I decided to continue. Of course by now the bluebird skies
had turned to solid grey so I hurried myself carefully along. Staying
first on the left and then moving across to the right, I could
hear the water below the snow crust. This was by far the most disconcerting
part of the climbing.
When I reached the final ice section I decided to do the right-hand
top out. 30' up I could see that the previous climber had done
the same. Finally there was nice solid ice all the way to the pucker-brush.
Whew, the climbing part was done. Now for the slog to the Alpine
Garden. As usual this takes longer than expected, and the higher
I got the colder and windier it became. I was definitely tired
by now, and I was certainly not in the right outfit, so I hunkered
down behind one of the big cairns, pulled on my Gortex jacket and
took off my crampons. That helped a lot, as did some water & a
peanut butter sandwich. As I took it out of it's grocery bag the
wind caught the bag and tore it out of my hand and whipped it down
into the gully. I'm sure it's not the first bit of trash up there,
but I felt bad about it.
Looking around I realized that it looked almost like sunset. That
made me more nervous than the climbing. I was well aware that not
only had I been the only person in the ravine, I was most likely
the only person on the Alpine Garden. I pulled my hiking poles
out of my pack, slung the pack over my shoulders and headed left
on the trail, following the cairns toward the Lion's Head Trail.
The walking was a bit slippery in places but it went fast and before
I knew it I was at the intersection with the summit trail. Where
I had only seen the footprints of the other climber before, there
were tons of footprints now and I felt a lot better. I celebrated
with an apple.
At 1:30 I got to the rocks where I could get a good view of the
bowl. I was making good time so I decided to take a
few shots. There was ice in on the headwall but it was pretty sporadic.
While you probably could find a way up the ice to the lip, it didn't
look appetizing to me. I think I'll give it another week. The winter
trail wasn't open and the trail was pretty slippery so I took my
time through the rocks. Still it didn't take very long and I was
down to the main Tucks trail. 10 minutes later I was at the intersection
with the Hunting Ravine trail. From the tracks it looked as if
there were at least a few others that had gone up after me. By
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this season.
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July 17, 2003
Graham Watson | Stage 11 photos
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Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Photo galleries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
VeloNews | A look ahead: Ullrich poised to challenge in TT
Over at VeloNews, John Wilcockson offers his analysis of Stage 12, tomorrow's individual time trial.
Of the presumed GC contenders, he says:
Armstrong faces his stiffest opposition from Hamilton and Ullrich. The injured Hamilton is not making any predictions but he proved in the Alps that his heart, lungs and legs are working perfectly. And because Friday's time trial doesn't have too many turns or steep climbs, he will be able to maintain his momentum without needing to make too many sharp accelerations.
Ullrich has yet to beat Armstrong in a Tour time trial, but the German star has never looked as comfortable or pleased with his form as he has this week. The Bianchi team leader overcame a stomach virus going into the Alps, and his return to the Tour has been impressive. He could even beat Armstrong - if you believe the rumors of the Texan's vulnerability.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
OLN-TV daily reports updated
Sherwen has by far the better report today, discussing Jens Voigt's exit from the race, and Sherwen's memories of riding in the "broom wagon", which sweeps up riders who cannot continue:
Climbing into the broom wagon was an awful experience. It reminded me of the old TV series "Branded" where the guy is booted out of the cavalry. His sword broken and the badges ripped from his uniform.
As you leave the Tour, you have to have your numbers removed and they are taken by the referees, it's degrading as you don't want to abandon the race and shouldn't have to go through such a thing. In the broom wagon all the spectators look at you and point- "look at that guy, he's abandoned." Not great memories. That's why I felt for Jens today.
Chris Carmichael on Armstrong's TT strategy tomorrow:
Lance wants to finish 30 seconds or more in front of Ullrich in Stage 12, and accomplishing this will determine the remaining course of Lance's Tour. If tomorrow's performance shows he can match or beat Ullrich in the time trial, Lance can go into the Pyrenees without the pressure of having to significantly build on his current 2:10 lead on the Bianchi team leader. If, on the other hand, Ullrich shows his time trial strength is far greater than his climbing ability this year, Lance will know he has to leave Ullrich behind in the Pyrenees and start the final time trial with a comfortable lead.
I was sorry things went a little bit haywire in the Chat Room last night. Paul and I were settling down to answer your questions in a lovely café in Toulouse and the server went down. As there seemed to be a lot of you, we'll try again soon.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (33)
NYTimes.com | A Charge From the Rear Takes the Tour's 11th Stage
Samuel Abt's Stage 11 review is up at NYTimes.com.
So, when eight riders sleeping with the fish in the overall standings bolted 57 kilometers (35 miles) into the flat, 153.5-kilometer 11th stage today, the pack reacted drowsily. The Tour's leaders wanted to save their energy for the individual race against the clock on Friday, and everybody else possibly just wanted to admire the sunflowers.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage results | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Yahoo! Sports | Wheezing Wilson forgets inhaler - and drops out of Tour de France
Australian Tour de France debutant Matthew Wilson has crashed out of the race after finishing the 11th stage over the permitted time limit. On a day that the 25-year-old fdjeux.com rider will probably regret for the rest of his life, Wilson came in 21min 44sec behind stage winner Juan Antonio Flecha because he forgot to bring along his asthma inhaler.
The permitted time limit is variable by length and difficulty of the stage, ranging from 5 percent for flat stages raced at under 34 km/h to 20 percent for a team time trial raced at over 48 km/h.
Also missing the time delay today was Credit Agricole's Stéphane Auge, and Tobias Steinhauser of Team Bianchi joined Jens Voigt, abandoning on the course.
Of 198 starters, 167 continue.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (0)
VeloNews | Stage 11 Casey Gibson gallery
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Ever wonder what's in the TV bike's saddlebags?
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Photo galleries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
VeloNews | Stage 11 photo gallery
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Wouldn't be the Tour without the sunflower photos....
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Photo galleries | Permalink | Comments (0)
cyclingnews.com | Parlez-vous lardbutt?
Greg Taylor rode "l'Etape du Tour" yesterday. Since 1993, organizers have chosen one of the Tour's harder stages, and run an all-comers ride on the stage route.
This year's Etape route will be seen on Stage 16 on Tuesday, and the Tour website reported that 5-time Tour winner Miguel Indurain (now 39) abandoned l'Etape partway. Other riders included F1 driver Alain Prost, former world champion Abraham Olano, and Dutch speedskating gold medalist Bart Veldkamp.
Presumably somewhere farther back in the field was Taylor:
This year's edition of the Etape will be run over the route of Stage 16 -- from Pau to Bayonne -- the Tour's last and possibly toughest day in the Pyrenees. It will be 123 miles of just getting down to it and grunting it out with 7,000 of my closest riding buddies. With all of the climbing and a scattering of 10 percent grades, it's a route guaranteed to separate the men from the boys and me from my lunch. Yup, no question about it, it's going to be a festival of pain, a fact that even Lance himself acknowledged back in June at the press conference before the Dauphine Libere :"In the Pyrenees they look to the Tourmalet and Luz Ardiden. They look to the legendary stages, but they forget about the stage to Bayonne, which goes over two climbs that are probably the steepest climbs in the Tour de France. So for me, there are the famous climbs, but there are also these ones that nobody thinks about and I'm glad we saw, because they're very difficult and they could change the results of the race."
If Lance says that it's gonna be hard, its gonna be hard, so my own personal level of fitness is probably pretty irrelevant at this point. I guess that the best way to look at it is that if it were easy, it wouldn't be fun. And I'll keep telling myself that over and over as I painfully grind up the tallest mountain pass on the route, the front wheel of my bicycle pointing up at the sky. "This is fun….this is fun….this is fun…."
Here's the official site of l'Etape du Tour (in English).
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in About the Tour | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Flecha quote
"My girlfriend is from Toulouse. That's the best day in my life. She'll be out of her mind and I hope I don't find she jumped in (Toulouse's) canal out of joy" - Juan Antonio Flecha
Seen at ITV.com
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage results | Permalink | Comments (0)
VeloNews | Flecha takes Tour stage into Toulouse
VeloNews has their Stage 11 wrapup:
Flecha meanwhile claimed his first significant victory for his Spanish team and it was their first win on the race.
The rider who joined the Spanish outfit last year took his chance with an attack 14km from the finish line and despite a late chase by Australian Michael Rogers and Frenchman Carlos Da Cruz, there was no stopping the Spaniard.
At the finish line he afforded himself a quick look behind but Dutchman Bram de Groot (Rabobank) and Spaniard Isidro Nozal (ONCE) could not catch him.
As he crossed the line, the ibanesto.com rider - whose surname translates as 'arrow' in English - strung a virtual bow and shot it forward.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage results | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
cyclingnews.com rider's diaries update: Landis, Rodriguez
When we were going up the Lauteret [Stage 9], I thought we would just ride up that climb, but people ganged up on us. People had no right to be attacking us, and for that matter, how they were attacking us! Some of those guys were back in the grupetto 15 minutes after they attacked. It just didn't make any sense to me.
I don't know where those cops came from when they removed those protesters...all of a sudden there were 20 cops beating on these guys. They were not being nice; they were kicking them and then picked them up by their legs and dragged them off the road. You wouldn't do that in America.
Vini Caldirola's Fred Rodriguez, a former Postie:
Yesterday on the stage to Marseille we were hoping for a sprint since I was the designated guy, but a big group went early and we rode in pretty easy considering the sweltering heat. There were plenty of guys who were no threat on gc that wanted to give it shot because they knew that Tuesday was one of the few days they could get away. With Petacchi at home, the big sprint threats are McEwen, Cooke and O'Grady. At this point, Stuey and Erik Zabel should be stronger as the other sprinters have been weakened by the mountains.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Rider diaries | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
BBC Sport | Flecha escapes to victory
Spain's Juan Antonio Flecha of iBanesto.com escaped inside the last 30km to snatch the 11th stage of the Tour de France from Narbonne to Toulouse.
Flecha attacked the eight-man breakaway and hung on for the win in three hours 29 minutes 33 seconds after racing for 153.5km.
He held off Isidro Nozal of ONCE and Rabobank's Bram de Groot by four seconds, with the remainder of the breakaway following on behind.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage results | Permalink | Comments (0)
CNNSI.com | Flecha claims stage
The 153.5-kilometer (95.2 mile) stage, a relatively flat and short trajectory along southern France from Narbonne to Toulouse, was won by Spanish rider Juan Antonio Flecha of iBanesto.com, competing in his first Tour. Armstrong finished the stage in 29th place.
Armstrong, who rides for U.S. Postal Service, will wear the overall leader's yellow jersey in the crucial individual time trial on Friday, when riders race against the clock.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage results | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Yahoo! Sport | Hamilton show is bad for cycling: Roche
Ireland's Stephen Roche, who in 1987 won the Tour, the Giro, and the world's championship, says Tyler Freaking Hamilton should get off the road:
"If the doctor says it's broken or fractured then he shouldn't be racing. It's as simple as that," Roche says.
"I mean, it's not doing any favours for the image of cycling. For the past few years cycling has been getting its act together (vis-a-vis doping) and the commentators on TV are going mad about Hamilton - 'he's in the saddle, and he's out of the saddle etc etc'."
"But I think all he and his team are doing is giving the public a gun to shoot us with."
"People watching what's happening are going to be asking themselves, 'is this guy for real' or they are going to be saying 'what kind of shit (drugs) are they giving him?' "
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
BBC Sport | Stage 11 photo gallery
The Texan and The Terminator - Click for more stage 11 photos
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Photo galleries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Stage 11: Flecha breaks away
Spain's Juan Antonio Flecha found the winning breakaway today, and rode away from it in the final kms for his first Tour stage win.
Bram de Groot, 3rd in Stage 10, came second, just ahead of ONCE's Isidro Nozal at 4 seconds back.
Also in the break were Aussies Stuart O'Grady of Credit Agricole and Michael Rogers of QuickStep. O'Grady picked up 28 sprint points on the day, but moved up only 12 on green jersey leader Baden Cooke, who earned 16 points in the field sprint.
1) Juan Antonio Flecha (iBanesto.com) 3:29:33
2) Bram de Groot (Rabobank) @ :04
3) Isidro Nozal (ONCE) @ :04
4) Inigo Cuesta (Cofidis) @ :15
5) Carlos da Cruz (FDJeux.com) @ :23
6) Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) @ :23
7) Nicolas Portal (AG2R) @ :23
8) Michael Rogers (QuickStep) @ :23
9) Robbie McEwen (Lotto-Domo) @ :42
10) Baden Cooke (FDJeux.com) @ :42
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage results | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
BBC Sport | Rogers primed for time trial glory
Australia's Michael Rogers, 19th in the prologue, says "I still fancy my chances" in Friday's time trial:
...[A] series of blistering performances, climaxing in the Tour of Germany where he was more than a minute quicker than both Jan Ullrich and Alexandre Vinokourov, mean he is one of the favourites for victory against the clock.
Rogers told the BBC Sport website: "My form really has come good at the right moment and I'd feel confident going into any time trial whoever I'm up against.
Rogers got in the break with Stuart O'Grady today, so may not have quite the energy he'll need in the TT tomorrow.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (1)
O'Grady picks up 8 sprint points, but...
Stuart O'Grady picked his breakaway pretty well today, and is likely to make up some ground in the green jersey competition, but the FDJeux.com team placed a rider, Carlos da Cruz, in the same break, and da Cruz nipped O'Grady at both intermediate sprints, limiting him to 4 points at each (and picking up 6 pts each time for himself).
Another good example of the teamwork in the Tour, and of limiting the damage your opponents can do.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Jens Voigt drops out
Germany's Jens Voigt of Credit Agricole struggled mightily on the course to Toulouse today, trailing the peloton by more than 15 minutes. Stomach problems claimed Voigt, who wore the yellow jersey briefly and won a stage in 2001. He lives near Toulouse, but couldn't make it to the stage finish.
His exit leaves 170 riders still in the race.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tour headline du jour | Arnold Schwarzenegger On Tour Today
14 H 03 - Arnold Schwarzenegger On Tour Today The star of the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is at the Tour de France today. He is a guest of the race organizers and will be one of the people on the presentation podium in Toulouse at the end of the 11th stage.
I guess anything that keeps him away from the California recall is a good thing....
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Tour news | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
One for the ladies
"Crazy Jane" over at The Daily Peloton offers a beefcake review of the peloton:
Jan Ullrich. To quote Dieter, Saturday Night Live's inimitable host of German talk show Sprockets, "he's so beautiful and angular!"
Anyway, if you want to see what the riders look like without their helmets and god-awful sunglasses, trying to charm a fangirl with an instamatic, check it out...
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Rider profiles | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tour Today: Narbonne - Toulouse
Today's Stage 11 is the shortest road stage of the Tour at 153.5 kms.
Look for Lotto, FDJeux, and Telekom to jockey their sprinters into position at the intermediate sprints at 59 km and 126 km. There's a single categorized climb, a 3rd Category at 82.5 km, but that should leave plenty of time to reel in a rider or two on a flyer so the sprinters get a shot at the 35 points up for grabs at the stage finish. With Baden Cooke 9 points up on fellow Aussie Robbie McEwen, and 28 points up on Erik Zabel of Telekom, the points standings could be shuffled tonight.
Since Toulouse was a stage featured in the first Tour in 1903, today's finishing order will count toward the Centenary Tour centenaire classification.
Lance Armstrong
Baden Cooke
Richard Virenque
Denis Menchov
Team CSC leads iBanesto.com in the team competition by a razor-thin 27 seconds.
José Enrique Gutierrez of Kelme will be wearing the red race number of the most aggressive rider for his 30 kms in front of the race on Tuesday.
Tomorrow is the first individual time trial.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Stage profiles | Permalink | Comments (0)
VeloNews | Tyler Tunes: A long day with a great result
Tyler Freaking Hamilton has updated his rider diary at VeloNews, and discusses some back pain that may be resulting from a pinched nerve:
On Tuesday morning, the pain woke me up about an hour ahead of our scheduled wake up call. No one gets up earlier than they have to at the Tour. So this was serious. I couldn't take a deep breath. It was like I got an instant cramp every time I tried to suck in a lot of air. And the pain would dart around my side into my chest. The feeling made me a little more than nervous.
Regarding Monday's stage, the last in the Alps, and the stage where Beloki went down:
I couldn't sprint when guys attacked, but I could ride a pretty steady pace on my own that eventually got me back in contact with powerhouses up front. It was a dangerous ride as well since the tar was soft and pretty slippery in some spots. It was really a shame to see Beloki go down like he did. My read on the crash was that he had hit a slick spot where the tar had melted, had his wheel slip out, then got caught up on dry pavement. The speeds combined with the elements made it impossible for him to control his bike. It was a bad situation. And it could have happened to any one of us.
But how about Armstrong, though? I've never seen anything like what he did. The guy just keeps making bike racing history. We could see him crossing the field as we made our way around the switch back. When he darted back into the road I couldn't believe what I was watching him do.
I instinctively threw out my arm to try and give him a push to help get him up to speed, but then I realized I had reached out with my right arm, which is the side with my collarbone fractures. At the last second, I pulled my hand away. I don't think I would have been much help to him anyway. He seemed to have the situation under control. Although his heart rate must have been over 200 at the time.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2003 in Rider diaries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


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SAG's new Interim National Executive Director just sent to members, and posted on SAG.org, a message setting a tone of unity and moving forward. I've included a copy below.
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A Message from Interim National Executive Director David White
Dear Screen Actors Guild member,
As I enter my first full day today as your new Interim National Executive Director, I have reflected on a Los Angeles Examiner story from 1937 that once hung on the wall of my Screen Actors Guild office when I served as General Counsel.
The article chronicled the moment when the studios had finally recognized the Guild as the labor representative for actors in the motion picture industry. A grainy photograph captured members celebrating the news together, the joy in their faces richly evident. That moment, and the incredible work that it took Guild members to reach that moment, have served as the foundation for 75 years of history that has followed.
In my previous tenure at the Guild, I worked alongside several elected National Boards, two presidents (current President Rosenberg and former President Melissa Gilbert) and three National Executive Directors. My intention now, as Interim National Executive Director, will be to work with your current National Board to navigate through a period that is brimming with both challenges and opportunities – from completing our TV/Theatrical negotiations; to preparing for and securing a new Commercials contract as well as several other smaller but critically important labor agreements; to repairing relations with our sister unions; and addressing a polarized political system that is perceived by too many of our members as being close to broken. As we confront these efforts together, my overarching goal is this: to help restore your confidence that this is a union where strong and wise decisions are made despite political differences.
The greatest challenge facing this union is to find a way for democratic leadership to flourish – for disagreement and debate to build into unity and power. The Guild's diversity of opinion should, and must, serve as a source of strength and solidarity. I believe in the Guild's capacity for this. And that is why today I offer two messages to each and every member: First, I will be at the office each day to work with your talented staff and your National Board to achieve objectives that advance your interests as actors; and, second, it is time to turn the page on the most destructive aspects of the Guild's internal politics.
In this swiftly changing environment, we will not be successful if we do not work together. This effort will take an entire union – all members, from background actors, to stunt performers, to voice over actors; those working in film television, commercials, industrials and video games; dancers and singers; middle-class actors, to high-profile ones, to struggling artists working each day to break through for their first chance. We must work together. Because if not, the well-known words that a previous leader offered to a once-divided collection of citizens will matter to us now: united we stand; divided we fall.
During this extraordinary period for both our union and country, I am again reminded of the achievement of the Guild's founders as recounted in that 1937 Los Angeles Examiner story. Their achievement came as a result of a supreme effort by a group of committed performers willing to set aside their differences in pursuit of that shared purpose. The result: they built an organization whose membership card today remains the ultimate benchmark for professional performers. The triumph of the Guild's founders cannot be overstated – nor can the sacrifice, wisdom and political maturity that was required to achieve it.
I enter this interim role with the grand history of the Screen Actors Guild rooted firmly in my mind. I did not seek this position, but I am honored to act as its temporary custodian. You have my pledge that I will direct all my energies to steadying this historic organization and ensuring its success. I thank the Guild's National Board for the confidence and trust they have placed in me on your behalf. And I look forward to working together, in solidarity.
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