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Zynster wrote:Riding on the footpath is legal in Queensland. I haven't seen or heard of any issues arising from this. Most people still ride on the road cause it's smoother and faster. You need to ride pretty slowly on the footpath so as to avoid pedestrians, but it's definitely safer. It seems inconsistent to let bikes mix with cars but not pedestrians. How many pedestrians die from being hit by a bike?
From the Australian Transport Safety Bureau report published in 2006 and titled, Deaths of cyclists due to road accidents.
The next [second] most common crash type was the cyclist riding from the footway into an intersection or onto a road and being hit by an oncoming motor vehicle.
and during the period 1997 - 2004 one death was caused by a collison with a pedestrian.


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PCLOS began almost four years ago as a fork of MandrakeLinux 9.2. Subsequent releases were built and updated upon the previous version. PCLOS 2007 still utilizes some source code from MandrivaLinux, as seen in the startup wizard, hard drive installer, and the PCLinuxOS Control Center.
After the live CD boots the kernel and before a user sees the desktop, a system configuration wizard prompts you for the keyboard, timezone, and network connection you want to use. On my laptop I have a WLAN chip that is dependent upon Windows drivers used under Ndiswrapper. This isn't an obstacle with PCLOS. The wizard allowed me to browse my Windows NTFS hard drive and loaded the chosen driver file. After I filled in the WPA security information, it connected to my wireless router within a few seconds without problems.
If you like the way PCLOS performs on your hardware, you can use the supplied graphical hard drive installer to make it permanent. The quick and easy installer asks a few preliminary questions, copies files to the hard drive, then asks a few configuration questions. All told, it took about 20 minutes to install on my test machines.
PCLOS looks polished and professional. The boot and login processes are dressed up with a new Diamond Plate metal theme, while the KDE desktop features an abstract blue wallpaper with a semi-transparent panel containing a few quick launchers and applets. A beautification team has worked for several months to bring this level of beauty to reality. If you prefer the GNOME desktop, you can select task-gnome in the Synaptic package manager and it will install the complete desktop system.
As for bundled applications, this release includes the full OpenOffice.org suite in the latest stable version. Firefox is the new default browser, although Konqueror is still available. You can see and hear multimedia content through Amarok, MPlayer, Kaffeine, Frostwire, DeVeDe, TVTime, Flash, and Java JRE. To view and manipulate graphics and photos, the distribution provides the GIMP, GQView, digiKam, and Kalbum. Internet applications include XChat, Kopete, Thunderbird, and TightVNC. System tools include K3b, Krusader, GKrellM, and SearchMonkey. Configuration utilities include the KDE Control Panel and the PCLinuxOS Control Panel, an application used to configure a wide variety of system and hardware settings. It lets you set up a firewall, groupware mail services, network devices and connections, system start services, and much more. Under the hood we find Linux-22.214.171.124, Xorg 7.1.1, and GCC 4.1.1.
Firefox and Thunderbird are well-integrated; clicking a Web link in Thunderbird opens the Firefox browser, and clicking an email link in Firefox opens a Thunderbird message window. You can also set images viewed within Firefox as the desktop wallpaper simply by right-clicking on an image and choosing "Set as Background."
Proprietary drivers are no longer included on the live CD, but you can install them (and other software) easily. The Synaptic package manager ably installs customized RPM packages from PCLOS repositories, which contain approximately 5,000 additional packages specially made for PCLOS. It's not advisable to install packages compiled for other RPM-based distributions, such as Mandriva or Fedora, due to possible conflicts and missing or mislocated libraries.
I wished to install the Nvidia proprietary graphic drivers in order to try out PCLOS' 3-D desktops. Searching with Synaptic, I found four sets of Nvidia drivers: ÃÂ 97xx for newer cards, 96xx for the GeForce 2/3 line, 71xx for the TNT series, and the experimental 100.14.xx driver. Installing through Synaptic is as easy as right-clicking the package listing, clicking "Mark for Install," and clicking the Apply button in the tool bar. Synaptic downloaded and installed the packages without issue, and I was instructed to restart X in order to use them. The extra NVIDIA dkms packages, that are pulled in as dependencies, update the the system files saving users the chore of having to edit their /etc/X11/xorg.conf files themselves. In addition, anytime users update their kernel, dkms runs at boot and rebuilds the Nvidia drivers for the new kernel automatically.
Upon restarting the X server, I visited the PCLinuxOS Control Center to enable Beryl. To enable the 3-D desktop, enter the PCC, click the Hardware subheading, and then Configure 3D Desktop Effects. The choices are AIGLX or Xgl and Compiz or Beryl. For my Nvidia chip I chose Xgl and Beryl, and was then prompted to start X again, after which all the experimental effects were enabled. PCLOS lead developer Texstar says that this software is still in development and might be unstable, but for me, all the effects performed as designed with no stability issues whatsoever.
Another feature of PCLOS is its support for multimedia files, whether on the desktop or over the Internet. Although the win32codecs are not included, the video players were able to play any movie file I had on hand. In addition, I had no trouble watching streaming video, Google or YouTube videos, or Apple.com QuickTime movie trailers.
|The project offers a friendly and helpful user forum as well as an IRC channel for those who need support.
PCLOS includes the ability to remaster the distribution as you like. This enables you to craft a live CD containing your choice of applications, customizations, and personal information and settings. To remaster your own PCLOS-based live CD, simply type remasterme into a terminal or console. This is a relatively easy task to perform, although some experience with Bash commands and functions would be helpful.
Hardware support in PCLOS is outstanding. All my hardware worked upon boot, except my wireless chipset, which required a bit of user interaction first. My graphics were correctly identified and the optimal resolution was set, startup sounds greeted my login, and my touchpad worked accurately and smoothly. Setting up a remote printer was as easy as filling in a few blanks in the PCLinuxOS Control Center. Removable media is autodetected; when you connect, a dialog window opens asking if the device should be mounted.
Advanced power-saving features worked wonderfully. In order to take advantage of CPUfreq scaling to slow down the CPU when not in use, I needed to enable it in the PCC under System -> Enable or disable the system services. After enabling ACPI in KLaptop, I was able to take advantage the hibernate function, although suspend didn't seem to work as well for me. As an alternative, I installed KPowersave through Synaptic. When using KPowersave both hibernate and suspend worked well.
In conclusion, I was quite pleased with final release of PCLinuxOS 2007. Its hardware detection and configuration is well above average. All the software I tested was stable and performed well. As delivered PCLOS is missing Kontact, my choice in a mail and news application, and KDE games, but they are available through Synaptic. So, between the included applications and those available in the repositories, PCLOS is a complete system ready for work or play.
With its great looks and out-of-the-box capabilities, PCLOS is a wonderful choice for anyone who wants an elegant yet capable Linux desktop system.

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Can Dr. Doom Predict a Recovery?
Eighteen months ago, Nouriel Roubini was just another little-noticed economic Cassandra. Then Lehman happened. And AIG. And suddenly the dour academic was jet-setting all around the world, appearing nonstop on TV, and playing himself alongside Shia LaBeouf in 'Wall Street 2.' Benjamin Kunkel consults the recession's biggest star to find out what happens next
Eighteen months ago, Nouriel Roubini was just another little-noticed economic Cassandra. Then Lehman happened. And AIG. And suddenly the dour academic was jet-setting all around the world, appearing nonstop on TV, and playing himself alongside Shia LaBeouf in 'Wall Street 2.' Benjamin Kunkel consults the recession's biggest star to find out what happens next
I first met Nouriel Roubini on March 9, at a Dana Point, California, conference for options traders, in the midst of what he'd taken to calling his "world tour." The day before, he'd woken up in Chamonix, France, traveled by way of Geneva to London, and then flown London—San Francisco and San Francisco—L.A., arriving at the Dana Point Ritz-Carlton at two in the morning. Once installed in his hotel room, he wrote one of his pitiless blog posts: "How Low Can the Stock Markets Go? Much Lower.
Seven hours later, he addressed the options traders before being interviewed live on CNBC's Power Lunch. Then, after sitting down with me for a short interview, he was off again, taking a car to LAX and flying to Cartagena, Colombia, for another conference. And before I caught up with him three days later, in New York City, where his consulting firm, Roubini Global Economics, is based and he teaches at NYU's Stern School of Business, he would touch down in São Paulo to brief a Brazilian hedge fund, compose a longish blog post somewhat puzzlingly entitled "Bernie Madoff is the Mirror of a Made-Off Ponzi Economy," and tweet his Facebook friends: "Nouriel is taking a copter to the airport as Sao Paolo car traffic is THE worst in the world."
In the most severe economic crisis in eighty years, demand for just about everything seemed to be falling—everything, that is, besides Nouriel Roubini. Having predicted the meltdown more precisely than anyone else, he had become, to quote The Wall Street Journal, "the nearest thing to a rock-star among the economists." His audiences included hedge funds, European labor unions, and conclaves of wealthy South American families. "In Davos they basically threw themselves at Nouriel, asking, 'What's going to happen next? When? When?'" a Davos attendee told me. "They treated him almost like an astrologer. And it was just disconcerting to think, Oh, my God, these are the movers and shakers of the world, and they're that clueless and helpless."
When CNBC wasn't calling, it was Charlie Rose or The New York Times. And astonishingly—maybe crazily—Roubini appeared to be trying to match the demand for his presence with an equal supply.
As it happened, on March 9 the Dow and SP 500 both sank to their lowest levels in twelve years. Suddenly, in terms of the nation's portfolio, it was as if nothing at all had happened since Alan Greenspan warned of irrational exuberance in late 1996, and after Roubini's talk in the Dana Point Ritz-Carlton's gleaming ballroom, a scrum of traders and institutional investors gathered around him and pelted him with questions about just how much worse it could get: What would happen to the dollar? How much of their portfolios should they put into gold? A smooth-faced man with the alarmingly neat hairline of a recent hair-transplant recipient wanted to know if the Dow might fall to 6,000—it slipped just below 6,500 that day—and there were a dozen people waving their hands behind him, like faltering swimmers signaling a lifeguard.
It was a nervous time—for me, too, of course, and everyone I know. My father, whose retirement was looking about 25 percent less comfortable than before, had e-mailed me questions for Roubini, as had my friend Todd, who lives in a converted warehouse, has no health insurance, and does freelance IT work. The temptation was to treat Roubini as an all-purpose seer, to ask him—as I heard one person do—not just how high unemployment would rise next year but whether this level would trigger social unrest. Roubini's fame was an index of our confusion and distress, and my own questions for him included the obvious ones: Was the economy, in fact, falling apart? And if not, what would a recovery look like once it arrived?
Roubini fielded my questions kindly and patiently but seemed enormously weary. My first impression of him—with his boyish face and large, tired eyes, looking slightly heavy at the time, and dressed in what I later realized was practically his uniform: black suit, white shirt, no tie—was of a harassed and run-down panda bear. Being a macroeconomist, he is a student of what he calls, in his not quite idiomatic English, the "entire enchilada." This means there is a lot to cover. Roubini describes his method of working as eclectic, because his economic predictions rely on wide reading and ad hoc historical analogies as much as on mathematical models. Still, the more time I spent with the man, meeting with him over six months—from the lows of March through the "stress tests" of April and into September, when Ben Bernanke declared the recession "very likely over"—the more his approach seemed to me almost shamanistic. I mean: Just as the shaman will enter a trance and become a puma or an eagle, Roubini appears to be trying to plug himself in and be the global economy. If markets sleep for only a few hours, between the final bell on Wall Street and the start of trading in Tokyo, then Roubini, too, will sleep for only a few hours. If the crisis is global, then Roubini will fly from country to country every other day. And if the financial markets are one giant maw for the devouring of information, Roubini will slip away from every dinner party he attends to follow developments on his BlackBerry.
The nature of capitalism is that it just can't stop, and Roubini can't either—although, come fall, when he'd adopted an ercise regimen, lost a lot of weight, and gained an air of peacefulness absent from our first meetings, I found myself feeling more optimistic about his condition than about that of the U.S. economy. Roubini was going to be fine, but how about the rest of us?
Everywhere Roubini goes, people have two questions: "What's going to happen next?" and "Where are you from?" The curiosity about his origins derives from his air of unplaceable foreignness; you can tell he's not American born but can't immediately guess at another nationality. And in a way Roubini's authority seems reinforced by this cultural mysteriousness. After a global debacle of credulity—in which Spaniards and Irish people and Emiratis told themselves that the real estate bubble wasn't one, and Brazilians and Russians reassured themselves that any problems in the First World wouldn't spread to their own supposedly "decoupled" economies, and the Chinese kept loaning their savings to the overstretched Americans so that someone would absorb the consumer electronics and sporting goods they were turning out—it seems fitting that a man who saw through it all should be, wherever he goes, a foreigner. Someone who knows what's going on must be from somewhere else.
Roubini's peculiar accent is that of a transplanted Italian who still speaks Farsi with his parents and Hebrew with his other relatives. He was born in 1958, in Istanbul, into a well-to-do family of Iranian Jews. His father, a rug dealer, took the family to Tehran and Tel Aviv before settling, when Nouriel was 5, in Milan. As the eldest of three sons, Nouriel was expected to go into the rug business himself, but he discovered early on that he had no particular interest in his father's trade, in his parents' Orthodox Judaism, or in remaining part of the close-knit community of Iranian Jews in Milan. "I was kind of like a black sheep," Roubini told me one day last spring, at a restaurant not too far from the Tribeca loft where he lives alone. (He has never married.)
Still, I said, nobody dreams of growing up to become a macroeconomist. What had he wanted to be as a kid?
"When I was a kid," he recalled after a minute, "there was all this talk about the nuclear power, and nuclear weapons, so I thought that I would become a nuclear engineer." My own sense is that economics appealed to Roubini as a discipline that would allow the trait that sets him apart from most people—his exceptional intelligence—to enable his participation in the world. "The part that is intellectually interesting," he told me, "apart from the massive destruction, is that we are living history. And it affects everybody, and everybody talks about it and tries to suggest what can be done."
Roubini's CV is a roll call of prestigious institutions—Bocconi University in Milan, Harvard, Yale, the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Treasury under Clinton, and now the Stern School—and he bristles whenever it's suggested that he toiled in obscurity before the crisis made his name. Still, knowledge of his work remained for the most part confined to his field until 2004, when he founded his consultancy—and an accompanying blog.
One night in February 2008, between two and four in the morning, Roubini wrote a post called "The Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: The Twelve Steps to Financial Disaster," which in the months that followed came to read like an inverted Alcoholics Anonymous program: Follow these twelve steps and you will be thoroughly blotto, intoxicated with toxic assets. Looking at all the expected losses from mortgages and other loans gone bad, as well as from the so-called alphabet soup of credit derivatives, Roubini estimated total losses to the U.S. financial system of at least $1 trillion, at a time when other analysts were putting the number at $200 billion, or a fifth as much. "A near global economic recession will ensue," he wrote, "as the financial and credit losses and the credit crunch spread around the world."
This gloomy prescience transformed him into a celebrity economic bogeyman, a human rain cloud with a nickname befitting a comic-book villain: Dr. Doom. But Roubini is clearly more hero than villain; he has the comic-book hero's split personality. For ordinary social purposes, he is a pleasant, even gallant person. At one speaking engagement this spring, a woman told him that her son would be taking one of his fall classes at NYU. "If he has the good genes of a bright woman like you," said Roubini, "of course he deserves an A."
Yet when his superpowers of economic analysis are called upon, his manner changes in an instant. The sweetness drops away. He stares straight ahead. He reels off facts but consults no notes. He willy-nilly drops the s's from his plurals, mentioning, for example, the millions of "poor rural starving farmer" in China, and dispenses with articles: Sweden, when it nationalized its banks in the early '90s, "took bull by horns." At first you might suppose that Roubini is thinking in a foreign language, but it's not as though Italian—the main language of his youth—lacks for articles. Besides, he's less like this as Professor Roubini. The grammatical roughness, the frequent recourse to jargon and cliché, the quickness of utterance all belong especially to Dr. Doom, who mostly treats language as a syllabic obstacle course to scramble over in pursuit of the truth. And the pursuit is relentless.
"I spend half my time in airport security lounges," Roubini told me. "I have a computer, so I can work wherever I'm standing." At 51, he exhibits the poor posture and hyperactivity of a teenager. He is so tired from all the traveling that he will sometimes slump to one side when seated at a restaurant banquette; he is so energetic that he will then flop like a freshly landed fish to the other side.
Being a "work-alcoholic" (another Roubini-ism) takes a toll on his social life. The gossip blog Gawker, noting that Roubini—in the midst of a recession!—had allowed himself to be photographed in the company of younger women, labeled him a "playboy economist." In fact, his romantic life seems most notable for its near nonexistence. When we went to a dinner party one night, he joked that I was his first date in four months. During a period last year, he taught at NYU on Tuesday evenings and typically took a flight out of the country each Wednesday, to return on Sunday evening. This left him Monday evenings. "I would meet a woman, she would say, 'What, I am only good enough for a Monday?'"
"You could have said Monday was the new Friday," I offered.
"For me it was the only Friday."
"You can't even have a pet," I said.
"It would die," he confirmed.
"You can't have a plant."
"It would die," he said with a smile.
This gloomy prescience transformed him into a celebrity economic bogeyman, with a nickname befitting a comic-book villain: Dr. Doom. But Roubini is clearly more hero than villain; he has the comic-book hero's split personality.
In the early days of the post—March 9 stock-market rally, Roubini declared the whole thing "a dead cat bounce": no life in it. And yet all through the rainy, reluctant spring, the major indices kept climbing while glimmers of hope and green shoots were being spotted everywhere—corporate earnings picked up slightly, the rate of U.S. job losses tapered off somewhat, banks were found to look, if you squinted, more solvent than many had feared. And curiously enough, Dr. Doom was meanwhile more and more in demand, more famous by the day. Oliver Stone and Shia LaBeouf invited him to make a cameo appearance in Wall Street 2—as himself—and by May the dour genius with the funny accent was being parodied on Saturday Night Live.
It seemed a bit ironic. The zenith of Roubini's fame was coinciding with a moment when people wanted to believe that they didn't need to listen to him anymore. Maybe it was just one of those unbeatable jujitsu moves of the modern media world: To ignore a man, first make him famous. Or maybe his pessimism really had gotten the better of him and he wasn't extending a resilient economy the credit it deserved. An article in the April issue of Portfolio suggested that Roubini had jumped the shark: "If the economy turns up, he could go down as nothing more than a one-hit wonder." (Portfolio, a glossy magazine pitched to rich people, folded with its next issue.)
Roubini spends a lot of his time explaining why, despite signs of improvement, the U.S. economy is still limping from what he likes to call "a hard landing"—a fall from which you don't bounce right back up. He is forever describing recessions in terms of V's, U's, and L's. A V-shaped one is short and shallow, with a quick recovery (as in 1991–92 and 2001–02). A U-shaped recession is long and deep (like the sixteen-monthers of 1974–75 and 1981–82), and with the current recession having begun in December 2007 and unlikely, Roubini thought, to end before this December, it seemed this was the shape we were in. ("L" spells long-term stagnation, as happened to Japan in the '90s.) Still, Roubini expects the U.S. economy to grow again next year, thanks in part to the government's stimulus, if only at 1.5 percent—less than half its historical annual growth rate. And sensitive to charges that he's a perma-bear, he is always at pains to point out that he doesn't think the world is ending.
"If you ask about the medium term," he assured me one day over lunch, "actually, I think the opportunities for global growth on a sustained basis are quite positive. Right now the basic building block of global demand, the U.S. consumer, is faltering; therefore there's a lack of aggregate demand relative to supply. The supply has been rising because China and emerging markets have been investing so much in new factories and new productive capacity. A lack of demand relative to excess supply—that's what the global recession is."
It was debt-fueled American consumer spending that more than anything else had propelled recent economic growth across the globe. If Americans hung new flat-screen TVs on the walls of their houses, this kept Chinese factory workers employed; and if Chinese workers could therefore afford to eat more than in the past, this was a boon to Argentine soybean farmers, for instance, whose resulting demand for more petroleum to run their tractors contributed, in its way, to the high price of oil; and the higher the price of oil went, the more money the government of oil-exporting Norway, say, had to invest in its state-run pension fund; and if Norway's pension fund, which had loaded up on mortgage-backed securities, was to increase in value, this naturally depended on the capacity of Americans to continue paying the mortgages on the houses in which they were hanging their new TVs. It all worked very nicely, until it didn't. The flaw in the system was that it relied on American consumers spending more money than they were earning, money they would only ever earn if the value of their homes and 401(k)s kept rising. This was why Roubini called the U.S. a Ponzi country: "Ponzi borrowers," he noted, are, in the technical sense economists give the term, those who "need persistently increasing prices of the assets they invested in to keep on refinancing their debt obligations."
All through the Bush years, keeping the U.S. and global economies growing had required Americans to spend not just everything they earned but in many cases a good deal more. Spending became not only a kind of civic duty—everyone remembers the post—September 11 exhortation to go shopping—but an almost missionary project: Americans would save the world by absorbing its exports. We would save the world by not saving anything at all! We would give all we had and, through borrowing, more. The premise of all the borrowing and lending was always that the heroic, missionary consumer would one day come up with enough money to pay for everything he had bought, and bought—especially when it came to real estate—at inflated prices because everyone else had also been so eager to buy. Alas, in the end, this money was not forthcoming, because it would have had to come from income, and incomes weren't growing as fast as indebtedness. So the crisis was touched off by the first wave of defaults, the subprime stuff—and according to Roubini, there was still a lot more defaulting to come, on a scale neither Washington nor Wall Street was prepared to recognize.
On Roubini's Web site, you can read an explanation of why "a strong rebound is unlikely." Or you can remember the phrase the financial journalist Doug Henwood used to describe the economy in coming years: the routinization of crappiness.
"You have to have a complete rebalancing of the global economy," Roubini concluded. "These global imbalances are not sustainable anymore." In 2008, American consumer purchasing made up 70 percent of the U.S. economy—and nearly 20 percent of the world's. Now the U.S. and other debt-wracked countries, especially in Europe, would have to start saving. And other countries, notably China, Japan, and Germany—the exporting titans—that had saved more than they spent would now have to learn more extravagant ways. By summer's end, this had become the conventional wisdom—the G20 summit in Pittsburgh produced a communiqué calling for exactly the same thing.
Yet you notice a few things about this line of reasoning. First of all, even when he strains for optimism, Roubini is talking about a complete rebalancing of the global economy, something that arguably hasn't happened since 1945. Second, his hopefulness pertains to the world economy as a whole rather than to the U.S. specifically. For Americans, Roubini imagines a future of weak recovery and increasing thrift—of tight credit, high unemployment, and (if oil prices rise while overall growth remains weak) possible '70s-style stagflation. Anyone who ever fell off a bike as a kid remembers that variety of hard landing in which the relief you feel that you aren't as badly injured as in midair you feared you would be gives way to dismay that now it hurts to walk. On Roubini's Web site, you can read a wonkish explanation of why "a strong rebound is unlikely." Or you can remember the more colorful phrase the financial journalist Doug Henwood used in anticipating the years ahead: the routinization of crappiness.
This rhymes nicely with the pursuit of happiness but is bound to feel pretty different. Across the span of my lifetime, the generally fast-growing U.S. had been the anomaly among rich countries, a peak surrounded by lowlands, and the more time I spent with Roubini, the more I wondered whether, with this latest recession, we Americans weren't trudging down the mountain of special prosperity for good.
Roubini and I had spent a lot of our time together in downtown bars and restaurants that, like many places in New York this year, featured loud pulsing music and a sparse clientele, as if a partying soundtrack could conceal the lack of partiers, spenders, takers-on of debt. The world economy was going to miss those people, and we Americans, I felt, were going to miss being them. I could dimly remember, from my 1970s and early-'80s childhood, a mood of national chagrin percolating into the household, a sense among my parents and their friends—a sense simultaneously abashed and nostalgic—that it had been a pretty crazy party, and now the party was over. One of the first things I knew about my country was that its best days were past. And then, for a number of years, with the end of the Cold War and the huge morphing bubble that came after—the bubble that swelled and shrank and swelled again, from the dot-com craze through the real estate boom—I felt that we'd all been reprieved, restored to national glory. Not that I myself made any money from the bubble, but I derived a little surplus sensation of significance and prestige from being American at a time of such incredibly rolling prosperity. Life outside the bubble threatened to feel flatter, colder, grayer, as well as more anxious—on the whole, much more middle-aged—than the warmly self-important life inside.
I'd asked Roubini for some reflections on what might happen to his adopted country in the pinched, precarious years ahead. But this was one question he always refused to answer. "That's not my comparative advantage," he would say.
I'd asked Roubini on a number of occasions for some reflections on what might happen to his adopted country in the pinched, precarious years ahead, as the routinization of crappiness set in. How would people used to perpetually brightening future prospects accustom themselves to something closer to stagnation? But this was one question Roubini always refused to answer. "That's not my comparative advantage," he would say about social and cultural matters. He just does the math and leaves the rest to us, to confront with whatever comparative advantage we can muster.
As the year wore on, Roubini became increasingly isolated in his pessimism. By the end of summer, the Dow was up almost 50 percent since March and mounting higher with each week, soon to cross 10,000 again. Among the best performers were financial stocks, as the banks booked large profits—and postponed into the indefinite future a full acknowledgement of their losses. "Delay and pray," Roubini called the tactic.
One balmy mid-September evening, I went to hear him give a talk at the Down Town Association in New York, hardly a block from Wall Street. Stepping into the club, you would never have guessed that, a year before, capitalism had seemed to be plunging into one of its worst-ever crises, or that crises occurred at all. The great heavy cream-colored drapes in the dining room, the pale blond herringbone floor, the tall pilasters with their gilt entablature, the portraits in oil of past association presidents with names like A. Pennington Whitehead—everything suggested the most durable and unshakable prosperity.
Tonight Roubini would be addressing a group of important brokers and bankers known as the Money Marketeers. The Marketeers were founded in homage to one Marcus Nadler, a penniless Austrian immigrant who rose to join the Federal Reserve and, at the outset of the Great Depression, enunciated what the Marketeers Web site reverently calls Old Doc Nadler's Remedy: "You're right if you bet that the United States Economy will continue to expand," Nadler declared. "You're wrong if you bet that it is going to stand still or collapse."
Over the summer, Roubini had hired a personal trainer, and he was looking compact and slim inside his suddenly too roomy panda outfit. "I started ercising every other day," he said. "I was feeling grossed out." He might still be traveling too much—"Being on an airplane on Rosh Hashanah night is a bit pathetic," he told me—but in August he had gone so far as to take "a real three-, four-day vacation" as a guest of George Soros. The taste of idleness seemed even to be influencing his economic thinking. "We don't include leisure in our measure of GDP," he complained.
But behind the lectern, it was the same as ever, Dr. Doom delivering his prognosis in a heavy monotone. "The key issue," he said, speaking too close to the mike and in this way giving his pronouncements a special booming harshness, "is not whether the recession is over today or in three months but whether over the medium term growth is going to be robust or anemic, or even whether there's a risk of a double-dip recession." (The letter W, for double-dip, had been added to Roubini's grim alphabet of V's and U's.) "And I believe the recovery is going to be anemic." He laid out the persistent sources of this persistent belief: Banks, with their bad assets still weighing on them, remained unable and unwilling to lend as before; U.S. households were increasingly indebted and decreasingly employed; and corporations were still improving their balance sheets by cutting costs (including jobs) rather than increasing revenue.
The assembled Marketeers responded with polite, if skeptical, applause. They no longer had much need for Dr. Doom. Financial institutions that a year before had been considered too big to fail were now, thanks to consolidation, even bigger. The government guaranteed their survival, underwrote their bonds, and provided them virtually free money, which they could employ speculatively or—something they were less interested in—loan to businesses and consumers. ("Too big to fail is now too bigger to fail," Roubini told me. "Welcome to the great financial crisis of 2014.") In the first days of the rally, the incurable optimists who dominate shows like Fast Money had sometimes worried that the market was getting ahead of itself: "Did today's late slide confirm Roubini's view?" asked the crawl at the bottom of the screen when the numbers ran red and the arrows pointed down. But by September, the equity-price cheerleaders were hardly looking back and ordinary investors were pouring their depleted savings into the market. The day of Roubini's Marketeers speech, Ben Bernanke would declare the recession likely over, and the CNBC ticker posed the question: "A V-shaped recovery?"
As the clapping died down, I turned to the guy sitting next to me and asked what he made of Roubini. Divyesh, a bright-eyed 28-year-old from New Delhi, had arrived in New York exactly one week before, to work for the Dutch insurance conglomerate ING. He could see, he allowed, why everything Roubini had mentioned might amount to a very big problem. "But I am very bullish. I have not a penny in bonds—all in stocks!"
There it was: Old Doc Nadler's confidence potion flying off the shelves. Was it possible that Roubini, through an excess of rationality, had failed to contemplate the resilience of what someone once called America's Wile E. Coyote economy? Wile E., of course, could run across thin air as long as he believed it was solid ground; and even after he took fright, glanced down, and plunged to the bottom of the canyon, he immediately sprang back up and took off again in search of his prey. His foolishness was a kind of genius—no hard landings for him.
So, I asked Divyesh, what had the market gotten right that Roubini hadn't?
"His reasoning was very correct," Divyesh replied. "But the results of it were not."
_Benjamin Kunkel is the author of Indecision and an editor-at-large for _n + 1.


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1. Sew the sleeves back on his sweaters.
2. Start a rebuttal campaign against Dan Savage to make "savage" mean "fierce, uncivilized, or rude." Buy a dictionary. Declare himself successful.
3. Unclench a few muscles, maybe.
4. Finally send Rick Perry that ambiguously flirty email that's been in his drafts since last June.
5. Pull a series of "Parent Trap"-style pranks to get Church and State back together.
6. Saunter down supermarket aisles poking holes in condom boxes.
7. Read a book, go the beach, continue to harbor venomous hatred toward minorities and women.
8. Buy all the world's porn so that "no one has to see it."
9. Publish his Ronald Reagan fan fiction anthology.
10. Learn about all the amazing social and historical progress that has come to pass since 1955.


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Immunomodulator medicines weaken or suppress the immune system.
Immunomodulators are used for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that:
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine work to keep people who have Crohn's disease in remission. They are also used to allow the person to stop using corticosteroids.1
Mercaptopurine may be able to prevent Crohn's disease from coming back after surgery. It can at least lengthen the amount of time without disease after surgery. It's likely that azathioprine works as well.1
Both azathioprine and mercaptopurine can treat and heal fistulas.1
Methotrexate works to stop symptoms of active Crohn's disease and to put the disease in remission. It can keep Crohn's disease in remission when taken long term. It is also used to help people who have Crohn's disease stop taking corticosteroids.1
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine work to stop active symptoms of ulcerative colitis. They can also be used to help people who have ulcerative colitis stop taking corticosteroids.1
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
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Common side effects include:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
These medicines can stop your immune system from fighting infection. When you are taking this medicine (and even when you have finished taking it), try not to be around people who are sick. And make sure you talk to your doctor before you get any vaccinations.
These medicines may increase your risk of getting cancer, including lymphoma.
Do not drink alcohol when you are taking these medicines. Combining alcohol with these medicines can increase your risk for liver damage.
Other immunomodulators that may be used for Crohn's disease include mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept), tacrolimus (Prograf), and thalidomide (Thalomid).
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine
Women who use this medicine during pregnancy have a slightly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you and your doctor must weigh the risks of using this medicine against the risks of not treating your condition.
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF) (What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
- American Gastroenterological Association (2006). American Gastroenterological Association Institute medical position statement on corticosteroids, immunomodulators, and infliximab in inflammatory bowel disease. Gastroenterology, 130(3): 935–939. Available online: http://www.gastro.org/practice/medical-position-statements.
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2014 Toyota Camry Hybrid: New Car Review
For many shoppers, "hybrid" is associated with "expensive." After all, most hybrid cars are far more expensive than their traditional gas-powered counterparts, right?
Not so with the 2014 Toyota Camry Hybrid. Yes, it's a little more expensive than the standard Camry, but it doesn't command the hybrid premium expected by many shoppers. Instead, it asks you to pay more upfront. In return, it gives you a lot more in fuel economy and range.
While the Camry Hybrid was once wildly popular thanks to few challengers from rival brands, things have changed in the last few years. New competitors include the Ford Fusion Hybrid, the Honda Accord Hybrid, the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid and the Nissan Altima Hybrid -- and more are on their way. While the Camry Hybrid is still an excellent vehicle, we certainly suggest you scout the competition, even if you're a loyal Camry buyer.
What's New for 2014?
The Camry Hybrid is unchanged for the 2014 model year.
What We Like
Gas mileage is an improvement over the standard Camry; pricing is very reasonable; roomy interior; good ride and handling
What We Don't
Fuel economy doesn't compare to rivals; build quality could be better
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The Camry Hybrid offers one engine: a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder that makes 156 horsepower from its gasoline engine and 44 hp from its electric motor for a combined 200 hp. The only available transmission is a CVT automatic. Fuel economy ranges from 43 miles per gallon city/39 mpg hwy for the base-level Camry LE Hybrid to 40 mpg city/38 mpg hwy for the upscale Camry XLE Hybrid. The difference is due to the XLE's larger wheels and tires.
Standard Features & Options
The Camry Hybrid is offered in two trim levels: LE and XLE.
Shoppers who pick the base-level LE ($26,900) get keyless entry with push-button starting, 16-inch steel wheels with hubcaps, cruise control, dual-zone automatic climate control, a 6.1-in touchscreen display, a USB/iPod interface, Bluetooth and automatic headlights.
Step up to the XLE ($29,400) and you'll get 17-in alloy wheels, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a power driver's seat and fog lights.
Major options for the Camry Hybrid include leather upholstery, a power sunroof, a power passenger seat, heated front seats, a navigation system, an upgraded JBL audio system and Toyota's Entune infotainment system, which includes apps, traffic information and other services.
The 2014 Toyota Camry Hybrid has the usual assortment of safety equipment and then some, boasting stability control and no fewer than 10 airbags (front, side, side-curtain and knee). A blind spot monitoring system with rear cross-traffic alert is available on the Camry XLE.
So how does it all work? In government crash testing, the non-hybrid Camry wasn't perfect, but its scores of four stars for frontal protection, five stars for side protection and four stars for rollover protection were good enough to earn the maximum overall score of five stars. We expect that the hybrid model would perform in largely the same way.
Behind the Wheel
The Camry Hybrid drives exactly like a traditional Camry, and that's a good thing. There are no intrusive noises from the hybrid system, and the car doesn't show you in any way that it's any different from a regular Camry -- unless you're at the pump. Handling is surprisingly composed, while acceleration is acceptable though not lightning-fast. If you're interested in the "sporty" model of the hybrid bunch, we'd recommend checking out the Ford Fusion Hybrid.
Beyond the Camry Hybrid's driving dynamics, the interior is a nice place to spend time. Build quality is inconsistent, but we generally feel the sedan is up to midsize-sedan par. And we enjoy the touchscreen infotainment system, too. Expect no surprises here and you won't be disappointed.
Other Cars to Consider
Ford Fusion Hybrid -- The Fusion Hybrid is only slightly more expensive than the Camry, but its 47 mpg rating in city or highway driving blows Toyota out of the water.
Honda Accord Hybrid -- At nearly $30,000, the Accord Hybrid is far more expensive than a Camry Hybrid. But the Accord's gas-mileage ratings are class-leading: The sedan returns an Environmental Protection Agency rating of 50 mpg city.
Hyundai Sonata Hybrid -- The Sonata Hybrid can't touch the Camry for fuel economy, as it returns just 36 mpg city/40 mpg hwy. But pricing is a little cheaper, and the Sonata offers a bolder appearance.
AutoTrader's Advice
If you want a Camry Hybrid, we strongly suggest the base-level LE model and adding a few options that bring the car to your liking. It's hard to justify the XLE's price increase, unless you must have those alloy wheels -- especially considering the XLE actually decreases the sedan's stellar gas mileage.


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USDA resource helps schools, parents transition to new meal pattern
The 2012-13 school year marks the beginning of school meal changes under the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act. Changes will be phased in, beginning this year, with full implementation by 2022.
State Report Card available online
The 2012 Report Card, which details student progress on South Dakotas state assessment, was made available online last month.
New federal regulations address boilers and generators
The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new federal standards for generators and boilers.
School library data ready to compare and contrast
The State Library now has your 2011-12 school library statistics available for access and comparisons.
States ACT scores steady, still above national average
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Some time ago I come up with this great corporate motivational tune - here – which became quite success – it was even on the top on weakly sales. It actually give me this kind of kick to produce some more that kind of stuff. Based on "natural" instruments – drums, guitars, pianos, strings … etc.
I know for sure from one of customers where it was used and to be honest with you it did work well – promotional video for book about positive thinking. Don't you think ?
Anyway … I'm trying to bring something similar to that very first Eco-rporate and I think this one is the closest one, however keeping unique climate.
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Local track stars shine at Danbury High's Dream Invitational; Hatters' Healey wins steeplechase
DANBURY -- It's a track meet custom-made for fast times and record-breaking performances, and there were plenty of both of those at the Danbury High Dream Invitational on Friday night.
Each year, the nationally sanctioned Dream Invitational gathers an elite collection of athletes to showcase their talents in one of a handful of events under the best conditions possible.
No team scores are kept, each athlete competes in only one event and the cool evening air is perfect for running. And the meet is held at a time in the season -- right before the championship meets -- when most runners are beginning to peak. All those ingredients make for some exciting races and blistering paces.
"This is a great way to kick off the championship season," Danbury coach Rob Murray said. "Kids are trying to get ready to finish the last chapter of the outdoor season. Everyone wants to tune up and run fast. And in this environment, kids don't have a lot of pressure because there are no team points on the line and there are no doubles or triples that kids have to do for team points."
It's sort of like the track and field version of Friday Night Lights.
And the stars certainly came out to shine.
Danbury High's Patrick Healey won the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 6:23.42, edging Ellington's Neil Hulstein by a little more than a second.
"I was pretty happy," Healey said. "It was me and just one other kid, and we were just working together and trying to run as fast as possible. It was a few seconds off of (a national qualifying time), which was my goal, but it was still a good race."
Fairfield Prep's Adam Vare won the 800 in 1:54.81, followed by Logan Ross of Shepaug in 1:56.56 and fellow Jesuit James Mulliken in 1:56.58.
Fairfield Prep's Christian Alvarado won the mile in 4:11.94, setting his school's record as well as the meet record. The previous meet record of 4:13.3 was set in 2009 by John McGowan of the Sidwell Friends School (Washington, D.C.). Dhahran Velasquez of Capital Prep finished second in 4:14.47, which set his school's record. He led for much of the race, with Alvarado taking the lead with about half a lap to go.
"I'm really pleased, and a little bit shocked, to be honest," Alvarado said of his performance. "My goal was to get a personal record, which was 4:16, and hopefully get the school record, which was 4:14. I knew coming here that I would have a good shot at that because the conditions are perfect. The track is fast, it's at night, so it's pretty cool, and Danbury High School does a great job of setting up this meet for us high-schoolers. It's a great meet. I love it."
East Hampton's Tyler Rubega won the pole vault competition, clearing 13-10. Danbury's Leland Roberts came in second, clearing 13-0. Rubega cleared 13-6 on his first attempt, and Roberts missed at 13-6 on his two attempts at 13-6, giving Rubega the win. Rubega then went for 13-10 to set his school's record and cleared it on his first try. He then took three cracks at clearing 14-1 and missed on all three.
In the men's open 1,500 meters, Central Connecticut State freshman Joe Gioilli, a former Wolcott High standout, won in 4:00.84.


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The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) division of the Galveston County Health District (GCHD) is happy to announce its next free classes for parents, guardians or caregivers of children up to 12-months old.
The Incredible Years, a collaboration with the Family Service Center of Galveston County, will be held at both the Texas City and Galveston WIC clinics. Each class is 10-weeks in length and meets weekly.
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Great I can talk to someone!!!!!!!26 messages in this subject.
|For some reason I could never find a descent ulcer forum. I am a 31 year old man and I have suffered from mouth ulcers as far as I can remember. As a 5 year old I remember how painful these suckers used to be. Currently I have 3 on the left side of my mouth, 2 on the right, one on the tongue and one on the roof of my mouth. Reading these posts almost made me tear up!
Man! I am really fed up of getting ulcers almost every other month. Its such a torture seeing the small dot and knowing damn! here they come again and they will grow to half cm+ killers!!!!
Anyway do you guys feel the following things when you have ulcers?
1- Feel very tired and sleepy.
2- Feel strange in the stomach...I dont know how to describe . Its a burning type of feeling when I have ulcers in the mouth.
3- Very depressed and sad! :-(
4- Feel irritated with your partner? Luckily my wife is very understanding and loving :-)
This has really messed up the quality of my life. I hate when they come on the lips as on top of pain I have problems talking normal with people.
Man is there never going to be a cure found for this suffering????????????????
|Vegie_junkie 5 May 05
|Btw I have had blood check up and everything is perfect!
|Vegie_junkie 5 May 05
|Vegie_junkie 5 May 05
|Here I go again! Have you tried Colchicine? It is a medication that needs to be prescribed by a doctor. It isnt a cure it just prevents the sores from erupting. Im currently taking .6mg two times a day. The prescription is rather inexpensive too. This drug is typically used to treat Gout. I definitely do NOT have Gout. It just happens that Colchicine also works for canker sores.
I live in the U.S. and have had great success with a dermatologist I found that works in a University hospital. I would never have thought a dermatologist would be the specialty that would end up helping me. But she did! I truly thank God for her. I merely went to her out of desparation.
Anyway, I still do get canker sores on occasion however I get maybe one at a time and not 5 or 6. Also, they are not near as severe as they use to be. I have weeks in between with nothing at all! I still hate that I get any and I still am searching to find answers. However, my life has improved dramatically since being on the Colchicine.
I also found I needed to eliminate tomatoes from my diet. Ive also significantly reduced the amount of sugar Im eating too. Sugar suppresses the immune system so it is definitely not good for us canker sore sufferers.
There are other postings about trying a gluten free diet etc. You might want to take a look at that since you have suffered for so many years.
Let me know if you try the Colchicine and the outcome.
Good Luck!
|Betty Boop 6 May 05
|Hi my name is zoe pattison and i hate needles but i also faint from them.
|Zoe Pattison 6 May 05
|Thanks for answering. I read almost all the posts but there is something special when someone answers diredtly :-)
No I have never tried Colcchine. Does it not have any side effects? I dont eat sweets stuff anyway. Would you class eating LOT of grapes as sweet stuff as well?
I do feel burning stomach most of the time when I have an outbreak. What does that mean?
Is natural yogurt good??????
|Vegie_junkie 6 May 05
|Vegie_junkie.........here is a message that I posted..........have you ever tried finding a trigger for your ulcers??
..................Right, Ive been snooping.
Snooping into why I think (know) Red Bull gives me mouth ulcers. My story is that I have always suffered badly from mouth ulcers. Over the past 18 months they were particularily bad, about 5 mouths ago a colleague (god love him) suggested that I stop drinking Red Bull as he thought it was evil stuff. Now, I have always been a partial to Red Bull what with working shifts etc so I did and cut out all fizzy drinks and tried sticking to water, fresh juices (......and the occasional beer and glass of wine...ahem...). My mouth was like heaven. Unulcerated and very happy. If I did get the odd ulcer then it lasted a DAY, not the usual two weeks.
Whilst cutting out fizzy pop I also took Vit B Complex and changed my toothpaste to an SLS free one......my mouth was very happy.
About two weeks ago I was slightly hungover and thought What harm could one Red Bull do?...........My mouth was on fire within a day and I couldnt speak/eat/drink/sleep.
Devastated that Id been so silly to try and outwit my intolerence, I slunk off with my tail between my legs.
When I was a kid I was very allergic to Tartrazine (E102).....its an orange food colouring. It gave me eczema.......and thinking about it, I always had mouth ulcers when I was a nipper too.
Right, so looking at tartrazine on the internet and reading up on side effects etc it seems that it CAN give some people with an intolerance, MOUTH ULCERS.
Also, tartrazine is in Red Bull - according to a report on the internet.................
.....So now I reckon, that tartrazine causes my ulcers and as tartrazine is in Red Bull, I get them because of that.
Have I made sense?
I wonder if anyone else has noticed something similar??? Id be very interested to hear your thoughts on the subject.
Kind regards Vegie_junkie.
|Lucie 6 May 05
|Well I have been trying to work out what triggers it without any luck.
I have not tasted pepsi, red bull etc for almost 5 years. I am bit of a health freak. I dont like sweets anyway. My diet has been vegetarian for last 5 years. I take Multi-vitamins I eat tons of fruits, vegetables, soya, pulses, chick-peas etc etc.
I think I will start writting down everything I eat and see if I can pin point a culprit. Cashew nuts and wall nuts seem to trigger it sometimes but other times I might eat lot of them and nothing happens. Anyway I dont eat them anymore but still get these ulcers!
The only common thing I can see between all ulcer attacks is upset tummy. I feel a burning sensation in my stomach.
|Vegie_junkie 6 May 05
|Lucie, I have had found the same problem with colouring in a sweet called minties which had a colour called Carmousine. its just a matter of finding what foods have these colourings in them i have pinointed it to lollies and soft drinks.
|Michael 7 May 05
|I think chocolate might be a trigger for me but I am still very much in denial!
|Plum 7 May 05
|Red bull is ABSOLUTLY a trigger for mine
|john 23 June 10
|BUSH 6 July 10
|I also think chocolate may be a trigger for mine, I am addicted and when I eat it, it aggravates them!
|Lyndsey 4 November 10
|RED BULL SETS it off for me as well. Havent had much of a problem untill I drink a can of that stuff. I was drinking the low cal stuff. No more red bull for me
|pete 31 August 11
|My boyfriend also has a problem with Red Bull causing painful sores in his mouth. Not worth him telling me they hurt so much when he knows what to do to make it stop! We're talking about $10-$20 every day on Red Bull..ridiculous.. No more Red Bull! Not to mention what they charge for it...
|cd 18 October 11
|Why don't you try Kelp seaweed extracts in pill forms, they are natural sea plants from the ocean, pretty much three time's powerful than land plants. Lots of additional health benefits, no side-effects, reasonable price not expensive either, can buy online any website beautiful results, best part you feel like a million bucks! A stess free feeling with out of the blue energy. I've haven't had an ulcer while using this extract, cuz Red-Bull is my ulcer trigger and if your mouth dries you know your getting close to getting a ulcer. Later
|Willie 19 October 11
|Redbull,Coffee,Chocolagte defo causes. If I have 1 redbull mouth on fire within hours
|painfulperson 27 October 11
|I have never ever had what I think to be mouth ulcer (i hope so anyways). I've drank Red Bull before but it may of been half a can or so here and there (here and there i mean weeks) but I started up drinking them 4-5 times a week, on the weekends for work here the past month and started getting a sore tongue. it a large white spot along the side of it (looks to be about a little over an inch long and about quarter of an inch wide), and with what it looks like flaky skin on the top (like it was pulled off). But what scares me is the frog in the throat feeling i got about a few days before the sore appeared. which may be nothing since i did have a sinus infection a few weeks ago. But it just seems all odd. Honestly the first thing that popped in my head was the Red Bull causing it...but then I started reading the indications of oral cancer which really got me worried.
|Aaron 13 December 11
|i have flu like mouth sores dry mouth and upset stomach. Any answers......
|Tim 29 February 12
|I live in Canada and find if I eat chocolate made in Canada I am more likely to get an ulcer. However, I often eat dark chocolate from Germany and don't have a problem. Something in North American chocolate must be the problem.
|Maureen 2 March 12
You should go get an oral cancer screening at your local dentist to be safe.
|red_bull_ulcers 10 April 15
|Glad to hear that the sores on my tongue aren't unusual. I love my Tito's Vodka and Red Bulls, but when I drink a lot of them (and I tend to do that on a regular basis), I get sores on my tongue. My wife doesn't like me drinking the Red Bull, anyway. I guess I need to switch back to Bombay Sapphire Gin and straight tonic.
I had been drinking the Tito's and Red Bull, because Tito's is less expensive than the Bombar Sapphire. but I've realized that when you look at the price of the Red Bull, Bombay Sapphire and tonic may be less expensive than Tito's and Red Bull, anyway.
|Nauti Rogue 10 May 16
|I can't even recall the last time I had a sore in my mouth and after having two cans of red bull within 24 hours of each other I have a painful sore in my mouth. The only different thing I've done recently is try red bull again, I'm convinced it was caused by the drink.
|Ruben 1 June 16
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Leonard Peltier: Victimized by Criminal InjusticeWritten by Stephen Lendman Subject: Police State
A Leonard Peltier Defense Committee site can be accessed through the following link:
It calls him:
-- an artist;
-- writer;
-- great-grandfather;
-- 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee;
-- 2004 Peace and Freedom Party primary ballot presidential candidate nominee;
-- advocate of resolving all issues peacefully;
-- human and indigenous rights activist; and
-- wrongfully imprisoned political prisoner since 1976.
Peltier was framed, convicted and imprisoned for the deaths of two FBI agents, killed during a 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota shoot-out. Though innocent, he's currently serving two consecutive life terms - not for murder, for activism.
A Free Leonard.org site covers facts about his case, accessed through the link below:
It says attorneys representing him filed FOIA requests to obtain previously unavailable government information. Federal obstruction so far prevents it to conceal disturbing revelations, proving his innocence.
Incarcerated since 1976, he's been denied parole, clemency, a pardon, due process justice on appeal, (including by the US Supreme Court), or retrial for serious prosecutorial and FBI irregularities, including fabricated evidence to frame him. More on it below.
The FBI also targeted him for assassination in prison. Moreover, he's been brutalized in solitary confinement numerous times, and at age 66, suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, heart and prostate problems, as well as other health issues.
Peltier, in fact, was targeted for being a Native American activist, a topic Ward Churchill addressed in numerous books and an article titled, "The Covert War Against Native Americans," saying:
Liberation organizations like the American Indian Movement (AIM), International Indian Treaty Council, and Women of All Red Nations struggle for Native American rights.
"In essence, their positions imply nothing less than the literal dismantlement of the modern (US) empire from the inside out. The stakes involved are tremendous," including treaty obligations denied, involving land, resources, human and civil rights.
By imprisoning "Native American freedom fighters," federal authorities "have been free to pursue programs of physical repression within America's internal colonies" like abroad.
"At one level, this has meant the wholesale jailing of the movement's leadership. Virtually every know AIM leader has been incarcerated in either state or federal prisons" since 1968 or earlier, "some repeatedly."
"This, in combination with accompanying time spent in local jails awaiting trial, the high costs of bail and legal defense," and time spent at trial is calculated malfeasance to wear down resistance, drain resources to pursue it, and "cripple (movement) strength."
Peltier is perhaps its best know victim, denied justice to isolate, silence, and let him rot behind prison bars unjustly.
1973 Wounded Knee Siege and Tragedy
Beginning February 27, 1973, it lasted 71 days, a confrontation between AIM activists v. FBI thugs and complicit Native American vigilantes - so-called "GOONS, (Guardians of Our Oglala Nation)," battling on the wrong side against their own.
In fact, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Tribal Council corruption, as well as out-of-control tension, got Lakota Nation elders to ask AIM for help. On February 27, armed Oglala Sioux reclaimed Wounded Knee, wanting their 1868 treaty rights honored.
It stated that "(t)he government of the United States desires peace, and its honor is hereby pledged to keep it." It also re-affirmed all Indian rights granted under the 1851 Treaty, abrogated and denied, nonetheless, like others.
Before the 1770s, the Great Sioux Nation held territories from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains and from the Yellowstone to Platte Rivers. Its famed leaders included Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud and Black Elk, among others.
Until the Treaty of 1868, they were the richest northwestern plains Native American nation. However, treaties made and broken changed their lives. Settlers, railroads, and mining interests stole their lands and resources. Now they wanted them back.
When AIM took over Wounded Knee, over 75 Indian Nations were represented, and more supporters arrived daily from around the country. Against them were GOONS, FBI thugs, federal marshals, and National Guard troops, surrounding and cutting them off, yet supporters still got through.
When it ended, an FBI/BIA "reign of terror" began. Lasting three years, roving death squads killed at least 342 AIM members and supporters. Hundreds more were harassed and beaten, and over 560 others arrested. Only 15 were convicted of a crime. Perhaps none, in fact, were guilty.
Brief Timeline of Peltier's Case
-- June 26, 1975: FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams killed at Wounded Knee;
-- February 6, 1976: Peltier arrested in Hinton, Alberta, Canada, then held for an extradition hearing;
-- June 18, 1976: he's ordered extradited to America;
-- March/April 1977: he's tried for killing Coler and Williams;
-- April 18, 1977: he's convicted on two counts of first-degree murder;
-- June 1, 1977: he's sentenced to two consecutive life terms in federal prison;
-- he's subsequently denied parole, retrial, clemency, a pardon, or justice on appeal.
Evidence of FBI and Prosecutorial Obstruction of Justice
-- witnesses were intimidated and coerced, including children;
-- key defense witnesses were prohibited from testifying;
-- evidence refuting conflicting ballistics reports was ruled inadmissible;
-- no one could identify Peltier as Coler and Williams' killer;
-- a climate of fear was created at trial;
-- evidence was fabricated;
-- exculpating evidence was withheld;
-- perjured testimonies and affidavits were used;
-- jury tampering was discovered;
-- FBI provocateurs gave GOONS illegal arms and ammunition to commit murder;
-- FBI and federal judges ex parte contact compromised Peltier's right to due process and judicial fairness; and
-- false inflammatory testimony was permitted at trial.
Overall, Department of Justice malfeasance framed Peltier, manipulating jurors to wrongfully convict him. In fact, authorities later admitted they weren't sure who killed Coler and Williams or if Peltier was involved. Moreover, hundreds of FBI-instigated "reign of terror" killings were never investigated. Government-sponsored killers remain free.
Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner who "should be immediately and unconditionally released." Of course, he never should have been arrested, extradited, tried, convicted or imprisoned.
Governments, past and present congressional members, and hundreds of world dignitaries agree, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mikail Gorbachov, and former MP/anti-war activist Tony Benn.
Repressive Democrat and Republican leaders keep him imprisoned, waging war against truth, justice and democratic values ruthlessly, filling America's gulag with many thousands of innocent men, women and children.
A Final Comment
On June 26, part of a Peltier statement to friends and relations said:
"I always try to come to you full of good spirit and vigor. But I cannot lie. There are days when the ugliness of my situation weighs me down....I never thought this could happen. I never believed law enforcement and the government (would) keep their dirty laundry hidden away" this long.
Yet through dedicated efforts, "we have learned of hidden evidence, coerced testimony, and outright lies by the FBI and prosecutors....I am living proof that my case is about squashing Indian rights and Indian sovereignty."
Those responsible for framing him will live "their last moments (in) shame....If you believe in truth, justice, honor, freedom, all of what is supposed to make America great, then help me open the door to my release....join my cause....and do all you can to eradicate injustice."
Aho! Mitakuye Oyasin (All my relations, as part of a prayer for oneness and harmony with all forms of life)
Doksha (See you before long). Lakota has no word for goodbye.
Leonard Peltier
On June 27, he was placed in solitary confinement for six months. According to his attorney, Robert R. Bryan, it was for minor infractions, saying imprisonment weakened him, adding:
"Officials are using (excuses) to torture my 66-year-old client. His health is poor because of decades of imprisonment. It is an attempt to break and intimidate him."
In fact, they're trying to kill him. Currently incarcerated at US Penitentiary, Lewisburg, PA, he called his cell a "cement steel hotbox" with little ventilation. As a result, he's "drenched in hot sweat," Bryan saying he was put in a "hellhole."
He's there 23 hours a day weekdays, 24 hours on weekends, given no personal visits, and allowed to shower Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
That's how distinguished activists are treated in America, notably Muslims and people of color, including Native Americans, continuing a centuries long genocidal process.
Lewisburg is the oldest US federal prison. It's also one of the most notorious. Bureau of Prisons says it's now:
"run entirely as a Special Management Unit (SMU) as a more controlled and restrictive environment for managing the most aggressive and disruptive inmates from USP general population."
Though a model prisoner, Peltier was sent there before. According to Bryan:
"They're hoping he'll die there, that he'll be forgotten there" and perish, denied justice his friends and supporters worldwide won't ever quit fighting for. Nor will they let up condemning ruthless officials who destroy human beings for political advantage.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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December 9, 2010
DIY Gift Ideas # 4 :: Whimsical Pillows...
The week hasn't exactly been going as planned but things seem to have calmed down now. I hope. I didn't forget about the promise I made earlier this week - the only problem was finding half an hour to get my act together (and half an hour of good light as well). And I did today!
So, here's our most fantastic pillow ever! My girls' very favorite (and mine as well) totally whimsical triangular shaped pillow (this is actually the simpler version of a pillow I made a little while back but which didn't make it to the blog yet, somehow). It's absolutely fun to make and more importantly, it's absolutely easy to make. A perfect beginner's sewing craft. As a matter of fact we each made one. Little H. made the blue with mountain scenery one, big girl M. made the flowered one and I did the striped one. All three fabrics are from IKEA. The felt balls I still had here at home (no, Michelle, we didn't make them, though given all the roving I still have I might give it a try!). So, if you're still looking for a fun handmade present or for something to keep the kids busy during the holidays, keep on reading! All it takes is three seams and some stuffing!
What you'll need:
- fabric: a 32cm x 64cm piece of heavy cotton, denim, canvas,... (seam allowance included)
- 4 felt beads in assorting colors - pompoms would be nice too, by the way!
- poly-fiber fill to stuff the pillow
- sewing machine
- needle and thread
- scissors
Note: you can make the bigger or smaller, just make sure that the long side of the rectangle is twice the short side in length.
1. Fold the rectangle in half, right sides facing. Close two of the three open sides using a 1cm seam allowance and clip the corner as shown in picture 2.
2. Open up the remaining side and fold as shown in picture 3., i.e. fold the pillow cover such that the seam from step 2, ends up exactly in the middle of the remaining open side (so you will have 15cm of fabric on either side of the seam from step2). Pin and close that side, leaving an opening big enough for turning and stuffing (picture 4.).
3. Turn the cover inside out and shape (corners!). You'll get something that looks as shown in picture 5.
4. Stuff your pillow with the fiber fill to your liking, making sure the stuffing gets well distributed (picture 6).
5. Close the gap with a couple of stitches (picture 7).
6. Sew on the felt beads, one at every tip of the pillow (picture 8). And that's all there is to it (picture 9)!
Make sure to make enough of these for a pillow fight!!
Please note, this tutorial is intended for personal use only. Therefore, do not reproduce, sell or commercialize in any form. Thanks for understanding!
If you made something using a tutorial found on this blog or if you got inspired by something you found here, make sure to post your pictures here.
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och wat is dit mooi!!mooie stofjes en leuke kussentjes, origineel met die vilten bolletjes! I like it a lot,clever grandchildren I have and I'm proud of them!
- December 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM
- bbee said...
great idea!
i love those pillows.
got the same fabrics at home.
should take it a try, if i will find some time.
greets from austria!
- December 9, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- blue moss said...
love your ikea creations....oh they are sooooo great!
and i acutally have the flowery fabric that M. used....
it was just waiting for a fabulous project like this!!
happy weekend to you
- December 10, 2010 at 4:29 AM
- eloleo said...
ohohoh, wat mooi!
- December 10, 2010 at 9:51 PM
heb terug eens bekeken en vind die kussentjes echt mooi!
- December 11, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- casserole said...
These are so cute! The triangular shape is so fun!! and I'm loving the felt beads hanging from each corner!
I linked to your tutorial over at Craft Gossip Sewing:
- December 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Pascale said...
Thank you so much, Anne!
- December 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- rahel said...
Wow- they look so cool! I will keep this idea in my mind. Would make a nice present to my niece. Thanks for sharing.
- December 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM
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Those are really neat! I love the fun shape. Thanks so much, I'll be linking.
- December 15, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- lilla a said...
Very cute! I love the tetra look!
- December 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Lori said...
I love this. I can see one of these in a large size, sitting on my couch!
- December 18, 2010 at 4:14 AM
- P.ieternel said...
Ik have sold many of these in my store. www.pieternels.nl There is a company in the netherlands that makes them.
Look over here.
- December 19, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- pinkfiktion said...
These are great. I have never seen them before. Thank you for the idea.
Greetings, Happy New Year
- January 1, 2011 at 11:21 PM
- urban craft said...
these are brilliant. I bet they are super comfy too.
- January 4, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- glayla said...
how cool, I've never seen any like these! I wonder, what diameter felt beads did you use for yours?
- January 5, 2011 at 1:44 AM
- stephchows said...
totally in love with these cute pillows! added to my to do list for sure :)
- January 27, 2011 at 7:45 PM
- Emily said...
These are so fun! I've been wanting to figure out how to make similar pillows for my daughter. Thank you for sharing how you made them!
- January 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- HarmlessColor said...
I made a large pyramid pillow for my bed before college and everyone was always fascinated with it and loved tossing it around. Very fun.
- January 29, 2011 at 5:21 AM
- Heather Thomas said...
These are great! I made a few today out of some scrap fabric, and Im going to add tassels instead of pompoms. Thanks for the great idea!
- April 6, 2011 at 5:12 AM
- Sylvie Créative said...
What a nice pillows!
- June 15, 2011 at 4:11 PM
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- July 11, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- Joseph said...
If you are going to give pillows it is good idea for wedding gift i need some new ideas for send gifts to pakistan on my cousin wedding.
- July 12, 2012 at 10:01 AM
I am so going to make these - both for myself and maybe for presents this fall :-)
- August 14, 2012 at 10:38 PM
Thanks for this easy and sweet pillow tutorial! I`ve searched through the whole net a tutorial like this., and now I found it. :-)
Nice greets from Germany
- September 1, 2012 at 11:41 PM
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