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French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices
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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for "just looking", because it felt that many people were merely inspecting goods there before then buying them online. Guillaume Champeau points us to a French politician who is also worried about the same problem, and has proposed modifying the law governing commerce to deal with it (original in French). Here's the politician's explanation in the preamble of why it is needed:
Currently, regardless of the margin necessary for commercial activity the prices charged by distributors in town centers are often much higher than the prices charged by suppliers on their online sites.
The key problem with this idea is that it won't work. Even if the law were passed, people would just buy from online stores outside France, where prices will still be lower, because they would be unaffected by the new French legislation. Nor can that be stopped, because one of the impulses behind the European Union is to encourage precisely this kind of competition among companies located in different countries in order to bring about lower prices across Europe for the consumer's benefit.
This leads local shops to become mere showcases for products, products that consumers prefer afterwards to buy online at lower prices.
Equally, this decay of urban centers affects other sectors, such as hotels and catering.
Also, the proposal submitted to you aims to prevent suppliers from selling online at a price lower than the price at which they sell to distributors. The prices of products sold online may thus remain lower [than in physical shops], but in a reasonable and acceptable way.
The real solution, as Mike noted in the previous case, is for physical stores to become more attractive, not for governments to pass yet more clueless and ineffectual laws trying to diminish the power of the Internet.
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Major/Minor: English/Creative Writing
Many students come to Washington College hoping the writing program will help them achieve their dreams of becoming published authors. For Jenna Moore '12, that dream became a reality during her first year of college, when Dorrance Publishing Co. printed The Creators: Book 1, The Universal Wars. It's the first book in a series she began writing in 7th grade.
"I've been writing since I was really little. I actually wrote the second and third books first, and then went back and wrote the first to fill in some of the basics you need to know about the characters going forward."
She started the series while daydreaming during class; her 7th grade English teacher encouraged her to keep writing and offered feedback on Jenna's work. When the drafts were finished, Jenna's parents urged her to get them published.
"I'm kind of shy about promoting my work like that," she said, but her dad found a list of publishers to approach and the first, Dorrance, wanted Jenna's story.
"It was really surprising, actually. I was so overwhelmed that they said yes!" Jenna said. "I'm hoping this one will do well so they want the others."
Her fantasy series isn't the only thing the creative writing student has in print. As a finalist in a 2006 International Poetry Society contest, two of Jenna's poems were published in an anthology, "Forever Spoken: Centers of Expression."
Jenna chose to attend Washington College because of the opportunities to develop both her fiction and poetry.
"My parents and I were always thinking academics first, and there's really no better place to go for writing," she said. "The teachers are really helpful. I think my poetry's better already."
Another important factor in her decision was Washington College's Division III athletic program. Jenna wanted to attend a school with a strong swimming program that would still allow her to pursue her other interests. "If I really wanted to write," she reasoned, "I needed the flexibility of a D-III school."
Given that flexibility, Jenna also joined the varsity rowing team. If that sounds like a lot to juggle, it is. In college, "It's tougher to find time for writing, especially with two sports," Jenna admitted, but that hasn't deterred her from working on the next books in her series.
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Peru, Argentina and Bolivia!
These are the 3 countries that will be crossed by the competitors of the Dakar 2018 next January!
A start from Peru, reunion…five years later!!
From January, 6th to 20th 2018, a start from Lima and a finish line in Cordoba crossing through La Paz and Titicaca Lake, this 40th Dakar edition will be a great adventure as various as difficult through 14 stages for the Dakar Heroes.
Three countries: Peru, Bolivia and Argentina
For its 40th edition, that will also be the 10th edition on the South American continent, the Dakar will reacquaint itself with the Pacific Ocean and especially the Peruvian dunes, which the riders and drivers will tackle after having enjoyed several days in the capital, Lima. The race will continue in Bolivia, where the rest day will take place in a supercharged atmosphere in La Paz. In terms of enthusiasm and good naturedness, the Argentinean aficionados are on a level playing field with their neighbours, in particular in Córdoba, which will host the finish of the Dakar for the first time.
Peru, the epicentre of Spanish colonial power and expansion in the 16th century, remains, in spite of the separation in 1825 with Bolivia (formerly known as Upper Peru), the third biggest country on the South American continent. The rarity of precipitation has maintained zones that are completely desertified, which the Dakar had already started to explore in 2012 and 2013. On the Dakar's first finish in Peru, only the year's most valiant riders and drivers experienced the pride of climbing onto the podium in Lima. The following year, the Peruvian fans witnessed a consecration when one of their own riders, Ignacio Flores, was victorious in the quad race on the first stage in Pisco. For its return to the Dakar map, the country will be boasting a larger contingent, most certainly reinforced by Nicolas Fuchs, 12th in the car race last January for his debut on the event.
In addition to its usual visitors, in 2014, Bolivia welcomed the Dakar's competitors for the first time for an incursion that enabled the bikers to discover the sumptuous Salar de Uyuni salt flats, the biggest salt desert in the world. In 2015, the car crews also tasted the unique welcome that the Bolivians are capable of reserving for the rally, before the entire bivouac took up residence at Uyuni in 2016. On the 2017 edition, the local fans were rewarded for their encouragements in Tupiza by a stage victory in the quad race for one of their standard bearers, Walter Nosiglia. The stay on the Altiplano high plains, disrupted by exceptional weather conditions, witnessed a severe cull among the Dakar competitors' ranks. In 2018, they will continue to explore the adoptive country of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of the continent.
The Argentineans have experienced great moments of joy with riders and drivers that have represented them on the rally. The Patronelli saga gave them plenty to cheer about with five trophies won in the quad category by Marcos and Alejandro between 2010 and 2016… The country's sky blue and white colours are also vallianlty defended in the car category by Orlando Terranova, who is a regular pretender for a podium finish and came 6th last January. Argentina has also demonstrated its versatility through the emergence of young riders such as Kevin Benavides (4th in 2016) and now Franco Caimi (8th in 2017), whilst Federico Villagra has succeeded in his conversion to the truck category by finishing 3rd in 2016 and then 4th in 2017, with his sights now on the title…
The countdown to the Dakar is underway and the whole off-road rally family will soon be reunited!
Before they embark upon Peruvian dunes and Argentinian route, competitors in the 2018 edition will follow a tight schedule combining physical preparation, mechanical fine-tuning and logistical adjustments. The following deadlines are not to be missed:
November, 22nd 2017:
- 2018 Dakar route and field presentation, in Paris
From November, 23rd to 24th 2017:
- European vehicles board for the Atlantic crossing in Le Havre
January, 2nd 2018:
- Collection of competitors' vehicles in Callao (Day 1/2)
January, 3rd 2018:
- Collection of competitors' vehicles in Callao (Day 2/2)
- Scrutineering in Lima (Day 1/3)
January, 4th 2018:
- Scrutineering in Lima (Day 2/3)
January, 5th 2018:
- Scrutineering in Lima (Day 3/3)
- Briefing for competitors on the evening
January 6th 2018:
- Podium
- Stage 1
From January, 6th to 20, 2018:
- 40th Dakar Rally Edition
January, 12th 2018:
- Rest day in La Paz


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A cavern well had to be shut down after Hydrogen Sulfide gas was discovered. Texas-Brine's evaluation showed a low level of the gas, but officials say none of it has been detected in the surrounding communities.
Two weeks ago, Texas-Brine detected amounts of Hydrogen Sulfide in its deepest well. Now the company has reported to the Department of Natural Resources that it has detected amounts of the gas in one of its flow lines in the failed cavern that caused the sinkhole.
According to Assumption Parish Director of OEP John Boudreaux, officials from DNR and his office tested the company's flow line themselves for the gas Thursday but did not detect Hydrogen Sulfide.
OEP and DNR, along with Texas-Brine tested the flow line in the cavern again Friday to see if the gas is present; that is when the low levels of Hydrogen Sulfide was discovered.
Because the gas was detected, the cavern cannot be plugged and the gas will have to be removed as it flows. "They'll have to bring in scrubber units and put those devices in the line and scrub out the hydrogen sulfide as well as remove the hydrogen sulfide and dispose of it in the proper manner," said Boudreaux.
"The other vent operations will continue to monitor for H2S. None of the vent aquifer wells have shown any signs," said Boudreaux.
The Louisiana Office of Conservation ordered Texas-Brine Friday to drill two more wells to provide underground staging points for monitoring equipment. The company has until December 28 to come up with plans to drill the wells, and January 15th to have drilling rigs on-site and ready to begin drilling.
A community meeting is scheduled for Thursday night, December 13, 2012 at 6 p.m. at the Assumption Community Center.
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Here's Dutchy Roderick Pijls at work on his 2013 Razor:
Ditto on that.... Love the kiteGhostDog wrote:..... It's really a great all around kite for anyone that is not an old c-style freestyle only competition rider. I would recommend it to anyone from beginner to very advanced, although I would caution a beginner that the kite is powerful, especially looping, it pulls you horizontally on a loop more than any kite that is not a pure c-kite.
Interesting. I'd have to say you had it rigged wrong somehow. I have the 2013 Razor 12m and do not have any problems with backstalling. I ride in the waves as well as on the flatter ocean spots using both directionals and TTs. Do you have anyone else at your normal ride zones that use the OR kites? Perhaps you could seek assitance/advice from them? Different kites certainly do fly differently and require adjustment to your flying technique, but what you are describing sounds abnormal. I can intentionally cause the kite to stall and do it on purpose at times, but, it certainly doesn't happen by accident that I've noticed.exuma kitesurfing wrote:demoed the ocean rodeo razor 12m and ocean rodeo flite 15m. much to my surprise, any time i jibed/transitioned and sheeted in to power up, as i normally do, both kites would backstall.
spoke with OR, they gave me settings of which i had already figured out. the next time i demoed the razor, the kite was a little better, but in the low range of the kite, the backstalling continued.
i've been riding SS gear since 02 and have tried a lot of my customers kites ... many different brands (2010 and later), the razor and flite were the most backstall prone i've flown. i must say, when you find the kites sweet spot it feels very solid, but the backstalling was a bit much.
also, had a customer who flys RRDs demo the flite 15m - he had the same backstalling issues. i switched him to a 14m rally and no problems - and i quote 'this is much better, for a moment i thought i'd forgotten how to kite'.
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with all your experience... Why didnt you just advise to adjust the front or rear lines - its pretty basic 1 minute tuning even for a noob...
Then get up Ocean rodeo ? Or do you personally like slingshots..
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Here's another thing to add to your checklist before you post photos online: make sure you get permission if you're posting the picture of a minor. A new survey says that parents don't like it when you post pictures of their kids on Facebook without
When my first baby was born, I spent two months designing the perfect announcement in Photoshop. By the time my second baby came, I ordered announcements, but didn't stress when they never made it past the front door. I had already posted her birth picture and stats online, like so many of my friends. People knew the baby had come the day she was born. That's usually how it works now. If you want a lot of people to know something quickly, the easiest way to get that information to them is through social media. But there's a subject that is becoming increasingly common: should you keep pictures of your kids off Facebook and Instagram until they are old enough to have their own account? People are just starting to talk about the concept digital boundaries. Of course other parents ask permission to take your kids to the park or even give them a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But do they ask if it's OK to post photos of your kid online? A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center said that 57 percent of Facebook users with children under 18 strongly dislike people posting pictures of their kids without permission. It can be a shock to get on Facebook and see pictures of your kids that you weren't expecting. Just a few weeks ago, I scrolled onto my news feed and found a picture of my daughter at Disneyland that a family member had posted. Even though I didn't mind, it was a little off-putting to find a picture of her that I didn't post. Erika Elmuts from San Diego, Calif., told today.com that she doesn't post any photos of her 8-year-old daughter and asks other people to comply with her wishes. "I can't control the privacy settings that somebody else has on their Facebook page, and Facebook is always changing what those privacy settings are, so... you even can't keep up with it as a user," Elmuts told today.com. Facebook keeps updating its privacy policy. In September, it added a new tagging feature. "We are able to suggest that your friend tag you in a picture by scanning and comparing your friend's pictures to information we've put together from your profile pictures and the other photos in which you've been tagged," the policy reads. That means with every photo upload, you are increasing the digital and permanent online world of the person in the photo. Some parents think it's risky to put pictures of their kids online. In a thread titled 'I hate facebook. Stop posting pics of my baby!' on the mom-centered site, BabyCenter, a poster wrote about her frustration with other people posting pictures of her kids. "I hate how anyone can just post pictures of you and your baby," wrote one user. "I never used to be like this but I've become increasingly private, especially about my kids." Amy Webb wrote a column for Slate.com about her and her husband's decision to not post anything about their daughter and, like Elmuts, they don't allow anyone else to post photos of her either. Webb and her husband have created email and social media accounts for their daughter, in her name, and will give her the passwords when she's ready to have an online presence. "She'll have the opportunity to start cashing in parts of her digital identity, and we'll ensure that she's making informed decisions about what's appropriate to reveal about herself, and to whom," Webb wrote. "It's inevitable that our daughter will become a public figure, because we're all public figures in this new digital age." But other parents don't see it as that big of a deal. Mom of three Tammy Eastlick said she likes seeing what her kids have been doing. "I love it when people post pics of my kids. With the twins I don't always have time to take pictures or even get to go to (my older daughter)'s activities," Eastlick said. "I try and be conscious of posting pics of others kids though." 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For the past four years, this tournament has grown exponentially and been a tremendous support mechanism for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in fulfilling its mission, which is two-fold. First, to manage and conserve and protect the natural resources of the state. Second, to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreational opportunities to the citizens of Louisiana. The LASS tournament series has been instrumental in helping the Department meet their mission.
The LASS is also important to LDWF for another different reason which is that the format for this tournament is much different than any other format that you see today. The LASS is a catch, tag and release tournament, ensuring that nearly 100 percent of the fish caught in this tournament survive and later provide valuable data to the Department. It gives LDWF a great platform and opportunity to showcase its fisheries management efforts and public programs to thousands of people.
Each year, the tournament continues to grow in numbers with 2,832 redfish tagged during the six regular season tournaments and 58 teams qualified to participate in the weekend event.
The 2013 Championship is slated for October 18 and 19 out of Venice Marina, with a full itinerary available at www.lasaltwaterseries.com [4]. The Championship is a two-day tournament, with a two-fish total weight per day to determine the champion. There's no entry fee, and there's a guaranteed hefty paycheck for the top finishing team.
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Here's a Sneak Peek at Auction Items for the May 19 'Hats On For Highline'
The Highline Medical Center Foundation's 'Hats on for Highline' fundraiser (we're a Sponsor), which will be held from Noon – 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 19 at Emerald Downs, has released a sneak peek at some of the fantastic items that will be up for auction.
This annual benefit will be hosted by B-Town Blog Publisher/Editor Scott Schaefer, who promises to wear as many silly hats as he can find (if you have a silly hat to donate, please email him).
Want to win two tickets to anywhere Alaska Airlines flies?
Show up.
How about passes to the Museum of Flight, Woodland Park Zoo and Northwest Railway Museum?
Be there.
Want a Mariners dream fan package including Commissioner's Box tickets, passes to watch batting practice, and an exclusive behind the scenes tour?
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"As our most unique annual event, Hats On for Highline is the perfect mixture of fun, excitement and philanthropic spirit," reads an announcement. "Attendees to our Emerald Downs event enjoy a private viewing facility, gourmet buffet, exclusive betting booths and the opportunity to participate in a fabulous hat contest, silent auction, and raffle!"
Take A Sneak Peak at the Hats On for Highline auction items:
This year's silent auction has something for everyone! Place your bid on some of these great items:
- 2 roundtrip tickets from Alaska Airlines…to anywhere they fly!
- Tickets to this year's Seafair festival to watch the hydro plane races & air show
- A night's getaway in Bellevue including accommodations at the Silver Cloud Hotel and tickets to the Parlor Live Comedy Club
- A fantastic family summer pack containing passes to the Museum of Flight, Woodland Park Zoo, and the Northwest Railway Museum
- Wine tasting & hors d'oeuvres for 10 people at Hoodsport Winery
- Multiple spa packages including a day of pampering for two at Serenza Salon & Spa
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- A kayaking tour for 2 in the San Juan Islands
- A fabulous collection of designer purses and clutches including several Coach brand items
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We visited Thailand in June of 1988, after our first 4ys working and living in Egypt. We travelled east, instead of going the more direct westward direction back to the USA, so that we could see where DaLynn lived for one year in Bangkok as a junior high school student. We flew direct from Cairo to Bankok and spent about a week in the county. Garrett was 9 and Trevor was almost 6. We toured around Bangkok, saw some temples, went to a zoo and a market on a canal. We then flew up to northern Thailand, to Chiang Mai, where we saw an elephant farm, rode elephants through the jungle, did a bamboo raft trip on a river, went to a village in the highlands, then swam in a river with a water fall. (These photos have been scanned from slides into JPEG format at 1800dpi.)Read More
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Sugar Rush: Beignets at Bayou Bakery, D.C
Remember that time you were in New Orleans and had beignets at Café du Monde? Remember how you bit into that pillowy, fried cloud of dough—your clothes covered in the same confectioner's sugar as the beignets—closed your eyes and thought, "Yes, this is New Orleans"? Well, now you're back in D.C. and you sometimes find yourself aching for that moment under the green and white striped canopy so acutely you can even hear the jazz in your head. Well, whether you've had that memory or not, you can relive (or have for the first time) that experience at Bayou Bakery.
Bayou Bakery is a New Orleans style cafe in Arlington that specializes in coffee, breakfast biscuits, and, most importantly, beignets. There are charming design touches that evoke thoughts of New Orleans, like multicolored clapboards above the kitchen counter and a coffee tables made to look like old train cars. Ask for an order of beignets ($3) and you'll get a plate of three, freshly fried and covered in sugar. You're going to make a mess, but that's unavoidable and expected. Don't bother with utensils. Pick one up, take a bite, sip your coffee, and you may as well be back in the French Quarter.
Bayou Bakery
1515 North Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA 22201 (map);703-243-2410; www.bayoubakeryva.com
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Set "Set" (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. ; p. pr. & vb. n.
.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s["a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from
the root of E. sit. [root]154. See , and cf. .]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
I do set my bow in the cloud. —Gen. ix. 13.
2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
Set your affection on things above. —Col. iii. 2.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain. —Gen. iv. 15.
3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
The Lord thy God will set thee on high. —Deut.
xxviii. 1.
I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. —Matt.
x. 35.
Every incident sets him thinking. —Coleridge.
4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
They show how hard they are set in this
particular. —Addison.
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
His eyes were set by reason of his age. —1
Kings xiv. 4.
On these three objects his heart was set.
Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. —Tennyson.
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. —Dryden.
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Tables for to sette, and beddes make. —Chaucer.
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. —Fielding.
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. —Shak.
7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. —Dryden.
Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
10. To value; to rate; — with at.
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. —Shak.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. —Shak.
11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; — said of hunting dogs.
12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
. See . [Obs.] —Shak.
, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.
, to cause to move.
, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.
, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under .
, to defy.
, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.
, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
``Ye have set at naught all my counsel.'' —Prov. i. 25.
, or , to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
, or .
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; — used reflexively.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. ``I set not a
straw by thy dreamings.'' —Chaucer.
, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.
, to suppose; to assume. Cf. , under
, v. t. [Obs.] —Chaucer.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. —Clarendon.
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. —Hooker.
(c) To humiliate.
, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.
, or , to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
(Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. —Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. —Knolles.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.
, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.
, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. —Collier.
, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
``The rest will I set in order when I come.'' —1 Cor. xi.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .
or , to care much, or
little, for.
, to value; to set by. [Obs.] ``I set not an haw
of his proverbs.'' —Chaucer.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. —Addison.
(c) To give a flattering description of.
, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.
or .
(a) To incite; to instigate. ``Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this.'' —Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. `` Set on thy wife to
observe.'' —Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
{To set one's cap for}. See under , n.
{To set one's self against}, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.
{To set one's teeth}, to press them together tightly.
, to set going; to put in motion; to start.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. —Dryden.
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
I could set out that best side of Luther.
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] ``Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was.'' —Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.
, to correct; to put in order.
. (Naut.) See under , n.
, to consider valuable.
, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.
, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.
(Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.
, to attach to; to affix to. ``He . . . hath set
to his seal that God is true.'' —John iii. 33.
. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. ``I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel.'' —2 Sam. iii.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. —T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.
(Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. —R. H. Dana, Jr.
Syn: See .
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University Park, Pa. — Mark Dyreson, associate professor of kinesiology in Penn State's College of Health and Human Development, is a national expert on sports and culture and the history and impact of the Olympic Games. The writer and editor of numerous articles and books on the Olympics, his author credits include "Making the American Team: Sport, Culture and the Olympic Experience," and "Crafting Patriotism: America at the Olympic Games." His most recent work includes co-editing and contributing an article to 2009's "Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended."
In this Q&A, Dyreson discusses perceptions and popularity of the Winter Olympics, the "Californication" of the games, impacts on host cities and what makes a memorable moment.
The 2010 Winter Olympics begin this weekend in Vancouver, and there has been a lot of talk lately of the unseasonably warm weather there. How do you think that may impact the games and how people view them?
Dyreson: I'm assuming they'll have enough snow up in the mountains that they won't have a problem. My understanding is that it is the largest city that the winter games have ever been hosted in and one of the more temperate ones too, being on the sea coast. I think it will affect the ambience that people come to expect. It's not going to be Lilehammer or some cozy Alpine village with a lot of snow around. That has no impact on skating or any of those events because they have the facilities for that. The ski areas are quite distant from Vancouver, so this is a more urban and more spread out Winter Olympics than in the past.
They had severe weather problems in Lake Placid (N.Y., in 1932) with a severe thaw and they had to truck snow in for skiing events. Vancouver's not the first city to sweat the snow and wonder what it was going to look like. Lake Placid was just a disaster when they had a big thaw that February.
At least in the United States there tends to be much more hype, and a perception of greater popularity, with the Summer Olympics as compared with the Winter Olympics. Do you think that's the case and why?
Dyreson: Historically that is accurate. The United States has been less interested in the winter games than the summer. There are a variety of reasons for that. One is that what we call the summer games now are the original modern Olympic Games that have been around since 1896, and the winter games were only introduced in 1924 in France. They were and still are smaller, and a little more adapted to the taste of Northern Europeans and other folks who live in the Frost Belt of the world. The U.S. originally voted with its three delegates to the International Olympic Committee [IOC] in the 1920s not to have them. If you look at early American press coverage of the winter games, even when they were at Lake Placid in 1932, it is that they're amusing, kind of fun, but it's bizarre and only a bunch of northern Europeans are interested in these sports. They treated them as sort of a carnival sideshow, whereas the summer games were treated as the real test of nationhood.
During the Cold War, in the '50s and '60s when the Soviets and the U.S. increased the political rhetoric of the summer games even more, the U.S. started to get more serious about the winter games. I think until very recently most Americans have dismissed the winter games as the province of Norwegians and Russians who care about sports like biathlon that nobody in the United States ever pays attention to. It's amusing to learn that 300,000 people turn out in the snow in Norway or Sweden for a 50-kilometer Nordic race, and Americans find that bizarre.
Snowboarding has become a marquee event in the winter games, and you have described this as part of the "Californication" of the Olympics. What does that entail, and why do you think it's happening?
Dyreson: There has been the addition in the last four or five Olympic games of what I've called the "Californication" of the Olympics with X-Games events like snowboarding, short track speed skating and these made-for-TV, younger generation sports which the IOC adopted to get North American TV audiences. The U.S. and Canada are the goose that lay the golden egg in terms of revenues in the forms of TV contracts for the winter games, and the summer games as well. They've also increased our medal share. Who dominates these sports? They all originate out of California and are part of the California middle-class leisure lifestyle, and Americans win medals. There's (champion snowboarder) Shaun White on the cover of Rolling Stone with the American flag draped over him and his medals on his chest. That's probably increased in younger generations some interest in the winter games.
Is there also an international idolization of the perceived California lifestyle at play?
Dyreson: I think there very much is, and the people and industries who run those kinds of sports very consciously use the Olympic Games to market those lifestlyles.
You will hear some commentators argue that these new sports are in some way transnational, not as rooted in particular historic cultures as older sports. There's an argument that some of these sports -- in the summer games as well with beach volleyball and BMX racing -- aren't really nationalistic and are a fit for the Olympics because affluent middle-class people around the world, be they in Brazil, Norway or the U.S., can love these games. These sports are a truer reflection of the games being about internationalism because they are a new product of some global youth movement that breaks down national barriers. In my opinion that's not a very good argument because these are sports with specific historical roots in California designed in part to sell an Americanized version of the good life. I think the transnational rhetoric is really a veneer to help sell them even more. It's a shrewd marketing strategy and one that Hollywood and the California culture industry are very good at dressing up and selling to global markets.
Snowboarding's debut at the 1998 games in Nagano, Japan, did not go particularly well. How has it been able to grow into such a popular event?
Dyreson: The TV networks have thrown a lot of money at it. Since that debut it has continued to be on television in the form of X-Games and other competitions on ESPN and other networks. I think the TV networks have made an effort to showcase it because they can broadcast it at other times to build this younger audience.
The ratings for these sports on TV in no way approach the ratings for the marquee franchises of the American sports industry, but they've increased their market share quite dramatically. There are some key corporations interested in that. You have a recognizable star now, where before nobody knew who these guys were. Shaun White, "The Flying Tomato," is now a household name.
The other thing is that these are very telegenic sports. To Americans, we don't have much tradition or connection to Nordic events, speed skating, biathlon. You just aren't going to develop TV audiences for those events. More and more young people are snowboarding. There is crossover to the music industry, film and television. Shaun White is a pop icon. Even I who don't snowboard find it to be compelling television. The action fits in the camera's view very well. In the half-pipe you see them doing stunning acrobatics. Two of the newer events, the snowboard cross and skier cross, where you've got four competitors at once going down the course and the ever-present danger of them colliding with each other, that's just great television.
The same can be said for the summer games. Though BMX didn't do it for me, it did fit the television screen really well and there's a big youth demographic interested in those sports.
What kind of lasting impact does hosting the Olympics have for a city? Is there a difference in the legacies created by summer vs. winter games?
Dyreson: The impacts are interesting. Staging an Olympics is enormously expensive, and it always has been. Trying to get data about whether Olympics makes or loses money for the host city, region and nation is tough. It's all in how you do the accounting. Most cities have lost money. If you just talk about developing the stadium for hockey and speed skating and adapting the ski areas, the basic Olympic infrastructure is just one part of what a city spends. What often is not factored in is money for security and infrastructure development. Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympics, for instance, did huge renovations on highways, built light rail, did a bunch of stuff on their downtown. Since a lot of that money came from the federal government, I'd argue Salt Lake, though they relatively broke even, did very well because they jumped to the front on a lot of federal projects because the United States had committed to allowing Salt Lake to host the games. Cities can often leverage with their national government to do urban renewal and a lot of infrastructure they normally wouldn't get done.
It always helps the ski industry to host the games. It's an unparalleled free commercial with a global audience. If there isn't a one-to-one dollar correlation to the amount of money brought into the economy by hosting the games, the global identification, branding and marketing you get can't be bought any other way. In that sense it's a really good investment. The indirect benefits are hard to measure but are considerable. Most of the cities that bid for this have big winter tourism industries. They want to be destination locations. That was true as far back as the 1930s. Lake Placid knew they were going to lose money, being in the middle of the Depression. They got the games because they wanted to be the destination for winter sports in the United States. It was all about branding them as the place to ski.
The outstanding Winter Olympics moment for the United States that most people remember is the 1980 hockey team. What other performances are hallmarks of the games for the U.S.? What makes a historically memorable moment?
Dyreson: I would agree the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" is probably the most memorable event in public commemoration in the United States. There, it's a confluence of the political environment at the time -- the U.S. coming out of the 1970s and the feelings of malaise and helplessness and floundering in foreign policy overseas, not being able to check Soviet aggression. Remember the backdrop is that [President Jimmy] Carter is about to announce the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. It's still in the Cold War, and the Olympic Games were lightning rods for Cold War propaganda from the '50s through the '90s. There was this perception of the Soviet team as this sort of professional army versus these thrown-together true amateurs -- whether that was accurate or not is another issue. The U.S. was the underdog and captured the moment. It was a spectacular event.
There was another huge upset with the U.S. hockey team, in 1960 at Squaw Valley, Calif., before the games were quite as widely televised. Beating the Canadians, the Soviets and the other Eastern European teams was a stunning upset that got a lot of people's attention. Figure skating has often been for American audiences a signature event. So you have Peggy Fleming and her grace in 1968, winning the gold medal. If you want a lowlight, there was Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding's soap opera, which certainly produced huge TV ratings and captivated Americans. It was memorable, though certainly for different reasons than the Miracle on Ice.
In 1936, the winter games are in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Hitler's there and the U.S. had come close to boycotting the summer games in Berlin and the winter games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The U.S. team very publicly refused to dip the flag to Hitler and the Nazis.
Salt Lake City in 2002 was interesting because it was so soon after 9/11. There were some controversies, the 9/11 flag came in and people were wondering whether George Bush would be there or not. It was in some ways a solemn games. In 2002, you had an older theme you get more in the summer games with the U.S. -- the notion of America being a melting pot. Immigrants from all these nations dot the American Olympic teams and win medals for the U.S., having come from lands that had oppressed them. That has been a longtime theme of the summer games for the U.S., but it was surprising to see when we had the first Cuban-American and Mexican-American medalist in speed skating. We had an African-American win a gold medal in the bobsled. The X-Games sports allowed the Sun Belt people to participate. Rollerblading, for example, translated fairly easily to short track speed skating.
Anytime an American wins a medal in a sport Americans consider interesting, at least for the moment, captures some attention. Recently, snowboarding has captured a lot of attention.


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Amid the postelection violence that has rocked Kenya, the town of Athi River has been an oasis of calm. Kikuyus, Luos, and other ethnic groups work together, determined not to let the outside chaos come in.
The secret to Athi River's peace, says restaurant owner Simon Kilonzo Kyatha, is that the majority of the population are Kikuyus and Kambas, two ethnic groups that supported the reelection of President Mwai Kibaki. Thanks to safety in numbers, they can avoid the fate of their tribesmen who are being killed or displaced in many other parts of Kenya.
It is peace – backed up by threat. And as a new wave of reprisal attacks begins across the country– more than 150 people were killed in the past few days – Kenya may be at the brink of a spiral of violence unless peace talks produce results soon.
"We don't want our place to be affected by the people of Kibera and Mathare," says Mr. Kyatha, referring to two of Nairobi's most strife-ridden slums. "If a Luo or a Kalenjin comes back here to stir up trouble, we will skin him alive. Let them fight there, but not here."
This scenario – in which ethnic communities keep the peace by separately defending their interests – may bring temporary calm, but some observers worry that it could spell the end of Kenya as a stable, multiethnic nation. Kenyans who once spoke of their nation as a peaceful democracy now speak of the country's Balkanization. As several international efforts to mediate this crisis have failed, Kenyans now realize that to avoid the fate of other African disaster zones, politicians, civil activists, and international mediators must move fast to build trust and find common ground.
"This crisis can be an opportunity," says Waiganjo Kamotho, a Nairobi attorney and political commentator, "because it forces us as a country to resolve problems we have refused, and the government has refused, to consider as priorities."
Long-hidden ethnic tensions ignited
Kenya hid its problems from the world very well. Usually the top African destination for tourists, Kenya cultivated an image abroad of moderate politics and ethnic tolerance. Having a one-party state run by strongman President Daniel arap Moi from 1978 to 2002 contributed to this sense of peacefulness, since dissent and protest were illegal and quickly swept out of public sight.
Today, Kenya's two top political figures – President Mwai Kibaki and populist opposition leader Raila Odinga – both continue to claim to have won the Dec. 27 presidential elections. Their intransigence has helped ignite bitter ethnic clashes that have left more than 850 people dead since the vote. Even so, a large and growing chorus of Kenyan and international experts agrees that Kenya's road map to peace is both clear and achievable.
"We don't expect the deal to come in one week," says François Grignon, Africa director for the International Crisis Group. "What we do expect is a breakthrough to allow a process to address the long-term issues."
The risks of a prolonged impasse were made plain Tuesday when an opposition parliamentarian was gunned down outside his home in Nairobi in what Mr. Odinga called a "planned political assassination." Ethnic fighting quickly broke out in slums throughout the capital as news of the killing spread. The unrest came as police and military forces tried to quell a fresh wave of reprisal killings in Rift Valley towns where the president's ethnic group, the Kikuyus, are dominant.
International mediation efforts run into snags
At least half a dozen high-level mediators – from Archibishop Desmond Tutu to African Union chief John Kufuor – have come to Kenya in the past four weeks. Each of these efforts failed to end the crisis, although former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's current visit achieved a meeting and handshake between Mr. Kibaki and Odinga last week.
Annan launched formal talks Tuesday saying he hoped immediate political issues could be resolved within four weeks and the broader, underlying issues within a year.
Odinga claims that the election was stolen from him through massive rigging of the voter tallies. Kibaki calls himself the "duly elected" president, and calls on Odinga to take his complaints to court.
Observers close to the negotiations say that both sides came close to agreeing to a settlement two weeks ago during Mr. Kufuor's visit. During that mediation effort, both sides contributed to a document that spelled out a powersharing agreement. But insiders say that hard-liners in Kibaki's camp persuaded the president to reject the document in the final hours.
Previous mediation efforts haven't provided breakthroughs, but they contributed to the process of softening the two sides, Mr. Grignon adds. "Both parties are revising their options of what they are ready to accept," says Grignon, adding that there is still a long way to go. "Right now, the government says to the opposition, 'Go to the courts and shut up.' And [Odinga's party] says, 'Step down, or we're burning the country.' "
Such hardened stands, meant to project strength ahead of negotiations, may not convey the degree to which Kibaki and Odinga are willing to compromise, Grignon and others say. And while an actual agreement may not come in the current round of negotiations, the very fact that the two sides have met in person, and are continuing to talk, is itself a sign of progress.
But a political settlement is just one of many steps required for Kenya to return to the stability it once enjoyed.
Hate-speech investigations?
Even before an actual agreement, Kenya's political leaders need to send a signal to their people that the violence must end, says Jacqueline Klopp, an Africa expert at Columbia University in New York. Both parties must then agree to an independent investigation, carried out by international or Kenyan human rights agencies, of which parties and which individuals broke election laws, and who prompted the violence. The social impact of such an investigation would be immense, says Ms. Klopp, adding that evidence of vote-rigging or hate speech, by either or both sides, would help end the culture of impunity in Kenyan politics.
"Stabilization has to be the next step," says Klopp. "You have to end the fear of violence, so people can think clearly." An independent investigation into hate speech and the use of political rallies and news media to fan the flames of ethnic hatred will help to "refocus minds of the victims of different communities that they are all victims of this violence," says Klopp. "We have to make people realize there is culpability across the board."
Whether because of disenchantment with their political leaders, fear of police brutality, or simple fatigue with the political impasse, the crowds who used to join political marches for the opposition have been diminishing noticeably in recent days. Protests that once numbered in the thousands have dropped to a few hundred and are generally dispersed in a matter of minutes with a few canisters of tear gas.
With fewer supporters to call into the streets, political leaders may be more ready to compromise at the negotiation table. Many observers say the next step is for the major parties to agree to some form of caretaker government, with a limited mandate, for a set period of perhaps two years.
Grignon says that Kibaki and Odinga must realize that they cannot stand alone. While Kibaki has the powers of the presidency, he adds, "the opposition is strong in parliament, and it is difficult for a government to rule the country when they don't have majority in parliament. You need a caretaker government for the interim."
Little chance for a recount
Early calls for a retallying of the Dec. 27 vote have been dropped, as many of the original tally sheets have been destroyed. Also destroyed is the reputation of the one Kenyan agency that is charged with carrying out any such retally, the Election Commission of Kenya.
Just days after declaring Kibaki the winner, chief election commissioner Samuel Kivuitu admitted that he had come under pressure to announce Kibaki had won. Mr. Kivuitu now says that he has no idea if Kibaki was elected president or not.
Lacking legitimacy, Kibaki will have to agree to fresh elections, says Mr. Kamotho, the Nairobi attorney, although given the current environment, he says it would be advisable to put off elections for at least two years. The political class may reach an "accommodation, whether their members are ready or not," he adds.
"But even if these guys make up today, it will not address the problems in Burnt Forest," he says, referring to one of the towns most affected by ethnic violence in Kenya. If violence crops up every time that Kenya holds an election, he says, then "it would be better to postpone it" until tempers have cooled.
But elections are crucial, Kamotho says. "How do you give hope to the 70 percent of Kenyans who are young and who can't see their stake in Kenya's future? These are the fellows who burn buildings. If we can take that opportunity, this election will be a blip. If we don't, then the government will have lost the moment."
Considering a new Constitution
The next step, human rights activists say, is for the newly elected government to rewrite the Constitution. Human rights and the freedom of expression need to be strengthened, and the power of the presidency – a legacy of the 24-year dictatorship of President Moi – must be reduced.
"We can't afford a winner-take-all mentality; it's not healthy," says Kamotho. "We need to reduce the power of the presidency. If that is the only position that matters, people will be ready to kill for it."
The new Constitution, experts say, must also address Kenya's most contentious issue: land.
"We need new laws to deal with the distribution of wealth – and in an agricultural society like Kenya, wealth is primarily locked up in land," says Njeri Kabeberi, director of the Center for Multiparty Democracy. "If the people of Kibera [a Nairobi slum] were in the middle class, they wouldn't be fighting each other. If they have their own house, they know the pain of losing a house and therefore they won't burn yours."
Ms. Kabeberi and others say that the only way to tackle tribalism is by creating a Constitution that gives a place to each community. Ethnic identity has always been a factor in Kenya's culture – and indeed in developed countries of the West. But the influence of ethnicity will diminish over time, they argue, when Kenyans see that their nation's laws are more fair, that economic opportunities are evenly distributed, that their government is more even-handed and responsive, and that those who commit crimes at election time are prosecuted, no matter what tribe they belong to.
As ethnic attacks continue across Kenya – signs of the pent-up anger over issues of land, and ethnic favoritism, irresponsible hate speech, and the abuse of power – it is clear that Kenyans have a long way to go before reconciliation between ethnic communities and economic classes can begin.
"Some people have created these problems for Kenya in just a matter of days," says Kabeberi. "We Kenyans have to take the next two to five years to clean up. And we must force our leaders to listen."


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badmonkey newbie Reged: 08/16/02 Posts: 34 Not a spoiler but the 11/28-12/04 issue of TVGuide describes that week's "Redemption" reward challenge11/20/04 02:04 PM Edit Reply Quote This one builds it's elements from earlier this season to see if players have learned anything. Step 1 is Crawl Through Mud (more mud than the first time), Step 2 Grab a Pig, Step 3 Solve a Tiki Puzzle, Step 4 Walk a Balance Beam (it's wider this time), and Step 5 Shoot a Slingshot (if players aren't hitting the target after 10 minutes, they'll be allowed to move closer). Just an FYI, hope it was okay to post.
If this is true, then we know Eliza (grab a pig) or Chris and Scout (walk a beam) will not win.
Well I did tno see the merge episode, but didn't they have to cross a balance beam....and did Chris fall off?
One more question...if it is made for 5 competitors...wouldn't ep 12 still have 6?
They should have put little nails sticking up out of it this time if they want to ensure that they walk it, ones that will stick up enough to hurt knees but not go through shoes so they can walk it but if they try crawling it would hurt...lol.
Or MB made the planks wider because the fix is in and he wants Chris to win the IC ?..for what its worth ..he works in a sporting good store .
Did anyone else notice a strong resemblence between Sarge and Twilas son ??
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Glenn Beck, recent New York transplant to Texas, just loves the Lone Star State, though he says there are too many "foreigners" (from California, that is).
"I'm in Texas because it's one of the last places where a man can be free," he said on his radio show yesterday.
He's also really high on Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The conservative talk show host said the Republican governor is "becoming more and more remarkable every day."
"He's smarter than I am," added Beck, a former CNN Headline News and Fox News host.
That was the prelude to a ten-minute interview with Perry. After repeating many of his recent denunciations of the Federal Reserve, Perry engaged in an extended discussion of "a billion dollars in actual gold" owned by the University of Texas system. The governor said he would like the state to get "actual possession of that gold" and said "I'm very much in favor" of moving the gold from storage in New York to Texas.
(Beck is a commercial pitchman for gold sales.)
Discussing Mitt Romney's comment that 47 percent of Americans didn't pay income taxes and were dependent upon government, Perry said he is worried that the nation is moving toward "a majority of people in the country who are on subsistence."
Beck declared that Romney understated the problem.
"It's actually 49 percent," he said.
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