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his time playing drums and a variety of rock bands. as a rock drummer he was part of several groups, one of which opened for steppenwolf among others for those of us old enough to remember them. his first film, rock and roll about rock music's part about groome and degette to bring communism down is airing this week will continue throughout this year ..
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"a patriot's history of the modern world," which in this case is 1898 tedious after the second world war. please join me in welcoming larry schweikart. [applause] >> well, thank you so much to the heritage foundation for inviting me here. it's an honor when i wish my father was alive to see. heritage is one of those great fashions of liberty and explains the collectivism. you probably didn't know you were getting somebody here that was the rock drummer. this became significant learning as a learning experience when i began working on this film. but all along my experience in the rock band were informative. i come astuteness i was in iraq
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and and we shared everything, had not been starved. when mike allen and i wrote a history of united states in 2004, we identified three major elements that made up american. nevertheless we never provided a definition of american exceptionalism and during a revision overtime to correct it up for the next addition we hope to be up next year. even in 2004, it seemed a natural progression to new jersey has toured the world especially the modern world. it's the modern world we see the truthfulness of american liberty impressed. he on display and under attack. during amazon book review of patriot history of the united states had met steve dougherty and arkansas businessman historian computer expert from evening shade. we first became a top to bottom review of sidney p. church
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history the united states and over time i discovered he's a wonderful co-author, so i asked him to help me with history of the modern world. he proved especially good in areas where it was the tennessee former intelligence officer in the army, he brought a new perspective to the cold war, especially the second volume we are working on now. as john mentioned, this is volume one deficit to 1945 and volume two will be out about this time next year, 1946 to president. i have to warn readers, such as those who see me speak before probably know me for a little more lighthearted insertion, but this is instead dominated by two unspeakably deadly wars sandwiched around a nearly worldwide depression and
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characterized by such villains as miscellany, stallman and hitler. i don't even think joe biden cannot get that material. while we have some sidebar section, one of my favorite is a comparison and contrast between the world are to puncture the architects of the day, tony gaudi walter gropius who epitomize nature, god and man and not order a robert pires during race for the north pole. the bulk of this book is dedicated to those political forces that reshape the century. as one who gravitates the great gary, osama said above servers last week at a book signing event when a questioner asked me, who's the most person in your vote? it dawned on me this really isn't a book about the most important people. it's a book about great ideas and terrible ideas can ideas in
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the course of the century were tested in the most climactic of ways. but the most important idea who discusses something many writers and intellectuals pay lipservice to. american exceptionalism, but which no one is really defined. we were surprised to find it really wasn't a good definition of american exceptionalism. so i think that their first accomplishment in history at the modern world. re-examine and define american exceptionalism through gentrification of what we call the four pillars. and in the same colors were off largely or even entirely ignored in shaping the post war and world war i and later decolonization of the third world, which is part of the second volume. this book follows a 50 year struggle between those we call constitutionalist who want to strengthen the pillars and
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progresses who want to destroy them. what are the four pillars? first, america was founded in the christian religion and predominantly influenced by protestant. by the 20th century catholic, jewish but important role a culture 190000 so fundamentally protestant and even the progressives emerged from the liberal protestant churches. this reinforced the second exceptional pillar, ma, which causes the last given from god to defeat all in bubbles upward to the rulers. kids says the government of the people, by the people and for the people that lincoln referred to peer, my stands in stark opposition to every other nation on earth that is develop some form of civil law and which the
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law. germany and england had come them off for a while but by the 20 century, both have more or less abandoned it, germany more so than england. their further the end of world war ii, when europe unloaded, however unwillingly its colony, those colonies themselves to find and print process of the law. thus the first of pillars taken together means that a christian, protestant religion influence and shape everything about america's foundation of law and to find his summa arete. it wasn't just that the united states was a democratic republic, but that the very premise of a democratic republic meant were likely to be far different in the united states than anywhere else. the third in the pillars involves economic freedom.
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private property rights with legal titles indeed in a free-market economy. these may seem synonymous, but they are not. as hernando desoto pointed out in many places of the world is a semblance of a free economy at work, but there's no system of title deeds to land or their property. this has two significant effects. first it means property ownership is never secure. you can never be sure government will come around and grab what should have. second it means individuals with deeds and titles can use their land as collateral for business loans. this in turn elicit growth. in 1898, the united states had all four of these pillars. rittenhouse three, was focuses in common law. france germany and most european states had three, the son saw
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the religious character already beginning to fade. around the world in africa, asia, latin america committee states at common law and property rights retitle and deeds. america first came to prominence after the spanish-american war ended in 1898. for the first time it's argued largely by leftist historians, and the u.s. acquired an empire with cuba and the philippines. if this were only revealed the deep differences between america and everyone else in history when one of the first things the american congress did after the war was castellon required the united states to give up cuba. one searches in vain for major world powers who ever voluntarily departed from concorde regions. the 20 century dawned a group of liberal elites who embraced the program loosely known as progressivism, challenging these
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criticized pillars. mr. has still to common law as president woodrow wilson being a prime example of one who thought the constitution needed to be malleable in direct society. if america stood on the edge of leadership, europe entered a decade which convinced itself or with impossible. the book grand ablution captured the view europeans were too advanced, too sophisticated to fight each other. john maynard keynes at the precipice in this observation about how the world recite together, hot englishman could order from the store steps product from faraway lands and have them delivered to them. it's kind of an early version of thomas friedman still theory, which claims an advanced country that used computers will go to war with each other. i call it the starbucks theory. any two countries that have starbucks and fight. unless they have triple
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espressos. another observer, i didn't loss in a much different way posited that we would be so bloody and weaponry so deadly that no one would dare risk a conflict. all of the visas and european leaders of the rational and stretch even in the present day. this of course finished in august 1914, a war sparked by one of the most unlikely of accident when france ferdinand on his way back to his speech in sarajevo turned away from its planned route to the city guard injured in an earlier failed assassination attempt. of course he drove an incident would plunge a world into a nation. i won't tell them the details of world war i. perhaps the most significant aspects of the united states was when america finally entered the work of the british and french hope to insert american piecemeal into the shattered units.
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general black jack pershing to his undying credit after they refused, insisting the americans fight as an independent army, which they did. the revival of progressivism came at the versailles conference of 1919 in which wilsonian ideals dominated discussions. but not the actual final arrangements in most cases. practical british clothes of eliminating the german tv or french objectives as a fan base that received both in support so he could institute a league of nations. a feel-good, toothless, unmotivated group of international elites. but wilsonian idealism to play a central role and we facing post-roadmap is millions of people are moved around the continent like chess pieces and borders for change like minds on etch-a-sketch. one participant called people under discussion abstract lumps.
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another warned the phrase national self-determination is simply loaded with dynamite. it will raise hopes that can never be realized. thanks for the misery it will cause. british diplomat walked into a study to find david lloyd george, george clemenceau and which are wilson andino for a check not to spread on the carpet. he said they are cutting the baghdad railway. comment this blue hand down upon the map looks like a gorilla of yellow paper. it is upon this ignorant and irresponsible men should be coming asia minor to this is if they were dividing a cake. entire populations were relocated to facilitate national self-determination and democracy was imposed on nations that lack the most basic pillars of exceptionalism. it's hardly a surprise in a
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decade a set of acid totalitarian to leadership, unstable, unpopular or undesirable democracy or autocratic regime. rather than blaming communism are progressivism, most of the collapsing states entered their fear and democracy and democratic systems. but the 20s from which produced an astounding level of wealth and high standards in america at a dark side in europe and america through public health programs to quickly morphed into eugenics. concerns about public hygiene mass ieper hostility to the jewish american that minorities in america. as early as 1920 in germany lawyer karl binding and psychiatrist alfred hash called for the destruction of life that is no longer worth living. can you say death panels?
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is a doctor's national duty to eliminate, unquote. voluntary sterilization laws were passed in denmark, sweden, and norway, switzerland. britain's report on mental deficiency called those identified with mental disorders a social problem group in both europe and america fuse is lit with eugenics. and america, a group led to such people as margaret sanger, whose journal the birth control review endorsed her friend richard stoddard spoke, quote, the rising tide of color, and against white world supremacy. and from this project is black ministers including adam clayton powell or. england, germany and the united states went far deeper than the
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ranting to stoddard or hash. rather they found their way into national and state policy with support from groups such the national committee for mental hygiene, urging sterilization as a means to prevent this class of persons from propagating, unquote. germany used ethereal to see slots to enlist doctors, greatly extending the power of the state into the privacy or in producing a union with the medical profession would be rather easily in the third grade. in germany, one expert observed the more scientific a doctor's outlook was, the more politically naïve he was. it was perhaps the highest of the most sinister irony and american eugenicist, charles davenport, daughter of railroad tycoon a chairman of the eugenics record office in new york, saying quote to fire you
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have kindled its going to be a purifying conflagration one day, unquote. his prophecy would come sure only 20 years later in a cost of millions. fairly easy for governments to manipulate public health, medicine and doctors for purposes of family planning. this implemented policies about colonial possessions and citizenship. peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not fit the progressive sea of educated elite and by their definitions were close to life unworthy of life, unquote. but these transit marinate for a decade. in the meantime, american prosperity continues spreading to the rest of the civilized world. american advertisers, film, literature became highly desired in europe. it's another irony at this time. american movie saudi production
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codes that emphasize the universal american teens a teacher to some. god, fairplay and avoided sensationalism and other taboo faces. american movies sold american exceptionalism, including puritanical moralism as one observer put it. they occasionally make fun of values to the work of equal such as keaton and charlie chaplin, but this is all done tongue-in-cheek and never was meant to undermine the system is self. by 1930, the u.s. at 18,000 movie houses and compared to francis 2400 britain's 3000. europe simply could not compete with hollywood and as long as hollywood sold american exceptionalism, europeans wanted to be like mike, are in this case like clark gable. but inflation, communist agitation, ethnic unrest and most of all called the postwar
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european structure to crumble into the totalitarian moment. spain of course with the civil war was the first to see the future. the fascists rose to power in italy and germany in a totalitarian culture in japan for more assassination awaited anyone who questioned the destiny of japan to rule all of asia. the remaining democracy in europe lacked the will to stop even the weakest of aggressors. when miscellanies successfully crush ethiopia and none of the league of nation states oppose him commit entire notion of collective security was 30 dad and this of course is long before hitler invaded poland. the world war ii, let me briefly say that would save the world in our view was the progressive liberal new deal government at franklin d. roosevelt most likely at the sheer desperation unleash the productive power of free market capitalism to bury
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the axis powers in a synonymy of tanks, planes and ships. anyone who's read my books knows statistics just not far from where i teach a tank was built from scratch in four and a half hours. henry kaiser should guard turned out a liberty ship in a record for a half days. that's faster than a student can write another semester papers. this undergirded american military strategy of using weapons and technology to thoroughly pummeled the enemy before an american soldier was sent into battle. the were also exposed the package of japan, which adopted some of the capitalistic reduction methods seen in america, lacked the essential pillars of exceptionalism to employ them fully and more time. without free speech, free
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market, constitutional protection of the great inventors and businessmen to try new ideas and feel without punishment japan fell behind the u.s. almost instantly. and for your support, the u.s. produced 15 fleet carriers. japan won. we go into, for example, two guys viewed as failures or at least not very successful guys and that would be andrew jackson higgins who produced an incredible number of craft, a landing craft after the war was harassed them out of business. especially look at people like howard hughes. howard hughes views this giant failure during world war ii because he doesn't produce any weapons that work. he produces what reconnaissance
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airplanes. since the whole point. people like howard hughes were necessary syndicated people like henry kaiser. it's only because you have the failures that you know what doesn't work. every time something doesn't work, we know not to go there. we had this and other countries did not commit insisted she win every time or that's going to cause a problem down the line. it's no different than europe. the german miracle of economic reduction was in fact a façade supported by mass conscription but eliminated unemployment, but by 1934 and early 1935, germany's economy was showing back to its pre-hitler status. only imposition of tariffs on eastern europe, which had no other trading partners and the acquisition of vast new land enslaved workers allowed albert s-sierra to sustain production.
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even then, germany faced a fatal and hugely ironic reality of reverse love in front, in which undesirable people were flooding back into germany to sustain the war effort of both german soldiers in vast numbers been sent to russia to die. when the germans surrendered in japanese are pushed back to their home islands, the american propensity to save dear human life are wasting cheap wallets and bombs reached at cnet with the dropping of the two atomic bombs. virtually all of the evidence -- recent evidence from american and japanese validates president kerry truman's decision to drop both bombs. japanese leaders did not display the slightest acknowledgment of military reality illustrated by the report of dr. machine. japan's top atomic scientist sent out to hear a shame that
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the following day and had to report back to the emperor and he was fast, was this an atomic bomb? then came the line, how long -- attended the response of some of the camp to surrender. truman intended to show japan that he would use any weapon at our disposal. there was no atomic diplomacy. he wanted to show the japanese study was surrender or die. when japan's surrender became the temporary picture of the principles of american exceptionalism worldwide. unlike all the previous empires commit the u.s. is unwilling to dominate the free world the way previous pictures had. that postwar world asked of america shares resources unreservedly, restrain itself economically and rebuild former friends and enemies enthusiastically.
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this in turn produce wealth and leisure in western europe, all provided by the protection of the american military. that wealth of nature would in turn a road to their institutions and disciplines needed to maintain, let alone expand freedom and prosperity for others. i went to mention for a moment the role of the soviet union because we take this on as a challenge to match prevailing wisdom. after 1942, the army army overwhelmed or not these. it was nip and tuck in the winter of 1941, 42. one study said just did in 85% outside moscow in winter of 1942 is british. the best fighter plane in 1941,
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42 was the play and the americans wouldn't fly the p. 39. resupplied soviets about their radios, all their radio flyer, shipping to provide all that stuff. tracks. all they had to do was get men in uniform and make tanks and artillery, which they did. so yes, they overwhelmed, but it came with the fantastic amount of support from the united states. as american soldiers arrived in england, the four american generals allied army, dwight eisenhower was the supreme commander, but the british constantly denigrated american troops in general and private and public. asked how was he found awake to brush this aside much the way george washington brushed aside his own complaint of subordinates in the revolution
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only key moments he put his foot down and essentially told the brakes to stuff it. that didn't stop from becoming a thorn in the sight of all american commanders in europe for the duration of the war. but ike, omar bradley, george patton on managed workarounds to minimize the negative in fact of the war effort. so when the war in, we are expected to supply wealth and prosperity to all be due to the best of our ability and yet this brings with it this irony that by supplying wells and protection, you are eroding the very disciplines necessary to maintain and perpetuate prosperity for yourself and prosperity and freedom for others. therapeutic challenge of the next 75 years in the topic of volume two. how to provide a canopy of liberty and perpetuate american exceptionalism while allowing
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just enough of the rain of difficulty and disappointment to remind american and the world that the era in which we have all been blessed with no golden accident. [applause] >> will accept questions from the floor. the rupiah microphones when you're recognized if you're not mind taking your name and affiliation if there is one. is there not a fifth pillar of what i would call the americans. they chose to come to do what they could do for themselves and how was to ask them here now. >> the subject of heated debate among american is because many would argue we've got the tracks come in the famous line from bill murray's movie stripes, where he sang we are the guys
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who got kicked out every country in the world and i do agree there's an american spirit contained in the existing world. yes, sir. >> afternoon. much is made in argue of government expenditures at the recent stimulus package, the government expenditures during world war ii. we do address at length in the book. first of all, people need to understand that war is different than people. it's a flask retrieve the. what's a consumer good and worse
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time, a tank or a bullet or a bomb. any consumer would gladly forgo other products to buy that if it means they stay of five-hertz of the first thing you have to wreck is incited more time, people are redirecting their purchasing power and efforts away from consumer goods into wartime goods. the second thing i would argue is that in fact world war ii does stimulate, but not for all of the demand keynesian reasons usually given. ..
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it's just the opposite of what was argued. >> another question? >> what do you think would address the second volume -- to keep the american exceptional was on a robust idea? >> guest: >> that is a question before us right now and it is how much ethnicity, how much national difference and diversity do you permit without destroying the very elements that permit that diversity to come in the first place, and i think certainly they english-language is one of those things that must be maintained. i think certainly having control
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of your borders is absolutely essential. i think that there are a number of cultural issues with religion and so on. charles murray not to give the plug to another book on booktv that charles murray has a book called coming apart, and it deals with these very issues and he shows how segregated our society has become in the last 50 years, not racially but -- i hear this word because i'm not a marxist -- but class y is. i remember growing up in chandler arizona, and my dad was a ranch foreman on a cattle ranch. it didn't make a ton of money but it provided for my college education i don't know how she did but i looked across the street that way and i looked across the street diagonally and one of the richest families with a big farming family the lot next to them was their pool and their pool house yet who is the
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guest of the pool every single week? me. two plays monopoly with their kids? me. you don't see that much any more. they're highly insulated and really hit middle america at all either conceptually, culturally in terms of entertainment it's a terrible swift, and that is something we have to repair. >> when you say it's something we need to prepare what would you prescribe to be a fix for that given that undermining the idea of spontaneous order? >> i think all order has certain constraints that it acts within with oxygen, hydrogen so i think that spontaneous stuff has to happen when you have control of your borders and in english
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language. let me go back to a previous book to give a plug to that was what the founders say? one of the things we noted or i noted on the section of education that surprised me was almost all of the founders favored some sort of public education. i was getting into that and it didn't happen but what i found was that in the public education, they expected and demanded that certain things would be taught and certain things were math and language skills, but also a patriotic history and this was the phrase that they actually used a history of how great it is to be in america and since i didn't prepare that but for the talk i forget who it was but he said something to the extent of all these other countries are great come all these other countries have stuff, but we are the best and we can't understand them until we understand ourselves and we must teach a patriotic american history. so i think i said in a founding
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that in order to have the spontaneity, you need to have a certain construct of structure. >> how would you evaluate fdr's overall? >> disaster. he said america's economy back eight to ten years. there is good evidence now and i call your attention to the study which is not widely cited. the study is one of the hours act and he shows that this act alone probably ensured that we would never get back to 1929 employment under roosevelt. basically he compares the work to the business confidence and business expectations, and what he shows is the number of hours
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worked went down while the number of workers stayed constant while the number of hours worked went down. in other words they were going from ten full-time employees to five part-time employees, something along those lines. 85 to 90% of the decline after 1934 when the first wage goes into place can be traced directly to this idea of a minimum wage. in terms of all of the of the regulations and the excessive taxation it is just wondered disaster after another. one of the things we do in the patriot history is have a three page chart the life never seen anywhere else the new deal and the new deal program and we shall what program was, with its original goal was and what it looked like 50 years after and it's amazing that 50 years after all of these things are disasters from banking regulation to minimum-wage to
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agriculture when my dad died my mother very free married and i used to the books and i remember getting the government subsidy check and i want to thank you very much for putting me through school, but they were huge and it was ridiculous we were getting these kind of checks but was always part of the agricultural adjustment administration that pays farmers not to go. eustis vince, come on you're going to get paid not to turn in papers. teachers will get paid not to teach the was the equivalent of the agricultural adjustment act. so without that, we might have been sunk without the war because as i said roosevelt really unleashes american business in terms of the free market principles and lets the american businessmen more or less free. >> as you know he is doing a
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primary text that you introduce your patronage to the united states to an audience of students who might have grown up on people's history. who do you introduce your work and free of reference to those that might have been presented were started with a different? >> i did have a top called questions and the patriots history of the united states but a couple years ago i did a book called 48 liberal allies of american history. it's a clever title but really what i did is looked the top 20 u.s. history textbooks college textbooks and what i found is that they all without exclusion share certain similar falsehoods like the rosenberg or one favorite one is transcontinental railroads. it never would have been built without government help, and in fact, the candidate barack obama
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used that example when he was arguing for yet a computer czar. we need to have a computer czar because they couldn't have been built without government help. excuse me there is a guy named james jay hill and he built the real road without a dime of government support and guess what it's the only one not to feel in the panic of 1873. all of the government support to the real world collapse because they are not profitable. my own students come to me not having read them. i get constant e-mails from people that said we had to read him in school and thank god for your book. i'm sure that they get those kind of messages but i don't introduce it. it's just out there for people to get and we are -- it's interesting we are making a rapid progress towards catching zimm in the last four or five
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years. we are on a trajectory to at least catch him pretty soon. he had a 15 year headstart. >> my name is pete dillinger of the atlantic council and i have two questions. number one, your thoughts on how profound the peace conference was specifically carving up the map on the 20th century. and number two, why did you choose the flag raising on the cover of your book? >> number one perhaps next to the new deal hi conference is one of the worst things that the 20th century gives us in a world war ii and did not only is bad from the standpoint of destroying the national entities by moving people around and putting them in a situation where there is going to be inevitable conflict. that is one of the things it does. it destroys the very concept of the collective security because
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obviously the league of nations is a monstrous. in terms of the flag raising it seemed very symbolic that as it goes up america is rising to this point of prominence. semper fi. islamic any other questions? >> thank you, larry. >> thank you. [applause] has noted, we do have copies available and larry will be glad to sign them and have additional conversation appear on the panel as well. we thank you all for your kind attention and hope to see you again soon in the future. we are dismissed. for more information visit the authors web site, patiotshistoryusacom dubious so, when arthur goes on
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trial in december of 1835 he is very eager to win a conviction. by this time mrs. ford and has come forward and comes to the defense in her love assailant and says in the trial but arthur never lifted the ax and she never believed she intended to hurt her and she felt safe in his presence and she was just drunk and she wanted the whole thing to go away. he was implacable and didn't listen to this. he managed to get other people to override the testimony. so arthur was convicted and there was only one punishment for that which is the death penalty, capital punishment. so arthur goes on to death row and in january of 1836 is sentenced to die in about a month so with the clock ticking
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she does something even more unbelievable. it was amazing enough that she testified on arthur's behalf in the criminal trial but now she goes out and starts recruiting her friends in the high society of washington, and she was a very prominent woman with many prominent friends, easy access to the leadership of the country she went to the vice president of van buren and said you should go to office with the president, president jackson and tell him he should pardon arthur. his mother is very good. the execution would be worse than the crime and she couldn't contemplate that he would be executed. he and jackson are unmoved so the class keeps ticking. here is a look at upcoming
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book fairs and festivals happening around the country.
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gene robinson division of the episcopal and hampshire and first openly gay person elected present his argument for a marriage. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank you. i think of this very sophisticated place but sure you had better things to do on a friday night. really. [laughter] i am delighted that i was your
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choice tonight. i am just really very honored and it's a special privilege to be introduced by patrick. he is one of my favorite people in the whole world doing some great things. if you haven't bought his book, buy it now. it's fantastic. do we have people here? any harvard people here? okay. well, i am really pleased to be doing this book right now. i have to admit i didn't have time to write a book. i had a day job at least until the end of this year and i retired and i got a call from desmond tutu's the person who
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heard me talking about the marriage and we thought this sounds really reasonable and he said i think you've got a book and you. and i said really i don't have time for ret. so we talked about whether or not i should find a ghost writer or something and so there was this wonderful writer who had done a very long profile for gq magazine you don't have to sit expenditures to him and so on and so we got that way to go to and i went and talked to the paper for a week or two and he was going to write the proposal in october, november, december and still, nothing. it turned out that he would
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cover memories in his therapy of a horrific situation earlier in his life and was in a paralyzing depression so we had to take this whole book back and i thought now what? we have to put it together and then we got very excited about it and realized actually this book needed to be written in my own voice and illustrated by my own story so that has a funny way of working. i tried to figure out why people came to something and then speak to this made up motivation it's safer to let people ask what they wanted asked and then
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actually meeting their needs. we are in an unbelievable moment if you think about this is an exciting time to be alive, especially if it's bisexual transgender it is a thing to be alive at this moment. if you are my age, you knew we grew up never imagining that we would see what we are seeing today. and even the community in the early 90's i remember talking about the whole gay marriage thing, and was a hot item in the community because most people thought that if we were to ask for marriage equal the there would be such a backlash there would be setbacks for years may
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be decades and the only person i could remember who was singing that song was the head of the national freedom coalition and he just kept saying if we ask for anything less than marriage, we will be second class forever. he was right and pretty soon others began to sing that song with him and now of course we have what is it, six states in the district of columbia with marriage quality. we have three more states, maryland, maine and washington state who will actually vote on the marriage ecology in early november. if that happens it will be the first time that marriage equality was achieved the about box without a lawsuit and without legislation and so on and we had one state minnesota which is pretty liberal.
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after all al franken is their senator. whether or not to add a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. so, it's a big year for this and we also will hear in a week or two which cases the supreme court will take up. there's the whole proposition eight case coming out of california and the ninth circuit, and then write out of boston there's the gay and lesbian advocates and defenders and they are bringing what is the most effective case against the so-called defensive marriage act, doma and we will find out whether the supreme court will take up one or more or any of
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those cases and then have -- we should have a ruling by next june. so, is a big moment for marriage and marriage equality and it felt appropriate to write about this and i will tell you a little bit about why intended it for. the book is laid out in the conversation between me and someone who would describe themselves as reasonably tolerant of gay and lesbian people also tolerance isn't all it's cracked up to be. i have a friend who says that the only thing one should have to tolerate is hemorrhoids. [laughter] perhaps a little overstated. but if you for ever been on the receiving end of tolerance it
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doesn't feel all that much better than intolerance. if someone is begrudgingly at mending your right to exist it just doesn't feel all that warm and fuzzy. so, i imagine a conversations and i've talked with hundreds of people for the issues and people that are not ready to go all the way to being advocates for marriage a quality and each of the concerns or questions that the greatest forms a chapter in the book and so the idea is when you get to the end of it, you might. you will certainly be invited to be an advocate for marriage equality. so i think -- i hope it will be helpful to people who have those
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questions. i think it also might be helpful to parents who are still feeling a little squeamish about their gay and lesbian kids who come home and modeling announce that they are gay but they are getting their it to become married because there in one of the states they can do that or you have a niece or nephew that invited you to his or her wedding and you are just not sure how you are feeling about it or a co-worker or former classmate or whatever. i also hope that the book will provide a script for those of us who are absolutely in favor but sometimes struggled to find the right words to use effective ways of talking people through the issues the marriage brings up. so i am hoping that it will have a lot of different uses. while we have made unbelievable
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progress what's also pause to remember we have kids jumping off bridges. one of the things in cambridge massachusetts we live in a bubble and if you don't live on one of the two coasts or in an urban area, you are very likely to experience the kind of attitudes that existed 50 years ago and if you are a kid at least you can find out there are other people like you that you are not the only person in the world experiencing what you are experiencing but still it's really tough out there and for all of the progress that we have made, we still have way too much bullying and depression and attended the suicide
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particularly in our young people so it's important to remember that it's not like cambridge word new england. we are seeing remarkable progress in some of our religious institutions. in the episcopal church i am happy to say we have now ordained its second day bishop as los angeles so the church has decided this is where we are headed and there we go and at this summer's general convention added people to those groups that will not be discriminated against and are acceptable as the leaders priests and bishops. i would have thought it would
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have taken another three years to the next convention, but we have moved a long way and only since, so the presbyterians and lutherans are coming along close behind. the methodists on the other hand have some work to do, and we are working with them. but we also have huge denominations that are not making progress on this as the best we can tell i believe was the archbishop in washington just yesterday said that literally said this that gay marriage and the state of washington with the basically be the end of civilization as we know right. and i believe we still describe
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this as intrinsically disordered the southern baptists are not exactly applauding for us either recently i was invited to a huge megachurch in san diego and they were doing a whole weekend on marriage, and the pastor had basically led the effort on proposition 8 in california. to his credit as the last event on this weekend of marriage i was part of a panel on a one-sided and a couple of really conservative people on the other
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Katie Dellamaggiore's debut feature Brooklyn Castle tells the extraordinary story of New York City middle school I.S. 318, home of the nation's most successful student chess team. Though 70% of the school's students come from low income families, most of their player rankings would beat out Albert Einstein. Katie spent over a year with the kids, documenting their hard work, their challenges and their success. Rooftop recently had a chat with her about her experiences making the film, her inspiration, and exciting plans for the future.
Brooklyn Castle screens this Saturday, July 21 at The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Students from the film will be in attendance throughout the night, and will lead a few exciting rounds of fast-paced chess prior to the screening (as well as some more casual games). Tickets are going fast, so get yours today!
Rooftop Films: Brooklyn Castle spans almost two years in the lives of the student chess team of Brooklyn middle school I.S. 318. Though their success has earned them the unofficial title as the "Yankees of chess", the success of a student chess team is still under the radar for most. How did you come to discover them? Were they receptive to your crew bringing cameras into the schools and tournaments?
Katie Dellamaggiore: The idea for the film came from a 2007 New York Times article I read about Shawn Martinez, a talented chess player at Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn, a neighborhood just a few minutes from where I grew up. At the time, Murrow was the best high school chess team in the nation (and arguably they still are!). They were even featured in a new book by writer Michael Weinreb called The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team. I had always been interested in making a film about Brooklyn, but I wanted to tell a story that people didn't expect, and this seemed to fit the bill.
I did some digging and found out that the feeder junior high school to Murrow was I.S. 318 and that not only had I.S. 318 won more national chess championships than any junior high school ever, but they were basically breaking down all the tired, negative stereotypes associated with inner city public schools. I.S. 318 is only minutes from where we live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so I went there one day to meet the team. My gut immediately told me that something very special was definitely happening in Ms. Vicary's chess classroom, and that I had better move quickly and figure out how to make my first feature – because this was a story I shouldn't pass up. Luckily the school administration welcomed us with open arms and they were 100% on board with our idea to make a film about their chess team.
RF: The kids in this film have an exceptional knowledge of chess, a very complex game that requires a lot of technical knowledge. Were you yourself a chess player going into the project? Did you have the opportunity to learn the game from the students and their coaches?
KD: I wasn't a chess player before we made the film and I'm still not a chess player after finishing the film either. But I did learn the fundamentals of the game, which is much more than I had when I started. I think I was under the delusion that I was actually learning some strategy by spending so much time in the classroom, but my husband still enjoys kicking my butt every opportunity he gets.
RF: Early in the film, one of the school's chess coaches introduces the concept of teaching to the "whole child", and it seems that you took the same approach to your film. The story goes beyond the challenges facing a chess player, highlighting their personalities, family lives, and educational goals. The kids are also very open and honest, sometimes in the face of disappointment. Was it difficult to get the students to work with you, as compared with adult subjects?
KD: We knew from the get go that we really wanted to showcase the young people in the film as three dimensional characters, each with their own unique set of challenges and goals that went far beyond winning or losing on the chessboard. It was equally important for us to show off the beauty and complexity of chess, but not by just showing the kids playing lots of and lots of chess (which they did!) but rather by finding out how chess intersected with life in interesting ways.
The kids that we chose to follow were each open and honest, but very much in their own way, which I think is important to note. Someone like Pobo, he had no problem sharing lots about himself right from the beginning. But then Justus is just a naturally more quiet, kind of low-key kid. So although he wasn't an open book right off the bat like Pobo, I think he opened up to us in exactly the way you see him opening up in the film, very slowly and very carefully, but with no less emotion than Pobo, just in a different way. I've worked on a quite a few television and film projects with young people, so I feel pretty comfortable working with young people – and actually sometimes prefer it. Young people are so much less guarded and self conscious than adults and they really do surprise in ways you can never expect.
RF: The group of students that you focused on (as well as all the others in New York City) have to face a challenge beyond just planning for college. Their college prep begins at a very young age as a result of the specialized high school program in the city. Those in the film are incredibly self-motivated towards this goal at such a young age, one that most American students don't have to face for a few more years. Knowing the challenges one has to face beyond high school, what do you think of the extraordinary pressure these kids face at ages 12 and 13?
KD: This was a constant conversation we had after shooting with these extraordinary kids and families. We were always reflecting on being that age and how our minds were 180 degrees in another direction. The amount of focus and discipline they had on and off the chessboard is more than impressive, it's inspiring. That being said they were still kids concerned with kid things, and this kind of "pressure" balance is proof that being self-motivated, successful and smart can be very cool and nothing to be embarrassed or shy about.
RF: I.S. 318 represents the remarkable highs and lows facing the education system: while over 70% of its students live below the poverty line, they have also experienced extraordinary success with the chess team and beyond. Your film really displays the role that after school programs play in their success. Was this an issue that you were aware of going into the project? Has your experience with I.S. 318 changed your views on education?
KD: We actually didn't go into making this film thinking about the effects of education budget cuts on afterschool programs. We started out just wanting to follow the chess team, but early into the process, the Assistant Principal John Galvin was concerned that maybe we wouldn't want to film anymore because the school was hit massive budget cuts. Of course, as filmmakers we saw a great conflict and an important, timely story that we thought needed to be told. Since then we've been lucky to form a great partnership with the Afterschool Alliance and through that partnership we've been learning more and more about the great need for afterschool programs in our public schools. The studies that have been conducted are off the charts about what these programs do for kids. It's no longer a question, but a fact that kids excel when they're given the opportunity to explore their potential through expanded learning opportunities after 3pm. Looking specifically at chess at 318, there was one thing Coach Elizabeth Vicary said that really stuck with us and that was the idea that chess offers kids an opportunity to understand what it takes to get really good at something if they work hard at it. Luckily for the kids that join the chess club at 318 they are having so much fun while they're learning that staying at school for two extra hours every day isn't a chore it's a treat.
RF: You have also experiences great success with this film, an Audience Award winner at SXSW and Best New Director at the Brooklyn Film Festival. What are your future plans for the film? Do you have any other projects on the horizon?
KD: The film has found a great home with PDA (Exit Through the Gift Shop, Senna, The Way) for a theatrical run in the fall. We're really excited and looking forward to being part of a distribution model that places a big priority on grassroots outreach and encourages us as the filmmakers to be so involved in all aspects of the release. As far as other projects, to be honest, right now we are extremely busy getting this one done, but that said we have a bunch of ideas floating around that we want to start researching further once Brooklyn Castle gets out into the world.
RF: How can we, as an audience, help support the film and its subjects?
KD: There's a Take Action portion of our website (brooklyncastle.com/takeaction) where you can do all sorts of stuff that we hope will help make difference. Pobo has a petition you can sign to tell congress to stop cutting school budgets. You can also support other afterschool programs, learn how to start a chess club and even donate directly to 318's club.
RF: We're very excited that the kids from Brooklyn Castle, as well as some new faces from Chess-In-The-Schools, will be showing off their skills at the screening on July 21st! Have you had a chance to keep up with them since filming?
KD: We see the kids all the time and follow them on facebook and twitter. We've brought all the main subjects to as many festivals as we can because everyone wants to meet them after seeing the movie; especially the chess players. The kids love talking strategy with chess players in the audience and of course the chess players want to see if they have what it takes to beat the kids of I.S. 318.


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"Murphy was an optimist!"
25 or 6 to 4 March 26, 2007 10:54 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, HistoryI was listening to Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 on the radio this morning and the opening lyric "waiting for the break of day" caused this sort flashback to a time loooong ago when I used to closeout the bars around the UT campus. Many Fort resident's will share fond memories of Griffins. See, there's a subculture to the bar scene. You have your regulars and the horny people hoping to drink enough that it doesn't matter who they sleep with and then there is everyone else. As the night lingers on and the horny people's beer googles grow thicker, their pack thins. Of course the everyone else crowd just dissipates over time and the words "last call" send them packing. That leaves the regulars. I frequently found myself among The Regulars.
"Last call!" doesn't mean the bar closes. It means it closes to everyone on the outside. Griffins, for instance, quit serving beer at last call and switched the taps to sarsaparilla which just happened to taste a whole lot like beer. The comradery experienced after hours is beyond description. Social barriers fall as the bartender joins the crowd and the taps open to anyone who wanders behind the bar. Bonding occurs. Tarot cards come out and futures are told. Eventually it all goes away. At some point, a brave soul decides it is time to leave the cave, the womb like environment. Those windows painted over in flat black guard the outside from the revelries inside and protect The Regulars from the harshness of the outside until they stupidly open that door and the 7am sun cuts through them like the unholy opening the Ark in Raiders! Bodies vaporise. Souls vanish! And these tales go untold…until the next Last Call.
- 1. jonathan hickman - March 26, 2007
Usually when I'm still there at last call, instead of switching to sarsparilly, they flip the lights on. Which always seems weird to me, that they'll hand you another beer but expect you to drink it with the lights on. blegh.
- 2. Doug McCaughan - March 26, 2007
Oh! I've been in those places. Atmosphere killers! They should give you sunglasses at least.
- 3. jonathan hickman - March 26, 2007
Well, to be honest, I would've never thought of getting up if they hadn't turned on the lights. Heh.
- 4. Matt - March 28, 2007
Coin-op, Bar&Lounge
Saw the Taoist Cowboys play there with Danny.
- 5. djuggler - March 28, 2007
"Taoist Cowboys" Very good!


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Madhya Pradesh gets award for e-procurement
Staff Reporter, Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh government has been conferred with "Award for Excellence in e-Uparjan" by Computer Society of India. The award for year 2011-12 was received by Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Food & Civil Supplies...
GVDPRM protests over injustice done to the gas victims
Staff reporter, Bhopal
The Gas Victims Destitute Pension Frat Morcha (GVDPRM) staged a protest a day before its 28th anniversary in the form of a rally from Neelam Park to Lily Talkies followed by burning of five faced effigy which includes...
MP stuck with toxic waste even after 28 yrs of Bhopal Gas tragedy
Staff Reporter, Bhopal
The 28th anniversary of the world's worst industrial tragedy falls on December 3, but the toxic chemical waste at the Union Carbide plant premises here has not been disposed off and is unlikely to be done soon.
Modi dares Congress to name CM candidate
Agencies, Ahmedabad
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today challenged the Congress to name its chief ministerial candidate for the state assembly elections scheduled to be held in two phases this month.
Addressing an election rally at Rajpipla...
Bangladesh thrash Windies for biggest ODI win
Agencies, Bangladesh
Opener Anamul Haque struck his maiden international century as Bangladesh crushed West Indies by 160 runs in the second one-day international today to record their biggest win in the 50-over format.
Playing only his second...
Suicide bombers attack U.S. base in Afghan
Agencies, Jalalabad
Suicide attackers detonated bombs and fired rockets outside a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing five people in a brazen operation that highlighted the country's security challenges ahead of the 2014 NATO...
The 'Fevicol' bond between Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan
Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan have played lovers on screen in a number of films. They on screen look simply magical! And they re-created the same magic on reality show 'Bigg Boss 6' recently.
Kareena was on the show to launch her...
PTWA organised All India Symposium of Transporters at Bhopal
Business Reporter, Bhopal
Prantiya Transporters Welfare Association (PTWA) organised All India Symposium of Transporters successfully at Amer Greens, Hoshangabad Road, Bhopal here today. People from across India have participated in this...


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A little over a week after the evasi0n jailbreak tool for iOS 6 devices initially dropped, the hardworking folks over at FireCore have finally provided us with a tool to do likewise for our Apple TV 2's.
The big upgrade this time around regarding the Apple TV's latest firmware, is Bluetooth keyboard support. It, along with a few additional minor features certainly makes it worth upgrading to the latest and greatest. Thanks to the Seas0nPass update released yesterday, you can now enjoy those new features along with an untethered jailbreak. Take a look past the break as we show you how to jailbreak the Apple TV running iOS 6.1… Read More


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St Clair Classic - Archived Standings
St. Clair Bowl, Fairview Heights, IL, Jun 17-21, 1997
Williams Jr. Reaches New Heights With Third Win Of Year
The title match of the St. Clair Classic in Fairview Heights, III., pitted the PBA's No. 1 ranked bowler and alltime earning leader, Walter Ray Williams Jr., against hometown favorite Pete Weber, ranked second by the PBA rankings and entered the championship round less than $5,000 behind Williams on the all-time earnings list. In a match that went down to the final frame, Williams defeated Weber, 206-196, to earn his third win of the year, the 24th of his career and $18,000. "This was a match that everyone wanted to see," said Williams. "I'm just glad I was able to throw the shots when I needed them to come out on top." Both Will! ms and Weber waited in the wings as Ricky Ward started the ABC-TV telecast by winning his second consecutive Showboat "King of the Hill" match. Ward, N. Fort Myers, Fla., defeated Brian Voss, Atlanta, 194-167, to earn $10,000. A title match that was nip-and-tuck throughout, Williams, who finished the match first, put the pressure on Weber by striking in frame nine and on his first two shots in the 10th before getting a nine-count on his "fill ball" in the 10th. Weber needed to double and get at least eight pins on his final shot in the 10th frame to win the title. His first shot went high, leaving the 3-6-10 and Weber had to settle for the second-place check for $9,500. Williams, just shy of the $2 million mark atter winning, competed in a regional event a day later to eclipse the mark. The St. Clair Classic was the final stop of a 14-event Spring Tour. CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND
PLAYOFF RESULTS-Kent defeated Jaros, 200-199: Weber defeated Kent, 231-158; and in the championship game, Williams defeated Weber, 206-196. SHOWBOAT "KING OF THE HILL"-Ricky Ward defeated Brian Voss, 194-167. Ward earned $10,000. 42-GAME TOTALS OTHER CASHERS *-Match play alternate. 18-game qualifying leader-Steve Jaros, 4020. 24th place-George Branham III, 3656. 30th place Don Sylvia, 3630. #-Mark Turney rolled a 300 game ($100). PRO-AM CASHERS-George Branham III, Tim Criss, Brian Voss, Ernie Schlegel, Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Amleto Monacelli ($50 each). t-Non-PBA member. |


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Blogfest Tonight January 18, 2008 11:52 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Blog, Communications, Of Interest, Publishing, TechnologyAre you going to blogfest tonight? If my coughing is under control, I'll be there giving away a Seesmic invite and a wireless router.
This Friday.
Baileys in West Knoxville.
[Source, Shots Across The Bow]
- 1. Barry - January 18, 2008
Is Bailey's non-smoking?
- 2. LissaKay - January 18, 2008
Yes, Barry. Our lungs will be happy and smoke-free! Bailey's is a family-type place until later at night when the college kids take over. By then, us old fogeys will be elsewhere. 😉
- 3. Craig T. - January 19, 2008
It was good to meet you last night at the blog fest. I look forward to adding another blog to the list of regular reads.
- 4. Oh ... Really? - January 20, 2008
Weekend Roundup…
My previous post got disappeared when Firefox locked up. I was almost done too! So, now I will recap Friday night's Blogfest, post some pics and also mention part 2 of our weekend activities, which may or may not have included a certain highly ant…
- 5. Barry - January 21, 2008
Sorry I missed you the other night, Doug. Thanks for the router! Unfortunately I don't have the right model cable modem 🙁 The router wants an ethernet connection and the modem only has USB and coaxial connections. Any suggestions?
- 6. Doug McCaughan - January 21, 2008
Do you happen to have the brand and model number of the cable modem? I can probably figure something out for you.
- 7. LissaKay - January 21, 2008
I have a cable modem with both USB and ethernet you can have … works with Comcast internet only, no digital phone. It's a Motorola Surfboard and works perfectly


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The Pelicans on Amelia Island
- Swimming pool
- Free parking
TripAdvisor Reviews The Pelicans on Amelia Island Fernandina Beach
Travel Blogs from Fernandina Beach
Waterfront view ?
Beautiful park ! Many places to fish.
Not dog friendly.
Half campsites were on the beach and half on the river.
Riverside has one bathhouse / Air conditioned but not close to all the sites.
Large sites overall.
Rained the first day, flooded 95% of the riverside sites, ours (#54) was the worst with at least 4" of standing water.
No vacant dry spots. Refund issued returned home.
Will try again during dry season. (maybe)
It's Finally Here
... baggage fee has magically been waived away and my bags are checked all the way to Okinawa.
My parents and I said a really sad and tearful goodbye. It's one of those paramount moments where you feel the entire gravity of what you're about to do weighing on your soul. I love them so much and I'm really going to miss them. I waltzed through security, and here I sit at my gate a full hour and ...
Goodby Florida!
... when we passed through Titusville as we had hoped to stop and visit Bart's brother but sadly he passed on just before we made the trip. We did honor his memory as we cruised through Titusville and when the dolphins began jumping all around us, it seemed like a special passage.
As noted, given the conditions, it was a wonderful day to cruise and we made Halifax Marina in Daytona Beach in excellent time, although by the time we entered the marina, the winds ...
I'm a good boy !!!
... last night. It's pretty uneventful .... I bit different from my last trip but that's a good thing. We are sat outside in the Tiki Bar where a decent reggae band are playing. I have a chowder followed by a rather unhealthily salad. It's got fries on the top covered in cheese.
So it's an early night for me. I'm a good boy...... If I say it enough I'll start to believe it. I'm a good boy ........ I'm a good ...
An unplanned stop.
... in the town of Fernandina Beach which is located on Amelia Island. This is the extreme northeastern corner of Florida. It seems that the beach sites here had been closed for a while. They were bringing the restrooms up to ADA compliance. A member of one of the Yahoo groups put out information that the loop had reopened. The response he got from fellow members would have ...


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New methodology for the asymmetric reduction of ketones
UNSPECIFIED (2002) New methodology for the asymmetric reduction of ketones. CURRENT OPINION IN DRUG DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT, 5 (6). pp. 881-891. ISSN 1367-6733
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This review highlights recent reports, between 2000 and early 2002, of new methodologies for the asymmetric reduction of ketones, leading to the formation of alcohols, Since ketone reduction is a pivotal reaction in organic chemistry, and since its enantioselective variant constitutes an increasing fraction of this widely reported reaction, we have been highly selective in the choice of material. Emphasis will be placed on the application of asymmetric reduction of ketones to drug synthesis, on unusually novel applications and on new classes of reagents for these applications, the majority of which involve catalytic processes. The rapid rise of asymmetric transfer hydrogenation to prominence in recent years will be reflected by a high level of coverage in this review, while other more established methods (oxazaborolidines, hydrogenation) will also be featured.
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Journal or Publication Title: | CURRENT OPINION IN DRUG DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||
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Topeka The state unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in nearly four years, the Kansas Department of Labor reported Thursday.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.9 percent for September, a decrease from 6.2 percent in August and 6.7 percent in September 2011. It is the first time the rate has fallen under 6 percent since December 2008.
"The number of people who returned to work in September is very encouraging and the decreasing unemployment rate is a very positive sign for Kansans," said Interim Labor Secretary Lana Gordon.
Tyler Tenbrink, a Labor Department economist, said the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level in 45 months. "This improvement was caused by approximately 5,000 people moving from unemployed to employed over the month," Tenbrink said.


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Despite multi-pronged, ongoing investigations by the Seattle archdiocese, the FBI, the IRS and a forensics security firm, there are still no clear answers on the source nor method of how parish, school and archdiocesan employees' and volunteers' personal information was stolen and used in a fraudulent tax return scheme.
The neighboring Portland archdiocese has become embroiled in the same national scam. Its spokesperson told The Oregonian newspaper on May 3 that hundreds of staff and volunteers have now reported misuse of their Social Security numbers.
More than 5,000 — and counting — persons have notified the Seattle archdiocese of suspicious use of their Social Security numbers since the cyber piracy began to come to light in early March, Greg Magnoni, archdiocesan communications director, told NCR on May 7.
Magnoni said Portland and Seattle officials are sharing information and trying to establish to what degree and in what manner the two cases might be linked.
The Oregonian reported that all victims in the Portland archdiocese had submitted to background checks required to qualify to work with youth and other vulnerable populations.
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While those background checks have been mentioned frequently in both the Seattle and Portland investigations, "the IRS is not currently attributing the security breach to the company that conducts background checks of employees and volunteers," according to an internet report by the Catholic Sentinel, Portland archdiocesan newspaper.
Seattle officials have not officially pointed fingers at third-party vendors either, but a May 2 update posted on its website noted one of the efforts it has made in the case: "We communicated by e-mail with individuals who were are in our Child Protection Training contact list ..."
The May 2 posting also provided an explanation on why personal information including Social Security numbers had been secured "as part of robust procedures to protect ... vulnerable populations."
The Seattle archdiocese is now running background investigations through the Washington State Patrol criminal background check, which does not use Social Security numbers, Magnoni told NCR in March.
The Oregonian also reported May 3 that Oregon regulators "are investigating whether the archdiocese of Portland violated state law by failing to properly notify employees and volunteers that they could be victims of tax-return fraud."
The Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities received at least two complaints from consumers, the newspaper reported, that allege the archdiocese was lax in notifying potential victims that their personal information might have been compromised in a security breach.
Both Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain and Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample have written open letters empathizing with victims and promising concerted action to address the fraud scheme.
Security leaks and resulting false tax refunds have not surfaced in the Spokane, Wash., diocese, said Eric Meisfjord, spokesman. No response on a similar inquiry of the Baker, Ore., diocese had been received as of this report's filing.
In the May 2 online update, the Seattle archdiocese also reported:
- It will provide "credit monitoring for individuals who had a fraudulent tax return filed in their name if they also submitted a background check form to the archdiocese within the last nine years";
- It had set up a "special e-mail address so that problems could be reported" (firstname.lastname@example.com);
- "The IRS has told us that it will work with you to ensure that you obtain your legitimate refund if it has been sent to someone else" and that the process "may take several months";
- It had held six regional meetings to inform parishioners about the status of the investigations and to gather information;
- It had "met with the Attorney General of Washington staff to identify ways we could better support affected individuals in our community";
- "In the aftermath of security breaches, some opportunistic criminals seek to fraudulently obtain personal information of affected individuals by claiming to be the business experiencing the breach," and warned persons to be "extremely cautious when giving out personal information and do not disclose your Social Security number via e-mail, including to us";
- It is conducting "vulnerability testing and examining other systems to determine whether they were affected" including the archdiocese's Annual Catholic Appeal (ACA) systems.
According to Monica Lewis, director of Seattle's ACA, there seems to be little if any negative impact on the campaign which recently kicked off its first phase.
Magnoni said the financial hit from the security breach and resulting tax return fraud has not been calculated but is "significant" and ongoing.
"As time goes on," he said, "it is clear this will be a long-term investigation. When we might see results is impossible to determine at this point."
He said, "We do have some insurance coverage. I'm not sure about the extent and specific areas of coverage. I can say that some of the costs will be covered by insurance."
In a March 20 visit to Seattle, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the Seattle archdiocese's tax return fraud case is the biggest the IRS has experienced on the West Coast, although there have been similar outbreaks in the past, including Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia.
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LoL - I am a little more based in reality. The Texans need to prove they are a legit team. Beating the Steelers is a step in that direction. I really think the Texans have the edge, but you never know what Steeler team will show up, especially on defense. I think how both teams execute their offense is going to be the deciding factor in the game.
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Saying the Texans have the edge is a stretch IMO, other than home field, you all beat an unispired Colts team week one, Fins, and lost what shouldn't of even been a close game to the Saints take away one of the luckiest TD's in the history of the sport (trust me we know about lucky TD's) lol..
All in all I think you all have a great team and this will be a great match up, good luck but not too much, lol!!
one more thing, I loved watching Andre Johnson gets a few right hooks in on cortland finnegan's face last year...i can't stand finnegan
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The hand of Hale giveth, the hand of Hale taketh away. And then it probably punches something. That wacky, violent Australian. In a strange move for a game that's built around the notion that people want to buy hats, Team Fortress 2 is retiring some of its headgear from sale, drops, unboxing, and even crafting. The only way to get them is through trading. I guess that'll include the Steam Marketplace as well. What hats, you ask? Well, unless you click this link, the only way to find out is to look below. There is literally no other option. I'd prefer you went below. I have a treat waiting for you if you do.
In the twisted fiction of the Team Fortress 2 universe, the hats were stored with jars of mayonnaise which spoiled. They were then eaten by raccoons. The stinky, rabies infected toppers are: Batter's Helmet, Soldier's Stash, Pyro's Beanie, Demoman's Fro, Football Helmet, Mining Light, Prussian Pickelhauge, Trophy Belt, and Fancy Fedora. All old, and probably not selling particularly well. So this is probably another experiment in seeing how much Valve can make from them in a short space of time, before dropping them from. It's not like they won't still exist: according to the FAQ hats any existing hats will be untouched.
Q: What is happening to this set of nine hats in two weeks?
A: These items will no longer be sold in the store, randomly dropped, unboxed as unusuals, or acquired through crafting.Q: What happens to copies of these items that are already in my backpack?
A: All existing copies of the items will remain unaffected.Q: What about older crates that have these items as a potential drop?
A: Crates that contain these items will still have a chance at unboxing them in normal quality only.Q: How will I now acquire these items?
A: These items are still useable in trading.Q: Will these items ever come out of retirement?
A: No. Once an item is retired it will stay that way.Q: Will more items be retired in the future?
A: Advance notice will be given if any other items will be retired.
Interesting. I'm not sure what to make of it. The notion of restricting digital content just seems odd to me. I spent so long at the beginning of the hat craze craving the Fancy Fedora, that the thought of it being retired is slightly sad. I'm reinstalling the game to look lovingly at mine, then in five years I'll sell it to a new free-to-play player and retire on the funds. It might anger the Heavy, who loves hats.
Oh, yes! I promised a treat. Here's a Lily Allen/Littlest Hobo mashup that is best of all things.


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The Avonworth Antelopes girls basketball team won Monday's home conference game against rival school Northgate by a score of 59-22.
The Avonworth Antelopes (Pittsburgh, PA) basketball crushed the visiting Northgate Flames (Pittsburgh, PA), 59-22 in Monday's league test.
The Antelopes (12-1) will now prepare for their test against Knoch (Saxonburg, PA). The Knights go into the non-league test with a 3-11 record. In their last test, Knoch was trounced by Hampton (Allison Park, PA), 45-24, in a league test.
The Flames now own a 5-9 record. They take the field next when they travel to South Side for a WPIAL AA 6 test on Thursday, January 20. Northgate will clash with a Rams squad coming off a 44-27 league win over Freedom Area (Freedom, PA). The Rams record now stands at 4-9.
The Northgate Flames girls basketball team lost Monday's away conference game against rival school Avonworth by a score of 59-22.
The Avonworth Antelopes girls basketball team won Thursday's away conference game against rival school Northgate by a score of 50-28.
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I think "The Onion" must have come to TA and read some of the discussions started by religious people trying to convince us we're wrong. Then they summarized said discussions here: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/oh_no_its_making_well_reasoned?utm_source=b-section Read it all the way through, it's worth it.
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text: Organized by Jersey Cares, the event engaged 2,500 individual and group volunteers in revitalizing and beautifying schools, parks and community spaces throughout the state. The Deutsche team, coordinated by the Americas Foundation, was assigned to the Martin Luther King, Jr. public elementary school. Volunteer projects at the site included painting educational murals in the first and second grade hallways with inspirational and anti-bullying themes. "It was encouraging to see the attendance, as well as the talent, of Deutsche employees in supporting this good cause. It was an enjoyable day of teamwork which further demonstrates Deutsche Bank's and its corporate social responsibility values," said Jay Banerjee, Head of US Private Wealth Management Operations. Aside from being a day of service, Jersey Cares Day is the largest single day of fundraising for the Jersey Cares organization, which is committed to meeting pressing community needs by making volunteering easy and meaningful. The Deutsche team raised over USD 1000 and was awarded the "Top Corporate Fundraiser Award" for the third consecutive year. A certificate was presented to team members at an end-of-day volunteer recognition celebration held at the Prudential Center in Newark. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) also attended and spoke about the importance of giving back and participating in community activities. For more information about Jersey Cares, visit www.jerseycares.org


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I had imagined this really cute post with a picture of our computer screen showing the email... and of course my camera battery died while I was taking pictures... and the extra battery apparently never got charged up either. Oh well... who cares because:
I can't begin to say how excited we are! It feels just like when we found out we were pregnant (okay, maybe more like when we found out about Riley... Allyn was a bit more shocking and it took a little while before we were ecstatic about it. heh heh).
Here is the deal, because I know you all are wondering: we will probably wait about 10 months for a referral. A referral is a name, picture, and all the info they have on a particular child. We have asked for a child born after August 2009 so that he'll be at least a year younger than Allyn. We've also said we are open to correctable medical conditions so our next step is to go through a big list and say which conditions we feel we could handle. Because of this, we could be approached with an unofficial referral a little earlier if it is a child who has some medical needs.
Then it will probably take 4-6 months from the time of the referral until we actually get to bring the baby home. There will be two trips to Ethiopia during that time. The first one for our court date (and we're still thinking of maybe bringing Riley with us on that trip) and the second trip is to bring him home!
Our prayers tonight are just ones of praise! Thank you God for getting us this far on the journey and for the opportunity to do this. We've learned so much about ourselves in the process and are so glad that God's continually challenging us and making us more like the people He wants us to be! And we pray for this child, who feels so real to us today... we pray that he can somehow feel that there is a family on the other side of the earth who loves him so much already!
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As you can see, my Spring 2013 collection is going to be holding a lot of hot pants - and in various florals, thank you very much. I know it's a trend - bleh - but I too am in love with knickers underneath dresses made of flowing chiffon, figure-hugging lace, and a whole bunch of other sheer fabrics, like metallic lurex. Plus, I have some other exciting things in production - which will probably be revealed in two - two?! - weeks.
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Poverty has led to rampant sex work among women and orphaned girls leading to high infection rate of HIV,teen pregnancies and school dropout.Most of these women and girls lost their husbands and parents to HIV and AIDS which is high in the area, they practice sex for fish and money with the mobile fishing population which have identified by Kenya Modes of Transmission Report(MOT 2008) as one of the most at risk population.The project will provide them with an alternative livelihood to sex work.
The project will capacity built the women, teen mothers and girl-child headed household through training on rural poultry, brooder use, sales and marketing and entrepreneurship skills.They will also be trained on group formation and dynamics,put into 5 groups of 20 people each, construct a chicken coop to each group ,purchase and distribute 500 indigenous chickens ,feeds ,medicines ,vaccines ,feeders, drinkers, egg trays and a brooder to each group.They will be mentored on poultry keeping.
The project will target 100 women, teen mothers and girl-child headed household and their families with the aim to achieve an improved sustainable standard of living for target group and their families, and increase supplies of local chicken food in the markets hence alleviating them from poverty which led them to harmful practices such as sex work.It is anticipated that over 500 people will directly benefit from this project.The community members will learn from the project.
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I love going out on Saturdays with my girlfriends. A couple of weeks ago, I met my friend Kasmira for lunch in Clifton, as we were both headed that way. We wanted to try Thai Café, but I didn't realize that I'd never been there for lunch—they don't open until 4 PM! So we decided to go to Olives, on Ludlow in the former Za/Uno's location.
I had been to Olives with friends back in 2007, slightly after they opened. What I had that time was good bar food—a good burger, some good appetizers—and looked forward to going again. This time, I wanted to do something healthy and light (this food writing gig is hard on a girl's figure), and Kasmira did too.
Olives has a pretty broad selection of sandwiches, soups and salads. I wanted something vegetarian, and so did she, so we each got a vegetarian sandwich: Kasmira got the Veggie Melt, and I got the Veggie Pita. The side choices were fries or chips, and we didn't want to be excessively healthy, so we each got the fries.
Kasmira's roasted veggie melt, which was roasted vegetables (squash and eggplant, mostly) with garlic, herbs, and veggie cream cheese wrapped in a spinach tortilla. Of the two sandwiches, this one looked the best, but turned out to be fairly bland. She grabbed the salt shaker, which she said helped a bit. She took the other half home, and said it was actually a lot better heated over the next day, so the flavors had some time to develop.
I had the veggie pita, which was supposed to be grilled eggplant, cucumber, sprouts, tomato, mozzarella, pita, sun-dried tomato cream cheese and Parmesan yogurt dressing on the side. There was no parmesan yogurt, and those vegetables combined into something bland—the grilled eggplant was unseasoned (but not bitter, which is a common eggplant issue), the cucumber slightly mushy, and the mozzarella tasteless. I used a bunch of salt and pepper, which helped, but realized it probably wouldn't be a whole lot better the next day, and declined to take the rest of the sandwich home.
The fries? Well, I guess that fat makes everything better, because they were pretty good—crispy and salty.
Some restaurants really try to cater to vegetarians by offering great veg choices that appeal even to meat eaters, but a lot of restaurants seem to think that salads and French fries are sufficient. It's not true. Vegetarian food can be as flavorful and interesting (if not moreso) than meat-based meals— but when it's uninspired, it's even more disappointing. With a little more thought to seasoning, these sandwiches could have been awesome choices. My advice? Head to Olives with your meat and potatoes friends—if you have vegetarians in the group, just go for appetizers (such as the excellent Wild Mushroom and Artichoke strudel) and cocktails, which really seem to be their sweet spot.
Olives is one of my favorite neighborhood eateries – but I have to concur with your review. I'm not a vegetarian – and it serves me well at Olives. They have excellent burgers, sandwiches and their Cobb salad is to die for…but none of those are in the realm of vegetarian-friendly.
Olives has an excellent brunch on the weekends. Vegetarian breakfast food is a little more tasty than the lunch/dinner fare 🙂
I live in Clifton and have yet to venture to Olives. I don't know what it is, but I am not tempted to dine there. Part of it is the name…I associate it with green olives, which I don't like. Another thing is the gimmick they sometimes do on weekends with a huge light on the street that they shine all over the neighborhood. It's just over the top. So…I haven't gone in.
I just wish this restaurant were GREAT. We need GREAT restaurants in Cincinnati, and that one has a wonderful location and atmosphere…
Someday i'll get in there to see for myself.
Went…hated it.
I had the same experiene at Olives. The veggie sanwich I ordered sounded so good and was so disappointing! I thought that the place had a lot of potential.
The best park about Olives is its location. The atmosphere inside is great, the food is good to average, but the location in the heart of Clifton's historic Ludlow Avenue business district is absolutely fantastic.
I am still trying to decide if I want to post about our horrid experience at Olives last year (during the baseball season). We had plans to eat dinner and then go to the Reds game. The waitstaff was careless and the food was disgusting. really, disgusting.