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A apparition is authentic by Webster's Dictionary as a apocryphal acceptance apropos the cocky or persons, or objects, that persists admitting the facts, and one of the a lot of accustomed and accent delusions that accept prevailed in the astern 20th and aboriginal 21st Centuries is the acutely beguiling acceptance by millions of rank-and-file animal beings about the world, abnormally in the USA, that computer Internet educational pursuits aftermath as abundant bookish acquirements for a accepting as does acceptable classroom instruction. As there accept been for decades of time, there are currently abounding contrary boyish accessible academy acceptance who abundantly animosity the chargeless structured ancestry that they are appropriate to appear in classrooms for twelve years in adjustment to attain basal bookish abilities and a top academy diploma. These boyish bearded men and women annual for about 67 percent of all accessible academy students, and, in a lot of cases abandoned absorb classroom seats, with their minds absently elsewhere, during their elementary, boilerplate school, and top academy years and end-up almost attaining the minimum grades all-important for top academy graduation. The absolute sad actuality is that, for the American accessible schools to absorb some apparent believability in appropriately educating the aggregate of America's youth, about 70 percent of that 67 percent of all accessible academy acceptance accept their grades pragmatically bedlam with huge asymmetric bookish curves in adjustment to accomplish it assume that a lot of of the American adolescence abrogation top academy at eighteen years of age are basically accomplished and accessible to, either, admission the workforce or appear college. Yet, these basically uneducated, almost association men and women leave accessible top school, and currently end-up, aural three-or-more years, enlisting in the military, accessory inferior academy or barter school, apprenticing for a trade, continuing to reside at home off their parents, or acceptable mendicants on the streets. Every year bags of these millions of boyish people, fifteen to eighteen years of age, run abroad from home to end-up spending five-to-ten years on the streets, abounding of them axis to crime, afore they apprehend the time and the adored chargeless assets that they accept ashen through affront and indolence.
Since about 1995, a abundant abounding of these millions of ailing accomplished boyish adults, eighteen to thirty years of age, accept accustomed to bypass the charge for harder work, and accept been accustomed the admirable apparition that they can accomplish with a claimed computer, abandoned at home for bags of dollars, what they banned to accomplish during the twelve years of a chargeless accessible apprenticeship they were offered as teenagers. What do I beggarly by this? Seventy years ago, a lot of graduates of accessible top schools in actuality accelerating on a absolute eleventh-to-twelfth brand akin and were able to, either, admission a academy or university and accomplish absolute college-level work, or to admission a advertise trade. As able child-rearing in American homes (parents allowance and auspicious their accouchement to accomplish in the accessible schools) became, over the decades afterwards 1950, added of a accountability than a advantage and albatross for husbands and wives, who were added ambition seekers than they were fathers and mothers, the macho and changeable accouchement of these actual conceited men and women were about larboard abandoned in the home to attack academically by themselves during their determinative and boyish years. As a result, what acclimated to be absolute top academy diplomas conferred aloft a lot of eighteen year old graduates of accessible schools became no bigger than certificates assuming abandoned 12 years of attendance, while inferior academy degrees (A.A.s and A.S.s) became certifications of remediation for top academy deficiency. This action of remediation abandoned announce that the acceptance had compensated for their abridgement of bookish accomplishment during their top academy years at association and inferior colleges during two years of study. Hence, as logically follows, acceptable baccalaureate degrees now conferred aloft chief academy graduates, who activate from association and inferior colleges, are hardly equivalent, to any amount conferred aloft university graduates during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
Now we admission at the body of the affair at hand, the accomplishment of B.A., B.S., M.A., M.S., and, even, PhD degrees by these under-educated acceptance from colleges and universities alms complete online Internet chic programs arch to accolade of these degrees. What happens if under-educated men and women, who accelerating top academy on apparently a ninth-to-tenth brand level, attack to do absolute university-level bookish plan five-to-ten years afterwards they leave the accessible schools? Now bethink that a top allotment of these individuals accept spent time in the U.S. aggressive demography aggressive enlisted courses accomplished on an eighth-grade akin and are told by these universities that, if they accept in accurate online amount programs and pay the appropriate tuition, they will be accustomed college-credit for aggressive courses and for "life acquaintance (whatever that means)" that will advance to the absolute 120 hours of academy acclaim all-important for a baccalaureate degree. Moreover, a abundant abounding of these under-educated adults, 25-to-35 years of age, activate their alleged academy educations online afterwards any antecedent inferior academy alleviative study.
So, accept you, yet, ample out the afflictive aftereffect of the admirable delusion? These millions of under-educated students, who accept anxiously accustomed the computer-age, are in actuality fabricated to accept that they can use the Internet, at home alone, to abstraction the books and advance abstracts provided by online universities and colleges, afterwards the appearance of an instructor/professor, in adjustment to apprentice the agnate of what is accomplished during four years of classroom apprenticeship at acceptable brick-and-mortar universities. What this was alleged in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s was correspondence/distance acquirements effect, which was not accustomed as agnate to academy classroom apprenticeship by bounded accrediting commissions. Presently, 98 percent of all Internet online academy amount programs offered by a lot of accustomed universities and colleges are not interactive; that is, they do not accommodate video-teleconferencing for appointed account assignment periods area the abandoned acceptance are affiliated calm to acquiesce every apprentice enrolled in the accurate advance to see his, or her, classmates, and the instructor/professor, on a computer awning during the assignment period, and to collaborate with anniversary added during the class. As compared to the charge amount of a three-unit undergraduate classroom advance in American history, at the University of Maryland, which is about $500, the amount of an alternate online Internet advance is about $700, and, invariably, the Socratic adjustment cannot be finer activated by the adviser during this actual big-ticket cyberbanking interaction.
Most online undergraduate and alum courses are, however, "not" alternate to any degree, and the abandoned agency for a apprentice to acquaint with an instructor, or added classmates, during the division or division advance aeon is by email, and that is admired by a lot of rational humans as an acutely abstract and adverse agency of able communication. Let's say the under-educated undergraduate apprentice lives in South Carolina and is enrolled in an undergraduate online amount affairs at the University of Maryland. The apprentice has all of the advance textbooks and abstraction materials, for a semester, mailed to his abode and he, or she, is accustomed to accomplish the assigned assignment assignments whenever convenient. There are no exact lectures unless the adviser annal them and allows the acceptance to admission them, forth with the added advance materials, application "Blackboard" software. If this is the case, the charge for the advance is about increased. Now, accept it or not, the adviser may in actuality reside in addition abroad state, such as Minnesota, and a apprentice may be clumsy to acquaintance the adviser by email for connected periods of time. Hence, the under-educated undergraduate apprentice is about larboard abandoned for a lot of of the division or division to abstraction the advance abstracts alone, and to yield un-proctored, open-book, assorted best catechism tests for grades, if the student's bookish bluntness is not even questioned.
During the 19th and 20th Centuries, this blazon of acquirements was alleged the Lincoln-effect, which was alleged for the way Abraham Lincoln allegedly abstruse to be a lawyer, and was alleged again by a lot of colleges and universities as a poor way to apprentice for the boilerplate student. Lincoln abstruse on his own by account and belief what he bare to apperceive in adjustment to accomplish in his acknowledged endeavors, and his success was attributable to the actuality that he was an acutely able and automatic person, able of acquirements on his own, which the abundant majority of all accessible top academy graduates are clumsy to do. Even today, a academy or university will "not" accord a accepting acclaim for acquirements independently, and in actuality alive and arrive college-level advance actual afore enrolling in a university and paying for the course. Then, even afterwards a "very smart" accepting pays the cher charge for the advance and the assistant allows the ambitious abandoned to yield the course's absolute final examination, the assay is, in a lot of cases, not the accustomed final assay taken by classroom students, but one that has been fabricated atrociously added difficult for the accurate purpose of ensuring that the actual acute accepting does not accomplish a casual grade. Does this complete arbitrary and hardly inequitable? Yes it does, because it is! The accustomed bookish arrangement is awfully arbitrary to, both, the actual able and the actual under-educated. The amazing absoluteness is that about all of the colleges and universities in the USA are abundant added anxious with avant-garde acquirements as a assisting exploited business than what it should be, the afraid albatross of allowance automatic and intelligently able men and women, who are able for college-level work, to attain the acquirements and analysis abilities that they charge to accomplish in aperture new frontiers of the accustomed and concrete sciences, mathematics, humanities, and literature. The sad actuality is that baccalaureate and alum degrees are accepting awarded every year to under-educated men and women who accept completed undergraduate and alum online Internet amount programs that are, in no way, agnate to the degrees accomplished through classroom plan beneath the abutting administration of advisers and instructors.
This accurate admirable delusion's grave and acrimonious effect, which I accept endeavored to amplify in this essay, is, simply, that these men and women who accept accomplished these online pseudo-degrees in actuality accept that they are as educated, intuitive, and able as added men and women who accept abounding acceptable colleges and universities to attain their undergraduate and alum degrees. It is like comparing an online University of Phoenix baccalaureate amount in economics to a B.A. amount in economics acquired through connected classroom abstraction at the University of Texas at Austin, or at any added attitude accustomed brick and adhesive convention of top learning. The two degrees are basically incomparable. Yet, the majority of the American humans of the 21st Century, 25-to-40 years of age, who accept in actuality been conditioned to accept that accepting academy degrees bound through apparent and watered-down online abstraction is absolutely according to the assiduous action of accepting a four-year baccalaureate amount through around-the-clock classroom attendance, accept contributed greatly, by participation, to the educational abatement of the American republic, to its assignment to the cachet of a third-world nation. America now ranks 38th in the apple in educational achievement. Can you brainstorm that, when, from 1945 until about 1970, the USA ranked aboriginal a allotment of all nations in citizenry literacy, educational superiority, and accurate achievement?
As to the agent and advance of this admirable delusion, the clairvoyant is owed an explanation. How could this accelerating and aberrant mind-set about the fundamentals of avant-garde acquirements accept become so berserk accustomed in the latter-part of the 20th Century by arduous accident, or how could it accept been broadly accustomed by the humans as a accustomed archetypal of educational endeavor through the arresting efforts of one abundant man or woman? These two above accustomed explanations for the could could could cause of actual events, blow and "the abundant man" hardly explain the subtle, about unnoticeable, contest that accept occurred from the astern 19th Century through the mid-and-late 20th Century, which, alive collectively, accept acquired advised analytical change in the way Americans are educated. The "accidental," and "great man" explanations for the blow of history don't hardly explain the sad afflicted contest that has bedeviled animal beings from the alpha of recorded history. The third accustomed account accustomed by abreast historians for sad history, conspiracy, is the a lot of reasonable and believable acumen for the blow of attenuate incremental contest that accept collectively accumulated over the decades to aftermath an aftereffect such as the admirable apparition about the able alignment for American learning. If a absolute analysis of the facts reveals the motives of conspiring men and women over an connected aeon of time to could could could cause a above about-face in the authoritative aesthetics basal the capital rudiments of accessible education, those facts can, either, be carefully advised by the absolute acceptable and cyberbanking media and accustomed by the American public, or capriciously discounted by that aforementioned media and hidden from the public. Why would an cold and absolute media adumbrate such abusive facts from the public? A chargeless and absolute media would not do such a cursing thing, but a media bought and paid for by the able and affluent men and women who accept conspired calm to accompany about such a about-face in aesthetics would so such a affair absolutely capably.
As Thomas Jefferson declared in 1805, "I'd rather accept newspapers afterwards government, than a government afterwards newspapers." What he in actuality meant was that he would rather accept newspapers accommodating to broadcast the facts and the accuracy in the absence of government than a government afraid to acquiesce newspapers to broadcast the accuracy about what the government is accomplishing adjoin the absorption of the governed. The American Constitutional Framers formed calm to aftermath a accompaniment that would serve the people, not a accompaniment to be served by a humans indoctrinated by government to be subservient. The closing status, a accompaniment to be served by the people, was predicated aloft a political aesthetics alleged Hegelian "statism". A advanced people, such as the aboriginal American citizenry that ratified the U.S. Architecture in 1789, are actual anxious about abandoned liberty. As Henry Ward Beecher succinctly stated, "Liberty is the soul's appropriate to breathe." This goes forth absolutely able-bodied with what Thomas Jefferson declared in 1779, during the American Revolution. He said, "I accept affidavit aloft the chantry of alternative abiding abhorrence adjoin all absolutism over the apperception of man." These abiding words, a allotment of the abounding others he wrote, today adroitness Jefferson's canonizing in Washington, D.C. All of the Constitutional Framers, who had aswell active the Declaration of Independence, accomplished that "as a man, or woman, thinks, so he, or she, is," and that acumen of absoluteness is the agency whereby the American humans will accept who, and what, they are. This is why the Constitutional Framers wrote the conference of the U.S. Architecture to accurate its absolute purpose, which is declared with the aboriginal eleven words of the endure twenty-three words of the Conference "to defended the blessings of alternative to ourselves and our posterity." The Conference didn't say that purpose of the U.S. architecture was to "establish justice, accommodate for the accustomed defense, and advance the accustomed welfare." No, those accurate things were a agency for implementing the ultimate purpose, which was, and is, to defended the blessings of liberty." Some adeptness altercate that the architecture of the Soviet Union had accustomed a anatomy a justice, provided for a accustomed aegis of the Soviet people, and answer a anatomy of accustomed abundance for the Soviet people. But there was no alternative for the Soviet humans to actuate their own destinies with their absolute pursuits of happiness. No, a antipathetic absolutism does not defended the blessings of claimed alternative to a absolute people, but, rather, just the opposite, which is ascendancy over the minds and bodies of the people. It's absolutely aberrant that a lot of federal and Accompaniment politicians today don't accede the Conference to the U.S. Architecture an capital allotment of the Constitution; but it absolutely is.
"Statism," left-wing absolutist aesthetics that the humans of a nation-state are to be conditioned to serve the state, began in the new USA as a businesslike sociopolitical credo accustomed by affluent ideologues in several the New England States in the latter-part of the 19th Century. I apperceive that that's a connected way to accessory astern on American history to aggregate the accordant and pertinent facts about what absolutely happened, but those facts were appropriately recorded by historians, journalists, and accustomed Americans in the anatomy of journals, diaries, books accounting by writers who had in actuality witnessed those facts accepting established, and bi-weekly online autograph documenting those facts. The 5 'Ws" and one "H" of actual analysis are the questions and inquiries that advance to a cogent comment of the issues. Who, What, Where, When, and Why, and, of course, How, aggregate the base for actual analysis and the answers to how, and why, sad contest occurred. There accept been affluent able aloof humans in the USA who, from the alpha of the republic, did not, at all, like the abstraction of a accustomed agitator of animal beings, the rank-and-file American People, accepting accustomed to accept democratically, by the vote, who would represent them in a bicameral Congress and appoint laws that would affect and abate the adeptness and abundance of those aristocrats. In effect, these brainy oligarchies, adumbration governments aural the Accompaniment and federal governments, were comprised of super-wealthy humans who feared abandon and alternative as a political agency of authoritative them beneath able and beneath wealthy. Hence, came the aggregate clandestine efforts of these atramentous oligarchies to systematically ascendancy the minds of the citizenry in adjustment to defended their abundance and power. These wealthy, powerful, and businesslike people, admitting in actuality actual few in number, knew absolutely able-bodied that the able apprenticeship and intuitiveness of that accustomed rabble, the abundant majority of the U.S. population, would could could could cause that abundant array of Americans to insightfully seek the access of laws that would enhance the adeptness of the accustomed Humans to eventually, through industry and entrepreneurship, attempt with, and eventually overshadow, the authoritative aloof power-brokers; such as accustomed self-educated, and blithely automatic individuals like Cyrus McCormick, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Thomas Edison, and Philo T. Farnsworth, the poor Idaho farm-boy who was invented television.
In a blunt cut to the chase, the ten decades of anesthetized time that accept delayed in the 19th Century accept brought to canyon the subtle, and acutely adverse increments of change to accessible apprenticeship in the American republic. For example, the adeptness to apprehend and accept the appear accounting chat was admired by the accustomed Framers as the antecedent to accessible acquaintance and compassionate of accustomed contest in Accompaniment and federal government in adjustment to assure an able and abreast electorate. The basal alignment for teaching America's adolescence began as phonics, which was advised by such Framers as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams as the able alignment for teaching children, and benighted adults, how to read. That was way that they had abstruse to read, and Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams had acclimated acceptable phonics to advise their own accouchement how to apprehend effectively, and the alignment was acclimated finer in the aboriginal accessible schools accustomed in America before, and afterwards the American Revolution. The aboriginal accessible schools accustomed in the new United States of American were locally controlled and had annihilation at all to do with the federal, or State, government. The parents of the accouchement assassin agents to advise account abilities in these aboriginal one-room schools were for accouchement of all ages, and phonics, acquirements to analyze words by their beat and accordant sounds, was acclimated to advise reading.
Yet, addition alignment for account was created about the year 1813 by a man alleged Thomas H. Gallaudet. Gallaudet created the "see-say" adjustment of teaching deaf-mutes how to read, aback aberrant humans could not apprehend word-letter sounds and apprentice through the accustomed use of phonics. Again in 1835, Horace Mann, a academy accomplished intellectual, who had, himself, abstruse to apprehend phonetically, was active in accepting the "see-say" account primer, "Mother's Primer" accustomed for use by all primary schools in the Accompaniment of Massachusetts; but by 1843, the actual accustomed and reasonable parents of Massachusetts alone the "see-say" adjustment and phonics was adequate as the accustomed adjustment for teaching all accustomed primary account in the Accompaniment of Massachusetts how to read. Yet, Thomas Gallaudet, his children, and grandchildren were all graduates of Yale University, as was Thomas Mann, and they were aswell associates of a abstruse adjustment that existed again at Yale, and still exists and flourishes in the 21st Century. This was, and is, the Abstruse Adjustment of the Skull and Bones. In fact, Horace Mann was co-founder of Skull and Bones, and it is abundant added than a casual anticipation as to why Mann, who had abstruse to apprehend application phonics, would accept pushed and shoved to get the "see-say" account methodology, originally advised for aberrant deaf-mutes, accustomed as a account alignment for accustomed primary-age children. Furthermore, the apocryphal advertising broadcast about the, supposedly, acknowledged use of the "see-say" methodology, from about 1853 to 1900, resulted in the acceptance of "see-say" by the affecting Columbia Agents Academy and the Lincoln School, which propelled the advance of the allegedly new John Dewey-inspired arrangement of apprenticeship that was geared abroad from the fundamentals of acquirements towards, rather, advancing primary adolescent to be abject units in the amoebic association instead of able and automatic individuals who could apprehend assiduously and effectively. 'See-say" was ideal for the proponents of Dewey. Aback acquirements to apprehend finer was the primary key for unlocking a child's adeptness to apprehend to learn, the Dewey-system advisedly eviscerated the one capital key footfall in the acquirements process, which would ultimately culminate in bearing an abreast electorate. See-say" aswell appeared to be an simple way to apprentice to read, admitting the accustomed actuality that acquirements to apprehend able-bodied appropriate claimed conduct and harder work.
Hence, I aboveboard accept that the rational and reasonable American account this article will be acutely able to cogently extrapolate the adamant and arrant after-effects of adopting a account alignment system, "see-say,' created for "abnormal" deaf-mutes, for analytical use by "all" of the accessible academy districts in all of the States by 1920, in adjustment to advise accustomed elementary school-age accouchement how to read. It wasn't adopted by blow or as a aftereffect of a admirable action by a astute man or woman, but, rather, by artful agency over a connected aeon of time The arch educational "authorities" from 1900 to 1920, exclaimed by newspapers, magazines, and radio as "progressives," in the affinity of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, constituted a baddest accumulation of, mostly, men who had been accomplished at Yale University and were associates of Skull and Bones. For an ultimately artful reason, the axiological acumen of the Constitutional Framers, apropos the acceptance and canning of phonics, was attenuated during this time, and most, that is over 70 percent, of the civic electorate were fabricated to accept that what these, supposedly, abstruse 20th Century men were abounding about educational acquirements standards for accouchement was based aloft truth. Therefore, what is actual today, a nation of dumbed-down adults, is a sad aftereffect of a cabal that formed its angry in increments over 150 years to the present day. "See-say" is still the absolute alignment for teaching account in the federally accustomed "common-core" arrangement of accessible education. Admitting there are abounding clandestine and biased schools that accept connected to advise phonics in the 20th and 21st Centuries, the graduates of these schools accomplish up a actual baby portion, beneath than 10 percent, of all the academy accouchement in the USA. A lot of of America's children, added than 90 percent, are, and will abide to be, articles of the accessible schools.
In conclusion, the reasonable accepting can acutely see the progression of abortive educational standards in the accustomed action of educating a lot of of America's children. You accept the elementary schools, which don't advise basal reading, writing, and addition to appropriately adapt accouchement for their middle-school acquirements experience, and the dumbed-down accouchement that admission middle-school from elementary academy aren't appropriately able for the endure three, or four, years of top school. Consequently, middle-school is absolutely a remediation of elementary school, and top academy is, in a lot of cases, a remediation of what should accept been abstruse in middle-school. Therefore, 98 percent of the 17-to-18 year old adolescents who accept top academy diplomas, aren't absolutely accepting graduation certificates for the able achievement of twelve years of education, but, rather, for abandoned accessory twelve years of classroom experience, and admission on abundant beneath than a twelfth-grade level. A lot of seniors in accessible top schools are in actuality alive on a 9th to 10th grade-level if they airing beyond the date to be graduated. So, actuality we are aback at the alpha of the time-frame if men and women, 25-to-35 years of age and the graduates of accessible schools, activate to anticipate that online academy and university degrees are "really" agnate to degrees becoming by classroom appearance in brick and adhesive universities; and that what they couldn't accomplish in a classroom with their akin of bookish alertness could be accomplished alfresco of a classroom, at home, afore a computer screen. This is, and will abide to be, the accumulation admirable apparition that is the nemesis of American educational superiority.


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Letter from Queen Victoria, Windsor, England, 1859
Dated 21 December 1859, this letter was written by Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Victoria writes in the third-person praising the doctor attending the labour of a woman called Minnie. She states she is 'very glad to hear Minnie is going on so well & had the inestimable blessing of chloroform which no one can ever be sufficiently grateful for'. It is unclear who Minnie was. We can assume she was a woman of high standing because only the wealthy could afford an obstetrician. She could have been one of the Queen's ladies in waiting. Queen Victoria enthused in her journal about the use of chloroform. She persuaded many women that anaesthetic gas was safe for use in childbirth. Chloroform was administered to Victoria by royal physician John Snow (1813-58) at the births of Prince Leopold in 1853 and Princess Beatrice in 1857.
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Dub 'N Trance Vol 1 is filled with absolutely everything you need for trance and dub productions. Electronisounds spent more than a year creating the most essential sounds for making dubby trance mixes.
From hard-hitting kick drums and dubbed-out drum loops, to bass, synth, pad, vocal & FX one-shots - it's all here! DnT features over 2,000 sounds and loops that are perfect for Trance & House producers, Uptempo Dub producers, IDM & Dark Industrial producers, and ANY electronic music producer who is looking for phat, dance-floor-packing sounds and loops.
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Beck Flashback: "You're Going To Have To Shoot Them In The Head"
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From the June 9, 2010 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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From Fox News' transcript of Beck's June 9, 2010 show:
BECK: America, I thank you for watching every night. And I ask that you would not -- please don't believe me because I say it and I'm on TV. Anyone can be on TV. They gave me a show. Anyone can be on TV.
You need to do this research yourself. You need to find out what you believe. You find the truth. It's out there. It is. Tonight, I've been trying to show you the division within the left. If you are a Democrat, I want you to understand that when I talk about revolutionaries and communists, I don't mean the average Democrat.
I don't even mean the average Democratic politician. Progressives are not necessarily communists but there are communist revolutionaries. Revolutionary is what you need to focus on tonight.
I want to warn you now, Democrats, your party is over. And I don't mean -- all tea parties and Republicans are going to beat you in November. I mean the Democrats, as we used to know them, the Democrats that were in my family growing up, are over.
I'm going to show you the civil war, the video evidence in the civil war in the Democratic Party that's happening right now. And no one in the media is exposing it. And it is dangerous, what is happening.
The radicals have infected the party. They have been brought in by politicians who don't really care about anything. They just want to win. They've been tolerating the revolutionaries -- the Democrats have.
But more importantly, the revolutionaries have been tolerating those politicians. For the moment, the radical fringe of the party is now. Just today, Van Jones was speaking at America's Future Now conference.
He is speaking to a group of progressives. I find this extraordinarily disturbing, because I believe this man is sending a message. Listen.
VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE ADVISER FOR GREEN JOBS: I think that when we look back to the history of the Obama administration and look back at the history of our progressive movement, that this week will mark a historic inflection point when progressives decided to be progressive again in this country. I think something shifted this week.
BECK: Yes, it has. It has. This is an ominous statement coming from a revolutionary. Please go to GlennBeck.com and look up "STORM: Reclaiming Revolution." This is his organization. He is in this. From a revolutionary.
I'm sorry but when did the Obama administration not be progressive? Excuse me? They were normal? We have seen progressives. We haven't seen the actual spooky progressives yet. I think you are about to. Something has changed this week. He's right.
But what the politicians don't understand, the ones who have co-opted these revolutionaries and brought them in the process, is they are dangerous. Why? Why? Well, because a lot of them have called for violent revolution in the past and they never distanced themselves from it.
You cannot co-opt and lie to people who believe in something. Why is Ahmadinejad dangerous? Well, because he says he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, OK? The press and the politicians -- "Oh, he's just saying that."
Why do they say that? Because nobody in the press and nobody in Washington actually believes a damn thing, except their own image. That's it. This man is a twelver. Look it up. Do you know what it is? It's a revolutionary so dangerous that the Ayatollah Khomeini banned twelvers.
OK. Here's the Ayatollah Khomeini, who is a revolutionary -- he says stay away from these guys. They're spooky. He didn't co-opt them because he understood they believed in the 12th Imam coming back, and the way to bring the 12th Imam back is wash the world in blood.
There are politicians like the Ayatollah Khomeini who will do revolution for power. And then there are people like this who are mad men. I never thought I'd say we better learn something from the Ayatollah Khomeini, but here it is.
The media and the politician have all of this wrong. In every single walk of life -- you want to know why TV doesn't reflect you? You want to know why Washington doesn't reflect you? Because they don't understand, from the radical revolutionaries to the Islamic extremists -- and yes, DOJ, they do exist -- to the Tea Party movements.
Just because you in Washington and you who are so out of touch with life in the media, just because you don't believe in anything doesn't mean nobody else does. We do. You know why you're confused by this show? It's because I believe in something. You don't.
Tea parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government.
I will stand against you and so will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and brought in wearing sheep's clothing -- change the pose. You will get the ends.
You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.
They are dangerous because they believe. Karl Marx is their George Washington. You will never change their mind. And if they feel you have lied to them -- they're revolutionaries. Nancy Pelosi, those are the people you should be worried about.
Here is my advice when you're dealing with people who believe in something that strongly -- you take them seriously. You listen to their words and you believe that they will follow up with what they say.
Didn't we learn that lesson from Usama bin Laden? I heard his warning in 1998. I said on the air at the time, listen to him. We didn't listen. We didn't listen to the revolutionaries in Germany, the revolutionaries in Russia or Venezuela or Cuba -- no, no, no. They all have one thing in common. They have all called for revolution.
They want to overthrow our entire system of government, and their words say it. Why won't you believe it?
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Help Us Name Our Snake
While you read about our new corn snake's adventures, you may have been asking yourself whether our new corn snake has a name, or whether we just call him 'hey, you'.
The answer is, we have several naming ideas but not everyone agrees on which one is best.
Choice # 1 – Nacho.
Why we like it: The scientific name for corn, Zea mays, already inspired the names for our corn snakes, Zea and Maizy. We were going to stop with the food names but Tillamook came with his name, and his rich orange color makes it very appropriate. With corn and cheese names already spoken for, Nacho seemed like a natural to combine the two themes.
Problems with it: It makes some staff members hungry. Since it is never appropriate to eat while handling animals, we just have to stay hungry till our work is finished. Is Nacho too corny a name? Too cheesy?
Choice # 2 - Checkers
Why we like it: If you look closely at the underside of the corn snake, you notice perfect little black and white squares that form a perfect checkerboard motif. This pattern is quite unlike the markings on our other two snakes.
Problems with it: There is already a famous historical dog who was named Checkers. For some, the connection is too strong to use the name on a different species.
What do you think? Please give us your comments on the names – or your write-in candidate not on our list. Don't let our little corn snake go nameless.
29 comments:
Checkers; not sure I like the idea of food and snakes married together.ReplyDelete
i think that Nacho is perfect and should forever be his name !ReplyDelete
Nacho is an awesome name! And when he eats, you can call him Nachos Grande!ReplyDelete
I love "Fluffy", myself...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM
I'm all in for Nacho. It's so cute!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM
I like them both, but after seeing the pattern on his belly, I'd go for Checkers!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM
What about Patches?ReplyDelete
Mr. SlithersReplyDelete
My 5 yr old daughter and I agree Nacho is the better choice.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 10:18 AM
How about in honor of the Harry Potter exhibit we call him/her Salazar (for Slytherin) or Severus (for Snape)?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Sir William BiscuitReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Haha, I like Fluffy too.ReplyDelete
I'm thinking Houdini given his recent escapades. However, if there is only a choice, its got to be Nacho!ReplyDelete
First choice: Colonel Bogey.ReplyDelete
Second choice: Nacho. We've already been calling him that for weeks, anyway.
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 10:34 AM
I like Slyther, but we have three votes for Checkers at my house.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 11:02 AM
I have to agree with a previous commenter that Sir William Biscuit has a fantastic ring to it. I might also propose, because of the color, Pumpkin. But if I have to choose from the two given options, Nacho is a clear winner!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM
How about Möbius... like a Möbius strip.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM
I vote for NachoReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2010 at 9:57 AM
I vote for Nacho. Very memorable. Maybe you can sell a namesake at the Cafe. Hold the mice.ReplyDelete
I've collected votes from Pacific Science center staff and volunteers who were not able to get to the blog. I have four votes for Nacho, two for checkers. On a personal note, I'm not voting, but my child voted for Checkers, bumping the score in this message to 4nacho/3checkers. I also got write-in's for:ReplyDelete
Cornucopia, Twitter, Archie, two write-in votes for Houdini one for cob, one for silkie, and one for Corny. I'm going to say "no" to Houdini since we already have a mole-rat by that name. And Archie and Cornucopia, if we don't use them, should go on the list for future naming opportunities.
I love Mobius! It's a geek name! Much better than Nacho or Checkers which are way too non-nerdy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 8:48 AM
How about tassle twister, maybe Huskies gold. Put a team name in there and I'm sure that sports fans can come up with some winners!Seattles Gold?ReplyDelete
I vote for "Checkers" or failing that, "Patches".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Write-in vote for "Flakes". The Corn Snake "Flakes" has a really good ring to it.ReplyDelete
Also the wording is very close to sounding like Corn Flakes
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM
I LOVE Nacho!ReplyDelete
~Kate Parker
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2011 at 7:11 AM
My Corn snake is named Pepper and its that colour :L But in liking Nacho!ReplyDelete


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Daniel Loeb, a Yahoo! board member, bought an additional 2.5 million shares of the tech company for about $39.5 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yahoo was already the largest holding of Loeb's hedge fund Third Point. The new investmnet takes its stake to over 73 million shares or about 6 percent of the Internet company's outstanding stock.
These shares were purchased in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $15.76 to $15.90, according to the filing.
The New York-based hedge fund began building a position in Yahoo in 2011, calling for an overhaul of the board of directors and the need for the internet giant to "go back to basics to get into sexy areas on the net."
Loeb secured three seats on the board of the internet company for his hedge fund in May.
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At a time when many economists, politicians and business leaders argued we should prepare for the information-technology based "new economy" as the inevitable outcome of the transition from manufacturing-based to post-industrial service-based economies, Irish writer Eamon Fingleton published a book called In Praise of Hard Industries: 'Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy is the Key to Future Prosperity' in 1999.
Around the same time, one leading economist wrote that advanced economies should not even consider large-scale manufacturing anymore, and leave that to low-cost countries such as China and India. Advanced nations should instead concentrate on service-based activities. He specifically pointed at Germany with its traditional industry politics and strong industrial base, where this insight was still grossly lacking.
In stark contrast, Fingleton called the new economy a time bomb, suggesting that since the 1980s per-capita incomes had risen faster in the typical manufacturing nations of Germany, Japan and Switzerland compared with the de-industrialised US, UK and Canada. He warned that building industrial manufacturing know-how is difficult, while the necessary skills development requires a long learning curve. De-industrialisation increases a nation's vulnerability, whereas loss of skilled technical jobs results in traditional middle-class shrinkage and if jobs are replaced, new jobs tend to be of the low-paid, service-type "McJob" variety, according to Fingleton.
The euphoria on the long-term benefits of the new economy proved shortlived. First the dot.com bubble burst in 2000, then the financial sector was blamed again for the 2008 credit crunch, whose huge negative impact is still felt today. It also fuelled calls for a return to "real economy" values and principles through rebuilding manufacturing capabilities and hard industries.
Fourteen years after Fingleton's book was published, the UK has one of Europe's most ambitious wind energy programmes to build 18GW of new offshore wind farms by 2020, representing more than EUR50 billion in investment. Critics have warned that much of this sum could do to foreign parties due to a lack of domestic suppliers of main components and complete turbines.
Based on findings of a new report by trade body RenewableUK called Building an Industry, UK newspaper The Guardian recently reported that as many as 32 new factories are needed to build the components for these envisaged British offshore wind farms. The sector could potentially create tens of thousands of jobs, but so far only ten such factories have been built or are planned in the UK, according to RenewableUK.
"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. If we don't seize it, the large scale offshore wind supply chain factories of the future, making the blades, towers and foundations that we'll need to retain the UK's global lead in offshore wind will be sited elsewhere," warned RenewableUK CEO Maria McCaffery.
Although all turbines currently installed in UK waters were made by Germany's Siemens and Repower or Denmark's Vestas, Michael Fallon, the Conservative energy minister, said the government was committed to the sector: "The UK leads the world in offshore wind. This is a major success story and one we should all be proud of. Not only do we have more installed offshore wind we also have the largest wind farms and a real knowledge base about how to build offshore wind farms."
Missed opportunity?
At a Dutch-Anglo wind event earlier this year I spoke to representatives of RenewableUK and various regional UK business development organisations. I asked why the UK's industrial development initiatives seem to focus on component manufacture and on inviting foreign turbine suppliers to establish local production facilities. Another thing that continues to puzzle me is why current UK offshore turbine-development initiatives seem to concentrate on high-risk projects such as the 10MW vertical-axis Aerogenerator X and VertAx Wind turbines, and show little interest in copying the successful strategy of several Asian wind market entrants. Firms such as Ming Yang and Sinovel of China and south-Korean industrial giant Hyundai use specialist technology providers to acquire conventional state-of-the-art wind technology, benefitting from a fast-track learning, short time to market and much reduced product development risks.
The responses I got from several representatives from RenewableUK, local councils and regional development agencies was that nobody seemed to know, even though the questions had been asked before. Both the wind industry and the UK - the birthplace of the industrial revolution, with its centuries-old engineering excellence and manufacturing heritage - deserve a better answer.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - Despite the weather conditions, the Ferris State University men's and women's track and field teams hit the track again on Saturday (April 13) as the Bulldogs took part in the Hillsdale Invitational.
The competition was held on the Ken Herrick Track in Hillsdale with selected field events moved indoors to the new Margot V. Biermann Center, which recently opened.
Snow fell for much of the invitational that featured eight different schools. Both FSU teams finished fifth overall in the field with selected student-athletes taking part.
On the women's side, Jessica Pilling led the way as she won the hammer throw with a NCAA national provisional qualifying throw of 182-0 (55.48m).
FSU's Alyssa Osika took runner-up honors in the 800 meters.
In the other throwing events, Christa Cwiek took fourth place in the javelin (97-2) with Alison Busick finishing fifth in the shot put (35-7.75).
Meanwhile, Breeann Ovokaitys placed fifth in the 1,500 meters (4:55.25) and Brittany Anderson wound up fifth in the 5,000 meters (18:57.20).
Shaleen Williams was eighth overall in the 200 meters (27.38) while Shea Van Klompenberg came in eighth in the 800 meters (2:21.77) and Paige Koskinen finished eighth in the 5,000 meters (19:31.36).
The Ferris State foursome of Gabby Baur, Osika, Rachel Wood and Van Klompenberg also came in third overall in the 4x400-meter relay (4:07.96).
On the men's side, Ferris State took the top two spots in the 5,000 meters as Brandon Cushman won the event in 15:19.51 followed by Lucas Copi (15:24.73).
In the men's 1,500 meters, Blake Garver finished second (4:07.23) with Andrew Harper third (4:07.23) and Bill King seventh (4:09.07).
Connor LaRowe took fourth place in the 800 meters (1:59.88) while Kyle Garner was seventh in the 400-meter hurdles (58.48).
FSU had success in the hammer throw as Lucas Johnson finished second (161-10) with Austin Grant fifth (150-1), David Jimpkoski sixth (146-5) and Ryan Stankey eighth (136-7).
The Bulldogs' Stankey was fourth in the shot put (42-9.50) with Travis Hauck seventh (35-9.25) in the same event. Derek Ash placed eighth in the discus (131-4).
FSU was also sixth in the men'x 4x400-meter relay (3:35.55) with a quartet consisting of LUca Cutraro, LaRowe, Zachary Cross and Thomas Lyons.
The Bulldogs are back in action next weekend as selected student-athletes head to California for the prestigious Mt. Sac Relays on Thursday and Friday (April 18-19) along with the Beach Invite on Saturday (April 20).
Other members of the Bulldog squad will take part in the Al Owens Classic at Grand Valley State in Allendale on both Friday and Saturday.


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Thank you, Kathy [VanNoy-Pineda, Chief Compliance Officer, LPL Financial] for that introduction, and thanks also to IRI for the invitation to speak here today.
I'm pleased to have this opportunity to meet with all of you again this year, to update you on some of what we're doing and thinking about at FINRA. Today I want to talk about some of the changes we're making to our exam program, as well as an effort that's underway related to the collection of variable annuity data and what we're seeing in variable annuity sales. I'll then touch on a back office registration rule that was recently approved. And, I'll close with some issues that I think we all should be thinking about as the industry looks toward a fiduciary standard.
Exam Program Changes
I'll start with the work we're doing on our exam program and our continued effort to make sure our exam teams are more focused on those areas that present a real risk to investors.
In the last year, we've added 20 more coordinators to our district staff, for a total of 90 district staff dedicated to the surveillance function. Our goal is to have a much more in-depth understanding of your firms and how they are changing from the standpoint of business model, products and market events.
We are also digging deeper on areas that pose the most risk. For example, we are using both paper and electronic means to verify that customer assets exist and are being held on behalf of customers in secure locations.
We are using more sophisticated risk analysis to help ensure our examiners are asking the right questions when they walk in the door. To help target examination protocols, we are developing comprehensive profiles of a firm's business model and underlying risks. We will also be asking firms to provide detailed securities and financial transactional data, including purchase and sales data, customer data and data about the broker. For the last few years, we have been working with the largest carrying and clearing firms to receive data in a standardized format that enables us to test for compliance with the customer protection rule and to electronically perform comparison to outside custodians.
Ultimately, we will work with the industry to develop standard data feeds that can be subjected to risk and compliance scenarios. These approaches will enable our examiners to be more effective when it comes to identifying the issues that deserve their attention.
Our examiners will devote more time to understanding risks and how well they are managed or mitigated. The new examination technology we are developing supports greater emphasis on open-ended risk-based reviews that require a more complete understanding of your business and the areas that are vulnerable to breakdowns in controls.
We are also paying closer attention to branch-level activity—increasing the number of branch exams, and refocusing our exams at point-of-sale. The examination staff is spending more time on site at the branch offices and, depending on the firm, less time at the main office. The point of sale and interface is where we have historically found troubling conduct, so we want to better target our resources. There will be a number of core areas that examiners will look at during these on-site examinations, and likely engage in more dialogue with branch management as part of that process.
The combination of the qualitative information we collect through coordinators and our on-the-ground exam staff—and the quantitative information we gather through data collection and analysis—will better enable us to identify risk and decide where, how and with what intensity to apply our resources.
Looking ahead two to three years, there are several other changes that we are looking to make to our exam program. These changes are focused on broader data collection and more sophisticated analysis of that data, with the goal of having our examiners better prepared when they arrive at firms.
FINRA Variable Annuity Data Pilot Program
As FINRA works to focus its resources, we are also looking for opportunities to make it easier for firms to respond to our requests for information.
We know that those of you at insurance carriers, in particular, have concerns about the expense and effort associated with those requests. Many of you have told us it would be helpful if we could standardize requests. At the same time, the lack of access to variable annuity data has resulted in FINRA examiners manually reviewing documents, often on-site during a broker-dealer exam.
To address these issues, and as part of the exam program enhancements I mentioned earlier, we have launched a pilot program to collect data directly from the product underwriters and manufacturers using a standard request and template. The program focuses on products most frequently sold by retail firms.
We have created a template for collecting information that's been requested by examiners and investigators over the last couple of years, but this time we ask for that information one way as opposed to any number of ways. We have continued to refine this template so that FINRA can conduct rigorous reviews without further information requests from the product manufacturers, and firms are encouraged to use the template to provide information. We have worked closely with broker-dealer affiliates of the carriers to determine a data submission format that works for the industry and meets FINRA's regulatory need. This is an ongoing process and our ultimate goal is to develop a standardized approach.
Our first tranche of information requests was sent to carriers in April. Most of them have responded in a timely fashion and the FINRA team is reviewing the information and soliciting feedback on the information requested and the format. A second tranche of requests will go to additional variable annuity manufacturers in the next few weeks. This set of requests will utilize an updated template based on feedback and findings we received from the first set of responses. As we move forward, carriers will continue to have a seat at the table as we drive toward a data standard. We also are engaged with the Committee of Annuity Insurers and have reached out to IRI because of its important role in this area. FINRA cannot go it alone here. We need industry engagement to drive toward a meaningful functional standard that works for all.
As I mentioned earlier, this pilot aligns with our overall goal to combine broader data collection with more sophisticated analysis as part of our enhanced exam program. The objective is simple: We want to become more effective in spotting trends, and in creating risk-based exams that go beyond the sampling approaches we have traditionally used while over the long term reducing costs and effort for the industry to obtain and use the information.
What We're Seeing at Firms With Regard to Variable Annuity Sales
Now, I'd like to turn to some of our recent exam findings related to variable annuities (VA). The good news is that we're not seeing wholesale patterns of violations and the industry has responded well to complying with our variable annuity rule. We are, however, seeing areas where firms still need to improve.
Let me give you some examples. One issue that we're seeing is failure to obtain—or failure to document—basic customer information such as age, annual income, financial needs, investment objectives and other critical information required under our VA rule and necessary for suitability analysis.
We've also seen inadequate policies and procedures and inadequate supervisory reviews and approvals. And some firms haven't developed or properly implemented training programs under the rule.
While these findings may seem like minor traffic violations on the surface, variable annuities are very complex and sophisticated products and firms need to have a level of supervisory control in place to ensure they're being sold properly.
From an enforcement perspective, we continue to have concerns including abusive switches and costly surrender fees; firms' supervision of switch activity; inappropriate sales to seniors; and over-concentration of annuity products in customer accounts. Brad Bennett will talk more about enforcement trends later this morning.
That said, however, we are pleased with the industry's response to the variable annuity rule requirements. These requirements were considered and implemented over an extended period of time, were anticipated by the industry, and you all had time to prepare to ensure compliance with the rule. The small enforcement caseload also suggests that the rule, which requires training and principal approval of sales, has had the desired effect of deterring inappropriate sales of variable annuity products.
Back Office Registration Proposal
I'd like to turn now to an issue that Lee [Covington, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, IRI] specifically asked me to address and that's the new rule requiring certain operations personnel to register with FINRA and pass a qualifications exam. As you likely have heard, the SEC recently approved the rule, and while we will issue a Regulatory Notice announcing the effective date shortly, I'd like to preview some of the key provisions that were incorporated into the final rule filing and reflect comments from the industry.
First, let me talk about who is covered under the rule. We have clarified that covered persons do not necessarily need to be the most senior managers at the firm. Instead, the rule dictates that those who must register are the most senior managers with delegated direct responsibility for the covered functions in the rule.
Second, we have also clarified the level of managers below senior management who would be covered. Our filing indicates that those individuals designated as a supervisor or manager for the covered functions would be covered.
Third, with respect to introducing firms, FINRA's expectation is that the scope of covered persons would be limited, given that the clearing firm would often be responsible for most if not all of the covered functions for the introducing firm. Therefore, the introducing firms might register a limited number of persons overseeing the relationship with the clearing firm, perhaps solely the FinOp.
The final area we've addressed in the rule filing is a grace period for individuals to pass the qualifying exam. The rule, as proposed, allows a 120-day grace period to pass a qualifying exam for both clearing and non-clearing firms that hired covered persons after the effective date of the rule.
Preparing for Fiduciary
The next issue I'd like to touch on is what all of you should be thinking about as momentum builds for a fiduciary standard.
Let's start with disclosure. While it's one of the key ingredients needed to address fiduciary issues, alone it's insufficient. As I've said many times before, and I'm sure you'll agree, we need to get away from today's environment in which account statements contain too much legalistic information, leaving them downright turgid, and causing investors to simply ignore them. That is, in my mind, a fundamentally flawed approach to disclosure.
There are a few questions I suggest you address and ask with respect to relationships with your customers. How do we interact in an effective way with investors? How do we foster understanding among investors? And how do we deliver our message, both in terms of existing technology tools and our financial advisers?
It was for exactly that reason we published a concept proposal last fall designed to address these questions. The proposal would require firms, at or prior to commencing a business relationship with a retail customer, to provide a written statement that describes the types of accounts and services it provides. Firms would also be required to disclose the conflicts associated with such services.
How to disclose information, from accounts to conflicts, is really the challenge. We need to figure out the right combination of how to capture investors' attention up front; how to provide detail from a Web-based standpoint; and how to use minimalist but effective point-of-sale disclosure to remind customers of the questions they should be asking again and again.
The result would be to move to an environment dramatically different than what we have had for the last 20 years. The presumption would be that you have conflicts, and you have incentives, as all firms do. Knowing that, how would you provide disclosure and effective communication with customers so that they're able to make those decisions in a rational way? That's really the critical question, and one that I hope you and your colleagues will address in the weeks and months ahead.
In talking about disclosure, I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge IRI's valuable work on developing a summary prospectus for variable annuities. This is an important example of the need to provide everyday investors with easy access to prospectus information, and I'm encouraged by the progress I've seen so far.
Social Media
Before closing, I wanted to talk about an ongoing challenge that I know you are all struggling with: social media, and how to keep pace with disclosure and investor protection issues. In 2009, FINRA organized a Social Networking Task Force composed of FINRA staff and industry representatives to discuss how firms and their registered representatives could use social media sites for legitimate business purposes in a manner that ensures investor protection. Based on input from the Task Force and others, FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 10-06 last year.
The task force continues to examine some of the more recent questions and concerns involving social media. For example, firms have had questions about the best way to supervise "business card" information that is posted on a social media site, particularly when there is the potential for employees to communicate about securities-related business through these sites. Firms have also questioned how they can most effectively supervise employees' use of personal devices, such as smart phones, BlackBerries and iPads, which are able to access firm systems. The Task Force has discussed some broader Internet issues that extend beyond social media sites, such as the use of hyperlinks from firm websites to third-party sites, and the use of third-party data on firm websites. Our goal is to provide further guidance on these issues in a Notice to be published later this year. In the meantime, we welcome your input, and look forward to working with the industry on social media issues going forward.
Whether we're focused on a fiduciary standard, social media or any of the other issues I've talked about today, one of the keys to enacting lasting reforms will be regular communication and dialogue among regulators and the industry. And on that note I'd like to both reiterate my thanks to IRI for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts with all of you, and also invite all of you to share your questions and observations with me. Because keeping each other informed is mutually beneficial and will contribute to a healthier, more stable market environment.
Thank you.


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Bush Gives Hussein 48 Hours to Flee Iraq
President Bush on Monday gave Saddam Hussein a 48-hour deadline to flee Iraq or face a U.S.-led invasion, saying American forces will wage war "at a time of our choosing."
The president, commander in chief of 250,000 U.S. troops poised at the borders of Iraq, told the Iraqi people, "The day of your liberation is near."
Bush issued his ultimatum after U.N. allies refused to back his bid for a resolution sanctioning military force. The diplomatic defeat forced Bush to move toward war accompanied by Britain, Spain, Australia and a handful of other nations in his self-described "coalition of the willing."
Bush warned that war could lead to retaliatory strikes by terrorists on U.S. interests at home and abroad, and said he had ordered increased security at airports and along U.S. waterways.
"These attacks are not inevitable. They are, however, possible," Bush said. "We will not be intimidated by thugs and killers."
Bush spoke after deciding to raise the nation's terrorism alert from yellow to orange, the second-highest category of risk.
For the first time since he drew the nation's attention to Iraq last fall, Bush focused on the questions most asked by Americans: Why war? And why now?
Spelling out the threat, he said Saddam has weapons of mass destruction he might share with terrorists, has a history of hating America and is a destabilizing force in the Middle East.
"The United States did nothing to deserve or invite this threat, but we will do everything to defeat it. Instead of drifting along toward tragedy, we will set a course toward safety," the president said from the White House.
"The tyrant will soon be gone," he said.
He expressed disappointment that the United Nations had failed to stand beside the United States.
"The United Nations Security Council has not lived up to its responsibilities so we will rise to ours," he said.
"Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours," Bush said. "Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict to commence at a time of our choosing."
An intense White House debate over whether to establish a timetable was settled hours before the president's speech. Some argued that Bush should not set a deadline because Saddam could use the notice to build opposition to the president's case or even launch a pre-emptive strike against U.S. interests.
Bush said that after 12 years of diplomacy and weapons inspections, "Our good faith has not been returned. The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and advantage."
"We are not dealing with peaceful men," he said.
Bush renewed his warning to Iraq troops.
"If war comes, do not fight for a dying regime that is not worth your own life," Bush said. He told soldiers to listen carefully to his warning that they should not destroy oil wells or use weapons of mass destruction.
To civilians in Iraq he said, "If we must begin a military campaign it will be directed to lawless men who direct your country and not at you."
He pledged the United States would provide food, medicine and other assistance as Iraq recovers from war.
The address came 24 hours after Bush's return from an Atlantic island summit, where he joined with allies from Britain and Spain to give the U.N. Security Council one day consent to disarming Saddam with force.
A quick round of telephone calls Sunday night and Monday morning confirmed what aides said Bush had concluded before the summit: The allies' U.N. resolution was doomed to fail.
He ordered the measure withdrawn to avoid an embarrassing defeat, then gave the go-ahead for a long-planned ultimatum address.
The American public, by a 2-1 margin, generally supports military action against Iraq to remove Saddam, a slight increase from recent weeks, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll out Monday. Opinion was evenly divided when people were asked about an attack without an attempt to gain U.N. backing.
White House and congressional sources said Bush intends to send Congress a bill seeking more than $70 billion to pay for the war.


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You Are What You Eat!
The natural beauty that exudes from a person who is healthy in mind, body, and spirit cannot be duplicated with cosmetics, pills, or surgery.
Food plays a major role in our mood, memory, and cognitive function. While some foods are believed to contribute to brain health, others are more likely to increase brain decline. For example, saturated and hydrogenated/trans fats (in processed foods), especially in combination with simple, refined carbohydrates (i.e., sugar) increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes. In addition, they cause inflammation in the body and the brain.
So, what can we eat for optimum health?
The first thing we can do is decrease the amount of food that we intake. Calorie restriction has been shown to be the most effective means to retard aging, including brain aging. It wards off obesity, and it lowers the risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
Secondly, what are the foods that will keep us healthy in mind, body, and spirit?
Colorful Fruits and Vegetables and the Juices Made From Them
Sweet potatoes, corn, yams, carrots, lima/butter beans, peas and lentils have a low glycemic index (GI). This means that they are slow in raising blood glucose levels.
Broccoli. One medium stalk of broccoli contains more than 100% of your daily vitamin K requirement and almost 200% of your recommended daily dose of vitamin C: two essential bone-building nutrients. The same serving also helps stave off numerous cancers.
Avocados are rich in healthy, satisfying fats proven in one study to lower cholesterol by about 22%. One has more than half the fiber and 40% of the folic acid you need daily, which may reduce your risk of heart disease.
Blueberries have one of the highest anti-inflammatory/antioxidant capacities of all fruits and vegetables.
Other good fruits are strawberries and other berries, apples, mangos, citrus fruit.
Whole Grain and Fiber-Rich Foods
Whole wheat breads and pasta, oats, barley, bulgar have a low glycemic index.
Low-Fat and Fat-Free Dairy Products
Yogurt, low fat cheese and milk are good options.
Lean Meats, Poultry, Fish, Eggs, Beans, Nuts and Seeds
Cold water fish like salmon, halibut, tuna, herring, trout are high in omega-3 fatty acids which have been linked to a reduced risk of depression, heart disease, and cancer. They have antioxidant properties and stimulate the immune system. They also "protect" the brain.
Walnuts and almonds are good antioxidants and may help reduce cholesterol.
Curcumin is found in the yellow curry spice.
Turmeric is high in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.
Olives, canola oil, avocado and grapeseed oils are high in omega-9 fatty acids.
Flaxseeds, sesame seeds, and soybeans are phytochemicals that protect the brain and immune system.
People in the Mediterranean and Japan eat the healthiest. In the Mediterranean "Diet", it is recommended that red meats and simple sweets should only be eaten occasionally.
In 1993 the "DASH Diet" was introduced by the National Institutes of Health to control and prevent hypertension. But now, it has now been shown to reduce the rate of cognitive decline in the elderly, improve the immune system, and provide for overall health and wellbeing. It is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy foods; includes meat, fish, poultry, nuts and beans; and is limited in sugar-sweetened foods and beverages, red meat, and added fats. In addition to its effect on blood pressure, it is designed to be a well-balanced approach to eating for all Americans.
It is important to eat foods that are organically grown and from cage and range-free animals. These foods have been proven to have the highest nutrient content and are high in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
As we all know, diets do not work. It is an overall healthy eating plan that will support a long and healthy life filled with energy and spiritual growth.
According to Pedram Asadi, Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Westwood Wellness Center, "You don't have to completely eliminate something from your diet that you enjoy or crave. Just eat or drink it in small amounts, and supplement other healthy foods that will keep you in balance."
Research documents the fact that all of the millions of cells in our body "think". They are intelligent and pass information to our brain. So, that "gut feeling" that you have really is coming from your stomach! We need to listen to our body. It will tell you what you need for optimum health and wellness.
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Favorites and duds from today's commenting.
Favorites, in no particular order:
This is good for a chuckle, from Mired in the Grey in the Outfield Wall Optical Illusion post. It probably doesn't need the word "pictured" up front (I think most people can assemble the joke without that clue), but it doesn't suffer for it. Good work.
A few commenters took a swing at this angle in the Richie Incognito post, but I thought dope did the best job because his joke lets the reader do a little of the work, and the punchline is therefore just more satisfying.
This is a very good joke, from Milo Minderbinder in the Troll Scout post. The delivery is perfect. I mean it's just perfect. Letter perfect. I won't bore you with a big rundown of how it works, but no matter when you grasp the punchline, it will always come at the exact end of your reading of a line of text. Way to go, man. This here is the Comment of the Day.
In another example of a popular angle, this time in the Alabama Library post, I enjoyed SavetoFavorites big-picture take the best. Here's the thing: not every obvious angle is bad. Ultimately (and obviously) it comes down to what is done with it. This joke's author stretched it out just enough to turn it into a criticism of humorously backwards priorities, and it works.
This is so over-the-top, from StuartScottsEye in the Sydney Leroux Wipe-Out post. I feel like the humor starts to wane quickly in the final parenthesized paragraph, but there are a few little touches in there that ultimately keep this thing from being a flaming disaster. Words like donger are good for that sort of thing, I guess. Idiot. Also, I chuckled at this somewhat less balls-to-the-wall interaction in the Nice Kevin Durant post. Good stuff.
God help me, I laughed aloud at this line from darinh in the Bean Puig post. The less said about it the better. I laughed. Aloud. Let's move on.
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This is hilariously awful, from SixPointer in the Richie Incognito post. What the hell does that even mean? What's the over/under on him sleeping out of that car? Uhhh...SIX! No, SEVEN! SEVEN AND A HALF! Man, what the hell are you talking about. I hate this so much that I love it. It's just so, so stupid. This could honestly be in the Favorites.
This is terrible, in the Sidney Leroux Wipe-Out post, and not because I think RigmasTFT is an awful jerk who believes that crap. No, I hate it because I have long hated the say-something-ignorant-and-offensive-but-not-funny-and-then-pin-it-on-a-known-asshole line of joke-making. If it isn't funny out of your mouth, why would it be funny out of that other guy's? Assigning it to someone else only works if by doing so you have revealed something about either the sentiment or the speaker, and this does neither. It's just lazy junk trying to draw recs from idiots for a cheap reference.
This reply makes me furious, from indecent Expose in the Bean Puig post. Seriously, get lost, you fucking jackass. And, to the author of the lukewarm joke that received this reply, man, dismiss that fucking shit. That may not be a killer joke, but it doesn't deserve anything like that half-assed heckling crap.
Hey, that's all I've got. Better late than never, right? Right? Oh, look, weather!