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French agency to probe hacking attack
PARIS (AP) -- France's election campaign commission said Saturday "a significant amount of data" -- and some fake information -- has been leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign. It urged citizens not to relay the data on social media to protect the integrity of the French vote.
France's government cybersecurity agency will investigate the attack, according to a government official who said it appeared to be a "very serious" breach.
The leak came 36 hours before the nation votes Sunday in a crucial presidential runoff between Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen -- and just as a two-day blackout on campaigning began so that voters could reflect on their choice.
Voting started Saturday in France's overseas territories and in some embassies abroad.
The leaked documents appear largely mundane, and the perpetrators remain unknown. It's unclear whether the document dump will dent Macron's large polling lead over Le Pen going into the vote.
The election commission met Saturday after the leaks emerged just before midnight Friday. The commission said the leaked data apparently came from Macron's "information systems and mail accounts from some of his campaign managers." It said the leaked data had been "fraudulently" obtained and that fake news was probably mingled in with it.
The commission urged French media and citizens not to relay the leaked documents. French electoral laws impose a news blackout Saturday and most of Sunday on any campaigning and media coverage seen as swaying the election.
The Macron team asked the campaign oversight commission Saturday to bring in cybersecurity agency ANSSI to study the hack, according to a government official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the details publicly.
ANSSI can only be called in for cases where the cyberattack is "massive and sophisticated" -- and the Macron hack appears to fit the bill, the official said.
Someone on 4chan -- a site known, among other things, for cruel hoaxes and political extremism -- posted links to a large set of data Friday night.
Macron's team quickly confirmed that it had been hit by a "massive and coordinated" hack some weeks ago, in which unidentified hackers accessed staffers' personal and professional emails and leaked campaign finance material and contracts -- as well as fake documents -- online.
In a cursory look at the leaked documents, they appear to be day-to-day communications, with a few items so out of character that they might be fakes. Other documents, which seem to date back several years, don't appear related to the campaign at all.
Le Pen's campaign could not formally respond due to the campaigning blackout, but National Front official Florian Philippot, asked in a tweet: "Will the #Macronleaks teach us something that investigative journalism deliberately buried?"
The Macron hacking announcement came just 10 days after the campaign's digital chief, Mounir Mahjoubi, said it had been targeted by Russia-linked hackers -- but that those hacking attempts had all been thwarted.
Mahjoubi and other campaign staffers would not comment Saturday.
The documents leaked Friday were widely circulated on U.S. far-right sites. Experts dissecting the data say they spotted a couple of Russian names in the dump. Matt Suiche of cybersecurity firm Comae Technologies said "there's Cyrillic script in the metadata," but added it was hard to tell whether that's due to carelessness or a deliberate misdirection.
In other voting issues, the French voting watchdog urged the Interior Ministry to look into claims by the Le Pen campaign of tampering with ballot papers in a way that favors Macron.
The first French territory to vote Saturday was Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, an archipelago near Newfoundland, where voters came dressed in scarves and jackets to ward off the chilly weather. Shortly afterward, voting started in French Guiana and the French West Indies, where voters wore shorts.
French citizens also turned out in droves to vote in the Canadian province of Quebec. The French consul general in Montreal said more than 57,000 people had registered to vote in the province, the vast majority in Montreal.
The last polling stations on the French mainland close at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, when the first pollsters' projections and official partial results are expected.
The campaign has been unusually bitter, with voters hurling eggs and flour, protesters clashing with police and the candidates insulting each other on national television -- a reflection of the country's deep divisions.
Le Pen, 48, has brought her far-right National Front party, once a pariah for its racism and anti-Semitism, closer than ever to the French presidency, softening its message and seizing on working-class voters' growing frustration with globalization and immigration.
The 39-year-old Macron, a former economy minister and investment banker who has never held elected office, also helped upend France's traditional political structure with his wild-card campaign.
After ditching France's traditional left-right political parties in a first-round presidential ballot, voters were choosing between Macron's business-friendly vision and Le Pen's protectionist, closed-borders view. Macron wants a strong EU, while Le Pen favors a France-first policy that could see France spin out of the bloc.
From depressed northern France to the streets of Paris, few voters seemed aware Saturday of the hacking attack on Macron's team -- although several were looking forward to the end of a vitriolic campaign.
In Henin-Beaumont in northern France, where Le Pen will cast her ballot on Sunday, 28-year-old Thomas Delannoy said the campaign "looks like reality TV." The construction painter called the electoral process "laughable," saying that neither candidate had a platform he could identify with.
Macron will vote Sunday in the seaside town of Le Touquet, where his wife Brigitte went for a walk Saturday with her daughter and grandchildren.
Angela Charlton contributed to this report.


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- 1/4 yard red print (blocks)
- 1/2 yard brown print (blocks, inner border)
- 1/4 yard each of orange and red polka dot (blocks)
- 1/4 yard each of gold and pink print (blocks)
- 1/8 yard red-and-tan print (blocks)
- 1 yard red floral (outer border, binding)
- 1-1/4 yards backing fabric
- 42" square batting
Finished quilt: 36-1/2" square
Finished block: 12" square
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabric. Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.
Cut Fabrics
Cut pieces in the following order. Click on "Download this Project" to download templates and get tips for using template pieces.
From red print, cut:
- 16 of Pattern A
From brown print, cut:
- 2--2x27-1/2" inner border strips
- 2--2x24-1/2" inner border strips
- 16 of Pattern B
From each of the red and orange polka dots, cut:
- 16 of Pattern C
From each of the gold and pink prints, cut:
- 16 of Pattern C
From red-and-tan print, cut:
- 8--3-7/8" squares, cutting each in half diagonally for 16 triangles total
From red floral, cut:
- 2--5x36-1/2" outer border strips
- 2--5x27-1/2" outer border strips
- 4--2-1/2x42" binding strips
Assemble Blocks
When joining pieces A, B, and C, be sure to align marked matching points. To do this, push a pin through center of dots when pieces are layered.
1. Referring to Diagram 1, sew together a red print A piece and a brown print B triangle to make a narrow pieced triangle. Press seam toward brown print. Repeat to make 16 narrow pieced triangles total.
2. Aligning marked matching points, sew orange and red polka dot C triangles to opposite long edges of a gold print C triangle (Diagram 2). Press seams toward polka dot triangles.
3. Add a pink print C triangle to remaining edge of Step 2 gold C triangle to make a wide pieced triangle (Diagram 3). Press seam toward pink print triangle.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to make 16 wide pieced triangles total.
5. Sew together a narrow pieced triangle and a wide pieced triangle to make a triangle pair (Diagram 4). Press seam toward wide pieced triangle. Repeat to make 16 triangle pairs total.
6. Sew together two triangle pairs to make a half unit (Diagram 5). Press seam toward wide pieced triangle. Repeat with remaining pairs to make eight half units total.
7. Join two half units to make a center unit (Diagram 6). Press seam in one direction. Repeat to make four center units total.
8. Add a red-and-tan print triangle to a corner of a center unit; press seam toward red-and-tan print. Repeat with remaining corners of center unit to make a block (Diagram 7). The block should be 12-1/2" square including seam allowances. Repeat to make four blocks total.
Assemble Quilt Center
1. Referring to Quilt Assembly Diagram, sew together blocks in pairs. Press seams in opposite directions.
2. Join pairs to make quilt center. Press seam in one direction. The quilt center should be 24-1/2" square including seam allowances.
Add Border
1. Sew short brown print inner border strips to opposite edges of quilt center. Add long brown print inner border strips to remaining edges. Press all seams toward border.
2. Sew short red floral outer border strips to opposite edges of quilt center. Add long red floral outer border strips to remaining edges to complete quilt top. Press all seams toward outer border.
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Barack Obama is indeed succeeding in his plans to "transform America," but not in the way voters expected on Election Day in 2008. The number of the president's actions that arguably qualify as impeachable offenses is staggering.
The question before the country is what to do about it.
True, Obama faces the voters in 8-9 months, and that will be seen by many as a reason to avoid the turmoil of an impeachment proceeding. But one process has nothing to do with the other. Elections proceed on an established calendar, but if he has committed acts that warrant removal by way of impeachment, that process should proceed independent of the election calendar. While impeachment must never be used to override an election victory, neither should the prospects of electoral defeat be used as an argument to avoid impeachment.
Obama has demonstrated contempt for the Constitution and is increasingly resorting to rule by decree. He is recognized by a growing number of Americans as a danger to the republic – certainly a danger to our liberties and also a serious threat to our national security.
It is time for the House of Representatives to take its constitutional responsibility seriously and launch an impeachment investigation. The investigative committee should hold hearings, collect and weigh the evidence, and then present its findings to the Congress and the nation.
Has Obama committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" that warrant impeachment and removal? There is much evidence that says, yes, he has.
A special report with evidence galore: "The Case for Impeachment: Why Barack Hussein Obama Should be Impeached to Save America" just $4.95!
Impeachment of the president is justified on constitutional grounds if any of the following 12 questions is answered in the affirmative:
- Did President Obama have personal knowledge of the illegal "Fast and Furious" project run by ATF and approved by top officials in the Department of Justice, a plan to sell over 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, weapons now linked to numerous crimes on both sides of the border including the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry?
- Did the president have knowledge of the ongoing effort by Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials to cover up the true purpose and scope of that ill-conceived, illegal project?
- Did the president direct his appointees on the National Labor Relations Board to bring a lawsuit against Boeing as a political payoff to organized labor?
- Did the president act contrary to the advice and pleas of his own CIA director, four previous intelligence agency heads of both parties and numerous experts on covert operations when, on April 16, 2009, he made public four internal Justice Department memos on terrorist interrogation techniques, thereby deliberately emasculating our anti-terrorist intelligence operations and endangering the lives of many intelligence agents?
- Did the president have knowledge of a plan by the Department of Homeland Security, ordered by Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and the deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, David Aguilar, to distort and falsify the Border Patrol's southwest border illegal-alien apprehension numbers by means of a deliberate, planned undercount – for the purpose of misleading the public and Congress about the true (abysmal) state of border security?
- By choosing not to secure the border against unlawful entry, has the president willfully disregarded his clear duty under Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution to protect the states from foreign invasion? Did the president admit this in a candid exchange with Sen. Jon Kyl, telling him the reason he was not stopping the cross-border human trafficking was to force Republicans in Congress to strike a deal for amnesty legislation?
- Is the president showing contempt for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law by ordering an "administrative amnesty" for millions of illegal aliens through the implementation of the John Morton memo of June 2011?
- Has the president demonstrated contempt for the Constitution and violated the separation of powers by issuing numerous executive orders and agency rules that have no basis in statute and often contradict congressional votes against such actions?
- Did the president authorize Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to violate current federal laws against aiding and abetting illegal aliens by signing agreements with foreign countries and pledging to protect and fund educational efforts to inform illegal aliens of their workplace "rights"? Also did these "agreements" she signed with foreign countries violate Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution which clearly establishes the manner in which treaties are to be undertaken and ratified?
- Did the president violate his oath of office when he instructed the Department of Justice not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts? Does the Constitution permit the person designated by Article II, Section 1, as holding the "executive power" of government to decide unilaterally to not enforce a law he disagrees with?
- Did the president authorize or approve the offer of a federal job to Rep. Joe Sestek if he would withdraw from the 2010 Democratic primary race for U.S. senator in Pennsylvania?
- Did the president violate the War Powers Act by conducting military operations in Libya beyond the 60-day limitation?
If the president is not guilty of any of these crimes, then a thorough investigation by a House committee with subpoena power will clear the air. If he is guilty, then the U.S. House of Representatives has a moral obligation to vote for a resolution of impeachment, and the U.S. Senate must bring him to trial.
If the leaders of the House believe that some or all of these actions are indeed impeachable offenses but nonetheless refuse to launch a formal investigation to ascertain all the facts, then there are two parties involved in Obama's assault on the Constitution – the perpetrators and their accomplices. In layman's terms, Obama and his radical cronies are busy robbing the bank, while the House Republican leadership waits in the getaway car.
If some or all of the allegations are adopted as true by the House but rejected by the Senate as inadequate grounds for removal, that means the president of the United States can ignore the particulars of his oath to defend the Constitution. It means he can govern by edict instead of "taking care to faithfully execute the laws of the United States." It means that Barack Obama has indeed succeeded in his plans to "transform America." It means we are perilously close to crossing the line between constitutional republic and dictatorship.
There is no question that the impeachment and removal of Barack Obama is within the proper scope and purpose of the Constitution's impeachment provisions.
The history of the nation's two presidential impeachment cases shows that although treason and bribery are the only crimes mentioned by name, this does not limit Congress' authority to bring an indictment on other serious charges. Constitutionally speaking, "high crimes and misdemeanors" can mean almost anything Congress in its wisdom wants it to mean.
Clearly, the authors of the Constitution did not intend that presidents should be vulnerable to removal for light or petty reasons, hence the use of the adjective "high" in front of the words "crimes and misdemeanors." Nevertheless, what constitutes a "high crime" is up to Congress to decide.
It is also clear from history that the identification and naming of impeachable offenses is as much a political judgment as a legal one. The assignment of separate and distinct roles to the House and the Senate – and the two-thirds vote requirement for conviction and removal – were deemed by the founders as sufficient safeguards against removal of a president for transient or narrowly partisan reasons.
We learned that lesson forcefully in the Clinton impeachment case. Politics can and will play a part in the process, but that is expected and entirely consistent with constitutional principles.
President Clinton was charged with two counts each of perjury and obstruction of justice. The House thought the crimes serious enough to adopt the impeachment resolution in December of 1998. Two months later, the Senate disagreed and voted for acquittal – or more precisely, failed to muster the required two-thirds vote for conviction. In the House vote, only five Democrats voted for impeachment, and in the Senate, not a single Democrat voted for conviction. So much for keeping politics out of the courtroom.
The peculiar and revealing thing about those two Clinton impeachment votes is that no one seriously doubted the guilt of the president on the perjury and obstruction charges. But Democrats in Congress believed that even if true, the charges did not warrant removal from office. They reasoned that the charges dealt with a private matter – Clinton's sexual escapades – and not government business.
The Clinton case illustrates that for both Democrats and Republicans, in the last analysis, what is an impeachable offense is inevitably a political question as much as a legal one. Scholars and lawyers may have an opinion, but Congress' opinion is the only one that matters. Congress' supreme authority on impeachment questions is as much an embodiment of our separation of powers doctrine as the president's broad prerogatives in foreign policy.
Admittedly, the likelihood of the present Democrat-controlled Senate casting a two-thirds vote for conviction and removal is almost zero. However, this does not discharge the House from its constitutional obligation to pursue the matter if – in their considered judgment – the evidence warrants.
The questions posed above all relate to actions affecting national security and unlawful political intervention in the execution of our nation's laws – not mere policy differences. Obama's disastrous economic policies, his ideological war against domestic energy production and his reckless proposals to add new trillions to our national debt– all are policies that are damaging to our nation's well-being. However, such policies are not in themselves impeachable crimes. His contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law is a different matter altogether.
It is our distinct honor to now carry the commentaries and reports of Tom Tancredo, former Representative to Congress of the State of Colorado and 2008 candidate for U.S. President. His CongressmanTomTancredo.com regularly features his articles, as does WorldNetDaily.
Former Congressman Tancredo currently serves as chairman of Rocky Mountain Foundation, co-chairman of the anti-illegal immigration Team America PAC, and honorary chairman of Youth for Western Civilization. He speaks frequently on cable news, talk radio, and on college campuses – where his mere presence has led leftists to riot on multiple occasions. His book, In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security was published in 2006.


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Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster
Veerle Pieters shows us how to create a strong geometric central poster design, which utilizes flowing blends, masked shapes, and subtle gradients, to create a sophisticated final work. She covers each step of creating this work in detail and uses a quick workflow that uses tools like Smart Guides to speed things up. Veerle's work always has a distinctive look and feel, while using geometric beauty and bright colors to their fullest.
The Making of 3 – A Limited Edition Poster Design
To celebrate the third birthday of Chris Spooner's blog Spoon Graphics, he created a limited edition poster design. He shows a detailed walkthrough of the design process. The concept behind the design is based on the number three, and carried out with a triangle vector pattern made in Illustrator. The final result is polished in Photoshop with some light effects.
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Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorial: Master Retro Poster Design
In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to create an art deco inspired poster design with references from US TV and film studio branding of the 40's and 50's. Learn how Fabio uses CS5's Perspective Grid tool to set up the building in this design. Discover the fonts he chooses and how he takes all the vector elements into Photoshop to color and texture.
How To Create a Tessellating Geometric Poster Design
Chris Spooner shows how to create a trendy, geometric poster design. In this beginner tutorial you'll learn how to crete three dimensional cubes in Illustrator, color with gradients, and position with perfect alignment into a repeating pattern. Some Photoshop textures, color casts, and highlights finish off this poster design.
Creating a Vintage Ski Poster Design with Illustrator CS4
This Vector Premium tutorial is based on a client project Neal McCullough created. In it you'll learn how to add a little Art Deco glamour to your illustrated poster designs by making subtle use of the Gradient and Transparency palettes in Illustrator CS4, as well as introducing an aged paper feel with clever use of texture resource files. This tutorial mostly uses bold retro shapes to compose the illustration, gradients are used quite a bit and a few areas have added pizzaz added with reflections, the use of blends, and various transparencies.
Classic Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create Abstract Poster Effects
Strong, simple shapes make up this colorful poster design by Danilo Rodrigues. This symmetrical artwork uses numerous 3-D shapes created with Illustrator's 3D Extrude and Bevel. The vector elements are then taken into Photoshop where photography and texture is added to unify the design and bring together this Retro-Futuristic inspired poster.
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create Retro Poster Art
Gordon Reid shows us how to create a retro flavored poster, inspired by a 50's and 60's aesthetic. Walk step-by-step through the process of preparing stock images for compositing, lighting, coloring and texturing the design. The vector part of this tutorial is mostly in the creation of various complementary design elements, as well as a triangular based grid.
Create a Retro Style Poster with Shapes, Patterns, and Eagles
In this tutorial Simona Pfreundner shows the inspired Adobe Illustrator artist how to create a retro style poster design. Learn how to create shapes by using the Pathfinder tools, by joining paths, and by applying graphic patterns. Also learn to take advantage of the Appearance Palette and have some fun with applying multiple strokes to objects.
Gigposter Design: The New Sex
Dave from GoMedia shows us how to create a gig poster using numerous stock elements and a crafty workflow. This tutorial has great results, requires no drawing skills, and is aimed at beginners. Learn how to roughly and quickly put together photo elements in Photoshop, which you then use Auto Trace in Illustrator to clean up. Add some trendy lines to scratchy elements, and other tips to compose this poster design.
Creating the "Samurai Werewolf" Poster
Veteran designer Tom Whalen has a thorough approach to creating posters in Adobe Illustrator. He shows us how he starts with strong initial sketching and vision, and then uses numerous Illustrator tools to speed through his workflow. Tom shares some of his favorite tips in this tutorial. You'll learn how to use Adobe Illustrator's powerful editing capabilities to help you create dynamic, evolving works of your own in this advanced Vector Premium tutorial.
Illustrator Tutorial: Create Summery Poster Artwork Using Illustrator CS5
Ben The Illustrator shows us how to create one of his trademark poster designs saturated with bright colors. He covers the big poster design steps quickly here: showing his sketch, the basic use of the Pen Tool to create most of the shapes and houses, then he jumps into showing us some of the most powerful tools in Illustrator CS5. He shows the usefulness of the Variable Stroke-Width tool, improved dashed-line functions, new shape-building tools, and the functionality of the most exciting new perspective tools.
How to Create a Vintage Ocean Liner Poster
The period between the end of the 19th century and World War II is considered the golden age of the ocean liner. We'll be starting with a basic sketch of an ocean liner Tijs Koelemeijer drew up, and use this as the basis to creating a classic poster design. The main tools you'll get to know in this tutorial are the Pathfinder and the Transform Effect, as you walk through the process of creating a vintage poster design in Illustrator CS4.
How to Make an Eco Friendly Vector Poster
In this tutorial, Simona Pfreundner explains how to create an illustrated poster design and how to set up our own crop marks in a few easy steps. This tutorial is aimed at the beginning Adobe Illustrator user. Jump in and learn to make this organic poster design.
Create a Distressed Vector Typographic Poster Design
Take a stroll through this poster design tutorial by Chris Spooner where he takes inspiration from the ZX Spectrum computer of the 80's. Learn to create linear, rainbow-colored typography in Illustrator, and then finalize the poster design with watercolor brushes, layer effects, blending modes, and more in Photoshop.
Illustrator Tutorial: Design a Geometric Op-Art Poster
Simon C Page explains how to create an Op-Art poster design with a style reminiscent of classic 1950s book covers. He shows how to use some tricks in Illustrator to set up the radiating square design, then how to create a basic script in Illustrator to color each of the hundreds of squares randomly - saving hours of time. The final poster design is laid out in InDesign CS5.
Psychedelic Poster Design
Learn how Zip Design creates a psychedelic-style gig poster design using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. The poster design's theme is based on a wild mix of cosmic imagery, strong patterns, egyptian art and has a P-Funk inspired feel. Learn step by step how to create the main elements of this design, from the use of stock, to font choice, custom drawn elements, and how to make it blend to fit the funky theme. You'll also learn to use spot colors, including metallic Pantone colors, and how to set up a spot varnish to give the poster design a shiny finish.
Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16
Tim Boesel shows us how to take mostly GoMedia Arsenal stock elements and blend them into a stylish grunge feeling poster. You can of course design your own elements, or draw your own illustrations, and use these inspiring techniques as a jumping off point for your own poster design.
Rock & Roll – Illustrative Poster
Von Glichka takes us through this Rock & Roll Hall of Fame poster design. Learn exacting methods for drawing tribal artwork, flames, and then vecotrizing, laying out the elements, as well as creating and adding texture.
Create a Pulsing Poster with a Vinyl Record and Grunge Type
In this tutorial Simona Pfreundner shows how to create a vinyl record with blends and opacity masks. Also learn how to create some funky pulsing elements, grunge typography, and put it together into a unique poster design.
How to Make a Retro RC Airplane Poster
Joseph Alessio shows how to create a fun toy airplane poster design suitable to adorn a young boy's room. Much of this tutorial is made by creating shapes with the Pen and Pencil tools, then the Gradient tools to color. Learn to create a fun retro remote-control airplane illustration, then compose it into a poster design. While this tutorial uses the Pen tool quite a bit, it's still a tutorial well suited for beginning Illustrator users.
How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design
Follow Chris Spooner as he creates a fun cartoon style poster, as a tribute to the character Sloth from the iconic tween movie "The Goonies." He combines a quick character doodle, done right in Illustrator, with the Roughen Effect used to give the linework it's sketchy hand-drawn feel. Some blocky text, a muted color palette, and some mixed in texture give this poster design it's retro feel.
Poster Design Inspiration
If the above tutorials aren't enough to satisfy your poster design needs, then check out the poster design inspiration below and be sure to read through our Creative Session on Poster Design here on Vectortuts+.
- Interview: Film Poster Art with Tyler Stout
- 50+ High-impact Illustrated Vector Posters
- Inspiration: 80+ Amazing WWII Allied Propaganda Posters
- Inspiration: 40 Typographic Posters
- 26 Inspirational Vector Posters from Creattica
- Interview with Tom Whalen of StrongStuff
- Milton Glaser on Using Design to Make Ideas New
- Fantastic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie Poster Inspiration, 1925 to 2010


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The Congressional Budget Office says the current year's budget deficit will be a record $1.5 trillion. It also says that over the next decade we're on track for annual deficits of "only" $768 billion. I suspect the CBO has hired Rosy Scenario to do the bookkeeping, but let's take that number at face value.
I'm now going to balance the budget, with the help of some experts.
I'll begin with things I'm most eager to cut. Let's privatize air traffic control. Canada did it, and it works better. Then privatize Amtrak. Get rid of all subsidies for rail. That'll save $12 billion.
End subsidies for public broadcasting, like NPR. Cancel the Small Business Administration. Repeal the Davis-Bacon rules under which the government pays union-set wages to workers on federal construction projects. Cut foreign aid by half (although we should probably get rid of all of it). So far, that's $20 billion.
Oops. That doesn't dent the deficit. We have to do much more.
So eliminate the U.S. Education Department. We'd save $94 billion. Federal involvement doesn't improve education. It gets in the way.
Agriculture subsidies cost us $30 billion a year. Let's get rid of them. They distort the economy. We should also eliminate Housing and Urban Development. That's $53 billion more.
Who needs the Energy Department and its $20 billion sinkhole? The free market should determine energy investments.
And let's end the war on drugs. In effect, it's a $47 billion subsidy for thugs in the black market.
I've already cut more than six times more than President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address. His freeze of nondefense discretionary spending would save only $40 billion.
But my cuts still total only $246 billion. If we're going to get rid of the rest of the CBO's projected deficit, we must attack the "untouchable" parts of the budget, starting with Social Security. Raising the retirement age and indexing benefits to inflation would save $93 billion. I'd save more by privatizing Social Security, but our progressive friends won't like that, so for now I'll ignore privatization.
The biggest budget busters are Medicare and Medicaid, and get this: the 400 subsidy programs run by HHS. Assuming I take just two-thirds of the Cato Institute's suggested cuts, that saves $281 billion.
How about the Defense Department's $721 billion? Much of that money could be saved if the administration just shrank the military's mission to its most important role: protecting us and our borders from those who wish us harm. Today, we have more than 50,000 soldiers in Germany, 30,000 in Japan and 9,000 in Britain. Those countries should pay for their own defense. Cato's military cuts add up to $150 billion.
I've now cut enough to put us $2 billion in surplus!
Can we go further?
"Repeal Obamacare," syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock said.
Reason magazine editor Matt Welch wants to cut the Department of Homeland Security, "something that we did without 10 years ago."
But don't we need Homeland Security to keep us safe?
"We already have law enforcement in this country that pays attention to these things. This is a heavily bureaucratized organization.
"Cut the Commerce Department," Mary O'Grady of The Wall Street Journal said. "If you take out the census work that it does, you would save $8 billion. And the rest of what it does is really just collect money for the president from business."
As the bureaucrats complain about proposals to make tiny cuts, it's good to remember that disciplined government could make cuts that get us to a surplus in one year. But even a timid Congress could make swift progress if it wanted to. If it just froze spending at today's levels, it would almost balance the budget by 2017. If spending were limited to 1 percent growth each year, the budget would balanced in 2019. And if the crowd in Washington would limit spending growth to about 2 percent a year, the red ink would almost disappear in 10 years.
As you see, the budget can be cut. Only politics stand in the way.
John Stossel is host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. He's the author of "Give Me a Break" and of "Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity." To find out more about John Stossel, visit his site at johnstossel.com.


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Rally Poland win for Ogier
VW star takes a 50-point championship lead with latest victory
We review the WRC drivers from last weekend's LOTOS 71st Rally Poland with the first of a two-part round-up.
Sébastien Ogier (Volkswagen Polo R)
Seb was reminded he has more than one team-mate capable of challenging him. Had a fierce duel with Andreas Mikkelsen for the first two days in which the lead swung to and fro. He gained breathing space on Saturday morning when the Norwegian made several mistakes and a later brake problem meant it was an easy Sunday for Ogier. The winning margin flattered him, but another fantastic drive and his 50-point lead looks ominous.
Kris Meeke (Citroen DS3)
Seventh could easily have been a podium. Held third until entering Lithuania where a lowly road position meant he lost time in the ever-worsening ruts. But still on for big points until he punctured a front left tyre on Saturday and lost 2min 30sec. Dropped off the leaderboard but used Sunday to climb back to seventh. Encouraging to see him fighting near the front for the opening few stages.
Elfyn Evans (Ford Fiesta RS)
A few frustrations for the Welshman through the opening two days before he became the first of several to hit a rock in a crazy first running of the long Goldap stage. The impact damaged a front suspension link and despite valiant efforts to make repairs, he was sidelined for the day. Restarted first in the running order on the final leg, but even that didn't offer proper experience of road cleaning as the tests had been used previously.
Thierry Neuville (Hyundai i20)
One of the best drives of the rally to deliver Hyundai's second podium. With some updates on the car, he hovered around the top six until the handbrake locked the rear brakes late in SS9 and the result was flames and fire extinguishers at the stop line. Plunged to 10th but combined pace with an ability to keep out of trouble and surged to third on Saturday. He had no intention of letting anyone take that away on Sunday.
Robert Kubica (Ford Fiesta RS)
A typical Kubica rally – with the good, the bad and the ugly all on view. Delighted his legions of fans with great pace in places. Delivered the almost obligatory crash when he rolled on the opening night, but escaped with losing only 25sec after prompt work from spectators in putting the car back on its wheels. He held sixth until running wide and damaging his right rear wheel in SS17 and tackled the final day under Rally 2.
Martin Prokop (Ford Fiesta RS)
A bit of a nightmare event for the Czech driver. Back pain, the legacy of an injury from the previous round, and an ill-handling car made for an uncomfortable start. Almost rolled at the same place as Krzysztof Holowczyc, then a missing bolt left a wheel pointing in an alarming direction. A loose bonnet and a Sunday morning overshoot added to his woes. Still, he took a point for 10th place.


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New Yorkers of 1990s vintage might recall Bernadette Corporation as a miasmic, word-of-mouthy phenomenon emanating from the demilitarized zone between high and low culture. Founded by Bernadette Van-Huy, Thuy Pham and Antek Walczak, BC began as a series of club nights before morphing into a fashion collective. The group's runway forays dredged the shun-worthy lookbook of prole- and subculture, from goth to Michael Jackson to Puerto Rican "gang girls," churning out several seasons of ready-to-wear meant to épater la bourgeoisie. Against the conservative backdrop of '90s American fashion, it didn't take much to see that BC's gestures were political, oozing scorn for establishment culture while copying its codes and manners. But political how?
An answer is provided by a BC manifesto of 1997, which urged readers to set up their own semilegal corporate HQ: "In New York, commercial property rents for less than residential property, so if you all chip in, you can get a 1,000 sq. foot loft on the Bowery for $1,100 a month. Have the most responsible, smooth talking person in the corporation sign the lease. And finally, though it's not allowed, live there like your immigrant fathers. There is a chance you will get kicked out. If this happens, utterly destroy the space as you retreat in protest of laws that tie the hands of big business." This sounds like a recipe for the classic bohemian cocktail of negation and communitarianism, and it was. By the late 1990s, however, the dot-com boom had begun to erode the shirt-and-tie image of the corporate stiff; downtown New York was flush with young money; soon, $1,100 would no longer pay a month's rent on a Bowery loft, or anywhere in downtown Manhattan. In 1998, BC launched its final season, bringing the corporation's first, most protean phase to an end.
The following decade saw BC casting about for a new theater of operations. Backed by an expanded roster of collaborators, including present-day BC spokesperson John Kelsey, the Corporation traveled to Genoa in 2001 to take part in the anti-G8 demonstrations alongside members of the French ultra-left group Le Parti Imaginaire. Genoa proved disastrous from the start: protesters were violently repressed by Italian state police, in response to which a sizable black bloc of masked demonstrators unleashed a spate of property destruction and looting. Decamping to a resort town in the aftermath, BC made a film using footage of the riots (with cameos by actress Chloe Sevigny and artist Stephan Dillemuth). First screened in 2003, the hour-long video, titled Get Rid of Yourself, cemented the group's second-phase identity as neo-Situationist provocateurs.
Nine years later, following a series of high-profile gallery exhibitions and the publication of their collectively authored novel, Reena Spaulings (2004), BC seems ready to close up shop. Billed as a goodbye exhibition, their Artists Space retrospective, "2000 Wasted Years," was as evasive a finale as one could expect from a group whose identity and brand are synonymous.
As with BC's other recent exhibitions, there was more to read than to see: a series of hanging panels spelled out the collective's history from 1993 to the present, scrolling around the room like a Wikipedia entry. Scattered throughout the show, scraps of memorabilia—including a quartet of mannequins wearing '90s-era BC outfits, a short action-movie trailer for Get Rid of Yourself, and a collection of brushed-steel faucets engraved with online chatter-served as promotional material for an absent product: the Corporation reduced to a facade of promissory advertisements.
To call this atmosphere funereal is less a judgment on the group itself than on the history it summarizes. Avant-gardism was always a matter of inhabiting the shadows while striking at the center of official culture, but in the age of the iPhone, center and margins are one and the same. Now, every quantum of lowbrow energy, no matter how odious, can be parceled and sold as a social product. To explode this regime of spectacle-culture will require more than any avant-garde is capable of. For BC, surviving the digital turn has meant courting invisibility—"getting rid of oneself" behind the corporate smoke screen. Don't be fooled, though: the logo remains, but it has long since been evacuated.
Photos: Two views of "Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years," 2012, at Artists Space.


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This is not 100% confirmed, but the news that Fedora is dropping Compiz from release 17 can only mean one thing — Compiz is dead. Gentoo, openSUSE, GNOME, and a list of others had already dropped Compiz, leaving only one distribution holding onto the compositing software — Ubuntu. That's right, the little desktop that could still uses Compiz as its compositor. There are also plenty of outstanding bug reports whose issues, it seems, will forever be unresolved. This all clangs out a death knell for the compositor that really brought something to the Linux desktop that no other had.
And, no matter how other feel about this, I am going to miss Compiz.
I remember the first time I ever installed Compiz and got that magical 3D desktop cube to work. It was a special day that opened my eyes to what the open source community was capable of. I was certain nothing could stop them and no one could out-develop them. And from that point on, I almost always had Compiz on my desktop. It was a point of pride, a badge of honor, a thing of beauty.
Even with it's smudges and stains, Compiz did some great things for the Linux desktop. And because of how it helped forge some seriously un-trekked ground for the computer desktop as a whole, it should be given a special spot in the open source hall of fame.
If there were such a thing.
It's not very often I take the time to single out a particular application here on this blog; but with the death of Compiz on the horizon, I thought it fitting to remind people what helped get the Linux desktop where it is today; and even though desktop effects aren't crucial to a solid working environment, they do a great job of helping to woo others over to a completely different platform.
I can't tell you how many times over the years I've heard people say, "I want that!" And they did — they were honest. When shown the desktop cube, wobbly windows, transitional effects, and much more — users wanted such eye candy on their desktops. Compiz has, in fact, helped me to win over users to the Linux platform.
And although it seems Ubuntu is going to hold onto Compiz, if you've played around with it, you know that getting the full arsenal of Compiz effects within Unity is almost impossible. And the rumors were abounding that Unity was migrating to Mutter (the GNOME 3 compositor). Well, it seems those rumors were just that. When it was announced that Unity would keep Compiz, the general feeling was that Compiz would enjoy much faster (and better) development. That has not been the case. The bugs in Compiz aren't getting resolved and the only bits and pieces that are getting any attention are those that affect Ubuntu Unity.
So, I believe it is safe to bid Compiz, as we've known and loved it, a fond farewell. You were an amazing piece of desktop software that did more for the Linux movement than many will stop to give you credit for. And I would hope that all open source and Linux fans will take a moment and offer up some appreciation to the developers that worked hard on a project that was about as unique a project as any on the landscape.
Unfortunately, Compiz is now only associated with a desktop that has brought about more disdain than any other. The majority of the people have spoken regarding Unity, but Ubuntu is holding fast and true. Now this all may change when the first Ubuntu tablet arrives. And when it does, I hope Compiz effects are a part of it — because if they are, it will be something REALLY special. So…ultimately, there is a bit of hope and life left in the compositor that brought "special" to Linux desktop effects. But in the end, the Compiz we all knew and loved is effectively dead.
RIP, Cheers, bravo, and huzzah to anyone that ever helped on the Compiz project. I hope that your life with Unity continues on and that some day the project gets to enjoy a rebirth.


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When Local Fashion Shows Get it Right
In the past three years, the once random and occasionally small independent fashion show has become a mainstay of the Portland style calendar. More and more small local designers are taking the plunge to present their collections, painstakingly put together by hand right here, in a personal display to the public (See: group shows like Fade to Light or Unmentionables and the individual shows like the recent Reif Haus spring presentation).
Not only do I find this trend welcome, I applaud it. It gives potential customers a chance to see the personality of designers first hand.
In the case of one recent show, designer Lindsey Reif offered a presentation of the outfits styled for her dream customer—complete with carefully selected music blaring at The Bindery, where she designs and sews. The lucky audience was given a peek at Reif's vision of "that girl"—wearing bright coral dresses and chic summer jumpsuits. She's the girl that doesn't care if you "get" her fashion sense because she knows she looks good, and has the killer Aoko Su jewelry to prove it.
But in addition to "getting" the show's aim (and the designer's), we also get to see why independent fashion is worth it. Yes, the prices of a dress aren't going to be anywhere near what you pay at, say, H&M—but now you know why. You see the designer's studio space where the ideas are made and hand-stitched together. You see the care and thought put into each design detail, the quality of materials, the dreamy show put on for you to come and connect with the fashion community. You see local fashion doing what it's supposed to do. And Friday night, Lindsey Reif and her show production team helmed by Jillian Rabe did it right.


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Southern California Fire 40 Percent Contained, Evacuations Lifted
BANNING, Calif. (AP) -- A fire that destroyed a home in rural Southern California is 40 percent contained, and all evacuations have been lifted, but winds are kicking up and could make hard work for hundreds of firefighters battling it.
Riverside County fire spokeswoman Jody Hagemann says winds at the fire site north of Banning are hitting 30 mph and could gust to 40 Thursday.
The 4 1/2 square-mile blaze erupted in the San Bernardino Foothills on Wednesday, briefly threatening hundreds of homes.
Hagemann says crews made good progress battling the blaze overnight in tinder-dry brush and there's only sporadic flame showing. But the winds could change that.
In Northern California, crews were able to hold the line against two wind-whipped wildfires, but one in Tehama County continued to grow.


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Mini Velvet Scrunchie - Multiple Colors
$3.00 was $6.00
This variant is currently sold out
We got tons of requests for mini scrunchies! I recently just cut my hair super short and I love using the mini option in my hair since it can only go half up and it isn't as bulky as the normal bow scrunchies!
It will also be perfect for little girls! The bow isn't as big and the band is a bit tighter than our normal scrunchies so they'll be perfect in piggy tails or a ponytail or a half up! I can't wait to see how you style them!!!


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This is just a short wrap-up post. I finally watched the last two episodes of the ANZACS mini-series and I liked them as much as the first three. There were a few predictable moments and the end was a bit anti-climatic but very realistic.
I would really like to recommend the series once more. It's excellent. It's also an amazing story. The bravery and courage of the ANZACS was really something. I already said it in another post that one thing that struck me was the way they went to war. They took it like some sporting adventure, they were big on comradeship and good spirits. It seemed a bit stretched at first but I've done some research and some of my readers confirmed that this was the way they were.
What you get to understand as well, when you watch this series is the huge difference the end of the war represented for the Australians and the French. All through the series you see the ravaged landscape, the bombed villages and although some places remind the lads of home, their country remained untouched. I'm not saying the contribution wasn't great, no, but when they were finally back home, they could really leave the war behind. That was not possible for the French soldiers who had to cope with a devastated country. The land has still not fully recovered until today. There are still places where you see craters and trenches, where they left the barbed wire and there are still bombs exploding.
While Part IV is still heavy on combat, Part V, which is a bit anti-climatic, is a quiet part. It centers on the Armistice and the ANZACS' return home to Australia.
Here are the reviews of Part I Gallipoli, Part II The Somme and Part III Passchendaele.


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The link below is to an article concerning the Australian cricket team in the lead up to The Ashes which begin tomorrow. It highlights fielding as a major issue for Australia (and there are plenty of issues – batting form, bowling, spin bowling, swing, etc) according to Mark Waugh.
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Report: Cowboys agree to terms with Everette Brown
Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - The Dallas Cowboys have reportedly agreed to terms with defensive end Everette Brown.
The Cowboys are expected to make the roster move official Tuesday, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Brown, a former second-round pick of the Carolina Panthers in 2009, has not played in a regular-season game since 2011 when he was with the San Diego Chargers.
The Florida State product spent the first two seasons of his NFL career with the Panthers, recording six sacks.


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MI Tests the Willys Jeepster and Station Wagon
"This wagon could almost climb the side of a building!" says Tom McCahill after testing the Jeep's newest descendant.
HEWING to the line that nothing succeeds like success, Little Willie Jeep, the bottom-busting toughie of war fame, has spread himself out four ways, all heading in the same general direction.
About two years ago a complete breakaway from the phenomenally famous war production model was scheduled by Willys-Overland, Willie Jeep's pappy, and I was informed that a brand-new, conventional sedan was about to make its debut. It never did. My recent inquiries at the Toledo, Ohio, plant brought the following explanation: realizing they had a winning formula in the Jeep, the Willys brass reconsidered their decision to gamble millions in tooling up for a new model the public might not like. They decided to put the sedan back in the garage.
Today Willys features four models: the standard, war-type Jeep with farm trimmings; the sport model Jeepster; the two-wheel-drive station wagon available with either a four or six-cylinder engine; and a cross-country station wagon with four-wheel drive and a four-cylinder power plant. The last-named is the big news at Willys-Overland this year.
There is no point in my reporting on the old reliable, farmer's delight-type Jeep, since it is the same as the wartime prototype, nut for nut and jounce for jounce. So I concentrated my tests on the other three. Of them the new four-wheel-drive station wagon is the outstanding one.
Off the road, this little brute really performs. There's nothing else that can hold a candle to it for cross-country work, with the exception of its grampaw Willie. If you are planning a hunting safari through the bulrushes where the going would scare a mountain goat, this is your car. If you are a miner, oil prospector, rancher or explorer, this is it! I drove this four-wheel-drive wagon up and down 40-plus-per cent grades that would have stopped any other American-made vehicle in its tracks. I got the impression that this wagon could almost climb the side of a building. As for pulling out of mud, sand or snow—brother, it's web-footed.
Once I took it out of the fields and onto a smooth highway, though, my enthusiasm did a quick freeze. The front-wheel-drive axle assembly screamed like a leprechaun getting a hot foot, even though I was driving with only the rear wheels engaged.
(The driver can use either two or four-wheel drive, as he chooses.) I made some inquiries about this noise and was told that the unit quiets down after a few thousand miles. Usually, but not always. Well, I liked their honesty, anyway.
This car was designed for field work, so perhaps it wasn't fair even to put it through any performance tests. I did anyway and was not greatly surprised to find that I could just about squeeze 60 mph out of it and that it took me approximately 35 seconds to get there from zero. An old Edison electric would have looked like a hot rod by comparison. But in its own element— over the fields and through the woods, where all the acceleration records are held by four-footed instead of four-wheeled travelers—this is the greatest car in the world, bar none.
My next test was of the dandy of the Willys line, the Jeepster. In my opinion this car misses in three ways. First, the price, though reduced fairly recently, is still too high for what you get. Second, it's underpowered. Give the Jeepster an engine that developed some horsepower and this could be quite a sporty job. With a Chewy or a Ford V-8 engine, this sturdy buggy could be something to write home about. As it is, there isn't a production-line car made in America today, and costing more than $1000, that can't top it in performance and usefulness. And third, it's not a sport car and it's not roomy enough for a general utility car—so what is it?
As for the Jeepster's looks, they're like a taste for olives—they grow on you and you don't know why you like them (if you like them) when you do. The side curtains are awkward. Putting up the top is supposed to be a one-man job but if you happen to have a couple of lady wrestlers with you, they'll come in handy.
At this point you may have gathered that I was not too impressed with the Jeepster. You're right. But I do think it has an excellent potential. If Willys gave it a sexed-up power plant, and made a few other minor alterations, they might have something that could even rival the British Jaguar.
The six-cylinder, two-wheel-drive, all-steel station wagon is similar to the four-cylinder job I tested over two years ago and which is, incidentally, still available. This model has proven to be Willys' strongest contender as a popular passenger car. In every city and hamlet across the country you see thousands of these practical, gentleman trucks. In California I saw quite a few of them with East Coast license plates and I made it a point to question some of the owners about their trip out. Most of them were enthusiastic. But they all told me they had made the trip in slow jumps—300 miles a day in one of these conveyances might put you at the screaming point.
This car also would be a lot more attractive to me if it had a little more engine to haul it. On the credit side of this criticism, though, I must admit that the standard-equipped overdrive collaborating with the small engine does produce an unbeatable gas-saving combination. And who isn't interested in giving his pocketbook a break these days?
The Jeep station wagon now has a serious rival in the new Plymouth all-metal utility wagon. This is underselling the regular Ford and Chevy station wagons by several hundred dollars which puts it right in Willys' lap as a competitor. How can Willys-Overland sidestep this little issue?
Summing up the Willys line, I think the boys out there in Toledo are running a bit behind the pack—with the exception of their unique, four-wheel-drive station wagon, which is really something. I think it's a pretty safe bet that Willys will make some changes pretty soon, both in price and in design. •


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As rolled oats cookies are among my favorites, I make them often, and each time I try to come up with a new flavor. This time I decided on the combination of coconut and golden raisins, which resulted extra tasty cookies, well worth of documenting.
The cookies are quick and easy to make and will fill your kitchen with wonderful aroma while baking. The desiccated coconut and rolled oats add chewy textures, while the raisins add subtle acidity, which balances the sweetness nicely. Cinnamon, vanilla and coconut sugar added different layers of aroma.
These tasty cookies will delight anyone who loves coconut. Try them and enjoy.
* I've used coconut sugar simply because I've had it at hand, however, if you don't have it, brown sugar can be used instead.
Makes: about 30 cookies
Prep time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 15 minutes
1 stick (115 grams) butter, soft
1 L egg
2/3 cup coconut sugar (or soft brown sugar)
¼ cup white sugar
2 Tbs whole milk
½ cup flour
½ cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
1 cup rolled oats
½ cup golden raisins
1. Preheat the oven to 350F (175C). Line two cookie sheets with baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, whisk the butter and egg together. Add milk, two types of sugar and mix well. Add the flour, coconut, vanilla, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and rolled oats, and mix to combine. Add the raisins and mix briefly with a spatula.
3. With a small ice cream scoop, form about 30 ping-pong size balls from the dough. Place in the pans, spacing them apart (the cookies will expand extensively while baking).
4. Bake for 15 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through. The cookies will be soft when taken out of the oven, so leave them in the pan for 5-7 minutes before transferring to a rack to cool completely. They will then harden up a bit to a crispy yet chewy texture.


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Imagine yourself in this position: Less than five months ago, you were summoned from the private sector to join a newly formed national government. Your background is in retail; now you are heading up the nation's mining industry. You are abroad on a state visit, still working to come up to speed, when word reaches you from your home office that there has been a mining disaster — a cave-in deep below, death toll unknown, nearly three dozen missing.
Or envision this: For decades, your financial services firm has sailed along. Not only have revenues soared; your company has also earned a treasured AAA credit rating while creating an extraordinary wealth engine: a little giant of a division that insures against debt defaults, including subprime mortgages. Continuing prosperity seems predictable, but suddenly the market implodes. Subprime mortgages turn noxious. Lehman Brothers goes under. Your AAA rating slips to AA, then A-; and with the downgrades, you have to post billions of dollars in collateral that you simply do not have. This boat is sailing straight toward a roaring waterfall, and you are standing at the helm.
Or this one: The enemy has surrendered after a four-year conflict that has left more than half a million dead, and your army commander has assigned you to arrange one of the war's crowning moments, the formal surrender of the enemy's most venerated army. The tone, the texture of the ceremony, the formalities of receiving the enemy — they are entirely for you to craft.
These are not, of course, hypothetical or anonymous events. Laurence Golborne, the new mining minister for the Republic of Chile, was visiting in Ecuador on the night of August 5, 2010, when his chief of staff back in Santiago sent him a simple but urgent text message: "Mine cave-in Copiapó; 33 victims." Twenty-eight hours later, at 3:30 a.m. on August 7, Golborne arrived at the remote site of the mining disaster in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. Soon, hundreds of millions of people around the globe would be witnessing one of the greatest mining rescues of all time.
Like the miners in Chile, American International Group (AIG) — the financial services giant heading for the cataract — was ultimately rescued through direct government intervention. The company was deemed "too big to fail," though it was almost too toxic to save. When the subprime mortgage market in which AIG was deeply invested began to collapse, top AIG executives had taken few protective measures. Their tone-deaf response to the tumultuous events that unfolded left the company vulnerable to one of the greatest corporate collapses in business history.
How different the actions taken by Union officer Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain when Ulysses S. Grant handed him the historic duty of coordinating a follow-up ceremony to Robert E. Lee's April 9, 1865, surrender at Appomattox. Chamberlain decided that instead of humiliating the Confederate army, as might have been expected after four years of civil war, he would somehow salute the enemy to start a process of national reconciliation.
Two of the leaders we have just met were well prepared when summoned to moments of decision. The other, recent history showed us, was obviously not. To be sure, few of us are likely to have our mettle tested in such trying circumstances. But all of us can and should prepare for less-public crises in our own spheres of serving, to be decisive when it really counts.
My work on leadership development in the U.S. and abroad — and the work of an array of other researchers and observers — tells me that the absence of an action checklist is one of most correctable lapses in leadership. Through the simple step of creating and consistently applying the equivalent of a pilot or surgeon's checklist, a leader is readied for whatever may come.
I have also become convinced that with leadership, as with much else, brevity is the soul of wit. Albert Einstein once described the calling of modern physics as an effort to make the physical universe as simple as possible — but not simpler. The leader's checklist is likewise at its best when it is as bare-bones as possible — but not more so. Just fifteen mission-critical principles can define its core for most leaders, and the principles vary surprisingly little among companies or countries.
Four of the mission-critical principles for a leader's checklist stress having a vision of where you want the enterprise to go and then taking charge, acting strategically, and deciding decisively:
1. Articulate a Vision. Formulate a clear and persuasive vision and communicate it to all members of the enterprise.
2. Take Charge. Embrace a bias for action, of taking responsibility even if it is not formally delegated, particularly if you are well positioned to make a difference.
3. Act Strategically. Set forth a pragmatic strategy for achieving that vision both short- and long-term, and ensure that it is widely understood; consider all the players, and anticipate reactions and resistance before they are manifest.
4. Decide Decisively. Make good and timely decisions, and ensure that they are executed.
Taken together, these principles constitute a foundation for what we often deem to be decisive leadership. But they also come with an underlying proviso so vital that it should constitute a still additional principle, in my view, on everybody's checklist. To appreciate the importance of that extra principle, we elaborate on the Confederate surrender at Appomattox (elaboration of the rescue in Chile and the failure of AIG can be found in The Leader's Checklist).
General Grant, who had accepted the formal surrender on behalf of the Union at Appomattox, ordered a follow-up ceremony three days later, with more than 4,000 Union soldiers to be lined at attention on one side of a field. General Lee's defeated infantry units were then to march onto the field to place their regimental flags and firearms at the foot of a Union officer in charge. For the honor of orchestrating the event and taking charge of it, Grant had designated a citizen soldier from Maine, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
As the first Confederate brigade approached Union forces, Chamberlain ordered a bugle call that told Union soldiers to "carry arms" — a posture of respect in which soldiers hold the musket in their right hand with the muzzle perpendicular to their shoulders. Both Union and Confederate soldiers understood its meaning, since their military traditions had emanated from the same sources.
A Southern general riding near the front of the Confederate forces, John B. Gordon, appreciated the respectful signal that Chamberlain's soldiers displayed toward the Rebel soldiers on their day of ignominy, and Gordon ordered the same posture to be displayed in by his own troops.
The incident became known as a "salute returning a salute," a moment remembered for years by those who witnessed or heard of it, and one that implied reunification. Some of Chamberlain's fellow officers were angered by witnessing such a fraternal act after fighting the same soldiers on so many killing fields. And for Chamberlain himself, it was a matter of saluting those who had tried to kill him only days before.
For President Abraham Lincoln, the South's capitulation at Appomattox constituted not only an ending point for the armed rebellion but also a starting point for national reconciliation. Even for him, however, the road to reunion was a bitter pill given the Union's grievous losses on the battlefields. Events would take a horrible personal turn just two days after Chamberlain's salute to the Rebel army as the president and his wife watched a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington.
For both sides, though, gestures of reconciliation were more important than the hostilities that remained. The latter were natural, the former learned, and Chamberlain's moment at the conclusion of the Civil War serves to remind us of the vital importance of the additional leader's checklist principle: placing common mission ahead of personal interest or animosity, especially when its seems least natural to do so.
The leadership principle of mission first is well expressed in our oft-used phrases of "servant" or "selfless" leadership, and it is well captured in a U.S. Marine Corps dictum: "The officer eats last." In business, it appears in Jim Collins's appraisal as one of the defining qualities of those who lead their companies from "good to great." Decisive leadership depends upon articulating a vision, setting strategy, taking charge, and making timely decisions — and taking all such actions with common purpose set firmly ahead of self-interest.
Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist, is the Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Leadership Moment, Investor Capitalism, and The Go Point, among other books.


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PRESS RELEASE – The home ballpark for the Trenton Thunder, Double A affiliate of the New York Yankees, will now be known as ARM & HAMMER™ Park following a press conference today in Trenton that included representatives from Princeton, NJ-based Church & Dwight Co. Inc.
Church & Dwight, maker of the ARM & HAMMER family of products and a founding sponsor of Trenton Thunder baseball, has expanded its sponsorship to include the name of the ballpark for the next 20 years, through 2032.
"We are proud and honored to expand our current partnership with Church & Dwight and have the iconic ARM & HAMMER brand as the new name of the ballpark," said Trenton Thunder President Joe Finley. "The pairing of the world-wide recognized ARM & HAMMER brand with the Trenton Thunder and our brand of New York Yankees Minor League Baseball is something in which the people of Mercer County and the entire region can take pride."
"We're thrilled to be entering into this long-term partnership with the Trenton Thunder," said James Craigie, Church & Dwight Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We look forward to continuing Church & Dwight Company's long-standing tradition of supporting our local communities by working together with the Trenton Thunder through our sponsorship of ARM & HAMMER Park."
Church & Dwight, a $3.0 billion company, was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Church & Dwight is a leader in the Household Consumer Products and Personal Care industry, with such brands as ARM & HAMMER™, Nair™, Spinbrush™, Oxi Clean™, Orajel™ and more.
The Thunder began play in 1994 and will celebrate their 20th season in 2013. Trenton is the longest tenured team and the highest level of professional baseball (Class AA) in the state of New Jersey. On August 30, 2012, the Thunder and New York Yankees announced that the Player Development Contract between the two clubs has been extended through the 2022 season.
The 2013 season will begin on April 4 at Portland with the home opener slated for Thursday, April 11 against Richmond. Season tickets and group outings are on sale now by calling 609-394-3300.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
The LA Gelato Tour
Before we start, a brief note on the distinction between gelato and ice cream. Generally, gelato uses more milk and less cream than ice cream, so it actually has less fat. Because it is churned at a slower rate than ice cream, gelato also has less air whipped into it than ice cream. The rich, thick characteristic comes from the lack of air, not from added fat. Traditionally, gelato did not have eggs in the custard base, which ice cream generally does.
That being said, as a practical matter, there is a lot of murkiness in the distinction. Many people simply consider gelato to be an Italian style of ice cream and judge it based on presentation (e.g. laid out on trays rather than in tubs) and aesthetic rather than anything technical. I pretty much just went with places that called their product gelato. Note that I did not include Scoops on Heliotrope here since I believe they call their product ice cream, but hey, you all know Scoops rocks anyway and I was after places that were new to me.
Not every place offered an affogato but I tried to have one at each place that did (though I did miss one). The beauty of the affogato is that the rich espresso melds with the gelato and forms a heavenly coffee ice cream float. When done well, it is a beautiful gestalt of flavors, halfway between a solid and liquid but filled with flavor. When done poorly, it's a scoop of ice cream sitting in a cold puddle of coffee, a sad affair to say the least.
As I am wont to do, I've broken the contenders out into tiers to rank them.
Bulgarini Gelato, Altadena. I'm happy to report that the hype surrounding this Altadena gelato shop is well deserved. Tucked away in a run down strip mall anchored by a Rite-Aid and a Kragen on East Altadena Drive, just west of Lake, Bulgarini was my favorite gelato. The best flavors here were transcendent in both flavor and texture, particularly the olive oil yogurt, a fluffy, light as air tart frozen yogurt with a smooth olive oil taste topped with olive oil. It reminded me of some sort of olive oil foam you might get at Bazaar. The day I visited there was also a beautiful sheep milk and parsley gelato with madeira. Also excellent were the regular chocolate and the lemon cream. The Florentine chocolate, a chocolate with sea salt, had a nice chocolate flavor but was a bit too salty to have more than a bite.
Affogato is an off menu item at Bulgarini but they do make it. The one I had was very nice with a nice crema on the espresso and good proportions, but although they said it was an item they served, they asked for instruction on how to do it correctly. It was nice enough, but I would stick to the excellent gelato at this place.
Bulgarini Gelato
749 E. Altadena Dr.
Altadena, Ca. 91001
(626) 791-6174
Gelato Bar, Studio City. The biggest surprise in my gelato tour was how well this relatively unsung gelateria compared to the others. Owned by Gail Silverton, sister of Nancy, Gelato Bar offers innovative (though not overly weird) flavors that are bold without being too sweet. Their gelato is a perfect textural, specimen, rich and creamy with a dissolve in your mouth quality. It's neither as innovative nor as transcendent as Bulgarini but it is perhaps more what I think of as traditional gelato (at least in my American experience) done about the best way it can be done. My favorite flavors here were the chocolate sorbetto, stracciatella (chocolate chip), mango, ricotta and Veneziana (candied orange peel with chocolate).
The affogato at Gelato Bar was the best of the bunch. Made with a perfectly pulled Ecco Cafe espresso, whipped cream and Valrhona cacao nibs, the Gelato Bar affogato shows the importance of proper espresso preparation in the dish's composition. Gelato Bar makes a great espresso with a thick head of crema which blends perfectly with the scoops of gelato, creating that lovely synthesis that is the affogato. Why this place hasn't entered the pantheon of great LA gelatos is beyond me, but you owe yourself a trip.
Gelato Bar
4342 1/2 Tujunga Ave
Studio City, CA 91604-2751
(818) 487-1717
Pazzo Gelato, Silver Lake. I'd been looking forward to this popular Sunset Boulevard shop, but unlike Bulgarini, it did not live up to the hype. While I liked the milk chocolate, which had a Mexican chocolate spice to it, the flavors, in general, were too sweet, not intense enough and generally lacking in excitement.
The pazzagato, Pazzo's version of the affogato, got points off for using canned whipped cream and too much gelato. It's tempting, I'm sure, to load the cup up with gelato for the affogato, but moderation is part of the key. Too much ice cream turns the espresso cold and gives you the aforementioned cold puddle of coffee. And while I love Intelligentsia espresso in cappuccinos, it's too tannic for affogato, which really calls for something darker. The popularity of this place leads me to have serious questions about hipster tastes.
Pazzo Gelato
3827 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 662-1410
Al Gelato, Beverly Hills adjacent. This was another disappointing one for me. I'd heard a lot of praise for Al Gelato, on Robertson, but it simply didn't live up to the hype. The issues were similar to Pazzo Gelato: unexciting flavors, too sweet and a texture that lacked the rich and creamy qualities that I crave, and was even a bit icy, which is a cardinal sin of gelato. Al Gelato makes an affogato, but I didn't get to try it.
Al Gelato
806 S Robertson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 659-8069
Hollywood Gelato, Los Feliz. Hollywood Gelato, on Hillhurst in Los Feliz, was simply uninspiring. The flavors were too sweet and the gelato was icy. It lacked the rich and creamy qualities that make a great gelato. Apparently they are not doing so well as they have scaled back their hours fairly severely. They didn't have an affogato on the menu.
Hollywood Gelato
1936 Hillhurst Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 644-3311
Best Gelato: Bulgarini with honorable mention for Gelato Bar
Best Affogato: Gelato Bar
4 comments:
- Nina said...
Funny, I've been doing a tour of SF ice cream places recently.
I've only been to Gelato Bar and Pazzo Gelato of the places that you've written about, and I agree with you about both... and would also like to put in a good word for the cookies/baked goods at Gelato Bar. They're among the most creative and delicious (and relatively hidden) that I knew of in LA -- if memory serves me right, one was a kind of sandwich cookie with fudgy chocolate cookies and a light vanilla cream of some sort in the middle (I'm not even sure how they made that, but I know it sort of melted by the time I got to Porto's on that very hot day). Though, in full disclosure, another one that I bought wasn't fresh, and suffered for it.
And not getting the affogato at Gelato Bar is one of my deepest culinary regrets... :)
- October 11, 2009 at 7:54 PM
You forgot Scoops on Heliotrope by Los Angeles City College. Great and creative flavors.
- October 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM
- sku said...
Nina, thanks for your comments; I'll be interested to hear about your Bay Area gelato exploits and I'm excited to try the Gelato Bar baked goods now!
Anon, as mentioned above, I put Scoops in the ice cream category, but I also figured everyone already knows and loves them anyway.
- October 12, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- SinoSoul said...
Zero love for Scoops. The texture is a joke. There is almost no butterfat which means they're using less costly ingredients.
Good lookin' out. Bulgarini kills Scoops on so many levels (ice cream or gelato). Affogatos are all sorts of delicious.
- October 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM


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David Brooks: This Fiscal Cliff Deal Is Rather A Crapburger, Eh?
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The NY Times' resident "conservative" (who resembles a conservative about as much as Nancy Pelosi) offers up a nice summary of the fiscal cliff deal.
After first expounding that the public debt as a percentage of gross domestic product went from around 38 percent in 1965 to 74% now, that it could hit 90% in a decade, and 247% in 30 years, he notes that while some may talk about Doing Something, no one does, and this deal doesn't deal with it at all. Then we get
President Obama and Speaker John Boehner both earnestly wanted to achieve these things. But the deal we are heading toward is discouraging. Yes, the deal does raise $600 billion in revenue over 10 years from a tiny sliver of the population (compared with the $8 trillion in new debt likely to be accrued over that time).
Remember when Obama called half that debt unpatriotic? Then increased the debt by $6 trillion?
But the proposal is not a balance of taxes and spending cuts. It doesn't involve a single hard decision. It does little to control spending. It abandons all of the entitlement reform ideas that have been thrown around. It locks in low tax rates on families making less than around $450,000; it is simply impossible to avert catastrophe unless tax increases go below that line.
Along with raising the income tax rates on $400k individual and $450k join filer to 39.6%, along with moving the capital gains rate to 20% from 15% for those same earners. Unemployment insurance would be extended for a year with no offsets. The "sequester" would be put off for 2 months, which is a whopping $110 billion in cuts. The estate tax would go up to 40% from 35%. Deductions for high earners would be limited. The wind farm tax credit is extended, as well as many other "green" energy tax credits. And lots of other tax credits, both individual and corporate. Know what's not included? And spending reductions. And spending reforms. And acknowledgement of the severe federal government spending issues.
Whom should we blame for this? Again, we should not blame Obama and Boehner. In their different ways, they and a number of other people in the Congress are trying to find a politically palatable way to deal with these hard issues. They got what conditions allowed.
No, David, there's plenty of blame for both, along with Senate Democrats, though Obama gets the lions share, since he was unwilling to live in the real world and make substantive changes as he drives America into a coffin, along with Democrats, who said that ever "safety net" program was off the table.
Ultimately, we should blame the American voters. The average Medicare couple pays $109,000 into the program and gets $343,000 in benefits out, according to the Urban Institute. This is $234,000 in free money. Many voters have decided they like spending a lot on themselves and pushing costs onto their children and grandchildren. They have decided they like borrowing up to $1 trillion a year for tax credits, disability payments, defense contracts and the rest. They have found that the original Keynesian rationale for these deficits provides a perfect cover for permanent deficit-living. They have made it clear that they will destroy any politician who tries to stop them from cost-shifting in this way.
For a change, Brooks makes sense. There are too many voters who want their free stuff, their free Obamaphone, free healthcare, their free welfare, their free everything paid for by other people. There are too many moochers, that 47% who have a net zero federal liability on income tax. Too many who vote themselves money. Too few politicians stand up against this notion, and too many run on giving free stuff. And we have a president who is the king of free stuff. And too many voters who have no business voting. They do not know the issues, and, really, if someone is living off the teet of the government, in most cases they should not be voting.
Oh, and David? We can blame the media, especially your newspaper, for railing against any and all substantive changes that reign in the debt and spending, other than jacking up tax rates.
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