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Series: NYRB Classics
Pages: 480
Publication Date: April 8, 2014
Shakespeare's MontaigneThe Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
by Michel de Montaigne, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt, edited, modernized, and annotated by Peter Platt, translated from the French by John Florio
An NYRB Classics Original
Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself.
Florio's Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.
Shakespeare's Montaigne is the NYRB Classics Book Club selection for April 2014.Michel de Montaigne, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt, edited, modernized, and annotated by Peter Platt, translated from the French by John Florio
Read Montaigne in order to live.
—Gustave Flaubert
Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Platt have annotated selections in Shakespeare's Montaigne and the result is a crash course in Elizabethan lit, a multiculti study of the development of English, and, above all, a revisionist biography of a monumental dramatist who not only cribbed the classical education he lacked but also responded to his sources with a fierce and censorious intelligence.
—Joshua Cohen, Harper's Magazine
Like Montaigne, Florio wrote by exuding ever more complex thoughts as a spider exudes silk. But while Montaigne always moves forward, Florio winds back on himself and scrunches his sentences into ever tighter baroque spirals until their meaning disappears in a puff of syntax. The real magic happens when the two writers meet. Montaigne's earthiness holds Florio's convolutions in check, while Florio gives Montaigne an Elizabethan English quality, as well as a lot of sheer fun.
—Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne
[Montaigne] was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man.
—William Hazlitt
That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on Earth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: "How did he know all that about me?"
—Bernard Levin, The Times (London)
So much have I made him my own, that it seems he is my very self.
—Andre Gide
Here is a 'you' in which 'I' is reflected; here is where all distance is abolished.
—Stefan Zweig
It is not in Montaigne but in myself that I find everything I see there.
—Blaise Pascal
Upon his version of Montaigne's Essays [Florio] exhausted his gifts and lavished his temperament.... Turn where you will in his translation, and you will find flowers of speech.
—The Cambridge History of English and American Literature


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The Situation of Heroism
Posted by The Situationist Staff on July 7, 2011
From NPR's Morning Edition:
In 1971, at Stanford University, a young psychology professor created a simulated prison. Some of the young men playing the guards became sadistic, even violent, and the experiment had to be stopped.
The results of the Stanford Prison Experiment showed that people tend to conform — even when that means otherwise good people doing terrible things. Since then, the experiment has been used to help explain everything from Nazi Germany to Abu Ghraib.
Now, in a new project, [Situationist Contributor] Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who created the prison experiment, is trying to show that people can learn to bring out the best in themselves rather than the worst.
An Unwanted Legacy
Four decades after he created the Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo says he's still hearing about it.
"I hate the idea that the Stanford prison study is the main thing most people know me for," he says.
Zimbardo has done many things. He was a professor of psychology at Stanford University for 40 years. He's been president of the American Psychological Association. He's written a book about the psychology of time and established a clinic for shy people. But he says his other achievements are often overlooked.
"Soon as people meet me, I go around the world, 'Oh you're the prison guy,'" he says.
Here's how the experiment worked: Zimbardo recruited 24 male college students and paid them $15 a day to spend two weeks in a fake prison in a basement on the Stanford campus. Half the students were assigned to be guards, the others were prisoners.
As an educational video made about the experiment put it, "What happened surprised everyone, including Zimbardo. The illusion became reality. The boundary between the role each person was playing and his real personal identity was erased." Some of guards in the experiment became abusive, and prisoners showed signs of mental breakdown. After six days, Zimbardo shut the experiment down and sent everyone home.
'Here I Am, This Evil Scientist'
His reputation was sealed: He was the guy who had revealed that normal people can do very bad things — if you expose them to wrongdoing, even evil, they'll join in.
"So here I am, this evil scientist, creating this situation where evil is dominating good," he says.
The problem is, Zimbardo doesn't see himself that way. He sees himself as a force of good in the world, not evil. And so now, retired from teaching at the age of 78, he has a new project, one that aims to change his legacy in a dramatic way: to turn regular people into heroes.
Not comic book heroes. But, rather, someone who would have helped Jews escape the Holocaust. Or even something more ordinary, like standing up for a classmate who's being bullied.
"Heroes are not extraordinary people," he says. "They're ordinary people who do an extraordinary thing, step out of themselves, put their best self forward in service to humanity. And it starts with internalizing heroic imagination, namely — I could do it."
So he's calling it the Heroic Imagination Project. It's a nonprofit training organization based in San Francisco. One of the first programs has been to teach heroism at a charter high school, called ARISE, in one of the tougher neighborhoods of Oakland, Calif.
Over the course of the year, Clint Wilkins been teaching students in the heroism course to recognize how their environment can shape their behavior. "As you can see," he tells his students, "there are two kinds of ways of conforming, right? Do you guys remember which they are?"
Heroes Needed
Conformity is not an abstract concept to these students. Two years ago, the bystander effect happened not far from here. A 16-year-old girl was gang-raped by at least six men during a homecoming dance. Dozens of kids watched, some sent texts to their friends, telling them to come check it out. It took two hours before anyone called the police.
So this class is about training kids to break away from the pack, to be the person who defies conformity and does the right thing.
"They had to see the girl, you know?" says Phillip Johnson, a senior in the heroism class. "They had to see that girl go in the back with all those guys. Like if I see a group of guys in a circle, or something, I'm going to be like, what's going on here? It's like, oh. Woah. But that didn't happen, apparently."
The other students fall silent. Like Phillip, they'd like to think they would have been the one to call the cops. But if there's one lesson to be learned from this class, it's this: You aren't always the person you think you're going to be. Being able to imagine a different life for yourself is part of this school — and it's the point of this heroism course.
It seems to be taking hold in Brandon Amaro. He's a sweet-faced, 16-year-old kid who grew up in a farm town in southern California. Brandon says sometimes he feels like he could do something really exceptional with his life, something even his parents might not know he's capable of. But then he starts having doubts.
He says it's as if there are two Brandons. "The good one," he says, "is like an over-energetic bee in my ear, always buzzing and buzzing, telling me, 'You can do it, you can do it. Go for it.'" Then there's the bad one, "who's kind of like someone pressing down on your shoulders. He sees something good, he says, 'No, you can't try.'"
Brandon says when he imagines himself grown up, he's just not so conflicted anymore. "The older me is going to be much more mature, more confident," he says. "He's going to walk and everybody's going to just know it's him. He's going to know who he is."
Can Courage Be Taught?
Zimbardo says he sees himself in these kids. After all, he grew up poor, too. "Growing up on welfare, in poverty, in the ghetto, in the south Bronx, amidst evil, drugs, prostitution and gangs and violence — I rose above that," he says. "In some mystical way, I have always been the leader."
But the question is, why did Zimbardo rise above? Why does anybody become a leader, or a hero, and someone else becomes a follower, or worse? And do we have a choice? Zimbardo's class is teaching the students that they do.
But other social psychologists believe humans are more hard-wired than that. For example, they say criminal behavior comes from individual differences in personality, things like lack of self-control. These are differences we're either born with or things we never learned as children.
Augustine Brannigan, who studies criminal behavior at the University of Calgary in Canada, is one of these people. When asked what he thinks of the idea of a heroism class, he replies, "Whether you can teach them to be heroes? No. What you can do is you can expose them to the narrative about heroes. If it takes, it takes. If it doesn't, they still have the narrative, and they can respect it. But that doesn't mean you've changed their behavior."
Zimbardo aims to prove this thinking wrong. He's betting that by studying heroic narratives, learning about human nature and taking on community service projects, the students will actually change the way they act.
A Practical Lesson
One afternoon, while the students are in heroism class, a fight breaks out in the hallway. Not students, but some neighborhood kids, possibly gang-affiliated, drift in from the street and start causing trouble. A teacher calls 911.
The students in the heroic imagination class cluster in the doorway, craning their necks to get a better look. And when they return to their seats, they begin to wonder: Maybe this was exactly one of those opportunities they'd been talking about, a chance to step up and be a hero. But it all happened so fast, and no one did anything.
"Students could have been, like, you know, someone come get this person," remarks senior Phillip Johnson. "It shouldn't have been a group of people watching." On the other hand, other students argue, maybe having a teacher call the police was exactly the right thing to do.
Sometimes it's hard to tell when it is the right time to do something extraordinary, they say, and when it's better to just stay on the sidelines.
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Some related Situationist posts:
- Independence Day: Celebrating Courage to Challenge the Situation
- Speaking Truth to the Situation
- Dr. Z. on Dr. Phil
- "Situationist Phil Zimbardo Takes Over the Dr. Phil Show,"
- The Situation of Hazing, Torture, Gender, and Tears
- "The Devil You Know . . . ," and
- "From Heavens to Hells to Heroes – Part II."
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Beadle, George Wells, 1903–89, American geneticist, b. Wahoo, Nebr., grad. Univ. of Nebraska (B.S., 1926; M.S., 1927), Ph.D. Cornell, 1931. Beadle taught (1931–36) biology at the California Institute of Technology, where he also began genetic research on the fruit fly, Drosophila, in T. H. Morgan's laboratory. He was later chairman (1946–61) of the biology department there, and in 1961 he became chancellor of the Univ. of Chicago. Beadle shared with Joshua Lederberg and E. L. Tatum the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology for work with Tatum on the bread mold Neurospora crassa, which showed that genes control the cell's production of enzymes and thus the basic chemistry of the cell.
See G. Beadle and M. Beadle, The Language of Life (1966).
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Dreams Soar Amid Heartbroken
LONG BEACH, N.Y. | Forget FEMA, insurance adjusters and construction cleanups. Some of the people hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy are hoping one thing this week answers their prayers: a $425 million Powerball jackpot.
Wednesday night's drawing is one of the biggest multistate lottery takes in U.S. history, and the high hopes for walking away with multimillion-dollar checks extended to some New York and New Jersey communities hardest hit by last month's storm. Many residents said that if they won, they'd even give back to the recovery effort.
With so much money in the jackpot, it would be particularly special if several victims of the storm could split the winnings, said Long Beach, N.Y., retiree Raymond Parker.
"A lot of people should win, not just one," he said at a stationery store in Long Beach where he frequently buys lottery tickets. He said his plan was to stick with his usual $4 purchase of two Powerball tickets, and that if he won, he'd give money to his nieces and nephews to pay for their college educations and donate to the Red Cross as thanks for their relief efforts in Long Beach.
Like many in his town, the 67-year-old Parker said his car was destroyed by rising floodwaters during the storm; the lobby of his high-rise apartment building also was flooded and he was without power for more than a week.
But he's not contemplating buying a new car if he wins.
"I'd hire a chauffeur to take me around," he joked.
Wednesday's jackpot was the record for a Powerball drawing, said Christy Calicchia, a spokeswoman for the New York State Lottery. Powerball sells tickets in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The previous high for a Powerball drawing was in 2006, when eight Nebraska workers shared a $365 million jackpot, she said.
Last January, Powerball officials doubled the price of tickets to $2, but also increased the minimum jackpot from $20 million to $40 million, Calicchia said.
John Scaduto, a sous chef who lost his job when the Oakdale, N.Y., restaurant where he works was flooded, dreams of buying his own eatery if the winning numbers go his way. "I already have over $100 worth" of tickets, he said while stopping at a Long Beach 7-Eleven for lunch on Monday. He also said if he became a millionaire he would like to help his damaged community.
"I would try to do what I can to help out a little bit," he said.
Nearly everyone in line to buy Powerball tickets in the flood-ravaged northern New Jersey town of Little Ferry had a response similar to Scaduto's.
"Help rebuild the Jersey Shore; I grew up there, and it's devastating," said Dan O'Neill of Blairstown, N.J., a contractor working to help a friend gut his flood-damaged home. "It's part of being from New Jersey, it's part of our history, and it's gone," O'Neill said of the shore, adding that if he won the jackpot, he'd donate to charities that were helping rebuild.
"Win that kind of money, they'd get a big chunk of that money," he said.
Ruben Seda, 74, said his long-planned retirement to his native Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, was now delayed because of expensive damage to his Little Ferry home.
Nevertheless, he said he'd use any lottery winnings to help those who helped him after Superstorm Sandy.
"Help everybody, give to charities and the church," Seda said.
"I lost everything, my furniture, my food ... but I survive. So, if I hit some money, it'd be a big help."


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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- Police charged three parents -- including the town prosecutor -- with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct after a brawl during a youth baseball tournament put a player in a hospital, a city official said Monday.
The fight involved at least six adults during a game for 12-year-olds, and police were still trying to sort out what triggered the brawl and who was involved, KUSA-TV reported.
The defendants insisted they were trying to protect their children from attack.
"It's really unfortunate for the kids that play," police Lt. Tim Gorman said. "You're taking the whole fun part of it out."
Andrew Lee Carlson, his wife, Shannon Carlson, and Christy Ausmus, a prosecutor contracted by the town of Castle Rock, were charged after the June 26 melee, town spokeswoman Kim Mutchler told The Associated Press.
Shannon Carlson and her son said they were trying to dispute an umpire's call when the fight erupted, according to a police report. Ausmus and her own son also were at the scene in a pavilion near a ballfield.
The boys got into a dispute, and Ausmus claimed Andrew Carlson attacked her son from behind, put him in a chokehold and punched him. Ausmus said the boy, 16, eventually was hospitalized with a concussion.
"I hit (Carlson) as hard as I could, as many times as I could, to get him off my kid," Ausmus said. "He suffers constant headaches still from the concussion."
Carlson insisted he was defending his own 15-year-old son from Ausmus' son.
"This kid is assaulting my son and I pulled him off," Carlson said. "Then this lady just started attacking me. She attacked me and started punching me three or four times in the face. Then she went after my wife, punched her, pushed her over a bench."
"It's a sad day for youth baseball," Carlson said.
Castle Rock is about 30 miles south of Denver.


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April 18, 2011 -- People who take steps to alter their lifestyles and eat healthier diets can significantly reduce high levels of triglycerides, a type of blood fat that is associated with heart and blood vessel problems and other diseases, the American Heart Association says in a new scientific statement.
Changes can include substituting healthy, unsaturated dietary fats for saturated ones, exercising, and losing weight, which could reduce triglycerides by 20% to 50%, the AHA statement says.
"The good news is that high triglycerides can, in large part, be reduced through major lifestyle changes," Michael Miller, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, says in a news release.
Lifestyle Changes Can Lower Triglyceride Levels
Miller, who also is director of the university's Center for Preventive Cardiology, says, "High triglycerides are often quite responsive to lifestyle measures that include weight loss," regular exercise, and changes in diet.
This is different from high cholesterol, in which lifestyle measures also are important but may not provide a solution, he says.
Miller and co-authors of the new statement analyzed more than 500 international studies done over the past three decades to arrive at their conclusions.
For people who are outside the normal range of triglycerides, the scientists recommend limiting:
- Added sugar to less than 5% to 10% of calories, or about 100 calories per day for women and 150 calories daily for men
- Fructose, from processed foods and naturally occurring foods, to less than 50 to 100 grams per day
- Saturated fat to less than 7% of total calories
- Trans fat to less than 1% of total calories
- Alcohol, especially if triglyceride levels are higher than 500 milligrams per deciliter
Nutrition Panels Don't Tell All You Should Know
The researchers acknowledge that it's often hard to know how much sugar is added in foods because the amount of added sugars is not listed on the Nutrition Facts panel of packaged foods.
The American Heart Association recommends drinking no more than 36 ounces of sugar-sweetened beverages per week, based on a 2,000-calorie diet, because such beverages are responsible for most of the added sugar in American's diets.
The researchers also say that people with high triglycerides should focus on eating more vegetables; fruits that are lower in fructose such as cantaloupe, grapefruit, strawberries, bananas, peaches; high-fiber whole grains; and especially omega-3 fatty acids, which are found primarily in fatty fish such as salmon, herring, sardines, lake trout, and albacore tuna.
Diet Changes Not Enough; People Need More Physical Activity, Too
The statement says that people with triglyceride levels in the borderline to high range of 150-199 milligrams per deciliter also should incorporate physical activities such as brisk walking for at least 150 minutes a week.
Such physical activities may result in reducing triglyceride levels by 20% to 30%, the researchers write.
"Triglycerides are an important barometer of metabolic health,'' says Neil J. Stone, MD, a professor in the Fienberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. "When the clinician sees an elevated triglyceride level, there needs to be an important conversation about risk factors and the need to eat less, eat smarter, and to move more on a daily basis to improve triglycerides and the metabolic profile."
Testing for triglycerides is quite simple. It involves a blood sample, which is traditionally taken after a 12-hour fast.
The statement authors recommend using non-fasting triglyceride testing as an initial screen.
New Optimal Level for Triglycerides
They say that though the cutoff for elevated triglycerides is still 150 milligrams per deciliter, a new optimal level of 100 milligrams per deciliter has been set to acknowledge the protective effects of a healthier lifestyle.
Elevated triglyceride levels represent a major problem in the United States, the statement says.
About 31% of adults have elevated triglyceride levels of more than 150 milligrams per deciliter. This varies by ethnicity and is highest among Mexican-Americans at 36%. Whites have the second-highest rate at 33%, while African-Americans have the lowest at 16%.
The researchers say it is worrisome that triglyceride levels have been rising in young adults between 20 and 49, mirroring the increased rates of obesity and diabetes occurring at earlier ages.
The statement is published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.


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620K tell Macy's to 'dump Trump'
The number of signatures on a petition urging Macy's to sever its relationship with Donald Trump has skyrocketed to more than 600,000, after the organizer sent an overnight email to supporters to urge them to step up the campaign.
"Macy's needs to understand that they should not reward Donald Trump's bigoted bullying, but I need your help explaining that to them," wrote Angelo Carusone, the activist who started the "Dump Trump" petition.
The petition has more than 620,000 signatures so far, and Carusone told POLITICO that that number jumped by 26,000 within hours after he sent the note to those who had already signed the measure asking them to find more people to sign on.
The goal, according to the letter, is to reach 1 million signatures before Thanksgiving.
Carusone, who works at the liberal watchdog group Media Matters but stressed that he was acting on Dump Trump, independently, slammed Macy's for carrying Trump's clothing line and fragrance and generally furthering his "brand." He said he received an email from the CEO of Macy's Wednesday morning, but that it was mostly a "stock response."
In the email to supporters and his interview with POLITICO, Carusone said he came across a letter in which Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren told Trump that the company was developing "a meaningful fashion business with your brand!"
"To me, Trump's brand is consequence-free bullying and chicanery; mean-spirited antics designed to ride a media cycle so he can promote himself or his Macy's product line at the expense of others," he wrote. "And, here was the CEO of Macy's promising to further develop that brand. That didn't seem consistent with my experience as a longtime Macy's customer."
Macy's representatives did not respond to POLITICO's multiple requests for comment.
Lundgren answered Carusone on Wednesday in an email.
"Please understand and appreciate that Macy's marketing and merchandising offerings are not representative of any political position," he wrote, according to emails Carusone sent to POLITICO. "Ours is a free society compromised of a wide range of viewpoints. Many of the individuals associated with products sold at Macy's - or at any retailer, for that matter - express personal opinions that are not related to the merchandise we sell or to the philosophies of our company. That is the nature of a free society."
Carusone, who was also behind the " Stop Beck" campaign hitting Glenn Beck, said he started the petition Oct. 24, motivated in part after seeing Trump offer to donate $5 million to a charity of President Barack Obama's choice — if Obama would disclose certain records.
"It was a $5 million…threat to withhold money from a charity," he said, adding later, "no one ever uses charity as a weapon, and he did."
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump, said in a statement that he questioned "the legitimacy and accuracy of the [petition host] website and the number of signatures claimed to have joined this petition.
"Regardless," he continued, "The Trump Organization values its long standing relationship with Macy's and looks forward to many more years of continued success."


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(CNN) – Americans shouldn't let Vladimir Putin's opinions get under their skin because the Russian president is a one-time KGB officer whose primary interest is nationalism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday.
"While we have to deal with him as the president of Russia, we don't have to respect his views. We don't have to respect his opinions," said Gingrich, co-host of CNN's "Crossfire."
"And frankly, we should laugh at him when he tries to lecture America about exceptionalism, because he ain't exceptional. He's just one more in a long tradition of dictators and thugs."
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Putin rattled some Americans, including high-profile figures in Washington, when he argued in a New York Times op-ed against U.S. military intervention in Syria. In the final paragraph, he took issue with the idea of America being the proverbial shining city on a hill.
"It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation," he wrote.
His comment was a jab at President Barack Obama who said in a speech on Tuesday America has an obligation to respond to situations like the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
"That's what makes us exceptional," Obama said.
Some were not amused by Putin's advice.
Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez said on CNN the piece made him almost want "to vomit," and House Speaker John Boehner said he was "insulted."
Read: Vladimir Putin's comments on American exceptionalism, Syria cause a fuss
But Gingrich said Putin shouldn't be taken seriously.
"This is a guy who, for public relations purposes, wrestles bears. He shoots tigers, stripped to the waist, to prove he's a tough guy," he said.
The former House speaker pointed to Putin's history as a former intelligence officer for the KGB, where he worked from 1975-1992.
Gingrich also argued Putin was behind the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 and the conflict in Chechnya has killed thousands.
He expressed doubt the opinion piece was even written by Putin, saying it was likely penned by a Washington speechwriters.
"You can go through and read that document and you could find at every single stage find that it's a lie," Gingrich said. "For us to take it seriously is a sign that we have forgotten who Vladimir Putin is."
if cruz can walk in from canada and become republican king,why not putin walking in from russia-he,s more in line with republican thinking
If I had any respect for Gingrich, I would respect his opinion. But I don't, so I won't!
how dare you try to stop america from bombing the crap out of another small country Mr putin -how dare you
Dominican mama 4 Obama
Republicans have been calling Obama a communist for years. It turns out that Republicans actually like communists.
How about that?!
LOL. Hey there. For various reasons of which you are well aware, I just thought I'd let you know I'm still
with you ... well, in my thoughts anyway. I'm short on time today, but have a great weekend!
I agree with Gingrich absolutely. I don't trust Putin. No way.
Gingrich is a dictator and a thug, along with the Senate and Congress, since no matter how many Americans want secure borders, their will doesn't count. In California, Sacramento is full of thugs and dictator Jerry Brown, both of whom just allowed illegal foreign nationals to obtain driviers licenses. Try goint to Mexico and simply drive around demading rights,etc. Americans are sick and tired of hearing how others are this that or the other. We want our rights right here in the U.S., without being spied on.etc.


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Renewable energy is used in all sectors of the U.S. economy
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U.S. consumption of primary renewable energy in 2010 totaled about 8 quadrillion British thermal units, or 8% of all energy used nationally. Renewable energy—including hydroelectric, wood, biofuels, wind, organic waste, geothermal, and solar—was used for a wide variety of purposes.
- Electric power sector: to generate electricity, primarily from hydroelectric, followed by wind
- Industrial sector: for manufacturing applications. Over half of this was in the form of wood and wood waste (bark, sawdust, wood chips, wood scrap, and paper mill residues). Many manufacturing plants in the wood and paper products industry use wood waste to produce their own steam and electricity.
- Transportation sector: as biofuels, mainly ethanol blended into motor gasoline
- Residential sector: mainly wood burned for heating and cooking
- Commercial sector: mainly wood and wood waste for heating, cooking, and combined heat and power applications


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I'd better post something before this blog slides further into entropy…
Work has been, and continues to be, insane. And I just got a big freelance project that should keep me busy through late fall/early winter. Yay and yikes. Which explains the lack of blogging and lack of vacation pictures.
So, back to something running related…
I have been on an "ultramarathon" jag lately, which has involved reading a couple of books by endurance athletes, and renting a movie about the infamous Badwater race (more on this in a moment).
I don't know why I'm suddenly into this stuff. Perhaps it's the strange pleasure that comes from vicarious suffering. Another theory is that I've made a recent mental shift, deciding that I want to train to run in a marathon in 2007. Maybe the prospect of running 26.2 miles is made easier by reading about people who run 100+ mile races.
The two books I've read are:
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes
Badwater: A Man, Dealth Valley, and the Mystery of Endurance by Kirk Johnson
And the film:
Running on the Sun by Mel Stuart
The Karnazes book is a quick, interesting read. While he's not the best writer in the world, his writing style is lighthearted and engaging. And his accounts of long training runs and ultramarathon events such as Badwater, the Western States 100 and the first (and perhaps last) marathon in the South Pole are fascinating. And the fact that he's accomplished things that don't seem physically possible is very inspiring. Right now, Karnazes is embarking on another first: The Endurance 50 — 50 successive marathons in 50 states over 50 days. Of course, this seems crazy. But so have many of the other challenges he's embarked on and accomplished.
The book offers handy tips. For example, did you know you can fix a bad blister with Krazy Glue and duct tape? It's all true.
The book is marred by some unflattering (unbeknownst to the author, it seems) elements of self-portrait — the author comes off as boorish and callous at times. And his constant protestations about how much his entire family loves riding around in a camper for days on end, feeding him as he runs along the road, makes me wonder how harmonious the arrangement really is.
A bookend (if you will) to the Karnazes book is Johnson's book. Where Karnazes comes off as a confident (if foolhardy) pro, Johnson is a guy you can sort of relate to. After his brother, a serious runner, committed suicide, Johnson (who'd never run a marathon) decided to train for Badwater in an attempt to understand his brother and reunite his somewhat distant family members.
For the unitiated, The Badwater Ultramarathon is called the "world's toughest footrace." It's a 135 mile race. From nearly 300 feet below sea level to the top of Mt. Whitney (at 8,300 feet). Did I mention that Mt. Whitney is in Death Valley? Oh, and the race is in the middle of summer? Jeeeezus Christ.
This book offers another — and more detailed — account of what it's like to run Badwater. Johnson is a professional journalist and a superb writer. But I found the book self-indulgent in many spots and sometimes downright whiney. On the other hand, there was a pleasure in watching him go from nervous newbie marathoner to the finish line of Badwater. I just wish he'd spent more words describing the race and fewer describing his internal struggles. But, it's a book about discovering one's self and one's familial bonds, so I can forgive him for that. It's a page turner, and what higher compliment can you pay a book about an adventure?
Finally, there's the movie Running on the Sun. This was a really fun movie to watch (if "fun" is the right word). If you ever had illusions about running a race like Badwater, this will destroy them soundly. The documentary is fascinating, because it not only gives you a sense of actually being at the race, but it emphasizes that the people who run it are ordinary people — ordinary people who just happen to have the desire, discipline and fortitude to try to do something extraordinary. Like the Karnazes book, the movis is both entertaining and inspiring.
And I now know I'll never run Badwater.
And that's okay.


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Today's News: Our Take - Glee's Melissa Benoist: "Something Drastic Needed to Happen" to Wake Marley Up
Attenion all Gleeks! Melissa Benoist, who plays Marley Rose on the Fox musical comedy, has a very important announcement.
"Some people tweeted me that they thought she was dead, but she is not dead," Benoist tells TVGuide.com. "She is alive."
Phew! But just because the glee club newbie survived a fainting spell brought on by her eating disorder during Sectionals, her battle is far from over. Not only will Marley have to start taking better care of herself - physically and emotionally - but she'll also have to work to win New Directions over after jeopardizing their shot at Regionals. Benoist talked to TVGuide.com about Marley's road to recovery, her research for the "daunting" storyline and the possibility of another Glee tour.
When did the writers first tell you that Marley was going to have such a dramatic story?
Benoist: The first week of work, [creator Ryan Murphy] brought Jacob [Artist] and I into his office and [was] just talking with us about what his vision was for the characters. He said, 'I'm really thinking about Marley having an eating disorder and dealing with bulimia. It definitely was a daunting thing to hear, but in the best way. As an actor, you can only hope for something with that much depth and something to dig into that much.
What was your first reaction when you read the script and saw that this story line would go that far?
Melissa Benoist: I had an inkling. I knew that something drastic needed to happen to knock some sense into Marley or to make her realize that what she was doing was extremely damaging to her psyche and to her physical well-being.
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Where does the next episode pick up and what are the next steps for Marley?
Benoist: She's at this point where she can wipe the slate clean, really. It's at this point now where she needs to rebuild in a certain sense.
Is there a person in particular who will help her through this?
Benoist: Obviously, her mom is going to be a huge part of her recovery and there's therapy. [It's] just her being very open and honest about it from this point. But it's definitely not over.
Kitty was kind of the one who originally put these thoughts about weight into Marley's head. What's next for their relationship?
Benoist: It will be a slow process for them to gain trust, but luckily, there is some forgiveness and a breakthrough in a sense for the two of them. I had a lot of fun working with Becca Tobin in the next episode. Marley and Kitty have some great moments.
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So far, it's been hard for viewers to warm up to Kitty. Do you think there's hope that she can be redeemed?
Benoist: I definitely think so. We keep saying that something had to have happened to Kitty for her to make the decisions that she has and say the things that she does. ... I think there is something going on that we might see in the future with Kitty. In this next episode, you'll see a softer side to her and Becca does a wonderful job portraying that.
How will the rest of New Directions handle the incident?
Benoist: It's an interesting dynamic. I think there are some characters who just want her to be better, but she really put the well-being of New Directions in peril. She didn't mean any harm, of course. She just wanted to win so bad and put so much pressure on herself. There are some kids in the glee club who are not too happy with her.
How will she deal with those new dynamics?
Benoist: I think she will learn a lot from her mistakes and it will be easier for her to take it in stride. At the same time, it gives her a lot of determination to prove herself again and really make everyone see just how much she cares about the glee club. Everything she did, she did out of love for all of her new friends and the club. In this next episode, Marley interacts quite a bit with Finn because she really feels the need to show her devotion to glee club and they collaborate together.
How was it working with Cory Monteith in the episode?
Benoist: It was an interesting dynamic. Ryan Murphy tweeted a picture of us together on set that day and he said "old school/new school." It definitely felt that way.
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Have you been able to go to him or anyone else in particular from the original cast for advice?
Benoist: Everyone's been really great about sharing their experiences for the past couple of years, and about making Becca, Jacob, Blake [Jenner] and I feel included and feel safe and comfortable in this new atmosphere that's so different and difficult at times. One day, I sat down and had a really long conversation with Kevin McHale about the tour and his experiences on that. It's fun to hear about everything they've gone through.
Murphy has expressed interest in touring. Is the cast definitely going on tour this summer?
Benoist: We don't know for sure as of now, but all of us new kids keep talking about how much fun we think it would be. If there a tour, I would be on it in a heartbeat.
How has it been handling the fame so far?
Benoist: I've only been approached a handful of times, so it hasn't been crazy the way it is for some of the other people on the show. But that's kind of nice. I cherish my anonymity, so that's been good. On Twitter, it's great. I really enjoy interacting with the fans and seeing what they have to say. Last week for the "Thanksgiving" episode, everyone was tweeting me and asking me if I'm alright.
Have you heard from people who have suffered from eating disorders?
Benoist: I definitely have. It's been really reassuring and nice to hear that a lot of girls have been inspired and have been so grateful to see their story brought to life and portrayed on a show that so many people watch. I hope that gives them hope. I hope that girls can learn from what Marley goes through.
What kind of research did you do before shooting?
Benoist: I read some blogs of girls who were very open and vocal about their disorders on Tumblr. It's very odd. For something that is such a private thing that most girls in their daily lives really try to hide like Marley did, on the Internet there are some people who use their blogs as diaries almost. It was weird because I felt like I was invading someone's privacy and reading something I shouldn't see. But it gave me a lot of insight as to what they were really feeling and their motives as to why they were hurting themselves so much.
After this heavy storyline, are there lighter moments ahead for Marley?
Beniost: From here, things are uphill here for her. Her fainting was the kind of the drastic climax that she needed to go through to realize just how much she was hurting herself. Now, I think that she is just going to purely focus on getting better and being her best self and loving herself a lot more than she has been and not focusing so much on everyone else and the needs of everyone else. So there will be some lighter moments. It's not going to be easy, but she's on her way up.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive House Republican measure to keep the government operating would ease some of the pain of automatic spending cuts slamming the Defense Department, the nation's senior military leaders told Congress on Tuesday.
Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff painted a dire picture of construction projects on hold, limits on aircraft carriers patrolling the waters and even a delay in the expansion of Arlington National Cemetery due to the $43 billion in across-the-board cuts that kicked in Friday.
Problematic for the Pentagon has been the combination of the automatic cuts and the government still operating at last year's spending levels. The GOP measure unveiled on Monday would give the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments sought-after flexibility in spending that other agencies lack.
The military leaders embraced that prospect, a political boost for the GOP measure just days before the House votes.
"It mitigates at least one-third of our problem," said Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, who earlier told the panel that the budget cuts and last year's spending level had left the service with an $18 billion shortfall in operation and maintenance plus $6 billion in cuts in other programs.
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the chief of Naval Operations, said the bill would be "almost night and day," with a shortfall of $8.6 billion in operations reduced by more than half.
"We can get back to the covenant that we have with the combatant commanders to get almost all of that back," Greenert told a House Appropriations panel. "We get two carrier overhauls. We get a carrier new construction. ... We get all the military construction.
Marine Corps Gen. James Amos said he was heartened by the legislation.
The GOP measure would fund day-to-day federal operations through September — and avert a potential government shutdown later this month.
The measure would leave in place automatic cuts of 5 percent to domestic agencies and 7.8 percent to the Pentagon ordered Friday by President Barack Obama after months of battling with Republicans over the budget.
The GOP funding measure is set to advance through the House on Thursday in hopes of preventing a government shutdown when a six-month spending bill passed last September runs out March 27.
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said that bipartisan talks were under way on changes that the Senate would make to the House measure. He said that the House GOP leadership doesn't expect the Senate to simply approve the House bill without changes.
"There seems to be no interest on either side in having a kind of confrontational government shutdown scenario," McConnell said.
The administration weighed in Tuesday with a statement criticizing the House GOP measure for failing to provide enough money to implement Obama's signature legislation to overhaul financial regulation and the U.S. health care system. The statement, however, did not threaten a veto.
The White House said the measure "raises concerns about the government's ability to protect consumers, avoid deep cuts in critical services that families depend on, and implement critical domestic priorities such as access to quality and affordable health care."
Senate Democrats want to add more detailed budgets for domestic Cabinet agencies, but it will take GOP help to do so. The House measure also denies money sought by Obama and his Democratic allies to implement the signature 2010 laws overhauling the health care system and financial regulation.
The impact of the new cuts was proving slow to reach the broader public.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in separate testimony on Capitol Hill, acknowledged that it will be "several months" before meat inspectors are furloughed as part of the across-the-board spending cuts.
Vilsack told a House Agriculture Committee hearing that each meat inspector will likely be furloughed 11 or 12 days, instead of 15 days as the Obama administration earlier claimed.
The White House has used the meat inspector furloughs as one example of how the cuts will affect the economy. Meatpacking plants cannot operate without inspectors, so the furloughs will cause plants across the country to shut down intermittently.
Vilsack said the process will be complicated because of negotiations with labor unions that represent the meat inspectors.
Members of the committee pressed Vilsack on whether the department could find ways to make other cuts in the food safety budget instead of cutting inspector salaries. But Vilsack said 87 percent of that agency's budget goes to inspectors and there is no other way to do it under the rules of the sequester.
"No matter how you slice it, no matter how you dice it, there is nothing you can do without impacting the front-line inspectors," he said.
Vilsack also complained about the structure of the across-the-board cuts.
"The problem with a sequester is that it doesn't give you any flexibility," he said.
Separately, the Energy Department told Washington Gov. Jay Inslee that the automatic cuts may impede attempts to close the radioactive waste tanks leaking at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, with possible furloughs or layoffs.
The across-the-board cuts would carve $85 billion in spending from the government's $3.6 trillion budget for this year, concentrating the cuts in the approximately $1 trillion allocated to the day-to-day agency operating budgets set by Congress each year. Those so-called discretionary accounts received big boosts in the first two years of Obama's presidency, when Democrats controlled Congress, but have borne the brunt of the cuts approved as Obama and Republicans have grappled over the budget.
Both Democrats and Republicans for months have warned that the cuts are draconian and would slow the growth of the economy, costing hundreds of thousands of jobs. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, for instance, says they would slow the economy by 0.6 percent and cost about 750,000 jobs.
The military already is facing a cut in projected spending of $487 billion over 10 years, reductions established in the budget law that Obama and congressional Republicans embraced in August 2011. The automatic cuts are in addition to those cuts.
The House bill would boost the Pentagon's operation and maintenance account to $173.4 billion, about $10 billion more than last year's level but slightly below Obama's request. Other accounts — personnel, procurement, and research and development — would face cuts to make up the difference.


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Posted by PCSpecial Report Monday, December 13th, 2010
While investigating the WHO and UN role in the biological weapons attack called the A-H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic of 2009, criminal intelligence (CI) agents from Canada and the US have stumbled upon a covert and sinister plan to kill off as many as 3 billion people by food malnutrition. The organization that is responsible for preparing for the murder of 3 billion people is called the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It was established in 1963 by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Their officially stated purpose is to develop international food standards to protect consumer health and to facilitate fair trading practices in foods. Today, there are 181 member governments including Canada. CI agents have uncovered the real purpose of this WHO / UN organization – to murder 3 billion people. How will they murder some 3 billion people?
It was Henry Kissinger, who in 1974 conceived the idea of the food genocide to control world population – less people to consume world resources – more for the rich nations (elites) to exploit the sources of the world to satisfy their greed. On December 10, 1974 the US National Security Council under Henry Kissinger prepared a classified study 'National Security Study Memorandum 200 (Full text of NSSM 200 (governmental source – pdf file)) – which falsely claimed that the worldwide population growth poses a great threat to US national security interests.
US Air Force weapon of mass destruction military installation called HAARP –> unfortunately the live cam image from November 29, 2010. is no longer available. Red arrow points to military truck parked at installation and lights are clearly shown to be on at each of the trailers. HAARP is active and is responsible for causing recent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, heat waves and monsoon rainfall that caused major flooding.
Classified UN documents reveal that 1 billion people will be killed by starvation as UN trade agreements and WHO health moratoriums will forbid any country from selling and exporting any food to targeted regions for depopulation. Starvation of 3 billion people has already begun as the United States has been using its weapon of mass destruction called HAARP to control, alter and intensify the weather of the targeted nations. This past summer HAARP was used to create a heat wave in Russia, resulting in the near complete destruction of its crops. Also this past summer the US used HAARP to cause the massive flooding in China and Pakistan – an attempt to wipe out the crops of China and Pakistan resulting in the mass starvation of their populations. 2 billion more will be murdered by diseases and illnesses associated with malnutrition from crop destruction, pasteurization and irradiation. The Codex Alimentarius Commission will be responsible for causing disease and illness from malnutrition by implementing the 2 latter killing instruments. The Codex Alimentarius Commission has begun this process by labeling the life sustaining nutrients (vitamins, minerals and enzymes) in our foods as poisons. Now that nutrients are classified as poisons they have been given the authority by the United Nations to eradicate all nutrients in our foods. They have already begun the eradication process by pasteurizing (exposing to high heat) and irradiating (exposing to radiation) all of our food. Milk was the first to be targeted for eradication as milk is the most important life sustenance on Earth. It is packed full of vitamins, minerals and enzymes. All essential for keeping us healthy and alive. Next was eggs. Another very important food that keeps us very healthy and alive.
With the recent false declarations of E. coli contamination in fruits and vegetables the member nations of The Codex Alimentarius Commission have been ordered to pasteurize or irradiate all fruit and vegetables. Why? Pasteurization and irradiation destroys all of the nutritional value of our food. These processes don't eliminate the microorganism they claim they are killing in our food. It kills the organisms and everything else including the vitamin, mineral and enzyme content of our food. Furthermore pasteurization and irradiation doesn't clean or filter out the bad organisms in our food it just kills them and when we drink or eat pasteurized or irradiated foods and beverages we are consuming the dead, rotting and disease and illness causing bodies of the organisms. Because all of the vitamins, minerals and enzymes have been destroyed by pasteurization and irradiation your body can't stop or fight off the disease and illnesses caused by consuming the dead and rotting organisms.
Who is behind this mass murder of 3 billion people?
In the investigation of the WHO and UN plans for murdering 3 billion people there is one region of the World that seems to have been exempted. The only region that is not being targeted for mass depopulation are the countries that made up old Europe. Why everywhere else but old Europe. Because, according to information written in the classified UN documents, Canada, the US, China, Russia, Pakistan, the Middle East and Africa are nations populated with people who are considered inferior races. The only superior race of people is the Aryan Race. Adolf Hitler started WWII to reinstate the Aryans as a master race of Indo-Europeans. The Aryans are supposed to be Nordic in appearance and directly ancestral to the Germans. During WWII the Nazi SS officers and soldiers were put in charge of slaughtering all inferior races of people by whatever means possible, including; war, famine, poison, biological diseases and mass executions. Today the UN has been put in charge of slaughtering as many as 3 billion people.
Very few people realize that the UN was created by former high ranking politicians and war criminal officers of Nazi Germany. Even fewer people know that an International organization existed during WWII and it was that League of Allied Nations who were responsible for the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Immediately after WWII the League of Nations was destroyed by the Nazi Germans in retaliation for defeating them in WWII. In its place the Nazi Germans formed the UN. The UN (the negative prefix un means – Opposite of; contrary to: unrest.) was formed to bring about global unrest. Once global unrest was achieved a New World Order governed by "The Four principles" (The Fourth Reich) – * One Leader * One Budget * One Programme and * One Office would be implemented. To have an understanding of the clandestine agenda of the UN you must have an understanding of the meaning of Reich. Reich is the territory or government of a German state, as the Holy Roman Empire (the Vatican), or First Reich , from 962 to 1806; the German Empire, or Second Reich, from 1871 to 1919 (Germany's WWI); the Weimar Republic, from 1919 to 1933; and the Third Reich, from 1933 to 1945 (Nazi Germany's WWII). The Nazi formed United Nations launched the "Delivering as One" initiative in 2007 – the Fourth Reich. Today Germany is once again the leader of the new and Fourth Reich. A former Nazi German Youth – Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (served the Third Reich for at least 4 years) is now (was) leader (Pope Benedict) of the Vatican – the original or First Reich.
The Nazi war criminals also formed many of the International and national organizations we have today, including NATO (created by commanding officers and ex-multinational conscripts that made up the German Waffen SS army units), the CIA (created by former Gestapo agents to spy on, sabotage, torture and kill agents, military personal and political figureheads of the Soviet Union ), the WHO (created by former Auschwitz death camp scientists and physicians), NASA (created using former Nazi rocket scientists who were smuggled into the US in Operation Paperclip).
Now that our governments have been ordered by the Nazi UN to begin pasteurizing and irradiating every consumable food the only question left to ask is "how much time do we have left before we starve to death from eating?"
A viewer just reminded me of a very important historical fact that relates to this story. I was reminded of the fact that the Royal Family of England, namely Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor, are actually descendants of the German arm of European Royalty – the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. Due to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during the German Reich World War I, George V of the United Kingdom changed the name of his branch from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The same happened in Belgium where it was changed to "van België" (Dutch) or "de Belgique" (French). The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is a German dynasty, the senior line of the Saxon House of Wettin that ruled the Ernestine duchies, including the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The House of Wettin is a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors (Kurfürsten) and kings that once ruled the area of today's German states of Saxony, the Saxon part of Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia for more than 800 years as well as holding at times the kingship of Poland. Agnates of the House of Wettin have, at various times, ascended the thrones of Great Britain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland, Saxony, and Belgium; of these, only the British and Belgian lines retain their thrones today. This historical fact means that Germans rule the United Kingdom, Canada and a host of other Commonwealth Nations. The head of state in Canada is the sovereign or Queen of Canada (a German from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) . The Queen's powers are exercised by the Governor General of Canada except when the Queen is in Canada. The Governor General, like the sovereign or Queen, is not political and remains above politics. That would suggest that Canada and other Commonwealth Nations are servants of the German Reich.
Source: Short URL: http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=131
Too Crazy to believe? Not Sure?? Do your homework. There is a lot of information out there that confirms the data in this article. Check it out for yourself.
Update: The HAARP facility in Gakona, Alaska has shut down pending its transfer to a different contractor working for DARPA.
Bill Gates Confirms Population Reduction Through Vaccination on CNN
Bill Gates: Register Every Birth by Cellphone To Ensure Vaccination, Control Population Growth
Hillary Clinton: Population Control Will Now Become the Centerpiece of U.S. Foreign Policy
WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers


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A To-Do List for Estate Planning
Get ready for possible changes in 2013
In recent years, Congress hasn't made estate planning any easier with its ping-pong approach to the estate tax.
The first — and most vexing — thing you need to know is that federal estate tax rates are slated to change again in 2013, unless Congress decides otherwise. That's little comfort for estate planners, who in recent years have been whipsawed by a federal rate that changed annually, going to zero in 2010 and then moving upward again this year.
See also: Contesting a will.
Yet there's much you can do to streamline one of the most difficult financial planning decisions of your life. If you break things down into pieces, estate planning becomes a lot less intimidating.
The good news is that until Jan. 1, 2013, the amount of your estate exempted from federal tax is $5 million for individuals, $10 million for couples. You can also make up to $5 million in gifts ($10 million per couple) before paying a gift tax.
Who can say what will come with 2013? But at the very least you should start reviewing your options now to determine the best tax strategy for you.
Here are some essentials to consider:
- Professional advice. Find a qualified estate planning professional who will listen to you and craft a plan that works for you and your family. That's the best assurance that your intentions will be honored.
- Health care power of attorney. Before you make the big decisions about who will get your estate, you need to make other choices about who will represent your interests with the doctors if you become incapacitated. You do this with a health care power of attorney. You also need a living will, which tells medical staff what to do in the event you're placed on life support.
- Financial power of attorney. This document is similar to a health care power of attorney, only it appoints someone to handle your financial affairs. This person should not only be trustworthy, but also understand something about finance or investing. This document may also be called a "property" power of attorney.
- Wills and trusts. Wills are essential, simple documents that everyone should have. Trusts can be drafted in addition to wills and serve more complex estate-planning needs. Property and other assets can be placed in the trust to shield them from taxes and from probate, the lengthy and expensive court process by which wills are executed. Instead, a trustee is appointed to manage the trust. That will simplify things once you or your spouse die.
- Gifts that can reduce your estate. Although the gift-tax exemption may change in 2013, couples can for now give away up to $10 million without paying federal gift tax. Talk to your estate planner about how gifts might reduce the value of your estate, and therefore the tax paid on it.
"This is for extra money you don't need to live on," says Rial Moulton, an attorney and financial planner with Retirement and Tax Planning Specialists in Spokane, Wash. "Now is a window of opportunity to get chunks of assets out of your estate."
- Charitable giving. There are any number of ways to donate money from your estate. These should be discussed with your estate planner. The simplest is a "qualified charitable distribution" from your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). You can earmark up to $100,000 a year (your spouse can do the same) for a charity from your IRA. If you're at least 70 1/2, that amount would be excluded from federal income tax.
- Updating old documents. If you've had an estate plan in place for years, review it. Make sure that you've designated your beneficiaries and trustees and that you've signed the proper documents to give people you trust access to medical decision making.
Under current medical privacy law, notes Sid Blum, a certified financial planner with Greatlight Fee Only Advisors in Evanston, Ill., people who want to get information about your medical condition or discuss it with doctors must be cleared by you in advance. There has got to be a document on file with your health care providers that includes their names.
- Integration. Integrate your estate plan with tax planning across your entire portfolio.
Will your estate be subject to capital gains or state inheritance taxes? Every state is different and requires another level of review.
Would you like to leave money that won't be subject to estate tax? Various insurance-based products and trusts may allow you to do that. Even family partnerships can be considered.
Work with a noncommission, fee-only financial or estate planner when considering insurance products — broker-sold products are frequently oversold and can be bad choices for retirees.
Also of interest: AARP Foundation Gift Planning. >>
John F. Wasik is a personal finance columnist for Reuters and the author of The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome and 12 other books.


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Periwinkle Smith and the Faraway Star
The inventive Ms. Periwinkle Smith has returned in her second and latest adventure, Periwinkle Smith and the Faraway Star by John and Wendy. Still twirling and whirling in her trademark tutu, the punky and pirouetting Ms. Periwinkle sets her sights on a golden telescope. Through her looking glass, Periwinkle spies birds, fish and even villainous bathtub pirates yet it's a lonely star in the sky that captures Periwinkle's eye and inevitably, her heart. Determined to befriend the lonely star, Periwinkle dreams up different ways to send her message "up, up, up". After a few inspired efforts, Periwinkle and her trusty tabby find an enlightened form of delivery that brings the faraway star close to home.
Periwinkle Smith is a strong and spirited girl distinguished by her signature bow, blue hair and paint-splattered tutu. Ms. Smith is equal parts childhood curiosity and rock n' roll DIY-namics. John and Wendy have created a diminutively cute character with a large presence that continues to demonstrate infectious enthusiasm and ingenuity. Always armed with a solution up her stripey sleeve, Ms. Smith proves that no adventure or dream is too big. I'm convinced that her adventures have only just begun. So, where to next, Periwinkle?


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South Pacific Tickets
A living art form in various forms from television to film and to stage, a musical, is considered as one of the greatest forms of art. No matter who is being discussing here it is for sure a discussion of art at its best in the form of a musical. The art of telling stories through words and songs is traced from the Ancient Greeks of the 5th Century. They began an art form that was about comedy and tragedies told through music and dance.
A 1949 Broadway musical, South Pacific that draws its story from the Pulitzer Prize wining Tales of the South Pacific book of 1946, is one of the most highly graded musicals in the history.
South Pacific Cities
- South Pacific Minneapolis MN
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South Pacific Venues
- South Pacific Benedum Center
- South Pacific Springfield Municipal Opera Association
- South Pacific Walnut Street Theatre
- South Pacific Wurtele Thrust Stage - Guthrie Theater
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Seeking to limit the number of pot stores, voters last May passed Proposition D, which capped the number of pot dispensaries in Los Angeles at about 135. The law came amid neighborhood complaints about smokers loitering outside dispensaries and concerns about increased crime at the sites, and followed years of failed efforts by local lawmakers to regulate the marijuana industry.
But highlighting the difficulties — and bureaucratic entanglements — of regulating marijuana, major hurdles remain, city officials acknowledged at a press conference earlier this month to announce a crackdown on the illegal stores.
Since the law went into effect last summer, more than 100 dispensaries have shuttered, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said. The city has also fought more than a dozen legal challenges by marijuana companies, including an attempt by one to open in a warehouse-sized space in Mar Vista.
The map above shows all the dispensaries that have been closed since passing Prop D., according to Feuer's office. Still, illegal dispensaries remain a major problem for his office and Feuer said it's unclear how many dispensaries are still in operation.
Some of these dispensaries may have opened up elsewhere in the city.
Some of the closings on this map have been independently verified, but not all.
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across the UK with
YOU in the cockpit!
This flight still has seats available on at least these 12 dates: 11th August, 19th August, 25th August, 2nd September, 8th September, 16th September, 22nd September, 30th September, 6th October, 14th October, 20th October and 28th October(Other dates will be added later in the year.)
This experience will last a total of approx. 45 minutes, with approx. 20 minutes spent in the air. (We don't compromise on your time in the air. When comparing us with others, check the small print and the time actually spent in the air.)
It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to view local landmarks, stunning countryside or even your own house from the comfort of a VIP helicopter. The standard tour will fly you past the best of the local land marks including Cities and Football grounds or you can make your route request on check-in and confirm with your pilot.
The Package
* Fly up to 30 miles on board one of our Bell Jet Ranger Helicopters
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* Free Car Parking, Cafe (selected venues) and Viewing Area
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* A full choice of UK and Ireland Wide locations is available during the main Flying Season (April - October). Some venues operate all year round, particularly London.
* Spectators are welcome and may take photographs
* Maximimum Age 99
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Taking my Monday Walk in the Garden I found that the variegated liriope is starting to bloom. I also spied a single dwarf gardenia, perhaps the last of the season. What better to make a simple vase this day.
The duck just happened to be swimming by.
Please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden, the host of this meme, to see what lovely vases are being filled by her readers' gardens.


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AP source: A's acquire Lester, Gomes for Cespedes
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics acquired left-hander Jon Lester along with outfielder Jonny Gomes from the Boston Red Sox for slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes before Thursday's trade deadline, a person with knowledge of the deal said.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because neither club announced the swap, another blockbuster by A's general manager Billy Beane to win the Lester sweepstakes. Oakland, with the best record in baseball at 66-41, also receives cash from Boston.
Lester was sought by many teams, with Pittsburgh and the Los Angeles Dodgers among them. He is 10-7 with a 2.52 ERA in 21 starts this season. The All-Star originally was scheduled to start Wednesday night for the slumping Red Sox, who instead scratched Lester ahead of the trade deadline.
The A's are determined to take the next step after losing in each of the past two Octobers in five-game division series defeats to the Detroit Tigers. Oakland had an off day Thursday before returning home to begin a weekend series with the Kansas City Royals on Friday night. It's unclear what day Lester would start. Sonny Gray (12-3) is scheduled for Friday, but manager Bob Melvin has discussed the idea of giving some pitchers extra days between outings to keep them fresh in the second half.
For Boston, this marks another big move of a starting pitcher to the Bay Area after Jake Peavy was traded to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.
Cespedes won the past two Home Run Derby titles at the All-Star game. The Cuban left fielder is in the third season of a $36 million, four-year contract he signed before spring training 2012. Cespedes is batting .256 with 17 homers and 67 RBIs, 26 doubles and three triples.
Bringing back Gomes, a fan favorite who grew up in nearby Petaluma, provides Oakland with a veteran in the clubhouse who proved invaluable during the A's run to the AL West title in 2012. The A's reached the playoffs for the first time in six years.
Beane believes in starting pitching depth, and the A's sure have it. Lester joins Gray, Scott Kazmir and recently acquired Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, each dealt by the Chicago Cubs on July 4.
The 28-year-old Cespedes could provide the last-place Red Sox a middle-of-the-order power boost they need if they want to get back into the AL East race. Boston entered Thursday's play trailing by 10 ½ games, having lost three straight games and eight of 10.


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Ralph Nader to speak on "The Truth about Healthcare" May 8th
Consumer advocate, Presidential candidate for the Green Party, and one the nation's most influential Americans, Ralph Nader will speak at The Evergreen State College, Saturday, May 8th at 3 PM with doors open at 2 PM
The event will take place in the College Recreation Center (CRC) at The Evergreen State College. The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway, NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Directions to campus are available online.
General Admission
$15.00 advance
$20.00 at door.
Tickets available at www.ticketswest.com
About Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is one of America's most effective social critics. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Nader's documented criticism of government and industry has had widespread effect on public awareness and bureaucratic power. He is the "U.S.'s toughest customer" says Time magazine. His inspiration and example have galvanized a whole population of consumer advocates, citizen activists, and public interest lawyers who in turn have established their own organizations throughout the country.
For over four decades, Nader has exposed problems and organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public interest groups to advocate for solutions. His efforts have helped create a framework of laws, regulatory agencies, and federal standards that have improved the quality of life for two generations of Americans. Because of Ralph Nader we drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments.
The crusading attorney first made headlines in 1965 with his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a scathing indictment that lambasted the auto industry for producing unsafe vehicles. The book led to congressional hearings and a series of automobile safety laws passed in 1966, including the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
This event is sponsored by S & A Productions at The Evergreen State College.


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by John Hawkins | June 21, 2011 12:04 pm
George Pataki is the former governor of the great state of New York. Now he's back, he's running No American Debt[1] and the rumor is that he may even be considering a run at the presidency.
Last week, I got an opportunity to interview George Pataki and what follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy!
What happens if America loses its AAA credit rating?
First of all, under the best of circumstances with this President, we're going to borrow $1.56 trillion — and that's at a very low interest rate. If you lose your AAA credit rating, it's going to drive up the cost of debt significantly. But more importantly, it sends a signal to the world that the United States is no longer the rock of financial stability that we've been now for almost a century.
Take a look at what happened to Great Britain. It used to be that the pound was the global currency and Britain was the strongest economy. When the pound was replaced by the dollar, it had terrible consequences for Great Britain that they still live under today. There are those who are talking about the Chinese currency replacing the American dollar and I don't want to see China pass the United States.
The IMF suggests that it could happen in five years. I don't want it to happen in 105 years. So we have to cut the size of government, we have to reduce government spending, we have to reduce the number of government employees, and we have to reduce the cost of entitlement programs that have been run through under this president.
Unless we do so, we cannot just hang on to the AAA rating that is important to every single American, whether they're aware of that or not, but also start reclaiming confidence in the financial future of this great country.
Now do you think there is a genuine danger that America could go the way of Greece and actually go bankrupt? If so, how long do you think it could potentially take?
There is no question in my mind that if we continue on the track that Obama has us on, with trillion dollar plus deficits for the next decade, there is going to come a point where the global community says it doesn't make sense to continue to buy these U.S. bonds when we're not sure the government is going to be in a position to pay them off.
There are going to be two possibilities. One is they will stop buying them — in which case we will face an enormous financial disaster or two, they'll buy them but insist on exorbitant interest rates that will double, triple, quadruple the cost of what the taxpayer has to pay for the stealing from the future that this president and this Reid and Pelosi Congress engaged in. So we've got to get this deficit under control. We've got to do it in a way that doesn't hurt the private sector's desire to add jobs and grow the economy because we need jobs, too. It can be done, but not with President Obama making the decisions.
Let me ask you to explain one more thing to people. This is something I think we conservatives skip over way too often. How will the average person's life be impacted if America goes the way of Greece and simply has to pay its debts by printing massive amounts of money — because that's what would happen, we would just crank up the printing presses. Tell people how that would impact their lives.
Well, we've already seen how every American family is affected when the dollar declines. We were paying over $4.00 a gallon for gas. It's now in the high $3.00 and that has nothing to do with anything but the fact that the dollar has collapsed globally from where it was a year ago. You're paying more for food because the price of wheat and grain and corn is much higher than it was. You're paying more for clothing because it's costing more to import clothing from overseas.
If we continue to see these massive deficits, you're going to see rampant inflation and it will have a terrible impact on every American's life. Everything they buy is going to cost more, but they're not going to be getting paid more at work. We saw it under Jimmy Carter and if this president has his way, we're going to see either a very real economic decline or this massive inflation over the course of the next decade or so. So we've got to deal with the deficit and as I said earlier, we've got to do it in a way that encourages the private sector to grow and to add jobs, not in a way as this president has done that discourages entrepreneurs from expanding their businesses.
Now by some counts we have $100 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities. Yet, what we're hearing from a lot of people is, "Hey, we can nibble around the edges. Maybe we'll get rid of a little bit of waste, maybe we will raise taxes a little bit on Social Security. There is no need to make any serious changes on Medicare and Social Security. The programs will be fine and we don't have to do anything major."
What do you say to that argument?
It's just not going to work. We have to get very serious about these entitlements and about the size of the government. What is really sad, John, is that the president appointed his own bipartisan commission about a year ago now. They worked very hard and came up with a bipartisan consensus that advanced $4 trillion in deficit-closing measures including reforming Social Security, reforming Medicaid, reducing the size of the federal government and other entitlement programs. He just walked away from it.
That $4 trillion itself isn't enough. But there are other things that can be done, like repealing Obamacare, reducing the size of the federal workforce by 12 to 15 percent, things that the American people understand are necessary and need to be done that are going to really change the way people look at our finances in this country — but not with this president. I hope that we can see a Congress that this year forces the president to take action because every day that we lose, we're just stealing more from our children and borrowing more for no good reason.
I fear that this president is simply looking to wait until after his re-election and then raise taxes across the board on the American people — and even then you can't tax your way out of this. You've got to reduce the size and the cost of the federal government.
Now one political difficulty of doing this is that some of the changes that will have to be made to get the United States' financial ship righted are going to be painful. They're not going to be fun and you are always going to have people out there demagoguing and saying we don't need to do anything. A lot of times people like that have won the day in Washington. How do you politically manage to make the case for this to the American people?
Well, the Demagoguer-in-Chief is Barack Obama. A year ago he was saying that what we can't do is demonize someone who has the guts to come forward with a strong program to deal with entitlements. Then Paul Ryan does exactly that and what does he do? He goes out and demonizes Paul Ryan in a way that is not worthy of a grade B politician, let alone the President of the United States.
So you are absolutely right that if you come up with a sincere, meaningful plan, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest are going to try to demonize it. But take a look, John, at how this country became the greatest country the world has ever known. It's because the American people have always looked to the future. It has always been about having your children lead a better life than you and having our grandchildren lead a better life than them. It's about sacrificing today to build a better life for tomorrow. No one is asking, in my view, the American people to make enormous sacrifices today. We're asking them to do what this country has done generation after generation, and that is not steal from our children. Instead let's invest in our children. Let's not borrow from the future; let's believe in the future.
I think if you present it in a way that the American people can say, "Sure, maybe I'm not going to have this, maybe I'm not going to have something else I would love to have, but we're part of this country and we're part of this country's future." I think you can inspire them in a way that's going to overcome the fear tactics that the left and Obama will use against those who try to take serious action about this deficit.
Now, last question, certainly you haven't announced whether you're going to run for president or not — but let's say theoretically, a Tea Partier from South Carolina walks up to you and says, "If you were to run for president, why would I support you over these other guys?" If you theoretically were thinking about running, what would you tell him?
Well, first of all, John, I hope that we can get behind a good conservative we can all be proud of — and I was a little disappointed that Mitch Daniels didn't run because he would have made deficit reduction a cornerstone of a campaign. I think whoever it is, you look for someone who not just talks the talk, but has done it — someone who has reduced the size of government, who has reduced the cost of entitlement, who has balanced the budget and turned deficits into surpluses — while at the same time lowering taxes and growing the private sector workforce by creating private sector jobs. I know I did that during my time as governor. I took a $5 billion deficit and turned it into a more than $3 billion surplus in my last year — while at the same time cutting taxes by an accumulative $143 billion.
At the end of that time, we had almost 700,000 more private sector jobs and we have reduced the state workforce by over 15 percent. So it can be done. I hope there are others out there who catch fire. If so, I'll be proud to get behind them, but I certainly think the priority here has to be to send Barack Obama back to community organizing in Chicago come 2013.
Mr. Pataki, I appreciate your time.
Thank you, John, and thank you for what you're doing. Keep fighting the fight; we've got to win this thing.
You, too. Take care.
You can hear more from George Pataki at No American Debt[1].
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If You Lived 100 Years Ago
Vivid full-color illustrations and a question-and-answer text bring to life traditional life, customs, and everyday worlds in this series covering a rich range of historical events, eras, and peoples. Meticulous research, accuracy of detail, and facts told from a child's perspective convey what it was like to live in another time. Basic concepts of history are made meaningful through details of daily life, putting young readers into the middle of the action. Readers travel back in time to explore life in New York City 100 years ago, where there's not a television or computer in sight! This illustrated guide reveals how people both rich and poor dressed, traveled, dined, and entertained themselves.
by Ann McGovern
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