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An automotive parts manufacturer planning to bring 190 new jobs to the county expects to begin accepting applications later this year.
KSM Castings, which announced plans in February to locate its first U.S. manufacturing plant in west Shelby, broke ground Wednesday on its new Plato Lee Road plant.
Leaders for the German-based company say they hope to complete the facility by February 2014.
How many jobs is KSM Castings bringing to Cleveland County?
KSM plans to create a total of 190 jobs by the end of 2018, said KSM Castings CEO Dr. Frank Boshoff.
�Our first year we will hire 70 employees and then 40 the next,� said KSM project manager Jan-Christoph Schwarck.
When does the application process start?
KSM will start accepting applications at the end of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. Applicants can apply through KSM�s Human Resources department. Contact information for human resources will be available in the coming months.
�We are working with county organizations and Cleveland Community College for applications,� Boshoff said.
What jobs will KSM hire for?
New jobs include machinists, maintenance, technicians, engineers, sales and purchasing.
�We are building a common standard across all of our companies in Shelby, the Czech Republic, China and Germany,� Boshoff said.
Five of KSM�s executives will move to North Carolina to help run the plant, according to company officials.
�We expect our first four to eight key people we hire in Shelby to be willing to travel to Germany,� he said. �We want them to learn about the company and we are searching for people willing to learn.�
KSM is investing in Cleveland County with the industry, but also in people, company leaders said.
�KSM can only be managed successfully with good people," said Thomas Zeuner, the company's chief sales officer.
What type of skill set should applicants have?
KSM is working with Cleveland Community College to help train the workforce they plan to hire.
�The college is prepared with courses for training some of our needs, but not all,� Schwarck said. �We are working with the college to make sure the workforce can receive training.�
What is the salary for positions at KSM Castings?
The Star reported in February that the average annual wage for KSM's new positions is $42,810 plus benefits.
However, the spectrum of jobs is so wide, it�s hard to pinpoint one salary, said KSM Chief Financial Officer Carsten Gante.
�The pay and benefits will be competitive with above average salaries than most manufacturing companies,� he said.
The average annual wage in Cleveland County is $32,760.
When will KSM's new building be complete?
Land grading is under way on the property on Plato Lee Road where KSM Castings will be built, Schwark said.
�We have purchased the steel and there will be more on-site work starting in four weeks,� Schwark said.
The building will be finished in February 2014, and KSM will be fully moved in by March 2014, he said.


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This edition opens with a discussion by Loma Steynberg of UNISA of the challenges attending judicial decision-making in the award of delictual damages based on actuarial calculations. Fair assessments need to take both subjective and objective factors into consideration.
The interpretation of the South African National Credit Act keeps drawing the contentious attention of commercial lawyers and the courts. Corlia van Heerden and Hermie Coetzee of the University of Pretoria analyse the effects of the suspension of both a debtor's position when being reviewed by a debt counsellor to incur further debt and of a credit provider's ability to enforce debt claims against the debtor thus presumed to be in trouble. The question when and how such a debt review can properly be terminated, is generating difficulties.
The vagueness of the same piece of legislation draws the attention of Philip Stoop and Michelle Kelly-Louw of UNISA in their attempt to identify what meaning the concept of a "credit guarantee" should be given in terms of the Act, and particularly whether the common law contract of suretyship must be deemed to fall under this definition for the purposes of addressing reckless lending.
In the second instalment of their exploration of the possibilities for juristic persons to incur criminal liability, Pieter du Toit and Gerrit Pienaar of the North-West University in Potchefstroom investigate legislation of Australia and the United Kingdom in which recognition is given to true corporate or organisational fault based not on the fault of individuals but rather on the manner in which the corporation is structured.
Brighton and Yeukai Mupangavanhu of the University of the Western Cape seek to demonstrate that the design and administration of student discipline at institutions of higher education qualifies to be administrative action, requiring it to be aligned to the imperatives of just administrative action.
Next Wesahl Domingo of the University of the Witwatersrand highlights the difficulties attending divorced parents' rights and obligations regarding the children where the other divorced parent moves away. She points out that the increased mobility of society is causing more frequent applications concerning local and international family relocations to be brought before the courts.
In his note Ngwaru Maghembe of the University of Pretoria again brings to the fore the difficulties emanating from the National Credit Act as it emerges from a decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal in which it was found that instituting sequestration proceedings against a debtor should not be seen as proceedings to enforce a credit agreement.
In another case note Steve Cornelius of the University of Pretoria sets out the degree of clarity provided by the judiciary regarding limitations on the exploitation of the identity of celebrities for commercial gain and, in the last note, Kebolo Selala of the North-West University in Mafikeng critically discusses the decision of the South African Labour Appeal Court regarding jurisdiction to resolve a dispute of unfair dismissal involving a sex worker.
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PERTH, Australia, April 3 (UPI) -- The Australian government has granted environmental approval for Toro Energy Ltd.'s $280 million Wiluna uranium mining project in Western Australia.
The approval comes with 36 conditions to guard against negative effects from radiation and other factors.
Wiluna would become Australia's sixth uranium project but the first in Western Australia. While Australia's uranium output represents just more than 10 percent of global production, the country has the world's largest uranium inventory with one-third of known recoverable resources.
"Wiluna is the first new Australian uranium mine since mid 2009 to receive federal and state government approval," Toro Managing Director Vanessa Guthrie said in a statement.
Wiluna was granted environmental approval by the Western Australian government last October. Together, the state and federal approval process has taken nearly 3 1/2 years.
"Completion of the environmental approvals delivers Toro the regulatory certainty needed to fully underpin our negotiating capacity and to now advance commercial financing arrangements and product off-take agreements with potential partners," Guthrie said.
She said the approval also provides "a clear pathway" to complete detailed engineering design, infrastructure and cost estimates for Wiluna.
Federal Resources Minister Gary Gray told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. he expects Wiluna to have a mine life of more than 10 years and to process more than 1 million tons of ore annually and around 750,000 tons of oxide.
Gray also said the project would be a "major job creator."
Uranium prices have fallen considerably following Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in March 2011. The recent spot price, which is generally lower than contract prices, was $42.25 a pound, compared with Toro's estimated cash operating costs of $37 a pound, The Australian reports.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, visiting India last October, said Australia is ready to sell uranium to India.
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke said the 36 environmental conditions would guard against "any negative impacts from radiation or to groundwater and surface water, and include precautions to ensure that once the mine is closed, the site is safe for humans and animals, and is non-polluting," Business Day reports.
Under Toro's plan, yellow cake, or milled uranium oxide, will be trucked to port in Adelaide, ABC reports.
But Western Australia's Conservation Council warns that transporting radioactive loads could pose a significant threat to remote areas.
There's been no consultation with those communities about the mine itself or about the transportation route," says Mia Pepper of the council, adding that local services would not be able to cope in the advent of an emergency.


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Internationally renowned digestive care expert Brenda Watson shares compelling evidence of the connection between digestive health and heart health, and includes easy, simple ways to protect and strengthen the heart by balancing the gut and achieving healthy digestion. Throughout her career in health care, Brenda has been a passionate advocate and educator regarding the connection between a healthy digestive system and total body health. Medical research supports her conviction: scientific evidence shows that a balanced gut - one supported by a healthy diet, probiotics, omega oils and other natural means - builds the foundation of total body health, helping to avert health conditions related to the heart.
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Republicans have obstructed the confirmation of unprecedented numbers of Obama judicial nominees. Vacancies have grown so bad that even Justice Roberts, the partisan Chief Justice, urged the Senate to act, since the undermanned courts were getting overwhelmed.
But the ruling yesterday by a Federal District Court Judge in Florida, declaring the entire health care reform unconstitutional shows just why Republicans obstruct nominees.
Judge Roger Vinson is a 71 year old, ultra conservative, Reagan appointee, semi retired in "senior status." He would have been very unlikely to hear the case if there weren't a vacancy in the 11th circuit.
Republicans want to turn the constitutional clock back. They want not simply to overturn the Warren Court legacy, particularly on the right to privacy and on equal rights. They want to overturn the jurisprudence of the Roosevelt Court, and go back to the days of the robber barons where even the existence of unions was deemed an unconstitutional restraint of trade.
They can't roll back popular reforms legislatively. Their hope is to capture the courts with Federalist Society trained and vetted ideologues, and use judicial activism to attack basic guarantees. At risk are basic bread and butter concerns that all Americans have: affordable health care, the right to organize, the right to equal pay, the right to clean air. The decisions of the gang of 5 on the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, and in Citizen's United suggest even our democracy is at risk from right-wing judicial extremism. So Republicans hope to run out the clock, block as many Obama nominees as possible, hoping that a Republican takes back the White House in 2012, when they'll push to stack the courts with right-wing zealots.
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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913100 years ago today. As an adult, she worked as a secretary on an army base and a seamstress at a department store. She also volunteered with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to fight for equal rights for blacks. At age 42, she stepped onto a busand quietly opened a new chapter in our nation's history. On December 1, 1955, Parks broke the law. Her crime was to take an empty seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It's an act that doesn't seem special at all today. But in 1955, segregation laws in some states required separate seating for blacks and whites in restaurants, on DON CRAVENSTIME LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES buses and in other public spaces. Parks stood for racial equality by Rosa Parks sits near the front of a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. refusing to move when the driver asked her to give her seat to a white man. Parks sat quietly while the driver called the police. People always say that I didnt give up my seat because I was tired, but that isnt true, Parks said. "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Sparking a Movement
Parks was arrested, but her act of bravery set off a chain of events that changed the United States. African Americans responded to the injustice by refusing to ride buses in Montgomery, where about three-quarters of bus riders were black. Martin Luther King Jr. led the peaceful boycott, which lasted 381 days. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not be forced to sit only in certain areas on buses. And in 1964, the Civil Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination in all public places. After the boycott ended, Parks continued living in Montgomery with her husband, Raymond, and volunteering with the NAACP. But the couple both lost their jobs and received many threats from people who were angry about her civil rights work. They eventually decided to move north to Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks found work as a seamstress and continued to fight for civil rights. In 1965, Parks took part in a 50-mile march in Alabama with Dr. King to demand equal voting rights, a cause that special Rosa Parks stamp on was especially important to her. A few months later, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, February 4, 2013, which would th have been the 100 birthday of which made it easier for blacks to vote. That year, Parks also got a new job as an assistant to John Conyers, a black U.S. Congressman from Michigan. She later created an organization called the Rosa and Raymond Parks the civil rights pioneer. Institute for Self Development, which helped teens learn about African American History and find jobs. In 1999, President Bill Clinton presented her with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the U.S. government can give.
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Many admirers call Parks the mother of the civil rights movement. She led by example, showing that peaceful protest could create dramatic change. But Parks shared the credit. "The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in," she said. On October 24, 2005, Parks died at her home in Detroit. She was 92 years old. On February 4, 2013, in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday, the U.S. Postal Service issued the Rosa Parks Forever Stamp. The world will continue to remember and honor a leader who took a stand by taking a seat.
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Jeffrey has been programming for 40 years. He currently is doing freelance writing and Ruby on Rails development after decades of C/C++ programming with sidetrips through university teaching. He can be reached at [email protected].
Looking back over the last several decades in software development, I see several trends converging in Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD). A hypothesis is just a theory before it's tested. A hypothesis like a theory should have both explanatory and predictive value. HDD both unifies existing practice and suggests additional areas where the scientific method can be used in product and software development. To wit: Testing is no longer limited to the end of the project; customer discovery and lean startup test assumptions about customers, their needs, and pain points before coding starts; Agile development [1, 2] is breaking down the walls between stakeholders (marketing, system architects, programmers, testers, and end-users); Just-In-Case, the model of primary and secondary education, is being replaced by Just-In-Time (JIT) ideas taken from lean manufacturing (e.g., lean software development [3]) and Kanban [4, 5]); the collections of introverted, asocial programmers are diversifying into teams with more varied skills, especially people skills; and the door between the Cathedral and the Bazaar [6, 7] is opening wider.
Inexpensive computers, open source libraries, and cloud computing have opened up software product development to small startups, and lean startups can outrun and out-maneuver massive bureaucracies full of employees busily avoiding the blame for any possible failure. (Note: Teams developing a new product within a large corporation are well served by behaving more like a startup.)
HDD in Action
Let's look at some areas where HDD can come into play immediately. Quality Assurance is testing system behavior against the specification, a hypothesis about desired system behavior. End-users will test the system specification against reality. So why not get something in front of them early to test your hypotheses about what they need, want, and will pay for?
Unit Testing [8] moved testing into coding. Test-Driven Development (TDD) [9, 10] moves it before coding Behavior-Driven Development/Design (BDD) [11] moves it into design. And some BDD frameworks, such as Rspec [12], are readable by non-technical people, broadening the selection of who can do testing and allowing domain experts (such as an experienced end-user) to test the test for an HDD approach.
Customer Development [13, 14, 15] encompasses interviews with potential customers to clarify the problems, validate a solution, and determine demand for different pricing and business models (freemium, free trials, subscription, seat/site licenses). For HDD, technical people need to be included in these interviews (and people skills are needed).
All of these hypotheses — about markets, customers, patterns of usage, how code should behave — need to be written down, dated, and visible to all stakeholders. This is the backbone of HDD: It keeps everyone honest and reduces "reality distortion" fields. The important and/or critical hypotheses need to be tested. Confirming and disproving hypotheses drives development.
Getting Started with HDD
Hypothesis generation is the first step, and will recur throughout the project. Brainstorming is an excellent way to start. People will bring their own ideas to each session and ideas will play off each other, combining in new and interesting ways. Record them all — whether utilizing high tech (recording and/or remote whiteboards, audio/visual recording) or low tech (photographing whiteboards, drawing on huge pieces of paper, writing on index cards), all hypotheses need to be cataloged.
In a subsequent session, sort through the ideas/hypotheses. How can they be tested? How expensive is testing and how expensive could not testing them be? When can they be tested? Some hypotheses may be too hard or expensive to test, but it is good practice to state them anyway so all stakeholders can acknowledge and agree on them. And costs change. Markets change. Both tested and untested hypotheses may need to be revisited. Hypotheses that are too expensive for a project to test may make economic sense when the benefit is spread across many projects.
Hypothesis testing in the initial stages of a project will be mostly qualitative: talk to stakeholders, potential customers, and users (future stakeholders). Record them some way, preferably both the raw notes and the summary. Ambiguities occasionally creep into summaries, so it's nice to have the raw data to go back to. It is best if the designers and developers do some of the interviewing.
The hypotheses that emerge from qualitative testing with a few dozen people can undergo quantitative testing (validation) with a few hundred people through surveys [16, 17] Usability testing with wireframes and mockups can be used in both stages.
There will always be more hypotheses than can reasonably be tested. Some will cost more to test than any possible foreseeable benefit. Two complementary principles can help here — minimizing risk and maximizing learning. Committing to a technology that isn't ready for primetime can be an expensive mistake. Tests need not be polished to give good results — an ugly pop-up or a clumsy survey today may be enough to answer the question. Take the Extreme Programming/Agile Development principle to heart, "What is the simplest thing that could possibly work" to validate or disprove a hypothesis. Ken Thompson (of C and UNIX fame) is more blunt, "When in doubt, use brute force."
Staying Hypothesis Driven
Premature optimization is the root of all programming evil.
— Donald Knuth
HDD affects coding practices as well as process. HDD requires that you write code that is easy to test, profile, benchmark, and change. If intermediate results are interesting and might shed light on some hypothesis, make them easily accessible. Choose a usable format, even if it will not be the format used in the ultimate system.
Monitoring (for example, CPU usage, transaction rates) is a beneficial real-time hypotheses testing practice that will provide important information about actual loads, necessary capacity, and the robustness of your architecture.
Keep in mind that a hypothesis that was once valid may later be disproven as technology and markets change. Markets move, so you need to continually ask whether the business model is still valid.
Additionally, projects need ways to record contrary data and "good enoughs" need to be revisited regularly. Annoyances, pain points, and ugly or clumsy things become opportunities in HDD. This is a hard point to get across and it's act on. I've missed many opportunities to do something noteworthy because I accepted a "clumsiness" instead of revisiting it and working to improve it.
Pivots and mid-course corrections are ways to handle disproven hypotheses. Some hypotheses that seemed too expensive to test may be revealed to be too expensive if not tested, either because the tests have become cheaper or the cost of being wrong is found to be higher.
In the immortal words of John Johnson, "First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." But also remember to solve the correct problem, then solve the problem correctly. And with HDD, you can always optimize the solution later, if needed.
[1] "Manifesto for Agile Software Development" http://agilemanifesto.org/
[2] "Agile Alliance" http://www.agilealliance.org/
[3] Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Mary and Tom Poppendieck, Addison-Wesley Professional (May 18, 2003)
[4] "Kanban Development Oversimplified" http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/kanban_over_simplified.html
[5] "Kanban" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
[6] "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/
[7] The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, Eric Raymond, O'Reilly Media (January 15, 2001)
[8] "JUnit.org Resources for Test Driven Development" http://www.junit.org/
[9] Test Driven Development: By Example, Kent Beck, Addison-Wesley Professional (November 18, 2002)
[10] "Introduction to Test Driven Design (TDD)" by Scott Ambler http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html
[11] "Behaviour-Driven Development" http://behaviour-driven.org/
[12] "Rspec.info" http://rspec.info/
[13] "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank Cafepress.com
[14] "The Non-Dummies Guide to Customer Discovery" http://steveblank.com/2010/08/26/the-non-dummies-guide-to-customer-discovery/
[15] The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany, by Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits, Cooper-Vlaskovits (July 29, 2010)
[16] "Lean Startup" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup
[17] "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya (in preparation), first two chapters available at http://www.runningleanhq.com/


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The Story of Danilo Kis
Danilo Kis (1935–89) was a Yugoslav novelist, essayist, poet, and translator whose work generated storms of controversy in his homeland but today holds classic status. Kis was championed by prominent literary figures around the world, including Joseph Brodsky, Susan Sontag, Milan Kundera, Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie. As more of his works become available in translation, they are prized by an international readership drawn to Kis's innovative brilliance as a storyteller and to his profound meditation on history, culture, and the human condition at the end of the twentieth century.
A subtle analysis of a rich and varied body of writing, Birth Certificate is also a careful and sensitive telling of a life that experienced some of the last century's greatest cruelties. Kis's father was a Hungarian Jew, his mother a Montenegrin of Orthodox faith. The father disappeared into the Holocaust and the son—cosmopolitan, anticommunist, and passionately opposed to the myth-drenched nationalisms of his native lands—grew up chafing against the hypocrisies of Titoism. His writing broke with the epic mode, pioneered modernist techniques in his language, fulminated against literary kitsch, and sketched out a literary heritage "with no Sun as its Center and Tyrant." Joyce and Borges were influences on his writing, which nevertheless is stunningly original. The best known of his works are Garden, Ashes; The Encyclopedia of the Dead; Hourglass; The Anatomy Lesson; and A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.
Over the course of nearly two decades, Mark Thompson studied Kis's papers and interviewed his family members, friends, and admirers. His intimate understanding of the writer's life and his sure grasp of the region's history inform his revelatory readings of Kis's individual works.More than an appreciation of an important literary and cultural figure, this book is also a compelling guide to the destructive policies which would, shortly after Kis's death, generate the worst violence in Europe since World War II. Thompson's book pays tribute to Kis's experimentalism by being itself experimental in form. It is patterned as a series of commentaries on a short autobiographical text that Kis called "Birth Certificate." This unusual structure adds to the interest and intrigue of the book, and is appropriate for treating so autobiographical a writer who believed that literary meaning is always deeply shaped by other texts.


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Lab Reports: Cool Robot
Alex Streeter '03, Th'05 and adjunct associate professor Jim Lever spent two weeks in Greenland during the summer to test Thayer School's solar-powered "Cool Robot" against the cold realities of extreme climates. Designed to be a mobile platform for conducting scientific experiments in the Arctic and Antarctic, the 165-pound robot performed well. "We demonstrated that the robot can navigate long distances autonomously following a GPS course; drive over rugged terrain and soft snow in excess of what we can expect in Antarctica; operate on solar power so long as the sun lasts; match the power from the different solar panels to the instantaneous demand; and tow more than twice its own weight," Streeter reported in an online log. The robot has been in development for two years under the leadership of Lever and associate professor Laura Ray.
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From PENETRATING INSIGHTS
Originally posted February 7, 2009
I have been really torn up about Lux Interior's death in the hospital a few days ago, and thinking about Lux and Ivy the last few days motivated me to hunt through my filing cabinet for this old interview transcription.
It's an interview I did with Poison Ivy Rorshach of The Cramps back on February 23rd, 1992; she was in Providence, RI, on tour at the time, and I was in Ottawa, writing for Trans FM (which was the magazine of CKCU 93.1, Carleton's University radio station). Portions of this interview appeared in the paper at the time.
CKCU had a weird little rubber-lined booth there at the station that you'd squeeze into, and then you'd pick up the phone and speak to whomever at the appointed time, and the interview would be recorded and theoretically ready to air.
I freely admit here at the outset that I asked really dumb questions, and said really embarrassing things - not the least of which was describing The Cramps' back catalogue as sounding "hollow" right at the start of the interview.
Luckily, Ivy must have realised I wasn't actually mean or ignorant, just incredibly clumsy with words. Things improved thereafter and, in retrospect, the first lady of rock'n'roll guitar was very generous with her time indeed.
My sincere best wishes to her at this time, and my greatest respect to the greatest couple in rock'n'roll, Lux & Ivy.
Pius: On the new album "Look Mom! No Head", you've achieved a very full sound - and I guess that's very much your doing as you produced it. Obviously the bass shows more prominence, because you didn't have bass until recently --
Ivy: Well, we did since "Date With Elvis". I played bass on "Date With Elvis" and... the other one on that. But we didn't have a bass player like this one though (Slim Chance), so that makes a big difference.
Pius: There seems to be a move away from the more hollow sound of your earlier albums. Was this intentional, or was this just the way things worked out?
Ivy: Um, OK. I guess I don't understand what hollow means in relation to sound.
Pius: Well, I think it's a really cool sound on the first few albums. It's hard to describe.
Ivy: For us, "Songs The Lord Taught Us" - we felt, even though the production on that is fascinating, it didn't showcase The Cramps for what we are, which is a tough rock'n'roll band. It didn't get what we do live, which is rock. It didn't really capture that.
It definitely had a creepy atmosphere, and that has a certain kind of appeal to it. But, at the same time, it didn't really show us for that (rocking sound). And then after ("Songs The Lord Taught Us"), we didn't know much about production either, and we were limited by budget restraints.
Pius: Do you ever think about going back to a creepy sound?
Ivy: We kind of like trying to do it all at the same time. I think we want the presence too, cuz in our early stuff, you couldn't - I think the vocals really suffered on our early stuff. You couldn't hear what Lux was saying or singing. I think there's just more presence now. But yeah, we've always liked to have a creepy edge to our music.
Pius: How did you hook up with the two new members (bass player Slim Chance and drummer Nickey Alexander) of The Cramps?
Ivy: Through word of mouth, mainly. We had met Slim Chance before, when he was in a band called The Mad Daddys. He was the bass player, and I really loved his bass playing in that band. We'd met him before cuz we knew the singer in that band.
We were just trying to get members who were really dedicated. We'd got to the point where we felt like Lux and I were kind of carrying the thing. The rest were acting like a back-up band. We just wanted it to feel more like it did when we started, like a real gang.
Pius: So have you got that now, do you think?
Ivy: Yeah, I do. I know I do (laughs). Those guys are crazy. Yeah, we're able to do songs now we couldn't do before. We'd wanted to do "Hipsville 29 BC" for years. We were never able to really get in a groove with it in the past.
Pius: And has the new line-up changed your live show?
Ivy: Yeah, it has. It really has. I know I go out on a limb more than I used to be able to. I feel freer and we play off each other more than we have in the past - in that sense. But, in other ways, it hasn't changed. It's still just us, you know. We've always gone out there with no props and just ourselves.
Pius: How did you decide to get the Reverend Horton Heat to open the show?
Ivy: We were made aware that they were available, and we had seen them do a show in Los Angeles at the Blue Saloon, and it was a real wild show - so that sounded like it would be a great opener. They're pretty frantic. They're all over the place (laughs). Guy lays on the floor and plays guitar and stuff.
Pius: Do you listen to a lot of Sub>Pop?
Ivy: Ah, not a lot. To be honest, I prefer the more Horton Heat kind of sound. I do like some of that music...a lot of the bands from that area (Seattle) seem like they're trying maybe too hard to be original. Too many chord changes and things that aren't really set in a groove that I can hear. But, you know, some of it's good stuff.
Pius: Do you play "Alligator Stomp" live?
Ivy: Yes, we do.
Pius: And do people ever actually, you know --
Ivy: Do the Alligator Stomp? (laughs)
Pius: Yeah.
Ivy: In some places they haven't. It seems like it hasn't totally caught on. They do something, but it's not like what we think the Alligator is, this dance where you literally have to be on the floor and knock people down. It was a dance that was (laughs) semi-popular in Cleveland back when the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu were in a band called Rocket From The Tombs.
I think this guy David Thomas, who used to be Crocus Behemoth, I think he started it or something. But it was this Ohio dance. People were doing it there. It was called gatoring.
Pius: Cool. That's one of my favourite tracks on the new one.
Ivy: Yeah, it's fun. It's fun to play.
Pius: Is there any one place where you consistently have the weirdest crowds?
Ivy: Umm, golly... Spain is the weirdest, Barcelona. They're, ah (laughs), they're very high. We're told that they take mescaline there, which is something you don't hear about anywhere usually. It seems like Lux'll just do some minor gesture with his hand and a wave of people'll fall backwards or something. It's a really strange kind of energy and there's people sitting on each others' shoulders and stuff.
Their culture was very cut off for years under this Franco regime, and now they've just gotten the equivalent of London in the 60s, Swinging London. They're just, uh - all flaming youth there right now (laughs).
Pius: A lot of the bands I talk to say they prefer playing in Europe to America.
Ivy: We don't. We love playing America. In a way, we're happiest here. There's great crowds here and it feels more like home, like...(sighs). In some ways it's similar, but in some ways, Europeans understand our background more, the roots of our music. Oddly enough, most Americans don't seem to know their own history.
But, at the same time, somehow it feels better, just for the moment at hand, that America feels like it's got more of a rapport. It didn't at first, you know. I mean, it took Europe - popularity in Europe - to bring attention to us in America. But now that we've got it, it's... I don't know, I just love playing America.
Pius: Do you have a favourite place to play there?
Ivy: I really like New Orleans, cuz I like the city a lot too, and then I like the crowds. There's a club there called Tipatina's and it's always just like a sweat bath. It seems really hellish in a good way.
Some of the smaller places up north... We feel really excited about being in New York again, and it was good - but we were more excited the next night when we played Trenton, New Jersey. It was (laughs) like a wilder rock'n'roll crowd, and a grimier venue and everything, and it just felt like old times.
Pius: Is it important to you that your albums be available on vinyl? Are you a vinyl purist?
Ivy: I wish they were. The only way they're available on vinyl now is through import - because you can't really make the record companies here do it. They claim to lose money and I guess it's true, because they don't even have the outlets to sell it themselves.
It's just evolved to that point. I certainly do miss it. I think it's even more important that people see a 12" cover. That gives more importance. I think the package is important.
Pius: Do you prefer to buy vinyl?
Ivy: I love both. I do like the way some things can sound on CD, but in some ways I prefer vinyl. The one thing I do like about CD, it's not the format itself, but see - the CD market has caused record companies to reissue a lot of old blues and old material that probably never would've come out and never would've been possible for anyone to acquire on vinyl even, because it would just be too hard or collectible.
Now it's available, and I think that is influencing culture. I'm hearing a lot of bands... I keep wondering if that is why bands are getting into guitar more. Maybe it is giving young people a chance to hear that kind of music. So, you know, there's a good side to it too.
Pius: Are you still collecting?
Ivy: Any form. Vinyl, CD, everything we can get our hands on, at all times.
Pius: Can you just run down a few of the ones that have most impressed you of late?
Ivy: There's a Bo Diddley CD called "Rare & Well Done", it's quite good. Some stuff I'd never heard, and I'm a big Bo Diddley fan too. The Howling Wolf box set's real good. I'm trying to name stuff that people can find, you know.
I could name rare stuff, but - oh yeah, the Trashmen have CDs out. One's the Trashmen live, you know the Trashmen who did Surfin' Bird? One is a live performance on a CD, and another is some rare album or something that's come out on a CD. This label called Sundazed, they offered a CD called "Surf 'N' Drag". It's called "Surf 'N' Drag Volume One". It's been out like three years and there's no Volume Two but anyways, it's really good.
Pius: The new album was recorded in Hollywood. Do you still live there?
Ivy: Yeah, we do, yeah.
Pius: This is kind of a dumb question, it's just personal interest, but have you ever met Winona Ryder?
Ivy: No, I haven't. I like her movies. I really like her vibe. She seems kinda eerie. I really liked Beetlejuice, real kind of Charles Addams vibe to it.
Pius: Why did you decide to have Iggy Pop guest on "Miniskirt Blues"?
Ivy: Well, we got lucky with that. We'd desired to have him do it, this duet on that song, and we'd met him the previous year. Done some festivals together and found out he was also a fan of ours. We're of course big fans of his. And then later when we wanted to see if he'd be involved in the song, we couldn't get a hold of him because he was touring.
So we just went ahead in the studio in Hollywood. And when Lux went out to buy some wine, he ran into Iggy buying some beer! He was rehearsing next door at S.I.R. for some tour or festival that he was gonna be doing, and he came and stopped by the studio, and when he got there, he said, "is there anything you want me to sing on?" So we didn't even have to ask him, cuz we kind of weren't sure if we should. He just did that song real briefly, one take. Got outta there, said, "gotta run".
We just thought it would suit him cuz we were just trying to make a really heavy, grungy Stooges-kinda thing. That was fun.
Pius: I don't know if this is a touchy subject, but one of the funnier things I found in reading "The Wild, Wild World of The Cramps" was the various theories on what might've happened to Brian Gregory. Have you heard anything new, or --
Ivy: No, and a lot of that initial thing was hype from the record company, when they thought they still had him signed as a solo artist, and they were trying to hype a solo career cuz they thought he'd want to have one. It turned out, he - you know, I mean, that didn't, umm - no, I just, I mean, he had drug problems and stuff, and just faded away.
Pius: It's probably an understatement to say that The Cramps have some unconventional, albeit more pure, ideas about rock'n'roll. I always hear you really hate the idea of benefits or things like that, or politics. Would you mind talking for a bit about what rock'n'roll means to you?
Ivy: It isn't so much against benefits, just using rock'n'roll as a political platform is not the purpose of rock'n'roll.
I also am very suspicious of the motives of...celebrities who use their celebrity to promote that. It seems like what they're really trying to promote is their own celebrity. I think it's pompous, you know, besides being corny. Maturity begins at home, and I think you should really take care of what's around you first, and that no one should question that.
A lot of big causes, that "We Are The World" thing with Ethiopia - for all the money raised, they couldn't even get it to the people because of the politics in that land, you know? There's just so much going on in our own country. I almost think people would let someone starve who's sitting right next to them and not, you know...
Also, it's just not the purpose of rock'n'roll to sing about something like that. Rock'n'roll is a certain type of music and it celebrates being in the body now. It's Bacchanalian. Whatever we're concerned about, we should take care of, but I don't think it should be a public platform.
Pius: Do you consider rock'n'roll a lifestyle as well as a form of music?
Ivy: Seems to be, yeah. It's a real all or nothing kind of thing, it has to be. I mean, we're always The Cramps. We're at different intensities. We're at our most intense when we're on the stage, we're most concentrated. We're at a different form of intensity in the studio and maybe we're less intense on some other occasion. People say you have different sides to you, and I don't feel like that. I think it's just different intensities. It's just stepping on the gas here and there.
Pius: What do you think of the allegations a lot of rappers are making that white rock'n'rollers really ripped off blacks in the 50s?
Ivy: It's unfortunately naive and it's an example of Americans not understanding their own culture. I've heard that criticism about Elvis Presley in particular, which is really a shame. He didn't rip off anybody. He actually was incredibly original. He synthesized many styles of music in a very innocent way, and no one was doing what he was doing.
He was a freak, he was from outer space, he was a pioneer in his day. It's a shame that he's not recognized as that, that he's been trivialized so much. I think it's misplaced frustration to blame him for something like that. I can understand the frustration, but I think they're misdirecting their wrath. I just wish people understood the origins of rock'n'roll more than they do.
Pius: He's becoming a scapegoat.
Ivy: He certainly is. What he did was phenomenal, no one else had done it (laughs). There wasn't anyone, black, white or purple, who was doing what he was doing. It's a shame that that's just one more way he's been trivialized.
You know, people focused on his health problems or his mortal failings to begin with as a way of putting him down. And now this is just one more new way. I think he was too intense for anyone to realise how significant he was. It'll probably take a hundred years for people to look back and realise.
Pius: A lot of the strength of rock'n'roll innuendoes - especially sexual innuendoes in the 50s and early 60s - came from the conservatism of the time. The Cramps have made an art of (lyrical innuendo), and I was thinking about this last night, and I thought it was really funny - because you've got things like 2 Live Crew, where people are being so blatant, and yet The Cramps are very subtle and I think it works. Do you ever think about that?
Ivy: Not consciously. I think what we do is natural. Sometimes I see bands being so blatant, I think they're trying to be outrageous. We don't try to be outrageous. We're just expressing ourselves in a natural way.
That blatant language (sighs) - it almost seems like, if you can't think of something to say, then that's a cheap way out or something. It's just easy to swear, and somehow it doesn't seem (laughs) romantic enough or something. We feel we're more traditional, like Howling Wolf or something. It should also be seductive. There's a point where something's so blatant it won't be seductive anymore.
Pius: Do you think that's why it still has that power? Because people still want that?
Ivy: I think so. I think that's why a lot of blues songs can appeal to me now, something that was from the 50s. Because of that same kind of innuendo that you're talking about. It's sexy, rather than confrontational. It's just more seriously about getting it on, rather than getting in a fight.
Pius: The Cramps have always had what I guess is a healthy fascination for serial killers. This may sound funny, but do you have a favourite?
Ivy: A favourite killer? Is that what you mean?
Pius: Yeah, yeah.
Ivy: For me, I would think Ed Gein. It sounds strange, but in a way he was just culturally different from the people in his area. He was reading a lot of books about cannibalism and headhunters and other cultures - the things that he did are actually common practises in some primitive cultures and in other countries, or maybe in another era. And since he was living alone, he was a total loner... In a way, you can almost look at it that that's what he was doing.
Then the thing that's amusing about him is that he never denied what he was doing. People would say, "gosh, we haven't been able to find Mary Hogan", and he'd say, "oh well, Mary's just hanging upside down in my shed right now". And they'd go, "ha ha, you're so funny", you know. And he knew that he could joke that way - so he had like a sick sense of humour (laughs) about the whole thing.
He was in a town full of really boring, dumb people and it's almost like (laughs) he had to amuse himself. Strange as that sounds, in a way it almost sounds like he did what he had to do. I don't feel that way about more vicious... There was just something about him that didn't seem vicious to me. He's just hunting for dear (laughs).
Pius: Have you ever heard of Starkweather? Charles Starkweather?
Ivy: Oh yeah. Yeah, I read that book. That's an interesting story. He ended up worshipped by all these girls.
Pius: I thought that might be a more Cramps type guy, cuz he was --
Ivy: Real, yeah, James Dean kind of era. And again, I think he was driven crazy cuz he was insulted so much for being short and having - didn't he have a speech impediment?
Pius: Yeah, and bow legs.
Ivy: So he was just ridiculed to the point...you know. I think he was driven beyond the brink.
Pius: Are you still really into horror movies?
Ivy: Oh yeah, all the time. Last night we watched "The Unearthly".
Pius: Have you seen any newer ones lately?
Ivy: I guess the last new thing we saw was "Naked Lunch", which we both liked a lot.
Pius: Do you go to the movies a lot, or rent them mostly?
Ivy: We go to them when we can. We don't get to see much when we're touring, but as soon as we get off the road, we like going to the movies. We liked "The Addams Family". It seemed like not many people did, but we thought it was good.
Pius: You and Lux met through hitch-hiking. Is this something you'd recommend?
Ivy: No, not now. And I know it sounds odd to say that, I was doing that. It was the mid-70s in Northern California. Even at that, looking back, I figure it might not have been that bright - but at the time it was pretty common practise. It seemed like a natural thing to do. It was kind of a time and place situation. No, I wouldn't advise, no. (laughs) Stay away from bars, pills and freeways.
Pius: Do you ever see a time when you won't want to do The Cramps?
Ivy: Not that I can think of. We don't plan our future as much as a lot of other bands, but I think that makes us enjoy what we're doing right now more. Maybe that makes us last longer - because we're digging it. That was the thing, getting the new members, we just wanted to make sure we were digging it right now.


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East Aurora, N.Y.—Breaking TV, print, online and outdoor advertising mark the first-ever integrated brand campaign, and the first-ever TV, for New York State dairy brand Upstate Farms. The work is by advertising agency Cenergy, East Aurora, N.Y., for its client, Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Buffalo. The campaign is place-centric, farm-centric (and, in the case of the TV, highly cow-centric). Its aim is to separate the area co-op's milk from its generic competitors, by transforming it into a statement of localism. Strategically, the goal is to appeal to three growing, and only partially overlapping, demographic segments: those who want to eat local produce; to support the local economy; or to identify with rural integrity. The campaign's title is "Return to Values." Its tag is "Welcome back to the farm." All video footage and print photography was shot on 13 Upstate Niagara Cooperative dairy farms, with their owners identified by name and town in four web interviews (not yet final) and on all print advertising. The look is unvarnished. There was no film "production company." The shooter for both video and print was Rhea Anna, of Buffalo, whose artistic credo is "simple living, effortlessly portrayed." The print advertising's spokesmen and women offer plain dairy homilies. "Our cows work hard for us, so we work our hardest for them," (Sarah and Robert Colby, Spencerport, N.Y.), or "A pasture is where the cows are supposed to be, it's what nature made for them," (Bob and Nancy Steinbar, East Otto, N.Y.), and likewise from Larry and Gary Hibsch of Strykersville, and Karl and Tina Kowalski of Lockport, N.Y. Media targets moms 25 to 49 in the Buffalo and Rochester DMAs. TV airs on broadcast news programming and on the CW network. Print runs in regional newspapers and locavore magazines. Billboards are at both urban and highway locations, and Flash banners appear on local news, plus geo-targeted mom sites. The campaign also includes a relaunched, farmer-focused website and FSIs. Upstate Niagara Cooperative (Upstate Farms), Buffalo, consists of a family of dairy farmers (representing over 360 local farms across Central and Western New York) whose commitment to quality provides consumers with a line of fresh, wholesome and delicious products, including milk, butter, yogurt, flavored milk and eggnog. www.upstatefarms.com Cenergy, East Aurora, N.Y., is a full-service brand-activation firm specializing in sports, entertaiment, and consumer packaged goods. In addition to traditional advertising, Cenergy delivers experiential marketing, sales promotion and sponsorship-activation services to clients including ESPN, Turner Cable Networks, First Niagara Bank, Upstate Farms, and Zippo. www.activatingbrands.com
Client/Brand: Upstate Niagara Cooperative/Upstate Farms, Buffalo 360+ member farms, Central and Western New York Milk, butter, yogurt, flavored milk, eggnog Brand's first television advertising; first integrated brand campaign Agency: Cenergy, East Aurora, N.Y. Brief: Separate local co-op's milk from wider, more generic brands'. Demographics/Strategy: Growing, although only partially overlapping, numbers of consumers want to: eat local produce; support local economy; identify with rural integrity. Develop one campaign that speaks to all three segments. Execution: One TV :30, on broadcast news programming, plus CW network Concept: "Values." And a whole lot of cows. TV footage shot on 13 local farms. Campaign title/tag: "Return to Values"/"Welcome back to the farm." Target/Market: Moms 25 – 49/Buffalo and Rochester DMAs CD: Ken Trabert AD: Elisa Lovelace Jones CW: Sarah Nuendorfer Dir.: Rhea Anna, Buffalo Breaks: March, 2012


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The sales pace of previously owned homes likely held steady last month, staying close to the fastest pace since late 2013, according a consensus forecast.
Economists polled by MarketWatch expect the annual sales rate for existing home ticked down to 5 million last month from 5.04 million in June, which was the fastest pace since October. If data show that sales declined in July, that would be the first decrease in four months.
Economists expect total deals this year to wind up below 2013's tally, pulled down by a weak first half of the year. A July pace of 5 million would mean the sales rate was down 7% from the year-earlier period.
An unusually harsh winter, escalating mortgage rates and prices, limited inventory and tight credit standards have all contributed to holding back home sales. Households are also increasingly interested in renting than owning.
The National Association of Realtors will release the home-sales data at 10 a.m. Eastern.
Earlier Thursday, the government will release its most recent report on unemployment benefits, and economists expect that initial claims for jobless benefits declined to 300,000 in the week that ended Aug. 16 from 311,000 in the prior week.
Claims readings are trending near pre-recession levels, signaling a slow pace of layoffs – a good sign for workers and the greater employment environment. The U.S. Labor Department will release the claims report at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
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Netherlands, Ukraine, and Belarus all keep winning momentum also on last day of action in Almere
The "Oranjes" did so by routing Romania in straight sets (25-18, 25-23, and 25-16) and were emulated by Ukraine that swept Israel in three sets as well (28-26, 25-11, and 25-14). Belarus had to fight hard but eventually stormed back from two sets down to beat Sweden at the tie-break (18-25, 16-25, 25-14, 27-25, and 15-12).
The Netherlands, Ukraine, and Belarus will continue their campaign via the third and last qualification round scheduled for this coming January 3-5 and whose venues – as well as the relevant pool composition – will be announced soon. There will be five round robin tournaments with four teams each; the winners of each tournament plus the second ranked with the best score across all pools will get the right to compete at the World Championships coming up next year in Poland.
Belarus started out strong in their last match of the tournament (7:4) but Sweden played without any pressure and a spike killed by Jakob Wijk Tegenrot flipped the charts around (15:14). Sweden dominated the second half of the opening set and it was once again Wijk Tegenrot who sealed the final 25-18. Belarus got an early lead in the second set (5:4) but Sweden this time was very quick in asserting their supremacy (8:6, 18:12) and eventually cashed the provisional 2:0 (25-16). After that, Belarus was able to regroup in the third set (8:5, 19:12) and comfortably claimed that section of the game with the score of 25-14. Belarus set the pace of the game right from the start of the fourth set but Sweden clawed back to make it 22 all and that neck-to-neck race continued up to 25:25. Belarus showed good composure to score the next couple of points to call for the tie-break (27-25). The guys from Minsk were not to stop anymore there and easily stormed to the final 15-12 to finish the tournament in third place after taking two more points from this game. Sweden's Fredrik Gustavsson registered a terrific haul of 44 points in this game while Pavel Audochanka was Belarus' most prolific player with 20.
As their star Rob Bontje (pictured) celebrated his 300th cap with the national team, the hosts of the Netherlands bounced back from Saturday's defeat to Ukraine to claim their last match of the tournament easily routing Romania in straight sets. With 800 fans cheering from the stands of Topsport Centre in Almere, the Netherlands could compensate for a slow start and got to the front at 20:18 in the opening set, before scoring another five consecutive points to bring it home at 25-18. Romania caught a good start also in the second set going up 8:6 but the "Oranjes" responded by scoring four in a row to get back control of the game and widen their lead up to 19:14; they still had to stand the comeback of their opponents but eventually wrapped it up at 25-23. With their opposite player Robin Overbeeke top scoring in the end with 14 points the hosts dominated the scene in the third set from the start up to the end (25-16) sealing a 3:0 win to finish second in the final standing of the tournament.
Ukraine followed up on yesterday's straight victory over the Netherlands with another classy performance as they beat Israel in three sets to finish the tournament in first place. The first set was actually very close and Israel had their chances to seize it, but as Guy Ben Gal spiked off the bounds, Ukraine cashed the final 28-26. After that everything went easy for Ukraine that stormed out to a 14:6 lead in the second set and did not look back cruising straight to a massive 25-11. The plot of the game did not change also in the third set where Ukraine got an early lead (7:3) and still had a very reassuring margin also by the time the second mandatory stop was called (16:11). Once the game re-started, Ukraine scored four in a row and a spike by Ian Iereshchenko sealed the final 25-14 and 3:0 win. Yuriy Tomyn top scored in the end with 18 points while Iereshchenko contributed 15; Guy Ben Gal paced Israel with 12.


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Seeking to jump-start stalled talks on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff, House Republicans on Monday proposed a new 10-year, $2.2 trillion blueprint to President Barack Obama that calls for increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits. The White House swiftly rejected the offer, saying it did not meet "the test of balance."
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said the GOP proposal would lower tax rates for the wealthy and stick the middle class with the bill. He added that the plan includes nothing new and provides no details on how it would achieve higher revenues.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi echoed Pfeiffer's message in a statement released Monday afternoon.
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"The Republican proposal is another assault on the middle class, seniors, and our future," Pelosi said in a statement. "The American people made clear that they want us to work together on a balanced approach; yet, in the Republican plan, any alleged resemblance to an offer seeking balance and fairness is nonexistent. It only makes matters worse."
Obama and congressional Republicans have until Dec. 31 to reach an agreement on how to increase government revenue and cut spending to avoid big automatic tax increases on all Americans and massive cuts in government programs ranging from education to the military.
Economists predict that a failure to avoid both the rise in taxes and the mandated spending cuts would send the fragile economy back into recession and cause a spike in already stubbornly high unemployment.
The Republican plan calls for increasing the eligibility age for Medicare, the federal government's health insurance program for older Americans, and lowering cost-of-living increases for Social Security pension benefits that go to Americans of retirement age.
It does not, however, meet Obama's demand that tax rates be raised for American couples earning more than $250,000 a year and runs counter to his campaign promise to save Medicare from the chopping block.
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Adding to the negative consequences of a negotiated outcome is the coincidence of the end to two other programs at the same time — a reduction in the payroll tax that Americans pay into the federal Social Security pension program and extended government benefits to the long-term unemployed.
The Boehner offer is in response to Obama's offer last week to hike taxes by $1.6 trillion over the coming decade but largely exempt Medicare and Social Security from budget cuts.
The Republican plan also proposes to raise $800 billion in higher tax revenue over the decade but it would keep the former President George W. Bush-era tax cuts — including those for wealthier earners targeted by Obama — in place for now.
Boehner said the proposal is a "credible plan" for Obama and that he hopes the administration would "respond in a timely and responsible way." The offer comes after the administration urged Republicans to detail their proposal to cut popular benefits programs like Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.
"After the election I offered to speed this up by putting revenue on the table and unfortunately the White House responded with their la-la land offer that couldn't pass the House, couldn't pass the Senate and it was basically the president's budget from last February," Boehner told reporters.
The Boehner proposal revives a host of ideas from failed talks with Obama in the summer of 2011. Then, Obama was willing to discuss a so-called grand bargain, including politically controversial ideas like raising the eligibility age for Medicare, implementing a new inflation adjustment for Social Security cost-of-living adjustments and requiring wealthier Medicare recipients to pay more for their benefits.
The clock is ticking closer to the end-of-year deadline to avert the fiscal cliff, which is a combination of the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that are the result of prior failures of Congress and Obama to make a budget deal.
Last week, the White House delivered to Capitol Hill its opening proposal: $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade, a possible extension of the temporary Social Security payroll tax cut and heightened presidential power to raise the national debt limit.
In exchange, the president would back $600 billion in spending cuts, including $350 billion from Medicare and other health programs. But he also wants $200 billion in new spending for jobless benefits, public works projects and aid for struggling homeowners. His proposal for raising the ceiling on government borrowing would make it virtually impossible for Congress to block him going forward.
Republicans said they responded in closed-door meetings with laughter and disbelief.
The Republican plan is certain to whip up opposition from Democrats opposed to any action now on Social Security, whose defenders say should not be part of any fiscal cliff deal. And Democrats also are deeply skeptical of raising the Medicare age.
Both ideas were part of negotiations between Boehner and Obama in the summer of last year.
Earlier Monday, Obama answered questions on Twitter for an hour as the White House sought to keep up the pressure on the issue.
In response to a question about his insistence on higher tax rates for the wealthiest earners, Obama said that "high end tax cuts do (the) least for economic growth & cost almost $1T." By contrast, he said, "extending middle class cuts boosts consumer demand & growth."
Obama said he was open to "smart cuts" in spending, but not in areas like research and development and education, which "help growth & jobs." He also said he opposes spending cuts that would hurt the disabled or other vulnerable groups.


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New York — Christian Tarantino, part-owner of Synergy Fitness Club in Farmingdale, NY, was arrested Sept. 24 by FBI agents in connection with three murders, including the 2003 murder of the brother-in-law of Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider, according to multiple media outlets.
Tarantino, who was arrested after an FBI raid at his mansion in Dix Hills, NY, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in U.S. District Court and was held without bail. He is due back in court on Nov. 21 and faces the death penalty if convicted.
An employee at Synergy Fitness Club said news crews were at the club the day of Tarantino's arrest, but it's been business as usual since. The other part-owner took over the club, the employee added.
Federal prosecutors say Tarantino participated in a 1994 armored van holdup that resulted in one of his associates, Louis Dorval, shooting and killing a guard. After Dorval was arrested on unrelated racketeering offenses in New Jersey, Tarantino worried that Dorval, a mob crime family associate, might tell authorities of the armored van heist, so Tarantino and other conspirators killed Dorval, stuffed his body in a trunk and dumped the trunk into the Atlantic Ocean, according to the indictment.
Another Tarantino business associate, Vincent Gargiulo, Snider's brother-in-law, secretly recorded a conversation in 2000 between him and Tarantino in which Tarantino acknowledged his role in the killings of the guard and Dorval, prosecutors say.
Three years later, shortly after Gargiulo threatened to take the incriminating tape to law enforcement, Gargiulo was shot and killed by someone hired by Tarantino, according to the indictment. The secret recording was turned over to New York City police after Gargiulo's murder. Gargiulo's sister, Suzette, is married to Snider.


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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2012 Travel Highlights
I feel completely grateful to have been able to travel to some amazing places in 2012. Whether it was for business, family visit, or just to explore, I absolutely loved the experiences in each of the 9 countries I've had the pleasure of visiting: Ireland, UK, Italy, Greece, Turkey, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and USA.
Having moved around often and immigrated from Asia, I've experienced culture shock from a young age and I believe it's the best way to broaden one's perspective. My father has always encouraged me to embrace my curiosity and be aware of world affairs. I grew up with the Chinese proverb instilled in my mind: 读万卷书不如行万里路 (It is better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books). The idea of boarding a plane for an overseas destination that I know little about is the most exciting thing for me. To walk the streets of a strange town, taste fresh local food, observe different traditions and way of life, and immerse myself in another culture are experiences I would never trade.
I'm thankful that traveling has truly given me a broader perspective. It has made me aware of the importance of recognizing different cultures and understanding that there is always more than one solution to a problem. It's how you look at it. Differently.
Here are some photo highlights from my travels in 2012:
{ Ireland: Co Clare and Dublin }
{ UK: London }
{ Italy: Rome, Naples, Capri, Messina, Taormina }
{ Greece: Athens, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes }
{ Turkey: Kusadasi (Ephesus)}
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Why does a quality trigger improve shooting accuracy?
It's actually quite simple. A consistent, clean, predictable break allows you to time the movement of the crosshairs on the center of the target to coincide as closely as possible. Next, involuntary muscle movements can be better controlled throughout the duration of a short trigger pull and a fast lock time.
Is adding a quality after-market trigger worth the expense?
I look at it this way: If I've spent $1,500 on an AR and $400 to $1,000 on an optic, is spending another $150 to $300 worth cutting group size by 15 to 50 percent? Every time. Here are 12 aftermarket AR-15 triggers that are certain to help you tighten up your groups.
Alexander Arms
This trigger is basically a single-stage unit with a bushing-mounted disconnector, which is adjustable for engagement and over travel. The pull weight and disconnector engagement are fixed to ensure durability during hard use and inclement environments. The pull weight allows manipulation of the trigger with gloves while minimizing the possibility of discharging a round unexpectedly in the manner of a target trigger. ($160; alexanderarms.com)
American Trigger AR-15 Gold
The AR-15 Gold fire control group is a two-stage unit that has two important features: First, when the safety selector is put in the "safe" position, it retracts the hammer to the disconnect. Second, a very light, short first stage followed by an approximate 3-pound second stage. The trigger cassette comes assembled and ready to install in any mil-spec AR receiver with .154-inch holes and no Colt sear block. ($280; americantrigger.com)
Jard AR Adjustable Single-Stage
The Jard two-stage AR fire control unit offers a wide range of trigger pull weights. The lightest, at 1.5 pounds, may be a tad lighter than most want for their rifles. Other weight spring kits allow the pull weight to be set at 2, 3, 4, 4.5 or 5 pounds. This unit differs from other manufacturers' by the sear engagement adjustment screw. It uses the AR lower receiver's grip screw hole to thread an Allen screw in place to adjust sear engagement. ($165; jardinc.com)
Jard AR Trigger Module System
The trigger I installed was preset from the factory at 2.5 pounds, and installed in less than five minutes. A neat feature of this unit is rubberized tension balls that are located in the bottom of the trigger assembly. They help reduce play between the upper and lower receiver when installed. ($230; jardinc.com)
Geissele Hi-Speed National Match Rifle Trigger
This fire control unit features a Hi-Speed hammer with 50 percent lock time reduction over standard hammers, and the two-stage trigger is adjustable for overtravel and sear engagement. First stage pull weights range from 1.3-3 pounds, and second stage pull weights range from .5-1.5 pounds ($279; geissele.com)
Geissele Super Semi-Automatic (SSA) Trigger
The Geissele SSA trigger assembly exhibits highly precise craftsmanship, precision and finish. Two examples of this fire control unit with different spring tensions were tested. The installation instructions are concise and clear. Lubrication is vital to keeping a trigger functioning properly and this one is no different. ($170; geissele.com)
Timney AR
The Timney fire control group that was tested was factory preset at 3 pounds. This is a single-stage trigger with almost no creep. Contrary to my previous statement on adequate lubrication, I had heard that this trigger was sensitive to lubrication, so I installed it dry and tested the feel. It was crisp with about 1/8-inch overtravel. Then I lubricated the sear surfaces with Mobil 28 grease and replaced it for a quick trial. The difference was minimal with a slightly better feel dry ($195; timneytriggers.com)


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Last week, Cat from Kirkland sent me this question:
I have no aspirations of becoming a bus chick. However, I'm in salary negotiations for a job in downtown Seattle, which means that I may become a bus chick within a couple of weeks ([commuting] from Kirkland to downtown). I've been obsessing about what type of bag to carry. I normally carry a laptop bag and a purse and sometimes a small lunch bag. But, with my new transportation situation, I need an all purpose bag. I dress up and wear heels to work every day. So, already I realize that I'll need to carry an extra pair of shoes, as well…
So bus chick – tell me – how in the world am I gonna carry all of this stuff and still look presentable? I read your post about bags, but I need specifics. I need something durable, professional, waterproof, and cute.
Interesting timing, Cat. I'm on the hunt for a new bus chick bag as well, having discovered a pretty major flaw in the Tumi soft-sided briefcase I've been carrying for over a year. (The strap loosens and detaches after a long period of carrying it–even with only my light laptop and my wallet.)
Readers: Any suggestions for attractive, versatile, professional bus chick bags?
A side note: I do my best to avoid carrying an extra pair of shoes unless it's absolutely necessary and instead look for shoes that are stylish and comfortable. In the winter, that generally means heeled boots (with heels that aren't too thin or high, of course). Then again, my job does not require me to dress professionally, so I can get away with more casual attire than, say, an attorney could. Any downtown-office bus chick types with footwear suggestions?


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