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A couple of weeks (or was it months?) ago, we did a blog about how we, as impoverished authors and penniless scribes, would react if we were to have that magic ticket that leads to financial independence, the lottery ticket. Since my readers, those who've met me in person anyway, are always remarking on how much I am similar to my protagonist Sara, I thought this blog would be easy. Ditto. Done. Except…that money thing. It really is more personal than a finger print. Everyone has they're hang-ups and Sara is worse than most.
On the up side, Sara is far more likely to actually win the lottery than I am. I can see her buying a ticket (which I believe is holding me back from cashing in). She might even spend a dollar a week to dream. Everyone knows the point of buying the ticket isn't to win although I hear some people think that's pretty good. No, with the odds being what they are, the point of buying a lottery ticket is to spend a little time imagining what winning would do for your life. Dreaming of castles and trips around the world and unlimited liposuction. Sara's practical side could concede a buck a week to that moment of fantasy. Not more than that, though, because she's barely making ends meet and she's not going to ask her rolling in it husband for money. Community property may entitle her to half but no way is she going to get tagged a gold digger.
That brings us to deep-seated lottery conflict number 1. Sara doesn't trust money or those who have it. Even her husband. Money is power. The attorneys in her office have it and use the disparity to enforce a workplace caste system. The clients that have it use it to get away with all manner of wrong-doing. And Connor's ex-fiancee takes every opportunity to flaunt the family engagement ring she still wears in Sara's face. Sara doesn't have the power that money brings so she is ever vigilant in not acknowledging that she needs a bank balance to win a drop trou contest. The rules, those established by people with money and therefore power, would have her taking dictation from the princes of industry instead of forging her own path. The rules have never worked in Sara's favor, aren't supposed to work in her favor, in fact, so she isn't "buying" in. A big bank balance would strip her of her underdog status while leaving her in the sub-caste of new money. Lose-lose.
Conflict number 2 – not sharing. Sara has been vehement about not making money an issue in her marriage. His is his and her is hers and if she's got to have tuna fish four times a week, well, he's off with those SEAL guys and he'll never know. If she won the lottery, she couldn't keep it and tell Connor. He's living under the delusion that it's "their" money. His, anyway. Men can be so dense. Setting up bank accounts and writing wills doesn't make a woman feel secure enough to hand over the power that money brings into a relationship. Sara's never going to write a check on any of those accounts. If she won the lottery, she would happily give over half to him except he still wouldn't get it. To Connor, money is just green paper. He'd still think there weren't any money issues in their relationship. To Sara, it would be you get half of mine but I'm not touching yours. Better to just not have the conversation. Relationships run so much more smoothly when you just don't talk about this stuff. Of course, if he were to find out, he'd be mad. Not about the money. About the not talking. Men are dense and indecipherable.
Conflict number 3 – sharing. If Sara has a winning ticket, she's giving Russ half. He's her best friend. He's gone to scary places with her. He fixes her hair when she starts to look like Medusa and tells her when those shoes really, really don't go with that dress. He'll take it. He'll also have fifty ideas in the first five seconds on ridiculous, fabulous ways to spend the winnings as mad money. Rent out Benaroya Hall for a Marie Antoinette fancy dress ball. Set up a Victoria, British Columbia weekend with English high tea and quaint bed and breakfast accommodations for a hundred. Hand out hundred dollar bills at the Union Gospel Mission and the tent city for the homeless. The money, no matter how much, would be gone lickety split. Like Connor, Russ has no respect for money. It's a means to an end. And the end is a good time and good works. Unfortunately, that kind of kindness is the sort of thing that would get out and Sara would be back to facing Connor's wrath for the no-conversation approach she finds so comforting.
How would Sara spend her half? Matching Russ. Being out of debt. Maybe a new pair of running shoes and a couple of thousand in the bank for emergencies. The rest, well, Sara would give away. She's lived close enough to the edge for long enough that she can see the there but for the grace of God go I line. It makes it easier not to judge. Besides, being a have instead of a have not would dull her instincts – for corruption, for evil, for survival. And those instincts have gotten her this far in life when it would have been a lot easier to just accept crumbs. I'm thinking she'll stick with them. They're more valuable than any one in 79 million chance.
Thanks for reading and I hope you get your own chance to decide how to spend your lottery winnings.


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"It was one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and go, cat, go..."
More than fifty years later, the only assembly of four legendary performers inspired a musical The Million Dollar Quartet, which is currently playing in Chicago. We saw the musical in the compact Apollo Theater. There is not a bad seat in the house. We were in the fourth row - very close and practically part of the production. We could see and hear everything, especially 21songs delivered with great energy by four actors/musicians channeling the pioneers of rock and roll.
The looks and the sounds were pretty convincing. I was most impressed by Lance Lipinsky playing the role of Jerry Lee Lewis. How could someone learn Lewis's crazy acrobatic moves and still play piano? I was also impressed by the ringing electric guitar of Shaun Whitley as Carl Perkins, which seemed to highlight in many of the songs. We knew most of those songs very well, "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
Between the songs, Tim Decker as Sam Phillips narrates/directs a story about the discovery of four singers and the rise and fall of Sun Records. Some liberties are taken with Perkins brother Clayton dropped from the story, the name of Elvis's girlfriend changed, and time compacted into one dramatic day/night, but the general spirit is in line with Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock and Roll by Colin Escott, one of the authors of the script for the musical.
Of course, many baby boomers will love this show, but there were gen-Xers in the crowd as well. It was an electrifying show that has sparked my interest in doing some research on the characters. What more could I ask?
"See you later, alligator."
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Million Dollar Quartet, Chicago Cast
2 comments:
- adgorn said...
I took my clan there over Thanksgiving weekend and we all had a blast. Agreed on Lance. Here's his website: http://www.lancelipinsky.com/ He will be at the Hard Rock Cafe for free on Dec 10th. We took a picture with him after the show and he was very gracious, polite and appreciative.
- ricklibrarian said...
Lance was out with the public after our show, too, shaking hands and posing with groups.
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LONDON (Reuters) - If currency turbulence in emerging markets escalates into full-scale investor flight, the Federal Reserve may have a fresh headache in deciding when to slow its dollar printing policy.
Given all the obvious influences on Fed policy - domestic inflation, jobless youths, long-term unemployment, stuttering credit creation or banking stability - gyrations on markets from Turkey to South Africa or South Korea may seem tangential.
But an enmeshing of the United States and the economies of the developing world since the turn of the century means the link between U.S. monetary policy and currency runs on the other side of the world could be tighter than many assume.
Another financial shock now in emerging economies that use vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds as capital insurance buffers could complicate a Fed exit from quantitative easing.
"As with so many previous emerging crises, although the Fed often triggers the withdrawal, it's then forced to turn more accommodative by default as a result of the fallout," said Simon Derrick, strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.
To avert the sort of protracted and devastating investment freeze they suffered in the late 1990s, economies across Asia and around the globe have built up huge hard-cash buffers as protection against future 'sudden stops' in foreign financing.
Over the past decade, emerging economies have absorbed trillions of dollars of western investment seeking higher growth and yields, while China's historic emergence into the world economy has helped fuel a commodities "supercycle".
In buying up the incoming dollars, euros and other hard currency to prevent a rapid appreciation of their own local currencies, emerging central banks have amassed some $7.2 trillion in reserves. That mirrors the estimated $8 trillion of private capital flows to emerging markets since 2004.
The International Monetary Fund estimates more than 60 percent of that total is held in greenbacks, putting dollar holdings at about $4.4 trillion. At least 80 percent of that - some $3.5 trillion - is banked in top-rated U.S. bonds, mostly Treasuries, IMF surveys suggest.
On those broad calculations, China alone holds about $1.6 trillion of U.S. bonds, while the rest is spread far and wide across Asia to Russia, the Middle East and Latin America.
This seemingly stable set-up was dubbed "Bretton Woods II" by Deutsche Bank economists 10 years ago, while former U.S. Treasury chief Larry Summers dubbed it "mutually assured financial destruction" a few years later.
But aside from a relatively brief stress-related financial heart attack that boosted the U.S. dollar briefly in 2008/09, these buffers have not really been tested.
If the sudden and steep emerging currency sell-off against the dollar - which on Fed indices has reversed their surge early this year in just three weeks - were to snowball, there is every chance these reserves will need to be sold to stabilize markets.
Any rundown of currency reserves may also require the sale of Treasuries, potentially steepening the rise in long-term U.S. interest rates, boosting the dollar and compounding the shock.
Could the Fed tolerate that? Back in the 1990s, then-Fed chief Alan Greenspan reversed a 1997 interest rate rise that some blamed for pushing emerging markets over the edge, cutting three times in 1998 as the crisis deepened - even though there was little material impact on the U.S. economy and the Wall St stock bubble continued inflating.
Might his successor Ben Bernanke do likewise - or at least act to tamp down talk of slowing QE for fear of a growth-sapping surge in U.S. Treasury yields?
There are several question marks over this sketch of events. Emerging economies may not be as fast to run down reserves without the fixed currency pegs of the 1990s, instead allowing more flexible exchange rate regimes to take the heat and enjoying a competitive boost from better terms of trade.
Outgoing Russian central bank chief Sergei Ignatyev said only last week: "The key is that our exchange rate is almost floating and close to free float."
That said, Russia, like Poland, was forced to run down between a fifth and a third of its entire reserves during the worst of the credit crisis in 2008/09.
Others reckon the very existence of hefty reserve buffers in many emerging countries will be sufficient to forestall capital flight. Deutsche Bank's Markus Jaeger points out that China, Korea and Russia run small current account surpluses and have short-term debts of less than 50 percent of reserves.
What's more, the Fed may feel the U.S. economy is strong enough to absorb some hit from sharply higher yields and push ahead regardless.
But emerging market crises are notorious for taking on a life of their own - mostly due to investor fear of illiquidity and the ability to sell securities at fair prices. That forces many to pre-emptively protect themselves by exiting early.
If that happens, the potential panic will likely require some response at home - or eventually in Washington.
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Fig Tree FruitsWhen the fruits start to appear, cover with a net to deter birds. The fruits are ready when they start to droop on the stalk with well coloured skin or the skin cracks.
In very warm climates and some greenhouses depending on location, you get up to three flushes of fruits.
Only the small embryonic fruits forming on last years growth will turn in to ripe fruits. A second embryonic crop may appear in the summer and if they survive the winter should ripen the next year. In November, any figs larger than little embryos (about pea sized) should be picked off as they are unlikely to ripen or survive the winter. So in summary, leave the small pea sized fruits alone all year but in Autumn pick off all those larger than that.
Unripe Figs will not mature after they have been picked unlike some other fruits.
General Fig Tree InformationIf you do not know what type of fig tree you have, give it a sunny and sheltered spot. If you have one of the hardy varieties e.g. White Marsailles, Brown Turkey, Ice Crystal and Bayernfeige then a sunny spot will do. If containerised, bring it into a greenhouse, conservatory or other protected environment (armoured vehicle?) during Winter. Planting close to a south facing wall will help but fan training it against a south facing wall will be even better.
Most fig trees can spread up to 3m if left to grow unchecked.
All cuttings will grow into female trees and bear fruit.
Figs are apparently good for treating warts!
Figs can be used as a laxative and are good for diabetics as they are high in sugar.
It is thought figs originated from Asia.
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The Breakers' run of unprecedented success continued with a ninth straight win last weekend, but they still remain relatively under-appreciated on New Zealand's sporting landscape. Ahead of Friday's showdown against Perth, Kris Shannon of APNZ looks at five reasons why.
1. The expectations
There are a couple of downsides to winning championships. The Breakers have been unaffected by one - American coach Pat Riley's `Disease of More', a concept which states that title-winning players return the following season wanting more playing time, more shots and more money - but they have fallen victim to the other. Back-to-back championships can only enhance expectations among fans and media and, as a result, repeated success becomes ho-hum. The Breakers may have lost just three of 20 games during this campaign but that's what they're supposed to do. They're the Breakers, the best team in the competition with the best roster and arguably the best coach. Rightly or wrongly, a string of victories is now expected.
2. The attitudes
The players may be ruthless on the court, dismantling opponents with the skill of Dexter Morgan, but they are more sweethearts than serial killers when they step outside of the lines. Nice guys finish last and, although the Breakers are sitting atop the Australian NBL standings, their diplomatic nature has seen them fall behind in the public conscience. The entire roster is pleasant and friendly, denying bloodthirsty scribes of a soundbite they can blow out of proportion to generate page views. Coach Andrej Lemanis leads by example in this regard, with his reasoned and rational replies completely bereft of unprovoked pot shots. At least when the inevitable grand final series against Perth eventuates, the sports hacks will have the flame-headed Rob Beveridge to fire up.
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There is a perception the ANBL provides an inadequate competition level and games against Perth are the only ones in the regular season worth watching. That theory is backed by the standings but is refuted by visiting coaches. Rather than the bunch falling off the pace, it is instead a case of the front-runners being too good, they argue. That may be the case, but it doesn't change the fact that clashes between the ANBL's most western and eastern teams are the only ones a casual sports fan will care about. The league has had some glamorous clubs in the past - like the three-peat-winning Sydney Kings before they went bust - but it is now lacking sides with the selling power of the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm or Sydney FC.
4. The scandals
The family values of the club, preached by owners Paul and Liz Blackwell, are well known but they come at a cost. Nothing produces more column inches or talkback calls than a good, juicy scandal. There's a reason the Black Caps and the Phoenix have been hogging the headlines. Perhaps the Ross Taylor captaincy saga was simply a devilish scheme to keep an under-performing side on the back pages? Maybe Gareth Morgan's ranting and raving is to ensure his side remains relevant? The Breakers have had the minor flare-up - Corey Webster's fondness for synthetic cannabis, BJ Anthony's battle with the booze - but both were comparatively minor on the scandal scale and both were dealt with in a swift, appropriate manner. Maybe Mika Vukona needs take a leaf out of former Golden State guard Latrell Sprewell's book - go crazy at practice and choke Lemanis. That might liven things up.
5. The minority
When the Tall Blacks finished fourth at the world championships a decade ago, it seemed as if the world's second-most popular sport was on the precipice of breaking through in New Zealand's crowded sporting landscape. But that's the thing about a precipice - the only way from there is down. Basketball, like football has found after the All Whites' World Cup campaign in 2010, will never consistently compete against this country's traditional sporting codes. If the Warriors were heading for a third-straight NRL title, they would have had a Halberg award by now (the Breakers, incredibly, haven't had a nomination). If the Blues embark on a club-record winning run, especially after last year's fiasco, Sir John Kirwan would be knighted again. But if it's the Breakers? The national broadcaster prefers to run a Blues pre-season story.


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Sustainability policy on raw materials
Clay is a natural and virtually inexhaustible resource. That does not mean that we should not use it sparingly.
To reduce the utilization rate of clay quarries and limit reclamation areas, we also use raw materials that are released during very big infrastructure projects. This also helps prevent soil surpluses.
After finishing our operations, it is a point of honour for us to return the excavated areas to the farmers who let us use their land. Areas where we mined clay and exhausted clay pits, we revert back to fertile farming land.
Environmentally-friendly production process
In all branches of Vandersanden we strive for continuous improvement of our energy efficiency and a reduction of our energy consumption. To this end all employees are informed about our agreed and implemented policy resolutions concerning energy savings. We regularly update our energy savings plan (ESP) and we are committed to realizing this plan. In the same vein we comply with all legislation, regulations and other specified requirements.
Vandersanden is a member of the Limburgs Klimaatparlement (Limburg Climate Parliament), a group of organizations in Limburg (Belgium) that can play a significant role in the containment of CO2 emissions and who are willing to contribute actively to making 'Limburg climate neutral by 2020'.
At a Flemish level, Vandersanden participates in the Do-Tank ETS companies of the Cleantech Platform. ETS companies (EU Emissions Trading System) are companies that are responsible for a large share of the CO2 emissions. This means they fall under the European system of trading in emission rights. The Do-Tank ETS companies is looking for solutions that offer economic and ecological added value.
Only natural raw materials
Vandersanden bricks are made up of a combination of natural elements, i.e. clay, sand, water, air and fire. Synthetic products or chemical treatment techniques are not used in any way.
The baking process takes place in energy-efficient, computer-controlled gas-fired tunnel kilns. We recover the hot air from the kilns with the latest control technologies to efficiently utilize it to dry the bricks.
Renewable energy
In 1996 a combined heat and power plant was installed, which is responsible for 50% of the required power in the factories in Spouwen and Lanklaar. A combined heat and power plant is a 16-cylinder gas engine which is coupled to an alternator. This engine produces electricity.
The hot air that is released dries the bricks in the drying chambers and heats the workshops. This means there is virtually no energy loss. The CHP plant can also keep the kilns and drying chambers running should there be a power cut in the main cabin.
Since 1 October 2011 the solar panels on the factories in Spouwen and Lanklaar contribute to more renewable energy. All solar panels together account for an annual green power production of 360 MWh. Thus we generate more of our own power to contribute to a better environment with reduced CO2 emissions.
A GoO certificate (GoO = Guarantee of Origin) guarantees that the additional electricity we purchase comes from wind energy, hydro or solar power.
Very little waste
100% raw material = 100% brick. The brick production efficiency is 100%, and the waste flow is 0. The used ground water circulates in a closed circuit, so not a single litre of industrial waste water is drained away. The only waste is the limited waste from the packaging.
Green buffers
The green character of the rural environment is retained as much as possible around the factories and warehouses by creating green buffers. To a large extent this helps to keep the factories out of sight.
Purified air emissions
Air quality is given extra attention. The energy-efficient tunnel kilns work on clean and environmentally-friendly natural gas. Flue gas filters clean the released combustion gases. The achieved air emissions are far below the stringent standards.
Unique rail system
An overground rail system in Spouwen ensures optimum efficiency in loading and unloading the packages of bricks. The rail system transports the packages of bricks from the factory to the correct warehouse. This reduces the fork-lift truck traffic, which also reduces noise and exhaust fumes.
Recycling of packaging
Recycling of plastic from packaging: Clean Site System
Bricks are packaged in very thin plastic film (polyethylene) to hold the stones together and avoid accidents during transport and on site. The total of packaging material for bricks is less than 1% of the weight per package of stones. Thus, although it is a limited amount, we are committed to collecting and recycling the plastic packaging. The project Clean Site System in Belgium supplies contractors with appropriate collection bags on their construction sites. The bags are collected and recycled.
Recycling of pallets: VAL-I-PAC
Bricks are stacked onto pallets of 100% untreated wood. As a member of VAL-I-PAC Belgium, we also make sure that the pallets are recycled via a recovery circuit.


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(AXcess News) – President Obama has proposed a plan to avoid the much-loathed "sequester" that's scheduled to kick in Friday, imposing significant spending cuts on most programs in the federal government.
His plan is to replace the sequester's $1.2 trillion in across-the-board cuts over the next 10 years with targeted cuts and tax reforms that would cut the deficit by $1.5 trillion over the same period. The White House summarized the details of his plan to get to that $1.5 trillion number earlier this month.
Whether his plan is politically feasible is one thing – Republicans would have to swallow his proposal to close some tax loopholes for wealthy households. But increasingly there are questions about the economics of his plan, too.
Is $1.5 trillion enough?
Ultimately, Mr. Obama's goal is to get the US to $4 billion in deficit reductions over the next 10 years – a sort of magic number laid out by the 2010 Simpson-Bowles deficit commission. Obama does this by pairing his new proposal with $2.5 trillion in deficit savings over the next 10 years already approved by Washington, including spending caps from the 2011 Budget Control Act, tax hikes from the "fiscal cliff" deal, and lower interest payments tied to those changes.
The problem is, some economists say that, two years on, the $4 trillion goal is not enough anymore.
"President [Obama] has set the target for deficit reduction far too low," commented the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget after Obama laid out his target two weeks ago. "He failed to mention that the $4 trillion economists were calling for after the Simpson-Bowles report is now more like $6.7 trillion today. By that measure, our debt problems are far from solved."
As Democrats and Republicans prepare for their next round of high-stakes budget bargaining, the $4 trillion question is an important one. If the two sides are going to replace the automatic spending cuts of the sequester with something new, a central part of the job is deciding how much total deficit reduction is necessary.
Obama's $1.5 trillion plan to replace the sequester calls for about $400 billion in savings from health-care entitlement programs, $200 billion in discretionary spending cuts, and $200 billion in savings from mandatory programs (other than health care), including farm subsidies. On the tax revenue side, his main goal is to reap $580 billion from closing tax breaks for wealthy households. Interest on the debt would go down as a result of those changes.
But the broader debate over whether $1.5 trillion is enough comes down to two viewpoints: Should a new deal "stabilize" the debt or steer it on a downward track?
In the end, $4 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade would leave the national debt at the same place it is now: about 73 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
Critics see a few problems with that.
One is that, by some measures, the national debt is actually higher – above 100 percent of GDP if you use a "gross debt" figure that includes the cost of obligations to fund Medicare and Social Security.
A second problem is that stabilizing the debt isn't necessarily good enough. It doesn't leave much room for maneuver in hard times, such as a renewed bout of recession or a war.
Third, stabilizing debt over a 10-year window isn't the same as stabilizing it longer term. Budget forecasters see the debt continuing to rise thereafter, largely due to health-care programs and rising debt-service costs.
Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, urged Congress this week to put the debt on a downward path. He implied the goal should be 40 percent of GDP, the level where the debt generally hovered for decades prior to the 2008 financial crisis.
Alan Simpson (R) and Erskine Bowles (D), the chairmen of the deficit commission, similarly call for steering the debt level downward, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget agrees. It says $2.4 trillion in additional deficit reduction – as opposed to Obama's $1.5 trillion – is "the minimum needed to put the debt on a clear downward path relative to the economy."
Others say the $4 trillion total goal isn't a bad one.
It brings deficits below 3 percent of GDP by 2015, which arguably strikes a good balance between fiscal responsibility and not hurting the economic expansion by imposing too much austerity too soon. Additional deficit reduction may be helpful if it can be done without harming economic growth, adding to poverty, or increasing overall health-care costs in the economy, says Richard Kogan of the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Obama says he's ready to bargain in good faith, albeit from the standpoint that additional deficit reduction should include tax revenue as well as more spending cuts. Conservatives say that the president has failed to lead.
But Steve Bell, a budget analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center who served for years as a Republican congressional staffer, says that these questions are not easy for Republicans, either. He says conservatives and liberals alike are aware of the risks of a voter backlash from tinkering with Social Security and health-care programs, which are the biggest driver of projected deficits in the long run.
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In what has been seen as its worst performance in a general election since Malaysia's independence in 1957, the multi-racial coalition led by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi called the Barisan Nasional (National Front) has won 139 out of the 220 seats in the elections to the Parliament held on March 8,2008. Results for two more seats are awaited. Even if it wins these two seats, it will have only 141 seats as against the 148 required for a two-thirds majority.
2. The ruling coalition has acquired an absolute majority, which would be adequate for it to continue in power under Prime Minister Badawi, but it would no longer be able to amend the Constitution without the support of the opposition. Winning a two-thirds majority has always been seen as the end-objective of the ruling coalition. It has won it in every election since 1957 except in 1969, when it lost its two-thirds majority very narrowly.
3. This is the second time the ruling coalition has gone to polls under the leadership of Mr.Badawi. In the 2004 elections under his leadership, it won 199 seats. It has thus suffered a loss of 60 seats in this election. An alliance of opposition parties consisting of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (the Justice Party---PKR) led by former Deputy Prime Minister, Mr.Anwar Ibrahim,and the Islamic Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), won a spectacular increase in its tally from 19 seats in 2004 to 81 seats.
4. The BN also suffered major reverses in the elections to the State Assemblies, which were held simultaneously. The Islamic PAS obtained a two-thirds majority in Kelantan, where it was already in power. The opposition alliance won control of four states - Kedah, Penang, Perak and Selangor--- from the BN. There are 13 States and three Federal Territories in Malaysia.The main constituents of the BN are --- the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) and the Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Malaysian People's Movement) . The MCA and the MIC seem to have been largely repudiated by the Malaysian communities of Chinese and Indian origin, which they represented. However, it is not yet known how many seats each of the four major components of the BN won.
5.While Indian-origin Malaysians constitute only about nine per cent of the total population of Malaysia, Indian-origin voters form significant numbers in at least 67 parliamentary and 141 state assembly seats where they comprise between 9% and 46% of the electorate. They seem to have used their numbers to vote for the Opposition. They were the deciding factor in constituencies where Malay and Chinese votes were divided. Indian-origin voters, who in the past voted for the Government in large numbers, did not do so this time.
6.Twenty-two Indian-origin candidates contested for 18 parliamentary seats and 49 Indian-origin candidates contested for 40 State Assembly seats. The MIC fielded nine candidates for the Parliament and 19 for the State Assemblies. The DAP fielded seven Indian-origin candidates for the Parliament and 17 for the State Assemblies while the PKR fielded six Indian-origin candidates for the Parliament and 13 for the State Assemblies. Only three of the nine candidates fielded by the MIC for the Parliament have won. About 20 Indian-origin candidates fielded by the DAP and the PKR for the Parliament and State Assembly elections are reported to have won. However, it is not yet known how many for the Parliament and how many for the State Assemblies.
7.Mr.S. Samy Vellu, who is the President of the MIC and was also the Minister for Works in the outgoing Cabinet, lost his Sungai Siput parliamentary seat in Perak he had held for three decades. He was the longest-serving Minister with almost 30 years in the Cabinet. He was defeated by Dr D. Jeyakumar of Mr.Anwar Ibrahim's PKR. Samy Vellu, whose Tamil-speaking parents worked as rubber tappers in a rubber plantation, started his career as a bus conductor and then an office boy. After taking over the leadership of the MIC in 1979 and becoming a Minister, he became one of the richest Malaysians of Indian-origin .
8. Mr.Manoharan Malayalam, a leader of the HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force) presently under detention under the Internal Security Act along with some other leaders of the HINDRAF, won the election to the Selangor State Assembly as a candidate of the DAP. He won by a margin of 7184 votes defeating a Chinese candidate of the ruling coalition in a constituency, where Chinese voters are in a majority. He, like many other Indian-origin candidates, carried on his election campaign through E-mail and SMS messages.
9. The results are a vote not against the continuance of Mr.Badawi as the Prime Minister, but against the continuance of some of his policies relating to economic development, the reluctance to change the policy of preference to Bhumiputras (sons of the soil) in matters relating to employment and award of licences for starting industries and business enterprises, arbitrariness in governance by exploiting the two-thirds majority etc. Perceptions of a soft policy towards corruption and crime have also contributed to the losses suffered by the ruling coalition. The campaign launched by Dr.Mahatir Mohammad, Mr.Badawi's predecessor as the Prime Minister, on allegations of corruption against the Government some months ago also contributed to the set-back suffered by Mr.Badawi.
10. The election results make it clear that the ruling coalition, which will continue to rule the country, but with a reduced majority, no longer enjoys the confidence of the minority communities of Chinese and Indian origin to the same extent as in the past. While the unhappiness of the Chinese-origin community is essentially due to perceptions of economic injustice to them, that of the Indian-origin community is due to perceptions of economic injustice to them as well as the Government's perceived indifference to their anger over the demolition of a large number of Hindu temples and bulldozing of religious idols by the local authorities in many places on the ground that the temples had been constructed illegally on land not belonging to them.
11. Mr.Badawi was not in a position to address the economic grievances of the two communities during the election campaign lest there be angry reactions from the Malays. But he did address the religious grievances of the Hindu members of the community of Indian origin by promising through advertisements in the media that he would see that there were no more demolitions of the Hindu temples in future. However, his promises on the temple issue were not adequate to win back the support of the Indian-origin community.
12.The election results are likely to create a political vacuum in the Indian-origin community. The MIC of Samy Vellu stands discredited because of his failure to pay attention to the anger of the Indian origin people. He was seen by large sections of the members of the community as mainly interested in the perks of office as a Cabinet Minister without the courage to stand up for the interests of his community.
13. The HINDRAF has not yet been able to emerge as a new political party to take the place of the MIC. It is seen by large sections of the Malays and even by Government circles as having links with the Hindu nationalist forces in India and with Hindu religious elements in the US. The HINDRAF could, therefore, face difficulties in converting itself into a political formation with an identity and policies of its own, different from those of the MIC.
14. The election results are a wake-up call for policy correctives. Even after the set-back, Mr.Badawi has sufficient majority mathematically to implement the required correctives, but it is not just a question of electoral mathematics. It is also a question of emotions ---the kind of adverse reactions which policy changes might create in the Malay community. To continue in power, he has to depend on the Malays. He has to carry them along with him in his quest for policy correctives.
15. The opposition parties are intensely happy over the results. At the same time, they have cautioned their cadres against any public celebration of their good performance. They do not want a repetition of 1969 when celebrations over the failure of the ruling coalition to get a two-thirds majority led to widespread communal riots between the Malays and the Chinese-origin people. (9-3-08)
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi and, presently, Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail: email@example.com )
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The imposing Bishop's Palace at St Davids, which has been a ruin since the 17th century, somehow escaped the radical changes made to palaces in use, and as a result is regarded by experts as the most intact medieval palace in Britain.
Although the present structure was the work of Henry de Gower, Bishop from 1328-47, there was a palace on the site before his time, the proof lying in the fact that Henry 11 dined there in 1171 and 1172 and Archbishop Baldwin in 1188, during his tour of Wales drumming up support for the Crusades. Inexplicably there is no reference to a palace in a survey of 1327.
Bishop Gower's stamp is on the building. There can be no confusion about his trademark decorative arcaded parapet which is also prominently present on Swansea Castle ruins in the City centre and at Lamphey Palace near Pembroke.
King Henry stopped off on his way to Ireland in 1172 and took the opportunity of visiting Ramsey Island, where he released one of his Norway Goshawks at a local Peregrine Falcon. To the King's astonishment the Peregrine evaded the larger Goshawk's attack and knocked it down at the King's feet. Henry was so impressed that from that day on the King sent annually to Ramsey for Peregrine eyasses.
The buildings comprise two main ranges at right angles, a duplicated suite of private and state apartments and an east range, and they are all raised on vaulted undercrofts. The east range and rear wing were built first and contain the Bishop's Hall and solar, while the south range followed, accommodating the Great Hall, Chamber and Chapel. Built later were the kitchen at the south end of the Bishop's Hall, the porch and lower connecting corridor and the Bishop's Chapel at the north end of the east range, linked to the earlier formerly detached three-storey battlemented Gatehouse. The chequered effect of alternate purple Caerbwdy stone and yellow Somerset stone is charmingly decorative and would have stood out far more prominently when the surrounding walls were rendered with lime wash. The most elaborate and eye-catching single feature of the palace is the ornate raised porch affording entry into the south range from the court.
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Josh's diaper tote
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Play along if you'd like.
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- Cheri @ Blog This Mom!® said...
Seems that I love looking in other people's bags. Hee hee. I did it here.
- May 7, 2008 at 7:00 PM
- Albanie said...
the dum dums is a great idea. I'll borrow that one for sure!
- May 7, 2008 at 7:56 PM
- condiefamily said...
Wow...tons of stuff...but where's the trash (wrappers, receipts, crumbs, etc) that seems to fill up the bottom of my fake Prada? I just cleaned my purse out yesterday and there is no way I'd be taking a picture of the trash that came out of the nether parts of my bag.
I do have the wallet, phone, 2 pair of sunglasses, gum, "girlie necessities", pass along cards and hand sanitizer.
Thankfully I am past the purse/diaper bag stage.
- May 8, 2008 at 8:41 AM
- Rosanne said...
Yes - dum dums are great. I need to carry a stash. My girls love them. Fun stuff! Thanks for playing!
- May 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Bonnie B. said...
I want your bag. Those are fun insides. I just cleaned all the crap out of my purse, so mine is boring. But, this is a fun, fun idea!
- May 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- just jamie said...
I have that same necklace. Whoa.
- May 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM
- Kathleen said...
much more interesting than mine! mine would consist of: wallet, recipes, a pen (sometimes), and a piece of fruit leather. yeah, not too prepared, am i?
- May 8, 2008 at 8:41 PM
- MooreInterest said...
I'm so impressed with how much you can keep in there! Like a true artist, a colored pen for any occasion!
- May 9, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Montay said...
Fun Idea I may have to give it try but I do not carry a purse just can't get past the carry one more thing stage.
- May 9, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- Camie said...
Looks like you have all the essentials...
- May 9, 2008 at 6:22 PM


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Recognizing Good Design
How Do We Recognize Good Designs? How Do We Value Good Design? Yes, It Is That Simple
Before discussing about how we do recognize or highlight good design, perhaps we should talk about how literally we recognize good design: What makes a design good and what are some common criteria that defines good design? How do we separate good design from other commodities or existing products and projects?There are many ways to recognize good design, for example conducting experiments, engaging in comparison as well as analysis. However a standardised way or perhaps the best practice is design awards. Design Award is where designs compete. There are many type of design awards, but the ones that could judge whether a design is good or not are the ones with a solid methodology.Every year, over hundred thousand design competitions and contests are organized worldwide, among these competitions and contests only a few do evaluate the entries in a scientific manner which is based on criteria based voting, peer review, anonymous scoring, score normalization and expert jury voting. Design Awards worldwide have created their own set of criteria for determining what good design is.When all the design awards are considered, the most popular good design criteria are as follows: a) Aesthetics, beauty and attractiveness, b) engineering, technical aspects, structure, architecture, depth of development, C) originality, genuineness, authenticity, creativity d) utility, function, performance, purposefulness, e) emotional contents, social contexts, fun factors, f) social benefits, ecological considerations, sustainability, g) economics, ease of production, costs, h) human friendliness, ergonomic factors, user interface, ease of use, and similar.Different design awards could have different criteria and different competitions within these awards could have further different sub-criteria that is specific, but regardless, the main idea about good design is having products and services that are functional, emotional, economic, sustainable and relevant, products that honestly feel good. Jury members reflect in action and use their vast experiences during voting the designs in the fields they are specialized at.Since design awards offer the most systematic approach to validate and evaluate good design, we therefore recognize good designs via design awards. Indeed, many design awards explain that their reason of existence, mission and vision is about recognizing, promoting and highlighting good design. Now, we shall consider how the design award recognize good design? What do they do to highlight good design?First design awards provide marketing, advertising and publicity good designs deserve, to help their recognition. For example, the A' Design Award, a leading design accolade is offering the following services for its laureates: Press release preparation, press release distribution, article placement and syndication, design features, design media pitching, interview with award winners as well as guidance for further marketing, plus an exhibition of award winning works as well as publishing the awarded designs in a book.Second, design awards provide peer recognition, for example the A' Design Award features a large jury panel and provides a design award supplement as well as a certificate of design excellence which designers use to communicate what their awards mean, furthermore the A' Design Award also allows award winners to use the Award Winning Design Logo, which could be placed in product packaging or communications. This special logo acts as a super umbrella brand that communicates the design has been validated as good.Third design awards provide an opportunity for designers to connect with other designers as well as press members, for example the A' Design Award organizes Ars Futura Cultura meetings as well as a black-tie gala-night and award ceremony which brings companies, designers and press members together. In addition to these physical meetings, the A' Design Awards publishes designer and design rankings, popular designers lists and a world design index to help discovery of awarded works.That is why we recognize good design with design awards, we do so by creating an awareness about them, by helping good designs position themselves as superior in the minds of common people who might not have the necessary tools or experience to differentiate what is good and what is not, of course a design which has achieved market recognition could also be considered good, but what if we could evaluate designs without their profit margins but considering also the social aspects, that is what design awards are about.Recognizing good design is not just about indicating a design is good or valuable, we must also bestow its creators with fame, prestige and respect, we need to respect, applaud and support designers who create good products, so that they are even further motivated to come up with even better, superior products and projects that benefit society. When you ask how do we recognize good design, for me the question is about how do we recognize good designer, who spends his life and soul to give life to concepts and ideas that would benefit others, we must remember that designers not always well compensated, so we must firstly begin with compensation, what can we offer designers who spend their soul for their projects?You know, money does not buy back the time, at least not yet in this era, so what can we do for the good and great designers? I think, we should really make the designers feel important, but to do so, we must make the designers become important, and to make designers important, we need to make them famous, and to make the designers famous we need to publicize them as much as possible, we need good design propaganda.Global awareness for good design will not come unless we start advertising the benefits of good design, so let's remember how good design benefits us; consider you want to go from Europe to Australia, without good design you start your journey on foot, then you try to pass the ocean, good luck, good design means you fly to your destination, the difference is vast, but it does not happen overnight, design builds upon other design, it is improved over time.People are like frogs when it comes to recognizing good design or the difference in design, you put frog inside a hot water and it will jump, it is too hot, but you put the frog in cold water and slowly heat it, the frog will be boiled, this is how people perceive design, they are getting boiled, they are benefiting much from it, but they are senseless to it, because for people, great impact matters not small changes, so we need to make big marketing, big advertising, big public relations to celebrate good design.I think good design is mostly about education, thus we must educate our youth about the value of design, and perhaps this very simple method is the only way to recognize good design, if the new generations could have a taste for and an understanding of design, multidisciplinary design and advanced design, than we can perhaps be successful in recognizing good design in future, unfortunately today, design awards and associations are doing their best, and governments are focused more on short term voting issues, not seeing the boiling waters.I invite all governments to double their design budgets for the next five years, but double them every year for the five years, and keep it that way for hundred years, and that way perhaps any desire could be achieved and any problem could be solved, because from what I see, there is not any ministry of design anywhere (except for some companies as well as publications which call themselves that way). So, all countries have ministry of war, but no design ministry? That is how we do not recognize good design.The more we talk about a subject, the more important a subject becomes, therefore to recognize good design, we must talk about it, we must make it important and relevant, two people shopping should be able to discuss why the product a is better, highlighting energy efficiency, sustainability, durability etc. It is good to see that we start to label products for their efficiency, but perhaps we just need a label for good design.How do we recognize good designs? How do we detect good design? What makes a design good? Some common criteria? How do we differentiate good design? How do we highlight good design? How do we certify good design? How do we make a design prestigious? How do we promote good design? How do we advertise good design? How do we publicize good design?We recognize good design, by making design relevant to society, we need to create a society where good design is appreciated, cared and loved, we must support and create incentives for designers to come up with superior products that advance society, and we must develop a better taste for design as well as a conscious for better evaluation and consumption, that is how we can recognize good design.Exerpt:Before discussing about how we do recognize or highlight good design, perhaps we should talk about how literally we recognize good design: What makes a design good and what are some common criteria that defines good design? How do we separate good design from other commodities or existing products and projects?There are many ways to recognize good design, for example conducting experiments, engaging in comparison as well as analysis. However a standardised way or perhaps the best practice is des..
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Argentinean DwtS Brings More Than Just Dance To The Floor (Videos)
Do you recall in last season's off season when PureDWTS reader Carlos Lustosa updated us on Dancing With The Stars in Argentina? He kept us up to speed on Pamela Anderson and Damian Whitewood's dancing. He also introduced us to some of the other cool dance talents at the time which you can read about here again if you like. Now Carlos is back to give us more fun updates on Dancing With The Stars in Argentina which is continueing to stun audiences. Note the differences in how they do Dancing With The Stars in Argentina versus how they do the show in the United States. You'll also notice they get a little more …uhhh "risque" (is this a good word to describe? 🙂 ) in their dancing. It's quite interesting and Carlos has this special way of taking us up, close, and personal. Enjoy and be sure to watch all the videos he's attached. If you are like myself, it will be well worth your time especially if you are a lover of dance in general and how other cultures influence it, etc. Feel free to tell Carlos your thoughts and ask any questions if you have any. Carlos, from all of us at Pure Dancing With The Stars, we thank you for taking the time to update and report on the show from Argentina for us and we can't wait for you to tell us how the competition turns out. So, without further ado, here's Carlos….
Argentinean DwtS Brings More Than Just Dance To The Floor
Hello guys, I'm Carlos, a Brazilian fan of DwtS, but I'm here to talk about the Argentinean version of the show we love. Some of you may have read the comments I wrote that became posts that Vogue published about Bailando, when I talked about Pamela Anderson's participation and some peculiarities about this show, that is, at fact, a part of the Showmatch, a variety TV show with a tone we call "Popularesco" – which would be geared towards the masses and the content would be full of innuendos… well, think "Jersey Shore"). This said, let's talk about the dance they do in Argentina. Así se baila en Bailando:
Well, the show premiered on May 17th and will end in a couple weeks from now. Yes. Almost eight months. Do you think it's too much? Wait till you learn that there are 36 couples who compete during the entire season. 30 couples started, 6 quit (Pamela Anderson and Mike Tyson, amongst them) and were replaced. There was a gay actor paired with a male pro, a "couple" that consisted of two sisters, and one of the celebs is a dwarf lady (my favorite dancer!). Now, the dances: there are a lot of them, of course, some of them as crazy as it can be, and many are very "freestyled". In fact, some aren't really a style of dance but named after a prop that you have to use while you are dancing. I'm going to list below the styles the couples danced this season and the huge, and when I say huge I mean HUGE, list of the dances that have appeared on the show during its seven seasons. As example, I'll try to use the videos of my favorite contestant, the Dwarf singer, Noelia Pompa, and her partner Hernán Piquin. Now, tell me: isn't she incredible? =]
Note: As David Arquette joked on Jimmy Kimmel about the steamy flavor the Argentinean version of DwtS has, some videos are – how can I say? – NOT kid-friendly, and NOT suitable for work. =p (I'll let you know which ones)
1- Pop Latino – No big deal here. It's a freestyle dance to a latin/latin-singer song.
2- Cha Cha Cha
3- Adagio – Similar to Rumba because it's slow and romantic, but it's more like freestyle. And you are allowed to do lifts.
4- Axé – This is when Pamela Anderson quit. Axé is a Brazilian street dance that may be similar to aerobics and, traditionally, it's danced as the song ask you to do some moves. Example: "Put the hands on your knees, get down, shake your booty, etc).
5- Reggaeton – Puerto Rican hip hop
6- Cumbia – Remember Cuban salsa, which is different from the salsa in line (the sisters Escudero. Starts at 3:50) NOT kid-friendly, and NOT suitable for work! but very creative.
7- Baile del Caño – Pole Dancing Noelia.


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By Lynn Stuter
March 1, 2005
In the not too distant past, the American people learned that Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) knew Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) was coming before the day arrived. Yet, for years, we have listened to replays of FDR�s speech to the nation in which he voiced what appeared to be righteous indignation and horror for the events of Pearl Harbor. Those events were the spring board for America�s entrance into World War II. As the American people took up the cause of World War II; as fathers, brothers, sons and husbands went off to war; as the women took up the call of �Rosey the Riveter;� did they know that their president knew Pearl Harbor was coming and took no action to stop it? No, they didn�t.
What we see here is the Hegelian Dialectic at work: create the crisis to effect the wanted solution. Knowing what the Japanese had planned, FDR allowed it to happen to justify America�s entrance into World War II. The price was the loss of American lives justified by the stated goal. But what was the unstated goal?
For many Americans, the knowledge of what FDR did was their first inkling that things might not be too ethical in the halls of our government. For many, a long shadow was cast over the legitimacy of subsequent �crisis� that affected the lives of the American people, some of which were undoubtedly real. Others, even knowing what FDR did, justified his actions in the name of �national security.�
Recently, a document came to my attention called the �Northwoods Document.� In the normal course of events, I sought the authenticity of this document which led me to the George Washington University Website and a section entitled �National Security Archives.� There I found the Northwoods Document.
The Northwoods Document is dated March 13, 1962 and concerns what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The document is damning, as well as revealing, in its content. The cover memo states:
�The Joint Chiefs of Staff have considered the attached Memorandum for the Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, which responds to a request of that office for brief but precise description of pretexts which would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.�
The operant word here being �pretexts.�
The opening salvo of the �justifications� memo re-iterates the aforesaid and continues:
�Cognizance has been taken of a suggested course of action proposed** by the US Navy relating to generated instances in the Guantanamo area.�
The operant word here being �generated.� Our first inkling that a crisis was being �generated� or created to justify US military intervention in Cuba. On page three of the justifications memo, we read,
�The suggested courses of action appended to Enclosure A satisfactorily respond to the statement of the problem. However, these suggestions should be forwarded as a preliminary submission suitable for planning purposes, and together with similar inputs from other agencies, provide a basis for development of a single, integrated, time-phased plan to focus all efforts on the objective of justification for US military intervention in Cuba.�
Appendix to Enclosure A makes some interesting disclosures, such as:
�Such a plan would enable a logical build-up of incidents to be combined with other seemingly unrelated events to camouflage the ultimate objective and create the necessary impression of Cuban rashness and irresponsibility on a large scale, directed at other countries as well as the United States � The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.�
What could be considered in the logical build-up of incidents? The document suggests such things as starting rumors; land friendly Cubans in uniform over the fence to stage attack on the base; start riots near the base main gate using friendly Cubans; blow up ammunition inside the base and start fires; burn aircraft on the air base; sabotage a ship in the harbor creating large fires; sink a ship near the harbor entrance, then conduct funerals for the mock-victims. All of this to happen at, or in the vicinity of, the Guantanamo Naval Air Station, an American held facility located in Cuba. The document even goes into how to fake the downing of a US commercial airplane:
�The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers would be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.
Does this scenario sound familiar? Is what the public was told about the downing of Flight 800 really true? What about the commercial flights supposedly involved in September 11, 2001? Were these planes really hi-jacked? Were those really commercial airplanes that hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon?
Many have questioned why there was a decided lack of airplane parts, luggage, seats, and passengers, strewn about at the Pentagon. Also how a commercial airliner could have done the damage shown in pictures when the area of damage was not consistent with the size of the plane supposedly involved. There are questions about bright flashes caught on video just before the planes impacted the World Trade Center towers. Questions also exist about whether the planes were really commercial airplanes or were they, as described above, mere drones, unmanned planes flown by remote made to appear the original. For instance, the second plane that hit the towers does not appear, in any video footage, to have windows as a passenger plane would. Were the bright flashes just coincidence or were the World Trade Center towers rigged with explosives as some witnesses have indicated who heard multiple explosions following the initial explosion caused by the plane hitting the tower?
The crisis created by September 11, 2001 was President George Walker Bush�s justification, coupled with the weapons of mass destruction that never materialized, for Operation Iraqi Freedom and the deposing of Saddam Hussein. How many American lives were lost on September 11, 2001? How many Americans have been killed or wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan? Was this crisis real or was it contrived to meet some as yet undisclosed and unrealized goal of the American leaders unbeknownst to the American people?
In this same vein � what about the Murrah building in Oklahoma City? What about Waco and Ruby Ridge? What about the USS Cole, the bombing of the various American embassies abroad, the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983? Can we truly believe anything our leaders tell us? Are our soldiers in Iraq fighting and dying for their country and its people or are they fighting and dying for our leaders who have surreptitious goals that are not in the best interests of the American people or the American Republic?
What about the military operations being undertaken in cities across the United States? Is the stated purpose for real or is seeing military personnel decked out in full battle dress, carrying lethal weapons, descending on cities with helicopters and exercises, to assess where the American people are now as opposed to where they need to be if it is to be deemed acceptable for the US military to be used against the American people in the name of safety?
What about the �flu� that resulted in the deaths of so many people (like Vince Foster) whose names were associated with Bill and Hillary Clinton and the White Water scandals? Is it too much of a reach that these people died because of what they knew in consideration of what the Northwoods Document shows our leaders capable of?
The list of crisis the American people have known over the past century is a long one. Real or contrived? The question casts a long shadow over the credibility of our leaders.
Since September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security has come into being, the Patriot Act has been passed, and Americans have watched their rights as Americans be shredded in the name of security. Approximately five years ago, Americans rejected the idea of a national identification card. Now they accept it in the name of security. Five years ago, people would have balked at being searched and having their luggage rifled through at airports nationwide. Now, to hear the news reports, the majority of people would rather be safe. Security has become the death knell for the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Recently, in California, students at a rural elementary school were issued identification cards with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in them. The program was a pilot, meaning that the school was used as a microcosm representing American society. When parents objected strenuously, the program was withdrawn with officials lamenting that the cards were �free� implying justification for the program and that parents were remiss in objecting to something the school got for free. The objective in this lament being to move the focus away from the true purpose of the RFID chip in the gathering of personally identifiable information in a format easily interfaced with larger and more extensive databases, like the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) under the auspices of the US Department of Education in Washington, DC.
Remember that the gathering, storage and analysis of personally identifiable information on every man, woman and child in the United States is paramount to systems governance and the ideology that we must �create the future� as �no deity will save us, we must save ourselves.�
Is the RFID chip gone? No. The pilot was merely to assessment where society is now as opposed to where society must be if the gathering of privacy invasive and personally identifiable information is to be accomplished to the degree needed to keep the system being established �in balance.� It is obvious, from the response of parents of children in this school, that society is not where it needs to be. The question now is how to move the majority of society to where society needs to be and how fast does society need to get there. If the need is immediate, look for a crisis to happen; like a busload of children disappearing off the face of the earth. After all, if the children had RFID chips, we could find them by the radio frequency, couldn�t we?
And, of course, the first question to my mind, should such a thing happen, will be, �is this real or contrived?� What about you?
As in the instance of the Northwoods Document, will we have to wait 40 years to get the classified documents unclassified? Do we have the luxury of waiting that long?
911 In Plane Site; Dave vonKleist; documentary produced by The Power Hour Productions.
Humanist Manifesto; 1973.
National Center for Education Statistics; US Department of Education.
Northwoods Document; George Washington University; 1962; National Security Archives.
�Tracking devices on school pupils outrage parents�; Lisa Leff; The Associated Press; February 10, 2005.
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Mother and wife, Stuter has spent the past ten years researching systems theory with a particular emphasis on education. She home schooled two daughters, now grown and on their own. She has worked with legislators, both state and federal, on issues pertaining to systems governance and education reform. She networks nationwide with other researchers and citizens concerned with the transformation of our nation. She has traveled the United States and lived overseas. Web site: www.learn-usa.com E-Mail: email@example.com�
Recently, in California, students at a rural elementary school were issued identification cards with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in them. The program was a pilot, meaning that the school was used as a microcosm representing American society.