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A year ago immigration reform was crucial for many Republicans. That was before they felt confident about 2014.
By John Dickerson
March 18, 20146:28 PM
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus is feeling pretty confident these days.
Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
When you are the chairman of a political party, it doesn't pay to be subtle. So when GOP Chairman Reince Priebus met with reporters Tuesday for breakfast, he got right to the point. The Democrats are facing an electoral "tsunami" in November, he said. Obamacare "is in the tank and is total poison across the country … it is sinking these candidates into the abyss." The Democrats, he says, "are in the dumps." The Senate is going to be in Republican hands by the end of the year.
Mostly true! The final meteorological determination after the November elections may be something short of a tsunami, but historical patterns, current polling, and the electoral landscape suggest it is not going to be a pleasant year for Democrats. Even Mitt Romney is taking a belated victory lap.
Priebus was at the breakfast, sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, to commemorate the first anniversary of his effort to modernize the Republican Party. He was there to boast about new GOP campaign tactics and the party's full-time voter outreach program. The event was a measure of how much the party's fortunes have changed in 12 months. It also marked something else—how the roar for sweeping immigration reform has been reduced to a whisper.
A year ago Republicans were in a panic after the 2012 presidential election loss. Priebus, as party chairman, was pushing reform. He commissioned a report, nicknamed the "autopsy," which gave you some indication of where Republicans stood. You can only do an autopsy when the body is dead. "The November election was a wake-up call," he said at the time.
The report offered many suggestions, a lot of them technical ones about how to change the primary process, trim the number of debates, improve outreach to voters, and boost fundraising. The headline flash was that its authors believed the Republican Party needed to make comprehensive immigration reform a priority. "We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform," the report said. "If we do not, our Party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only." The report made no other specific policy prescription in that way.
At the time, this presented Priebus with a problem. His job is to raise money and create a structure that any candidate can use to beat Democrats. He's not primarily a policy guy. But he can't build an operation to win if party policy positions limit the terrain on which the sterling operation he builds can compete.
For many conservatives "comprehensive immigration reform" mentioned in the context of improving the party's image with Hispanic voters meant "amnesty"—specifically, legislation that would offer citizenship to existing undocumented workers. (It suggested this to conservatives because that's what its proponents meant.) A year ago Priebus finessed that portion of the report, saying it was simply a recommendation. He also insisted, however, that the party needed to focus on comprehensive immigration reform.
In the interim, the Republican Party has not focused on immigration reform, and for good reason. Why have a big internal fight when things are going so well? No one is embracing or championing comprehensive immigration reform in any significant way as a part of the 2014 campaign. Even the definition of what constitutes "making an effort" on immigration has gotten rather vague. In some cases it can mean as little as having a policy position, no matter what it is.
On Tuesday morning, I read the line about immigration reform from the GOP report to Priebus and asked him whether the dire consequences the report predicted would befall the party if it didn't take on comprehensive reform. The chairman then switched from making bold declarations to more semantic language. "I would … caution you not to impose your definition of what comprehensive immigration reform is. There's a general agreement that we need to have serious immigration reform, but I don't believe there's general agreement as to what that reform is." "General agreement" is obviously not the same as the report's call for "embracing" and "championing."
The question is whether the political push for "comprehensive reform"—however you define it—is just sleeping until the 2014 elections are over or has been replaced with a new view. Some proponents of citizenship or legal status for illegal aliens in GOP ranks suggest they'll have another shot after the midterms. Others suggest that any immigration reform in 2015 will be modest, consisting of border security provisions and improvements to the existing visa system, because candidates jockeying for position in the 2016 primary will inflame the debate, causing the kind of public spat everyone is avoiding this year.
It's hard to argue with that view. A year ago, there were plenty of conservatives who disagreed with the idea that comprehensive immigration reform would be the political win with Hispanic voters that the authors of the autopsy report thought. (Not to mention the group that thought it was wrong to reward law-breakers). As the party's fortunes have improved, the panic that caused quick evolutions like Sean Hannity's has subsided.
There is also considerable strength behind an alternative political view that Priebus himself seems to support. As long as Republicans do not say things that Hispanic voters find outright objectionable while improving their outreach efforts, they'll have a chance with Hispanic voters. So, no more talk of "self-deportation." Hide Rep. Steve King and his characterization of Mexicans as drug lords and put some more miles on the campaign van. Priebus told the story, as he has for the past year, of Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico. The five-term congressman does not support citizenship for illegal aliens but keeps winning in a district that was 52 percent Hispanic in 2012 because he puts 90,000 miles on his car campaigning all across the region, including in Hispanic communities, says Priebus.
Given the conservative nature of the district and the sharp drop-off in Hispanic voting in midterm years, Pearce is likely to win again in 2014, though Democrats once fantasized about taking his seat from him. Elections held in nonpresidential years are quite different than those during presidential contests—that was one of the points of the 2012 autopsy—but if a loss in 2012 did not create pressure for comprehensive action, a big win in 2014 is not likely to either. Right now it looks like the GOP autopsy's support of immigration reform is the only thing that is truly dead.

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In all the talk of improving teaching and learning, sometimes – no often – there is too much talk about the model OfSTED lesson. Too often this leads teachers into thinking of idealised lessons than can only be turned out in special circumstances or that Outstanding lessons require us to devise an elaborate box of tricks to show off with. However, as I have said elsewhere,it is the 99% of lessons that are never observed that really matter. So, we need to focus on things that we do every day.


At a ukulele build class taught by Rick Turner at The Crucible in Oakland, CA.
*Edit: I added some photos, they're a few posts below this one.
**Edit: I added photos for Day Two.
Day one, Oct, 22, was a busy day. We glued the neck, bridge patch, bracing to the top, the sides to the tail block, and then the sides/tail-block onto the top. We also glued in all the kerfing for the top and bottom. We finished by adding "ears" to the peg-head.
Day two, Oct. 23, we're going to work on the fretboard, peg-head, neck and also attach the bottom and then trim it (I'm not sure if that's the order, but I'll edit the post later).
Your gonna have a lot of fun with Rick. He's a fantastic instructor.
Congratulations on your new DIY ukulele, Gary! Can't wait to see photos. How was the class?
Looking forward to hearing about this experience. I really wanted to come for the class but work wouldn't let me go at this time. Congratulations.
Okay, here are a few pics from todays build. The first one is of the parts of the kit.
The second picture is of the neck assembly and the bridge patch being glued on. The third picture is the of the sides and tail block being glued together. The fourth pic is of the top bracing and the fifth is midway through trimming the top braces. I taped along the sides of the braces because I didn't trust myself with the chisel and I didn't want to gouge the top even if you won't be able to see it.
In the first pic I had to go back and trim a little more off of the braces because it wouldn't clear the sides. The next pic is of fellow UUer Doug working on his uke. The next picture is of the sides all clamped down and the kerfing getting glued in place (I hope this glue dried clear). The next shot is of the kefing for the bottom of the uke, it's all held in place with small binder clips. The fifth pic is where I'm going to have to spend a lot of time sanding tomorrow because I went to the bathroom and missed the part about gluing the ears "flush" with the peg-head. Ooops.
I'm having a great time although I do feel a little stressed out trying to keep up with everyone else. If this were in my garage I probably would have only gotten as far as trimming the braces and maybe gluing up the sides. But of course, in my garage I would have had music and beers too :) Anyhow, looking forward to tomorrow. Rick is bringing in a Renaissance guitar and a bending machine to give us a demo for the process of bending sides. I'll post more pics tomorrow.
Your gonna have a lot of fun with Rick. He's a fantastic instructor. I stopped by on the last day of class for the previous session so I already had an idea of what to expect. It made it even harder to wait for this class to begin. Rick mentioned your work today and speaks very highly of you and your teaching as well.
Congratulations on your new DIY ukulele, Gary! Can't wait to see photos. How was the class? Hey Mark, sorry you couldn't make this build, but with two Mya Moe's coming your way I don't feel that bad for you :) The class is awesome! It's amazing how fast these kits come together. I'll try to bring this uke with me next time we cross paths. Do you have a build date for your Mya Moe yet?
Hey Mark, sorry you couldn't make this build, but with two Mya Moe's coming your way I don't feel that bad for you :) The class is awesome! It's amazing how fast these kits come together. I'll try to bring this uke with me next time we cross paths. Do you have a build date for your Mya Moe yet?
Looks like you're having fun, and it's cool that you're going to end up with an ukulele you built yourself. Thanks for posting so many photos! I decided not to enroll in the class mostly because of my broken finger -- I was worried that it would slow me down if it weren't completely back to normal. (The splint is off, but the finger is still swollen -- it turns out I sprained the lower joint in addition to breaking my fingertip -- and I'm just now beginning to be able to bend the upper joint, which had been immobilized for six weeks, and straighten out the lower joint, so i think my finger might have added a degree of difficulty to the build.) I sure hope Rick comes back to give this class again. How many people are in this class?
My tenor Mya-Moe has a start date of February 20, and my baritone has a start date of late March. I'm looking forward to seeing your Gyosh Pineapple!
I stopped by on the last day of class for the previous session so I already had an idea of what to expect. It made it even harder to wait for this class to begin. Rick mentioned your work today and speaks very highly of you and your teaching as well.
Rick has been a huge inspiration and help to me. I had a crazy idea of running a class a few years ago and asked him for advice. He called me up and we talked for ages about what works in a class and what doesn't. Then I got the opportunity to work with him about 18 months ago. I consider myself very fortunate.
Well done - it is looking great. Looking forward to more pics of the build & of course, the finished product! Plus a sound sample!
1st Pic: Start of day two - fingerboard, apply back, trim the body.
2nd Pic: Trimming the braces for the back of the uke.
3rd Pic: The back of the uke, glued up and clamped down.
2926929270292712927229273Pic 1: I made a mistake with the fret markers. I marked the 9th fret corrected it by marking the 10th fret . . . and then went ahead and drilled the 9th fret. Oh well.
Pic 2: Here are the frets getting set in the fingerboard prior to getting clamped and glued.
Pic 4: The fretboard getting glued and clamped to the neck.
Pic 5: Here's the end result of Day two of the uke build.
I'm having an excellent time with this build and also learning much more than I thought I would. Rick does an excellent job of explaining answers to questions and also citing "real life" anecdotes to reaffirm points he's trying to make. I've been enjoying this class so much that my wife is asking if I want to take the class again some time. This is going to be the longest work week ever while waiting for day three of the build.
Great photos, Gary, wish I had been as diligent about documenting my build as you have done with yours.
I highly recommend this workshop to everyone, even if you think you have no interest in building a uke. Rick is a fantastic instructor, and in addition to his wealth of luthier knowledge, has many fascinating insights and stories about music and musical instruments in general. I'm really looking forward to next weekend's workshops.


So here I am back, but now before we get to another book it's time for my seventh annual round up of the best movies of the year and what can be learned from each. When I was archiving old posts last year, I never archived these, partly because I'm a little embarrassed by some of the old choices.
At first I was focused on Hollywood movies and preferably those based on spec scripts, because the site was primarily for spec script writers. Eventually I lamented that the spec market had died, and then finally I gave up on the idea of focusing on just Hollywood movies and started including indies too, which meant that my lists started closely resembling the Oscar nominees. As is my bent, however, I kept favoring fun Hollywood fare above grim indie features, which made me look like a heartless chucklehead at times.
Best of 2011, #3 (Cedar Rapids), #2 (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), and #1 (Crazy Stupid Love)!
What's the Matter with Hollywood (Or Is It Me)?
Best of 2015: I did something new this year, I compared the top three movies to their books, giving me a chance to talk about the nature of prose and adaptation.


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Nancy Katims launches campaign for Edmonds School Board
Posted: May 1, 2019 630
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Nancy Katims Wednesday announced her candidacy for the open District 5 position on the Edmonds School Board.
The position is currently held by Diana White, who is not seeking re-election and is instead running for Edmonds City Council. Katims is the first to announce for the open school board seat.
In her announcement, Katims — an Edmonds resident — said her vision is for a school district focused on student success and equity.
"We need energetic leadership in the Edmonds School District to instill a sense of urgency about the success of all students – not just some," Katims said. "As a parent with 40 years of experience in public education, I know firsthand that our District can improve student learning, prioritize the use of resources, close the achievement gap and boost support for teachers in the classroom. I'm honored by the support our campaign has already received, and I'm eager to talk with voters across the district about my commitment to helping every single student succeed."
"For me, it's really all about student success," she added.
Katims has early endorsements from Edmonds City Councilmembers Diane Buckshnis and Tom Mesaros, and former School Board Director Susan Paine. You can learn more on her campaign website nancykatims4kids.com.
Katims spent almost two decades working as a program director in the Edmonds School District's student learning department. Before moving to Edmonds with her family in 1998, she spent about eight years working in the Chicago Public Schools, four years working in a small rural Texas district, and seven years developing classroom-based materials in mathematics.
Since retiring from the District in 2015, Katims has been consulting for educational institutions across the country with her husband Michael, including the Boeing Academy for STEM Learning at the Museum of Flight. Their two children, Jeff and Casey, graduated from Meadowdale High School and Edmonds-Woodway High School, respectively.
The election to fill the open four-year term on the School Board will take place in November 2019. Candidates must reside in ESD's District 5 geographic region, though the election is district-wide.
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The cuisine of southern Louisiana follows the early history of America. This prime geography situated on a bustling gulf and threaded with rivers, is favored with fertile swampland and prairie. For centuries it has attracted a multicultural list of inhabitants. So Cajun/Creole fare has benefited from the blend of cooking characteristics brought by the many people who settled this area. Still many ask about the distinction between Cajun and Creole. There are subtle and important differences. In recent years, however there has been a melding of the two cooking styles which shows that this area's cuisine continues to evolve. For generations it has drawn the best from international and indigenous influences to become uniquely American.
Cajuns trace their roots directly to the Acadian French who relocated from Normandy and Brittany to Nova Scotia in the early 1600s. When the British acquired Nova Scotia in 1755, the Acadians or "Cajuns" as they were known, were forced to leave. For the next 30 years, Acadians searched for a place to settle. Many of the displaced Cajuns eventually found their way to the swamps and prairie of southern Louisiana.
Geographically, the swamplands and bayous gave the Cajuns an ample region in which to live. The natural alluvial flood plain in this area is the largest in North America. Not only does it nurture choice seafood and wildlife but its prairies provide optimum conditions for growing crops and raising livestock.
Choctaw Indians, the area's first dwellers, revealed secrets of indigenous foods - namely bay leaves and filé powder, to the early settlers. Characteristic corn dishes of south Louisiana such as macque choux can also be traced to these native people. Cajuns quickly learned to cook with area's bounty of available ingredients. They cooked with traditional French flair but adapted their cuisine to the variety of indigenous foods. For added dimension to their dishes, Cajuns experimented with herbs and spices to find the best flavor combinations. With so much bounty from the bayous, Cajuns had truly found a promised land for their people and culture.
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When the Louisiana territory was traded to Spain in 1763, the Spanish added their influence to Creole cuisine. They mixed meat and fish in one dish. Until this time, a sausage and shrimp jambalaya was not common. In addition, they served food over rice - such as beans or gumbo. Finally, the Spanish cooked with hot peppers and highly seasoned dishes to suit their taste. Spanish contributions combined with French sauces and African influences comprise the foundation of Creole cooking.
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CDC director: More person-to-person coronavirus infections in U.S. likely, but containment still possible
By Helen Branswell Feb. 12, 2020
CDC Director Robert Redfield Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Health officials believe there is still opportunity to prevent widespread transmission of the coronavirus in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, even as he warned that more human-to-human transmission here is likely.
"We're still going to see new cases. We're probably going to see human-to-human transmission within the United States," Dr. Robert Redfield said in an interview with STAT.
He added that "at some point in time it is highly probable that we'll have to transition to mitigation" as a public health strategy, using "social distancing measures" — for example, closure of certain public facilities — and other techniques to try to limit the number of people who become infected.
"We're not going to be able to seal this virus from coming into this country," Redfield said. But, he added, "we do gain time by prolonging the containment phase as long as we can, provided that we still believe that's a useful public health effort.
"That's where we are right now in the United States."
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To date the U.S. has diagnosed 14 cases of the new infection. Of those, 12 were travelers who were infected in China before traveling home.
If the United States begins to see instances in several parts of the country in which a single case ignites four "generations" of human-to-human infection, Redfield said — meaning a person who contracted the virus infects a person, who infects another person, who then infects another person — then the CDC is likely to conclude containment of the virus has failed.
"Once we get greater than three — so four or more is our view — [generations of] human-to-human transmission in the community … and we see that in multiple areas of the country that are not contiguous, then basically the value of all of the containment strategies that we've done now then really become not effective," he said. "That's when we're in full mitigation."
The CDC director's remarks came as a group of experts that advises the World Health Organization's health emergencies program recommended that the world stay the current course of trying to halt spread of the new virus to stop it from becoming a human pathogen.
That strategy, "containment for elimination," was successful during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak — though this epidemic is already nearly six times larger than SARS. During the SARS outbreak, roughly 8,000 people were infected and nearly 800 died.
Redfield said that China, which has reported more than 45,000 cases to date, has not been able to contain the virus, despite massively restricting internal travel to try to stop it from spreading from Hubei province. The epicenter of the outbreak has been the city of Wuhan, located in Hubei.
"Those countries that are still largely seeing cases that are really, like us, directly from Hubei province, there's reason to still stay in the containment mode rather than turning that off and going right to mitigation. Because once you're into mitigation, you will probably start to see more cases that may have been able to be contained," Redfield said.
The United States, along with a number of other countries, has taken a variety of steps to try to limit the risk of new infections from entering the country.
The State Department has ceased issuing visas to foreign nationals who have been in China in the past 14 days. Health officials are also quarantining people arriving in the United States for 14 days if they have set foot in Hubei province; people returning to the U.S. from other parts of China are being asked to self-quarantine for that period, which represents the estimated incubation period of the disease.
The WHO, which declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Jan. 30, has urged countries not to restrict travel or trade with China. Later the same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Americans not to travel to China, raising his department's travel warning for China to the highest possible level.
Asked if American policy was in conflict with the WHO's advice, Redfield said the U.S. position on travel with China was evidence-based.
"I would suggest WHO's point of view is an opinion. It obviously carries weight because they're a strong global health organization," he said. "But we independently, those of us on the president's [coronavirus] task force, independently evaluated what the options were. And we felt collectively this was time for us to use movement restrictions and temporarily restrict travel for non-U.S. citizens."
Some health experts and others have questioned the wisdom of the U.S. decision, noting that it was all but impossible for the restrictions alone to prevent all transmission of the virus. But officials have rejected that criticism.
"This really isn't a 'let's stop it and then we're done.' It's a 'if we can pause it a little bit, we buy ourselves some time to work on the rest of our pandemic planning,'" Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said at a panel discussion Tuesday at the Aspen Institute in Washington.
Also on Tuesday, the WHO announced the illness caused by the virus would be known as Covid-19, the letters in the name a short form of "coronavirus disease." Simultaneously, a working group of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses announced it would recommend the virus be called SARS-CoV2, because of its relatedness to the earlier virus. It had been provisionally known as 2019-nCoV previously.
Asked about the new names, Redfield, an HIV expert who recalls well the early controversies over the naming of that disease, said he believed the new disease name is unlikely to stick.
"I suspect you'll see an evolution of this and there will be a coalescence," Redfield said, suggesting the name of the virus and the name of the disease it causes will likely be more evidently linked. "I suspect at the end of the day the scientific community will drive that."
Nicholas Florko contributed reporting.
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Helen covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development.
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Sherry West says:
I think people should be vaccinated or inoculated for HPV human papiloma virus just in case they should come in contact with the virus and take measures to explore the acyclovir antibiotic to see if that will kill the virus instead of the traditional penicillin.
This article is dated 2/15. If the Director of the CDC was already saying community spread was inevitable, why did the CDC testing guidelines remain so narrowly restrictive until March? My faith has significantly eroded. We knew about this since New Year's Day. They knew asymptomatic spread was possible yet they failed to take stringent precautions.
Brian C says:
This is a good article, but until the majority of the US hospitals are running diagnostic on patients with flu like symptoms and test negative for it; and then retesting for coronavirus we are all going to be in the complete dark whether this virus is actually spreading in the US or not. Currently there are only 'select' hospitals in the US doing this testing when it should have been started as soon as we saw person-to-person transmission.
This is gross negligence on part of the response here in the United States. If we're not fully monitoring for the virus how are we going to know if it's spreading or not?
Susan H. says:
Great article. Very informative. Thank you!
kellie hewitt says:
thank you for this article, I found it helpful to better understand what is happening in US regarding responses to virus. thank you
Regarding Hawaii, I lived there for many years and I can state unequivocally, this isn't Singapore. The public health authorities will not be able to manage this without help from the CDC. That said, there is one man in Hawaii capable of dealing with the problem, and that's Hawaii mayor Harry Kim.
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7. Because We're Open for Business
Photo: Alyson Aliano for New York Magazine
Knickerbocker Meat Market, opened May 2009
166 Ninth Avenue
Previously Chelsea Court Meat Market, opened 1960; closed April 2009
Jonathan Afromsky, co-owner:
It was a butcher shop for a long time before this—we use the same showcase that's been here 50 years. The son had been working there since he was 15 or so, and he retired. It's hard work and not always lucrative. We changed the line to more high-end stuff: dry-aged steaks, all-natural free-range chickens. People can spend $30 on a high-quality meal instead of $150 at a restaurant.
Right now it's my father and me and a little extra help, and we're open seven days a week. People are so happy that there's still a butcher in the neighborhood, they come in and thank me. So far business has exceeded expectations. We were hoping to just break even till the holidays, but over the summer, we built on existing customers and got through well.
Albertine General, opened September 2009
15 Christopher Street
Previously Oscar Wilde Bookshop, opened 1967; closed March 2009
Kyung Lee, owner:
My original boutique, Albertine, is next door, and when Oscar Wilde closed, I said I'd try it out for a year. My landlord lives behind the store, and we got a really good rate.
When I started out, I had just 40 dresses, all on consignment from friends. Now I carry about twenty different designers, and the custom-dress business has really helped our bottom line. I think even if people are saving, they're still willing to splurge on special occasions. There are certain issues girls have—their hips are too wide or they have a problem with their stomach—and if they're going to buy a $400 or $500 dress, they might as well get one that fits perfectly. Ours start at $245.
Little Closets, opened September 2009
46-46 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City
Previously Art-o-Mat, opened October 2005; closed May 2009
Letia Frandina, owner:
I have a 2-year-old son, and this summer we went through three sizes of shoes in one month, because he's growing so much. So I had the idea of a consignment store for kids—something sustainable, recession-friendly, and budget-conscious, with story time and a puppet theater. Opening was a whirlwind: It all happened in seven or eight weeks.
I was nervous about starting a business at all, and in the recession for sure. Consignment seemed like the way to go because it's low-risk, but it's still our savings. It's hard to get loans now, too; my bank says they don't do them until after six months. I have no idea how things will work out in the long run. If all else fails, it's great to see all the 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds just hanging out together.
Haus Interior, opened in June 2009
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Nina Freudenberger, owner:
I'm an interior designer for high-end private clients. But my friends were always asking for design ideas, so I opened a store that caters to a lower budget. I got a lot of blank stares when I said I was opening right now, but the recession has enabled me—I was able to bargain down my rent and sign a short-term lease. This store wouldn't have been an option two years ago.
I opened in the summer, and it's been a challenge predicting what will sell during the holidays. I bought merchandise specifically for the recession, so I'm not sitting on inventory like a $600 cashmere travel blanket. Business has gone surprisingly well. August was a little tough, but winter is my season.
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Honoré-Maximin Isnard
b. 24 Feb 1758, Grasse, Var [1]
d. 12 Mar 1825, Grasse, Var
Title: Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention)
Term: 16 May 1793 - 30 May 1793
Chronology: 16 May 1793, elected, session of the National Convention, salle des Machines, Palais national des Tuileries, Paris [2]
17 May 1793, assumed the chair, session of the National Convention, salle des Machines, Palais national des Tuileries, Paris [3]
30 May 1793, ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the election of a successor [4]
Names/titles: First name also recorded as: Henri-Maximin; baron Isnard, baron de l'Empire (baron Isnard, baron of the Empire) [from 2 Oct 1813]
Biography:
Born in the family of a rich merchant; was engaged in trade and established a perfumery business at Draguignan; elected to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1791-1792) as a representative of the département of Var; sided with the Girondins; demanded the disbandment of the king's bodyguard, reproached King Louis XVI for infidelity to the Constitution; elected (5 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1793, 1794-1795) as a deputy for Var; voted for the death sentence in the trial of Louis XVI; reported on the creation of the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) on 6 Apr 1793; served as President of the National Convention (16 May 1793 - 30 May 1793) during the final days of confrontation between the Girondins and the Montagnards [5]; avoided the proscription together with the Girondin deputies decreed by the National Convention (2 Jun 1793); was forced to subscribe to "voluntarily" suspension of his functions as deputy (2 Jun 1793); arrested on orders of the Commune of Paris (28 Sep 1793); escaped and went into hiding; returned to politics and regained his seat in the National Convention (4 Dec 1794) after the Thermidorian coup d'état; was elected (14 Oct 1795) to the Corps législatif; selected to sit in the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) as a deputy for Var (1795-1797); retired from politics and devoted himself to literature; published Proscription d'Isnard (1795), Réflexions relatives au sénatus-consulte du 28 floréal an XII (1804), Dithyrambe sur l'immortalité de l'âme (1805); was not proscribed as regicide due to religious and royalist sentiments expressed in his writings.
Biographical sources: Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, 337-340; Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, 3:384-386.
Elections:
Candidate Votes (16 May 1793)
Honoré-Maximin Isnard 202
Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rosière n/a
voters/absolute majority 332/167
Source of electoral results: Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 64:768; Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 12:18.
[1] Birth date is disputed; 24 Feb 1758 is given according to Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, Dictionnaire de biographie française, vol. 18, Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, other sources assert that Isnard was born a) 16 Feb 1751, b) 1755, c) 18 Feb 1758.
[2] Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 64:768; Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 12:18.
[3] Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 65:1.
[4] Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 65:628; Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 12:276; Moniteur universel, 1er semestre de 1793, p. 659.
[5] A violent incident caused by energetic response of Isnard to the petition of the Parisian section of Cité and verbal attacks of Jean-Paul Marat forced Isnard to abandon the chair amidst the session of 27 May 1793. Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède and then Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles chaired the rest of the meeting.
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(Reuters) Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the General Accountability Office said.
But the Homeland Security Department accused the GAO of having unrealistic expectations of how the Internet could be managed if millions began to telework from home at the same time as bored or sick schoolchildren were playing online, sucking up valuable bandwidth.
Experts have for years pointed to the potential problem of Internet access during a severe pandemic, which would be a unique kind of emergency. It would be global, affecting many areas at once, and would last for weeks or months, unlike a disaster such as a hurricane or earthquake.
H1N1 swine flu has been declared a pandemic but is considered a moderate one. Health experts say a worse one — or a worsening of this one — could result in 40 percent absentee rates at work and school at any given time and closed offices, transportation links and other gathering places.
Many companies and government offices hope to keep operations going as much as possible with teleworking using the Internet. Among the many problems posed by this idea, however, is the issue of bandwidth — especially the "last mile" between a user's home and central cable systems.
"Such network congestion could prevent staff from broker-dealers and other securities market participants from teleworking during a pandemic," reads the GAO report, available here
"The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for ensuring that critical telecommunications infrastructure is protected."
BLOCKING WEBSITES
Private Internet providers might need government authorization to block popular websites, it said, or to reduce residential transmission speeds to make way for commerce.
The Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, a group of private-sector firms and financial trade associations, has been working to ensure that trading could continue if big exchanges had to close because of the risk of disease transmission.
"Because the key securities exchanges and clearing organizations generally use proprietary networks that bypass the public Internet, their ability to execute and process trades should not be affected by any congestion," the GAO report reads.
However, not all had good plans for critical activities if many of their employees were ill, the report reads.
Homeland Security had done even less, it said.
"DHS has not developed a strategy to address potential Internet congestion," the report said.
It had also not even checked into whether the public or even other federal agencies would cooperate, GAO said.
"The report gives the impression that there is potentially a single solution to Internet congestion that DHS could achieve if it were to develop an appropriate strategy," DHS's Jerald Levine retorted in a letter to the GAO.
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What happens when legends aren't merely legends? What if they are true? What if the relationship between myth and science isn't so distant? Paul Carran explores these questions and more in his debut novel Claws of the Dragon: The Fu Gambit, combining science fiction, fantasy, and action in an adventurous story that will send readers around the world on an international hunt for the keys to unlock a legend of a dragon.
The story begins more than two thousand year ago, with the legend of how Isang, a young Taiwanese girl during the Han dynasty, made a powerful connection with a dragon after a meteor crashed to earth near her village. While the men of her village sought to capture the beast and harness its energy, Isang saw its deeper beauty and defended it. The dragon, in return, protected Isang from the backlash she received, bringing her back to life with its two jade claws before disappearing. The jade claws were hidden by Isang's followers and descendants on two different continents, where they remained hidden for many generations.
"I could go on for hours about all of the things that I loved about this book… I would recommend it to you in a heartbeat."
Fast forward to the present day. Fu Dong, otherwise known as the Dragon Master, is head of an international conglomerate and the descendant of the leader of the villagers who once controlled the dragon from the legend. He's a smart and powerful businessman and an even smarter and more powerful mafia leader whose main goal is to find the two jade dragon claws so that he can control the power of the dragon as his ancestors did before him. Once he does, it is only a matter of time before he becomes the most powerful man on earth. Two young women, Bi and Maia, suddenly find themselves connected and fighting for their lives as forces bigger than themselves draw them to Taiwan, where they must rely on assistance from an undercover CIA agent and other descendants of Isang's followers to cunningly protect the jade claws and stop Fu from releasing his power over the dragon.
I could go on for hours about all of the things that I loved about this book. The Asian legends involving dragons would have been enough for me; throw in some Maori culture/history from the South Pacific and how the two cultures are potentially connected, and I thought I was going to die of happiness before I even cracked open the book. If you are a fan of Asian or Polynesian culture, history, pottery, language, tattoos, or anything else, I would recommend this book to you in a heartbeat. There is even a glossary in the back for Maori and Taiwanese words that I enjoyed referring to.
This books has a lot of characters, and each chapter switches perspectives to follow around different points of view within the story. Because of this, there are many things going on in the story all at once. However, I didn't have any trouble keeping up with any of the events or characters, as every single thing that happens is important to the development of the plot. Carran obviously did a lot of research for this story; as a result, the line between what is real and what is fiction is extremely blurry. When an author can make me seriously believe that a dragon can be produced using science and technology, I find it necessary to give the appropriate praise. Kudos to the author for pulling that off!
There were two things that I didn't much care for in this story. Number 1: the blurb on the back of the book describes this story as "fast-paced." Now, while there are a lot of events that take place within the story, and while it's definitely a page-turner of a story, I personally wouldn't have used this particular descriptor in my own assessment of the book. Gripping, thrilling, suspenseful, sometimes disturbing or gruesome, plot-driven, detailed, and well-researched are the first adjectives that come to my mind. Some sections of the book are highly in-depth descriptions of scientific phenomena or technology that add to the "well-researched" element of the book, but not so much to the "fast-paced" element. In fact, I personally felt that it was a rather slow-paced story up until the last third of the book.
Number 2 is minor, but it stood out to me from the beginning of the book. Product placement. No one in the book just drives a car. Everyone drives a V8 Mercedes E550 or a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder with a V10 engine. Sunglasses are Gucci, jackets are Chanel, and even office chairs are Aeron. While this further demonstrates how much effort the author put in to be as detailed as possible, I found it slightly annoying and often felt like I was reading a never-ending advertisement.
For the above-mentioned reasons, I can't justify giving this book full marks, despite how interesting and unique the story was. I give this book a rating of 3 out of 4 stars and recommend it to those who would like to experience some science fiction mixed in with Asian fantasy. American readers should be warned, however, that the writing style, especially concerning punctuation, is a bit different than what we are used to, but it's easy to adjust to once you let yourself get immersed in the story.
And did I mention that there is a nice cliff-hanger ending and a sequel on the way? There is definitely a lot more to look forward to with this story!
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Karen Mcmillan – author
I thoroughly enjoyed this debut novel – a thrilling, page-turning, heart-palpitating read that also had some fantasy elements. The book opens in Taiwan in 50 BC during the time of the Han Dynasty and we learn of the legend of the Claws of the Dragon, a legend that will reverberate through the ages to the modern day, with the descendants on one side determined to harness the power of the dragon for their own evil intents, the other side determined to protect the dragon.
"A thrilling, page-turning, heart-palpitating read."
In 2014, Maia, a young Maori DJ has no idea that she is from a long line of woman defending the claws of the dragon, nor scientist Bi, until their mothers are murdered by others trying to steal the jade-like claws. Maia and Bi find themselves fighting together in Taiwan, alongside a CIA agent, against Fu, a megalomaniac businessman, who has stolen the fabled dragon claws with the intention of putting the ancient dragon under his power.
The story brings together many elements – loads of action and adventure, mysteries, cults, murder, cutting-edge technology and a wondrous dragon. I enjoyed the two main characters, Maia and Bi, and the sense of place, especially in the opening of the book. But be warned that the latter part of the book is not for the faint-hearted as the violence escalates and in some places becomes extremely visceral. But all in all, a great read with a satisfying ending. I hear that Paul is researching a sequel and I look forwarded to reading it in due course.
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Gary Hannam,
producer of 'The World's Fastest Indian'
Reading books by first time authors can be rewarding or frustrating. Paul Carran's first book is rewarding. Well written, the story moves at a fast pace ( I had to keep reading until I finished it; well after midnight).
It is an unexpected combination of a thriller, a legend and social anthropology (in the relationship of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan and New Zealand.)
The main story is a modern drama of international business, domination and ego, that could be the plot of a contemporary movie thriller. But the subtext is an interesting meeting of Taiwanese myth and Maori legend.
The dialogue captures the essence of the characters and their backgrounds. The Maori characters speak in their 'patois' and the Taiwanese characters reflect their international backgrounds.
"It is an unexpected combination of a thriller, a legend and social anthropology."
The story is set in Taiwan, where a Taiwanese billionaire international industrialist who establishes a programme of educating bright children from the slums, is also the Dragon Master, the leader of a 2,000 year old tradition or dragon cult. Unwittingly, two young women, one Maori, one Taiwanese, come between the Dragon Master and his desire to realise his belief in the mythical power of his cult.
Each young woman has to face choices they could never have envisaged which require reconciliation of their modern lives with a mythic past.
The book has a gripping ending; I look forward to the next instalment.
Jacobus Rose
What a riveting book. Absolutely couldn't leave my chair until I finished it. This writer is going places. I can't believe it is his first book. He writes like an old master. You won't go wrong downloading this book especially since on the kindle it is a free read. Hope you enjoy it as much as i did.
"Absolutely couldn't leave my chair until I finished it."


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"Just listen to the way a lot of politicians and commentators talk about the public," the Prime Minister Theresa May told the Conservative party conference in October. "They find your patriotism distasteful, your concerns about immigration parochial, your views about crime illiberal, your attachment to your job security inconvenient.
"They find the fact that more than seventeen million votes decided to leave the European Union simply bewildering."
Of course, there was a time not that long ago, when May too found the idea of Brexit pretty bewildering herself. Nicknamed "submarine" during the EU referendum campaign for her low-key support for Remain, she nonetheless had made up her mind it was the right thing to do.
In a recording obtained by The Guardian, she told an audience at Goldman Sachs that "the economic arguments are clear". She continued:
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For example, May helpfully pointed out, a Britain outside the EU would have no access to the European Arrest Warrant, which allowed her department to extradite more than 5,000 people from Britain to Europe in the last five years.
She also distinguished between the EU's freedom of movement rules, and border checks, declaring: "Some people say the EU does not make us more secure because it does not allow us to control our border. But that is not true."
3. Rules are better than no rules
At conference, May said Brexit would mean "our laws made not in Brussels but in Westminster". Anyone who believed they were a "citizen of the world" was in fact "a citizen of nowhere".
Back in April, she had a more nuanced view. She said Europe had "stumbled its way to war in 1914" because of the "ambiguity of nations' commitments to one another".
She declared: "Nobody should want an end to a rules-based international system." Although, she did add that reconciling these international systems with democratic government was "one of the great challenges of this century".
4. It could break up the UK
In her speech at conference, May took aim at the Scottish Nationalist Party when she blamed "divisive nationalists" for threatening to drive the UK apart.
When she spoke in April, though, it seemed she might be talking about a different set of nationalists. "If Brexit isn't fatal to the European Union, we might find that it is fatal to the Union with Scotland," she warned.
Scots are more likely to be in favour of the EU than voters in England and Wales, she noted:
"I do not want the people of Scotland to think that English Eurosceptics put their dislike of Brussels ahead of our bond with Edinburgh and Glasgow. I do not want the European Union to cause the destruction of an older and much more precious Union, the Union between England and Scotland."
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In her conference speech, May described London as "the world's leading financial capital".
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6. Negotiating trade deals won't be easy
May is a believer in free trade – her conference speech was peppered with references to it – and she has appointed Liam Fox as International Trade secretary to broker new deals.
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7. Nor is staying in the single market
Even in April, May was clear she thought Britain could survive Brexit, but she was not sure whether it would do so better off.
As she put it:
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Record: 3-1 and tied for first in the NFC East after Sunday's 31-27 win over the Cardinals in Arizona
Where they rank: No. 21 on offense (24th rushing, 13th passing); No. 18 on defense (21st rushing, 18th passing)
Series: Giants lead 9-5, including a 6-1 record against the Seahawks in the Meadowlands and a 41-7 victory in Seattle last season
Star power: Eli Manning. Finally, Peyton's kid brother is the best Manning playing quarterback in the NFL. But Eli might not even need the neck situation that is sidelining Peyton to make that claim this season. His passer rating of 105.6 is third-best in the league behind the Packers' Aaron Rodgers (124.6) and the Patriots' Tom Brady (111.3) – in large part because Manning has thrown only two interceptions after having a career-high 25 last season. He's also the league's top-rated passer in the fourth quarter (139.5) and is No. 8 on third downs (94.0). Sunday, he threw two TD passes in a 58-second span late in the fourth quarter to rally the Giants to their third consecutive victory. In the drives to those TD passes, Manning was 7 of 8 for 126 yards.
Unsung hero: Hakeem Nicks. The third-year wide receiver has become an even bigger part of the offense after wide receiver Steve Smith and tight end Kevin Boss left in free agency. If that's possible. Nicks, after all, did catch 79 passes for 1,052 yards and 11 TDs last season. But in four games this season, he's got 24 receptions for 347 yards and two TDs – a pace that will produce a 96-catch, 1,388-yard, eight-TD season. Against the Cardinals, Nicks had 10 catches for 162 yards.
On the spot: The run defense. The Giants are allowing an average of 116.5 rushing yards, but have yielded 177 to the Eagles and 156 to the Cardinals the past two games – including 100-yard rushing performances by the Cardinals' Beanie Wells (138) and Eagles' LeSean McCoy (128). As coach Tom Coughlin put it on Monday, "The fact of the matter is that has to stop. We're going to take some extraordinary means to try to solve this issue."
Burning question: Can the Seahawks extend their stretch of keeping QB Tarvaris Jackson "clean"? After being sacks 14 times in the first 2½ games, Jackson has not been sacked in the past six quarters. The Giants have a habit of getting to opposing quarterbacks. They had 46 sacks last season, the third-highest total in the league. They have 12 this season, which again is the third-highest total in the league. And that's with Osi Umenyiora playing for the first time last week and Justin Tuck missing two games. They combined for 23 sacks last season.
Number to know: 2, as in the Giants' comeback victories in their past two games – which matches their combined total from the 2009 and 2010 seasons. Against the Cardinals, they trailed 27-17 in the fourth quarter before winning by four. Against the Eagles, they trailed 16-14 in the fourth quarter before winning by 13.
Familiar faces: Strong safety Deon Grant (2007-09) and defensive tackle Rocky Bernard (2002-08) played for the Seahawks. Grant started 48 games and was a defensive co-captain in each of his three seasons in Seattle. Bernard started 55 games and collected 29 sacks, which ranks No. 8 on the Seahawks' all-time list.
The last word: "(The Giants) look great and are on fire and rolling right now with three straight wins. So it going to be a great matchup for us to go back there and a great win to get, so we'll go after it." – Seahawks coach Pete Carroll
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This is may be the beginning of another revolution in the Phone industry and a big deliverance to many, if not all mobile phone users. If I can charge my phone to 100% in less than 15 minutes (without minimal side effects), that makes life easier especially for those living in the third world countries where electricity is largely epileptic. Samsung has come with a solution, Graphene Battery Booster.
Graphene itself is not entirely new in the industry. It was first introduced in May, 2016 by a Chinese company which used it in producing bendable Smartphones that could be worn like an innovative bracelet. Graphene will reduce duration used in charging a phone down from about an hour to 12 minutes.
As we know it, Lithium-ion Battery charges to full in 60 minute plus. Samsung claims that the Graphene technology will not only charge the phone five times faster but also improve its efficiency by 45%.
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If Scotland wants to become a European leader in renewables, it now has a roadmap to follow: Renewables Scotland 2030.
According to the paper, prepared for think tank Common Weal by engineer Craig Berry, U.K. energy policies have failed Scotland since 1980. A whopping 34.9 percent of Scottish households are facing fuel poverty while the six largest energy companies have seen profit margins increase.
The paper outlines a way for Scotland to combat these trying energy issues and become a European leader in renewable energy by 2030.
If Scotland shifts its focus toward these objectives, following the lead of German and Nordic nations, it could emerge a world leader in energy by 2030, according to Berry.
Scotland is already making some progress in revamping its energy sector. In September 2017, the Scottish government pledged to phase out gas and diesel passenger vehicles by 2032. In 2016, it set a goal to generate 100 percent of its electricity through renewables by 2020.
As part of that goal, the nation has dramatically increased its support for wind power. "We have a great resource. It's Scotland's terrible weather," Niall Stuart, the chief executive of Scottish Renewables, told The Washington Post in 2016. In October 2017, that weather allowed Scotland to generate enough wind energy to meet an impressive 38 percent of its energy needs.
The objectives outlined in the Renewables Scotland 2030 report go beyond individual energy sources or initiative. If met, they would allow Scotland to break free from fossil fuels and establish itself as a leader in renewables to the benefit of not only the environment, but the nation and its citizens as well.
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