When you call us, you tell us about the problem you're having with a traffic citation or criminal matter and we give you our recommendation based on the facts, the particular state, the particular court and particular law.
That sounds relatively simple, but, how does a particular court system really work given all the different courts in the country. We've only got room in this column for about 1,000 words, so we can't tell you how every court system works, but we can tell you about some of the more "popular" ones.
Question: I got a ticket in Texas and the bottom of the ticket says I've got to go the "JP Court." What's a JP Court?
Answer: Generally, in Texas, the courts that primarily deal with typical traffic offenses are the JP - which is short for justice of the peace - municipal and county courts.
If you're old enough to remember the original "Andy Griffith Show," then you already know how the Texas JP courts work because it's just like the system that Sheriff Andy had in North Carolina.
You've got Andy, the good-ol-boy, non-lawyer judge, and Barney, the cop who not only writes you the ticket, but is also the prosecutor when you go to court for trial. If you're convicted at trial, you can go appeal to the County Court and have another, totally new trial if you want.
Question: I was in Pennsylvania and got a ticket for speeding 65 mph in a 40 mph zone. My ticket doesn't have a court date on it. How do I know when to go to court?
Answer: Most Pennsylvania tickets don't list a court date on the ticket itself. Instead, the directions on your ticket tell you to "post a bond." This means that you have to send your ticket and a money order or cashier's check to the particular court and plead "not guilty."
Once you do this, the court will send you a trial notice that includes the time and place of your trial summary. Like the JP Courts in Texas, the Magistrate Courts in Pennsylvania also use many non-attorney judges and have the ticketing officer act as prosecutor.
Also, like Texas, if you don't like what happens at your first trial, you can appeal within 30 days of being convicted and have a totally new trial in a different court.
Question: My driver's license is from North Carolina, and I got a ticket in Florida about two months ago for speeding. I called the court and even spoke with the prosecuting attorney about my ticket. The prosecutor said that he'd give me "Withheld Adjudication" so I wouldn't get any points on my driving record and that all I had to do was just pay the ticket on time, which I did.
Yesterday, I got a copy of my driving record and saw the Florida ticket on my record and I got two points for it! Why is the ticket on my record and why did I get points? Did the prosecutor lie to me?
Each state has its own motor vehicle code, and each one is different from the other. So, when you get a ticket in a state different from where you're licensed, your home state's motor vehicle code rules.
In this example, no matter what kind of deal the Florida prosecutor gave you, it just didn't matter because your driver's license isn't from Florida. When the Florida court sent your "Withheld Adjudication" plea to the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles, the DMV notified your home state of North Carolina.
Then, according to the Violator Compact Treaty, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles simply put the conviction of the original charge on your record and allocated the appropriate points, just as if you got the ticket in North Carolina.
The bottom line - it doesn't really matter where you get your ticket. Your home state motor vehicle code will always apply.
Question: I got a ticket in New Mexico and the officer told me to sign my full name at the bottom of the ticket and initial the "red square" on the face of the ticket.
When I called to find out when my court date was, I was told that I couldn't have one because I initialed the red "penalty assessment" square on the front of the ticket and basically pleaded guilty on the side of the road. I tried to explain that I didn't want to plead guilty but was told there was nothing I could do now. Is that true?
Answer: New Mexico is the only state that has the unique feature of letting you plead guilty on the side of the road by simply signing the "penalty assessment" line.
Penalty Assessment is a division of the New Mexico Department of Revenue and isn't related to any New Mexico court at all. In order for this practice to be legal, the officer has to let you know what your options are. Unfortunately, most New Mexico State Police officers don't adequately inform drivers of their rights or inform them that they don't have to plead guilty.
Think about how ridiculous this procedure really is - you've got an agent of the state of New Mexico, the officer or trooper who's just accused you of breaking the law, suddenly becoming your best friend whose job now is to inform you of your rights.
Now, we were born at night - but it wasn't last night! Is New Mexico kidding? Do the New Mexico officials honestly believe they are complying with the due process requirements of the U.S. Constitution by condoning this farce? It's wrong, it's a travesty of justice, it's unconstitutional, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more! Charge!
Oh, wait a minute - where were we?
Back to the question of whether there's anything you can do to take your ticket out of "penalty assessment." Procedurally, there may be one thing you can do, but it's technically and financially equivalent to trying to overturn a murder conviction.
The better policy would be not to get yourself in this kind of mess to begin with.
So remember, if you get a ticket in New Mexico, don't initial the little, red square with the red writing. Instead, just sign the very bottom of your ticket and ask the officer to fill in the appropriate court, time and date information. Remember: Marking the red means you're dead.
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Hello all! I found this board a few days ago and having dreamed (literally even) of Stunts modding since I was a kid, I just had to have a go. I'm so impressed by the work that's been done on figuring out the inner workings of Stunts... I don't even. Stressed is amazing and I've obviously started work on a car- a Mercedes 300E, now I'm already trying to bite off more than I can chew with a new mega project. It's top secret right now, but all shall be revealed when completed.
However, I've done about as much of this project as I can at the moment as I have to accept that I'm out of my depth. So I was hoping perhaps somebody could help me. Apologies if my questions are daft or posted in the wrong place, but I would be infinitely grateful if somebody could steer me in the right direction so I don't keep hitting a wall. Erm sorry, that was quite poor.
The first bit I can't manage is, I believe, within the SD?SEL files. I want to both add more cars, and remove some opponents. The latter sounds odd, but I have my reasons. Top secret. I've seen in Zakstunts that it is possible to extend the selection of cars, but I have no idea how.
The other thing is editing the opponent profile text and dialogues- I assume Stressed doesn't interpret all the data in the .RES files, or maybe I'm just doing it wrong, as when I save the modified file, the game crashes when I try to race the opponent.
Anyway, since this is my first post, a little intro. I started playing Stunts in about 1992 and never really stopped. It's been on every computer I've had. In the old days I competed against my brother, these days against my husband, who is as into the game as I am. I also live in Australia and have cats.
Re: What have I gotten into?
I started playing Stunts in about 1992 and never really stopped. It's been on every computer I've had. In the old days I competed against my brother, these days against my husband, who is as into the game as I am. I also live in Australia and have cats.
Ah Australia, such a wonderful corner of the world! I hope to be able to visit it some day eventually. We didn't have many people from Australia in the community before, but one of the members our hacking "team", Cas, is not very far spending a season in NZ.
(...) with a new mega project. It's top secret right now, but all shall be revealed when completed.
The first bit I can't manage is, I believe, within the SD?SEL files. I want to both add more cars, and remove some opponents.
We have two separate issues here, so let's begin with the cars. Adding a new car to the game just requires you to provide the four car files with the correct names. For your Mercedes (nice 3D model, BTW ) these might be CAR300E.RES (performance and text data), ST300E.3SH (3D shape), STDA300E.VSH (dashboard bitmaps) and STDB300E.VSH (auxiliary dashboard bitmaps). If your car is not finished yet and you need to do some testing, copy any missing files from an existing car and change the file name. Just be careful with one thing: file extensions. The .PVS and .P3S files that come with the game are compressed versions ("P" stands for packed). Stressed unpacks the files on loading, and always saves unpacked files. In order to have edited files loading correctly, you need to change the extensions on saving from .PVS to .VSH and .P3S to .3SH and delete (or move to somewhere else as backups) any pre-existing .PVS and .P3S with the same name (that holds for cars as well as for all the other things). If you just copy-paste an original (packed) file to test your car there is no need to change extensions, just the file name. The only other problem that you might have is that there is an upper limit to the number of cars in a Stunts install, 24 if I remember correctly.
Your assumption is correct. stressed can't parse the parts of OPP?.PRE (or OPP?.RES if unpacked - BTW, which version of the game are you using, 1.0 or 1.1?) which contain performance data. That means that no matter what you do you won't be able to modify these files with stressed (I can see a temporary solution to this issue which might be easy to implement, though, and will pass the idea to dstien). Currently the only way to modify that data is using Opponent Blaster to adjust performance and manually changing the text on an hex-editor. All of that assumes you're working either with 1.0 files (which are already unpacked - .RES extension) or with 1.1 files manually unpacked via stunpack. Bit of an annoying task, but possible.
Hope I could help with these first few initial questions. Please tell us what you intend to do, or learn to do, next - and feel free to post as many questions as you wish. I and others will do our best to help!
Hi Duplode, thanks for the welcome and for your helpful reply. Well, I've added the car now, I don't know what I was doing wrong before because I did try putting in those files as copies of existing cars and it didn't work. I dunno, late, sleepy, etc. I figured there must have been a reference to them elsewhere, so I probably would have still been searching for that now, lol. The fact that additional car files can just be added like that makes me wonder if the game was built to allow for car expansion packs.
I'll have another go at editing the opponent files with a hex editor. I did try that already but even if I saved the file without making any modifications it didn't work (annoyingly enough I just tried it again while writing this and it appears to work now. As does editing the text in the car .RES file. How bloody tired was I?!).
I'm using both 1.0 and 1.1 at the moment- switching from one to the other depending on what I want to try. I've already done the opponent image files (plus the animated ones) and a landscape, which were straightforward enough. As for what else I intend to learn, I don't really know. I tend to just throw myself at things that look challenging and go on for as long as I can. The super secret project will be a themed version of Stunts, and I'll make whatever modifications I can to fit the theme. This is why I want to change the number of opponents, because they will be a particular set of characters.
Anyway, whenever I get stuck, I'll just busy myself with building cars. The kid-me from the early nineties would be so proud!
Right, while I am able to use the OPP?.RES files now, I don't.. exactly.. know how to correctly edit a hex file. Time to do some reading, I suppose!
The fact that additional car files can just be added like that makes me wonder if the game was built to allow for car expansion packs.
Yes, that's likely! At least Test Drive, the (commercially) more successful sister project of Stunts, used to have expansion packs. In fact, some of the file extensions for Test Drive II are very familiar, but the contents are a bit different so that stressed can't open them properly.
I'm using both 1.0 and 1.1 at the moment- switching from one to the other depending on what I want to try.
That's fine, I just asked because 99% of the documentation currently written takes 1.1 as basis. There shouldn't be too many differences though, at least from a modder point of view... BTW, do you know if the OPP?.RES from 1.0 work correctly when replacing the OPP?.PRE from 1.1?
I guess that when you just replace characters it goes fine, while when you try to change the length of the text string by adding or removing characters it doesn't.
You're right, and I could see what was going wrong, but I had absolutely no idea how the offset list related to the rest of it. I just tried after referring to Dstien's post, and it works perfectly now.
I've read through that thread a couple of times and it's been very enlightening, but I can't again until the 14th as our isp is punishing us for exceeding the download limit (Australia and its capped internets, WTF).
BTW, do you know if the OPP?.RES from 1.0 work correctly when replacing the OPP?.PRE from 1.1?
I just tried copying it over but it didn't appear to work, which makes me all the more undecided on which version to stick with. Because it's not possible to take cars from 1.1 to 1.0, is it?
Well, at least I now have a nice bit to busy myself with while I'm roughing it without the internet for the next week.
nice to see Stunts devotees from down under... and lets also not forget that you improved the forum`s male-to-female ratio to a whopping 29.5:1!
No, unfortunately its not possible. But I suggest you should go with 1.1. It`s the "community standard" or whatever. It is probably easy to uncompress opponent data in 1.1.
Anyway I remember I translated Stunts 1.0 to Hungarian - and took some time to replace what the opponents say to some funny stuff. But this was... too long time ago, lol.
That`s evil... wish you endurance! Do not forget to download the current ZakStunts competition track while you still can, and give it a go!
Welcome aboard, Felis. Nice work!
Because it's not possible to take cars from 1.1 to 1.0, is it?
I think the compression format differs slightly between the two versions, but I never bothered to investigate it. You can use the stunpack command line tool to make uncompressed resource files. I'll add full opponent editing support to stressed unless I get distracted again.


LeeAnn Mortensen, the PFC chair, started the meeting. For the icebreaker activity, attendees teamed up with a partner and found something they both had in common. Participants re-grouped and introduced their partner to everyone. The January minutes were approved with a correction to note that the location was at Maple Grove Government Center.
Tara, Camryn and Chief Mikkelson attended this year's CADCA's Leadership Forum in Washington D.C.
Camryn and Tara both attended the CADCA Captiol Hill Day. They met with the legislative health staffers from Representative Dean Phillip's office, as well as staffers from Senator Amy Klobuchar and Senator Tina Smith's offices. They joined other Minnesota coalitions, RAPAD (Renville Alliance for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drugs) and Kandiyohi County Drug Free Communities Coalition during the Capitol Hill day events.
Tara attended a few breakout sessions on marijuana, one specifically on the SAMHSA's Prevention day, presented by a SAMHSA Toxicologist and a DEA Agent who worked in California in a position that was responsible for eradicating large grow operations. He gave several perspectives of how marijuana legalization has harmed communities. They discussed data that demonstrates a correlation between increased use of marijuana with increased vehicular traffic crashes and other societal unintended consequences a result of legalization. Another session by the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA) discussed the *history of alcohol regulation, drawing comparisons to marijuana. Mary Segawa, a public health education liaison, from *Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board spoke about the effect of legalized marijuana in the state of Washington, comparing it to an onion, in which they keep unpeeling layers, figuring out how to regulate it and the consequences as things arise, and the initiative to use alcohol and tobacco regulations as a model in their state. The major takeaway was to balance interests, infuse self in conversations or it will be driven by one agenda.
Camryn discussed a session she attended that discussed the *cocaine/methamphetamine, quiet epidemic. These drugs may cause changes that are irreversible and cause the abstinent patient to appear as if they have a psychiatric disease, blunt force trauma vs. meth. The prevalence of meth use is second to that of marijuana abuse. Meth use is on the rise in the US again. Currently, there are no approved medications to assist methamphetamine addiction treatment. Camryn stated that Crystal PD is currently looking at what role they play in prison re-entry programs, looking at forming partnerships with other community partners through the lens of treatment and prevention.
The meeting was held Monday, February 25th. The luncheon was used as a way to review the coalition's key strategies and determine the level of support and action steps within each city. Participation at the meeting was limited to Chiefs/Deputy Chiefs, the PFC chair and staff. All 9 PFC cities attended with the exception of Plymouth Chief Goldstein, who was ill. Hennepin County Sheriff's Office also sent a representative. The Chiefs/ Deputy Chiefs used this as an opportunity to share what is working well for their cities in terms of our strategies and what areas we should focus on this year. There was some interest in adding medicine disposal boxes at police departments that do not yet have one, including Crystal, New Hope and Brooklyn Park. Tara has been in contact with Hennepin County Environment & Energy Department, Senior Environmentalist Ryan Gastecki. Meetings have been set up to meet to discuss next steps with Crystal PD & Brooklyn Park PD. A Perrigo grant opportunity is available again this year to assist with funding any new disposal boxes. Some cities also expressed interest in expanding their social host ordinance, which provide a consistent message to youth and can be used as another tool for departments. Many Chiefs/Deputy Chiefs expressed concern regarding recreational marijuana legalization. Sheila mentioned that some cities are reserved in speaking out.
Some Chiefs/Deputy Chiefs discussed their concern for marginalizing members of their community, while trying to balance positive relationships between law enforcement and community members. Teresa discussed the marijuana forum that was held last spring, in partnership for Hazelden, in which they brought in Will Jones, Communications and Outreach Association for the National Smart Approaches to Marijuana, who spoke about the racial disparities. Plymouth Chief Goldstein hopes PFC can provide public education to all of our communities, due to the misunderstanding on this topic. We will explore avenues to host community conversations and present to city councils. Teresa voiced how PFC has strong relationships with our school districts, who may be willing to open their auditoriums for our use and help with publications to families about the harms of marijuana. POLD was also discussed—most of the PFC departments are still using this as a tool. Linda Bosma, the coalition's evaluator, brought some previous social host ordinance data, prescription drug use/perceived risk of harm, and marijuana use/perceived risk of harm to aid in our conversations related to these topics.
The research coordinator, Barb Cullen, and registrars in the trauma service department helped prepare trauma registry data. In 2007, staff members from the trauma department at North Memorial Health noticed a developing trend in the number of young patients being seen at the hospital with alcohol-related injuries. Not only was the number of patients increasing, so was the average blood alcohol content level of these patients. More injured kids had been drinking alcohol than ever before and the average BAC for patients age 18 and young was 0.12. Teresa often cites this data when giving the history of PFC so we wanted to see if we could look at the data over time from 2005 to now, and see if there was a correlation between the work of the coalition over the last decade to change in BAC levels reported in the trauma services department. Leading into 2008, there was a large increase in average BAL, consistent with the data seen previously a decade ago when the coalition got started. The averages are volatile over the decade, but the good news is that our numbers of youth in the PFC region who test positive for alcohol are fairly small, when comparing non-PFC zip codes to PFC zip codes or patients. Since 2010, we have seen a steadily decreasing average BAL among underage youth who were binge drinking. [ACTION] Sheila & Tara are checking to see if we can distribute the NMH data to our partners and others who may be interested.
Following Sheila presenting the trauma data and giving background on the reason why PFC got started, Tara led the group into a reflection activity to discuss the reason why they members are engaged with PFC. Dr. Jeff Linkenbach of the Montana Institute uses a framework to describe the cycle that facilitates change and transformation. Four core elements—Spirit, Science, and Action, plus the action of Return—make up the process of the Science of the Positive. It's important for us to focus on our purpose and share this amongst one another. With clear understanding of our purpose or Spirit, we can engage meaningful Action. Attendees took a couple minutes to reflect upon their Spirit—the "Why?" behind the process. The "energy-giving, positive, hopeful" purpose that guides our values and is the reason we show up, the reason we are members of the coalition, and the reason why members are passionate about substance misuse prevention efforts. Those willing shared their Spirit with the group.
Hennepin County has received numerous requests from schools on the strategies, policies and procedures for curbing e-cigarette use in schools. In partnership with Hennepin County, Hopkins One Voice Coalition, Tonka Cares Coalition, Partners in Prevention Coalition and PFC, we are planning a networking session for Hennepin County school districts to share tips and tools for addressing e-cigarette use in schools.
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Linda briefly discussed the coalition functioning survey that we use every year to see how the coalition is working. She stated that since this is the last year the coalition has federal funding, we may want to look at exploring some other questions for the survey that look more at sustainability planning options, such as next steps, visioning or future grant writing opportunities. The functioning elements of the survey are less helpful at this point. Members determined that it may be helpful to have questions related to impact of the coalition on the community, leadership from North Memorial Health, and what aspects would be missing if the coalition dissolved. The survey is estimated to be distributed in late April or May.
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They are currently scheduled to appear on March 29, but said they have "previously booked scheduling conflicts"
At least 40 people, including two Hollywood actresses, have been indicted by the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Boston in a nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal.
The Boston court date for actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli has been postponed.
They were originally scheduled to appear in court on March 29 along with other parents charged with participating in a college admissions cheating scam. But they asked to change the court date to April 15, Marathon Monday, due to "previously booked scheduling conflicts outside of Boston that interfere with their ability to be present on March 29, 2019."
A judge granted their motion to continue, but scheduled their court appearance for April 3 at 2:30 p.m. instead of April 15. That's the same date that actor Felicity Huffman is scheduled to appear. She had also originally been scheduled to appear in court on March 29 but requested a delay because she was going to be out of town.
Loughlin, Giannulli and Huffman were among 50 people charged in the scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders to get their children into some of the nation's most selective schools.
The U.S. Justice Department have called it the biggest college admissions scam they've ever prosecuted. Other parents involved are prominent figures in law, finance, the food and beverage industry and other fields.
Prosecutors have said that they believe other parents were involved and that the investigation — dubbed Operation Varsity Blues — continues.
Attorneys for at least some of the parents are likely already negotiating deals with prosecutors, experts say. Authorities have lots of leverage to push parents to plead guilty by promising to bring more charges, like tax evasion or money laundering, if they don't. Most parents could get merely a fine and community service.


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Journey to the Center of the Universe at Vidette Lake
People call it the Center of the Universe but a more fitting description would be a place where people can go to get centered in the Universe. Called the place of life by the area's First Nations people who acknowledge it as an ancient native spiritual site, this grassy knoll became a popular as a Buddhist place of pilgrimage in 1980 when a man dressed in white robes arrived at Vidette Lake in Deadman Valley claiming to have found the Center of the Universe. The apprentice monk from San Francisco had been sent there by his master teacher who had pointed to a location on a map claiming it to be the spot. The apprentice conducted a series of tests which produced positive results thus clearing the way for his Master Teacher's visit.
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The site is part of the Vidette Lake Resort, a small wilderness resort. How Ray Stad came to be the ckeeper of this mystical property is a magical story. Years prior to purchasing the property, his partner at the time, Ruth Edwards clipped out images of the life she wanted to create and pasted them to a dream board. At the bottom corner of the board she pasted a picture of the view of Vidette Lake from the Center of the Universe. She had no idea where the picture had been taken, she just liked it. A few years later she received a phone call from a friend telling her to check out a resort that was for sale. Her and Ray purchased the resort but it wasn't until a year later that Ruth realized it was the same place from her dream board.
When visiting the site it is best to call ahead and request a private tour from Ray Stad. Having been the keeper of this sacred place for a number of years he regales his guests with tales of healers from around the world who have made the pilgrimage to the site, interesting hidden mysteries along the trail and rituals involved with visiting the site.
On the way from the road to the site, be sure to stop and hug Larry the Healing Tree. A healer named Larry pointed the tree out to Ray during a visit advising Ray that hugging the tree for 20 minutes a day could cure any ailments one might have. From there you reach the portal stone whereupon it is best to remove your shoes in order to better connect with the earth's energy. After walking around the stone five times in a clockwise direction, one enters the site where they first come across some Tibetan prayer flags hung by Buddhists. It is believed that as the wind blows the flags, the prayers said unto them make their way into the Universe to be
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The electromagnetic energy of the area is most likely a result of the mineral content. Gold, silver and copper veins were known to prospectors as early as 1898. However, active development did not take place until 1931, and following 335 meters of underground exploration and development, the Vidette Lake Gold Mine was put into production in 1933. Between 1933 and May 1939, the mine produced a total of 1449 kilograms of silver, 929 kilograms of gold, and 43,825 kilograms of copper and 161 kilograms of lead. It was this mine that provided jobs to many Kamloops men during the Great Depression.
Hugging Larry the Healing tree
A Tibetian prayer flag at the Center of the Universe
Vidette Lake
Offerings left behind on the altar at the Center of the Universe
Teresa the Traveler, Yvette and Ray Stad at the Center of the Universe
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Of course, they're already talking about the erstwhile promise of the Donald's Trade War truce, the silence from Beijing, and the potential loss of leverage with regard to China.
But there's this too: Toll Brothers slumps most since May after home orders plunge.
And consider: Dollar drops as U.S. Treasury yield curve inversion sparks recession fears.
These are signs the second-longest recovery on record is coming to an end.
Will it come in 2019 or 2020? Will it be broad based, or will it be limited to the housing sector? Will the broader economy withstand recession-like weakness in that particular sector?
These are also signs the Christmas Eve Tax Cut of 2017 is one more trumped-up mirage.
It is not the "biggest tax cut in history." Nor will it "stimulate" any kind of meaningful Main Street growth.
When the "bidding war" with the Democrats ended in July 1981, the U.S. Congress had cut the federal revenue base by 6.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the out-years. In 2018 terms, that's a tax cut of about $1.2 trillion per year.
By contrast, the "peak year" cut (fiscal 2019, which started October 1, 2018) in the Christmas Eve Tax Cut of 2017 is just $280 billion. That's just 1.3% of GDP.
Debunking this "mine is bigger than yours" boast illuminates why the "growth" boom claimed for the current bill is so preposterous.
Indeed, the Christmas Eve Tax Cut of 2017 is, to my knowledge, the weirdest large-scale revenue bill ever enacted. It's drastically front-loaded, and then it shrivels out of sight after the middle of the decade.
When all is said and done, it's probably anti-growth.
On one hand, it amounts to a temporary abatement – a gift to the middle class that will eventually turn into a fiscal nightmare.
On the other hand, it's a permanent cut of the corporate rate that, so far, has done nothing for Main Street.
This "disappearing tax cut" pattern is an effort to "game" the budget-making process. It was also about delivering the maximum wallop of goodies by Election Day in November 2018.
Of course, Wall Street and Corporate America enjoy the fruits of a permanent 21% corporate rate.
For the middle class and Main Street, it's just Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown… again.
And I can't figure out what kind of economic reason supports it.
Set aside "bigness." It's certainly no supply-side theory that embraces raising the tax burden on the U.S. economy from 16.6% of GDP in fiscal 2019, the "peak year" cut, to 18.5% of GDP in 2027, after the net impact turns positive.
After all, that's a 13% increase in the total federal tax burden. Accordingly, it doesn't incentivize a permanent increase in supply-side resources at all.
It's just a one-time pull-forward of economic activity – per the patented Keynesian "stimulus" illusion.
In fact, the steady uphill march of the federal tax burden can only be described as some kind of Trumpian throwback to the primitive "pump-priming" theory of the 1930s.
And that relic is so tattered and discredited that even modern Keynesians no longer talk about it.
In the interim, of course, the Christmas Eve Tax Cut of 2017 did enable Corporate America to pump trillions back onto Wall Street via stock buybacks, higher dividends, and M&A deals.
As we talked about yesterday, there's little substance to this 90-day cease-fire between the Tweeter-in-Chief and the Chinese president.
Indeed, it turns out to be a case of he said, Xi said.
Not even Wall Street bought it. Yesterday's weak "Trade War relief rally" fizzled into the close and gave way to a 600-point slide for the Dow Jones Industrial Average through lunchtime today.
New tariffs will have an inflationary effect, and that'll keep the Federal Reserve on its "normalization" path. That's just one way the Donald is working against himself here.


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SZA Invites Donald Glover Into Her 'Garden'
Ken Hamm
May 18, 2018 | 3:00 pm
SZA has just released the fifth video from her GRAMMY-nominated album CTRL for the single "Garden (Say It Like Dat)." After appearing in Donald Glover/Childish Gambino's video for "This Is America" in a blink-and-you-might-miss-her cameo, the performer returns the favor as her love interest in the clip for the song.
In case you haven't heard the track yet, "Garden (Say It Like Dat)" is a ballad about looking for a lover who embraces you – flaws and all – and lifts you up. However, like many of the themes throughout the album, SZA also dangerously wants to lean on her lover a bit too much, as a substitute for her own self-esteem. There cute lyrics like, "Lie to me and say my booty getting bigger even if it ain't," and some not-so-sweet lines like, "And I hope you never find out who I really am."
Directed by Drake's new auteur homegirl Karena Evans, the video for "Garden" is surprisingly literal, taking place in a garden, or at least in the appearance of one amongst some foliage and trees in Maui. The clip starts with SZA waking up in a cave overlooking the beach wearing an all-white bathing suit. She walks through the cave into the forest and meets up with Mr. Glover-Gambino. Through a hazy filter effect, we watch as the two lovers canoodle and frolic through the shrubbery. Meanwhile, we also get some clips of SZA posing and stretching her long legs for days and flaunting her flexibility. The clip ends with SZA crossing over some rocky terrain and meeting an older woman dressed in all-white played by her mother, Audrey Rowe. The visual then fades out with Ms. Rowe giving us some words of wisdom about dealing with your frenemies as the credits roll.
"Garden (Say It Like Dat)" is the latest in a series of videos SZA has released from her groundbreaking debut album, including recent visuals for "Doves in the Wind" and "Broken Clocks." We're still waiting to hear when SZA will release the revamped version of CTRL, but we're guessing it'll some time after the Championship Tour with her TDE family. Until that happens, press play to watch SZA's "Garden" glow.
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Report: 'Apple Pay Later' Likely Delayed Until Spring 2023 With iOS 16.4
Sunday September 25, 2022 8:34 am PDT by Sami Fathi
Apple Pay Later, an upcoming service from Apple that will let qualifying U.S. customers split a purchase into four equal payments over six weeks, is reportedly being delayed until 2023 due to technical engineering challenges.
Announced at WWDC in June, Apple has said that Apple Pay Later will be "coming in a future update" to iOS 16, but the company has not provided a specific timeframe. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said today in his Power On newsletter that the service is likely to face a delay and launch in the spring as part of an iOS 16.4 update.
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Apple Pay Later will be built into the Wallet app and be available for purchases online and in apps on the iPhone and iPad. The Wallet app, alongside the upcoming Apple Pay Later service, gained other new features with iOS 16, such as the ability to track online orders and more.
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So Apple is going to enable and facilitate America's ever growing love of debt?
I wish they'd focus on fixing their software instead.
rappr
Without a defined timeframe beyond "coming in a future update", how is this delayed?
ILoveCalvinCool
I don't really understand the appeal of six-week financing, but I suspect I'm not the target audience. I can't imagine that this type of short-term way of thinking about money is anything but detrimental.
sw1tcher
Delay could be due to upcoming regulations CFPB will be issuing.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-consumer-watchdog-plans-regulate-buy-now-pay-later-companies-2022-09-15/
Apple is probably holding off so their BNPL product will meet those new regulations.
Dark_Omen
How about we get all the features out the door at launch in September instead of drip feeding new features little by little six months later?
What are the programmers doing all day?


Andrea Rost is sharing her sentiments about her wider homeland – in songs. Having sung the most prominent opera roles, the idea of rephrasing the musical culture of the Pannon region has occured to her – but this time not in the language of the opera. Filtered through three different ethnic groups, she draws an internal picture about the musical tradition of Hungary and the Central-European region. To realise all these, she found such composers to collaborate with who are not only knowledgable but also well-known performers of their art. The Balázs Dongó Szokolay – Mátyás Bolya composer duo's folk music inspired reproductions as well as Ferenc Jávori klezmer music, go wandering into innumerable corners of this extraordinarily rich world of tunes, ranging from the archaic Hungarian folk songs through the tunes of the Roma ethnicity as far as that of the klezmer tunes, which moulds many different kinds into one. Szilvia Bognar's authentic style, learnt from the peasant musicians, is a fair match complementing the folksong interpretetations of Andrea Rost, well known from the Bartók and Kodály reproductions. The encounter of these five musicians is not merely the encounter of different genres, it is rooted much deeper than that: one spirituality moulded into honest chamber music.


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Brought to You by the Letter E
Enjoying Eels, Elvis, Enders
June 17, 2009 Andre Salles
Ever-Expanding Empire
As promised, this week's column is brought to you by the letter E. I have probably taken the concept too far, but I'll let you be the judge.
So I've been keeping this under wraps for a bit while I get my footing, but I've taken a few steps towards tm3am's inevitable world domination. The biggest deal is tm3am.blogspot.com, a regularly-updated blog that I hope will serve as a supplement and a companion to this column.
I have so much music coming at me on a regular basis that it's almost impossible to keep up. That's where the blog will come in – I plan to post first-listen reactions to new albums, music news I find interesting, and an occasional look at the albums that shaped me. Don't worry, this doesn't mean the end of the column – rather, I hope the two outlets will intertwine nicely, with the quick-hit stuff on the blog and the more considered reviews here.
Also, I've decided to accept comments on the blog, something I've resisted when it comes to the column. I want tm3am to be just my voice, but on the blog, I'm hoping to spark some interesting conversations. I've met some smart, opinionated people during my nearly nine years working on this column, and I hope to hear from you. There will be a post on the blog each time a column is uploaded in this space, so feel free to comment over there on what you read here.
The other step I've taken is to join Twitter. I haven't used it much yet, because I haven't quite figured out how to differentiate my Twitter presence from my Facebook and blog entities, but feel free to follow me anyway, if you like. I'm at www.twitter.com/tm3am. Today, social media, tomorrow the world!
Expecting Excellence
If there's one album this summer I'm breathlessly awaiting, it's Armistice, the sophomore effort from New Orleans quartet Mute Math. Their 2006 debut was pretty much perfect, a mix of Radiohead and the Police (among other things), and was packed full of terrific songs. I still can't get enough of it, particularly "Chaos," "Noticed" and the sublime "You Are Mine."
The band has taken its sweet time on the follow-up, and apparently they trashed everything and started over at least once. But now it's done, and it's out on August 18. If you go here, you can hear the first track on the record, "The Nerve." It's a blazingly fast drum-and-bass assault with an explosive one-note chorus that slams through everything it has in less than three minutes. It sounds absolutely nothing like Mute Math.
I've been trying to like this for days now. I have grown to appreciate what's there – the production is amazing, the energy is palpable, the drums (the drums!) are fantastic. This will probably kill live. But as the first taste of an album one of my favorite new bands has been toiling over for years, I have to say, it's not much of a song. Hopefully this is just an opening salvo, and the memorable pop songs kick in later. But nestled at track four on Armistice is the band's contribution to the Twilight soundtrack, "Spotlight," which is in much the same vein – fast, loud, melody-deficient. So we'll see if this is just the new Mute Math sound.
I'm still excited about this album, but now I think I'm expecting something completely different from what I thought I'd be getting. August 18 cannot come quickly enough – I can't wait to see how "The Nerve" fits in with whatever else they've come up with.
Enjoying Eels Effortlessly
I cannot explain just why I like the Eels.
I've never been able to. I remember buying their second album (and first out-and-out masterpiece), Electro-Shock Blues, and being so conflicted over it that I played it for my friend Chris. He liked it, and didn't understand why I was struggling, but the answer is simple: while the band is more than the sum of its parts, none of its parts thrill me in the slightest. So I can't figure out just why I like the result so much.
Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, known simply as E, writes very simple little songs. His melodies are basic, although he stumbles over a good hook now and then. His lyrics are at best trite and at worst atrocious. His voice is limited and ragged, his playing is rudimentary, and his albums are (mostly) short and slight. If it sounds like I'm being mean here, remember that I really like this band, and E in particular. I know all these drawbacks are true, and yet I keep listening, and I keep enjoying.
It's been four years since E delivered his second out-and-out masterpiece, the two-CD Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. Everett's music is always better when he digs deep, and talks about his childhood and family struggles. Blinking Lights was all about this, in some cases directly addressing his brilliant yet emotionally cold father, and over 93 minutes worked through pain to come out on the other side, full of hope. That album joined Electro-Shock to form the twin pillars of E's catalog – the rest of his work is enjoyable and random, but sits a few levels down.
That's where his new one, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire, fits in. On this record, Everett is back to writing fun pop-rock and sweet ballads in equal measure, and expressing his joy and heartbreak in simple terms. E promises a lot with his long, shaggy beard – that and the record's title make you think he's going to some Howlin' Wolf places, and a couple of the songs are louder and bluesier than the Eels have been before. "Tremendous Dynamite" and "Fresh Blood," in particular, are built on piercing electric guitars and levels-in-the-red distorted vocals.
But most of Hombre Lobo just sounds like the Eels. "That Look You Give That Guy" is a delightful little pop number about jealousy, "In My Dreams" is a simple, circular ballad of imaginary contentment, and "My Timing is Off" is a sad-sack Everett special, buoyed by a Byrds-style guitar strum and melody. I'm particularly fond of the '80s reggae feel of "Beginner's Luck" and the naked, live vibe of closing love song "Ordinary Man." But despite some sloppier production and a few more incendiary moments, this is just another Eels album.
And you know what? I like it just as much as I've ever liked Everett's work. Granted, it all works better if you don't read the lyric sheet. Here's a sample of the pedestrian rhymes that pepper this record, from "The Longing": "The longing is a pain, a heavy pressure on my chest, it rarely leaves, and my day becomes a quest, to try not to think about her, and all that she brings, forget about her magic, all the beautiful things…" Yes, that's a real verse, not something I borrowed from a fourth-grade poetry class.
But I can't explain it. I really like Hombre Lobo – I've played it probably 30 times since buying it, and while it's unspooling, the trite elements just fade into the background. Eels music is like baking something delicious from very basic ingredients. I can't point to one thing I like about this album in isolation, but when mixed all together, the resulting concoction is thoroughly enjoyable. If you ever liked the Eels, you'll like this.
Elvis' Elegant Experiments
Here is what I don't understand about Elvis Costello's critics.
If you look at the last 10 Costello albums, only two of them – 2002's When I Was Cruel and last year's Momofuku – would qualify as rock and roll records. Open that up to his last 15 albums, and you get two more, 1994's Brutal Youth and 1996's All This Useless Beauty, and some argue that Beauty isn't a rock album either. Just in the last 10 years, Costello has given us a full-length ballet, a record of orchestrated ballads, a jazz album, a country-rock weeper, and a stunning New Orleans funk collaboration with Allen Toussaint. He's a jack of all trades, a versatile and restless performer who refuses to be pigeonholed.
So why do some critics insist on demeaning these efforts as "genre exercises?" The jazz, orchestral and soul albums aren't detours, they're essential parts of his artistic makeup. I understand, these critics want Costello to write My Aim is True and Armed Forces again, perhaps not realizing that his earliest works were the only ones on which he was pigeonholed. At the time, he was writing unreleased gems like the country-fied "Stranger in the House," and angling to work with Johnny Cash. I don't quite get why some want to shove him back into a box he worked so hard to get out of.
All of which brings us to another of these "genre exercises," Secret, Profane and Sugarcane. Fresh off the barnburning Momofuku, Costello has teamed with T-Bone Burnett for the first time since the great King of America in 1986. The pair assembled a group of superb bluegrass players, and they've turned out a down-home delight. This is one of Costello's earthiest records, and Burnett's production is brilliant as usual – this may as well have been recorded standing in a circle around one microphone, so authentic is the mood.
But wait, it gets weirder. Some years ago, Costello wrote an opera about Hans Christian Anderson, called The Secret Songs. That beast has never seen the light of day, but Costello has arranged some of its songs for this ensemble, and while the result is jarring at first, this drumless band manages to roll with the complex pieces marvelously. The first of these, "She Handed Me a Mirror," comes off like a particularly well-written old-time ballad, and by the end, I can barely imagine this played any other way.
Still, the best things here are the more straightforward ones. "Sulphur to Sugarcane" is just awesome, a lengthy tale of depravity and temptation that is, to borrow a Costello phrase, almost blues. "My All Time Doll" would probably work well with thumping drums and electric guitars, but its slinky groove works very well in this setting. And an unexpected highlight is "Complicated Shadows," originally released on Beauty – this song has never sounded better, stripped of its rock production.
If Secret, Profane and Sugarcane is a genre exercise, it's a successful one. But to me, it's just further proof of what Costello does – he writes songs, and finds interesting groups of musicians to play them with. A lot of this record shouldn't work, but it does, and I'm constantly amazed at how many different styles of music Costello can adapt his unmistakable, meaty voice to fit. If you're still longing for another This Year's Model while listening to this, you'll probably miss its many charms. This is just another great little Elvis Costello album in a career filled with them.
Ex-Every-man Enders Entertains, Exasperates
I am a sucker for ambition.
Give me a two-CD (or even better, a three-CD) album, and I'll check it out without hesitation. Later this year, I'm going to pick up Oneida's Rated O, a triple-album that serves as part two of a triptych, even though I've never really heard the band at all. My favorite Frank Zappa albums are the ones on which he stretches out his conceptual ideas over two or three hours. I love concept records, I love rock operas, I love lengthy experiments – there's just something about hanging over the edge and betting on your own vision that inspires me.
So when Arthur "Ace" Enders led his post-punk band The Early November through a three-CD musical novel in 2006 with The Mother, The Mechanic and the Path, I was so there. The concept borrowed from Rashomon – the same events, viewed through three different lenses, representing three members of a dysfunctional family – and the execution was fantastic. The 22 songs that made up The Mechanic and The Mother were all well-written and engaging, and the 50-minute radio play that was The Path was one of the most original pieces of the year. It's not bragging if you can do it, and Enders did it.
It probably should be no surprise that this monster was the final album from The Early November. After the band collapsed in a heap, it took some time for Enders to dig himself out. But now he's back with his solo debut, When I Hit the Ground, released under the name Ace Enders and a Million Different People. And while I like this disc well enough, Enders has reined in every ounce of ambition he once had, concentrating on glossy, melodic rock tunes.
There's nothing particularly wrong with glossy, melodic rock tunes, of course. "Reaction" is a singalong winner, "The Only Thing I Have" would make for a good single, and with "Sweeter Light," he's written one of my favorite Ace Enders songs. Much of this album slows things down – three of the last four tracks are varying shades of epic balladry, and they're all good songs. Enders' voice has improved immeasurably for this record – gone are the shakier moments that used to plague Early November albums, and he's emerged as a fine, strong frontman.
No, there's nothing wrong with this album, but there's nothing that distinguishes it from a million others just like it. Though catchy, the songs are all pretty simple, and the production is big and radio-ready. This is obviously a bid for wider popularity – one song is actually called "Take the Money and Run" – and it's no accident Enders is on tour with the All-American Rejects right now. I wish him luck, because when he's giving himself free rein, he's a very good songwriter, and I feel like this album just doesn't capture all the sides of him.
But that's fine. Enders is only 27, and hopefully has dozens more albums in him. If he wants to make an undeniably fun, hummable little disc like this one, and then bankroll some more ambitious projects later, that's entirely up to him. And he didn't phone it in on When I Hit the Ground – this record is enjoyable, if slight and unoriginal, and it sounds great. I miss the creativity that leaped off previous Enders discs, but this is a fine modern rock album, and hopefully will find its way onto radio playlists and into CD players across the country.
But next time, Enders, I'm expecting more. I know you have it in you.
Exit, Everyone
Next week, a look at two of the coolest gimmicks I've seen in quite some time. After that, new things from Dream Theater, the Mars Volta, Moby, Wilco, and Jack White's new band The Dead Weather. Don't forget to drop by the tm3am blog and leave me a comment or two about this column. Thanks for reading.


Messed around in bands as a kid but never really got anywhere. Jammed away twenty years with various musicians until I got up and played an open mike night with a couple of mature musical mates a few years back.
I play in an occasional classic rock band doing Santana/Pink Floyd/Neil Young venturing into Furtado/Beyonce when we had a girl singer.
I have also played electric upright in a jazz combo and guitar in a jazzy pop duo.
I have most recently played in a working covers band playing the clubs and holiday camps throughout South Wales gig gin at least twice a week.
Can adapt to play anything that sounds great, although my natural home has to be a classic rock band.
Grew up on Stranglers, U2, Smiths, Joy Division/New Order, REM, Hendrix, Doors, Bowie, Lou Reed . . .
As I learned to play I became besotted with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Queen.
Nowadays I like rocking out to Linkin Park with my son!
See my usual homies laying down high quality music in the White Hart, Llangybi, Nr. Usk. The nonsense usually starts aroung 8pm.


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James and I are celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary this month. That's not easy considering the fact that we got married after only three months of dating.
At Berkeley, he pursued me: Driving me to and from school, taking me to interesting places and out to eat (a lot), calling me, bringing me Chinese magazines and books to read, and most importantly, listening to me. When I shared my feelings, thoughts, and needs, I felt understood and accepted. Getting so much attention, I felt loved.
A month or so after seeing each other almost every day, James proposed on the phone, saying, "If everything turns out fine, I would like to marry you." I answered without thinking, "But I don't know how to cook!" He assured me that we could eat out every day -- so we got married. I thought we would live happily ever after.
Not having argued during dating, we were shocked by each other's strong reactions regarding the right and wrong way of squeezing our toothpaste. Although James quickly solved the problem by buying another toothpaste, there was a dent in our relationship. One small thing led to another, and our marriage was going downhill.
Our situation got worse after our son was born. Both of us were busy. Calm and objective in the office, I became easily irritated and frustrated at home. We had no time as a couple; and when we were together, we frequently ended up arguing about child-rearing. We both wanted the best for our son, but we had different ideas. When James rationalized things, I got mad. When I attacked and blamed, he retreated and withdrew. Our interaction spiraled downward with negative thoughts, actions and words. We could not function as a team. When our marriage and parenting did not work, I felt alone and isolated. I became depressed and secretly contemplated a divorce.
Thank God that my pains led me to Jesus Christ in 1989 and we were given a second chance. Our family has come a long way and we have learned the hard way that a relationship cannot be put on auto pilot and be forgotten. The feature article, Turn Relational Conflicts into Blessings, has suggestions as to how to handle conflicts constructively.
Fast forward to now, James and I love to spend time with each other in ordinary or not so ordinary days. For example, between December 2010 and January 2011, we were on the road for 24 days in Germany, UK and France (yes Paris!) to teach, lead groups and coach couples and individuals in Discipleship Training Conferences. We didn't know we could be so happy and fulfilled together living off of two carry-on suitcases, two backpacks, and one toothpaste.
By the grace of God, you too can develop a strong marriage and family in love!
Feeling frustrated about your marriage or parenting? You are not alone. If you find yourself not getting along with or enjoying that special person you love, please take time to pause, evaluate, and reflect on how you have got here. It's never too late to change your direction!
Conflict is as natural to the human experience as thunderstorms are to springtime. When left unchecked, conflict can generate heat and discomfort, disrupt interactions and destroy relationships. Between a couple, discord can lead to divorce. Between countries, hostilities can lead to war. But when differences are openly acknowledged and addressed, conflict can be a powerful source of energy and lead to creative solutions that encourage growth, deepen intimacy and strengthen bonds between people.
The world is made up of individuals with different ideas, wants, needs and beliefs, and conflict may occur when our differences meet. Like so many other aspects of human interaction, it's how we deal with controversy that affects our relationships -- with others and ourselves.
Dr. Wei-Jen Huang said, "Facts seldom cause conflicts. It's each person's value system, point of view, perspective, and interpretation about such facts that produce conflicts."
Some relationships appear to be without conflict. This can mean that everyone is in tune with everyone else. But what's more likely is that some people are not being honest and real with others, or that some individuals regularly and routinely acquiesce to others. This is true with a couple, in a family, or in any group. When conflict appears to be totally absent, it is best to take a look under the carpet.
For some, the inability to face conflict comes from old, deeply imbedded fears, such as the fear of being wounded or absorbed by another. Or some may fear that there is no resolution to the disagreement. In avoiding conflict, individuals may lose themselves in a forest of fears where no one says what they truly feel or want or believe.
Without resolution, conflict converts to stress that causes all sorts of ills and disease and may ultimately release itself in explosions of rage, withdrawal, acting out, addictions and general unhappiness.
However, with resolution comes the release of fear and tension, clarity and remarkably creative solutions or ideas. A feeling of closeness may result or, at the very least, a deeper understanding, acceptance and respect for one another.
Because people are different, conflict is natural.
It's more important to find clarity and unity than to be right.
No one is right in God's eyes; outside of Christ, we are all fallen creatures (Romans 3:23); and it is God who made us different and unique (Psalm 139).
Conflict is about speaking up and telling our truth (what seems so real and true to us).
Conflict is about being open and honest with others.
There is usually a win-win-win solution somewhere. This solution can only be formed in Christ.
Resolving conflict keeps us from living in fear.
Resolving conflict helps us clarify, sort and value our differences.
Resolving conflict can bring us closer together.
Resolving conflict is respectful of ourselves and others.
Resolving conflict is a commitment to clarity, to listening with an open mind and an open heart, and to respecting and valuing one another and our differences. Following are some guidelines for working through conflicts. In some instances, it may be helpful to have a third person to help guide you through the process.
1. Agree that no one will leave the discussion session and that each person will be respectful. Commit to stay with the process until you reach an agreed-upon solution. If you need to take a break, agree on a time to resume.
2. Have each person name the problem or conflict and describe feelings, thoughts and needs. Be as specific as possible. Take turns to listen actively without being defensive.
3. Each of you have contributed to your unplesant and unhealthy interactions. Own your part in creating (or maintaining) the conflict/problem. List past attempts that were not successful in resolving the issue.
4. Take time for silent reflection. During this time, allow each person time to reflect and consider each aspect of the concern. Affirm that there is a way to come to resolution. From this place of silence, tell each other any thoughts, concerns or considerations that arise. Braintorm solutions with an open mind. Do not judge or criticize any suggestion until all ideas are on the table.
5. Discuss and evaluate each possible solution. Stay with the issue until a resolution emerges. Allow for all the time it takes. Pick one solution that both of you want to try (with specific actions from each person). If you can't find a resolution, you may need to accept that you disagree, or get professional help to continue working toward resolution. In any case, set up another time to review and discuss your progress.
Because conflict is natural to the human experience, the best way to deal with it is to create the kind of connections in which differences are acknowledged and supported as part of the ongoing and spirited process of being in a relationship. We all want to be understood and accepted!
Do you know your problems become smaller if your God becomes bigger? As Christians, we also need to stay in relationship with God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit so that we can rise above our human limitation.


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Book Review: Red Mars
Reviewed by: Bart Leahy
Title: Red Mars
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: Bantam House Science Fiction (Spectra)
Some books are worth reading more than once. Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars falls into this category. Like Dune and other great science fiction epics, the book succeeds on a variety of levels, including technology, environment, and characterization. I don't agree with everything the author says in the book, but I still believe strongly that this book is well worth reading.
From a technological level, Robinson populates the book with massive, vehicles and tools that NASA and Russia could only dream about in the best of times. The "First Hundred" astronaut-colonists are sent to Mars aboard a massive rotating spacecraft made of Space Shuttle External Tank segments, and the toys only get better from there. Some come from a chaotic Earth, some are home-grown: massive dirigibles; genetically engineered microorganisms for terraforming the planet; lightweight "tenting" material capable of providing domes to cover entire cities; stealthy rovers; space elevators; life-extension treatments; and on and on. The tale covers a large tapestry of places, technological marvels, and years. As civilization is established on Mars, the tools of survival gradually become more sophisticated as well, and these tools eventually create many of the conflicts that propel the characters across the surface of Mars.
Robinson's glittering descriptions of the Martian landscape can leave the reader wanting more — both the original landscape when the First Hundred arrive, and the landscape they shape in the process of terraforming. These descriptions are remarkable and still hold up well given that Robinson wrote before many of the discoveries of the mid-'90s. Early in the book, Nadia Cherneshevsky, an engineering genius from Siberia, is laid up by an injury and agrees to join a geology survey with geologist Ann Clayborne, another of the book's remarkable characters. They head for the north pole of Mars, and Robinson describes the landscape lovingly:
The sky was a dark red, murky and opaque, only slightly lighter in the west over the sun. The clouds Ann had mentioned were bright yellow streaks, caught very high in the sky. Something in the sand caught at the light, and the dunes were distinctly purplish. The sun was a little gold button, and above it shown two evening stars: Venus, and the Earth….The sun touched the horizon, and the dune crests faded to shadow. The little button sun sank under the black line to the west. Now the sky was a maroon dome, the high clouds the pink of moss campion. Stars were popping out everywhere, and the maroon sky shifted to a vivid dark violet, an electric color that was picked up by the dune crests, so that it seemed crescents of liquid twilight lay across the black plain. (p. 141)
Robinson populates his book with many such "sense of wonder" descriptions of the Martian landscape to draw in the reader and to give the reader an appreciation for the natural environment. And yet at the same time, he also puts a great deal of work into describing the transformed Mars and the unique environments and societies that are built there (especially in the sequels, Green Mars and Blue Mars). You find yourself wanting to visit these places!
An effective device that Robinson uses throughout the narrative is to shift the narrative's third-person limited point of view among the main characters. This allows the reader to see Mars, its society, and its people through very different perspectives, from the hard-headed pragmatism of Nadia to the brooding sadness of Ann Clayborne to the happy-go-lucky enthusiasm of John Boone, the first man on Mars. Each of these perspectives is distinctive, believable, and usually likeable and simultaneously flawed.
It is with Robinson's political vision that I must part company. In an interview, he stated that his goal with the Mars trilogy was to write "utopian fiction." Given Mr. Robinson's politics, the only moral choices the reader is offered in Red Mars are competing brands of environmentalist liberalism: the "Reds" prefer to leave Mars alone, in its pristine mineral state, while the "Greens" want to transform the planet into an Earthlike world through terraforming. Conservatism (i.e., capitalism) is seen as inevitably irrational and destructive. Only one of the "First Hundred" members is a capitalist (and a Christian), and she is described by all of Robinson's viewpoint characters as stupid, deluded, or corrupt. The only idealists (and thus the only heroes) are Marxists, anarchists, or liberals. It is the tension between the Reds, Greens, and capitalists on Earth that creates the primary conflict of the novel. The political slant is slightly grating, but Robinson does not resort to a lot of overt preaching, as he does in later novels (like Antarctica or Forty Signs of Rain). Readers who agree with his politics will have no problems with this aspect of the book, though they should be cautioned that his depiction of economics is somewhat faulty and hazy.
Despite these objections, Robinson's vision is large and deserves to be taken seriously, seriously enough that other "Martian utopian fiction" might need to be written in answer because he has written an impressively conceived and envisioned future world. It is no mistake that the Mars Society has made its flag red, green, and blue in honor of Robinson's books. His work is inspiring to would-be Mars settlers. What they will do there and what sort of society they decide to create up there will be a discussion for a future day. Robinson has offered one voice in that discussion. I look forward to reading others.
© 2006 Bart Leahy


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S&P assigns BB+ to Glatfelter's proposed US$200M senior unsecured notes due 2020, reflecting its view of company's business risk as 'fair' and financial risk as 'intermediate'
Sep 19, 2012 – Standard & Poor's By Sandy Yang
Original Headline: Glatfelter (P.H.) Co.'s Proposed Senior Unsecured Notes Rated 'BB+'
Paper, Pulp & Cellulose
NEW YORK , September 19, 2012 (press release) – Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today it assigned its 'BB+' issue-level rating to U.S.-based P.H. Glatfelter Co.'s proposed $200 million senior unsecured notes due 2020. We also assigned our '3' recovery rating to the proposed notes, indicating our expectation for meaningful (50% to 70%) recovery in the event of default. For the complete recovery analysis, please see the recovery report on Glatfelter to be published shortly after this report on RatingsDirect. We expect the company to use proceeds to repay its $200 million senior notes due 2016.
Our 'BB+' rating on York, Pa.-based Glatfelter reflects our view of the company's business risk as "fair" and its financial risk as "intermediate". Our fair business risk assessment acknowledges the company's significant reliance on certain commodity-like specialty paper products, as well as its exposure to sometimes volatile input costs and selling prices. That said, the company is growing its exposure to more value-added niche products for which demand is growing.
Our intermediate financial risk assessment acknowledges Glatfelter's improved leverage profile with debt-to-EBITDA now below 2.0x and funds from operations to debt near 50%. This financial profile provides flexibility at the current rating level for leveraged investments that further expand the company's value-added segments where demand is growing.
Glatfelter produces paper and other products at its mills in North America, Germany, France, and the U.K. Its specialty papers segment accounts for roughly 55% of revenues and includes paper for trade book publishing and carbonless products that, in our opinion, face substitution risks. Glatfelter derives the rest of its revenue from its composite fibers segment (tea bags, coffee filters, and other products) and its advanced airlaid materials segment (feminine hygiene and other products). We view these businesses as having better long-term growth prospects.
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UPDATE 2:45 pm ET Friday: "The FBI announced today, and we can confirm, that North Korea engaged in this attack" against Sony Pictures Entertainment, President Barack Obama said Friday (Dec. 19) in a televised national address.
However, the evidence the FBI cited in its press statement — that some of the malware, and some of the network infrastructure, used to hit Sony Pictures resembled those used in previous suspected North Korean attacks — was not enough to convince skeptical experts.
"All of the evidence [the] FBI cites would be trivial things to do if a hacker was trying to misdirect attention to DPRK," tweeted Brett Thomas, chief technology officer of Redwood City, California-based online-services company Vindicia, referring to North Korea by the acronym of its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"The U.S. security-intelligence complex is running amok once again," Sean Sullivan, a security adviser at Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure, tweeted. "Washington, D.C., is incapable of saying 'we don't know.'"
"It's complete nonsense," wrote Rob Graham, CEO of Atlanta-based Errata Security, on his blog. "It sounds like they've decided on a conclusion and are trying to make the evidence fit."
"While the United States government seems convinced by technical analysis and intelligence sources that the North Koreans were behind the attack," widely respected independent security blogger Brian Krebs posted following the FBI statement, "skeptics could be forgiven for having misgivings about this conclusion."
The FBI did mention that "the need to protect sensitive sources and methods precludes us from sharing all of [the] information" it had providing evidence of North Korea's involvement.
Our original story follows, without alteration.
Many computer-security experts doubt the validity of the claim that North Korea is behind the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, citing a lack of strong evidence and the possibility of alternate scenarios.
"There's no direct, hard evidence that implicates North Korea," Sean Sullivan, a security adviser at Finnish security firm F-Secure, told Tom's Guide. "There is evidence of extortion (the Nov. 21 email [to Sony executives which demanded money]) and the hackers only mentioned [the movie] The Interview after it was brought up in the press, which they then used to their advantage."
"There's no evidence pointing to North Korea, not even the barest of hints," Robert Graham, CEO of Atlanta-based Errata Security, told Tom's Guide. "Some bit of code was compiled in Korea — but that's South Korean (banned in North Korea, [which] uses Chinese settings). Sure, they used threats to cancel The Interview — but after the FBI said they might."
"Is North Korea responsible for the Sony breach?" wrote Jeffrey Carr, founder and CEO of Seattle cybersecurity consulting firm Taia Global. "I can't imagine a more unlikely scenario."
Rather than an international incident of "cyberwar," the Sony hack looks like an inside job, several skeptics say.
"My money is on a disgruntled (possibly ex) employee of Sony," Marc W. Rogers, a security researcher at San Francisco-based Web-traffic optimizer CloudFlare, wrote on his personal blog. "Whoever did this is in it for revenge. The info and access they had could have easily been used to cash out, yet, instead, they are making every effort to burn Sony down."
For the most part, the doubters are undeterred by newspaper and television reports yesterday (Dec. 17) that a U.S. government agency, so far unnamed, would present its evidence for a North Korean connection today (Dec. 18). Kim Zetter, a longtime security reporter for Wired, posted a piece picking apart the Pyongyang hypothesis just before the leaks broke, yet continued to stand by her story.
"At risk of launching another Tweet storm, I'll point out that intel[ligence] sources also claimed Brazilian blackouts were caused by hacker extortion," Zetter tweeted yesterday, referring to a since-debunked allegation that was aired on CBS News' "60 Minutes" a few years ago.
Skeptics pointed out that the hackers seem very familiar both with Sony Pictures' internal network and with American news media — two things that would be unlikely in hackers operating from North Korea.
"To handle this sophisticated media/Internet campaign so well would require a handler with strong English skills, deep knowledge of the Internet and Western culture," wrote the pseudonymous vulnerability broker The Grugq. "I can't see DPRK [the Democratic People's Republic of Korea] putting this sort of valuable resource onto what is essentially a petty attack against a company that has no strategic value."
Even the few tidbits of evidence pointing to North Korea — malware with Korean encoding, and a server in Bolivia, that had been previously used in North Korean attacks — don't convince seasoned cybersecurity experts.
"It just doesn't feel right," wrote independent British security blogger Graham Cluley. "Trying to determine the location of Internet hackers can be as hard as nailing jelly to the ceiling. It's not uncommon at all for attackers to use compromised computers in other countries as part of their attack to throw investigators off the scent."
"So far, the information that's come out has pointed the finger at North Korean proxy groups, but it's been context-based," political scientist Peter W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think-tank the New America Foundation, told the tech blog Motherboard yesterday. "It wouldn't meet the level needed in a court of law."
To Singer, it certainly doesn't warrant the dramatic reaction by Sony Pictures, which canceled the release of the James Franco / Seth Rogen caper The Interview yesterday after an online posting attributed to the hackers obliquely threatened attacks on theaters that showed the movie.
"The attackers wonderfully understand the American psyche," Singer added. "This was a hack, but call it 'cyber' and 'terrorism,' and we lose our [stuff]. There's no other way to put it."
Even the language used by the hackers seems to contain tongue-in-cheek references. The group's self-determined name, Guardians of Peace, may be both a dig at the Republican Party and a nod to the summer hit Guardians of the Galaxy.
Cinema owners were scared by the threat to "remember the 11th of September," but that sounds like an allusion to "remember, remember the fifth of November" from the 2006 movie V for Vendetta, which spawned the craze for Guy Fawkes masks among supporters of the hacktivist movement Anonymous.
Unless North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declares that his minions did, indeed, carry out the attack, we may never know exactly who did it. Until then, it's best to take all claims with a grain of salt.
"My advice to journalists, business executives, policymakers and the general public is to challenge everything that you hear or read about the attribution of cyberattacks," Carr wrote. "Demand to see the evidence .... Be aware that the FBI, Secret Service, NSA, CIA and DHS rarely agree with each other, that commercial cybersecurity companies are in the business of competing with each other and that 'cyber intelligence' is frequently the world's biggest oxymoron."
Agree? Disagree? Was it North Korea, or three kids sitting in a basement in Duluth? Let us have it in the comments below.


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Did You Know Blake Shelton Once Had a Pet Turkey?
Angela Stefano Updated: June 18, 2020
Plenty of celebrities keep pets, some of which are pretty exotic and unique: Justin Bieber's monkey, Elvis Presley's kangaroo ... and Blake Shelton's turkey.
Shelton's turkey was named Turkey, and as the singer told CMT back in 2003, he could be a bit of an odd bird (pun intended).
"I went outside one day, and I had a bunch of table scraps laying around the kitchen after Thanksgiving, and I threw them out in the yard," Shelton explained. "And I looked out the window, and I saw my pet turkey actually eating some turkey! I got a big kick out of that."
Being the jokester that he is, Shelton hoped "to expose him to some different things in the world" and bring Turkey to an awards show.
"Up until this point, he's been to Arkansas one time. He has been to Oklahoma, which is where he was born, and now he lives in Tennessee," Shelton said. "So, I feel like, without me, he doesn't get to do things, and I feel a responsibility to show him the world."
Unfortunately, Turkey died of heat stroke in June of 2003 before making his red carpet debut.
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