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President Clinton's Interview with the Washington Post (8/8/00)
For Immediate Release                              September 14, 2000
INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT
BY JOHN HARRIS OF THE WASHINGTON POST
Aboard Air Force One
En route Washington, D.C.
Q    Have these guys told you what I'm up to?  I'll give you the quick
THE PRESIDENT:  Yes, give me the quick version.
Q    It's a piece about year eight of the presidency.  It's not a
legacy piece, looking back at the eight years; it's a piece about this year
and sort of what you're doing on the policy front, on the political front,
on the personal front.
The historic pattern in, you know, basically since World War II has
not been last years of presidencies.  Most people have sort of slunk to the
finish line, if they made it at all.  And it seems to me that you are
defying that pattern and the China vote showed that you have continued
policy relevance.  I think there's a lot of interest in what you're doing
politically, for Democrats, particularly for the First Lady.
And I think there's a lot of interest in how you're doing personally,
after -- you know, by any definition the ordeal of '98, '99, sort of how do
you come back and have, by any sort of objective measure, this very
energetic final year?
So those three dimensions are all things that I'm interested in.
One thing I'm curious about is to what extent -- how self-conscious
you were at the end of last year, at the start of this year, that, look,
we've got a very limited window; and was there sort of a methodical
approach to organizing the limited amount of time you had left or was it
just sort of, you know, a race to the finish line?  In other words, was
there an acute sense of the window closing?
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, let me back up a minute and say I have -- I was
aware, I suppose, at some level, from the moment I got here, although I
didn't have much time to think about it, that generally, presidencies seem
to wind down.  And, normally, it starts sometime not just in the last year,
but in the year before that.  And, occasionally, something pops up that
happens that's good, but normally there is kind of a decline.
I didn't think that that was necessary, but that it was something you
had to have a definite strategy to avoid.  Because it's just not right for
the country, you know, they pay us to show up for four years and there's
always a lot of business to be done.
And even in the political context of an election and even, clearly,
the change of administration -- as I always remind all my colleagues in the
Congress, on both sides -- no matter how much we get done, there will still
be plenty of things that won't be resolved, over which there will be
genuine differences and, therefore, you can have a meaningful election.  So
we all had a job to do.  So if you just want to focus on the last year,
let's start with that.
I essentially organized this year the way I have every year, from the
beginning.  And that is, you begin by laying out a strategy consistent with
the vision we started with, based on what has been achieved already, what
hasn't been achieved and what has come up.  And you articulate that in the
State of the Union address, with as much clarity as possible.
Now, this year what I did was to try both to articulate what I would
try to do this year and to look -- in terms of not just what had been
achieved over the last seven years, but in terms of the remaining long-term
challenges for the country.  I laid it out with great specificity.  And the
good thing about that is, it serves as a real organizing principle for the
White House staff and for the Cabinet; for how I spend my time, both in the
office, with the Congress, and in the country.
And it really has worked.  I think one of the things that has gotten
-- that has led to some presidents and some White Houses to get less than
they might have out of all their days is the tendency to become overcome
with the politics of the political environment or the conventional wisdom.
A lot of being President is a job, like any other job.  And you have
control over your attitude toward it, your priorities and what you work on.
And if everybody is working on the same page and full steam ahead, a lot of
things happen.
So you start with a strategy and with as many specifics as possible in
the State of the Union, and then you just try to execute it.  And we've had
some success as you pointed out.
Q    Did you ever feel that the China vote was lost?  I was talking to
somebody, one of your advisors, who said they had come back from a meeting
with one of the organized labor leaders who told him, look, we've got the
votes, we're jamming you on this, sorry about it.
THE PRESIDENT:  I knew that they thought they had us beat.  But I
didn't think so because I thought that in the end, the vote was so clearly
in the national interests and the consequences of defeat -- where somebody
says, well, let's just put it off, or maybe we'll come back to it next
year, or something like that -- were so clearly adverse to what was good
for America's future that I thought in the end they'd come around and do
the right thing.
Q    How much easier do you think this job is, in year eight, than in
year one?  I mean, is there a sense of, like, look, there's no kind of
curve ball that's going to get thrown at me that's going to be one I
haven't seen before.
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, at one level, it's much easier because I had
never worked in the Washington environment before and, as you remember, the
strategy of the opposition was that I would have no honeymoon -- (laughter)
-- and I didn't.  And I also had a country with a lot of big problems when
I started and we had to get a lot of big things done.  And I tried to --
maybe even too much, I tried to put a lot of things through the system in
the first two years.
We got three of the four big things I wanted to do done.  We got the
economic plan that -- eventually we got welfare reform, but I could tell we
were going to get it.  And we got started with executive actions.  And we
passed the crime bill.  But we couldn't do health care.  And then there was
all this, you know, a lot of -- and we were also, at the time, putting
together a team in the White House, in the Cabinet, working together and
working with all the others, which the White House and the whole
administration -- with whom the White House and the whole administration
had to work.  So to try to get stuff done and put the thing together, it
was very difficult.
Since then, every year I think it has gotten a little easier from that
point of view.  On the other hand, there are always -- it never ceases to
be challenging or interesting.  And if you're trying to do meaningful
things, there are always going to be things that are very, very hard to do.
For example, one of the toughest things we're working on now is the Middle
East.
But that's another thing.  I think it's a mistake, just because you're
near the end, rather than the beginning, of an administration, not to try
to do the big things, especially if they really need doing within the time
frame that you have.
Q    One of the early themes when I showed up on this beat -- which I
guess was '95, '96 period -- was a sense among a lot of your advisors, and
I think it reflected your view, that you were not getting credit for what
had been done the first couple of years, either from the press or from the
public, more broadly.
Do you think you'll get credit for your presidency, at this point?  Do
you feel adequately appreciated?
THE PRESIDENT:  Yes.  I don't worry about it as much anymore.  The
only reason I worried about it in those years was that I felt that Congress
Q    -- those people reported back you were feeling really angry about
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, you know, I don't think it's possible for me to
convey how terrible I felt for other people that we lost the Congress in
the '94 election.  And all those people that put their necks on the line
and were defeated, primarily because they voted for the economic plan and
the voters hadn't felt the positive impact of it yet; and they voted for
the crime bill.  And they had all these fear arguments out there on what we
did on assault weapons and the Brady bill.  And that was really in the
election cycle, and that passed.  And there was no attempt to see that the
100,000 police and the gun safety measures would work.  But the fear was
And then, of course, when we were unsuccessful in getting even a
compromise initiative on health care that deflated our side's vote a little
bit.  And those three things together caused a lot of very good people to
lose their seats.  And I felt badly about that.
I never felt that -- as so many people did at the time -- that it
meant that the administration couldn't get reelected, because I always
believed that the country had serious problems and we had to tackle them
early and brave the controversy early; and that if I turned out to be right
about our economic strategy, and we continue to make progress and we passed
our education program, the beginning of it, in '93 and '94, that it would
work out fine.  And it did.
But I was frustrated more by what I thought was the preoccupation with
other things, which seemed to me anybody who looked at the evidence would
see didn't amount to anything.  And now we know, after all this time, that
Whitewater thing was a total sham.  It was a sham from the beginning.  It
was a put-up deal.  And everybody knows it now.  But it seemed to me
everybody should have known it years before they did.
So I was frustrated by it -- just because I felt that the most
important thing was to keep moving the country forward.  In terms of
personal credit, I think that -- you know, presidencies go through several
incarnations, many of which occur after they're long gone.  I have had the
opportunity just in my service as President to read about administrations
-- through a lot of American history reading, including about
administrations that most Americans don't know much about.  And I see all
the time  there is this sort of constant process of reassessment about
every period in our history.  So I'll have to leave that to history.
People will be reassessing this period after I'm not even alive anymore.
The only thing I ever wanted enough credit to do was to keep elected,
to stay in office and to keep pushing the country in the direction I
thought was important, and to get enough support in the Congress to do the
things we had to do.
Q    When you see Republicans borrowing at least some of the image of
your political model, if not necessarily the content, do you take that as a
compliment in any way?
THE PRESIDENT:  Absolutely.
Q    Or does it tick you off or do you feel like, how dare they steal
my play book?  What is your reaction to that?
THE PRESIDENT:  No, I'm complimented by it, because I think it shows
that what we did was right, you know, to change the whole nature of our
political rhetoric in the Democratic Party; and that it resonates with the
American people.  This country has always worked best when there was a
dynamic majority for change.  And it always operates out of the center, but
it's not the center, a split the difference center.  It's a center that
reflects the common sense judgment of the American people that the time has
come to change and we ought to change in this direction.  So I take that as
a great compliment.
It's an important beginning for them to say, okay, we know we can't be
and we shouldn't be mean, extremist and sanctimonious in our political
rhetoric anymore.  I think that's a positive thing for them.
Now, I think there is a big difference, however, which is that when I
ran in 1992, I didn't just say we're going to change our party so we can
say to change the country.  I said, here's my economic program, here's my
crime program, here's my welfare reform program, here's my environmental
program, here's my education program, here's the way I'm going to do
government, here's the way we're going to change the way government works.
And we had -- you know, people used to make fun of me, and Paul Tsongas, in
New Hampshire, because we put out these long, detailed booklets about what
we'd do, and then all of a sudden, there were more people showing up for
our town meetings than anybody else.
Maybe it's because I'd been a governor for a dozen years and because
I'd been through a lot of these -- the policy debates, as well as the
political debates.  But I think one of the most important reasons that
we've had some success in our presidency was that we actually laid out in
1992 a vision and a strategy for achieving it.
There is a lot of difference between changing the rhetoric and the
political positioning of a party and changing the substance of the issues.
And one of the things that I thought was interesting, just reading the
aftermath of the Republican Convention, and what a lot of the swing voters
are saying is that, I liked what I saw, they seemed like very nice people;
and I'm glad they're being more inclusive, but what are they going to do if
they get the job?
And I think the reason there may have been some tactic there -- they
said, well, we're ahead, we don't have to say that -- some of it was, we
haven't really changed our policies, so we can't say what our policies are.
But I think that it's really important.
One of the things I think is great about Al Gore's selection of Joe
Lieberman is it sort of ratifies this kind of new democratic direction
we've taken, where we say we'll continue to have policies that are
pro-business and pro-labor, that are pro-growth and pro-environment, that
are for individual responsibility and a broader, inclusive American
I don't want to beat this to death, but I think this is very
important.  There is a scholar named Thomas Patterson, who used to be at
the Maxwell School at Syracuse, used to do a lot of work on the media and
the presidency, who said that in
1995 --
Q    He's a Ben Bradley professor at Harvard, by the way.
THE PRESIDENT:  Is he there?  Well, he put out a -- I had never met
him at the time; I have since actually met him once or twice now, but I did
not know him at the time.  In 1995, when our fortunes were not exactly
high, he was quoted in a newspaper article saying that my administration
had already kept a higher percentage of its promises to the American people
than the previous five presidencies, even though we made more commitments,
more specific commitments.
All I can say is, I think that's very important.  These State of the
Unions have been very important.  State of the Unions for us have been the
equivalent of that first booklet I put out in New Hampshire.  They're a
guidepost and we do the best we can on it.  But you also have to take other
initiatives that come up that are consistent with it.
You know, all the things we did with executive orders, setting aside
the national monuments, or including making sure seniors could be in
clinical trials because Medicare would cover it.  All those things that
they -- those are things that may come up, where we've got an idea factory
here, where the staff is encouraged to come up with ideas, the Cabinet is
encouraged to come up with ideas.  It's all consistent with that.  And even
then when we're reacting -- you know, sometimes things just happen and you
have to react to it.  You can't be so rigid in your organization that you
can't change.  That's the sort of whole essence of the new economy.
Q    Can I ask you about the First Lady's campaign?  There is this
sort of universal consensus that, you know, you're aware of great details,
or the ins and outs of that campaign, even though you're not running it, or
trying not to run it.  But I'm not really sure I know what you do, do.
Like, what is the sort of the nature of your involvement or at least
awareness of the campaign?  How often are the two of you talking?  What
kind of input can you give?  She spent a quarter century being a, sort of,
contributor to your political career.  Now the shoe is on the other foot.
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first of all, I bend over backwards not to get
too involved in it.  Sometimes a week or 10 days will go by and I won't
talk to the people that are running the campaign.  But, obviously, I talk
to her every day, usually more than once a day.  And I ask her how it's
going, what she did.  We discuss it, talk about her day, talk about how
it's unfolding.  I give her my best thoughts.
And then if they ask me to come to a meeting and sit and listen, I do
it.  But it's no -- there is no organized part to it, except that we talk
every day and we talk about it.
Q    Were you an important voice in having her hire Mark Penn, not
just as the pollster, but also helping run the media strategy?  At one
point there was an expectation, like, David Axelrod in Chicago was, you
know, almost had that job.  Then it ended up being Penn.  And some people
attributed that to you, saying you thought that was really important
because he had sort of the right formula down for Democrats to get elected.
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, I do think that and I have a high regard for
him.  But I also think Axelrod is very good.  Axelrod helped me in '92 and
has done things for us since then.  And it seemed to me that she got the
best of both worlds, because Axelrod works with the New York Democratic
Party and does their party thing.  So I felt that the decision she made --
and it was a decision she made; she came to me and she said, what do you
think about this.  And I said, it sounds good to me.  She thought it
through because she wanted to find a way to have both of them involved and
because of our relationship with Mark over the years, she felt very close
I think that there are a lot of good people -- pollsters and political
strategists -- but it's important to have someone that you feel really
comfortable with.  And he basically -- Mark has basically been a part of
our whole kind of new democrat movement.  And I think she just felt a high
comfort level with him.
Q    I am curious how you -- where sort of the loyal spouse ends and
where the -- you know, you try to help politically begins?  The call you
made to the Daily News was one thing.  I didn't know if that was you sort
of acting sort of impulsively, as a husband who was angry about that; or
whether that was you saying, look, this is potentially a problem, I better
see if I can help blunt that as a political matter.  What was that about?
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first of all, I did it -- it may not have even
been the right thing to do, because all it did was sort of give more
visibility to a charge that was hokum, but I think hurt her for --
Q    Most people knew --
THE PRESIDENT:  Most people knew it was hokum.  But I think it hurt
her for a few days only because it happened fortuitously -- fortuitously
for her adversaries -- right at the opening of the Middle East peace talks,
when anxiety was very high in the Jewish community.  So I think that I may
have been in error.
But what actually -- I just wanted to make sure that since they were
working the story, and I knew Mort Zuckerman and Michael Kramer quite well,
and that since I had been injected into the story, that I had a very clear
memory of it and I wanted to know what did and didn't happen and what the
whole background was.  And so I told him.
But you know, by and large, I try to stay out of it. Congressman Lazio
actually featured me in an ad or two, which I thought was --
Q    He's got moxie.
THE PRESIDENT:  Yes, well, at least that.  Senator Moynihan was really
angry when he was used, and said what he thought about it.  But I figure
the voters of New York are smart enough to figure out that I'm for her and
not him.  (Laughter.)  But I haven't been harshly partisan -- so, you know,
Tom DeLay could do the same thing because there is one issue that Tom DeLay
and I really agree on, and I bragged on him.  He came to the White House
and I bragged on him.  I think that's what we ought to do.
I think we can argue with each other in elections without demonizing
each other, and I think when they do that they're wrong.  But I think the
voters are smart enough to figure that out without my help.
Q    You mentioned the Whitewater thing a little earlier, which leads
to a question I wanted to ask about.  Remember in September '98, when you
spoke to your Cabinet, and many of them afterwards spoke to us.  They said
that you had said you had been -- you realized, had been angry for many
days of your presidency.  And I remember that struck me quite a lot,
because, you know, to cover you, you do not seem most of the time like an
angry person or somebody filled with --
THE PRESIDENT:  I'm not by nature an angry person.
Q    So I was sort of astonished to learn that description.  And I'm
wondering to what extent do you still feel that way?  Or do you think
that's changed?
THE PRESIDENT:  I work on it all the time.  But I think that this
whole Whitewater business will be looked upon by any rational observer in
history as an absurd episode in American history which didn't amount to a
hill of beans.  If there had been any special council law on the books at
the time it came up, it wouldn't have triggered a special council.  And
that the coverage of it as if it were serious required people essentially
to suspend all ordinary notions of proof and common sense.  That's what I
really believe.
And as a consequence, scores of innocent people got hurt; a lot of
people got charged with criminal offenses, simply because they refused to
lie; and it did a lot of damage to our political system for no good end.
And I think it will be viewed as an absurd aberration in American history.
I felt very badly about it.  I felt very badly about the way everybody
involved was treated about it.  I still do.  I think it was -- the whole
way it was done was just wrong.
Q    Terry McAuliffe and other people who are friends of yours -- I
was out in Arkansas last week and saw David Leopoulis and Jim Blair,
everybody --
THE PRESIDENT:  Did you see Jim?
Q    I did, yes.
THE PRESIDENT:  How do you think he's doing?
Q    He seemed great.  I don't know him well.
THE PRESIDENT:  Did he tell you how he did in his tennis tournament?
Q    He told me he was playing that weekend.
THE PRESIDENT:  Oh, so you saw him right before?  Yes, because I
haven't talked to him since then.
Q    And I was reluctant to see him.  But I said, look, you know, it
never hurts to call, and I said, if you don't want to, it's fine.  He goes,
no, come on.  I went out to dinner with him and his daughter.
THE PRESIDENT:  Which daughter?
Q    The one that lives here, in Maryland.
THE PRESIDENT:  That's Susie.
Q    Yes, up in Columbia, Maryland.
THE PRESIDENT:  A computer genius.  She made millions of dollars and
now spends all her time -- she spends all her time tutoring inner-city kids
in math.  It's unbelievable.
Q    She's only a year or two older than me and she's --
THE PRESIDENT:  All of his kids are wizards.  They're all in computers
somewhere or another.  One of them has a Ph.D. in philosophy, but she does
all the data processing for a big hospital network in Chicago.  And the
other one works in Texas, his son.
Q    He showed me his art, Peruvian art collection.
THE PRESIDENT:  Great stuff.
Q    It's amazing.  Anyway, everybody is sort of the mind that you
seem more relaxed, sort of more at peace than you have previously.  I'm
just wondering what -- you know, to what extent that's the result of you
seeing the pastoral counsel once a week; to what extent it's just -- in
some ways, it seems to me --
THE PRESIDENT:  In a funny way, I think I am.  And I think part of it
is -- when you go through any difficult period it either breaks you or
makes you better.  I just wake up every day with this enormous feeling of
gratitude.  I'm grateful -- I'm grateful to my wife and to my daughter.
I've got my family back.  I'm grateful to the people who work with me, who
stuck with me.  And I'm enormously grateful to the American people for
continuing to support what I was trying to do for them.  To me, every day
is a gift now.
I still get mad and frustrated and angry.  And one of the things that
I am doing, that I have to work on, frankly -- I'll make a little
confession.  The only thing that I'm feeling about this last year is that I
just want to keep working, I never want to sleep.  My mind is working more
than ever before.  And when Hillary is gone, particularly, in New York, you
know, I go to bed with a pile of stuff that I want to do and I just read
and read and read and read, I just want to keep going.
Q    It does seem like you're in a sprint, you know, traveling here,
fundraiser tonight, fly to Japan and then back, land here today, down to
Charlottesville.  Is that a conscious strategy -- look, I've got six months
to go, or whatever, I'm just going to race to the finish line?  Is that
what it's about?
THE PRESIDENT:  Yes.  And also I think of it in a different way.  I
think, you know, I don't have a campaign to do.  I don't have to live with
those pressures.  And if there is something out there to be done that's
good for my country, or that I think is the right thing to do -- even if it
puts a big strain on me physically -- I know that I won't be under the kind
of stress that I would be in if I were trying to manage a campaign and
manage the presidency; and I ought to resolve down in favor of making the
effort.  Because I ought to do everything I can for America as President
that I can do and still function at a high level, and I can rest starting
at noon on January 20th.  And that's what I intend to do.
MR. PODESTA:  Me, too.  (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT:  We're all going to a rest home together.  (Laughter.)
You know how the President gets to take one last ride on Air Force One and
you wave to everybody, on the helicopter, and then you get on Air Force One
and you wave to everybody?  I'm thinking of loading the whole White House
staff and the whole Cabinet on and going to Bermuda.  (Laughter.)
Q    How much progress have you made in figuring out to me, one of the
big mysteries of the Clinton year, which is, you're a centrist President,
not a left-wing President.  I think your basic instinct is to try to get
along with people.  And, yet, you have this intense antagonism that you
excite on the right.  And I've never seen that it could be entirely
ideological, because you haven't fundamentally been an ideological
President.  Do you have a theory on it?
THE PRESIDENT:  I think I have not been conventionally ideological;
that is, I haven't been -- but I think there are two or three reasons for
it.  And I guess I should start with a little humility.  You can't be liked
by everybody.  You know my favorite story that I tell at least 10 times a
year is about the guy that's walking along the edge of the Grand Canyon and
he slips.  He says, God, why me?  And He says, son, there's just something
about you I don't like.  (Laughter.)  So you've got to allow for that.
But I think, first of all, I have some insight into this because I was
a governor for a dozen years, so I knew all these guys.  I knew the people
that were engineering the campaign in '91 on.  And periodically there have
been stunning flashes of candor coming out of various actors on the other
side.
I think, first and overwhelmingly you have to understand that
basically the Republicans believed that they had made a marriage between
the establishment Republicans and the far right, the religious right and
other ultra-conservative elements like the NRA and all those folks.  And
they thought that that coalition, particularly when it came back and gave
President Bush a resounding victory over Governor Dukakis, they basically
believed that they would always beat Democrats, that they would never lose
the White House until a third party came along.  That's what they believed.
They thought they had found a formula and that they would put us in a
certain box and we would be there and they would make us, in the inimitable
words of Newt Gingrich, the enemy of normal Americans and it would always
And it didn't work.  I think one of the problems that their party had
was they developed a sense of entitlement to the White House.  They railed
against entitlements, but they thought they had an entitlement to govern
and I think it caused them a lot of trouble.  You've got to give Gingrich
some credit -- they don't want to anymore, but the truth is that he figured
out that if they came back in '94, before people felt better about what we
did with the economy or what we did with crime or whether they saw any
progress on welfare, with a specific plan that could both mobilize their
right and hold their establishment, Republicans, they could make some
gains.  And they did.
And what we did in '96 and '98, is we came back with better plans and
better ideas.  But a great debate was joined in America about the future of
the country, and we were winning it.  So I think that -- but they got back
in the game and they stayed in the game, even though what we did in '98 was
truly historic, what the Democrats did, and I give Gephardt and Daschle a
lot of credit for it, and what our people do, because we had a program and
we ran on it.  And we said we're interested in what we can do for you, not
what we can do for ourselves.
So I think part of it was they -- secondly, what were their options?
If they knew the American people agreed with my political philosophy more
than theirs, if they knew the American people agreed with the specifics I
was advocating more than theirs, then what was left?  Personal attack,
discredit, de-legitimize.  And they never stopped, not from '91 through the
'92 campaign.  Then they just started the day after I took my hand off the
Bible taking the Oath of Office, they kept on going.  And it was not
totally unsuccessful.  That is, they succeeded in hurting me, but not
helping themselves.
So now they're in a different place now, they're trying to change
their image and their rhetoric.  But to be fair, too, I think that there
are -- a lot of the whole movement of the Republican Party, even beginning
with President Nixon and the silent majority campaign, to what President
Reagan said, right up to the present day, was based on a certain critique
of the '60s, and what the Democrats were.  You know, our notion of
inclusiveness was to them accepting things that -- even now, the
leadership, we can't get them to embrace the hate crimes bill because it
includes gays.  And the whole idea of opposing the Vietnam War and all
And I think they thought -- I think a lot of them genuinely felt that
I represented a lot of things in the culture that they didn't like.  I
don't think it was all politics.  I think a lot of them didn't like that.
Q    A different question, but maybe a little bit related one.  Have
you figured out -- I mean, I think it's fair to say you had a certain
amount of scratchiness in your press relations over the eight years.  Is
that your view of it?
THE PRESIDENT:  Yes.
MR. SIEWERT:  Last question.  (Laughter.)
Q    And I've got a theory about why that is, but --
THE PRESIDENT:  What is your theory?
Q    I think -- if you leave Whitewater aside, because I know you have
very specific grievances about that, we've talked about -- that modern
political journalism makes its business sort of first and foremost to go to
what are motives behind what somebody says; what's the real agenda; if this
is, sort of, their reality, what's the, maybe not the contradictory
reality, but at least, sort of, the alternate reality.  And I think that
kind of reporting felt like whenever your motives are questioned or not
taken at face value bugs you a lot.  That is my theory.
THE PRESIDENT:  It used to bug me a lot.  It doesn't bug me so much
anymore.  One reason is that I found that that's different from who I am.
That is, I don't make a big habit of questioning the motives of people who
are on the other side of arguments from me.  And I have learned enough from
my own mistakes in life and also from misjudging other people to know that
an analysis based solely on what other people's motives are -- you need to
try to understand them.
But in the end what matters in public life is what is done and does it
advance the American people's -- does it advance the ideals of our country,
the values of our country, the interest of our people.  And so I think it's
a rather hazardous thing to do.
Also, I did feel that in a certain way I got a little more of that
than most, maybe because I was the first person of my generation to win the
presidency; and maybe because I was, in the stirring phrase of my
predecessor, just the governor of a small southern state, not really known
to a lot of people.  And also the fact that I had basically carried this
new democrat DLC banner and there was I think a lot of suspicion to that,
because there was a certain paradigm I think for reporters about here's
what the Republicans are, here's what the Democrats are, here's what the
Republican issues are, here's what the Democrat issues are.
And I think when you challenge that paradigm, it was easy to say,
well, that's just a political stratagem, it's a motive for getting elected,
it's not serious.  But out there in the country I don't think those
paradigms ever worked very well.
I was talking to Dirk Kempthorne today, who's a Republican I admire a
lot and like very much, and a man I worked with on a couple of fairly
important pieces of legislation when he was a senator.  And he said he
really liked being governor -- and I told him he would.  He asked me one
time if I thought he should run for governor.  I told him I thought he
would like it very well because he is a guy who thinks -- and, you know,
we're really different on a lot of issues.  If I were running against him
it would be an honor.  I admire him, I like him, we could have an honest
difference.  And then we could make a lot of agreements and do a lot of
things.  That's the politics that I grew up with.
And to be fair, I also grew up with a lot of the other, of the race
issue in the south, there was always a lot of politics and personal
destruction around that.  So I wasn't unfamiliar with the kind of things I
had been exposed to.
But I think, to me, motive analysis at least has to be undertaken with
a certain amount of humility.
Q    That reminds me of a question I've got.  What is your view of
Arkansas?  Are you going to go home there, at least part of the time?  Skip
Rutherford showed me the site where the library is going to be.  I hadn't
been there in a while, that whole new shopping center there.
THE PRESIDENT:  It's great.  That's an important part of my life, that
whole area, because it's very close to the old State House, where I
declared for President and had my two election nights.  A building that I
basically restored to its historic -- that was one of my projects as
governor, to take it back to the way it was between right when it was
opened in 1836, the year of our statehood.
Q    When you look at Arkansas, it's a place with all this sort of
sentimental attractions for you.  And a lot of your friends are still
there.  I would think on the one hand it's a very positive association.
And it also the place where it seems like somebody is always crawling out
from under some rock -- you've got this disbarment thing.  Jim said, if I
were him, if they do that, I'd pull the damn library out of there and put
it in Georgetown.
THE PRESIDENT:  A lot of my friends in Arkansas think that.  But, see,
I don't have a -- look, I always had adversaries in Arkansas.  And when
Dale Bumpers and David Pryor and I retire, they got the upper hand, because
a lot of the people that we thought were coming along behind us -- like
David Matthews, whom you know -- decided for personal reasons not to run
for governor, not to run for senator.  If David Matthews had run when
Senator Hutchinson did, he'd be senator today.
And Arkansas, I believe, was hurt by the fact that the Arkansas
Gazette couldn't go on.  It was one of the great progressive newspapers in
America for decades.  And it got in this newspaper war and the man that won
is a hardcore, conservative Republican with a long standing opposition to
me.  They basically intimidated all the good people off that committee.
Blair probably told you what happened.
But, you know, that's all true.  But I think it's a great mistake to
analyze a situation only in terms of the adverse factors.  I mean, look at
this -- this state, they elected me governor five times; they stuck with me
through thick and thin; they voted for me twice, even after the Democratic
Party had lost a lot of its leverage there, and the main newspaper was in a
tirade daily against us.  They hung in there.
And if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you
today.  You know, our crowd will come back because -- and we have come
back.  We've got this very progressive -- my congressman, Vic Snyder, is a
great, progressive congressman.  He's one of the few people in Congress,
he's a lawyer and a doctor.  A very interesting fellow.  Marion Berry, who
worked in the White House for me, is our other Democratic congressman from
there.  I think we've got an excellent chance to win a third seat down
there.  You know, you can't let the politics get --
But all these rocks that turn out, you've got to understand, the kind
of people that they've turned up, I made enemies in my years in politics.
And there are people who are disappointed.  What they learned was, they got
a certain set of signals here.  People will assume it's true, unless you
can disprove it.  And you'll be rewarded for that sort of stuff.
So I think that with all of that, the great majority of the people
there just hung in there.
Q    One last question.  I often get the sense at these fundraisers
that you are -- you hear it when you're talking at these fundraisers, it's
almost like, well, you wish you could make the argument or grab the Vice
President or other Democrats by the lapels, no, say it this way, this is
the way to frame the argument, this is the way to frame the question.  How
often are you sort of befuddled by the inability of other Democrats to
articulate the case the way you feel it should be articulated?
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first of all, I think that in '96 and '98 we
pretty well sang out of the same hymnal and we did a very good job.  As I
said, I think you have to give Gephardt and Daschle enormous credit, and
their colleagues, for what happened in '98.  Only a few people understand
the truly historic significance of that election.  I mean, we could have
lost six Senate seats and didn't lose any.  And it was the first time since
1822 that a President's party had won seats in the sixth year of a
presidency, in the House.
And what I think has happened this year is, you know, we had a
primary, a presidential primary, then other things happened.  And I think
that one of the reasons I'm really excited about the Lieberman selection is
I think what you'll see now is a clear commitment to build on the future;
we'll be able to distill it in the congressional races around three or four
issues.  And then I think the Vice President and Lieberman will do a great
job at the convention.
I don't think that's quite fair that I'm frustrated there.  I think my
job is to try, in these fundraisers -- the reason I talk the way I do at
these fundraisers is that all these people who come to our fundraisers know
a lot of other people who don't come to them and who aren't as political,
or maybe even moderate Republicans or whatever.  And what I try to do, that
I think I'm in a unique position to do because I'm not running, is to
analyze the choice before the American people today, in terms of what's
happened and what's going to happen.
The frustration you pick up in my voice is not what the others are not
doing, it's what I think is the only risk for us in this election -- which
I, by the way, if you've been talking to our people, you know I've always
believed that Al Gore will be elected.  I still do.  I have always believed
it.  I never stopped believing it when he was 18 or 20 points behind a year
ago; I always believe it.  I think he's easy to underestimate because he's
a very serious man who doesn't think only about politics all the time.
But if you look at that sort of bouncy, bouncy, Gallup poll that's in
the USA Today, today -- you know, 19 down, two down -- it shows you that
the people are looking for a little meat here.  They want to know what the
real deal is.  That's the most encouraging thing I've seen.  Because the
thing that I've been frustrated about is when times are really good and
people feel good -- and nobody wants to bring them down, least of all me --
everybody has got other things going on in their lives.  So the temptation,
first of all, is to think, well, things are rocking along here and this is
not the biggest election I've ever had to face here, because things are
going so well.
And then to feel, well, because of the strategy adopted by Governor
Bush and by the whole group, well, there's maybe not that much difference
anyway, which reinforces that it may not be important and it clouds
everything up.
What I want to do is to have people stay up, but understand that what
you do with all this prosperity is as big a decision as what we had to in
'92, and maybe more difficult because you have to create something.  You
have to imagine, what is it you want America to look like in 10 years.  You
actually have the ability to do it now.  It's not like you've just got to
turn the ship of state around.  What do you want to do?  And then, what are
the choices?
So I think that I'm in a unique position to sort of talk to the
American people about it like that, and that's what I do at these
fundraisers.  I try to say this is what I honestly believe the choices are.
I don't want the Democrats to be in a position of personally attacking the
Republicans.  I don't want us to get in the position that the other guys
have been in for so much the last eight years.  I don't think we should say
bad things about them.  I think we should posit that they're patriots, that
they love their country, they love their families and they can do what they
think is right.
But we shouldn't be fuzzy-headed here that there aren't profound
differences that won't have profound consequences for how we live and how
we go into the future.  And I believe that after we have our chance at the
convention, and then we'll have the debates unfold, I think that we'll have
some clarity of choice and then we'll see what happens.
When young people come to me and say they want to run for office, what
should they do.  I always give them two pieces of advice.  Number one,
you've got to have a reason that's bigger than yourself for wanting this
job.  And you've got to be able to tell people what it is in fairly short
And, number two, you have to adopt a strategy in the campaign with the
following goal:  on election day, everybody who votes against you will know
exactly what they're doing.  Because if everybody votes against you knows
what they're doing, then you don't have any gripe if you lose.  Now, if
everybody that votes against us this time, votes against the Vice President
and Joe Lieberman knows what they're doing, we'll have a majority of the
Q    Can I ask a one sentence answer, or will I be in the dog house?
One sentence?
THE PRESIDENT:  What?
Q    Do you think a strong year, finishing up 2000 in a sprint, can
that cleanse the mistakes of 1998 to some degree?
THE PRESIDENT:  No.
Q    No?  And you don't view it that way?
THE PRESIDENT:  No.  For one thing, I think that the only thing that
can cleanse a mistake ever is an apology and an atonement.  And I think
that my -- to the extent that the promise I made to the American people to
work like crazy for them every day I was President is a part of that, I
think that the answer to your question may be, yes.
But the reason I said no is, I think the American people accept that
-- you know, they know what happened -- well, they think they know what
happened.  They know that I did something I shouldn't have done and I
apologized for it; but I have tried to atone for it both in a deeply
personal way with my family and my coworkers and friends; but also in a
larger sense by serving the American people.  And I think they have long
since been a framework of putting it behind and of looking to the future
and seeing whether what I'm doing makes sense for them and their families
and their future.  That's why I said, no.
But it is, for me, I have felt a renewed sense of rededication to the
business that I have been elected to perform because they stuck with me and
it's something I'll never forget and always be grateful for.
Q    Thanks a lot.  I appreciate it.
END                   8:20 P.M. EDT


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THE LIGHT OF INTELLECT AND THE SHADOW OF EMOTIONAL LIFE
Many facets in Albert Einstein's personality are graphologically and psychologically intriguing. Among these many, I always found it amazing how lightly he took the "genius" label the world attributed him, without mania of grandeur or feeling a great personage. Simplicity, sobriety and self-irony to the end, though the terrific flattery he was subjected to; moreover, he used his own immense prestige in behalf of a highly, at that moment, controversial cause: pacifism to the end and before all things, in a time in which being a pacifist could be quite more difficult than nowadays.
But everything contributed to the picture of a personage like Einstein, more original, custom-cut to represent a "genius", totally glorified by the press, and his tousled hair and informal look became a powerful symbol: his clear mind versus the horrors of irrationality ruling the world. His life and history had been polished to fit all details in the picture of a "secular saint". This to the moment in which the same press, because of the unavoidable string of up and downs in history, took possession of another side of his life, his relations, showing how, through hard facts' language, his intellectual intuition coexisted with a powerful emotional nearsightedness as well, hence leaving a number of destroyed lives after himself. Einstein begins his emotional life in a well meaning way and with very optimistic expectations. He overcomes his mother's strong opposition to marry a woman scientist, in order to live a full union in all aspects, body, heart, emotions and mind with her. "We are going to work together… We will be able to complete our work about relative motion". (1) The wound from such a failure emerges from his latter behaviour, in denying his wife the role of scientist-without ending in dramatic derangements affecting her inner balance, when subsequently settling herself in a more traditional kind of marriage, whose roles are and must remain well defined and separated and the dream of a perfect union is strongly repelled as illusive, then denying his second wife to use the pronoun "we" about their couple (2).
Whilst it is clear Einstein avoided, in his second marriage, passion in behalf of the steadiness of a well-organized home life (but, to his surprise, this life was also a source of quite a few quarrels) (3), until Mileva Maric's – his first wife's – handwriting will be available for analysis, the real intellectual and emotional exchange between these two will not be understood in its depth. But Einstein still remains, even in this issue, truly ahead of his time in his aspiration to an union between man and woman as deep and complete, and so different from his time's traditional marriages. (4)
No need to judge how politely this marriage was finally ended, as everybody knows to keep one's own self control is really hard for both parties in such a frustrating condition. Moreover, in this case man steps out as a winner (he is the "genius") and wife as a loser by all means, jobless, severely depressed along with the most common feminine script, unaffected by the woman's high education and culture, and, what's more, with two children to take care of. But the main source of sorrow and his shady side where emotional self control, with the years, becomes more and more difficult was, for Einstein, his relationship with his children: to the point of showing in behaviours so improper to be hidden and censored by his own staff, because openly contradicting his persona of "secular saint". Summarizing all these fact synthetically: Einstein abandoned his daughter who was born before his marriage; had a difficult relationship with his eldest son and hardly could cope with the hostility his child showed him. But things got much worse with his second son, Eduard.
Eduard is a precocious, highly intelligent child and patently the one who inherited his father's genius. But Einstein feels really uncomfortable in the presence of this son, because all this bright mind exhibits a dissonant facet: that child shows also a highly rich emotional life, and all his life Einstein tried to control, transcend or, at least, to keep under his reasons' mastery the emotional world.
Einstein, all his life, will not be able to stand the relationship with this child: while his elder son will follow him to the States, Eduard will spend many years locked in a Swiss mental institution and his father never paid him a visit. Facing such a fact, his friends, deeply shocked, urged him to do something, as he had means enough to take him out of there and keep him closer to his father, after his first wife's death. Einstein writes: "Seeing me hurts him". He cannot say "Seeing him hurts ME too much", I come out of it emotionally destroyed, I cannot stand all he stirs about me. Therefore he can have his secretary filter the news about his son and let him have only what he can, in her opinion, stand, and with the sentences that sound too emotional censored.
While Einstein copes with the emotional load of his "genius" label with such a great, wonderful lightness, showing his being deeply self-centred and no interest in mundane appearance, still remains the mystery of his "cruelty" as a father. Or was it something else?
This are two issues in Einstein's life we want to investigate by means of a graphological analysis.
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1. The light of intellect
2. The shadow of the emotional world
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Soccer comes full circle with Chester's first home game
Matthew De George
The Chester boys soccer team takes the field Tuesday afternoon at STEM Academy with support and pageantry from the Philadelphia Union Foundation. The Clippers were playing their first home game in the program's return after a 30-year hiatus. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
CHESTER — Chris Massena isn't sure when he first picked up a soccer ball. He figures it was around the time he started walking. Growing up in Haiti, it was the thing to do.
But when Massena emigrated to the United States in 2012 and settled with his family in Chester, practicing alone with a ball was his only soccer option. Finding a pickup game for kids his age, much less a club, wasn't easy, in a town with two major entities at opposite ends of the soccer spectrum: A world-class stadium housing a pro soccer team, and a high school with legendary athletics that excluded soccer.
Chester coach Scott Spangler hands out jerseys before Tuesday's JV game with Penn Wood, the first Chester High School soccer home game in more than 30 years. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
Massena has found his way athletically, including on the basketball court, where he cracked the Clippers rotation as a sophomore. Eventually, Massena would learn that he wasn't the only one stranded in Chester's soccer desert with an affinity for the beautiful game.
Tuesday afternoon, among his community, he helped make history.
Massena scored Chester's opening goal in the program's first home game after a three-decade hiatus, a milestone day as the community looks to rekindle the soccer flame at the high school level.
"It feels great," Massena said. "I know we lost, but we're just starting. We're going to make history."
Many of the details of the game will fade with time (in the same way that the exact date of scholastic soccer's fade into oblivion at Chester is now recorded as only, "in the 1980s"). Chester lost, 8-2, to Penn Wood, Massena and Ibrahim Kamara providing the goals, the latter from the penalty spot. It wasn't Chester's first game but its third this season. And it's not varsity competition but JV.
But the ambience, with the Clippers running out to the field at STEM Academy in clouds of orange and black smoke fired by members of the Philadelphia Union Foundation and remarks by Chester-Upland School District superintendent Dr. Juan Baughn, had the feeling of a special occasion.
School soccer has returned to Chester. Clippers vs. Penn Wood JV action pic.twitter.com/DifVGwyt08
— Matthew De George (@sportsdoctormd) October 22, 2019
That's certainly how it felt to one the central figures of Chester's soccer revitalization.
"Everything has come full circle," Pat Trippley-Demiranda said. "All the work that we have done and the planning and things we have done, when everyone was saying, 'what are you doing playing soccer? They don't play soccer in Chester.' It's now come full circle. I'm so very proud, so proud."
Trippley-Demiranda has worked for more than a decade to keep alive the name and legacy of her son, William, a Chester native and soccer player who attended Shipley School. He was killed in Chester in 2004, between seasons playing for Elizabethtown College. Though William Trippley succeeded on the field, Pat wanted to make sure other parents didn't have to go the lengths that she did, instead bringing soccer to Chester, via Chester City United. Many of the players on the field Tuesday were introduced to the sport by some combination of Trippley-Demiranda's work and that of Chester Upland Youth Soccer, which uses soccer to teach valuable life skills to young players.
It's only through the work of such people that Tuesday's feat was possible. While the Union could've tossed jerseys on high schoolers years ago just to say Chester had a soccer team, the community approach has valued gradual, incremental change that is broad in scope and deep in impact.
"My favorite thing is driving by one of our school sites and seeing kids playing at recess or playing on the mini pitch at Stetser Elementary on a Sunday, and that says our philosophy is starting to take hold," said Brendan Grady, the executive director and co-founder of CUYS. "Our philosophy at Chester Upland Youth Soccer has always been, let's start small, let's work with the youngest kids and try to grow the game organically over time to the point that we can have enough interested players to participate in a high school game. It's been fantastic to see the maturation of the game."
Set piece magic!! Chester with their first home goal! pic.twitter.com/qgMRUk1Jb9
— X – Philadelphia Union (@PhilaUnion) October 22, 2019
The team is primarily comprised of ninth-graders, many of whom have played since elementary school. The plan, athletic director Andre Moore said, is to keep the boys team at JV next year and elevate to varsity competition in 2021.
Due to interest levels, the girls program is one year behind that schedule, with 12 student-athletes committed to a JV slate next fall, with varsity targeted for 2022. Under coach Scott Spangler, the boys program has an offseason regimen to get players chances to improve that would otherwise be lacking.
Moore points out that for all the deserved celebration Tuesday, soccer has been played in Chester elementary and middle schools for the last four years, the brick-by-brick foundation for the festivities.
Chester's Chris Messena, left, kicks the ball in midfield against Penn Wood Tuesday. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
"There's a lot of hard work from people on the outside to make this happen," Moore said. "We've had a lot of support throughout the community – the Philadelphia Union, the Trippley Foundation. It was a lot easier when you have people like that in your corner, including the Chester-Upland School District."
The Union have increased their community investment in recent years, along with waterfront neighbor Power Home Remodeling Group. That effort built the pitch at STEM, the mini-pitches, plus jerseys and operational support for events like Tuesday.
Whatever the score, it's a starting point. That's what Spangler, a three-time All-Delco and two-time Daily Times Boys Soccer Player of the Year at Strath Haven, was looking for.
"We want to make sure that we compete," Spangler said. "You go into every game thinking and believing that we can win. Whether the results are that or not, these kids still walk out with good spirits. I think the goal is that we improve on the soccer side each game."
Tuesday's game makes the pursuit of soccer in Chester more real. The Union can seem distant in its part of town. But grafting Chester's signature orange and black onto a soccer field offers the community ownership of the project.
"There's a buy-in now," Trippley-Demiranda said. "Now they see they can go and actually play for this school. When my son was playing soccer, he couldn't play for the school; there was nothing here. Now they can play on a club team and know that they can come home and play on their high school team and have their family see them. It's important."
Massena shows that it's possible to fit soccer into the Chester sporting landscape.
"We're going to make it a soccer city," he said. "It's a basketball city right now. We want to make it both."
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By Evans Taylor • On February 18, 2015 March 12, 2015 • In Featured	Featured Global Internet Governance, ICANN, IGF, NETMundial Comments Off on ICANN CEO: NetMundial is an "Extracurricular Activity"!
The ICANN CEO has finally clarified ICANN's position on the NETMundial Initiative.
Giving his answer in one of the ICANN meetings during the Singapore 52 meeting, he put to rest the mounting questions over the relationships between ICANN, WEF, NETMundial and other partnerships formed during the formative stages of the Initiative.
The NETMundial took center stage in the past year of 2014 almost creating a notion that it was ICANN's own main initiative. Its news almost overwhelmed the serious new gTLD processes that have several names being delegated while others remain in accountability mechanisms.
Such clarifications that "ICANN involvement in the world economic forum and in NetMundial are not in any way related to our core activities" is a surprising welcome and a shift in presentation especially in 2015 when the focus is shifting more towards the IANA Transition.
No more NETMundial meetings and …"The IGF is here to stay"!
The IGF's mandate and position has again been given a boost of confidence. With the future o the NETMundial not quite determined, the IGF seems to have a stamp of confidence. Last year there were worries that the NetMudial would replace the IGF Forum.
Fadi also emphasized "there is a sense sometimes that the NETmundial platform replaces the internet governance forum or competes with it… let me be superbly clear that these are completely complementary activities.." this response comes immediately after news of the European Parliament IGF resolution.
You would think the African Union as a wanna-be player at ICANN would have supported such a resolution, but representatives of African Union are still playing a quid pro quo with ICANN on its .africa TLD, so it has decided not to stir the Boat of any ICANN initiative.
It is reported on various online sources that there was a $200K allocation for the NMI. That "ICANN CEO Chehade told the conference call [MP3] between the organizers of the "NetMundial Initiative" and business organization that each of the three organizers was putting in US$200,000 each for the first year of the initiative – $600,000 in total. Questions have been asked for the rationale on that spending. Where is the NETmundial finally going to, time will tell.
"A fledgling attempt to create a new global Internet governance clearinghouse has run into trouble as leading business and civil organizations said they are not yet prepared to participate in the NETmundial Initiative (NMI) championed by ICANN President Fadi Chehade." He continues that "When you have so many global stakeholders addressing such complex Internet issues, a single point of focus can become the single point of failure".
Public money on "extracurricular activity"?
The ICANN CEO in his response during the ICANN Board and GAC meeting mentioned above, admitted the NetMundi has nothing to do with ICANN's core functions. Then why would ICANN spend public money or allocate any effort to the wished of the CEO's "Extra-Curricular Activity". That is The $64,000 question, and one that requires investigation on ICANN's business practices.
What is ICANN's core function?
Therefore ICANN should strive to build its future plans around this core functions, and especially strengthen its own accountability measures and the new gTLD program. There are so far eleven (11 ) IRPs filed under the new gTLD program, and the famous .africa taking the lead!


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El cubalibre es un cóctel cubano resultante de la mezcla del refresco de cola con ron y jugo de limón. Generalmente producido a base de ron añejo, bebida de cola, limón, sal, agua mineral y azúcar. En México se le llama solo cuba y en España se le conoce con idéntico término, cubalibre, aunque coloquialmente se refiere a él como cubata (en algunas comunidades del país este término, cubalibre y cubata, se ha ampliado a cualquier bebida resultante de mezclar refrescos y bebidas alcohólicas de alta graduación).

Características
La receta más clásica consiste en poner en un vaso varios cubos de hielo, añadir 10ml de ron oro o añejo (el blanco se aleja de la receta clásica de Bacardi Oro) y terminar de completar el vaso con refresco de cola. Finalmente se añaden unas gotas de lima, preferentemente, aunque a falta de esta se empleará limón y se adorna con una rodaja del mismo cítrico. En ocasiones pueden usarse rones añejos, al gusto, pero lo correcto es usar un ron blanco ligero.

La forma más común de tomarlo es en vaso ancho (en la mayoría de provincias de España se usaba el vaso de tubo, aunque ya se ha generalizado el uso del vaso ancho para este cóctel), acompañado de hielos y una rodaja de limón.

Denominaciones
La acepción cubata viene de la costumbre española desde la segunda mitad del  de derivar con el sufijo -ata palabras coloquiales y familiares, como bocata, ordenata, etc., nacidas del humorista Antonio Fraguas, alias Forges. El término roncola utilizado en Chile proviene de la mezcla de los dos ingredientes y también puede ser aplicado en cualquier otro trago, como en el caso de piscola, unión del pisco y refresco de cola. Esta fórmula se ha extendido a términos similares, tales como la wiskola (con whisky), gin-tonic (gin y tónica) o la tincola (con vino tinto, conocido como jote o calimocho). Incluso, en Venezuela también se prepara la llamada cervecola, combinación de cerveza tipo Pilsen y refresco de cola.

Historia
El Cuba Libre surge en La Habana, Cuba, alrededor de los años 1901-1902. Las fuerzas norteamericanas que colaboraron con Cuba durante la guerra hispano-estadounidense, mezclaban regularmente ron Bacardí y bebida de cola en un vaso de los utilizados para servir whisky, esta bebida empezó entonces a denominarse Cuba Libre, en honor al grito de batalla de las tropas cubanas.

Un soldado de la época cuenta la siguiente versión:

 "La segunda bebida más popular del mundo nació en una colisión entre Estados Unidos y España. Sucedió durante la Guerra Hispano-estadounidense en el cambio de siglo con Teddy Roosevelt y los Rough Riders.
Una tarde, un grupo de soldados fuera de servicio desde el cuerpo de señales de Estados Unidos se reunieron en un bar de la Habana Vieja. Donde un joven mensajero Fausto Rodríguez, más tarde recordó que el capitán Russell llegó y ordenó Ron Bacardi (oro) y Coca-Cola en hielo. El capitán bebía con tal placer que despertó el interés de los soldados a su alrededor por lo que el barman prepara una ronda de bebida del capitán para ellos. El Ron Bacardí y Coca cola fue un éxito instantáneo. Como lo hace hasta el día de hoy, la bebida. Cuando ordenaron otra ronda, un soldado sugirió que se brindara ¡Por Cuba Libre! en celebración de la Cuba recién liberada".

Ingredientes

 50ml ron dorado añejo (blanco se desvía de la receta original)
 120ml de cola
 Hielo
 10ml de zumo de limón
 No lleva decoración, algunos colocan una rodaja de limón.

Preparación
La receta más común consiste en poner en un vaso alto y fino (ya que el cubalibre es un trago largo), el jugo del limón, dos o tres cubitos de hielo (a gusto), una copa de ron y completamos hasta llenar con el refresco de cola y removemos. Para terminar introducimos en el vaso una rodaja de limón y una pajita.

Véase también
 Cóctel

Referencias

Bacardí
Cócteles cubanos
Cócteles con ron
Cócteles de dos ingredientes

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The United States Department of Justice seized about 5,000 cases of frozen, processed crab products manufactured by Rome Packing Company because the seafood may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. The government alleges that Rome prepared, packed, and processed Jonah Crab products in a facility contaminated with the pathogenic bacteria.
According to court documents, the FDA inspected Rome's facility on six different occasions and found that the facility's cooking process did not adequately control temperatures to prevent bacterial growth. Environmental swab samples collected from three areas of the facility allegedly tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. And poor sanitary practices and conditions in the facility may have caused cross-contamination between cooked and raw foods. The bacteria can survive the freezing process and can grow at refrigerator temperatures.
Rome Packing recalled fresh and frozen crab meat twice in 2014, both times for possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The first recall was issued on May 28, 2014 for minced crab meat sold nationwide. The second recall was on October 22, 2014. The products were distributed in Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, and California.
The symptoms of Listeria monocytogenes food poisoning include flu-like fever and muscle aches, upset stomach or diarrhea, stiff neck, headache, loss of balance, confusion, nausea, diarrhea, or convulsions. The symptoms may take up to 70 days to appear, which makes it difficult to diagnose and difficult to trace the illness back to the food that may have caused it. The average time between exposure and symptom development is three weeks.
Pregnant women are especially vulnerable to this illness. Listeriosis can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, and infection in the newborn baby, even if the woman is only mildly ill. Any flu-like symptoms in pregnant women should be immediately reported to a physician. Some physicians treat pregnant women with antibiotics if they have eaten foods recalled for Listeria contamination, even if they aren't ill. A newborn infant infected with Listeria can suffer seizures, paralysis, blindness, or deafness.
If you purchased any crab meat from Rome Packing, under the All Natural Jonah label and experienced the symptoms of listeriosis, see your doctor. Proper and early treatment is critical for a good outcome.


Strength: The constant resistance of the water provides an environment that strengthens your muscles. You'll use your upper and lower body simultaneously making it a full body workout. Kicking is an effective leg and glute workout while the shoulders, back, arms and core get involved with each stroke.
Stress Busting: Swimming has been shown to minimize stress and improve mood. Swimmers will tell you the water is soothing and peaceful. A few laps in the pool can help boost your energy levels for the day, clear your head and leave you feeling refreshed. Those with arthritis or osteoporosis find the low impact exercise an especially welcome alternative to land exercise.
If you are a beginner, start with shorter sessions, focus on form and consider taking lessons. Correct form will help decrease risk of injury and improve your efficiency in the water.


Happy birthday! I am getting close to that number too...it was fun to turn 30- I picked something I always wanted to do and hubby made it happen. Good memory, good way to enter my 3rd decade! I plan to do something like it for my 4th too. I love the new blog! What a great idea!
If it's any consolation, your 40's Rock -- hard! It's the whole getting there that leaves the scars. Enjoy every step of your journey forward.
I'm off to check out your new stuff!
I think your idea for the new blog is great. I saw it. It's awesome!
I love the Crafter's Library idea. It looks great and I'd definitely follow.


I didn't say you "don't know". I said, "you don't have to know". Assuming your graphics card was on the same rail as the drives, fans, motherboard, etc. and you overloaded that rail? What would you do? Nothing. But that's not going to be a problem because they split certain connectors up across certain rails to help in AVOIDING any one rail from getting overloaded... even if your graphics card was pulling 14A from any one rail.
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Australia, where it was being tested as a method of controlling rabbit numbers.
shortage of rabbits for food, would affect Australia's natural fauna.
the eagles are being driven to feed on road kills.
the effects of the reduction in rabbits, he says.
reduction in the number of introduced predators such as foxes and feral cats.


This is the 3rd in a series of video blog posts that are designed to help you better understand the various yoga programs on our site. This video focuses on our program that helps people who are experiencing chronic stress, anxiety and depression.
In this video, David stresses that the process of letting go has nothing to do with 'doing', and everything to do with understanding how to stop 'doing'. It's the essence of awareness, of mindfulness that there is a complete lack of effort and rather a wide-open attuned, listening, feeling totality of existence.
It begins with trying it and practicing it, but it also requires that you believe that this kind of existence is possible for you. David discusses what it takes to get there and why it is so important when you are wanting to let go of mental and physical patterns that have been making you feel tired, stressed and anxious.
Watch the video below for more on this topic, go to the program to try it out and go to our forum to ask questions and share your experience.
David is DoYogaWithMe's founder. After doing his first yoga class in his early twenties, he was driven to heal himself from successive injuries as an athlete and yearned to go deeper into his spiritual practice. Since then, David has explored many different styles of yoga, delved deep into the world of meditation and experimented with yoga breathing techniques. He is a yoga and meditation instructor, massage therapist, videographer, writer and dad and is known for his calm, skilled delivery, his ability to encourage people to be connected to their inner experience and his knowledge of anatomy, alignment, meditation, relaxation and pranayama.


June, hello, you're here! You're here early, no? Same time last year?
Well, you look great. Truly.
Did you change something about yourself?
You are so warm and so bright and so promising.
How did it feel? Were you anticipating the next moment, the next breath, the next unfolding, or doing, or event? The end? The next thing? We are here. June is here. Spring has arrived. We are all complete, exactly how and where and as who we are. Let's rejoice in this truth. How about now?
With the shifts and the changes and the movement occurring all around us as we move from the winter's womb to the sensations and the zest and the robustness of the spring and summer, I feel it is important to anchor into the present as you feel necessary. Make it a daily practice. And consciously. With deliberation, pause and allow in the beauty of the season; of this present second, rising and falling before us; of the blades of grass along the lawn, individually and as a team reaching up at the sun and stretching and soaking it in, just because it feels so good. Allow your time, your life, to feel so good.
Last weekend we at Shanti welcomed, for his first retreat offering here, Nigel Walker of Ottawa, for a nourishing and summery retreat. He shared with us the gift of yoga. If you're in the Ottawa area, definitely see if you can squeeze in a class with him. The way he describes and outlines and phrases things is so immaculately crystal clear. From instructing a yoga-model to demo wheel pose, to guiding us through a sweet savasana (with live music), his offerings landed really well in my body, and seemingly the bodies of those around me in the yurt. Happy inhales; delicious exhales. And, incredible weather, all weekend long. The sun was our good friend, consistently and profoundly. I think I spotted tan lines. On Saturday night we had a bonfire (and s'mores for hours) accompanied by the talented and magical Lucila Al Mar, also of Ottawa, who will be releasing her first album this October. Nigel and Lucila brought with them their crew of blessed yogis and yoginis from Ottawa – a powerful and beautiful yoga family. Their spirit showered Shanti's grounds and they left on Sunny Sunday, leaving a trail of magic, a spiritually delicious after taste. Thank you Nigel, thank you Lucila. Until next time!


I cannot believe it is Friday already! This makes me super excited- no big plans for the weekend but sometimes that is nice. This week I thought would have gone by much slower due to the fact that we were negotiating (& still are) back and forth trying to gain our 'forever' home. If you read my post earlier in the week we put in an offer, got countered- put in another, got countered- and now we are trying to decide what we want to do! Whew...no stress at all right? (bank owned fixer-upper so the process is a little different) anyway, with that said, prayers are needed and keep your fingers crossed that this doesn't end up being a super long waiting process! (Patience is a virtue I know..) Linking up with Christina as usual! Happy Weekend Ya'll!
We also added new heavy-duty shelving in our pantry. The pantry was becoming a huge cluttered and scary mess so Seth took it upon himself to take charge. They may not be the 'prettiest' but you never see them since the door is kept closed. It actually feels like we have more space in there with those huge things!
Last night we had our annual Jaycees installation banquet and since honey was off (for once) we got to enjoy a little date night away from home!
I have a guilty pleasure/obsession with Caroline Hill jewelry. A friend of mine in Atlanta has it all in her shop and it is so incredibly affordable that you can order on the fly and dress-up any outfit! Look at these cuties that came this week?
Our wedding album finally arrived from our photographer! We were so excited to get this beauty and re-live the memories- she did such an AMAZING job!
I've got to sit down and plan out my wedding album, bride fail. good luck with the house, we looked for 8 months and finally got our house it was our 3rd we offered on!
It is such a darn process! Whew! Good to know you do have your dream home now!
Woo hoo on getting your wedding album - and I have to say that thermostat is pretty legit!! Hope all goes well with the house!
Woohoo wedding album. Girl I haven't even thought of doing mine yet, eeek!
I love that you call your man honey too, so cute!
haha it just sort of started sticking- 'honey' have a good weekend!!
In LOVE with the new thermostat and cannot wait until we get to rip our lovely vintage one straight out of the wall!! I cannot wait to follow you and see all of your design tips :) Happy Friday!
The Nest!! That's ideal!! Hooray for the wedding album- it's a priceless item you will cherish forever!
The home upgrades are awesome!!! Love it. Pray that everything works out how it's supposed to with the forever home!! Happy Happy Weekend!
Thank you so much Meagan!!
Look at your home improvement this week! Go YOU (& the hubby!)! I love that jewelry too. And you look gorgeous on your date!
Thanks Mia and you as well!!
Wedding album is gorgeous! I need to get on ours. I have made one for all of our parents, except us!
Thank you! I made smaller ones for the parents on shutterfly but this heavy little number we let our photographer design!
Love the wedding album! It looks so well done! :) I still need to make one from our pictures! Your pantry looks awesome! I would love to have a pantry in our house. We have hardly any cupboards in our house. Hopefully it will all work out with your house! Have a great weekend!
Love that jewelry! And your wedding album is gorgeous. The blue + yellow really pop! Have a great weekend.
Loveeeee those earrings, Jessi!! And talk about a fancy thermostat! I need one of those...!
So exciting/stressful about the house! We've started looking and one house we loved was already off the market before we could put an offer on it :( Good luck making your decision! Beautiful wedding album! I've been meaning to make ours, but there are too many options to choose from. Hope yall have a wonderful weekend!
You as well and good luck!! house hunting is fun and all but geez it's scary/stressful too!!
The album looks beautiful from what I can see... and, I would KILL for a pantry the size of yours!!!
You will LOVE the Nest!! We had one in our old house!! Yay for the wedding book!! So fun to relive those memories!!
Your wedding album looks beautiful and so do those earrings! I'll be checking those out soon! Happy weekend Jessi!
Totally just shared Mission Cute by the way! love it!
Good luck with the house situation..that must be stressful, but exciting too!
PS- that thermostat sounds SO cool, haha!
We just went through an extremely LONG process buying our home! I will be saying prayers!! It will be the best thing you ever do and its been so fun getting to make this house completely ours with our own touch! Cant wait to hear what you guys end up doing!! Have a fabulous weekend!
I love that jewelry line! Happy Friday and Good luck making that big decision on home buying!!
Yay for wedding album! So fun! That thermostat is crazy!!! Technology these days can be so incredible! Pantry looks great! Gotta love some extra room and organization! Best of luck with the outcome on the house! Just remember, everything happens for a reason and you will be directed in the right path for what is virutally meant to be! Have a great weekend!
We are definitely putting in a Nest when we build our home. They are extremely energy efficient. You may be able to get a rebate or an incentive on it from your utility company as well. I work for our local gas and electric company and we have all kinds of programs for money back on energy efficiency upgrades like thermostats and insulation. Happy weekend!!!
Yay for getting your wedding album! PS My husband and I were married the week before you guys. We still have to pick up our album. :( Have a great weekend!
Thanks for the new jewelry introduction! I love those pieces - definitely need to check more of her stuff out! Hope you're having a great weekend.
That is super exciting to get your wedding album in! And what a great idea about the heavy duty shelving in the pantry! I think it actually looks great to be able to have everything organized!
Your Wedding Album is so incredibly gorgeous!!
Amazing post dear!!Come to see mine, and my new post "Truth teller"


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This push car can be used a stroller, a walking car, and a riding car that is perfect for children ages 1-3. The versatility of this push car provides dynamic fun for developing children. Several great features are provided to cater to their senses. It is a vibrant red with eye popping decals. Featuring a steering wheel with horn. There is a handle that can be used for both pushing and pulling. A compartment underneath the seat is provided for storage. It is built of strong, durable plastic with a weight limit of 20kg. The push car is easily assembled and does not require batteries. Every kid will definitely love this adorable 3 in 1 push car.


Many of the leading transparency vendors utilize Leapfrog data in their platforms that assist consumers in making informed health care choices.
Rates of C-section, mortality rates for high risk procedures and implementation of practices to prevent medication errors are all powerful snapshots of hospital performance that help users recognize they do have a choice when it comes to hospital care.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Leapfrog's letter grade rating of hospital safety, provides an easy-to-understand and instant assessment of hospital safety.
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There is no doubt that people who engage in construction projects are going to be using concrete one way or another. This is basically the go-to material in construction in this day and age. Aside from that, it's also pretty affordable as well. You want to make use of concrete sealers that are high quality, of course. This is going to affect the outcome of your project in so many ways. You need to install the sealer in the best possible way. This article will show you how important it really is to apply these steps properly.
A concrete sealer will make the surface of the concrete look a lot glossier.
Using these sealers would block the dirt from getting into the concrete in more ways than one.
There would be a reduction of spalling, cracking, musty odors, crumbling, efflorescence, and many more.
Concrete sealers will make your concrete a lot easier to clean and at the same time more durable as well; all the factors that could possibly corrode would be kept from taking any effect at all.
Be sure to protect your concrete in the best possible way in order to ensure the ideal results. It would be easier to add colors when you have these sealers to use.
You have to do your research on the various types of concrete sealers so that you would be able to know the best one to use. Secondly, you have to know which works best for the kind of concrete you are using as well (take note that there are a lot of them). You may have some things to factor in that would affect your venture in certain ways. You have to be aware of them so that you can choose the ideal type of sealer as much as possible.
There are various types of sealers which you can take advantage of. People have to be aware of what the best coating is so that it would create the ideal results in their projects. It will make your project so much more durable and a lot more attractive at the same time. Using an acrylic sealer will truly help you achieve this goal in more ways than one. These sealers are very popular because lot of people prefer them more than others. You need to know about all these important things. Take a look at all your options online to ensure good results. You have to be aware of how toxic the material is. Once you are aware of this, you would be able to maintain them in the best possible way.
There are kits that would help you achieve this in more ways than one. You can choose from the many sealers that are available in the market. Some of the sealers are actually pretty cheap, however, if you ever choose from among these options, you need to select high quality ones at all times. The surfaces of your concrete have to look the best and this is how you would be able to do that in more ways than one. Make sure to check reviews and feedbacks from these concrete sealers online.


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Although I don't set the scope of this blog, from my previous posts it should be obvious that this is a technical blog. I rarely post anything which is non-technical in nature, here; and I plan to keep it that way.
But there have been things moving under the radar which, while in itself is not technical in nature, will affect technical people the most, and hit them the hardest. Especially people working in the FOSS, either professionally, or as hobby.
The blog post is too long to write in one go, so I will split this into a few posts.
For many years, I have been under the silly belief that nothing, nothing, short of global-level calamity (the kind that involves extinction of mankind), can stop the FOSS movement. The horse has left the barn; the critical mass has been reached and the reaction cannot be stopped.
The traditional way companies have fought each other is by throwing money for marketing and fire sale; outspending each other until the other cave in and goes bankrupt. Alternatively, they can swallow each other ("merge and acquire"); and once merged they just kill the "business line" or "the brand".
But they can't fight FOSS like that. Most FOSS companies survive on support. You can acquire them (e.g. MySQL), and then kill them; but one can easily spring up the next day (e.g. MariaDB). You cannot use fire sale on software licensing continuously, because the price of FOSS software licensing is eventually $0, and you can't compete with "free", well, not forever.
I still remember the days that a certain proprietary software company threw their flailing arms up in the air in exasperation, for not being able to compete against FOSS. The only thing they could do was bad-mouth FOSS and keep talking about "quality", and "amateur", and "unprofessional" when it was obvious their own products and conducts was none the better either.
So I was a believer that money cannot stop FOSS.
And how wrong I turned out to be.


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Q: $P(\limsup_nX_n\geq x)\geq\limsup_nP(X_n>x)?$ Let $\{X_n\}$ be a sequence of random variables. Does it hold that for every $x\in\mathbb R$ $$P(\limsup_nX_n\geq x)\geq\limsup_nP(X_n>x)?$$ If yes, what can be used to prove this?

A: As @Math1000 pointed out, this comes from the reverse Fatou's lemma.
$$\limsup_nP(X_n\geq x) = \limsup_n\int 1_{(X_n \geq x)}dP \\
\leq \int \limsup_n 1_{(X_n\geq x)}dP = P(\limsup_n {(X_n\geq x)}).$$
To verify the conditions of the theorem are satisfied, one can simply use $g \equiv 1(\omega)$ as the non-negative integrable function.

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News Release 18-Nov-2020
Alzheimer's disease drug may help fight against antibiotic resistance
image: UQ's Dr David De Oliveira in the lab, testing the efficacy of PBT2 in disrupting and killing antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. view more
Credit: The University of Queensland
An experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment is proving effective at treating some of the most persistent, life-threatening antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Researchers from The University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne and Griffith University have discovered that the drug called PBT2 is effective at disrupting and killing a class of bacteria - known as Gram-negative bacteria - that cause infections such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections and meningitis.
UQ's Professor Mark Walker said the metal transport drug may offer a last line of defence against some of the world's most difficult to treat superbugs.
"The emergence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs is an urgent threat to human health, undermining the capacity to treat patients with serious infection," Professor Walker said.
"Alternative strategies to treat such multi-drug resistant bacteria are urgently needed.
"Led by UQ's Dr David De Oliveira, our team hypothesised that, by using this experimental Alzheimer's treatment to disrupt the metals inside these bacteria, we would also disrupt their mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.
"This was shown to be the case, with the Alzheimer's drug - combined with the antibiotic polymyxin - successfully tackling antibiotic-resistant superbugs like Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli."
Griffith University's Professor Mark von Itzstein AO from the Institute for Glycomics said the new treatment was effective, and offered a range of other benefits.
"Based on its use as an experimental Alzheimer's treatment, there's been a significant amount of solid science done on this drug already," Professor von Itzstein said.
"We know, for example, that clinical studies of PBT2 show that it is safe for use in humans.
"And, given that we've been able to combine it with the antibiotic polymyxin to treat polymyxin-resistant bacteria, we may be able to make other now-ineffective antibiotics become effective again for treating infectious diseases.
"This could resharpen, so to speak, some of the weapons we thought we'd lost in our fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria."
The University of Melbourne's Associate Professor Christopher McDevitt, from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), said the drug had already proved effective beyond the petri dish.
"Animal studies show that the combination of polymyxin and PBT2 kills polymyxin-resistant bacteria, completely clearing any infection," Associate Professor McDevitt said.
"Hopefully in the not-too-distant future people will be able to access this type of treatment in the clinic.
"New techniques are critical in addressing this building threat to human health, and this treatment is an additional weapon in our arsenal to fight the accelerating threat of antibiotic resistance.
"If these new solutions aren't developed, it's estimated that by 2050, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria will account for more than 10 million deaths per year.
"This new treatment could help turn the tide on antibiotic resistance."
The study is published in Science Translational Medicine (DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb3791).
Science Translational Medicine
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Dominic Jarvis
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See New Hampshire Through the Eyes of Architect Alice Chiang
Alice Chiang is an architect.
Having lived in numerous cities, including Rome and Shanghai, she has experienced environments and spaces all over the world that have nurtured her passion for urban design and architecture. She is inspired and excited by the social impact that architecture creates among people and communities.
Chiang's Secret Escape
But even passions can get tiresome. Chiang has a secret escape that lies in the wild playground of New Hampshire. Her reason? Opportunities. For Chiang, that's what climbing is about. She says she believes there are very few times in life when you get the opportunity to experience such fear and uncertainty.
Chiang splits her time between working at a leading architecture firm in Boston, Massachusetts, and climbing in the neighboring state of New Hampshire. She climbs almost every weekend in the White Mountain National Forest. Chiang loves that she can jump easily between the city and mountains, and believes that both environments inform and inspire her work and life.
Initially, she found rock climbing terrifying. But after a few trips with the right gear and the right partners, she has learned how to embrace that fear, to control it, accept it and work with it. Now all she sees when she faces a tough climb are options.
See New Hampshire Through the Eyes of Architect and Rock Climber Alice Chiang
New Hampshire's North Country: Grand Adventures for Family Fun
Explore White Mountain National Forest
Maine Outdoors: Exploring Natural Beauty in Bethel and Newry
Dog Chapel
An Insider's Guide to New Hampshire's Lakes Region
Rock of Ages Granite Quarry
Ask a Local About New Hampshire
Your Guide to Skiing and Snowboarding in New England
Madame Sherri's Castle
New England: Exploring the Birthplace of America
New England Road Trip: Big-City Boston, Coastal Beauty and Mountain Adventures
3 Parks, 5 Days: East Coast Mountains
5 Great Places in the U.S. to See Fall Foliage
3 Unusual Snow Experiences in the USA
6 Affordable Places to Stay in the U.S. Great Outdoors
The New England Coast
Plan a Camping Trip You'll Never Forget
7 Family-Friendly Vacation Ideas In New York
City Tour - New York City
Travel to Broadway and the Heart Of New York City


The photographs in this post are included in Paul Koudounaris recently released 3rd book Momento Mori: The Dead Among Us. Koudounaris made expeditions to more than 60 countries to photograph decorated skulls, ossuary tombs and a range of other morbid artifacts.
I've talked to some extremely interesting individuals this year! Click on the images to find and read the interviews from 2014. Then get prepared for a wealth of new introductions in 2015.
I always, always ask for notebooks when the time comes. If you have a writer in the family, this Little Black Book from Bad Books if bloody perfect. Handmade using soft, faux leather and assorted paper, it's utterly unique and special.
It is often the case that when a book is adapted for the screen, the author's vision of the world they have created isn't what is presented to the audiences. Here is how George RR Martin envisaged Westeros, one of the four known continents of the known world.