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You must be through a traditional publishing company to even have a shot at this list. The category and window of your release all significantly impact the number of copies required to hit the NYT bestseller list, but 5,000 copies during any one-week period is the minimum.
1. How many copies does a NYT bestseller sell?
1.1. What does New York Times #1 best-seller mean?
2. How many copies does a best-seller have?
3. How much does a NY Times best-selling book make?
How many copies does a NYT bestseller sell?
If you want to be a bestselling author on the NY Times list, you must sell between 5,000-10,000 copies of your book in one week, but the sales cannot all come from one entity. Your book sales must be distributed.
What does New York Times #1 best-seller mean?
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.
How many copies does a best-seller have?
So if you want your book to be a best-seller, you should try to sell at least 5,000 copies in a week — from Monday to Sunday if you want to be a Publishers Weekly best-seller, and from Sunday to Saturday if you want to be a New York Times best-seller.
How much does a NY Times best-selling book make?
Authors who make the NYT bestseller list have to sell at least 10,000 copies, so at a 10% royalty rate with a book priced at $20, they'll make at least $20,000—much of that going to pay back their initial advance.
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New Release: The Lost Diggers by Ross Coulthard
"It's a treasure trove. It's previously unknown, candid images of troops just out of the line. Men with the fear and experiences of battle written on their faces." – General Peter Cosgrove, AC MC, Former Chief of the Defence Force
During the First World War, thousands of Aussie diggers and other Allied troops passed through the small French town of Vignacourt, two hours north of Paris. Many of them had their photographs taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier as souvenirs while they enjoyed a brief respite from the carnage of the Western Front.
For all too many of those soldiers, this was their last moment away from the lines before being sent to their deaths in battles that are now part of the mythology of Australian nationhood – Pozieres, Bullecourt, the mud and blood of the Somme. The weariness and horror of battle is reflected in their eyes, but the photos also capture a sense of camaraderie, high spirits and even a soupçon of romance.
The Lost Diggers is the riveting detective story of the hunt across northern France for a rumoured treasure trove of antique glass photographic plates that led investigative journalist Ross Coulthart to an ancient metal chest in a dusty attic in a small farmhouse.
The nearly 4000 glass plates he and his team from Channel 7's Sunday Night discovered are being hailed by experts as one of the most important First World War discoveries ever made.
But that was just the beginning. With meticulous research and the help of descendants, Ross Coulthart has been able to discover the stories behind many of the photos, of which more than 330 appear in the book.
Part thriller, part family history and part national archive, The Lost Diggers brings together these wonderful images and the amazing stories behind them.
"I think these photographs rank up there with one of the most important discoveries from the First World War." Ashley Ekins, head of Military History, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Part of the team on Channel 7's Sunday Night, Ross Coulhart is one of Australia's foremost investigative journalists. He's won a Logie and five Walkley journalism awards including the Gold Walkley. Ross has previously reported for Four Corners, Sixty Minutes and The Sydney Morning Herald, and is the author of two previous bestsellers
Posted on October 18, 2012 October 17, 2012 Author Clayton WehnerCategories Clayton Wehner, New Book ReleasesTags ross coulthart

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As with other unpopular conservative moves such as pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, Trump is not not backing down to critics but "doubling down" on his stand.
The president announced the transgender soldier ban on July 26 in a series of tweets.
The president's tweets received a bevy of social media reactions, both in favor and against the ban.
Five military men who dress as women and use women's names sued to stop Trump's transgender ban, saying it violates their constitutional rights. But the U.S. Constitution does not specify that transgenders have an inviolable right to serve as soldiers.
Many high ranking military leaders, however, strongly support Trump's ban of transgenders from the military.
A letter from 16 retired officers thanked President Trump for his "bold" and "extremely courageous decision" to reverse President Obama's transgender recruitment.
"There may be an enormous amount of vitriol directed at you for making this policy correction, but please know that overturning this policy may have done more in the long term to save the culture and war-fighting capacity of the U.S. military than perhaps any other military policy you will adopt as president," the high-ranking officers' July 27 letter stated.
The letter praising Trump and his transgender ban was signed by seven major generals, three lieutenant generals, three brigadier generals, an admiral, a vice admiral, a Marine Corps veteran, and other soldiers.
The new ban is in stark contrast to the Obama administration, whose Justice Department not only refused to uphold the Don't Ask Don't Tell federal law but issued a series of edicts facilitating the infusion of open homosexuals and transgenders into military and civilian society and the universal promotion of their lifestyles as normal and good.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was notified a full day before Trump tweeted his decision.
Last week, the administration issued "A Guidance Policy for Open Transgender Service Phase Out," which has not been made public yet.
The New York Times cites an unnamed administration official saying Trump is considering encouraging transgender soldiers to retire early. But an anonymous "defense official" told the Times that such a move would be challenged in the courts.


This evening was bath and hair wash and it was my turn to dry Aly which also meant I got to style her hair...it turns out Daddy can't style hair...but I thought it looked good.
As most of you will know it's World Book Day and today Aly went dressed as a Pirate...why a Pirate? Well she always dresses as a Pirate, it was going to be Little Red Riding Hood...but at the 11th hour it changed to a Pirate.
Today's #MySundayPhoto is of Aly creating a very special card. The card she has made is for her great grandad who is currently in hospital. Today she will be visiting him and seeing him for the first time in about 6 weeks which is a long time as when he was home she'd see him 3 - 4 times a week.
We are very very lucky that Aly is an amazing eater, and most importantly an eater of the right foods. She always eats her vegetables and fruits. Her favourite fruit is pear and you'll never see anyone eat more of a pear than her.
Today my two girls had their haircut and while sitting there Aly looked so grown up.


The government has launched one-stop investment services in Batam to help process business permits on the island city, which has been designated as one of the country's special economic zones.
The one-stop services are located at a public service mall inaugurated recently by the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister.
Susiwijono, a secretary at the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister, said the clinic would help speed up the issuance of permits related to goods, land, the environment, manpower and immigration.
The facility will be connected to the online single submission (OSS) system, an integrated web-based government licensing service intended to simplify the process of obtaining business permits for companies in various sectors, excluding finance and mining.
The one-stop services are expected to boost investment in the region as difficulties in obtaining licenses often discourage businesspeople, having caused Indonesia to slide to 73rd place on the World Bank's 2019 Ease of Doing Business Index from its previous position of 72.
"Our difficult task in the past two years has been improving the trade balance, which has been experiencing a deficit. The business clinic is expected to resolve problems often faced by investors to improve the investment climate, which is eventually expected to create a better trade balance," Susiwijono said.
He acknowledged that leadership dualism between the Batam administration and Batam Industrial Development Authority (BP Batam) had confused investors . He added that the issue would no longer be of a hindrance following the government's plan to merge the two bodies.
"We don't want the issue to be a hindrance because the government has decided to appoint Batam's mayor as the ex-officio BP Batam head," he said.
Acting as the BP Batam chief is Edy Putra Irawadi, former expert staff to Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution, who was recently inaugurated by the minister to lead the transition period between the two authorities.
Darmin previously said the transition period was expected to last until April 30, the deadline for the amendment of a government regulation that would act as the legal basis for the appointment of Batam's mayor as the ex-officio BP Batam head.
Currently, BP Batam has the authority to issue 62 investment licenses, while the Batam administration 155 licenses.
"We are working toward merging the two authorities' licensing processes into one system," Susiwijono said.
Inconsistent policies resulting from the leadership dualism in Batam have been blamed for the decline in economic growth. Batam Deputy Mayor Amsakar said changes in government policies and the dualism had been the cause of the region's downward trend in economic growth since 2013.
"We want Batam's economic growth to move back to a positive direction. The public service mall is expected to provide a solution," he said.
BP Batam chief Edi said Batam's geopotential should push the government to turn the region into the gateway of Indonesia's investment services.
"Batam has been developed into an industrial area since 1971 for its geographical nature, so we have the responsibility to continue the development," Edi said, referring to the island's proximity to Singapore.
Edi expressed hope that investors would put their trust in the services as a channel to overcome the hurdles they often faced in obtaining business permits.
Batam's public service is mall is among 500 in the country, managed by city and regency administrations.


Over 100 workers at the GUD Mann + Hummel production plant in Atlantis stand to lose their jobs prior to Christmas as the manufacturing plant closes down.
With Christmas looming, more people continue to lose jobs in Atlantis—an area already struggling with high levels of unemployment and concomitant social ills, including gangsterism.
The latest company to shut down its production plant in the automotive industry is G.U.D Mann +Hummel (Pty) Ltd – a joint venture between G.U.D. Holdings (Pty) Ltd and a German company.
West Cape News has learnt that the company is shutting down its production plant at the end of the year, resulting in the loss of over 100 jobs in an area where unemployment is estimated at 40 percent.
G.U.D Mann + Hummel's closure follows the closure of another automotive industry company and the relocation of a television manufacturing company earlier this year, developments which saw 435 workers losing their jobs, said Jessica Veotte, an organiser at the National Union Metal Workers of South Africa (Numsa) Atlantis branch.
G.U.D Mann +Hummel (Pty) Ltd shop steward Gareth Brandt, is a husband and father of three children the youngest three-months old and the eldest eight years old. He has been working for the joint venture for eleven years.
Brandt said G.U.D Mann +Hummel (Pty) Ltd manufacturing plant in Atlantis is shutting down and a component of the business was being relocated to Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal.
"More than 100 workers are going to be retrenched. Most guys have refused to relocate to Pietermaritzburg. They are quitting, that's the bottom line. People will rather take their retrenchment package and start all over again or look for other jobs although we know job opportunities here are very rare," said Brandt.
"It (the shutdowns is making our unemployment rate higher," said Veotte.
She said the union tried to convince the company not to shut down the plant but all efforts were in vain.
"They (G.U.D Mann + Hummel (Pty) Ltd) say it is not feasible to keep the company open as business in Atlantis is unsustainable," she said.
Group Legal and Human Resources Director at G.U.D. Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Anthony Trickey confirmed that the joint venture was indeed shutting down its plant in Atlantis.


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Installs [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org) with rustup

Requirements
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Dependencies
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Bad Kids Make Unhealthy Adults
By Carolyn E. Price Apr 7, 2007 in Health
An internationally-acclaimed, long-term study conducted in New Zealand has found that antisocial behavior that is not dealt with in childhood leads to poor health later in life.
The study was conducted at the Otago University and it followed one thousand people in Dunedin since their births in 1972 and 1973. It has linked antisocial behavior in childhood and poor physical health in adulthood.
The findings are to be published this week in the American journal Archives of General Psychiatry and they are a collaboration between the Dunedin research unit and the University of London.
Unit director and paper co-author Professor Richie Poulton says that there have been many other studies that have shown that childhood antisocial behavior leads to crime in adulthood as well as mental disorders, but this was the first study of its kind to show a direct link between antisocial behavior in kids with poor physical health in adults.
The types of physical health problems that were most commonly found in the adults were injuries, sexually transmitted diseases, dental disease, reduced immune function, and an increased risk of heart disease.
The study tracked 526 males through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood. The most recent assessments were done when the study participants were 32 years old.
The study found the following: boys whose antisocial behavior persisted into adulthood were more than three times as likely as others to have symptoms of chronic bronchitis and gum disease, 2.9 times more likely to show markers for later heart disease and stroke, and 2.2 times more likely to have the herpes virus.
Professor Poulton reported that males who showed high levels of antisocial behavior when they were kids but the behavior declined in adulthood did not have the same level of poor health. "You're talking about kids in the sandpit at preschool fighting and bullying each other, and by 13, these kids are converting cars and by 18, they're bashing people and raping people. That's the sort of development of this hard core antisocial behaviour. It's early onset and persistent - in order words, there's a whole bunch of kids who are naughty during childhood but they don't persist. They grow out of it. We're talking about the 10 per cent of males who are identifiable early, with a whole bunch of risks, and who continue to behave in an antisocial way over their life."
Professor Poulton said these findings were consistent with other indicators of poor health, such as being in a low socio-economic grouping and that the findings could assist the justice and health system because if they were able to lessen antisocial behavior early in a child's life, it could stop future crime, violence and reduce over burdened healthcare systems.
"You have this hard core of 10 per cent males, and then you've got the 25 per cent who exhibit antisocial behaviour during childhood but grow out of it. It's the real tough test - if you want to intervene early, which ones are the ones that are going to go on [to offend in adulthood]? We're really at the pointy end of that particular research endeavor."
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THE OLDEST HATRED
America's certified moral diseases have returned with a vengeance, and old craziness is resurrected in multiple forms.
Startled as we are by flagrant racism; violence towards women and children; as well as gays, lesbians, bi- and trans-sexual citizens, should we be? In my earliest career as an aspiring reformer, I was abused of the notion that people need but hear and know the truth, and the national character will be transformed in a trice. Silly me.
Annual celebrations of M.L. King, Jr.'s life and message but remind us to re-set our expectations of racial equality. Courts continue to be filled with cases of domestic and family abuse, and hardly a day passes without news items of horrific torture and killing of those who are not strictly heterosexual. Racism as we really know it began with the forceful transport of slaves to this hemisphere. And though women have typically been second-class or worse in historical civilizations they have also been queens, priests and sometimes the sole authorities in scattered societies to which of course we pay scant attention in our education.
That said, I wish to speak of the oldest hatred of all: antisemitism. The ravaging of Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg came amid holiday preparations, the latter of which ever trump serious concerns.
Hatred towards Jews is old enough to have beards longer than all patriarchs put together. The Jewish problems is not that they are too smart for their own good but admirably too smart to suit the rest of us. Never mind that Jewish immigration from all over the world has enhanced U.S. culture and intellectual heft. That migration, by the way, is never as large as sometimes touted: they are and always have been a fraction of world population. So what's the problem?
The big gripe is the misbegotten notion that since the beginning of time they've always been around the money. Nay, they began as did all peoples, tillers of soil with this distinction: they were among the best of cultivators, and powerful elites, making mountains out of religious and cultural molehills, found ways to take it for themselves, always with lame excuses that invoked fear and loathing of perceived differences.
It didn't help that the ancient land of the Hebrews was necessarily as small as the number of inhabitants, and became a football kicked between superpowers of the times–brutish dogs of war unleashed by Egypt, Babylon, Assyria and the like. Along the way Jews were forced by exclusion to seek other means of gainful endeavor, viz., shopkeepers and artisans, though many, due to their brain power and ability were chosen to serve in the courts of sovereigns—until a new and intolerant reign swooped them out again, using all the lame excuses.
During their many dispersals, never at peace and loathed by all, they traveled by foot selling wares borne on their backs or as tinkers, or menders of pots, and those who stayed behind were left in communities unsupported by government. Each time, due to discrimination or too much success they were evicted from all livelihoods, till world nations found themselves in financial pickles and discovered that Jews were among the emerging wizards who could bail them out. And once out, said nations gave them the boot once again but not until Jews financed some of the great cathedrals of Europe—a curious irony among Christian leaders who at auspicious time invoked the "Christ-killer" canard on their Jewish economic saviors.
Why a Baptist boy from the Missouri Ozarks could ever come to care about Jews and Judaism is a tale of growing up during World War II and post-conflict discovery of a "holocaust" of destruction unleashed by the Axis powers. I saw post-war movies that highlighted some of the horror and were jerked from screens for showing Jews too much as victims which, by the way, they were.
Among my father's effects after his death decades ago was "A History of the Jews" by Abram Sachar, as much of an objective account as one could possibly expect from a Jewish intellectual, which I absorbed to my everlasting benefit, and which I returned to 20 years ago and then again after the Tree of Life atrocity. I've often said that Americans would do well to read a damn book once in a while instead of gulping down misleading, anecdotal jabberings of Fox News and Alex Jones. Sachar's text is long but readable and more relevant than romance novels and what's on the latest menu of brain-eaters.
Life is a journey of learning and happiness is knowledge. I thought that all discriminations would have ended with the past century but they remain and it is daunting to think that the oldest one of all is so far from banished. Perhaps if we solve that, the rest will follow.
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SEEING RED OVER BLACKFACE
Blackface?–making a comeback? This is lost on the younger generation, but they'll learn quickly via the realm of celebrity: Katy Perry's brand has dropped two pairs of shoes from its line, and Gucci tried to cash in on black celebrity with a tasteless production of an expensive knit top—both losing their sophisticated repute in the process. And it didn't stop there: Prada used blackface on new figurines while Moncler adorned a luxury coat with it.
Dear me. On the Mississippi River, where I grew up, blackface was already going out of style among Southern sensitivities that surrounded me. Now what is black in hue is making lots of people see red.
The face of this renaissance in stupidity begins with Gov. Northum of Old Virginny whose decades-old school yearbook showed a feller in blackface and another in KKK garb, leading him first to apologize, then to deny that either knucklehead was him.
This led to an outcry that he jump ship to assuage not only black folk but outraged white liberals. Alas and alack, his black voting constituents urged him to stay on. This of course complicated the issue and he was able to buy time whilst controversy of other sorts swam around his lieutenant governor and the state AG.
It also gave modern Southern Rebels a respite from assaults on their defense of Confederate statues, which comprise a frightful number throughout Old Dixie—including Virginia itself, which as of 2015 has taken to honor John Wilkes Booth for trying to do the country what he thought was a favor and, sadly, succeeded in doing so. And just in the nick of time too as most folks, North and South alike, had already forgotten the Garrett Farm near Port Royal where Booth was caught and driven from his mortal coil.
The whole problem here is the human memory, which tends to forget a lot: for one thing, that blackface entertainment, first done by white people using cork and polish to resemble another race, had been going on since slaves arrived in these parts some 200 years ago.
Its comic value was in derisive stereotyping of slaves in what came to be called minstrel shows. Why was it so funny, and how could that be? After all, tragic circumstance had forcibly brought persons of a different color here and shoved them into a system that taught them nothing but inhuman toil and whippings, let alone the language in which they would have to communicate.
The psychology of it was possibly a subliminal desensitization process for whites to the horrors of slavery. Sadly, it was the only depiction many of them had of black people—portrayed as lazy, dumb, cowardly and hypersexual. And it was also funny to white audiences for the use of black vernacular. As luck would have it, such entertainments spread from the South to the Northern U.S.
And should you think that the elite of dominant culture rose above this, consider that Al Jolson wore blackface in "Jazz Singer" as late as 1927, and forget not that some of the most beloved child stars of the age also donned the look: Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney among them. Two knuckleheads, Charlie Cornell and Freeman Gosden, did the worst such portrayal and, thankfully, were the last I was destined to see: they looked neither black nor white, just a couple of bums trying to do something, though we knew not what.
So while we debate whether the Northums of the world should be judged for long-ago mistakes, or cut some slack in the name of "second chances," we should know and understand why all of this is so hurtful to blacks, not only now but Back Then. All of it was a cruel lie and we tend more to carry the worst of it into our subconscious thinking and acting, making it harder to see and acknowledge that those among us of African descent are undeserving of such derision and stereotyping.
But as it stands, white culture thinks this crisis and its debate is all about them. So here we go again.
CAN WE TALK?
Let's talk about the budding presidential primaries. The Dems so far have 20+ candidates and counting, which is a good thing. The GOP had 17 three years ago and that was a good thing too—they found out who they were, and it wasn't who they thought they were: they hadn't a clue that by the end of it they would be all-in as the Party of Trump.
Now it's the Democrats' turn and we don't know who we are either. It's a conversation desperately needed. They will talk and we will listen. A lot of assumptions have been made since the 2016 travesty, to wit, that we are all agreed who we are and, again, we are wrong as can be. Yes, we're all agreed that Trump stinks up the body politic and needs to be exorcised, but disunity lurks beneath and waiting to be revealed before we come together again to defeat Trump.
At times it may not be a pretty sight but a necessary one: in time we'll know what we will and won't put up with, and from it will come the necessary synthesis of agreement with which we'll sail into the ocean of politics to divest it of the Great Orange Whale.
This is what primaries should do, at necessary times. America is no longer what we used to be—children of a notable heritage descended from the Judeo-Christian tradition and nourished thereafter by respected rebels like the English and American poets, but reaching clear back to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to World War, and through racial, anti-semitic and gender struggles.
Well, forget about that. Of late we've lost our couth, innocence and civility. It began with the GOP primaries of three years ago: lest we forget, the first person to forge ahead was—Herman Cain, pizza king and knothead whose "Nine-Nine-Nine" domestic plan and "Beki-Beki-stan-stan" foreign policy jarred even GOP sensibilities, and that's saying a lot.
Next came Ben Carson, whose career as brain surgeon somehow made sense to Republicans as a grand segue to running a country. The two just cited fooled no one with a brain not in need of a scalpel: conservatives were seeking a "good, decent" black man who would say nasty things about Obama, and give cover to white people to follow suit with their own racist scorn.
Others in the GOP Clown Car ranged from Ted Cruz to Jeb Bush, the biggest targets of Trump's invective. But, as said, the GOP found the latter's insults and indignities more pleasing, and reflective of them, than sanity and moderation. And here we are today.
The Dem lineup overall is by far more reasonable, regardless of who you like or don't like. Liz Warren had every right to run though many think she lacks public encouragement to do so this time around; no one asked Donald either, but he rode down a golden escalator with a trophy bride and at the bottom found the presidency. How ironic that he found it at the bottom, where it's remained since his arrival.
The clutch of Democrats with ambition is far better than the former clutter of Republicans, the banality of which made possible the likes of DJT. What's not to like about Mayor Pete, unless you despise gays?—sure, he's short on specifics but at least he's not a crackpot. Or Kamala Harris, save for the sins of being black and female? Bernie's the man who would've been prez save for the bruising internecine politics of the 2016 moment. But even Trump likes him.
Biden rightfully scares the Orange Man because Joe has his own grip on the states that elected Donald. And Seth Moulton will get his necessary name- and face-recognition in this run; he's only 40 years old with a lifetime ahead to become Commander in Chief. As a war hero he has more guts than Gen. Bonespurs would have in a thousand reincarnations. And good for Seth for taking on Pelosi, yet another conversation Democrats had to have because there were whispers about her effectiveness and it gave her a chance to show her real chops as a party leade–and not a lick of harm came of it in the process.
So let the games begin. We'll soon know what American really is: lying, sarcastic and gun-totin'—or a return to respectability from its flirtation with idiocy.
It's a conversation worth having.
THEY DON'T LIKE YOU
What drives the national divide today? Partially, but largely, a standoff between differing cultures in America. Growing up in the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks, whatever I heard on radio and saw on TV had nothing to do with my life or of those around me.
It was all about what we now call the "elites" of the east and west coasts—what they were saying and doing, what they liked and didn't like. And, by default, their amusements and concerns were ours too because nothing else was on the tube. Our tastes were home-made and lacking in the sophistication (and manipulation) of those who controlled the major sources of information. But ours at least were for, and about, us. But we were invisible to the rest of America.
A look at the larger world drove me at last to take the first stagecoach out of Dodge, so to speak, and come to terms with what theretofore was alien territory. Laugh if you will, but my first diagnostic test flatly revealed that I was "culturally deprived" but accepted into a private grad school due to IQ.
Yet my speech separated me from those reared elsewhere. It is not rare even now to hear Southern politicians admit that they know other Americans feel that they "talk funny" and I'm here to tell you they have not a clue why, any more than Brits know we think they have silly speech patterns that only posturing snobs and celebrities care to emulate. In your case, you would talk funny too if you were reared in a home with Jeff Sessions for a dad: "There but for the grace of God," and all that.
Years of broader exposure have occasioned a different person. Only those with the keenest ear can detect rudiments of my former speech, and only those who knew me "then" know the differences in my head and heart.
But I have not forgotten where I came from, or the people there. They have a national inferiority complex whether they admit it or not, and—news flash!–on a personal basis they have more ego strength than sophisticates burdened with much more inner conflict, whether they too admit it or not. Sophisticated northerners, especially New Englanders, are far greater male chauvinists than educated Southern men, and haven't a clue how obvious is their cloaked racism regardless what they think they know of the southern variety.
Those who've had this country their way for too long are unaware of other subtleties, i.e., back when celebrity crooners like Sinatra, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett, et al, were sucking up all the cultural air, country singers outsold them hands down in albums, sheer sales and money. And when people wondered why followers of televangelists continued to support their disgraced preachers, it was that cameras at crusades and revivals showed at last the forgotten people who were never in the news or on TV—and clearly were different from the self-described sophisticates and intelligentsia. To take down their preachers would ensure that they too, again, would disappear.
In truth, that is no different than the rest of humanity: if you're young and not into every new Rock group regardless of the inanity of lyrics, you're a nobody. Cam-pan an Improv crowd and you know the only reason those people look like their having a good time laughing at lame jokes is because they're drunk and know they're on television.
As the noose tightens around Donald Trumps's neck and we begin that sigh of relief at finally dodging a terrible bullet, let us not forget that along with a changing world that scares the hell out of some people and makes them lash out in equal parts at perceived authorities and any designated minority, we can continue to do our part to dig the cultural divide even deeper—and risk another Donald Trump that we won't be able to get rid of.
This warning is not about haters—that's another subject, but it's about a lesser animus that threatens ever to turn into hate. We look down on the kind of person I once was and short of hating them, we simply ignore them the way people pitied the poor in Dickens' England.
But America's forgotten can't ignore us and they don't quite hate you. But they sure as hell don't like you. And that's why they voted for Donald. And will vote for him again.
So be aware. And now that we know what Donald is like: be very, very afraid.
A BEER FOR BRETT
In all wars, everyone loses. And the costs are devastating. We are in a civil war and the price will be with us for decades. Once again it's parent against child, sibling against sibling. Just like old times. Someday Ken Burns will sort it all out for our viewing pleasure.
If nation binds us, this conflict has torn us apart. Aside from the politics of it, the recent brawl for the Supreme Court stands to make assaulters of women only bolder. For victims there has been little shelter and there will be little to come. And, in time, bye-bye Roe v Wade. The commanders in the field, so to speak, are politicians and between them it is personal, and calls for reason in their bitter struggle are useless. This is not about morality and justice, it's about winning. What we never learn is that all such victories are pyrrhic. Look it up.
Following are the declared heroes, but as in Homer's epics, their wounds and gripes are grievous: Achilles pouts in his tent, Hector is dragged around Troy, Agamemnon goes home to be off-ed by his wife and her lover, Cassandra knows the truth but no one believes her, a Horse is treated like an elephant in the room–and full of mischief for all who deny it. And Helen, the cause of it all, is lost in the chaos. Others are:
Jeff Flake: aptly named and loved by no one; owing nothing to his Party, his voters or to Trump—all of whom had already rejected him and forced him to retire, he was dealt the perfect hand for this poker game but squandered it by bidding too low. Now his face is as sad as the little man that he is.
Susan Collins: cagier than imagined, playing both sides of the political game as well as any man in the Senate, and can bait-and-switch with the best of them. She masterfully angled for her fifteen minutes of fame, took an hour instead, then deftly said it wasn't about her. Sadly, she opted for the wrong side of history.
Mitch McConnell: he taught us something we didn't know—that all it takes is one man to hold up a Supreme Court nomination, and keep it in storage for a prez of his own liking. There's a civics lesson in that, maybe one to be looked at by the Supremes.
Lindsey Graham: whoever remembers him as an independent thinker can think again. Once the "McCain, Jr." of the Senate, he's now presidential lapdog. Why? He already told us that AG Sessions is not long for this world and, hello!—he wants Jeffy's job; so his righteous indignation lacks, well, righteousness.
Democrats: if anything proves Seth Moulton right, it's about Dems needing fresh faces. Schumer and Pelosi don't need to go away, just move over. New blood is having to wait in line longer than necessary, so any Blue Wave needs to raise their boats. And please stop talking about Impeachment, whether of Trump or Kavanaugh. That's a sink-hole. Take back Congress, if not both Houses, at the Mid-terms, thus de-claw and de-fang Trump, shut down his playpen, and watch all his rats jump ship.
Sarah Sanders: It don't git no better'n than havin' the world's elite journalistic corps lectured by Hillbilly Huckabee, queen of the Arkansas mountains. A master of minimalist press conferences, she even dares to say they'll soon be things of the past, when it's her we want to go away, not them.
Evangelicals: the reason why Jesus and Saints Peter and Paul are turning over in their graves. They think God is using Trump to better America, but Donald is using them to make us a world laughingstock.
Kavanaugh: this little frat boy will have to hide his partying from here on out, as he takes his place at the shallow end of the gene pool wherein swim the Supremes; Thomas and Gorsuch are already somewhere to the right of the Sheriff of Nottingham and Bret's now their drinking buddy. The new game in town will be who can make nice with Brett, offer him a beer and see if he can stop at one. If he starts throwing ice at us, then we can start thinking of Impeachment.
SILLY, SAD, SORRY SARAH
Should this be deemed a bridge too far in current political discourse–don't even get started with me.
Fallout from the Trump presidency has dumped a ton of filth on our national conversation and I will not allow high ground to be claimed by political thugs whilst they shame others for naming names.
I've not been happy with many press secretaries but their infractions have been at worst bad judgment in the heat of the trench warfare in which they toil, a pressure-cooker not to be wished on anyone loved or held dear.
Often they bolt from the blue of happenstance encounters with a political comer, then morph into his face and voice, as did Jody Powell, a southerner from near Jimmy Carter's peanut farm in Georgia—and whom I did not so much dislike as felt that Carter could have done so much better. At times a shrewd party hack gets the job and becomes further proof of the Peter Principle when elevated to facing the nation's press; or like Marlin Fitzwater, who served both Reagan and the elder Bush but later was suckered into a disastrous interview with Ali G that hurt his brand and cost his chance for the Congressional Gold Medal. Dana Perino served George W—she of the missing sparkplugs and lackluster demeanor, though at times such actually serves one well in politics.
Robert Gibbs, an Obama choice, merrily took on Barack's critics, calling them the "professional left" and suggesting they all be drug tested. What made each different from the current podium-holder was that on the whole they respected the press corps, regardless of the battles and scars, dutifully taking their lumps while answering virtually all questions.
Not Sarah Sanders, proud product of Oauchita Baptist Coll—er, now "University" in Arkadelphia, near the Ozark Mountainss. The website advises us it's to be pronounced, "Wash-Uh-Taw," though I needed no prompting, given my familiarity with a pack of them who once descended on a grad school in Kansas City.
This Sarah, not be confused with Palin, may not see Russia from her house but she'd have us think she knows-it-all, and why not, as daughter of Mike Huckabee, Baptist preacher and liar-in-chief of the southern wing of the GOP, thereby giving both God and religion a bad name in those parts. You'd think Sarah had a Ph.D from God himself as she snubs a press corps that is galaxies beyond her intelligence, a fact lost on her as she dismisses questions, promises to "get back to" or to "keep posted" the press corps when she has no intention of doing so. She pouted at being denied restaurant service shortly after praising a bakery's refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. The days of Sean Spicer are made to seem halcyon by comparison—though just as I said those words aloud, my tongue cleaved to the roof of my mouth.
Sarah is the embodiment of the old Ozarkian joke about a woman much like her in age and appearance, clad in a flower-sack dress and puffing up a dusty lane pursued by a 13-year old hickseed who, when called out by a passerby to leave the woman alone, yells back, "But her's my ma—her's weanin' me."
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm native to the Ozarks, on the Missouri side of the line. To some, the trick is somehow to escape that culture by dint of education—or just get the hell out to save one's soul: I've lived and worked all over the U.S. and with hindsight sadly reflect that too many Ozarkians and Ouachitans have addictions to their own ignorance. God bless those who remain and manage to keep their sanity.
In sum, that is Sarah Sanders—silly, sad and sorrowfully over her head; dumb as a post, arrogant in her benightedness, and a perfect fit for the man who said he'd hire the brightest and best, then hi-jacked every knucklehead heretofore unknown and unheard of to be the face of government in these United States.
Look not for Sarah's visage on a future postage stamp or any biography to grace the Best Seller list. Any references to her current tenure will say much more than I have here, and in darker, bolder terms, and at best found in the Humor section of out-of-the-way bookstores.
On the other hand, it may be that an authorized autobiography will come to anchor a bookshelf of that renowned bastion of high culture in Arkadelphia, in the section labelled Sacred History.
You would think Donald Trump was doing the Lord's work. As with all messiahs who show up now and then, everything seems to go his way, regardless, as it hath been down through history. His GOP base increaseth in its love for him, edging towards 90% of support for anything he says or does, calling to mind the adage that when even two people think exactly alike, one of them isn't thinking.
Everything we've known as fair play, decent and good is out the window, and it's everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost, Donald being both "himself" and the devil.
He struts like Mussolini, complete with facial expressions, at his iconic "campaign" rallies, and unlike prior tyrants who unleashed goons with orders to beat up opposition, elements of his base need no instructions, feeling authorized to do so on their own, after all, this is a democracy. And don't even get started with me about poor li'l Sarah Sanders being denied restaurant service—she's all-ok with bakers who won't make cakes for gay weddings.
So what does Donald have to fear—only fear itself? Well, it's a start. Here's a guy whose colossal ego needs neither God's forgiveness, nor the asking for it, as he asserted long ago, and who loves our enemies and hates his own countrymen: imagine the goodwill he may have merited by giving credit for predecessors' building-blocks from which he has benefited, such as Obama's economic bailout, and even Barack's earlier call for NATO nations to up their ante on mutual defense.
Let's go back to Aristotle, one of many dead poets, so to speak, who got everything right the first time: his definition of tragedy was that when such folk, by hook or crook, become apparently unstoppable—they end up doing in themselves. The ego finally goes too far and they, being blind to it, serve up the means of their own destruction. A man of moderate temper might catch himself before a fall, but not an ego-maniac, not when he thinks he's God himself.
It was Aristotle too who long before had proposed the idea of a mixed-constitution that got its first test during the Roman Empire, which became a Republic along the way. Ari knew all the forms of government—rule by one, the few and the many, ergo, monarchies, aristocracies and democracies. He imagined a combo of them and the Romans did just that. They didn't always have emperors and when they didn't there were consuls who indeed had absolute authority, but only in war and in national crisis.
Their senate was not elected, but chosen, from elite families and outstanding heroes, which implied breeding, experience and, necessarily, the benefit of age and the wisdom and judgment for big decisions made in foreign policy, going to war and making treaties. Last were popular assemblies who voted to place people in office—including the two consuls—along with determining rewards and punishments.
And it worked. On occasion it got stretched, sometimes shrunk, but overall an elastic system that helped them to survive at times the worst of tyrants. Actually it was better than anything the Greeks or Spartans had managed in Ari's own day.
And, aye, here's the rub for now, but only if Donald's rants aren't drowning it out. We've got a guy not elected by the majority but by a well-placed minority (our so-called and controversial Electoral College); who thinks he's god (as did the emperors); and who's broken the balance-of-power via political sycophants (the U.S. Congress—both Houses). A recipe for temporary success—and ultimate disaster.
I'm old enough to remember 20th century tyrants, notable for having everything go right for a time; their growing approval by a populace who thought he could do no wrong; but in time were swinging by their heels or avoiding judgment by killing themselves and/or their own children, and in rather short periods of time. We don't work that way here, at least I hope so; we just want a plausible outcome, a democracy that bends and flexes, swings and sways, but always holding together—and always one of laws, not of men, however good or bad.
Thus, as so many of us flounder, feeling dis-empowered and regularly insulted by our own president, there's a message herein for the leader himself:
Fear nothing now. But fear the future. And fear yourself. And then be very, very afraid.
[A Father's Day Meditation]
Here's to all men who love and support families, including children who have come to you perhaps from far away; and to those who do daddy-things for kids not theirs but who know that little guys and gals can always use another trusted male figure to care about them and to consider them special.
Mr. Ancel never had a son of his own and took special interest in me as someone to whom I could throw my smokin' fast-ball for hours on end. My father was a good provider, but had no time for such things, and Ancel became a dad of sorts in those precious times of "catch."
I'll avoid smarmy sentiments at risk of offending that select race of what is called, "manly men." It's taken eons to cultivate an image of uncaring and unfeeling brooders who leave all nurture to the female of the sex. But all manner of forces have pressured us to reduce our iron and flinty surfaces and to crawl into inner spaces and mine our feelings.
For millennia boys grew up frightened of their fathers, and in turn would damn well ensure that their own kids would be frightened of them.
To Robert Frost, his father as a hero of sorts, but hardly perfect–a man who died young and was glorified to his children by their mother. He had graduated with honors from Harvard and named his son after Robert E. Lee–and a man who met the doctor at home's door with a pistol to warn that if anything happened to his wife during delivery, the doctor would "not leave the house alive."
You'll guess, correctly, that young Robert had a punitive father, doling out punishments unpredictably but otherwise with little time for his children. His dad's form of play was to tease and push the kids, sometimes hurting them severely. Not surprising also that the poet became somewhat the same kind of father.
But e e cummings adored his father, with long elegies to the latter, a clergyman and sometime teacher at Harvard but good at a lot of things, practical endeavors that he shared with and taught his son.
Of this came the son of great poetics who was detained in France near the end of WWI for refusing to say he hated Germans–due to a friend of that nationality, and his father secured their release by writing to President Wilson.
In the musical, Les Miserables, the song, "Master of the House" is total brain candy and at this mention will be planted in your brain till tomorrow. The subject ran an inn and tavern from whence he fleeced customers by all sorts of hidden and extra charges, you know, like today. Today there is more than one master of the house whether we are speaking of the modern home or the larger environment of which men must be custodians, as well as women.
So how goes it with the "master of the house" in 2018? Shamefully, at times it's best not to have a man or father in that role, and we all know why, if we but watch the news.
We have a problem being not only fathers, but men, for our self-image is changing and not by our own rules. Garrison Keillor in "The Book of Guys," said manhood was once a chance for achievement but is now a problem to be overcome. Those who may have painted the Sistine Chapel or composed Don Giovanni are now just trying to be "Mr. O.K. All-Rite"–who can bake a cherry pie, converse easily about intimate things, cry, be vulnerable, passionate in a skillful way, and yet one who totes them barges and lifts them bales.
Ironically, the "mother" of Father's Day was inspired by what a preacher didn't say in a Mother's Day church service: while extolling mothers, not once were fathers mentioned. Sonora Louise Smart, then Mrs. Dodd, and whose mother had died ten years earlier, marveled thereafter at her father's labor and devotion raising her and her six younger brothers. She lobbied for fathers to be honored on June 5, her dad's birthday, but it became instead the third Sunday in the month.
The marketplace has its own unique reasons for promoting this, and Mother's Day, long beyond your and my days on this mortal coil. But knows, someday they may be combined into a Parents Day.
This is no perfect world. Humans of whichever sex are both exemplars and in-excusables. Many people feel that one parent or both did terrible things to them, and parental oppression makes for both sinners and saints, not to mention good theater.
Robert Frost saw the world as he did, due perhaps to his father, and wrote insightful masterpieces like the ingenious "Fire And Ice," about destruction from both heat and cold.
But cummings' father stands out in his son's poetry:
"…though hate were why men breathe–
because my father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all"
May children be welcomed into such homes, and know the joy of such masters of the house–men who are masters of themselves as well.
MOTHERING HEIGHTS
Regardless that Mother's Day is an entrenched observance in America, it's swirled in conflicting emotions, the mixed feelings many have regarding one or both parents, as if they have done something terrible to hurt us, perhaps to scar us for life, but it's safe to say that women in general and mothers in particular are the real heavies of the world.
An interview with mother-daughter Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer teemed with much joy and so many laughs but we all know that in the best of such relationships are wink-wink ugly moments, ones best not to put out for public consumption; after all, they were selling a movie. And a TV series reminded us that there always was a price for working women whose girl-children, in both cases, fried Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in livid print, as if to cancel out the mothers' huge successes.
Trump supporters to whom he seemed an unlikely model for a dad, cast their ballots for him after daughter Ivanka showed well on the campaign trail. Not a word, of course, was mentioned of mother Ivana, who surely had something to do with that perceived success. Daddy Don, we all know, is a Type A workaholic since he first opened his mouth to insert pacifier and found it already filled with a silver spoon. And don't tell me that before Twitter he used 3 a.m. to walk a screaming baby. It's hard to get in mind a firm image of his being around much at all, so why does Darling Daughter gush so on his behalf? Firstly, he's put her in the lap of luxury since day one and, gosh, look what goes with that now. Talk about #ToTheManorBorn.
And by the way, when there is a wailing infant in your fave restaurant, who gets the old stink-eye for such public nuisance, dad—or mom? And when Junior is a high-school sports hero, do we not automatically celebrate dear old dad —until we may learn there isn't one? Or to make that hurt a tad more, who still gets the nod when the family girls excel–in anything?
A child's first year in our mainstream is the occasion for near-ceaseless parental worry as to whether their fledgling attempts are dooming baby to a lifetime of emotional wounds. And it's usually mom who's found snatching all she can from bookshelves of advice and re-reading it, as if a sentence overlooked will cancel all wisdom gained—along with dollars spent in abundance at maternity stores and from catalogs. Add classes taken before and sometime after birth and, of course, a Vesuvius of advice from people worthy—or not.
The takeaways are multiple: one, the gnawing suspicion that all this has little to do with kids themselves; advice that appears unworkable; and a parent overwhelmed more than helped by so-called experts.
After all the misguided effort, Save the Children reported that the U.S. ranks not first but 11th among developed countries as best for motherhood. Part of this are disparities in access to health care, which men of the GOP hope to widen by killing Planned Parenthood—thus increasing our maternal and infant mortality that is already higher than the ten top countries. We never take lessons from, say, Scandinavian nations, which always are lined up in the top five—after all, they're a bunch of damnedSsocialists, so nothing to be learned there.
Or try being a mom in the lowest-ranking countries, where women die in childbirth at 600 times the rate of those in developed nations, and infants are 27 times more likely to perish in the first year of life. Guess not much use to stop at this point and say Happy Birthday.
I grew up when women, and moms, had it even worse and Mother's Day was an unspoken joke for getting its traction from the retail industry that had things to sell, not just to those really wanting to gift mom, but to all the rest who would look bad and feel guilty for not following suit. Same for Father's Day, which limped along after. Grandparents Day didn't take hold as the public simply thought enough was enough and it whimpered to a calendar no-show.
Certainly we should honor unceasingly all those who've birthed and nurtured us, many of whom were just kids themselves when they took us on. One day doesn't hack it; consideration should be continuous and sincere. People who love us are irreplaceable, and no few people aren't able to gain it on their own except for those moms and dads who held and always will hold that job by default.
Mothering "heights" have as many if not more depths. So next time someone says with exasperation, "If it's not one thing, it's your mother!" someone oughta slap them.
I knew something was very wrong when Easter and April Fool's fell on the selfsame day–an omen that all is not well, anywhere. Nor did it take long to come to fruition, having begun only Nov. 8, 2016—the day the most unkind and misbegotten of leadership species acceded to the presidency of the free world.
April Fool's Day doesn't go anywhere, it's always smack-dab the very first of that month. Easter is another matter, which is why this year's confusion was bound to happen, given enough time. Christianity had swept the world and the emperor Constantine joined in the fun but in his ignorance split the Empire by establishing a new capital named after himself. No harm was meant, it was just his way of trying to nail down Latin influence everywhere, but then came its unintended consequences, known thereafter as the Eastern and Western Churches.
At first, everyone followed the Lunar Calendar in setting the date for Easter—the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox (remember that). So far so good, but way later, the West changed to the Gregorian calendar, set a fixed date for the equinox, and now the two Churches have Easter falling as many as five weeks apart. But who cared, unless you lived either in Rome or Constantinople and took issue with what those other people were doing by celebrating Resurrection on the wrong day. Anyway, there you have it, and this year we had it on a day celebrating All Fools. Sort of a nasty confluence: Is it "He is Risen!" or "April Fool!" Apparently, to each his own.
Now for the other joke—a president who hasn't drained the swamp but has turned the world upside down. Before, I've likened him to Thomas Hobbe's "Leviathan," the "strongman" to whom lily-livered folk, in tense times, would trade their freedom for his promise of security. Then I thought of Louis XIV, the "sun king" of France, big spender and thus creator of busted national budgets—and his palace of Versailles, the Mar-A-Lago of its day, where his groveling minions, from outside its windows, were allowed to watch him feast sumptuously on stuff they could only lay eyes on. For this privilege they would keep Louis' poll numbers up whilst he bankrupted the country and mortgaged its future.
Trump is equal parts of those two, but there is another part, sort of an unholy trinity, if you will; a toxic mixture that all of us, sadly, are becoming heir to unless we can turn around this errant train known as the Trump presidency: I'm thinking Henry VIII of England, all ass-and-appetite, and abused of the notion that he should have anything he wanted–you know, the Silver Spoon Syndrome. Ol' Hank knew how to push the boundaries, as we well recall, even starting a new religion because he wanted to bed another woman, and got away with it. Radical as that may seem, Henry also had enough sense to know when to back off and on many occasions he did.
Trump has no clue of that. For him it's full steam ahead—everything for himself and the devil take the hindmost which, regrettably, is us. And that, we may predict, will be his doom. Every tyrant in the world, name any of them, ancient or near-past, appeared to be doing the Lord's work until their Hubris took over with a vengeance. And to get real personal in this case, those of you who say "Let him do what he wants as long as my stock portfolio goes up," better have another plan when Donald brings us all down.
When that happens, there may be no resurrection, at least anytime soon thereafter, and the least problem with Easter will be the date it falls on.
So what's happening today is something we've seen before, though we're much less students of the past than we should be. Still, we'd best heed the truism that those who don't know history are doomed to its repetition.
You know, Groundhog Day all over again. For now, it's the new normal.


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UC Seeks Input for Dealing With Student Protests
May 7, 2012 at 1:28 am by Daily Nexus Staff
The University of California Office of the President released a report on Friday outlining 50 recommendations to improve police protocol for handling student demonstrations on UC campuses.
UC officials posted the draft version of the report online and have invited students and the general public to submit comments and suggestions over the next three weeks, at the end of which a final draft will be created. The report is a product of an investigation conducted by UC Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher Edley and UC General Counsel Charles Robinson in response to incidents of police violence at the Davis and Berkeley campuses last November.
In the report, Robinson and Edley emphasize the ulti- mate responsibility of a campus's chancellor in combating incidents of student protest.
"To ensure an effective University response to protests involving civil disobedience, there must be an established system for coordination between police and administrators, with well-defined roles and a shared understanding that ulti- mate responsibility for the campus's response rests with the Chancellor," the report stated. "The Chancellor and other administrators should develop and follow a set of guidelines designed to minimize a police response to protests, and to limit the use of force against protesters wherever possible."
The report also reiterated the illegality of students' past demonstrations.
"The First Amendment does not guarantee any right to engage in civil disobedience — which, by its very definition, involves the violation of laws or regulations to communicate a political message — without incurring consequences. Indeed, part of the reason a protester engages in civil disobe- dience is to express the protester's willingness to be arrested or otherwise sanctioned as a sacrifice to the political cause in question," the report stated.
However, it went on to recommend that communication be fostered between protesters and police to mitigate any potential overreaction.
According to Robinson, the document aims to shed light on how to best handle the inevitable process of unrest and subsequent change.
"This report highlights the responsibility, shared by all members of the University community, to ensure that the rights of free speech are respected — in fact, honored — and that peaceful, lawful protests exist on our campuses," Robinson said. "At the same time, it is important to recog- nize the role that civil disobedience may play in such dem- onstrations, and the attendant consequences."
The full report, along with the link to submit comments, can be viewed at http://campusprotestreport.universityofcalifor- nia.edu.


Hello everyone, its been a while since I've written a parody. Due to the cold weather this week many of my parenting friends have turned to Twitter to seek solace from the 'joys' of having bored, restless children at home. Their tweets inspired me to finish a parody of a classic 80's pop tune that I started many moons ago.
You think you're ready for kids?
I think most parents will agree their kids can be like this at times.
The verse on sleep, coffee and games is my life right now. Thank you for the entertaining parody!


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Co-Founder of Mr. Coffee Company Dies at Age 91
Vincent Marotta, one of the co-founders of the iconic Mr. Coffee brand that helped revolutionize how Americans make their morning brew, died Saturday at his home in suburban Cleveland.
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press
Aug 3rd, 2015
CLEVELAND (AP) — Vincent Marotta, one of the co-founders of the iconic Mr. Coffee brand that helped revolutionize how Americans make their morning brew, died Saturday at his home in suburban Cleveland. He was 91.
Marotta and his business partner and high school friend Samuel Glazer turned Mr. Coffee into a household name after asking two engineers to create a drip brewing system like those found in restaurants. Marotta came up with the idea after his and Glazer's construction and shopping center development business were hurt by a slowdown in the real estate market.
Mr. Coffee helped make the percolator obsolete as the standard for home coffee brewing.
The brand's fortunes received a boost when Marotta persuaded retired New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio to become the Mr. Coffee spokesman. Ironically, DiMaggio only drank instant decaffeinated coffee because of stomach problems.
Marotta and Glazer sold North American Systems Inc., the company they created in 1972 to manufacture and market Mr. Coffee machines, for $182 million in 1987. Glazer died in 2012. Marotta's family said in a statement that North American Systems employed thousands of people at its headquarters in Bedford Heights, Ohio, and at its manufacturing plants.
Born Feb. 22, 1924, in Cleveland, Marotta was a star high school athlete and was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as a centerfielder in 1942, but he went into the military just before the start of spring training. He became a star running back in football at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, after World War II.
Marotta, of Pepper Pike, is survived by his wife Ann, six children and 11 grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday.


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The 9.7" iPad Pro Review
by Brandon Chester on June 1, 2016 9:00 AM EST
Intro and Design System Performance Battery Life and Charge Time Display Analysis: Color Accuracy in DCI-P3 and sRGB Display Analysis: Uniformity A Few Thoughts On True Tone Camera Performance Experience: A Smaller iPad Pro Final Words
Like the larger iPad Pro, the 9.7" iPad Pro uses Apple's A9X SoC. Apple is never very forthcoming with details like the clock speed for the CPU, GPU, and amount of DRAM. What we can determine about the SoC is that Apple has maintained the 2.2GHz maximum clock speed from the larger iPad Pro, while reducing clocks on the GPU and dropping to 2GB of LPDDR4 RAM.
The RAM situation on the 9.7" iPad Pro is somewhat surprising for a few different reasons. In their always-excellent teardown, the iFixit crew discovered that the smaller iPad Pro only had one Samsung 2GB LPDDR4 memory chip. This explains how Apple scaled down from 4GB to 2GB - the larger iPad Pro had two chips - but it also means that Apple has changed the amount of memory bandwidth available to the A9X SoC as well.
9.7" iPad Pro Logic Board (Image Courtesy iFixit)
To date, all Apple X-series SoCs have shipped with a larger 128-bit memory bus, and until now, Apple always fully populated that bus. So the 9.7" iPad Pro is an outlier in that regard, as this is the first time we've seen an X-series SoC with only the first 64-bit half wired up to a single memory chip in this fashion. In that respect it's a surprising decision from Apple, in part because of the importance of memory bandwidth in feeding the large, powerful GPUs on the X-series SoCs.
Consequently there is going to be more to the 9.7" iPad Pro than just the original Pro in a smaller chassis. The 9.7" iPad Pro should match the larger model in anything that depends heavily on CPU speed or memory bandwidth, while falling behind to some degree in GPU-bound tests. The 12 cluster PowerVR Series7XT GPU inside A9X will be having to make do with less memory bandwidth, though offset to some degree by the lower resolution of the screen.
With the above in mind, I quickly benchmarked the 9.7" iPad Pro on a couple of our memory bandwidth benchmarks. The results are somewhat inconclusive.
Geekbench 3 Memory Bandwidth Comparison (1 thread)
Stream Copy Stream Scale Stream Add Stream Triad
9.7" iPad Pro 17.1 GB/s 11.5 GB/s 12.9 GB/s 12.8 GB/s
12.9" iPad Pro 20.8 GB/s 15.0 GB/s 15.3 GB/s 15.1 GB/s
I say "inconclusive" because although the 9.7" iPad Pro consistenly scores lower in Geekbench 3's memory bandwidth benchmarks and other memory benchmarks, it's never a 50% drop as we get on paper. In practice these numbers are far from the maximum memory bandwidth A9X is capable of, and I suspect that the CPU paths simply aren't wired in such a fashion that they can fully saturate A9X, especially given the fact that it's the GPU that needs the bandwidth more. So although we see some impact of the narrower memory bus in dedicated memory bandwidth benchmarks, these can't paint a very clear picture. It's going to be our high level GPU performance benchmarks that really give us an idea of the impact of reduced memory bandwidth.
With the 9.7" iPad Pro having the same two 2.2GHz Apple Twister cores as the 12.9" model, it's no surprise to see the two neck and neck in our browser tests. In Jetstream 1.1 the two achieve the exact same score, while in the other two tests the 9.7" model is a bit slower, but with the gap being small enough to attribute to testing variance. With A9X Apple moved back to a dual-core CPU from A8X's tri-core CPU, with the move to TSMC's 16nm FinFET process allowing peak clock speeds to go up by 700MHz. Because JavaScript performance is mostly bound by a device's single threaded performance, A9X came with a significant performance uplift during web browsing. Given that the 12.9" iPad Pro offered the best web browsing performance of a mobile device, bringing that performance to the 9.7" iPad makes for a notable improvement over the performance of the iPad Air 2.
The 9.7" iPad Pro does well in 3DMark's graphics test, but like Ice Storm it doesn't do well in the physics test. It seems that this test is programmed in a similar way to Ice Storm, and in that sense I'm not sure how representative the physics test is of real-world performance because with an actual mobile game you wouldn't use highly random memory access and data structures with heavy memory dependencies when it would perform very poorly on your target devices. In any case, you can see that the 9.7" iPad Pro places third overall, with the 12.9" model at the top of the chart and the Pixel C coming right behind it.
GFXBench 4.0 Car Chase hasn't made its way to iOS yet, and so for now we're still using GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan for iOS devices. Given that the iPhone 6s is the only phone that hits Vsync in this test, it's still a very relevant benchmark in how it represents the level of visual fidelity that a mobile game can currently have on high end devices while still performing well. In the off screen test we can see the impact of the 9.7" iPad Pro's lower clocked GPU combined with the reduced memory bandwidth,, with the smaller iPad performing around 37% lower than that of the 12.9" iPad Pro. The on screen test tells an interesting story though. Both models of the iPad Pro have roughly the same performance at their native resolutions in this test, which could indicate that Apple was targeting the same performance relative to the display resolution when configuring A9X and its memory, in order to manage heat and energy usage in a smaller iPad Pro.
While I didn't have enough data to use BaseMark ES 3.1 at the time of my iPhone SE review, we've since tested enough older devices to deploy it. One could think of this as the successor to BaseMark X, which we retired some time ago before we officially deployed a new mobile test suite for 2016. Once again, both models of the iPad Pro sit above the other tablets on the chart. The iPhone 6s places first in the on screen test due to its relatively low resolution, but without that there the iPads would hold the top two spots in both tests.
NAND Performance
Something that Apple publicized with their A9 and A9X SoCs is improved NAND performance. NAND performance isn't discussed very much in reviews, but it's a very critical aspect of device performance and issues with it tend to cause a device's performance to crash months down the line rather than right off the bat, which makes it something of an invisible problem if you don't look for it during a review. We've seen previously that Apple has been using their own SSD controller in the current generation of iOS devices, and the 9.7" iPad Pro continues this.
For this review I was sampled the 256GB model of the 9.7" iPad Pro. Because SSDs exploit parallelism heavily to improve performance, a 256GB iPad could improve NAND write performance over the lower-capacity models if it has a greater number of dies. In this case we see that sequential read performance improves a bit, while sequential writes improve dramatically as expected. There's not a lot to say here, as Apple has an enormous lead over the competition in this area.
Intro and Design Battery Life and Charge Time Intro and Design System Performance Battery Life and Charge Time Display Analysis: Color Accuracy in DCI-P3 and sRGB Display Analysis: Uniformity A Few Thoughts On True Tone Camera Performance Experience: A Smaller iPad Pro Final Words
UtilityMax - Friday, June 3, 2016 - link
The thick and bulky Surface Pro 4 is hardly a tablet.. Reply
damianrobertjones - Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - link
I have no issues using it as a tablet and I also own an ipad mini 4. Reply
ragingfighter - Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - link
I think the surface pro line depending on how one uses it makes it a competitive choice as opposed to a new Apple tablet. Many people go for the higher-end storage of the surface tablet and that regard it's price is ridiculous when you start talking $1500 for a tablet to me at the feats the purpose for $1500 you can get yourself an amazing laptop. Still would have more memory at least by double maybe even triple and the specs will be as well if you opt for mid tier say 128 GB storage solution if you have an external hard drive plugged in because it has USB three you can save yourself a lot of money. In that regard it's a small use of what the surface provides as an option and also it's an idea of saving money that makes it viable choice. Obviously the recovery partition and the operating system take up a lot of space in comparison to something like iOS or even the android platform built in storage does take a bit of a beating because of it but if you can use everything on a portable hard drive that's plugged in the USB three and run the surface and such in the way it will make the base cost far less and much more approachable. I just think in general tablets beyond I would say $800 becomes problematic specifically because you get into an upper mid tier of what a laptop can offer you for $800 and beyond and you get a lot still you can still have a decently portable laptop with a decent amount of power. Laptops though in this price range and below take a hit in quality and the most important aspect and that is the screen usually this price point or below have very crappy screens the color and their sharpness and infidelity are really not phenomenally up there. When you get in the laptops beyond $1000 point you start getting sharper queen or technology implemented into them. I feel it is important when it comes to a comparison of options out to complete a task. It comes down to really what is cost-effective for your workflow how much you need portability and how much of a solution a tablet aspiring to be a laptop killer a replacement can become Closest tablet to achieve such your feat is the Microsoft surface. Reply
Though I am a Mac user I must admit that in regards to any kind of a portable keyboard Apple they dropped the ball when I came to the iPad keyboard. It is a step behind Microsoft smart cover keyboard one because it's not backlit but also because of the way out the bun travel is smaller and the buttons are smaller not necessarily a favorite for everybody. The biggest design thing that I think Apple completely messed and I have to give kudos to Microsoft is the built in stand. I'm not a super fan of windows though I know how to use Windows and use a Windows it is nowhere near my primary platform which is the Mac. But I have to give credit to Microsoft where credit is due the surface pro line is and where the tablet but even I have to met there are many different kiosks I have been to where the tablet has malfunctioned during time of demoing it is much more rare to see an iPad completely not work for kiosk purposes that it is for surface tablet I've seen their tablets not even turn on even with the power cord extend it to them plugged in fully lights show it is fully charged but outside of doing a direct comparison to the different pros and cons of each wall smart enough to know what fits our needs the best for me and iPad is a good tablet and it doesn't basically what I needed to and for others the Microsoft surface pro line suits their needs as well. Trust me we want to open a can of apples and Microsoft comparisons here. Just say they're equally respectable types of tablets based on their own individual merits the only reason I bring up the prior points in general are because a tablet should have a stand and not needing a case to provide such or solution is a very added and welcome bonus the people on a surface tablet. Myself I don't want to surface tablet but I will give them credit for that addition Reply
Meteor2 - Thursday, June 2, 2016 - link
I'd like to see the Pro 4 in the charts where possible, please. They are aiming at similar users. I'd love to see the Dell 7275 tested though, as it looks (and feels, after using one for an hour) in many ways better than the MS Pro. Reply
blackcrayon - Monday, June 6, 2016 - link
Why would you think a 9.7" iPad Pro is aiming at similar users as a Surface Pro 4? Reply
The word 'pro' is being used. Blame Apple. Reply
Tikcus9666 - Saturday, June 4, 2016 - link
In the UK the ipad pro 9.7" with 128GB is priced only £100 less (or a few £, if you opt for cellular version) than the Surface Pro 4 entry level with m3, 4GB and 128GB.
I think comparison is very valid, also for a "Pro" device, to be considered as a "Pro" device we need more than web benchmarks, and battery life..... until it runs photoshop, lightroom, muse, sony vegas to name a few, it aint replacing a PC for real Pro's Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
I've been curious - it has less memory bandwidth than the 12.9", but not halved, despite half the pinout width and half the DRAM capacity. Does the chip reintroduce the L3 cache? That could explain it. Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - link
No. It has half the memory bandwidth. CPU benchmarks just don't show the full effect. Reply


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Q: Tag  missing required attribute name I am getting this error I change everything almost setwallpaper to set wallpapermanager and trget sdk and min is also set. Still not find the solution how to remove manifest error.
Permission added already for set_Wallpaper.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.androidme"
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A: Actually you defined <uses-permission /> but what uses permission? Sure thing you need to add name there or remove this useless tag at all.
Check the line:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER"/>
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