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Much Ado About Nothing - (1623 play), by Shakespeare
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An man works to undermine his brother's happiness by meddling with his son's marriage. Also two smart people dual with words.
A pretty good book, though my reading of the Signet Classic was seriously interrupted by footnotes. Not because of the shifting up/down to read them, but because the footnotes are crammed all together. Given that this book is 1/4 commentary, axing one for clearer footnotes would have been amazing. Maybe another edition will be better. I intend to collect many of this particular play.
I highly recommend Much Ado About Nothing - (1993 movie), even for those who have no interest in this book.
Table of Contents [hide]
1 (another edition is coming later)
2 1989 - Signet Classic (0-451-52298-2)
2.1 Commentaries
2.1.1 p.135 - Charles Gildon: The Argument of Much Ado About Nothing
2.1.2 p.138 - Lewis Carroll: A Letter to Ellen Terry
2.1.3 p.140 - George Bernard Shaw: Shakespeare's Merry Gentlemen
2.1.4 p.146 - Donald A. Stauffer: from Shakespeare's World of Images
2.1.5 p.154 - W.H. Auden: from The Dryer's Hand
2.1.6 p.157 - Carol Thomas Neely: Broken Nuptuals in Much Ado About Nothing
2.1.7 p.171 - Sylvan Barnet: Much Ado About Nothing on the Stage
(another edition is coming later) ∞
1989 - Signet Classic (0-451-52298-2) ∞
ISBN-10 0-451-52298-2
ISBN-13 978-0451522986
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-62428
It opens with Shakespeare: Prefactory Remarks (vii) and then Introduction (xxi), both of which I skipped.
On p.132 is when it admits its sources and changes:
The present text of Much Ado About Nothing is based upon the Quarto edition of the play, published in 1600. The folio text of 1623 is a slightly edited version of this Quarto.
On p.135 it begins commentaries, making 1/4 of this book commentary. Fucking hell, that's a lot of fluff.
Commentaries ∞
These were not read.
TODO - to read, I guess.
p.135 - Charles Gildon: The Argument of Much Ado About Nothing ∞
(Charles Gildon)
p.138 - Lewis Carroll: A Letter to Ellen Terry ∞
(Lewis Carroll)
I believe this is an excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood. (read online at Project Gutenberg)
p.140 - George Bernard Shaw: Shakespeare's Merry Gentlemen ∞
p.146 - Donald A. Stauffer: from Shakespeare's World of Images ∞
Shakespeare's world of images; the development of his moral ideas - (1949 book), by Donald Alfred Stauffer
p.154 - W.H. Auden: from The Dryer's Hand ∞
The Dyer's Hand - (1962 book), by W. H. Auden
p.157 - Carol Thomas Neely: Broken Nuptuals in Much Ado About Nothing ∞
Perhaps it says something that this author is not notable yet so much is included here.
Broken Nuptuals in Much Ado About Nothing
Broken Nuptuals in Much Ado About Nothing - (book), by Carol Thomas Neely
I could only find a 1994 reprint:
I don't know its original publication date.
p.171 - Sylvan Barnet: Much Ado About Nothing on the Stage ∞
Note that this Signet Classic is copyright 1963, 1989 by Sylvan Barnet.
This is also included in Much ado about nothing : with new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography - (1998 book), by various


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Radio Series Scripts, 1930–2001
A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection
Radio Series Scripts, 1930–2001 quantity
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Q: Store HTML datalist options in another file without using Javascript In index.html there is a datalist in a <form> that looks like:
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It is desirable for the (large number of) option items to be pulled out of the main HTML file and into some external file, without having to use Javascript to dynamically create the datalist.
Pseudo code demonstrating what is wanted:
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The solution doesn't have to be broken out exactly like above, as long as:

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*The (large number of) option values are in a separate file.

*A form in index.html is able to get the selected datalist items to submit.

*Javascript isn't needed to construct the datalist in index.html.

The first thing I tried was HTML imports, but it turns out they're deprecated, so I didn't pursue it very far.  Then I sunk a bunch of time into trying to do this with the object tag, but it seems Javascript is necessary to get the values.
Is there a way to do this in HTML?

A: In any case you'll need a bit of Javacscript code to download and insert the HTML portion into the main HTML page.
But you can define a Custom Element that will extend the standard <input> element, by downloading with fetch() the file defined in the source attribute, and insert its content at the right place with insertAdjacentHTML( 'afterend', ... ):
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By Zane
Reading Group Guide
Adapted into a major motion picture distributed through Lionsgate
From the Queen of Erotica, Addicted tells the provocative story of one married woman's struggle to deal with the fall-out of her forbidden desires. The world of Addicted is continued in the New York Times bestseller Nervous, and Zane's highly-anticipated upcoming novel Vengeance, available May 24, 2016.
For successful businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: a charmed marriage to her childhood sweetheart, a thriving company, and three wonderful children. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction…to sex.
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A Conversation with Zane
Q: Zoe Reynard is a wonderful character: straight-talking, heartfelt, and insightful. It's so refreshing to come across such a strong black heroine in contemporary fiction. Did the nuances of Zoe's voice come easily?
A. I wanted Zoe to be strong-headed, determined and have control over every single aspect of her life except one: her sexuality. Throughout the book, Zoe is very determined when it comes to her business and keeping her best friend from making devastating mistakes, but her sex life is in shambles. Writing about Zoe came very easily to me because I actually felt her pain, and creating her vibrant personality was fun. A lot of her dialogue is based on the way I tend to speak, in exaggerated detail and bluntness. As for the different time periods, those are just based on memories.
Q: A talented, successful businesswoman and a devoted mother, Zoe is also totally plugged into her own sexuality and dares to wear her passion on her sleeve -- and, most inspiring of all, she ultimately displays the self-confidence and bravery it takes to confront her own vulnerabilities and fears head-on. What was the inspiration for Zoe's story?
A. I felt like Zoe's story was one that needed to be told. Addicted was originally going to be a story from The Sex Chronicles, but after I started to pen the story about a woman who had taken on three lovers outside of her marriage, I decided that there was too many angles to be explored for it to be confined to a short story. So I sat the few pages aside until I completed my erotica collection. Once I picked it back up, I was so engrossed in the character and had thought out her dilemmas so well in my mind that I wrote the book in nineteen days from start to finish. I even wrote part of it by hand in a ski lodge while I watched my son go down the slopes from the window.
Q: Women are going to love this book, no question. But what about men? Guys are of course going to be coming at Addicted from a completely different perspective. What sorts of feedback have you gotten from male readers so far?
A. Male readers love Addicted. I often get e-mails from women who have to fight their men to get the book back so they can read it. Some women are glad that their men are actually reading something other than magazines or professional manuals because it gives them something to discuss. I have had dozens of men e-mail me to say that Addicted has given them a clearer vision of what their women need in and out of the bedroom. One man told me that he wished he had read this book a few years ago because it might have prevented his divorce. He felt like his ex-wife had a lot of similarities to Zoe.
Often times, men are responsible for inhibited behavior in their women. Because women are taught from a young age that there are certain things girls should not think or do, they often fear being judged by the men they care about. Thus, it is sometimes easier to be uninhibited with strangers, as in Zoe's case, than with their life partners. They do not have to be concerned about what casual lovers think because it is so easy to walk away from them. I think a lot of men read Addicted and begin to examine what they may be doing wrong in their own relationships. Last but not least, they love the sex scenes in the book.
Q: On the strength of its dialogue and erotic scenes alone, Addicted is a great read. But Zoe's story is so much more than this. Tell us about some of the issues and themes you set out to illuminate in your portrait of Zoe.
A. I had four main goals when I sat down to write Addicted. First, I wanted to make it clear that seeking mental health counseling is not a sign of weakness, a stigma that is often associated with it in the African-American community. I purposely had Jason react the way a typical person would react when Zoe mentioned that she had met a psychiatrist. After he made degrading remarks about the profession, Zoe felt like there was no way to admit that she had actually paid for Dr. Marcella Spencer's services. Thus, her lies continued.
Secondly, I wanted to show that we really are what we attract. Because Zoe had issues, she was attracting people around her that also had issues and one of them was so mentally unstable that he resorted to murder. Ironically, Zoe realized her problems and sought help; not realizing that she was one of the least troubled ones.
Thirdly, I wanted to explore the connection between a person's childhood and how they handle certain situations as an adult. We are all products of our environment and ultimately, what we become and how we behave is all a culmination of everything we have ever seen, experienced, or been taught.
Lastly, I wanted to show that women are sexual beings and have just as many wants and desires as men. Too often we are expected to be submissive and "go with the flow," but that is unfair when the man falls to sleep with a smile on his face and the woman lies there in misery or disappointment. If the lines of communication can be opened up, both parties can be benefit from that.
Q: Recent publishing news indicates an explosion in popular fiction by black authors. Now more than ever, it seems like the rich diversity of interests, voices, and concerns of African-American readers is finally being reflected and represented in books produced by traditional, mainstream publishing houses. Do you think the self-publishing movement, in which you've played a hugely successful role, is responsible for helping to pave the way for this evolution?
A. Absolutely. To this day, more than three-quarters of the books I read are self-published. I love risk-takers, and because of the self-publishing explosion and the ease of print-on-demand, more people are stepping up to the plate realizing that they have nothing to lose. When I first started, no one would touch African-American erotica, and several published authors encouraged me to write black romance novels or sisterfriend novels because they had proven sales records. They said that I would kill my career. Interestingly enough, I see some of those same authors spreading the word about their story in an upcoming erotica collection or boasting that their next novel is erotic. Just like I predicted the explosion of African-American erotica years before it happened (which I am convinced will die down after a few years and only leave those who are truly passionate about the craft), there are other authors out there breaking ground who are not followers. Authors like Michael Presley (Blackfunk) and Laurinda Brown (Fire and Brimstone) are making their own paths and leaving a trail. Most people have not heard of them yet, but they most definitely will.
Q: Like you, Iyanla Vanzant, Omar Tyree, and E. Lynn Harris -- along with so many other African-American writers -- all began their writing careers as self-published authors. To what degree were you directly influenced or inspired by these authors? How did you learn where to begin when it came down to really making it happen and getting your work out to readers?
A. I was inspired by them to the degree that I knew it was possible. After receiving rejection letters from a few agents, some of them repetitively, I made an almost immediate decision to self-publish because I was convinced they were wrong. I even told them that it was not a matter of whether or not I would sell a ton of books. It was only a matter of whether it would happen with or without their assistance.
I put three stories on the Internet and within three weeks, I had more than eight thousand hits from word-of-mouth alone. The three hundred plus e-mails I received daily -- one day I received more than eight hundred -- from people asking me to put out a book told me everything I needed to know. In the beginning, I started by selling ten of my stories for ten dollars by mail-order, and after getting tons of orders from people willing to pay ten dollars for what amounted to fifty pages of Xeroxed material, there was no question that I could sell a book. If only ten percent of the people who claimed they would purchase a book actually did, it would mean serious book sales. Originally, I was selling paperbacks for twenty and twenty-two dollars (Addicted and The Sex Chronicles respectively) and they were selling like hotcakes. At the urging of distributors, I lowered the price to fifteen and the rest is history.
Q: As a trailblazer yourself in the realm of frank, erotica-flavored African-American fiction, what advice do you have for up-and-coming writers whose main concern is that their work reach as many readers as possible? Where should they get started?
A. That is an easy one. They need to get started on the Internet. They need to give a taste of their work to as many people as possible and build up a readership base way before their book ever comes out. They should join several of the online discussion groups to learn about marketing techniques and distribution outlets. They also need to do a lot of networking with published authors. Some will be amicable and extremely helpful, and some will be too busy working on their next book or negotiating their next contract to be bothered. They should only concern themselves with the ones that believe in mentoring new authors -- those who realize that they have a deeper purpose than self-gratification. Success definitely leaves clues, and learning from someone else's past mistakes is always vital. Most importantly, they need to read at least five books on the subject. I do that about any subject I am interested in to make sure that I can make an informed decision, before I leap head-first into foreign territory.
Q: I've been checking out readers reviews of Addicted at various sites online. By tackling all the thorny issues surrounding sexual addiction, you've clearly touched a central nerve with this novel. Have you heard from many real-life Zoes since Addicted came out? Any real-life Jasons?
A. I have heard from several of both; especially real-life Zoes. One woman actually confessed her affairs to her husband after reading Addicted and while he took it hard, they are now in counseling. She had met several men online and met them for sexual trysts. While she felt guilty, she had tried everything she could fathom to get her husband to open up to her more sexually. In the end, she was driven to step outside the marriage. I am glad that her husband agreed to seek help instead of walking away. I guess that would qualify him as a real-life Jason.
Q: Jason, Brina, and Marcella are all richly developed, entirely believable characters. Are they based on any real-life models?
A. No one in particular, but I have always been an observer. In a crowded room filled with lively conversation, I will be the one sitting in the corner listening to what everyone is saying and watching their body language. I love creating characters and that is the beautiful part about writing. You can be who you want, say what you want, and do what you want and at the end of the day, you can go to bed with a clear conscience and having entertained yourself.
Q: How and when did you begin writing fiction? To what degree did your parents and teachers play a role in your aspirations?
A. I have always had an extremely vivid imagination. Whenever we had a creative writing assignment in school, mine was always the most far-fetched. All of my teachers encouraged me to become a writer, but I never took it seriously until November 1997, when I became so bored while living in the country that writing was my only escape.
This may sound crazy but whenever I was bored as a child, I would daydream about being a different person. At one point in high school, I actually lived out the exciting, drama-filled life of a single person for a lengthy period of time. Every day she had a different adventure in my mind. I actually started a book about her way back then that is to this day unfinished. She was in high school just like me but her life could not have been more different. I used to have wild dreams that seemed so real that sometimes I would wake up unsure about whether or not the events had actually occurred.
My parents are both retired educators. My mother taught elementary school for decades and my father was a graduate school professor. He is the author of more than a dozen published books on theology, and my mother is an excellent children's writer. It is my personal goal to see at least one of her collections published in the near future. Whenever someone needs something creative for an event, they call her up and she always complies. My mother is the only person I know that sends out an annual Christmas family newsletter that runs more than twenty pages and the entire thing rhymes.
Because of their educational backgrounds, I grew up in a house full of books. Literally thousands of them, and by the time I was in the sixth grade, I was reading a book a day. To this day, I still read at least four books a week. All of those factors have directly influenced my writing and hopefully I can return the favor with my children, who both already show the gift of imagination -- especially my teenage son, who I am encouraging to write a book by the end of this year because his short stories are outstanding. My seven-year-old daughter and I do storytelling every night. Either I make up a crazy story to tell her when I tuck her in, or she recites one to me to type on my computer, and it is the highlight of my day.
Q: Who would make the perfect Zoe Reynard in a movie adaptation?
A. That is a tough question and one I have pondered since a movie is imminent. My first choice would be an unknown actress that is exceptional at the craft. Once an actress has been seen too much, her name overshadows the role she is portraying. However, since this is the real world and big names mean big ticket sales to big studios, I would narrow it down to Nia Long, Thandie Newton, or Stacey Dash. If push comes to shove, I am prepared to do it as an independent film so Zoe might end up being portrayed by that exceptional, unknown actress after all.
Q: Is Zoe's story finished? Can we look forward to a sequel?
A. Zoe's story is done but Addicted is the first in a five book series. The returning character in each novel will be Dr. Marcella Spencer. In each of the remaining novels -- Nervous, Vengeance, Torn, and Patience -- Dr. Spencer will deal with African-American women who have a diversity of emotional and sexual issues. The main character of Nervous, Jonquinette, has multiple personalities. Nervous is based on a character introduced in a short story of the same name from The Sex Chronicles. I wanted to explore the wildest thing that could ever possibly happen to a woman. Jonquinette is a virgin -- at least she is in her mind. She is nervous around men and has never had sex but after constant blackouts, she awakes to find herself in clothing she does not recognize and with the evidence of sexual encounters all over her body. When she seeks the help of Dr. Spencer, her alternate personality, Jude (who feels she is the protector), becomes increasingly angry until she concludes that if one of them must go, it won't be her.
Q: Fill in the blanks: 1.) I never miss a new novel by: Ernest Hill, Ernest Gaines, Gloria Naylor, Terry McMillan, Sistah Souljah, James Patterson, Jeffrey Deaver, or Stephen King. 2.) I've lost count of how many times I've re-read: Against the Wind, by one of my favorite authors, J.F. Freedman. 3.) The perfect soundtrack playing in readers heads as they read Addicted would probably include: music by Prince, who is almost single-handedly responsible for my open attitude about sex. I used to rush home from high school and play his Controversy album in its entirety every single day.
Q: What is your sense of who your readers are? What do they want from a novel? Describe your ideal reader.
A. My readers come from all walks of life, from all races, and from all over the world. I have hits on my main web site EroticaNoir.com from countries I have never even heard of. I think that people are elated to see an African-American woman speak so open and honestly about sexuality. In fact, one of the reasons I continued to pursue the erotica genre -- other than the fact that everyone said I shouldn't do it -- was because of the numerous e-mails from women who just wanted to thank me for making them realize that they are not alone and that nothing is wrong with them. Because women do not tend to discuss their sexual escapades as much as men -- at least past a certain age -- a lot of women feel their sexual urges and fantasies are abnormal. That is rarely the case. Men like to read sexual material written by a woman, pure and simple. My ideal reader is someone that realizes that life is short and that no one has the right to judge another human being. My ideal reader is not sexually-repressed or sexually-oppressed, and he or she is someone who acknowledges that if we can free our bodies then we can also free our minds.
Q: What are you working on these days?
A. Whew, how much time do you have? I actually have several film projects in the works, including trying to acquire a cable series for The Sex Chronicles. We shot the pilot already and it has been shown in several film festivals, including during the opening night fundraiser for the SEPIA Reel Shades Film Festival in Washington, D.C., and the Black and Brown Short Film Competition in Hollywood, in which it placed third.
I am working also on the screenplay for Addicted, along with several screenplays for thrillers. I am about an inch away from completing my first legal thriller, entitled Inconceivable Alliances, and I am working on Nervous, The Dating Game, Skyscraper, etc. The list goes on and on, but I love every minute of the creative process and could never imagine doing anything else. I have two particular projects in mind that will explore new territory and, just like Addicted, I feel the stories need to be told.
Reading Group Questions and Topics for Discussion
1. Zoe Reynard is, among other things, a woman struggling to heal the scars and fill the emotional spaces left by her father's untimely death and also -- as we discover late in the novel -- by a pair of disturbing sexual episodes from her early childhood. How successful is she in finally doing so?
2. Discuss the way Zane's narrative establishes a dual meaning of "love": as a literal performance of physical passion on one hand, and as a more abstract or soulful symbol of commitment, trust, and deep-seated connection on the other. How do Zoe's often conflicting notions of love play out and evolve over the course of the novel? To what degree does Zoe eventually manage to fuse these alternate loves into one fulfilling relationship with Jason?
3. In what ways do we see the legacy of Zoe's long-repressed childhood memories at work in the present action of this novel, affecting the tenor and shape of Zoe's relationships, choices, and/or motivations? What would you say was the breeding ground for Zoe's sexual addiction?
4. As a wife to Jason, a mother to her daughter and two sons, and a lover to Quinton, Tyson, and Diamond, Zoe is perpetually torn by clashing desires and responsibilities. Explain how this romantic and emotional triangle -- or quadrangle, really -- functions as the central tension in Zane's novel. In what ways does this tension resolve itself? Recount the high-speed, unpredictable series of plot twists, violent climaxes, and emotional denouements that Zane delivers, all in the last fifty or so pages of the book.
5. One of the reasons Addicted is such an entertaining book for reading clubs and discussions among friends is there are so many different ways to come at this novel. It's an action-packed, sexy novel, but it also takes on some serious issues with which we all contend in our personal lives. What kind of a novel is Addicted? Suspense thriller? Love story? Modern-day morality tale? Erotica? How would you describe this book to a friend?
6. According to Dr. Patrick Carnes, a research psychologist, sexual addiction as a clinical concern usually has clearly identifiable patterns of sexual behaviors, often starting in adolescence and childhood. What would you say are the key criteria for diagnosing someone with a sexual addiction? Based on your reading of Zane's novel or from other resources, what useful comparisons and contrasts can be drawn between sex addicts and alcoholics, drug addicts, and/or compulsive gamblers? Chart the course of Zoe's gradual identification, assessment, and containment of her addiction.
7. "All of us can't be lucky enough to find true love like the kind you and Jason have," Brina tells Zoe at one point. In her poignant depiction of Brina's abusive relationship with Dempsey, Zane spotlights a situation that is all too common in relationships these days. What is it that keeps Brina from leaving Dempsey?
8. How does Brina's ordeal, and her attendant rationale for putting up with Dempsey's abuse, relate to real-life situations you've personally weathered with friends and loved ones? If you were in Zoe's shoes, watching your best friend endure so much pain, how do you imagine you'd react? What steps would you take to remedy the problem?
9. Where do you see Zoe, Jason, Peter, Kyle Michael, and Kayla Michelle Reynard five years after the close of the book? Outline the story arc of a hypothetical sequel to Addicted.
10. Recently, all sorts of reviewers and cultural critics have stepped up and declared that we're currently in the midst of a Golden Age in African American popular/commercial fiction, naming as evidence such authors as Zane, Omar Tyree, Evelyn Palfrey, and RM Johnson -- not to mention E. Lynn Harris, Terry McMillan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and other established stars. In terms of your own reading, to what degree have you noticed an increase in the variety and depth of black fiction when you browse the bookshelves these days?
11. How significant is the influence of family on the lives of Addicted's principle characters? How do family ties -- and the unraveling of these ties -- feature in Quinton's back-story? And in Jason and Zoe's back-stories? How do these personal histories come to play a key role in the culmination of Zoe's narrative?
12. With which character(s) in Addicted do you most personally identify? Why?
13. Looking back through the novel, discuss the particular scenes, situations, or lines of dialogue that really left you feeling one of those "that-is-so-true" or "I've-been-there" moments.
14. "Jason was on the edge, and I was falling over the cliff with him." Here, in the wake of Zoe's hypnotized revelations at the hospital, Zane prepares us for yet another surprising disclosure. What is Jason's secret, and how has it affected his relationship with Zoe?
15. In the aftermath of Brina's murder at the hands of Dempsey, Zoe has an epiphany of sorts. "That's when I knew it was over. That's when I knew I could beat my sexual addiction." What is it that brings her to this realization?
16. Discuss the author's characterization of Jason Reynard. What kind of a person is Jason? What role does he play in the narrative, and how did you feel about him at different points in the novel? Did you relate to the way he reacted to Zoe's infidelities? Why or why not?
17. Consider Addicted alongside other contemporary novels by African American women you've read recently. To what degree does this novel echo and reinforce certain themes and narrative styles you've come to expect, and in what ways does it depart from or redefine these traditions?
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Zane is the New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn, The Heat Seekers, Dear G-Spot, Gettin' Buck Wild, The Hot Box, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Nervous, Skyscraper, Love is Never Painless, Shame on It All, and The Sisters of APF; the ebook short stories "I'll be Home for Christmas" and "Everything Fades Away"; and editor for the Flava anthology series, including Z-Rated and Busy Bodies. Her TV series, Zane's Sex Chronicles, and The Jump Off are featured on Cinemax, and her bestselling novel Addicted is a major motion picture with Lionsgate Films. She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. Visit her online at EroticaNoir.com.
Publisher: Atria Books (October 2, 2001)
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Microsoft product delays take a toll
MS is looking to the future with its latest OS. But Win2K SP1, Datacentre, server apps and its next-generation tool suite are all missing in action
By Mary Jo Foley | July 19, 2000 -- 08:46 GMT (01:46 PDT) | Topic: Tech Industry
It has taken a while, but the myriad product delays -- across nearly all of Microsoft's product groups -- have finally caught up with the company. Microsoft announced its fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, posting net income of $2.41bn, or 44 cents per share. The results indicated less-than-stellar growth from Microsoft's two main revenue sources: Windows and Office.
And the picture for the first quarter of 2001 doesn't look much brighter. Microsoft officials cast most of the blame on ongoing business PC sluggishness, as well as on a weak resources for systems builders. Only begrudgingly did the company concede that relatively cautious Windows 2000 deployments -- coupled with delays in its next-generation server applications and tools -- were taking their toll.
"Windows 2000 isn't a consumer product and thus will have a longer deployment cycle," Microsoft chief financial officer John Connors told the news media and analysts participating in Microsoft's Q4 earnings call.
That's a far cry from Microsoft's position a month ago, when it trumpeted the fact that it had sold 3 million copies of Windows 2000 since its introduction 17 February.
Win2K SP1: A no-show so far this week Financial analysts participating in Microsoft's earnings call queried company officials on the whereabouts of Windows 2000 Service Pack 1, Datacentre Server 2000 and the 2000 generation of server applications that Microsoft is developing.
Connors told them that SP1 -- the first collection of fixes and patches that Microsoft is readying for Windows 2000 -- would be available sometime "this summer". SP1 is of keen interest to many of Microsoft's partners and customers, as many seemingly heeded market analysts' advice to wait until Microsoft issued its first or second update to Windows 2000 before upgrading.
Just last week, Microsoft told beta testers it planned to release SP1 this week. One tester on the SP1 beta, who declined to be named, said he thought Microsoft still could make good on that promise.
Connors declined to be more specific on availability of the service pack, which will not be available to retail customers. Microsoft is expected to slipstream the update into future releases of Windows 2000 and make it available for download to existing Windows 2000 customers.
Meanwhile, Datacentre Server 2000, Microsoft's high-end Windows 2000 family member, only recently entered Beta 2. In February, Microsoft told company watchers that Datacentre would ship 90 to 120 days after Windows 2000, meaning by June. Microsoft is now hoping to ship the product to OEMs by late summer, and commercially before year-end.
While Microsoft claims there are more than 10,000 applications that currently run on Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Advanced Server, Microsoft's own Windows 2000-optimised applications remain largely missing in action.
On the server applications side, Microsoft has a lot on its plate, with more than half a dozen new Windows 2000 server applications in alpha or beta. Simultaneously, the company has been plagued with server-app delays.
Last week, Microsoft acknowledged that Exchange Server 2000 is running behind schedule and will not go gold until this autumn, several months later than expected. SQL Server 2000, too, isn't going to be available commercially until this fall, even if Microsoft sends the product to manufacturing in the next month or so, as it is hoping.
On Tuesday's analyst call, Microsoft told market watchers to expect Windows 2000 growth to be in the "low double digits" in the fiscal, growing to 20 percent-plus in the second quarter, once sales kick in for the 2000-generation server applications.
As if all these problems weren't enough, Microsoft's productivity applications and developer tools group had its share of problems in the fourth quarter of 2000. Revenue for the group fell 9.9 percent, when compared to the fourth quarter last year, going from $2.64bn from $2.93bn.
Microsoft officials attributed the downturn to the lack of a new product launch, like the Office 2000 launch, which buoyed the company a year ago.
But delay-related difficulties are at work here, as well. Microsoft is running more than a year late with its next version of its Visual Studio tool suite. A beta of Visual Studio .Net (aka Visual Studio 7) isn't due out until later this year, with final commercial availability set for the first half of 2001. And Office 10, the next release of Microsoft's Office desktop suite for Windows, was expected by developers to go to beta this month.
Testers said they have not been updated on when to expect the first beta. Some are speculating Microsoft has opted to retool Office 10 to fit into its .Net vision, the way it has rearchitected a good part of Visual Studio.
Is there any silver lining? Microsoft's financial top brass is famous for offering market watchers cautious guidance, but Tuesday's call went beyond the norm.
Somewhat incongruously, chief financial officer Connors summarised his remarks by telling analysts: "We feel very, very good entering fiscal 2001."
Connors pointed to some emerging parts of Microsoft's business as reasons for his optimism. He talked up the company's emerging mobile and wireless, entertainment (think Xbox), bCentral portal and WebTV offerings as potential bright spots. He also talked up Microsoft's second quarter of fiscal year 2001 as the time when all its hard work on Windows 2000 and its associated applications will finally pay off.
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Summer Swing: See golf's wild side in Alaska
Moose Run's Creek Course is a dazzling setting in Alaska. SorenJ/Golf Advisor
Anchorage Golf Course is cut through dense forest. User 'Edgar2512030'/Golf Advisor
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A moose defends par at Anchorage Golf Course. Soren B. Jacobsen/Golf Advisor
Golf Channel's Summer Swing is chronicling golf in all 50 states through Labor Day.
Alaska is a breathtaking summer vacation destination, even if it's not top of mind for golf travelers.
It may be the biggest state in America but it has the fewest golf courses. Perhaps the single greatest selling point of a golf trip to Alaska is the sun: There isn't another golf destination with as much of it in the summer months. Golf junkies who want to play - quite literally - around the clock should point their compass north.
A handful of the best courses in the state are the result of courses built at military installations. While Elmendorf Air Force Base's golf course closed in 2014, others remain. Fort Rainwright's Chena Bend Golf Course is considered among the state's best. Not far from Anchorage is 36-hole Moose Run, located at Fort Richardson. The first course opened in the 1940s, while the new Creek Course opened in 2000.
Near Fairbanks, meanhwile, is America's northernmost golf course, North Star Golf Club. It's also home to a fitting local rule: "When a raven or fox steals a golf ball, a replacement may be dropped without penalty at the scene of the crime."
So who, exactly, takes a golf trip to Alaska?
We learned that one of our Local Golf Advisors has hardly been a "local" at all recently. Soren Jacobsen (username 'SorenJ') recently undertook an ambitious journey of playing golf in all 50 states. Alaska was state No. 49 before he and his wife departed for warmer climes in Hawaii for the final stop. Their visit to Alaska was brief - 18 hours - but they managed rounds at Anchorage Golf Course and Moose Run's Creek Course.
"When we landed we drove straight to Anchorage Golf Club and hit the first tee box at about 10 p.m., finishing well after 1 a.m.," recalls Jacobsen. "Civil twilight is absolutely a thing, we watched the sunset as we took the turn and still finished the round."
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The short season and cold winters are certainly going to have an impact on golf course operations and conditions. The ground may not thaw all summer. One course near the port town of Sitka, Sea Mountain Golf Course, has artificial turf greens. Jacobsen said his early-season round's spotty turf was just part of the wild side of golf up north.
"There was something appropriate about the slightly rougher exterior we saw," said Jacobsen. "Set against the backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness, there were some less-than-perfect lies on the fairways, but it just felt right."
Jacobsen's wilderness golf experience included being "escorted off" the course by a mama moose at Anchorage GC and being warned by a staff at Moose Run of a Black Bear in the area, along with the dubious advice from a local that "if the bear's hair stands up and his ears go back, "it's a sign he wants to be petted."
The wilderness may be untamed and the temps often chilly, but that doesn't mean you won't receive a warm welcome when you're a visitor in Alaska.
"I can't say enough about the hospitality we experienced in Anchorage," said Jacobsen. "At both courses we were welcomed and had really enjoyable interactions both by the clubhouse and out on the course. This also extends to our lodging where, after hearing us mention how tricky it can be to get a newspaper or postcards while flying around the country, both were waiting for us as we checked out in the morning. In short, expect to be treated well in Anchorage, on the course or not."
Jacobsen's travels can be viewed on his Golf Advisor profile page as well as FairwaysandFreeways.com. Follow him on Twitter at FNF2017.
Have you played golf in Alaska? What's it like? Let us know in the comments below!
i am coming to Alaska in June and i was looking for any information i could find about the Golf Courses...is there someplace who will send me information on the whole state??
We too are on the ambitious adventure of playing golf in all 50 states, and we made that decision to do so while on a retirement trip/cruise in Alaska. I had the opportunity to play Moose Run and had the same instructions about bears and such. Luckily, we didn't have to deal with them. The course is outstanding and it hooked the Mrs. on golf for good and she mentioned that we should try and play in all 50, having Alaska already out of the way. The weather was perfect in June, everything was lush, and the mosquitos were big ( bring spray). The staff was friendly and informative about the course.
A lot of cruises in the summer head that way in the summer and if you can squeeze in a excursion day, certainly take the time to play Moose Run.
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I've played every regulation course (I've not played the 3 par 3 courses, Sleepy Hollow, Russian Jack Springs, and Fox Hollow) in the Anchorage Metro area and the Mat-Su Borough.
In my view, the course at Elmendorf was the best of the bunch and that's the one that closed.
Anchorage Golf Club is next; a while (2011-2012) back they'd contracted Forrest Richardson to do some master planning work to attempt to get a USGA Championship up there. I've fallen out of contact with Forrest so I am not sure how that plan ended up.
Moose Run (Creek) is fantastic as well. There's a cool Bottle hole, #4, and a couple holes that run through an old quarry, 6 and 11. Very good.
Moose Run (Hill) is average. I suspect, but am not certain, that the nines were built at different times. The front nine is very compactly designed while the back winds around through the trees. Very average.
Palmer GC is OK, I liked it better than most. Some holes have awesome views of Pioneer Peak which towers over the course. The course is very flat and part of it buts up to the river. Some compromised were made in the routing because it winds around the airport. Interesting aside for this, in my one round there, I played with a gentleman who could have masqueraded as Santa Claus without wearing makeup...the kicker is that he was the retired Chief of Police in North Pole, AK. Heck of a golfer, he's won the Alaska Senior Am several times.
Settler's Bay is the only course in a housing development in AK, as far as I know. It's sort of OK, not bad. Does have a mild Biarritz-ish green at the end of the very long par 5 7th hole. The present 16th hole is a par 3, but was originally a par 5; this is pretty apparent because of the 300 yard distance from 15 green to 16 tee.
Fishhook is the final course I have played. Fairly rudimentary nine hole course, but I'd recommend playing it because it's the only nine hole course in the area and it just a fun course to play.
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John Hogue Presidential Prediction, Election Day 2012
By John Hogue | Published: 6 November 2012
This will be my twelfth US presidential election forecast since 1968. Up to this point, I am 11 and 0 picking the next president of the United States by popular vote. No matter how good an oracular technique may be, the pressure of averages play more and more heavily against a winning streak. A batter who hits every ball for a "home run", so to speak, pitched by fateful potentials of the future, must after 44 years swing and miss. Yet my oracular "bat" feels ready to hit another home run tonight.
The only time I felt uncertain about what message my "Oracle" had sent was back in the 2000 election between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush. Equal to my Oracle's certitude that Gore would win was its doubt that Gore would win. I could not reconcile the paradoxical message.
Then the election happened, Gore one a majority of votes but the US Supreme Court in a legal recount dispute in Florida overruled the Florida State Supreme Court's decision to do a state-wide recount, thus giving G.W. Bush Florida and the Electoral College votes to make him president.
It is another reminder to all Americans of every generation all the way back to the beginning of "America": none of us has EVER voted for President of the United States. A handful of people in high places ever do that for us.
Are you surprised I say that?
I know a lot of you are. Over the years, I have seen shocked and widening eyes when I make such a declaration before giving an explanation that often changed that bewildered glare into a nebulous befuddlement and even protest. Just a few days back, Democrats came to my door asking if I had voted and heard me tell them that none of us have ever voted for president.
So, I tell you Americans once again, on this historic day of national election: you do not vote for president. You vote for some mysterious and mostly unknown group of people picked by your government in each state known as "electors" in the Electoral College.
It is "they" who chose "your" president for "you".
Moreover, there are statutes in the Constitution that can allow these electors the power to ignore your vote and choose another candidate for which you did not vote.
One often hears from "get out the vote" people ringing one's doorbell warn that a vote cast for anyone else than the Republican "Pepsi" or Democrat "Coke" candidate for president is effectively throwing one's vote away.
Romney and Obama are the mainstream "soda pop" politicians offered up by the Democrat-Republican monopoly that suppresses all other independent voices in American Democracy. This two-faced monopoly controls the fashioning of state laws to gain one bipartisan advantage that DemoRepublicrats can agree on these days: let no independent candidates manage to get on all 50 state ballots. Make state qualification laws handicap their chances.
Where in one state the Republicrats need a few hundred signatures to get on the ballot, an independent candidate for president might have to get a quarter million to a million signatures, which is near impossible. Also, since money now has free speech and multinational corporations are now considered people, thanks to the Supreme Court Ruling on Citizens' United in 2010, independent parties, even if they get on the ballot in some states have little money to get their message out on the airwaves.
The US democracy is flawed from the beginning using an Electoral College system and not a simple majority vote, as is the case in all other modern democracies. Citizens' United may now take "citizens" made of flesh and blood out of the equation altogether.
If this is not reformed in the next presidential cycle, we may be four years away from a complete breakdown of the US Republic requiring a military junta to restore order.
That subject is something for me to write an entire chapter about in my forthcoming Predictions for 2013. It is another subject, for a time after 6 November chooses to keep "Coke-Bama" in office or replaces him with "Mitt Pepsi." One is sweeter, the other more bitter and Tea Party Tangy for some. My oracle sees them both as just "soda pop" blowing bubbles that most of you like to chase around like children, not mindful, not even aware of your constitutional rights that are slowly, inexorably, being weakened and stolen from you, right in front of your nebulous eyes by a creeping Corporate coup d'état.
All seriousness aside, let us look into the crystal ball to see who will win this Coke and Pepsi contest on tonight's American Political Idol show. I thought I would do something unique and share with you my forecast as it was written just shy 11 days from a year ago on 17 November 2011 (eleven days, on the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the 21st Century), documented and published on 21 December 2012 in Chapter 8 of Predictions for 2012.
I present it here in italics, with assessments from today (6 November 2012) inserted when needed.
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Well, here we go again. I roll the crystal ball in a crapshoot predicting who will win a US presidential election by popular vote. Appropriately this is my 12th crap shoot since I started back when Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey in 1968 falls on election year 2012. So far, I'm 11 and 0. That includes the controversial choice of Vice President Al Gore over G.W. Bush in the 2000 election. I had appeared on a number of radio shows, such as the Jeff Rense Program the week before the vote delivering my oracle's cryptic message. I said Gore would win "by 500,000 popular votes" but I chased that by saying my oracle's prediction would be "equally right and wrong". I admitted on national radio more than once that this messenger didn't understand the cryptic message.
The "right and wrong prophecy" was exactly fulfilled.
Gore did win the popular vote by a half-million over Texas Governor G.W. Bush. An American majority had chosen the next president. Yet, a disputed recount in Florida gave Bush the electoral voting edge in a key state over Gore by several hundred recounted ballots. In addition, a full recount of the state was denied by the right-wing leaning US Supreme Court. In short, 500,000 more citizens of the US chose the president as Gore because the US still elects its presidents with 18th-century rules. Citizens never vote for the president, all delusional belief aside. They vote for electors who then choose the president. If a majority of votes in your state lean to the Republican side, all the electors vote in the Republican candidate or vice versa. The will of a 500,000-edge in voters was erased by the politics of eight Supreme Court judges voting five to four in favor of stopping a recount in Florida. There's very strong evidence to show that if the entire state had been recounted, Gore votes mismanaged in Republican controlled counties alone could've seen him win Florida by upwards of 20,000 votes!
There's even clearer evidence that one ballot design mix-up in Palm Beach County decided the race for Bush with the aid of the Democrats. The now infamous "butterfly" punch ballot, designed by the Democrat controlled county government had misaligned the punch holes so that thousands of people in a very liberal county double punched on Gore "and" right-wing Independent candidate Pat Buchanan. With the Supreme Court stopping a more thorough, statewide recount, Bush was allowed to take Florida with little over 300 votes in the preliminary recount. The double punched ballots from Palm Beach County were disqualified in that count. Even Pat Buchanan didn't believe he received 6,607 votes over Gore in a heavily liberal county.
I bring up this issue of the 2000 vote because astrology would indicate we could be heading for another butterfly ballot bung-up in 2012. On the day of the election, 6 November, there will be stationary retrograde Mercury in Sagittarius. The last time we had retrograde Mercury on Election Day was a dozen years earlier in the notorious 2000 election. Mercury goes into retrograde for about three weeks roughly every four months. You might have noticed every four months or so that communication is harder and often breaks down. That machines and computers don't work so well. You watch TV anchors flub their copy for a few weeks and that copy scrolling through the teleprompter has more stories of a rash of plane and train crashes than usual.
If you watch the stars and planets as I do, you'll be surprised how often these communication and mechanical dysfunctions happen during the three weeks of the Mercury retrograde, especially in the first degrees in and last degrees out of this aspect. The Florida butterfly ballot with its confusing punch holes, the messed up Florida recount, even the screw up of more people voting for one candidate who is then denied the presidency to the candidate who won a minority vote, are just the kinds of snafus one might expect during Mercury's retrograde over skies of Florida in 2000.
Last time Mercury began its retrograde on 18 October 2000 in Scorpio during the final weeks leading up to, and through, election night. In the entailing confusion for the next 48 hours, after Gore half-conceded to Bush then changed his mind, retrograde Mercury dipped into and unbalanced Libra the Balancer before moving in direct course on 9 November in Scorpio. This was the catalyst of weeks of recount and legal disputes…
Mercury's Retrograde Ballot Box
Twelve years and three presidential election days later, Mercury begins its retrograde at four degrees Sagittarius on Election Day, 6 November 2012. It passes over the ballot box of election night and retreats backwards over the skies on the weeks following the election. Recount in one or more states is possible, magnified in the background of destiny by Pluto in Capricorn (ruler of government) still in the clutches of the final days of a square with Uranus in retrograde Aries (malfunctioning enterprises). At the same time Neptune, also in retrograde motion (hidden enemies and unconsciousness) meets retrograde Mercury (muddled minded, forward progress hampered) in a Pisces-Sagittarius square.
There will be communication breakdowns. Assumptions will be made that aren't verified. The question is, will this be 2000 all over again? If it is, I predict Democrat incumbent Obama wins the dispute, especially if his adversary on the Republican side ends up being one of several born under the sign of Pisces.
ASSESSMENT (06 November 2012)
It is important to note that these predictions were made eleven months ago when the Republican field of candidates was packed and attacking each other in a serialized "reality show" of RNC debates. At the time, Romney was definitely not the winner-apparent and would not be until after April 2012, four months later. In the following astrological assessment written on 21 November 2011, I took the reader through the astrological possibilities of the three hopefuls born under Pisces Sun sign and how they might fare with the stars on distant Election Day.
Romney caught leaving his press conference smirking. This is the conference where he tried to explain "sincerely" and with contrition how his caught on camera goof exposing him telling millionaires that 47 percent of the US population were not a bunch of moochers was "not what he meant".
I doubt Piscean Michelle Bachman will be on the ballot on 6 November. Piscean Rick Perry is a long shot dud, though I can't rule him out completely. Piscean fishy Mitt Romney however has the best chance to "spawn" with history. Romney has powerful destiny aspects to the American natal birth chart mentioned in the previous chapter. [Predictons for 2012: Chapter 7: Primates in Primaries for President]
The Mercury in Sagittarius-Neptune in Pisces retrogrades may lead to voter confusion and disputes though and undermine his chances. Mitt Romney at the time of this writing on 21 November 2011 will be the last candidate standing in the Republican Primaries a few months hence but he has a Natal Moon in Scorpio that could be afflicted on election night.
I personally sense Barack Obama will win the popular vote by a slim margin but with such wacky astrology afoot, I can't presciently rule out a disputed Electoral College decision against a Romney candidacy where Obama keeps his job but does not win the popular vote.
I still hold to this prediction. My Oracle first foresaw Obama winning a second term before he had officially been inaugurated into his first term in January 2009. I went on in the following to explain the reverse negative image of actions made possible by a Mercury retrograde's influence happening mostly for the three weeks "after" the election of 2012, rather than three weeks up to the election of 2000.
The 2012 presidential election night won't be the same as 2000. The Mercury Retrograde in 2000 was at the end of its transit. In 2012, it's at the beginning at the stationary retrograde position. Although the retrograde affects us the most at the beginning and end of its passage, I believe we won't see this retrograde inhibit the voters from getting to the polls and punching wrong ballot butterfly holes.
The votes will be cast on 6 November 2012 with fewer successful attempts to sabotage access to voting like in 2000. The counting of the votes, however, may run into three weeks of recount and dispute where it's quite possible under a Mercury-Neptune square in retrograde that conspiracies will be afoot trying to change the ballot results by electronic computerized skullduggery.
On election night 2012: Mercury in Sagittarius is trined Uranus in Aries. Seen from the collective mindset, it dispenses a climate or an unconscious desire in the voting public to go with the candidate who can speak to the American people's positive aspirations rather than feed their fears. A Republican challenger would do well not to "go negative" on Obama in the final days of the election but use this climate to embrace intuitive flashes about a better future. Don't paint a picture about what's wrong with Obama. Paint a propaganda masterpiece about what good could come with a new president in office. Let go of tradition bound Republican fear politics. Mercury in Sagittarius trined Uranus is an aspect favorable to appealing to independently minded voters who are neither stuck in the liberal or conservative ideological ruts. Only a moderate Republican candidate, like Mitt Romney is capable of pulling this off and despite the fact that Jeb Bush in my oracle's estimation would've been a hands-down victor against Obama in 2012, Romney's tempering, shape-shifting political skills could smooze a different outcome than I have predicted, though I think the odds are long.
As foreseen in November 2011, Romney did break out of the fold. He proved himself not only the last man standing in the long Republican debate gauntlet but also capable of shape-shifting his message in the final weeks of the presidential campaign away from the pretense of being a right wing extremist intent on carrying the Republican base, to a touchy feely moderate to capture the independent vote. This last trick caught Barack Obama flat footed and unprepared in the first of three presidential debates. Romney's rush to the center hit Obama right where it hurt, his most immature flaw, his passive aggressive tendencies. If Romney wins tonight, it will be because that first debate, held before 60 million Americans, presented a kinder and politically less polarizing sales pitchman from Bain Capital in action, who carried more voters across party lines faster than Bain Capital shipped US jobs overseas to China. (See article about how Obama can lose.)
People began rethinking their beliefs about Romney. Indeed, even his final speeches these last few days have moved away from the traditional get-dirty attacks to take a higher tone of benevolence, albeit ever vague on the details, that a Romney presidency will bring on a better America. If enough changed and voted in favor of him, then the salesman will be sitting behind a desk in the Oval Office come January 20, 2013. Still, astrologically, Romney has more obstacles to surmount and then there is Obama's Chicago campaign machine to contend with – a juggernaut when getting out the vote. The Dr. Who Daleks of the Democrats are pounding on every registered voter's door in ways far more numerous and organized than ever was my experience in 2008.
(My goodness, even on my little island in the Pacific Northwest, they are as numerous as trick-or-treaters and phone marketers! I think I will toss them some of my leftover Halloween candy.)
Today I find it interesting that my Oracle in the following passage had spoke nearly a year ago about "forward" progress, being that "Forward" became Obama's new motto (junking the "Change we can believe in" slogan) many months after I wrote the following:
The Mercury-Uranus trine favors electronics, social networking to get out the vote, etc. In this arena, Obama was brilliant in 2008 in the way he used iPhones and Blackberries to engage his base and get out the vote through social networking. He will have the edge once again in 2012; however, unlike Election Day 2008, Mercury and Uranus both are retrograde. That means Obama will have a harder sell this time around and less forward progress than before rebuilding an army of internet-connected supporters, but his Chicago political persuasion machine under the command of former "unregistered" political lobbyist and Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Axelrod, has fought hard elections and won before. They had their baptism of fire going against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. They are battle tested. Victory in this tight 2012 race goes to the candidate with the most experienced and well-oiled persuasion machine.
I look at the Election Day astrology and forecast the most bemused election result of my lifetime. Reason won't play a strong part in how masses of people vote. Belief rules. Mercury in Sagittarius is in its detriment, thus attitude trumps fact. At the time of this writing a little less than a year before election day, I already recognize a lot of that going on in this presidential campaign. The posturing attitudes of both the Democratic President and especially the platoon of Republican Party hopefuls already make one endure in the latter case televised debate after debate filled with reality-show emotional outbursts, simplistic to the point of simpleton explanations of issues with an aversion to debate the devil in the details when solving America's problems.
The 2012 election isn't so much one Obama wins. It's one the Republican primary process can lose before they pick a nationally viable candidate.
It must be remembered that Romney was not a generally appealing choice for last Republican standing to be a candidate for president. GOP heavyweights stayed out of the running and the reality show altogether, such as Huckabee, and Jeb Bush. The latter my Oracle believed was a shoe-in against Obama in 2012 and still contends will very likely be the Republican's candidate for president in 2016, if he should run – most likely against Hillary Clinton.
Next, I described in more detail in Predictions for 2012 who was my Oracle's choice to win tonight's election
Who will win and Why
At the time of this writing in November 2011, Obama waits in the wings as Republican hopefuls savage each other and try to attract base right wing voters by one-upping each other as to who can foment at the mouth more extremism. When they at last have a candidate chosen, Obama can turn on his election demagoguery and create a false perception that he's the adult in this presidential debate. If he persuades enough people it's true – he'll win. If the Republican candidate can reel back the right wing extremism without throwing his Piscean fishy line too far into its depths, he might wean enough moderate independent voters to his attitude over facts and truth. In short, people on election day will vote with their gut, their irrational feelings, their likeability factor, their collective attraction to a good, simplistic – pabulum-matrix over problematic – slogan slinger. For those who love reason, it will be an altogether ugly election. Scary, even. A new low in manic minded choices and latent religious bigotry harbored against Mormons if Romney is left standing after the primaries and latent racism directed at an African American in office.
The fatuous "likability" factor gives Obama the edge, despite all the hate and acid I expect to be hurled in his face from the generally White-frightened Right. A majority of Americans still like him as a person, despite the fact that he has disappointed his Democratic base and not lived up to the plethora of way too many promises of change he pushed to be elected in 2008. That was his Natal Neptune Square his Sun in play. It is the character flaw of promising anything, no matter how impossible to get what you want: a woman's love, a people's love, a presidency. It's the sign of a man who woos a woman and once he has conquered her heart, he loses focus and interest in her.
Obama isn't a philanderer of women. He's a political philanderer.
Obama has some formidable natal aspects that could counterbalance this character flaw in 2012. I don't believe he'll play the Don Obama Juan act again. He does eventually learn from his mistakes, though he's slowly cautious to a fault when it comes to learning his lessons.
The Republican opposition would be caught in their own Neptunian illusions if they fuel their political strategies with blind faith in thinking Obama is besieged and too weak to win a second term. Neptune entering the Sign of Pisces in 2012 and staying there more than a decade in a water sign triplicity will moderate Obama's impulse to promise the impossible as transiting Neptune draws ever closer to a trine with his Natal Neptune in Scorpio. Moreover, having a Neptune in Scorpio can almost "scorpionize" your astrological personality. That for once may actually be a good thing as Saturn will begin its two year transit of Scorpio and will be approaching Obama's Natal Neptune in Scorpio at five degrees apart at election time. Even before it happens, transiting Neptune will exactly trine Obama's (let's be friends, let's make up) Venus in Cancer, the Sun sign of the USA.
This is key to his reelection: "likeability factor." Because the trine begins and continues through late September – just before the official Presidential campaign starts in earnest on Labor Day. The trine lasts through the November election and well beyond the recount. This positive Neptune-Venus factor despite being somewhat cooled by Neptune being in retrograde, brings forth a retrograde's positive potential to see millions of voters "review" their relationship with Obama and give him a second chance.
Neptune and Venus in trine will help tilt collective destiny in his favor if he can reframe the dreams he oversold in 2008 with skillful contrition whilst propagating how change has been delayed by intransigence in US Congress in his first term in Washington. He can spread this myth of a change bringer happily unsupported by faith based, not fact based, attacks from the Right and on lukewarm support of his own party on the Left. He'll be the likable adult in a capital filled with cranky Congressional children and a position-shuffling Republican candidate.
Briefly as a short aside, I would like to make my US Congressional predictions for tonight. The Senate will remain in Democrat hands with a net gain to their slim majority of only one seat. The Republicans will retain their majority in the House of Representatives with less than ten seats lost and I am hard pressed to see the Democrats even gain five seats. Now back to what I wrote in November 2011:
Obama can play the hard reality giver, the "I'm the adult in Washington" card in 2012 owing to his Saturn in Capricorn being is strongly aspected and since Pluto is in Capricorn and is defining the times, it gives him the power to be perceived as a man of destiny. Saturn also being ruler of Aquarius grants Obama the resources if he should access them rightly, to be once again a powerful persuader as his Ascendant (outer expression sign) is in Aquarius. He was born with the planet of higher mindedness and expansion (Jupiter) also in Aquarius. Jupiter will be transiting Gemini in 2012 and be trined Obama's natal Jupiter in mid to late June 2012. This will be the best moment when Obama can find the demagogic voice that engages millions in the American Spring movement, gaining enough of in their trust and votes to re-elect him for a second term. He could make the American Spring his springboard.
He did not do that. His government effectively suppressed the Occupy Wall Street movement, the US Attorney General's office coordinating with state and local police to unleash often-brutal police crackdowns. Obama is thus vulnerable tonight as a karmic consequence. The "Black Kennedy" has become the "Black Ronald Reagan" and the Occupy movement became the new version of the Reagan era air traffic controllers who went on strike only to have Reagan fire them all. It is not only Romney who alienates and flip flops before his base. Obama has often had bouts of his own Romnesia forgetting his promises to the extreme lefties of his party.
Next I assess why those RNC candidates still standing during the "RNC Survivor" debate shows of November 2011 would not do well today, this 6 November 2012:
Obama's Natal Sun is strong in Leo, the sign of the fixed organizer. Mutable Piscean candidates as of this chapter's writing in November 2011 dominate the current Republican stable. If one of these fish should swim it to the finish line as the Republican Candidate, it won't be the best Sun sign to pit against Obama. Mutable signs when succumbing to unconscious habits tend to be hard to pin. They do the Mitt Romney flip-flopping Piscean fish thing. They go Bachman vague like a deer in the headlights at a hunting party at Rick Perry's formerly named Nigger Head Ranch. They suddenly space out like Perry in a debate. "Oops", there ends a Piscean space case's hopes to unseat the Leo in the Oval Office in 2012.
Obi-Ron Paul-nobi.
Ron Paul, a Leo like Obama, turned Libertarian Leo candidate in a third party run is positively aspected by the Moon on election night, assuring if he's willing to run that his will be the best third party raid on the National Election two-party monopoly since Ross Perot.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul demurred to the political consequences for his son Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky if he did run rogue. Thus he missed this historic opportunity to lead the strongest third party campaign since Teddy Roosevelt ran against Taft with his Bull Moose Party exactly a century ago in the 1912 elections.
Now we return to my forecasts on the aspirations of Geminis Gingrich and Trump as seen from November 2011:
Trump? He's Gemini. Sun sign of the double personality. Not a good election day for mutable air signs. The in and out, the bad Donald personality one day trumping the good. Like his political-astrological soul mate, Gemini Newt Gingrich, he sometimes has bold and refreshing ideas that get trumped by beating a dead horse with really bad ideas, like his shameless Obama birther campaign that had him leaving the race early on in the spring of 2011. Gemini mutability might prompt an impulse to get one of the Donalds back in the race in 2012. Then the other Donald will get back out. Then get back in – yadda, yadda, yadda. Donald Trump's natal Pluto comes close to conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn on Election Day – making him a celebrity of the times. A man who equally personifies the very best and the very worst of times.
As we now know "the Donald", as Ivana Trump, one of his ex-wives used to call him, did threaten to return to the campaign more than once. Just recently he lowered himself into real Bad Donald mode with his laughable challenge to give five million bucks to any charity Obama so chose if the president would hand over papers proving he went to Harvard.
The Bull Moose Party.
Satirist Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report appropriately responded with a one million counter offer if the Donald would lick Mr. Colbert's nards and become his "scrotum holster". This tea bagging allusion rather puts this last, and sorry episode of Trump in 2012 politics in the bathroom tonight. The Donald is on his "throne" as it were at the end of his search for birther and Harvard "papers" to wipe out Obama. Trump sits alone now stuck overtop the gurgling laughter of a toilet joke where it belongs.
Now what follows from November 2011 is my Oracle's detailed astrological reasons why it believes I will be 12 and 0 come election night, tonight.
Whether you want to pin your poppycock on Obama being born a Kenyan or in a place nearly as exotic and far removed from the American mainstream states as hula hoop gyrating Hawaii, he's the lucky recipient at birth of an astrological chart giving him ego-personality tools to fix his astrological faults. A square in one's chart indicates where one needs to grow, where one needs to apply the positives of one's life experience and character towards understanding and perhaps moderating bad habits and faults. Obama may have wasted his first term learning how to be president. Indeed, a year before he even ran for office I warned that Obama, blinded by his impatient ambition to woo America and become its president would come to his destiny too soon and too immature for the job. This is again his negative Sun-Neptune square inducing him believe his own impossible Neptunian dreams and his egoistic (Sun) part in the illusion.
It's better to come to your destiny too soon than too late. I see that counter balances in Obama's chart allow him to play enough catch-up to perhaps campaign at least as the president he was supposed to be, the one destiny intended for election in 2012, not 2008. By election time, Mars will transit Obama's natal Mars. This might magnify anger against his reelection, but I think the stellar scales will be tipped towards magnification of new beginnings for a new term. The Moon on election night will be in Leo in conjunction with Obama's Sun in Leo. This will magnify good emotions and feelings about him in enough people to give him a second chance at his destiny.
FINAL ASSESSMENT (06 November 2012)
So there we have it. The prophecy will now enter from the mysterious door of possibility out into the court of real actions and decisions of the American people tonight.
I have tuned into my Oracle and I do not feel its interior serenity about this prediction changing, though my conscious mind is not at all certain it is right. Nor have I voted for Barack Obama, folks. Yet the oracular feeling is constant. He will win; indeed, it may not be as close as the mainstream new spinners say. He may even win as much as 8.5 percent of the popular vote cast. The turnout will also be historic. That does not bode well for Mitt Romney. If electors choose Obama over the popular vote, it will be caused by the disruption of the polls in solidly blue states from Hurricane Sandy. On 29 October on Coast to Coast AM, I predicted that the elections would not be postponed, which is the case today.
Obama will still win the superstorm-ravaged states of New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland and New England. Moreover the disruption to swing-state Virginia was not that severe, so even an act of global warming nature that neither candidate addressed in their debates will have much influence on polling there.
Ohio is going to Obama in 3 points at least, though I think it can be as high as 5 points. Pennsylvania will not shift to Romney in the last minute. The Latino vote (outside of the Cuban vote) may give us some blue meanie surprises for the GOP in Florida, as Latinos will be a major factor in advancing Obama's fortunes in Nevada and lesser so in Colorado.
Ayn Rand's muscle bound "Atlas", GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, will "shrug" in his home state of Wisconsin as red Republican's get the Obama "blues" by a hair's breath.
Buck up, GOP, your take of the gubernatorial and state legislature elections will continue to be Republican red hot tonight, no doubt making Democrats see "Red" and yell "Blue-Hoo!" in the coming two years echoing off the marble of many a state capital.
The state that Romney governed will go handily to Obama as expected but also will have a new Democrat senator, Elizabeth Warren, win over Republican Brown in a very tight decision.
Obama may clinch his election in the Electoral College quite early tonight as four years before, perhaps by 8 pm Pacific, like last time. That is especially so if the swing state of Virginia goes to Obama early. I think Obama will lose in North Carolina, though. He will win in Iowa, because evangelicals cannot bring themselves to vote for a Mormon as president, no matter how much money the Koch brothers throw or extraterrestrial influence the Planet Kolob can muster.
I think Obama might actually clinch the Electoral College by 10 pm Pacific time.
In closing, I must caution that these final observations are less hard clad prescient than what my Oracle cast in November 2011 in the italics passages above. So, we shall see. Moreover we shall "hear" what I have to say to a national audience when I appear after midnight Pacific Time on George Noory's Coast to Coast AM. I will be asked to assess my success or my failure. In addition, I may be asked to forecast the outcome of weeks of a new Mercury retrograde recount if there is a dispute of several swing state votes.
I am scheduled to appear between Midnight and 12:30 am Pacific, but the producer of the show just phoned me as I finish up editing this piece. She said I might be longer or at a different time. So I pledged to be available from 10 pm to 2 am Pacific, tonight.
I hope you will listen in. George Noory has nine heavy hitting forecasters and counting, converging on Coast tonight.
Get out and vote! Thank you.
(06 November 2012: Published at 2:07 pm Pacific Time)
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