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SCOTUS Rules in FMI's Favor in SNAP Case
High court reversed lower court's ruling, concluding SNAP data is 'confidential'
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court's ruling against the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in its case Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader. In the case, FMI sought to protect the confidentiality of store-level sales data for retailers who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The Supreme Court's opinion states, "At least where commercial or financial information is both customarily and actually treated as private by its owner and provided to the government under an assurance of privacy, the information is 'confidential' within the meaning of Exemption 4." The Court concluded that the store-level SNAP data qualifies as "confidential" under this standard.
FMI President and CEO Leslie Sarasin offered the following comments on the Supreme Court's decision to remand the case, saying: "We agree with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling today that a 45-year-old interpretation of what constitutes 'confidential commercial and financial information' required reexamination. Our industry's commitment to the shopper remains constant amidst seismic marketplace shifts. The nation's grocery stores have long kept confidential the amount consumers spend at individual stores whether through payment by cash, credit, debit or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This store-level sales data undoubtedly must be considered confidential because its release would provide an unfair advantage to competitors."
The National Grocers Association (NGA) President and CEO Peter Larkin, who testified as an expert witness at an earlier district trial for the case, also offered the following statement: "NGA welcomes the Supreme Court's decision that will protect store-level SNAP sales data from public disclosure. NGA has maintained that a retailer's SNAP store data should remain private because its release would harm competition in the food retail industry. Knowing that their confidential business information will remain protected by the government, independent supermarkets will continue to be strong partners in the SNAP food delivery system, serving the millions of American families who rely on domestic food assistance."
The case involved whether the store-level SNAP redemption data is "confidential" under Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Exemption 4 protects from mandatory disclosure private parties' "commercial or financial information" when that information, which the government happens to have in its possession, is "confidential."
The opinion reverses a 1974 interpretation of that term, first articulated by the D.C. Circuit, that determined private information would not be deemed "confidential" unless its disclosure would cause "substantial competitive harm." The Supreme Court today rejected that approach.
Ben Kappleman, a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney who specializes in intellectual property, trade secrets, patents, and trademarks against exploitation by competitors, infringers, and departing employees, weighs in on what this means for the grocery industry: "This decision simplifies the test for when commercial or financial information is shielded from a FOIA request. Businesses will have an easier time knowing whether the government will keep their confidential information private—either the government said it would, or not. People challenging FOIA denials can focus on simple questions—does the source of the information actually treat it as private, and did the government promise it would maintain that privacy? Those will probably be easier questions to answer than the more complicated 'substantial competitive harm' test the Supreme Court rejected. The Court didn't decide what happens to confidential information when a business gives it to the government and the government doesn't say anything about privacy. But this decision highlights the importance of understanding the government's willingness to protect confidential information before a business discloses it."
FMI member companies operate nearly 33,000 retail food stores and 12,000 pharmacies. The trade organization has almost 500 associate member companies that provide products and services to the food retail industry.
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Occidental Observer
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White nationalist, anti-Semitic online cultural magazine
theoccidentalobserver.net
Part of Jewish history and Discrimination
Three Ds
Neo-Nazi
Stalinist
COVID-19 pandemic incidents
Antisemitic canards
Andinia Plan
Dreyfus affair
Finance control
Franklin Prophecy
Host desecration
Jewish lobby
Judensau
Judeo-Bolshevism
Żydokomuna
Judeo-Masonism
Kosher tax
Rootless cosmopolitan
Doctors' plot
Slánský trial
Stab-in-the-back myth
Well poisoning
ZOG conspiracy
Antisemitic publications
Culture of Critique
La France juive
Hunter (William Luther Pierce)
On the Jews and Their Lies
Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World
The Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and Jews
The Turner Diaries
4chan (/pol/)
Groypers
Renegade Tribune
Triple parentheses
Black Death persecutions
Expulsions
General Order No. 11
Ghettos in Europe
Jewish hat
Jewish quota
Martyrdom in Judaism
Spanish Inquisition
Yellow badge
Campaign Against Antisemitism
Community Security Trust
Fundamental Rights Agency
Philo-Semitism
Stephen Roth Institute
Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
Wiener Library
The Occidental Observer is an American far-right online publication that covers politics and society from a white nationalist and antisemitic perspective. Its mission statement is to "present original content touching on the themes of white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West." The publication was founded to promote the perspective of white people as an ethnic group.[1] It is run by the Charles Martel Society.[2][3]
Kevin B. MacDonald, the retired American professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), is the publication's editor.[1][4] MacDonald is known for assertion considering Judaism as a kind of "group evolutionary strategy".[5]
Racist and anti-Semitic content
The Anti-Defamation League says that The Occidental Observer "has become a primary voice for anti-Semitism from far-right intellectuals."[3] Among the articles it cites as evidence for this are a September 24, 2008 article titled "The Sandra Bernhard Monstrosity"[6] which charged that "hostility to whites and to Christianity is a mainstream Jewish phenomenon", and a September 12, 2008 article titled "The Washington Post's Willing Executioner?"[7] which, according to the ADL, "argued that that Jews want to exterminate American whites."[3]
A 2015 article in The New York Times examing the use of websites by white supremacists said that "Several organizations — the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance, the Charles Martel Society and its website The Occidental Observer — try to take a more highbrow approach, couching white nationalist arguments as academic commentary on black inferiority, the immigration threat to whites and other racial issues."[8] In response, The Occidental Observer rejects being labeled as white supremacist or racist.[1]
Virginia Abernethy
Kevin DeAnna
Drew Fraser
Alex Kurtagić
Kevin Lamb
Kevin B. MacDonald
Merlin Miller
^ a b c "Occidental Observer". Occidental Observer. February 20, 2010. Archived from the original on February 25, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
^ "Donate". Occidental Observer. Occidental Observer. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
^ a b c "The Occidental Observer: Online Anti-Semitism's New Intellectual Voice". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on February 12, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
^ "Kevin MacDonald" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. November 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
^ "MacDonald to retire in the fall", daily49er.com, April 14, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
^ "Occidental Observer". Occidental Observer. September 24, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
^ Wines, Michael; Saul, Stephanie (July 5, 2015). "White Supremacists Extend Their Reach Through Websites". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
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Q: Live audio streaming from web and shoutcast I want to record audio through the web browser using mic and want to stream that to my shoutcast server. So that user can listen the live streaming instantly. Is there any possible way to do this. Will be playable from iPhone as well.
Had search a lot of things over the web but can't find the exact one. Please let me know if there any possible way.
Already used the WebRTC audio broadcasting script. Which is working over the web but the stream is not available on iPhone. Whenever I am going to joint a room it displays can't play the audio.

A: I've done this in the past.  You can try it out at http://demo.audiopump.co:3000.
The only way to current get audio in the browser is with getUserMedia and the Web Audio API.  This gets you PCM samples.  Unfortunately there is no way to use the browser codecs programmatically currently.
I handle this by sending the PCM samples to the server.  Now, I don't send them as 32-bit floats, which is the format they are in.  I detect the buffer size for the web socket and adjust the bit depth accordingly.  If there is enough bandwidth I will send 16-bit stereo.  Otherwise I can drop down to 8-bit mono.  On the server, the samples are converted back up to 32-bit float and encoded with Ffmpeg.
From there, the data is sent live to the SHOUTcast server.

A: Record audio using RecordRTC; use ffmpeg.js or ffmpeg-asm.js to convert WAV to mp3 or ogg; then you can make HTTP-PUT request to shoutcast server to upload low-size ogg; then shoutcast server can broadcast it to all relevant radio stations.
P.S. By "low-size" I mean, for 1 minute audio; you can get 700kb to 1024kb ogg.
P.S. I'll add some demos on my github repository; very soon.

Updated:
It is possible to use Google Speech Recognition API to convert voice to text; that text can be streamed to nodejs server through socketio; where you can use ffmpeg for text-to-speech and encode into ogg or other formats; that encoded ogg can be forwarded (using PUT request) to shoutcast server.
You can try Translator.js.

A: Yes, We can record the live Audio streaming using AVAudioSession . Please go through Apple document for further details.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVAudioSession_ClassReference/Reference/Reference.html

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Eucalyptus microneura, commonly known as Gilbert River box, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flowers in groups of seven on a branching peduncle, white flowers and conical fruit.

Description
Eucalyptus microneura is a tree that typically grows to a height of  and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fissured, fibrous or flaky, greyish brown bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greyish, bluish or glaucous, lance-shaped leaves. Adult leaves are a similar colour to the juvenile leaves, more or less the same colour on both sides, lance-shaped,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The flower buds are arranged on a branched peduncle, usually in groups of seven, the peduncle  long, the individual buds on pedicels  long. Mature buds are oval,  long and about  wide with a conical to rounded or beaked operculum. Flowering has been recorded in January and February and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, conical capsule  long and wide with the valves near rim level.

Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus microneura was first formally described in 1925 by Joseph Maiden and William Blakely and the description was published in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales from specimens collected by Cyril Tenison White. The specific epithet (microneura) is from the ancient Greek micro- meaning "little" or "small" and neuron meaning nerve, possibly referring to the inconspicuous leaf veins.

Distribution and habitat
Gilbert River box grows in forest and woodland, usually on river flats, and is found on Cape York Peninsula as far south as Rainscourt Station, near Richmond.

Conservation status
This eucalypt is classified as "least concern" by the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science.

See also
List of Eucalyptus species

References

Trees of Australia
microneura
Myrtales of Australia
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1925
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden
Taxa named by William Blakely

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No Man's Sky is under investigation in the UK for false advertising
Gaming / PC / PlayStation
By Gabriel
Losing credibility over a much-hyped game could be very detrimental for Hello Games.
When we reported on No Man's Sky release on PC back in August, things didn't start off too well for developer Hello Games. Well, it seems that it's gone from bad to worse. PCGamer is now reporting that UK based organization Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is looking into whether or not the promotional material matches what you get in the game.
The ASA has received multiple complaints, but one Reddit user in particular (AzzerUK) received a response from them and cited it in a recent post. In it, s/he points out multiple items that they feel are "misleading and mis-representing [of] the actual game". These range from aesthetic, to behavioral, to actual gameplay. And according to AzzerUK, their motivation for filing a complaint was that they were "simply fed up of people seeing complaints about such misleading practises on game forums and Reddits etc. but not actually doing much to try and change things."
As PCGamer points out, "the ASA is a non-statutory body (which means it can't interpret or enforce legislation), [but] it does have the power to have advertisements which breach its code of advertising practice removed—a process which of course prevents them from being used again."
Removing ads does more than create a logistical item to check off, it puts doubt in people's minds about the game and the developer. And for a game company whose only other franchise revolves around a seemingly Pixar-inspired stuntman, losing credibility over a much hyped game could be detrimental.
To add insult to injury, the reviews of No Man's Sky (as of 12-Oct-2016) are overwhelmingly negative on the Steam page.
With all of that said, the game is a novel idea. Space exploration is always fun, and it uses the concept of procedurally generated maps, which are a great way to increase replayability. The question is if Hello Games can address the concerns of its user base. But since they've pretty much been quiet for the last month, we'll just have to wait and see.
Have you played No Man's Sky? Do you think the gameplay matches up to what was shown in the ads? Let us know in the comments below, or on Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.
Source: PCGamer
Last Updated on October 12, 2016
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Attorney John R. Grasso is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and the Federal District Courts, and is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. He has represented criminal defendants charged with misdemeanor and felony crimes in the Rhode Island District and Superior Courts, Traffic Tribunal, and Massachusetts District Courts.Personal message from Mr. Grasso with signaturebelow. "With experience as a former police officer and years of successfully defending various criminal offenses, I am confident the Law Offices of John R. Grasso can assist you in resolving your legal dispute. The Law Offices of John R. Grasso has experience at the Rhode Island state and federal level of the court system and will act as your advocate and representation throughout the entirety of the criminal proceedings.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines today announced the next step in its commitment to making more customers more comfortable by adding more than 1,600 United Polaris® business class and United First seats to nearly 250 international and domestic aircraft. Additionally, United will revolutionize the regional flying experience by introducing the two-cabin, 50-seat Bombardier CRJ 550 aircraft to its fleet, offering customers on key regional routes more legroom, storage and amenities than any other 50-seat regional aircraft operating today.
United Airlines and United Express operate approximately 4,800 flights a day to 353 airports across five continents. In 2018, United and United Express operated more than 1.7 million flights carrying more than 158 million customers. United is proud to have the world's most comprehensive route network, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark/New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. United operates 770 mainline aircraft and the airline's United Express carriers operate 559 regional aircraft. The airline is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides service to 193 countries via 28 member airlines. For more information, visit united.com, follow @United on Twitter or connect on Facebook. The common stock of United's parent, United Continental Holdings, Inc., is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL".


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Q: wp_insert_post not working fine I am using wp_insert_post function to insert my posts but it is not working fine for me.
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Here are the final results to the 2001 Game Show Tournament. As usual, the winning show has a shaded cell, while vote tallies are beside each show. If you want to see the results of the nomination process, click here.


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  NT_auth -  Version 2.0

  Modified to act as a Squid authenticator module.
  Returns OK for a successful authentication, or ERR upon error.

  Guido Serassio, Torino - Italy

  Uses code from -
    Antonino Iannella 2000
    Andrew Tridgell 1997
    Richard Sharpe 1996
    Bill Welliver 1999

 * Distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
 * version 2. See the file COPYING for licensing details
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
*/

#ifndef _VALID_H_
#define _VALID_H_

#if _SQUID_CYGWIN_
#include <windows.h>
#endif
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#include "sspwin32.h"
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/************* CONFIGURATION ***************/
/*
 * define this if you want debugging
 */
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#endif

#define safe_free(x)	if (x) { free(x); x = NULL; }

/* SMB User verification function */

#define NTV_NO_ERROR 0
#define NTV_SERVER_ERROR 1
#define NTV_GROUP_ERROR 2
#define NTV_LOGON_ERROR 3

#ifndef LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK
#define LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK       3
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#define NTV_DEFAULT_DOMAIN "."

extern char * NTAllowedGroup;
extern char * NTDisAllowedGroup;
extern int UseDisallowedGroup;
extern int UseAllowedGroup;
extern int debug_enabled;
extern char Default_NTDomain[DNLEN+1];
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                    __LINE__);\
                    fprintf(stderr,X); }
#else /* DEBUG */
#define debug(X...)		/* */
#endif /* DEBUG */
#else /* __GNUC__ */
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debug(char *format,...)
{
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        va_start(args,format);
        fprintf(stderr, "nt_auth[%d]: ",getpid());
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    }
#endif /* _SQUID_MSWIN_ */
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High School Science Teacher – China. We are seeking a High School Science Teacher for a school in Suzhou, China.
Candidates are required to hold a Bachelor Degree or above, with a major in Chemistry/Biology/Physics, plus either a teaching license or a TEFL/TESOL Certificate (120 hours or more). High school teaching experience preferred. Applicants already working in China will be most welcome. Native speakers preferred.


Dedicated professional government employee responsible for the administration and execution of a complex inspections and compliance enforcement program designed to detect, defend and prevent criminal and/or terrorist acts.
More than a decade of service with the US Federal Government.
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Get your body back to 100% after training by bookending with a well thought out and prioritized warmup and recovery session. Warm up the muscles specific to the days training emphasis and afterwards rejuvenate and restore those same muscles. This will ensure that you are ready to perform at your optimal level before your next training session or competition.


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Q: Shared memory Master/Slave process to access single serial port I am creating a Daemon in Unix that will have exclusive access to a serial port "/dev/tty01". I am planning to create a Master - Slave process paradigm where there is one master (the daemon) and multiple slaves.
I was thinking of having a structure in "Shared memory" where the slaves can access, and there is only one writer to the memory so I most likely wont need a semaphore. The data will be updated fairly slowly, once every minute for example.
I was looking into what would be the best possible way to do this, also if I have a structure in shared memory, how can I guarantee that the structure will be contiguous in memory? It is a requirement I must have.
The master program will have its own internal data structure that is being updated from the serial port, and then it will modify the data and send it out to a global structure that is in shared memory for the clients to use.
I dont have much experience in Unix IPC, but what would be the easiest way to do this? By the way the clients will all be different processes ran by other users locally on the system
It must used shared memory it is a requirement of the project. Also, is it possible to copy one structure into another if the second structure has different data types?

A: *

*A shared memory segment is a contiguous piece of memory from your process' view.

*The calls to create and handle shared memory are rather simple (shmctl/shmat/shmdt)

*The layout of the structures in the memory is up to you. Best is a fixed header like a type field and the rest as an union.

*For your client processes you could provide a little lib (static or shared) with a set of functions to retrieve data, thereby hiding the shared memory and the structures.


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Окса́на Васи́лівна Кайдаш (дівоче прізвище Гуськова, * 1974) — українська легкоатлетка; спеціалізувалася в бігу на 100 і 200 метрів; майстер спорту України міжнародного класу (1999), чемпіонка України.

Життєпис
Народилася 1974 року в місті Тбілісі. 1993 року закінчила Харківське училище фізичної культури № 1. Виступала за спортивне товариство «Динамо» (Харків).

Змагалася на Чемпіонаті світу 1999 року.

У естафеті 4 х 100 метрів в складі команди зайняла четверте місце на Чемпіонаті світу 2003 року.

На Чемпіонаті України з легкої атлетики-2003 виступала в естафеті 4×100 метрів за команду Харківської області; легкоатлетки здобули бронзові нагороди — вона та Станіслава Пугачова, Юлія Семенов та Євгенія Снігур.

Учасниця 27-х (2000, дев'яте місце) та 28-х (2004, десяте місце) Олімпійськх ігор.

Станом на 2004 рік — прапорщик Служби безпеки України.

Від 2006 року працює тренером Державного експериментального навчально-спортивного центру України з легкої атлетики (Харків). Підготувала 5 майстрів спорту та 2 майстрів спорту міжнародного класу.

Чоловік Олександр Кайдаш. 2002 року у подружжя народилася перша дитина.

Примітки

Джерела
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 http://touch-magazine.eu/persons/touch-interview/samaja-luchshaja-zhenshhina.html

Уродженці Тбілісі
Українські бігуни на короткі дистанції
Чемпіони України з легкої атлетики
Українські учасники літніх Олімпійських ігор 2000
Легкоатлети на літніх Олімпійських іграх 2000
Українські учасники літніх Олімпійських ігор 2004
Легкоатлети на літніх Олімпійських іграх 2004
Українські тренери з легкої атлетики
Випускники Харківського державного училища фізичної культури № 1


Nardò, contrada Pagani. Detached rustic State on three levels with SQM in total. On the ground floor, 100 sqm, fully disengaged into a spacious living room with kitchen, 3 bedrooms, bathroom and the piano first, approximately 38 square metres, divided into bedroom, hallway and bathroom. Also, a terrace level, approximately. Complete the House, the basement of about 100 square meters, which can act as a large garage or basement with bathroom depending on your needs.


In recent weeks we have heard numerous reports of people speaking to the media explaining why they traded their Chevy Bolt for a Tesla. However, there are a number of Chevy Volt owners who simply want to go all-electric, but with less expensive options. Their comparison is between the Volt, Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt. Yet, there are situations in which keeping the Volt is a better choice for them.
"I am about ready to turn in my Chevy Volt and am looking at the Chevy Bolt or the Leaf. I don't have a charging station at home. There is an expensive fast charger at the local municipal power company. I rent in a condo complex. The carport where my car is parked has solar panels, but I am not sure how those may be hooked up to my meter, which is about 100-200 ft away," writes and asks Jeanne Lahaie at the SF Bay Area Nissan Leaf Owners public group on Facebook.
In these types of situations the group members, who are mostly Nissan Leaf owners, suggest either keeping the Chevy Volt or going for the Bolt. Here is why.
Thomas Crummett, who has also contributed a story to Torque News about how to use Nissan Leaf's Trip Computer, writes that in this situation it's better to keep the Volt vs the Leaf or Bolt. "I would say the Volt is a better choice if you don't have regular access to low cost charging. Sometimes the station rates exceed the cost to travel on gas as well," Crummett writes.
"Keep the Volt! I moved to a place with street parking and being unable to charge my Leaf at home is super problematic. I wish I had bought a Volt instead," suggests Elizabeth Danae from the group.
Really, without reliable home charging it's difficult to go all-electric. In this situation it's better to keep the Volt or get another Volt. Also, you can think of getting another plug-in option.
However, if you insist on full electric, get the Chevy Bolt. "Periodic quick charging for a 238 mile pack will make a big difference. Oh, and thermal management," suggests Felix Truong.
Thermal management is something that the Nissan leaf sadly lacks. It tends to keep the battery in a sub-optimal state, which can lead to accelerated wear. The Leaf only has a heater to prevent the battery from freezing, but nothing beyond that in terms of warming it up before scheduled departure (but it will heat the cabin).
Here is a good comparison of the Chevy Bolt vs the Nissan Leaf. In this comparison you can find an entire section dedicated to the Active Thermal Management that the Bolt has and it's one of the advantages of the Bolt vs the Nissan Leaf.
I read that one person switched to Tesla because of the Supercharger network. That rather laugahable and shows the extent to which EV buyers/owners are ignorant of the current EV charging situation. While their current Bolt will likely never recharge at Supercharger speeds, practically all of the upcoming 130 plus non-Tesla EVs (which all, except Nissan) use the de facto univeral worldwide CCS charger standard ,which is capable of recharging twice as fast as Tesla's Supercharger.And with CCS EVs outnumbering Tesla EVs by more than 30 to 1 the CCS charging network will be gigantic, with stations located practically on every streetcorner, as opposed to the sparsely located Supercharger stations, usually more than 50 miles apart. And Tesla's Supercharger network is a monopoly, with zero competition between stations, whereas the CCS network stations are in competition with one another , guranteeing the lowest practical prices. THe future is clearly a CCS protocol future and no one should buy a vehicle that depends upon a company store.
The only sensible way to go for now is the Chevy Volt. I gave my 2012 Volt to my grandson with 118k and the battery still performs like new. My 2018 Volt gets me easily 55-60 miles on a charge and I can drive it cross-country or anywhere without ever having to worry about charging. We're all hoping advanced battery technology or instant charging supercapacitors or graphene or whatever will be coming in the very near future but sensible reality for now is the Volt. It's a shame that most people don't understand the virtues of the Volt nor do many Chevy dealers and even the salespeople. GM failed on training dealers and promoting this amazing vehicle.
It's not that Chevy dealers don't understand the virtues of the Volt, it's that they DO. Maintenance costs are so low that they don't have a vested interest in selling them. This is a failure of the manufacturer/dealer business model. Also, it's not clear that GM is fully committed to selling them either given the complete lack of marketing dollars. Looks like they are in it for the ZEV credits and R&D aspects. At least GM seems committed to an electric future, but pushing alot of Volts was never part of the game plan. They DO seem a bit more committed to the Bolt.... but not most of the dealers. I agree that dealer sales staff knowledge regarding how a Volt actually works is abysmal. Love my '14 Volt btw!
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Iowa high school football Week 6: Final scores, highlights, analysis, top stories from across the state
Welcome to Week 6 of Iowa high school football season.
There are a lot of really good games tonight.
Like … tons.
Cody Goodwin will be on hand for No. 4 Southeast Polk vs. No. 7 Linn-Mar and Alyssa Hertel will be at No. 10 Ankeny Centennial vs. No. 6 Urbandale. Up north, Joe Randleman will cover 4A No. 5 Nevada (5-0) vs. Ballard (2-3). Out east, Dargan Southard is at No. 2 Cedar Rapids Kennedy (5-0) against No. 8 Cedar Falls (4-1); Matt Levins is on hand for 4A No. 10 Burlington (4-1) vs. No. 1 North Scott (5-0); and Joe Geren is at West Burlington-Notre Dame (0-5) vs. Fairfield (4-1).
As usual, this is Matthew Bain, and I'll be here all night keeping you up-to-date on everything happening on football fields across Iowa in Week 6.
11:07 p.m. Are you seeing what Greene County is up to?
The live updates are done for the night, and I'm working on the "How the ranked teams performed" story right now. Just saw this and wanted to pass it along ...
Greene County beat Red Oak 55-0 on Friday. That means it has outscored its opponents 151-0 over the past three weeks, and it has outscored its opponents 227-3.
Wild.
The Rams are No. 4 in our Class 2A top 10, and they'll stay there next week.
10:38 p.m. You want final scores?
Click or tap here for a full list of final scores from across the state.
Here are the available final scores from the CIML:
Valley 38, Ankeny 35
Urbandale 19, Ankeny Centennial 18
Dowling Catholic 38, Johnston 3
Des Moines Roosevelt 40, Des Moines North 0
Des Moines Lincoln 27, Marshalltown 18
Des Moines East 27, Sioux City West 21
Ames 52, Council Bluffs Lincoln 31
Ottumwa 54, Cedar Rapids Jefferson 6
Lewis Central 56, Des Moines Hoover 0
Spencer 28, Fort Dodge 0
Sioux City North 21, Waukee 18, final
Waukee Northwest 37, Sioux City East 24, final (Thursday)
10:33 p.m. Who the heck is the new No. 1 in Class 5A?
No. 1 Ankeny lost 38-35 to No. 5 Valley. The Hawks fall to 4-2 and the Tigers improve to 5-1. Meanwhile, No. 2 Cedar Rapids Kennedy improved to 6-0 with a 42-14 destruction of No. 8 Cedar Falls. Then, No. 3 Iowa City High beat Davenport North 42-0, improving to 6-0, on Thursday and No. 4 Southeast Polk improved to 5-1 with a 38-15 win over No. 7 Linn-Mar, shutting out the Lions in the second half.
So ... what the heck happens in that new top five?
Does Kennedy hop back to No. 1? Should Valley be rewarded enough with a win over Ankeny to jump past City High and Southeast Polk? How far does Ankeny fall?
10:29 p.m. Tough luck for Forest City
Imagine playing pretty much your best game against a rival in 90 years ... and coming out with the loss still. That was the case Friday night for Forest City against Clear Lake in a 49-33 loss.
Still, a heck of an offensive output is something to be proud of.
10:24 p.m. Have yourself a day, Mason Applegate
Iowa City West's running back rushed for a school-record 379 yards along with his four touchdowns to leas the Trojans to a 36-21 win over Davenport Central.
Applegate, a senior, entered Friday with 579 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on 76 carries.
10:20 p.m. Looks like Norwalk is going to beat Indianola
The No. 9 Warriors lead No. 2 Indianola 42-30 with a couple minutes left, so it looks like it's over. Norwalk is going to win the Battle for Warren County.
You figure that will drop Indianola at least several spots in the Class 4A top 10. What happens to Norwalk? Does it jump past No. 8 Lewis Central, even though the Titans throttled Norwalk earlier this fall? I'd think so. It's more important how you're playing now than in September.
But this 4A race is weird. Because Indianola beat Lewis Central. So all these central Iowa schools are just beating up on each other.
10:06 p.m. Marcus Beatty keeps doing his best GOAT impression
Independence running back Marcus Beatty entered tonight with 1,262 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns on 9.3 yards per carry through Class 3A No. 6 Independence's 5-0 start.
He did more of the same Friday, rushing for 253 more yards and four touchdowns in the Mustangs' 40-13 win over Hampton-Dumont-CAL.
10:01 p.m. Smooth like a 6-foot-7 piece of butter
Playing in Prairie's rush-heavy, single-wing offense, Iowa State tight end recruit Gabe Burkle doesn't catch too many passes. Dargan Southard wrote a great story earlier this fall about how that's allowed him to be one of the more college-ready blocking tight ends in the country.
But he still looks like a dang good Power Five pass-catching tight end, too.
9:56 p.m. Van Meter is just silly good
Class 1A No. 1 Van Meter beat Nodaway Valley 56-0 tonight.
That means ... the top-ranked Bulldogs have outscored their opponents 202-0 over the past three weeks. I'll say it again: Van Meter could at least be competitive in the large-school classes. There's something in the water out there.
9:52 p.m. Can every game be as exciting as every Indianola game is?
Indianola has a knack for playing in thrillers this year.
First it was the 44-37 win over Pella. Then the 14-9 win over Lewis Central.
Now, after Kael Kolarik's rushing touchdown, it trails Norwalk 35-30 with just over eight minutes left. It has outscored Class 4A No. 9 Norwalk 20-7 since trailing 28-10 in the first half. The No. 2 team in 4A has some work to do to stay undefeated.
9:47 p.m. Watch Urbandale's big win
Here's video of the last-second pass touchdown from Urbandale quarterback Peyton Rottinghaus to Cole Garwood to set up Hayden Marks' game-winning extra point.
9:45 p.m. Indianola and Norwalk battling late in the fourth
After trailing 28-10, Indianola rallied back against Norwalk to trail 28-24, but the Warriors just answered with another score to go up 35-24 with 10:15 left.
Buckle up. I said first to 40 might win earlier in this blog. I'm sticking with that.
9:34 p.m. Valley wins
J.J. Kohl's last-second heave fell incomplete, and No. 5 Valley tops No. 1 Ankeny 38-35. What a game. What a game. Hello, Tigers.
9:32 p.m. WOWOWOW
Mason Morrow found Ayden Price from 5 yards out to go up on No. 1 Ankeny 38-35 with 13 seconds left.
Peyton Rottinghaus found his man Cole Garwood from 2 yards out to tie Ankeny Centennial 18-18 and the extra point from Hayden Marks won it, 19-18.
9:27 p.m. The updates you want
Valley has the ball at Ankeny's 5 with 1:04 left, down 35-31 to No. 1 Ankeny.
Urbandale has it at Centennial's 15 with 15 seconds left, down 18-12.
9:24 p.m. Valley vs. Ankeny is omg good
Valley now has the ball in the red zone, down 35-31 to No. 1 Ankeny, with 1:30 left. This has been a back-and-forth affair all night, with huge plays coming, oh, roughly every 21.4 seconds. What a fun game.
9:22 p.m. Urbandale vs. Ankeny Centennial coming down the home stretch
The Jaguars answered Urbandale's field goal with a touchdown, and now Urbandale has the ball on its 25-yard line, down 18-12, with 1:48 left. If you want to watch the end of that game, click or tap here.
9:17 p.m. Ankeny pulls back ahead in thriller
J.J. Kohl found Colin Kadolph, who plowed through two defenders into the end zone to put Ankeny up over Valley 35-31 with 3:40 left. Heck of a game in West Des Moines.
9:14 p.m. Checking in on CIML scores
Ankeny 35, Valley 31, Q4
Urbandale 12, Ankeny Centennial 10, Q4
Dowling Catholic 38, Johnston 3, final
Des Moines Roosevelt 27, Des Moines North 0, Q3
Ames 24, Council Bluffs Lincoln 24, Q3
Ottumwa 33, Cedar Rapids Jefferson 0, Q3
9:07 p.m. Major Iowa State and Iowa target making his mark
Iowa, Iowa State and Wisconsin have already offered Urbandale 2023 wide receiver/tight end Kai Black, and chances are more programs will, too.
He just snared this 10-yard touchdown reception from Peyton Rottinghaus. The extra point was missed, but Hayden Marks just made a 41-yard field goal, so No. 6 Urbandale leads No. 10 Ankeny Centennial 12-10 midway through the fourth quarter.
9:02 p.m. There are the Rams we know
After trailing No. 7 Linn-Mar 15-14 at halftime, No. 4 Southeast Polk has scored two unanswered touchdowns and may just be pulling away from the Lions.
9 p.m. Valley a quarter away from massive win
No. 5 Valley leads No. 1 Ankeny 31-28 at the start of the fourth quarter. Hawks quarterback J.J. Kohl just hit Brady McCullogh for a touchdown. Shaping up to be a heck of a finish.
8:56 p.m. Um ... Norwalk?!
Congratulations to the Norwalk Warriors for making me look like a total fool in the first half. Earlier in this blog, I said to give me Indianola tonight all day every day.
But ... Norwalk leads 28-10 at halftime, scoring 21 unanswered points after Indianola jumped on top early, 10-7. Landon Hochstein is having the game of his life, with all four of the Warriors' touchdowns.
If this result holds, there would be a major shakeup in the Class 4A top 10, where Indianola is No. 2 and Norwalk is No. 9. Remember: Lewis Central stomped Norwalk, and Indianola beat Lewis Central.
Football is weir
8:53 p.m. Des Moines Roosevelt back to its winning ways
After a blowout loss to No. 1 Ankeny last week, Jamison Patton and the Des Moines Roosevelt Roughriders appear to be back to their winning ways tonight as they have a 27-0 lead over Des Moines North at halftime.
That Patton-to-George Williams connection has been excellent all fall. Interesting fact: The last time these two teams played, North actually beat Roosevelt 21-17 in 2015.
8:49 p.m. Southeast Polk jumps back on top
Southeast Polk takes the lead back from Linn-Mar, 21-15. Getting major come-down-until-the-very-end vibes from this game and Ankeny vs. Valley.
8:44 p.m. Might be the best play of Week 6
Unfortunately we don't have a reporter out at Ankeny vs. Valley tonight. But I wish we did, because Mason Morrow just did his best attempt to get on ESPN.
Valley's quarterback spun out of the grasp of Ankeny's defense and found four-star Notre Dame recruit Eli Raridon, who ran in for a 24-yard touchdown to put the No. 5 Tigers up over the No. 1 Hawks, 28-21, with 7:41 left in the third quarter.
8:41 p.m. 161 to 3
Wanna see a lopsided first half?
Well, Spencer leading Fort Dodge 14-0 at halftime isn't exactly lopsided.
But the rushing yards?? Spencer has 161. Fort Dodge has 3. The Dodgers are struggling since they climbed up to the top five in our Class 4A ranking. A loss to Webster City dropped them out last week.
8:33 p.m. Don't overlook Pella
The Pella Dutch entered tonight with a not-so-pretty 2-3 record. But, keep this in mind: Those three losses came to top-10 teams Norwalk, Bondurant-Farrar and Indianola.
So, should we really be surprised they're playing Class 4A No. 2 Cedar Rapids Xavier tough, trailing just 7-3 at halftime.
Nah. Pella is always good at football. It's written in stone. Somewhere. Probably.
8:24 p.m. Want proof North Scott's defense is elite?
Just look at what the Class 4A No. 1 Lancers are doing to Iowa's Video Game Running Back, aka Burlington's Bryant Williams. He entered Friday already with 1,228 rushing yards and 18 touchdowns in the No. 10 Grayhounds' 4-1 start.
Tonight, North Scott leads 14-0 at halftime and has held Williams to 89 yards on 21 carries. That's just north of 4 yards per carry; he was gaining 13.5 per carry entering tonight.
8:21 p.m. Bizarre halftime score in Class 2A
Two of the better, more explosive teams in Class 2A, No. 7 Spirit Lake and No. 10 Estherville Lincoln Central, are knotted at 0-0 at halftime.
That's not a typo.
Defense!
8:19 p.m. Surprising halftime score in Pleasant Hill
Raise your hand if you thought Linn-Mar would be ahead of Southeast Polk 15-14 at halftime.
It's not that undefeated Linn-Mar wasn't thought of as a good team. It's just that the Lions' schedule was quite, quite weak compared to Southeast Polk's, and we weren't sure if Linn-Mar was truly on the Rams' level.
That still isn't answered yet, because we've got a full half left.
But, the Lions sure look good early.
8:16 p.m. Indianola vs. Norwalk shaping up to be great
Well I'll be. Norwalk is playing tight against No. 2 Indianola.
Landon Hochstein's 2-yard rushing score just gave the Warriors back the lead at 14-7 early in the second quarter. This is looking like it'll be a high-scoring affair.
First team to 40 wins?
8:13 p.m. Halftime scores coming in
Ankeny 21, Valley 21
Ankeny Centennial 10, Urbandale 3
WACO 31, Lone Tree 6
Webster City 29, LeMars 22
St. Edmond 12, Bishop Garrigan 8
Greene County 35, Red Oak 0
Carroll 16, Bishop Heelan 7
West Branch 28, Durant 0
Columbus Catholic 21, Dyersville Beckman 14
8:06 p.m. Incredible name. Incredible play
So, North Butler has a player named Chet Buss. He's built like a buss (sorry, had to) at 6-foot-2, 240 pounds. And he just logged a 90-yard pick-six.
I'm with Cody. Anybody get video of that?
8:03 p.m. Another top-10 central Iowa battle is low-scoring at halftime
But is that really any surprise with No. 6 Urbandale playing No. 10 Ankeny Centennial?
The Jaguars lead 10-3 at halftime thanks to their opportunistic defense forcing a fumble late in the second half and spoiling Urbandale's drive, which featured some big-time passes from Peyton Rottinghaus.
8 p.m. Is Cedar Rapids Kennedy a legitimate title contender?
The Cougars keep making it hard to doubt them.
First there was an impressive 28-21 win over then-No. 10 Dubuque Senior, which will be a force to reckon with in the postseason. Now, they're stomping No. 8 Cedar Falls, 17-0, in the first half.
Might be time to buy some stock in Kennedy, who we've got No. 2 behind Ankeny. If Ankeny loses tonight against Valley, say hello (again) to No. 1 Kennedy.
7:57 p.m. Who needs defense??
That's probably what Ankeny and Valley players and coaches are saying right now.
Probably. You don't know. You're not there. Don't doubt me.
Anyway, it's already 21-21 nearing halftime. Big plays on offense to the point where I can barely keep track on this live blog. I just hear Trent Condon being very excited every two minutes on the CISN broadcast.
7:52 p.m. McKade Jelinek shows off his arm again
In case you didn't know: Linn-Mar quarterback McKade Jelinek can pitch a fastball in the low 90s and he's the reigning state discus champ. So, yeah, he's got a good arm.
We already saw it with a 76-yard touchdown pass against Southeast Polk.
Now it's a 44-yard touchdown pass to ... give the No. 7 Lions the lead over the No. 4 Rams?! Sign me up for a central Iowa vs. eastern Iowa thriller. Those are my favorite types of games, because those squads barely ever see each other, unless it's at the UNI-Dome.
7:49 p.m. What a turnaround season for Roland-Story
The Roland-Story Norsemen won just one game over the past two seasons.
They've already won three this year, and they're playing with a lot of momentum under a new head coach. Tonight is a tough battle against a capable Iowa Falls-Alden squad, but so far, so good for Roland-Story.
7:44 p.m. That was quick
I had barely finished typing the entry below this when Valley running back Danny Rankins Jr. erupted for a 75-yard touchdown run to tie the game at 14-14. He broke through the line of scrimmage, scooted through the secondary and won the footrace from there.
Ankeny 14, Valley 14, 5:38 until halftime.
7:40 p.m. Ankeny jumps back out on top
After Ankeny and Valley traded a few empty possessions, Ankeny got back on the scoreboard with a 48-yard touchdown pass from J.J. Kohl to Will Hinrichs.
Ankeny 14, Valley 7, 6:34 until halftime.
7:33 p.m. The Battle for Warren County is about to kick off
I am all aboard the Indianola express. I'm all in on this group. They've showed they can win in a shootout (44-37 over Pella) and in a defensive slugfest (14-9 over Lewis Central). Norwalk is a strong squad that also beat Pella.
But give me Indianola tonight in the Battle for Warren County.
7:29 p.m. McKade Jelinek might have the best arm in Iowa
It's not 14-7, Southeast Polk leading Linn-Mar, late in the first quarter.
But you need to see the Lions' 7 points. Linn-Mar quarterback McKade Jelinek is an underrated talent who can pitch a fastball in the low 90s. He was also the state discus champion. You can see that natural arm strength and talent in this 76-yard touchdown pass.
Hey, hey, looks like we've got a game early on in Pleasant Hill.
7:26 p.m. Your reminder that Titus Cram is quite good
OK. So. Watch this video of Bondurant-Farrar 2024 athlete Titus Cram score on a 36-yard touchdown run. Keep in mind Cram already has an Iowa offer and will add more Power Five offers before too long.
Now watch the video.
The dude looks like he's maybe playing at, oh, 70% speed, yet he still waltzes into the end zone with ease. What a fun talent.
7:23 p.m. Keep an eye on the Josh Jenkins show
Des Moines Public Schools has a good chance at a quality win tonight, as Josh Jenkins leads Des Moines Lincoln at home against Marshalltown. The 3-2 Railsplitters have an exciting offense, led by Jenkins and his 12 rushing touchdowns.
Keep an eye on this score throughout the night. Could be a fun one.
7:20 p.m. Early advantage goes to central Iowa
One of the most intriguing games tonight is No. 4 Southeast Polk vs. No. 7 Linn-Mar. Central Iowa vs. eastern Iowa. The Lions are undefeated but have played a whole lot of teams with losing records. Can they prove they're legitimate title contenders tonight against the Rams?
So far, the Rams are in control.
7:16 p.m. Valley answers right back
After a big kickoff return from Ayden Price, Valley quickly responded with a touchdown of its own, with Mason Morrow hitting Price on a 42-yard catch-and-run score.
Not a bad five minutes for Price, eh?
It's 7-7, with 5:05 left in the first quarter. Game on in this top-five clash.
7:15 p.m. Well, that was fast
And what a grab by Caeden DaSilva.
Nevada has been one of the most delightful Class 4A teams to watch this year, and the Cubs have more than earned their No. 5 ranking in the class. They lost in the Class 3A playoffs to Ballard last year.
Methinks they'll win tonight.
7:11 p.m. Ankeny strikes first vs. Valley
The top-ranked Hawks look strong early against No. 5 Valley, as quarterback J.J. Kohl and running back Colin Kadolph led a methodical 78-yard scoring drive that ate up 4:50 of clock. They converted on three third downs and a fourth down, and Kadolph finished things off with a 12-yard scoring run.
Ankeny 7, Valley 0, 7:10 left in the first quarter.
6:57 p.m. Wild, but true
Van Meter is 5-0. It's clearly the No. 1 team in Class 1A. And it can keep up an impressive streak tonight. The Bulldogs have scored 70 or more points for two straight weeks (77-0 over Panorama in Week 4; 70-0 over West Central Valley in Week 5). And yes, it's also impressive those were both shutouts.
Can the Bulldogs make it three in a row against Nodaway Valley? And maybe even three consecutive shutouts?
6:45 p.m. Let's see those photos ...
It should be a beautiful night of football. Here's hoping the rain stops falling for good in central Iowa and we get plenty of post-rain beauty under Friday night lights.
Iowa high school football Week 6 rankings
Entering Friday's action, Ankeny is the No. 1 team in Class 5A, North Scott is No. 1 in Class 4A, Harlan (5-0) is No. 1 in Class 3A, Southeast Valley (5-0) is No. 1 in Class 2A, Van Meter (5-0) is No. 1 in Class 1A, West Hancock (5-0) is No. 1 in Class A and Montezuma (6-0) is No. 1 in 8-player.
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Cyberpapacy Preview #4 – Malraux and Ebenuscrux
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Today we're going to take a look at the High Lord of the Cyberpapacy and his Darkness Device.
The Cyberpope
Jean Malraux was born a bastard, one who reported his own mother to the Inquisition as a heretic. He joined the Inquistion himself, but after his master, who had become a father figure to him, was killed by a demon accidentally summoned by a witch, he made it his life's mission to eradicate witches from Magna Verita.
Realizing that remaining an Inquisitor prevented him from bringing his vision to the Church, he joined the clergy, but despite his success his parentage blocked him from becoming a Cardinal. He travelled to Mount Sinai and prayed for a sign that his mission was right. 6 days later those prayers were answered.
Ebenuscrux came down from Heaven and claimed to be an archangel sent by God to teach Malraux a new skill: politics. Within a couple of years Malraux was elected Pope to the shock of the Cardinals who had prevented his rising even to their ranks. Malraux quickly dispatched his enemies and took solid control over the Church.
Soon after he introduced the Malraux Bible, subplanting the Julian Bible which had been the Church's holy book for centuries. After leading his people on the first Great Crusade, bringing the Word to a whole new world, he became the first Cyberpope, and instituted the One True Way, which in a single day defeated the forces of the Pagans.
Malraux is nearly the opposite of Doctor Mobius. He leads on the Holy Vids, but he does not get his hands dirty. He is moody and violent, charming yet manipulative. He truly believes that he is doing the right thing for his people, even if he has to control them with an iron fist to get them to realize it.
The truth, however, is that Malraux isn't in control.
Ebenuscrux
Ebenuscrux is a heretic. Unlike the other Darkness Devices, Ebenuscrux creates. Even though the Cyberpope claims (and actually believes) that he created the GodNet, the truth is that the Darkness Device did it. Furthermore, since Malraux became Cyberpope there hasn't been a single divinely inspired technological innovation granted to anyone in the Cyberpapacy. Instead, the Darkness Device has been the one providing new ideas to Malarux.
Furthermore, Ebenuscrux doesn't just have the goal of being the Darkness Device that aids its High Lord to become Torg. It wants to become Torg itself. How exactly it plans to do this it is uncertain, but it realizes that if it wants to attain that power for itself, it needs a High Lord that it can manipulate, and Jean Malraux is very certainly that High Lord. Much of the High Lord's influence and political power was largely the result of Ebenuscrux's prodding and knowledge, and the Darkness Device knows where the skeletons are hidden in Malraux's closet. Furthermore, Malraux doesn't realize that he's being manipulated and he honestly believes in his soul that Ebenuscrux was sent from God to serve him and aid him in bringing his Word to other cosms.
Stelae
Malraux has been increasing the defenses of his stelae in response to the Delphi Council's attempts to free zones in other realms. Here's an example:
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May 5, 2016-- Endicott College will confer doctoral degrees for the first time in the institution's 77-year history as part of its 2016 Spring Commencement exercises.
Two students, Emily Clucas and Mark Carlson, will speak briefly about their experiences as the first doctoral class at Endicott College at a hooding ceremony on Tuesday, May 17. They will also participate in the college's commencement ceremony on May 21.
The graduation of these two doctoral students marks an important advancement for the College, which is the first on the North Shore to offer a doctoral program.
Since the launching of this first Doctor of Education, Educational Leadership in Higher Education program in 2012, the Van Loan School at Endicott College has established a new EdD concentration focusing on PreK-12, a PhD in Applied Behavior Analysis, and a PhD in Nursing.
Emilie Clucas, the first doctoral student to defend her dissertation, began the program in 2012 with the goals of building leadership skills in higher education.
For more information, please call 978-232-2199 or visit VanLoan.endicott.edu. Learn more about Endicott College's Commencement exercises at Endicott.edu/commencement.


"I had been lucky enough at that point to stumble into the life I might have dreamed of as a boy: a great job writing on world affairs for Time magazine, an apartment (officially at least) on Park Avenue, enough time and money to take vacations in Burma, Morocco, El Salvador. But every time I went to one of those places, I noticed that the people I met there, mired in difficulty and often warfare, seemed to have more energy and even optimism than the friends I'd grown up with in privileged, peaceful Santa Barbara, Calif., many of whom were on their fourth marriages and seeing a therapist every day. Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did either.
"So — as post-1960s cliché decreed — I left my comfortable job and life to live for a year in a temple on the backstreets of Kyoto. My high-minded year lasted all of a week, by which time I'd noticed that the depthless contemplation of the moon and composition of haiku I'd imagined from afar was really more a matter of cleaning, sweeping and then cleaning some more. But today, more than 21 years later, I still live in the vicinity of Kyoto, in a two-room apartment that makes my old monastic cell look almost luxurious by comparison. I have no bicycle, no car, no television I can understand, no media — and the days seem to stretch into eternities, and I can't think of a single thing I lack."
"Although we in the West tend to forget, 190 years ago one-third of the world's gross domestic product was in China. But then, rather suddenly, colonial exploitation and unfair trade agreements, combined with a technological revolution in Europe and America, left the developing countries far behind, to the point where, by 1950, China's economy constituted less than 5 percent of the world's G.D.P. In the mid-19th century the United Kingdom and France actually waged a war to open China to global trade. This was the Second Opium War, so named because the West had little of value to sell to China other than drugs, which it had been dumping into Chinese markets, with the collateral effect of causing widespread addiction. It was an early attempt by the West to correct a balance-of-payments problem."
It's understanding that lifts the consciousness.
People say, "But I'm confused. I don't understand."
I say, "That's your concern."
for no one will do these things for you.
"When do I get mine?"
And the master always answers, "Later."
And so the slave revolts.
But if the slave is smart, it just evolves.
And you never had to go anywhere.
I have had two examples in the last week of people (not on MSIA staff) coming to me with not feeling they have enough. They had a good paying job, and were healthy, and one even had a great relationship yet they sought more. I advised one today, (unsolicited--there are still too many times where I need to keep my mouth shut!) to learn to enjoy where they were. Then they would have a new skill that they could apply to anywhere they went. They smiled--unknowingly.
I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end. It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it.
I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to. How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a 'star' we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails. They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer.
A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordinance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded.. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad .
We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.
But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me.. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.
When you attune to the Beloved, you find out that you want to produce unconditional loving and be in that energy field. Those people who are also working in the unconditional energy field start blending together with it. However, if you start to produce unconditional loving with the idea of getting somebody to blend with it, it won't work. That's manipulation and you won't like the consequences. It really has to come from the place of un-condition—no condition. It's the attitude that however the wind blows is fine with you. And if it doesn't blow, that's equally fine. That's getting into unconditionality. It can be a scary place to be when you are used to being controlling, demanding, and spoiled. But regardless, it is the unconditionality of life that must be lived.
...a subset of savers are reducing costs not just with purpose, but with relish. These are the gleefully frugal.
"I'm enjoying this," said Becky Martin, 52, who has cut up her 10 credit cards, borrows movies from the library instead of renting them, and grows her own fruits and vegetables — even though her family is comfortable.
Ms. Martin is a real estate investor, her husband is a plastic surgeon, and their home sits on the 12th hole of a Cincinnati country club.
Americans' spending is down and their personal savings are up — sharply. "It's huge," said Martha Olney, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in the Great Depression, consumerism and indebtedness. The rapid reversal is even more remarkable, she said, because in recessions consumers usually save less money. Not this time. "It implies a re-emergence of thrift as a value," she said.
The gleefully frugal happily seek new ways to economize and take pride in outsaving the Joneses. The mantra is cut, cut, cut — magazine and cable subscriptions, credit cards, fancy coffee drinks and your own hair.
I have been very busy and have missed a couple posts recently. I have been preparing for the health class and my lecturette on the stress response and the cascade of hormones that results from it. So when Marjorie pointed out this quote is was particularly apropos.
As you take each situation as it comes, one at a time, it's very easy. As soon as you feel overwhelmed, or reactive, relax, rest, and gently pull your energy field back in, strengthening it by being still. Maybe you maintain your inner stillness for a moment, or a day, or a month. You simply maintain your equilibrium, looking at the situation, thinking, "Why does it think it can outlast me? While it is in a state of change, I can be in a state of spiritual holding and fulfillment and outlast the change."
SInce we have been speaking about, and will continue to speak about, trust and values, I also found this quote to be relevant. I have often said that the world works as well as it does because of the many silent saints that surround us and go about their lives without any thought of compensation or recognition for what they do.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
To me all emotions are simply choices. You can choose to be angry, upset, or wound up in stress, or you can choose to be happy, easy-going, and of a quiet mind. Once you understand the power of choice, you will be much happier even in tough times.
You are the one in charge and responsible for your life, and even if you've empowered something or someone else through blame or playing the victim, you are still in charge and responsible for your life. You can't get away from it.
Here is a feel good five minutes. (Hat tip to my Kaui'i buddy Brian Carson). The piece gets better and better as it goes along.
Simplify your life. You do not need all the clutter you are holding on to. Get rid of it now because it is stealing your energy.
The clutter in your life takes energy to maintain. Start with the smallest things. Clear away a little and you'll be amazed at the vast amounts of energy it releases inside of you.
I haven't yet seen Slumdog Millionaire but I get the idea and so I found this story of an Australian family choosing to live the slumdog life in India, fascinating.
This next section interested me when put in a broader context. I think that how we identify ourselves and what we identify with is most important. To me it is embodied in the saying that we are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.
In a study that contradicts prior research, Stanford psychologist Kevin Binning has found that mixed-race students who consider themselves multiracial tend to be happier than mixed-race students who align themselves with a single ethnicity.
Binning asked 180 college students of mixed racial or ethnic backgrounds to identify themselves as black, white, Asian, Hispanic, or mixed — and the last group scored highest on standard measures of psychological well-being and social engagement. Does acknowledging a multiracial background build confidence? Or does confidence encourage a broader sense of identity? Binning's study leaves that chicken-and-egg question unanswered. But like the examples set by Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, it does indicate that a multiracial self-identity needn't bar one's path to success.
Spirit has always been here.
it seems like we've always been here.
I am not a political person. I am not an activist and politics has not been an interest of mine. I do feel privileged to be able to vote. People have fought and died for that right and in a strange way I feel I am honoring them by voting. I don't have an allegiance to any party. I don't care about the parties or partisanship. What I do crave for is good, honest leadership. That last sentence, while true for me, is of course a set-up.
I voted for Arnold Schwartznegger for Governor of California because I thought he would be a refreshing change. He promised not to raise taxes. Last week he broke that promise and has to al large part broken his ties from the Republican Party as a result. When his term expires and he leaves office next year my guess is that he will joining Obama's government in some capacity. Undoubtedly he will be continued to be rewarded for breaking promises and essentially doing nothing except what is in service to his rise to power.
This last year I have been left in a state of disillusionment. It's a good thing. A reality check for me. I have been awed by the extent of the corruption lies, and insincerity at the heart of our public leaders. I am just fed up with the whole economic political thing. It's enough to drive anyone to doing spiritual exercises.
At the end of the day we can only trust ourselves, which is why we must develop that trust within ourselves. And we can trust others if they have EARNED that trust and if they are trustWORTHY. In this time and age, may take on is that this trust will become increasingly important and define our relationships to a much greater extent than in the past fifty years.
Okay, time for a complete break. You've got to check this website out.
Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.
The farmer asked, 'What ya gonna do with a dead donkey?
Postscript: Chuck went on to become president of a large Wall St. investment banking company and although he drove the company to bankruptcy and was fired, he now lives comfortably on his own island, with his wife, two dogs, and several hundred million dollars, and lived happily ever after.
Manifestation is successful only if it results in a change of consciousness. That's a little different from how most people see it. Manifestation has usually been defined as the ability to make something appear physically. But if you only take into account the materialization of a physical form, you have missed the essence of creation. When manifestation results in a change of consciousness, you no longer need to see the form in the outer world, but you move to the very essence of its fulfillment inside of you and then you truly have it. Truly having something does not mean you possess it as a form, but that it is present for you in its essence.
We get all of our fresh vegetables through a CSA program, CSA is an abbreviation for community supported agriculture. Essentially a group of consumers pay up-front at the beginning of a growing season for a small (usually family) farm's start up costs. Its like a share, the dividends arrive every Wednesday in the form of a box brimming with seasonal produce--all organic vegetables and fruits at a very reasonable price. There are even meat CSAs now. Check out the CSAs in your area. Faye and I are members of Bee Wise and they usually give us so much food we have a problem finishing all of it.
Ultimately, the issues dividing the world are not, in our view, subject to personalities, nor does goodwill (or bad will, for that matter) address the fundamental questions. Iran has strategic and ideological reasons for behaving the way it does. So does Russia. So does Germany, and so on. The tensions that exist between those countries and the United States might be mildly exacerbated by personalities, but nations are driven by interest, not personality.
Biden's position did not materially shift the Obama administration away from Bush's foreign policy, because Bush was the prisoner of that policy, not its creator. The Iranians will not make concessions on nuclear weapons prior to holding talks, and they do not regard their support for Hamas or Hezbollah as aiding terrorism. Being willing to talk to the Iranians provided they abandon these things is the same as being unwilling to talk to them.
PK: My point in posting the above excerpt is to show that some things are changing rapidly and some things barely at all. Do not look to the Government for help because it is still basically the same people with the same agendas playing them out in the same way. It is really a time for taking personal responsibility. There will be change, we just don't know what. So stay healthy and flexible.
I don't care how hard this period is. You have to have the combination of believing that you will prevail, that you will get out of this, but also not be the Pollyanna who ignores the brutal facts. You have to say that we will be in this for a long time and we will turn this into a defining event, a big catalyst to make ourselves a much stronger enterprise. Our characters are being forged in a burning, searing crucible.
An MSIA staff member approached me the other day and said that reading this bog had made them scared to spend money. They had wanted to go to a Judy Collins concert but didn't want to part with the $40 ticket price.
I was both proud and horrified. Proud that they were carefully evaluating where to spend their money and not acting on impulse. Horrified that they were scared of spending money.
1) Yes, we are in a financial crisis but that following the principles of abundance and prosperity, also known as being a Joyful Giver, puts us on a Grace track as opposed to a struggle track. We are watchful, alert, and relaxed.
2) That deciding what your values are is a critical piece of the puzzle, for that will guide you on your actions and spending your money.
3) There is never a reason to live in lack because there is endless supply.
I do believe that the reason this economy is in such trouble is that the foundation on which it has been built over the last 25 years has been dishonesty and greed. In other words--no foundation at all. It had to fail. Dishonesty and greed are not values for sustained growth and expansion.
So what did these companies do to get through the tough times?
A couple of things really jump out. No. 1, in times of great duress, tumult, and uncertainty, you have to have moorings. Companies like P&G, GE, J&J, and IBM had an incredible fabric of values, of underlying ideals or principles that explained why it was important that they existed. One of the things that was very distinctive about P&G, for example, was that they said a customer will always be able to depend on the fact that a product is what we say it is - we will always build our reputation on quality. When they were under pressure to start cutting corners or use cheaper ingredients, they just didn't do that. What we have found is that what really matters is that you actually have core values - not what they are. The more challenged you are, the more you have to have your values. You need to preserve them consistently over time.
And the reason all this works is that you let go and give to God, joyfully and unconditionally.
Well, if that short sentence doesn't say it all regarding living the spiritual principles of abundance and prosperity I don't know what does. Please take it in.
This is a must see video, named Four Generations, to warm your heart and may redefine abundance for you.
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BCE), which at the height of its power had more than 20 nations under its control, was built on the most basic principles - that of truth and justice, which formed the bases of the Achaemenid culture. Based on the Zoroastrian doctrine, it was the strong emphasis on honesty and integrity that gave the ancient Persians credibility to rule the world, even in the eyes of the people belonging to the conquered nations.
This largest Empire of the Ancient World was forged by Cyrus the Great, and spanned three continents, including territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan, parts of Central Asia, Asia Minor, Thrace, much of the Black Sea coastal regions, Iraq, northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and all significant population centers of ancient Egypt as far west as Libya. It is also noted for freeing the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, and for instituting Aramaic as the empire's official language.
As we have seen, the United States of America has wandered far from its founding fathers who did have the principles of truth and justice in mind. And certainly we have seen any emphasis on honesty and integrity evaporate before our eyes in the last six months. It has taken a generation for things to come off their tracks and in my opinion it will take a generation to get them back on again. Let's hope that Tuesday will get us off to a good start.
The part of us that keeps the spiritual Law of Assumption from working is the ego. The false self uses the power of the mind and the emotions, backed by willpower and the power of the body, to prevent us from manifesting wonderful things in the world. But there's a bigger will, the Soul. Once you connect with the Soul, the ego seems like nothing. You wonder why you allowed your life to be run by such an inconsequential thing!
If you start assuming that you are Soul, you will become Soul, the Beloved. This is not something that will happen in some future time and place. It is true right here, right now.
After a few weeks of writing about the financial meltdown, I think we have a good idea of where we are, the context for the whole thing, and indeed the context for the times. It now has to play out and as it does we have spoken about the inner and the outer preparation needed to deal with the consequences.
So enough about all of that for now. Let's return our focus to the good stuff—manifestation. Living the life we aspire to, regardless of circumstances, meaning that we are not dependent on materiality for our fulfillment.
We start such a journey by asking ourselves what we want. That is the key to this. So let's begin there. And what we come up with can be evaluated and measured against the values we have as individuals. (If you are new to this blog see "Values" tag on the right).
Clarity is important. I know what I am looking for to create. I have thought about it, and written it down. Most importantly, I have a clear picture of what it is, and I can clearly see myself doing it.
What do you want to manifest, for the highest good?
Ever wondered what you would do if you had to start from scratch? I enjoyed this review of Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard.
And who are the happiest at their jobs? According to Yahoo Hotjobs it's Clergy, 67.2% of them. The second happiest were firefiighters.
For a good financial read see David Brooks' Op-Ed in the NY Times. Some very difficult decisions are up for the new U.S. Government. There are no easy choices. Which means we send the Light.
To Cut Back or Not to Cut Back?
Well things have certainly quieted down in the financial world as stability slowly returns. However, that doesn't mean to say that we are not in the midst of one of the severest recessions in a very long while. The word "deflation" has been bantered around and "depression" has also been talked about.
But what does it all mean for us ordinary folks trying to get by in an increasingly complex world?
In times of uncertainty, the prudent thing to do is to save so that you can weather whatever the world throws at you. That rule has been and always will be one of the unassailable ideas in personal finance (unless you're facing rampant and runaway inflation, fortunately that has never happened in the United States) and that's the mantra I, and many other people, have started to live by.
The first step is to cut back on spending somewhere and we've decided to cut back on eating out as often as we had been. My wife and I are fortunate to have disposable income and we treated ourselves to eating out at restaurants several nights a week. We didn't go to lavish restaurants or anything like that. We'd go to our local pizza joint for a $20 meal of pizza and calamari or our local restaurant for a $15 meal (those are totals for two). Even at a mere $15 a night, three nights a week, ends up being $180 a month.
We've replaced them with more cooking. We've made cooking a fun activity that's part entertainment, part sustenance. Cooking is also much cheaper, makes more (for leftovers!), and saves us on gas (we can walk to our grocery store). A simple, delicious meal of some pasta and tomato sauce can't cost more than a dollar or two per person and can feed us for several days.
In our case, we've "cut back" financially but enriched ourselves in other ways.
But is cutting back the answer? After all, are we not supposed to expand in the midst of contraction? And if we do cut back doesn't that make the general economy worse, and create an even steeper downward spiral?
We'll explore this more this coming week, but for now my take on it is to return to your own values (see "Values" tag on the right for past posts on this) and act in accordance with them. My own values lean towards the bohemian (see August 16 & 17 posts) but I do not impose that on anyone.
So maybe your parents weren't the best example, and you did follow the wrong crowd financially growing up and made a few mistakes. Congratulations. You are human. We have all made mistakes. What separates you from serial failures is that you are willing to learn from those mistakes. You are willing to get smart on personal finance topics by reading magazines, books and blogs. You are willing to work extra to dig out from your own financial hole and change your family tree. Quit waiting on someone else to save you, or someone else to blame it on. Take responsibility for your financial decisions, and start making better ones to provide a brighter future for yourself, and your loved ones.
You do not have to trust anybody else if you trust yourself. When people tell you something, you can just say, "Well, that sounds good," without jumping into their information and without agreeing or disagreeing with what they say. You then take whatever time you need to look at it carefully and consider whether their information relates to you and whether you can make it work for you. If you can, use it. If not, let it go.
One of the aspects of the "Unravelling" has been the falling away of trust. Trust is hard to earn and, once lost, is even harder to build back up. So much trust has been lost in our "trusted" institutions. It's one of the reasons the financial system is still having difficulty re-booting.
A top financial strategist, Mohamed El-Erian of Pimco, has a great everyday example. (Courtesy Bill Gross' Monthly Report at www.pimco.com).
"Imagine yourself at the drive-thru ordering a Big Mac. At one window you order and pay, at the other – 20 feet ahead – you pick up your lunch. What if you thought that after paying at the first window, your 1000 calorie sandwich might not be waiting for you a few seconds later. You might not pay; business as usual might not take place. That is what is happening in the credit markets."
However, one thing we must always do is maintain our trust with ourselves. I am constantly striving to maintain and improve mine. We can't win the outer game, but the inner game is always in our hands.
Recommended Reading. (Thanks to Marjorie for this one).
A budget is the very tonic many households need. It doesn't have to be painful if you understand one salient fact: You control your budget; it doesn't control you.
Every month, you, dictate how you spend your limited financial resources. Your budget has no control over that. You can choose to eat out every day, or you can choose to replace your wardrobe, or you can choose to pay off additional principal on your debt balances, or you can choose to afford a getaway over a long weekend. Whatever you want to do with your money, you can do it.
But here's the catch: You can't do everything.
Along the same lines here is a quote I liked from yesterday's post on vigilance from www.bluntmoney.com.
Moneywise, being vigilant means doing things like tracking your spending, balancing your checkbook, making sure you're adequately prepared for financial disasters, and constantly working to improve your performance in the workplace. In other words, being vigilant means exactly what it sounds like: paying close, careful attention to the little things that will make a big difference in your life.
Being financially vigilant allows you to feel more confident and optimistic about your life, because you'll know that you have control over your finances. You won't be buffeted about, at the mercy of whatever bill happens to arrive in your mailbox.
"When policies encounter realities, harsh things happen to presidents. Most presidents are worn down by them. Some accommodate themselves. A few — a Lincoln or a Franklin Delano Roosevelt — find opportunities that no one else can quite see. The first test for Obama will be Iraq, to find an exit that isn't disastrous but fulfills his commitments. We don't see the path. It will be interesting to see if Obama can invent one — not only on Iraq but on a range of foreign policy issues."
Q: How can I live life with more trust and love?
A: It is called being less materialistic, thus no hidden agendas, thus no suspicions, thus trust, thus love. Thus spoke love.
We have spoken a little about values. I believe in living a principle-based life. A principle can be defined as a personal or specific basis of conduct or management. I don't like rules. They are made when brains run out and tend to self-defeating in the long run. Rules are restrictive, principles are freeing.
I mention principles today because no matter who is elected President today, and no matter what initiatives get passed, it makes no difference to one who is living a principle-based life. We live our principles, regardless.
There is great strength in this. It is a center to which one can hold to in times of plenty or in times of turbulence. I invite you to explore your own principles.
Experience isn't things happening to you, it's learning from them, seeking solutions.
Being attached to the accumulation of material wealth might be a deterrent to discovering the more spiritual aspects of yourself. But material wealth can also be an outer reflection of the inner wealth and abundance that you are experiencing inside. There is nothing "wrong" with having material possessions. Sometimes they can assist you to live a more comfortable life so that you can more easily be of service to others. And many times sharing the abundance of your material possessions can be beneficial to others. It's all in how you handle it inside yourself.
We have been talking about values this week and I have been sharing a couple of mine. The purpose is for you to consider your own values and then to make sure that your actions are consistent with them. Going against your own values is a problem for a whole lot of reasons that I won't go into here, but may do in a future post dealing with trust. What I do want to go into here is that your spending habits need to also be consistent with your values. If not, once again you are going to be in conflict with yourself.
2) I buy less. I have fewer clothes but the ones I have are higher quality. (Plus this is also consistent with my value of simplicity).
Another example of this is organic food. I would rather have 3 ounces of natural beef than 6 ounces of regular beef. Thus my budget stays the same, even if organic beef is twice as much. And most importantly, my values stay intact--eating more slowly to appreciate the quality, plus I may get to lose a couple of pounds!
And, I do happen to think that a match in values is the most important factor for a long term and successful intimate relationship.
Oh, and one more value of mine—giving, joyful giving. That's why I like to make my tithing check the first one of the month, before my other expenditures.
Really hear what I'm about to tell you. The center of gravity of the world economic system has moved from New York to Washington. Let me illustrate what I mean so you understand just how profound this is. Banks used to compete against banks. US carmakers competed against each other and the Japanese. And the New York financial markets told you how they're doing against each other.
Understand what's happening now. The US Treasury has become the only "customer" that matters. The Treasury is now the customer—and investor -- with the $750+ billion checkbook. The Treasury is now the "investment banker" of last resort, arranging and financing mergers. Banks are competing against insurance companies for their slice of the bailout pie. Chrysler and GM (and the Michigan Congressional delegation) are looking to Washington, not Goldman or Merrill, to facilitate a merger. This is a seismic shift.