Intel: Ultra-thin is in for notebooks
- 05 June, 2009 13:35
Intel is tipping ultra-thin notebooks will invade the mainstream market this year.
At a press event in Sydney, the vendor showcased its range of products that fit into three distinct market segments: Low-consumption netbooks, ultra-slim laptops and traditional notebook PCs. But it is the slim notebook category that is demanding Intel’s attention.
Intel national manager, Philip Cronin, said that unlike netbooks, slimmer notebooks come in a small package without sacrificing too much performance.
“Users are demanding portability and space but some still want a performance engine and we want to work through these categories,” he said. “It is clear from our independent research that there is still a large demand for larger form factors.”
Beyond processors and platforms, Intel has also adopted a holistic slim line notebook approach.
“Packaging has become important but we are looking at the whole problem,” Intel senior technical manager, Graham Tucker, said. “We have also considered thermal dynamics technology and reducing LED display thickness, not just the silicon.”
While Intel is expecting an “ultra-thin Christmas”, Tucker clarified that the vendor has not neglected the other two market segments and pointed to the company’s extensive processor portfolio.
“We have a variety of processors with varying performance between market segments,” he said. “This ranges from our Atom range [suitable for netbooks], and our Celeron to Centrino2 range [for ultra-thin and high performance notebooks].”
While Intel carries a broad product line, national marketing manager, Kate Burleigh, conceded that there is no one comprehensive notebook processor and consumers will need to make some concessions.
“We have a range of systems at different price points but there are trade-offs,” she said. “People will have to decide between features such as size, battery life or Wifi capabilities.”
Intel plans also plans to open up its indirect distribution channel to include telecommunications partners.


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1 Killed, 6 Injured As Crane Falls On Tricycle, Pedestrian In Kwara
One person was killed and six others injured when a crane fell off a truck on Monday around 7pm on Asa Dam Road in Ilorin, Kwara State.
Speaking with City & Crime on Tuesday, the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Frederick Ade Ogidan, said, “The incident was as a result of speed violation by the yellow and black truck carrying a crane which fell on pedestrians and a commercial tricycle.
“One person (male) died in the accident while six others were injured, comprising five males and three females.”
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Maureen Dowd has devoted her last two Times columns to her problems with the male hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
Wednesday's edition featured "Father Doesn't Know Best" (get it?). Dowd is confused about the idea of a church insisting its members adhere to its core beliefs, while ranting about "women's lower caste in the church." That subject is a hobbyhorse for Dowd, who has previously compared the status of women in the church to that of women in Saudi Arabia.
Updated with new statements | Fury over the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts’ continued refusal to report the lawsuits Catholic entities have filed against the Obama administration has spread beyond the Media Research Center watchdog group and Catholic leaders to 11 additional Christian leaders equally concerned about this decision to deliberately not report national news. Below are statements released by FRC’s Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer of American Values and nine more leaders.
The Big Three networks' evening newscasts have all but punted so far on the 12 lawsuits filed on Monday against the Obama administration, challenging the abortifacient/birth control mandate which is part of ObamaCare. However, CBS actually followed up on their exclusive interview of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan on the regulation on Tuesday's CBS This Morning.
Correspondent Norah O'Donnell confronted Press Secretary Jay Carney during the Tuesday White House press briefing over Dolan's sharp critique of the mandate on the morning newscast: "He [Dolan] said that it's a 'strait-jacketing' and 'handcuffing exemption.'...Is that what the President is doing...strait-jacketing and hand-cuffing religious institutions?" O'Donnell's question didn't make it on the air on Tuesday's CBS Evening News or Wednesday's CBS This Morning, even after Carney evaded directly answering her question.
CNN devoted over twice the air-time to a "stroller moms" protest against toxic chemicals than it did to the biggest religious lawsuit in U.S. history filed Monday.
A dozen lawsuits filed by 43 Catholic institutions against the Obama administration merited only news briefs on Monday with one full segment on Tuesday morning. The coverage totaled under seven minutes. In contrast, CNN gave almost 18 minutes to a march of about 100 people pushing for a Democratic-sponsored bill.
Nine prominent Catholic leaders have joined the Media Research Center to voice outrage over the broadcast networks deliberately withholding news of the momentous 43 Catholic entities suing the Obama administration for violating their religious freedoms. They represent major organizations including the Acton Institute, Cardinal Newman Society, SBA List and others. More are coming in every hour.
There are 60 million Catholics in the US. The Catholic vote will be the most important swing vote this year. So it’s not just a major policy issue, it is one with massive political implications. Yet, 19 seconds of news coverage remains the only attention given by the evening broadcast networks. Two days after news broke, the tally is:
“[sigh] When will those mouth-breathing right-wingers give up their caves and clubs and learn to love science?” Pity the sophisticated liberal like CNN contributor Laura Sessions Stepp, whose impatience at Neanderthal misogynists and snake-handlers is palpable.
The evening news broadcasts all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom. The May 21 editions of ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused to report the fact that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Obama administration. CBS Evening News gave this historic news a mere 19 seconds of air time.
This is the worst bias by omission I have seen in the quarter century history of the Media Research Center. Every American knows about the Chinese communists withholding for 20 years the news that the US had landed on the moon, because it reflected poorly on the government. Our US media today are no different. They are now withholding news from the American people if it is harmful to the re-election of Barack Obama.
Gay "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert (touted by fans as "Glambert") knows he'll have a sympathetic ear at National Public Radio. On Sunday night's All Things Considered newscast, anchor Guy Raz promoted Lambert's latest album as a "great record."
As the interview drew to an end, Raz must have tried his hardest to craft the softest, slightly stupid-sounding question about the lyrics, which protest the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality. "I wonder whether you're addressing that issue"?
The University of Notre Dame along with dozens of other Catholic institutions sued the Obama administration Monday to block the mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptives to employees.
In a discussion about this matter on MSNBC's Hardball Monday, host Chris Matthews asked one of his guests, "Do you think they’re all Republican, the bishops?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Sunday's CBS Evening News refreshingly spotlighted the continuing persecution of the Coptic Christians in Egypt, an ongoing story that the Big Three networks have largely ignored for months. Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer zeroed in on the uncertain future for the religious minority as the country gears for a rare election: "[Egypt's] Christians are deeply worried....Two of the frontrunners in the race with a realistic chance of winning are deeply devout Islamists."
The last time CBS reported on the anti-Christian violence in Egypt was a news brief on the October 9, 2011 edition of Evening News, according to a Nexis search. Since January 2011, ABC, NBC, and CBS's morning and evening newscasts have only mentioned the issue six times.
On today's edition of The Daily Rundown, MSNBC's Chuck Todd sat down to chat with Rev. Jesse Jackson to discuss a variety of issues, from Afghanistan to whether the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is fair game for Republicans to attack President Obama. In the middle of the interview, Todd asked the former Democratic presidential candidate about the NAACP Board of Directors's "historic" decision over the weekend to give the organization's stamp of approval to same-sex marriage.
"There has been this conventional wisdom that particularly among older African-Americans that the president's position on gay marriage is going to hurt him," Todd noted, adding, "Does the NAACP sort of backing up the president on this help convince the older African-American [voters], might be a little more religious, might be struggling with this issue, to ignore that part?"
ESPN's Grantland website jumped on the bash Manny Pacquiao bandwagon on Thursday by giving a platform to a homosexual activist, who predictably trashed the Catholic Church as she took the Filipino boxing sensation to task for defending traditional marriage.
Writer Laurel Fantauzzo ripped the "the Church's cruel, untrue dictates about me," and promised if he didn't "evolve" like President Obama, "I'll simply have to sigh wearily and turn away from you, the way I've turned away from all of the idiotic bigots I've come across in my life, carrying a cross or a heavy book or a Constitution."
"Some religious leaders are struggling with President Obama’s support for gay marriage but not the Rev. Jesse Jackson," gushed frequent MSNBC contributor Toure noted in the opening line of his May 17 Time.com "Ideas" blog post as he introduced how he "spoke to the Reverend [Jesse Jackson] about the impact of Obama’s announcement among blacks and the wider community of the faithful."
It goes without saying that the interview was a game of softball in which Toure helpfully lobbed easy questions over the plate to drive home for readers, but particularly those who may be African-American Christians who typically vote Democratic, that it would be great if they could evolve to where President Obama has on same-sex marriage, a "civil rights" and "discrimination" issue.
Turns out, bashing Christians isn't nearly as funny as ABC thought it would be. After just one season, the network is calling it quits on TV's "GCB" after outrage and controversy stole the show. The title of the program, "Good Christian [Expletives]" was reason enough for audiences to complain--and with the help of groups like Media Research Center (MRC) and One Million Moms, they did.
Every week, MRC would tally how many times an episode mocked faith or used the Bible in a malicious way. According to Lauren Thompson at MRC's NewsBusters blog, "GCB" usually ridiculed the Christians about 20 times per episode--sometimes more.
It is one thing to talk about "fairness" when it comes to allowing gays and lesbians to marry; it is quite another to claim biblical authority for such relationships.
President Obama cited the "Golden Rule" about treating others as you would like to be treated, but in doing so he ignored the totality of Scripture and the Lord Himself, who alone gets to set the rules for human behavior.
Ben Maller skewered Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao as a "homophobic boxing superstar" and a "bigoted boxer" in a Wednesday post on ThePostgame.com, an online magazine of Yahoo! Sports. Pacquiao had criticized the redefinition of marriage in a Friday interview: "It [marriage] should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of old."
Maller, who is also a talk radio host for Fox Sports Radio, also trumpeted that the boxer, "long a darling of Madison Avenue, figures to lose a number of endorsements and fans over his intolerant, bullheaded position."
In his May 15 Grantland post, "And a Girl Shall Terrify Them," Pierce used news that a religious school from Phoenix, Arizona had forfeited a championship baseball game rather than play against a team which was fielding a female player. Pierce, who also appears frequently on taxpayer-backed National Public Radio, decided to weigh in with his condemnation. "The Gospels are not your alibi," Pierce huffed, directing his wrath at the Society of Pope Pius X, which runs the Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix:
CNN's Carol Costello wondered why the U.S. Catholic Bishops are investigating the Girl Scouts over possible ties to Planned Parenthood and the distribution of anti-Catholic material. "Not all of those Girl Scouts are Catholic," Costello mused on Tuesday. "So why impose Catholic beliefs on the Girl Scouts and threaten to pull out of the organization?"
Costello hosted the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, who argued that the Girl Scouts might be the one's "imposing" on others' beliefs. "I think it's going backwards. If, in fact, everything that the critics of the Girl Scouts are saying were true, then it's the Girl Scouts imposing on Catholics," he insisted. [Video coming soon.]
"I’ve never understood the opposition to gay marriage." That's the confession with which Sally Quinn -- the agnostic, liberal editor of the Washington Post's "On Faith" religion section-- began her May 11 column. But rather than humbly seek an understanding of the religious faith that informs the beliefs of millions of American Christians, Quinn launched into an attack on them by comparing them to opponents of the racial integration of the nation's public schools.
History, Quinn insists, is on the side of the eventual societal and legal acceptance of same-sex marriage, and those who stand in the way will one day be haunted by it, living their lives knowing how wretched they were to oppose progress in the first place:
Early on Sunday's NBC Today, co-host Jenna Wolfe stirred division between Mitt Romney and conservatives as she proclaimed: "[He] spoke at Liberty University, an evangelical school that's called his Mormon faith a cult. Can he get religious conservatives excited about his presidential campaign?"
Introducing the later report on the speech, fellow co-host Lester Holt ominously declared: "Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee, walked into the lion's den this weekend. He gave the commencement address at Liberty University, an influential conservative Christian school where some have a big problem with his Mormon faith."
Despite ABC’s best efforts to degrade Christianity and Texans, the anti-Christian hate-mongering series “GCB” (short for “Good Christian Bitches”) has been canceled because of poor performance in the ratings.
“GCB” earned significant backlash from both Christians and Texans, and had a dynamic history of mocking Christianity and the south. The worst of its agenda included advocating for porn in Christian marriages, malicious use of Scripture, an unholy fixation on sex and the sexualizing of teenagers, and more than 100 attacks on Christianity in its short run.
The headline at the Associated Press's Sunday morning story primarily about GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney's commencement address at Liberty University ("Romney urges grads to honor family commitments") was at least acceptable. It went downhill from there, betraying what appear to be deeply-held biases held by writers Kasie Hunt and Rachel Zoll against Republicans, conservatives, and Christians -- up to and including a "red meat" reference in what the Administration's Press will probably still claim is an objective report.
Apart from the self-evident bias, Hunt and Zoll failed to grasp the fundamental concept that a commencement speech is not a political stump speech. It is supposed to be a chance for the speaker, at least one who isn't a self-absorbed narcissist, to inform, inspire and advise graduates on what awaits them in the real world and how they should generally consider carrying out the rest of their lives. That, to the AP pair's apparent disappointment and astonishment, is what Romney did. Their opening six paragraphs plus a few selected others come after the jump, with prejudicial verbiage in bold, followed by several paragraphs from Romney's speech which Hunt and Zoll, if they they had been there to report a story instead of serving as Team Obama apparatchiks, would have noted:
MSNBC's Martin Bashir -- who attends a New York City church pastored by a conservative minister who signed the pro-traditional marriage Manhattan Declaration -- yesterday maligned the Holy Bible in an attempt to defend President Obama from the charge that his support of same-sex marriage contradicts biblical teaching on matrimony.
The incident came in an interview with Dr. Robert Jeffress after the Dallas-area Baptist minister affirmed that he "absolutely" agreed that defending same-sex marriage "contradicts" the teaching of Scripture. "I think the president is violating the very teaching and words of the Jesus he says he follows," Jeffress noted. That's when Bashir sprung his "have you stopped beating your wife, yet"-style gotcha question:
Dan Savage is a bully. How ironic, since he heads the most high-profile anti-bullying campaign the United States. But for Savage, it only gets better if you support a rabidly liberal, “anything goes” lifestyle.
Savage recently garnered media attention for his offensive remarks about Christians, but in reality this is old news. The liberal media and Obama administration love to portray Dan Savage as the anti-bullying savior, but the real Dan Savage has been a repulsive and twisted creature for years. Just read any of his five books.
On Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN host Piers Morgan mocked Catholic League president Bill Donohue's declaration that Catholicism demands that gay children should still be loved by their parents by suggesting in a later segment that he would have more respect for Donohue's opposition to gay marriage if he would just claim to "hate" homosexuals instead of being "wishy washy." Morgan:
The target of MSNBC's demon deacon today was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), whom Bashir was calling to account for his plans to vote for a bill that would spare the Pentagon of budget cuts by trimming social welfare spending elsewhere in the federal budget.
Mockery of religion in general and Catholicism in particular is commonplace in Hollywood– from Showtime’s “The Borgias” to the recent “Three Stooges” movie which features Kate Upton wearing a “nun-kini.” The latest installment of Catholic-bashing, “The Perfect Family,” is slated to come out May 4 – and predictably stereotypes Catholics who believe and practice what their Church teaches as unfeeling busybodies.
The About section for the “The Perfect Family” declares: “Suburban supermom Eileen Cleary (Academy Award® nominee Kathleen Turner) is the ultimate Catholic.” And indeed, the trailer for the movie perfectly reflects Hollywood’s twisted conception of Catholicism. One quote from Turner’s character reflects the view that faithful Catholics are heartless drones: “Well who cares if you’re happy? You’re living in sin!” Another quote is even more explicitly anti-Catholic: “I don’t have to think! I’m a Catholic!”
Schaeffer toned down his rhetoric a tad bit from previous excursions on the "Lean Forward" network, but he still managed to work in grotesquely misleading and hateful slams of evangelicals and conservative Catholics.


The story of Putuparri Tom Lawford , Buster, their grandpa Spider and Grandma Dolly, and the snake spirit of Kurtal in their country at the Sandy Desert in Western Australia reinforced in me how Australia’s first peoples have a salient relationship with their land.
“Putuparri and The Rainmakers”–a documentary film available for viewing on SBS On Demand is multi-faceted. It shows the passing of traditional knowledge from one generation to the next amidst the complications of colonisation and the havoc it wrecks on traditional culture and its peoples. The havoc comes in the form of desecration of sacred watering holes by pastoralists to take the water from the local people and divert it for cattle, alcoholism among the people disposed of their land and alienated from their culture that is very much entangled with their land, and the slow erosion of traditional knowledge with the younger generation knowing less and less about their traditional lore and rituals, in this case for example on rituals and songs to find watering holes and to make rain.
The documentary shows intricacies and complexity of making native land title claims. It was fascinating to watch how the elders can draw a map of their lands on a large canvas which got exhibited and treated with kids’ gloves like a precious artwork by the non-natives. To the natives the painting was a living artifact. It was funny how Putuparri just threw a dead bloody Turkey on top of it when he was bringing it back to Fitzroy’s crossing so that the other elders could see it. It was heart-wrenching to see the elders weep when they saw their lands depicted on the canvas. It was as if they’re mourning a part of themselves that they lost or loved ones they’ve lost.
Spider talks to the Kurtal land as he approaches it to look for the watering hole. He sings to it. Burns spinifex to announce their coming. They treat the land as something alive and sentient. When Spider finds a small puddle in the ground, he instructed everyone to dig and open it up. Suddenly fresh clean water rushes from under the ground. They then do their rain dance. It’s a man’s place. After doing their rituals, they invite the women in and splashes water on them. Spider then suddenly asks that they should all leave. After they’ve left the spot, storm clouds came over and rain poured on the land. It was just beautiful to watch it in the film.
I remember how my own grandfather and grandmother who were farmers in the Philippines could feel in the air when it will rain. They also could feel when is the right time to plant and the right time to harvest. This knowledge was not passed on to my father or to me. It’s quite sad.
In the documentary, the elders were afraid that if no one took care of the Kurtal country, they would not be able to return to it so they can be with their ancestors after they died. This theme was picked up in the ABC TV Series “Cleverman” where the protagonist Koen had a power to blast people with a burst of light. The catch was, whoever gets blasted by this light, their soul would dissociate from their body and will not be able to return to their ancestors when they died. Koen would have to kill the person and bring them back to life in order to link body and soul once more.
The Cleverman series brilliantly weaves the stories, lore and beliefs of various first peoples of Australia with a near future science fiction dystopia. It’s super cool to know that series Creator Ryan Griffen’s motivation for creating the series was he wanted his son to have Australian aboriginal superheroes, not just the global franchise heroes Batman, Ben 10, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I found it highly interesting the series’ retelling of the story of the Hairy People, how special their genetic make-up was and how Slade (a blend of a Rupert Murdoch/ Elon Musk character) is playing both sides to exploit the hairy people with a genetic land grab and corrupt the Cleverman to give up their ancestral culture’s secret indigenous technology.
The intertwined complexities of being half-white and half-native of the reluctant Koen as the reluctant next in line Cleverman and his relationship with his wannabe half-brother full-native was played out very well in the series.
The documentary and the Cleverman series reminded me that everything is personal. The world and the technologies we have are created through personal relationships among peoples. Because of this, any attempt to exploit and colonise a people’s technology can only end up in disaster because the technology divorced from the people and culture who gave birth to them would most likely be stillborn. If not, it would most likely become a monster that would haunt the not only the colonised but more so the coloniser.


Is it possible and with due appreciation for installed RAM would it be possible to get Apache Spark running on TX1 and would it be able to make use of the GPUs?
Spark appears to be usable on the Raspberry Pi, so it stands to reason that it would be usable on the Jetson platform. As for porting it to the Jetson platform, I am unaware of any attempts to do so. However, there have been attempts to make it usable with CUDA, so you might want to post this question to our CUDA forums instead:
Also note that OpenCL is often used with Spark, this will not be possible on the Jetson platform.


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Our extra-curricular Music programme provides a space for students of all musical abilities to share their musical passions and cultural heritage from all over the world.
The Music Department is committed to nurturing a love for music in every student, whether as a performer, composer or listener. We organise trips to concerts, shows and specialist music workshops, which provide students with an opportunity to experience live music outside of the classroom. There are also an array of extra-curricular clubs that students can be involved in;
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Many Concord students choose to join an ensemble music making club, which includes, but is not limited to: Choir; Chamber Group; Composition Club; Music Theory.
Individual Music lessons
Students can take individual instrument lessons each week and can prepare for music examinations under the guidance of a highly skilled and inspirational team of teachers.
Annual and Biennial Musical Events
Concord’s musical events are a great success throughout the year. Particular highlights include the Winter Showcase and School Musical, for which students are involved in everything from music and drama, to set and prop design.
Other annual musical event highlights are; Concord College Concerto Competition; Songwriting and Recording project; Open Mic Concerts.

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China is a crucial cog in Apple’s business, the origin of most of its iPhones and iPads as well as its largest international market. But President Donald Trump has threatened Beijing with new tariffs on about $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, an act that would escalate tensions dramatically while levying a punitive tax on Apple’s most profitable product.
Hon Hai, known also as Foxconn, is the American giant’s most important manufacturing partner. It will fully support Apple if it needs to adjust its production as the USChinese trade spat gets grimmer and more unpredictable, board nominee and semiconductor division chief Young Liu told an investor briefing in Taipei on Tuesday. “Twenty-five percent of our production capacity is outside of China and we can help Apple respond to its needs in the US market,” said Liu, adding that investments are now being made in India for Apple. “We have enough capacity to meet Apple’s demand.”
Apple has not given Hon Hai instructions to move production out of China, but it is capable of moving lines elsewhere according to customers’ needs, Liu added. The company will respond swiftly and rely on localised manufacturing in response to the trade war, just as it foresaw the need to build a base in the US state of Wisconsin two years ago, he said. It’s unclear if India will ever become a major production base for Apple’s marquee device. Foxconn is now running quality tests for the iPhone Xr series there and plans to begin mass production at a facility in the suburbs of Chennai. Older models are already assembled at a Wistron plant in Bangalore.
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Today brought a nationwide rolling power strike across Greece, in response to the government's plan to privatize the state's major PPC electricity company.
Greece's power allocator DEDDIE sated that one-hour halts would be scheduled starting from noon in various regions of the mainland, with 13 PPC production plants participating in the protest. Unionists of the company confirmed rolling 48-hour strikes, in response to the administration's call for partial privatization of PPC under economic rescue protocols.
If Greece is to qualify for EU and IMF monetary assistance, PPC privatization must occur. The new plan concerns a 30% private company control of PPC that includes hydroelectric and lignite mines, natural gas and lignite-fired electricity plants. Greece has also promised international lenders that it will dispossess 17% of PPC shares by 2015's end.
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Trevor Bayne (6) races Austin Dillon in last weekend's Nationwide race at Iowa Speedway. Dillon is fourth in the points standings.
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Austin Dillon will head to Michigan International Speedway looking to make Nationwide Series history. And along the way, he hopes to gain valuable Sprint Cup experience.
When the first day of auto racing opens today at Michigan International Speedway, Dillon will attempt to qualify for Sunday’s Quicken Loans 400, the track’s marquee June event.
Saturday morning, he’ll compete for a record fourth consecutive Nationwide pole when qualifying opens at 10:35 a.m. for the Nationwide Alliance Auto Parts 250 — a race that Dillon has a certain stake in.
Dillon will compete for his fourth consecutive Nationwide pole this season. With pole wins at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dover International Speedway, and Iowa Speedway, Dillon has tied a record with Sam Ard, Trevor Bayne, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, and Michael Waltrip.
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“We’re out here trying to break records and create a name for ourselves,” said Dillon, who is fourth in the Nationwide points standings. “That group of people is an awesome group of people to be held up against, so if we can go out there and break that six-way tie that it is right now in the Nationwide Series for poles, it would be amazing. We're going to a track where I’m very capable of setting the pole.”
Dillon’s pursuit of a Nationwide record is one of a handful of storylines for this weekend at MIS, which opens today with qualifying for the ARCA and Sprint Cup races, followed by the ARCA Patriot Pumps 200 at 5:15 p.m.
Dillon, the grandson of Richard Childress, won the pole for Camping World Trucks Series VFW 200 in June of 2010 at MIS, then won the pole for the Alliance Auto Parts 250 last June on a newly repaved track, where Sprint Cup drivers set record speeds during qualifying but succumbed to a hot track that caused tires to blister and eventually forced Goodyear to mandate a more durable set of tires for the 2012 Quicken Loans 200.
At testing at MIS in May, neither Trevor Bayne nor Kurt Busch experienced any tire issues. Sprint Cup driver Ryan Newman believes track wear and tear, as well as a new model of stock car, will help balance the field this weekend.
“I think it’s going to be different, and it’s going to be the same,” said Newman, who will drive the No. 39 Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing. “I think the asphalt is going to have aged and lost a little bit of speed. But the Gen-6 car is going to come back with a little additional speed. I think we'll be fairly comparable overall in speed and the way the cars drive because of that off-set.”
Goodyear representatives said this week that the Sprint Cup cars will use the same combination of tires that they used in August during the Pure Michigan 400, including sturdier left-side Goodyear tires and more durable tires with a different construction and mold shape.
“Goodyear has done their work to correct their tire issue from last year,” Newman said. “I commended them for making that change before the race, giving us an extra practice session [in June]. I think all that was the right thing to do for our sport, having seen how it failed and how it adversely affects the sport, going back to Indianapolis a few years ago. I think it should be a fairly painless weekend, but it's just a matter of who wins.”
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THE AUGMENTED AGENT AND OTHER STORIES. San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. Eight previously uncollected stories, the earliest first published in 1951. James Keith, the augmented agent, is a cyborg. Edited, with introduction, by Steven Owen Godersky. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168335).
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Each year, our Technical Services Committee creates a Regulatory Update covering the legislative, regulatory, and litigation developments affecting retirement plans. This year, we continue the conversation about the SECURE Act and the new provisions released this year, as well EPCRS changes, DOL updates, and the notable retirement plan fee litigation cases from this year.
So far, we have covered our 2021 legislative and IRS updates. This year brought several updates from the Department of Labor as well. Here is what we cover about the DOL regulatory changes and updates.
Guidance for Lost & Missing Participants
In January, the DOL released guidance on the steps plan fiduciaries should take to find lost or non-responsive participants.
This guidance is part of a larger initiative by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) to help plan fiduciaries focus on complete census information, appropriately communicate with participants and beneficiaries, and implement efficient policies.
The guidance did not include any bright line requirements; however, it did include a list of best practice steps for keeping track of participants and locating those who become lost or nonresponsive. As is common, proper documentation of the actions taken is a key piece of the guidance.
As part of the broader initiative, EBSA has started a letter campaign urging plan fiduciaries to locate and consolidate uncashed checks at legacy recordkeepers.
In April, the DOL released guidance on cybersecurity related to retirement plans for the first time. The guidance consisted of three forms:
- Tips for Hiring Service Providers, for use by plan sponsors
- Cybersecurity Program Best Practices, for use by all plan fiduciaries, including recordkeepers
- Online Security Tips, for participants to reduce the risk of fraud
The tips for hiring service providers includes questions to ask of the plan’s recordkeeper as well as recommendations on contracting. These tips have prompted many in the industry to release guides on how current cybersecurity programs address these concerns.
ESG & Proxy Voting Rule Updates
March brought updates to two final rules from the prior year. In late 2020, the Trump Administration finalized two separate rules:
- Financial Factors in Selecting Plan Investments
- Fiduciary Duties Regarding Proxy Voting and Shareholder Rights
The first rule focused on a plan sponsor’s ability to use Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impacts in making investment decisions. The rule did not specifically mention ESG but stated that only ‘pecuniary factors’ could be used in making decisions related to investment options offered in a retirement plan. The rule also suggested that investments using social criteria or other non-pecuniary factors may not be appropriate as Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) investments.
The second rule is related to the fiduciary duties for plan sponsor proxy voting. This rule required fiduciaries to put the economic interest of participants first and to ensure that any vote advances those economic interests. Also, like the ESG rule, it indicated that fiduciaries must not use non-pecuniary objectives or goals. If the vote will have no impact on participants' economic interest or cost, then the fiduciary should not vote the proxy.
One of President Biden’s first executive orders directed the DOL to review the Financial Factors rule. On March 10, the DOL announced it would not enforce either rule. In August, the DOL sent its new proposed rules relating to ESG to the Office of Management and Budget for review.
Retirement Plan Fees
In July, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study on retirement plan participants’ understanding of the fees they pay within their retirement plan.
The report included five recommendations to the DOL:
- Require the use of consistent terminology for asset-based investment fees.
- For quarterly fee disclosures, provide the actual cost of any asset-based investment fees that are paid.
- Provide participants information detailing the cumulative effects of fees on total savings over time.
- Require fee disclosures to include fee benchmarks for in-plan investment options.
- Include ticker information for all in-plan investments (when available).
The DOL is not required to act on any of the recommendations in the report but may choose to update disclosure and communication requirements.
To read our full 2021 Regulatory Update, click the button below.
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A Rome man accused of battery and terroristic threats was in jail Wednesday without bail on a probation violation.
According the Floyd County Jail records:
Jonathan Terrell Hampton, 29, of 33 Shade Tree Lane, is accused of grabbing a woman so hard he left marks on her upper arms and kicking her in the face during a fight that also left scrapes on her thigh.
Police said he also texted her the message “If you won’t talk to me one of us won’t be breathing tomorrow.”
Hampton was arrested Tuesday night and charged with misdemeanor battery, first offense, under the Family Violence Act; misdemeanor making terroristic threats; and felony probation violation.


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So that’s the first step in wall street’s power grab: making up things like credit-default swaps and collateralized-debt obligations, financial products so complex and inscrutable that ordinary American dumb people — to say nothing of federal regulators and even the CEOs of major corporations like AIG — are too intimidated to even try to understand them. That, combined with wise political investments, enabled the nation’s top bankers to effectively scrap any meaningful oversight of the financial industry. In 1997 and 1998, the years leading up to the passage of Phil Gramm’s fateful act that gutted Glass-Steagall, the banking, brokerage and insurance industries spent $350 million on political contributions and lobbying. Gramm alone — then the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee — collected $2.6 million in only five years. The law passed 90-8 in the Senate, with the support of 38 Democrats, including some names that might surprise you: Joe Biden, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Dick Durbin, even John Edwards.
The act helped create the too-big-to-fail financial behemoths like Citigroup, AIG and Bank of America — and in turn helped those companies slowly crush their smaller competitors, leaving the major Wall Street firms with even more money and power to lobby for further deregulatory measures. “We’re moving to an oligopolistic situation,” Kenneth Guenther, a top executive with the Independent Community Bankers of America, lamented after the Gramm measure was passed.
The situation worsened in 2004, in an extraordinary move toward deregulation that never even got to a vote. At the time, the European Union was threatening to more strictly regulate the foreign operations of America’s big investment banks if the U.S. didn’t strengthen its own oversight. So the top five investment banks got together on April 28th of that year and — with the helpful assistance of then-Goldman Sachs chief and future Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson — made a pitch to George Bush’s SEC chief at the time, William Donaldson, himself a former investment banker. The banks generously volunteered to submit to new rules restricting them from engaging in excessively risky activity. In exchange, they asked to be released from any lending restrictions. The discussion about the new rules lasted just 55 minutes, and there was not a single representative of a major media outlet there to record the fateful decision.
Donaldson OK’d the proposal, and the new rules were enough to get the EU to drop its threat to regulate the five firms. The only catch was, neither Donaldson nor his successor, Christopher Cox, actually did any regulating of the banks. They named a commission of seven people to oversee the five companies, whose combined assets came to total more than $4 trillion. But in the last year and a half of Cox’s tenure, the group had no director and did not complete a single inspection. Great deal for the banks, which originally complained about being regulated by both Europe and the SEC, and ended up being regulated by no one.
Once the capital requirements were gone, those top five banks went hog-wild, jumping ass-first into the then-raging housing bubble. One of those was Bear Stearns, which used its freedom to drown itself in bad mortgage loans. In the short period between the 2004 change and Bear’s collapse, the firm’s debt-to-equity ratio soared from 12-1 to an insane 33-1. Another culprit was Goldman Sachs, which also had the good fortune, around then, to see its CEO, a bald-headed Frankensteinian goon named Hank Paulson (who received an estimated $200 million tax deferral by joining the government), ascend to Treasury secretary.
Freed from all capital restraints, sitting pretty with its man running the Treasury, Goldman jumped into the housing craze just like everyone else on Wall Street. Although it famously scored an $11 billion coup in 2007 when one of its trading units smartly shorted the housing market, the move didn’t tell the whole story. In truth, Goldman still had a huge exposure come that fateful summer of 2008 — to none other than Joe Cassano.
Goldman Sachs, it turns out, was Cassano’s biggest customer, with $20 billion of exposure in Cassano’s CDS book. Which might explain why Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein was in the room with ex-Goldmanite Hank Paulson that weekend of September 13th, when the federal government was supposedly bailing out AIG.
When asked why Blankfein was there, one of the government officials who was in the meeting shrugs. “One might say that it’s because Goldman had so much exposure to AIGFP’s portfolio,” he says. “You’ll never prove that, but one might suppose.”
Market analyst Eric Salzman is more blunt. “If AIG went down,” he says, “there was a good chance Goldman would not be able to collect.” The AIG bailout, in effect, was Goldman bailing out Goldman.
Eventually, Paulson went a step further, elevating another ex-Goldmanite named Edward Liddy to run AIG — a company whose bailout money would be coming, in part, from the newly created TARP program, administered by another Goldman banker named Neel Kashkari.
There are plenty of people who have noticed, in recent years, that when they lost their homes to foreclosure or were forced into bankruptcy because of crippling credit-card debt, no one in the government was there to rescue them. But when Goldman Sachs — a company whose average employee still made more than $350,000 last year, even in the midst of a depression — was suddenly faced with the possibility of losing money on the unregulated insurance deals it bought for its insane housing bets, the government was there in an instant to patch the hole. That’s the essence of the bailout: rich bankers bailing out rich bankers, using the taxpayers’ credit card.
The people who have spent their lives cloistered in this Wall Street community aren’t much for sharing information with the great unwashed. Because all of this shit is complicated, because most of us mortals don’t know what the hell LIBOR is or how a REIT works or how to use the word “zero coupon bond” in a sentence without sounding stupid — well, then, the people who do speak this idiotic language cannot under any circumstances be bothered to explain it to us and instead spend a lot of time rolling their eyes and asking us to trust them.
That roll of the eyes is a key part of the psychology of Paulsonism. The state is now being asked not just to call off its regulators or give tax breaks or funnel a few contracts to connected companies; it is intervening directly in the economy, for the sole purpose of preserving the influence of the megafirms. In essence, Paulson used the bailout to transform the government into a giant bureaucracy of entitled assholedom, one that would socialize “toxic” risks but keep both the profits and the management of the bailed-out firms in private hands. Moreover, this whole process would be done in secret, away from the prying eyes of NASCAR dads, broke-ass liberals who read translations of French novels, subprime mortgage holders and other such financial losers.
Some aspects of the bailout were secretive to the point of absurdity. In fact, if you look closely at just a few lines in the Federal Reserve’s weekly public disclosures, you can literally see the moment where a big chunk of your money disappeared for good. The H4 report (called “Factors Affecting Reserve Balances”) summarizes the activities of the Fed each week. You can find it online, and it’s pretty much the only thing the Fed ever tells the world about what it does. For the week ending February 18th, the number under the heading “Repurchase Agreements” on the table is zero. It’s a significant number.
Why? In the pre-crisis days, the Fed used to manage the money supply by periodically buying and selling securities on the open market through so-called Repurchase Agreements, or Repos. The Fed would typically dump $25 billion or so in cash onto the market every week, buying up Treasury bills, U.S. securities and even mortgage-backed securities from institutions like Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, who would then “repurchase” them in a short period of time, usually one to seven days. This was the Fed’s primary mechanism for controlling interest rates: Buying up securities gives banks more money to lend, which makes interest rates go down. Selling the securities back to the banks reduces the money available for lending, which makes interest rates go up.
If you look at the weekly H4 reports going back to the summer of 2007, you start to notice something alarming. At the start of the credit crunch, around August of that year, you see the Fed buying a few more Repos than usual — $33 billion or so. By November, as private-bank reserves were dwindling to alarmingly low levels, the Fed started injecting even more cash than usual into the economy: $48 billion. By late December, the number was up to $58 billion; by the following March, around the time of the Bear Stearns rescue, the Repo number had jumped to $77 billion. In the week of May 1st, 2008, the number was $115 billion — “out of control now,” according to one congressional aide. For the rest of 2008, the numbers remained similarly in the stratosphere, the Fed pumping as much as $125 billion of these short-term loans into the economy — until suddenly, at the start of this year, the number drops to nothing. Zero.
The reason the number has dropped to nothing is that the Fed had simply stopped using relatively transparent devices like repurchase agreements to pump its money into the hands of private companies. By early 2009, a whole series of new government operations had been invented to inject cash into the economy, most all of them completely secretive and with names you’ve never heard of. There is the Term Auction Facility, the Term Securities Lending Facility, the Primary Dealer Credit Facility, the Commercial Paper Funding Facility and a monster called the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (boasting the chat-room horror-show acronym ABCPMMMFLF). For good measure, there’s also something called a Money Market Investor Funding Facility, plus three facilities called Maiden Lane I, II and III to aid bailout recipients like Bear Stearns and AIG.
While the rest of America, and most of Congress, have been bugging out about the $700 billion bailout program called TARP, all of these newly created organisms in the Federal Reserve zoo have quietly been pumping not billions but trillions of dollars into the hands of private companies (at least $3 trillion so far in loans, with as much as $5.7 trillion more in guarantees of private investments). Although this technically isn’t taxpayer money, it still affects taxpayers directly, because the activities of the Fed impact the economy as a whole. And this new, secretive activity by the Fed completely eclipses the TARP program in terms of its influence on the economy.
No one knows who’s getting that money or exactly how much of it is disappearing through these new holes in the hull of America’s credit rating. Moreover, no one can really be sure if these new institutions are even temporary at all — or whether they are being set up as permanent, state-aided crutches to Wall Street, designed to systematically suck bad investments off the ledgers of irresponsible lenders.
“They’re supposed to be temporary,” says Paul-Martin Foss, an aide to Rep. Ron Paul. “But we keep getting notices every six months or so that they’re being renewed. They just sort of quietly announce it.”
None other than disgraced senator Ted Stevens was the poor sap who made the unpleasant discovery that if Congress didn’t like the Fed handing trillions of dollars to banks without any oversight, Congress could apparently go fuck itself — or so said the law. When Stevens asked the GAO about what authority Congress has to monitor the Fed, he got back a letter citing an obscure statute that nobody had ever heard of before: the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950. The relevant section, 31 USC 714(b), dictated that congressional audits of the Federal Reserve may not include “deliberations, decisions and actions on monetary policy matters.” The exemption, as Foss notes, “basically includes everything.” According to the law, in other words, the Fed simply cannot be audited by Congress. Or by anyone else, for that matter.
Stevens isn’t the only person in Congress to be given the finger by the Fed. In January, when Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida asked Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn where all the money went — only $1.2 trillion had vanished by then — Kohn gave Grayson a classic eye roll, saying he would be “very hesitant” to name names because it might discourage banks from taking the money.
“Has that ever happened?” Grayson asked. “Have people ever said, ‘We will not take your $100 billion because people will find out about it?'”
“Well, we said we would not publish the names of the borrowers, so we have no test of that,” Kohn answered, visibly annoyed with Grayson’s meddling.
Grayson pressed on, demanding to know on what terms the Fed was lending the money. Presumably it was buying assets and making loans, but no one knew how it was pricing those assets — in other words, no one knew what kind of deal it was striking on behalf of taxpayers. So when Grayson asked if the purchased assets were “marked to market” — a methodology that assigns a concrete value to assets, based on the market rate on the day they are traded — Kohn answered, mysteriously, “The ones that have market values are marked to market.” The implication was that the Fed was purchasing derivatives like credit swaps or other instruments that were basically impossible to value objectively — paying real money for God knows what.
“Well, how much of them don’t have market values?” asked Grayson. “How much of them are worthless?”
“None are worthless,” Kohn snapped.
“Then why don’t you mark them to market?” Grayson demanded.
“Well,” Kohn sighed, “we are marking the ones to market that have market values.”
In essence, the Fed was telling Congress to lay off and let the experts handle things. “It’s like buying a car in a used-car lot without opening the hood, and saying, ‘I think it’s fine,'” says Dan Fuss, an analyst with the investment firm Loomis Sayles. “The salesman says, ‘Don’t worry about it. Trust me.’ It’ll probably get us out of the lot, but how much farther? None of us knows.”
When one considers the comparatively extensive system of congressional checks and balances that goes into the spending of every dollar in the budget via the normal appropriations process, what’s happening in the Fed amounts to something truly revolutionary — a kind of shadow government with a budget many times the size of the normal federal outlay, administered dictatorially by one man, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. “We spend hours and hours and hours arguing over $10 million amendments on the floor of the Senate, but there has been no discussion about who has been receiving this $3 trillion,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It is beyond comprehension.”
Count Sanders among those who don’t buy the argument that Wall Street firms shouldn’t have to face being outed as recipients of public funds, that making this information public might cause investors to panic and dump their holdings in these firms. “I guess if we made that public, they’d go on strike or something,” he muses.
And the Fed isn’t the only arm of the bailout that has closed ranks. The Treasury, too, has maintained incredible secrecy surrounding its implementation even of the TARP program, which was mandated by Congress. To this date, no one knows exactly what criteria the Treasury Department used to determine which banks received bailout funds and which didn’t — particularly the first $350 billion given out under Bush appointee Hank Paulson.
The situation with the first TARP payments grew so absurd that when the Congressional Oversight Panel, charged with monitoring the bailout money, sent a query to Paulson asking how he decided whom to give money to, Treasury responded — and this isn’t a joke — by directing the panel to a copy of the TARP application form on its website. Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, was struck nearly speechless by the response.
“Do you believe that?” she says incredulously. “That’s not what we had in mind.”
Another member of Congress, who asked not to be named, offers his own theory about the TARP process. “I think basically if you knew Hank Paulson, you got the money,” he says.
This cozy arrangement created yet another opportunity for big banks to devour market share at the expense of smaller regional lenders. While all the bigwigs at Citi and Goldman and Bank of America who had Paulson on speed-dial got bailed out right away — remember that TARP was originally passed because money had to be lent right now, that day, that minute, to stave off emergency — many small banks are still waiting for help. Five months into the TARP program, some not only haven’t received any funds, they haven’t even gotten a call back about their applications.
“There’s definitely a feeling among community bankers that no one up there cares much if they make it or not,” says Tanya Wheeless, president of the Arizona Bankers Association.
Which, of course, is exactly the opposite of what should be happening, since small, regional banks are far less guilty of the kinds of predatory lending that sank the economy. “They’re not giving out subprime loans or easy credit,” says Wheeless. “At the community level, it’s much more bread-and-butter banking.”
Nonetheless, the lion’s share of the bailout money has gone to the larger, so-called “systemically important” banks. “It’s like Treasury is picking winners and losers,” says one state banking official who asked not to be identified.
This itself is a hugely important political development. In essence, the bailout accelerated the decline of regional community lenders by boosting the political power of their giant national competitors.
Which, when you think about it, is insane: What had brought us to the brink of collapse in the first place was this relentless instinct for building ever-larger megacompanies, passing deregulatory measures to gradually feed all the little fish in the sea to an ever-shrinking pool of Bigger Fish. To fix this problem, the government should have slowly liquidated these monster, too-big-to-fail firms and broken them down to smaller, more manageable companies. Instead, federal regulators closed ranks and used an almost completely secret bailout process to double down on the same faulty, merger-happy thinking that got us here in the first place, creating a constellation of megafirms under government control that are even bigger, more unwieldy and more crammed to the gills with systemic risk.
In essence, Paulson and his cronies turned the federal government into one gigantic, half-opaque holding company, one whose balance sheet includes the world’s most appallingly large and risky hedge fund, a controlling stake in a dying insurance giant, huge investments in a group of teetering megabanks, and shares here and there in various auto-finance companies, student loans, and other failing businesses. Like AIG, this new federal holding company is a firm that has no mechanism for auditing itself and is run by leaders who have very little grasp of the daily operations of its disparate subsidiary operations.
In other words, it’s AIG’s rip-roaringly shitty business model writ almost inconceivably massive — to echo Geithner, a huge, complex global company attached to a very complicated investment bank/hedge fund that’s been allowed to build up without adult supervision. How much of what kinds of crap is actually on our balance sheet, and what did we pay for it? When exactly will the rent come due, when will the money run out? Does anyone know what the hell is going on? And on the linear spectrum of capitalism to socialism, where exactly are we now? Is there a dictionary word that even describes what we are now? It would be funny, if it weren’t such a nightmare.
The real question from here is whether the Obama administration is going to move to bring the financial system back to a place where sanity is restored and the general public can have a say in things or whether the new financial bureaucracy will remain obscure, secretive and hopelessly complex. It might not bode well that Geithner, Obama’s Treasury secretary, is one of the architects of the Paulson bailouts; as chief of the New York Fed, he helped orchestrate the Goldman-friendly AIG bailout and the secretive Maiden Lane facilities used to funnel funds to the dying company. Neither did it look good when Geithner — himself a protégé of notorious Goldman alum John Thain, the Merrill Lynch chief who paid out billions in bonuses after the state spent billions bailing out his firm — picked a former Goldman lobbyist named Mark Patterson to be his top aide.
In fact, most of Geithner’s early moves reek strongly of Paulsonism. He has continually talked about partnering with private investors to create a so-called “bad bank” that would systemically relieve private lenders of bad assets — the kind of massive, opaque, quasi-private bureaucratic nightmare that Paulson specialized in. Geithner even refloated a Paulson proposal to use TALF, one of the Fed’s new facilities, to essentially lend cheap money to hedge funds to invest in troubled banks while practically guaranteeing them enormous profits.
God knows exactly what this does for the taxpayer, but hedge-fund managers sure love the idea. “This is exactly what the financial system needs,” said Andrew Feldstein, CEO of Blue Mountain Capital and one of the Morgan Mafia. Strangely, there aren’t many people who don’t run hedge funds who have expressed anything like that kind of enthusiasm for Geithner’s ideas.
As complex as all the finances are, the politics aren’t hard to follow. By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. In the age of the CDS and CDO, most of us are financial illiterates. By making an already too-complex economy even more complex, Wall Street has used the crisis to effect a historic, revolutionary change in our political system — transforming a democracy into a two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below.
The most galling thing about this financial crisis is that so many Wall Street types think they actually deserve not only their huge bonuses and lavish lifestyles but the awesome political power their own mistakes have left them in possession of. When challenged, they talk about how hard they work, the 90-hour weeks, the stress, the failed marriages, the hemorrhoids and gallstones they all get before they hit 40.
“But wait a minute,” you say to them. “No one ever asked you to stay up all night eight days a week trying to get filthy rich shorting what’s left of the American auto industry or selling $600 billion in toxic, irredeemable mortgages to ex-strippers on work release and Taco Bell clerks. Actually, come to think of it, why are we even giving taxpayer money to you people? Why are we not throwing your ass in jail instead?”
But before you even finish saying that, they’re rolling their eyes, because You Don’t Get It. These people were never about anything except turning money into money, in order to get more money; valueswise they’re on par with crack addicts, or obsessive sexual deviants who burgle homes to steal panties. Yet these are the people in whose hands our entire political future now rests.
Good luck with that, America. And enjoy tax season.
(From Issue 1075, April 2, 2009)
Also see The Big Takeover Part I


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Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and an ever better start of a new week!
Here is my current nail polish from Sinful Colors called Rise and Shine. This is an absolutely beautiful turquoise color with some tiny hints of shimmer that are barely visible until the sun hits it!
Great thing about these nail polishes is that they have a very large color selection and a BEAUTIFUL price at only $1.99 per polish. If you’re lucky, you can even catch them for less than $1 on sale!
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Happy Saturday everyone!
A few weeks ago I wrote about a some Sephora Goodies that I received as a gift from Lia and Cindy. With the gift, I received the Sephora for OPI Perfect Pair in the color Duo You Wanna Have Fun? It’s a beautiful coral color and a gold fine glitter polish.
This week I used both of the polishes to create a cool look with the glitter.
I applied a base coat, two coats of the coral color and then alternated with a half of each nail with the glitter color. It came out pretty cool so I’m pretty happy with it! As you can tell from the pictures, the glitter has an amazing sheen that looks great in the sun! I’d also say that the color with no flash is more of the true color because the flash on the bottom picture makes it look a lot more on the pink side.
Hope you all enjoyed this! Have a fabulous weekend!
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Movie: The Muppets (2011, Rated PG)
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National Nutrition Month® is an annual nutrition education and information campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign, celebrated each year during the month of March, focuses on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activities habits.
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As I had a couple of outside obligations on Tuesday, there is just time for a fast overview of a couple of items for today’s post.
THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION FIELD
Perry has peaked but doesn’t seem to know it yet. Ditto Michele Bachmann. Ron Paul sinks ever lower in the polls. Sarah Palin has become so irrelevant no one has noticed she’s missing.
Huntsman and Romney wander in the weeds losing any traction they have to every newcomer – Chris Christie this time who, no dummy he, yesterday backed off running for the nomination. Which leaves Mr. 9-9-9er, Herman Cain, who until a week or so ago was an also ran, to lead the pack. Until next week.
Take a look at this bunch. Is there a single one who has the gravitas, intelligence and statesmanship to lead our nation during its most desperate time in several generations?
And don’t forget – every one of them would kill Social Security and Medicare.
BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT
That’s not going to happen, but he is the sanest man in Congress and Social Security’s greatest supporter in Washington.
Tomorrow evening, Thursday, at 7:30PM eastern, Senator Sanders is holding a live telephone conference call sponsored by Democracy for America to learn how we can help “keep the promise of Social Security and scrap the cap.” You can participate in that phone call by registering at this website.
Do that and you will be automatically telephoned and connected to the conversation Thursday evening.
Now, undoubtedly you have heard of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that started nearly three weeks ago in New York City, continue there every day and are now spreading to many other cities throughout the country.
Meanwhile, Senator Sanders spoke with Keith Olbermann on CurrentTV last week about the importance of Occupy Wall Street.
UPDATE: At her blog Happening Here today, Jan Adams has posted photos from a San Francisco “Occupy” demonstration yesterday. Today and tomorrow (and perhaps following on), there will be demonstration in more than 150 cities and college campuses across the country. Maybe there is one in your town.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Johna Ferguson: My Chinese Marriage


By Barbara Liston
SANFORD, Fla (Reuters) - A former SeaWorld employee recalled on Thursday watching a 12,000-pound killer whale pull a trainer underwater by her ponytail in 2010 and hold on to her for up to 45 minutes.
Jan Topoleski said Dawn Brancheau, 40, had been working to get the orca bull named Tilikum to lay on his back in his pool next to where Brancheau was lying on a shallow ledge.
"I saw her get up to her knees and put her hand to her ponytail, when I saw she couldn't break free," said Topoleski, who worked as a killer whale trainer and spotter at the Orlando, Florida amusement park at the time of the incident.
He said his last image of Brancheau was that she had "both hands on her ponytail being pulled into the water."
Topoleski, who now works with FBI dogs, testified in the fourth day of a federal hearing in Sanford, where SeaWorld is challenging safety charges that stem from Brancheau's death.
The most serious charge by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is classified as a "willful violation," meaning SeaWorld showed "plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health."
Federal lawyer John Black has said SeaWorld offers its trainers little more protection than lessons in how to recognize visual clues that a killer whale might become aggressive.
The company faces a $75,000 fine. Significantly, SeaWorld might also be forced to end physical interaction between trainers and killer whales, company lawyer Carla Gunnin said at the hearing this week.
SeaWorld trainers have not performed or interacted in the water with killer whales since Brancheau's death, with one exception in a medical emergency, Gunnin said.
Administrative Judge Ken Welsch said the proceedings will recess after Friday but continue again in October or November with more testimony.
NO RESPONSE TO SIGNALS
Topoleski testified he sounded an alarm after Brancheau was grabbed by Tilikum and executed rehearsed callback signals in an attempt to get the whale to let Brancheau go.
"Tilikum did not respond to callback signals?" federal lawyer Tremelle Howard-Fishburne asked.
"During the rescue operation, he did not," Topoleski said.
Topoleski said Tilikum held onto Brancheau for 40-45 minutes until the whale was corralled in a smaller section of the pool.
SeaWorld animal trainer Shana Groves described an incident in 2006, when a different killer whale, Ikaika, bit down on her thigh during a public performance.
In that instance, the whale responded to her command to open his mouth, testified Groves, who said she asked for and received a transfer out of the killer whale show as a result of Brancheau's drowning.
Testifying for OSHA, killer whale expert David Duffus acknowledged that SeaWorld's training methods appeared to decrease the odds that a trainer would get hurt when interacting physically with a killer whale.
But Duffus, an associate professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said SeaWorld's own incident logs demonstrate the unpredictability of killer whales, making it impossible to guarantee that no one would get hurt.
"If it only happens once in a million, but in that millionth time that is a catastrophe, I think that goes beyond probability," Duffus said.
Duffus said Tilikum treated Brancheau in the same way the professor has seen many killer whales in the wild dunk and thrash around with seals and other food sources.
"Maybe I'm just practical," Duffus said. "I think it would be complete folly to put yourself in close proximity to a killer whale where they could seize you or knock you into the water."
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Jerry Norton and Cynthia Johnston)


It happened at a gas station at 6121 Irvington at around 1:45pm. Officer B. Cheng, a four-year veteran of the force, had stopped there for gas. He was there with a friend in another car, who had also stopped to fill up.
According to police, Officer Cheng walked back to his friend's vehicle. Moments later, his friend told Officer Cheng that a car had pulled up to his vehicle and that someone had gotten inside.
Fearing that a gun he had in his car would be taken by the suspect, Officer Cheng quickly went to his vehicle's trunk to get his duty weapon.
Just then, Officer Cheng reportedly noticed his friend approach the suspects' vehicle and begin kicking the passenger door. The driver became irate, screamed at them and then reportedly reached for something.
At the same time, Officer Cheng said the suspect who had been inside his car got out and started to approach him and his friend.
Police say the suspect who had been in the vehicle then went out of sight. At the same time, the driver of the suspects' vehicle reportedly began yelling.
Officer Cheng, who said he feared the driver would open fire, then fired his weapons at that driver. The suspects' vehicle then took off. It's not clear if either of the suspects were hit.
Investigators urge anyone with information in this case or on the identity of the suspect in the surveillance video to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.


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My initial musical path was inspired and defined by Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and Phish, but my youth was all about 80's synth pop.
In 1988, I was walking around at a Grateful Dead show at Laguna Seca Raceway in CA, and found this group of around 10 guys, some with 6 string guitars, one with a 12 string, one with a mandolin, and the rest in circle, swaying and singing. The song they were playing was 'Fearless' by Pink Floyd, which was a favorite song of mine, so I joined the circle, watched and sang along. While watching the guitarists eyes and hands, it became clear that most of these guys were following one guitarist, and that they didn't really know how to play the song. I didn't know that such a thing was possible, that music was so accessible once you got some basics down. I also realized that these guys were more or less my age, and not very different from myself - yet they could sit here, watch some guy's hands, and play one of my favorite songs. At that moment, I decided that I could do this and that I was going to get a guitar and become a musician.
My original songs were all done on a Tascam 4 track with an Alesis SR-16 drum machine, a Fender Stratocaster, a Korg Poly 800 synthesiser, and a friend's bass. They were mostly quirky songs, but it was a lot of fun, and it helped me develop music production skills. At this point, I'm in college and start playing in bands, including: Cottonmouth (1990 - covers), and Cool Beans (1992 - originals).
The desire to record and compose more music continued, and in 1994, I begin sequencing music with MIDI. The first tracks I sequenced and produced with keyboards used an Alesis Quadrasynth and Studio Vison on the Mac. They were very synth pop sounding in general, they had some interesting ideas, but overall, they were not mixed well and sounded cheesy. But, the experience was amazing, highly inspiring and addictive! Then in 1995, using a rare DAW on Windows, I first explored sampling and cutting up samples. The idea of turning any sound into an instrument, or layering in non-musical sounds or any sort became a primary goal of mine. I needed to do this.
In 1996, I started a rock band called 'Something Else' with some friends which lasted a year then came to a sudden halt. Instead of trying to build a new band, I decided to focus on my studio and began to experiment. Based on some new recordings, an online friend described my new music as 'sonic wallpaper' and within days, I selected this as my artist name.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS AND INFLUENCESThe following is a timeline of events and influences on my music. Any artist or band that I really liked over time, is listed as an influence based on the year I started listening to them.
|1983||Event||First concert: Oingo Boingo in Santa Clara, CA|
|Influence||Art of Noise|
|Influence||Red Hot Chili Peppers|
|1987||Event||First of 60 Grateful Dead Concerts|
|1988||Event||Initial musical inspiration - seeing people playing Fearless by Pink Floyd|
|Event||First guitar - Ovation 6 string acoustic|
|1989||Event||First electric guitar - modified Fender Stratocaster|
|Event||First drum machine - Alesis SR16|
|Event||First recording device - Tascam 4 track|
|1990||Event||First Band: Cottonmouth - rhythm guitar/vocals|
|Event||First keyboard - Korg Poly 800|
|1992||Event||Second Band: Cool Beans - rhythm guitar/vocals|
|1993||Event||Second electric guitar - Fender American Standard Stratocaster|
|1994||Event||First sequencer - Vision on a Mac|
|Event||Second keyboard - Alesis Quadrasynth|
|Influence||MC 900ft Jesus|
|1996||Event||Third Band: Something Else - rhythm guitar/vocals|
|Event||Third keyboard - Korg Prophecy|
|Influence||Acid Jazz music|
|1997||Event||Took on the artist name: Sonic Wallpaper|
|Influence||Higher Intelligence Agency|
|Influence||Drum 'N' Bass Music|
|Influence||Trip Hop Music|
|1998||Event||First Sampler - Akai S2000|
|Event||First time sharing my music on mp3.com|
|1999||Event||First album as Sonic Wallpaper - Imaginarium|
|Event||First live performance as Sonic Wallpaper|
|Event||Hardware Sequencer: Yamaha RM1x|
|2000||Influence||Future Sound of London|
|Influence||Boards of Canada|
|2002||Event||Currently the last live performance as Sonic Wallpaper|
|2003||Event||ElectronicScene.com becomes ArtistServer.com|
|2005||Influence||Kruder & Dorfmeister|
|2008||Influence||Funkadelic / Parliament|
|2016||Event||10 albums released covering complete catalog|
|Event||11th Album - Traverse the Multiverse|
|2020||Event||12th Album - Threshold Manifold|


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Mrs. Dorothy Sassin
Private services for Mrs. Dorothy Sassin, age 80, of Schulenburg will be held Monday, Aug. 3, 2020 at 11 a.m. from the St. Rose Catholic Church in Schulenburg.
The Parish Rosary will be recited prior to the Mass at the church at 10:30 a.m.
Entombment will be in the St. Rose Catholic Mausoleum in Schulenburg.
The family requests donations be made to St. Rose Catholic Church in Schulenburg or a charity of one's choice.