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The consensus is that Romney won, but whether it matters in the election is another thing this is from The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/170350/pundits-instant-polls-give-first-debate-romney-wide-margin Pundits, Instant Polls Give the First Debate to Romney, by a Wide Margin Greg Mitchell on...

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because he was not familiar with the accordion?

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http://www.businessinsider.com/les-pigeons-protest-in-france-2012-10 French entrepreneurs have set up a Facebook page and Twitter hashtag to protest against Francois Hollande's plans to tax capital gains at the same rates as income. They're calling themselves "the pigeons" — French slang for the fal...

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wow, lawyers raking in 40% contingency fees on corporate fraud support Obama?

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I am taking the course in data modelling with R and the format is perfect for these narrower technical topics.

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Obama Cabinet Flunks Disclosure Test With 19 in 20 Ignoring Law http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/obama-cabinet-flunks-disclosure-test-with-19-in-20-ignoring-law.html On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama ordered federal officials to “usher in a new era of open government” a...

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AP Interview: Guatemala prez says legalize drugs By CLAUDIA TORRENS, Associated Press – 1 day ago UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is advocating the international legalization of drugs even as he is moving to fight narcotics cartels with the biggest military buildup in th...

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well the last Ferneyhough CD I bought had a coupon for a free order of chicken wings from Pizza Hut

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The FT does not like people posting articles, but here is a snippet: The welfare state’s a worthy Ponzi scheme By John Kay It is more than 30 years since I first attended a conference on the global welfare crisis. Rarely have a few months passed without an invitation to another. Last week, Tom Palme...

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4db6afd2-064e ... z27WSscTws

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hard to not like this one either

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where are the Pinkertons when you need them?

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just about every Latino is part native american, when is the last time you saw anyone making a big deal about that?

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The southern US is becoming one of the lowest cost locations in the world for manufacturing and production is beginning to "reshore" from China, with a huge driver for this resurgence the cheap natural gas from hydraulic fracturing, which ties directly into lower and more predictable electricity cos...

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Rand is a step in the right direction (pun intended)

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jbuck919 wrote:I get decriminalization of possession of small amounts, but how on earth do you determine that someone has grown or consumed no more than an ounce of marijuana?

I think you measure it by the corresponding Twinkie consumption

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What Happens If Colorado Legalizes Marijuana? The Colorado Independent | By Scot Kersgaard Posted: 09/20/2012 5:55 pm EDT Updated: 09/20/2012 5:55 pm EDT From The Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard. If Amendment 64 passes, it will become almost immediately legal under Colorado law for adults to p...

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Elliott Carter to Join Legion of Honor By ALLAN KOZINN The composer Elliott Carter, who turns 104 in December and is still composing prolifically, has collected his share of prestigious awards over the decades, among them two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Medal of Honor in the United States, Germ...

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about his sixth string quartet

it marks a major change in direction, turning away from his "late, high modernism" to a more simple tonal style, quoting English folk tunes and modern popular songs

or maybe it doesn't

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the 648 trillion is what is called notional value. Derivatives are not assets like loans, they are contracts between two parties, basically a bet where the gains and losses sum to zero. Many of these offsetting positions are carried within the same firm - hence the net exposure for a given bank may ...

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yes, the criminal justice system is out of control, we incarcerate a larger percentage of our population than any other country 'Overcriminalization' Making Us a Nation of Felons? By John Jessup CBN News Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON -- Some politicians have framed this fall's general election...

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It's rather dishonest of the NYT to spin this story as other than just a fragment of one of the many apocryphal gospels circulating during the perios

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The melodies in the rite, from the opening bassoon solo to the finale are in the style eastern European folk tunes and all have tonal centers. If you want to play the semantics game john, go right ahead, but you can find a lot of references using the term to describe the work

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Le Sacre is a completely tonal (modal) work. "Tonal" and "modal" are mutually contradictory, whether one means pre-tonal modal as in the Renaissance or post-tonal modal as in Debussy (and yes, this phase of Stravinsky, who owed a lot to Debussy). If you mean it is not starkly atonal as in avoiding ...

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Le Sacre is a completely tonal (modal) work. There is some extensive use of octatonic scales, but the main themes are predominantly diatonic. It is not that far removed from The Firebird in that respect. It is the rhythm, which any contemporary death metal fan could appreciate, that is the most radi...

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one ... age,29553/

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DAA Case: Indefinite Detention Injunction Does Irreparable Harm, Obama Admin. Lawyers Argue Posted: 09/14/2012 4:06 pm Updated: 09/14/2012 5:17 pm WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for the Obama administration are arguing that the United States will be irreparably harmed if it has to abide by a judge's ruling t...

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its not spelling, apparently

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they did manage to change the platform:

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http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/e ... d-national

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OK John but you understand the issue is the aggressive and unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to go after leakers (if you don't like the term "whistleblowers"). None of these individuals is accused of spying for a foreign power

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More on the Admin's policy, but sadly this forum has degenerated into mindless red / blue cheerleading (most all blue) so I think I am just talking to myself here Good Leak, Bad Leak A look at the Obama administration's hot-and-cold approach to secrets. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/...

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A good piece in the New Yorker on Thomas Drake On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. A former senior executi...

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You can't be serious based on those descriptions of six cases in four years that this is a pattern of persecution. Most of them don't even survive the attempt of the presenter to put that spin on them. I mean, what kind of defense is this? Shamai Leibowitz Leibowitz is a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen w...

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OK here is the list, more prosecutions than all other US presidents combined, prior to the Obama adminstrations there had only been three prosecutions under the act, Daniel Ellsberg the most famous: http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/01/six-americans-obama-and-holder-charged-under-the-espionage-a...

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Glenn Greenwald, one of the best pundits on civil liberties got upgraded to the Guardian from Salon.com recently. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-campaign-brags-about-whistleblower-persecutions Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions Excuse me if I don't j...

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Alistair Reynolds is a great contemporary space opera writer that avoids staples of the genre like faster than light travel. Revelation Space is one of the great all time works in the genre

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/ ... nolds/all/

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THEHORN wrote:Karajan may have joined the Nazi party as a young man(purely as a formality), but there is not one shred of evidence that
he was actually anti-semitic , and was in any way hostile to Jews. In fact, his first wife was part Jewish .

so merely a shameless opportunist?

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Mexico/US Caravan to Arrive in New York Calling for the End of Failed Drug War Posted: 09/05/2012 5:11 pm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-papa/caravan-for-peace-ny_b_1858593.html SHARE THIS STORY 104 37 1 On Thursday, September 6, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity will arrive in N...

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Bartok is a more direct influence

as is Nancarrow

also Ligeti at the time was very interested in African polyrhythms and fractals, both of which show up in the etudes

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Obama: 'Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness' SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 | ISSUE 48•36 | MORE NEWS CHARLOTTE, NC—With the savage roar of the heathen Democratic horde rising all around him, President Barack Obama delivered an incendiary speech to close his party’s national convention...

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DNC Lacking Same Delusional Magic It Had In 2008 SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 | ISSUE 48•36 | MORE NEWS CHARLOTTE, NC—With the 2012 Democratic National Convention now under way in Charlotte, Beltway observers are reporting that the mood inside the Time Warner Cable Arena remains spirited and optimistic, despit...

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Obama's Vietnam Share on email Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on digg | More Sharing ServicesMore Bruce Fein | September 5, 2012 President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan policy is unschooled and carefree with lives and money. The president and senior staff sally forth with claims of progress i...

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you know dogs kill about 2x as many people as mass shootings and most of those are carried out with simple handguns

there is essentially no difference between legally available "assault rifles" and any other semiautomatic hunting rifle

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What a load of foul-mouthed hype, beginning at the beginning. No one is "forced to ask the question," "Is the President just another Ivy League arsehole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to die in some shithole for purely political reasons?" But since he does ask, the Pre...

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good interview of Jonathan Turley by John Cusack here: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11264-john-cusack-and-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution One is forced to asked the question: Is the President just another Ivy League arsehole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to...

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http://www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160327305 ... mmunicates

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took my new FAL out last weekend, http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/564340_3863537110410_41572928_n.jpg so if assault rifles get banned does someone compensate me for the loss of my property? I am fond of these two rifles, which are probably worth $3000K (actually the gun here with...

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the Aimard disc is a fine recording and is paired with Carter's Night Fantasies

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