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Free advice, take it or leave it: Don't start obsessing about Ohio until we have a better sense of what's happening in Virginia. Everyone's going to go crazy when the OH early voting totals are revealed sometime after 7:30, as that'll be the first strong sign of whether Romney's overperforming or not. But there's a reason I listed VA as a "prerequisite" in yesterday's post on electoral math. Losing it won't kill Romney but it'll put him in the ICU; it would wipe out 13 of the 18 EVs he's hoping to gain from Ohio. If he drops VA, then he'd have to win Ohio and Wisconsin and Iowa and another state or else somehow pull the rabbit out of the hat in Pennsylvania. Virginia is a big, big deal, and right now it's a pure toss-up. Team Mitt likes what they're seeing, though:
Southwestern Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania are reportedly seeing big turnout for Romney. In both states, these are the rural conservative regions and Romney needs to run up his numbers in these areas.
Here's the state's page for election returns. Politico flags Henrico and Prince William Counties as ones to watch; both went for O last time. Given how tight the race is and the fact that Virgil Goode is a native son, the third-party vote here could potentially be a problem.
North Carolina is Romney's safest swing state, so much so that I didn't bother putting it up on the board in yesterday's "electoral math made easy" post. RCP's average has him ahead by three points exactly, so there's your first benchmark in measuring whether GOP turnout nationally is higher than expected tonight. If this state is called early, that's a good omen. If Obama somehow makes a contest of it, might be time to start drinking. You can follow the returns here.
Now for the big one. O led by 2.9 points in the final RCP average but anecdotal reports today are promising. First, a shot of optimism from Ari Fleischer:
My GOP sources who know OH are telling me turnout is equal to and greater than Bush 2004…
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 6, 2012
Early voting is up in red counties and down in blue counties from 2008, which is what you'd expect and necessary for a Romney win. WaPo has a nice rundown of benchmarks for key counties: O's aiming for close to 70 percent in Cuyahoga County, a la what he pulled in 2008, and he's hoping to cut into Romney's advantage in Delaware County the way he did to McCain, winning 36,000 votes there versus 27,000 for Kerry in 2004. Franklin County has gotten more Democratic over the last three elections, with Obama winning it in 60-39 four years ago, and both sides are hoping to win Hamilton County, which was reliably red until O won it in 2008. Here's the Secretary of State's page for returns. You can click the link there to view by county.
We've got a handy dandy Townhall election widget in the front page sidebar for you to follow results. Politico has a county-by-county map of the whole country to help simplify things too. And here's the livestream for Ed and Guy Benson co-hosting the Hugh Hewitt show. One bit of recommended reading before we get into updates and results: This piece from National Journal explains in detail why Ohio's rules for provisional ballots might, might lead to a weeks-long clusterfark a la Florida 2000. If you think Romney (or Obama) will win handily tonight then it's no sweat, but do note that the candidates themselves are well prepared for this eventuality. Romney allegedly has a "go team" ready to roll.
Update: Mitt projecting confidence:
Speaking with reporters on his campaign plane for the last time, Mitt Romney revealed that he's only written one speech so far.
"I just finished writing a victory speech," he told the travelling press. "It's about 1,118 words. And, uh, I'm sure it will change before I'm finished, because I haven't passed it around to my family and friends and advisers to get their reaction, but I've only written one speech at this point."
Update: The polls in Indiana closed at 6 p.m. ET. Victory is a foregone conclusion there for Romney but not for Richard Mourdock. As I'm writing this, the Indiana Secretary of State's page is slow so I'm tracking returns on Politico's page.
Update: Not unexpected, but not good either:
Only 3% reporting in IN right now, but Romney is up by 22% in those precincts & Mourdock up just 4%
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) November 6, 2012
Update: It's still early in Indiana but David Freddoso notices that Mourdock is underperforming McCain's county numbers thus far — in a state that McCain lost narrowly. Ari Fleischer sees positive signs for O in Indiana too, but we'll need Virginia numbers before we can try to deduce any national trends.
Update: Chris Cillizza of WaPo tweets that the bellwether counties in Virginia are Prince William and Loudoun. Both went to Obama in 2008 and then to Bob McDonnell in the gubernatorial race in 2009.
Update: A case study in why you shouldn't trust early exit polls. According to CNN, the partisan split in Ohio tonight is D+7, which nearly equals the D+8 that Democrats produced in Obama's wave year of 2008. No way is that correct.
Update: There's good news in the dubious exit polls too.
Update: Another bellwether for you to watch in Virginia: Fairfax Villa in Fairfax County.
In 2004, John Kerry won Fairfax County, but lost Virginia 54-46. To be precise, Bush got 53.7% in Virginia. He got 52.5% in Fairfax Villa.
In 2008, Virginia voted 52.6% for Obama, and Fairfax Villa voted 53.0% for Obama.
A year later, in the governor election, the precinct and the state swung back to Republicans, big time. Virginia voted 58.6% for Bob McDonnell, and Fairfax Villa voted 60.1% for McDonnell.
Update: With nearly 15 percent reporting, Mourdock trails Joe Donnelly by two-tenths of a point.
Update: Over at the RCP live blog, Sean Trende is watching Virginia: "But with 77% in, Chesterfield [County] is 45% for Obama. That's what he got last time. If that holds, it is very difficult for Romney to win."
Update: Why Virginia is close:
Bush won VA indys by 10 in '04 and took state by 8 pts. Rom is up 12 w/ them and it's a dead heat. Went from R+4 to D+4
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) November 7, 2012
Update: Consensus on Twitter right now among experts I follow, including Trende, is that Romney isn't doing what he needs to do in the suburbs in Virginia to turn the state red. It's still early and college towns appear to be underperforming for Obama, but the state looks to be close, which is in line with the RCP average showing Obama up by less than half a point. Voting in the state could be extended for hours tonight, so if you haven't gone yet, now's the time.
Update: Extremely early in Ohio but unless I'm misreading this, the Secretary of State has already posted the early voting totals. O leads right now by roughly 190,000 votes, which is just about what Jay Cost estimated this morning. Obama's early vote lead from "strong" blue counties versus "strong" red counties four years ago was 323,000.
Update: Don't give up on Virginia yet:
Rove touting good #s for Romney in Culpepper & Rockingham (VA).
— Just Karl (@justkarl) November 7, 2012
Update: Another hopeful sign from Conn Carroll: Romney's up by 12 with 80 percent reporting in Chesapeake County, which Obama won narrowly four years ago.
Update: With 26 percent in, Romney's lead in North Carolina is less than a point. But Jim Geraghty reports that the mood among GOP insiders about NC, FL, and especially VA has improved markedly in the past half hour or so.
Update: Meanwhile in Indiana, hopes of repealing ObamaCare are waning. Mourdock trails by more than three points with more than 45 percent reporting.
Update: Back in Virginia, Romney's atoning for his underperformance in Chesterfield County with big numbers up north:
Whaddaya know: Romney doing surprisingly well in NoVa, which is improving his VA odds. Loudoun 49-49; Fairfax 56-42% Obama
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 7, 2012
Ben Domenech also now thinks Romney will hang on in Virginia. Fingers crossed.
Update: Patrick Ruffini spies a 16-point swing against Obama in Arlington County and is now wondering if Virginia might even be called for the GOP before Florida.
Update: Erika and MKH have you covered in Pennsylvania and Michigan, but I'm hearing that news outlets just called the Senate race in PA for Bob Casey and the presidential race in MI for Obama at the top of the hour. That takes one potential Romney longshot state off the table and makes Pennsylvania seem unlikely. But then, Ohio and Wisconsin have always been our best bets.
Update: Tim Carney, who noted Fairfax Villa as a key bellwether in one of the updates above, is in Fairfax County tonight and doesn't like what he sees. Interesting difference of opinion right now between him and Trende on the one hand and Rove and Ruffini on the other about Romney using northern Virginia to pull this out.
Update: With 62.5 percent reporting and more than six and a half million votes counted, Romney leads in Florida — by 12,000 votes. Bush/Gore deja vu!
Update: Oof — multiple news outlets now calling Pennsylvania for Obama. That leaves Minnesota as the only longshot on the table for Romney. If, as expected, that goes blue too, then he needs to win either Ohio or Wisconsin. And if Virginia slips through his fingers, he'll need to win both.
Update: Some quick and dirty electoral math for you now that Michigan and Pennsylvania are off the table. If Obama holds on in Minnesota and Nevada, which he's expected to do, then he's at 243 electoral votes. Florida has 29, so if he pulls the upset there, then he doesn't need any other state. He'd be at 272 and that would be it. Romney desperately needs to hold that slim lead in FL. If instead O pulls an upset in Virginia, that would put him at 256. He could get to 270 then with Ohio or with Wisconsin plus any other state or with Colorado plus Iowa.
Update: Oh boy. Fox News just called Wisconsin for Obama. All down to Ohio now for Romney. He needs to win OH + FL + VA + one other state.
Update: CBS just called New Hampshire for Obama, which simplifies things. If Romney doesn't hold on in Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina and win Ohio and Iowa or Colorado, he's done.
Oh: And Fox News just called the Indiana Senate for Joe Donnelly.
Update: With nearly 80 percent in, Obama's actually ahead in Florida by 14,000 votes. And the word on Twitter is that he's doing well in the bellwether counties.
Update: ABC just called Minnesota for Obama so all the longshots are now off the table. I assume Nevada will be called within the next 20 minutes or so (it's 9:55 p.m. ET right now), which means Romney's remaining path will be basically set. FL + VA + NC + OH + either CO or IA. Or bust.
Update: The good news is, with almost 77 percent in, Romney holds a lead in Virginia of nearly 90,000 votes. The bad news is in Florida, where, with 87 percent in, Obama's clinging to a 37,000-vote lead. At the RCP blog, Tom Bevan says the remaining precincts there should favor … Obama.
Update: As noted above, Obama leads in Florida by 37,000 votes. Right now, Gary Johnson has … 39,000 votes.
Update: Elsewhere, in the suddenly forgotten state of Ohio, Obama holds a 90,000-vote lead with roughly half the state reporting.
Update: As of 10:30 ET, Romney's ahead in the national popular vote by 1.3 million votes. Only eight percent of New York has reported, though, and none of the west coast has come in yet, so expect that to disappear quickly. Realistically, if Obama's on his way to 300 or so electoral votes, he's not going to lose the popular vote.
Update: O's up by only 16,000 votes in Florida with nine percent of the state still be counted, but a big chunk of that is in Miami-Dade County, where 30 percent of the vote is still outstanding. That's Obama's stronghold; assuming that remaining 30 percent trends blue, he's going to pad his lead, not lose it.
Update: At 10:54 ET, Romney finally wins the swing state that everyone thought would be easy pickings. The AP just called North Carolina for him. With nearly 98 percent reporting, he leads by two points. Meanwhie, with two-thirds of the vote in, Obama continues to lead in Ohio by 80,000 votes.
Update: Just as I'm reporting the first big Romney victory of the night, the Denver Post is calling Colorado for Obama. That makes the math easy: Romney now needs Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Iowa. A loss in any of those states ends it.
Update: I'm hearing that George Allen has conceded to Tim Kaine in the Virginia Senate race, which bodes ill for Romney's chances. He leads by 13,000 votes but there are blue counties still to come in. Larry Sabato called the state a likely win for O just 10 minutes ago.
Looks like the writing's on the wall. The networks are holding off on calling these states, I think, simply because it amounts to calling the entire election.
Update: NBC just called Iowa for Obama. Assuming all the calls made by the networks are correct tonight (some Republicans are holding out hope for Wisconsin, although it's been called by both Fox and ABC), then the election's all but over. We're just waiting on Nevada now, O's strongest swing state, to clinch 271.
Update: At 11:13 ET, NBC calls Ohio for Obama. Fox follows a minute later. Ballgame.
Update: Assuming O holds on in Florida and ekes it out in Virginia, he'll have swept all the swing states except NC and will finish with 332 electoral votes, not far off the pace from the 365 he won four years ago. Nearly four years of a miserable economy plus hundreds of millions of dollars in conservative campaign spending was worth 32 electoral votes. Indiana and North Carolina, essentially.
Update: I guess it's time.
Update: This result is so bad that I think we need to double dip on misery videos. Did the Democrats actually pick up Senate seats this year?
Update: At 12:40 a.m., both the AP and CBS are calling Virginia for Obama. He's over 300 EVs now, I believe. Still waiting on Florida, where he leads by 50,000 votes with 97.5 percent reporting. He's ahead in the popular vote now too, with most of California and 20 percent of New York still to report.


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Weather, airfare and upcoming local events are criteria that typically factor into travel decisions.
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Ongoing local protests, government retaliation and related unrest in the city have many wondering if they should pull the plug on upcoming trips or make any new plans at all.
The British government has warned its citizens to avoid demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara, and the US state department urges travelers to be "alert to the potential for violence".
What began as a small, peaceful protest against a planned shopping mall in the city's Gezi Park has quickly turned into what some protesters now call a "war zone," with police using brute force to quell demonstrations.
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Hünkar Akipek, a young professional who has taken part in the protests, tells CNN that protestors are aware of the possibility that recent events will harm Istanbul's reputation abroad.
"Sure we are worried," says Akipek. "I got so many emails, calls from my Turkish and non-Turkish friends abroad.
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"I am careful to answer their question of 'What is going on there?' to not make any harm to Istanbul's reputation. This is where we live and where we want to go on living and raise our children. We do not want to damage our home."
"Istanbul, a city that has always been known as Turkey's cultural heart, is turning into a war zone," says Royce Yakuppur, a local who has been to Gezi Park several times in recent days. "Although the feeling of solidarity (among locals) should be applauded as a virtue, it is not enough to overcome the fears of tourists."
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"The only change that has occurred has been my social life. Istanbul is a party city and Turks know how to have a good time.
"But after the protests, a lot of people find it inappropriate to be out and going to the bars and clubs surrounding Taksim. It is certainly not frowned upon for foreigners to go out and enjoy themselves, and I've been encouraged to go out and continue to enjoy Istanbul -- however I cannot expect my Turkish friends to come along and join me."
Most of Istanbul's top attractions, such as the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia and Topkapı Palace, are located in Sultanahmet, far from Taksim Square.
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Sept. 18, 1880: The Star is founded by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel Morss. It faces competition from two morning papers, The Times and The Journal, and an afternoon daily, the Mail, each priced at a nickel a copy. The fledgling evening Star sets its price at 2 cents a copy and sets its editorial policy to cover local events intensely.
The poet Eugene Field, then editor of The Times, tweaked his new rival in verse:
Twinkle, twinkle, little Star
Bright and gossipy you are;
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William Rockhill Nelson: William Rockhill Nelson was an Indianan who had run a construction business, gambled and lost in commodities and, before heading west, owned the Fort Wayne Sentinel. At his side was Samuel Morss, a veteran newspaperman who had helped Nelson establish the Sentinel as a vigorous proponent of civic reform.
Seeking to escape Fort Wayne's stagnant economy, Morss and Nelson had looked for a boom town and settled on Kansas City. Morss was gone within a year, apparently in ill health.
That left Nelson, big in body and grand in vision, who had looked at the muddy streets and raw life of this cow town and seen possibilities to make money and make a difference. His associates called him "Colonel."
"Not that he was ever a colonel of anything," explained William Allen White. "He was just coloneliferous." Nelson's legacies to the city are its parks and boulevard system, its art gallery and its largest newspaper. Thirty-nine when he founded The Star, he died in 1915 at 74.
City Beautiful: In the late 19th century, Kansas City had few paved streets and few sidewalks. Mud and horse manure were everywhere.
Nelson, a public-works contractor for part of his career in Indiana, used The Star to campaign for paved roads and streets, first in the bottoms and Downtown, and later elsewhere in the city. Also, he thumped for improved sidewalks and sewers, decent public buildings, better streetlights and more fire and police protection.
His most enduring legacy was the city's parks system, which he began promoting in 1881 along with August Meyer, a wealthy real estate man. They hired George E. Kessler, the landscape architect, to design a boulevard and park system that would begin to take shape in 1895 when the city approved a charter amendment to give the parks board power to buy the land.
In the process, Nelson converted Col. Thomas H. Swope from a pessimistic "knocker" of the parks plan. Swope deeded to the city 1,200 acres, which became the park that bears his name.
Through Nelson's offices passed William Jennings Bryan, magazine muckraker Lincoln Steffens and William Howard Taft. Theodore Roosevelt became a personal friend and came to Kansas City to seek Nelson's advice.
Dominating politically an entire region, Nelson built his paper into a truly national journal. As the colonel's fame and legend grew -- his unconventional tastes, his gargantuan appetites, his battles with the establishment -- it became common for national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post or McClure's to publish interviews with him.
1891: Nelson launches The Weekly Kansas City Star, which reaches out to farmers and country towns, saturating Kansas and Missouri and hitting Nebraska, Colorado and the Indian Territory (soon to be Oklahoma). It costs 25 cents a year, is filled with reprints from the daily Star and promotes the Kansas City marketplace and Col. Nelson's political views.
April 29, 1894. The first Sunday edition of The Star.
1900: The convention hall burns to the ground 90 days before the Democratic National Convention is to convene in Kansas City. The structure is rebuilt in time for the Democrats to gather. They nominate William Jennings Bryan, who loses to William McKinley.
Oct. 19, 1901: Nelson buys The Kansas City Times, a Democratic-leaning daily 13 years older than The Star. His aim is to acquire its morning Associated Press wire service franchise. Nelson changes the nameplate to declare it The Morning Kansas City Star, and for decades it is indistinguishable typographically from the afternoon Star. Nelson calls his new empire "the 24-hour Star." "Successive staffs of writers and editors will be constantly in position to give the readers the news at the earliest moment." That plan continues until the papers become one morning daily in 1990.
1903: Swollen by spring rains, the Kaw and Missouri Rivers spill into the West Bottoms, making more than 22,000 people homeless, destroying bridges, ruining the waterworks and shorting out telephone and telegraph lines.
1911: The Star begins publishing from its current location, an Italian Renaissance-style building at 18th and Grand. There are no private offices -- some say that is because Nelson wants everyone to feel equal; others say it is because he wants to watch his help.
April 13, 1915: William Rockhill Nelson dies at his home, Oak Hall, now site of the Nelson Gallery of Art. Estimates of his wealth range from $5 million to $10 million. The newspaper's circulation is more than 200,000.
April 20, 1915: Nelson's will is filed, leaving everything to his wife and to his daughter, Laura Nelson Kirkwood. After their deaths, the entire estate -- Star included -- is to be converted to cash and the proceeds turned over to art. Associates who were with Nelson in his final days had the impression Nelson thought The Star could not continue without him. The colonel even toyed with the idea of closing the paper immediately after his death.
October 1917: Ernest Hemingway gets a job through family connections as a reporter for The Star but leaves the next April to drive ambulances in Italy. Hemingway credits a Star editor, C.G. ``Pete'' Wellington, with changing his verbose high school writing style into clear, provocative English. The author referred to this admonition from The Star's style sheet: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."
An article of faith at The Star is to aim for the readership of the 30,000 ``best people'' in Kansas City -- the schoolteachers and preachers who love its restrained appearance. But concealed behind the genteel exterior is a newspaper full of human-interest stories: the country girl wronged by the city slicker; the failing Union Avenue druggist who wrote a note and then stuck a revolver in his mouth; the Anti-Vice Society complaining about women loitering in cigar stores on 15th Street enticing male customers into the adjoining saloons. Because photographs reproduce poorly, pictures are turned over to staff artists and turned into line drawings.
February 1921: The Star publishes its first comic strip.
March 8, 1921: The Star publishes its first photograph.
1922: Inaugural broadcast by WDAF radio, founded by The Star and operated by it until the late 1950s.
1924: Irwin Kirkwood, Nelson's son-in-law, having become active in running the paper, is named editor.
Feb. 27, 1926: Laura Kirkwood dies, alone in a Baltimore hotel room, at 43. Her mother died five years before, and under the terms of Nelson's will, The Star must be sold.
July 1926: Encouraged and largely staked by Irwin Kirkwood, about 30 employees win the bidding to purchase the paper for $11 million.
Aug. 29, 1927: Irwin Kirkwood dies of a heart attack in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where he has gone to sell some of his Thoroughbred horses. Stock is made available to more employees, and dividends are increased to help them pay for their shares.
1928: The GOP nominates Herbert Hoover and Kansan Charles Curtis for president and vice president at its convention in Kansas City. They win election in November.
Jazz town: Kansas City is wide open, boozing and brawling. It proves a haven for badmen like Pretty Boy Floyd and Harvey Bailey. Along Locust and Cherry streets downtown, prostitutes sit behind windows, wearing only a towel across their midriffs, soliciting business from passers-by. The Depression rages.
18th and Vine: At this legendary intersection, nightclubs provide the grounds for a hot jazz scene. Bennie Moten. Count Basie. Eventually, Charlie "Bird" Parker.
Tom Pendergast, once a cashier in brother Jim Pendergast's Main Street saloon, assumes control of Alderman Jim's political empire.
He was street superintendent, county marshal and eventually a member of the city council. In the 1930s, his machine is rolling. The fount of his power is his 700-odd precinct captains, called "Joe Doakeses", who can make life easier -- or much harder -- for families. Politics in Kansas City in the 1930s blend into self-survival, loyalty to a benefactor and obligation.
1931: City fathers roll out a Ten Year Plan of civic improvements -- a new auditorium, hundreds of miles of roads, sewers and water lines, new city and county buildings and other public structures. Tom Pendergast, assured he will control jobs and his concrete business will prosper, rolls out the vote, and the bond issue passes.
June 17, 1933: The parking plaza in front of Union Station explodes in gunfire as Pretty Boy Floyd, Adam Richetti and Verne Miller kill Frank Nash, two federal agents and two policemen.
March 27, 1934: Hoodlums shoot four persons to death at or near polls during the county election. Justin Bowersock is chased by them back to the Star building.
1936: The Star's investigation finds "ghosts," "sleepers" and "pads", the terms for fraudulent votes in that year's election, resulting in 21 persons either going to jail or paying large fines.
1941: World War II sees women enter the newsroom, not only in the society or women's sections but in straight news beats. It also brings paper rationing.
1942: The Kansas City Journal, the only remaining daily competitor of The Star, folds.
1945: The war ends, and The Star enters an era of huge profits, record circulation and expansion. Worried by paper shortages that began in the war and continued afterward, The Star's board of directors buys a Wisconsin paper mill. Although it guarantees The Star a steady stream of newsprint, the mill also is a heavy polluter. By the 1970s, the cost of cleaning up the pollution contributes to the decision to sell The Star.
1947: Roy A. Roberts is chosen president of The Star and shapes its destiny for the next 18 years. Roberts, a "big, fat boy from Kansas," is a disciple of Nelson. He becomes one of the last of the great political editors, the kind who brought national renown to their papers. Early in his career, as Jefferson City correspondent and then reporting from Washington, Roberts' work had shown the knowledge of a political insider. Eventually becoming managing editor, Roberts, with Lacy Haynes of The Star's Kansas bureau in Kansas City, Kan., influences Kansas politics for years. In the mid-1930s, Roberts and other Kansas editors and businessmen boom Gov. Alf Landon for president and succeed in getting him the 1936 GOP nomination on the first ballot.
In his first years as president of the newspaper, Roberts oversees an $8 million rebuilding of the plant, fights and wins tax and labor relations battles with the government, and leads the coverage of the 1951 flood.
Like Nelson, Roberts is a big, rumpled man. Like Nelson, he becomes a kingmaker. And like Nelson, he is domineering, political in and out of the office, and a believer in low wages. Time magazine, in a cover story about him, calls Roberts "the man to see in Kansas City to get elected, to build a hospital, to get things into the paper and to keep them out."
A rock-ribbed Republican, Roberts becomes an intractable enemy of Harry S. Truman. The feeling was mutual. Truman never forgave The Star for challenging his integrity in the investigation of vote fraud, and The Star attacked the president at every opportunity.
In 1952, Roberts is instrumental in the nomination of Kansan Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Republican candidate for president.
Early in Eisenhower's administration, Alvin McCoy of The Star's Topeka bureau produces articles questioning the business dealings of the Republican national chairman. The articles lead to a Pulitzer prize for McCoy. Roberts is so embarrassed that the report of McCoy's prize is only four paragraphs long.
1947: A pressman's strike beginning in mid-January shuts down The Star for the first time. The union wins a pay raise and a guarantee of no reprisals from the company, and publication resumes Feb. 3.
Oct. 16, 1949: The first commercial telecast by The Star's television station, WDAF-TV, Channel 4.
1951: Floods inundate the West Bottoms.
Bill Vaughan: Probably the newspaper's most recognized name for three decades, he writes the Starbeams column from 1946 until his death in 1977. By that time, he had written an estimated 100,000 Starbeam items -- populated with characters such as Senator Sludgepump, Cousin Fuseloyle, Tillie and the Loud Voice on the Bus -- and 3,500 full-length columns. He was regularly published in Reader's Digest, Better Homes and Gardens (under the pseudonym Burton Hillis) and other newspapers nationwide. From a Starbeam of the early 1970s: "Loud Voice on the Bus: `Why, son, I'm so old I can remember when the cops on TV fired their pistols with only one hand!' "
A short-term pessimist and long-term optimist, Vaughan was described by an associate as "kind enough to help us endure pomposities. He is not about to change the world. He only helps us endure what cannot be changed -- the absurdity of being a human being."
1953: The Star is indicted by a federal grand jury for monopolistic advertising practices. The government seeks to have The Star divest itself of WDAF radio and TV. This occurs in the closing days of the Truman administration, and Roberts calls the indictment part of an ``inquisition'' for The Star's past opposition to the president. The trial begins in early 1955, lasts a little more than a month, and The Star is found guilty. All appeals fail. In 1957, The Star signs a consent decree, abandoning combination advertising and subscription rates and agreeing to sell WDAF radio and television.
1955: The Philadelphia Athletics baseball franchise moves to Kansas City.
1957: A tornado levels part of the Ruskin Heights suburb, killing 39 persons.
1963: The Dallas Texans professional football team moves to Kansas City, where it becomes the Chiefs. In 1970, the team wins the Super Bowl.
Roberts' successor orders the newsroom to begin hiring minorities and to begin printing more positive stories about black people.
1965: The Times circulation reaches 347,742, exceeding for the first time The Star's. It represented the first stirrings of a lifestyle change that saw the demise of afternoon papers nationwide and of the afternoon Star in 1990.
Amid the national economic boom of the mid-1960s, The Star seeks to diversify. It buys a suburban Chicago printing company but does so without ample investigation, and the company winds up gouging The Star. Other purchases consume the time and attention of the paper's leaders into the 1970s.
April 1968: In the wake of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, riots erupt in Kansas City and six persons die.
1976: The Republican party holds its national convention in Kansas City. Gerald Ford defeats Ronald Reagan for the nomination and is joined by Kansan Bob Dole on the ticket. They lose in November.
The Royals win the championship of the American League's Western Division, the first of three straight. For those same three years, they would lose the playoffs to the New York Yankees.
That autumn, representatives of Capital Cities Communications Inc., a New York-based broadcasting and publishing company, begin showing interest in purchasing The Star. Capital Cities executives had heard of problems The Star was facing. The newspaper was beset by the cost of cleaning up pollution at its Wisconsin paper mill, by the need for new printing technology and by poor sales of its stock to employees. It faced the prospect of purchasing millions of dollars in the shares of its retired employees. The Star, the New Yorkers had heard, was going broke.
Jan. 18, 1977: Capital Cities formally offers $125 million to The Star's stockholders.
Feb. 15, 1977: The Star is sold.
James H. Hale: Entering the building as publisher shortly after the sale, Hale overhauls every department of the newspaper, cuts costs and oversees improvements. In his 15 years at the helm of The Star, the newspaper wins three Pulitzer prizes, greatly expands its zoned suburban operations, extends its coverage of business news and of the region, boosts its ability to print color and sets record profits. Usually reticent in public settings, Hale is direct and decisive in private. He makes Capital Cities' investment pay off.
The 1980s are a time of experimentation and change. A daily separate feature and business section, a separate Sunday fashion section, more aggressive operations carrying zoned news and advertising, expanded Sports coverage, and extensive use of color photographs and graphics mark The Star's attempts to attract readers. The Star also launches Project Warmth, which since then has raised millions of dollars in contributions and tons of clothes and blankets through its annual December drive.
1985: The Royals bring a baseball championship to Kansas City for the first time, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. The city goes wild.
The Star's executives prepare to cease publication of the afternoon newspaper.The new morning newspaper, which combines features of both the afternoon Star and the morning Times, is named The Star. It appears March 1, 1990.
The Star explores ways to deliver information through new technologies. In 1991 it launches StarTouch, an interactive telephone service and in 1996 begins The Star, an information and entertainment site on the World Wide Web.
1996: Ownership of The Star changes for the first time in 19 years when the Walt Disney Co. acquires Capital Cities/ABC its television networks, broadcasting outlets and newspapers.
1997: Shedding the publications it bought from Capital Cities, Disney sells The Star and three other newspapers to Knight Ridder Inc., the second largest newspaper company in the United States.
2004: Even as The Star increases its information presence on the Internet - now at KansasCity.com - the company is constructing a printing and distribution plant covering two full city blocks near The Star's main building. The facility demonstrates a commitment not only to the printed word but also to Kansas City's downtown.
2006: The Star begins operating its $200 million printing and distribution plant, a dramatic glass-and-metal structure that allows passersby to watch the presses at work. Soon after the plant opens, The Star is acquired by The McClatchy Co., a leading newspaper and Internet publisher based in Sacramento, Calif. McClatchy is the nation's third-largest newspaper company.
NOTE: Much of the information for this account is from The Kansas City Star's Centennial edition, Sept. 14, 1980


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A county-judge executive from the Kentucky Bluegrass region's outskirts followed a federal court order to resign Monday after his conviction for conspiring to buy votes.
Bath County Judge-Executive Walter Bascom Shrout resigned his office in a one-sentence letter to Gov. Ernie Fletcher. Shrout, convicted Friday of conspiracy to buy votes in last year's primary election, said his resignation was effective as of noon.
"I sure am," Shrout said of resigning, in a telephone interview. "I have no choice."
The 54-year-old Shrout, a Sharpsburg Democrat, also was found guilty of obstruction of justice and making false statements to a federal agent.
Gov. Ernie Fletcher is likely to appoint a replacement within 30 days, a spokesman said. A special election for voters to pick a permanent replacement would be on the ballot in the November general election.
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood gave Shrout until noon EDT on Monday to resign.
Shrout, who was indicted in November, is facing a maximum fine of $250,000 and up to 10 years in prison. His sentencing was scheduled for July 9.
Shrout said he was planning to spend much of Monday emptying his office but did not have further comment.
"I've got a lot of stuff to clean up," Shrout said.
Eleven others were indicted on federal vote fraud charges stemming from the investigation.
With Shrout's departure from county government, three elected offices in Bath County are vacant.
Property Valuation Administrator Paul Goodpaster died in February, and Hood ordered Bath County Attorney Donald "Champ" Maze to resign after he pleaded guilty - on the fifth day of his trial - to paying three people up to $200 to vote for him in the primary election.
Maze is facing a maximum $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison, and he's scheduled for sentencing on May 7.
Shrout won a three-way primary in May 2006, gathering 2,677 votes, 1,516 more than second-place finisher Mike Swartz, according to the Bath County clerk's office. Swartz has also pleaded guilty to vote buying.
Rep. Carolyn Belcher, D-Owingsville, said the community was trying to move on from the episode.
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Commissioner Billy Martin, a Sharpsburg Democrat, said he and the two other county commissioners met Monday morning and decided to run the county until Fletcher appoints a successor.
Martin said he thought Shrout did the "best job he could" and didn't believe the former judge-executive did anything wrong.
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Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. cellphone carrier, said Wednesday that it is buying spectrum and 585,000 customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. That covers about 10 percent of U.S. Cellular's customer base and includes its key Chicago and St. Louis markets.
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Glover's competition was uniformly more compelling. Even after Tiger faded (and thanks to a rough Saturday for everyone, it took most of Monday for that to happen) Glover was being chased by Mickelson, the week's overwhelming fan favorite. Mickelson's wife, Amy, and her recent bout with breast cancer were the stuff of promos and soft-focus features all week, and the fans at Bethpage responded to Phil in kind.
Then there was David Duval. Duval, once the No. 1 player in the world and a leading Tiger-killer, faded from professional golf almost entirely over the past decade. Duval has put on a few pounds since his prime, but his golf was as good as ever, and he had a chance down the stretch to steal the tournament away.
Glover's main competition came from Ricky Barnes, a very good -- and slightly flashy -- amateur who has yet to turn in a professional performance. Barnes set the 36-hole U.S. Open record this weekend; he entered the final round of the tournament in the lead but choked much of it away on the front nine Monday. Barnes rebounded and got himself within two strokes on 18.
Instead, it was Glover. Khakis, white shirt, white hat, with a fundamentally sound but not otherwise nondescript swing, Glover was about the most boring thing on the leaderboard this week. In the end, he was also its best.
Eamonn Brennan is a Chicago-based writer, editor and blogger. You can also read him at Yahoo! Sports, Mouthpiece Sports Blog, and Inside The Hall, or at his personal site, eamonnbrennan.com. Follow him on Twitter.


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Foul Territory: Atomic Elbows and Super (Dome) Bugs
April 28, 2012 by Jeffrey Boswell • Print Story •
* World Be Free (in 7 Games), or Forearm in the Forum, Peace of Ass, or Forward, March — Metta World Peace was suspended seven games by the NBA for a vicious elbow to the head of Oklahoma City's James Harden on Sunday. With the suspension, Commissioner David Stern unseated the Republic of North Korea as the greatest threat to World Peace.
* Mickey, Mickey, Why Ya' Buggin', or No Audible Sighs, or That's Mic'd Up — The New Orleans Saints denied a report alleging that general manager Mickey Loomis had his booth in the Superdome wired in order to listen to opposing coaches' radio communications. The news will likely result in yet another reason for Roger Goodell to "sound off."
* Smokey and the Bandits, This is Certainly Not the Kind of Escort Service to Which NFL Players Are Accustomed — San Francisco 49ers running back Brandon Jacobs was involved in a high-speed, police-escorted caravan to Atlantic City, with speeds reportedly reaching 100 miles per hour. Reportedly, it was the first time Jacobs has been cited for above-average speed.
* Pick a Winner, or Finally, Roger Goodell Made an Announcement That Didn't Involve the Saints — The Indianapolis Colts, as expected, made Stanford's Andrew Luck the No. 1 pick in Thursday's NFL Draft, while Robert Griffin III was chosen second by Washington. Griffin insisted there was no shame in going second to a quarterback chosen No. 1 by the Colts, an assertion vehemently denied by Ryan Leaf.
* Game "On," or Mega-Tron: Legacy — Calvin Johnson will appear on the cover of the "Madden NFL 13" video game after beating out Cam Newton in an online vote for the honor. Johnson said the "Madden Curse" doesn't worry him, and added that the only "cursing" in Detroit will be coming from the mouth of fiery head coach Jim Schwartz.
* Mustang Rally, or an Air Jordan Apparel Contract is Highly Unlikely — Larry Brown was introduced on Monday as Southern Methodist head basketball coach. The 71-year-old Brown said he was in it for the "long haul," despite a number of "Pony Express" jokes to the contrary.
* Let's Just Hope Payton Doesn't Teach Them Everything He Knows, or Ban-ner Year — New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton will help coach his 11-year-old son Connor's football team in Dallas as he serves his one-year suspension for the team's bounty scandal. No one was happier than Connor, who was thrilled at the potential to finally be paid an allowance. Payton made it clear he won't be paid, if for no other reason than to prevent Connor from having to answer the question, "What was the price on his head?"
Bulls#*t on Parade, Innocent Blood, or Juice on the Loose — Roger Clemens' lawyer Rusty Hardin, in the opening statements of Clemens' retrial on charges that he lied to Congress, claimed steroid evidence had been manipulated. When asked to comment on Hardin's interjections, Clemens not only perjured himself, he pissed himself.
* "Split" Decision, or Girl, Intercepted, or Pilar of Assault, or Stay Classy — Deion Sanders tweeted on Monday that his estranged wife Pilar had attacked him, and Sanders even posted pictures of he and his sons filling out police reports. Allegedly, Pilar tried to tackle Deion, but in true Sanders fashion, failed.
* The Jordan Fools, or These 'Cats Have More Lives Than Wins — The Charlotte Bobcats lost to the Knicks to finish the NBA season with a 7-59 mark, setting the record for the worst winning percentage in NBA history. The Bobcats finished with a .106 winning percentage, but will have a 25% chance of winning the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft Lottery, which is called "improvement" in owner Michael Jordan's vernacular.


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"Burning Love" gets to blaze some more.
Paramount's Insurge Pictures and Yahoo have given the comedic Web series, which parodies reality dating shows, another two seasons on Yahoo Screen for 2013 after substantial success in its first season.
Exec producer Ben Stiller said, "We are very excited to keep 'Burning Love' on the fire — get ready for it to get hotter and hotter till it scalds your comedy taste buds off."
Writer Erica Oyama and director Ken Marino, who also starred in the first season, will both return for the next two installments. Season two will spin the show into a "Bachelorette"-esque situation, with the rejected Julie (June Diane Raphael) getting the chance to find love. The third season, dubbed "Burning Down the House," will reunite the rejects under one roof for competition and drama reminiscent of "The Bachelor Pad."
The series' first season, which starred Marino as bachelor Mark Orlando, gained major buzz thanks to critical acclaim and a slew of celeb guest stars that included Stiller, Kristen Bell and Ken Jeong.


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The AAA 110th Annual Meeting will take place this year in Montréal, Quebec, Canada from November 16-20, 2011. Now is the time to renew your membership, pre-register for the Annual Meeting, book your hotel, and add the workshops to your itinerary.
At the AAA Annual Meeting, Saturday is coined Student Saturday for the many activities and programming offered with student interests in mind. Back by popular demand, the Graduate School Fair will feature a variety of anthropology programs. And this year a session entitled, Top 10 Tips for Getting a Job in Anthropology will feature Carol J. Ellick and Joe E. Watkins, authors of The Anthropology Graduate's Guide: From student to a career.
What are two other events that would be of particular interest to all students that are occurring on that Saturday?
E-mail your answer to firstname.lastname@example.com by the end of today.
Two lucky people with the correct answer will win an Annual Meeting messenger bag from the new AAA Café Press shop. Winning answers will be announced here later in the week, so check back often.
Need a hint? Check out the searchable online program.
Quick links:
Renew your membership
Complete your meeting registration
Book your hotel
Add a workshop
Purchase the Annual Meeting Abstracts
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Fortunately, there were places other than the pottery and crystal gallery open that day. In fact, one of those places that was open fit my criteria of being a place you could shout in, somewhere that had food, a place where it was hard to break things, and was a fair distance away from my house so I could strap my kids quietly into the car for a good amount of time on the way there and back.
Algernon went too. He was going to have all kinds of adventures at the zoo, but it turns out that once I had to start doing the "one kid, two kid, three kid...one kid, two kid, three kid..." routine all by myself at a brand new to us location, Algernon decided he wanted to hang out in my bag and not bother coming out. Funny that.
Going anywhere with my three kiddos is totally an exercise in hilarity and that day at the zoo was no exception. I was all excited that morning, so I was surprised when my enthusiastic, "WHO WANTS TO GO TO THE ZOO?!?!" was met with, "Meh," and "Not me," and "NOOOOOOO!!!!"
For reals. It's like I was asking if I could take them to the broccoli factory.*
Fortunately, I don't much give a damn what they want to do, so I stuffed them in the car and dragged them down there anyway. I did make one really good decision, which was to take a bag of cheesy popcorn with us, which distracted Quinn for at least an hour.
It also made us at least one enemy in the tram line where the kids behind us watched my kids snarfing up their snack and started demanding food from their mother. I never know what to do in those situations. Do I offer some popcorn to the mom to give to her kids? Do I pretend like I don't hear them? Do I shrug guiltily and look away?
The reason I chose to take them to the Maryland Zoo instead of the National Zoo is because (1) we have never been there, so I figured it would be new and exciting, and (2) they have polar bears and penguins. I figured that these things would make up for the fact that you have to pay admission.
They did. Polar bears are awesome.
I was a little disappointed that the polar bear wasn't swimming and diving and being otherwise awesome, but he did rub his butt up against some rocks, so that was entertaining.
The Maryland Zoo isn't all smiles and sunshine and polar bears and penguins. There is also a cave, which sounds awesome if you like caves (and I do) and it kind of is awesome, but it is also REALLY dark. I only took one photo in the cave, because...hello, dark—and it is not of the fuzzy bear or interesting stalactite variety.
The only reason I share that with you (because, frankly, even *I* would stop visiting my blog if there were regular photos of spiders on it; in fact, I don't think I'll ever be able to read this particular post again because of this photo) is to illustrate how goddamn dark that cave was. Imagine my "one kid, two kid, three kid..." count in the pitch black. Then picture Jack finding every single tiny corner nook and hiding the deepest crooks of each of them.
Sometimes I think the people who design these things are just laughing at us parents.
It is a minor miracle that I didn't lose anyone in there among the wolf spiders and shadows.
From there, it was just a short trip past a collapsed bridge (for real), a slide in a tree-shaped building that my kids refused to come out of, and several photographs of common ducks later, until we made it to the petting farm. The petting farm consisted entirely of goats.
Aside: That photo takes my breath away every time I look at it. Jack has a thing with animals. I'm not entirely sure the goat was on board with the gazing into each others' souls thing, but Jack was.
After the goats and the hand washing that followed, we went on the train. Now, I'm going to drop a tip on you here: Unless your kids are really into trains, you can skip this one at the Maryland Zoo. You don't really see many animals and it is a pretty short trip for the $3/ticket cost.
Fortunately, my kids are into trains, so I felt that the trip was money...spent. In much the same way as my children were super excited when I asked if they wanted to go to the zoo, they were equally excited when I told them to give me their Biggest Train Smiles!
At least I have Jack in my corner.
From there, we headed over to lunch. It was chilly during our day at the zoo, so I let my kids sit in the sun at a table while I bought their lunch and kept an eye on them ("one kid, two kid, three kid..."). They ate their food and then Jack evidently decided that sitting on a bench didn't make him warm enough, so he sought heat iguana-like on the pavement.
After lunch it was time for what I had been dreading: The Bathroom.
Those of you with opposite gendered children understand what I am talking about here. Sam can go into bathrooms by himself and Quinn is still young enough to seem appropriate in the women's restroom with a parent. Then there is Jack. He is almost nine. He sticks out if I take him with me into a public restroom. I've gotten looks from Judgey McHaterpants for doing so. He is usually fine by himself in public restrooms, but sometimes he dawdles and doesn't come out and I hate making it Sam's responsibility to drag him out.
Normally I send them all into the men's bathroom together and carefully watch the door to catch them on their way out, but if I am going to the bathroom as well and won't necessarily be at the door when they come out, I don't like sending Jack and Quinn in. God only knows where they would go if they came out and I wasn't there.
Therefore, I told Jack and Quinn that they were coming to the women's restroom with me and Sam that he would go to the men's room by himself and then we would all meet just outside the bathroom.
But then as we approached the bathrooms with our plan in place, Sam spotted the family restroom (the savior of families like mine) and suggested we use it. I turned for a second to see where the bathroom was, turned back around, started my headcount ("one kid, two kid..."), and realized Jack wasn't there anymore.
I sent Sam to check in the men's room and I went to check in the women's room because I couldn't think where else Jack would have gone. I was so explicit about our bathroom instructions, that we were Going to The Bathroom, this is how we are Going to The Bathroom, and with whom and in what order we were Going to The Bathroom, so I couldn't imagine him heading off to the goats or the train or to be eaten by the lions or whatever.
But, the truth remained, Jack was missing, he was not in the women's room, and Sam said he was not in the men's room. Just like on Loon Day, I passed the point when I was trying to quietly deal with the situation by myself.
My natural instinct is to not draw attention to myself, so it went against every part of me to do what I did next, which was to shove my way to the front of the line at the ice cream booth to report my missing child, something the teenagers there were ill-prepared to hear. I tried to spur them into action by using scary words like "eight years old" and "autistic."
They claimed to be "calling someone," so I returned to scanning the area for either Jack or a more responsible adult zoo employee who would understand that TIME IS OF THE MOTHERFUCKING ESSENCE HERE, PEOPLE.
It was shortly after this point when I spotted Jack sitting criss-cross-applesauce very obediently on the ground in front of the men's room, where he had apparently been the whole time. (Dammit, Sam, we have to work on your search and rescue skillz.)
"You told me to go to the bathroom," he said.
I shoved my way to the front of the ice cream line one more time to cancel the Amber Alert I had instigated and which had never materialized, then we went back to the family restroom and Jack and I had a little heart to heart and I pulled myself together.
Then we stood in the ice cream line where I ended up paying a tremendous amount of money for ice cream for my kids just because I was so happy that all three of my kids were still present and accounted for and I didn't even give them the lecture about how if they were cold, ice cream would make them even colder.
Quinn was going to save some of his cotton candy for Alex, because Alex likes cotton candy. I convinced him that it was unnecessary to do so (mostly because I would have had to drag it all over Baltimore).
After we Went to The Bathroom and ate/smeared our desserts, we headed over to the chimpanzees, where we saw some extremely inappropriate behavior.
Seriously. It was a scene. Feeding time seemed to get them sexually excited.
There were also lions and an elephant that was trying to eat the (greener, literally) grass on the other side of the fence and the elephant that was playing with a tire (I originally wrote "tiger" instead of "tire," which, honestly, would have been even cooler) and there were more ducks and some other birds and I actually gave my kids quarters to look through those stupid things that look like alien faces but that you are never quite able to find what you are looking for through them.
Then it was off to the penguins, who did all kinds of cute waddling around, but not enough jumping in the water for Quinn.
Then off to the cheetahs, because come on, cheetahs. The Cheetah Cheetah is in the background of this photo of Cheetah Jack.
I also really liked this bird. This bird had giving the Whale Eye down to a science.
So, the way the Maryland Zoo is set up, the entrance is either a tram ride or a short walk to the actual exhibits. We took the tram in the morning, but the line was really long in the afternoon, so we decided to walk back. Unfortunately, my kids have all kinds of different speeds. Sam is Mr. Fast and Jack is Mr. Slow and Quinn is Mr. Travel Twice the Distance by Running Back and Forth.
This "5-10 minute walk" took a lot longer for us. Why? This:
And then just because I love this photo because it is very Sam and Quinn.
After we had looked at all the animals, I asked if everyone had had fun and they grudgingly admitted that they had. So then I asked them if they could show their gratitude by smiling in unison and not looking crazy for a photo for me.
This is as close as they got.
There is the last day of spring break. Now perhaps you understand why I was so happy to send them back to school.
* a.k.a. the "farm"
Thank you to Kirstin G. for your donation to the Cheetahs. You all make me so happy. Thank you, my loves.


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PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A majority of Americans don't think it's the federal government's responsibility to ensure everyone has healthcare coverage, a Gallup poll indicates.
Fifty-four percent of U.S. residents asked said healthcare isn't the government's responsibility, while 44 percent said it was, the first time in Gallup trends since 2000 that a majority expressed such a view, results released Wednesday indicated.
Poll results also indicated respondents remain as divided about the Affordable Care Act as they have been for the past few years, with 48 percent expressing approval and 45 percent expressing disapproval.
One thing that hasn't changed since 2010 is survey respondents prefer a system based on private insurance to one run by the government. The latest poll indicated 57 percent said they prefer a private system and 36 said they prefer a government-run plan, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said.
Survey participants said they are dissatisfied with the cost of healthcare in the United States, with 22 percent saying they are satisfied and 77 percent expressing dissatisfaction.
Forty-one percent rated U.S. healthcare coverage either excellent or good, while 58 percent said coverage is fair or poor.
Results for are based on nationwide telephone interviews with 1,015 adults conducted Nov. 15-18. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.


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- Apache performance tuning: dynamic modules (I and II).
- Apache performance tuning: directives (I and II).
- Apache performance tuning: benchmarking (I)
In this post, I am going to talk about the points related to security, which you have to take into account when you are setting up an Apache installation.
Restrictions for the Apache user
The Apache user must not be able to log into the system. If you take a look at both passwd and shadow files, you will be able to appreciate that no shell is assigned to him (/sbin/nologin), and the field reserved for the password will contain "!!". That means that the Apache user will not be able to log on the system (he is blocked).
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/passwd | grep apache
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/shadow | grep apache
Restrictions for the system root
You have to prevent that the system root (/) is accessible through the web server. It is also better to disable all options on the root directory (Options none) and control what directives can be used in the .htaccess file by means of the AllowOverride directive.
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<Directory />
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Options none
AllowOverride none
If you define the root directory with these characteristics, then you will have to add to each directory the allowed options.
Hiding a directory or a file
Perhaps you can have a directory completely indexed and in turn, it contains different subdirectories, but you do not want to make visible a concrete directory (hidden) and you desire that it is reachable only when you type its URL. For this purpose, you have to use the IndexIgnore option.
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<Directory "/var/www/html/data">
Options Indexes
IndexIgnore status
IndexIgnore *.bpm
In the previous example, Apache will keep hidden the status directory and all files with bmp extension included in the /var/www/html/data directory.