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Latino leaders urge Obama: Hire us
When top Hispanic lawmakers met with President Barack Obama earlier this year, the first issue they brought up wasn't immigration reform. Their ask: Hire more Latinos.
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And they haven't let up, requesting meetings and pressing Obama and White House officials to make progress on diversifying the administration. They want a progress report by the end of the year.
The push is part of a broader change in strategy for Hispanic leaders. The movement built up its power as the fastest growing Democratic voting bloc in the country, one Obama himself relied on in both of his presidential campaigns.
( Also on POLITICO: Bergdahl furor adds to Dem Obama angst)
Now Latino activists want to create a network across Washington of their own players — on the Hill, at federal agencies and even on K Street — that can push and shape their own agenda and inspire more would-be Latino voters to start hitting the polls and seek elected office.
"If we don't start seeding our leadership now, then it's going to be a deficit for the long term, that's both political office plus appointeds," said Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz. ). "It's one thing to have profile positions, but for many of us, what really counts is the leadership that is coming up in departments and appointed positions across the country."
Rep. Ben Ray Luján, who attended the meeting earlier this year at the White House, also met with White House representatives last week to discuss how to create a permanent pipeline for increasing minority numbers in senior-level agency jobs. He has already helped identify colleges and universities that can help serve as recruitment areas.
( Also on POLITICO: Clinton writes of Biden, Bergdahl in memoir)
"A more diverse workforce that looks like the face of America is critically important as we look to the administration," the New Mexico Democrat said. He said the question is not only "what's the one thing we can do to ensure that there will be more Latinos and Latinas willing to take the positions, but also [making sure] those who are ready to take them as well won't be pushed away for any reason."
Recently Obama tapped Julián Castro to serve as the next secretary of Housing and Urban Development — a welcome sign for activists, but just one step of many they want to see.
In part, the move by Democrats to woo more Hispanics into elected office and to the ballot box underscores their status as the largest-growing minority in the country.
This isn't the first time Obama and his team have made a push on diversity hiring. In 2012, the Obama campaign sought out black staffers to put in positions across the country and White House officials met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to address the issue.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: 'No apologies' on Bergdahl)
White House spokeswoman Katherine Vargas said the president has made diversity a priority.
"The President and Administration officials have been working with colleagues across the government and our allies in the community to build stronger pipelines into Federal service and ensure that we are cultivating and attracting the talent we need," Vargas said in a statement.
And Obama has made some notable Hispanic appointments and hires, including appointing the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
But the bigger picture is stark when it comes to Latinos.
Only 28 of the 435 seats in the House and only three of the 100 Senate seats are held by Latinos. Statewide, the numbers are even bleaker — there are only eight statewide elected Latinos.
"One of the reasons Latinos participate in politics at such a low rate is because they don't see themselves reflected on the ballot," said Cristobal Alex, executive director of the Latino Victory Project.
Alex is hoping to change that with the recently launched LVP, an effort to do for Latinos what EMILY's List has done for women candidates, founded by actress Eva Longoria and veteran Democratic megadonor Henry Muñoz.
The group is focused on developing leaders for public office, creating a permanent base of Latino donors to fund the movement, make sure that Latinos are voting and have a voice in the policy debates impacting Latinos.

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When Jordan Page was a boy of 11 with a yen for acting, his greatest thrill was playing the Crown Prince in '"The King and I" onstage.
Two decades later, in the middle of an odyssey that began on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he's starring in a real-life rock tour with lyrics a lot more volatile than "Shall We Dance" or "Getting to Know You."
As a singer and writer of protest songs that decry big government, big business and the military-industrial complex, Page has become the go-to entertainer for supporters of Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican who seems to be drawing in young Republican and independent voters.
Page, 32, has proved his ability to ignite Paul's crowds before the candidate comes on as the main attraction. The singer-songwriter has done it nine times so far, and he says he's available "whenever they need me to rock out and melt faces." He was headed for a rally in New Hampshire this weekend.
"Dr. Paul has said that a revolution needs two things: young people and music," Page says. The anti-federal, anti-war message of the 76-year-old 10-term Texas congressman, and his consistent opposition to the status quo, roused the fervor of young people in Iowa last week and may do the same in New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday.
The American musical landscape is full of rock-star activists — but they usually support liberal causes. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp endorsed Barack Obama and opened for some of his campaign appearances during the 2008 campaign. But Page has woven Paul's platform into his own musical agenda with extraordinary commitment. He doesn't arrive at events just in time for his number, and he doesn't leave right afterward.
"At every event I've ever seen him play at, like, in New Hampshire at the Porcupine Freedom Festival, he gets there early," says Nathan Cox, a Virginia coordinator of the Campaign for Liberty who's now active in Veterans for Ron Paul. "He wants to talk to people and share his ideas and his music. And he hangs for several hours after he plays. People just love him."
What transformed Page from a budding thespian to a rocker who plays industrial-strength guitar, scribbles heavy-duty lyrics and calls for revolution?
It started with a family calamity. After his father suffered major injuries in a car crash, the family moved from Agawam, Mass., where Page had gone through grade school, to the Eastern Shore — first to Tilghman Island, then to St. Michaels — where his dad had a support network of relatives.
In Agawam, "I thought my life was realized," he says, but on Tilghman Island, Page didn't know who he was or what he wanted to do. He even stopped acting. Rock music often emerges from teen angst; Page spun his first works out of preteen angst.
"I was wondering, 'What am I doing here?'" he says.
His father, a Vietnam vet who had been director of shipping at a large company before his accident, and his mother, an early-education specialist who ran a preschool in Agawam and became the director of The Kinder Garden in Easton, raised him in a solid liberal environment.
He first got his hands on a guitar two days before he left Massachusetts. It became, he says, his salvation.
"I was able to express what I was feeling as a displaced young person through music," he says. "A lot of my friends had similar feelings, but I had the ability to express them through song."
Older friends and his elder sister (he also has a younger one) turned him on to some of their favorite bands. Long before he entered high school, the ecstatic doominess of the Doors got to him, along with the operatic albums of Pink Floyd.
Words and music became Page's anchor, but some funky things happened on his way to becoming a versifying troubadour. His ambition didn't waver as he entered Washington College (where he studied anthropology), but it did become transformed. In his junior year, he went to Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
He says he'd already had experiences that made him feel guided by an "invisible hand." But epiphanies in South Africa set him on the straight and narrow, and gave him a higher and more specific purpose than merely going on the road with his guitar.
"In Grahamstown, there'd be hundreds of beggars on one side of the street, and on the other side coffee shops and milkshake shops with rich whites sipping their drinks. I'd never seen anything like that with my own eyes."
After graduation, he repaired guitars and drum sets at a music shop and also taught guitar —- which made him learn his instrument in a way he'd never done before. He started getting gigs at clubs, especially after he met his wife and they moved to Annapolis, halfway between St. Michaels and Washington, where she worked. (They have three kids, with a fourth on the way.)
In December 2006, a dream — make that nightmare — jolted him awake. He had fallen asleep after listening to George W. Bush talk about Iraq and Afghanistan. He roused himself from an apocalyptic reverie, stumbled to his computer and began rapping on the keys. Bob Dylan-esque lyrics cascaded from his fingers: "I saw a president blind to the needs of his people / I saw a camel that passed through the eye of a needle / I saw a group of old men whose money was evil / I saw a cross breaking free from the cage of a steeple."
He called a politically conscious friend in Seattle, but misdialed and talked instead to the friend's mother. It turned out to be a lucky break. Page's lyrics knocked her out. So did his despair. She told him that the country wasn't going to stay the way it was and that a nation's history swings like a pendulum. The oscillating image clicked with Page.
The song became one of his signature numbers, "Pendulum," with the pivotal lines, "& the pendulum swings from the left to the right / as momentum increases the need for the fight / ... & I am lost somewhere in the middle."
He didn't know how regulars would react when he performed it during a Christmas gig at Rams Head on Stage in Annapolis. They gave him a standing ovation. Only then, Page says, did he study his country's founding documents — and realize he had an affinity with Ron Paul.
Last year, Page wrote a pro-Paul anthem called "The Light of Revolution." On YouTube, you can see Paul peeking from the wings of an event as Page punches out that tune, creating a huge sound and getting the audience juiced.
Page now lives in rural Indiana (he won't give the exact location). But he loves to come back to venues like Rams Head on Stage (where he played Jan. 5) or the Irish pub Killarney House in Davidsonville (where he played Dec. 30).
"As a musician and an entertainer and someone who understands the business, Jordan is the whole package," says Melanie Ferranti of Killarney House. "I have worked here in different capacities for six years — I've been manager and [booked] music for three years — and he is definitely our favorite."
Page contends that he's not partisan or bipartisan, but "nonpartisan," even when he's delivering a Ron Paul marching song or a jeremiad on the Fed.
"There will always be injustices to fight against, but this is a rare time to have something positive to fight for," he says.
When Campaign for Liberty organized an after-party for the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2010, with Page as entertainment, Cox was on a bus with 35 people en route to the event when a young woman started singing one of Page's songs. Soon the whole bus was singing "Liberty."
"He's got a sense of humor, and he's not scared to speak his mind," Cox says, "and that's what people appreciate. The music industry has become monotonous and full of garbage: Whether it's rap or rock or whatever it is, it's just about having a good hook to stick in people's heads. The stuff Jordan writes is about real modern-day issues."
Cox says the appeal of Page's music goes beyond politics — "He's phenomenal on guitar: He can play the hell out of some Pink Floyd."
Dylan is the predecessor who means the most to Page. His "Song for Bob Dylan" contains the plea, "well hey hey, Bob Dylan, we need you today / because the freedom we fight and we die for is sailing away." Page denies any contradiction between his advocacy for Paul and his reverence for the singer-songwriter who became a seminal voice for the counterculture. Dylan's attacks on militarism in songs like "Masters of War" jibe with libertarian ideology.
"I believe the Left-Right paradigm is a false paradigm," Page says. "There's not any difference between Democrats and Republicans: They act exactly the same."
He laughs and explains: "When Obama ran for president on things like ending the Patriot Act and stopping the wars, I was excited about it. When he was elected, I was afraid that I was not going to be relevant. But even then, part of me knew better."


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It seems to be catching. But after all, this is the second Elizabethan age so harking back to the golden age of English theatre shouldn't be surprising. Sam Wannermaker's Globe Theatre in London has proved a great success and now it's the turn of the North of England.
Dame Judi Dench, Shakespearean actor and movie star, won awards for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the movie Shakespeare in Love. After the actors and crew had packed up and gone home she was given the set of the film as a gift. The oak timbers have been stored in a warehouse since it was dismantled after the completion of the filming and now she is exploring the possibility of turning the set into a Shakespeare centre in York, the city of her birth.
Dame Judi wants to see the set turned into a full-scale replica of the Rose theatre, which stood close to the Globe on the south bank of the Thames and was also used by Shakespeare. The actress has donated the set to the touring British Shakespeare Company to use as a permanent Shakespeare centre in the north of England.
There has been a long-standing campaign for recognition of Shakespeare's northern links, after suggestions that the Bard fled to Lancashire after prosecution at Stratford-upon-Avon for poaching deer.
This will certainly be a good start.


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I found an excuse to refer to John Fogerty and his Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Proud Mary" a couple weeks ago in connection with the headline on a New York Post column by Mac Owens. I referred to the song as "great," which was too much for John Hinderaker. He entered a brief dissent:
Familiar, yes. Beloved by bands who play at wedding receptions, yes. Less annoying in CCR's original version than in Tina Turner's cover, true. But "great"? Uh-uh.
The issue raised here is important, but of course there's no arguing with taste. Ike and Tina Turner may in fact have ruined the song, or at least made it so familiar in an atrocious version that it's difficult to hear with fresh ears. I only wanted to add a few notes on the subject before leaving it.
Creedence Clearwater was a blue-collar Bay area band anchored by brothers Tom and John Fogerty. They paid their dues touring for nine years in various incarnations of the band that became Creedence before "Proud Mary" hit paydirt for them in January 1969. ("Proud Mary" was backed with "Born on the Bayou," another great rootsy song sounding like it had been retrieved from an archive somewhere in the Louisiana swampland.) In the heyday of the hippie ethos and radical chic, Fogerty ingeniously formulated a downriver idyll of freedom and benevolence at the heart of America.
The song of course struck a chord with its allusion to Huckleberry Finn. Here is part of one paragraph of Huck Finn from chapter 7 that virtually encapsulates the book as well as the spirit of "Proud Mary":
I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float. I laid there, and had a good rest and a smoke out of my pipe, looking away into the sky; not a cloud in it. The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before. And how far a body can hear on the water such nights! I heard people talking at the ferry landing. I heard what they said, too — every word of it. One man said it was getting towards the long days and the short nights now. T'other one said this warn't one of the short ones, he reckoned — and then they laughed, and he said it over again, and they laughed again; then they waked up another fellow and told him, and laughed, but he didn't laugh; he ripped out something brisk, and said let him alone. The first fellow said he 'lowed to tell it to his old woman — she would think it was pretty good; but he said that warn't nothing to some things he had said in his time. I heard one man say it was nearly three o'clock, and he hoped daylight wouldn't wait more than about a week longer. After that the talk got further and further away, and I couldn't make out the words any more; but I could hear the mumble, and now and then a laugh, too, but it seemed a long ways off.
A bad joke heard at a distance, repeated over and over, then simply the sound of muffled laughter, while Huck floats down the middle of the river lying on his back with daybreak approaching…it doesn't get any better than that.
"Proud Mary" opened the door for the remarkable string of beautifully crafted hit singles Creedence then reeled off, all written by Fogerty: "Bad Moon Rising" b/w "Lodi," "Green River" b/w "Commotion," "Down on the Corner" b/w "Fortunate Son," "Travelin' Band" b/w "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Up Around the Bend" b/w "Run Through the Jungle," "Lookin' Out My Back Door" b/w "Long As I Can See the Light," "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" b/w "Hey Tonight," and "Sweet Hitchiker." At the end of the road, appropriately enough, was "Someday Never Comes."
The striking thing about this string of hits is how dominated they are by metaphorical expressions of foreboding and populist, chip-on-the shoulder bitterness punctuated by the occasional idyll, but with hardly a girl in sight. That's a tough act to pull off in pop music; I can't think of a body of work quite like it. I find myself sympathetic to Fogerty's foreboding, his resentments, his daydreams — foremost among them, "Proud Mary.


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Family Tech: One Family Upgrades Their Technology Lifestyle
A family's technology overhaul makes music, movies, and gaming easier and more fun.
When it comes to technology, the Ericsons are hardly behind the times. Between them, this family of four (mom Tina and dad Adam, both 46, son Sean, 13, and daughter Ingrid, 10) owns three computers, three TVs, an iPad, and an Xbox 360 — plus, everybody has their own smartphone. Even so, they felt pretty clueless. "When it comes to entertainment stuff, we have no idea what we're doing," says Tina, a marketing consultant and publisher. She and Adam, a stay-at-home father, yearned for a simple, streamlined system that would be easy to maintain and make their home a cool place to hang out. What's more, a certain DVD incident left the couple wondering how much their haphazard ways were really costing them.
Dreaming of Streaming
The Ericsons were partying like it was 1999 — DVDs galore, a pricey cable package, and a teenager parked on the couch by a game console. Adam also maintains a massive CD collection. Clearly his passion for music has rubbed off on the kids — Sean often rocks out on the guitar, and Ingrid loves to sing. Dinner parties at the Ericsons' always involve a customized playlist. But the family room was the only place in the house wired for sound, and managing all the CDs was a drag.
Movie nights were equally aggravating — not to mention potentially budget-busting. "We recently forgot to return a DVD we rented for Ingrid at Redbox," admits Adam. "By the time we saw the $80 charge on our credit card, it was too late to do anything about it." The playroom, where the Xbox lives, had become Sean's domain. Tina worried he was "spending too much time on the sofa shooting things." In other words, adjustments were in order. Some new equipment and strategies could make music, movies, and gaming less work and more fun.
Music to Their Ears
The Ericsons already had broadband Internet access and a wireless network. However, the aging router was upstairs in the playroom, a long way from the family room. It worked well enough to connect a laptop to the Internet for a quick e-mail check or to look something up, but lagged noticeably when playing video. Streaming music and movies was the goal. The first step was a network upgrade with Belkin's video-streaming optimized AC 1800 DB Wi-Fi Dual-Band AC+ Gigabit Router (belkin.com, $180). The unit is specifically designed to stream video and music to all parts of a larger house. But since the signal had to travel through two bedrooms and down a flight of stairs, a Belkin Universal Wireless AV Adapter ($100), which connects directly to the music or video player to further boost the signal, was warranted. Once a reliable signal was in place, streaming music was a question of the right equipment. The answer was a wireless music system.
The Sonos Wireless HiFi System taps a home network and wirelessly streams music to any room with a Sonos unit, effortlessly finding tunes stored on computers and delivering Internet music services such as Rhapsody, Pandora, Spotify, and SiriusXM to the stereo. Attach the Sonos Bridge transmitter (sonos.com,$49) to the new wireless router, plug a Sonos Connect receiver ($349) into the stereo in the family room, and place a Sonos Play:3 ($299) — a compact stand-alone player — in the master bedroom. (To do this most cost-effectively if you don't have a stereo, start with the Bridge and the Play:3, then add units over time.) Setting everything up required an easy installation on Adam's laptop, then downloading the free Sonos controller app to everyone's smartphone and Tina's little-used iPad.
The Ericsons started experimenting with Internet-based subscription music service Rhapsody (rhapsody.com, $10 a month for a premier account after a 14-day free trial) so they could experience unlimited music streaming. To search for a specific song, album, or artist, they could access the Rhapsody library right from the Sonos app. The only downside was that within minutes, Sean and Ingrid waged the first of many music wars, using the app on their phones to switch back and forth between Led Zeppelin and Taylor Swift.
A Hollywood Ending
Tackling the movie-viewing situation was next. Enter the Roku (roku.com, from $50), a hockey-puck-size gizmo specifically for video streaming. Within minutes of connecting it to the Ericsons' TV and wireless network, there was an embarrassment of riches — old movies on Netflix, new releases via Amazon Instant Video, and last night's TV episodes on Hulu Plus, one of more than 750 channels accessible through Roku. Everything was just a click — and sometimes a few bucks in rental fees — away. Tina quickly decided to sign up for Amazon Prime to gain access to thousands of movies and TV shows on demand, plus free two-day shipping on anything she buys at Amazon, for $79 a year after a 30-day free trial. She is starting to ponder ditching cable, since they have so much content at their fingertips.
Meanwhile, 13-year-old Sean was psyched to see a Kinect for Xbox 360 (xbox.com, $110) in the playroom. Within minutes of installing it, he and Ingrid were arguing over who would go first. The Kinect, sensing there were two of them, instantly switched to two-player mode, and a rousing game of Kinect Adventures was soon under way. To make the room a place for everyone, Adam and Tina will try working out using Nike+ Kinect Training. Initially Sean was miffed that "his" game room was, well, no longer just his, but he got over it. (Being in awe of the Kinect helped.) Tina and Adam were relieved and happy to see Sean up off the couch, exercising more than his thumbs and playing games that require interaction with his sister. "The upgrades are awesome," says Adam. "We were stuck in our old ways for too long and had no idea how easy everything could be!" Tina agrees. "This is so much better."
Originally published in the May 2013 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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David is from Reefton, New Zealand.
David and his partner Sarah have a three-year-old, with another expected to arrive early in 2014.
David has spent all his life in rural New Zealand enjoying the outdoors lifestyle working as a electrician, in various industries.
While working in Port Nelson, in 1999, he was introduced to Greenpeace and shortly after joined the Greenpeace ship 'Rainbow Warrior' as an electrical engineer. He has worked on countless campaigns whilst sailing for the past 13 years, some of which with his partner Sarah. He always returned to his land of birth, and to the lifestyle and family he enjoys. He is a committed activist. This is David's fourth journey to the Arctic aboard the Arctic Sunrise. He is one of the most learned and experienced of her crew.


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Richard E. Goff Partner, Saginaw Office
Presented before an informal group of small-business owners, Wichita, Kansas-December 1974
"You can't live with inflation" is the complaint of a current television commercial. Gold, silver, antiques, art objects and the like are being touted in sophisticated forums as the only reliable protection against inflation. Certainly, for most investors, the stock market has not proved to be a successful hedge against the loss of capital. However, ownership of a well-managed business can be a very productive investment in an inflationary economy. The following remarks explore briefly the opportunities that management has to optimize performance in the present market place.
First, let us consider cash flow. We must minimize the time between fixing the selling price and reapplying the sales proceeds. While the selling effort is being made, costs are rising; while we hold the receivable or the cash, purchasing power is declining. Second, we must maintain liquidity in order to preserve assets and avoid excessive financing costs. This will require effective forecasting, both short-term and in capital budgeting. Finally, we must hold to a minimum the tax bite extracted from the capital we can preserve.
Establishment of prices in advance of sale and delivery may be necessary in a business, but it results in considerable risk unless costs are fixed or very predictable. Fixed-price contracts may not be practical in periods of high inflation. Where sales are made through catalogs produced annually, or even semiannually, perhaps prices should not be included but furnished periodically
as supplements. During my experience in Brazil I observed many companies that quoted prices only at the point of sale or that revised price lists monthly or more often if necessary.
Selling prices that produce a reasonable margin based on actual cost of the inventory may not be adequate in relation to the cost of replacing that inventory. In the fifties this deficiency resulted in the demise of many small lumber companies which cut their stumpage into lumber and sold it at prices that were inadequate to finance the purchase of additional timber.
Ideally, the price should be fixed when the cash is collected. This generally is not feasible, but the period of exposure should be minimized.


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The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes
Attendees at the 20th Anniversary Australian Museum Eureka Prizes Award Dinner share their thoughts about the evening.
The Australian Musuem Eureka Prizes are Australia's premier and most comprehensive national science awards for research into critical environmental and sustainability issues facing Australia. From a humble beginning in 1990 of just 3 prizes, the AMEP have grown into a globally unique national award program for scientific research, science communication and school science having awarded over 400 prizes over the past 20 years.
This year's dinner has just passed (18th August) and here's what a range of people had to say:
Thank you for a most memorable evening. I had a wonderful time and arrived back safely last night. My school is extremely proud of our science dept and this recognition is tremendous for our community. This Eureka Moment will last a lifetime! Thank you again. [Prize winner]
Thanks to the Australian Museum for hosting and supporting a night which supports science in such a diverse and eclectic way – from people working in interdisciplinary teams, photography and journalism, to those making real cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs. It was just fantastic. [Prize winner]
Many thanks for the invitation – it was an interesting crowd to mix with, and I can tell you that my knowledge of both fish fossils and the ways in which sea eagles dismember fruit bats has grown exponentially! [Dinner attendee]
The whole evening was as slick as… (even though those lamps on the tables may not have been perfectly aligned). It was another great night and I must admit I was a little surprised at just how really good it looked with all those penguin suits filling the space. Well done. And I am looking forward (without being too presumptuous) to my invitation for next year's dinner already. [Dinner attendee]
I really did enjoy it and I love being able to help people enjoy the night. I just think you guys did such a magnificent job and it sure shows how professional WE ALL are. Quite a team I'd say! [Staff volunteer]
And finally,
I'd just like to add my congratulations to the long list of happy guests. Thank you so much for inviting me and for arranging such a friendly table. I had a great night and it was a treat to catch up with so many of the Eureka regulars. You did a wonderful job and the presentation was impressive. I hope you're all going to have a most relaxing and personally indulgent weekend! [Dinner attendee. And to answer that I won't be having a relaxing weekend - I have a family do of 30 people to host!]


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Nagaoka Neighborhoods • Nagaoka Station
Nagaoka Station Pictures
Some pictures around the Nagaoka train station.
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Neighborhoods Nearby Nagaoka Station - Pictures by Parent
Nagaoka Station Neighborhood by Parent. A few pics of the downtown area of Nagaoka city taken on February 6th, 2006. Those taken within the train station itself were taken in November,.. Distance from Nagaoka Station: 0km E, 21 pictures.
Shinano River Neighborhood by Parent. Some pictures of the Shinano Gawa (river) and the residential area around.. Distance from Nagaoka Station: 1.1km W, 25 pictures.
Nagaoka Castle Neighborhood by Parent. Nagaoka is the castle-city of the Niigata prefecture. The castle here is a complete reconstruction including the stone.. Distance from Nagaoka Station: 2.9km SE, 20 pictures.
JUSCO Neighborhood by Parent. A few pics of the 'JUSCO' neighborhood -- i.e., the second downtown of Nagaoka city located west of the Shinano river nearby the JUSCO department.. Distance from Nagaoka Station: 2.9km NWW, 13 pictures.
Power Mall Neighborhood by Parent. A few pictures taken when going shopping in Nagaoka. This is a typical shopping center of Japan, a bit similar to ubiquitous power malls of the.. Distance from Nagaoka Station: 3.2km W, 16 pictures.
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Brian Simmons is one of the two best horseshoe pitchers in the world. Without giving too much away about the story, he's overcome a lot to reach that status.
Brian Simmons does not like the clay at this year's World Horseshoe Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn. It's powdery, slippery. Even the non-horseshoe pitchers can tell this, because the bleachers in the convention center, where the tournament is being held, are coated in a light gray dust and the concrete floor has gotten more slick with each passing day. The clay dust gets on Simmons's shoes and then the shoes slip out of his hand. It's supposed to be Kentucky Blue Clay but that is hard to believe. More like Kentucky Synthetic, one man says. It makes it damn hard to pitch a horseshoe with the accuracy normally attributed to a man like Simmons.
This is what Simmons is thinking about as he stares down a 14-inch tall stake. He is thinking about the slippery clay, and how he might adjust his release point, and as these thoughts slip into his brain, he has lost without even pitching the shoe.
Also, I have been throwing horseshoes wrong all these years.


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Chicago's own Emperors and Elephants is a hard driving modern heavy rock band in the vein of Alice in chains, Shinedown, and Seether.
Formed in 2010, they have been gathering great momentum in Chicago and its surrounding area. Their song "Your Will" has been featured on Chicago area active rock stations 105.5 The KAT and WIIL Rock. The track gained so much attention from WIIL rock listeners that they were invited to play an on air performance.
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I guess if I were a "professional" blogger I would have written this post three months ago, but as it stands I'm lucky to blog anything at all. I miss you guys.
Well. Ahem. Verklempt. Anyway, I spend a lot of time on the 'bay (we're close like that) shopping for clients and maybe probably definitely OCD shopping for myself. I learn a lot about what's interesting or desirable or unique by looking at ebay. It's a completely uncurated onslaught of mostly junk, but also some seriously amazing finds you won't see or be able to afford elsewhere. As a result of my compulsive shopping, I've amassed a watch list that must be pruned like a delicate bonsai on an almost daily basis. Part of that pruning process involves you, my friends. Vintage is my thing, but there are some fresh picks in here too. Everything is either dirt cheap or extremely well priced for what it is. I hope you enjoy.
Can we talk about how striking that art is? It's a vintage serigraph (screenprint) by Carmen Herrera and I so wish Pantone had gone with something more in that vein for the Pantone color of the year.
Gorgeous vintage French copper mirrored sconces/ Carmen Herrera Rojo y Negro art/ Vintage modernist necklace/ Vintage Stark 8x10 carpet/ Donghia fabric.
This is all about chillaxing with neutrals grounded in solid graphics. Nothing too crazy here, but you might wonder how you ever lived without these anchor pieces.
Vintage modernist painting/ Large brass Stilnovo style sputnik chandelier/ Kelly Wearstler Barcelo pillow ($12!!!!!!!)/ 8x10 Tibetan hand knotted rug/ Sascha Brastoff surf ballet teapot.
Animal print. If you follow me on instagram then you know I really do have a problem. But I loves it all the same.
Kelly Wearstler Barcelo pillow in alabaster/ Tibetan tiger rug/ Psychedelic Roy Ahlgren serigraph (that means some person hand printed this)/ Large cheap lucite ribbon chandelier (why am I not buying this again?!)/ Pierre Frey panther fabric.
Hi, I love the 80s. And the 40s. Basically I love statement pieces that pull your hair out and demand attention.
Vintage French sconces/ 40s Italian miniature volcano paintings (bigger is not always better)/ Op art screenprint by Leviant/ Contemporary Tibetan hand knotted rug.
So there you have the tippy top of the iceberg that is my watch list. Ebay and craigslist posts are not good blog fodder. They are terrible for SEO because there is no one to link to. It's dirty, thankless work. Nobody gives you a high five for pimping their page/blog/stuff. The links expire.
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I know I'm a nobody, but I do have one tiny suggestion as a regular reader of this site. Is it possible to "streamline" the "General Discussion-The age of media fakery" section? The only reason I even bring this up is because when ANYTHING takes front stage in the media, the first thing I do is come here to read; however, that being said, taking Boston for example, I never know which section of general discussion it is located. It could be in "London, Madrid, Oslo and other faked terror events" because it's a fake terror event, or it could be in "Worldwide media deceptions" because I am sure that story was pumped around the world, or it could be in "general world affairs" because it is conceivably a general world affair, or, it can be in "Local psyops - and minor media scams", where it (justifiably so) is now.
Maybe have some kind of timeline, so the Sandy Hook hoax analysis can be easily viewed in the "2012" section, or the Colorado shooting hoax can be easily viewed in the "2011" section etc?
Thinking along those lines, maybe a geographic breakout, followed by a subsequent chronological breakout?
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GREENWOOD, S.C. - Phillip Brown scored 26 points as Georgia Southwestern dominated the first half and cruised to a 68-52 victory over Lenoir-Rhyne University in the first round of the Bearcat Holiday Classic Thursday night at Finis Horne Arena on the campus of Lander University.
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EYES ON LONDON: Ring my bells and melting pavement
LONDON (AP) -- Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:
What are the odds of a UFO sighting during the opening ceremony? Or of the final torch bearer tripping as they ascend to light the flame? Or would you prefer a more traditional wager on who will win gold? London betting houses are offering odds on almost anything and the industry expects to handle a record 100 million pounds ($155 million) in wagers over the next three weeks or so. Will aliens make an appearance on Friday night? You can get odds of 1,000 to 1 on that. Do they know something we don't?
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You know something major is happening when you hear this: For the first time since the funeral of King George VI in 1952, Big Ben is temporarily changing its tune to celebrate the start of the Olympics. For three minutes, starting at 8:12 a.m. (0712 GMT) on Friday, the famous bell at the British Parliament will ring more than 40 times.
People across the country are being urged to join in the fun, ringing doorbells and bicycle bells as loudly as possible.
The melody will even stretch to Antarctica, with British researchers ready to ring.
--Ian Phillips -- Twitter http://twitter.com/phillipsian
How hot is it in London right now?
Seems parts of the pavement outside Olympic Stadium are melting, and crews are out there to repair cracks before the foot traffic arrives en masse.
Warned one worker: If anyone in high heels comes around, there are going to be problems.
--Rob Harris -- Twitter http://twitter.com/robharris
In Istanbul, Turkey, the Turkish women's basketball team got a strong sendoff to its first Olympics. With music blaring and 70 members of the hotel staff cheering and waving Turkish flags, the team boarded a bus to the airport. Turkey qualified for its first Olympics by finishing in the top four at the final qualifying tournament.
"That's pretty cool. They might surprise some teams in London. They are pretty talented." says U.S. basketball player Diana Taurasi, who watched the sendoff as she headed to practice.
--Doug Feinberg -- Twitter http://twitter.com/dfeinberg
Beach volleyball will be what people flock to see at London's Horse Guards Parade landmark once the Olympics begin, but right now it is very much business as usual.
London is all about tradition, and at 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday is the changing of the guard at Horse Guards Arch.
Wojtek Delik, a 28-year-old restaurant worker from Poland, was watching the ceremony for the very first time with friends Tuesday.
"I think it's quite cool, you can see modern times mixed with old times so it's quite good, in London, in a big city like this," he says.
Household troops, typically dressed in red tunics and bearskins, have been guarding the Sovereign and Royal Palaces since 1660.
--Fergus Bell -- Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb
It's never too early to get a look at the competition.
At gymnastics training, Russian coach Alexander Alexandrov stood in the doorway watching the US women vault. He got quite a show, too, as the Americans landed one Amanar -- one of the toughest vaults you'll see in the women's competition and the Americans' biggest advantage -- after another.
--Nancy Armour -- Twitter http://twitter.com/nrarmour
Danny Boyle has let 60,000 people in on the secrets of his Olympic opening ceremony -- and then begged them to keep the information to themselves.
Tens of thousands of spectators who attended a technical rehearsal for Friday's ceremony entered the stadium to be greeted by signs imploring them to "Save the Surprise." Boyle, the Academy Award-winning director of "Slumdog Millionaire," addressed the crowd with a personal plea not to blab, for the sake of future viewers and the 10,000 volunteer performers who have been working on the spectacle for months.
Many details have already leaked out out of the ceremony, titled "Isles of Wonder" and inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and by two centuries of British history and culture.
And Boyle left some gaps in Monday's run-through where extra-secret segments will appear on Friday.
Most of those who saw the show seem to be keeping mum. Many tweeted enthusiastically, but vaguely, about the contents of the show, which mixes grand spectacle with British humor and irreverence.
Many of the spectators streaming out of the stadium afterward said they had been wowed --even those who had been skeptical at first.
--Jill Lawless -- Twitter http://twitter.com/JillLawless
The Aussie team's chief says the Brits might just do a better job than the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Nick Green tells Australian reporters Tuesday that in his opinion London 2012 will be "the best Olympics ever." The predominantly Australian media responded with mock shock.
Australia's games 12 years ago have until now been considered among the best. But, says Green, "London's learned a lot out of Sydney ... my view is it'll be the best ever."
--Gerald Imray -- Twitter http://twitter.com/GeraldImrayAP
Olympic fever hasn't swept through all of Britain -- at least not yet.
Most people in Edinburgh, Scotland, are focused on the upcoming Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, an annual festival and demonstration that takes place on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. But that doesn't mean there wasn't a cheer inside pubs such as Maggie Dickinson's on Grassmarket on Monday when Edinburgh's own cycling star Sir Chris Hoy -- already Scotland's most successful Olympian -- was chosen to carry the British flag for the Opening Ceremony.
Hoy won his first Olympic gold at the Athens Games, but cemented his legacy in Beijing, where he became the first Brit to win three gold medals in a single Olympics since Henry Taylor in 1908. Hoy was chosen to carry the Union Jack at the Closing Ceremony in 2008, and will now carry it for the Opening Ceremony on Friday after a vote of the 542 members of the British team. Hoy will be trying to defend his gold medals in the keirin and the team sprint when the track cycling program begins.
Just how popular is Hoy in Scotland? The Scottish National Velodrome being built for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will be named in his honor.
--Dave Skretta -- Twitter http://twitter.com/APdaveskretta
The British government has just announced it is deploying an extra 1,200 more troops to protect Olympic venues. There's no indication that the step was taken as a result of any specific threat.
British troops stepped in earlier this month after the private security company hired to protect the games failed to hire the number of guards it promised.
--Danica Kirka -- Twitter http://twitter.com/danicakirka
Only boring, mean people can be a part of the Olympic Games. That goes for athletes, volunteers, journalists -- everybody.
Don't believe it? Just look at those bulky credentials around everyone's necks.
The International Olympic Committee requires that mug shots have a completely colorless facial expression. They say it's needed for security purposes, but it sure makes us all look miserable -- or worse.
U.S. women's soccer player Sydney Leroux put it best when she tweeted a photo of her credential. She said: "I look like I would burn down your house."
--Joseph White -- Twitter http://twitter.com/JGWhiteAP
So where will the Olympics flame burn? Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal says the ruby-red sculpture that towers over London's Olympic Stadium is not the cauldron that will hold the ceremonial flame. Mittal had floated the idea, but plans arrived too late for consideration.
The lighting of the cauldron is always a big moment for the Olympics, and organizers usually withhold details to ensure drama. But usually there is some structure -- somewhere -- that hints where the flame will burn.
Suspicion had long fallen on the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, but Mittal says the tower is art, not a fire vessel for the games that start Friday.
--Danica Kirka -- Twitter http://twitter.com/danicakirka
AP's Joseph White reports in from Scotland:
Yes, I'm at the Olympics -- but I'm some 400 miles (640 kilometers) from center stage.
Glasgow is hosting some of the soccer matches but the Scottish city doesn't have much of an Olympic vibe. In London, one can hardly walk 20 feet without spotting a special Olympic traffic lane or a billboard or some sort of notice; in Glasgow, there is a lonely sign at the main train station telling fans where to queue to catch the subway to historic Hampden Park, plus some Olympic-themed banners lining the streets.
The action starts with a pair of women's matches Wednesday -- two days before the opening ceremony in London -- and the locals have given away thousands of tickets to schools and other youth so the 52,000-seat stadium won't feel so empty.
The two cities can't even agree on the weather.
London had a beautiful sunny day Monday, while Glasgow was so wet and dreary that the U.S. women's team had to take their team photo in the stadium's VIP seats instead of on the field to stay dry. Tuesday in Glasgow, however, is sunnier.
--Joseph White -- Twitter http://twitter.com/JGWhiteAP
Kati Elliott has got a nail for you.
The 20-year-old manicurist can paint 240 different designs -- all versions of national flags -- at the P&G Salon in the Olympic media village. The company has similar salons in the athletes village and in central London at the US Olympic family home, where they cater to athletes' moms.
On a recent day, Kati was sporting designs for Great Britain, Sao Tome and Principe, USA, Myanmar and South Africa, all on one hand. The most complicated design? She thinks it's the U.S. Virgin Islands, which packs an eagle, state colors and a shield all into one nail.
--Sheila Norman-Culp -- Twitter http://twitter.com/snormanculp
From AP's Fergus Bell, a Londoner:
At 8:47 a.m. the Olympic Torch passed along the route near my house, and I was able to experience the torch relay as it was meant to be experienced. And what is that, precisely?
Hundreds of excited men, women and children lined the residential suburban streets. Next came the huge police presence: I counted at least six police motorcycles before I caught a glimpse of the procession.
One poor woman innocently reversed out of her driveway at the wrong moment and was promptly surrounded. The police were good-natured; with three days left, they've probably seen it all.
Then you see the runner. Well, not quite.
First you have at least three buses representing various Olympic sponsors adorned with toned promotional staff cheering about the runner behind. When members of the crowd do finally catch a glimpse of the runner decked out in the official white torch relay uniform, they rush in, cameras out, as they cheer and shriek.
And then it's over. In moments, it's all gone. The cheers echo down the street as everyone disperses, each carrying a big grin.
--Fergus Bell -- Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb
Talk about a water trap.
U.S. PGA Tour players Sergio Garcia and Dustin Johnson previewed golf's inclusion at the 2016 Olympics by hitting purple balls toward a floating green on London's River Thames in late evening sunshine.
The tee box was on a barge and the floating green bobbed under the giant Olympic rings on the historic bridge. Using lob wedges, Garcia got three of his five shots on the bright green artificial turf island from around 75 yards while Johnson got two -- or maybe it was three.
The pair struggled to see where those little magenta balls -- the official color of the London Olympics -- landed. Curious Londoners peered over the edge of the bridge in bright evening sunshine to see what was going on. Some waved flags.
Golf will be included at the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, returning for the first time since 1904.
Said Garcia just before the stunt on the choppy water: "Courses usually don't move this much, but it's definitely going to be fun."
--Gerald Imray -- Twitter http://twitter.com/GeraldImrayAP
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. – With a combined 22 strikeouts and 23 hits, baseball got back on the winning track in a big way as they pulled out a pair of one-run victories first defeating Concordia University (Wis.) and McDaniel College (Pa.) by the finals of 5-4 and 7-6 Wednesday afternoon at the Winter Haven Sports Complex.
The two victories improved the Beacons overall record to 3-5, with only one game remaining in their spring trip. Concordia University fell to 0-1, while McDaniel dropped to 7-3 after Wednesday's losses.
Leading the way in game one for the Beacons was Will Barrack (Lancaster, Va.) who tied the program record for strikeouts in a game with 16. UMB's bullpen would combine for 19 K's in the win, which also set a new single game program record, breaking the original mark of 17 set in 2006. At the dish, the UMB bats came alive in a big way as they put-up nine hits to drive in their five runs.
Gerard Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) was the fuel behind the Beacons bats as he went 3-for-5 with an RBI. The designated hitter was solid in all of his appearances at the plate as he made every pitcher that he faced work extremely hard.
Concordia managed to strike first in Wednesday's opener with a pair of runs in the second. UMass put a run up on the scoreboard in the fourth, but Concordia responded right back with a run of their own in the bottom half of the same inning. The Beacons took control of the game in the fifth scoring three runs to make it 4-3. They put their final run on the board in the sixth to cap-off a solid middle third. Concordia got their final run in the bottom of the eighth, but with a save by Matt Dziok (Southampton, Mass.), the Beacons were able to end their four-game skid in a big way.
In the nightcap, it was Kyle Szatrowski (Agawam, Mass.) who once again dominated the hill as the sophomore recorded his second win of the year after going all nine innings. The lefty struckout three batters and showed tremendous control of his pitches despite hitting a few bumps along the way. The UMB defense which was solid in the first game, struggled at key points in the nightcap, which allowed McDaniel to get on the scoreboard.
However the red hot UMB bats continued to pound the ball all over the diamond. Led by Nick Brothers (Fort Myers, Fla.) who had a career day the Beacons offense continued to fire on all cylinders and battled back every time the Green Terror managed a run of their own. Kurtis White (Nahant, Mass.) also helped to fuel the Beacons win as he went 3-for-4 with three RBI, while Brothers went 4-for-5 with two runs scored.
Matt Consiglio (Southbury, Conn.) also had a strong day offensively as the senior infielder finished 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Just like the opener the opposition would tack on the first runs of the game, scoring a pair in the top half of the third. They would then put-up three more in an error filled fifth to make it a five run ball game.
Despite falling into the five-run hole, the Beacons battled right back in the bottom half of the fifth to tie the game at 5-5. McDaniel would tack on their sixth run of the afternoon in the top of the sixth, but would be quickly countered by a two-run bottom of the sixth by the Beacons.
After taking the one run lead the Beacons turned to Szatrowski to close out the final three innings. Having to overcome some near costly errors, the Beacons recorded two huge double plays at crucial points to keep the Green Terror at-bay. The final 6-4-3 double play would seal the victory for UMB in the top of the ninth.
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AJ Allmendinger taking small steps in IndyCar debut
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — AJ Allmendinger walked to the dais after his first full day of IndyCar practice and accidentally knocked over a chair.
"I wrecked it," he quipped. "At least it wasn't the car."
Everything is a small victory for Allmendinger in this part-time return to open-wheel racing.
ALLMENDINGER:Getting comfortable in IndyCar
He's been given a second chance by Roger Penske after the team owner was forced last summer to fire Allmendinger from his NASCAR organization because of a failed random drug test.
Only Penske's opportunity for Allmendinger is in the IndyCar Series, where Allmendinger will make his debut Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park alongside Penske teammates Helio Castroneves and Will Power, the only two winners in the series' three previous visits to Barber.
PENSKE:Sticks by his drivers through it all
It's a warm-up for next month's Indianapolis 500 because it's been more than six years since Allmendinger, a five-time winner in his final season in Champ Car in 2006, has driven an open-wheel car competitively. The nerves definitely set in when he arrived Friday at the picturesque 17-turn, 2.38-mile permanent road course.
"I thought I was going to throw up," he said.
Allmendinger was then interrupted by Castroneves, his Brazilian teammate, "What was the word you used?" he asked.
"Queasy?" Allmendinger replied.
"Yeah, queasy. I learned a new word," Castroneves said.
But Allmendinger said there's a reason for the nerves.
"There's realistic expectations that I hold for myself, then there's expectations that I hope," he said. "Yes, I'd love to go out there and win the race, but realistically, that is a lofty goal to try to have. But at the same time, I don't want to waste Roger's time. I don't want to waste (sponsor) Izod's time, or anyone who is working on this race car. Or, Helio and Will's time trying to help me out.
"I want to go out there and at least be competitive and be right in the fold of it. As that happens, kind of see how the races play out and get used to that. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous."
Allmendinger ended up OK by the end of the day. He finished eighth on the final speed chart, getting around the course in 1 minute, 8.9119 seconds. Castroneves led the day at 1:08.5540.
For Allmendinger, it's all about getting used to the feel of the car and the pace of the weekend. Neither is coming easy.
"After seven years I kind of hoped it was kind of like riding a bike, and coming back I would get on it and learn how to do it again," he said. "Kinda of feels like a unicycle right now. I'm still like hanging on and trying to figure out what I am doing out there. It's not like seven years ago where it all comes naturally. It is a lot of work."
He's also stymied by the difference in a track weekend schedule between NASCAR and IndyCar.
In NASCAR, especially the Sprint Cup Series, the teams get considerable track time all weekend to prepare for the race. IndyCar had just 105 minutes of practice over two sessions Friday and another 30 minutes on Saturday morning before qualifying.
"It surprised me when I saw the schedule just how little time that you get once you get here," he said. "It's so funny, on the Cup side of it, you have a set day of it. Friday you work on qualifying. Saturday you work on race setup and Sunday you go race. Here, obviously you are working on speed, but there isn't a lot of time to work on race setup. So I think it is just the process of going through the weekend, figuring out how the weekend goes and how we use our tires, what we are working on.
"So far, I felt like the first day was good."