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World Cup Soccer Ball Knitting PatternSunday, June 11th, 2006
Tags: Finished Projects, Patterns by Me, Soccer Ball
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This pattern is great for people who have little time to do anything. It's knit in pieces, with each panel (a pentagon or hexagon) created individually. Just pick up a few stitches, knit a panel, and put it away. It's all very laid-back, and great for people with short attention spans. It is the "Garfield the Cat" of knitting patterns.
In total, you'll have to make 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Don't worry, though, each one takes about ten minutes, tops! It uses up less than a ball of yarn for each colour so it's a perfect stash-buster, and if you knit it in your national colours, it's patriotic, too!
Slightly smaller than a regulation soccer ball
The pentagons are usually black and the hexagons white. I did the opposite because I am a culture jammer. (Just kidding.) You can pretty much do whatever you want. I'll be putting together different colour schemes for each country in the World Cup tonight, so keep your computer tuned to this blog for my posting of each colour scheme.
2 or 3 balls of worsted weight yarn, depending on your colour scheme. Allow one ball for each colour you use. If you plan to play with the soccer ball, make it a washable yarn; probably acrylic.
5mm double-pointed needles
place markers
tapestry needle
stuffing or inflatable beach ball
28 stitches and 36 rows to 4 inches.
Pattern Notes:
The complexity of this pattern is in keeping track of where to put the pentagons and hexagons. It's really easy if you just remember that making a soccer ball is like making lots of little daisies. Some daisies will share petals (the hexagons), but you'll never see two pentagons side-by-side.
I found it easier to pick up stitches and add panels straight onto the ball than to make them all individually and seam them together. If you just want to stitch it all together, more power to ya; it's easier to block that way, but remember that you'll be blocking 32 individual pieces.
The following diagram is a rough guide to constructing your ball. The coloured lines mean the edges are meant to connect.
Continue as above, keeping to the rule that every pentagon is loosely encircled by five other pentagons.
To make a Pentagon:
Cast on 25 stitches using a Twisted German cast on, a long tail cast on (or any other stiff cast on) and join in the round.
Row 1: * K3, K2tog, place marker, repeat from * until end of row.
Rows 2 – 4: * Knit until 2 stitches before marker, K2tog, pm, repeat from * until end of row.
Feed yarn through remaining stitches (there should be 5 of them) and tie off.
To make a Hexagon:
Cast on 30 stitches and join in the round.
The instructions for the hexagon are exactly the same as for the pentagon, except you'll be doing everything 6 times per row instead of 5 times per row.
Row 1: * K3, K2tog, place marker, repeat from * until end of row.
Rows 2 – 4: * Knit until 2 stitches before marker, K2tog, pm, repeat from * until end of row.
To bind off, feed your yarn through the remaining stitches (there should be 6 of them this time) and tie off.
Picking up stitches:
If you don't want to knit, block and sew together 32 panels (like me), you can pick up stitches from previous panels and build onto them. I usually made a ring of 5 hexagons and then picked up 25 stitches from the ring in the middle to complete the "daisy." All you have to keep in mind is that there are 5 stitches to a side, so if you're adding a hexagon to the side of another, cast on 25 stitches and then pick up 5 stitches to make 30 stitches in total. If you're adding a hexagon onto two side-by-side hexagons, cast on 20 stitches and then pick up 5 stitches from each hexagon. If you're adding a hexagon between two hexagons, it gets a bit complicated; cast on 15 stitches, pick up 5 from the first hexagon (carrying the tail along behind the work), cast on 5 more stitches, and then pick up a final 5 stitches to make 30 in total.
When you're one or two panels away from finishing, the stuffing / blocking begins. If you're going to stuff your ball, shove a few rags into it and stretch it to however large you want it. Dampen it and let it dry. If you want to actually play soccer with it, you can put in a small inflatable beach ball or some sort of expensive soccer ball bladder, but I have no idea about those.
So you have access to the nipple (hee hee) of the beach ball, knit the last panel (a pentagon in this case) like so:
Pick up or cast on 25 stitches.
Row 1: * K3, K2tog, place marker, repeat from * until end of row.
Rows 2 – 3: * Knit until 2 stitches before marker, K2tog, pm, repeat from * until end of row.
Cast off tightly. The nipple will just poke out. If you want, you can slip the nipple cover under and through the cast-off edge to hold it in place. Inflate the ball, dampen it and let dry.
Your soccer ball is done! Great job!
For more info: here's a cool page where you can find out more about soccer ball construction, in case I did a horrible job of explaining it all.


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Derek Jeter delivered a single on the first pitch he saw in his season debut with the New York Yankees, helping the club rally for an 8-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday afternoon in the Bronx.
Jeter, who missed eight months after breaking an ankle in the playoffs last season, batted second in the lineup as the designated hitter. He reached base in the first inning on an infield hit, moved to third base on a single by Robinson Cano and scored on Vernon Wells' sacrifice fly.
Jeter drove in Luis Cruz with a groundout to shortstop in the sixth inning. Jeter also grounded out to third base in the second inning and to second base in the fifth to advance Ichiro Suzuki from second to third.
The Yankees' captain, who was replaced by pinch-hitter Brett Gardner in the eighth inning, had just been activated from the 60-day disabled list after playing four games in the minors to complete his rehabilitation assignment.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – After serving as an assistant coach with new Hornets head coach Bunky Harkleroad at Glenville State, Kim Stephens has joined the Sacramento State women's basketball coaching staff.
"I couldn't be more excited to be here and work with players of this caliber," Stephens said. "It's been a dream of mine to be a Div. I coach and I'm so happy to continue to coach the system that I believe in."
Stephens played for Harkleroad for three seasons before joining the Glenville State staff last year, giving her familiarity with the non-traditional playing style both as a player learning the system and as a coach teaching it.
"I was on the team that coach took over so I know what its like to have to learn it," She said. "It helps me convey what we will expect from them. When they learn that we're going to dictate tempo and how the game is going to be played we're going to be a team that people will be scared of."
Stephens helped with all aspects of the women's basketball program as the lone assistant coach at Glenville State, including strength and conditioning, on-court skill development, and recruiting. She also served as the team's travel coordinator and was its academic liaison.
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Stephens was a team captain for the 2010-11 Glenville State team won the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. She was also named the WVIAC Student-Athlete of the Year for Glenville State that season and academically made the WVIAC Commissioner's Honor Roll as a junior and senior.
Prior to joining Harkleroad's staff at Glenville State, Stephens was a graduate assistant coach at Ohio Valley University where she earned a master's degree in education. She also has experience as an AAU coach and as a camp counselor in basketball camps at Glenville State and the Future & Elite Sports Center.
A native of Parkersburg, W. Va., Stephens graduated from Glenville State in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in sports management with a minor in psychology. She earned her master's in education from Ohio Valley in 2012 and is also a certified personal trainer through the International Sports Sciences Association.


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More Problems With The FTC's New Disclosure Rules: Free Speech And Liability Problems
from the disclose-everything deptI've already noted my general problems the FTC's new disclosure rules, but as others look into the details, the worse they seem and the more you realize the unintended consequences may be pretty bad. Jeff Jarvis makes some key points concerning how this could be seen as a restriction on free speech. And that's because the FTC seems to be viewing blog posts as if they are media, rather than straightforward communication. As we've pointed out in the past, for many, blogging is often no different than a conversation. It's not journalism. It's not reporting. It's having a discussion with people:
Second, the FTC assumes -- as media people do -- that the internet is a medium. It's not. It's a place where people talk. Most people who blog, as Pew found in a survey a few years ago, don't think they are doing anything remotely connected to journalism. I imagine that virtually no one on Facebook thinks they're making media. They're connecting. They're talking. So for the FTC to go after bloggers and social media -- as they explicitly do -- is the same as sending a government goon into Denny's to listen to the conversations in the corner booth and demand that you disclose that your Uncle Vinnie owns the pizzeria whose product you just endorsed.As such, you could make a case that the new rules are an unconstitutional law hindering First Amendment guarantees on freedom of speech. As I noted originally, it seems like these things get sorted out in the marketplace of ideas -- whereby those who do something so stupid as to sell their "views" on things face the potential of a substantial loss in credibility. But suddenly demanding people reveal the sourcing of some product they mention in blogs leads to all sorts of silly results, amusingly mocked by Mark Cuban in a blog post, where he wonders what sorts of disclosures he'll have to make if he mentions a breakfast at IHOP where the managers comps the breakfast. And while he's mocking the overall situation, it's not so silly. You shouldn't have to confer with your lawyers to figure out how you mention any particular product, just because you got a freebie or a sample somewhere.
And, what's really scary? It appears that even the FTC isn't sure what the policy actually means, and hasn't thought through any of the unintended consequences or fuzzy borders.
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Despite tons of feedback and discussion when the FTC first proposed these new rules a few months ago, it really feels like no one at the FTC put much time into actually thinking through what these sorts of rules would actually mean in the real world.
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Students and staff at Southington High School held an informal event on Monday to thank the American Legion Auxiliary, which has funded the purchase of $1,800 worth of new books for the school's library.
The donation was for a "reluctant readers" program proposed by literacy specialist Jen Paul. The funding was used to purchase copies of "high-interest" books which explored teen issues like bullying, gang violence and eating disorders.
"My class has really loved these books and they are great tools for teaching," Paul said.
During the event in the library, numerous students spoke to members of the Auxiliary about their experiences of reading these books. Some also shared poems they had written.
Seniors Justin Rose and Eli Grenier spoke together at the podium. Both had read books about youth delinquency and gangs.
"It was a different kind of book," Rose said. "It made me want to keep reading."
Freshman Angel Mange said the novel "Ryker's High" had given him a scary insight into life at a juvenile detention hall.
"If you didn't donate that book, I wouldn't have found out what that was like," he said.
The donation was made possible by the success of the Auxiliary's book donation program. Residents are invited to drop off used books in large boxes which are sold to the Massachusetts-based Got Books, Inc. The Auxiliary has been using the funds raised by these sales to give back to the community.
The original drop-off box for the books is located near the YMCA, but a large response from the town made it possible for another one to be added on the Southington Drive-In property.
"The one behind the YMCA fills up every two weeks," said Auxiliary member Rachel Wache. "We needed a new one and I wanted to catch the flow of traffic on Meriden-Waterbury Road."
The group endorsed Paul's proposal for the "high-interest" books during the last school year but was not initially sure if they had raised enough to fund it. Wache said that on the very last day of school in June, they realized it would be possible.
Months later, students have been able to read the books and the "reluctant readers" program is considered a success.
"The kids have been inspired and that's really terrific," said Auxiliary member Cindy Kopzca.


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This article about donors who want to give colleges money with strings attached, published in Bloomberg Markets and splashed across a full page of the Sunday Washington Post, leads with the story of former BB&T chairman John Allison's campaign to get the books and ideas of Ayn Rand into college classrooms and is lavishly decorated with big photographs of Rand.
Most of the story is actually about much less titillating demands — donors who variously want a say in hiring the next football coach, a change in the school's tuition policy, a rejection of money from other donors. But apparently editors know that Ayn Rand's name can bring in the readers. So they act in their rational self‐interest and put her name on the cover and her picture at the top of the page.
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Brad Pitt is now on China's version of Twitter, and his first enigmatic tweet drew thousands of comments. Just as mysteriously, it later disappeared.
The actor's verified Sina Weibo account sent the message Monday: "It is the truth. Yup, I'm coming." That was forwarded more than 31,000 times and netted over 14,000 comments, many expressing surprise. He gathered more than 100,000 followers.
But by Tuesday morning the tweet had disappeared, and a standard message read "He hasn't tweeted yet." The number of his followers kept growing, however.
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It was unclear whether the deletion was the work of Pitt and his PR team or Chinese censors. Chinese censors regularly delete tweets and even accounts that they deem sensitive. The government requires Sina and other Internet companies to do this in-house at their own cost, under threat of fines and shutdowns if they fail.
A request for comment from Pitt's manager was not immediately answered.
The IMDb.com movie website says Pitt was banned from ever entering China because of his role in the 1997 "Seven Years in Tibet." The government was upset about the film's portrayal of harsh Chinese rule in Tibet. His later film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" with Angelina Jolie was popular in China.
Pop and movie stars use Weibo as a way to connect with the giant Chinese market. To get a certified account overseas celebrities have to submit copies of their ID and job evidence among other documents.
Tom Cruise joined Sina Weibo in 2011 and now has over 5 million followers.
Former NBA star Stephon Marbury who now plays for China's professional basketball league is prolific on Weibo and has over 779,000 followers.


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A preliminary search of the Tsarnaev brothers' cell phones and computers finds no indication that the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers had any accomplice in the bombing, a counterterrorism source briefed on the FBI's investigation told NBC News.
The investigation continues, but FBI officials right now are increasingly confident that "nobody else was involved," according to the source.
Surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had earlier told investigators that he and his brother read instructions on how to build bombs from the al-Qaida online English-language magazine Inspire, federal law enforcement officials told NBC News.
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The magazine has twice included articles on how to build pressure cooker bombs, the same type that was used in the twin Boston Marathon attack that killed three people and wounded hundreds more, according to NBC News.
The 19-year-old's older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, U.S. officials said Tuesday, adding another piece to the body of evidence they say suggests the pair were motivated by an anti-American, radical version of Islam.
As he lay in his hospital bed with a gunshot wound to the throat, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged on Monday with carrying out the bombing with Tamerlan, who died last week in a gunbattle. Tsarnaev could get the death penalty.
Interrogators questioned him at the hospital, letting him write down his replies, and his answers led them to believe he and his brother were motivated by religious extremism but appeared to have no major terrorist group connections, said U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
However, the written communication precluded back-and-forth exchanges often crucial to establishing key facts, officials said. They warned that they were still trying to verify what Tsarnaev told them and were poring over his telephone and online communications.
On Tuesday, two officials told The Associated Press the older brother frequently looked at extremist sites, including Inspire which is produced by al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate and has endorsed lone-wolf terror attacks.
Also Tuesday, family, friends and colleagues gathered to pay their final respects to Sean Collier, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who authorities say was ambushed and killed by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. And a private funeral was held for 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest of the three people killed in the bombing. In a statement, the boy's family called it "the most difficult week of our lives."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose condition was upgraded Tuesday from serious to fair, was charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth student was accused of joining with his brother in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 260 on April 15.
The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who had been living in the U.S. for about a decade.
The next step in the legal process against Tsarnaev is likely to be an indictment, to which federal prosecutors could add new charges. State prosecutors have said they expect to charge Tsarnaev separately in the killing of the MIT officer.
Federal public defender Miriam Conrad, whose office has been asked to represent Tsarnaev, asked that two death penalty lawyers be appointed to represent Tsarnaev, "given the magnitude of this case."
A probable cause hearing — at which prosecutors will spell out the basics of their case — was set for May 30. According to a clerk's notes of Monday's proceedings in the hospital, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler indicated she was satisfied that Tsarnaev was "alert and able to respond to the charges."
Tsarnaev did not speak during the proceeding, except to answer "no" when he was asked if he could afford his own lawyer. He nodded when asked if he was able to answer some questions and whether he understood his rights.
Conrad declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press.
The criminal complaint outlining the allegations shed no light on the motive for the attack.
In the criminal complaint, investigators said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother each placed a knapsack containing a bomb in the crowd near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race. The FBI said surveillance-camera footage showed Dzhokhar manipulating his cellphone and lifting it to his ear just moments before the two blasts.
After the first blast, a block away from Dzhokhar, "virtually every head turns to the east ... and stares in that direction in apparent bewilderment and alarm," the complaint says. But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, unlike practically everyone else around him, appeared calm, the FBI said.
He then quickly walked away, leaving a knapsack on the ground; about 10 seconds later, a bomb blew up at the spot where he had been standing, the FBI said.
The FBI did not say whether he was using his cellphone to detonate one or both of the bombs or whether he was talking to someone.
Among the details in the affidavit:
— Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had gunshot wounds to the head, neck, legs and hands when he was captured hiding out in a boat in a backyard in the Boston suburb of Watertown, authorities said.
— One of the brothers — it wasn't clear which one — told a carjacking victim during their getaway attempt: "Did you hear about the Boston explosion? I did that."
— The FBI said it searched Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth on Sunday and found BBs as well as a white hat and dark jacket that look like those worn by one of the suspected bombers in the surveillance photos the FBI released a few days after the attack.


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Minnis and his team look to build off a successful 2013 campaign (photo courtsey: Justine Agaloos).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's water polo team's 2013 season gets underway with a trip to Villanova, Pa., for the Villanova Invitational. The Crimson is slated to face the Wildcats at 10 a.m., before returning to the water to take on the Gaels at 1 p.m.
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The Ivy League Digital Network will stream each of the Crimson's three home events at Blodgett Pool this season. All the games during the Crossover Event (Feb. 22-23), the Harvard Invite (March 7-9) and Divisions (April 12-13) will be streamed. Subscribers to the network can watch matches both live and on-demand at their convenience, and will have access to live and on-demand content for all home Harvard athletic events throughout the duration of their subscription
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Last season, Harvard became the first team since the 2000-02 run to post three consecutive winning seasons with an 18-16 overall record and 3-3 mark in the regular season CWPA Southern Division games. The Crimson placed third in both the CWPA Southern Division regular season and the postseason tournament. Harvard advanced to the CWPA Eastern Championships and placed sixth, tied for the fifth-best finish in program history.
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Harvard is testing a live stat program known as Fosh for its first game of the season against Villanova at 10 a.m. The program was developed by Ryan Sosin, Harvard's director of operations, and provides fans with a more statistical view of the game, including a look at play-by-play, a scoring summary and goaltending and exclusion stats. While still hovering around the developmental stage, Harvard aims to continue the innovative trend with Fosh moving forward.
Guess Who's Back
The Crimson returns nine members of the 2013 squad highlighted by second team All-CWPA Southern Division performers Yoshi Andersen and Ariel Dukes. Andersen tallied 61 goals, 42 assists and 54 steals, while Dukes was solid in between the pipes recording 246 saves. Shayna Price (76 goal, 33 assists, 39 steals), Charlotte Hendrix (71 goal, 42 assists, 57 steals), Victoria Frager (30 goal, 37 assists, 43 steals) and Jelena Cyr (18 goal, 11 assists, 18 steals) will each play a contributing role in the pool this season.
Fresh Faces
Harvard welcomes seven newcomers to its roster for the upcoming season. Melissa Balding, Alexis Del Toro, Jillian Dukes, Michelle Martinelli, Eela Nagaraj, Zoe Osborne and Emily Wang form the class of 2017. The rookies are composed of four student-athletes from California, while one calls Florida home, one hails from Connecticut, and one is a native of Alberta, Canada.
Related Link: Women's Water Polo Adds Six in Class of 2017
Senior Price and junior Ariel Dukes will serve as co-captains for the 2014 season. Price and Dukes were key components of the Crimson's highly successfully 2013 campaign.
Related Link: Price and Dukes Named Women's Water Polo Captains for 2013-14
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Ted Minnis enters his fourth season as the Friends of Harvard Water Polo Head Coach. He owns a career record of 52-43 (.547) while at Harvard. Minnis is joined by assistant coach Jessi Wood.
Scouting Villanova
Villanova kicks off its 2014 season this weekend with matches against CAMO, Harvard and George Washington. The Wildcats ended its 2013 season with an 8-29 overall record and a trip to the MAAC Championships, where the Wildcats fell to Wagnewr, 13-3. Villanova returns 13 plays from last season's roster, while welcoming four newcomers for the team.
All-Time Against Villanova
Harvard and Villanova will meet for the 22nd time in program history. The Crimson owns a dominating 19-2 record against the Wildcats, winning the previous 16 meetings between the two teams.
Scouting Iona
Iona enters the weekend looking to notch its first win of the 2014 season dropping its first two games at the Michigan Kick-off Event Jan. 18-19. Iona fell to No. 15 Indiana, 17-9, and No. 13 Michigan, 15-6. The Gaels are led by a trio of seniors. Erika Lauraitis and Amy Olsen combined for seven goals across the two games while Marissa Gaynor finished the weekend with 16 saves.
All-Time Against Iona
Harvard holds an 11-4 advantage over Iona. In 2013, the Crimson and Gaels split the two matchups with Harvard edging Iona Feb. 2, 2013 before the Crimson dropped a 17-14 decision Feb. 23, 2013.
Looking Ahead
The Crimson will hit the road to Princeton, N.J., next weekend Feb. 8-9 for the Princeton Invite. Harvard will face Virginia Military Institution, Iona and Wagner across the two-day event.


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For well over half a century political scientists have promoted the idea of electoral realignments or critical elections. Popularized by the likes of V.O. Key, the idea is that every 32 or 36 years electoral currents shift radically to favor one party or the other. Roughly speaking, the critical elections have been 1800 (Jefferson and the emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican), 1828 (Jacksonian Democracy), 1860 (the Lincoln Republicans), 1896 (McKinley and the dominance of the GOP), 1932 (FDR and the New Deal), and 1968 (Nixon and the New Right). According to this theory, we are overdue for a critical election. Some assumed Barack Obama's 2008 victory marked such a shift. John Judis and Ruy Teixeira argued back in 2002 in The Emerging Democratic Majority that demographic trends favored the Democrats, and that the party would be ascendant for the foreseeable future.
David Mayhew wrote the definitive rebuttal to the realignment school of thought. Mayhew dug deep into the electoral data and showed that political scientists had overvalued demographic trends and missed subtle clues that completely contradicted the critical election theory.
Sean Trende builds upon Mayhew and also rebuts realignment theory in The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government is Up for Grabs – and Who Will Take It. Trende looks back at electoral data dating into the 19th century and argues that those who advocate on behalf of realignment theory conveniently ignore elections that do not quite fit in with their neat picture. For example, if the 1896 election began a period of Republican dominance, what happened in the 1910s? To argue that Wilson's election in 1912 was a fluke ignores the fact that Democrats had won control of the House in 1910, and had done quite well until World War I shifted the electorate back towards the Republicans. Trende also points out that the McKinley-Roosevelt-Taft GOP was a different beast than the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover GOP, as the party had become much more conservative.
Trende's most startling argument – and one which the data certainly supports – is that the New Deal coalition did not flame out in the 1960s; rather, the New Deal coalition was dead as early as 1938. Southern Democrats had tolerated FDR's early New Deal program, but his advocacy of greater government intervention pushed the southern Democrats away. Though Democrats retained nominal control of Congress for much of this period, Republicans and conservative Democrats had an effective majority.
Along these same lines, Trende postulates that if any real realignment occurred, it took place during the Eisenhower administration. The Eisenhower coalition, as he puts it, pushed the GOP to decisive victories in seven of nine presidential elections. Moreover, the solid Democratic south began shifting towards the Republican party at this point. In fact the south's gradual shift towards the GOP had begun as early as the 1920s, but the Depression halted Republican advances here. Once the New Deal had ramped up, the Republicans again began making inroads. Republicans began being truly competitive in presidential elections during the 1950s, then started making inroads in Congressional races in the 1970s and 80s, and are finally now the dominant party on the local level.
Trende's thesis effectively destroys the notion that Republicans only began being competitive in the south once Nixon deployed the "southern strategy" to woo racist southerners after the Civil Rights Act. As already mentioned, the GOP vote share in the south had been incrementally creeping up in the 1930s, with GOP vote shares moving out of the 15-20% range and inching up towards parity slowly and surely. In fact the GOP vote share in the south did not noticeably increase during the 1960s, but instead crept up in the same incremental 1-2% annual range. Where Republicans really started making dents were with younger southern voters, as older southerners continued to cling to the Democratic party even though the national party's values no longer matched their own. Considering that younger voters tended to have much more liberal racial views, the transformation of the south into a Republican stronghold has to be explained by something other than racial matters.
Even though Trende doesn't come right out and say this, if anything the changing electoral map can just as easily be explained by the Democrats pursuing a northern strategy. As the Democrats began appealing to elite northern voters by pushing a more liberal agenda, this drove southerners and midwesterners away from the party. This trend would continue until Bill Clinton pursued a much different strategy, crafting his agenda to appeal to suburbanites and middle income whites. Clinton and the New Democrats were able to rip into Republican strongholds by advancing a more moderate platform. The end of the Cold War, as well as the rise of the Evangelical right, fractured the Eisenhower coalition, allowing the Democrats to win presidential elections.
But the Democrats do not have a stranglehold on the electorate themselves. First of all, their coalition is an uneasy one, consisting of discordant demographic groups (upper-class and working-class whites, for instance) that have potentially conflicting interests. And despite their ability to attract large chunks of the minority vote at the current moment, Trends believes that pundits are mistaken in their belief that Democrats will continue to perform at their current rate among these different groups for decades to come. For example, Latinos vote more like whites as they advance economically. Though middle class Latinos still vote more Democratic than do their white counterparts, as they assimilate they do tend to vote more Republican. It is for this reason that he dismisses arguments advanced by those who claim that exit polls actually over-represent GOP-leaning Latinos. These individuals point out that since Republicans win around 20% of the vote in precincts that are almost wholly Latino, it is inconceivable that Republicans could be claiming 35-40 percent of the Latino vote. But these communities tend to be among the poorer ones, and therefore there is nothing incongruous with wider GOP support from Latinos living in more affluent and mixed neighborhoods.
Trende also notes that the signs of the collapse of a Democratic majority were already apparent in the 2008 election. Obama's electoral majority was actually fairly weak considering the state of the economy and widespread disapproval of George Bush. Moreover, the Democratic Congressional majority, as large as it was, was helped by Democratic over-performance in Republican-leaning districts. When Obama pursued what was largely considered to be a very liberal agenda, this pushed those Republican-leaning districts back into the GOP fold. Finally, the state of the economy at the time of the 2010 mid-terms cannot explain in full the size of the Republican victory that night, as most models based on the economy suggested a slightly more moderate Republican victory.
In general, Trende believes that prognosticators put entirely too much stock into economic performance. Though the state of the economy certainly plays a role in elections, it hardly tells the whole story. In fact most recent national elections have gone against economy-based projections. There are too many variables at play to simply base electoral projections on the unemployment rate and GDP growth.
Long story short, Trende thinks that electoral fatalism (ie. the idea that we are headed towards a period of one-party dominance) is mis-placed. Events will always transpire that will alter the electorate one way or the other. With that being said, upcoming elections are truly up for grabs.


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The Tome of Ideas, a collaboration between writer and developer Michael J. Winegar and over 20 professional authors, hopes to be that repository. The book, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, is a collection of story prompts, adventure outlines, and full color artwork. From the Kickstarter page:
Tome of Ideas is part genre encyclopedia, part RPG book, part writing prompt collection, and part inspirational art book. It is designed as a resource for writers looking for their next story, game masters looking for their next adventure, or anyone who simply wants to sit down and send their imagination on a journey into speculative fiction.
The idea of a "book of plots" isn't a new one. We've taken multiple looks at Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters. I was a huge fan of Dungeon Delve, which was heavily geared toward the tactical combat encounters of the 4th Edition D&D system, but was a boon for unprepared DMs. The Tome of Ideas is unique in that it explores over ten different gaming and fiction genres, including fantasy, horror, mystery, science fiction, and even modern stories.
Confirmed contributors include Mur Lafferty, Ari Marmell, Charles Tan, and Kevin J. Anderson.
So if your RPG sessions are feeling a little lackluster, consider backing the The Tome of Ideas on Kickstarter and bring some fresh creativity to the gaming table. There's even a free 12 page preview of the book available for download.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Australia were on Thursday, fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its 16-run win over Sir Lanka in the third and final ODI of the best-of-three finals of the tri-series here.
Chris Broad of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed the fines after Australia were ruled to be one over short of its target when time allowances were taken into consideration.
In accordance with the ICC Code of Conduct regulations governing minor over-rate offences, players are fined 10 per cent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time, with the captain fined double that amount.
As such, Australia's stand-in captain Shane Watson was fined 20 per cent of his match fee while his players received 10-per-cent fines.
If Watson is found guilty of one more minor over-rate offence in ODIs over the next 12 months, he will receive a one-match suspension as per the provisions of the ICC Code of Conduct.
The offence is contrary to Article 2.5.1 of the code which relates to minor over-rate offences.


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This Black Friday, to the tech-aware go the spoils.
Retailers are trying to lure shoppers away from the Internet, where they have increasingly been shopping to avoid Black Friday madness, and back to the stores. The bait is technological tools that will make shopping on the busiest day of the year a little more sane — and give shoppers an edge over their competition.
Those with smartphones in hand will get better planning tools, prices and parking spots. Walmart has a map that shows shoppers exactly where the top Black Friday specials can be found. A Mall of America Twitter feed gives advice on traffic and gifts, and the Macy's app sends special deals for every five minutes a shopper stays in a store.
"The crazy mad rush to camp out and the crazy mad rush to hit the doorbusters have really made people think, 'I'm just going to stay home on Black Friday,' " said Carey Rossi, editor in chief of ConsumerSearch.com, a review site. "This is going to invite some people back and say, 'You know what? It doesn't have to be that crazy.' "
Part of the retailers' strategy is to slap back at online stores like Amazon.com, which last year used apps to pick off shoppers as they browsed in physical stores. But the stores are also recognizing that shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving need not require an overnight wait in line, a helmet and elbow pads. A smartphone gives shoppers enough of an edge.
"This takes away that frantic Black Friday anxiety," said Lawrence Fong, co-founder of BuyVia, an app that sends people price alerts and promotions. "While there's a sport to it, life's a little too short."
Denise Fouts, 45, who works repairing fire and water damage in Chandler, Ariz., was already using apps, including Shopkick, Target's app and one called Black Friday, before Thanksgiving to prepare for Black Friday. "There still are going to be the crowds, but at least I already know ahead of time what I'm going specifically for," Ms. Fouts said.
Last week, Macy's released an update to its app with about 300 Black Friday specials and their location. In the Herald Square store, for instance, the $49.99 cashmere sweater specials will be in the Broadway side of the fifth-floor women's department.
"With the speed that people are shopping with on Black Friday, they need to be really efficient about how they're spending their time," said Jennifer Kasper, group vice president for digital media at Macy's.
When shoppers keep the app open, Macy's will start sending special deals to the phone every five minutes. The deals are not advertised elsewhere.
Walmart has had an app for several years, but recently introduced an in-store mode, which shows things like the current circular or food tastings when a shopper is near a certain location. Twelve percent of Walmart's mobile revenue now comes from when a person is inside a store.
For Black Friday, the app will have a map of each store, with the precise location of the top sale items — so planners can determine the best way to run. "The blitz items are not where you think they would be, because for traffic reasons, maybe the hot game console is in the lawn and garden center," said Gibu Thomas, senior vice president for mobile and digital for Walmart Global eCommerce.
Target is also testing a way-finding feature on its app at stores that include some in Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. If a shopper types in an item, the app will give its location.
Other app makers are betting that shoppers want apps that pull in information from many stores.
RedLaser, an eBay app, lets shoppers use their phones to compare prices and recently started using location data to give shoppers personalized promotions when they walk into stores, including items not on store shelves at Best Buy, for instance. RetailMeNot, which offers e-commerce coupons, now has offline coupons that will pop up on users' cellphones when they step near 500 malls on Black Friday.
"Consumers are not going to download 40 different apps for 40 different stores," said Cyriac Roeding, co-founder of Shopkick, a location-based app that gives shoppers points, redeemable for perks, when they walk into stores or scan certain items.
For Black Friday, Shopkick is publishing what it calls a little black book with the top doorbusters. Shoppers will earn extra points and rewards for shopping on Black Friday.
Adding an app that provides rewards or discounts to the mix gives offline retailers a defense against Amazon, Mr. Roeding said. And the technology use has become mainstream: Shopkick's average user is a 27-year-old mother in the Midwest.
At Westfield, which has 47 malls nationwide, a new app lets people search by product, to see which stores in the mall carry it and what their prices are. The app provides turn-by-turn walking directions, voice search for questions like the location of the nearest restroom, and Black Friday promotions.
"Shoppers are creatures of habit and don't necessarily want to try new ways, but if we expose them to new stores or ways to get there, that's well received," said Alan Cohen, executive vice president for marketing at Westfield.
There are also plenty of deals-based apps for the shopping frenzy, including a Black Friday app by BradsDeals, TGI Black Friday and the BFAds.net Black Friday app.
BradsDeals.com has published deals online for 11 years but first offered an app last year, when 250,000 people used it. This year, about 50 percent more people are downloading it, said Brad Wilson, founder of BradsDeals.
The apps make shoppers smarter — and saner, Mr. Wilson said. His advice this year is to use apps to plan ahead of time. Then, once you shop, check apps to see if new deals are available or you can find sold-out elsewhere.
Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minn., is focusing its technology on areas that particularly frustrate shoppers — like parking and finding gifts for relatives.
On the mobile app, people will be able to look at a parking map color-coded by how full that parking area is. If people text the name of their parking level, the mall texts back telling them which door to exit from so they can find their cars after shopping. The @mallofamerica Twitter handle, which has two extra people answering queries this year, will also post traffic advice and answer questions like, "Is there a Panda Express here?" or "What should I buy my 5-year-old niece?"


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Matthew Stafford has won no playoff games, no divisional titles and has a career won/lost record of 24-37 as a starter in the NFL—a winning percentage of under .400.
Yet the Lions are apparently involving their quarterback in the team's coaching search.
Stafford reportedly sat in on the Lions' interview of Jim Caldwell last week. This should cause great consternation among Lions fans.
Stafford no more belongs in the interview room as I do. Or as you do. Or as your uncle does, or as your uncle's barber.
The inclusion of Stafford, regardless that he's the Lions' franchise QB, sends up more red flags than a Russian parade.
First, Stafford isn't Tom Brady. Or Peyton Manning. Or Drew Brees—all veteran quarterbacks steeped in experience, knowledge, and championships.
And even the above guys haven't been part of a coaching interview process, that anyone knows about.
The inclusion of Stafford makes one wonder what has been pumped into his head since becoming a Lion in 2009.
It raises questions about what level of culpability management holds Stafford regarding all the losing that's been going on.
Stafford, more than any other player, was responsible for the Lions' collapse this season. His turnover-prone play torpedoed the Lions' playoff chances, when the team went 1-6 down the stretch.
A cynic could say that the Lions are merely giving Stafford hiring power to go along with the firing power he already has, as his play got Jim Schwartz canned.
But seriously, folks, this is a slippery slope the Lions are going down.
Caldwell, for his part, was well-prepared for his interview with the Lions. He supposedly watched every single pass that Stafford threw in 2013, and the former Colts head coach came armed with suggestions of how to improve Stafford's mechanics.
That still doesn't justify having Stafford sit in on Caldwell's interview.
This has tail-wagging-the-dog written all over it, and raises serious questions about the treatment of Stafford versus the other 52 men on the roster.
So does this mean that Stafford will be included in every coaching interview? Why stop with Caldwell? Or better yet, why start with Caldwell?
Another disturbing thing occurred regarding Stafford. It came shortly after the 2013 season ended with a thud.
Stafford was asked about whether he'd be open to working with a "quarterback guru" or some such person in the off-season.
Stafford demurred.
"It's not something that I feel would be my style or beneficial to me," he said.
That's not his style? It wouldn't be beneficial?
It's not his style to be the best quarterback that he can be? Even Tiger Woods has a swing coach, for goodness sake.
It all makes me wonder how much Stafford is being coddled by the people upstairs. How much he isn't being challenged.
It also makes me wonder whether the change in culture needed with the Lions should have ended with just changing the head coach.
The Lions don't need Matthew Stafford's approval before they hire a new coach. They don't even need him to like the new guy.
The new coach ought to be hired based on what management thinks, and Stafford will just need to deal with it.
This inclusion of Stafford in the interview process is pretty much unprecedented, and with good reason.
The coach coaches. The players play.
How many employees get a say as to who their new boss is going to be?
And from a candidate's perspective, it's tough enough to impress the brass in an interview, without having to wow the quarterback as well.
It's fair now to be concerned about how much influence Stafford has around the Lions, and whether he is being held as accountable as he should for the monkey shines that are going on.
The inclusion of the quarterback in coaching interviews and his resistance to quarterback specialists because it's "not my style", ought to baffle folks and make them curious as to how Stafford has been bred since the Lions drafted him no. 1 overall in 2009.


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The Ethanol Craze Begins
The 60 Minutes story, "The Ethanol Solution: Could Corn-Based Fuel Help End America's Dependence On Imported Oil?", also focused on Brazil's booming Ethanol frenzy, but also on American ingenuity. Their story featured a small town no one has every heard of (no one except maybe its 300 residents), Steamboat Rock, Iowa. About a year ago things got so desperate in this farming community that a few residents put their heads together and decided to invest in and build an Ethanol production plant. It converted the corn that they were unable to sell into Ethanol, a product that they believe is the future oil of America. The good folks of Steamboat Rock and many other farmers believe that Ethanol might be the answer they have been looking for to stabilize a declining agricultural economy.
Additionally, both reports looked at Flex-Fuel cars, produced mostly by American car companies GM and Ford, which are highly successful in Brazil. Both companies have pledged to up their production of the cars -- which run on gas, ethanol, or a mixture of the two called E-85 -- in the next year. Today these cars make up only 5 million of the approximate 130+ million cars on America's roads. But the American car companies hope that an Ethanol boom might mean that millions more of their cars find their way to the road in the next few years, healing an ailing American automotive market.
So, what does all this mean for America? Well, this could be a perfect storm for the American economy and the country in general. Were America to aggressively pursue this alternative fuel source, many predict that within 15 years America could be energy independent, even as Brazil has in that same amount of time. Though relatively few cars today are Flex-fuel, any car can be retrofitted to use both E-85 and Ethanol. Add to that Khosla startling revelation that with the advancing technology, prairie grass, leftover wood pulp, and orange peels could be potential producers of ethanol, leading him to predict fuel prices could drop as low as $0.70/gallon using these techniques. Fuel prices that low would inevitably open up travel, increase tourism dollars, and fuel an economy already hindered only by oil prices. And without a dependence on foreign oil, OPEC countries would no longer be in a position to make demands of the U.S., and we would no longer worry that we are indirectly supporting terrorist efforts.
What should the Christian take be on this? Well, I think we should be supportive of any effort that provides jobs for low income families, brings economic development back to rural areas and farming communities, and produces less greenhouse gases which will undoubtedly make our air and water quality better. But we must beware of any utopian fantasies and realize that no technological breakthroughs can suppress evil or bring salvation. Ethanol may indeed bring needed relief to America, but without repentance and revival nothing will save the soul of this country.


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Blacksmith Michael Schmidt, Age 21
1850 St. Louis
This document follows the 1845 List of Passengers from New Orleans posted last Wednesday showing my Great-Grandfather Michael Smith (several spelling variants), age 16, arriving in America from France destined for Missouri.
Arrion (my daughter) located an 1850 (dated 14 Aug) U.S. Census record for 5th Ward St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Missouri, with Michael Schmidt, 21, Blacksmith, born in France, in the home of Blacksmith Phillip Langenboker, $2000 Real Estate owned, 28, with his wife, Sophia, 24 (both born Germany), and son, Phillip, born in Missouri. Also in the household in addition to Michael were 3 other 20-something young men (a Blacksmith, a Wagonmaster, a Stone Cutter) from Germany and a 20-year old female, also born in Germany.
Eleven or so years later (5 Sep 1961), Michael enlisted in the Union Army from Davenport, Iowa, as a farrier (blacksmith) and served in that capacity for 3+ years with the 2nd Regiment, Iowa Cavalry.
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