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Around 50,000 people so far have reportedly successfully enrolled in a private health insurance plan via HealthCare.gov, according to the Wall Street Journal and CBS News' confirmation from industry analysts.
Combined with the reported enrollment data from state-run Obamacare marketplaces, the enrollment levels in the new health insurance programs appear, so far, to fall well below the Obama administration's expectations.
According to a September memo, the administration initially anticipated that nearly 500,000 people would sign up for a private insurance plan on the new marketplaces by the end of October, after one month of open enrollment. The open enrollment lasts through March, by which point the administration expected to have 7 million enrolled.
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"We cannot confirm these numbers," Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in a statement to CBS News. "More generally, we have always anticipated that initial enrollment numbers would be low and increase over time... And, as we have said, the problems with the website will cause the numbers to be lower than initially anticipated."
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The botched HealthCare.gov rollout continues to draw scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C. -- who is up for re-election in 2014 -- is circulating a letter among her colleagues that asks the administration for a full investigation into the website's launch, her office confirms to CBS News.


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Forty-four years after Stonewall, 'it's a whole different world'
When the cops arrived to raid the Stonewall Inn on the night of June 27, 1969, David Velasco Bermudez headed for the exits, but he couldn't make his way through the crowded bar before getting hit in the neck by a policewoman swinging a billy club.
But then Bermudez, who at 29 had learned to submit to routine beatings by New York City police, did something different: He fought back, and so did his friends.
"We never, ever hit back," said Bermudez, now 73, a retired interior designer now living in Cape Cod, Mass. "But we had just had enough of it. . . . It's like Rosa Parks sitting inside a bus. We just did it."
Gays and lesbians have been fighting ever since.
On Wednesday, just one day shy of the 44th anniversary of the raid that launched the gay rights movement, the battle hit a crescendo when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that marriage is no longer the sole domain of straight couples.
"Oh, my God, it's a whole different world," said Bermudez, who called the change "mindboggling."
While the court also said gay marriages could resume in California, it did nothing to change the gay marriage bans still in effect in 30 states. But legal experts said that the court's rulings mark an irreversible step toward making gay marriage the law of the land.
Jesse Choper, a professor of public law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, called it part of the "egalitarian revolution" that has been growing in the United States.
"There's a great increase in liberal attitudes, and it's not just California. And efforts to stop it are being rejected," said Choper. "It's just a public attitude: Equality is viewed with much greater sympathy, and not only in race."
In the end, the call for "marriage equality" proved to be a powerful strategy for gays and lesbians, many of whom were no longer satisfied with state-sanctioned civil unions and domestic partnerships.
They found increased sympathy as they put a spotlight on the differences in their relationships: Even in states with gay marriage laws, they had no access to the 1,138 federal rights granted to straight couples, including big tax advantages.
When the high court heard arguments in March, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took note of the disparity, saying the U.S. had created two kinds of marriage: "the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage."
After the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, gay couples who are legally married in states that allow gay marriage will not be shut out of federal rights and benefits.
"They'll now get federal benefits and it will add to the momentum of the cause around the country," said Dale Carpenter, a professor of civil rights and civil liberties law at the University of Minnesota. "It will add to the sense that this is the direction we are moving and need to move."
With the addition of California, 13 states and the District of Colombia now have gay marriage laws, and seven others recognize civil unions or domestic partnerships.
Marianne DelPo Kulow, an associate professor of law at Bentley University in Massachusetts, predicted that gay marriage across the nation will quickly reach a tipping point, with the Supreme Court now acknowledging that states have a right to regulate gay marriages. She said the court soon will have to rule on the state gay marriage bans.
Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay marriages in 2004, only a year after the Supreme Court threw out a Texas sodomy law. Legal experts say it removed a huge obstacle toward legitimizing gay relationships, taking away the argument that gays were presumptive criminals.
"It's pretty phenomenal: If you look at other civil rights movements, I'm not sure you could track that much change in one lifetime," said Kulow.
Carpenter cited two reasons why gay marriage is no longer the political hot potato of 1996, when Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act: overwhelming support from younger voters, especially post-baby boomers born after 1964, and an avalanche of gays and lesbians coming out of the closet, introducing Americans to gay teachers, gay soldiers, gay neighbors, gay kids, gay athletes, gay mayors and gay senators.
"They have put a very human face on what would otherwise be an abstract legal cause," Carpenter said.
Bermudez can count on immediate payoffs: He married Bob Isadore, his partner of 40 years, in Massachusetts in 2004, on the 35th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion. Isadore, 70, is a disabled veteran, and Bermudez said he now will be able to be buried next to his husband and eligible to receive part of his pension and Social Security benefits.
"I'm so happy," he said. "You could say I'm hysterical. We have loved each other all these years."
On the night that Bermudez walked into history, he went to the bar in Greenwich Village to have one quick beer and to join friends who were mourning the death of gay icon Judy Garland, the singer and actress who died of a drug overdose in London five days earlier. He said Garland's death produced a huge outpouring of grief and may have fueled the response when police arrived.
After he got hit by the billy club, Bermudez said he was grabbed by a police officer who tried to take him into custody: "I said baloney: Everybody was fighting, so I fought back."
In the past, he said, he and his friends did nothing as police officers beat them up, threw them in paddy wagons and took them to police stations. And he said he saw too many friends lose their jobs or apartments after getting arrested and then finding their names, addresses and telephone numbers published in local newspapers.
The riot made gay rights a national cause.
Four years later, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. In 1977, San Francisco's Harvey Milk became the nation's first openly gay city commissioner. In 1980, the Democratic Party endorsed gay rights at its New York convention. The push for gay marriage quickly followed.
Bermudez estimates that only 20 of the 200 people who resisted police at Stonewall are alive. He and Isadore lived in the San Jose area in the 1980s, watching as AIDS took most of their friends.
Back then, he said, he thought he would die and that "the gay world is over."
Next year, he plans to march down Fifth Avenue in New York City to mark Stonewall's 45th anniversary. The other day, he said, a friend told him he's lucky he can watch the big changes and share his story with younger Americans who have a hard time understanding the brutality of Stonewall.
"You know, he's right: I'm so happy to be alive," Bermudez said. "And while I'm alive, I'm going to let them know."


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Faith in Vermont: One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The challenge of writing a bi-weekly column as a mother of four young children is this: Most writing benefits from the writer leaving the house. Seeing the greater world. Having new experiences. While I do occasionally manage to leave the house, it takes 30-minutes to get out the door, and then my attention isn't so much on the greater world as on the wriggling little people in my care.
Last month, my usual challenge was made even more challenging when our entire family fell sick over the course of a ten-day period. So, because I've left the house even less than usual in the past two weeks, I'm going to write about what I know: illness.
I'm not sure exactly how many viruses made their way through our house. I only know that, one after another, our daughters were reduced to zombielike shells. We had it all: fever, chills, aches, upset stomach, coughing. When the dust settled, there was only one grandfather left standing; each of our four daughters, myself, three grandparents (who came to help while my husband was on a 2-week work trip to Africa), and – after his return– my husband, had all been stricken at least once.
Our 7-month-old was officially diagnosed with the influenza virus when we finally took her to the pediatrician. The doctor thinks the flu was likely what took down the majority of our family, although we'd all gotten our flu shots. She explained that it's still possible to get the flu if you've been immunized, but you probably avoid hospitalization and death. So, there was that bright side.
I know very few families who've been untouched by illness this season; many, like us, found their households invaded by the flu. Several local health care professionals have told me that this has been a particularly bad year for sickness in Addison County.
If your own family is in the midst of an outbreak, there's hope: Our family is still standing; we're exhausted and still hacking away with lingering coughs, but we're standing, darn it!
Some things I learned from our ten days in quarantine:
1. Cancel everything. My goal each morning is to get as many kids out the door as possible, so I tend to be unsympathetic when it comes to health complaints; if you're not running a fever, you'd better be able to produce some impressive coughing or vomiting if you want me to keep you home. Also, I'd like you to recover within 24 hours. This illness that's going around, however, demands time. If your family gets it, expect multiple days home from school. Expect to cancel at least a week of your life. Better to set realistic expectations and take all the time you need to recover fully.
2. Don't buy the Gatorade! We hate to see our sick kids lose their appetites, so we try to lure them back to eating by offering special, "sick treat" foods. Sick food is usually a huge waste. For instance, my daughter always asks for Gatorade when she's sick. The problem? She doesn't actually like Gatorade. If I gussy it up with ice cubes and a twisty straw, she'll take two sips with her parched lips. Then she'll sink back on her pillows and shake her head. (This despite promising me, her feverish eyes welling with tears, "No, really, I WILL drink it!!") My husband is currently drinking his way through the 12-pack of Gatorade in our mudroom.
3. Jello and Saltines? See #2 above.
4. Prioritize "Parent-Free" entertainment options. As any parent knows, the worst part of illness is when the kids start to feel better, but still aren't well enough to return to school. One little burst of energy can turn a sick sweetie into a cranky tyrant. When my six-year-old was in the throes of this latest illness, I couldn't even rouse her by waving my iPod under her nose; two days later, it was like having Leona Helmsley on the living room couch. "Water!" she'd bark. "Read book!"
I find it's best to prepare for the getting-better-grumps by lining up plenty of entertainment options -- preferably ones that don't involve you directly. (My personal favorite is the "Sticker Dolly Dressing" series of activity books by Usborne, which keep my girls independently entertained for hours. The "Color Blast" books by Melissa & Doug, and Crayola's "Color Magic" pages are also good bets – and both feature no-mess markers, perfect for on-couch coloring.)
Then: videos. Use them liberally. Hey, it's a special occasion.
If you'd like to feel more hands-on with your children, sick days are good times for nail painting. I usually cringe when my girls ask me to paint their nails, since it involves lots of wriggling and smudging and nail polish on the floor. But when immobilized by illness, even my two-year-old sat still for five straight minutes while her nails dried. (I, on the other hand, knocked over the bottle of blue nail polish and stained the living room carpet forever).
5. Enjoy the temporary quiet. Soon enough, you'll all be well again. And once our daughters had returned to their regularly-scheduled program of shrieking and squabbling and furniture-climbing, my husband and I looked at each other and wondered, "Why did we want them to get better?"
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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Jason Mankey is a Pagan writer, blogger, and lecturer, and an initiated Wiccan (one of the biggest traditions inside Modern Paganism). In addition to writing for the Ipinion Syndicateand at Patheos, he is active on the Pagan lecture circuit. Some of Jason's favorite topics to talk about include the Horned God, theintersection of rock music and spirituality, and Modern Pagan history.
Jason grew up just outside of Nashville Tennessee, and was president of his Methodist Church Youth Group there. He converted to Paganism at age 21 and has been involved with that ever since. Currently living in Northern California, he is involved with many Pagan groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jason lives with his wife Ari and two cats in Sunnyvale California. You can learn more about Jason on his Web site.
I'd had a couple of requests for an interview with a pagan, and Jason struck me as the perfect fit. He recently wrote this in an article about engaging with Christians in interfaith dialog:
"When engaging those in other faiths about Paganism, our most important duty is to simply tear down misconceptions. I don't care if people agree with my religious beliefs, what I do care about is that they know I don't sacrifice babies or engage in homilies to Satan during ritual. Yes, you can yell 'I don't worship Lucifer!' at Christian fundamentalists and perhaps they'll catch on, but engaging them in an antagonistic sort of way confirms their belief that we are their 'enemies.' My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive. A successful interaction with a Christian is one where they leave seeing you as a person, not an enemy or a servant of evil."
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(RNN) - President Donald Trump said John Kelly, the White House Chief of Staff, will be leaving at the end of the year.
The departure is the latest among the president's inner circle.
Kelly, a retired Marine general, replaced Reince Priebus in that position in July 2017.
"John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year," Trump said. "We'll be announcing who will be taking John's place. It might be on an interim basis. I'll be announcing that over the next day or two."
Trump made the announcement to reporters Saturday before boarding Air Force One to attend the annual Army-Navy game.
Sources also told CNN that Kelly was expected to leave the position in the coming days.
He and the president had not been seeing eye to eye, according to multiple reports.
Kelly was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported.
"The Mueller questions to Kelly centered on a narrow set of issues in the investigation of potential obstruction of justice, chiefly Kelly's recollection of an episode that took place after new reporting emerged about how the President had tried to fire Mueller," according to CNN.
Kelly rattled the White House status quo, and in particular the standing of Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, with his overhaul of security clearance standards.
Like many other administration officials, he's been regularly rumored to be under fire in the White House. Reports of his falling out with Trump came despite the president asking him during the summer to stay on until 2020.
Kelly took over as chief of staff with a mandate to instill order and professionalism in a largely inexperienced White House staff beset by disorganization in the early days of the Trump presidency.
By many accounts he achieved that, formalizing the process by which Trump saw advisers and spoke to staff, and eventually reshuffling the West Wing pecking order, notably scaling back Kushner's influence and ushering the departure of Steve Bannon in August 2017.
He was first drafted into the Trump administration as Secretary of Homeland Security. He served fewer than 200 days in the role before Trump tabbed him to replace Priebus.
Prior to his civilian positions in the government, Kelly was commander of U.S. Southern Command during the Obama presidency. He held the post, responsible for overseeing operations in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean, from 2012 until his retirement as a four-star Marine general in 2016.
Before that his service included a stint under then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta from 2011-12; and he commanded Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North from 2009-11. He fought in Iraq during deployments from 2002-04 and later returned there in a command role in 2008.
In 2010 Kelly's son, Robert, was killed in action in Afghanistan.
Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970 and served two years before going to the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in 1976 and was soon after commissioned as an officer.
He was born in May 1950 in Boston, MA, and grew up in the city's Brighton neighborhood. He has been married since 1976, and the couple have two surviving children, including another Marine, John.
Trump also announced another staff shakeup earlier in the day.
He said via Twitter, he will nominate Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley as his next top military adviser.
"I am pleased to announce my nomination of four-star General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army – as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing General Joe Dunford, who will be retiring," Trump said in the tweet.
"I am thankful to both of these incredible men for their service to our Country! Date of transition to be determined," the president said in a following tweet.
If approved by the Senate, Milley, a four-star general, would succeed Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Dunford's second term will end the summer of 2019. He is the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Prior to serving as the nation's top military officer, Dunford served as the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
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BeatTips Inside the Beat: Creating an Arrangement to Fit an Idea
Using Your Composite Idea as a Guide to Capture the Essence and Feel You Envision
By AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
Eight years ago, my father died. He was the first person to introduce me to music... Because of his interest in "hi-fidelity" stereo systems, premium speakers, and recording equipment in general, I suppose you could say he was also the first person to introduce me to audio recording. But his love for music and audio equipment aside, he's also responsible for producing some, let's say, rather turbulent times when I was a kid. So while working on a new beat one day, I was playing back some of those times in my head, and it helped me to come up with a composite idea for beat.
I like to use the term composite idea to refer to the complete picture, i.e. the framework or blueprint that I get in my head for a beat/song. It's like a photographic snapshot that I both see and hear. Perhaps you could say that it's a little more than intuition. But for me it's a special moment in my creative process. So I like to dignify that moment by giving it a name.
For the song "I Remember My Dad," included below for study, the composite idea that I had was for a beat with some sort of overall challenging pitch/tempo scheme. Something that could audibly parallel the real shifts in happiness, anger, and disappointment that my father provoked when I was a kid. And, because above all, he really was a kind-hearted, no-nonsense sort of man, I wanted the framework of the beat to convey this conflict while honoring him as much as I could. I wanted a sound that not only expressed his tragedy, but a sound that also authentically reflected both the good and bad of those times, and how they filtered through to help shape who I am today.
With this in mind, I immediately thought about sampling some strings. So I went through a couple of albums that I have with female jazz vocalists. (Incidentally, there are some terrific string arrangements to be found with female jazz vocalists.) Among the records I listened to, I didn't find anything that quite fit my composite idea. But by listening to those records, I did get a clearer picture of it. And now with a sharper focus, I stuck with the female vocalist theme, and shifted my diggin' search from jazz to soul, where I found exactly what I needed to begin the foundation of my composite idea.
There was this really uplifting choir & harps section on this one record. By itself, it was light. But I knew that after I sampled it, I could add weight, i.e. bass, boom, dirt, etc., as well as some "color" to it. This way I could make it sound haunting and robust. Of course, part of boosting it up came before I even sampled it, when I adjusted the EQs on my mixing board, where I have my DJ mixer routed to before it hits the inputs of any of my samplers.
Having sampled this choir & harps spare-part phrase (I discuss compositional phrases in The BeatTips Manual) via my Akai MPC 4000, I chopped it (manually, not auto-chop) to spec. Then, I filtered it using my MPC's high-pass filter. Once I had the feel and the sound in place, I duplicated the sample and created two versions of it, one at the original pitch level that I sampled it at, and the other several pitch levels down. So now I had, C&H (choir & harps) pitch 1 and C&H pitch 2.
With the two choir & harps phrases, C&H pitch 1 and C&H pitch 2, I created a 2-bar sequence with C&H pitch 1 starting the first bar and C&H pitch 2 at the opening of the second bar. Together, this 2-bar sequence made up a "break" (in The BeatTips Manual I explain this concept of the break in greater detail).
At this point, half of my composite idea was already set. What I needed to do now was to work in the right drum framework. In keeping with the theme of contradiction (or contrast), I wanted to build a drum pattern that was solid enough to rock on its own. I didn't want anything soft or deferential to the choir & harps sound. Also, I wanted to use hi-hats and rides in a way that helped to push and shuffle the beat along as I rhymed to it. Note: I only used one hi-hat and one ride, BUT I used them in at least four different ways, ranging from different velocity and duration settings on the hi-hat/open hat to elongation and truncation on the ride hits.
After I created the drum pattern on my MPC, I recorded it into Pro Tools. In Pro Tools, I quickly added some reverb and light EQ to each of the drum sounds, then I sampled the pattern — not the individual drum hits — back into my MPC. Once back inside my MPC, I assigned the entire drum pattern to one drum pad. This is what I used as the drum framework: a drum break created and customized by me. Note: This didn't take long at all, because I only recorded about two bars worth of the drum pattern into Pro Tools. Once I sampled back inside the MPC, I chopped it down and looped it. Now the framework was nearly complete!
But I still wanted to add in some stylistic changes.... First, I sampled a vocal part (from the same record as the Choir & Harps) that had some bass behind it. I did this on purpose, because I knew that I was going to turn it into an elongated sound-stab that could play and rise up at certain parts of the verse section of the arrangement. Once I sampled it, I chopped it down. I wanted to make it rise and to sound somewhat brighter, so I filtered it with the MPC's notch filter and turned up the volume on it.
(I should point out that when I had the entire beat tracked into Pro Tools, I had to slap a limiter on this sound-stab so that it didn't rise too much.)
Next, I sampled a piano & guitar riff, which I chopped down and filtered with my MPC's high-pass filter. I had to cut a lot of the original treble to make it much warmer, and to make it blend with the fade of the choir & harps sample.
Finally, I worked in my customized floor tom. Here's where knowing your sounds really comes into play. I used my floor tom, at two different pitch levels, not as percussive elements but mostly as bass support for the choir & harps sample. When you hear the song below, listen carefully to how I arranged the floor toms. You will notice that the timbre of the floor toms work like a bass when pitched, arranged, and combined with the fade of the choir & harps sample. Because I know my floor tom sound, I know what it's capable of and how it can be used like a bass-stab.
When I was finished with the beat, my composite idea was realized. And the only thing then left for me to do was to write and record the composite rhyme that I had....
The music below is presented here for the purpose of scholarship.
Sa'id - "I Remember My Dad" (Prod. by Sa'id)
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Sa'id - "I Remember My Dad" beat breakdown
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Since 1989 COBYS has been headquartered in the historic Oregon Mill, north of Lancaster (near Oregon Dairy and Reflections Restaurant). To better reflect the broadened scope of services and clients, in 1992 we adopted the name "COBYS Family Services." While the letters of the acronym "COBYS" no longer have meaning, the name "COBYS Family Services" has come to mean Christlike concern for children and families.
LIFE IS SACRED – Believing that all people are created in the image of God, we recognize the inherent worth of each client by exhibiting empathy, compassion, and respect. INTEGRITY – We strive to be honest, authentic, and trustworthy in saying what we mean, matching our behaviors to our words, and taking responsibility for our actions. FAITH – Jesus is Lord of our organization. We trust him to provide for our ministry's needs and to empower transformation in our own lives and in the lives of those we serve. TEAMWORK – Respecting our unique contributions, we value and care for each other, both personally and professionally, and enjoy working and growing together. SERVANTHOOD – Servant leadership is reflected perfectly in the life and person of Jesus Christ. We seek to integrate the highest standards of professionalism with Christ's example of joyful service.
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What better time to eat a couple dozen oysters than with friends and family over the holidays? We were down in Hilton Head, South Carolina over Thanksgiving where my parents have officially settled in for the long haul (Thanks, Mimi & Pop Pop, for another unforgettable holiday!) and managed to get several dozen Island Creeks into the mix.
We slurped most of them back on the half shell but also threw a handful on the grill where, after they popped open, we doused them in butter and Mexican hot sauce. It's one of my favorite no-fail recipes from chef Ken Oringer. We also made an herbed oyster stuffing again this year but for that, we used South Carolina oysters. I stopped at two grocery stores before snagging the last two dozen at the Piggly Wiggly. Apparently, South Carolinians go crazy for oysters on Thanksgiving.
I also got some exciting news over the holiday: Shucked is going into its first reprint! That means there will be plenty of copies for you and your loved ones (hint hint). I'll be out and about signing books over the next few weeks, starting on Monday night at the Hotel Commonwealth (check out the flyer below) so come on out and get a signed copy.


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Whether featuring the flamboyant swirls and curves of Art-Deco style or the clean lines of minimalist design, decorative ironwork makes a statement. Iron pieces may be hand-forged or ready-made, but they will set the tone in a room or add contrast to a design. Guaranteed.
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Photograph: Emily Minton-Redfield
A custom glass-and-iron door makes an eye-catching entrance to the home of designers Lee Bierly and Chris Drake. The decorative ironwork is mirrored in the foyer's console and the entry windows and makes a striking contrast to the vivid yellow walls. The door was a Christmas gift for the home.
Photograph: Gordon Beall
In the original plan for the home, the kitchen staircase was enclosed, but designer Linda Applewhite suggested opening it up as a focal point to dramatize the room. For inspiration, she found a photograph of an Italian staircase, which she shared with her clients. The image reminded the couple of balconies they had long admired in Tuscany, and they had a local artisan re-create an adaptation of that pattern in iron, on site.
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The grand scale of the foyer in this Potomac, Maryland, home was marred by too many decorative flourishes. "When I first walked in I wanted to strip everything, starting with the stair rail,'' said designer Darryl Carter. The double staircase's potential for drama was diminished by "pickets made of contractor's-grade wood. The challenge was to give it more character.'' Darryl's solution: extra-thin balusters with a subtle curve.
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Designer Julio Quinones stripped paint from the stair balusters to reveal a beautiful mix of textures and materials.
Photograph: Emily Minton-Redfield
Designer Mary Anne Smiley retained the original metal staircase in this Dallas home and expounded on its idea by designing a new stainless-steel-and-iron front door (see next slide).
Photograph: Colleen Duffley
With an airy French Moderne feel, the new door brings the exterior's otherwise plain portico to life. "The design for the door was inspired by a fret pattern we used in some of the other rooms,'' said Smiley.
Photograph: Colleen Duffley
Above the dining area in this Texas Hill Country ranch, a bridge constructed of salvaged beams and rustic iron railings connects the two upstairs wings and adds an extra element to the grandeur of the architecture below. Highlighting the dining area is a custom iron chandelier from Lost Arts (214/565-1055).
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The front doors of the Rosenbach Library in Philadelphia were shaped by iron master Samuel Yellin in 1912. Granddaughter Clare Yellin restored the pair at the Samuel Yellin Metalworkers Co. forge in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. "We fixed the hardware and made some new handles,'' Yelllin said.
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A whimsical stair rail created by Clare Yellin graces a Manhattan town house. Made of various metals (bronze, iron, copper, and steel, among others), the balustrade took three people more than six months to complete. "When you walk up the stairs, you're not looking at flat metal,'' explains Yellin. "All 32 animals are fully developed on both sides." What's missing? "We didn't include any snakes, squirrels, rodents or spiders, because the homeowner did not want to frighten small children.''
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The finely articulated iron balustrade on the curvaceous floating staircase is designer Lynn Hollyn's take on the Beaux-Arts style. Balustrade by Lynn Hollyn Home & Garden Design (650/325-9980).
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A large niche was created especially for the antique French wrought-iron gate that serves as a headboard in this master bedroom.
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"One of the things I like about my own house is the juxtaposition of things,'' says designer Jan Barboglio. "I like rugged, forged pieces with more contemporary items, iron mixed with silver and crystal, and primitives mixed with the more refined. The mix-including antiques, things from my family, and what I find at flea markets-is what is interesting to me.'' The "Estancia'' table, fire screen, "Claw'' candlesticks, and forged iron garden crosses on wall, are all designed by Jan Barboglio.
Photograph: Colleen Duffley
Jan Barboglio designed the iron Nicho (niche) bed to include a treasure box in the headboard. Such treasure boxes were once common features of convent beds.
Photograph: Colleen Duffley
The 1890 Italian iron bed, stumbled upon at an antiques store, has delicate lines that add to the feminine qualities of the room while picking up the dark, heavy color of the leaded window mullions.
Photograph: Janet Mackie
The modern and strikingly sculptural bed anchors this whimsical girl's room while maintaining an open feeling. The frame's gentle curves soften the metal's effect.
Photograph: Jon Jensen
Designer Barbara Westbrook chose a pared-down contemporary look in the custom iron poster bed that complements the room's neutrals in the Traditional Home Built For Women Showhouse in Atlanta.
Photograph: Bruce Buck
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Photograph: Gordon Beall
Antique iron accents can add a rustic touch to a traditional or contemporary room. Designer Gary McBournie gives a nod to this Massachusetts home's beginnings as an 1880s carriage house and barn with a running horse weather vane, circa 1870, resting on the mantel, and three iron industrial gears, circa 1860, mounted on the living room wall.
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Ask Amy Mother-in-law issues call for a fence

DEAR AMY: I'm a 23-year-old married college student who recently gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. My husband and I have been married for three years. My marriage is great, but my problem is my mother-in-law. We've always had a rocky relationship, but since giving birth to my son it has sunk to a new low.

She bad-mouths me to my husband and other people. She snoops in our belongings, thinks my husband should value her opinion/feelings more than mine, and simply doesn't understand boundaries or her role in our lives. She calls my husband childish nicknames even though he has asked her repeatedly to stop and treats both of us like children. Now that we have our son she continues to ignore our boundaries. She thinks she has every right to literally pull my son out of my arms without asking.

I'm not sure what to do anymore since I don't want my son around this kind of toxic behavior, and her ignoring our wishes just makes me avoid her as much as I can. I'm so angry and resentful that I'm ready to cut off all communication with her, which means cutting her off from my son as well. My husband understands my feelings and is frustrated with her. Please let me know what I should do. — Completely Drained

DEAR DRAINED: Don't use your son as a tool with which to punish your mother-in-law. Start this process by building a very short "fence" between you.

You and your husband must state — calmly and rationally and out of your child's presence — your reasonable expectations and the consequences for not meeting them. ralph lauren shorts sale

You two should work out (and even rehearse) this conversation together before speaking with her. He should start by saying, "Mom, I'm disappointed in how you've been behaving. You are simply going to have to start treating us like the adults we are. If we tell you something, we expect you to hear us and respect our wishes. Do you understand that?" Give her concrete examples of what you would like her to do differently.

Your mother-in-law might try to bully or emotionally manipulate both of you. You simply cannot let her. Make eye contact with her and act as if you are in charge of your life. If you and your husband are consistently firm, you should be able to "retrain" her. If not, you'll have to build a higher fence.

DEAR AMY: I can't stand it when kids, teenagers, young adults and older male adults wear baseball caps into homes, restaurants and other buildings. When I invite family members to my home for dinner, I expect them not to wear a baseball cap at the dining room table.

When I enter a restaurant, I don't want to see any men (whatever their age) at a dining table with a baseball cap on. It upsets me to pay for a nice dinner when I see attire that belongs at a fast food restaurant. dolce and gabbana history

Needless to say, in my house I must keep the family peace, and so I can't say anything. In restaurants, I obviously can't speak up. Your opinion please? — Cranky Dad

DEAR CRANKY: A quibble, fine sir. Your home is your castle and of course you can — and should — ask men to please remove their hats (certainly if they are younger than you are. This would be tougher if you were trying to correct a contemporary).

Pretend you are a host at a fine restaurant and say, "Gentlemen, please remove your hats in the house." If they don't comply, you have my permission to judge them harshly.

DEAR AMY: Regarding "Flustered's" frustration with a husband who constantly interrupted to correct her, I had the same problem for years. dolce and gabbana locations I tried talking to my husband about it to no avail.

Finally I simply interrupted him. It took two conversations in which I made several corrections. He quickly got the point, and that was that. Subsequently I have used that tactic several times with different things and have found it to be most effective. — Wised-up Wife

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Fatal shooting in Orange County
Deputies and U.S. Marshals attempting to serve a felony arrest warrant were met with armed resistance by a man with a loaded gun in the 800 block of F.M. 1131 in Vidor on Feb. 25, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
When officers arrived at approximately 5:15 p.m. and attempted to arrest the suspect, described as a white male Vidor resident in his early sixties, gunfire was exchanged. No officers were injured in the shooting, but the suspect was mortally wounded.
The identity of the suspect is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The investigation is ongoing and being conducted by the Texas Rangers, OCSO reports, "as is customary" when an officer-involved shooting occurs.


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Welcome to the All Things Linux Forum . . . here we try to help new linux users to find their way through "the learning curve"
Here are a few very useful threads that were started on this forum at an earlier date:
How to choose a linux distro, A beginners guide
Equivalents and/or Replacements, ...for Windows / Linux
Pictutorials, Easy Visual HowTos
Tips for Linux Explorers, Helpful info for those learning Linux
We do admire your courage learning a new operating system and we will try to help you during that amazing journey.
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Pelosi's tough times
For House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the bad news keeps piling up.
On Thursday, longtime Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, a Pelosi ally and fellow Californian, announced he would retire at the end of this Congress. That closely follows Rep. George Miller's (D-Calif.) decision to also leave the House at the end of the year.
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While Democrats should hold both seats, the departures put more districts in play. Perhaps more important, the retirement of two Pelosi friends — both of whom would be chairmen in a Democratic majority — bolsters the GOP argument that their grip on the House is solid.
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National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) called Waxman's retirement a "clear indication … that the House Democrats don't think they're going to be wielding the gavels next time."
The NRCC will use the Miller and Waxman retirements to raise money and lean on business groups and wealthy donors to back GOP candidates, arguing that the writing is already on the wall for Election Day and they'd better get on the winning side now.
Pelosi was even forced to deny rumors on Thursday that she too was retiring. More than a dozen Democrats called her personally to find out what was going on after a story speculated she might step down.
( Also on POLITICO: Henry Waxman to retire)
"I'm running. I've already started the paperwork process. My work is not finished," Pelosi said in a statement.
The fact that Pelosi has to take time to swat this kind of speculation shows how bad things have gotten for House Democrats in the past few weeks.
Democrats deny that the retirements have anything to do with the party's bleak outlook in the House.
"I don't accept the idea that Democrats won't get the House back," Waxman said. "I think that the Republicans have nothing to offer. They're against everything. They're against everything Obama wanted. They have no alternatives on health care policy. They have nothing to say, they have nothing to offer."
( Also on POLITICO: Dems hit fundraising record: $75M)
"I don't think these retirements are driven by these kind of calculations," added John Lawrence, Pelosi's former chief of staff and a longtime Miller aide. "I would not infer a scintilla of connection between their expectations for the fall and for what I think is profoundly personal decision that 40 years [in office] is long enough."
Pelosi, for her part, isn't losing faith that victory in November is possible. She's grown fond of telling this joke to Democratic members in recent weeks:
At the end of the Cold War, American and Soviet spies just couldn't stop spying on each other. So they decided to have a contest in one year to prove who were the better spies. They settled on a dog fight. A year later, the Soviets had raised a vicious pit bull; the Americans countered with a meek-looking dachshund. Seeing the dachshund, the Soviets were confident of victory. But once the fight started, the dachshund mauled the pit bull. The Soviets were stunned. The Americans responded: "While you were raising that awful dog, starving it, teaching it to be mean, we were figuring out how to disguise an alligator as a dachshund."
( Also on POLITICO: Fluke may seek Waxman's seat)
Pelosi's point: Democrats have to learn how to be smarter and more strategic than their GOP opponents.
Pelosi, though, has been far too optimistic in the past. She repeatedly insisted in 2010 that Democrats would hold their majority even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.


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The importance of abstracts and press releases: the issue of "spin"
Let's be honest. Most researchers and clinicians only read the abstracts of research studies. This is true even when they diligently search out and find the original article that inspired a news headline. A cynical colleague suggested that people only read the Tweets of someone that only read the abstract of the article. People are busy and pressed for time; skimming abstracts is an efficient way to stay up-to-date with research findings without onerously sifting through pages of details. People want the bottom line. But this approach inherently relies on journals to ensure accuracy in abstract reporting.
Well, it seems this strategy is problematic for many reasons, particularly because of "spin" or "specific reporting emphasizing the beneficial effect of the experimental treatment." A recent study in PLoS Medicine sought to quantify this problem: the authors identified two-arm, parallel-group RCTs, searched for associated press releases, and examined both for the presence of "spin."
What they found was concerning: 47% of press releases and 40% of abstracts contained "spin." After completing a multivariable analysis, "spin" in the article abstract was the only factor associated with "spin" in the press release (RR, 5.6; CI, 2.8-11.0; P<0.001). Therefore, the major driver of inaccurately reported findings was written by the author. In fact, 31% of press releases misinterpreted the results from the trial, either over- (86%) or under- (14%) estimating the benefit of the therapy.
Press releases are an important part of research dissemination. A study completed earlier this year in the BMJ by Evidence Live Faculty Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin found that high quality press releases by journals can influence media coverage of the associated article. Increased coverage is beneficial if the press release is accurate which relies heavily on the abstract.
People involved in conducting research understand the importance of the abstract. This is the first piece read by a journal editor once submitted, and the decision to peer review largely relies on the authors ability to 'sell' their study in 300 words or less. Therefore, there is an incentive for authors to (over) emphasize the main results of the study in a manner that is usually critiqued in the peer review phase. While changes may be made to the full-text article to "dumb down" the authors conclusions, it is unclear how much the abstract changes as a result of peer review.
Realistically, the previously described process is unlikely to change, and everyone is not going to start reading the full-text article, particularly the media. Therefore, the onus is on journals to take an active role to ensure accuracy in abstract reporting and press releases. If they don't, who will? If you want to learn more about what journals are doing to tackle this problem, come and ask the editors yourself at Evidence Live 2013.
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Thrillers usually live or die by their sinister villains. We adore memorable antagonists like Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber, Gary Busey's Mr. Joshua, and Anthony Hopkins' charming Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Will Luca Calvani soon join their ranks?
I know what you're thinking. Who? Well, Calvani – according to Deadline -- just landed the coveted villainous role in Guy Ritchie's planned The Man from U.N.C.L.E. adaptation, and soon will be able to show us if he has the stuff to terrorize our off-screen dreams. The report says Calvani will play Alexander, a "wealthy Italian shipping heir who smuggled Nazi gold at end of WWII" and is "behind the sale of nuclear weapons." The actor previously was best known for playing supporting roles in television soap operas like The Bold and the Beautiful, the Italian soap Tutti pazzi per amore and the Kristen Bell rom-com When In Rome.
At the moment, Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander are set to star in Ritchie's film, which Deadline says will begin shooting in Europe. But the film has gone through several shifts behind the scenes as it fights its way toward production. Tom Cruise was on the hook to lead the film for a while until he dropped it for a fifth Mission: Impossible movie. Once the main core started to settle in place, supporting players like Elizabeth Debicki, Hugh Grant and Jared Harris (who worked with the director on his Sherlock Holmes sequel) started snatching up roles. There's stability, suddenly, in a production that had very little.
The Man movie still has an uphill battle, as far as I'm concerned. Movies based on old television programs aren't easy slam dunks. Anything but. Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy's I Spy banked $33 million back in 2002. At the same time, Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and The Rock powered Get Smart to a healthy $130 million. So it's a crapshoot. Can Ritchie power this new U.N.C.L.E. to worldwide grosses? We'll find out when this action-comedy gets a release date, in time. Until then, enjoy this behind-the-scenes reel explaining why the original TV show was so popular back in the 1960s.


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Amelia Earhart, the famous female pilot who flew over the Atlantic, left with her navigator, Fred Noonan, on June 1, 1937. They boarded the Lockheed Electra at 5am planning on going around the world. No word has been heard since 8:45am July 2. Last radio contact sounded anxious and breathless, making people think Amelia was scared and in trouble.
For hours radio contact was still being tried, but it is believed that Amelia and Fred are lost somewhere in the South Pacific. Questions are everywhere. Where is Amelia Earhart? Did she Crash? Did she fall into the hands of the Japanese? The fear is that at this time of war she may have become a prisoner. Some believe the Japanese will see her as a spy.
No one has the answers to these questions. It is if Amelia and her plane vanished with out a trace. No one has seen or heard from Amelia and they havent found any part of her plane anywhere. The world is saddened by this event.
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SANTA CRUZ — New University of California President Janet Napolitano on Friday said the system is doing "everything it can" to keep tuition costs from skyrocketing beyond the reach of ordinary Californians.
Named as the UC system's 20th president and on the job since Sept. 30, the Washington, D.C. veteran's hiring was a rare reach outside the halls of academia. The former Arizona governor and Homeland Security chief's selection was seen as an effort to strengthen UC's hand in Sacramento and in the nation's Capitol.
But predecessor Mark Yudof's later years were racked with controversy over rising tuition costs amid a state budget crisis, and Napolitano suggested Friday that the cost of taxpayer-funded universities should stay within family budgets.
"There have been increases, no doubt," Napolitano said. "It's a public university, and we're going to do everything we can to make sure it remains affordable."
Napolitano is on a UC system-wide tour of campuses, stopping over in Santa Cruz during Founders Celebration, when UCSC announced a $300 million fundraising campaign, the first and largest in the school's history.
She has met with several groups along the way, including a group of student leaders who peppered her with issues ranging from undocumented students to rising tuition and fees.
"Mainly she wanted to know what was our main obstacles at the university and what she could do to help," said Shaz Umer, chair of the Student Union Assembly, adding that Napolitano did more listening than talking.
Umer said Napolitano wanted to "mitigate" rising costs, and hoped she would return to campus.
"I hope she does come back and engage more of the student community at UC Santa Cruz," Umer said.
In the UC version of a welcome mat, Napolitano's tour has already been hit with protests, including a small one in Santa Cruz on Friday. At UC Irvine earlier this week, protesters also raised the issue of college costs.
UC tuition has tripled during the past decade, and before Gov. Jerry Brown signed a 5 percent increase into law this year, state funding was cut by a third during the previous five years.
In 2012, California students left four-year schools with an average of $18,879 in debt, according to the Project on Student Debt. The figure was slightly higher at UCSC.
The choice of Napolitano also has been controversial on campuses for Obama administration job of overseeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has deported tens of thousands through the controversial Secure Communities program.
But after leaving office, Napolitano endorsed a state bill that aims to blunt some of the impacts of the program here in California. Known as the Trust Act, she offered her support directly to Gov. Jerry Brown prior to his signing it into law.
But in Washington, years of efforts to repair a federal immigration system many regard as broken have gone nowhere. After a two-week government shutdown, it doesn't appear Congress is going to tackle the issue anytime soon.
Napolitano said she hoped it would.
"The Senate bill is bipartisan and represents some compromises on all sides, but the framework is very consistent with what we've been advocating for the last 4½ years," Napolitano said. "I think it's an example where the House needs to take up something important and get it done."
While Napolitano frequented San Francisco as a young law clerk, she has few ties to Northern California. Friday, she was impressed by what she saw.
"Look at this," Napolitano said, gesturing in the living room of University House, situated on an ocher hillside overlooking the sparkling Monterey Bay. "It's a beautiful location and wonderful school. Just a great impression."
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MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) was created by Colin Peters. Colin used a very early release of the Cygwin suite to compile the first version of the MinGW compiler code and had made it available on his website.
The very first native MinGW compiler was provided by Jan-Jaap van der Heijden. Besides GCC 2.8.1, Meister van der Heijdens' contributions included GNU binutils, GNU make and just about everything else needed to develop your own software using MinGW.
Mumit Khan took the baton and over a couple of following years has been doing great work of maintenance and development of MinGW. He did many developments for supporting Windows32 specific features in GCC and Binutils (which is of course of great value for entire GNU/Windows32), provided binary releases of them (with each new release of GCC and often before one was available for Cygwin) and developed more comprehensive bindings for runtime libraries. Significant addition to MinGW was Anders Norlander's w32api headers, which brought more comprehensive bindings for Windows API than what were previously available.
To the second half of 1999, the user base of MinGW became large enough to split off Cygwin mailing list and set up it's own mailing list moderated by Earnie Boyd and Dale Handerson.
At the beginning of Y2K, there was exposed public interest in development of MinGW, as well as offers for public services helping with open source development, such as SourceForge, were made. It was decided to set up such a project for MinGW and call for maintainers and developers. In August 2005, MinGW was chosen as Project of the Month on SourceForge, and an interview of Earnie Boyd and Luke Dunstan was published for this occasion.
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Most everyone recognizes the name Chanel, whether as a fashion brand or from films and documentaries about the company's namesake and founder, Coco. Far fewer of us, however, are familiar with the name Schiaparelli — a mid-20th-century Italian designer, hugely celebrated in her time, whose creations are largely seen today in museums, rather than on runways or magazine covers.
In the 1920s and '30s, Elsa Schiaparelli (above, in her Paris home) was considered Coco Chanel's chief rival, and in its heyday the Schiaparelli brand was widely seen as bolder and more innovative than Chanel and, indeed, most other houses of the age. But Schiaparelli was not as successful as Chanel in the post-war years, and the house went bankrupt and closed its doors forever in 1954.
Though she often collaborated with Surrealist masters like Dali, Duchamp, Cocteau and Man Ray, Elsa Schiaparelli also experienced deep solitude — especially after her husband, William de Wendt de Kerlor, abandoned her before the birth of their daughter, Maria Luisa "Gogo" Schiaparelli. As a successful artist, designer, poet and perfumer, Elsa knew the pleasures, and the pressures, of being a woman in a position of power. In her autobiography, Shocking Life, she wrote: "Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness."
Rebellious in her youth and in her couture, Schiaparelli was frequently on her own, professionally and personally. But then, the most genuine art often arises from the most misunderstood among us — those lost in meditation and frequently surrounded not by other people, but by the ideas, landscapes and objects that inspire them.
Ife Olujobi is an undergraduate student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts studying Dramatic Writing with a minor in Film Production. She is also an editor at the campus newspaper, Washington Square News, and writes frequently about television, film and music.