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Michelle was born in Gaithersburg, MD and grew up in Frederick, MD. Her love and passion for weather started when she was a child watching the Weather Channel with her mother. After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Michelle decided to attend Frederick Community College. She obtained her A.A. degree in Arts and Sciences at the age of 18 and made her way to Tallahassee, FL and attended Florida State University where she pursued her dream career in meteorology. While attending school, she participated in the student-run weather show that was broadcasted live Monday through Friday throughout Tallahassee and Panama City, FL. After her three years at FSU, Michelle graduated with her B.S. in Meteorology and a minor in math in May of 2009.
While living in Tallahassee, Michelle interned at both the ABC and CBS stations, WTXL and WCTV. In December, 2009 she joined the weather team at WeatherBug in Germantown, MD. She forecasted the weather for the entire nation and produced weather graphics and web content. Michelle made her next big move back to Florida in October, 2010 where she then joined WOKV Newstalk Radio. She became the afternoon news producer and anchored live newscasts during the week nights. In September, 2011, she was given the opportunity to be the weekend meteorologist and weekday reporter for WNEP in Moosic, PA.
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During her down time Michelle likes to watch movies, play video games, entertain her friends and go storm chasing when the opportunity strikes. She is also excited to return to the slopes and try skiing and snow boarding again.


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Sazerac Cocktail 9 out of 28.
I have challenged myself to post 28 Sazeracs in 28 days for the month of February.
I'll try some different spirits, try some out at bars, and have some friends make them for me. Hopefully, if I can get my act together we'll have some video.
Sazerac Cocktail.
1 Lump of Sugar. (Generous Bar Spoon Rich Simple Syrup)
1 Dash Angostura or Peychana Bitters. (a couple dashes Peychaud's Bitters)
1 Glass Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (2 oz Anchor Genevieve Gin)
Stir well and strain into another glass that has been cooled and rinsed with Absinthe (Sirene Absinthe Verte) and squeeze lemon peel on top.
Continuing with the non-traditional Sazeracs, I thought if I could make one with Genever, I could make one with Anchor's Genever Style American Gin, Genevieve.
I've been a fan of Genevieve since it was introduced back in 2007. Not everyone has agreed with me, with some friends claiming it is unmixable. Personally, I think they are just going about it wrong, and trying to make cocktails typically made with Dry Gin with the Genevieve. A lot of those just don't work, or well, don't work in the same way.
It is better to stick with recipes typically made with Genever, when playing with the Genevieve.
Which isn't to say, Genevieve isn't still a bit of an acquired taste. Most modern Genevers are pretty tame and sophisticated beverages. Genevieve really isn't. If a little bit of rough trade isn't up your alley, you might want to stick with girly gins like Plymouth and Bols Genever.
On the other hand, if you enjoy a bit of frontier justice in your alcoholic beverages, Genevieve might be right up your alley. Some spirits professionals have gone so far as to say Genevieve isn't really a Genever style at all, being more akin to the "Country Gins" made in America in the 19th Century.
The main difference between Genevieve and most modern Genevers are:
1) It is made from 100% malt wine. Like a making a whiskey, Anchor makes a beer, then distills it. There are no neutral spirits added to Genevieve. Most Genever is blended with neutral spirits, Bols Genever being something like 60% alcohol distilled from Malt Wine has one of the higher percentages.
2) It is more highly flavored than most Genevers, and flavored with a more eclectic blend of botanicals. In fact, Anchor uses the same botanicals to flavor their Genevieve, as they use to flavor their Junipero Gin. Most Dutch Genever is far more mildly flavored.
3) Genevieve is flavored by adding the botanicals directly to the spirits, steeping for a period, then redistilling. This is the same process they use for their Junipero Gin. Almost all Genever is flavored using flavor essences distilled from the individual botanicals. These essences (perfumes) are then combined with the neutral spirits and spirits distilled from malt wine. Actual botanicals are not added to most Genever distillate at any point. This is a ballsy move on Anchor's part, prone to error and may result in some inconsistency across batches. On the other hand, there's no arguing with the honesty of their methods or the intensity of their flavors.
So how is a Genevieve Sazerac? Pretty intense and pretty damn good. If it's too much for you, maybe stick to your Cosmos and Mojitos, I promise not to judge you too harshly.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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The Italian said his side "will do the best they can" without key players Steven Gerrard, Ashley Young and Jack Wilshere, who are injured.
With Wayne Rooney set to miss at least two of England's group games at Euro 2012, Capello is set to audition several strikers to fill the void.
A number of young players are also set to feature, but Capello revealed he was "worried" of humiliation at the hands of the world champions.
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Borussia Dortmund attacking midfielder Kevin Grosskreutz has admitted he would welcome a move to his "favourite club" Arsenal.
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When I bemoaned Grown Ups both on its merits and that it made more than $150 million domestically and almost $275 million worldwide, I think we all understood that it was going to return for a sequel, right? Right? Well, it did, and the result is about what we all expected, and then some.
The gang from the first film returns for this one. Which means Adam Sandler, (Funny People), Kevin James (Paul Blart: Mall Cop), Chris Rock (Death at a Funeral) and David Spade (The Benchwarmers). Rob Schneider was in the first film but was replaced by Nick Swardson (30 Minutes Or Less), which appears to replacing an unfunny guy with another one. The wives of the characters are all back too, so we get Salma Hayek (Cirque du Freak) and Maria Bello (World Trade Center) wearing a lot of things designed to push their 'girls' up, because they're pretty you see. Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids) plays Deanne, Rock's wife in the film, for another turn too. The film finds the boys living in the same small town after Lenny (Sandler) brings his family back to be closer to them. While living in town they deal with a myriad of things, including bullies targeting their kids, a possible threat to their respective marriages and a fraternity of lacrosse bros, headed by Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes) and Taylor Lautner (Twilight), the latter of whom appears in the film uncredited.
Before going into the onscreen events, allow me to tangent to the most frustrating thing in this film, and that is the underutilization of some actually genuinely funny elements in it. I was stunned to see SNL alums Andy Samberg and Will Forte appear in the film as male cheerleaders that create their own take on the sudsy, sultry car wash for one of the guys. These are guys that are funny individually, yet collectively they are relegated to the background, with nary a consequential line of dialogue to speak of. Because apparently the fat guy who can burp and fart at the same time? Well, that's funny by crikey! Give me a break. I can understand why Rock and Spade, two legitimately funny standup performers, do little to actually contribute here, because I am sure that being next to Sandler allows them a bit of comfort so if the question "how do you sleep at night while you compromise your integrity?" is ever asked, I am sure the answer would be "on a nice mink stuffed mattress courtesy of my check from Sony."
That's right, James' burping and farting is designed to do what exactly? Parody or troll those who parody the Jamesandlerockade quartet? I don't think so, I think it is an honest attempt by them to interpret what they think is funny to most people and translate that outward. Consider that in the first two and a half minutes of the movie, a deer walks into Lenny's house in the early morning and watches him and his wife sleep. When the deer is startled, it gets on its arrears and starts urinating on Lenny, who is still lying in bed. It leaves the room and goes to the bathroom, where Lenny's oldest son is showering. It urinates some more on the son who is screaming, not only because he is in some wilderness R. Kelly video, but now his mother has gotten up and is seeing this happen to her naked teenaged son. Having shattered the household, the deer runs down two flights of stairs (after apparently going up them surreptitiously, like a deer ninja) and out of the house. This is comedy according to Adam Sandler.
There are a host of other stunts that are designed with the intent of being funny (at the earlier mentioned car wash, washing down Shaquille O'Neal, one of a myriad of guest stars as is the case in any Sandler movie) but are not, but that one is easily the most egregious. The film is not 100 minutes of dumb stunts, as Deanne and Kurt are dealing with possible cracks in their marriage as they celebrate their 20th anniversary, or while Marcus (Spade) attempts to reconcile with a teenaged, previously unknown son, but it is marinated in a lot of dumb comic acts meant to be laughs. Things that have been done so many times it is mind-blowing to think that they still could be considered funny even at a base level.
Perhaps sadder in all of this? Grown Ups 2 made more than $130 million domestically and almost $250 million worldwide. These two films combined have made more than half a billion dollars. So count on there being more Grown Ups movies until everyone punches their neighbor in the genitals until they promise to never do this again.
A glorious 1.85:1 widescreen, high-definition presentation with an AVC encode from Sony adorns Grown Ups 2. And image detail and clarity is something that is striking, starting with an aerial opening shot over the countryside, with lots of greens in the trees looking vivid and clear. In closer shots individual hairs and occasional pores can be spotted. Colors are without excessive saturation and film grain can be spotted early on during viewing. Studio gives high(ish) profile title a solid to excellent transfer, which has to be the expectation at this point, yes?
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless is what you get here, with the overall result being just as good as the transfer. As distasteful as the deer sequence is, it helps shows off just how good the soundtrack is, with directional effects and channel panning which forebodes how present these elements are in the listening experience. Dialogue is consistent and well-balanced throughout, and the subwoofer gets a better than expected workout during the movie. Sony does just as right sonically to the film as it does visually.
Things start with eight deleted scenes (6:28) that add little to the experience, followed by "Look Who Stopped By" (4:26), a quick look at the new regulars and guest stars for the movie (of which there are many), while "The Feder House" (1:31) shows us the undertaking to make a set out of a huge expanse of Massachusetts land, while "Mr. Spade's Wild Ride" (2:10) is where Spade's scene in a huge truck tire is shown. "Shaq and Dante: Police Force" (1:53) is a quick piece with the player and Sandler stock company member Peter Dante goofing around onset. Grown Ups 2 comes with a standard definition disc and a code for streaming/downloading through Ultraviolet.
After watching both Grown Ups films, I am left with several feelings. First is the shame I feel for the country and the world for patronizing these things. Second, that Paul Thomas Anderson looks more and more like a genius for Punch-Drunk Love, and third, the production budgets of these movies are such that there may be some light extortion going on. But that may be hyperbolic. Technically the disc is fine, even if the supplements are nonexistent. Go read a book, as watching this will make you dumber…er.


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The Home of DIY Handyman: How to install, hang and fix a pocket door
The Home of DIY Handyman: Pocket door repair by Bud Spofford.
For anyone who has a pocket door it is a frustrating experience when it falls off the track. It usually hangs up in the opening and cannot be opened or closed. And it is always better if you are not locked in the room when the door decides to fall off the track.
What is involved in re-installing a pocket door? The repair itself is not too difficult. The challenge is in finding the parts, if any may be needed. Installing or fixing a pocket door is a fairly ambitious project for the DIY home handyman. It is one of those projects that may be done once in a handyman lifetime, except for someone like me who does at east 4-5 of these repairs annually. With every call I make it seems the fix, or the repair is always a different challenge. No two doors seem to be the same. The reason for that is because the design and hardware of the pocket door has changed over time, plus each manufacturer has a different idea on how to best hang a pocket door.
The tricky thing from a DIY home handyman viewpoint is where to begin. Let me offer some suggestions so that your experience is worthwhile and rewarding.
The first thing is to never wrestle the door out of the opening. Chance are that will damage the door even further and if the door has a nice finish it may be marred or bruised in the wrestling match-better to go nice and easy from this point forward.
One trick is to get a flashlight and shine it in the opening to see what it happening in there. You may observe a few things, such as; is the door off the track, or did the track come down? Did the roller come off the door and still in the track or did the wheels of the roller come off the track? The idea here is to find a way to carefully remove the door from the opening, that is unless it is a matter of simply raising the door and placing it back on track. It may seem the obvious answer is to simply lift the door and place back on the track, and yes sometimes that is the case. However, if it fell once it may fall again. Better to find a permanent solution instead of a quick fix.
Assuming you will find a permanent solution to once and for all fix the pocket door for good it may require a complete removal of the door from the pocket. By design a pocket door does not simply come out of the pocket. There are pieces of trim (wood casing) in place from the original installation. These pieces hold the door in place and must be removed to get to the door. On our website you will find a step by step tutorial. Take a look and come back here with any questions.


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The Dakar Rally may be the world's most grueling test of man and machine. The BFGoodrich tyres used for the 2018 Dakar Rally include products raced and tested across the globe, but BFGoodrich Tyres doesn't just race to learn, we race to win.
The 2018 Dakar will see BFGoodrich® provide its partners and the 300 or so other competitors it equips with several types of tire to cover the varying technical characteristics of the cars and cater for the different conditions competitors can expect to face in the course of their two-week 8,000km-plus journey through Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.
The Dakar is a formidable challenge for tires which need to contend with a uniquely challenging cocktail of sand dunes, different types of ground, sharp stones and big temperature fluctuations due to the altitudes visited by the rally. Because of features like this, cross-country rallying provides tire manufacturers with a mine of information.
BFGoodrich's engineers are effectively proud to have access to such a unique, extreme laboratory to optimise the performance of the brand's all-terrain tires. Their numbers include the popular BFGoodrich® All-Terrain T/A KO2 which was designed to deliver durability and outstanding traction.
BFGoodrich® has four tire types for its partners on the 2018 Dakar:
The BFGoodrich® All-Terrain T/A KDR2+: engineered to address the Dakar's unique challenge
The BFGoodrich® All Terrain T/A KDR2+ incorporates the latest technologies that have been developed by the American off-road specialist with a view to delivering even greater versatility and resistance than its predecessor which, until now, was regarded as the sport's benchmark. The BFGoodrich® KDR2+ is a major asset for Dakar competitors as it enables them to take the event's increasingly challenging terrain in their stride.
The BFGoodrich® All Terrain T/A KDR2+ was engineered to combine enhanced grip with improved steering response and traction – especially on muddy ground – with no detriment to overall performance. At the same time, it carries over the very best qualities of its predecessor to guarantee optimal efficiency when running on hard-packed or sandy terrain, climbing dunes or driving on aggressive, rocky trails in searing heat (Dakar Rally stages visit altitudes ranging from sea level to more than 4,000 metres!).
The improvements made to the BFGoodrich® KDR2+ are essentially a new tread and a stronger construction which also provides added protection against punctures.
For the first time on the 2018 Dakar, the BFGoodrich® KDR2+ will equip both two- and four-wheel drive vehicles, thereby offering the same high level of performance to all the brand's partner teams, irrespective of vehicle type.
From the initial design phase and simulation work to testing in real-world conditions, X-Raid, Toyota Overdrive, Toyota Gazoo Racing and Peugeot Sport all played active roles and the end-result is a product that perfectly meets their needs.
For each of the sizes in which the BFGoodrich® All Terrain T/A KDR2+ tire is available (two-wheel drive vehicles: 37/12.5-17 / four-wheel drive:245/80-16), there is a choice of two compounds: soft (S) and medium (M). This will allow the brand's partner teams to adapt their respective strategies as a function of the stages' profiles and the prevailing weather conditions.
The BFGoodrich® All-Terrain KDR: for four-wheel drive cars
The BFGoodrich® All-Terrain KDR is similar to the KDR2 and was designed to deliver grip on all the types of terrain competitors can expect to come across on the South American event. Extremely robust, it is engineered to shrug off the punishment dished out by the Dakar's gruelling stages, while at the same time ensuring the necessary traction to avoid getting stuck in soft sand.
This has been achieved thanks to a strong but flexible casing that is capable of running at speed with low air pressures, while still delivering optimal traction. Designed for four-wheel drive cars, the BFGoodrich® All-Terrain KDR (245/80R16) was also developed to withstand damage to side walls.


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The PCM has detected a fault in the clutch position sensor circuit. The clutch position sensor circuit is sometimes called the clutch start switch because it must be closed for the starter to engage. This code applies only to vehicles equipped with a manual transmission. If this code is exhibited in a vehicle with an automatic transmission, suspect a defective PCM or programming error.
If the PCM detects an abnormal voltage or resistance reading from the clutch position sensor circuit, a code will be stored and a malfunction indicator lamp may be illuminated. Some vehicles will require multiple failure cycle in order for a service engine soon lamp to be illuminated and some models will not illuminate a service engine soon lamp at all.
Symptoms may range from non-existent or could include failure of the engine to start, the engine may start without the clutch depressed, a stored code, and an illuminated service engine soon lamp.
The most common causes of this type of malfunction code being stored are due to a defective or misadjusted clutch position sensor. Other possible causes include shorted, open, or corroded wiring and/or electrical connectors.
Technicians report that the starter/solenoid is frequently condemned in error when the clutch position sensor is at fault.


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siteplanit needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Logo for a web consulting company aimed at helping businesses and organizations in our local community develop professional looking, yet affordable websites.
a logo that plays off the word planit using something that ties to "planet" possibly. Clean logo, that would look great on a white background, and the ability to have a version that is stacked and square as well as a version that's rectangular. Would like something that pops, a little cartoony would be ok (but still clean and professional overall).
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Why did Pantone re-engineer their system?
Answer: Technical advancements in today's marketplace inspired us to redesign our PANTONE FASHION+HOME Color System. We designed our new SMART System to meet the "Speed to Market", "Lower Color Management Costs", and "Higher Color Quality at Point of Sale" requirements that are necessary in today's global market. We engineered our new standards for optimum consistency, commercial reproduction, and exceptional performance characteristics.
How long has it taken Pantone to create the SMART system?
Answer: This was a painstaking process that has taken over 2 years to complete. We dyed hundreds of lab dips to develop each color and only moved to dye the fabric for our SMART standards when the dyestuff combinations were clearly reproducible across multiple lab and production equipment.
What are the most important aspects of the partnership with Clariant International, one of the world's largest textile colorant and chemical producers?
Answer: There are many benefits that result from this partnership.
If my vendor is having a problem matching a Pantone SMART color, is technical support available to help them?
Answer: Pantone/Clariant take pride in offering on-line color matching at www.MatchPantoneColors.com , in-plant technical support for color matching, and spectral data to minimize the color development timeline. If a vendor is having difficulty matching your color, Clariant's application experts can step in and help make your color inspiration a production reality. Thousands of dyestuff and chemical application experts are ready and waiting to help match your color. Visit www.MatchPantoneColors.com to find contact information for the Clariant representative near your mill or vendor.
Why can I usually find the color I'm looking for in the Pantone system but have difficulty when using other color systems?
Answer: This is not an accident; your color is there by design! One of the most important features of the PANTONE System is its relevance to your marketplace. At its inception, Pantone evaluated 10,000+ products in the fashion and home markets to select the most relevant shade for those industries. Every few years, we add new colors that reflect market trends and new core shades. Most other color systems in the market today were created using a theoretical or randomly generated color gamut. The result: many of the colors are often very close in shade and have limited production application.
Why are SMART swatches individually packaged?
Answer: SMART swatch packaging serves several purposes. The packaging keeps the swatch in pristine condition until you are ready to use it. It keeps the swatch free from dirt during storage and shipping and also keeps the swatch smooth and wrinkle-free. Due to the nature of the material used to make the package, the swatch is protected from UV rays, which could otherwise fade the color of the swatch.
Does the SMART swatch packaging film contain BHT?
Answer: No, the film does not contain BHT and will not cause any color changes caused by fabric yellowing.
How long will the SMART swatches last?
Answer: To protect SMART swatches during storage and shipping, each SMART swatch card is packaged in an airtight, BHT-free, UV protective pouch. Although it is impossible to predict exactly how long a swatch will retain its color integrity, unopened swatches will maintain their color integrity much longer than if they were not packaged in our protective pouch. Once SMART swatch protective pouches are opened, local conditions and the way the swatches are stored will determine how long the swatches remain valid. Since this is beyond our control, we cannot determine the effective life of the swatches once the protective pouches are opened. To maximize the life of your SMART swatch, we recommend that you store them away from direct light in a temperature controlled environment (70° F or 21° C, 50% RH).
Why is spectral data important?
Answer: Spectral data is essential in digital color evaluation and communication, and Pantone offers spectral data on all 1,925 SMART colors. In combination with a PANTONE SMART color swatch card, spectral data helps to reduce metamerism and provides the most accurate standard combination for multiple vendor production of garments and home furnishings products. Spectral data also allows users to create a permanent digital library of color standards that will not fade or age and communicate PANTONE Colors electronically.
How do we know that the swatches being shipped from inventory in other countries match the color we have chosen from our swatch file?
Answer: We have improved our own manufacturing processes by ensuring all spectral readings are done in temperature and humidity conditioned environments, and our lab-to-production correlation is less than 0.5 Delta E CMC(2:1). Every dye lot is evaluated against the master digital standard and must pass both the digital and visual evaluation to become a PANTONE SMART color swatch card.
FYI – Pantone conducts all visual and instrumental evaluations under D65 lighting in a temperature and humidity controlled environment. For optimum color viewing and color measurement, we recommend a temperature of 70° F (21° C) and 50% relative humidity.
What if I can't find a key color needed for our palette in the Pantone system? Will Pantone custom dye my color?
Answer: Yes, Pantone has been providing custom dyeing for many years. While custom dyeing your colors will negate the "Speed to Market" benefits of our off-the-shelf SMART color system, it is a service we can provide to Pantone customers.
My primary light source is not D65. Can PANTONE'S SMART system colors be matched under my light source?
Answer: Yes, SMART colors can be matched under any light source. These colors have been engineered for optimum color constancy. Constancy refers to how the color matches itself when lighting conditions change. For example, a color with high constancy would look very similar when viewed under D65, CWF and TL84 light sources. Though it is impossible to completely prevent color inconstancy, Pantone and Clariant expertly evaluate every dyestuff combination to minimize this affect. Of course, color management best practices dictate that you should always view your proposed color palette in the light box under your primary light source before finalizing. If you like the way the colors look under those conditions and your vendor matches their light flare characteristics, you will have good results.
If I am using the PANTONE FASHION + HOME color palette how do I know which publication would be right for me?
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Major League Baseball, alarmed by its historic low 7.7 % of African-American players on opening-day rosters this season, will announce the creation of a formal task force Wednesday to help reverse the decline, three MLB executives told USA TODAY Sports.
The executives spoke on the condition of anonymity because Commissioner Bud Selig has yet to announce it.
The 17-member committee will consist of owners, executives and coaches, including Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, Chicago White Sox vice president Kenny Williams, Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg and Southern University baseball coach Roger Cador.
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Selig is urging them to find ways to increase the pipeline of diverse athletes to baseball, particularly African-Americans.
The African-American percentage in baseball this season is the lowest since the Boston Red Sox became the final team to integrate its roster in 1959, according to a USA TODAY Sports study that includes major-league players on the opening-day disabled lists. It's a drop from 8.05% last season, a dramatic decline from 1995 when 19% of the rosters were African-American players, and far from the peak of 27% in 1975.
"I never thought I'd see anything like this,'' Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan told USA TODAY Sports in a telephone interview from Los Angeles on Tuesday. "But I've seen it coming. There, for a long time, there were a lot of African-American players to look up to and emulate, but there's not enough big stars now to dissuade them from basketball and football.''
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While Hollywood celebrated the premiere of "42'' Tuesday night, the story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947, four teams opened the season without a single African-American player on the opening-day roster - the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. The Giants, who have won two of the last three World Series championships, did not have a single African-American player in their major-league camp. There are 18 teams who have two or fewer African-American players, with the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees accounting for nearly 17% of the African-American population in baseball.
"I'm not sure there's a way to stem the tide,'' said Morgan, Cincinnati Reds senior adviser. "There has to be more involvement to attract athletes to come here. Let's hope this committee will help. There's no doubt the movie will open eyes, but after that, let's wait.''
Major League Baseball launched its RBI program (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) in 1989 and has built four urban academies with three others being developed. MLB rosters are comprised of 28.2% foreign-born players - the fourth-largest total in baseball history - but still struggle to attract many of the best athletes in the United States.
There were seven African-American players selected in the first round of last year's June draft, the most since 1992.
One factor that could reverse the trend in the long term: Concern over head injuries in football. Tuesday, a class-action lawsuit was brought forward by about 4,200 former NFL players in federal court alleging negligence and fraud in handling concussion-linked injuries.
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Ford Escape driver side lean
edited July 2014 in Ford
I've got a 2008 Escape, V6 3L, 2wd. It's got 1/2" lean towards the drivers side of the vehicle which is noticeable both front and rear. Tire pressure is fine. Dealer swaped from side to side both the front and rear springs with no change in the lean. Does anyone have any ideas as to the cause and solution? It would be greatly appreciated.
Are you sure someone didn't hide contraband in the doors? Seriously this is a strange situation.0
Yes, and my dealer is just about out of ideas. The strange thing is, he's got another one on the lot which has the same type of lean to it.0
WOW thats strange the only thing that comes to mind (since you already swapped springs) is having 1. a damaged strut/shock 2. a damaged suspension control arm/bushings or 3. a damaged suspension cross-member.0
Yeah, except for the fact that he's got another one with the same type of lean. I've talked to him about getting a Ford rep down to look at it so I guess that if nothing is found I'll have to pursue that. Of course I'm one of those guys that seeing something like this just bugs the hell out of me.0
So the dealer has another one with the lean.....
But, perhaps your Escape and the one that is in their lot came off the same shipment and same carrier truck.
Could both vehicles have sustained the same damage due to transport???
They do harness vehicles very tight and with chains, if the guy driving the truck with the shipment of vehicles did not harness the vehicles properly from the correct areas, the damage may have been sustained then.
Just a thought!0
Problem fixed. Got a Ford engineer involved and found out the following:
All Escapes could have this problem. Somewhere along the assembly line they are supposed to be checked and if the problem is found they are supposed to be corrected but a lot of them are getting through for whatever reason.
The reason there is no TSB's on this is that not enough people have complained about the problem.
The fix is to insert shims in the rear between the sub-frame and the suspension. This is what Ford does to fix the problem on the assembly line.0
Update... Problem not fixed.
After working with my dealer on this problem I've found the following:
1) In my case it's not possible to shim the body both front and rear enough to solve the problem. For example, if you try placing enough shims to solve the lean on top of the front strut you'll run out of threads on the strut bolts.
2) In the rear you've basically got to double the shims for the amount of lean. For example, if you've got a 1/2" lean you've got to place 1" of shims between the rear sub-frame and body.
3) I've found that my '08 Escape is not a rare occurence of this problem. I've gone to 2 dealers and found that the first dealer had six '09 Escape's on his lot. I got out my tape measure and found that every one of them had the lean, from 1/4" to 3/4". I went to the second dealer which had three '09 Escapes, got out the tape and all of them had the lean also. I also called my son who lives in NY and had him measure his '09. He's got a lean.
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?????? From what I've found I can only assume Ford is sending the Escape from the factory with this "defect".0
randomdecoy Posts: 1Jeff,
I own two Escape's; 2009 Limited 4x4 and 2010 XLT FWD hear in St Louis MO USA. Both have this exact condition. The 2009 is about 3/4" lower at the rear above the wheel on driver side, while the 2010 is about 1/2" lower at the same location. Tires are inflated same, no detectable damage found so far to either Escape.
Took 2009 to dealer, somehow their ruler reads 5/16" difference between left to right in the rear...which they say that Ford states is within mfg specs.
My ruler still reads around 3/4" difference on the 2009.0
Yes, hard to believe there's an allowance for acceptable body lean. I've seen so many with this lean that I can't understand how they are being shipped out this way and that Ford is ignoring the problem. I saw one not too long ago on a dealers lot that had to have a lean of at least 1 1/2 inch.
I've not been able to get this problem fixed/solved so the best of luck to you on it.0
pdmclay Posts: 4If you are on a country road, does it sit level? A slight lean to the left eliminates a constant need to to steer to the left, combating the angle of drainage for roads, thus saving your tires and your power steering.0
davicho Posts: 190LMAO!
No excuse for a poorly manufactured vehicle. No car should have a lean on purpose!0
No road car is designed to lean one way or the other. Should be level. If it leans something is wrong.0
komondor4 Posts: 4Funny I noticed mine was looking a little low on the left but did not think much of it!
Will now need to measure in the garage and see how low it is!0
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Last week, we had a post on Donald Trump's surprising lack of financial contribution to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
We were surprised, given that Trump has been a prominent public backer of the former Massachusetts Governor since January, that the FEC reported the billionaire celebrity real estate mogul giving a lot less than we had expected.
But today got a call from Trump's executive vice president and special counsel Michael Cohen, who told us that Trump has actually donated a lot more money than the FEC has reported so far.
According to Cohen, Trump has given millions to SuperPACs supporting Romney's campaign, and is also one of the campaign's "bundlers" — an exclusive group of big-money fundraisers who the Romney campaign has kept secret. Cohen also said that Trump has gotten his whole family to pitch in to make Romney president.
It's still weird that the FEC doesn't have a public record of what was described to us as a series of contributions to Republican causes over the past two years, but what we were told is still really interesting.
It turns out that Trump has pulled out all the stops when it comes to donating to Romney, and the disclosures we were looking for haven't been released by the Federal Elections Commission.
Michael Cohen, the Executive Vice President and Special Council to Trump, gave us a full look into Trump's work on the campaign to elect Romney.
According to Cohen, Trump has donated "millions" to SuperPACs which support the Romney campaign. He wouldn't say which ones, and since disclosure requirements for SuperPACs are sketchy, we may not find out.
Still, looking at the Romney SuperPACs that have raised more than a million dollars to support the Republican, it's plausible that groups like Restore Our Future, Club for Growth Action, and American Crossroads have raised from Trump.
SuperPACs are organizations that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on elections, all without the same disclosure requirements of typical Political Action Committees.
Cohen also told us that Donald Trump is one of the people referred to as a bundler, or a person who uses their personal network to raise large amounts of cash from friends for political campaigns.
Controversially, the Romney campaign hasn't disclosed their bundlers, but Cohen told us that Trump has "raised mega-millions" for Romney and groups affiliated with him.
Even more, Trump has raised from his own friends and family. Cohen says that Trump has maxed out contributions to Romney, and — per his request — so have his three children Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric through the Romney Victory Fund,
The Romney Victory Fund is a way for donors to max out their contribution with a single check. It achieves the maximum amount of Party and PAC funding that the FEC allows— $70,800 per cycle — split between a number of different State PACs and Party Committees to stay legal.
It also maxes out the contribution to the Romney campaign, bringing the full donation to $75,800.
Cohen told us that Trump donated at the behest of his friend Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner, and also did so through his attorney in Texas, Paul Jensen.
Cohen, on behalf of Trump, was very open about the whole process. The billionaire real estate developer has come out, according to Cohen, as Romney's "most active surrogate."
If this is all accurate, we stand corrected when it comes to what we said last week about Trump stiffing the Romney campaign.


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Agilent Technologies has presented its latest Thought Leader Award to Rohit Bhargava, founder professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois Cancer Center in Urbana-Champaign, US, in recognition of his pioneering work in the development of infrared spectroscopic imaging, and its application to life sciences research. Agilent's Thought Leader program promotes fundamental scientific advances by contributing financial support, products and expertise to the research of influential thought leaders in the life sciences and chemical analysis.
Bhargava is also the founder and director of the Cancer Community at Illinois program, which will be renamed the Illinois Cancer Center in early 2017. His work in the advancement of novel chemical-imaging technologies includes developing infrared spectroscopy modalities and demonstrating how they apply to cancer detection, diagnosis and prognosis. The Agilent Thought Leader Award, which includes funding and technology from Agilent, will allow Bhargava to develop new applications and software to facilitate infrared analysis of histological samples, in particular for cancer detection and diagnosis.
"We are grateful to Agilent for this support," Bhargava said. "This relationship will allow us to work together to further establish the field of digital molecular pathology using infrared imaging."
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Cultivating the Black vote, GOP's 'reverse Southern Strategy'
Raynard Jackson | 7/7/2014, 1:19 p.m.
(NNPA) – Last week's election results infuriated me and not for the reasons you might suspect. My anger has less to do with the outcomes of the various elections, but more to do with the means of getting to the outcome.
The most watched election of this year was the Mississippi Senate race between tea party favorite Chris McDaniel and six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran. Cochran was forced into a runoff last week, which typically doesn't bode well for an incumbent.
According to Professor Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, "In 37 of 40 Senate primary runoffs conducted since 1980, turnout had decreased from the initial primary to the runoff. In these 40 races, the combined turnout dropped by about a third from the primary to the runoff. And yet, this time [Mississippi Senate race], turnout went up by 18 percent, jumping from about 319,000 in the initial primary to about 375,000 in the runoff."
Astonishingly, there were more votes cast in the runoff than in the June 3 primary. McDaniel went from 155,000 votes to 184,000 votes; Cochran went from 153,654 votes to 191,508 votes. Without question, the Black vote saved Cochran. There is universal consensus on that point – liberal and conservative; Black and White; Democrat and Republican. But the analysis of how the Black vote led to Cochran's win has been totally misunderstood.
Make no mistake about it, Haley Barbour was the brains behind Cochran's resuscitation. Barbour is like a son to me. He is the former governor of Mississippi and former head of the Republican National Committee. A political genius, Barbour knows how to win; and is a helluva guy to get a drink with. Barbour knows how to operate without leaving fingerprints. But his DNA was all over Cochran's campaign. He is definitely ol' school.
What saved Cochran was the Republicans use of the "reverse Southern Strategy." The Southern Strategy was created by Kevin Phillips, a former Nixon aide, in the 1960s to sacrifice the Black vote (who were staunchly Republican) in order to pick up the vote of the White Southern Democrats opposed to civil rights. To this day, that keeps Blacks aligned with the Democratic Party.
The Cochran campaign did the exact opposite. They sacrificed the conservative White tea party vote to pick up the Black vote. They made a political calculation that they had maxed-out on their White support and their only way of winning was to expand their base of support.
The only option was to go after Black Democrats who had not voted in the June 3 primary. It was a stroke of genius.
What angered me about this last-ditch effort when, in fact, it should have a conscious development. Why did it take desperation to get the party and the campaign to do what was and has always been in its own best interest – cultivating the Black vote?
I was further angered that prior to the runoff, there was absolutely no mention of the Black vote by either candidate. Neither campaign had any Blacks on their campaign staffs or as consultants in decision-making positions.


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On August 2nd of this year, in his quiet garden at Kensington Palace, The Duke of Cambridge sat down with CNN's Max Foster for what would turn out to be one of the most highly anticipated royal interviews in a long time.
From a CNN press release issued on Monday:
Prince William's Passion: New Father, New Hope will premiere this Sunday in the UK at 6pm on ITV, and at 10 pm ET on CNN. The documentary chronicles Prince William's passion for conservation in Africa, and how as a new father, he find himself more committed than ever to saving Africa's endangered species.
In the film, Prince William recalls how his love for Africa was born, remembering his late mother Princess Diana when she returned from her trips: "She would come back with all these stories and full of excitement and just passion for what she had been doing and I sort of used to sit there, quite a sort of surprised little boy at the time, taking it all in."
In the hour long special, Prince William shares with CNN's Max Foster the evolution of his passion for conservation. From childhood tales told to him by his parents, to memories of visiting Africa for the first time, to his proposal to the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William recounts the pivotal role the continent and its endangered species have played in his life.
As a new father, what he once "believed," he says he now "feels" on a much deeper level, and hopes that Prince George can experience the same Africa that he and his brother did as boys.
Prince William's Passion: New Father, New Hope will also feature exclusive footage of the Royal couple's first public appearance together since the birth of their son at the Tusk Conservation Awards. The Duke of Cambridge, as the Royal Patron of Tusk Trust – a dynamic organization that funds development programs in Africa – will present the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa.
The Prince spoke with CNN's Max Foster and programme maker Jane Treays writing for Radio Times…
Here are some of the highlights:
During the course of the interview, his Royal Highness was shown a horrifying video clip of a rhinoceros killed by poachers. With eyes filled with tears, Prince William admitted that becoming a father had sharply deepened his resolve to fight the evils of poaching.
"The last few weeks for me have been a very different emotional experience – something I never thought I would feel for myself," he told her for the documentary, Prince William's Passion: New Father, New Hope, which will be screened on ITV and CNN from 6pm on Sunday.
"I find, even though it's only been a short period, that a lot of things affect me now – when I see a clip like that there's so much emotion and so much feeling wrapped up into conservation and environment, It's just so powerful."
"The wildlife is incredibly vulnerable and I feel a real protective instinct, more so now that I am a father, which is why I get emotional about it… you want to stand up for what is very vulnerable and needs protecting. Elephants, rhinos and many other animals that are persecuted don't have a voice."
"I do regularly daydream, and Africa is definitely one of the places I go to. I've got hundreds of animals on my iPhone, noises and sounds of the bush, so if I'm having a stressful day, I'll put a buffalo, a cricket or a newt on and it takes you back instantly to the bush. And it does completely settle me down."
"Africa emotionally and mentally has affected me. It's magical. Every time I go back it brings out new things. This is a lifelong commitment and I'll always be involved… no matter what."
Upon watching the disturbing clip, an emotional William said: "You'd think something that big and that's been around so long, would have worked out a way to avoid being caught and persecuted, but they really don't.
"I do feel anger, but I also feel really great hope that we will overcome this as a human race. The more we raise the issue and the more education there is… I wouldn't be here right now if I didn't think there was a chance it could be successful. Poaching is now probably the worst I've ever known it, but I am not the kind of guy to give up."
"It's horrifying… It's hard to put into words, the depth of sadness that I would feel if they became extinct," William said. "The way they are doing things is getting more and more sophisticated. As soon as you find a way of dealing with it, they find another. Education is such a huge, important issue, to educate everyone involved in the illegal markets about the damage that can be done and the implications of what they are doing."
The Prince also recognises the need to find a practical solution to poor villages whose crops are in constant danger of being trampled by elephants.
"We have to remember how desperately poor these guys are… this is all they have known, living in these communities with their cattle and goats, and they will protect them to their last breath. Their water and grazing is in very short supply. Conservation has to have these communities' blessing."
Does the Prince have a soft spot for any particular animal? "Ha, that's a hard one! I have to say I do love cheetahs, they are the most docile, awesome creatures. They can be lying perfectly quietly, and then… an absolute killing machine. It's the elegance of them, they way they look at you… they would come quite high on my list."
"It's just the most incredible sight," said The Prince, recalling how he put his hand on a tranquilised elephant awaiting relocation, "to get on the ground and see it and feel its chest going up and down as it's breathing and you're sort of looking after it. It was incredible."
About camping in the bush during his gap year, William reminisced:
"I'd usually be worried about something coming into my sleeping bag! I'm not so good with spiders and snakes, but the bigger stuff I don't mind. And the smells and the noises get every one of your senses going. Being out in the middle of nowhere, I loved it, I really did… stars 360 degrees around you, sleeping on the ground, and getting back to where we all come from… it's quite moving."
"For me, it's a sense of freedom. Being out in the middle of nowhere in Africa, looking at the projects, seeing the beauty of nature and the natural world, is just phenomenal. I love the fact you can go into any village in Kenya or the east coast of Africa and just walk in and have a chat with someone and they have absolutely no idea who you are. Usually my Swahili stops after about two sentences but we muddle through in English!"
The royal Family's enduring love for Africa is multigenerational, as Richard Palmer of The Express reminds us. It was on that fateful day of her return from Kenya, in 1952, that a young Princess Elizabeth learned of her father's passing, and was hit with the daunting reality of her impending queenship.
William's grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, was the first ever President of the World Wildlife Fund UK, an endeavour now taken over by his father, The Prince of Wales.
It was in Africa that Diana, William's mother, became an advocate for AIDS orphans and the dismantling of land mines.
"The legacy is quite a daunting one, following on from my grandfather and father. It just sort of happened," William said. "My mother would come back with all these stories, full of excitement and passion for what she had been doing and I used to sit there, quite a surprised little boy, taking it all in – and the infectious enthusiasm and energy she had rubbed off on me."
"At the moment, the only legacy I want to pass on to him is to sleep more and maybe not to have to change his nappy quite so many times,"'said William of his two-week old son, "but as he gets older, I'm sure he'll pick up the bug of conservation."
The full August 2nd interview can be read in Radio Times coming out on newsstands today.


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Can you imagine wearing an industrial filter mask for the next 20 years, every time you walk out the door to protect you from air pollution?
This is effectively what is needed if you live in one of many mega cities in China, where the level of tiny, airborne particles known as PM2.5 regularly reaches "unhealthy" to "very unhealthy" levels.
Filter field result on 27 Nov 2012 showing how much PM2.5 you inhale outdoors in 24 hours in Beijing.
An estimated 8,572 acute premature deaths occurred in four major Chinese cities in 2012, due to episodes of high levels of PM2.5 pollution, a study by Greenpeace East Asia and Peking University's School of Public Health has concluded.
If chronic illnesses caused by PM2.5 (fine particulate matter 2.5 microns or less in diameter) and the resultant deaths are counted, the health cost would be significantly higher.
From the Chinese perspective, it is the feared impact to public health, rather than climate change, that is the real driver of increasingly tough governmental action to curb coal consumption.
On December 5, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) announced a 350 billion yuan (US$56 billion) plan to reduce air pollution during the 2011-2015 period.
Termed the '12th Five-Year Air Pollution Control Plan', emissions cuts will be targeted in 117 cities covering 13 geographical regions, including the major economic hubs of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. Pilot controls on coal consumption are being introduced in the three hub regions as well as in Shandong province.
The MEP's plan requires, by 2015, a reduction in:
These reductions are significant because coal consumption has been shown to contribute up to 40% of total PM2.5 pollution in some eastern megacities such as Beijing and Guangzhou. The MEP's plan complements the tougher air quality standards introduced by the State Council earlier this year —which include limits on PM2.5 and other pollutants in cities.
Satellite image of pollution haze covering eastern China on 11 December 2012. Copyright: NASA
Action is not only being taken by the central government. Earlier this year, key regional governments have already begun to act. For example:
So, does this mean that China is going to stop burning coal overnight? No. But it does mean that the International Energy Agency's projected increase in international coal consumption and coal trade is too high.
The IEA said that even though coal demand growth is slowing, "coal's share of the global energy mix is still rising, and by 2017 coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world's top energy source".
This is line with the current policies scenario that the IEA said will lead to approximately 5.3 degrees global warming – a disaster for global efforts to stem climate change.
But the IEA's outlook on coal consumption and trade is likely to be on the high side given public worry about the horrendous toll on human health and the global climate, alongside competition from renewable energy increases.
Moreover, the outlook continues to place China in a lead role in terms of its hunger for coal and fails to take into account a transition phase that China is entering into, both from an economic and social perspective.
Besides the fact that almost all coal-fired power plants in China have been losing money since 2011, around 30 to 35% of proposed new builds have been delayed, according to China's State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC).
Importantly, the rising concern over coal's health impacts is leading to accelerated change.
The Chinese authorities, backed by the Chinese public, are starting to refuse to accept coal's horrendous external costs – a development that will only gather pace in coming years and dull the country's appetite for the commodity that is choking its cities.
Iris Cheng, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace International
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My readers know what disdain I usually have for stagey sweeps stunts, so imagine my shock at being sucked into the very beginning of last Friday's episode of Days of Our Lives and then spit out an hour later thoroughly entertained … and even thrilled!
The plane carrying various members of the Brady family returning from Ireland had veered off course and the hour featured passengers fretting for their lives and scrambling for a dwindling oxygen supply while John and eye-patch-wearing Steve (a one-eyed flyer?) struggled to pilot the failing craft into some kind of landing. The episode was filled with a feeling of suspense and urgency like nothing I've ever seen done on a soap opera. It was more like [Read more…]


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HOOKSET, N.H.—UMass Boston (5-2-1) used a three-goal flurry over a span of nine minutes early in the third period to down Johnson & Wales University (R.I.) (2-6) 7-4 in the first round of the Manchester PAL/Stovepipe Tournament Saturday afternoon.
With the win, the Beacons advances to the Championship Game Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. against the winner of host Southern New Hampshire University and the University of New England. It is the fifth straight year the Beacons have made it to the title game, with UMB winning three of the past four.
Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) led the Beacons third-period rally with the game-winning goal and two assists in the period. For the game, the sophomore finished with a goal and three assists.
Six other players scored in the win including freshman Derek Colucci (North Scituate, R.I.) who scored his first collegiate points with a goal just 2:37 into the game.
Seniors Rob Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.), Mike DeGrazia (Novi, Mich.) and Tim Niedzielak (Chicago, Ill.) each scored, with Florentino adding two assists, to grab the team-lead with nine.
Freshman Frankie DeAugustine (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Kit Sitterley (Mooresville, N.C.) added the final two goals for the Beacons.
Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) made six saves on six shot over the course of the third period to earn his third win of the season. Fellow goaltender Matt Meisenbacher (Basking Ridge, N.J) made 10 stops on 14 shots in his second career start.
UMass Boston dominated the contest with a 56-20 shot advantage. The Wildcats penalty kill was able to hold UMB's power-play off the scoreboard for the first time all season, as UMass Boston went 0-for-2. Johnson & Wales had slightly more success, finishing 1-for-3.
The Beacons jumped out to an early lead just 2:37 into the game, when Tim Richter (Naugatuck, Conn.) found Colucci, for the freshman's first career goal. Johnson & Wales evened the score late in the first period, when Jason Pietrasiak found the back of the net on the power play to even the score at 1-1 after one.
The Wildcats would grab their lone lead of the game less than minutes into the third period, when Josh Obregon scored unassisted. That lead would hold up for less than eight minutes, as Sitterley scored at 10:28, with Florentino and Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.) picking up assists.
Florentino would help UMB grab the lead back at 3-2, when he scored at 11:12. Freshman Max Reavis (Omaha, Neb.) and Daniel were credited with assists on the play.
The two team would trade goals over the next five minutes with Alex Porrier scoring for the Wildcats and DeAugustine finding the back of the net for UMB. Sophomore defenseman John Houston (Pittsburgh, Pa.) picked up his second assist on the year on the DeAugustine marker.
Erick Vos would tie the game for the final time at 16:58 of the second period to send the two teams into the second intermission tied at four.
UMass Boston wanted no part in another overtime game, as they outshot the Wildcats 15-6 in the third period, while lighting the scoreboard up three times.
Daniel got the scoring underway at 3:20, when freshman Andrew Crawford (Medford, Mass.) found him for his team-leading second game-winning goal of the year.


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Reasons Irish Emigrated
Generally, the Irishman's reasons for emigrating--if not compelled to do so, to countries abroad were due to an intolerable convergence of circumstances including, but not limited to:
- dire economic conditions that destituted families
- austere political policies such as the Crown's Penal laws (from 1695-1829)
- a series of circumstances surrounding devastating crop failures especially in the mid-19th Century.
- social and religious persecution against most nonconformists and Catholics (the dominant segment of Irish society)
Dunseverick Harbour
Many local people began their long emigration trail during the 1800s, being rowed out to catch a passing schooner bound for Glasgow or Londonderry (see above view) where they would embark on one of the many emigrant ships to Australia, New Zealand or the Americas.
If the 17th and 18th century Penal laws of the Royal Crown leveled at many Nonconformist societies, and in Ireland--especially Catholic society and later, i.e. the Highland Clearances in Scotland--could mostly be summed up in one word: "brutalisation" seems to fit the bill for those times. For example, from at least as early as the year 1603, imagine a family homestead which prior to this time was once held by the family for several centuries, but was suddenly ripped from beneath their feet and which forced many onto the 'street' in abject poverty practically overnight.
These and other intolerable conditions in Ireland forced Irish (especially Catholic) emigrants to leave the country.
There were four central motivating factors which caused so many Irishmen to turn their backs on their homeland, in order to escape and thrive in a new existence abroad:
Political Culture of Persecution
- Austere taxation and tithes policies
- Continual doctrine of 'Conquer and divide' policies enacted over centuries seized and evicted lands from native Irish Catholics
- Could not hold public office
- Could not practice law
- Cruel landlords (not all--as there were compassionate ones among the many)
- Sponsorship of land price increases ('rent-racking')--allowed to unbearable rate levels--tossed hoards of already poor families, 'out onto the street'
- Could not build a (i.e. Catholic) chapel/parish or live within 5 miles of the civil parish church
- Disallowance of land ownership for all Catholics
- British government backed England's grain exportations—but not Ireland's; farmers emigrated
- New farming techniques increased output, decreasing the need for agricultural laborers
- Manufacturing industries sprang up, causing less emphasis in farming
- Irish poor-law provided means by which vast numbers were granted mostly free passage to countries abroad
Social and Religious
A culture of social and religious persecution by the local Protestant-led and British Crown government was manifest in utter disregard and total distrust of Catholics' loyalty to the Crown, and escalated to harsher laws enacted, such as the 1695 Penal laws passed by the Crown government, which stripped many Nonconformists and of course Catholics in Ireland of their civil rights to—
- choose between attendance in a Catholic, or a Protestant place of worship
- vote
- enter a profession
- receive an education
- serve as officers in British armed forces
- teach in, or enroll in colleges
- defend themselves with weapons
- be employed or an employer in a trade or in commerce
- own a horse of greater value than five pounds
- purchase nor lease land
- inherit land or moveables from a Protestant
- buy or receive a gift of land from a Protestant
- rent any land that was worth more than thirty shillings a year
- reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent
- be a guardian to a child
- hold a life annuity
- leave infant children under Catholic guardianship
- accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan
- attend Catholic worship
- educate his child
- be instructed by a local Catholic teacher nor be educated abroad
- practice their own religion outside of the Protestant faith
Crop Failures
- Devastating crop failures—especially The Great Famine from 1846 to 1851 decimated or starved to death, nearly a million people
- British government's lack of food aid to Ireland during The Great Famine coerced nearly half the surviving population to leave Ireland
- Famine brought abject poverty, severe malnutrition inducing poor health, and adversely affected (to some--even death) 3-4 million Irish
- During the Great Famine years: Grains out of Ireland, were exported to England, while Irish were dying from the famine or causes due to it
Further Reading
1. O hEithir, Breandan, A Pocket History of Ireland, The O'Brien Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1989
2. MacManus, Seamus, The Story of the Irish Race, The New York Irish Publishing Co., 1921


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'Glee' Recap: 'The End of Twerk'
'Glee' explores the cultural phenomenon of twerking in their newest episode, 'The End of Twerk,' and boy is there a whole lot of twerking going on.
In an effort to get the New Directions to stand out at Nationals, Mr. Schuester (Matthew Morrison) decides they need to rebel and has Kitty (Becca Tobin) and Jake (Jacob Artist) hold twerking lessons while an angry Sue (Jane Lynch) looks on.
Meanwhile, Rachel (Lea Michele), desiring something different in her life, gets a bob haircut to help her get out of her funk about Finn (Cory Monteith). This angers her 'Funny Girl' director Rupert (Peter Facinelli) because she did not get his approval. However, his opinion changes when he sees how the haircut completely transforms Rachel's performance of 'You Are Woman, I Am Man' with her co-star Paolo (Ioan Gruffudd).
No worries, though, Lea Michele fans. It turns out to be just a wig -- in both the show and in real life.
In order to continue her goal of destroying the Glee club, Sue goes on the news to talk about twerking, telling the audience that she will outlaw twerking in McKinley High as well as get a law passed to ban twerking in all public schools.
An angry Will rebels against Sue's ban by inviting the entire school to twerk in the hallways while he and the New Directions perform Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' which he believes is about metaphorically blurring lines. In response, Sue fires him for performing a sexually-charged dance to a song about date rape with minors -- decision he promises he will fight.
With her new-found rebellious confidence, Rachel convinces Kurt (Chris Colfer) to take a walk on the wild side with her and get tattoos. Not only that, but drink Limoncello and then get tattoos. Never a good idea.
The next day Kurt shares his brand-new ink, which accidentally reads "it's gets better," and Rachel admits she backed out and didn't get a tattoo at all. Even worse, Kurt finds out it was his fault the tattoo was so grammatically incorrect in the first place. In order to convince Kurt to keep on taking risks, said tattoo artist offers to fix it up for him.
Back in Lima, Unique (Alex Newell) is trying to use the men's bathroom while dressed as a girl when he's attacked by some jocks who throw his wig in the toilet. An upset Wade sings a somber and emotional version of 'If I Were a Boy' by Beyonce about the situation.
Instead of dealing with Unique's problem, Mr. Schuester puts on a presentation for the School Board about the evolution of banned dancing and poses that in 20 years, twerking will be viewed as "silly" and "nostalgic," asking them to reconsider their decision and be on the "right side of history."
Unique goes to Sue to personally request a unisex bathroom, but in usual Sue style, when she agrees it ends up being a cruel joke, and she bolts a purple porta potty covered in question marks in the glee club room.
To finally rectify the situation, Will has a heart to heart with Wade and gives him access to the unisex faculty bathroom. Sue says that she'll give Unique a key to that bathroom if Mr. S stops the kids from twerking. He refuses on the grounds that civil disobedience is a good thing, throwing a Sue Sylvester-style tantrum as he leaves.
And just to add another plot line into the mix, being the brand-new terrible Cheerio that she is, Bree tells Marley (Melissa Benoist) that after rejecting Jake's sexual advances in 'A Katy or a Gaga' that he went to Bree and they had sex. Marley confronts Jake, and, realizing that he did in fact cheat on her, she runs crying to the auditorium where she sings 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus.
Continuing his rebellious streak, Kurt shows Rachel his newly-fixed tattoo, which now reads "it's got Bette Midler" and his brand-new tongue piercing, both of which he got to help him feel more alive in the wake of Finn's passing. When Kurt leaves, Rachel goes into the bathroom and lifts up her shirt, revealing a tattoo reading "Finn" on her ribcage.
Mr. Schuester announces the end of twerking for Wade's sake, and the kids agree to embrace who they are for Nationals. Cue the New Directions singing 'On Our Way' by the Royal Concept in the auditorium as Jake watches Marley sadly go off on her own.
Only time will tell if they patch things up next week in the Billy Joel-themed episode -- complete with special cameo by model Tyra Banks!


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The Names Within The Names main content.
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Paralamyctes prendinii, Zygothrica desallei, Pumilia novaceki: if you look closely at scientific names of these living and extinct species, Museum curators like Lorenzo Prendini, Rob DeSalle, and Michael Novacek jump from the page. Now, Melanie Stiassny, whose name was previously lent to an African electric catfish, has been doubly honored by the proposal of Stiassnyiformes as a name for a large order of fish within the spiny rayed group. Colleagues from the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris are revising the messy taxonomic relationships among the 16,000 spiny rayed fish that exploded in numbers about 60 million years ago and represent about a third of all known vertebrates.
A skeleton of a grouper within the proposed order Stiassnyiformes. (Click to see a larger image.) Melanie Stiassny/AMNH
"The spiny rayed fish are a massive problem for morphologists," says Stiassny. "In 1993, I suggested that the grey mulletat loose ends taxonomicallywas related to guppies, damselfish, and other species. What is really cool is that the new molecular survey found strong support for this idea."
Colleagues often use the names of scientists to honor their discoveries. Mark Siddall, for example, used DNA analysis and electron microscopy to upend what was known about a parasite that infects fish; Myxobolus siddalli is not related to single-celled protozoans but to jellyfish and other cnidarians. Mammalogist Rob Voss also has a parasite named after him. As he muses, "So far, just one fossil mouse and one filarial parasite have been named for me. I think both were well-intentioned, but with parasite names, one never knows!"
When it comes to scientists studying animals encased in exoskeletons, the numbers of species bearing a scientist's name jumps, although this is not surprising since arthropods are such a large portion of the world's biota. Off the top of his head, wasp taxonomist Jim Carpenter can recall a Vietnamese stingless bee and five species of potter wasps named after him, while Toby Schuhhas had three genera of true bugs named for him: the neotropical groups Schuhocoris, Schuhella, and Schuhgasterall based on specimens he collected. Norm Platnick and Jerry Rozen, who have been in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology for 35 and 49 years, respectively, each have about two dozen species that bear their names. Platnick, for example, connected a genus of tarantulas known only from female specimens to a group of small, bizarre, and enigmatic males (each species is highly sexually dimorphic), and the bee Zikanapis rozenorum was one of the species named for both Rozen and his wife to highlight their shared fieldwork.


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