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It's become obvious to me that I would love to specialize in finding records for female ancestors. And if I ever get to conduct that research out of an actual office, these are the kind of newspaper articles that will be framed on my walls.
I have been using Google News Archive to do some client research, and in that search I found that the Pittsburgh Press (along with many other papers I'm sure) ran a regular column called "Of Interest to Women." Out of curiosity, I decided to see what exactly that meant 100 years ago. Here's what I found.
Source: Betty Vincent, "Of Interest to Women," Pittsburgh Press, 4 May 1911; online images, Google News Archive (http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xA0bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=60gEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2843%2C747259 : accessed 4 May 2011).
1911-speak for "She's just not that into you."
Remember, in this next one, they are engaged:
Now it's "proper" to friend someone on Facebook and tag them in your photos within minutes of meeting them. Apparently, receiving a photograph from someone was a big relationship step in 1911.
That's an interesting perspective to consider. It made me think about all of the extra etiquette rules my female ancestors had to know. It was apparently confusing for them also, given these frequent advice columns.
Now, below the advice column, is some "Health and Beauty Advice" from Mrs. Mae Martyn. The second ingredient here, after sugar, is something called "kardene."
This is supposed to cure "that sluggish, tired, half-sick feeling"? This all seems to be personal advice, designed to answer questions to specific women. This poor lady is only named "Too Fat:"
"Parnotis"? I had to stop and Google that, and "kardene." And behold. Think advertising aimed at women is manipulative now? Look at what appeared in the paper all the time, for our ancestors to read.
Source: "Pharmacology," Journal of the American Medical Association 24 (11 Dec 1909): 2019-20; online archives, JAMA (http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/LIII/24/2019.full.pdf+html?sid=bba9a52c-88f3-41bc-a1c1-3c7c5678b89e : accessed 4 May 2011)
Basically, the AMA determined that this was an advertisement purporting to be an advice column, and that the "miracle drugs" mentioned were mostly common household products that were altered in a small way. "Nostrum," the article calls them - snake oil. Then they made up "medicinal-sounding" names for these drugs, and listed them as cures to what are still commonly preyed-upon insecurities: "tired eyes," blackheads, weight, "sallow complexion," etc.
Reading through this has made me appreciate even more that a woman's sphere of interests (or at least, what the media perceives as our interests) has expanded in the last 100 years beyond beauty tips and discussions of proper etiquette.
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Late last week several officers with the Sunnyside Police Department took part in active-shooter training. That means they trained for an event involving an individual and individuals with weapons.
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Several volunteers were on hand to portray potential civilians in each scenario.
The officers trained at Sierra Vista Middle School, but Officer Sam Ramos, the department's trainer, said the training is useful in any populated situation such as a mall or store.
Schenck said the goal is to have every Sunnyside Police Department officer trained to respond in such scenarios where active shooters may be involved.
"Working with Grandview and Sunnyside trainers allow all officers in Yakima County to receive this training," said Schenck, stating it is important for officers who may be working in conjunction with one another to understand what is expected of them.
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Pryor plans to step down as state education commissioner
The controversial state Department of Education commissioner who led Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's school reform effort is stepping down just as Malloy's re-election campaign gears up for November.
The governor's office announced Monday that Stefan Pryor is looking for a new job and will not seek a second term, which would coincide with a new term for Malloy if he is re-elected.
Pryor's three-year tenure was marked by major changes to student testing and teacher evaluations designed to narrow what is considered the nation's largest student achievement gap. But the breakneck pace of the changes turned off many parents and educators and loomed as an election issue.
Tom Foley, the governor's Republican opponent, declined to comment Monday on the announcement. Others had plenty to say.
State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, who lost the Republican primary to Foley, has been calling for Pryor's resignation for months. On Monday, he called Pryor a political liability.
"The governor is trying to save face with public school teachers, who he's insulted and disrespected for almost three-and-a-half years," McKinney said.
The impending departure was also celebrated by Jonathan Pelto --a petition candidate for governor -- as great news and long overdue.
Pelto said Pryor and his team were "anti-teacher, pro-standardized testing, privatization zealots" who have "done immeasurable harm to Connecticut's public education system."
"When it comes to actually supporting Connecticut's public schools, Malloy's true intentions remain unknown, but Pryor's departure is a small step in the right direction," Pelto said.
Others predict Pryor's departure won't turn back the clock on school reform.
Jennifer Alexander, chief executive officer of the Connecticut Coalition of Achievement Now, called Pryor a tireless advocate for Connecticut students but said "improving education for our kids is about more than one person."
Malloy officials made no mention of the governor's re-election campaign in their announcement. Instead they called Pryor a much-needed change agent.
"In the three years he's led the department, we've taken tremendous steps forward to improve education, with a particular focus on the districts that have long needed the most help," Malloy said. During Pryor's tenure, graduation rates rose and Connecticut's 12th grade reading and math scores were deemed tops in the nation.
Pryor, in a written statement, said he thoroughly enjoyed the job.
"The work has not always been easy, but start to finish and top to bottom, it has been extraordinarily worthwhile," he said.
Malloy named Pryor his education commissioner in the fall of 2011, picking then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker's deputy mayor for economic development to help shape an ambitious education reform plan.
Until then, Pryor had spent most of his time on economic development issues. But in the mid-1990s, when he was a law student at Yale University, he helped start Amistad Academy, one of the state's first and most successful charter schools.
One of his first challenges as commissioner was to look after the state takeover of the Bridgeport school board, which occurred months before his arrival. It was Pryor who convinced Paul Vallas, a nationally known education reform figure, to come to Bridgeport for what turned out to be a tumultuous two-year stay.
The charter school connection was recently called into question when it was learned Family Urban Schools of Excellence, a private charter school management firm that had been given millions of dollars in state money to run schools in Hartford and Bridgeport, was operated by a convicted felon who lied about having a doctoral degree. A federal investigation is underway into that firm's finances and hiring practices.
The state has also responded with new rules for charter school operators.
State Rep. Andrew M. Fleischmann, D-West Hartford, co-chairman of the legislative education committee, said Pryor's job was to take the governor's vision and implement it.
"That's what he did his level best to do," Fleischmann said. "Our curricular standards in Connecticut were outdated and it made sense to join the 48 states looking for new standards that are going to move Connecticut students farther ahead."
Pryor also was accessible, helpful, honest and always willing to explore alternative solutions, said Danbury Schools Superintendent Salvatore Pascarella, co-chairman of the Connecticut Association of Urban Superintendents.
"Under his leadership, increased resources and greater opportunities were provided to the students in our urban settings," Pascarella said.
McKinney, however, said it was a major mistake to include high performing school districts in the sweeping reforms.
"Now we have parents, teachers and administrators across the state saying let's scrap Common Core and start over," McKinney said.
Foley told the Hearst Connecticut Media editorial board earlier this month that he too thought towns with successful schools districts should be exempt from Common Core requirements and tests.
State Sen. Antonietta Boucher, R-Wilton, ranking member of the Education Committee, said Pryor came into the position with strong edicts, if not orders, to push education reforms that ended up angering teachers.
The teacher evaluation system, besides factoring in student test scores, was deemed by many to be too complicated and time consuming. The Common Core, meanwhile, was rolled out even as teachers were still learning to master the new system. Eventually, both efforts were slowed down.
"Whether (Pryor's impending departure) placates teachers remains to be seen," Boucher said. "I think they will see through the smoke screen."
Mark Waxenberg, executive director of the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, said although it seemed the commissioner was losing trust among teacher and the education community, he didn't see Pryor as someone who had a hidden agenda to replace public education with private concerns.
"I believe that the end goal of improving public education -- our goal and his -- matched," Waxenberg said. "It was how to get there where there were disagreements and issues."
Even so, CEA President Sheila Cohen said her members are ready for a new day and called for the next commissioner to be one with extensive public education boots-on-the-ground experience.
Pryor's announcement comes on the day before Pryor was to address school superintendents around the state for an annual back to school meeting Tuesday.


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I would suggest a prayer to whatever you fell the need to pray to. Atheists may pray to the cash in their pocket for all I care. The idea is that we are not the center of the universe.
BTW Mac, what you refer to is Dogma, not spirituality. After having experienced the evil nuns as you have, I do not point to any specific way to pray. Just the need to reflect and take in all the possibilities. There is a missing spirituality in society I fear.
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In about a month I will be praying to the Gods of Davenport, hopefully to will be joining me
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Bardo--I don't know that the Mother Superior in my grade school was evil, just sick and twisted. Hard to know why, but it was part of that Irish Catholic stuff. Now the abusing priests, yes. And with 50% of the priests not practicing celibacy, and the organized church protecting the abusers not the abused, the Catholic hierarchy has been systematically evil.
Nobody raises any concerns about a moment of silence, at the beginning of the day, or at the passing of a friend. And a moment of silence, being non-denominational, does not fall afoul of the establishment clause. Someone can pray--or daydream. As someone who is horrified by what the organized Catholic church did systematically, and by much of what happens in evangelical churches, or Mormon dogma, or the nuttier versions of Islam, the idea of picking any particular form of religion or prayer, even without the Establishment clause, is just nuts.
I also need to respond on abortion, where your response was completely over the top. I decided many years ago that, whatever the law, I could not be in a situation where abortion was under consideration. So I was responsible for
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reproductive consequences. I have an adopted daughter, and another. But my moral authority ends there, with my own decisions. I do not have the moral authority to mandate my own views on someone who doesn't share them. The Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, which you might try reading, treats the decision about whether or not to have an abortion as a matter between a woman and her doctor. You are free to pray for any particular woman, or women in general, to make a decision that you believe is right. I have adopted, in an open adoption, a baby and I am eternally grateful to the birth mother for making a decision not to have an abortion, and to pick my wife and I to raise the child. two of my grandchildren were born two months prematurely, one with significant disabilities. As a medical, and legal matter, I do not believe that an embryo is the same as a viable fetus. You are free to disagree with that, and you are free to support political candidates that you hope will eventually overturn Roe v. Wade. But you are not free, under current law, to impose that view on another person.
Of course, support for contraception, given what we know about human nature and sexuality in the young, and making sure that abortions, if they occur, happen very early, is a much better idea. That would please us both by reducing the number of abortions, and the number of late term abortions. But the religious right and the Catholic Church have fought contraception, and have tried to create impediments to abortion that are ending up with more, and later term abortions in many cases. So I am unpursuaded by their moral authority on these matters.
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We again do not disagree by much. Sex selection and late term abortion are sickening to me. However, I'm not protesting for criminalization in the 1st trimester. I mentioned counceling prior to making any decision would be nice.
Glad to see you have a heart Mac. The act of adoption is an incredible sacrifice in both directions. We have adopted kids in our family. Adoption should be made easier and less expensive IMO.
, I finally sailed Davenport the summer before last on that really big swell. The channel was closing out, but I finally got the nerve to venture out. What a day for a 1st time experience. Save a wave for me. We have our own spot down here, but it's not quite as open as Davenport.
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I would suggest a prayer to whatever you fell the need to pray to. Atheists may pray to the cash in their pocket for all I care. The idea is that we are not the center of the universe.
BTW Mac, what you refer to is Dogma, not spirituality. After having experienced the evil nuns as you have, I do not point to any specific way to pray. Just the need to reflect and take in all the possibilities. There is a missing spirituality in society I fear.
So you were restricting your suggestion of school prayer to individual, private prayer while suggesting prayer alongside creationism? I find that a suspect pairing, but I'm happy to take your word for it.
To that end, there is no restriction allowed on private, individual prayer. None. At all. Whatsoever. Moreover, students can gather in groups to pray privately and also can form prayer clubs, scripture-study clubs and even host after-hours worship services at the school as long as he school places no restriction on any religion from using the space. The kids can pray with faculty and staff if part of an after-school club.
The constant harping on public school prayer derives from basic misunderstandings on the part of parents mostly and school administrators very rarely.
There is prayer in school before each algebra test, but there can be no school sponsored prayer. Rotating through different prayers led by students under the direction of the school is too great an entanglement to satisfy the Establishment Clause.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:16 pm
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Bard--I do read you pretty carefully, since mrgybe abandoned credibility and iso is plain nuts. You have been pretty reasonable about gun control, and have pointed out that assault weapons are a bigger symbol than the main problem. So I appreciate your viewpoint, even when I don't agree with it, and like that you have calmed down in expressing it. If the Republican party had your views on abortion, they would not have lost the women's vote by such a large margin. Like I said, I could never support abortion as an individual option--but that leads me, as a man, to responsibility--not to making the decision for the women in my life.
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Dorner is cooked.
All done, as you know, he's a pork rind by now, and I was lucky enough to watch it on the tube.
The entire thing reminded me of the last shoot out/stand off of the LAPD, and the SLA (the Symbionese Liberation Army) in south central LA, back in 1974 . The guys that kidnapped Patty Hearst, and robbed banks, Cinque (sp) being the leader, along with his 'lieutenants', trapped and surrounded by the LAPD in a house, in south central LA, got to see that one also.
Tear gas, fire, and they all burned up. But from what I understand, a tear gas canister, by it's self, won't cause a fire by its design, it needs an excellerant for that to happen, gas or kerosene pored around first, or something like that.
Just saying.
Bottom line, it's over (hopefully, in case some other weird thing happens).
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Dorner is cooked.
Sounds like you were watching the genuine news network. BSNBC probably hasn't figured out yet that that unexplained fire they saw yesterday was Dorner's funeral pyre.
From the LAT: "Just before 5 p.m., authorities smashed the cabin's windows, pumped in tear gas and called for the suspect to surrender. They got no response. Then, using a demolition vehicle, they tore down the cabin's walls one by one. When they reached the last wall, they heard a gunshot, officials said, and then the cabin burst into flames. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said he would not consider the manhunt over until a body was identified as Dorner."
Yet the BSNBC "Hairball" broadcast I summarized Tue evening occurred AFTER all that.
Wonder if BSNBC is supporting the (tens of?) thousands of people who openly SUPPORT Dorner's rampage as a legitimate form of protest.
Wonder is every last one of them lives in CA and/or recently attended an Ivy League school.
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GE just sold their remaining stake in NBC to Comcast. Righty wingnuts can longer blame Jeff Imelt and his GE in trying to shape policy via NBC. Go think up another wacked out conspiracy. And speaking of Biazarre...did anyone catch Doogie Houser's sweatathon response to the SOTU?
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Just bought a ton of GE stock 2 months ago!!!Schwinnggg!
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Overweight? Good Luck Getting Into Grad School
Body weight may play a role in grad school admissions. Jonnelle Marte explains on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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MACON, Ga. – As the No. 2 rebounding and scoring freshman center in the nation, Lipscomb men's basketball big man Stephen Hurt has been named the Atlantic Sun Conference "Freshman of the Year" as announced by the league on Tuesday.
"Stephen has really just scratched the surface," said Lipscomb head coach Scott Sanderson. "He is just now learning what he has to do to be a really, really good player. He's had a very good freshman year and put up pretty good numbers but he still has a lot to learn."
The Murfreesboro native has been a crucial part of the Bisons success this season averaging 11.8 points per game and hauling in 7.9 rebounds per game, a number that ranks third-best in the Atlantic Sun. The redshirt-freshman has notched eight double-doubles this season, the most since Adnan Hodzic earned eight during his junior season in 2009-10.
The first Lipscomb player to garner "Freshman of the Year honors", Hurt is often compared with Hodzic, who averaged 8.9 points per game and 4.3 rebounds per contest during his All-Freshman team campaign.
Following a 23-point, 18-rebound effort against Austin Peay, Hurt was named an ESPN.com "Top Performer" of the night. Hurt also won the A-Sun "Crons Achiever of the Month" for December as the top performer in the Atlantic Sun as voted on by the fans.
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Goals: Like its sister mission, Mars 6 (which arrived at Mars three days later) Mars 7 was to place a lander on the surface of Mars. The bus was to fly by the planet, taking measurements as it passed.
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Watermelon with Orange and Mint
Delicious, juicy, refreshing, just enough different, effortless, quick.
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- Barbara said...
Nice to hear from you Pille. Glad you liked the salad. The original recipe used rosewater and lemon balm leaves but I had neither so improvised.
- 2:09 pm, August 21, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
I know this will sound strange, but lately I've been trying a tiny bit of sea salt on watermelon chunks -- it's delicious! The salt is mild but brings out the sweetness of the watermelon. Love it with mint, too, as I've got tons of mint in my garden.
- 5:38 pm, August 21, 2008
Sea salt isn't at all strange. In fact it's part of the Mexican tradition where watermelon is one of the national fruits. For them, just a squeeze of lime and a shake of salt is all that's needed to turn it into a dream on a hot day. If you really want the Mexican experience then you also add a dash of chile powder. Viva Mexico!!
- 10:05 pm, August 21, 2008
- Jeanne said...
Simple, elegant - and so beautiful! Also pefect for people like me with a little watermelon sitting in the fruitbasket at home... ;-)
- 7:04 pm, August 22, 2008
- Paz said...
I love this recipe! I'm going to have to try it soon.
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- Valentina said...
Watermelon has summer all over it. I love the addition of orange and mint here.
- 4:48 am, August 25, 2008
- thepassionatecook said...
ah... perfect example of how the simplest is often best! This looks like a perfect summer dessert! I had some watermelon sprinkled with balsamico this summer, also a very nice twist. I like the idea of orange and mint very much, too!
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Getting Angry at our Enemies
When Scripture speaks of doing good to our enemies, it is focusing on the common, everyday interactions that we have with other people. This teaching is less applicable in cases of physical violence or wars between nations, although even seeking ...Read More
Is the fruit of self-control manifesting itself in your life? Do you lose your temper often, or are you able to control your emotions? Take some time to look at the relationships in your life to see whether you are ...Read More
The Trap of Vain Glory
Read Philippians 2:1–11 and Galatians 5:13–26. Have you pursued earthly success in order to fulfill your ambition? If so, consider giving up those positions or pursuits in obedience to God. In what other ways do you ...Read More


text: USDA Reports: Watch Corn and Soybean Exports June 11, 2013 03:50 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Fran Howard AgWeb Contributing Writer Email China could be the best hope for an increase in corn prices this year. Analysts will be watching U.S. corn exports when USDA releases its June 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE). China has already been purchasing U.S. new-crop corn at a record pace for this time of year, which could provide the best hope in this report for increasing prices. Looking at old-crop corn first, an increase in projected demand from the ethanol industry could offset demand losses elsewhere to leave the U.S. carryout of old-crop corn unchanged at 759 million bushels, according to average trade estimates. How USDA adjusts the new-crop corn numbers, however, will be far more important. "The question is whether production declines—whether in Wednesday's report or in subsequent reports—will be large enough to impact a very bearish new-crop scenario," says Rich Nelson, chief strategist for Allendale, Inc., in McHenry, Ill. Nelson and others do not expect USDA to factor in any major yield and acreage reductions for new-crop corn or soybeans in this report. Acreage reductions are more likely to occur when USDA releases its Acreage report June 28, and USDA probably won't factor in "real world" yield reductions until its July 11 supply and demand report, Nelson says. "USDA will not be showing us a full picture of production in Wednesday's report," Nelson adds. Agricultural economist Chad Hart of Iowa State University expects the June WASDE report to be similar to USDA's May estimates. "More than likely we'll see a high production estimate near 14 billion bushels, and demand could be pushed to close to 13 billion bushels," Hart says. "That means stocks will continue building, and supplies will continue to outstrip demand." While analysts expect the new-crop corn carryout to be substantially lower than USDA's May estimate of 2.044 billion bushels at a projected 1.795 billion bushels, it will still be substantially larger than both last year's 989-million-bushel carryout and this year's projected 759 million bushels. World Corn Crop to be Trimmed Turning to South America, projected corn production is expected to be substantially smaller in both Brazil and Argentina. The average trade estimate for corn production in Argentina of 25.9 million metric tons, if realized, would be 2.3 percent smaller than USDA's May estimate of 26.5 million metric tons. Likewise, analysts expect USDA to trim Brazil's corn production by 900,000 metric tons to 75.1 million from USDA's May projection of 76 million metric tons. World corn production could also drop due to reduced expectations in the United States. According to Chicago-based crop forecaster Lanworth, world corn production could drop by 4 million metric tons to 961 million metric tons. Lanworth cut its outlook for U.S. corn production 1 percent to 13.8 billion bushels due to an expected 800,000-acre reduction in corn plantings in Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin. New-Crop Soybean Stocks to Build Analysts expect USDA to drop carryout for old-crop soybeans to 121 million bushels, a 3.2 percent drop from last month's 125 million bushels and a more than 28-percent decrease from last year's 169 million bushels. The average trade estimate for the new-crop carryout of soybeans is expected to increase somewhat from USDA's May estimate of 265 million bushels to 268 million. Allendale's estimate for the new-crop soybean carryout of 296 million bushels factors in an increase in U.S. soybean acreage of 1.75 million acres and a 43.35-bushel trend yield. While higher than the average trade estimate, Allendale's projected carryout falls well within the range of estimates of 185 million to 344 million bushels. Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture recently trimmed projected soybean production to 81.3 million metric tons. Brazil's official estimate compares to recent projections from Swiss-based Informa of 82 million metric tons, 82.5 million from Allendale, and USDA's May estimate of 83.5 million metric tons. Last year, Brazil produced 66.5 million metric tons of soybeans. "Certainly, China's soybean import numbers will be important," Nelson says. "But the trade probably won't get too excited about Brazil's and Argentina's production numbers." Informa anticipates world soybean production to reach 286.6 million metric tons for the 2013-14 crop year, slightly higher than USDA's May forecast of a record 285.5 million tons. Back to news


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Ocean Observing System(OOS) Programme:Equatorial deep-sea current meter moorings
The Department of Ocean Development (DOD), Government of India, initiated the Ocean Observing System (OOS) programme in 1997 for long-term current measurements in the equatorial Indian Ocean through the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information System (INCOIS), Hyderabad. Under the OOS, 3 locations were selected along the equator for deploying the current meter moorings at 93E, 83E and 76E (Fig 1). The responsibility of executing the project Long-term measurements of the currents along the equator through current meter moorings was given to the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa. This project was implemented at NIO in 2002 after developing a suitable mooring design and procuring the current meters and relevant hardware. The mooring was designed with 6 Recording Current Meters (RCMs) at 100 m, 300 m, 500 m, 1000 m, 2000 m and 4000 m. The first deep-sea current meter mooring was deployed successfully in February 2000 at equator, 93E onboard ORV Sagar Kanya. This mooring was successfully recovered in December 2000 and data were obtained from all the RCMs. The mooring was redeployed and the new second mooring was deployed at equator, 83E in December 2000. In March 2002, these two moorings were recovered and data were obtained. While redeploying these moorings at the same locations, a new third mooring was deployed at equator, 76E. In October 2003, all the three moorings were recovered and redeployed for one more year, but the mooring at 76E was shifted to 77E (Fig 1). In October 2004, all the three moorings were recovered and deployed for another year. One Up-looking ADCP was placed at 100 m on top of each mooring. The recovery of these moorings has been rescheduled to March/April 2006 due to non-availability of the vessel ORV Sagar Kanya in November/December 2005. This project will be continued till March 2007 with funding from DOD, and might be extended possibly for another 5 years through 2012. Though there is no human-vandalism for the moorings, we often encounter heaps of Tuna-fishing nets around the top current meter, particularly at 93E mooring location. The time-series currents data were submitted to the INCOIS, Hyderabad and will be placed on the Websites of NIO and INCOIS.
Fig 1: Map showing the locations of the OOS Equatorial deep sea current meter moorings.
Table 1. Status of Deep-sea Current meter moorings along the equator under the Ocean Observing System (OOS)
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D: Deployment R: Recovery
The moorings at 93E and 83E and 77E were deployed for another year.
Table 2. Mean depths of RCMs in the deep-sea current meter moorings of duration given in the
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Table 3. Data filenames at the depths in each mooring as per Tables 1 & 2.
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10 ounces smoked salmon (use the good stuff, mine was caught in Alaska over the summer)
8 oz cream cheese
2 -3 tablespoons cream
fresh dill
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fresh ground pepper
caviar/salmon roe/ fish eggs of some sort. I wanted to use caviar but it was $65/ounce. The pink salmon roe was $19/2 ounces. The black caviar would have looked better but hey, looks aren't everything?!
Put the salmon, cream cheese, pepper and 1 tablespoon fresh chopped dill in the cuisinart and let er rip until smooth. Use the cream to get the consistency you want.
Spread onto the cracker, dot with 3-4 capers and a small spoonful of the roe.
What a delight this was. Flavors, textures (love that pop and salt sensation of the roe)and colors all combined to create a great appetizer. Served it with Vin de Bugey Cerdon pink sparkler and both the wine and the salmon went fast.


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Avrielle necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 571 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
Avrielle is an online boutique, offering hand-picked designer jewelry and accessories. Our mission is to help our customers define personal style through accessorizing, turning basic outfits into one-of-a-kind gems. At Avrielle, the importance of giving back is a core belief. We combined these passions when creating Accessorize with Care ™, our unique charity program that allows customers to donate a percentage from purchases to one of our participating charities.
Trendy/ fashion conscious females ages 18-39 who seek unique jewelry and accessories.
A note: I've come up with a concept, but if you have another idea you'd like to share, please feel free to do so, as long as it is readable, Vector based, and incorporates an original peacock feather and the name 'Avrielle'. I'm open to something fabulous; By no means do I want to hinder creativity!
My original concept: The name 'Avrielle' with a peacock feather coming out of the right leg of the 'A' and flowing underneath the entire name.
The peacock feather should look as realistic and natural as possible. Pay close attention to proportion when drawing the eye of the feather. If there is a way to incorporate the iridescence of the feather without looking tacky, that would be amazing. Nothing cartoon looking. Think Bohemian/ Free People website, with bolder colors. The wisps of the peacock feather should have a slightly wind-blown look to show movement and life! The wisps should go just slightly beyond the 'e' in Avrielle, or stop at the 'e'. Please draw the feather from scratch. No pre-existing images will be accepted.
Font should have a nice flow, but nothing too scripty that will become hard to read. The "v" should look like a "v", not a "u". 'A' should be uppercase and 'vrielle' should be lowercase.
Font color should be a cognac color, but I am open to other ideas. I also love green. Let's keep it beautiful and feminine, but also sophisticated (nothing too childish looking). Remember that people will be trusting my fashion aesthetic when it comes to jewelry, so the logo has to reflect this.
I'd like to see this logo in an all black version as well. Vector based only.
Good luck! If you have any questions, feel free to ask away.
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Is Economic Growth Good for the Bottom 40 Percent?
Lessons from the recent history of Central Europe and the Baltics
[1] Economic growth has returned to Central Europe and the Baltics [2]. With the exception of Slovenia, all countries are expected to see positive growth in 2014 - ranging from a tepid 0.8% in Croatia, to more respectable growth rates of 2.2% in Romania and 2.8% in Poland, to highs of 3-4.5% percent in the Baltic Republics. Europe, more broadly, is also turning the corner and is expected to grow at around 1.5% [3].
Amidst this much welcome growth, however, one question remains: will economic growth be good for the bottom 40 percent and can they expect to see their incomes grow?
By and large, yes. These European countries have a solid track record of ensuring that prosperity is shared – in the recent past the bottom 40 % have benefitted equally from income growth, in some cases like Romania even more than average (see Figure 1). So, with the usual caveats that the past is no guide to the future, we can be reasonably confident of a fair amount of shared prosperity. Typically, this will be through job growth and growth in earnings.
What, then, can governments do to ensure that this sharing is as strong as possible?
In the short run, at least two things can be achieved. First, as the economies generate jobs, governments can assist those who need help securing one. We know that those in the bottom 40% tend to have higher unemployment rates than those higher up in the income distribution. New analysis undertaken by my colleagues, Ulrich Hoerning and Ramya Sundaram, shows that in Bulgaria the biggest group of unemployed consists of middle-aged, mid-skilled men, with work experience, living in rural areas (23%). Other big groups are early retirees, mostly women 60-64 years of age (19%), stay-at-home mothers with a working partner (15%), and single young men not in education, employment, or training – known by the acronym NEETs (15%). While some of these groups can be expected to find jobs on their own, many can benefit from a helping hand.
Each group needs a different kind of assistance. The group of middle-aged, mid-skilled rural unemployed could benefit from assistance to find jobs and move to them, and possibly also from supplemental training. With no work experience, the group of single male NEETs may need both training and placement services, especially to land their first job. Stay-at-home mothers need support to find jobs but also assistance with childcare arrangements. Public employment services can be asked to provide more targeted assistance to different groups in place of the generalized assistance that is common practice. In fact, the payoff from helping young labor market entrants get their first jobs can have a significant effect on shared prosperity not only in the short term, but also over the long term - as early labor market experiences often affect longer-term employability.
Second, governments need to think about the elderly poor. In Central Europe and the Baltics anywhere from 10 -30 percent of the poor live in households where everyone in the household is 65 years or older. While some of the 65+ can and do work, many rely solely on pensions and other transfer payments as their main source of income. As governments continue to reduce budget deficits, they need to think carefully about where cuts in cash benefits should fall. Maintaining adequate benefit levels for the elderly at the lower end of the income distribution can go a long way towards sharing prosperity. The costs of such an approach can be paid for by restricting access to pensions at earlier ages – which can also serve to incentivize early retirees back to work.
In the long run, obviously much more needs to be done to maintain the track record of shared prosperity in these countries. But that is the subject of another blog!
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This is my first tournament, so hopefully it will work out without too much difficulty. Gunn217 is my tourney tutor, and, as much as I hate to take direction from him, he seems to run them well, so it should run smoothly.
- This will be a round robin style tournament with 8 teams. Please sign up with 4 team members and a team name...or, if you don't include a team name, I may make up a likely unflattering one for you.
- Each team will play 7 games on the Siege map. The team with the most wins takes the title.
- One game at a time.
- Next round games will be sent when all games are completed for the current round.(or as soon as I get to them)
- In the event of a tie, a best of 3 playoff will be used
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1. The Big Pigs - ukberger, alt1978, coconutt, gunn217
2. War - Kingm, hmsps, afroaction and saviorshot
3. The Fallen - chapcrap, Triple 6, sparkyball, nokelberry
4. Nordic Nation - blonderic, alexlau, cascades, marshallbobby
5. The Roy Munsons - aaronvollrath, jakevv, beeps, vicmasters
6. The Legends - Wharfedale7, Chard, Condor, Reptile
7. Hog Wild - Beer Baron, Dibbler, Padsta, JCR
8. The Handsome Hogs (aka Lesser Swine) - conchobar, eggrollonedolla, WILLIAMS5232, tkr4lf
• The Big Pigs (5)
• War (4)
• The Fallen (4)
• Nordic Nation (1)
• The Roy Munsons (3)
• The Legends (3)
• Hog Wild (6) - WINNERS!!!
• The Handsome Hogs (2)
Round 1
Game 12090643 The Big Pigs v. The Roy Munsons
Game 12090642 War v. The Legends
Game 12192132 The Fallen v. Hog Wild
Game 12090640 Nordic Nation v. The Handsome Hogs
Round 2
Game 12341070 The Big Pigs v. War
Game 12341068 The Fallen v. The Roy Munsons
Game 12341067 Nordic Nation v. The Legends
Game 12341065 Hog Wild v. The Handsome Hogs
Round 3
Game 12520241 The Big Pigs v. The Fallen
Game 12520240 War v. Nordic Nation
Game 12520239 The Roy Munsons v. The Handsome Hogs
Game 12520238 The Legends v. Hog Wild
Round 4
Game 12643004 The Big Pigs v. Nordic Nation
Game 12643003 The Fallen v. The Handsome Hogs
Game 12643002 War v. Hog Wild
Game 12643000 The Roy Munsons v. The Legends
Round 5
Game 12755404 The Big Pigs v. The Handsome Hogs
Game 12755403 Nordic Nation v. Hog Wild
Game 12755402 The Fallen v. The Legends
Game 12755401 War v. The Roy Munsons
Round 6
Game 12938434 The Big Pigs v. Hog Wild
Game 12938433 The Legends v. The Handsome Hogs
Game 12938432 Nordic Nation v. The Roy Munsons
Game 12938431 War v. The Fallen
Round 7
Game 13073692 The Big Pigs v. The Legends
Game 13073691 The Roy Munsons v. Hog Wild
Game 13073690 War v. The Handsome Hogs
Game 13073689 The Fallen v. Nordic Nation


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(Reuters) - The NFL's comeback kid takes on the king of the post-season when Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts clash with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots on Saturday for a place in the AFC championship game.
Four times this season, Luck and the Colts have erased double-digit deficits and rallied for wins.
Their never-say-die belief was on full display last weekend when the Colts staged one of the greatest comebacks in NFL playoff history, recovering from 28 points down in the third quarter to edge the Kansas City Chiefs 45-44.
The Colts will not want to spot Brady a four touchdown advantage like they did against the Chiefs, especially at Gillette Stadium where the Patriots went an unbeaten 8-0 during the regular season.
Brady was not always at his absolute best but the future Hall of Famer has always saved that for the post-season, recording more playoff games (17) than any other NFL quarterback.
With four touchdown passes against Indianapolis on Saturday, Brady would claim another line in the record books, surpassing Brett Favre and Joe Montana for the most post-season strikes.
"It's incredible to play in this," said Brady, who will try to send the Patriots through to their third straight AFC championship game. "These are the moments you dream about and you have a chance with eight other teams to be the last team standing.
"It's why we work hard. It's why every guy puts a lot out there. You sacrifice a lot of things. A lot of people would die to be in our positions."
Indianapolis and New England are no strangers to the playoff crucible.
The Colts have made the playoffs in 11 of the last 12 seasons, reaching the Super Bowl twice, for one win and a loss. The Patriots have advanced to the postseason in 12 of the last 13 seasons, appearing in five Super Bowls, and claiming three titles.
The experience between Saturday's starting quarterbacks, however, is vast.
While Brady has been under center for each of those playoff games, Luck will be making just his second post-season start.
Both quarterbacks had similar seasons with Brady throwing 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions while Luck tossed 23 touchdowns and was picked off nine times.
It was a particularly trying campaign for Brady, who has had to work with an almost entirely new supporting cast, after Wes Welker joined the Denver Broncos, Rob Gronkowski was plagued by injuries and Aaron Hernandez was dropped by the Patriots after he was charged over the fatal shooting of a friend.
Brady was still able to work enough of his magic so the Patriots join the post-season well-rested and on a roll, having won five of their last six.
New England's 10th ranked defense will have to deal with the Colts' dynamic young offence, led by Luck and second year wide receiver T.Y. Hilton, who had the best game of his young career against the Chiefs, hauling in 13 catches for 224 yards and two touchdowns.
One of the most intriguing matchups will occur on the sidelines where Indianapolis coach Chuck Pagano will match wits with one of girdiron's top tacticians, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, whose 18 playoff wins rank third on the all-time list behind Hall of Famers Tom Landry (20) and Don Shula (19).
"He's one of the best in the business and his record obviously speaks for itself," Pagano said about his opposite number. "He does a tremendous job with his football team week in and week out, season after season."
Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; editing by Julian Linden


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This past weekend I participated in the kickoff sprint for a truly remarkable program: The "Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects", or UCOSP. It's a program offered by Canadian universities, where students contribute to open source projects for course credit. This term there are more than 50 students involved from 19 universities. Six of them – students from UBC, Laurentian, Ottawa, and Waterloo – will be working with me on BlackBerry® Open Source projects, such as bbUI.js and our community BlackBerry® WebWorks™ extensions.
Despite being new to mobile, open source, and BlackBerry development, most students dove right in and were able to contribute right away. Here's what Andy Wu had to say about the weekend:
"I had a wonderful time at the UCOSP sprint over the weekend. Walking in with no previous open source development experience, I had no idea what to expect. Our mentor, Tim Windsor was very nice and helpful; he helped us getting started with minimum down time. He showed us the basics of BlackBerry development, including application signing, packaging and deployment to the test device. My first assigned task was creating a BlackBerry 10 native extension that exposes the LED API to JavaScript. The BlackBerry 10 NDK was super easy to pickup with the sample codes provided. I was able to get the extension working with a test application by the end of the weekend. Before the weekend ended, I used the fork and pull request on GitHub for the first time. This is my first step to the open source world."
Based on skillsets and interest, one half of the group is focused on extensions developed with C++ and JavaScript®, while the other half enhances the bbUI.js project for BlackBerry® 10. Karan Khiani, one of the students working on bbUI.js, said:
"This weekend has been quite breathtaking – coming together with likeminded people to work on the BlackBerry 10 platform has been a really rewarding experience. Tim guided us through the initial process, briefing us on the BB10 platform as well as guiding us in terms of the projects that we would be working on through the semester. We were given plenty of flexibility in picking between native application enhancement (C/C++) or UI enhancements using web technologies like HTML 5 and CSS 3. I decided to go with the web project.
"Upon arriving to Waterloo for the weekend, each of our team members picked a task that they would like to accomplish in the next few days. The task I picked was enhancing the functionality of some of the input controls for the BlackBerry 10 front end. This involved forking the existing repositories, writing the code that would add the functionality, testing the code and making a request to merge it back to the central repository. Luckily for me, I managed to finish all my tasks just in time before I had to leave Waterloo for the weekend.
The most refreshing aspect of my entire development experience was that I was able to set up my development environment in a matter of minutes. I look forward to spending the next few months with the guys at RIM and chipping in as much as I can for the BlackBerry 10 platform."
As participants in our open source development community, you'll be able to follow their contributions on our GitHub repositories and start using their updates in your own applications. Go there now to see the first pull requests that they have made. We'll post other updates from different students in early November and again in December, while I'll be tweeting updates and anecdotes from my account @timothywindsor with the hashtag #bbucosp. If you would like to join our growing community of open source developers, get in touch with me today!


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The Republican Party resembles an ugly and peeling wallpaper, circa 1950's. While the Republican pundits are scratching their heads in disbelief over election losses, they all saying essentially the same thing: we are a great party, we have a great platform, we have a great message and we have a great plan to solve our problems. In other words, the Republican Party thinks that it's perfect just the way it is and, hilariously, their only problem is falling down when it comes to getting their message out. Romney Iowa strategist David Kochel said "First of all, we've got to improve our mechanics and our organization," and "We got beat on data collection. Our polling was off. I thought that we spent way too much time in a defensive posture with our messaging.", here. Kochel also admitted that money was not a problem and the RNC/GOP machine had plenty of money "We certainly raised enough money. We don't have to fix that,".
The RNC has even launched a study to figure out why Romney lost and named the initiative the Growth and Opportunity Project.
RNC Launches New Initiative to Grow the Party and Win
The effort, known as the Growth and Opportunity Project, will be chaired by five GOP leaders and is charged by Priebus with initially reviewing past practices and also making critical recommendations for the future in these eight key areas: 1.) campaign mechanics and ground game; 2.) messaging; 3.) fundraising; 4.) demographic partners and allies; 5.) third party groups; 6.) campaign finance issues; 7.) presidential primaries; and 8.) lessons learned from Democratic campaign tactics.
The group will reach out to hundreds of individuals including RNC Members, grassroots activists, donors, elected officials, community leaders and other important partners to gain insight and help the Republican Party form a solid path going forward. These leaders will be involved in one or more of these critical areas.
The Growth and Opportunity Project is co-chaired by five prominent Republican leaders:
Henry Barbour, National Committeeman from Mississippi
Zori Fonalledas, National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico
Glenn McCall, National Committeeman from South Carolina
Sally Bradshaw, Veteran senior strategist in Florida and national politics
Ari Fleischer, Former White House Press SecretaryThe Republican Party will be making a big play to win over Hispanic and African American voters. However, it's a flawed strategy that is doomed to fail. Hispanics and African American voters who aren't already diehard Democrat loyalists are liberty activists, constitutionalists and Ron Paul supporters who have no use whatsoever for the GOP or the Democrats.
They will report their findings to Chairman Priebus and make recommendations for a long-term strategy for the future.
Non-conservatives and liberals think they perfectly understand the Republican Party - the Republican Party is nothing more than a party divided by radical Tea Party types and moderate Republicans in the mold of McCain or Romney. Liberals tend to view the election triumph of the Democrats as a sign that America has taken a hard left turn so their incessant gloating is intensely festive. CNN chirps in, here, "Listening to Republicans try to explain what went wrong in their worse-than-expected election thumping reveals a party struggling to define itself amid continuing change in the nation it seeks to lead."
The Republican Party can no longer define itself because it doesn't stand for anything except bigger government, bigger deficits, more wars, more corporate welfare and more bankster bailouts. Still, the GOP hopelessly clings to the spectacularly false legacy of Ronald Reagan as the real conservative Republican model while it searches endlessly for the reincarnation of the ghost of Reagan. A lot has changed since the days of Reagan. Blindly worshiping Reagan and Nixon as a gods will not bring back those good old days when the GOP racked up impressive victories.
1972: Nixon defeats McGovern 520 electoral votes to 17 electoral votes
1980: Reagan defeats Carter 489 electoral votes to 49 electoral votes
1984: Reagan defeats Mondale 525 electoral votes to 13 electoral votes
In many ways, the Republican Party is like a 3 legged stool.with 3 constituent legs - the social conservatives, the Rockefeller Republicans and constitutional liberty activists.
1. The social conservatives endorse big government and endless wars.
2. The Rockefeller Republicans endorse big government and endless wars but are very uncomfortable the social issues which they don't care about.
3. The constitutional liberty activists oppose big government, the damn wars, the trillion dollar a year foreign policy, the Federal Reserve and they really oppose the federal government meddling in the social issues because it's not a power specifically enumerated in the constitution.
What is killing the Republican Party is that the constitutional liberty activists will no longer hold their noses and vote Republican as they once did and this is a trend that surfaced in 2006 and was considerably magnified in 2008 when the Democrats took back the House of Representatives and won the presidency.
In fact, the liberty activists are so angry with the GOP that they are determined to guarantee its defeat by voting 3rd party for however long it takes for the liberty activists to takeover the GOP from the warmongers and fascists. The Gary Johnson vote delivered critical swing states to Obama in 2012.
Yet, the archaic Republican Party views itself as a party that can win elections just by firing up the intolerant social conservatives, beating the war drums for perpetual bankrupting wars and sprinkling some cold dead words like 'capitalism' in the toxic mix to camouflage the crony capitalist fascist economy. Here's how the GOP view itself and its base.
The Republican game plan has finally failed. In fact, it's a BIG fail but instead of embracing traditional Republican conservatism and the agenda of the constitutionalists and liberty activists, the Republican Party is absolutely determined to vigorously pursue the Democratic model of romancing the Free Shit Army while growing government, slashing civil liberties and pursing endless wars - all traditional Democrat ideals that dumped America into the statist cesspool without a life jacket.
Who got America into WW I, WW II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the Balkan Wars? - all progressive liberal Democrats that were perennially obsessed with their divine right to rule over everybody and every nation. Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson and Clinton were all hardcore warmongering statists, although Clinton's appetite for war was downright squeamish compared with the overt addiction to mass human genocide of the most intensely worshiped luminaries within the Democratic Party.
Interestingly, the anti-GOP establishment website, The American Conservative, posted a piece on the anti-war and anti-foreign interventionist roots of the Republican Party.
Why Conservatives Hate War
One of the odder aspects of present-day politics is the assumption that if you are antiwar you are on the left, and if you are conservative you are "pro-war." Like labelling conservative states red and liberal states blue, this is an inversion of historical practice.Exactly how the Republican Party managed to transform itself from the party of peace and constitutionally limited government into the Big Spending Progressive War Party is open to considerable debate and speculation. Somehow, the Republican Party became a wholly owned subsidiary of defense contractors, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, crony capitalism and the Banksters.
The opposition to America's entry into both World Wars was largely led by conservatives. Senator Robert A. Taft, the standard-bearer of postwar conservatism, opposed war unless the United States itself was attacked. Even Bismarck, after he had fought and won the three wars he needed to unify Germany, was staunchly antiwar. He once described preventive war, like the one America is being pressured to wage on Iran, as "committing suicide for fear of being killed."
Conservatives' detestation of war has no "touchy-feely" origins. It springs from conservatism's roots, its most fundamental beliefs and objectives. Conservatism seeks above all social and cultural continuity, and nothing endangers that more than war.
In the 20th century, war brought about social and cultural revolutions in the United States....
Russia's involvement in World War I gave us Bolshevism. Germany's defeat made Hitler possible. As the First World War shows, if a conflict is costly enough, the victors' social order can suffer nearly as badly as that of the vanquished. Not only did the British Empire die in the mud of Flanders, but postwar Britain was a very different place from Edwardian Britain.
The plain fact is, conservatives loathe unpredictability. They also know that vast state expenditures and debts can destabilize a society, and no activity of the state is more expensive than war. America's adventure in Iraq, driven in no small part by the quest for oil—which will now mostly go to China—has already cost a trillion dollars, with another trillion or two to come caring for crippled veterans. Even the peacetime cost of a large military can break a country, as it broke the Soviet Union. American conservatives used to be budget hawks, not warhawks.
If the Republican Party thinks that it can romance the Democrats into voting Republican, the GOP is delusional beyond comprehension. The DNC has a solid and historically documented monopoly on big government, endless wars and statism.
Maybe it's time to just seal the GOP's coffin because it's a party that is ideologically, socially and morally irrelevant, as well as indistinguishable from the Democratic Party.