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So the bastard sons and daughters will be acknowledged by their father in patch 3.2.
Now of course for many years now many players have considered twinkers bastards, especially when they enter battlegrounds with their stock standard toons for a bit of fun to break up the leveling grind.
I had a quick look through the patch notes this morning and noted that coming in patch 3.2 is the ability to stop earning XP.
This is awesome news on a whole lot of different levels, so let's cover some of them.
Pick your bracket and hang there
One of the issues with twinking is unwanted or accidental experience.
- Want to join in on holiday events – XP rewards prevent this.
- Need to travel somewhere, travel Xp is a danger.
- Want a change from the battlegrounds -better use another toon or risk loosing your bracket.
Now you will be able to do more with your twink without risking earning that 1 XP that pushes you out of the bracket.
Less pressure on grinding twink gear.
Likewise, you needed to plan early in your toon's career to pick up all the best twink gear. Now, you could in theory, level to 19 normally, then stop XP gains while you go run the required instances and quests collecting the gear. As many times as you need to.
Enjoy the rest of the game at your chosen level.
In many ways this isn't just limited to twinks. Maybe you want to explore all the level 1-19 content without out leveling it. Now you can. In theory you could continue to pick levels that you wanted to stop at and enjoy the view.
More toons available for old world content.
One of the big complaints of anyone that is leveling a new toon is the lack of equivalent level toons around.
Want to run Deadmines… Good luck finding a group! Most people need to grab a friendly high level toon to boost them through.
The change here is that now twinks can run these instances without fear of changing bracket. There are bound to be lots of players that are tired of the level 80 game, and will want to run their twinks through the old content.
Sure, you are still being boosted to some extent. A well geared twink is the equivalent of several levels higher than their toon suggests, but a level 19 twink will still be challenged where a level 80 won't.
Twink v. Twink
If you turn off the experience point gains, then WoW will consider you to be a Twink…
In future, when you enter the battlegrounds, you will only face off against Twinks…
All the other toons that happen to be at the same level, but want the experience rewards will be facing of against others in the same camp… thus less Twinks to beat you to a pulp. (Less because there may still be some twinks in the BG that have all the twink gear, but can handle a bit more XP.)
It comes at a price.
Of course it comes at a cost, but then anyone that has ever twinked knows you don't log on without it costing a few gold. To get fully geared it will cost you in excess of 1,000 gold, so what's 10 gold to prevent accidental levelling and allow you to enjoy so much more of the game?
Cost to Auctioneers
The bigger cost will come to avid auctioneers in the way of lost income. If a twink can stop xp gains at any point, they can now go and grind instances as many times as required to pick up their gear, both BoP and BoE.
There will still be some twinkers that would rather spend the gold than spend the time getting the gear, but I think the market will fall significantly, in part because twinks grinding instances will also make the BoEs more plentiful on the AH.
If you happen to love your battlegrounds, or are maybe a hardcore RPer wanting to level your toon through the war effort as expressed by the battlegrounds, you will now be able to earn XP by completing PvP objectives (not honor kills).
I dare say it will be difficult to level from 1-80 purely via PvP. The early levels in each bracket will be hell for most characters. Still, the possibility remains, and imagine the honor and PvP tokens you would have stashed away through pure PvP leveling.
If nothing else, this is a great opportunity for the x7-x9 characters to take a break from the PvE content, quests and grinding and enjoy a few levels of PvP per decade. Now it won't mean a complete halt to your leveling.
Best of both worlds!
Hierloom PvP gear
There's just one more change I think I would like to see.
Aurdon mentioned this morning that Twinking was already legitimized via the heirloom items. I disagree to a point. The heirloom items can be beneficial to twinks, but really they are designed to buff the leveling experience for those raising Alts.
What I would like to see is some heirloom PvP gear.
- Kindergarten Gladiator gear
- Primary School Gladiator gear
- High School Gladiator gear
Something built with PvP in mind, but purchased in the same manner as current heirloom gear.
Mage notes
On a slightly different note, Mages got some patch note "love" too.
Well, if you consider 3 lines love…
Still, I must say I am happy with an uninterruptable Invisibility… just need Evocate to join the club and there will be cheers all round!
Still, it's way too early to QQ… Way to early…
Ohhh, and Class Q&A Series: Mages by Ghostcrawler that I spotted over at Spooncraft
Remember, get your Blogday gifts to me TODAY… (but I will give you until Sunday 21st… 2 days in total!)
Gnomer and Out!
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"Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy–its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors–has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language."
–Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
"Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie's standing, in my opinion, at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists."
–Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun
"Rushdie's ideas–about society, about culture, about politics–are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. His reflective power lies in the way his fiction simply unfolds. All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D, full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slyly funny, red-blooded and red-toothed. [Fury] twinkles brightly in tragicomic passages."
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10 Commandments for Winning at Fantasy Football
This is the first in a series of articles geared toward winning at fantasy football. To find more content on useful ways you can win your league, click here
Fantasy Football's 1st Commandment: Know Thy Scoring System…
This is one of the most critical aspects of winning any league, and it pertains to several aspects each of which is important. Here are the keys we're focusing on at a minimum:
Scoring System
All leagues are different and you MUST fully know and understand how players score in your league. Sometimes you get 1 point per reception, sometimes you don't. Sometimes only certain positions get points for receptions. If you get points per reception (ppr), often that bumps up the value of WRs, and always bumps up the value of receiving RBs within the Running Back rankings.
Another major divergence amongst scoring systems is for Passing TDs and yardage. This rule is VERY important to know as it will help you decide when to take a QB. Typically leagues award 4 points per pass TD and either 1 point per 20 or 25 passing yards. In these scoring systems, we generally advocate waiting on your QB until nearly your whole league has a starter so you can load up on RBs and WRs and still get one of the top 10 or so QBs we like (see the 5th Commandment). However, sometimes you will see QBs getting 6 points per pass TD and/or 1 point per 15 passing yards, and in those leagues we do look to get elite QBs on our teams if the price isn't too costly.
There are many scoring intricacies that will help you decide the best picks each round, and that may include players getting credit for return yards and TDs, or it could be players losing points for int's or fumbles, but the key is to FULLY know and understand your scoring system.
Starting Requirements
The next most critical aspect of each league is how many players at each position you start. A typical league generally starts: 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, 1 K, 1D.
Often you will see a flex option that can be a RB, WR or a TE instead of, or in addition to 1 of those spots above. Sometimes you may be able to flex in a QB in that flex spot. Sometimes TE's are counted as WRs, sometimes they are not. There are MANY variances to starter requirements and every one of them will impact how you should build your team. Here are some examples:
-If you start 2 RBs and 3 WRs and have a flex spot, you may be starting either 3 RBs or 4 WRs each week. In this league I would almost always wait on a QB as I will need to accumulate as many productive WRs and RBs as possible.
-One league I am in let's you flex any position in that spot (QB). QBs score the most (as in most leagues), so I make sure to not only grab a QB early, I try to take 2 early. Maybe even 2 within the first 4 rounds, as I want a decided advantage over my competition every week at that position.
-Another league I start 2 RBs and 2 WRs every week with no flex, so I feel I can wait a little longer at WR and risk being a little weak there as I only start 2 of them and a strong RB corps can make that up.
-In another league I have to start 3 WRs, but only 1 RB and then there's a flex spot. Some weeks I start 2 RBs and 3 WRs and others I start 1 RB and 4 WRs. I generally look to get WRs early and often and make sure not to overlook the position (see the 6th Commandment), as I always will be starting at least 3 of them.
By now you get the point… every league has its own scoring system, and therefore its own custom strategy that is needed to take advantage of it. The good news is we are here to help you devise that strategy!
Roster Spots
This is the next most critical aspect of knowing your league, as it will determine how many backups you can carry at each position. Some leagues may also have a maximum or minimum you have to carry at each position, so you want to know this in advance. Examples:
-If a league has a small roster, maybe 16 or 18 slots, you generally want to carry only 1 Kicker and Defense, so you have spots left to Back up your Studs (see the 7th Commandment). We almost always want our top RB and maybe even our #2 (depending on the backup, again, be sure to read the 7th Commandment).
-If a league has a large and open roster (20 spots or so), then you can have some backups, maybe even a 2nd Defense to play matchups, and definitely some of our fliers or deep sleepers or even rookies that are a bit unknown.
The point is, know how many you can or can't draft beforehand and devise a strategy to best use those spots.
Free Agent Periods
This is more of In-Season maintenance, but knowing when you can pick up Free Agents and how to do it is CRITICAL to your success. I've always said:
"Championships are not Won at the Draft, but they are born there. They are won on the waiver wire".
You can't win your league at the draft, but you can lose it if you really have a bad draft. But the fact is every league I've won I've done well on the waiver wire. Sometimes it's only 1 or 2 key pickups, but they are absolutely imperative to your success throughout the season. So to succeed on the wire, you must know:
1 – How you pick up players – Does it go by the reverse order of the standings each week, is it Blind Bidding (FAAB), or something else?
2 – When you pick up your players - Is there 1 Free Agent period per week, or multiple? Is there a Free for all period? Can you pick up guys on Sunday?
All of these are options in different leagues I am in and I am sure there are many more options, so make sure to know yours and make moves every week to improve your team.
Number of Teams
This is getting a bit more intricate, but there are differences with how to draft in a 10, 12 or 14+ team league. Without getting too specific, be sure to know how many teams there are. It will affect how long you can wait for your QB, or other positions knowing if the talent pool is a bit deeper, like in a 10 team league, or much thinner as in a big league.
In summary, the message here is to take the time to decipher and dissect your league scoring and then to develop a custom strategy for building a team to take advantage of it. If you are not sure what that is, be sure to use one of your Live Advice tokens and one of our experts here on staff will assist you.
1st Commandment: Know Thy Scoring System
2nd Commandment: Thou Shall Stick To Thy Tiers
3rd Commandment: Thou Shall Avoid Bad Players from Bad Teams
4th Commandment: Thou Shall Draft Players From The Next Great Offenses
5th Commandment: Thou Shall Wait on Thy Quarterback
6th Commandment:Thou Shall Covet Thy Stud Wide Receiver
7th Commandment: Thou Must Draft Thy Stud's Backup
8th Commandment: Thou Shall Not Draft Two Studs From the Same Team
9th Commandment: Thou Shall NOT Draft a Kicker or a Team Defense Too Early
10th Commandment: Thou Shall Start Your Studs
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Director Guillermo del Toro finally has a new directorial feature film set for release next year. He spent quite a while preparing to direct The Hobbit before leaving when he thought the film would be held up in MGM's legal troubles for years, then he started prepping At the Mountains of Madness with Tom Cruise only to have Universal pass on the project in favor of things like Battleship. All's well that end's well, as del Toro recently wrapped his first directorial effort since Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a monster movie called Pacific Rim.
Little details have been known about the plot for Pacific Rim other than the fact that del Toro promises "the finest fucking monsters ever committed to screen" and the film involves battles between human-manned robots and monsters. A rumored plot synopsis surfaced back in March of 2011, and now Warner Bros. has released an official synopsis for the film that seems to confirm much of that earlier premise. Hit the jump for the full synopsis.
First off, hats off to MarketSaw for posting the synopsis earlier today. We reached out to Warner Bros. for confirmation and they sent us back this official one-pager for the film:
From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' epic sci-fi action adventure "Pacific Rim."
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Oscar® nominee Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth") is directing "Pacific Rim" from a script by Travis Beacham ("Clash of the Titans"). Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Mary Parent are producing, with Callum Greene serving as executive producer.
The film stars Charlie Hunnam (TV's "Sons of Anarchy"), Idris Elba ("Thor"), Rinko Kikuchi ("The Brothers Bloom"), Charlie Day ("Horrible Bosses"), and Ron Perlman (the "Hellboy" films). The ensemble cast also includes Max Martini, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Diego Klattenhoff, and Brad William Henke.
Del Toro's behind-the-scenes team includes Academy Award®-winning director of photography Guillermo Navarro, production designer Andrew Neskoromny, editor Peter Amundson, and costume designer Kate Hawley.
Slated for release in Summer 2013, "Pacific Rim" is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
This jibes with the previous plot description, which elaborated a bit to explain that the monsters enter our world through a giant portal that opens in the sea. Additionally, MarketSaw notes that they've heard unofficial word that Pacific Rim will be in 3D when it hits theaters on July 12th, 2013. For all of our previous coverage on the film, click here.


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Poor Harvey Weinstein just can't catch a break for The Reader.I read "The Reader." Eh. I also read Mr. Skin's list and it's pretty funny. You can get an idea what his standards are. Maybe Kate's scenes weren't brightly lit enough. All females though, which reduced the competition.
Too bad for Kate. Will she ever win an Oscar?


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Got up
went to work
worked really hard
computer decided to delete all work that had been done today
got stressed out
came home to a decorated house, balloons, banners, presents, and cake
ate his favorite meal...steak, garlic lime shrimp, and fruit salad
changed into suit
went to meetings
Another happy day in the life of Craig!
I got some awesome photos of Craig blowing out his huge flame of candles. But the computer/photo thing still isn't working.
He is such a great dad, and husband. We all love him so much. Thanks for making our family such a great one!
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In response to failed replications, some researchers argue that replication studies are especially convincing when the people who performed the replication are 'competent' 'experts'.
Paul Bloom has recently remarked: "Plainly, a failure to replicate means a lot when it's done by careful and competent experimenters, and when it's clear that the methods are sensitive enough to find an effect if one exists. Many failures to replicate are of this sort, and these are of considerable scientific value. But I've read enough descriptions of failed replications to know how badly some of them are done. I'm aware as well that some attempts at replication are done by undergraduates who have never run a study before. Such replication attempts are a great way to train students to do psychological research, but when they fail to get an effect, the response of the scientific community should be: Meh."
This mirrors the response by John Bargh after replications of the elderly priming studies yielded no significant effects: "The attitude that just anyone can have the expertise to conduct research in our area strikes me as more than a bit arrogant and condescending, as if designing the conducting these studies were mere child's play." "Believe it or not, folks, a PhD in social psychology actually means something; the four or five years of training actually matters."
So where is the evidence we should 'meh' replications by novices that show no effect? And how do we define a 'competent' experimenter? And can we justify the intuition that a non-significant finding by undergraduate students is 'meh', when we are more than willing to submit the work by the same undergraduate when the outcome is statistically significant?
One way to define a competent experimenter is simply by looking who managed to observe the effect in the past. However, this won't do. If we look at the elderly priming literature, a p-curve analysis gives no reason to assume anything more is going on than p-hacking. Thus, merely finding a significant result in the past should not be our definition of competence. It is a good definition of an 'expert', where the difference between an expert and novice is the amount of expertise one has in researching a topic. But I see no reason to believe expertise and competence are perfectly correlated.
There are cases where competence matters, as Paul Meehl reminds us in his lecture series (video 2, 46:30 minutes). He discusses a situation where David Miller provided evidence in support of the ether drift, long after Einstein's relativity theory explained it away. This is perhaps the opposite as replication showing a null effect, but the competence of Miller, who had the reputation of being a very reliable experimenter, is clearly being taken into account by Meehl. It took until 1955 before the 'occult result' observed by Miller was explained by a temperature confound.
Showing that you can reliably reproduce findings is an important sign of competence – if this has been done without relying on publication bias and researchers' degrees of freedom. This could easily be done in a single well-powered pre-registered replication study, but over the last years, I am not aware of researchers demonstrating their competence in reproducing contested findings in a pre-registered study. I definitely understand researchers prefer to spend their time in other ways than defending their past research. At the same time, I've seen many researchers who spend a lot of time writing papers criticizing replications that yield null results. Personally, I would say that if you are going to invest in defending your study, and data collection doesn't take too much time, the most convincing demonstration of competence is a pre-registered study showing the effect.
So, the idea that there are competent researchers who can reliably demonstrate the presence of effects, which are not observed by others, is not supported by empirical data (so far). In the extreme case of clear incompetence, there is no need for an empirical justification, as the importance of competence to observe an effect is trivially true. It might very well be true under less trivial circumstances. These circumstances are probably not experiments that occur completely in computer cubicles, where people are guided through the experiment by a computer program. I can't see how the expertise of experimenters has a large influence on psychological effects in these situations. This is also one of the reasons (along with the 50 participants randomly assigned to four between subject conditions) why I don't think the 'experimenter bias' explanation for the elderly priming studies by Doyen and colleagues is particularly convincing (see Lakens & Evers, 2014).
In a recent pre-registered replication project re-examining the ego-depletion effect, both experts and novices performed replication studies. Although this paper is still in press, preliminary reports at conferences and on social media tell us the overall effect is not reliably different from 0. Is expertise a moderator? I have it on good authority that the answer is: No.
This last set of studies shows the importance of getting experts involved in replication efforts, since it allows us to empirically examine the idea that competence plays a big role in replication success. There are, apparently, people who will go 'meh' whenever non-experts perform replications. As is clear from my post, I am not convinced the correlation between expertise and competence is 1, but in light of the importance of social aspects of science, I think experts in specific research areas should get more involved in registered replication efforts of contested findings. In my book, and regardless of the outcome of such studies, performing pre-registered studies examining the robustness of your findings is a clear sign of competence.


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The Houston Texans were out ran, out passed, out planned, out gassed, and for one game out of six, they were out classed by the Aaron Rodgers led performance for the Green Bay Packers.
By the end of the game the cheesehead crowd at Reliant felt as if they were witnessing a program of SNL instead of SNF.
Aaron Rogers finished the evening completing 24 of 37 passes for a total of 338 yards and an outstanding 6 TDs. Counterpart Matt Schaub finished the game with 20 of 33 passes completed for 232 yards. But the Offense never clicked for the Texans as the roof above them came crumbling down.
All night there was one big question for Packers' fans, who would be the most valuable player of the game, QB Aaron Rodgers or WR Jordy Nelson? Nelson had caught 9 passes for 121 yards while scoring 3 TDs, but the dancing Quarterback walked away with the distinctive honor.
Rodgers started the game by leading the team from the shotgun in the 'no huddle Offense' while blasting away at the Texans' overworked Defense. The Texans were behind on the scoreboad for the duration as the Green Bay Quarterback showed why he's still an elite player in the NFL.
The Texans seemed bent toward shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity and proved they couldn't limp away with yet another win.
The old man winter of the Houston Texans, Andre Johnson, still showed enough spring in his step to put another top number in the record book. Congrats Andre! He finished the game with 8 passes caught for 75 yards, giving him a career total surpassing the 10K mile marker by 14.
JJ Watt added to his sack total of the season by notching two more for a total of 9.5 through six games.
The total Time Of Possesion for the Texans was listed as 32:01, but that total does NOT reflect an actual control of the game.
Penalties, penalties, and penalties! That should be enough said in itself. It goes hand in hand with the popular mantra of real estate agents everywhere as "location, location, location", but now adds NFL substance. There were 7 deadly yellow flags thrown at the Houston Texans for 69 yards, and most of them were suckerpunches to the midsection. These hard blows left the team struggling for the ropes until the final bell, …er, …whistle.
The Texans rushing game was shut down by Green Bay. The Offense struggled for 90 yards on the ground for a woeful 3.2 average.
Houston Quarterback Matt Schaub tossed the ball into wrong hands twice on Sunday night while backup TJ Yates threw 1 interception in garbage time.
Jonathan Joseph was attacked mercilessly by Rodgers. He was outplayed and outmanaged by the Green Bay Receivers. JJo, please tend to those injuries and come back stronger in the next game.
Kareem Jackson took a step backward in his development as a top Cornerback in the NFL. Please look for the football KJ, those pass interference penalties do hurt!
The Texans look at the DeVier option isn't looking as hot as what Special Teams Coach Joe Marciano has hoped for this season. Posey was released from the doghouse late in the game recovering a blocked punt by team mate Bryan Braham. DeVier scored 6 points but it was too little effort, too late in the game to have much consequence.
An Almost Worthy Of Mention:
Conner Barwin came within a whisker at taking down Quarterback Aaron Rodgers for a sack, but whiffs are not a stat in the NFL. His micro second of delay allowed the nimble footed Mr. Rodgers to escape from a tough neighborhood on that Bull rush.
The Green Bay Packers dominated the game by air, by ground, and were every bit as sound on Defense. They head back home from their Reliant stand showing their football fans that Aaron Rodgers and the Pack are indeed back.
Final score:
Green Bay 42
Houston Texans 24
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American Federation of Teachers
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. It was formed (1916) out of the belief that the organizing of teachers should follow the model of a labor union, rather than that of a professional association. From the 1960s to the late 1990s the AFT grew from 55,000 to 907,000 members. The union promotes collective bargaining for teachers and other educational employees; conducts research on teacher stress, special education, and other education-related issues; and lobbies for the passage of legislation of importance to education. The union has also reflected an increasing willingness on the part of American teachers to use militant labor union tactics, including strikes and the threat of strikes, in contract negotiations. In 1998 the leadership of AFT and the National Education Association (NEA) supported a merger of the two groups, but delegates to the NEA's annual meeting rejected the proposal.
See R. J. Braun, Teachers and Power (1972); M. Berube, Teacher Politics (1988).


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clear of (something)
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2. verb To exonerate oneself or another of a criminal charge or allegation of wrongdoing. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "clear" and "of." Vince hired a high-powered attorney to try to clear himself of the crime.
*clear of something
without touching something; away from something. (*Typically: keep ~; move ~; remain ~; stand ~.) Please stand clear of the doors while the train is moving. Make sure the dog moves clear of the driveway before backing the car up.
clear someone of something
to show that a person is innocent; to exonerate someone of a crime. (See also clear someone's name.) An investigation cleared me of any wrongdoing. They were unable to clear themselves of the charges.


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Taking a shot at Iowa is en vogue these days.
The trend started this summer when a fashion critic for Elle magazine made a snotty swipe at what folks wear during the Iowa State Fair.
Then there was a University of Iowa journalism professor who said the Hawkeye state was filled with "skuzzy river towns" populated by "meth addicts."
Today, former U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman, who is running for president, took a mild poke at the state he has steadfastly refused to visit during his campaign.
"They pick corn in Iowa," Huntsman told CBS' "The Early Show." "They pick presidents in New Hampshire."
Actually, neither Iowa nor New Hampshire picks a president alone. They're the first states in line to pick party nominees. And when it comes to nominees, both states have a similar track record.
In Iowa's 10 Democratic caucuses from 1972 to 2008, nine featured contested races. Iowans have picked the eventual nominee six times in that stretch.
The New Hampshire primaries have a lesser record during the same period, picking the eventual nominee, four times out of nine.
But the Republican Huntsman isn't interested in Democratic races. And he's right. New Hampshire has a better record than Iowa in picking GOP nominees. By one.
There have been nine Republican first-in-the-nation caucuses since 1976. (Iowa Republicans didn't pair their caucus date with Democrats until 1976.) Of those nine caucuses, six were contested races. Iowans picked the eventual nominee three times.
New Hampshire primary voters picked the eventual nominee four times during the same stretch.
If Huntsman really wanted a boost from an early contest state, he'd focus on winning the South Carolina primary. From its inception in 1980, the winner of the South Carolina primary has gone on to win the GOP nomination every time.
If Huntsman makes a push there, he might want to lay off the tobacco jokes.
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It's been 3 years since I posted a DIY Remembrance Day Poppy Conversion. Now I have 2 kiddos going to school with poppies and hoping they don't poke themselves OR someone else. We like to support the Royal Canadian Legion by purchasing a poppy from one of the cadets at the mall.
I've made a small modification to my previous tutorial to allow the kids more independence. The safety pin was hard for them to put on. The solution? Flat-backed pins.
The method to attach is the same as before. Just remove the long pin, glue the black centre back onto the poppy and sew on the pin.
It's so fast to do and will keep the poppy on a shirt for more than a day.
Honouring Veterans is #OurDuty - click here for more information on the Royal Canadian Legion
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2000s Recipes + Menus
Chocolate Hazelnut Torte
- Active time:25 min
- Start to finish:2 1/2 hr (includes cooling)
April 2006
This torte is a masterful mix of textures: The top crust bakes up with a hint of crackly crunch, giving way to a moist, light interior studded with tiny bits of hazelnut.
For cake
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter plus additional for greasing pan
- 1 cup hazelnuts (5 oz)
- 6 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened; not more than 60% cacao)
- 2 tablespoons potato starch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs, separated, at room temperature for 30 minutes
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Special equipment:a 9- to 9 1/2-inch (24-cm) springform pan; parchment paper
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
Generously butter bottom and side of springform pan, then line bottom with a round of parchment paper and butter parchment paper.
Toast hazelnuts in a shallow baking pan in oven, shaking pan once or twice, until golden, about 12 minutes. Place nuts in a kitchen towel and rub off any loose skins while nuts are still warm, then cool nuts completely.
Reduce oven temperature to 325°F.
While nuts cool, melt butter and chocolate together in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water.
Pulse hazelnuts in a food processor with potato starch, salt, and 1/4 cup sugar until finely ground. (Be careful not to grind to a paste.)
Whisk together yolks and 2 tablespoons sugar in a large bowl. Whisk in chocolate mixture, then add nut mixture and vanilla and whisk until combined (mixture will be slightly grainy).
Beat whites with a pinch of salt in another bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until they hold soft peaks. Add remaining 2 tablespoons sugar a little at a time, beating, and beat until whites just hold stiff peaks. Fold one fourth of whites into chocolate mixture to lighten, then fold in remaining whites gently but thoroughly. Pour batter into springform pan, then bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs adhering, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool completely in pan, about 1 hour. Run a knife around edge of torte to loosen, then remove side of pan. Dust with Passover confectioners sugar.
Cooks' note: Torte can be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely, then kept in pan, covered with plastic wrap, at room temperature.
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In its current state, Google Wallet is a handy mobile payment system that lets you buy things with your NFC-enabled smartphone. In the future, Google would like Wallet to replace more than just your cash and credit cards. The company wants Wallet to be your "primary transaction device" for everything.
Similar to Apple's Passbook feature in iOS 6, Google wants Wallet to store boarding passes, concert/movie tickets, gift cards, coupons and everything else you typically find hidden in a wallet.
MobileBurn's Andrew Kameka notes that Robin Dua, Google's head of product management for Google Wallet is gunning to make the wallet completely obsolete in the future. According to Dua:
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"One of the types of things we're trying to do is make it easy for airlines, transit providers, and other types of issuers of credentials to make it super simple for them to get their credentials stored in the wallet& That's the goal. We want you to be able to leave your leather wallet at home and carry your phone and transact with that as your primary transaction device."
Like Passbook, Wallet's beefed up features would utilize location-based data to determine how to respond accordingly. For example, if you're in a Starbucks, your phone might automatically bring up your gift card; if you just arrived at the airport, it might bring up your boarding pass.
Ultimately, Google wants Wallet to make lives easier by allowing people to "skip the lines" at certain places and get going to whatever they need to do or wherever they need to be.
Now, Dua didn't outline when Wallet would get these updated features, but given Google's competitive spirit, we expect a Passbook rival to be right around the corner.


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The Lost Years
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In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history—"the holiest of the holy"—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.
Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever.
Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in.
Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone missing?
It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father's death. Mary Higgins Clark's The Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.
In Clark's tedious new mystery-thriller (after I'll Walk Alone), Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons discovers a lost manuscript believed to be the only letter written by Jesus Christ. He tries to verify its authenticity with several fellow experts, but is soon found murdered in his study. When the police arrive, they find Jonathan's wife, Kathleen, clutching the murder weapon. Though she suffers from dementia, Kathleen knew of Jonathan's affair with a woman 20 years his junior, Lily. Armed with a motive and damning evidence, the police arrest Kathleen, but authorities soon realize Lily and the manuscript are missing. Jonathan and Kathleen's 28-year-old daughter, Mariah, must now take it upon herself to find her father's real killer and exonerate her confused mother. Though the set-up is intriguing, the mystery falls flat under the weight of dull characters, myriad red herrings, and an excess of unnecessary subplots. Those looking for a fun religious thriller would do better to reread The DaVinci Code.


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Richmond, Virginia, is the self-proclaimed "Capital of Tacky Christmas Lights," and every year draws thousands of visitors from around the world to view its holiday displays.
Credit: CBS
Mayor Dwight C. Jones embraces the title: "We own that," he told CBS' Bill Geist. "We have actually issued a proclamation to acknowledge the fact that it's the 'Capital of Tacky Lights.'"
Colleen Curran of richmond.com, manages the Tacky Lights Tour - a path followed by thousands of pilgrims each Christmas season. Curran showed a map of participating houses. "To get on the list you need to have 40,000 lights on your house," she told Geist.
Bill Geist hopped aboard a bus filled with the curious taking the Tacky Lights Tour, who were told, "You won't believe what you are seeing, honestly. You think you've seen bad? You have not."
Some houses he just rolled by, like this one, which has only 90,000 lights. "And we're still just getting warmed up," said tour guide Kelly.
At others, tour-takers paused for reflection.
A view from the Richmond Tacky Lights Tour.
Ralph Shuler and Ann Hatcher put on a techno show, featuring its own radio broadcast, and 250,000 lights dancing in time to the music.
You could see a couple of the houses - like Al and Esther Thompson's - from blocks away, and quite possibly from outer space.
Geist asked Al and Esther Thompson if they had gotten "a little carried away."
"A little bit," Al replied. "We're up to 603 homemade items now. We have 172,000 lights."
The tour ends at the piece de resistance . . . a work of staggering luminescence
It's all done by Bobby Phifer, with help from his wife and daughter. They've strung more than a million lights on his house - and his mother Rose's house next door - creating a megawatt miracle of the yuletide.
It takes nine solid weeks to put up, adds $2,400 to their electric bills, and draws thousands of celebrants.
The family's put on this overwhelming display for 37 years and feels an obligation to go on: "You get people come by who don't have no money," Bobby Phifer said. "They come here and you'll see them here every night. Their 'thank you's is enough to want to keep going."
"Do you think it's wrong to call it tacky?" Geist asked one visitor.
"I think it's PERFECT to call it tacky," he replied. "I wouldn't call it anything else BUT tacky. But it's great. It's tacky, but it's beautiful at the same time."
"What kind of guy do you think would do this?" Geist asked a visitor.
"Dedicated. A little crazy, in a good way. And very creative."
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Shortly after 9/11, Kitaro began a pilgrimage to the island of Shikoku, which has 88 temples, each with its own distinct temple bells. The Japanese keyboardist has been recording those bells and working them into the fabric of The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, of which this is the second volume in a projected series. The first volume unlocked a new energy in Kitaro's music, with more open spaces and instruments like the erhu and pipa (Chinese violin and lute) lending his landscapes an organic immediacy. But Kitaro is a composer who doesn't know when to stop. He takes the freshest elements of his music, like the koto-erhu duet at the core of "Shining Spirit of Water," and buries them in the same choir pads, electronic squiggles, dripping strings, and whooping synthesizers that have been his sonic signature since 1978's Astral Voyage. Even the relatively austere meditation of "Peaceful Valley," featuring Native American flute, and the darker textures of "Ka-Non," get swamped as Kitaro gilds the lily and then dips it in a treacly bath sweeter than a glazed doughnut. The thought that Kitaro's Shikoku pilgrimage has already turned into a tedious trudge doesn't bode well.
1. Shining Spirit Of Water
2. As The Wind Blows
3. Koki
4. Kan-Non
5. Whispering Earth
6. Inner Lights
7. Dancing Flower
8. Floating Lotus
9. Peaceful Valley
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We sure do have a great family here, and we're so glad that you are part of our family.
BrainTalk's MS forum is the most active forum at BT. These members have a monthly "chat" thread. Perhaps we could start a thread like that here at the Epilepsy forum, so we can talk about things other than Epilepsy. I can't imagine why we couldn't just have an ongoing "chat thread" here for general conversation.
Something to ponder ...
Hope you'll drop by again soon!
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By Ishant Gupta
Most of you must be using Google search on daily basis. Google is now coming up with a technology that will give us real time search results, thus making our work much simpler.
Most of you must be using Google search on daily basis. Google is now coming up with a technology that will give us real time search results, thus making our work much simpler.
Not very far from now, you will experience a time where, by looking at one object through special glasses, you will be able to get all the information linked to that object instantly. Using these glasses you can take photos, chat and even update your Facebook status. Google is bringing these glasses for us. Google has christened this project as 'Google Glass'. These glasses are based on augmented reality technique. As per this technique, the real world is connected with computer generated data, thus providing additional information to users. Similarly, Google Now is likely to win many hearts too.
Google Now : Help available
Google has launched Google Now, an intelligent personal assistant. It has been designed for Google's Android operating system. It is being described as an extension of Google Search application. This application uses natural language user interface to provide results for the queries. It also provides you suggestions on various topics. Interestingly, this application guesses what you are about to do on the basis of your search habits and takes appropriate actions. With the help of this application, you will be able to receive requested information real time. When you are equipped with Google Now, you don't have to fret over browsing in the vast sea of information on internet. Instead, you can get quick and correct data. Google wishes to render the information real time in case of domains like the news, movies, public alerts, events, flights, translation, weather, sports, stocks and so on. Google Now is being seen as a big step in this direction.
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Jean Prouvé Aluminum Fragment, circa 1958Item Status:
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Jean Prouvé Aluminum Fragment, circa 1958
- CreatorJean Prouvé (Designer)
- Place of Origin
- Date of Manufacturecirca 1958
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- ConditionFair
- DimensionsH 14.57 in. x W 59.06 in. x D 3.55 in.H 37 cm x W 150 cm x D 9 cm
- Seller LocationTokyo, JP
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Engineer and metalsmith, self-taught designer and architect, manufacturer and teacher, Jean Prouvé was a key force in the evolution of 20th-century French design, introducing a style that combined economy of means and stylistic chic. Along with his frequent client and collaborator Le Corbusier and others, Prouvé, using his practical skills and his understanding of industrial materials, steered French modernism onto a path that fostered principled, democratic approaches to architecture and design.
Prouvé was born in Nancy, a city with a deep association with the decorative arts. (It is home, for example, to the famed Daum crystal manufactory.) His father, Victor Prouvé, was a ceramist and a friend and co-worker of such stars of the Art Nouveau era as glass artist Émile Gallé and furniture maker Louis Majorelle. Jean Prouvé apprenticed to a blacksmith, studied engineering, and produced ironwork for such greats of French modernism as the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. In 1931, he opened the firm Atelier Prouvé. There, he perfected techniques in folded metal that resulted in his "Standard" chair (1934) and other designs aimed at institutions such as schools and hospitals.
During World War II, Prouvé was a member of the French Resistance, and his first post-war efforts were devoted to designing metal pre-fab housing for those left homeless by the conflict. In the 1950s, Prouvé would unite with Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret (Le Corbusier's cousin) on numerous design projects. In 1952, he and Perriand and artist Sonia Delaunay created pieces for the Cité Internationale Universitaire foundation in Paris, which included the colorful, segmented bookshelves that are likely Prouvé's and Perriand's best-known designs. The pair also collaborated on 1954's "Antony" line of furniture, which again, like the works on these pages, demonstrated a facility for combining material strength with lightness of form.
Prouvé spent his latter decades mostly as a teacher. His work has recently won new appreciation: in 2008 the hotelier Andre Balazs purchased at auction (hammer price: just under $5 million) the Maison Tropicale, a 1951 architectural prototype house that could be shipped flat-packed, and was meant for use by Air France employees in the Congo. Other current Prouvé collectors include Brad Pitt, Larry Gagosian, Martha Stewart, and the fashion designer Marc Jacobs. The rediscovery of Jean Prouvé — given not only the aesthetic and practical power of his designs, but also the social conscience his work represents — marks one of the signal "good" aspects of collecting vintage 20th century design. An appreciation of Jean Prouvé is an appreciation of human decency.
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What Are Your Soda Alternatives?
I fully accept that January 1 is no more logical a date to kick yourself into new habits than any other. Personally, I'm totally in favor of any prompt, no matter how arbitrary, for considering self-improvement. And every year, I resolve to drink less diet soda. Maybe not give it up altogether. Just save myself a few bucks and a lot of unnecessary tooth-staining.
But in the absence of diet soda, I'm often left grasping for something tasty and refreshing to drink when water's just not what I'm craving. So I'm looking for alternatives.
Things I've tried so far:
- Fresh lemon juice in sparkling water (simple, but works in a pinch)
- Crushed mint leaves and a little grapefruit juice in sparkling water
- Strong iced black tea with lemon and a little sparkling water (what can I say, I like the bubbles)
- Iced green tea with lemon
- Various herbal fruit teas, iced with lemon (I realize Lemon Zinger isn't exactly sophisticated, but brew it strong and it tastes just fine over ice)
But I'd love to branch out in my non-soda drinking habits. What do you drink as an alternative to soda?
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A baker's dozen of artistic talent rises at Stamford's Loft Artists Association
New voices, perspectives add to Loft Artists Association's eclectic mix
When faced with a blank canvas, Stamford artist Rosa Colon is not always sure where her paintbrush will lead her, but what usually blooms is a boldly colored flower or a scene drawn from memories of her Colombian childhood.
Meanwhile, in New Canaan, Lucienne Buckner is likely imagining some novel and unexpected pairing of the natural and manmade world, which she will later cast in bronze, adding to her already interesting menagerie of works.
Darien artist Yuko Ike is attracted to the scenes, images and places that are often overlooked -- a small splatter of paint on an otherwise pristine wall or a small, dark alley. When she is through with them, they have been reborn in a more abstract form, often with the combination of ink and paint.
Stamford's Julliette Tehrani also keeps her eyes open to the beauty of nature and soaks in scenes from her travels. When she sets out to recreate these images, they are not always representational, but rather a reflection of her own vision.
Such are the artistic inspirations of a handful of the more than dozen area artists who have been accepted into Stamford's Loft Artists Association for 2014.
This year's class is a large one -- only three were juried in last year -- and it reflects a multinational perspective, since many of the artists were born and trained in other countries before making the United States their home.
"We want to have a broad, eclectic mix," said association president Ellen Gordon, a mixed-media artist who became a member in 2011. "When we are looking for new members, it's very important to us that ... stylistically they are different."
This year's membership swell was attributed to several reasons, including some reduction in membership following the December move from Canal Street to new studio and gallery spaces on Stamford's Pacific Street. There also has been a push to attract an interdisciplinary community of artists. Membership is at 43.
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The international flavor of this new class was "serendipitous," Gordon said, but added that she is looking forward to new voices, perspectives and energy. "Everyone is very jazzed up and excited to be part of the group."
New members also include mixed-media artist Barbara Campbell, painter and mixed-media artist Princess Cureton, painter Ken Delmar and photographer and singer/songwriter Kathy Muir (a native of Scotland), all of Stamford; painter and collagist Oksana Tanasiv (who was born in Ukraine) and painter Tom Lynch of Norwalk; painter Maria Friscia (who grew up in Italy) and painter and mixed media artist Carolyn Lyngholm of Greenwich; and painter Sholeh Janati (who was born in Iran) of Westport.
Ike said she was excited to be part of a community of artists. "I have always been interested in art and drawing," she said of her artistic talents, which she first evidenced while growing up in Japan.
Most of her adult life, however, was spent working in the corporate world and raising her family. About 10 years ago, Ike, who moved to Darien in 1988, began taking art courses at the Darien Arts Council and Silvermine Arts Center.
"I consider it my second act in life," she said.
Tehrani, too, finds herself with a new career in the arts. London-born of Persian heritage, she enjoyed a successful career as a senior financial executive, before taking up art full-time in her retirement. Painting is a source of pure enjoyment for her, she said.
"My artistic inspiration comes from my love of nature. There is a world of beauty waiting to be captured," noted Tehrani, who is partial to the work of American and French Impressionists. "I am entranced by the dazzling colors of flowers, the magnificence of the skies and clouds and reflections on water."
Buckner, who as a teen moved from California to Connecticut in the 1970s, is a bit more homegrown, but her bronzes are exotic combinations of creatures and everyday objects, such as her "Lobster Lounge" and her "Spawning Couch." A longtime graphic designer, Buckner has been honing her sculpture since 1996.
The past four years have been busy for Buckner, who has seen her work increasingly accepted in area shows. She said she looks forward to becoming part of the Stamford association, as it already is spurring her creativity.
"In the new member show, I am going to have one of my oldest pieces and newest bronze and I plan on making an outdoor piece, which I have been wanting to do," she said.
For Colon, who is involved in several different art groups, it is an honor to be part of the group. "It's just great to have my own space and be involved with other artists who inspire you and motivate you."
Visitors can gain some inspiration of their own, and learn more about these artists' stories and others, through Feb. 2, when the work of all of these new artists will be up at the association's gallery.
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I had 28 (that's twenty-eight) "Time Limit Exceeded" tries on this problem. I was looking everywhere for a loop that would drag, for every possible input that would cause breakdown and I couldn't find any such thing. So much so, that I considered labeling this post as Australian Nightmare. The issue, once I found it, had nothing to do with Australia and all to do with the
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel Whitewashes Gov. Scott's Role In Florida's Election Nightmare
A lengthy South Florida Sun-Sentinel article on Florida's Election Day fiascos whitewashed Republican Gov. Rick Scott's role in creating horrific voting scenarios that have made the state a national laughingstock and disenfranchised parts of the Florida electorate.
The article, published in the November 8 edition of the Sun-Sentinel, buried Scott's refusal to follow a Florida tradition of extending early-voting hours after reports over the weekend that voters stood in long lines waiting for hours to cast a ballot and noted his refusal only in the context of partisan criticism from former governor and "Obama supporter" Charlie Crist. Worse, the article seemed to imply that Scott joined President Obama in expressing a strong desire to fix the system that he left broken. His comments, however, don't reflect the empathy attributed to him by the reporter. From the article (emphasis added):
Images of long, long lines of people in South Florida waiting to cast ballots during early voting dominated the airwaves. Many voters in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties reported waiting several hours. That continued on Election Day with some voters in Miami not getting done at the polls until about 1:30 a.m.
Even Obama seemed to have noticed, making an apparent jab at Florida in his acceptance speech early Wednesday morning.
"I want to thank every American who participated in this election whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time," he said. "By the way, we have to fix that."
And the president is not the only one saying that.
Gov. Rick Scott, when questioned last week about the long voter lines, said that seeing so many people turn out to do their civic duty was "exciting."
On Wednesday, Scott stopped short of criticizing the state election's process, but said he would be reviewing it with Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner.
"What went right, what can we improve?" Scott said.
The Sun-Sentinel reporter failed to expand on Scott's apparent glee at the prospect of long lines, but more importantly, she downplayed Scott's tireless efforts at complicating the voting process over the months leading up to the election. As The Miami Herald pointed out:
Gov. Rick Scott has come in for well-deserved criticism in this mess. By advocating a shorter early-voting schedule, eight days instead of the previous 14, the governor and his election team ensured a logjam of people in some urban-county precincts.
The governor compounded the mistake by failing to agree to extend the early-voting period through Sunday, as both GOP predecessors Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush had done in other years when faced with the evident necessity. The resulting delays at some polling places were scandalous. At one precinct in Lake Worth in Palm Beach County, some voters still in line at 7 p.m. had to wait until 2:30 a.m. on Sunday to vote.
Buried in an editorial on the Sun-Sentinel's November 8 opinion page, the paper's editors seemed to grasp Scott's role in the mess, writing:
Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers failed citizens last year by limiting the number of early voting days. The supposed goal was to prevent voter fraud, but a more likely reason is that more Democrats vote early. While we heard of voting lines that lasted five hours or more, we heard of no one who endured the wait only to show a phony I.D. The excuse for limiting early voting is flimsy and the governor should show leadership and reverse course.
And yet, while the news article briefly mentioned the Republican bill that reduced the number of early voting days, it didn't note that Scott pushed that legislation through and signed it despite an outpouring of opposition to the measure. Nor did the Sun-Sentinel cite Scott's other attempts to disrupt the electoral process in his state. The voters of Florida deserve to know who led them into this electoral mess, and the Sun-Sentinel doesn't serve their interests by obfuscating the truth about Rick Scott.
UPDATE: This post has been updated to clarify that the article does mention Scott's refusal to extend early-voting hours in the context of criticism from former governor Charlie Crist.


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The Optio RZ18's lens covers 25mm to 450mm, which pretty spectacular for a point and shoot. It's also got a 16MP sensor, a 3-inch LCD display, image stabilization, and it shoots video at 720p/30fps. It'll be available for $300 in October. [Marketwatch via Slashgear]


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Media advance falsehood that Pentagon has confirmed that 61 former Guantánamo detainees have returned to battlefield
Since President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring that the Pentagon's detention facilities at Guantánamo be closed within a year, numerous media figures and outlets have repeated or failed to challenge the claim that 61 former detainees held there have returned to the battlefield. In fact, the figure, which comes from the Pentagon, includes 43 former prisoners who are suspected of, but have not been confirmed as, having "return[ed] to the fight."
Since President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring that the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay be closed within a year, numerous media figures and outlets -- including CNN's Campbell Brown, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Fox News' Sean Hannity, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and ABCNews.com -- have repeated or failed to challenge the claim that 61 former detainees held at Guantánamo have returned to the battlefield. Hannity, the Globe, and the Los Angeles Times, in particular, falsely asserted that the Pentagon has confirmed this figure. In fact, as Media Matters for America documented, according to the Pentagon, the 61-detainee figure includes 43 former prisoners who are suspected of, but have not been confirmed as, having "return[ed] to the fight." Indeed, during a January 13 press conference, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell stated: "The new numbers are, we believe, 18 confirmed and 43 suspected of returning to the fight. So 61 in all former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed or suspected of returning to the fight." Additionally, as Daily Kos contributing editor Joan McCarter noted, Seton Hall University School of Law professor Mark Denbeaux has disputed the Pentagon's figures, asserting: "Once again, they've failed to identify names, numbers, dates, times, places, or acts upon which their report relies. Every time they have been required to identify the parties, the DOD has been forced to retract their false IDs and their numbers."
Media repeating or failing to challenge the claim that 60 or more Guantánamo detainees have returned to the battlefield include:
- During the January 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity, speaking with Kate Obenshain, vice president of the Young America's Foundation, Hannity falsely asserted: "But we know, Kate, 61 Gitmo detainees that have already been released, according to the Pentagon, went right back to the battlefield with their fanaticism."
- The Boston Globe falsely asserted in a January 23 article: "Pentagon statistics show that of the hundreds of detainees that have been released from Guantanamo since it opened in early 2002, at least 61 have returned to terrorist activities."
- The Los Angeles Times falsely reported on January 23: "The Pentagon has said that 61 former detainees have taken up arms against the U.S. or its allies after being released from the military prison in Cuba."
- On January 23, the San Francisco Chronicle uncritically reported: "Republicans also claimed that 61 detainees already released have been 'found back on the battlefield.' "
- During the January 22 edition of CNN's Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull, Cliff May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, asserted of Guantánamo detainees, "Many hundreds have been released. About 60 of them -- a little more than that -- have returned to the battlefield." Brown did not challenge May's assertion.
- During the January 22 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Matthews failed to challenge Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that "we know already that more than 60 of the people who have been released have been killing our troops, our Americans and civilians on the battlefield."
- A January 22 ABCNews.com article by Jake Tapper, Jan Crawford-Greenburg, and Huma Kahn uncritically reported House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) statement: "Do we release them back into the battlefield, like some 61 detainees that have been released we know are back on the battlefield?"
By contrast, The New York Times reported on January 23 that "[a]lthough the Pentagon has said that dozens of released Guantánamo detainees have 'returned to the fight,' its claim is difficult to document, and has been met with skepticism."
From the January 22 edition of CNN's Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull:
BROWN: So, Peter, let me just start with you on this question. Two hundred and forty-five people estimated -- suspected terrorists at Gitmo. Who are these people? I mean, are we talking about the worst of the worst? Who's still being held there? What are they suspected of?
PETER BERGEN (CNN national security analyst): Well, 60 of them have been cleared by -- for release by the Bush administration. You've got about 100 Yemenis in there. Yemen is a country with a rather inadequate prison system, so they haven't been back -- sent back to Yemen. You've got 20 high-value Al Qaeda people in there, who are certainly serious terrorists, and then some other people that we don't really have a good sense of: are they really engaged in terrorism or are they there -- are they sort of innocent? And that's, of course, one of the things that's happening with this 120-day review process is to look at all these cases and say who should be released, who should be held, who should go to some form of trial, whether it's a military trial or a trial in a federal court.
BROWN: And Cliff, give us your view on this. I know you are obviously a big supporter of President Bush's policies. When Guantánamo Bay shuts down, do you believe that Americans are going to be at greater risk?
MAY: Well, we don't know that yet. I give President Obama great credit for the symbolism of today. People just hearing about this story probably think he is or has closed Guantánamo down. He hasn't. His advisers now have a year to figure out what to do with the dangerous terrorists who are there.
Don't forget, people -- I've been to Guantánamo. It's not the place that's the problem, it's those who are there. Some can be released. Many hundreds have been released. About 60 of them -- a little more than that -- have returned to the battlefield. What is a great danger -- and the young woman you had on expressed it -- is once they come to the U.S., they will have the constitutional rights due Americans.
Some of them -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was one of the masterminds of 9-11 -- you want to be careful that you don't have lawyers immediately saying, "OK, now they have to be released because they have to go to the -- you don't have evidence against them. Their confessions were coerced. You have to reveal your intelligence sources." We don't want these people living in Atlanta. We don't want them living in Miami, New York, or even Hollywood.
BROWN: You disagree.
BERGEN: But that's kind of an absurd point.
JEFFREY TOOBIN (CNN senior analyst): I disagree. I disagree --
BROWN: Hold on, Peter.
TOOBIN: -- completely. We have a legal system in this country that has tried Zacarias Moussaoui. It has tried the "Blind Sheikh." We have had terrorism trials. These people are in prison. Our legal system is completely capable --
MAY: Let me --
TOOBIN: We're talking about maybe 40 trials. That is the way the system is supposed to work, not through these secret detentions and endless holding people without charges. Let the system work. We've got a system -- a legal system here that's done us very proud.
From the January 22 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:
MATTHEWS: But we begin with Senator Bond. Senator Kit Bond joins us from Capitol Hill. Senator Bond, what is your thinking when you heard that Barack Obama's going to close Gitmo?
BOND: Well, I think it's irresponsible to say you're going to close Gitmo without having a plan. What are you going to do with the hardened terrorists that are there? I can't think of any town or city in Missouri who wants to have hardened criminals, illegal combatants like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed or Abu Zubaydah coming into their community.
Now, if you don't bring them back to the United States, if you release them, we know already, that's more than 60 of the people who have been released have been killing our troops, our Americans and civilians on the battlefield. If you really want to bring them back to the United States, people in Missouri and Kansas believe Gitmo is just fine. Folks in San Francisco want it closed. I'd suggest you put them in Alcatraz.
MATTHEWS: Well, why wouldn't you imprison somebody after holding a trial or execute them? Why don't we do it by law? What's the problem with doing it the usual way?
From the January 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
PAT CADDELL (Fox News contributor): Well, that's my -- I happen to agree with you about that, Sean. I think -- President Bush wanted to close Gitmo. I think Gitmo has become a real stain, but the problem is: Where do you put these people? I'll tell you what, in Charleston, we do not want them in the brig. You know, we -- these people are really dangerous, some of them. Some of them -- and I think we should have gone over to the trial process. But what do you do? Put them in Fort Sumter? Put them in Alcatraz? I don't know. But I'll tell you what -- or give them to [Rep.] Mr. [John] Murtha [D-PA]? But the point is, the country is upset about this. They're against it.
HANNITY: Terrorists do not deserve constitutional rights.
PAT BOONE (entertainer and conservative activist): No.
HANNITY: They don't deserve their day in a civilian court. Pat, we've never done this in the history --
BOONE: No.
HANNITY: -- of the country. And for all the --
BOONE: These are military prisoners, they are not U.S. citizens. And they are suspected terrorists and murderers. I think we should do what the Israelis have done, which -- from time to time, they simply release them, send them back where they came from.
Now, you know, you scald a dog, and he may not want to attack you again. And if they let these guys go, and the Israelis know it when they let them go, it's --
HANNITY: Wait a minute. He's --
BOONE: If we meet them again, they may not be taken prisoner; they'll be killed.
HANNITY: Well, wait a minute. But we know, Kate, 61 Gitmo detainees that have already been released, according to the Pentagon, went right back to the battlefield --
BOONE: Yeah.
HANNITY: -- with their fanaticism.
KATE OBENSHAIN (vice president of Young America's Foundation): Well, that's the problem.
BOONE: Yeah.
OBENSHAIN: You know, this was a nice campaign promise. It invigorated the base for Obama. But the problem is, it has real, lasting consequences. And, you know, there is a reason why we haven't had another 9-11 attack, and a lot of people think it's because of the information that was secured during those --
HANNITY: Absolutely.
OBENSHAIN: -- interrogations.
From the January 22 ABCNews.com article:
The president's sweeping orders effectively dismantled the Bush administration's system for handling terrorists, prompting criticism that his actions were shortsighted and dangerous.
Republicans such as Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, have expressed concern about where the detainees will go and say there are lots of questions still to be answered.
"I think the first thing we have to remember is that we're talking about terrorists here," Boehner said at a press conference this afternoon. "Do we bring them into our borders? Do we release them back into the battlefield, like some 61 detainees that have been released we know are back on the battlefield? And do we release them to get back and rejoin this fight? ... I'm concerned that some will be let go too soon, could end up back on the battlefield."
Cornyn argued that closing Guantanamo could bring terror suspects to America and put the country at risk.
"Clearly, these are not the kind of people you would want to put in our city jails or our state prisons," he said.
From the January 23 Boston Globe article:
Critics of the reforms, including the top House Republican, John Boehner of Ohio, argued yesterday that some of the 245 detainees now at Guantanamo could pose clear threats to national security if released. Pentagon statistics show that of the hundreds of detainees that have been released from Guantanamo since it opened in early 2002, at least 61 have returned to terrorist activities.
"The real fear is what do you do with these terrorists and if you make it clear you are going to close Guantanamo and you don't have a policy in place to deal with those who are housed there, what do you do?" asked Boehner, who with other House Republicans quickly filed a bill seeking to bar federal courts from ordering Guantanamo detainees to be released into the United States. "I'm concerned that some of these let go too soon could end up back on the battlefield. There are a lot of unanswered questions."
From the January 23 Los Angeles Times article:
There are 245 detainees in the prison. The question of what to do with them is a delicate one that balances the desire to close a facility widely seen as damaging to international standing with the risks of releasing prisoners who many think still pose a serious threat.
The Pentagon has said that 61 former detainees have taken up arms against the U.S. or its allies after being released from the military prison in Cuba.
Citing that concern, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the fundamental challenge was "figuring out how do we close Guantanamo and at the same time safeguard the security of the American people."
Some Republicans accused the White House of acting rashly and without sufficient concern for the potential risks.
"This is an executive order that places hope ahead of reality -- it sets an objective without a plan to get there," Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.
From the January 23 San Francisco Chronicle article:
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the Obama commission leaves open the question of where Osama bin Laden would go if he were caught.
Rep. Jane Harman, the Venice (Los Angeles County) Democrat who chairs the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism, dismissed GOP complaints as "the fear card" because at most 60 Guantanamo prisoners could wind up in U.S. prisons, where they would face prosecution, probably in federal courts.
Harman said if evidence is tainted by torture, prosecutors will have to establish new evidence, but said this should not be difficult given the cases. Others, she said, would be sent to foreign countries for prosecution there.
Bond scoffed at the idea, saying other countries have been unwilling to accept detainees. Republicans also claimed that 61 detainees already released have been "found back on the battlefield."