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Philadelphia Phillies – Year 6: Falling back into third place, as Phils' pennant hopes are dashed by a pre-season death.
As 1888 dawns, Harry Wright was starting his fifth year as the Phillies' manager, leading a team that hoped to use their momentum from the previous season where they went 17-0-1 in their last 18 games, lead by their pitcher-second baseman Charlie Ferguson, to finally win the organization's first pennant.
The 1888 National League would contain no changes among its membership. The Phillies' opponents for the season would still be the Beaneaters, the Giants and the Nationals in the east and the Alleghenys, the Wolverines, the Hoosiers and the White Stockings in the west. The Phillies would continue to play their home games in the Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds.
But, before the season would officially start, the Phillies' pennant chances would be struck a major blow, as their star player, Charlie Ferguson, would be struck down by tyhoid fever in spring training, and would die in late April, after the start of the 1888 season. The Phillies would spend the rest of the season wearing a black crepe upon their left shoulders in honor of their fallen comrade, as would their east coast opponents, the Giants, the Nationals and the Beaneaters. Ferguson's place on the team would eventually be taken by future Hall of Famer, Ed Delahanty, who would be the oldest of five brothers who would all play the game professionally by the end of the 19th Century.
(For more information on Charlie Ferguson, go here: Philadelphia Phillies – The Players: Charlie Ferguson, the Phillies' unknown first star.)
The Phillies, without Ferguson, would begin the 1888 season on April 20 at home with a four-games series against the Beaneaters, which would see the Phils being swept by Boston by scores of 4-3, 9-3, 3-1 and 7-1, with the Phils' opening day pitcher being rookie pitcher Kid Gleason, who would later be the manager of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox. The Phils would then go to New York for four games with the Giants. After winning the first game 5-3, they would lose the next three, ending their short road trip, 1-3. They would then come back home for another short four-games series, this time with the Nationals, for the last day of April and the beginning of May. The Phillies would begin the series by winning the first game by the score of 3-1, ending April with a record of 2-7.
The Phils would begin May by continuing their short home stand with the Nationals. They would win the next two games, giving them a three games winning streak, before losing the final game in the home stand, giving them a 3-1 series win. The Phillies would then go west for a ten-games western road trip, playing against the Alleghenys for two games, the Wolverines for three, the Hoosiers for one and then their main western rival, the White Stockings, for four games, before going on to Boston for three more games for a thirteen-game road trip. Their two games series with their cross-state rival would end up being a two-games series win. The Phils would then move on to Detroit, where they would win the first game with the Wolverines, before losing the next two games, losing the series 1-2. They would then go into Indianapolis, losing the only game in that short series, before going on to Chicago, where they would lose the first game in their four-games series. The Phillies would then win the next two games, including the May 22 game which would feature the major league debut of Ferguson's replacement, Ed Delahanty, thus breaking their four games losing streak, before losing the away game in their series, splitting their series with the White Stockings, 2-2. The Phils would then go to Boston, where they would sweep the three-games series from the Beaneaters, ending their road trip with a record of 8-5. The Phillies would then go home for a fifteen-games home stand for the last day of May and most of June, against the Wolverines (3), the White Stockings (4), the Alleghenys (4) and the Hoosiers (4). The Phillies would begin the home stand by playing a doubleheader with the Wolverines, which they would split, losing the opener by the score of 6-2 and then winning the 'nightcap' by the score of 5-4, thus ending May with a winning record of 11-7 and an overall win-lost record of 13-14.
The Phillies would then lose the final game of their series with the Wolverines, winning the series, 2-1. They would win the first game of their four-games series with the White Stockings, before being swept by them for three straight games, losing the series, 1-3. They would then win the next six games, sweeping their series with the Alleghenys, then winning the first two games with the Hoosiers, before splitting the final two games in the series, winning the series, 3-1, and the home stand, 10-5. The Phillies would then go to Washington for a four-games road trip, which they would lose to the Nationals, 1-3. They would then come back home for a two teams, seven-games, home stand with the Giants (4) and the Beaneaters (3) for the last days of June and the first day of July. The Phils would split their four-games series with the Giants, before winning the first two games of their series with Boston, ending the month with a winning record of 13-10, and an overall record of 26-24.
The Phillies would start July off by winning the final game of their series with Boston, sweeping the Beaneaters, and winning the home stand, 5-2. The Phils would then go on another western road trip, this time for twelve-games, for four three-games series with the White Stockings, the Hoosiers, the Wolverines and the Alleghenys, until the middle of the month. They would start the road trip off with a July 4 doubleheader with the White Stockings, losing the first game by the score of 10-8, ending their four-games winning streak, then winning the second game by the score of 6-5. They would then lose the away game, thus losing the series, 1-2. They would then go to Indianapolis to face the Hoosiers, losing that series, 1-2. They next went to Detroit, where they would end up being swept by the Wolverines, before going on to Pittsburgh, where they would sweep the Alleghenys, thus end the road trip with a record of 5-7. They would then return to Philadelphia for a six-games home stand of two three-games series with the Giants and the Nationals. After defeating the Giants in the opening game of their series, the Phillies would be defeated in the next five games, losing two in a row to the Giants and then being swept by the Nationals, ending the home stand with a 1-5 record. The Phillies would then go on an east coast road trip to face the Giants (3), the Beaneaters (3) and the Nationals (3), for the end of July and the beginning of August. The Phillies would start off the road trip by being swept by the Giants, with their losing streak going up to eight games, before finally ending the month by defeating the Beaneaters for the first two games of their series, thus snapping their losing streak, while ending the month with a losing record of 9-15 and an overall win-lost record of 35-39.
The Phillies would begin August by winning the final games of their series with the Beaneaters, thus sweeping the series. They would then go on to Washington, where they would lose the first game of the series, then win the next two games, winning the series, 2-1 and ending the road trip with a 5-4 record. They would then go back to Philadelphia for a sixteen-games home stand, which would include a two-games series with the White Stockings, three straight three-games series with the Wolverines, the Hoosiers and the Alleghenys, a two-games series with Boston and a three-games series with the Giants. The Phils would begin the home stand by splitting their series with the White Stockings, before sweeping their series with the Wolverines and the Hoosiers. The Phillies would then lose their series with the Alleghenys, 1-2, before being swept by the Beaneaters in their short two-games series. They then ended the home stand by losing their series with the Giants, after winning the first games in the series, 1-2, thus ending the home stand with a 9-7 record. The Phillies would then end the month by playing four of their next five games with the Nationals, two games in Washington and three more in Philadelphia. The Phillies would start things off by winning the two-games series in Washington, then winning the first game played in Philadelphia before having their three-games winning streak snapped by losing the final game to be played that month, thus ending the month of August with a 15-9 record and having a win-lost record of 50-48.
The Phillies would start off September by ending their road-home series with Washington, beating the Nationals, winning the series, 4-1. They would then go onto the road for twenty-one games for most of the month, facing the Giants (3), the Alleghenys (4), the Wolverines (4), the White Stockings (3), the Hoosiers (3) and the Beaneaters (4), They would start off their road trip by playing the Giants to an 0-0 tie, then losing the next two games for an 0-2-1 losing record. The Phillies would then split their series with the Alleghenys, before losing their series with the Wolverines, 1-3. They would then sweep their two three-games series, first with the White Stockings, including the September 18 game where their starter Ben Sanders would miss throwing a perfect game as he would give up a single in the ninth inning to Chicago pitcher Gus Krock in a 6-0 shut out, and then the Hoosiers, before losing their series with Boston, 1-3, ending the long road trip with a record of 10-10-1. The Phillies would then spend the rest of their season at home, facing the Alleghenys for two games in September and two more in October, followed by a three-games series with the Hoosiers, then two two-games series with the Wolverines and the White Stockings. The Phillies would end the month, and start the home stand, by losing the first two-games of their four games series to Pittsburgh, ending the month with an 11-12-1 record and with an overall record of 61-60-1.
The Phillies would then rebound and win their next two games with the Alleghenys, splitting the series. The Phillies would then sweep the Hoosiers, before splitting their series with the Wolverines and then ending the season with a sweep of their main western rivals, the White Stockings, with the last game being won via forfeit. The final home stand would end up a winning record of 8-3 and an overall season record of 69-61-1 for a .531 winning percentage, landing the Phillies back into third place, five and a half games behind second place Chicago and fourteen and a half game behind the league champ, the New York Giants.
The Phillies would play a total of 131 games, with a home-road record of 37-29 at home and 32-32-1 on the road. The Phillies had winning records against all but two of their opponents, with their best record being a 14-6 record against the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, followed by a 13-4 one with the Hoosiers. Their two losing records would be against the league champion Giants (5-14-1) and the Wolverines (7-11). The Phillies were 16-8 in shut outs, 28-16 in 1-run games and 19-17 in blowouts. The Phillies' home attendence for 1888 would be 151,804 patrons.
The Phillies' offense would in 1888 be ranked among the bottom of the league, being fourth in doubles (151), fifth in walks (268), sixth in runs scored (535), strikeouts (485), on-base percentage (.269) and slugging percentage (.290), seventh in hits (1021), triples (46), home runs (16), batting average (.225) and stolen bases (246) and eighth in at-bats (4528), as well as having 418 RBIs and having 51 hit batsmen. The Phillies' pitchers would end the season being number one in saves (3), second in ERA (2.38), shut outs (16), hits allowed (1072), runs allowed (509), home runs allowed (26) and walks (196), fourth in strike outs (519), seventh in complete games (125) and eighth in innings pitched (1167), as well as finishing seven games, giving up 309 earned runs, throwing 50 wild pitches, hitting 25 batters and throwing 2 balks.
Among the team's batting leaders, Jack Clements would lead the team in batting average, hitting .245. Jim Fogarty would lead the team in on-base percentage (.325), walks (53), strike outs (66) and stolen bases (58). George Wood would lead in slugging percentage (.342) and home runs (6). Sid Farrar would lead in games played (131), total bases (165), doubles (24), triples (7), RBIs (53) extra-base hits (32) and hit by the pitch (13), while being tied with Ed Andrews for the team's lead in total plate appearances with 552. Andrews would also lead the team in at-bats (528), runs scored (75), hits (126), and singles (105). Among the team's leader in pitching, Ben Sanders would lead the team in ERA (1.90), win-loss percentage (.655), and shut outs (8), also being tied for first in the league lead in that category with Tim Keefe of the Giants, as well as being tied with George Wood for the team's lead in games finished with two. Wood would lead the team in saves with 2, also being the league leader in that category. Charlie Buffinton would lead the team in wins with 28, being the team's only 20-game winner, games pitched and started (46), innings pitched (400.3), strikeouts (199), complete games (43), walks (59), hits allowed (324), wild pitches (15) and batters faced (1586). Rookie Kid Gleason would lead in home runs allowed (11) and hit batters (12). Dan Casey would lead the team in losses with 18 and earned runs allowed with 100.
The Phillies would end the season still among the league's elite teams while still looking for their first team pennant. Meanwhile, the Giants would face the American Association winner, the St. Louis Browns, in a post-season series, which the Giants would win 6 games to four.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com, Baseball-reference.com


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Paying the price for independence
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By Glenn Mollette
The dream of the average American is independence.
Under this umbrella known as the American dream is the pursuit
of owning a home, a car, a stable paying job and the ability to provide for our food, clothing and enough cash to care for our family. Americans work one or two jobs forty to sixty hours a week to keep this umbrella over our heads.
Independence is never easy or cheap. Most Americans pay 20 to 30 years to own a house. A lot of Americans never own one. Young adults are graduating from college owing from $28,000 to more than $100,000 before they even begin their first real job.
Americans with medical insurance often end up tens of thousands of dollars in debt due to being responsible for 20 percent of their medical bills. More than 1.7 million people filed bankruptcy due to medical bills in 2012, and 56 million more Americans struggled with medical bills. Too many Americans have worked for corporations for ten to twenty years to learn their employer is moving to Honduras, Mexico or simply closing to reorganize and reopen in another state.
Traditionally, Americans have dreamed of plugging into an employer or career and working thirty years. The hope is to progress, grow and be rewarded throughout the career. When retirement age comes then we hope to pay ourselves to do whatever we want to do which could include golfing, fishing, traveling or walking the beach.
Our forefathers came here seeking independence from British rule. They wanted to enjoy religious freedom, own some land and have the freedom to carve out a living for themselves and their families. The pursuit of their dreams was tough and many died.
Their sacrifices paved the way for survivors and others who would follow. They and every generation that followed handed to us the America we enjoy. It is humbling to walk the national cemetery in Arlington knowing that so many died for what we have today. Whether standing at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier or at a friend's grave in Kentucky, who died in Vietnam, I am starkly reminded that a huge price of sacrifice has been paid for all of us in America.
My mother and father worked hard for forty years. I benefited from their labor. Numerous schoolteachers invested in me for years without a lot of pay. The spectrum of debt we all owe is wide. From the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Jonas Salk, Martin Luther King, Bill Gates and millions of others our lives are enriched because so many have worked hard and sacrificed much.
Americans have enjoyed the freedom to dream, pursue, fail and try again. All the while everything we are doing today has been made possible or a little easier because of the price paid by so many others who have given so much.
Glenn Mollette is a columnist and author.
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Is Ellen DeGeneres ready to judge "American Idol?" The reality competition's new permanent fourth judge told her new colleague, host Ryan Seacrest, on his radio show on Thursday morning that she's going to "opinionate."
"It's ironic, isn't it?" Ellen said, noting that she'd undergone plenty of judgment over the years regarding her sexuality. "I really do pride myself on not judging. We had 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' on the other day, so I do judge. But I try to remind myself that everyone is who they are for a reason. It's gonna be a fine line – I'll be honest, I don't like to judge people. I like to opinionate in a necessary way."
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Still, Ellen said she's already preparing to join the judges' table.
"I'm getting fitted for robes. Judge Judy and I are going to hang out, so I'm getting ready," she joked. "I haven't even talked to Randy or Kara or Simon, but this is going to be a whole lot of fun."
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Asked by Ryan how she'll keep up with her daytime program, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," she said she'll be trying to keep up with the busy radio host.
"Yesterday I took a bagging job at Whole Foods," she joked to Ryan. "I'm trying to keep up with you. I'm not worried about that. What you have to do is a lot harder than me sitting there and listening – I do that at home anyway."
And "Idol," she said, will play a big part in her show from now on.
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"I'll get to talk about it on my show every day – it's going to be great," Ellen said. "This is our seventh season and I think it'll add a whole lot of content to my show and I hope I'll bring something [to 'Idol'] that is fresh."
"American Idol" Season 9 premieres in January 2010.
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CollegeHumor wondered why all Chinese food menus looked the same from all those different Chinese food takeout restaurants that all somehow taste the same and it's so obvious! They all must use the same Photoshop technique! What you know about the peeling laminant and saucy fingerprints filter?
Chinese takeout is one of the true wonders of the world. Even if you've never been there, it'll taste like you've been going your whole life and even if it tastes bad, you know you'll still go back. Check out the hilarious Chinese Food Photoshop tool below. [College Humor via Laughing Squid]


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"Paul ends up pulling the Cali card " - Doh! How many people were thinking "Oh boy, we're in trouble now."
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Quote from: McCabe on May 23, 2013, 08:52:22 AMFor the record, I did not cry.I'm pretty sure I saw a tear...
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Question No. 2 Are you in favor of amending article 73-a of the second part of the constitution to read as follows: [Art.] 73-a. [Supreme Court Administration.] The chief justice of the supreme court shall be the administrative head of all the courts. The chief justice shall, with the concurrence of a majority of the supreme court justices, have the power by rule to regulate the security and administration of, and the practice, procedure, and rules of evidence in, all courts in the state The rules so adopted shall have the force and effect of law. The general court may also regulate these matters by statute provided that the general court shall have no authority to abridge the necessary adjudicatory functions for which the courts were created. In the event of a conflict between a statute and a rule, the statute shall supersede the rule, if not contrary to the provisions of the constitution." (Passed by the N.H. House 290 Yes 48 No; Passed by State Senate 16 Yes 7 No) CACR 5
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With the new Facebook "like" plugin launched last week, Levi's have jumped in to created a social shopping experience. They've integrated the new "like" feature with every product on the site so at a quick view, you can see the number of facebookers who like the item and also cast your own vote.
On individual product pages, it even pulls in pics of your friends who've "liked" the item. The site extends the facebook connect integration out to create a "friends store" which essentially customises the entire experience to be facebook friend centric and also allowing you to invite all your friends into that shopping experience! I love it. You can check out the store here.


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The Small Stuff: Accessories for Your New iPad Mini
The iPad mini officially hits retail stores this Friday, with preordered units are already sold out.
And with the 7.9-inch tablet comes a slew of new accessories. While typing on a mini accessory keyboard should be an interesting experiment in ergonomics, one accessory maker is even offering a finger-cramping keyboard in addition to the usual assortment of cases.
We haven't tried and tested these add-ons, but here are some notable options plucked from the deluge of press releases that come with every new Apple product announcement:
In the case of cases, it can be especially tough to choose one from among the dozens of options. Apple is offering its standard iPad Smart Cover in mini sizes and in six different colors, for $39 (the same price as the larger iPad Smart Cover). This cover, for those not familiar, protects just the screen side of the tablet, hinging magnetically to the device.
But there are other, more protective cases out there, too. Otterbox, known for its durable iPhone cases, has created a Defender Series iPad mini case, though, at $69.95, it's not cheap. The impact-resistant case includes a screen protector, and has a textured exterior for added grip. If you're prone to dropping your device, the Otterbox has a foam-padded interior for extra shock absorption.
A less costly case is Targus' Vuscape, a water-resistant, padded twill case that offers six landscape viewing positions. It's available in black, red or indigo blue for $40.
If you're looking for something with a little more style, iLuv is selling these $30 foam-padded sleeves for iPad mini, while the Joy Factory offers cases in denim and camouflage, each for $49.95.
Targus has also created a water-resistant twill case, called the Versavu, that boasts a 360-degree rotating axis. So, users can twist and turn the iPad mini for different viewing angles while it's propped up in the case.
For a better idea of how this works, you might want to check out the quick video on the Targus Web page. The stand is available in red or black, and costs $50. For a less expensive option, there's the simpler $30 Kickstand, also available in red or black.
Kensington also offers a nice blend of cover and stand with this $35 protective case, available in brown marble, black marble or "tan snake" (for those who really want to make an impression in business meetings, I suppose).
What is this, a keyboard for ants? Zagg doesn't seem to think so. The company is selling a $90 seven-inch keyboard accessory that works with the iPad mini and "other 7-inch tablets."
If you want to go larger, Zagg offers a nine-inch keyboard, also costing $90. This has the same spacing as Zagg's traditional tablet keyboard, so your fingers won't feel as cramped. Your tiny tablet can be nestled into the cover portion of the keyboard case.
Both are Bluetooth-compatible and come with a built-in rechargeable battery that the company claims will keep the keyboards powered for months at a time.
Tactile-typists might also want to check out Logitech's selection of Bluetooth-equipped keyboards for iPad, which the company says should be fully compatible with the iPad mini. Logitech has made the point that consumers might still look primarily to the larger iPads for real productivity, and hasn't said yet whether it plans to make devices specifically for the iPad mini.
Last, but certainly not least important, are Lightning adapters, which make your older iDevices compatible with new ones that use Apple's new eight-pin connector.
On its Web site, Apple is selling the Lightning to 30-pin adapter for $29, and a Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader for $29, which lets you transfer photos and videos from your digital camera to your iPad mini. That one is currently in stock, according to the site; the Lightning to 30-pin adapter should ship in about a week. The Lightning to VGA adapter, which works with VGA TVs, costs $49, and has an expected ship time of two weeks to three weeks.


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I don't know about you, but I'm beyond outraged that a state official killed a mountain lion during a hunt in Idaho.
Doubly shocking, this official was, of all things, the chair of the California Fish & Game Commission.
Yes, such a kill would be illegal in California.
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But as with so many things in California's governing system, there are loopholes, ways around our laws. Going to Idaho to kill this noble beast was one.
The fact that he also ate the lion is even more outrageous.
More on the commisssioner and the mountain lion here
The good news is that Democrats, led by Lt. Gavin Newsom, have stepped forward and, without doing any media grandstanding whatsoever, have courageously demanded the resignation of the chair, Dan Richards.
But this won't be enough. As we know in California, a crisis like this requires more than denunciation; we need major reforms to keep it from happening again.
So drawing on the best thinking of California's leading elected officials and reformers, here are five approaches to end the scourge of out-of-state lion killing by state officials.
1. An initiative ban.
Yes, the legislature could pass a law banning out of state kills. But is that really enough protection?
A law passed one year can be modified or repealed in future years. If you're serious about saving the mountain lions of Idaho and the entire Pacific Northwest from bloodthirsty, state commissioners, you need an initiative statute.
Such a statute couldn't be touched by lawmakers, no matter what; another vote of the people would be necessary. And of course, an initiative can't be defied; for example, no one in Calfornia would think of cutting education funding since we have an education funding guarantee, Prop 98.
2. Supermajority protection.
It may be unwise to outlaw hunting completely -- there could be times when we want a state official to go out of state, like for example if a herd rhinos were to rampage down the Las Vegas Strip, trampling visiting Californians and others.
Our mutual aid treaties might force us to do some hunting then. But such situations are rare, so it's probably wise to have a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of the legislature before a state offiicial can kill any animal outside the state.
The supermajority should be even higher -- three quarters -- for an in-state kill.
3. A spending limit.
Spending limits make everything better.
You don't even need to outlaw out-of-state hunting or think very hard about tradeoffs and policies. No, just slap a spending limit on the fish and game commissioners.
This would have to apply not only to their own work but to their personal lives. Let's say, no more than $100 for a personal out of state hunting trip. Could you even get to Idaho for that?
4. Realignment.
As Gov. Jerry Brown has shown, some issues really should be left to local governments, and it's very clear that regulating the out of state hunting activities of fish and game commissioners is one of those issues.
So let's shut down the commission, and leave out of state hunting in the hands of the counties.
Now, of course, we can't let the counties raise the fees or revenues for this kind of regulation -- that sort of realignment is much too unrealistic and big a reform -- but the state should send the counties about half the money the commission currently spends on the commission, and give them detailed instructions on how they should do the job.
That's Brown-style realignment, dude. Power to the locals!
5. Performance-based hunting.
With all the nasty partisan sniping about the morality or legality of the hunting issue, the good people in the center in California are really turned off. And frustrated.
The people just want their fish and game commission, and the out of state hunting of the commissioners, to be effective and efficient.
So we need to put aside the partisan wrangling (and the partisan shooting and killing and game-eating for that matter), and come up with thorough, bureaucratic ways to measure this kind of behavior. Looking at other states, the best method is performance-based hunting.
We'll want to know how many hours a commissioner spends hunting out of state, how many shots it takes him to kill, and what his greenhouse gas emissions are during the time he spends cooking the lion over an open flame.
That'll give us a number of metrics to evaluate commissioners' out-of-state hunting, and thus give the public greater confidence in the system before we take on any larger policy changes.
Now, yes, there will be some voices, unrealistic voices, calling for direct action.
For just firing the guy or telling the fish and game chairman he shouldn't violate California rules out of front.
There will even be some people who think that taking action on these reforms is, dare I say it, overkill and that the state faces far more pressing problems.
To those critics, I say, you just don't know California.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Cook the Book: 'My Bread'
Without all of that time consuming, arm-tiring kneading, bread baking becomes instantly accessible to the home baker, and Lahey's fool-proof method creates a loaf of bread that could stand up to any of the pricier, artisanal version. A dark, rustic loaf with a cracklingly crisp crust and wonderfully chewy crumb doesn't require a trip to a bakery, just flour, water, salt, yeast and about a day of resting time.
Most of the recipes in My Bread are inspired by the breads that Lahey experienced in Italy but the recipes rely heavily on the no-knead method making them entirely possible to replicate at home even without the skills of a seasoned baker. My Bread also includes some of the wonderful sandwiches that are available at Sullivan Street Bakery and pizzas from Lahey's pizzeria, Co.
Lahey has made it his personal mission to reintroduce this country to real bread, not the squishy white specimens that line supermarket shelves. Everyday this week we will be baking one of Lahey's creations and sharing our results with you, even if you don't fancy yourself to be much of a bread baker, beginning with the Basic No-Knead Bread Recipe.
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Thanks to the generous folks over at Norton, we are giving away five (5) copies of My Bread this week. All you have to do is tell us about the most triumphant or disasterous loaf of bread that you've ever baked in the comments section below.
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Apple Premium Reseller, Western Computer, is opening its fifth UK retail location in Leamington Spa's Regent Court Shopping Centre on Saturday 11 December at 11am.
Western are promising an exciting day of promotions for its launch day, including 10 per cent off all its products including iMacs, MacBooks and iPods.
Customers will get a chance to grab a free goodie bag with a launch day T-Shirt, a range of accessories and other gifts given away free to the first 100 punters through the door.
Western Computer stock the entire Apple product range as well as a quality selection of Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad accessories including headphones, bags, speakers and hard drives.
"This is a great opportunity for all Apple enthusiast's around the area to come and experience the great range of Apple products and get some sound advice and guidance," said Keith Courtman, Western Managing Director, announcing the new store.
"For those customers that want to make the switch from a Windows environment to Mac, we can help them in store make the move."
The small print notes, the 10 per cent off deal excludes iPads.
Founded in 1984 with 26 years experience and year on year growth, Western Computer is billed as one of the most established, successful and respected Apple resellers in the country.
Western have 4 retail locations already operating across the UK, including Bristol, Cheltenham, Oxford and Swindon, as well as a team of Apple Certified Technicians, Business and Education specialists operating from their Bristol location.


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DAKAR, Senegal - The president of the African Union has written a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, asking for an immediate military intervention in Mali.
Yayi Boni, the president of Benin who is also the rotating head of the African Union, said that any reticence will be interpreted as a sign of weakness by the al-Qaida-linked fighters currently controlling northern Mali.
In a report circulated to the Security Council, Ban said Wednesday that the plan put forward by the AU for a military intervention "needs to be developed further" because fundamental questions on how the force will be led, trained and equipped remain unanswered.
Boni's open letter stresses that Africa is counting on the U.N. to give the rebels an ultimatum. And to make clear the need for a military intervention.


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Supreme Nerd Navimie
Now, is it fair that they ask science questions? So I'm supreme nerd, OMG LMAO. I'm more nerdy than all of them, crap. It's not fair that I was good at chemistry and physics!
Because of that I'll have to put my favourite nerdy quote here:
Take the test today! And let me know how nerdy you are :) Make me feel a little better at least!
Edit: Kamalia did it, and she got 88! Now was she the chemistry whiz? I forget! That might have been Vidyala.


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Keynote by Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google, Inc.
Brian started Google's Chicago engineering office in 2005 and led several of Google's global engineering efforts, including the Data Liberation Front, and Transparency Engineering. He also served as internal advisor for Google's open data efforts, having previously led the Google Code and Google Affiliate Network teams. Prior to joining Google, Brian worked as an engineer at CollabNet, Apple, and a local Chicago development shop.
Brian first started contributing to open source software in 1998 and was a core Subversion developer from 2000 to 2005 as well as the lead developer of the cvs2svn utility. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and former VP of Public Relations for the ASF. Brian has written numerous articles and given dozens of presentations, including co-writing "Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others," "Version Control with Subversion" (now in its second edition), and chapters for "Unix in a Nutshell" and "Linux in a Nutshell."
Brian has an A.B. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago with a major in Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in Fine Arts and Ceramics. Brian resides in Chicago.


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The city has purchased four hybrid electric waste collection trucks, to be used by the Department of Sanitation (DSNY). The trucks will be put to use collecting garbage in Western Queens. The state-of-the-art trucks are the first of their kind to be used anywhere in the United States.
The city also unveiled a fleet of ten all-electric Mini Es vehicles, on loan from BMW, to be used by the Parks Department and the Street Conditions Observation Unit (SCOUT). SCOUT teams patrol the street looking for quality of life issues.
The cars, similar in design to the Mini Cooper, are powered by an 150-kilowatt electric motor and can travel up to 100 miles on a single charge. Still unavailable on the commercial market, they cars are part of a nationwide field test.
Bloomberg said the trucks and cars will help the city meet its PlaNYC goal of reducing the municipal government's carbon emissions by 30 percent by the year 2017. The plan calls for the city to reduce its entire carbon emissions output by 30 percent by 2030.
City officials did not say by how much the city would reduce carbon emissions through the use of the green trucks and cars.
"Through PlaNYC, our vision for a greener, greater, New York, we've been dedicated to reducing pollution and improving the air quality in our City," Bloomberg said in prepared remarks at the ceremony.
The mayor said while the city encourages residents to use public transportation, some trips will have to be made by car.
"So we want the vehicles driven in New York to be more energy efficient and use cleaner fuels," Bloomberg said. "I am proud to say that city government is leading by example, with the help of good corporate citizens such as the BMW Group."
DSNY Commissioner John Doherty said the hybrid-electric vehicles - three collection trucks and one rack truck - ensure New York remains a leader in green sanitation solutions.
"The DSNY is proud to be the first city in the country to use these state-of-the-art hybrid vehicles," Doherty said. "New York's Strongest can also be known as New York's Cleanest."
Each truck cost $500,000, about twice as much as the current trucks used by DSNY. But because the city and federal government split the cost for each truck, Bloomberg said, the city is actually paying as much for the new high-tech vehicles as for the standard models.
Jim O'Donnell, the president of BMW of North America, who appeared at the ceremony, declined to say how much the Mini Es cars cost.
O'Donnell said their price would go public once field tests are completed and the vehicle hits market.
"We are delighted to be collaborating with the City of New York to improve mobility in one of the world's largest, most complex, and important cities," O'Donnell said. "Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a greener and more sustainable New York is an innovative and exciting initiative."


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The holidays are a time of celebration for many, but when a loved one is struggling with dementia, memories of times gone by can make gatherings bittersweet. Adjusting expectations and embracing new traditions can help family members and friends acclimate to the new norm and will go a long way in making the holidays meaningful.
Following are six tips to help create a memorable experience for your family:
1. Meet your loved one where they are on the spectrum of the disease. Dementia is characterized by a gradual worsening of symptoms such as memory loss, impaired thinking and personality changes. Knowing where your loved one is on the dementia spectrum can help to keep expectations realistic and minimize frustration.
2. Include your loved one in activities that they are still able to do, such as decorating or baking treats, or even simply setting the table. Keeping projects simple keeps them from being overwhelmed, and helps them feel part of the festivities.
3. Decrease stress by avoiding sensory overload. Be mindful of your holiday décor. Tone down the blinking light decorations, or those that may cause confusion or safety hazards.
4. Be mindful of your loved one's schedule and any behavioral triggers. For many in the advanced stages of cognitive decline, "sundowning" in the afternoons creates a time of agitation. Consider a midday gathering rather than a late night celebration to minimize angst.
5. Familiarize guests with the situation and educate them to be patient, not to interrupt or correct, and to distract and redirect if the going gets rough. Knowing what to expect and how to deal with issues that might arise will make yourself and your guests feel more comfortable.
6. Adapt gift giving. Choose items that provide comfort or ease agitation, like a large, easy-to-read clock, featuring the time and date to help reduce confusion, maintain orientation and provide your loved one with structure and focus; an iPod loaded with favorite tunes to unlock pleasant memories; or, a "Fidget Quilt" adorned with assorted shapes, textures and moveable parts to help soothe restless hands and anxious minds. For clothing, choose comfortable, warm and easily washable clothes with Velcro fasteners.
With a little planning and an accepting attitude, you can create a memorable holiday this year. Best wishes from the Gurwin Family of Healthcare Services!
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Alexis Bailly Tasting RoomName: Alexis Bailly Tasting RoomDate: December 1, 2018Time: 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM CSTWebsite: http://abvwines.com/index.htmlEvent Description:40 years ago in June 1978, David Bailly made history and opened the first winery in Minnesota and released the first wines ever made in Minnesota.
Starting Friday, March 30th, the winery will be open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Christmas 11:am - 5:30pm. You can join us in the Tasting Room to sample our wines, or pick up a light snack in our deli where we have a selection of meats and cheeses as well as some wonderful chocolates for your pleasure. Our deck and grounds are always available to our customers to enjoy a glass of wine and a picnic.


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By Dr. Wilmer J Leon @ Black Agenda Report:
In an interview in 2007 Senator Obama (D-IL) said, "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation… I reject the Bush Administration's claim that the President has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants." In 2013 Americans are facing a president with a different mindset.
A recently leaked White Paper is providing insight into the legal justifications for the Obama administration's "targeted killing" program. The paper asserts that "high-level" government officials can "…use lethal force in a foreign country…against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force…actively engaged in planning operations to kill Americans." This legal framework also explains how lethal force can be used even if the "high-level" government officials do not have "…clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future."
In September 2011 the administration used drone strikes to kill alleged al-Qaida operatives Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Al-Awlaki's 16-year old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was also killed by a drone strike. All three were U.S. citizens and none of them had been indicted by the U.S. government for any crimes. According to The Guardian, "…the drone program now is run out of the White House, where (John) Brennan, the president's most trusted counter-terror adviser, helps Obama pick the targets."
The rational behind the administration's "assassination by drone" program sounds eerily reminiscent to former V.P. Dick Cheney's "one-percent doctrine." Cheney believed the so-called "war on terror" empowered the Bush administration to invade sovereign countries and violate American's civil liberties without the need for evidence or extensive analysis. The facts did not matter. According to Cheney, "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis … It's about our response."
The Obama administrations rational for targeted killings of American citizens contradict some of the basic framework of American democracy.Due process, habeas corpus, checks and balances, and bills of attainder are civil liberty protections guaranteed by the Constitution.
Due process is such an important protection that it is referenced in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The Due Process Clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the Government. For the President or other "high-level" government officials to act as judge, jury, and executioner irrespective of "…clear evidence…" of any immediate wrongdoing is the clearest example of arbitrarily denying life and liberty that one can imagine.
Habeas corpus requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge in order to determine if an individual's detention is warranted. Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states, "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." The language refers to arrests, not assassination, but theoretically, summarily executing American citizens before they can even be detained is a contradiction of the highest order.
The concept of checks and balances is an important part of the Constitution. Each of the three branches of government can limit the powers of the others preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful. Under no circumstance should members of the executive branch be allowed to condemn American citizens to death, even in times of "war" without the review of an impartial judge. This also violates Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution, "No Bill of Attainder … shall be passed." A Bill of Attainder is an act of a legislature or executive declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without privilege of a judicial trial.
The paper also concludes that the use of drone strikes for targeted killings would not be justified if it violated the fundamental law-of-war principles "…if anticipated civilian causalities (collateral damage) would be excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage." The administration has presented and defended drone strikes as an "antiseptic" use of technology. CIA nominee, John Brennan defended drone strikes as a more humane form of warfare. He said that "extraordinary care" is taken to ensure they conform to the "law of war principles" but stopped short of saying they are in compliance.
According to the Center for Research on Globalization, "At the end of January 2013, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism was able to identify by name 213 people killed by drones in Pakistan who were reported to be middle-or senior-ranking militants. A further 331 civilians have also now been named, 87 of them children. But this is a small proportion of the minimum 2,629 people who appear to have so far died in CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. The Bureau's work suggests 475 of them were likely to have been civilians." The administration has championed the use of drones as making Americans safer by killing terrorists. Killing innocent people in foreign countries creates more terrorists.
President Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) containing sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provisions and signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers (PATRIOT ACT) to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. The rational behind the Obama administrations approach to civil liberties and warfare sounds eerily like a Dick Cheney moment.
Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host of the nationally broadcast call-in talk radio program "Inside the Issues With Leon," and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Go to www.wilmerleon.com or email: email@example.com. http://www.twitter.com/drwleon


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I'm sooo looking forward to WriteOnCon 2013.
Did you participate in this year's WriteOnCon? If so, what did you think of the experience?
Thanks for the overview. I couldn't participate due to the demands of children but I'm hoping to next year.
I did as you already know from my blog (and I replied to your comment). But I did the exact opposite of you and only participated in two live chats because I was so busy in the critique forums. I had the burning question of maximum word count for MT answered by Jen Rofe and ? (I forget the editor's name) and it's much higher than a few years ago. That makes me so happy! Now I can add back the voice I lost trying to cut every unnecessary word.
Typo! I meant word count for MG, middle grade.
That looks like some great info., but you've got your priorities straight taking care of the baby first. Enjoy those tender moments! My baby starts kindergarten on Monday!
i participated as much as i could, and now i have a whole bunch of links bookmarked to check out when i have time. such a wonderful conference!! but slightly overwhelming all the same :)
It sounds awesome. I didn't take part because I was away for some of it, and it's aimed at YA, but I guess much of the advice would apply to any genre. Besides, I'm aiming for YA or MG for NaNo this year, so I'll do it next year!
S.P.: There's always next year. =)
Sher: It's always hard to cut stuff that we spent so much time laboring over.
Rose: I hope your daughter has been enjoying kindergarten so far. How exciting!
Gina: There was certainly a lot to take in. Thank goodness we have bookmarks.
Nick: Good luck with doing NaNoWriMo!


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DOHA, Qatar (AP) Philipp Kohlschreiber opened his season Monday with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory over Croatia's Ivan Dodig in the first round of the Qatar Open.
The third-seeded German was joined in the second round by sixth-seeded Viktor Troicki of Serbia, who battled past Bjorn Phau of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
Injury-plagued Russian Nikolay Davydenko, whose ranking has fallen to No. 48 from a high of No. 3, cruised past Victor Hanescu of Romania 6-2, 6-3.
Kohlschreiber outlasted his opponent with a gritty display. With both players holding serve throughout the first set, Kohlschreiber finally found a forehand winner in the tiebreaker.
``It was a good first set and he never gave me any easy balls,'' said Kohlschreiber, who wrapped up the match with an ace. ``At 29, I'm one of the older guys in the tour and I hope to adjust a few things in my game next year.''
After breaking Dodig in just the second game of the second set, the German pressed his advantage and broke again in the fourth before wrapping up the match.
Troicki was stretched hard in a thrilling match that lasted 1 hour, 45 minutes.
``I knew it was going to be a tough match, especially since it was the start of the season. Bjorn played really well and it was a tight match indeed. I'm happy to finish my match before the New Year started,'' said Troicki, who had seven aces.
Top-seeded David Ferrer and second-seeded Richard Gasquet of France play their opening-round matches Tuesday.
The $1.05 million tournament is missing many of the game's biggest stars with Ferrer and Gasquet the only top-10 players taking part.


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Seems strange that org that paid out on that bet already. Even if Romney has say a 30 percent chance of winning, why wouldn't they wait until Obama has it in the bag?
Its time to stop being Americans. Its time to start being White Men again. - Gregory Hood
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The governor of New York just declared unrestricted voting across the entire state, allowing voters to vote any any polling place that they want to.
This seems like an open invitation to vote at as many different polling places as they want to.
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Ah, just came back from the polls. And I voted for Barry. And I hope he wins because I want to see the conseratards squirming. I'd rather see the White voting base throw the Republican Party under the bus, then maybe that could lead to sparking a new movement.
Only reason I went was a constitutional amendment that was up to protect hunting and fishing rights. I had to make sure it wasn't a fast one they were pulling, and apparently the NRA supports it so it can't be bad.
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I voted at all because of a local/regional judicial election. There is an ACLU/NAACP-type running against an incumbent that I have a lot of respect for and the niggers have a pretty strong organization lined up.
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Gary Johnson voter here, Libertarian all the way.
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Government Cheque Should Mean No Vote? Really? Gene Arensberg
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples
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Why Do White People Think Mitt Romney Should Be President?
Parsing the narrow, tribal appeal of the Republican nominee.
By Tom Scocca|Posted Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at 4:56 PM ET
Mitt Romney's election strategy depends on the notion that the white vote is separate from the rest of the vote
I'm voting for Barack Obama on Election Day. This fact will appear on Slate's list of which candidates its writers are voting for, a list which will almost certainly look like the 2008 list, which is to say an almost unbroken string of "Obama." People will look at this list—Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama—and they will say, Look at the Slate writers, inside their bubble.
And they will be wrong. There is a real, airtight bubble in this election, but it's not Obama's. As a middle-aged white man, in fact, I'm breaching it. White people—white men in particular—are for Mitt Romney. White men are supporting Mitt Romney to the exclusion of logic or common sense, in defiance of normal Americans. Without this narrow, tribal appeal, Romney's candidacy would simply not be viable. Most kinds of Americans see no reason to vote for him.
This fact is obfuscated because white people control the political media. So we get the Washington Post reporting that the election is "more polarized along racial lines than any other contest since 1988":
Obama has a deficit of 23 percentage points, trailing Republican Mitt Romney 60 percent to 37 percent among whites, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News national tracking poll. That presents a significant hurdle for the president—and suggests that he will need to achieve even larger margins of victory among women and minorities, two important parts of the Democratic base, to win reelection.
That's not polarized. Polarization would mean that various races were mutually pulling apart, toward their favored candidates. "Minorities" is not a race (nor, you may have noticed, is "women"). Minorities and women are the people standing still, while white men run away from them.
What is it with these white men? What are they seeing that ordinary people don't see? What accounts for this ... secession of theirs, from the rest of America? John Sununu, Romney's campaign co-chair, responded to Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama by saying, "I think that when you have somebody of your own race that you're proud of being president of the United States—I applaud Colin for standing with him."
Sununu was trying to be snide. But there he is, standing with Mitt Romney. Just like Donald Trump and Clint Eastwood and Buzz Bissinger and Meat Loaf—one aging white man after another. It's a study in identity politics.
White people don't like to believe that they practice identity politics. The defining part of being white in America is the assumption that, as a white person, you are a regular, individual human being. Other demographic groups set themselves apart, to pursue their distinctive identities and interests and agendas. Whiteness, to white people, is the American default.
Yet Mitt Romney's election strategy depends on the notion that the white vote is separate from the rest of the vote, and can be captured as such. Back in August, National Journal ran a report on campaign math headlined "Obama Needs 80% of Minority Vote to Win 2012 Presidential Election":
Romney's camp is focused intently on capturing at least 61 percent of white voters. That would provide him a slim national majority—so long as whites constitute at least 74 percent of the vote, as they did last time, and Obama doesn't improve on his 80 percent showing with minorities.
Again, why are "minorities" treated as a bloc here? The story mentions no particular plan by the Obama campaign to capture the nonwhite vote. Instead, it discusses how the Romney forces hope to get a bigger share of white voters than John McCain did—by "stressing the increased federal debt" and attacking "Obama's record on spending and welfare."
Welfare, yes. Let's come back to "welfare." But first, how's the strategy been doing? A recent ABC/Washington Post poll found Romney leading Obama 65-32 among white men and 53-44 among white women, giving him a 59 percent share of the white vote overall—"a new high," and closing in on that 60 percent target.
This has been the foundation of Republican presidential politics for more than four decades, since Richard Nixon courted and won the votes of Southerners who'd turned against the Democratic Party because of integration and civil rights. The Party of Lincoln became the party of Lincoln's assassins, leveraging white anger into a regional advantage and eventually a regional monopoly. It's all very basic and old news, but it's still considered rude to say so, even as Republican strategists talk about winning the white voters and only the white voters.
And so we have two elections going on. In one, President Obama is running for re-election after a difficult but largely competent first term, in which the multiple economic and foreign-policy disasters of four years ago have at least settled down into being ongoing economic and foreign-policy problems. A national health care reform bill got passed, and two reasonable justices were appointed to the Supreme Court. Presidents have done worse in their first terms. In my lifetime—which began under the first term of an outright thug and war criminal—I'm not sure any presidents have done better. (The senile demagogue? The craven panderer? The ex-CIA director?)
In the other election, the election scripted for white voters—honestly, I'm not entirely sure what the story is. Republican campaigns have been using dog-whistle signals for so long that they seem to have forgotten how to make sounds in normal human hearing range. Mitt Romney appears to be running on the message that first of all, Obama hasn't accomplished anything, and second of all, he's going to repeal all the bad things that Obama has accomplished. And then Romney himself, as a practical businessman, is going to ... something something, small business, something, restore America, growth and jobs, tax cuts, something. It's a negative campaign in the pictorial sense: a blank space where the objects would go. A white space, if you will.
The passion comes from what Romney is running against. For more than four years, without pause, Republicans have been campaigning and propagandizing against an imaginary Obama. At the most grotesque end of the fantasies, he is a foreign-born, anti-colonialist Muslim. In more reputable precincts, he is a power-mad socialist and a dumb affirmative-action baby, promoted all the way to the presidency by a race-crazed, condescending liberal elite. (As if the presidency of the Harvard Law Review were awarded to anyone but the hungriest shark in the shark tank.) This is the position of the party's mandarins and reputable spinners—that Obama was foisted off on regular Americans against their will, despite all those votes last time around.
Hence the baiting of Obama, throughout his term, for supposedly being unable to speak without a teleprompter. Republicans predicted, over and over, that the president would be exposed and humiliated in face-to-face debate with an opponent (Newt Gingrich especially fantasized about being that foe). Eventually this led to Clint Eastwood haranguing the empty chair. And then in the first presidential debate, Obama was slack and ineffectual against a sharp Romney. See? It was true!
And then Obama shredded Romney in the second debate, and kept cuffing him around in the third. Now Romney was the deflating balloon, wild-eyed and babbling and licking his dry mouth in desperation. From which Peggy Noonan—whose proudest credential is having written the scripts for a Republican president who couldn't function without being fed his lines—concluded in the Wall Street Journal that the only meaningful debate was the first one.
"Nothing echoes out like that debate," Noonan wrote, creating her own echoes. The president was "Petulant, put upon, above it all, full of himself." Full of himself. "[H]is failure seemed to underscore the cliché that the prompter is a kind of umbilical cord for him." ("He is not by any means a stupid man," she added.)
It's a strange, inverted world, the white-people's bubble, full of phantoms and rumors. Candidates are at the mercy of voter fraud, or the "urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine," according to the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's Franklin County. (Voter turnout is a bad thing.) Jobs numbers are being fudged. Polls are being skewed. The liberal media are trying to hide how popular Mitt Romney is.
So it was that Romney, speaking to ultra-wealthy supporters in what might have been the Whitest Room in America, ventured a joke about his father's birth in Mexico: "And had he been born of Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this, but he was [audience laughs] unfortunately born of Americans living in Mexico." Note that "Americans" is a synonym for "whites," here. Note also that a room full of millionaires—a minority group that has dominated presidential politics in recent decades—believes that the true political advantage in this country belongs to children of Mexican immigrants.
If there's one thing white people have learned from decades of being targeted by campaigns, it's that someone, somewhere, is trying to cheat them. This is the idea behind Romney's 47 percent remarks in that appearance—America is divided between regular, productive folks and the people who are victimizing them.
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, 48—he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
Here, Romney is speaking fluent White. In white people's political English, "personal responsibility" is the opposite of "handouts," "food stamps," and particularly "welfare," all of which are synonyms for "niggers." This was Ronald Reagan's rallying cry, and it was the defining issue for traumatized post-Reagan white Democrats. Like George Wallace vowing not to be out-niggered again, the Democratic Leadership Council and the New Republic and Bill Clinton made Ending Welfare as We Know It the policy centerpiece of the 1990s.
The actual policy never mattered. Now the Romney campaign is running ads in Ohio saying that Obama "gutted the work requirement for welfare" and "doubled the number of able-bodied adults without children on food stamps." In mixed company, Romney glosses the food-stamp lines as concern about the country's economic status, but that's not why "work requirement" and "able-bodied" are in there. It's the rusty old Confederate bugle, blown one more time.
At the end of the National Journal piece about Romney's white-vote goals, a Republican strategist acknowledged the campaign was hanging its hopes at a shrinking target: "This is the last time anyone will try to do this." This is a demographic proposition rather than a moral one: The GOP will end its get-out-the-white-vote strategy whenever it stops working. Maybe, with luck, this will be the final sounding of that bugle.
|November 6th, 2012
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jewnited Snakes of Amnesia
Posts: 13,622
The Slate is typically marxist media hacks. They want the system they have and the "power" they believe they enjoy.
Race is everything, all else means far less. Just ask a joo.
I vote for whom I believe would best suit our goals, if elected, not for the popular guy. Too many think voting is betting on the winner, while we all lose because of that mindset.
Yahoo News had a headline that read: If you're undecided, stay home. I agree with that. If you're too lazy to look into the candidates track record, idiology and positions (as if they weren't lying), you shouldn't vote at all.
As for the niggers, there can be no doubt that they block-vote for marxists & communists, so they can continue to dine at our tables. Mexcrement do the same.
Fuck the Slate.
|November 6th, 2012
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: With The Creepy-Ass Crackahs
Posts: 8,156
Undecideds will net out for Romney. Undecideds are overwhelmingly white. Muds aren't having a deep, psychological crisis on whom to vote for. Whites tend to vote for Romney. You don't hem and haw over it and then vote for the worst president in modern American history (who is also a nigger) and then hit Obama on a lark when you step into the booth.
Obama voters know who they are.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Under the Panopticon.
Posts: 4,244
Crap, I can't believe that I voted, but I did. I waddled over to the park rec center, my voting place, and voted. All middle-class white folks. I live in a nearly 100% white neighborhood. And nearly 100% democrat. Almost all voting for Obama. Yep.
I voted for Gary Johnson, libertarian. Didn't have to write it in, he was third on the list.
I voted yes on Amendment 64, legalize marijuana.
That's it. Don't give a shit about the rest.
Hunter S. Thompson, "Big dark, coming soon"
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Celebrating My Diversity
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: With The Creepy-Ass Crackahs
Posts: 8,156
I didn't think you could bet after kick-off. You can bet after the polls open?
Or is this some sort of prop line?
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Tonia Barry is a prolific designer who has not only been published in many of the magazines and websites we read religiously, but has designed some of our most popular Spring 2011 pieces. We are also lucky enough to see her every day as a member of our in-house design team.
You can see her self-published work at Tonia Barry Designs, or in the pages of Twist Collective, Knitscene, Creative Knitting, and Cast On, among others. A quick Ravelry search revealed over 600 Tonia-Barry-designed projects! We recently chatted about her design process, how she got into this crazy business, and her work for the Classic Elite Spring Collection.
|Sandpiper knit in Seedling
How long have you been designing?
I'd have to say Barbie was the first model to wear my designs. Barbie had some really stylish outfits fashioned by me. I grew up in a family of talented women who always got together (and still do) to knit and work on various crafty endeavors. I fell in love with knitting in the early 90's and as soon as I started knitting, I started changing things on patterns and then designing my own pieces. But professionally, I've been designing since 2004.
|Calliope Vest
How did you get started? What's the first piece you ever designed?
I started putting design proposals together and sending them out. My first published design was actually for CEY. It was a bolero in a yarn called Calliope.
At this point, I started my own line, Tonia Barry Designs; my patterns are currently available online and in shops throughout New England. I also continued to do pieces for CEY and some of the knitting magazines. One day, I met an industry icon at a book signing and asked her if she would mentor me in trade for some knitting. She did not take me up on the knitting, but did spend her time teaching me how to put my portfolio together and how to fix some design issues I was having. Her help was invaluable to me. It was very much a "Pay it Forward" situation. She even bought some of my designs for her company.
What pieces did you design in the Spring Collection?
In High Seas- Parkhurst and Bailey; Garden Gate- Peony; Cricket- Shanda; Seedling-Sandpiper; Seaside- Nigh Duck; Rocky Coast-Landlubber; Shoreline-Vista; Wee Ones- Chloe; Home Sweet Home- Envelope, Center Cable, Patchwork and Stripe, Round pillows, Wine Bottle Bag.
What is the timeline for one of your designs, from swatch to pattern to sample?
I have some design ideas that have been lingering in one of my notebooks for years until some spark brings them to the forefront. Yet with others I will sketch it up, swatch it, and the pattern is off to a test knitter in a week or so. We started designing and swatching Spring 2011 back in February of 2010.
Do you use test knitters?
Yes, test knitters are as much a major component of a successful design and pattern as are technical editors. Test knitters work closely with me to work out any kinks in my initial pattern. I am fortunate to work with some very talented and conscientious test knitters.
What is your "design process"?
I normally start with a sketch, then play around with stitches in a swatch. The first thing I normally do when I'm ready to start writing the pattern is the schematic and then I go from there.
Where do you do your design work? What does your "creative space" look like?
Here at CEY, I design in my office. I have a mannequin to drape pieces on. I also have several baskets of yarn. I switch out the yarns based on the season that I am working on. Yarn is a great design inspiration for me. At home, in the winter I work in "my office". Again, another dress form and bowls of yarn. But my favorite place to work is on my deck on a sunny summer day when the birds are chirping and the flowers blooming.
|A recent Web Letter pattern, the Seedling Wrap
What is your favorite piece you designed for the Spring Collection? What was your inspiration?
My favorite piece for the Spring Collection is Parkhurst. It's no secret that I love Silky Alpaca Lace. This yarn itself inspires me. I love playing with charts and lace stitches. In Parkhurst I wanted to create a shawl that was interesting but simple. I find that sometimes I need a little therapeutic mindless knitting, so therefore the stockinette stitch panel between the lace panel. I'm making one for myself as we speak, along with several members of my knit-night.


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The Harris County Sheriff's Office responded to a small plane crash early Sunday afternoon near Boudreaux Road and Gleannloch Forest Drive, west of Hooks Memorial Airport in northwest Harris County.
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Buffalo, Erie County, New York Genealogy
Guide to Buffalo, Erie County, New York ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
- 1 Resources
- 1.1 African American
- 1.2 Cemeteries
- 1.3 Church Records
- 1.4 Directories
- 1.5 History
- 1.6 Repositories
- 1.7 Newspapers
- 1.8 Obituaries
- 1.9 City Records
- 1.10 Vital Records
- 1.11 Websites
- 1.12 References
- 1.13 Places
Resources[edit | edit source]
African American[edit | edit source]
- Buffalo Criterion newspaper - African-American newspaper published in Buffalo, NY since 1925
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
Latter-day Saint Cemetery Records
- Vol. 1
- page 41 - Frick Cemetery, Eggertsville (within the town of Amherst)
- page 82 - Werkley Cemetery, near Sheridan Drive (Buffalo)
- Because of boundary changes, Werkley Cemetery aka St. John's Cemetery is now located in Tonawanda, New York. Burials are listed on the following sites:
- Town History of Tonawanda & Kenmore, New York http://www.tonawanda.ny.us/history/Werkley_Query.asp
- USGenWeb Archives: Werkley Cemetery
Church Records[edit | edit source]
- 1853 - 1853 Membership List, North Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N.Y., courtesy: Internet Archive.
- 1853 - 1853 Membership List, North Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N.Y., courtesy: Internet Archive.
- Records of Grace Lutheran Church, Buffalo, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).
Directories[edit | edit source]
- A compilation of all known digitized city directories for Buffalo are online at BuffaloResearch.com.
History[edit | edit source]
Additional Resources:
Genealogical Resources: Links to history and information about Buffalo, NY.
Repositories[edit | edit source]
Archives, Libraries and Museums[edit | edit source]
|Grosvenor Room Genealogy
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203
(716) 858-8900
Email form | blog
Genealogical Resources: Local histories, census records, church and cemetery records, city directories, ethnic and immigration research, African American research, published family histories, maps and atlases, military records and history, vital records, yearbooks and school records. The website includes dozens of guides for topics such as: African-American Genealogy, Canadian Genealogy, German Genealogy, Irish Genealogy, Italian Genealogy, Jewish Genealogy, Native American Genealogy, and Polish Genealogy.
|University at Buffalo Archives
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-1674
Phone: 716-645-2916
Email: email@example.com
|Genealogical Resources:
|Archives and Special Collections of Buffalo State College
E.H. Butler Library
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: 716-878-6300
Email: email@example.com
|Genealogical Resources: Private papers, Richard B. Morris Historical Papers (well-known historian).
|University at Buffalo Polish Room
Room 517, Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY 14260-2200
Email: email@example.com
|Genealogical Resources: Guides to tracing Polish ancestry, Polish maps, Polish gazetteers, Polish coats of arms, Polish biographies.
A list of local libraries and archives with Polish resources is available online at the Polish-American Heritage in Buffalo and Erie County, New York website.
|Rev. J. Clayton Murray, S.J. Archives & Special Collections
Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library
Canisius College, 2001 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14208-1098
Phone: 716-888-8406
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Genealogical Resources: Obituaries, student newspapers.
Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library
Genealogical Resources: William A. Miles Center for African and African-American Studies. This is a a resource center in Western New York for a collection of African American history.
E. H. Butler Library
Genealogical Resources: Besides College archive materials there is a collection of the "Edward H. Butler Family Papers" and the "Paul G. Reilly Indian Collection" which involved treaties between various Indian nations and with the United States Government. Some of the documents (photocopies of the original) are as early as 1789. Collections
Family History Centers[edit | edit source]
Family History Centers (FHCs) are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are located all over the world. Their goal is to provide resources for family history research.
The main FHC for Buffalo, Erie County, New York Genealogy is the Buffalo New York Family History Center. For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory.
Societies[edit | edit source]
Buffalo History Museum
[Formerly known as the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society]
|Genealogical Resources: Research Library holds city directories, church records (many Roman Catholic parishes), cemetery records, censuses, genealogy books, obituary index to Buffalo newspapers (1811-2001), private papers, obituary request form, published family histories, list of professional researchers for hire.
|Buffalo and Erie County Library
1 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203
|Genealogical Resources: Genealogy Subject Guide.
|BIGS-Buffalo Irish Genealogical Society
Buffalo Irish Center
245 Abbott Rd
Buffalo, NY 14220
Phone: 716-627-2417
Email: email@example.com
|Genealogical Resources: The GAAA Library Collection, Sons of Erin Indexing Project, Holy Cross Cemetery Records and Index, local history project.
|William A. Miles Center for African and African-American Studies
Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library
1324 Jefferson Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14208
Phone: 716-883-4418
|Genealogical Resources: Books on African-American topics, Schomburg Clipping File, books on African countries.
City Clerk[edit | edit source]
Gerald Chwalinsk, Clerki[1]
City Hall, Niagara Square, Room 1308
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: 716-851-5844
Email: email@example.com
Genealogy Records and Resources on the City of Buffalo government website explains how to order Buffalo birth, marriage, and death certificates.
City Historian[edit | edit source]
Records Center
Phone: 716-851-5431[2]
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Old Fulton NY Post Cards has the largest online collection of 400 New York 1795-2007 newspapers. The instructions for this quirky site are needed to get the most out of it.
Old Fulton NY Post Cards has the following Buffalo, Erie County, New York Genealogy newspaper images:
- Blasdell NY Frontier Herald 1956-1966
- Buffalo NY Daily Courier 1847-1888
- Buffalo NY Evening Courier and Republic 1862-1884
- Buffalo NY Polish Weekly Review 1929-1930
- Buffalo NY Morning Express 1880-1924
Other resources:
- The Griffin 1933-1948 Canisius College, Buffalo, NY at Canisius College
- The Spectrum 1950-1957 at University at Buffalo
Obituaries[edit | edit source]
- BuffaloResearch.com has a compilation of all known online obituary and death notice sources for Buffalo and Erie County.
- 1911-1941 Dziennik Dla Wsystkich Death Notice Database at Polish Genealogical Society of New York - free. Obituaries of Polish individuals.
City Records[edit | edit source]
To locate additional published and transcribed records for Buffalo, Erie County, New York Genealogy check:
- Gordon L. Remington, New York Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002). American Ancestors online edition; At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 974.7 D27r. Alphabetical list including date founded, if a town history exists, church and cemetery sources, and if a Civil War register (TCR) exists. The codes used under Church and Cemetery are defined in the link above the listing of towns, cities and villages.
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
- 1935 1935 Buffalo, NY Marriages - free.
- 1935 1935 Buffalo, NY Marriages - free.
Websites[edit | edit source]
- FamilySearch.org catalog for Buffalo
- Buffalo Genealogy
- Buffalo see: The Erie County NYGenWeb Project, a member of The NYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogist's Address Book: State and Local Resources, with Special Resources Including Ethnic and Religious Organizations, 6th ed. (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub., 2009), 403. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D24ben 2009.
- ↑ Erie County, New York Town Historians, Historical Societies and Historical Museums, Updated: 20 October 2004, http://wnyroots.tripod.com/index-historians.html (accessed 15 December 2011).
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It's been nearly two years since I started my blog and I thought it would be appropriate to bake a little treat to mark the occasion. Admittedly, I've spent more time in the kitchen during the past two years than probably ever before, and although it's been a bit of a game of hits and misses, I've enjoyed the most of it.
When I first started this blog, back in August 2009, I was writing in Finnish and I never thought I'd have any other readers than perhaps my own parents. As I started to mingle more with the other Sydney food bloggers, I realised that it would probably make more sense if I wrote in English, and I then changed the name of the blog to 'Scandi Foodie' (denoting my Finnish-Swedish heritage and in purpose of promoting Scandinavian food and culture).
I've felt proud to give a glimpse to the Scandinavian culture through my recipes and posts, and I hope I've been able to inspire and educate people on the way. These spiced sweet potato brownies are to all of you who've been so kind and supportive - I thank you so much!