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Hollywood Auction 43
Miracle on 34th Street original prop Santa Claus...
Miracle on 34th Street original prop Santa Claus, sleigh & reindeer from opening scene of the film
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(20th Century Fox, 1947) Santa Claus figure and (8) reindeer fashioned of wire armature and painted paper mache, all approx. 10" high, with 4 x 4" gift bag, and 5 x 5 x 11" sleigh of ornately painted balsa wood. These original props are the focus of the opening scene in the perennial Christmas season classic, Miracle on 34th Street, in which we are introduced to Kris Kringle (so well portrayed by Edmund Gwenn as to win him Best Supporting Actor for this role). As he strolls past a New York shop window at 19 E. 61st Street, "Lillian Schary Waldman, Interior Decoration" he can't help but notice discrepancies in the window decorator's faulty arrangement of these very same figures, which are clearly depicted in a number of shots for this scene. With suggestions like "You're making a mistake! You've got Cupid where Vixen should be!" he is dismissed as a lunatic by the beleaguered decorator, just as he will come to be treated throughout the story, until it becomes clear that he is indeed the one true Santa Claus. The figures and the sleigh are all in an extraordinary state of preservation considering their construction media, with the only noticeable loss being a tiny stanchion on the inside of the sleigh, presumably for reins (which do not appear in the film shots, and likely never existed). Attention to detail in the construction and decoration is exquisite, combined with the timeless popularity of the film make this one of the finest screen-used film props in our experience. Overall, Excellent. Acquired by Victor Leontovich, who worked for 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s.
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Today, Russia is wrapping up its biggest military maneuver since the Soviet era, an exercise that's designed to test its military readiness on land, sea and in the air. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports that it may also be an effort to show Russia's Far Eastern neighbors that it is still a force to be reckoned with.
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Russian President Vladimir Putin watched part of the war games this week at a firing range in southern Siberia.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: (Foreign language spoken)
FLINTOFF: He said Russia's forces were tested in unfamiliar territory and that they showed a high degree of combat readiness. The territory was Russia's Far East and some analysts say the maneuvers were a message to neighbors, such as China, Japan and the United States. Igor Korotchenko is the editor-in-chief of National Defense magazine, and he watched the exercise as a guest of Russia's defense minister.
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FLINTOFF: He says the maneuvers are not meant to threaten anyone but to show that Russia wouldn't be an easy prey. Korotchenko points out that the exercise included forces that have nuclear capability as a deterrent to countries that outweigh Russia in terms of conventional forces. He's not naming names, but that label only applies to the United States and China. Russian military expert Alexander Goltz points out that the war games included chemical and biological warfare defense brigades. He says Russian defense officials fear that some countries in the region might resort to such weapons.
ALEXANDER GOLTZ: It shows that Russia is seriously thinking about possibility of huge conflict on Korean peninsula.
FLINTOFF: Officially, the roster of Russian forces in this exercise is impressive - 160,000 troops and more than 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles, 70 ships from Russia's Pacific fleet and 130 war planes, including strategic bombers. But Goltz says those numbers don't add up. There are far too many troops and too few personnel carriers, for instance. On the first day, he says, the official number was 1,000 tanks and other vehicles.
GOLTZ: Next day, they suddenly understood that it means that we have one vehicle for 160 guys.
FLINTOFF: He says defense officials later altered the numbers to make them seem more plausible but that they still conflict with publicly available information. The result, he says, that it's difficult to assess whether the maneuvers were as successful as defense officials claim. Still, he says, the exercises do amount to a big achievement for Russia's military, which has been struggling to become a modern force. It's an effort that Putin has committed to, promising more than $615 billion in new defense spending through the year 2020. Corey Flintoff, NPR News, Moscow.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Unforgettable songs like "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window?" made Patti Page the best-selling female singer of the 1950s and a star who would spend much of the rest of her life traveling the world.When unspecified health problems finally stopped her decades of touring, though, Page wrote a sad-but-resolute letter to her fans late last year about the change.
"Although I feel I still have the voice God gave me, physical impairments are preventing me from using that voice as I had for so many years," Page wrote. "It is only He who knows what the future holds."
Page died on New Year's Day in Encinitas, Calif., according to publicist Schatzi Hageman, ending one of pop music's most diverse careers. She was 85 and just five weeks away from being honored at the Grammy Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy.
Page achieved several career milestones in American pop culture, but she'll be remembered for indelible hits that crossed the artificial categorizations of music and remained atop the charts for months to reach a truly national audience.
"Tennessee Waltz" scored the rare achievement of reaching No. 1 on the pop, country and R&B charts simultaneously and was officially adopted as one of two official songs by the state of Tennessee. Its reach was so powerful, six other artists reached the charts the following year with covers.
Two other hits, "I Went To Your Wedding" and "Doggie in the Window," which had a second life for decades as a children's song, each spent more than two months at No. 1. Other hits included "Mockin' Bird Hill," "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," and "Allegheny Moon." She teamed with George Jones on "You Never Looked That Good When You Were Mine."
"I just loved singing with Patti and she hit notes I never dreamed of," Jones said Wednesday in an email to The Associated Press. "We cut some songs together and it was a great time. She'll be missed by lots of folks and everybody needs to know how great she was. Patti was a wonderful singer with a real special voice."
So special, Page managed to maintain her career when most singers of her generation and their more innocent songs were shoved aside by the swinging hips of Elvis Presley. Page proved herself something of a match for the nascent rock 'n' roll crowd and its obsession with sex, continuing to place songs on the charts into the 1960s.
Page never kept track, but was told late in life that she'd recorded more than 1,000 songs. That's not what she had in her mind growing up as young Clara Ann Fowler.
"I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing," she said in a 1999 interview. "And things snowballed."
She was popular in pop music and country and became the first singer to have television programs on all three major networks, including "The Patti Page Show" on ABC. In films, Page co-starred with Burt Lancaster in his Oscar-winning characterization of "Elmer Gantry," and she appeared in "Dondi" with David Janssen and in "Boy's Night Out" with James Garner and Kim Novak.
She also starred on stage in the musical comedy "Annie Get Your Gun." Her death came just a few days after the conclusion of the run of "Flipside: The Patti Page Story," an off-Broadway musical commemorating her life.
In 1999, after 51 years of performing, Page won her first Grammy for traditional pop vocal performance for "Live at Carnegie Hall The 50th Anniversary Concert." Page was planning to attend a special ceremony on Feb. 9 in Los Angeles where she was to receive a lifetime achievement award from The Recording Academy.
Neil Portnow, the Academy's president and CEO, said he spoke with Page and she had been "grateful and excited" to receive the honor. "Our industry has lost a remarkable talent and a true gift, and our sincere condolences go out to her family, friends and fans who were inspired by her work."
Page was born Nov. 8, 1927, in Claremore, Okla. The family of three boys and eight girls moved a few years later to nearby Tulsa.
She got her stage name working at radio station KTUL, which had a 15-minute program sponsored by Page Milk Co. The regular Patti Page singer left and was replaced by Fowler, who took the name with her on the road to stardom.
Page was discovered by Jack Rael, a band leader who was making a stop in Tulsa in 1946 when he heard Page sing on the radio. Rael called KTUL asking where the broadcast originated. When told Page was a local singer, he quickly arranged an interview and abandoned his career to be Page's manager.
A year later she signed a contract with Mercury Records and began appearing in nightclubs in the Chicago area.
Her first major hit was "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," but she got noticed a few years earlier in 1947 with "Confess."
She created a distinctive sound for the music industry on that song by overdubbing her own voice when she didn't have enough money to hire backup singers for the single.
"We would have to pay for all those expenses because Mercury felt that I had not as yet received any national recognition that would merit Mercury paying for it," Page once said.
"Confess" was enough of a hit that Rael persuaded Mercury to let Page try full four-part harmony by overdubbing. The result was "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming." The label read, "Vocals by Patti Page, Patti Page, Patti Page and Patti Page."
"Tennessee Waltz," her biggest-selling record, was a fluke.
Because Christmas was approaching, Mercury Records wanted Page to record "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" in 1950.
Page and Rael got hold of "Tennessee Waltz," convinced that a pop artist could make a smash hit out of it. Mercury agreed to put it on the B-side of the Christmas song.
"Mercury wanted to concentrate on a Christmas song and they didn't want anything with much merit on the flip side," Page said. "They didn't want any disc jockeys to turn the Christmas record over. The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it."
"Tennessee Waltz" became the first pop tune that crossed over into a big country hit.
The waltz was on the charts for 30 weeks, 12 of them in the top 10, and eventually sold more than 10 million copies, behind only "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby at the time.
She received the Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music in 1980. She also is a member of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
In her later career, Page and husband Jerry Filiciotto spent half the year living in Southern California and half in an 1830s farmhouse in New Hampshire. He died in 2009.
Page is survived by her son, Daniel O'Curran, daughter Kathleen Ginn and sister Peggy Layton.


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In what could mark a watershed in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a panel of experts recommended that the Food and Drug Administration give a green light to a pill that can cut the risk of infections.
The daily pill, Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, combines two medicines that inhibit the reproduction of HIV. It's already approved as a treatment for HIV, but its use could soon expand to include protection of uninfected people.
The advisory panel concluded Thursday that the benefits to healthy people vulnerable to HIV infection outweigh the risks, including such side effects as kidney damage and a dangerous increase in acid in the blood.
The people the panel has in mind are gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couples in which one partner is positive for HIV.
About 50,000 people in the U.S. become infected with HIV each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of new infections are in gay or bisexual men.
There's no guarantee the FDA will heed the panel's advice, but the agency typically does so. A decision is expected by June 15.
Studies have shown that Truvada can reduce the risk of HIV infection by 63 percent or more over the course of a year. But the drug is expensive — about $11,000 a year in the U.S.
Some critics think money would be better spent on other means of prevention.
Now, it's already the case that doctors in the U.S. are free to prescribe an approved medicine for any use they see fit. And some do.
But even after data first showed Truvada's ability to protect against HIV infection, a doctor at a Boston clinic told Bloomberg News that people weren't beating the door to get it.
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The SEOmoz Marketplace, born in early 2007, passed away peacefully in January 2012. Cause of death: Old, out-dated code, 5 year old design, manual spam maintenance and was ridden with unfixable bugs. The Marketplace lived a very full life and helped many people find their perfect SEO job, while giving companies a place to show their stuff. Our dear Marketplace was loved by all and spammed by many.
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Over the years, the Marketplace did its job (hehe get it.. job.. ok nevermind) well but recently it has fallen into despair a bit. Not only is the design old, but it has put a strain on other systems, causing the site to slow down. The current Marketplace wasn't built to scale with the growth we have seen in the past couple years, and we're feeling the strain now. For example, there are pages that do not paginate, pages that don't cache, database queries that are not optimized, and additional pages that open our website to attacks. Take a peek at the amazing transormation it has seen in the past 4-5 years (aka none).
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Along with the design that hasn't changed, the code that powers the Marketplace is outdated and tired as well. The system has many bugs that cause things not to work and provide a poor user experience that we are not proud of. Currently our resources are strained building an amazing product for the community and sometimes things need to get cut. In the future we hope to add additional features into our user profiles that our users can use to promote themselves but we have yet to decide what will get done.
The Marketplace was also a very well known place to spam and without a process of detecting that spam it became a very labor-intensive process that we have a problem keeping up with. Our Marketplace was meant for a place to list your internet marketing company but it seemed that one of our favorite many plumbers found it a great place to spam also.
In place of our Marketplace we are encouraging you to utilize Linkedin. Post your job on your company page and then you are welcome to share it in our SEOmoz group.
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A dull office park near Virginia's Dulles International Airport took on the sheen of a Hollywood thriller this week when an invitation-only cadre of global leaders gathered for a secretive meeting known as the Bilderberg conference.
Henry Kissinger and Bill Gates were chauffeured in. Fairfax County police established a security perimeter around the Westfields Marriott and prohibited a Washington Post photographer from snapping pictures from the public street.
Outside the barriers, dozens of protesters and conspiracy theorists – convinced that Bilderberg is a global cabal that runs the world – waved signs and shouted into a bullhorn.
"Honk if you hate the new world order!" they blared, hooting at drivers passing by. Fairfax County police have made three arrests for a variety of misdemeanor offenses such as obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct, a police spokesman said.
"This is the true power structure, the shadow government," said Shawn Flinchbaugh, 29. The machinist from York County, Pa., stood outside the conference center clutching a handmade sign lettered "Bilderberg Scum." "They say they don't exist, but they do."
According to its website, the Bilderberg meeting was organized by leaders from Western Europe and North America in the early days of the Cold War, and is named for the Dutch hotel where the first enclave was held in 1954. The current chairman of its steering committee is a French count. Others include the neoconservative scholar Richard Perle, the billionaire Peter Thiel, and financiers such as Roger Altman and Kenneth Jacobs, chairman and chief executive of Lazard.
About 120 people participate in "nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern" in economics and foreign affairs, with the crisis in Syria, the euro zone and the U.S. presidential election likely taking center stage this time.
Attendees are encouraged not to discuss the proceedings, which fuels the secrecy concerns. Many adopt a Fight Club approach to answering questions afterward. In other words, the first rule is, you do not talk about Bilderberg.
Over the years, conspiracy buffs have embraced such notions that the group is behind the creation of the euro and meets to select the winners and losers in the U.S. presidential election — or at least endorse the candidate's vice presidential pick. A speech by then Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., during Bilderberg in 2004 helped cement his vice presidential bid.
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"Everybody talks about this great conspiracy, but it's really not. It's fun to be able to talk about it," said Weber, who is a Romney adviser.
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"Yesterday I saw three billionaires. These are the kingmakers. Whoever we see here is likely to be the vice presidential candidate," said Mike Peachman, 24, a linguist from New York. He was keeping an eye out for Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a scheduled presenter sometimes mentioned as a Romney vice presidential pick. (Also on the invitation list was Donald Graham, chairman of the board and chief executive of The Washington Post Co.)
Every once in a while a van with tinted windows would drive through the gate, and the crowd of protesters would chant "Scum, scum, scum!" as it sailed by. But then the sky darkened and severe thunderstorms came sweeping through, ruining everything. The timing couldn't have been more perfect if the Lords of Bilderberg had arranged it themselves.
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TRENTON, N.J. — Republican Gov. Chris Christie fired one of his top aides on Thursday and apologized repeatedly for his staff's "stupid" behavior, insisting during a nearly two-hour news conference that he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams as part of a political vendetta against a Democratic mayor.
"I am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team," Christie said as he addressed the widening scandal, which could cast a shadow over his expected run for the White House in 2016.
The famously blunt governor fielded dozens of questions from reporters with uncharacteristic patience and at times a sorrowful tone.
Christie, who had previously assured the public that his staff had nothing to do with the September lane closings that caused major backups at the George Washington Bridge, said he fired Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly "because she lied to me" when he demanded weeks ago that anyone who knew anything about the episode come forward.
The gridlock in Fort Lee delayed emergency vehicles, school buses and countless commuters for four days.
Kelly was the latest casualty in the scandal. Two other top Christie appointees have resigned in the past few weeks.
The investigation broke wide open on Wednesday, with the release of emails and text messages that suggested Kelly arranged the traffic jams to punish Fort Lee's mayor for not endorsing Christie for re-election.
In other developments:
• The chief federal prosecutor in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, said he is "reviewing the matter to determine whether a federal law was implicated." The Legislature also is investigating. Using public resources for political ends can be a crime. Democratic Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor and mayor, said there was "no doubt" a crime was committed.
• David Wildstein, a Christie appointee who resigned from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after being implicated in the scandal, was found in contempt by a legislative committee on Thursday after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions. The Port Authority operates the bridge and other area bridges and transit hubs.
• Christie traveled to Fort Lee later in the day and apologized in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Christie said they had a "productive meeting," and Sokolich told The Record newspaper the governor had taken "a big step" toward regaining the trust of Fort Lee's residents.
• Six state residents, though, filed a federal lawsuit against Christie, the state, the Port Authority and others, calling the traffic jams "deliberate actions."
The political-payback allegations turned a local traffic furor into a national issue and raised questions about Christie's leadership and integrity as he lays the groundwork for a White House bid. Democrats at the national level have seized on the scandal as more evidence that Christie is a bully.
The governor brushed off questions about the effect on his presidential prospects, saying he was too busy governing the state to think about that.
"I am absolutely nowhere near beginning that consideration process," he said. "I haven't even been sworn in for my second term yet."
Afterward, some political analysts on both sides of the aisle said Christie would probably pull through OK — provided there are no more surprises.
Democratic operative David Axelrod complimented Christie for handling the news conference "as well as he could," writing on Twitter: "Unless smoking gun turns up tying him to scheme, or others arise, he lives 2 fight another day."
Besides firing Kelly, Christie cut ties to former campaign manager Bill Stepien, asking him to withdraw a bid to become the next state GOP chairman. The governor said he was disturbed by the "callous indifference" displayed by Stepien in the emails released Wednesday.
Stepien had widely been seen as a potential campaign manager for Christie if he runs for president.
Christie said he is still looking into the traffic jam episode and will take action against other senior staff members if it is warranted.
Over and over, Christie took responsibility for the affair by virtue of his role as governor while simultaneously blaming his staff for doing something "stupid" and for not telling him the truth when he asked.
He said he saw the emails and text messages for the first time on Wednesday and was "blindsided" by what he read and outraged by the callous language. He said he was left "heartbroken" and "betrayed" by his tight-knit circle of advisers.
"I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or execution," Christie said of the lane closings. "And I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here."
Kelly hasn't commented. Christie said he hadn't spoken to her or asked to hear her side of the story since the emails were released, saying he didn't want to be accused of trying to influence a possible witness.
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Kelly wrote in August in a message to Wildstein.
"Got it," Wildstein replied.
A few weeks later, Wildstein closed two of three lanes connecting Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge, which runs between New Jersey and New York City and is one of the busiest bridges in the world, crossed by more than 100 million vehicles a year.
In the back-and-forth emails and text messages that followed, Christie loyalists gloated over the traffic jams and called the Fort Lee mayor "an idiot" and "this little Serbian."
For weeks, Christie had asserted that the closings were not punitive but were part of a traffic study and that no one on his staff was involved. On Thursday, he acknowledged that was a lie, that his staff misled him. He said he still had no idea whether there even was a traffic study.
Christie said he believed his staff in part because he had never heard of Sokolich and had no idea the Christie camp was even seeking the Democrat's endorsement.
Still, the governor said: "I am responsible for what happened. I am sad to report to the people of New Jersey that we fell short."
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Offensive waste is waste generated by healthcare activities that is not infectious and doesn�t contain medicines, chemicals or sharps, but may cause offence to anyone who comes into contact with it. It�s a legal requirement to segregate hazardous wastes (such as infectious waste) from non-hazardous wastes (such as offensive waste) to ensure that segregation is maintained and mixing is prevented.
Offensive Waste is classified under (EWC 18-01-04) and is defined in The Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 some waste types fall into this category, they include but are not limited to;
- Sanitary hygiene waste
- Incontinence pads
- Nappy waste
- Some tattooist wastes
- Some dental waste
- Gloves, gowns and masks and other outer protective garments or dressings that have not been contaminated with bodily fluids
- This waste stream is usually disposed of via incineration or taken to a non-hazardous landfill site by a registered waste carrier.
Offensive Waste is generally disposed of into internal clinical bins and yellow tiger stripe bags, plus external wheelie bin from 240 Litres up to 1000 Litres.
External wheelie bins are emptied on agreed frequencies with wheelie bin package collections being the most cost effective method of disposing of your waste.
Infectious Waste
Infectious waste mostly classified as (EWC 18-01-03) is also referred to as Hazardous Clinical waste and is mainly produced by but not limited to healthcare establishments such as hospitals, clinics, doctor�s surgeries, dental, nursing homes and veterinary practises.
Infectious waste is waste that contains viable micro-organisms or their toxins (known collectively as pathogens) which are known or reliably believed to cause disease in humans or other living organisms. Any waste in Aberavon that is known or reliably believed not to contain viable pathogens is not an infectious waste.
Infectious waste can be any kind of waste which contains properties which may be harmful to human health or the environment. It could be completely or partly made up from:
- Blood or other bodily fluids
- Swabs or dressings
- Human or animal tissue
- Drugs or pharmaceutical products
- Needles, syringes and other sharp implements
- Excretions
- It�s the responsibility of the producer of the waste to correctly describe and classify their waste. For determining whether or not waste is infectious, In practice defining waste streams is a role undertaken by infection prevention practitioners and or waste management professionals like Principal Hygiene who can assist clinical waste producers draw up policies and procedures in accordance with best practice guidance.
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As a waste producer in Aberavon - Neath Port Talbot do you know if you are compliant? Do you know how effective or if your waste disposal service in Aberavon represents value for money? Not sure? Then talk to Principal Hygiene we can help you with advice and support ensuring you have the right services in place that delivers value for money, is compliant and meets your waste disposal needs.
Get a Clinical quote today or call us to discuss further, if you are unsure about the type of container you should be using or you have a mixed waste stream call us, we are on hand to provide advice and support.


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The question of whether GOP vice presidential pick Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin will ultimately help or hurt Mitt Romney's quest for the White House is the subject of fierce debate.
But some politicos are calling Ryan a kingmaker following former longtime Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson's slim victory Tuesday in the hotly contested, four-way Republican U.S Senate primary.
Why? Ryan gave Thompson a shout-out at a Badger State homecoming rally Sunday, and the former governor quickly incorporated the veep pick's endorsement-of-sorts into a campaign ad.
Those who deal in empirical evidence, however, are not so easily convinced that Thompson rode Ryan's words to the win.
"I'm skeptical," Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School poll, told us Wednesday. "In our final poll, we showed Thompson at 33 percent nine days out from the election. He received 34 percent." The Marquette poll also accurately predicted the order of finish.
About other polls that had Thompson trailing, Franklin said this: "Do you really believe there was a last-second dynamic, and that the [Ryan] shout-out moved Thompson's number by several percentage points?"
Good question.
So, whether Thompson, 70, managed to either hang on to a lead, or surge to the win Tuesday night, he now faces a well-financed and well-known opponent in Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin, 50, in a race that will help determine the balance of power in the Senate.
Recent polls that tested a head-to-head matchup between the two candidates looking to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl have given Thompson a slight edge. But it's less, Franklin says, than one might expect, "given his history as the most popular governor in state history."
Marquette will have new poll results out next Wednesday, he says, that will measure not only the Thompson-Baldwin race but also where the presidential race stands in Wisconsin after Romney's pick of native son Ryan.
Lines Of Attack
In a statement released after Thompson's victory, Baldwin made clear she plans to use the former governor's recent-year lobbying career against him.
Said Baldwin:
"Tonight, the Republican primary electorate presented Wisconsin voters with a clear choice for the November election. Make no mistake, Tommy Thompson will stand with those who already have too much power and influence in Washington."
"I will fight to do what's right for the middle class and Thompson will put those at the very top and the big monied special interests in Washington ahead of Wisconsin's hard-working families. I will take on these powerful interests in Washington, and in the Senate, I will stand up for Wisconsin's middle class, as I always have."
After a career in the Wisconsin state Assembly, Thompson served 14 years as governor before becoming health and human services secretary in President George W. Bush's administration.
He launched a failed bid for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination and has since had what PolitiFact characterized as a "lucrative private-sector affiliation with dozens of health and other companies," including those he oversaw as a member of the Bush administration.
Republicans are focusing on Baldwin's well-established liberal record and her support of Obama administration initiatives including the stimulus and the health care overhaul.
WisPolitics.com, one of the state's go-to political sites, reported Wednesday that Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS has already begun a one-week, $250,000 ad campaign targeting Baldwin. The site's Election Blog reports on the ad:
"The narrator says Baldwin voted for the 'failed' $1 trillion stimulus package, which included projects like $800,000 to replace light bulbs, and the national debt has increased more than $10 trillion since she went to Congress."
"'Tell Tammy trillions wasted is too much. Stop the wasteful spending and cut the debt,' the narrator says before encouraging viewers to support the 'New Majority Agenda.' "
Money Race
Franklin, of Marquette, says that Baldwin, who did not have a primary opponent, has raised nearly three times as much money as Thompson.
On Wednesday, former Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold and his political action committee, Progressives United, launched what it calls a "Cheddarbomb" to add to her coffers.
The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Baldwin this cycle has raised $7.1 million and has $3.1 million cash on hand. Thompson has raised $2.4 million and has $352,915 cash on hand.
Thompson has some work to do, but though there are fractures in the Republican Party, Franklin says, "it will surely unite behind him against Baldwin."
"There is still residual good feeling from his time as governor, and that's an asset," he says, "though we don't want to overstate it."
Mike Tate, chairman of the Wisconsin Democrats, indicates his party will make sure that it's not overstated.
"It's been a long time since Tommy Thompson has been in Wisconsin," Tate said Wednesday. "He sold out, left Wisconsin and is too out of touch to fight for Wisconsin."
For a state that has been at the epicenter of politics and political battles over the past two years, yet another has now been joined.
Other GOP Primary Races
The biggest primary shock Tuesday came out of Florida, where long-serving GOP incumbent Rep. Cliff Stearns was upended by veterinarian Ted Yoho, who rode Tea Party support to victory. The stunned Stearns, known for his pursuit of the Obama administration's investment in the failed solar energy company Solyndra and for advocating the defunding of Planned Parenthood, conceded Wednesday.
Also in Florida, in a battle of two GOP incumbents, Rep. John Mica, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, easily defeated Rep. Sandy Adams, who had Tea Party support.
In Connecticut, pro-wrestling mogul Linda McMahon succeeded in her effort for a second shot at a seat in the U.S. Senate. The Republican McMahon obliterated former GOP Rep. Christopher Shays, winning her party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by independent Sen. Joe Lieberman.
In 2010, McMahon used $50.1 million of her own money in a losing Senate race against Democrat Richard Blumenthal. This cycle, she has raised $14 million, which includes just $7 million of her own money. So far.
This fall she'll face three-term U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, who coasted to victory in his Democratic primary.
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Paul Henry is a Senior Instructor with the SANS Institute and one of the world's foremost global information security and computer forensic experts with morethan 30 years of experience covering all 10 domains of network security. Paul began his career in critical infrastructure / process control supporting power generation and currently manages security initiatives and incident response for Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations worldwide.
Paul is a principal at vNet Security, LLC and is keeping a finger on the pulse of network security as the security and forensic analyst at Lumension Security and as a retained security expert for multiple financial and healthcare firms.
Throughout his career, Paul has played a key strategic role in launching new network security initiatives to meet our ever-changing threat landscape. Paul also advises and consults on some of the world's most challenging and high-risk information security projects, including the National Banking System in Saudi Arabia, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Department of Defense's Satellite Data Project (USA), and both government as well as telecommunications projects throughout Southeast Asia.
Paul is frequently cited by major and trade print publications as an expert in perimeter security, incident response / computer forensics and general security trends and serves as an expert commentator for network broadcast outlets, such as FOX, NBC, CNN, and CNBC. In addition, Paul regularly authors thought leadership articles on technical security issues, and his expertise and insight help shape the editorial direction of key security publications, such as the Information Security Management Handbook, where he is a consistent contributor. Paul serves as a featured and keynote speaker at seminars and conferences worldwide, delivering presentations on diverse topics including anti-forensics, network access control, cyber crime, DDoS attack risk mitigation, perimeter security, and incident response.


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Air conditioning is increasingly becoming a necessity, not a luxury, as the number of Americans living in the Sunbelt grows. In Arizona, many people are struggling to keep up with their utility bills. The federal government does have an energy assistance program, but funding is shrinking, and it favors cold weather states that need heating help.
From member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Jude Joffe-Block reports.
JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK, BYLINE: Earlier this summer, Phoenix was in the midst of a brutal heat wave, with temperatures nearing 120 degrees. And Richard Abbington was on the brink of losing power and his air conditioning.
RICHARD ABBINGTON: Usually, at the end of the month, that's when things get chaotic. I'm out of money.
ABBINGTON: A lot of times, I'm out of food.
JOFFE-BLOCK: Abbington had a stroke a few years ago, and lives on Social Security disability. He's on a pay-as-you-go energy plan, but then he ran out of money. So the power went out: the lights, the appliances, and the AC.
ABBINGTON: I just opened the windows up, and let it be whatever it was going to be, you know. I couldn't do nothing else, you know. I'm glad I didn't have no food in the fridge, because if I had, everything I had would have spoiled.
JOFFE-BLOCK: There also could have been health consequences. Last year, more than 40 percent of the heat-associated deaths in this county happened indoors. In most of those cases, the air conditioning was off. Meanwhile, every day across the state, hundreds of households are delinquent on their utility bills, and are at risk for having their power shut off. And that's when they try to get help.
CYNTHIA ZWICK: The need is great, and the resources to serve not so great.
JOFFE-BLOCK: Cynthia Zwick works on poverty issues for the Arizona Community Action Association. Last year, through a federal program called Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, Arizona got funding to help around 40,000 households. But that's only a tiny fraction of those in poverty here. Local offices that give out the funds are overwhelmed.
ZWICK: People start calling in. It's busy. It's busy. It's busy. They're calling over and over. It is kind of like when you're trying to win the radio contest.
JOFFE-BLOCK: The program began in the early '80s to defray a surge in heating costs. Later, it was expanded to provide cooling assistance, as well. But the formula still favors cold-weather states over warm-weather states. So, Connecticut - a state with a smaller population than Arizona's - got more than three times the funding this year. Zwick is trying to change that.
ZWICK: All we're asking for is an equal distribution of those funds, based on the numbers of people living in poverty, numbers of people unemployed, heating and cooling degree days.
ERIC KLINENBERG: Well, we just have greater sensitivity to extreme cold than we do to extreme heat, as a political matter.
JOFFE-BLOCK: New York University sociologist Eric Klinenberg says that bias is misguided. But he says the real issue isn't that poor people in cold states are getting too much federal assistance. It's that there isn't enough funding overall.
KLINENBERG: This is the kind of program that we're going to need to expand as the weather gets more extreme and dangerous, and as the population gets older and more vulnerable.
JOFFE-BLOCK: But this year, LIHEAP funding overall is 30 percent lower than it was two years ago. In Arizona, the other source of assistance comes from local utility companies, which offer discount and charity programs to needy customers.
This summer, Phoenix senior Richard Abbington managed to be among the lucky ones to get federal help. After weeks of dialing and re-dialing, he finally got through and was awarded more than $400 towards his bill.
ABBINGTON: Everything just opened up for me, you know, and I feel relieved. I don't have to worry about this electricity now, you know.
JOFFE-BLOCK: At least not until next summer.
For NPR News, I'm Jude Joffe-Block, in Phoenix.
GREENE: And Jude's story comes to us from Fronteras, a Public Radio collaboration in the Southwest that focuses on changing demographics. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.