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Two British besties on a nerd road trip pick up a fugitive alien of the green-skin variety in Paul, an absolutely A-dorable, cute-as-a-button send-up of sci-fi-geek culture.
Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost) love all things sci-fi. Clive even won an award for his own sci-fi story a few years back, but now hasn't quite finished his book, the main drawing power of which seems to be the three-boobed alien woman on the front. But they are having a delightful time meeting more successful sci-fi authors, buying assorted memorabilia and hanging out with the assembled Wookies and Princess Leahs at the Comic-Con in San Diego. And, after the movies and the video games, there's still more fun to be had. The pair, on a long-planned vacation, rent an RV and head out on a road trip of The-Truth-Is-Out-There-ish hot spots: Area 51, Roswell, etc.
The trip isn't all tea and crumpets — Graeme and Clive run into a fair amount of dust-covered yokels who aren't sure if the pair are uber-nerds or a couple but want to beat them up either way. And then there's the night that a car crashes in front of them, tumbling off the road. As they stop to see if anyone's been hurt, they see the car's sole occupant, Paul, uninjured and lighting a cigarette. To his shame for the rest of the movie, Clive faints and wets himself because Paul (voice of Seth Rogen) is a big-headed, big-eyed, green-skinned alien.
Paul explains that he learned that the government is preparing to end his stay on Earth with a genuine alien autopsy and decided to escape from his classified hideout. Graeme and Clive agree to take him to an unspecified destination, where he hopes to get a ride home. But, of course, the government isn't so keen on this plan and soon Man in Black-type Agent Zoil (Jason Bateman) and witless FBI agents Haggard (Bill Hader) and O'Reilly (Joe Lo Truglio) are on the trail of Paul and company. And that's not all — as Graeme and Clive are forced to make mad dashes through the cowboy-ish West, they inadvertently make other enemies, including Moses Buggs (John Carroll Lynch), an RV park operator and the fundamentalist Christian father of Ruth Buggs (Kristen Wiig), a woman Graeme and Clive accidentally kidnap.
Cross this setup with the sensibilities that made Hall Pass, to pick on a recent example of boneheaded dude humor, and you have something unwatchable — bigness and meanness all over the place. But Paul is — and maybe this isn't exactly what its makers would want to hear — the sweetest, most charming comedy I've seen in a while. It loves its nerd characters with its whole, Spock-ears-wearing heart. It loves aliens and sci-fi and the goofiness of the genre. It pokes fun at E.T. and Star Wars (a character shooting his police-radio and saying "Boring conversation anyway" might actually be my favorite thing in movies so far in 2011) in a way that also celebrates these things and their fans. It is never cruel, never homophobic or misogynist as buddy comedies like this can sometimes be.
At first this much cuteness felt like it was going to turn the movie to mush, that we'd have all softness, no humor. But I laughed out loud plenty, found myself enjoying the movie immensely and liked not just the ridiculously loveable Graeme and Clive but also Ruth — yes please, more Wiig. And even Seth Rogen, doing very Seth Rogen goofy-pothead shtick, worked for me here. This is the rare high-concept comedy that improves as its story unfolds and had me so delighted at the end part of me actually wanted to see it again.
And for someone in the middle of a six-hour movie marathon, that's saying something.
Pegg and Frost have a special chemistry, one that is different than the dude-buddies of Judd Apatow movies or the guys in extreme-wackiness movies like The Hangover but just as much fun — more, really. The characters here really care about each other and, while they can recognize the somewhat childish nature of their obsessions, they also have a certain maturity. It's refreshing to see Frost and Pegg together here, giving a new flavor of goofiness, and it reminded me of why I liked them so much in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Paul is a buttercream-frosted cupcake to the lovers of light sabers and Cigarette Smoking Man.
Rated R for language including sexual reference and some drug use. Directed by Greg Mottola and written by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, Paul is an hour and 44 minutes long and distributed in wide release by Universal Pictures.


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At 5 o'clock EST my 3-day weekend begins. I took tomorrow off to prepare for Monograms and Mimosas. Ya'll I am beginning to panic ... I have enough food to feed an army, the hostess gift has been purchased and wrapped, the decorations are cute, I have gift favors, the mimosas will be flowing HOWEVER none of this is going to matter if everyone can't fit in my house!!! Last night 11 girls were over for book club and that is when worry set in. If 20 people show up on Saturday we will be tight (real tight) but if more than that come I am basically screwed. My calculations are showing that we will have between 16 and 18 but if peeps are feeling real shower-y on Saturday morning I might be out of luck.
In book club news, we chose to read Jen Lancaster's Bitter is the New Black for this upcoming month ... changing it up quite a bit from Redeeming Love :)
I knew I would love this book when I read "...or why you should never carry a Prada bag to the unemployment office!" Who has read it? Thoughts?
A few of you have asked over time about my book club ... it is not a bloggy bookclub, its the real deal, but I would love for anyone to read along and I will be more than happy to chit chat with you about the book!!!

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At 11:47 am Central Time on Monday, December 21, the sun is overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn. This is the farthest point south at which the sun can be overhead, indicating that the North Pole is tilted as far away from the sun as possible. At the Tropic of Capricorn and elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, the high sun results in the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer. Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, however, the sun is as low as possible in the sky, and we have our shortest day of the year. This is the winter solstice for us.
Ancient peoples across America, Europe and Asia noticed that the sun got lower and lower and the daylight shorter and shorter throughout autumn. When the sun reached its lowest point, this meant that it had stopped going away and would return–a cause for celebration. One of the many pagan winter solstice festivals was Yule, celebrated in northern Europe. Another was the festival of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun) celebrated in Rome on Dec. 25. Keep in mind that in antiquity the 25 was the date of the solstice itself–the sun which had stopped going away and begun to return was 'unconquered.' Due to the imprecision of the Julian calendar, the solstice had shifted to Dec. 21 by the year 325 A.D., when the Nicene Council convened. Since Pope Gregory's reform was calculated to restore the equinoxes and solstices as of the Nicene Council, the winter solstice is now on Dec. 21 (occasionally Dec. 22).
No one in antiquity knew what date Jesus was born. For one thing, many of the early Christians rejected all birthday celebrations of any kind as a pagan ritual. Even had folks wanted to observe Jesus' birth, the lunar calendar used in Israel at the time would complicate the choice of date. The Chronology of 354 is the oldest document to list Christmas as a festival. When the church selected Dec. 25 for this festival, it was probably because late December was already a festive time across the Roman Empire.
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Although today is the shortest day of the year, you may have already noticed that sunset is a few minutes later now than at the beginning of the month. In June, the North Pole was tilted towards the sun as much as possible. Since then, the North Pole has tilted a little more away from the sun each day. Days have been getting shorter because each day the sun has taken a slightly lower path across the sky. Sunrises have been getting earlier and sunsets have been getting later. By late November the sun had already gotten about as low as it is now. As the day to day difference in the sun's height gets smaller, another effect begins to dominate.
Earth's orbit is not a circle; it is an ellipse. The orbit is almost a circle, however; the eccentricity (out-of-roundness) is just 0.016, where 0 is a perfect circle and 1 a parabola. This is enough of a difference to bring Earth slightly closer to the sun in early January and take it slightly farther away in early July. Therefore, Earth is now beginning to make its closest approach to the sun (called perihelion). As a result, Earth is speeding up on its orbit. This causes sunrise, local noon, and sunset to occur just a little later each day. By the 21, sunset will occur at 5:27 pm, as opposed to 5:22 pm on Dec. 2 (the actual date of the earliest sunset). Sunrise, however, will have shifted from 7:00 am to 7:13 am. Thus, that days are still getting shorter even though the sunsets are a little later.
Many people assume that the winter solstice should be the coldest day, but this is usually not true. January is usually colder. Although days get a little bit longer and the sun a little bit higher beginning Monday, it takes quite awhile for this to add up to an appreciable difference in the Sun's height in the sky and in the amount of light and heat reaching the arctic. Frigid air masses continue to form in the arctic and move across the Northern Hemisphere throughout January, February, and often March. Although the sun is higher in those months than in December, the air can be just as cold if not colder.
Hopefully, we are getting all of our cloudy, gloomy weather over with , and the solstice will be sunnier. If so, you can join us on the museum sundial at noon on Monday, Dec. 21 to observe the sun! This is one of the Fun Hundred events celebrating our 100 anniversary here at the Museum. On top of the gnomon on our sundial is a silver ball with three sets of holes, which allows the sun to shine through pairs of lenses near each solstice or equinox. To account for cloudy weather, our gnomon's holes are big enough that the sun aligns with them for a few days before and after the exact equinox or solstice date. The holes aligned with the winter solstice are so big that you can still project the sun's image through them deep into January! If the weather does not cooperate Monday, you can come and observe the sun on our sundial near noon on any day in the next few weeks.


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Monday morning - after a busy weekend. I didn't get too much time for stitching except for last night while watching a movie - A History of Violence. It was a freebie as it was supposed to be in when my hubby wanted it, but it wasn't, so he got it for free yesterday. Gotta love Blockbusters. Okay movie, some very graphic sex scenes which was surprising. But the movie starred Viggo Mortensen, so that alone made it worth watching in my books.
This morning I dug out my poor Bent Creek Snappers WIP. This poor thing has been untouched the past month, even though I had planned to work on at least one section per month to keep up with doing the entire monthly series on one piece of fabric. I can't believe into 3 months into the new year, and I have already fallen behind in my very sad rotation list.
I'm hoping by posting pics, I'll be able to get back on track and work on this this week. Hey there are still a few days left to March. And look at the cool little buttons I picked up at Michael's last week to use on it. The patterns came with 'snaps' but I don't think they look quite right on this piece.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Bent Creek Snappers
Monday morning - after a busy weekend. I didn't get too much time for stitching except for last night while watching a movie - A History of Violence. It was a freebie as it was supposed to be in when my hubby wanted it, but it wasn't, so he got it for free yesterday. Gotta love Blockbusters. Okay movie, some very graphic sex scenes which was surprising. But the movie starred Viggo Mortensen, so that alone made it worth watching in my books.
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Friday, March 24, 2006
here is this week's question as suggested by Carol:
Have you ever participated in a needlework mystery (i.e., a design that you started before knowing how it will look in the end and by which you receive parts of the design via the internet, magazines, or leaflets at spaced intervals)? If so, why did you decide to do the mystery? What appealed to you about it? Did you enjoy it? If you have not done a mystery, would you ever do one?
I have never done a needlework mystery, although I have seen pics of beautiful ones from Chatelaine. Its tempting, but the idea of countless hours of work going into something that you may not like once you have finished?
But on the other hand, I have done several quilting mysteries. The instructions come once a month at a meeting at the quilt shop. There isn't a huge time investment and I enjoy the inspiration I get from going to the shop, that I might not have visited monthly otherwise. That plus the fact that each month we finish off one block, and if you don't like the way the blocks are looking, you can always donate them or make them into a charity quilt, so its really not a waste to me.
Which reminds me, the next meeting for the club I'm currently in is tomorrow morning!
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Oh so pretty.....Stash
Don't you just love going to the mailbox when there is a huge package waiting for you?
Here it is: my reward for my new raise ~ Chatelaine's Taj Mahal kit from European Cross Stitch. Wow I could hardly wait to get dinner and the dishes cleared away so that I could open up my treasure and see all the pretty flossies. Course hubby and son couldn't wait to get away from this crazed giddy person, but that was fine with me. They just don't get it.
And of course, I had to take pictures....
If only I could dig in and start this one right away.....but I've got to get my stitching gift finished first...........
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Stitching Update?
I can't post any updates from my weekend stitching since I am working on a surprise for someone who may be reading this.
So instead I decided to post a picture of my daughter Kelly's newest family addition: Meet Molly, a little 16 week old Shih-Poo, that she just got on Friday. She sent some pics yesterday so we could see her. So far big brother Bailey has not been too interested in his little sister, but I'm sure he'll come around.
My house is finally starting to get back to some sense of normal. Rick got the kitchen and the family room painted - after days spent pouring over paint samples (that sounds kinda funny) we decided on 2 slightly different shades of tan and the end result is great. The colours look fantastic with the wood furniture we have. And my TW Tradewinds has taken its place over the fireplace. My Visa is smoking from a Saturday shopping expedition to Ikea to pick up a table for behind our couch and an amazing print on canvas called "Misty Lane" that is now over the couch, plus a few other must-haves. Ikea loves me!
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Friday, March 17, 2006
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Here is an SBQ (which I found on Christine's blog and copied over....)
Do you stitch "over one?" If so, describe your experiences. If not, have you considered it?
I was thrown into over-one's in my first large cross stitched piece - TW's Castle Sampler. The letters around the border are all done in over one. It took a while before I realized why the floss seemed to 'disappear' in the threads of the linen!
Since then I have come to appreciate more the finished look of over-one, so while its not my favourite thing to stitch, I did finish an entire piece done over-one on 25-ct evenweave.
Owl in Flight probably took me about 1 1/2 years to stitch - mainly because while I enjoyed working on it, after a few days, I really felt like I was going a little cross-eyed. I finished it in February 2005. And my big plans initially were to stitch a couple more from this series....ambitious huh?!?
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Almost Spring Cuts
I couldn't take the messy winter coats on these dogs another day. Sam and Stu were such an overgrown mess, it was hard to tell one end from the other! Not a good thing. So it was into the shop for a new razor and off came the fur. Sam was first and he was actually pretty good about staying still for me. Luckily he is a small dog! And a couple of pounds lighter once his winter coat was gone.
Then came Stu, with the other two hovering around to make sure I didn't hurt him. Of course I never thought about taking 'before' pics until Stu was missing a large strip down his back. So here are the after shots anyways.
Poor Phoebe didn't get her turn today. After 2 dogs and a huge bag full of doggy hair, the razor was put away for another day. Course they had to get some treats for being good little doggies, and the coats had to come out cause it isn't quite spring yet.
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Thursday night was Sampler 4 Saison night! I picked it up and managed to get a couple motifs finished. I'm still working in the top corner 'Spring' section but I'm getting closer to that tree all the time!
Here is the finished picture:
And here is my progress as of last night.
Well, my first photos didn't work, thank goodness for that editing button.
And when did that photo button appear? At least I got my photos to come through, although next time I'll try to position them a little better.
Tonight I'm off to a gallery opening in Toronto. Its the work of one of the ladies my daughter works with at the Cancer Centre. Just gotta make sure we get there in the time for the wine and cheese - what am I saying, I have to drive?!? Well, cheese anyone?
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Its a Start!
A new beginning! Now if I can just figure out how this works....and how to post pictures....and how to create links....and set up my profile....and, ohmigod, what have I got myself into???
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Police seek more evidence in Etan Patz case
NEW YORK – Police returned on Wednesday to the site of a former grocery store to look for evidence in the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne confirmed that investigators searched the retail space in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, where the alleged abductor of Etan Patz once worked.
Police returned to examine an area that wasn't looked at on earlier visits, Browne said. The effort, he added, "wasn't based on any new information."
Browne declined to discuss what, if anything, was found.
Pedro Hernandez has been charged in the slaying of Patz, one of the first missing children whose picture ever appeared on a milk carton. He remains held without bail.
Hernandez was a teenage stock clerk at the convenience store -- now an eyeglass shop -- when Etan disappeared on his way to school on May 25, 1979, a date that would later be commemorated as National Missing Children's Day. A judge in 2001 declared the boy dead, but his body has never been found.
Hernandez's sister has said she heard secondhand that he told a church prayer group in the 1980s that he killed a child in New York City. But Hernandez, now 51, wasn't eyed as a suspect in Etan's disappearance until last month, when a tipster contacted police.
Police say Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J., told investigators he lured the boy into the shop with the promise of a soda. He allegedly said he led the child to the basement, choked him and left his body in a bag of trash about a block away.
Court dates in the case have been put on hold as doctors evaluate Hernandez's mental fitness for trial and investigators seek more evidence beyond his alleged confession.
"There remains an enormous amount of energy and investigative efforts devoted to the case," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said when asked about it at an unrelated news conference last week.
Defense attorney Harvey Fishbein has described Hernandez as bipolar and schizophrenic, with a history of hallucinations. The lawyer declined to comment Wednesday.
According to the New York Post, Hernandez kept a photo of Patz for years after the murder, his ex-wife told investigators.
Daisy Rivera said she found the picture, which appeared to be cut from one of the missing persons posters that blanketed the city in 1979, in a "box of his personal papers" that he kept in their New Jersey home, a law enforcement source told The Post.
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My office coordinator, Nancy, says to me, "Someone comes in for a cold, rash, or hangnail, and they leave with an order for a screening colonoscopy." I say to her, "I also order mammograms, do PAP smears, check prostates, and do other health maintenance things– don't those count?"
Are colonoscopies that dreaded? Should the name be changed from screening to screaming colonoscopies?
If colonoscopies weren't fashionable, do you think Katie Couric– in her Jimmy Choo and Stuart Weitzman shoes– would have hers on national television?
Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates (CGA) sent me some blue wrist bands to signify that March is Colorectal Cancer (CRC) awareness month. (I guess the awareness ribbons are passé now. When the wrist bands go out of style, I think they should make Awareness Sunglasses. I would want mine to be polarized.)
I've even seen commercials on TV with shiny happy people in gowns ready for their colonoscopies. I'm sure the actors aren't stoned, and trust me, I'll be one of those happy people when I turn 50. Why? CRC is the number-two leading cause of cancer deaths, but it's one of the most preventable cancers!
According to CGA– who do, like, five billion colonoscopies a day I'm sure– CRC kills 56,000 Americans a year (that's more than the population of Charlottesville) and there are about 150,000 new cases per year.
"And we're rollin', rollin', rollin' down the colon!" A person's lifetime risk of developing CRC is five percent, and 90 percent of cases occur in people older than 50.
But at least one half of CRC deaths could have been prevented if proper colon cancer screening had been done. Like a dermatology appointment, a snip here and a snip there is all it takes to prevent colorectal cancer. Just as a big ugly mole can become melanoma, a once-harmless polyp can turn into cancer. On average, an adenomatous polyp takes 10 years to turn into cancer, so you want to snip them out early.
"I'm gonna wash that polyp right out of my colon."
In general, a person should get a screening colonoscopy starting at age 50 and have one every 10 years, unless certain types of polyps are found. For African Americans, who are at higher risk, CGA recommends starting at age 45. Those with family history of colon cancer or polyps can start as early as age 20.
Americans in general have this "thing" about the rear end. They don't like the idea of something probing up the anus, into the rectum, and into the colon. How many of you felt your toes curl up just reading this?
Most of my patients say the colonoscopy itself is not bad. They knock you out with "conscious sedation," and most people tend not to even remember the procedure. The prep work is what bothers most people, unless you're from California where having enemas are as normal as eating a salad.
You have to make sure you go to a good gastroenterologist to do the procedure because, yes, like everything, there are risks. The worst-case scenario is the potential for the scope to puncture the colon, but the overall complication rate at Martha Jefferson Hospital is low– something like 1 in 2,700.
When I get my colonoscopy, I'll think of it as a rite of passage– no, scratch that analogy. I will think of it as a great movement in my life– heh. How about I will see the light at the end of the tunnel, telling me I'm healthy?
Whatever analogy, I hope this article doesn't make me the butt of anyone's jokes!
Got a question? Dr. Hook wants to hear from you!


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Friday, August 14, 2009
Daddy Camp: Kid-Friendly Cement Stepping Stones for Your Yard
The girls made custom garden stepping stones for our garden.
We found the directions at Frugal Family Fun blog.
My sweet hubby mixed up a batch of quick-drying cement on the deck.
(Hey! Why is that box right on top of my outdoor rug!)
He poured it into the boxes, then the girls added glass stones.
I heard so much giggling out on the deck, I had to wander downstairs and go investigate.
I grabbed my camera and documented the project -- they did a fantastic job.
We have plenty of concrete mix leftover and plan to repeat this project a few more times!!
(I want to try sea shells and buttons next time... and maybe plastic bottle caps?)
They put them out in the sun to dry.
Such a fun and easy project and cheaper than one of those make your own stepping stone kits!
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SAN DIEGO - If Cinco de Mayo is about selling beer, then Hispanic Heritage Month must be about marketing Hispanics - or, as some prefer to be called, "Latinos."
SAN DIEGO - If Cinco de Mayo is about selling beer, then Hispanic Heritage Month must be about marketing Hispanics - or, as some prefer to be called, "Latinos."
In 1988, Congress expanded what had previously been a weeklong celebration of Hispanic culture to a full month, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. It was meant to be a time to reflect on everything that Hispanics have contributed to this country. Instead, corporations, universities and political parties have used this opportunity to schmooze the nation's 52 million Hispanics.
They say love blooms in the spring. But when it comes to courting Hispanics, a lot of folks show their love in the fall.
This week, PBS is airing a documentary called "Latino Americans," which it is billing as the Latino chapter of the American Dream. In it, you'll find the obligatory references to United Farm Workers Union President Cesar Chavez, the usual onramp to the Latino experience for Eastern liberal media.
Take it from someone who grew up an hour away from the UFW hub of Delano: That road is a dead-end. Chavez was a man of the fields; today, most Latinos live in the cities. And guess what? Latinos were busy working hard to achieve the American Dream long before public television discovered them.
My concern is that too many Hispanics may be buying into the hype. Like anyone else, they want to matter, to be relevant, to be a player in the American story. So it's easy for them to mistake population figures for power, influence and respect.
Latinos have the first; they are among the fastest-growing segments in our society, clocking in at 16 percent of the U.S. population now and projected to make up as much as 29 percent by 2050. By comparison, the African-American population is 13 percent and, in 2050, it is expected to still be 13 percent.
And yet, the rest of the items on the Latino wish list have proved harder to come by. Numbers alone do not buy you power, influence and respect. Those things have to be earned and seized. You would be amazed at how skilled some in big media, big politics and big business have become at ignoring the elephant in the room.
For instance, just because televisions are no longer black and white doesn't mean that much of what you see on television isn't still black and white.
What about the color green? This year, Hispanics will spend an estimated $1.3 trillion on goods and services. That figure has been increasing by about $100 million per year. So by 2020, it'll be $2 trillion.
But there is another side to the coin. Corporations may spend an increasing amount of time and money trying to sell things to Hispanics, but they need to spend more time communicating with them. Like most Hispanics, I spend my paychecks with a variety of companies every month. But I can't think of a single one that I feel warm and fuzzy about because I think they care about me and my family. So I'm not brand loyal.
Politically, Hispanic voters have a big footprint in at least three crucial battleground states: Nevada, Colorado and Florida. Every month, about 50,000 Hispanics turn voting age. They helped decide the 2012 election, even before the returns came in from states such as Ohio, which we were told would be key to determining the winner. This trend will likely continue in 2016 and beyond.
There is another side to that coin, too. Hispanics don't have nearly as much political power as they think, especially in Washington. That's because the nation's capital runs on cash, and Hispanics don't often contribute to political campaigns or run the nonprofit organizations that dole out the street money that buys loyalty in Washington.
On immigration, which neither Democrats nor Republicans want to take on - and both parties were eager to put it on the back burner, using the Syria crisis as an excuse, Hispanic voters are alienated by Republicans and insulted by Democrats. They're fooled, lied to and manipulated - including by groups that pretend to speak for them, often headed up by non-Latinos.
Yet, every year at this time, Hispanics strut around as if they've accomplished great things and are destined to accomplish greater things down the road.
Say, maybe we should change the date of this celebration - to April 1.
Contact syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette at email@example.com.


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Discover how Angela envisioned the Dinosaur Gallery.More about Angela Milner
The Museum's galleries have dramatically changed over the last 30 years and many of our scientists have had a significant involvement in transforming how the Museum displays its collections to our visitors. Our scientists conceptualise, design and create exhibitions with a team of people including exhibition interpreters, joiners and education developers.
Their work has ensured that the Museum continues to create exciting and inspiring exhibitions about the natural world, showcasing some of the Museum's most precious specimens alongside innovative learning technology. These short clips show how Museum display is brought from conception to fruition in the galleries.
Discover how Angela envisioned the Dinosaur Gallery.
Find out how Angela negotiated controversial topics in designing this gallery.
Find out about Barry's work on exhibitions.
Discover why exhibition design had to change.
Find out about Brian's work on developing a new exhibition at the Museum.
Listen to Lorraine describe displaying the Archaeopteryx specimen.
Learn how specimens from all over the world are put on display in the Museum.
Discover how Neil made his mark on exhibition development.
Find out about Ollie's work on the Museum's Deep Sea exhibition.
Hear Richard describing the creation of a new type of exhibition.
Learn how sceintists help to design exhibitions.


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Re: The Wire.......any good?#41
Full respect for everyone but for me there is no tv series that can be compared to the Sopranos. They are untouchable on the first place in each segment. I don't intend to offend anyone,but all the other series are child's play compared to the Sopranos. Before "The Sopranos" I regularly watched all kinds of TV programs. After "Made in America",I only watch sports and I believe that "Don't Stop Believing" is not without reason the last thing we heard that night.


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Centre County (Pa.) Judge John M. Cleland ruled this morning on a number of pretrial motions from Friday's hearing in the Jerry Sandusky case. And the big winner was Jerry Sandusky, whose trial can begin as early as May. From the Patriot-News of Harrisburg:
• Sandusky can see most of his grandchildren at home, provided a parent is present. He can also have contact with most of his grandchildren via computer. There is a custody battle involving three of his grandchildren, and whether Sandusky can contact those grandchildren is in the hands of another judge.
• Adult visitors may also come to Sandusky's home, though he must provide a list of 12 non-family members he intends to have over, and there are additional conditions.
• Sandusky can travel to help assist his defense team, though authorities must be given 36 hours' notice and a precise itinerary of his plans.
• Sandusky can go onto his back porch, from which he likes to throw biscuits to his dog. This despite neighbors' complaints that he had been watching children from a nearby elementary school from there.
• Sandusky's request to have the transcripts of all grand jury witness testimony released was denied, but only because Cleland said the judge who had oversight of the grand jury could authorize that.
• The jury for Sandusky's upcoming trial will come from Centre County. Prosecutors had asked to have them come from somewhere else because, well, everyone in Centre County seems to have a connection to Penn State and The Second Mile, including some Centre County judges.
Jerry Sandusky can visit with his grandchildren while out on bail on sex-abuse charges [PennLive]


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As any fervent - or even casual follower of New York politics can tell you - our elected officials have a propensity for lying.
And we're not talking about the little white lies that they like to tell. For instance, take our favorite: "I don't want to take up everybody's time, so I am going to keep my remarks brief." Yeah right! But that's not really their fault, they just can't help themselves when they get in front of a crowd with a mic in their hand, not unlike Guru (RIP).
And for our purposes here, we're not even talking about the really big lies, like taking money on the side or extorting contractors or keeping secret slush funds of taxpayer money to dole out for political favors. To do those things, you not only have to lie to the public, you have to be able to lie to yourself just to sleep at night.
We're talking about the smaller, more personal lies. For instance, when a local elected official goes to a town hall meeting and tells a constituent that they will look into getting a traffic light at a particular intersection, even though they have absolutely no intention of doing it.
Or when a reporter asks a politician if they plan to make a run for higher office, and they say something like, "I'm focused on doing my current job and delivering for the people in my district." An answer like that rings kind of hollow when it is delivered at a fundraiser for said politician.
Big lies display a lack of conscience, everyday lies like those require an actor's talent to pull off.
So with that in mind, we didn't really believe Congressman Anthony Weiner when he told us that he decided not to run for mayor last year because he felt it was an important time to be in Washington, and that he wanted to be at the center of the big national debates this country is grappling with - health care, Wall Street, immigration, etc. We politely said, "how nice," and then as soon as he left our office took the cynical view that he just didn't want to challenge the Bloomberg political machine and its near limit-less bank account.
We apologize for our doubting ways, Mr. Weiner.
Over the past year, Weiner has become one of the most high-profile members of Congress. He did just what he said he was going to do, and put himself at the center of the health care debate, even going so far as to take a radically left stance, calling on a public option for every American, an idea that was the major sticking point in getting any sort of reform passed, but one that he was extremely vocal on.
Since then, he has been ubiquitous, taking a hard-line stance with members of the Republican Party and using television appearances and the Internet to spread his message.
According to The Politicker, Weiner even bum-rushed the DJ booth at a fashionable Lower East Side night club packed with 20-something party-goers recently and delivered this missive: "Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we'd like to be and singing 'Kumbaya' is another day we're not punching Bill O'Reilly in the nose."
Damn Hammer, don't hurt 'em!
And it seems to be working for him if Weiner's intention was to get noticed, either in a positive or negative light. You know you've hit the big time when someone mails an envelope filled with a mysterious white powder to your district office in the hopes of creating an Anthrax scare, which is exactly what happened to Weiner and his staff on March 25. He even joked about it during his impromptu night club stump speech.
"I follow Twitter for the Tea Party and just show up to [expletive] with them," he said. "No, I don't actually do that. I just sit at my desk and they send me talcum powder every couple of weeks."
We don't know if Weiner is trying to up his political profile for a long, influential stay in Washington, D.C., or if he is just trying to show that he is tough enough to be the next mayor of New York City when that campaign starts up in a few years. But this time, we're not going to try and figure it out and just enjoy the ride.


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The Utah State Legislature completed its annual session on March 12 and the result may have an impact on the San Juan County jail. On March 16, County Commissioners met via conference call with other county commissioners around the state to discuss the issue.
The state pays counties in several categories to house inmates in county jails. The legislature cut the appropriation for one category of reimbursement by more than 40 percent, from $11.6 million to $6.5 million. The impact on the San Juan County jail will be roughly $75,000.
The final cut was much less than originally proposed. Heading into the last day of the session, the cut was expected to be from $11.6 to $2 million. However, a last day scramble restored $4.5 million of the funding.
Reimbursement for inmates classified as "Condition of Probation" prisoners received the cut. The daily reimbursement rate for these prisoners is roughly $27 a day, according to Commissioner Bruce Adams. This compares to the $72 to $75 a day it costs the state to house inmates in state facilities and the $42 to $45 a day that counties are generally reimbursed through a state contract.
Adams reports that the state legislature made no changes to the standard reimbursement contract.
The state Senate passed a resolution that may have helped the county proceed with a 240-bed expansion of the county jail. However, the resolution died in the House of Representatives. Adams explains that the county will not proceed with the proposed expansion of the jail without the support of the state legislature.
San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy attended the meeting personally in Salt Lake City. He will report the results at the March 23 meeting of the county commission.
In other business at the March 16 meeting of the County Commission:
• Commissioners approved the hiring of John Casement to be the Bluff / Mexican Hat transfer station attendant.
• Approval was given to purchase 40 replacement light fixtures for the county Administration Building in the amount of $2,609.09. Replacement parts will no longer be available for the old fixtures after 2010.
• Building permits were approved for a new residence in Spanish Valley, a new residence in La Sal, a radio tower in Spanish valley, a greenhouse in Blanding, and interior finish work for a home on Highway 95.


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The Effect of New Production Methods on U.S Oil Output
Since 2005, the "total oil supply" for the United States as reported by the Energy Information Administration increased by 2.2 million barrels per day. Of this, 1.3 mb/d, or 60%, has come from natural gas liquids and biofuels, which really shouldn't be added to conventional crude production for purposes of calculating the available supply. Of the 800,000 b/d increase in actual field production of crude oil, almost all of the gain has come from shale and other tight formations that horizontal fracturing methods have only recently opened up. Here I offer some thoughts on how these new production methods change the overall outlook for U.S. oil production.
Let me begin by clarifying that "shale oil" and "oil shale" refer to two completely different resources. "Oil shale" is in fact not shale and does not contain oil, but is instead a rock that at great monetary and environmental cost can yield organic compounds that could eventually be made into oil. Although some people have long been optimistic about the potential amount of energy available in U.S. oil-shale deposits, I personally am pessimistic that oil shale will ever be a significant energy source.
Get Set For a Dramatic Fall in Gas Prices
West Texas Intermediate crude oil, which had been selling for $105 a barrel at the end of March, fell to $80 a barrel last week, while Brent has come from $125 down to near $90. These price declines will translate into substantial savings for U.S. consumers in the weeks ahead.
Since Brent and WTI diverged, it has been Brent that matters for U.S. retail gasoline prices; this fact and the reasons for it were discussed here. A regression of the average U.S. retail gasoline price on the price of Brent over 2000-2012 captures the close relation (OLS standard errors in parentheses):
Modifying Hubbert's Model of Peak Oil to Account for a Rise in Production Due to Higher Prices
Here I describe some interesting new research on modifying Hubbert's model of peak oil to take into account the incentives for additional production that higher oil prices would be expected to bring.
A recent IMF Working paper by Jaromir Benes, Marcelle Chauvet, Ondra Kamenik, Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton, Susanna Mursula and Jack Selody begins by noting the trend in forecasts of oil production from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In earlier years, these forecasts were primarily just extrapolations of trends in global demand, with the assumption that supply would grow as needed to meet demand. If EIA's 2001 forecast had proven accurate, the world today would be producing about 100 million barrels of oil each day. The EIA forecast for 2012 has been revised downward in each successive year, and now stands just under 90.
Why Using Natural Gas Can Be a Positive Story for the U.S. Economy
The figure below plots the price of crude oil in dollars per barrel and the price of natural gas on an equivalent BTU basis. Historically, the two prices had tended to stay fairly close together. But they began to diverge significantly in 2006. Even with the recent easing in oil prices, today you'd have to pay over $14 to get a million BTU in the form of crude oil, but only $2.30 if you were willing to use natural gas as an alternative.
How Oil Prices Are Affected by Perceptions of the Global Economy
It seems that no matter what financial series you look at, there's a similar pattern of ups and downs over the last few years. I was curious to get a quick quantitative impression of how much of a contribution aggregate factors have been making to recent movements in the price of oil.
Effects of Index-Fund Investing on Oil Prices
In my previous post I described a new research paper with University of Chicago Professor Cynthia Wu on the Effects of Index-Fund Investing on Commodity Futures Prices. Previously I discussed what we found for the prices of agricultural commodities. Here I review our findings about oil prices.
Part of the interest in a possible effect of commodity-index funds on oil prices comes from testimony before the U.S. Senate by hedge fund manager Michael Masters, in which he produced a provocative graph of oil prices against an estimate of the number of crude oil futures contracts held by commodity-index funds. We reproduced his methodology to update his graph below. The figure certainly seems to suggest a strong connection between these two series, particularly during 2008 and 2009.
'Speculators are the Cause of High Oil Prices' Debunked
Joseph P. Kennedy II, former Congressional Representative from Massachusetts, and founder, chairman, and president of Citizens Energy Corporation, has a proposal to make energy affordable for all. All we have to do, Kennedy claims, is "bar pure oil speculators entirely from commodity exchanges in the United States."
Writing in the New York Times last week, Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) explained why he believes that speculators are responsible for the high price that we currently have to pay for oil:
Today, speculators dominate the trading of oil futures. According to Congressional testimony by the commodities specialist Michael W. Masters in 2009, the oil futures markets routinely trade more than one billion barrels of oil per day. Given that the entire world produces only around 85 million actual "wet" barrels a day, this means that more than 90 percent of trading involves speculators' exchanging "paper" barrels with one another.
It's true that most buyers of futures contracts don't actually want to take physical delivery of oil. If I buy the contract at some date, I usually plan on selling the contract back to somebody else at a later date, so that I leave the market with a cash profit or loss but no physical oil. But remember that for every buyer of a futures contract, there is a seller. The person who sold the initial contract to me also likely wants to buy out of the contract at some later date. I buy and he sells at the initial contract date, he buys and I sell at a later date. One of us leaves the market with a cash profit, the other with a cash loss, and neither of us ever obtains any physical oil.
China Stocks Up On Oil as West Moves To Sell Reserves
The Wall Street Journal suggests today that part of the latest surge in China's oil imports is attributable to a desire to boost the country's oil stockpiles.
Is Replacing Iran's Oil Production Wishful Thinking?
If an embargo is successful in preventing Iran from selling a significant amount of oil on the world market, what would replace it?
On Friday the White House released the following statement:
there currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to significantly reduce their import of Iranian oil, taking into account current estimates of demand, increased production by some countries, private inventories of crude oil and petroleum products, and available strategic petroleum reserves and in fact, many purchasers of Iranian crude oil have already reduced their purchases or announced they are in productive discussions with alternative suppliers.
That the President or anybody else is counting on the world demand for petroleum curve to shift left in 2012 seems doubtful. And which are the countries from which increased production is anticipated? Libyan production averaged only 500,000 barrels/day in 2011, and if things go well could soon be producing a million barrels more than that daily. In the mean time, disruptions in Sudan, Syria, and Yemen have taken out a separate 640,000 barrels/day. The best hope is perhaps Saudi Arabia, which presumably has been making private statements to U.S. officials similar to this public statement from Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi last Wednesday:
Saudi Arabia's current capacity is 12.5m barrels per day, way beyond current levels demanded, and a reliable buffer against any temporary loss of production. Saudi Arabia has invested a great deal to sustain its capacity, and it will use spare production capacity to supply the oil market with any additional required volumes.
There's A Rational Reason for Why Oil Prices Are So High
"There is no rational reason for high oil prices," writes Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, in today's Financial Times. Well, I can think of one– if oil prices were lower, the world would want to consume more than is currently being produced.
The graph below plots total world oil production over the last decade. After growing rapidly in earlier years, production hit a bumpy plateau. In November 2007, just before the U.S. recession began, the world was producing 84.9 million barrels each day, a little less than was produced in the spring of 2005. Although production stagnated, the demand curve continued to shift out, with world GDP growing 5.3% in 2006 and another 5.4% in 2007.


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Last week
Annie got to show off her car handling skills as she brought down a terrorist financier in Venezuela. It all started out as another routine mission gone wrong, of course.
This week
Annie gets sent on a simple courier job to Switzerland but things doesn't go well and she has to use all her talents to fulfill her mission with Eyal (Oded Fehr) an erratic, irritating Mossad agent who starts out like he is god's gift to women and the Swiss police on her tail. Eyal and Annie's report is enjoyable and a great deal more interesting than her and Ben's. Annie has such a natural flair to her that works well with the more intense Eyal, she is cool without being overbearing about it.
This was a change of pace from earlier since we follow Annie in the field for almost a whole episode with only minimum stops at the office and none at home. I like it, I am not saying they should skip her sister, the office drama or her bosses' marriage problems but Annie in action is so much more entertaining.
An added obstacle this week was Auggie being suspected for being the leak and instead of being allowed to do his job helping Annie he spent most of the time hooked up to a polygraph. Who do you think is the press leak? I would guess it is slick wonder-boy Jai but that would almost be too obvious.
This is how I like my spy shows fast paced, light and entertaining action without too much drama. This is fast becoming one of my favorite new shows this summer.
Next week
Covert Affairs 1.05 – In the Light (USA)
Annie enlists the help of a reluctant former operative (Eriq La Salle) to stop a weapons shipment from a Sudanese arms dealer. Her mission attracts unusual attention, with Henry Wilcox (Gregory Itzin) and Annie's ex Ben each showing interest in the case.
Related posts
- Covert Affairs 1.03 – South Bound Suarez (Review) July 27, 2010
- Covert Affairs 1.02 – Walter's Walk July 22, 2010
- Covert Affairs – New Series Premiere Review July 14, 2010


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Appeals court: Federal agency violating law on Yucca nuke site
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been violating federal law by delaying a decision on a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the commission to complete the licensing process and approve or reject the Energy Department's application for a waste site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
In a sharply worded opinion, the court said the nuclear agency was "simply flouting the law" when it allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the proposed waste site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The action goes against a federal law designating Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository.
"The president may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections," Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a majority opinion, which was joined Judge A. Raymond Randolph. Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland dissented in the case.
"It is no overstatement to say that our constitutional system of separation of powers would be significantly altered if we were to allow executive and independent agencies to disregard federal law in the manner asserted in this case by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," Kavanaugh wrote.
A spokesman for the NRC said Tuesday the agency was reviewing the decision. He declined further comment.
The court's decision was hailed by supporters of the Yucca site, which has been the focus of a dispute that stretches back more than three decades. The government has spent an estimated $15 billion on the site but has never completed it. No waste is stored there.
"This decision reaffirms a fundamental truth: The president is not above the law," said South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson. The Obama administration "cannot pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore," Wilson said.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., also welcomed the court's decision.
"Today's action by the court is a significant milestone for Yucca Mountain and a clear rebuke of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's failure to implement the Nuclear Waste Policy Act," they said in a joint statement. "The Obama administration rejected the law and prematurely terminated the Yucca Mountain repository program. But Congress and the courts have spoken out to prevent billions of taxpayer dollars and three decades of research from being squandered. … Let the science be the deciding factor on Yucca Mountain, not politics."
South Carolina and Washington state filed a lawsuit seeking to force the NRC to rule on the Yucca Mountain application. The states both have large nuclear waste sites that would use the Yucca repository.
The Obama administration, under pressure from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, abandoned the project early in the president's first term. In 2011, the NRC allowed the shutdown to stand, citing "budgetary limitations" imposed by Congress. The NRC is an independent agency that oversees commercial nuclear operations.
Reid, a Democrat, called the appeals court decision "fairly meaningless." Congress has cut funding for Yucca and is unlikely to restore it, Reid said.
"This isn't even a bump in the road. This, without being disrespectful to the court, means nothing," Reid told reporters at a clean energy conference Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Reid is a longtime opponent of the plan to bury waste at Yucca Mountain, which has drawn nearly unanimous opposition from Nevada elected officials.
Even if the Obama administration moves forward on the application, "there's no money" for Yucca Mountain, Reid said. "We've cut out funding for many years now and there's none in our budget to start it."
An attorney for the state of Washington, representing communities that support the dump, said the NRC violated a 1982 law requiring it to act on an application for construction of the Nevada site.
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Wake and Bake: Individual Spiced Fruitcakes
Breakfast snacks for those who get peckish first thing in the morning.
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Oh, hello. I didn't expect to see you here. I thought it was just going to be me and some fruitcakes for a while. That's OK. Pretty much sums up my life so far.
Did the candied fruit topping draw you in? I hope it did, because I specially ordered that mix. And I didn't skimp. I went Extra Fancy.
One side of my family is from Naples. It's understood that I enjoy eating candied fruit, will bake all my adult life with candied fruit, and will die in my housecoat and slippers, my chubby arms, soft as a baby's bottom, cradling a tub of candied fruit. They'll sprinkle some red cherries—my favorite—over my grave.
I don't mind if you don't feel the same way, because that doesn't mean you can't come to love it. Piano, piano as my grandmother says.
These are really more like mini loaves of gingerbread that happen to have some candied fruit in the batter. It's a starter, to get your tastebuds accompanied to things. Like giving a child some water with a splash of wine. You like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice, don't you? And obviously molasses and a little honey. What about a cake perfectly sized just for you?
Well, just for you and 7 of your friends, if you have an 8-cup mini loaf pan, as I do. I love that thing—what's better than a slice of poundcake? Your own little loaf. The candied fruit adds a pop of sugar and chew to every bite. You can add as much or as little as you like, but I advise getting a mix of fruit (such as cherry and citrus) to round out the flavor. Wrapped up in colored paper or cellophane, these are undeniably festive and make great gifts.
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After all my discussion with Ian about whether you should lead a run as fast as you can,
Rostra wrote:Here we are folks: ARKELA'S OUTING ... remembering the Wolf from last year, this will be known as Arkela's Outing!
Colin wrote: As a former cub scout, should that not be Akela, "the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack" (Jungle Book)?
IanH wrote:After all my discussion with Ian about whether you should lead a run as fast as you can,
I never lead a run as fast as I could.... just Enthusiastically but Safely
clynderboy wrote:It may be a wee bit early to be asking this but.... would the route to Forres pass anywhere near Buckie?!! Keith maybe? Well, perhaps not Keith if, like us, you prefer to stay away from the main roads and the A96 in particular!! Looking forward to the run, wherever we meet up!
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Tom Eblen: Fancy Farm shows that McConnell is in for a fight
FANCY FARM — After a tough month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell found out Saturday that his life could be getting a lot tougher.
More than a year before McConnell faces re-election in November 2014, he shared the stage at the 133rd annual Fancy Farm Picnic with two viable, articulate challengers: Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes of Lexington, a Democrat, and Republican businessman Matt Bevin of Louisville.
It was their first face-to-face meeting, and probably their only one until next year's Fancy Farm Picnic.
Democratic activists were more numerous and enthusiastic than I have seen them at Fancy Farm in years. Bevin had only a small group of supporters here, but he has support among Tea Party activists.
McConnell, Kentucky's longest-serving senator, was his usual calm, assured self, arriving just before the program started and leaving the stage before Bevin and Ed Marksberry of Owensboro, another Democratic challenger, spoke.
McConnell's appearance came after a tough month, including the embarrassment of having fellow Republican senators go around him to cut a deal with Democrats on confirmation of several Obama nominees to block changes in filibuster rules that McConnell has used to create gridlock in the Senate.
McConnell tried to frame his re-election as essential to stopping the "Obama agenda" — specifically health care reform and the administration's crackdown on environmentally destructive coal-mining practices.
"We're not just choosing who's going to represent Kentucky in the Senate," he said. "We're going to decide who's going to run the Senate."
What he didn't do was cite accomplishments, other than obstructing Obama and joining other Republicans in opposing an Army Corps of Engineers effort to restrict boating and fishing below Cumberland River dams.
Bevin seized on McConnell's lack of positive accomplishment, which could be a potent weapon in the hands of a smart Republican challenger.
"Mitch McConnell is known as mud-slinging Mitch, because the only thing he has to run on is destroying other people," Bevin said. "There is nothing in his 30-year history of voting that he's proud enough of to actually run on."
Attacking him from the right, Bevin accused McConnell of being too timid in opposing Obama's health-care law. "Be a man, stand up and put your money where your mouth is," he taunted.
Bevin chided McConnell for arrogance for leaving with his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, before Bevin spoke. Bevin invited his wife, Glenna, and their nine children, including three adopted from Africa, to join him onstage.
Bevin didn't give specifics about what kind of senator he would be. He also didn't criticize Grimes, saying there would be plenty of time for that after he beats McConnell in the primary.
Grimes also was poised and confident. She joked about McConnell's embarrassment on the filibuster showdown and his obstructionist tactics in what has been the least productive Congress in decades.
"There is a disease of dysfunction in Washington, D.C., and Sen. McConnell is at the center of it," she said. "As long as he remains in Washington, D.C., D.C. will stand for 'dysfunctional capital.'"
Grimes slammed McConnell for votes against raising the minimum wage and legislation on two women's issues: domestic violence and equal pay. She said she could do a better job of working across the aisle to get things done in Congress, which has record-low public approval ratings.
Both of these challengers showed they could do considerable damage to McConnell's reputation. But can they beat him?
Bevins has some personal wealth and Tea Party support. But, unlike Rand Paul with his famous father, Rep. Ron Paul, Bevins doesn't yet seem to have much grass-roots support or organization. He did little or nothing to solicit support at related GOP events this weekend in Western Kentucky.
Grimes has Democratic activists united, and she got strong endorsements on the Fancy Farm stage from Attorney General Jack Conway and Auditor Adam Edelen.
Given the party connections of her father, Jerry Lundergan, and national Democrats' desire to unseat McConnell, she shouldn't lack for money. But to win, Grimes will have to be more aggressive about framing the debate: she must make McConnell the issue, rather than allowing him to make Obama the issue.
McConnell's record makes him vulnerable to a candidate who can exploit it.
One thing is clear: McConnell is less popular than ever. Whether either of these two challengers can take him out in a 15-month marathon in the national spotlight will be fascinating to watch.


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Data Brief: NYC Charter School Performance on the 2009-10 State Exams for Math and English
The release of state test scores for school year 2009-10 presents both validation and challenges to New York City's public charter schools.
This presentation is part of the New School Development Program commissioned by the New York City Charter School Center. Created by charter school expert Cynthia Millinger, Curriculum Philosophies: Literacy is a guide for new charter schools who are in the curriculum development phase.
This Excel document shows grade-by-grade score comparisons of individual charter schools to their neighborhood district averages for Math and English Language Arts, 2009-10.


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President Obama today announced a new Advanced Manufacturing Partnership that will bring together industry, universities and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies. This is nuts-and-bolts government work, to help American manufacturing and American workers — precisely the kind of thing that Republicans and Wall Street oppose. It is hoped this will help create manufacturing jobs here, instead of places like China.
According to the White House, the plan is… (click through for many nuts-and-bolts details)
… a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in the emerging technologies that will create high quality manufacturing jobs and enhance our global competitiveness. Investing in technologies, such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, will support the creation of good jobs by helping U.S. manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development.
From The Detroit News: Dow exec to lead Obama's manufacturing initiative,
President Barack Obama has tapped Andrew Liveris, chairman and CEO of Midland-based Dow Chemical Co., to chair his $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership aimed at spurring technology gains and job creation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield will join Liveris in leading the partnership.
The White House called the initiative a national effort bringing together industry, universities and the federal government to invest in the emerging technologies that will create high-quality manufacturing jobs and enhance the nation's competitiveness.
. . . The program will focus on five key areas: building domestic manufacturing capabilities in critical national security industries; reducing the time needed to make advanced materials used in manufacturing products; establishing U.S. leadership in next-generation robotics; increasing the energy efficiency of manufacturing processes; and developing new technologies that will dramatically reduce the time required to design, build, and test manufactured goods.
This is a component of a national industrial policy. In yesterday's post on the Joint Economic Committee hearing on manufacturing policy I wrote about Scott Paul's testimony,
Robust strategy has been at the core of American policy from the country's beginnings. Today's dearth of policy is the exception, not the rule. Hamilton's manufacturing policy was in place until WWII.
Having a manufacturing strategy is not partisan, Reagan had one, the Plaza Accord. His administration made key investments, including semiconductors, and had "Buy America" requirements.
We saved the auto industry, which stabilized part of the support structure for domestic manufacturing.
There are many problems that can't be solved on their own by companies, like R&D investment.
No single firm can coordinate national projects. We need a robust manufacturing strategy because fate of this sector is too important. The decline of manufacturing is not inevitable or desirable.
This initiative will work along these lines. Let's hope it succeeds.
Speaking of Scott Paul, here is the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Statement on President Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Speech,
Linking manufacturers with the latest cutting-edge research at universities and federal agencies is one step in brightening the prospects for American manufacturing. But we can't stop there.
We welcome President Obama's support for public-private partnerships to develop new products, innovations, and processes for American manufacturing. Pittsburgh is the right place to make this announcement: home of a modern steel industry, great academic institutions, sophisticated research, a skilled workforce, and a strong industrial union.
America has been falling behind in manufacturing while the rest of the world aggressively supports its industry. We are playing catch-up following decades of neglect. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership shows a lot of promise, but the effort will be futile unless our manufacturers also have a solid foundation of support for challenges like unfair trade practices, currency manipulation, developing a skilled workforce, and a more efficient infrastructure.
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Olivia Wilde treated her funnyman fiance Jason Sudeikis to a racy date night by booking a private room in a New York strip club, according to a report.
The actress is said to have hired two pole dancers at the Penthouse Executive Club to perform for her and the "Saturday Night Live" regular.
A witness at the venue tells the New York Post gossip column Page Six, "Olivia booked the private champagne room with two dancers. She took Jason inside, and while he wasn't allowed to touch the dancers, she could touch them.
"They were in there for two hours, Olivia picked up the entire tab. Jason is a lucky guy."
The stars' wild night out is said to have taken place just over a month ago, after they went public with their engagement in January.
Wilde is no stranger to exotic dancing – she played a stripper and gave a lapdance in the 2012 comedy "Butter."


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Last year's Homes of Governors slideshow featured the homes of governors from the East Coast (Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey) to the West (Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California); from the distant past (South Carolina's Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence), and one home that had housed 17 South Dakota governors.
This year's edition includes the homes of contemporary governors including one who built his own home (also from South Dakota) as well as one well-known figure from the past who designed his own home. We have primary governor residences and a pair of vacation homes. Sometimes, as seen in the following slides, these homes are also the sites of press conferences and protests.
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McLean, Va — Four years ago, Jonathan Adler and a group of investors purchased Sport & Health Clubs for $75 million. Slowly but surely, Adler et. al. have been making good on their investment. Other investors are taking notice, too.
Pittsburgh, PA-based PNC Mezzanine Capital and Wynnewood, PA-based CMS Mezzanine Fund have recently poured $25 million worth of financing into Sport & Health, which has 23 clubs in the Washington, DC, metro area that also includes parts of Virginia and Maryland.
"PNC Mezzanine was one of the potential investors when we bought the company in 2005, and they couldn't get in on the deal," says Adler, Sport & Health's CEO. "They have been interested in us for several years. We felt we had a lot of opportunity in the market, and we needed to raise some capital, and that's why we called on PNC to invest with us. They're a long-term player that is interested in growing the business. CMS is interested in the same growth pattern."
At a time when financing has been hard to come by for any business, let alone fitness clubs, Sport & Health is going forward with its expansion. Sport & Health plans to open or acquire three new clubs each year for the next several years, beginning in 2010.
"PNC has watched us on a consistent basis be consistent," says Mark Fisher, Sport & Health president and COO. "We haven't had a lot of ups and downs, and even with a little bit of a bump in the economy, we've been able to perform. We've continued to achieve our sales numbers."
Sport & Health Clubs ranked 12th on Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro's Top 100 clubs list this year, reporting $93 million in revenue in 2008.
The financing will enable Sport & Health Clubs to restructure senior debt and allow the company to acquire and construct new clubs in the Washington, DC, area.


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Copy Templates in Service ManagerBy
During the past two weeks I've been asked several times if it's possible to copy templates in Service Manager. Since Service Manager currently doesn't provide that specific functionality I had no choice but to write a tool for it.
The tool is currently a stand-alone application (but might be integrated as a console task further down the road). It lists all your object templates and enables you to create copies of a selected template. This will save you some time if you're creating lots of templates with small differences.
Since this is a beta, please use the tool in a non-production environment when creating the copies and then transfer the management packs to the production environment afterwards.
Download "TemplateCopy for Service Manager – Beta 2″
You don't mention that why is there a need for such trick that you do here.
Because it is not possible to copy the content of a template to another? Because it wil copy only the content, but not he underlying (invisible from Console) relationships?
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Dear Patrick,
Is there anyway to get the data filled inside a scsm form template using sdk!?
All I want to do is to show the classification, impact, urgency whatever property filled into incident form template ..
I got the template I need to work on .. but how may I reach which impact(High,Medium,Low) is filled into this template
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BURLINGAME, Calif. — A refreshing and healthful modification to your morning coffee fix, the Blue Monkey™ Coconut Collection today releases its new Coconut Coffee Drink, a new coffee-infused, all-natural coconut milk/cream beverage. Made with organic coffee, organic coconut cream and organic evaporated cane juice, Blue Monkey's Coconut Coffee is an ideal morning or anytime cold beverage for those looking for a little more out of their "cup of joe."
This 100% organic coffee/coconut combo has a delicious, light nutty flavor with a decidedly healthy punch thanks to the addition of pure coconut milk. It is also low in fat and only 100 calories per 8oz serving.
"Tempering coffee with naturally nutritious coconut milk not only tastes great, it helps people feel better about their morning fix," says Simon Ginsberg, Blue Monkey founder. "With surprisingly compatible flavor profiles, adding coffee to coconut milk in a convenient, ready-to-drink beverage just made sense."
Derived from the white meat of mature coconuts, Blue Monkey's Coconut Milk is a lactose, soy and dairy free alternative made from isotonic natural ingredients. Completely free of preservatives, the coconut milk is under 100 calories per serving, low in fat (comparable to 2% milk), and naturally high in vitamins and minerals. Produced in the U.S. from imported organic, kosher and fair trade ingredients from Indonesia and the Philippines, each coconut is screened for optimum quality and sweetness.
The Blue Monkey Coconut Coffee Drink, packaged in BPA-free and easily recyclable 15oz cans, will be available at select natural and mainstream markets nationwide throughout the U.S. and Canada and online at Amazon.com at the end of February for an SRP of $2.79.
About Blue Monkey Coconut Collection
Founded in 2010 by the husband and wife team of Simon and Mary-Jane Ginsberg (the pair behind the successful Ice Age Glacier water brand), all Blue Monkey coconut products feature 100% pure coconut – not from concentrate, with nothing added and preservative free. The Blue Monkey Coconut Collection is a full beverage line including juice blends and instant coconut water.


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simpology avait besoin d'un nouveau design de logo et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 81 designs proposés par 25 designers freelance.
Wanting to create a new logo for a new real estate brand.
abode real estate
Desired Color Scheme:
Bright ,Vibrant, Young and Fresh - Stands Out from the Crowd
Desired Style:
- I would like more of a freehand drawing style than sharp computer generated.
- Would like to have the glass effect incorporated.
- Would like the word "abode" in lower case in a larger font and "REAL ESTATE" in smaller font underneith in upper
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Adobe Illustrator
The logo needs to be created resembling a house using the "abode" name to be the centre of the logo, using the "b" and "d" to support the roof.
The prefered design is using a freehand paint brush or drawing type look instead of sharp lines. It should have the modern bright vibrant glass effect.
Think about real estate signage and colors that will stand out from the crowd. Think about what background colors the logo would go with.
I open to other suggestions and ideas as well.
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