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Autopsy Study May Explain Why Some COVID Survivors Have 'Brain Fog'
By Alan Mozes HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, Feb. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- One of the least understood effects of COVID-19 infection is "brain fog," a kind of mental confusion that can take hold among seriously ill patients, sometimes lingering long after recovery.
Now, a new study has spotted a possible neurological clue in the form of highly unusual cell clusters in the brains of people who had COVID-19.
"What we're talking about is a situation where patients feel fuzzy and foggy in their thoughts," said study lead author Dr. David Nauen.
"It's when you're extremely tired and sluggish, and your mental activity just doesn't seem to be working as crisply and sharply as usual. And it's been reported among COVID-19 patients still under care and afterwards, during the long recovery phase," he explained.
"We thought it must be due to something affecting the brain, because we know other viruses can certainly affect the brain, sometimes with severe neurologic consequences," said Nauen, who's an assistant professor in the department of pathology at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
So Nauen and his colleagues set out to analyze the brains of COVID-19 patients who had succumbed to their illness.
Between April and May of 2020, autopsies were performed on the brains of 15 randomly selected COVID-19 patients, as well as on two patients who had not been infected.
The first surprise? "There was none of the classic signs of viral disease of the brain, like inflammation and lymphocytes [white blood cells]," Nauen said.
The second surprise? "Instead, we saw unusual cells in the capillaries, called megakaryocytes, that I had never seen in the brain," he noted.
A megakaryocyte "is a cell that normally lives in the bone marrow, where we make red and other blood cells. It makes the platelets that help us clot, in order to heal," Nauen said. "But it's really, really unusual to see them in the capillaries of the brain, because capillaries are like fine little tubes bringing oxygen throughout the brain. So finding megakaryocytes in these tubes is like finding a football stuffed into a really small pipe in your house. Nothing is going to go through."
In the end, the study team found megakaryocytes in the brains of one-third of the deceased COVID-19 patients.
The findings were published online Feb. 12 in JAMA Neurology.
So do megakaryocyte brain formations explain COVID-19 brain fog? Nauen stressed that it's premature to characterize the finding as proof of cause and effect.
"Knowing they're there is the first step. Now we need to figure out why they're in the brain, and what's signaling them to come to the brain by mistake, whether this very different kind of inflammation that we've never seen before is responsible for brain fog and may also be contributing to a heightened risk for stroke," he noted.
"None of these patients had had strokes. And I'm speculating. But you can imagine that if you start to clot off, or block off, this very intricate network of carefully regulated capillaries, then your blood pressure is going to change, get higher, and perhaps raise the risk for stroke," Nauen said.
Meanwhile, Dr. Larry Goldstein, chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Kentucky and co-director of the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, offered a cautious take on Nauen's findings.
"'Brain fog' is not a specific condition and has no defining diagnostic criteria," Goldstein said.
Brain fog is also "not specific to COVID, and can occur in association with a variety of inflammatory conditions, degenerative diseases, medications -- particularly some cancer chemotherapies -- and intensive care unit hospitalizations, among others," he added.
Still, in the case of COVID-19, could megakaryocytes be the cause? Goldstein acknowledged that the explanation is "plausible." But so are a wide array of other explanations, including inflammation, reduced blood oxygen, stroke, reduced blood flow and/or "the general complications of hospitalization for an acute, life-threatening illness," he said.
So, absent brain scans or detailed reports on each patient's "cognitive status," it's impossible to know, Goldstein stressed. That means, for now, all that can be said is that "there are a variety of ways brain injury could occur in this setting."
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There's more on COVID-19 brain fog at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
SOURCES: David Nauen, MD, PhD, assistant professor, department of pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Larry Goldstein, MD, chairman, department of neurology, and co-director, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington; JAMA Neurology, Feb. 12, 2021, online
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by James Wright
Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down
A steep hill, suddenly sweeping out
To the edge of a cliff, and dwindling.
But far up the mountain, behind the town,
We too were swept out, out by the wind,
Alone with the Tuscan grass.
Wind had been blowing across the hills
For days, and everything now was graying gold
With dust, everything we saw, even
Some small children scampering along a road,
Twittering Italian to a small caged bird.
We sat beside them to rest in some brushwood,
And I leaned down to rinse the dust from my face.
I found the spider web there, whose hinges
Reeled heavily and crazily with the dust,
Whole mounds and cemeteries of it, sagging
And scattering shadows among shells and wings.
And then she stepped into the center of air
Slender and fastidious, the golden hair
Of daylight along her shoulders, she poised there,
While ruins crumbled on every side of her.
Free of the dust, as though a moment before
She had stepped inside the earth, to bathe herself.
I gazed, close to her, till at last she stepped
Away in her own good time.
Many men
Have searched all over Tuscany and never found
What I found there, the heart of the light
Itself shelled and leaved, balancing
On filaments themselves falling. The secret
Of this journey is to let the wind
Blow its dust all over your body,
To let it go on blowing, to step lightly, lightly
All the way through your ruins, and not to lose
Any sleep over the dead, who surely
Will bury their own, don't worry.
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WASHINGTON – A Trump health appointee who is accused of trying to muzzle an important scientific publication in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic apologized Tuesday for a separate video in which he reportedly says scientists battling the virus are conspiring against President Donald Trump and warns of shooting in America if Trump loses the election.
Michael Caputo, the top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, apologized to his staff for the Facebook video, said an administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
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The department is standing by Caputo so far in the face of calls by congressional Democrats for his dismissal — and for the resignation of his boss, HHS Secretary Alex Azar. But Caputo, a Trump loyalist and former New York political operative, has become a significant new problem for a White House that has struggled all year with its coronavirus response.
He can be heard on an HHS podcast asserting that Democrats don't want a coronavirus vaccine before the election in order to punish Trump. Although Trump has made the same assertion, with no evidence to support it, such broadsides are not in a department spokesman's normal portfolio.
News reports alleged last week that Caputo's office tried to take over and muzzle a scientific weekly from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that publishes what is supposed to be authoritative, unvarnished information about disease-fighting efforts, including, most importantly at present, COVID-19.
Then on Monday came an account of the video on Caputo's personal Facebook page in which he accused government scientists of conspiring against Trump and suggested violence could break out after the election.
Caputo was named the top HHS spokesman in April, during a tense period in relations between the White House and HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
On a taxpayer-funded podcast earlier this summer he accused Democrats and the media of not wanting a coronavirus vaccine until after the elections in order to defeat Trump.
"There are people in the United States government on the Democrats' side ... (who) do not want a vaccine," he said.
"They don't want a vaccine until November 4th," he added, citing the day after the presidential election. It's highly unusual to use an agency communications platform for such a blatantly political message.
Over the weekend, Caputo made headlines when Politico and The New York Times reported that his office had tried to gain control over a CDC publication known as the MMWR, or Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In previous administrations, political appointees in the HHS secretary's office maintained a hands-off policy.
The story took a strange turn Monday, after the Times reported about a live video hosted by Caputo on his personal Facebook page. In it, Caputo reportedly accused government scientists of conspiring against Trump as part of a "resistance."
The message turned apocalyptic when Caputo reportedly predicted that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would refuse to concede defeat to Trump in the election, and violence would break out. The Associated Press was unable to independently view the video.
HHS supported Caputo, with a statement calling him a "critical, integral part of the president's coronavirus response, leading on public messaging as Americans need public health information to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic."
There was no immediate statement from the White House.
Attempts to interview Caputo were unsuccessful.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., called on Azar to fire Caputo, accusing the spokesman of trying to interfere with CDC reports. And Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Azar himself to resign, citing interference with the CDC as one example of what he termed the administration's failures.
Officials at CDC have privately complained of recent efforts by political appointees at HHS to try to edit or press for changes in the agency's weekly MMWR publications, a go-to resource for public health professionals.
MMWR articles are technical, but they reveal telling details. One published earlier this year noted that while Trump's travel restrictions dramatically reduced travel from China in February, nothing was being done at that time to restrict travel from Italy and Europe, where the coronavirus was spreading widely and rapidly. Analysis of virus samples from hard-hit New York in March suggested it was introduced there from Europe and other parts of the U.S., the CDC article reported.
Caputo is an unswerving Trump loyalist. His recent book, "The Ukraine Hoax," claims the president's "phony" impeachment was rooted in a vast conspiracy.
His appointment at HHS was seen as an attempt by the White House to exert more control over Azar, whom other administration officials were trying to blame for the government's slow response in the initial weeks of the pandemic.
At HHS, he's been closely affiliated with Operation Warp Speed, the government's effort to have millions of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine ready for distribution as soon as one is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Caputo interviewed Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a top outside adviser to the vaccine effort, on an HHS podcast July 31. Commiserating with Slaoui over Democrats and news articles that were critical of the doctor, Caputo said:
"I know that's hard to believe, but the people who are abusing you, and who are beating down Operation Warp Speed, and the incredible historic work that's going on, they don't want a vaccine until November 4th. I don't want to talk about politics here, but November 3rd is an important day. They don't want a vaccine now because of politics, sir."
Associated Press news researcher Jennifer Farrar contributed to this report.


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Online Texas Hold'em is certainly going through a lot of flux right now. RealMoneyPoker.org believes that the USA poker market is in a much needed transition phase. The Black Friday event and the media frenzy that ensued were stepping stones towards a regulated poker environment. And legalization may just be around the corner. On October 25th 2011, a congressional hearing took place at the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. Rep. Joe Barton from Texas is pushing for the introduction of a new bill that would pave the way towards legal gaming. And the response from the subcommittee was surprisingly favorable, provided that consumer protection would be implemented and the accountability of operators / players clearly understood. Players are enthused because they are witnessing the crafting a bill that would legalize the US poker ecosystem from end to end. The recent reversal of stance on the Wire Act further crystallized this sentiment in December of 2011. Depositing has admittedly gotten tougher... so hard in fact that new players are giving up, or playing for fake money. Although it's true that credit card poker sites accepting US Players may be a rationed commodity these days, there are still many viable alternatives for poker aficionados.
It's also not all gloom and doom if you look outside of the USA. France has already regulated online poker inside its borders (including sports and horse races), and it has been a documented success. Offshore sites have successfully been banned, and also blocked by the ISPs with help from the Arjel Gaming Governing Body. Italy is following the same suit, except that the country offers the entire gambling suite to its citizens. The Italian gaming framework is ran by AAMS.gov: "Amministrazione autonoma dei monopoli di Stato". Germany and Spain will be next to implement their own regulations. In fact, Germany has already approved intra-regional regulation in the State of Chleswig-Holstein. So why can't the United Sates offer Legal Real Money Poker ? All current attempts at intra-state regulation have failed in the USA, except in Washington DC and Nevada. With the recent reversal on the Wire Act, intra-state poker should now be fully legal. And if you look at the current deficit and downgrading of the US banks' credit rating, there has never been a better time to inject some money back into the economy.
Unfortunately, until such a law passes, the gambling money will continue to leak outside of the USA. The trickle is inevitable as US friendly sites operate offshore to get around the UIGEA law (implemented in 2006). And until regulation passes, an increasing number of sites will cease to accept USA players. The reasons are numerous and complex. American players are expensive. Truth be told, they may not even be profitable for certain operators, considering the additional investment in payment processing. United States players also represent a significant legal risk. Although it is now clearer that Texas Holdem for Real Money is a game of skill and wasn't targeted by the Wire Act (which outlawed sports betting), the actions of the current Administration seem to indicate otherwise. Sites like PokerStars and FullTiltPoker have been accused of being "illegal businesses". Additionally, Full Tilt Poker is seen as being a "Global Ponzi Scheme" by a prominent U.S. Attorney.
Our advice during this market inflection point is to simply ride the wave, and hope for better things to come. If you are a professional poker player, the better solution might be to expatriate to another country such as Canada. Recreational poker players will be be glad to hear that there are quite a few alternatives to Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, albeit with smaller playing fields. Is it harder to deposit real cash at these surrogate sites ? Yes, it is. But it's worth it if you ask us. Another interesting trend is how poker software technology is evolving into the cloud. Players who were once tethered to one medium, for example to a desktop computer or a notebook, now have a host of different solutions to choose from. It once seemed like science-fiction to play cards on a tiny cell phone, but players can now enjoy playing poker on android and almost every other mobile platform. Tablet poker is also very popular, provided some basic compatibilities are respected. Poker is going global fast, and creating new channels for multi-player gaming in its wake, even in the social gaming sphere with brands such as Zynga launching left and right.


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The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)
A massive digitization and transcription project calls for volunteers at the Smithsonian
Many myths surround the Smithsonian Institution's archives—from legends of underground facilities hidden beneath the National Mall to rumors of secret archaeological excavations. One underlying truth persists amid these fallacies: the Institution's archives are indeed massive. Preserving these collections in a digital age is a gargantuan task, especially when it comes to handwritten documents. Ink fades with time, and individual scrawls sometimes resemble hieroglyphics. It could literally take decades.
The Smithsonian, instead, aims to shorten that timeframe with the help of anyone with an Internet connection. After about a year of testing with a small group of volunteers, the Smithsonian opened up their Transcription Center website to the public last month. Today, they issued a called for volunteers to help decipher everything from handwritten specimen tags to the personal letters of iconic artists to early U.S. currency. "For years, the vast resources of the Smithsonian were powered by the pen; they can now be powered by the pixel," Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough said in a statement.
Though many specimen and documents have been digitized, handwriting can be tricky. The goal is to crowdsource the transcription of material that a computer just can't decipher. By opening the transcription process up to the public, they hope to make those images not only accessible, but searchable and indexable to researchers and anyone else who's interested across the globe. "These volumes open a window on the past and allow those who lived in the past to speak directly to us today," says Pamela Henson, a historian in the Smithsonian's Institutional History Division.
During the project's year of beta testing that began June 2013, 1,000 volunteers transcribed 13,000 pages of archived documents. But crowdsourcing can come with a potential for human error. To avoid any typos or discrepancies, multiple volunteers work on and review each page, and a Smithsonian expert verifies the work for accuracy. Transcription is a team effort, as project coordinator Meghan Ferriter has found. "We have a community that's developing," says Ferriter. "Volunteers talk to us and to each other on the transcription site and on social media."
The move is part of a trend among archive facilities. The New York Public library crowdsourced the digitization of its extensive restaurant menu collection. The U.K. National Archives asked for help earlier this year in transcribing diaries of World War I soldiers. It's not necessarily new to the Smithsonian either. "The Smithsonian has relied on the kindness of strangers to assist with its work since the 1840s, when volunteer weather observers began to send climate data to our Meteorological Project," notes Henson. "In some ways we are continuing that tradition."
Volunteers have completed a total of 141 projects, including Mary Anna Henry's Civil War-era diaries (which include the moment she heard of Abraham Lincoln's death). The speed that crowdsourcing facilitates has already generated some impressive results: 49 volunteers transcribed 200 pages of correspondence between the Monuments Men in a week.
For those interested in immersing themselves in a bit of history, ongoing transcription work spans a wide variety of fields:
- A project launched today aims to transcribe a report by archaeologist Langdon Warner, one of the Monuments Men and the inspiration for Indiana Jones. It already has 39 people willing to help tackle the 234-page document.
- Mary Smith's Commonplace Book Concerning Science and Mathematics offers a look inside the mind of a virtually unknown female amateur scientist from the late 1700s. Smith's work is handwritten and features summaries of scientific discoveries of the day, as well as her own experiments and data collections.
- Those looking for a challenge might try their hand at transcribing the English-Alabama and Alabama-English dictionary. Compiled from 1906 to 1913, the massive work includes thousands of vocabulary terms. Volumes three and four still need some work.
- Renowned 19th-century clockmaker Edward Howard's astronomical regulator is housed in the National Museum of American History. A transcription project focused on his business ledgers show the far reaches of the Boston clockmaker's business.
- Another project is in the process of photographing and deciphering the tags on 45,000 bee specimen. Volunteers enter metadata for each bee imaged on where and when the specimen was collected. Such a massive dataset could prove useful to researchers studying bee populations today.
Once finished projects get the Smithsonian's stamp of approval users can download them through the collections website or the transcription center. As the Smithsonian digitizes more and more of its collections, the plan is to make them available online for volunteers to transcribe and historical scholars and enthusiasts to enjoy.


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We have had several posts dealing with the 1692 events or making mention of such. There were two Beacon issues with the theme. The latest was this year, with a subsequent post with this topic: Imagine a meeting. The thing was to call together all of those ancestors on someone's tree who were there, even participating in certain roles. In short, those ancestors' roles covered the gamut.
One source for the Beacon issue in 2011 was Frances Hill's book about men of dangerous ideas. Her take on these matters made a lot of sense which will be discussed more fully with time. We intend to visit this theme a lot, since it does involve Salem which is Thomas' (and his peers') town, so to speak (yes, even the Village - they owned property there). So, we need to have continual interest; the events be-smirched the little place and left a lasting impact.
Recently, I read Frances Hill's book: A Delusion of Satan. The Google site has reviews of the book. Frankly, I think the book is underrated. Now, it may be that the reviewers have read other books on the subject and have had more exposure to the details than I have had (novice but learning the ropes). Nevertheless, it's the first rendition that made the (human side of the) reality clear to me, as one reviewer noted.
Frances is coming from another viewpoint, being British. And, those in that region, then, were, too, for the most part. The Puritanical mindset played heavily. I had run across the Porter and Putnam controversy before, since Dr. Frank mentions that John Hathorne's grand-niece (granddaughter of his sister, Elizabeth) married Abel Gardner. Frances made me aware that Gen. Israel Putnam was an offspring of Elizabeth (Hathorne) Porter. Israel's father was with the Porters (married into the family).
But, on the other hand, Ruth Gardner, as a mere teen, was married to John thereby being the ancestor of Nathaniel. Frances mentions this in her modern bad guy book.
But, on the other hand, Ruth Gardner, as a mere teen, was married to John thereby being the ancestor of Nathaniel. Frances mentions this in her modern bad guy book.
All sorts of good souls, other than the Porters, tried to intervene with those who were the primarily involved with the mischief (we'll get back to Cotton Mather (cousin), Corwin (1/2 cousin), and others later). Yet, those good souls were not effective. Why? I asked before: what if Samuel Gardner (Corwin's brother-in-law) had still been alive? Thomas was gone, too.
The tragedy's real lasting effect is not the hanging. Rather, it's the jailing and torture of prisoners, many of whom were women of age. Or, men of age. Let's hear it for Giles, the man of iron, albeit one with his foot in his mouth (testified against his wife, or they aired their spats publicly).
So, speaking of the jailing, Dorcas Good was a mere 4+ years old. People were chained into uncomfortable positions. There were horrid actions on the part of bullies running the jails (err, dungeons). Corwin stole (a lot), essentially. When looked at with realistic eyes, there's nothing to romanticize (yet, this occurs on a particular day in a month during the fall of each year).
And, even worse, after Gov Phips said to knock it off, they kept people jailed until they could pay their way out (of course, their property had been stolen by the sheriff, many times). So, we have continuing bad straits for a while. Even restitution, obtained in some cases - like the Parker boys -- wasn't much consolation.
By the way, some in power still have this Puritanical blood (of course, we can show the genealogical link) which led to the atrocities. Frances made this, and related, points in her bad guy book.
And, even worse, after Gov Phips said to knock it off, they kept people jailed until they could pay their way out (of course, their property had been stolen by the sheriff, many times). So, we have continuing bad straits for a while. Even restitution, obtained in some cases - like the Parker boys -- wasn't much consolation.
By the way, some in power still have this Puritanical blood (of course, we can show the genealogical link) which led to the atrocities. Frances made this, and related, points in her bad guy book.
The 1692 events have all been hashed out (in literature and in academic analysis - as well in popular expositions). What is (can be) new, though, is that we can look at modern descendants whose genes/memes are influenced (lastingly) by this thing. And, a particular interest might be of those whose ancestors were among the whole gamut of players of that time and turmoil. Such is the reality of the fan-in through time within a population.
01/12/2019 -- Old image from Google disappeared; brought in new of Delusion of Satan; plus added a thumbnail to the index.
10/31/2014 -- Gardner Research: "The Trials of the Wilson Family" (also, TEG (2014) 34:155).
04/ 29/2014 -- Aftermaths.
10/30/2013 -- I am in the process of reading Katherine Howe's book, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Dane, as in being related to Francis, of course. I wondered if there would be motivating material for a Beacon issue (we did have 1692 as a theme in 2011 and 2012). It is an interesting plot, especially the balancing of the characters, and their interactions, in two time periods is nice. The description that Katherine provides of little Dorcas Good in the underground cell surely depicts the poor, young thing's misery and shows Katherine's grasping of the horror. One wonders, from some of the modern views and comments, if people really understand the dire situation. Too, the main hypothesis might have some truth, in a slightly altered construction. You see, science has not shown as much light on human matters as some might think. But, then, for any knowledge that we have gained, we have also seen that the unknowns do not diminish. It's just that we get better able to cover (as in, remove from awareness) the holes in which lurk the demons.
09/04/2013 -- Again, the scene is built as follows. Those who came over are from the 10th to 13th generations back (for the most part) for someone alive now. By the time of 1692, lots of the earlier arrivals had passed on. So, that left the second generation (again, for the most part) as the elders. Now, taking a cohort mix (generational cut) round or about 1692 would give us someone on the current person's tree who would have about three generations living (including the level of their own cohorts). So, we would see siblings/cousins, parents/aunts/uncles, and the greats. In other words, it's a composite person that is built from that cohort mix (meaning, of course, that being on the tree implies ancestry) for which we can identify relationships blood (including 1/2 blood), in-law, and even friends. What Marjorie's chart does is to take someone who is in the mix and look at extended relationships. Now, consider what we would have if we did that for a large part of the composite mix. Would it not be an interesting view?
09/03/2013 -- Boosted up the font on the image caption after reading of Rev. Francis Dane's extended family and their ordeals.
03/10/2013 -- Samuel was married to the Corwin's 1/2 sister, Mary.
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My first extremely long flight to a faraway Christmas land, USA. Will be staying there for close to a month long.
My flight from Singapore is transited at Incheon International Airport, Korea, after a flight time of 6 hours. Then another 12 hours flight to San Francisco International Airport. I thought my power of sleeping anywhere should make sleeping on jet painless. But my sleep is repeatedly disturbed by meal serving, noise around me, inadequate leg space and uncomfortable head rest. Nah~~~
Transit at Incheon International Airport
Reached San Francisco
We finally reached San Francisco and co-shared a van to shuffle us to Chancellor Hotel near Union Square. Rooms are not ready before 2pm. We walked around to get our prepaid SIM card from T-Mobile (with unlimited local calls, texts and data) and Garmin's GPS. Lethargically, I have to take 5 (actually close to 1 hour) in the room after we've checked-in.
Co-Shared Van from San Francisco Airport
Chancellor Hotel
Our Room
Dragging my feet, we shopped around Union Square and had The Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Food is no doubt GREAT! We have to share our main dish though. I didn't make much purchases except a Forever 21 bathroom slipper. Still adapting to the cold weather, tiredness and environment.
The Cheesecake Factory's reservation counter. Always packed.
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CHICAGO — Critics say the current system of pre-trial bail and bond payments is unfair. People who can't afford it are locked up until trial, while the wealthy are released because they can afford to pay a bondsman. While dozens of states like New York, New Jersey and Alaska have overhauled their bails systems, this year, Illinois became the first state in the nation to abolish the requirement of cash bonds completely.
A single mother of two, Lavette Mayes had never been to jail before.
"Every time I went to court, my kids wasn't sure whether I would be coming back. And so, it was just a lot," said Mayes.
After a 2015 altercation landed her in court, she couldn't afford to pay the 10 percent of her $250,000 bond. She was stuck in jail until her trial.
"I was incarcerated for 571 days," she said.
Across the U.S., Black and brown people are finding themselves trapped in pre-trial limbo that advocates say punishes the poor with greater severity.
According to the prison policy initiative, "over 555,000 people are locked up who haven't even been convicted or sentenced." It goes on to say, "many are detained in local jails because they cannot afford to pay the bail amount…"
While in jail, Mayes, who was incarcerated for a year and a half while legally presumed innocent, lost her job and business, housing and nearly, the custody of her two children.
"I couldn't put them through that for another year and a half," she said. "So, it's not because I don't think I could beat the case, I took the plea to sacrifice myself or my family."
She ended up pleading guilty to get out.
"We know that if somebody does not have the money and they're stuck in jail, they are more likely to plead guilty and they're more likely to serve a longer sentence than someone charged with a similar offense," said Sharone Mitchell Jr., director of the Illinois Justice Project, a member organization of the Coalition to End Money Bond.
"It's really perverting justice," he says. "So, we're hoping to get the system back on track."
After years of lobbying, the Illinois state legislature passed the Pretrial Fairness Act in January with bipartisan support. The law will end the requirement of money bonds statewide.
"This is something that has really reverberated across the country and it's been a long struggle in many jurisdictions," said Mitchell. "So, we believe that there will be other states that will be doing this soon."
Dozens of states have overhauled their cash bail systems and the District of Columbia ended cash bail in the '90s.
Mayes eventually resolved her aggravated battery case after her release. She was sentenced to one day in prison, with credit for the 571 days she had already served.
She has since become a staunch advocate for criminal justice reform.
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M.E. Rhines
(Mermaid Royalty #1)
Publication date: July 31st 2017
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Obedience has always been a matter of survival for sixteen-year-old mermaid princess Pauline. Her mother is the tyrannical Queen Calypso, who rules the kingdom of Atargatis with an iron trident. To utter one word against her would mean banishment—or worse—so Pauline bites her tongue and minds her manners. But on the eve of her sister's merling-shower, all of that is about to change. Confronted with the truth about what happens to the human men who are betrothed to the mermaids of Atargatis, Pauline realizes she can stay silent no more.
Determined to end the queen's dark tradition, Pauline goes along on a search for shipwreck survivors, secretly planning to free them. But things get complicated when she finds herself inexplicably drawn to one of the men. Before she realizes what's happening, she has kissed him—and a kiss from a mermaid is not without consequences. Now Pauline will have to risk everything if she is to save the young man and thwart the queen's dark plans…
My eyes widened, my heart hammering against my rib cage. A fear I didn't understand tugged at my tailfin, like an anchor had been tied to its end. I sank against the wall of our pirated vessel and watched the chaos as it unfolded in slow motion.Gene laughed at something my sister said just before it hit him. His smile fell in an instant as soon as the sudden deadening feeling pummeled into his chest. He dropped the plate and held out his hand. From my experience with Beaked Sea Snake, he was seeing double the fingers.
A fogginess washed over his eyes. He reached out for Fawna for just a second before his arms fell to his sides, limp and useless. Then, his human legs gave out from under him. A loud crack sounded as his knees made impact with the hard floor of the ship.
When he finally fell backward, my sister stood over his paralyzed body with a shameless, cruel smirk that gave me the chills. My mother, hovering well above me, nodded her approval with a warm, glowing pride showing on her face.
I looked around, expecting to see the same shocked expression I wore among my clan. But not one jaw was dropped. Every one of them watched with tense, excited eyes. They looked like bloodthirsty demons from where I was sitting.
"Mother," I whispered. "What's going on?"
She didn't hear me.
"My Queen," someone shouted from below. "What are your orders?"
Mother took in a long, powerful breath and shouted, "Air him out."
I gasped, disbelief shuddering through me. "Mother," I screamed. "Mother, you can't!"
My protests were drowned out by the unified battle cry that erupted from every member of our clan. Angelique dropped her guitar, dashing for Gene with two other mermaids close behind.
I rushed for him, but Mother grabbed my arm with bruising fingers.
"Let me go," I demanded.
Even through the screeching cheers below, I could hear Mother's teeth grinding. "Don't make a scene."
I stilled, having every intention to stay put and comply, as usual. But then, I caught a glimpse of Gene's face. While his muscles were tight and immobile, his eyes were filled with a conscious terror. They pleaded with me from across the ship, begging me to save him.
Before I could stop myself, I twisted my arm out of Mother's grasp and swam to him, hoping to talk some sense into my sister before she did something terrible.
It was no use. I couldn't reach them. They had too much of a head start. All I could do was watch as they snatched the helpless human and dragged his lifeless body up, up, and up until…
Bubbles sprayed all around them as they held Gene's head and neck above water, but kept their own gills safely submerged. Even if he had working legs to thrash and fight with, he would be outmatched. Our tails treaded water in a way a human's boney appendages couldn't come close to.
He was in our world, by no choice of his own. We brought him down here against his will, and now that he was a part of it, my mother was sending him back home to die.
The gills would not disappear. They would only struggle for a short while before giving up to the heat of the land above. Gene's chest moved in and out, in faster but shallower spurts.
I kicked my tail harder. Just as he came into my reach, he took one final gulp of air from his own world, and the movement stopped.
Mother had killed him.
Author Bio:
ME Rhines a southwest Florida native currently living in North Port with her two beautiful children and a third, much larger child whom she affectionately calls husband.
She writes young adult paranormal romance to feed her belief that fairy tales are real and
nonsense is necessary.
She also writes adult romances under her edgier alter-ego, Mary Bernsen.


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I'm stuck and I'm not sure which way to go or if not moving at all is the right answer. I'm not sad or depressed or anxious. Well, maybe a little bit anxious. But I've got these things that I wish were different, things that pretty much only I can make different, but I can't seem to make any movement toward any of them. I'm just stuck.
I think it goes back to my existence as a messy perfectionist. Or it might have to do with the fact that I'm a great idea person, but am not so swift at the details.
I would call this state of standstill a midlife crisis but a.) it doesn't feel like an actual crisis (thank God!) and 2.) midlife crisis sounds so cliche.
It's more like a 40-something flat tire. Annoying. Inconvenient. Fixable.
There are two things I can think to do in my current stuck-ed-ness.
First, pray. It's always the right answer and should always be my first answer, but it isn't. But I'm thankful that when I think about where I am and where I want to be and how I have no idea how to connect the two, the thought of prayer rises to my consciousness.
Second, write. Writing here, yes. But also, I know that if I sit down to just right about where I am stuck, why I feel stuck and what I could do differently, writing it all out just for myself, that some clarity will rise to the surface.
Pray. Write. Move. Maybe once I spend some solid time doing the first two things, the third will come along as a natural consequence.
What do you do when you're stuck?
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
1 comments:
- Nancy said...
Praying helps me as well. I find that I am able to move ahead when I have a clear mind, which praying give me. Good luck fixing your "flat". I will be praying with you!
- March 12, 2016 at 6:21 AM
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Nine-year-old Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprentice to the shoemaker Aliakhin for three months, did not go to bed the night before Christmas. He waited till the master and mistress and the assistants had gone out to an early church-service, to procure from his employer's cupboard a small phial of ink and a penholder with a rusty nib; then, spreading a crumpled sheet of paper in front of him, he began to write.
Before, however, deciding to make the first letter, he looked furtively at the door and at the window, glanced several times at the sombre ikon, on either side of which stretched shelves full of lasts, and heaved a heart-rending sigh. The sheet of paper was spread on a bench, and he himself was on his knees in front of it.
"Dear Grandfather Konstantin Makarych," he wrote, "I am writing you a letter. I wish you a Happy Christmas and all God's holy best. I have no mamma or papa, you are all I have."
Vanka gave a look towards the window in which shone the reflection of his candle, and vividly pictured to himself his grandfather, Konstantin Makarych, who was night-watchman at Messrs. Zhivarev. He was a small, lean, unusually lively and active old man of sixty-five, always smiling and blear-eyed. All day he slept in the servants' kitchen or trifled with the cooks. At night, enveloped in an ample sheep-skin coat, he strayed round the domain tapping with his cudgel. Behind him, each hanging its head, walked the old bitch Kashtanka, and the dog Viun, so named because of his black coat and long body and his resemblance to a loach. Viun was an unusually civil and friendly dog, looking as kindly at a stranger as at his masters, but he was not to be trusted. Beneath his deference and humbleness was hid the most inquisitorial maliciousness. No one knew better than he how to sneak up and take a bite at a leg, or slip into the larder or steal a muzhik's chicken. More than once they had nearly broken his hind-legs, twice he had been hung up, every week he was nearly flogged to death, but he always recovered.
At this moment, for certain, Vanka's grandfather must be standing at the gate, blinking his eyes at the bright red windows of the village church, stamping his feet in their high-felt boots, and jesting with the people in the yard; his cudgel will be hanging from his belt, he will be hugging himself with cold, giving a little dry, old man's cough, and at times pinching a servant-girl or a cook.
"Won't we take some snuff?" he asks, holding out his snuff-box to the women. The women take a pinch of snuff, and sneeze.
The old man goes into indescribable ecstasies, breaks into loud laughter, and cries:
"Off with it, it will freeze to your nose!"
He gives his snuff to the dogs, too. Kashtanka sneezes, twitches her nose, and walks away offended. Viun deferentially refuses to sniff and wags his tail. It is glorious weather, not a breath of wind, clear, and frosty; it is a dark eight, but the whole village, its white roofs and streaks of smoke from the chimneys, the trees silvered with hoar-frost, and the snowdrifts, you can see it all. The sky scintillates with bright twinkling stars, and the Milky Way stands out so clearly that it looks as if it had been polished and rubbed over with snow for the holidays…
Vanka sighs, dips his pen in the ink, and continues to write:
"Last night I got a thrashing, my master dragged me by my hair into the yard, and belaboured me with a shoe-maker's stirrup, because, while I was rocking his brat in its cradle, I unfortunately fell asleep. And during the week, my mistress told me to clean a herring, and I began by its tail, so she took the herring and stuck its snout into my face. The assistants tease me, send me to the tavern for vodka, make me steal the master's cucumbers, and the master beats me with whatever is handy. Food there is none; in the morning it's bread, at dinner gruel, and in the evening bread again. As for tea or sour-cabbage soup, the master and the mistress themselves guzzle that. They make me sleep in the vestibule, and when their brat cries, I don't sleep at all, but have to rock the cradle. Dear Grandpapa, for Heaven's sake, take me away from here, home to our village, I can't bear this any more… I bow to the ground to you, and will pray to God for ever and ever, take me from here or I shall die…"
The corners of Vanka's mouth went down, he rubbed his eyes with his dirty fist, and sobbed.
"I'll grate your tobacco for you," he continued, "I'll pray to God for you, and if there is anything wrong, then flog me like the grey goat. And if you really think I shan't find work, then I'll ask the manager, for Christ's sake, to let me clean the boots, or I'll go instead of Fedya as underherdsman. Dear Grandpapa, I can't bear this any more, it'll kill me… I wanted to run away to our village, but I have no boots, and I was afraid of the frost, and when I grow up I'll look after you, no one shall harm you, and when you die I'll pray for the repose of your soul, just like I do for mamma Pelagueya.
"As for Moscow, it is a large town, there are all gentlemen's houses, lots of horses, no sheep, and the dogs are not vicious. The children don't come round at Christmas with a star, no one is allowed to sing in the choir, and once I saw in a shop window hooks on a line and fishing rods, all for sale, and for every kind of fish, awfully convenient. And there was one hook which would catch a sheat-fish weighing a pound. And there are shops with guns, like the master's, and I am sure they must cost 100 rubles each. And in the meat-shops there are woodcocks, partridges, and hares, but who shot them or where they come from, the shopman won't say.
"Dear Grandpapa, and when the masters give a Christmas tree, take a golden walnut and hide it in my green box. Ask the young lady, Olga Ignatyevna, for it, say it's for Vanka."
Vanka sighed convulsively, and again stared at the window. He remembered that his grandfather always went to the forest for the Christmas tree, and took his grandson with him. What happy times! The frost crackled, his grandfather crackled, and as they both did, Vanka did the same. Then before cutting down the Christmas tree his grandfather smoked his pipe, took a long pinch of snuff, and made fun of poor frozen little Vanka… The young fir trees, wrapt in hoar-frost, stood motionless, waiting for which of them would die. Suddenly a hare springing from somewhere would dart over the snowdrift… His grandfather could not help shouting:
"Catch it, catch it, catch it! Ah, short-tailed devil!"
When the tree was down, his grandfather dragged it to the master's house, and there they set about decorating it. The young lady, Olga Ignatyevna, Vanka's great friend, busied herself most about it. When little Vanka's mother, Pelagueya, was still alive, and was servant-woman in the house, Olga Ignatyevna used to stuff him with sugar-candy, and, having nothing to do, taught him to read, write, count up to one hundred, and even to dance the quadrille. When Pelagueya died, they placed the orphan Vanka in the kitchen with his grandfather, and from the kitchen he was sent to Moscow to Aliakhin, the shoemaker.
"Come quick, dear Grandpapa," continued Vanka, "I beseech you for Christ's sake take me from here. Have pity on a poor orphan, for here they beat me, and I am frightfully hungry, and so sad that I can't tell you, I cry all the time. The other day the master hit me on the head with a last; I fell to the ground, and only just returned to life. My life is a misfortune, worse than any dog's… I send greetings to Aliona, to one-eyed Tegor, and the coachman, and don't let any one have my mouth-organ. I remain, your grandson, Ivan Zhukov, dear Grandpapa, do come."
Vanka folded his sheet of paper in four, and put it into an envelope purchased the night before for a kopek. He thought a little, dipped the pen into the ink, and wrote the address:
"The village, to my grandfather." He then scratched his head, thought again, and added: "Konstantin Makarych." Pleased at not having been interfered with in his writing, he put on his cap, and, without putting on his sheep-skin coat, ran out in his shirt-sleeves into the street.
The shopman at the poulterer's, from whom he had inquired the night before, had told him that letters were to be put into post-boxes, and from there they were conveyed over the whole earth in mail troikas by drunken post-boys and to the sound of bells. Vanka ran to the first post-box and slipped his precious letter into the slit.
An hour afterwards, lulled by hope, he was sleeping soundly. In his dreams he saw a stove, by the stove his grandfather sitting with his legs dangling down, barefooted, and reading a letter to the cooks, and Viun walking round the stove wagging his tail.


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(VIS) - The
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located in South Bend, Indiana, U.S.A., and funded by Fr. Edward
Sorin in 1842, of the Congregation of Santa Cruz. For this reason,
this morning the Pope received the Managing Board of the institution,
which from its founding, "has made an outstanding contribution to
the Church in your country through its commitment to the religious
education of the young and to serious scholarship inspired by
confidence in the harmony of faith and reason in the pursuit of truth
and virtue.
"The vision which guided Father
Edward Sorin and the first religious of the Congregation of Holy
Cross in establishing the University of Notre Dame du Lac remains, in
the changed circumstances of the twenty-first century, central to the
University's distinctive identity and its service to the Church and
American society. In my recent Apostolic Exhortation on the Joy of
the Gospel, I stressed the missionary dimension of Christian
discipleship, which needs to be evident in the lives of individuals
and in the workings of each of the Church's institutions. This
commitment to 'missionary discipleship' ought to be reflected in a
special way in Catholic universities, which by their very nature are
committed to demonstrating the harmony of faith and reason and the
relevance of the Christian message for a full and authentically human
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in and through her institutions, to uphold that teaching as
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my hope that the University of Notre Dame will continue to offer
unambiguous testimony to this aspect of its foundational Catholic
identity, especially in the face of efforts, from whatever quarter,
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Deuteronomy 17
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
17 "You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever; for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.
2 "If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, 4 and it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. 6 On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. 7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
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8 "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns which is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God will choose, 9 and coming to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. 10 Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the Lord will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you; 11 according to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict which they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 12 The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and not act presumptuously again.
Limitations of Royal Authority
14 "When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me'; 15 you may indeed set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.' 17 And he shall not multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold.
18 "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in charge of the Levitical priests; 19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them; 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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Lawrence worked to bring electricity to the reservation and a health clinic. He lived on the reservation for 60 years. He was the oldest person living on the reservation and do you think he got his due recognition from the Pechanga officials? Anyone? Anyone?
My Cousin. Lawrence Madariaga's granddaughter, described what being disenrolled means to her:
With all this disenrollment going on my Rez in Pechanga I've had many of my people from the tribe and surrounding tribes come and talk and give their support from one Native heart to another. It's amazing you know to see your own people that you were sure you knew through new eyes.
I think the worst part of what I've come to realize from my disenrollment is how few Native people can really see what has been taken from me. It's a shame so many of our people are being blinded by money. But what keeps me going are those of you feel my heartache like your own without me having to say a word.
Thats what I mean when I say Native heart, I've found I can see it in the eyes. Eyes that express emotions shared by Native hearts from a shared pain that runs so deep in our souls we've come to recognize one another by the fire it feeds. I must thank everyone of you who come to me no different then you ever have, and those who come right out and bring it up, or ask how my family is, and most of all, all of you who say "FUCK UM!!" before I ever have too.
In fact I ran into an old friend in the casino last night (hey, it's still mine & where my friends are) I have not seen since it happened and I got to thank him because its people like him who keep me going like nothings changed and remind me of why I love my people so. He comes up to me and the one of the first things he says is " Hey they disenrolled you huh? So how'd that feel?" I was suprised because that was the first time I was ever asked that. To make it even better all I got to say in response was "Man, guy it still..." then he cut me off and said how he couldn't believe they did that to me and how its so fu**** up and not to worry because they will pay for it in the end.
How now all we do is watch them ruin it for all Pechanga cause they can't even see it happening. And therein lies my strength my friends are what holds me up. All of you who say this money ain't worth it and you'd give it up and be poor again just to go back to the days when we all watched over and took care of each other. The ones who love "Rez Life" because it was our life. Something these ones will never know nothing about probably wouldn't want to might disgust them the way we live. But to us it just looks like HOME,baby.Thats what we love not this casino shit.
Keep the $ just give me back my people!! I am grateful for all of you who bother to care for even a moment.
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Negative thoughts are like a cancer to your spirit. They slowly eat away at you until there isn't enough left to support your hopes and dreams. Negative thoughts are damaging because they affect everything that comes afterwards. This includes your decisions, goals, actions, and results.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Republicans optimistic, Democrats skeptical
Our newest national survey finds 46% think the GOP will get the House to 32% who think it will not. But only 36% think it will take the Senate and 40% disagree.
Republican voters are extremely optimistic about their party's prospects for this fall and that may be part of what is driving the high level of enthusiasm on their side. 74% think their side will get back the House to only 7% who disagree and 62% think they'll get the Senate with 14% dissenting.
Among all respondents 64% said they were 'very excited' about voting this fall. But with Republicans who think their party will take back power that figure is 78%. The conviction that their votes are going to bring about a change in control of Congress is driving GOP voters out to the polls.
Democratic voters are a lot less sold on the GOP's chances. Only 22% think they'll take control of the House and just 17% think they'll get the Senate. That could be part of the problem in motivating the party base to get out this year. If the rank and file don't think there are going to be serious consequences for the party if they don't vote it doesn't give them much incentive to go do it. There's some precedent for that already this cycle: post election polling in New Jersey and Virginia showed most of the people who stayed home were happy with how things were going. They had no sense of urgency about voting and their party's candidates paid the price.
We found a 45-44 generic ballot lead for Democrats on this poll but it's among registered rather than likely voters and as we've said repeatedly the party's problem this year isn't really that voters are abandoning it but that its own voters aren't planning to come out to the extent they need to.
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This is interesting. If you add up very excited voters and somewhat excited voters you get 39-38 Rep. The not so exciteds go heavily Dem. This poll projects to 52 percent of the 2 party vote for Dems rather handily. Even with likelies. Our polls show a 50-50 race with the tie being enthusiasm based. Otherwise Democrats would wax them. If Boehner holds tax cuts hostage, we have data to suggest Dems could hold losses under 10 in House and 2 in Senate, so stay tuned to as American politics is as unstable as it has ever been.
- September 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Check out the Greenberg memo for further information.
- September 15, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Your question was wrong if that's what you were trying to get out of it. "Do you think Republicans will take control of the House this year?"
Yes, people could answer that, "No, so there's no need to vote."
They could also answer that, "No, because we're all going to go out and vote to stop it."
I think this would've been a better question:
Do you think Republicans it's possible will take control of the House this year?
If only 22% of Democrats thought it could possibly happen, then you'd know they don't see trouble. - September 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM
I suggest a possible question for next time to Republicans:
If Republicans fail to win the Senate (or House) in this November's elections, do you think it would be caused by fraud or natural reasons? - September 15, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Democrats better WAKE UP! Imagine these nutty tea party people in charge of our country!
- September 16, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- Dustin Ingalls said...
"They could also answer that, "No, because we're all going to go out and vote to stop it.""
But they're not doing that. That's Tom's point.
"If Republicans fail to win the Senate (or House) in this November's elections, do you think it would be caused by fraud or natural reasons?"
Like a heart attack? - September 16, 2010 at 7:57 AM
Your sample skews too Democratic. There is little chance that the electorate this November will self-identify as D+5.
- September 16, 2010 at 10:23 AM
PPP should do a battleground poll of likely voters. Pick the top 100 districts.
Any polling out there has to factor in the democratic seats in new york city, los angeles, boston, chicago, houston, miami, etc... where the democrat receives 80% of the vote. This should be discounted in any generic ballot. There are very few GOP districts that are like this. - September 16, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Oh, I see--your sample is RV not LV. While an RV sample with a D+5 party ID is not completely unreasonable (although it still tilts a little too Democratic), a generic ballot result based on RV is not very meaningful at this point in the cycle. Why would you switch back to RV, other than partisan cheerleading?
- September 16, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Christian Liberty said...
Funny you don't ask if there's any place for moderates on the Democrat plantation. Anyone who didn't vote for the socialist healthcare tyranny or the cap-and-trade fix for the phony global warming fraud or support the abolition of secret ballots for unionization was targeted by the thugs and slavemasters of the Demoncrat Party.
- September 16, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Christian Liberty said...
Those "very excited" to vote (who prefer Republicans) are more likely to disapprove of the GOP congress than those "not very excited" (who prefer Democrats), 61% vs 56% -- top left page 6.
--> Much of the disapproval of the GOP congress is regret that they are not more conservative, that they do not do more to oppose the Demoncrats' radical agenda.
Men are more likely to be undecided on the generic ballot than women (13% vs 9%). --> Republicans have more room to open up a larger lead. - September 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Dustin Ingalls said...
"Your sample skews too Democratic. There is little chance that the electorate this November will self-identify as D+5."
As we've already discussed, the sample is, as always, of registered voters, not likely voters. It's useful to compare what's actually being seen in this fall's races to what would have happened had all registered voters who sometimes but not always vote had showed up. - September 16, 2010 at 1:31 PM


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It was Conley who on May 3, 1971, set the tone for NPR's flagship newsmagazine. As one of the show's current hosts Robert Siegel explains, Conley established that the program would be different.
To begin that first broadcast, for example, Conley launched into an unscripted, five-minute riff that introduced a 23-minute piece covering a massive anti-war protest in Washington.
NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg, who was a producer in 1971, shared this remembrance of Conley:
"Bob was a seasoned newsman with a deep-barreled voice that was made for radio. But he didn't much like some of radio's requirements — like working within the program's time constraints. So he ad-libbed his introductions to reporters' pieces, rather than reading from a pre-timed script. He was marvelously articulate but drove the director crazy when his ad-libbing put a news segment into overtime.
"His writing was superb. I remember, 40-plus years later, his description of the status of Vietnam peace talks in Paris: "Trying to follow the Paris negotiations is like trying to keep track of a kitten, playing under a rug."
"Robert Conley didn't always broadcast with stopwatch precision, but he made a grander contribution. He got us off to a start, and helped put in place the radio program you listen to now."
Conley came to NPR after stints at NBC News and The New York Times, where he served as a correspondent and bureau chief in places including London, Rome, the Middle East and Africa.
Conley died Saturday surrounded by his family at his home in Virginia.
He was 85 years old.
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