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Serve these light and easy-to-make popovers from Country Living reader, Caren Miller (Darien, Connecticut), with a meal or as a snack. "These tasty popovers are so light and tasty that nobody can believe how basic the recipe is."
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President Barack Obama's popularity has plummeted to a record low, with just 45 percent of voters now approving of his performance, according to the latest Zogby International poll.
Asked whether they approve or disapprove of the president's job performance, just 45.3 percent of likely voters say they approve. That compares with 50.5 percent who disapprove of the job Obama is doing.
Of greatest concern to Obama may well be his decline among all-important independent voters. Just 37.5 percent of self-identified independents say they approve of how Obama is handling the presidency. That compares with 59.2 percent of independents who disapprove.
Only 44.7 percent of Americans approve of the job the president is doing in office, according to the poll conducted Oct. 14-17, down more than two percentage points from the most recent quarter. Only 39 percent of Americans now believe Obama deserves to be reelected, down from 48 percent earlier this year
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I do believe strongly that once he does start doing things…that number will drop drastically fairly quickly.
President Barack Obama has one of the worst approval ratings of any president in modern political history, Paul Bedard notes in his Washington Whispers blog in US News.
Obama's 43 percent rating in Gallup's daily presidential job approval index today is far below Democrat Jimmy Carter's 51 percent at the same point in his presidency. Carter has been considered one of the 20th century's worst presidents, according to the index.
What's more, Gallup finds that Obama's overall job approval rating so far has averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average rating at this stage: Carter, Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama's team is using as a model.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Only 14% of people disapprove of Obama, according to the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll.
Nineteen percent (19%) have a favorable opinion of Attorney General Eric Holder while 43% offer a negative review.
President Barack Obama's disapproval rating in Iowa has risen to 54 percent, the highest level since he took office, according to a Des Moines Register poll.
Meanwhile, his approval rating stands at only 41 percent, down from 49 percent in February and 68 percent when he took office in January 2009.

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Agreed, we're supposed to have a couple here in Alaska -- and I can tell you that my own eyes have seen the supposed locations of at least two of these "camps".
Just woods, no camps.
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The filmed lot in Madison, Ga., is a Vantage storage facility. Of the 900,000 or so in-ground burials in the U.S. each year, a small percentage of those people prearranged their own caskets and vaults--which Vanguard holds at the storage facility until the appropriate time. According to company Vice President of Operations Michael Lacey, there are approximately 50,000 vaults in storage in Madison. "It's nowhere near the quantity they talk about on the Internet," he told the local Morgan County Citizen newspaper. Furthermore, Lacey has said the company maintains detailed records of product ownership and is audited annually, to insure all vaults are accounted for. "
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Windows 8 tablets accounted for 7.4 percent of tablet shipments last quarter
@vesuvius:Surely the point is that if a platform is getting busier then it follows that it is being used more (which probably equates to it being more successful).
20 minutes ago, Ian2 wrote
@vesuvius:Surely the point is that if a platform is getting busier then it follows that it is being used more (which probably equates to it being more successful).
To be expected with the pick-up in advertising, if your hits are not converting to sales st this time, then that is an issue.
I want the platform to succeed, sometimes you see what you want to see.
Well, not everyone relying on in-app ad revenue for Windows 8 Store and Phone apps seems to be happy:
@vesuvius:I would say that things are looking good:
1. Downloads continue to increase in volume.
2. Sales (+- ad revenue) remain commensurate to download/usage figures*.
Surely if these two things continue as they have been then things only gets better?
* There are always going to be blips
What to make of BlackBerry CEO saying tablets will be dead in 5 years ?
@Proton2: Meh. The only way tablets will die in 5 years is if they stagnate... which could happen, if there was only one player in the market.
If Apple has no competition by that point, we won't see much innovation, and perhaps tablets will die out. I think Microsoft has a chance to partner with Intel and help deliver a real market competitor to the iPad.
Failing that, Android is the only realistic possibility out there now, and as an early adopter of the Xoom, I just can't find a good reason to believe Android will ever come to properly focus on tablets.
I'm still a bit excited about the Ubuntu tablets (http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet). Ubuntu has never really given me confidence that it will ever be a household brand, but I feel that their multimodal app mechanism could really prove to be a better approach to an app ecosystem than either Apple or Microsoft has managed. If only they could find a means to market it.
@Proton2: He's counting on people being so frustrated with their W8 tablets that they just go back to pencil and paper.
Kidding aside he seems to think there's just not the financial incentive to keep filling the market with tablet after tablet. Manufacturers will just quit. (yeah right...)
Also I'm guessing he sees the phone to be powerful enough to be a PC; dock it and done. Ubuntu seems to agree with it's OS strategy. What Blackberry's CEO is missing is that people like the large screen sizes hence the popularity of the phablets and 7 in tablets. Even Microsoft is hinting it's getting into the latter. Maybe he's right but in a different way; once foldable screen technology becomes a reality there won't be a difference between a traditional phone and tablet. It'll fold to the right size for whatever you need. You'd also have the benefit of being able to dock it as a PC -- provided support for mouse and keyboard continues to make that scenario useful.
9 hours ago, DCMonkey wrote
Well, not everyone relying on in-app ad revenue for Windows 8 Store and Phone apps seems to be happy:
The devs should have known better than to trust the advertising dollars would be there for a new platform in its infancy. I bet they are all ex-Silverlight and WPF devs anyway -- serves them right; they never learn.
@DeathByVisualStudio:You may be right, but the way I look at it is if I am going to go hurtling over the edge of a cliff I would rather do it driving a decent car than something I need to carry a bucket load of spanners and parts for.
3 hours ago, Proton2 wrote
What to make of BlackBerry CEO saying tablets will be dead in 5 years ?
1. Blackberry made a tablet, and it crashed and burned.
2. I'm not sure I'd want to take advice from the CEO of a company that went from being the poster-child of business to being completely irrelevant in less than 5 years.
@evildictaitor: He wasn't CEO during the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet era. The only tablets my family have used are BlackBerry, and I'm using one right now. I plug mine into a HD monitor also and read blogs and study. I'm reading Charles Petzold's Programming Windows Phone 7 book on it right now.
As for taking his advice, I'd say it's more like food for thought. I always look for flaws in advice or statements from people. And I often find them.
And yes the making of a tablet by BlackBerry was a mistake. It probably did help them flush out flaws in the new operating system that they use on both the tablet and the brand new phones.
As to his advice and my thoughts; I make software and as long as I can still sell it in 5 years, it doesn't matter what end users have in terms of hardware. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to what will be in 5 years, and fortunately I don't have to. But I'm pretty sure we'll all be running 10GHz CPU's by then.
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From crazy VMAs performances to breakups to twerking, Miley Cyrus has been dealing with all kinds of drama lately. While a lot of her celebrity acquaintances have been quick to speak badly about her new image and lifestyle, others have stood up for her. Which celebs are on Team Miley? Which ones are not?
TEAM MILEY: Kelly Osbourne is the singer's good friend, but that didn't stop her from saying that Miley should keep her tongue in her mouth more often after the VMAs! Kelly also made it very clear she loves Miley and was just stating her opinion on her awards show performance.
NOT TEAM MILEY: Kelly Clarkson totally thinks Selena Gomez rocks but she's not feeling Miley's new vibe at all. She totally called Miss Cyrus' VMAs performance out and even said she was pitchy! Ouch! Read more about that drama here.
TEAM MILEY: Justin Timberlake was rumored to not like Miley's VMAs performance but later he actually defended it by saying it's not "like she did it at the Grammys."
NOT TEAM MILEY: Liam Hemsworth was reportedly mortified and embarrassed by Miley's performance at the VMAs...and he was her fiance' at the time! Her show that night obviously wasn't the only thing he wasn't feeling of hers because they JUST announced their breakup earlier this week.
TEAM MILEY: Miley's famous dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, is totally on her team. After the VMAs, he was quick to defend her raunchy performance. She even posted something he said to her on Twitter that totally proved he approved of her new image and show that night.
NOT TEAM MILEY: Robin Thicke's mom, Gloria Loring, was quick to complain about her son and Miley's VMA collaboration. Obviously, she was appalled by Miley's sexuality and raunchy dance moves on stage. She said the whole thing "bummed" her out.
TEAM MILEY: Harry Styles from One Direction told Yahoo! after the VMAs performance that it's about time MIley came out of her shell. He also said her performance was one "you could sit and watch with your kids and your Grandma."
NOT TEAM MILEY: Model Elle Evans, who stars in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" video AND one of Miley's, talked about Miley at the VMAs and thought it was disappointing. She wasn't being a total hater, she did have some good stuff to say about Miss Cyrus! Read more here!
TEAM MILEY: Britney Spears pretty much knows what Miley is going through so it wasn't shocking that she made it clear she's on Team Miley. She recently spoke up about Miley's wild VMA show and defended and even gave "props to her." It makes sense though, as the two ladies are working on music together and are friends as well.
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Peter Sowinski (Akron, NY/Akron) and Joseph Rogers (Dublin, NH), members of the 2013-14 men's swimming and diving team at Alfred University, have been named academic All-Americans.
Sowinski, who graduated from AU in May, and Rogers, who will be a senior for the Saxons next season, were named honorable mention Scholar All-Americans by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). They were honored for the spring 2014 semester.
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Sowinski and Rogers each earned "B" qualifying cut times as part of the Saxons' 800-yard freestyle relay team, which set a new school record of 6:47.09 at the Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association (UNYSCSA)/Empire 8 Conference championships Feb. 20. Sowinski was also a member of the 400-yard free relay team that set a school record of 3:04.43 while making a "B" cut Feb. 21 at the UNYSCSA/E8 meet.
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Can't help relishing the moment. Having accidentally-on-purpose released prematurely, on November 4, my anticipatory account of the resounding defeat dealt out two days later to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan by the American electorate (via Barack Obama and Joe Biden), I'm savoring the slapstick comedy of the wingnut right slippin' and slidin' on the banana peels with which they strewed their own post-election paths.
Keeping in mind Richard Kirstel's proposition that "Ignorance is a condition, dumbness is a commitment," ponder the commitment manifested by Peggy Noonan in her November 5 post, "Monday Morning," at her Wall Street Journal blog. Try reading aloud this delusional nonsense — complete with its quote from Walker Percy, inserted to prove Noonan's another Republic Party "intellectual" — without cracking up. (Or challenge yourself to keep a straight face while listening to her gush about "Romney rising" on Fox News the morning of Election Day.)
Then go to Kimberley Strassels' November 6 "I'm Calling It for Mitt," also at the WSJ.
Next, move on to a barking-mad Karl Rove, refusing on Fox News to concede that Romney-Ryan lost Ohio and the election was over. (In a rare moment of connection to the concept of fact versus fiction, anchor Megyn Kelly asked him, "Is this just math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better? Or is this real?")
After that, click here for a list of these and several dozen other conservative dumbbells at Fox News and elsewhere who for most of this year got this election exactly and completely wrong, seriously misinforming their audiences with their faith-based babbling.
Finally, as the crushed cherries and whipped cream garnishing this dumbness-flavored banana split, listen to Sarah Palin pissing to Greta Van Susteren and Ann Coulter moaning to Laura Ingraham about the outcome. If you're still hungry after ingesting all that conservative transfat, check the rabid frothings of Donald Trump and Ted Nugent.
What a daisychain of raging assholes and sore losers. Proof positive that there is no God: If She or He or It did exist, persistent dumbness like theirs would have consequences for its devotees. But, as Jon Stewart pointed out on Election Eve, pundits exist in a "reckoning-free zone." These raging bulls and mad cows haven't even paused in their blathering, much less apologized to Nate Silver, whom they slandered mercilessly as a fount of "voodoo statistics" for calling every outcome of this election cycle with maddening accuracy.
(Exception: Former wingnut darling Dean Chambers, the completely discredited amateur pollster who concocted a bizarre system for "unskewing" the supposedly liberal/left-biased polls. Chambers has acknowledged that Silver had it exactly right and he had it completely wrong. Not that he had much choice after issuing on November 5 his "FINAL Definitive Projection of the race: Romney wins 51% and 275 EVs." Oops. But Chambers has also had the good manners to apologize profusely for ad hominem attacks he made on Silver's appearance and voice. Points off that apology for Chambers's lame explanation that someone else calling him "portly" triggered his blatant homophobia. Still, it's an apology. Obese or not, Chambers has more balls than MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Scarborough, who has yet to admit that Silver, whom he called "a joke," nailed it. Too busy wiping the egg off his face, I'm sure.)
Campaign Imagery as Cubist Collage
When Roland Barthes wrote his classic essay on the portraiture of political candidates used in election campaigns, "Photography and Electoral Appeal" (first published in the French journal Les Lettres Nouvelles and subsequently reprinted in his 1957 book Mythologies), he — and his readers — lived in what now seem, in terms of mass media, almost primitive times.
Re-reading that essay today, I'm struck by how elementary the management of visual imagery during an election appeared back then, as Barthes saw it. One commissioned a formal portrait — a Renaissance portrayal, from a fixed-point perspective — that transmitted some aspects of surface appearance presumably evoking leadership, and that single image got repeated everywhere: posters, banners, buttons, flyers, billboards. Thereafter one shook hands, kissed babies, ate working-class fodder (hot dogs and knishes and pizza and barbecue), and (starting in 1960), debated one's opponent on national TV. But that one image endured; it had staying power.
To be sure, there were staged photo-ops aplenty back in the day, plus the occasional impromptu moment (Adlai Stevenson's shoe sole). However, barring something extremely unforeseen — such as the attempted assassination of Alabama governor George Wallace or the successful assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, or Nixon's 5 o'clock shadow under the TV lights in his debate with JFK — any given candidate's visual image remained relatively static during the course of a campaign.
That evolved dramatically over the ensuing years, and became transformed even more drastically with the arrival of the World Wide Web in the mid-'90s. The sheer quantity of visual imagery disseminated today during a national election, its diversity of forms, its variety of sources and distribution methods, and the rapidity with which image succeeeds image, boggles the mind by comparison.
It also destabilizes the electorate's perception of the candidates. For unified, coherent Renaissance representation it substitutes Cubist depiction of its subjects, a collage of glimpses built up over the course of the campaign, fluid and unfixed in the mind, perhaps jelling only momentarily and idiosyncratically at the moment each voter steps into the booth to cast his or her ballot.
I'd argue for the benefits of this new condition, as more grounded in the constant flux of reality as we experience it, while acknowledging that it places a heavy demand on voters to analyze and weigh and reconsider regularly an often bewildering, unpredictably shifting barrage of imagery — and, of course, puts a burden on politicians and their campaign staffs to manage that imagery to whatever extent they can, and attempt spin control when they can't.
Photo Criticism as Political Commentary
I hadn't planned in advance to post about this election at any length. As with so much in my professional life, one thing simply led to another. A reader took offense at a derogatory comment I made in passing about Romney's Mormonism, proposing that I should restrict my writing at this blog to matters purely photographic. Rejecting that narrow view of my role, I found myself struck by the imagery projected by the Republican National Convention, and wrote about that. For balance, I did the same with the Democratic National Convention. Then the Romney "47 percent" video surfaced, along with the Innocence of Muslims trailer — couldn't resist. And so it went.
In this series of posts I've tried to address the major visual moments of the 2012 presidential election, along with some of the minor but illuminating ones. Yet I only scratched the surface. Consider the ones, most of them telling, on which I commented over the past four months:
• the Republican National Convention, with its embarrassingly all-white demographic and Clint Eastwood's geriatric haranguing of an empty chair;
• the Democratic National Convention, with its contrasting "rainbow coalition" demographic;
• the release of the secret "citizen journalism" video of Mitt Romney giving his infamous "47 percent" speech to wealthy donors, a recording made (my guess) by a member of the waitstaff at that private function;
• Romney possibly bronzing himself for appearances before Latinos, and the spate of laws requiring photo ID for voting;
• the posting on YouTube of the trailer for an inept, unfinished anti-Muslim film created by the Christian right in the U.S., and the events following the publicizing thereof throughout the Middle East;
• racist Photoshopped imagery of Barack Obama gathered from the internet and posted at the website of the Mecklenburg (VA) branch of the Republic Party;
• Paul Ryan's milking of a Youngstown, Ohio soup kitchen for a photo op that backfired big-time;
• the imagery of the debates, including Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" line and the resulting meme;
• Time magazine's release of their odd studies of Ryan as a buffed yet somehow dopey and buffoonish wonkboy during a 2011 workout;
• the National Review's appropriating both a Stalinist propaganda poster and a Nazi propaganda poster for the cover of its issue endorsing Romney-Ryan.
The concluding images in the trail of this election cycle's visuals, fittingly, include this screenshot from Fox News of Romney's graceless, petulant concession speech, capping the dismal "Mitt Romney Victory Party" at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, where a crowd watched the disaster they'd endorsed and subsidized as it unfolded on Fox News. (Click here for the singing version of Romney's farewell. And click here for the now-vanished Romney-Ryan campaign's victory website.)
And, surely, to wind it up, this screenshot — also taken, appropriately, from the Fox News livecast — of a truly historic, watershed moment in American political life, two-term U.S. President Barack Obama's extremely gracious and surely more invigorating victory speech before 10,000 invited guests at the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago:
For an index of links to all posts related to this story, click here.
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100 Black Men Of America Provide Partnership for Boys School: The B.E.S.T. Academy at Benjamin S. Carson for Young Men
The Atlanta Public Schools recently inaugurated two single-gender academies in partnership with two local community service organizations. Reverend Bernice King, daughter of the late Coretta Scott King and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at the event and told the students that "this inauguration is the beginning of a new period in their lives and they have been chosen to be leaders." The Atlanta Cluster of The Links, Incorporated will support and serve The Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy and the Atlanta Chapter of 100 Black Men of America will work with the B.E.S.T [Business, Engineering, Science and Technology] Academy at Benjamin S. Carson for young men. These organizations will provide resources, mentors and supportive services toward the cause of saving our youth.
The school for girls will partner with the five Atlanta Chapters of The Links, Incorporated-the Atlanta chapter, Sadie Dennard, president; Buckhead Cascade Chapter, Gloria Patterson, president; the Dogwood Chapter, Alexis Scott, president; Magnolia Chapter, Mary Bailey, president; and the Azalea City Chapter, Joyce Hendricks, president. Sadie Dennard, convener of the Atlanta Cluster of The Links, Inc. said, "We are committed to this initiative and pledge our full support to the students at the Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy."
The Atlanta Chapter of 100 Black Men of America,
under the leadership of Darrell Fitzgerald, president, and Robert Haley,
immediate past president and initiator of the single-gender project, will
work with the school for boys. "The most important factor driving this resurgence
is the growing recognition that boys and girls learn differently. Educators
who understand these differences can inspire every child to learn to the
best of his or her ability," said Mr. Haley.
Superintendent Beverly Hall called the launch of the schools one of the high points of her service at the Atlanta Public Schools. The schools will be run by the Atlanta Board of Education.
Each of the schools will have its own faculty and gender-based curriculum. Boys and girls will have opportunities to interact during co-curricular events and activities. The schools will open with the 6th grade; and each year another grade will be added until each school has students in grades six through twelve.
Providing mentoring and scholarship aid for boys and girls is not new to the 100 Black Men of Atlanta or the Atlanta Cluster of The Links, Inc. The Links provide documented annual volunteer hours spent mentoring boys and girls and have provided scholarship grants for well over forty years. The Atlanta 100's Project Success is comparable to no other support group for young boys and girls through their efforts to mentor and pay college tuition for each of their Project Success students.
Other partners for the single-gender schools include Spelman College, Agnes Scott College, Morehouse College, Emory University, to name a few. Now that the 2007-2008 school year has begun, Links are being assigned three girls from the Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy as mentees. Link mentors and mentees will meet at the school each month for lunch and discussions and all mentoring must be done at the academy. The Atlanta Cluster members are responsible for providing uniforms for all of the students, participating in mentor training and providing leadership programs for the school on a monthly basis. The school has an enrollment of 189 students; the goal is to provide each girl with a mentor.


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After the 2013 elections that were decided by what has come to be known as the "Tyranny of Numbers", many of the poll losers started looking for a way in which future elections would no longer be decided upon the population of the major tribes. There was and still is a feeling that we need a different sort of electing our leaders that is not based upon the majority popular vote. What has been suggested has been use of a parliamentary system or an electoral college.
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The electoral college as many know is a concept from the United States of America. The electoral college was developed by the American founding fathers as a compromise between a president elected by Congress and one elected by the popular vote of the people. They feared that if the president was elected by Congress, he/she may feel some obligation to it. They also felt that the American people were not well enough informed and mature enough to elect their own leader. They finally decided on an Electoral College that today is made up of 538 electors from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each state is allotted a number of electors equal to its number of Representatives and Senators in Washington. The District of Columbia has a number of electors equal to that of the least populated state.
When the founders set up that system, democracy was practiced differently from today Women could not vote; African Americans could not vote; people without property could not vote. The men who wrote the Constitution were deeply mistrustful of popular opinion. Hence they set up the electoral college, theoretically composed of wise and prudent men who could be trusted with the job of picking a president. U.S. senators weren't chosen directly by the people, either; state legislatures did that.
Since then the American voting population has greatly expanded. African Americans won the constitutional right to vote in 1870, women in 1920, and eighteen-year-olds in 1971. Senate races yielded to direct election early in the twentieth century. Today, with universal public education, newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet, citizens can see and hear candidates in a way unimaginable in 1787. The idea that the people aren't qualified to choose their president directly does not hold up. The course of American history has been inexorably toward greater fairness, uniformity, and inclusiveness in our democracy. Yet the system for electing the most important representative of the American people is stuck in a time warp.
In Kenya too people are informed on their choices and no one has a monopoly on political intelligence.
One Man One Vote
Of course the obvious criticism of this system is the idea that it rubbishes the key democratic principle of one man one vote. Opponents of the Electoral College claim that such outcomes do not logically follow the normative concept of how a democratic system should function. One view is that the Electoral College violates the principle of political equality, since presidential elections are not decided by the one-person one-vote principle.
The second criticism of this system is irrelevancy of national popular vote.
The American elections of 1876, 1888, and 2000 produced an Electoral College winner who did not receive the plurality of the nationwide popular vote. In 1824, there were six states in which electors were legislatively appointed, rather than popularly elected, so the true national popular vote is uncertain. When no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in 1824, the election was decided by the House of Representatives and so could be considered distinct from the latter three elections in which all of the states had popular selection of electors.
Outcomes of this sort are attributable to the federal nature of the system. From such a configuration, argue supporters of the Electoral College, candidates must build a popular base that is geographically broader and more diverse in voter interests. This feature is not a logical consequence of having intermediate elections of Presidents, but rather the winner-takes-all method of allocating each state's slate of electors. Allocation of electors in proportion to the state's popular vote could reduce this effect.
Scenarios exhibiting this outcome typically result when the winning candidate has won the requisite configuration of states (and thus their votes) by small margins, but the losing candidate captured large voter margins in the remaining states. In this case, the very large margins secured by the losing candidate in the other states would aggregate to well over 50 percent of the ballots cast nationally. In a two-candidate race, with equal voter turnout in every district and no faithless electors, a candidate could win the electoral college while winning only about 22% of the nationwide popular vote.
A result of the present functionality of the Electoral College is that the national popular vote bears no legal or factual significance on determining the outcome of the election. Since the national popular vote is irrelevant, both voters and candidates are assumed to base their campaign strategies around the existence of the Electoral College; any close race has candidates campaigning to maximize electoral votes by capturing coveted swing states, not to maximize national popular vote totals.
The United States is the only country that elects a politically powerful president via an electoral college and the only one in which a candidate can become president without having obtained the highest number of votes in the sole or final round of popular voting.
—George C. Edwards, 2011
There is a reason why America is the only country using the antiquated system of electoral college. It is because it does not work as well as true democracy based on the principle of one man one vote. Since 1944 a majority of Americans have wanted the system to be changed. But self-interest of some in their system has made it impossible to remove the same.
Given our predilection as a country not to be happy with election results, I believe that it would be an easier sell to Kenyans to accept popular vote than to push them to accept presidential result with no popular mandate.
Ethnicity at the ballot should end. But this trouble-ridden way is not the answer. I for one would rather a president elected by popular mandate than one elected by a chosen few. As has often been said to me vox populi, vox Dei – The Voice of the People is indeed the voice of God.


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My comments are interspersed in Peter's mail below. -hak Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > From: Hassan Aït-Kaci <firstname.lastname@example.com> > Subject: Re: On production rules and phase I&II > Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:27:44 +0100 > > >>Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >> >>>In the absence of any demonstration that appending two lists can be performed >>>by recursive (Horn) rules, >> >>Here's the requested demonstration for pure Horn and no meta-rules: >> >> append([],L,L). >> append([H|T],L,[H|R]) :- append(T,L,R). >> >>>by recursive (Horn) rules, why should it be incumbent on me to show that it can >>>be done in pure production rules? >> >>I did my part. Now, it is your (or anyone's) turn in "Pure PRs" ... > > How about > > (p (cons ^head <H> ^tail <T> ^result <L>) > ---> > (make append ^left nil ^right <L> ^result <L>) ) > > (p (append ^left <T> ^right <L> ^result <R>) > (cons ^head <H> ^tail <T> ^result <M>) > (cons ^head <H> ^tail <R> ^result <N>) > ---> > (append ^left <M> ^right <L> ^result <N>) ) > > Well, yes, this doesn't work, Sorry won't do. Nothing short of a fully and correctly working example will do to convince me, I'm afraid. Incidentally, your (not working) OPS5 "append" example above still uses a meta-encoding (the "p" symbol). This does not stand as a recursive rule: the symbol "append" is used as a constructor. Even then, there is a more problematic situation here: as you assert partial lists (which is what I assume "make" does in your OPS5 example), these objects will also be matched by your rules in further rule applications. How do you suggest preventing those matches to restrict matches only to the topmost "cons" cell in the WM? (Without retracts or update of course). > but only because pure production rules don't have > functions, which are needed in Prolog to do things like append. This isn't > even a problem in theory, because we could simply provide the working memory > elements corresponding to the cons's. Ok, then: do not bother with Prolog. Let us retrict Pure Horn to Datalog (already a substantial concession, but never mind!) and now your (or anyone's) exercise is to do recursive transitive closure in pure PRs (i.e., using only asserts and no meta-rules) as in: ancestor(X,Y) :- parent(X,Y). ancestor(X,Y) :- parent(X,Z), ancestor(Z,Y). > peter -hak -- Hassan Aït-Kaci ILOG, Inc. - Product Division R&D tel/fax: +1 (604) 930-5603 - email: hak @ ilog . comReceived on Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:54:08 UTC
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The information to order strudels from Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church in Shiner was left out of the story on Page E4 on Wednesday. Here is the information.Strudel prices are $13 for unbaked and $15 for a baked strudel. For pick up in Shiner, call Quality Pharmacy at 361-594-2262 or Marjorie Kresta at 361-594-2361. Pick-up time at the parish gym will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12.Victoria customers are asked to place their order with Karen Pustka at 361-573-5283 or email her at email@example.com. Delivery to Victoria is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Our Lady of Victory Church parking lot. For delivery to other area cities, orders may be placed by using any of the following contacts: Yoakum, 361-293-7789; Gonzales, 830-672-7954; Ganado and Edna, 361-649-4248 or firstname.lastname@example.com; El Campo, 979-543-8605; Moulton, Flatonia and La Grange, 361-594-8468; Weimar and Schulenburg, 979-725-8461; Wharton, 979-533-1209; East Bernard, 979-335-7551. Ask for delivery arrangements for each site when placing order.
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Scott Kocher of INDUS Honored as a Super Star
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BRUSSELS — NATO is ready to defend Turkey, the alliance's top official said Tuesday, in a direct warning to Syria after a week of cross-border artillery and mortar exchanges dramatically escalated tensions between the two countries.
Ankara has sent additional fighter jets to reinforce an air base close to the frontier with Syria where shells killed five Turkish civilians last week, sparking fears of a wider regional crisis. Syria has defended its shelling of neighboring Turkey as an accidental outcome of its 18-month-old civil war.
The comments by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen were the strongest show of support to Turkey since the firing began last Wednesday — though the solidarity is largely symbolic.
NATO member Turkey has sought backing in case it is attacked, but despite publicly supporting Syria's rebels Ankara isn't seeking direct intervention. And the alliance is thought to be reluctant to get involved militarily at a time when its main priority is the war in Afghanistan.
"Obviously Turkey can rely on NATO solidarity," Fogh Rasmussen said ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. "We have all necessary plans in place to protect and defend Turkey if necessary."
NATO officials said the plans have been around for decades and were not drawn up in response to the Syria crisis. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the news media.
In Syria, a Sunni extremist group called Jabhat al-Nusra claimed responsibility for an attack on Syrian air force intelligence compound in the Damascus suburb of Harasta on Monday evening. A statement on a militant website by the group's media arm, Al-Manara al-Bayda, said the bombing aimed "to avenge the killing of Muslims and those who suffered injustice."
The Syrian state-run news agency did not report the explosion, and there were conflicting reports on how badly the compound was damaged.
Meanwhile, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, reported that Syrian Nation Council leader Abdulbaset Sieda visited rebel-controlled areas in Syria on Tuesday.
It said he entered Syria from the Bab al-Hawa border crossing and "made observations in rural areas" of Idlib province before traveling to Aleppo's Etarib area where he met with commanders of the Free Syrian Army. If confirmed, the trip would be Sieda's first into Syria since he became the council's leader in June.


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You hopefully took a can of Spam or chili out of the cabinet.
Saturday, May 11, was the annual food drive by the postal workers.
They left blue bags at mail boxes. You were asked to pack them full of canned goods and leave them by your mail box so carriers could pick them up.


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Kadri Should Play Wing
Nazem Kadri is ranked fourth overall in points in the Ontario Hockey League playoffs.
He also has the highest points-per-game average.
It has a nice ring to it when you take into consideration he was eliminated in the second-round by his ex-team, the Kitchener Rangers. Kadri compiled an impressive 9 goals and 27 points in 12 playoff games.
However, that doesn't mean his future in the National Hockey League is solidified. Not even close, actually. Plenty of promising prospects have fell by the wayside and spoiled untapped potential.
Will that be the case with Kadri? I'd bet money it won't be, but any jackass can simply bring up the curious case of Alexander Daigle if they want to argue.
Pertaining to the topic at hand, I'm predicting Kadri will indeed don the Maple Leafs' sweater for the 2010-11 campaign and onward.
As all Leafs fans know, it's not just his offensive flair that makes Kadri such a highly-touted prospect. It's his willingness to throw the body, drop the gloves or kill penalties despite his small frame. He has the heart of the lion, to put it simply, and he's the type of player the Leafs are in desperate need of moving forward.
Of course, an ongoing concern is whether he will add the nessecary weight to withstand the rigors of the NHL. Even if he plays an aggressive game, it's unlikely he'd endure the 82-game schedule without experiencing periods of fatigue. Logic dictates that even if he does add some pounds, it's likely he'd still endure some hardships in his first season in the big league, like most NHL rookies.
And where will this mean little bastard play anyway? Some have him etched in as the secondary center to Tyler Bozak. No question, it's a plausible scenario, but how about playing Kadri on the wing? Strength is an important component to be effective at the center position, and Kadri may struggle in that regard as he matures and adjusts to the NHL.
Not only that, but if GM Brian Burke wants to acquire a big center in the off-season, it would make sense to put Kadri on the wing for a couple of reasons other than what I mentioned above.
Bozak can play center on the second-line and leave the No.1 position to whoever the mystery player may be. Should the Leafs acquire a big center (perhaps via trade by unloading Tomas Kaberle), I think it'd be a perfect scenario for Kadri. He can play with someone who can make room on the ice and let Kadri play his game---which is finesse and speed. As the experience mounts, he can find his comfort zone and slowly begin to match-up against the league's top defensemen. Throwing the 19-year-old in the fire right from the get-go is an unnecessary risk. There's no need to put him on a pedestal at this stage in his development and potentially ruin his career. And this would also work in the Leafs' favor as well. They'd upgrade down the middle and still have Kadri patrolling the opponents end, instead of having two inexperienced players as the centers. Sure, it'd be fun to watch, but there'd be just as many frustrating nights as last season with the youth leading the charge again. And I, for one, do not want to see the Boston Bruins snag a another top-five draftee next year.
If he has another impressive training camp, he will undoubtely find himself on the Leafs' top-six---more because of the fact that it's extremely bare. But that doesn't mean he should be one of the primary scorers and be counted on to put up huge numbers. He needs to gain as much experience as possible and learn how to be effective at the NHL level. Again, as other Leafs bloggers have mentioned, adding some veterans to the mix would help tremendously in this regard.
In Leafs Nation, it's common to place unrealistic expectations on their prospects. But in the case of Kadri, patience is key. He's a potential number one center who can play at both ends of the rink and display a ton of heart. Let's not screw this up by acting like a 13-year-old boy finding a stash of dirty magazines---OK, I'm not quite sure if that made sense, but you catch my drift.
Interesting stats:
In his first three seasons in the OHL, Kadri compiled 118 PIMs. In the 2009-10 season, he racked up 105 PIMs alone.
Kadri has steadily increased his point totals every season in the OHL---from 22, to 65, to 78 to 93 points.
Kadri's OHL playoff points-per-game average is more productive than the likes of Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Bobby Ryan, Matt Duchene and others. Just sayin'.
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Everton boss Roberto Martinez is delighted with what he's seen from Gerard Deulofeu.
Deulofeu is one of several players currently on a season long loan at Everton and looks every inch the future of his parent club, Barcelona.
"He has already exceeded my expectations.
"I thought he would need until at least January to be ready for the English league, so he is well ahead of schedule.
The new Everton boss also hopes that the Barcelona loanee can follow in the footsteps of Cesc Fabregas and Gerard Pique who both enjoyed good spells in England before returning to Spain.
"I'm sure Gerard's decision to come to England had something to do with the examples set by Fàbregas and Gerard Piqué."
"They got an education in the British game and went back better players. There were other top European clubs in for Gerard, as well as others in La Liga, but the player and his club chose Everton.
"They thought he would benefit not just from a different football experience but a different lifestyle away from the pitch and that really helped us.
"I was very pleased Barcelona trusted us with his development. I have been following his career in Barcelona's B side since he made his debut against Real Madrid at the age of 16. That caught my eye and from that point on it was a matter of pestering Barcelona and being clear about what we could offer."
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Anyway, today I had to do that 3 hour Gestational Diabetes Screening. IT SUCKED. I sat in the lobby for a total of 4 hours because the lab was so busy for the first hour. I was thinking that they better get to me before I freak out or like, dry heave. I wasn't allowed to eat for 12 hours beforehand, so I'm sure you can imagine how weak and nauseated I felt. So every hour they drew my blood after drinking the gluclose drink again. I was rather happy to get that drink actually because I felt so weak for not having anything in my system. Now I'm just waiting for the results which I was supposed to get today, but no one called. Sometimes I hate anything to do with medical stuff. I know that they have a busy job and everything, but can't they make a simple phone call to let me know the results? Psh. So now I'm worried.
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A cost-saving measure in the works at the University of Hawaii at Manoa could eliminate some high-level positions on campus.
Chancellor Tom Apple says he plans to eliminate up to seven positions, including deans and executive directors, in order to cut costs and create a more efficient and leaner university.
Salaries range between $175,000 to $300,000 for each position and could save the university up to $2 million each year, Apple says.
The positions are not currently filled and Apple says he'll decide later this year which departments the cuts will come from.
"In some cases, it might be to take large executive salaries and turn it into more staff positions we might need," Apple said. "I don't want to overemphasize the possibility that we just spend less money and keep tuition down."
Apple says the positions are not union-affiliated, so technically, he doesn't need permission from any group to make the cuts. But he still plans to consult with the unions about this and other ways the university could save money, including possibly consolidating departments.
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I've enjoyed the show on occasion, but mostly for how ludicrous it is.
However, even when you are laughing at the whole thing, Fielding can be a bit much to take.
I haven't seen an episode from start to finish in years. If they can find someone who doesn't act like they're doing their first investigation every episode, it may be worth watching.
Well, i think its intresting especially when Derek Acorah is part of the investigating team, he is such fun to watch cos he some times allow the spirits to use his body and speak through him.
I've never heard a place so scary; I thought that the person who told me was actually just fooling around and telling Most Haunted Stories. Until I met someone who encountered 'something' sinister there, or I would rather say naughty, judging by what 'it' did not very long ago.
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Schoolly D, Major Figgas & AllHipHop Among Honorees At 2013 Philly Hip Hop Awards
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(AllHipHop News) The 2013 Philly Hip Hop Awards have released their list of this year's special honorees and performers. The live show will present awards to E.S.T., Tray Lee, Schoolly D, Ram Squad, Major Figgas, and AllHipHop.com. Performers scheduled to appear include Lee Mazin, ICH Gang, Summer Valentine, MPrint, Guordan Banks, Yazz The Greatest, Asia Sparks, and K-Dot Da Showstoppa.
[ALSO READ: AllHipHop.com Wins "Best Urban News Site"]
"The annual Urban Celebrity Magazine Philly Hip Hop Awards is the premier event and ultimate celebration of the biggest and brightest stars in Philly Hip-Hop," said event chair Sonya McDuffie. "Our awards show is both industry and street-represented and was created to recognize Philly-bred artistic achievement, innovation, and excellence."
Awards will also be handed out in several categories including "Artist of the Year," "Video of the Year," and "Hustler of the Year." To see the full list of nominees visit phillyhiphopawards.com.
The 2013 Philly Hip Hop Awards will take place December 15th at the Theatre of the Living Arts. A live web stream of the event will be available starting with red carpet coverage at 4 pm.
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The Men In Black: Crystal Palace
Mr. Graham Horwood from sunny Bedfordshire gets the gig for todays' game at Selhurst Park, between Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest.
In 10 games so far this season, Mr. Horwood has dished out 27 yellow cards and 2 red. The last time he had the privelege of officiating a game involving Forest, was the 2-2 away draw with Brizzle City last year. His record shows, he's one of the more tolerant refs, so he might find it a little difficult to upset Mr. Warnock in this one.
He'll be ably assisted on the lines by Mr. D. K. Rock and Mr. O. Saliy. The 4th official is Mr. A. Bates.


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BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) – One person is dead and eight people are injured following separate weekend shootings in Boston.
The first happened Saturday at about 12:17 a.m. Three people were shot outside the Stadium Sports Bar in Southie. One person with taken to Tufts Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. Another was in critical but stable condition.
At about 12:33 a.m. Saturday two women were shot near the Roxbury Crossing T stop in Mission Hill. The first woman was hit in the elbow, the second was grazed by a bullet in the back. Both were treated for their injuries.
Police said they found crack cocaine on one victim. She will be charged with possession and intent to distribute.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, police said they round a man and a woman shot in the area of Elm Hill Avenue in Roxbury. Both had injuries that were not life-threatening.
Just before midnight Sunday, a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of Roslindale's Archdale Village public housing development.
Friends told FOX 25 that the victim's name was Nelson Castillo. Friends said he had a young daughter. Police said he was involved in an ongoing conflict and had previously reported that his car's tires had been slashed.
The last shooting happened Sunday afternoon in Jamaica Plain on Franklin Park Road. The victim was taken to Boston Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening.
"There's been an increase in shooting activity this year, and it's been all over the city. It's not confined to any one or two neighborhoods. The other night, we had South Boston, Mission Hill, and Roslindale. So that's a big geographic area. So there's a number of perpetrators doing different things at the same time, probably with illegal guns," Boston City Council President Stephen Murphy told FOX 25.
No arrests have been made. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told the Boston Globe that police have solid leads in three of the incidents.
Anyone with information about any of the four shootings is asked to call Boston police.
Tips can be made anonymously to the CrimeStoppers at 1(800) 494-TIPS (8477) or by texting the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).
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As reported by Variety and Deadline last week, the talent agency WME has signed composer Hans Zimmer, who was previously with the Gorfaine-Schwartz agency. WME has only recently started getting into representing film composers by hiring Amos Newman, the son of Academy Award-winning composer and songwriter Randy Newman. Deadline reported last month that he will […]
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synthetic biology, genomics, biomedical engineering...
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Engineering liver tissue from embryonic stem cells
|(Nanowerk News) The liver, an essential organ, can fail due to disease or abuse. The EU-funded project MICROLIVERMATURATION has found a way to create viable liver cells from embryonic stem cells (ESCs).
|Unlike adult stem cells, ESCs (obtained from embryos) can differentiate into any desired cell or tissue type. However, in the case of engineered liver cells (also called hepatocytes) there are several issues complicating the process, such as mixed cell populations, minimal metabolic function and long-term de-differentiation. 'Gene network-based maturation of embryonic stem cell-derived hepatocytes in a microfabricated array' (MICROLIVERMATURATION) is an EU-funded project that aims to resolve these issues.
|MICROLIVERMATURATION researchers started out with the premise that modulating transcription factor activity could make the differentiated hepatocytes similar to mature hepatocytes. Keeping this in mind, scientists developed and optimised a protocol for differentiating ESCs into hepatocytes. For this purpose, they used an advanced microfluidic device called Living Cell Array (LCA). LCA has multiple green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter libraries for screening, monitoring, understanding and controlling transcriptional events.
|Project scientists successfully developed and optimised a 16-day protocol that is reproducible. Viable immature foetal-like hepatocytes expressing alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and albumin were generated. These cells were highly homogenous and similar to human hepatocytes with albumin production reaching 5 microgram/day/million cells. Three natural agonists, compounds that bind to receptors and activate biological response, were identified. These play a critical role in transcription factor activity and metabolic maturation of the cells.
|Successful project outcomes to date have to some extent elucidated the role of nutrition in the maturation of neonatal cells to mature hepatocytes. These findings could result in several clinical applications and novel pharmaceutical drug developments.
|Source: Cordis