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Larry Doby was the first African-American to play in the American League and the second to play in the major leagues after Jackie Robinson. Beginning his career with the Newark Eagles in the Negro National League, Doby also became the first African-American to play professional basketball in the ABL. After serving in the Navy during WWII, he led the Eagles to a championship in 1946. In 1947, he joined the Cleveland Indians. Doby became a seven-time All-Star, led the league in home runs in 1952, and was the first Black manager in the AL. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998.
1st Bowman®
1st Bowman®
A player's 1st Bowman card is their first professional baseball card, released before their official RC. Read more
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Blaster Box
Blaster Box
A blaster box is a type of retail box that is commonly distributed at large retail stores like Walmart and Target (as opposed to Hobby shops or online exclusives). Blaster boxes tend to have fewer packs per box (anywhere from 4 to 15) and, like other retail products, tend to have a… Read more
Box Loader
Box Loader
Box loaders – or toppers – are special, single cards or sets of cards that are only available as inserts in hobby boxes. Box loaders are usually larger than standard-size cards and are meant as a unique opportunity for collectors to engage in the Hobby. Read more
Breaking refers to the practice of opening multiple boxes or cases of a product at the same time, and then distributing the cards to a larger group of paying customers. Breakers sell 'slots' to their breaks, and customers receive a defined portion of the opened product. In some cases, the… Read more
"Breaking" means opening the seal on the box or pack to reveal the cards inside. Breaking can take many forms but is typically done by a collector or dealer specializing in the particular type of product being opened. Collectors will buy into a break in hopes of acquiring rare or… Read more
Brick-and-Mortar refers to Hobby Shops. These Hobby Shops represent the foundation of collecting and continue to be the most critical institutions in the Hobby. Even as the Hobby develops and grows digitally, the brick-and-mortar stores remain important industry collaborators and cultural custodians. Read more
Card Show
Card Show
A trade show where collectors and dealers congregate to buy, sell, and trade cards. There are hundreds of card shows around the United States each year, and an increasing number of shows are now held in Europe and other countries. Most card shows are local and attended by a relatively… Read more
Card Sleeve
Card Sleeve
These are plastic sleeves used to protect cards. The most popular kind – Penny Sleeves – get their name for being inexpensive: they cost a penny. Read more
Card Stock
Card Stock
Card stock refers to the type of paper or material used to produce trading cards. Card stock can vary in thickness, depending on the set and type of card. Thicker card stock is often used for higher-end or premium products. The thicker stock provides a more substantial and impressive feel… Read more
Chase Card
Chase Card
Any given set of cards will include a limited number of chase cards, which are highly coveted by collectors. Some examples of chase cards include: autographed cards, rare parallels, rare rookie cards, relic cards, and insert cards. Unlike common base cards, chase cards are more rare and valuable. When opening packs, some collectors will completely ignore… Read more
Chasing the Rainbow
Chasing the Rainbow
A modern collecting phenomenon where you collect different color parallel cards of a player. Read more
Unlike traditional paper cards, Chrome cards use chromium paper, which gives them a shiny, metallic look. Chrome cards are also more firm and durable than paper cards. First introduced with the 1996 Bowman Chrome set, Chrome remains one of the most popular card types in the entire Topps line. Read more
Collation/Collating is the organizing and assembling of trading cards into complete sets or subsets. Typically done by collectors or dealers, this process involves gathering individual cards and arranging them according to specific criteria, most often using checklists. Collating can be challenging and time-consuming, particularly for larger sets containing many parallels.… Read more
Combination Card
Combination Card
Combination cards feature two or more players, teams, or other elements on a single card. These cards come in various designs: one player on each side, players arranged in a unique design on the card, dual or triple autos, and even relic cards receive the combination card treatment. Combination cards… Read more
Common Card
Common Card
Commons are the least rare, and therefore least valuable, cards in any given set. A typical common would be the base card of a non-rookie player. Commons are the opposite of chase cards and hits. Read more
A collector who is driven to possess every card of a given set, year, team, player, or category. If they collect 2021 Topps Chrome Baseball, the completist will hunt down every card from that checklist – including every base card, parallel, auto, etc. For many collectors, common cards from a given set will have little value. But… Read more
Rookie Debut Patch
Rookie Debut Patch
Fanatics introduced this uniform patch for 2023 MLB prospects and rookies playing in the first MLB game. The debut patch is worn on the jersey in the player's first-ever MLB game. The Rookie Debut Patch was turned into the innovative Rookie Debut Patch Autograph card that first released in 2023… Read more
A trading card that has had part of the card stock removed to create a specific shape, design or function, such as a stand-up. In today's collecting era, such cards are used as inserts and are usually short-printed. This makes them more rare than other cards in the set, and thus more likely… Read more
Error Card
Error Card
A card that contains a mistake or error resulting in a variation (aka VAR). Error cards may include misspellings, statistical errors, incorrect photos, or other mistakes. When an error is corrected by the manufacturer, the error cards can be far more rare than the common, corrected versions, which leads to higher… Read more
A piece of memorabilia that has been worn by a player at a non-specific game or event. For example, a jersey or jersey patch that was worn at a rookie's signing session. This memorabilia is then embedded in a trading card. (See also: Game-Worn) Read more
Factory Set
Factory Set
Factory Set refers to a specific way to sell baseball cards. Instead of random packs being placed in a retail box or hobby box, a full set is packaged and sold in a single box. Factory sets first appeared in the 1980s due to the popularity of hand collated sets offered in mail catalogs. Read more
Fanatics Live
Fanatics Live
Fanatics Live is a Hobby platform innovating the breaking industry with more exciting shows, unprecedented athlete access, and the most robust trust and safety policies in the business. Read more
A piece of memorabilia that has been used in a professional sporting event. These items can include, but are not limited to: bats, jerseys, fielding gloves, batting gloves, bases, etc. Baseball memorabilia is typically 'MLB authenticated', which means that Major League Baseball guarantees the authenticity and provenance of the game-used… Read more
Glossy Set
Glossy Set
Glossy sets refer to cards featuring a shiny, reflective coating. This coating is achieved through printing tech, such as Chrome cards printed on chromium paper. Glossy sets are considered more visually appealing than regular non-glossy sets, and they are often produced in limited quantities, making them more valuable to collectors.… Read more
Many collectors will submit their cards to a third-party service to evaluate and assess their physical condition. This third-party service will assign a numerical grade between 1-10; the higher the grade, the better the condition. Cards with higher grades tend to fetch higher prices on the secondary market. A card… Read more
High Number/High Series
High Number/High Series
The subset of cards within a particular set released later in the production run, typically with a higher number. Read more
A modern hobby term referring to higher-valued chase cards. Autographs, relic cards, insert cards, and coveted rookie cards are all commonly understood to be hits. In some cases, manufacturers will guarantee a certain number of "hits per box", which means that a specific number of chase cards have been inserted in each box. Read more
Hobby Box
Hobby Box
Hobby boxes are high-end boxes that typically feature a greater number of chase cards, which makes them more expensive/valuable. Unlike retail boxes, which are widely distributed in big box stores (think: Walmart or Target), hobby boxes are usually distributed exclusively through hobby shops or online. Read more
Hologram Card
Hologram Card
A hologram card features a holographic image or design element. The hologram can be the primary focus of the card or be used as an accent or security feature. Holograms refract light to produce three-dimensional images or shiny, prismatic effects that change depending on the angle of view. Holograms have… Read more
When a player signs an autograph, they sometimes include an additional inscription along with their name. Some popular inscriptions include the player's nickname, Hall of Fame induction year, specialized notation (e.g. statistical achievement), or other personalized message. Read more
Insert Card
Insert Card
Insert cards refer to any non-base and non-parallel cards in a trading card set. These cards typically have their own themes, names, designs, and numberings. Read more
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson, born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, was a groundbreaking American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Before the MLB, he excelled in multiple sports at UCLA and briefly played for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues.… Read more
Jersey Card
Jersey Card
A trading card that contains a small piece – or "swatch" – of a player's jersey. Unlike Patch Cards, which are taken from specific parts of the jersey (i.e. the logo or number), jersey swatches are typically single-color and consist of basic mesh or cloth material. The memorabilia used in… Read more
Josh Gibson
Josh Gibson
Josh Gibson, born on December 21, 1911, was an elite baseball catcher and one of the greatest hitters in history. He starred in the Negro Leagues for nearly two decades, playing for teams like the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords. Gibson is now recognized in MLB record books as the… Read more
Junk Wax Era
Junk Wax Era
This refers to the period in the late-80s and early-90s where card manufacturers flooded the market with product, resulting in an massive, supply-side imbalance of supply and demand. Most cards and boxes from the Junk Wax Era are worth significantly less than similar cards released earlier in the 1980s, simply… Read more
Larry Doby
Larry Doby
Larry Doby was the first African-American to play in the American League and the second to play in the major leagues after Jackie Robinson. Beginning his career with the Newark Eagles in the Negro National League, Doby also became the first African-American to play professional basketball in the ABL. After… Read more
A visual effect that gives a card 3D-depth and movement. When you shift a lenticular card from side to side, the image appears to move. Read more
Low Numbers/Low Series
Low Numbers/Low Series
Cards from the first series produced for a set in a given year Read more
Mini Cards
Mini Cards
Mini cards are any card smaller than the standard trading card size of 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches. The size of a mini card can vary, but it is typically around 2 inches by 3 inches or smaller. Mini cards are often used as a special subset or insert within… Read more
Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin was a talented outfielder who excelled in both the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB). He began his career with the Newark Eagles in the 1930s, becoming a standout player. In 1949, he joined the New York Giants, making an immediate impact. Irvin helped lead the Giants… Read more
Multi-player Card
Multi-player Card
A special type of card featuring two or more different players. Read more
The National is shorthand for The National Sports Collectors Convention, the largest and most well-attended card show of the year. The first National was held in 1980 in Los Angeles. In recent years, it has been held in Atlantic City and Chicago and has attracted over 100,000 attendees. Read more
Negro Leagues
Negro Leagues
The Negro Leagues were professional baseball leagues established by African-American players due to racial segregation in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Excluded from integrated teams by racism and Jim Crow laws, black players created their own teams, frequently traveling across the country to play against any challengers. In 1920,… Read more
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, Missouri, established in 1990, celebrates and preserves the history of African American baseball and its impact on American society. The museum features exhibits with photographs, artifacts, and multimedia presentations that highlight legendary players like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Willie Mays, Larry… Read more
On-Card Auto
On-Card Auto
With on-card autos, the player puts their signature directly on the card, rather than on a sticker affixed to the card (a sticker auto). Many collectors prefer on-card autos because they offer a closer connection to the player and are more aesthetically pleasing. Generally speaking, on-card autos have greater value than sticker… Read more
One of One
One of One
A 1/1 card is the rarest type of trading card, making it especially appealing to collectors. Some of the most valuable cards in existence today are 1/1 cards. Read more
Most trading card products have a base set, made up of common cards, and then a smaller number of more-limited parallel cards. These cards essentially 'run parallel' to the base set – they have a similar look and design, but are distinguished by a unique physical quality. This distinguishing quality can be… Read more
Patch Card
Patch Card
Cards that specifically feature a multi-colored jersey patch embedded in the card itself. Sometimes the jersey patches are game-used, but not always. Read more
Personal Collection
Personal Collection
A modern hobby term to describe cards that a collector specifically intends to keep for themselves. Read more
Player Collector
Player Collector
A collector who seeks out cards of a specific player, just as a team collector seeks out cards of a specific team. Read more
Pop Report
Pop Report
A pop report is a published census showing the total number of cards graded by a third-party grading company. For any given card in any given grade (e.g. Mint 10), there will be a published pop report showing how many times the grading service has awarded that exact grade to… Read more
Post-War Cards
Post-War Cards
A post-war trading card refers to trading cards produced after World War II. This term often distinguishes between vintage, pre-war cards and the birth of the modern Hobby. In contrast to pre-war cards, post-war trading cards were usually produced in much larger quantities, making them more accessible and affordable for… Read more
Pre-War Cards
Pre-War Cards
A pre-war trading card refers to any trading card produced before World War II – from the 19th century to 1939. This term is commonly used in the collecting community to distinguish between vintage cards made before and after this period. These cards were often produced as promotional items or… Read more
Printing Plate
Printing Plate
A printing plate is the thin metal plate used to print cards. They typically come in four different colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Printing plates are often offered as one-of-one collectibles for each color. Read more
Prospecting is collecting cards of young players who have yet to reach the MLB. In many ways, Prospecting is all about finding as many cards of potential future All Stars as possible – imagine collecting the first-ever card of Albert Pujols, Mike Trout, or Juan Soto. For Prospectors, it's all about Bowman Draft and Bowman Chrome.… Read more
Random Break
Random Break
A random break is a breaking event where the contents of a sealed box or case of cards are divided randomly among participants. Each participant typically pays a fixed fee to enter the break by purchasing a "slot" or "spot." The collector or dealer will then use a randomizer tool… Read more
A card that hasn't been graded and slabbed by a third-party service like PSA or BGS. When you buy a pack of Topps baseball cards, you are buying raw cards. If you send those raw cards to a grading service, they will become graded cards. Grading typically adds value, and graded cards tend to… Read more
Redemption Card
Redemption Card
With redemption cards, the owner exchanges or "redeems" the card with the manufacturer and receives a hit (typically, autographed) card at a later date. Modern redemption cards feature a code printed on cardstock, and the owner redeems their card by simply submitting that code to the manufacturer. Read more
Refractor Cards utilize a special printing technology to create a unique visual effect. The cards refract light to create a prism or rainbow-like look and colorful shine. Most products include multiple types of refractors, each of which is named forby their different colors (Green Refractor, Blue Refractor, etc.). Each color… Read more
Relic Card
Relic Card
A card that contains a piece of memorabilia embedded in the card itself – from a swatch of fabric from a player's jersey to a piece of game-used baseball. There are Dual and Triple Relic cards, which include more than one piece of memorabilia on a single card. Relic cards are typically… Read more
Retail Box
Retail Box
These are lower-priced boxes that are widely distributed and available in large retail stores like Walmart or Target. A retail box may have the same base set as a higher-end hobby box, but will have fewer guaranteed hits and chase cards. Read more
The RetroFractor celebrates historic players across 100 years of baseball who never received their 1st Bowman card. Read more
Rickwood Field
Rickwood Field
Rickwood Field, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is the oldest professional baseball park in the United States, having opened in 1910. Originally home to the Birmingham Barons and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, it hosted many baseball legends, including Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, and Babe Ruth. Although no… Read more
Rookie Card
Rookie Card
Rookie cards refer to players' first cards once they make their Major League debut. In most cases, rookie cards are stamped with some kind of designation (e.g. "RC") on the front or back, and that designation will appear on the card that same year as the debut or, in some… Read more
Rookie Cup
Rookie Cup
Since 1959, Topps has selected rookies for the "All-Star Rookie Team" – a player for each position, including a Designated Hitter (DH) and Relief Pitcher (RP). Players selected for the team have the "Rookie Cup" logo included on their next season's card. Rookie Cup cards are every bit as important… Read more
Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige, born Leroy Robert Paige on July 7, 1906, in Mobile, Alabama, was a legendary American baseball pitcher. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers of all time, particularly known for his time in the Negro Leagues and later in the MLB. Paige's career spanned five… Read more
Set Collector
Set Collector
Collector who seeks out every card in a set. Read more
Short Print
Short Print
A card that is printed in lower quantities than other cards in the same set. Short prints, or super short prints (SSPs), are much more scarce than common cards, and thus more valuable to collectors. Read more
Sketch Card
Sketch Card
Sketch Cards are one-of-one, hand-drawn cards created by the licensed artist from a particular set. They are the same size as regular trading cards and include the artist's signature. Read more
Standard Card Size
Standard Card Size
Topps established the standard size for modern trading cards as 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches (6.4 cm x 8.9 cm). This size became standard because it was small enough to fit easily into card-collecting albums or sleeves yet large enough to accommodate detailed artwork and text. It also allowed for… Read more
Starter Set
Starter Set
Starter sets provide collectors with a basic introduction to the Hobby. These sets typically include a selection of cards representing an overall set or theme and additional items such as binders, sleeves, or other accessories used to organize and protect the cards. Starter sets target new or casual collectors who… Read more
Sticker Auto
Sticker Auto
With sticker autos, the player autographs a sticker or label and then the sticker is applied to the trading card. These differ from on-card autos, where the player signs the card directly.Some collectors prefer sticker autos because they result in fewer indentations on the surface of the card. Read more
Sticker Card
Sticker Card
Sticker cards are just that: stickers that can be peeled off from the back. The most famous examples of sticker cards are Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages. Read more
A superfractor is the rarest type of refractor card. Superfractors are short-printed, 1-of-1 cards, which means that for any given card, there will be only one superfractor of that card in the entire product. Because they are 1/1, superfractors are among the most desired and valuable cards in any set. For more on… Read more
Team Break
Team Break
Team breaks – also known as "Pick Your Team" breaks – refer to breaks where collectors split the contents among the participants according to a predetermined set of rules. For example, in a typical baseball card team break, collectors purchase a team (or teams) and receive all the team cards… Read more
Team Collector
Team Collector
A collector who seeks out cards of a specific team, just as a player collector seeks out cards of a specific player. Read more
Tiffany Sets
Tiffany Sets
Topps issued high-end sets of cards from 1984 to 1991 – including the 1989 and 1990 Bowman Baseball sets. Tiffany sets were sold exclusively as complete sets. Officially, these sets were known as "Collectors' Editions," but the Hobby would later adopt the "Tiffany" sobriquet for these releases. These sets were… Read more
Uncut Sheet
Uncut Sheet
An uncut sheet refers to a single sheet of trading cards that has not been separated into individual cards. Trading cards aren't printed individually. Instead, cards are printed out on sheets and then separated. These sheets can include as few as two or three cards or roll out as big… Read more
A card that is different – usually in small and subtle ways – from its common counterparts in the same set. The most common variations include: a different color background or lettering, a corrected error, a name misspelling, or a photo variation. Variations are almost always intentional. On rare occasions, they arise… Read more
Willie Mays
Willie Mays
Willie Mays, a legendary baseball player, began his career with the Birmingham Barons of the Negro American League at 16. The New York Giants signed him in 1950, and he debuted in 1951, winning the NL Rookie of the Year award. After serving in the Army, Mays returned in 1954,… Read more


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Calla Lily Vase
The Calla Lily Collection is inspired by the beauty of the calla lily flower. The architectural, curving shape of the flower is strong, yet suggests an intense sensuality. The flower is associated with weddings as is symbolic of purity and innocence.
"I was thinking of the romance of weddings and how bouquets often use flowers which carry symbolism. I remembered a picture of a woman I had seen holding her bouquet of calla lilies. She was classic, timeless, and modern all at once. There is something so alluring about the billowy flowers and arching stems which feel contemporary, yet still utterly romantic."
Michael is highly inspired by his surroundings and often makes sculptures of objects that might otherwise be overlooked in the everyday. Nature is his biggest muse, as is the handmade process.
Our goal is to deliver your purchase as quickly as possible. All orders have a processing time of 24-48 hours if the merchandise is in stock; excludes holidays, weekends, and sale events.
If your Michael Aram selection does not entirely meet your satisfaction, we will gladly exchange or refund your purchase, exclusive of delivery charges and any discounts applied, within 30 days from the date of delivery.
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Michael J. Fox was a 29-year-old actor who woke up one morning and noticed his little finger shaking. What he thought was a side effect of a hangover actually was an early symptom of Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease is a chronic and progressive movement disorder that has no known cause. Nearly a million people in the United States live with the disease.
Some symptoms of the disease are easy to see, while others are hard even for a trained healthcare professional to detect.
The National Parkinson Foundation offers these 10 early warning signs of Parkinson's disease:
- Tremor or shaking of a body part
- Small handwriting – your handwriting changes to become smaller
- Loss of smell
- Trouble sleeping
- Trouble moving or walking
- Constipation
- Soft or low voice – your voice changes to be softer
- Masked or serious look on your face even when you're not in a bad mood
- Dizziness or fainting
- Stooping or hunching over
No one symptom necessarily means that you have the disease; the symptom may be caused by another condition. However, if you feel you are experiencing symptoms, don't hesitate to visit your physician.


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FOX Mainframe Helmet - Youth
Don't take chances with their most precious asset - their brain. The Youth Mainframe Helmet delivers the goods to young riders, offering them the same proven safety features older riders get in their Mainframe helmet, and all with the same easy trail style. Featuring extended coverage to protect more of their noggin', the proven MIPS™ impact protection will keep their brain safe in the event of a crash by absorbing and redirecting energies and forces that could otherwise damage it.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Soapbox Comments: February '11 Spartan Sprint
I had fun trying my first Spartan Sprint. The bands seemed kind tough and tapered off towards the end. There were a few OPs moving along at blazing code speeds, but was able to return with my super slow straight key. I look forward to giving it a try again.
Called CQ on 40M - did not have anyone answer. Listened on 80 but did not hear anyone.
I could only hear signals on 80M, and it was NOISY! I spent a few minutes prior to the event burnishing the brass contacts on the ultra-thin plywood paddle. It certainly helped for better CW, but if you can't hear them, you can't work them. Thanks to W9CJS and WB5BKL for my TWO contacts. Can it get any worse? The rig was my somewhat tattered ATS-3A with two 200 mAh LiPo batteries and the now ancient 18AVQ vertical. Once again, my ears hurt! Come on 20M, or for that matter, 40M!
K3/10 @ 5 Watts to a 40M extended double-Zepp and a 20M wire delta loop. Made 1 contact on 20M, 8 on 40M and the remainder on 80M. Worked KD9KC on all three bands! Mike must have been just the right distance away this evening. Only worked N4BP and K4BAI on one band - very unusual. I missed a few on 80M but will put the blame on the S7-S8 noise level here. Thanks to all. Had fun.
Enjoyed this one a little more than previous ones. Ran my FT-817 on new rechargeable AA's which lowered the weight but I had to QRT with 30 minutes to go. The 817 was shifting back and forth between 5w and 2.5 w as the voltage was dropping on transmit. 40m was the best band for me with 12 QSO's and a lower than normal noise level. Best DX was W7OM in Wa. with NK6A a close second. K4ORD was my only contact on 80m. 13 QSO's total running a FT-817 5w into a vertical. Thanks!
40M was THE band here. It was quite active at the beginning of the sprint but I had to interrupt ops for about an hour. When I returned, it was just about dead...talk about bad timing!
Some stations were very strong and some very weak on both 40 and 80M. The QRN level was very low so that helped a lot. Activity was way down this time. Made 6 QSOs on 40M and 11 on 80M. Rig K2 @ 5W, ants were 40 and 160M dipoles. Thanks to all.
Used new K3-P3 at 5W to my Force 12C4. All 40M.
40 meters was it for me. With my propagation, signals were mostly weak. Contacts included both coasts, WA,CA and FL, SC. Seven of my contacts answered my CQs. Several callers I missed as they were at ESP levels. I called the other two.
Rig used was SW-40 running 1.5 watts to a loop at 24 feet. I had fun and will try to remember next month. Thanks to NQ2W for trying but no contact.
Where was everybody? Quit after a half hour, nobody to work. One QSO on 80M with K6JSS/
, the ARCI 50th Anniversary club station, from MN this week.K4BAI
Let the time slip up on me this month and only got on for the last five minutes. I'll do better next month.
Ten Tec 1340 to an inverted vee at 40 feet. No real loud signals...except those calling VP8ORK! The stations worked were just above the noise or right in it. There was a KE4 that called me but QSB took him away before we could complete the QSO...hopefully, next time we'll QSO. I heard KD9KC calling CQ once or twice and then he was gone. Heard N4BP down in the QRN but he didn't hear me. All in all, there was enough going on to keep it interesting, challenging, and fun. Thanks to all the participants and thanks to the organizers. I hope to hear you all next month.
Lousy band condx here tonite. Did not hear many stations on at all. Don't know if it was propagation or lack of interest. Band was plagued with deep QSB and seemed to be extra long. Hope for better condx next month.
After a stressful day at work, the Spartan Sprint was just what I needed. My only 20m contact was WB5BKL. After 10 minutes of calling CQ on 20m, I switched to 40m. 40m was the band - worked NK6A, K7TQ, WB5BKL (again), W7OM, KK5NA and W5HNS. At the top of the hour I went to 80m and worked WT5RZ and WB5BKL (again). Called CQ on 20m, 40, and 80m after that with no replies. In the final 15 minutes I heard W9CJS and W5ACM, but neither replied to my calls to them. It was fun.
2w, ATS3/9v battery, antenna delta loop apex 55 feet. One contact on 40, five on 80. Conditions on 80 seemed to be good.
Could barely hear beyond the noise on 40, and 80 was a qsb roller coaster. I tried calling CQ rather than S&P for the first time, so I guess that's something (if nothing else, it speaks of desperation.
had fun. Hard to hear. KD9KC's DSP unit (from W4RT) allowed him to get a couple of contacts that I could not hear well enough to get all of call sign to try!
Man ... that was the roughest spartan sprint ever. Very poor participation and bands were poor with rapid QSB. Nothing on 20 meters. 3 QSOs on 40m. 7 QSOs on 80m. Best DX W7OM in WA on 40. Rig: ATS4 at 3 watts with OCF Dipole. 8 AA batteries at about 11V. Thanks all for the fun.
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The new role will automatically inherit privileges of roles it is a member of. This is the default.
The new role will not automatically inherit privileges of roles it is a member of.
Prompt for the user name if none is specified on the command line, and also prompt for whichever of the options -d/-D, -r/-R, -s/-S is not specified on the command line. (This was the default behavior up to PostgreSQL 9.1.)
The new user will be allowed to log in (that is, the user name can be used as the initial session user identifier). This is the default.
The new user will not be allowed to log in. (A role without login privilege is still useful as a means of managing database permissions.)
Does not encrypt the user's password stored in the database. If not specified, the default password behavior is used.
If given, createuser will issue a prompt for the password of the new user. This is not necessary if you do not plan on using password authentication.
The new user will be allowed to create new roles (that is, this user will have CREATEROLE privilege).
The new user will not be allowed to create new roles. This is the default.
The new user will be a superuser.
The new user will not be a superuser. This is the default.
Print the createuser version and exit.
The new user will have the REPLICATION privilege, which is described more fully in the documentation for CREATE ROLE.
The new user will not have the REPLICATION privilege, which is described more fully in the documentation for CREATE ROLE.
Show help about createuser command line arguments, and exit.
createuser also accepts the following command-line arguments for connection parameters:
Specifies the host name of the machine on which the server is running. If the value begins with a slash, it is used as the directory for the Unix domain socket.
Specifies the TCP port or local Unix domain socket file extension on which the server is listening for connections.
User name to connect as (not the user name to create).
Never issue a password prompt. If the server requires password authentication and a password is not available by other means such as a .pgpass file, the connection attempt will fail. This option can be useful in batch jobs and scripts where no user is present to enter a password.
Force createuser to prompt for a password (for connecting to the server, not for the password of the new user).
This option is never essential, since createuser will automatically prompt for a password if the server demands password authentication. However, createuser will waste a connection attempt finding out that the server wants a password. In some cases it is worth typing -W to avoid the extra connection attempt.
Default connection parameters
This utility, like most other PostgreSQL utilities, also uses the environment variables supported by libpq (see Section 31.14).
In case of difficulty, see CREATE ROLE and psql for discussions of potential problems and error messages. The database server must be running at the targeted host. Also, any default connection settings and environment variables used by the libpq front-end library will apply.
To create a user joe on the default database server:
$ createuser joe
To create a user joe on the default database server with prompting for some additional attributes:
$ createuser --interactive joe Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n
To create the same user joe using the server on host eden, port 5000, with attributes explicitly specified, taking a look at the underlying command:
$ createuser -h eden -p 5000 -S -D -R -e joe CREATE ROLE joe NOSUPERUSER NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE INHERIT LOGIN;
To create the user joe as a superuser, and assign a password immediately:
$ createuser -P -s -e joe Enter password for new role: xyzzy Enter it again: xyzzy CREATE ROLE joe PASSWORD 'md5b5f5ba1a423792b526f799ae4eb3d59e' SUPERUSER CREATEDB CREATEROLE INHERIT LOGIN;
In the above example, the new password isn't actually echoed when typed, but we show what was typed for clarity. As you see, the password is encrypted before it is sent to the client. If the option --unencrypted is used, the password will appear in the echoed command (and possibly also in the server log and elsewhere), so you don't want to use -e in that case, if anyone else can see your screen.


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Within any discussion about the leadership, a conversation of who will be the unity candidate, who will be the person to champion "co-operation", a point made again yesterday by columnist Tim Harper. One only has to look at the last NDP race, wherein Cullen came out of nowhere largely because of his controversial stand on co-operation to realize the issue sits in the wings waiting for an advocate. With a system that allows a wider input in the ultimate choice, the capacity exists for a raucous debate on this score.
A largely ignored story on the CBC The National a couple nights ago highlighted an emerging "unite the left" grassoots sentiment spontaneously manifesting itself, without the guidance of head office.
Again, I sense a unique interest in this Liberal race, quite out of proportion given our current lowly status. This reality provides the Liberals a terrific opportunity to re-engage with the Canadian public, present compelling policy and debates, breakout of the downward spiral. The great debate within this race may very well turn out to be the co-operation angle. Cullen was handicapped by a narrow audience- as well as a rally around the flag mentality from opponents- a situation the Liberal race could evolve outside of, with the right advocate. One thing is clear, there are rumbling out there in the hinterland, an audience waiting for further articulation.


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Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before YOUR SUBMISSION OF ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. Your visit to our websites is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Websites' Terms and Conditions of Use.
Privacy Policy for Journal Community Publishing Group, Inc.
Effective Date: 01/08/2009
What are "Your California Privacy Rights"?
What types of Personal Information do we collect?
How do we actively collect and use Personal Information?
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Do we collect Personal Information from or about children?
Do we share your Personal Information with third parties?
What choices do you have about the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information?
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What security measures do we take to safeguard your Personal Information?
How will you know if we make changes to this Privacy Policy?
How can you contact us?
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before YOUR SUBMISSION OF ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. Your visit to our website is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Website Terms and Conditions of Use.
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How do we actively collect and use Personal Information?
Generally, we actively collect Personal Information from you when you complete online forms or otherwise affirmatively and voluntarily provide such information to us. Our Sites collects information in different ways, including but not limited to when you participate in sweepstakes, contests, games, promotional offers, and surveys; subscribe to our online services or features, such as news, weather and traffic alerts; register for our newsletters, other publications and loyalty clubs; download podcasts; purchase products or services through our shopping service; communicate with us via email; or apply for employment with us.
We use your Personal Information in many ways, including but not limited to when we deliver email, facsimile and other direct marketing communications to you regarding special product offers, sales, promotions, or other information about our or our affiliates or our Advertisers, sponsors, and promotional partners (collectively, "Advertisers") products and services, provided that you have given us your consent at the time we collect your Personal Information; administer sweepstakes, contests, games or other promotional programs or activities and notify winners of such programs or activities; provide you with valuable online services, such as news, weather and traffic alerts; respond to your questions or provide other requested information; notify you of important changes in the functionality of our Sites or other notices related to the handling of your Personal Information; and evaluate your qualifications for employment.
Your Personal Information will be collected and used for the following features, services and activities:
Publication Subscriptions, Merchandise and Online Service Center
To subscribe to or renew a subscription to any of our newspapers and other publications (Hyperlink in Blue — (Will Insert Hyperlink to all publications on a central landing page) online or via telephone, fax, postcard and/or in person at various locations, we will collect your first and last name, company name (if applicable), delivery and billing address, email address, telephone number and credit card account or check payment information. We may also ask for non-Personal Information that will be linked to or associated with your account such as your favorite feature or other JCPG publications you may read or subscribe to.
You may manage your subscription account or purchase merchandise and special offers via the Online Service Center. We do not retain your payment information when you purchase merchandise or special offers; you must resubmit your credit card information to make additional purchases. For subscriptions, you may use the secured online monthly EZPay service to make credit card payments. For EZPay, your credit card account number is retained but encrypted for future transactions. We also provide other auto pay services that provide for extended payments and these auto pay services are also encrypted and accessible using the last four digits of your account number.
Classified Advertising
Companies and individuals may place classified ads in various Journal publications via online, postal mail or courier, in person and/or telephone. We will collect your name, name of the business entity placing the ad (if any), email address, telephone number, billing address, and credit card account or check payment information. Upon entry of your credit card number into our secured system, whether the number is collected offline or online, the credit card account number is encrypted and retained until your account is cancelled and deleted. For your convenience, if you have an active account and wish to renew or extend your advertising schedule, or purchase new ads, only authorized personnel has access to your payment information from a past transaction by using the last four digits of your credit card account number.
General Advertising
For entities that purchase display advertising or other commercial advertising and marketing opportunities, we will collect your name, name of the business entity placing the ad (if any), email address, telephone number, billing address, and credit card account or check payment information. Upon entry of your credit card number into our secured system, whether the number is collected online or offline, the credit card account number is encrypted and retained until your account is cancelled and deleted. For your convenience, if you have an active account and wish to renew or extend your advertising schedule, or purchase new ads, authorized personnel only has access to your payment information from a past transaction by using the last four digits of your credit card account number.
JCPG Interactive Network
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List Server
As a subscriber to the JCPG Interactive Network or our newspapers and other publications you have an option to join our List Server service, which provides special E-mail offers from the JCPG Interactive Network on behalf of our newspapers and other publications or select advertisers. You must opt in to List Server by checking a click box as part of your registration on our Sites or subscription and are required to submit your full name and email address. You may opt-out of the List Server any time using the unsubscribe mechanism that is contained in each e-mail.
User Generated Content (UGC)
Users of our Sites may submit news tips, story suggestions, audio, video, photographs, animation and other content for various features on the Sites or for offline purposes such as a resource for our newspapers and entertainment publications. Depending on the nature of the UGC, you may be required to complete a registration process, which may require the submission of your name, email address, telephone number, city, state and zip code. Our news editors, at their discretion, may contact a user for additional information related to the user and/or the user's content.
Specialized Features
We offer several specialized features such as automotive and sports related websites, often in conjunction with JCI Affiliates or non-affiliated third parties. To join or subscribe to these specialized features or websites, you may be requested to submit your name, postal address and billing address (if different than delivery address), email address, age or year of birth, and/or gender. If a specialized feature or website is provided by both JCPG and a JCI Affiliate or third party, both entities will own and use your Personal Information consistent with their individual privacy policies.
We may also provide our users and/or members with the opportunity to weigh-in on local or national issues or share personal interests by participating in a survey or a questionnaire. We may collect your email address and other information related to the subject matter, such a politics, travel, sports, food, education, or medical information. Some surveys or questionnaires may also be anonymous, meaning you do not have to submit your name or email address.
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We may send commercial advertising and promotional material via facsimile to various businesses that the Buyers Guide Group or the JCPG family of newspapers and publications have an existing business relationship with. We require affirmative consent from the recipients of a commercial fax or we will respond to an inquiry or invitation to send a commercial fax. We may also fax material that is primarily informational or transactional, however, such material is not deemed to be commercial and does not require either an existing business relationship or affirmative consent. You have a right to opt-out of any commercial fax by following the opt-out instructions on the Sites or on the first page of the fax.
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We provide commercial marketing and advertising opportunities, contests/sweepstakes, and alerts for news, sports, and weather delivered via mobile devices. You must subscribe to a mobile service or request that we send such information to you via a text message or a wireless voice call. Depending on the type of mobile subscription service, you will be asked to submit your name, age or date of birth, mobile telephone number, and/or standard email address. We do not request submission of a wireless email address and if we collect such information inadvertently for a marketing or advertising opportunity, we will attempt to notify you and request a standard mobile telephone number that does not have a wireless domain name attached to it. You have a right to opt-out of any mobile service in the same manner in which you registered or by notifying our Privacy Administrator.
Contests, Sweepstakes and Promotions
We conduct various contests, sweepstakes and promotions in our newspapers and publications, online and at remote locations. Certain contests, sweepstakes or promotions are only for subscribers or members of our various programs and features. Depending on the type of contests, sweepstakes or promotions, you will be required to submit your name, age or date of birth, gender, postal address and/or email address. Additional non-Personal Information may be requested depending on the nature of the activity and such information may be associated with your Personal Information. If the activity is conducted online, we do not knowingly collect the Personal Information from a person under the age of 13 and we will delete such information, to the extent technically possible, in the event we discover or have knowledge that a child has registered for an online contest, sweepstakes or other promotional activity. Persons that falsify their contest/sweepstakes entry for any reason will immediately forfeit any prize, benefit or compensation.
For all contests and sweepstakes, you may need to show state-issued identification to verify your identity and eligibility if you are selected to be a winner. If you win a prize valued at $600 or more, or have won in one calendar year prizes that are valued at $600 or more in the aggregate, you must also provide your social security number and complete the required IRS Form W-9 for federal tax reporting.
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Do not send any credit card account or other payment information via email, which is not secured. We are not responsible for any such Personal Information being transmitted via the Internet.
Our Sites may also enable you to submit Personal Information about other people. We may collect Personal Information about other people from you when you participate in various programs and features or when you submit news stories or nominations for community awards or recognition that involve other people. We generally use this Personal Information to process your request, submission or to investigate and report news stories.
We may also combine your Personal Information with information obtained from JCI Affiliates, our operational service providers or other companies.
Do we collect Personal Information from or about children?
We recognize the particular importance of protecting the privacy of children. We are committed to protecting children's privacy on the Internet and we comply fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not generally target children for our goods and services and do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us that does not qualify for any regulatory, legal, or security/safety exemption as described below, or we are contacted by a verifiable parent or legal guardian about his or her child's participation on our Sites, we will delete the Personal Information about the child from our active records and from our systems to the extent technically feasible.
On occasion, our Sites may enable parents or legal guardians to submit information about their child under the age of 13 for purposes of participating in programs or features, such as a weather kids program and contests. In such instances, we only request the types of Personal Information necessary for participation in the program, which may include, but is not limited to, the parent's name and email address, child's name, age, city, and a photograph of the child. This information would be used only for purposes of the specific program or feature.
How do we passively collect and use information through tracking technology?
Our Sites passively collect certain kinds of information that reveal the frequency with which you visit our Sites, the times and dates of your visits, the pages you reviewed, and other information, including an Internet protocol (IP) address, which is series of numbers that identifies the computer you are using. Information is passively collected through various means. We use IP addresses to identify server problems, administer our Sites, compile aggregated statistics for marketing and research purposes, and to serve customized advertising or content to you based on your IP address' geographic location. We also use navigational data, including log files and click-stream data, to identify information about your web browser and operating system, and the time period in which you visit our Sites or select pages or areas of our Sites. This information is also used to improve our Sites content and is retained anonymously, meaning that it does not identify an individual user.
Our Sites use small text files called "cookies" that are sent to the hard drive of your computer to store bits of information related to your use of our Sites. Cookies can store a variety of information, including IP addresses, navigational data, server information, data transfer times, user preferences, shopping cart information and passwords needed to access our Sites. We may use cookies to serve customized advertising or content to you based on your submitted zip code, age, gender, or other demographics. You may configure your browser to reject cookies. If you do so, you might not be able to access important functions or enjoy certain conveniences or customized features of our Sites.
Our Sites may also use "Web beacons" to help personalize your experience, similarly to how we use cookies. We may also use Web beacons to gather non-Personal Information about the number of users who visit our Sites, the areas in which they spend their time visiting, and other demographic data.
We do not ordinarily combine passively collected Personal Information (as described above) with actively collected Personal Information. However, for the Sites's interactive features such as blogs, chat rooms and bulletin boards, we have the capability to correlate your comment with your IP address and account in the event you are in violation of the Sites's Terms of Use agreement or may be subject to a civil or criminal inquiry or investigation. We also reserve the right to introduce new passive tracking technologies and techniques.
Operational service providers, such as Yahoo!, use cookies and web beacons to help us display customized content and advertising based on your demographics (such as gender, age or city/state), Sites visits, searches and purchases. Yahoo! automatically collects information about your browser and computer, including your IP address, Yahoo!'s cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the webpage that you request. Yahoo! does not disclose your Personal Information to an Advertiser or a third party marketer when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, you may chose to accept the Advertiser's own cookie if you click or interact with an ad. Yahoo! may also combine Personal Information or non-personal information about you that it obtains from us, other business partners, and other companies.
Do we share your Personal Information with third parties?
Except as stated in this Privacy Policy or unless your consent is obtained at the time of collection or prior to transfer, your Personal Information will not be shared with any third party outside of JCI Affiliates and operational service providers. We will share your Personal Information with JCI and JCI Affiliates primarily for business and operational purposes and occasionally for promotional and marketing purposes.
We may sometimes offer promotions or contests that are sponsored by, co-sponsored or co-branded with either JCI Affiliates or non-affiliated third parties such as Advertisers, in which we will provide you notice that your Personal Information will be shared with these identified third parties for purposes of fulfilling contest prizes and delivering email and other direct marketing communications to you regarding special product offers, sales, promotions, or other information about these third parties' products and services that may be of interest to you. Please do not participate in a co-branded or co-sponsored promotion/contest if you do not wish to disclose your Personal Information with the third parties involved in such promotions/contests.
We will share your Personal Information and non-identifying and aggregate information with our operational service providers and JCI Affiliates, to help us serve you better and to perform functions on our behalf in order to support our business and operation of our Sites, features and activities, as necessary, including without limitation to provide online services, such as news, weather and traffic alerts; to provide shopping services and fulfill and process orders for products and services; to process credit card payments; to send communications to you; to facilitate promotional marketing campaigns; to facilitate advertisements on our Sites; to provide technical support services, and to host our Sites on third party servers.
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If you do not want to receive email and other direct marketing communications from us regarding special product offers, sales, promotions, or other information about JCI Affiliates or our Advertisers' products and services, you may choose to opt-out of receiving such communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe links in certain email communications from us or by otherwise notifying our Privacy Administrator of your opt-out choice by using our contact information below.
If we plan to share your Personal Information directly with non-affiliated third parties such as Advertisers for purposes of delivering promotional or direct marketing materials directly to you or providing particular online services to you, you will be asked to provide your affirmative consent ("opt-in") first. If you have opted in to such use of your Personal Information, you may withdraw your consent at any time ("opt-out"), unless there are certain restrictions as stated in this Privacy Policy, Terms of Conditions of Use, Official Rules or are disclosed in advance. For withdrawal of your consent please contact us using our information below and we will take reasonable measures to avoid sharing your Personal Information in the future. However, please note that non-affiliated third parties are independent from us, and if you wish to stop all communications from such third parties, you will need to address such issues with the third parties directly.
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The NHL's discipline policy has been in the news again lately. We've seen various incidents involving Alexander Ovechkin, Mike Richards, Curtis Glencross, Colton Orr and others, not to mention the OHL's season-long ban to Mike Liambas.
And as always, the NHL's suspension decisions have been criticized. It's the usual refrain: discipline is handed out haphazardly, almost randomly, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of consistency.
Nonsense. The criticism is unfair and unfounded. The NHL has a clear policy when it comes to suspensions, and the policy is followed faithfully. The league just hasn't decided to share it. So I'm doing it for them.
Yes, I have a copy of the NHL's discipline policy. And given recent events, I think it's only fair that hockey fans everywhere get to see it.
So here, straight from the desk of Colin Campbell himself, is the super top secret policy for handing out suspensions:
By the way, it should go without saying that this policy applies only in the regular season. There's a separate policy for the post-season, which can be found here:
There. So much for "random suspensions". Don't you all feel silly now?
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How Social Security Was Saved
Progressive groups and their allies in Congress win one for the people.
Cole Stangler
The release of the White House's 2014 budget in April 2013 was a stomach-churning occasion for American seniors who depend on Social Security.
In an effort to woo the austerity-now crowd, President Barack Obama included in his proposal a new formula to calculate Social Security cost-of-living adjustments: the chained consumer price index, or chained CPI. Presented as a harmless technocratic fix, chained CPI would have hit America's retirees in the pocketbook by reducing their Social Security cost-of-living increases.
At the time, much of Washington was fixated on the "grand bargain"—a long-term bipartisan budget deal. To centrist Democrats, chained CPI seemed like the ideal bargaining chip to nudge Republicans into accepting modest tax increases on the wealthy.
This year, Obama's 2015 budget includes no mention of chained CPI—a victory that can be attributed to progressive organizers working inside and outside the halls of Congress.
Chained CPI reared its head in Congress in late 2012, when the Republican and Democratic leadership were trying to broker a deal to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff "—automatic across-the-board spending cuts. The president had previously floated chained CPI in the summer of 2011 as a way to incentivize a long-term budget compromise, and now he was doing it again.
D.C. progressives were unnerved to find so many Capitol Hill Democrats receptive to the use of Social Security as a bargaining chip. Alex Lawson is executive director of Social Security Works, a group that seeks to expand Socia Security. "If you went around the Hill," he says, "the Democrats were willfully silent, getting messages from the White House that we have to do [chained CPI]. People didn't know if they were allowed to fight against it."
Lawson was also disturbed by the disconnect between the attitudes of policymakers and the will of the people. Polls from the last few years consistently show that a majority of Americans are opposed to Social Security cuts.
While groups such as Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and Social Security Works, in addition to the AFL-CIO and AARP, had been raising the alarm about cuts since the Bowles-Simpson Commission in 2010, Lawson felt the threat demanded a larger, more active coalition. So he teamed with progressive organizers from CREDO Action and Netroots Nation to help translate public opposition into stronger Congressional opposition. They put out a call for an informal meeting about chained CPI. The goal was to get a broad swath of the national progressive movement to take a stand against cuts.
That may seem like a no-brainer. But fresh in Lawson's and others' minds was the healthcare-reform debacle. A coalition that had been united in support of the public option gradually buckled under pressure from the White House and Democratic leadership, eventually settling for a version of the Affordable Care Act that lacked a public option and that no one liked much.
"Progressive groups … all started off on the same page, but throughout the course of this fight, [power brokers] on the Democratic side would be able to pull people off on certain issues," says Netroots Nation's Raven Brooks of the healthcare compromise."There are a lot of reasons why [a public option] didn't win as a policy option, but … an important piece of it was this destruction of the unity that was there initially."
During the 2012 fiscal-cliff showdown, Brooks and others were determined to stop history from repeating. So, in December 2012, about 35 representatives of progressive groups—the AFL-CIO, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), Democracy for America, MoveOn and Progressives United, among others— came together and held a thumbs-up and thumbs-down vote on whether to draw a line in the sand against any cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The result was unanimous: Chained CPI was an unacceptable pill to swallow, no matter the circumstances.
Congress didn't reach a grand bargain in time to avoid sequestration. The budget cuts took effect in March. But with the White House still committed to striking a long-term compromise with the GOP, progressives kept up the pressure to save Social Security.
Led by Social Security Works, PDA and the PCCC, the coalition kicked off the New Year by pressuring the Congressional Left to go on record against chained CPI. In the Senate, they lined up Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who all spoke out against the proposal. In the House, the coalition found a champion in Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who had just retaken his seat after a defeat in the 2010 midterms.
Grayson and his colleague in the Progressive Caucus Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) rallied House Democrats against chained CPI by rounding up signatories to a letter that drew a hard line against slashing the social safety net. "We will vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security benefits," the letter promised. Forty-four Congress members, including Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), signed the Grayson-Takano letter and six more representatives made statements in support of it. That effort triggered a less strongly worded anti-cuts letter from Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) that drew 107 signatures.
Meanwhile, in April 2013, the progressive coalition delivered a petition with more than 2 million signatures to the White House. And the AARP coordinated a large-scale petition drive against chained CPI, culminating in August 2013 with the delivery of 1.5 million signatures to the House Ways and Means Committee.
At that point, Grayson was confident the president's proposal was dead in the water."The combination of all these efforts on our part made it clear that the proposal was a political loser and would substantially undermine support for the president and anyone else who pursued it," he says.
Tim Carpenter, national director of PDA, says the fight shows what the nationally focused progressive groups can accomplish when they devote their resources toward a common goal. "It wasn't so much about branding your organization," says Carpenter, "but [instead about] coming together around the issue and framing the issue as part of a larger progressive movement."
Of course, it was only a minority of Democrats actively agitating against cuts. But the opposition was amplified by the fact that there was no countervailing Democratic congressional force. All of the enthusiasm for slashing benefits emanated from the White House. Neither the 53-member neoliberal New Democrat Coalition nor the 15-member conservative Blue Dog Coalition, for instance, served up pro- chained CPI letters. This suggests that the no-cuts camp wielded influence that went beyond its visible voting bloc.
Of course, it wasn't just the work of organizers and left-wing members of Congress that kept chained CPI off the table. As the 113th Congress moved through its first session, Republicans had deluded themselves into thinking they'd be able to go on a budget-slash- ing binge without giving anything in return. As they repeatedly refused to give ground on tax reform, the GOP helped make the prospects of a deal unlikely.
The White House did not respond to In These Times' request for comment about the impact of progressive opposition to chained CPI.
From defense to offense
But the progressive coalition wasn't satisfied with holding the line. A few months into their defense of Social Security, progressive organizers, sick of playing defense, decided it was time to encourage its expansion.
In the summer of 2013, the same core of mostly online progressive organizers put out a call for another informal gathering, this time devoted to the question of expanding Social Security. The crowd gathered in late June at the Netroots Nation conference in San Jose. The vote was, once again, unanimous. "The idea was we don't want to fight for just definitional stuff [like defending Social Security]," says Lawson. "Let's fight for our aspirational stuff."
The Netroots crew also reached a consensus on how to back an expansion. Initially, some wanted to back a proposal from Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), a moderate facing a tough reelection fight in his conservative-leaning home state. Others favored liberal stalwart Sen. Harkin's plan, which went a step further than Begich's by creating a new formula for calculating benefits that would boost them, on average, by about $70 a month. In order to maintain unity, the groups decided to cross-endorse each bill, and together push for the "Harkin-Begich plan."
A month later, the blitz was on.
On July 27, the senators went on The Ed Show on MSNBC to promote their proposal to scrap the program's cap on high-income earners and increase benefits. Yearly income above $113,700 is exempted from the payroll tax that funds the Social Security Trust Fund. Lifting that cap would extend the program's long-term solvency and provide the means to fund two major increases: Harkin's proposal to raise monthly benefits and a more generous cost-of-living adjustment.
The PCCC sent out a video of the segment to its supporters, and along with Democracy for America, Social Security Works and CREDO, started collecting signatures in support of an expansion. They now have more than 650,000. The AFL-CIO, too, strongly backs Social Security expansion. Neither Harkin's nor Begich's bill stands a chance of passing the GOP-dominated House, but that's beside the point— the Harkin-Begich plan, at its core, is about messaging. It's about changing the parameters of the debate over Social Security, which during the Obama era has been limited to quibbles over how much to cut. By these measures, the drive for expansion has been a re- sounding success.
This offense-is-the-best-defense strategy probably helped push chained CPI and the grand bargain off the White House's agenda. But the push for expansion bore other fruit. Instead of withering away like most "clicktivist" initiatives, the effort helped pave the way for what many call the "new populism" in Congress, buoyed by the headline-grab- bing abilities of Sen. Warren.
In November 2013, Warren spoke on the Senate floor, blasting chained CPI and backing Harkin and Begich. An ensuing kerfuffle revealed how drastically inner-party dynamics had shifted in the course of only a year. Writing in the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, the leaders of Third Way, a neoliberal think tank, charged that "economic populism is a dead end for Democrats." The article generated backlash, which, in turn, sparked much public debate about the future of the party. About a month-and-a-half after the op-ed, Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), who's running for Pennsylvania governor, resigned as honorary co-chair of Third Way. (Her spokesperson said the congresswoman thought the article was "outrageous and strongly disagree[d] with it.")
Out to further prove her credentials to the Left, Schwartz went on to lead the effort to get Obama to ditch chained CPI in his recent budget. Instead of one of the usual suspects like Grayson, Takano or Grijalva, it was Schwartz's name that appeared at the top of a February letter to the White House decrying the proposed cut, followed by 116 other members of Congress.
It is that kind of jockeying that provides evidence of where Democrats want to stand on Social Security ahead of the 2014 elections.
What began as a fundamentally defensive fight has now evolved into an offensive one. The PCCC is trying to make Social Security an election issue in 2014. Each of the four non-incumbent candidates the group has endorsed so far—Kelly Westlund in Wisconsin's 7th, Lee Rogers in California's 25th, Daylin Leach in Pennsylvania's 13th, and Shenna Bellows, running for Senate in Maine—all support strengthening the program.
Westlund is taking on Rep. Sean Duffy, a Tea Party Republican (and lumberjack) who lauds "entitlement reform," in a district with the highest percentage of seniors in the state.
"Social Security is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs that we've ever had," Westlund says. "If we scrap the cap, that's only going to expand the opportunity for seniors to stay out of poverty for the future."
Toying with cost-of-living adjustments was supposed to be an easy way to reduce Social Security benefits. It just may have been the Left's long sought-after impetus to expand them.
Cole Stangler writes about labor and the environment. His reporting has also appeared in The Nation, VICE, The New Republic and International Business Times. He lives in Paris, France. He can be reached at cole[at]inthesetimes.com. Follow him @colestangler.


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I just downloaded QuickPic and so far it's all good and fast. It has more features than the stock Gallery including the ability to include / exclude certain folders from view. For this reason, I don't need/want the stock Gallery app to still be open-able. Is there a way to hide it from the list of applications from the grid of icons? I want QuickPic to catch all tasks that Gallery does and at the same time I want to prevent others (namely, friends who borrow my phone from time to time) from opening the Gallery app.
Note: My phone (Xperia Active) is not rooted and I believe rooting it will void my 1 year warranty with Sony.


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Nice jacket, ridiculously small zipper pull
Whoever spec'd this small of a pull on a zipper has not ridden in the rain with gloves on and cold hands. Offsetting the zipper with a tiny pull makes it even harder to vent the jacket or close it. Suggest they spend some time in a outdoor gear test shower at 35 – 40 degrees, zipping and unzipping their jacket, repeatedly until they promise to forever spec a larger pull.
Like I'd ridden off the set of the Matrix in the rain
To the shoe setup this rainy season, I've got this thing about keeping my feet warm and dry. I've tried every combination there is; going as far back as socks over your shoes, before we had booties. That's right, like Madonna used to wear her underwear on the outside, we'd ride with socks over our shoes. They'd soak through in a few seconds and looked stupid.
Fast forward a few years and cyclists have many choices in booties. Under these Assos rain booties are Vittoria boots for a bootie-boots solution. Bonus is the bootsie setup looks like it belongs on the feet of that hot chick from the Matrix, if she had cankles.
Before you complain about the $150 cost of the Assos, see above where I mentioned many choices, including the Sugois I've recommend and ridden in for years.
Important is the tight cuff on the bootie, to prevent water from running down your shin and into the shoe/boot. You can also run a Gore-type sock, but I don't like a pool of water in the shoe either. Also in on test are booties from Castelli and Nalini.
The Windtek in the Vittorias is for warmth and the bootie seals out the water. What I don't ride with anymore in the Winter is thick wool socks because my toes eventually go numb from lack of circulation. Find Vittoria and Assos at a bike shop near you. The Artica MTB cost $265.00.
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Welsh Mother's Day Card, Fy Mam Fendigedig, text foiled in shiny gold
Pack of 6WBIL305
This beautiful vibrant foiled Welsh language Mother's Day Card is from the amazing Billboard range. Designed with bright, fun, bold text, and the writing is foiled in shiny gold. Printed on high quality board from sustainable sources with a grey envelope, and each comes in a biodegradable bag.
- Dimensions: 150mm x 150mm
- Blank inside for your own message
- Printed in the U.K on quality 350gsm board
- Comes wrapped in Compostable bag
- With matching sustainable sourced envelope
- Can be sent with Royal Mail standard letter stamps


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People can organize their entire house and get their life in a line with some diy storage ideas. If people think that their house is overwhelmed with clutter, then they can provide some diy storage ideas which are easy to make.
There are lots of sections to storage to be orderly as mirror makeover, rolling storage and Fabric lined crate.
Also, it is cheap and easy to make them. For example, when you want to make a fabric lined crate, all you need is just a crate and fabric which are outmoded and some pins. All you must do is just clean the crate and pin the fabric inside crate. You can storage toys, sports suppliers and whatever you want inside fabric lined crate.
If you want to create and empty space in your house which can be useable, then you can apply rolling storage. For making rolling storage, all you can need is just 4 rollers, a craft and a cabinet pull. You can see that you can create an empty space under your bed or any places of house.
If you have also can which are used and you don't want to be wasteful, then you can manage a little tin can organizer project. All you need is just a few more cans and spray paint. You can paint them as you wish. There is only one problem is that you should wait for paint to dry and then just put your pencils or whatever you want inside it to make your desk orderly.
Also, you can make a mirror makeover to never forget your keys or other objects when you go out from home. Also, when you come home, you can hang your keys and bags, umbrellas and more and organize them easily with mirror makeover. Don't forget check yourself from mirror before leaving from home!


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How's Facebook doing these days? Slowly but steadily, it seems like it's starting to lose a jarring number of young users, leaving the social platform in the hands of people above the age of 40. That definitely doesn't change the fact that billions of people have made, at some point, Facebook profiles and that it's still going strong with its influence and position. Aside from giving us a platform of communication, we were also given a Facebook games list. Playable directly on the website, they've become insanely popular, enough to drive copious amounts of money back to the social media.
For all the lighthearted gaming junkies, we've compiled a list of Facebook games that are so surprisingly addictive and entertaining that it will be too late before you realize you'd spent ten hours playing without a break.
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#1 Candy Crush Saga
Speaking of addictions, there's no worse demon among games for this than Candy Crush Saga. Players have invested hours, effort, tears, and copious amounts of money in order to get past some levels that have become so impossibly difficult it almost seems surreal. Who knew arcade was still going so strong?
#2 FarmVille 2
But, wait! It wasn't Candy Crush Saga that invented gameplay that's so addictive it will have you still play the game at 3 AM in your bed with all lights turned off and an abominable back ache. This was all FarmVille's doing, now having its legacy carried out by FarmVille 2. Prepare a lot of canned food by your bed because sowing and crops have never been this exciting.
#3 Pet Rescue Saga
Make a game about matching blocks, add the word "saga" at the end of the title, and you've earned yourself a game that's guaranteed to ruin your life. Unlike Candy Crush, Pet Rescue Saga unfairly taps into our emotions by urging us to match and break in order to save some adorable little pets.
#4 Dragon City
We've always loved dragons. Well, maybe with the exception of people in the dark ages who wrote songs about mythical heroes slaying these fire-breathing lizard hazards. But we've never loved them as much as now, in the 21st century. In order to feed this small obsession, developers created a game that's all about breeding, naming, and growing tens of different types of dragons.
#5 Angry Birds Friends
Or just any of the Angry Birds games, really. This is just the one most appealing to 2016. Even though it may seem like the Angry Birds trend faded away, can you say the same about Tetris? Doubtful. This is because, when a game it's addictive, it's also timeless.
#6 8 Ball Pool
Powered by the king of excellent flash games, Miniclip, 8 Ball Pool gives you exactly what you'd expect from it – a neat multiplayer experience. Through its sheer simplicity, it became one of the greatest Facebook games, with over 10 million players per total.
#7 Texas Hold 'Em Poker
Just like pool, sometimes simply catering to the simplest of needs is the key to success. Poker is one of the few card games that truly bring out a lot of nerves, sweats, and rivalries. You can now test them all out against 60 million other players all curtsy of Facebook.
#8 Criminal Case
Point-and-click games, especially hidden clue ones, have been around for quite a while, but they were always uncannily expensive, weren't they? Perhaps this explains why this murder-solving puzzle game is such a big hit among Facebook users.
#9 Clash of Kings
No, not the George R.R. Martin book, but if it increases the fun level, imagine it so. In a way, it's kind of the same thing. It's a strategy game and it requires a lot of planning and maneuvering on the player's side should they want to get to the very top.
#10 Top Eleven
Top Eleven is a must-play for football enthusiasts who wish to have a taste of something different. Tired of being put directly on the field? Then switch up with this game, which puts you in the position of a team manager instead.


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It's clear in the case of compound nouns, double s should be used e.g. Bundesstraße, but with other words I cannot see a pattern.
To me it appears to be used somewhat randomly, e.g.:
das Maß
die Masse
I also remember daß that was deprecated in favour of dass. Is there an aesthetic or practical reason behind these spelling conventions?


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The Internet of Everything (IoE): Technology enthusiasts around the globe are talking about it, but what does it really mean? How will it improve the lives of consumers? How can businesses benefit from the $14.4T market opportunity and which verticals will see dramatic changes? And, just as important, what does it have to do with collaboration? In his keynote address on Tuesday, March 19, "Collaboration and the Internet of Everything" at Enterprise Connect 2013, Rob Lloyd, president, development and sales, Cisco, will give answers to all of these questions, focusing on the importance of collaborative technologies in unlocking the economic value of the Internet of Everything (the confluence of people, process, data and things).
In addition, a variety of Cisco executives will also lead discussions about some of the latest advancements and trends in collaboration during the conference:
- Cullen Jennings, distinguished engineer, will host a tutorial about WebRTC
- Monday, March 18 from 9:00am to 10:30am ET
- Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager, Collaboration Technology Group will host the UC Summit for a discussion titled "Is UC Moving Toward a New Plateau – or Towards a Cliff?"
- Monday, March 18 from 11:00am to noon ET
- Laurent Philonenko, chief technology officer, Collaboration Technology Group will host a discussion about "Leveraging WebRTC for Video Conferencing"
- Monday, March 18 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm ET
Rob Lloyd, president, development and sales, Cisco
Live: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time
On-demand replay available on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Click here to watch the keynote streamed live. During the live stream, Cisco experts will be available to respond to your questions immediately through the discussion forum. Learn from questions posted by other attendees, or ask your own. A replay of the live event will be posted on March 21.
In addition, Cisco is hosting an announcement webcast on Tuesday, March 19 from 9-9:30 a.m. PT, to detail its product announcements.
Participating executives include:
- Thomas Wyatt, VP and GM, Collaboration Infrastructure Business Unit
- Raj Gossain, VP, Collaboration Applications Technology Group
- Marcelo Oliveria, senior manager, Collaboration Infrastructure Product Management
- Andrew Reitter, senior manager, Collaboration Infrastructure Product Management
Enterprise Connect attendees can also visit Cisco at Booth #904 to see demonstrations of collaboration solutions from Cisco and Cisco partners. Five stations will showcase how Cisco collaboration solutions address the needs of the variety of workers connecting to today's network, including executives, information workers, contact center workers as well as deskless and mobile workers. Partner demonstrations representing the latest from solution providers will also be available.
Tags / Keywords: collaboration, presence, video, communication, productivity, Internet of Everything, IM, cloud, unified communications, telepresence, WebRTC, conferencing, voice, network, mobility
About Cisco Collaboration
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The background paper for the topper is made from using Dylutions spray and Color shine from Heidi Swap. The wheel tracks are made from an old toy car with inked tires. The tractor motive is from Dulemba and coloured with promarkers. The stamp "traktoregg - tractor eggs" is from North Star Stamps.
The background paper for this topper is from Panduro. The stamp is"Tilda with hawaiian flower" - coloured with promarkers. The text "englesnop - angel candy" is from North Star Stamps.


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VP of Art and Cinematic Development Nick Carpenter tweeted the SDCC website updated the SDCC Exclusive merchandise page. The Funko Mini-Sylvanas POP Vinyl costs $18 and the Funko Baneling and the Zergling cost $35.
Something that totally got me off-guard is that there is no such thing as a Baneling Plush Toy, and a Zergling Plush Toy. This thing is awesome. The Zergling Plush transforms into a Baneling by opening a zipper and pulling out a hidden skin that you wrap on top of the Zergling. Holy molly! Neat! That rocked someone's socks.
I totally recommend following @FubarNick — lot of cool stuff can be found out.