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This chapter discusses the design patterns used in Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) and provides solutions to specific problems that you may encounter.
This chapter includes the following sections:
This section discusses AIA message processing patterns and provides solutions to specific problems that you may encounter.
This section includes the following topics:
Section 25.1.1, "Synchronous Request-Reply Pattern: How to get Synchronous Response in AIA"
Section 25.1.3, "Guaranteed Delivery Pattern: How to Ensure Guaranteed Delivery in AIA"
Section 25.1.4, "Service Routing Pattern: How to Route the Messages to Appropriate Service Provider in AIA"
Section 25.1.5, "Competing Consumers Pattern: How are Multiple Consumers used to Improve Parallelism and Efficiency?"
Section 25.1.6, "Asynchronous Delayed-Response Pattern: How does the Service Provider Communicate with the Requester when Synchronous Communication is not Feasible?"
Section 25.1.7, "Asynchronous Request Response Pattern: How does the Service Provider Notify the Requester Regarding the Errors?"
Many use cases warrant consumers to send requests synchronously to service providers and get immediate responses to each of their requests. These use cases need the consumers to wait until the responses are received before proceeding to their next tasks.
For example, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications may provide features such as allowing customer service representatives and systems to send requests to providers for performing tasks such as account balance retrieval, credit check, ATP (advanced time to promise) calculation, and so on. Since CRM applications expect the responses to be used in the subsequent tasks, this precludes the users from performing other tasks until the responses are received.
AIA recommends using the synchronous request and response service interface in all the composites involved in processing or connecting the back-end systems. There should not be any singleton service in the services involved in the query processing. The general recommendation is for all of the intermediary services and the service exposed by the provider application to implement a request-response based interface - a two-way operation. Even though it is technically possible to design all services but the initial caller to implement two one-way requests, this implementation technique should be avoided if possible.
Implementation should strive to ensure that no persistence of state information (dehydration) or audit details is done by any of the intermediary services or by the ultimate service provider. These techniques help keep the latency as low as possible.
AIA also recommends that the intermediary services are co-located to eliminate the overheads normally caused by marshalling and un-marshalling of SOAP documents.
Figure 25-1 illustrates how a business task implemented as an Enterprise Business Service (EBS) is invoked synchronously by the requester application.
All the resources are locked in until the response from service provider goes back to the originating system or user.
Either a transaction timeout or an increased latency may result if any of the services or the participating application takes more time for processing.
Service providers must be always available and ready to fulfill the service requests.
Service providers doing real-time retrieval and collation of data from multiple back-end systems in order to generate a response message could put an enormous toll on the overall resources and increase the latency. The synchronous request-response design pattern should not be used to implement tasks that involve real-time complex processing. Off loading of work must be done; the design must be modified to accommodate the staging of quasi-prepared data so that the real-time processing can be made as light as possible.
Services involved in implementing synchronous request-response pattern should refrain themselves from doing work for each of the repeatable child nodes present in the request message. A high number of child nodes in the payload in a production environment can have an adverse impact on the system.
The requester application should be able to continue its processing after submitting a request regardless of whether the service providers needed to perform the tasks are immediately available or not. Besides that, the user initiating the request does not have a functional need to wait until the request is fully processed. The bottom line is, the service requesters and service providers must have the capability to produce and consume messages at their own pace without directly depending upon each other to be present.
Also, the composite business processes should be able to support the infrastructure services like error handling and business activity monitoring services in a decoupled fashion without depending on the participating application or the AIA functional process flows.
For example, order capture applications should be able to keep taking orders regardless of whether the back end systems such as order fulfillment systems are available at that time. You do not want the order capturing capability to be stopped because of non-availability of any of the services or applications participating in the execution of order fulfillment process.
AIA recommends the fire-and-forget pattern using queuing technology with a database or file as a persistence store to decouple the participating application from the integration layer. The queue acts as a staging area allowing the requester applications to place the request messages. The request messages are subsequently forwarded to service providers on behalf of requester as and when the service providers are ready to process them.
It is highly recommended that the enqueueing of the request message into the queue is within the same transaction initiated by the requester application to perform its work. This ensures that the request message is enqueued into the queue only when the participating application's transaction is successful. The request message is not enqueued in situations where the transaction is not successful. Care must be taken to ensure that the services residing between two consecutive milestones are enlisting themselves into a single global transaction.
Refer to Section 24.5, "Implementing Error Handling and Recovery for the Asynchronous Message Exchange Pattern to Ensure Guaranteed Message Delivery" to understand how milestones are used as intermediate reliability artifacts to ensure the guaranteed delivery of messages.
AIA recommends having a queue per business object. All requests emanating from a requester application for a business object use the same queue.
Figure 25-2 shows how JMS queues are used to decouple the source application from the integration layer processing. The source application submits the message to the JMS queue and continues with its other processing without waiting for a response from the integration layer.
The AIA composite business process may not be up and running while the application continues to produce the messages in the JMS queue. When the AIA composite business process comes up, it starts consuming the messages and processes them.
Figure 25-2 also shows how the monitoring services can be decoupled from the main AIA functional flows with the help of the JMS queue. All the AIA services and the participating applications can fire a monitoring message into the queue and forget about how it is processed by the downstream applications. In this pattern the services or participating applications do not expect any response. Similarly, the AIA infrastructure services capture the system or business errors from the composite business processes and publish them to an AIA error topic, which is used by the error handling framework for further processing (resubmission, notification, logging, and so on).
The default implementation does not have inherent support for notifying the requester application of success or the failure of messages. Even though the middleware systems provide the ability to monitor and administer the flow of in-flight message transmissions, there will be use cases where requester applications will either want to be notified or have a logical reversal of work done programmatically.
For more information about how compensation handlers can be implemented for this message exchange pattern, see Chapter 11, "Designing Application Business Connector Services" and Chapter 12, "Constructing the ABCS".
Message delivery cannot be guaranteed when the participating systems and the services integrating those systems interact in an unreliable fashion.
For example, the Order Capture system might submit an order fulfillment request that triggers a business process, which in turn invokes the services provided by multiple disparate systems to fulfill the request. Expecting all of the service providers to be always available might be unrealistic.
A milestone is a message checkpoint where the enriched message is preserved after completing a certain amount of business functionality at this logical point or is submitted to the participating application for further processing of that message in an end-to-end composite business process. A milestone helps to commit the business transactions done to that logical point and also releases the resources used in the AIA services and the participating application.
AIA recommends introducing milestones at appropriate logical points in an end-to-end integration having the composite business processes, business activity services, or data services designed and implemented for integrating disparate systems to address a business requirement. Queues with database or file as persistence store are used to implement milestones.
Figure 25-3 shows how to ensure guaranteed delivery with the help of milestones for a simple use case where the customer service representative updates the billing profile on the source application and the updated profile is reflected in the back-end billing systems.
AIA recommends that the source application push the billing profile information to Milestone -1 (JMS Queue) in a transactional mode to ensure the guaranteed delivery of the message. This transaction is outside the AIA transaction boundaries and is not shown in the diagram. Once the billing profile information is stored in Milestone-1, the source application resources can be released because AIA ensures the guaranteed delivery of that message to the target application.
The implementation service has the message enrichment logic (if needed) and the Enterprise Business Service (EBS) routes the enriched message to appropriate providers or Milestone-2 (optional for very simple and straightforward use cases such as no enrichment or processing requirements for implementation service).
All the enriched messages would either be transferred to Milestone-2 or rolled back to Milestone - 1 for corrective action or resubmission. To achieve this, all the services present between Milestone-1 and Milestone-2 must enlist themselves in a single global transaction. Once the messages are transferred to Milestone-2, all the Milestone-1 implementation service instances are released to accommodate new requests.
The provider implementation service picks up the billing profile information and ensures the message is delivered to the target application. The target application may or may not have the capability of participating in the transaction between Milestone-2 and Milestone-3 so the implementation service should be designed to take care of the compensatory transactions.
AIA recommends that the target application build the XA capability to ensure guaranteed delivery. If the target application does not have the XA capability, the implementation service should be designed for manual compensations or semi-automatic or automatic compensations based on the target system's capability to acknowledge the business message delivered from AIA.
Figure 25-4 shows the usage of milestones to ensure guaranteed delivery for a complex use case where the source system submits an order provisioning request to AIA.
Introducing a milestone adds processing overhead and could impact the performance of composite business processes, business activity services, or data services. So selecting the number of milestones is a challenge for the designers. However, minimizing the milestones, thereby adding more work to a single transaction, could also have a detrimental effect.
Ensuring reliable messaging between the "milestones" and the "application and milestone" to achieve the guaranteed delivery adds transactional overheads. This could impact the performance at run time in some situations (if the amount of work to be done between two milestones is too large) and may also require additional process design requirements for compensation.
Requester applications should build tightly coupled services if they must send information to a specific target system. The logic to identify the service provider, and in some cases the service provider instance (when you have multiple application instances for the same provider) has to be embedded within the logic of caller service. The decision logic in the caller service has to be constantly undergoing changes as and when either a new service provider is added into the mix or an existing service provider is retired from that mix.
For example, a customer might have three billing system implementations-two instances of vendor A's billing system, one dedicated to customers who reside in North America and the second dedicated to the customers residing in Asia-Pacific; one instance of vendor B's billing system dedicated to customers residing in other parts of the world. The requester service must have the decision logic to discern to whom to delegate the request.
AIA recommends content-based service routing to appropriate target service implementations to further process this message and send it to the target applications. AIA recommends externalizing the decision logic to determine the right service provider from the actual requester application or service. This decision logic is incorporated in the routing service. This allows for declaratively changing the message path when unforeseen conditions occur. The Enterprise Business Service acts as a routing service. This facilitates one-to-many message routing based on the content-based filtering. A message originating from a requester can go to all the targets, some of the targets, or just one of the targets based on the business rules or content filters.
The routing service evaluates the rule and deciphers the actual service provider that must be used for processing a specific message. Using this approach, the clients or service requesters are totally unaware of the actual service providers. Similarly, the underlying service providers are oblivious to the client applications that made the request. This enables you to introduce new providers and retire existing providers without making any changes to the actual requester service.
Figure 25-5 illustrates how a request sent by Req Impl Service (requester service) is sent to either one of two target applications or to a trading partner (B2B) using context based routing by routing service.
For the requester service to be loosely coupled with the actual service providers, the routing service should act as the abstraction layer; therefore, its service interface has to be carefully designed. Its interface can emulate the actual service provider's interface if only one unique service provider exists or it can have a canonical interface.
Even though Mediator technologies allow for routing rules to be added in a declarative way, validation of different routing paths must be tested before deploying them in production.
Managing the decision logic locally in each of the routing services can lead to duplication as well as conflict so having them managed in a centralized rule management system such as Oracle Business Rules Engine is an option to be considered.
When the requester application produces a huge number of business messages which should be handled and sent to the target application, consuming all the messages to meet the expected throughput is a challenge. This becomes much more profound when the processing of each message involves interacting with a multitude of systems thereby resulting in blocking for a significant period of time waiting for them to complete their work.
For example, the order capture application submits orders in the order processing queue for the fulfillment of orders. Each of the order fulfillment requests must be picked from the queue and handed over to the order orchestration engine for decomposition. Only upon the acknowledgment can the next message be picked up from the order processing queue. Unplanned outages of the order orchestration platform can result in a large accumulation of order fulfillment requests and serial processing of these requests upon availability of platform can cause an inordinate amount of delay.
AIA recommends setting up multiple consumers or listeners connected to the source queue. AIA assumes that the requester application has published messages into the source queue.
Refer to Section 25.1.2, "Asynchronous Fire-and-Forget Pattern" for more details.
Figure 25-6 shows that setting up multiple listeners triggers consumption of multiple messages in parallel. Even though multiple consumers are created to receive the message from a single queue (Point-to-Point Channel), only one of the consumers can receive the message upon the delivery by JMS. Even though all of the consumers compete with each other to be the receiver, only one of them ends up receiving the message. Based on the business requirements, this pattern can be used across the nodes with each consumer set up on each node in an HA environment, or on a cluster to improve the scalability, or within the AIA artifact.
This solution only works for the queue and cannot be used with the Topic (Publish-Subscribe channel). In the case of Topic, each of the consumers receives a copy of the message.
Since multiple consumers are processing the messages in parallel, the messages are not processed in a specific order. If they must be processed in sequence without compromising parallelism and efficiency for a functional reason, then you must introduce a staging area to hold these messages until a contiguous sequence is received before delivering them to the ultimate receivers.
When a service provider has to take a large amount of time to process a request, how can the requester receive the outcome without keeping the requester in a suspended mode during the entire processing?
For example, the order capture application submits a request for fulfillment of an order. The order fulfillment process itself could take anywhere from several minutes to several days depending upon the complexity of tasks involved. Even though the order capture application would like to know the outcome of the fulfillment request, it cannot afford to wait idly until the process is completed to know the outcome.
AIA recommends using the asynchronous delayed response pattern where the requester submits a request to the integration layer and sets up a callback response address by populating the metadata section in the request message (WSA Headers). The callback response address points to the end point location of the original caller's service that is contacted by service provider after the completion. Since multiple intermediary services are involved before sending the message to the ultimate receiver, sending the callback address using the metadata section in the message is needed. In addition to the callback address, the requester is expected to send correlation details that allow the service provider to send this information in future conversations so that the requesters are able to associate the response messages with the original requests.
Since a request-delayed response pattern is asynchronous in nature, the requester does wait for the response after sending the request message. In the flow implementing this pattern as shown in Figure 25-7, it is recommended that all of the services involved have two one-way operations. A separate thread must be invoked to initiate the response message. When the AIA provider service processes the message after getting a reply from the provider participating application, it creates a response thread by invoking the response EBS. The response EBS uses the WSA headers to identify the requesting service and processes the response to invoke the callback address given by the requesting application. The EBS has a pair of operations to support two one-way calls - one for sending the request and another for receiving the response. Both the operations are independent and atomic. A correlation mechanism is used to establish the application or caller's context.
Provider applications must have the capability to persist the correlation details and the callback address sent by the requester application and need these details populated in the response message.
Integration architects should understand the transactional requirements, the participating applications' capability of participating in a global transaction, and the concept of milestones before deciding upon the asynchronous request-response pattern implementation. The following sections present implementation solution guidelines for three different scenarios.
Solution: Success scenario calls the same requester but separate service for the Error Handling
In this solution, the interaction is divided into two transactions; that is, the error handling part is separated from the requester ABCS implementation. A new service should be constructed to accept the error message from the response EBS and the error response service should forward it to the source participating application.
Figure 25-8 shows that if the request is processed successfully, then it is routed back to the requester ABCS to complete the remaining process activities. If there is any error while processing the response, it follows the normal error handling mechanism and a notification is sent back to the source participating application. If the error is sent back to the caller, then a web service call to the error response service should be made in the error handling block of the requester ABCS implementation.
Solution: Using JMS Queue as a milestone
In this solution, the interaction is divided into three transactions. The JMS queue / milestone should be used to enable the transaction boundaries. Figure 25-9 depicts the error scenario. The success scenario will not have the "JMS-2" queue. Instead the provider ABCS directly invokes the response EBS. So, for the success scenario, the whole interaction is completed in two transactions.
Solution: Using parallel routing rule and Web Service call
In this solution, the interaction is divided into three transactions. Figure 25-10 depicts the error scenario. The parallel routing rule in the mediator (EBS) and a web service call from the provider ABCS reference to response EBS should be used to enable the transaction boundaries. The success scenario directly calls the response EBS using an optimized reference component binding. So, there would be only two transaction boundaries for the success case.
This section describes how to avoid redundant data model representation and service contract representation in AIA.
This section includes the following topics:
Section 25.2.1, "How to Avoid Redundant Data Model Representation in AIA"
Section 25.2.2, "How to Avoid Redundant Service Contracts Representation in AIA"
The service contracts between the applications and AIA interfaces must use similar business documents or data sets which results in the redundant data models representation. A change in the data model is very difficult to apply and it is very difficult to govern.
AIA recommends separation of the data model or schemas physically from the service contracts or the implementations. These schemas should be centralized at a location which could be referenced easily during design or run time.
All the EBOs (Enterprise Business Objects), ABOs (Application Business Objects), and any other utility schemas should be maintained at a central location in a structured way.
As the EBO schemas are used for various business processes in common, a thorough analysis should be done before coming up with a canonical data model.
A change in the data model or schema should be treated very carefully because multiple dependent service contracts could be impacted with a small change.
Versioning policies should be clearly defined, otherwise redundant service implementations for a minor change may occur.
Governance is a challenge to manage the shared data models or common assets.
The granularity of the service contract can be at the operation level or at the entity level. The entity level definition can have various operations defined in the same service contract but the implementation can be at operation level which results in creating multiple implementation artifacts using the same service contract. This causes redundant service contracts representation in various implementations.
AIA recommends that the service contracts (WSDL) be separated physically from the implementations. These service contracts should be centralized at a location which can be referenced easily during design or run time.
All the EBS (Enterprise Business Service), ABCS (Application Business Connector Service), and any other utility service contracts should be maintained at a central location in a structured way.
A change in the service contract should be treated very carefully because multiple dependent service implementations could be impacted with a small change.
Governance is a challenge to manage the shared service contracts or common assets.
This section discusses the extensibility patterns for AIA assets and describes the problems and solutions for extending AIA artifacts.
This section includes the following topics:
The delivered schemas may not be sufficient for some of your specific business operations, so you may want to add elements to the existing schemas in an upgrade safe manner. This wouldn't be possible by just adding the customer-specific elements in an existing schema, and the schema extension model is needed.
To allow you to extend the EBO or Enterprise Business Message (EBM) schemas in a nonintrusive manner, the complex type defined for every business component and the common component present in each of the EBO or EBM schemas has an extension placeholder element called Custom at the end. The data type for this custom element is defined in the schema modules allocated for holding customer extensions in the custom EBO schema files.
In Example 25-1 the custom element added at the end of the complex type in the "Schema-A" acts as a place holder to bring the customer extensions added in the "Custom Schema-A".
Here the Schema- A is "AIAComponents\EnterpriseObjectLibrary\Industry\Telco\EBO\ CustomerParty\V2\CustomerPartyEBO.xsd"
Example 25-1 Custom Element Acting as Placeholder
<xsd:complexType name="CustomerPartyAccountContactCreditCardType"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="corecom:Identification" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element ref="corecom:CreditCard" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element name="Custom" type="corecustomerpartycust:CustomCustomerPartyAccountContactCreditCardType" minOccurs="0"/> </xsd:sequence> <xsd:attribute name="actionCode" type="corecom:ActionCodeType" use="optional"/> </xsd:complexType>
Example 25-2 shows the Custom Schema - A: "AIAComponents\EnterpriseObjectLibrary\Industry\Telco\Custom\ EBO\CustomerParty\V2\CustomCustomerPartyEBO.xsd"
Example 25-2 Adding an Extension to EBO or EBM Schemas
<!-- ================================================================== --> <!-- ============== CustomerParty Custom Components ================ --> <!-- ============================================================ --> <xsd:complexType name="CustomCustomerPartyAccountAttachmentType"/> <xsd:complexType name="CustomCustomerPartyAccountContactType"/> <xsd:complexType name="CustomCustomerPartyAccountContactCreditCardType"> <!-- CUSTOMERS CAN ADD EXTENSIONS HERE ...> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:complexType name="CustomCustomerPartyAccountContactUsageType"/>
The delivered services may not be sufficient to address some of your specific business functionality. You may want to add some validation logic, enrich the existing content in the service, or add some processing logic in between the existing service implementation. Adding this logic in the existing service code would not ensure upgrade safety because the upgrade process would overwrite the existing service code with new functionality added as part of the upgrade. So, there is a need for a service extension model.
AIA recommends introducing various extension points at logical points during the service implementation. Figure 25-11 illustrates that there are four logical extension points identified in the ABCS to perform customer-specific validations, content enrichment or message alteration, and any additional logic that you would like to implement with the given payload at that extension point. Typically there are two pre-processing and two post-processing extension points identified: pre-processing ABM, post-processing ABM, pre-processing EBM and post-processing EBM.
The number of extension points may be more or less than four depending on the type of service implementation and the type of message exchange pattern used by that service.
These extension points can be enabled or disabled based on whether you want to implement those custom extension points.
The delivered transformations with existing schemas may not be sufficient for some of your specific business operations. You may want to add elements to the existing schemas and then add transformation maps for the newly added elements to transfer the information from one application to the other in an upgrade safe manner. This would not be possible by just adding the customer-specific transformations in an existing XSL files so the transformations extension model is needed.
To extend the transformations in a nonintrusive manner, the call template statement is defined for every business component mapping present in each of the XSL transformation files which calls the "Custom Template" defined in the custom XSL transformation.
Example 25-3 is the example to add new transformations for the custom elements added by the customer:
The main XSL mapping "XformListOfCmuAccsyncAccountIoToCreateCustomerPartyListEBM.xsl" would import the custom XSL file and have call template statement to the extension template for each complex type or business component like this:
Example 25-3 Adding New Transformations for Customer-defined Custom Elements
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?> ..……………………………………….. xmlns:dvm="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.dvm.LookupValue"> <xsl:import href="XformListOfCmuAccsyncAccountIoToCreateCustomerPartyListEBM_ Custom.xsl"/> ..……………………………………….. <xsl:value-of select="aia:getServiceProperty($ConfigServiceName, 'Routing.CustomerPartyEBS.CreateCustomerPartyList.CAVS.EndpointURI', false())"/> </corecom:DefinitionID> </xsl:if> <xsl:call-template name="MessageProcessingInstructionType_ext"> <xsl:with-param name="currentNode" select="."/> </xsl:call-template> </corecom:MessageProcessingInstruction>
Example 25-4 shows the custom XSL file that has the template definition where you can add your custom mappings for the newly added custom elements or existing elements which are not mapped in the main transformation.
Example 25-4 Custom XSL Template Definition
<!-- HEADER CUSTOMIZATION --> <xsl:template name="MessageProcessingInstructionType_ext"> <xsl:template name="EBMHeaderType_ext"> <xsl:param name="currentNode"/> <!-- Customers add transformations here --> </xsl:template> <xsl:param name="currentNode"/> <!-- Customers add transformations here --> </xsl:template> <!-- DATA AREA CUSTOMIZATION --> <xsl:template name="ContactType_ext"> <xsl:param name="currentNode"/> <!-- Customers add transformations here --> </xsl:template>
The delivered composite business processes or Enterprise Business Flows may not be sufficient to address some of your specific business functionality. You may want to add more processing steps, message alteration, or additional processing logic between the existing composite business process implementation. Adding this logic in the existing process orchestration would not ensure upgrade safety so you need a process extension model.
AIA recommends introducing extension points at logical points during the service implementation. There are no fixed logical extension points identified for the Composite Business Processes (CBP) or Enterprise Business Flows (EBF). The number of extension points depends on the complexity of the business process and the number of message types that the process is handling in the implementation.
It is recommended to have one pre-processing and one post-processing extension point for each message type at various logical points in CBP or EBF implementation. The extension process should always be a synchronous process using the same message payload for request and response for that extension point.
These extension points can be enabled or disabled based on whether you want to implement those custom extension points.


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Many of those posts were captured by a BuzzFeed article and went from bad to worse. Some student made meme pictures of the chancellor mocking her Asian heritage.
Then, there was a Twitter account created called @ChanPhyllisWise. The account was shut down by Monday morning.
But not all the comments were bad. Other students came to the chancellor's defense calling the #F***Phyllis hashtag juvenile, irresponsible and an embarrassment to the University.
@Kinzak89 tweeted: "These
#f***phyllis tweets are ridiculously embarrassing. What makes me cringe even more is when the brown kids write racist tweets."
@amandajp801 tweeted: "The fact that people think this is okay is despicable."
@GrimalkinRN tweeted: "I agree it sucks going to class when it's freezing. Be an adult. Stay home if it's safer, but don't make racial slurs"
AlsoSunday night, a Change.org, petition was created to cancel Monday's classes. More than 8,500 signatures had been collected by Monday morning.


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About Big Mook
Sorry dude, but people who routinely pirate content aren't going to pay to anonymize themselves. It runs counter to the whole idea of getting everything for free.
Next idea, please.
Hail Xenu (and Seth)!
Just a few weeks ago, Memphis police director Larry Godwin announced in a press conference that red light cameras will be going up at the city's most dangerous intersections.
Now, since Larry Godwin is as dumb as a bag of hammers, he probably believes in some small way they're really doing something to make the city safer. But since Larry is also as sly as a fox, he knows that someone is going to get rich off of this, and he might as well take his piece of the action while he can.
I can guarantee that none of the dolts in the mayor's office, the city council, or the police director's office have any idea of the overwhelming evidence that these things don't save lives or reduce accidents, and they don't want to know.
When you've got a nutbag like Barney Franks on, and the guy just won't answer any questions, and won't come clean on his lack of oversight on Fannie Mae, then yes, the only thing that can be done in response is to call BS and scream right back at the raving lunatic. I suppose O'Reilly could have told his producers to cut the live feed and be done with it, but Franks showed everyone who watched that he's a dishonest coward who isn't interested in what's best for the country. So even with the screaming, the viewers got the message.
Now, insert your favorite nutcase into the above scenario and you can see why sometimes the conversation devolves.
Nutcases don't care about facts, only pushing their agenda. When that happens, no amount of facts will dissuade them.
The first time I watched O'Reilly, I hated it. He was constantly interrupting his guests and seemed overly rude. I wondered why anyone would want to watch this guy beat people up every night.
But then I found a pattern. He lets people talk when they aren't blowing smoke, but as soon as they start to drift, he stops them. I guess that pisses a lot of people off, but since his is the highest rated program on Fox News and regularly beats every other news channel in his time slot, I guess a lot of people have figured him out and enjoy what he's doing.
I've been watching now for about 5 years, and I don't agree with everything he says and does, but for the most part, he reflects my social and fiscal conservative leanings. Funny, but the only people I can find who absolutely don't like him are liberal loons who only want to hear that Obambi is the savior, abortion is a good and noble practice, illegal aliens should be granted full and complete amnesty and citizenship, and appeasing terrorists will protect us.
Obligatory: What say you?
Don't worry, John, you're not at the wrong blog. AC can't distinguish between news commentary, i.e. O'Reilly, Hannity, etc. and news reporting, i.e. the Fox Report. Commentary isn't supposed to look or sound like normal reporting. That's why it's so popular, both on Fox and talk radio.
Of course, put the shoe on the other foot, and try watching any NBC outlet, or perhaps NPR, etc. and you won't get any hard hitting news at all, unless it will hurt conservatives.
But I don't think AC will like me pointing that out.
Hail Xenu (and Seth)!!
I think you've got it wrong. I say I know best how to spend the money I earn, and the government should get out of the way as much as possible. That's capitalism, and although it makes some people filthy rich, it's fair because gains are limited only by how hard you want to work.
To paraphrase Churchill, capitalism guarantees unequal sharing of wealth, but socialism guarantees equal sharing of misery. I'll take capitalism, thanks very much. If that's voodoo, then please pass the chicken bones.
Hey, you can't say slick Willie had no talent. He was pretty good at inserting cigars and his joint into the various orifices of a certain chubby intern.
So, Harold, you don't like Bush and you don't like Obama. Just who does it for the weird one?
Campaign: I will not employ lobbyists in my administration.
Now: I will employ lobbyists, lots of them. I only promised that to get elected.
Campaign: I will not sign any legislation until it's had 5 days of public review.
Now: Sorry about signing all of these things with no review, I only made that promise to get elected.
Campaign: I will use a scalpel to remove all earmarks from any spending bills.
Now: You know the drill. I only said that to get elected.
Hail Xenu and the Lord Almighty Obambi (praise be unto Him)!
Big Mook
As the only and original Big Mook, I take offense at the improper use of the name Mook in violation of my personal wishes. Please consider this message as your cease and desist notification.
Hail Xenu!
Big Mook
So, while you were there, did you take advantage of everybody else to stay home and collect sick pay, as is common practice in Sweden, where fully 20% of the workforce can be found home sick every business day of the year?
Hey, who wouldn't love that life? Stay home from work 1 day a week, get free health care and housing, subsidized prescription drugs, etc. Too bad that there are shortages of doctors and long waiting lists for most major surgeries, but hey, you'll be much healthier because of all that rest you get on your sick days. And since the government is taking more than half of your pay off the top, maybe you won't have enough left over to engage in many extra-curricular activities that might cause you great bodily harm.
Of course, there is also the cost in self-esteem and pride in accomplishment. Scandinavia is like a huge college frat party, except the professors don't make you attend class or even do a fair share of work to get a grade.
So, I guess if you're lazy, Scandinavia is the right place for you. Why aren't you still there?
From the forbidden zone of conservatism,
Big Mook
I don't need a month to tell you that these states have been in decline since the 70's. This is another trick employed by supporters of socialism, but it's been debunked so many times there's no need to even go there.
But I don't think you knew that. Somewhere, long ago, someone told you that Scandinavia has it going on, and socialism has triumphed. But quite the opposite is true. They have tax rates in line with what Obambi wants to give us here in America, but their governments are cash-poor because no one has any incentive to start up a business or invest where the government is going to take the lion's share away. Can you say Stagflation?
If you want a good economic model for taxation, look no further than Ireland, which has the 2nd lowest tax burden, yet has very high tax revenue. Wonder how that happened? There was this guy named Reagan...you'll never get it.
When you figure it out, please let Obambi in on the secret.
Big Mook
Just to add one more thought to this already too long thread:
AC says if he thought I was benefiting from capitalism, he would have told me to polish my throne. (At my house, the throne is this little white, porcelain stool used for the disposal of excrement).
What he fails to realize, is that I, and every other citizen of this country including him, are benefiting from it. Without it, we would be another Cuba, Venezuela, "name the socialist country", with the majority of the population living in filth and poverty, while the "party" members live a life of luxury and ease.
America is in trouble, but if we could make it past the gigantic blunders of some past presidents, including Bush, then we can make it through the Obama years, too. It will just take a lot longer to recover, probably a decade or more, just as FDR's failed policies sunk the country deeper in depression while creating make-work jobs for the short term.
Hail Xenu and The Lord Almighty Obama (praise be unto Him)!
From the bottomless pit,
Big Mook
That's it? You're giving up so easily? And it was just getting to be fun.
The point is that left-wingers like to say how evil successful people are just for the fact that they are successful, but the affluent among the left-wingers who can afford to be generous seldom are, while conservatives tend to give much more of their money to worthy causes.
It's simple really. I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility; giving to charities, churches, and other worthy causes is a moral responsibility. That would be a conservative viewpoint.
The opposite viewpoint, which is true of Obama and his ilk, would be that with great wealth comes great evil, and only the government should decide how much to take and to whom it should be given. It becomes a government-mandated responsibility, and the freedom to choose has been taken away.
Hope that clears it up for you.
From way down in Obama's bottomless pit,
Big Mook
If you want to polish something, try to polish up Obambi for me. Oh, that's right: You can't polish a turd; it only gets you covered in shit and smells really bad.
Choice in abortion, you say? Bullshit, plain and simple. Nobody asked me if I want my money to fund abortions. I'm less free because of the supposed freedom you espouse? I would expect nothing less from a left-wing wingnut, though.
I suppose you believe it was Carter's policies finally coming to fruition that brought the country back into prosperity in the 80's, not Reagan's polar shift from Carter's failed social agenda. That's cool. Revisionist history is also necessary for the left wing.
Obama is tanking this nation, and I guarantee his policies won't work. Socialism/Collectivism/Communism, whatever you'd like to call it, it doesn't work and never has in the history of mankind. Just because Obambi can read a teleprompter real good doesn't mean it will work this time.
Let's talk again in a few years when we have double-digit inflation, unemployment and interest rates.
From the mud hole,
Big Mook
O'Reilly gives a ton of money to charity, but I guess you missed that. Let's see how some of the Democrats fared...
From USA Today:
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity during the past decade, his tax records show.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign today released 10 years' worth of tax returns for Biden, a senator from Delaware, and his wife Jill, a community college instructor. The Bidens reported earning $319,853 last year, including $71,000 in royalties for his memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics.
The Bidens reported giving $995 in charitable donations last year — about 0.3% of their income and the highest amount in the past decade. The low was $120 in 1999, about 0.1% of yearly income.
Over the decade, the Bidens reported a total of $3,690 in charitable donations, or 0.2% of their income.
Biden spokesman David Wade said in an e-mail that the Bidens "also contribute to their favorite causes with their time as well as their checkbooks."
How nice. From the same article:
Then-Vice President Al Gore came under fire when his 1997 tax return showed only $353 in donations to charity; he and his wife, Tipper, gave $15,000 to charity, or nearly 7% of their income, in each of the following two years.
A little further down:
John McCain reported giving more than $202,000 — a quarter of his income — to charity in 2006 and 2007, the only years for which his campaign released his tax returns. His campaign didn't release information about his wife's charitable contributions, however. In 2006, her total itemized tax deductions, a category which includes charitable contributions and other deductible items such as mortgage interest, was $569,737, or 9.3% of her income.
Ok, I lied. I'm still reading TechDirt. I rationalized that it only requires sitting on my ass, and typing a little if necessary/desired. And there aren't any poor people handy just now that I can steal something from.
You're illustrating exactly what I find reprehensible about the liberal mindset. You've assumed that I'm some rich capitalist who is only whining because I might have to sell my yacht or vacation home.
In reality, I'm firmly a lower-middle-class, working stiff, struggling to feed and clothe a family of 4 and pay the mortgage and car note, who has just lost over 40% of his retirement savings in this financial mess. Thank goodness I still have a job.
I'm just not blind to the fact that destroying the businesses and people who create the jobs and prosperity for the rest of us, will hurt us all in the end. I'm not blind to the fact that corporations DON'T PAY TAXES, they just pass them on to the consumer. I'm not blind to the fact that the types of entitlements that Obambi is enacting are the same old failed social experiments of Johnson and Carter. They don't work, and they never will.
I'm old enough to remember the Carter years, and Obama has started up the time machine and we're headed right back there again. Only this time, it'll be much worse, and there won't be any nice photo ops between Isreali and Arab countries trying to work out peace. But by God, the poor are going to have their handouts restored to them. Forget personal responsibility, Obama will take care of it. Can't pay your mortgage (because you bought a home you couldn't afford)? No problem, He'll take care of that for you. Can't pay your student loans? See above.
And please don't talk about ethics and morality. Democrats are the party that holds nothing sacred. Marriage, family and even human life must hold no special place if you want to align yourself with them. Destruction of the nuclear family and abortion with no restrictions must be your preferences if you want to have a conversation with the likes of Pelosi or Obama.
I don't need to dig a hole, Obama is doing that already quite well, and when he's done, quite possibly the entire country will fit inside it. I'll keep the gun handy, though. I might need it when the revolution starts, and for squirrels and such.
Hail Xenu and His Lordship, The Almighty Obambi!
Big Mook
Not if Obambi keeps running this country into the ground. Oh well, I've got a couple of guns laying around like any good right-winger, so I guess I can hunt squirrels and other small vermin after the new tax code starts really squeezing the life out of me.
Sorry, gotta run, I've no more time to read TechDirt, I've got to get busy sitting on my ass and trying to get my hands on the hard-earned money of those poor, wretched souls that are poor and wretched because of me. Uh-oh, I think I just soiled myself.
Hail Xenu!
Big Mook
In defense of Rich Fat Porcine, please know that we are Democrats who digest Princess Pelosi, Dingy Harry, The Lord Almighty Obambi, the NY Times, SF Chronicle, CNN, MSNBC, and any other left-wing, nutbag source of info-memos every day, and we remember the talking points. We are the left-wing, benevolent, charitable angelic creatures who give other people's money to those poor unfortunate souls left sitting on their asses (because of the greedy bastards), bringing innovation to everything we do, while we dream up new methods of getting our hairy palms on the profit of the hard work of every successful person we find.
We know the facts, we just choose to ignore them, because it's much easier to keep the voting block happy by giving them a few crumbs now and then rather than real solutions to their problems.
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
Winston Churchill
Hail Xenu!
Big Mook
Problem is, the MSM didn't want anyone to know who was responsible, so they pretty much buried it after a few initial forays into the subject. Bush was too busy protecting us from Islamo-fascist nutbags who want to kill us.
The MSM would like us to believe that the only bad things Clinton ever did was dip cigars and his member in the various orifices of an intern (and any other skirt who grabbed his attention). The truth is that the economy under Clinton would have been a total bust if it wasn't for the Internet and technology boom that fueled the 90's.


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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Let's Bake!
Robert Greenfield's Slow-Cooked BBQ Pulled Pork Sammies
You'll Need: Pork Shoulder, Can o' Beef Stock, Dry Rub, BBQ sauce, Buns, Sauerkraut (optional), Crock Pot
Prep + Cook Time: approx. 10 hours
Effort Level: Low to Moderate
Satisfaction Level: Elevated to Awesome
Feeds: Several Hungry Humanoids
First, get yourself a nice Boston Butt/Pork Shoulder from your friendly grocer. You should easily be able to find a good size for under $10 (that's what she said). Tell 'em the Ranter sent you (this may not get you discount, but it may start up a nice conversation with the hottie behind you in line.) When you get home, trim off as much visible fat as possible. Then, take some dry rub (sweet 'n smoky = my current fave) and make like paddy cake by smacking it around some with it (that's what she said. OK, I'll stop). Now dump that can o' beef stock into the crock pot and then plop that beautiful pork shoulder in there after it. Nice work.
At this point, feel free to have some beers, browse the interwebs, take a few naps or rewatch last year's Packer wins because you're going to let that bad boy cook for eight full hours on high heat in the crock pot. Yes, that's like, a long time, but it's called slow cooking for a reason. Lambeau Field wasn't built in a day as far as I know. It's totally worth it, trust me. At the end of the eight hours, your entire home should be full with a thick meat scent. That is, unless you remembered to shut the bedroom doors and open the windows beforehand… suckers! Just kidding, but not really.
Now the fun really begins. Poke that pork and pull off a piece. Did you notice how it fell apart faster than the Lions playcalling? Now taste it. Pretty good, eh? Well, it gets even better really soon. Transfer the entire shoulder somewhere where you can really work it. Take a couple forks and pull it apart into sweet shreds of meat. At this point, you should remove any remaining fat as well any bones. Now, drop a fat BBQ sauce bomb all over it and mix 'er up real good. Hmmm-Mmmm. Serve hearty spoonfuls on a bun (preferably with a small load of Frank's Kraut) and ENJOY.
Let me know how it turns out!
10 comments:
- Boston Butt?May 13, 2010 at 11:44 AM
mmmmf, Can't talk . . . eating pork . . .mmmmf, good.ReplyDelete
- PackersRSMay 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM
time to wake n bake!
Ever slapped a healthy serving of slaw on one of those bad boys? Maybe serve it on top of a brat for the ultimate porker?ReplyDelete
....I'm not high, it's just almost lunch time.
Yes, the slaw is solid, but I recently substituted the Kraut and it gave it such a wonderful complementary zing that I may never look back. Have not tried adding more meat, but I can definitely see the attraction!ReplyDelete
Does that mean you get high at lunch, or...
Nothing was ever ruined by adding more meat to it. Nothing.ReplyDelete
I like the idea of kraut on anything really, but it will tough to abstain from the slaw. Maybe, I'll go with both.
- for shizzleMay 15, 2010 at 8:27 PM
If you are thinking of serving this delectable dish to someone who is not a Packer fan, a can of whoopass makes for a great side. Best to have it available, even if unopened, just in case.ReplyDelete
- A_Lerxst_in_PackerlandMay 16, 2010 at 4:43 PM
I must try this addition of kraut to pulled pork next time I have some! (Damn, I can't believe I never thought of that one myself...).ReplyDelete
Thank you Mr. Greenfield!
The one thing I do like to add that wasn't mentioned is a nice dose of hot sauce (or you can use a spicy BBQ sauce for a similar effect.)
Making me hungry, this is!
WTF??? Is up with that chick in the picture? Is she 'tarding' out or what? The look on that kids face behind her is priceless!ReplyDelete
Absolutley, Alex to mixing up the hot and bbq sauces. I do this often - just listed my current favorite style.ReplyDelete
Fitzcore - that girl is a legend in her own time. Like an internet sasquatch or something. Take a look: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mosh-girl-moshzilla
Cooking makes a woman charming from the eyes of their husband and child.ReplyDelete


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I received two emails from Mark A Vieria, author of Greta Garbo, a Cinematic Legacy. One was a sheet of photos to be downloaded that were scanned from the original negatives that he had left over from his book on Greta Garbo. The second was a similar sheet with the message More To Have Fun With. Below are two photos from the photo session between Clarence Sinclair Bull during the filming of As You Desire Me. Above is how readers of Photoplay Mgazine saw the photo in 1932.
This photograph of Greta Garbo, taken by Clarence Sinclair Bull, was one of those not among the photos sent to me by Mark A. Vieira and was published in Photoplay Magazine during 1932.
This too is a portrait from the Clarence Sinclair Bull session with Greta Garbo during As You Desire Me. Published in Motion Picture Magazine it was not among those photos e-mailed to me by author Mark A Vieira, those of which,again, were scanned from the original negatives.
During 1932, Clarence Sinclair Bull published a portrait of Greta Garbo in Picture Play magazine. It was not one of those included in those sent to me by author Mark A Vieira from those left over from his book Greta Garbo, A Cinematic Legacy.
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ByYuka Hayashi
French economist Thomas Piketty's 700-page opus "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"—a blockbuster in Europe and the U.S. for its conclusions about rising inequality—says Japan is no exception to the rule.
Japan has long prided itself on relative social equality, and Mr. Piketty says the country, like his native France, has a much smaller gap between rich and poor than the U.S. But he believes the gap in Japan is poised to widen in coming decades.
That conclusion could feed debates over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Some critics say Mr. Abe's pro-growth policies—such as plans to lower the corporate tax rate while raising the national sales tax—could also fuel a greater wealth gap.
Unfortunately, it will be a while until most Japanese readers get to read Mr. Piketty. Misuzu Shobo, a Tokyo literary publisher that has the local rights to the book, told Japan Real Time it has recently hired a translator, but it has yet to set a date for the book's debut. Editions du Seuil, the French publisher of the book, said the Japanese edition should be published by March 2017.
In the U.S. and Europe, a debate is raging among economists and journalists over Mr. Piketty's central claim that inequality will grow in the 21st century as wealth is concentrated among a small group of economic elites.
For those interested in Japan, here are the key findings in Mr. Piketty's book, which includes data collected in Japan such as tax documents going back to the 19th century:
Inequality isn't new: Despite cultural differences from Europe, Japan had the same high level of inequality in the early 20th century, with a small number of wealthy people getting a large portion of national income. "[A]ll signs are that in terms of both income structure and income inequality, Japan was indeed the same 'old world' as Europe," writes Mr. Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics. Inequality shrank sharply after the two world wars as the fighting destroyed much of the elite's wealth.
The rich are slowly getting richer: Japan has seen wealth become slightly more concentrated over the past two decades, but not nearly to the degree of the U.S. In Japan, the top 1%'s share of national income rose about two percentage points to around 9% or slightly higher today from 7% in the 1980s. France, Germany and Sweden experienced roughly similar rises, whereas the top 1% picked up 10 to 15 percentage points in the U.S. As for the top 0.1%, in Japan their share of national income has been nearly 2.5% recently, up from 1.5% in the early 1980s—a rise that again falls short of the U.S.
Looking ahead, Japan shouldn't rest easy: Mr. Piketty cautions Japan and Europe not to neglect the trends in their countries. "On the contrary: their trajectory resembles that of the U.S. in some respects, with a delay of one or two decades," he writes. "One need not wait until the phenomenon assumes the macroeconomic significance observed in the U.S. to worry about it."
Among the few Japanese to have read the book is economist and blogger Nobuo Ikeda, who runs a popular blog aggregation site called Agora. Recently, Mr. Ikeda posted an advertisement for a four-part seminar to study the book on weekday evenings at cost of $200 (or half-price for students and women). He closed the registration early after 35 people signed up for what he envisioned as a class for 20.
"I was very surprised by the popularity of the course," Mr. Ikeda said. "This is an academic book that's very difficult to tackle." He added that the typical participant is a businessman in his 30s or 40s.
Mr. Ikeda said the book carries growing relevance in Japan, partly because companies are hoarding cash while keeping a lid on wage raises. "We may see the gap between ordinary workers and the corporate management class widen in the coming years," Mr. Ikeda said. "Piketty will be received well in Japan too."


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The news got a little overshadowed but Egypt has voted and a small majority of Egyptians voted for a Sharia based constitution. A sad turning point in the history of this country.
The fundamentalist Muslims in this country will no doubt feel emboldened by this and will undertake action to further cement their foothold in this country.
Will Egypt's monumental history undergo the same fate as so many countries under the rule of fundamentalist Muslims? Will its history be utterly destroyed like the statues in Afghanistan and the tombs is Mali?
Dr. Zahi Hawass has long left Egypt and appears to now be living in Italy and has remained quiet since January 2012. Who will protect Egypt's heritage now?
Aside from the history, and this has been already been taking place, is that other religions will face mounting difficulties trying to co-exist in Egypt. I doubt if it has ever been acceptable to even be atheist in Egypt.
It may take them a bit more time but I see Egypt turn in to a state much the like of Iran and Pakistan in the foreseeable future.
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it's sad ... people are being manipulated and the majority don't know what sharia laws mean despite they are muslims ... they vote blindly for it seeking stability as our economy is falling apart.
Egypt is about to be declared as a failed state unfortunately.
Sharia law would be the worse thing for the economy, if they enforce it. It is so ironic that democracy can allows itself to effectively be voted out.
//Sharia law would be the worse thing for the economy//
No, It's never been a threat to economy.. Who said that?..
It's just a major threat to human rights freedom and liberty! Terrible!
Take Saudi Arabia as an example..
I was thinking in terms of foreign investment and a climate of political uncertainty. Business hates uncertainty, and a new government would add that to the mix.
And also tourism is very important to Egypt's economy, I wanted to have a second visit, but I would probably skip it if the elections go badly for secularism. There are many more comfortable options for people to spend their money and holiday time.
Tourism is one of the most important sectors in Egypt's economy. More than 12.8 million tourists visited Egypt in 2008, providing revenues of nearly $11 billion. The sector employs about 12 percent of Egypt's workforce.
The economic effects may be relatively short-lived, if the new rulers adopt good economic policies. I do not agree Saudi is a fair comparison based on their natural resources.
Aha! Now I understand, thanks for clarifying that point..
Almost funny is that some Egyptians think that Morsi isn't even strict enough yet and that the country should have an even more strict leadership. Morsi is seen as a puppet of the West. (For real?)
I'm shocked, "...people are being manipulate... " in Egypt, that's terrible...when did they get Fox News?
Fox News is a cute harmless kitty compared to the twisted manipulative media these days here in Egypt. :D:D
Egypt is on its own way towards theocracy!
I don't understand the support by "burka wearers" for bringing sharia law into the forefront politically. If I was a young female in Egypt it would be a fearful time.
If you were a young female in Egypt, I imagine you'd do exactly what your Daddy and your brothers told you to do. You might even embrace the change because it made your parents happy.
If you have never lived with western values, you probably wouldn't understand them and you probably would believe the Qu'ran in its instruction of where you ranked in the hierarchy of life, i.e. somewhere below the oxen.


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For now it's just a launch page asking for email addresses, but from what we gather on Hacker News, it will be an automated service that leaves messages on your Facebook wall.
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With no discussion, the Texas Senate on Wednesday unanimously confirmed the nominations of State Board of Education Chair Barbara Cargill, Secretary of State John Thomas Steen and others as recommended earlier this week.
Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, chairs the Senate Nominations Committee and presented the resolution, which passed with a 23-0 vote. On Feb. 11, Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, questioned Cargill, pointing out that she asked applicants to a curriculum writing team if they considered themselves a conservative, among other things.
But this week, Watson spoke in favor of Cargill, saying that his qualms were resolved during her testimony.
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After the committee hearing, Watson said he was confident that his peers in the senate would give Cargill the necessary two-thirds vote.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama carried the nation's capital in 2008 with 92 percent of the vote, and some local activists hoped he would push to give the District of Columbia representation in Congress and more autonomy in local affairs.
Four years later, nothing has changed _ the district still has a nonvoting delegate in the House, and its budget and laws remain subject to congressional review. Even Obama's staunchest local defenders are upset he's not more vocal on issues important to them.
"There are many things I agree with the administration on. This is not one of them," said D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown, a campaign surrogate for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. "I have been disappointed by their lack of leadership related to statehood efforts."
Obama hasn't met with Mayor Vincent Gray since a lunch in late 2010, before the mayor took office, and the president hasn't invited Gray to the State of the Union address, a courtesy sometimes extended to district mayors. And he hasn't placed the district's "Taxation Without Representation" license plate on his official vehicles, a symbolic gesture Bill Clinton made when in office.
Gray, a Democrat, has been dogged by scandal since shortly after he took office _ a likely barrier to friendly relations with the White House. Three former aides have pleaded guilty to crimes linked to Gray's 2010 campaign against then-Mayor Adrian Fenty, including one who admitted she helped funnel $650,000 in illicit funds to the campaign. The U.S. Attorney's Office continues to investigate the mayor, who denies wrongdoing.
The mayor said last week that he doesn't feel personally snubbed by the president.
"I'm supporting the president's re-election, and I hope in his second term that he will be able to do more for the District of Columbia," Gray said.
Some activists say the mayor and other politicians are little more than apologists for a president who has ignored them.
"He's snubbing the mayor, but he's also snubbing D.C. Even if it was another mayor, he would have snubbed him, too," said Mark Plotkin, a political commentator for WTTG-TV and a longtime statehood advocate.
Democrats outnumber Republicans 11 to 1 in the nation's capital, and the Democratic candidate has received at least 75 percent of the vote in every presidential election since the district was granted three electoral votes in 1964. But Obama's margin was the largest, and residents of what was then still a majority-black city partied all night in the streets to celebrate the nation's first black president.
Although Obama has said when asked that he supports representation and greater autonomy for the district, his most forceful words on a local matter were a dagger to the heart of local leaders: "John, I will give you D.C. abortion." That's what he said to House Speaker John Boehner during negotiations that ended a budget impasse in April 2011, according to published reports of the meeting.
That concession meant that the city could no longer spend local tax dollars on abortions for poor women, something it has done when Democrats have controlled the House, Senate and presidency. It led to a protest outside the Capitol in which Gray was arrested.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents the district in Congress but cannot vote on the House floor, said she was disappointed by the concession on abortion. But she says the White House has backed the district since then, in part by inserting language in its budget proposals advocating budget autonomy for the city.
"If we want anything from the president, we would just like more forceful statements more often," Norton said. But, she added, "we don't have any illusions that if the tea party Congress hears from the president of the United States, they'll do right. Give us a break."
With Democrats controlling Congress, the first two years of Obama's term presented the district's best opportunity to gain representation. In early 2009, the Senate passed a bill to give Norton a vote on the House floor. But Republican senators added an amendment to dismantle the city's tight gun-control laws, and with some Democrats also signaling support for the amendment, House leaders pulled the bill from consideration.
Since Republicans took back the House in 2010, the district's most prominent champion has been a conservative Republican: California Rep. Darrell Issa, who chairs the committee that oversees district government. He has drafted a bill that would authorize the district to spend local tax dollars without congressional approval, and he has even floated the idea of a commuter tax, which is vigorously opposed by representatives from Maryland and Virginia.
Still, budget autonomy has eluded the city. District leaders rejected Issa's bill because of an amendment that would make permanent the ban on abortion spending.
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I know, I know. It's been a while since a posted a new recipe. Between running Plate & Pencil, teaching, and putting on Tangra Spring, I've been a little short on time, to put it mildly. Sadly, things like creating new recipes can sometimes go on the back burner.
Also, this winter sure was long wasn't it? I think the lack of sunshine, the frigid April that felt like March, and rainy May that felt like April made most of us feel a little less inspired in the kitchen. Sometimes all I wanted was soup, spaghetti, pizza, soup, spaghetti, pizza, rinse, repeat. Anything that could be made or purchased in 10 minutes or less.
(Okay, there were also many days of making dumplings en mass, to store up for the week ahead.)
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There was a time when the Cubs actually had a dynasty. You have to go back to a time when cars were considered a novelty, but it did happen.
During the first decade of the 20th Century, the Cubs were a powerhouse in baseball. They won the National League pennant in 1906 and the World Series in 1907.
Then on Oct. 14, 1908, the Cubs, led by manager and first baseman Frank Chance, became the first team to win back-to-back titles, beating Detroit 2-0 in Game 5.
Who could have known it would be their last championship for the next 96 years?
Hostile pairing
The double-play combination of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance inspired the famous poem by Franklin Pierce Adams (the name as published has been corrected in this text): "These are the saddest of possible words...Tinker to Evers to Chance..."
However, while they worked well together on the field, shortstop Joe Tinker and second baseman Johnny Evers hated each other. According to historian Gabriel Schechter, a researcher at the Baseball Hall of Fame, the pair had a falling out early in their career and didn't talk until they were reunited in the 1930s.
"Their overriding desire to win overcame any personal problems," Schechter said.
The infamous goof
Bill Buckner may be the symbolic goat for the current generation of baseball fans, but Fred Merkle has held the distinction for an eternity. On Sept. 23, 1908, the Cubs and New York Giants were tied 1-1 in the ninth inning. With two outs, the Giants' Al Bridwell hit a single for the apparent winning run. With fans running out onto the field, Merkle, who was on first base, never ran to second.
Evers noticed and asked for the ball so he could get a force of Merkle at second. After much confusion, the umpires eventually ruled Merkle out. Since the game couldn't continue because of the chaos, the game was ruled a tie.
"Merkle's bonehead play," as it became known, took on a life of its own when the Cubs edged the Giants and Pittsburgh by a game to win the pennant.
The Series
The Cubs faced the Tigers and Ty Cobb for the second straight year. Once again, their pitching proved to be the difference.
Holding a 2-1 lead in the series, the Cubs shut out Detroit during the final two games of the series. In Game 4, "Three-Finger" Mordecai Brown prevailed in a 3-0 victory.
Detroit fans gave up hope in Game 5. A crowd of only 6,210 fans showed up despite ideal conditions. They saw Orval Overall dominate in a 2-0 triumph.
Afterward, the Cubs celebrated with their World Series shares of $1,317.57 per player. Chance called his Cubs the greatest team he had ever seen.
What they said then
Tribune sportswriter I.E. Sanborn: "Not in the memory of this generation of fans has any team won its honors with great credit that which belongs to Frank Chance's warriors. Not in a thousand years has a team been compelled to fight as hard for its titles as the Chicago team."
Then in a phrase that seems stunning prophetic 96 years later, Sanborn wrote, "What those gray clad modest young warriors have accomplished will be remembered longer than any of them lives."
What they say now
Schechter on how those Cubs were the opposite of this year's Cubs, which relied on homers: "They had an offense without stars, but they had a lot of aggressiveness. They had quick-thinking players at a time when outsmarting your opponent was a big difference. They hit and run, took the extra base on hits and outs. When they needed to make a run, they were experts at finding a way to score."
In perspective: 1908
William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan (the name as published has been corrected in this text) for President.
Mother's Day is observed for the first time.
Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile.
Jack Johnson becomes the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion, defeating Tommy Burns