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We've Got Your Back, Babe! 2014: Get Fit to Help Beat the Prenatal Booby Traps®!
Who's ready to get their sweat on for the love of moms and babies? The Annual We've Got Your Back, Babe Nationwide Personal Fitness Challenge Fundraiser is in full swing. From now until October 31st, set your fitness goal to raise awareness about the prenatal Booby Traps® and … Continue reading
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Pediatric Practice Races for the Breastfeeding Cause
If we had to choose just one Breastfeeding Booby Trap® that trips moms up more than any other, it would be the lack of consistent education and training among medical professionals about breastfeeding. We know this may come as a huge … Continue reading
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Rebecca Ruhlen: I Sweat for the Love of Moms and Babies!
You gotta love Rebecca Ruhlen! She's a Breastfeeding USA counselor, a mom, and a newcomer to the athletics for a cause scene. Which is why her story about how she became one of the top fundraisers nationally for Team We … Continue reading
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Gabby Reece on Breastfeeding and Exercise Part II and Book Giveaway!
Here's Part II of Best for Babes' exclusive interview with our Champ for Moms Gabby Reece, fitness expert, author, and wise-mom-philosopher, on exercise for nursing Babes! To win a hand signed copy of Gabby's inspiring new book, My Foot is … Continue reading
Last revised on 09/11/2013
More Help Coming for Underfunded Breastfeeding Cause!
Consider these numbers: Susan G. Komen raised $372 million last year through donations, corporate sponsorships, and race entry fees. Charity Navigator reports on another 28 breast cancer charities, which along with Komen raise a total of $1.7 billion annually. The American Cancer Society raised $723 million in 2011. … Continue reading
Last revised on 08/23/2013
LPGA's Danah Bordner: I Golf For the Love of Moms & Babies!
We asked Best for Babes Champion for Moms and LPGA Pro Golfer Danah Bordner for her top tips and tricks for training while breastfeeding. We are so proud of Danah for playing the U.S. Women's Open this summer with a 7 month old baby in arms! … Continue reading
Last revised on 08/15/2013
Team We've Got Your Back, Babe! Krista Cornish Scott Sweats for the Love of Moms and Babies!
Each week during our Team We've Got Your Back, Babe! Nationwide Fitness Challenge with Breastfeeding USA in honor of National Breastfeeding Month, we are profiling an amazing participant and sharing her story of why and how she is boldly going … Continue reading
Last revised on 08/13/2013
Athlete & Author Gabby Reece: Top Fitness Tips for Breastfeeding Moms
We first interviewed fitness expert and author Gabby Reece in 2009 for our Celebrity Champions for Moms Blog Series and got her exclusive breastfeeding story about nursing daughters Reece and Brody. We were awestruck by what an absolute font of wisdom she was on … Continue reading
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Want to End the Breastfeeding Booby Traps®? We're Putting the Power in Your Hands!
Are you fed up watching friends, family members and total strangers be sabotaged, harassed, and misinformed when it comes to infant feeding? Are you sick of a health care system that doesn't require its professionals to possess even basic … Continue reading
Last revised on 07/18/2013
Booby Traps Series: Let's give thanks for this year's Booby Trap-busting developments
This is the 62nd in a series of posts on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. You might think that writing each week about Booby Traps would make one feel pretty discouraged. But I'm … Continue reading
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MS. IFILL: Politics, politics, politics from Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney to Medicare. While in the U.K., France and Poland, the president searches for common ground, tonight, on "Washington Week."
FORMER GOV. TIM PAWLENTY (R-MN) [Presidential Candidate]: I'm Tim Pawlenty and I'm running for president of the United States.
MS. IFILL: But the Republican field shows no sign of settling down. As Mitch Daniels drops out, Sarah Palin drops hints. And a low profile special election catapults Medicare to the front burner.
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT KATHY HOCHUL (D-NY): Thank you all so much.
MS. IFILL: Meanwhile, the Obamas take Europe. With a little Guinness, a little glamour and a lot of the nitty-gritty of international give and take.
PRES. BARACK OBAMA: It would have been easy at the outset of the crackdown in Libya to say that none of this was our business.
MS. IFILL: Including some fence mending.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU [Prime Minister of Israel]: But Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by the Palestinian version of al Qaeda. That we will not do.
PRES. OBAMA: It is very difficult for Israelis to sit across the table and negotiate with a party that is denying your right to exist.
MS. IFILL: And the Supreme Court presses not one, but two hot buttons, on crime and immigration. Covering the week: Dan Balz of the Washington Post; Major Garrett of National Journal; Helene Cooper of the New York Times; and Joan Biskupic of USA Today.
ANNOUNCER: Award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, from our nation's capital this is "Washington Week with Gwen Ifill," produced in association with National Journal.
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ANNOUNCER: Once again, from Washington, moderator Gwen Ifill.
MS. IFILL: Good evening. Well, she's back kind of, maybe, maybe not. Of course, we're talking about the latest potential twist in the 2012 Republican presidential jockeying, and that's the return of Sarah Palin. We don't know if she's running yet. She is launching an East Coast bus tour this weekend. But the possibility overshadows the certain candidates and worries those still on the sidelines. So what are people saying about this, all of this latest twist and turn, Dan?
MR. BALZ: They can't stop talking about it, Gwen.
MS. IFILL: Yes, including us.
MR. BALZ: Sarah Palin has more or less been on the sideline through much of the spring, has not had a lot of public appearances. And suddenly on Thursday she announces that she's about to embark on this one nation tour which at first we thought was going to be a one-week tour starting in Washington this weekend and going up the East Coast. Sometime she will hit New Hampshire as part of this. We don't quite know when yet, but she's going to be in New Hampshire.
But then we realized later in the day that this is a multi-week tour. She will go out for a number of weeks, not in succession, and she's going to hit all parts of the country and she's going to go to historical sites and she's going to try to draw attention to herself as only she can. So there will be this enormous media frenzy which there already was yesterday on this that will follow her up the East Coast and continuing to ask the question, well, is this the beginning of a presidential campaign or just another example of Sarah Palin attracting attention.
MS. IFILL: If you're Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty or – I could name five other names here, how concerned are you about this?
MR. BALZ: Well, at varying degrees you are concerned about it. I mean, if you're Tim Pawlenty, this means if she were to get into the race –
MS. IFILL: Who after all announced this week.
MR. BALZ: Who announced last Monday formally and has spent the week making stops in key states. If you're somebody like Tim Pawlenty, you know you're going to be very overshadowed. I mean, until she did this, Tim Pawlenty was having a pretty good several weeks because a number of prominent candidates – Mitch Daniels being the most recent – announced that they were not going to run – Haley Barbour another one. And so, that gave Tim Pawlenty an opening. If Sarah Palin comes in, she will just take up so much space that it will be hard for him to get attention.
For Mitt Romney, it sets up the possibility if she is to become a candidate – and, again, there's no clear evidence that this is a precursor to a campaign. We need to emphasize that. But this would set up in the nomination fight a classic battle between kind of the establishment frontrunner and the insurgent tea party candidate which would remind people of the divisions that we have seen in the party and highlight those in a way that almost no other candidate would be able to do.
MS. BISKUPIC: Well, you know, Dan, say it isn't for real. Say that since we don't know. And if it isn't, it of course can't help but remind us of Donald Trump and a little bit of how he drew so much attention without being a serious candidate but sucked a lot of air out of the news coverage as she is doing now. Could we see a new model of people who can use a bit of a toe in the water or a faux presidential run at this early stage to get other things -- more attention for books, TV shows, those kinds of things?
MR. BALZ: Yes, we may be able to say that about this. But I've always thought that Sarah Palin didn't really need a lot of that to continue to have her brand. She can do a minimal amount of that and still have a presence. I mean, what's interesting about the timing of this tour is it coincides with two other things: one, the reports that she and her husband have purchased a house in Scottsdale, Arizona. If she's going to run for president, she needs to be based in the lower 48. It's just physically and logistically difficult to run out of Alaska. So that would be a sign that maybe she's thinking about it.
MS. BISKUPIC: Maybe it is for real.
MR. BALZ: Maybe it is for real. There is a new movie that's about to come out that her team had encouraged – a conservative filmmaker has made a two-hour documentary. I talked to him this week and he said, you know, whether you like Sarah Palin or not, I'm convinced that when people see this, they will come away with a different impression of her. No one will be able to say, as he put it, that she isn't tough and smart and dedicated. It's all about what she did in Alaska and that kind of going against the establishment which fits into the narrative that we know she would like to use if she ran for president.
MS. COOPER: So, Dan, what does your gut tell you? It sounds like you think she's going to run.
MR. BALZ: Well, I – Helene, I don't know. And I have thought for a long time that she would keep the door open until there wasn't any time left and then she wouldn't be able to run, that she would never say no. And this is another example of being able to do that. She's unique in that respect. Most of the Republicans that people – that we all talk to have thought for some time she would not run and I think most of them still believe that is the case if she operates this early.
MS. IFILL: I worry a little bit that we're spending all of our time talking about Sarah Palin when we have candidates who actually are in the race who did announce this week, including Tim Pawlenty.
MR. GARRETT: Well, yes. And, Dan, what I'm curious about is, do you think it's time – if you're Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, or anyone else, to work your message or work your strategy around the assumption of Sarah Palin, or do you push forward, do you not even pretend – you know, just pretend this doesn't exist? And can you afford to make that kind of strategic calculation?
MR. BALZ: Well, I think that for most of them they have to operate on the idea that she may be in or she may not. And you can't build your campaign around the "what if." I've spent some time up in Boston earlier this week talking to some of the Romney folks. And their view is, whoever is in is in and whoever is not in is not. We've got a campaign of the type we want to run and we're going to run that campaign.
MS. IFILL: Okay. Well, and then, of course, Michele Bachmann is saying that her heart is telling her to get in. So she may be competing for the same – it continues to be fun.
MR. BALZ: Yes.
MS. IFILL: Well, there was also some substance that did sneak into our politics this week in the form of a special election that turned a red district blue apparently because of unhappiness about a Republican plan to revamp Medicare. That plan's author, Congressman Paul Ryan, says the opposition is just an excuse to do nothing about a growing problem.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI): The irony of this is our plan actually preserves the benefit for current seniors. But trying to scare seniors, and turning these things into political weapons, what that ends up doing is just inflicting political paralysis. That means nothing gets done.
MS. IFILL: But it does provide a political framework at least for this conversation, this political conversation we're having.
MR. GARRETT: Certainly it does. And the big question is, is that a framework that's going to last for two weeks or 18 months? Democrats I've talked to believe this is going to be among the defining issues of the midterm election.
MS. IFILL: They hope.
MR. GARRETT: I mean, the coming 2012 election, just as Medicare in the president's health care reform was part of the debate in the 2010 election. What you had was a special election where you had a decent Republican candidate, Jane Corwin, who was a member of the state assembly. In the last three special elections in New York, the county chairs in New York, Republican Party, have put up three assembly candidates. They've all lost. That gives you some idea of the throw weight of state assembly Republicans in New York. It's pretty minimal.
The Democrat was Kathy Hochul who is Erie County clerk, meaning Erie County, the largest county in this district – had a bit more local attachment, a bit more political heft behind her. But Medicare was clearly the issue. Kathy Hochul identified it early, ran an ad on it first. Jane Corwin was looked at as someone who was late to the defense of that plan. And special elections turn a lot of things – turn out the third-party candidate –
MS. IFILL: Yes. It's possible to over interpret.
MR. GARRETT: It's very possible to over interpret this but Republicans and Democrats in the aftermath are looking at Medicare and saying, this was the lever. This was decisive. The polling for three consecutive weeks before this election was held showed Hochul ahead, four points, four points then six. And there was plenty of money engaged in this and the Medicare issue was her top issue. She wasn't dislodged from it and she prevailed in a very red district. That means Republicans have to do one of two things: get off the Medicare plan entirely or defend it more aggressively and more effectively.
MS. COOPER: Which one are they going to do?
MR. GARRETT: They will stick with it. And they are now in the process of defending it, or trying to defend it more aggressively. I talked to Paul Ryan yesterday. He said to me, this is no time to go wobbly. This is a Churchillian moment for our party and for me. He said he talked to 100 House Republicans in the last 48 hours since the special election. He said all of them said, put me in, coach. We're ready to defend this. We're ready to go. Paul Ryan believes -- this is where we get to the 18 months period -- over that period of time, this debate will allow Republicans to talk more authoritatively, Ryan believes, about what this does, what this doesn't do. Democrats believe the longer it goes, the better off they are.
MS. BISKUPIC: Major, you mentioned the money spent in the campaign. Was there much – was there a lot of national money that came in, because this could become – was such a symbolic race.
MR. GARRETT: There was money and much more on the Republican side. There was outside money from American Crossroads, $700,000; the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee put $400,000, so that's more than $1 million.
MS. IFILL: There is a third-party candidate. Yes.
MR. GARRETT: Jane Corwin put in more than $2 million of her own. So, on the Republican ledger, you had more than $3 million. Kathy Hochul spent much less than that. A new independent group with some former White House officials as a part of it put in about $500,000 in this race. So there was money, internal and external, more on the Republican side and they thought that money would get more than it got them.
MS. IFILL: But there was a third-party candidate who also spent $1 million of his own money. So that wasn't – (inaudible).
MR. GARRETT: Jack Davis. Right. Who had run twice before as a Democrat, ran on the tea party line, was a Republican before he was a Democrat. He was just sort of a Rorschach test up there. But he got 9 percent. And there are some Republicans who still continue to argue if you take his 9 percent and you put it with Corwin's 43, you get 52. Well, yes. You can do that if you like but you still lose because that's not how it works.
MR. BALZ: Major, it now looks as though the Republicans got themselves into this battle over Medicare without thinking through how to make the argument to get themselves off the defensive. I mean, almost from the minute this Ryan plan was put in place and certainly at the moment President Obama took up the challenge, they have been on the defensive and have not found a way to talk about. Do they have a plan now to move it in a different direction?
MR. GARRETT: Well, they have a plan to stick with it, but they stick with it only in a sort of rhetorical sense. The key thing in the House when you have a budget resolution is do any of the other committees responsible for actually writing that budget resolution of the law put together legislation to enact it? A bunch of resolutions is a blueprint. The president doesn't sign it, it's not a law. It's just a blueprint. The Ways and Means Committee has decision power whether or not to turn this transformation of Medicare into a bill. They're going to hold hearings. No commitment to write a bill. That means in rhetorical terms, Republicans will defend it but they're not going to make members at anytime soon or I would say ever this year take another vote along these lines.
MS. IFILL: And Democrats are on this interesting position – President Clinton, in the conversation I had with him this week at the Pete Peterson Summit, was talking about how Democrats shouldn't use this as a way not to fix Medicare, which Mitch McConnell has kind of embraced that approach.
MR. GARRETT: What we have seen in Washington since I've been here, 1990 to present, is – and this is a phrase that Paul Ryan used to me yesterday – the weaponization of entitlement politics. I've watched both parties use it with tremendous effect. Until there's a ceasefire, it will be used to tremendous effect. And I get no sense whatsoever Democrats are prepared to sign on to that ceasefire.
MS. IFILL: Okay. Well, President Obama is winding up a week-long trip to Europe that featured large, warm crowds, etiquette stumbles and in the end some polite agreement.
PRES. OBAMA: It is good once again to see my friends and partner, Dmitry Medvedev.
I just want to very briefly say how glad I am to have an opportunity to discuss important issues with Prime Minister Kan (ph) once again.
MS. IFILL: They're always happy to see each other. But as always occurs on trips like this, there was text and there was subtext. First, though, what was the overall goal of a trip like this, Helene?
MS. COOPER: Well, he went to find, rediscovered his Irish roots. Didn't you see that?
MS. IFILL: Yes. Yes. That was it.
MS. COOPER: Then stopped in Moneygall – I mean, I haven't seen Obama that happy. He downed a whole pint of Guinness and we all know he barely drinks beer.
MS. IFILL: So they say.
MS. COOPER: So they say. And I think the people in Moneygall are all tripping very gleefully at his missteps in London, saying at least their trip didn't have that sort of thing. But the real intended goal for the White House in this overall European trip can be summed up in four words: the Middle East and North Africa. I mean, that was sort of the specter that hung over everything.
You saw at the G-8 today the world leaders pledged $20 billion towards Egypt and Tunisia on helping rebuild and development and job opportunity. And they're hoping to send a message to these countries but also to Arab protesters around the Arab world that the West is behind them. So that's part of it too, Libya and the NATO assault in Libya was a big part. But the underlying – if you ask the White House what do you most want to get out of the trip, the answer that I kept getting was, you know, this was an Arab-Israeli trip. And the reason why is a little bit complicated. There is this vote for Palestinian statehood that's coming up in the United Nations in September. And President Obama was trying to get European countries – the U.S. will vote no, of course. But President Obama's trying to get European countries to also agree not to vote for it because the Israelis are terribly, terribly worried that they're going to lose a lot of the European countries on this one.
MS. IFILL: And was that overshadowed somewhat by what appeared to be a little dustup that continued into this week between Prime Minster Netanyahu and the president?
MS. COOPER: The dustup completely fed into this when President Obama, as you know, made his announcement last week pledging that he thought that an Arab-Israeli peace plan should be based on Israel's 1967 borders with mutually agreed land swaps. A White House official I was sitting with earlier this week told me in the view of the White House, this was their way to lure the Europeans against voting for this U.N. security – it's such a complicated strategy. But by giving European countries like Britain, France, Italy and Germany, who have all been a little tougher on the Israelis than the Americans have, giving them a place to sort of park their grievances so they can feel that they're pressuring the Israelis as well by getting behind this American plan and say, we've got something that we're pushing them to do, they would then feel as if, okay, we've gotten it off our chest. We don't have to vote for this U.N. Security Council resolution for Palestinian statehood.
Now, you see, you're looking at me like this because I was looking the same way as they explained this to me but they really believe that this is one way to avert what could be a hugely embarrassing vote for Israel in September. Most of the rest of the world will surely sign on. You know, Latin America and Africa and Middle East, Asian countries are all expected to vote for this. The U.S., of course, will vote against it. But what the Israelis really don't want is for Britain, France, Germany and the rest of the big European countries to also vote.
MS. BISKUPIC: Did you get any signals that that strategy was working from what you were observing?
MS. COOPER: A few parts are kind of working but I think the answer to that is yes and no. David Cameron, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday – it was on Thursday he said, we don't think that the U.N. is a forum for this, but he would not commit to voting. He said it's not time for me to say whether or not. While the administration thinks they've got the British on board.
The French say they're not so sure. They think at the moment that they're still going to vote in favor of the Palestinian statehood resolution. Germany, nobody knows. Angela Merkel and Benjamin Netanyahu have a worse relationship than Obama and Mr. Netanyahu does. So that's up in the air.
MR. GARRETT: Two questions: one, is the idea of '67 borders was mutually agreed upon, land swaps, sort of a short-term gain to deal with this resolution because the president knows there's not going to be a peace agreement and this is the fight to have now, or this is the tactic to use now? And it's sort of a double bank shot is what you'd call in diplomacy. But wasn't there also components of that speech the president gave that were much more direct to the Palestinians, Hamas has to renounce violence? It has to be a demilitarized state. There were tougher things or if not tougher, certainly things that we were much more – as equally directed to the Palestinians and Hamas that don't seem to have gotten as much attention?
MS. COOPER: Easily, in part because the Palestinian president wasn't in Washington giving a speech to AIPAC and jumping up and down and say, oh, yes, forget the joint meeting of Congress where they were competing to see who could cheer more loudly for him. That's absolutely true. Most people believe that the proposal that President Obama is outlining is, you know, one, it's pretty moderate and one which everybody has sort of privately thought that we would go to anyway in peace negotiations. But the reality is it's different once somebody actually says it.
MS. IFILL: Thanks, Helene. So, finally, as it draws close to adjournment, the Supreme Court is beginning to hand down a series of decisions, each one of them sure to anger someone. This week they touched on the limits of crime and punishment and on immigration law. Joan was at the court for both decisions. First to the question of the California prison overcrowding system – does this mean that we're turning thousands of prisoners loose on the streets?
MS. BISKUPIC: No. But California does have to reduce its prison population by about 30,000 inmates. And it was quite dramatic in the courtroom where the justices, led by in this case Anthony Kennedy and the liberals, ruled that California's prison system is so bad, particularly for people with serious medical conditions and mental health problems, that it violates the Constitution's protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and the only way to fix it is to get rid of the chronic overcrowding there. And that means reduce the population by more than 30,000 inmates. This is a long-running problem in California, unique to California.
And what prison officials there say, well, we're going to transfer some to local, to county control, we're going to give some more good time credits. But that's a lot of people to get rid of from a system. And it seems like it would be impossible not to free some people because their time has been actually served.
MR. GARRETT: Is this something that will visit other states? Will this case have an overshadowing effect elsewhere?
MS. BISKUPIC: It shouldn't because the California situation was so unique. And what Justice Kennedy said in his opinion – there was really heavily criticized in the courtroom by Justice Scalia as getting involved in public policy issues, you know, public policy issues, prisons and other institutional litigation that should be the domain of legislatures. But Justice Kennedy, who wrote the opinion, said, we're not about to start stepping into other venues. This is unique to California. They have had decades to try to fix this problem. The state has been under court order for a long time to try to reduce the population. And he did – Justice Kennedy did something very unusual in his opinion. He appended three pictures to it that showed these telephone booth-sized cages that inmates had been kept in.
MS. IFILL: Yes. We just showed it. Yes.
MS. BISKUPIC: Yes. It's perfect to show how dramatic the crowding was. So, no, Major. Over many, many years California has had a problem and this was very unique to them.
MR. BALZ: Can you talk about the Arizona decision? What was at stake in that immigration decision and how does it project forward to the other Arizona law that's much tougher and more controversial.
MS. BISKUPIC: Yes. In fact, that one was controlled by the conservatives on the court with Justice Kennedy with them there. The other one was obviously with the liberals. And what the conservative majority in an opinion by Chief Justice Robert said was Arizona has a law that the justices upheld. It said if you knowingly hire any kind of illegal immigrant, your business license can be taken away. And in this case, Arizona said, look, we know that usually the federal government has authority over immigration but we fall under an exemption for certain licensing requirements and the court agreed. This was specific to that kind of exemption for licensing deals that the state would have authority over. The law you just asked about is one that Governor Jen Brewer signed recently that allows for police to stop inmate – I'm sorry.
MS. IFILL: That's all right.
MS. BISKUPIC: I'm so sorry that I almost said inmates again. I was going to tie it to the California system.
MS. IFILL: Yes, that's okay.
MS. BISKUPIC: – allows police to stop anyone who might not be properly documented here in America and look for their papers. That's a big deal. It had a lot of fanfare. It was immediately challenged by the Obama administration and other civil liberties groups saying, look, this violates people's rights.
MS. IFILL: But that's not at all what the – (inaudible).
MS. BISKUPIC: No. And, in fact, to answer your question, this does not shed light on that. And Chief Justice Roberts went out of his way to say this does not – he did not offer any signal or hint about how the court might rule in that case.
MS. COOPER: Joan, what I'm so fascinated by, again with this California case is there any evidence at all that shows that when you do release – do a widespread release of prisoners early like this crime goes up? I mean, is there any sort of empirical evidence?
MS. BISKUPIC: Well, the dissenter certainly pointed to that. In Philadelphia in the early '90s there was a cap law that allowed people to be released before their sentences were served just because there was a limit on how many inmates could be in the system there. And Justice Alito in his dissent said, look at all the crime that occurred after that. There were something like 79 murders after that. There was lots of documented crime. Now, what California – California says, you know, we could have some problems like that but they're going to monitor it in a way that wasn't monitored in the early '90s.
MS. IFILL: Okay. Well, thank you, Joan. This was a very confusing week, so much going on but we got it all in. Thank you everyone. The conversation has to end here but it continues online on our "Washington Week Webcast Extra." While you're there, check into the Washington Week Vault, where in 1994 we talked about another surprise special election that happened six months before Congress changed hands. Keep track of daily developments every night with me on the PBS "NewsHour" and then join us again around the table next week on "Washington Week." Have a good holiday weekend. Good night.
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What can we do? - an open letter to teachers - promoting the flipped learning
As Sir Ken Robinson ended his talk with Benjamin Franklin's quote , "There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get, they don't want to get it, they're going to do anything about it. There are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it. And there are people who move, people who make things happen."
Lets be the type of people who move. Instead of questioning "why has the education system not changed yet?" or " why didn't the government take any initiative to change?" , I believe we should act within our circle of influence. It is the question of "What can we do about it?" What can we do about our education system? How can we improve it as students, teachers or parents.
As a student myself, I've been working on promoting the flipped learning , as I believe it is one of the first steps in progressing ourselves for change. Here is an open letter to teachers out there, http://faizulzuraimi.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-teachers-my-name-is.html
and do visit my blog as well: faizulzuraimi.blogspot.com
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." as mentioned by John Dewey , one of the figures in Progressive Education Movement in the late 19th century.
Perhaps we too , can be one of those "movable people" .Perhaps there shall be a Digital Age of Progressive Education Movement. It all begins with one simple question , "what can we do?"
I would love to see your opinions :)
update (5.6.13) : http://faizulzuraimi.blogspot.com/2013/06/education-is-everyones-business-do.html
Closing Statement from Faizul Zuraimi
Thank you all to those who participated in this conversation and those who took the time to read and visit my blog. I've learned a lot from dialogues with you guys , the TED community, and I'm really glad that some of you sent me emails , articles and ebooks to help me in this cause. This is the first time I ever hosted a conversation on TED. Your comments and support are my inspiration and I'm looking forward to host another conversation in the near future, perhaps when I'm done with my exams. :)
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Jun 5 2013: i've updated my blog here ! pls do take a look :) http://faizulzuraimi.blogspot.com/2013/06/education-is-everyones-business-do.html
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I know what you might be thinking, it says 211 followers in my side bar right? so let me explain: in counting numbers I've focused on other bloggers who are following me, not just every Tom, Dick and Harry on Facebook and Twitsville (because I know many of those are already my actual, virtual friends and have to feign interest in all areas of my life and are also just being sticky beaks).
The one hundredth blog stat has more resonance and added value for me because it represents someone who has been attracted to my blog for totally unbiased reasons. I'd like to think that is more of a guaranteed measure of whether I'm writing quality content…..or just content that makes strangers around the world stop and stare in sheer horror, eg: "I can't quite believe how bad this blog is and therefore will follow it just to convince myself that it has to get better at some point".
The WordPress community is one of the most rewarding aspects of blogging, and very early on I had two comments that made me feel very welcome from Brigitte's Banter and You Monsters Are People. Since then I've found blogs with yummy recipes DIY'ers, crafters, runners (ha ha, yes I know, ME following serious running peeps!!) inspirational stories, beautiful photography, many very funny, witty and clever bloggers, a few loony tunes, a blogging phenomenon known as Le Clown (enter his dark and mysterious film noir world at your peril and don't say I didn't warn you – and not at all if you suffer from coulrophobia because that is apparently 'no laughing matter' and in no way magical at all), and some like minded folks like the Creative Liar, who I would never have met in the 'real' world, and who has set up a virtual book club for us on Goodreads (thanks Ericka!!).
It really is a small world after all.
So, a little drum roll please, and I have great pleasure in introducing to you, Sufey the 100th, genuine, 'tag-a-longer' on my blog. And my goodness she is a gloriously lithe and happy little follower who enjoys Yoga in the middle of Health Food Store aisles (and why not if you can pull off such an extremely bendy pose say I) and desserts. I'm just guessing by comparing our physiques that I'm more successful in the dessert department. Her blog is sheer joy and I recommend you go straight there and brighten up your day right now.
This is why I blog, not just to share my nonsense, and to further refine my pitiful writing skills, but to explore as much of the world and humanity as I can, at any time of the day, and without expensive plane tickets :)
Namaste, Encantada, Selamat Detang, '欢迎, Bienvenue, Ahlan wa sahlan, Aloha, Ilari-wa!
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15 October 2012
Dollar Store Skeleton WreathCategory: Halloween
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Watch out, Halloween is going glitzy!
I made this nifty skeleton wreath just before I left for Mississippi. I'm sort of amazed nobody stole it off the front door seeing as it looks like a million bucks. A boney, cannibalistic, golden ringlet of a million bucks.
Note, generally speaking, I try to restrict my posts to projects that I thought of myself, or at least stuff that has a significantly special twist. This isn't one of them. This is one of those projects I saw on Pinterest and five minutes later I was out the door to hunt for supplies. And that is the good news: you can get all the supplies in one place. I bought 5 plastic skeletons, one wreath base and a bag of hot glue sticks at the Dollar Tree. Grand total $7. If I hadn't already owned gold spray paint and a glue gun, I probably could have bought them there too. It took ten minutes to assemble, two minutes to paint, a night to dry...and boom you're in business.
Now get on over to Tried & True to see how this gorgeous creepy thing is made.
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It's Just About That Time
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I can't waittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. I'll be at Bobby-Dodd this year too!
Posted 16 August 2009 - 12:20 PM
Only 20 days till the Heels kick off!!!
Posted 17 August 2009 - 03:27 PM
I just hope Carolina's defense lives up to the hype. If you read some of the comments from the defenive players, they are just oozing with confidence and the word on the street is that Withers is gonna let them be a lot more aggressive this year. I surely hope so, because that three man rush got on my damn nerves last year.
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Jobless? You still owe income tax
The previous exemption of the first $2,400 in unemployment benefits from federal tax is over. Job-search costs, training for a new job and relocation expenses may be deductible.
This post is by Carole Feldman of The Associated Press.
The jobless rate is dipping, but millions of people are still out of work. That could have implications when they file their income tax returns.
Collecting unemployment insurance benefits? All that you received in 2011 is taxed as income. Unless you requested that federal taxes be withheld, you could be in for a big surprise when you calculate taxes owed.
"People tend to believe unemployment benefits are still not taxable," said Bob Meighan, a vice president at TurboTax. That was the case in 2009, for the first $2,400 in unemployment benefits. But that provision was not renewed by Congress.
If it's any consolation, you may find yourself in a lower tax bracket because of reduced income, even counting the unemployment benefits. And you might also be eligible for tax breaks that you didn't qualify for before.
"If you have major household changes, say you lost your job in 2011, we encourage people to take a close look at things like the earned income credit," Internal Revenue Service spokesman Terry Lemons said.
He said people should go ahead and file their taxes even if they don't have the money to pay any taxes that are due. "There are more options there than many people realize," he said, including installment agreements.
The aftermath of the Great Recession, which gripped the nation from 2007 to 2009, is still being felt across America. Employers still worried about the state of the economy are hesitant to bring on new workers. And many of the more than 13 million unemployed people have stopped looking for jobs.
For those who spent part or all of 2011 searching for work, there are tax breaks.
"All of those job search expenses are deductible -- the stationery, the long-distance phone calls, the hotels, anything you can relate to the job search," said MSN tax columnist Jeff Schnepper, author of "How to Pay Zero Taxes" (McGraw-Hill, 2011).
To qualify for this deduction, you have to be looking for a job in the same field or profession as your previous one. Expenses incurred trying to get your first job are not deductible. "Until you start working, you don't have a profession," Schnepper said.
You also have to itemize. And the cost of preparing your resume, working with job search services, mileage and other job search expenses has to exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income if you are to benefit, according to Greg Rosica, tax partner with Ernst & Young.
Make sure you save your receipts. "You have to be able to substantiate," he said.
Those out of work may find the jobs have dried up in their cities or towns. "Many people are picking up and moving to where the jobs are," Meighan said.
If you land a job across town or across the country, you might be eligible to take a deduction for moving expenses. "It's an above-the-line deduction, dollar for dollar a reduction in your income," Schnepper said. In this case, unlike job search expenses, you don't have to itemize to take advantage of the deduction.
To qualify, there's a distance test that has to be met: Your new job has to be at least 50 miles from your old house.
You can deduct moving expenses even if this is your first job, provided your workplace is at least 50 miles from your former home. That's also true if you're returning to work after being unemployed, the IRS says.
There's a requirement that you work at least 39 weeks in the new location over the first 12 months in the new area. You can take the deduction even if you started your job late in the year and won't meet the time test in 2011. But if you fail to meet it in 2012, you'll either have to file an amended return or report the deduction as income when you do your 2012 taxes.
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These days, "moving can be hard to do," especially if you can't sell your house in the depressed housing market, said Mark Steber, the chief tax officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services. If you decide to commute to the new job instead of relocating, those commuting expenses are not deductible.
To claim the moving expense deduction, file Form 3903 with your tax return. IRS publication 521 provides more information.
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Looking ahead to 2012, if you're still on unemployment you can use Form W-4V to voluntarily request that a flat 10% tax be withheld.
"Withholding on these payments is voluntary," the IRS said. "However, choosing this option may help avoid a surprise year-end tax bill or a possible penalty for having paid too little tax during the year."
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I am 57 years old, and have worked since my farmer father put me on the tractor in the summers at seven years old. At 57, I have already worked 50 years, and I'll dang sure not feel guilty about drawing unemployment for the first time in my life since the company I worked for for many years went bankrupt. I have federal taxes withheld from my unemployment, and I actively look for work every day. I believe my age is a factor in not finding a job.
After 50 years of working and indirectly supporting deadbeats of all types, many of whom could work if they wanted to, I will not, as I said, feel guilty about drawing unemployment. Unemployment benefits are not welfare. I'll draw it until I find work or it runs out. If and when that happens, I will have to consider starting a small business or something. I've paid my dues, and will not work for peanuts while being ordered around by some snotnosed kid.
I will also sign up for Social Security the first chance I get at 62. If I wait until my full retirement age of 67, Social Security may not even be there, or if it is, it will be greatly reduced.
itemize everything....down to the box a of staples used to staple the resumes together...
good time to clean out the garage if you are unemployed.
give away what won't sell and sell what you don't need or use..
collect cans @ 50 - 70 cents per pound...
write of any donation, the mileage to take the donation to the harity group, church, etc.
I am still working today, but it is very hard to get a job. I started out working 60-70 hrs a week for 6 months straight but now it has slowed down and they laid off almost the whole plant. I now do the work of 3 people literally and not compensated any extra for it.
They stopped 401k matches and pay less into the benefits and took away one of the breaks. I think that a honest days work should be paid accordingly, but am grateful to be employed still and take pride in my work and work ethic and will not let it change my performance output..
I was down on myself for a long time because i felt i had no purpose and unproductive and needed to earn my way. People actually want to work, so those out there please stop with the hateful mean things against those that did not request to be unemployed. Also part of your SS deduction goes towards this UI Insurance, don't let anyone tell you that you get it all for free and you didn't put into the system.
The Consumer's are the real job creators
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I know what it is like to go on unemployment; however, I can not feel sorry for those who are faced with a tax bill because of drawing unemployment. To the best of my knowledge all unemployment applications have an option to select having income tax taken out. If you selected NO then don't come crying on my shoulder.
No wonder our country is in the fvcked up mess that its in. NOT because of the politicians but because of the AMERICAN PEOPLE, people who are too stupid, too ignorant, too racist, too this or too that to realize when something is for their own good.
and by the way, people who collect unemployment already paid taxes on it when they was working.
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But it's common knowledge that red wine goes with cheese? Not from our findings. It appears white wine comes out on top with Sauvignon Blanc the most frequently mentioned grape type.
Check out the recommendations below.
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If you have a range of cheeses choose a simple inexpensive wine to accompany them. New World reds cope well as do oak-aged Spanish reds and red wines from Southern Italy. Avoid very strong or pungent cheeses though. Instead of several cheeses why not just select one winning combination at your next dinner party.
Several of the suggestions above, especially for the American cheeses are taken from What To Drink With What You Eat, an excellent food and wine guide available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.
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A wine and cheese party is a good occasino to be lazy and look like a glamorous host/ess at the same time. You need a little imagination and some cash (not too much) to present a spread worthy of the caliber of your guests. If all they have known is th…
The best pecorino cheese is from Sardinia not from Tuscany……
Thanks Andrew…my friends–the Blonde Mafia–will be getting together soon for a blind wine/food pairing. This list is just what I need!
Andrew, thought you'd like to know: I love so much this post that I've put a direct link to it on my blog roll.
Thanks again!
Awesome list! I've Stumbled this one. Thanks for the link:-)
this list doesn't point out that RACLETTE and MORBIER are eaten melted/cooked! what a pity to try to eat morbier in its raw state- tsk tsk!
I would recommend a Rogue River Blue with a merlot, or Cabernet Sauvignon.
My wife got me some for valentines day and I really love her!
Thanks Andrew, I loved this post and have put a direct link to it on my blog roll…
What an amazing list, i havent heard of half of the cheeses. I have bookmarked the page and will definately check it out next time i am having a dinner party.
Amazing list.
Fiona Beckett has signed copies of her cheese course. She talks a lot about wine and cheese matching in the book and she has been food journalist of the year so she really knows her stuff. You can pick up a signed copy at http://www.rylandpeters.com
Awesome list!I didn't know about all these types of cheese.That's indeed amazing to know that so many types of cheese exist.Thanks for sharing.
the cheese in the pic looks delicious!..
very informative post regarding what cheese goes with what ..
The two things I would carry to an deserted Island, Cheese and Wine!
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So last year, the pop star turned to Tristan Herbert, a 23-year-old Parkville artist who makes custom covers for iPhones and Androids. Herbert spent 11 hours designing a case with a drawing of Minaj sporting long blonde hair, big hoop earrings, a belly shirt and blazer. The words "Pink Friday," the title of Minaj's first album, run alongside, and the background is, of course, pink. Minaj's people said it was "amazing," and Herbert, then a largely unknown artist, had his first big client.
Since starting his company, Tristan Art, about eight months ago, Herbert has designed more than 400 cases. His clients include Detroit Lions tight end Brandon Pettigrew, Joe Budden from the reality show "Love & Hip Hop New York," cast members of "Bad Girls Club" and DJ Clue.
Herbert's customers send him pictures of people and faces they want on their cell phone cases, and he illustrates them on his desktop computer. There are few plain white backgrounds — Herbert prefers collages with bursts of color.
"I actually get mad when people ask me, 'Can you just do this and put it on the white case?'" he said. "They don't give me the freedom, really, to do what I want to do."
He hasn't been doing it long. Before he started, he was adrift; he had moved to Baltimore in 2011 to train for soccer, but later realized a torn meniscus would keep him from making a career out of it.
"He wasn't depressed, but he wasn't happy," said his older sister, Nerisha Herbert.
When Herbert's little brother Jamari came to visit him last summer, Tristan asked him, "'What do you see, when you see me?'"
His brother responded, "I just see my big bro."
Jamari didn't see Herbert as someone to look up to — someone he wanted to be like when he grew up, Herbert said, which stung.
"I was like, 'Man, I've got to get it together,'" Herbert said.
Herbert had always been interested in art; he wanted to draw a cartoon series that one day might air on Nickelodeon, he said. Art classes were required at Pendleton High School, in Pendleton, S.C., which he attended, but unlike many of his classmates, he enjoyed them, he said.
Herbert didn't go to college — immediately after high school, he worked for his father in a fabric warehouse, Kravet Fabrics, in South Carolina.
Since he couldn't afford to go to art school, Herbert began to teach himself how to draw cartoons on his computer through trial and error.
"In this eight-month span, I learned what probably would have taken two or three years [in school]," he said.
At first, it wasn't easy going. Herbert admits his early drawings were "horrible."
"I did a picture of Michael Jordan," he said, "and somebody told me they thought it was Shaq."
As he made them, Herbert would post his designs on Instagram, soliciting feedback from others. Soon, people began asking him to draw illustrations. One day in August, Herbert and his brother, Jason, were walking through New York, and Herbert was looking at his Gameboy cell phone case. Staring at his phone, he realized he could add his own designs to cell phone cases.


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Federalism Review Questions for AP U.S. Government
By Pamela K. Lamb — McGraw-Hill Professional
Updated on Apr 25, 2014
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Federalism for AP U.S. Government
Review Questions
- A major strength of federalism lies in the fact that it promotes both national and state activities in which of the following manners?
- provides for complex government activities
- avoids concentration of political power
- guarantees the inherent inflexibility of a written constitution
- allows for the duplication of government offices and functions
- provides equal funding for mandates
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) was an important Supreme Court case involving federalism because
- it called for a republican form of government
- it provided for a national law protecting against domestic violence
- following this case, the Supreme Court became the third powerful branch of the national government
- the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution was upheld
- the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution was established
- Article IV of the United States Constitution addresses which of the following relationships between the states?
- full faith and credit
- interstate compacts
- respect for geographic integrity
- I only
- II only
- III only
- I and II only
- II and III only
- Which of the following is not a concurrent power of national and state governments?
- protecting the public's health, welfare, and morals
- borrowing money
- chartering banks
- establishing courts
- levying taxes
- Cooperative federalism can best be described as
- the national government's ability to help the states through the spending of tax dollars and the providing of project grants
- placing more responsibility on the states as to how grant money is to be spent
- "layer cake federalism"
- an extension of new federalism
- "marble cake federalism"
- The president most responsible for the implementation of new federalism was:
- George H. W. Bush
- Richard Nixon
- Ronald Reagan
- Bill Clinton
- Gerald Ford
- Which of the following is an example of fiscal federalism?
- mandates
- revenue sharing
- grants-in-aid
- project
- I and II only
- II and III only
- I, II, and III only
- I, II, and IV only
- I, II, III, and IV
- Which of the following has the fewest "strings" attached when it comes to spending government monies?
- conflicts may arise over authority of government
- there is concentration of political power
- government is not close to the people
- existing state governments are not accommodated
- geography is not considered
- Prohibited powers are powers that are denied to both the national and state governments. These denied powers may be found in
- Article I, Section 8
- Article I, Sections 9 & 10
- Article IV, Section 4
- Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
- Article IV, Section 1
Review Answers
- B. Governmental power is divided between the national and state governments, each operating within the same geographic territory with power over a single population. Providing for complex governmental activities (A) and allowing for the duplication of government offices and functions (D) are not usually considered major strengths of federalism. The Constitution is a very flexible document (C). One type of mandate, the unfunded mandate, requires state or local governments to meet the mandate's requirement at their own expense (E).
- D.McCulloch v. Maryland upheld Article VI of the Constitution, which declares the Constitution the "supreme law of the land" (E). The Supreme Court (C) was established by Article III of the Constitution as the highest court of the judicial branch. Answer choices A and B were not provisions of the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland.
- D. Geographic integrity of the states is a guarantee of the national government to the states, not of the states to each other.
- A. Protecting the public health, welfare, and morals is a reserved power of the states. The other answer choices represent concurrent powers, or those shared by both the national and state governments.
- E. Cooperative federalism involves the national government and state governments working together to solve problems, often with a blending (similar to that of a marble cake) of responsibilities. Choices A and B are not the best descriptions of cooperative federalism because neither reflects mutual sharing and planning between the national and state governments. "Layer cake federalism" (C) describes dual federalism. New federalism (D) places more responsibility on the states about how grant money is spent.
- B. Richard Nixon began the program of new federalism to place responsibility on the states for the spending of grant money. New federalism continued under succeeding presidents, particularly Ronald Reagan (C) and George H. W. Bush (A).
- E. Mandates, revenue sharing, grants-in-aid, and project grants (a type of categorical grant) are forms of fiscal federalism.
- D. Revenue sharing has a "no strings attached" policy for the states receiving money. Some mandates require the use of state or local funds (A). Categorical grants (B) may require matching funds from state or local governments. Block grants (C) have fewer strings attached than categorical grants. The federal government requires grants-in-aid (E) to be used for specific projects or programs.
- A. Conflicts between national and state authority may arise under the system of federalism. While federalism provides for a strong national government, power is not concentrated in the national government (B). State governments remain close to the people (C), and the needs of state governments are accommodated under federalism (D). The national government respects the geographic integrity of each state (E).
- B. Article I, Section 9 denies certain powers to the national government; Article I, Section 10 denies powers to the state governments. Article I, Section 8 (A) details the powers of Congress. Article IV, Section 4 (C) guarantees each state a republican form of government. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (D) is the "necessary and proper clause." Article IV, Section I (E) contains the "full faith and credit clause."
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First-to-mind names like diversified Exxon Mobil (XOM) or more targeted EnCana (ECA) aren't the only ways for income investors to play natural gas, though. There are a number of companies with specific roles throughout the entire natural gas cycle -- from exploration and production to storage to even end-products like fertilizer -- that will keep you rolling in dividend checks.
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