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By Jessica Chasmar (8/17/11)
"I bought the groceries and kept the kitchen stocked," said Laurie Newsom, "but the kids make their own lunch. If they forgot their lunch, they didn't get lunch."
It was this parenting structure that Newsom — wife and mother of four, an ophthalmology clinic owner and the president of the Gainesville Tea Party — believes gave her children a sense of personal responsibility at a very young age and made them the successful professionals they are today.
Newsom is not your run-of-the-mill, stay-at-home, June Cleaver mom. She was very hands off, letting her kids make their own decisions. They eventually learned responsibility and accountability through trial-and-error. It's this type of mentality that Newsom believes most young people in the United States have lost, and it's the same mentality that she, as president of the local Tea Party, is trying to bring back.
"The Tea Party is really best described like what our chair of the Alachua County Republican Party describes it as: It's a 'state of mind,'" she said.
It's a "state of mind" because the Tea Party invites everyone who shares the same values — free markets, limited government and fiscal responsibility — to have a voice in politics.
"We've had a variety of conservative Democrats switch into the Republican Party," Newsom said. "Libertarians face a problem because of the social issues. The Republicans need to understand that those issues have their roots in individual freedom. We're trying to bridge that gap by saying that our values have nothing to do with social issues."
Newsom believes that if you have a limited government, then you have an opportunity to make your own decisions on those social issues.
"We don't care about abortion," she said. "It's none of the government's business. See, we're not fringe, yet we've been perceived that way. The Republicans are the ones who are fringe Right when it comes to social issues. It hasn't been Tea Party people up there promoting pro-life. We won't even go there."
Newsom doesn't want the Republican Party denigrating Tea Partiers as fringe. Not only is it inaccurate, she said, but conservatives can't afford the rift. It's her responsibility, as president, to advise against voting for a third-party candidate or a libertarian candidate, such as Ron Paul. Newsom supports and admires Ron Paul, but she agrees that a vote for him is a vote for President Obama — a vote she isn't willing to make.
"We need to vote for people that we can actually envision sitting in that seat," she said. "I really am a libertarian, but I'm also a pragmatist."
She also agrees with many Tea Partiers that I've interviewed in the past that a vote for Mitt Romney is not a vote for him, but much more a vote against Obama.
"When McCain won the nomination, it was obvious there was a push from the left because they knew he would lose," she said. "That's why the media are pushing Romney. He's the Democratic choice for a Republican candidate. Romney is not a good candidate. He will lose."
GOP candidate Herman Cain is Newsom's favorite at this point. Cain attended more than 40 Tea Party rallies last year, including one that Newsom attended. Minn. Rep. Michelle Bachmann is her second-in-line, but she also believes that electability and name recognition are working against both candidates.
Newsom never meddled in her kids' lives. She never made their decisions for them. She never bothered with telling them what courses to take. She never told them what they could and could not pack in their lunches. She simply expected them to do their job appropriate for whatever age they were, and if they didn't perform at that level, they faced the consequences. Her laissez-faire parenting produced a doctor, a lawyer and two successful businesswomen. It was that type of individual choice and responsibility that she used in her parenting that translates into how she feels about the public education system.
"Government should not be in the education business, period," she said. "Compulsory schooling is not conducive to individual freedom. If they can't afford to educate their children, they shouldn't be having them. If they have them, they have to face the consequences of raising them."
She believes that parents don't feel the responsibility now to take care of their own children, because the government has safety nets in place for them. In her opinion, there's nothing more optional than childbearing, and education is not a right for any American.
It might be a hard thing for people to understand: Education that's not free? But the truth is, we have lost a sense of personal responsibility. If we, as Americans, knew that we had no one else to depend on other than ourselves and ourselves only, can't it be assumed that we would make different choices? After my interview with Newsom, I couldn't help but wonder: Where does government responsibility end and personal accountability begin? What happened to the individual liberty that our Founding Fathers intended for us, and how do we get it back?
"No matter what Obama or [Rep. Nancy] Pelosi say, we are Americans," Newsom said. "We are different from any other group of people. We still have gazillions of people, be it from Germany all the way down to your third world countries, who want to be here. It's not just because we have iPods, it's because we're us. You can see the difference. The Tea Party has showcased that 'exceptionalism.'"
By Jessica Chasmar (7/27/11)
The Tea Party Movement got its name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, but it's important to understand our history in order to accurately interpret the movement's platform and goals. As is the case with most historic events, there are several different accounts of how the Boston Tea Party actually occurred and how it is to be interpreted. What follows is a brief summary of that event according to Eyewitness to History, Boston-Tea-Party.org and Benjamin Carp's "Boston Tea Party" in the 2006 Encyclopedia of the New American Nation.
The Boston Tea Party of 1773 occurred in response to the rising financial crisis of the British East India Company, but more importantly, it was in protest to the "taxation without representation" by the Parliament on the British American colonies.
Parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767 in hopes of offsetting the revenue lost due to the ongoing smuggling of Dutch tea. The act levied a new tax on several commodities, British tea included, but instead of the tea tax solving the smuggling problem, it renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
Whig colonists began to boycott the goods and protest against the taxes. Parliament was forced to repeal the Townshend taxes in 1770, but it kept the tax on tea. In 1772, Parliament passed the Tea Act that actually lowered the tax on tea that was imported into Britain, however it kept the tea taxes that were imported into the colonies the same.
In 1773, four ships carrying East India Company tea were sent to Boston, and one ship each were bound for New York, Philadelphia and Charleston. Opposition to the Tea Act began to mobilize the Americans colonists. Protestors of every colony except Massachusetts, where Gov. Thomas Hutchinson had convinced the tea consignees not to back down, were able to successfully turn the ships back to England.
After the tea ship Dartmouth arrived in the Boston Harbor, Samuel Adams called for a meeting on Nov. 29, 1773, in which thousands of colonists arrived. Where British law required the ship to unload and pay its taxes within 20 days, the mass meeting passed a resolution urging the captain of the Dartmouth to send the ship back without paying the taxes.
Gov. Hutchinson shot down the resolution, and two more tea ships, the Eleanor and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor. On the last day of the Dartmouth's deadline, roughly 5,000 people gathered around the Old South Meeting House where it had met before. After receiving a report that Gov. Hutchinson had again refused to let the ships leave, people poured out of the meeting house and headed to the harbor. That evening, a group of as little as 30 or as many as 200 men, some dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded the vessels and dumped all 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
A common misconception about the original Boston Tea Party is that it was a protest of high taxes, but the price of tea was actually reduced by the Tea Act of 1773. The Boston Tea Party was instead a response to the extent of Parliament's authority on the colonies, including the right to tax on goods, without giving the colonies any representation in the legislature.
A modern-day Tea Partier would most likely argue that today's American federal government and the 18th century British Parliament are comparable. There is an overwhelming pushback by Tea Partiers on what they see as an overreaching government into their personal lives, and they see rising taxes as damaging to their quality of life. However, while the Founding Fathers indeed favored limited government, and were skeptical of executive power, they clashed sharply over the extent of those limits.
Many Tea Party groups and individuals have taken this event and made it their own. Rick Santelli's "Rant Heard 'Round the World" sparked Tea-Party mania across the nation when he called for a "Chicago Tea Party" in protest to the government's "bad behavior," including its mortgage rescue plan. But instead of British tea, he proposed dumping derivative securities into Lake Michigan.
Judson Berger of Fox News makes some interesting comparisons of today's Tea Party Movement and the outrage of the colonists of yesteryear against the British Parliament. Berger compares the Stamp Act to the Wall Street bailout, the Tea Act to the $787 billion stimulus package, the Quartering Act to the "pork-filled omnibus spending bill," and the Boston Massacre to $3.55 trillion 2010 budget proposal at that time (April 9, 2009).
But skeptics, like Bob Cesca of AOL's WalletPop.com, argue that the modern-day Tea Partiers got it all wrong when they started comparing themselves to the 1776 colonists. They say that the Boston Tea Party was a protest against a corporate tax cut, being the Tea Act that ultimately drove the taxes on the "too big to fail" East India Company down to zero. This caused the smaller colonial tea distributors to suffer, because they couldn't compete with the duty-free, British tea.
"I'm not sure what Samuel Adams would say about the modern Tea Parties," Cesca said on WalletPop.com. "I'm positive, however, he'd have problems with all of the corporate tea bags being purchased in stores and used as props — as opposed to the Sons of Liberty deliberately hijacking ships and vandalizing corporate tea."
While the contemporary Tea Party Movement that I've been discussing in previous articles protests big government, similar to the colonists, the movement does indeed have representation in the legislature; protestors just aren't happy with those who represent them. The colonists were simply protesting Parliament because they weren't being represented. The Tea Party Movement appears to be largely anti-tax, and whether Sam Adams would approve of it or not is debatable.
By Jessica Chasmar (7/19/11)
"If I could only live up to the glory and grace of the Uncle Tom character."
Frantz Kebreau, a race relations advocate and grandson of the former president of Haiti, Francois Duvalier, spoke at the Best Western in Alachua June 21 to a crowd of about 150 Tea Partiers. He is married, a father of 5, a Republican and a Tea Party activist. He is also black.
Wait, what?
Kebreau gave an hour-and-a-half lecture to the crowd, speaking about the "real" history that public education has failed to teach kids and how "identity politics, race, white guilt, political correctness and racism are what will bring our country down."
As I've demonstrated in my "Who are These People?" article, Gallup has shown that the Tea Party is "representative of the public at large." But what some people in the media fail to recognize is that many black, conservative and libertarian men and women are joining forces with the Tea Party Movement, contrary to what Chris Matthews may want you to think.
So why are we just now hearing about it?
The answer is a fear of the Uncle Tom Syndrome. Black Republicans are often castigated by their communities. Just look at former Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele. All one needs to do is type "Michael Steele Tom" into a search engine and you'll see hundreds of articles and blogs accusing him of being just that: a sellout.
A Washington Times article posted in 2005 reported that black Democratic leaders in Maryland defended their racial attacks against Steele because he is a conservative Republican. "Such attacks include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an 'Uncle Tom' and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log… black Democrats say there is nothing wrong with 'pointing out the obvious.'"
With the risk of being shunned by their peers, it's no wonder that some black conservatives are fearful to speak up. In his lecture in Alachua, Kebreau often referenced his own experiences of friends and family questioning and criticizing his conservative political stance.
But things are beginning to change. The first black Tea Party held its inaugural meeting this past January at the "This Is It" Soul Food Restaurant in the heart of Houston's 3rd Ward. The Tea Party group was named after abolitionist icon Crispus Attucks, who died in the Boston Massacre and is often remembered as the first black hero of the American Revolution. The Tea Party's press release read:
"Our primary objective is to break the cycles of dependency and decay that continue to anesthetize and hold captive too many Black families and neighborhoods… Our objective is to teach all Americans the fullness of the history of Blacks in America and to help Blacks gain control of their lives and the destiny of their children… Spawned in the '60s, these social engineering experiments, government programs and the arrogant utopian value systems which produced them, continue to produce urban decay, increasing cyclical welfare dependency, increasing tax burdens (for those who pay taxes), the demise of the Black family, fatherless homes, skyrocketing out-of-wedlock births, more abortions than births, a rise in Black militancy and separatist activity and theft of real political power from all of those living in Black neighborhoods."
Black Americans began to favor the Democratic Party ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" days, when some programs were put in place to give economic relief to minorities. The Democratic Party received widening support by the black community when Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson supported the Civil Rights Movement. But before the 1930s, black Americans almost unanimously favored the Republican Party.
According to the chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association, Frances Rice, in "Why Martin Luther King [Jr.] was Republican," Democrats fought for slavery. The Klan was created in 1866 by Democrats who didn't want to terrorize blacks, they wanted to terrorize Republicans (the party blacks aligned themselves with) so that the Democrats could gain control. Democrats also fought to prevent the passage of the civil rights laws of the 1860s, 1950s and 1960s.
Rice also points out that Republicans Sen. Charles Sumner and Rep. Benjamin F. Butler proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that guaranteed everyone the same treatment in public accommodations. The act was signed by Republican President Ulysses S. Grant. Democrat President Harry Truman's issued an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military, but Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower is the one who took action to end segregation in the military during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944.
Eisenhower proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, where Sen. Strom Thurmond, a Democrat at the time, gave a record-breaking, 24-hour and 18-minute filibuster speech to keep it from passing.
Democratic public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor unleashed dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham. And according to Rice, John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Martin Luther King, Jr. that was organized by a black Republican, A. Phillip Randolph. Due to a tip by J. Edgar Hoover, Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had King and other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being Communists.
Historian and author David Barton in the "American Heritage Series" documents the Republican fight to end slavery during the reconstruction era. During the Civil War, Republicans amended the Constitution with the 13th Amendment, granting blacks freedom. The amendment passed with 100 percent Republican support and only 23 percent support from Democrats. Fast forward to 1868 when Republicans passed the 14th Amendment, which granted blacks citizenship. The amendment passed without one Democrat voting for it. Then in 1870, when the question of voting rights came up, Republicans passed the 15th Amendment. After the new Constitution passed, a number of black Americans, mostly ex-slaves, were elected to Congress. All seven were Republicans.
When Republicans were in control of the House, Senate and presidency, 23 civil rights laws were passed in the 14 years between 1861 and 1875. But notice how 89 years passed between the last civil rights law passed in 1875 and the next civil rights law in 1964. It's not a coincidence that in 1876, Democrats regained partial control of Congress and kept it during that time.
According to Merle Black in "The Transformation of the Southern Democratic Party," today's southern Democratic Party has been largely transformed since the '60s: "A party originally created by racist southern white men to enhance and maintain their perceived interests has now become the political home of African Americans, liberal and moderate whites, and Hispanics."
"Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems," said Frances Rice. "More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty."
The Crispus Attucks Tea Party was formed to bring the descendents of black slavery to the realization that welfare checks and government dependency are key elements to modern-day slavery. According to the organization, entitlement programs have destroyed lives, families and their neighborhoods. "Government dependency holds blacks hostage. It precludes true liberty and forever blocks full assimilation."
The bigger picture, however, is that every Tea Party group, black or white, stands for less government in its citizens' lives and thus, less government dependency by its citizens. We obviously can't cut people off from government assistance abruptly, so the question is how to instill a sense of pride back into the citizenry who has relied on the government to bail them out in a time of desperation. The truth is, we are a very forgiving and generous nation and more fortunate Americans have always been willing to open their wallets when they see people are in a time of need, especially when those more fortunate Americans are taxed less. Tea Partiers support charities, churches and private organizations to rely on the kindness and generosity of the American public to help support the less fortunate, not the federal government. The Tea Party is not a party of racism, hatred and vitriol; it is a party of personal responsibility and true liberty.
By Jessica Chasmar (7/12/11)
"On behalf of my children and grandchildren, I will vote for whoever is running against the president."
Jerry Merckel, a member of the First Coast Tea Party in Jacksonville, Fla., as well as many other Tea Party supporters, hold this view that future generations are in danger of facing a socialist America. They see an exorbitant rise in the federal debt, expanding entitlement programs, under-regulated illegal immigration and government encroachment on individual liberty as a less-than-ideal environment for their families to endure.
We can speculate that Tea Partiers will vote for virtually any Republican presidential candidate, assuming that the motive of the movement is to deny President Barack Obama a second term. Tea Party supporters who are informed on the election process and two-party politics can understand that to vote for a third-party candidate or even a libertarian running as a Republican, like Ron Paul, would be a waste of a vote in the primaries. A libertarian winning the Republican nomination is very unlikely, but if it happened, it would be a guaranteed second-term for Obama. My interaction with Tea Partiers has led me to believe that the majority will not vote for a Ron Paul candidate because of this reality. This is why there was so much worry from the right over Donald Trump's speculation about running as an Independent. Splitting the vote would be incredibly damaging for both the Tea Party and the GOP.
Tea Party Express Chair Amy Kremer told Uma Pemmaraju on Fox News' America's News HQ this June, "We want to defeat Barack Obama. We will not support a third-party candidate."
A Rasmussen poll conducted this June on a national random sample of 1,000 likely voters found that in a three-way congressional contest with a Tea Party candidate on the ballot, the Democrat picks up 40 percent of the vote. The Republican earns 21 percent, the Tea Party candidate earns 18 percent and 21 percent remain undecided.
But Tea Partier Michael Bobbitt, of Gainesville, Fla., said a Tea Party member won't run as a Tea Party candidate.
"If they run a candidate as a third-party," he said, "it could have a crushing effect on the likelihood of electing a more conservative president." The Tea Party will rather have a positive impact on the conservative vote in the 2012 election.
The existence of the Tea Party requires Republican candidates to be more conservative in order to get their votes, especially when in November, more conservative individuals mobilized for the primaries, cutting out the moderate candidates like Mike Castle and Lisa Murkowski. If this dynamic remains the case for the 2012 election, it is likely that a very conservative candidate will be on the Republican ticket. A 2010 Gallup poll conducted on more than 8,000 U.S. adults found that conservatives outnumber moderates and liberals in the American electorate. Whether a very conservative, particularly polarizing candidate can beat Obama, however, remains to be seen.
"In our local elections," Merckel said, "I see most [GOP] candidates for office seek the support of the First Coast Tea Party. The GOP will work to entice the Tea Party into their fold. Likewise, the Tea Party will work to change the direction of the GOP to a more conservative path."
So who is the frontrunner for the Tea Party vote?
"Looking at the current set of candidates, I would nominate Mitt Romney for president," said Merckel. "He has the executive experience and has demonstrated his capability on difficult financial situations. However, he has the Health Plan issue and has flipped on a number of social issues."
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has faced tough scrutiny from the right regarding his healthcare plan dubbed "Romneycare," that was more or less used as a blueprint for the widely opposed "Obamacare." He is also accused of flip-flopping on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
Bobbitt doesn't believe a winning candidate has yet emerged from the right.
"Mitt Romney is the presumptive front-runner, but the more the public is exposed to his record, the more they will see little differentiation between his positions and those of Obama," he said. "I would vote for [GOP presidential candidate] Herman Cain. I don't see any other candidates that seem committed to reducing the size and scope of government in any serious way. With Mr. Cain, at least the Fair Tax has a chance for more exposure."
FoxNews contributor and comedian Steven Crowder said that if he had to vote for president today, he would vote for virtually any GOP candidate on the ticket.
"I'm not thrilled to say it, but Romney is likely," he said. "Politically speaking, he has an earlier head-start. Romney just seems like too much of a politician to me. I can vote for him with a clear conscience, but not a happy one."
We understand Tea Partiers want less government intrusion and to cut spending, but what should the federal government cut? What should it keep?
Bobbitt said the government should keep the programs that help the legitimately least fortunate among American citizens — "those who cannot fend for themselves, not those who simply choose not to."
He also believes the government should keep programs that are "reinvestment vehicles for economic growth, such as Pell grants to colleges, Small Business Administration loans and FHA and VA loans for qualified homebuyers."
Crowder believes the primary responsibility of the federal government should be defense and very little else.
"People act as though it's a hard question, but when you understand the legitimate, original goal of government, it's really not," he said. "My analogy is that of a hockey referee. The role of the government is to keep the players (in this case its citizens) safe and make sure that people are playing by the rules."


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Led all NHL rookies in points (63), goals (24-tied), assists (39), power-play goals (8), game-winning goals (5-tied), shots (241) and games played (82-tied)...Became the first NHL player to lead all rookies in goals, assists and points since Evgeni Malkin in 2006-07...Nathan's 63 points equaled the most of any NHL rookie over the last five seasons, matching Jeff Skinner's total from 2010-11...Only one rookie in Avalanche history (since 1995-96) has ever had more points, Paul Stastny (78) in 2006-07...Was one of only two Avs to appear in every game this year (Patrick Bordeleau) and one of only three NHL rookies to dress in all 82 contests (Tyler Johnson, Tom Wilson)...Led the Avalanche in shots, ranked second in assists (tied), plus/minus (+20) and PPG, and finished fourth in goals and points...Was first NHL rookie to surpass 60 points with plus/minus rating of +20 or better since 1992-93 (Joe Juneau, Eric Lindros, Shawn McEachern)...Made his NHL debut at the age of 18 years, 31 days on Oct. 2 vs. Anaheim, becoming the youngest player in franchise history...He was over 200 days younger than the previous record holder, Owen Nolan, who was 18 years, 235 days when he debuted for Quebec on Oct. 4, 1990 at Hartford...Notched two assists in that debut to become the youngest player to record two or more points in a game since January 8, 1944, when Ted Kennedy (18 years, 27 days) had four points (1g/3a) for the Maple Leafs in a 12-3 win over the Bruins in Toronto...Had an assist in each of his first three NHL games, becoming the fifth player in franchise history to accomplish that feat...Scored his first NHL goal on Oct. 12 at Washington, becoming the youngest player in franchise history to score a goal (18 years, 41 days)...Tallied his first career game-winning goal on Nov. 2 vs. Montreal...Equaled franchise rookie record with nine shots Nov. 12 at Carolina...Had back-to-back two-goal games, Jan. 4-6, becoming the youngest player in NHL history to record multiple goals in two straight games (18 years, 127 days)...Broke the previous mark set by Dale Hawerchuk (18 years, 204 days) from Oct. 23-25, 1981 with the Winnipeg Jets...Recorded his first career multi-goal game on Jan. 4 vs. San Jose, becoming the youngest player in franchise history to score two goals in a game (18 years, 125 days)...He broke the previous mark set by Ryan O'Reilly, who was 18 years, 272 days when he lit the lamp twice on Nov. 6, 2009 vs. Chicago...Led the team and all NHL rookies with nine goals in January, the second-most ever by an Avs rookie in a single month...Recorded a career-high three points (1g/2a) on Feb. 1 vs. Buffalo...Led all rookies and tied for the league lead with 10 points (5g/5a) in seven games during the month of February...Compiled a 13-game point streak from Jan. 25 to March 6, the longest streak by an 18-year-old in NHL history...He topped Wayne Gretzky's record of 12 straight games with a point from Dec. 9, 1979 to Jan. 5, 1980...MacKinnon's streak was the second-longest by a rookie over the past 20 seasons since 1993-94, behind only Paul Stastny's record 20-game stretch in 2006-07...MacKinnon's 13-gamer was tied for the third-longest streak by a rookie in franchise history...Hit the 50-point mark on March 4 at Chicago, becoming the fifth-youngest player in NHL history to reach 50 points (18 years, 184 days)...Only Bep Guidolin (18 years, 58 days), Ted Kennedy (18 years, 97 days), Sidney Crosby (18 years, 161 days) and Brian Bellows (18 years, 182 days) were younger.
2013-14 PLAYOFFS: Made his Stanley Cup Playoff debut on April 17 in a first-round series with the Minnesota Wild...Tallied three assists in his debut, becoming the first NHL rookie ever to do so...Had a goal and three assists in the Avs' Game 2 win vs. the Wild, becoming the third 18-year-old in NHL history to record a four-point game in the postseason (Pierre Turgeon, 1988; Trevor Linden, 1989)...Was the fourth player in NHL history with three or more points in each of his first two career postseason games...Scored the OT winner in Game 5 for Colorado, becoming the second youngest player in NHL postseason history to score an overtime goal (18 years, 237 days)...Tied the NHL record for most points (seven) in the first two playoff games of a career.
2012-13: Helped lead the Halifax Mooseheads to their first-ever Quebec Major Junior Hockey League championship and first-ever Memorial Cup title…Was named MVP of the 2013 Memorial Cup after recording a tournament-high 13 points (7g/6a) in four games, which included a hat trick and five points in the final against Portland on May 26…During the 2012-13 regular season, MacKinnon collected 75 points (32g/43a) in 44 contests for Halifax, averaging 1.70 points-per-game…He finished tied for fourth on the Mooseheads in scoring and added a +40 plus/minus rating en route to being named to the QMJHL Second All-Star Team…Went on to tally 33 points (11g/22a) in 17 playoff games as the Mooseheads won the league championship…Nathan's 33 postseason points tied him for second in the QMJHL…Led Halifax in game-winning goals during the regular season (7-tie) and playoffs (4)…Represented Team Canada at the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia…Appeared in all six of Canada's games at the tournament, posting one assist.
2011-12: As a rookie with Halifax in 2011-12, MacKinnon led the Mooseheads in goals (31), assists (47) and points (78) while appearing in 58 games…His 78 points finished second among QMJHL rookies…Led Halifax in playoff scoring as well, registering 28 points (13g/15a) in 17 postseason contests…Was selected first overall by the Baie-Comeau Drakkar in the 2011 QMJHL Draft before his rights were traded to Halifax.
OTHER: Helped his bantam team in Cole Harbour win the Atlantic AAA Championship in 2008…He then went on to play for Shattuck-St. Mary's prep school in Minnesota from 2009-11 before joining Halifax.
Represented Team Canada at the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia…Appeared in all six of Canada's games at the tournament, posting one assist.
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Last week I posted less-than-favorable launch day impressions of Trion Worlds' Defiance, the massively multiplayer shooter tie-in to SyFy's upcoming original series. I bemoaned the lack of PC options, criticized the silly vehicle physics and worried over its lack of general chat functionality. A week later those… »
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Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 12:19 AM #1
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Gods and the Worshippers That Love Them
Heya guys. So I've been looking over the deity section on the LPF wiki and noticed we have ALOT of deities, 38 to be exact. Now out of the 38 there are several that don't have portfolios and even more without domains or favored weapons.
Now to the second portion. As much as I would hate to propose that we add an deities we have a full on orc pantheon and several partials which include dwarven, gnome, and halfling. Also we have nothing for elven and I am familiar with the elven mythos in E'n. However I fell they should have their own pantheon.
I have a list of the deities that have no domains or portfolios beyond the aspect in which they represent:
Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 12:56 AM #2
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Speaking as a disinterested outsider, 38 deities doesn't seem like a lot to me.
That said, if you wanted help fleshing them out, I'd be happy to help, provided someone did a search of all the references to the gods in questions on the boards previously, so that the new stuff aligned with the old.http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/213067-unified-theory-gnomes.html
Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 02:50 AM #3
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Some of these - such as Kaven and the other Gnomish deities - are likely on the old Social Group but never got ported over to the Wiki.
Originally Posted by Proposal: Region - Tal Hallow (Gnomes!)
Last edited by Mowgli; Tuesday, 17th April, 2012 at 02:56 AM."Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 03:09 AM #4
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Before any of this goes anywhere, there's a biiiiiiig question that LPF needs to answer. And that's specifically: Do you want to define the world because it's there, or do you want to leave it as open as possible until someone needs it?
So, we can sit down and define all the pantheons, or we can not care until someone comes up with a neat idea that they need a god to fit given what's already written.
To put this in context, House Boraga has six heirs. I've defined two, because they came up in Escort Service. However, I have really great ideas for at least three of the remaining four, and I'd love to write wiki entries for them. Is it better that those four are undefined, so that other people can invent stuff as needed, or is it better that I define them, so that other people have a hook to write adventures?
Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 04:43 AM #5
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It's a good point. While I do agree that leaving things open is a positive, in that we want others (especially newcomers) to feel like they can contribute, I do think that there's enough world-building to be done that if people get motivated to do something (like, say, yourself with the heirs), then they should do it.
Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 05:14 AM #6
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The deities needs something built and hashed out for balance. Otherwise, you will get someone that will come along and worship Mistress Ivy, the ruling treant of luckily deceptive travel. Stringing Law, Luck, Travel, Plant and Trickery all together so their monk/cleric can get the best bonuses.
That which affects tens of thousands of inhabitants should be fleshed out so we have a good idea which way the prevailing wind is taking us while writing. Deities fall in that category, as we have no small gods. Or do we? The example of the Boraga House is on the small scale side of things.
The big part right now is that some races have their pantheon all built up, while others don't have much done at all.
Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 01:34 PM #7
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When I wrote Serroth, I was under the impression that Landadel had tons and tons of small-ish gods, almost like Shinto or at the very least like ancient Greece/Rome, since a full pantheon hadn't been fleshed out. Or even proposed, really. And there's the impression in Penk's writeup that worship varies quite a lot from place to place.
Looking at many of the pantheons as they stand, I'm not sure they're complete enough for full fleshing out. And I'm not sure that potential munchkinism is really a problem, because that's what judge approval is for.
I think it might be a good idea to tag which pantheons are 'Open' and which are 'Closed,' though. Is the Venzan religion accepting applications, or is it full?
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Here is a write up I just did on Caridin, I'm not keen on making him a golem but that's how the OP had him so I left it alone.
CaridinCaridin, the Tombstone
Alignment: Neutral
Domains: Artifice, Death, Earth, Healing, Repose
Favored Weapon: Warhammer
Nationality: Dwarven
The reaper of dwarven souls, Caridin, is said to be a golem created by Rogar himself to reap the honorable souls of the dwarves. He often appears as a golem of usual dwarven height and build made of adamantine and stone wielding a warhammer, the head of which is in the shape of an hourglass.
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Under the EU roadmap, Bulgaria is expected to join Schengen on 31.03.2011. The abolition of controls at the internal borders will facilitate Bulgarian tourism. To offset the abolition of the systematic control of persons, police co-operation has been strengthened by establishing an automated search database throughout the Schengen area, each Member State having its own national centre – the SIRENE Bureau. Establishing a SIRENE Bureau that fulfils Schengen requirements and starting up the Schengen Information System (SIS) are two of the conditions for opening Schengen's internal borders.
The overall objective is to ensure that Bulgaria can join Schengen by March 2011. In co-operation with Switzerland, the project aims to increase the professional competence of the Bulgarian SIRENE Bureau officers, to prepare for the Evaluation, and to raise awareness about the effects of Schengen.
Swiss assistance comprises mainly: a. Training Bulgarian law enforcement personnel in the area of SIS/SIRENE; b. Compiling and financing a second edition of a flyer for law enforcement agencies; c. Preparing for the Evaluation and in the implementation of eventual recommendations made by the expert group during the Evaluation; d. Financing of awareness-raising measures for civil society; e. Procurement of material needed to enhance functionality of the SIRENE Bureau and training.
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More detail is being sketched into the Volkswagen Group's plan to launch a low-cost brand for emerging markets. Late last year a German report quoted a VW rep saying that the brand has been interested in building a no-frills car, the kind that would challenge Dacia and Datsun, for a while. With both Proton and Suzuki effectively out of the partnership picture, a report in Reuters suggests VW could go straight to China, developing a car with its joint venture partners and building and selling it there.
Officially, company CEO Martin Winterkorn said the issue of a model for emerging markets would be decided this year but VW isn't any closer to confirming any kind of plan for a car in its portfolio underneath the Up!, remarking to Reuters about the China possibility, "That's an issue we're currently looking at."


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1Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
2Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knoell-Straße 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
Abstract. Seeking for baseline conditions has biased the carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring networks towards remote marine stations, missing part of the variability that is due to regional anthropogenic as well as land biota activity. We present here a five-year record of atmospheric CO2 mixing ratios and oxygen/nitrogen ratios (O2/N2) from the coastal stations Lutjewad (LUT), the Netherlands and Mace Head (MHD), Ireland, derived from flask samples. Oxygen mixing ratios, concurrently measured with CO2, help determine regional CO2 fluxes by separating land fluxes from sea fluxes. Mace Head is the closest marine baseline station to Lutjewad, located at the same latitude, and therefore is taken as a reference. During the period of this study, we observed an average increase of CO2 in the atmosphere of (1.7±0.2) μmol*(mol dry air)−1 per year, and a change of the O2 fraction of (−20±1) per meg per year. The observed acceleration of the oxygen decrease during the study period seems to confirm the existence of a net oxygen sink other than the combustion processes alone. The difference between the CO2 summer minimum and the winter maximum is 14.4 μmol*(mol dry air)−1 and 16.1 μmol*(mol dry air)−1 at Mace Head and Lutjewad, respectively, while the opposite variation in the O2 signal equals 113 per meg and 153 per meg, respectively. We also studied the APO (atmospheric potential oxygen) tracer at both stations. By this analysis, evidence has been found that we need to be careful when using APO close to anthropogenic CO2 sources. It could be biased by combustion-derived CO2, and models have to take into account daily and seasonal variations in the anthropogenic CO2 production in order to be able to simulate APO over the continents.
Citation: Sirignano, C., Neubert, R. E. M., Meijer, H. A. J., and Rödenbeck, C.: Atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide observations from two European coastal stations 2000–2005: continental influence, trend changes and APO climatology, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 20113-20154, doi:10.5194/acpd-8-20113-2008, 2008.


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We are what we ingest…
Our experience of life, our choices and our beliefs, are all guided and experienced in relation to one's consciousness. Alteration of your consciousness presents you with a different world, for good or for bad. Your consciousness is constantly affected by the experiences you have – consciousness cultivated negatively through bad choices perpetuates more negativity, consciousness cultivated with purposeful intent can help transform your world into a magnificent one.
The taking in of experience can be seen as a similar process to eating, constantly taking in the nourishment of information to grow your body and mind. Just as moving in a particular way or consuming a particular diet impacts you over time, your information 'diet' changes you as an individual; physically, mentally and spiritually.
I don't think many of us have been gifted with or have cultivated truly 'Teflon' minds. Something always sticks from the information we ingest. Consciously controlling this information stream is an extremely powerful way to transform our inner world.
I would contend we don't have any real control over the initial thoughts that arise in our brain. However, once they bubble to the surface we have absolute control of what we do next. Either chase in feverish pursuit down the thought chasm, bringing us to realisation or despair, or let go and await the next one to arise. We injest our thoughts when we dwell on them, making them all the more likely to bubble to the surface at a future time.
So we have a simple choice. We can choose to ponder, reflect, surround and engulf our beings with thoughts, information and actions that strengthen us, enliven us, enable us to more easily live purposeful lives, and make great contributions to the rest of humanity…
Or the alternative…
It's your choice.
What a wonderful start to my day Simon. It makes so much sense to think of thoughts as we do for food. Both are essential to a healthy and productive life. It's difficult sometimes, to get the balance right in our busy world today. This has given me just the perspective I needed to focus on what's important to me today.
Thank you Vera, I am glad to be of service… It certainly is difficult to get the balance right in our world. As far as I am aware, humanity has always had issues dealing with distracted, thought-filled minds, but the very nature of our overstimulated world enhances this problem. All making mindfulness and meditation all the more important! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this. It helps so much to see other people produce similar insights to how our minds function and how we can help shape the worlds both within us and outside of us. I look forward to your next post!
Hi Simon, Picked up your website from Twitter, thought I'd come along to say hello.
Definitely my kind of thing! I'm a reiki/qigong/martial arts guy too, always up for reading up on this.
This blog is "so speaking" to me right now, not only in this space on the page, more so, in my life as well. Lately, I have had the opportunity to observe how what I eat and how I perform or act out in my daily experience, is paralleling with the food I eat.
For example, the other day after only four hours of sleep and a host of projects and errands to complete, I found myself in a "hurried state of mind". Everything else followed suit, fast driving, fast reactions, and yes, fast food. Fast food that I neither enjoyed or felt satiated after, which only added to my inability to stay focused and present in the moment. Mostly, because caffeine ingested in the least of forms can be overly stimulating to me, not a good idea for maintaining calm by any means. Still my desire to speed up the process of getting things done was justification enough for my indulgence. The result was a day of angst, oversights, & overlooks that affected the ability for me to be at my best.
Than it occurred to me that, this was a bit more common than I would like to think or admit, especially after reading your blog. Furthermore, I had chosen the pace for the day, consciously or unconsciously, my choice. I realized how it is a domino effect, when I am out of balance, the energy that I share with myself and the world is out of balance. Is that my purpose? I think not.
Thanks Simon for sharing. I will be more conscientious of what I ingest mentally, physically and spiritually.
Before taking anything in we should taste it, take it in our mouth, turn it over, and chew it. Really make sure it is good for us before allowing it in.
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Hi Simon
I like your comparison of thoughts and information to food. As a culture, we have a strong bias towards to the tangible – I'm probably more likely to refuse to put a bad looking potato in my mouth than to refuse a toxic thought someone offers.
I also love working with energy – we are not very conscious the energy we take in from various sources, and we are so often dealing with other peoples' experiences and thoughts, carried in energy we've taken in. Ever felt really bad in some house or venue and not known why? It could be your sensing and taking in the energy hanging around that place!
Consciousness, states of being, and energy are such amazing realms to delve into – for me – glad to subscribe to your blog and experience what you express!
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Greetings, I would like to introduce myself and look forward to sharing in the blog. I am a 72 year old ready to put out a collection of free practices and Buddhist teachings as used at the Internal School since 1968, please share these and go to http://www.bluedragonzenacademy.com (type or paste at the top of the web page, not in a search box for now).
The emphasis of the practice is achieving singleness of mind thru the cultivation of the force (chi). This factor is raised to a level of mind and body harmony on account of the directive intention exercised during the practice. It is thru this that the Master Hand moves, that creative quality when the art is not a mere display of technical skill patiently learned under the tutorship of a good master, but an original and creative intelligence.
My credentials are on this site.
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There are many reasons for Suns fans to start panicking over the team's 2-5 record since Eric Bledsoe has been out of the lineup, and rightfully so.
Outside of Goran Dragic's abilities, you do not know what you are going to get from the offense on a consistent basis. The team has been among the bottom of the league in rebounding throughout the season and more recently the bench has not been producing. Even with the struggles, the Suns still sit in the top-eight in the Western Conference and were in position to win four games instead of lose four if they got a couple of bounces on their recent road trip.
With that said, the Suns enter what I am calling a make-or-break stretch of their schedule if they want to be true contenders for a playoff spot.
You may think it is too early for such talk being that it is only Jan. 15, but the schedule says otherwise.
From now through a game against the Chicago Bulls on Feb. 4, the Suns only play four games against teams with plus .500 records, including Indiana twice, Dallas at home and another home game against a Denver team that is just one game over .500. The Suns' three road games outside of Indiana are against three of the bottom-five teams in the Eastern Conference.
That is a very manageable 11-game stretch without Bledsoe that gives the Suns a chance to right the ship.
After that it doesn't look too bright. Six of the next seven after the Chicago game are against some of the top teams in the league, including Miami, San Antonio, Golden State and Houston.
We have no idea when Bledsoe is going to be coming back, but it won't be until after those 18 games at the absolute earliest. If the Suns tank these next 11, they very well may be out of the playoff race by the end of February. And March gives them no favors to get back in it under that scenario.
The Suns' final 21 games feature four road back-to-backs with four of the final five coming away from U.S. Airways Center. With or without Bledsoe, that is a daunting task.
Based on the schedule, the Suns most important 11 game stretch begins tonight against a tired Los Angeles Lakers team that played late the night before.
Here are the pregame questions for tonight's game.
Who is going to help out Goran Dragic on offense?
Dragic is coming off a 48-minute performance in New York that saw him tire out in overtime. His legs were just not there at the end of the overtime period to finish his shots and that is due to a mixture of it being the end of a road trip and his increased workload of the team depending on him in the past week. Until Gerald Green heats up again, someone needs to step up and take the pressure off Dragic. Barbosa helped out in the fourth quarter of the New York game, but they need it all game long. I am looking at the Morris brothers to pick up the slack. Green and Channing Frye are both streak shooters that bring a different dynamic to the offense when they are on. P.J. Tucker has limited offensive skills and Miles Plumlee is usually a 10-14 point guy in the post, at best.
That brings me back to the Morris brothers. Markieff is just one for his last nine with an inexcusable early ejection in New York. His absence forced Hornacek to go to a four guard offense at one point that allowed the Knicks to score six straight points before quickly getting out of it. Marcus has been a bit better the past two games but overall has only averaged 8.7 points per game this month. I am looking for one of these two to get going and help Dragic carry the load.
Can the Suns start fast?
The Lakers are not a good basketball team and they will quit if they get down early as we saw in the teams' previous meeting at U.S. Airways Center. The Lakers lost a tough 120-118 game to the Cleveland Cavaliers last night and if the Suns can open up a double-digit lead early and force the Lakers to play from behind, then I can see them cruising to this victory.
Can the Lakers hit some threes?
The Purple and Gold get dependent on the three-point shot. Most notably it is important not to let their irrational confidence guy, Nick Young, get going. Last night he led the team with 28 points on 4-for-8 shooting from behind the arc. Jodie Meeks also made 6-of-10 last night and our old Friend Wesley Johnson is capable of shooting from deep. A key tonight is to shut down the Lakers deep shooting game.
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