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Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera's bid for a second Triple Crown inspires comparisons to baseball's past greats. (Elizabeth Conley / Detroit News)
The Rajah stood at home plate, his flannel uniform rumpled, his two-tone cap perched flat on his head. His pose displayed a vintage image from the 1920s. A burly figure in black and white, a dark photo. And he held a huge baseball bat on his shoulder. A baseball park in the background.
He was set up to bat right-handed. The bat was so heavy that it could have been weighted by lead, or so goes the legend. His face was full of bristles.
The bristles fit his character.
Rogers Hornsby was grouchy, angry and overly opinionated.
And when he hit the baseball, it cannonaded off the heavy bat. Usually in line drives. In some seasons with better than 40 percent success.
He was a precious antique in an era of antique ballplayers
Most of this is from images that I gathered from photos and stories about Hornsby.
The bat I know about because I had a model Rogers Hornsby Louisville Slugger as a kid and it seemed to be as heavy as I was.
His grouchiness I know, too, from actual experience.
I scored a doubleheader in my kid days at the start of what is now 57 years of writing about sports and people who play � and played � games.
It wasn�t five years into this career before I managed to tick off both Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. I had never seen either player, except on film, but Cobb and Hornsby were, back around 1959 and 1960, considered the greatest left-handed and right-handed batters in the history of baseball.
Those beliefs still stand � after all these years of scrutiny.
The dredging up of Hornsby serves to re-affirm that he was the greatest right-handed batter in the 137-year history of Major League Baseball.
There is a timely reason for this.
Miguel Cabrera � and his 2013 season!
Cabrera is best now
There have been a multitude of neophyte journalists this summer who are determined not to pay attention to history, as though, history does not exist. That it is fashionable in modern culture to deal in revisionist theories. And pass them off as the truth.
There is no true gauge where the great Cabrera ranks in the pantheon of the greatest right-handed hitters in the history of the sport. For sure, he is the best, most solid hitter � right or left � currently playing.
And the best of this 21st century. He is again destined to win the American League�s most valuable player award � despite the current wounds and injuries that he has tried so courageously to ignore.
This time, Cabrera should win without much dispute from the Sabermetricians and amateur blogger, wannabe sports journalists who argue that we are too old to know anything.
But Cabrera has to add some MVP and Triple Crown years before he could challenge Hornsby. And to challenge such right-handed hitters as Henry Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, Honus Wagner, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, Al Simmons, Willie Mays, Harry Heilmann and Albert Pujols. And the terribly ignored Roberto Clemente.
Of them all, by the numbers, by reputation, I judge that Hornsby then was the best right-handed hitter � and likely the second-best hitter after Ty Cobb.
Hornsby played in a period when Cobb dominated, when Babe Ruth romanticized baseball with the mighty home run, when George Sisler, Tris Speaker and Bill Terry played with fantastic skills and numbers. A baseball generation before Ted Williams. All left-handed hitters.
Cobb � with razor-sharp spikes and bunting skills � was a trickster. Ruth�s game was power.
With his bat � 37 ounces, sometimes 40 � Hornsby terrorized the pitchers of the day. And he tended to thrive on that.
�I don�t like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn�t help but feel sorry for the pitcher,� Hornsby said once, as collected by the BrainyQuotes.com website.
He played 23 seasons in the majors, 1915-37. He played second base mostly, for the Cardinals, New York Giants, Boston Braves. Cubs, Cardinals again and St. Louis Browns. He was player-manager on several of his teams.
Most ballplayers did not move around much back in those days, when the reserve clause could attach them to teams for eternity.
But Hornsby, with his temper and ego, wore a variety of flannel uniforms. He battled his own manager even as a kid player. In turn, later, his players often rebelled against him.
But it hardly mattered to Hornsby because he could hit.
Hitter, but hated
He batted over .400 three times. Hornsby�s .424 for the 1924 Cardinals was the highest batting average in the 20th century � topping the best of Cobb, .420 for the 1911 Tigers. Hornsby�s career batting average of .358 remains second only to Cobb�s career .366.
The record shows that Hornsby was twice anointed as the National League�s most valuable player � before the MVP award became an actual, fundamental award in baseball. He won seven batting championships. And he won two Triple Crowns
But his unpopularity smothered many of his accomplishments.
In his second term as manager of the hapless Browns in 1952, Hornsby was fired.
His players presented club owner Bill Veeck Sr. with a trophy in gratitude, according to Hornsby�s Wikipedia biography.
Even in his later years, Hornsby irked just about everyone he met. As did Cobb, who once snarled at me when I asked a question at a Tigers� Oldtimers Day in Detroit in 1958 or 1959.
It was 1962 when Hornsby resurfaced as a coach for the Mets, a brand new franchise, established out of expansion. He went to work for Casey Stengel, who was so marvelous to the sweating sports journalists. Stengel had signed veteran Frank Lary, with an aching, tired arm, to be one of the Mets� pitchers.
There was some irony to that because Lary had been nicknamed �The Yankees Killer,� when he constantly beat Stengel�s Yankees champions for the Tigers. To me, then with Associated Press at spring training, it seemed valid subject matter.
Stengel � verbose as he was � never answered the question.
�That doesn�t matter now,� Hornsby said, butting in, �these are the Mets now.�
There was an unpleasant expression on his face that said �dumb kid,� or something to that effect.
The story on Hornsby was that he never watched movies when he played to preserve his eyesight. He didn�t drink alcohol or smoke. He gambled a lot.
And with that huge Louisville Slugger bat, he could hit � right-handed shots scattered all over the ballpark. A huge bat wielded by a large man � for his era � 5-foot-11, above 175 pounds. Solid in stature.
Through the years I saw most of those other right-handed hitters � never Wagner, of course, but Aaron, DiMaggio, Greenberg, Foxx, Mays, Clemente, Pujols. Cabrera truly does not resemble any of those. He is massive � more than Greenberg, more than Foxx. Solid like Hornsby.
When Cabrera is at home plate in his trim Detroit uniform, inside my head, there is a vision of Rogers Hornsby � The Rajah, in his baggy flannels � feeling sorry for the pitcher.


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WASHINGTON — The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will leave lasting changes on the military, but their biggest legacy on the Air Force has been the impact on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
The services ISR mission underwent a renaissance during the decade-plus missions in the region, transforming from a support tool to a vital part of every combat operation, with unmanned systems such as the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper seen as defining symbols of the conflicts.
But as the US moves away from the region, the Air Force is facing new realities both strategic and budgetary for its ISR mission, forcing service officials to make big decisions on laying the groundwork for what is to come.
To begin that process, Maj. Gen. John Shanahan, head of the Air Forces ISR agency, issued a 14-page Strategic Plan in 2013 laying out the direction for the services ISR mission through 2023.
The report can be summed up in a line from his opening summary: We must transition rapidly from a target-based, inductive approach to ISR centered on processing, exploitation and dissemination to a problem-based, deductive, active and anticipatory approach that focuses on ISR operations.
We have to help shape the future or risk being shaped by it, he concluded.
The most obvious challenge facing the service, and one identified by the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, as key, is the movement away from permissive environments toward contested ones. That includes a planned move away from technologies such as the MQ-1 and MQ-9, which can be victimized by advanced anti-aircraft systems, in favor of different technologies and strategies.
We believe that we are over-invested in permissive ISR, and we are probably under-invested to deal in contested, or highly contested, scenarios, said Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy chief of staff for ISR. So, in an environment where budgets are certainly not going to be growing, that implies that there needs to be a realignment of our means.
Both Otto and Shanahan identified that realignment as having three major focuses cyber, space and human ISR.
The Air Force is investing quite heavily in cyber, in support of these national mission forces that we are standing up for US Cyber Command, Otto said. Meanwhile, there are assets and capabilities in space that we have been either underutilizing or that we have not integrated as well as we could into this wholistic [ISR] picture.
While Otto and Shanahan both want closer integration of space and cyber activities, retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, one of Ottos predecessors, warns that there are institutional barriers that must be removed.
What we really need is to get rid of major commands that were designed for a world that existed in the middle of the last century, and upgrade them to the kind of 21st century challenges that were facing today. Thats why we need an ISR major command, and we need to move our domain-centric commands into more functional commands, Deptula said.
We ought to be looking at consolidating force application into one command and meld cyber and ISR together into an integrated command, because cyber was an outgrowth of the intelligence field, and those two entities operate in conjunction with one another, he said.
Rather than viewing ISR as something divided up among different major commands, it needs to be more fully integrated at the highest levels, Deptula said.
Although less flashy than the technological aspects, the human intelligence and analysis aspects of the service could actually grow in importance in the coming years, according to both generals.
The Air Force essentially disinvested in human intelligence in the past decade, so in the next decade, I think we recognize that we need to have some investment, Otto said. It will be modest, but we do have a need for human intelligence as well.
What does that look like? In his report, Shanahan talked about the need to professionalize the analytical workforce, an idea he expanded on in an interview.
We have atrophied our skills a little bit in this core skill of analysis, and along with that, I would throw in some targeting skills and also our language capabilities, Shanahan said. Some of this is the nature of what weve done for 12 years.
Shanahan pointed to the tsunami of data that comes in from ISR assets every day, using the example of someone assigned to watching full-motion video of an area for 12 hours a day.
Its not quite the same level of analysis required to study a Chinese integrated air defense system and put them into the context of all the other things China is doing with the modernization of its military, he said. We have to teach this idea of critical thinking, and put it in context of, you may have one piece of the story, but you need the other 35 pieces that go along with it.
Investing in automated technologies is key to developing those capabilities, Shanahan said. That includes things such as automatic queuing. Instead of having an analyst sit and watch 12 hours of video, the Air Force would set up a system that alerts the analysts if activity occurs in a certain area, or if a hyperspectral camera picks up traces of explosive during a flight.
Its exactly the place we need to go, he said. What we must do is give more time back to the analysts to figure out the wicked problem sets, the really hard, deep analysis that has to happen.
We dont need to have people staring at video monitors coming from [UAV] feeds, waiting for something to happen, Deptula agreed. We dont have a deficit in training, but we need to change the fashion in which we train to optimize our analysts impact, because we are going to have fewer of them in the future resource-constrained environment. ■
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Last season: Overall, it was a terrific year for MSU's linebackers, starting with Max Bullough in the middle. He took another step as a defensive quarterback and playmaker, collecting 111 tackles and earning All-Big Ten first-team honors. Denicos Allen wasn't able to match his breakthrough sophomore season, but he still finished ...


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Just picked up Plantation Grande Reserve....great rum, and cheap too.
$5 coupon day at Binny's brought an El Dorado 15 down to $34.99 so it came home to replace a departed 12. Never had the 15 before (and I know some prefer the 12) but a preliminary mini sip is promising. Feel a healthy pour coming on tonight.
Picked up a bottle of Cruzan Gold Aged Rum yesterday and was all set for comparison cocktails this weekend but the weather turned too blasted cold for anything but whisky and coffee.
E and T, what do y'all think about the nose of the ED15? I picked up a bottle a few weeks ago, and have visited it several times, since. But, I have to admit that I am put off by the nose. Something funky. Sipping it, there is none of that, which is disagreeable to me. It's delightful, actually. Creamy sweet, touch of orange, and with a drying and spectacularly long finish. But, there is something on the nose that doesn't hit me right. I have a bottle of Plantation Rum Grande Reserve that gave me the same funk. What are your nosing thoughts on this?
Wag more.
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Haw River, NC -- The concoction of ingredients in Dogwood Hill Tomato Salsa came about thanks in part to a desire to not let any good thing go to waste.
"We were growing seasonal vegetables and you have to do something with the ones you don't sell at the farmers market," said Mushrooms-N-More President Eric Dunlap.
So Dunlap and his wife did the next best thing: "We started making tomato salsa."
We can't give away all of the company's secrets, but there's a dash of this, a dash of that, some tomatoes, onions and some fresh cilantro.
The company now sells its salsa to 45 stores across North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.
Super Bowl week is the second biggest week for the local salsa maker. The biggest week? Christmas.
You can learn more about the company and their products by visiting http://www.mushroomsnmore.com/.
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And the winner is, Mike Harmon, Indianapolis - "I'm just here for the second hand smoke."
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Bruce Benson: Crime in the U.S.
Recorded: Thursday, October 23, 2014
Sr. Fellow Bruce Benson, author of To Serve and Protect appeared on the nationally syndicated Katherine Albrecht Radio Show. Benson discusses his writing on the criminal justice system, the war on drugs, and the founding principles of freedom in society.
Experts: Bruce L. BensonType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Crime, Culture/ Society, Drugs (Illicit), Freedom, Law Enforcement, Regulation and Deregulation
William F. Shughart Discusses the Import-Export Bank on The Gary Nolan Show
Recorded: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II appeared on The Gary Nolan radio show to discuss the Export-Import bank. In a recent syndicated Op-Ed, Shughart wrote that the Export-Import bank distorts prices and it interferes with the free flow of international commerce.
Experts: William F. Shughart IIType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Business, Economic Policy, Labor and Employment, Trade
William J. Watkins, Jr. on Patent Trolls
Recorded: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr. appeared on XMSatellite radios Innovation Navigation show to talk about his new book Patent Trolls: Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation. The cost of patent trolls is staggering, both in terms of lost work and in court costs and attorney fees. The outmoded patent system in the US is discussed, including proposals for reforming the patent system.
Experts: William J. Watkins Jr.Type: RadioIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Litigation, Regulation and Deregulation, Science, Technology
Benjamin Powell on Sweatshops as Means to Escape Poverty
Recorded: Sunday, May 11, 2014
Sr. Fellow Benjamin Powell discusses the unintended consequences of anti-sweatshop activism and the real recipe for escaping poverty: economic freedom.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: RadioIssues: Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy, Labor and Employment
Maura McEnaney on The Beyond 50 Radio Show
Recorded: Friday, March 14, 2014
Maura McEnaney, author of Willard Garvey: An Epic Life, appeared on The Beyond 50 Radio Show with Daniel Davis. During the interview, McEnaney talks about her friendship with the Garvey family and how she applied her journalism background to write the biography of the entrepreneur Willard Garvey and give an understanding of the principles that guided him in his personal and professional life.
Experts: Maura McEnaneyType: RadioIssues: Business, Culture/ Society, Entertainment
Maura McEnaney on the Wade Taylor Radio Show
Recorded: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Maura McEnaney, author of Willard Garvey: An Epic Life, appeared on The Wade Taylor show on wsradio.com. During the hour-long interview, McEnaney talks about her friendship with the Garvey family and how she applied her journalism background to write the biography of the entrepreneur Willard Garvey. Through her personal relationship with the Garvey family, Maura McEnaney captures the spirit of Willard Garvey to give an understanding of the principles that guided him in his personal and professional life.
Experts: Maura McEnaneyType: RadioIssues: Business, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics
John R. Graham on WTPL radios Bulldog Live Show
Recorded: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Senior Fellow John R. Graham appeared on WTPL radios "Bulldog Live" to talk about the "Healthcare Contract with America" which would replace Obamacare with a free market system. Graham also talks about the "6 Reasons why Obamacare will fail" pointing out the short comings of the current so-called Affordable Care Act.
Experts: John R. GrahamType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Health Care, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Bruce Benson on Property Rights
Recorded: Monday, October 14, 2013
Senior Fellow Dr. Bruce Benson, author of Property Rights: Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-examined, speaks with Jeanne Hoffman of Kosmos.
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Follow your passion to study theatre at Sinclair Community College! Sinclair's Theatre Department will hold scholarship auditions on Saturday, May 21st beginning at noon. Sinclair offers associate's degrees in theatre performance and theatre technology that will transfer to most 4-year college theatre programs saving you money while jump-starting your success!
Sinclair provides full and partial talent scholarships to students who intend to major in Theatre Performance or Technology beginning Fall 2011. Students may also qualify for academic or need-based scholarships.
Sinclair's Theatre Department is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and offers the lowest tuition in the state with credits transferable to most four-year programs. Sinclair's award-winning Theatre Department actively participates in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Daytony Awards and United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
All scholarship audition participants must bring a resume. Performance majors should prepare an audition of not more than four minutes, which should include either two contrasting monologues or one song and one monologue. Theatre technology majors should bring a portfolio and/or be prepared to discuss interest and experiences in theatre technology and design.
All participants will receive complimentary tickets to a Sinclair Theatre performance.
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Emma O'Connor scored a career-high 10 points in Marist's 71-50 loss to Purdue on Thursday.
Maybe it was the tryptophan.
The Marist College women's basketball team struggled through a limp Thanksgiving Night performance against No. 14 Purdue and lost, 71-50, in the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
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Los Angeles Lakers (29-29) @ Golden State Warriors (25-32)
Start time 7:30 PM PST @ The Arena in Oakland
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors
PG - Derek Fisher
SG - Jason Richardson
SF - Mickael Pietrus
PF - Troy Murphy
C - Adonal Foyle
Probable starters for the Los Angeles Lakers
PG - Smush Parker
SG - Kobe Bryant
SF - Lamar Odom
PF - Brian Cook
C - Chris Mihm
Team leaders
PPG - J. Richardson (22.9) | K. Bryant (34.9)
RPG - T. Murphy (9.5) | L. Odom (9.4)
APG - B. Davis (9.2) | L. Odom (5.4)
SPG - B. Davis (1.8) | K. Bryant (1.8)
BPG - A. Foyle (1.7) | C. Mihm (1.3)
Matchups this season
Jan 14 - Los Angeles Lakers (110) @ Golden State Warriors (104)
Jan 27 - Golden State Warriors (105) @ Los Angeles Lakers (106)
Mar 3 - Los Angeles Lakers @ Golden State Warriors
Apr 11 - Golden State Warriors @ Los Angeles Lakers
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I've been a Warriors fan since they traded Chris Webber. Can you imagine how that's like....
dun dun dun!
big game. the lakers post to portland so colonel sanders will have them ready!!!!
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Need this win pretty badly, more so than other games since the Lakers are 8th. Win and we're only 2 1/2 games behind, but lose and we're 4 1/2 games behind...
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Wait a sec.. Isn't a loss with the other team idol a loss of a half of a game? If we lose against the lakers (which I hope won't), wouldn't we be 3.5 games behind?
Don't forget about the other teams as well. Houston, Sac, Utah, etc have very realistic chances. We need to win against them as well.
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Currently, the records are as follows:
If we lose against the Lakers:
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Yes, the other teams do matter, but right now what's important is keeping up with the current 8th seed, which is how far we're currently from a playoff seed.
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I think its about time...Beidrins started... We cannot keep playing from behind and have Beidrins comes off the bench for energy, when we can come out rolling...
ONE LAST THING... if smush parker have another big game, IMA PUKE
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This should be an interesting game, monty better have MIKAEL guard KOBE, if we do that and mikael comes to play then we should win by ten. Isolate Kobe, but straight up no doubt kobe is the best in the game right now.
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Pietrus better be guarding Kobe! Or better yet Monta! LOL
I think Monty had Fish guarding Kobe the last time if I'm not mistaken and I was freekin' dumbfounded by it. Kobe was eating him up! WTF?
I'll be at the game tonight courtesy of my buddy hooking up some last minute tickets from a cousin! I'm stoked.
Anybody know if Baron will be playing?
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I read that Montgomery wont be starting Beidrins anytime soon, his point was that WHO cares if he starts as long as he plays...
I would object to that, because I rather have my team come out with a lead then play from behind. Kobe is hungry tonite, and I PRAY TO GOD Fisher doesn't guard Kobe
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baron davis is not playing today. Monty said that he is going to have j rich guard kobe even though j rich has a bum ankle. but i wouldnt be suprised if he surprised the lakers in the second half by putting mp on him or even a double team. Tonite is a huge game. Quite frankly it would be a bad move to put beirdans as a starter now. because he isnt use to starting, would be guarding 7 foot 265 pound chris mihm and foyles defence is better.
Warriors all the way in the future.
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Baron is coming off the bench
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when is fitzgerald going to shut up?
I wish the refs would T him up.
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"Free Birds" is an undistinguished little movie, the would-be cute telling of how a couple of turkeys try to get their kind off the Thanksgiving menu.
Note: "would-be cute." It isn't cute. It isn't really funny. It just kind of "is."
Actually, the first 10 or 15 minutes aren't bad. We meet Reggie (Owen Wilson), who tells us up front that turkeys are stupid birds. But he's different. He realizes there is a bigger world out there, and that turkeys are meant to be dinner in it. His warnings go unheeded until he wins the turkey version of the lottery: He is the chosen turkey in the president's annual ...


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I wrote Mayor Cedric Glover and asked him this question and he has never responded to me.
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Ohio State University Fisher College of Business MBA students, from left, former Marine Capt. Patrick Ross, former Navy Lt. Chad Schuett, former Army Capt. Silki Cho and former Army Sgt. Davin Korstjens. (Courtesy of Ohio State University)
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Some 140 colleges and universities responded to this years Best for Vets: Business Schools survey. Only institutions that participated in our detailed Best for Vets: Colleges survey, and indicated in that survey that they offer graduate business degrees, were considered in this review. To create the rankings, we scored schools survey responses to both the Business Schools survey and parts of the Colleges survey based on what veterans have told us is important to them as well as on our own editorial judgment. We also factored in Education Department statistics commonly used to track student success and academic quality. Overall, schools were evaluated in five categories: university culture, student support, academic outcomes and quality, academic policies, and cost and financial aid. The value of each section was comparable, but university culture and student support counted the most, and financial aid counted the least. Many factors other than those listed in the chart were considered to develop the rankings.
Fall 2013 enrollment shows the business schools overall enrollment for that semester as well as how many of those students were tracked by the school as active-duty or veteran service members, except where otherwise indicated.
At or below TA cap means graduate business programs did not exceed the military tuition assistance limit of $250 per credit hour for active-duty students in the 2012-13 school year.
At or below Post-9/11 limits indicates whether the cost of graduate business programs would have been fully covered by the Post-9/11 GI Bill in the 2012-13 school year for all students using the benefit at 100 percent eligibility. Public schools must waive out-of-state tuition rates for this to be the case; private schools must not exceed the $18,077.50 cap.
Yellow Ribbon rates a schools participation in the Yellow Ribbon program, under which a school and the Veterans Affairs Department partner to partially or completely make up the difference between a schools tuition rate and the amount covered by the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Schools with n/a indicated that Post-9/11 fully covered their tuition costs, so Yellow Ribbon was not needed. Stars are awarded based on the proportion of students receiving Yellow Ribbon scholarships and the value of those awards. Best rating is four stars.
Accepts ACE-recommended credits means the business school accepts at least some academic credits for military training as recommended by the American Council on Education.
Staff support rates the number of staff members dedicated to veterans issues, the amount of time they spend on veterans issues, and the scope and frequency of military-related training for teachers and administrators throughout the school. The rating reflects both the business school and the larger university.
Academic support rates the types of academic help provided, such as tutoring, mentors and learning communities, considering both what is offered and whether there is a separate version of the assistance for veterans. A schools withdrawal and re-enrollment policies for deployed service members also are considered. The rating reflects both the business school and the larger university.
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The merger of Planned Parenthood of Kentucky and Indiana should make the agency stronger in this region and that is excellent news for the many women and men who depend on the non-profit agency for vital health services including birth control.
Leaders of the two organizations announced Monday the state's two Planned Parenthood groups will merge by next month in hopes of operating more efficiently and offering more services.
That's important because the non-profit organization that is almost 100 years old provides vital public health services such family planning, cancer screenings and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. It serves many low-income patients with limited means to pay.
Last year, Planned Parenthood in Indiana served 75,660 patients and in Kentucky, nearly 5,000.
And yes, the additional services could include abortion, which Planned Parenthood offers in Indiana but not in Kentucky, a possibility already raising the ire of abortion opponents including Right to Life groups in both states.
But residents of both states must remember that abortion is a safe and legal medical procedure in this nation that women are entitled to choose despite the continuing assault on that right by opponents who would choose to impose on all women their religious and moral views.
Attacking Planned Parenthood over abortion has become one of the uglier tactics of abortion opponents, some of whom would rather see women denied all its services.
Kentucky's Right to Life executive director Margie Montgomery, in discussing the merger of the Indiana and Kentucky groups, called Planned Parenthood a "death dealing organization" in Tuesday's Courier-Journal and said she would rather it shut down in Kentucky altogether.
That callous and extreme attitude has become widespread among citizens and elected officials who have made Planned Parenthood a target of their attacks on abortion rights. In Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a mean-spirited state law meant to strip Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood that pay for health services other than abortion for poor women.
As abortion opponents well know, no Medicaid or any other federal funds may be used to pay for abortion services.
The truth is that Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of important services that protect the health of women and men and help women and girls avoid unplanned pregnancies.
One in five women in American has used Planned Parenthood services in her lifetime, according to the Planned Parenthood website.
Ninety-seven percent of its work is providing services such as pregnancy testing, contraception and screening for cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, according Planned Parenthood's most recent annual report. Only 3 percent of its services are abortions.
It is vital that these important services remain available without political interference for the many Kentuckians and Hoosiers who need them.


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The simple math has been stunning and instructive: The Reds have played 49 games without their best player, and won 33 of them. That sort of statistic might give a man pause, especially if the man is Joey Votto, who is analytical in all things.
When Im hurt, the game will keep going, Votto said Tuesday afternoon. When I retire, the game will keep going. It will flourish. Thats very humbling and kind of a shock to your system, when youre used to going out there every day.
Votto activated, expected to start Wednesday
Fans are cheering for you, people are talking about you. All the sudden youre out and nobody knows you exist. I dont have a problem with that. Im certainly not complaining. But its not easy.
I mentioned to Votto a few words from Paul Brown: Everyone is useful, the Great Man said. No one is necessary.
Exactly, said Votto.
This was going to be an essay on the heretical notion that, for awhile anyway, the Reds will be worse for Vottos presence. A batting order is an organic thing. One part effects all the other parts. Votto will return and hit third. Brandon Phillips will move to leadoff, presumably. Drew Stubbs likely will move.
Scott Rolen and Ryan Ludwick might play less. Todd Frazier known hereafter in this space as The Good Problem -- will play less. This is some serious messing with the current karma.
Joey Vottos return is a home run, if youre playing Strat-O-Matic. If youre playing for real, there will be a period of adjustment. How much is anyones guess. It could be as simple as how Ryan Ludwick described it: More thunder. Deeper bench.
And there is this: The Reds lineup now is fat with right-handed hitters. They can be beaten by righties with hard breaking stuff. They almost lost twice in Houston, to the Disastros, just that way. Vottos left-handed swings will ease some of that concern.
We tend to obsess on Dusty Bakers lineups. Its silly. Writing names on a card is one of dozens of jobs he has between 2 in the afternoon and 11 at night. Its not the most important. Managers set a tone. They manage people. Baker has done a terrific job this year, tone setting. The Reds play loose and with confidence. No one has pressed, even after Votto went down.
Fretting over Bakers batting order is silly. Or was. Now, who he pencils in every day could be crucial to October success. And thats all anyone cares about today.
But back to Votto.
What he offered to me Tuesday was the sort of revelation a player has after hes done playing. Not when hes in the thick of a highly successful career. Votto recognizes perspective the way he does fastballs on the black.
I went through a range of emotions, he said. I had stretches where I was trying to rush it. Stretches I was angry, frustrated. But it was a fantastic experience for me. I learned a great deal about how appreciative I should be, how grateful I should be. This isnt about I-deserve-this-or-that. Its about what a lucky guy I am.
Votto said losing close to a third of a season in his prime is going to make me a (bear) going forward. He says hell take nothing for granted. Ive played close to that attitude. But I think this lit another fire in me.
He doesnt wonder about his timing at the plate, or his ability defensively, but rather the average things people take for granted: Taking out an infielder with a slide, to break up a double play, throwing himself at a catcher on a play at the plate. Votto sounds like a football running back or quarterback, returning from a knee injury. The worry isnt about the playing. Its about taking the hits needed to play. Going (hard) and not thinking about it, he says. I never thought about it before.
Votto has been cautious, and will continue to be, because he is a smart guy who understands he has a very long life after baseball. I want to be able to play tennis with my wife and kids when I retire, Votto says.
He didn't play Tuesday. He doesnt know when he will. Working me in slowly is a wise move, he says. The Reds are doing OK without him. Thats been an eye opener for Joey Votto, who has never lacked for perspective.


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Scanning the fallout from Wednesday night's "domestic issues" Presidential debate, a few things are incredibly clear: Most political pundits, conservative and liberal, agree that Mitt Romney made President Barack Obama look like a badly prepared college debate team contestant; Jim Lehrer, veteran journalist or not, did a poor job of steering the debate to meaningful topics; and for those voters who believe Obama and Romney are too much alike, nothing has changed.
The candidates spent the bulk of the 90-minute debate attempting to portray one another as bad for middle-class voters, with Romney calling Obama a purveyor of "trickle-down government" and Obama accusing the challenger of being an advocate only for the richest Americans. One of Romney's key strengths throughout the event was his ability to focus with vigor on Obama failed policies and the incumbent's Presidential record, which has yet to receive heavy doses of media scrutiny in the campaign.
In discussing deficit reduction, Romney pointed out one of the President's most indefensible weaknesses: "You've had four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar deficits. You found $4 trillion to reduce or to get closer to a balanced budget, except we still show trillion-dollar deficits every year. That doesn't get the job done."
Obama subsequently doubled down on a claim that the $4 trillion in cuts proposed by his Administration are both relevant and paid for by a balanced plan of taxing only the most successful Americans.
In any case, most fact-checkers agree that $4 trillion in spending cuts is a lofty goal under the Obama plan, as ABC's Jon Karl explains in a fact-check column calling the President's claim "mostly fiction":
Does President Obama have a plan to cut the deficit by $4 trillion?
No. The "$4 trillion plan" he is referring to includes about $1 trillion Congress has already agreed to and $1 trillion in savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are already ending.
This would be Mostly Fiction.
Romney's deficit-reduction plan, however, is also not exactly expected to leave middle-class taxpayers unscathed. The candidate reiterated several times throughout the debate that he plans to tack on additional military spending if elected, which would be somewhere around $2 trillion in extra government spending while at the same time keeping Americans' taxes from rising.
Romney offered no specifics throughout the debate regarding his yet-to-be-released tax plan, except to refute a claim made by Obama that it contained proposals for about $5 trillion in tax cuts.
"We ought to apply tax relief to people in the middle class, but I'm not going to reduce the share of taxes paid by high-income people," Romney said. "I'm not looking to cut massive taxes."
But Romney, despite his magnificent debate performance, offered voters little information on where specifically he plans to make cuts to government spending — except for when he mentioned that, although he likes Big Bird, he plans to cut government funding of public television.
Other cuts would be made by a formula Romney outlined: "First of all, I will eliminate all programs by this test, if they don't pass it: Is the program so critical it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And if not, I'll get rid of it. … No. 2, I'll take programs that are currently good programs but I think could be run more efficiently at the state level and send them to the state. No. 3, I'll make government more efficient and to cut back the number of employees, combine some agencies and departments."
Debate moderator Lehrer, while unable to get the candidates to answer questions specifically or stay within their allotted time, went to great pains to highlight the idea that Romney and Obama are two very different candidates. And while superficially Obama and Romney played the parts of helping government all the way as opposed to emboldening the private sector, each spouted rhetoric that leaves little hope for smaller government regardless of the election's outcome.
Obama applauded himself for spending the amount of time he did during the initial years of his Administration ramming his healthcare bill down America's throat, and Romney assured fellow moderates that he would not do away with the entire plan.
Discussing Obamacare was not the only moment when Romney renounced some of the self-described "severely conservative" ideas he pretended to have throughout the Republican primary season. In fact, some pundits have suggested that Romney's sudden burst of moderate vigor could have been partially to blame for the confusion that Obama seemed to exhibit throughout the debate. For instance, following an Obama narrative that too much regulation was never the problem leading up to the collapse on Wall Street, Romney all but agreed. In discussing Dodd-Frank, which he had harshly criticized in debates against other Republican candidates, Romney changed his tune on Wednesday to embrace the regulations but called for them to be made more clear by the government.
So, while liberal commentators' (like MSNBC's Chris Mathews) heads looked as if they were going to explode as they discussed Obama's poor performance Wednesday night, and conservative outlets like Fox published jovial "the conservatives are winning" headlines on Thursday, many people still remain unconvinced that there is much difference between the two men.
Perhaps there is only one way to find out for sure: Is anyone ready to see Libertarian Gary Johnson debate alongside the two?


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Deiz discusses the Southeast Portland neighborhood he grew up in, the activities he was involved in as a kid, especially being a boy scout. He explains the personalities and lives of his parents. Deiz discussed his feelings about the Tuskegee program, how is brother was involved in the Tuskegee Airmen, the training process, how popular culture has portrayed the Tuskegee Airmen. He shares his memories on the Vanport Flood and what he lost in the flood. He explains how he met his wife, how she became a judge, what challenges if any she faced, and how he felt about her becoming a judge. Deiz concludes the interview by discussing his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement in Portland and the place St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church has had in his life.
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OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 1 OH 18 OMA Oral History Collection Carl Deiz Date: May 30, 2012 Location: St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon Length: 01:27:06 Interviewee: Carl Deiz Interviewer: Chris Petersen CP: Chris Petersen CD: Carl Deiz [00:00:00] CP: Ok Carl, if you would just go ahead and introduce yourself again today. Give us your name and today's date and our location. CD: I don't hear too well, if you talk softly like you were I don't hear you. CP: So your, name, today's date, and our location. CD: Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012, and St. Philip the Deacon Church in Portland, Oregon. CP: Carl, I'm interested in learning more about your life as a child here in Portland, if you could talk a little bit about your childhood, maybe the neighborhood you grew up in? What that was like? CD: Well, I was born in Portland in 1920 and lived there until after the World War II. What it was like? Its hard to say, just an ordinary neighborhood, went to grade school there, then to high school from the same house. I really don't know which way you want me to go. CP: Well, what was your neighborhood? Was it mostly African American folks, or was it racially mixed? CD: It was racially mixed. There were about three African American families within a mile and were about four or five Chinese families and all the rest of them were white families. CP: Did people relate to one another pretty well, did they get along ok, or did it feel more segregated? OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 2 CD: There was no feeling of segregation, it was just the fact that you were the only family and you related to the neighbors in what seems to be a normal fashion. CP: What kinds of things did you like to do when you were a child? Did you play sports? CD: By child do you mean up to six? CP: When you were, let's say, up to your teenage years. CD: Up to when? CP: Up to your teenage years, when you were young. CD: We, there was not activities such as you find nowadays. We joined the boy scouts, my brother and I were both in boy scouts, troop 39, we were the only two blacks in the troop and it didn't seem to make any difference. We met at Richmond School, for the most part, and that seemed to be the only group. We went to the Presbyterian Church which was about seven blocks away for sort of a summer school. There was nothing like that at St. Philip's at that time, and so we went there for their summer classes. I felt that we learned quite a bit through those summer classes, more about the history of the, not of the church, but the beginning of Christianity and the early days. Learned more there then we did any place else. [00:06:44] CP: I know your brother was a track and field athlete; did you participate in athletics when you were that age as well? CD: Well, when I was in high school I went out for track, but that was about it. I didn't try baseball or basketball or any of the other things. CP: So scouting was one of your main extracurricular activities when you were growing up? CD: Yes, it was a weekly thing and we had scout camp that we would go to during the summer, usually a week or two of camp. CP: How long did you stay in boy scouts? Did you get to be an eagle scout? CD: No, we never built into the scouts, didn't even reach life and that's a pretty low level. In fact I can't remember what the grades were as you came along. It was only one OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 3 or two grades of scouting, we never, always looked forward looked at the eagle scouts as something that was attainable, but never thought of reaching for it. CP: Did you have a job when you were growing up? CD: Paper boy. At that time there was a weekly paper called the, I don't know what it was called. I thought of it this morning, but it's escaped me right now. But it was a weekly paper, it isn't delivered anymore. I don't know how long ago it gave out, but that was 50 years ago. CP: Did you enjoy school? [00:09:56] CD: Yeah, school was a pleasant time and classes were interesting. I guess I enjoyed going, I went without problems. CP: Was it mainly white kids at this school or was it racially diverse? CD: Well, in grade school there were no other blacks at the school we were in and that didn't seem to make much difference. In high school there were…by the time I graduated I think there may have been four blacks in the school. There were no segregated clubs of blacks that I know of, there were none in that school, there may have been some in other schools, in schools such as Jefferson, but not that I know of. CP: So, it sounds like you were treated pretty well growing up, for the most part. CD: Yeah. CP: What were your parents like, how would you describe your parents' personalities? CD: Well, my dad was a waiter on the railroad and my mother never worked, she was always a homebody. She was, I would think, more athletic than most. She could about outrun us until we got up to the top grades of grade school. She was always active. CP: So, your dad was gone a lot for his job? CD: Yes, you're out three days, home two days and that's about the way it would work. CP: What were some of the things you all did as a family together? What was important for the family to do things together? Was church part of that? OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 4 CD: No it wasn't. The grandmother lived and mother lived together with my dad. Grandfather passed away when we were quite young. They were all very active with the church. My dad sang in the choir and mother was part of the guild and did work like that. [00:15:04] CP: You grew up during the great depression? Do you have any recollections of what that was like, the difficulty of living during the great depression? CD: None at all. At that time my dad worked and we never seemed to notice it with any difficulty. CP: How about any of your friends, did you notice anything of their lives? CD: Not really. CP: Well, I want to talk to you a little bit about Tuskegee, and I'm wondering what your first impressions were of the whole Tuskegee program when you arrived there initially. CD: Well, this is a strange situation because my brother had gone to Tuskegee. He had volunteered and went in as an aviation cadet. He had graduated and was a pilot before I was drafted. I had applied also but the situation was such that you…there was quite a backlog of people trying to get in, and I was drafted. And when I was drafted, my letter arrived saying that I could be accepted as a Tuskegee cadet, but it was too late then. And so I was drafted and went to Alabama as my first place. And my first place to realize that segregation was the army. You may not have realized that much in your home town of Portland, Oregon but when you got into Alabama and the army you realized that segregation was a fact. And it was a fact until about, maybe, about just a few years ago. I'm sort of…my mind is sort of wandering because just thinking that segregation ended in the army and I just wonder is it also going to end in the church. But that's another problem. Now I'm in Alabama and from there I went to another airfield in… CP: Was it Arkansas? [00:19:42] CD: Yeah, I think so. And then from there I went to training as a officer candidate school in Miami. That was a 90 day school and I graduated from there and then I was sent to Tuskegee. And that was my first time, my second time for seeing Tuskegee. When I was in Alabama my brother flew over one time to Maxwell Field, Alabama and picked me up and took me back to Tuskegee where I spent an afternoon and an evening OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 5 with him and had dinner at the officers club and then took the bus back to my airfield which was about 40 miles away. And now I have arrived at Tuskegee and I was assigned to a training cadets, I was assigned to the same captain who had requested me from Alabama but had…didn't accept his change. So he said "So you finally have arrived". So that was odd, it was Captain Jones, was the head of the squadron. I have trouble remembering whether they called them the squadrons or exactly how they designated the units. But he was captain of a unit and I was assigned to him and from there I went and got assigned to Pilot Training, which meant that about 6 months after I had tried to get in earlier, I finally made it. Unfortunately I passed everything and got ready to graduate and flunked the final eye exam. And then I decided to, basically, to get out. And I got out basically because they had so many black officers that they didn't' know what to do with them. They stacked them up at Tuskegee and then you could apply to get out as excess or whatever. So I got out, came home and signed up for University of Portland. CP: What was the Pilot Training like that you had at Tuskegee, can you tell me a little bit more about the training that you did? [00:24:30] CD: It was three classes; your primary class was at Tuskegee Institute, which was about 40 miles away from the Tuskegee Airfield. You had your primary training there and that's where you first got your solo training. And you had several hours of solo flight before you left your primary group. Then you went to Tuskegee Institute for basic and advanced. The basic training was about two months in a aircraft that had a fixed wheels on the thing, the wheels were always down. Then you completed that training and you went to advanced training and at advanced you had an aircraft that had wheels when you took off, the wheels would fold up. And you had two months training there. I got enough training there that when I got out I was able to get my civilians pilots license. And so I became a civilian pilot and flew out of Troutdale for just whenever you wanted to take someone up for a ride, you could give them a ride around, out from the field at Troutdale. CP: Was that something you ever thought about pursuing as a career? CD: No, I never thought of that. CP: Were, so were the people who were doing the training at Tuskegee, were they white or were they black folks? CD: They were both. The pilot training, at the initial part of it, was all white officers. When my brother came back from overseas, he became a trainer. And some of the blacks got into the training end of it because they had a lot of time with no true OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 6 assignment. They weren't being sent overseas initially. And so they were training mainly in Michigan and they got involved in coming back to Tuskegee Airfield and doing some training for the pilots, for the training people there. But it was sort of strange the way it warped you. By not going overseas, they were trying to find reasonable jobs for them to do. CP: So were there, was, did, was there a sense of... You talked about the segregation within the army but you had the white trainers and the black soldiers who were learning from them. Did you have a sense of tension between those two groups or was there not so much? [00:30:06] CD: No, it didn't seem to make any difference. CP: What was it like for you to be exposed to black folks from other parts of the country, from the South, where they'd had a very different experience than you growing up? CD: I didn't have that much interaction. I just stayed usually with a group of one or two people that I was acquainted with and we sort of hung out together. But any relation between the…the relationship between the whites and the blacks was not a group where they operated together except in their work. There was no living in the same are or anything like that. CP: Do you feel that the Tuskegee Airman have been represented accurately in movies or books or in the things that you've read or seen on tv? CD: I think so, I think they've given them a pretty good showing of…the problem is, I think the most interesting show was Red Tails, which is currently being shown at some theaters around but the only problem with Red Tails is that it eliminates Tuskegee all together. Tuskegee is where they trained initially and this gets them already through training, through…and already overseas, which is quite a story in itself, of how they trained and went to Michigan and trained more and then some were shipped overseas and some flew airplanes overseas. My brother was with a group that flew from the states and flew their airplanes to North Africa. But there was…at that point they were still a completely segregated unit. No whites involved at all. CP: Did he talk much about the missions that he flew as part of the Tuskegee Airmen with you? Your brother? CD: Not at all. OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 7 CP: Not at all? He didn't talk about the War? CD: Not at all. CP: Really? What was your brother like? Tell me a little bit more about him. [00:34:31] CD: Well, he was more athletic, he was a track man mainly. He did go out for football one year but he stayed away from it from then on. And he was given a scholarship to University of Oregon, a track scholarship, and that's where he stayed for three years. He didn't finish there because he volunteered for the cadet training and missed his, the end of his forth year. So he had about three and a half years of college before he went to Tuskegee. And at Tuskegee he graduated there, he got his commission and he was stationed…he was there two different times, he was there before he went to Michigan and then they went overseas and then over to Africa and then to Italy and then he came back. And…I have trouble putting his life together, it's because he was at Tuskegee when they had B-25 bombers there at one time. I think they did. And he would, he would fly one of those, fly it to Portland with group of three or four people, you know, would come up and visit. CP: Did he stay in the military after the War? CD: He did, he stayed in the military for a number of years and he got involved in the development of landing planes and such as that where you didn't, where you would land on instruments only. And he was in the development of that for quite awhile. Instrument landings and things such as that. And then he got out of the service and…and worked for the state of Ohio. I'm trying to think of, well, he was a parole officer for the state of Ohio for awhile. Because he said once when he wanted to come home he decided the best thing to do was put his guys back in jail, so he'd knew where they were when he got back. Don't know how much was fun of that or not. [00:40:10] CP: Were you in Portland when the Vanport Flood happened in 1948? Do you have any memories of that? CD: Yes, I was. I had a residence in Vanport which was a secondary residence, I still had my home but I had a residence at Vanport and when the flood came I lost a very nice radio and record player that was about the only thing of my own that was there because Vanport supplied you with your beds and your base equipment was part of Vanport. But that was about the only thing, I think, of mine that I lost at Vanport. OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 8 CP: But you knew a lot of people who were affected by it, by the flood? CD: Yes, uh-huh. No one seemed to be, no one that I knew, seemed particularly disturbed by it. Most of them moved to Portland and got reasonably good housing in Portland, the ones that I knew. I didn't know that many people in Vanport because I was sort of a temporary resident. CP: How did you meet the woman who became your wife? CD: We both worked for the Federal government. And…I'm trying to think, at that time she had come from New York City with her son Bill. She had separated from her husband and they came out to Portland. And I'm having trouble trying to figure out…she was working for Bonneville, in the library and…Now I'm…When I met her I think she was working for the Federal Government and I was also working for the Federal Government when we met. And we just started going together. I was still living in Southeast Portland, the same place I'd been since birth and we went together for awhile and we got married. That's the simplest way to put it. [00:46:29] CP: So she went to Law School and became a lawyer and then a judge. And she was the first African-American Female judge in Oregon, correct? CD: Right. And see she…After she left Bonneville and she went to work for attorneys at…And was working for them about a year and one of them was Graham Walker. And he said, suggested that she oughta go ahead and go to Law School. And they also assisted her in the beginning of going to Law School. But she, at that time Law School was a night law school. And that was before she moved out to Lewis and Clark and all that. They would meet at night downtown somewhere; there was the law school that took about three or four rooms in a building down there, downtown somewhere because that's where she started law school. CP: Can you talk about the process about how she became a judge? CD: Well, that process she became first an attorney and had her own office and she…I have trouble going back into history, I've…because at that time we were married, when she was going to school, because…I don't know. I'm at a loss for trying to build her time at… [00:50:45] CP: Do you remember if there was resistance to her becoming a judge? OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 9 CD: Huh? CP: Was there resistance to her becoming a judge, do you know? CD: No, none that I know of. She…The only problem was setting up, you had to set up your own organization, and that was, she had a couple of attorneys that were, that she had met and worked with as an attorney when she decided to try for the judge, they helped her set up the organization to run. Because you…The thing that helped her a lot was once she graduated she went to work for the state in…you're going to have a lot of blank space on this tape. She went to work for the state and I'm trying to think of the organization she worked for. I can't think of it off hand, but it was an organization that helped the word SAIF is the initials, but I can't think what they stand for. But that organization is one that she worked for. And in that they did work similar to a judge. And that was what sort of got her into going from that to the judge. Because I think that's where the step that was made. CP: You must have been very proud to have her be the first black judge in this state. [00:54:45] CD: Well, I felt that…that she really wasn't the first black, I mean there were…Aaron Brown was a judge. And he was in a different capacity but as a judge and … I don't know. She became a judge first in the Juvenile Court and, yeah, that's where she first became a judge, in the Juvenile Court and then she graduated. She applied for the Circuit Court and then when she…and each time she won, she was elected. I don't think she was ever defeated. So, then she was Circuit Court judge and stayed there for…several terms. CP: Did you help out with those campaigns for her election? CD: I assisted where I could, mainly in helping keep on track of the money and the various situations. There was always the necessity for having two or three strong people in the organization in order to run and both times she's had good people with her and behind her on that. It would be worthwhile to note who they were but I would have to go back to get that, I can't remember all those things from 30 years ago. CP: Did you participate at all in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? CD: Not…Not as such. I was part of an organization that was very much involved. My trouble is not knowing of this question, I would have to go back to look to the name of the organization and things like that and which parts I was involved with. [01:00:51] OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 10 CP: Was it the Urban League? CD: I was a member of the Urban League, but not basically in a Civil Rights area. CP: Do you recall what the impact of the Civil Right movement was in this area? The things that were happening with Dr. King down south for example? CD: The only thing is the Civil Rights movement arrived…Was already organized and pretty well underway when it arrived here. Yeah, I would have trouble without checking back on what organizations were involved and how they were involved. My involvement was not great. I was a member of the Urban League and other organizations but taking a forward part in those organizations…I don't think I was ever that much involved. CP: Well, the last time I was here, you talked about your relationship with this church a little bit, you were at St. Philip from 1921 – 1950 and then you were at St. Andrews from 1950 – 1963 and then you came back to this church at that point. Why did you decide to go to St. Andrew's for that period of time? CD: It was mainly because St. Andrew's was within walking distance. Although I don't think I ever walked there. But we drove up there but it was in the neighborhood. I felt that, at that time we had children going to St. Andrew's and it was convenient to have that happen. [01:05:25] CP: You also mention that during that time that St. Philip changed from a mission to a parish and that was important? CD: Yes, uh-huh. It…That was, I wish I could, if I had the names of the ones were involved in that change, I thought that was quite important but my part, I hadn't even got back into St. Philip's by the time that they had made their move from a mission to a parish. I was really happy to see them do that and that got me to thinking whether St. Andrew's is a mission or a parish because it was sort of on the edge but I don't know which way it is right now? CP: What are your memories of Father Stone? CD: Well, he gave me a car one time. He didn't drive, I mean he didn't have a car and someone gave him a car and he passed it on to me. And…He was a real force in the community. He…I'm trying to see where he…My part being that I've been out of the community for so long, living out near University of Portland, that I just don't see the OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 11 things that go on in the area of St. Philip's. Just, right now, we're thinking the area of Mother Boozer because she was more of a force in the community because she was in the school and things like that. Reverend Stone was helpful but I can't relate it. [01:10:20] CP: Well, how do you feel like the church has evolved over the time that you've been here? I mean it's certainly changed a lot, maybe talk a little bit more about the time that Alcena Boozer was the reverend here and since then. CD: Yes, well, it had developed into the parish by the time she had arrived. I'm trying to figure whether the church was here at the time she arrived or was it still in the other building. I don't know exactly. She…I'm trying to think how the church has developed as…see, part of the problem with the church is where it is. The church, theoretically, was basically what was - have to go back to the word – in a Negro neighborhood. And now at the present time, the neighborhood is very mixed. And I've never been in the neighborhood itself but only as an observer of it. I feel that the church in itself has got much more…integrated. Any number of the officers and organization people that are currently working in the church are, it's a very integrated group. Much more than it was when Father Stone was here. There was maybe one or two whites that…Now, I would look out in the audience and it's more getting closer to half and half. And it's integrated like the army. [01:15:02] CP: Yeah, referring back to that earlier statement that you made about the church being segregated, how has that changed the dynamic of the church, do you think? CD: I don't…I don't know that it has changed it that much because it, the growth was so gentle, it was never any problem in one group meeting with the other. They always have moved together very naturally and normally. CP: I want to ask you about race relations in Portland. Do you feel like - that there has been a change over time, in the many years that you've lived here? In terms of the way the different races have gotten along in this city? CD: I don't know, I…I've been here haven't seen a problem of how they've gotten along. I'm trying to think back through the years and um- CP: It doesn't sound like you've had very many negative incidences in your life, as for as that's concerned. OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 12 CD: Only one, in about 6th grade, a fellow called me a name, and I chased him down the hall. But that was about the only thing I can remember. And…difficulties, I don't know whether it's been a problem with getting jobs or not. Myself I've normally been with the Federal Government. In first one job or another, its difficulties are just getting along and making your way. CP: What did you think when Barack Obama was elected president? Did you ever think you would see that? CD: I didn't think I would ever see that and I was quite happily surprised when it happened. But now he's been with us a few years and we're gonna try it again. CP: The last thing I wanted to ask to you about was, the last time we talked you mentioned you've traveled an awful lot in your life, all over the world. Are there any particular experiences from your travels that made an impact that you'd want to share? [01:20:22] CD: I can't think of any that had any affect. Every place we've gone, we've been well received and sometimes we've traveled with groups and sometimes just Mercedes and I travelled. Never ran into a problem. CP: Okay Carl, well, unless you have something else that you want to talk about, that's all I have on my list. CD: The only thing was what I sort of refer to of the army becoming non-segregated and I'm just wondering if the church is going to be making that same move. CP: What do you mean by that? Tell me a little bit more about that. CD: Well, St. Philip's is considered a black church. Hardly you could consider it that if you come and look at it. But it's still listed as a black church and there are about…anywhere you go you'll find somewhere there's a black church. There are enough of them that they have an organization of…that meets somehow and somewhere as a black organization, which I've never quite figured out why. That's basically what I have been wondering. I don't know. What do you think? CP: Well, it sounds to me like this church is an example of how things are changing. And over time that change will probably continue to happen around the country I would guess. I mean it happened in the military, it happened in this place so maybe it will continue to happen. CD: Yeah, well, I just wonder how much background can hold it off and… OH 18 ~ Carl Deiz, May 30, 2012 Page 13 CP: But you would like to see more change in that direction? CD: Yes, I feel that I was at St. Andrew's for a number of years and part of the organizations and went to the convention as a member of St. Andrew's with Father Four [?] who was the minister there at the time. And I just, I just don't see why it needs to be separated but whether or not it's a worthwhile thing to be separated in order to get the group together whereas there may not be enough feeling for one or two to go in to a church and be the new negro in the area or how do you do it? For example the church over here, the handy one, has one or two blacks but I can't think of any other church where any go at all and yet there are numerous black churches which have no whites which is the same thing only the other way around. CP: Okay, well, thank you Carl. [end 01:27:05]
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Following President Barack Obama's assertion that he lost the first Presidential debate to Republican Mitt Romney because he was too polite, it appears as though the Democratic Party told Joe Biden that he needed to carry a decidedly "no more Mister Nice Guy" attitude to the Vice Presidential debate on Thursday.
A few dozen snickers, interruptions and condescending "look here, little boy" moments directed at Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan later, and Biden succeeded at one thing during the debate: emboldening Democratic voters. Despite Biden's lively performance, Ryan offered a portrait of someone who could calmly defend Romney's proposals and firmly point out where the Obama Administration has failed, appealing to Republicans and undecided voters alike.
Biden, famous for his foot-in-mouth moments, likely left many people watching the event in hopes of catching one of the Vice President's verbal missteps disappointed; the gaffe-prone politico managed to keep his comments clean. Ryan was also able to avoid any verbal missteps, and pundits appear to agree that his first nationally televised debate performance was a resounding success.
"I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground," Ryan said to Biden at one point referencing the President's poor debate performance last week as the reason the Vice President rudely interrupted him during the showdown.
When Biden attempted to take a cheap shot at the Republican ticket by bringing up Romney's now infamous "47 percent" remarks, Ryan downplayed the controversy and issued a scathing rebuke of his opponent saying: "As the Vice President very well knows, the words don't always come out of your mouth the right way."
Though debate moderator ABC News foreign correspondent Martha Raddatz attempted to coax specificity from both candidates, they largely stuck to party line talking points throughout the night. What did come as a surprise to many pundits watching the debate was the candidates' heavy focus on foreign policy. The Obama Administration has attempted to avoid the topic in recent weeks in the wake of disastrous Afghan attacks on U.S. soldiers and the terrorist assault on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"What we are watching on our TV screens is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy, which is making the world more chaotic and us less safe," Ryan said, seizing the issues to reinforce a Romney assertion that Obama foreign policy is making the United States a weak world power.
Criticizing the Obama Administration on the Libya attacks, Ryan issued a handful of critiques on Obama foreign policy that Biden could do little to defend.
"It took the President two weeks to acknowledge that this was a terrorist attack," Ryan said.
"Look, if we're hit by terrorists, we're going to call it for what it is: a terrorist attack. Our ambassador in Paris has a Marine detachment guarding him. Shouldn't we have a Marine detachment guarding our ambassador in Benghazi, a place where we knew that there was an al-Qaida cell with arms?" he went on.
The Vice President's rebuttal admitted foreign policy mistakes while making promises for the future.
"I can make absolutely two commitments to you and all the American people tonight. One, we will find and bring to justice the men who did this. And secondly, we will get to the bottom of it; and whatever – wherever the facts lead us, wherever they lead us, we will make clear to the American public, because whatever mistakes were made will not be made again," Biden said.
In discussing a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2014, Biden declared that the Obama Administration would stick to the schedule no matter what and said that the Afghans would fulfill their responsibility to providing proper security in the country until the U.S. military leaves.
"We are leaving. We are leaving in 2014. And in the process we're going to be saving over the next 10 years another $800 billion," Biden said.
Ryan was less willing to call 2014 a concrete withdrawal date, saying that it was imperative that the United States not lose gains made over the past decade in the region by leaving too hastily.
Biden attempted to capitalize on American weariness about further Mideast conflict by painting the Romney/Ryan foreign policy plan as a hawkish guarantee of more ground wars in the region in coming years. He accused the Republicans of loose talk with regard to Syria and said that Republicans would put the country's dictator, Bashar Assad, in a position that made U.S. conflict with the nation unavoidable.
Ryan denied that there were plans to put American forces in Syria to stabilize the nation, but doubled down on tough talk about the dangers of allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapon capabilities. He said that the Obama Administration's sanctions on the country have been too weak and put the Iranians four years closer to their goal of nuclear armament.
When pressed by Raddatz for a precise plan to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat, Ryan was largely mum. Political pundits speculate that the candidate's silence was likely necessary to avoid an answer that would be unpopular with Americans tired of fighting in the Mideast: a military attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
When the candidates talked about the defense budget, Ryan denied the much-publicized claim that a Romney Administration would add $2 trillion to the military budget over the course of the next decade (which the Romney Budget does advocate). Ryan said, however, that Romney would simply not allow the kind of automatic military spending cuts for which the Obama Administration was prepared.
Biden rebutted that the military Joint Chiefs of Staff had no issue with the cuts and were in fact "in favor of a smaller, leaner military."
The Vice President capitalized on criticism from economic policy wonks who say the Romney/Ryan budget proposals contain math that doesn't exactly add up.
Ryan said that the Romney tax plan closes enough loopholes in the tax code to provide for an across-the-board tax cut for Americans. He attempted to drive home the point that the Obama/Biden plan would raise taxes on the middle class and small businesses making more than $250,000 a year.
"There aren't enough rich people and small businesses to tax to pay for their spending," he said. "Watch out, middle class. The tax bill's coming for you."
Biden protested that the Romney plan was "not mathematically possible." In defense, Ryan invoked John F. Kennedy's tax plan, which accomplished some of the things that the Romney/Ryan plan would if implemented.
Ending the exchange, Biden used a debate trick and interrupted Ryan with the quip: "Oh. Now you're Jack Kennedy."
For what it lacked in specific answers, the Vice Presidential debate made up for in vitriol with the two men constantly at the throats of one another's policy. Following the event, polls indicated something of a tie in the debate with preference for the candidates split mostly along party lines.
In a CNN poll following the debate, 48 percent of respondents said Ryan won; 44 percent chose Biden. A poll by CBS claimed Biden had 50 percent preference and Ryan 31 percent.
Pundits say the debate and following polling results indicate that the election is becoming more and more a Presidential horse race that will likely boil down to a photo finish.


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Welcome to Rome! At 5 pm, meet your Tour Director and traveling companions, and leave the hotel for a special welcome dinner with wine at one of Rome's lively restaurants. (Dinner)
Sightseeing with your Local Guide starts with a visit to the fascinating VATICAN MUSEUMS and SISTINE CHAPEL, world famous for Michelangelo's ceiling paintings and The Last Judgement. Continue to monumental ST. PETER'S SQUARE and BASILICA. Cross the Tiber and visit the COLOSSEUM and the ROMAN FORUM, where Roman legions marched in triumph. To make the most of your stay, join our optional Roman Highlights excursion, to see the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, and other sites and squares of medieval Rome made famous in the movie Angels and Demons. (Breakfast)
Head north along the Tyrrhenian coastline through an area where many a town was founded at the very beginning of recorded history by the mysterious, highly civilized Etruscans. Stop in Pisa for lunch and take the traditional picture pushing back the amazing Leaning Tower, 180 feet high and no less than 12 feet out of the perpendicular. Then, continue to medieval Lucca, completely surrounded by the original, medieval wall. An optional dinner to a local agriturismo farm is available. (Breakfast)
Drive to La Spezia on the Mediterranean coast and enjoy your excursion (including a BOAT RIDE, weather permitting) to CINQUE TERRE, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The name dates back to the 15th century and is derived from five medieval little villages standing on stony spurs along five miles of the rocky coastline: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso. From here, a TRAIN RIDE brings you to Rapallo. Back in Lucca, enjoy an orientation walk through the town. (Breakfast, Dinner)
A scenic day in Tuscany. This morning, visit Siena and walk through ancient narrow lanes to beautiful PIAZZA DEL CAMPO, theater of the biannual Palio, Siena's spectacular medieval-style horse race, Next is hilltop San Gimignano, the most picturesque of Italy's perfectly preserved medieval towns. In the afternoon, drive along the Chianti Road leading north to Florence. Next is the highlight of the day: stop at splendid VERRAZZANO CASTLE to hear about the fine art of blending four types of grapes to obtain the famous Chianti. Enjoy a WINE TASTING with an early dinner of local specialties. (Breakfast, Dinner)
During your walking tour with a Local Guide, visit the ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS to see Michelangelo's celebrated David. Admire the magnificent marble cathedral, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistry's heavy bronze "Gate of Paradise," and sculpture-studded SIGNORIA SQUARE. Time to explore this fascinating city so beautifully filmed in movies like Room with a View and Tea with Mussolini, and to browse through the shops. Leather goods and gold jewelry sold by the ounce are attractive buys. To make the most of your stay, join our optional excursions to the magnificent Uffizi Gallery or a dinner outing to try out the culinary delights of a fine Tuscan restaurant. (Breakfast)
Stop in Verona, setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Take pictures of Juliet's balcony and rub the shining breast on her statue for good luck. Next, admire the Arena, an incredibly well-preserved pink marble Roman amphitheater where gladiators used to fight. Built in the 1st century AD, it is now the magical venue for world-famous opera performances. Arrive in Venice, a powerful magnet for romantics and art lovers from around the globe. Tonight is your chance to join an optional gondola ride and to sample the city's fine restaurants. (Breakfast)
Enter in style by PRIVATE BOAT and enjoy morning sightseeing with your Local Guide. Visit ST. MARK'S SQUARE and the Byzantine BASILICA, lavish DOGES' PALACE and the world famous BRIDGE OF SIGHS. Also watch skilled GLASSBLOWERS fashion their delicate objects in an age-old traditional manner. An optional boat ride to the picturesque island of Burano is available. (Breakfast)
Along the coastline of the Adriatic Sea to Ravenna. Here, see the famous mosaics in the 6th-century BASILICA of ST. APOLLINARIS IN CLASSE. Next is peacefull Assisi. During your walking tour with a Local Guide, visit ST. CLARE'S CHURCH and ST. FRANCIS' BASILICA, the hub of a religious order devoted to the ideals of humility, forgiveness, simplicity, and love for all God's creatures. Hear about monastic life and admire the priceless frescoes adorning the walls of the church. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Following the Tiber Valley, reach Orvieto, perched high atop a volcanic rock. Access, denied to many a would-be conqueror through the ages, is easy for you. Ride a modern FUNICULAR right through the forbidding ramparts. Here, you have a chance to taste local pastries at a traditional PASTICCERIA. Time to browse through tempting shops in the lanes off Piazza del Duomo, and to visit the fabulous gothic CATHEDRAL with its San Brizio Chapel. In the late afternoon, return to Rome. This evening, a special farewell dinner with wine awaits you at a local restaurant to say, "Arrivederci, Roma!" (Breakfast, Dinner)
Your vacation ends with breakfast this morning. (Breakfast)
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