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Politico reports that Health and Human Services has a new deputy assistant secretary for public affairs. He is Tait Sye, media director for Planned Parenthood for the last four and a half years. At HHS, according to Politico, he will handle communications for the public health portfolio--the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--areas "where you can be pretty sure abortion and contraception issues will come up."Sister Mary Ann Walsh, head of media relations for the USCCB, was considered for the job but HHS decided that hiring a religious sister would violate the First Amendment and, besides, it might annoy the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. No, I just made that last sentence up.Anti-abortion groups are outraged by the new HHS hire, Politico reports. If all this is true, I'm not exactly outraged myself, just fairly dismayed.Here's the Politico story:
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The Obama Administration's message to Catholics: 'We don't need you. We think we can win the election without you. Don't let the door hit you in the *ss on the way out.'
And the problem with Mr. Sye is exactly what?????Do mid-level employees of federal agencies need to pass some kind of Catholic p.c. gauntlet these days?Would it be OK for a communications person from the USCCB to take a job with PP - or HHS?
Bender: I'm giving you a time out.
It's good to see that Peter Steinfels has a sense of humor about the CDF.
Jim Pauwels: John Allen of NCR claims that the Catholic vote in the United States divides up as 45% Republican and 45% Democratic, with 10% who might go one way or the other on any given vote.So President Obama will not win the 45% of American Catholics who vote Republican.So I see no good reason for him to be concerned about them, because they are just conservative Catholics.
Jimmy Mac: Isn't this some version of putting the fox in charge of the hen house--and then letting him sell the parts?
Sounds like he has some expertise dealing with these issues. The question-- or assumption -- is his bias which some seem to presume here. He's not the one to endear himself to the 45% or perhaps even the 10%, but if every appointment has to be now vetted in this way, I think we're in for a long season in the minutiae. Could anyone even name the top officials of HHS beyond Sebelius before all this started let alone their backgrounds or religious sensibilites?
Another confusing analogy. Why is Tait Sye a fox? Why is Planned Parenthood a hen house?Those who think women should be barefoot and pregnant, or better yet, in the graveyard, would enjoy studying the old census pages at ancestry.com. Many families had nine or more children. After burying the first old hen, the rooster would marry a young pullet to cook and clean and wash and sew for the first brood while hatching a second.
A "long season in the minutiae" hits the nail on the head. Meanwhile, only fifteen percent of twenty-somethings attend Mass regularly, diocesan sexual abuse review boards still can't control what they see or the implementation of their recommendations, there's a shortage of priests, parishes and schools are closing, etc. etc. etc.
HHS isn't a henhouse and PP isn't a fox. Planned Parenthood provides medical services to 1 out of 5 women, typically younger women who otherwise have significant issues obtaining medical care. I used Planned Parenthood when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. Why every medical need women have is considered trivial or illegitimate in comparison to the symbolic need Catholics have to pretend that they actually uphold Church teaching on the issue of contraception and abortion is simply beyond me. This is a low level position (notice the preface "deputy") and not a policy position of any kind.
Isnt this some version of putting the fox in charge of the hen houseand then letting him sell the parts?HHS (and the current administration) are not at odds with Planned Parenthood. Face the fact that Obama is a strong supporter of abortion rights, as is Sebelius. Obama never said or implied he was going to make "pro-life" appointments to key positions. Abortion is a constitutional right. Planned Parenthood still gets about $300 million in funding a year (although not for abortion), which was also true in the Bush administration. As for contraception, it has been actively promoted by the government since Nixon quite happily signed Title X into law in 1970. Someone opposed to contraception and abortion would be "a fox in the hen house" as a deputy assistant secretary for public affairs for HHS. I don't see how someone from Planned Parenthood can be considered "a fox in the hen house." I know many people deplore the fact that abortion is legal in the United States, but it is legal, and perfectly decent and thoughtful people support it. It is also legal in almost every other western Democracy.As far as I can remember, Catholics have never before been put off by the choice of a deputy assistant secretary for public affairs for HHS. It may be something the Catholic League would want to make into an issue, but that's about it.
Gerelyn: Just to clarify, the hen house is the agencies of HHS that Mr. Sye will be directing the communications of.The issue in my view is not that he has had, or not had, experience dealing with reproductive issues. It is the appearance of pro-choice advocacy within a government agency that deals with these issues. This at a time when that 10 percent Catholic vote is up for grabs. It seems to me a political error on the part of ???? Sebelius? Certainly on the part of Obama, if he even knew about it. Just as we would probably all agree that appointing a pro-life professional (say from the AUL) to the post would have been a mistake. You can be sure that would have caused an uproar (cf. the Komen scandale).It simply reenforces the view that the Obama Administration lacks a big enough political nose for trouble!
Gerelyn: Just to clarify, the hen house is the agencies of HHS that Mr. Sye will be directing the communications of.------- A lame/demeaning analogy. Why don't you call men men and women women and explain in plain English who you think should have gotten the job and why.
HHS isnt a henhouse and PP isnt a fox. Planned Parenthood provides medical services to 1 out of 5 women, typically younger women who otherwise have significant issues obtaining medical care. I used Planned Parenthood when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. Why every medical need women have is considered trivial or illegitimate in comparison to the symbolic need Catholics have to pretend that they actually uphold Church teaching on the issue of contraception and abortion is simply beyond me. This is a low level position (notice the preface deputy) and not a policy position of any kind.---------Agree!! The anti-contraception fanatics should go soak their heads.(I went to Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test many years ago. The cancelled check for $2.00 is the first item in my son's baby book.)
If you read the revised description of how HHS intends to treat the contraception issue, it looks like the Administration is bending over backwards for Catholics--and got no credit for trying. There are very specific ideas, for example, about how to treat self-funded plans. To the extent that this is an issue about contraception, maybe the administration feels the need to reassure a segment of his base. But I don't know.I do know that I am deeply uncomfortable, in general, with the idea that the only people who can or should be appointed to positions are those who have no views. Or that the only thing that matters is that the person appointed has views that agree with our own. Suppose he put a pro-life feminist Catholic in--are we supposed to root for our "team"? Is the other "team" supposed to complain because one of theirs isn't in? Part of living in a pluralistic society--and running a pluralistic government--is working with people that don't agree with you. And it isn't all about the Catholics. And not all Catholics oppose contraception. At any rate, I too think the Bishops have made clear that they will oppose Obama no matter what he does.
Cathleen: There are only 400 bishop-voters; there are some 60? 70? million lay Catholics, at least some of whom vote; there are millions of pro-life Evangelicals. some of whom vote. This isn't about the bishops; it isn't even about Contraception. It's about Mitt Romney becoming the next president of the United States.Many Americans, of all persuasions and none, are looking for a reason not to cast their ballot for Obama; it is bad politics, it is stupid politics when the Administration hands some of them a reason.
"John Allen of NCR claims that the Catholic vote in the United States divides up as 45% Republican and 45% Democratic, with 10% who might go one way or the other on any given vote. So President Obama will not win the 45% of American Catholics who vote Republican."I agree with you that the great majority of the 45% who are Republican will not vote for the President.The 10% who are independent could be an important segment. States like Ohio and Pennsylvania that are considered swing states in the election have pretty large Catholic populations. Presidential candidates need to piece together coalitions to get to 280 electoral votes. A lot of issues are "zero sum" in this respect: pleasing one group ticks off another. The Keystone pipeline is one such: killing the pipeline excites environmental voters but angers construction unions. Presumably, there are hundreds of possible candidates for the position of HHS deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, most of whom don't have any background or connection with abortion. E.g. perhaps they could have chosen someone from the AMA. Choosing one with strong ties to Planned Parenthood seems like very good news to an important constituency of the Obama Administration. Whether intended or not (and of course it is intended), the selection sends a signal to that group. Simultaneously, it sends a message to pro-life voters who might vote for President Obama (think Commonweal subscribers) that this issue is not one that the Administration takes very seriously.
"The anti-contraception fanatics should go soak their heads."Both of them at once? Or must they take turns? :-)Naturally, contraception is at the top of mind because of the HHS contraception mandate, but it's worth recalling that the issue that has made Planned Parenthood Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of the Religious Right isn't contraception, but abortion. It may not have been very evident on dotCom, but pro-choice advocacy groups have been very disappointed with Obamacare, because the abortion subsidy provisions are not nearly what they hoped for. I would understand this appointment as a statement to pro-choice voters that abortion rights are extremely important to the Obama Administration.
. . . it is stupid politics when the Administration hands some of them a reason.--------The constant efforts to appease/mollify those who hate him have failed. Again and again. Depressing to see a once-liberal magazine urging Obama to join the charade. It's like the CDF's idea that nuns should speak out in support of notions they don't believe in. Why should he pretend there's something wrong with Planned Parenthood? How far should it go? Should Michelle Obama withdraw as Honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America?
I would understand this appointment as a statement to pro-choice voters that abortion rights are extremely important to the Obama Administration.----------So you disagree with Margaret's statement that "it is stupid politics"? (I do, too. Pretending that Catholic women don't have abortions is fatuous.)
IMO way too much overreach on how this helps Romney or how important in itself it is.Big political issue is the ecpnomy and fighting through al lthe spin on that thorny issue.
I would understand this appointment as a statement to pro-choice voters that abortion rights are extremely important to the Obama Administration.Jim,One certainly might have said that about the appointment of Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of HHS, but who has ever paid attention before to the naming of a deputy assistant secretary for public affairs? Does Obama need to send subtle signals regarding where he stands on abortion rights? He is routinely referred to by pro-lifers as "the most pro-abortion president ever." I can't imagine that anyone who would vote for president based on the issue of abortion would have been teetering between Obama and Romney and now will vote for Romney because of this appointment. We all know that Romney has deeply held pro-life convictions . . . now that he is no longer pro-choice.
It is worth noting (again) that President Obama, while an Illinois state senator, championed legislation that would deny medical treatment for a newborn child that had survived an abortion attempt. I should have thought that simple mercy would compel anyone with a heart to assist that poor child (who could be a girl, into the bargain). If Love (God's other Name) is to triumph in this fallen world, then I will give Obama the benefit of the doubt that he didn't sufficiently reflect on what he was about. I hope he has changed his mind at least to that extent.
It is worth noting (again) that President Obama, while an Illinois state senator, championed legislation that would deny medical treatment for a newborn child that had survived an abortion attempt. Bob Schwartz,This is totally, completely, and absolutely, and egregiously false.
It never ceases to amaze me how some pro-lifers will say anything to slander President Obama. The guiding principle seems to be that whether or not it is true, anything one says against Obama in the pro-life cause is justified.
Agree!! The anti-contraception fanatics should go soak their heads.Read this testimonial and then tell me contraception does not lead to abortion.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/having-an-abortion-when...
"Depressing to see a once-liberal magazine urging Obama to join the charade.... Why should he pretend theres something wrong with Planned Parenthood?"Gerelyn, Commonweal is not a prochoice magazine. Never has been. If in your book a magazine needs to be prochoice to be liberal, then your understanding of the magazine's history is simply wrong: Commonweal Catholicism was never Gerelyn liberalism. People here don't object to Planned Parenthood because it provides women with contraceptives or pregnancy tests; they object to it because it offers abortion on demand.Jim is right: there were many Catholics who voted for Obama despite his position on abortion. Maybe he will need their votes again in November, maybe not. What is clear is that many of these Catholics notice an appointment like this, and it bothers them. You believe they are wrong to be bothered. That's fine. But their votes are in play in what will probably be a close election. The votes of prochoice liberals are not in play; they weren't going to vote for Romney, or just not vote, because the Obama HHS didn't hire Planned Parenthood's former media director.
Re Jim Pauwels' two comments this morning: Jim, you are attributing motives. What's your evidence for doing so? If you have no relevant evidence, then how are your attributions not slanderous?
Bernard - I am interpreting the facts as they are known. My evidence is the evidence that has been offered here: a Planned Parenthood executive has parachuted into the middle of HHS. If you have a different interpretation of what that means, I am certainly open to it.I've said nothing slanderous. I've described the pro-choice proclivities of the Obama Administration. I agree with David Nickol's characterization of the Obama Administration. I would guess that it wouldn't view as slanderous being described as pro-choice. I expect it to be waving that banner proudly at the Democratic National Convention next summer, and throughout the presidential campaign. It's simply an apt adjective (or so it seems to me). If a person or an organization presents itself as being pro-choice, I don't think there should be a problem with describing it as pro-choice.
David Nickol:"This is totally, completely, and absolutely, and egregiously false."Is it really? I have a recollection of reading a damning Illinois Senate voting record during the 2008 elections, but I will be gladly proven wrong. Have you done any research?
OK. Here's the brunt of the issue from Factcheck.org., Aug. 28, 2008:Obama and InfanticideThe facts about Obama's votes against 'Born Alive' bills in Illinois. Posted on August 25, 2008 Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of "supporting infanticide," and the National Right to Life Committee says hes conducted a "four-year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born-alive survivors of abortions." Obama says theyre "lying."At issue is Obamas opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that would have defined any aborted fetus that showed signs of life as a "born alive infant" entitled to legal protection, even if doctors believe it could not survive.Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 "born alive" bills as backdoor attacks on a womans legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been "fully in support" of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement, Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal act he says he would have supported. Both contained identical clauses saying that nothing in the bills could be construed to affect legal rights of an unborn fetus, according to an undisputed summary written immediately after the committees 2003 mark-up session.The article goes on to discuss various interpretations of the facts, but there you are. But you are correct in asserting that he didn't champion legislation. For that, I apologize; my bad for sloppy research.
The HHS deputy assistant secretary position is more than likely what is known as a "Schedule C" position, defined as one that is of a "confidential or policy-determining" nature. Such positions fall in the excepted civil service and are filled under the general authority of 5 CFR 213. The word 'excepted' means that such positions are filled under procedures that constitute an *exception* to normal *competitive* hiring procedures. As a former HR specialist with the Office of Personnel Management (the civil service regulatory agency) as well as with DOD and VA, I see nothing unusual about the Obama administration hiring someone sympathetic to its views. If the Bush administration, for example, had hired a pro-life spokesperson for the HHS deputy assistant secretary position, such an appointment would have been perfectly proper.Matters of "pro-life" and "pro-choice" aside, these appointments are fully in accord with applicable law and regulation. There are conditions established by OPM for their use. Incumbents can be separated from employment at will; they enjoy none of the normal job protections available to career employees. The Schedule C appointment authority simply acknowledges the need for any presidential administration to have people at the highest levels of departments and agencies to develop, administer, and explain policies in furtherance of executive goals and objectives.The brouhaha over this appointment is tantamount to making a mountain out of a molehill.
Our weavings on this issue rehash Obama's and Sebelius positions as well as the legal status of abortion and the attempts at some response to the bishops concerns. I realize that some think them real and others say they are screens. But the essential polint of the argument was about the appointment of this "deputy assistant secretary for public affairs." Goodness, are we checking on all these levels of appointments??? Who preceded him? Why is he/she no longer there? What positions has he held before? Married? Divorced? Gay? Father? What is his mother's maiden name...?Let it go....
I will be the first to admit that I can't name any other deputy assistant secretaries of any other Cabinet agencies. It seems, though, that Politico thought it was noteworthy enough to write a news story about it.
Commonweal Catholicism was never Gerelyn liberalism.--------So true! (We have different tastes in poetry, too.)In my brand of liberalism there's no expectation that a President (or ward boss or precinct captain) will make political appointments with the hope or expectation of appeasing those who will never be appeased. (Should Michelle Obama resign as Honorary President of the Girls Scouts of America?)
Why has there been no similarly loud indignation about the incumbent HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, considering where he came from before his appointment in 2010? Is it just the year that makes the difference?
One explanation for the appointment has not been considered -- maybe the Mr. Sye is highly competent as a media expert and has a deep understanding of the issues involved on both sides of the abortion/contraception issues. Jean can fill us in on this, but isn't a highly competent PR person one who not only knows how to avoid unnecessary controversy but also understands the particular pitfalls of his/her of particular job? If Sye is highly qualified (and I say "if'), then he is the sort who could have helped avoid the original mandate brouhaha in the first place. It's no secret that Obama is pro-abortion. It's no secret that he has compromised in favor of anti-abortion voters at times. His bad political judgment was in appointing politically tone-deaf Sebelius, not Sye.
If Mr. Sye had not been PP's media director, his hiring to the public affairs position at HHS likely would not have been newsworthy to the general public. However, as unwieldy and perhaps diminutive as "deputy assistant secretary" sounds, Mr. Sye is now the # 2 public affairs official at the second largest federal agency. The HHS website lists him as one of the four "key public affairs contacts" at the agency:http://www.hhs.gov/news/contacts/Like Peter Steinfels, I'm "fairly dismayed" at this appointment at this time. It seems likely to me, however, that a political decision was made to hire him to mollify pro-choice organizations and supporters upset about what they perceive as at least partial appeasement of the Catholic hierarchy on the mandate issue. In this election year when everything is vetted politically, I think it's fair to conclude that that Democratic politicos involved in the president's re-election campaign almost certainly consulted their voting maps and crunched the numbers before the final decision was made to bring Mr. Sye onboard at HHS, which has been a lightning rod for pro-life criticism throughout Secretary Sebelius's time at the agency.
Jack Barry: Not sure of your point.Here is the incumbent's bio at HHS (incumbent I guess as of last Thursday?).Deputy Assistant SecretaryChris StenrudDeputy Assistant Secretary for Public AffairsU.S. Department of Health & Human ServicesChris Stenrud was sworn in as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on September 7, 2010. In this role, Chris manages media affairs for the department, including press relations and online outreach. He also oversees communications for HHS agencies involved in public health including the FDA, CDC, NIH and the Public Health Service. He previously served as a special assistant for communications in HHS public affairs during the Clinton Administration.Chris rejoined HHS from Kaiser Permanente, where he served as director of health policy communications and before that, communications director for the office of the CEO. At Kaiser, Chris managed all external and internal communication activities involving CEO George Halvorson, who leads the organizations health plan and hospital system covering 8.5 million lives. Chris oversaw several major communications projects including the roll out of Georges two most recent books, Health Care Will Not Reform Itself and Health Care Reform Now! Chris also spent time on Capitol Hill as staff director for the Democratic Communications Committee in the U.S. Senate under Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). In the Senate, Chris coordinated message and outreach efforts for Senate Democrats on issues ranging from drug re-importation to implementation of the 9/11-commission report.Outside of government, Chris has served in senior positions with several nationally-recognized public relations agencies including Golin Harris, GMMB and GYMR. Additionally, Chris has worked on several statewide and national political campaigns including Clinton/Gore 92 & 96 and Boxer for Senate 98.Chris earned his undergraduate degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Joseph J. --While the PR position is not protected by the usual Civil Service rules, I don't think it is de facto *not* a policy making position. Because presidents *must* compromise, and because a good PR person knows the probable PR effects of a politician's decision, the PR person's opinions must at times be a factor in a president's decision-making processes. For instance, if a mayor's PR chief tells him that support of a proposed expressway will cause the city's newspaper to stop supporting the mayor , the mayor will, if he has any political sense, take that into account when making his decision about the expressway.So I don't think it is true that Sye would have no policy input, though we cannot assume that Sye would always recommend going along with Planned Parenthood. He might advise that politically the wise thing to do is to go along with the pro-lifers, even though he disagrees with the pro-lifers.
Prof. Kaveny wrote: "Part of living in a pluralistic societyand running a pluralistic governmentis working with people that dont agree with you."Isn't that precisely the point of some of the "dismay" being expressed here? Why wouldn't Pres. Obama appoint someone, say, of a pro-life pursuasion? Wouldn't have they truly expressed a more pluralistic, "purple" view of our society? Wouldn't it have been refreshingly pluralistic to look for someone NOT from an advocacy organization closely linked with the Democratic Party and abortion-on-demand?
Gerelyn, in your brand of liberalism the list of people with whom you disagree seems to be exactly the same as the list of people "who will never be appeased." That's awfully neat. Unless you do not want prolifers to vote for Obama -- and are sure he can win re-election without any of their votes -- you should reconsider the political wisdom of an appointment that is bound to alienate them, at least a little. I'm prolife, and I confess this decision doesn't bother or surprise me much. It's unlikely to determine my vote in November. But these things are cumulative, and the straw that breaks the camel's back will depend on the camel. What is clear is that each time something like this happens it's harder to describe it as a one-off rather than as part of a larger pattern that, however predictable, can only make it harder for prolifers to vote for the president. Again, it is inconceivable that a prochoice liberal would decide not to vote for the president because he failed to appoint a former Planned Parenthood official to this position. There was a political downside to doing this, and no political downside to not doing it. Obviously such staffing decisions are about more than electoral politics -- and thank goodness for that -- but, considered purely as political matter, this was not smart.
Matthew, Do I "want prolifers to vote for Obama"?I don't know what a prolifer is. I know there are people who pat themselves on the back while claiming to be that and excoriate others for being prodeathers, but I also know that prolifers, like prodeathers, use contraception, get abortions ("on demand"), and vote for the woman or man they like best, regardless of that person's views of the Girls Scouts, Planned Parenthood, etc.Do I want the President to appoint those who oppose him to positions in his administration?No. That's not the way the game is played. (To quote/paraphrase the prolife -- now -- candidate, Mitt Romney.)
"and are sure he can win re-election without any of their votes"Yes, he can and yes he will. Ther are only three important issues for the upcoming elections. These are:1. the economy, 2. the economy, and 3. the economy. Birth control, abortion, etc., are not issues at all. Nobody cares. If the economy is improving, Obama will win re-election. If the economy stagnates or worsens, then Romney will win. In recent history, state antiabortion measures have been placed on the ballots in very pro-life states: South Dakota (twice) and Mississippi. Those all lost. The prolife voters make a lot of noise but in the privacy fo the ballot box, they don't vote that way. They vote their pocketbook like the majority of voters. Until pro-lie voters demostate that they can achive success on a state antiabortion measure in their own backyard, they are not a significant political force. Obama knows that. There is nothing he can do to earn their votes that he isn't already doing. The particular issue of the deputy PR director of HHS is utterly nonsignificant. Not a single electoral college vote will change as a result of the appointment. There are a number of issues that Obama is not addressing. These include such important constituency issues as gay rights, relations with Israel and immigration.Those constituencies and the 10% undecided Catholic vote will vote for their pocketbooks, not on any other pet issue. It's the economy.
"After burying the first old hen, the rooster would marry a young pullet to cook and clean and wash and sew for the first brood while hatching a second."My Irish gggrandfather did exactly that - sans hatching a second brood of chicks. He lived with the first wife for 21 years and sired 7. He lived with the second one (22 years his junior) for 37 years and they both died within a month of each other.Apropos absolutely nothing, I'll admit.
"Read this testimonial and then tell me contraception does not lead to abortion."Even an inexperienced male such as I knows that (1) successful contraception results in (2) no need for abortion.
"It simply reenforces the view that the Obama Administration lacks a big enough political nose for trouble!"Or that the official Catholic proboscis is particularly attuned to its own brand of quasi and faux trouble with dealing with this President.
"Or that the official Catholic proboscis is particularly attuned to its own brand of quasi and faux trouble with dealing with this President."Because losing a religious liberty case at the Supreme Court 9-0, at which oral argument even its own former Solicitor General expressed befuddled astonishment at the Administration's interpretation of the First Amendment, is simply a "faux" misunderstanding of "official" Catholics' own genesis. Or maybe it's "quasi"? (Just to take one example).
Ann, I fully agree with your comments @ 2:34 pm. Schedule C positions, according to the Office of Personnel Management (i.e., the former U.S. Civil Service Commission until Congress made the name and other changes effective 1/1/79), are "excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties."
Some additional information should be available at http://www.opm.gov/transition/trans20r-ch5.htm ("Transition to a New Presidential Administration: Appointees in the Excepted Service").For anybody in academe, it's possible you have taught or otherwise interacted with students occupying so-called "Schedule B" positions, which are used by federal departments and agencies, for example, to employ co-op students among others.Some general background on these *excepted service* authorities should be available at http://www.opm.gov/Strategic_Management_of_Human_Capital/fhfrc/FLX05020.asp ("Excepted Service Appointing Authorities").In short, federal civil service law and regulations recognize the simple fact that it's not always practicable to use regular merit system processes in hiring.
I think Obama would do better to try to attract the Nones rather than to try to win Catholics who are shocked that a pro- choice president appoints a prochoice or director. I also think he may be in trouble with his base on this. They could decide not to work hard for him, they could fail to vote. They may think Romney isn't really to be feared on abortion. And I do think PP is about contraception, and Catholics who support contraception against the recent efforts to oppose it by the bishops (they don't want it in the plan at all) will now have mixed feelings about PP.
I think Bob Nunz has it right . It's going to the unemployment level, and the economy that are going to decide this election. It's the candidate that proves that he's best for the econmy that's going to win.
Yes, the economy is the dominant issue. But if the economy is doing just so-so, the bishops' input could help tip a narrow balance. And that's why they need to be very careful not to demonize a president, which they are process of doing.
Jim Pauwels, re your noontime comment of today: Here's my objection. A can properly criticize what B says or does, but when A starts attributing bad motives to B then A ought to have some reasons other than the fact that A disagrees with what B has said or done. To attribute bad motives without RELLEVANT EVIDENCE ABOUT THE MOTIVES, NOT ABOUT THE DEED OR THE STATEMENT, is what is slanderous. It turns an opponent into a villain. Let's grant that Obama is pro-choice and supports the legal right to an abortion. In our present society, one may very well do so, not because he or she has contempt for pro-life people, but because he or she takes it to be sound policy or even morally acceptable. Such a person is indeed an opponent, but not an enemy, not someone who has demeaned pro-life people.I agree with Margaret and Matthew that this appointment is not politically deft. But I see no reason to think of it as malign. To call it malign you need more evidence than I can find. If it is malign, then Obama is not only morally bad but also politically foolish. He may well be the latter, but to charge him with being the former, without solid evidence, is, whether you meant it as such, slanderous.I raise this point, Jim, because it is so easy for all of us bloggers to shade over into inappropriately attributing bad motives to our opponents. I take Scott Appleby's comments on the CDF decision as a model of proper restraint. He strongly criticized the action, but steadfastly refused to attribute motives.
If you read the revised description of how HHS intends to treat the contraception issue, it looks like the Administration is bending over backwards for Catholicsand got no credit for trying.Not really. Bending over backwards would be giving Catholic institutions a clear and broad exemption. Better yet, canning this frivolous rule entirely.
Excellent post, Bernard. I used to read all the posts at dot.CWL, but now I sometimes skip some for the simple reason that what those posts mainly do is call names without sufficient reason. They're boring, unfair, and a waste of time.
Bernard, thanks for your comment, and I agree with you. But I don't see that I have attributed malign motives to anyone - I've tried to be descriptive.
Even an inexperienced male such as I knows that (1) successful contraception results in (2) no need for abortion.Jimmy, contraception is never 100% successful. I guess thats where your inexperience shows. :)
"Jimmy, contraception is never 100% successful. I guess thats where your inexperience shows."I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.


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Lesperance receives Art Matters Foundation grant
Ellen Lesperance, faculty member, has received a grant from the Art Matters Foundation. This grant will be funding Lesperance's research at the Greenham Commons Women's Peace Camp archives in London. Lesperance explains her work and what she will be doing with the grant funding on the Art Matters Foundation website: "I create paintings and textiles based off of archival images of female activists. This grant will support research and new work about the anti-nuke protest site, Greenham Commons, whose partial archive exists at the Women's Library at the British Library of Political and Economic Science in London." Lesperance has exhibited in venues across the nation including The Seattle Art Museum and The Brooklyn Museum along with her work appearing in multiple publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Art Monthly.
Illustrator translates Science
Anna Lensch is a sophomore Illustration major making her second debut on the cover of a stem cell journal called, Stem Cell Reports, published by Cell Press. This journal is viewed by over 4000 members of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. The collaboration of art and science began while Anna Lensch was doing an internship her senior year of high school at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Launch of Behind the Curtain
Going live tomorrow, Behind the Curtain is a new Hack Oregon website that will feature a searchable library of visualizations for the entire database of Oregon Elections. This project, designed to make campaign finance date more accessible to the public, was initiated in a class in PNCA's MFA in Collaborative Design program. As the Willamette Week reports, Behind the Curtain uses Oregon Elections Division data, " to create easy-to-understand visuals of candidates' funding sources." Hack Oregon hosts a public launch party Thursday, October 30, from 6:30 to 9 pm at Crowd Compass, 2505 SE 11th Ave., Suite 300.
Tom Manley on Speaking Freely
President Tom Manley recently spoke with Sheila Hamilton, host of the public affairs program on KINK.FM, Speaking Freely about PNCA's new campus home on the North Park Blocks of Portland, Portland as a creative center, and the importance of creativity to the future of humanity and the planet.
"Throughout human history," Manley says, "there is nothing more powerful in terms of human resources than creativity. … It's our most powerful, most sustainable, and renewable resource."
LISTEN: PNCA President Tom Manley interviewed by Sheila Hamilton on Speaking Freely, the public affairs program of 101.9 KINK.FM. October 5, 2014
Design Week Portland and PNCA
We're in the thick of Design Week Portland and PNCA programs, alumni, and students, are participating, doing talks, exhibitions, performances and volunteering for this annual event. This evening, Tuesday, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program hosts a lecture by Susan S. Szenasy, publisher and editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine. On Thursday, the MFA in Collaborative Design hosts a lecture by Allan Chochinov, Chair and co-founder of the SVA MFA in Products of Design Program on The Order of Things: Unpacking the Perils and Promises of Design and the Media. PNCA's BridgeLab co-presents Creative Clubhouse #DWPDX, an event to bring together creative professionals and the resources they need to succeed, this Saturday at Holocene at from 2-7pm. On Thursday from 4-7pm PNCA's Design Arts program hosts an exhibition/open house at R/West, 1430 SE 3rd Avenue. And on Thursday at 7pm, alum Calvin Ross Carl '08 is on a panel entitled Two Kinds of Makers: An Intersection, a One Grand Gallery. Meanwhile, PNCA Animated Arts students produced a 4-channel video installation for Revolution in the Landscape: Re-experience Halprin's Fountains with the Society for Experiential Graphic Design. MFA in Visual Studies candidate, Micah Schmelzer, presented video work with Pure Surface at the Event dome at Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Summerson Wins LG Art of Pixel Grand Prize
Last night John Summerson ('15) was awarded the Grand Prize in LG's Art of the Pixel competition for his work, "Painting from Life." Chosen from 300 entries from nine of the nation's top art schools, Summerson's work garnered him a $5000 award while PNCA also received a $50,000 grant from LG to support arts education. Summerson attended the gala award ceremony in New York with his faculty mentor, Rose Bond. The event was also attended by event ambassador Neal Patrick Harris, Kevin Spacey, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
"It's been a privilege and a thrill to be a part of the Art of the Pixel program and to support young artists and arts education," said Harris. "I thought John's piece was particularly clever. His choice of music as well as his decision to turn vibrant watercolors into stop-motion really came alive on LG's new Ultra HD and OLED display technologies. It just goes to show that every artist, like each work of art, is unique."
John's entry into the competition, "Painting from Life":
Wall and Lesperance Finalists for CNAA's
PNCA celebrates the inclusion of alumna and instructor Samantha Wall MFA '11 and faculty member, Ellen Lesperance in the list of 24 finalists for the 2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. At the Portland Art Museum, the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards is an awards exhibition for contemporary art created in the greater northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana). The exhibition will open at the Museum in the fall of 2015.
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M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Awards PNCA Campaign Top-Off Grant
The Oregonian reports that M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded PNCA a $700,000 "top-off grant" to be delivered when the college raises the final $1.4 million for its capital campaign to make its new home in the former post office and federal office building at 511 N.W. Broadway. The award is intended to spur the remaining donations needed to meet the campaign's goal of $15 million.
Revealing Details of PNCA's New Home
PNCA's renovation of its new home, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, is taking giant steps towards completion. The Portland Business Journal recently did a photo tour and captured some of the beautiful details. And if the power washing away of decades of grime hasn't revealed which building will be PNCA's new home, look for the 30 foot banner on Northeast side of the 511 Building.
Stellar Month for PNCA Student
PNCA student John Summerson has had quite a month. First he was one of the prestigious Princess Grace award winners in the film category, PNCA's third winner, receiving a significant monetary grant for his upcoming senior thesis project. Then late last week LG Electronics announced Summerson as a finalist in its Art of the Pixel new-media competition. His winning piece Painting From Life earned him $5000 as a finalist and a trip to New York City for the announcement of the grand prize by celebrity spokesperson Neil Patrick Harris. In this by invitation-only contest, PNCA was one of only a handful of art schools selected for student submissions.
President Manley on Better Bricks Panel
PNCA President Tom Manley was on a panel Friday morning for the Better Bricks Awards for commercial real estate. The Portland Business Journal quotes Manley on the challenges of public/private partnerships in real estate finance. "These kinds of deals take time," he said. "They evolve, and in the words of Nelson Mandela, they look impossible until they are done."
PNCA was awarded the Innovation in Project Finance of the Year award for its transformation of the former Federal Building at 511 NW Broadway into the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, scheduled to open February 2015 as the anchor of PNCA's new North Park Blocks Campus. The project was facilitated by a PDC loan package of $20.3 million, approved in 2013. Construction on the project began in February of this year.
The Passing of Ken Shores
The PNCA Community is saddened by the loss of Ken Shores, who passed away yesterday.
An accomplished artist and inveterate collector, Ken was the director of Museum of Contemporary Craft between 1964-68 and a beloved friend and mentor to students, colleagues and many others in the arts community. He established the ceramics program at Lewis and Clark College, helping to build a collection there and continued to make and encourage gifts to many other collections around Oregon, including important pieces to the Museum.
In 2008, Museum of Contemporary Craft presented the well received Generations: Ken Shores, a retrospective of his life and work, followed in 2010 by the MoCC/PNCA publication by Namita Wiggers, Clay Has the Last Word, which chronicled Shore's contributions to ceramics and craft in general and also revealed his life-long passion for the alchemic process of making. In it he was quoted saying,
"Clay, I think, is such a magical material…it's a material that is so responsive, and has so much life in it. I don't know of any other material that has that quality."
One might easily have said the same thing about Ken Shores. He will be missed.
Tom Manley Op-Ed in The Oregonian
"The job market will continue to favor creative thinkers: Guest opinion," The Oregonian, 2 July 2014
In June, the White House held its first Maker Faire and asked individuals and organizations from across the nation to join the Obama administration in showcasing the cultural and economic importance of innovators who make things by applying their brains, their hands and their tools.
As the class of 2014 enters the workforce, we believe we have prepared our graduates with the skills that are critical to solving big problems and ensuring healthy economies. But if as a nation we're not prioritizing creative making, and the tinkering, failing and reworking inherent in it, we're failing to capitalize on all of our strengths. Nearly a decade ago in "A Whole New Mind," Daniel Pink argued that the future belongs to creative, right-brain thinkers who bring to the table things that can't be outsourced overseas or done faster by a computer.
A recent Americans for the Arts report, "Ready to Innovate," indicated that U.S. employers rated creativity and innovation among the top five skills that will only increase in importance, and that stimulating them and enabling entrepreneurship are among the top 10 challenges for U.S. CEOs.
Students trained in the studio learn observation, experimentation, collaboration, problem solving, iteration, prototyping, critique and reframing. Each skill is directly applicable to arenas beyond the arts and belongs on any resume. To be able to create, fail and start over again and again is, as any entrepreneur will tell you, essential in the skillset for success.
Look at companies that thrive and you'll see those that prize creativity throughout. Apple is known for a culture that incorporates design and user experience into every aspect of the way its products are engineered and built. Our homegrown Nike is propelled by innovative design, with its CEO Mark Parker keeping a sketchbook in which he records business ideas on the lefthand pages and sketches of imagined shoes on the right.
Portland provides a great example of creative people and enterprises feeding a vibrant economy. From makers of craft coffee and beer to award-winning chefs to designers of sportswear, to the creators of any number of artisanal products and inventions, this is a city that loves its makers. We proudly purchase their wares and show them off to our friends, all the while supporting a creative economy that draws more and more young entrepreneurs to this dynamic place that's both inspirational and affordable.
Creativity lives in every person and is an element of every professional field, but as an educational outcome it is cultivated most purposefully in art and design studio programs. This ongoing process of producing creative thinkers enhances the world not only by supplying objects and works of interest and beauty and but by turning out problem solvers who will find answers to the most difficult and persistent problems we encounter.
2014 Gala Resounding Success
PNCA's 2014 Gala was a resounding success: a beautiful evening, a full house, and plenty of surprises. A greater number of supporters than ever before, including Mayor Hales, Congressman Blumenauer, and Commissioner Nick Fish, attended the sold-out Gala at Vigor Industrial on Swan Island. A highlight of the evening was a very special performance by k.d. lang in a stunning environment created by award-winning designer and alumnus, Michael Curry '81. In addition to funds raised for PNCA's Annual Fund, numerous announcements were made throughout the evening of major gifts to the College's Capital Campaign, CREATIVITY WORKS HERE, in support of our campus expansion to the North Park Blocks. One of the most dramatic gifts was that of Mark Edlen of $1 million to name the main corridor of the building after his wife and PNCA's Board Chair, The Ann Payne Edlen Creative Corridor. PNCA looks forward to next year's Gala which will be held at the College's new home in the 511 Building, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design.
Award-winning ArtHouse
Big news recently for PNCA's residence hall ArtHouse, which opened for students in the fall of 2013. First ArtHouse was awarded the green building LEED, Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, sliver certification for new construction.
Then this week the Daily Journal of Commerce recognized ArtHouse as one of the top new construction projects for the year. This six-story building, designed by Thomas Robinson of LEVER Architecture and located on the North Park Blocks, has many environmental-friendly features that also serve art students well including a
rain garden and patio in the center of the building, natural light pulled into the building through cutaways at the end of each corridor, expansive operable windows, generous bike parking and custom furniture made from wood salvaged from the site's previous building. Arthouse is part of PNCA's campus hub just a five minute walk from the new campus at the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design and across the street from the College's Museum of Contemporary Craft.
PNCA welcomes new Chair of MFA in Visual Studies—Peter Simensky
PNCA is pleased to welcome Peter Simensky as the incoming Chair of PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies. Peter is an accomplished interdisciplinary artist and faculty member. He has extensive teaching experience from some of the top art programs in the country such as California College of the Arts, Stanford University and New York University. Most recently he has served as core faculty in the Interdisciplinary MFA programs at School of Art Institute of Chicago and at Maine College of Art. He will be moving from New York City to start the academic year in the MFA in Visual Studies program, one of the six graduate programs in PNCA's Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies.
Simensky's varied process-oriented practice demonstrates interest in the art object as trigger and emblem for forms of exchange. Situated in moments of slippage and interchange, his projects evince the volatility of art objects, which are on one level cash with which to trade and invest, and on the other, art—the mysterious objectification of reflection, imagination, desire, and promise. Simensky's project Gold Dust can be found in the current Cabinet Magazine. As Simensky's contribution, this issue comes sprinkled with gold dust. Simensky visited Cabinet's offices on the day the issue arrived and scattered 7.9 grams of 24-karat gold over the magazines, an amount equal in value to the cost of printing the two pages allotted to his project.
Peter is an active and accomplished artist whose work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum 52, NY, The Swiss Institute, NY, and Project Row Houses, Houston. He has participated in numerous group shows in the US and Internationally at museums, institutions and galleries and brings a wealth of knowledge of contemporary art practices, people, and venues.
REC Fest Winners
Congratulations to the two artists who tied for the audience award at REC Fest: John Summerson for Road Trip and Emily Wyant for Balloon Assassin.
REC Fest, formerly known as VideoFest, is an annual juried festival of time-based and moving image works sponsored by the Intermedia Department and presented this year at Hollywood Theater. From video to experimental sound, animation to performance, REC Fest encompasses a breadth of work made by current Pacific Northwest College of Art students of all levels and from all majors.
Linda Wysong's Eye River Complete
Faculty member Linda Wysong celebrates the final installation of her major public art project, Eye River, in Southeast Portland. Willamette Week art critic Richard Speer writes about the project which came to fruition through a couple of years of public process. Funded by "Percent for Art" program and a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wysong's series of three large sculptures, based on logging implements, are part of the city's "Route to the River/Green Street" project.
PNCA Starts Transformation
In a Portland Tribune piece titled PNCA Starts Transformation, Jim Redden notes that even though construction has just begun, "renovation progress is everywhere," including the removal of the dropped ceilings and the outdated heating and cooling system.
Take a hard hat tour of 511 Building
Join KGW and President Tom Manley as they take a behind the scenes hard hat tour of PNCA's future home, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design. Construction has begun on the renovation of the 511 Broadway Building with a move in date of January 2015.
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10 Grocery Shopping Secrets of Slim Women
Follow these tips and you'll be able to navigate the grocery store aisles as well as any super-fit health nut -- and still eat food that's delicious
Sound familiar? Whether you're on a diet or just trying to eat healthier, the grocery store can be an intimidating place, rife with temptations. However, there are certain women -- namely slim women -- who seem to float through the aisles picking up the ripest fruits and most pristine-looking vegetables. They grab a piece of wild salmon, maybe a jar of almond butter, and they're on their way.
Skip ahead to learn the healthy grocery shopping tricks of slim women.
These superhuman shoppers have a secret: a set of healthy grocery shopping guidelines they follow no matter what. While the key rule used to be "focus on the perimeter" (meaning you should shop the produce, meat, fish, and dairy sections to get the healthiest, freshest ingredients), that's no longer the ultimate rule to shop by. "I love grocery shopping," says celebrity yoga and fitness instructor Kristin McGee (who epitomizes the gorgeous shopper described above). "But it's important to go with a plan -- supermarkets are getting so tricky."
McGee and women like her have mastered the art of healthy grocery shopping. Follow their rules and you won't even want to pick up the Chunky Monkey.
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forget the ben and jerrys!
by LittleBunny Monday, January 28, 2013 at 08:55PM Report as inappropriate
Lots of good advice! Just wish I could follow it!
by morgan_ledford Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 02:30PM Report as inappropriate
These are really helpful! I need to be a little better at grabbing the fresh and healthy options over the frozen sodium-packed entrees.
by heather_hejna Friday, December 7, 2012 at 12:26PM Report as inappropriate
Some good basic common sense tips.
by Chris213 Friday, November 9, 2012 at 06:26AM Report as inappropriate
I completely disagree with this..for one I'm from Hawaii so coconut water was a staple only in the main lad was it a fad and I don't need a list, and I also love sales which I stock up on. I'm considered slim at 99lbs, a little taller than 5'3, and was a personal trainer.. I'd like to know from this article what they consider slim because more 80% of women are more than 10 lbs over weight, which you see all around everyday.
by Lani702 Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 11:06PM Report as inappropriate
Most of these are common sense and I do try to follow them whenever I can. Plus avoiding alcohol is always great!
by Lamexicana1 Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 04:37PM Report as inappropriate
Ok I do everything in the article. That shouldnt be but is very validating.
by kimihavens Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 02:19PM Report as inappropriate
I have lost 50 pounds doing what this article says to do. the one other thing I do is to type my menu at the stop of the grocery list, then list the ingredients for each meal, which is my shopping list. I buy only the items on the list. Everything healthy, especially fresh vegetables and salmon. My husband and I even splurge by cutting in half a rib eye steak.
by CaroleVonAllten Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 10:10AM Report as inappropriate
This made me think. Yes, not shopping when tired or rushed would make a big difference for me. I'd probably buy less convenience foods.
by KST Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 06:42AM Report as inappropriate
The tips are great but adding Slim women makes a lot of difference....
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Astor Data, Greenplum and GridSQL all allow Massive Parallel Processing of SQL queries. They are also all built around PostgreSQL technology. Is this just because of licensing issues or are there other reasons? To me, it seems like the MyISAM, not being ACID complient and therefore not running into the same issues with MVCC (like seen here) as PostgreSQL is far better suited for building high-performance data warehouses. After all OLAP load does not require transactions as far as I can see.
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It is mostly a license issue. These developments end up patching the code quite heavily, so if you were to deal with MySQL, you'd either have to open-source your code or be at the mercy of MySQL's corporate owner for the life of your business. Some offers for MySQL get around that by implementing their work as a storage engine, but that doesn't offer all the flexibility that they need, and they invariably end up patching the MySQL core as well.
I can see two reasons:
1) historically, PostgreSQL had better query planner and statistics analyzer. This might be not true now, but few years ago PostgreSQL was much better then MySQL on complex queries, which is OLAP ones.
2) PostgreSQL have better functions/triggers/etc programming support.
As Peter Eisentraut correctly pointed out, first and foremost it's a licensing issue. Postgres is licensed under a BSD-like agreement, which makes it essentially a "free for all", so long as you credit the original developers in your derivative work.
The MVCC vs. locking scheduler debate has been the subject of more than a few 'holy wars' online. The debates over the merits of various storage engines have been equally controversial.
The merits of different row-major (aka row-store) storage engines are IMHO largely irrelevant when it comes to MPP RDBMS built for analytic workloads for two reasons:
I built an MPP system on MySQL and I discarded the system for two reasons:
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2) is the lack of hash joins - nested loop and index joins do not scale to the level required in a MPP system - again because Oracle inhibited the promised delivery of hash joins in the 5.x code line after it took ownership.
MPP big data systems must have joins that are not of geometric complexity. - Linear or log linear complexity joins must be a strong preference for true big data systems.
I deployed Actian vectorwise instead in the new DeepCloud MPP system while maintaining a drizzle/MySQL compatibility at the user level.
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Bernadette Barnard '98 was a corporate lawyer specializing in equity derivatives and securities. She passed away on March 12, 2012, at the age of 46.
Originally from Kearney, Neb., Barnard earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After receiving her J.D. from Columbia Law School, she served as an assistant general counsel at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York City. While at the Law School, Barnard founded the wine tasting club "DeVinimus," which hosted wine tastings for guests including U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 and Antonin Scalia.
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Our dining chairs are designed to be beautifully functional. Available with the option of a wood seat or a cushion seat that can have either fabric or leather upholstery.
Ask your local dealer about all the options available to you.
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If you don't see what you are looking for these tables offer the flexibility of creating a table to your specifications.
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Sure, you can always add an extra leaf later. But you can save a whole lot of time and money by ordering all your leaves up front, when it's easier to shape, fit and sand them to match the rest of your table.
After all, you're going to be enjoying your Simply Amish table for a long, long time. And just like your waistline, your family is bound to expand.
Butterfly, drop leaf, in-table storage — you name it, and we offer it, giving you great options for expanding your table when you need extra room, and storing your leaves when you don't.
Regular Leaves: Regular leaves are additional surface sections that require additional physical storage when they're not in use.
Self-Storing Leaves: Regular leaves stored inside the table. Some leaves may not have aprons, depending on your table configuration.
Drop Leaf: Drop leaves are simply hinged leaves that hang at the side when they're not in use. Available on studio tables.
Butterfly Leaves: Butterfly leaves are physically attached to the table and manually unfold from a central storage compartment. Available on both leg and single pedestal tables. Standard on island tables.
Hardware is like jewelry for your furniture, and because everyone is different, we understand that our selection may not be your first choice. Therefore, feel free to select a different hardware from our available list.
People often ask what is the standard hardware. The default hardware for each piece is shown in the photo.
Smart Slides. Exceptional drawers require exceptional hardware. That's why our drawers feature heavy-duty slides that allow the drawer to fully extend, are fully enclosed and mounted from below — creating an unobstructed view of the solid dovetail construction.
Our SmartSlides also feature an advanced mechanism that prevents slamming by self-closing each drawer when it reaches a few inches from the cabinet.
At Simply Amish we have built our business on creating our products just the way you want them, and this applies to upholstery as well. Therefore, if you have a fabric in mind and we don't offer it — send us your fabric and we've got you covered.
All of our leg tables come standard with our heavy-duty wood slides.
On base tables, equalizing gears are added to the slides to keep the top centered over the base when adding or removing leaves.
Standard on all island tables, our sturdy built ball-bearing slides provide years of smooth reliable operation. Available on specific size tables that open in the center, ball-bearing slides will accept up to four leaves. When used on stationary bases, a unique cable system is added in place of the gears to keep the top centered.
Note: When ball-bearing slides are ordered with self-storing leaves, the leaves will not include aprons.
Ball-bearing slide option SAOBBS1, SAOBBS2, SAOBBS3, SAOBBS4. (Add options for specific sizes.)
Because we know that there is nothing worse than a table that rocks back and forth, we put leg levelers on all bases/legs of our tables, including the center support leg.
Protect your investment with our optional Rung Guards. Installed to protect the finish on the area of the barstool that takes the most abuse, the cross bar. Can be installed on any barstool that has a rectangular cross bar.
Looking to add a little character to an already unique piece of furniture? This technique brings out the unique characteristics of the wood and adds a few others to create a truly one of a kind piece of furniture. Some of the unique characteristics will include:


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Invicta Russian Diver Watch (New) for $69.99 + $5.00 shipping
Precise Swiss-quartz movement
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Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)
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this seems about the amazon price. ~$70
inflated MSRP of $575.00.. woot please.. even shopnbc doesn't have those prices: http://www.shopnbc.com/SearchM/Default.aspx?&prop=Watches|229&prop=Invicta|483&prop=Russian%20Diver|1921&Items=&Items=&Items=&Items=&CurrentPageIndex=0
Retailed on Amazon for about $110 - $120 before this was the main Woot deal about a month ago. Bought one and its a cool looking watch, but if you dont like bulky, its not for you. The cap on the end adds a massive touch too. But still an awesome conversation piece.
I've basically heard nothing but bad about Invicta. Any watch nuts out there care to enlighten the rest of us?
@jamesbottomtooth: The MSRP is the suggested price by the manufacturer. Every Invicta watch has a huge price tag in order to make the "discount" price seem better than it is. Woot doesn't decide this, Invicta does.
@hohlraum: I've got one Invicta and love it. Just don't expect to get a $600 watch. It's a fashion watch with a decent movement. Quality is exactly what you'd expect in a $70 watch.
@hohlraum: I've owned at least 6 or more Invictas. From my experience they're decent watches for the price. I have one Invicta that is over 10 years old and is STILL my go-to fancy watch after a couple battery changes. Just keep in mind, you're getting a $70 watch, not a $500 watch.
This particular deal isn't the best, but it's ok. I saw this style going for near $60 during the holidays and almost picked one up. $80 is going rate I'd say.
I've seen these watches in person and they are flat out ugly. I'm a fan of huge watches which is what drew me to it at first. But the major flaws are the cheap rubber wrist band and that ridiculous oversized end cap with chain. Another major flaw is for such a large faced watch the cap that covers the "winder" will dig into the back of your hand. I have a Nixon 51-30 that is very large and that knob isn't even half the size and it's relocated to the other side to avoid this. Unless its very useful for your diving needs you'll just look foolish wearing this.
there are also couple interesting links about these divers watches on the webs. most annoying is their typo..
It's just so hard to get excited about anything from Invicta. The MSRP is so ridiculous and "deals" for them can be found anywhere.