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Skip to comments.Lowry: For Republican McCain, the center did not hold
Posted on 11/07/2008 6:28:12 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Republicans are consoling themselves by telling anyone who will listen that we still live in a "center-right country." They're right. That's the good news. The bad news is that they've lost the center.
According to exit polls, Barack Obama won moderates by a whopping 21 points on Tuesday, 60-39 percent. That more than doubled John Kerry's nine-point margin over George W. Bush among moderates in 2004.
The ideological composition of the electorate was remarkably unchanged from 2004. The percentage of self-identified conservatives and moderates -- the center-right -- held steady. Conservatives were 34 percent of voters and moderates 44 percent, with liberals the smallest slice of the electorate at 22 percent. John McCain underperformed Bush by six points among conservatives, but getting trounced in the country's great middle doomed him.
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I think it was McCain's lack of attacks against clear targets and the mass media being in the tank for Obama.
Sounds true though, I am amazed at the people who pulled the lever for this empty suit, most because they were fed up with Bush.
Turned the middle off big time.
It sure was a good thing that we nominated a so-called 'moderate', INSTEAD OF A CONSERVATIVE,,,
because as so many said, even here, a moderate would be able to attract moderates and independents. /BPS (biggest possible sarcasm)
I Don't trust Polls, they are inherently skewed.
Some people that can't speak a lick of english or are underage may avoid them. Dead people Can't respond, neither can Cats, dogs, and inanimate objects.
I know we were robbed of some swing states. The fix was in from the start.
Oh, and just in case people that belive the exit polls think I'm paranoid. Sometimes paranoid people are right, even if by accident.
No... McCain lost the center. In fact, he lost votes from the center, the right, independents, old, young... he just flat out lost across the board. Nominating one of the most despised Republicans as the presidential candidate was extraordinarily stupid. The election was lost the day McCain got the nomination, IMO.
Doesn't sound like the PUMAs turned out in the numbers they assured us they would either.
McCain failed to attract moderates because he ran a crappy campaign and the financial crisis.
He was just too old to run. His mind was set in old dogmas and unresponsive. Just look at the debates. He attacks Obama, Obama lies to deflect. McCain doesn't point out the lie. Rinse, wash, repeat. The lack of responsiveness on the campaign trail was the same.
He should've realized he had lost and campaigned in minnesota and other states to help downticket republicans. Instead, he idiotically tried to think he could still win without money and a message that yo-yo'ed around to whatever suited his old, addled mind.
I supported the guy, but his ability to run an organization was probably the worse of any candidate since Jimmy Carter.
Bush never had a group out there responding to the nonsense. He basically thought they could not damage him, and maybe he will emerge as a great president with history (although I have my doubts), but his lack of response ruined the party. You cannot have a standard bearer at 30% approval rating. Of course, he could have vetoed a few things and pardoned some border agents that could have improved his image, but no...he signed pretty much everything they put in front of him and left the agents to rot.
Who's the most despised? Lindsey Graham? LOL.
John McCain was never liked by the masses.....he is not a conservative and has done everything to push thorns under our fingernails for the past 20 years.
Good riddance Johnny.........you suck.
By the way john.....you never gave us anything to hold onto.
Guess what? We conservatives are glad to get rid of the "center."
I want people standing next to me that I can trust with a gun. Everyone else can take a hike.
The fact that Tom DeLay is NOT the most despised says much about what is wrong with the Republican Party.
He lost because he is not a member of an opposition party, with the exception of the Iraq war.
"The election was lost the day McCain got the nomination, IMO."
I remember saying something along those lines on that horrible day.
Bush was damn lucky to win 04, since he's just not a conservative. Republicans have to stop running and governing from the middle. People get used to that and then can't tell the difference for awhile when a democrat runs in the middle.. Until he governs left, then the damage is done for awhile.
At least some tried, but McCain just torked off too many people.
"According to exit poll.."
F&*$# the poll!
I just read an article that stated the PUMA's did show up. It was too many conservatives that stayed home.
This article highlights the foolishness of letting moderates run the party. I mean, they are certainly welcome to vote Republican, but they shouldn't be setting policy. I don't know how we can purge these squishy RINOs, but purge them we must if we ever truly want to move the country to the right.
Conservatism requires belief in social conservatism, small government, and individual liberty. No one is truly conservative who demeans one of these three ideals at the expense of the others. All are required!
Show me someone who claims to be a fiscally conservative social liberal, and I'll show you someone who holds mutually exclusive views. You cannot get fiscal conservatism in a nation that rejects social conservatism. Fiscal conservatism is only possible when the citizens discipline themselves to behave in moral ways.
By the same token, big government social conservatives are on a fool's errand. Big government provides the safety net that encourages foolish and/or immoral behavior. Asking government to fix people's souls is like asking an arsonist to put out a fire.
America is a "center" country but the pendulum swings between "Center-Right" and "Center-Left".
Let's face facts. George W. Bush was the "Far Less Than Great Communicator". The man never inspired the country. He never explained to the country why it was important not to lose the Iraq War. He never bothered to even defend himself in regards to Katrina and you never heard a single word about these from the White House.
Then, we also had a Republican Congress for 6 years spending money like a drunken sailor.
So, after eight years, the 60% of the country that is to the left of us conservatives was sick and tired of "Republicans", "Conservatives" and the horse we rode in on.
Thus, the country is now "Center-Left".
If Obama keeps his promises to the Left, he will take America down the toilet and, four years from now, America will then become "Center-Right".
If Obama breaks his promises to the Left and moves to the right, as Clinton did, things might not be so bad after four years and the country will then stay "Center-Left" for the time being.
Moderates finally exposed... It now makes total sense why lord McCain operatives are plotting the destruction of Sarah. None of them can admit the one who got the nomination via the supposed moderate vote then could not get them to elect him.
And once again it will be the moderate elitist who will jut out their all knowing jaws and point their accusing finger to the Sarah conservatives for making them vote Bama.
joesbucks: "McCain tried to run to the right and cozy up to the people he has always been least comfortable with."
You'll have to back that up with some examples!
McCain hardly ran to the right. The bailout? Buying up mortgages so deadbeats can stay in their homes? Promising to push for amnesty once the border is secure (or if Congress sends him the bill without a secure border)? What's so conservative about that?
He arrived at the debate Friday night with nothing to say about the economic crisis: no position, no plan, nothing. Squat. He had made such a big deal about going, and it ended in Complete Collapse. And his campaign never recovered.
You're right! McCain's biggest constituency is the media, and even they dropped him like a hot potato!
Agreed completely! And the McCain campaign muzzled Palin. Like being in a fist fight and having the do-gooders holding your hands behind your back so you can't hit the bully back as they freely pummel you!
Yep there you go.... Now exactly what is it you despise about Tom DeLay???
I will give him some brownie points for pretty much ignoring Dobson, but did find favor with Richard Land and some others.
Unrepentant earmarker and junket-whore.
In bed with Abramoff, Norquist, and Ralph Reed.
As a lifelong Republican I hope I never see another f*ing chickensh*t Bush on the ballot.
He couldn't - his entire career was based on defusing the notion of principled conservatism - while he had a generally conservative voting record, he continually offered rhetorical cover for libs who held that conservatism needed dilution.
He was left without a strong leg to stand on, and ran his campaign in neutral, trying to simply occupy the center ground, but lacking a compelling argument for himself.
The conservative base was supposed to be energized by someone who believes in global warming, refuses to drill ANWR, believes in the outrageous big-government concept of 'cap and trade', and of course his critical involvement in McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Kennedy, the Gang of 14, closing GITMO, amnesty, opposed the Bush tax cuts (citing the class envy/class warfare theme which he later tried to ignore), refused to use the name Hussein, refused to address the Rev. Wright issue, supported the bailout, provided little 'cover' for Sarah on the attacks on her and her family,,and just to top things off--considered switching parties to the democratic side and helped to slam the SwiftBoat heroes efforts against John Kerry only a few years ago.
Yep, a lot there to be energized about. /s Yes, I voted McCain--but only because he was the lesser of two evils, and because of Sarah. Never again.
I forgot his efforts to equate Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan with the religious right several years ago.
You put it in a straight forward manner. Congrats. I gave up on him when he let the agents rot.
I stand corrected, he tried to equate Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
When you summarize it that way, I am surprised that he did not lose all 50 states. He was in my training squadron years ago (1965)...I thought he would have been better. All we know for sure is that the people of PA and Ohio need to be home schooled all over again. They have no idea what is happening. I think they should not be allowed to have football teams.
LOL. I think if everyone put together their list of top 5, you'd see a lot of the same names. ;-)
Arnie would place pretty high on my list.
Turned the middle off big time.
You are so wrong. McCain did not run to the right. He could not articulate a clear conservative vision because he doesn't believe in one and staffed up with fellow Rockefeller, country-club, RINOs who hate the base. They consider the base uncouth and ignorant (i.e., not much different than Obama in SF). The treatment of Palin shows it.
Obama ran to the right of McCain, promising tax cuts, promising to protect the 2nd amendment, ignoring abortion, claiming magic solutions to health care problems, and generally lying his bleep off. He had the biggest funding advantage since Nixon v McGovern and a press more biased than any in the history of the Republic. Obama's party's opposition was headed by the least popular president since Hoover, in part because Bush is one of the least articulate presidents since Silent Cal (with the possible exception of his father - apparently it's in the DNA). Plus, the same president oversaw the biggest growth in government since Roosevelt. A Democrat created financial crisis was successfully pinned on the Republicans who tried to prevent it and for whatever reason were unable to point that out.
I could go on and on. If Nixon won by 20 points, Obama should have won by 25 or more. He was spotted 20 and still didn't cover the spread. Obama got 52%.
A competent, cogent, articulate conservative with a loyal, professional staff would have annihilated Obama. Even McCain, if he had an Atwater or Rove would have won.
This is not a defeat of conservatives. It's another failure of the RINOs. The coming wave of socialism is a direct result of RINO policies and ineptness.
So kicking your base voters to the curb wasn't a good idea?
Who knew!
Yep. I take no ownership for the thought--it was shared by many.
LOL, Turned the middle off big time. LOL, ROFLOL, that is a good one, post such pearls often!
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Tuesday July 26, 2016
Bush Deal Coming? Vic Carucci of the Buffalo News reports that a deal with Reggie Bush could be coming soon. Reports last week said the Bills were interested in signing the veteran who is coming off an ACL injury. The team is looking to add depth at running back with the upcoming four game suspension to Karlos Williams and the DWI arrest of Jonathan Williams. Bush would become the favorite to win the punt returning job as well. NFL sources told teh Buffalo News that the two sides were working out the deal points. The source told the paper that he thinks the talks will result in a deal. The 10 year vet has played for the Saints, Dolphins, Lions, and 49ers.
Bills Add Kromer's Son: The Bills have hired Zak Kromer as an entry level coaching assistant. He is the son of OL coach Aaron Kromer. Both Kromer's were involved in the incident last summer that resulted in a six game suspension of Aaron Kromer at the beginning of last season. Both men were charged with misdemeanor battery for the incident. Zak Kromer was a student assistant the last four years with University of Oklahoma football team.
Monday July 25, 2016
Gilmore To Show Up At Camp: The contract situation of Stephon Gilmore has been a story all offseason and continues as we get set for training camp. Gilmore told ESPN's Josina Anderson that he will indeed show up for training camp. He had skipped all offseason workouts except the mandatory minicamp. It isn't a suprise that he is going to show up at camp since he would face heavy fines if he didn't. He said last week that he his done negotiating until after the season. He will play this season under the club option of $11.082 Million. Gimore left it up in the air that he would report to camp on time when he was very coy about his plans while talking to the media during last month's minicamp. Gilmore told Anderson that "I'm planning to go out to training camp. I know what I am. It'll happen eventually."
Camp Starts This Week! It's almost here, the beginnig of training camp. The rookies are do to report to St. Johns Fisher College on Wednesday while the veterans are due in on Thursday. The first practice takes place Saturday morning. They will also practice for two hours each on Sunday and Monday morning. We are back from taking some time away from the site and will have complete coverage of the Bills training camp! Our camp schedule is on the right side of the homepage.
Tuesday July 19, 2016
Individual Game Ticket Sales: The Bills have started selling individual game tickets but the supply for many games are extremely limited. The team has tier pricing with the platinum game being the most expensive and that is the home opener against the Jets on Thursday night Sept. 15th. There are four gold games against Arizona, San Francisco, New England and Pittsburgh. The Jacksonville game is a silver level game and the final two home games against Cleveland and Miami are bronze games. The two preseason games are the bottom tier.
Night Practice Ticket Distribution: The Bills announced that night practice tickets will be distributed tomorrow starting at 9am. Tickets for the Aug. 2nd night practice will be distributed at three area 7-Eleven shops, two in Rochester and one in Amherst. Four area Tops Friendly Markets will distribute tickets to the Saturday Aug. 6th night practice. The August 11th practice will have tickets distributed at three Sunoco locations. Dunn Tire will distribut tickets to the August 18th practice online and Safelite Auto Glass will distribute tickets to the August 22nd night practice at five locations.
Monday July 18, 2016
Bush To Buffalo? Jason LaCanfora and Ian Rapoport are both reporting that the Bills and Reggie Bush have mutual interest in each other. Bush missed most of last year with a torn ACL but says he's healthy now. The Bills may be looking at running back depth with the four game suspension of Karlos Williams and the DWI arrest of Jonathan Williams.
Friday July 15, 2016
Karlos Williams Suspended: It hasn't been a good couple of days for Bills running backs named Williams. A day after Jonathan Williams was arrested for DWI, Karlos Williams has been suspended for four games for violating the league's substance abuse policy. It hasn't been a good offseason for Karlos who showed up at offseason workouts grossly out of shape and now will have four more weeks to get into shape. He will be eligilbe to participate in preseason games and training camp. With possible disciplinary action for Jonathan the Bills depth at running back is getting thin quickly. The team released a stern statement that said, "As an organization, we are disappointed that Karlos has put himself in this situation. Poor decisions such as this affect not only the individual, but the entire Bills organization. We will continue to work with Karlos through the various player programs we provide to assist him in making better decisions moving forward."
Brady Drops Fight: The long national nightmare known as deflategate is now over as Tom Brady announced today on his facebook page that he is dropping his fight and will serve his four game suspension. That means it is now official that the Bills will face the Patriots on October 2nd without Tom Brady at quarterback.
Thursday July 14, 2016
Jonathan Williams Arrested: Rookie RB Jonathan Williams has been arrested for DWI according to a report by KATV. He was reportedly taken into custody early this morning.
Wednesday July 13, 2016
McCoy Cleared By League: LeSean McCoy was cleared for his involvement in a bar brawl by Philadelphia authorities earlier and now the league has finished its investigation. The league said they will not be any suspension forthcoming for McCoy.
Brady Suspension Still On: The appeals court has decided not to hear Tom Brady's case meaning his four game suspension at this point will still take place at the beginning of the season. That means he will miss the first meeting with the Bills in Foxboro week 4. His only remaining option is to ask the Supreme Court to hear it but that seems to be a longshot. Marcell Dareus for one is disappointed. He told NFL Network that he would rather face the Patriots with Brady at Quarterback.


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Chicago Bears: The Bears today signed safety Mike Green to a five-year contract.
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full season as a starter.
St. Louis Rams: Rams coach Mike Martz named Arlen Harris the starting running back for Sunday's game in San Francisco, the St. Louis Dispatch reports.
"I feel very comfortable about that, and where Arlen is right now in terms of helping this team win as a runner, and as a blocker," Martz told the paper. "He catches the ball very well. He does all those things that we would ask that position to excel at. He's a real physical runner down inside, too."
Marshall Faulk, in his second week of practice since returning from hand and knee problems, will get some work against the 49ers, but Harris will assume more of the burden in the backfield.
Also: Safety Adam Archuleta and
cornerback Travis Fisher are expected to return from injuries and
play Sunday against San Francisco, providing much-needed
reinforcements in the secondary.
"It's the right time," Fisher said Friday. "If we can have
all of our guys back, it's a plus for us."
Fisher, a second-year player who also started some as a rookie,
missed last week's victory over the Steelers with a groin injury
although he had been available for emergency duty. He was listed as
probable, although he said he was totally healthy after being
injured against the Packers two weeks ago.
Archuleta has missed two games with a sprained ankle and was
listed as questionable. He's stepped up his workload each day in
practice this week.
"I'm made a lot of improvements over the last week, so I'm
getting that confidence back," Archuleta said. "It's a
significant injury and it's natural to try and favor it, so it's
probably going to take playing on Sundays to get that out of you
and just rely on your natural abilities."
Rookie DeJuan Groce started in place of Fisher last week, while
Rich Coady has been filling in for Archuleta.
Minnesota Vikings: The Vikings activated Michael Bennett from the physically unable to perform list on
Bennett is expected to make his season debut Sunday night
against the Green Bay Packers, but coach Mike Tice said he's not
sure how much Bennett will play.
Bennett broke a bone in his left foot while running on a
treadmill in March, and he had to have a second surgery in July. He
began running again earlier this month, and rejoined the team for
practice last week.
Kickoff specialist Jose Cortez was waived on Tuesday, clearing a
roster spot for Bennett, who rushed for 1,296 yards last year and
played in the Pro Bowl.
New Orleans Saints: Veteran linebacker Darrin Smith has returned to practice after a one-day battle with vertigo. He said he expects to
play Sunday.
"I didn't know what was going on," said Smith, who showed
symptoms Tuesday afternoon. "Every time I moved my head, the room
would spin. It was constantly spinning. The doctors did some
maneuvers that helped me, and today I felt much better."
Saints head athletic trainer Scottie Patton called the condition
"benign positional vertigo."
Teammate Orlando Ruff had another diagnosis. "He's got
Pittman-itis," Ruff teased, a reference to Buccaneers running back
Michael Pittman, who leads Tampa Bay with 465 rushing yards.
Meanwhile, defensive end Darren Howard had pins removed from his
fractured right wrist and could return to practice next week.
Haslett said Howard is still three to four weeks away from playing.
Detroit Lions: The Lions signed cornerback Doug Evans on Friday to bolster their injury-depleted secondary.
Starting cornerback Dre' Bly did not practice Friday because of
a left hamstring injury and is listed as questionable for Sunday's
game against Oakland. Bly has intercepted four passes and scored
two touchdowns this season.
"He was in getting some rehab and treatment, and he's still
hoping to play," Detroit coach Steve Mariucci said.
Cornerbacks Jimmy Wyrick (chest) and Rod Babers (shoulder) are
listed as doubtful.
The Lions signed cornerback Jacoby Shepherd on Wednesday. Both
Evans and Shepherd could play for the Lions (1-6) against Oakland
(2-5) Sunday.
Detroit has lost three of its top four cornerbacks -- Chris Cash,
Andre Goodman and Chris Watson -- this season to injuries.
Seattle cut Evans three weeks ago after he was used sparingly in
two games. Evans, who has 27 interceptions in 154 games, was
drafted by Green Bay in 1993.
Otis Smith, 38, has started the last four games at cornerback
for Detroit. Smith signed with the Lions after New England cut him
during training camp.
Defensive end Robert Porcher was added to the injury report
Friday, questionable with a hip injury.
Atlanta Falcons: Amid a shakeup of the secondary, the Falcons on Friday activated cornerback
Juran Bolden from the physically-unable-to-perform list.
Bolden has not played since injuring the patella tendon in his
right knee in a playoff loss at Philadelphia last January. He
was placed on the PUP list on August 24 and returned to practice
on October 15.
Under terms of the PUP rule, the Falcons had three weeks to
decide whether to put Bolden on the roster, release him, or put
him on injured reserve.
Bolden, 29, will immediately move in as a starter because Falcons
coach Dan Reeves has benched his entire secondary - cornerbacks
Ray Buchanan and Tyrone Williams and safeties Keion Carpenter
and Gerald McBurrows - for Sunday's game against the
Philadelphia Eagles. Atlanta ranks last in the NFL in pass
defense, yielding 266.9 yards per game.
A physical corner at 6-2, 207 pounds, Bolden started six games
last season and tied Carpenter for the team lead with four
Houston Texans: Texans quarterback David Carr probably will miss Sunday's game against the Panthers with an injured right ankle -- even if the team's other two QBs are knocked out.
"David did more light jogging. You can see his ankle has
improved," coach Dom Capers said after practice Friday. "I would
say we probably would not have him be the third quarterback on
Veteran Tony Banks will start Sunday in place of Carr, who was
hurt last weekend at Indianapolis. Rookie Dave Ragone, who never
has taken an NFL snap, will be his backup.
If Banks and Ragone are sidelined, Capers would turn to wide
receiver Jabar Gaffney, who put in a little practice this week
taking snaps. Gaffney played some quarterback in high school and is
1-of-2 for 39 yards and a touchdown on two trick plays with the
Also, defensive end Gary Walker (injured toe) was ruled out of
Sunday's game, and right outside linebacker Charlie Clemons (left
ankle) most likely won't play.
Seattle Seahawks: Seattle defensive end Lamar King, a
former first-round draft pick who hasn't played in almost a year,
was activated by the Seahawks on Friday.
He is expected to play Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
King, on the physically-unable-to-perform list this season, has
not played since last Dec. 1. He had offseason surgery to repair a
microfracture in his right knee.
"I feel real good," King said. "This is the best I've felt so
far this year, and I just look forward to going out and trying to
get a victory."
To make room for King on the roster, the Seahawks placed tight
end Ryan Hannam on injured reserve, ending his season. Hannam will
undergo surgery after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his
right knee against Chicago on Oct. 19.
Hannam, 23, played in five games this season before his injury.
His only career reception was a 16-yard touchdown catch against
Arizona last season.
Although King will make his season debut Sunday, he is not
expected to start. King, the 22nd overall pick in the 1999 draft,
has been plagued by injuries his entire five-year career.
"It's been real tough," he said. "When you can't participate
with your teammates, it's kind of hard. But you have to just put it
behind you and move forward."
Denver Broncos:Tight end Shannon Sharpe sat out today's
practice with a sprained ankle.
Sharpe's was the latest in a series of injuries that have
plagued the Broncos.
Sharpe was listed as probable for Monday night's game against
New England. He was one of 12 Broncos on the injury report.
Coach Mike Shanahan says Sharpe skipped practice mostly as a
precaution. Bad weather forced the Broncos to practice indoors for
the second straight day. Artificial turf tends to be rougher on leg
injuries than grass.
Shanahan says he expects Sharpe to practice at Invesco Field on
Saturday night.
Quarterback Jake Plummer, offensive tackle Ephraim Salaam and
linebacker John Mobley are listed as out this week.
Wide receivers Ed McCaffrey and Chris Cole are listed as
San Francisco 49ers: Defensive end Andre Carter is
expected to miss the Niners' game against St. Louis on
Sunday with a bulging disk in his back.
Carter, the 49ers' first-round pick in 2001, leads the team with
3½ sacks this season despite a constantly sore back. He missed
practice Thursday because of the injury, and coach Dennis Erickson
doesn't expect him to play.
"I think he'll miss this game and the bye (next weekend), and I
think he'll be able to go after that, knowing him," Erickson said.
John Engelberger will move from left end to right end, and Chidi
Ahanotu will move into the starting lineup.
The 49ers also will be without quarterback Jeff Garcia, who will
rest his sprained left ankle.
San Diego Chargers: Chargers owner Alex Spanos is
donating $1 million to the San Diego Fire Relief Fund.
The Chargers collected more than $225,000 dollars at their
game Monday night against Miami.
The game was moved to Tempe, Ariz., because of the Southern
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The Board of Trustees meet quarterly to agree strategy and provide overall governance and leadership for Age NI, based on a shared vision, mission and values, ensuring the charity fulfils its financial and legal responsibilities and promotes best practice.
Eileen was appointed Chair of Age NI in December 2013 and has been an Age NI Trustee since 2009. Eileen is also a Director of Age NI Trading Ltd.
Eileen also holds Non-Executive Director roles within the third and public sectors: Big Lottery Fund NI, Health and Care Professions Council and the Agriculture and Wages Board.
Eileen runs her own governance business, Strictly Boardroom and is a consultant and trainer on best practice and public sector governance, board assurance and developing resilient organisations. She has an MSc in Management and Corporate Governance and an IoD Diploma in Company Direction.
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Roisin is the Vice-Chair of Age NI and has been an Age NI Trustee since 2009. Roisin is also Chair of the Nominations & Remunerations committee, a sub-committee of Age NI.
Roisin retired in 2007 following a long career in Health and Social Services, as Director of Elderly and Primary Care and within the last year of her career was the Acting Chief Executive of the Craigavon and Banbridge Community Trust.
Roisin's experience included managing extensive primary care and elderly care services in the community at the most senior level, also engaging with other public, private and not for profit organisations and brings this wealth of experience to Age NI.
Steven is the Treasurer of Age NI and has been an Age NI Trustee since 2009. He is also the Chair of the Finance & Resources committee, a sub-committee of Age NI.
Steven is Managing Partner of Moore Stephens, Chartered Accountants. He is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland and also the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors.
Steven is a council member of Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and has also worked at a senior level in Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland.
Carolyn has been an Age NI Trustee since 2010. Carolyn is Chair and Director of Age NI Enterprises Ltd (Commercial subsidiary of Age NI) and a member of the Nominations & Remunerations committee.
Carolyn was formerly the Chair of Consultative Forum for 3 years (a group which works collaboratively with, and in support of Age NI and its purpose is to identify the needs and concerns of older people and communicate these to Age NI).
Carolyn served 22 years as an Officer in the Army until 1995 and then became Regional Welfare Officer in Ireland for Combat Stress / The Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society. She retired in 2010.
Carolyn is a member of the Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee. She is a volunteer with Home Start and Voices 4 Care, The All Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative Care, as well as being Chair of the Community Core Mission Team in her church. She was a member of Newtownabbey District Policing Partnership for 2 ½ years and 6 years on the Liaison Advisory Panel of Newtownabbey Senior Citizens Forum.
Robert has been an Age NI Trustee since 2010 and was formerly the Vice-Chair of Consultative Forum. He is a Director of Age NI Enterprises Ltd and of Age NI Trading Ltd.
Robert retired in 2006 having worked 15 years as a police officer, partly spent in Canada, returning home to Northern Ireland in 1977 where he spent 30 years as a local business owner and employer in the food and retail sector.
He served for three years as president of Kilkeel Chamber of Commerce and was the founder member of Kilkeel RNLI lifeboat station, where he served as Honorary Secretary for nine years. He is involved with various age sector committees seeking to enhance and improve the lives of older people.
Steve has been an Age NI Trustee since 2011. He is Chair of the Audit & Risk committee and a member of the Nominations & Remunerations committee.
Steve is a retired Senior Civil Servant and previously Director of HR & Organisational Change in the Department of the Environment (DOE). He was a founder Director of the UK's Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and member of its national Board for 6 years. Steve is a Chartered Secretary (FCIS) with extensive governance and audit experience. He was formerly the CEO of the Centre for Applied Learning which he established in 2006 to provide training to all NI Government Departments. In 2009-10 he completed a Fulbright Fellowship in the United States with a focus on sickness absence.
Alan was appointed an Age NI Trustee in 2015 and is a member of the Finance & Resources committee.
Alan is the STEM & Economic Adviser to Colleges Northern Ireland and represents the further education sector on a variety of industry and government bodies. Previous positions include Head of Research and Development with Bombardier Aerospace; Manager of the QUB Aerospace Centre of Excellence, Senior Development Engineer with the Outboard Marine Corporation, Chicago; and Production Control Manager with GEC Turbines.
Alan has also been a member of MATRIX, the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, since its inception in 2007. He also sits on Minister Farry's working groups on Advanced Manufacture and Agri-Food, and is a Board Member of the Northern Ireland Science Festival.
Ken was appointed an Age NI Trustee in 2015 and is a Director of Age NI Enterprises Ltd.
Ken is an accountant and for over 40 years worked within the media sector, including the role of Finance Director with Belfast Telegraph Newspapers. He has a degree in Economics from Queens University and an MBA from the University of Ulster.
In 2010 Ken moved to the voluntary sector and has held various finance roles with Young Enterprise Northern Ireland, RNIB and the Red Cross. He is also a Pension Trustee of a large UK defined benefit pension fund.
Trevor was appointed an Age NI Trustee in 2015 and is a member of the Finance & Resources committee.
Trevor is a qualified accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree in Accounting and Business Studies. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He recently retired as Finance Director of Fold Housing Association where, in a career spanning over 30 years, he was responsible for providing a full range of financial and IT services.
Trevor has particular expertise in strategic management, financial planning, risk management and internal control, financial reporting, treasury management, telecare services and voluntary sector accounting.
Donald was appointed an Age NI Trustee in 2015 and is a member of the Audit & Risk committee.
Donald is a former senior manager in the public sector and was previously a Councillor in Craigavon Borough Council. He holds a MA in Human Resource Management and MSc in Environmental Health Protection & Safety.
Donald currently holds two public appointments as well as being an independent panel member of the Victims and Survivors Service and independent assessor for the Commissioner of Public Appointments in Northern Ireland. He is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee for the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland and was recently appointed to the Board of the Community Relations Council.
Una was appointed an Age NI Trustee in 2015 and is Vice-Chair of the Audit & Risk committee.
Una recently retired from her position as Co-Director of Older People's Services at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. A Social Worker by profession, she has experience in the provision and management of services to older people and those with a physical disability including financial and human resource management, commissioning and contracting, as well as social care governance and performance management.
Una is a Trustee on the Board of Extra Care NI, a voluntary domiciliary care organisation. She is also Honorary Secretary on the Board of the Belfast Charitable Society (Clifton House), a voluntary Residential Care Home and Heritage Centre.
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Afterword by Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Take control of who you are. Take control of your life. Achieve lasting success.
"The ability to define your identity and path in life is critical for personal and professional development. Stedman's actionable, inspirational process for individuals to find who they are puts the power in their hands to move toward achieving their goals. The skills he teaches are invaluable to those who have learned them, and his books are at the top of my recommended reading list for the future leaders of our company."
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Do you want to be happy? Do you want to succeed? Happiness and success start with becoming clear about who you are and establishing your authentic identity--inside yourself, and then beyond yourself.
First: Discover what personal identity really is, and why it's so important.
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Stedman Graham is Chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management, marketing, and consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Graham speaks, conducts seminars, and develops programs for businesses and educational organizations worldwide. He is the author of ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen--A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen--Nine Steps to Success , which illustrate his proprietary Nine-Step Success Process, a life management and learning system that teaches you how to organize your personal and professional life around your identity.
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House Republicans have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with them whenever he's in Washington.
The invitation sent Wednesday evening by the 165-member Republican Study Committee (RSC) comes after reports that President Obama will not meet with Netanyahu when both leaders are in New York for the opening of the United Nations' 67th session next week.
Israeli officials told Reuters that Netanyahu had asked for a one-on-one meeting with Obama to talk about Iran's nuclear weapons program, only to be rebuffed by the White House, which said the schedules of the two leaders wouldn't overlap.
"We would be honored if you would meet with RSC leaders during any forthcoming visit to Washington, D.C., to discuss issues of mutual concern and priorities for our two nations," wrote RSC Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Both parties are trying to boost their credentials as friends of Israel ahead of the November election. The new letter comes after 128 House Republicans — including Jordan — signed onto a letter last week urging Obama to meet with Netanyahu.
Relations between Netanyahu and the Obama administration have worsened in recent weeks as the Israeli leader has been warning that Iran is close to being able to produce a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu over the weekend urged the White House to issue red lines that Iran won't be allowed to cross.


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Place: Gouveia Vineyards
Time: 1 PM
Food: Pot-luck
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All beverages should be purchased at the vineyard.
Please bring blankets/lawn chairs/etc to accommodate CTRWA members and guests. They don't pre-reserve tables, so be sure to get there in a timely manner. The website is here: http://gouveiavineyards.com
CTRWA is a division of Romance Writers of America.
Established 1981
Unless otherwise specified, all CTRWA meetings consist of the following:
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11:00: Business Meeting/Craft Corner
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August 13
Jamie K. Schmidt presents her workshop:
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British Awards Honor Year's Best Jokes
A British magazine sponsored the LAFTA awards. Here's the joke of the year from comedian Tom Vine: Conjunctivitis.com — that's a site for sore eyes.
Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep with some British humor. A magazine sponsored the LAFTA Awards, honoring the year's best jokes. What's the British sense of humor? Glad you asked. Consider this line from Matt Kirshen: I was playing chess with my friend and he said let's make this more interesting, so we stopped playing chess. And then there is the joke of the year at the LAFTA Awards from comedian Tim Vine, who said conjunctivitis.com, now there's a site for sore eyes. You're listening to MORNING EDITION.
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Want to inspire the next generation of leaders?
The Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching will equip you with the skill and confidence to teach specialised content in a dynamic and interesting way. Watch this video and find out why Paul Stevens chose AUT to get career ready.
Want to teach your favourite secondary school subjects to a new generation of New Zealanders, and embark on a career that will inspire and make a difference to young people's lives? The Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching will give you practical techniques based on sound research to teach your curriculum subject(s) in secondary schools. This is a professional qualification with strong emphasis on practical experience and applied learning.
- Develop confidence in public speaking and establish your own teaching pedagogy.
- Significant classroom experience with half of the programme based in secondary schools.
- Staff with extensive experience in the secondary sector and in teacher education.
Programme code: AK3515
Level: 7
Points: 120
Duration: 1 year full-time
Venues: North and South Campus
Start date: 27 February 2017 (North) / 17 July 2017 (South)
Entry requirements
- A bachelor's degree in a subject considered relevant for teaching in a New Zealand secondary schools (see Teaching Subjects below).
- All applicants must ensure they meet the Education Council requirements for English Language Competency prior to admission to the programme. The IELTS test score (academic version) required is 7.0 (or above) in all bands.
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Diamond will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
In 2002, Diamond was ranked third on the list of the most successful adult contemporary artists in the history of the Billboard chart. He was behind only Elton John and Barbra Streisand.
Diamond is ranked #47 on Forbes Top 100 Celebrities.
Diamond sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XXI in 1987.
Diamond moved to Los Angeles, California in 1970 and he signed with MCA records.
Diamond spent his early career as a writer in the Brill Building.
Diamond has been singing since 1960 and still has a large following today.
Diamond attended New York University on a Fencing Scholarship.
Diamond holds the record for paying out the most money in a divorce, when he divorced Marcia Murphey by paying 150,000,000.00.
Diamond's role in The Jazz Singer won him the The Worst Actor in the Razzie Awards.
Diamond wrote songs for other groups such as the Monkees.
Diamond soundtrack for the movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull grossed more then the movie did itself.
Diamond studied Pre-Med at NYU until he dropped out a year before he was to graduate because of his dislike for Organic Chemistry.
You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore was not the first time Diamond sang with legend Barbara Streisand. They sang in the choir together while they were students together at New York City's Eraasmus High School.
Diamond had considered seriously the name of Eyce Charry for his professional name.
Diamond remarried on December 14, 1969 to Marcia Murphey and they divorced in 1995 they also had 2 children, Jesse Michael and Micah.
Diamond married Jaye Posner on November 25, 1963 and they got divorced in 1969. He had 2 children by her. There names are Marjorie and Elyn.
Diamond is 5'9"
Diamond was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 24, 1948. His birthname was Noah Kaminsky.
Neil Diamond (On his performances and his voice): My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
Neil Diamond: Neil Diamond impersonators will be much in demand at bar mitzvahs
Neil Diamond: I'd heard of Rick for a number of years, ... He's kind of a pioneer in the music business, and he's produced so many different types of music and artists that you can't help but know about him. And you wonder, 'What the heck is this guy going to do next?' without realizing that you were what he was going to do next! I found out quickly I was comfortable with him and liked what his ideas were. It was a no-brainer: Let's give it a try and have fun . . . and tell me where to stand
Neil Diamond: We are happy to become the first to play in this beautiful building. I know it will be the first of many (shows). We hope you remember us and that we played here first."
Neil Diamond: The recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing it. The songs have to come first and inspire everything else. If Rick did anything for me, he did that. He brought my focus back to the songs and made me feel comfortable about not worrying about how the recording of that particular song would be.
Neil Diamond: I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I wanted to do them. I wasn't looking aggressively for someone to come in and give me some new and fresh perspectives on my stuff. I was pretty happy with it and perfectly willing to continue as long as I could on that path
Neil Diamond: It was a new experience for both of us, ... Normally, I don't let a producer hear a song until I'm ready to record it. But Rick heard them from the beginning, sometimes when I just had a melody and some dummy lyrics.
Neil Diamond: The hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its own reason for being.
Neil Diamond: I stayed away from it for years, thinking that there were many, many better guitar players than I and that I should stick to what I do best, the writing and singing, ... Rick didn't want to budge, and we argued about it almost every day in the studio. I played on every track, which means I lost every battle
Neil Diamond: I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference between this album and my first or second album is I think the lyrics now go to places I could never go to then
Neil Diamond: I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing
Neil Diamond: We're happy that you're here and that you remember us, ... Remember Me
Neil Diamond: It is a little strange, I have to admit it, seeing someone up there trying to be you. A little weird but also fun. God bless them all, I hope they do great
Neil Diamond: That's show business
Neil Diamond: He kinda forced me to play [acoustic] guitar, which I did not want to do, and we argued about it almost every single day
Neil Diamond: Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to have me write songs that Rick felt were right for me
Neil Diamond: He was a rap producer, and then he was producing rock with some alternative bands. I just didn't understand how I fit into that thing. But Bob Dylan's manager, who I know, called me and said, 'I know Rick very well. You should talk to him. He has no agenda. He just loves your stuff.
Neil Diamond: It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier
Neil Diamond: Be as a page that aches for a word/ Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
Neil Diamond: All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including weekends
Neil Diamond: Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming to America Got a dream to take them there They're coming to America Got a dream they come to share They're coming to America They're coming to America
Neil Diamond: I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part
Neil Diamond: You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end."
Neil Diamond: You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
Neil Diamond: When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
Neil Diamond: When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
Neil Diamond: Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
Neil Diamond: Well, it would be foolish of me to assume that the only music that I can be moved by and affected by is my own music, there are many songs that I love and can touch me and move me and thats really the only yardstick I use to determine wether I'll record an outside song or not.
Neil Diamond: Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
Neil Diamond: Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.
Neil Diamond: We stayed in Wyoming for about two years and that was a great experience.
Neil Diamond: We moved around quite a bit, I went to a number of schools, its not the best kind of a life for a kid but I survived it somehow.
Neil Diamond: Very often the music comes first.
Neil Diamond: This is the title song to the album Stones and I guess if I had to sum up Stones I'd call it a desperate love song.
Neil Diamond: There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
Neil Diamond: The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
Neil Diamond: The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
Neil Diamond: Stones has meant to me the things that hurt people, things that cause people pain.
Neil Diamond: Songwritng is what I do.
Neil Diamond: Songwriting is the only real discipline I've had in my whole life-thats why I hate it so much; I dont like imposing that kind of discipline on myself, but it has to be.
Neil Diamond: Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
Neil Diamond: Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.
Neil Diamond: Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil Diamond: Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
Neil Diamond: Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond: One of the thins I've been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet - the movements, music and staging would seem to go naturally together.
Neil Diamond: Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
Neil Diamond: Matter of fact, I dropped him a little note after I finished recording it with a copy of an acetate and he sent back that this was his favorite version of the song and I think its my favorite outside song on the album, its called I Think Its Going to Rain Today and it leaves me with goosebumps.
Neil Diamond: Its really that simple, I just want to write music and record, if people still come to see me in performance, I'd like that to be special also.
Neil Diamond: It wasn't an easy one, but I don't know if very many people do have easy lives.
Neil Diamond: I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
Neil Diamond: I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
Neil Diamond: I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Neil Diamond: I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
Neil Diamond: I'm really interested in the work.
Neil Diamond: I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.
Neil Diamond: I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
Neil Diamond: I think that if I have one hope, one ambition, one aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
Neil Diamond: I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
Neil Diamond: I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
Neil Diamond: I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
Neil Diamond: I had always held everything in before.
Neil Diamond: I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
Neil Diamond: I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
Neil Diamond: I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.
Neil Diamond: I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
Neil Diamond: I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
Neil Diamond: Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
Neil Diamond: Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond: Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
Neil Diamond: Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Neil Diamond: After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself.
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Performing in The Nutcracker provides the sisters the opportunity to be a part of a large scale, professional production that brings in tens of thousands of observers annually. Most exciting for the girls is the chance to dance directly alongside the professional dancers from the Milwaukee Ballet Company- a magical and once in a lifetime opportunity for ballerinas their age.
Despite having different parts, Sydney, 10, helped Karley, 7, prepare for the difficult audition process, and now, the rehearsal and performance aspect of the show. This is Sydney's fourth consecutive year being cast in the holiday classic and she looks forward to watching her younger sister experience it for the first time.
Dance isn't the only thing the girls dedicate their time to. They are also active in soccer, swim, Student Council, as well as play the piano and violin. They are the daughters of proud parents Tim and Dana Farber.
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