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As part of our continuing effort to honor Doug Pappas' work, I am pleased to present the summary of marginal dollars per marginal win in 2004.
A year ago, Doug presented 2003 data, then presented historical information in both Baseball Prospectus 2004 and in a series on this site. The formulas for marginal wins and marginal payroll, first presented in The Numbers, Part Four, are as follows:
Marginal wins = ((winning percentage - .300) x 162) Marginal payroll = (Opening Day payroll - (28 x $300,000))
In past years, the average marginal dollars per marginal win has reached approximately two million dollars. This year is no exception, as the average was about $1,855,682.
Following the rules of the East Coast Media Bias, we'll start with the AL East:
Marginal Opening Day Marginal Marginal $/ Team Win% Wins Payroll Payroll Marginal Win NYY .623 52.4 $182,835,513 $174,435,513 $3,328,922 BOS .605 49.4 $125,208,542 $116,808,542 $2,364,545 BAL .481 29.4 $ 51,212,653 $ 42,812,653 $1,456,213 TB .435 21.8 $ 29,506,667 $ 21,106,667 $ 966,653 TOR .416 18.8 $ 50,017,000 $ 41,617,000 $2,211,770 Average $2,308,864
One of the important aspects of any discussion about baseball and money is the state of the New York Yankees' payroll. A few significant things happened this year, with respect to the Yankees, to make their marginal payroll higher than any other team's total payroll and their marginal dollars per marginal win the highest of any playoff team (third in the AL, and highest in the AL East). The Orioles usually throw their money around more than the Yankees do, but after a few World Series losses, perhaps George Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman–which is, by the way, a great name for someone who works with George to have–made too many signings, or should have allocated funds more efficiently. This leaves fans and analysts, including many of us here at Baseball Prospectus, wondering what lays ahead for the Bronx Bombers this off-season.
Other notable stories in the AL East include the Devil Rays staying below the million-dollar mark (remember that lower numbers are more efficient). They were one of just four teams in the majors to do so. The Orioles managed to lower their marginal dollars per win as well, dropping below the two-million mark. Most of this seems to be due to halving their marginal payroll from $88 million in 2003 to $42 million this year, although they did improve their marginal win total. The Blue Jays suffered several injuries, most notably to Carlos Delgado and Roy Halladay, that sent their figure to over two million dollars per marginal win. Finally, the Red Sox moved up over the two-million mark, but there haven't been any complaints coming out of Boston yet.
Marginal Opening Day Marginal Marginal $/ Team Win% Wins Payroll Payroll Marginal Win MIN .568 43.4 $ 53,858,000 $ 45,185,000 $1,041,129 CWS .512 34.4 $ 65,212,500 $ 56,812,500 $1,651,526 CLE .494 31.4 $ 34,569,300 $ 26,169,300 $ 833,417 DET .444 23.4 $ 46,353,554 $ 37,953,554 $1,621,947 KC .358 9.4 $ 47,609,000 $ 39,209,000 $4,171,170 Average $1,445,981
The first thing you should notice is that this is the most homogenous of the divisions, with the lowest variance among Opening Day payrolls. This makes it a relatively good example for comparative purposes. The Indians got the most bang for their buck, but not quite enough bang overall, as they still fell short of the playoffs. The Twins are still one of the more efficient teams, spending around a million dollars per marginal win and making the playoffs for the third year in a row. On the flip side of this are the Royals, who paid more than four million dollars per marginal win, second highest in the American League, and finished with the worst record in the circuit.
Marginal Opening Day Marginal Marginal $/ Team Win% Wins Payroll Payroll Marginal Win ANA .568 43.4 $101,084,667 $ 92,684,667 $2,135,591 OAK .562 42.4 $ 59,825,167 $ 51,425,167 $1,212,858 TEX .549 40.4 $ 54,825,973 $ 46,425,973 $1,149,158 SEA .389 14.4 $ 81,543,833 $ 73,143,833 $5,079,433 Average $1,875,389
My heart goes out to my fellow Mariners fans, as nobody in the AL spent more money for each marginal win than they did. Only the Diamondbacks spent more in all of MLB, and then only because the D'backs have just 1.7 marginal wins. With Bret Boone, John Olerud, Jamie Moyer, Freddy Garcia and Ichiro Suzuki all making more than $5 million this year, and ten other players raking in between two and five million per season, the Mariners had just eight players making a million or less. That's fewer bargains than the Yankees with nine, or the Red Sox with 11, despite an overall payroll $100 million less than that of the Yankees and $45 million less than that of the Red Sox.
Nine months after the fact, there's no shortage of opinions about the trade of Alex Rodriguez, but one thing is certain: it helped lower the Rangers' payroll, contributing to a total savings of about $50 million as compared to last year. The Rangers allocated their remaining payroll relatively well, staying near the one million mark, all the while weighed down by the contracts of Chan Ho Park and Rusty Greer. The A's continued to spend wisely as well, just above the one-million mark. This spending, however, continued a trend in the Oakland data, which has shown an increase in the dollars per marginal win every year since 2001. Finally, the Angels managed to allocate their $100 million payroll relatively well, getting a win for every two million dollars spent. After off-season signings that included paying Bartolo Colon and Vladimir Guerrero $11 million each this year, one might expect this number to be even higher.
Marginal Opening Day Marginal Marginal $/ Team Win% Wins Payroll Payroll Marginal Win ATL .593 47.4 $ 88,507,788 $ 80,107,788 $ 1,690,038 PHI .531 37.4 $ 93,219,167 $ 84,819,167 $ 2,267,892 FLA .512 34.4 $ 42,118,042 $ 33,718,042 $ 980,176 NYM .438 22.4 $100,629,303 $ 92,229,303 $ 4,117,380 MON .414 18.4 $ 43,197,500 $ 34,797,500 $ 1,891,168 Average $ 2,035,449
The Mets are getting a little bit more efficient, after having the second-highest opening payroll and fourth-worst record last year. They still top this division and are second in the NL to the Diamondbacks. Without Mo Vaughn on their payroll, making almost $18 million, the Mets would have had marginal dollars per win around $3.35 million.
The Braves continue their well-chronicled run, throughout which they've been efficient spenders, staying under one million dollars per marginal win until 1999, then hovering around or below league average every year since. The Marlins also continue to do well on a tight budget, paying about one million dollars for marginal win every year since 1998, when they paid more five million dollars per marginal win in their fire-sale season.
The Phillies and Expos both stayed around the two-million mark, with the Phillies spending more overall and in the marginal sense, for relatively obvious reasons. Comparing the Expos to the Marlins, whose payroll is quite similar, we can see that the Marlins spent less and got twice as much bang for their buck. Expos management was lauded for making the best of a horrible situation, even as investing six million in Orlando Cabrera's first negative VORP season, a performance below his 25th percentile PECOTA projection, didn't help things much.
Marginal Opening Day Marginal Marginal $/ Team Win% Wins Payroll Payroll Marginal Win STL .648 56.4 $ 75,633,517 $ 67,233,517 $ 1,192,084 HOU .568 43.4 $ 74,666,303 $ 66,266,303 $ 1,526,873 CHC .549 40.4 $ 91,101,667 $ 82,701,667 $ 2,047,071 CIN .469 27.4 $ 43,067,858 $ 34,667,858 $ 1,265,250 PIT .447 23.8 $ 32,227,929 $ 23,827,929 $ 999,192 MIL .416 18.8 $ 27,518,500 $ 19,118,500 $ 1,016,069 Average $ 1,397,370
The big story this year was the St. Louis Cardinals. With a payroll on par with the major-league average (about $70 million this year), they won nearly 65% of their games. They got plenty of mileage out of their money, with just over one million dollars per marginal win. The most interesting thing about this division is that, save for the placing of the Cubs–which probably should have been higher–the division standings are sorted descending by payroll.
The Cubs had all the pieces, including several pitchers with solid performances, and enough hitters to fill a lineup. Perhaps their failure to meet up with their projections, either PECOTA or otherwise is a good place to start a managerial study. After all, there's no candidate like Dusty Baker for the start of a groundbreaking study, right?
Additionally, there are two well-defined types of teams in the NL Central. The three teams with higher payrolls all have similar payroll distribution, paying a few superstars in the mid- or low teens, having a few more players making $3 million to $9 million, and then having a large group of players under $1 million. The three teams with low payrolls have all their salaries under $10 million for this year, with a small group of players making a million or more, and then a large group of players being paid less than one million for this year.
Marginal Opening Day Marginal Marginal $/ Team Win% Wins Payroll Payroll Marginal Win LA .574 44.4 $ 89,694,342 $ 81,294,342 $ 1,830,954 SF .562 42.4 $ 82,019,167 $ 73,619,167 $ 1,736,301 SD .537 38.4 $ 54,639,503 $ 46,239,503 $ 1,204,154 COL .420 19.4 $ 64,590,403 $ 56,190,403 $ 2,896,413 ARI .315 2.4 $ 70,204,984 $ 61,804,984 $25,752,077 Average $ 2,171,078 Average (without ARI) $ 1,766,263
Last year, the Detroit Tigers had an infinite number of marginal dollars per marginal win because the denominator was actually negative–they lost more games than Doug's theoretical replacement level team. This year, the Diamondbacks won enough to have a positive number of marginal wins, but it is so low–less than two marginal wins–that the quotient ends up being astronomical. Why is it so large? Their payroll is on par with the rest of the division, right around league average, but they lost a whopping 111 games. They got good return out of their big ticket item, Randy Johnson, but their next highest paid guys, Richie Sexson and Luis Gonzalez, missed sizeable chunks of time due to injury. They also paid about $20 million to Matt Mantei, Danny Bautista, Elmer Dessens, Greg Colbrunn, Carlos Baerga and Shane Reynolds so that they could collectively cost the team 6.7 runs of VORP.
The rest of the division is relatively homogenous. There is some variance in the payrolls, and as a whole the division provides a good example of correlation between marginal dollars per marginal win and success in the standings. The three teams near the top were all relatively efficient, paying less than two million dollars per marginal win. The Rockies still haven't found a way to win consistently, and spending almost three million dollars per marginal win isn't a good place to start. The Padres are an interesting example of a team with a lower payroll managing to make the most of their money. They spent money wisely, paying just over one million dollars per marginal win, and managed to keep pace with the Dodgers and Giants as a result.
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1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2003
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 24/01/2003
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Of the 7.2 million households in Australia in 1999-2000, 71% were living in their own home, and 26% were renting their dwelling from a private landlord or a state or territory housing authority (table 8.6).
Around 90% of owners lived in separate houses in 1999-2000. Of renter households, 53% lived in separate houses and 26% lived in flats, units or apartments.
Over one-third of households (34%) that owned their own home outright were couples with no children. One-parent households accounted for 6% of outright owners, and lone-person households made up 27% (based on table 8.7).
For couple households with dependent children only, the majority (79%) were owners, while 20% were renting. Of one-parent families, 49% were home owners, 30% were renting from a private landlord and 17% were renting from a state or territory housing authority.
Tenure patterns vary across states and territories. Victoria had the highest proportion of overall home ownership, with 76% of dwellings either being purchased or owned outright (table 8.8). The lowest proportion of overall home ownership (56%) was in the Northern Territory. The Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and Western Australia had the highest proportion of households still purchasing their home (42%, 38% and 38% respectively), reflecting their younger populations.
The Northern Territory had the highest proportion of renters at 40%. This was considerably higher than the national rate of 27%. The proportion of households renting from private landlords ranged from 17% in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania to 25% in Queensland.
The differences in tenure partly reflect differences in the age and life structures across states and territories (see the section Housing and lifestyle).

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Eccentricity and wildness
My wife and I once drove from Montana to Seattle for a wedding at a farm that hosts such ceremonies. En route, we found a good place to change into our fancy clothes -- a thicket alongside the Snohomish River. OK, we're a little eccentric. But at the river, we met a guy who was even more eccentric. He pulled off the country road, stripped down to swim trunks, donned fins and a snorkeling mask, waded into the river and swam slowly back and forth.
Come to find out, he'd adopted that stretch of the Snohomish, regularly cleaning up the old fishing lines, hooks and other trash that collects on the river bottom. He turned out to be an HCN subscriber, which wasn't too surprising. We regularly run into subscribers while hanging out in various obscure thickets around the West.
The guy -- whose name escapes me because I didn't write it down, and if I don't write names down, they tend to vanish -- described a vivid scene that I'll never forget. During the yearly salmon migration, he would snorkel downriver as thousands of salmon swam up from the ocean. Crowds of the huge, prehistoric-looking fish would loom before his face, seemingly aiming for a head-on collision, and at the last second, the salmon would veer right and left, allowing him to pass through their ranks. He would swim a mile or more amid the salmon. Whoa.
Working with writer Eddie Dobb on his cover-story essay for this issue of HCN, I learned that there's a term for this activity: Open-water swimming. Open-water swimmers do their thing in many wonderful ways. They do endurance swims on challenging stretches, including the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, the Amazon River, the English Channel, the Bering Strait and Antarctic waters. They compete in races in seas, lakes and rivers. They include scientists researching marine life, tourists who pay $119 for guided "snorkeling among salmon" in Western Canada's Campbell River, and Mark Powell, who's blogging about "underwater touring" around Washington's Bainbridge Island.
Dobb's essay captures the essence of open-water swimming: not its competitive angles, but the unmatched intimacy with the wild that it offers. Between the lines, he's also writing about the need to preserve wild waters and landscapes.
It's unusual for High Country News to have a deeply personal sea-level essay on our cover. But over time we've expanded our coverage from the Intermountain West to the Pacific Coast, while enhancing our mix of news and analysis with other forms of excellent writing. At times, we've considered changing our name to reflect our expanded focus. But we've been High Country News for 40 years now and, as noted in the opening paragraph, some of us have trouble learning new names. Besides, the "high country" encompasses so much more than just geography. So we'll stick with our name, regardless of the map. We figure it's another aspect of our collective eccentricity.


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The Wild, which advanced to the second round of the playoffs this season because of a solid corps and promising young talent, will continue to grow with the youngest coach in the NHL.
Mike Yeo, 40, agreed to a three-year contract extension Saturday that is believed to total close to $3 million.
"Very well-deserved," first-line left wing Zach Parise, who led the Wild in playoff scoring, said during a phone interview. "I think he did a really good job — [the entire coaching staff] all did a really good job — down the stretch for us, especially in the playoffs. I mean, we were really prepared. We knew exactly what to expect. We exploited weaknesses. It's a big chess game, the playoffs. I think they did a really good job making adjustments on the fly. It was real impressive."
The Wild will hold a news conference Thursday because Yeo, General Manager Chuck Fletcher, assistant GM Brent Flahr and a few other team executives traveled to Exuma, Bahamas, on Saturday for budget meetings at owner Craig Leipold's getaway.
This is the precursor to organizational meetings that will commence June 9. That's when the coaches, front office and pro scouts meet to evaluate the past season and prepare for next season.
"I am very excited to continue to coach the Minnesota Wild and pursue a Stanley Cup for the State of Hockey," Yeo said in a news release. "Our fan support has been amazing and it went to a new level during the playoffs. We are all motivated to reward them."
Yeo is 104-82-26 in three years with the Wild. This season, the Wild amassed 98 points, tied for the second-most in team history, and advanced past the first round for the second time in team history.
Every member of Yeo's coaching staff — assistants Rick Wilson, Darryl Sydor and Darby Hendrickson, goalie coach Bob Mason and video coordinator Jonas Plumb — is also in the final year of his contract. Their statuses are expected to be resolved once Fletcher returns from the Bahamas.
Yeo, who was an assistant coach in Pittsburgh when Fletcher was assistant GM, won a Stanley Cup as Dan Bylsma's assistant in 2009 and coached Houston to the Calder Cup finals during his only season there in 2010-11.
As a young, first-time NHL head coach, Yeo has made his share of mistakes, but Parise saw several examples of growth this season. It began before the season when Yeo reacted to last year's first-round loss to Chicago and adjusted his system to allow the Wild to be less of a dump-and-chase team.
Late this season and into the playoffs, Yeo tinkered with his lines more and was more apt to make in-game adjustments and hold underperforming players accountable.
"There's a lot of things you can tell that experienced coaches do," Parise said. "Even things as small as tinkering lines when someone's going and when someone's not or the way they run the benches. I can only imagine how tough it's got to be [for a young coach].
"And on top of that, people don't think about how you have to control 20 personalities and 20 different egos and try to keep everybody happy and make everyone feel that their role is just as important as everybody on the team. They did a good job of that."
Parise was impressed how Yeo and his staff kept the team from unraveling during a turbulent, season-long goalie carousel and after a six-game losing streak. With Yeo under intense scrutiny from critics as the calendar turned to 2014, the Wild went an NHL-best 14-4-2 in its next 20 games. During parts of that stretch, Parise, Mikko Koivu, Josh Harding and Jared Spurgeon were sidelined.
"We had injuries and we had some extended losing streaks, and they did a great job during those," Parise said. "It could be a delicate thing how you react to a team when things are going like that. If you react the wrong way, it could go downhill real quick."
In Yeo's previous two seasons, his emotions fluctuated in postgame news conferences, displaying the pressure from game to game. This season Yeo remained even-keeled. Defenseman Ryan Suter made mention of Yeo's level-headedness after the season's completion. Parise did again Saturday.
"We saw the same thing in the room and on the bench," Parise said. "Even though sometimes it felt like there were such ups and downs, it wasn't such an emotional roller coaster inside the room."
After the season, Yeo talked glowingly about the corps that includes Parise, Koivu, Suter and Jason Pominville and youngsters Mikael Granlund, Charlie Coyle, Nino Niederreiter, Erik Haula, Jonas Brodin, Marco Scandella and Spurgeon, saying, "The real potential for growth in our team is our young players."
Parise is excited about the future.
"It's difficult right now to watch these other teams playing because you feel it could just as easily be us playing out there right now," Parise said. "That's the hard thing. Our division, our conference, it's hard. We have to make sure we get better because there's 14 teams that could legitimately make the playoffs.
"It's not going to be any easier for us. It was great what we did, but I think everyone has to recognize that we have to come back and be even better next year."


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By Judy Reed
Three area churches will join together to take their service beyond the walls this Sunday and reach out into the community.
Both The Springs Church, 135 N. Grant, and Solon Center Wesleyan, located at 19 Mile and Algoma, have done separate events in the past, and decided this year to join forces. Hillcrest Community, located on 18 Mile in Nelson Township, is also joining the event. Not only will all three churches do projects on the same day but they will be on the same teams.
"We just thought it would be good for the churches to do one day together—meet others, work together and make an impact on the community," explained Cherri' Kerr, local missions pastor at The Springs Church.
Projects the teams plan to work on include visiting patients at Metron; roadside cleanup; city sign maintenance; planting flowers; greeting customers at the Wesco gas stations in Cedar Springs and Sand Lake; working at Alpha Family Center; visiting three Hope Network homes; building a sandbox for a family; handing out freezer pops to people; and more.
Leaders will meet at The Springs Church at 9 a.m. Sunday to get to know each other and what is expected, and then will head to Morley Park at 10:30 a.m., where all three congregations will do a short worship time together and divide up into their teams. They will then go out into the community to complete their projects, and return afterward to the park for a free lunch.
Kerr said that anyone from the community who would like to help should come to Morley Park at 10:30 a.m. and they can join a team. "Everyone is welcome," she said. Anyone coming may want to bring lawn chairs, or a blanket, and sunscreen.
"I'm so excited we've been able to pull this together," remarked Kerr. "I'm looking forward to it."
The event will be held rain or shine. If it is dangerous—if there is severe weather—it will be canceled. In the event of rain, the lunch will be held at The Springs Church. For more info email Kerr at email@example.com.


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Leafs' Bozak criticized for blackface Michael Jackson costume
A photo of Toronto Maple Leafs centre Tyler Bozak wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume appeared on his Twitter account Tuesday night.
The photo, which showed Bozak dressed as Michael Jackson and grabbing his groin area to replicate a familiar dance move by the pop icon, was removed from his account.
After receiving a flurry of criticism on Twitter, Bozak posted another tweet explaining that the costume was a tribute to the late singer.
"That's a tribute to one of my fave artists. For anyone saying its racist is crazy!" tweeted Bozak.
Bozak isn't the first hockey player to be criticized for wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume.
Last year a photo of Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres wearing blackface while dressed as rapper Jay-Z at a Halloween party appeared online.


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Deportation Could Split Up Lesbian Vt. Couple
By DAVE GRAM
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Frances Herbert and her wife, Takako Ueda, were looking forward to the New Year's Eve family concert at the Baptist Church, the town fireworks on the pond and then a night at home to celebrate the arrival of 2012.
But federal immigration authorities have told Ueda she needs to leave the United States for her native Japan by Dec. 31, a move that would split up a couple who have been together more than a decade and were married under Vermont law in April.
Their relatively rare case illuminates the difficulties that binational gay couples face at a time when the Obama administration has pledged not to uphold federal marriage law in courts but the rest of the executive branch- including immigration authorities- still follows the letter of the law.
Federal immigration authorities demand extensive documentation showing that a binational couple claiming to be married really are: witness statements, property records, utility and other household bills showing both names and the like often are required. Herbert said she and Ueda submitted 600 pages of such evidence with their application.
"It's despicable," Herbert said. "We had 600 pages of proof, and 599 of them were completely ignored. One line on one page"- the one that said they were both women- "is what they paid attention to."
Herbert, a 51-year-old home care provider, and Ueda, a 56-year-old graphic designer, live in the southern Vermont town of Dummerston and got letters Dec. 1 from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, telling them that Ueda had to leave the country within 30 days. Ueda's student visa expired in July.
They had applied for "relative alien" status on the basis that she was the spouse of a U.S. citizen, but the federal agency denied that petition.
The letter to Herbert, who had applied to be Ueda's sponsor, said that under the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law saying the government would not recognize same-sex marriages, they couldn't be considered spouses. DOMA defines marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."
"Your spouse is not a person of the opposite sex," wrote Robert Cowan, a U.S. CIS official. "Therefore, under the DOMA, your petition must be denied."
Only a handful of states recognize same-sex marriages. Experts say there are not reliable numbers on how many couples find themselves in a similar situation to that of Herbert and Ueda, but it's believed the number is small. Many binational same-sex couples don't seek spousal status for fear of being rejected because of DOMA.
Steve Ralls, spokesman for Immigration Equality, a nonprofit legal aid group that works on immigration and sexual orientation issues, said one San Francisco couple remained together despite getting government notices that one of the men, an Australian, needed to leave the country, while a New Jersey man's partner had been deported to Peru.
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced in February that the administration would no longer defend DOMA in court in the cases in which it is being challenged. But until the issue is resolved, executive branch agencies, including those within the Department of Homeland Security, it remains the law of the land.
But Leslie Holmans, second vice president of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association, said that even after getting the types of letters Herbert and Ueda got, some same-sex, binational couples benefit from "prosecutorial discretion" by immigration authorities.
She said many federal prosecutors believe "our systems are so overcrowded that what we really need to be doing is concentrating on people who are a risk to our country. What's happened is that we have seen some same-sex couples go before the immigration court and ask for prosecutorial discretion." Government lawyers often respond by "either dismissing cases or they're not enforcing the notice of deportation."
Holmans said the situation is far from ideal because affected immigrants are left in "legal limbo," still without recognized immigration status and unable to get a job or seek other government benefits.
Scott Titshaw, a professor at Mercer University Law School in Georgia who has practiced immigration law and written articles on DOMA, said Ueda and Herbert most likely shouldn't fear Ueda's imminent arrest but "still have plenty to worry about." He said if Ueda traveled abroad, then she might be barred from re-entering the U.S. With local authorities in some states cracking down on illegal immigrants, Ueda might also want avoid travel to places like Arizona and Alabama, which both have strict immigration laws.
Herbert and Ueda first met as students at Aquinas College in Michigan in 1980 and stayed in touch during the next couple of decades after Ueda returned to Japan and married a man. She said that when Herbert went to visit her in Japan in 1999, she made a big decision. "I had a good marriage, but there was something missing, and that something was Frances." Eight months later, she moved to the United States, and the two had a commitment ceremony in 2000, marrying in 2011.
Both vowed to fight any effort to break them up.
"I'm a really great law obeyer. I grew up in Japan. We follow laws," Ueda said with a laugh. "But I have a very strong feeling, too, that I won't go back to Japan. I don't have a place to live in Japan. My family, my existence, is not there anymore."


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Every time we re-watch Back to the Future we pick up on something we missed before. This movie trilogy is a multi-layered wonder, and nothing better dissects the insane attention to detail than this crop of behind the scenes images. Seriously did you ever realize that the ice cream store from the future was actually called, "Ice Cream Clone?" Or how about the restaurant Hyatas "All Natural Earth Grown Fruits." Amazing.
A great deal of these images came from the incredibly well researched Back to the Future site Outatime and Geek Tyrant. Geek Tyrant. Behold a truly epic undertaking of a franchise:
Food from the 80s Cafe!
Ralph Nelson, "R. Nelson" was the on set photographer.
And now a selection of images from the Eric Stoltz Back to the Future production:


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After a three-year dialogue with its neighbors, NYU is now presenting its strategy—NYU 2031: NYU in NYC—to ensure that its facilities keep pace with its academic aims.
Framework Calls for Thoughtful Growth in Health Corridor, Downtown Brooklyn, Governors Island, and NYU's Existing Properties
After a three-year dialogue with its neighbors, NYU is now presenting its strategy — NYU 2031: NYU in NYC — to ensure that its facilities keep pace with the academic aims that have propelled the University to the ranks of the nation's top research universities.
NYU 2031: NYU in NYC is a framework for how and where NYU should develop space for its academic mission. The strategy envisions the addition of as much as 6 million sq. ft. of space over more than two decades, with half spread over three remote locations -- along Manhattan's Eastside health corridor, in Downtown Brooklyn, and on Governors Island – and half in or near its core.
The process employed to create this vision -- guided by input from the Community Task Force on NYU Development established by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer -- was a significant departure from the University's previous approach to development, setting a new standard for community dialogue, transparency and practicality. Consistent with the emphasis on intensive community involvement, NYU will host another of its numerous "Open Houses" about the strategy on April 14 from 5:30 – 8:00 PM on the 10th floor of the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. So.
NYU President John Sexton said, "Academic excellence is the driver of all we do. This is a pivotal moment for NYU, both as an academic institution and as an integral player in New York's evolving landscape. We are committed – through a productive discourse -- to a sensitive and sustainable approach to preserve the special character of our core campus, while maintaining the strength and vibrancy of our intellectual community into the future."
Between 1990 and 2005, NYU increased its student body 24.5 percent, but did not develop a comparable amount of space. NYU now has 160 sq. ft. of academic space per student; by comparison, Columbia has 326, Harvard has 673, and Yale has 866. Over the next 20+ years, NYU 2031 calls for a significantly slower rate of student growth; it proposes expanding NYU's per student's square footage to 240 by adding as much as 3.5 million sq. ft. of academic space, 1.5 million sq. ft. of student housing, 500,000 sq. ft. of faculty housing, and 500,000 sq. ft. of student services space.
However, the strategy recognizes for the first time that all of NYU's space needs cannot be accommodated in its neighborhood; fully half of the proposed space will be outside Greenwich Village, distributed among the remote sites where NYU already has a significant presence -- near the NYU Medical Center and NYU-Poly -- or where it can anchor a new academic center and create a significant presence on Governors Island.
Accordingly, the strategy takes account of the fact that there will have to be sharper decisions about which uses will and will not be within NYU's core area and neighborhood.
Growth in and around NYU's core will rely on adaptive reuse, below-ground structures, and building orientation and massing to maximize open space while improving access to sunlight and air. In addition, NYU will focus on its existing properties, will not seek any additional square footage above that already allowed by zoning, and will not make use of eminent domain. The strategy also calls for green roofs, solar access, storm water retention, heat recovery, sustainable landscaping systems, and aims for LEED Silver or comparable ratings in all new construction as well as other benchmarks, such as carbon neutrality and zero waste.
The strategy was shaped through an inclusive process of open houses, meetings, and interactions with community groups. Participation in the Stringer Task Force -- which, was formed in early 2007 and composed of local elected officials, community board leaders, and an array of community and civic groups – marked an unprecedented effort to provide a mechanism for dialogue between the University and the community and foster productive discourse about NYU's needs and the Greenwich Village neighborhood's concerns.
The involvement of the Task Force has already yielded concrete results, including an agreement on improved design principles for neighborhood development, the decision to develop half the space outside Greenwich Village, and NYU's commitment to address neighborhood needs in Greenwich Village by providing space within a new building on the superblocks for a 600-seat elementary school to be built and run by the City.
The presentation of the strategy also is a lead-up to the beginning of the official public approvals process – the Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP), through which the community will have additional input into proposals for growth on NYU's own property between Houston and W. 3rd Streets and between Mercer St. and LaGuardia Place.
About NYU 2031: NYU in NYC
NYU 2031: NYU in NYC, is a strategic framework for growth, aiming to be a thoughtful, comprehensive, city-wide vision for thinking about how to keep the University moving forward academically while respecting the communities and the city in which we make our home. For more information about NYU 2031 please log onto www.nyu.edu/nyu2031/nyuinnyc .
About New York University
New York University is located in the heart of Greenwich Village. Founded in 1831, it is one of America's foremost research universities and a member of the selective Association of American Universities. It is one of the largest private universities, it is a leader in attracting international students and scholars in the U.S, and it sends more students to study abroad than any other U.S. college or university. Through its 14 schools and colleges, NYU conducts research and provides education in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, business, dentistry, education, nursing, the cinematic and performing arts, music and studio arts, public administration, social work, and continuing and professional studies, among other areas.


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Hello Peeps and Happy Tuesday,
Here we are with WEEK 2 of our current challenge #57 - GOING IN CIRCLES, and I have the delights of TEAM B to show you and give you inspiration.......
PATACAKE using " LEAF POOCH " on a circular doggy treat box :-)
SUSAN R using "DRAGON KITE " (new image not yet released)
on a telescopic circular card
SAMARA using "MOONSTRUCK and HAND OF TIME "
So, for this one we would like to see anything round, circular, circle patterns, whatever you like. You can even take the theme literally.
To find Mr LINKY please click HERE, and don't forget to snag your FREEBIE. You have until Monday 29th FEBRUARY 2016 to play along.


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Morgan Nauta, a fifth grader at Cedar View Elementary, wanted to do something very special on her eleventh birthday. Morgan was turning eleven on 11/11/11. She used two Habits of Mind to develop her plan. She deeply understands how to treat others with respect and how to be creative, imaginative and innovative.
She decided to help the Veterans of the area by asking for donations for the gift shop opening soon at the Veterans' Home in Grand Rapids. Morgan's idea allowed her to gather eleven large rubber tubs (rather large ones) of goodies to donate to the cause.
Morgan had a special connection to the Veterans' Home because both of her great grandfathers lived there at one point in their lives. Morgan, along with family members, delivered the tubs to the Veterans' Home on November 21. The administration gave Morgan a beautiful plaque made to honor her efforts.
"I felt very happy to share all of the gifts with the Veterans' Home. It was my best birthday ever. I think it better to give than receive," said Morgan.
"It is really good to know Cedar View has such wonderful students who truly care about others," remarked Mr. Mike Duffy, the school principal.


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This is a humorous true story about our 18 year old cat who died of a brain tumor. He was unusual inasmuch as he had learned to play dead and together he and I had a routine.
First, however, the cat had an encounter with a lobster. On a summers day a number of years ago, my wife and I were going to have an old fashioned New England clambake. Just the two of us. We purchased a lobster and two quarts of steamers and the placed the bag in the foor space under the dash on my wife's side of the car.
At a traffic light I rattled the bag and the lobster came alive and hopped out of the bag. At a local convenience store parking lot, I was able to get the lobster back into the bag and this time into a cooler we had in the trunk.
When we got home, I filled the kitchen sink with cool water and placed the lobster and clams into it until we were ready to cook.
My wife and I were enjoying a drink and watching the cooking shows on public TV and all of a sudden were startled by the loud MEOW - and WEEEOW of the cat. It had jumped up onto the kirchen counter and was slapping the crustacean with its paw.
One of the rubber bands holding a claw secure came un-done and the lobster was fighting for its life.
I was able to get the lobster into a pot of tepid water and did not realize that as the water heated up the lobster would try to escape. Back to the TV when all of a sudden the lobster kicked the cover off and onto the floor with a loud bang. The cat ran in the opposite direction and I spent the next ten minutes pressing the cover onto the pot with a hand towel until the lobster was no longer kicking.
This short true story has a series of adventures with our cats over the years. Hope you enjoy!


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7218.0.55.001 - Livestock and Meat, Australia, Dec 2011 Quality Declaration
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This publication presents statistics on livestock slaughterings and meat production. These statistics are based on a monthly collection from abattoirs and other major slaughtering establishments and include estimates of animals slaughtered by country butchers and other small slaughtering establishments. More detailed information on this series can be obtained by referring to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) quarterly publication, Livestock Products, Australia (cat. no. 7215.0).
Additional time series spreadsheets containing state/territory and national data are available from the Downloads tab for this publication. These spreadsheets contain original, seasonally adjusted and trend estimates for slaughtering and meat production for bulls, bullocks and steers, cows and heifers, cattle (excluding calves), calves, sheep, lambs and pigs.
For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.
In December 2011 the trend estimate for cattle slaughterings increased by 1% to 613 thousand.
Calf slaughterings increased by 1% to 55 thousand in December 2011 but were down 13% from December 2010.
In December 2011, the trend estimate for sheep slaughterings increased by 2% to 451 thousand.
Lamb slaughterings fell by 2% to 1.4 million in December 2011.
The trend estimate for pig slaughterings remained steady at 391 thousand in December 2011.
In December 2011 the trend estimate for beef production increased by 1% to 177 thousand tonnes.
Veal production increased by 1% in December 2011 to 3 thousand tonnes, but decreased by 12% compared to December 2010.
In December 2011, the production of mutton increased by 2% from November 2011 to 10 thousand tonnes.
Lamb production fell 2% in December 2011 to 31 thousand tonnes.
The trend estimate for production of pig meat in December 2011 remained steady at 29 thousand tonnes.
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1958 was a good year for monsters, with Frankenstein front and center.
TV stations across North America were cashing in on the popularity of the Shock Theater package of Universal horrors, bringing the classic monsters to a new generation of fans. Philadelphia-based publisher, James Warren, picked up on the monster buzz and launched a monster movie magazine. That's him posing on the first issue's cover in a rubber Frankenstein mask.
Edited by Forrest Ackerman, Famous Monster of Filmland hit the streets 50 years ago, on February 27, to be exact, even as blizzards hammered the East Coast. Success was instantaneous. FM was the right magazine at the right time, and it became the keystone of the Monster Kid era.
Anyone who ever read an issue back then is bound to wax nostalgic, and nobody does it better than VideoWatchdog editor and blogger Tim Lucas in this recent post, an homage to Famous Monsters that is both loving and level-headed. A great read.
Simultaneous with Famous Monsters being released in North America, Hammer Films of England was busy wrapping up the immediate sequel to their 1957 worldwide blockbuster, The Curse of Frankenstein. Reuniting writer Jimmy Sangster, director Terence Fisher and star Peter Cushing, The Revenge of Frankenstein would come to be recognized by many as the best of a series that would eventually stretch to seven films. In this perverse tale, Cushing's cruel Baron runs a charity hospital, culling body parts from his unlucky patients. Michael Gwynn plays Frankenstein's brain-switched experiment who develops a taste for human flesh.
Hammer was also involved in a second Frankenstein project, an ill-fated television series, produced in partnership with Columbia Pictures' TV arm, Screen Gems. The pilot for Tales of Frankenstein was entirely shot in America, co-written and directed by Curt Siodmak, screenwriter for Universal's monster-mix pictures Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943), and House of Frankenstein (1944). Don Megowan played a classic, old school Frankenstein Monster to Anton Diffring's Cushing-like, upturned collar Baron. The two styles mixed uneasily and Hammer producer Michael Carreras was not pleased. Work on the project continued through the year, inevitably to sputter out. Some of the concepts developed by Hammer writers would find their way into the company's subsequent Frankenstein films.
American-International Pictures, in Hollywood, also rushed to sequelize their own Frankenstein, with Gary Conway returning as the busted-headed Teenage Frankenstein in How To Make a Monster. The story deals with a crazed makeup man (Robert H. Harris) who, when he gets canned by the studio, mixes drugs and greasepaint, turning his monster movie actors into zombies to do his murderous bidding. Gary Clarke played a snaggletooth Teenage Werewolf, a part originated by Michael Landon. In typical AIP hyperbole, the film was advertised as being in "flaming color!", but it was really in black and white up to the last reel, when it switched to color for the fiery climax.
Also in 1958, Boris Karloff, the actor most identified with Frankenstein, then as now, returned to the fold in a low-budget shocker called Frankenstein 1970. Karloff gamely plays a scar-faced Baron Frankenstein cooking up a new atomic-powered Monster in the castle's basement. Six-foot eight wrestler Mike Lane played the Gumby-like, mummy-wrapped Monster.
An even cheaper and unabashedly schlocky production was Richard Cunha's Frankenstein's Daughter. Actually, the scientist was Frankenstein's grandson — the Frankenstein film family is large and complex — who produces a singularly homely creature played by acromegalic character actor Harry Wilson. Legend is that makeup man Harry Thomas did not know the Monster's head was supposed to be female, so he applied lipstick to the creature he had designed, and that did the trick. Wilson's robot walk is hilarious and the whole film is kooky enough to be weirdly entertaining.
The final Frankenstein of 1958 stalked South of the border. The influence of Universal's Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein echoed, ten years on, in El Castillo de los monstruos, in which comic Clavillazo encounters the Frankenstein Monster, a Gillman, a Werewolf, a Mummy, and the great German Robles in a cameo as Dracula. I blogged previously about this and other Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Knockoffs. That post includes a link to a YouTube excerpt from the film.
A couple of Frankenstein-themed films rounded out the year. Colossus of New York is a minor but fascinating science-fiction thriller in which a towering robot is fitted with the brain of a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The experiment fritzes the donor's humanitarian impulses and culminates in a showdown at the United Nations. Real-life giant Ed Wolff works the bulky, expressionless robot suit. He had previously played the big, clumsy, totem-headed robot in the 1939 Bela Lugosi serial, The Phantom Creeps.
And, finally, Alraune, aka Unnatural, was a German film made in 1952 and released in America in the Frankenstein year of 1958. The story of a soulless, artificially created woman had been filmed a number of times before, notably with Metropolis robot star Brigitte Helm playing the part twice, first in a silent version and then a talking remake. This version featured the striking Hildegard Knef as Alraune to Erich von Stroheim's Frankensteinian scientist, Ted Brinken.
And so it was, fifty years ago, when the all-purpose Frankenstein Monster launched a legendary magazine… Drove Hammer Films' sudden, steep, upward curve of success that would establish it as the premier studio of cinema horrors… Tail-ended AIP's drive-in, teen-monster era, soon to evolve into the Corman-Price-Poe gothic sixties… Provided the venerable Boris Karloff with yet another mad scientist credit… And distinguished a handful of B-movies.
1958 was a good year for Frankenstein.


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I have good news (following on the heels of a rough past two months). Today it was announced that my next novel, Wonders of the Invisible World has been acquired by Knopf Books for Young Readers!
Here's the announcement in Publishers Weekly:
Melanie Cecka at Knopf has acquired a debut YA novel from adult novelist Christopher Barzak, called Wonders of the Invisible World. In it, a teenager must unravel a generations-old family curse before it destroys those he loves. Publication is set for fall 2015; Barry Goldblatt of Barry Goldblatt Literary brokered the deal for North American rights.
To say the least: yeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!!!!!!


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Corona Del Mar Fire Pits Threatened
The Newport Beach City Council has voted to remove the Corona Del Mar beach fire rings. The city will need a Coastal Commission permit to complete this action. Costal Commission staff has recommended to keep the fire pits because "Removal of the fire rings would deprive the public of the opportunity to access and use lower cost visitor and recreational facilities that have been a fixture of Newport Beach for more than half a century"
The commission staff report points out, as we do in our Coastal Commission brief, that removal of the fire pits would violate the Coastal Act 30213.
The Coastal Commission will vote on this matter at their March 6 meeting in San Diego. Corona Del Mar Today has details on this.
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The tradition of beach bonfires has been cherished for generations by San Diego residents and our visitors. On summer nights, the fires glow like a string of jewels along the City's beaches and around the shores of Mission Bay.
City to keep fire pits in 2012-2013 budget
The San Diego Mayor announced that due to a budget surplus, the city would fund the fire pits for 2012-2013 without need for donations.
Posted Mar 14, 2012, 5:17 PM by Admin Firepits
Fire pits saved again for 2011?
Shortly after announcements that fire pits would be removed starting in July 1, several media outlets are reporting that the fire pits have been saved again. Details will follow in a press conference on May 12, 2011.
Posted May 11, 2011, 3:55 PM by Admin Firepits
Fire Pits SAVED for another year!
Thanks everyone!
Posted May 10, 2010, 6:10 PM by Admin Firepits
Mayor says Fire Pits saved again by donors
Mayor Sanders
announced on These Days on KPBS on May 10, 2010 that a
plan to save the fire pits will be unveiled today. It will continue to involve
anonymous donors.
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Mayor to announce fire pits plan on Monday, May 10
The Union Tribune reports that councimember Kevin Faulconer office stated that the city is close to an agreement to save the fire pits.
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Jewish Teacher Strikes New Blow in Gay Marriage Fight — Eyes Supreme Court
A Jewish school teacher from Philadelphia is a face of a new landmark lawsuit that could prompt a Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing same-sex marriage rights nationwide.
Helena Miller, a lesbian whose wife is not recognized as a parent of their baby daughter, is one of more than 20 plaintiffs in a landmark federal lawsuit filed July 9 challenging a law that bans same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania.
The law also bars the state from recognizing such unions performed elsewhere, a provision that directly affects Miller and her family.
"We would really like for our child, when she's old enough to understand what these things all mean, we want her to understand and see that our family is equal to any other family," Miller told the Forward.
The new lawsuit, filed jointly by the American Civil Liberties Union and a Philadelphia law firm, is on the cutting edge of an aggressive new legal strategy aimed at pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to guarantee marriage equality across the country.
"I think you're looking at a case with potentially very broad national implications," said Mark Aronchick, the pro-bono Philadelphia lawyer bringing the case, an attorney with Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller. "If there was ever a reason why I became a lawyer, its because of cases like this. It's because of the ability to move everything along, move justice along, move freedoms along."
The new suit is the first federal case to challenge any state law barring same-sex marriage since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 26 ruling making same-sex couples eligible for federal benefits.
That Supreme Court case was spearheaded by Edie Windsor, an 83-year-old Jewish woman who, under the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law passed in 1996, was denied a federal estate tax exemption after the death of her wife. Despite the dismantling of DOMA by the Supreme Court in the Windsor decision, the court did not address directly dozens of state laws and constitutional amendments around the country that carry similar provisions.
The newly filed Philadelphia case is the first of a handful of new challenges to state-level same-sex marriage bans in federal courts across the country.
"This seems like a very different strategy to bring as many lawsuits as possible and get something to the Supreme Court," said David S. Cohen, a professor at the Earle Mack School of Law at Philadelphia's Drexel University.
Whereas the ACLU was previously filing sure-shot lawsuits in state courts, the Pennsylvania case seems aimed at winning a broader victory. Though a narrowly worded decision in the district court could mean that a decision would affect only the plaintiffs, a series of appeals could bring the case to the U.S. Supreme Court quickly.
The ACLU's argument in the case claims a right to marry under the 14th Amendment. If the U.S. Supreme Court were to decide that a right to same-sex marriage is guaranteed under the 14th Amendment, all state gay marriage bans could be lifted.
"It could be a couple of years to the Supreme Court," Cohen said. "The briefings are not difficult at this stage. The arguments are out there. Everyone knows the argument."
At the center of the case are a handful of gay couples, including Miller, 39, and her wife, Dara Raspberry, a physician.
Miller and Raspberry were married in 2010 at a Jewish ceremony. They lived in Brooklyn at the time, but decided a year later to move to Pennsylvania to be closer to Miller's parents. Raspberry, 43, is a doctor at Einstein Medical Center, in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania is the only state in the Northeast that permits neither same-sex marriage nor civil unions. It's one of 35 states in America that bars gay marriage in its state constitution or in state law. Pennsylvania's anti-same-sex marriage law was passed the same year as the federal DOMA.
"We do find it kind of upsetting that we made a decision to move to Pennsylvania to be closer to family, and to make a tighter family… but at the same time, because we're in Pennsylvania, we've become less of a family legally," Miller said. "We've become unmarried, I guess you could say."
Miller gave birth to Zivah in May. She's already brought Zivah to her synagogue, where the rabbi stopped the service to introduce her to the congregation.
Yet under Pennsylvania law, Zivah is not yet Raspberry's daughter. The couple has hired a lawyer separately from this case to help them undergo a process called second-parent adoption, which will give Raspberry parental rights to Zivah.
Miller said that she and her wife are eager to be plaintiffs in the suit — even though they admit they are far from rabble-rousers.
"We're actually quite boring people and just normal, in my mind," Miller said. "I think that we are very happy and honored to be part of this effort."
Though planning for the suit has been ongoing for months, attorneys involved said that they were eager to hear the result of the DOMA decision, and the complaint cites Justice Anthony Kennedy's Windsor decision.
"In Windsor, the court specifically observed that laws of this type have the purpose and effect of injuring and disparaging lesbian and gay couples," said Leslie Cooper, an attorney trying the case for the ACLU. "We think that applies equally to the Pennsylvania exclusion."
At the press conference announcing the suit July 9, ACLU attorneys also announced two other efforts to challenge state gay marriage bans in federal court. One ongoing case in North Carolina will be amended to include a marriage claim, and the ACLU will file a new case in Virginia in the coming weeks.
"I've been in the public eye a lot, and I know the importance of doing these kinds of cases right, and that's what we're doing," Aronchick said of the Pennsylvania case. "This is going to be a national case; it's going to be viewed as such."
Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected] or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis


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President Obama Renews Charge to Help Rural Companies and Communities Compete Globally
Yesterday, President Obama announced new commitments in the "Made in Rural America" export and investment initiative, which is charged with bringing together federal trade-related resources for rural communities and businesses. This announcement reflects the Administration's strategy for ensuring workers and businesses of all sizes, from communities large and small, benefit from the nation's economic resurgence.
The Department of Commerce also released data yesterday that show 26 states set new export records in 2014, and many of those states are in the nation's heartland.
The Administration's next steps in the "Made in Rural America" initiative build on input received from rural businesses and communities throughout the past year. Following the President's announcement of the initiative in February 2014, agencies led several regional forums across the country, a Rural Opportunity Investment conference last summer, and new partnerships to help more rural businesses – making everything from amphibious vehicles to aquaculture products – plug in to export assistance.
Last year, we confirmed that rural businesses have the products and services in demand worldwide, and the drive to export – just like urban businesses. The challenge is improving their access to information and export services, including financing and logistics. U.S. Commercial Service – North Dakota Director Heather Ranck and rural companies spoke about that in this "Export Experts" video released last October.
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Much has been said and written regarding Karl Rove and the Republican Party establishment's latest plan to go harder after conservatives than they ever would Democrats. And I've had much to say about it myself.
But I've yet to see anyone question the premise of the phony argument Rove is hiding behind to justify his crusade to purge the GOP of anybody that won't grovel at the feet of the ruling class (which is what Rove's pro-establishment Jihad is really all about). See, in Rove's world if you actually have principles and want to defeat Democrats and not just negotiate the terms of liberty's surrender, you're a "nutcase."
Rove claims he's out to find "electable" candidates. Well, who isn't? Of course, all of us want to win elections. The candidate you're supporting doesn't get to act on any of the principles he's running on if he doesn't win. Nothing in politics is more crushing than losing on election night when you've spent your time, talent, and treasure on behalf of a candidate who's a champion of your principles. So for Rove and the establishment to claim they're the only ones concerned about "electability" is patronizing at best and disingenuous at worst.
Besides, how do we define "electability?" Furthermore, how come we allow the very people who oppose our ideas and principles to define who is and who isn't "electable?" Should the General Manager of the Boston Red Sox consult with the New York Yankees front office on personnel decisions? Maybe Auburn's new football coach should call Alabama's Nick Saban and get his take on whom to recruit?
"Electability" is a ruling class fallacy, both on the right and the left. It's essentially the political equivalent to Jim Crow laws, aimed at stifling the potential for upward mobility of those in the grassroots who would challenge the ruling class' status quo. Despite all their public hand-wringing and pandering, they don't really reach out to minorities for all the same reasons they don't really reach out to their own base. They are adherents to the "Golden Rule," which is he who has the gold gets to make all the rules. They may speak of a "big tent" but really they crave the small tent where they remain in charge of their own little fiefdom, crumbling infrastructure and all. Ironically, it's been we in the base they hate that has diversified the GOP. Where did Ted Cruz, Allen West, and Tim Scott (just to name a few) come from?
Rove and his cronies are like modern day "old money" blue-bloods, condescendingly peering down their noses at the emerging "new money" entrepreneurs who weren't born into the aristocracy as they were. That's why they go after us harder than they go after them. We are a threat to their power base in a way they aren't, because we actually want to topple a spoils system both sides of the ruling class are profiteering from. The only argument Rove and his Boss Tweed-wannabes have with the Left is who the check with the people's money gets written out to. They don't see this as a clash of worldviews with the very survival of the Constitutional Republic at stake. They see this merely as a battle of dueling self-interests.
Thus, to allow Rove and those supporting his efforts by funding them or providing a platform for them to determine who is and who isn't "electable" isn't just dangerous, it's also as foolish as allowing the liberal media to do it. In fact, you'll notice that Rove and his cabal often draw the same conclusions about "electability" as the liberal media.
That's not a coincidence.
Both sides have a mutual interest in not challenging the status quo. Both sides range from skeptical to hostile to our moral viewpoint. Then there's simple economics. The media has lots of unsold ad inventory nowadays, and Rove and his kind of candidates can provide the revenue to purchase it. In this last election cycle Rove's cabal spent over $100 million on various establishment candidates, with just a 1% success rate. That means Rove and his acolytes are the perfect clientele for the liberal media. They help sell-out their spot blocks and lose elections to Democrats at the same time.
The late P.T. Barnum would have a word for Rove and (especially) those underwriting his failed efforts—suckers.
I remember sharing a green room with Rick Santorum at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies conference about six weeks before the 2012 Iowa Caucuses. As we were each waiting for our opportunity to speak, Santorum shared with me his lament that his former employer, Fox News, didn't think he was electable enough to send a reporter to cover his campaign. At that point Santorum was mired in the low single digits in the polls.
Six weeks later Santorum won the Iowa Caucuses, and then went on to win 11 states during the 2012 Republican presidential primary campaign.
Again, who gets to determine who is and who isn't "electable?" Is there an objective standard for "electability" as there is for many of the principles and causes we believe in? The answer is no, which is why Rove and the establishment like that subjective standard. It's a moving target they can alter at their whim, aided and abetted by liberals who for different reasons want us defeated as well.


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Dennis Rodman arrested for DUI in California
Published January 14, 2018 07:50 PM
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been arrested on suspicion of DUI in Southern California.
Lt. Rachel Johnson of the Newport Beach Police Department says Rodman was pulled over late Saturday for a traffic violation.
Johnson says officers administered a field sobriety test, which Rodman failed. She says he submitted to a Breathalyzer test and blew over the .08 legal limit.
Rodman was released from custody Sunday morning. Johnson didn't immediately know if he had an attorney.
An email seeking comment from Rodman's representatives was not immediately returned Sunday.


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RE: The Super Bowl: How I tried to win a million dollars by making a Dorito commercial.Posted January 30th, 2012
Tags: commercials, contest, Doritos, Merrill Markoe, Super Bowl
Okay, I know it is The Superbowl next Sunday. And I know this, even though I don't watch any sports. There. I said it. None. Nothing. And I am fortunate enough to now live with a man who shares my lack of interest. (In fact, just last night he said to me "Who is playing this year? Is it the Spiders versus The Coconuts?")
If there is one thing I do even less than watch sports, it is enter contests. At least not since I was eight. Even then, it has seemed like an exercise in exploring Fran Lebowitz's comment about entering The Lottery ("I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not."). Nevertheless, for some insane reason in 2009, when I saw that there was a contest that offered a prize of a million dollars for making a Dorito commercial that was supposedly going to air on The Superbowl, I had a momentary brain white out and decided to enter. "No way I can be the worst person entering this contest." I said to myself, I said, I said, " And who knows? Maybe I will be one of the best!"
And thus did I throw myself in to this delusional headwind, and spend one crazed weekend making a theoretical Dorito commercial. I should add at this point that I didn't prepare for my task by studying existing Dorito commercials to make sure that I was playing the correct ball park. No no….None of those creativity restrictions for me. So, that wasn't smart. I should have done my research. But instead, inspired by my own idea, I just leaped forward. And I did this despite the fact that I don't even like Doritos. Where salty snacks are concerned, Doritos have never been in my top twenty. Looking back, that probably didn't work in my favor either.
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Come on…you have to give it up for my Dorito trees!
I carefully waded through many bags of Doritos in order to select just the ones with a big loopy fold so I could organically drape them over my plants. Proving once again that you can take the girl out of the art school, but you can't take the art school out of the girl. In fact, since I'm reviving this whole memory for my own humiliation, I'd like to now re visit some highlights of my Dorito plants. Andy (who also supplied the voice over) thinks that we would have won if we had referred to the raw, still-to-be-picked fruits of the Dorito plant as "DORTS".
I could be wrong, but somehow I don't think this would have changed anything.
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Oysters Don't Have Ears But Still Use Sound to Choose Their Homes
Oyster larvae find their homes by responding to the unique sounds of a reef
When they venture away from their oyster bed, young oysters float along in the ocean currents, only able to move up and down within the water column. Eventually, while still in the larval stage, they attach to a reef or sediment. But how do they know where to land?
Oysters don't have feet, Lewis Carroll pointed out in "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and they don't have ears either. But as NC State grad student Ashlee Lillis found, in a paper published in the journal PLOS One, oyster larvae find their homes by responding to the unique sounds of an oyster bed or reef.
The oysters, she and her colleagues write, sense the vibrations of the sound in the water column and using those vibrations as guideposts towards their new homes. Lillis and co. used recordings of reefs to test their theory in the lab, and both in the lab and in the wild, the oysters responded to the reef sounds, settling more when exposed to recordings of the reef itself, as opposed to recordings of areas further away.
"The ocean has different soundscapes, just like on land," Lillis says in a press release. "Living in a reef is like living in a busy urban area: there are a lot of residents, a lot of activity and a lot of noise. By comparison, the seafloor is more like living in the quiet countryside." Lillis hopes to figure out what soundscapes are unique to healthy reefs, and using that information to either monitor the health of oyster beds or help establish new oyster beds.
The lab at NC State also has a gallery of soundscapes where you can hear the popcorn-like crackle of the reefs for yourself.
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Whoops! Avoidance
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So you've noticed that we feature and write tech on well-beaten, dented, and scratched 4x4s. We have to admit it's our thing! But we don't intentionally beat up and roll rigs; the fact is that the staff wholeheartedly believes that four-wheel-drive vehicles are manufactured to be used on and off road. Through years of off-roading, testing, casual four-wheeling, and adventures, we experience a whoops here and there, so we wanted to share some tips on how to keep you a little safer and your rig somewhat decent and straight-maybe!
Sometimes there's just no way around a trail accident. Common sense plays the largest role in keeping you and your 4x4 safe. If an obstacle looks so dangerous that a vehicle could sustain damage, it more than likely will. Our vehicles look the way they do because we aren't afraid to use them and we do it safely. If your four-wheel machine has to stay pretty and needs weekly pampering like bubble baths, waxing, and a slathering of shiny crap on the tires, our advice to you is to leave that pretty thing in the garage.
One of the best and easiest ways to ensure that you don't destroy your rig with a drivetrain whoops is to make sure you check all fluid levels, belts, and hoses before you hit the trail or mud fields. A few minutes of basic vehicle maintenance go a long way in preserving the longevity and dependability of your 4x4.
Most accidents occur due to lack of off-road experience and driving ability. If you are unfamiliar with driving extreme terrain or would like to know more about the basics of off-highway adventure, spend some time on the trail with an experience four-wheeler or attend an off-road driving course in your area. Check out www.4x4training.com.
Snow wheeling is one of the most dangerous and challenging forms of four-wheeling. Vehicles easily get stuck, leaving driver and passenger vulnerable to winter weather. Never travel in the snow alone, and make sure someone knows where you are, where you're headed, and when you expect to arrive.
Water crossing is difficult and dangerous. Never enter any river you are unfamiliar with. Make sure it isn't deeper than the intake of your vehicle, because swamping your engine compartment is a great way to hydrolock and ruin an engine.
We always recommend hitting the trail with others, never alone. Wheeling in numbers is much safer, and helping hands make a sticky situation better.
You don't need to wear a helmet in 4x4s unless you're wheeling in extremely dangerous conditions or in competition. However, when riding ATVs, UTVs, motorcycles, or any other off-road contraption, make sure you protect your noggin.
If you have a teen driver in the house, make sure you can trust him when he heads to the local mud. Strange things can happen to the family car!
Be prepared for anything at all times. Rollovers can occur in the easiest spots on the trail. Make sure all gear is secured in the vehicle so nobody is hit with flying objects, and of course wear seatbelts.
A whoops on the trail can take many forms! Always be aware of your surroundings, especially when walking the trail or around your vehicle. A snake or insect bite can not only ruin a trail outing but can be fatal.
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It was a super hard decision.....but here are the final five (in no particular order, of course).
Homemade by Heidi
I can't seem to vote Homemade for Heidi.ReplyDelete
I would like to vote for made by Sopo - how do we vote?ReplyDelete
I went looking for Homemade by Heidi - the correct address is actually http://homemadeheidi.blogspot.com/ (no "by")ReplyDelete
So I feel pretty stupid, for some reason I thought I read that this was going to be the same as all the other weeks and we had to have it in by fri morning so I put mine in too late:( So I just took them out and will put them in for the open auditions I guess. These all are just great, so much talent!ReplyDelete
Oh Karen...I am so sorry (please do save it for your audition!!!!)
Michael and Salome....the poll is on the left sidebar of the blog...if you can't see it, open a new browser (firefox or safari) and it should show up.
Katie....thanks a million, I fixed it!
I'm so honored and excited! LOVE the whole PR&P and the sew along was a great idea to inspire us even more! THANK YOU !!!
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OH, these are all so adorable! You all did a wonderful job. I have to say, my heart melts for those little suspenders... You're a very talented bunch!ReplyDelete
So many beautifully sewn pieces!!! Great job everyone!ReplyDelete
Nest Full of Eggs gets my vote!ReplyDelete
vote for made by sopo <3ReplyDelete
Wow, these are so beautiful. How do we decide. The talent here is amazing!ReplyDelete
Cath Grace, that whole outfit is amazing!! Congrats to the top five! I am so sad that it is over now :( ~StephanieReplyDelete
I Vote Cath Grace; Wow amazing detail, phenomenal finishing work, with a touch of classic styling. Love the color palette too.ReplyDelete
You all are so awesome! I love them all!ReplyDelete
I vote for Cath Grace. Lovely work!ReplyDelete


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DEBARTZCH, PIERRE-DOMINIQUE, seigneur, lawyer, politician, militia officer, office holder, and newspaper owner; b. 22 Sept. 1782 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Que., son of Dominique Debartzch, a merchant, and Marie-Josephte Simon, dit Delorme; d. 6 Sept. 1846 in Saint-Marc on the Richelieu, Lower Canada.
Pierre-Dominique Debartzch's ancestor, Dominicus Bartzsch, came from the Catholic parish of St Mary in Danzig (Gdansk, Poland). When he settled in New France is unknown, but the first mention of his presence dates back to 1752. On 16 April of that year in Montreal, Bartzsch, a merchant-furrier, signed a marriage contract with Thérèse Filiau, dit Dubois, daughter of François Filiau, dit Dubois, a merchant-carpenter. After some time Bartzsch began to spell his name Bartzch and soon, adopting a practice common among Poles who claimed to belong to the nobility and who lived in a French-speaking milieu, he added the particle "de," whence the name de Bartzch or Debartzch.
Pierre-Dominique, an only son, studied at Harvard College in Boston. Then on 28 March 1800 he contracted to article with Denis-Benjamin Viger*. His father being dead, when he went to sign the contract he was accompanied by his guardian Hyacinthe-Marie Simon, dit Delorme, an uncle who was to represent Richelieu in the Lower Canadian House of Assembly from 1808 till 1814. Debartzch soon began buying real estate. In 1802 he rendered fealty and homage for part of the seigneury of Saint-Hyacinthe. On 9 July 1806 he was called to the bar, and the following month he left for Europe.
Debartzch returned to Lower Canada in 1807 and immediately went into politics. He was elected, along with Louis-Joseph Papineau*, for Kent in 1809, and both were re-elected there the following year. In the assembly he sided with the Canadian party and supported the reform cause. When the division of the seigneury of Saint-Hyacinthe was settled in 1811 Debartzch inherited three-eighths [see Jean Dessaulles*], about 88,420 arpents. During the War of 1812 he served as a captain in the 5th Select Embodied Militia Battalion of Lower Canada. In October 1813 he commanded a company at the battle of Châteauguay [see Charles-Michel Irumberry* de Salaberry], demonstrating both bravery and military leadership. John Douglas Borthwick noted, "All did their duty well and nobly that day, but let especial mention be made of captains Ferguson [George Richard Ferguson], de Bartzch and Levesque [Marc-Antoine-Louis Lévesque]."
On 17 Jan. 1814 Debartzch left the assembly for the Legislative Council, of which he remained a member until 27 March 1838. The appointment was certainly an honour – the speaker of the assembly, Jean-Antoine Panet*, was not named to the council until 1815 and Papineau was not offered a seat until seven years later. On 7 June 1815 Debartzch, along with Thomas McCord* and Louis-René Chaussegros* de Léry, was made a commissioner for the improvement of internal communications in the district of Montreal. That year, at Saint-Ours on 25 July, he married Josette de Saint-Ours. Her father was Charles de Saint-Ours*, also a legislative councillor, who was one of the richest Canadian seigneurs at the time, and her mother was Josette Murray, niece of former governor James Murray*. In 1818 Debartzch delivered a speech in the council supporting an assembly resolution that the council be constituted a high court to investigate the case of judge Louis-Charles Foucher of Montreal, who was accused of betraying his trust in the execution of his duties. The following year, on 31 May, Debartzch was appointed to a commission of inquiry concerning the titles and claims of landholders in the seigneury of La Salle in Sherrington Township.
In 1822 Debartzch was active in the huge protest movement organized against a plan to unite Lower and Upper Canada [see Denis-Benjamin Viger]. Those present at the first meeting of the anti-unionists, which was held in Montreal on 7 October, set up a committee of 18 leading inhabitants of Montreal and its environs, among whom were Saint-Ours, Debartzch, Irumberry de Salaberry, and Papineau. The committee was to select delegates to take to England petitions denouncing union. On the day of the meeting the residents of Montreal also gave what they called a constitutional banquet to honour Debartzch, as representative of the Legislative Council, and Papineau, as representative of the House of Assembly. Later, in a song entitled "Les orateurs canadiens," which alludes to the council and the banquet, Michel Bibaud* wrote:
The Areopagus,
Despite itself, I am told,
Dispatches a wise man,
Here, to set the tone:
Ah! tis D........
He is the great orator.
The song thus celebrates Debartzch's stand in opposition to the plan for union.
In 1826 Debartzch, who was anxious to extend his holdings, purchased the seigneury of Saint-François (also called Saint-Charles) at auction. His concerns as a seigneur did not affect his support for reforms. In 1830 he was chairman of a meeting at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu attended by leading inhabitants of Richelieu, Verchères, Saint-Hyacinthe, Rouville, and Chambly counties, at which resolutions advocating reform of the Legislative and Executive councils were passed. In 1832, along with Louis Bourdages*, he again chaired a meeting of these counties, which unanimously adopted 21 propositions that contained the seeds of the 92 Resolutions [see Elzéar Bédard]; the principal one demanded the withdrawal of the authority of the head of the executive to appoint legislative councillors.
To further the constitutional struggle Debartzch founded L'Écho du pays at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu in 1833. The paper, which opposed the system of government, had as its first editor a Frenchman, Alfred-Xavier Rambau*. Revolutionary articles appeared in its columns, according to Le Populaire of Montreal of 18 Oct. 1837. Debartzch, who had not written the pieces, came down against them and refused to continue supporting the paper, which ceased publication in 1836. That year Debartzch founded Le Glaneur in the same village and made Jean-Philippe Boucher-Belleville* its editor. This magazine, which dealt mainly with agricultural matters, proved ephemeral, its last issue coming out in September 1837.
Since 1835 Debartzch had been carrying on what Charles-Ovide Perrault, member for Vaudreuil in the assembly, termed a "daily" correspondence with Governor Lord Gosford [Acheson]. On 22 Aug. 1837 Debartzch was named to the Executive Council, on which he would sit until 10 Feb. 1841. The appointment seemed to indicate a change in his political attitude and led, among other things, to his being censured by La Minerve, the Patriotes' organ. Yet, as a result of his appointment, Canadians achieved equality in number with the English-speaking councillors.
At the time of the rebellion, Debartzch had to leave Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu with his family and go to Montreal. Le Canadien on 22 Nov. 1837 noted that his house had been surrounded and ransacked by armed men. Debartzch was to file a claim for $26,000 compensation for the property losses he sustained during the rebellion. Meanwhile, in 1841, he bought the seigneury of Cournoyer, which covered the territory that was later to become the municipality of Saint-Marc. He apparently retired there with his wife and children.
Debartzch died on 6 Sept. 1846 in Saint-Marc, at 63 years of age. He was buried three days later under the seigneur's pew in the church of Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu. In a biography published in the Revue trimestrielle canadienne Jean-Jacques Lefebvre was to call him "one of the most remarkable and honest figures of the first half of the 19th century in Canada." Debartzch and his wife had had four daughters. Elmire and Caroline married respectively Lewis Thomas Drummond* and Samuel Cornwallis Monk, both Montreal lawyers. Cordelia and Louise married Édouard-Sylvestre de Rottermund* and Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski*, Polish exiles who were to make their mark in the province of Canada.
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Pierre-Dominique Debartzch is said to be the author of Vie politique de Mr. . . . , ex-membre de la chambre d'Assemblée du B.C. . . . ([Québec, 1811]). The speech he delivered in the Legislative Council in 1818 is printed in Christie, Hist. of L.C. (1866), 6: 348–52.
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Barthe, Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle, 359. T.-P. Bédard, Histoire de cinquante ans (1791–1841), annales parlementaires et politiques du Bas-Canada, depuis la Constitution jusqu'à l'Union (Québec, 1869), 29, 295–96. Chapais, Cours d'hist. du Canada, 2: 268; 3: 121–22; 4: 59, 114, 188–89. C.-P. Choquette, Histoire de la ville de Saint-Hyacinthe (Saint-Hyacinthe, Qué., 1930), 117–19, 124, 130–32; Histoire du séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe depuis sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours (2v., Montréal, 1911–12), 1: 154, 170–71. Christie, Hist. of L.C. (1866), 4: 422; 6: 352–58. Azarie Couillard-Després, Histoire de la seigneurie de Saint-Ours (2v., Montréal, 1915–17), 2: 74–76, 221. [François Daniel], Histoire des grandes familles françaises du Canada ou aperçu sur le chevalier Benoist et quelques familles contemporaines (Montréal, 1867), 422. David, Patriotes, 37–38. F.-X. Garneau, Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours, Hector Garneau, édit. (8e éd., 9v., Montréal, 1944–46), 7: 184; 8: 145. Ludwik Kos-Rabcewicz-Zubkowski, The Poles in Canada (Ottawa and Montreal, 1968), 10, 18–22, 27, 162. Benjamin Sulte, Histoire des Canadiens français, 1608–1880 . . . (8v., Montréal, 1882–84), 8: 72. Claude de Bonnault, "Généalogie de la famille de Saint-Ours: Dauphiné et Canada," BRH, 56 (1950): 106–7. J.-J. Lefebvre, "Les députés de Chambly, 1792–1967," BRH, 70 (1968): 11–12; "Pierre-Dominique Debartzch," Le Devoir (Montréal), 30 oct. 1939: 6; "Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, 1782–1846," Rev. trimestrielle canadienne, 27 (1941): 179–200.
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Lead Belly's music has had a profound influence on Mark, and remains a beacon in his creative life. In the summer of 1990, Mark set out towards Louisiana on his own in search of the grave of the great Huddie Ledbetter. The trip was chronicled in the 1993 documentary Lead Belly's Legacy, produced for WDCB public radio, Glen Ellyn IL. The show aired in 160 cities and won a Peter Lisagor Award for journalism.
Dvorak recreates the original script in Chasing the Great Lead Belly, complete with narration and thirteen classic songs from the singing of the great Lead Belly.
Mark accompanies the program on a custom made Ralph Bown 12- string guitar, a replica of the Stella played by Huddie Ledbetter and now on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. in Cleveland OH.
Along with Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter is regarded as one of the great American folk song composers and performers. Born in the late 1800s, Lead Belly was a song collector, an animated entertainer and a crack musician. Although he never achieved great success as a performer and recording artist in his lifetime, his songs and legend are inherently woven into the fabric of American folkore and folk music.
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This is Blake Patterson's technology love den, proudly named the "Byte Cellar." It contains no less than 122 vintage computers, retro gaming consoles, Palm Pilots, an Apple Newton, and just about every piece of old technology worth mentioning.
Blake Patterson started building his personal technology museum sometime in 2003 after moving into a larger house. The "office area" is actually Patterson's "workspace" which expanded over time to house Blake burgeoning collection of vintage computers.
Currently the Byte Cellar houses a wide variety of antique computers, including several original Apple Macintoshes, a Texas Instruments TI-99/4, HP-9000 712/60 and a 2011 27-inch iMac (which isn't an antique, but goes to show the vast array of machines in his collection). The room is also filled with Retro consoles ranging from the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and Amiga 1000, to the Sega Nomad.
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Check out Blake's List for his even more extensive collection of pocket PCs, which mostly includes things I've never even heard of. If that's not enough to get your geek jealously going, there's this: The walls, furniture, and even the ceiling are adorned with more nerdy decorations like Serenity (the ship from the TV series Firefly) and bare Atari boards.
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Teen Sues School After Being Suspended for Sarcastic Tweet
A high school student was suspended for seven weeks after he sarcastically responded to an anonymous Twitter comment, and now he's suing his school for dragging his reputation through the mud.
The drama started when Reid Sagehorn, now 18, received an anonymous tweet accusing him of "making out" with one of his teachers at Rogers High in Rogers, Minn. The honor student and three-sport athlete jokingly responded, "Yeah, actually."
But the school district took Sagehorn's sarcastic tweet seriously, initially suspending him for 5 days for "damaging a teacher's reputation." As officials investigated the nonexistent student-teacher relationship, the suspension was increased to 10 days, and then nearly two months.
In the suit, which also names a principal and two superintendents as defendants, Sagehorn says the district violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. He's also suing the chief of police, Jeff Beahen, who mistakenly announced that the tweet could lead to felony charges. (It couldn't and didn't.)
Sagehorn, a minor when he posted the tweet, says his name will forever be linked with the term "felony."
Sagehorn says he lost his basketball captainship and his spot on the baseball team, and was forced to change schools as a result of the suspension and surrounding drama. The district says the "door is still open" for the disgraced student to return to Rogers High and finish out his senior year.
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