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Some of my fondest scientific discussions in
graduate school occurred while eating lunch with fellow students
and post-docs. Here we would hash out problems, discuss
hypotheses, and defend the merits of our research. For me,
pairing food and scientific discourse is a natural, welcomed
event. That is why I was over-the-top excited at the idea of
performing a scientific experiment which involved consuming food
and bedeviling my sense of taste.
Miracle Fruit, a plant indigenous to West Africa,
finally made its way to Lab Central here in Expedition
Health. Chef Ian Kleinman of The Inventing Room, walked into
the lab well equipped to provide our sense of taste with a new
experience. His cooler was jam-packed with ice and buried in
the depths were these lovely, small, red berries called Miracle
Fruit. He also brought with him grapefruit, pickle juice,
lemons, limes, strawberries, tea, and pickle juice. Chef
Kleinman came to the museum to provide the staff at lab central
with our first foray into "flavor
Miracle fruit contains a substance called miraculin
and this protein makes sour or acidic things taste sweet. We
first ingested the berries and then began to eat the buffet of sour
food; it was a fantastically interesting and fun experience.
We literally closed our eyes with delight at the sweetness of
lemons, limes, and grapefruits - all without a hint of the expected
sourness. We had never tasted strawberries or pickle juice so
As we sat in the laboratory delighting in the
wonderful tastes of lemons and limes, we noticed one of our
youngest volunteers eyeing us incredulously. "Are you eating
lemons?" Annie queried with slight hesitation. We shared with
Annie the secret of our enjoyment... Miracle Fruit, which she
happily tried (with permission from her mother)! Did Annie
enjoy the sour fruit? Look at the photos below and you can
see why she asked for seconds! Importantly, the effects of
Miracle Fruit are reversible and the sour taste of the fruit
returned within 40 minutes of tasting the
How can eating a Miracle Fruit, make sour and acidic
foods, taste sweet? Scientists have a few ideas, but more
research needs to be performed. It is postulated that
miraculin interacts with the sweet receptor on the tongue and that
acidic foods play an important role in miraculin
activation. Scientists are especially intrigued by the
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October 30, 2007, 2:20 pm
Stafford was a mole? Huh?
The Denver Post editorial page has stated often that letters are published in a fair and balanced manner to reflect the percentage of letters you receive for and against the issue at hand. Presumptively, you publish the most reasoned or well thought out ones.
James L. Sullivan evidently believes that Rep. Debbie Stafford was a closet liberal who served for years as a Republican politician because her big, evil plan was to change party affiliation at the end of her term in order to damage the Republican party. Huh? If this is the best example of the other sides' opinion one must wonder what the others were like.
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What should a man smell like?
This is not an inquiry to be undertaken lightly — particularly at this time of the year when the gantlet of parties, events and mixers that stretches from Thanksgiving into the new year is destined to put the fragrance profiles of near strangers beneath our noses as surely as stockings dangle from the fireplace mantle.
It's a timely question for other reasons. According to the NPD Group, a market research firm, one-quarter of all annual sales in the prestige fragrance category (defined as the scents sold at the department store level and higher) take place the two weeks before Christmas.
And if you consider that the men's side of that fragrance business is growing faster than the women's (12% compared to 9%, according to an NPD report on sales from January to October, 2011) and that
Guilty Pour Homme topped the list of fragrance launches this year, then all attempts to divine the olfactory essence of dudeness become a matter of both dollars and scents.
So, one way to answer the question is to look at what men (or the people who shop for them) are actually buying. NPD says that during the first 10 months of this year, the five bestselling men's fragrances were
's Acqua di Gio Pour Homme (in the No. 1 spot),
's Bleu de Chanel, Gucci Guilty Pour Homme,
Code and Dolce & Gabbana's Light Blue Pour Homme.
What do all of these fragrances have in common — besides abundant references to the color blue and things aquatic? They all have scent profiles grounded in a combination of wood (including but not limited to forests full of cedar, sandalwood, juniper, oak moss and musk wood) and spice (practically an entire rack full of Szechwan pepper, ginger, bergamot, coriander and pink peppercorns).
Pull the common elements from those bestsellers, says Mark David Boberick, managing editor for the online fragrance publication the
and a guy can start to get a whiff of what America's everyman most likely smells like. "Nowadays, it's all about the aquatics mixed with the woods," Boberick said. "Scents like Bulgari Acqua are a good example. It's aquatic but has a woody base. And Bleu de Chanel is the same way."
Does that mean Gucci Guilty Pour Homme (which we found redolent of cedar-planked orange slices dipped in glacier water) became the bestselling fragrance launch of the year because its chemical cocktail approximates quintessential manliness in some unique and different way?
Boberick doesn't think so. Gucci Guilty Homme "smells like a lot of other men's fragrances, with maybe a slight twist," he said. "It's good stuff but it's not groundbreaking. What probably put it on the list was an exceptional advertising campaign and a designer luxury label."
The designer luxury label is the Italian fashion house of Gucci, of course, and the exceptional advertising campaign he's referring to includes a fever dream of a commercial directed by writer-artist Frank Miller (who wrote the comic-book series "300"), which features a leather-jacket wearing Chris Evans ("Captain America") roaring through darkened city streets on a fire-belching motorcycle on his way to bed
("The Wrestler," "
Gucci's ad campaign is just the latest to rely on serious Hollywood firepower to promote a new men's fragrance. When Chanel's Bleu de Chanel launched in 2010, commercials starring French actor Gaspard Ulliel had none other than
in the director's chair and a
song on the soundtrack. The video on Chanel's
channel has been viewed nearly 1.25 million times since it was posted 15 months ago, and the scent has become the second-best-selling men's fragrance of 2011.
Celebrity affiliation — via advertising campaigns or full-on celebrity-branded product — has long been a key way to create the emotional connection and resonance needed to sell consumers on pretty bottles of scented liquid.
doffs his shirt for Dolce & Gabbana's the One for Men;
was the face of Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme; and country singer
had a hit with his own branded fragrance, to mention but a few.
"A celebrity endorsement is a shorthand way of saying it's a scent of significance," Boberick said. "In this age of the Internet and the fixation on celebrity, for someone who isn't thinking too much about it, the idea that they might smell like a celebrity — or what a celebrity wears or puts their name on — is an easy way out. It's acceptable."
Another way to answer the question of what a man should smell like — at least when the goal is attracting a mate — is to determine what smells cause the greatest increase in sexual arousal. Which is exactly what Dr. Alan R. Hirsch and his colleagues at the Chicago-based Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation endeavored to do back in the mid-1990s. According to their widely reported findings, the odor that resulted in the highest level of arousal among females was the combination of Good & Plenty candy and cucumber. (Men, they found, responded best to a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie.) But Hirsch says those findings come with a couple of caveats.
"There are certainly trends in scents," Hirsch said. "So, yes, it's possible that something else — say the smell of cotton candy or the new
— could cause greater sexual arousal. You also have to realize that humans can detect anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 different odors. Clearly, we couldn't have even begun to test all of them, so it is a distinct possibility that other odors would have an effect — maybe even a greater effect." (Hirsch explained that in early tests, the scent of baked goods was intended to be used as a control but became more integral after researchers noticed how test subjects were reacting.)
Although Hirsch hasn't updated his results (to see whether, perhaps, the smell of a new iPhone is a turn-on), he says the foundation continues to study the effects of odor on perception. One such study discovered that a "spicy floral scent" resulted in a man perceiving a woman to be approximately 12 pounds lighter, and that the scent of pink grapefruit caused him to perceive a woman to be six years younger. And the combined scent of eucalyptus, camphor and menthol induces feelings of empathy in both genders.
And, while we may not be any closer to answering our inquiry about what a man should smell like, Hirsch offered some guidance about what a man probably shouldn't smell like: "Cherries, charcoal barbecue smoke and men's cologne," he said, "were the things found to be the biggest turn-offs to women." (It should be noted that the study failed to identify any scents that decreased sexual arousal in men.)
Hirsch explained that the inclusion of men's cologne on the list more than likely stemmed from the subjects' repeated exposure to men who, on the whole, tend to drench when they should splash.
"It's important to remember that women have a much better ability to smell then men do," he said. "So men tend to use a lot more cologne, body spray or what-have-you, and that tends to overwhelm women because their sense of smell is so much better.
"Also, men tend to go out with women that are usually younger than they are, and when you're younger, your sense of smell is much better."
Hirsch's rule of thumb? "if a guy is putting on the amount [of fragrance] he thinks he should be putting on, it's probably too much."
In other words, no matter what a man should smell like — and to hedge our bets we're going with Chris Evans and Matthew McConaughey in a slow-motion Martin Scorsese video where they shirtlessly race motorcycles through a grove of moss-covered cedar trees, pockets bulging with pink peppercorns, cucumbers and Good & Plentys — he shouldn't smell like it too much.


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The Race to Replace Mary Sue Coleman – Odds on the University of Michigan's next President
The Race to Replace Mary Sue Coleman – Odds on the University of Michigan's next President
The Race to Replace Mary Sue – Odds on Michigan's next President
Although I'm aware there are many casual fans and high school students in our MGoCommunity, I also know we have a fair share of alums, many of whom do in fact care about the University as it extends beyond Hill Street (meaning academic campus). If you were not aware before, the University's now fourth longest serving president, Mary Sue Coleman will be retiring after the 2013-2014 school year. This fact was stated by President Coleman many times in the last year or two (presumptively so the word got out and interested candidates could quietly send word of their interest) but was made "official" at the Regents meeting a few days ago. With that official announcement, the Detroit Free Press wrote the first official article discussing the future of the University's top spot http://www.freep.com/article/20130418/NEWS06/304180143/Mary-Sue-Coleman-to-retire-from-Unviversity-of-Michigan
So, in the spirit of the official off-season here at MGoBlog and as we all enjoy our lists, oddsmaking and generally anything that we can fight about, I offer forth what will hopefully be a periodic diary regarding potential candidates to be the 14thPresident of the University of Michigan. Needless to say that the formal process to replace Mary Sue Coleman has just started. That said, anyone who knows the great political machine that is the University bureaucracy knows that candidates have been making themselves known to those that matter for the last year. Behind the scenes camps are forming and campaigns are beginning with champions of certain candidates carrying the names of their favorites through with the Regents and other high end University donors. In fact, its clear from the quotes of some of the Regents who spoke in the Free Press article, not only are names being bounced around at the Regent level, but apparently there are some names being given consideration from fields outside the traditional academia positions of provosts, chancellors and presidents. Might there be a former or current White House cabinet member out there looking for a landing spot much in the way the University of Miami (YTM) gave former Clinton White House Secretary of Health & Human Services Donna Shalala their Presidency?
Needless to say the new President could come from anywhere much the way Mary Sue Coleman came over from Iowa with little prior contact with UofM. Most of the early mentions have been candidates who have had some prior contact with UofM. However, this will change and update, particularly after the University hires a search company and the respective closets are searched for skeletons. That said, there are a few obvious qualities that the next President will likely need to possess. First and foremost will be the ability to either raise funds or not get in the way of people like Jerry May, the University's Vice President of Development, to raise those funds. At some point this fall the University will formally unveil its next big fundraising campaign (which has silently been worked on for a little over a year now. You didn't think those large gifts from the Zells, Penny Stamps and Charlie Munger within the last six months were some kind of lucky coincidence did you?). The goal on this campaign will be to clear five billion dollars (in comparison, the Michigan Difference campaign raised about $3.5 billion). That means our next President will be stepping into his or her role about twelve to eighteen months into the campaign. Second, at least four recent Regents have run their campaign based on stopping increases in tuition. You can bet the Regents will look hard at all candidates and their ideas regarding handling the budget of the University at a time when the State of Michigan legislature continues to minimize what it pays out to its universities. Finally, the President at Michigan has to be able to juggle not just the faculty and academics at the University but a massive University hospital system that is nearly unmatched nationally in size, scope, research and budget as far as University run hospitals are concerned. Also, the new President had better be ready to deal with UofM athletics and all that encompasses, not the least of which is David Brandon who has made no shortage of enemies north of Hill Street by massively expanding the size and breadth of the athletic department fundraising staff to the point where most Dean's are nervous about having their donors being squeezed or swayed away from putting their name on that new lecture hall and having it end up on that new luxury box or weight room or endowed athletic scholarship. It's a tough job but there should be no shortage of candidates. Those who love the University will be watching closely to see who our new leader will be. With that in mind, and another reminder that the early field will likely be loaded with those with previous Michigan contacts, I present the early voting odds. Someone notify Vegas and see if they're taking action.
Theresa Sullivan– Currently she is President of the University of Virginia. Formerly Provost at Michigan starting in 2006 when she came over from a high level administrative job at the University of Texas, she left for Virginia in 2010. She was very well received during her time at Michigan and has her bachelor's degree from MSU (ties to the State of Michigan). Went through an ugly episode with the UVA Board of Visitors (their Regents) where she was ultimately fired and then reinstated in what amounted to a political coup by some of their Board members who wanted a bigger name candidate for the position when Sullivan was hired. So having survived that and only being there three years, perhaps she's unlikely to leave since she's been there a short period of time. On the other hand, maybe she has had enough of UVA and wants to come back where she's wanted? ODDS 10-1
Marvin Krislov – The current President of Oberlin College since 2007. While one might raise an eyebrow about moving from a smaller school like Oberlin to Michigan, remember that Marvin was the Vice-President and General Counsel at Michigan for nine years before assuming the job at Oberlin. He's worked with much of the current leadership at Michigan and specifically was integral in the handling of the Ed Martin scandal and subsequent NCAA investigation and the affirmative action case that went before the Supreme Court. Accordingly, Mr. Krislov has handled the brightest lights on the big stage at Michigan before and handled it well. ODDS 20-1
Nancy Cantor– Currently President of Syracuse University which she started in 2004 after leaving the Provost's position at Michigan. She has raised over a billion dollars during her ten year tenure at Syracuse University and UofM will be in the first year or two of its next big financial campaign which is rumored to have a fundraising goal of $5 billion. Further, Cantor has indicated that she will not renew her contract with Syracuse when it ends in 2014 meaning she'll be available when Mary Sue Coleman retires. One has to wonder if there is a reason for that. One big knock on Cantor is that during her tenure at Syracuse, the University has taken criticism that it has dropped in academic reputation and, voluntarily withdrew from the Association of American Universities (AAU that we hear about so often in looking for new Big Ten schools) rather than be kicked out. ODDS 30-1
Timothy White – Current Chancellor of the Cal State system, former President of Cal State Riverside for four years and former President of the University of Idaho for four years. Before that, he was the Provost at Oregon State. White did his post doctoral studies and was on the faculty at Michigan (his first professional position). His administrative experience can't be understated and for clarification, he runs the WHOLE Cal State system (that's 23 campuses). Dealing with the size of Michigan shouldn't be an issue. ODDS 40-1
Evan Caminker – I don't see this one as much as some other people do. I want to call this the Bollinger effect where people assume there is some kind of line directly from the Law School Dean's chair to the President's residence. Caminker was a fine Dean of the Michigan Law School for ten years having only recently decided to not renew after the end of his last contract. However, running the WHOLE University (athletics, hospital and all schools) is a far cry from just the law school. The one feather I'll put in Caminker's cap that could prove useful is that he had a reputation as a good fundraiser. The Law School underwent some tremendous renovation and addition that was backed up by tremendous fundraising during Caminker's tenure. Michigan may need that in the next few years if they seriously look to hit the five billion dollar mark in this next capital campaign. Conversely, I've heard others say Caminker is enjoying being a professor again and may not want to go back to being an administrator. ODDS 40-1
Martha Pollack– Will assume the role of Provost at Michigan when Phil Hanlon leaves for Dartmouth this summer. Some have said she's been given the role as a warm up to eventually being named the President. Others have said it's a done deal. The highest administrative role she's held previously was Vice Provost for Budgetary and Academic Affairs since 2010 and before that she was the Dean of UofM's School of Information. People who know her love her and say she's got the stuff. That said, compare the resume to those of some of the others on this list. In MGoBlog terms, would this be going for a Big Ten coordinator over a sitting head coach? ODDS 60-1
Wallace Loh – Current President of the University of Maryland, College Park – Got his Ph.D. in psychology from Michigan. He has plenty of University administration experience as he was previously the dean of the University of Washington School of Law, vice chancellor of the University of Colorado, a Dean at Seattle University, and most recently provost at the University of Iowa where he oversaw budgets and personnel for the state university's eleven colleges. He's also responsible for bringing the school into the Big Ten. ODDS 75-1
Thomas Haas– Thomas Haas is the current President of Grand Valley State University and was formerly President of SUNY Cobleskill for three years. Haas has two masters degrees from Michigan but seems like a bit of longshot considering the smaller schools, budgets, lack of a large hospital system or large athletics at the schools he has presided over. ODDS 150 - 1
Phil Hanlon –Current UofM Provost, leaving to become President at his alma mater Dartmouth College in July. Can't imagine he would have accepted the Dartmouth position knowing full well that the Michigan job would be opening. His odds are only so wide because he just accepted the Dartmouth job. Otherwise, he'd be infinitely qualified and frankly, the logical choice. ODDS 300-1
THE DARK HORSES– I have heard a few names recently but I can't buy them until we get them on campus for an official recruiting visit. If that happens, hold on to your hat. These people could all play as freshmen…….errr……I mean they could all very easily be good picks.
Arne Duncan – Duncan is the current Secretary of Education under President Obama. There was some speculation he might not stay on in the position in the second term but he did end up staying. That said, by the time he would start there would only be about a year and a half left on his term in the Obama Administration so its not unreasonable that he might have to jump for a longer term opportunity. Duncan is originally from Chicago (the son of two UofChicago professors). He was also a basketball player while at Harvard which may give him the insight to deal with our athletics program. Duncan has no experience running a University, nor fundraising (which will be important since the new President will be knee deep in a fundraising campaign). His professional credentials are centered around his turnaround of the Chicago Public School system. The lack of university experience hurts, but the name recognition and contacts he has made working in the White House for six years could make up for that. ODDS 330-1
David Brandon– Under any normal circumstance I would be laughing at this along with you. BUT never forget (a) he was a Regent previously. Someone once told me he is THE second most powerful person at the University above any Dean, Provost, or Vice President. Considering his past business power, political ties, and close relationship with Mary Sue Coleman, would it really shock you? ODDS 350 – 1
Patricia White– After you say "who?"….you could make an argument that if Caminker, why not White. Dean White is the Dean of the University of Miami (YTM) School of Law and holds her bachelors, masters and juris doctor from our own beloved University of Michigan. White has been Dean at Miami since 2009 and was previously the Dean at Arizona State University's Law School. She has also previously been on faculty at Michigan Law School and also worked at Bodman, Longley, a powerful law firm in Michigan. Further, she has some experience in athletics as she was a tax advisor to Major League Baseball. ODDS 400-1
THE PACK– I'm calling this group The Pack. Its mainly comprised of Presidents of Universities with, if you'll pardon the Michigan arrogance, lesser academic reputations than Michigan. It seems unlikely that Michigan would want to hire a sitting President from a school that isn't at least Top 50 kind of school, Ivy League, Big Ten, maybe someone from a more prestigious east or west coast University. As mentioned in the Free Press article Stephanie Bergeron, president of Walsh College, David Eisler, president of Ferris State University, , and Susan Martin, president of Eastern Michigan University and Lloyd Jacobs, president of the University of Toledo all are local presidents. All actually have ties to the region and many have ties to the University of Michigan. It just seems unlikely that the powers that be would be accepting of someone who didn't come from a school with a very significant national academic reputation as well as someone who comes from a school that has had to manage the significant issues that go along with high end Division 1 athletics. Realistically how can you expect someone from one of these Universities to step on to campus and handle David Brandon and not get walked all over. ODDS: 500-1


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Enter the Donald, Take Two
How will the Trump 2012 presidential campaign explain the Trump 2000 presidential campaign?
Let's take a journey back to the last time Donald Trump went on an extended bender of White House hallucination. The year was 1999. Pets.com stock was trading at $11 per share. Nobody was all that interested in Bill Clinton's birth certificate. More important, the Republican Party's nomination looked ungettable, sure to be captured by George W. Bush. So Trump left the party.
"I really believe the Republicans are just too crazy, right?" he told Tim Russert on Meet the Press. "I mean, just what's going on is just nuts."
For a few months, Trump hashed out a policy agenda. It wasn't much, but it was enough to fill a quickie book: The America We Deserve, published in January 2000. The Trump of 11 years ago sounds a lot like the Trump who has taken over cable TV and the Drudge Report top banner these past few weeks: He's against immigration amnesty. He's worried about terrorism. He's rending his hair over America's economic decline. Oh, and there were a few other things. *
"We must have universal healthcare," wrote Trump. "I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses."
The goal of health care reform, wrote Trump, should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. "Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork," he writes.
The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
Today, Trump does not think the Republicans are so crazy. Two new surveys, from Public Policy Polling and Newsmax (which editorially egged him on to run), put him at the top of the GOP's thrilling list of 2012 presidential hopefuls. CNN's poll has Trump capturing much of Mitt Romney's support, even though some in the pundit class think Romney can actually beat President Obama. Pundits know that Trump can't, but they appreciate what he does for their traffic and clickthrough rate.
Romney's biggest current problem with the GOP base, of course, is his stewardship of Massachusetts's market-based universal health care law. So how has Trump avoided any damaging fallout from his single-payer flirtation? Well, the first answer is that maybe he won't. It's a nice, fat target if he surprises everyone and gets into the race. The second answer is that he's avoided conservative opprobrium because Trump is not quite a conservative, in the sense that conservatives would like to think their politicians are. He's an emissary of screw-the-experts, everything-is-broken populism. He's found an audience with Republicans because all of the voters who believe in this have, maybe temporarily, joined Team Red.
This is not necessarily a happy thought for Republicans. Republicans, like Democrats, like to think they have principles. They do not, as a general rule—I may be going out on a limb here—believe in a government-run health care system. They believe in low taxes. They ask their candidates to sign all sorts of pledges, Norquistian and otherwise, affirming their principled stance. They've studied their Hayek and their Russell Kirk.
The thing is, a lot of voters make up their minds while they're blind with rage. And the targets of their rage change from year to year. That's why Trump's 2000 platform is instructive. He was bidding to lead the Reform Party, which grew out of Ross Perot's two presidential bids, which were themselves inspired by the first real backlash to the national debt. The Reform Party's platform opposed any tax cuts before the deficit had been eliminated; excess revenue should be spent on debt payment, not tax cuts.
That was more or less the vintage 2000 Trump position on taxes, sold with a unique combination of angst and bravado. "When was the last time you heard a major politician warning of economic downturn?" he wrote. "It's just not in the vocabulary of any public figure. Except mine."
In The America We Deserve, Trump proposed a one-time 14.25 percent tax on individuals and trusts "with a net worth of over $10 million." He predicted that it would raise $5.7 trillion, "which we would use to pay off the national debt" and pay for Social Security. (The first part of this seems quaint now.)
"By imposing a one-time 14.25 percent net-worth tax on the richest individuals and trusts," he explained, "we can put America on sound financial footing for the next century." Like basically every other Trump idea, this one came with a story of epiphany and self-sacrifice. "The plan would cost me $700 million personally in the short term, but it would be worth it."
This is what a swath of people were angry about or panicked about in 1999. They were worried about campaign finance reform, so Trump sided with them. "If I were drawing a political cartoon to represent the situation," he wrote, while not actually drawing the cartoon, "it would include a very large guy with a huge bag of money. On that bag would be written one word: soft. Soft money is the bane of the current system and we need to get rid of it."
How far can this schtick take you? In 2000, not very far. That was when a lonely nation cried out for blandness, and demanded candidates with smart ideas of how to spend budget surpluses. There was none of the anger and immediacy that there was in 1992 or 2010. And Trump's success, such as it is, is coming because he will say anything that fed-up people are thinking.
Here's an example that's more recent than his book. In 2008, after George W. Bush's party lost, Trump made a critique of the Iraq war predicated on the idea that Bush was a lousy president. * "He'd go into a country," said Trump, "attack Iraq, which had nothing to do with the World Trade Center, and just do it because he wanted to do it." When he said that, that's what people thought about Bush and Iraq.
Smash-cut to this month, when Trump sat down with the Wall Street Journal for one of many interviews with baffled reporters. He went at Iraq from another direction. "I always heard that when we went into Iraq," he said, "we went in for the oil. I said, 'Eh, that sounds smart.' "
Different rationales, different solutions different times—the only thing connecting them is the degree of anger out there in that 18 percent or so of the country that hates and mistrusts both parties, and for the moment is still with the GOP. They like successful businessmen, or they at least like people who can sell themselves that way. They hate anything that sounds like political double-talk. They think Obama is wrecking the country. They can be sold snake oil, as long as the person selling it is brimming with confidence about the recipe. Enter, once again, Donald Trump.
Clarification, April 15, 2011: This paragraph originally cited the prevalence of Trump articles on the Huffington Post. Their prevalence on the Drudge Report is a more apt example. (Return to the revised sentence.)
Correction, April 18, 2011: This article originally referred to 2008 as the year "George W. Bush lost"; it was the year Bush's party lost, with John McCain leading the ticket. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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John Hancock Floating Rate Income Fund Marks Fifth Anniversary
A top performer in Morningstar's Bank Loan category over five years
Feb 01, 2013, 10:00 EST
BOSTON, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- John Hancock Funds announced that the John Hancock Floating Rate Income Fund (Class A: JFIAX; Class I: JFIIX) recently marked its fifth anniversary. For the five-year period ended December 31, 2012, the fund's Class I shares rank in the top two percent of Morningstar's Bank Loan category; while the Class A shares rank in the top four percent.
Sub-advised by Western Asset Management Company (WAMCO), under the supervision of John Hancock Investment Management Services (IMS), the Fund's investment objective is to seek a high level of current income. The Fund's Class A and I shares were both launched on January 2, 2008. The John Hancock Floating Rate Income Fund had approximately $2.8 billion in assets as of December 31, 2012.
"We congratulate the portfolio management team at Western Asset Management Company on achieving this milestone with the John Hancock Floating Rate Income Fund," said Andrew G. Arnott, President & CEO, John Hancock Funds. "The Fund offers investors attractive levels of current income, and may provide protection against rising interest rates and an appealing way to diversify their portfolios, as bank loans have historically provided a lower correlation to other traditional fixed-income and equity asset classes. Moreover, the Fund is yet another example of the extensive, ongoing research we perform in order to provide mutual fund investors with access to proven institutional asset management expertise and products that would otherwise not be available to them."
Western Asset Management is one of the world's premier fixed-income managers. The portfolio management team for the John Hancock Floating Rate Income Fund includes Portfolio Manager Timothy J. Settle; Stephen Walsh, CIO of WAMCO; and Michael Buchanan, CFA, Head of Credit.
The Fund invests primarily in floating rate loans, which often include debt securities of domestic and foreign issuers that are rated below investment grade (rated below Baa or BBB by a rating organization such as Moody's Investor Services or Standard & Poor's), at the time of purchase, or are of comparable quality, as determined by the subadviser, and other floating rate securities.
"We are very pleased with the success of the fund over the last five years," said Mr. Settle, Portfolio Manager. "The team at John Hancock has done a tremendous job raising awareness among investors about the benefits of including bank loans in their portfolios. In our view, bank loans continue to offer an attractive yield relative to other asset classes today and should benefit from rising rates and improving company fundamentals."
The Class I shares are currently rated 5 stars, the Class A load-waived shares are rated 4 stars, and the Class A shares with load are rated 3 stars by Morningstar. Class I shares were rated 4 stars out of 134 funds and 5 stars out of 110 funds for the 3- and 5-year periods, respectively, as of December 31, 2012, by Morningstar. The Class A load-waived shares were rated 3 stars out of 134 funds and 5 stars out of 110 funds for the 3- and 5-year periods, respectively. Class A shares with load were rated 2 stars out of 134 funds and 4 stars out of 110 funds for the 3- and 5-year periods, respectively. Class I and Class A shares share a common portfolio of investments, but have difference expense structures.
About Western Asset Management
Western Asset Management is one of the world's premier fixed-income managers. With offices in Pasadena, New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sao Paulo, Western's only business is fixed income. For more information, please visit www.westernasset.com.
About John Hancock Funds
The Boston-based mutual fund business unit of John Hancock Financial, John Hancock Funds manages more than $77.8 billion in open-end funds, closed-end funds, private accounts, college savings and retirement plans, and related party assets for individual and institutional investors as at September 30, 2012.
About John Hancock Financial and Manulife Financial
John Hancock Financial is a division of Manulife Financial, a leading Canada-based financial services group with principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States. Operating as Manulife Financial in Canada and Asia, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States, the Company offers clients a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services through its extensive network of employees, agents and distribution partners. Funds under management by Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries were C$515 billion (US$523 billion) as at September 30, 2012. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as 'MFC' on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and under '945' on the SEHK. Manulife Financial can be found on the Internet at manulife.com.
The John Hancock unit, through its insurance companies, comprises one of the largest life insurers in the United States. John Hancock offers a broad range of financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, fixed products, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, long-term care insurance, college savings, and other forms of business insurance. Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com.
Fixed-income investments are subject to interest-rate and credit risk; their value will normally decline as interest rates rise or if the creditor is unable or unwilling to make principal or interest payments. Investments in higher-yielding, lower-rated securities involve additional risks as these securities include a higher risk of default and loss of principal. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities, it may be difficult to sell them at a price approximating their value. Foreign investing, especially in emerging markets, has additional risks, such as currency and market volatility and political and social instability. The Fund may invest its assets in a small number of issuers. Performance could suffer significantly from adverse events affecting these issuers. The distribution rate and income amounts reflect past amounts distributed and may not be indicative of future rates or income amounts. The distribution amounts paid by the Fund generally depend on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the Fund's investments. The Fund may not be able to pay distributions or may have to reduce its distribution level if the amount of such income and/or dividends received from its investment declines. Therefore, distribution rates and income amounts can change at any time. For additional information on these and other risk considerations, please see the Fund's prospectus.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. A fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses should be considered carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the Fund. To obtain a prospectus, contact your financial professional, call John Hancock Funds at 1-800-225-5291 or visit our Web site at www.jhfunds.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.
The Morningstar rating methodology rates funds based on an enhanced Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure. Within the Morningstar Bank Loan Category, the top 10% of funds receive five stars, the next 22.5% four stars, the middle 35% three stars, the next 22.5% two stars, and the bottom 10% receive one star. Funds are rated for up to three time periods--three-, five-, and 10 years--and these ratings are combined to produce an overall rating. The fund's adviser has waived a portion of its management fee and/or reimbursed or paid operating expenses of the fund. Without such waiver and/or reimbursement, the fund's returns for the periods indicated would be lower.
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Childcare in Swanley
A friendly place for your Wobblers & Toddlers to grow and learn
Swanley is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) southeast of central London, adjacent to the Greater London boundary and within the M25 motorway. The population at the 2011 census was 16,226. The local council is Swanley Town Council.
Montessori is a specific teaching method founded by the first female doctor in Italy over 100 years ago, it is renowned throughout the world. The environment requires specific preparation and the teacher must be trained to observe and understand the aims of the classroom and the needs of the children. By definition, the Montessori Philosophy we use in SWANLEY teaches a progressive curriculum that uses child-directed learning, backed by observation and scientific research, as its core value. Instead of being traditionally taught, children are encouraged to make their own choices in the classroom, with a teacher to guide them along the way.
In England, SWANLEY CHILDCARE is inspected and regulated by OFSTED (previously this was administered by Local Authority Social Services). CHILDCARE for children under five is split into CHILDCARE on Domestic Premises which is Childminding and Daycare.
A CHILDCARE (also CHILDCARE school, pre-primary school, kindergarten outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children between the ages of two and five, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school.
CHILDCAREs in England, SWANLEY follow the Early Learning Goals, set by the Early Years Foundation Stage, for education produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families which carries on into their first year of school at the age of four and or five. This year of school is usually called Reception. The Early Learning Goals cover the main areas of education without being subject driven. These areas include;
- Personal, social and emotional development (prime area)
- Communication and Language (prime area)
- Physical education (prime area)
- Literacy (specific area)
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Daily Links, July 19: Questions of the day edition
Is Mass attendance down because people don't understand the faith? Says Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith at the Catholic Herald (UK): "People walk away from the practice of the faith not because the reject it as such, but because they do not really understand what it is they are doing when they practice the faith."
Was Trayvon Martin's death really God's plan? George Zimmerman says so.
Is this Olympic runner going to become the next Tim Tebow? They've got the same coach, anyway.
Will Catholics take heed of the annual Natural Family Planning Awareness Week?
Will Catholic Charities of Chicago have better luck suing against the HHS mandate than some other challengers did?
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Snag Films kicks off their SummerFest with The Age of Stupid, a film from Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite (of The Lost World: Jurassic Park and The Usual Suspects fame) plays an old man living in the devastated world of 2055 in this documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek.
"Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Pulling together clips of archive news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why, Pete's exploration surfaces compelling footage and complex issues facing us in our world today. He asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?"
And don't forget that you can create a custom Snag Films theater widget any time you want! We searched for the terms "military" and "soldiers" and found several fascinating documentaries, or type in "On Common Ground" or "Red, White, Black, and Blue" to get you started with some family-friendly fare.
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IRRIGON, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. They did.
Morrow County Sheriff Ken Matlack told the East Oregonian (http://bit.ly/11HS1fi) officers chased a stolen car Wednesday that went through two fences and a gate near Irrigon. It scraped up a steel pole that caused sparks and two brush fires.
After the car got stuck, the driver fled on foot and went into the Columbia.
Matlack says the man briefly tried to cross the river and then said he was tired and asked officers not to leave. They waded into chest-deep water to arrest him.
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Images are increasingly important to the customer experience and search yet many sites are not optimised to take advantage.
In the early days of the web images were typically small and of low quality. We all remember the little animated men at work icons that littered the web in its infancy.
However, as users have moved from dial-up to broadband connections, the number, size and quality of images on the web has increased significantly.
The following graph shows this rapid increase:
Some facts about images:
- 100bn images are captured and made available online each year.
- 750m camera equipped mobile phones are sold each year.
- 100m digital cameras are sold each year.
Images are important to search. Increasingly important. Don't just take our word for it though.
R.J Pittman, Google Director of Product Management, Feb 2009:
Image search makes up about 5.7% of all Google Searches and 5% of all search is image related.
However, very few websites are optimised to take advantage. A recent study we conducted on the top 20 websites in a particular industry (thought to have fairly advanced SEO), highlighted that their optimisation in this area was poor, at best.
So what can be done to capitalise on this free traffic?
Cookieless domain
Ideally images should be hosted under a cookieless domain. A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website.
Cookies are usually used to maintain session state, etc. Despite being relatively small, it is unnecessary for them to be sent with every image request as it needlessly slows down the user's experience.
This is particularly important for mobile users. For example, if your website is www.site.com then you should consider www.sitecontent.com or images.sitecontent.com or some other variation as long as the domain does not set cookies.
Of course you need to make sure you own the domain. You may also need to register the domain with the various search engine site master tools.
Image filename
Images should have meaningful filenames. Using an ID, e.g. SKU, is simply not good enough and does nothing to inform search engines about the contents of the image.
Filenames, like the following, are common examples of what should be avoided:
- 112354_main.jpg
- Method-01-2011-med.jpg
- e9b8fb52-6c02-11e0-b36e-00144feab49a.img
Images should have meaningful filenames without overly long paths, e.g.
Don't forget to include location information, if that is relevant too, e.g.
If a website is translated into multiple languages, then image filenames could be too. However, this can prove a challenge for some systems and will often require images to be duplicated, unless a dynamic imaging system is used.
Ideally you want to be able to change the image filename, without having to re-upload the image. However, make sure that your image URLs cannot be tampered with by malicious people, e.g.
Make sure short-black-dress cannot be replaced and the image is still served correctly
Google has extended its Sitemap capabilities to include support for images. You are now able to provide a caption, title, geo location and license for each image.
It makes sense to use this new capability although Google does not guarantee that it will include your images. It is important to make sure that you are not including thumbnail images and main product images.
Include your main product images rather than thumbnails.
Google uses a special crawler to crawl the web for images. To prevent Googlebot-image from indexing small images (e.g. search result thumbnail images), as opposed to the large images you want them to index, you could sniff the UserAgent string and serve it the large image URL.
That way Google won't accidentally include any small images that are less valuable.
Site speed
In April 2010, Google announced that it was adding site speed as a signal in their search ranking algorithms. Amazon has released research showing that every 100 ms increase in page load time decreased sales by 1%. These are both compelling reasons to improve site speed.
As images typically represent the vast majority of page weight they can have a significant impact on site speed.
This example has been taken from an online shoe store and it's by no means the worst case!
There are several techniques to mitigate this:
- File size reduction, i.e. compression.
- Intelligent caching.
- Delivery acceleration.
It is not good enough to implement one or two of these techniques. All should be implemented!
Websites with international customers are often providing a poor user experience because they are not optimised to cope with the distance.
The distance problem comes down to latency:
- 40 to 80 ms from Europe to UK.
- 80 to 180 ms from USA to UK.
- 250 to 300 ms from Japan to UK.
- 300 to 350 ms from Australia to UK.
- 500 to 600 ms from China to UK.
As stated above, Amazon research shows that every 100 ms increase in page load time decreases sales by 1%.
We tested the loading time of a designer shoe website from London and Sao Paulo. It took eight seconds for the site to load from London and just over 20 seconds from Sao Paulo. The situation is even worse with China.
With appropriate delivery acceleration (edge caching) in place it should not have taken much longer.
If you have any doubt, as to the purchasing power of these countries, see the table below. At its current growth rate, India would easily have more High Net Worth Individuals than the UK by 2018.
Endless aisle
Prior to the internet, retailers were restricted by the location and floor space of their shops. This not only restricted who they could sell to, but which products they could sell.
With the advent of the internet, these physical restrictions have largely been removed. Retailers may stock the top products in their stores, but are able to offer the long tail of products online.
Retailers are also able to offer categories of products that are complimentary to their brand that they wouldn't ordinarily sell in their physical stores, or wish to stock in their warehouses.
Increasingly people are using search engines to find products rather than visiting sites directly.
Long tail products increase your content and the likelihood that people using search engines will find your site.
Discontinued products
Products (and their images) that have been discontinued should not be removed from websites as there will likely be residual links and hence traffic to them.
Visitors should be shown the discontinued product and offered one or more of the following:
- The replacement product.
- Products from the same category.
- Products from the same brand.
Using a Dynamic Imaging solution you are able to optimise images (dimensions and/or file size) for different device models, e.g. PCs, smartphones, tablets, kiosks, ePoS, smart TVs, etc.
For example you may serve a picture at 85% quality (read compression) for a PC, but serve it at 60% quality for smartphones. Whilst 60% may be unacceptable on a PC, smartphones user will not notice and will appreciate the quicker download.
Search engines such as Google are now crawling websites with different mobile user agents to see if they find different content or mobile optimised content.
Social media
The Facebook Like button is incredibly powerful. See below for an example of how it can be added
In this example the social media buttons only appear when the user hovers their mouse over the thumbnail in the search results.
When a user clicks a Facebook Like button, Facebook downloads a copy of the image. The following graph shows for August the % of image Bot requests that Facebook accounts for with a website that uses Facebook Like buttons with their product images.
As you can see it is a very high percentage!
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard which allows users to organize and share things they find on the web. Users can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share their interests.
Pinterest's Pin It Button can be easily added to your website.
As with Facebook and Pinterest you can add a Twitter button so users can tweet about the products they like.
Google SERP images
Google increasingly displays images in its search results. For example:
When users click on an image Google displays a page such as the following:
The user's web browser makes a request for the original image with Google set as the referrer.
The following graph shows the number of image requests where Google is the referrer.
Over 1% of the image requests on a daily basis are now referrals from Google and this percentage is increasing!
This highlights the importance of images as part of an SEO strategy.
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As one of the earliest adopters of Elasticera at Chemist Direct I can concur with everything Richard states in the above article. It took only a few hours of dev time to integrate Elasticera and we saw an immediate improvement of our page speed over our previous CDN. We were then able to experiment with different levels of jpeg compression really easily by just changing the compression attribute on the call to Elasticera. By doing this we were able to reduce the file sizes by up to 30% while retaining the required level of quality – with no effort on our side - literally just changing a value in the method that calls the images. Elasticera has made image processing and serving for us a snip. Keep up the good work!!
Terrific post. Thanks for your various example.
Thanks for the info and numbers. Good summary of SEO for images.
Would be great to see 1y trend and seasonality on Google/Facebook referrals and referral numbers before/after making these changes.
We use elasticera on 2 of our websites as a cdn and it has without a doubt improved the speed of our page load. The installation was very simply as most of the needed technical code was provided for us in the example.
The seo benefits are also very clear to us, if i search for a generic term related to our products on google images a few of our product images show on the first page.
The ability to change the image quality simply by changing the param in the url request is also very useful
I'm in 100% agreement with the other comments here. We've recommended Elasticera for some time now and when you stack it up against the current market leaders it is incredibly compelling, and not just for SEO. I think images are one of those areas that are often overlooked when people launch new websites - they assume that there's not much you can really do to optimise them when in fact there is a huge difference to be had when done properly!
Hi Roger
When I get some more time I will write another guest blog post covering the questions you raise.
Hi Richard,
Nice post! Images are truly important for any website as the visual content is what counts on Social Media. Businesses should therefore pay attention to effective image optimisation as well as how they can use these images off-site.
I've recently written a blog post on how to increase traffic with the help of images which features also off site ideas. I've also included a Google Analytics advanced segment that will help you find out the traffic your website is getting through Google Image search results
Would love to hear your thoughts on this
Very Good article. Images and the way we process images is incredibly important these days as we have to cater for so many different devices and resolutions. Elasticera easily enables the ability for responsive as well as compression to devices and enables considerable savings in studio time.
I have'nt thought about this before .. Thanks for this post, good point!
I agree with using the alternative name attributes on images as an optimization method. Though i can't see the point on optimizing for google image search. What is the conversion rate of people who searched explicitly for an image?
Focus on your customers, not google. I found a nice page analyzer tool at minion-inc.com - it picks apart your content and focuses on logical and understandable site structure.
Hi Tim
We are not suggesting optimising purely for Google Image Search.
In the graph titled "Image requests where Google is the referrer" about 98%+ of the traffic is from normal Google Search Results Pages.
Google is increasingly displaying images in normal search results pages.
This article provides a lot of great information, especially the technical stuff in image marketing. Image is very important in display marketing. Images are now very important as evidence by the popularity of image social media like Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook. I will be implementing this on my blog http://www.homerefurnishing.com
Hello i have problem with Google image search its index my thumbnail instead of full size image. I used wordpress and also use Images sitemap and submitted to Google. You say to Sniff the Useragent string to force to index large image. Explain me more detail about this. I will trying for this problem. My site http://www.finewallpapers.net/
Hi Rich. Thanks for pulling all this helpful info and the stats together. Image optimisation is core to our business. Have you done any research/written any posts on image metadata such as IPTC fields (eg image caption, keywords) embedded into the image or associated with the jpeg uploaded directly to a website? This is something we seek clarification on, as an additional optimiser for long tail image names. If we could know how major search engines index metadata in this way then we could further improve SEO alongside our current on-site SEO services.
Thanks for your helpful input
Clemency Wright


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Skip to comments.SAN FRANCISCO: President Obama wades into shark fin soup fracas
Posted on 02/16/2012 5:37:50 PM PST by SmithL
President Obama, who signed the Shark Conservation Act into law last month, apparently didn't check out the menu before he made a surprise visit Thursday to a restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown that is among a handful still serving shark fin soup, a delicacy that has been outlawed in California.
The Great Eastern restaurant, a Chinatown landmark on Jackson Street, has a $48 single serving of braised shark fin soup on its menu, and was the site of the president's drop-in after he landed in San Francisco to attend three fundraising events.
Obama made an unannounced visit to the venue, according to a pool report provided of the event, entering the restaurant wearing no jacket and with his sleeves rolled up. Patrons, "mostly of Chinese origin, shrieked, 'Obama! Obama!' ... getting up out of their chairs, rushing to the president and leaving plates of low mein behind," according to the report.
"How are you? Good to see you!" Obama told diners.
The president "spent time working the dining room, posing for pictures and shaking hands," then picked up an order of two bags of food to take out, paying for his meal at the cashier's desk, the report said.
His motorcade attracted huge crowds as it wended through the San Francisco streets on the way to his first of two fundraising events on Nob Hill.
The president ordered shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, steamed pork buns, Shanghai dumplings and stuffed mushrooms - but no soup of any kind, including shark fin soup that the Great Eastern sells in three varieties, a restaurant employee said.
Distribution and sale of shark fin products - which cost hundreds of dollars per pound - were outlawed in California after a roiling debate that accompanied passage of AB-376 by Assemblyman Paul Fong, D-Cupertino,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
"The president ordered shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, steamed pork buns, Shanghai dumplings and stuffed mushrooms "
I give you, "The Professional News Industry"
He should have visited Haight Ashbury instead..
San FRan Chinese restaurant visit today. :-]
Are all those dumplings on Michelle's healthy food list? And just where were the delicious vegetables she pushes? Oh, yes...he did order mushrooms, LOL.
You can bet The Muslim Terrorist and Traitor In Chief and Muoochella are sitting in the White House and scorning Us mere Plebians as they dine on gallons of Shark Fin Soup, Roasted Bear Paws, Leopard Steaks, and Live Monkey Brains, among other Asian Delicacies that barack was raised on as the adopted son of a Billionaire Indonesian Corrupt and Disgusting Adopted Father and his Communist Fanatical Mother! And America elected this dirtball with an entirely disappeared History, NO DOCUMENTS OF ANY OF HIS HISTORY ALLOWED TO EXIST OR BE EXAMINED!! HITLER'S MEDIA PROPAGANDA COULD NEV ER HOLD A CANDLE TO OBAMA'S MASS MEDIA PROPAGANDA MACHINE!!! PUTIN is truly jealous of Obama's Fraud on America!! and the MUSLIM WORLDIS ECSTATIC OVER THEIR PHOPHET'S FRAUD AND SABOTAGE OF AMERICA!!
Can this guy get any more idiotic?
Let ANY conservative do this and it'd be over...
some times I just can't DO this any more....
So, the article repeatedly said the sale or possession of
shark fin was outlawed in California...was anyone arrested
or charged? Why not?
You can bet if Obama had come in wearing an ICE hat
there would have been some empty plates of lo mein
The more I think about this, this sort of visit
just doesn't happen by accident. the Owner is
probably an obama bundler who will now receive
lots of face in the community...
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I wonder if Obama just stopped by to get a few bundles of cash wrapped in to go containers from this restaurant?
Think about it, the food must have been ordered in advance and the owner knew he was coming and got his pay back with a personal appearance by the famous and only ONE.
After all, what did Obama need with some Chinese food to go when he was on his way to a $35K a plate fundraiser?
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Is Mike McLachlan failing to represent the people? A letter in the Feb. 25 Herald says he is, apparently on the issue of gun regulation, although this letter fails to say what proposed regulation is undesirable. It probably is McLachlans proposed 15-round limit on semi-automatic rifle magazines that is the source of the complaint.
Lets examine this issue for a moment. Colorados existing hunting regulations require no more than four rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber to hunt with semi-automatic rifles. So a 15-round magazine is way too much for hunting.
So the question arises, what is the lawful use for a magazine even as large as 15 rounds? Perhaps McLachlan was thinking about self-protection when he proposed the 15-round limit, and that is a valid reason for a larger magazine than is allowed for hunting. But the writer of the Feb. 25 letter fails to explain any reason why a 15-round magazine is insufficient for self-protection, and I cant think of one.
On Saturday, McLachlan was attacked at a town meeting by a group of out-of-towners who had been rallied through the Internet to attend and oppose any gun regulations. He was called a traitor, even though he comes from a military family and is himself a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. Those hecklers, many of whom came from outside McLachlans district, certainly are not representative of the people of this district. And I wonder when and how they served this country.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York woman was sentenced on Monday under the state's "Granny Law" to one year in jail for punching an elderly Wal-Mart greeter in the face after a Christmas Eve shopping spree.
It was the second time the upstate New York woman, Jacquetta Simmons, 28, was sentenced in Genesee County Court, after her original sentence of five years in prison was successfully appealed with the argument that it was too harsh for a first-time offender.
"One punch shouldn't be enough" to trigger New York's tough Granny Law, which calls for harsher penalties for crimes against the elderly, said Simmons' lawyer, Earl Key.
Her legal team said the new sentence of a year behind bars was more appropriate.
Prosecutor Lawrence Friedman disagreed.
"This does not do justice to the victim at all," Friedman said.
On Christmas Eve 2011, Wal-Mart employee Grace Suozzi, then 70, routinely asked to see a shopping receipt as Simmons, who was a college student, exited the store in Batavia, New York. Instead, prosecutors said, Simmons punched Suozzi in the face, fracturing her nose and knocking her to the ground.
Simmons was convicted of assault and sentenced under New York's Granny Law, which ramps up penalties for intentionally harming someone over the age of 65 if the defendant is 10 or more years younger than the victim.
An increasing number of cases are being prosecuted under the law, which was passed in 2008 to protect New York senior citizens. In New York City in 2013, a total of 191 people were charged under the law compared with 129 arrested the previous year, according to police statistics.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he believes lawmakers will avert a government shutdown, though he said Republicans will demand other concessions before agreeing to keep the government funded.
The Democratic-controlled Senate was expected to approve a government spending bill on Saturday, after stripping out a Republican plan to defund the 2010 U.S. healthcare reform law known as "Obamacare."
Republican leaders now believe the fight over Obamacare should be part of the talks to raise the government's borrowing authority, known as the debt ceiling, Republican U.S. Representative Tom Cole said after a caucus meeting.
Lawmakers have until next Tuesday to agree to a spending bill, or much of the government will shut down.
"I do not see that happening," Boehner told reporters.
(Reporting By Richard Cowan, Rachelle Younglai and Kim Dixon; Editing by Doina Chiacu)


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The proposed cuts in the state's budget plan will affect many service agencies across the state. The nonprofit organization Life and Independence for Today (LIFT), which provides services for people with disabilities, is anticipating those cuts and is working to ensure that clients will not lose access to programs and services on which they depend. Hope Weichman, LIFT's office/program manager, said the organization's upcoming fundraiser is one way they are hoping to alleviate the anticipated cuts in state funding. A spaghetti dinner and dance will be held on Saturday, March 26 at the Emporium Firehall along North Broad Street in Emporium, Cameron County. The dinner will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m., followed by dancing from 8 p.m. to midnight. Music and entertainment will be provided by 2 Guys Drinking Beer. The admission cost of $10 per person which includes the dinner and entertainment, refreshments and a limited amount of beer, and BYOB is also permitted. A 50/50, raffle and auction will also be held. All proceeds of the event will benefit LIFT clients in Elk, Cameron, Clearfield, Jefferson, McKean, and Potter counties. Weichman said any monies raised will help LIFT continue to assist people with disabilities in areas such as assistive technology, transportation and accessible housing. "Last year's budget cuts put us (LIFT staff) all down to part-time. Facing additional cuts would mean even further reduction in hours, which doesn't leave us able to appropriately serve our consumers," Weichman said. She said continued loss of funding will likely eliminate some of the services and programs for people with disabilities provided by LIFT in the organization's six-county service area. "We always face the possibility of entire programs being cut - our nursing home transition program, and in general, just our ability to go in and effectively serve our consumers. Our peer-based transition support service program could face further cuts," Weichman said. "Limited travel would mean that we can't go to the home of the consumer to help with issues that they have. "All of our services are provided to them free of charge, and people with disabilities are on a very fixed, minimal income, and with everything else going up except for their income, they really depend on the services we provide for them."


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Atlantis, UNCW's creative magazine, hosts an event in celebration of the Summer 2015 issue
WILMINGTON | Atlantis, the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Creative Magazine, hosts an event in celebration of the Summer 2015 issue 8:30 p.m. tonight at Bourgie Nights, 127 Princess St., Wilmington.
All members ages 18 and older are welcome, and guests are invited to view the summer edition while enjoying live music. Musical entertainment, which starts at 9 p.m., is provided by The Bourbons and Collective Dialogue.
Atlantis accepts submissions from all students in the UNC system and Cape Fear Community College. The magazine features art, photography, and literature of all genres.
WILMINGTON | The Black Arts Alliance and NHC NAACP in collaboration with the statewide NC-NAACP and Working Films present Moral Movies, a four-month series that brings award-winning films to Wilmington. The series aims to jump-start community dialogue on social, economic, and environmental issues relevant to the North Carolina.
Launching tonight at 7 p.m. at the Cameron Art Museum, a free screening of "American Teacher" is shown. The documentary follows the lives and careers of four teachers, and provides an opportunity for conversation about teacher pay and public education in the state.
Moral Movies will take place the last week of each month, April through July. Screenings in Wilmington coincide with showings in Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Greenville, Asheville, Greensboro, and Pittsboro. The ongoing entertains topics that have been hotly debated in the state legislature and by the public, such as education, income inequality and voting.
Hosted by The Black Arts Alliance and the New Hanover County NAACP, the schedule for upcoming screenings is as follows:
American Teacher – 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th Street.
American Winter – 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at the Hannah Block Historic USO/Community Arts Center, 120 S. Second Street.
Freedom Summer – 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at New Beginning Christian Church, 3120 Alex Trask Drive, Castle Hayne.
WILMINGTON | Live music, food vendors, and environmental information and activities for all ages are all a part of the 2014 Wilmington Earth Day Festival.
Local volunteers and groups are on hand to help community members get involved in environmental efforts noon-6 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at Hugh MacRae Park.
The free event presents numerous exhibits, and this year's theme is "Clean Water Starts Here."
Food and drink vendors include Carolina Brewery, Flaming Amy's Sacred Burrito Bus, PT's Food Truck, and Rita's Italian Ice. The Clams start off the musical entertainment at noon, followed by Cosmic Groove Lizards at 2 p.m., and Funck and Disorderly will play at 4 p.m.
The Kids' Eco Zone provides hands-on activities for children of all ages. Mr. Mark's Music entertains young guests, leading the Nature Brigade Parade that begins 1:30 p.m. at the Kids' Tent, and winds around the perimeter of the festival. Participants are encouraged to dress like a favorite flora or fauna creature and join the parade, and costumes are available for those who do not wear their own.
Attendees can enter to win a prizes that include a Hurricane Kayak, a rain barrel, customized cornhole boards, and more.
Free, off-site parking is available at the parking lot near Tidal Creek Co-op, at 5335 Oleander Drive, and a trolley transports guests to the park about every 20 minutes, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
For more information, visit www.wilmingtonearthday.com.
WILMINGTON | The Coast Guard Auxiliary offers a one-day Safe Boating Class 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, April 26, Bradley Creek Marina, 6338 Oleander Drive.
Topics covered include boat handling, waterway markers, and safety procedures. The cost is $30 per boater, and includes books and materials. This course does meet North Carolina legal requirements for boaters under 26 years of age.
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WILMINGTON | The New Hanover County Arboretum celebrates its 25th anniversary with "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Wine – a primer on growing your own herbs and micro-greens" 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at 6206 Oleander Drive.
Friends of the Arboretum host the event, which includes demonstrations and discussion by Meg Shelton, of Shelton Herb Farm. A wine tasting and appetizer follows.
A selection of her herbs are available for sale. Tickets are $25 FOA members, and $30 for non-members. Reservations are required, and can be made by contacting 910-798-7660 or nhcarboretum.com.
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