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While I was looking through pumpkin recipes recently, I came across the idea of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies which sounded so good that I had to try them right away! I had not thought to use pumpkin in cookies before but I knew that it would be a killer combo. When I went to see if I had any chocolate chips, I happened to stumble across some macadamia nuts first. I looked at the container and thought, I have just enough for a batch of cookies and then inspiration struck! Why not add pumpkin to some white chocolate chip and macadamia nut cookies? White chocolate chunk and macadamia nut cookies are my all time favourite cookie and so with that thought I instantly had a new plan.
I pulled out my trusty white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies recipe and I proceed to add some pumpkin puree . Since the pumpkin puree would be adding some moisture I figured I would need some more dry ingredients to balance things out. I was going to just add some more flour but then I thought; Why not add some rolled oats? Rolled oats add a great texture to cookies and they provide the perfect excuse to lie to yourself and say that that makes them healthier. 🙂 I have to say that the aroma of the pumpkin and white chocolate baking in the oven was heavenly! When I first bit into one of the cookies, they definitely lived up to my expectations, taking an already fantastic cookie and elevating them to even further heights!
Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Nut Cookies
Pumpkin rolled oats cookies with white chocolate and macadamia nuts.
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup white chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
- Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet.
- Mix in the rolled oats, white chocolate and macadamia nuts.
- Place the dough onto a cookie sheet one table spoon at a time.
- Bake in a 350F/180C preheated oven for 8-10 minutes.
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Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards.
Swift won eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for "Red." She told the crowd: "You are the longest and best relationship I ever had."
She also had a colorful performance of her hit "22" — starting backstage and working her way to the main stage on the back of a bike with help from a dozen background dancers and a flurry of red balloons.
Justin Bieber also performed — twice — and was also a multiple winner with three awards, including top male artist, social artist and the fan-voted milestone award, beating out Swift and Bruno Mars. When accepting the latter — where boos were heard — he alluded to the tumultuous weeks he's had in the public eye.
"I'm 19 years old; I think I'm doing a pretty good job. And basically from my heart I really just want to say it should really be about the music, it should be about the craft that I'm making. This is not a gimmick," he said. "I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken."
Bieber performed with will.i.am and solo when he sang "Take You" in leather pants, a leather vest and a black shirt that had one sleeve, as blue laser lights beamed.
Miguel, too, had a show-stopping performance, though he seemed to kick a fan when he jumped over the crowd while singing his hit "Adorn." The R&B singer seemed to have landed part of his body on one woman, who walked away, and kicked another, who held her head low.
Maroon 5 and fun. were also nominated for 11 awards and walked away with one win each in pre-telecast announcements. Gotye and Rihanna had the second-most wins with four awards each.
But the awards show, airing live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on ABC, is less about the trophies — which reflect success on the Billboard charts — and more about the performances. Selena Gomez sang her seductive new hit, "Come & Get It," while Chris Brown danced around the stage to his latest single, "Fine China," though his voice began to crack during the performance. Duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis also performed their massive hit, "Thrift Shop," which won top rap song.
"First and foremost, gotta thank Goodwill, gotta thank Value Village," Macklemore said to laughs.
Kid Rock, who presented the award, sparked controversy when he told the crowd, "Let's give it up for people lip-synching under pre-recorded music."
Mars and his band kicked off the show in silky red suits that matched their silky dance moves, with bright gold disco balls hanging above them during a performance of the upbeat and old-school flavored "Treasure."
Nicki Minaj won the first award in the live telecast for top rap artist, beating out Drake, Flo Rida, Pitbull and Psy.
"I definitely did not expect this one," she said, wearing a bright red dress.
She later performed "High School" with Lil Wayne and gave the rapper a provocative lap dance onstage.
Prince, who received the icon award, closed the awards show with a melody of his jams in a turquoise and purple ensemble. He sang, dance and rocked on the guitar.
Madonna won top touring artist, dance artist and dance album for "MDNA."
"Thank you for supporting me for three decades. Without you I truly wouldn't be here," she said.
Pitbull made two appearances, one with Jennifer Lopez and another with Christina Aguilera. His hit with Aguilera, "Feel This Moment," samples A-Ha's "Take On Me" and Morten Harket came out to sing a line from the song.
Comedian-actor Tracy Morgan was the show's host, and he dressed as Psy in a bright yellow suit when the rapper-singer was onstage to present an award. They had a dance battle to Psy's new single, "Gentleman."

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OK. And we all noticed rising costs at the gas pump. But those costs will also mean rising prices for airline tickets.
As NPR's Annie Baxter reports, that's already happening.
ANNIE BAXTER, BYLINE: If you've been looking for a great deal on airline tickets recently, you've probably been disappointed.
BOB MANN: Carriers have raised prices successfully twice, so far this year and that's out of four attempts. And I would expect another attempt literally within in a week.
BAXTER: That's airline consultant Bob Mann. He says carriers have ways to reduce their exposure to higher prices by locking in fuel at a fixed cost in advance, a process called hedging. But Mann says carriers never hedged 100 percent. So a spike in the cost of fuel, which is an airline's biggest line item of expense, usually translates to higher fares. And since Mann thinks fuel will only get costlier, he says it's best to book flights as soon as possible, before fares shoot up more.
But Rick Seaney, chief executive of the travel website FareCompare.com, disagrees somewhat. He says don't watch sites like his hawkishly for any hint of fuel-related price spikes for all your travel. Seaney says hurry to book if you're traveling in the next month or so. But for summer travel, he says it's best to shop about three months in advance.
RICK SEANEY: That's when airlines start releasing some of their cheaper seats to test to see how the booking environment looks.
BAXTER: Seaney says fares in January were already up nine percent from the year before. He thinks some travelers will get fed up with those rising costs and drive or take a train instead. But he says airlines can probably bank on business fliers suffering the price increases without too much pushback.
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Barry Bonds will be an All-Star: And impressively, too. He came back from a 119,000-vote deficit in the vote's final days to finish 123,000 votes ahead of Alfonso Soriano for the NL's third outfield spot. Who says the fans can't get it right? This was the ONLY choice to make.
The upshot: Bonds isn't hated NEARLY as much as the media will have you believe, AND fans – even if they hate Bonds – still want to see him in the All-Star Game in
His selection -- and his appearance, particularly among his adoring, see-no-evil home fans of
Comments question: Which player(s) got screwed worst by the All-Star selection? And which All-Star was least deserving?
In the
Nice to see: Gil Meche, particularly after all the grief he and the Royals took in the offseason for signing him to such a big-ass deal.
In the NL, Prince Fielder and Russ Martin crash what is otherwise the usual suspects among the starters. For the reserves, it's hard to believe that the left side of the infield, league-wide, is so thin that they can only support ONE reserve SS and ONE reserve 3B. (C'mon: Where's Ryan Braun?)
Nice to see: Dmitri Young, whose career seemed irrevocably imploded as recently as last season -- now resurrected as the leader of the Nats.
ASG starting pitchers: I think Peavy is a no-brainer in the NL. In the
"Final Vote" Mania! My favorite MLB marketing gimmick of the last I-don't-know-how-long:
In the upend traditional xenophobia/racism (Oh, fine. I hear you, Commenters.) The biggest thing going against him is that he's on the Red Sox.
In the NL, I think it will be Carlos Zambrano, over Gorzelanny, Oswalt, reigning NL Cy Young Brandon Webb and Chris Young the pitcher. If Hanley Ramirez was on this ballot, I think he'd win (and would deserve to win).
Comments: Who are your picks for the "Final Vote" in each league?
MLB Stud: Tim Lincecum, the Giants rookie SP who struck out 12 batters -- a career-high in his admittedly short career.
MLB Dud: Mike Hargrove, who resigned as Mariners manager because he couldn't hack it anymore. Let's hope another team does NOT give him another chance as part of the MLB Manager Recycling Program. (For example, the Reds, after they fired Jerry Narron.)
NBA Free Agency: Nets re-sign Vince Carter. I don't care how much money it was for -- it was a bad move. I understand the guy is popular (Wait: to whom, exactly? His popularity is a mystery to
Rashard Lewis Watch: The Rockets want him. The Magic want him. The Knicks want him. Let's eliminate the Knicks right now, right?
I think the NBA Free Agent to Watch is Gerald Wallace, who is arguably not just a better value than the rest of the top-tier, but a better player, period, given his age, versatility and recent production.
NBA Relocation: Jason Kapono is taking his conscience-free 3-point shooting from
NHL Free Agency: Crazy start. See what a little extra cap room can do for player movement? In another era, Chris Drury's move to
Chris Benoit Murders: In a horrifying new development, it looks like Benoit may have used his "signature finishing move" to kill his own son. This is sick beyond words.
New Varsity Dad post up this morning: A parody off the story of 14-year-old Ryan Boatright committing to play hoops for USC. Here's the link.


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NEW YORK — For years, foes of same-sex marriage had a potent talking point: They'd won every time the issue went to a popular vote. That winning streak has now been shattered in a multi-state electoral sweep by gay marriage supporters — a historic tipping point likely to influence other states and possibly even the Supreme Court.
"It's an astounding day," said Kevin Cathcart of the gay-rights group Lambda Legal, recalling that in 2004 alone the gay-marriage movement went 0-13 in statewide elections and was 0-32 overall since 1998.
In Tuesday's voting, however, Maine and Maryland became the first states ever to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote. Washington state seemed poised to follow suit, although slow ballot-counting there continued Wednesday. And in Minnesota, voters rejected a proposal to place a ban on gay-marriage in the state constitution, a step taken in past elections in 30 other states.
"The anti-gay opposition kept moving the goal posts and had as their last talking point that we could not win a popular vote," said Evan Wolfson, president of the advocacy group Freedom to Marry. "Last night, voters in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and, all signs suggest, Washington proved them wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong."
Heading into the election, gay marriage was legal in six states and the District of Columbia, in each case due to legislation or court orders rather than popular vote.
Activists said Tuesday's results will likely spur pushes for same-sex marriage in states that already have established civil unions for gay couples — including Illinois, Rhode Island, Hawaii and Delaware.
Democratic takeovers of both legislative chambers in Colorado and Minnesota may also prompt moves there to extend legal recognition to same-sex couples. In each state, the Democratic governors, John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, would support such efforts.
In Minnesota, state Sen. Scott Dibble, who is openly gay, is among several Democratic lawmakers uncertain if an immediate push for gay marriage makes political sense. But Dibble, who is 47, said of himself and his partner: "We'll be married in Minnesota in our lifetime."
Whatever happens at the statehouse level, the U.S. Supreme Court is also likely to become a pivotal battleground in the next phase of the gay-marriage debate.
The justices are expected to confront same-sex marriage in some form during the current term.
Several pending cases challenge a provision of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that deprives same-sex couples of federal benefits available to heterosexual couples. A separate appeal asks the justices to decide whether federal courts were correct in striking down California's Proposition 8, the amendment that outlawed gay marriage after it had been approved by courts in the nation's largest state.
"The justices now know America is with us. America is ready," said Brian Ellner, co-founder of a social-media initiative called TheFour.com that was active in the gay-marriage campaigns. He and other activists noted that nationwide polls prior to the election were showing, for the first time, that a majority of Americans now backed gay marriage.
James Esseks, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project, termed the referendum results "an indisputable watershed moment" that almost certainly would influence the Supreme Court.
"When making decisions on civil rights issues, the court follows the country, rather than leading," he said. "They don't make decisions in a complete public-opinion vacuum."
He noted that if the high court struck down Prop 8, that would immediately add California — with its 37 million residents — to the list of states allowing same-sex marriage.
Had the four measures lost, said Evan Wolfson, justices might have been reluctant to wade in on the side of gay marriage. Now, he said, they could do so "knowing that their support will stand the test of time and, indeed, be true to where the American people already are."
The chairman of the leading advocacy group opposing same-sex marriage, John Eastman of the National Organization for Marriage, said it was possible that the referendum results might nudge the high court toward a ruling favoring gay marriage. But Eastman said it also was possible the justices would decide to let the political process play out a bit longer at the state level before intervening.
The National Organization for Marriage's president, Brian Brown, expressed disappointment at the unprecedented losses for gay marriage opponents, who were outspent by at least 3-to-1 in the four referendum states — all of them won easily by President Barack Obama..
The results "reflect the political and funding advantages our opponents enjoyed in these very liberal states," Brown said. "Our opponents and some in the media will attempt to portray the election results as a changing point in how Americans view gay marriage, but that is not the case."
For the gay-rights movement, the celebration extended far beyond the groundbreaking ballot measures.
In Wisconsin, veteran congresswoman Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay person elected to the U.S. Senate. At least five other openly gay Democrats were elected to House seats, while Kyrsten Sinema — vying to be the first openly bisexual member of Congress — was locked in a too-close-to-call race in Arizona.
In Iowa, gay-marriage opponents failed on two counts. They lost a bid to oust one of the state Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of gay marriage in 2009, and they were unable to take control of the state Senate, where Democratic Majority Leader Michael Gronstal has blocked a proposed amendment to overturn that ruling.
More broadly, gay-rights leaders celebrated the re-election of Obama, who had frustrated them early in his term with his sometimes cautious stances. Over the past two years, he's become a hero of the movement — playing a key role last year in enabling gays to serve openly in the military and this year becoming the first sitting president to endorse same sex-marriage.
Among the next agenda items at the federal level is the proposed Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which would protect gays and transgender people from workplace discrimination.
The gay-rights momentum even extended overseas. Spain's top court upheld the legality of the country's gay marriage law on Tuesday, and French President Francois Hollande's Cabinet was pushing ahead Wednesday with a controversial bill that could see gay marriage legalized early next year.
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In the late 1990ies I developed a graphical audio signal synthesis and analysis application called Assampler for Amiga. However it turned out that graphical programming does not scale well. Thus some years later I started to rewrite much of its functionality in plain Haskell. There is both a low-level interface and a high-level framework for automatical inference of sample rate and use of physical units in a sound processing network. This generalizes the usual restricted splitting into audio rate and control rate signals. Routines are now also suitable for real-time processing using Storable Vector library, a Stream like data type and aggressive inlining. There is an interface for using synthesized sounds for rendering Haskore music. The library uses the Numeric Prelude library and its numerical type class hierarchy.
The aim of this project is audio signal processing using pure Haskell code. The highlights are:
- a basic signal synthesis backend for Haskore,
- experimental structures for filter networks,
- basic audio signal processing, including some hard-coded frequency filters,
- advanced framework for signal processing supported by physical units, that is, the plain data can be stored in a very simple number format, even fixed point numbers, but the sampling parameters rate and amplitude can be complex types, like numbers with physical units,
- Unlike other software synthesizer packages there are not two global rates, namely control and sample rate. Instead there can be many different rates. The control rate of a signal processor can be bound to the rate of the processed audio signal or it can be independent. In the latter case the internal control parameters are interpolated, because these are the ones that are expensive to compute. In case of constant interpolation and integer ratio of control and sample rate, you get the behaviour known from CSound and SuperCollider.
- frameworks for inference of sample rate and amplitude, that is, sampling rate and amplitude can be omitted in most parts of a signal processing expression. They are inferred automatically, just as types are inferred in Haskell's type system. Although the inference of signal parameters needs some preprocessing, the frameworks preserve the functional style of programming and do not need Arrows and according notation.
- We have checked three approaches, where the last one is the most promising.
- Explicitly maintain a dictionary of signal parameters in a Reader-Writer-State monad, which must be computed completely before any signal processing takes place. This forces all signal parameters to share the same type and prohibits infinitely many signal processors to be involved (e.g., concatenation of infinitely many short noises).
- Simulation of logic programming by lazy cycles of function applications (i.e., tied knots, fixed points). The main problems are quadratical computation complexity and a cumbersome and error-prone application. Namely, for each input you have to handle a parameter output, and vice versa for propagation of parameters through the network. You need combinators (infix operators) for combining these functions, but you will easily run into cases where you must plug manually, which is a nightmare.
- Unify only the sample rate. Use a Reader functor/monad. Amplitude is propagated from inputs to outputs only. This is a bit conservative, but is simple and comprehensive and fulfils our needs so far.
- We checked several low-level implementations in order to achieve reasonable speed. The standard list data structure is very convenient for programming but much too slow for signal processing. We try to get rid of it in several ways:
- A fusion framework based on
like functions for plain Prelude lists. Since in current GHC versions (6.8-6.12) the optimisation rules do not fire reliably (e.g., rules are not specialised if a function gets specialised to a monomorphic type) we end up with intermediate list structures too often. - A chunky list based on the StorableVector is much faster if higher order functions like
are inlined. However, this data structure is not elementwise lazy (a problem for feedback), and can store only values ofStorable
type (e.g., functions are excluded). - A data structure analogous to the
framework, where a list is represented by aStateT s Maybe a
which generates signal values by calling the generator function. In this approach fusion happens by inlining, and lists or other data structures can be used for sharing and feedback including sharing. - A similar generator type based on (somehow portable) LLVM assembly code that is compiled to machine code at run-time. The code is fast by default: There is no clutter due to missing inlining, too much laziness or inefficient data structures. We can even utilize vector instructions to a fair degree. The downside is that you have to specify what parameters are baken into the compiled functions and which ones remain parameters of those functions. You also have to write the core signal functions using LLVM assembly language.
- A fusion framework based on
- A combination of all but the first approaches seems to be a good choice so far. However, maintaining all code versions for comparison purposes led to much code duplication in the meantime.
- Support for causal processes. Causal signal processes only depend on past data and thus are suitable for real-time processing (in contrast to a function like time reversal). These processes are modelled as
like functions. Many important operations like function composition maintain the causality property. They are important in feedback loops where they statically warrant that no future data is accessed.
actively developed
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-core |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/core/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-dimensional |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/dimensional/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-midi |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/midi/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-alsa |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/alsa/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-llvm |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/llvm/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-filter |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/filter/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-inference |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/inference/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-fusionlist |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/fusionlist/
Hackage | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-harpy |
Repository | darcs get http://code.haskell.org/synthesizer/harpy/


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Red Sox - 002 000 000 - 2 4 0Lester (6-1-0-5-9, 111) allowed at least one base runner in five of his six innings, but only two Rays got further than first base against him.
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After two quick outs in the third, J.D. Drew singled to right and Kevin Youkilis walked. They both scored on David Ortiz's first-pitch double to the wall in left-center. The other two Boston hits came within the first five pitches of the game, as Marco Scutaro and Dustin Pedroia began the first inning with hard singles off Small Game (8-4-2-2-5, 107).
The pen was solid yet again. Manny Delcarmen and Daniel Bard each pitched perfect innings. Jonathan Papelbon allowed a one-out walk in the ninth, but got Carlos Pena on a weak grounder and struck out B.J. Upton.
The Rays has serious issues with several strike calls for Lester from umpire Bob Davidson. Things boiled over in the bottom of the fifth, when Carl Crawford and Joe Maddon were both ejected within a span of maybe 15 seconds.
I was stuck with the Rays TV feed and Dewayne Staats and (I think) Kevin Kennedy starting whining about Davidson's calls in the fourth. More coming in a separate post.
The Yankees/Twins game was suspended after five innings (0-0) because of rain. The game will be completed on Wednesday. The Angels are leading the Jays 7-2 in the 6th.Jon Lester / James Shields
To make room on the roster for Mike Cameron (who has been out since April 18), Darnell McDonald (.263/.320/.400 in 31 games) was designated for assignment.Scutaro, SS
Pedroia, 2B
Drew, RF
Youkilis, 1B
Ortiz, DH
Beltre, 3B
Hermida, LF
Varitek, C
Cameron, CF
Last Six Starts:
ERA IP H BB K AVG OBP SLGIn that time, Lester has lowered his ERA from 8.44 to 3.47.
Shields 2.49 43.1 45 6 48 .262 .285 .372
Lester 1.65 43.2 24 14 49 .164 .244 .267
Lester is 4th in the AL in strikeouts and K/9. Shields in 2nd in strikeouts and 3rd in K/9. Shields has the best K/BB ratio in MLB, but he has also allowed nine dongs, one shy of the most in the AL, and he's tied for 2nd in most hits allowed.
Pitching has carried the Rays so far this season -- their team ERA+ is 146! (Phil Hughes is 8th in the AL at 149) -- and the hitting has been only a bit above average. Tampa has hit .249/.322/.383 in May and is scoring 4.4 runs a game, way down from their April average of 6.3.
Remember Jed Lowrie? Turns out he's still alive.
That Peter Abraham guy has some good ideas: "I think people doing the wave should be escorted from the stadium."Here is something I did not expect to type on May 25: "The Blue Jays have won more games than the Yankees."
Kevin Kernan, Post:
It's time for the World Series champions to step up and play like champions. Since last Sunday, they've lost six of eight and have looked sloppy. Going back to April 23, the Yankees are 15-14.Tonight:
How scary is that? That is the exact same record as the Mets over that span. Is this the beginning of the end for the aging Yankees or just a rough patch?
Joe Girardi's club needs to turn it on ... It's time for the World Series champions to wake up and realize 2010 is a new season.
Yankees/Twins, 8 PM
Blue Jays/Angels, 10 PM


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The Republican Party seems as divided and angry as ever.
Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners.
"People are mad as hell. I'm right there with them," Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, said late last week, declaring that she has "no confidence" in the party her members typically support. Her remarks came after GOP lawmakers agreed to higher taxes but no broad spending cuts as part of a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."
"Anybody that voted 'yes' in the House should be concerned" about primary challenges in 2014, she said.
At the same time, one of the GOP's most popular voices, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, blasted his party's "toxic internal politics" after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was "disgusting to watch" their actions and he faulted the GOP's most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
The GOP's internal struggles to figure out what it wants to be were painfully exposed after Mitt Romney's loss to President Barack Obama on Nov. 6, but they have exploded in recent days. The fallout could extend well beyond the party's ability to win policy battles on Capitol Hill. It could hamper Republicans as they examine how to regroup and attract new voters after a disheartening election season.
To a greater degree than the Democrats, the Republican Party has struggled with internal divisions for the past few years. But these latest clashes have seemed especially public and vicious.
"It's disappointing to see infighting in the party," said Ryan Williams, a Republican operative and former Romney aide. "It doesn't make us look like we're in a position to challenge the president and hold him accountable to the promises he made."
What's largely causing the dissension? A lack of a clear GOP leader with a single vision for the party.
Republicans haven't had a consistent standard-bearer since President George W. Bush left office in 2008 with the nation on the edge of a financial collapse. His departure, along with widespread economic concerns, gave rise to a tea party movement that infused the GOP's conservative base with energy. The tea party is credited with broad Republican gains in the 2010 congressional elections, but it's also blamed for the rising tension between the pragmatic and ideological wings of the party — discord that festers still.
It was much the same for Democrats in the late 1980s before Bill Clinton emerged to win the White House and shift his party to the political center.
2012 presidential nominee Romney never fully captured the hearts of his party's most passionate voters. But his tenure atop the party was short-lived; since Election Day, he's disappeared from the political world.
Those Republican leaders who remain engaged — Christie, Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus — are showing little sign of coming together.
Those on the GOP's deep bench of potential 2016 presidential contenders, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, have begun staking out their own, sometimes conflicting ideas for the party.
Over the short term at least, the party's divisions probably will continue to be exposed.
Obama has outlined a second-term agenda focused on immigration and gun control; those are issues that would test Republican solidarity even in good times. Deep splits already exist between Republican pragmatists and the conservative base, who oppose any restrictions on guns or allowances for illegal immigrants.
It's unclear whether Obama can exploit the GOP fissures or whether the Republican dysfunction will hamper him. With Boehner unable to control his fractured caucus, the White House is left wondering how to deal with the House on any divisive issue.
Fiscal issues aren't going away, with lawmakers were agree on a broad deficit-reduction package. The federal government reached its borrowing limit last week, so Congress has about two months or three months to raise the debt ceiling or risk a default on federal debt. Massive defense and domestic spending cuts are set to take effect in late February. By late March, the current spending plan will end, raising the possibility of a government shutdown.
Frustrated conservative activists and GOP insiders hope that the continued focus on fiscal matters will help unite the factions as the party pushes for deep spending cuts. That fight also may highlight Democratic divisions because the party's liberal wing vehemently opposes any changes to Social Security or Medicare
"Whenever you lose the White House, the party's going to have ups and downs," said Republican strategist Ron Kaufman. "My guess is when the spending issues come up again, the Democrats' warts will start to show as well."
The GOP's fissures go beyond positions on issues. They also are geographical.
Once a strong voice in the party, moderate Republicans across the Northeast are nearly extinct. Many of those who remain were frustrated in recent days when Boehner temporarily blocked a vote on a disaster relief bill.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said campaign donors in the Northeast who give the GOP after the slight "should have their head examined."
Boehner, who just won a second term as speaker, quickly scheduled a vote on a narrower measure for Friday after the new Congress convened, and it rushed out a $9.7 billion measure to help pay flood insurance claims.
Weary Republican strategists are trying to be hopeful about the GOP's path ahead, and liken the current situation to party's struggles after Obama's 2008 election. At the time, some pundits questioned the viability of the Republican Party. But it came roaring back two years later, thanks largely to the tea party.
"If we have learned anything from the fiscal cliff fiasco, conservatives discovered we need to stand firm, and stand together, on our principles from beginning to end," said Republican strategist Alice Stewart. "It's frustrating to see the GOP drop the ball and turn a position of true compromise into total surrender. The Democrats succeeded in their strategy of divide and conquer."
Associated Press writers Ken Thomas and Ben Feller in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press


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Dying on the job continues at a steady pace according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The fatal injury rate for American workers dropped slightly in 2011 — the most recent year with reported numbers — from 3.6 to 3.5 deaths per 100,000 workers.
But 4,693 men, women and teenagers died at work. That's three more than the total number of lives lost on the job in 2010.
BLS says it's the third-lowest death toll since counting began in 1992. Worker safety groups find no comfort in the report, though. It comes as they and the Labor Department prepare to mark Workers Memorial Day on Sunday.
"These deaths were largely preventable," says Tom O'Connor, executive director of National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH), an advocacy group formed by organized labor and workers safety advocates. "Simply by following proven safety practices and complying with [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] standards, many of these more than 4,600 deaths could have been avoided."
COSH has just released its own report on workplace deaths, which focuses on specific industries and incidents.
O'Connor blames companies that "decry regulations and emphasize profits over safety."
The vast majority of deaths involve white men in private industry. Nearly 2,000 died in "transportation incidents," including traffic accidents. Close to 10 percent of the workers killed were victims of workplace homicides. Notoriously dangerous work in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting took 566 lives — 24.9 deaths for every 100,000 full-time workers. The most deaths for any single industry were in construction, with 738. That was 9.1 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers.
The BLS report now lists fatalities among contractors and that's a first, according to a story by Jim Morris from the Center for Public Integrity. O'Connor told Morris that "the total death toll is far greater than what we see from a handful of catastrophic incidents. It seems that the public just sort of accepts that as a risk of going to work."
Workers Memorial Day events include the placement of empty and well-worn work boots to symbolize the lives lost at work, groups of spouses and children holding photos of loves ones, and readings of the names of victims.
Last week, Democrats in Congress reintroduced the Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA), a bill that seeks tougher penalties for employers when willful and egregious behavior results in workers deaths. Senate Democrats introduced a similar measure last month.
"The fact remains that penalties for harming workers are often the cost of doing business for some employers," said Rep. George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. "Congress needs to work together to increase these outdated penalties and give real teeth to the law so that workers and communities can remain safe while trying to make a living."
Senators Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Bob Casey, D-Pa., cited a recent NPR series, Buried in Grain, in announcing support for the Senate's version of PAWA.
"Whether working on a factory floor, on an oil rig, or in a grain bin, our workers and their families need to know that they will be safe and protected at the workplace," said Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
PAWA failed to gain enough support in Congress in the past in the face of industry opposition and congressional resistance to expanded government regulation.
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Getting into a fight at one of the four bars within the borders of the British Parliament's grounds not only brought House of Commons member Eric Joyce (a Labour MP) unwanted notoriety, it has also led to orders that bartenders and event staff start cutting off obviously intoxicated lawmakers.
Which, of course, would seem like something they already should have known they should do.
"Commons staff are being told to cut down on topping up MPs' glasses at receptions in an effort to encourage 'responsible alcohol use.' They are also to get more training on how to refuse to serve MPs considered to have had too much to drink."
According to a statement from the House of Commons Commission, there also may be some changes in the "opening hours of bars on the Parliamentary Estate."
Larry Miller reports for our Newscast Desk that "currently, drinks are served [at the bars] as long as Parliament sits and that could be into the small hours of the morning."
The BBC says that for decades members of Parliament been drinking their way "through Westminster life in the convivial comfort of its numerous saloons. The Houses of Parliament has the feel of a cruise ship, with different watering holes for its various passengers branching off the carpeted corridors."
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Joyce was fined nearly $5,000 and banned from pubs for three months after the February brawl. He reportedly head-butted some other members after loudly declaring there were "too many" Tories in the bar, the BBC says.
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And what are we celebrating?
Let's just stick to wrecking the bunnies.
In fact, both of those were so creepy I nearly pooped a pumpkin! But then I realized that wouldn't be season-appropriate. So instead, I...
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
That white plastic bunny with shiny white icing looks delish. Just delish.
Perhaps some nice church could start a fund to bribe Wreckenators stop decorating during this season. The hideous cross and the impaled lamb alone should bring in tons of money for the cause.
However, as an inoffensive heathen, I'm laughing my posterior off, so I wouldn't contribute.
Ok...that HAS to be a chiwawa before that last egg. IT HAS TO BE! CREEPY!
The first cake reminds me of "Smoove B." from The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/personalities/smoove-b,1022/)
Hahahaha...Easter...*sigh* you never cease to amaze... ;D
Egg puns are fun!
Happy Easter
Happy Passover
You totally didn't go the route I thought you might with the " I need eggs" cake. me, I'd have been down a very insensitive path.....
Poor barren bunny. I'd be sad if I couldn't have babies, too.
A marzipan lamb! That's a bizarre Easter tradition that has been frightening children in my family for years! Still, I do think it's much better than the butter lamb. Or is my Mom the only person who goes on a multi-state search for the creepy butter lamb every year?
That plastic wreck looks like an insect--it has a 3-segment body like a white ant!
That pink cupcake plastic bunny thing looks like one of those aliens from Mars Attacks.
That last one is......special....
No, you misunderstand... "Edster" is simply the C&E compliment to "Festivus" for Seculars. ;^)
And those are some scary, scary cakes you have for this Easter Week. How do you sleep at night without seeing them in your dre--, er, nightmares?
As a former puppeteer, no really, I actually got all kinds of warm fuzzies from that scary white plastic bunny cake. The eyes were "peepers." They fit on your finger a bit like a ring to turn your hand into a bare bones puppet. We used to use them during warm ups.
As for religious roots, I would really like to see a zombie Jesus cake to celebrate zombie Jesus day. Really though, the Easter bunny came first {Easter, like Christmas are appropriated from "pagan" holidays).
Who knew there would be so many ways to make a lamb cake horrifying??? When I first saw this one I thought there were a few pieces of severed thumb around it...look, they're there...really.... What a wonderful week of Wrecks! Thank you so much, and, of course, to all who celebrate it, Happy Edster!
wv - canow: is able to, as in Billy canow tie his own shoes.
Is it just me -- and if it is, the therapy costs are going to be prohibitive -- or does that first cake look like it's made out of ham salad? Right down to the bits of pickle relish? It's like something a cannibal would serve, which makes the "Dang Girl, It's Easter" seem more like an explanation. "Dang, Girl, I'm sorry I killed you, but it's Easter and I needed some sandwich spread." Erk.
Oh, and "this" is WAAAAAAY creepier than "that" IMHO. The wet sheen puts it over the top.
Happy Edster -- or your holiday of choice -- to all!
Actually, the flowers on that cross don't look too bad. The cross, on the other hand, seems to be oozing. Ugh.
I'm completely surprised by the sheer amount of Easter wrecks there are! Is Easter even a cake-eating holiday? Who knows, but happy Easter, Good Friday, Passover, etc. More importantly though (or at least EQUALLY important), happy Earth Day! ;)
Ummm, I hate to rain matzoh on your cakes but passover ends next week. It began Monday the 18th.
Giggle. Snort. Best Easter post of the week. Nah--it was way better than that. Best of the YEAR! Snurfle (a stifled snicker).
WV: pilin. You just keep pilin on, don't you?
I am taking comfort in the fact that Mel also saw chopped off fingers in that lamb cake thing. I think I am going into culture shock, thanks.
Why oh why do I feel the cross "cake" is more appropriate for a funeral than the joys of Easter? It sort of looks like all it needs is a zombie hand raising up out of it.
Zombie bunny must... eat... eggsss....
Christ is crying in shame over how low the holiday has gone :(
Yeah let's eat the method of execution used to kill thousands of people including Jesus Christ next how about a guillotine
Awesome puns!! Wreckie cakes!! (Or, whatever THOSE were!)
I thought that third cake was ripped straight from the headlines: a bunnified Prince Frederic von Anhalt!
wv: aninc. They won't let me give blood; I'm too aninc.
Hoppy Edster! :D
mmmmmmmm executional device
Usagi said...
>> Poor barren bunny. I'd be sad if I couldn't have babies, too.<<
It's especially difficult for bunnies -- that whole fecundity reputation thing puts a lot of pressure on them.
Thanks for the nightmares I'm sure to have courtesy of that what-the-hell is it cake with the plastic, and the shiny icing that looks so deformed and just plain nasty!
wv: deddic, as in "I'm sorry, your rabbit was deddic on arrival at the bakery."
Isn't that cupcake thing a chihuahua? I've never heard of an Easter/Passover chihuahua before.
Am I the only one who thought the cross-cake was covered in umm... "manjuice"?
That cross is the KING'S cake. Or maybe the King of Kings' cake? Get it? Any Pentacostals out there with me? No? I guess we don't want to talk about King's cakes again.
Oh, and as a full blooded Christian, I am also laughing off my posterior.
Really, as the only cake that actually looks appetizing out of this bunch... I think I'm going to celebrate 'Edster' instead!
Does the label on that second to last one remind anyone else of "Beetlejuice"?
Personally, I hope the Edster is happy with his cake.
Number 4 must be one of those deep-fried King Cakes, doncha think?
The lamb looks like a llama!
@drumnate: full agreement. @mel: Anthony! Anthony canow tie his own shoes!!!
#1 belongs in the deli. I looked at that and immediately went to deviled ham with a potato salad border. There's something about this cake / cookie / open-face sandwich that really puts things in perspective.
#2 Edster! The Edinator! Ed-o-rama!
#3 Of course the wreckerator needs eggs, if s/he is going to scramble them to write inscriptions. Or perhaps the reference is to the lack of egg flotsam (which is frankly refreshing).
#4 Now *that* is deep fried! From a bakery in...some state where they deep fry stuff. One of the other 49, that is. Or 56.
#5 This must be a work in progress; not nearly enough flotsam yet.
#6 Now *this* is more like...the stuff of nightmares. Shiny nightmares.
#7 I can't decide if it is paved with sprinkles like the 'satellite' eggs or the batter contains sprinkles. Mmm. Crunchy.
I seriously thought at first that the second to last one was supposed to be Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
Am I am the only one who yelled " FOR NARNIA!!!" when they saw the lamb Cake? :-)
*twitch* okay, pet-peeve, but I have to make some mention of how Easter going all eggs-n-bunnies focused isn't being commercialized, it's returning to its original roots as a fertility holiday, which is was long before the Christians came around and decided just changing the meaning of the holiday and letting people still celebrate was easier than telling them to stop celebrating at all. *breath* I mean they didn't even change the name, it's still a reference to the fertility goddess Oestre, and its main symbols are obviously for a fertility holiday: baby animals, eggs, and *rabbits*.
Okay, sorry, like I said, just had to get that out. In any case, happy thank-god(s)-it's-spring holiday of your choosing ^_^
My 3 year old son was on my lap while I checked this post and kept asking, "what's that? What's that?" I can honestly said I don't know!!!!
I'm going to get the Edster cake for my father-in-law. We use that as his nickname. Of course, he doesn't know that, so the cake may come as a surprise..
#7: *blink,blink* THAT is a lot of sprinkles! I mean...just...wow..it's gotta be the highest "ssi" (sprinkles per square inch) I've ever seen!
Pretty, though...
Eek! I think I'm going to have nightmares from the lamb/sheep zombie cake.
The cross with the roses looks like a cross-shaped pan of cinnamon rolls, so the frosting is appropriate. However the roses aren't! Bleah!
Nearly pooped a pumpkin, Jen? Now that's a great trick for Halloween!
wv: gragist. I nearly gragist when I saw that creepy lamb cake!
The sad thing is that the EDSTER cake is really pretty, other than the glaring spelling issue... nice trim, lovely handwriting...
Customer wreck! :D
To Anonymous at 12:09 PM:
No. It's not just you.
I was thinking that drizzled icing has far too much of a capacity to look like, shall we say, a not-very-well-piped-pearl-necklace in the same way that badly done chocolate icing looks like excrement.
Annnnnnnd it's all over a cross.
I'm an atheist and even I find that kind of icky.
(Was going to say "in poor taste" but it occurred to me that it might, in fact, be sacrilicious.)
My brother, named Ed, is celebrating his birthday tomorrow. The Edster cake could so be his birthday cake.
That religious cake is one hot cross mess.
Two questions: who is the floating ghost guy in the back of the paschal lamb photo? And what/ who do the nearby green shapes represent? On my itouch they look like bugs, aliens, or at least one baby owl (turn screen somewhat sideways for that one...)
also, I'm assuming that all have noticed that the largest lamb Does Not Look WELL.
I'm never going to get that strung out bunny out of my head ever. It will forever haunt my dreams...
wow such a funny post here!
I love how the CCC (pattoey!) is labeled as a "mini pull apart cake".
*twitch*I also just love when everyone has to throw their two cents in about someone else's faith (on a humor blog, really?). It's the principle that matters to people, not the name and/or calendar significance! <--coming from a cultural anthropologist
WV: shectur- n. There are no blue-ribbon winners in this shectur of the store.
What happened when I saw cake #6:
1. I screamed.
2. The scream turned into a laugh.
3. I decided to figure out what the label said.
4. I zoomed in.
5. I read the label and shuddered, because it said
"Fingeroos(TM) are fun little hand puppets!"
and that cake does NOT look fun. However, it does look tasty.
wv: inica. Little-known fact: The bakers of the ancient Inica civilization were the first documented Wreckerators.
If you look at the upper right corner of the top part of the cross-mess, you can see the Bride of Frankenstein. It's true!
This post made me laugh my butt off!!!!!!!!
that lamb cake gave me the shivers!
This is why there are so many spelling errors for cakes.
Not to be a pedant, but the "Easter is shang-haied from the pagans" debate is...well...debatable.
Resurrection Day (as one of my Episcopalian friends calls it, and I rather like it) is placed on the calendar in relation to Passover because that's how the crucifixion narrative goes. It's not like Christmas where we have no idea of when Christ was born; the text actually tells you where the crucifixion fell on the calendar. And it just happens to fall around the season where the earth gets all fecund in the northern hemisphere. The important thing to notice is that, actually, only in English does the name tie in with that; in most languages, it actually descends from more obvious Judeo-Christian roots such as "Passover," "Great Night," or a form of the verb "to be released." A festival marking the crucifixion/resurrection came into being in the 2nd century, so it actually predates the importation of Christianity to England and probably Germany (as English is a Germanic language and there are a lot of shared roots,) which is where the Easter (from the month of Eostre, where the date of the festival falls) intersection of pagan and Christian festivals comes in.
Just thought I'd throw in my overblown, linguistics-and-history-happy two cents' worth!
Imagine the crunch when you bite into that last cake! How many pounds of those sugar-shard sprinkles did they use? Good thing it's a CCC or you'd dull the blade of your knife trying to slice it.
Um. What happened to Earth Day? That hasn't gone over too well, in the past, I think.
I find it so ironic that many times the most awful cakes have perfect roses, yet many people who make beautiful cakes just can't master roses. Weird.
Jesus would be proud. XD
Excreted an egg...is that like what Lady Gaga did in her "Born this Way" video? *shudder*
My brain exploded at that lamb cake.. oooh who was I to think I would escape the lamb cakes this year lol. I am wondering what they did to that crucifix. Or if I even wanna know. Ignorance is bliss in this case I think lol.
It's the Easter Chihuahua CCC!!!
wtf is #6 supposed to be?? is that icing or a petroleum product?? is that why gas prices are so high- they're hijacking fuel tankers to make frosting substitutes??
can I cram another "?" into this post??
-Barbara Anne??
The second from the bottom: It's Chase No Face! (Warning - do not google unless you are okay with pictures of kitties thriving and having a good time despite terrible-looking disabilities)
And no Smoking Lambs this year? Those Wreckerators are falling down on the job!
lol seriously I thought it was only 10 yr olds making posters that did such as these for public view love it
oh nearly forgot your cight is jest egg-strordinary(lol)
Oh my goodness! I am so glad I found this blog! I am in hysterics over here! I especially love the: "Dang girl, It's Easter!"
anyone care to describe the cake that was replaced by epcot for us johny-come-latelys?
wv: yesewor: positive affirmation of the state of a male in past tense as in
a-"Billy was not ready for the spelling test"
b-"yesewor ready for the test!"
Yiksa - it was a cross cake covered in smeary streams of white cinnamon roll icing and, if I recall, frosting flowers. Yicky on many, many levels.
WV: dykqgjnr - ummm... (blinkblink)... I got nuthin'...
I just wanted to point out that the photo that replaced the [redacted] is Spaceship Earth and not 'EPCOT' as such.
I cannot give silent assent to misleading innocent visitors, no matter how far off-topic, inconsequential or unintentional the misinformation in question might be.
very creepy...
LOVE the Epcot photo substitution!
@Craig- did you actually type that malarkey with a straight face??
-Barbara Anne
wv: displas
n: these are the most horrific displas of Estonian Kissing Day cakes I've ever seen.
v: looking at these made me displas my lunch
Those are so hilarious, it really makes me wonder what photo was removed.
Removed by request of the baker? You mean someone admitted responsibility for that?!
@Barbara Anne: Did I write that malarkey with a straight face? I never write malarkey with a straight face. I did crank the facetiousness up to '11', though. :-D
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text: Among all objects of design, our clothes are the most universal and intimate. Like other kinds of design, fashion thrives on productive tensions between form and function, automation and craftsmanship, standardization and customization, universality and self-expression, and pragmatism and utopian vision. It exists in the service of others, and it can have profound consequences—social, political, cultural, economic, and environmental. Fashion as Design focuses on a selection of more than 70 garments and accessories from around the world, ranging from kente cloth to jeans to 3D-printed dresses. Through these garments, we're going to look closely at what we wear, why we wear it, how it's made, and what it means. You'll hear directly from a range of designers, makers, historians, and others working with clothing every day—and, in some cases, reinventing it for the future. Studio visits, interviews, and other resources introduce the history and development of each garment and their changing uses, meanings, and impact over time. Course Learning Objectives: Develop critical tools to appreciate and contextualize fashion design—from everyday clothing to couture garments—through many different perspectives. Trace the history, development, and impact of garments over time, and explore how they may be reinvented. Investigate garments through multiple lenses including politics, identity, and economics. Understand more about the lifecycle of clothing, from its design and production to its marketing, distribution, and consumption. Better comprehend the choices you make about fashion with respect to the visual language of dress, individual and collective identities, and issues such as labor practices, sustainability, and body politics.


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I have tried everything for these dish cloths – and they remain stinky.
Over at Tammy's Recipes, some commenters mentioned they boiled the dish cloths.
This time, I decided to do a little experiment.
- Boil some.
- Do nothing to the others.
- See how long the difference lasts.
If your dish cloths are stinky, simply bring a pot of water to a boil.
Add the dish cloths and boil them for 10-15 minutes at a medium boil rate.
Use extreme caution, because the cloths can cause splashing of the hot water as it boils.
Strain the cloths and then toss them in the washing machine as you normally would.
I'm going on three washes now without the smell coming back… and that's lasted longer than any other mechanism I've tried. I'm ready to do the other half of my dish cloths!!


text: London is gearing up to welcome 4,000 athletes from 140 nations. Sound familiar? In this case, it's the Paralmypic Games, set to open August 29, using many of the same venues as the Olympic Games that just concluded. Medals will be given in track and field events, and judo, sailing, swimming, wheelchair basketball, fencing, rugby, and tennis. And, for the first time, the Paralympic Games will receive considerable television coverage. The NBC Sports Network will air one-hour highlights from the games on September 4th, 5th, 6th, and 11th. NBC will run a 90-minute special on September 16, all of which will be re-run on the Universal Sports Network. The BBC is running a film about the man who founded the Paralympic Games. He was Ludwig Guttman, who was a famous neurologist in Berlin who fled to London when the Nazis came to power. Great Britain gave him shelter. But it would not license German doctors to be surgeons during the war, so Dr. Guttman turned his interests into trying to devise new treatments and therapies to help wounded British soldiers who suffered spinal injuries. His daughter, Eve Loeffler, told Britain's Radio Times this week: He saw soldiers in physiotherapy throwing medicine balls around to strengthen their arms. So he started wheelchair polo, but it got too vicious because they had these little mallets. Then he realized basketball was a good sport. He also introduced archery and fencing. Ludwig Guttman organized the Stoke-Mandeville Games, named for the hospital at which he worked, to run after the 1948 Olympic Games in London. I remember him saying I dream of the time when there will be an Olympic Games for the disabled, his daughter says. That was in the 1950s. He dreamed of it, he could see it happening. And it did. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Bringing Talent Closer to Opportunities…
A National ICT based portal is developed primarily to connect the opportunities with the aspirations of youth. This portal facilitates registration of job seekers, job providers, skill providers, career counsellors, etc.
The portal provides job matching services in a highly transparent and user friendly manner. These facilities along with career counselling content will be delivered by the portal through multiple channels like career centers, mobile devices, CSCs, etc.
The project would be capable of meeting the varied demands and requirements of the youth for information on education, employment and training and will be supported by a multi lingual call center.
The portal will also make available information on local service providers available to house hold and other consumers for services like driving, plumbing, carpentry, etc.


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Liz Halloran
Liz Halloran joined NPR in December 2008 as Washington correspondent for Digital News, taking her print journalism career into the online news world.
Halloran came to NPR from US News & World Report, where she followed politics and the 2008 presidential election. Before the political follies, Halloran covered the Supreme Court during its historic transition — from Chief Justice William Rehnquist's death, to the John Roberts and Samuel Alito confirmation battles. She also tracked the media and wrote special reports on topics ranging from the death penalty and illegal immigration, to abortion rights and the aftermath of the Amish schoolgirl murders.
Before joining the magazine, Halloran was a senior reporter in the Hartford Courant's Washington bureau. She followed Sen. Joe Lieberman on his ground-breaking vice presidential run in 2000, as the first Jewish American on a national ticket, wrote about the media and the environment and covered post-9/11 Washington. Previously, Halloran, a Minnesota native, worked for The Courant in Hartford. There, she was a member of Pulitzer Prize-winning team for spot news in 1999, and was honored by the New England Associated Press for her stories on the Kosovo refugee crisis.
She also worked for the Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury, Conn., and as a cub reporter and paper delivery girl for her hometown weekly, the Jackson County Pilot.


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- 2015
- Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology
Is Experimental Economics Living Up to Its Promise?
By: Alvin E. Roth
The question that is the title of this essay already suggests that experimental economics has at least reached a sufficient state of maturity that we can try to take stock of its progress and consider how that progress matches the anticipations we may have had for the field several decades ago, when it and we were younger. So it will help to begin by reconstructing what some of those anticipations were.
Roth, Alvin E. "Is Experimental Economics Living Up to Its Promise?" Chap. 1 in Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, edited by Guillaume R. Frechette and Andrew Schotter, 13–42. Oxford University Press, 2015.


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The device is not grabbed, and the specified key is logically pressed when the specified modifier keys are logically down, and no other keys or modifier keys are logically down.
The grab_window is an ancestor (or is) the focus window OR the grab window is a descendant of the focus window and contains the device.
The confine_to window (if any) is viewable.
A passive grab on the same key/modifier combination does not exist on any ancestor of grab_window.
The interpretation of the remaining arguments is as for XGrabDevice . The active grab is terminated automatically when the logical state of the device has the specified key released.
Note that the logical state of a device (as seen by means of the X protocol ) may lag the physical state if device event processing is frozen.
If the key is not AnyKey, it must be in the range specified by min_keycode and max_keycode as returned by the XListInputDevices request. Otherwise, a BadValue error results.
This request overrides all previous grabs by the same client on the same Key/modifier combinations on the same window. A modifier of AnyModifier is equivalent to issuing the grab request for all possible modifier combinations (including the combination of no modifiers). It is not required that all modifiers specified have currently assigned KeyCodes. A key of AnyKey is equivalent to issuing the request for all possible keys. Otherwise, it is not required that the specified key currently be assigned to a physical Key.
If a modifier_device of NULL is specified, the X keyboard will be used as the modifier_device.
If some other client has already issued a XGrabDeviceKey with the same Key/modifier combination on the same window, a BadAccess error results. When using AnyModifier or AnyKey , the request fails completely, and a BadAccess error results (no grabs are established) if there is a conflicting grab for any combination. XGrabDeviceKey has no effect on an active grab.
XGrabDeviceKey can generate BadAccess, BadClass, BadDevice, BadMatch, BadValue, and BadWindow errors. It returns Success on successful completion of the request.
The XUngrabDeviceKey request releases the passive grab for a key/modifier combination on the specified window if it was grabbed by this client. A modifier of AnyModifier is equivalent to issuing the ungrab request for all possible modifier combinations, including the combination of no modifiers. A Key of AnyKey is equivalent to issuing the request for all possible Keys. XUngrabDeviceKey has no effect on an active grab.
If a modifier_device of NULL is specified, the X keyboard will be used as the modifier_device.
XUngrabDeviceKey can generate BadDevice, BadMatch, BadValue and BadWindow errors.


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Note: What did I say yesterday? That after the Super Bowl, the entire sports world simply flips to an entirely new season. How do I know this? Because today's morning post starts with soccer (just as a jump-off, I promise!), continues with college hockey (WTF?!) and finishes with the Pro Bowl (No! Anything but that!) Some of you might not have been paying much attention to the NBA or college hoops or college football recruiting until this moment now that the NFL playing season is over. Welcome! Now, on with the morning...
What if your team played a home game but no one was there to root them on?
But it raises an interesting hypothetical: What would happen if, say, an NFL game or a college football game or an NBA or college hoops game was played in front of NO ONE.
What if Duke hoops played "at home" in an empty stadium? Or LSU football? Or the Seahawks? Or the Mavs? What exactly is the impact of the energy of the crowd? And what would an absence of that energy do to a team? (Hell, either team?)
I'm just curious what you think the effect would be in one of those sports if a top-tier team with an avid home fan-base (and presumably a great home-court advantage) if the team played in front of totally empty seats?
Super Bowl XLI Hangover: It was the second-most-watched Super Bowl in history, along with the third-most-watched TV show ever.
It continues to be astounding when sports events can defy the current overall TV ratings slide from fragmentation of audience attention span.
Matt Leinart and... Alyssa Milano? You know what: They deserve each other. Hope Alyssa likes kids.
College Hoops: What a best-of-both-worlds game last night on ESPN between Texas A&M and
Fans got to see THE break-out team of the year (Aggies) and THE most talented player in the game (Durant).
The Aggies won the game, yet another quality win that helps confirm that they are no mere fluke, come March.
(Or are they? Are the Aggies simply setting everyone up to be "that team" that has the amazing regular season, draws a No. 2 seed, then falls short of the Final Four? Marco at Just Call Me Juice has the analysis of why the Aggies are legit... like I said before: If you pick them to fold early, they'll go to the Final Four; if you pick them to the Final Four, they'll fold early. It's inevitable. They will absolutely be this year's Bracket Buster team.)
And Kevin Durant got his (28 points, 15 rebounds -- his 14th double-double of the season.)
More on this later today.
NFL Coaching Search: So do the Cowboys want Ron Rivera or what? Or are they simply going to hire Norv Turner? And will they convince Rivera (pay him enough) to take a defensive coordinator role under Turner with the promise of full control and a promotion in a season or two? Rivera can afford to wait a season and be the top candidate for any job a year from now.
NBA Last Night:
Homecoming: Stephen Jackson racks up 36 on the Pacers in his return to
Confirmation: Caron Butler scored a career-high 38 (as Gil was cold and Jamison was DNP) and the Wiz beat the Sonics.
Question: How "valuable" could Steve Nash be if the Suns didn't need him to rally for a win over
NBA All-Star Game: Your dunk contestants: Nate Robinson, Gerald Green, Tyrus Thomas and Dwight Howard. A few comments: (1) Nate-Rob better not get 100 attempts to complete a dunk. (2) Big men (Thomas, Howard) will have a hard time winning. (3) Where is James "Flight" White? (thanks to TrueHoop for the tip-off).
Oh, reader Jerry Sloan sent me a link to a great post from his blog, comparing NBA names to the characters on "The Wire" that they represent. I'm a "Wire" fanatic, so this was of obvious interest. (Jerry, you copped out on McNulty. I'm going with Gil Arenas: Anti-authority high-performer.)
Mario Danelo's autopsy showed he was drunk when he plunged off the cliff to his death. A sad story gets worse.
College Hockey: (Yeah, you read that right.) I (barely) follow two college hockey events all year – the Frozen Four and the Beanpot, which held its semis last night, producing BU and BC for the title-game.
(I think my Beanpot interest came from going to school in
NFL Pro Bowl: As usual, there is ZERO buzz... Worst all-star game in sports. Which is amazing, given that it is the most popular sport.