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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech's Kevin Murphy has been
chosen as co-Freshman of the Week in the Ohio Valley Conference,
the second time this season that the 6-foot-6 Golden Eagle rookie
has been selected for the award. He shares the honor this week with
Murray State's Ivan Aska.
Murphy scored 21 points on 7-of-12 (58.3%) shooting as Tech topped Jacksonville State, 91-74, in the regular season finale Saturday to secure the No. 8 seed in the OVC Tournament. Murphy also pulled down six rebounds, had two assists and a steal. He was 6-of-6 from the free throw line and is 12-of-14 from the charity stripe over the past three games.
The freshman from Fairburn, Ga., currently ranks fourth on the team in scoring with 9.0 points per game. His average against the league is 10.2 points per contests, which is third on the squad.
Drake Reed of Austin Peay was chosen the OVC Player of the Week, while Isaac Miles of Murray State captured the Newcomer of the Week award.
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Israel is doing its best to stay out of Egypt's current turmoil, but Jerusalem is making no secret of the fact that it would prefer to see the army-led toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime succeed. And that has put it at odds with Washington, which seems to be rooting for the Islamists.
In an interview with the New York Times over the weekend, an Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Jewish state was increasing behind-the-scenes efforts to convince the US and Europe to back what they see as a "military coup."
At this point it is a question of supporting either "army or anarchy," according to the official. "First, save what you can, and then deal with democracy and freedom and so on."
Israel is also said to be closely coordinating with Egyptian Chief of Staff Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, and this, according to an unnamed Western diplomat, is "undercutting" American efforts in Egypt.
Last week, an Egyptian Christian leader told Israel Today that local Christians cannot figure out why America is trying to put them back under an oppressive, violent Islamist regime.
Meanwhile, Egyptian media reported on Saturday that the civilian component of the latest uprising that toppled President Mohammed Morsi is now taking aim at Egypt's peace treaty with Israel.
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TWS: When did you first hear of each other?
Harris: I heard of Chris when he started skating Richmond [public] skatepark. With Chris, the word innovative kept coming up.
TWS: I remember a flurry of chatter about Chris when he was still relatively unknown and it was always the same thing—you can't pinpoint his influence. I'd never heard that before.
Harris: What impressed me was that he skated the way he wanted and didn't seem to care what people thought.
TWS: Where did that that wide berth of influence came from?
Haslam: I think part of it was growing up in Singapore and the delay of the videos. They were random videos—one was called Skateboard Superstars. And Eddie who ran Go Sports was from the '80s so I had a lot of '80s influences coming from the store. I'd try to forget [what era a trick came from]. I was also trying to learn the tricks that were supposedly the hot tricks at the time, but were probably three years old by the time [I became aware of them].
Harris: I tried to learn tricks from the magazines and I'd learn them differently than they were actually done. There were no videos. I'd come down to California and see the skater who actually did it and only then realize that it was different.
Haslam: I think more people need to learn tricks like that. The other day I was skating and tripping out because some of the tricks reminded me of skating in Singapore. Like hardflips, my brother always thought those were called impossibles because he saw it in a mag and couldn't really follow the sequence.
TWS: Do you get that Singapore feeling often?
Haslam: Back when I was a kid, that feeling of how rad skating was took place all the time. Landing a new trick for the first time isn't as pure a feeling but it's similar. Wanting that feeling keeps me going.
TWS: When did you first see Kevin?
Haslam: I had seen Kevin in some of those old videos and when I moved to Richmond, I started hanging out with some of the people who worked at Ultimate. [Harris' skateboard distribution.] The first time I saw him skate live was at RDS Skatepark and Kevin was doing one-footed spins and I tried them.
Harris: None of the other skaters ever noticed me. Chris blew me away. Sometimes I'd just watch him skate and he'd land a modern trick and then do a total 1975 trick. I admire Chris for learning that stuff in the first place but even more for finding a way to adapt it into his skating.
Haslam: I don't see why we should put a time limit on a certain trick or technique. Who cares what type of skater you're called? Doesn't matter to me. When I see skaters like Kevin I just want to be able to do what he's doing, but I haven't figured out the balance part of it yet. Every time I'd see Kevin at RDS, I'd want to learn some of his tricks so bad but then I'd leave and get sidetracked and when I'd see him again I'd get bummed that I hadn't been working on them. I can't do most of the freestyle moves that I want to.
TWS: It seems like you skate with no discriminating filter.
Haslam: I like a lot of tricks in older videos. They could be the simplest things, like Alphonso Rawls doing a weird slappy to bonk over a curb—that'd be sick to do on something else nowadays. It seems like there's a time period for tricks and if enough time goes by and somebody does it again, it's seen as sick. A lot of people ask me where I get my tricks from and a lot of them are from trying a trick that's fifteen years old and it turns into something else. Most of the time it comes from somebody else's hard work.
Harris: Chris is right about the time lapse with tricks. When I go to skateboard parks, the younger kids think my skating is new.
TWS: Was it difficult to know how your skating was being viewed? Kevin had contests, which meant everything back then, but you didn't have that gauge.
Haslam: After the almost video I think I was appreciated for my skating instead of people thinking that I looked like this dude, so I should skate a certain way. I used to have no money and a shaved head and then I grew the hair and beard out and actually had money to buy the clothes I wanted and this turned into an issue for some people. That was my big introduction to how harsh the [industry] world of skating can be. I was just like, screw it. Who cares what people think? I thought skatebaording was about skateboarding. So I was super psyched when people liked my skating.
TWS: You crushed the TransWorld 2006 Reader's Poll.
Haslam: I was really surprised. That gave me the motivation to do more of what I was doing.
TWS: Do people tell you they appreciate your take on skating?
Haslam: The older skaters, like my age, will comment that the Cheese & Crackers video got them back into skating mini-ramps or just skating more. Stuff like that is always awesome to hear. A lot of people told me that they were burnt out on skating and what they thought was the repetition that skating has taken these days. They told me that the video was so different that it gave them something new to get sparked on. That was good to hear when we thought it was going to flop retardedly bad for a low budget project.
TWS: You were nervous about the reception to Cheese & Crackers, right?
Haslam: Yeah, fifteen minutes on the same ramp? But we just went for it, three months of solid skating in the warehouse. By the end I was so sick of the damn warehouse. But I think it was the right time for the video. Mini-ramp seemed to have gotten lost and we always thought it was fun to skate. We wanted it to be like the older videos, kinda shitty like VHS to VHS recordings, but in a new school way.
Stay tuned for the final part 3 coming soon!
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"Jeanealyn's Carcaranon website was like the California Gold Rush of 1849; everybody wanted in." – Vip Aleonar
Daughter of Wenefredo Larosa Zozobrado and Avelina Sabala Eboras.
Carcar internet website pioneer;
A photographer, at first she lent a space in her photography site for Carcar photos and news but the response was such that it ballooned to the Carcaranon website and is sans doubt the pioneer internet site about Carcar and for Carcaranons; in it she accommodated Carcaranons abroad hungry for a community who immediately converged on her site and used it to communicate with each other, post news about their own selves and groups and to read about the others and for news and photos from home–the site becoming a community in itself; many correspondents have perpetuated the Carcar humor in the site; the best thing one can say about her carcaranon site was it made people want to buy a computer and go internet–many are addicted to it now; the rightful representative of the internet generation to this Carcaranons section.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: awards season! Last week, the stars hit the Golden Globes red carpet (who was the best dressed?) and, tonight, let's marvel at all the gorgeous gowns from the SAG Awards. If highlights from ceremonies past are any indication, this red carpet will be a good one. Let's take a look:
Of course, front runner Cate Blanchett skillfully pulls off pink and sequins in Givenchy Haute Couture, accented by Chopard bling.
Lupita Nyong'o stunned in a teal Gucci confection and Fred Leighton jewels.
Kelly Osbourne channels old Hollywood in a royal blue Zac Posen gown and LoveGold jewelry.
A Prada-clad Kerry Washington makes crop tops a new maternity-wear trend. Work it, hot mama!
Michelle Dockery rocking some very non-Lady Mary-like cleavage in a black-and-white blocked J. Mendel gown and David Yurman jewelry.
Jennifer Lawrence charmed on the red carpet and nailed it in a sequined strapless column gown by Dior and Jennifer Meyer jewelry.
Anna Gunn stunned in a beaded gown by Monique Lhuillier accessorized with Irene Neuwirth jewels and a killer Breaking Bad periodic-table-themed clutch by Edie Parker.
Emilia Clarke not only looked amazing in a one-shouldered custom Calvin Klein gown and Pomellato jewelry, she also enjoyed a hug and deep eye gaze from an ombré-coiffed Jared Leto.
Amy Adams kept up the royal blue trend in an Antonio Berardi gown and Cartier bling.
New Girl's Hannah Simone was a vision in a rosette-adorned Marchesa.
Sandra Bullock looked regal in a gleaming emerald green Lanvin dress and Fred Leighton jewelry.
Camilla Alves almost stole Matthew McConaughey's thunder in this beautiful marigold gown by Donna Karan Atelier and Neil Lane bling.
Elisabeth Moss looks beautiful in a lipstick red Michael Kors gown and Neil Lane jewels.
Who Had the Best Look on the SAG Awards Red Carpet?
Which dress is your favorite? Did yours not make the list? Tell us which one!


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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Review - Hush
Author: Cherry Adair
Publishing Date: April 2011
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Rating: B-
Sensuality: Hot
Book Disclosure: I purchased a new copy for my eReader.
Hush is the first book of Cherry Adair's new suspense series, Lodestone. Zach Stark wakes up after a night of hot sex with a beautiful woman Acadia Gray, whom he picked up in a bar the night before. He wakes up to find himself and Acadia being held at gun point by a group of savage men. These men have been paid well to kidnap him and Acadia. Neither is sure who the target of the kidnapping is or why for that matter. But one thing is for sure, Acadia and Zach will have to work together if they are to get out of the jungle alive.
Hush started out with such great promise and intrigue. I was riveted for that first chapter or two and then things took a little turn for the worse. It's just that the book is really over the top. The action is way, way intense and dare I say it, just a little bit unbelievable. However, that can make for a fun read. Just be sure to remember when reading to add your suspension of disbelief, otherwise you might just have a serious case of the eye-rolls.
Zach and Acadia have mad, smokin'-hot attraction for each other, that even when faced with guns, scary bad guys and massive explosions, they can take the time to ogle the other person's butt, pectorals or glorious ta-tas. Okay, I am exaggerating a little bit, or maybe not. But these two had the mental lusting thing going on, all the while running from the bad guys in a jungle in South America. Sometimes I have a little bit of trouble with this scenario. I have to admit that the book is action packed and will keep readers on the edges of their seats. Just don't take this book to seriously and you will (hopefully) be entertained, like I was.
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3 comments:
- Fiction Vixen said...
Huh. I've seen reviews on both sides of the fence on this one. I've haven't read this author. I'm still undecided on this book though. Sometimes I really like over the top. We'll see. Thanks for the review.
- June 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- Jill D. said...
Hi Fiction Vixon,
I have only read one other book by Cherry Adair and I thought it was pretty good. I just really liked the set up of Hush and I met her at RT and she was such a hoot. She really has an outgoing personality. This book is a mixed bag. It really is action packed, but a little over the top for me. I think a lot of readers will be entertained by it. Actually, I was entertained, while reading it, however some of it was eye-rolling, LOL!
- June 1, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Leslie said...
The whole "lust on the run" can really irritate me. It sounds like the trick to enjoying this one is to not take it too seriously. :)
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Good morning! It's our last day in Boston. Hopefully the Dodgers can give us a win tonight to fly on a happy note.
I'm enjoying the way Massachusetts folks speak. True story, not joking. While checking in at a Boston Hotel last Friday, the attendant asked me "Jew have eh ca?" and asked me to sign a paper. I said "huh?" He said it again "Jew have eh ca?" I look at the paper and noticed that it's asking me if I'm parking a car!
Or when my wife ordered a cheese steak at Feneuil Hall Marketplace and the employee said "Wa Sa!?" We looked confused. He said it again "Wa Sa!!?"
The guy behind us in line said "What size you want that cheese steak?"
Just wanted to drop a post before I head out to the streets. Have a good one everyone.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Boston Sunday Morning
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- Green Lantern JBJ of Sector 1138 said...
ppl in boston cant do the following correctly:
-play basketball
- June 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- dodgerbobble said...
They all sound like Peter Griffin from Family Guy.
- June 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM
- Roberto said...
lol Funny :)
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MEXICO MEXICO RA RA RA go el TRI!
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The Steelers are still breathing in the race for the AFC's final playoff spot, but they aren't sure if they'll have wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders in the lineup as they try to beat the Browns in Week 17.
Sanders was deemed questionable by coach Mike Tomlin at his Monday press conference, via Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, because of a meniscus injury. Sanders caught a touchdown in the first half of Pittsburgh's 38-31 victory, but didn't play in the second half after injuring his knee. The injury occurred without any contact, which often brings worse outcomes than the one Sanders got on Sunday.
If Sanders can't play, the Steelers would have to turn to rookie Markus Wheaton. Wheaton fractured a finger against the Packers, so he won't be 100 percent next Sunday either.
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i had a chance to visit with Richard Wright and Graham Harwood on a ride around the Silicon Valley earlier this year. i really appreciate the Mongrel collective's sensibility about the ways culture can be strengthened by the continual mongrelization of tools/memes/populaces. additionally, i am really inspired by the ways they have demonstrated resourcefulness, quick-prototyping, détournement, and poltical understanding of media technologies.


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California Election 2020: Updates and Analysis
If Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was hoping to ease into his new job as chief executive of California, he was sorely mistaken.
Newsom had planned to discuss housing and homelessness issues at a press conference this morning in downtown San Francisco, before inviting the press to watch him serve lunch to homeless and low-income residents of the city's Tenderloin neighborhood.
But last night's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, the most deadly in state history since 14 people were killed in San Bernardino in 2015, has forced Newsom to confront his first crisis as governor-elect.
"The response cannot just be excuses, the response sure as hell cannot be more guns," he told the assembled press at St. Anthony's, a Franciscan foundation that provides meals, clothing and social services to those in need. He declined to go into the specifics about what an appropriate response would be until more is known about the details of the shooting. But he did say the state "can do more and do better."
The Legislature "has gotten a lot done on gun safety, and they've got a governor who wants to raise the bar," he said.
"There are a number of things (Gov. Brown) vetoed that I would not have vetoed, and there are a number of things that I want that haven't been done," he later told The Sacramento Bee's Alexei Koseff.
This year, Brown nixed legislation that would have limited the number of long guns a person can buy within the same month. He also vetoed a bill that would have expanded the number of people who can petition the court to have guns removed from someone they believe to be dangerous.
Though Newsom will not be sworn in until January, he is currently serving as acting governor, as Gov. Brown is on a trip to Texas. After a 28-year-old gunman with a high-capacity magazine shot and killed 13 people, including a sheriff's sergeant, at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Ventura County, Newsom ordered the state's flag flown at half-staff.
Newsom also declared a state of emergency in Butte County, where the Camp Fire has spread across 18,000 acres prompting mandatory evacuations in the town of Paradise. Meanwhile, as Santa Ana winds whipped Southern California, a second massive fire—also in Ventura County—erupted, prompting mandatory evacuations and closing portions of U.S. 101.
With the notable exception of Mike Curb, who used a gubernatorial absence to appoint some Republican judges during Gov. Brown's first stint in the governor's office, California lieutenant governors have rarely used the role of acting governor to take much actual action. (In 2013, Newsom boldly made the avocado California's state fruit while Brown was away). But with Newsom's double-digit electoral victory over John Cox on Tuesday, he now seems to be giving the position a test drive.
"I am humbled by this responsibility," Newsom said of this week's election results, in which he defeated Republican John Cox by what is likely to be a margin of roughly 20 percentage points. "And boy, was that underscored in the last 24 hours."
Newsom also used the press conference as an opportunity to talk about housing, reiterating many of the same policy positions he has outlined on the campaign trail.
He reiterated his support for policies that would encourage denser development around public transportation infrastructure (though earlier this year he declined to support a bill by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener that would have forced cities to accept taller buildings around bus and metro stops).
Responding to the failure of Proposition 10, which would have repealed statewide restrictions on local rent control ordinances, he expressed "a real commitment, not a passing interest, to help lead in (the) effort" to find a legislative compromise. Newsom opposed Prop. 10.
He also called for a more regional approach to addressing homelessness, decrying cities "that are not carrying their weight" while allowing big cities to shoulder the fiscal and administrative costs of providing services and housing to those most in need.
"They need to do more and they need to be held to account," he said, though he did not specify exactly how.
On the campaign trail, Newsom has discussed the possibility of conditioning state transportation funding to local governments on each city's willingness to meet statewide housing goals. He alluded to a policy proposal today: "You're going to hear a lot more from me about housing and transportation because I see the two as the same."
He also promised to say more in coming days about who would serve in his administration. But he offered no additional details.
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For the second year in a row, California Democrats have passed a progressive crowd-pleaser: a bill that would require all presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns if they want to make it onto the state primary ballot next year.
And once again, Republicans are denouncing the proposal as partisan anti-Trump trolling masquerading as a transparency initiative, and say it is all but certain to be shot down in the courts.
What's different this time is the man who occupies the governor's mansion.
Last year, both the Assembly and Senate passed a virtually identical bill along party lines only to see it vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Whatever the bill's "political attractiveness—even the merits," Brown wrote, the idea rested on shaky constitutional ground and could invite future politicians to erect ever-higher barriers to entry for those hoping to run for office.
This year's version passed the Senate on Thursday and is expected to sail through the Democratic-dominated Assembly before landing on the governor's desk. Gov. Newsom has yet to say whether he will sign it.
Democrats insist this is just about good governance. "President Trump is a strong example of the need for this legislation, but he is not the only one," said Sen. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg, the bill's author, on the Senate floor last week.
Republicans were only too happy to take that argument at face value and suggest that the state apply these tax return requirements to all federal officeholders in California—the majority of whom Democrats. With that idea going nowhere, Sen. Brian Jones, a Republican from eastern San Diego County, castigated his Democratic colleagues for "playing the Resistance card."
Lawmakers in other blue states such as Illinois, New Jersey and Washington are considering comparable proposals this year. Another bill died in Hawaii last month.
On Monday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that he would not be turning over the president's tax returns, refusing a formal request from Democrats in Congress.
We covered the thorny constitutional issues raised by this idea when it came up the first time last year.
Here's the CliffsNotes version:
- The U.S. Constitution says a presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen over the age of 35 who has lived in the United States for at least 14 years. That's it.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted that to mean that states cannot place additional requirements on would-be candidates. In the past, that has included term limits (which would require a candidate not to have previously held a certain office) along with rules forcing candidates to disclose some bit of information, such as their race or where they stand on a particular political issue.
- But the Court has said that states are free to regulate the time, place and manner of elections, which include rules requiring candidates to pay filing fees, gather signatures or submit forms by certain deadlines.
So the key question is this: If California asks a candidate to publicize his or her tax returns, is that a constitutionally verboten "requirement" or a permissible "procedural regulation"?
Read the rest here.
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Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris was just about to take the stage tonight at Sacramento's Sheraton Grand Hotel ballroom when she spotted and ran over to a group of women sporting yellow t-shirts sitting on right side of the auditorium. They were California child-care workers hoping to win collective bargaining rights in Sacramento. And Harris, a U.S. senator from California, put her stump speech on hold to exchange hugs and snap selfies.
It was a brief, unscripted moment in what was to be a fairly conventional campaign stop, but it was a notable one.
In her 20 minute speech to the conference put on by the California Labor Federation and the State Building and Construction Trades Council, Harris spoke broadly about the value of organized labor— "unions built the middle class of this country"—and stuck mostly to national politics. She promised to repeal the changes to the federal tax code signed into law by President Trump last year, and spoke about the aspirational nature of the American character.
Her one tangent into California state policy belonged to the women in yellow.
"I was going over there to talk to my sisters in the child-care workforce, and I thank you for all that you are doing to organize a critical workforce—to organize and unionize," she said, speaking to the cheering members of the Service Employees International Union and the United Domestic Workers of America.
"The greatest expression of a society's love of its children," she continued, "is to put resources and support into anybody who is caring for those children."
For more than a decade, child-care workers in California who receive state subsidies to serve low-income families have been lobbying in the state Capitol to get the right to bargain with the state over reimbursement rates, licensing requirements and other policies that affect their industry. Supporters say that direct negotiations with state agencies are the best way to improve working conditions and child-care quality, though some skeptics worry that higher reimbursement rates could eat away at state funding that could be used to serve more children. Others see the campaign as yet another way for organized labor to consolidate political power.
This year, Santa Barbara Democrat Assemblywoman Monique Limón said that she is more optimistic than ever that her bill to OK the unionization effort will be successful this time.
"This is a new era," Limón told CALmatters last month. "We have a new governor who cares a lot about child care."
And now they appear to have the backing of one of the Democratic front runners to be the next president of the United States. At least that's certainly how many of the assembled childcare workers interpreted it. Harris did not take questions before or after her speech.
"It felt good," said Nancy Harvey, who runs Lil' Nancy's Primary Schoolhouse out of her house in West Oakland. "She's on our side."
"I loved what she was saying," added Celeste Galeno, who owns Little Lambs Daycare in Tulare. "She knows that child care affects every single one of us in this place because every single one of us has been a child."
Harris wasn't the only state politician to show up at the union confab to rub elbows and to seek possible endorsements. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra also made an appearance, as did at least three dozen state legislators. Also today, Harris's campaign announced that the Oakland native and former state attorney general had raised $12 million in the first quarter of her presidential campaign, and her public appearances in the state have been sandwiched between private fundraisers.
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New Way California has a message for all California Republicans: You don't have to be like President Trump. You don't even have to like him.
"The California Republican Party must not be a carbon copy of the national GOP," Kevin Faulconer, the Republican mayor of San Diego, said to the modest crowd of political centrists who had flocked to the Crest Theatre in downtown Sacramento this morning for the group's second annual summit.
"California Republicans need to create a party tailored to the people of California," he continued, pointing to his own example as a center-right politician who has authored a local climate change action plan and recently announced a five-year campaign to make the city more welcoming to immigrants.
"Let's take him out of the equation," former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said of President Trump. "It's a mistake for a state party to mold themselves after the national party."
New Way is the product of Republican Assemblyman Chad Mayes. As an organization it is eager to show after the 2016 election that California Republicans need not doubt the science of climate change, cater only to business or consistently stand by the president. Schwarzenegger sits on the board.
The morning's event offered a notable contrast with the California Republican Party's convention, held two weeks ago just a few blocks away, where headliners included Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and President Trump's former press secretary Sean Spicer.
At this morning's event, there wasn't a single "Make America Great Again" hat. It was also considerably smaller—some 80 to 100 attendees sat spaced out across the theater auditorium.
But crafting a more centrist GOP brand separate from the national party is likely a hard sell to both sides of the political spectrum. According to a recent poll, 77 percent of self-identified Republicans said they support President Trump's job performance. Mayes, the former Republican leader in the Assembly, was tossed from that top job by the caucus for supporting a renewal of the state cap-and-trade program. Meanwhile, many Democratic and independent voters may be unable or unwilling to distinguish state and local Republicans from the policies and persona of Trump.
The day's program offered a series of panels and guest speakers who touched on such indisputable but nebulous themes as inclusivity, economic mobility, and "bridging the partisan divide."
As telling as what was said was who said it.
The early morning workforce development panel was composed entirely of people of color. That was followed by a short speech from Samuel Rodriguez, a Latino evangelical pastor from Sacramento who argued that "the future of the California Republican Party lies embedded in names like Sanchez, Miranda, Rivera and Rodriguez."
Two moderate Republicans—former Assemblywomen Kristin Olsen and Catharine Baker—then spoke of bipartisanship with Sen. Steve Glazer, a centrist Democrat from Orinda.
The event also included a speech by Bill Kristol, the neoconservative political commentator and fierce Trump critic, and a short discussion between Olsen and Schwarzenegger about political reform.
"It's important for the country to have healthy political parties if possible," said Kristol. "Maybe we'll have to go beyond the two-party system. I'm open to that."
None of the other Republicans at today's event went quite so far as to entertain abandoning the GOP altogether. But expectations about the future of successes of the party were tempered.
"A vibrant, competitive two-party system is essential for our state," said Faulconer.
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That hissing emanating from Sacramento is the sound of the entire California Republican Party establishment breathing a sigh of relief.
At the party's weekend convention, state GOP delegates selected Jessica Patterson, a millennial Latina with a lengthy resume as a behind-the-scenes party operator, as their new chair.
Depending on whom you ask, Patterson's election offers a ray of hope for a struggling party, marks the continuation of a failed strategy, or is bound to make absolutely no difference for a party tethered to an unpopular president.
Travis Allen, the Trump-supporting firebrand from Huntington Beach and former candidate for governor who had vowed to take on a party establishment came up short. So did longtime Republican activist Steve Frank. They both lost despite entering into a political alliance to "resist" Patterson.
"I think we did dodge a bullet," said Assemblyman Chad Mayes from Yucca Valley, a regular critic of the party's fervent Trump-leaning base. Prior to the chair's race, he had warned that an Allen election would lead elected Republicans to leave the GOP.
"This will make a huge difference," said Luis Alvarado, a consultant, adding that the election of Patterson gave him "hope" for the future of the party.
George Andrews, a party delegate and chief of staff to Assemblyman Tom Lackey, went even further, saying Patterson's "saved the party."
Allen's singular appeal to Trump-supporting diehards had little draw outside of California's few remaining red districts, he argued. "She can do the math," Andrews said. "If you can't do math you probably shouldn't be chair of the party."
Patterson is hardly a moderate. She is unequivocally opposed to abortion, is backed by the House minority leader and noted Trump whisperer, Kevin McCarthy, and spent the convention referring to Democratic legislators as the "enemy."
After winning, the president's eldest son congratulated Patterson on Twitter:
Congrats @Millanpatterson on becoming the new Chair of the California Republican Party! #MAGA https://t.co/GDaSk60OrK
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 24, 2019
"She's not anti-Trump," Andrews said of Patterson, "But she knows how to campaign."
Unlike Allen, her closest competitor in the race, Patterson did not make her political views or her loyalty to the president the centerpiece of her campaign. That's a continuation of the approach adopted by Jim Brulte, her immediate predecessor, who viewed the chair position as an operations and logistics manager, not a spokesperson.
"There are too few of us to continue to push people out of the party," Patterson said the day before the vote. "We are not going to shout people out. We are going to be inclusive."
But as Allen and Frank spent the entire weekend pointing out, that hands-off approach has not been working.
"We face an existential decision," Allen said during a moderated discussion on Saturday. "Will we change to fight to win again or will we continue the failing status quo?"
Republicans now make up 24 percent of the California electorate. In last year's election, they lost half of their congressional delegation and saw their minorities in the state assembly and senate reduced to near political irrelevance.
Both Allen and Frank argued that the party's core problem was not its association with President Trump, whose approval numbers hover around one-third, but its failure to adequately fund voter registration efforts.
After winning, Patterson invited Allen and Frank to lead a newly created "voter registration task force."
"We can only hope that the Republican Party starts fighting again for the good of all Californians," Allen said after the results of the vote were broadcast to the convention center auditorium.
Patterson's victory represents a break from that status quo in one very obvious way. She is the first woman to hold the position of chair and the first Latina. That may be a notable achievement in and of itself. The Republican Party has struggled with white, educated women and Latino voters in the Trump era.
The party delegates also elected Peter Kuo, a Taiwanese-born Silicon Valley businessman, as its vice chairman. Greg Gandrud, an openly gay man from the Santa Barbara area, was elected party treasurer.
Lest anyone accuse the new leadership team of championing multicultural diversity for its own sake, Gandrud recently formed a nonprofit to sue the Santa Barbara public school district for, according to his website, a "curriculum that is racist against white people and teaches students that white male Christian capitalists are oppressors."
Contrary to the party's national image, Patterson joins a long list of women in leadership positions within the California GOP, including Sens. Pat Bates and Shannon Grove, the current and incoming minority leaders in the Senate, and Assemblywoman Marie Waldron, the top Republican in the Assembly.
"In the legislative bodies that have supported me, I am so incredibly grateful for the leaders—having three women on the legislative side," Patterson said at the convention hall. "Senator Grove, Senator Bates and Assemblywoman Waldron: let's go out there and do this."
"This" presumably refers to new efforts to expand the allure of the state GOP. But that broader ideological appeal was not reflected in the line up of speakers at this weekend's convention. They included former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney and Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson.
It's unclear whether the events of the convention—including the election of Patterson—will resonate with California voters outside the most fervent Republican activists. But according to Mayes, Patterson's election is a good step in the right direction.
"We still have an incredible amount of work to do," he said. "Having a new chair is not going to solve our problems. We have to be inclusive, we have to start reaching Californians where they're at…they're not going to come to us, we've got to go to them. I think Jessica knows that and understands that."
Editors' note: An earlier version of this story failed to correctly note that this will be Gandrud's first stint as party treasurer.
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There's only room enough for one "anti-establishment" bomb thrower in the California GOP.
Or so some might conclude after San Diego Republican activist Carl DeMaio held a press conference this morning at the party convention in downtown Sacramento denouncing former Assemblyman Travis Allen, who is running to be the next state GOP chair. His election, DeMaio said, would be the "final nails in the coffin" for the party.
The bad blood between the two rabble-rousers dates back at least a year. During the Prop. 6 campaign, Allen spent over $300,000 raised to push for the ballot measure on ads that prominently featured himself. At the time, Allen was running for governor.
"Travis Allen was never interested in qualifying a gas tax repeal for the ballot," said DeMaio. "Travis Allen was interested in one thing: promoting Travis Allen. In fact, it's the only thing he seems to be good at."
DeMaio instead endorsed Jessica Patterson for the chair's job. Patterson, a Latina millennial with a lengthy resume as a behind-the-scenes party organizer, has been endorsed by an overwhelming majority of elected Republicans in state government—many of them Allen's former colleagues. Steve Frank, a Republican activist from Simi Valley, is also running for chair. Last week, Frank and Allen formed a coalition of "resistance" to Patterson, vowing to back whoever gets more votes after the first round vote on Sunday.
This is the latest development in a feud between DeMaio and Allen, two conservatives who otherwise have plenty in common.
Both cast themselves as representatives of the party's grassroots, ready to make trouble with an out of touch party "establishment." Both were prominent supporters of the failed effort to repeal an increase in the state gas tax last November. Both are firebrands with a talent for stirring up convention crowds and gathering fervent support on social media.
DeMaio warned that if Allen wins funding resources for the party would "dry up."
"With Travis Allen you'll have a vanity party centered around one individual who is an egomaniac who will turn off most of the donors," he said. "Travis Allen shouldn't be entrusted to run a rotary club, let alone the California Republican Party."
Asked about the press conference, Allen hit back at DeMaio.
"Unfortunately, after failing Californians with a badly managed campaign to Repeal the Gas Tax, he now is looking for excuses and issues to distra(ct) from his failure," he said via text message.
Asked to respond in turn, DeMaio said: "Travis, just go away."
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You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, run to be the chair of a major California political party.
Perhaps that explains the case of two runner-ups from the 2018 election season. State Sen. Kevin de León of Los Angeles—the former Senate Democratic leader who in November failed to unseat a fellow Democrat, veteran U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein— says he'll decide within a few weeks whether to run for chair of the California Democratic Party. That follows former Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Assemblyman Travis Allen, who was defeated in the June primary and later announced he will be running to be the next leader of his party.
In a telephone conversation today with CALmatters, de León said that he has been asked to take up the California Democratic Party's mantle by "a lot of activists and elected officials" within the party and is giving the matter serious thought. "My phone has been blowing up," he said. He declined to say who has been calling and texting without first getting their permission to share that information.
De León won the endorsement of the party's executive council for his Senate challenge last July. He ultimately lost to Feinstein in the general election by more than 8 percentage points.
If he does decide to run, de León would be seeking to replace Eric Bauman, who resigned in late November after being accused of sexual harassment. Allen hopes to replace current California Republican Chairman Jim Brulte, who decided not to seek re-election.
Neither job is uncontested. In the Republican camp, Allen would be running against the party's vice chair, Trump-skeptic David Hadley, as well as party activist Stephen Frank. If de León decides to run, he'd be facing off against Kimberly Ellis, the progressive activist who narrowly lost the chair race last year in a bitter contest with Bauman. Ellis has plenty of support across the more left-leaning elements of the Democratic base, but de León said that he could unite "the Bernie and the Clinton folks."
That is, if he decides to run in the first place.
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Californians may have just voted overwhelmingly for more of the same—boosting Democratic majorities in both chambers of the Legislature and replacing one Democratic governor with another for the first time since the 1880's—but many are still eager for major changes to state policy. And a majority are downright pessimistic about California's future.
Those results, which would seem at odds with recent indicators that paint a sunny macroeconomic picture for the state, come via a new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California.
Half of all respondents, and 60 percent of respondents identified as likely voters, predicted that children growing up today in California will face a bleaker financial future than their parents. That impending decline could arrive sooner than we think. Asked if California should expect an economic downturn in the next year, respondents were split. And like the state's economic growth, that optimism was not evenly distributed: majorities of coastal city residents foresee good times ahead, while pessimism clustered in the Inland Empire and Central Valley.
The number of Californians who believe "the good times might be over" was "decidedly different than even a few weeks before the election," said Mark Baldassare, president of the institute.
The rising pessimism could be the result of a waning stock market or news of the county's still-unresolved trade war. But a general sense of economic anxiety is also in keeping with a long-term trend since the last decade's Great Recession, he said.
"We're at this point in the recovery which should have given people more of a sense of economic security and there are a lot of people who feel insecure," said Baldassare.
Evidently: 67 percent of respondents said that the state was divided into haves and have-nots—and 45 percent considered themselves have-nots.
Among them, African Americans, Latinos, people without any college education, non-citizens and renters were disproportionately represented. Many of those groups are also more likely to be non-voters. Sure enough, 59 percent of those not registered to vote considered themselves on the losing end of the state's economic fortunes, compared to only 36 percent of likely voters.
That grim economic assessment seems to have translated into higher support for expanded social programs. Fifty-seven percent of adults said they want lawmakers to spend some of the state's multi-billion dollar budget surplus on increasing education, health and human service funding. One in six wanted universal healthcare to be a "high" or "very high" policy priority for incoming state lawmakers. A majority said the same of tuition-free community college.
But only 48 percent said there should be such focus on statewide universal pre-school, one of Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom's top priorities.
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This week, with California's 2018 midterm behind us, we'll be offering insights into the results with five charts—one per day. Today, Friday, we published our final installment. About 416,000 ballots await tabulation, so we'll update these posts as warranted.
Skim how California voted on various ballot propositions—"yes" to more borrowing for affordable housing, "no" to the gas tax repeal, "yay" for bigger chicken cages—and you might think people across the state feel pretty much the same way about these things.
Which, of course, they don't.
Proposition 6, which sought to nix a gas tax increase and thereby cut transportation funding about $5 billion per year, failed. But not everywhere. A majority of voters in most of the state's inland counties voted for the measure. They did so despite the fact that many of these large, sparsely-populated counties receive a disproportionate amount of state road funding per person. Chalk it up to a combination of car dependence, tax-aversion and support for the Republican Party backing the measure.
So looks can be deceiving. Prop. 6 won a majority of the state's landmass, but elections aren't won by acreage. Overwhelming opposition in the state's big cities (83 percent of San Franciscans and 61 percent of Angelenos voted "no") dragged the ballot measure to defeat.
Then again, sometimes looks say it all.
Prop. 10, the unsuccessful attempt to repeal statewide restrictions on rent control and another one of the most controversial propositions on the ballot, went down just about everywhere. The two exceptions were San Francisco and Alameda County. Those two counties were also alone in opposition Prop. 11, a paramedic breaktime initiative.
For the record, those were not the most geographically lopsided outcomes among the 11 ballot measures. Tiny Alpine County was the only county that supported Prop. 8, the profit cap on dialysis clinics. But it was close: 283 people voted yes while 269 opposed.
No county carried Prop. 5, the measure to allow older homeowners to carry their Prop. 13 property tax benefits when they move.
But that's where the unanimity ended. Looking at which propositions received the most "yes" votes in each locale, counties were split across six measures: Prop. 2 (housing/mental health bond), Prop. 4 (children's hospital bond), Prop. 6 (gas tax repeal), Prop. 7 (to start the process of ditching the biannual switch from Daylight Saving to Standard time), Prop. 11 (paramedic breaks) and Prop. 12 (requiring larger cages for hens and other farm animals).
Sadly for the seven counties that loved the idea of repealing the gas take hike, that was the only measure on the list above to fail.
As for which propositions received the most "no" votes, counties split their disdain three ways.
The gas repeal measure, as noted, was largely rejected by the coast. Likewise, in nearly every county not touching the Pacific, the measure to allow more rent control was the proposition that received the highest number of "no" votes. That more than canceled out the support that the measure received in the Bay Area.
And Prop. 5? While no county much liked it, ell, Yolo, Sacramento, Humboldt and Mono were especially down on the property tax break.
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The resignation of California Democratic Party chairman Eric Bauman comes at a particularly emotional moment in California politics—on the heels of historic wins for Democrats and after a year of bipartisan reckoning over the apparent culture of sexual bullying within the political class.
Bauman became the latest casualty of the #MeToo movement when he resigned Thursday, hours after Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom called on him to step down over allegations that he harassed staff members and party activists with numerous lewd comments and incidents of inappropriate physical contact. Bauman said he has a drinking problem and would seek treatment.
"I have made the realization that in order for those to whom I may have caused pain and who need to heal, for my own health, and in the best interest of the Party that I love and to which I have dedicated myself for more than 25 years, it is in everyone's best interest for me to resign my position as chair of the California Democratic Party," Bauman said.
That Bauman's alleged behavior persisted even as the public gaze focused so heavily in the last year on rooting out sexual harassment may be a testament to the counterproductive role alcohol too often plays in Capitol culture. Or it may point to the declining significance of political parties—how important can a party leader be, after all, if he can decree "zero tolerance," as Bauman did, for sexual harassment and then openly proceed to harass his staff?
But most of all, Bauman's resignation is a sign that the #MeToo story is far from over.
"There are a lot of untold stories, and frankly, a lot of bad actors who haven't been held accountable yet," said Samantha Corbin, a lobbyist whose public letter last year kicked off the anti-harassment movement in the state Capitol.
During the past year of tumult and introspection, three legislators resigned, facing harassment allegations, and several others were publicly reprimanded for behavior ranging from using vulgar language to giving unwanted "noogies." On the very day Bauman resigned, the Assembly released records saying Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia violated sexual harassment policy by acting "overly familiar" with a staffer when, in a drunken state, she grabbed him at a legislative softball game. Throughout this year, the Legislature passed dozens of laws to combat harassment in workplaces statewide, and formed a special committee that crafted a plan to improve the culture inside the Capitol.
Bauman, who is gay, spoke out last year in favor of legislation to give Capitol staffers whistleblower protection if they report misconduct. The Democratic convention he organized in February included new precautions to keep participants safe, such as extra security and a hotline for reporting harassment and assault.
Now Bauman himself will be the focus of an inquiry by a new Commission of Inquiry and Recognition being formed by a Democratic party activist in Los Angeles who says he's been a victim of Bauman's inappropriate advances. The commission includes former state schools superintendent Delaine Eastin.
"There is going to be a lot of focus on who enabled this. There are still people in party leadership who enabled this to persist as long as it has," said Hans Johnson, president of the East Area Progressive Democrats club.
"They are part of the breakdown in governance in the party that contributed to the worsening and widening of the hurt (Bauman) has been allowed to inflict."
Johnson said Bauman doesn't deserve credit for California Democrats' electoral victories this month—which included flipping seven seats in the House, capturing every statewide office and gaining supermajorities (and then some) in both chambers of the Legislature.
Political scientists and campaign strategists agreed that party leadership seemed to be only one factor among many in the blue wave this election. Democrats, they noted, also were buoyed by Californians' deep dislike of Republican President Donald Trump, as well as a strong push from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and numerous labor and activist groups that raised huge sums of money and organized campaign volunteers.
"The state party did not have a major role in what happened in regards to Congress," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a retired political science professor at the University of Southern California.
"What the state party is, by and large, is a way for donors to launder money," she said, because the law limits how much they can give to individual candidates but not how much they can give to the state party.
The party hired an employment lawyer to investigate the accusations against Bauman. That process will continue despite his resignation, said acting-Chair Alexandra Gallardo Rooker, and an executive summary of the findings will be made public.
Rooker will continue to serve as the party chair until delegates elect a new leader, likely at their convention in May. What's not clear, however, is how many more political figures will fall before the #MeToo story is over in California.
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This week, with California's 2018 midterm behind us, we'll be offering insights into the results with five charts—one per day. Today, Thursday, about 442,000 ballots are still waiting to be tabulated, so we'll update these posts as warranted.
No doubt you've heard about the blue wave: the electoral tsunami of left-of-center enthusiasm that slammed into California on election day, flipping seven of 14 GOP-held congressional districts to the Democrats. But that was just the wave's frothy cap.
For every single congressional district that featured a face-off between a Democrat and Republican in this midterm and the last, the California electorate shifted further blue. The average Democratic gain was 9 percentage points since 2014.
As the sea of leftward pointing arrows above shows, Democrats amassed a larger share of the vote in all but five districts this year, including several that stayed in GOP hands. In 2014, for example, Central Valley Republican Rep. Devin Nunes won 72 percent of the vote. This year (at last count) he snagged a slim majority of 53 percent.
There was a leftward shift in most solidly blue districts this year too. Take Rep. Ted Lieu in Torrence. In 2014, he won his seat by a little less than 60 percent of the vote, leaving 41 percent of the vote for his Republican opponent. This year, he won by an even more resounding 70 percent.
The only districts that proved immune to the national wave of anti-Trump energy that swept the country—and swept Democrats back into the House majority—were districts where a Democrat and Republican did not square off against one another in one of the two election years (those districts are indicated by dashed lines above).
In California's 8th congressional district, which covers much of the state's eastern desert, two Republicans, Rep. Paul Cook and former Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, made it into the top two. That sole GOP shutout in the primary allowed the Republicans to rack up 100 percent of the vote there this year.
The other exceptions are true blue enclaves such as Burbank or San Jose where Republicans were shutout in 2014. This year, Republican candidates in those districts were able to improve upon their party's prior vote share of 0 percent—but only modestly.
Democratic districts such as the one based in San Pedro didn't see a Republican compete in either year. Not much room for Democratic improvement there.
If the graphic above looks familiar, it's because we've run a similar version before. In a post from earlier this summer, we showed how the share of the vote going towards Republican candidates in the June primary fell dramatically in most seats between 2014 and 2018. The title of that article was "California's Blue Wave watch: Why this graphic should worry Republicans."
In retrospect, that sounds about right.
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Twitter Users Come Together to Create 'Obama Country Songs'
Does the #ObamaCountrySongs trend on Twitter mean President Barack Obama is thinking of a new career? Or are his supporters and critics just looking for a new way to sound off? The latter seems more likely. Country song titles are getting a political spin from Twitter users in hundreds of funny -- and not-so-funny -- pokes at the president.
A few of the tweets cross the line, and many are just plain mean. Below are a few highlights from the #ObamaCountrySongs craze on Twitter this Thursday (May 9). Want to play? Feel free to add your own in the comments section below, or tweet it to us at @tasteofcountry.
Rock me 'Bama like a Wagon wheel! Rock me 'Bama anyway you feel! #obamacountrysongs
— CSInspection (@cs_inspection) May 9, 2013
#ObamaCountrySongs ~ All My Taxes Live In Texas
— GR Hutson(@jess_reign_bass) May 9, 2013
Take This Executive Order and Shove It. Honolulu By Morning. ACommunityOrganizer Can Survive. #ObamaCountrySongs
— norbizness (@norbizness) May 9, 2013
#obamacountrysongs Obamacare:even if it breaks your fiscal budget -Eli young band
— Kelly Hertzel (@K_Hertzel) May 9, 2013
Wall Street gets the goldmine, Main Street gets the shaft #ObamaCountrySongs
— Otter Pop Enthusiast (@moose_bigelow) May 9, 2013
#ObamaCountrySongs Are you gonna tax me or not
— That_Texan (@ChanceWx) May 9, 2013
Achy Breaky Heart (Isn't Covered By ObamaCare) #obamacountrysongs
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HealthDay Reporter
Latest Hearing News
WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Inheriting certain inner-ear genes may make for top-notch musical chops.
A study by Finnish scientists suggests that the genes that influence the structure of auditory pathways -- the structures that form the inner ear -- may play a significant role in musical ability.
"It's very interesting that they identified genetic regions that may be associated with brain mechanisms involved in the abilities to perceive, appreciate and perhaps even perform music," said Robert Bilder, director of the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, at the University of California, Los Angeles.
But "there is a lot of intervening, messy biology between these genetic differences and the ultimate traits that fascinate us all, and are associated with musical genius," added Bilder, who is also chief of medical psychology-neuropsychology at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
The aim of the study was to identify variations in genes linked with sensory perception, said authors Irma Jarvela and colleagues at the University of Helsinki. They analyzed the genomes of 76 families for a total of 767 people between the ages of 7 and 94 years old (41 percent male). Fifteen of the families were selected for the study because they included professional musicians.
In addition to genetic testing, the participants were asked to take three musical aptitude tests that measured a person's ability to perceive perfect pitch, for example.
The researchers reported that the "best-linked and associated regions of the genome were largely on chromosome 4, and are mostly genes associated with the auditory pathway," according to a journal news release.
The auditory pathway includes the cochlea. Sounds are recognized by cochlear cells in the inner ear and transmitted as electronic signals through the auditory nerve to the brain. MRI studies show that numerous areas of the brain are active during music perception.
The study findings were published online March 11 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
Bilder, who was not involved in the study, said other factors are involved in extraordinary creativity, including a high musical aptitude.
"In this study, they've really focused on auditory perception, and I think the ability to appreciate tone and rhythm and musical patterns is critically important. But there are so many other factors involved in exceptional levels of ability and achievement -- a range of personality factors and other cognitive factors that are almost certainly critical," Bilder said.
He says they're called "Big C" factors, such as personality characteristics like openness to new experiences. "People who have higher levels of creative achievement tend to have lower levels of agreeableness. They tend to be people who don't just accept the status quo," he said. Persistence, the desire to work and work until they get it right, is another quality of highly creative personalities.
Another expert pointed out other influences on musical ability.
"There are a lot of environmental factors that may come into play, too," said Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, president and CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, in Great Neck, N.Y., such as being exposed to music as a child, or playing an instrument from an early age.
Borenstein said other genes are involved, too. "Musical ability isn't based on one gene like eye color. It isn't blue or brown. It's a complex set of genes of which they studied a few associated with musical aptitude."
UCLA's Bilder said, "The way to appreciate this study is to see this as one piece in a very complicated puzzle." He believes further research focused on exceptional creativity may help confirm and extend these findings.
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SOURCES: Robert Bilder, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., director, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, and chief of medical psychology-neuropsychology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles; Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., president and CEO, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Great Neck, N.Y.; March 11, 2014, news release and study, Molecular Psychiatry


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"The Bling Ring" made out like a bandit at the box office this weekend.
Sofia Coppola's take on a real-life group of San Fernando Valley youths who burglarized celebrity homes in 2009 debuted in limited release and grossed $210,001, according to an estimate from distributor A24 Films. Playing in two theaters in New York and three in Los Angeles, the film earned a healthy per-theater average of $42,000. Though the movie is set in Hollywood's backyard, the film did the most business this weekend at a cinema near New York University.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the film about a gaggle of teens who live for fashion and idolize Paris Hilton is so far appealing mostly to young females.
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"Sofia's fans came out, but the majority of the crowd were females between 17 and 34," said Nicolette Aizenberg, A24's head of publicity.
"The Bling Ring" posted the biggest per-theater average ever for a Coppola film in limited release, beating the $40,221 "Lost in Translation" averaged per-location in 2003. That film, for which she earned an original screenplay Oscar, went on to become her highest-grossing to date with a $44.6 million total.
Still, "The Bling Ring" didn't get off to as strong of a start as "Spring Breakers," another A24 release that also features young adults engaging in bad behavior. When it opened in March, the Harmony Korine-directed film notched a $87,667 per-theater average -- still the highest such figure of the year -- and has since gone on to collect $14.1 million.
Next weekend, "The Bling Ring" will expand to roughly 500 locations -- about 500 less than "Spring Breakers" played in during its second frame in theaters.
"I think they're going to play out differently," Aizenberg said. "Even though people like to lump them together, they're very different movies. We want this to be more of a slow burn because it's summer and feels like a fun time of year."
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Hamm used to work at L.A.'s Border Grill where he especially fancied torta de tres leches
Pop quiz, Mad Men fans: What does popular L.A. restaurant Border Grill have to do with the hit series?
Turns out there are a few connections. The series films across the street from Border Grill's downtown Los Angeles location. Actor Ben Feldman, who plays opinionated copywriter Michael Ginsberg on the show, is chef Susan Feniger's nephew. And the show's breakout star Jon Hamm used to work for years for Feniger and her business partner, chef Mary Sue Milliken, as a waiter.
That, of course, makes Feniger and Milliken the perfect chefs to recommend some culinary treats to serve at your Mad Men viewing party Sunday night.
Feniger suggests a ceviche dish inspired by her nephew's favorite on the Border Grill menu.
"Ben is a total foodie and because I'm the good Jewish aunt, I always feed him way too much, she tells PEOPLE. "Although the ceviche has tons of strong flavors, it's light and really satisfying."
Adds the chef, "It's also the perfect dish to have with a martini, and what is more Mad Men than a martini?"
Milliken recommends treating your guests to a yummy torta de tres leches.
"When Jon worked at the Border Grill in the late '90s long before he became Don Draper, he ate platefuls of our torta de tres leches," Milliken says. "It also had a '60s N.Y.C. look and feel to it and is always a crowd pleaser."
Read on to create the perfect full meal to dine like a Mad Men character:
Adapted from original recipe
1 lb. skinless, boneless sustainable fish, like halibut, cut in ¼-inch dice
1 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
½ cup diced red onion
1 small jalapeno chile, stem and seeds removed, diced
1 small habanero chile, stem and seeds remove, diced (or aji Amarillo chile if available)
2 tbsp. diced yellow bell pepper
½-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced or grated
½ bunch cilantro, chopped
4 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
Salt, to taste
Plantain chips or tortilla chips, for serving
Pickled Red Onions (see recipe below), for serving
Sliced avocado, for serving
Serves 4
• In a large bowl, combine fish and lime juice
• Marinate in the refrigerator for 20 minutes
• Drain fish, reserving ¼-cup lime juice
• Combine fish with next 8 ingredients andreserved lime juice. Stir gently to combine, and chill thoroughly
• Serve in a chilled martini glass, garnished with plantain chips or tortilla chips, pickled Red Onions, and slices of avocado
Pickled Red Onions
1 lb. red onions, thinly sliced
1 cup white vinegar
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp, cumin seeds, roughly chopped
1 tsp. dried oregano
4 cloves garlic, sliced
2 tbsp. sugar
1 ½ tsp. salt
1 beet, trimmed, peeled, and cut into 8 wedges
Makes 5½ cups
• Place the onions in a medium saucepan and pour in enough water to cover
• Bring to a boil, and remove from the heat, then strain and set the onions aside
• Combine all the remaining ingredients in the saucepan
• Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, andcook 10 minutes
• Add the blanched onions and simmer an additional 10 minutes
• Transfer the mixture to a container, cover, and refrigerate at least a day before serving. Pickled onions will keep in the refrigerator up to a month.
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Torta de Tres Leches
Adapted from original recipe
Tres Leches de Café Ingredients
2 ½ cups homemade sweetened condensed milk, chilled (see recipe below)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
1 ½-2 cups strong, freshly brewed espresso
• Combine the three milks in a bowl. Add espresso to taste. Cover and chill in refrigerator
Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk Ingredients
2 ½ cups non-fat milk
2 ½ cups whole milk
1 ½ tbsp. sugar
• Pour the milks into a medium-sized, heavy saucepan and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally
• Stir in the sugar and continue to simmer until milk is reduced to 2 ½ cups, 30-40 minutes more
• Strain and store in refrigerator
Torta Ingredients
6 large eggs, room temperature
2 tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
1 ¾ cups cake flour
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and butter and flour a 10-inch x 3-inch round cake pan. Line the bottom with a parchment paper round
• Place eggs, vanilla, salt, and sugar into a 5-qt. mixer bowl. Place bottom of bowl directly into a larger bowl of very hot tap water and whisk egg mixture until quite warm to the touch
• Remove bowl from water and put on standing mixer with whip attachment. Beat at medium-high speed for about 5 minutes, or until egg mixture quadruples in volume and becomes thick and light in color
• Meanwhile, sift flour twice. Remove bowl frommixer and sift flour, in two additions, into eggs, folding gently after each addition
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, and cake comes away slightly from sides of pan. Let cool slightly, then remove cake from pan and transfer to a rack, making sure the browned top of the cake is right side up
• When completely cooled, trim off the browned top, bottom, and side surfaces of the cake
• Clean cake pan and line with two long, crisscrossed pieces of plastic wrap. Return trimmed cake to the pan and slowly pour tres leches de café over the cake. Fold ends of plastic wrap over the cake to enclose completely
• Refrigerate overnight. Just before serving, unwrap cake and turn upside down onto a 10-inch plate with upturned edges to catchexcess milk. Pipe whipped cream on top of cake. Serve ice cold accompanied by chocolate sauce
Serves 10


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This is the First Run, Innova Champion Groove Proto Star Stamp.
The Innova Champion Groove is a wide rim stable distance driver. An innovative groove or channel on the underside of the rim allows this driver to be molded in lighter weights than other Innova wide rim high speed drivers. The Groove offers super fast, long, and straight flights. This disc golf driver can be thrown low or high and sidearm or backhand. If the Boss proved to be too overstable for you, get into the Groove.
It is a great choice for fast, long, straight distance off the tee and it is available in light weights.
Speed 13, Glide 6, Turn -2, Fade 2
Diameter: 21.1 cm
Rim Width: 2.4 cm
Date of Approval: 12/05/08
About Champion plastic in general - it is more stable than all other plastics. It provides outstanding performance and durability. Champion golf discs retain original flight characteristics much longer and are distinguished by their clear or pearlescent colors.
About Color and Weight Availability - This model may not be available in all colors. Likewise, each weight range may not be available in all colors. Therefore we ask you to list and prioritize your color preferences and to give us guidance if the color or weight range you want happens to not be available. Feel free to contact us if you need more specific info.
What others have said:
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Fiscal Year 2011 Shows First Reduction in Pending Inventory Since 2002
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finished fiscal year 2011 with a ten percent decrease in its pending charge inventory—the first such reduction since 2002, achieved the highest ever monetary amounts through administrative enforcement, and received a record number of charges of discrimination, the agency reported in its annual Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) filed today.
The EEOC received a record 99,947 charges of discrimination in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, the highest number of charges in the agency's 46-year history. EEOC staff also delivered historic relief through administrative enforcement—more than $364.6 million in monetary benefits for victims of workplace discrimination. This is also the highest level obtained in the Commission's history. The fiscal year ended with 78,136 pending charges—a decrease of 8,202 charges, or ten percent. In previous years, the pending inventory had increased as staffing declined 30 percent between fiscal years 2000 and 2008.
"I am proud of the work of our employees and believe this demonstrates what can be achieved when we are given resources to enforce the nation's laws prohibiting employment discrimination," said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien. "The EEOC was able to strategically manage existing resources and take full advantage of increased resources in the past two fiscal years to make significant progress towards effective enforcement of the nation's civil rights laws."
Due to EEOC's enforcement programs in both the private and federal sectors, 5.4 million individuals benefitted from changes in employment policies or practices in their workplace during the past fiscal year. Additionally, EEOC's public outreach and education programs reached approximately 540,000 persons directly.
The agency continued to build a strong national systemic enforcement program. At the end of the fiscal year, there were 580 systemic investigations involving more than 2,000 charges under way. EEOC field legal units filed 261 lawsuits—23 of which involved systemic allegations affecting large numbers of people; 61 had multiple victims (less than 20); and 177 were individual lawsuits.
The EEOC's private sector national mediation program also achieved historic highs, obtaining more than $170 million in monetary benefits for complainants, and securing the highest number of resolutions in the history of the program—9,831. This is five percent more than the number of resolutions reported in fiscal year 2010.
In the federal sector, where the EEOC has different enforcement obligations, the Commission resolved a total of 7,672 requests for hearings, securing more than $58 million in relief for parties who requested hearings. It also resolved 4,510 appeals from final agency determinations.
The EEOC's FY 2011 PAR is posted on the agency's web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/index.cfm. Comprehensive enforcement and litigation statistics for fiscal year 2011 will be available in early 2012.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site www.eeoc.gov.


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Overview of our disability programs
We manage two programs that provide benefits based on disability or blindness, the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
Social Security Disability Insurance Program (SSDI)
SSDI provides benefits to disabled or blind persons who are "insured" by workers' contributions to the Social Security trust fund. These contributions are based on your earnings (or those of your spouse or parents) as required by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Title II of the Social Security Act authorizes SSDI benefits. Your dependents may also be eligible for benefits from your earnings record.
Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI)
The SSI program makes cash assistance payments to aged, blind, and disabled persons (including children) who have limited income and resources. The Federal Government funds SSI from general tax revenues. Many states pay a supplemental benefit to persons in addition to their Federal benefits. Some of these states have made arrangements with us to combine their supplemental payment with our Federal SSI payment into one monthly check to you. Other states manage their own programs and make their payments separately. Title XVI of the Social Security Act authorizes SSI benefits.
When You Receive Both SSDI and SSI
We use the term "concurrent" to describe persons who are eligible for disability benefits under both the SSDI and SSI programs. To show how a person's concurrent benefits would be affected by returning to work, we have provided an example on EXAMPLE OF CONCURRENT BENEFITS WITH EMPLOYEE SUPPORTS.
The SSDI and SSI programs share many concepts and terms, however, there are also many very important differences in the rules affecting eligibility and benefit payments. The following table summarizes differences between the SSDI and SSI programs. These differences are important as many persons may apply or be eligible for benefits under both programs.
Comparison of the SSDI and SSI Disability Programs
Comparison of the SSDI and SSI Disability Programs
Source of payments
Disability trust fund.
General tax revenues.
Minimum Initial Qualification Requirements
Must meet Social Security's disability criteria. Must be "insured" due to contributions made to FICA based on your own earnings, or those of your spouse or your parents.
Must meet Social Security's disability criteria.Must have limited income and resources.
Health Insurance Coverage Provided
Medicare. Consists of hospital insurance (Part A), supplementary medical insurance (Part B), and Medicare Advantage (Part C). Voluntary prescription drug benefits (Part D) are also included. Title XVIII of the Social Security Act authorizes Medicare.
Medicaid. A jointly-funded, Federal- State health insurance program for persons with limited income and resources. It covers certain children, and some or all of the aged, blind, and disabled in a state who are eligible to receive federally-assisted income maintenance payments. Title XIX of the Social Security Act authorizes Medicaid. The law gives the states options regarding eligibility under Medicaid.
How do we figure your monthly payment amount?
We base your SSDI monthly payment amount on the worker's lifetime average earnings covered by Social Security. We may reduce the amount if you receive Workers' Compensation payments (including Black Lung payments) and/or public disability benefits, for example, certain state and civil service disability benefits. Other income or resources do not affect your payment amount. We usually adjust the monthly payment amount each year to account for
To figure your payment amount, we start with the Federal Benefit Rate (FBR). In 2018, the FBR is $750 for a qualified person and $1,125 for a qualified couple. We subtract your countable income from the FBR and then add your state supplement, if any.
We do not count all of the income that you have. The income amount left after we make all the allowable deductions is "countable income".
The sections on SSI employment supports explain some of the ways that we can exclude income.
We usually adjust the FBR each year to account for cost-of-living changes.
Is a State Supplemental Payment provided?
There is no state supplemental payment with the SSDI program.
Many states pay some persons who receive SSI an additional amount called a "state supplement". The amounts and qualifications for these state supplements vary from state to state.


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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) - The federal government partial shutdown may mean some changes for the Minnesota Governor's Deer Opener in November.
The opener will be held in Fergus Falls this year and some of the activities were planned for the Prairie Wetlands Learning Center. With the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service affected by the shutdown, it's not known if agency employees will be back to work by Nov. 8.
Jean Bowman with the Fergus Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau is helping plan the event. Bowman tells KBRF-AM organizers will wait until next Monday to see if the shutdown is resolved. But if the shutdown continues, she says they'll work on ``Plan B.''
That may involve moving some of the Prairie Wetlands activities over to the adjacent fairgrounds. More volunteers also would be needed.


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Revenue Department Troubles?
A tax attorney works with tax payers to solve their tax problems with IRS or a State Revenue Department. These tax problems are mostly about tax issues and relief. To most businesses, a tax attorney is as vital as the company accountant as they will help you go through an audit, have your fines reduced (in case of violations) and liens removed while at the same time helping you to set up trust funds, stock portfolios and such.
Is it right for me?
A tax attorney not only saves you time but keeps you updated on the most recent changes in US tax legislations while advising you accordingly. When looking for tax attorney it is important to look for one with extensive knowledge in the field. Make sure to go through their professional qualifications while also looking up to see if they are a member of the American Bar Association. At the same time look to see whether the rates they charge you are favorable to you or to your business.