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Maddie O'Connor and Annie Alvarado have known each other since they were 5 years old. They played AYSO together, then on rival club teams, before they reunited at Corona del Mar High.
As the two prepare for the stretch run of their final season with the CdM girls' soccer team, they each made a big decision regarding their future after high school on Wednesday.
In the next stage of their lives, they won't be on the same team.
Alvarado and O'Connor still shared a special moment as they signed national letters of intent with the UCLA and UC Santa Barbara women's soccer programs, respectively. Wednesday was the first day high school seniors could sign a national letter of intent with a college in football, soccer, track and field, cross country, men's water polo and field hockey.
Alvarado and O'Connor, two of 11 local athletes that signed on Wednesday, had been looking forward to this day since they were kids.
"We've always been all about soccer, talking about where we're going to play college soccer," said Alvarado, a midfielder. "We're both extremely competitive and I believe that's what has pushed us and why we've gone far."
Alvarado and O'Connor are trying to lead the Sea Kings to their third straight Pacific Coast League title. They have two matches left this week before the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs begin next week.
O'Connor had a couple of other teammates, from the Newport Beach-based Slammers club, sign as well. Maddie Bauer, a Newport Beach resident and Mater Dei student, and Savannah Levin, a Newport Beach resident and Tarbut V'Torah student, are bound for Stanford and USC, respectively.
The rest of the local seniors who signed national letters of intent include Newport Harbor's Paige Tennison (UCLA women's cross country), CdM's Kyle Trush (UC Irvine men's water polo), Estancia's Cassie Stevenson (Cal State San Marcos women's golf), Newport Harbor's Andrew Silvers (USC men's water polo), and three Newport Beach residents from Mater Dei, Tommy Padia (UC Berkeley men's soccer), Jon Walters (USC men's water polo) and JC Genova (Portland State football).
Newport Harbor boys' water polo players Dan Stevens and Curtis Fink committed to Ivy League schools, Harvard and Princeton, respectively.
Tennison won the CIF Southern Section Division II girls' cross country title and placed fourth at the CIF State Division II finals.
Trush helped the CdM boys' water polo team advance to the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs. He earned first-team All-CIF Southern Section Division 1 and first-team All-Pacific Coast League accolades.
Stevenson qualified for the CIF Southern Section individual girls' golf final.
Silvers, Stevens and Fink each played a key role in the Newport Harbor boys' water polo team reaching the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs. All three made first-team All-Sunset League.
Walters keyed the Mater Dei boys' water polo team's CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship run.
Genova, a defensive back, helped Mater Dei reach the CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division football title game.
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Do any natural nutrients such as garlic or red yeast rice really lower cholesterol?
The area of "functional foods" (foods that impact our health in a beneficial way) is constantly being studied and changed. Extensive studies are still needed to see just what effects these foods/components have on our growth, performance, and ability to fight or resist disease. Until the "verdict" is in, we can not be 100% sure of the long-term benefits. With this in mind, research has been pointing to a variety of foods that may be helpful for lowering cholesterol. You specifically asked about garlic and red yeast rice. Here is what I found out: Garlic: research has been controversial. On one hand, some studies found that eating garlic can lower cholesterol levels by about 9%, but these studies had design flaws and are not convincing. On the other hand, a 1998 study, that was strictly controlled, found that garlic treatment used for 12 weeks did not lower cholesterol levels in people with elevated blood cholesterol levels. (refer to Quackwatch website for more information) Red Yeast Rice: is a newly available dietary supplement in the U.S. According to one source, it functions just like the cholesterol-lowering prescription drug Lovastatin.
An article published 2/99 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by David Huber, M.D., PhD and others discusses the Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of a Proprietary Red-Yeast-Rice Dietary Supplement. This study concluded that "red yeast rice significantly reduces total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and total triacylglycerol concentrations compared with placebo and provides a new, novel, food-based approach to lowering cholesterol in the general population." But, a word of caution is needed. This is only one study. More research is needed to find the safest, most effective doses to take. Also, if you are already taking a cholesterol lowering medication, red yeast rice supplements have the potential to cause undesirable drug interactions or overdosing. To avoid serious problems, it is always advisable to consult your personal doctor before using a self-prescribed supplement. Other foods that have been found to be helpful in lowering cholesterol include oat bran, oatmeal, and psyllium fiber (all soluble fibers), flaxseed, and soy. It is important to be aware of the fact that there are many different variables that influence our cholesterol levels (such as our genetic makeup, food intake, exercise habits, and lifestyle).
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On a December morning in 2008, Wakeelah Cocroft, a product of Worcester public schools and teacher in the system for a number of years, was in a car driven by her sister.
As the vehicle pulled into a gas station on Park Avenue, Worcester Police Officer Jeremy Smith, with his cruiser's lights activated, pulled in behind them.
According to court records, Officer Smith lambasted the driver in a "loud and aggressive" manner while notifying her that she had been speeding, and asking her to remain in the car.
The record says Ms. Cocroft told Officer Smith he did not need to speak to her sister in that manner and that after the officer returned to his cruiser to write a citation, Ms. Cocroft exited the car, went into the Mobil store, purchased gas and return to the car.
Ms. Cocroft's action brought Officer Smith out of his cruiser, according to court records, and he told her in a loud and hostile manner to get back into the vehicle. Ms. Cocroft responded that she didn't know he had meant for her to stay in the car, and further informed him that she had rights.
The officer warned her that if she uttered another word, he would arrest her. Ms. Cocroft responded that he didn't have to talk to her in that manner. As she was getting back into the car, the officer grabbed her by the shoulders, threw her to the ground, pulled her arms behind her and placed handcuffs on her wrists, according to court records.
She was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. A jury subsequently convicted her on the resisting arrest charge, a conviction upheld by the state Appeals Court, and denied further appeal by the Supreme Judicial Court.
On Friday, however, a federal district court jury found that Officer Smith had unlawfully seized Ms. Cocroft and had violated her rights under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act. The jury awarded her $15,000 in compensatory damages.
Police Chief Gary Gemme said the department will appeal the case. He noted that the jury found that Officer Smith did not use excessive force, violate the plaintiff's First Amendment rights or commit an assault and battery.
"These are significant findings that reinforce our belief that Officer Smith acted appropriately and professionally in exercising his police powers," the chief said.
Yet, the ruling in favor of Ms. Cocroft is significant, because it substantiated her claim that her arrest and conviction for resisting arrest was precipitated by an unlawful action by the officer, that is, he falsely arrested her for disorderly conduct.
This verdict does not vacate her conviction on resisting arrest, because, according to the court, under Massachusetts law a "person can be convicted of resisting arrest regardless of whether or not the initiating arrest was lawful."
Chris Williams, one of the ACLU lawyers handling the case, said Officer Smith became angry at Ms. Cocroft for stating that she had rights.
"She does have rights," he said.
"Sometimes people do things wrong, and when they do, citizens should feel empowered to say something happened here that is wrong."
Yes, citizens should feel empowered, but many do not have the tenacity and determination of Ms. Cocroft to press forward.
It took Ms. Cocroft, who now lives in Chicago, more than five years to receive vindication for the wrong she felt was done to her. That it could be short-lived if the department prevails in its appeal underscores the difficulty some people have finding justice in our society.
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"Unnatural" means "bad simulation of RL". Of course you can ask why a game should be a good simulation of RL, but if an activity teaches no RL skill, it's pointless. The PvE teaches the importance of reading up, preparing, theorycrafting. Grinding teaches "work = result". PvP teaches that you are not a special snowflake, no one will lose against you just to be nice, you have to take every rating point by force. But what would an AFK crafting system teach?
The AH game is half PvP and half grinding, just like the RL economy. The common resource in both is time. In RL obviously your time is your time. On the other hand in WoW, your character is not you. While you would never send yourself to clean toilets for $2/hour, you can easily send your character (your ingame avatar) to grind for 50-100G/hour if it's AFK. It's not your time, not your sweat, not your health. To force people to manage their time, it must be made sure that "character time = their time". In real life to make some grinding work done without your own time, you must employ people or buy machines. In WoW you'd just have to download an addon.
Secondly, AFK optimizations would make the difference between an established player and a newbie huge. Since I play AFK, marginally small profits are great for me. How could a new player who has no optimized system compete with that?
Of course the boring grind needs a solution, but I have a much better, and much more natural one: paid work. A system which allow me to offer jobs to other players. They do the grinding for paid hours.


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VERGENNES — Round Two also went to the Commodores.
The host Vergennes Union High School boys' basketball team on Tuesday scored the final 12 points of the fourth quarter as VUHS remained undefeated with a 52-36 victory that gave them a season sweep of the Middlebury Union High School Tigers.
The 19-0 Commodores have clinched the top seed for the upcoming Division II post-season tournament, and they will try to complete a 20-0 regular season on Friday at Missisquoi Valley (12-7).


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- Grass-roots social networking is increasingly important for GOP candidates
- Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all benefiting from passionate online support
- On Facebook, there are dozens of groups devoted to Rick Santorum
- The DailyPaul.com is getting 250,000 unique visitors a month
Why isn't the Republican presidential race over already?
At this point in 1996, after weighing a divided field, Republicans had coalesced around Bob Dole, even though he had narrowly lost the New Hampshire primary to Patrick Buchanan.
Likewise, at this point in 2008, John McCain had already locked down the endorsement of chief rival Mitt Romney and was cruising to the nomination.
But in 2012's roller coaster of an election cycle, there's been no closing of the ranks around a front-runner. Even after presumptive front-runner Romney's wins this week in Arizona and Michigan, the question of who will be the eventual GOP nominee remains very much unanswered.
The reasons are complicated, and next week's Super Tuesday primaries could shake things up yet again. But amid the various factors, there's one change that hasn't gotten enough notice: the increasing importance of lateral social networking on the part of grass-roots conservatives.
And this isn't just a Ron Paul story; much bigger chunks of the Republican base, including tea partiers, anti-abortion activists and evangelicals, are using social media to form self-reinforcing factions within the larger party that are less and less susceptible to what nominal party leaders may want them to do.
This isn't to say that the rise of the super PACs or the never-ending series of TV debates aren't important to keeping the Republican field fluid. Both of those are hugely important factors.
The debates -- 21 so far -- not only pull candidates and their senior teams away from retail politicking and toward mass-media politicking, but also have the effect of leveling the playing field for at least three and sometimes four contenders. Gingrich in particular has benefited from this dynamic.
Second, we can't underestimate the rise of super PACs and billionaire donors like Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess, whose injections of huge sums of cash in support of Santorum and Gingrich, respectively, are enabling those candidates to get a second, and maybe even a third, life after weak showings in early battles. Without those donors, there's little doubt that both of those candidates would probably have decided to drop out after Romney won in New Hampshire.
Grass-roots activists would have a hard time keeping the race going on their own, without standard-bearers like Paul, Santorum and Gingrich to rally around. But as long as those candidates keep running, social media and social networking will continue to empower conservative voters and activists who care passionately about certain issues, enabling them to create strong factions within the Republican electorate that are less controllable by party leaders.
As Martin Avila, the conservative online strategist who worked on Paul's 2008 web campaign, said to me last Thursday:
"The pundits are completely stumped as to what's going on. They say Romney's got it locked up, and then everything just changes. I think that's a real consequence of what is happening online with the conservative movement. Up until this cycle, conservative grass-roots activists haven't been online as much. On the left that happened a long time ago. Ron Paul was the start, then you had the tea party movement, and now you have the evangelicals on Facebook, on Twitter, discussing things on FreedomConnector."
Avila has a point. Consider, for example:
• On Facebook, there are dozens of groups devoted to Santorum, including one for every state. Most are closed (you have to ask to join, which means these are trying to be real organizing hubs), and they've each got anywhere from a handful to hundreds of members. Gingrich supporters on Facebook are similarly distributed. These kinds of groups have social capital that can't be turned off from above -- unless the candidate himself drops out of the race.
• On FreedomConnector.com, an open social network for conservatives (built by Avila) that launched a year ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference, more than 168,000 users have created nearly 7,000 groups and more than 2,000 events. You can see from the regular polls done on the site that Paul, Santorum and Gingrich are all benefiting from passionate support bases that refuse to compromise on their beliefs.
• The DailyPaul.com, a hub for Paul supporters, is attracting 250,000 unique visitors a month, according to Compete.com. On the RonPaulForums, another hub for volunteers which is currently getting about 100,000 unique visitors a month, there are hundreds of people active on the site at any given moment.
• In addition to support from billionaire Friess, Santorum is being lifted by an outpouring from small donors -- more than 100,000 in February alone, his campaign says. On Fundly, a social fundraising site, the Rick Santorum page has nearly 3,000 donors who have built personal fundraising pages generating an average of about $80 each. The Mitt Romney page has two donors who have created personal fundraising pages, one of whom is his son Tagg.
The list goes on. The fracturing of the Republican base is a natural byproduct of the emergence of more lateral, networked activity by grass-roots activists reinforcing each other.
Or, as Avila put it to me last week, "Broadbased, issue-focused, principled factions within the party have a much stronger voice."
So, when someone says social media aren't changing politics, don't listen. Right before our eyes, the power balance within the Republican coalition is being remade. And some part of that is due to grass-roots conservatives using social networking.


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Last week we gave the ol' Nikon to our intern Alex Uhrich and told him to make his way around the Mission where we're located so we can share a taste of the dynamic neighborhood that we work in.
If you don't live near San Francisco and don't know, the Mission is a latino neighborhood with plenty of taco shops, clothing shops, pawn shops, travel agencies, grocery stores, and everything in-between... These are his photos and his words.
Our friends taking a nap in front of a mural on our block.
Checking out "the merchandise".
Just around the corner from the gallery.
Out front FFDG... We're on the right... obviously.
The 14 Mission bus.
One of many of our neighborhood watering-holes, the Beauty Bar.
19th Street towards Dolores Park.
A new friend just hanging out.
San Francisco has a nasty habit of turning beautiful buildings, like the El Capitan, into parking ramps.
One of many Jewelry stores in the neighborhood, I dig their neon.
Any given day here on Mission Street.
A funny portrait studio, they're running me out of business ;)
There are alot of run-down old theatres around here.
The local pot club.
SF is a Pepsi town, I wonder what Red Dragon Liquor is...
Mission Thrift is the best thrift store in town if ya ask me.
Our corner.
People are always checking this mural out, it's right around the corner from us.
The view of the gallery from across the street.
Beautiful old building around the corner from us.
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By John W. Rice, NHAR Immediate Past President
PORTSMOUTH-The year-long residential real estate sales rally has left the supply of single family homes available for sale at its lowest level since at least 2010, according to the Seacoast Board of REALTORS monthly survey of the 13-sample Seacoast towns.
The 13 sample towns are Exeter, Greenland, Hampton, Hampton Falls, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, North Hampton, Newmarket, Portsmouth Rye, Seabrook and Stratham.
In June there were some 654 single family units available, but that number slipped to 377 last month. Still, condominium inventory actually grew a modest 7.2%.
For the month of December, residential sales declined 6.1% from a year ago, although sales for the year were up a whopping 29.9%. The 23 condominium sales for December, all under $300,000, represent a 17.9% decline from 2011. But again, total volume for 2012 significantly exceeded 2011 by 30%.
While the decline in inventory would seem to favor an appreciation scenario, monthly numbers reveal no clear trend. The median price of a single family home remained almost the same as 2011 for the year $328,000 vs $325,000. Similarly the average condominium price for the year of $248,716 was nearly identical to last year's $249,624.


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Baxley City Manager Jeff Baxley read a resolution in recognition of Councilman Eugene Walker, Jr. for his years of service to the city at the regular Baxley City Council meeting held June 29. Councilman Walker gave his resignation at the last meeting. Mayor Steve Rigdon announced that Councilman Walker was in the hospital due to illness and was unable to attend the recognition. He also added the council will present the resolution to him at another meeting. Council members gave favorable comments about serving with Walker. The council chamber meeting room was full of city employers and citizens who came to pay their respects in honor of Walker's recognition.
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Far too many horrific and tragic events took place between 1939 and 1945. One of the saddest ironiest of the recent death of the Polish President, First Lady and many prominent Poles in an air crash was that they were on their way to take part in a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish Officers by the Soviets in 1940. Its a timely reminder that massacres long ago have very strong resonance in the present day.
This book by Eugenia Marsch is a forensic and exacting attempt to describe the way in which the west – and the British Government in particular – did not, for whatever reason, hold the Soviets to account for what they perpetrated at Katyn. During the war and for many years afterwards the Soviets insisted that the killings must have been carried out by the Germans – after all, the Nazis did have a track record for mass killings. It was only during the 1980's, and with Glasnost and Perestroika, that the Russians finally admitted to the atrocity.
The first section describes in crystal clear detail how the mass graves at Katyn were discovered. In particular its interesting to read about how the Germans were keen to involve a team of Polish doctors an official from the Polish Red Cross – why would they be so open to invite the Poles to the scene if they were guilty of the killings? And in terms of the forensic and criminological evidence, it is almost beyond doubt that Katyn was perpetrated by the NKVD in the spring of 1940.
The western Governments were faced with something of a dilemma. From evidence, it seems that they were in little doubt that the Russians were responsible – but as they were in a wartime alliance with Soviet Russia, Britain and the US were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They were under no illusions that Stalin was a deeply unpleasant character, but the priority was to defeat Germany, and the bulk of the fighting was being undertaken by the Russians on the Eastern Front. When Winston Churchill was chided by one MP for making a complimentary speech about Stalin, he replied, 'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least one complimentary reference to the devil in Parliament', and I think that sums up the dilemma perfectly.
Of course, as a matter of principle the Western Governments should have pursued the perpetrators in the strongest possible manner. But Governments have to act in the reality of the situation, and the Soviets were of course going to deny their part in Katyn for years. And until several years after 1945, it was in no-ones interests to inflame tensions with the Russians. The war had to be won, and after that, thousands – probably many of them Poles – may have died if the west had confronted them. I guess the Katyn issue is not unlike that of Auschwitz – the Allies knew what was going on there, and of course its easy to think that they should have done something. But the Allies really couldn't achieve that level of accuracy with their bombing – as seen in the Butt report.
It was only with the onset of the Cold War that the west was able to confront the Katyn issue – in particular a US Congressional committee did much to highlight the affair to the US and the world at large. Even though the Soviets continued to deny it, Historians all but confirmed that the Katyn massacre was carried out by the NKVD.
This is a fine book, and I found it incredibly gripping reading – I have always found Polish history interesting. It is very heavy reading at times – the author includes in full a lot of contemporary documents, and I suspect that the text has been translated from Polish to English. I would like to have seen more engagement with other historians work, as many other writers have looked at Katyn over the years, and it is better to engage within a disourse than to ignore it.
What of the authors argument, that the British Government was hypocritical? Whilst it is impossible not to grasp the strength of feeling, it is hard to see what exactly the diplomats, civil servants and politicians could have done. Sadly though, Britain did not have a great track record of standing up for Poles during the war as seen by the Sosabowski affair after Arnhem. We might wonder how objective it is, in that it was written by a Pole. I think it is about as balanced as we could expect. But Katyn is an important part of the Polish psyche, and that is exactly why what happened there in 1940 should never be forgotten.
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Starting point: 3.8 miles South East of Baxter 5 (Vacation Rentals, Corporate Suites & Hotel)
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Historic Little Tokyo has much to offer, whether you're looking for a tasty bowl of udon noodles, world-class art, or the latest anime collectibles.
- From the corner of S. San Pedro and E. 3rd Sts. (reached via bus #34, 41, 341, or 342), head north up S. San Pedro to the Japanese American Cultural and community Center (1; 244 S. San Pedro). Explor the adjacent plaza, designed by Isamu Noguchi, and the tranquil James Irvine Japanese Garden. Continue north on S. San Pedor, then check out the symbolic Friendshp Knot sculpture on the northwest corner before turning right at E. 2nd St. to enter the
- Japanese Village Plaza Mall (2; 335 E. 2nd). Here you�ll find shops selling everything from footgear popular with Asian hipsters to high-end sake. Continue north toward the traditional fire tower and cross to the north side of E. 1st St. to reach the modernist
- Japanese American National Museum (3; 369 E. 1st). Located directly across a courtyard is it�s annex, housed in a 1920�s era Buddhist temple. Modern art aficionados should continue 100 yards north to the adjacent Frank Gehry-designed
- Geffen Contemporary Art Museum (4; 152 N. Central Ave.). Return to E. 1st St. and turn right, wher long-established restaurants and noodle shops like
- Mr Ramen(5; 341 � E. 1st) make perfect pit stops. (Note the history of structures engraved in the sidewalk, such as �1914 Sato Shoten Books� in front of Mr. Ramen.)
- Panawest(6; 319 E. 1st.) (the storefront with the sign reading �DVD Zippo�) carries Japanese action figures and Asian Kitsch. Finish in a half-acre urban haven at the Japanese garden located on the third level of the hotel once known as the New Otani Hotel now called
- The Kyoto Grand(7; 120 S. Los Angeles St.) at S. Los Angeles and E. 1st. Catch Bus #30, 31, 40 or 42.


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It's one of the dumbest, most insulting, dismissive, and frequently heard bits of rhetoric spewed forth from the sneering mouths of conservative pundits and politicos. So, it stands to reason that congressional Republicans would like to make it the law of the land. Michelle Bachmann offered it as advice to Warren Buffet, and served up another version of the same during the GOP primary debates. But nobody put it more than that "heartless, smug, bullying embodiment of the Republican Party," New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
…The night before the nation received its latest bad news on unemployment, Christie told a cheering Republican crowd that the nation's jobless were lazy examples of an entitlement mentality.
Needless to say, Chris Christie is now considered a leading Vice Presidential contender.
Christie's blunt style seemed refreshing at first. Hey, I kinda liked the guy myself.
But "blunt" became "ugly" very quickly: Telling union officials to "cut the crap." Shouting down a right-wing millionaire who asked a blunt question at a Meg Whitman rally. Insulting a nonpartisan state agency for reaching a conclusion he didn't like. Rudely blowing off a constituent during a televised question-and-answer session. Telling Warren Buffett to "just write a check and shut up.'
Maybe GOP leaders are taking their cues from Bachmann and Christie. Then again maybe they're merely following the lead of their presidential nominee. After all, in one of his less-reported gaffes, Mitt Romney equated taxes with charity. Or perhaps Republicans are simply trying help Romney to spin the revelation in 2011 tax returns (not the potentially more interesting 2010 returns, but the ones nobody is asking to see): that Romney may have overpaid his taxes.
You dont often see Republican politicians donating money to the federal government. But thats what Mitt Romney did today. In a statement about Romneys just-filed 2011 tax return issued by his campaign, Brad Malt, the trustee of Romneys blind trust, notes that the candidate and his wife paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in income, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent. Malt notes that the Romneys claimed only $2.25 million in charitable deductions, despite having given more than $4 million to charity. By way of explanation, Malt states:
The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13 percent in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.
This summer Romney suggested that paying more taxes than required is for suckers. So maybe House Republicans are trying to help him out with legislation framing taxes from the wealthy as charitable donations, according to NYT's Bruce Bawer.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives took a break last week from doing nothing to pass a bill to facilitate voluntary taxation. Almost simultaneously, Mitt Romney released his final tax return for 2011, showing that he voluntarily overpaid his taxes by taking less of a deduction for his charitable contributions than he was permitted.
The legislation was H.R. 6410, The Buffett Rule Act of 2012. Those not acquainted with the misleading titles often given to Congressional bills might at first glance think this one has something to do with raising taxes on the ultrawealthy.
Of course, Republicans would never actually raise taxes on the ultrawealthy; they think, or at least assert publicly, that the deficit results from too many poor people not paying taxes. But it would be very helpful to them to have a fig leaf that looks as if they had found a way of getting the rich to pay more. That is by encouraging them to voluntarily pay more, as Mr. Romney did.
Named for the billionaire Warren Buffett, what came to be known as the Buffett rule is a proposal by Democrats that all those with incomes of $1 million or more pay at least 30 percent of their income in federal income taxes.
You may be forgiven for initially thinking, as I did, "They've got to be kidding me." But the reality of 2012 election season is that the kind of stuff you'd expect to read in The Onion turns out to be actual news. (Case in point, a coworker of mine at first didn't believe the Romney quote about windows on airplanes was real, and thought it had to be a joke. Then he asked me about the source of the quote. It was the LA Times. He merely sighed in response.)
It's no joke. They really mean it. Tim Price, at Next New Deal, explains the implications.
There's a fundamental ideological divide between progressives and the modern conservative movement, and it concerns how much they buy into the concept of the social contract. That divide is reflected in the GOP's fallback response to President Obama's Buffett Rule proposal: "If Warren Buffett thinks he doesn't pay enough taxes, why doesn't he just volunteer to pay more?" Mike Konczal effectively dismantles this pseudo-logic here, and on a rhetorical level, it's on par with "If you love the government so much, why don't you marry it?" On the other hand, it makes a certain amount of sense if you think of society as something we can choose to opt out of once it's outlived its use to us instead of an ongoing support system that we've all bought into. If you see the rich as the people who have benefited the most from our tax-funded social structure, it only seems fair to ask them to give back more in tough times. But if you think the rich are noble martyrs who are doing the rest of us a favor by choosing not to "go Galt" and withdraw from society, it's clearly unjust to ask any more of them unless they volunteer it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Unfortunately, the GOP approach presents an obvious collective action problem, which is why . The reason we have a tax code in the first place is that we determined it was impossible to fund the essential functions of government by having the president busk for tips. We don't set the federal budget by passing a basket around and adding up the loose change we've collected. Congress establishes tax rates, we pay our taxes, and in exchange we get schools, roads, police, firefighters, health care, clean air, safe food, and so on. That's how it works – except for the wealthiest Americans. With Republicans' help, they have a few extra steps, like hiding their money in tax shelters, benefiting from all those government services anyway, and then complaining vociferously about how unfairly they're treated.
There's no real need to craft a response to the GOP's latest Orwellian nonsense. First, most Americans see right through it. Patriotic Millionaires has posted on its website
Government, Republicans endlessly intone, should do less, not more for the unfortunate. Leave the food pantries and the homeless shelters to the churches and the do-gooders.
This is wishful thinking, and judging by new polling data, most Americans seem to see right through it. Seven in 10 Americans oppose cutting funds for social programs aimed at helping the poor, according to a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute. Moreover, 67 percent of those polled said that government should do more to narrow the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Can I hear an amen for charity?
True, Republicans and Democrats answered such questions quite differently. Nevertheless, if the GOP candidates are looking to replace the current occupant in the White House, they might want to dig deeper into the polls findings.
Independents tended to side with the Democrats on taxation and social spending questions. Moreover, the poll found that majorities of respondents of all religious groups, ages and education levels agreed that the government should do more to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. Eight in 10 polled agreed that the gap between the rich and the poor has increased.
One telling detail was that 60 percent of white evangelicals, a historically Republican group, favored raising taxes on those who make more than $1 million a year to help eliminate the federal deficit. This same group was also heavily opposed (58 percent) to cutting federal aid to the poor.
Second, there are several versions of an effective reponse out there. Patriotic Millionaires has one posted on its website, in an open letter President Obama, Harry Reid, and John Boehner. President Obama has delivered several effective reponses, but perhaps none quite so eloquent as in his address to a joint session of Congress last September. And, arguably, nobody has done it better than Elizabeth Warren.
In a video of a recent Warren appearance, posted online by an individual who says he or she is not affiliated with the campaign, Warren answered the charge. I hear all this, you know, Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever, Warren said. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own nobody.
You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didnt have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
But, for my money, I think Stephen King's reponse to Chris Christie is most appropriate.
What groups like the Patriotic Millionaires and candidates like Elizabeth Warren have said with more civility and eloquence, King puts in language even Christie can understand.
Cut a check and shut up, they said.
If you want to pay more, pay more, they said.
Tired of hearing about it, they said.
Tough shit for you guys, because Im not tired of talking about it. Ive known rich people, and why not, since Im one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing Disco Inferno than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. Its true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (jaws of life are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesnt go far enough.
What charitable 1-percenters cant do is assume responsibility Americas national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich cant fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, Okay, Ill write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS. That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.
King has a lot more to say; like how the wealthy don't create jobs because the wealthy don't spend their tax cuts, but use their wealth to create more wealth not jobs.
I'd quote more of it here, but I'd end up posting the whole thing in order to get the best bits in the context of the whole piece. Instead, I'll just include this bit where King really "brings it on home."
I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, Im rich and I dont apologize for it. Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us wantthose who arent blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn moneyis for you to acknowledge that you couldnt have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That its not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? Its un-f–king-American, is what it is. I dont want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. That our civics classes never taught us that being American means thatsorry, kiddiesyoure on your own. That those who have received much must be obligated to paynot to give, not to cut a check and shut up, in Gov. Christies words, but to payin the same proportion. Thats called stepping up and not whining about it. Thats called patriotism, a word the Tea Partiers love to throw around as long as it doesnt cost their beloved rich folks any money.
What I wouldn't give for someone to stand on the House floor and read that into the record.


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Gadsden officials hope an audit of post-employment benefits for city employees will show the city's financial condition has improved after reducing retiree benefits.
The city's current post-employment liability, excluding pensions, is $110 million, according to Finance Director Lisa Rosser. She asked the City Council at Tuesday's meeting to approve a contract with Milliman Inc., an actuarial firm, to conduct a Government Accounting Standards Board 45 audit for $11,000.
Rosser during the council's work session said the city is required to have that type audit every two years, but she obtained approval for it to be delayed until after the council acted on changing retiree benefits.
The changes included not offering city insurance to retired employees after they are eligible for Medicare and reducing what the city will pay for retiree health insurance.
Rosser said she hopes as a result of the audit that the city's post-employment liability will "go down drastically." She said that will help with rates if the city goes into the bond market.
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In other action, the council approved the purchase of about 25 acres in the Airport Industrial Park, across the street from the former Rigid Building Systems location, from the Gadsden Airport Authority for $275,000.
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The council approved selling property on Stroud Avenue on which the city has a nuisance lien and grass cutting lien totaling $4,520.75 to John H. James Jr. for $300. The city won't have to maintain the property following the sale.


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I haven't been posting recipes here, but my baking experiment last night was such a success that now's a good time to start.
I wanted to bring dessert to my friends Jason and Jerry's dinner party; because of time constraints and sheer laziness I was limited to what I had in the cupboard. (Such an old fashioned word, cupboard, as if cabinet is some great modern improvement.) Olive oil cake came to mind - weird, since I had never made it before or read any recent recipes. But I had the last cup of the McEvoy olive oil that is so grassy and green, and it should be put to good use since it's so amazing. I just finished a half gallon of the stuff, over how much time...6 months? Is that a lot of olive oil?!
A quick web search brought up a few decent versions, some with interesting add-ons like cornmeal, orange zest, rosemary or currants. I ultimately chose the one that called for the exact number of eggs I had in the fridge: 3. The original recipe used 2 lemons but I had only one lemon and an almost-overripe orange. I liked the idea of cornmeal, so I used a little bit – I feel like I used too much cornmeal actually, so in the recipe below I lowered the amount. The recipe I nabbed was all sorts of messed up - it called for milk but never mentioned when to add it to the batter. It omitted salt, which seems to me a gross oversight in any recipe, savory or sweet. I also used less sugar and upped the cooking time. So here is my thoroughly altered recipe for olive oil cake. Overall, a major success: not too sweet, a pretty complex flavor without any sort of olive-y note and a perfectly crumby texture. (I just like the word "crumby" so I try to use it often. That and "garlicky.")
Of course, thanks to Jason and Jerry for the ridiculous martinis and an all-around lovely evening.
Olive Oil Cake
3 eggs, separated, at room temperature
1 1/3 cups sugar
1/2 cup olive oil
3 tbsp grated lemon and orange zest
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
1/3 c cornmeal
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour an 8" springform pan, or line a cake pan with parchment paper. I floured the pan with a little cornmeal mixed into the flour, and it added a nice extra crunchiness.
Place egg yolks, sugar, olive oil and lemon zest in a large bowl and mix until combined. In another bowl, mix the flour, cornmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Alternating with milk, add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and mix until just combined. With a mixer, whip the egg whites to stiff peaks. Fold into the batter until combined, being careful not to overmix.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes. Rotate the pan and turn the oven down to 325° and bake for another 20-25 minutes. The cake will rise and turn a nice deep golden brown color. It is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Dust with powdered sugar, garnish with lemon zest and serve with crème fraiche and berries.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Olive oil cake
Posted by Jane Lerner at 3/04/2007
4 comments:
- Passionate baker...& beyond said...
Sounds GREAT to me.I made an Orange Olive Oil Cake a few weeks ago too. Very Mediterranean feel....BTW love the name of your blog!
- Jamie said...
Might try that cake someday, but maybe not lol.
- roofer nj said...
I sounds very good and i will try it at home and i love cakes and i love to make cake.
This sounds amazing! I can't wait to make it!
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Bus service likely will be sharply reduced this summer in Monterey County"s urban areas and 30 to 40 Monterey-Salinas Transit employees could lose their jobs because of an ongoing battle over changes to California"s public pension laws.
Transit agency officials outlined a 30 percent service reduction at a series of recent public meetings, and agency directors authorized enacting the emergency cutbacks June 29 — if necessary — at their April 8 meeting.
It appears doubtful that anything is going to happen before then in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Department of Labor, in response to labor union complaints about the state pension law, has put a hold on nearly $10 million in federal fuel tax money that MST was counting on for operations into 2014.
"I"d like to see an eleventh-hour reprieve June 28 … but it"s likely to occur at least through the summer," MST manager Carl Sedoryk said Thursday of the planned service cuts.
Transit employee unions contend the state"s new pension law violates collective bargaining guarantees for transit workers covered by federal law. MST has filed an appeal and still is awaiting word from the Labor Department, which Sedoryk said is inundated with similar appeals.
With so many other issues commanding attention in Washington, D.C. — gun control, immigration, sequester budget cuts — Sedoryk said, "I fear we just don"t have the attention level. … I fear so many other things are broken in the system, and this is just one more thing."
The issue has been boiling since fall, when federal transit funds were first locked up by the labor complaints. MST avoided earlier service cuts by securing money it was due before the state pension law took effect Jan. 1.
Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, introduced a bill in February to exempt about 20,000 federally covered transit workers from the state pension law, but Sedoryk doesn"t believe that legislation can get the governor"s approval.
He said the issue likely won"t be resolved until the public — businesses and employees who rely on public transit — "see services taken away and put pressure on the Department of Labor."
The proposed service cuts won"t affect service in South County, which is supported by a different federal fund for rural transportation, or contract services with the military and large employers for transit service at the Presidio, CSU Monterey Bay and other MST contract clients.
"We"re trying to manage the cutbacks as best as we can," Sedoryk said.
About 30 percent of the agency"s operating staff — some 30 to 40 employees — likely will face layoffs.
"We"re still developing a figure," he said.
Sedoryk said the labor battle is between transit union internationals and the state, rather than with MST"s union-represented workers.
"This is really out of their hands," he said. The irony is that many of the changes in the new state pension law — which are aimed at reducing public costs — were already negotiated into contracts for MST workers, Sedoryk said.
"We bargained a vast majority of the reductions three years ago," he said.
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2) Free Breakfast. Enjoy a hearty breakfast, included with the room, to prepare for your Cape Cod cycling adventure. At the Woods Hole Inn, that means all-you-can-eat quiche, bread-pudding, croissant, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt and home-made sweet granola plus our fair-trade piping-hot coffee to slosh it all down. Work hard, play harder.
3) Chillax. Friday night, the sun sets over the water and you enjoy a wine and cheese reception to warm into your Martha's Vineyard cycling adventure: rice crackers, Spanish Manchego, Brie, Marconi almonds and a sprig of fresh rosemary artfully arranged on a recovered slate from the recent re-model of the Woods Hole Library rooftop. Add your choice of red or chilled white wine? Great way to start the weekend!
4) Never Get Lost. Guide Rob Miceli of Cotuit Cycling Tours shares his secret routes, back roads and amazing views as you explore cycling Falmouth and Martha's Vineyard over two days. Rob will tell you all about the area, and pace the bicycle ride to meet where you are. He is great!
5) Escape to an Island. Across the street from the Woods Hole Inn, the ferry takes you to Vineyard Haven and you cycle with Rob on the bike path past Oak Bluffs to Edgartown and beyond if the group is feeling confident. Soak in the incredible views over State Beach, past the Jaws Bridge, over Vineyard Sound. You are on island time now.
6) Lobster Tacos. Don't forget dinner at Quicks Hole (also included in the package!) our farm-to-table Taqueria with a water-view deck where the sun sets over the water every night. If you're lucky, the band is set up and locals have gathered for a sangria or draft Cape Cod beer. Close your eyes and you are at one of any of the best end of the road hangouts — Todos Santos, Montauk, Key West, Carpenteria, Laguna, and yes, Woods Hole.
Last weekend, we hosted this special getaway inspired by travel writer Tim Jones, whose blog EasternSlopes.com urges readers that "life isn't a spectator sport." Taking the mystery out of enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the Cape from the seat of your bike, Tim Jones wrote the journey up for the Concord Monitor, and I urge you to read more about his experience here.
So for all you weekend warriors out there, consider joining us next time — we plan to keep the bike tours rolling in the spring and fall so stay posted here or "like" our Facebook page for updates, specials and sales.