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Agenda: March 6, 2013 Infrastructure Equity PEG Meeting
Infrastructure Equity Policy Expert Group – Agenda
Date: March 6, 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: 1900 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 2nd floor, Conference Room 2500A
Meeting Purpose:
- To provide feedback on transportation policies and goals (Chapter 7), using an infrastructure equity lens
Welcome (10 minutes)
Presenter: Andree Tremoulet, facilitator
Introductions and icebreaker.
Public Comment (10 minutes)
Discussion of Chapter 7 Transportation (80 minutes)
Presenter: Andrée Tremoulet, facilitator
For each policy cluster--
- Small group discussion: Three to five issues and as many related solutions/ideas as you want
- Report out and large group discussion
Key Terms to be Defined (10 minutes)
Presenter: Andrée Tremoulet, facilitator
- equitable, equitably
- underserved community
- gentrification
Next Steps (10 minutes)
- Preparation of report
- Schedule
- April: Community Involvement (Chapter 1), gentrification, priorities/tradeoffs, community workshop feedback
- May: Review and discussion of report on Goals & Policies, Introduction to Part II
- June & July: Early look at draft Part II materials
For more information, please contact Andree or Bob:
- Andree Tremoulet, Commonworks Consulting, at 503-267-9255 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Bob Glascock, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-7845 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Game 13, UMBC vs. Binghamton Game Notes
America East Game Notes
BALTIMORE – UMBC women's basketball returns to the RAC Arena on Saturday, Jan. 4 when it opens America East play against Binghamton. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m., with all the action live, free of charge at UMBCRetrievers.tv, courtesy of the America East digital network. Troy Green and Dan Levin will also call the action on Q1370 radio (www.q1370.com).
SCOUTING THE RETRIEVERS (1-11): UMBC dropped both of its contests at the James Madison Invitational to conclude its non-conference slate with a 1-11 overall mark. The Retrievers are winless in their last 11 games after winning the season-opener against Eastern (Pa.). In its latest contest, UMBC ran into Ohio on a rough day, as the Bobcats hit 19-of-35 three point attempts en route to an 84-36 victory. Junior guard Janelle Saling had her most successful weekend of the season, knocking down seven of 16 three point attempts and averaging 11.0 points per game during the tournament. Sophomore center Bridget O'Donnell chipped in 9.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks throughout the weekend.
The Retrievers field goal defense ranks second in the America East (.385), but UMBC is averaging a league-low 48.8 points per game on the season. The black and gold's young roster is piloted by freshman forward Sara Tarbert's 13.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. Classmate Taylor McCarley is adding 8.2 points and 3.6 boards, while rookie forward Amanda Hagaman is shooting a team-best 54.1 percent from the floor.
SCOUTING THE BEARCATS (3-10): Binghamton snapped a six game skid with a pair of victories at the Dartmouth/Blue Sky Classic. The Bearcats took home their first in-season tournament title since 2003 on Monday against La Salle, as sophomore guard Kandance Newry drained the game-winning bucket with 19 seconds remaining to give Binghamton a 57-56 victory. Junior forward Sherae Swinson, the reigning America East Player of the Week, narrowly missed out on her second double-double of the season, finishing with 16 points and nine rebounds. Swinson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Performer, while sophomore forward Morgan Murphy was also named to the All-Tournament Team.
The Bearcats rank eighth, just above UMBC, in scoring offense, averaging 50.3 points per game on the year, led by Swinson's 11.7 points, 1.2 steals and 0.8 blocks per game. Swinson is also chipping in 5.2 rebounds, second behind senior forward Julia Barac (5.3 rpg). Murphy is shooting a team-best 41.9 percent from the floor on the season and is scoring 6.8 points and pulling down 3.8 rebounds thus far in her sophomore campaign.
Binghamton was picked to finish eighth, one vote behind UMBC, in the America East Preseason Coaches' Poll. The Bearcats returned 10 letterwinners and three starters from last season's squad that finished 6-24 overall and 5-11 in league play. Murphy averaged 7.0 points per game in her rookie campaign to earn an America East All-Rookie Team selection.
INSIDE THE SERIES: UMBC has dropped four of the last six meetings against Binghamton, with both victories coming at the RAC Arena. The Bearcats swept the Retrievers last season, including a 62-45 victory in the regular-season finale, to take a 16-6 advantage in the all-time series. UMBC shot 25.9 percent from the floor in the second half of last season's outing, while Binghamton was led by then-freshman forward Morgan Murphy's 14 points, while then-junior Jasbriel Swain pulled down a game-high 16 rebounds.
ON THE HORIZON FOR THE RETRIEVERS: UMBC continues America East play when it travels to Maine for an ESPN3 matchup against the Black Bears. The Retrievers look for their first road win against Maine and look to extend their five game win streak versus the Black Bears.

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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, January 16, 2011
Sunbelt Pool Winter Pool Maintenance
With so much snow covering the US this week, it's likely that your sunbelt pool may look like this one pictured. Snow covered southern states last week, bringing a chilly start to the new year.
Last week, for a short time there was some snow in all 50 states. Unusual yes, but aside from keeping the pumps running, what other tips are good to know to maintain a sunbelt pool during the winter?
Even though your pool may get little use during these winter months, it is important to maintain some degree of pool maintenance, to avoid costly repairs or chemical treatments.
In the north, and for pools even as far south as Dallas, it is common for pool owners to winterize their swimming pools. This involves lowering the water, chemically treating the water, covering the pool, and blowing all of the water out of the pipes and the pumping / filtration equipment. To keep it from freezing, you see. Alternatively, pool owners that rarely see the outside temperatures dip below freezing need to make sure that the pump(s) are running and that water is moving through all of the equipment.
If you choose not to winterize - follow these steps to ensure your pool stays protected.
1. Clean the pool regularly. Debris laying on the floor can permanently stain plaster or vinyl pool surfaces.
2. Check your pH regularly. Low or High pH conditions can harm your pool surfaces, and render your sanitizer impotent.
3. Install a freeze protection sensor, to turn on the pump automatically when temps dip below 35. Alternatively, mount an outside air thermometer alert device where you can be alerted to temperatures falling - and run outside in your bathrobe to switch on the pump!
4. Run the filter at least 4 hours per day, and keep an eye on the filter pressure. You will still need to backwash at times.
5. Keep a chlorine residual in the water. Most forms of algae will not grow in water that is less than 60 degrees, but there are strains that can! Also strains exist that lay dormant in such temps, but may catch you by surprise when the water warms up slightly.
6. Clean up the backyard, removing piles of leaves that will blow into the pool. Winter storms are common, and it's no fun to clean the pool during cold weather.
7. Partially winterize your pool by using a winter pool cover, or a leaf net to keep debris out of the pool.
If you have other tips on how to maintain your sunbelt pool during the winter, or things you have done to deal with the cold snap of 2011, please share with us below!


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My Genealogy Gift Wish List
This week for our challenge we should list what Genealogy gifts we would like to receive. I have been making a few wish lists recently. Part of current ProGen assignment is a Wish List for our Genealogy Library. So I am working on that. And doing that has had me begin a Wish List on Amazon. So some of those will show up here. I think I will start out with Electronics.
It would be great if Santa would bring me a new Desk Top computer. The other electronics item would be the Magic Wand-Portable Scanner. Since we have been hearing about these in our community I have only found where you have to order these, but in this week's Bed Bath & Beyond ad I see they have the same item for the same price and you don't have to wait for it come (except waiting for Christmas). I am sorry, I do have another electronics Wish item. Would love an iPod.
On to some books. I need to replace my copy of "The Surnames of Ireland" by Edward MacLysaght. Also would like "Tracing Your Irish Ancestors" by John Grenham, the "German-English Genealogical Dictionary" by Ernest Thode, "In Search of Your German Roots" by Angus Baxter, and Hans Barlow's "Book of German Names"
Then I guess we come to Society Memberships. The two main ones I am looking for right now are New England Historic Genealogical Society and Connecticut Society of Genealogists.
It is always fun to dream and this has been fun. Wishing you all a Merry Genealogy Christmas!


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M.C. Escher: The Mathemagician
May 25 - August 18, 2013
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous and recognized artists. Images of his work are reproduced and appreciated by millions of people around the world, yet few have a sense of the depth and details of the artist's career, or of the incredible intricacies found in the original artworks when they are viewed in person.
This exhibition features 53 works selected from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, and includes prints that represent the different themes and areas of study that fascinated this extraordinary artist. The works selected for the exhibition begin with Escher's earliest prints and experimentations with the regular division of a planar surface, produced during the artist's enrollment at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, Netherlands.
After graduating in 1922, Escher travelled to Italy, eventually settling in Rome, where he remained until 1935. During these 12 years, Escher toured the Italian countryside, drawing and sketching images for the prints that he would produce later in his studio at home. Mostly cross grain wood-cuts, these early works are more naturalistic representations of the Italian landscape (that are both lesser known and reproduced), with a few dream-like images such as Castle in the Air (1928) and The Drowned Cathedral (1929), that evoke the artist's later interest in uncanny juxtapositions and architectures of the imagination.
In 1935-36, the interest that Escher had shown in the world around him expands from a more traditional study of the physical landscape to an intense engagement with the physics of the world – of reflective surfaces, plays with perspective and illusions of depth – and with an interest in the order, symmetry and geometric logic of mathematics.
The exhibition also includes examples of Escher's experiments with different printmaking techniques, from the use of lithography seen in works such as The Bridge (1930) and Tropea Calabria (1931), to one of the artist's few etchings, the mezzotint Mummified Frog of 1946. Finally, the exhibition includes examples of Escher's plays with impossible architectures Relativity (1953), Belvedere (1958) and Waterfall (1961).
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It's Not Easy Being an Alienby Cruise Director Kuki
When our spaceship landed I walked off with some trepidation... OK, so we're not talking about THAT kind of Alien but what the U.S. Immigration Department refers to as "non-US citizens." In my case, Canadian.
On debarkation day I can hear you all swearing at me under your breath when you've heard my name on the public address system for the seventh time. Simply, this is the only way I can get back at the cruise lines for the way they treat us aliens. And of course there's the demented power of being able to hold and entire ship hostage without using a weapon -- the ship isn't cleared by U.S. immigration until we're all processed.
But the story really starts on Embarkation day. Some cruise lines even have a special section with a big sign; "Aliens Register Here". First thing I do is run to find a mirror to see if my green skin is showing through my human make-up.
They start us off by insisting we turn over our passports. What are they doing with these? Do they think that if they don't confiscate my passport I'm not going to be getting off the ship? Alhtough I may look as if I've stowed away in a galley for too long; even I couldn't stay there forever. And what use would a passport be there. Even with a nice cream sauce I can't imagine it tasting that good.
I wonder what would happen if one of us aliens never returned for his or her passport. Would the cruise line put out an all points bulletin at every port call the ship made? Would they comb the seas to see if the person was swimming back? Would the ship become a permanent displaced persons camp just because no one was allowed off until this passenger cleared customs?
So they've shown they don't trust me by taking away my passport when I get on, and then as pre debarkation depression begins to set in, they slip a note under my door telling me I have to be in the "whatever lounge" at 6 A.M to report to Customs & Immigration. The rest of you are still snoring away and we aliens have to report in for the official "your vacation is over, get off the ship" treatment.
The next time you hear one of us being paged to come to customs, you'll know it's just our simple way of protesting being told to get out of bed while the entire ship is still asleep. I know I'd be much more amiable to deal with if the customs officers came to my cabin with coffee and croissants and returned my passport..... and around 9 A.M. would be just perfect.


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Soooo, the weekend before my No Buy rule, I paid a visit to Fenwicks in London. I've never been in the store before and to be honest it reminded me of John Lewis's circa 1988, when my Nan used to take me shopping for pop socks and navy leather handbags.
So I walked past the scary bits of the store, where the SA's were a little full on, and round the corner was the glorious Shu Uemura and Paul & Joe! The Shu Uemura sale was abysmal, some old crusty powder and green lipsticks.
I was going to go to Harrods for sale Paul & Joe stuff, but I couldn't face the trek hence this half arsed attempt at hauling some sale goods at Fenwicks. It was worth it – the Paul & Joe 50% sale was glorious!
My haul:
Unfortunately, Mr C stood next to me throughout the giddy experience, so I had to be restrained. Everything I bought here was 50% off so quite a good bargain as Paul & Joe at full price isn't that cheap.
I am in love with the packaging, 100%.
I bought the nail polish remover – it's a small bottle but it smells amazing and of course you can always top it up with cheap sh*t later:
I really have to do a cut now and paint the scene in Fenwicks.There I was, salivating, ready to haul, and the extremely pretty, cute Japanese SA comes over and starts talking to me about the products. This is fine, I let her talk, I ask a few questions then I say ok, I will just choose my shades now.
She will NOT leave me alone. She stares intently at me.
You know – I think she sort of inspired this.
So I skipped over to the bargain bucket area (still Paul & Joe stuff) to have a look and over she skips too explaining everything. Once again I say thanks and skip to another bargain bin to look at the skincare items.
Over she skips. "That's a cleansing oil" she says…"Lovely cleansing oil".
Mr C finds this hilarious. He doesn't find it as hilarious when I tell her I'll have this, this and that.
Anyway the eye colours. These are limited edition ones I think, because they have a gold lid, no the normal pink lids. The SA tells me these are "special" to Paul & Joe:
It's a yellow gold and a mid chocolate brown. Very nice – about £6 each.
I don't see what's that unique about them – but they sure are pretty. There were other eyeshadows to choose from such as a purple, black, navy, other shades of brown.
I bought 2 lipsticks (totally skipped the glosses as I have been gloss mad lately).
I picked two wearable shades, no 4 (pink) and 13 (peach nude):
Lipstick in 4 & 13:
They aren't as creamy or as pigmented as I thought (Paul & Joe used to do a really rich, creamy lipstick and a sheer one – I am guessing these are the sheerer formulation). Still they are super wearable.
Told you I have a nail polish fetish? I bought two shades (there were about 5 in total) – a nude pearl and a gold glitter. I love these bottles so much:
03 is the pearl and 002 is the gold (I think). I think the gold is a LE polish.
I don't usually buy nude polishes but I like this one a lot. I was choosing between this and a sheer orange and Mr C liked the orange. I basically manipulated him until he said he prefered this one…
The gold – it needs a good shake to get the glitter mixed into the base:
It's quite nice! Nice on its own or a top coat.
Finally I bought a brow powder – I've wanted this for ages! I think it was £7.25 – not sure why that price sticks in my head!
You get two shades of powder ( bought the lighter one) and a brush which comes in a holder:
The brow powder is quite hard – I prefer it this way, the overall finished effect is a little more sheer and natural. The brush is fine but I am sure I'll lose it in about…ooh a day.
There's a darker version too – both were in stock when I was there:
Can't remember exactly how much the total was for all this – about £60 I think and I had done my MAC order earlier on in the day so it was a GREATTTT make up hauling day.
(Mr C just said "That lady (on the Paul & Joe counter) was crazy! I've heard of it before but I've never seen it before with my own eyes!").
So there you go, get down to the counter and see it for yourself!


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One of the main Hockey Team studies is Esper et al 2002, which is published in Science and, naturally, no data is archived. Esper has not deigned to reply to any emails by me requesting data. Esper and coauthors have just published an article in QSR leading with a discussion of the Mann controversy. I'm told that Esper could not even bring himself to mention my name in connection with this and therefore cited Regalado [2005] (the Wall Street Journal article) – no doubt surprising the reporter. Actually it's rather ironic that ES&T trashed the Wall Street Journal for this article – can you think of any other newspaper article in recent memory which has been cited in a serious academic journal and by Esper no less.
Esper does not do archiving; so it's hard to get much traction on Esper et al [2002]. However, I recently read an article at his website discussing RCS on the Gotland site (mentioned in Esper et al 2002). So I've got a bit of a foothold.
Esper has posted up Esper J, Cook ER, Krusic PJ, Peters K, Schweingruber FH (2003) Tests of the RCS method for preserving low-frequency variability in long tree-ring chronologies. Tree-Ring Research 59, 81-98. This contains a detailed discussion of the RCS method on the Gotland site. Esper himself doesn't do archiving of data, but, in this case, the site can be shown to be swed022, which was archived at WDCP.
The graph below shows (top): ring width and bottom – maximum density. A mere civilian looking at the top panel would not be able to deduce that 20th century ring widths are exceptionally wide. But the Hockey Team has ways of extracting unique 20th Century warmth even from a tough-looking data set like this. We'll see how they do it (though not today)
Figure 1. From Esper et al 2003.
For now, I've contented myself with proving that swed022w and swed022x were the same data sets as Esper used (since he wouldn't do anything as banal as giving a data citation.) The figure below shows that the data sets are the same.
Figure 2. Replication of Esper figure using swed022w and swed022x.
Just for fun, I've included a couple of diagrams that I've used from time to time (you'll remember the one for Tasmania). Here's a grass plot for Gotland.
Here's the same data by age, rather than year.
Now that I've got a bit of a foothold, I'll look at how Esper handles the Gotland site. There's much of interest in the article.
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This is a really interesting thread.
I just dont think its an issue , if karate isnt trendy or credible to the masses then maybe it needs a little culling, or natural attrition.
maybe that way the quality will rise , the focus will adapt and the individual will feel more comfortable growing and going beyond the norm.
I was naive enough to think karate needed saving at one point , most here know the forum wars we had , good people fighting trying to acheive the same thing .... talk about futile ......
Some folks do Uechi with a more combative focus .... I think im one of them , let me say there not flocking to my door in the hundreds , its harder and less appealing than the strip mall little dragons style karate , but do i do it for the accolades, nope i do it because I love it , and thats how karate will survive evolve.
the passion for it and the value of it .
I identify with Bills take on his Aiki training too , I sometimes dont think karateka see the depth of there system, and they dont always have the skills to exploit it, I would at risk of sticking my neck out say this is often to do with thoughts of pursuing the right training, rather than pursuing the right question.
Karate has no right to be top of the pile , the guys up there are simply the ones working the hardest, evaluating the most honestly,adapting and meeting the market.
But no reason that cant be Karate.
PS Bill put me down for a copy of the book


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Is Rachel Weisz a good witch or a bad witch? In "Oz the Great and Powerful," she's very, very good at pretending to be being very, very bad.
Weisz plays Evanora, the latest wicked woman to threaten the magical world envisioned by author L. Frank Baum in Disney and director Sam Raimi's original prequel, which explores the origins of first generation of Oz inhabitants. The Oscar-winning actress explains how she conjured up a villainess who may be even nastier than the Wicked Witch of the West – and all without greenface.
Because your character Evanora didn't have any real precedent from "The Wizard of Oz" book or film, like some of your co-stars, was that a good thing for you?
Definitely. I was completely free – I don't think the character even exists in the Frank Baum books, so, yeah, for me it was just completely made‑up fun, and my key into her when I read the script was like, 'Ooh – this character has fun being bad!' Like the more bad she is, the more fun she has. It gives her like a visceral pleasure to be evil, and that just seemed to me like a fun idea, so that was my contribution to the character.
Did you delve into the whole Oz mythology, between 'The Wizard of Oz' and the Baum books?
I didn't read any of the Baum books. I didn't re-watch the original film, but I've obviously seen it a number of times in my life. I went from what was on the page, and I just used my imagination. I just cooked her up, I guess, with Sam's help, and I tried lots of different things. And Sam like picked the bits that he wanted of her for the film, but, yeah, she was just an act of imagination because obviously, there's no one like her that I could meet or copy or research or anything like that.
Did you have to decide how far was too far before getting campy?
No, it's not something you can figure out intellectually. I just tried it on camera, and you just sort of feel around and, no. There's no decision. There's not. Like, a thought process thing. It's just a feeling.
Would you have liked the chance to go full-on green face, like the Oz witches we've met before?
No. I wouldn't! Evanora's very vain – very, very, VERY vain. Really, she's about 326 years old, and she's not into looking her age, so she wants to look younger. So, no – Evanora would HATE to be green!
When you did you first see the original 'Wizard of Oz,' and as a kid, did the Wicked Witch or the flying monkeys scare you?
I think I saw it when I was five, and it was the first film I remember seeing. My mom took me to see it, and I don't actually remember the flying monkeys. I remember the witches, though! They really scared me. Yeah, the witches were traumatic, actually.
Why do you think the whole Oz mythology has this staying power and grip on everybody's imagination?
I guess they're early 20th century American fairy tales. From Europe, you've got the Grimm fairy tales, but, they're just archetypal 20th century American fairy tales, and then a little later in the century, Dr. Seuss makes fairy tales of a different nature. They're not so scary and archetypal. I guess Baum tuned into something that was the equivalent of the European Grimm. It was the American version of that. Good, evil, magic powers, a lot of very powerful female characters.
'The Wizard of Oz' had iconic elements like the ruby slippers and the yellow brick road. What do you think are the 'Oz the Great and Powerful' hallmarks that will be talked about in the future?
The China Doll – she's an original new character; Glinda's bubbles; Theodora's green face. Those are the things that come to mind – and Finley the monkey!
As a mom, is there something from your childhood - a film, a story, a book – that you've tried to introduce to your son?
There are songs that I sing to my son that I learned when I was about his age that he's really into, songs with stories. Like pirate songs, Irish sea shanty songs I learned as a kid when I was in kindergarten which I taught him and he knows all the words to.
Most of your scenes were in the castle – did you ever get to see that elaborate yellow brick road leading to Oz?
I don't think I ever saw it, but everyone in the crew was given a brick so I have a brick at home. I'll go stand on it.


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USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
Ingalls Shipbuilding, 1992
Homeport: Norfolk, VA
Length: 505 ft (154 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)
33 Officers
38 Chief Petty Officers
210 Enlisted Personnel
At Stapleton Pier / The Sullivans Pier, Fleet Week 2012. With the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in the background.
Chock-a-block of eye pads…unlike this unidentified ship, with a dearth of panama chocks.
Line handling these days must be damned bitter cold. Oof!


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Henry Waxman hands off the torch
A generation is passing in Congress these days, and with it goes a level of legislative craftsmanship that will be sorely missed by both parties.
Just six years ago, the House and Senate still boasted a solid bipartisan block of 32 members from the huge classes elected in the upheaval of the 1970s. By this time next year, no more than a dozen of them will remain in Congress.
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It's not that these lawmakers cornered the market on all knowledge or virtue. But they were a bridge back to a time when Congress was more a congress, a coming together. When legislation was written by committees, not the partisan leadership, and when the institution occasionally stood up for itself — and even the American people.
( PHOTOS: Who's leaving Congress?)
Democrats will feel the losses now most, but for Congress as a whole, the greater casualty is the legislative expertise, even art, that is going out the door. Nothing illustrates this better, perhaps, than the career of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
A new generation of House Republicans cheered when the 74-year-old Waxman, one of the last of the "Watergate babies" elected four decades ago, announced his retirement last month. But most of those applauding would be totally lost in a House-Senate conference committee, the sort of legislative briar patch in which Waxman did his best work.
Indeed, for much of the '80s, the California Democrat faced a parallel situation to what House Republicans face today: a hostile Senate and White House. But he never stopped trying to engage, and some of his biggest accomplishments were signed into law by Republican presidents with the help of Republican senators.
Ronald Reagan came into the White House wanting to cap Medicaid expenditures. But before he left eight years later, he had signed bills in which Waxman successfully expanded coverage for young children and pregnant women. Again with Republican support, Waxman pushed through the Orphan Drug Law in 1983 to increase the availability of medicines for rare diseases. Landmark AIDS and clean-air legislation followed in 1990 under President George H. W. Bush.
( From POLITICO Magazine: Henry Waxman, an unsung hero)
A safe seat back home and easy access to California political money helped his career immeasurably. But Waxman was foremost a craftsman, willing to take the long view and build piece by piece toward his goal.
As top aides to then-Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.), Ari Weiss and now Treasury Secretary Jack Lew worked with and watched Waxman.
"I came to respect him as a consummate legislator — someone who knew what he was after substantively and was always in the room when the final deal was cut," Weiss said.
Lew added: "He was very flexible about how to put things together, 'cause he had a goal in mind and he was playing a long game. … I really can't think of a lot of people who piece by piece have put together the kinds of complicated and important things that he has, just by sticking to it over a long period of time and chipping away at it."
Waxman's work stands out even more now, given the circumstances surrounding the latest turnover in Congress — an upheaval that almost matches that of the '70s.
When the 95th and 96th Congresses convened in 1977 and 1979, fully half the House members had been elected in the prior three elections. The current 113th Congress comes close to that, with more than 45 percent of its members elected since 2008.
( Earlier on POLITICO: Rep. Waxman still worried about L.A. Times after meeting)
But unlike the earlier generation, these new House classes arrived in a time of such partisan turmoil and anti-government, tea party sentiment that the new lawmakers are not being exposed to the very basics of legislating.
The '70s generation energized House committees by challenging an ossified seniority system in favor of younger, more activist members. The partisanship today has the opposite effect, favoring a top-down leadership style that weakens the committee system and discourages individual initiative.
"The final product is dictated from the top down. So you don't get to work the other side of the aisle to get the three votes you might need in committee because you aren't doing so well on your side," said retiring Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.). "The result is you'll get more and more bills where you'll need a morning-after pill to get over the embarrassment of what you just voted on."
Perhaps the best witness to this change is Rep. Rick Nolan, a 70-year-old Minnesota Democrat who was first elected, like Waxman, in 1974 but then went home in 1980 and came back last year to a culture shock in today's House. "It's probably the most undemocratic institution in the country," Nolan said.
Even old mainstays like the joint Appropriations Committees, which could always be counted on to move bills across the House and Senate floors and go to conference, have deteriorated dramatically.
( Also on POLITICO: House to hold Wednesday debt vote)
It's been more than six years since the House and Senate last debated and conferenced the annual bill for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services, the very heart of the domestic budget. Nearly half of the House — and certainly well over half of House Republicans — weren't even in Congress to see it happen.
Of the 15 Senate signatories on that 2007 conference report, fewer than half remain today. And Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) — the bill's Senate floor manager, who came with Waxman to the House in 1974 — will retire this year as well.
Looking back at the '70s, most attention is always paid to that famous 1974 class in which 92 new House members, 75 of them Democrats, were elected weeks after President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. Former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who left Congress last week to become U.S. ambassador to China, was part of that Watergate class. So was Miller, Waxman's California colleague who is also stepping down this year.
But as important as the Watergate class was, it's best understood in the context of the '70s classes immediately before and after it.
From the 1972 elections through 1978, the number of freshmen never fell below 67, for a four-election average of more than 76. Big Republican names — Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, David Stockman, Millicent Fenwick and Henry Hyde — were part of these classes. And inside the Democratic caucus, an already established reform movement was able to capitalize on the newcomers to shake up the House committee system.
"We pulled the trigger, and they were our bullets," said former Rep. Dave Obey (D-Wis.) who had arrived in 1969 and been part of building the foundation prior to the newcomers. For former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), elected on the Lyndon Johnson landslide in 1964, the newcomers were a second wind of sorts for House Democrats, who had begun to "run out of steam" after the Great Society dreams of the '60s.
John Lawrence, a former top aide to Miller and later chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi during her speakership, is now writing a book on the Class of '74. There was simultaneously "skepticism of government born of Vietnam and Watergate," Lawrence said, "and a passion to make government work to address national priorities."
"We were so full of ourselves," said Baucus, laughing at the memory of one of his early on-camera interviews. It was still overwhelmingly white males, but the regional distribution was much wider than many realize today. And this was a generation that saw itself as more savvy about television, better spoken than its elders, and in a popular phrase, more "JFK than FDR."


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We've had a couple of Fall-ish nights and mornings that are really getting me in the mood for cooler weather. It is not quite "Back to School" for Emma yet - a couple more weeks to go - but the feeling is definitely in the air. Pot Pie is one of those meals that remind me of school night dinners - only I think they have a bad reputation. This one is full of flavor with roasted vegetables, chicken and a creamy sauce.
I've always made Pot Pies with Puff Pastry, but I was inspired by a Barefoot Contessa recipe (shocking, right?) to adapt my original pot pie recipe to one topped with biscuits instead. The flaky, buttery biscuits were amazing on top of the creamy stew - a huge hit for both Mike and Emma. I can't wait to try these in individual bowls with a single biscuit on top.
1 1/4 cups of flour
1/2 tablespoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 tablespoon of chives
1/2 stick of butter
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup of milk
Step 2 : Make the Cream Sauce
Add in the half-and-half. Whisk until smooth. Cook over medium-low heat for 5-10 minutes until thick and bubbly - whisk constantly, or at lease every minute to keep it from burning on the bottom. When it is thick, turn off the heat.
Step 4 : Make Biscuits
In a mixer, combine flour, baking powder, chives and salt using the paddle attachment. Cut the cold butter into 1/2 inch pieces. Add the butter to the dry ingredients and mix on low until the butter is mixed in and is the size of peas. In a separate bowl, mix together egg and milk with a fork. Turn the mixer on low and slowly add the milk and egg mixture. Turn off the mixer once added.
Put some flour on the counter. Turn the dough out onto the floured surface. Add some flour onto the top of the dough, then roll it out into a disk - about 1/2 inch thick.
Cut the disk into 6 biscuits, using a biscuit cutter or glass.
Place the biscuits on top of the chicken stew.


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Biden waits on sidelines
Vice President Joe Biden walked the halls of Congress and hosted top-level talks at Blair House during the last fiscal showdown.
This time, he's roaming the aisles of Costco.
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It's a stark shift in responsibilities for the vice president, who has been asked to hold off — for now — on leveraging his Capitol Hill connections and to leave the negotiating to his boss.
Biden's new role is a product of President Barack Obama's decision to streamline fiscal cliff negotiations between himself and House Speaker John Boehner, the two sides' clear sticking points and Obama's increased post-election political clout.
( Also on POLITICO: Boehner open to more revenues)
The vice president worked on the Hill for decades and led the bipartisan 2011 debt ceiling group that laid much of the groundwork for the fiscal cliff talks. Now he waits for his moment as Obama leads the White House public relations battle at campaign-style stops in Pennsylvania and Michigan as well as the private talks with Boehner.
"This is the president's show," said Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), who participated in the Blair House talks last year. "The president is in charge and if the vice president gets involved, it will be because the president wants him to be involved. This is the president's show. I don't see where the vice president is involved at all."
( PHOTOS: Joe Biden over the years)
Biden has participated in a series of White House meetings with outside opinion makers — labor and progressive leaders, governors, chief executives — and in the pre-Thanksgiving sit-down with Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The vice president has made two local public appearances to support the president's negotiating position, talking up the need to help the middle class and allow taxes to rise on the wealthy during stops at the new Washington, D.C., Costco and at an Arlington, Va., diner.
Unlike last summer's debt ceiling talks, the vice president hasn't visited Capitol Hill — that's been left to Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors and a lone trip by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Biden is not engaged in backchannel negotiations, Hill GOP aides said. He isn't talking with House or Senate Republican leadership about what a deal will look like if and when Obama and Boehner reach an agreement about tax rates.
( PHOTOS: 12 Republicans resigned to higher taxes)
"In the last few weeks, the vice president has participated in meetings with key congressional leaders, penned an op-ed that ran in newspapers across the country and hosted a roundtable with middle-class families — playing a prominent role in making the administration's case that Congress must act to prevent an income tax increase on middle-class families," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. "Given his long-held relationships with Democrats and Republicans on both ends of Capitol Hill, it's clear to everyone following the talks that a deal won't be consummated and passed by the Congress without the influence of Vice President Biden."


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Don Blauweiss
Mr. Blauweiss is the Creative Director of Don Blauweiss Advertising & Design Inc. DBA&D is a marketing and creative boutique that assists companies in promoting their products or services through any form of marketing communications.
At the start of his career, Mr. Blauweiss worked as a graphic designer, achieving international recognition for his package designs. He became an advertising Art Director at Doyle Dane Bernbach and developed advertising campaigns for Volkswagon, El Al, Coffee of Colombia, Avis, VW, Lufthansa, Uniroyal, and others.
He then joined Ogilvy & Mather as Art Director/Producer for Mercedes Benz, and later joined Benton & Bowles as a Vice President, Associate Creative Director. In 1980, Mr. Blauweiss was Creative Director at Proctor & Gamble for business in Belgium, Holland and Germany. In 2011, Mr. Blauweiss and other members of the DDB creative team formed Senior Creative People, a creative consultancy with a focus on marketing to seniors by seniors.
In 1983, Mr. Blauweiss rejoined Doyle Dane Bernbach and in 1985, he became a Senior Vice President, Group Creative Director as the complete Doyle Dane Bernbach International Creative Team joined Saatchi & Saatchi. In 1987, Mr. Blauweiss founded Don Blauweiss Advertising & Design Inc.
Mr. Blauweiss has taught design and advertising concepts at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute and Cooper Union, and has served on the board of directors of The Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine Education Fund. Mr. Blauweiss received a BA in Art at Queens College in 1956 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at The Cooper Union in 1961. He has served as President of The Cooper Union Alumni Association. He is a recipient of the President's Citation and was inducted in The Cooper Union Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Still, humid nights bring out specks
There has been much concern about the drought and our fish and wildlife. Sure we will get some showers and even possibly some heavy rains, but it will take several days of that to break the dry spell. Since there were so many folks concerned, I went to the most knowledgeable resource of information that I'm familiar with.Mrs. Terri Looney is the conservation resource agent for both Jefferson and Chambers counties. Her specialties include all things aquatic. Looney confided that a prolonged drought such as we have experienced could — repeat, could — have detrimental effects on area wildlife. Both marsh dwelling arrivals such as fur bearers and alligators as well as birds do need fresh water for survival. It seems that many of them could die, and all of them must move in search of water. Feeding and reproduction will suffer. None of these things are good right now, but with a bumper crop of ducks heading our way in a few months, the lack of water will not be conducive to their staying around.
So far as the sea life is concerned, the oysters that are recovering from Hurricane Ike will be in trouble. Oysters can survive in pure saltwater, according to Mrs. Looney, but they will be susceptible to disease. This would also be the case in prolonged periods of too little fresh water. Dead oyster reefs do, however, attract many game fish.As of now, the local saltwater fishing action has been really good. With saltwater now in our rivers, there are saltwater fish being caught all the way up to the barrier on the Neches River. A heavy rain will serve to put more fresh water in the rivers and help move the fish back into the lakes and bays. Several tropical storms will move the fish down to the south end of Sabine Lake, Big Lake, and out to the jetty.
Inland saltwater fishing has been best for speckled trout, sand trout, and in some cases, large croakers. There has also been some good flounder action taking place. Should there not be some major change in the weather and with so much bait around, the fish catching will remain top notch. The specks are attracting the most attention There have been some fairly strong winds occurring from mid-morning until after dark each evening. After that it seems to wane, which allows for smother water and some good night angling. Folks with generators to furnish electricity for portable floodlights have enjoyed some really top-notch action. The shrimp and baitfish will be attracted to the light being spotted on the water. The specks will come along to feed upon the bait. Whenever the speckled trout arrive, you can actually see them like fast shadows under the surface or you can hear them strike the bait. It's not normally a strike such as a bass taking a topwater lure. There will be a telltale popping sound that is easily identifiable as a speck. Whenever that sound begins, get a bait or lure into the area of the sound and expect a quick strike.
What I've found over the years is that speckled trout will feed in intervals. They will show up in good numbers for awhile and suddenly they will disappear completely. Sometimes the lull will last an hour or so and sometimes it will last much longer. No mater the pattern, there seems to be a trigger that sets the specks to feeding right at daylight, so be ready for that.
When heading out for so some night speckled trout fishing, be sure to check on the wind and weather. Still, humid nights are best. Any windy or stormy weather would not be good times to head out.
There are several types of lights that are productive for the night fishing scene. There are green, black and plain high wattage spotlights. All of them will attract the bait, thus the predator fish.
The lighted fishing piers such as the Walter Umphrey Pier at the southeast end of Pleasure Island is a popular night fishing area. Hackberry Rod and Gun in Louisiana has gone a step further. They offer a big air-conditioned boat rigged just for night anglers. This situation is super comfortable with a load of amenities for the night antler's comfort. It's cooler at night also.
You may contact Mrs. Looney at (409) 835-8451 about pond care. Hackberry Rod and Gun's telephone number is (888) 762-3391.
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I'm building a simple benchmark program that proves the primality the largest 64-bit unsigned prime number. So far, I can set up the threads and they all run correctly, but in an effort to increase the efficiency in which the threads are executed, I want to start all the threads at once. I don't know how to do this, or if it is even possible. Currently I have it loop through an array list of the threads starting each one individually. The number of threads created is your free memory divided by five megabytes (5 * Math.pow(2,10)). Also, am I waiting for termination the right way?
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package benchmark; import java.util.ArrayList; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class Run { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub long lim = (long)4294967296.0;//upper limit of loop JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Welcome to the 64-bit prime benchmark. It measures how efficiently your machine can run through the algorithm."); long threads = (Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory())/(5 * (long)(Math.pow(2, 10)));//calculates the number of threads to use. JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "It will run using " + threads + " threads.\n\nPress OK to build the threads."); ArrayList<Thread> th = new ArrayList<Thread>();//arraylist of threads long inc = lim/threads, s = 2; for(long i = 0; i < threads; i++) { th.add(new Algorithm(s,inc+s));//creates each thread and adds it to the array list } JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Threads built. \n\nPress OK to run benchmark."); long start = System.currentTimeMillis();//times the amount of time it takes for(int i = 0; i < threads; i++) { th.get(i).start();//starts each thread } while(th.get(th.size()-1).isAlive()) {}//waits for the last thread in the list to terminate long end = System.currentTimeMillis();//end of the timer //prints some stats JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Statistics:\n" + "Time: " + (end - start) + " ms.\n" + "Total iterations: " + lim/2 + "\n" + "Iterations per second: " + ((lim/2)/(end-start))*1000+"\n" + "Number of threads: "+ th.size()); System.exit(1); } }
package benchmark; import org.jscience.mathematics.number.LargeInteger; public class Algorithm extends Thread{ /** * @param args */ private LargeInteger val = LargeInteger.valueOf("18446744073709551557");//number being factored private long start, end, increment = 2;//runtime variables that specify where to start, stop, and the increment for each number /** * @param start - value to start at * @param end - value to end at */ public Algorithm(long start, long end) { this.start =start; this.end = end; } public synchronized void run() { //System.out.println("Thread: " + threadNum + " starting. Thread ID: " + getId()); LargeInteger lim = LargeInteger.valueOf(end);//LargeInteger containing the end value for(LargeInteger i = LargeInteger.valueOf(start); lim.isGreaterThan(i); i.plus(increment))//loop for primality check { if(val.mod(i).equals(0))//checks for accuracy of the thread { throw new RuntimeException("Inaccurate Process.");//throughs an exception if an error is made showing the value not prime. } } } }
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Overtested Americans: When cancer isn't cancer at all
By Jacque Wilson and Amanda Enayati
The patient slammed his fist on the table in Dr. Otis Brawley's office.
"Dammit, I'm American," Brawley remembers him saying. "You can't tell me I have prostate cancer and that we're just going to 'watch it.'"
Brawley is the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, a world-renowned cancer expert and practicing oncologist. If you're going to get someone's opinion on a cancer diagnosis or course of treatment, he's a good choice. And in this case, he was recommending no treatment.
It's a scenario that may happen more as science reveals cancer's secrets, the biggest one being that what we now call cancer maybe shouldn't be called cancer at all.
"The word 'cancer' often invokes the specter of an inexorably lethal process," a working group for the National Cancer Institute wrote in a recent recommendation. "However, cancers are heterogeneous and can follow multiple paths, not all of which progress to metastases and death."
Basically, cancer is scary, but some kinds may be more boogeyman-in-the-closet scary than serial killer scary.
To understand fully, you have to look at the history of cancer diagnosis, Brawley says. In the 1850s, a group of German pathologists did some of the first biopsies on people who had clearly died of cancer. They took samples of their tumors and decided what breast cancer looks like, what lung cancer looks like, etc.
Today, Brawley says, there is a patient who has a lesion that's approximately 5 millimeters in diameter -- smaller than a pea. There's a doctor taking a biopsy of that lesion and a pathologist who's analyzing the sample using 21st-century technology. The problem, Brawley says, is that they're still comparing the samples to the cancer definition that was created more than 150 years ago.
"He's going, 'This looks just like what those Germans said is breast cancer,' " Brawley said of the pathologist. "But it's 5 millimeters in size. What killed the woman 160 years ago had spread all throughout her body."
We all harbor abnormalities, says H. Gilbert Welch, Dartmouth professor of medicine and author of the book "Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health." And new technology is increasingly able to find these abnormalities. When we do, our inclination is to act, even when the remedy turns out to be far more harmful than the disease would have been, had it run its course.
There is a growing consensus, backed by mounting scientific evidence, that Americans tend to be overtested, overdiagnosed and overtreated across a variety of conditions. Some experts estimate that unnecessary interventions account for 10% to 30% of U.S. health care spending.
Part of the problem is our medical culture, Welch says. The physician may be engaging in what is known as "defensive medicine," which entails ordering tests to guard against malpractice suits, should something go awry. There may also be perverse economic incentives at play -- that is, in a fee-for-service system, doctors are compensated for the quantity of tests and procedures they order.
But a recent study of physicians with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs found that salaried physicians who received no income from an increased volume of services and who had limited liability concerns ordered as many heart stress tests deemed "unnecessary" as doctors in more traditional settings.
The researchers theorized that the doctors had "an exaggerated perception of benefit" of the tests. In an editor's note on the study, Dr. Deborah Grady observed that while the study sample was small, "neverthless, it suggests that the culture of overdoing is ingrained."
Simply put, physicians are trained to think that the way you take care of people is to "find stuff and to take care of that stuff," Welch says.
Patients aren't exactly helping the issue, either. Energized by public awareness cancer campaigns, many patients have been empowered to find cancer early through screening and to intervene as soon as possible, Welch observes.
"To raise awareness and to get people to participate in screening, we have to whip up fear; we must introduce a bit of 'dis-ease' into the population," he said. "In a way, we have to make them feel as if the world may be a more dangerous place and that they ought to be worried about their future."
Brawley's patient, the one he refused to treat, eventually found another doctor who would treat his prostate cancer. "Patients will doctor-shop until they get what they want," Brawley said.
It's an issue many people have difficulty wrapping their heads around: Some patients who are diagnosed with cancer do not need to be treated, because that cancer is never going to bother them. The problem is that we don't know who those people are.
"There is a lot of work and research in this area in trying to better characterize which tumors will matter," Welch said.
The National Cancer Institute working group made several recommendations for the medical community in addressing cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment. One was a change in the terminology doctors use to talk about cancer, especially when the cells they've found may not be dangerous.
"Use of the term 'cancer' should be reserved for describing lesions with a reasonable likelihood of lethal progression if left untreated," they wrote.
They also noted that the public should be made aware that overdiagnosis is common in cancer screening.
Doctors know that approximately 10% of localized lung cancer tumors and 20% to 30% of localized breast cancer tumors that are found through screening would never cause harm, Brawley says. "That tumor would just stay there: never grow, never spread." The rate is even higher for prostate cancer at 60%.
But isn't screening used to catch some aggressive cancers in people that we would otherwise see too late to treat?
Some overdiagnosis is acceptable, Brawley says. "We cure and treat some people who don't need to be treated. And in return, we save some lives." But screening has its own dangers.
Whenever you test a population, you will have some false positives. For example, if a woman is told that her mammogram is abnormal, that diagnosis might be straightened out days or weeks later, and she might find out that she does not have cancer. The diagnosis will create anxiety and lead to additional unnecessary testing.
Good health is more than absence of physical abnormality; it's also a state of mind, experts say.
"In my experience, it's not the diagnosis of cancer which really kills people," said Ezekiel Emanuel, a former oncologist, vice provost for global initiatives and chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. "It's the uncertainty."
The National Cancer Institute group recommended reducing the frequency of some screening examinations, focusing that screening on high-risk groups (e.g. screening smokers for lung cancer) and raising the requirements that would lead to a biopsy or other follow up care.
"We've been taught that cancer is a terrible thing and the way to deal with it always is to find it early and cut it out," Brawley said. "We're starting to realize that that is not true in all cases."


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Teachers course in Addis Ababa gets underway
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 5, 2013 – A Volleyball Cooperation Program (VCP) for teachers, organised by the Volleyball Federation of Ethiopia, is currently underway in Addis Ababa.
The course is being led by FIVB instructor Mr. Alemayehu Shoatatek Kassegne and there are
40 teachers participating in the course, which started on July 2 and is scheduled to finish on July 6.
Over the last few years, the Volleyball Federation of Ethiopia has focused on establishing close and direct involvement with teachers in schools throughout the country as a part of their strategy to increase the popularity of sport at the community level.
The teachers' courses are a component of the FIVB's Volleyball Cooperation Programme aimed at providing background knowledge and pertinent educational tools for school instructors to help them integrate volleyball into their school curriculum.
More information on the Volleyball Cooperation Programme can be found here.
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The disappearing undecided voter
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like to win over undecided voters — but there just aren't many of them left.
So in a super-tight election year, the campaigns are focusing more on appealing to their base voters than on winning new converts, preaching to a choir their teams hope will sing at full volume by Election Day.
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( Also on POLITICO: Swing State Map)
It's smart politics: Internal and public polls consistently show far fewer undecided voters than four years ago, the result in part of a polarized electorate that has had four years to get to know Obama.
The fire-up-the-base thinking informs all aspects of the campaigns, from Obama's tax-the-rich rhetoric and decision to tap liberal champion Elizabeth Warren for a plum speaking spot at the Democratic National Convention to Romney's recent embrace of tea party heroes Ted Cruz and Richard Mourdock and the hawkishness he touted on his trip to Israel last month.
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a centrist Democrat in office who has morphed into a happy warrior for the president as co-chairman of his campaign, said there aren't many undecided voters for Obama or Romney to persuade.
"Whether or not some of those who have made up their minds are willing to be persuaded otherwise, I don't know," said Strickland said. "There are relatively few people, percentage wise, that are undecided at this point."
Gallup's daily tracking poll shows the number of undecided voters hovering between 6 percent and 8 percent — compared with 11 percent at this point in 2008. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll put the percentage of undecided voters at 3 percent, down from 12 percent in late July 2008. A Pew survey found 5 percent didn't know who they'd vote for, half of the number at this point in 2008.
One Obama campaign aide said the team uses the president's events not as a mechanism to win new supporters but more as a way to energize the ones they already have.
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The FRED series Corporate Equities - Assets - Balance Sheet of Households and Nonprofit Organizations is now known as Households and Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Equities; Asset.
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This series no longer appears in Table B.101.
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Mark Calcavecchia surrendered a three-shot cushion to end the third round of the Senior British Open on Saturday tied for the lead with fellow American Russ Cochran and South Africa's David Frost.
Calcavecchia, the co-leader after the first and second rounds at Walton Heath, was in cruise control at 10 under with six holes remaining before imploding when his accuracy off the tee deserted him.
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Calcavecchia, bidding to become the fourth player to capture both the British Open and Senior British Open, shot 72 to put him at 7-under 209. His stumble gave a bunched-up field renewed hope in the Champions Tour's third major of the year.
Frost shot a bogey-free 66, tied for lowest round of the week on the parkland course just south of London, while Cochran's 67 included a double-bogey 6 on No. 14.
Corey Pavin, the United States' 2010 Ryder Cup captain, and England's Barry Lane each shot 69 and were a shot off the lead, with three more Americans -- Chip Beck, Mike Goodes and Lee Rinker -- at 5 under.
Three-time winner Tom Watson was one of four players a further stroke behind after a 69 in a third round played in overcast conditions with a light breeze.
Calcavecchia, who has been in a three-way share of the lead after every round this tournament, described his errant driving on the back nine as "army golf," because it alternated between going left and right off the tee.
"Today was exactly what's been happening to me all year," said Calcavecchia, who is without a tournament victory in 2011. "I drive it great for a while and then I just lose it. That's what I was worried about -- and then it happens to me. I have to figure it out by tomorrow.
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Frost, who went out 10 groups behind Calcavecchia at 1 under, birdied the first, the last and four other holes in between in a consistent round.
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"I've got myself right in there now," he added. "Another round like this would be great."
Frost's 66 matched that of England's Kevin Spurgeon on Friday.
Cochran continued his impressive comeback from a wrist injury, sustained during the second round of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf tournament in late April that ruled him out for two months.
He returned at Pebble Beach two weeks ago for the Nature Valley First Tee Open, where he finished tied for 10th, and he is within a shout of his first major title here after making seven birdies in his opening 11 holes.
Cochran also hit the pin with his 4-iron off the tee at the par-3 No. 17.
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Lee Rinker (74) and Canada's Rod Spittle (75) shared the overnight lead but couldn't maintain their form, although they are two of 12 players within three shots of the lead.
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