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10 purr-fect vacations for cat lovers
By Emma Sloley, Travel + Leisure • Updated 10th April 2013
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These quirky museums, theme parks and circus acts feed our collective cat obsession.
Stephanie Harwin, who writes the cat-obsessed blog Catsparella, will go to great lengths to get her feline fix. On her quest to fulfill a lifelong dream, visiting Japan's Hello Kitty theme park, Harwin endured a bout of severe food poisoning, a language barrier and a long journey to reach her happy place.
Japan is the ultimate travel destination for cat enthusiasts and Hello Kitty is just the beginning. Tokyo has become famous for its cat cafés, where you can hang out with the furry creatures, and each February brings the celebration of "Nyan Nyan Nyan Day" (a name inspired by the sound cats make).
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While the Japanese have the highest per capita cat ownership in the world, there are people crazy for cats everywhere. London's Zoological Society even created a global cat map that allows you to plot the location of your own pet and upload its photo. All this cat love has resulted in some strangely charming places where travelers can stop to pay tribute.
These vacation ideas are the cat's meow.
Cat Cafés, Tokyo
Japan's obsession with all things feline is well documented. After all, this is the homeland of YouTube star Maru, a Scottish fold whose antics have amassed more than 200 million views. Tokyo itself counts more than a hundred "neko" or cat cafés, where patrons come to sip lattes and socialize with numerous cats, who lounge around on chairs, sofas, baskets and occasionally the laps of their human fans. Some of the more popular: Shimokitazawa's Cateriam, Nekobukuro in Ikebukuro, Curl Up Café in Haramachi, and Nyafe Melange. There's even a handy map to locate them.
Festival of the Cats, Ypres, Belgium
The Kattenstoet (Festival of the Cats) is held every three years on the second Sunday of May; the next is scheduled for 2015. It celebrates the noble feline with a street parade of floats, music, stilt walkers and costumed townsfolk, many of whom dress as cats, witches or mice. The festival culminates with a performance in which a jester tosses children's toy cats from the Cloth Hall belfry down to the crowd—a tradition that harks back to the harsh Middle Ages practice of throwing actual cats from the belfry in the spring. (Not to worry: no kitties are harmed in the modern reenactments.)
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Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, Key West, Florida
Cat fanatics who are also Hemingway fans will find nirvana at the writer's former
Key West home
. The grand, plantation-style limestone house is the domain of around 50 cats descended from Papa's original Maine coon, Snowball, who was given to him by a ship's captain. The cats are polydactyl (six-toed), which lends them their distinctive appearance—some say it looks like the cats are wearing mittens. Hemingway named many of his cats after famous people, and the estate carries on the tradition today; look for Lionel Barrymore and Hairy Truman.
Moscow Cats Theatre
This second-generation
Russian theater
, founded by Yuri Kuklachev and his son Dmitri in 1990, performs in Moscow when the troupe—which includes around 120 cats—isn't touring the world. Shows feature a revolving series of madcap acts with names like Catnappers, Cat Clowns and Love, and Cats from the Universe. Expect to see the Kuklachevs' furry stars performing stunts: walking a tightrope, teetering on a rocking horse and posing on top of a mirror ball.
Kuching Cat Museum, Malaysia
Cats are considered lucky in Malaysia, as in many Asian cultures, and the Kuching Cat Museum in Sarawak pays respectful, if slightly wacky, homage to these fortune-bestowing felines. For starters, you enter the UFO-style building through a giant cat face. Inside await exhibitions, artifacts, artworks and ephemera dedicated to cats. The pièce de résistance: a 1,000-year-old mummified Egyptian kitty. The museum is on a hill, with great views of the city of Kuching, which translates as "cat city."
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The Supreme Cat Show, Birmingham, UK
At the UK's largest and most
prestigious cat show
, held each November at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham, you can watch cats relax in their pens and be judged in the ring, and browse for every cat product imaginable at an array of stands. Each cat gets a large double pen, decorated by its owner with brightly colored drapes or more creative trappings based on a given theme. In 2012, it was "Diamonds are forever."
Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary, Rome
The mission of this sanctuary is to "work together to raise the quality of life of Rome's abandoned cats"—and it welcomes volunteers. Expect to perform duties such as cleaning cages and distributing food to some of the 300-odd cat residents; if you're living in Rome you can volunteer as a "foster parent" for young kittens in your own home.
The site
, which contains ancient ruins, has a glamorous pedigree: while filming at the nearby Teatro Argentina, Italian actress Anna Magnani famously spent her breaks here feeding the cats.
Dominique and His Flying House Cats, Key West, Florida
Dominique LeFort
is one of the more idiosyncratic locals—and in Margaritaville, that's really saying something. The performer and his troupe of trained house cats entertain regularly at Sunset Celebration, a nightly arts festival at Mallory Square Dock. The shaggy-haired Frenchman ushers his nonchalant cats across tightropes and through flaming hoops, all while keeping up a madcap banter with the audience (including his catchphrase, "Clap, clap, clap!"), a shtick that has earned the act a cult following.
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Poezenboot, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Cats and water don't usually mix well, yet this floating cat sanctuary on Amsterdam's Herengracht canal has proven a grand success. Founded in 1966 by a local legend named Henriette van Weelde—who took in stray cats and eventually moved them onto a houseboat in the canal—the
floating barge
has become a tourist attraction, drawing cat lovers and the curious alike. Visitors can volunteer, donate or adopt.
Hello Kitty theme
ark, Tokyo
A pilgrimage to Tokyo's Hello Kitty theme park, known officially as
Sanrio Puroland
, is a must for fans of the cult cat character (a Japanese white bobtail). The park attracts 1.5 million annual visitors of all ages, who come from far and wide to watch Hello Kitty-themed musicals, take a spin on cat-tastic rides and visit Hello Kitty's house, which features portraits of the famous cat's family and a bathtub shaped like her face. There's also a boat ride in which another Sanrio character, Cinnamoroll, leads visitors on a trip to Hello Kitty's party.
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[this should possibly go under the Newbies section but it is specifically about LMDE. Sorry if it's a bit rambling but thought my experience might(?) be interesting. I've moved from first look at Mint to fully installed in 4 days – hope I don't regret it <grin>]
As a retired programmer/analyst I 'played' with Linux for some years before committing myself to Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) in 2008. I soon found that I my Windows XP system was being used less and less and by the start of 2010 I was fully committed. A new i5 box was acquired - dual-booting with Windows 7 alongside 9.10. This was upgraded through 10.04 and 10.10 – all upgrades going smoothly – even with 11.04 - after a short play with Unity, I reverted to Classic Gnome. I suppose that at my age and after (too) many years with older equipment I like my computers to behave like computers, with recognisable structure and menus, not like mobile phones.
Last week after looking at the lack of options with 11.10, I decided to try Mint, ran the 'live' versions and liked what I saw. The choice was between Mint 11 and LMDE. Using the Ubuntu based version might be safer but would involve more frequent upgrades and maybe more changes to the way I run things. The rolling-release of the Debian version would make it easier to keep up to date with the software I used more intensively and would, as somebody said, 'cut out the middle man!'.
When changing boxes nearly 2 years ago the policy of keeping '/home' separate from 'root' paid off and by making a simple two-partition installation I was able to update the 'home' partition with all my 'stuff' including configuration details of email, browsing, programming etc. By copying over folders such as .mozilla, .nautilus I avoided the necessity of reconfiguration.
This time, having plenty of disk space, I decided to do the same again, created two new partitions, installed LMDE (in 'new_root' and 'newhome') and got it working very easily and quickly.
I created a copy of my (200gb) Ubuntu 'home' partition with 'gparted' and copied over the 'newhome' data to it (as 'mint_home') and used it to create replacement '.gnome2, .gconf, .gconfd' etc. folders.
Updating /etc/fstab for my new '/home' partition and rebooting I had Linux Mint with my old Desktop, directory structure and environmental variables. It was then a matter of installing those packages that I needed and checking that they worked – and nearly all did.
I then wanted to check some stuff on my old Ubuntu system, rebooted and wondered why it looked strange. It had all my new Mint settings. I had discovered that when 'gparted' copies a partition it keeps the existing UUID and both systems were using the same '/home' area. After a bit of googling I found a way of changing UUIDs (tune2fs -U random /dev/sdxx *note parameter order). updated fstab and had Ubuntu back (if I needed it).
Other things I noted were :
- take care when installing python 2.7 – the mint utilities stopped working
- with 2 monitors it is convenient to put a 2nd gnome panel on the right hand screen – with menu buttons on each.
- some programs don't seem to work(emelFM2 – 2 pane file manager) or require extra attention (wcd – wherever change directory)
The main thing I have to do now is to get my virtual XP machine working for those things that don't work on Linux – weather station, sat-nav etc. I was using vmWorkstation but am now trying to get VirtualBox going – will have to 'rtfm'!
All things considered I'm quite pleased with the conversion, started on Friday, more or less complete by Sunday. I probably didn't plan enough, but I never do.
I enjoyed the depth of the Ubuntu community but I'm impressed with what I've seen of the Mint support network. I listened to the mintCast on Saturday while tidying things up. I'll be glad when the Community Site is back up as I feel I'll get a lot of information by browsing there.
Thanks to Clem and all the other workers – a donation will be on the way.
My introduction to Linux Mint – Debian Edition
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Nice read, have fun on your journey!
That's the spirit!Thanks to Clem and all the other workers – a donation will be on the way.
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This seems pretty easy to use, although I had to re-read the documentation to understand how to use it. The docs lack sample code.
It lacks tests. It needs at least some tests!
It doesn't try to decode accented characters or symbols, which is great because I can throw them into TeX::Encode if I need to.
My gripes are that the plainText method assumes it's given a full document (inside document environment anyway) and that it can't do serial parsing (e.g. I feed it a line, get partially parsed output, feed another line, etc.). But there are easy workarounds for this.
A serious gripe is that it doesn't recognize some forms of math mode, using $..$ or $$..$$. That will require me to write a workaround. Grr.
I find the distinction of types between Trees and Nodes to be unnecessary. It also uses a hack to guess the arguments for a command (assumes argument is not separated by whitespace form command and that groups following commands are arguments) rather than using known or common commands with set numbers of arguments.
Still, I've got some high expectations for this.
UPDATE: it tries to be too smart in it's parsing, and so cannot parse commands for special packages or custom commands. I wanted to write a script that converts markup for one package into another. May as well write my own parser.


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Pop singer Marti Jones first emerged as the frontwoman of the group Color Me Gone before issuing her solo debut Unsophisticated Time — produced by future husband Don Dixon — in 1985. Though the recipient of widespread critical acclaim, Jones found little commercial success with LPs like 1986's Match Game (recorded with guests Mitch Easter, T-Bone Burnett, and Darlene Love) and 1988's Used Guitars (featuring contributions from Marshall Crenshaw and Janis Ian), and she was dropped by her label, A&M. After signing to RCA for 1990's Any Kind of Lie, Jones disappeared from sight before signing to Sugar Hill and returning in 1996 with a pair of new releases, Live at Spirit Square and My Long-Haired Life. In 2002 her album My Tidy Doily Dream (another release produced by husband Don Dixon) appeared on the Dixon Archival Remnants label, but Jones subsequently focused much of her creative energy on painting, under the name Marti Jones Dixon. Lucky Stars: New Lullabies for Old Souls, an album credited to the husband-and-wife duo of Marti Jones and Don Dixon, was made available for digital download in March 2008. ~ Jason Ankeny
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We've collected the top four reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in August. Whether you're interested in Mac, iPhone, iPad, Web, or Android apps, there's bound to be something you didn't spot over the course of the month. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the AppStorm Network you've never seen before!
Thanks for reading AppStorm, and I hope you enjoy looking over some of our favourite posts from last month!
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The iPad: A Student's New Computer?
The newly refreshed Macbook Air is the best laptop Apple has ever devised for students. Even the lowest end model, with its paltry (by current standards) 2GB of RAM, would be fine for most students I know. Add the Air's ridiculously fast SSD into the mix, and you've got a seriously slick machine.
But wait, what other Apple product is impossibly thin, has flash-based storage, and is super fast? The iPad, of course.
15 Essential iPad Apps for Students
Student life can be daunting; assessments, deadlines, classes, exams and maybe even a social life. It doesn't have to be this difficult though. The iPad is naturally a great productivity tool and, loaded with the right apps, it can be your best weapon for surviving education.
Most of these apps cost less than a pint of your favourite beer and will increase your productivity leaps and bounds, saving you countless hours of otherwise wasted time. Start reading now and learn how to ensure you never miss a deadline again!
WriteRoom: Getting iPad Writing Right
The iPad is a great platform for consuming various kinds of media, from books and films, to news and games. But working on the iPad, and for me that mostly means writing, has been something less than a stellar experience.
Read on to find out how WriteRoom manages to overcome the iPad's operating quirks in clever and thoughtful ways that make it much more attractive as a serious writer's tool.
Making a Podcast With GarageBand for iPad
With GarageBand installed, an iPad is a powerful and portable tool for musicians. However, just like its desktop version, GarageBand for iPad can also be employed by non-musicians too, as I'll highlight with a step by step guide to making a podcast on your iPad, complete with accompanying music.
This How-To will be aimed towards those who have a basic understanding of GarageBand, or at least the principles behind music software in general, but I will endeavour to keep each step as beginner friendly as possible. If you have any questions or problems, please let us know in the comments and I'll attempt to help you through it.
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 Review: It's Out of This World
It may surprise you to learn that I'm a big tech nerd. I love my devices and I like to upgrade when I can. Back in October, I picked up an iPad (first gen), admittedly knowing it was probably poor timing. While it was the best on the market at the time, I figured that in 4-6 months time some new ones would hit the market. I used it for a while but wasn't really impressed with it. Aside from some nice apps, it was pretty heavy, and generic as far as UI goes. I couldn't find a great use for it. When the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was announced in May I knew that it was my next tablet. I went out and bought it last week and was excited to see how it would measure up compared to my personal hype.
Smart Tools: Your Portable Toolbox
How often have come you across a situation where a scale or compass was a necessity? Not often, I know. But at times, there might be an odd job and you might have to measure the length of something or check if the angle of a furniture is right. A scale and a protractor are not the tools one would carry in his pocket these days — but almost all of us carry a mobile phone.
12 Great Sources for Your Coffee Time Puzzle Break
Remember the time when crossword puzzles and sudoku mornings meant newspapers? In fact, remember newspapers? Like most good things, these puzzles have also made their way to the smartphones and are in many ways better than their printed counterparts. When was the last time you kept score of your timing on the kakuro sprints? Let's look at a few notable tree savers that give you just one more reason to get your Android out in the morning.
Credit to MiniSQUL for the crossword photo.
HTC Sensation: A Review of HTC's New Beast
HTC were actually late comers to the Dual-Core game, which is unusual for the company that has a reputation for being first to everything (Android and 4G in USA to name a few), but will their entry, the HTC Sensation, be worth the wait, or have they too entered the market purely for publicity? Read on for the review.
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The Hit List for iPhone: Worth the Wait?
In my never ending search for the ideal GTD system, I've tried out dozens of apps for both the Mac and iPhone. Early in my search, I came across The Hit List, and found myself very impressed with its stylish but casual interface and its complete, customizable feature set. Like many other users, I patiently waited for the promised iPhone companion app, only to realize that development on the whole project had apparently come to a halt.
Now, over two years later, developer Andy Kim has finally released version 1.0 of The Hit List for Mac, and the much anticipated iPhone app. Was it worth the wait? Read on to find out!
45 Unique iPhone Home Screens Explained
Last week we asked you to show us your iPhone's home screens, and the response was overwhelming. So much so that we decided to show off as many home screens as possible by packing it into one big roundup.
Now, of course, there are a few duplicates here and there, but we did our best to trim it down and make the list a bit more manageable. Thanks to all of you who submitted your home screens, and hit the jump the check them out!
HQ: the Stunning Way to Manage Tasks
To-do lists are inherently boring. They're really nothing more than a bunch of items that you want to get done at some later point, be it three hours from now or next week.
HQ, the inaugural app from Sleeping Giant Apps, aims to change that. It tackles the issue of list keeping with one goal: to provide excellent functionality within a stunning, easy-to-use interface.
Steve Jobs: A Thank You
It's always hard when a member of your family moves on, and today, that's how we here at AppStorm feel about Steve Jobs. No, we've never technically worked alongside the legend, but because we've written about him for the past few years, most of us feel this personal connection to the man that's been the driving force behind Apple. And it's hard not to, because he's been in our lives for so long now.
And now, it's time that we say goodbye to Steve, as he's stepped down from the CEO position at Apple, to his new position as Chairman of the Board. But this isn't Steve's eulogy — no, he's got too much life in him for that. This is a celebration of all things Steve, and our own way of saying thanks to the man who helped us do what we love to do.
Best of Web.AppStorm
Read Your Kindle Books Online With Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon blazed the trail for eBooks with their Kindle platform, starting with the original Kindle device and the Kindle store. Even if you didn't own a Kindle, you could read Kindle books on most platforms with native apps. However, if you used a Chromebook, Linux computer, or other device without a Kindle app, you were out of luck.
That's all over now. Amazon just released their new Kindle Cloud Reader, a full-featured Kindle web app so you can read your Kindle books right in your browser. It's got all the features you'd expect, lets you save your books for offline reading, and even works great on the iPad. After the break, we've got screenshots and more info about the newest Kindle app, the app that just might be the main future of the Kindle platform.
SmartQ: Visual Project Management That Conforms to You
When it comes to project management, most web apps offer the same basic features: a group of to-do lists, some kind of messaging board, a few gigs of file storage, shared document-editing, a calendar of some sort, and if you're lucky, a set of reports.
But what most don't offer is the ability to develop a project-management workflow that conforms to the way your team already works, and without this customization, you lose precious time trying to get everybody up to speed on the new way of doing things. In my experience, that ramp-up time usually results in project members abandoning the app and reverting to project management by email.
Enter SmartQ.
Stay Sane Managing Multiple Accounts of the Same App
Remember waiting to get a Gmail invite, or thinking carefully about what Twitter handle you wanted? These days, it seems like most of us manage too many different accounts to keep track of. I personally have nearly a dozen active email accounts, from my college and work emails to a personal Google Apps account and a standard Gmail account I mostly use for Google+. Depending on the day, I manage 3 or more Twitter accounts, 2 Facebook fan pages, and a half dozen various WordPress accounts on different sites.
Some of these aren't so hard to manage. For example, all of my WordPress accounts are on different domains, so they're all unique accounts that can be logged in at once. Others, such as Gmail and Twitter accounts, can be much more tricky. Here's some of the best ways to keep track all of your accounts without spending half of your day logging in and out of various services.
Zerply: A Professional Network Based on Skills and Passions
With over 120 million members (as of 8/4/2011) and a new-member sign-up rate of two per second, LinkedIn is the undisputed leader of the "professional" social-networking scene. Still, some people have a problem with LinkedIn's conservative design scheme. They want something that represents the excitement and passion that comes from loving what you do.
A number of web apps have cropped up to satisfy these more design-oriented folks (see our roundup of six of them), and each creates a stylish personal-splash page that you can attach to your email signature, print on your business card, or whatever.
Zerply, a new web app that launched last month, is both the same as these "personal-splash page" apps and different from them. Let's find out how.
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5 Industries That Steve Jobs Helped Change Forever
For the second time since its inception in 1976, Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple Inc. According to Jobs, the day has come when he can no longer fulfill his duties. He passed the reigns to Tim Cook while staying on as Chairman of the Board and Apple employee.
Today we honor our favorite turtleneck wearing tech guru with a brief look back at his amazing career and five industries that will never be the same.
The Windows App Store: Serious Threat or Business As Usual?
Windows 8 will be chock full of shiny new features, among which is of course a centralized app store. Let's put aside our feigned shock and awe at this announcement and discuss whether or not this represents a potential threat to OS X or if it's merely the technology industry doing what it does best: following wherever Apple leads.
30+ Awesome Utilities to Boost Your Mac's Functionality
The Mac App Store has brought about a whole mess of new utilities that make your Mac more functional than ever.
Today we're going to dive and find thirty particularly useful utilities that you'll definitely want to check out and consider downloading.
New UI Patterns in App Design: A Blessing or a Curse?
Software design has made some interesting strides lately. It's possible that we're beginning to see Apple's role in setting UI standards give way to the innovation of third party developers.
Unfortunately, this shift makes for a much more complicated scenario for developers and designers. Tempers rise, fingers are pointed and even users begin arguing about the difference between inspiration and theft. When trends are set by third party designers, is it acceptable to follow them?
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Bounce Ability Needed
September 4, 2007
Back from the Labor Day holiday break. The Phillies certainly labored during this past weekend.
As well as things went in the Mets' sweep, they disappeared this weekend. The pitching couldn't hold the Marlins and yesterday, the Phils came out flat in losing in Atlanta. Perhaps Sunday's loss carried over.
But, as Paul Owens often said, you need "bounce ability" in this game. We need it tonight. Twenty-five more games, including 13 at Citizens Bank Park.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Ruben Amaro Jr. will interview this week for the vacant GM position with the Houston Astros . . . Cole Hamels will see Dr. Michael Ciccotti later this week . . . The Clearwater Threshers won the second-half title in the Florida State League West Division. They begin a best-of-three series tonight at Bright House Networks Field against the Sarasota Reds, winners of the first half. Winner advances to a best-of-five championship series . . . Except for the Williamsport Crosscutters, the seasons have ended for the other Phillies minor league teams. Williamsport's season ends Friday night.
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Hopefully Hamels' elbow isn't that bad… We could definately use him…
The Jekyll & Hyde play of the Phillies is tough… If they can find a way to keep the intenstity, I think we'll all be happy…
Another September swoon.
Typical !! Nice job today
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It's probably the largest—let me rephrase that, it IS the largest automotive-oriented event in the country. The SEMA show draws millions of people from around the world to look at the latest and greatest offering's in the hobby.Each year, car builders also bring their latest creations to the show, in an effort to show their car-building capabilities, using many of these new products. Everything from mild to wild is in attendance, and it doesn't take long to find something that really gets you blood pumping.For that reason, we decided to take a look around the show, and see if we could narrow the field to what we feel are five of the coolest Mopars that made the show this year.


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The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in its upcoming session, with a decision likely to be issued around June of this year. Many pundits are predicting that DOMA will be overturned, at least in part. This article will address what provisions will likely be reviewed, and what impact a decision to overturn DOMA would have on Illinois employers.
DOMA, in a very general sense, is legislation that: (a) recognizes marriage under federal law to only be between one man and one woman (Section 3); and (b) permits states to not have to recognize same-sex marriages entered into in another state (Section 2).
Section 3 is the reason that same-sex civil union partners in Illinois are not eligible, for example, for federal tax status and exemptions as a married couple, while married couples and opposite-sex civil union partners in Illinois (yes, civil unions are available to opposite sex partners) are considered married under federal law and thus eligible for federal benefits.
Under Illinois law by contrast, a civil union is synonymous with marriage, and any civil union partner is considered a spouse for all non-federal employment purposes.
While either or both sections of DOMA could be invalidated, Section 3 is most pertinent to employers because tax treatment and benefits offered to same-sex civil union partners could change overnight.
Here is a non-exclusive list of some changes relevant to employers and employment policies if Section 3 is invalidated:
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Currently, a same-sex civil union partner is not a recognized family member for employees to take FMLA time to care for in the event of serious medical illness or other qualifying event. While a same-sex civil union partner could currently be a qualified dependent to allow FMLA coverage on a different basis, if Section 3 is overturned then those partners would be recognized family members for purposes of an employee taking FMLA leave.
• Tax-qualified plans with survivor annuities. Some tax-qualified plans are federally mandated to provide an annuity to the employee's surviving spouse. Such plans would have to provide the survivor annuity to same-sex civil union partners.
• Federal income tax status. Whereas same-sex civil union partners in Illinois are currently recognized under the state tax code as married, the same parties to the union are not considered married under the federal tax code. Updates to W-2 forms and related documents would be needed if DOMA, specifically Section 3, is invalidated.
• 401(k) and similar IRS plan hardship withdrawals. Much like the FMLA restrictions, current federal law recognizes certain hardship events to a spouse that would allow an employee to withdraw money from a qualified plan without suffering the regular early withdrawal penalty. The same hardship recognition would apply to same-sex civil union partners.
Because Illinois already has laws forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the workplace, many ERISA-based variables at play in other states, such as excluding a same-sex spouse from an employee's health-care insurance, will not be at issue for Illinois employers.
The bottom line for Illinois employers is that if Section 3 is overturned, then the status of employees in same-sex civil unions will mirror the status of married employees for all federally-based employment purposes.
Regardless of individual beliefs or the eventual outcome, employers should stay tuned for the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA later this year and be prepared to make any necessary changes to internal policies when the decision is released.
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A fight that broke out after the NFC Championship game in Atlanta led to a stabbing, reports say. WSBTV in Atlanta is gathering details:
A witness told Channel's Rachel Stockman the fight started after a 49ers fan passed by an upset Falcons fan.
They exchanged words and at some point, the verbal altercation turned violent.
The Falcons fan then punched the 49ers fan. The 49ers fan pulled out a knife and somehow got cut in the throat area, the witness said.
The injured man is being transported to a hospital.
The condition of the man whose knife was turned against him is unknown; Fox 5 Atlanta is saying his "throat was slit." No one has reported whether the fans attended the game or were just outside the Georgia Dome. We'll update as more information becomes available.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 19 June 2012. OCLC, the world's leading library service and research organization, based in Dublin, Ohio, has been named among Computerworld's "Best Places to Work in IT."
It is the seventh consecutive year OCLC has been selected as one of the top workplaces for information technology (IT) professionals. This honor is part of the IT publication's annual Best Places to Work in IT survey, which is published in the June 18 issue of Computerworld and available online at Computerworld.com.
OCLC placed at number 74 on the 2012 list, and was 10th in the Small Companies category of less than 2,500 employees.
"It is an honor for OCLC to be recognized by Computerworld as one of the Best Places to work in IT for a seventh consecutive year," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. "Our IT staff in eight engineering centers around the world share not only a global development platform, but a commitment to OCLC's public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing costs for libraries. We will continue to work hard at making OCLC a great place for innovation and global teamwork for all staff."
Since 1994, Computerworld's annual "Best Places to Work in IT" feature has ranked the top 100 work environments for technology professionals, based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, diversity, career development, training and retention.
Based in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, preservation, library management and Web services to thousands of libraries around the world. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials.
In May, OCLC was also named among the Best Employers in Ohio for the fourth consecutive year.
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Carol Vogel has come out in support of Marlene Dumas! In her NYTimes Venice Biennial overview she remarks that the Italian pavilion "is showing masters like Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, Marlene Dumas and Philip Guston alongside younger artists."
And in today's Globe & Mail Biennial coverage Sarah Milroy writes "and the canvases of Marlene Dumas marked her as the best of the living painters on show".
Charlie Finch,Tyler Green, Richard Polsky, Jerry Saltz
Nicole Davis, Nicole Eisenmann, Joy Garnett, Cynthia King, Sarah Milroy, Adrian Searle, Richard Vine, Carol Vogel
It is worth noting that of the pro-Dumas people more than half are women; all of the anti-Dumasers are men. Maybe there is something to a previous commenter's accusations of sexism after all. Also notable is that half of the pros are artists and there are no artists among the antis.
The anti-Marlene Dumas dudes are starting to look more and more like an Artnet circle-jerk. At least Saltz has been consistent, his dislike goes all the way back to 1993 and is actually stated in an article on painting, not a throw-away line in an article on the market like the evaluations of the other three.


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There's a lovely little place, about a 20-minute walk from our house, where I want to visit every day. Sure, I love the craggy rock beaches on Vashon, the deep green forests, the tall beach cliffs overlooking a vast expanse of Puget Sound. I love our home, our little island. (It's not so little, really. We live on an island the same length as Manhattan and two miles wider. There are fewer than 10,000 of us here, however.)
But honestly, one of my favorite places in the whole darned island is the old white wooden building with the long front porch. It smells of just-roasted coffee. Your nose picks it up as you drive by. In October, kid-carved pumpkins line the railings. In the summer, an unmanned cart is stuffed with bouquets of dahlias. You put cash into the slot and take your favorite. Most days, there's a little ice cream business selling fresh pistachio and salted caramel in the old fenced-in porch in back.
Step in. There's an old coffee roaster in the front, with tall tables and well-worn stools. They're almost always filled with people, sipping lattes and herbal tea, talking. In the front window is a table, covered in newspapers. Around it sit a group of old men, talking the day away, arguing about politics. They meet the same time every morning and sit there for hours. (I really think they should have a checker board and a spittoon.) Just off that table is a special metal table that spins slowly. It's where the roasters taste tiny cups of just-brewed coffee to make sure the organic blend from Guatemala tastes as dark and fruity as it says on the label.
The floors are worn wood. The steps leading up to the natural foods store sag a bit in the middle. There are hand-woven purses, Tibetan prayer flags, and crafts with peace symbols emblazoned on them. The chairs in the meeting roof toward the back probably haven't been replaced in 20 years.
In a corner of the front room is the espresso machine, imported directly from Sicily, which makes the best damn latte I've ever sipped. In the entire world. In the refrigerators are fresh salads made with kale and organic basmati rice, red peppers, purple cauliflower, and a creamy lemon vinaigrette. When Danny and Lucy went for a lunch date there the other day, that's what Lucy picked for lunch.
Along the shelves are raw vegan sesame bars. Gluten-free cookies, gluten-free vegan cookies, gluten-free vegan raw cookies. Blue corn tortilla chips. Carob chips. Dairy-free cheese. Our favorite ginger beer. Roasted tofu sticks. Indian red lentil wraps. Cashew milk shakes. Seaweed snacks galore.
In the back room is the haven of local produce tiny delicata squash, bouquets of rainbow chard, small heirloom apples and everything a natural foods lover could want. Raw milk. Coconut sugar. Avocado oil. Organic bison meat. Gluten-free pasta from Italy. Hemp hearts. Red rice from Bhutan. Steel cut oats. Local free-range eggs. Raw cacao beans. Organic macadamia nuts. Wild Alaskan salmon. Any kind of gluten-free flour my heart desires.
And along the walls are apothecary shelves filled with fish oil, vitamins, restorative elixirs, and any kind of supplement your nutritionist might prescribe.
I love Minglement with all my heart. It is the heart of this island for me.
For years, Danny and I felt obligated to use ingredients available at any grocery store when we created recipes for this site. We bought the standard butter instead of the organic cultured pastured butter that costs a couple of bucks more. We knew that most people don't have access to the wacky set of ingredients we do at Minglement (and throughout the Seattle area, really), and so we refrained from creating recipes with raw buckwheat groats and sweet potato flour from Peru or tiny pasture-raised chickens that rarely weigh above three pounds and taste intensely more chicken-y than the bloated ones from the grocery store.
Now, however, I have to tell you, we're done with that. The foods at Minglement? This is how we eat. This is the food we're cooking and sharing here these days.
(As Danny likes to say, if you don't have a Minglement near you, and we use an ingredient exotic to you, there is a little thing called the internet.)
It was at Minglement that I first encountered kombu, a dried seaweed with plenty of flavor. I bought some, not knowing what to do with it. But I love to do that. I go home and dabble on the internet, finding other people's recipes and ideas. I quickly found through experience that a small strip of kombu nestled in a mess of beans as they cook makes the beans more flavorful and digestible.
Still, I'd never made dashi until I was given Jaden Hair's great new cookbook, Steamy Kitchen's Healthy Asian Favorites: 100 Recipes That Are Fast, Fresh, and Simple Enough for Tonight's Supper. Jaden is a whiz at making recipes simple. This new book of hers is a delight, filled with Asian recipes like miso cod, eggs with oyster sauce, and Vietnamese summer rolls with grilled tofu. She has distilled all she knows about Asian food into a cookbook created to get people cooking. She uses ingredients available at most grocery stores, with a few from Asian specialty stores thrown in. Everything feels fresh. And most of it is gluten-free. How could we not love it?
Jaden's recipe for dashi made me finally grab a bag of bonito flakes, another formerly unfamiliar food I had been meaning to try. Most miso soups in restaurants contain gluten, either because of the brand of miso used or the soy sauce added. I had missed this light yet hearty soup. I've been sipping some for breakfast for weeks. Jaden taught us how to make it.
Thanks to Jaden, we'll be going to Minglement even more often now. And for that, I'm especially grateful.
Dashi, reprinted with permission from Steamy Kitchen's Healthy Asian Favorites: 100 Recipes That Are Fast, Fresh, and Simple Enough for Tonight's Supper, by Jaden Hair, copyright © 2013. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
The basis of many Japanese dishes is the dashi, which is made from dried seaweed (kombu) and dried bonito fish flakes.
5 cups water
6 (8-inch) piece of kombu
2 large handfuls dried bonito flakes (about 3 cups)
Gently wipe the kombu with a damp towel to clean (do not rinse). In a large stockpot, add the water and the kombu, bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low and stir in the bonito flakes. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes. Strain the stock. Discard the bonito but keep the kombu. (You can reuse several times.)
Makes 5 cups.
Miso soup with tofu and kale, adapted from Steamy Kitchen's Healthy Asian Favorites: 100 Recipes That Are Fast, Fresh, and Simple Enough for Tonight's Supper
5 cups prepared dashi
4 tablespoons miso paste (we use South River Organic )
8 ounces firm tofu
1//2 bunch lacinato kale, leaves cut into thin chiffonade
1/2 bunch scallions, thinly sliced
Set a small pot on medium heat. Pour in the dashi. When the dashi comes to a constant simmer, whisk in the miso paste. Add the tofu and kale and simmer until they are heated through, about 1 minute. Pour the soup into 4 bowls and top with the sliced scallions.
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A great deal of talk that goes on about Taiwan involves a degree of self-deception, which, while being convenient, prevents decisionmakers from seeing reality and fleshing out policies to secure the nation's future. This was made all too clear at a conference in Taipei yesterday, where academics and officials from Taiwan, the US and Japan discussed the trilateral dialogue, with a strong emphasis on regional trade and integration.
From the presentations given by several panelists, one would conclude that Taiwan's participation in East Asian economic integration is almost a fait accompli, thanks in part to the more stable relations across the Taiwan Strait and the signing in June 2010 of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA).
National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General John Deng (鄧振中) conceded during a keynote speech that there had been political "bumps in the road" between Taipei and Beijing and he also vaunted the virtues of the ECFA and other agreements signed between the two sides under President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), adding that economic relations remained strong.
Clearly, under Deng's interpretation of the relationship with China, economics and politics are two distinct phenomena, with the latter having no influence on the former. One can only remain so optimistic through a conscious decision to ignore reality. As former NSC secretary-general Su Chi (蘇起) admitted at a different setting last week, the ECFA was not purely economics and had –– surprise, surprise –– political ramifications. And those politics are part of Beijing's concerted efforts to pull Taiwan ever closer within its sphere of influence so as to make ultimate "reunification" unavoidable.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Mark Chen (陳唐山), who spoke first in the morning session, was right on the mark when he said that while economic integration is the future, Taiwan must approach the matter with caution given the unique situation it faces vis-a-vis China. Given this situation, Taiwanese negotiators must be aware that Taiwan's efforts to participate in regional trade blocs will not occur in an apolitical vacuum, but rather in an environment where China, more than ever, exerts tremendous political influence which could be directly correlated with Taiwan's stalled growth and industrial development. The Taiwan "miracle," in fact, occurred at a time when China was comparatively much weaker. Now the "little dragon" is suffering and it needs to find a way out of its cage.
Though undoubtedly well-intentioned, most panelists, either out of lack of understating of Taiwan's precarious position or a desire not to confront reality, focused on the nuts and bolts of multilateral free-trade agreements; the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), supply-chain security, cyberthreats and so on. While those topics are indeed important and of interest, they are ultimately meaningless when it comes to addressing the challenges ahead for Taiwan.
Most of the speakers spoke as if Taiwan were not facing an irredentist threat or the very high likelihood that Beijing will sabotage any effort by Taiwan to sign a major trade deal with an economic partner, let alone join a multilateral organization such as the TPP, which currently excludes China. One could counter that Taiwan was able to join APEC, but here again, it did so in 1991 when China had yet to "rise."


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On a night more suited for football, Hudson let a golden opportunity opportunity slip through its hands, falling 5-0 to Post 87. Post 100 closed out the Zone 5 season at 14-6.
If you told any team in any sport at any level that it would have one game to determine its playoff fate, chances are that team would welcome the opportunity.
The Hudson Post 100 American Legion baseball team had that scenario Thursday night. Post 100 hosted fellow Zone 5 rival Lowell, with the winner heading to the state sectionals next week while the loser would be left to wonder, "what if?"
On a night more suited for football, Hudson let the opportunity slip through its hands, falling 5-0 to Post 87. Post 100 closed out the Zone 5 season at 14-6.
The record is the best in Hudson's Legion history, but the disappointment of missing a golden opportunity was evident following the loss, especially considering Hudson started 11-0.
"If you had told us in May that we'd be 14-6 at the end of the season, I think everyone here would've taken it," Hudson manager Blair Brisette said. "We probably all would have been tickled pink, and probably thought it was good enough to get to the sectional playoffs. I can't say enough about this group of guys though. We had a lot of veterans who came to play hard every single day that have been here for a while.
"Obviously, we didn't have the end result we wanted but to see them go out with a successful season is a great to see."
Hudson was in the game until the top of the seventh inning. Leading 1-0, however, Lowell plated four runs in the top half of the frame to ultimately end Post 100's playoff hopes.
Hudson starter Austin Bruneau was outstanding despite his final stat line. Bruneau went 6 1/3 innings, giving up five runs on just two hits while striking out one. His biggest downfall on the night was his control, as he walked eight batters.
"I actually felt like I had everything working tonight," said Bruneau. "There were a couple times where I got into trouble and just couldn't find my location but I had some great defense behind me and we were right in this game until the very end. It's definitely a tough loss but I'm proud of the way we battled as a team and gave ourselves this chance."
On the other end, Hudson's lineup was stymied all night. Post 100 could only manage four hits in the game off Lowell starter Nick Godfrey, who went the full seven innings.
"Their guy just shut us down tonight," said Brisette. "He had all his stuff working and we just couldn't string any innings together. You've got to give credit where it's due and he pitched a heck of a game."
With the score knotted at 0-0 and both offenses struggling to find any rhythm, Lowell struck first in the top of the fifth without the benefit of a hit.
Bruneau walked the first batter of the inning, then a failed fielder's choice and hit batter loaded the bases. Richard Gray then drew a walk for the game's first run before Bruneau got a groundout to third to get out of the inning.
Unfortunately, Godfrey was just better on this night, shutting down Hudson until Gray drew another bases loaded walk in the seventh off reliever John Rumney to make it 2-0. Two batters later with the bases loaded, Chris Mansour delivered the final dagger in the form of a three-run double to left field.
"Overall, I thought we had a great year," said Hudson catcher Steven Rivela. "Tonight was just a rough night at the plate for everyone, but 14-6 is nothing to sneeze at and I'm definitely proud of the way we came to play each and every night this season."


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Jun 29,2006
Metolius River: Great Hiking And Fishing
by Scott Staats
Here's the dilemma: you want to hike and you want to fish, but many of the area's rivers are flowing high and many of the trails in the high country are still muddy or under snow. What do you do?
The answer is the Metolius River.
The natural beauty and the geologic history keep drawing me back to the Metolius. My favorite hike is from Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery up to Canyon Creek, a five-mile roundtrip. Before starting the hike, be sure to stop in at the Head of the Metolius to view the birth of this river. Most rivers usually have their beginnings from small springs that turn into small streams that turn into larger streams and finally form a river, but the Metolius skips that process and boils out of the ground into a full blown river.
The entire Metolius River basin was formed from past earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and glaciation. About 5 million years ago, the basin didn't exist; the land was at the same elevation as the top of Green ridge, which now rises abruptly nearly 2,000 feet above the valley floor.
Then about one and a half million years ago, Black Butte erupted and backed up water from old stream channels it now sits atop, creating the swampy area south of Black Butte. The water seeps through the porous rock under the butte and emerges again at Metolius Springs. The Metolius River is considered one of the nation's largest spring-fed rivers.
Metolius River at the Hatchery. Photo by Scott StaatsAfter visiting the springs, drive seven miles down the road to Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery. Bring a pocket full of quarters for the fish food and watch the trout feed like a bunch of voracious piranhas. Built in 1947, the hatchery raises six species of fish and hatches up to 5 million eggs each year.
The Atlantic salmon raised on site are direct descendents of nation's first successful hatchery rearing of this species. The original eggs came from Quebec in 1950. These landlocked salmon are stocked mid-summer into Hosmer and East lakes.
For those interested in a hike, the trail begins at the hatchery parking lot and heads upriver, passing through old growth Douglas fir, ponderosa pine and cedar. Osprey nests can be seen in the tops of snags along the river. Canada geese and dippers are the most common sight on rocks and islands. Bald eagles and a variety of songbirds can also be seen darting in and out of the riverside vegetation.
About a quarter mile before reaching Lower Canyon Creek Campground, a series of large springs flow into the river from the opposite bank. These springs drain the western slopes of Green Ridge. It's easy to see why parts of the Metolius are managed under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
This section of the Metolius River Canyon remains fairly natural and wild. Where the river drops over bedrock shelves, the water takes on blue and green colors, while the many rapids add some white to the scene.
A lot of small islands can be seen in this section of river. They appear to be formed from past logjams that catch sediment and other debris until plants take hold. Look close in the crystal clear water and you can see kokanee, rainbow trout or even some of the larger bull trout in the river this time of year.
From the springs, it's a short walk up to the confluence of Canyon Creek and the campground. The river is very deep and narrow just below where the creek empties in and I can just picture Native Americans standing there on the boulders hundreds of years ago spearing or netting salmon.
Another hiking option is to walk downriver from the hatchery to Lower Bridge. It's possible to walk down one side of the river and back the other, making a 6-mile loop. The trail skirts some private property about halfway down on both sides of the river, but overall it is a beautiful, tranquil stretch. The river is slower here compared with the upstream section and hosts more waterfowl such as mergansers and goldeneyes.
Fly-fishermen at the springs near Canyon Creek. Photo: Scott StaatsJust as anglers today fish the river for fun (fishing is catch and release only), Native Americans fished the river in the past for salmon, steelhead and other species. The Indian word for the river was Mpto-ly-as, meaning white fish or stinking fish. This probably relates to spawned out salmon that get a white fungus on them before dying.
"The natural beauty of Metolius makes it such a great angling experience," said Jeff Perin, owner of The Fly Fisher's Place in Sisters.
Perin offers these tips to fly anglers on the Metolius: use light tippets and long leaders, study the hatches or ask local fly shops. He also suggests using emergers and cripple patterns, something in transition. Photos in his shop of 26-inch redband and a 32-inch, 15-pound bull trout are enough to get any angler excited to grab their fly rod. Perin notes that the Metolius River is challenging for both the novice and the expert.
Besides redbands, bull trout, and whitefish, the river also supports populations of kokanee, brown and brook trout. Kokanee come up the river from Lake Billy Chinook the end of August through the end of October to spawn. Angling is restricted to catch and release for all fish.
Getting there: Go west from Sisters on Hwy 20 for 10 miles, turn right at sign for Camp Sherman on Forest Service Road 14. In a few miles, follow the signs to "Head of the Metolius." Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery is another 7 miles on the left.


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Ark. gov race to test Southern Dems
Twenty years ago, the notion of a Republican-controlled Arkansas was unthinkable. But as the state readies for 2014's hotly contested governor's race, Republicans have a shot at cementing their newfound dominance in the longtime southern Democratic stronghold.
With the campaign, Democrats are being forced to confront a tough question: Can they still win in the South?
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The answer will come down to whether former Rep. Mike Ross, the Democratic establishment's gubernatorial candidate of choice, will be able to carve out his own brand as an Arkansas Democrat, or whether disaffection with the national party will be too strong for him to beat out former Rep. Asa Hutchinson, the Republican front-runner, and stem the tide of growing conservatism.
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The state that twice elected Bill Clinton to the presidency now has an all-Republican House delegation, the first in well over a century, and Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor is neck and neck in the polls in a marquee Senate race against Republican Rep. Tom Cotton.
January 2013 marked the first time Republicans controlled the state Legislature since 1874. If Ross loses next year, Republicans could yet again make history — they have not held both the governorship and the Legislature since that same year.
Bucking the trend is term-limited Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, who enjoys one of the highest job approval ratings of Democratic governors in the country. He also swept every county in the state in his 2010 reelection, even as voters ousted incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln.
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However, the state's political landscape now suggests that Beebe is the exception, not the rule.
"It's not like it used to be," former Democratic Sen. Dale Bumpers said of Arkansas. "Republicans control politics in the state."
Set against the rest of the South, the strength of the Republican Party in Arkansas would seem unremarkable. Yet Arkansas was always the place where Democrats — Clinton, Bumpers and Beebe chief among them — could thrive in the South.
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Politicians and strategists attributed Arkansas's unique identity to its hefty independent voter base and small size, which has facilitated the kind of retail politics that allows Democrats to create a statewide persona that stands apart from the national party.
"Arkansas has certainly a unique brand of populism, a deeper Democratic culture historically than some of the other Southern states, and so the transition to the Republican Party has been slower," Hutchinson said.
"I do think in smaller states, rural states, it becomes more of a personal connection that the voter has with the candidates, more so than what they see or hear on TV," added Arkansas Democratic strategist Robert McLarty.
Hutchinson, 62, served two terms in Congress and then was tapped by President George W. Bush in 2001 to head the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. He previously served as chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. This will be his fourth bid for statewide office; he lost elections for senator in 1986, Arkansas attorney general in 1990 and governor in 2006.
Arkansas does not require voters to register party affiliation — and the vast majority of voters do not do so — but polls show the state is roughly evenly divided between Democrats, Republicans and independents. However, the percentage of very likely independent voters who identify as leaning Republican has shot up 15 percentage points in the last decade to 46 percent, according to a 2012 University of Arkansas poll.
Strategists attributed the change to a strong dislike for Obama and his policies.
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"The detrimental effects of Obama's liberal policies and Obamacare ignited conservatives," said Republican political operative Alice Stewart, who previously served as former Gov. Mike Huckabee's press secretary.
Obama has never been popular in Arkansas, and his approval rating there has, if anything, only gotten worse. According to an internal GOP poll out two weeks ago, 59 percent of likely voters in Arkansas view Obama unfavorably.
If any Democrat can win in this political climate, it's Ross, strategists said.


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