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Skip to comments.Why Obama couldn't answer Warren's baby question
Posted on 08/20/2008 2:11:44 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Barack Obama has painted himself into a corner by his vote against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
He made this evident at Pastor Rick Warren's Aug. 17 Saddleback Showdown.
Warren asked both presidential candidates the same questions separately. Here was his best one: "At what point does a baby get human rights in your view?"
Very simple. But Obama wouldn't answer it. His now infamous response: "Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."
The most adamant pro-abort will at least agree babies acquire human rights when they have completely delivered.
But Barack Obama couldn't bring himself to say, "At birth." He wouldn't confer human rights to newborns.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Dead Babies
Is there any evidence that Obama has a brain? Whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question is above my pay grade.
"Thoughtful" and 'forcefully intellectual' Obama apparently can't forcefully remember his own voting record. He recently got rated the most left-wing member in the U.S. Senate but he was also the most pro-abortion/pro-infanticide member of the Illinois Senate.
As I wrote back in March, Obama:
-- Racked up a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, as all "moderates" do.
-- Voted against limits on government funding of abortion and voted to get Illinois to endorse embryonic stem cell "research".
-- Voted against requiring medical care for babies who survive an abortion because he doesn't think the baby is a baby and saving a dying baby would interfere with a "woman's right to choose" and that it's not infanticide. Bringing America together, that Obama.
Mustering his best argument for abortion, Obama told Pastor Rick Warren that he doesn't know when a baby becomes human because, "whether you're looking at it from a theological or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade," which means he leaves it to a higher authority to answer that -- Michelle. Yes, by all means, let's make this guy commander-in-chief! (Barack, not Michelle, that is.)
Obama quickly added that "the goal right now should be -- and this is where I think we can find common ground . . . is how do we reduce the number of abortions? The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down." According to Obama, since there were 1.31 million abortions performed in 2000, but 1.21 million in 2005, this means abortions had gone up! The latest published data (collected by the Guttmacher Institute) shows that the number of abortions had dropped every year during the period 2001 through 20005 (the latest year available). The total number of abortions performed in 2005 was 8 percent lower than in 2000. Among women aged 15 through 44, abortions were down 9 percent in 2005 compared to 2000.
Guttmacher bases its finding on a survey of all abortion providers in America. Obama bases his finding on a speech he gave in 2002.
In 2007, Obama promised pro-abortion groups that, as president, the very first bill he would sign is the "Freedom of Choice Act," which would eliminate all restrictions on abortion, at all levels of government. This must be Obama's plan to lower the number of abortions.
Obama spent the weekend running around accusing pro-life groups of doing what he does habitually -- lying. He told CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) in an interview Saturday that the National Right to Life group was "lying" when they point out that a state anti-infanticide bill (which he voted against) mirrored exactly the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which he falsely claims he would have voted for.
The federal bill -- after a 'Roe-neutral clause' was added -- passed without a single 'no' vote in both chambers and was signed into law in 2002, which records show was right around the time Obama finished Kindergarten. But, according to documents uncovered by the National Right to Life group, the state bill Obama voted to kill in his committee had exactly the same "neutrality clause" ("Senate Amendment No. 1") which Obama had been falsely claiming it lacked and that that was the reason he voted against it.
For four years, the Obamatrons had been claiming it's a lie and a smear to say that the state bill (BAIPA) that he voted against was identical to the federal bill -- then The Documents came to light. Just like liberals and Saddam claiming Iraq had no ties to terrorists, then captured documents come to light showing the opposite. What is it with these Husseins?
Obama apparently loves abortions so much, he's performing one on his own campaign. Realclearpolitics.com now shows McCain on top in the Electoral College, 274-264, leaning states included, even before the Saddleback effect fully kicks in. Up until recently, Obama was in the 300s. Right around this time in 2004, Kerry was ahead, 317-202 (H/t: Sean Hannity). Brand new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows Obama's 12-point lead in June evaporating to a dead-heat currently.
If you're looking to pinpoint the moment Dukakis lost the '88 election, his botched answer to the death penalty question during the debates was it. Asked if his wife were raped and murdered, would he favor an irrevocable death penalty against the perp, a technocratic 'no, I wouldn't' was the best he could serve up. (He was obviously trying to shake away his chilly, technocratic image.) Put the same 'when does a baby get human rights' question to Dukakis, and it would be the same, 'sorry, ol' boy, can't answer, above my pay grade' pap that Obama offered up. The only difference being that, after giving his meandering answer, Obama's braincell was hurting.
Whether it's dead babies or what to do with Kitty Dukakis's hypothetical killer, libbies vault to the top as the least qualified to handle the moral clarity stuff. Which is why Dukakis II is going down in November, too.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
Unfortunately not accurate. The true feminazis just think of it as a failed medical procedures that needs to be corrected.
Which is entirely logical. What, after all, is the real difference between a baby that is 80% born and has a partial-birth procedures performed on her, and one that is 100% born and then stuck in a closet to slowly die?
It is, however, interesting that apparently few or none even among abortionists have the moral courage to put the baby to sleep to end her suffering as we would for a dog in pain. In fact, someone who did this to a puppy would face serious jail time. Only legal when performed on human babies.
Apparently humans we're killing must die in the most painful and drawn-out way possible so we can pretend we aren't really killing them. Teri Schiavo being a case in point.
Maybe now the Big O will throw himself under the bus.
"This is not the Barack Obama I knew."
If Obama can not answer that question because "it is above his pay grade" then he has no business being a senator and voting for ANYTHING!
A package of Born Alive bills was introduced three times during Obama's tenure.
The cornerstone bill was the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which defined legal personhood. This definition was identical to the federal BAIPA (1) which was drafted from the definition of "live birth" created by the World Health Organization in 1950 (2) and adopted by the United Nations in 1955 (3)....
Here I will only post links to Obama's actions and votes on the cornerstone bill, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. The bill number changed every year it was reintroduced.
Senate Bill 1095 (4), Born Alive Infant Protection Act
Go here to view Obama's "no" vote (5) in the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 28, 2001.
Transcript of Obama's verbal opposition to Born Alive on the IL Senate floor (6), March 30, 2001, pages 84-90
Obama's verbal oppostion to Born alive, (7) "And if were placing a burden on the doctor that says you have to keep alive even a previable child as long as possible and give them as much medical attention as as is necessary to keep that child alive, then were probably crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality." March 30, 2001
Obama's "present" vote on the IL Senate floor ( 8 ), March 30, 2001
Senate Bill 1662 ( 9 ), Born Alive Infant Protection Act
Go here to view Obama's "no" vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee (10) on March 6, 2002. (ABC inadvertently coped bill #1663, a companion bill. The vote for the Born Alive bill, #1662, was identical.)
Transcript of Obama's verbal opposition to Born Alive on the IL Senate floor (11), April 4, 2002, pages 28-35
Obama's "no" vote on the IL Senate floor (12), April 4, 2002
Senate Bill 1082 (13), Born Alive Infant Protection Act
Democrats took control of the IL Senate with the 2002 elections. They sent Born Alive to the infamously liberal Health & Human Services Committee, chaired by Barack Obama (14).
As can be seen on the Actions docket (15), Obama held Born Alive on March 6, 2003, from even being voted on in committee. It is also important to note from the docket that on March 13, 2003, Obama stopped the senate sponsor from adding the lately discussed clarification paragraph (16) from the federal BAIPA, to make the bills absolutely identical.
1. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h107-2175
2. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/indunder5mortality/en/
3. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/natality/natmethods.htm
4. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet92/status/920SB1095.html
5. http://www.jillstanek.com/Senate_Committee_Vote_32701.pdf
6. http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf
7. http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf
8. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/srollcalls92/920SB1095_03302001_030000T.PDF
9. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet92/status/920SB1662.html
10. http://www.jillstanek.com/Senate_Committee_Vote_3502.pdf
11. http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST040402.pdf
12. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/srollcalls92/920SB1662_04042002_014000T.pdf
13. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1082&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=3910&SessionID=3&GA=93
14. http://www.ilga.gov/senate/committees/members.asp?GA=93&committeeID=85
15. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1082&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=3910&SessionID=3&GA=93
16. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09300SB1082sam001&GA=93&SessionId=3&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=3910&DocNum=1082&GAID=3&Session=
Jill Stanek: "Barack Obama has painted himself into a corner by his vote against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act.... But Barack Obama couldn't bring himself to say, "At birth." He wouldn't confer human rights to newborns."
If you went back only a few months things looked very dire for Republicans and the conservative movement. Fred Thompson was out. The Iraq War and Bush-Cheney had very high negatives, were very unpopular. It looked like this was an easy year for the Democrats. Obama has changed all of that. He has turned out to be an appalling candidate.
Obama may be the best thing for the conservative movement in a long time. His campaign has provided hilarious gaffes and fodder for Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. He should be on Rush's payroll. You have to go back to Joycelyn Elders for gaffes like this.
Obama's abortion gaffe in the Saddleback Civil Forum may be a turning point in this election. He said this on national television and that clip should be replayed over and over again. Obama has become his own one-man OPERATION CHAOS He is quickly becoming the Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, and Michael Dukakis of 2008 which must be driving liberals nuts.
They went so bananas over McCain's superior performance in the Civil Forum they got obsessed on this idea he must have broken "the Cone of Silence" and cheated. It's like they're in a wacky episode of Get Smart. Obama lost the debate and they want to blame McCain.
And now Bill and Hillary will be back for two nights at the convention. With even Michelle giving a speech, providing an opportunity for more gaffes. They'll wish they had kept her muzzled in "the Cone of Silence." Someone needs to illustrate a gaffe chart for this campaign. Like the ones Frank Luntz uses for focus group approval and disapproval of candidates' answers in debates. How many points did Obama drop in the polls for the Berlin speech, the "bitter" comment about "clinging to guns and religion," and the Civil Forum?
Apparently the Supreme Court is of the proper pay-grade.
Thanks for posting this.
One lecturer related his experience after showing, with the SLED argument, that there is no difference between a newborn and a "fetus" as far as humanity goes.
Afterwards, a couple of feminists came up to him and said "You convinced us, we've changed our minds".
He said, "oh, now you understand why abortion is wrong?"
They said, "no, we're now pro-infanticide."
NObama had to answer with a non-answer. If he answers 'at conception' he loses the pro-choice support. If he says 'at birth' he has to face his record.
Since he basically said..."I don't know' shows he has little in the way of convictions, and will sway which ever way the wind blows.
The Dhims really want him as leader of the Free World?
Barack Obama could not tell the audience and America "when life begins" because that puts the argument of abortion into a moral delima.
While they can still NOT focus on whether it is a human being, they can look at the "bigger picture" of what happens after the baby/babies are born.
So they couch it in arguments of "a quality life" meaning everything from no birth defects (or POSSIBLY detected defects) to being a "wanted" child (some parents even "want" a child of one sex over another, "didn't meet the chromosome test" I guess).
The father is on the hook for child support from conception up to the time the child turns 18 whether he wants the baby or not. The mother can shirk her own obligations to that child at any point and the father has no legal claim to the child. It is considered an "undue burden" to ask that she carry a child for 9 months but not to have a man carry the child and mother for 18 years.
We were told that the goal is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
Legal we have although some back alley clinics still operate (why is this). It is so legal that unlike a process like ear piercing (or navel piercing) or a trip to the dentist, a minor can obtain an abortion without parental consent.
Safe we don't have as girls and women still die of internal hemoraging from abortions at licensed clinics. Has to be quite a shock to the parents when their daughters are dying from a botched abortion. What has the body count been on women who've died of botched abortions SINCE Roe v. Wade?
And 50 million abortions in America doesn't sound "rare" to me. Neither does Whoopi Goldberg's admitted "6 or 7" abortions.
Professor Singer doesn't agree.
It has never been a "Free World" that they want him to lead.
I believe I understand why Obama failed so miserably at the Rick Warren Forum. And the Mainstream Media continues to try to defend Obama with all sorts of stupid commentary.
But, the real reason I believe he failed is that Obama is listening to the leadership in the Mainline Protestant churches for advice on how to win over the conservative church goers.
As you well know, three years ago the leaders of the Mainline Protestant churches (Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, and UCC) made a pact with the devil, so to speak, when they aligned themselves with Senator Harry Reid. The groups mission was to get more church goers to vote for Democrats.
Well, Harry Reid and the other Democrats forgot one important fact.
Namely, the church goers do not listen to what leadership in the Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, and UCC churches have to say. Instead, many of the churchgoers in those denominations are leaving for greener fields.
Thus, I can envision Obama being prepared for the Saturday Night Massacre and the Mainline Protestant church leaders are telling Obamabe sure to point out we are a big tent country, be sure to never say Jesus is the only way to salvation, etc etc.
Shes already saved many babies, but now she will be one of the most important witnesses against Obama and will help save generations from his Marxist presidency. She's a true American hero.
Lets pray for Jill.
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I think the George Soros group that wants to take down America has been looking to hand pick a servant president since Klinton left office. Barack has been their man. Hes a sponge for Marist ideology and doesnt think for himself. Hes pliable and will take orders. He was to be their puppet president. Soros should have spent some money for Barry to go to debate classes. Without his TelePrompter hes a fish out of water.
Pastor Warrens forum exposed Barry for the shallow idiot that he is. Rush did his usual excellent job pointing that out on Mondays excursion.
The presiedential run of Barry Soetoro proves there is only and emptiness at the heart of the once great democrat party.
Then Pouty Pootie Putin comes along threatening Poland from his position inside the invaded Georgia of the old Soviet Union and exposes yet another dangerous vacuousness in Barry which would cause Barry to fold up like a cheap suit placed in soft-sider luggage and tossed into the hold of a jumbo jet!
If the GOP doesn't exploit this emtiness gaping at the American people over issues such as drilling for our own resources instead of pouring our treasure out of the country to enemies and socialist governments, then the dead democrat party will have a death grip of 60 plus on the Senate and an overwhelming majority in the House. And folks, that sort of rule by the deadness Democrats will be much worse reality than any movie on the day of the living dead! Even Ronaldus Magnus couldn't defeat such a soulless enemy within the confines of America.
The handlers for Barry Soetoro Obama programmed him to recite the reference to Matthew 25:40 at Rick Warren's interview. But they glaringly didn't have a clue what Jesus was teaching else they would have chosen some passage that wouldn't point so dramatically to the democrat satanic assault on the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Given Barry's defense of the killing-by-neglect history with his opposition to born alive infants protection bills, how stupid can Barry's handlers be? Barry's ignorant reference renewed emphasis of the alive children being slaughtered in the rites demcorats have used for their empowerment for decades now--at the democrat's willing sacrifice of more than 40,000,000 alive unborn as bloody sacrifice to democrat power with dumbed down voters.
Ghastly doesn't even begin to cover this evil rising in our midst. But we should welcome it because it could ultimately drive a stake through the heart of this now demonically possessed political party. And if anyone doubts demons run that party, listen to Nancy Pelicanosi worshipfully utter that God has blessed US with the rise of thsi Marxist Obama! Then listen to Barry proclaim that allowing the life of the survivors of abortion attempts to be protected by Illinois law would invoke the 14th Amendment and thus be 'anti-abortion'! Democrats are the abortion murder party.
BTW, it is so darn nice to see a John Huang2 thread again!
Have they made a Soros-as-Obama puppet yet?
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Google's Schmidt Urges Web Freedom for North Korea
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says he advised North Korea to open Internet access to help to improve its economy during a visit to the isolated country. The WSJ's Brian Spegele tells us what the Google executive may want from the nation.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — A Washington State University faculty member was hospitalized yesterday after he was found beaten near the school's campus over the weekend. Pullman Police say officers found 41-year-old David Warner unconscious with a serious head injury around 2 a.m. Saturday. Police say Warner was accompanied by a 31-year-old male friend but it's unclear what led to the assault.


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@ Demi and Senpai - Appearance factors in as well. Ichika looks like he's old enough to get together with them An older person who looks like a shota midget? Not so much.
@ Senpai - If you don't know someone's birthday, is it accurate enough to just add a year to their age when January 1 hits?
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I dunno, different people use different standard, I myself could be said as 20, despite technically being 19 years 4 months.
But in Japan, I believe for someone's age to be rounder is about 10 months odd. So, 15 years and 10 months is considered 16 and can get moped license.
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@eras: They have a chance at turning Ichika into a love slave
Unless they repent BIG TIME! then no chance of proper relationship. Though they do draw out the darker side of Ichika so we may see a lot of foeyay tension or something. (Hate and love are only two side of the same coin) > : )
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Carl Klingberg is a load – 6'3" 205 and only 20 years old. Scouts love numbers like that when you combine them with skill. Factor in that he has 21 points in 24 games in the AHL so far this season and now you have something to work with. Fortunately for Winnipeg they already have Blake Wheeler on the pro roster so they can move slow with Klingberg which is good news considering the numbers he posted in his recent call up. That being said this is Klingberg's first pro season in North America after last season abbreviated run with Chicago in the AHL for only 8 games and making his NHL debut in what would be the Thrashers last ever game vs. Pittsburgh on April 10, 2011.
Klingberg has represented Sweden three times internationally, once in the U18's and twice in the WJC. Last year in Buffalo Klingberg scored 3 goals and added 1 assist in 6 games where Sweden finished 4th, losing the bronze medal game to the host USA team. The highlight of the tournament for Sweden was beating Canada in a shoot out on New Year's Eve, which is one of the most anticipated games of the round robin portion. It was also Klingberg's best game of the tournament, scoring two goals to lead his team. No doubt his size helped him against a more physical team and a smaller ice surface than his team was used to.
Klingberg was drafted in the 2009 entry draft in the second round by Atlanta, 34th overall. That was the year that they selected Evander Kane 4th overall so if Klingberg manages to become an impact player, that draft will get a good grade even if no other player emerges. Other notable players picked around Klingberg were Carter Ashton who was selected 29th overall; Landon Ferraro at 32; Ryan O'Reilly at 33 who in now in his 3rd season in the NHL; and fellow Swede Anton Lander at 40 who made the NHL this season but has enjoyed minimal success so far. In fact, there were 12 Swedes taken in the first two rounds, which equates to an excellent draft class for that country.
Klingberg has become an impact AHL player in his rookie year on a team that is currently challenging for first in its division. That is no small feat for the player and the team considering all the change this summer that the organization enjoyed at every level. In fact, the St. John's IceCaps have the best winning percentage in the Eastern Conference, which is a remarkable achievement at the midway point of the season. Klingberg currently sits tied for 11th in rookie scoring but has played fewer games than any player ahead of him because of the NHL time he spent in Winnipeg.
Brian Rogers who is the voice of the IceCaps in St. John's was on the Pipeline Show on November 22nd and offered this regarding Klingberg:
"He's got NHL stamped in his future but it may take a year. I like the way he plays without the puck; he's hard on the back check, good on the fore check. He has good hands, will take a hit to make the play, he uses his size well."
(Courtesy of thepipelineshow.com)
Prior to being drafted in 2009, the NHL European Scouting Service had this to say about Klingberg:
"He has explosive acceleration and is strong on his skates – he is hard to hold off when he's driving the net. He works hard down low in the zone and is courageous enough to go into tight battles."
The Sports Forecaster in July 2011 rated him a "Sure-Fire NHLer" and offered this profile:
"With versatility on the wing, good NHL size and sound hockey sense, Klingberg can become a solid two-way hockey player at the highest level."
Carl Klingberg is without a doubt the top winger in the Jets organization who is not in the NHL. There is no need to rush him because they already have duplicated skill set on the parent team and recently added more with the arrival of Antti Miettinen of waivers (which actually precipitated the move to send Klingberg back to the minors) and the summer addition of Eric Fehr from Washington. Winnipeg already has the luxury of several large wingers who play a two-way game and Klingberg when ready fits that description perfectly. The one weakness they do have is a lack of snipers once you exclude Kane. Klingberg is not going to erase that issue. Expect him to be a full time player by the beginning of next season or at the latest, the All-Star break


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nicolasrobert needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 448 designs submitted by 100 freelance designers.
6mots.com is a website that will be launched in May 2010 in France.
It is inspired by Hemingway's "six words game". Hemingway was once challenged to write a novel in six words. He is said to have considered the result ("for sale: baby shoes, never worn") as the best story he ever wrote.
( see other examples here : http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/…words.html )
Just like Hemingway, 6mots.com will allow anyone to post stories of their life in just six words.Visitors will then be able to rate stories, and follow the best story writers.
A creative audience who likes books, readings, poetry, or just fun stories.
They can be of any age, from teenagers, to seniors, or any gender.
They are well educated. Most of them are graduates from college or post-grad schools. Many of them are teachers, professors, students.
The website is in French so the audience will be a French speaking audience.
Design a logo that will be displayed in the top left corner of this mock-up page : http://www.sixmots.com/sixmots/Accueil.html
(It will replace the current logo on this page).
The logo must include the following words :
"6mots" (which means "6words") or "Six mots" (means six words)
"micro-histoires" as a subtitle (which means "micro-stories")
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RIGHT SPELLING OF THE SUBTITLE IS INDEED "MICRO-HISTOIRES" WITH THE I COMING BEFORE THE R, AND NOT AFTER. "MICRO-HISTORIES" IS NOT CORRECT. thanks
The logo should reflect the website positioning attributes (ranked by orer of importance) :
1) creativity (writing stories, reading stories)
2) community (following best writers, importing facebook friends)
3) fun/game (writers get points when publishing stories...)
The final result must be delivered as a PSD-file with layers included.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS 2/27/10 9am
Don't hesitate to make the logo much more lively than the mock-up website itself.
The website has been built to be invisible to the user so that only the stories stand out. It is mainly text and white / brown as you can see.
The logo however should reflect fun / inspiration etc. It may be appropriate to adopt colors other than the website's brown. (Of course, with colors compatible with that brown so that the website fits well in the pages).
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS 2/27/10 1pm
I see some great proposals coming up. A few additional tips, based on what I've received so far :
- be careful when designing the logo that it does not look like the "motel 6" logo (http://www.motel6.com/?WT.srch=1) - 6 mots and motel 6, although they have nothing in common, are similar text strings.
- Also, be careful that it does not look like the French TV Channel M6 : http://www.m6.fr/
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At the Sheridan Wood Bat Tournament, Benton Jr. Legion Sport Shop lost three games, including the final game 15-3 to Little Rock Blue Post.
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Matt Mitchell pitched six innings, allowing six hits with three strikeouts and four walks.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Despite only having athletes entered in three events, the Yale men's outdoor track and field team put on quite a show on day one of the Larry Ellis Invitational, hosted by Princeton. The annual meet pits the Bulldogs against their Ivy League rivals, as well as a massive field of schools from the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic. The Elis will be competing in a majority of their events tomorrow, when they will seek to build on Friday's success.
A total of 30 Bulldogs qualified for this weekend's meet, although some number of these athletes did not compete Friday and will not compete Saturday due to the large number of meets the Elis have competed in over the course of the past week. The Elis that did compete on Friday, however, put on what is possibly one of the team's top showings of the season.
The Bulldogs achieved most of their success in the 1,500-meter run elite heats, where senior Timothy Hillas, senior Sam Kirtner, sophomore John McGowan and junior James Shirvell all represented the Bulldogs exceptionally well. In a massive field of 60 athletes, Shirvell (3:47.63) placed sixth and set a personal record. Remarkably, Shirvell has already broken his personal record in the 1,500-meter run three times this season, running a 3:50.22 at the Tribe Invitational and a 3:49.26 at the Raleigh Relays earlier in the year. Coming into the weekend, the Larry Ellis meet record in the event was 3:45.00, and Shirvell came very close to joining some elite company. Hillas, the Elis' team captain, was the second Bulldog to crack the top 10, finishing ninth. McGowan finished just outside the top ten (13th) but beat his previous personal-best time in the event by 0.3 seconds. Kirtner was the third Bulldog to set a personal record in the 1,500-meters on Friday, surpassing his previous record time by just less than one second. While McGowan and Shirvell had already qualified for the IC4As coming into the meet, Hillas qualified in the 1,500-meters with his time on Friday.
Freshman Duncan Tomlin, meanwhile, refused to let his inexperience show in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, running a 9:27.89—a personal record. Tomlin competed in the event for the first time in his collegiate career last weekend against Harvard and surprisingly placed first in the event. After improving on that time on Friday, Tomlin may have cemented his place as the Bulldogs' ace in the 3,000-meter steeplechase for the remainder of the season.
Another youngster—sophomore Isa Qasim—led the way for the Bulldogs in the 5,000-meter run, finishing in 14:42.54, shattering his previous personal record in the event by nearly 10 seconds. Qasim has been on a bit of a roll as of late, also placing fourth in the 3,000-meter run against Harvard last weekend. Senior Demetri Goutos (14:52.24) was the second Eli to finish, with junior Michael Cunetta (14:56.39) not far behind. Sophomore Matt Nussbaum (15:01.14), freshman Kevin Dooney (15:05.50) and senior Kevin Lunn (15:35.74) also competed for the Bulldogs.
The Elis will continue competition tomorrow around noon. The meet will wrap up by 6:00 p.m., and results will be available on www.yalebulldogs.com. A full schedule of events is available at http://www.goprincetontigers.com/pdf9/1962385.pdf?SPSID=46878&SPID=4268&DB_OEM_ID=10600.
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O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly. In the "Unresolved Problems" segment tonight, once again, a member of the Obama administration, not held accountable for performance.
Kathleen Sebelius -- there she is, Secretary of the HHS, now says she will testify in front of Congress perhaps next week.
Here now, Fox Political Analyst, Charles Krauthammer, whose big, new book, "Things That Matter, Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics," hits the stores tomorrow. We'll get to the book in a moment.
So, Holder on Fast and Furious, Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, Chuck Hagel on military families. And, now, Sebelius on the screw-up of ObamaCare.
This is one secretary after another. None of them are held accountable. None of them.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, that's because their president doesn't hold them accountable.
In fact, it's hard to see when the president ever holds anybody in his administration accountable, particularly himself.
I mean, he is after all Commander-in-Chief. And on none of these has he ever said, "We screwed up." I mean --
O'REILLY: Well, today, he did. I heard that.
KRAUTHAMMER: No. Today, what he did is he tried to sell this thing. He gave this speech in which he said, "The product is great. The price is wonderful. We have a little problem at the checkout counter."
O'REILLY: Yes, but after three and a half years and tens of millions of dollars, we shouldn't have a little problem at the checkout counter.
KRAUTHAMMER: But that's the point. I mean, he's pretending this thing doesn't exist, that it's a glitch.
And that, somehow, it's the Republicans because of all the criticism of this who poisoned the well. The fact is, they had three and a half years.
O'REILLY: That's right.
KRAUTHAMMER: And they completely screwed it up. And the product - - I mean, in some sense, it's saving them because if people were able to get access to the product, they would know that it isn't cheap and it isn't good.
O'REILLY: Well, they're going to know that soon enough, which is why I think that the Republicans, right now, have to stand back a little bit.
KRAUTHAMMER: Exactly.
O'REILLY: Right. Let the thing. We've discussed this.
Now, Kathleen Sebelius, she's going to get worked over by the Republicans next week. They're going to come after her.
And we've had her in our innings with the former governor of Kansas about the late-term abortionist, George Tiller, who was assassinated. Sebelius enabled that man to kill babies for any reason.
And the proof of that is that Tiller's second has lost her medical license in Kansas. She cannot practice anymore because the Kansas authorities found that the whole thing was bogus.
All the reasons they gave. And Sebelius was in on this from day one, to terminate the late-term fetuses.
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She's going to have to do the rope-a-dope, "I don't remember," or this, right.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, first of all, what's striking is her arrogance. The fact that she would refuse to appear in front of Congress.
O'REILLY: This week.
KRAUTHAMMER: This is elementary responsibility.
O'REILLY: Right.
KRAUTHAMMER: Yes, she goes a whole week. I mean, if we hadn't had the shutdown, the big story of the last three weeks would have been why is she still in her job.
It got overshadowed. And that is an issue. I mean she is in charge of this.
And the reason -- some of the reasons that this thing is a disaster are the political decisions she had made. For example, the element in HHS which runs Medicare and Medicaid, the centers for Medicare and Medicaid, appointed themselves the general contractors in charge of the 50, 60, 70 elements in this, which is utterly impossible because the wanted to maintain control.
Normally, you give it to a competent company --
O'REILLY: Outside company insurance who knows how to do this.
KRAUTHAMMER: But the second is this, they delayed writing the regulations until after election day last year in order that they would not present targets for Republican attacks.
O'REILLY: Right.
KRAUTHAMMER: So, for purely partisan reasons --
O'REILLY: For political reasons.
KRAUTHAMMER: -- and they've been writing the regulations and the codes in the spring, absolutely impossible to do. This is a political disaster.
O'REILLY: OK. You've been writing columns for 27 years, all right. And your book, "Things That Matter" are compilation of the columns.
And I have to say that reading Charles Krauthammer's books, it keeps me thinking -- and that's painful for me, so it's, you know, kind of a bittersweet. Because you don't -- you're not a --
KRAUTHAMMER: Because you are a simple man.
O'REILLY: I am. And then you're way too complicated sometimes because you're a psychiatrist. I mean, you're a whole bunch of stuff.
What's the headline. Where do you want to take people. You know, they're going to read a whole bunch of things that you've said about a lot of different topics. What do you want them to take away from the book.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I think one of the major arguments I make in all kinds of different ways is the superiority of limited government over the leviathan state that liberals have been pushing and expanding, in the sense, out of nostalgia, for their achievements in the 20th century.
You know, Social Security, great achievement. Medicare, great achievement. But they haven't recognized that with the change of demographics and the change of the technology in medicine, this is completely unaffordable and we have to reform.
Liberals are essentially reactionary liberals. That's what they stand for. They won't allow a single dot or tittle of a change in anything.
And that is catastrophic. And the other thing I find interesting is that, exactly in the point in history where Europe is showing how this entitlement state is a disaster, --
O'REILLY: Yes, we see it.
KRAUTHAMMER: -- we elect the first social Democratic president, Obama. A man who sees Europe as the model, as the most just society. The man who says openly, he wants to redistribute income, and a level between the classes, exactly as Europe had done.
So, we elect the one man who believes -- I think he's the most left of the presidents, obviously since FDR, probably in American history, exactly at a point when the left experiment of the entitlement state is in collapse. It's ironic and it's disastrous.
O'REILLY: And the Americans bought it. And Americans bought it. That leads me to my last question.
I told Letterman last week that I fear for this country because there's poor leadership. There's nobody that I see that's uniting the country. Do you see the same thing.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I do. And I think, I mean, as I write in the book, there are all these issues on which we had some consensus during the Cold War, when having an enemy helps to cement, particularly among conservatives, --
O'REILLY: Right.
KRAUTHAMMER: -- it held a whole movement together. You take it away, and now, all the fishers are showing. And in the absence of a towering figure like a Reagan, there's nothing to hold us together.
O'REILLY: Not right now. I mean, somebody might emerge. But, right now, it's scattered all over the place.
The book is "Things That Matter." Krauthammer, we appreciate it, Charles. Nice to see you. Good luck with the book. It's going to be a big hit.
KRAUTHAMMER: Thank you very much.
O'REILLY: I predict. And you know my predictions are always correct.
KRAUTHAMMER: I think I'll climb to number two after a certain author --
O'REILLY: Well, God is going to have something to do with that.
KRAUTHAMMER: -- who will remain unnamed.
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The Havelock High baseball team opened the Pitt County Easter Tournament by beating Heritage but then fell to Northern Nash in a second-round contest.
The Havelock High baseball team opened the Pitt County Easter Tournament by beating Heritage but then fell to Northern Nash in a second-round contest.
Against Heritage on Saturday, the Rams scored five runs in the first three innings and rolled to a 9-2 victory.
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Havelock pushed a run across in the bottom of the fourth inning, scored three more in the fifth and two in the sixth to trail 7-6 going into the seventh inning.
The Knights got a run in the top of the seventh, and one last rally by the Rams fell short in the bottom half.
At the plate for Havelock, Lewis was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, while Rossi was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Cooper went 3-for-5 and Austin Coley was 2-for-3 as part of a 13-hit Havelock attack. Provencher and Toler each went 1-for-3 with an RBI, while Blythe and Carpenter collected the other hits for the Rams.
Carpenter and Little scored two runs each, while Cooper added a stolen base.
Toler took the loss on the mound for the Rams, going 3 2/3 innings and surrendering seven runs, six of which were unearned. He struck out five, walked three and gave up three hits.
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The Rams are next scheduled to return to Coastal 3A Conference play against D.H. Conley at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Greenville.


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The Summerskill Green shopping precinct, at Inkersall, Staveley, is plagued by five-inch wide potholes posing danger to customers and affecting potential trade.
Mick Bagshaw, of the Staveley Independents community group said: "We're trying to get someone to take responsibility and fill in the pot holes because children or elderly people could easily hurt themselves and they must be deterring trade for the shops."
Derbyshire County Council indicated the land in question is private, according to Mr Bagshaw, and despite the authority being responsible for highways it told Mr Bagshaw there is no available funding to repair the damage.
Mr Bagshaw added: "The council says it is private land but I'm sure this area was previously improved by the authority with about £20,000 of funding so I feel a precedent was set and it should be done again.
"However, the council says it's private land, it has no record of previous work and even if it agreed to do the work it hasn't got the funding for such a project."
The precinct includes a Spar, Baskets and Bouquets florist, New Image hairdressing salon, a Post Office, Inky Fish and Kebab shop and a VAPE HQ electric cigarettes shop.
The council said the land is privately owned and so the county council is not responsible for maintenance but will contact the owner to urge them to make improvements.


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It's easy to take frets for granted. They're standard equipment on every guitar and don't have the potential "wow" factor of inlays or wood patterns. No wonder many players pay them little mind – until something goes wrong.
These banal bands of metal wire are incredibly important when it comes to playability, attack, tone and other factors. Here are 10 things you need to know about frets:
• How frets work: Actually considering what each part of your guitar does, rather than just accepting its presence, can lead to valuable insights.
Pressing a string against a fret reduces the vibrating length of that string to the distance between the pressure point and the bridge, thereby controlling pitch. On nearly every Western fretted instrument, the distance between frets is a semi-tone of equal temperament, assuring the easy achievement of strong sounding chords and single notes that fit our hemisphere's usual expectations for rhythm sounds and melodies. Understanding the virtues and limitations created by the order of frets opens up the door to ways to escape their constricts, like bending strings, playing slide, using whammy bars, delving into extended technique or trying fretless instruments.
• What they're made of: Frets are typically made of nickel-silver or nickel-steel alloys, or – less often – brass, copper alloy or stainless steel. The harder and more dense the material, with stainless at the top of the scale and soft nickel at the bottom, the brighter and more cutting the notes played on a guitar should sound. Most manufacturers use nickel alloys because the metal is soft and easy to work with. At this point, most guitarists' ears have been developed to the sound of nickel as well, and most guitar buyers have a tendency to balk at the unfamiliar when shopping for instruments.
• How to check frets: The easiest and quickest way to make sure a guitar's frets are in good shape is to look straight down the neck of a guitar, from body to headstock. If the frets are at different heights (improper installation is the culprit here with new guitars) or askew, there are problems. They should look uniform and exhibit as little denting or wear as tolerable.
• Why size matters: Fret width and height affect playability considerably. Fret wire measures at .078 to .110 at the crown, or top, and runs between .035 and .055 high. Taller frets, at .45 and up, tend to make for easier string bending and produce clear notes without much pressure. The latter makes them ideal for high speed playing. The furthest point of that concept is the scalloped fretboard, employed most notably by Yngwie Malmsteen and John McLaughlin, who played a specially designed Gibson J-200 with scalloped frets and drone strings with the group Shakti.
Some fast pickers prefer short frets for quick fingerboard work. It's all a matter of taste and style, although low-fret guitars will also produce a softer-edged tone. The Gibson Les Paul Custom is a classic example.
There's also a school of players who prefer wide frets, typically .100 to .110, for improved intonation. Wide frets wear slower than skinny frets, so they retain all their properties – including the ability to sound notes accurately – longer.
• How wear alters playability: Fret wear – grooves worn in the frets from pressing down on the strings, depressions created by bending, lowered overall fret height from usage – can all cause buzzing noises to occur at points where frets are located along the neck. Luckily, these problems can typically be addressed by having the frets leveled and dressed several times before a fret replacement job is necessary, since fret replacements are costly.
• Why fret ends get sharp: Sometimes the end of the fret wire can become sharp or, more accurately, protrusive at the sides of a guitar's neck. Besides being rough on the hands, this is an indicator of a trickier problem: that the fingerboard has become dry and shrunk. This means that the guitar has been kept in an environment that lacks the proper humidity. More careful storage is the ultimate answer, but using lemon oil on the fretboard also helps prevent this from happening by moisturizing the wood.
• How frets influence action: This is generally a matter of taste, technique and wear. Some players who find they are encountering resistance when they bend strings may need larger frets. If notes sound buzzy or imprecise, the culprit may be too-low frets. On the other hand, frets that are too high can prevent proper intonation. But raising a guitar's action may be a cheaper solution to correcting the latter problem than a fret replacement.
• Why frets come loose: Wear from string contact, fretboard drying and jarring mid-gig or during transportation can cause frets to pop loose. And if binding loses moisture, that can cause the ends of frets to rise or be exposed. These all create troubles that can wrongly be blamed on the more typical problem of fretwear, but in these cases dressing or replacement isn't necessarily the answer. If there's enough fret wire left, a loose fret can be reseated in its slot along the fingerboard, and a skilled luthier can often fill the gaps between the binding and the fret ends.
• How fanned frets work: You've likely seen players like the jazz virtuoso Charlie Hunter picking instruments that have frets fanned out at an angle along the fingerboard. The aim of fanned fret placement is to give the lower strings more length and the higher strings less length, thereby providing more accurate tuning and deep bass sounds. Fanned frets may seem like an innovation, but they first appeared in the 16th century.
• Don't always blame the frets: Buzzing doesn't necessarily mean there's a fret problem. Some guitar players set their bridges for super-low action in their quest for speed, and that can makes frets buzz. For beginners unfamiliar with how accurately tuned strings sound or more experienced players exploring dropped and open tunings for the first time, buzzing can also be a buzz kill. Low tunings like dropped D and open D and open C may prompt guitars with normal action to buzz due to the slack in the strings unless a guitar is set up properly to accommodate such tunings.


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Great Britain have been handed a double boost on the eve of their Davis Cup clash against the United States.
Captain Leon Smith revealed earlier on Thursday he would leave Andy Murray to decide whether he is capable of playing three games in as many days in GB's first World Group quarter-final since 1986, and the Wimbledon champion has opted to take on the challenge.
The Scot is still feeling his way back into the rigours of the main tour after back surgery and was last week knocked out of the Australian Open at the quarter-final stage.
Yet with Britain's hopes resting largely on his shoulders, the two-time grand slam winner has been provisionally scheduled to play both singles matches as well as Saturday's doubles encounter in San Diego.
Smith's team have been further lifted by the United States Tennis Association announcing their big-serving world number 13 John Isner is a late withdrawal with an ankle injury.
The American number one will be replaced by world number 79 Donald Young, who will be making his Davis Cup debut, with Sam Querrey also competing in singles.
Smith will be taking nothing for granted, however, and will be keeping a close eye on Murray, who, barring a late change, will partner Colin Fleming in the doubles.
"That's the unknown, everyone who has spoken to Andy says he wants to play doubles, he wants to play all three matches and he's still the best player on the court," Smith told BBC Sport.
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Great Britain's last Davis Cup meeting with the Americans came in 1999 when Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski fell just short of a memorable win, with Rusedski losing 8-6 to Jim Courier in the deciding set of the match.
That was on the hard courts of Birmingham, with this clash at Petco Park set for a newly-laid clay court which has been causing the players some problems.
"It's not really clay, it slippy, it's quick and a lot quicker than the ones we play on in Monte Carlo, Rome and Madrid," Murray told the BBC.
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1992 – Queen of Kona
Paula Newby-Fraser wins her 5th title in Kona and breaks her own course record, becoming the first woman ever to finish in less than nine hours.
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American Mark Allen celebrates his 6th IRONMAN World Championship victory, tying Dave Scott for the World Record.
1996 – Long Live the Queen
Paula Newby-Fraser wins her 8th IRONMAN World Championship race. This still stands today as the World Record for victories on the Big Island.
1997 – Proving "Anything is Possible"
With the debut of the Physically Challenged Division, Australian John MacLean becomes the first athlete to power a hand cycle bike and wheelchair to an official IRONMAN World Championship finish.
1998 – IRONMAN Turns 20
The IRONMAN World Championship celebrates its 20th anniversary and founder, John Collins competes in the race after a 19-year hiatus.
Just three weeks after the tragic events of September 11th, American Tim DeBoom brings the Kona crown back to the United States for the first time since 1995, amidst the powerful "USA" chant from the crowd.
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As a cub broker in late 2000, Joshua Brown would begin his day by making phone calls. Fifty to 100 times per day, he would pick up the phone, dial a number and give his clients the rundown on the day's news. Waking up in the wee morning hours, Brown would scan newspapers, magazines and Internet sites, culling 8 to 10 of the most important stories. Out of these, he would create a picture of where the market was going. What was up and what was down. What was out and what was in. What to play short and what long.
But as Brown's roster of clients grew larger, so did his phone list. One day, he realized he didn't have the time to call each client with his market updates. The year was 2008 and the markets were imploding. Banks were failing, decades-old wirehouses were crumbling, and everyone, according to Brown, was getting it wrong — especially the mainstream press. So he logged onto WordPress, opened an account, and started writing.
Three years later, The Reformed Broker is a financial blogoshpere favorite, the place financial advisors go to read what they wish they could say if their compliance departments didn't muzzle them. Brown writes about everything, from the pedestrian (market performance of stocks and commodities) to the esoteric (his favorite albums of 2011). In between, Brown, who lives and works in New York, offers his opinions on politics, economics, media, and what guys talk about when they're not talking about stocks and bonds.
"I started the blog when there were a lot of lies and the media didn't really get what was going on," says Brown, vice president of investments at Fusion Analytics, a New York firm that manages just under $500 million in assets. "I was trying to tell the story of the meltdown from the trenches."
Brown says his blog is not meant to be provocative, though it oftentimes is. Rather than present the image of the financial advisor as "the besuited, bespectacled paragon of financial literacy" Brown cuts to the heart of issues, allowing carcasses to fall where they may.
"I know people at Merrill Lynch who say 'I wish I could say that,'" says Brown, whose site averages close to 100,000 unique visitors per month, according to Quantcast. "[But] they can't say anything. They've got duct tape over their mouths."
Brown is just one of a stream of financial industry professionals who have exploded into the financial blogosphere to create a daily menu of essential reading that in many ways rivals, or even bests, mainstream media sites. These sites come in many shapes and forms. There are blogs that focus primarily on the economy, often using charts and data to paint a picture of our fiscal health. Then there are blogs, like Brown's, that are more eclectic in nature, commenting on everything from good television to the wisdom (or lack thereof) of Ben Bernanke to capture the market zeitgeist. Lastly, there are the aggregators, those well-read and tuned-in Internet trawlers who deliver the dozen or so links that point investors to the top stories and blog posts of the day and the data that will help them anticipate the future.
No reliable statistics exist to accurately measure this corner of the blogging universe, but in interviews with advisers and media professionals, a few names clearly stood out. The Big Picture, a blog created by Barry Ritholtz, CEO and director of equity research for Fusion IQ, an independent quant research firm, may be the most visited blog in this space. As the blog's name implies, Ritholtz tackles anything and everything. On a day in late December, The Big Picture featured entries on deleveraging, the European Union crisis, the reported end of corn ethanol subsidies, and the best portfolio tracking software. Brown's blog is universally admired (he also writes for The Wall Street Journal) as is Dealbreaker, the chatty, witty blog authored by Bess Levin that was aptly described by Time magazine as "a mashup of Page Six and Bloomberg News."
In the mainstream media space, Megan McArdle at The Atlantic is admired for her golden pen, Felix Salmon at Reuters is a stand out, as is The New York Times' financial and economics blog, Dealbook. And then there are the aggregators. Tadas Viskanta's Abnormal Returns is widely acknowledged as a deep source for links on markets, strategy, companies, finance and more, and Seeking Alpha, a smorgasbord of stock market news and analysis, appears to be a must-read for nearly everyone.
Seeking Alpha provides so much information that one could literally spend weeks reading all the content. Firstly, Seeking Alpha is the online home for hundreds of regular bloggers and thousands of occasional bloggers. SA claims a virtual staff of over 4,000 contributors, 400 of whom contribute regularly. On a recent day in late December, these contributors included a precocious university student writing about top dividend stocks for 2012 (he likes KO, PG, JNJ, PEP and CL), huge financial information companies like Zacks Investment Research advising on the best countries in which to place your investing dollars, and the blog post of David Berman, a contributor to the Market Blog, a daily financial news blog residing on the website of Canada's national newspaper, the Globe & Mail. All this content and variety produces huge numbers: Seeking Alpha is the 365th biggest Web site in the United States, according to Quantcast, attracting close to 5 million people per month.
Mick Weinstein, SA's former editor and chief, was present at the birth of today's financial blogosphere. In about 2004, he said, financial blogging began to really take off. There was an "explosion" in new voices, he said, some of it "junk," some of it "very good." The problem, he recalls, was that it was difficult to find individual bloggers in the vast Internet universe. Seeking Alpha's innovation was to put the best bloggers in one place.
Weinstein, who stayed at SA from 2005 to 2010, now heads media efforts at Covestor, a New York-based asset management firm that allows clients to duplicate the portfolios of proven money managers. In addition to overseeing Covestor's blogging and article output, Weinstein also creates a daily set of links for MarketWatch containing "10 actionable ideas." According to Weinstein, the financial blogosphere is a must-read for investors and advisors alike.
"If you work as an advisor and want to be informed about what's going on, I think you have to be crazy not to be reading blogs in addition to The Wall Street Journal and New York Times every day," Weinstein said.
There are the let-it-all-hangout bloggers like Brown and Bess Levin of Dealbreaker and then there are bloggers who take a more erudite tone. The blogger known as Interloper falls into the latter category. Quoting French philosopher Jacques Derrida's theory of Deconstruction to make a point about the value of asset markets (does objective valuation of asset classes really exist?) is a good example of Interloper's unique style. The blogger, who chooses to remain anonymous while he works out a lawsuit with a former employer, penned a widely read blog entry in mid-December that asserted "Reading Fiction Will Make You a Better Investor." In part, it read:
Unlike historical accounts, through [fiction] it is possible to absorb the world through another perspective, an immensely valuable skill for investors looking for ideas (or trouble). A memory bank of fictional characters will also help when the market "hive mind" pushes prices in unexpected directions, answering the question "what kind of person buys here?"
The primary lesson of fiction is learning "this is how people act" when they're scared, confident, happy, determined or demoralized. Not how I would act, or how I think they should act, but how the combination of different experiences and different patterns of cognition lead to aggregate outcomes. Empathy.
Reached through email, the Toronto-based Interloper said he started writing while working at a boutique advisory firm as an overall strategist. Like Brown, he would wake up in the wee morning hours to read widely, then put together a 1,200-word piece on the shape of the day's market. "The process of assimilating information, then writing as fast as I could, was the training for blogging," he said. "I also used a lot of blogs for information, and was therefore aware of how useful the medium could be."
Though his page hits aren't enormous — he gets about 1,200 per day — he says he finds blogging "immensely gratifying and bizarre at the same time. To have opinions you've been thinking about for, in some cases, decades and then to have someone read and respond to them is incredible."
There's no money in it, to be sure, but Interloper says he does it for the love of the process. "I'm still a neophyte relative to true business writers or essayists, but there is the thrill of improving over time. I'm never going to write as thoughtfully and well as Megan McArdle, but I'm enjoying the attempt."


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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
I wonder what current chemotherapy protocol information is available for canine lymphoma. My dog was diagnosed in March 1999 and put on a chemotherapy protocol. Are there modifications, which can be made to her protocol to account for both her tolerance of the drug and my financial abilities?
Thank you so much for taking the time to help us make informed and caring decisions.
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
There are numerous variations on several basic protocols used to treat canine lymphoma. Each has particular advantages and disadvantages. Several basic chemotherapy drugs are used in different combinations, sequences, and dosages. As a very general rule of thumb, the oncologist is trying to balance cancer cell killing against normal tissue side effects. The goal is to give the highest dosages of the most effective drugs while keeping the side effects "tolerable". It should be noted that what is considered tolerable will vary from dog to dog, owner to owner, and oncologist to oncologist. Each oncologist has protocol(s) with which they are the most comfortable. They know how to modify the protocols based on each dog's particular responses to the drugs. There are often ways to modify the protocols to account for financial limitations and limits to the number of veterinary visits that both owner and dog can tolerate.
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