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Amid sharply partisan exchanges over guns, immigration and the federal budget, the debate that began in the Senate this week over a water resources bill seems relatively tame.
This is the same Senate where it usually requires 60 votes to get anything done. And while Senate Democrats and Republicans praised each other for their work on the Water Resources Development Act, the bill also must pass the House of Representatives, where bipartisan agreement is even harder to achieve.
But after a series of deadly and costly storms slammed the East and Gulf coasts in recent years, the water legislation may be the best chance for lawmakers to prove that Washington isn't completely dysfunctional and can attempt to fix an urgent problem.
The $12.5 billion bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, and David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, would authorize funding for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, including dams and levees, ports and inland waterways, and coastal protection and restoration.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which Boxer leads, unanimously approved the legislation in March.
"It's long past time," Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday when she introduced the bill. "Flood control and flood protection is critical. All we have to do is look at Sandy."
Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast in October, killing more than 100 people and causing $60 billion in damage, especially in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. Seven years earlier, the costliest disaster in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina, toppled levees in New Orleans, flooding the city and killing more than 1,000 people along the Gulf Coast, with damages reaching more than $100 billion.
Overall, the legislation includes funding for flood control and storm protection projects across the country and has broad support from business and labor groups. But it also faces opposition.
Environmentalists, several senators and the White House have voiced concern over provisions that would put corps projects on a faster track to completion and give the agency more discretion to choose which projects to fund, a change from the previous water resources bill.
"It should be Congress' job to authorize projects," said Ron Stork, policy director for Friends of the River, an environmental group in Sacramento, Calif. "There are projects that should not be authorized."
The bill also would speed up the environmental review process for corps projects. Critics of the process, including both Republicans and Democrats, complain that the reviews contribute to delays and cost overruns.
Usually an ally of environmentalists, Boxer has been taking some heat. Scott Slesinger, legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, accused her of sacrificing the country's "premier environmental law," the National Environmental Policy Act.
"There was enough incentive in the bill to get bipartisan support . . . without undercutting one of the key environmental statutes," he said.
Boxer and Vitter amended the bill to address some of the concerns of environmentalists and others, but the streamlining provisions clearly opened a rift. Boxer defended her environmental record and the bill and chastised some erstwhile allies.
"I don't think they've read it," she told reporters Tuesday.
Stork, whose group supports authorization for a levee project in Sacramento but opposes streamlining, disagreed.
"A lot of people who are pretty darn knowledgeable have read the bill," he said. "They're pretty appalled by those provisions."
Government watchdogs, meanwhile, are upset about the bill's price tag. Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a fiscal oversight group in Washington, warned that it ultimately would cost taxpayers more than advertised.
"We need to prioritize, and this does nothing to do that," he said.
Boxer's bill also looks to prevent a potential disaster from happening in her home state. California's capital, Sacramento, sits at the confluence of two rivers that drain melting snow from the Sierra Nevada mountains. The city's levee system would likely fail in a catastrophic storm, possibly putting the safety of hundreds of thousands of people at risk and disrupting commerce and government in the country's most populous state.
The bill authorizes about $1 billion to repair the levees.
"We have to strengthen the levees there," Boxer said Tuesday. "We are talking about the need to prevent terrible flooding."
Sandy and Katrina demonstrated the vulnerability of the country's aging flood protection system. The American Society of Civil Engineers 2013 Infrastructure Report Card gave dams in the country a "D" and levees a "D-minus." The Corps of Engineers has a backlog of roughly $60 billion in projects.
Mark Funkhouser, director of the Governing Institute, a state and local policy organization in Washington, said he understood the environmental concerns but also the frustration over the corps' slowness. Funkhouser was mayor of Kansas City, Mo., from 2007 to 2011, and his city's aging levees almost failed two decades ago in catastrophic flooding on the Missouri River. Not much has been done to improve them since, he said, and they would need $400 million to fix.
"Those levees are in serious disrepair," he said. "They're not like fine wine. They don't improve, they get worse."
Funkhouser said he welcomed Boxer's bill.
"On the whole, I would see this as progress," he said.

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Wabash College's Little Giants have now won or shared four consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference championships after Saturday's 60-7 win over Oberlin. Wittenberg won or shared five straight from 1997-2001. The victory also secures a second straight trip the NCAA Division III football playoffs.
See photo albums here, here, here, and here. For some Champion photos, click here.
The win actually assures Wabash of no worse than a tie and with a win at Hiram (2-6, 1-4) next week the Little Giants own the championship outright. The NCAC conference championship trophy was presented to the team by President Patrick White in post-game ceremonies.
"It's amazing that our seniors in their four years have never experienced anything other than winning the conference championship," Head Coach Erik Raeburn said. "That's a pretty impressive feat. I'm pretty proud of it."
Raeburn, in his first year as Little Giants coach, has guided the team to a No. 3 national ranking, eight straight wins and a perfect 6-0 conference mark.
"I'm real happy with the first year so far," he understated. "Certainly for the senior class it's a difficult thing when you have a coaching change. It's tough on everybody but particularly tough on the guys who are going to be seniors and they're going to make or break you. If they decide not to buy in, then nobody else will either. I'm really thankful that group of guys gave us a chance and trusted in us and bought in to what we're trying to do and making the transition smoother than it could have been."
Buying in might even be an understatement. Against the injury-depleted and overmatched Yeoman, Wabash rushed for 264 yards on the ground and 282 yards passing. All but 11 of the passing yards came in the first half.
Wabash's starters did not see action in the second half of play. Still, the offense rolled to 546 total yards to Oberlin's 183.
The second half belonged to Wabash's second string and younger players.
"You want to put those young guys in and give them a chance to run your offense and execute the defense but at the same time you don't want to do anything that would embarrass the other team," Raeburn said. "I thought our young guys that got to go in there in the second half played hard, gave real good effort and for most part executed pretty well."
Wabash recognized its seniors on Senior Day and none had a more joyous time that reserve senior running back Adam Pilli. Pilli ended up leading all rushers with 99 yards and a touchdown, the second of his Wabash career.
"It felt pretty good out there," Pilli said. "Whenever I can get in and get some carries it feels good. The line blocked awesome and it was just a good to get a touchdown. But it also felt really good to see how those seniors who went out and played who don't always get a chance to get in there – that was awesome to see."
Pilli was one of 10 Little Giants to carry the ball. Freshman Isaac Baker was next on the rushing chart with 52 yards and a touchdown. Bobby Kimp had two scores, while Derrick Yoder, Evan Sobecki, and Matt Hudson each had a rushing touchdown.
Eight different receivers caught at least one pass in the contest, with none of them having more than three catches.
The game's touchdown catches were claimed by tight end Scott Liska, while freshman receiver Jonathan Horn got his first Wabash TD.
The statistics were similar for the defense with plenty of players seeing action. Jake Martin had a total of six stops. Darryl Kennon had four stops and a sack to become Wabash's all-time sack leader.
Wabash heads to Hiram for the first time in recent years to finish out the NCAC portion of the schedule. Then will return home to the Monon Bell Classic and Depauw.
Raeburn has been proud of the way his team prepares for each opponent.
"Championship teams prepare the same every week regardless of who they're playing," Raeburn said. "Certainly when we play Depauw there will be a big crowd and a bunch of excitement on campus and the atmosphere will be different but our preparation shouldn't be any different. This week we got that. Our guys came out to practice and they went to work. They tried really hard on some of the areas we need to work on, hopefully we get that out of them this week too."
Photos by Jim Amidon
In photos: Top left, Kennon gets his record-setting sack. At right, Liska celebrates his touchdown catch. Center left, Pilli picks up yardage. Bottom right, Horn gets the first touchdown catch of his Wabash career.


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Harmon, who suffered from heart disease, died at his home in Los Angeles, said his wife, Susan.
"Bozo and Larry were one and the same," she told The Times on Thursday. "He's lived it and breathed it since he bought [the rights] from Capitol Records in the '50s. He made it what it is, and it's been his life."
Bozo was created for a series of Capitol children's records in 1946, with Vance "Pinto" Colvig, the voice of Walt Disney's Goofy, providing the clown's voice.
Several years later, according to a 1996 Associated Press story, Harmon answered a casting call for a clown to make personal appearances to promote the Bozo records. After landing the job, he took over as the voice on the records and then bought the rights to the character.
Harmon launched the first Bozo children's show on KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles in 1959, with Pinto Colvig's son, Vance, playing the role.
From there, Harmon began franchising Bozo, and the bulb-nosed clown with the big feet became an iconic children's show character around the nation and the world.
Harmon trained more than 200 men to portray the carrot-topped character on TV, including future "The Today Show" weatherman Willard Scott and Los Angeles television weatherman Johnny Mountain.
In the mid-1950s, Harmon launched Larry Harmon Pictures Corp., which turned out animated cartoons featuring not only Bozo but also Popeye, Mr. Magoo, Dick Tracy and Laurel and Hardy (Harmon acquired the rights to the comedy duo in 1960.)
His company continues to license the names and characters of Bozo and Laurel and Hardy worldwide.
A Harris poll once recognized Bozo as the world's most famous clown.
"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us," Harmon told the Associated Press in 1996. "Bozo is a star, an entertainer, bigger than life. People see him as Mr. Bozo, somebody you can relate to, touch and laugh with."
In 2004, Harmon and Bozo were in the news when the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee announced it was revoking its Lifetime of Laughter Award given to Harmon in 1990 as Bozo's creator, and posthumously inducted Pinto Colvig as the first Bozo.
Kathryn O'Dell, the hall's executive director, told the Associated Press that the hall had been duped into believing that Harmon created Bozo and did not discover the truth until Buck Wolf, an ABCNews.com columnist and entertainment producer, reported that Harmon was wrongly laying claim to the character.
Harmon told AP he was saddened that the hall had removed his plaque and denied having misrepresented Bozo's history.
"Isn't it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done -- they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn't do anything for the last 52 years," he said.
He said he had always acknowledged that Capitol Records writer/producer Alan Livingston created Bozo.
But, Harmon said, he created Bozo's personality and image as they are known today.
"What I created for the world," he said, "was me and my image: what I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like, what the costume looked like."
Born in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 2, 1925, Harmon was raised in Cleveland. After serving in the Army during World War II, he moved to Los Angeles to attend USC, where he majored in theater and was drum major in the Trojan marching band.
At USC, he started acting in radio and movies and, in the early 1950s, he starred in the "Commander Comet" TV series.
In addition to his wife, Harmon is survived by his son, Jeff; his daughters, Lori Harmon, Marci Breth Carabet, Ellen Kosberg and Leslie Breth; and four grandchildren.
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Cam Gigandet Wears A Kilt
Twlight star Cam Gigandet rocks out a kilt, argyle tights and leather boots as he does a little post-Christmas shopping at Barney's New York on Monday (December 29) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 26-year-old actor, who was seen pulling out an iPhone from his man purse, reportedly shopped around with his girlfriend. According to the latest reports, that would be his secret girlfriend of two years, actress Dominique Geisendorff.
You can also check out a video preview of Cam's new horror thriller, The Unborn, at MTV.com. It opens everywhere on January 9 and was directed by David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity).
UPDATE: Apparently Cam is wearing a Utilikilt!
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Power corrupts; and when the IRS has absolute power, it's corrupted absolutely.
Three headlines at The Weekly Standard: (1) CBO Director: Obamacare 'Creates a Disincentive for People to Work'; (2) AOL CEO: 'Obamacare Is an Additional $7.1 Million Expense For Us'; (3) WSJ: 'Limited Choices of Doctors and Hospitals' Under Obamacare.
And one great punchline from Keith Koffler.
Obama's blithe dismissal of the IRS scandal wasn't just unethical (he shouldn't be opining during an ongoing — albeit barely there — investigation), but was also just flat-out wrong.
Yesterday, I noted that the Budweiser "Welcome home, soldier" ad was astroturfed patriotism, which I found unpleasant. I heard from someone in the military that the people he knows are uniform in their dislike of the ad (no pun intended). The American Spectator now chimes in, chiding Budweiser and other companies for commercializing the military.
Old Hollywood movies also used to commercialize the military: they'd make supportive movies about the military to sell tickets. Back then, though, because patriotism was the name of the game throughout America, that commercialism seemed less sleazy than the Vaseline-smeared lenses that characterizes 1-minute long commercials that use the military as a backdrop to sell a product.
When it comes to principled conservativism, PM Tony Abbott of Australia seems to be the real deal. That's not the only heartening thing. If he is indeed the real deal, we should take comfort in knowing that a former British colony that was following Britain's PC lead was able to recognize how damaging its policies were and to vote in the other direction. Maybe there's hope for another former British colony that seems determined to follow Britain's PC lead, even as Britain is falling into the abyss.
As an example of the British abyss, there's news out today that a British court has demanded that Thomas Monson, the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (i.e., Mormons), report to London immediately to defend his faith against fraud charges with regard to some of its central tenets.
I'd originally written snarkily that the judge seems unable to distinguish faith from science. I then realized that the snark was misplaced. What we're seeing here is another byproduct of global warming: Because global warming has become an unfalsifiable doctrine it has turned science into faith. Why then, should a British judge, who I am 100% certain believes in global warming, have the ability any longer to distinguish between science and faith? She's going to apply tests to them, not according to their nature (with science getting evidence and hypothesis based tests, and religion being left alone on faith grounds), but according to her own belief system, one that probably worships Gaia and rejects more traditional religions.
If you like proof, David Horovitz provides ample proof that John Kerry is a fool, and a dangerous one at that.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After making her first collegiate start on Saturday, freshman Jenna Klein (Parma, Ohio) was rewarded as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Defensive Player of the Week. Klein made 10 saves to help MIT defeat Springfield, 4-2, and earn her first career win in goal.
The freshman goalkeeper was at her best during the second half, stopping eight shots in the frame to help the Engineers hold on to their two-goal advantage. She made three key saves in the final minutes while Tech was killing off a 10-minute yellow card penalty and playing a man down.
On the season, Klein has appeared in eight games and sports a 0.97 goals against average in 216 minutes of action.


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TEHRAN — Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, are slated to begin Friday in Istanbul, Iranian state media said Sunday.
Iran's official English-language Press TV quoted an unnamed official at the Supreme National Security Council, which handles the country's nuclear program, as setting the date and place of the talks. Reuters quoted a spokeswoman for the European Union foreign policy chief confirming that the talks would take place this week in Istanbul.
The site had been in question after Iranian politicians declared that Turkey, a key negotiator in the talks, was no longer neutral ground because it actively opposes Syria, an Iranian ally. The uncertainty about the location had prompted Western worries that Iran was not planning to seriously engage the world powers — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — in the first talks since January 2011.
The six nations are expected to press Iran to accept curbs on its nuclear program that would make it far more difficult for Tehran to build a nuclear weapon. A key demand, Western diplomats say, is that Iran halt production at its uranium-enrichment plant near Qom, a Shiite holy city about 90 miles south of Tehran, which was built in mountain tunnels beyond the reach of all but the most advanced bombs and missiles. The United States also expects Iran to fully suspend production of 20 percent enriched uranium, which Iran says it needs to power a 43-year-old U.S.-built nuclear test reactor that produces radio isotopes.
In a signal that Iran is willing to negotiate over its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoon Abbasi, said Sunday that his country was considering a stop to the activity and lowing the enrichment levels.
"We do not produce more 20 percent fuel than we need," Abbasi told the Iranian Students' News Agency. He said it was easy to change the centrifuges now enriching uranium up to 20 percent and use them for making nuclear fuel up to 3.5 percent enriched. "Our systems are capable of making this change," Abbasi said.
The Western request to close the facility near Qom, called Fordow, is "not logical," Abbasi said, stressing that the mountain bunker was no different from Iran's main nuclear facility at Natanz. He also said that Iran's only semi-operating nuclear reactor, in the town of Bushehr, was running on fuel provided by Russia.
Last month, some prominent Iranian elected officials and analysts — many of them close to the country's hard-line leadership — said it was highly unlikely that Iran would accept even a temporary halt in its production of enriched uranium. They said recent economic sanctions and military threats against the country have made Iranian leaders even more determined to continue enriching uranium, despite the worsening toll on Iran's currency and oil industry.
"Please do not make the general public expect any freeze on the enrichment of uranium," said Hossein Sheikholeslami, a former Iranian ambassador to Syria who was once a leader of the student movement that took 52 U.S. Embassy workers hostage in 1979. "We regard this as our inalienable right."
The enrichment facility near Qom houses Iran's fallback nuclear energy program: a series of centrifuges hidden deep inside a mountain bunker. Iran has said that it built the facility to protect its nuclear technology from attack by Israel or the United States.
"Closing down that site is out of the question," said Sheikholeslami, who is a key adviser to Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani.
But Iran might be willing to talk about its stockpile of the higher-grade uranium, he said. Iranian officials say they were forced to enrich the uranium to a higher level in order to keep their U.S.-built reactor running after Western powers refused to deliver new batches of fuel in 2009.
"I don't think we can trust the West for now giving us that fuel, but Iran's negotiating team might be willing to debate this option," Sheikholeslami said.


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The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at La Guardia Community College and is co-hosted by the New York City Council, Borough President Melinda Katz and the Department of Transportation (DOT).
Mayor Bill de Blasio started the Vision Zero initiative with the goal of ending traffic deaths and injuries on New York City Streets. In February, his administration released a report with 63 proposals for how to achieve this end.
"By asking members of the community for their ideas about how the streets in their neighborhoods can be made safer, Vision Zero can utilize local knowledge to successfully reduce traffic-related deaths," Katz said. "I anticipate a productive dialogue on this plan."
Katz has reached out to community boards to find out the top five street corners in Queens that people have called in and complained about.
"I always found that the community boards and the police clearly can tell us which corners are going to be prime for accidents," she said. "I think at this meeting we want to talk about that and figure out how we bring those concerns to the administration."
Meetings exactly like the one at La Guardia Community College will be hosted in all of the boroughs. The point of these meetings, as outlined by DOT, is to allow the public to learn more about Vision Zero, provide feedback about neighborhood conditions and give their input on the prioritization of street safety initiatives.
"Making Vision Zero a reality means more than just engineering, education and enforcement: it's a collaborative effort that will require every New Yorker to play their part," DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said. "These workshops are an open call for all citizens looking to shape the future of their neighborhoods. Building on a city's worth of local insight, they will lay the groundwork for streets that work better for everyone."


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It's the time of the year for "top " lists: Russell Arben Fox's most intellectually stimulating books, Norm Geras presents 12 books he won't be reading in 2012 topping Keiran Healey's list of books not read in 2011, Salon's best tv episodes, Dave Adler's top jazz picks, Rolling Stone's top 50 albums, and many competing political gaffes lists.
- John Nichols, The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...SocialismNichols has written a persuasive case that socialism is as American as apple pie. From the forgotten radical economics of founding father Thomas Paine and the utopian socialists who founded the Republican Party to Victor Berger, the socialist Congressman from Milwaukee, who opposed WWI to Michael Harrington it is a great read.
The subtitle is a little misleading. Nichols leaves out some important topics that even a short history should contain: the Populist movement of the 1890s and the most successful Socialist Party of the Debs era--the Oklahoma socialists, discussed brilliantly in Jim Bissett's Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920.
A prolific Australian social democratic economist takes on influential, but dead wrong economic ideas. Be aware that there is another book out with the ZE title and be advised that the forthcoming paperback edition will contain an extra chapter refuting austerity economics.
From the coverslip:
Killing vampires and werewolves is easy enough. But how does one slay economic zombies--ideas that should have died long ago but still shamble forward? Armed with nothing but the truth, John Quiggin sets about dispatching these dead ideas once and for all in this engaging book. Zombie Economics should be required reading for those who would dare reanimate the economic theories that brought us to the edge of ruin."--Brad DeLong, University of California, Berkeley.
- Joe Burns, Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America
Carl Finamore reviewed it on Talking Uniona valuable contribution to resurrecting fundamental lessons from the neglected history of American labor.
As the title suggests and as he emphasized to me, "the only way we can revive the labor movement is to revive a strike based on the traditional tactics of the labor movement."
But he doesn't stop there. The author reviews for the reader the full range of tactics and strategy during the exciting, turbulent and often violent history of American labor.Refreshingly, he also provides critical assessments normally avoided by labor analysts of a whole series of union tactics that have grown enormously popular over the last several decades.
- Walljasper is a former editor of UTNE Reader and this book is written (compiled, might be more accurate) in a similar style. There are lots of sidebars, interviews and the like.
- Louisa Thomas Conscience Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I
Even though I've read two biographies of Norman Thomas, this book by Thomas's great-granddaughter greatly added to my knowledge and appreciation of Thomas.
Alan Riding's review in the New York Times seems on the mark
Louisa Thomas, who never knew her great-grandfather, might well have chosen to write his biography as a way of meeting him. Instead, in her first book, "Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family — A Test of Will and Faith in World War I," she has been far more daring. In fact, the lengthy subtitle is a bit misleading. Yes, Norman and his brother Evan were pacifists and their brothers Ralph and Arthur joined the Army. And yes, Evan was jailed as a conscientious objector and Ralph was wounded in the trenches. Yet the thrust of this enthralling book lies with its title: through the experience of her forebears, Thomas examines how conscience fares when society considers it subversive.
At issue is not Norman Thomas's socialism: it barely enters the picture because he joined the Socialist Party only a month before the end of the war. Instead, we are shown the "making" of a socialist, formed not by Marx but by the Bible.
- David James Smith, Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years
This biography covers Nelson Mandela's early years up to his imprisonment in 1964. Smith's discussion of Mandela's private life seems to depend too much on suppositions and speculation. What is interesting to me is the ANC's move from non-violence to armed struggle and the close, working relationship between the ANC and the South African Communist Party.
- Bruce Watson, Freedom Summer
- Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Two outstanding books on critical episodes in the civil rights movement: the 1961 Freedom Rides to confront the segregation of interstate bus terminals and the 1964 Freedom Summer to register African Americans in Mississippi. Watson is the author of an excellent book on Sacco and Vanzetti (which I have read) and one on the 1912 Bread and Roses strike. Aresensault's book is a long one, but there is an abridged version and a DVD of the PBS documentary based on it.
9. Philip Dray, There is Power in the Union
I bought this at the bookstore at the 2011 Netroots nation and found that it lives up to its subtitle "Epic Story of Labor in America." It is now out in paperback. There are other recent general histories of US labor (Mel Dubofsky's Labor in America: A History and Nelson Lichtenstein's 2003 State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, A.B. Chitty's 2002 From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend, and the 2007 two-volume Who Built America). They might be preferred by academics or labor studies professionals, but for the general reader, union activist, or occupier, There is Power in the Union is highly recommended.
10. Barbara Clark Smith, The Freedoms We Lost:Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America
This is an eye-opening study of the real-life freedoms in revolutionary America. In a post on the History News Network, Smith brings out the huge differences between today's Tea Party and the original. If you find that post intriguing, you might want to check out the book.


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Meet Lisa Sanford, Employee of the Month
Great empathy and patience toward every student is the standard that Lisa Sanford sets for herself in her role as Health Service Assistant. Sanford is being honored this April as the Classified Employee of the Month. She has been a De Anza employee since September 1998, and demonstrates her skills working with students every day in the Health Services Office.
"I enjoy working with students. Each day is different in Health Services because of the variety of students who walk through our door," she said. "I learn something new every day. I get to help students in many ways, such as with health issues and insurance."
Her nominator, Health Services Coordinator Mary Sullivan, said Sanford is a strong advocate who strives to assist students to the fullest extent available through their insurances, using initiative and thoroughness to ensure all appropriate claims are resolved quickly. "She also makes sure Nursing and Allied Health students have immunizations that meet their programs' requirements. It's a complex puzzle, compounded by different languages and confusing documents," Sullivan said.
Sanford said she enjoys learning about the diverse population at De Anza, and looks forward to learning about where they come from. "Dealing on a daily basis with our international students has been very rewarding for me," she said. International students need extra attention to decipher their health insurance problems because of the differences in health care in the United States, according to Sullivan.
Working in a small office setting with minimal staff promotes a friendly environment, Sanford said. "They make my job a lot easier because we work together well as a team."
Sanford has been married to her husband, Tom, for five years. They have a daughter, Megan, and another daughter due in late July. Sanford attended De Anza for two years and earned a B.A. in developmental psychology at Sacramento State University.


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How do you know your baby loves you back? Sweet, surprising ways she shows it
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Let's be real. Babies this little are not going to give you the kind of feedback you might desperately wish for after that grueling labor and those sleepless nights. But as you and your baby get to know each other, you'll get glimmers that a bond is forming and that can be more meaningful than a big declaration of love. "Attachment is a process," says Debbie Laible, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Lehigh University. When you take care of your baby, he falls more in love with you every day and says thanks in his own baby ways.
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He knows you're you
"Within a few weeks, babies can recognize their caregiver and they prefer her to other people," says Alison Gopnik, Ph.D., author of The Philosophical Baby and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Partly, your little one's just following her nose: In one study, researchers put a nursing newborn between two breast pads, one belonging to her mother. The scent of Mom's milk was enough to get the baby to turn toward that pad.
Become the foremost expert on what your baby's various cries mean. Relentless and desperate usually means hunger, abrupt might mean pain, and more plaintive can signal discomfort. You'll figure it out through trial and error, eventually grasping nuances that will baffle outsiders. The better you know his language, the better you can meet his needs. "When a baby's distressed and his parents respond, he learns he can count on them for comfort and relief and that he matters," says Linda Gilkerson, Ph.D., director of the Irving B. Harris Infant Studies Program at Erikson University. But don't worry if you can't always nail the wail: "You don't have to be perfect," says Gilkerson. In fact, she says, research shows that caregivers are in perfect sync with their babies only about 40 percent of the time. What's more important is that you will learn to recognize and respond when your baby needs you. "Your baby learns 'I can rely on Mom. Even if I cry for a little bit, she gets to me soon enough that I don't fall apart,'" Gilkerson says.
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She'll totally flirt with you
"Within a month or so of being born, babies respond to the facial expressions of their mothers and without thinking about it, the moms start doing it right back," says Gopnik. We're talking about the smiles, the meaningful looks, the coy looking away and back again (think back to ninth-grade study hall; you get the idea!). These goofy games appear to be as important in cementing a baby's attachment as your responses to her physical needs. At around 4 months, she'll also be unable to take her eyes off of you. And who can blame her? By then, she's gotten used to life on the outside, can suck and swallow and is physiologically more regulated (i.e., is no longer eating and sleeping like a jet-lagged traveler), so she can begin to pay attention to more than just her immediate bodily needs, explains Gilkerson.
Flirt back—and don't be afraid to use exaggerated expressions. "Face-to-face interaction is part of how babies learn about positive give-and-take," says Gilkerson. Your child's starting to realize that with a single look, she can show you how happy she is that you're around—and that it's a feeling worth sharing, since you'll beam back.
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He smiles, even for a split second
You know those people who say that your baby's early smiles are just gas or an involuntary reflex? Don't listen to them. Recent research indicates that an infant's grin may mean a lot more. The goofy newborn smiles may be your baby reflecting your own smile. He's instinctively building a bond with you.
The first true social smiles start brightening moms' days between 6 and 8 weeks. Your baby may smile when he sees your face -- or Dad's or a big sib's. He's starting to associate your face with feeling good. The bond deepens!
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He'll latch on to a lovey
Babies often pick a favorite object, like a stuffed animal or a blankie, at around a year old. Gopnik explains that these transitional objects symbolize you and your affection, which explains the histrionics if you—heaven forbid!—put it in the wash for an hour. "It represents your love, but in a way your child can control," she says.
Let your child keep his lovey close by in situations where he might feel insecure, if that's possible. Don't worry that there's some set time to get rid of it, as with a bottle. Chances are he won't be clutching it as he walks down the aisle on his wedding day (though, let's be honest, many of us still have Mr. Fuzzybear tucked away somewhere).
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She stares at you, so intently it's practically rude
Right from birth, a baby can recognize his mother's face, voice and smell, says Laible. The next step is linking those sounds and smells he trusts with something he can see. That's why he'll start studying your face as if he's trying to memorize it. In a way, he is. He's making sure he knows what comfort -- and love -- looks like. So next time you catch your baby's eyes locked on you, give him time to drink you in.
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He gives you smooches (sort of)
Sometime around a year old, your baby might start giving kisses—and they probably won't be chaste pecks. Expect wet and sloppy ones that land (sometimes hard!) on whatever part of you is closest. "When I ask my daughter Evvi for a smooch, she crunches up her nose, tilts back her head and then swoops up to my face and plants her lips on mine," VA. "She totally melts my heart!"
Evvi's enthusiasm shows she's been paying attention to the way her mom shows affection, and she wants to do the same, says Richard Gallagher, Ph.D., director of the Parenting Institute at the NYU Child Study Center. Babies are eager learners when it comes to physical affection, and there's no one they'd rather practice on than Mom and Dad.
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This is when it starts to get really fun. Babies past the 6-month mark are a lot more aware of the world around them and are developing new abilities practically every day. So your baby can now show her big-time affection for you in some pretty adorable ways:
She holds up her arms so you'll pick her up
Kerry Smith recently noticed that her 6-month-old son, Leo, has a new way of expressing whom he wants the most. "When someone else is holding him and I walk up, he'll twist his body toward me and hold out his arms," says the Prescott Valley, AZ, mom of three.
Many babies adore being held right from the start, but it takes about six months until they have the physical and cognitive abilities to ask for a pick-me-up. It's a body-language expression of how much they've come to trust and adore their parents. And it can be enough, especially on one of those endless days, to make your heart lurch, too.
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She'll pull away from you, and then run back
You'll start seeing this as soon as your baby crawls. "You're your child's warm, cozy, secure base. But she's also thinking 'Hey, wait! I can crawl! I want to get out there and find out what's in the world!'" Gopnik explains. So she does, until she gets insecure. Then she's all "Let me go back and make sure Mom's still there."
Freedom to explore—and then bungee back to a safe place—is what this is about, so let her do it. Of course, for many moms, this is harder than it sounds. But instead of hovering, put your energies into some extra babyproofing.
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She's bouncing, wiggling and cheering for you
The way your baby acts when she sees you after a few hours -- or a few minutes? You'd be forgiven for thinking you're a bit of a rock star. This glee isn't just cute; it's a sign of the deep attachment that's grown between you.
On the flip side are your baby's wails of distress when you leave. It's part of her development, and she'll learn that you always come back. She understands object permanence now (you exist even when you're not around), so it's rough for her to know that the object of her affection is out there and not here to snuggle.
Babies this age do their emotions big, so whether it's heartbreak that you're gone or earthshaking excitement that you're back, one thing is clear: You are loved. By a tiny, crazy little person, yes, but loved.
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As your baby goes from blob to bright-eyed to whirlwind, the way he shows his love gets more complicated, too. In the early toddler stage, your child is exploring his little world and testing boundaries and he relies on you—yep, because he loves you—to help him. It's a busy time for a toddler, and that's why the ways he expresses his love can seem indirect:
He does what you do
Whoever said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery must have known a toddler or two. Whether he's lugging a briefcase down the stairs or cooing over a baby doll, he's definitely showing how cool he thinks you are. Like all people—adults included!—toddlers imitate the activities and behaviors of the people they love most, says Laible.
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Making a beeline for you when he's hurt
When Emily Cook of Calgary, Alberta, gets a scrape or a sniffle, nothing makes her feel better like rocking on her mom's lap. The fact that your toddler runs to you for comfort—and then can dry his eyes and run off—means he loves and needs you.
Of course, you may also notice that your kid doesn't have to be that hurt to come to you wailing. Even a minor accident can make for big drama if Mom's around to see it. "Emily puts on this pout, coupled with dramatic sniffling. Then she throws in a big, unblinking stare that says 'Poor me!'?" says her mom, Heather. Yes, there's a plea for attention in there, but it really does make your baby feel better to get proof that you love him as much as he loves
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He reserves bad behavior just for you
What mom hasn't heard "He was an angel!" when picking up a toddler from a sitter, then witnessed downright devilish behavior mere minutes later? Toddlers test limits with abandon—but most often with those people they love and trust. This isn't exactly the warmest, fuzziest way your child will say he loves you. But that's exactly what he's doing. "You know you've done your job well if he can hold it together in public but saves his blowups for you," says Elizabeth Short, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University. "He knows that you're safe—he can act up and you'll still love him." You may never welcome a meltdown, but at least you can stop thinking your thrashing, screaming toddler is out to get you. He isn't. He just loves you sooo much.
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He'll freak out when you leave
Starting around his first birthday, and often continuing until he's 3 or so, your child may get upset when you have to part—and rejoice when you return. "Separation anxiety is a sign he knows that the person he loves is different from others, and he's beginning to have object permanence—an understanding that people and things don't disappear the minute they're out of sight," says Gilkerson.
This is one behavior you don't want to reinforce. Because, let's face it, it can be excruciating to listen to your child's wails as you leave him in daycare. Offer reassurance: Say "I know you'll miss me, but Mrs. Rosie will take great care of you and I'll be back to pick you up." Rest assured that he'll be fine, says Gopnik, and know that you're teaching him that he can count on you to come back for him later.
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She wants to marry one of her friends at school
At 3 or 4, she's figured out that getting married means you love someone. Even if she doesn't push for wedlock with her pals, she'll start to love certain friends in a way she didn't when she was younger than 2 and it was all about her parents. "It's an extension of the bond she feels with her intimate caregivers," says Gopnik. As kids enter kindergarten, their friendships become more central to their lives. Wanting to marry a buddy isn't a direct expression of her love for you, but it shows you've created a caring environment for her, both at school and at home.
Arrange playdates and praise her when she does things like sharing or hugging. Just be aware that some kids go a little overboard with displays of affection. Teaching your child how to recognize when someone's feeling a bit smothered ("Sweetie, see how she's pulling away?") will help her learn to respect others' boundaries.
Meagan Francis, a mom of four, is the author of Table for Eight: Raising a Large Family in a Small-Family World.


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Richard Littlemore | February 4, 2008
By Richard Littlemore • Monday, February 4, 2008 - 10:16
The Heartland Institute is rounding up the usual suspects for a conference that will alert international media to "the fact" that a shocking number of "scientists" can be induced with a little cash and a free trip to New York City to question the science of global warming.
As reported by RealClimate.org, this is not a "scientific conference" in the normal sense:
"Normal scientific conferences have the goal of discussing ideas and data in order to advance scientific understanding. Not this one. The organisers are surprisingly open about this in their invitation letter to prospective speakers, which states:
'The purpose of the conference is to generate international media attention to the fact that many scientists believe forecasts of rapid warming and catastrophic events are not supported by sound science, and that expensive campaigns to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not necessary or cost-effective.'
So this conference is not aimed at understanding, it is a PR event aimed at generating media reports."
If you doubt RealClimate's analysis, you can look to Heartland's program and participant list for confirmation. It's a who's who of apologists for tobacco, coal and oil; a long list of people like Christopher Monckton, who don't mind when they lie, or like Bob Carter, who don't make any sense when they are telling their truth.
Heartland has taken over the from thoroughly discredited Competitive Enterprise Institute as the leading propaganda mill sowing confusion about climate science, although CEI is one of the sponsors of this event. We at the DeSmogBlog will try to keep track over the coming weeks to see if any new faces show up among the scientists for hire. Our dream gift for 2008, however, would be a list of the politicians and "journalists" who accept Heartland's offer of an all-expenses paid trip for the New York gabfest.
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And, of course, Weaver, the
And, of course, Weaver, the sainted Hansen and avaricious charlatans like Gore and Suzuki all earn their bread by selling eco-friendly handicrafts to the faithful. Yeh, sure.
And Richard, since Hoggan and Lefebvre aren't paying you, I'm wondering if you go out every moring to collect bottles and cans for recycling.
Scratch a warmist - watch a smarmy hypocrite bleed.
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Trolling for Zogs
No point in responding to the troll except to note, with a wry chuckle, that ZOG has created another anagram of his usual packet of generic insults.
Maybe we could just start the comments list over, ignoring the insult anagram. -J
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It will be interesting
I have trouble seeing how this transparently unobjective approach will help their cause. But I guess that depends on what the media (and participating politicians) do with it. As it stands now, it seems that all they have are insults, conflations and obfuscations, appeals to emotion, and a few reworded but long-ago debunked talking points. No credibility. Maybe they figure they've got nothing to lose.
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Heartland Conference
My favorite expert is S. Fred Singer, listed as a Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University. If he's so distinguished why isn't he listed on the school's web site and why would an operator tell me that there's "no such person by that name" at George Mason? The last time he did research was as a grad student in the 1940s, in electrical engineering… and the only professing he ever did was along side Pat Michaels at Virginia - undergraduate environmental studies about 20 years ago. If there were a law against impersonating a atmospheric researcher, this joker would have been locked up a long time ago.
Have you read his profile in
Have you read his profile in the DeSmogBlog Denier Database? Click on the yellow button, upper right on this page & select him from the list. It's a riot!
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Sounds like another denier
Sounds like another denier who fluffed up his "credentials" in order to impress…
Trolling for Truth
Hi 'J' surely when it comes to criticism of poeples backgrounds you must be well aware the pro-warmers have some major umm flaws? If it's open season on 'deniers' lets take a look at the losers on the pro-AGW team;
"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect"
Richard Benedict, US Conservation Foundation
"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing"
Tim Wirth, former US Senator
"The trouble with this idea is that planting trees will not lead to the societal changes we want to achieve"
Kyoto Delegate, 05 December 1997
"The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans."
Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?"
Maurice Strong, Head of 1992 Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro
In the early 1970s Dr Stephen Schneider rejected man-made global warming theory, writing, "temperatures do not increase in proportion to an atmospheric increase in carbon dioxide." He went as far as to predict that another little ice age would occur soon, but it hasn't. Schneider now endorses man-made global warming theory and man made CO2.
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Rich Language; Impoverished Position
Zog, you make my day: "avaricious charlatans," "smarmy hypocrites" - your world may be imaginary, but it's clearly filled with rich imagery.
And yes, absolutely, Jim Hoggan and John Lefebvre pay me (and thanks again for that, you guys). The question is, who's footing the bill for the "scholarships" now available to any scientist willing to prostitute his position at the coming New York conference - or any pliant politician willing to come and scribble down scientifically insensible talking points?
Steve L replied on Permalink
pretty dense
These AGW-denier guys seem more than a little dense. I mean, how can they not see the difference between a PR person (who discloses his funding) from someone else who pretends he is a researcher (but doesn't disclose his funding or says he doesn't know who pays him)? Makes me suspect that their comments here are not honest. On the other hand, refusal to accept the fact that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations likely enhances the greenhouse effect might be symptomatic of a limited intellectual capacity. Or wait … could that be dishonest, too? Like posting comments under multiple pseudonyms, maybe?
"It's the physics, stupid!"
You have to boil it right down to some pretty basic, empirically understood facts about the behaviour of the elements, and they STILL don't get it! If they can't follow grade 11 chemistry, it should come as no surprise that they continue to talk about "Al Gore's science" as though he (a lay-person & spokesman) came up with AGW all by himself, and fail to recognize Fred Singer, Tim Ball et al as scientific has-beens (or never-were's) and mercenaries.
Seriously, there are a great many people who really couldn't follow chemistry, grade 11 or otherwise, and don't trust science because they don't understand how rigorously "the method" is applied. They really don't understand why the opinions of people like Singer & Ball shouldn't carry as much weight as those of Hansen, Weaver, Mann and so on. Getting through to them is a huge challenge. They aren't stupid, just naive – which makes them sitting ducks for the Singer & Ball Snakeoil salesmen.
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Thankfully stupidity is in the minority
So 2,500 researchers and scientists at the IPCC think AGW is happening and 19,000 scientists sign a petition against AGW because they think it isn't happening and we're being led up the garden path. I make that nearly 8 to 1 against global warming.
Even the Senate Committee stated there's no 'consensus' and 'the debate isn't over' and how can the IPCC and Gore claim it to be so when they have 4 times more scientists against global warming theory?
So the global warming 'theorists' think we're stupid and too thick to take in basic chemistry? Nobody here is exactly blinding me with science. In fact the AGW people seem to be full of half-truths, propoganda, spin and swallowing any old computer model and are pretty dim to do so.
Being a twit doesn't help
Richard Littlemore, maybe journalism should have the same standards as science because your snide little article hasn't advanced knowledge one iota. Gutter journalism more like. Talking about the 'imaginary' isn't it about time you and the IPCC gave up on the computer models that fill our heads with stupid scare stories?
I say that because to generate a full model of the climate system covering all spatial scales, and then use it to run a 50 year projection into the future, would take more than 10 to the power of 34 years of supercomputer time, according to Dr Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. This timescale is 10 to the power 24 times longer than the current age of the universe, which itself is about 10 billion years.
If you haven't got 10 billion years maybe you should spend an hour reading the Heartland Institutes climate document which has incidentally more solid science and less stupid IPCC computer game scares in it. Here, read it, your next article may actually contain something useful for once! http://heartland.temp.siteexecutive.com/pdf/22835.pdf
Re:Heartland Conference Celebrates Science for Sale
spending and spending more will not yield any result .strict and quick actions are neccessary to prevent global warming.
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DURHAM � Duke women�s basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie received a contract extension through the 2018-19 season, the university announced Friday.
In six seasons, McCallie�s Duke teams have compiled a combined 174-35 record, including a 77-13 mark in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
McCallie has earned ACC Coach of the Year honors in three of the last four years. She is the first NCAA Division I head coach to win a league championship and be named league Coach of the Year in four different conferences � ACC, Big Ten, America East and North Atlantic.
McCallie is coming off leading Duke to its third ACC Tournament title during the last four years, while producing a 33-3 overall and 17-1 ACC mark. She owns three 30-win seasons since the 2009-10 season.
During the past season, McCallie became the quickest female head coach to reach 150 wins at a school as she accomplished it in 182 contests.
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I'll admit it. Back in my carefree spendthrift days, I'd toss the cheese in the garbage when it turned moldy. I was oblivious to the fact that I might as well be throwing dollar bills away.
True, we could opt for buying just a few slices at a time from the deli counter, but that's way too expensive. And unnecessary. I can save more than $2 a pound off the best price at the supermarket if I buy in bulk from a discount warehouse like Sam's Club or Costco. And that presents the problem of storage.
Whoever said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," must have been a deli owner. Think about it. With all that cheese in those cases, have you ever seen one in a lovely shade of green? Never. In fact, all I know about the proper care and handling of cheese I learned from one such person. He introduced me to the two archenemies of cheese: air and bacteria.
OUNCE OF PREVENTION. Limit exposure to air, and you can greatly extend the useful life of any type of cheese. The American Cheese Society advises us to store cheese in fresh wrapping, preferably in waxed or parchment paper, after the cheese has been opened to avoid having the cheese dry out or pick up other flavors. Natural cheese is a living organism, with enzymes and bacteria that need air and moisture to survive. Thus, re-wrapping the cheese in paper and then in plastic wrap to create a micro-environment for the cheese is the preferred storage treatment. However, you should not leave cheese in the same wrappings for extended periods of time.
BACTERIA. I know that it takes bacteria to make cheese in the first place, but that is much different than the kind of bacteria on your hands. So here's the second rule of mold prevention: Don't touch the cheese! Even when you wash your hands well, some amount of bacteria remains, and while it's not at all harmful to you or the cheese, that's what gets that green thing going. Either wear food preparation gloves or make sure the plastic is always creating a barrier between your hands and the portion of the cheese that's going back into the refrigerator.
POUND OF CURE. For cheese that has already turned, there are a couple of remedies. You can actually wipe the mold away with a clean cloth you've dipped into white vinegar. Not the most pleasant job, but it does work to save the cheese. According the Mayo Clinic, mold generally can't penetrate far into hard and semisoft cheeses, such as cheddar, colby, Parmesan and Swiss.
For others like cheddar, you can safely cut away the moldy part and eat the rest of the cheese. Cut off at least 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) around and below the moldy spot. Be sure to keep the knife out of the mold so it doesn't contaminate other parts of the cheese. Once all the green is gone, treat this as you would a new block of cheese by following the rules above.
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Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina wants to end his career in his native Spain as the uncertainty over his future persists.
Reina is training with the Reds squad in America after finishing his loan deal at Napoli.
The Rafael Benitez-managed Serie A club are interested in a permanent deal, but are refusing to meet the £3.95million release clause in his contract.
Reina's preferred destination would be Spain, but the former Barcelona stopper accepts he will have to wait for an opportunity in the Primera Division to arise.
"I have a contract to respect with Liverpool. I'm training well and I am perfectly fine with my team-mates," the 31-year-old Reina told Cadena Ser.
"I am here to stay. I have not talked to Brendan Rodgers, I've been here for only four days and I am just thinking of training to my best and getting back into shape.
"At the moment all the big Spanish teams are covered in my role, so I see it as very difficult to return to Spain.
"It's normal though that over the years you want to return to where you came from, so we'll see.
"When Rafa Benitez signed me at Liverpool in 2005, I accepted and said that I would be back a little later in Spain. He replied: 'We'll see'.
"It's amazing that 10 years later I am still away from Spain and that it was he who brought me to Napoli last year."
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Last month we pointed readers toward a map of where the Proclaimers, if they would walk 500 miles, and then 500 more, would walk to. This map was not technically accurate, cartographically speaking, as cartography blogger Kenneth Field chronicled in some detail. But it did inspire Field to think of what other song lyrics could be mapped.
The result is the map below, reprinted with Field's permission. The map shows, according to Field, all 3.5 million streets with no name (which are highlighted in gold, à la the album art). You can click on the map to view a zoomable version:
Over on his blog, Field—who is also a professional cartographer, a former cartography professor, and the editor of The Cartographic Journal—explained how he put it together:
First, start with a nice healthy dataset of all streets in the contiguous USA and use some Geographical Information Systems savvy to process it. I'm fortunate to have access to the 2012 version of the Tom Tom data for North America which contains over 15 million street segments.
Second, apply a few of query analyses to extract any street segment without a name, discounting outliers like connectors, ramps, slip roads and such like.
According to the map, Bono should stick to rural areas, while avoiding Vermont and Maine. The Joshua Tree album art was photographed in the Mojave Desert, but if Bono really wanted to show you "a place high on the desert plain …" with lots of unnamed roads, the map suggests that perhaps he should have stuck to the High Plains and Great American Desert of Texas.
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Benefits in Balance
How to save Michigan $5.7 billion annually
It happens like clockwork. Every year, state officials struggle to balance the budget. They propose tax increases, threaten to cut programs and fight to protect pet projects. Policymakers assure us that government has been "cut to the bone."
Is this annual spectacle unavoidable?
Not at all. Michigan can fix its economy, control government spending, save for the future and improve infrastructure with just one idea: Benefits in Balance. The gap between what private-sector workers and public-sector employees receive in benefits amounts to $5.7 billion annually. Bringing this disparity into balance will save the state this amount without cutting a single program, lowering anyone's wages or laying off a single employee.
How big are the disparities?
- Insurance benefits per employee are $7,149 more per year in the public sector than in the private sector.
- Retirement benefits per employee are $11,725 more per year in the public sector than in the private sector.
- Michigan government workers receive generous paid-leave.
With $5.7 billion each year, the state could:
- Repeal Michigan's new $800 million corporate income tax
- Maintain a balanced budget
- Spend $1 billion improving Michigan's roads
- Put savings into the rainy day fund.
Best of all, this could be accomplished with:
- No service cuts
- No government job losses
- No government wage cuts.
Picturing the Gap
Wages aside, there is a substantial difference between the benefits offered to the State of Michigan's workforce and private-sector averages:
Public-sector wages and benefits have increased while the private-sector's have fallen:
(Note: A previous version of this chart contained a minor error in the wages and benefits calculations. In addition, the Bureau of Economic Analysis has released new data and revised previous data. The figures in this chart have been corrected and updated.)
In the past decade, Michigan's private-sector employees have taken major hits in compensation while state and local government workers have gained:
State and local government workers make up an increasing portion of the total jobs in the state:
The average worker for the state of Michigan now receives a compensation package that costs $94,686:


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Why You Need Disability Insurance
Disability insurance is part of a solid financial plan for you and your family. Why? Disability can be financially devastating. Without disability insurance, your income is unprotected and your ability to meet your financial obligations could be at risk. The biggest issue with disability is that it comes out of the blue. No one plans to be disabled, either temporarily or permanently, but it does happen. Disability insurance ensures that if the unthinkable happens, you won't be devastated financially.
Your odds of dying in a given year are statistically 1 out of 106. Your odds of being temporarily or permanently disabled in a given year are 1 out of 8. Most of us would never think to drive without car insurance and yet your chance of being in a serious auto accident in a given year are 1 out of 70.
Based on statistics, if you plan for any disaster, it should be with disability insurance. The odds are higher that you'll need it.
In fact, statistics show that your chances of being disabled for 3 months or longer are much greater than your chances of dying prematurely! One reason for this is the success of the medical profession, which can now treat many conditions that would have been fatal in the past. In many cases, these new treatments will also mean a long convalescence period. Although it's good news that more people survive and even return to the working world after a serious illness or accident, it does mean that you have to plan for disability to be part of your working life.
So, what would happen if you did become disabled and couldnt work for days, months or even years? For anyone who is single, this would be a financial devastation. As a single person, you have no other means of support. If you are married, you may be able to get some support from your spouse, but would they be able to carry the full financial burden of the family alone? While you might think you work in a low risk job, you have to remember that illness can strike anyone and accidents can happen anywhere. For these reasons, if you or your family need your income in order to make ends meet, you should have disability insurance.
You may think that your financial needs could be adequately met through your disability coverage at work or through government programs like Social Security or Workers Compensation. However, you should really look at those assumptions and check what real coverage you have. In reality, only 50% of employers cover short-term disability, and only 40 % cover long-term. Further, it's getting harder and harder to qualify for government programs, as government money dries up and new rules make it tougher to get. Social security actually denies 50% of the claims that arrive in their offices. For that matter, keep in mind that workers compensation only applies to accidents or illness that occur because of the job and in the workplace. If you are hurt when you are not working, you won't qualify for this either.
With this in mind, it makes sense to review what coverage you have, if any, and buy the right level of protection for your unique situation.


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The restaurant letter grading system, an initiative of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in 2010 to reduce food-borne illnesses from city eateries, may see an overhaul.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and a number of other local elected officials announced a new legislative package that would reduce fines, establish an office for feedback and create incentives with fine waivers for restaurant owners who contest initial inspection verdicts.
"With this package, we're taking steps to ensure that the restaurant inspection process is fair," Quinn announced at Jerry's Café on Chambers Street in Manhattan. "The bills improve the lot of struggling restaurant owners while preserving a system that is valuable to, and more importantly protects the safety of, New Yorkers."
The proposed reform includes the creation of an advisory board to review restaurant inspections and grading relief from violations related to the physical layout, as well as improving the reporting process.
There will also be an "inspection code of conduct pamphlet" to be distributed among restaurant owners and operators prior to their initial inspections.
"The restaurant industry, with its foundation of small businesses, is the lifeblood of NYC and our legislation includes important measures so that restaurants can continue to thrive without jeopardizing public health," Quinn said.
Council members Diana Reyna, Jimmy Van Bramer and dozens more in support of the proposal joined Quinn and members of the NYC Hospitality Alliance to promote the legislation.
"The restaurant inspection process is vital to ensuring that all of our city's restaurants adequately meet health and safety standards," Van Bramer said. "It is our hope that this package of legislation will create a fairer inspection system that balances the needs of our city's small business owners while meeting the requirements of the Department of Health."
According to Reyna, the proposal will ensure a more united approach from the city in an effort to work with local small businesses.
"Our small businesses deserve a fair playing field that allows the well-intentioned a chance to succeed and add to the richness of the community in which they operate," Reyna said.


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Kent Bradford was named the Blue Springs Board of Education's new president for the 2014-15 school year Monday. He is replacing current president Dave Wright.
Current board members Kay Coen, Dale Falck and Dale Walkup were re-sworn in at the meeting. Their seats were uncontested in the April 8 election. The three will serve another three-year term on the board.
Blue Springs superintendent Paul Kinder announced board secretary Virginia Dameron's retirement. She has served as secretary for over 30 years, according to Kinder.
Common Core bill status
Deputy superintendent Jim Finley said bill a concerning Common Core has passed in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Missouri HB 1490 would require the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to create new work groups on how school districts throughout the state should implement CC learning objectives, says Finley. The bill also would allow DESE to make recommendations to the State Board of Education for any changes on how CC is being implemented in Missouri schools.
The bill was read for the first time on the Senate floor April 10.
Last day of school set
The board unanimously agreed that the last day of school for this school year will be set on Friday, May 30, as part of the consent agenda.
Meal prices at district schools will remain the same for the next school year. Elementary lunch will still be $2.20, high school lunch at $2.45 and elementary breakfast will remain a $1.60, while high school breakfast is still $1.65.


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Shine On: 10 Colorful Lights for Kids Rooms
With this fabulous month full of colors on Apartment Therapy, we didn't want to leave out colorful lights for the kid's room. There is something to be said about the accent in the room being the bright funky element right at the center of attention. Here are ten that grab your attention:
1. JONOSFÄR Red Pendant Lamp, IKEA $14.99
2. Wood Triangle Leg Floor Lamp by Jonathan Adler, JC Penney $250
3. Celeste Sphere Chandelier, $886.50, Rosenberry Rooms
4. Pendant Light "Globe Hedgehog", LightningFold on Etsy $140
5. Isosceles Table Lamp in Yellow, Land of Nod $89
6. Stars Nightfall Lamp, RetroPrintRevival, $230
7. Cherry Blossom Birdies, OopsyDaisy $138
8. Aunt Fern Table Lamp, BlueQ $34.99
9. Checkmate Floor Lamp, Land of Nod $149
10. Isla Aqua Pendant Light, Lamp Plus $292.91
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SWP & QPR steal remarkable win at Chelsea
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Premier League table and results
The Premier League's bottom side claimed a remarkable victory on Wednesday evening, as QPR held on to defeat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge.
Shaun Wright-Phillips - a former Blues player - scored the winner for Harry Redknapp's side, lashing home with barely 10 minutes remaining to clinch a remarkable victory that punctured any fleeting hopes Rafa Benitez's side had of getting back into the title race.
Elsewhere, Liverpool celebrated the signing of Daniel Sturridge with a comfortable victory over Sunderland, while Newcastle - without forward Demba Ba - were overhauled by Everton in a disappointing home defeat.
Chelsea's four-match winning run in the Premier League ground to a spectacular halt as struggling west London rivals QPR claimed their first victory at Stamford Bridge for two decades.
Shaun Wright-Phillips, an early substitute for the injured Junior Hoilett, struck a brilliant 78th-minute winner against the club he left in 2008 to further erode the Blues' fading title hopes. The club remain 14 points behind leaders Manchester United.
Wright-Phillips' second goal of the season topped a fine performance from QPR that was a vast improvement on Sunday's tame home surrender to Liverpool.
Rangers defended resolutely throughout and created more chances to score in an entertaining second half, as Adel Taarabt ultimately laid the ball off perfectly for Wright-Phillips to drive home.
It was a crucial victory that ended their three-match losing run, giving Harry Redknapp his second win since becoming manager last month, and while they remain bottom of the table on goal difference the result invigorated their relegation battle.
Liverpool may have brought in reinforcements to ease the apparent burden on striker Luis Suarez, but their leading scorer appeared not to notice as he hit two as the Reds beat Sunderland 3-0 at Anfield.
The Uruguay international took his tally to 15 in 19 league matches - the last Reds player to reach that total was Fernando Torres in 2009-10, scoring 18 a year after they almost won the title.
Raheem Sterling opened proceedings with a well-taken lob over goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, as Liverpool began the new year with a home victory after recording just six in the league in the whole of 2012.
But it was polished off by Suarez, who hit two right-footed efforts - both assisted by Steven Gerrard - past Mignolet either side of half-time to give Brendan Rodgers' men a comfortable win.
In the night's other game, Newcastle were beaten 2-1 by Everton as the Toffees improved their own Champions League aspirations.
The Magpies, without Demba Ba as the striker prepares to complete his move to Chelsea, did not immediately miss the Senegalese international - especially when compatriot Papiss Cisse showed great wherewithal to head the opener over Tim Howard after just two minutes.
But Everton soon clambered back into the match - getting on level terms shortly before half-time as Leighton Baines rifled a wicked free-kick beyond the utterly deceived Tim Krul.
And the winner came with 20 minutes remaining; Victor Anichebe on hand to prod home after great work from Nikica Jelavic down the left. Newcastle had their chances to equaliser in the closing stages - Cisse and Davide Santon both seeing great openings - but Howard held firm as David Moyes' side moved within two points of Chelsea in fourth.


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Talk:1144: Tags
I literally grimaced when I saw the comic, and then I read the title text and my stomach churned, and then I saw the non-breaking space and I wanted to crawl up in a ball and die. lcarsos_a (talk) 06:01, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm a web developer and I didn't find this annoying, although I did roll my eyes. Then I came here to see if there was anything I missed that SHOULD annoy me. No, to annoy a web developer you have to use table tags, blink tags(not supported on most browsers for good reason, annoys anybody when it works), and have a stray !-- inside a tag where it doesn't belong. Also, use any html inside your css file. And have it where it only works in IE. Ferretwilliams (talk) 06:11, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- That's okay, it's easy to implement blink with javascript and changing the display value from hidden to inline every half second. And lots of news sites these days re-implement the marquee tag with a bit of javascript too. What Randall really missed here was an opportunity for the center and font tags. lcarsos_a (talk) 06:18, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sure Randall didn't want us to die, that's why he didn't go further. :-p Ctxppc (talk) 18:16, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Argh. Almost as bad as unclosed left parentheses.(Y'know, like this. DreamingDaemon (talk) 10:21, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- You mean like comic 859?
- That's exactly what I meant... People do that to me in emails because they know it presses my buttons! DreamingDaemon (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
It's been a long while since I coded html (I quit about the time style sheets appeared) but I think the annoying part of
is the fact that it appears as the 6 characters instead of a space, not just that it's at the end and could push the text to another line. Doesn't this typically mean that someone copied some code but didn't look carefully at the results when they pasted it into an editor? --DanB (talk) 14:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- Either the title text has been parsed - in which case it's actually
: Like this (and, yes, probably copy/pasted) - or it hasn't (which seems more likely to me), in which case the will show up as a non-breaking space when it is parsed. Noëlle (talk) 00:40, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if the "answer" in the title text is yet another joke? It goes : Like this — but A used in this way means Anchor, not Answer. Such a line would appear in the browser as "Like this" (with the word Like blue and underlined), making it a clickable "Like" link. -- 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- I think there is another joke hidden there: It goes »: Like this« instead of »: Like this« which turns not only »Like« but also the surrounding whitespace and punctuation into a link/anchor. That points to WYSIWYG HTML editors, as it's easy there to select a little bit more than the intended word when creating a link/marking text as bold, etc. 188.8.131.52 01:03, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Similarly, it would be nice to address whether you can close a

 with a
. Obviously you're not supposed to, but would it work? – Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:57, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- Opening but not closing a div tag, depends on how a browser's quirks mode interprets that; I'd expect the browser to have everything fall into that div until it encounters a close tag of an element outside (that the div is nested inside). I'd also expect that encountering a close span without having first pushed an open span tag onto the DOM would simply not be recognized as markup and treated as improperly escaped page content. But, I don't write code for any of the major browsers so this is wild speculation. lcarsos_a (talk) 21:24, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- You can't close a DIV with a SPAN; they're syntactically different and browsers treat them as such. If you try the code above, the major browsers do exactly as Lcarsos suggests with the open DIV (continue until they find a matching /DIV or until /BODY) and completely ignore the /SPAN (Chrome goes so far as to expunge it from the DOM entirely). The DIV behavior exposes a subtler aspect to the comic, actually - because DIV isn't a semantic element, if a /DIV is missing, it can get very, very difficult to track down where the appropriate /DIV is supposed to go, especially when multiple coders are working on a single long (and, in the worst-case scenario, improperly-nested, multi-file) page. Noëlle (talk) 00:39, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


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Drumstick Recipes
Toor Dal with Drumstick Vegetables (Indian Lentil Recipe)
If you're not familiar with drumsticks, they are long, thin, green pods commonly used in Indian cuisine. They are often used in sambar soup but they can also be a substitute for spinach or green beans in dal dishes.
I prepared toor dal, which is the most common lentil paired with drumsticks, although I've seen this dish prepared with mung beans and chana dal (garbanzo) as well. To guarantee optimum tenderness, I choose immature drumsticks at the market; otherwise they become a little too fibrous. When the lentils are soft and gravy-like, drumsticks are added. The drumsticks are chewed until all the artichoke-like texture is eaten, then the outer skin is discarded. If you can get your hands on some, give them a try. They're definitely out of the ordinary.
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Sambhar Recipe (Indian Soup)
Sambhar is a South Indian dish made of toor dal, vegetables, turmeric powder, curry leaves, tamarind, cinnamon sticks, whole dried red chiles, cilantro, roasted coriander seeds and other Indian spices. It resembles a soup; and is often served alongside idli (rice cakes) or dosa (Indian crêpe).
To make my version of sambhar, I start by boiling toor dal with a lot of vegetables, such as Indian eggplant, drumsticks, okra, carrots, turnips, pumpkin, sweet potatoes or Idaho potatoes and tomatoes, shallots and onions. Then I let the vegetables simmer until the lentils are cooked through.
If you've ever had sambhar at an Indian restaurant and wanted to make it at home, now you can. It's very easy, healthy and filling.
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A 4-year-old daughter of Yes It's True ridden by Jose Ortiz, La Verdad cruised through an open quarter-mile in 22.80 seconds over the sloppy main track with Risky Rachel and Here's Zealicious in pursuit. Shaking clear of those rivals at the half, La Verdad opened up by nearly four lengths turning for home and was never challenged as she crossed the finish line.
"She's a nice horse, a nice New York-bred," said Ortiz. "It was easy company here. She did what she had to do. She handled [the sloppy track] very good."
The win marked the first in a stakes for the Lady Sheila Stable color-bearer, who was second in the Grade 2, seven-furlong Barbara Fritchie at Laurel Park on February 22. Overall, La Verdad is 6-1-0 from eight career starts, with her only off-the-board performance a fourth on debut in May 2013.
"She's a big filly so we took our time getting started with her," said trainer Linda Rice. "Then last summer, she got an infection, and I had to give her the summer off, but she's come back with a vengeance."
Rice said the next start for La Verdad likely would be the Grade 2, $200,000 Distaff on April 19 at the Big A.
"I wanted to use this race as a prep for the Distaff, and I was a little shocked at how tough it came up," said Rice. "I was concerned I didn't have her quite tight enough for today, but she should be better next time."
(Jenny Kellner) Jockey gets first win at Big A
Keen On Green led every step of the eighth and final race at Aqueduct Racetrack on Monday afternoon to carry 21-year-old apprentice jockey Francisco Valentin to his first-ever victory.
Valentin, a native of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, came to the United States nine months ago with the dream of becoming a jockey.
It was trainer Gary Contessa, for whom Valentin gallops horses in the mornings, who named the young rider aboard Keen On Green, who went off as the 6-5 favorite in the one-mile maiden race and won by five lengths.
"I'm so happy," said Valentin, who has had 15 mounts since January, including three second-place finishes. "This is a very emotional moment for me. It's like a dream coming true."