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GRAHAM PARKER (AND THE RUMOUR) (Buy CDs by this artist)
Howlin Wind (Mercury) 1976
Heat Treatment (Mercury) 1976
Stick to Me (Mercury) 1977
The Pink Parker EP7 (Mercury) 1977
The Parkerilla (Mercury) 1978
Squeezing Out Sparks (Arista) 1979 + 1996
High Times (Can. Vertigo) 1980
The Up Escalator (Stiff/Arista) 1980 (Razor & Tie) 1991
The Best of Graham Parker and the Rumour (UK Vertigo) 1980 + 1992
Another Grey Area (Arista) 1982 (Razor & Tie) 1991
The Real Macaw (Arista) 1983 (Razor & Tie) 1991
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (UK Vertigo) 1984
Anger: Classic Performances (Arista) 1985
Pourin' It All Out: The Mercury Years (Mercury) 1986
The Mona Lisa's Sister (RCA) 1988 (Buddha) 1989
Live! Alone in America (RCA) 1989
Human Soul (RCA) 1990
The Kid With the Butterfly Net EP (UK Demon) 1991
Struck by Lightning (RCA) 1991
Burning Questions (Capitol) 1992
The Best of Graham Parker 1988-1991 (RCA) 1992
Live Alone! Discovering Japan (UK Demon) 1993
Passion Is No Ordinary Word: The Graham Parker Anthology 1976-1991 (Rhino) 1993
Live on the Test (UK Windsong International) 1994
Christmas Cracker EP (Dakota Arts) 1994
12 Haunted Episodes (Razor & Tie) 1995
Vertigo (UK Vertigo) 1996
No Holding Back (UK Demon) 1996
BBC Live in Concert (UK Windsong International) 1996
Acid Bubblegum (Razor & Tie) 1996
Hold Back the Night (Rebound) 1998
Loose Monkeys (UpYours) 1999
Arista Heritage Series: Master Hits (Arista) 1999
Deepcut to Nowhere (Razor & Tie) 2001
The Ultimate Collection (Hip-O) 2001
Steady Nerves (Elektra) 1985
Live From New York, NY (Classic) 1996 (Rock the House/Razor & Tie) 1996
The Last Rock 'n' Roll Tour (Razor & Tie) 1997
Max (Mercury) 1977
Frogs Sprouts Clogs and Krauts (Arista) 1979
Purity of Essence (Hannibal) 1980
Piss & Vinegar (Buy or Die) 1996
A crabby pug whose bark is every bit as ferocious as his talent, Graham Parker comes on like an arrogant bantam with the world's bone up his butt and then delivers the musical goods that justify his conceit and erase the ill-will he so enthusiastically spreads. Remote and defensive in one song, Parker can drop his guard and be selflessly frank and incisive the next. And while he's proven himself capable of truly obnoxious haughtiness, the self-appraisal that appears as a preface to his monumental 1993 career retrospective is unfairly harsh.
It's never been clear what really motivates Parker's strong-minded songwriting, but one of the buttons clearly marked DO NOT PUSH is attached to recording contracts. He's been signed to loads of companies (one abortive liaison with Atlantic in the mid-'80s ended without any audible result), many of whom have waved goodbye with compilations. Pourin' It All Out, Anger and The Best of Graham Parker 1988-1991 document his work on, respectively, Mercury, Arista and RCA. It Don't Mean a Thing and The Best Of (greatly expanded in its 1992 reissue edition) are British collections of his early years. All are useful but, short of owning the essential albums, the two-CD Passion Is No Ordinary Word will certainly suffice as a well-annotated if slightly incomplete introduction to the first 15 years of Parker's howlin' wind.
Arriving on the mid-'70s London scene as a rough'n'ready product of the pub-rock era an R&B- loving Nick Lowe with a sharper, more ambitious pen, as it were Parker predated Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, both of whom would second his illustration that the singer/songwriter idiom could be recharged, giving intelligent rock fans an excitable and energetic alternative to (slightly) older guardsmen like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Randy Newman and Van Morrison. Produced by Nick Lowe, Howlin Wind is a classic debut album, full of fine ideas fleshed out with ragged enthusiasm. Parker acknowledges his roots throughout, singing original R&B boppers ("White Honey" and "Lady Doctor") with sly wit and masterfully reconstructing rockabilly on the angry "Back to Schooldays," complete with guest twangin' by Dave Edmunds (who later recorded the song himself on Get It). Evidencing an equally powerful sensitive side, Parker checks in with the reflective "Between You and Me" and "Don't Ask Me Questions," the latter a chilling wail of anguish.
On Howlin Wind (and on all subsequent LPs through The Up Escalator), Parker received formidable backing from the Rumour: Brinsley Schwarz (guitar) and Bob Andrews (keyboards), both ex-Brinsley Schwarz band members; Martin Belmont (guitar), ex-Ducks Deluxe; Stephen Goulding (drums) and Andrew Bodnar (bass), both ex-Bontemps Roulez. Often compared to Dylan's erstwhile '60s cohorts, the Rumour displays the same self-assurance and finesse as the Band, but rocks harder. Despite a checkered recording career on its own, the Rumour was always a stellar support group.
Although produced by Robert John Lange, Heat Treatment is essentially a punchier continuation of Howlin Wind. For spirited soul, there's "Hotel Chambermaid" and "Back Door Love." Parker's serious tunes are also more intense: "Turned Up Too Late" delivers a devastating romantic rejection; the anthemic "Fools' Gold," one of his finest achievements, affirms the need to search for the best, however elusive it's unaffected and inspiring.
The Pink Parker, an EP pressed on colored vinyl, combines non-LP studio renditions of the Trammps' "Hold Back the Night" and a Parker original with hot live versions of "White Honey" and "Soul Shoes."
With the vastly improved music scene as a catalyst, Parker evidently felt the need to assert himself more strongly on Stick to Me, but the resulting overstatement and stylistic diversity couldn't be contained comfortably on one LP. Nonetheless, taken individually, many tracks are undeniably compelling. The title cut is Parker's soaring declaration of dedication in the face of a hostile world; he unleashes exhilarating nastiness in Ann Peebles' "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down." But one need only look at Side Two to sense the confusion: it begins and ends with raucous throwaways designed to compensate for the massive epics in the center. No amount of party fun, however, could clear the air after the overblown theatrics of the seven-minute "Heat in Harlem." Parker is sabotaged by his own indecision.
In classic contract-fulfilling tradition, Parker cranked out a two-record set, The Parkerilla: three live sides plus a second studio version of "Don't Ask Me Questions." Adequate but musically unnecessary, it did the legal trick, and Parker was free to switch to a different American label. The sour-grapes "Mercury Poisoning" (1979) was his first release on Arista, which declined to put its name to the promo-only gray 12-inch one-sided single.
Squeezing Out Sparks resolved Parker's stylistic dilemma. It's his toughest, leanest and most lyrically sophisticated LP; in a way a sad loss of innocence. Eschewing the lighter soul elements of his earlier work, Parker adopts a harsh, nearly humorless tone that suggests cynicism instead of anger. (Regardless, critics generally loved it and sales were decidedly improved over previous efforts.) Loaded with some of his most powerful songs "Passion Is No Ordinary Word," the nettlesome and ambiguously anti-abortion unwanted-pregnancy ode "You Can't Be Too Strong" (a ballad full of disturbing imagery and emphatic phrasing which echoes the album title's judgmental metaphor), the sizzling "Discovering Japan" and "Local Girls" the album stands as Parker's career high, a peak dividing intuitive youth from self-conscious maturity. (A novel 1979 promo album live versions of every Sparks song in the same running order as on the studio version, plus two other live cuts was issued to radio as Live Sparks, further strengthening the band's concert reputation.) Arista later reissued Squeezing Out Sparks with Live Sparks included.
Parker somehow lost his sense of purpose on The Up Escalator. Although retaining the intense, driven approach of Squeezing Out Sparks, the material falls short, possessing fury without context, which results in unsatisfying overkill. Individually, "No Holding Back," "Devil's Sidewalk" and "Love Without Greed" crackle nicely; collectively, they produce a hollow roar. Those looking to assign blame will notice the increasing influence of the king of rock melodrama, Bruce Springsteen, who even joins in vocally on the bloated "Endless Night." And the departure of Bob Andrews couldn't have helped the situation. (The 1991 CD adds "Women in Charge," the B-side of 1980's "Stupefaction.")
The rest of the Rumour followed Andrews through the exit prior to Another Grey Area, which actually constitutes a minor comeback, avoiding the noisier extremes of The Up Escalator. A band of New York session musicians provides precise though unspectacular accompaniment; Parker co-produced with Jack Douglas. Interestingly, the harder-rocking tracks are the least effective: "Big Fat Zero" and "You Hit the Spot" seem little more than halfhearted gestures. In contrast, ballads like "Temporary Beauty," "Dark Side of the Bright Lights" and "Crying for Attention" have a graceful and unforced ring of sincerity never before heard on a Parker LP. Though Another Grey Area seldom overwhelms, it does indicate that, after six studio albums, Parker is still willing to take chances. (The CD reissue adds "Mercury Poisoning," Parker's 1979 frag attack on his first label.)
The Real Macaw, however, is one chance he probably shouldn't have taken. Songs like "You Can't Take Love for Granted" and "Life Gets Better" reach Parker's required level of intensity, but the production and playing do not. Producer David Kershenbaum provides the kind of sparse, colorless setting he used to create for Joe Jackson; the musicianship is unnecessarily understated. The end product: a disc that is watered down and should have been harder. (With no chronological logic, the reissue tacks on Parker's 1979 B-side rendition of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back.")
Billed to Graham Parker and the Shot, Steady Nerves rights the balance, toughening the band attack for a bracing series of characteristically pithy performances, from the cheerfully raunchy "When You Do That to Me" to the gorgeously romantic "Wake Up (Next to You)" to "Break Them Down," a classic Parker fist-waver. A solid album that bodes well. (The CD has an extra song, "Too Much Time to Think.")
Parker soon left Elektra and, following an abortive alliance with Atlantic that didn't result in any releases, signed to RCA and, three years after Steady Nerves, came up with The Mona Lisa's Sister. Getting excellent backing from the extraordinary Schwarz (who co- produced with Parker), Bodnar, ex-Rockpile drummer Terry Williams and keyboardist James Hallawell, Parker engages his sharp tongue and sketchy melodicism for another collection of smooth songs that has its ups ("OK Hieronymous") and downs ("Get Started. Start a Fire"). Brittle sound tends to undercut Parker's soulful strut (especially on "I'm Just Your Man" and a lovely reading of Sam Cooke's "Cupid"); "The Girl Isn't Ready" and "Don't Let It Break You Down," however, gain edgy tension from the same audio characteristic. Although not among his best, The Mona Lisa's Sister confirms Parker's continued artistic vitality.
The only thing Live! Alone in America, which was recorded onstage in Philadelphia in October 1988, confirms is that Parker really does need accompaniment to put his songs across. Naked solo renditions of classic material ("White Honey," "Gypsy Blood," "Back to Schooldays," "Protection," "You Can't Be Too Strong") are blunt but lifeless; of the provocative new songs, only the blistering "Soul Corruption" is strong enough to rise above the demo-like presentation. Live Alone! Discovering Japan takes a similar tack in another land. Live From New York, NY, initially released on an audiophile label, is also contemporary. Live on the Test and BBC Live in Concert, however, delve back to vintage electric sets with the Rumour.
Human Soul is much, much better. Fronting a band composed of Schwarz, Bodnar and ex-Attractions Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas, Parker bounces back with renewed enthusiasm and ambition. With nods to ska, brassy soul and swinging rock, he waxes romantic ("My Love's Strong"), sexy ("Call Me Your Doctor") and familial ("Big Man on Paper"); the songs all reveal newfound gravity and sensitivity. Distorted only in concept, the "surreal side" of the record addresses topics familiar (imperialism, the record industry's torment of a certain self-important genius), unexpected (AIDS misinformation) and downright oblique ("Sugar Gives You Energy").
Swinging back into the other lane of the stylistic highway, Struck by Lightning is rustic and mostly acoustic, with Parker's lonesome harmonica underscoring the Dylanesque leanings. "She Wants So Many Things," the six- minute rant that opens the sprawling album, paints Parker in the worst possible light he's the jerk in the aisle seat who launches into a creepy tirade about a tormentor you don't know but the song is merely misplaced, and the record quickly finds more solid footing. Although Parker devotes his attention to intimate, personal lyrics rather than intricate music here, the tunes played by Andrew Bodnar, Pete Thomas and guests, with Parker handling all the guitar work are sturdy, graceful and occasionally ("The Kid with the Butterfly Net," "That's Where She Ends Up," "A Brand New Book," "Children and Dogs") memorable. As usual, GP leads with his chin, blurting out lines that either miss by a mile (try to find the music in a refrain that goes "Pull your skin like wrapping paper round my heart") or hit their mark with heat-seeking accuracy ("Some believe in a heaven up above / With a God that forgives all with His great love / Well I forgive you if you forgive me hey! / Who needs the third party anyway?").
Fighting his way back to a comfortable studio medium on Burning Questions, Parker uses crisp, unobtrusive soul, folk and rock backing as a platform for affectingly expressed heartfelt thoughts that cut the unease with warmth and poison the love with doubt. The fond and knowingly detailed "Just Like Joe Meek's Blues" is not so much about the late British producer as about the pointlessness of "waiting breathlessly for the Joe Meek revival / But it didn't stand any chance of survival." "Mr. Tender," he says, "is something I'm not...I rave and rant," but he resolves, in the name of love, to "smooth the edges from my roughness and lose the venom in my toughness." The subtlety of Parker's vision, and the various levels on which he can appraise himself and his world, make Burning Questions justify its title. Excellent.
Parker's seasonal record is a between-labels one-off: three originals (including the appropriately jaundiced "Christmas Is for Mugs") proffered in needless demo versions and merry full arrangements starring a New York crew led by producer/guitarist Jon Tiven. Jimmy Destri (Blondie) plays keyboards, Gary Lucas adds mandolin and banjo, Crispin Cioe blows sax; Nona Hendryx shares lead vocals on "Soul Christmas," a name-checking tribute to R&B greats.
"People think I'm filled with hate / They've got it wrong / That's out of date," Parker announces helpfully in an otherwise ludicrous song of lust entitled "Pollinate" (a botanical successor to "Sexual Healing"). He proceeds to spend most of the ominously titled 12 Haunted Episodes reiterating the good humor behind his discouraging exterior. A humble, unpretentious production on which a drummer and organist are the singer/guitarist/bassist's only collaborators, the Dylanesque album contains a few intentional sideswipes ("Disney's America," "See Yourself," the ego- scraping "Cruel Stage") but is basically a drive in the country of undying love: "Partner for Life," "Next Phase," "Loverman" all pledge that troth with evident devotion. The music is, at times, lackluster; if Parker's upbeat mood is scarcely infectious, the tight connection to his heart pours out a foundation of humanity that's both sturdy and inviting.
Acid Bubblegum is a studio album. Piss & Vinegar is the inevitable tribute treatment. High Times is a compilation of songs cut with the Rumour. It Don't Mean a Thing is a mix of early album tracks and singles.
It's tempting to compare the Rumour's relationship with Parker to the Band's with Bob Dylan. Highly respected but unsuccessful bar band (Brinsley Schwarz and Ducks Deluxe versus the Hawks) hooks up with talented singer/songwriter (Parker versus Dylan) to create some of the decade's best music ('70s versus '60s). Of course Parker is not Dylan, and Max, the Rumour's first LP on their own, is not Big Pink, although they would obviously have loved it to be. Often enough, the Rumour (Brinsley Schwarz, Bob Andrews, Martin Belmont, Andrew Bodnar, Steve Goulding) captures the sound of the Band, minus Robertson's lyrical profundity. What's really strange is that the Rumour is far more natural and interesting as a minor-league Band (on great tracks like "Hard Enough to Show," Nick Lowe's "Mess With Love" and a sublime Band-like arrangement of Duke Ellington's standard "Do Nothing 'Till You Hear from Me") than when attempting to forge their own identity on the subsequent albums. Max may not be terribly original but it is utterly enjoyable.
Frogs, on the other hand, seems to be an attempt to recast the Rumour in a vein that conforms more with Stiff's offbeat image. As a clever pop-oriented band, the Rumour succeeds mainly in sounding stiff, with only a couple of songs ("Emotional Traffic," "All Fall Down") standing out from other failed experiments.
Purity of Essence succeeds in recapturing some of the looseness of Max. The band had been reduced to a quartet with the departure of Bob Andrews, whose voice the group's best and keyboards are missed. Even so, the album has its moments, although most of them are on non-original material.[Jon Young / Terry Rompers / Ira Robbins]
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Just nine per cent of people in the South-East are on track for retirement with unrealistic retirement income expectations a major concern, according to the third UK Readiness Report from Aegon.
New research from Aegon UK reveals that encouragingly, this is a slight increase from the eight per cent in April 2014 and is higher than the national average of just seven per cent.
Aegon's third UK Readiness Report – the latest in a series of reports that looks at attitudes towards retirement, has a particular focus on levels of engagement with workplace pensions.
It finds that the South-East's Readiness score has actually fallen over 12 months from 53 to 49. People still hope to retire on £52,000 - despite the fact that this would require a saving pot of more than £1m, a sum higher than the new pension lifetime allowance.
The lack of preparation for retirement should be set against the backdrop of large scale change in the pensions industry. More than five million people have now been auto-enrolled into a pension scheme by their employer in an attempt to improve retirement readiness.
However, 39 per cent of employees in the South-East don't know how much of their salary they're contributing to their pension pot, and 55 per cent say they have no idea how much their employer is contributing. On top of this, nearly half (48 per cent) of the South-East's workers have no idea how much they have saved into their company pension so far. Thirty-four per cent of those in employment don't even know whether they're eligible to be auto-enrolled into a company pension.
Just under half (46 per cent) of respondents in the South-East have never done anything to review their retirement plans, and 49 per cent have never checked the performance of their retirement savings. It is therefore perhaps no surprise that nearly two-thirds (65 per cent) do not feel confident about being able to retire at their target retirement age.
There is, however, positive sentiment about the idea of having a workplace pension and the desire to save for the future. Fifty-seven per cent plan to rely on their workplace pension as their main source of post-retirement income, and just six per cent said they'd leave the auto-enrolment scheme when the minimum contributions rise to five per cent in 2018.
In fact, nearly a quarter (24 per cent) said they would go so far as to increase the amount they saved beyond the minimum requirement.
David Beattie, Managing Director, Aegon UK Direct said: "It is deeply worrying that as a nation we're still failing to prepare for our futures, despite the big changes made to pensions in recent years. We have a new government, and with this, the opportunity to ensure the pension reform of the last parliament is implemented successfully. The focus has been primarily on giving those approaching retirement more control of their savings, something that we wholeheartedly support. But it is time for a shift in emphasis from both government and industry. We must now focus on the savers, and do more to help them save for the retirement they want.
"There's a huge disconnect between the amount people have saved and the retirement income they want in retirement. Most people want an income which would require more than £1m of savings. How close are they to that? With the lifetime allowance due to fall to £1m, unless individuals also have substantial non-pension savings or defined benefit pensions, £50,000 isn't just unrealistic – it's more than the Government will allow!
"We now have online tools that could, and should help people to engage in a simple, but effective way. There is a clear appetite for digital and mobile services; 61% of people want to manage their pension online, but currently just 23 per cent do so."

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Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds.
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Veteran actor James Brolin has assured family friends and fans his son Josh and estranged daughter-in-law Diane Lane are doing "OK" in the wake of their marriage split.
The Hollywood stars, who wed in August, 2004, quietly parted ways late last year, but the news was not made public until last week.
It subsequently emerged that Lane had signed off on the divorce papers on Valentine's Day, citing February 13 as the official date of separation. The petition was lodged in court on February 15.
Neither Brolin nor Lane have commented on the split, but the actor's dad James has now opened up about the pair's marriage breakdown, telling People magazine, "Everything is mutual. It's all OK. … Josh is great. He's doing fine. Everything is fine."
Josh Brolin was introduced to Lane at a 2002 party by his stepmother, James' wife Barbra Streisand.


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- The sons of two well-known journalists in Mexico's Chihuahua state are slain
- The office of Mexico's top prosecutor is helping in the investigation
- Group: Investigators should probe if two were targeted because of their parents' work
- Mexico's president expresses condolences in a Twitter post
The office of Mexico's top prosecutor is investigating the slaying of the sons of two well-known journalists
Brothers Alfredo David Paramo, 20, and Alejandro Paramo, 21, were found dead early Saturday morning in the capital of the border state of Chihuahua. Authorities found 9mm bullet shell casings at the scene, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
Their parents -- David Paramo, a financial journalist, and Martha Gonzalez, editor-in-chief of the El Peso de Chihuahua newspaper -- are prominent journalists in Chihuahua, a Mexican state known as one of the country's most violent.
Local media reported that state prosecutors have said the couple's work had nothing to do with their sons' deaths.
But Articulo 19, a nonprofit group that pushes for press freedom in Mexico, says it's too soon to rule that out.
"They (prosecutors) did that without presenting proof and based on unofficial accounts given to the press," the organization said in a statement, calling for an impartial investigation of the case.
The case drew attention from many of the country's top political leaders and journalists over the weekend, with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto among those who expressed condolences in Twitter posts.
In another post, Peña Nieto said he had ordered Mexico's attorney general's office to help local authorities in their investigation.
A spokesman for state prosecutors said Sunday that authorities were pursuing a number of lines of investigation, focusing on the victims' social and family relationships.
The brothers returned home shortly after 4 a.m. on Saturday, then one of them told their mother they had to go out again, Carlos Gonzalez, the spokesman for state prosecutors, told Mexico's Milenio TV.
"We do not know for what reason, they left the house, and within minutes they were followed and became victims," he said.
At least 14 journalists in Mexico were killed in retaliation for their work in the country from 2006-2012, marking former President Felipe Calderon's tenure as "one of the deadliest on record for freedom of the press anywhere in the world," according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
"Across Mexico, authorities at the state and local level have a dismal record of solving journalist murders," the organization said in a statement last month. "CPJ research shows that officials have been known to attack the reputation of the victims, either directly or through leaks to the press."


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Republican Precinct Committee members from the 35th Senate District elected Clark Shultz to replace Jay Emler in the state senate on Thursday in McPherson.
Before being selected to fill the vacancy left by Emler's appointment to the Kansas Corporation Commission, Shultz was the representative for the 73rd House District, which includes most of McPherson County. He has been in the state legislature since 1997.
He is also campaigning for state insurance commissioner. According to his campaign web site, he graduated from Wichita State University and has a master's degree from Baker University.


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No one was certain what happened to Patrice Bergeron. Everyone saw what happened to Jonathan Toews.
Cole: Toews, Bergeron injured
No one was certain what happened to Patrice Bergeron. Everyone saw what happened to Jonathan Toews.
But as an allegory for the state of playoff hockey in the National Hockey League, it's probably fitting — not pleasant, but just about what you'd expect — that the No. 1 forward on each of the Stanley Cup finalists may not be able to finish the series because of injury.
And what a series. The Hawks' 3-1 win Saturday night at United Center sends them into Boston with a chance to eliminate the Bruins on Monday, but there has scarcely been a razor's width separating the teams over the long haul.
It is also entirely in keeping with past conduct (his and the team's; maybe every team's) that Toews — the Chicago captain who's had concussion problems in his career and who took a forearm shiver to the back of the head when he got caught on the tracks by Boston defenceman Johnny Boychuk in the second period — was back on the bench in the third, even though he couldn't play.
The Madhouse on Madison is no one's idea of a quiet room, but in the playoffs, pretty much every other rule is ignored, so why not the concussion protocol?
"I don't think there was a defining blow, I'm not sure exactly the incident," said Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville. "Upper body, you know. I checked on him a couple of times, I think he wanted to play, but … we'll see."
So the fact that he was on the bench rules out concussion?
"Nah, we're just hopin' he'll be ready to play. We'll see how he is. We're hopeful he can play."
Bergeron, the crafty Bruins centre who was probably the team's top Conn Smythe candidate heading into Saturday night's Game 5, played only a single, short shift in the second period before moving gingerly to the bench and then the dressing room, and was seen eschewing a gurney and entering an ambulance under his own power before the third period began. The rumour was an internal injury, perhaps spleen, but we'll know tomorrow, or … some day.
Toews, elbowed in the head early by Zdeno Chara in a collision in the corner, left shortly after being crushed by Boychuk as the Blackhawk centre tried to cut into the middle of the ice late in the second period.
"I came across and read it and hit him," said Boychuk. "I tried to hit him clean and I thought it was. I don't know how he fell, awkwardly, but I'm going to try and play physical and he's going to drive the net like he's supposed to and I'm going to hit."
Earlier in the game, Bruins defenceman Dennis Seidenberg was penalized for boarding on a hit from behind that drove Hawks' Marcus Kruger into the boards. Another Boston defenceman, Adam McQuaid, cross-checked Chicago forward Andrew Shaw in the face.
And that was no accidental love-tap Chara, who has been on the ice now for seven of the last eight Chicago goals, laid on Toews early on. Toews had said the Hawks felt they exposed Chara in Game 4, and it's not too much of a reach to think the great six-foot-nine oak tree — who scored the lone Bruins goal on a rocket that no goalie, let alone Corey Crawford, could have got a glove on — was letting him know he didn't appreciate it.
Bruins' Nathan Horton is labouring with a chronically dislocated shoulder. Hawks' Marian Hossa is nursing an undisclosed injury. And so another Stanley Cup final is apt to be decided by attrition, and who survives it best. That has a habit of happening with the Bruins, who seem to win more of them than they lose when the body count starts to rise.
"Well, it's been a war, been a battle," said Quenneville, careful not to inflame the debate by pointing any fingers.
Considering that the clinching goal — David Bolland's empty-netter with 14 seconds left — was created by a flagrant trip of Boston's Torey Krug by Michael Frolik — he's probably wise to leave officiating out of it.
"Every game, every shift, you're fighting for every inch of space on the ice, and it's a fast-paced game," said Quenneville, and that's no lie.
"You look at every minute from Game 1 to where we're at today, it's been an amazing series and relentless hockey and both teams have really been leaving it out on the ice."
If the Bruins were keen to lean as heavily on Toews as possible, part of it was because his line — with Patrick Kane, who scored the first two Chicago goals Saturday and big Bryan Bickell — have been a force since reuniting for Game 4.
And Bickell poked the bear, too, early on after the Chara hit on Toews. He responded with hits on David Krejci and Chara, the second of which almost resulted in a dust-up with Boston's Milan Lucic, who was ready to drop the mitts, but Bickell declined.
"I think physically we've got to respond the right way," said Quenneville. "Utilize our speed, go into tough areas, don't get distracted from going where we've gotta go. Bicks had a couple of big hits on one shift that really got things going, too. I think they can be more physical than us, but at the same time, just don't get distracted from where we've gotta travel. And that's been the case."
As for what it means for both teams now, if their top forwards are out, it's probably more harmful to the Bruins, considering the level Bergeron was playing at after four games.
Then again, if Toews's injury derails Kane, who's been growing in confidence …
"I didn't even realize he wasn't playing until the last 10 minutes, maybe, when I was lookin' to see who I was going out there with," said defenceman Duncan Keith.
"Obviously, he's a big part of this team, he was there for us (on the bench), but I noticed Bergeron wasn't out there for them, too, so maybe that equalizes it a little bit."
Equalizes by subtracting huge talent from both sides, though. That doesn't seem like a very good trade, for the game.


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I just received another flyer critizing a political opponent.
In this case the candidate's "Public Disclosure" shows he receives both a state pension and Social Security. This item is highlighted and there is a statement "Two taxpayer funded checks every month."
While I'm no multi-millionaire, I receive those same two checks every month. Before my retirement I periodically received a printout showing my employer's contribution to the State Retirement System.
Everyone who is legitimately employed also pays into Social Security. Is the Republican Party telling us that after working for years and paying into retirement systems, we should not collect and are a burden on taxpayers? By the way, I'm still a taxpayer as is the critized candidate.
While the statement on the flyer is true, why try to make it sound like something underhanded took place?
All it tells me is that the candidate worked for a state agency long enough to receive a pension and paid into and is now eligible to receive Social Security.
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I'm not really sure there is any lesson here, as others have found, but it's a very entertaining short story about the circle of events that results from giving a mouse a cookie. Cute story. Great for small children.
I love this book! - Ace
Very entertaining book about the consequences of doing something that leads to more and more unexpected other things. Good book for parents who might give into something and end up running around full circle. Action packed and interesting illustrations of what the kind boy goes through keeping giving readers lots to talk about. It's an entertaining "Oh no!" every turn of the page. Great read.
Excellent picture book which has cumulative sequence. This book is filled with humour.
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This book was very wonderful! I highly encourage parents to read this book to their child. It was full of different events about a mouse who wanted a cookie and then goes on all these different activities. This is something a child can relate to because children always want one thing and end up wanting something else or more. I really enjoyed this book! Children will be excited to read this book because they will think it is funny to see a mouse running around asking for different things and making a mess. I just had to grab it when I saw it at the library because I remember reading this book as a child.
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On July 28, Microsoft filed for the logo of its upcoming retail stores (pictured on the side) in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as first reported by istartedsomething. As of publishing time, the status of the filing was "Newly filed application, not yet assigned to an examining attorney."
Microsoft wants the design to be able to appear on various goods and services including "retail store services and online retail services featuring computers, computer hardware, software, computer games, computer peripherals, portable music players and accessories, personal digital assistants, cell phones and accessories, video game consoles and accessories, webcams, books, clothing, back packs, messenger bags, computer bags and novelty items." The filing describes the logo, which bears much resemblance to the Windows and Office logos, as follows:
The mark consists of four squares arranged in a rectangular grid. Each square is colored to form three square-shaped regions within the square, with the color of each region gradating from dark to light toward the center of the design. The upper left square design is red, the lower left square is blue, the upper right square is green and the lower right square is yellow. The squares are separated by blank space.
The same day that Microsoft made the filing, the company announced it was opening up one store in Scottsdale, Arizona and one in Mission Viejo, California. Redmond refused to give details on other retail locations, though the company did say it plans to open stores outside the US eventually.
Just last week prototypes and concepts for the Microsoft Store leaked to the Web. In February 2009, Microsoft first confirmed that it would be opening retail stores this fall and that the software giant had hired David Porter as corporate vice president of Retail Stores.


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There have been a few videos flying around the interwebs showing yours truly demonstrating a research project with Nvidia at Siggraph:
It's a very cool 'research project' at this point. Here at Adobe we're exploring the use of ray-tracing on extruded text and shape layers that better utilize the GPU. Obviously we can't say if or when something like this would ship (in even what product for that matter), but it would be fantastic to see what you think.
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Solo Diving - an A to Z of operators who allow and those who don't
Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:04 AM
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:27 AM
Wakatobi if you have a cert
Edited by NWDiver, 19 December 2012 - 06:27 AM.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:30 AM
One strategy that always worked for me, in situations where solo diving was frowned upon, was simply requesting to buddy with the DM. Before the diving began, I would talk with the DM and explain that I would be buddying with him or her, but I wouldn't be hanging close if that was OK. It was always OK. So, I just did my own thing but stayed within sight of the group. And that is the main concern for most photogs, to be able to concentrate on a subject without boring a buddy to death.
In the Caribbean, Bonaire, Curacao, Cozumel (with the boutique ops) , and Roatan (especially CocoView) are notably solo diver friendly. Other than Wakatobi, I've found Asia to be pretty mellow about solo diving, in fact, when I was recently in PNG not only could I solo dive but I was never asked for my cert cards at all.
I was just planning a trip to Anilao in the Philippines and had to assure the resort that I would have a Solo cert before being allowed to do solo shore diving.
I have heard that Australia is pretty tough on solo divers, and during a trip to the Coral Sea a few years ago on the Nimrod Explorer, we were admonished about solo diving. However, it was a full boat charter so we were able to persuade them to relent to avoid a mutiny :-)
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:23 PM
Red Sea Diving Safari in 2011 was extremely picky and only cared about showing a plastic card. Having hundreds of logged dives and demonstrated your skills on the checkout and guided dives did not have any impact. No solo diving at all and without PADI AOW or equivalent no Elphinstone trips or night diving without guide. A careful one-finger brace on the reef to stabilize a macro shot was also not tolerated whereas divers kicking up clouds of dust and knocking off the occasional branch of coral were left alone. Two years earlier they were much more reasonable and after a few days judged you by your demonstrated skills.
Planet Dive at Anilao (Philippines) officially has a no solo-diving policy but once they see how you dive I think you can dive solo on their house reef and they don't herd you during guided dives. However, I did not ask them about solo diving because I had a perfect buddy. So better confirm before you go if you want to dive solo.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:56 AM
This is a subject very dear to my heart.
I dive solo at home....not often....but I do love it (no I dont have a solo diving qualification but I do have 900+ dives on my skull)..and always as safely as possible...i.e. safe site, easy ingress and egress.....no depths.....no currents...shallow water.. etc etc..
In all my years diving with a camera, I have always been the lone camera diver in the boat....have always been left behind by the pack....and in the early days...got the ear chewed off me by guides!
Totally concurr with Saudio.. I have to say that now I find that a little honest communication with the dive guides beforehand..(or the dive operator)....just assure them that you will be keeping an eye on the group as the dive progresses....does indeed help....and I do find they will meet me half way. After all........you are a paying customer....so if you dont open your mouth.........you wont get anywhere.
Also I find when I demonstrate to the guide I am a competant ..good buoyancy control...manage my air...stay with the group as best as possible......I do find I get more freedom to do my thing, because you build up faith with the guide that you will not do something stupid.
The only time I felt I was truely free to do my own thing was on a dedicated underwater photography workshop with Scuba Serya in Bali....and I loved that to bits.
Dedicated underwater photographer trips are the buisness for me!
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Posted 23 December 2012 - 05:45 PM
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Posted 24 December 2012 - 09:37 AM
The Aggressor fleet doesn't as far as I know. I looked into the Belize Aggressor for this winter and they were adamant about not allowing it. My guess is that in practice, once the DMs have had a chance to check you out, they may be fine with it. That's my experience with most places, but then I have logs showing about 2500 solo dives.
Edited by Stoo, 24 December 2012 - 09:38 AM.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 12:28 AM
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Posted 26 December 2012 - 12:07 AM
How far can you lag behind your dive group before you're considered a solo diver? If you're a photographer you will be a solo diver at some point.
When you plan a dive yourself and jump in the water alone; that is a solo diver. Diving in a group is not a solo diving, unless you have a very stretchy imagination.
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Posted 26 December 2012 - 09:04 AM
How far can you lag behind your dive group before you're considered a solo diver? If you're a photographer you will be a solo diver at some point.
There is a difference between a solo diver, an independent diver, and a distracted-buddy diver. The first two, when done correctly, are responsible towards yourself and others but is often still frowned upon. The last is typically tolerated although it is dangerous because its risk calculations are based on redundancy and assistance provided by a buddy, who in this case won't be there when needed.
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Posted 26 December 2012 - 02:38 PM
Hence many are (wisely) wary of allowing divers to dive alone as they are to some extent liable for the diver's behavior whilst in their care. Qualifications that allow for solo diving are, as far as I am aware, not yet proven via the court system.
Even in areas like Egypt where civil liability is not an issue, most operations rely on permits and permissions to operate, which can be denied if the operator is found to in breach of guidelines.
When solo diving qualifications are governmentally recognized, there is an inevitable inertia within individual centers due to them being risk averse, and the buddy system is still seen as being a safer option.
The best option is still to build up a relationship with the diving operators that you use. I'm sure many of us have dived with operators whose official policy does not allow it, but are prepared to tolerate it with divers whose skills and judgement they trust.
Posted 26 December 2012 - 11:33 PM
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Posted 08 February 2013 - 08:00 PM
Very good point. IMHO, if you're going to be too far away from a buddy/teammate to share air in case of emergency, then you are in effect diving on your own. With Tec courses, I teach students that their teammate is dead within 45s without air. Following this, if you are more than 45s from a fully redundant alternate air source, you are in effect diving alone. This is is different to solo diving, when a diver brings a completely redundant air source, such as a pony or sidemounted tanks, with him and plans his actual dive and gas consumption.
How far can you lag behind your dive group before you're considered a solo diver? If you're a photographer you will be a solo diver at some point.
Solo diving can be done safely depending on the site. I teach Self-reliant diver courses but I advise divers to consider local conditions and particulars of a given site. I do not allow divers to solo dive on most sites, unless they have hundreds of logged dives on those given sites, around Bali because of tricky currents. Tulamben, Amed and even Manta Point can be notable exceptions.
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Posted 09 February 2013 - 06:33 AM
I buy my own photographic kit. Diving equipment manufacturers and diving services suppliers get even-handed treatment from me whether they choose to advertise in the publications I write for or not. All the equipment I get on loan is returned as soon as it is finished with. Did you know you can now get Diver Mag as an iPad/Android app?
Posted 10 February 2013 - 03:48 AM
I been diving the last 4years from my own unattended boat solo(I tend to stick to the same large area that I know off by heart and has moorings set there by the dept.of P.I.), I have rules and instinct is the guiding VIBE over those logical set rules- if it don't feel right I don't do it, the shot never comes first over my safety and limitations which I stay well inside off(not that it is such a drag). I find solo-ing has made me more careful as a diver not less as the cert. agencies like to make you out as reckless or crazy.
How many then solo dive WITHOUT a independent air source; and if you do what rules do you set yourself?????
- ie: don't go into overhead enviros, don't provoke sharks or marine life, limit depth to 12m if not carrying a pony bottle, tow a bouyed flag while shore diving or set an anchored bouy on your entry/exit point.carry mirror/smb/knife/line cutter/snorkle and whistle
and the golden rule- if in trouble save yourself, not your camera
Maybe we could make a list of wise, risk mitigation measures to help the growing ranks of photogs that solo dive..........
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 11:36 AM
The only place I've ever been where solo diving was officially sanctioned was Bonaire. Other than that most ops are very reasonable to photographers once they have judged that you are not a liability.
Still accidents DO happen. One UK inland site will no longer even let you snorkel solo (without a debate at least) after a well known UK dive industry 'icon' nearly drowned while snorkelling testing out a new housing!
Cheers, Simon
edit - Nope I will not divulge the name!!
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Fox News Lobbies For Balanced Budget Amendment That Economic Experts Say Would Hurt The Economy
Fox News has aggressively supported a Republican plan to add a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. However, progressive and conservative experts alike have made clear that a balanced budget amendment would make future recessions worse and damage the current recovery.
While Economic Experts On Both Sides Have Said A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Make Recessions Worse And Harm The Economy ...
Former George H.W. Bush Treasury Official: Amendment "Would Force The Federal Government To Make Economic Recessions Worse." Bruce Bartlett wrote in a Fiscal Times column that a balanced budget amendment "would force the federal government to make economic recessions worse. Since federal revenues fall and spending rises automatically in economic downturns, it would force spending cuts and tax increases at precisely the point when the economy is reeling, potentially turning a modest downturn into a depression." [The Fiscal Times, 8/27/10 [1]]
AEI's Ornstein: Balanced Budget Amendment Is "About The Most Irresponsible Action Imaginable." CNN.com reported:
Striving to achieve a balanced budget by way of a constitutional amendment would be "irresponsible," according to one seasoned congressional observer.
"It is about the most irresponsible action imaginable," said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "It would virtually ensure that an economic downturn would end up as a deep depression, by erasing any real ability of the government to pursue countercyclical fiscal policies and in fact demanding the opposite, at the worst possible time." [CNNMoney, 3/29/11 [2]]
EPI: If Balanced Budget Amendment Was Already In Effect, It "Would Depress Our Nascent Recovery." From a briefing paper prepared by the Economic Policy Institute:
While a BBA would force budget balance, it would have negative economic effects in both the short and the long run. Indeed, as with concerns about a global spending cap, one of the most troubling aspects of a BBA is the constraint imposed on countercyclical fiscal policy at times of economic downturn. During economic downturns, revenues fall while public expenditures automatically rise. A BBA would require the federal government to reduce its spending to match reduced revenues, or impose tax hikes in the midst of a recession, forcing a fiscal policy that would exacerbate the recession. Indeed, premature fiscal retrenchment was tried in 1937, causing a double dip in the Great Depression.
If previously in effect or if implemented today, a BBA would depress our nascent recovery. This policy would deprive government of the ability to step in and act during a recession, that is, at a time of exceedingly low consumer and business demand. The policy would in fact force the opposite--a pullback in federal demand for goods and services. With 14 million people still unemployed, a return to prerecession unemployment rates by 2016 is unlikely absent policies that work to fill the gap in private-sector demand for goods and services. The most promising policy lever to fill this gap in the near term is expansionary fiscal policy (Bivens 2011). A BBA would restrict the government's capacity to pursue expansionary fiscal policies in times of economic crisis, and derail any recovery: For example, closing the current trillion dollar budget deficit projected for next year through any combination of spending cuts or tax increases would devastate the economic recovery.[[9]] [Economic Policy Institute, "Why Spending Caps Are Poor Policy", 6/22/11 [3]]
CBO Director Elmendorf: Balanced Budget Amendment "Risks Making The Economy Less Stable, Risks Exacerbating The Swings In Business Cycles." During his January 2011 testimony to the Senate Budget Committee, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said of a balanced budget amendment:
Amending the Constitution to require this sort of balance raises risks that you're aware of. The -- the automatic stabilizers that the government has, the federal government has, the fact that taxes fall when the economy weakens and that spending and benefit programs increases when the economy weakens, in an automatic way, under existing law, is an important stabilizing force for the aggregate economy; the fact that state governments need to work, as you said, against those effects in their own budget, need to -- need to take action to raise taxes or cut spending in recessions undoes the automatic stabilizers, essentially, at the state level.
Taking those away at the federal level risks making the economy less stable, risks exacerbating the swings in business cycles. [CQ Transcriptions, 1/27/11, via Nexis]
CBPP: Amendment "Would Threaten Significant Economic Harm." The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explained why a balanced budget amendment "would be a highly ill-advised way to address the nation's long-term fiscal problems":
It would threaten significant economic harm while raising a host of problems for the operation of Social Security and other vital federal functions.
The economic problems are the most serious, and they would pertain to any version of a constitutional balanced budget amendment. By requiring a balanced budget every year, no matter the state of the economy, such an amendment would raise serious risks of tipping weak economies into recession and making recessions longer and deeper, causing very large job losses. That's because the amendment would force policymakers to cut spending, raise taxes, or both just when the economy is weak or already in recession -- the exact opposite of what good economic policy would advise.
When the economy slows, federal revenues decline or grow more slowly and spending on unemployment insurance and other social programs increases, causing deficits to rise. Rather than allowing the "automatic stabilizers" of lower tax collections and higher unemployment and other benefits to cushion a weak economy, the amendment would force policymakers to cut spending, raise taxes, or both. That would launch a vicious spiral of bad economic and fiscal policy: a weak economy would lead to higher deficits, which would force policymakers to cut spending or raise taxes more, which would weaken the economy further.
The fact that states must balance their budgets every year -- no matter how the economy is performing - makes it even more important that the federal government not also face this requirement and thus further impair a faltering economy. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 6/6/11 [4]]
OMB Watch: Balanced Budget Amendment "Could Impede Economic Recoveries." According to OMB Watch:
Over the past 30 fiscal years, the federal government has run a surplus only three times. In the past three years, the government has seen deficits totaling almost $3.5 trillion, and the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) baseline prediction shows deficits for at least the next decade. With such a history and with the recent rise of the Tea Party and its fiscally conservative contingent in Congress, it is unsurprising that balanced budget amendments to the Constitution are once again finding their way to the national agenda. While forcing Congress to balance the books through a constitutional mandate may be appealing to many fiscal hawks, a balanced budget amendment could impede economic recoveries following Wall Street meltdowns and other calamities. [OMB Watch, 1/25/11 [5]]
Klein: Balanced Budget Amendment Would "Make Future Recessions Worse." Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein wrote:
Another problem: In a recession, tax revenue plummets and GDP stops growing, but spending has to be sustained, or even increased, to a) give people unemployment insurance and Medicaid and other services they need and b) keep the economy from contracting violently. This amendments includes no provisions for recessions, meaning that when the economy contracted, the government would have to contract as well. That is to say, we're still not out of one of the deepest recessions in American history, and every Senate Republican has co-sponsored a constitutional amendment to make future recessions worse. It's just breathtaking. [The Washington Post, 4/1/11 [6]]
Progressive And Good Government Organizations: Balanced Budget Amendment "Would Damage The Economy." A letter co-signed by 247 progressive and good government organizations sent to Congress stated:
A balanced budget constitutional amendment would damage the economy, not strengthen it. Demanding that policymakers cut spending and/or raise taxes, even when the economy slows, is the opposite of what is needed to stabilize a weak economy and avert recessions. Such steps would risk tipping a faltering economy into recession or worsening an ongoing downturn, costing large numbers of jobs while blocking worthy investments to stimulate jobs and growth and address the nation's urgent needs in infrastructure and other areas.
In short, this amendment is a recipe for making recessions more frequent, longer, and deeper, while requiring severe cuts that would harshly affect seniors, children, veterans, people with disabilities, homeland security activities, public safety, environmental protection, education and medical research. [Mother Jones, 7/13/11 [7]]
... And That A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Force Drastic Cuts To Major Government Programs
Bartlett: If Already In Force, Balanced Budget Amendment Would Have Cut More Than $300 Billion From Social Security And Medicare in 2009. Bruce Bartlett, former George H.W. Bush Treasury official and Reagan domestic policy advisor, wrote in a Fiscal Times column that: "It's doubtful that BBA supporters really understand the composition of federal spending. In fiscal year 2009, we would have had to abolish every discretionary spending program, including national defense, to balance the budget and that still wouldn't have been enough without higher revenues. We would have had to cut more than $300 billion out of Medicare and Social Security as well." [The Fiscal Times, 8/27/10 [1]]
CBPP: A Balanced Budget Amendment "Would Inexorably Subject Social Security And Medicare To Deep Reductions." From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
The measure does not cut Social Security or Medicare in 2012. And it does not subject them to automatic cuts if its global spending caps are missed. It is inconceivable, however, that policymakers would meet the bill's severe annual spending caps through automatic across-the-board cuts year after year; if they did, key government functions would be crippled.
Policymakers would have little alternative but to institute deep cuts in specific programs. And as noted elsewhere in this statement, before the debt limit could be raised, Congress would have to approve a constitutional balanced budget amendment that essentially requires cuts even deeper than those in the Ryan budget. Reaching and maintaining a balanced budget in the decade ahead while barring any tax increases would necessitate deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. After all, by 2021, total expenditures for these three programs will be nearly 45 percent greater than expenditures for all other programs (except interest payments) combined. Big cuts in these programs would be inevitable. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 7/16/11 [8]]
EPI: "Not Even Eviscerating Medicare, Medicaid, And Social Security" Would Meet Goals Of A Balanced Budget Amendment And Spending Cap. The Economic Policy Institute analyzed a plan to cap spending and institute a balanced budget amendment:
In short, not even eviscerating Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security would generate adequate savings to meet the balanced budget amendment global spending cap within 50 years.
Put differently, the balanced budget amendment would require more than twice the deficit reduction proposed in the Bowles-Simpson Fiscal Commission report, but over a considerably shorter time horizon and with all deficit reduction placed on spending cuts. (The Bowles-Simpson report was widely criticized [9] at the time for cutting roughly $2 in spending for every $1 in revenue raised). Again, this cap is a political non-starter. [Economic Policy Institute, 3/31/11 [10]]
Klein: Entire Reagan, Bush Administrations Would Have Violated Amendment's Spending Cap. Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein noted:
Not a single year of the Bush administration would qualify as constitutional under this amendment. Nor would a single year of the Reagan administration. The Clinton administration would've had exactly two years in which it wasn't in violation.
Read that again: Every single Senate Republican has endorsed a constitutional amendment that would've made Ronald Reagan's fiscal policy unconstitutional. [The Washington Post, 4/1/11 [6]]
Still Fox News Has Lobbied Aggressively For A Balanced Budget Amendment
Fox Anchor Camerota Promoted Balanced Budget Amendment During Live Coverage Of GOP Press Conference. Guest hosting America Live, Alisyn Camerota covered live a press conference organized by Republicans to introduce a balanced budget amendment. During the segment, she repeatedly suggested that Democrats would look bad politically by opposing a balanced budget amendment. [Fox News, America Live, 7/14/11]
Hannity: "The Country Needs" A Balanced Budget Amendment. During a panel discussion on his Fox News show, Sean Hannity said of the balanced budget amendment: "It's a great idea. It's the best idea," and that it would be his "first choice" for dealing with the national debt. [Fox News, Hannity, 7/13/11]
Morris: GOP Is On "Exactly The Right Track" By Proposing Balanced Budget Amendment." On The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Dick Morris said of the debt ceiling negotiations, "I believe that the Republicans are on exactly the right track of opposing additional taxes, supporting spending cuts, and demanding constitutional reform of a balanced budget amendment with spending caps on the federal government in return for a debt limit increase." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 7/13/11]
Hannity: "I Think We Can Get The Balanced Budget Amendment." On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity said:
All right. I like the idea that is being pushed in Congress, if it is done right, cut, cap, and balance. But cut -- when they say cut, it's got to be now, not five years from now, not 12 years from now. When they say, a no new taxes got to be part of that, none, zero, zip, we are overtaxed already. When they say cap spending, cap, I want a real cap on what they spend in Washington. And the third thing is, I think the country right now is ready. I think state houses all across the country. I think we can get the balanced budget amendment to the constitution. [Fox News, Hannity, 7/11/11, via Nexis]
Fox's Tracy Byrnes: Balanced Budget Amendment Is "So Logical." Fox Business' Tracy Byrnes supported a balanced budget amendment while guest hosting The Willis Report:
TRACY BYRNES: Now you are a member of the Cut, Cap and Balance Pledge coalition. Can you just quickly tell people what it is about?
COLIN HANNA, LET FREEDOM RING PRESIDENT: Sure. The Cut, Cap and Balance Pledge said that there should be three preconditions before the pledge signers would agree to any debt ceiling increase. That would be substantial cuts in the immediate budget, a cap on federal spending similar to Gramm-Rudman cap but this time pegged to the percentage of the economy which the federal spending would represent and then finally a balanced budget amendment, one with real teeth in it. Those are the three elements. The Cut, Cap and Balance Act is a little different however.
BYRNES: Now what is interesting is that all three things that you just mentioned are so logical and I think this is a problem that a lot of Americans are having lately. We have heard this before. We've been here before. And many of us are worried we're going to be here again because we're going to pass some sort of short-term deal just to get us through this August 2nd deadline. [Fox Business, The Willis Report, 7/11/11, via Nexis]
Fox's Mike Gallagher: Balanced Budget Amendment Is A "Practical Chance" To Diminish Debt. When Fox News host Eric Bolling raised the issue of a balanced budget amendment, Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher said:
It's a practical chance. I mean, Eric, that's the point. Americans are demanding answers and for too long we've heard Republicans say, you know, talk the talk and be full of rhetoric until Republicans bring forth plans, whether it's Paul Ryan, whether it's Toomey's, we're not going to move anywhere. [Fox Business, Follow the Money with Eric Bolling, 7/6/11, via Nexis]
Cavuto: Balanced Budget Amendment Is "Too Reasonable" And "Makes Too Much Sense." When Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee appeared on Fox's Your World With Neil Cavuto to tout the balanced budget amendment, host Neil Cavuto said: It's too reasonable. It makes too much sense. So it's going to go nowhere. [Fox News, Your World with Neil Cavuto, 6/24/11, via Nexis]
Hannity: "I Fully Support" Balanced Budget Amendment. From Sean Hannity's interview with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC):
HANNITY: The Republicans did fail on the 2011 budget, I hate to tell you, Senator. And it disappointed a lot of conservatives, including myself. This is a very key moment that they hold the line. And I think walking out of this meeting today was pivotal. We see what's happening in Europe. We see what is happening in Greece, what's about to happen in Spain. I mean, really, all throughout the European -- all throughout Europe, all European countries now are suffering under debt. Do you foresee -- what is the worst-case scenario you see for America?
DEMINT: Well, Sean. The worst-case is that we already have a debt level that if interest rates return to their historical averages, we can't even pay our debts now. And they are talking about taxing the economy more, which means bringing more money to Washington, taking it out of the private sector, this president doesn't know how the American economy works. We've got to do everything we can to stop him. To elect someone who understands American exceptionalism. But frankly, we can't wait a year and a half to stop the spending. If we pass a balanced budget amendment now, it will change the whole paradigm in Washington. Next year's election will be all about a debate for 50 states, ratifying this constitutional amendment.
HANNITY: Absolutely.
DEMINT: That's why we need to take this debate.
HANNITY: I don't think Congress or future Congresses can control themselves, this is the insurance policy we need. I fully support it. I think it's a good idea to make it a big campaign issue. And let the Democrats take the right side or wrong side at their own peril. Senator, good to see you. [Fox News, Hannity, 6/23/11, via Nexis]
Hannity: "I Want A Balanced Budget Amendment. I Think We Need It." After interviewing Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Hannity said to Fox News contributor Karl Rove: "I like what DeMint is pushing and Orrin Hatch. I want a balanced budget amendment. I think we need it. I think it should be part of the debate in 2012." [Fox News, Hannity, 6/23/11, via Nexis]
Fox Anchor Nauert On Balanced Budget Amendment: "We Would Definitely Love For That To Be Able To Happen." From America's Newsroom co-host Heather Nauert's interview with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH):
REP. JIM JORDAN: Look, here's the bottom line. We've got to change our course. We've got to cut spending. We actually have got a plan out there.
Heather, we cut cap and balance, cut spending, cap it as a percentage of GDP, and for the first time in American history, let's actually get through the House and get through the Senate a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and force politicians to do what we should have been doing all along, only spend what we take in.
Those are the kind of bold things that we need to do. And the CBO report underscores this. It says the sooner we cut spending the sooner we're going to get economic growth and that's the bottom line.
HEATHER NAUERT: Well, and that all sounds great and we would definitely love for that to be able to happen, and you're actually taking a step forward in that direction, you have this cut, cap, balance pledge that you're having people take?
JORDAN: Right. Yes, and we started -- we had a press -- yesterday we've launched this online, conservative groups from across the country are supporting it. We've already got dozens of members of Congress to sign off and all kinds of citizens from around the country.
It's the kind of bold action we have to take in the context of this debt ceiling debate. This is the leverage we have to fundamentally change America, to put in place those polices that will put us on a sustainable fiscal path, which is what the CBO talked about. Getting on a sustainable path.
Right now we're on an unsustainable path. To get us there, we've got to take the bold actions we outlined in our cut, cap, cut and balance pledge. We need those things to happen. And we're going to push for those and try to get them done in the context of this debt ceiling debate. [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 6/23/11, via Nexis]
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PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's gasoline prices increased 7 cents over the last week, the fourth consecutive week of increases, according to AAA Southern New England.
The cost of self-serve, unleaded regular averaged $3.97 per gallon – 7 cents more than last week and a gain of 16 cents over the last month – according to the trade group's weekly survey of Rhode Island's pump prices.
Prices ranged from $4.11 per gallon for midgrade unleaded to $4.23 for premium and $4.24 for diesel.
With the 7 cent increase, Rhode Island passed the $3.93 national average for a gallon of self-pump regular unleaded. A year ago, gas in the Ocean State cost an average $3.74 for a gallon of regular unleaded.
The range in prices for unleaded regular in the Ocean State was 21 cents, as Rhode Island consumers could find regular unleaded priced anywhere from a low of $3.83 to a high of $4.04.
Gas prices in Massachusetts rose by 8 cents over the last week to $3.89 per gallon for unleaded regular, 5 cents below the national average for self-serve unleaded.
A year ago at this time, the Massachusetts average price for a gallon of gas was $3.63.
Trilby Lundberg, president of the Lundberg Survey – a different nationally recognized commodities survey group – said that gas prices across the U.S. may have peaked this week.
"Price hikes at the pump have been losing steam for weeks," Lundberg told Bloomberg News. "Crude oil prices have slipped and if they don't rebound in the very near future, gasoline prices will peak very soon, if they haven't already."


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In his 12 years at Niceville, head coach Wes Nelson contends that he has never seen this measure of parity in district play.
In his 12 years at Niceville, head coach Wes Nelson contends that he has never seen this measure of parity in district play.
Enough, however, to knock Niceville from its district championship mantle, which the Eagles have assumed for eight straight years? That remains to be seen.
Adding credence to the parity argument is head-to-head play. While Niceville did finish the District 1-4A slate undefeated, second-seeded Navarre and third-seeded Fort Walton Beach each defeated the Eagles 1-0 in non-district tilts.
And fourth-seeded Crestview, which will play fifth-seeded Tate tonight at 5:30 on field 4 at the Navarre Soccer Complex for a chance to face Niceville in the semifinals, recently played the Eagles down to the wire in a 1-0 loss.
�I think this year is one of closest districts I�ve been a part of,� Nelson said.
Looking for their ninth straight postseason trip, the Eagles� road to the playoffs is shorter than the rest of the district field. Rewarded for their undefeated record in the eight-team league, the Eagles were shoo-ins for the top seed and the bye that comes with it.
�That was No. 1 seed is big because everyone has to play one game before us,� said Nelson, who noted his team will take advantage of the rest.
As for continuing the district win streak, Niceville isn�t concerned with past accolades.
�We haven�t even talked about the district final or winning that,� Nelson said. �We try not to focus on the previous year because this is a completely different team and we only brought back four returning starters.�
So what�s been the key to the Eagles� success?
�It�s always been our ability to play as a team first,� Nelson said. �The only way to keep the playoff streak alive is to play as a team.�
As for whom the Eagles will face in the semis, it is up in the air considering Crestview and Tate tied 1-1 on Dec. 13.
�Who�s to say who�ll say win? It should be a good match,� Nelson said.
As for the top of the bracket, it looks like second-seeded Navarre and third-seeded Fort Walton Beach are on a collision course for the semifinals.
Navarre pulled out regular-season wins over seventh-seeded Pine Forest and eighth-seeded Escambia, which played for the right to match up with the Raiders tonight at 7:30 on field 4 at the Navarre Soccer Complex. Meanwhile, Fort Walton Beach beat its first-round opponent, Pace, 2-1 on Dec. 19.
The Vikings, who face the Patriots at 7:30 tonight on field 5 at the Navarre Soccer Complex, haven�t won a district title in more than a decade and last made the playoffs in 2011, where they advanced to the region semifinals.
Navarre, meanwhile, hasn�t won a district championship since 2004 and last made the playoffs in 2010.
Choctaw looks to defend District 2-3A title
Including back-to-back final-four appearances, Choctaw has made the playoffs four straight years.
Armed with a District 2-3A first-round opponent in fourth-seeded Milton tonight at 7 at Joe Etheredge Stadium, that postseason streak appears to be safe.
The top-seeded Indians defeated the Panthers by a combined 15-0 score � 8-0 and 7-0 � during the regular season. But those scores mean little to Choctaw coach Chris McDaniel, who said the one-and-done type atmosphere presents a whole new ballgame.
�The past means nothing,� McDaniel said. �With this, the first game, it�s lose and you�re done.�
After a 17-2-2 campaign and armed with home-field advantage, Choctaw is the clear favorite to make it three straight district championships. But that moniker seemed like a stretch before the season�s start with the Indians returning only four seniors and losing six starters.
�We�re really young all around,� McDaniel said.
So what�s offset the youth?
With Trapper Chechak providing the senior leadership, consistency and hard work have paved the way.
�With these guys, there is no one real superstar,� McDaniel said. �They�re all superstars, they all work hard and they�re all blue collar guys who find a way to get it done.�
On the other side of the bracket are Rutherford and Arnold, which will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday outside of Fort Walton Beach.


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I love anything chocolate for Valentine's Day!ReplyDelete
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My fave valentine's candy? SWEET TART HEARTS!! YUM!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 2:37 AM
My favorite candy for Valentine's Day or any time is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 2:49 AM
I'd have to say heart-shaped dark chocolate. Thanks for this giveaway! :)ReplyDelete
Truffles always win big.ReplyDelete
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cinnamon hearts! yeah!ReplyDelete
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Chocolate with any kind of filling like caramel. :)ReplyDelete
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Reese's Pieces!! Not very valentine-y, but I LOVE them!!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for having this contest!! My favorite candy for any day is cinnamon bears. So I guess that for Valentine's Day, it would be cinnamon hearts!ReplyDelete
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I love to eat the Heart shaped Chocolate covered strawberry marshmallows. Yumm!ReplyDelete
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Love those Dove chocolates!ReplyDelete
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MY favorite Valentine's candies are Russel Stover assorted creams! YUM!ReplyDelete
My answer would have to be chocolate. This year it seems to be chocolate covered strawberries. So good!ReplyDelete
Since Easter candy is usually around during Valentine's Day, I am going to say Cadbury Eggs (because those are my absolute favorite!).ReplyDelete
My favorite candy for Valentines Day is Hershey kisses.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 4:25 PM
I love love love the Valentine's Day Peeps. There are two flavors (that I'm aware of): strawberry and vanilla. And both are absolutely divine!ReplyDelete
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I absolute fav candy for V-day is Reese's peanut butter <3's they're just YUMMY!ReplyDelete
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See's Candy! My mom gave us a box every valentine's day. Loved the big chocolate covered marshmallow heart.ReplyDelete
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Cinnamon candy hearts or Sweet Tart hearts.ReplyDelete
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Conversation hearts. I think it's mostly because it's just the memory of having them every single year. I really only like the white ones... Now if you were to ask about Easter candy~ that would be easy cause I'm craving them already! Cadbury eggs! YUM!ReplyDelete
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I'm a big fan of dark chocolate! Give it to me and it will be inhaled in mere seconds! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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I'm a chocoholic so I'm not picky I love anything chocolate.ReplyDelete
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As for candy, DEFINITELY twizzlers! They're amazing!
lindt truffles! They're so good!!ReplyDelete
OMG. This is so awesome! My favorite Valentine's Day candy, are just lollipops! LOL. Or just plain chocolate! :DReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway and for participating in this blog hop! My favorite candy is Russell Stovers chocolates.ReplyDelete
I lvoe love love the conversation hearts I always make out messages for my friends with them and I also love the chocolate roses.ReplyDelete
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I love the heart-shaped Reese's! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 12:37 AM
My favorite candy for Valentine's Day is Snickers.ReplyDelete
My favorite candy for Valentine's day is anything chocolate basically and I also love Recees, so do they make those in the shape of hearts? LolReplyDelete
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Conversation hearts!!!!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM
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- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 10:53 AM
My favorite candy is Turtles. Love caramel, chocolate, and pecans.ReplyDelete
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I like really good chocolate, but I also like those cinnamon jelly hearts.ReplyDelete
Milk chocolate truffles- yum!ReplyDelete
petite sour hearts. Delish! Wonderful giveaway.ReplyDelete
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thank you so much for the giveaway!!ReplyDelete
i love dove chocolate for valentines day!
skittles but i hate valentines day ingeneral but i do love me some skittlesReplyDelete
I am obsessed with the Ghirardelli White Chocolate Truffle!ReplyDelete
Kisses, I love my chocolate kisses!!ReplyDelete
I love snickersReplyDelete
I love Godiva chocolates. They are my "special occasion" chocolates!ReplyDelete
Great giveaway, thanks for the opportunity to win.
I honestly dont like candy for valentins dayReplyDelete
See's raspberry truffles are my favorite.ReplyDelete
I love chocolate, any kind!! I guess my favorite would be the dark chocolates.ReplyDelete
Lindor Lindt truffles - YUMReplyDelete
Thank you for the giveaway & Happy belated Valentine's Day
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Sugar Cookies or chocolate!!ReplyDelete
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My favorite are the Reese's hearts! Love them!ReplyDelete
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I love Dove Dark Chocolate.ReplyDelete
My favorite candy for Valentine's Day are See's Scotch Mallows! I ate a ton of them too. :DReplyDelete
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My favorite Valentine's Day chocolate are the crunch chocolates or the ones that have peanut butter fillings. Mmm.. sounds good =)ReplyDelete
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Chocolate covered strawberries! Yum!!!ReplyDelete
Dove Dark Chocolate Hearts :) Really anything dark chocolate. Oh and sweetarts.ReplyDelete
chocolate caramelsReplyDelete
Dove Chocolate Hearts!ReplyDelete
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I luv Dove dark chocolate hearts...yum, thanks.ReplyDelete
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My fave valentine candy is Reese's peanut butter hearts.ReplyDelete
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TWIX!!! =DReplyDelete
I really want to try those extra mini reeses. They look yummy.ReplyDelete
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Love sweettarts!ReplyDelete
Anything chocolate!!! :)ReplyDelete
I love reese's chocolate.ReplyDelete
My favorite Valentines Candy is the assorted heart boxes.ReplyDelete
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My favorite Valentine's Day chocolate is any that come with the words choc and late attached and is not Hershey or dark chocolate.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway
Hershey's Kisses!ReplyDelete
I love Hershey's Kisses (: Thanks for the great giveaway!ReplyDelete
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