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Obama's health care conversion
The most important red line of Barack Obama's presidency was scrawled hastily in January 2007, a few weeks before he even announced he was running for president.
Soon-to-be-candidate Obama, then an Illinois senator, was thinking about turning down an invitation to speak at a big health care conference sponsored by the progressive group Families USA, when two aides, Robert Gibbs and Jon Favreau, hit on an idea that would make him appear more prepared and committed than he actually was at the moment.
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Why not just announce his intention to pass universal health care by the end of his first term?
Thus was born Obamacare, a check-the-box, news-cycle expedient that would ultimately define a president.
"We needed something to say," recalled one of the advisers involved in the discussion. "I can't tell you how little thought was given to that thought other than it sounded good. So they just kind of hatched it on their own. It just happened. It wasn't like a deep strategic conversation."
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
It's not exactly fair to call Obama a reluctant warrior on health care reform — not after all he has staked on the biggest single roll of the legislative dice in a half-century. But it took him years to evolve from a skeptical neophyte playing catchup to Hillary Clinton and John Edwards to a chief executive willing to risk his political capital and legacy and the fate of his own party on the principle of affordable, subsidized, government-mandated national health coverage.
The consequences of that offhand promise are still reverberating. Its greatest test lies just ahead on Oct. 1, opening day for enrollment in Obamacare. A flop would be nothing short of the greatest political and policy cataclysm of his career and a mortal blow to a core Democratic principle that government can still do big things.
The tortured process that led to passage of the Affordable Care Act has been amply documented. Less chronicled is just how Obama gradually fell in love with an ugly-duckling issue, and his slow descent from ambivalent detachment to emotional investment in a cause his aides initially dismissed as "Hillary's thing."
Yet even after the law passed, some of Obama's ambivalence — rooted in his desire to dodge the political backlash — lingered. For Republicans, Obamacare has become a rallying point and fundraising tool, but the West Wing always wanted to pass the thing and move on. That has accounted for a sales job that has been, until this fall's big implementation push, sporadic at best and dangerously lax in the view of many ACA advocates.
( WATCH: Health care: What Obama said, why it mattered)
Obama's legacy on health care began with the pressure to say something, anything, at the progressive health conference a year before the first presidential primary votes were cast. He needed to keep up with Clinton, his party's front-runner, and Edwards, who was trying to carve out space to Clinton's left as the party's liberal standard-bearer.
Favreau, who would go on to become the chief White House speechwriter, said Obama wanted "to say something bold and ambitious about health care."
"He had previously talked about how every year and every election we keep talking about health care and nothing ever happens," Favreau said. "So we came up with that promise, really one of the first."
The candidate jumped at it. He probably wasn't going to get elected anyway, the team concluded. Why not go big?
"In the 2008 campaign, affordable, universal health care for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how," Obama said at the Families USA conference. "We have the ideas, we have the resources, and we must find the will to pass a plan by the end of the next president's first term."
( WATCH: Boehner celebrates House GOP 'victory' over Obamacare)
Even after his pledge, though, it took months for Obama to buy in.
In March 2007, he found himself on the same stage with a highly confident Clinton at another health care forum, this one sponsored by the Service Employees International Union in Las Vegas.
Obama staggered through a discussion that left policy wonks convinced that he was out of his league, particularly when compared to Clinton, arguably the nation's premier expert on health care after her unsuccessful attempt to enact reform in the 1990s.
While she dominated, he was confronted by an audience member who asked why he didn't have a health care plan yet. He responded that his campaign was only eight weeks old and promised to come up with one soon. At one point, in response to a question about health care disparities among minorities, Obama talked about lead poisoning as Clinton aides giggled.
( Also on POLITICO: Senate turns to Obamacare-linked CR)
Obama knew before he walked off the stage that he had screwed up.
"He conceded that he really got his head handed to him — and that didn't happen very often," said former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), an early Obama adviser. "It was a real catalytic moment."
Obama crammed, law-school style, on the details. He became "a student of health policy," Daschle said, consulting with liberal think tanks like the Center for American Progress, reading the research, learning the language and drawing up a plan.
He was pulled deeper into the issue as he traveled the country and listened to the stories of health care hardships told by voters along the rope line, aides said.
But the moment that cemented Obama to Obamacare came in January 2008, when Sen. Ted Kennedy, the party's liberal conscience and most revered elder statesman, told the Illinois freshman he would endorse — on the condition that Obama kept his promise to make health care his top domestic priority beyond propping up the collapsing economy.
It was a bit of a bluff, former Kennedy aides tell POLITICO: The aging Massachusetts senator, who would soon be felled by a brain tumor, probably would have backed Obama anyway.
But Obama repeated his pledge and Kennedy, hardheaded to the last, immediately steered two of his policy advisers to the task of planning, so Obama couldn't back off for lack of a viable legislative strategy. To this day, some of Obama's current and former aides cite the Kennedy commitment as a key reason why he refused to give up even when most of his inner circle counseled him to do just that.
"He felt an obligation," Daschle said of Obama.
Still, Obama continued to attack Clinton even as he took up her life's mission.
At the advice of his political advisers, Obama sought to undercut Clinton by accusing her of pushing for an individual mandate — an idea borrowed from Republicans that polled poorly with independents and conservative Democrats in critical battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Aides say Obama was simply looking for any way to differentiate himself from an opponent whose basic policy positions were indistinguishable from his own. After Clinton dropped out in June 2008, Obama was privately telling his staff that any health care reform he proposed would most likely include a mandate.


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Grocery stores square off in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS -- Grocers are waging a fierce food fight in Indiana, and if you happen to be a foodie — or just frugal — there's a good chance they're fighting over you.
Food retailers from supercenter operator Wal-Mart to the four-aisle stores of Aldi are grabbing for bigger shares of the consumer's food dollar with a new round of store expansions in the Indianapolis area.
At least 18 stores are under construction or planned, plus numerous store remodelings, at a construction tab that likely tops $200 million.
The surge in bricks-and-mortar investment is in response to a growing "foodie" culture, in which consumers shop more often, frequent multiple stores and increasingly search out gourmet, organic and other specialty items. At the same time, shoppers want low prices — and reward stores that offer them — forcing retailers to keep costs down even as they spend heavily on new stores.
"Indianapolis is an intensely competitive market. The pressure to survive has increased," said Jeff Burt, a regional president for Kroger Co., which will spend $45 million on Indianapolis store expansions this year, double its normal capital budget. Among Kroger's new offerings: an in-store cheese shop run by Murray's Cheese, a Greenwich Village, N.Y., cheesemonger.
What's sure to come out of this wave of expansions is a renewed focus on price-cutting and product promotions, as retailers try to lure shoppers into their new or remodeled stores.
"You'll get more item price promotions, and it will get fairly aggressive," predicts Peter Whitsett, executive vice president for merchandising and marketing for Michigan-based Meijer, which is opening two more megastores this spring to add to its nine stores in Indianapolis. More than half of Meijer's store sales come from groceries.
Indy a tough market
The grocery business has always been a low-margin, intensely competitive affair, especially in Indianapolis. Its central location in the country puts it in line for geographic expansions by numerous regional chains, while its stronger-than-average economy makes it a place grocers want to be.
"Grocery chains are like sharks," said Richard Feinberg, a professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University. "They move and grow or they die. They have to continue to expand, and Indianapolis is a ripe market for the growth of new chains and the rebirth of old chains."
The latest major new entrant entering Indianapolis' waters: Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle Inc. The 218-store regional chain has staked out a spot in Carmel for its first area store.
Foodies are clearly the kind of customers Giant Eagle has in mind. Its new supermarket is "inspired by the open-air markets of Europe" and "will help customers to cultivate their passion for food" with appearances by celebrity chefs, said Giant Eagle spokesman Rob Borella.
Cooking enthusiast and vegetarian Melissa Rice, 54, Carmel, said she's eager to see what Giant Eagle has to offer.
"I'm excited about it," said Rice. Rice shops for her family primarily at Whole Foods, but hits Kroger and Marsh for certain brands and Meijer for non-grocery items.
"I think the (existing) local grocery stores have something to be concerned about," Rice said. "It'll definitely be an opportunity for them to step up their game."
Fragmented market
Even having an attractive new grocery concept in town, however, won't cause cost-conscious shoppers to suddenly start spending a lot more on groceries. So that leaves grocery chains vying to grab market share from each other, even as many are expanding.
Tracking grocery market shares is tricky because consumers spread their shopping dollars around multiple stores and often shift their shopping patterns. But it's clear that Indianapolis is a fragmented grocery market.
According to one measure by Scarborough, which traditionally has been used by The Star to reflect market share in the grocery industry, four chains controlled about 80 percent of primary grocery store spending in 2013.
The Scarborough data show Kroger has increased its leading market share from 35 percent to 37.6 percent in the past two years in a survey that asks grocery shoppers where they spent the most money in the previous week. Wal-Mart, which is adding eight smaller neighborhood market stores locally, had a 22.6 percent share in that survey, with Meijer at 13.3 percent and Marsh at 7.8 percent.
With so much new grocery construction underway, market shares can shift quickly, given how today's consumers eagerly embrace retailers that offer novel food shopping concepts, said Michael Bills, a retail specialist and executive in residence at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.
"The average consumer today knows a lot more about food tastes than they did 10 years ago," he said. "There's a willingness to shop other formats and a demand for quality and freshness."
Jason Borneman, a 36-year-old software engineer, said he and his wife
are hardly loyal to one store. They shop at a neighborhood Kroger, subscribe to Green BEAN Delivery of organic and natural foods, and drive regularly to a Trader Joe's on the Northeastside for specialty items.
To compete against the large chains that dominate the Indianapolis market, plus a growing number of natural foods stores, even small grocers must innovate and offer the specialty foods many shoppers want.
The German-owned Aldi Inc. discount chain added a 40-product organic and natural food line in January. Aldi will break ground this year on three stores, bringing its Indianapolis-area store portfolio to 18.
Officials at Kroger, which has operated in Indianapolis for 90 years, say they're ready for a renewed breakout of cut-rate pricing as happened during the recession of 2007-09.
"We will strive ... to protect our strong capital base" that includes $160 million spent on Kroger's 45 Indianapolis area stores since 2008, said Burt of Kroger.
The Cincinnati-based national chain is hardly averse to using price-chopping to lure and keep customers, said Kroger spokesman John Elliott.
One Kroger advantage: It operates its own dairy and commercial bakery in Central Indiana, so it controls prices back to the wholesale level. "We can really drive our pricing," Burt said.
Market strategies differ
Wal-Mart decided to carry out its latest expansion by recently opening five of its smaller, 38,000-square-foot Neighborhood Market brand stores, with three more coming. They are a quarter of the size of a Wal-Mart supercenter.
"We're looking at accelerating the growth of our smaller format stores, driven by the fact that our customers are really responding to these formats in a favorable way." said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Erica Jones. "But we're also not scaling back the location of larger retail stores."
Meijer, on the other hand, will stick with its megastores. The nearly 200,000-square-foot locations stay open 24 hours a day and combine a full-service grocery with a department store that lets people combine all their shopping in one trip, Whitsett said.
The Meijer executive sees Indianapolis as a market where "all the A-listers" in the grocery business butt heads. His attitude toward that heightened competition: Bring it on.
"Competition really is healthy," he said. "As the market becomes more and more competitive, folks will be fighting for their share."
Contributing: Chris Sikich of The Star


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William M. Dowd reports and comments on the world of wine. (From Dowd's Guides)
Study: Draw one, mix one for health
A two-decade study published in the January issue of The Journal of Studies On Alcohol and Drugs reports on connections between the moderate consumption of all types of alcohol and increased longevity.
It also supports the findings of prior studies that wine has more beneficial effects than any other alcoholic drinks. However, in a twist that always seems to pop up in any study, researchers said that may because the people who choose wine tend to be more naturally healthy anyway. Go figure.
The study of 802 men and women ages 55 to 65. Of that number, 281 "low wine drinkers" consumed less than one-third of their alcohol intake from wine, 176 "high wine drinkers" consumed two-thirds or more as wine, and 345 abstainers. The drinkers had one to two drinks per day, and researchers followed them for 20 years.
Among the findings: Wine drinkers lived longer than abstainers, and high-wine drinkers lived longer than low-wine drinkers.
Charles Holahan, a psychologist at the University of Texas and lead author of the article, said there may be benefits for older moderate drinkers no matter what kind of alcohol they consume. But, he cautioned, "The study does not encourage initiating wine consumption as a pathway to better health."
Ya gotta love those disclaimers.
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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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zaf·tig [zahf-tik, -tig] –adjective slang.
1. (of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure.
2. full-bodied; well-proportioned.
Zaftig is a Yiddish word, variously translated as juicy, luscious, or ripe. It derives from the Old German, saf, or juice. As applied to a woman, it means buxom, voluptuous, bosomy, or rubenesque.
The Zaftig Redhead -- political, opinionated, and redheaded -- a dangerous combination tailor made to speak truth to power. The problem with politics today is that it's become more about complex plans and partisan bickering than about the basics of kitchen table economics and overcoming the hurdles of everyday life. You don't have to learn the ins and outs of politics to participate in a meaningful way; instead it's time politicians learned about us -- We, the People. I've listed some of my favorite sources to give you even more of the juicy scoop, hoping that you'll put the squeeze on your elected officials and teach them a thing or two in the process. Just remember, you don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and speak your mind.


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I'm hesitant to use the word "wireless" to describe the prototype iPod shuffle headphones from Arriva, since they're not truly wireless in the usual sense of the word. When I opened the link, I was expecting to see a swanky pair of Bluetooth headphones with a tiny transmitter for the iPod shuffle, but no. Instead of making headphones with no wires, Arriva is planning to make headphones that are the wires.
In this case, the picture is probably worth at least 200 words, but in case you're using lynx or are curious, here's the deal: Rather than mess with wires, the wires are inside some sort of rigid material (plastic?) that looks like a curly drinking straw. At the back of the headphones is a modified iPod shuffle dock attached directly to the headphones. You just plug your shuffle directly into the headphones, and you're good to go.
I'm a bit weirded out by the idea of my iPod plugging right into my headphones, especially if it falls off, but presumably Arriva's new headphones will be designed to minimize that risk. I'm not sure how good they would be for running, though, since your iPod would get all sweaty. On the plus side, you can pretend you're a cool, futuristic cyborg that's able to change songs by pressing the back of your head. And frankly, that's probably enough to overcome some downsides.
The photo shows a prototype mockup from Photoshop, but apparently the finished version will be quite similar. The headphones will come in the same colors as the iPod shuffles, and will hopefully be on sale (iPod not included) sometime this summer. So check it out if you like wearing your sunglasses and other things on the back of your head. Or if you just need new headphones...


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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A bases loaded RBI single to the right side in the bottom of the ninth would drive in the deciding run as the Pride of Springfield College (2-2) edged baseball (1-5) by the final of 4-3 Tuesday afternoon in the Chain of Lakes Stadium.
Following a two-run top of the ninth by UMass which tied the score at 3-3, the Pride got their first runner on base following an infield error. Springfield then moved the runner over to second on a routine sacrifice bunt, which put the game-winning run at second and only one out on the scoreboard. That runner would then move over to third after Jared Hopkins grounded out the pitcher.
The Beacons then intentionally walked the next batter, putting runs at the corners. With Tyler Kane (Wilbraham, Mass.) on the mound dealing for UMB the righty turned his attention to the Pride's Frank Calabrese looking for the third out of the inning. Kane fired in pitch after pitch to eventually load the count, and on the final pitch of the at-bat placed the ball perfectly right on the outside of the plate, but was unfortunately called ball four, there by loading the bases for the Pride.
Mike McGowan would then step to the plate and after seeing one pitch hit what should have been a routine grounder to first base. Just as freshman Jason Cholish (Exton, Pa.) was about to scoop up the ball for the final out of the inning, the ball hit the dirt and took a wicked bounce nearly hitting Cholish in the eye. The 6'3" infielder/designated hitter was able to smack the ball down just as Kane was sprinting for the bag. Cholish reached for the ball and tried to push it over to Kane but was unable to beat out McGowan as the game-winning run reached home plate.
For McGowan his game-winning RBI capped off a 2-for-5 day for the first baseman. On the day the Pride managed their four runs on eight hits. However the Pride's bats were held silent in the opening innings by a dominant pitching performance by UMB's Patrick Austin (Torrington, Conn.). The lefty, who made his first start of the year on Tuesday, dealt a solid 5.1 innings in which he struckout six. He would have been scoreless through the first six innings, but a questionable fair ball call in the bottom half of the sixth allowed the Pride to tack on their first of three runs in the inning. The two other Pride runs came as a result of an error.
Trailing by three after six the Beacons made it a two-run ball game in the eighth after Charles LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) grounded out to the shortstop scoring Matt Consiglio (Southington, Conn.). A scoreless bottom half of the eighth by Springfield, would set-up a crucial top of the ninth for the Beacons.
Kurtis White (Nahant, Mass.) would lead of the inning with a double, which was then followed-up by a Cholish hit by pitch which put runners on first and second. Springfield would get their first out with a strikeout, before getting their second on a fielder's choice. Now with two outs on the scoreboard Gerard Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) stepped in as a pinch hitter. With one ball, two strikes count against him, Florentino unloaded a two run double to the left center tying the game at 3-3. Unfortunately as he rounded second he lost his footing giving the Pride defense the window they needed to get the third out before any more damage could be done as they picked-off the freshman hitter.
The late heroics only last the half inning as the Pride walked off with the victory as UMB's early season struggles continued. At the dish, Consiglio finished 2-for-3 with the one run scored. White also recorded a pair of hits as the freshman infielder went 2-for-4. The Beacons also finished the day with eight hits, but the two errors proved to be costly for UMB as they continue to put thing together for the 2013 season.
Baseball returns to action tomorrow afternoon when they take on Concordia University (Wis.) and McDaniel College in a pair of nine-inning games scheduled for 11:15 a.m. and 3 p.m.


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The stones with a single small drilled hole found on Oak Island pose curiosity. The first curiosity is for the mention of their finding by Hedden and not prior. About five in number they are exclusively found on the eastern side of the island immediate to areas of treasure hunting activity. The curiosity is how would these stones have eluded detection before then, especially the westerly stones being very close to the money pit.
Anyone familiar with early photographic evidence of the area certainly knows how much of that surface was dug up, almost no stone unturned as the saying goes.
A few days ago I read a passage by 'Friend Allen' from the Liverpool Transcript of 15 Aug 1857. He says "Three pits of great depth are still open" Further he continues "The shafts are oblong squares, about 12 feet by 8 and are boxed in, as I may call it, with timbers some 8 inch square in a workmanlike and substantial manor. In addition to the three pits are five whimsies or gins each intended to be worked by two horses, by means of which the dirt, stones, and water were elevated securely in iron casks, many of which are still on the premises".
Five drilled stones and five whimsies or gins is too coincidental to pass by without closer examination. Could these drilled stones have been part of the horse whimsies or gins?
Yes, and the proper name for these drilled stones would be called Mellior Stones.
MELLIOR STONE - The granite bearing stone in which the upright shaft of a HORSE WHIM ran.
Ref http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/delvin ... r/glossary
"Much of this disturbance is likely to have occurred in the last couple of centuries, as slates were found inside the roundhouse and one of the adjacent stones within the field wall had been split and one of them drilled, in order to make a mellior stone for a horse whim."
Ref: http://www.cornisharchaeology.org.uk/in ... matted.pdf
Attached is a drawing based upon an early photo of oak island showing this gin in use.
Also attached is a photograph displayed in Dan Blankenship's office showing a horse whim in use around the cave-in pit.
This stone would be on the ground with the hole acting as a receptacle for a metal rod. The other end of the metal rod would be placed into the end of the vertical. Red arrows show this stone's location.
These gins were consistent to those used in Nova Scotia coal fields for this period which makes sense since experienced coal miners were hired during 1849 (this is how McCully came into the story as manager of the coal exploration augers used to drill that year) and their expertise until the end of 1866.
Here is a link to coal mining in Cape Breton, scroll down to de-watering the mine.
I think this is very strong evidence which suggests those drilled stones found around treasure-hunting shafts were Mellior stones.
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C is for Cookie, but A is for Alfajor.
Say what?
If you've never heard of them, alfajores are definitely one to add to your alphabet of sweets: a delectable type of crumbly cookie commonly sandwiched with indulgent dulce de leche.
Though most commonly associated with South American countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Paraguay, Chile, Perú and the South of Brazil, these cookies actually take their roots in the Arab World: per Wikipedia, "the name alfajor is derived from Arabic الفاخر, which means "fancy" or "great" sweets. The archetypal alfajor entered Iberia during the period of al-Andalus."
Though this sweet treat has a long history, I took a more modern approach by making a Pisco-infused batch (with thanks to Gran Sierpe, who kindly donated some Pisco, a Peruvian brandy, with which to test out some recipes). The brandy adds a slightly sophisticated bite to the sweet cookies, compelling you to take bite after bite to try to figure out the source of the je ne sais quoi.
Want to make your own? Here's the recipe I used.
Adapted from About.com's South American Food
- 1 cup cornstarch
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon Pisco (I used Gran Sierpe)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup dulce de leche, OR 1 cup vanilla buttercream, for filling
- 1/2 cup toasted coconut, finely chopped (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place the cornstarch, flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and mix briefly.
- Cut the butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture, blending with your fingers until the mixture is smooth.
- Add the powdered sugar, vanilla, and Pisco, and mix with your hands until the dough is homogeneous and smooth. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- For this step, either follow the original recipe by rolling out dough to 3/8" thickness, and cutting into 2 inch circles--OR, do as I did and roll the dough into a log and then slice cookies to your desired thickness (I liked fat ones, maybe 1/4 inch thick). Place cookies on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake cookies for 10-15 minutes, until they are barely golden brown. Let cookies cook 5 minutes, then carefully transfer to rack to cool completely (they are quite fragile until they cool).
- To fill the cookies, spread one cookie with dulce de leche and top with second cookie (note: as I found out, buttercream works beautifully too--picture below). If desired, roll the edges in the coconut. Store in an airtight container.


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Demand The Government To Incentive Job Creation & Support The Arts (via Fed181 Extension)/
America is in danger of losing a critical part of it's culture: Independent Film. All throughout this year I have heard one producer or director after another complain they can no longer afford to stay in the business. I know I too feel this on a regular basis. Yet, here in New York, I have seen the crafts and support elements run at close to full employment. Why? The New York State Tax Credits keep television and other productions going at a steady pace. There is no question that effective tax policy can also be job stimulus.
Without any policy for funding of the arts in America,it is critical that we incentive potential investors to consider backing the arts. It was great to hear (via Entertainment Partners' Film Incentive Services) that there is a movement afoot to reinstate Fed 181. They pointed out:
Congressmen Howard Berman and David Drier co-sponsored a bill (HR 5793) to extend the federal film incentive program aimed at keeping film production in the U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 181 expired at the end of last year. The current proposal would extend the election to treat film costs as an immediate deduction rather than a capital expense. To qualify, productions must spend ≥ 75% of the compensation on services performed in the U.S.
The Hollywood Reporter points out the many benefits for the country at large.
"Berman and Drier point out that runaway foreign production has become a national issue. With production of movies and TV programs now occurring throughout the United States, this industry creates well-paying jobs and generates tangible economic benefits to cities and states nationwide. A typical motion picture employs 350-500 people. Production jobs have an average salary that is 73 percent higher than the current nationwide average. A major motion picture shooting on location contributes $225,000 on average every day to the local economy, so it is no surprise that it is seen as a critical engine of economic development in many places across the country. Thus, the lawmakers argue, extension of the tax not only will help to promote well-paying film industry jobs but will have a ripple effect across broad sectors of the economy by generating revenue and employment opportunities for a wide range of local businesses, such as caterers, dry cleaners, lodging, equipment rental facilities, transportation vendors and many others."
If you live in the States, and work in the arts, the least you can do is call your representatives and urge them to support the bill, HR 5793.


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Free Food, Fishing to Highlight National Fishing Day at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS, Texas—The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens will kick off National Fishing and Boating Week June 2 by making a family fishing trip affordable with free admission for kids 12 and under plus free fishing for the whole family.
Free hot dogs, chip and drinks will be served from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. by employees of the Athens Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Kids may also win prizes in a catfishing tournament at TFFC's casting pond.
In addition to fishing, visitors can walk the wetlands trail; see a diver hand feed fish; learn about the history of fishing in the freshwater fishing museum; shop for a Father's Day gift in the Flat Creek Bait 'n Goods Gift Shop and watch the alligator feeding at 3:30 p.m.
National Fishing Day at TFFC is sponsored by Athens Wal-Mart Supercenter, Wulf Outdoor Sports, Red Hat Rentals, Ernie Yarborough and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
National Fishing and Boating Week comes at the start of the summer vacation season and is designed to encourage families to spend time together on and around water. No fishing license is required anywhere in the state on the first Saturday in June, which is designated Free Sportfishing Day.
The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center is an aquatic nature center and hatchery complex operated by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It is located 75 miles southeast of Dallas and four miles east of Athens on F.M. 2495. Dive shows take place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Hours are 9 to 4 Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 Sunday. Usual admission is adults, $5.50; seniors, $4.50; children 4-12, $3.50. For information go to http://tpwd.texas.gov/tffc/ or call (903) 676-2277.
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Kimmy DesignAuthor
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Cortex W00 Italic
Florent COURTAIGNEAuthor
Florent COURTAIGNETrademark
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" The proud look of man will be abased and the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning against everyone who is proud and lofty
And against everyone who is lifted up, that he may be abased.
17 The pride of man will be humbled and the loftiness of men will be abased; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day, " Isaiah 2:11, 12, 17
It's finally here, Pods 'n' Berries 2! A whopping 47 fabulous natural elements including adorable Ants and Grass Stains, a Milk Weed Pod that's open with it's fluffy seeds spilling out, all kinds of cool and unusual elements for your LOs! Full list of contents below preview. $7.99 in my PayPal Store. Click image to enlarge. Click Buy It Now Button below image to purchase. Today I'm giving you a piece of this kit to try - enjoy! And don't miss the original Pods 'n' Berries and Winter Basics - tis the season!
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4 Ivy
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A former Missouri basketball player who was recently kicked off the team after he was accused of ramming a teammate's car has been charged with first-degree tampering.
Boone County prosecutors tell the Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/1rrIbEP) that the felony charge against Zach Price stems from two incidents with teammate Earnest Ross in early April. Ross had sought a restraining order against Price, a 6-foot-10 Louisville transfer who was accused of hitting Ross in the face and then pushing a woman to the ground.
Price was initially suspended indefinitely by Missouri coach Frank Haith, who has since left for Tulsa. Haith dismissed Price one week later, ending his Missouri basketball career before he played in a game.
Assistant prosecutor Jessica Meredith says Price could face additional charges.


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10 Apps That Show Off the iPad 2's New Hardware
If you're getting an iPad 2, you're getting a tablet with hardware that opens up a whole new world of app possibilities. Apple's second-gen tablet integrates a speedier dual-core CPU, a pair of cameras, and a gyroscopenone of which were on the original iPad.
The iPad 2 has only been available for little more than a week, but you can already find apps that take advantage of these hardware upgrades. Take the iPad's new processor: Apple claims the dual-core A5 chip offers more than nine times the graphics power over the single-core CPU in the original iPad. Greater processing power and speed along with richer graphics means good news for game developersand, of course, gamers. Couple this with the iPad's new three-axis gyroscope, which can sense the iPad's every twist and turn, and you get some truly compelling games.
Adding front- and rear-facing cameras that capture stills will surely result in innovative apps for both work and play. Right now, there aren't too many camera-centric apps; we were only able to find a couple of interesting picks. Apple's own FaceTime, which is preinstalled on the iPad 2, is a blast to use, and it looks great, but you can only video chat with other iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Mac users, so it can be somewhat limiting. But once Skype releases its iPad app, you'll be able to video chat on the go with anyone who has a Skype account without paying a dime. We did test the Skype iPhone app on the iPad 2 (just because we could), and found that, while it works just fine, video quality was seriously degraded when you doubled the size of the window to fill the iPad's 9.7-inch screen. You could, however, simply use the smaller, iPhone-screen-size window, which centers itself on the iPad's display. In fact, you can use many camera-centric iPhone apps on your iPad; they'll just look smaller.
Again, developers are just getting started developing for a tablet that's barely over a week old. The App Store has amassed more than 65,000 tablet-specific apps in the year since the first iPad went on sale, so the coming months are sure to bring some very cool iPad-2-specific apps. But for now, check out the apps you can get today that make the best use of the iPad's new hardware.
Also, read The 50 Best iPad Apps for some of our all-time favorite iPad apps.
1 Real Racing 2 HD
2 Real Racing 2 HD
3 Jenga HD
4 Jenga HD
5 Google Earth
6 Flipboard
7 GarageBand
8 GarageBand
9 iMovie
10 iMovie
11 WebEx
12 Twittelator
13 Twittelator
14 Incredibooth
15 Pocketbooth HD
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Dallas NAACP wants to shut down Texas lottery
The Dallas NAACP chapter wants the Texas lottery to close up shop.
Members of the nation's oldest civil-rights group say they are frustrated by poor and minority Texans spending their money on tickets instead of necessities such as rent or health insurance, and they believe that the lottery isn't putting enough money into public education in the state.
So they unanimously voted this month to encourage state officials to end the lottery.
"People with very little money are spending their money on the lottery," said Juanita Wallace, president of the Dallas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "This has been bothering us for a while."
She notes stories such as the one about a man who chose to use his limited dollars to buy lottery tickets, hoping to hit it big, rather than buy health insurance.
"He's dead," she said.
"People oftentimes make decisions not in their best interests," Wallace said. "We have to look out for those people."
Before the vote, she said, members talked for months about how they believe the lottery fails to fund public schools adequately, as well as how many poor Texans are buying tickets.
Next, she said, Dallas NAACP members hope to meet with like-minded members of other branches at the national NAACP conference in Houston on July 7-12 and find a way to move forward.
The Texas Lottery Commission is among the state agencies that the Sunset Advisory Commission is reviewing to determine whether they should keep operating or shut down. State lawmakers will review the panel's recommendations when they reconvene next year.
Wallace said she hopes legislators will decide to close the lottery commission.
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said that would be a bad move for Texas.
"I believe the lottery continues to be a good and popular way to help fund education," said Ellis, who has proposed a number of lottery-related bills. "Lord knows we need to be looking for ways to find more money for our schools, not taking it away."
The first Texas lottery ticket was sold in 1992 -- after state lawmakers and Texas voters signed off on creating the lottery in 1991 -- and the program has generated more than $20 billion for the state, state records show.
Before 1997, lottery proceeds went into the state's general revenue fund. Since then, they have gone to the Foundation School Fund, which is administered by the Texas Education Agency, according to the Lottery Commission.
Overall, the lottery has contributed more than $14 billion to the school fund -- nearly $1 billion in fiscal 2011, according to commission records.
Sixty-three percent of lottery proceeds go to prizes, 25 percent to the school fund, 5 percent to retailer commissions, 5 percent to lottery administration and 2 percent to other state programs, such as unclaimed prizes that go to programs approved by the Legislature, according to the commission.
"We are committed to our role in generating revenue and will continue our mission to increase sales and to support public education funding in Texas," commission spokeswoman Kelly Cripe said.
State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, declined Tuesday to comment until he talks to Dallas NAACP members.
Many groups are weighing in on the Texas lottery. Delegates at the state Republican convention in Fort Worth this month included the lottery in the party platform.
"We oppose the expansion of legalized gambling and encourage the repeal of the Texas State lottery," the document stated. "We oppose dedicating any government revenue from gambling to create or expand any government program."
But the document that might hold the most weight is the sunset commission's report, released this month, that acknowledges that the lottery commission "walks a tightrope in balancing the many contradictions in the state's attitudes about gaming" and recommends that it be continued for 12 more years.
"The agency is charged with operating the lottery, much like a business, to generate revenue for the state through gaming, but must remain mindful of gaming's many vocal opponents in Texas," the report says.
Lottery sales have leveled off, prompting the commission to be innovative in creating and marketing new games -- but at the same time working to "not unduly influence anyone to buy a lottery ticket," the report says.
The report, notes that bingo -- which is regulated by the Lottery Commission -- "justifies the need for regulation" and is "a complex, cash-based enterprise with very real opportunities for fraud."
Despite these and other challenges, "the commission successfully balances the various demands placed on it," the report says.
The report includes several recommendations, such as expanding the lottery commission's part-time board from three members to five, and letting the board consider more of the business of running the lottery, as opposed to leaving the bulk of the decisions -- including contract approval -- to the executive director. Other recommendations touched on ways to better share contract information, to analyze the effectiveness of lottery strategy and to improve the commission's complaint process.
"For more than 20 years, the Texas Lottery Commission has both operated the Texas lottery and regulated charitable bingo, and the need for those functions continues," the report states. "Texans spend up to $4 billion on lottery tickets and $700 million on bingo games each year, showing their continued interest in the games.
"Revenue from the lottery and bingo continue to be important to the State, local governments, and charitable organizations. The lottery provides about $1 billion each year to the Foundation School Fund, while each year bingo provides about $28 million to the State and local governments and another $34 million to charities. Without lottery and bingo games, these entities would have to find other sources of revenue."
The Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas has long been concerned about the Texas lottery and has constantly sought to keep officials from expanding the operation.
But this year, for the first time, the group made a request similar to the Dallas NAACP's -- that state officials end the lottery once and for all.
"This is the first time we came out and said 'Let's end it,'" said Rob Kohler, a consultant with the Dallas-based Christian Life Commission. "We were told this would be a voluntary tax and wouldn't prey on the poor, and that's not the case. ..."
"It's bad public policy and the Legislature ought to sunset it."
Wallace said it's time to educate Texans.
"We've been talking about this and talking about this," she said. "There was nothing left to do but take a stand.
"The people who created the lottery are the winners. Not the other ones."


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How to Lure Talent Back to Asia
Asia is growing faster than any other region, making it harder for companies there to fill high-level positions. The WSJ's Michael Arnold speaks with Martin Cerullo of HR consulting firm Alexander Mann Solutions about how to lure Asian nationals back home.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Clinton on her mark, getting set
Dismissive sighs, weary eye-rolls, mocking rejoinders: These have been the favored tactics of Hillary Rodham Clinton's team of aides and allies when confronted with questions about the state of her thinking on whether to run for president again in 2016.
The message to reporters and the Washington political class is clear: You guys need to give it a rest.
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And the explanation, at least when she first returned to private life last winter, seemed plausible enough: After years of nonstop work as first lady, senator, presidential candidate and globe-trotting secretary of state, she was entitled to a good long rest, to some semblance of a normal life, and to a holiday from hyperventilating speculation about a presidential election that is still years in the future.
( PHOTOS: Who's talking about Hillary 2016?)
But the notion that Hillary Clinton was embracing anything like a sedate life — or taking more than a momentary pause from increasingly obvious preparations for a presidential run — turned out to be, in the phrase Bill Clinton once turned on Barack Obama, a fairy tale.
The shift from coyness to a likely pursuit of long-held ambitions has played out in public. She's been traveling constantly for speeches, both paid and free. She spoke out in support of a military strike in Syria. She's reaching out to candidates in the New York City mayoral race and is hosting two fundraisers for friend Terry McAuliffe in his Virginia gubernatorial race. She has started granting media interviews.
In private, according to Clinton sources, the shift is even more pronounced. While Clinton has not made an emphatic final decision to run for president, some internal conversations within her orbit are now premised on the assumption that she is likely to run, several sources said, and that many important decisions about her schedule and her profile on prominent issues are being made with this goal in mind.
The discussions have sometimes been detailed, sources said. A few conversations around scheduling have morphed into discussions of what the next few years of her life would be like if she ran, and how much time she has left to decide.
( WATCH: Darrell Issa: I can call Hillary Clinton back for Benghazi)
While her main professional affiliation is now to the Clinton Foundation — started by Bill Clinton and now named also after Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton — she has also opened a personal office that will serve as the main venue for political operations, in order to avoid enmeshing the foundation in potential political controversy.
While the debate over her 2016 plans has an increasingly steep tilt in one direction, it is not over. Cheryl Mills — a former top White House lawyer and chief of staff to Clinton at the State Department who is one of her closest confidants — has made heartfelt arguments that Clinton should forgo another presidential run to protect her own quality of life, according to Clinton sources.
These personal conversations are an echo of a choice Clinton faced at the end of her White House tenure, when some close friends urged for her own sake that she should not run for U.S. Senate from New York. But they lost that argument as Clinton made clear she wanted in the political arena.
( Also on POLITICO: Hillary Clinton to do second event for Terry McAuliffe)
Her time frame so far is no surprise in terms of her personal history, but she has made moves that put scores of recent quotes from her, her husband, and her aides and friends in a curious light.
"Maybe I'll get a decorating show," she said late last year, speaking to The New York Times's Gail Collins. "I am so looking forward to next year. … I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years."
To ABC News in January: "I am going to be focusing on my philanthropies, my charities, my writing and speaking so I am looking forward to having something resembling kind of a normal life again. … I have no plans or intentions, I don't know how else to say it but I am going to get back into my life again, see how it feels not having a schedule, waking up and going back to sleep if I choose for a while."
To NPR, the same day: "I am really looking forward to stepping off the fast track that I've been on."
Pressed on her presidential intentions, some of her close allies delighted in lecturing reporters about their political obsessions as though it was a neurosis that belonged in the same category as Anthony Weiner's social networking.
( PHOTOS: How close are Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton?)
"Everyone's gotten way ahead of themselves, and most importantly, they have gotten way ahead of her," Philippe Reines told the Times in March.
Bill Clinton picked up this theme in May. Speculation about her future, he said, "is the worst expenditure of our time."
Obama struck a similar note in a joint CBS "60 Minutes" interview with Hillary Clinton when she stepped down from State: "I gotta tell you — you guys in the press are incorrigible. I was literally inaugurated four days ago. And you're talking about elections four years from now."
The change in Clinton's announced plans to stay low and play it cool have different explanations. In part she may have underestimated the extent to which the political world and the current media environment demand that anyone with serious intentions for the White House show up early and often on issues of the day or invite speculation that they are receding from contention.
( VIDEO: What to watch this week in politics)
But the larger explanation may lie with her own temperament and patterns of life that now stretch back decades. For her, as for Bill Clinton, constant travel, public statements and preparation for the next battle does represent a "normal life."
With both of them representing distinct franchises of a global Clinton brand, strolls down the secluded lanes in Chappaqua and pleasant interludes with other semi-retirees at the local coffee shop are not their lot in life. On the brink of her 66th birthday next month, what she called "the fast track" is the only track on which she appears comfortable — which made the earlier pretense that she just wants out of the spotlight substantially harder to maintain.


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There is always a possibility that someone will object to a collection we have online. And errors occur; sometimes multiple finding aids for the same collection are created with different numbers, or someone decides that multiple finding aids should be combined, or simply should not be online.
There are several steps to managing this process, and the complexity depends on whether or not the content is in LOCKSS, whether or not archival captures are involved, and whether or not it is to be removed from the archive.
There is a table in the mysql database InfoTrack on libcontent named removedColls which is used to track these; this is mentioned on the Tracking_for_the_long_term page.
1) All collection removals need to be documented here, including whether this only includes the EAD (AnalogOrDigital == "A") or the digital content (AnalogOrDigital == "D"), who requested it, and the date requested. If the content is also in LOCKSS (check the inLOCKSS table, same database) then please indicate that in the notes field. Also, if digital content remains online, but the EAD was taken down, please put that in the notes field also.
2) If only the EAD is to be taken down:
- Delete the entry in allColls for the finding aid entry (AnalogOrDigital == "A")
- Delete the entry for that EAD (not any digital content! check the AnalogOrDigital entry value) from the allColls database.
- Delete the EAD from Acumen (/srv/www/htdocs/content/) and if no other content is present, delete the directories there for that collection.
- If the EAD is in LOCKSS:
- rename the versioned entries in the archive (/srv/archive/) by adding "_LOCKSS_yyyy-mm-dd" where yyyy-mm-dd reflects the current year, month, and day.
- delete the unversioned entry of the ead in the archive.
- if no digital content remains, rename the Manifest.html by adding "_LOCKSS_yyyy-mm-dd" (as above). Then delete the link to this manifest from the Manifest.html on the holder level (example: /srv/archive/u0003/Documentation/Manifest.html contains the link to all the manifests on the collection level within u0003)
- if digital content remains, copy the Manifest.html and add "_LOCKSS_yyyy-mm-dd" (as above). Then remove the links to the EADs from the Manifest.html
- If the EAD is not in LOCKSS:
- if digital content remains, remove the links to the EADs from the Manifest.html, and delete the EADs (versioned and unversioned) from the archive
- if no digital content remains, remove the entire directory for the collection from the archive
- Delete the EAD from all directories immediately beneath /srv/deposits/EADs/.
3) If taking down digital content only from online
- Modify the entry in allColls for the digital collection entry (AnalogOrDigital == "D") and set "online" = NULL; add a note about date of takedown and why
- If no EAD, delete the entire directory and all contents from /srv/www/htdocs/content
- If an EAD is to remain online:
- delete all subdirectories EXCEPT for Metadata in the collection directory in /srv/www/htdocs/content
- Modify the entry in allColls for the finding aid collection entry (AnalogOrDigital == "A") and set "listLevel" = 1 (so it will show up in browse)
4) If also taking digital content out of archive
- Delete entry in allColls (also for EAD unless it's staying online)
- For each digital file, add an entry to the md5sums.modified table to indicate the checksum and size of what's being deleted, when, why, and on whose order
- Then remove the entry for each digital file from the md5sums.itemSums table
- locate the checksums file in /srv/scripts/md5/cya/checksums; delete entire file
- If in LOCKSS: rename the Manifest.html by adding "_LOCKSS_yyyy-mm-dd"
- Otherwise, delete the entire collection directory (unless EAD is staying)
- Then delete the link to this manifest from the Manifest.html on the holder level.