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Sen. Rob Portman is a Bush man, all right. But just not the Bush you may be thinking of.
In both his political education and political identity, Portman is much more closely aligned with the 41st president than with the 43rd. The Ohio senator and GOP vice-presidential finalist got his start in national politics on George H.W. Bush's 1980 presidential campaign and partly owes his first congressional victory to former first lady Barbara Bush, who recorded a radio ad name-dropping Cincinnati's Skyline Chili and Portman in the same sentence. And overall, his views and political style are more reminiscent of the first President Bush: center-right, bipartisan, results-oriented and gentlemanly, if not terribly charismatic.
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As the clock ticks toward a decision by Mitt Romney on his running mate and speculation about Portman intensifies, he's coming under increasing scrutiny for his work as George W. Bush's trade representative and director of Office of Management and Budget. Conservatives fret what that might mean for his approach to spending, which spiked under the most recent GOP administration, and victory-hungry Republicans worry about putting somebody on the ticket who may remind swing voters of the party's recent unpleasantness.
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But those who know Portman well say he was shaped far more by the consensus-driven politics of Bush the elder, for whom the Ohioan worked in the White House during 41's single term.
Portman calls himself the most conservative Ohio senator since the legendary Robert Taft — and keeps an iconic oil painting of "Mr. Republican" in his Russell Building office — but is no ideological warrior.
"He's a genteel conservative," said Curt Steiner, a longtime Ohio Republican strategist who ran Portman's special election to the House in 1993. "He's able to bridge gaps and work with everyone while still maintaining base credentials."
Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, whom Portman also counts as a mentor, said the potential Romney running mate could be described "in three words: Make things work."
"That's him," said Simpson. "That's what he tries to do — make things work. And he works with Democrats and Republicans to do it."
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Congressional vote rankings are not an exact science but do offer a broad indication of where Portman falls in the body politic. According to National Journal, he was the 35th most conservative member of the Senate in 2011. His lifetime American Conservative Union score is 88 percent. By comparison, John McCain's lifetime ACU rating is 83 percent.


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Now that Mark Mahaney has left Citi, the bank has announced it is discontinuing coverage of some companies on his list.
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The Lumia 820 and 920 might not save Nokia but we do have full reviews of the Nokia Lumia 820 and Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 phones, check them out for yourself.
When Nokia declared defeat on Symbian and stacked all its remaining chips on Windows Phone, the company's fate was sealed. With the Lumia 900, that bet didn't go so well.
Now it's rolling the dice one more time with the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. Are these the smartphones that will save Nokia?
The answer, sadly, is "probably not." Unfortunately for Nokia, the scales of the smartphone market are tipped against it right now, and only a pair of game-changing devices could tip them back. The Lumia 920 and 820 don't carry that weight. Here's why.
New phones…or an updated Lumia 900?
In terms of specs, both the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 are competitive with devices like the Samsung Galaxy S III and other mid- to high-end smartphones. That's part of their problem: There's little about the new Lumia hardware that stands out at first glance, other than swappable neon-colored cases. In fact, the new Lumia's specs aren't all that different from their predecessors, the Lumia 800 and 900. The Lumia 900 offers a 1.4GHz processor, 4.3-inch 800 by 480-pixel AMOLED display (same dimensions as the new Lumia 820), an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, and support for 4G LTE networks. Add Qi wireless charging and a more-sensitive screen, and you've essentially got a Lumia 820.
It wouldn't be hard to argue that one of Nokia's new flagship phones is a slightly warmed-over version of its previous flagship phone; you know, the one that didn't sell well and that Nokia wound up issuing full-price rebates on because of a software gaffe.
PureView: "It's a brand, not a technology"
The specs above on the Lumia 920 gloss over a genuine hardware innovation: the PureView 8.7-megapixel camera. Seeing the name PureView immediately recalls the recent Nokia 808 smartphone. The 808 is based on the moribund Symbian platform, but it sports a unique and stunning 41-megapixel camera. That doesn't mean the 808 takes 41-megapixel pictures; it uses all the extra capacity in the sensor to offer high-quality zoom and noise reduction. It's really quite cool, and totally unique. Nokia introduced PureView as a fundamental rethinking of how mobile cameras can operate — and delivered.
None of that PureView is in the Lumia 920. Instead, the Lumia 920 offers a high-quality Carl Zeiss 8.7-megapixel camera. It's not a stock part: None of the camera components area derived from previous Lumia offerings, and it's all-new from the flash (twice as powerful as Nokia's previous LED flash) to the housing. The most significant item on the new list is optical image stabilization, which works to keep the camera lens physically steady and capable of taking sharp, unblurred pictures even in shaky hands. No other smartphone has this technology yet. The floating optics make the camera bigger than most other phone cameras, but Nokia still packed them into a device that measures just 0.42 inches thick. If you're a photography aficionado, you're applauding right now.
However, the Lumia 920's camera means Nokia is now positioning PureView as a brand, rather than a specific set of technologies. The Nokia 808 represented the first "phase" of the technology; the Lumia 920 represents a second "phase" aimed at improving low-light use and reaching a broader range of consumers. Nokia wants PureView to denote a premium imaging experience of some sort, regardless of the specific technologies in play.
That's a mixed message if we've ever seen one.
Nokia says the combination of image processing and high-quality optics make the Lumia 920 worthy of the PureView brand name. In fact, Nokia's Damian Dinning — who has spent five years developing PureView technologies, took to Twitter this week to argue exactly that. Early reports of image quality in the Lumia 920 are quite positive, particularly in low-light situations, and Nokia is expected to bring out lens "apps" to add functionality via software.
Nonetheless, the consumer camera market largely hasn't gotten past the megapixel argument. Show a typical buyer two $99 cameras, one with an 8-megapixel sensor and one with a 14-megapixel sensor, consumers will almost always buy the 14-megapixel camera because "more" is better. Some may make a different decision based on size, battery type, features like an optical zoom, or even image quality, but megapixels are still the primarily marketing point for digital cameras.
From a marketing perspective, Nokia would have been better off skipping the PureView brand entirely and trumpeting the Lumia 920 as "the first phone camera in the world with optical image stabilization." That's a tremendous accomplishment. Instead, the Lumia 920's PureView camera comes across as a watered down version of technologies originally meant to support a 41-megapixel sensor. That's if consumers are aware of the 41-megapixel PureView camera at all — otherwise, the Lumia 920 is just another phone with an 8-megapixel camera. Don't they all have that these days?
No firm prices or launch dates
Nokia's press event in New York City today basically amounted to a stunt. With Apple preparing to unveil the iPhone 5 on September 12, major technology companies (like Motorola and Amazon) have been scrambling to introduce their products ahead of Apple for two primary reasons:
- Apple product announcements garner an incredible amount of press and consumer attention. Pre-empting Apple could potentially take some of the wind out of Apple's sails.
- Pre-empting Apple means a company's newly-announced products mostly get compared to Apple's existing product line, rather than whatever the notoriously secretive Apple has up its sleeve.
However, Nokia has failed to account for two factors that make Apple's hardware product announcements so devastatingly effective:
- Apple always announces pricing when they introduce a product.
- The new product is always available for pre-order — if not outright sale — shortly after the announcement.
Nokia did neither of these things. The company offered no timeframe for when the new devices would be available, save that they would land in the last three months of 2012. The company has revealed no pricing information. Few expect that the Lumia 920 would cost more than an iPhone or a high-end Android phone, but right now, there's no telling. Some industry watchers are speculating Nokia will follow the path of the Lumia 800 and 900 and price the devices at $49 and $99 (on contact) in an effort to attract buyers.
Windows Phone fans feel burned, new customers don't care
The lack of pricing and availability information leads to another crucial question: Who is going to buy a new Lumia phone?
The logical answer is that early adopters will be folks who have already bought Windows Phone devices from the likes of Nokia, HTC, and Samsung. After all, they already have an investment in the platform, so stepping up to a new flagship Nokia device might be a no-brainer.
Or is it? Windows Phone 7 debuted in October 2010, almost two years ago, which means that users who were among the very first to jump on the platform are nearing the end of their phone contracts and probably starting to look for a new phone. The new Nokia handsets might be very tempting when they eventually ship.
However, most existing Windows Phone customers did not jump on the platform on Day One. And the Lumia 900 — arguably the best device to date engineered to the Windows Phone platform — only hit the market five months ago. Customers who bought that phone won't be out of their contracts until 2014.
Moreover, those customers probably feel more than a little bit slighted, since no existing Windows Phone 7 devices will be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. (They'll get a new start screen with Windows Phone 7.8, though.) Even if folks bought a new Windows Phone just a few months ago, they'll have to buy a whole new device to get Windows Phone 8.
Put together, that probably means many existing Windows Phone 7 customers aren't in much of a hurry to snap up the Lumia 820 or 920 when they become available later this year.
Who does that leave in Microsoft and Nokia's target market?
- Existing iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users
- Folks looking for their first smartphone
Existing smartphone owners are difficult to convert because they already have an investment in apps, accessories, and add-ons for their platform. Once you're locked in, it's hard to switch — or not feel annoyed at having to buy Angry Birds all over again for your new phone.
Guess which platform is widely preferred by folks who are looking for their first smartphone? Often, it's the platforms their friends and family use.
How many people have friends and family using Windows Phone 8? Zero.
The bottom line is that Nokia's new Lumia phones will be a tough sell all around, at least, when they go on sale. Whenever that might be.
The sand in the hourglass is running out
The Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 may represent Nokia's last, best opportunity to wow the smartphone market.
But it's just not enough.
Nokia is hemorrhaging money, and it's getting very difficult for the company to borrow to keep its operations afloat. Standard & Poors recently downgraded Nokia from BB+ (high-end junk bond) to BB- (a somewhat junkier junk bond). The move follows a similar downgrade by Moody's (from Ba1 to Ba3) in July. Nokia has put a brave face on these ratings downgrades, noting it has a few billion euros in the bank (more than twice its reported debt) and access to 1.5 billion more in credit lines that are good through 2016. That cash position — coupled with cost reductions like layoffs — can keep the company afloat for a time.
But Nokia's stock price declined nearly 16 percent with the announcement of the Lumia 820 and Lumia 920. Investors — even those willing to consider sub-prime "speculative" stocks — didn't like what they saw today. Nokia's stock price is down over 60 percent in the last year.
The stock price and rating downgrades are indicative of how deep a hole Nokia has dug for itself with its all-or-nothing bet on Windows Phone. Most of Nokia's revenue still comes from feature phones, primarily sold to developing markets, and that revenue is drying up as carriers shift away from Symbian in favor of platforms like Android, or demand deep discounts from Nokia to keep Symbian on the shelves. Nokia's Windows Phone devices have generally been well reviewed, but not enough people are buying them to make up for the lost revenue. The result is that Nokia is having to cut deals with carriers and discount the phones in an effort to make consumers even consider them. It all smacks of desperation—not a known turn-on for consumers.
Nokia has a few things going in its favor: Microsoft will aggressively promote Windows Phone 8 alongside Windows 8 and Windows RT going into the crucial end-of-year holiday season, which should help make Nokia devices more visible. Mobile carriers are interested in having a third major phone platform that they can play against Apple's iOS and Google's Android, so they may be willing to cut some favorable deals to give Windows Phone a chance. And it's significant that Nokia unveiled these new Lumia phones in the United States: it means Nokia is looking to re-assert itself in the North American market, which it has largely abandoned for the last several years.
But the clock is ticking. Microsoft has a lot of cash. It can afford to keep promoting and iterating the Windows Phone platform for years — just as it has done with its Bing search engine — without making a penny from it.
Nokia cannot afford to play out that kind of long-term strategy. Today's highly-anticipated announcement from Nokia, leading up to the official launch of Windows Phone 8, was perhaps the company's best shot at showing it can innovate and disrupt the smartphone market with something truly unexpected.
That didn't happen. Nokia has enough money for maybe two more attempts. Personally, I hope they can do it.
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Sunshine Jar Card
Learn how to make this card using these free instructions. Handmade Sending You Sunshine cards are the perfect way to show you care, and with these card-making steps, creating this design is easy.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (white) Patterned paper: (yellow polka dot from Dots and Stripes Soda Fountain 6x6 pad) Echo Park Paper Clear stamps: (sentiment from Simple Sunflower set; assorted stamps from Friendship Jar set) Papertrey Ink; (dotted line from Let It Snow set) Lawn Fawn Dye ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko; (Butter Bar) Hero Arts Color medium: (blue marker) Copic Fibers: (black/white twine) Papertrey Ink Dies: (jar, lid, label) Papertrey Ink Tools: (starburst punch) Martha Stewart Crafts; (circle punch) EK Success Finished size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
1 Make card from cardstock.
2 Stamp sentiment.
3 Stamp jar on cardstock; die-cut jar, color with marker, tie on twine, and adhere.
4 Punch starburst and circle from patterned paper; adhere. Stamp dotted lines.
5 Stamp label, home made, and lid on cardstock; die-cut label and lid and adhere with foam tape.
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Q&A with Men's Soccer Head Coach Jon Pascale
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Now three seasons into his head coaching career at UC San Diego, Jon Pascale has laid a foundation that he expects will begin paying dividends in the near future. After a strong run late in the 2010 season, those around the Triton men's soccer team have reason for optimism as the 2011 campaign approaches. With training camp on the horizon and fresh off his recent marriage and honeymoon, Pascale spent time talking about his UCSD experience to date and what lies ahead.
Q-Heading into your fourth season at UCSD what have you found to be the easiest and toughest parts of the job?
PASCALE-Coaching is more of a lifestyle then a job. The easiest or best part of it is the interaction with the team. They are great to be around and a lot of fun. You meet some amazing people and form some very strong relationships. The hardest part of the lifestyle is that it can consume your entire life. The team is always on your mind and it can be difficult to focus on other areas of your life, like sleep...
Q-Your team finished strong in 2010, going 8-2-2 down the stretch. Do you see that momentum carrying over into the 2011 season?
PASCALE-Each season is totally different and last fall was a very long time ago. Having said that, we have a belief that we can win every game we play regardless of the opponent. That belief was re-established at the end of last year and carried over to our spring. We have a very difficult schedule but we believe we can beat every team we face.
Q-Where do you see this year's team being strongest and what areas might be of concern coming into training camp?
PASCALE-I think our strength will be in our chemistry. We have a very close knit team that enjoys each other on and off the field. The season can be a grind but enjoying your teammates will help you overcome the difficult stretches.
The biggest area of concern is replacing a senior class that did a great job "being seniors." As a senior you have a sense of urgency that is impossible to describe and difficult to replicate. Our seniors had that last year. They left everything on the field each and every day. Seniors understand that in order to win, you must take care of the little details. This year we will not have any seniors on the roster. The quicker these younger players can understand those concepts, the better chance we have of winning at a high level.
Q-How will the void left by the graduation of CCAA Defensive Player of the Year Jared Kukura be filled?
PASCALE-When you graduate a player like Jared, someone who carries so much of the load, you have to fill the void collectively. The team needs to be dialed in to the system of play and each individual role within that system. When you combine the understanding of how you are trying to play with the desire to win you become a stronger team than when you are relying on a single player to make a great plays.
Q-Which of your younger players do you expect to step into an expanded role this fall?
PASCALE-We expect all of our players to step up. We will be a very balanced team.
Q-How important will it be to get off to a good start this season?
PASCALE-In our conference there are zero days off. Every team is challenging. They all have good players, well-coached and highly motivated. Since we only play two out of conference games, they have major NCAA implications. You need to play well in August/September to have a chance to play well in November/December.
Q-Talk about your coaching philosophy and how it has changed over the past three years?
PASCALE-I don't think my philosophy has changed at all. Surround yourself with good people who are talented and willing to give their best for the team-then you will be successful.
Q-When you recruit are you looking for players to fit a system or certain style of play or do you adjust according to the type of players on the roster?
PASCALE-When we recruit, we try to assess a player's strengths and weaknesses. Can the player's strength help you win and can the player's weaknesses be developed. We are not as rigid with our structure as some other programs. Players often develop in ways you didn't predict in the recruiting process. We want to have the flexibility to play different ways and have players who can fit into different systems. All the players must have a few things. First, they must really want to come to UCSD. Second, they must love playing soccer. Lastly, they must have a strong work ethic and a desire to get better.
Q-How does being a former player help you as a coach?
PASCALE-As a former player, you understand what a college athlete is going through. The adjustment to college life, academics, and the social environment. You understand what the players are going through physically and mentally. All these areas are factored into your decisions. You know when to push and when to ease up. You never lose sight of the fact that your players are learning life lessons that will stick with them long after they are done playing.
Q-When you're not coaching what are some of your other interests?
PASCALE-I enjoy surfing, skiing and most of all spending time with my wife.
Q-You got married this summer. Is your wife a soccer fan? Does she ever give you coaching suggestions?
PASCALE-My wife is a huge soccer fan. She played at Georgetown and still plays in a women's league in San Diego. She never gives me coaching advice but always gives me her honest opinion on how the team performs. She is our biggest fan and occasionally yells at the refs...
Q-What would make the 2011 season a success in your eyes?
PASCALE-To create, maintain, and sustain a culture that promotes hard work, teamwork, competition, a high level of soccer and having fun-and, of course, collecting some hardware.
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Vincent Nguyen (Tennis) July 1, 2011
Patti Gerckens (Softball) May 26, 2011
Blake Tagmyer (Baseball) May 11, 2011
Theresa Richards (Women's Track & Field) April 27, 2011
Austin West (Men's Tennis) April 17, 2011
Drew Lawyer (Men's Crew) April 11, 2011
Keith Okasaki (Men's Golf) March 26, 2011
Matt Herman (Men's Swimming & Diving) March 12, 2011
Hanalei Crowell (Women's Water Polo) March 5, 2011
Camille Gaito (Softball) February 23, 2011
Tim Shibuya (Baseball) February 8, 2011
Carl Eberts (Men's Volleyball) January 31, 2011
Neda Nguyen (Women's Swimming & Diving) January 24, 2011
Amy Bianchini (Fencing) January 14, 2011
Lauren Freidenberg (Women's Basketball) January 3, 2011
Christian Hatch (Men's Basketball) December 24, 2010
Blake Langland (Men's Swimming & Diving) November 27, 2010
Sarah McTigue (Women's Soccer) November 8, 2010
Brandon Yee (Men's Soccer) October 11, 2010
Bryce Madsen (Men's Water Polo) September 23, 2010
Annette Ilg (Women's Soccer) September 9, 2010
Ricci Luyties (Women's Volleyball Head Coach) August 24, 2010
Kevin Messey (Head Athletics Trainer) July 7, 2010
Dan O'Brien (Baseball Head Coach) June 18, 2010
Christine Merrill (Women's Track & Field) June 14, 2010
Vance Albitz (Baseball) May 11, 2010
Erik Elliott (Men's Tennis) May 3, 2010
Kelly Fogarty (Women's Track & Field) April 23, 2010
Liz LaPlante (Women's Tennis Head Coach) April 15, 2010
Kirby St. John (Baseball) March 24, 2010
Dan Perdew (Men's Swimming) February 28, 2010
Calvin Ross (Men's Volleyball) February 20, 2010
Nicole Saari (Softball) February 4, 2010
Brad Kreutzkamp (Women's Water Polo Head Coach) January 18, 2010
Tyler Acevedo (Men's Basketball) January 4, 2010
Dr. Cliff Kubiak (UCSD's Faculty Athletic Rep) December 18, 2009
Chelsea Carlisle (Women's Basketball) December 9, 2009
Carianne Cunningham (Women's Swimming) November 23, 2009
Elena Inouye (Cross Country) November 6, 2009
David Morton (Men's Water Polo) October 28, 2009
Juan Pablo Carillo (Men's Swimming) October 19, 2009
Sara Spaventa (Women's Soccer) October 10, 2009
Karen Reis (Women's Volleyball) October 2, 2009
Daniel Pavitt (Men's Soccer) September 23, 2009
Daniel Anderson (Cross Country) September 11, 2009
Peter Gresham (Men's Water Polo) September 2, 2009
Alexia Zatarain (Women's Soccer) August 24, 2009
Elaine Chen (Women's Volleyball) August 12, 2009
Jared Kukura (Men's Soccer) July 30, 2009
Dawn Lee (Former Women's Soccer Standout) July 8, 2009
Rob Mamula (Director of Athletic Performance) June 18, 2009
Garrett Imeson (Baseball) June 8, 2009
Leon Baham (Men's Track & Field) May 21, 2009
Kristyn Lesovsky (Softball) May 8, 2009
Kazumi Negishi (Men's Tennis) May 5, 2009
Laiah Blue (Women's Track & Field) April 16, 2009
Ryan Andre (Men's Crew) April 2, 2009
Josh Tanner (Baseball) March 24, 2009
Anju Shimura (Women's Swimming) March 7, 2009
Stephanie Bocian (Women's Water Polo) February 20, 2009
Lauren Chastain (Softball) February 5, 2009
A.J. Maulhardt (Men's Basketball) January 28, 2009
Annette Ilg (Women's Basketball) January 22, 2009
Steven Hardy (Men's Swimming) January 13, 2009
Frank Fritsch (Men's Volleyball) January 5, 2009


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President Obama and His Pot-Smoking 'Choom Gang'
(WASHINGTON) -- Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn't inhale.
In his 1995 memoir "Dreams of My Father," Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke "in a white classmate's sparkling new van," he would smoke "in the dorm room of some brother" and he would smoke "on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids."
He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.
Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled "Barack Obama: The Story" gives more detail on Obama's pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama's high school buddies, a group that went by the name "the Choom Gang." Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.
Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.
"As a member of the Choom Gang," Maraniss writes, "Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends."
The first Obama-inspired trend: "Total Absorption" or "TA".
"TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled," explains Maraniss. Here's how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, "you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around."
As one of Obama's old high school buddies tells Maraniss: "Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated."
Another Obama innovation: "Roof Hits."
"When they were chooming in a car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling."
Maraniss also says Obama was known for his "Interceptions": "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!,' and took an extra hit."
Although Obama himself wrote that he and his pot smoking buddies were a "club of disaffection," Maraniss says that's not really true.
"In fact, most members of the Choom Gang were decent students and athletes who went on to successful and productive lawyers, writers and businessmen," Maraniss writes. One notable exception was Ray, the group's pot dealer who, known for his ability "to score quality bud," would years later be killed by a scorned gay lover armed with a ball-peen hammer.
Obama himself managed to be a pretty good student despite all the pot smoking and unconventional study habits.
"He told his Choom Gang mates that the trick was if you put the textbook under your pillow the night before you would perform better on an exam," Maraniss writes. No way, dude!
Back to the pot smoking.
Hawaii of the early 1970s was something of a pot-smoking Mecca.
"It was sold and smoked right there in front of your nose; Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations of pakalolo were readily available," writes Maraniss.
Obama's pal Mark Bendix had a Volkswagen microbus known as "the Choomwagon." They would often drive up Honolulu's Mount Tantalus where they parked "turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult and Stevie Wonder, lit up some 'sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds' and washed it down with 'green bottled beer' (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl). No shouting, no violence, no fights; they even cleaned up their beer bottles."
Of course, smoking, drinking and driving on mountain roads could also be a little dangerous. Especially the night they tried drag racing.
The race to the top of Mount Tantalus pitted the "Choomwagon" against another friend's Toyota. Obama was in the Toyota. The Choomwagon made it to the top first. When the other car didn't show up, those in the Choomwagon drove back down to find them. Here's how Maraniss describes what happened next:
"On the way down, they saw a figure who appeared to be staggering up the road. It was Barry Obama. What was going on? As they drew closer, they noticed that he was laughing so hard he could barely stand up."
His friend had rolled the car. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. And, amazingly, they avoided trouble by leaving the driver alone to deal with the police by claiming it was just an unfortunate "mishap."
Maraniss concludes his chapter on Obama's high school years by looking at a note Obama had written in his high school yearbook in a section reserved for students to give a line or two giving thanks to those who helped along the way.
Obama had written this: "Thanks Tut [his grandmother], Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times."
Maraniss notes: "Ray was the older guy who hung around the Choom Gang, selling them pot. A hippie drug dealer made his acknowledgements; his mother did not."
The White House told ABC News that it has no comment.
See more photos of Barack Obama as a child and teen HERE.
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Person of Interest Review: Taxi DriverSean McKenna at .
Who knew that taking a simple cab drive could be so dangerous?
Person of Interest focused the case of the week on a taxi driver trying to bring his family into the United States, and the unfortunate laptop trouble he gets mixed up in.
Except the episode, "C.O.D." left me rather underwhelmed.
It's not that the hour was bad, because it wasn't, but I kept waiting for something bigger to happen or an emotional chord to be struck.
Sure, Reese had his fight scenes per usual and Finch did manage to get out of his office to do some work, but overall it felt like it was missing that extra kick the show normally doles out.
I am curious as to how the HR storyline will progress and if Simmons and his boss can rebuild their corrupt company.
Certainly, having Fusco caught in those dangerous waters was probably the more entertaining aspects of the night. He still desperately wants out, but he's not a clean cop, so the situation becomes more difficult.
And I'm glad he at least tried calling Reese even if he was never able to tell him the truth. There's such a struggle taking place for his character and you can't help but want to root for him.
Which made him telling Simmons he was done even greater, despite the fact that his past is definitely going to have bad consequences for him.
Can Fusco ever really escape HR?
Certainly Elias wants nothing to do with HR, and though we didn't get to see him, I enjoy that his presence is still a heavy one on this show.
It's cool that Reese and Finch's adversaries can always come back to face them again.
But ultimately, it was the taxi driver and the murderous Estonians that left much to be desired.
In fact, the Estonians, even though they were a threat, didn't really have a personality that jumped off the screen. They just weren't memorable.
As was the person of interest himself. Sure, he wanted to save his family, but it just didn't give me the emotional resonance I think the episode wanted. Maybe if he had a speech where he stared into a mirror shouting, "You talking to me!?"
That said, Bear did get a chance to use his attack skills again, even if his final moments were playing catch with Reese. Which if you think about it, should Reese and Carter have been in the outfield of the baseball game? I guess they probably didn't think anyone could hit it that far.
Person of Interest has been on fire with its episodes, so it was bound to happen that one might end up being less than stellar. That said, even if this was my least favorite of the season so far, it still managed to give us those good moments like Reese riding a motorcycle and Finch walking into the bar with Bear like a boss.
After all, who doesn't love Reese and Finch kicking ass and saving the day?
What did you think of the episode? Can Fusco escape HR? Sound off below!
Sean McKenna was a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. He retired in May of 2017. Follow him on Twitter.


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Transwestern necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 78 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Dadeland Office Park
You can find more information about the project at http://www.dadelandofficepark.com, however, below is a brief overview of the office project.
Consisting of three recently-renovated office buildings, Dadeland Office Park offers an oustanding combination of location, amenities, access, and value.
The multi-million dollar improvements to these highly-visible landmark buildings were completed in early 2010. Dadeland Office Park is now offering a wide variety of suites for companies who want to walk to Dadeland Mall, the Metrorail station, and the many area retailers, restaurants, and hotels.
Due to the soft real estate leasing market and competition from newer buildings, we need to re-energize the marketing of Dadeland Office Park and re-introduce the property to the marketplace.
Our target audiences are 1) companies currently leasing space in more "generic" office buildings and 2) real estate brokers that help these companies find office space.
The successful logo design will:
- visually demonstrate Dadeland Office Park's upscale and premium positioning within its competitive set
- help support our marketing messages
- provide a professional, businesslike feel in terms of design, font and color
- allow the logo to be used both with an without tag line
- be legible in a wide variety of sizes and uses
We will need the following from the winning designer:
- logo, both with and without tag line
- files provided for color, B&W, and reversed logos (EPS and JPG formats)
- font specifications (will need to provide PC font files if necessary)
- color specifications
Using the link below, please see the example of a graphics standard guide we desire:
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Five For Friday: Week of February 3
Another week has left us behind along with the first month of the year. As always with the arrival of Friday, we take a few moments to round up five of the most interesting apps and games that we've yet to cover in a more extensive form. There will be fun to be had and new recipes to be learnt, amongst other things.
At its simplest, the iPad makes for a fantastic note taking tool. Just because the process of writing notes is relatively simple doesn't mean that the results have to be plain though. Remarks is part PDF annotating application, part PDF notes creator. It's simple to edit and view PDF files but just as easy to write or sketch ideas, through either handwriting or text input.
Remarks by Readdle
Avid Studio
Aspirations to master film editing? Avid Studio has it covered. Offering simple yet effective video editing functionality, the app allows for easy rearranging of clips, the ability to add high-quality transitional effects and even a soundtrack. It's surprisingly powerful stuff so iPad 1 owners may find themselves suffering from a few problems but iPad 2 owners will revel in the creativity.
Avid Studio
Off The Leash
Off The Leash is all about helping Steve the loveable Golden Retriever escape the Chief of Police. 7 different dogs can be unlocked across 90 different missions. Tilt-based controls mean that Steve's quest is simple to learn but great fun to master. It's got a great 'one more go' vibe to it.
Off the Leash
Veggie Meals
New recipes are fun to discover and nutritious meals are all the more satisfying. Veggie Meals offers 55 easy to cook vegetable based recipes, catering for both vegetarians and vegans. Salads, soups, pasta, stews, burgers, pies and bread and desserts are all provided for here with attractive photography and informative step by step instructions sealing the deal.
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Tweet Land
Tweet Land isn't th usual kind of racing game. It's one that changes according to the real world and the tweets that world events invoke. Each experience with Tweet Land is different, changing according to real-time events. It makes the old school looking game feel that bit more exciting and the ideal game to drop in on a daily basis to see what's changed. Plus, there's the opportunity to escape tsunamis and zombies, all in the same game!


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What is Food Services?
Many often wonder what is Food Services and how is it funded? The Roaring Fork Food Services provides approximately 2,000 lunches and 600 breakfasts each day. Our district has 5,589 students, 41% of whom qualify for meals at a free of reduced rate. That means, 447,200 reimbursable meals are provided by Food Services, annually. The Food Services' funding is separate from the District's general fund. It is often referred to as "Fund 21" or the "Foodservice Fund." Nutrition Services operates on a break-even budget, meaning all funding comes from meal sales and meal reimbursements.
As you're likely well aware, Food Services has gone through a bit of a makeover in the past couple of school years. In an effort to make "Nutrition our Mission" we have revised our menus to provide students with the healthiest possible meals. This has included a number of innovative steps that we are very proud of. We have returned to scratch cooking in an effort to elimiate highly-processed foods. In addition, we have added fresh fruit and vegetable bars to every school to increase the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables.
With the USDA's new school meal regulations, other schools across the nation are following suit. Check out this article below to learn more about the great benefits that the school meal programs provide to students every day.
The National School Lunch Program was established under the National School Lunch Act, which was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in 1946.
The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating under the guidance of the Federal Government, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Nutrition Division of the Colorado Department of Education.
It was and continues to be the intent of Congress that nutritious meals be available to all school children regardless of the household's ability to pay.
The Nutrition Service Department of Roaring Fork School District is a part of the National School Lunch Program and complies with USDA program regulations and mandates.
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Crossing Over from One Part to Another
Close-up of Fiete's Stolte's real-time activity. Photo by Alain Kantarjian
A group of MA students studying at the The Academy of Visual Arts at the Hong Kong Baptist University met up on June 30, 2013, to discuss their at the time recent visit to the exhibition I Think It Rains. Upon their own initiative they gathered to have an informal discussion about the curatorial format, questioning the weight of a "coherent" motif in exhibition-making, or pondering about art inspired by experiences induced by drugs. The conversation was not commissioned, and the opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Burger Collection. The following selection of the transcript follows Burger Collection's wish to support informal levels of exchanges. The discussion was originally held in Cantonese. The Chinese version can be read right below the English one.
D: Dino Wong, P: Patrick Yiu, T: Tap Chan, S: Sum Yee Tsoi
Credits (English text)
English translation by Daniel Ho. Edited and proofread by Linda Jensen.
Credits (Chinese text)
Transcription by Dino Wong. Edited and proofread by Xue Tan. Additional thanks goes to Choi Yan Chi.
I Think It Rains—Theme and Curation
T: This exhibition is entitled I Think It Rains. What's the relationship between the theme and the works themselves? I'm thinking about whether we can find some commonalities among all the works.
D: The phrase I Think It Rains sounds light and simple, and suggests this in-between state of trace and disappearance. In my way of looking at it, the resonances between the works and the theme aren't that obvious. Perhaps it's because the thirty-three works weren't all made for the exhibition.
T: Are these works actually all from the Burger Collection? Did the curator select some works from the collection?
D: I think it's partly the result of negotiations between the curator and the collector. It's said that some of the works were made for the exhibition [Burger Collection commissioned artists from Hong Kong and artists in the residency program].
P: What deeper significance does the title I Think It Rains actually have?
D: It's apparently a poem by a Nigerian poet. In it, "rain" refers to how the village was burnt down to ashes, which was scattered everywhere. I haven't looked into the exact reasons.
T: Perhaps this can be understood in the sense that the works in the exhibition are relatively conceptual and a bit elusive—like Lam Tung Pang's work [Ghost – Disappeared Hong Kong Art (1): 90s, Kurt Chan, 2013] which isn't visible.
P: I'm of the opinion that when curating an exhibition, if you expect the works to be tightly woven in with the theme, then the theme itself must be fairly concrete. It could be about an event, a place, a group of people—and then from these starting points, you make the work. I'm reminded of an exhibition called Our life in West Kowloon which took place on the rooftops of a Chinese tenement building (Tong Lau) in Sham Shui Po. There was a photo show, an art exhibition, a group of art guides organised by the residents, as well as a book. That's an example where works really resonated with the theme and title—everything followed on from it. Turning back to this exhibition, the participating artists were all quite well known, so perhaps they were more loyal to themselves rather than to the theme.
S: I Think It Rains itself is a line of verse, and poetry often has a lot of room for interpretation.
D: The works exhibited have mostly been selected from the Burger Collection, so sorting out the context became, to a large degree, the work of the curator.
P: Summing up the works—they all seem to be about what has vanished. Lam Tung Pang's work, the video by the Portuguese artist Filipa César, Choi Yan Chi's workA Desk to a Forever Reader, as well as Kingsley Ng's workMoon . Gate all lie at the cusp of what has disappeared and what hasn't yet disappeared. Is this theme about "rain" some sort of echo to this?
D: An abstract, blank imagery on top of another abstract, blank imagery—interpreting it this way certainly works. The key is whether it's meaningful and whether it adds to the power of the works. In actual fact, is it that hard to demand that an art exhibition set a theme, and ensure that the works resonate with the theme?
S: It is hard—as long as the exhibition involve more than one participant. If it's a solo show, then it will work no matter what, because it's self-explanatory. What the works in the exhibition present are the threads about the personal self, even if it's something of a messy and mistaken logic. The theme presents the artists themselves.
T: If works were created collaboratively according to a theme, then it might work.
S: Not necessarily. For instance, in some exhibitions with two artists, when they attempt to respond to a same theme, they will often find that while creating the works, their understanding is very different, and not infrequently, this leads to a sense of imbalance.
P: That situation is like in Melting Pot during [the exhibition] Painting On and On. The dialogue between the artists was also the starting point for some of the works, but the presentation ended up being neither here nor there.
D: Let me bring the topic of the conversation back to the discussion about themes. Do we all think that an art exhibition should first have a theme and then the works come after, or rather the works first and then the theme?
S: Well, that depends on whether it's a solo or a group show, as well as on the curatorial approach. Additionally, even if you know the theme prior to creating the works, the artists might, because of their own creative bent, make the works fit the theme rather awkwardly.
D: I, on the other hand, think artists have already made the grade if they've gotten to that point. The works themselves are the artists' responses to a certain topic, which may have extended or come about from the theme of the exhibition. As for whether they fit well or not, or what the connections are between all the works, that is the work of the curator—how to understand the works, how to create a context for the exhibition, who the target audience is, and other such questions.
P: I agree. When artists are working and struggling hard with making works, the role of the curator is to organize them. For instance, if the curator sees "life" as the central core of the works, then he/she will use "life" as the connecting thread with which to curate the exhibition.
D: Right. Pushing this further, if setting a particular subject is effective for an exhibition, then the aim is to establish a certain context for the audience to understand the exhibition from a particular angle. If a theme can accomplish this point, then it works as a suitable theme. In contrast, empty, elusive themes don't help the audience understand the exhibition or the works, in which case it doesn't actually make a difference whether the theme exists or not.
Enoch Cheung, Pseudo Writing: About I Think It Rains
D: Now let's explore some of the works and their content. What kind of opinions or reflections do you have about the works in this exhibition? I quite like Enoch Cheung's work; it approaches the form of a performance. Before producing the work, he drank a large amount of condensed coffee. Then, under an extremely stimulated mental state, he painted on the walls of the exhibition space with the coffee, night and day. Some are realistic drawings, like architectural buildings, while others were more abstract, resembling the writing of some symbolic script.
P: Condensed coffee didn't seem to have had much of a strong effect. Wouldn't smoking pot have worked better?
D: It's a bit hard to justify smoking pot to the general public…
P: Actually, back in the time of surrealism, artists like Dali tried to shoot up drugs to force themselves into a peculiar mental state—and then they would try to create art.
T: Absinthe seems to have been popular for a while.
S: Absinthe used to be banned, but now it's legal again. Drinking it makes you hallucinate.
P: Back in the day, many artists would use pretty extreme methods to force themselves into a subconscious state, and then start drawing. Enoch Cheung's condensed coffee is relatively mild in comparison.
D: The question is how alert and conscious did the artist want to stay?
P: But this can't really be calculated clearly.
D: There's always a difference between how strong and weak something is. For instance, I can't accurately say whether my mental state after smoking pot is in fact equal to my subconscious.
P: Apparently artists back then wanted to pursue this half-awake, half-dreamy state. I think everyone's had a similar experience—when you're half-awake, some dreamy, hallucinatory images would appear in the mind, and ten minutes would feel like two hours.
T: For me, I think Enoch Cheung made the piece with a more contemporary approach in mind. He purposely chose condensed coffee maybe to hint at the pressures of modern society—when we frequently need to rely on stimulating drinks to give ourselves the stamina to face the pressures of life. This approach might be like those artists back then, and yet the content and direction expressed are something else altogether.
D: The important thing is to let the audience see the constant states of flow and change within the work. His drawings have such diverse content: some are realistic views of surroundings, while others are fluid strokes of writing, and still others are abstract to the point of continuing the already existing traces of water and the cracks on the walls. The process of crossing over from one part to another is pretty interesting.
Kingsley Ng and Lam Tung Pang
D: Both being works where sound is an important element, if you compare the works by Lam Tung Pang and Kingsley Ng, Lam Tung Pang's work is clearly narrative–a descriptive narration. The soundtrack in Lam Tung Pang's work deliberately avoids subjective adjectives, and yet this doesn't hinder us from understanding and constructing the content of the narrative: an installation by Kurt Chan. And the funny thing about this approach lies in how the audience, through reading the narrative, imagines in their minds that particular work, which doesn't exist anymore. So everyone has a different "work" in mind, which contrasts with the objectivity intentionally concocted in the soundtrack.
P: I always feel that creating sound is different from other media. Making a sound piece has to take the surroundings into consideration.
D: Right. Taking Kingsley Ng's work as an example, the sound part is treated more like ambient sound, and the loudspeakers are also deliberately concealed. When reading this work within the exhibition space, the sounds from the site itself (the sounds of wind, rain, people, and other works) easily get mixed up with the sound of the work itself. What's interesting is that, because the work is presented differently depending on time and space, it also becomes ambiguous.
Florian German: Wendigo River / The Crystal Source / Kowloon
T: I feel the work with the pickaxe and shovel [tools for the real-time activity Wendigo River / The Crystal Source / Kowloon, 2013]is actually pretty interesting. But forbidding the audience from direct contact with the work seems to have drastically reduced its impact.
S: I accidentally stepped on the work.
D: Which is really not bad at all as far as accidental mistakes go.
S: The aim of the work is to record and re-perform the sound of implements—like the pickaxe—digging at the ground by placing a recording device on the tool itself. If the audience could be allowed to get their hands on these tools themselves, to create the sounds by knocking them against the ground, then it's even more direct and fun than stomping on the floor around them. And the recording device isn't of high quality, so it can't amplify the muffled footsteps recorded around it.
D: If the audience can only get involved with their feet, then how should they take part, in terms of their role and circumstance?
S: Placing the recording device on the tools which must then be handled doesn't seem to be the best expressive approach, does it?
T: Perhaps the artist could record different segments of digging sounds with this installation in order to replay them as recordings, instead of directly placing the works within the site.
D: When we picked up the pickaxe—which was against the rules—I felt its actual weight. That's my initial experience, which was a pretty fun. Or perhaps it's some transgressive, rebellious psychology.
S: The way the work is displayed gives me something of an unfinished feeling—like the amplifiers laid out on the side, connected to two microphones in the shape of pickaxes, forbidden to be touched—this doesn't really take the relationship between the space and the work into consideration. What's more, it doesn't let you connect with the creative ideas behind the work (the artist having dug up different types of dirt).
T: Right, like what kind of soil, what significance the digging place had, and so forth—it doesn't let people know about that.
S: It's as though two sound installations were made and then carelessly placed within the space.
T: Well, if that's the case, they didn't have to be pickaxes. They could have been anything.
P: Song Dong apparently made a similar work: he held a seal, and then forcefully and repeatedly struck it against the water surface. A seal pressed on paper would leave an imprint, but struck on water, it's like water off a duck's back.
《I Think It Rains》—主題與策展
T: 這次展覽名為"I Think It Rains",作品本身與主題關係為何?我在想,我們能否在所有作品中找出共通點?
D: "I Think It Rains" 聽起來很輕,而且有一種"有痕跡"和"無痕跡"中間的狀態。但我看來,作品與主題的呼應並不明顯。 也許因為這33件作品不完全是為展覽而做。
T: 其實這些作品都是Burger Collection 的嗎?是策展人在收藏中選取作品出來作展覽嗎?
P: "I Think It Rains" 到底有甚麼深層意思?
D: 那好像是一首尼日利亞詩人的詩,當中的"rain"指的是村子被燒成灰燼然後四散逝去。原因為何我沒有深究。
S: "I Think It Rains " 本身是一句詩,而詩往往有很大的詮釋空間。
D: 這次的展品很多都從 Burger Collection 中選出的,因此梳理脈絡很大程度上變成了策展人的工作。
P: 總結大家描述的作品,都似乎是關於一些已消逝的東西。林東鵬的作品、葡萄牙藝術家 Filipa César 的錄像作品、Yan-chi的作品,伍韶勁的作品都介乎於已消逝和未消逝之間。這個關於下雨的主題,是否是一種呼應?
S: 是一件難事,只要作品或展覽多於一個人參與的話。如果是一個個展,那是無論如何也說得通的,因為那就是一個自我解釋(self-explanation)。作品在展覽中呈現的是關於他個人的脈絡,哪怕那是一個絮亂,錯誤的邏輯。主題呈現藝術家本身。
T: 如果作品是跟據主題進行集體創作(Collaboration),那也可能行得通。
D: 我反而覺得,如果能做到這地步,藝術家已經合格了。因為作品本身是藝術家對一些議題的反應,而該議題可以是展覽主題所引申出來的。至於格格不入與否,以及作品群中的脈絡為何,那是策展人的工作 --怎樣理解作品、如何在展覽中建設一個脈絡(context)、他心目中的對象觀眾群為何,諸如此類。
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伍韶勁 & 林東鵬
D: 同為聲音元素相當重要的作品,如果把林東鵬和伍韶勁的作品比較,林東鵬的作品明顯是一個鈙述(narration),而且是一個描述性的鈙述。林東鵬作品中的聲帶刻意地避免使用帶主觀成份的形容詞,然而這並不妨礙我們去理解和建構這一鈙述內容--陳育強的一件裝置作品。而這種做法的有趣之處在於,觀眾透過閱讀鈙述,在自己的腦海中想像該件不存在的作品,因此每人各自腦海中的作品都是不同的,而這正與聲帶中刻意營造的客觀性形成對比。
D: 對。以伍韶勁的作品為例,它的聲音部份被處理得更像環境聲音(ambience),而且揚聲器的位置也被刻意隱藏。在展場中閱讀這作品時,該場地本身的聲音(風聲、雨聲、人聲、其他作品的聲音)容易與作品本身的聲音混合。這是有趣的,因為作品因著場地和時間有不同的表現,同時也將其變得曖昧。


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A total of 10 pilot whales have died and another 41 remain stranded in a remote area of Everglades National Park, officials said Wednesday afternoon.
A team that arrived on the scene Wednesday morning found six whales dead, and they were forced to euthanize four through sedation as a humane option, NOAA Fisheries Southeast marine mammal stranding coordinator Blair Mase said.
Rescue workers who are trying to herd the whales out of shallow waters suspended their efforts after dark, but planned to return Thursday morning to resume the effort, according to NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman Kim Amendola.
"The whales are about half a mile to three-quarters of a mile offshore, but they are not heading out to sea," said marine mammal biologist Liz Stratton. "So we're not sure what they're doing, and we're not sure if they're not going to come back in the morning, unfortunately."
Necropsies were being conducted Wednesday on the beached whales as scientists sought to determine their cause of death and find clues on why they ended up beached in the area.
The swimming whales do not show any signs of injury or trauma, but there is not a lot of time to save them, Mase said. The whales are out of their normal home range, and they may be dehyrdrated or malnourished, she added.
They are in Monroe County near Highland Beach, which is the western boundary of Everglades National Park. The closest deep water is about 20 miles west. In between are sandbars and channels that would be very difficult for the whales to navigate on their own.
But efforts to herd the close-knit animals out of the area, which is about an hour from the nearest boat ramp, have not been successful so far.
"They're freely swimming about. They're a species that likes to stay together, and we're just not able to get them to move away," Everglades National Park spokeswoman Linda Friar said.
There will be a multi-day effort to rescue the animals that would last at least through Thursday and possibly Friday, Mase said. But she tried to set expectations low, saying that the goal was to save the whales, but most mass strandings do not have a successful outcome.
The goal is to keep the whales alive during low tide, and then when high tide comes in, crews will try to get them back into the sea, Friar said.
The whales are slightly larger than dolphins, Friar said.
Mase said that when the team returned from the remote location, its members would brief National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials on how to move forward Thursday.
"So we are going to explore options for these animals. We are going to work hard to try to find out if we can save any, but we want to set the expectations low because the challenges are very, very difficult – the environmental challenges, the resource challenges, the location of the whales," Mase said.
Officials are also talking with experts from different countries that have experience with herding, she said.
"The outlook does not ultimately look good for the remaining live whales," Mase said.
The whales, who scientists say appeared confused, were originally spotted around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday near Highland Beach, according to Friar.
Friar said rangers and workers from NOAA responded and found 10 beached whales and the others in shallow waters nearby.
Four of the whales died but the workers were able to get six back into the water, Friar said.
"It's so shallow at low tide for such a long distance it makes it more difficult to get the whales to an area where they can swim away," Friar said.
It's not unusual for the whales to end up in the shallow waters, which stretch for hundreds of yards, Friar said.
"The thing about these whales, as the day heats up they'll have to keep them wet," she said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Marine Mammal Conservancy and Marine Animal Rescue Society are assisting the rangers and NOAA Fisheries in the rescue effort.
The Gulf of Mexico has a very strong pilot whale population and this pod is very far from where they normally would be. They are very far from their deep water habitat and this makes it difficult for rescuers to "push" them back out to sea, Mase said.
"If we did push the healthy ones out, if they see one dead one they will come back again," Mase said.
She said a mass stranding occurred in Fort Pierce in 2012.
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Diana Wynne Jones, outstanding fantasy writer and Neil Gaiman's friend, died. She lived a long life, and a good life, and left a lot of magic behind.
I found myself standing on the balcony after hearing the news, staring into the sky at the stars, and caught myself thinking, "I hope Death came for her." Those poor, deprived people who aren't fans of Neil Gaiman won't understand why that's a happy thought. Maybe this will help:
|Death of the Endless
There are worse last sights than a cute, perky Gothic chick taking you on one last adventure.
Of course, I laughed at myself a little for the thought. Death exists only in the imagination. There's no actual being who's going to drop by and haul anybody's arse off to the Summer Lands. There's no afterlife. There's life, and then there's not. People seem to think that's terrifying. They can't face that death is the end, that there's nothing beyond to look forward to. I get that. Not as much as I used to, but I understand some people desperately need to believe there's no end to us.
I used to need that. I used to fear dying quite a lot, actually, and worried about the quality of the afterlife. But then I read Sandman, and met Death, and thought that while life was preferable to death, there wasn't any real reason to fear Death herself. I didn't want to meet her too soon, but it wouldn't be so bad. She put a spring in my step. She dispelled the shadows.
Still. I worried. What if I didn't accomplish everything I'd set out to do? That'd be me, moping around the Summer Lands, regretting the things I hadn't done. I'd get what everyone gets: a lifetime. But would it be enough?
Then I became an atheist, and suddenly, the fear was gone. Seriously, totally gone. I no more want to die now than I ever did, I still want to accomplish things and leave something of lasting value behind, but I'm no longer afraid of the fact of death. Why should I be? I won't have regrets. I'll know nothing about it. There will be no me left to fret or regret. The end of consciousness used to be a terror, but for some reason, a day came when I could fully accept it. I think it's because I realized there's no use in fearing it. And now, I could dedicate all of me to this life. It's the only one I've got. No do-overs. Do I really want to spend it in perpetual panic? No. So. Live a good life, and a full life, as long as I can, and enjoy it. One day at a time, with no eternity staring me accusingly in the face.
There's a chance that, at the end, I'll see Death. Near death experience, y'see. Got to thinking about those tonight. The last imaginings of the hypoxic brain. Some people see Jesus. Some people see – well, whatever their culture's conditioned them to see. So it's quite possible that the last fitful firings of my synapses will present me with a tunnel, and a cute perky Gothic chick, and with the last instant of consciousness, I'll be able to take her hand and let her walk me off the stage. It won't matter a bit that it's not real, or that it won't be remembered. It's still a hell of a nice way to go.
A last instant of happiness. Don't know. Could be. A last, delightful little hallucination as the grand finale.
I hope that Diana Wynne Jones's brain did that for her. I hope that the last synapse fired off a happy ending, a fitting tribute to a wonderful life richly lived.


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From Newtown to Congress for Llodra?
The political stock of Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra is soaring to new heights six months after the worst grade-school shooting in U.S. history, with state and national Republicans putting her on their short list of dream candidates for Congress and lieutenant governor in 2014.
The National Republican Congressional Committee recently tried to recruit Llodra to run for the 5th District House seat occupied by first-term Democrat Elizabeth Esty, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers has learned.
A person familiar with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering said that a flattered Llodra turned down the overture, sticking with her plans to seek a third two-year term as Newtown's chief elected official this November.
Llodra's name is also being floated for lieutenant governor, a second GOP insider told Hearst.
She did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Llodra was thrust into the spotlight when a gunman killed 20 children and six educators Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Since the massacre, Llodra, 70, has become the face of a grieving community that is the epicenter of a national debate on gun control.
She's received invitations to the White House and the White House Correspondents Dinner, as well as Sacred Heart University in Fairfield to be its commencement speaker. In May, members of the state GOP presented Llodra with its women's leadership award and gave her a standing ovation at the party's annual fundraising dinner in Stamford.
"Pat is a friend who has a bright future in our party," Jerry Labriola Jr., the state Republican chairman, said Tuesday in an interview. "I have no doubt that should she choose to seek higher office, Pat would be a great candidate."
A spokesman for the NRCC declined to comment about the recruitment of Llodra, which was said to be part of a concerted effort by Republicans in Washington, D.C., to cast a wider net for candidates in the 5th District.
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, who is seeking a seventh term as chief executive of the Hat City and is also mulling a run for governor, was also on the NRCC's short list.
"Yes, that's true. I did receive a call from the NRCC, but I'm really focused on running for mayor of the city of Danbury," Boughton said Tuesday.
So far, Litchfield businessman Mark Greenberg, thwarted in the GOP's 5th District primary in 2010 and 2012, is the only declared candidate in the race, one that the Rothenberg Political Report and Roll Call recently changed to a "safe" rating for Esty. A message seeking comment from Greenberg was left at his home.
The 5th District stretches from Danbury to the Farmington River Valley and includes Litchfield County, Meriden and New Britain.
"Mark has done a very good job of working the local grass roots and has sewn up a lot of support in key areas, but I do expect other people to enter the race at some point," Boughton said of Greenberg.
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Authorities say the two men, ages 24 and 26, lured the teenage girl to the roof of a three-story building on Miller Avenue in East New York early Sunday.
They allegedly raped her and flung her off the roof after at least one of them tried to strangle her, police said. She was taken to Brookdale Hospital.
Police arrested 24-year-old Anwar Desouza, who lives at the building where the girl was attacked, and charged him with attempted murder, rape, criminal sexual act and strangulation.
Information on an attorney for him wasn't immediately available.
Authorities are looking for his alleged accomplice, who has been identified as 26-year-old Antonio Owensford. Police released a photo of Owensford (above).
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
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