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Under the slogan of "Growing Ideas," the DHL Innovation Awards were presented in the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf near Bonn.
Deutsche Post DHL, the world's leading mail and logistics provider, saw its third-quarter revenue fall 18.6 percent to 11.2 billion euros in the wake of the continuing global economic crisis.
Implementation of the Group strategy presented by CEO Frank Appel in the spring of this year is progressing according to plan. Deutsche Post DHL presented DHL Solutions & Innovation (DSI), its newly launched business unit at the 26th German Logistics Congress...
Official Logistics Partner ensures safe transport of valuable musical instruments. For the first time in its history, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra will visit China.
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Deutsche Post DHL, the leading global logistics provider, has deployed a Disaster Response Team (DRT) to Padang Airport in Indonesia at the invitation of the United Nations.
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Deutsche Post DHL together with its subsidiary DHL and The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) enhanced its services in the area of Disaster Management.
Deutsche Post DHL, the world's leading logistics provider, succeeded in cushioning the effects of the global economic crisis through its comprehensive cost-cutting program and stabilized earnings in the second quarter.
In time for the beginning of the second half of the RC 44 Championship Tour in Malcesine at Lake Garda, Italy, DHL can provide first results based on its extensive climate protection program.
DHL is once again offering the DHL Innovation Award which gives young logistics scientists the opportunity gain attention for their practical logistics solutions.
Today in Berlin, Daimler AG, Deutsche Post DHL, the energy group OMV, the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG public transportation company, and the Finnish oil company Neste Oil took part in a discussion-oriented event titled "Diesel from renewable sources - A step...
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, today announced that its Global Customer Solutions (GCS) organization has received two awards from the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) at its 45th annual conference in Hollywood, Florida, U.S. - GCS...
As a result of the global economic crisis, Deutsche Post DHL, the world's largest provider of logistics services, recorded a 12.9 percent drop in revenue to 11.5 billion euros in the first quarter of 2009.
At Deutsche Post AG's Annual General Meeting at the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt around 2,000 shareholders approved the resolutions proposed by the Board of Management and Supervisory Board by large majorities.
Speaking in front of shareholders in Frankfurt, Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post DHL, offered a generally positive overview of 2008 in spite of the difficult market conditions.
Deutsche Post DHL, the world's largest logistics provider, saw volume declines increase across all products and divisions in the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2008.
Deutsche Post DHL released its Sustainability Report 2009 just before this year's Annual General Meeting.
Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post World Net, today unveiled his Strategy 2015 aimed at making the company fit for the future.
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DHL, the global leader in express and logistics, has been recognized for its global environmental commitment by Climate Counts.
Deutsche Post World Net is committing itself to creating equal educational opportunities and providing increased support to all children and young people in Germany. As the founding partner and largest sponsor of "Teach First Germany," the world's largest logistics...
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Deutsche Post World Net, the world's leading express and logistics service provider, has joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
Deutsche Post World Net, the world's largest express and logistics provider, today reported that it has met its 2008 profit target, thanks to strict cost management and cash conservation.
For over nine months they discussed, organized, and made farreaching decisions. Now the winning team of the DHL Fast Forward business simulation, which triumphed over a field of more than 8,500 competitors from over 120 countries, has been determined.
DHL Express, the world's leading international express delivery company, is announcing the introduction of the Boeing 767 Extended Range Freighter aircraft into its own air fleet, the first commercial flight having left Leipzig (LEJ) airport with destination...
AeroLogic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, today officially started operations.
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At the same time when DHL Express announced the opening of two new state-of-the-art gateways the company has won five awards at the 2009 Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA). The awards reconfirm the strength of the DHL brand, its service excellence and...
Deutsche Post DHL today presented its SmartTruck pilot project in Berlin.
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post World Net today appointed Ken Allen to the Management Board of the world's largest logistics company and Chief Executive Officer of DHL Express, effective Feb. 26. Allen, 53, succeeds John Mullen, whose resignation today...
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DHL Global Forwarding is securing additional capacity from commercial carriers to avoid capacity constraints between North Asia and Europe throughout the first quarter of 2010.
DHL Global Forwarding is once again taking the lead by partnering with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its global e-freight campaign.
DHL today unveiled its global strategy to bolster its service offerings and infrastructure for the EUR260 billion global Oil and Energy logistics industry.
DHL Supply Chain has been awarded a multi-million pound five-year contract with News International to handle the delivery of four leading national newspapers from print plants to wholesalers across England and Wales.
Oracle is now a global technology partner of the DHL Innovation Initiative. The company is using its technical expertise in processing logistics movement data to support the community of international companies who are working together.
On July 1, 2009, DHL Supply Chain began to perform all logistics services for the J.W. Ostendorf (JWO) group of companies.
DHL Supply Chain has launched a pan-European, in-bound logistics solution for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), resulting in considerable cost reduction and more responsive logistics planning.
DHL Freight, the specialist for overland transportation in Europe within Deutsche Post DHL, has significantly expanded its service for temperature-sensitive goods, with Coldchain transport services now covering more than 30 European countries.
DHL today opened its new DHL Eastern China Domestic Transportation Hub in Shanghai, as part of a US$25 million investment that strengthens DHL's expertise in the domestic road transportation and distribution market in China, and taps on the growth of the domestic...
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DHL, the world's leading logistics service provider, today announced its new contract with HarperCollins, one of the world's foremost English-language publishers.
DHL, the world's leading logistics company today announced an investment of over HK$100 million in Hong Kong.
DHL Supply Chain has become the first business to receive the recently launched Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) Quality Award for 'Best Business Process Quality Improvement Project'.
Effective immediately, customers of DHL Freight, the overland transport business of Deutsche Post World Net, can take advantage of the newly established connection between DHL's high performance road transport services in Europe and the Middle East.
Armed with the world's largest mail distribution network, DHL Global Mail is now putting the power of its organization at the service of Spartoo.com, the European leader in online shoe sales.
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NC candidate to sign same-sex marriage licenses
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The apparent winner of a register of deeds seat in North Carolina says he'll sign same-sex marriage licenses despite a state ban against gay unions.
Former Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton narrowly won a Democratic primary Tuesday for the Orange County register of deeds and it appears that he will have no opposition in the general election in November.
Chilton said he doesn't see how North Carolina's law banning gay marriage will survive constitutional analysis, especially since federal courts have ruled against similar bans in other states.
"The upshot of all those is that if a state statute or a state constitutional provision or even a federal statute is written and has no purpose other than to put down, to denigrate politically unpopular groups, such as gays and lesbians, then it is unconstitutional," Chilton said, adding that the oath of office he'll have to take says he must abide by the U.S. Constitution in spite of state law.
"So that's what I'm going to do," he said.
Chilton is not alone in his stance. In October, the register of deeds for Buncombe County in western North Carolina, Drew Reisinger, became one of the first officials in the South to accept marriage-license applications from same-sex couples. At the time, he said he believed the state ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. State officials have said his office can't issue the licenses.
Attorney General Roy Cooper is responsible for upholding the state's laws. He declined to comment Wednesday on Chilton's pledge. In the past Cooper has said he will uphold the gay marriage ban, even though he personally supports gay marriage.
Chilton said if a court were to order him to stop issuing gay-marriage licenses, he would.
"At this point, no court has ever ruled one way or another ... and until they do, those of us in North Carolina government are forced to simply apply the decisions that have been made thus far," he said. "I think those who are defying what I'm saying are sticking their fingers in their ears and refusing to listen."
But supporters of the state law banning gay marriage say Chilton is wrong.
"You don't change the law by breaking the law," said Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of NC Values Coalition, a private organization that led groups which backed passage of the law. "It's not up to him to be judge and jury about the law. It's up to him to carry out the law."
The coalition is sponsoring a rally on Thursday in Raleigh to mark the second anniversary of the ban's passage.
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FREEPORT - Mayor Jim Gitz has been selected as one of the newest members of the Illinois Municipal League board of directors.
"It's an honor to be one of a handful of people in a state that has hundreds of cities and municipalities," he said. "The best part of being on the board is that it gives you a seat at the table in framing policy and procedures."
The nonprofit, nonpolitical association of 1,124 municipalities aims to articulate, defend, maintain and promote the interests and concerns of Illinois communities.
"Its most significant function is to fight for local interests in the Illinois General Assembly," Gitz said. "The group takes an active role in legislation."
Gitz served on the board from 2001 to 2005; this appointment came in October.
Belvidere Mayor Michael Chamberlain also was tabbed for a seat, and Loves Park Mayor Darryl Lindberg was elected president of the board for the next year.
"Many times conversations with other mayors can be very helpful," Gitz said. "You get to personally know other mayors who are similarly situated and hear about what they've done in their communities."
Executive Director Larry Frang has known Gitz since 1974 and was pleased that the nomination committee chose him: "He will make an excellent addition to the board, as he did as a part of it previously."
Gitz will serve a one-year term, which is likely to be extended until he leaves the mayor's office.
"The informal network is extremely helpful," he said. "We bounce ideas and experiences off of one another. The ties you build on the board have direct benefits to our constituents.
"The training offered as well as the exchange of information are very important when dealing with our work effectively."
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With hands joined in prayer, a group sitting at one of the many tables at Tecumseh's community Thanksgiving dinner at city hall paused Thursday to give thanks before partaking in a community Thanksgiving meal.
With hands joined in prayer, a group sitting at one of the many tables at Tecumseh's community Thanksgiving dinner at city hall paused Thursday to give thanks before partaking in a community Thanksgiving meal.
At a table nearby, three longtime friends from the area enjoyed their meal and had a good time visiting with each other.
Area residents enjoyed turkey and all trimmings Thursday as Randy and Suzanne Gilbert hosted the eighth annual Tecumseh Community Thanksgiving dinner.
The event, which has grown from about 100 meals served the first year to well over 400 meals this year, is the place to be on Thanksgiving day.
With a group of about 30 volunteers making it all possible, what started as a way for the Gilberts to give back to the community, has turned into a tradition.
"Many say what a blessing it is for them to be able to come and do this," Suzanne Gilbert said.
With Tecumseh having a large senior population, the event also provides a place for them to eat Thanksgiving dinner.
"If you have family to go to that's wonderful, but if you don't, then you have family when you come here to eat," Suzanne Gilbert said. "It's a really good meal and we're thankful to be able to provide a good meal for everyone."
Randy Gilbert said the event is possible with the help of an unbelievable and amazing group of volunteers who help.
It all began with an idea. With such a small family, Suzanne Gilbert said they wanted to start a dinner for the community and it's grown into what feels like a large family gathering each year for the sit-down dinner.
Doris Blakley, who grew up in Tecumseh but now lives in Bethel, along with her friends, Edna Edsall and Onalee Cearley, who are sisters, was among those enjoying the meal and couldn't imagine being anywhere else.
And while all three of them have cooked plenty of Thanksgiving meals over the years, now that they're retired, it's nice for them to have somewhere to go for the traditional feast.
For sisters Edna and Onalee, who have both lost their husbands, the day is about spending time together and visiting with others.
For Doris, who will see her family this weekend, it was a perfect way to enjoy her Thanksgiving Day.
"I never cook," Doris said.
And for all three, it was a day of giving thanks.
For Edna, who at 80 years old said she is thankful for all the help she receives, there's many blessing, including her sister.
Onalee, who is 90, said, "I'm thankful for the long Christian life the Lord's given me."
Doris is thankful for living in the United States — "the best place in the world to live."


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The message on "tapering," or scaling back the Federal Reserve's bond purchases, has been broadcast loud and clear in recent weeks: no changes to the $85 billion per month program until labor markets strengthen significantly.
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Now it's time to set the record straight on interest rates.
Market analysts believe the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets most Fed policy and is holding its monthly meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, will go out of its way to soothe market fears and confusion over when the Fed may start raising interest rates.
In no uncertain terms, the message conveyed will be "Not for a long time."
The Fed statement will arrive two days before the July jobs report, which is out Friday morning. The Fed has increasingly tied its monetary policy to the U.S. labor markets, saying there will be no changes to its bond purchase program known as quantitative easing, nor will interest rates be hiked until unemployment eases and more Americans enter the workforce.
But that message has gotten confused in recent months as labor markets have marginally improved.
When, based on rising jobs numbers, the Fed has suggested that tapering may come sooner rather than later, investors have (mistakenly) interpreted that as meaning interest rates may be raised sooner rather than later as well. Market volatility has ensued.
Economists are forecasting the U.S. economy added 179,000 jobs in July, fewer than the 195,000 jobs created in June. Monthly job gains have averaged about 202,000 in the past six months, an improvement over the previous six months, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high, holding steady at 7.6% in July from the previous month.
Lance Roberts, chief economist at research firm StreetTalk Advisors, said the Fed statement due at 2 p.m. Wednesday will likely reiterate the message of previous statements in recent months: accommodative policy is "here to stay for the foreseeable future," he said, especially as it pertains to low interest rates.
Roberts said Fed policymakers have to achieve a balance in the statements they release to the public following their monthly meetings, as well as in their public statements made during speeches and press conferences. They need to provide enough details in their forecasts to provide the markets with guidance, he said, but not enough specifics that their predictions cause a panic, especially during times of economic volatility.
"The problem for the Fed is that they can't really say what they're thinking. If they did, they'd scare the heck out of everybody," said Roberts.
Soothing Messages
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in remarks made during a June press conference attempted to clarify the Fed's position on its accommodative policies, saying the Fed could begin tapering in September if economic conditions continue to improve. His comments only served to muddy the waters, however, as investors locked in on a September deadline for the beginning of the end of the Fed's easy-money stimulus programs.
The volatility that followed Bernanke's comments seems to have stemmed in large part from investors' mistaken impression that a tapering of the Fed's bond purchases was somehow connected to the Fed's timetable for raising interest rates from their historic low range set during the peak of the financial crisis.
Bernanke and other FOMC members have spent the better part of the past month trying to clarify that position, and their statement tomorrow is expected to strongly re-emphasize the message that the Fed is a long way from turning off the easy-money spigot.
Peter Tchir, founder of TF Market Advisors, said he expects the Fed on Wednesday "will hammer home that short-term rates will remain at zero."
The Fed has said for months that the key federal funds interest rate, or the rate banks charge one another for short-term loans, will remain at a historically low range of 0-0.25% at least until the unemployment range falls to 6.5%.
The only recent change in Fed policy regarding the funds rate is that now Bernanke is making it clear that the 6.5% unemployment rate is a "threshold" rather than a firm target. In other words, the unemployment rate could fall to 6.5%, but the Fed may see other economic indicators – housing, manufacturing, whatever -- weakening, a situation that would require the Fed to keep interest rates low.
Clearly, the Fed is afraid of spooking markets again and Wednesday's statement is widely expected to send nothing but soothing messages to skittish investors.


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So it was the first of the month; Fresh Sewing Day, time to have a look back at March.
I also get to announce the winner of Nova's Nesting Fabric Bowls pattern. Mr. Random Number Generator declared the winner to be:
Congratulations Ayumi!! I will let Nova know and she will get in touch with you soon :)
Hop on over to Lynne's to see what everyone else has been up to in March.
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G.F. 3, Sacred Heart 2
The lights shined late Friday night illuminating Richter Field so it could be seen from a distance as summer insects and the Kilowatts gathered in the night. The score board was dark, but there was little doubt who won. If it had been a loss, it would have been expected that the home town lights would have been extinguished far sooner.
G.F. 3, Sacred Heart 2
The lights shined late Friday night illuminating Richter Field so it could be seen from a distance as summer insects and the Kilowatts gathered in the night. The score board was dark, but there was little doubt who won. If it had been a loss, it would have been expected that the home town lights would have been extinguished far sooner.
The Kilowatts had their way with Willmar and notched their first post season victory. Their next would come a couple of days later.
It was much too late for post game quotes as the towering field lights, winged insects and the Kilowatts buzzed under the heavy July night. "No quotes now, right?"
"It's all off the record... That's the rule." Regardless of what was said, it was how it was said. Swagger was being restored.
Manager Mike Richter has been trying to convince his team all season that they were the type of team that could go on a post season tear. As sodium lights fought the deepening night it seemed as if they were beginning to believe him.
On Sunday in a tight 3-2 victory that knocked Sacred Heart out of the playoffs they proved it and ended Sacred Heart's run of four straight years at the State Tournament.
The Kilowatts never trailed in the game. Tyler Kanten held off a final Sacred Heart rally from the mound allowing just one run after loading the bases with one out in the ninth.
The Kilowatts two aces, Cody Fruin, who started the game, and Kanten, combined to give up just two runs on four hits.
"We're playing confident," said Mike Richter after Sunday's game. "We're a dirty young team. That's a lot of it: just having the confidence to go out there and let the game come to you."
Sunday's win puts Granite Falls in the Region Playoffs for the first time since 2007.
They'll play for Region seeding on Wednesday night in Raymond against the Raymond Rockets, who have been the leaders of the Corn Belt League this season.
A win will put them up against Bird Island in Bird Island on Friday. With a loss, they'll play a team to be determined in Bird Island on Saturday.
Granite Falls: Jeremy Weiland 1-for-4 run rbi, Tyler Dammann 1-for-4 2b run, Tyler Kanten 1-for-4 2b rbi, Craig Listul 1-for-3, Nick Richter 1-for-1, King Richter 1-for-3 run
Sacred Heart: Mike Kuschell 1-for-4 2 runs, Nate Hebrink 2-for-4 2b, Mike Johnson 1-for-3 2 rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)
Granite Falls: Cody Fruin (W) 4.2-2-1-1-4-3, Kanten (Sv) 4.1-2-1-1-3-2
Sacred Heart: Hebrink (L) 9-5-3-1-2-7
G.F. 12, Willmar 5
The Kilowatts staved off elimination Friday night thanks in part to a pair of two-run doubles by Dylan Lindstrom and a home run by Jake Suter that sparked a 12-5 victory at Richter Field against the Willmar Rails.
Granite Falls scored in every inning but the third and owned a 7-0 lead before the Rails struck for five runs in the seventh.
Lindstrom collected a third of the Kilowatts' nine hits and doubled in two runs in both the fifth and eighth innings. Suter homered to left to lead off the fourth and Tyler Kanten knocked in another two runs.
Andrew Walters worked into the seventh and struck out six while giving up five hits and five runs — two earned — to get the win. Kelly Siverhus kept the Rails off the scoreboard for the final 2.1 innings.
Willmar 000 000 500 — 5 8 4
G.F. 310 111 23x — 12 9 2
Willmar: Tyler Brower 1-for-5, run; Jordan Olson 2-for-5, run; Josh Oestreich 1-for-4, 2b, 2 rbi; Matt Stock 1-for-5, 2b, rbi; Austin Adamson 1-for-3, 2b; Travis Koenen 1-for-2, run; Darin Ditterich 1-for-4, run
Granite Falls: Jeremy Wieland 1-for-4, run; Tyler Dammann 1-for-4, run; Tyler Kanten 1-for-4, 2b, 2 rbi; Craig Listul 1-for-5, 2b, run; Dylan Lindstrom 3-for-5, 2 2b's, 4 rbi; Jake Suter 1-for-4, solo HR, 2 rbi; King Richter 1-for-5, rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)
Willmar: Andrew Bangen (L) 5-5-6-5-4-1, Olson 3-4-6-4-1-1
Granite Falls: Andrew Walters (W) 6.2-5-5-2-2-6, Kelly Siverhus 2.1-3-0-0-2-2


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Southern food is getting a makeover.
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how to not loose vim stdin buffer after opening a file
I often use VIM instead of "less" as pager. Usually in a way like "diff -u ... | vim -R -c 'set syntax=diff' -" (for what I actually have a shell alias).
The one thing was annoying me for quite some time: when vim reads input from stdin, it does create unnamed buffer where to the content is loaded. Unnamed means that as soon as I open in the same vim another file, the stdin input is lost and I do not know of a way to recover it: it doesn't show up in ":ls" anymore.
I have tried to do ":w" yet that created a new file - but the buffer with stdin still remained unnamed and was still replaced by first open file.
After some search I have found a nice command - ":sav" (:help :saveas).
Unlike originally intended for ranges ":w" command, the ":sav" operates on files and thus has enough authority to change buffer name, making stdin buffer persistent.
P.S. "vim -" is described under ":help read-stdin" and ":help --" (two minuses). Though the description is quite shallow.


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Not a very bright show of northern lights, but at least it's something. Usually when aurorae rise this far in the sky they're brighter, but not this time. In Lapland, it was apparently very good show - the observation log Taivaanvahti.fi was full of green pictures from there.
Finland is the jam. It came from an exploding egg, the egg of a water bird, the top half of which you can still see in the shape of the starry canopy that hangs over the earth.Finland is the most sparsely-populated country in the EU with only 5 million people. It's also been ranked the second most stable country in the world, after Norway.Historically, Finland has been a part of Sweden and later, Russia. It was an autonomous Grand Duchy during the Russian Empire's reign and lasted as such until their declaration of independence in 1917. Subsequently Finland survived a civil war and wars against both Russia and Nazi Germany to eventually settle down as an EU member circa 1955.Finnish language is cool, it's totally unrelated to the whole Latin-root thing. Its closest relative is Hungarian. Linguistic historians estimate that it came from northern central Russia from 3000BC.If you're in Helsinki, the museum at Suomenlinna has some interesting bunkers and military wreckage, including a submarine!Caught on camera! Here's your long-awaited proof. Santa Claus comes from Finland.Apart from Lappland, the other thing most people are familiar with out of Finland is aquavite. Literally it translates to "water of life" but it may make you feel more like you are dying when it hits your throat.Text by Steve Smith.


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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured in a fatal six-vehicle pileup on the New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday, hours after performing a standup routine at a show in Delaware, authorities said.
A limousine bus carrying the former "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" cast member and six others overturned near Cranbury Township at about 1 a.m., state police Sgt. 1st Class Greg Williams said.
James McNair, of Peekskill, New York, a passenger in the limo bus, died in the crash, Williams said. Three other men, including Morgan, were in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, and one was in fair condition, he said. Two occupants weren't injured.
Morgan's publicist said the comedian was in the chauffeured vehicle returning from a tour date when the crash occurred.
"His family is now with him and he is receiving excellent care," spokesman Lewis Kay said. "We don't anticipate much of a change in his condition today but will provide a further update once more information becomes available."
Williams declined to release details of the accident, including what may have caused the pileup involving two tractor-trailers, an SUV, two cars and Morgan's limo bus.
Kay's statement did not reveal the extent of Morgan's injuries or identify the others involved in the crash.
Morgan performed comedy standup Friday night at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Delaware. His scheduled appearance at the Fillmore Charlotte in North Carolina on Saturday night has been canceled.
The 45-year-old New York City native joined "SNL" in 1996 and was on the sketch-comedy program for seven years before leaving to star in "The Tracy Morgan Show" in 2003. That show lasted just one season. In 2006, Morgan found a long-running role on NBC's hit show "30 Rock," which was created by "SNL" co-star Tina Fey. He received an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor for "30 Rock" in 2009.
One of his signature routines on "30 Rock" involved an award category his character invented called an "EGOT," representing all the entertainment-related awards he hoped to win: an Emmy, a Grammy, and Oscar and a Tony.
Morgan grew up fatherless, one of five siblings, in a blighted section of Brooklyn, where he helped raise and support the family.
He once called his gift for being funny "a defense mechanism" for his miserable circumstances. As a teen, he started doing comedy on the streets to supplement the family's welfare income.
His tough upbringing informed his humor.
"My aunt was a crackhead," he told his Brooklyn audience in a recent special aired on Comedy Central. "I remember one Christmas she bought me a Game Boy. Then she stole it. Then she helped me look for it."
In recent years, he has struggled with alcoholism and has been arrested on drunken driving charges. He had a successful kidney transplant in late 2010.
Morgan's films include "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," ''The Longest Yard," ''First Sunday," ''Rio" and "Why Stop Now."
The New Jersey Turnpike was closed for more than five hours after the crash.
Associated Press writer Bob Lentz in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
Traffic moves pass the scene of a serious accident at milepost 71 on the northbound lanes of New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday, June 7, 2014 near Cranbury, N.J. Comedian Tracy Morgan is in critical condition following an early morning accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. The comedian was injured in a crash involving six vehicles that left at least one person dead and several others, including Morgan, with serious injuries. (AP Photo/David Gard)


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Carroll Wins Malcesine, Cirillo Crowned 2011 Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series Champion
17 July 2011
Malcesine, Italy - The final act of the 2011 Melges 32 Audi Sailing Series in Malcesine, Italy, came down to a single race on the last day. Conscious of the early afternoon cut off time, the Race Committee opted for a 9 AM start to take advantage of the Northerly morning Pela breeze. With only a slim chance of more than a single race before the Pela died away, the regatta leader by a margin of 7 points, Jason Carroll on USA 128 Argo, needed just to finish close to second placed Lanfranco Cirillo on ITA 212 Fantastica to clinch his first Audi Sailing Series event win. Cirillo meanwhile had the added distraction of maintaining his slender 3 point lead in the overall season series over Alessio Marinelli on ITA 1 Audi Fratelli Giacomel.
After an initial General Recall, Race 7 got underway in a solid 10 -12 knots of breeze, with the bulk of the fleet opting to head for the left hand lake shore. After a hesitant start Marinelli was one of the few boats trying their hand on the right of the race course. In the end it was the left that paid handsomely, allowing Oscar Strugstad on GBR 40 Dawn Raid to round narrowly ahead of fellow countryman Joe Woods on GBR 500 Red in second and Marc de Antonio Altimara on ESP 226 Bribonin third. At this point both Carroll and Cirillo were in the mid teens with Carroll holding the advantage. Marinelli, who had been caught out badly on the right of the beat, rounded much further back in the fleet.
On the first downwind Woods held on the furthest on starboard to ease past Strugstad who had gybed at the halfway point. From then on Woods slowly but surely extended his lead to round the second windward mark in an unassailable lead. Behind him Carlo Perrone on ITA 19 Atlantica had moved up into second with Edoardo Pavesio on ITA 191 Fra Martina rounding in third. With the northerly breeze beginning to make a slow clockwise transition to the south, the final run became very one-sided. Woods took a comfortable win ahead of Perrone in second, with Luca Lalli taking advantage of the windshift to steal third from Pavesio. Back in the pack, in the battle for the regatta and the overall season series, Cirillo had managed to get past Carroll but could only manage tenth place, just 3 places ahead of Carroll. Marinelli had also made gains on the final leg but could only close to within 2 places of Cirillo.
After bringing the fleet ashore in the hope that a southerly breeze would establish itself, several hours later the Race Committee called the competitors out to the racecourse again. After a further wait however, the breeze failed to stabilise sufficiently for fair competition and racing was finally abandoned.
This meant that Carroll was confirmed as the winner of the regatta and Cirillo as winner of the overall four-regatta season series. Cirillo also retained his second place in the regatta, 12 points behind Carrol and 7 points ahead of third placed Lalli. In fourth was Alessio and in fifth Carlo Alberini on ITA 186 Calvi Network.
With the 2011 Melges 32 Audi Sailing Series now completed, the Melges 32 fleet now moves to Palma, Mallorca for the legendary Copa del Rey regatta, a warm up for the 2011 Melges 32 World Championship on September 20-24.
TOP TEN RESULTS (FINAL, After 7 Races)
1.) Jason Carroll/Andy Horton, ARGO; 5-2-5-5-1-1-[13] = 19
2.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Michelle Paoletti, Fantastica; 4-1-7-3-[15]-6-10 = 31
3.) Luca Lalli/Lorenzo Bressani, B-Lin Sailing.com; 7-11-2-[12]-11-4-3 = 38
4.) Alessio Marinelli/Riccardo Simoneschi, Audi Fratelli Giacomel; 3-6-[16]-16-4-2-12 = 43
5.) Edoardo Pavesio, Fra Martina; 11-9-[23]-7-12-7-4 = 50
6.) Carlo Alberini/Enrico Fonda, Calvi Network; 1-14-11-1-[21]-15-16 = 58
7.) Carlo Perrone/Lorenzo Bodini, Atlantica 19; 6-[25]-14-11-24-3-2 = 60
8.) Filippo Pacinotti/Daniele Cassinari, Brontolo HH; [20]-21-1-6-16-12-7= 63
9.) John Porter/Jonathan McKee, Full Throttle; 9-13-10-[23]-2-20-14 = 68
10.) Joe Woods/Joe Glanfield, Red; 16-10-9-19-14-[22]-1= 69
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TOP FIVE AUDI SAILING SERIES RESULTS (FINAL, After 4 Events)
1.) Lanfranco Cirillo, Fantastica
2.) Alessio Marinelli, Audi Fratelli Giacomel
3.) John Kilroy, Samba Pa Ti
4.) Filippo Pacinotti, Brontolo HH
5.) Luca Lalli, B-Lin Sailing.com


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Wild, Go Shiina is a much-beloved composer by Don over at SEMO, and also a very good suggestion. Unfortunately, we're limited to RPG-related composers, so Wakai might not be doable, but hey, maybe he's done an RPG we can ask him about :). As for a special on orchestrators and arrangers, it's a great idea. It might be difficult from a technical aspect, and it would have to be related to RPG/adventure/visual novels in some way, but it's definitely interesting. All that said, your questions about transposition and getting a piece together for a large ensemble ARE great ideas, and I can certainly look into asking those questions when pertinent in the future. Again, thanks to all of you guys for your suggestions and comments. Keep 'em coming!
Given that we're "PersonaFan" I would think folks would love a Shoji Meguro interview.
We've got something good coming in the next couple of weeks, too ;).


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Can You Guess the Celebrity Cleavage?
The starlet in the picture is famous for being the younger sister of another famous actor and portraying the best friend of a certain tongue-wagging pop star.
Besides her most famous role as the best friend , she's also performed voice work on the hit animated comedy series 'Family Guy' as a variety of characters from 2012 to 2014. Earlier in her career, she voiced a character named Kendall Perkins in another animated show called 'Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil' from 2010 to 2012.
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Kausfiles is out there. Somewhere.
When I took out papers to run for the U.S. Senate in California, I figured I would probably have to give up blogging for this magazine. I couldn't quite see what would be wrong with it, but it's just not something that's done at a respectable news organization like the Washington Post Company (which owns Slate
). A few web commenters likewise
assumed that a "lack of comfort"
at Slate
or Post Co. would kill the idea.
In the event, that's not how it turned out. My Slate editors were actually quite willing to keep me on to write what would in effect be the Diary of a Longshot. The hangup was me. In part the problem was legal, but mostly it was a purely practical calculation that made me decide to take the blog off Slate (though I reserve the right to come crawling back).
First, the legal hangups. There seem to be two big campaign finance issues surrounding a candidate blog on a magazine like Slate . One is whether by letting me use its valuable real estate, Slate would in effect be giving me an illegal in-kind campaign contribution. Both my editors and I believe the answer should be "no," and that we would eventually prevail in court on First Amendment grounds if we were challenged. (Is it an illegal campaign contribution to let a candidate write an op-ed? To endorse a candidate in an editorial? That's all valuable publicity, worth many thousands of dollars. But it's speech. So is giving a candidate a blog.)
The second issue was whether if I was paid to blog it would be an illegal cash contribution from S late to me. The relevant Federal Election Commission regulation, at 11 CFR 113.9 (g) (6) (iii) (A), requires that any compensation result "from bona fide employment that is genuinely independent of the candidacy." Would it be "independent" of the candidacy if I were blogging about the candidacy (even if I'd previously been blogging about other things)? Interesting case!** I can't afford an interesting case, even if the Washington Post Company can. In order to avoid that interesting case, I would always be blogging with an eye over my shoulder, worrying I might annoy the F.E.C. by, say, asking for money. Or votes.
But the main reason I concluded I had to take the blog "private" had nothing to do with these arcane legalities. It's simply this: I'm going to start a campaign web site, and the only reason anybody might go to it is if the blog is there. So I'm moving the blog there.
You'll still be able to get to the blog by going to www.kausfiles.com . That URL will simply no longer take you to Slate . It will probably initially take you to an inexpensive blog page. Then, if all goes according to plan in the well-oiled machine that is the Kaus campaign, it will take you to an inexpensive state of the art political site that will both harbor the blog and, yes, harness the power of social media on behalf of intra-party dissent. [ Tap into Tea Party anger?--ed Maybe some of that too]
**--There's an argument that paying a blogger could open the door to corruption, the way "paying" House Speaker Jim Wright by buying copies of his book opened the door to corruption. But this ignores the modern reality that politics -- including official, partisan politics--is often a good way for the press to make money these days. A TV network or newspaper would be financially foolish not to hire Sarah Palin to write or talk about her activities, even if she were a declared candidate. Palin brings viewers, and advertisers, and dollars. Why shouldn't Fox pay Palin thousands if it's making money off her, as opposed to donating money to her?
Kf Caught in the Act
The rollout didn't go as my team of highly paid media consultants* had planned-- L.A. Weekly got it way before it was supposed to . Heads will roll around here. But I did go down to the local registrar's office Monday and take out nomination papers to run in the primary for U.S. Senator against Barbara Boxer. If I return them in timely fashion with enough signatures, I should be able to get on the June ballot. We'll see what happens.
This isn't the place to make an electioneering spiel--I don't want to be a test case of campaign finance law if I can help it. But the basic idea would be to argue, as a Democrat, against the party's dogma on several major issues (you can guess which ones). Likeminded Dem voters who assume they will vote for
Sen. Boxer
The Incumbent in the fall might value a mechanism that lets them register their dissent in the primary.
Next phase: Lowering expectations!
P.S: Several issues, including my role at Slate , are still to be resolved. But you will always be able to reach this blog at www.kausfiles.com . You can reach me at email@example.com .
*- - Note to F.E.C.: Joke! ... 1:38 A.M.
The Real Reason Cynical Dem Pols Should Vote for the Health Care Bill
Megan McArdle notes that
Progressives have been making the almost-plausible argument that the public is going to treat a vote for the House or Senate bill as a vote for final passage, so Democrats might as well go ahead and pass the thing.
Or, to put it more cynically, Republican attack ads will blast Dems for their initial "yes" vote whether or not they vote "no" the second time around . McCardle, while skeptical, call this the progressive's "best argument."
It's not their best argument. If support of health care reform really is damning, then there's every reason to think scaredycat Dem waverers could buy themselves some measure of protection by confessing error and changing their vote . Happens all the time in politics.
There's a much better argument. It's that passing health care reform offers Dems, in the not-so- long term, a chance to do more than avoid Republican attacks. It offers the chance to disprove them . For months, both GOP and Fox hosts have been talking about socialized medicine and death panels and vicious Medicare cuts and the government coming between you and your doctor, etc. If Democrats pass the bill and none of this happens, Republican opponents will be more than defeated. They'll be discredited. Not permanently, of course-- nobody's permanently discredited anymore. But discredited enough to give Dems some running room for a few election cycles. Retreating on health care, on the other hand, gives credence to the Republican claims . Indeed, for all practical purposes it lets them win the argument.
What do Democrats want to do--punt, or change the whole playing field to one where they have the advantage?
P.S.: If there is a kernel of truth to GOP charges of "rationing" and even "death panels"--the argument being that that's where the Dem plan will lead-- all the more reason to enact the plan and demonstrate that it doesn't necessarily lead there. For example, I don't think Peter Orszag's precious cost-cutting Medicare Advisory Board will ration care--I doubt it will even succeed in cutting costs,* precisely because the public won't stand for being denied potentially useful treatments. There's only one way to prove it.
Of course, some of the ill-effects predicted by health care reform opponents wouldn't show up for many, many years--a slowdown in medical innovation, for example. But if you are a cynical Dem pol, is that a bug, or a feature?
P.P.S.: OK, you say. If Dems pass reform and the sky doesn't fall, that might help them in the semi-near term. But how would it help them this November , when many will be facing what looks like an impressive wave of popular discontent? One answer is to look at the public's response to the "stimulus" bill. It was unreasonable to expect last year's package of spending to have an immediate effect on the unemployment rate. But when the unemployment rate didn't fall, did voters say "Well, let's give it another year and see"? Or did they start to think the stimulus was a flop? Answer: flop. Similarly, if health reform passes and nothing much changes, they will very quickly start to suspect that the GOP predictions of doom were bogus. Other issues will rise into the foreground. This tendency to jump to conclusions can only be enhanced, you'd think, by the increased ability of voters to process new information with greater and greater rapidty .
I'm not saying Dems won't be punished in the fall. I'm saying the protection they get in the fall from passing the bill (and not having the sky fall) is roughly equivalent to the protection they get from bailing and admitting error. And they'll be buying themselfs a huge advantage in the next election, and the one after that, when the sky continues to not fall--and maybe even when some of the benefits of the plan become apparent (though "benefits" are not really required to disprove Republican predictions, only the absence of disaster).
P.P.P.S.--Can't Blame It On the Filibuster Now: Note that the barrier to health care reform does not appear to be the Senate , with its undemocratic filibuster rules. The problem is the ultra-democratic House , where (thanks largely to the bill's lack of popularity ) Dems may just not have the votes .
Update: Alert reader P disagrees, worrying that any hint of rationing, denial of coverage or government red tape, long before reform kicks in
...will be forever BLAMED on healthcare reform the day it passes. Imagine if someone is rejected for coverage or sees some bad outcome in the healthcare system. What's to stop the GOP from parading that person in front of the cameras and claiming, "This person is being screwed by Obamacare!" even though no such thing happened? They could find some tenuous connection between more government regulation and some bad outcome, and they could run with it, and they would blame Obama.
My larger point is this: Once Obama and Democrats pass healthcare reform, they essential own the entire healthcare system and all of it's outcomes. If someone's doctor is too slow, "Damn you Obama!" If a hospital bill is high, "Damn you Obama!"
I'm not sure how much of this sort of thing could happen before November. ... In the long run, of course, Democrats should more or less own the consequences of their legislation. As Washington pays more and more of the bill, you'd expect a continual political tussle between patients demanding treatment and the government trying to protect its treasury. That doesn't bother me--I expect the patients to win, and win more easily than they win against insurance companies. But all the fighting might still be a negative, for Dems, because more of the agitation will be directed at government institutions they created (instead of at private insurers). Medicare manages to keep this sort of thing under control, however (albeit at great expense). And it's not what conservative opponents of the Dem reforms are predicting--which is tyranny, bureaucracy and bankruptcy.
The more credible short term threats, suggested by Ramesh Ponnuru , are premium increases. But would Anthem-like rate hikes before November play into Republicans' hands, or Obama's? ....
**--All the more reason why it was foolish for Obama to make a big deal of it. ... 4:27 P.M.
Obama Aides Grow More Confident! One of my favorite L.A. Times headlines was "Aides Grow More Confident in Davis's Chances," published in 2003 a few days before Gov. Gray Davis was crushed in a recall election (at a time when his aides can't possibly have been growing more confident). On Wednesday the Times ran a front page story headlined
Democrats on track to revive healthcare overhaul
Party lawmakers, energized by President Obama's blueprint and summit plans, are getting behind the strategy of passing the Senate's bill and using budget reconciliation to prevent a GOP filibuster.
I guess that hed writer is still on the job. ... More layoffs, please. ...
P.S.: According to LAT reporters Noam Levey and Janet Hook's eerily resonant lede graf, "Democratic lawmakers are increasingly confident that they can resurrect their sweeping overhaul legislation after weeks of uncertainty ..." [E.A.] According to the WSJ , Rahm Emanuel advised Obama "that it wasn't feasible to pass a comprehensive bill and counseled a lesser version." I fear the Journal' s reporting is closer to the truth. The LAT just stops being a newspaper in situations like this. ... 12:11 P.M.
Unions vs. Liberalism, Part XXIII
Obama's compromise health care plan is out, and "the impact on the politics will be tremendous," gushes WaPo 's health care cheerleader Ezra Klein. "The release of this plan marks the end of the Scott Brown election and the resumption of the health-care process." It enables the Democrats to "take back control of the media's narrative," just as they did when they waited out the Tea Parties last August, then "used the president's big speech to pivot to the release and subsequent passage of the Senate Finance Committee's bill." ...Remember the stunning success of the president's speech? It's right here on this graph --if you squint hard you can see the temporary pause in the seemingly ineluctable rise in public opposition to Obama's health care reform right around the beginning of September. It lasted a couple of weeks. Then opposition started rising again. Now it's over 50%, with support ten points lower. ... The Dems must have lost "control of the media's narrative"!
Does Klein really believe this stuff? I don't know which answer would be more embarrassing. ... P.S.: It would be one thing if Klein was relaying the White House spin with an implausibly straight face, but relaying it as White House spin (saying, for example, 'Obama aides believe the plan will mark the end of the Scott Brown election, letting them take back control of the media's narrative'). Then he'd be Marc Ambinder. ...
Update--It's a Chait Accompli ! Megan McArdle provides a useful antidote to the premature anti-gloating of Klein's fellow JournoLister Jon Chait. ...See also Barone and Hennessy . ... P.S.: Is the double-secret JournoList cocoon encouraging this misjudgment? Even reported Journolister Paul Krugman's "guardedly optimistic." I don't think he should be. ... 4:22 P.M.
Unions vs. Liberalism, Part XXIIII: If you are a liberal who believes in public education, do not let the teachers' unions do to your school system what the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) has done to the L.A. Unified School District --make it so hard to fire a bad teacher that most school principals don't even try. According to an L.A. Weekly investigation, the school district itself seems to have given up :
In the past decade , LAUSD officials spent $3.5 million trying to fire just seven of the district's 33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance — and only four were fired , during legal struggles that wore on, on average, for five years each. Two of the three others were paid large settlements, and one was reinstated. The average cost of each battle is $500,000.
[W]e also discovered that 32 underperforming teachers were initially recommended for firing, but then secretly paid $50,000 by the district, on average, to leave without a fight. Moreover, 66 unnamed teachers are being continually recycled through a costly mentoring and retraining program but failing to improve, and another 400 anonymous teachers have been ordered to attend the retraining. [E.A.]
That's less than one attempted firing a year. Why? Mainly because firings--and the bad performance evaluations that precede them--are almost invariably contested by the union. Firings must go through an expensive and protracted hearing and appeals process: "Documents show only one instance in the past 10 years in which an LAUSD teacher accepted his firing and left without a fight or big payment." [E.A.]
The school district seems to be markedly less effective at weeding out screw-ups than even the City of Los Angeles, whose regular employees aren't exactly unprotected:
Despite civil-service protections, City Hall fires from its 48,000-plus workforce of garbage, parks, street-services, engineering, utilities and other employees more than 80 tenured workers annually.
P.S.: According to LA Weekly , the teacher retraining program that lets teachers with bad evaluations remain in the classroom even if they don't improve was "engineered" in 2000 by a state assemblyman named Antonio Villaraigosa, who is now L.A.'s mayor. ..
P.P.S.: I know this item reads like it was written in 1984 (when Gary Hart made an issue of firing incompetent teachers in his campaign against Walter Mondale). That's because the situation in the unionized public schools has not improved markedly in 25 years. Believe me, I wish the neoliberalism of the late '70s weren't so relevant. ... The only hope in L.A. seems to be the non-trivial inroads made by independently-run charter schools. The union is staging a candlelight vigil tomorrow to try to stop their progress. ... 1:06 A.M.
Things that have recently taken on an eerie resonance ! CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, arguing in 2000 that when it comes to politicians , their sex life "tells you absolutely nothing about their performance" in office. ... Alternate view: Man who lies about fidelity might also dissemble about other subjects .. ... 1:29 A.M.
Unions Are Crippling Obama--Exhibit A
Unions vs. stimulation: The home "weatherization" jobs in the stimulus bill were subjected to Davis-Bacon wage regulations --a favorite of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department--under which federal Labor Department officials establish "prevailing wage" rates that must be paid. Why do unions like this system? Because the "prevailing wages" are determined in a way that guarantees they are usually more than the actual market wage, sometimes by large margins . All that finagling takes a certain amount of bureaucracy, however--and time. ABC's Jonathan Karl :
According to the GAO report, the Department of Labor spent most of last year trying to determine the prevailing wage is for weatherization work, a determination that had to be made for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the United States. [E.A.]
As a result, the Department of Energy apparently weatherized only 22,000 homes under the program. Another pre-existing program, which doesn't have to comply with Davis-Bacon, appears to have weatherized about 100,000 homes, if my math is right.
That's OK. It's not as if speed was important last year in terms of putting people to work . ... Oh wait, it was. [Insert now-embarrassing Obama quote here]
"If you allocate money to weatherize homes, the homeowner gets the benefit of lower energy bills. You right away put people back to work , many of whom in the construction industry and in the housing industry are out of work right now. They are immediately put to work doing something," [E.A.]
Instead, a year was wasted on mindless, union-demanded bureaucratic attempts to disingenuously replicate the labor market. Did Obama not know this would happen when he allowed the stimulus to be Davis-Baconized, or did he not care? [Update-- Choice #3: He knows and cares, but is too weak to stand up to the unions.]
P.S.-- CAP to the Rescue! Luckily the Center for American Progress, sensing the public mood, has launched a " Doing What Works" project to "challenge the status quo" and make sure the government can "deliver maximum bang for the taxpayer's buck," according to CAP's John Podesta and Reece Rushing. No doubt Podesta's Center will soon call for ending Davis-Bacon, which needlessly inflates the cost to taxpayers every time a progressive liberal government tries to build something.
P.P.S.: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, turns down stimulus money for a new water treatment plant , because Davis-Bacon rules would have added $2.3 million to its $17.3 million price tag. Accepting the "stimulus" money would have meant a net loss for the city. [ via NewsAlert ] 1:09 P.M.
MSM: Some stories we'd just rather not report. ... 1:25 P.M.
Entrenched Democrats for Safe Seats: Nancy Pelosi and various powerful California liberals (Howard Berman, Lynn Woolsey) try to overturn one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's few reforms --a citizen's commission that would draw district lines to eliminate gerrymandering , which in California has virtually guaranteed legislators of both parties safe seats. ... The "citizen's commission" idea is proving politically astute, since there is now a big, appealing constituency--the 30,000 Californians who have applied to sit on the commission--in favor of keeping the reform. ... P.S.: 70% of those applying to be on the commission are white , though African-Americans are also over-represented. (Latinos are not.) ... Buried lede: When you apply, you have to disclose your race, apparently. ... [ via Rough & Tumble ] 1:30 P.M.
Does the UAW Even Want More Members?
News that workers at the plant making batteries for the new Chevy Volt
provoked this wacky, largely uninformed thought:
Why? Because the UAW has basically cut a deal with GM that protects its
members in their
(plus benefits) jobs, but give new, future hires a much worse deal:
. If those new workers are UAW members, they will be able to lobby within the union (and, more significantly, vote) to equalize the pay of the old-timers and newcomers at some intermediate level-- say $22 an hour. Why would existing UAW members want that? Better to
. ... It would almost be as if the existing UAW members had become the profit-seeking
of the company! ...
Could this be one model for the demise of other unions? "Grandfather" (and thereby buy off) the dwindling number of existing members, and finance this by squeezing the maximum from new hires while excluding them from the union (perhaps by hiring them through subcontractors). The union becomes just another quasi-shareholder representing a limited number of old-time members. Eventually, as those members retire and expire, the union ceases to exist. ...
Mickey's Assignment Desk--The Gillette Cycle of Despair: Here's an evergreen story idea I've wanted someone to nail down for decades: Why do Gillette's fancy razors seem to work so well when they are introduced, then gradually get worse and worse until a new, fancier razor is introduced? ... The most recent example: When I first bought a Gillette Fusion five- blade razor, I thought it was absurd (and absurdly expensive). But it was fantastic. Best shave ever, etc. And the blades lasted for months. ... A couple of years later, however--in an all-too-familiar development--I've noticed that the expensive replacement blades for this razor don't seem to cut as smoothly, and they seen to wear out much faster. Experienced Gillette customers intuitively know what this means: the company is about to introduce a newer, more complex, and even more expensive shaving system. ... And sure enough, here it is , the Fusion ProGlide! ... Its blades will cost more than $4 apiece, according to the WSJ . And I'm sure they will be fabulous--at least for the first year or so. Then, if my experience is a guide, ProGlide consumers may notice a puzzling dropoff. ... This cycle has held true with every Gillette product I've ever used, starting with the Techmatic in high school.
My sneaking, completely unproven suspicion, of course, is that the seeming improvement with each newer, fancier, priceier razor has little to do with all the various innovations Gillette advertises (e.g., two blades, three blades, five blades, a "snow plow guard" that prevents hydroplaning, etc.) and a whole lot to do with the quality of the steel that's used in the blades. The investigative mission, should you decide to accept it, would be to somehow prove that Gillette uses high-quality steel when it introduces a new razor, and then gradually lets the blade quality get degraded, saving the company money until it introduces the next innovative shaving system (the main innovation being that it uses the high quality steel again). ... This could all be misguided consumerist paranoia, of course! But if so, it's a paranoia that resonates widely, I've found. ...
P.S.: The equally paranoid corollary is that you should never turn down a promotional razor --e.g. the free-sample kind you get in the mail. They use the good steel in those, to hook you! They last forever, or until the day you go out and buy some replacement blades, whichever comes first.. ... 2:08 A.M.
Are Tea-Partiers a "Special Interest"?
What do you want to bet this has something to do with the Swiss protecting
, the ACORN of the banking world? ...
Maybe it was a stretch to
that offering up Polanski for extradition to Los Angeles was also an attempt at pro-UBS bargaining. But
. Linkage hardly seems unlikely. ... [
Glenn Reynolds' sensible account of the Tea Party movement notes that it is largely blogger-powered . My colleague Bob Wright would agree, but finds this technological development ominous . I dunno. Wright calls tea-partiers "Special Interest 3.0." But they look like people to me. Sure, they are not the majority--in that sense they are "special." But they are not "special" in that they seem to be representing their holistic interest as American citizens, not their partial identities as seniors, or union members, or veterans or employees of corporations. ...
Of course it would be easier to pass health care reform if all you had to do was cut a deal with labor unions and insurance companies and PhRMA--the o.g. lobbies of "Special Interest 1.0"--while ignoring the mass of individual voters. But you have to really contort yourself to think the replacement of narrow, economic interests with broader citizen interests is some sort of tragic turn of events. For decades good government types have been attempting to summon broad popular interests in order to defeat narrow economic interests. Now that it's happening they're having second thoughts (because they don't like the first result ). ... Alternative theory: We got all the reforms we could get through old-fashioned interest group bargaining. The big reforms that have yet to be done are the ones that can't be accomplished that way. Empowering voters might ultimately be one way to achieve them. ...
Anyway, in the "good old days" of elite corporatist dealmaking you still would probably have trouble passing a giant piece of legislation that was 10 points underwater in terms of popularity . We had democracy even in 1950. ...
P.S.: Lots of intellectual effort now seems to be going into explaining Obama's (possible/likely/impending) health care failure as the inevitable product of larger historic and constitutional forces. There's something to this of course--the Framers went overboard in making it hard for the government to act, for example. But in this case there's a simpler explanation: Barack Obama's job was to sell a health care reform plan to American voters. He failed . He didn't fail because 55% of Americans can never be convinced of anything. It happens all the time. He just failed. He tried to sell expanding coverage as a deficit reducer. Voters didn't believe him and worried that they would pay the bill in some unadvertised way (through Medicare reductions or future tax increases, mainly). That's not constitutional paralysis or Web-enabled mob rule. It's just bad salesmanship .
And if Obama thought he didn't have to succeed in convincing voters because he believed he was operating in a "Special Interest 2.0" world where all he had to do was get AARP, labor and the business lobbies on board--well, that's his failure too. .. 1:35 P.M.
If you've read Ann Bardach's books and articles on Cuba , you know that the enmity between Florida's Diaz-Balart's and Fidel Castro is more than ideological. It's a family feud. (Castro's first wife was Mirta Diaz- Balart . He cheated.) ... Here's an apparently effective, anti-Diaz-Balart TV ad on the subject that may explain why Congressman Mario Diaz Balart has now apparently decided to run his brother's safer district . ... 2:23 P.M.
kausfiles Struggles to Restore Its Brand!
'Please R.S.V.P. to Attend Our Summit. And F.Y.': If you were going to write an invitation designed to make sure Republicans don't come to President Obama's 2/25 "bipartisan" health care summit at Blair House, it would be this one , no? .... Do Rahm Emanuel and Kathleen Sebelius want Republicans to attend? If so, you'd think they'd be less agressive and argumentative . Sample:
Now is the time to act on behalf of the millions of Americans and small businesses who are counting on meaningful health insurance reform. In the last year, there has been an extraordinary effort to craft effective legislation. There have been hundreds of hours of committee hearings and mark-ups in both the House of Representatives and Senate, with nearly all of those sessions televised on C-SPAN. The Senate spent over 160 hours on the Senate floor considering health insurance reform legislation and, for the first time in history, both the House of Representatives and Senate have approved comprehensive health reform legislation. This is the closest our Nation has been to resolving this issue in the nearly 100 years that it has been debated.
The Blair House meeting is the next step in this process.
Unsubtle subtext : We like our bill and the purpose of this meeting is to set things up so it can pass. ... But what if, as a Republican, you don't think we are "the closest ... to resolving this issue in ... nearly 100 years"? Maybe you don't think the bill will resolve the issue at all! (I disagree, but I'm not a Republican.) ... Even if Obama's only trying to appear bipartisan, his aides are doing a mighty poor job of conveying that impression. Did they hire Chris Lehane to draft it? ... 5:44 P.M.
And your body says, "This won't be cheap:" NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman drawing lessons last night from ex-President Clinton's recent heart incident, which she called a "real 'listen to your body' moment":
And I think this is going to be true not only for the president, but for everyone out there who's [got] heart disease. Once you've been diagnosed with underlying heart disease, you get treatment, but the word cure is never something that's really been tossed around. So making sure the cholesterol and triglycerides are under control, the diet and exercise are rechecked. But also that intuitive button that if you don't feel well, if you're short on breath, and if you just have this brooding idea that something's wrong, that's when you pick up the phone, you call your doctor and then you go in promptly. [E.A.]
Seeing your doctor every time you have a brooding, "intuitive sense" that something's wrong? That's not going to bend the curve, is it? (It will in fact generate a lot of false alarm doctor's visits and tests that can then get classified as "waste" by the curve-benders, no?) ... 12:43 A.M.
Husband cheats on you? Sue the husband's aide. I mean, of course! Death by 1000 Papercuts is on it . ... I say we let Elizabeth Edwards sue Andrew Young for "alienation of affections" when we let Warren Buffett sue both Edwardses** for obtaining campaign contributions under massively false pretenses. ... P.S.: Since as part of her "alienation" lawsuit Elizabeth would have to prove she previously had a genuine marriage, I suppose it would be relevant whether John had had affairs with other women before Rielle Hunter. A much-neglected aspect of this case could be brought to light in pretrial discovery. ... P.P.S.: Why is everyone so down on Andrew Young? He's the John Dean of this case, no? ...
**--and all the other cover-upping aides, of course. ... 11:54 P.M.
Counterproductive overspinner Chris Lehane is going to work for an "independent" group working on behalf of former CA governer Jerry Brown , who's running for governor again and who might face former EBay CEO Meg Whitman. This is the best news Whitman's had after a rough and tumble week . ... Lehane previously masterminded media strategy for President Al Gore, President Wesley Clark and President John Kerry. ... [ via New West Notes ] 10:16 P.M.
And they say Hollywood is hooked on sequels: "Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find New Acceptance." The New York Times' Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff write ... wait, didn't the NYT run exactly this story a few months ago? . I think they did! On November 28, 2009. "Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades." ... And people accuse Times editors of having an agenda. ...
I claim that what I said about the first version of this piece applies to the dub: "It's one thing to relax the stigma on welfare in times of epic economic decline. It's another if the stigma doesn't return with the possibility of employment." ... P.S.: [ Bad sign when bloggers start quoting themselves-ed True. But what does it mean when a great daily newspaper starts obsessively making the same point over and over again, like a blogger ? It might simply mean the editors are on a crusade. But it might also mean that the stream of information now goes by so fast that even the New York Times isn't sure that any one front page article will actually get noticed . Times reporters and editors want to get noticed--so they write the same story over and over again, like a twitter poster who learns to repeat every tweet four times because most people don't monitor their twitter streams around the clock. ... 10:14 P.M.
"Gore Group Targets Bayh, McCaskill, Lincoln To Build Support for Climate Legislation": I thought we'd agreed there were some tactics that were f***ing re ..... re ..... what's the word I'm groping for? I know it begins with an "r" ... [ via alert TPM reader TP ] 10:42 P.M.
How to Write A Piece On How to Save the President
GM workers assembling battery packs for the new "green" Chevy Volt will not be members of the UAW or any other union , according to TTAC . ... This is in Michigan, not Mexico. . ... Does the czar know? ... 1:31 A.M.
Steve Clemons praises a What's-Wrong-With-the White-House diagnosis by Edward Luce in the FT :
"[M]any of the nation's top news anchors and editors are sending emails back and forth (I have been sent three such emails in confidence) on what a spot-on piece Luce wrought ..."
Luce's piece seems incompletely convincing to me, as it follows a template familiar to connoisseurs of Save-the-President analyses from earlier administrations (e.g., Carter, Clinton). The rules are:
1) Blame the campaigners. The problem is the President relies for close advise on his closest advisers-- those who saw him through the campaign. For Carter it was the boys from Georgia--e.g. Hamilton Jordan. For Obama it's the Chicago interlopers: Axelrod, Gibbs, Jarrett, plus Rahm Emanuel. If only the circle were broadened! This reflexive Washington kvetch allows DC experts to think that the decisions would be better if only experts like them were consulted. Time to bring in a "Team B" consisting of [insert list of your friends here]. As if Chuck Hagel is going to save Obama.
2) Blame campaigning: "The Obama White House is geared for campaigning rather than governing," says Luce. This implies that the serious business of policy and governance is qualitatively different--and superior to--the grimy business of getting elected. ("To be successful, presidents need to separate the stream of advice they get on policy from the stream of advice they get on politics. That still isn't happening," says one of Obama's "close allies.") All the more reason for getting those campaign hacks out of there! And very flattering for DC policy types who would in theory take their places.
3) Blame process: If only the process were changed--the circle of advisers broadened, the "stream" of advice augmented, with cabinet officers and State department officials consulted--better results would pop out (no matter what the elected official in question actually believes in). This avoids messy arguments about substance and offers the prized Neutral Story Line --an MSM-safe narrative that seems to explain everything without taking ideological sides.
4) Never Blame the President. Goes without saying. What good would that do? ....
And of course,
5) Call David Gergen. ("[T]he lightbulb must want to change," he says of Obama.)
It can't be that the President made a mistake of substance precisely when he reached outside his inner circle to policy types , buying his OMB chief Peter Orszag's circle-squaring argument the health care reform was deficit reduction. As Ryan Lizza noted at the time , Obama was "in effect betting his Presidency on Orszag's thesis." It was a bad bet** and he seems to be losing it.
It can't be that this was a mistake Obama would have made if Kathleen Sebelius and Ken Salazar had been consulted--a mistake he would have made if Jim Fallows and Fareed Zakaria were installed in the West Wing, supervising a "stream of advice"designed by Peter Drucker and Norman Ornstein, with Emanuel and Axelrod exiled to 40 cars back in the motorcade. It can't be that Obama would have made this mistake because it's what he really thinks , which is why he kept on talking about it even as his health plan sank lower and lower in the polls. (Some good campaign-oriented advisers might actually have helped at that point--they would have noticed that the President's vaunted salesmanship wasn't working. But probably not even that would have helped, since the problem was something they couldn't change: Obama.)
**--Luce's piece is eye-opening in its description of what was sacrificed in the push for health care reform:
Insiders attribute Mr Obama's waning enthusiasm for the Arab-Israeli peace initiative to a desire to avoid antagonising sceptical lawmakers whose support was needed on healthcare. The steam went out of his Arab-Israeli push in mid-summer, just when the healthcare bill was running into serious difficulties.
So Orszag's thesis didn't just sink health care. It also destroyed hopes for peace in the Middle East. ... Only half joking.
Update: At least according to The Hill , Obama believed the Orszagist alchemy wouldn't just reduce the deficit in the long-term, but also revive the economy in the shorter term:
One senior Democratic senator said Emanuel was initially reluctant to push healthcare reform so early in Obama's first term, counseling instead for the president to focus on jobs and the economy
But the president decided healthcare had to pass when he had a strong political mandate and the party controlled large majorities in both chambers.
Obama was convinced overhauling the nation's healthcare system would boost the struggling economy by curbing costs and reducing the long-term federal deficit, say Democratic sources.
Our Whippersnappers Is Learning
Something is Killing the President's Approval Numbers (especially on Rasmussen ): Is it his budget ? Or the failure to pass health care reform, his #1 priority, and the ensuing strategic flailing , which is creating the impression that he's ... well, a loser? Nice guy. Knows all the arguments. Can't get it done. In other words, the numbers might vindicate the argument of health care reform supporters--that not passing the bill is extremely damaging to Obama and the Dems. What are they good for, anyway? ... 11:21 P.M.
First Time Farce, Second Tragedy: Fire Mickey Kaus talks about how
old new leftists ...see tension and perhaps hypocrisy in a political philosophy devoted to a just and equal society that is dependent on groups formed around fragmentation and selfishness for its electoral success.
Well put. ... You might even speculate that--after a few decades of pursuing a more ideal society through fragmented, selfish interest group/constituency politics--liberals would have accomplished what there is to be accomplished via that route, and that the remaining problems would be those raised or perpetuated by interest group/constituency politics itself . ... The one exception would seem to be health care reform, which really should have been achieved in the last century. Yet now it appears to have foundered once again on the rocks of ....interest group/constituency politics. ... Hmm. I always wondered what "exception that proves the rule" means. ... 3:28 P.M.
The scales have fallen from young Ezra Klein's eyes . He's not writing the surface health care "ego" story (e.g. procedural wrangling) when the underlying "id" story (e.g. they do or they don't want the bill) is the key:
There's been a lot about procedural impediments to moving forward on health-care reform: Can the Senate can pass a reconciliation bill before the House passes the Senate bill? Can Republicans delay reconciliation with amendments? Who should go first, House or Senate?
You all know I'm big on procedure. You've also noticed I'm not writing about this. I don't buy it. What Democrats can do is a lot less important than what they want to do. If 51 Democratic senators and 218 Democratic congresspeople are dead-serious about passing a bill, they can, and will, pass a bill.
Too bad most of the blogosphere's health care reform spirit squad didn't notice that the bill was failing the "id" test--and that this failure would be dispositive--until it was seemingly too late. ... 12:31 A.M.
Are there really 1,690 people in the federal Department of Transportation making $170,000 or more a year? ...
Update: An alert reader who once worked at the DOT emails--
If this is true, I sort of know why. ... The simple answer is that DOT is, first of all, a collection of agencies that existed in other forms and were simply gathered together when the Department was formed -- the FAA, and the Federal Highway Administration are the big ones, but there are also NHTSA, the Federal Transit Administration, and I think eight others. All of these have their own administrators, chief counsels, press offices, and so on. They each have all the bureaucratic facilities they's need if they were independent agencies. (It was done this way probably to preserve Congressional committee jurisdiction over these functions . This is a far more significant factor in Washington than is generally recognized -- the topic of transportation is rationalized in the executive branch by putting all of those agencies together, but they are still left separate within the department so that Congressional oversight can be left unrationalized . ...)
Then, spread over all of these there is an enormous Office of the Secretary, with another full complement of policy, legal, and Congressional-relations functions. The result is that there's a huge number of presidential appointments and high level executive functions, many more than if the separate agencies had been destroyed when the department was created.
Then, on top of that, a number of these agencies have enormous presences around the country. ... Take a look at http://www.dot.gov/DOTagencies.htm , start clicking on its links, and you will get the picture. In the way that bureaucracies work, all of those local offices have people at the top. The number of top level people mentioned in your blog does not surprise me. [E.A.]


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LAUREL HILL � Volunteers are invited to help tidy up history when Almarante Cemetery gets its annual facelift on Saturday. Volunteers will gather at 8 a.m. beneath the city's landmark blue water tower.
LAUREL HILL � Almarante Cemetery will get its annual facelift on Saturday and the community is invited to participate. Volunteers will gather at 8 a.m. beneath the city's landmark blue water tower.
The sprawling graveyard was established many decades before Laurel Hill was incorporated, and well before the Civil War. Some of the conflict's veterans lie beneath its old oak and magnolia trees. The oldest inhabitant was born in the 1700s.
Surnames on the markers � including Campbell, Steele, Jones, Rogers, Gaskin, Folman, Fountain, Moore, Garrett, Cadenhead, Locke, Curenton, Reeves and Stokes � were brought to North Okaloosa County by its earliest settlers, and are shared by many local families today.
However, volunteers don't have to have an ancestor buried there to appreciate the history and sense of community found while tidying up among the stone markers, Almarante Cemetery Commission Chairman Tracy Curenton said.
Tombstones range from elaborate to simple; ornately carved marble memorials or a name and dates drawn in wet cement, in which seashells or flat stones were embedded for decoration.
There are solemn flat slabs that the government provides military members, and rustic stone tree stumps carved for Woodmen of the World members.
Fallen warriors from America�s wars, including both sides of the Civil War, the Mexican-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, are everywhere.
A Crestview Boy Scout Troop 30 survey several years ago found nearly 2,000 graves at Almarante Cemetery.
�There�s also a bunch of graves that just aren�t marked,� Curenton said. �They had wooden markers that rotted away, or stone markers that got carried off.�
The cemetery commission also seeks volunteers and donations toward the cemetery�s upkeep, she said.
WHAT: Annual Almarante Cemetery clean up
WHEN: 8 a.m. to noon Saturday
WHERE: State Road 85 North, just south of Laurel Hill beneath the blue water tower
NOTES: Volunteers should supply their own tools. Donations toward the cemetery's upkeep may be sent to the Almarante Cemetery Commission, P.O. Box 55, Laurel Hill, FL 32567-0055.
CONTACT: Tracy Curenton, cemetery commission chairman, 652-4162 or email@example.com.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes at 850-682-6524 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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