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l/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Dry Gin)
1/4 Crème de Cacao. (3/4 oz)
1/4 Sweet Cream. (3/4 oz Cream)
Shake (very!) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Garnish with a sprinkle of cocoa.)
You probably won't find this version of the Alexander made too often anymore, though at one time it was probably the most popular. The Brandy Alexander seems to be the default these days.
In any case, the gin version of the Alexander is alright, I suppose, if you like this sort of girly type drink. Like all cream based cocktails, you do need to really shake the Alexander Cocktail hard and long, to give it the lightness and air it needs.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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40 kWh battery will not be produced. It's official
40 kWh battery will not be produced. It's official
And all 60kw cars have the supercharger on board!
My prediction comes true!
I always thought it was a marketing thing, or a DOE loan requirement. That way, the news stories could always say 'starting at $49,000' even though no one really chose it.
The press release wasn't completely clear. Will the 40Kwh version still be available for order going forward, or will they build the ones they have reservations for and let it go at that?
Seems a little odd. For one thing, the early adopter buyer mix is not the same as the mix of buyers one can expect one year from now.
For another, they never offered the 40 kWh model in Europe, where it would have made more sense (and possibly been more popular), since distances are so much shorter and the car is more expensive.
I think the key here is not production, it's average selling price. I guess the Model S cannot be a $50K car after all.
OMG. The Easter Egg announcement that all 60 kWh cars actually have, and all future cars will have, SC hardware! I assume that also includes the software-limited 40 kWh. version. What about the $2K activation? Is that still an option or ...???
4% is about 1,000 of the 22K orders so far. They will get a 60 kWh performance level, and be able to add the extra 20 kWh for a charge now or later or never.
Never a dull moment.
Brian, the announcement only ever discuss the 40kwh option in past tense "The customers who ordered this option will instead receive the 60 kWh pack"
I am fairly certain that they will honour orders for the small number of 40s ordered so far with software limited 60s but offer no further 40ksh orders.
A new form of chip tuning will be invented. How to access those hidden 20 kWh on your Model S?
I think jail breaking will not be an issue, Tesla will simply refuse all service, updates, supercharging and warranty claims on a car with any evidence of jail breaking, having an unsupported iPhone or Xbox is one thing, risking a $60,000 vehicle is rather different.
I think is a april fools day posting, just like google nose beta. they have not updated the design studio. I'm one of the 40kWh order and would love for this to be real simply because I will have 40kWh available for decades to come, not to mention the performance increase. but I would not get my hopes up today (tomorrow if this announcement is still valid I will be jumping on the couch)
The timing is indeed strange but it would be one of the crudest April Fool's jokes ever. Tesla must know that all the 40kwh holders are on edge anyway. To play such a joke on them would be foolish - pun intended.
They sent out an official email as well, so it is legit.
And Forbes picked it up, noting that the release was dated March 31 to avoid any suggestion that it was an April Fools' joke.
This makes the Tesla "40 kwh" battery one of the best if used regularly for ~100 mile distance travel, because it will have a guaranteed battery longevity buffer of 30%.
In other words, when you hit " zero" you still have not drained the battery fully. This buffer will prolong battery longevity. Definitely desirable.
Conversely, it's basically irrelevant for most drivers who won't be regularly fully draining their batteries. By their normal usage they will be retaining a very large buffer.
@Logical - I'm not quite sure what you mean by "buffer" - would seem to me they would software limit the battery from being fully charged…
if by buffer you mean that the battery will never be fully charged and therefore you don't have the problem of battery degradation due to full charge all the time then I agree with you…
Mhmm. Do I sense a 2k refund for those of us 60 owners who paid up to get Supercharging. (Fingers crossed)
No, because the $2,000 means your SC is active. I think people will still have to pay $2,000 (or some price) to software activate SC.
I think this is the great news for tomorrow. that this limited 60kw version will be also available in Europe, just in time, before the production versions should have to finalize. :-)
This would boost the sales of Europe. the 40kw version is more obvious for Europe than in America.
what Tesla announced today is quite simple (and a good idea IMHO):
a) 40 khw reservation holders will receive a 60 kWh battery, software limited to 40 kWh of capacity - pay $10,000 (the current price difference) and they will remove the software restrictions and you'll have a 60 kWh battery.
b) all 60 kWh cars have Supercharger hardware built in - it is enabled/disabled in software. Pay $2000 and they will remove the software restriction (again the cost of the Super Charger option.
from a supply chain, logistics, simplification point of view this is an excellent announcement for Tesla as a business, and I don't think it's too bad as a customer.
being able to "add" battery capacity in the future (original owner, or 2nd or 3rd owner) and enabling Super Charging in the entire product line (there is no not a single Model S without SC hardware) make the car more desirable, marketable, and less confusing in the market place (attempting to explain to my family the differences in the 40, 60, 60 w/SC, 85, 85 Perf was just too confusing…simple product lines/features sell things if the overall product is desirable - when I see a complex product configuration matrix I see a complex sales environment, not conducive to easy sales story.
there is now the following products
40 kwh model - software limited - limited production run (existing reservation holders)
software upgradable to 60 kwh for a fee
60 kwh model w/SC Hardware - SC enable/disable in software for a fee
85 kwh model w/SC Hardware - enabled by default
P85 kwh model w/SC Hardware - enabled by default
What kind of badge do you think they will put on these 40's?
Yea, I am sure that $2,000 will be still needed to _activate_ SuperCharging.
However, there is one question: Will that "new" 40kWh cars support SuperCharging (will it be able to activate it) now when 60kWh battery will be used as base platform?
I don't think the 40kwh option is going away. I think it is going to be available going forward, and will simply be a full 60kwh, supercharger-ready Model S, but software- limited to 40kwh, not supercharger-capable. The option will be available for the price difference.
Guys: think about this... Tesla is brilliant: 1) they have simplified production greatly. 2) They have heavily incentivized purchase of a Model S for those who were on the fence about possible purchase of a 40kwh vs some other car.
Furthermore, let's say you really want a Model S, and you drive a LOT daily, so that with your regular driving you can just make do with 120 - 140 miles range, but after 10 years or so the battery degradation is making the daily drive really tight: well you can unlock more range. SWEET.
This announcement makes the 40kwh actually a great car, not some borderline- acceptable EV.
@rebeccap88: I was thinking that the badging will be "60-"
Makes me wonder... Would the 60kW battery be a software downgrade of the 85kW? Nah... April fool's again! :)
WOW, this makes the 40KW model a true bargain. that battery will never get near the full charge and should last very long with its intended range.
I think what Logical is getting at is that you could set your software-limited 60kwh Model S to charge at Max Range rather than Standard on a regular basis and not worry that you're degrading the battery. It is indeed a good deal for those who are getting it.
According to the article I just read it's only retroactive though, no future 40kwh orders will be taken. (Though the article could certainly be wrong)
@noel.Smyth, yes, except it is not really of any practical significance for the average user, who will only regularly be using a small fraction of their car's battery capacity anyway.
However, for 40 kwh purchasers who would have been regularly maxing out their car's battery pack, this is indeed good news.
I hope USA Today is wrong re: no more 40 kwh orders. Well it appears that right NOW you can still reserve a 40kwh on this website... So if you are in the fence, click away and order right now because Tesla will have to honor your reservation.....
This is awesome! Most certainly not an April Fools joke.
Tesla stock jumped $6.64 or more than 17%, to $44.53 on the news early Monday.
But customers who want to try to jump on the bandwagon to own one of the chic electric cars on the cheap may be in for a disappointment.
The electric car maker has announced that it's not going to offer its cheapest version of the Model S sedan, the starter model
Just spoke to Tesla.
Cost to upgraded from
* 40kw to 60kw down the road will be $11k
* Cost to upgrade to supercharger down the road will be $2.5k, however you need to have a 60kw to upgrade.
Total cost of upgrading from 40kw to 60kw with supercharing will be $13.5k vs $12k if you order out right
Any official statement that the 40kwh is called to the few orders that have already been placed? Link?
*capped ( not called)
Whoa, that cost to upgrade is steep. Especially considering the battery replacement option cost.
I'd counter it's not really too steep, considering that the battery pre purchase option is heavily discounted ( likely based on a projection of continued lowering of battery costs per kwh over the next ten years.) The current price to replace the battery is much much higher than the pre-purchase option.
Additionally, in ten years of the cost to replace the battery has significantly dropped, Tesla will almost certainly drop the upgrade cost to reflect the then- current market, because Tesla is not in the business to create waste (e.g. by encouraging unnecessary battery replacement).
aagh. if, not of. ( Swype, I love and hate you...)
"yes, except it is not really of any practical significance for the average user, who will only regularly be using a small fraction of their car's battery capacity anyway."
For the past three weekends, I've taken trips in my Model S that would not have been possible with a 40 kWh pack. One of the three trips would not have been possible with a 60 kWh pack (at least driving fast enough to keep up with the flow of traffic). Maybe I'm an atypical user, but at least for me the 85 kWh battery is the size needed to make my Model S work for most of my needs (but we'll still take my wife's Acura when we venture too far from the nearest supercharger).
There may still be time for an existing reservation holder to configure a car for 40 kWh, but I suspect that a software-limited 60 kWh battery will not be offered in the future. Too many people would select that option if they knew they could always upgrade later, many more than the 4% who currently select the base model IMHO. By eliminating the 40 kWh car altogether (even the software-limited 60 kWh), TM may lose a few buyers at the bottom end, but will simplify production and marketing, and increase revenues overall.
@Longhorn92 How about "40+"? I'm a glass half full kind of gal.
Jokes aside, it makes sense to mark them 60 because they'll be carrying the 60 batt packs.
It would make little sense for Tesla to continue the 40 limited 60 since the battery probably costs them close to the 10k they are charing us.
The reason for the limitation to 40 is to keep the existing 60 buyers from screaming and to have the possibility of more revenue from the update.
The 60kWh to 85kWh upcharge is only $8k. The 60kWh battery has ~2000 cells less (5000 vs. 7000) so that is $4 per cell. They are probably making a healthy profit for each one, so my guess is they pay around $2 per cell.
A hypothetical 40kWh battery with the same cells would have around 3300 cells, or 1700 less than the 60kWh battery. Thus the cost would be $3400 less. Since they were going to use one generation older cells, the cost differential would probably have been somewhat larger, on the order of $4-5000 would be my guess.
So if 50% of the 40kWh owners upgrade in a few years, they will probably break even or profit slighly. This is not counting R&D saved from not designing and building the 40kWh pack.
I have a 60kwh car. I'd really have no problem with TM just giving all 40 kwh buyers a 60kwh car without any limitations, provided this was limited to those that reserved on or before 3/31. We can understand this as part of the growing process. The whole software limitation thing is just annoying. Still, since TM has already announced this contrivance, I'd offer the 40kwh res. holders the option to get a full 60kwh car for $5K additional.
There would be shitstorms. Just last week I changed my reservation from 40kwh to 60kwh for the full $10k.
Just finalized a 40kw car today, so we'll see if they honor the order. If they won't I'll have a choice of getting my deposit back or upgrading to 60kw or 85kw.
Should be interesting :-)
@alfafoxtrot1: as a 40 kWh reservation holder, I really appreciate your selfless overture; however, that really would be unfair to the existing 60 kWh owners, especially those who upgraded from 40 kWh batteries recently (see @jeffaa's comment above). I think Tesla would need to reimburse all previous 40 kWh reservation holders who recently upgraded to 60 kWh cars, which probably doesn't make financial sense, especially if Tesla is taking a loss on the 40 kWh cars. Plus, all 60's would have a right to be upset.
Tesla really seems to be going about this the right way (which I haven't said much recently).
I think this sets up for a major Super Charger announcement tomorrow. Entire US roll out by EOY '13, all of North America and key Europe markets by mid '14. The fact that every Model S delivered will be SC capable, makes getting the roll out done sooner that much bigger! Removing the range anxiety and being able to get in the consumers ear now when gas price is a hot topic is huge, and IMO result in the current 20% pop in stock value as only the beginning.
Go TESLA!
@Longhorn92: +1

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Last Thursday after we got back from her post-cataract surgery exam, my grandma cut a bunch of lilacs from her bushes and gave them to me. Then she shoved a ten dollar bill in my bra. I fished it out and double checked that it was only a ten though, because the day I drove her to her cataract surgery, she had slipped me a hundred. And since there's no arguing with my grandma (because even though I left that hundred at her house, I STILL wound up with it), I accepted the ten and lilacs and kissed her papery soft cheek in thanks.
She apologized that she had nothing cooked or baked, and instead she whipped out fresh strawberries, grapes, pineapple, bananas, crackers and peanut butter to snack on. I let her fuss and fix me a Diet Coke. I sat with her for a while and chatted while she buzzed and offered and never sat still. Even with a blurry bum eye, she insisted I eat something, drink something, have anything I wanted.
And when it was time for me to go, her face visibly fell in disappointment. She asked if I had to leave, and as much as I wanted to stay, I had three babies at home who needed dinner and anatomy homework that needed finished. She profusely thanked me for just driving her to her appointment, and I told her I'd see her soon.
I don't see my grandma as much as I should. And I can brush it off and say I'm busy, and I am, but that's really no excuse. Grandma turned 76 in March. She just had cataract surgery on her left eye, and they want to do her right eye this summer. She battles high blood pressure and high cholesterol. She's getting spacier and more forgetful. She's relatively healthy, but still. 76.
The husband's mom passed away last month. We got the call in February that she had liver cancer. Over the next month, she went from sounding completely like herself to being admitted to the hospital to being not awake to not being alive. In one month. She was 58.
The husband and I got to see her before she died. He drove down on a Monday, and after the husband's sometimes hourly reports, I flew down to be with him that Friday. She died on Saturday. She was pretty doped up and was on a ventilator, but she reacted to voices and touch. I held her hand, which is an exact replica of the husband's even down to the fingernails, and whispered into her ear. I told her that she was a good mother-in-law. I told her she was an excellent mom who had raised three awesome kids, but that she shouldn't worry because I'd take care of her son and grandbabies. It was hands-down the hardest thing I've ever done.
My mother-in-law and I weren't the bestest of friends. We didn't fight or argue or not get along, I just held onto some rather large grudges that prevented me from opening up to her and really talking to her and being a friend. But let me offer a word of advice, don't do this. Don't be an ass over things that have happened years ago. Let shit go. Really. It does no one any good.
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I know that there are plenty of GetReligion readers who do not believe me when I say this, but I will say it again: The New York Times remains a great newspaper. The problem, of course, is that the Times has become a very complicated newspaper.
It's easy to find stories in the Times that are solid, accurate, balanced examples of old-fashioned American journalism. You know, the kind of journalism in which partisans and stakeholders on both sides of divisive issues can read a story and say, "That was tough and fair, but my side's views were accurately and fairly reported."
Then again, it's also easy to find examples of Times stories that would fit neatly into the pages of any good European or advocacy-model publication. This is the kind of reporting that it perfectly shaped to fit the newsroom's point of view and preferred audience. It's like the newspaper's public editor -- Daniel Okrent, at the time -- wrote back in 2004, in his famous essay, "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?"
His answer was in the lede: "Of course it is."
On the critical issue of his newspaper's approach to balance and fairness, he wrote:
... (My) concern is the flammable stuff. ... These are the social issues: gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed.
But if you're examining the paper's coverage of these subjects from a perspective that is neither urban nor Northeastern nor culturally seen-it-all; if you are among the groups The Times treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide (devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans); if your value system wouldn't wear well on a composite New York Times journalist, then a walk through this paper can make you feel you're traveling in a strange and forbidding world.
The problem, of course, is that many readers have become so jaded that they scream "Bias!" every time that they see something in the Times that upsets them. It's easy for this to turn into the "Times basher who cried wolf" syndrome, or something like that. It's important to think about that whenever the world's most powerful newspaper veers into full-tilt advocacy mode (which, alas, happens a great deal on topics linked to religion, as former editor Bill Keller has admitted in print).
So how do you know when the Times is producing advocacy journalism and when it is simply making a mistake? We live in an age in which the former is, after all, more common than the later.
What we have here before us is a crucial test case. Here's the top of the story:
This weekend, hundreds of pastors, including some of the nation's evangelical leaders, will climb into their pulpits to preach about American politics, flouting a decades-old law that prohibits tax-exempt churches and other charities from campaigning on election issues.
The sermons, on what is called Pulpit Freedom Sunday, essentially represent a form of biblical bait, an effort by some churches to goad the Internal Revenue Service into court battles over the divide between religion and politics.
A few lines later, readers learn:
"There should be no government intrusion in the pulpit," said the Rev. James Garlow, senior pastor at Skyline Church in La Mesa, Calif., who led preachers in the battle to pass California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. "The freedom of speech and the freedom of religion promised under the First Amendment means pastors have full authority to say what they want to say."
Mr. Garlow said he planned to inveigh against same-sex marriage, abortion and other touchstone issues that social conservatives oppose, and some ministers may be ready to encourage parishioners to vote only for those candidates who adhere to the same views or values.
Participating ministers plan to send tapes of their sermons to the I.R.S., effectively providing the agency with evidence it could use to take them to court. But if history is any indication, the I.R.S. may continue to steer clear of the taunts.
The problem? This team behind this story has botched its most crucial element. Clearly, the law does not forbid ministers from advocating the teachings of their traditions from the pulpit, even when these teachings directly relate to political issues.
If the Times story is accurate, then Respect Life Sunday in thousands of Catholic parishes is illegal.
If the Times story is accurate, liberal pastors could not have preached sermons against wars in Vietnam, Iraq and elsewhere and the politicians who advocated those wars.
If the Times story is accurate, then President Barack Obama was clearly out of line in 2009 when he asked a flock of rabbis to prepare sermons on the moral and theological necessity of his health-care reform efforts.
Yes, there is a thin line between pastors -- left and right -- advocating specific religious doctrines and, thus, opposing the religious and political efforts of those on the other side. This can come frightfully close to the endorsement of specific candidates. Just ask any candidate who had to run against Mike Huckabee in, oh, South Carolina or against Obama on the south side of Chicago.
What is clearly illegal is the open endorsement of candidates, by name, by religious groups and other nonpartisan non-profit organizations. This story in the Times claims that the law goes way, way beyond that.
But what, you say, about these sneaky, wink wink, de facto endorsements, when religious leaders say it is wrong to support those who oppose God's will on issues ranging from war to abortion, from the environment to marriage, from health care to (insert your religious tradition's key public-square issue here)?
That's the big question, the one that politicians on the left and right are scared to see carved into legal stone.
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LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fenwal Inc., a global leader specializing in separation technologies for blood and cell collection and therapy, announced today it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for two new indications for collection of plasma products on the Fenwal Alyx® and Amicus® systems.
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It was no secret that Cherrie Gammon, a dancer at Baltimore's Club Pussycat, was sleeping with a city police officer, according to trial testimony. But when a drug boss on The Block was arrested, Gammon worried that the relationship and her alleged side job as a drug dealer would make her look like a "snitch."
"It was a soap opera down there," Yoo Jin Kim, who worked with Gammon at the club, said in court last week.
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"This has been the longest two years of my life," said Jennifer Gammon, Cherrie Gammon's sister. "I'm glad it's over with and my sister gets the justice she deserves."
Kim referred to the officer only by a nickname in her testimony, and a department spokesman declined to discuss his identity.
Johniken, 30, was accused of being part of a heroin- and crack-dealing crew led by Donte Baker, 22, and his mother, Monica McCants, 42. In court filings, prosecutors said it was Johniken who shot Gammon on Dec. 12, 2010, after he, Gary Cromartie, 24, and Baker allegedly drove her out to Leon Day Park.
McCants pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug charges in early October but was not implicated in Gammon's murder. Baker and Cromartie pleaded guilty to racketeering and murder-conspiracy charges. Baker also pleaded guilty to a gun charge and Cromartie to a drug charge.
Johniken's attorney, Robert H. Waldman, had argued that the murder evidence against his client was slight.
"The jury has spoken," he said after the trial. "My client, a homeless guy, fell in with these people and look where it got him."
Attorneys for the other three defendants did not respond to requests for comment.
A state murder charge against Johniken, filed under the name Hassan Muhammed, was dropped in early 2011. Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said the conspiracy charges and resources available to federal investigators allowed them to go after the entire drug organization and build the case.
"The ability to prosecute for conspiracy and for racketeering allows us to prosecute and convict very dangerous criminals when some of the individual crimes might be difficult to prove, such as the murder," he said.
Trial testimony painted a picture of a long-running, highly profitable drug organization. The crew sold drugs out of a fried-chicken carryout near Baltimore police headquarters.
In court filings, prosecutors laid out a theory that the 25-year-old, who used the stage name Chloe when she danced at the club, was killed over a debt she owed to the drug organization and because its members worried she might be supplying information to the police.
Police often stumbled on the organization doing deals during regular patrols — once when police tried to arrest Johniken in the carryout, an officer who had been there only to buy lottery tickets testified that he ended up at Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a concussion. But McCants' October 2010 arrest was different.
Then, officers marched into the carryout and straight up to McCants. The way she seemed to be targeted raised suspicion, and Johniken's ex-girlfriend Marquise White, 20, testified that Johniken and Baker swiftly decided "someone had to rat her out."
According to documents in the case, the officer Gammon had a relationship with was later involved in a raid on a building that was used by the crew and Johniken's residence. But whether Gammon was cooperating with police remains unclear. Officer Winfred Murphy testified that a "citizen" tipped police off to McCants.
Agent Kevin Simmons said he found Gammon wandering along the edge of Leakin Park, and when he approached her he realized she had "blood gushing from her chest." She had been shot five times and died of her wounds in the hospital a few hours later.
News of Gammon's murder got back to The Block quickly.
Kim, from the club, testified through tears that a man who worked in the morgue and was an occasional customer at the club came in the next day and told her he had seen Gammon's body,
He had recognized the dead dancer by her distinctive nipple piercings, Kim said.


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Google searches turn up images that are associated with articles written about those words. They came during an interview with Fox News in which Romney admitted that his "47 percent" comments were "completely wrong."
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He's also blunt.
The South Carolina coach got right to the point Wednesday regarding his weekly TV show, "Steve Spurrier Show."
He asked that the show be removed from the athletic department's website because he felt it was too negative.
"I shouldn't be so negative and I have to come back and say, 'I shouldn't have been so negative about our coaches and everything,' " Spurrier told The State.
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Spurrier was critical of the Gamecocks after they beat UCF on the road last Saturday, 28-25. They led the game by 18 points before holding on for the victory.
He asked South Carolina AD Ray Tanner and IMG College's Liz McMillan if the show could be taken down and now shown again.
The show has been removed from the school's website and will air just the one time. It was scheduled to replay Tuesday on Fox Sports South, but did not.
"Liz and Coach Tanner, we decided we didn't have to show it after the first time," Spurrier told The State. "I said, 'I'm not very happy with all I said on the thing and so forth. Let's get it off the air.' They said, 'We don't have to show it anymore so I said let's don't show it because I have to be more positive."


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RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites very quickly. Mr. Snerdley, you were roundly criticized on MSNBC's Hardball last night. Richard Wolffe of Newsweek magazine was on with Chris Matthews, and they were talking about you, our Official Obama Criticizer. Now, for those who didn't hear this yesterday, Mr. Snerdley was very critical of Obama's whining and moaning reaction to the picture that the Clinton camp put out there with him dressed up like Ayman al-Zawahiri. So Mr. Snerdley did his standard criticism, and then, as Mr. Snerdley's penchant is, he did a translation for our EIB brothers and sisters in the hood. Now, apparently, that's all that Mr. Wolffe at Newsweek heard. I actually suspect he heard the whole thing, but he wants to focus only on your translation for our EIB brothers and sisters in the hood. So Matthews says to Richard Wolffe, 'Look, it's the silly season with that guy, Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati.' They were talking about Cunningham and his warm-up act for McCain.
WOLFFE: I was listening to Rush Limbaugh this afternoon, and he had his Barack Obama critic, an African-American guy who spoke quote, ghetto, about Barack Obama. This is going to be an incredible election, and a lot of it's going to be pretty distasteful just like Cunningham was earlier.
RUSH: All right, so Mr. Snerdley, you and I have now just been proclaimed — well, you, wasn't me, it was you — you have just been proclaimed 'distasteful.' The Official Obama Criticizer of the EIB Network, Bo Snerdley, has now been called distasteful. Not enough time to get this next bite in. Angry White Woman tour continues. There are a couple of women, one of them is Katha Pollitt… She's blaming me for what has happened to Hillary, not just for what's happening to Hillary, but for the overall decline in esteem in which political women are held. She's blaming me, in creating the word feminazi and some of these — it's a proud day for us here. Snerdley ripped on Hardball, and me continually ripped here by the feminazis out there on the left.
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Senators Seek Way to Ease FAA Cuts
WASHINGTON—Complaints about air-travel delays in recent days have prompted Democrats in Congress to reconsider their strategy for dealing with across-the-board spending cuts.
This week, the Federal Aviation Administration began furloughing air-traffic controllers to comply with the required cuts, known as the sequester. Airlines and some lawmakers have said the FAA is taking a rigid approach to the cutbacks, applying them in a way that has led to flight delays across the country, especially at airports in the Northeast.
The FAA and the controllers' union agreed to distribute furloughs evenly among all controllers, whether they were at busy or quiet airports.
Now some Democrats are gathering behind bills aimed at easing the air-travel problems, putting them at odds with party leaders, who say any response should blunt the overall impact of the sequester, rather than target individual problems such as the flight delays.
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While some Democrats on Wednesday moved to aid air passengers, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has renewed his effort to repeal the sequester, urging Democrats this week to coalesce around a plan to replace the cuts with money saved from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Reid said his plan would give Democrats and Republicans time to work out a longer-term fiscal deal.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in February that reducing the number of overseas troops could save the government around $582 billion between 2014 and 2023—a controversial source of funds that some have called a budget gimmick.
Any new bill aimed at the air-travel woes would likely come to the Senate floor shortly after lawmakers return from next week's recess, a Senate Democratic aide said.
Some Democrats think the Senate should act sooner.
"It is better to do a big deal. But as we work toward it, we have to admit that some things are very problematic," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), who on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill with Sen. John Hoeven (R., N.D.) designed to give the Department of Transportation more flexibility to manage the cuts with the goal of reducing furloughs at the FAA.
The bill would give the FAA the flexibility to transfer funds between accounts to reduce furloughs and give the Department of Transportation the authority to move funds from other areas of its budget to the FAA. The Department of Transportation administers the FAA.
Another Democrat, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, on Wednesday announced legislation that would reinstate air-traffic controllers using funds generated by ending a tax break for corporate jets. Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware said he would prefer to generate additional user fees to keep the travel system running at full capacity for the next five months.
"The public's going to be furious when they find out that this could have been prevented," said Sen. Dan Coats (R., Ind.), who supports the bipartisan proposal to give the Department of Transportation more flexibility in dealing with the FAA cuts. The aviation agency has said it can't avoid furloughs in the course of complying with the mandated budget cuts.
Senior Democrats don't think lawmakers should prioritize travel delays over other effects of the sequester, such as cuts to the Head Start early-education program, according to a Senate Democratic aide. Lawmakers agreed to implement the across-the-board cuts as part of a 2011 deal to raise the federal borrowing limit.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday the White House supported Mr. Reid's efforts to blunt the overall impact of the sequester. He also said it would be open to legislation aimed specifically at fixing the FAA problems, although he called such a bill "a band-aid measure." Previously, the White House has said Congress needed to replace the sequester with a mix of spending cuts and tax revenue increases. In February, Mr. Carney said "there is no convenient exit ramp to the punitive nature of these across-the-board cuts."
The shortage of controllers again delayed flights in and out of the entire northeastern U.S. on Wednesday. Airlines ran up against a string of understaffed control towers from Michigan to North Carolina that were holding up flights. Flights that were scheduled to cross the southern half of the area were delayed an average of 30 minutes, said Mark Duell of FlightAware.com, a flight-tracking website. The flights that were scheduled to cross the northern half were delayed by an average of 80 minutes, he said. One flight from San Francisco to Boston rerouted into Canada to avoid the delays, he said.
The flight disruptions this week "have been so sporadic and random," Mr. Duell said. "Some people ask, 'How can travelers avoid this?' Well, you can't. It's random."
Taylor Aldredge, a marketing representative for a tech company, sat in the terminal or on a parked plane at Logan Airport in Boston for more than five hours on Wednesday, awaiting his delayed flight to New York, he said. Knowing he could have driven the distance in less time, he said, "I had to have a beer or two to keep my mind at ease."
The FAA on Sunday began furloughing its air-traffic controllers for one day every 10 work days to meet its required cuts under the sequester, forcing some understaffed control towers to hold aircraft at airports or increase space between airborne planes. But airlines say the FAA is giving them little information about the delays, so they are struggling to adjust schedules in advance.
"We're not working in partnership with the FAA," said Robert Isom, chief operating officer at US Airways Group Inc. "We liken it to Whac-A-Mole."
The FAA said Wednesday that it has been advising airlines about the expected impacts of the sequester for two months. It said it also holds daily teleconferences with airlines to discuss expected staffing and weather disruptions for the day and the FAA's plans to manage expected air-traffic demand.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, which represents the 15,000 civilian controllers, says it asked the FAA to implement furloughs evenly. "The National Airspace System is integrated," a union spokesman said in an email.
—Andy Pasztor, Janet Hook and Elizabeth Williamson contributed to this article.
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The Long Shadow of 9/11: Author Interviews
Interviews with a selection of RAND's leading experts offer a distinctively farsighted perspective to the national dialogue on 9/11's legacy. Their insights assess the military, political, fiscal, social, cultural, psychological, and even moral implications of U.S. policymaking since 9/11.
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Some printers shy away from jobs like this because the project demands extra care when mixing the colors and printing. My printer killed it on this job. And by "killed" I mean he went above and beyond with the printing and color matching. And when I say "stupid" I mean "stupid fresh".
This was inspired by their song "Minerva" and the album art for their latest release "Diamond Eyes". Minerva was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic. She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl, which symbolizes her ties to wisdom. The owl is chewing on a rat that is biting down on a banner that reads "cuando el cofre se sacude y la aguja se parte vienen con migo rápidamente." The snake is there because I wanted to draw a snake - transforming from a tattoo into the real thing. And I drew the girl with the side of her head shaved cuz ladies like that make me swoon. A boy can dream, right?
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Statement About Values
**The below information is from the 2006-2016 UIS Strategic Plan. For information on the current 2018-2028 Strategic Compass, visit https://www.uis.edu/strategiccompass/ **
The UIS Strategic Plan identifies four important UIS values:
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In reflecting on the UIS values, two important advisory groups, the Diversity Task Force and the ROAD Committee (the Campus Senate Committee on Rights, Opportunity, Access and Diversity) developed a statement regarding the implementation of the UIS Strategic Plan. Here is that statement:
In order to achieve our goals, we believe that all of our operations and decisions should be guided by these fundamental principles and modeled by all members of the UIS community. We are committed to these principles:
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- Freedom of inquiry and collaboration to cultivate leadership development;
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Manifest is a progression from photographer Blake Little's groundbreaking book The Company of Men. Little's documentation of a new gay masculinity continues as he pushes his portraiture in different ways. His visual vocabulary has evolved from the more formal structure of his earlier pictures, taking more chances and benefiting from this freedom. This time the photographs are were taken both in and out of his Los Angeles studio and in England, Canada, and all over the U.S. Some are more intimate than he has ever presented before, surprisingly so. He also captures couples for the first time, presenting portraits of real relationships. Manifest features 104 remarkable photos of compelling men with a powerful, humorous, and heartfelt foreword by actor and icon Nick Offerman.
Manifest, edited by Frank Rodriguez and designed by Sean Adams, is now available.
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A lawyer who represented the Christian Brothers against survivors of extreme abuse in Western Australia has agreed it's inconceivable the order's leaders did not know sexual abuse and gratuitous violence was going on.
On Thursday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual abuse heard from two lawyers who sat on opposite sides of litigation brought in the mid-1990s by abuse survivors from four Christian Brothers institutions in WA.
Under questioning from commission chairman Peter McClellan, Carroll & O'Dea partner Howard Harrison, who was a lawyer for the Christian Brothers in the 1990s, acknowledged the leaders of the order must have known about the violence at its institutions.
"It is inconceivable they didn't know that the violence went beyond punishment, was gratuitous in many cases. It is inconceivable they didn't know that, isn't it?" Justice McClellan asked.
"Well, yes, your honour," Mr Harrison replied.
Justice McClellan also asked if it was inconceivable the order's leaders did not know sexual abuse was occurring.
"Correct," Mr Harrison said.
Mr Harrison also conceded he may have been instructed not to co-operate with requests to identify the order's organisational structure.
He said his preference would have been to steer the complainants to the correct defendants, but conceded it was "certainly possible that we could have taken a non-co-operative 'you work it out yourself' posture."
The commission this week has heard evidence from abuse survivors at four WA Christian Brothers-run facilities from 1947 to 1968.
The Christian Brothers apologised for the abuse in 1993.
Hayden Stephens, a partner at Slater & Gordon, represented men abused at the institutions.
"My recollection is the response was such, either in writing or certainly in discussion with the partner of the time, Peter Gordon, that they were offering no assistance in giving us clarity around the organisational structure of the church bodies," Mr Stephens said.
He said he did not accept that the Christian Brothers executive had only a general knowledge of the abuse.
"I think the events of August 1993 would support that they had thorough knowledge of the events at those four institutions, thorough knowledge of who the perpetrators were, and probable knowledge in relation to the likely class of persons affected by abuse," he said.
Eventually, $3.5 million was put in to a trust for survivors of abuse following a three-year battle.
In all, 124 men were compensated in tranches of $25,000, $10,000 or $9750 for serious sexual abuse.
A fourth tranche of $2000 was also created.
"To be blunt, the trustees of the Christian Brothers had their knee on our clients' throat and there was little opportunity for our clients to flex their negotiation muscle, or us on their behalf, faced with the judicial decisions that had proceeded this negotiation," Mr Stephens said.
In all, the litigation cost $4 million dollars, split between both sides, the commission heard.


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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet, (born April 1, 1786, Castle Hedingham, Essex, England—died February 19, 1845, near Cromer, Norfolk), British philanthropist and politician who, in 1822, succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of the campaign in the House of Commons for the abolition of slavery in the British colonies and thus was partly responsible for the Abolition Act of August 28, 1833.
A brother-in-law of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, Buxton, in 1818, published his own Inquiry into Prison Discipline, based on his inspection of Newgate Prison, London. In 1823 he joined Wilberforce and others in founding the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The ideas he expressed in The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (1839) inspired the British government to send an expedition to the Niger River Delta in 1841. Intended to make anti-slave-trade treaties with the peoples of the area, to engage in other kinds of trade, and to establish a missionary headquarters, the expedition suffered many deaths from fever and was soon recalled. Although Buxton did not accompany the group, his own health was permanently affected by the shock of the failure of the project. He was made a baronet in 1840.


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Investors Split On Whether 'Obama Surge' In Gun Sales Will Continue
Gun sales rose in the lead-up to Barack Obama's 2008 election victory, as enthusiasts stocked up ahead of what they feared could be tightening gun laws. And as the WSJ reported back in September, this year has been no different, with sales up in advance of the vote and dealers predicting a secondary surge in the wake of an Obama victory.
For gunmaker Smith & Wesson, so far, so good. Sales increased 48% in the quarter ending October 31, the company said today, and it expects sales for the fiscal year ending next May to be up 35%.
This isn't a new thing: gun demand has been consistently hot throughout the Obama administration. As the AP wrote back in October:
Obama is not yet through his first term, but the federal government already has conducted about as many background checks for gun owners and prospective buyers on his watch as it did during the first six years of George W. Bush's presidency. In the first 3 1/2 years of the Bush administration, the FBI conducted about 28 million background checks. During the same period of the Obama administration, the FBI conducted more than 50 million. The gun industry uses the number of background checks on gun owners as a reliable indicator of demand.
Ruger and Smith & Wesson represent nearly 30 percent of the U.S. gun manufacturing industry and lead the market in production of pistols and revolvers, according to government statistics. The two companies have been running production lines around the clock, hiring workers and operating at maximum capacity, said Barrett, an industry analyst who also owns Ruger stock.
Ruger's sales have increased 86 percent since Obama took office, and Smith & Wesson's sales have gone up nearly 44 percent, compared with 18 percent for overall national retail sales.
Whether such strong demand will be sustained in the coming years is a topic for debate; in today's results statement, Smith & Wesson reported its order backlog has dropped 15% over the last quarter. That backlog of unmet demand from dealers is still more than 120% higher than it was at the same time last year, but the quarter-on-quarter decline has some investors thinking the glory days may be coming to an end. As the WSJ's Kevin Kingsbury wrote today:
The post-election jump in shares of Smith & Wesson (SWHC) has now been fully reversed today as investors sell off despite the gun maker giving an upbeat F3Q forecast as part of its 2Q report. The $106M drop in backlog so far this FY to $333M "appears to indicate dealers who place such orders do not expect the now year-long industry demand surge to last that much longer," says Wedbush. But SWHC bull Benchmark contends, "Firearms sales growth began before the 'Obama surge' and we believe should continue after it." Shares have trended lower through the day and are now off 9.4% at $9.83 after opening at a fresh 5-year high of $11.25. The stock has more than doubled this year.
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