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Looking at this site you might guess that I'm some kind of crazed KISS fantatic. Nothing could be further from the truth. There just happens to be a lot of footage on the internet of KISS in classic showbiz environs. Here is KISS making a brief plea on the 1979 Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy!
Saturday, April 14, 2007
The Colgate Comedy Hour with guest Buddy Rich - The Jerry Lewis Telethon with guest KISS
Drumming legend Buddy Rich and Jerry Lewis battle it out in 1955 on this episode of Martin & Lewis' Colgate Comedy Hour.
Posted by Kliph Nesteroff at 12:00 AM
Labels: Buddy Rich, Dean Martin, Gene Simmons, Jerry Lewis, Kiss, music acts, The Colgate Comedy Hour
2 comments:
- Biby Cletus said...
Nice post, its a really cool blog that you have here, keep up the good work, will be back.
Warm Regards
Biby Cletus - Blog
- April 14, 2007 at 12:20 AM
- miecky said...
Thanks for the video. This is really nice blog. Its great fun to watch Jerry Lewis Telethon Episodes. Actually action TV Shows are my favorite type of tv Shows. Thats why i like this show.
- April 7, 2009 at 5:42 AM
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ROYERSFORD - It was a case of extending the classroom over to the basketball court.
And Perkiomen Valley's reward for being highly studious was something even the biggest box of gold stars couldn't address.
The Vikings made a glorious return to prominence Tuesday when they faced Methacton in the championship game of the Pioneer Athletic Conference's 'Final Four' playoffs. Applying the lessons it learned over the course of a down-and-up regular season, PV pulled out a 44-41 victory over the Warriors for their first league title in 11 years.
And its overall effort earned an A-plus grade from Mike Poysden, who was presented a championship in his freshman season guiding the Vikings.
'These guys are such competitors,' Poysden said. 'When they see a scouting report of who they're supposed to be guarding, they take complete ownership of it.'
Perhaps the biggest lesson PV (17-7 overall) applied came in the game's final three seconds, after it took a three-point lead off Brett Davis making the second of two free throws. Methacton's Zach Jenkins threw the ball inbounds from the back line, looking to connect with Brendan Casper around midcourt; but Davis quashed the attempt by picking off the ball and running toward the sideline while the clock ran out on the Warriors' bid to repeat as PAC-10 champs.
'That was all instinct,' Poysden said. 'Brett is a winner ... he's watched enough games, studied enough film to prepare for these guys.'
It was a fitting end to a matchup that figured to be heavily contested - and lived up to the hype. Neither team led by more than six points at any juncture, and it was primarily a two-point affair over the final six minutes.
Perk Valley took a lead that would hold up down the stretch with five minutes to go, Tyler Krause getting all four of his points on a pair of baskets 71 seconds apart. Steve Leonard then hit the first of two free throws with 3:23 left to make it a 37-35 game.
The teams exchanged scoring plays four times over a 2:09 span, the Vikings bolstered by Purnell Wilson making two one-and-ones in the final 63 seconds. They missed another one-and-one opportunity with 14 seconds to go, but a Warrior turnover 10 ticks later led to Davis going to the line after drawing a foul.
'It was a dogfight,' Methacton head coach Jeff Derstine said afterward. 'I thought they (PV) defensed us well. They made us work hard for what we got.'
Wilson, who emerged as the game's scoring leader with 16 points, cited PV's play on Brendan Casper as key to the final outcome. The Vikes limited Methacton's 6-foot-6 senior to 11 points - considerably below his per-game average of 21.1 - and just four prior to the fourth quarter.
'We were all wired up, got fouls from the big guy,' the junior guard recalled. 'We took it to him.'
Stewart, who added 13 points and four rebounds along the way, concurred with his teammate's evaluation.
'My goal is to always shut down their best player,' he added. 'We tried throwing different looks at him.'
Casper underlined an equally high-octane defensive effort by Methacton (20-4), all but two of his 13 rebounds coming at its end of the floor. Of the 25 boards the Warriors cleared in comparison to PV's 20, only five were at the offensive end.
'We're committed to playing defense,' Derstine said, 'but they (PV) did a phenomenal job. When we played them the first time, Casper didn't have a lot of help.'
Back in the Final Four picture for the first time since the 2007-08 season, Perk Valley's championship finish was redemption for a 41-39 loss to the Warriors two weeks earlier. That was the lone blemish in an otherwise 15-1 run that helped transform the Vikings from 2-6 also-rans in late December to the the Liberty Division's second seeds by the time their regular season concluded 11 days earlier.
'We've played with our backs against the wall all year,' Wilson said.
'The main thing is that we play hard all four quarters,' Stewart added. 'We try to work our hardest for a full game.'
With league play out of the way, the PAC-10 neighbors now look ahead to the start of the District 1-Class AAAA playoffs Friday. Methacton got the sixth seed in the 32-team field and will host 27th-seeded Bensalem. PV, in turn, is the 21st seed and will take its current four-game win streak on the road for a game at 12th-seeded Penn Wood.
'It's tough coming off an emotional game like this and playing in districts,' Derstine said. 'But we'll play it one game at a time.'
NOTES PV put together a near-perfect floor game, assessed for just one turnover the entire time. In turn, it forced the Warriors into turning the ball over 10 times. ... Methacton, which saw a six-game win streak halted by the Vikings, got another 10 points from Zach Jenkins. ... Stewart, Krause and Mekhi Clemons each pulled down four rebounds to share the team lead.


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New 2019 FordEscape SE SUV
- Stock: NF190205T
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- 22.0/28.0 mpg City/Hwy
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- White Platinum Tri-Coat
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The 2019 Ford Escape is for those who live on the go. This capable SUV has versatile seating/cargo combinations and it's engineered to deliver the performance your lifestyle requires. You'll find a 2.5L I-4 with intake variable cam design, a 1.5L turbocharged EcoBoost engine, or a 2.0L Twin-Scroll EcoBoost rated at 245hp. Handling control comes courtesy of standard AdvanceTrac with roll stability control, curve control and torque vectoring control. For added traction, there's the available intelligent 4-wheel drive system, and if you need to tow, the it provides a maximum tow rating of up to 3,500 lbs. You want to carry lots of cargo? No problem. The rear seats fold to provide up to 68 cu. ft. of cargo capacity or fold down either of the 60/40 split rear seat backs and still have room for a passenger. If you're carrying items such as luggage, leave both seat backs up and you'll have 34 cu. ft. of cargo space. Accessing the rear of the vehicle is also a breeze, thanks to an available hands-free, foot-activated liftgate. And to help you while slowly backing up the vehicle, a rearview camera is standard, and a reverse sensing system is available. The Escape connects you to more than just the road, with technology features including available SYNC 3, SiriusXM radio, FordPass app access and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. You'll also find a comprehensive suite of safety features such as a blind spot information system, adaptive cruise control, cross-traffic alert, lane keeping system, forward collision warning with break support and enhanced active park assist.
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Nice quality and fun to own.
By Cablecop on Sunday, February 04, 2018My Escape is a 2016. Built in Kentucky. I have over 30,000 miles on it already. The wife and I are very happy with it. We are 67 years old and we shopped for small SUVs 60 miles south and 50 miles north. The milage is what continues to truly make us happy. Most driving is highway on cruise. We get 30-31 mph. The model is a SE with eco-boost. This model year has a very comfy full power drivers seat. The passenger seat is not power and is not as comfy. Remember, the car is now 3 years old and I read that the interior is even nicer. The rear cargo area with seats folded down is surprisingly, quite large. The paint job is a beautiful pearlescent deep white. The quietness on the highway surprised us. It came with Michelin X Green tires. So far no visible wear! You can adjust the tail gate to go up only as much as you like. 3 different buttons to raise or close it. On the outside door pillar is a keypad which lights up to open. Good if you lock your keys in the car, (and remember your code) Tire pressure warning if low. Very nice Sync 3. My model year on the SE did not come with GPS. Only 2 wishes. Better passenger seat and GPS. These probably are on the 2018. Avery nice car.
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4 months ago I would have given this vehicle a 10
By Mike B. on Friday, October 19, 2018Until June of 2018 I loved my Ford Escape SE then things started going wrong. I received a recall notice for the engine which led to it being replaced. After that the engine issues apparently caused transmission issues which I'm now waiting on Ford to tell me how much they will assist in the cost. I was told when the engine was replaced the prior dealership did not reprogram the computer for the new engine. Apparently, it caused heating issues at higher speeds which apparently damaged the transmission. If you do not live in a state like Florida with 70 mph speed limits, or drive mostly on roads under 55 mph, you may never notice it. Once you drive at higher speeds you get transmission warning errors which may lead to the vehicle going into a "safe mode", cutting off A/C and lowering the speed so the engine and transmission can cool down. I really love the looks of the 2014 model, more than the newer ones, and I definitely loved the vehicle. Now, after spending a lot of time in shops and being assured it's fixed and not, I cannot recommend this vehicle to anyone. Do your homework before buying other Ford products as well because apparently this is an issue occurring in other vehicles too, sometimes at much lower mileage on the odometer. Be careful buying a used one because you never know if the vehicle was repaired.
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Nicest vehicle I ever owned and I have owned alot.
By Geezer on Saturday, June 08, 2019Has reasonable ride, excellent handling, large hauling space, comfortable seating, very versatile, 26+ MPG, and nice appointments. Too bad I think it is ugly. Maybe they will do better on the next Escape I buy.


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Over at Baseball: Past and Present, Graham Womack interviews Robert Creamer:
Who's the greatest baseball player you covered?
Creamer: Willie Mays. Period.
I seem to remember that Bill James, using his fabulous, desiccated statistics, demonstrated that Mickey Mantle, who was Willie's almost exact contemporary, was actually the better player, and I'm not equipped to argue with Bill, although I'll try. And there are DiMaggio, Williams, Musial, Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez – no, wait. I didn't cover DiMaggio, who retired after the 1951 season — I didn't start with Sports Illustrated until 1954. But that's still a pretty impressive collection of players to put Willie on top of.
I saw Mays play a lot. My father and I were in the moderate crowd at the Polo Grounds in May 1951 when Willie played his first game for the Giants. My father was only a mild baseball fan, although he told me his favorite ballplayer when he was a kid in New York back at the beginning of the 20th century was a bearded outfielder for the Giants named George Van Haltren, which indicates a certain degree of baseball intensity. In any case he and I drove down from Tuckahoe to the Polo Grounds, bought tickets (which you could do then) and sat in the lower stands between home and first base. Willie had broken in a few days earlier in Philadelphia where he went 0 for 12 in three games. He was batting third which if it seems a high spot for a brand-new rookie seemed a proper spot to take a look at a rookie who had been batting something like .477 in the minors.
The top of the first took some of the fun out of the game right away. Warren Spahn was pitching for the Boston Braves and in the top of the first Bob Elliott hit a three-run homer for Boston, which took a lot of the starch out of the Giant fans. If Spahn was on, and had a three-run lead already, we didn't have a prayer. Spahn set the first two Giants down in order and here came Willie, our fabulous new rookie. I forget what the count went to — a ball and a strike, something like that. Spahn threw the next pitch and Willie hit it on a line high and deep to left center field. I cannot recall if it hit the wooden façade high in left field or went over the roof and out of the park. All I remember is the electric excitement that shot through the park at the sound and sight of our precious rookie in his first at-bat in New York hitting a tremendous home run off the great Spahn. "He's real!" was the feeling. "He's real!"
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As the saying goes, there's an app for that — more than 300,000 in Apple's app store, to be exact. And since the iPhone became available for Verizon customers, even more members of the stylish set can get a digital fashion fix via personal mobile devices. But not all shopping and fashion apps are created equal — as evidenced by the bevy of them that are little more than a cellphone version of a designer's look book.
"In 2009 and 2010, brands made apps just to make apps," says Macala Wright Lee, a digital media consultant who has worked with the likes of Cynthia Rowley and Teen Vogue. "This year, more people are creating apps that actually have relevancy and need for use."
So while pretty look books and spot-the-shorter-pant-leg games may be amusing, 2011 is the year of fashion apps that are really helpful. We scoped out six iPhone apps that make it easy to be stylish.
Glamour Ask a Stylist
Price: Free
The deal: This app is Glamour magazine's attempt to answer the age-old question "How do I look?" Simply snap a photo of an outfit or specific piece of clothing that's causing you worry, type your question ("Are these boots too wild for a first date with an auditor?") and voila — in a matter of minutes, the Glamour stylist of your choosing will send you an opinion at any time of the day or night.
Why we want it on our phone: Because we don't have $120 to pay an in-person stylist for an hour of her time.
The Find
Price: Free
The deal: Scan a product's barcode at a store and get a list of websites and local shops where said product carries a lower price tag. As a bonus, they'll hook you up with coupons and deals based on your shopping habits. Barcode scanning technology still has a ways to go in the apparel industry, but this works like a charm for beauty products and some accessories.
Why we want it on our phone: Because the $2 we saved on a bottle of Kiehl's perfume is enough for a small iced Americano at Starbucks.
Price: Free
The deal: Feel like exploring the mall but have no idea where to start? Enter Pose, a social shopping app that lets you browse photos of merchandise that other users have found in stores. Just take a picture of an item and type in the price before sharing it with the entire Pose community or just your friends. Users can weigh in on whether they like your find, and you can browse pictures, prices and store info for items found by shoppers in 55 different countries. Retailers, including the about-to-shutter Metropark, have already started using an interface that lets them customize the Pose framework to do things such as announce contests or transmit photos to in-store display screens. And on June 1, the company plans to introduce Pose 2.0, although it is mum on details about what features will be added.
Why we want it on our phone: In a time when Facebook stalking is a sport, it's fun — and surprisingly helpful — to find retail inspiration through strangers' shopping bags.
Price: $3.99
The deal: This wardrobe organizer lets you keep track of pieces in your closet, make inspiration boards using photos of your own clothes and keep a visual calendar showing exactly when you wore what. Sure, it's a bit time consuming to photograph and catalog all of your gear. But the ability to banish repeat outfit offenses is worth every second.
Why we want it on our phone: Who hasn't wanted their own version of Cher Horowitz's virtual closet from the time "Clueless" came out in 1995?
Google Goggles
Price: Free
The deal: This product from Google Labs, which finally became available for the iPhone in October, is a visual search engine that lets you take a photo of pretty much any object and gives you results based on the image. It isn't solely designed for fashion. But imagine snapping a picture of a vintage clothing label and getting info on the designer. Or sending Google a picture of a pair of shoes and receiving information on where to buy them. You can even offer a visual snippet of text from a French clothing catalog and receive the English translation.
Why we want it on our phone: A picture is worth a thousand words indeed — especially when you're on the go, can't be bothered to type and aren't quite sure what you should be searching for to begin with.
EBay Fashion App
Price: Free
The deal: OK, so it isn't new per se, having launched last June. But the Internet auction king's mobile style software is a surprisingly easy way to shop for vintage goods in a very specific way. Browse by era or style, or even click on a photo of a current runway trend to find similar listings. There are other nifty features that allow you to upload your photo and "try on" sunglass styles, or to model pieces of clothing virtually on an avatar. But we're more interested in the ability to find a 1940s black satin slip in our under-$5 price range with the swipe of an index finger.
Why we want it on our phone: Because few things in life are as fun as scrounging through racks of dirty used clothes in hopes of unearthing a gem. Unless you can do it virtually, sans mothball aroma, while waiting in an airport security line, that is.
As the saying goes, there's an app for that — more than 300,000 in Apple's app store, to be exact. And since the iPhone became available for Verizon customers, even more members of the stylish set can get a digital fashion fix via personal mobile devices. But not all shopping and fashion apps are created equal — as evidenced by the bevy of them that are little more than a cellphone version of a designer's look book.


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I will be the first to admit: I am a sucker for fancy notebooks and beautiful pens. A few years ago this led me to discover Moleskine notebooks. As much as I enjoy using computers and other digital gear to get things done, I would always come back to manual note-taking for telephone conversations and certain face to face meetings.
On the other hand you all know me as a sucker for tech and getting things done digitally whenever possible. A few years back this has led me to discover Evernote and I have never looked back since. With Evernote nothing ever gets lost, ideas get recorded and saved to the cloud instantaneously, and you achieve "total recall".
Now imagine these two concepts somehow meeting: the Moleskine notebook and the Evernote online service. Sounds crazy, right ? Not really: the two companies got together and came up with "The Evernote Smart Notebook designed by Moleskine". I can finally indulge those two seemingly opposing urges of saving things both in the analog as well as the digital space. It seems there are other geeks like me out there. I am not alone anymore, maybe I never was.


text: Aleksandar Dobrinov was a Bulgarian caricaturist born in Veliko Turnovo. From his mother's side he had a kinship with great artists. In his father's inn, a lot of famous people stayed, like Stoian Mihaelovski, Canko Cerkovski and Petko Todorov. He lived and worked Czechoslovakia for five years, and provided 6 individual exhibitions. He painted a hundreds of portraits of famous artists, writers, politicians and bankers, published in many prestigious foreign newspapers. Dobrinov has also drawn booklets of comics with poetry, but they are hard to find, because they were forbidden.


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The Goodman and Melo league teams played in front of about 5,000 people at Morgan State University in Baltimore last night. Carmelo Anthony had recruited LeBron James and Chris Paul to join the Baltimore side, which means that this game was much more Kevin Durant vs. King James than it was D.C. vs. Baltimore. The two guarded each other and even reportedly played some one-on-one defense; Durant finished with 59 points to LeBron's 38, but
GoodmanMelo won, 149-141.
The highlights here are all worth a look, because it's a summer league game in front of a crowd that actually cares to react to spectacular plays—but if you're impatient, press the HD button and skip ahead to the 2:35 mark, when Juan Dixon finds Josh Selby from half court for a 360 alley-oop. I hope Selby, a rookie with Memphis, is able to share some floor time with Mike Conley next season, and I hope what we just saw becomes a set play for the Grizzlies. But this, I know, is what we call a lockout dream.


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Mummified woman may have voted in 2010
Woman found dead in her Pontiac, Michigan home may have died years ago
PONTIAC, Mich. — Voting records are raising questions amid an investigation into the discovery of a woman's mummified body in the garage of a suburban Detroit home.
Paula Logan has said the body found last Wednesday in Pontiac is that of Pia Farrenkopf, her sister. Authorities investigating the discovery haven't released her name, but they have said that the woman apparently died in 2008 at the age of 49.
The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/1oHYk7K ) voting records show Farrenkopf as voting in the November 2010 gubernatorial election. Officials say, however, that it may represent an administrative error.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard (BOO'-shard) says the information must be checked out.
Neighbors say the homeowner hadn't been seen in years. A contractor sent by the bank that holds the mortgage discovered the body.


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The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday afternoon that it will delay the closure of all 149 federal contract air traffic control towers — including five in Maryland — until June 15.
The announcement came just two days before the first of the towers was scheduled to be shuttered as part of across-the-board federal budget cuts approved by Congress. The FAA is required to cut $637 million from its $16 billion budget by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
The extension will allow the agency to deal with multiple lawsuits, continue consulting with airports and review safety issues, the FAA said in its statement.
Under the phased, monthlong closure schedule, Martin State Airport in Baltimore County, Frederick Municipal Airport and Easton/Newnam Field in Easton had been ordered to close April 21. Hagerstown Regional Airport and Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Airport were to follow on May 5.
"This gives us a little more breathing room to figure something out," said Easton manager Mike Henry, who earlier in the day delivered a letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley's office asking for financial help to keep the tower open until Sept. 30. "The can got kicked down the road, but we'll take it."
The Maryland Aviation Administration hailed the delay as a "sensible, correct decision … that will allow the critical work to go on."
"This announcement will allow the FAA to address the questions and concerns raised across the nation and across the industry," said MAA spokesman Jonathan Dean.
Officials at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport expressed concern that closures might result in congestion as private pilots opted for runways supervised by air traffic controllers rather than self-regulated takeoffs and landings at the smaller airports.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said safety concerns led to the postponement.
"This has been a complex process, and we need to get this right," LaHood said. "We will use this additional time to make sure communities and pilots understand the changes at their local airports."
About 750 to 1,100 controllers and supervisors were expected to lose their jobs, according to the U.S. Contract Tower Association. The workers are hired by private companies with FAA contracts to operate towers at small and mid-sized airports.
On Thursday, the Contract Tower Association and the American Association of Airport Executives filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit against the FAA, accusing the agency of singling out the contract towers and ignoring safety concerns.
"No justifiable reason exists to single out the contract tower program and make it the administration's poster child for sequestration cuts," said Kenneth Quinn, a lawyer for the two industry groups. "Nor should such fundamental changes occur without proper notice, comment, and analyses."
About 50 airport authorities and other interested parties have told the FAA that they are prepared to pay for tower operations. This additional time will allow the FAA to help smooth the transition.
Henry said the four Maryland towers run by local governments all face the same fiscal constraints and are not in a position to take on the added cost.
"We're looking at every option on the table and some that are under the table," Henry said jokingly. "We're not giving up."


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A Knuckle Sandwich
The Phillies faced a knuckleball pitcher, a very rare breed, for the second game in a row today. This time it was against the Mets.
And for the second game in row, all the Phillies offense got out of the experience was a knuckle sandwich as pitcher R.A. Dickey smacked them around. And here I thought Dickey's went out of fashion after the 19th Century….who knew?
The Phillies had the bases loaded twice and could not score. Carlos Ruiz hit into a 1-2-3 double play with NO outs and the bases loaded, as one example. And altogether, the Phillies left so many men on base, it began to look like they were doing it on purpose as some sort of weird, confuse the defense-type strategy. You know, like the Mets were going to panic and screw up: "There are runners everywhere! Maybe we are hallucinating? Where should I throw the ball? Oh no….there are just SO many of them to choose from! Crap! I dropped the ball…." It could happen. ;o)
Ryan Howard did his best to help out with 2 hits, one of which nailed the pitcher in his non-pitching elbow. While that had to hurt, it did not affect Dickey's delivery. Helpful hint, Ryan: hit the OTHER elbow next time. Got it? Ok, thanks.
So while the Phillies enlisted the LSD-offensive technique, the Mets chose simply to hit the crap out of Jamie Moyer's slow-motion not-so-fast balls. Moyer lasted only 5 short innings, allowing 4 runs on 7 hits and 2 walks with some lack-luster defense behind him.
So what have we learned this week, Phillies fans? 1 – The Phillies cannot hit knuckle balls. 2 – Leaving men on base, whether it is confusing to the defense or not, is totally NOT helpful. And 3 – If the offense keeps going into mega-slumps like this, it is going to be a very, very long season.
So the Phillies lose game 1 to the Mets, 0-8, with a little extra destruction from our bullpen. Yuck. But enough of that…on to happier things!
In yesterday's Phillies Phestival report, I told you all about Bryan, a local Cole Hamels look-alike. Bryan was kind enough to send me a copy of his photo with the actual Cole Hamels, shown to the right. They could totally be brothers. You can email Bryan with questions or comments about his life adventures while being mistaken for Cole. Hey, I wonder what he will be for Halloween this year? Let's hope the costume includes a second World Series ring ;O)
And if you have not seen the results from today's All-Star balloting report, you should quickly stop having a life and spend more time tracking useless stats, like me. Or….maybe not. So, congrats on having a life, which I plan to someday…but for now, here is the preliminary report:
Essentially, Chase Utley owns the National League ballot. Hey New York, who's YOUR Daddy? That's right; it's Chase Utley. Read it and weep: With 687,724 votes, Utley is the league leading vote-getter so far.
Shortstop Jimmy Rollins, third baseman Placido Polanco, center fielder Shane Victorino and right fielder Jayson Werth are all in line to start at their positions with first baseman Ryan Howard and catcher Carlos Ruiz in second place at their spots. Rollins has spent more time on the DL than on the field, but maybe this will make up for previous years when he should have gone and did not.
But balloting does not end until July 1st, so keep VOTING for those Phillies!!
*Read more about the Phillies at my other home page, Phightin' Phils Phorum in the My Team Rivals network*


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Lago Pian Palù is situated in Val Di Pejo at 1800 a.s.l.
It is on the border of Stelvio National Park in the province of Trentino, Italy.
It is a artificial lake for hydroelectric purpose
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol consists of two provinces: Trento and Bolzano-Bozen. The region was part of Austria-Hungary (and its predecessor, the Austrian Empire) from 1815 until its annexation by Italy in 1919. Together with the Austrian state of Tyrol it is represented by the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino.More informations on Wikipedia


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I found this old bottle -- which still has its label, and the little cloth swab attached to a wire inside -- among my late mother-in-laws things. She was a school secretary and probably got this when they tore down the old "Indian school", Osage Elementary, (Oklahoma) way back in the 50s or 60s. My husband says he remembers seeing it his whole life and he was born in 1961, so she had it before then. It is pretty much self-explanatory but it would still be interesting to hear what others may know about it or the company that produced it. Its a lovely little bottle in its own right, I think.


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CINCINNATI >> With two swings, Scott Van Slyke went from backup outfielder to star of the game.
Van Slyke drove in a career-high four runs with two homers off struggling left-hander Tony Cingrani, and the Dodgers pulled away to a 6-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night, a rare comfortable win in their pitching-dominated series.
Van Slyke hit a solo homer and a three-run shot off Cingrani (2-7), who could lose his spot in the rotation when Mat Latos returns from the disabled list later this week. Cingrani gave up a career-high six runs in 4 2/3 innings of his fifth straight loss.
The Dodgers like Van Slyke for his versatility. He has started four games in center, 11 in left and three at first base. The problem is that there's no room for him to have a regular spot.
"I know what I'm here for, so I don't mind it," Van Slyke said. "I'm not going to complain."
Nor will the Dodgers.
"He's been good for us all year," manager Don Mattingly said. "This guy's just kind of slowly showing his value over time. He's a guy that sneaks up on you. Plays all three outfield spots really well.
"I think he's a guy that you could expand his role. Obviously that's not here right now."
Dan Haren (6-4) gave up five hits in 5 1/3 innings, including Ryan Ludwick's solo homer, for his first win since May 12. Brandon League escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs threat in the eighth by getting Ludwick to hit a comebacker that led to a home-to-first double play.
Haren opened the season 4-0 and has been trying to get back into form the past month.
"I started the year throwing the ball very well," Haren said. "I've just really been mediocre here for a while. Today the bullpen picked me up."
The Dodgers have gone 3-1 at the start of their seven-game trip to Colorado and Cincinnati despite hip injuries to right fielder Yasiel Puig and second baseman Dee Gordon. Puig was back in the lineup on Monday and had a single and a walk. Gordon pinch hit in the ninth and beat out an infield single.
The Dodgers and Reds have played a lot of close games the last two seasons. Six of their last seven had been decided by one run, with Cincinnati holding a 4-3 advantage in those games.
Van Slyke made this a comfortable win for the Dodgers, getting a career-high three hits. In addition to the homers, he singled and walked twice, reaching base in all five plate appearances.
Van Slyke came into the game with four homers and seven RBIs. He led off the second inning with a homer and ended Cingrani's outing with a three-run shot in the fifth that made it 6-2. It was his second career two-homer game.
Cingrani has struggled since he returned from an inflamed shoulder that landed him on the disabled list. He's 0-5 in those five starts with a 6.26 ERA and nine homers allowed. The left-hander gave up seven hits — matching his career high — and three walks on Monday.
The Reds fell to 3-4 on their 10-game homestand, leaving them fourth in the NL Central.
Haren had one rough inning, helping the Reds tie it 1-all in the second. Brayan Pena snapped a career-worst 0-for-17 slump with a single, and Zack Cozart singled. The runners advanced on a wild pitch, and Pena scored when Haren bounced a pitch to Cingrani with two outs.


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There was an excellent scene in season 2 of Homeland where the characters played by Mandy Patinkin and F. Murray Abraham reminisced briefly about what the intelligence game was like during the Cold War. There was a wistful glint in their eyes as they almost fondly remembered their adversaries and the art of brinkmanship that both the United States and the Soviets engaged in time and again.
In essence, the pair romanticized a period filled with a different kind of paranoia and anxiety than exists today. In FX's newest drama The Americans, the basic premise takes the audience back to the Cold War with a storyline focusing on two KGB spies who are posing as an average American married couple with kids in early-1980s Washington, D.C. And although this particular milieu is dripping with the same kind of us versus them gamesmanship that Patinkin and Abraham's characters were remembering, this superlative and exciting pilot is far from a simple trip down memory lane.
Like any good pilot, the episode diligently sets up the series' framework – which is comprised of several elements that make cable television so popular and successful right now. First and foremost, The Americans has the benefit of being a period drama (still a plus by most networks' standards), but this series, unlike many period drams, is driven by more than simply having the right attire and casually making mention of events happening at the time. Instead, with Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys playing Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings, respectively, the plot deftly splits its time between the couple's increasingly dangerous spy games and their otherwise prosaic existence as a family in the suburbs.
In that sense, The Americans has added elements of other great dramas like The Sopranos (nefarious stuff going on in the suburbs) and Homeland (government paranoia and fear that people aren't who they seem to be) to its bag of tricks, but there's also a whiff of AMC-fare like Breaking Bad, too. Still - in the pilot anyway - the series manages to take its conceit and make it successful by offering plenty of surprises and a decent amount of character building in the first episode.
Much of the pilot is devoted to an ex-KGB colonel who has defected to the United States and is now the kidnapping target of Elizabeth and Phillip (along with another deep cover operative named Rob). In a stirring opening sequence, Phillip and Elizabeth get their man, but at the cost of Rob and, to an extent, the successful completion of their mission. After the botched operation, the couple has no choice but to keep the defector stowed away in the trunk of an Oldsmobile in their garage. The situation intensifies when it becomes clear the U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping, and then things get worse after it's revealed the colonel was responsible for a heinous crime committed against Elizabeth when she was still a teenager in Russia.
All of this is compelling stuff. The pilot manages to wring sufficient tension out of a car sitting in a seemingly innocuous couple's garage, but where the pilot really excels is in its depiction of Phillip and Elizabeth. For one thing, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are superb in their roles, which is so incredibly important since the real drama ultimately hinges on the actors' interactions in a staged domestic setting and how that works against the show's larger backdrop of historical fact (and the sometimes-overwrought spy game elements).
These moments at home manage to break The Americans down to a more intimate examination of two people compelled to act on behalf of a country they haven't stepped foot in for nearly two decades. Phillip is the affable one; he is engaging with new people, interacts with his children on a deep, fatherly level and, as we quickly come to understand, is a big fan of his life in the U.S. – a fact that has him pondering the feasibility of defecting and living without Soviet entanglements. Elizabeth, meanwhile, is more detached; she bristles when her daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) mentions a social studies assignment about how the Russians "cheat on arms control" and later vows to teach them how to be socialists. Whether her disengagement is due to her steadfast devotion to her mission or the possibility that this life can (and probably will) come crashing down on them at any minute is not yet certain, but it does add an extra dimension to her character and the family dynamic as a whole.
Still, as much as they initially adhere to one side of the coin, the characters are capable of surprise – even when aspects of the plot are more reliant on convenience. (But as long as the characters can convincingly sell it, those elements remain trivial objections.) Phillip has a protective streak in him that emerges in moments of deadly violence, and despite her cool exterior, Elizabeth's emotions aren't nearly as fortified as they may appear. This balancing act between two people playing roles they were thrown into is clearly the series' strongest element so far.
As much as The Americans plays at the drama of family interaction and spy novel intrigue, there's also a situational comedy element to the series that keeps the storyline from becoming too rigidly reliant on its ability to ramp up the pressure for Phillip and Elizabeth. The arrival of their new neighbor and FBI counter-intelligence agent, Stan Beeman (played by the always welcome Noah Emmerich from the season 2 finale of The Walking Dead), supplies a great deal of the humor (nervous as it is) with his gut instinct that something's not quite right with Phil. Normally, something like this would be a hackneyed storyline component, but here it comes off as something darkly comical and quite useful – an already tense situation made potentially disastrous by the worst possible circumstance.
That's a lot of elements at play, but somehow, despite occasionally taking the easy way out, everything manages to fall into place.
It can be difficult for shows that rely this much on tension to maintain it for an extended length of time, and that may prove to be the undoing of The Americans down the line. But if this pilot is any indication, the series isn't at a loss as to the direction it wants to pursue, which should certainly ease any early concern for the narrative's future. At any rate, that self-assurance should give the audience some sense of comfort and encourage them to come back for more. Considering how entertaining this pilot episode is, most viewers won't need much coaxing.
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- The pilot was directed by Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) and counts Justified creator Graham Yost among its executive producers. That's not bad by any standard.
- There was no more enjoyable depiction of Phillip's love for the United States than his dancing in front of a mirror in a pair of cowboy boots while at the mall with his daughter.
- Between Fleetwood Mac and the very brave use of Phil Collins' seminal '80s hit 'In the Air Tonight,' The Americans seems to have a pretty good understanding of when and where to place their musical elements.
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Mandela Family Launches Wine Label
Nelson Mandela's family has launched its own wine label -- the House of Mandela. WSJ's Charles Passy discusses the new enterprise with Nelson Mandela's daughter and granddaughter, Makaziwe and Tukwini.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- While New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleges massive fraud in mortgage-backed securities in a lawsuit filed this week, he's not criminally prosecuting anyone.
Described as a template for more lawsuits to follow, the move signals that Wall Street players won't face state prison for packaging and selling the troubled investments that nearly brought the U.S. economy to its knees. The felony statute of limitations under New York's Martin Act against securities fraud is five years, so it's too late to bring a criminal case.
The civil suit claims misconduct by Bear Stearns & Co. in 2006-2007 cost investors $22.5 billion in losses and left them holding an additional $30 billion in bad loans. The suit filed Monday names Bear Stearns successor JP Morgan Chase, which says it will contest the allegations.
"The statute of limitations is an issue we expect to be in dispute in the litigation," Schneiderman said in describing the civil suit, noting that even then, it's six years under the Martin Act. That also puts pressure on his office to bring cases soon against other investment banks for actions that led to the 2008 market crash.
His office has a so-called tolling agreement with the defendants in this case, waiving their right to dismiss otherwise time-barred matters, Schneiderman said. At issue is conduct dating back to 2005, he said.
The complaint alleges that Bear Stearns failed to properly evaluate pools of mortgages, ignoring their defects and misleading investors by claiming they maintained due diligence and quality controls _ in order to satisfy big mortgage lenders and meet demand in overheated financial markets that eventually imploded.
"All of these representations were false and misleading," Schneiderman said. "We also contend that their conduct as alleged in the complaint was essentially a scheme to fraudulently conceal from the investors the gross defects of dysfunctionality in their due diligence and quality control systems."
The lawsuit, seeking disgorgement of illicit profits and damages to recoup investor losses, was the first filed under the auspices of the working group established by President Barack Obama to investigate and prosecute alleged misconduct that contributed to the financial crisis. Schneiderman is co-chairman of the group. A Martin Act criminal conviction would carry up to four years in prison.
JPMorgan said the complaint "is entirely about historic conduct" by Bear Stearns, which it acquired in 2008 at the behest of the federal government, and that the executives of the former company criticized in the complaint are gone now. Schneiderman's complaint relied on "recycled claims" made by private plaintiffs and none of those lawsuits have been settled, the company said.
"We intend to contest these allegations," JPMorgan spokeswoman Jennifer Zuccarelli said. The company is cooperating with members of Obama's working group and couldn't confirm any numbers about losses in Schneiderman's complaint, she said. "We plan to live up to obligations under deal documents," she said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state attorney general from 2007 to 2010, also didn't prosecute Bear Stearns. Spokesman Richard Bamberger said at the time the office was looking into it, federal prosecutors asked the attorney general to cooperate with their ongoing criminal investigation. "The attorney general's office respected that request," he said.
In 2009, U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell in Brooklyn prosecuted two Bear Stearns executives, accusing them of fraud and conspiracy for allegedly lying to investors about the subprime mortgage market. Both were acquitted. One juror said they were "scapegoats for Wall Street."
Campbell, now a partner and white-collar defense lawyer at a Manhattan firm, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said there have been no other Bear Stearns prosecutions since. He said the statute of limitations on those federal fraud and conspiracy charges is five years.
Both Cuomo and his predecessor as state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, the so-called "sheriff of Wall Street," made headline-grabbing civil settlements over a decade by alleging wrongdoing in financial markets under New York law. They settled for reform agreements and sometimes money without sending anyone to prison.
In 2008, Cuomo got from the three biggest ratings agencies agreements meant to end inflated investment ratings for mortgage-backed securities. Those securities had already collapsed, and the agencies weren't rating any new ones. The next year he pressured AIG executives to return bonuses after the company received $170 billion in government bailout money.
Spitzer reached a $100 million settlement with Merrill Lynch & Co. in 2002 and a year later helped reach a $1.4 billion "global settlement" involving several state and federal regulators with Wall Street's biggest brokerages. They alleged that analysts inflated ratings, getting agreements to change practices.


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Sometimes it's not about the Oscars -- news from Hollywood that is. In spite of what you read in the tabloids, this isn't the land of celebs running all over town in their Bentleys, charging whatever they want on Rodeo Drive. It's actually a town where one in seven people live under the poverty line. It's a town where over 60,000 individuals struggle daily with HIV/AIDS. It's a town, where in spite of whatever the Kardashians are cooking up next, has seen its median income drop nearly $4,000 between 2007 and 2010, to a pretty impossible to live on here amount of $52,384. This number, coupled with the fact that Los Angeles County has the highest amount of uninsured individuals in the State of California, makes you wonder how anyone can even afford to attend the Oscars.
As a city, we have always accepted a high unemployment rate of our most famous working stiffs -- the actors. AFTRA-SAG states that its typical unemployment rate hovers around 85%, making living on unemployment a way of life for most. However, when those actors work, they rarely make less than $1000 a day, which is more than the rest of the town sees in a month. Los Angeles heralded in 2013 an unemployment rate of 11.3%.
I left Hollywood to attend law school in a section of Los Angeles we call Koreatown. It's not unusual for me to head home after classes, only to find the Los Angeles Police Department has blocked off streets because some person decided it was important to run around the city pointing a gun at people.
I left Hollywood because of all of the social ills it attempts to address at those big awards dinners but really don't make a dent in. I left Hollywood because people need healthcare way before they need an Oscar.
My favorite Hollywood story involves an Oscar and healthcare. Hilary Swank was getting a prescription filled three weeks after she won her first Oscar -- only to find out she was not covered by her union's insurance any longer. The movie that made her famous also made her broke (initially, of course). She didn't make enough from Boys Don't Cry to qualify for SAG health insurance. The ultimate of ironies -- she can get meetings everywhere in town -- that is except a doctor's office.
I, too, have attended my share of Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys. Regardless of the name, they are all basically the same. A room filled with people who love each other that night -- but can barely talk to each other the next day.
I have even had clients win those trophies and -- best part -- say my name on television during their speech (validation is wonderful and rare in this town). I thought nothing could make me happier than those times.
I was dead wrong.
Last week, during my work as a law clerk at the Inner City Law Center, I found out. My client, a disabled American Veteran, who is also HIV positive, was living in a housing project for people with HIV/AIDS -- with bed bugs. The man was forced to sleep on a futon in the living room because the bugs had caused sores all over his arms and legs.
Sounds like just another night at the Oscars, right?
On Friday, I heard, probably, one of the most beautiful statements I had heard in a very long time. My client told me that because of my work, he going to be sleeping in his own bed that night.
It gave me great pause. Something I take so very much for granted -- being able to sleep in my own bed -- this man was denied. And now, because I merely made a well-placed phone call -- he was able to claim that territory as his own again.
I doubt more beautiful words were ever spoken before at any awards ceremony in this town filled with contradictions.


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My Mom used to make these cookies when I was a child. I remember calling them "Snowballs" instead of "Russian Teacakes". They are also called "Mexican Wedding Cakes". This recipe comes from the old Betty Crocker cookbook. I am talking about the old, old, old one. I think that it was printed in the early 70s. All I know is that my Mom still has the book & it is in pieces. She was nice enough to make copies of my favorite recipes for me a few years back. I didn't have to do much to modify this recipe to be gluten-free.
What I did:
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
2 1/4 cups GF Flour Mix (I used Carol's Sorghum Mix)
1 1/2 tsps Xanthan Gum
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts (I used walnuts)
Heat oven to 400. Mix thoroughly butter, sugar, egg & vanilla. Work in flour, salt & nuts until the dough holds together. Cover & chill for 30 minutes or so. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until set, but not brown. I only needed to keep them in for 10 minutes. I use an oven thermometer to keep an eye on the temperature in my oven. Let cookies cool slightly – 5-10 minutes. While still warm, roll cookies in powdered sugar. Set on cooling rack to complete cooling. Roll again in sugar once they are cool.
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They kids loved these! The best thing about these cookies is they freeze well. I froze most of these so that I can have a nice assortment of cookies for Christmas.
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US Treasurys have been a great ride for the past half a decade, but for those starving for yield, the end of the line may be here.
"Investors have become frustrated because the returns to savers from conservative investments like Treasurys have become negligible," said Larry Luxenberg, a financial planner in New City, N.Y. "In some cases, returns are even negative."
That's right.
Some investors "have scared themselves into demanding higher negative returns," said Aaron Skloff, CEO of Skloff Financial Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J.
He notes, for example, that some banks charge fees "simply to maintain an account, more than wiping out the miniscule yields they offer."
Skloff also notes that adjusting for current and expected inflation rates, developed-market government bonds (like U.S. Treasurys) provide negative yields to maturity.
Even yields on 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, TIPS, have been negative since the fourth quarter of 2011, implying that "investors are paying higher prices for the relative safety of these investments," Neuberger Berman said in a recent report on Treasurys.
Money market fundsare hardly the answer. They're yielding just a couple of basis points, according to Bankrate.com. Returns on CDs are only a shade better.
According to a recent commentary by Rick Rieder, BlackRock's, CIO for fundamental fixed income, "Investors will have to learn how to navigate shorter economic and market cycles, as well as contend with persistently lower rates, which are both likely to be hallmarks of the economic and investment landscape for some time to come."
So what's a fixed-income investor to do?
There's always municipal, corporate and sovereign debt, all of which are accessible through a variety of low-cost exchange traded funds.
"We've seen a lot of fund flows into high-yield corporate bond funds and emerging market bond funds, two real hot areas this year," said Miriam Sjoblom, associate director of fund analysis at research firm Morningstar.
Another popular area, she says, has been high-yield muni bond funds, which invest in lower-quality credits.
Muni bond funds in particular have been sturdy for two years, according to Morningstar, but some analysts say they may be too expensive now.
"There's been a ton of flows into municipal bond funds, and that's been driving the prices up, so returns have been good," Sjoblom said. "Munis now look pretty expensive. The yields are at all-time lows, so while there's some long-term merit to munis, investors should be cautious."
Nevertheless, Thornburg Investment Management, which holds several municipal-bond funds, generally thinks munis are a reasonable alternative today, and it is especially positive on revenue-type munis over general obligation bonds.
With respect to munis, "Investors should look particularly at their own tax rate and the tax-adjusted rates offered and compare them with alternatives in the taxable fixed-income market," said Lon Erickson, portfolio manager of fixed income at Thornburg.
The high-yield, or junk, bond sectorhas been an attractive pit stop recently for many investors.
"Despite a less-than-robust economy, the high-yield default rate has been a better-than-expected mere 2 percent for the trailing 12 months," said Skloff, referring to a new report from Fitch Ratings.
"Some managers are telling us that although the trend upwards in the high-yield sector is likely to be with us for some time, high-yield tends to experience losses in the short term," said Sjoblom. She noted, for example, that the Barclay Capital High-Yield Bond Index yielded 8.4 percent in early 2012, and currently yields around 7 percent.
"Already that index has gained 10.4 percent year to date," Sjoblom said. "You can only generate returns in excess of your income for so long."
And there's no shortage of corporate bonds, as companies take advantage of those low interest rates.
JP Morgan was among the big names to ply the market in August, selling $2.5 billion of 2 percent, five-year bonds, versus a quarter of 1 percent for two-year Treasury notes.
You can also get higher yields today in selected emerging markets. Some countries in Asia and Latin America, according to Morningstar, have healthier financial conditions and better prospects than the U.S., Japan or Europe.
Skloff said some emerging markets are good bets for bonds, even stocks, currently, "particularly if the recent strength in the U.S. dollar reverses," which would make U.S. exports cheaper on world markets.
In many of these fixed-income choices, you may get slightly higher yield today, but it comes with greater risk, Morningstar warned. "Already, many of these sectors look expensive," said Sjoblom.
"Whether this is a 'bond bubble' has yet to be determined," said Luxenberg, but some on Wall Street say get used to a new world of fixed income.
Said BlackRock Capital in a recent note: "Investors will have to learn how to navigate shorter economic and market cycles, as well as contend with persistently lower rates, which are both likely to be hallmarks of the economic and investment landscape for some time to come."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 140 diseños de 63 diseñadores freelance.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
The S From Hell
Posted by Rot at 6:37 PM
Labels: documentary, funny, video, youtube.com
2 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
Ha. Yeah, I remember this logo. Totally forgot about it, but once I heard the little tune that went with it, it all came back to me.
Now I have to go take my "special" medication to calm that musical echo in my head....
- May 24, 2013 at 7:18 PM
- Steve Ring said...
Now I know what I'll tell the FBI when they find the bodies.
- May 25, 2013 at 2:04 AM
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Tim Tebow has arrived. You know you've become a cultural force when a presidential candidate wraps himself in your aura and tries to, well, Tebow his way to the Republican nomination.
The only problem for Rick Perry is that an unorthodox style and a lot of praying may not be enough to turn him into a winner. But in the 13th and final GOP debate before the first nominating contest of the season – the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses – at least the Texas governor came out with a memorable line.
"Let me tell you, I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses," said Governor Perry, relating to the criticism that the Denver Broncos quarterback is "not playing the game right" but manages to win anyway.
Anyone hoping that Thursday night's debate in Sioux City, Iowa, would feature hail Mary passes and an electrifying finish was probably disappointed. The discussion mostly reworked familiar ground. There were testy moments, but not between the front-runners – former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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Mr. Romney played it safe and didn't go after Mr. Gingrich or anyone else after the $10,000 bet Romney offered Perry in the last debate unleashed a flood of mockery. Romney is letting his surrogates, TV ads, the other candidates, and debate questioners go after Gingrich on his perceived weaknesses.
Chris Wallace, one of the Fox News moderators, obliged by teeing up questions to Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum on Gingrich's $1.6 million consultancy with controversial mortgage giant Freddie Mac. The result was not Gingrich's best moment.
Gingrich has stated that he was an adviser to Freddie Mac, not a lobbyist. But Representative Bachmann zinged him on that.
"You don't need to be within the technical definition of being a lobbyist to still be influence-peddling with senior Republicans in Washington, D.C., to get them to do your bidding," Bachmann said. "And the bidding was to keep this grandiose scam of Freddie Mac going."
Gingrich asserted that Bachmann had it wrong – that his policy is to break up both Freddie Mac and its sister institution, Fannie Mae. And he repeated his argument that, in effect, because he was already rich he didn't really need the Freddie Mac money.
"I want to state unequivocally for every person watching tonight, I have never once changed my positions because of any kind of payment, because I – the truth is, I was a national figure who was doing just fine doing a whole variety of things, including writing best-selling books, making speeches," Gingrich said.
Given the accusations Romney has faced for being an out-of-touch rich man, Gingrich may also not want to flaunt his financial success.
Representative Paul, who is well-organized in Iowa and climbing in polls, also got off a memorable line against Gingrich on the government-financed mortgage giants: "Some people say if it goes to the extreme, it gets to fascism."
Romney had a less-than-flattering moment in the spotlight, when he was asked to explain flipflops on abortion, gay rights, and guns. Moderator Wallace cited a letter Romney wrote in 1994 to the pro-gay-rights Log Cabin Republicans, in which the then-Senate candidate promised to be a more effective leader in pushing for equal rights for gays and lesbians than the man he hoped to unseat, Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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If Paul scored points in decrying Gingrich's involvement with Freddie Mac, he walked on riskier ground when he played down the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. The isolationist-inclined congressman questioned the assertion that Middle East experts say Iran may be less than a year away from getting a nuclear weapon, and then raised the specter of another Iraq – right as the US has ended its long, controversial engagement there.
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The second day of the U.N.'s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Conference, July 3, opened much as the first day had closed: with a very delayed start. The issue, still, was the Palestinian demand—instigated by Egypt—to be included as full participants in the conference, which continued to meet staunch resistance from the U.S.
One U.S. delegate was reported to have said that the U.S. would never countenance any Palestinian effort to do an "end run"—meaning that the Palestinians have no interest in the conference and simply want to use it to work their way by degrees into full membership of the U.N. General Assembly.
The delegate acknowledged that if it came to a vote, the U.S. would likely lose, at which point it would walk out of the conference and break consensus to prevent the adoption of a treaty. As the U.S. has acknowledged in the past, that is the "nuclear option"—but as the deadlock dragged on, it seemed the U.S. might be compelled to use it.
Just before 6 p.m., the deadlock over the question of whether, or how, the Palestinians would participate in the U.N.'s ATT conference was settled.
With much shuffling of place cards, all the national delegations moved over two places, and—accompanied by huge knot of delegates and much picture taking—the delegations from the Holy See and Palestine moved from the back of the room (where, as observers of different types, they normally sit behind the alphabetically arranged national member-state dlegations) to the front, ahead of the A-nations like Afghanistan and Albania.
Ambassador Roberto Garcia Moritán, the conference president, then launched into business, making no allusion to what had happened, but giving a notably effusive and personal thank you to the Egyptian delegate and announcing the composition of the normally irrelevant Credentials Committee, which officially admits the various delegations and significantly included Egypt, Russia, and the U.S.
When Moritán recognized the Holy See, the outlines of the deal became clear: Both the Holy See and the Palestinians had gotten better seats, but neither of them was going to be recognized as full conference participants. The difference was that the Palestinians had evidently agreed to keep quiet and treat this as a victory, whereas the Holy See had not.
Its delegate made an angry speech, arguing that it had expected to participate as a full member in the conference, that it was not being allowed to do so, that this was an "egregious" failure that had seriously damaged its intention to become a state party to the ATT, and that it demanded to be a full participant in future conferences, where its participation as a mere observer at the ATT conference would not be a precedent.
The U.S. delegation accepted this arrangement, presumably, to avoid quitting the ATT conference. The U.S. was clearly concerned that if it had walked out, the conference would have continued and resulted in a treaty that did not incorporate U.S. concerns. Moreover, the U.S. also concerned that should the treaty process be scuttled, the nations supporting it could have done what they have done in the past: broken out of the U.N. structure entirely and crafted a treaty on their own. By staying in the room, the U.S. retains maximum leverage from its ability to veto the agreement at the end.
Unfortunately, the U.S. made a significant sacrifice in order to "stay in the room." Placing the Holy See and the Palestinians on the same level at the conference is a coup for the Palestinians. Currently the UN recognizes the Holy See is a "non-member state" observer, while the Palestinians are an observer "entity." The critical difference is that the Holy See is a recognized sovereign state even though it is not a UN member state, while the Palestinians are not. The Palestinians have hinted that, should their bid for full UN member state status fail, they would seek non-member state observer status. While this change would be mostly symbolic in terms of the privileges the Palestinians enjoy in Turtle Bay, it would undeniably represent General Assembly recognition of their claims of statehood and make it far easier for the Palestinians to gain membership in the UN specialized agencies.
By agreeing to treat the Holy See and the Palestinians as equivalents at the ATT conference, the U.S. has given tacit support to a future Palestinian bid for non-member state observer status. It is unlikely that maintaining a U.S. presence in the room is worth giving the Palestinians this benefit, especially since the final treaty is almost certainly to be ineffective at best, counterproductive at worst.