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Networks Accuse GOP of 'Partisan Standoff' After 'Rare Move' to Block Hagel Nomination
Following the failure of former Senator Chuck Hagel to receive enough
votes in the Senate on Thursday to be confirmed as defense secretary,
NBC, ABC, and CBS all immediately turned their ire on Republicans for
daring to object to President Obama's appointment.
On Friday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales fretted over the "partisan standoff." In the report that followed, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd mentioned Republican reasons for blocking the nomination, but brushed them aside as he concluded: "Ultimately, Hagel's issues with his former GOP colleagues are personal."
News reader Josh Elliot portrayed the temporary delay to Hagel's confirmation as an extraordinary measure on Friday's Good Morning America:
"A rare move in Washington....the first time such a vote has been
blocked for a cabinet nominee." (Actually not the first time, see Pelley
in next paragraph)
On Friday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Nancy Cordes similarly painted the Republican action as "a rare move." On Thursday's CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley worried to Cordes: "Cabinet nominations have only been stopped with filibusters three times in our history. Why did the Republicans take this step?"
After noting "questions about Hagel's record" and an effort to get more information on the Benghazi terrorist attack as reasons, Cordes settled on DNC talking points: "Democrats call it a fishing expedition, Scott, designed to embarrass both the White House and Hagel himself."
Amid all the media hand wringing over Hagel, they failed to mention that Democrats in the recent past did more than temporarily block a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, they voted him down. In March of 1989, the Democrat-controlled Senate vetoed President H.W. Bush's pick for the Defense Department, John Tower.
As much as the networks hyperventilated over GOP opposition to Hagel, they also made sure ward off any perception that Obama suffered a loss. On Thursday's World News, ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl declared: "Now, this is a delay for the President. It is a set back for the President, but it is not a defeat."
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams reassured viewers about Hagel's appointment: "This doesn't stop him, the nomination isn't dead." On Evening News, Cordes identically noted: "Hagel's nomination is not dead."
On CBS This Morning, Cordes voiced Democratic frustration over the delay: "Republicans say they probably will allow Hagel to get confirmed when they come back from recess. Democrats say if that's the case, why not just confirm him now?"
On World News, anchor Diane Sawyer lamented: "And still the nation waiting for a big appointment."
Here is a transcript of the February 15 report on Today:
NATALIE MORALES: A partisan standoff in Washington as Senate Republicans block a vote to confirm defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. NBC's chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd has the very latest. Good morning, Chuck.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Playing Defense; Senate GOP Blocks Vote on Nominee Chuck Hagel]
CHUCK TODD: Good morning, Natalie. Well, President Obama is standing by his embattled defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, as Chuck Hagel's former Senate Republican nominees [colleagues] put up that roadblock that was an attempt to not just kill the nomination, but also delay it.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The yays are 58. The nays are 40. One announced present.
TODD: With that Senate vote, Chuck Hagel came up short of a 60-vote filibuster roadblock that Senate Republicans demanded, delaying what could still be Hagel's eventual confirmation vote by at least two weeks. President Obama was emphatic in his defense of his embattled nominee.
BARACK OBAMA: Chuck Hagel, who richly deserves to get a vote on the floor of the Senate, will be confirmed as our defense secretary. It's just unfortunate that this kind of politics intrudes at a time when I'm still presiding over a war in Afghanistan.
TODD: Some Republicans want more time because they say Hagel hasn't provided enough information on speeches he gave in the last five years. Others say they want more information from President Obama about Benghazi, something the White House provided in this letter Thursday. But ultimately, Hagel's issues with his former GOP colleagues are personal.
JOHN MCCAIN: There's a lot of ill will towards Senator Hagel. Because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly and was very anti-his-own-party-and-people. People don't forget that.
TODD: One things folks should know is that Leon Panetta, the outgoing secretary of defense, is still secretary of defense and he said he will stay on until Chuck Hagel or anybody else is confirmed to replace him, Natalie.
MORALES: Alright, good to know. Chuck Todd in Washington. Thanks so much, Chuck.
Here is a transcript of the February 14 World News report:
DIANE SAWYER: And now, we head to Washington, because just this afternoon, the President was thrown a curve ball. He thought his Secretary of Defense nominee, former Senator Chuck Hagel, would be confirmed. But ABC's chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl tells us it didn't happen. What did, Jon?
JON KARL: Well, that's right, Diane. Today was the day the President hoped he would have a new Secretary of Defense, but Republicans blocked a straight up or down vote on his nomination. They don't like him for a lot of reasons, but their complaint today was they said he hadn't turned over enough information on his financial disclosure forms. Now, the White House is calling this delay unconscionable and the President in an online chat just a short while ago said, quote, "It's unfortunate that his kind of politics intrudes at a time when I am presiding over a war in Afghanistan and I need a Secretary of Defense." Now, this is a delay for the President. It is a set back for the President, but it is not a defeat. Even Hagel's strongest critic in the Senate, John McCain, says that he believes Hagel will be confirmed, just not quite as soon as the President hopes.
SAWYER: And still the nation waiting for a big appointment. Thank you so much. Jonathan Karl on the latest.
Here is a transcript of the February 14 Evening News report:
SCOTT PELLEY: President Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense has been blocked in the Senate tonight. In a rare move, Republicans are filibustering to prevent a vote on Hagel. Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes is following all the of this. Nancy.
NANCY CORDES: Scott, Hagel's nomination is not dead, but this does mean that Democrats cannot move forward with a vote to confirm him right now. They can try again after that week-long recess that [correspondent] Wyatt [Andrews] just mentioned, and Republicans have signaled that they might step out of the way then, but there's no guarantee.
PELLEY: Cabinet nominations have only been stopped with filibusters three times in our history. Why did the Republicans take this step?
CORDES: Well, some of them feel that this vote is being rushed, that they still have questions about Hagel's record and his suitability to be secretary of defense, while others just think that blocking this vote is their best leverage to try to get more information out of the White House about the Benghazi attacks last September. Democrats call it a fishing expedition, Scott, designed to embarrass both the White House and Hagel himself.
PELLEY: Nancy, thank you.

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Tron! Tron. It's a word that you mustn't say too many times, lest it become absurd. Avoid this danger by watching other people say the word in the most recent look at Tron Evolution, which I have posted below. In this informative video capsule the developers say stuff about Tron, and they do this because they know more about the game than we do, and wish to impart some of that knowledge. At least I hope they know more than we do, because otherwise the game is in big trouble. I also note that there's a chap over on GameTrailers calling for a boycott on this game because it isn't coming out on PC. His mistake is that it is coming out on PC, which makes that seem like a bad reason to boycott it. He does make a good point about Tron 2.0, though. I made some good points about it here, too. I'm not going to be boycotting anything, either, because I like the glowy colours.
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The Pastoral Ministry class in seminary was of uneven value. I think the professor tried to make it valuable, and he was a very genial and likable fellow. One thing he said has stuck in my mind ever since. So here's what we'll do. I'll tell you what he said, I'll warn you against taking the wrong point from it, then I'll tell you the good truth I keep from it.
The professor told us to picture the most absurd-looking man imaginable. He said something like that we should make him round in shape, put him in a bright green suit with a bright orange hat, and adorn the suit with a big flower, and the hat with a big propeller. That way, you can't possibly miss him.
Then he said to put the man in the front row.
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However, that is not the way I apply the exercise. I take it to mean that I should tether myself to reality, to my hearers. My goal is not to soliloquize the Word of God, to speak for my own amusement or edification or aggrandizement. My goal is to preach the Word, to communicate it.
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If I don't understand it, I fail. If I don't help them understand it to the best of my ability under God, I fail.
Beyond argument, God has done exactly this, hasn't He? That is what Calvin was talking about when he said that God "lisps with us as nurses are wont to do with little children." He did not mean that Scripture communicates error, but that all words from God to us are necessarily accommodated. The Infinite is speaking to the finite. How does He do it? Well, you have read the Book, right? What do you see? Narratives, legal documents, letters, parables, poems, songs, often featuring the most striking and arresting and inescapably bold figures and images and turns of speech that one could ever hope for. God, we could say, is all over the map in assuring that we can connect with His truth.
So, shouldn't we do the same?
Do I dumb it down? Sure, I have to — in order for me to understand it! Don't tell anyone, but that's my secret, in writing and in preaching: I'm very, very dim. (Not much of a secret, the reader might observe unkindly.) So that makes it easy. Once I understand it, I'm ready to explain it to anyone, whether by book, blog or sermon.
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Lucky Gallery Presents "Peephole Mysteries" and "ATTRACKTION"
Lucky Gallery Presents "Peephole Mysteries" and "ATTRACKTION"
Brooklyn-area art gallery will feature peephole installations by Hannah Kasper, a puppet-performance and art by STRINGS ATTACHED (Suzan Choy, Diana Ho, and Jess Ruliffson)
From September 12th to October 4th, Lucky Gallery will present "Peephole Mysteries" peephole installations by Hannah Kasper and a puppet-performance "ATTRACKTION" and art by STRINGS ATTACHED, a group of three artists, Suzan Choy, Diana Ho, and Jess Ruliffson.
Kasper's "Peephole Mysteries" is a series of small paintings within shoebox theaters. The viewer approaches the peephole on the gallery's wall and finds a view into a miniature world. The scale of the paintings, which are on blocks of wood, recalls the miniature and childhood, but the scenes depicted are more sinister than nostalgic. One view will depict a scene from a murder mystery. Another will show a room devastated by a natural disaster. The limited access of the peephole encourages each viewer to become a voyeur who completes the picture and imagines the narrative.
"When looking at images of interiors, it is hard to avoid comparing them to real rooms we have known, or to project ourselves into them and imagine how we might feel in their environment," says Kasper. "For me it is similar to the sense of escapism one encounters when absorbed in a film or novel. I find images of vacant rooms and objects that reflect on memory and absence intriguing because they create a stage for the viewer's thoughts."
STRINGS ATTACHED, "ATTRACKTION" is rumination on the Missed Connections listing on Craiglist that follows three narratives of individuals through the New York City subway system, as they spot and track objects of their desire. Featuring the journeys of a wayfaring minstrel, an imaginative but shy woman, and a helpful purple monster, the show takes the audience with our puppets on a rainy day train ride.
Choy, Ho, and Ruliffson will also feature artwork in Lucky Gallery based on the narratives of their performance "ATTRACKTION". Choy paints intimate portraits on small oval canvases that are simple and bold. Ho uses ink over coffee-stained doilies, because of its accidental nature, creates shapes that have potential to become meaningful imagery. The doilies serve as appropriate frames to these random occurrences of Missed Connections – decorative borders on cheap material, making something seemingly trivial appear to be more special. Ruliffson's embroidered drawings are a natural fit for Missed Connections, in response to seeing a stranger and then taking note of them and how those details fit into an intimate picture. These details including personal objects are transformed into small appendages that become part of the person.
Exhibition Dates: September 12, 2009 – October 4, 2009
Peephole Mysteries, Hannah Kasper Opening Reception: September 12, 6-9 PM
"Build Your Own Shoebox Theater" Workshop, hosted by Hannah Kasper: September 20, 2-4 PM
Art Reception and ATTRACKTION, Strings Attached (Artists Suzan Choy, Diana Ho, and Jess Ruliffson): September 27, 3-6 PM
Suzan Choy (STRINGS ATTACHED)
Suzan Choy was born in the Midwest and raised on the East Coast. As a child she had an unconventional and nomadic life traveling from state to state. Now as an adult she is influenced by the exploration of whimsical figures traveling through surreal environments. She also draws inspiration with the art of pattern making, repetition, and story telling. Currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York where she is enjoying summer rains and crisp winters.
Diana Ho (STRINGS ATTACHED)
While New York-based artist Diana Ho is perfectly harmless in person, her artwork has a much darker edge. She often blurs the line between seemingly dichotomous themes, producing a result that can be simultaneously disturbing and amusing. When she is not being a hermit in her studio, you may find her wandering to a puppet show while harmonizing with the song stuck in her head and reading the latest article on neuroscience.
Hannah Kasper
Hannah Kasper was born in New York in 1981. She received her MFA from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and her BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome. Her dreamlike paintings of vacant interiors could be taken from the pages of a mystery novel or from scenes of a film after the actors have left the set.
Exhibitions include Artnews Projects in Berlin, Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, EmergeD in Glasgow, GaleriBOX in Iceland, the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, GE World Headquarters in Connecticut and Matter in Brooklyn. She was recently artist-in-residence at the Gil-Society in Akureyri, Iceland. Hannah's studio is in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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Jess Ruliffson is a New York-based illustrator. Hailing from the deep south, she has a love for sweet tea and front porches. You can find her whistling on the sidewalks of Astoria, but most of the time she is drawing interesting things and making small messes in her studio, under the close supervision of her cat Pascal.
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Lucky Gallery is located at 176 Richards Street in the heart of Red Hook Brooklyn, New York. Lucky Gallery works with underrepresented and emerging artists looking for a venue to share creativity and ideas in a supportive environment. For information, please contact Laura Arena at email@example.com.
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ALEPPO, Syria—In late March, I arrived in Aleppo as the battle between rebels and regime forces for control of the city was in its 21st month, one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of Syria's civil war. The evening flight from Damascus aboard a small Russian-made, low-winged Yakovlev Yak-40 was uneventful, though many of the passengers' bags, including mine, were left behind because the plane couldn't carry all the weight. The real challenge was to get from Aleppo International Airport to the regime-held west side of the city.
The airport highway, a six-mile drive, wasn't an option because it cut through the city's rebel-held east. The only choice was a treacherous detour that skirted past battle zones. Bus passengers and a truck driver on that route had been wounded in mortar and sniper attacks just hours before, I was warned. So the driver turned off all lights and followed the faint tail light of the vehicle ahead of us, bringing me safely to a hotel on the west side about an hour later.
Aleppo is a city physically partitioned and a symbol of what Syria's civil war has become: a stalemate in which noncombatants pay the heaviest price. Since rebels began their assault here in July 2012, thousands of civilians have been killed or maimed, and hundreds of thousands have fled.
Pro-regime forces since last fall recaptured territory on the eastern and southern flanks of the city, allowing the regime to reopen supply lines to the central city of Homs and onward to Damascus.
The regime has stepped up aerial bombardment on the rebel-held east side since the start of the year. The United Nations, human rights groups and activists say those attacks have targeted residential areas, often with helicopters dropping crude but very destructive barrel bombs made from large drums packed with explosives and metal shards. Regime officials have said they are only bombing "terrorists," as they call the rebels. Many average Aleppans say they have suffered at the hands of both pro-regime and rebel forces, and they see little difference between the two sides.
I spent 10 days reporting on conditions in Aleppo from the regime-controlled side—I couldn't make it to the east because the only direct crossing, at the central neighborhood called Bustan al Qasr, was subject to frequent sniper fire. Throughout my time in the city, I was constantly reminded of the terrible physical dangers and dislocation its people must endure on a daily basis. From my hotel window, I could see and hear military jets and helicopters dropping bombs on the east side of the city almost every morning. On the west side, where I was, the talk was of the "hell's cannons," improvised rockets with canisters of gas attached to their tips, being lobbed by rebels on regime-controlled neighborhoods. I also saw the aftermath of such attacks.
Among the first people I met in Aleppo was Mohammad al-Akkad, the 52-year-old governor of the province. He is a senior member of the ruling Baath Party and a member of the local security committee. Portraits, busts and plaques of President Bashar al-Assad and his late father Hafez, who ruled Syria before him, adorn the corners of his office in city hall, an 18-story tower near one of the front lines.
But if he is the regime's public face in the city, he is also willing to make deals with various rebel factions to acquire essential goods if doing so means meeting the basic needs of its residents in a time of war. Before the regime opened the supply line to Damascus, he told me, he managed to procure 1,000 canisters of propane gas, used in Syria for cooking. To bring the rest of the canisters into the city's west, he had to give the rebels half.
"I collaborated with the devils to secure cooking gas, fuel and flour for the people," said Mr. Akkad. "My preoccupation is the civilians who have nothing to do with the war. I have relatives living in areas under the control of gunmen," he said, referring to the rebels.
Twice during the interview, he was interrupted by calls from the director of a power station located in the rebel-controlled countryside east of the city. Mr. Akkad said the director told him that rebels based at the facility were taking some equipment out. It was a violation of "an agreement we signed with them to spare the power station on the premise it's for all Syrians," he explained to me.
"Call the [military] commander in the area and tell him to bomb them," Mr. Akkad told the director.
After the interview, he drove me in a black SUV through the west side. He had allowed street vendors to set up shop in residential sections of the city. It was against the rules, he said, but many of these people were factory and business owners who had lost everything during the war.
We passed through one such area called Nile Street, where everything imaginable was for sale. Then I asked him to take me as close as possible to a front line, and we soon found ourselves in Khalidya, which faces the rebel-held neighborhood of Bani Zaid. Mr. Akkad congratulated a vendor for having opened a new kabob restaurant in the area. A few yards from the restaurant, I could see the front line: a heap of earth and debris dividing both sides. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion. People shouted that the area was being hit with mortars from Bani Zaid.
As we were leaving, Mr. Akkad spotted a man with a carton of fresh eggs. Where had he gotten them? he asked the man. They were from Al-Bab, the man said, a town east of Aleppo under the control of one of the most extreme rebel factions.
"Amazing, very resourceful," Mr. Akkad said. "May God protect you."
Aleppo abounds with stories of loss and separation, of resilience, resourcefulness and compromise in the madness of war. The people I met who were living or working near the front lines were of varying backgrounds, but it seemed they held in common the determination to try to go on with their lives in the midst of the mayhem.
Before the war, David Aslanian, a 60-year-old engineer, owned an industrial laundry business and sprawling car parts and repair facility. His sons-in-law, Hagop and Sevak, ran family-owned plastics and molds factories in Arqoub, an industrial zone on the northern side of the city.
The three men lost everything when their businesses and factories were either destroyed or looted during the fighting, Mr. Aslanian said.
Although regime forces regained control of Arqoub, the area still sits on one of the front lines, and few people have ventured back. For now, they make their living in the predominantly Armenian neighborhood of Azizya, at a sidewalk kabob stand that has become very popular for its grilled beef liver marinated in pomegranate molasses, where people can eat in if they choose.
A few tables and chairs are set against the backdrop of a tropical paradise painted on the wall by an artist friend. An old van painted in the same motifs is used to store refreshments and drinks. Mr. Aslanian said it is a refuge for him and his friends and former business partners and associates.
The war has deeply divided and polarized many Syrians of different backgrounds. The Christian minority in the country tends to support Mr. Assad, who like the regime's other most powerful figures hails from the Shiite-linked Alawite minority. Nearly all rebels fighting his regime are Sunni Muslims.
Mr. Aslanian, an Armenian Christian, and others told me they were trying to transcend these differences and salvage what's left of this city's social fabric.
When I spoke with him on a breezy, cool afternoon, he was sitting with his friend Abdul-Hamid Msadi, a Sunni Muslim Arab.
"Here or there, it's civilians who are being crushed," Mr. Aslanian said, referring to both sides of the city. "We come here and sit with our dear friends. We commiserate, laugh, cry a lot and then go home and sleep."
Ghassan Subaie, a 37-year-old Sunni, lives rent free with his wife and two children aged six and nine at a residence for Greek Catholic nuns in Jdaideh, a predominantly Christian area adjacent to the old quarter of Aleppo and on a front line. The nuns have moved out to a relatively safer part of the city.
Mr. Subaie was displaced from a neighborhood on the east side and lost his leather goods workshop on Hatab Square in Jdaideh.
"I have known the Greek Catholic priests for 25 years and they put me up at the residence when I told them that I have no money and need a place to live," said Mr. Subaie.
Like many Aleppans, Mr. Subaie sees no end in sight for the war and is desperate to leave. He has tried several times to reach Sweden, where many Syrians have gotten asylum. The last attempt was in May of last year when he travelled to the Turkish port city of Izmir. There, he said, smugglers promised to take him to Greece for $4,000. He arrived at the rendezvous site at midnight with his family. The boat, which can carry only 20 people, had 45 aboard already, he said.
"I said to myself 'we are going to drown for sure and my wife and children can't swim' so we went back," he said.
To keep busy and make some income, he rented a space near Jdaideh and set up a workshop making handbags. "Before I used to make 1,000 pieces a day for export to all Arab countries; now it's 50 a day just for the local market," he said.
He apologized for the sight of young boys at the workshop helping stitch handbags. "Normally this should not happen, but what to do? Most kids are out of school," he said.
Indeed, everywhere in Aleppo these days, young children can be seen working on the streets and in markets and shops. Many say they have been displaced by the war and have become breadwinners for their families.
Some of the displaced can be found in schools like Suleiman Khater elementary, which sits on the front line in Salahuddin, a working-class neighborhood on the southwestern side of the city. It was one of the first areas captured by rebels when they launched their offensive. Since then, the regime has retaken a small section of it.
Everything here is a reminder of war. Checkpoints prevent vehicles from entering the area for fear of car bombs. Several storefronts have been converted into military outposts. Mounds of earth, rusting barrels and large plastic sheets separate rebels from regime forces.
Principal Sobhi Abdul-Aziz told me that more than half of his nearly 1,300 students had been displaced from the rebel-held east.
The walls of his school are sprayed with bullet holes. Nearby are residential buildings with entire floors collapsed due to shelling and bombardment.
Syria's daily flag raising and national anthem ceremony is still mandatory at all schools in regime-held parts of the country, but Mr. Abdul-Aziz said he skips the ritual in order not to antagonize rebels hunkered down a few yards away. He also limits the time children spend in the courtyard, fearing they may be caught in the crossfire.
"We are trying to make kids forget guns," the 55-year-old said. "Our goal is to try to save an entire generation from being completely lost."


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GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said he will have a very direct message for government shutdown figures Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) when the three men meet at a weekend fundraiser in Richmond.
"I'm certainly going to push them to finish this as quickly as they can," said Cuccinelli. "I don't think the shutdown should have ever happened."
Cuccinelli was in Fairfax Friday to hold a roundtable with doctors focused on the program at the heart of the shutdown, the Affordable Care Act.
Cuccinelli is fiercely opposed to the program but now says forcing a shutdown as a way to try to dump "Obamacare" was wrong.
Cuccinelli's position was called into question during last week's debate, when he said he was opposed to the idea of a federal government shutdown, but stopped short of criticizing GOP figures who were encouraging the standoff.
But this week, he made his position more clear.
"Strangling government to do this is not an appropriate course to go," said Cuccinelli in Richmond.
In Fairfax the next day, he told News4's Julie Carey, "This is not way to run a government and especially a superpower."
Cuccinelli said the federal government should reopen and then Republicans can continue efforts to dismantle or delay the Affordable Care Act.
Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe hammered Cuccinelli earlier in the week as he toured a Vienna area government contractor, forced to send half of it's workforce home because of the shutdown.
"My opponnet Ken Cuccinelli ought to do same thing Gov. Bob McDonnell has done," said McAuliffe. "We need to come together. We cannot use the federal government budget as a bargaining chip in this tea party idealogical war and he needs to tell his allies in congress to stop it."
Both gubernatorial campaigns have made the shutdown the focus of new television ads.
Cuccinelli launched a TV spot early this week suggesting McAuliffe as governor would cause a state government shutdown if lawmakers didn't back Medicaid expansion -- something McAuliffe supports.
McAuliffe calls that charge false.
"We'd never shut the government down. It's about working together," McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe has fired back in TV and radio ads, reminding voters of Cuccinelli's past support of Sen. Ted Cruz and his plans to join Cruz this weekend.


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CFCA staff members in Kansas City took a symbolic walk of solidarity on Dec. 29, the same day that the 8,000-mile Walk2gether started in Guatemala.
Approximately 60 employees met in the community room at 9 a.m. to hear a report about the launch of Walk2gether, pray for the safety of the walkers and then make a short walk of solidarity.
Because a pre-Christmas blizzard left high snow drifts and dangerous ice on sidewalks, the walk was held inside instead of outdoors as originally planned. The Kansas City walkers followed a mile-long route marked by yellow boot prints inside the warehouse that is part of the CFCA headquarters.
The walk in Kansas City occurred at about the time the Guatemala walkers, led by CFCA President Bob Hentzen, were scheduled to make their first stop for breakfast. They began at about 4 a.m. and were due to walk 24 miles on the first day of the journey.
Other CFCA projects and employees held their own symbolic events for the Walk2gether kick-off.
At the Monrovia project in Liberia, staff and sponsored members spent the day volunteering at community hospitals.
In Ecuador, the Guayaquil project hosted solidarity walks 10 kilometers in length in areas where they have sponsored members.
The Bluefields subprojects in the northeast corner of Nicaragua will have a night vigil, where families, sponsored members and staff will join together in prayer. Throughout the duration of the walk, they will hold morning prayers and ask God to give both physical and spiritual strength to the walkers and to all of the families who will accompany them on this journey.
One employee, Jerry Gladbach of the Child Services department in Kansas City, made his own show of support for Walk2gether. He strapped cleats onto winter boots and walked 1-1/2 miles to work over snow and ice.
"I'm trying to be in solidarity with the walkers," Gladbach said.
During the community meeting in Kansas City, CEO Paco Wertin led a prayer of blessing for the walk and its participants.
"Bob's walk of unity unites all cultures, genders and creeds," Wertin said. "It's a way that helps us hear the cry of those living in poverty. He is carrying a message that you are not alone. Because they walk, we walk."
Visit Walk2gether.org to learn more about why Bob is walking.
You can also send messages of support and encouragement that Bob will share with the families of sponsored members and the CFCA staff in the communities he visits.


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Liam Duke - 19 yo, BT Rating=26,095
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler. He is a defensive player with worthless leadership skills and woeful experience.
He currently has superb batting form, superb bowling form and lively fitness.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: competent Concentration: strong
Bowling: quality Consistency: competent
Fielding: mediocre
Got him on 1 bowling, 1 fielding and one keeping net. Does anyone have any ideas to close the gap between his bowling and consistency
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California's budget negotiations moved from behind closed doors to a very public arena on Wednesday, with a budget showdown looming on Friday.
Democratic leaders are pushing ahead on a revised spending plan that avoids hundreds of millions of dollars in spending cuts that Gov. Jerry Brown believes are needed. But they insisted to reporters that they're not trying to jam the governor by sending him a plan that is veto bait.
"We don't want to see a veto. We think we can work this out," Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said at a news conference Wednesday.
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Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles) are holding firm on preserving roughly $400 milllion in spending for welfare, child care, and in-home health care for the poor and elderly.
Both Democrats said they're not calling out the governor, and insisted that their latest budget plan would be structurally balanced.
"We are continuing to talk and negotiate with the governor," Steinberg said. "We are standing for what we've always stood for."
Today's tactics -- negotiating with Brown and putting him on notice through the news media -- provide a window into the stakes involved.
Lawmakers plan to stage floor votes on the latest budget plan on Friday, in time to meet a key deadline. If they don't submit a budget by then, a state law would kick in that allows their pay to be docked.
Brown can always veto the measure if he doesn't like it. But that could come with a political cost.
If he vetoes the budget, he could insist on deeper cuts and structural reform. That would give him the ability to tell voters he is insisting on accountability, which is crucial to his argument in favor of raising taxes in a ballot initiative next November.
But a veto could also backfire, cementing in the public's eye the idea that California government is dysfunctional. And that could spell doom for the tax measure.
Brown was elected in part on his self-described image as a source of wisdom; the adult in the room who would have the gravitas to enforce discipline on an unruly process.
Whatever he decides about the budget, it will be soon. And the ramifications will echo to November.
Author Kevin Riggs, an Emmy-winning former TV reporter in Sacramento, is Senior Vice President at Randle Communications.
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WASHINGTON — Nine years ago, John Edwards had this to say about Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair: "I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter."
On Friday, after nearly a year of denials, Edwards confessed he'd committed his own "serious error in judgment" as he was preparing to run for president, an affair in 2006 that he said he admitted to his wife but had hoped to keep from the public.
"In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic," Edwards said in trying to explain his behavior.
Six months ago, Edwards was among 10 presidential contenders asked about marital fidelity.
"It's fundamental to how you judge people," Edwards told CBS News.
Edwards declared his presidential candidacy in December 2006. His wife was at his side that day and campaigned enthusiastically with him and by herself in the months that followed. She announced in March 2007 that her cancer, formerly in remission, had returned and there apparently was no cure.
She and her husband said it was important for the campaign to continue.
Edwards dropped out midway through this year's primaries after it became apparent he could not keep up with front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. He recently endorsed Obama and has been mentioned as a possible running mate.
He was John Kerry's running mate in 2004 when Kerry lost to President Bush.
In his statement Friday, he said, "It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry.
"If you want to beat me up feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help."
In an interview for Friday night's "Nightline" program on ABC, Edwards admitted he had had the affair with a woman who produced videos for his campaign.
Though acknowledging a sex scandal he had dismissed as "tabloid trash" only last month, Edwards denied fathering a daughter, born to the woman, and he offered to be tested to prove it.
The former North Carolina senator, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004, confessed to ABC News that he had lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter. Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born on Feb. 27 this year, and no father's name is given on the birth certificate filed in California.
Fred Baron, Edwards campaign finance chairman and longtime confidante, told NBC News he has been providing financial assistance to both Hunter and Andrew Young, a former campaign staff member who professes to be the father.
'Serious error judgment'
After the story broke Friday, Edwards released a statement that said, "In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake, and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public."
"I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices," he said. "With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006, and today I take full responsibility publicly."
The National Enquirer first reported on the affair in October 2007, in the run-up to the Democratic primaries.
"The story is false," he told reporters then. "It's completely untrue, ridiculous." He professed his love for his wife, who had an incurable form of cancer, saying, "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."
Last month, the Enquirer carried another story — the blaring headline referred to an Edwards "love child" — stating that its reporters had accosted Edwards in a Los Angeles hotel where he had met with Hunter after her child's birth. Edwards called it "tabloid trash," but he generally avoided reporters' inquiries, as did his former top aides.
He said in his statement Friday he had "used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it," and he called that "being 99 percent honest."
Tabloid is correct
In the ABC News interview, scheduled to air Friday night, Edwards said the tabloid was correct when it reported on his meeting with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month.
A number of mainstream news organizations had looked into the adultery allegations but had not published or aired stories. But newspapers in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., recounted the Enquirer's allegations in prominent articles on Thursday.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
The Edwardses have three children — Cate, Jack and Emma Claire. Another son, Wade, died at 16 in a 1996 car accident.
Slideshow: Edwards' public life David Bonior, Edwards' campaign manager for his 2008 presidential bid, said he was disappointed and angry at Friday's news.
"Thousands of friends of the senator's and his supporters have put their faith and confidence in him, and he's let them down," said Bonior, a former congressman from Michigan. "They've been betrayed by his action."
Asked whether the affair would damage Edwards' future aspirations in public service, Bonior replied: "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."
CBS News chief White House correspondent Bob Schieffer spoke to John and Elizabeth Edwards on Friday afternoon. Schieffer reported that when Elizabeth got on the phone, "she was obviously in tears" and that she said "this is really, really tough," but she confirmed Edwards told her about the affair in 2006 and the couple had decided to "move on." When Schieffer asked John Edwards how his wife was doing, he said "she is just amazing, like she always is."
'We have to do it'
In 2006, Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Hunter, who directed the production of four Web videos showing Edwards in supposedly candid moments as well as in a public speech talking about morality.
The payments from Edwards' One America Committee to Midline Groove Productions LLC started on July 5, 2006, five days after Hunter incorporated the firm in Delaware.
Midline provided "Website/Internet services," according to reports that Edwards' PAC filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Midline's work product consists of four YouTube videos showing Edwards in informal settings as he prepares to make speeches in Storm Lake, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, as he prepares for an appearance on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and travels in Uganda in 2006.
Edwards' PAC followed the six-figure payment with two smaller payments totaling $14,461, the last on April 1, 2007.
At the time Hunter was compiling the videos in 2006, Edwards was preparing his run for president.
Episode One of the four videos shows a conversation between Edwards and an unseen woman as the two chat aboard a plane about an upcoming speech in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Cutting between clips of the speech and the conversation with the woman, Edwards touches on his standard political themes, declaring that government must do a better job of addressing the great issues of the day, from poverty and education to jobs and the war in Iraq.
"I want to see our party lead on the great moral issues — yes, me a Democrat using that word — the great moral issues that face our country," Edwards tells the crowd. "If we want to live in a moral, honest just America and if we want to live in a moral and just world, we can't wait for somebody else to do it. We have to do it."
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Hi all, its being a complete year since the last time i heard about you guys, how you have being doing whit the project ?
Any Visual updates that you can give to us that we might can chew on ?
How you all being doing ?
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Hi all, its being a complete year since the last time i heard about you guys, how you have being doing whit the project ?
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Posted 28 May 2015 - 10:08 AM
i think the dream is over. we all have very busy lives and unfortunately cant give the project the time that it deserves
We have fond memories of the interstate games. for me nothing touches i76
forum has been here since 2006 and we have been working on and off since then, switched multiple game engines.
ill leave you with a track that was written for the game
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I still check in every now and then and I think most of us keep in touch via facebook and whatnot, but yeah, the project is done. Unless I happen to win the lotto, then it's game on! Hahah. Looks like you managed to friend me. Hope all is well!
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done as in dead sorry mate, unless we win the lotto.
i remember reading some written interstate based stories from back in the day, perhaps if someone can dig them up might be at least something you can gain from us.
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Android was a track that was going to be part of the project, Ignition would have fitted in quite nicely aswell
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think its more the time than the $, the $ was a factor though
we could share a few things that were done with it but i fear that would risk getting your hopes up. I think its time to let it go, sorry to disappoint,
some stories to help ease your pain
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A little while ago we ran a survey asking what information people find most useful on the LACMA website. Based on the way we put the question I expected a strong showing from "hours and directions," but it finished fifth, well back of "artworks," which won going away. "Let your art flourish on the site," wrote one respondent. "What do people want?" asked another. "Images."
Well, O.K. Images it is.
Today we introduce new web pages featuring more than 800 images of LACMA artworks. Each of the 22 collection subdivisions—areas of specialty spanning time and geography—gets a new page, with close-ups and full images of signature works, plus collection-specific Unframed posts, image browses, events, and video.
Image fans should also give the new all-collection landing page a look. In addition to an image grid providing links to the collection specialties and a rather dashing alphabetical sampling of artists in the collection, there is remix. Think of remix as a curated tag cloud—we've put together hundreds of sets featuring three images from the collection and a word or phrase that unites them.
People from all across the museum contributed remix sets and we invite you to do the same. Just email us a word or phrase, and enough information to identify three corresponding images from our collection, and we'll put them together and add them to the cloud. The phrase should be, oh, say, one to five words. Be warned though. Inventing remix sets can be addictive. After sending several rounds of wonderful remixes (see "Spying," "Jealousy," "Money"), one of my colleagues decided that was enough because, as she said, "my brain likes this too much."


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Boeing reclaims No. 1 role with 2012 successes
The hiring boom at Boeing reflects a victory the company hasn't tasted for years: For the first time in a decade, it should end 2012 as the world's No.1 airplane maker, both selling and delivering more jets than Europe's Airbus.
By Dominic Gates
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Laenia Jackson works on the wing edge of a 787 Dreamliner at Boeing's assembly line in Everett. Production is up to 5 of the jets a month.
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Laenia Jackson works on the wing edge of a 787 Dreamliner at Boeing's assembly line in Everett. Production is up to 5 of the jets a month.
Boeing's 2012 by the numbers
Deliveries: Boeing aims to deliver more than 585 jets in 2012. Its total as of Dec. 21 includes 43 Dreamliners.
Only two airplanes rolled out in South Carolina, the rest in Everett and Renton.
The previous highest delivery total from the Puget Sound-area assembly plants was 565 jets in 1999.
Sales: Boeing booked firm orders for 1,121 jets as of Dec. 21, second only to the 2007 all-time-high order total of 1,413.
Employment: Boeing added almost 5,000 jobs in Washington state, raising employment here to nearly 87,000, the highest total since 1999.
Source: Boeing
2012 production ramp-up
737: From 31.5 jets a month to 35 (going up to 38 in spring)
747: From 1.5 jets per month to 2
777: From 7 jets a month to 8.3
787: From 2 jets per month to 5
Source: Boeing
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Fourteen months, ago Nikolay Konstantinov worked at a discount tire store. Now he helps bolt together the rear and center sections of massive 777 jets.
"This is a lot more interesting than slugging around tires," said Konstantinov, 29, the giant fuselage looming just over his head in Boeing's Everett factory. "My girlfriend thinks this is really cool."
Working at Boeing, he added, "people that take it seriously can achieve a lot."
Nearby, inside the passenger cabin of a nearly completed Dreamliner, Ralph Williams Jr. showed three younger employees how to mend some minor scratches, and gave them an equally upbeat take on prospects at the company.
"Even though the initial pay is not huge, you have opportunities," said Williams, 47, who hired on in March after his general-contracting business fell victim to the recession. "You can make a lot of money at Boeing."
The company's hiring boom and the enthusiasm of its new employees reflect a victory Boeing hasn't tasted for years.
For the first time in a decade, it should end 2012 as the world's No.1 airplane-maker, both selling and delivering more jets than Airbus.
Boeing expects to deliver at least 585 commercial jets this year.
That's its highest total ever, excluding 1999, when last-of-the-line McDonnell Douglas jets rolling out of Long Beach, Calif., bumped up its deliveries.
In mid-December, the order total for the year reached 1,121 airplanes, second only to the all-time sales record of 2007.
More growth — and hiring — is expected in 2013.
The outlook for Boeing is clouded only by persistent industry worries over the company's strategy for the future.
Is the Airbus A320neo narrowbody jet already eclipsing Boeing's 737 MAX, years before either jet flies?
With a shrinking order book for its new 747-8, will Boeing have to cut production of that jumbo jet?
Is Boeing's corporate management reluctant to spend money to develop crucial new widebody jets?
Will Boeing's engineers and technical workers strike early in the new year and shut down production?
Boeing marketing executive Randy Tinseth, proclaiming 2012 "a very good year," swats away those unresolved questions.
Tinseth said next year will see significant progress on future jet programs, starting with the 737 MAX and the 787-9 but also including the important, still-to-be-launched 787-10 and 777X derivatives of its twin-aisle jets.
He expects the 747 market to slowly improve and said there's no plan to cut production "at this time."
As for that potential strike, Boeing officials insist that despite dire warnings from the union, the engineering workers can come to an agreement with the company in January.
Barring a major shock such as a strike, the production surge inside Boeing's factories will buoy Washington state's job growth for the foreseeable future.
The jet-maker added almost 5,000 new jobs in Washington state in 2012, on top of 8,300 the year before.
That lifted Boeing's in-state workforce to just shy of 87,000 — the highest total since 1999.
The increase cushioned hits elsewhere: When the Kimberly-Clark paper mill closed in Everett this year, 700 people lost their jobs. Boeing hired 165 of them.
The 777 widebody-jet assembly line alone employs about 3,400 workers, 800 of them added this year as production ramped up to an unprecedented rate.
After a holiday lull this month, the hiring will pick right up again in the new year. An orientation class for 190 new mechanics begins Jan. 4.
Inside the factories
That class will go to work on assembly lines that flow faster and more smoothly than a year ago.
Larry Coughlin, a former Marine fighter pilot who directs 787 final assembly, said the Dreamliner, once a nightmare of out-of-sequence work, now "really goes together nicely."
That's because Boeing's major partners are finally delivering completed 787 sections — such as the flight deck from Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, Kan. — with almost all systems preinstalled.
"The flight deck is so done, the headsets are already hanging for the pilots," said Coughlin.
Boeing intends to double 787 production to 10 jets per month by the end of 2013.
In the assembly bay next to the Dreamliner line, mechanics in mid-December joined together the first 777 widebody built at the new rate of 100 jets per year, up from 84.
To reach that pace, Boeing lengthened the train that delivers parts from Spirit and shortened the time allotted to each assembly position in Everett.
Team leader Kevin Waters said the mechanics who build the 777 fuselage sections "tightened the tolerances on everything," ensuring a better fit.
That allowed the team that joins the airplane's big pieces together to shave their work time to 22 hours, down from 48 hours last year.
The production ramp-up is even more extreme at the Renton 737 narrowbody jet plant, about 40 miles to the south.
This spring, Boeing will bump up the rate there from the current 35 planes per month to 38 — just shy of completing two every workday.
Jets to come
Looking beyond this heady moment of all-time-high production rates, long-term prospects for this region's aerospace industry depend on Boeing's future jets, both narrowbody and widebody.
Boeing earned its sales victory over Airbus this year on the strength of stellar sales of a new version of its narrowbody jet, the 737 MAX. It features new fuel-efficient engines and is to enter service in 2017.
As of mid-December, Boeing had sold 969 MAXs and will certainly make its target of 1,000 orders by year-end.
And yet, however successful the MAX has been, the rival A320neo from its European competitor has been more so.
The Airbus neo program, which launched nearly eight months before the MAX, broke sales records last year and to date has outsold Boeing's offering by more than 680 firm orders.
Mid-December, in Airbus' latest coup, Pegasus Airlines of Turkey ordered 75 neos, becoming the first all-Boeing 737 customer to make a complete defection.
So far then, the war over future narrowbody jets is playing out in Airbus' favor.
Still, Boeing insists it can catch up. Look for plenty of MAX orders in 2013, said Tinseth.
In the competition for widebody-jet supremacy, it's Boeing that has a head start with its 787 Dreamliner. The plane has 844 cumulative orders as of mid-December.
Airbus challenge
Long term, Airbus sales chief John Leahy is depending on his company's new widebody in development — the all-composite plastic A350 — to counter not only the 787 but also the larger 777.
The largest variant, the A350-1000, to come out in 2017 after two smaller A350 models, is designed to fly the same missions as today's 777 while burning 25 percent less fuel.
Leahy said that launching the A350-1000 earlier — ahead of the smaller and so far unpopular A350-800 — is "definitely a possible alternative."
The timing of Boeing's response to the A350 threat remains opaque.
In early 2012, Jim Albaugh, Boeing's commercial-airplanes chief at the time, said he hoped to ask the Boeing board by the end of the year for authority to sell both a bigger Dreamliner, the 787-10, and an enhanced 777 with new engines and a composite plastic wing, the 777X.
With zero fanfare, the board granted authority to offer the 787-10, though it gave no subsequent sign of when it might formally launch the program.
Meanwhile, the 777X program went completely quiet.
The expectation now is that Boeing may delay the launch of the 787-10 until the Paris Air Show in June, with the 777X coming even later.
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Aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group worries that Boeing corporate in Chicago is turning its focus — as it did in the early 2000s — to rewarding investors through share buybacks and dividend payments, instead of investing its cash in new jet programs.
"I'd be scared of a return to the bad old days," said Aboulafia. "If there's anybody helping the A350 now, it's Boeing."
Airbus' Leahy says Boeing won't be able to match his A350-1000 until around 2022.
"It'll take them that long to come up with technology that'll be competitive," he said.
But Adam Pilarski, aviation analyst with consulting firm Avitas, said Boeing's slowdown of the 777X is simply prudent, because Airbus' A350 concept may yet shift.
Though Leahy denies it, many believe the A350-800 could eventually be canceled; meanwhile, the larger A350-1000 design may have to be fine-tuned.
"Why play your cards too early?" Pilarski said about Boeing.
Boeing's Tinseth said that despite any slippage in launch announcements, and contrary to Leahy's opinion, the company's two pending jets will still reach the market on schedule.
"We're still focused on both the 787-10 and 777X to enter service late this decade," said Tinseth.
Because the 777 is built in Everett, the 777X jet will certainly be assembled there. The big question is whether its new carbon composite wing will also be built locally.
It's unclear if we'll get the answer to that in 2013.
On the 787-10, a key detail for people in the Puget Sound region is whether that jet might be assembled only at Boeing's North Charleston, S.C., site, which this year delivered its first airplanes (two Dreamliners, as of Dec. 20).
It's possible the longer fuselage sections of the 787-10 may be too big to fly across the continent from the South Carolina fabrication plants where they are put together.
Questions about the ultimate role of the North Charleston assembly complex go further.
While the immediate future of aerospace manufacturing here was assured last year when Boeing anointed Renton to build the 737 MAX, North Charleston will surely be in the running for whatever new jet is developed in the mid-2020s to replace the MAX.
South Carolina growth
This month, in a sign of major future expansion, Boeing began talks with South Carolina officials on options to buy land adjacent to its current 265-acre site. It appears interested in property that could expand its footprint to 1,073 acres.
For now, there is more than enough work for both Boeing sites.
Provided Boeing's management can come to terms with its engineering union in January, jets will continue to fly out of its Puget Sound-area facilities at a record pace in 2013.
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I wonder how much a Certified one would be in a coupla years.
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drovemall Posts: 29Yeah - Im so happy that Subaru finally cut loose Saab the dying quail of the auto industry. The Saab is like a car without a country . The marketing is pure bs " born from jets" ha born from 40 Years of Subaru technology . Saab dosent know how good they had it with a reliable engine and driveline !!! sionara Saab its back to the drawing board for the only thing that remains about that car is the logo to be traded , swapped and sold to the lowest bidder. I cant wait to see what frankenstein car they come out with next. Should be good for a chuckle . at least they are not ruining the Subaru name anymore.0
You might want to hurry. Production stopped a long time ago.
I think that with the dwindling supply there won't be additional cash. I'd just go down to my local dealer, see what they have left, and start the negotiations at invoice minus all incentives.
As for the car, it is the exact same car as the Subaru Impreza, save for the front end.
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bigchief Posts: 6I went to the local SAAB dealer with the infamous $5000K deal and they started "laughing." They only made a very limited amount of the cars they told me and very few dealers actually had them. So Edmunds really needs to retract the "Best Deal of the Month!" I have heard of loss leaders but after checking around in some very major cities I heard the same story. It reminded me of the commercial where they tell you the car is only $25K and then you get down there and it is $35K and they never really made but one of the $25K cars for the entire country!0
dino001 Tampa, FLPosts: 5,591Well, I don't know the details, but it doesn't really surprise me. If it was a customer cash, they would have to hand it to the customer, but if it was a marketing support and there is one left... Perhaps a sucker shows up and half of the dealership will go to Hawaii Kinda game of chicken - who will budge first.
Most likely the cars simply aren't there, as they manufactured something like 2000 of them over the year.
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Yesterday I did some research in Southern California:
The discount on the 9-2X is now $6,000... there are three available in Saab of South Bay (Torrance, CA), one at Continental Motors (Oceanside, CA), as well as several at Lund Saab (Phoenix, AZ), including the very base model in black, out the door for $19,450. I was hoping for the discount to go up to $6,000, but now that it has, I don't know whether to buy one or to wait for a $7,000 discount!0
ateixeira Posts: 72,587Yeah, if it's a dealer incentive they don't necessarily have to give it to you, or even let you know about it. Some use the money for advertising, for instance.
qbrozen Posts: 26,805did you actually contact those dealers?
i thought maybe you found them with an online locator, but I have been unable to locate the locator. Is there one?
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I contacted four dealerships by phone. Three of them had 9-2Xs in stock.0
My bets are that the last of the 9-2Xs are at larger Saab dealerships like The Saab Exchange, Nxcess Saab,Jim Ellis Saab, or Lund Saab.(which someone says has 3) (I don't know if those are large Saab dealers, but I've heard of all of them, and the fact that they are no where near my house means that they must at least have a somewhat large internet presence)
My local Saab-Jaguar-Porsche-Audi dealer is completely out of the 9-2X. I don't even know if they ever carried the car. They have a handful of Saabs, and that's about it. They mostly carry Audis.
Does anybody know how resale is holding up on these things? With all the rebates, it might be better to go Certified-Pre-Owned in a few years...0
earlam Posts: 6I found a 9-2x aero at the local dealer. It seems like you get a better warranty on a CPO rather new, there should be some costs associated with that. Now the car is true one year old.0
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Longtime NHL defenseman Wade Belak, who spent much of his career with the Maple Leafs, was found dead at 35 today in his Toronto hotel, according to a report from QMI Agency in Canada.
Belak, who spent the past three years with the Nashville Predators, unofficially retired in March to work for Nashville in organizational roles. He did some broadcasting and front-office stuff.
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