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BOSTON -- After two days of heavy sedation, Erika Brannock awoke Wednesday morning in her hospital bed to dramatic and gruesome news: Her left leg had been amputated below the knee, the only medical option for a team of surgeons handling traumatic injuries from the Boston Marathon bombings.
The 29-year-old Towson preschool teacher took the news with courage, relatives said. Then, unable to speak because of a ventilator tube, she wrote out a simple message: She wanted to see photos of her students. She was worried about how they were taking the news of her injuries.
"She is really concerned about the children," her mother, Carol Downing, said Wednesday afternoon. "She misses them."
The separation of Brannock and her students at Trinity Episcopal Children's Center in Towson will last at least a month while she remains hospitalized, Downing said. After that, Brannock -- and the dozen other Boston bombing victims who were robbed of a limb -- face an unpredictable and long road to recovery, medical experts say.
"There's a whole spectrum of how people do," said Dr. Thomas Scalea, head of the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and a surgeon who has performed amputations throughout his long career. "It's hard to know when you have three people sitting in front of you, which one's going to be the one with the problems. It's a little hard to predict."
How Brannock will fare depends on a variety of medical, psychosocial and social factors. Among them: the care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, her support system back in Maryland, and how advanced a prosthetic she can afford, said Ellen MacKenzie, professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research & Policy.
Such injuries are associated with limited physical mobility as well as high rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. But "all of those can be minimized if one has a good support network, and if one can take care of their own recovery and have the confidence that they can deal with the amputation," said MacKenzie, the coordinating director of a national consortium of institutions studying traumatic lower-extremity injuries for the U.S. government.
The Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium, which MacKenzie coordinates, was initially funded by the Department of Defense in light of the high numbers of amputations and extremity injuries sustained by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. They totaled more than 1,700 at the end of last year, according to a February report by the Congressional Research Service.
By all accounts, the Boston bombing injuries were very similar to those being sustained by service members from improvised bombs jammed with metallic odds and ends intended to maim, if not kill, their targets. Among the dozens of injured was Brannock's sister, Nicole Gross, 31, a Charlotte, N.C., fitness trainer who remained hospitalized Wednesday with serious injuries to both legs.
The FBI believes BBs and nails may have been contained in homemade explosive devices made from pressure cookers. By Wednesday, there had been 13 amputations reported in Boston, including three at Beth Israel Deaconess, five at Boston Medical Center and one at Brigham and Women's Hospital, according to The New York Times. Four were reported at Massachusetts General Hospital on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Scalea, of Shock Trauma, said typical injuries from such exploding devices involve soft tissue, muscles and blood vessels being torn apart. They differ slightly from the dozens of amputations conducted at Shock Trauma each year, most of which are the result of motorcycle and car crashes and long falls, Scalea said, but they involve the same techniques for treatment.
Even in the confusion and terror surrounding the bombings, medical personnel would remain calm and concentrated when evaluating a patient who might require amputation, Scalea said. "There's some complicated decision-making, but this is complicated decision-making we do every day."
Dr. Adil Haider, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, added, "Typically, traumatic amputations are done when there is no other option to salvage the limb. It's not something we take lightly."
Often in amputation cases, enough of the limb has been severed or destroyed that the decision takes little thought, he said. At other times, doctors discuss options and the likelihood of reconstruction success. But all of this happens quickly, because patients with such injuries are rapidly losing blood.
Once a decision to amputate has been made, surgeons decide where to cut based on another set of factors: Where the damage stops, how much muscle and skin will be needed to close the end of the leg after amputation, and how dirty the wound is.
"You ask yourself how much muscle or soft tissue you have to cover the bone, and that's how you decide where to do the amputation," Scalea said. "You usually don't bring in tissue from another place. You usually use local tissue."
The cut is then made, and blood vessels are tied off, Haider said. Generally, the leg is left unclosed for another day, or days, as the wound is cleaned and doctors assess whether there is more dead or dying flesh that must be removed, he said.
"It is no doubt painful, and it's terrible and it's tragic, and in many cases people have phantom limb pain," Haider said. "But many people, one year, two years, five years later have better functional outcome and less pain than people who stuck with trying to repair an extremely damaged limb."
Brannock, a graduate of Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City, has already undergone multiple surgeries. She had been upgraded to serious condition, from critical, as of Wednesday afternoon, her mother said.
She has at least two other things going for her: Beth Israel Deaconess is a renowned hospital with a Level I trauma center, and she has a strong network of family and friends, as is apparent by her mother's devotion to her and by plans for multiple Baltimore-area vigils in her honor this week.
On Wednesday night at Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, which runs the preschool where Brannock teaches 2-year-olds, local residents and friends gathered to pray for comfort for the bombing victims and their families.
The Rev. Arianna Weeks, rector at a sister church in Ruxton, told the crowd assembled for the vigil about her memories of living in Queens, N.Y., after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and the similarities between those and the more recent violence.
"Faith, religion, it doesn't shield us from pain and violence," Weeks said. "Prayer is the balm."
Together, the congregation prayed for peace and for those everywhere in the world who live under the threat of terror.
"Bestow your healing grace and favor on Erika, her family and all those affected by the senseless tragedy in Boston," they said as one. "Help us who struggle in the midst of these horrible acts of violence to continue to keep a calm and prayerful heart and acknowledge that you are our focus."
What sort of prosthetic device the young teacher will be able to afford is unclear, though fundraisers have been started to raise money for her and her sister's recovery.
Brannock is also a happy and confident person, according to family and friends, and Downing said her daughter's spirits are high.
The two sisters are in separate but nearby hospitals, and Downing is splitting her time between the two. Nicole Gross' husband, Michael Gross, was also injured in the blast, though far less severely, and has been discharged.
Downing was planning to arrange the first Skype conversation between her daughters Wednesday night.
Baltimore Sun reporter Carrie Wells contributed to this article.
A trust fund has been established for preschool teacher Erika Brannock, who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings. Donations can be made payable to the Erika Brannock Fund and mailed to the Erika Brannock Fund, P.O. Box 828, Sparks 21152. More information is available at http://www.TheBrannockFund.com.
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Pushkala Gopal obtained her BA Honours degree in Mathematics and economics.. She was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Bharatanatyam in 1977 by the Ministry of Education, India. In 1983, Pushkala was awarded the British council Fellowship and spent a year at Trent Park studying western techniques of theatre, dance and education. She has pioneered several education projects nationally. She has also choreographed in the dance drama genre, working with a range of internationally acclaimed artistes. Pushkala is unique in her versatility as a Natya artiste as she is a holistic performer. She has taught dance at Middlesex University and music on the Bhavan Trinity music degree. Pushkala is an FTCL in music and Senior monitoring examiner of the Classical Indian dance faculty of the ISTD.


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Please add more options for social media such as an RSS feed (blog) and Houzz (interior design specific). In addition, please "lock in" the social media icons per email campaign. For example, I create email campaign 1 and set up the social media icons. Then I create email campaign 2 with the social media icons linking to different social sites. As soon as I save the social media profile for email 2 it changes the social media links in email 1. This is VERY frustrating as we have 6 different brands that we send emails out for and we cannot use our email templates due to this issue.
We tried to create our own social media icons by using images however, we cannot place more that two images side by side like we could in the old interface. Also, please put back the ability to add a table into the new user interface - you took away this feature! Having the ability to add a table would allow me a workaround to my first issue. UGH! Very frustrating - this is making us re-consider our decision to use Constant Contact for our email campaigns.
Only Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Linked-in, Google +, and Pinterest are options to add in the social media share block. Please add other popular platforms like Instagram, Flicker, Vimeo, etc.
Thanks for posting this feedback!
Thanks for posting this feedback!
The social media icons are shockingly limited. You may or may not be aware, but there are more than 5 social media services out there.
Thanks for posting this feedback, what social sites would you like to see added in the future?
Hi: It would be very useful if you had also TripAdvisor and Yelp. Thank you
We are an architecture firm and need the HOUZZ logo to match the facebook and other social media icons. I hope this can happen.
Thanks for posting this feedback!
Thanks for posting!
Thanks for posting!
I agree with the original poster. Our organization has more than one Facebook page, and more than one YouTube channel. There is no way to link to more than one, and when users think they have changed the link in one email, someone changes it in another email, and it gets changed in all of them. This is awful.
YES! We are having the exact same problem. This is NOT a feature, it is a bug!!!
@heirloom_flowersThanks for the feedback.
Can you tell me a little bit more about what you mean by "user determined font styles". Would you like to see more font options than there are currently? Also, there is the ability to "Copy" a previously sent email so you don't have to start from scratch each time. You can do this by clicking the "Actions" dropdown on the campaigns page and choosing "Copy".
The new editing options are so limited, including the ridiculously small selection of social media icons - please add the ones requested by other commentors as well as an email icon and a link icon. I also have tried to add additional icons via the image tool, and was also aggravated that only two side-by-side can be created.
The inability to add custom fonts is very frustrating. Typefaces are a large part of any organization's branding. Please bring back this function.
Please add the table function again! This is needed for many reasons, the icon/link issue above as well as adding a box with a border. Not being able to add a border to individual sections of an email is irritating.
We have recently switched to CC from another email system and we are disappointed in the changes you've made.
Looking for social buttons for tumblr and flickr to add to our emails.
Also frustrated by this change. No provision for Houzz or Yelp. I had used tables on the previous version and added them manually. Now I can only create links from the words HOUZZ and YELP which looks unprofessional.
There's a lot of lost user functionality in the new email tool. I am frustrated and regret the "upgrade."
At the bottom of most of the emails, Constant Contacts has the option of putting in soical media links, which is nice. Except that some social media links aren't there or built in. One in perticular that I use often in Goodreads, and it would be very helpful if I could put in a widget for the site at the bottom of my page in place of Instrgram or Pintrest, which I don't use.
Our client has customized social icons that they want to use everywhere - it would be nice to be able to customize the social icons in the new email editor. In the legacy it is easy to adjust the HTML, this option no longer exists in the new wysiwyg editor.
We are dual branded and send out messages from either or sometimes both sister companies.
I would love a simple way to display both sets of icons and to also toggle between one or the other.
Is this possible?
Although some may like to offer a link to share their newsletter with social media, we do not. We respect the privacy of our members and are not at all happy that C Contact no longer allows us this option of NOT LINKING to social media.
Not pleased!
So, you continue to increase the prices on us customers on a regular basis but the product remains virtually the same as it was years ago.
With Twitter and Instagram all the rage nowadays, how about you build into your social share platform a way to send notices through to those platforms in addition to just Facebook.
I love the flexibility of the new email generator, however I find it difficult to include a social media button that is not already loaded as an option through the build. it would be nice to have other options for additional social media channels. When I add one as a graphic throws the mobile view way off.
Can you please add the SmugMug logo to the social site options?
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This weekend was nice, we had some beautiful sunny days and my dad is visiting. We did a few things around the house ( installed a programmable thermostat and a new outside light fixture), my dad took me out for dinner, we also drove to our favorite beach in Nova Scotia.
"THE beach"
my girls playing on a buoy
banana bread
I didn't cook much this weekend mostly we ate leftovers and spaghetti, but I did make those owl cupcakes and a mean loaf of banana bread :)
I wanted to start the third week of Vegan MOFO with some kid friendly food and my daughter asked me to make sloppy joes. I checked the web for some ideas and found some great lentil recipes. I think that this is great if you have a bunch of vegetables that need to be used up. I used carrot, celery and green pepper, but you could use grated zucchini, sweet potato, etc. The great part about sloppy joes is that you can add anything!
3 cups cooked lentils ( I used green)
2 tbsp canola oil
1 onion- small diced
2 cloves garlic- minced
4 stalks celery-small diced
1 tbsp oregano
1/2 tsp paprika
1 1/2 tsp dry mustard
1 green pepper- small diced
2 carrots- peeled and grated 1/3 cup ketchup
1 tbsp black strap molasses
1 can crushed tomato
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp maple syrup
sea salt ( I used about 1 1/2 tsp)
freshly ground pepper
Sesame seed buns
In a large pot heat oil add onions
Saute until soft. Add garlic, celery saute until soft
Add spices. Stir until absorbed
Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer on low heat.
Season to taste.
Toast buns, scoop on lentil mixture. ENJOY! yumyumyum
This use to be just a light bulb sticking out of the wall, my dad is AWESOME!!


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Thursday, August 30, 2012
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
People ask me a lot of questions in comments and emails, and many of them are repetitive. For awhile now, I've wanted some kind of FAQ, like forums tend to have, to answer these same questions that keep popping up. That's what this video is. It's going to live on the YouTube channel page so hopefully people who are new to this stuff will find the answers they are looking for.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Recap Q&A: How Do You Archive Your Video?
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Cheap homemade monopod or camera pole
Friday, August 24, 2012
Sony Vegas: Zoom H1 Scripts / Shortcuts
When using an external mic with the Zoom H1 Handy Recorder, you'll probably end up with sound on only one channel. When the file is dropped into Sony Vegas Pro, ti takes a series of right-clicking and menu navigating to isolate that channel and normalize. Here, I present some handy scripts (not written by me, but saved as a file by me) that will streamline the process of getting your audio events into a more useable format. Keyboard shortcuts make the process even faster.
Click to download the scripts below:
UseLeftChannelAudio (original forum source)
UseRightChannelAudio (original forum source)
NormalizeSelected (original forum source)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Otter Box Defender Tripod Mount
After getting an iPhone 4s so I could have a good backup camera with me at all times, I wanted to make sure I didn't immediately break the thing. The Otter Box Defender case is about the best protection you can get against droppage, but it makes your phone much bigger. With most iPhone tripod mounts relying on your phone being naked (which is ridiculous), I looked for something that was affordable and could hold the girth of the iPhone+Defender goliath. After a bout of despair, I noticed the Defender came with a plastic holster that could be re-purposed as a tripod mount. Problem solved!
Otter Box holster (comes with Otter Box Defender)
1x 1/4" machine screw, 1 3/4" long
2x 1/4" washers
1x 1/4" coupling nut, 3/4" long
vise (optional)
various drill bits
7/16" wrench
For camera rigs that may work well with your smartphone, check out the Table Dolly Junior, Trolley Dolly and Mini Camera Stabilizer.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Recap Q&A: Should I Sell Stuff?
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Filmic Pro iPhone app
Free Slate iPhone app
Celtx Script (iPhone/Android)
iPhone mic input / headphone breakout cable
Canon refurbished camcorders
Cinematography: Theory and Practice by Blain Brown
Magic Lantern release notes
DSLR rig mounting for your Nexus 7 tablet
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Free light leaks and film burns to download
Table Dolly Junior
DIY follow focus, friction and geared
Portable storage container w/bins for $4
How to build a 4' DIY ring light
Polarizing filters: powerful filmmaking tools
$50 follow focus review
$40 light kit
Where have all the 100 watt bulbs gone?
Zoom H1 Handy Recorder for $85
Product photography studio you already have!
Flash bracket you may already have!
32" 5-in-1 reflector for $7.39
7" SD monitor with A/V inputs for $48
Friday, August 17, 2012
Where Have All the 100 Watt Bulbs Gone?
Okay, I'm pretty sure I remember the government was going to be outlawing incandescent lights, but I still don't like it. One hundred watt bulbs are typically selling four-for-a-dollar at big box chains like Wal-Mart, but I haven't seen them for awhile (lesser wattages are still available). The shelf tags are still there, but there is a gaping hole where cheap sources of bright light used to be.
I use these bulbs all the time, and they have a permanent home in my clamp light fixtures as well as my most-used floor lamp lighting, that lights my apartment DIY show set. Losing these would be a major blow, since not only are they great for when I'm home to shoot, but in the past I never needed to pack bulbs when travelling, since I could just run down to any store in the U.S. and snap up some new ones. They are/were so cheap that it made more sense to just discard them when I was done, rather than try to take them with me.
I know incandescent bulbs are inefficient power leeches. I know they run hot and you can burn your hand if you touch one (wear gloves!). I know we don't need landfills piled high with old, quickly-expired light bulbs. I know CFLs are everywhere (even Dollar Tree!) and the prices are dropping. I guess I'm just nostalgic. And poor.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Portable Storage Container w/Bins for $4
Knoptop has come up with another great find, a compact, portable storage bin (I know it's portable because of the handle) for only $4 at Harbor Freight Tools. What is really cool about this are the small, re-arrangeable bins inside the thing. Move them around or remove them entirely to accommodate whatever gear you need to lug around. Dave's got two for his Zoom H1 and H4n audio recorders, and they seem to work quite well. The price makes the deal even sweeter.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Table Dolly Junior
Table Dolly that I created over two years ago. This version performs the same function (lateral or curved dolly moves on a flat surface), but with a smaller profile, fewer parts, less cost and is easier to construct. Many of you have made a lot of these changes already, but this official version will be better for those new viewers thinking of building the older model.
4x new or used inline skate wheels with bearings
1x universal quick release (optional)
5x ¾" PVC slip plugs
3x ¾" PVC tee joints
2x ¾" PVC 90 degree elbow joints
4x ¾" PVC pipes, 1 ½" long
4x ¼" bolts, 2" long
1x ¼" bolt, ½" long
8x ¼" nuts
5x ¼" lock washers
1x ¼" rubber fender washer
Drill with ¼" drill bit
Socket wrench with long 7/16" socket
7/16" wrench
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
DSLR Rig Mounting for your Nexus 7 Tablet
Nexus 7 Android tablet as an external monitor / controller for his camera setup. It's pretty cool, and today he shows how it all attaches to his rig. I love stuff like this, and even though I don't use one of these cameras, I like the modular nature of it all. There's always something to be learned by watching how other filmmakers employ problem solving skills.
Also be sure to check out Deejay's detailed blog entry for extra pictures and links for further information on this subject.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Recap Q&A: Favorite Filmmaker Apps?
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How to make a PVC microphone stand
Deadcat review
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Sony Vegas: Ken Burns Effect
Ken Burns has become famous for his documentaries on public television and "The Ken Burns Effect" is synonymous with camera moves placed on still photos. This effect is pretty easy in Sony Vegas, and in this video I cover how it's done.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
$1 Budget: Suction, Squirt, Clamp that Bin!
It's another round of cheap stuff I've gathered that you might find useful in your filmmaking pursuits. I've taken the advice of you the viewer and expanded the reach of the show a bit, which allows me to go above spending a Washington (but not without consequence). I also spread the love a bit more in this episode by acquiring items from four different sources! Here's hoping you find some of this stuff useful.
4" Ratchet Bar Clamp / Spreader
Nerf Super Soaker Lightning Storm Microburst (Amazon)
Car Window Suction Cup Tripod Mount
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
All Cheap Mini Ball Heads Aren't Created Equal
If you've followed any of my DIY camera mounts, you may have noticed an element that I use again and again: the mini ball head. These are great for adding inexpensive articulation to any camera mount, something indispensable for getting your shot just right. Found on eBay, they are easily obtained (as long as you don't mind waiting for the two weeks shipping from China) and are quickly added to your contraptions through the 1/4" or 3/8" mount found at the bottom. They are fairly well-made for the price ($5) and have mostly metal parts. Not too bad a deal.
One thing I have noticed, is that there are two versions of these cheap ball heads on eBay, and you really can't tell which one you are going to get, since the pictures appear to be interchangeable. So what's the big difference? One of the mini ball heads has a metal platform surrounding the 1/4" camera mount, and the other is plastic. In the photo above, the metal version is on the left, with its plastic counterpart on the right.
What does this mean? The metal version has no spongy pad on the platform, which really helps secure your camera or quick release in place. The plastic version comes with the spongy pad built into the platform (see above photo). This is easily remedied for Metal Man, but getting a rubber 1/4" fender washer (also seen above) and placing it over the thread and onto the platform. It performs just as well or better than the built-in version and will only add 50 cents onto the total cost of your build.
That's the only advantage the plastic has over the metal. The major difference (and the most important one) between these ball heads is that when the metal version hits the floor, it will survive. The small nick you see on metal platform was the result of such a fall. It received a small scar and still performs it's function. I had a plastic version take a similar fall and the platform cracked--and had to be discarded. The ball head can still be used (that one now lives on the Frugal Clamp supporting a Sima Quickonnect), but only if the platform isn't critical to your build.
All this means is that while you may want the metal version (which I do), it's a crap shoot as to which one the Chinese distributor will send you, even if you study the photos and choose accordingly. I firgured that the plastic version was the one with the built-in pad and chose the other, non-pad version. However, when the three I bought showed up in the mail, they all had plastic platforms with spongy pads.
Just be aware of this when ordering and hope you get the metal version. Of course, the metal version may no longer exist, replaced by its cheaper cousin.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Recap Q&A: What Pro Gear Would You Use?
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Sony Vegas: Favorite Scripts
The scripting feature in Sony Vegas is awesome. It allows you to add scripts that perform all sorts of tasks that streamline and help the editing process. If you can't write your own (like me) there are lots of free ones on the web that you can easily add and access from within the editor. Here I share the basics of adding and using scripts and share a few of my favorites as well as a free archive that help with all sorts of editing functions.
"Everything folder" of free Sony Vegas Scripts
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Tip: Film Review Sites I Recommend
As a filmmaker, I try to watch as many films as I can. When I'm not doing that, I typically read a lot of film reviews. There are five sites that I gravitate toward that I've learned a great deal from. I present them here in the hope you might find them beneficial as well.
Dustin Putman's Film Reviews
Roger Ebert
Daily Film Dose
DVD Savant
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Do Americans Hate Muslims?
America was built on the notion of religious freedom; that's why it's such an important part of the Constitution. But that principle faces a huge test today.
The 9/11 trauma is understandably still a raw wound, and the war against terrorists is far from over. But what does that have to do with a mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero?
The 9/11 attacks caused the largest loss of American life in a single day since the Civil War. It's hardly surprising that we want to honor the dead, avenge the attack and make sure it doesn't happen again. And it's no surprise that this creates real unease in how the public feels about Islam. It wasn't the religion that attacked America, but those who did attack were all members of that religion. President George W. Bush made a deliberate effort to differentiate and demonstrate that we were at war with Islamic terrorists, not with Islam. President Barack Obama has gone even further in trying to reach out to the Muslim world. But the message seems to be falling on deaf ears here at home.
The prejudice is evident and hard to stamp out. The flap over plans to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York demonstrates that. So do the astounding results of a poll Pew Research released today.
Most Americans think it is insensitive for Muslims to want to build a center just two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attack. Perhaps it is. But the anger also means that, despite all the rhetoric, we do blame Muslims, in general, for the attack. We're not talking about a center for al Qaeda, after all, we're talking about a center for Islam. We wouldn't object if the plan was to build a church or synagogue, so on what grounds other than religious prejudice do we object to a mosque? And if two blocks is too close, what about four blocks? Or eight? Why are people in Tennessee protesting plans to build an Islamic center outside Nashville? Are we going to object to all mosques on U.S. soil?
The situation was difficult enough before Obama blundered into it last weekend. His comments Friday defending the right to build the center on private property were widely interpreted as a strong endorsement of the idea. He didn't exactly say that -- and he clarified his statement Saturday -- but you can't blame people for reading his remarks the way they did. Almost no one questions the legal right to build the mosque, so if that's all he wanted to say, there was no need for Obama to speak out. The issue is whether it's a good idea, and Obama clearly bungled whatever message he was trying to send. As Michael Gerson pointed out in a must-read column in Sunday's Washington Post, "Obama managed to collect all the political damage for taking an unpopular stand without gaining credit for political courage."
Then comes a Pew Research poll today finding that the number of Americans believing Obama is a Muslim (he isn't) is rising -- to 18%, from 11% in March 2009. Only 34% say he is a Christian (he is), down from 48% in 2009. Of course, the poll results say more about the media and the public -- all of it troubling -- than they do about Obama.
Those who believe Obama is a Muslim are much more likely to disapprove of his policies. That's not a coincidence. If you don't like someone, it's easier to think he is an outsider, different from you in culture and philosophy and religion. Or maybe if you think someone is a outsider, especially if you believe he's a member of a group which you see as America's enemy, it's easier to dislike him.
The poll also shows the media have failed to do their job of telling the true story. Right-wing talk shows have, in fact, done their best to undercut the truth, treating the fact of Obama's Christian religious upbringing and faith as a matter of debate at best rather than the fact it is.
How we got to this state is less important than how we get out of it. It would help if more public figures of all ideological stripes would forcefully deny that the president is a Muslim. Even Glenn Beck ought to be willing to do that.
Insisting on a debate that begins with facts rather than myths isn't to take Obama's side. It's the prerequisite to a meaningful discussion on this and a whole host of others.


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Two days after left tackle Joe Staley alleged that his buddy Alex Smith was looking up himself trending on Twitter in the afterglow of his performance Monday night, the 49ers' quarterback laughingly provided his version of events Thursday.
The social-networking saga began Tuesday when Staley expressed surprise that Smith, his neighbor on team flights, was eagerly reading the endless Twitter love he was receiving after he completed 18 of 19 passes and tossed three touchdown passes in a prime-time win over Arizona.
Smith doesn't have a Twitter account, but Staley said his good friend just couldn't resist the pull of all that praise.
"I did check him out. On the flight, he was checking out Twitter because he was trending, I guess, which was a big deal," Staley said. "Which is very out of character for him because he's never done that. I think he was feeling pretty good about himself or something."
Smith laughed when asked about Staley's allegation. He explained his blindside protector isn't always looking out for him.
"I have no Twitter, so I have no idea how to do that," Smith said. "So, yeah, we're getting on the plane, and a lady is kind of joking with me, 'Hey, you're trending on Twitter.' I sit next to Joe on the plane, so Joe was on his Twitter account and said, 'Hey, you really are trending,' and he shows it to me.
"So I clicked on it, and I'm scrolling through some of these comments on Joe's phone and somehow he turns that into me looking up myself on Twitter. No, I don't have a Twitter. I don't even know how that would work. But, yeah, I did scroll through some of the comments. … Joe likes to embarrass people."
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LOS ANGELES -- The NFL Network, a 24-hour TV network dedicated to the National Football League and the sport of football, has launched a national youth fitness initiative called Keep Gym in School, which supports physical education in schools and raises awareness about the importance of physical activity as part of education.
Keep Gym in School is funding refurbishments for physical education programs at four select schools and is hosting NFL minicamps to get kids active and assess their fitness levels. Students will participate in follow-up testing to determine the local performers who will earn trips to a national honors event held during the week of the NFL Draft next April in New York.
Keep Gym in School has created a series of football-inspired lesson plans and a fitness assessment program in collaboration with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. The initiative has also incorporated the President's Challenge, a physical activity and fitness recognition program of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
The NFL Network is rolling out the program with Cox Communications in Fairfax County, VA; Wichita, KS; New Orleans; and Phoenix. NFL teams supporting Keep Gym in School in its first year are the Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals. Participating NFL players include Redskins wide receiver Antwaan Randle El, Chiefs linebacker Donnie Edwards, former Chiefs guard Will Shields, Saints running back Deuce McAllister and Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner.
To expand the program nationally, Keep Gym in School will provide one additional school with a $10,000 grant to improve its physical education program. The NFL Network will offer an online adoption contest open to any middle school nationwide at www.KeepGyminSchool.com. Students, parents, teachers and other community members can nominate their school for the grant at the Web site.


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In Memoriam Mr. L. Kuhnen
12 November 2012
It is with deep sadness that the UNECE and TIR secretariats have learned of the untimely death of Mr. Louis Kuhnen, the distinguished delegate of the European Commission. For various years, Mr. Kuhnen participated in the sessions of the Working Party on Customs Questions affecting Transport (WP.30) and the TIR Administrative Committee (AC.2), contributing considerably to their success. The secretariats express their sincere sympathies to his family and friends and to his colleagues from the European Commission for this great loss. His professional expertise, his personal warmth as well as his sense of humour will be highly missed. May he rest in peace.


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The analyses presented in this advanced atlas are for those soil samples collected for the National Soil Inventory (NSI) by the Soil Survey of England and Wales (now the National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University, UK) as described in McGrath and Loveland1 (1992) in the original Soil Geochemical Atlas of England and Wales.
The geochemical analyses presented in the original atlas were for a series of 17 elements.
The advanced atlas presents analyses and maps for a total of 53 elements, which includes the original 17 elements.
The data have already been used to estimate the total quantity of inorganic carbon in the soils of part of England (download the case study).
This e-book publication is the outcome of collaborative research between the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Rothamsted Research.
BGS is a research institute partly funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Rothamsted Research receives strategic funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
The analyses presented in this atlas were funded from the NERC core grant provided to the British Geological Survey.
Data availability: The data for each of the elements in the Advanced Geochemical Atlas of England and Wales can be downloaded as a set of interpolated concentrations 20.5MB zip on a 1 kilometre grid across England and Wales. The data is made available in British National Grid. The concentration units for these grids are the same as shown in the Atlas. These data are made available under the Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: "Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI [year]".
The data are also made available as WMS services.
Rawlins, B G, McGrath, S P, Scheib, A J, Breward, N, Cave, M, Lister, T R, Ingham, M, Gowing, C and Carter, S. 2012. The Advanced Soil Geochemical Atlas of England and Wales. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey.)
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John Connolly (born May 31, 1968, Dublin) is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.
His first novel, Every Dead Thing, was met with critical acclaim; it was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and went on to win the 2000 Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel (he is the first author outside of the US to have won the award). Connolly's debut introduced readers to the anti-hero Charlie Parker, a former police officer hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Connolly has since written a further 5 books in the popular Parker series and a non-Parker thriller, as well as venturing outside of the crime genre with the publication of first, an anthology of ghost stories and later, a novel about a young boy's coming-of-age journey through a fantasy realm during World War II England. Several film adaptations of his works are currently in development; the earliest to appear to audiences will be partially based on the short story "The New Daughter", and stars Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero, previously seen in the acclaimed film Pan's Labyrinth. Connolly is also known to tour extensively to promote the launch of his books. In 2007, Connolly made book-store appearances in Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Taiwan to promote The Unquiet.
Before becoming a full-time novelist, Connolly had worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a gofer at Harrods department store in London. After graduating with a B.A. in English from Trinity College, Dublin and a M.A. in Journalism from Dublin City University, he spent five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper. He quickly became frustrated with the profession, and began to write Every Dead Thing in his spare time. Connolly continues to contribute articles to the paper, most notable of which have been a series of interviews with other established authors.


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Snow Summit ReviewsBig Bear Lake, CA US
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The best place in southern cali for boarding, i loovve it!
11/27/2013 by: andja
The passes are expensive , and the food is overpriced, so is the booze but i understand that. i wish the music was blasting during the week too. i love it otherwise :)
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good place to learn to board
12/30/2012 by: Anonymous
this is where i learned to snowboard.
they have a good selection of runs for different ability levels.
bunny slopes are nice. not too shallow or steep.
a lot of beginners though so be careful during busy times of the season so you won't be tripping over other people.
staff is friendly. best place for beginners in my opinion.
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great mountain!!!
12/27/2012 by: Anonymous
This is a great mountain - good for beginners, intermediates and advanced snowboarders!!
Usually my bf and I can scrounge around on craigslist for lift tickets for around $30. It's not that bad.
Once you get there you don't need to take a long lift up just to get to the mountain..just park, get our of your car and start snowboarding!
Haven't tried their food but it's probably okay, food is expensive at resorts!
Snow is always great here and there are a lot of lifts/trails.
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Great place to learn
11/08/2011 by: Nadine Mufmord
I live in Cali to so we have quite a few places to ski locally. I recently tought my neice and nephew how to ski and sooooo glad I chose MH to do it. I taught frieds how to ski there in there as a teenager many years ago and was really impressed with it's growth and customer service. They took such great care of my family that I will be frequenting them this season. It's small, easy to navigate and yet there's pretty cool runs that an advanced skier would enjoy. The kids loved it and can't wait to go back so I'm sold on MH once again. The parking, weather, drive up there all very comfortable. And clean like the cafe and bathrooms and that really makes a difference to me. MH you won me over again!
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Best local skiing in Cali
11/08/2011 by: Nadine Mumford
Snow Summit is my all time fav. place to ski locally. I'm a Cali girl and 2 hours away from pretty great spots. SS has been my fav. for 20 years. We plan a New Years ski week every year- it's totally goes off. Great for families, newbies and us advanced down hill ski demons ;-0 I can't say enough. Great variety. Excellent food. The views are amazing for the perfect pics memories. Truly beathtaking from the lifts to see the Big Bear Lake. Rates are competetive. Snow conditions are almost always pretty good if not excellent depending on natural weather conditions. Don't miss the lodge with teh best bread bowl soup thing ever. See you there.
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Awesome place
11/04/2011 by: Anonymous
Fun environment. Great for beginners and pros. The snow was clean and there was plenty of it when I went in February '11.
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01/03/2010 by: Anonymous
The parks are really fun
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Excellent Conditions!
03/02/2007 by: camie
Snow was great Practically had the mountain to ourselves!
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Perry has dipped into rainy day fund before
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry didn't always object to spending from the rainy day fund, and that's one thing that frustrates lawmakers who want to use more of the savings to fill holes in crucial services.
The last time the state faced a huge budget shortfall, in 2003, lawmakers appropriated nearly all the money then in the fund — including some, at Perry's behest, to create his pet Texas Enterprise Fund. In 2005, rainy day money was used for his Emerging Technology Fund. Just two years ago, Perry suggested using part of the rainy-day money for tax relief.
Now, in the face of a shortfall of up to $27 billion through the next two years, Perry has grudgingly agreed to spend just $3.1 billion from the $9.4 billion fund to plug a deficit this fiscal year — and no more, despite big cutbacks threatened in human services and education.
As Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden works to get support for a budget proposal to soften cuts, his plan's use of an extra $3 billion from the rainy day fund is a sticking point. It was necessary to get some crucial Senate Democratic votes but has drawn strong opposition from some equally crucial Republicans. Perry's opposition hasn't made things easier.
"One of my arguments is, what's it for?" Ogden, R-Bryan, said of his discussion with GOP senators who oppose another dip into the fund. "Four years ago, the governor said we didn't even need one. And in fact, the governor tried to get us to liquidate it, and ... his theory was, as I remember, four years ago that it's excessive taxation on the people, and why are we collecting all this money and doing nothing with it? ... If you come down here when it's really raining and elect not to use a fund that was created for this exact purpose, then I guess what do we have the fund for?"
Perry pushed for tax relief in 2007 based on unspent balances, but his staff said he didn't propose liquidating the fund, which is fueled by oil and gas taxes. Asked what's different now about dipping into the fund, Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger cited an uncertain national economic outlook, the prospect of "unforeseen emergencies" and the federal government, which Cesinger said "continues spending money at an alarming rate, and it would be short-sighted and irresponsible for Texas leaders not to protect the remainder of the rainy day fund."
Ogden's view: "If you're not going to spend it now, we may as well get rid of it."
Comptroller Susan Combs told the Texas Tribune her job's "not to worry about anything political" after her much-criticized handling of a data breach that left millions of Texans' personal information exposed -- including taking a couple of weeks to say she accepts full responsibility for it.
But other people are talking about her political future in the wake of this incident. It isn't her first difficulty – remember the appliance rebate fiasco? – but her approach to this big problem has made her future "trickier than it once was," said SMU political scientist Cal Jillson.
"She was the odds-on favorite to move up to lieutenant governor," Jillson said, but now she's a question mark because voters want "a sense of command" in a top officeholder.
"You assume that a top official s going to be dealing with serious issues on a regular basis. They are going to come in surprising ways," Jillson said. "You have to be steady."
The same day last week that Perry said he'd lost faith in the Legislative Budget Board in the wake of its report that deep spending cuts would cost Texas hundreds of thousands of jobs, two top GOP senators sent budget staff a different message. Sens. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, and Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, last week had sandwiches delivered to LBB staffers' office in appreciation for their hard work. The senators said the move was unrelated to Perry's comments, but they've got confidence in the LBB staff. "I think they do an outstanding job," said Eltife.


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Many of you prospective students out there are likely editing, re-reading and putting the finishing touches on your application to Whitman this week. Thursday, November 15 is our first admission deadline of the season, and it is one of two opportunities that students have to apply to Whitman prior to our Regular Decision deadline (Jan. 15). (Coincidentally, November 15 is also my birthday; I like to brag that I receive more "presents" on my birthday than anyone else I know!) Choosing one of these two Early Decision opportunities, the second of which is January 1, is a great option for the student that knows Whitman is their first choice; it's important not to confuse these deadlines with Early Action (a non-binding decision).
Given that the Early Decision I deadline is a mere week away, I thought I would take a moment to discuss some important reminders.
1) Financial Aid: Remember that if you are applying to Whitman ED I and applying for need-based aid, you will also need to submit the CSS Profile by November 15. (The FAFSA, the second form that we require, will not be accessible until January 1.) All students who receive financial aid will be notified of their aid packages along with their acceptance letters in the mail, so students need not be concerned that applying early means that they won't be able to receive merit or need-based aid from Whitman. In fact, the package that a student receives for an Early Decision deadline will be the same package that he or she would have received for Regular Decision. However, Regular Decision can often be the better fit for families that want to rely on the opportunity to compare financial aid packages from different schools.
2) You can expect to receive a response from us by December 21. Given that our Early Decision options are binding, one benefit to choosing this route is that you'll know where you stand only about a month after submitting your application.
3) The application, of course! Make sure you proofread your application. Ask someone–a parent, a counselor, a teacher, or another individual you're close to–to read over your essay and supplement; sometimes they may catch something you didn't see yourself! If you have any questions about the Common App or Whitman Supplement, don't hesitate to give us a call.
Best of luck, students! We look forward to reading your applications (and thanks in advance for making my birthday a special one).


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Moderator: Cartographers
ender516 wrote:That looks much clearer.
thenobodies80 wrote:He can't do that....not using coreldraw....why it's so hard to understand?
thenobodies80 wrote:He can do it but not with coreldraw,
AndyDufresne wrote:Maybe one of you nice cartographers could assist cairnswk if he doesn't have the tools to do what you would like. Even though I am not a fan of the Rail series at all, this map looks like it would be a nice addition.
AndyDufresne wrote:Maybe one of you nice cartographers could assist cairnswk if he doesn't have the tools to do what you would like.
cairnswk wrote:If you have an inner perfectionist in you, then i say good for you and also Dim. But i don't have an inner perfectionist in me. I will do my best for my standards and what i beleive is achievable, but then move on. I am rather older than you guys and life has dulled my desire for perfection which i used to have when i was your age.
cairnswk wrote:The other thing i have to say about the foundry pushing you...i have ask you on a number of occasions to push yourself with your maps where i have commented, but was retorted at the time with "this is not my vision for the map" which to me tells me that there is an element of laziness in you (and others) also. In fact we all have it. Some simply recognise it better than others and don't try to disguise it.
koontz1973 wrote:My god you guys are getting angry over the silliest little thing. None of you three are perfect and I am sure anyone can point out flaws in any of the maps made by anyone. Shouting about something in a map thread is a stupid way of dong this. We have a proper forum for this. And the way you two are going about it (natty and DiM) it is coming across as if you just want cairnswk maps to fail and have now taken it to a level of pure hatred.
koontz1973 wrote:Now without blowing the maps up to 10000% of anything else ridiculous, the stations look fine and should not hold this map back.
koontz1973 wrote:As for the hatred part, that may be a little strong but in no other thread has DiM pestered a map maker like this and said the things he has said.
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Bake-off entries sought
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- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Advance entries are being sought for the 11th annual Spring Bake-Off sponsored by the Key Club Saturday, April 12. Registration cost is $10 for each category.
Contestants can enter three categories, including cakes, pies, and student desserts divisions. For more details, see the April 3 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Actress Joanna Garcia and New York Yankee player Nick Swisher are now wed, according to People magazine and confirmed by E! News.
The "Better With You" star and the slugger married in Palm Beach, Fla. yesterday at the Breakers Hotel and Resort. Their wedding party included such guests as Cameron Diaz and Reba McEntire along with baseball players Alex Rodriguez and Johnny Damon.
Guest Jamie-Lynn Sigler wrote on Twitter about the wedding prior to the date, and reported by E!: "On way to what's going to be an amazing week with my best friends celebrating two amazing people!!"
Garcia wore a Monique Lhuillier dress and Swisher donned a Burberry London tuxedo.
The couple's engagement was announced by Garcia's rep to People back in May. Swisher recently told the magazine: "I think for the first time in my life, I have a woman who I could not be more proud of. We do such a great job really pushing the other one to do better and I think that's what you have to have."


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The Truth Will Set You Free .....
A key congressional Republican said on Sunday that the Obama administration must step up efforts and exert "any and all pressure" on Russia to get it to hand over Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor turned fugitive leaker.
"I'm sure Russia loves this," Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said of the Snowden drama that has opened the United States to international criticism.
McCaul told "Fox News Sunday" that the Russians are "making a mockery" of U.S. foreign policy, and, "I'm sure every day, they're extracting more and more information from this man."
Snowden, a former contractor with the National Security Agency, released previously secret documents revealing details of U.S. telephone and internet surveillance programs as part of counterterrorism efforts.
He has been stranded at a Moscow airport since late last month. He broke three weeks of silence on Friday and said he wanted asylum in Russia until he can go to Latin America.
Washington has asked Moscow to return Snowden to the United States where he is wanted on espionage charges but has not been able to get him.
McCaul described the showdown as "a test of our foreign policy," and, he said, "I would give the administration low marks for what they've done so far."
"We should be putting any and all pressure we have - economic, trade," on Russia to get Snowden, McCaul said.
McCaul said that the administration has failed to develop an acceptable relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It's not working," McCaul said. "They're thumbing their nose at the United States."
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Dolly Parton honoured at Grammys
After being honoured as the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year on Friday, Dolly Parton took the stage at the Grammys to perform some of her country hits.
Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves kicked off the tribute in matching red ensembles with Here You Come Again and were soon joined by the Queen of Nashville in a white dress with flowing sleeves.
Miley Cyrus took to the stage in an off-white suit with her godmother to perform Jolene, Parton's 1973 hit that the two have dueted on in the past. Mark Ronson, BTS, and more could be seen singing along in the audience.
Maren Morris joined the duo for a stripped down version of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush, which Parton covered with Emmylou Harris and and Linda Ronstadt on their 1999 album "Trio II." The song's a cappella moments prompted swaying arms from the audience.
Parton also performed a song from the soundtrack of Netflix's movie Dumplin,' Red Shoes. She was joined by Grammy favourites Little Big Town. And yes, Parton was wearing red heels.
"Anybody out there working a nine to five job?" Parton asked to transition into her 1980 single 9 to 5, written for the comedy film of the same name starring Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman.
Parton is one of the most successful country artists of all time. Most known for Jolene, Coat of Many Colours, and 9 to 5, she has won nine Grammys, three American Music Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, and seven Academy of Country Music Awards.
She has had 41 Billboard top-10 country albums, the most for any artist, and 25 of her songs have topped the country music charts, tied with Reba McEntire for the most for a female musician. One of only seven women to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award, Parton was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.
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May 7, 2002, Section A, Page 31Buy Reprints
Remember how hard New York's elected representatives had to fight to get $20 billion in aid for the stricken city -- aid that had already been promised? Well, recently Congress agreed to give farmers $180 billion in subsidies over the next decade. By the way, the population of New York City is about twice as large as America's total farm population.
I've been a stern critic of the Bush administration, but this is one case where Democrats in the Senate were the lead villains. To its credit, the administration initially opposed an increase in farm subsidies, though as in the case of steel protection, it didn't take long before political calculation trumped the administration's alleged principles. But politics aside, maybe the farm bill debacle will help us, finally, to free ourselves from a damaging national myth: that the ''heartland,'' consisting of the central, relatively rural states, is morally superior to the rest of the country.
You've heard the story many times: the denizens of the heartland, we're told, are rugged, self-reliant, committed to family; the inhabitants of the coast are whining yuppies. Indeed, George W. Bush has declared that he visits his stage set -- er, ranch -- in Crawford to ''stay in touch with real Americans.'' (And what are those of us who live in New Jersey -- chopped liver?)
But neither the praise heaped on the heartland nor the denigration of the coasts has any basis in reality.
I've done some statistical comparisons using one popular definition of the heartland: the ''red states'' that -- in an election that pitted both coasts against the middle -- voted for Mr. Bush. How do they compare with the ''blue states'' that voted for Al Gore?
Certainly the heartland has no claim to superiority when it comes to family values. If anything, the red states do a bit worse than the blue states when you look at indicators of individual responsibility and commitment to family. Children in red states are more likely to be born to teenagers or unmarried mothers -- in 1999, 33.7 percent of babies in red states were born out of wedlock, versus 32.5 percent in blue states. National divorce statistics are spotty, but per capita there were 60 percent more divorces in Montana than in New Jersey.
And the red states have special trouble with the Sixth Commandment: the murder rate was 7.4 per 100,000 inhabitants in the red states, compared with 6.1 in the blue states, and 4.1 in New Jersey.
But what's really outrageous is the claim that the heartland is self-reliant. That grotesque farm bill, by itself, should put an end to all such assertions; but it only adds to the immense subsidies the heartland already receives from the rest of the country. As a group, red states pay considerably less in taxes than the federal government spends within their borders; blue states pay considerably more. Over all, blue America subsidizes red America to the tune of $90 billion or so each year.
And within the red states, it's the metropolitan areas that pay the taxes, while the rural regions get the subsidies. When you do the numbers for red states without major cities, you find that they look like Montana, which in 1999 received $1.75 in federal spending for every dollar it paid in federal taxes. The numbers for my home state of New Jersey were almost the opposite. Add in the hidden subsidies, like below-cost provision of water for irrigation, nearly free use of federal land for grazing and so on, and it becomes clear that in economic terms America's rural heartland is our version of southern Italy: a region whose inhabitants are largely supported by aid from their more productive compatriots.
There's no mystery about why the heartland gets such special treatment: it's a result of our electoral system, which gives states with small populations -- mainly, though not entirely, red states -- disproportionate representation in the Senate, and to a lesser extent in the Electoral College. In fact, half the Senate is elected by just 16 percent of the population.
But while this raw political clout is a fact of life, at least we can demand an end to the hypocrisy. The heartland has no special claim to represent the ''real America.'' And the blue states have a right to ask why, at a time when the federal government has plunged back into deficit, when essential domestic programs are under assault, a small minority of heavily subsidized Americans should feel that they are entitled to even more aid.


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Miata Edoga's wake-up call to the realities of proper financial planning came on a morning just like any other.
The actress, who some years ago worked the morning shift at a restaurant in L.A., had expected to be let off as she always was at 10 a.m., with enough time to spare for a 12.30 p.m. matinee call at L.A.'s Civic Light Opera, where she had a role in a production of "Annie."
But that morning, her replacement did not show up.
"The restaurant was full and my manager refused to let me go," Edoga recalls. "There I was, serving people with tears streaming down my face, and the manager said if I left, I would be stealing because I wouldn't have closed my register. The only choice I had was to take all the money I'd made for the day and dump it on the table, but I had no idea how much there was and whether there was even enough to put gas in my car."
Although Edoga made it to the theater 10 minutes before curtain call, the experience was a slap in the face.
"I realized that I had very nearly not showed up for a performance of what I do best, acting, because I was so financially out of control," she says. "So I set about to learn everything I could learn about money."
From that moment on, Edoga read whatever she could lay her hands on and attended every free financial planning class she encountered. She tackled her debt and within a span of three years, had paid it off.
Then, armed with newfound knowledge and confidence, Edoga founded Abundance Bound, a company that specializes in financial literacy and education specifically for the artistic and creative community.
Today, Abundance Bound caters to a host of different artists that run the gamut from actors and musicians to jugglers and fire-eaters. Edoga has also served as the financial wellness counselor for the Actors' Fund in New York and the Tisch School of the Arts has invited her a few times to speak about financial planning and wellness to students.
"Most artists believe they don't need to know about money, but actually, artists, more than anyone else, need to know how to plan for the future and how to handle the financial peaks and valleys that we encounter in our profession," she says.
That's why the first and most important part of Edoga's nine-step financial education and wellness program is 'mindset,' since getting an artist to buy into the idea that financial planning applies to them is a huge challenge.
"Artists have got to stop pretending that we can't deal with finances," she says. "What I want artists to recognize is that we can be better artists if we pursue our passion from a place of financial stability and strength. Because I'm now financially secure, I think I'm a better artist than I was. I audition with far less desperation than when I was thinking every moment about things like 'if I book the part, then I could maybe pay off my Visa bill,' so I really focus on the mindset and getting people to realize that [art and financial planning] are inextricably connected and I don't think we can separate our 'artist self' and our 'money self.'"
Artists have to realize that what they're doing is a business and the more organized they are about that business, the less worried they'll be and the more they'll be able to perform their best, agrees Todd Thurston, a New York-based actor and founder of a tax preparation practice that caters toward artists in the performing arts ).
Like Edoga, Thurston, too, spent many years juggling auditions and acting roles with bartending and catering to pay the bills. One day while on the subway enroute to a catering gig, Thurston spotted an ad for H&R Block.
"I'd always done my own taxes," he says, "so it wasn't too difficult for me to complete H&R Block's tax class."
Thurston spent a number of years working for that company during tax season before eventually branching out on his own, and today, he serves a mix of actors, directors, dancers and musicians.
"I like to get artists right off the bus, so to speak, people who may have had their first show and start to make money and don't know what to do," he says. "I show them how they can get their finances organized and reduce their taxes."
Besides being finance and numbers-averse, many artists don't also know that there's a host of financial planning resources available to them. Taxation is a particularly tricky area, Thurston says, but the best thing about being an actor or a performer is that "most of your job is looking for work and according to the IRS, looking for work – pictures, resume, transportation to jobs and so on – can all be folded into your job search as a way of improving your skills in your profession, and that's deductible," he says. "A lot of artists, musicians and dancers get freelance income, so it's even more important to get expenses organized and get proper tax planning advice."
But Thurston, like Edoga, believes that the most important aspect of his career as a tax planner has to do with his own lifestyle and the fact that being financially secure helps him be a better performer.
"Although I tell my agent I can't take a job between February and April because I can't be in rehearsal, I have been on tours during tax season, and with the Internet, I can do both my jobs," he says.


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Creepy. Really creepy.
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Though I'm guessing he spends most of his time doing that anyway.
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Even though I won't be able to sell it to Pete afterward:
Five minutes ago it never even occurred to me that anybody might write tandem as "tandum," and now it turns out that this is actually the preferred spelling on Craigslist.
In other news, America's educators continue to do their very best to frighten children away from riding bicycles and promote the agenda of the Automotive Industrial Complex, and to that end here's a self-proclaimed "former physicist" explaining to a bunch of kids why attempting to ride a bicycle without wearing a helment means certain death:
Okay, how do you become a "former physicist?" Can you be disbarred? If so, I suppose one good way to go about it would be to build a ridiculous medieval watermelon-smashing contraption and use it to scare the shit out of kids--because, as the former physicist explains, "it's just like if you were riding a bike without a helmet."
Yeah, just like it.
Oh, and how do you have a crash on your bicycle? All sorts of ways. See, it's totally beyond your control, as his fellow presenter goes out of her way to explain:
"Or you just fall. Sometimes it just happens. And you don't have to be going fast, it just can happen."
Hear that, kids? It doesn't matter what you do. You have no free will. One minute you're puttering along on the sidewalk at 3mph, and the next minute you're dead. Dead!
See, it's important to create a free-floating specter of terror and anxiety and associate that with riding bicycles in order to make sure kids don't grow up thinking that cycling is a reasonable choice.
Anyway, here's the former physicist loading up his atomic watermelon smasher:
"You don't want that to happen to you," he says, proving conclusively that dropping a heavy hammer on a piece of stationary fruit held firmly in place with a wedge will cause that piece of fruit to explode.
I wonder if it ever makes the former physicist uncomfortable that while Neil deGrasse Tyson is opening millions of children's minds to the infinite possibilities of the universe, he's fucking up perfectly good watermelons to scare kids off bikes--and he's not even succeeding in that, because the kids just think it's hilarious. This guy's not an educator, he's a freaking prop comic! Why not just skip the bullshit propaganda and let the kids watch a Gallagher VHS instead?
"Here's your brain, kids, I'm going to eat your brain!," the co-presenter then doesn't say, but might as well:
But wait! Here's the same stunt again with the watermelon wearing a helment!
And guess what? The hammer puts a big freaking hole in the helment!
"The crack that you see in that is the crack that would have happened to your skull," the former physicist explains:
Yes. He's right. If you build a catapult out of a shipping pallet and a hammer, pull the hammer back, place your head under it, and then let the hammer go, you will probably crack open your skull. I can't wait until his next demonstration, wherein he uses a pile driver and a bunch of bananas to show you why riding a skateboard without a cup will pulverize your genitals.
Hey, I'm no physicist, former or otherwise, but I do know this: if anyone ever tries to teach any one of my seventeen (17) children a "lesson" like this, I'll put that watermelon right up their ass.
Anyway, there are way worse things out there for kids than riding a bike without a helment, and most of them are considered good in this country. Take religion for example. "Wait, you mean you'll fill my children's heads with lies and molest them? Sounds great, sign 'em up!"
Lastly, there's a "pop-up Cat Café" in Manhattan now:
Meanwhile, a few miles north in Yonkers, there's a vacant lot full of cat corpses:
Choose your reality.


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Earlier this week, Kelly Slater became the first person to win 11 ASP World Titles. Presumably the ASP title is fairly prestigious, but the press release doesn't elaborate.
Anyway, Kelly is almost 40 years old yet it seems like only yesterday that he was ripping it up on Baywatch. Undoubtedly he feels the same way since he doesn't "see why at 50 I can't be in better shape than I am now. If anything I'd like to try to represent that to people. I eat well and I talk about it and I walk the walk and it shows in my ability physically."
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VIDEO: Danish zoo officials put down giraffe and then skin and dismember it in front of visitors. WARNING: Graphic images. Discretion advised
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Copenhagen Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and 500,000 euros ($680,000) from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it Sunday to follow inbreeding recommendations made by a European association.
The two-year-old male giraffe, named Marius, was put down using a bolt pistol and its meat will be fed to carnivores at the zoo, spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro said. Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected.
Marius' plight triggered a wave of online protests and renewed debate about the conditions of zoo animals. Before the giraffe was killed, an online petition to save it had received more than 20,000 signatures.
Stenbaek Bro said the zoo, which now has seven giraffes left, was recommended to put down Marius by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria because there were already a lot of giraffes with similar genes in the organization's breeding program.
The Amsterdam-based EAZA has 347 members, including many large zoos in European capitals, and works to conserve global biodiversity and to achieve the highest standards of care and breeding for animals.
Stenbaek Bro said EAZA membership isn't mandatory, but most responsible zoos are members of the organization.
Stenbaek Bro said Copenhagen Zoo turned down an offer from a private individual who wanted to buy Marius for 500,000 euros ($680,000). Stenbaek Bro said a significant part of EAZA membership is that the zoos don't own the animals themselves, but govern them, and therefore can't sell them to anyone outside the organization that don't follow the same set of rules.
He said that is important for the breeding programs to work.
When asked if other zoos had offered to take in Marius, the spokesman said yes but didn't specify numbers or which ones.
The zoo's scientific director Bengt Holst said the giraffe breeding program is similar to those used in deer parks, where red deer and fallow deer are culled to keep populations healthy.
"The most important factor must be that the animals are healthy physically and behaviourally and that they have a good life while they are living whether this life is long or short. This is something that Copenhagen Zoo believes strongly in," he said in a statement.
Holst said the zoo doesn't give the giraffes contraceptives because they have "a number of unwanted side effects on the internal organs" and the zoo believes parental care is an important part of the animal's natural behaviour.
The organization Animal Rights Sweden said the case simply highlights what they believe zoos do to animals regularly.
"It is no secret that animals are killed when there is no longer space, or if the animals don't have genes that are interesting enough," the organization said in a statement. "The only way to stop this is to not visit zoos."
It pointed out some zoos work to preserve species of animals, but never individuals.
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Andre Greipel sprints to win in Stage 6 of Tour de France
REIMS, France (AP) — Andre Greipel of Germany won the sixth stage of the Tour de France in a sprint as the pack entered Champagne country, and Vincenzo Nibali of Italy retained the yellow jersey on Thursday.
The German champion collected his sixth career Tour stage victory by outpacing Norway's Alexander Kristoff in second and France's Samuel Dumoulin in third at the end of the 194-kilometer (120-mile) ride from Arras to Reims.
The Lotto Belisol rider burst out of the pack with less than 300 meters left, and clenched his fists, shouting, at the finish. His job was made a bit easier because Marcel Kittel, a fellow German who has won three stages and dominated the sprint finishes, got a flat tire right before the end.
"I had really good punch today, I am really happy," said Greipel, who turns 32 next Wednesday. "Of course I'm not looking at Kittel. I don't need to hide. I am still one of the fastest in the bunch.
"There was a lot of pressure on us, on my shoulders," for a win, he added. "It's a big relief for us."
The peloton faced intermittent drizzle over the mostly flat course, which was well suited for sprinters.
The top standings didn't change, as most of the contenders for victory in the three-week race trailed close behind the muscular Greipel. He was not a challenger for the overall title; like many sprinters, he does not fare well on the climbs that are crucial to winning in Paris. He's nearly 35 minutes behind Nibali.
Overall, Nibali has a two-second lead over teammate Jakob Fuglsang of Denmark. Peter Sagan of Slovakia was third, 44 seconds back.
Two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador, a day after losing about 2 1/2 minutes to Nibali, was dealt another setback on Thursday: His Saxo-Tinkoff teammate Jesus Hernandez dropped out after a crash.
Among other possible contenders, Richie Porte of Australia - who inherited the role of Team Sky leader after the withdrawal of injured defending champion Chris Froome on Wednesday - was 1 minute, 54 seconds back in eighth place. American Andrew Talansky, winner of the Criterium du Dauphine last month, was ninth 2:05 back. Spaniard Alejandro Valverde was 10th, 2:11 back, and compatriot Contador was in 18th, 2:37 behind.
The Tour has another mostly flat Stage 7, a 234.5-kilometer (146-mile) trek from Epernay to Nancy - the second longest stage - on Thursday.


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