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How would you make these doors?2/12
Or maybe a better question is how do you think this one was made? I have to make 2 doors to match this one and am trying to figure the best method of construction. Right now I'm leaning towards fabricating with just a plain square edge shaker style cope and stick, and loose tenons. Then add the molding by gluing to the edge and the plywood panel. Seems simple but I didn't think it was proper technique to glue a somewhat wide molding to a panel? But certainly seems to be what's going on here?
I would cope and stick shaker square style then add shop made molding from my W&H to mdf panel.
Unless you want to buy a huge shaper cutter or run the molding with the stiles and rails as one piece then jack miter.
I see that as a 9 piece frame and panel-
That is a type of door from the middle of the last century called the Miracle door. Why the name, I do not know. Perhaps it is due to the inner frame members and ply introducing an added resistance to movement. I have reproduced them several times. I usually saw the originals made in Red Gum.
It is a 9 pc door, with a frame mitered around the ply panel - and glued to it. And the 4 pc coped and stuck, mortise and tenon rails then go around the inner frame in the conventional manner. The inner frame can also be coped and stuck and then mortises used. Alternately, the profiles (molded onto the frame edges, integral) can be stop mitered at the corners to avoid having to cope or have the tooling made.
I think it desirable to mold the member edges rather than make loose moldings that are likely to come loose over time.
I know Jeff probably doesn't need this, but a simple sketch-
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And, in re-thinking it, I'd do the panel surround in solid stock, vertical grain if available.
dam , are you in FL? i just quoted making those doors. only problem was customer wanted to buy cheap factory doors and apply moulding to both sides. doors were too thin to make exact match but i came close with 2 pieces. a stepped squarish piece, then a stepped flat piece. would have been easier to make complete door.
Mark's cross section is a good way to make the doors. I would do similar, but make a full thickness plow about 1/2" deep into the major frame members, and let the secondary members fit right into it at about 1/4" thinner than the outer frame. Overall width and height variations in the inner frame, as well as stock straightness are more forgiving, in my experience.
We made those to match my own home , we pretty much did it the way Mark drew it .
First of all thanks for all the advice! And No Doug I'm not, but these days with an average temp of right around 9 degrees F, I wish I was!
So I like the idea Mark presented in his sketch, oh and your wrong Mark, I totally needed the sketch:), actually feel kinda dumb for not thinking of it myself! So on that note I'll ask another dumb question....what's the best way to run that profile?
My 1st though is to get the knives made so I can run it vertically as Mark suggested. Then when I run the piece leave it wider than the finished part by 3/8" or so which will support the piece after it's been shaped. Reverse it run it again on the other side. Then lay it flat and run the groove for the panel. Lastly figure out a support and rip off the extra support stock.
sound right?
Not knowing what your dims are I can't say but I'd size the stock panel edge to tongue. Then shape the profile vertically with pads on the outfeed fence to keep the stock from tipping. To cut the groove and rabbet out the tongue, rabbet a piece of ply or MDF just deeper than the dimension of the large flat to the highest step. Use that as a false bed and run it on the largest flat. To cut the groove for the panel, plow a groove in the false bed wide & deep enough to pass the thick part through and feed against the fence again. Another simple sketch attached...
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Thanks a lot Mark! Makes a lot of sense and probably much better than I would have come up with!
For cabinet doors and interiors doors in the past I've always used soft maple with glued up, (engineered), cores. But they were different style doors that lent themselves to hardwoods. The ones in this pic were 2-1/4" thick soft maple with mdf panels and weighed a ton! I'm not getting any younger and so thinking this might be a good situation for either a lighter hardwood, or a softwood since that's what these doors were typically made of. Unfortunately I have very little experience with softwoods and most of what I see is riddled with knots and sapwood. So thinking maybe a poplar door? Usually I don't like poplar for doors as it's too soft IMHO, but it's at least as hard as the Gum wood used for the originals. Oh and I'd still use the engineered stiles and rails.
What are you guys using for these types of interior doors?
For two doors I would try to do this with out buying cutters. Also I can't figure out how put the moulding around the panel then put that whole part in the stile and rails and have it fit perfectly.
1) Make stile and rails with typical dado and assemble.
2) With straight cutters make a piece that has the first two drops, a tongue on one side to go into the stile and rail and a dado on the panel side. Put in door with coped joinery. with glue.
3) Add a molding stop into the dado you just made on the panel side. with glue
4) Make the second section of molding which is just one step.
5) Glue this to one side of molding stop with mitered corners.
6) Flip door over, drop in panel and apply molding on second side.
IMO having that cutter made for two doors would be too $.
Knives would cost less than the labor involved to lay up strips IMO. When you work by yourself, a paycheck often depends on getting it out the door and on to something else. Besides, the knives can be used to make a casing or a base to a crown build out or something of the like. I suggest a tongue into the s&r to be able to utilize a c&p set probably already in hand.To apply the profile to the panel, I'd mitre,spline and glue. It's why I'd recommend vertical grain stock for the profile piece- less chance of expansion/contraction breaking the mitres out. David's suggestion of letting the whole edge into the s&r is the better way yet, but it's up to Jeff if he has the time to make another step in the process. With the tooling I have on hand, I'd have to jack mitre that little part of the groove. Not the worst thing in the world, but time is time...
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We use ribbon sapele to make our doors.
Bass wood would certainly be light....but makes poplar seem hard comparatively. Don't think it would be a durable enough surface? Pattern mahogany is definitely out of the question, that would double the cost of the doors! Then the thought of covering that beautiful wood with paint! I just couldn't do it.
I used some Sapele once for a project, stuff moved all over the place. Ended up having to redo a significant part of the project as a couple parts moved so much. Won't be going down that road again.
I figured poplar may be the next best thing. I'd do pine as well if I could find a clear enough grade. I saw some select pine while I was at the lumberyard the other day, don't think I'd get a rail out of it without a knot, never mind a stile! Don't know where the door manufacturers get their stock but it's not easy to find here.
What about clear alder?
How thick are the stiles and rails? Did you say 2 1/4"? You could use 12/4 quarter or rift sawed white oak. I would choose hardness over weight.
12/4 Rift Oak to make stiles? All due respect, but I don't know if I have ever seen 4 boards 12/4 Rift that would make a stile in my life. I could buy a truckload and never see a board to make a stile, and it would all be top grade. You would have to go to the mill, specify, and be prepared to pay real premiums and then more for proper kiln drying. W Oak is hard to dry.
JeffD would be better off using pattern Honduras for his paint grade doors.
The difficulty of sourcing good stile stock is why stiles are so often made with a b grade core and faces from 1/32 to 1/4" of good wood. That is a solution for many shops, and a good one.
I don't like the time it takes, so I build paint grade in Poplar if it is on the low end, or soft Maple if I can tolerate another 15% in selling price. It is a bit harder and a bit heavier, but is more stable than Poplar for the most part.
I buy about twice what I will need, try to specify or request optimal lengths, pull stiles first, and have plenty of stuff for set-up, drawers, blind panels or smaller stuff. I can glue for width if needed quickly and easily, so that is a card that is often played. I think larger loads give a better percentage of potential stiles than smaller loads. Unit/bundle quantities make it easy for your vendor.
I cannot pick my lumber since all my stuff comes from a distance away, and it would cost twice as much if I added my labor to pick. I do talk to the vendors about what they have, tell them price is not much of a factor, and just request a honest appraisal of what they have on hand.
Yup, Dave is right on, not to mention the fact that quartered rift white oak in general is not cheap or plentiful. I've used a lot of the stuff over the last 5 or 6 years and the thicker stock has gotten a LOT harder to source.
I'm still thinking about using poplar for the laminated core. Is it unwise to use soft maple for a face? I've always done my doors with same species throughout. Just use the offcuts and less desirable pieces for the core and prime stuff gets re-sawn for faces and edges.
I'm about 50/50 when it comes to sourcing lumber. Something like a kitchen I'll pick up the phone and get it delivered. Interior doors I'll still make the trip and pick my stock. Those guys picking aren't going to take time or effort to get me the best pieces. I've had a couple deliveries where I was tempted to send it back it was such poor quality! But as a small shop I also don't want to get on the bad side of my suppliers, so sometimes have to bite my tongue. Besides sometimes it's good to get out of the shop and take a ride....my main supplier is about a 40 minute drive, so not too bad. Of course was a lot easier from my last shop....only about 20 min.
I don't think using a maple face over poplar core would be a problem for paint grade.
Ok so I started the doors last week and am making progress. I've decided to go with the poplar for the doors and see how it goes. Since it's only 2, and it's local, and the family are good clientele who will report back if anything is amiss....it's a good place to see how it works out.
Anyway I have the outer stiles and the inner frame parts all milled. So what I'm wondering now is best way to assemble? I'm thinking of going the way I think Dave was saying, which is to glue the inner frame members to the plywood panel. Then have that entire panel assembly "floating" in the stiles and rails as a normal panel would? I just have to come up with something to keep it centered as I don't think spaceballs are gonna work here.
I thought David was suggesting that you house the inner frame in a dado as wide as the frame is thick so as not to have to size the parts so exactly. Your photo shows the inner frame tongued rather than fully housed.Do you plan to have a slight reveal around the inner frame?
Given that scenario I would use some sticky backed foam weatherstrip to center the inner frames .
Is that Plumaply you are using for the panels?
Sorry, I meant Jeff. I wish there was an edit function.
Thanks Kevin, looking back I think I've started mixing up the different methods guys have proposed! I really didn't like how thin the stile edge would get though if I recessed the entire assembly into the s&r's and decided against that method.
Right now I'm deciding between gluing the inner frame to the outer frame tight and letting the panel float. Or leaving a reveal between inner and outer with the inner floating, and gluing the panel to the inner frame.
There is one last section of profile about 3/32" x 1/2" that will be loose until final assembly and will be the last step between inner and outer frame and would cover any reveal. Though the more I think it through at this point it's probably better to glue the frames together into a solid piece and let the panel float. Otherwise that last piece is going to be problematic. My concern is will the miters then become a problem?


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Hi all...well I had a very unfortunate event happen to me last weekend. I had shot about 10 or so arrows through my brand new Iceman bow when this happened:
As I drew my brand new Iceman bow back to full draw as I always do, I heard a small crack, a small piece of plastic fell to the ground and the string kept pulling way past my anchor point. I was a little bit dumbfounded as all of the slack came out of the bow. I looked at the bow and noticed that the string had un-looped off of both cams on each end. I put the bow down and noticed that the cable was stuck on the draw length adjustment screw. I lightly touched the screw to see if the broken plastic piece came from it when CRACK! The cable released from the screw. It ended up smacking my thumb. I spent 4 hours in the ER yesterday. The cable ended up breaking my thumb, cutting it for numerous stitches and ripping half of my nail off. I honestly didn't wrench on it or try to un-lodge anything. I just gently touched the screw to see what was going on.
The force that was released onto my thumb and onto the bow ended up blowing off the bottom limbs and breaking off the two black plastic pieces. Clearly, there was a lot of force that was released when the cable dislodged from that screw. Now, I truly don't know if this was a once in a million freak accident, or if it is something that may happen again to someone else under the very same specific circumstances. So please, if this happens to you, DO NOT TOUCH THE BOW!! Put it in its case very carefully and bring it in to a shop.
Needless to say, my thumb is pretty messed up because of the malfunction in the bow. I am going to see a plastic surgeon next week to see if they need to operate and repair it.
I have contacted Diamond just in case that if in very specific conditions this may happen to someone else. My draw length is 28" and that may be a perfect condition to have this happen again, who knows. It was so bizarre and happen so fast.
So please listen to this because you do not want what happened to me.
PS The bow was awesome and I am in no way bashing the bow. I am excited to get my thumb healed up and am excited to get my replacement Iceman bow. I think that Diamond bows are fantastic and that this may have been a freak accident. I love my Diamond Rock and my wife loves her Razors Edge.
Here are some pics:
1) Bow aftermath
2) This is the reverse side of the draw adjustment screw/stopper....you can see how the rubber bit was cut and where you can see the red that is where the plastic piece broke off from
3) This was the small piece of plastic that fell after I heard the cracking sound
4) This is what the pressure did to my bow after the cable snapped off
5) You can see the reverse side of the draw adjustment screw/stopper and how bent it is
6) That is where the cable got stuck
I do want to say that I purchased this bow from a store and it was set up for me. I did not adjust anything my self other than putting on the stabilizer, rest and wrist sling. I guess this is a lesson learned.
Basically I think the cable wrapped around my thumb when it released...it ripped the front top left part of my thumb off....it tore the left base part of my thumb nail out and it was hanging over the skin....a large flap of skin was ripped out of the left side of the thumb and a deep cut was on the right side....all in all ...a couple stitches.......my nail had to be cut off and then the rest of it put back under the skin......and to boot ...my thumb was snapped in half between the base of the nail and my first knuckle....apparently there are some chunks floating..... But hey it could have been my face or cut my thumb off...so all in all...a lesson learned and in a couple of weeks.....it should be holding a bow and flinging an arrow.


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February 15, 2010
Magical Monday - Lace & Circle
Well, that's it for me for today! Hope you had a nice Valentine's Day, I certainly did!! Thanks for stopping by and double thanks if you left me some loving comments!! Have a colorful day!!
10 comments:
- The Other Patti Sue said...
This is so bright and cheery! Love the image and how you colored it! The shape of your card is awesome and I love how you did your sentiment!
- February 15, 2010 at 7:44 AM
- A Consuming Passion said...
Yes I really like your bright and cheery card too Nina!!
Love the template you've made and the way you added your red lace. Oh and the paper flower is gorgeous!!
- February 15, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- Payne Holler Cards said...
love all the details! you did awesome job with all those colors!
- February 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Kim Mc said...
OMG Nina, such a perky card!! Great combo of all the different elements and as usual, all of us got to use such fab images from you this week! Thanks! aloha, Kim
- February 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM
- Toni said...
Such a cute and colorful card! Love the image and the way you put the sentiments it. Glad to see good use of all that ribbon.
- February 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- Patti J said...
Everything about this card is fun! I love the image, and those Bic markers are SO colorful! Thanks for posting such a happy card! You made me smile!!!
- February 16, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- Patti J said...
OMG...I forgot to tell you - that flower ROCKS!!! You could make a few of them up for a prize some week! (wait until I can win again!!!)
- February 16, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- Nilla said...
Nina, this is too cute! The colors are absolute fantastic! Love it! Hugs Nilla
- February 17, 2010 at 1:37 AM
- Selma said...
This is a bright and cheery card. I love that image. The flower and lace are perfect embellishments.
- February 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- Danielle said...
You always manage to create such vibrant fun cards Nina! I don't think I'm bold enough to incorporate all these gorgeous colours into one card - but you are and it works so beautifully!
Hugs, Danielle
- February 21, 2010 at 6:49 PM


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The Canucks did play their best game of the series and looked like they were going to force a fifth game back in Vancouver on Thursday night when Burrows and Alex Edler scored goals two minutes apart midway through the third period to give Vancouver a 3-2 lead.
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Okay that was a wild close! The U.S. Airways crash in New York sparked some selling which may have been a knee jerk reaction (thinking possible terrorism?). Once it turned out that everyone evacuated safely and that it was likely due to geese, the market picked right back up into a more bullish close and I got a little bit long biased for tomorrow as that's what the close was saying. Miraculous that everyone survived the ditching, terrific job on the part of the crew as well as the boats on the Hudson river to get everyone out! Way to go!
Having geese take out both engines on takeoff is obviously a very dangerous thing. It seems to me that the pilots kept their cool and kept the airframe under control to guide it to a water landing in an otherwise very populated area. Then the flight attendants and passengers did a good job getting everyone out once they were in the water… that's why you don't want to always choose who you fly with based solely on cost!
Back to stocks… For the day the DOW managed to close UP 12 points, which wasn't much of a gain, but it was a big reversal. The S&P closed up .13%, the NDX was up strongly with a 1.7% gain, the RUT led the way up with a plus 2.1% showing. Notable is the XLF which lost 4.6% and split from IYR today which closed UP 2.9%.
The VIX, which was up 10% early in the day closed up 3.8%. Bonds closed mixed on the day, still above the channel they had been in.
Okay, here's the DOW daily so you can see we posted a "green" doji on higher volume. That one looks a lot more bullish than the one I posted in my last update. We hit 8,000, bounced, did a perfect 50% retrace of that bounce and then made a move back up into the close:
It's the same basic picture on the SPX daily, a doji, but the NDX and RUT candles look stronger, the NDX was darn near engulfing, but not quite.
Let's take a look at the 10 day, 10 minute SPX chart. You can see that we broke that ending diagonal and that's when I "ditched" the last of my short positions and went long which turned out to be an excellent play. The stochastic is mixed, on the 60 minute there's a lot of room to run higher but the 20 minute is overbought. Also note that there's what looks like a potential small inverted Head & Shoulder on this chart with the neckline at the 850 level (dark green double line). A break of this neckline higher would target about 875 or so:
From an Elliott Wave perspective it looks like we either just began wave 2 up of 5 down, or we may have just began wave 'c' up of the larger wave 'B'. The break higher out of that ending diagonal looked impulsive and is steep like what you would expect for either of those two possibilities.
Another news item today is that the House Democrats offered up an $825 billion stimulus package that would include money for the states and tax cuts. Lovely.
Intel reported a 90% decline in earnings after the bell which met their already lowered expectations and that has the NDX futures up a little. RIMM was a big winner today, too, up 9.2% on the day.
So, overall it looks like a possible reversal day. We'll need follow through tomorrow which is Opex and then we can start to look at how long the rally could last or go. This has the potential to be a good sized retrace as it's most likely the start of either wave 2 or wave 'c'… either of which could run. Of course I caveat that with the fact that it's a technical rally if it goes, the fundamentals have NOT changed and this is still very much a bear market. Consumer sentiment comes out tomorrow morning and now that we're into earnings season the possibilities of a tape bomb can come at any time.
Did you see that AIG is paying out more than $150 million more in bonuses to retain their "top people?" That would be our money, yours and mine rewarding their risk taking and bad behavior! Isn't that grand?
Let me bounce this idea off everyone to see if the idea sticks… A trading friend and I spend the day chatting on a very fast and cool instant messenger service that allows us to communicate and trade charts in real time – boy is that ever helpful for spotting things you otherwise might miss. It's like doubling your vision of the market. It really helped today and we caught every corner by using teamwork. I've always said that investing is a TEAM sport, there's no reason to be a loner when it comes to trying to make money. So, we think it's so cool that we're talking about maybe opening up the conversation to people to view (for only a very small fee). If that interests you, drop me an email and let me know, it would be experimental to start and later we may make it a formal service and even invite certain experienced traders to contribute.
Good communications are important to staying wealthy, as is communicating well with a lot of crewmembers while piloting a large aircraft. I have always said that flying the aircraft, for me, was the easy part, communicating well with everyone else was the hard part… Thank goodness the people on board that flight were okay, you never know what might happen, so let's appreciate the time we have! You never know, you could lose it all in a New York minute.
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LEDs may represent the energy efficient future of lighting, but for the second time this week a leading manufacturer has demonstrated that it's a rocky business at present.
Durham, N.C.-based Cree Inc. reported that first quarter sales ending Sept. 25 sales nudged up a mere 0.2 percent to $269 million, compared to the same quarter a year ago, even though this year's results include sales from Ruud, the Racine, Wisc. outdoor LED specialist that Cree acquired for around $525 million in August.
Cree's profits plunged 78 percent, to $12.8 million, echoing a profits squeeze that lighting giant Philips also reported earlier this week.
The industry has faced a fall-off in demand for LED chips from the backlit TV market, and consumers are balking at paying the likes of $40 for LED bulbs.
According to analyst Brian Colello of investment firm Morningstar, Cree actually recorded "healthy growth" in sales of lighting fixtures and components (packaged lamps that other manufacturers build into things like signs and indicators), but suffered from a retrenchment in the TV and mobile device markets.
The shrinking profit margins alarmed Colello and other analysts.
"Cree's gross margin dipped 170 basis points to 36% because of a shift in product mix toward lower-margin LED fixtures, as well as ongoing pricing pressure in LED chips and components," Colello said in an investment brief. "In turn, the operating margin declined to 5%, down from 8% in the June quarter and 27% in the year-ago quarter."
Stock analyst Jeffrey Bencik of Kaufman Brothers in New York was equally unimpressed. According to a Bloomberg report, he lowered his price target by nearly 20 percent, to $19 from $23, and recommended selling the stock. "With the overall global economy in a seriously compromised situation, you don't have consumers willing to spend even $25 on an LED light," he said.
Morningstar's Colello did not anticipate a near-term turnaround. He forecasts mid-single-digit second quarter revenue growth in Cree's non-Ruud business. "Cree's gross margin forecast of 37%-38% is troubling," he wrote. "Even though the firm's product mix has shifted toward faster-growing but lower-margin LED fixtures, Cree generated gross margins in the high 40s just a year ago. The firm hinted that it might take some time for it to revert to its long-term target of gross margins in the low 40s."
LED lightbulbs are built around light emitting diode chips. They augur a tremendous reduction in end-user energy bills and CO2 emissions because they use about 20 percent of the electricity of an incandescent bulb. Although prices are declining , they remain well above the price of incandescents. Vendors say they are worth the extra money because they slash utility bills and last as long as 25 years, virtually eliminating the need to ever replace them.
But critics note that LED bulbs can fail within a year, as components other than the diode break. They also complain that LED bulbs do not provide the same warmth as traditional lighting .
Photo: Cree
More LED rough-and-tumble:
- The tough business of LEDs
- Affordable LED bulbs? Japan has 'em
- When good lights go bad: LED breakdown
- The hot and cold of LED lighting
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com


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July 11, 2011
Allan H. "Bud" Selig
Q. Welcome to MLB.com and FanFest in Phoenix, Arizona. It's 2011 and another midsummer tradition continues. It's time for the Commissioner's Town Hall Chat streamed live throughout the world. Everyone please help me welcome commissioner Bud Selig. Commissioner, Phoenix, the first All-Star Game in Phoenix, and it's clear the city I has opened its heart and welcomed baseball with open arms.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: It's been wonderful. I have a very soft spot in my heart for Phoenix, because it's my second home and I'm here a lot in the winter and spring. So when we flew in here last night, for us, it's like coming home. So very happy.
Q. It's been a beautiful welcome here in downtown, unbelievable and as we continue this tradition what started 11 years ago as answering some Internet questions from your offices has evolved into a worldwide distribution of a live event, as FanFest has evolved. That's been quite an evolution.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Yes, it has and MLB's evolution has been remarkable, to say the least, and just a joy to watch. And I love doing this. I love talking to fans.
For those of you who remember when I was president of the Brewers and walked around, I would walk County Stadium during every game, and it was fun, frankly. And it's helped me as the Commissioner because I was a fan myself for a long time, still am great fan. But I think I understand how fans feel, and so a lot of the innovations are as a result of this.
So I enjoy doing this. There are a lot of people here, different uniforms. We even have some Brewer fans here I see in various quarters, we have Nationals and Diamondbacks, of course, naturally, who are having by the way a remarkable year, having an absolutely remarkable year.
Q. And it's exciting for Chase Field, they have had the World Baseball Classic and the World Series and now we'll round it out on Tuesday night with the All-Star Game.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Yeah, it will be a great Home Run Derby tonight, with a different format this year. We have Big Poppy, David Ortiz, who is the captain of the American League and we have some Red Sox fans. We have Red Sox fans everywhere, I know that, there's no question about it.
And Prince Fielder of the Brewers is the captain for the National League, and so they have really assembled two really wonderful teams. So I'm really excited about tonight. Tonight should be tremendous and the game itself will be great, and so great to be here in Phoenix, Arizona.
Q. This first question is from Matt, when are we going to see some All-Star skills contests, throwing competitions, accuracy, speed contests, just like the NHL does. That would be great.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Yeah, and it would be interesting. Of course, we do have some skills now, you are you'll see the skills of guys hitting balls tonight, maybe out of Maricopa County, but whatever. This is something you want to be a little bit careful. You take your players in the middle of the season, and if you get into throwing contests, speed contests -- you don't want anybody getting hurt.
And so we have talked a lot about that and it's a good idea, but I have some significant trepidation about that.
Q. And that is the delicate balance in an exhibition.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: It certainly is. Because we have great parity. We have lots of great division races going on, in every division, matter of fact. So you don't want to have our great Midsummer Classic allow players get hurt because of some things we do, so we have to be very careful.
Q. Since All-Star is an event voted on by fans, can the break be changed so starting pitchers can pitch? It seems a shame to vote someone in and they can't play for a reason other than injury, this year, perhaps two of the finest starters in baseball won't get a chance to play.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, we talked a lot about that, and actually Joe Torre and I talked about it last night at dinner again. We are going to try to figuring something else out.
But look, if a pitcher pitches on Sunday, while Tuesday could be his normal throwing day, the most he could pitch is an inning. Again, you don't want to do something with a pitcher that, heaven forbid, he hurts his shoulder or his elbow, so you really have to be careful. You really want to do this.
And so, no, I understand, C.C. Sabathia is having another wonderful year and Justin Verlander, who has overpowered the opponents this year. But if you pitch on a Sunday, and I've talked to a lot of managers about this, it's very tough to put him on a team and know he can pitch maybe an evening at the most.
Q. It would certainly put the managers in a spot.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: That's true.
Q. As a fan of the traditional National League-style game, I think it is the thinking and strategic aspects of our game that separates us from the brutish, overly fast-paced sports around the world. Are there any plans to remove or expand the DH?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: None at the moment. I was there in December of 1972 when the American League voted the DH in. The only idea of Charlie Finley's by the way that I ever voted for. I voted against about 11,000 of them, all of which were bad. But we needed more offense at the time. The Brewers were in the American League, and so I got to watch the DH, and of course I've watched a lot of National League games and I really love that part of it, too.
I think the best way it was said to me was when Bill Giles, who is the chairman of the Philadelphia Phillies, not a controversial guy at all; father had been president of the National League and been in baseball all his life. He says, you know, not bad, a little controversy between the leagues on this issue. What I would say to you, it would take some catalytic event, some huge realignment or something like that, to deal with this issue.
But at the moment, the National League clubs love the game the way it's being played. American League clubs love the DH. We are trying to make the necessary adjustments in between. It's hard to believe, but we have been doing this for 39 years now. So I think at the moment, no.
Q. And it's amazing that some things that were just ideas at one point are now traditions.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: You bet. That's true.
Q. Is Major League Baseball going to expand instant replay for calls other than home runs, like calls along the foul lines?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: You know, I have a special committee that has four managers -- well, three managers now, and Joe Torre, who of course works for me running the on-the-field baseball operations; Jimmy Leyland of Detroit, Mike Scioscia of the Angels and Tony La Russa of the St. Louis Cardinals, three great managers, plus four general managers, four executives and Frank Robinson and George Will. We have discussed a lot of things and I must tell you, in baseball, I find not a great appetite for increasing instant replay.
However, there are some things that we are talking about, and we may make a few more significant adjustments to the instant replay rule, but we are discussing that. They have a lot of on-field experience and a lot of executive experience.
Q. What would it take to have the ballparks extend the protective netting to surround the dugouts? Could we have extended netting in place for the 2012 season?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: That's an age-old argument, and discussion. When I ran a club, and you know, every time you see a line drive get hit in the stands, you get very nervous.
Fortunately, the accidents are extremely rare, thank goodness. You do worry about it. The problem with putting netting up all over is that you really obstruct the view of people, and I used to make -- take surveys of our season ticket customers and I know other clubs do, too, as to whether they would like it or not. That was always overwhelmingly against.
So while you worry, and we have had this horrible heartbreaking tragedy in Texas this week, which is almost beyond human comprehension, quite frankly, I would say no, not at the present time.
Q. Not now, and probably not in 2012 for sure.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: No, definitely not in 2012.
Q. With the NFL and NBA both currently in lockouts, is MLB paying close attention to each labor situation? What can be done so MLB does not it find itself in that same position?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, let me say to you that we were there back in the 90s. And my baseball career, which started in 1970, we had eight work stoppages, and one became more painful than the other, really painful, really, really painful.
So I'm very sensitive; I think of the many things I'm proud of about my commissioner ship, is that we have had 16 years of labor peace, unprecedented in baseball history, that nobody ever thought this was possible, including me.
So I'm very sensitive to what's going on in the other sports. And we have started our negotiation, and they have been constructive, but it's early, and I hope that continues, because the game has grown so much over the past 18 years. There are many reasons for it, and one can debate the reasons, but labor peace has to be right up there as No. 1 or two.
Q. It seems it creates a collaborative passion for the sport.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Sure, no question about it. And look, fans hate work stoppages, hate team owners arguing with baseball players, and I understand all that. I do. So, so far, so good, and I hope we'll have many more years of labor peace without any interruption.
Q. This next question is from Samuel. What is going to be done about the Los Angeles Dodgers' situation?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, at least we waited until the fifth or sixth question before we got to the Dodgers, so that's good. That should be a moral victory.
You know I have installed Tom Schieffer there, who is a former Texas ranger executive, and former ambassador to Australia, former ambassador to Japan, he's a marvelous person. And John Allen, who was president of the Cincinnati is Reds has been there with him. And as everybody knows, Mr. McCourt has filed for bankruptcy, and we are in bankruptcy court in a tough situation with him, and time will tell.
Q. You talked about labor, and this situation; is this the most complex situation you've faced as a commissioner?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, you all look at what's going on: This is complex; Texas was complex. I've had a lot of others, the whole labor situation changing the economic structure of the game was really complex.
So every time I want to question that, when it gets in these difficult situations that keep you up at night, a lot of people will say to me, sometimes kidding, well, that's why you're there, Bud. So I've sort of come to accept that as a way of life.
Q. It becomes the job.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: It is.
Q. This was via Facebook.com/MLB from Tim. Realistically, how far away are we from divisional realignment?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, I know that there have been some stories about it lately, which I found to be somewhat not only premature, but I've always had realignment on my mind. I had it in my mind in '96 and '97. Gave the Kansas City Royals six weeks to switch to the National League. David Glass, a very fine owner, decided not to, and so the Milwaukee Brewers switched because the Braves had been there, and were originally a National League time. But I've always had it on my mind, but I've talked to people about it from time to time.
But you asked me, is there anything imminent? No.
Q. What is the latest on the possible relocation to San Jose for the A's franchise?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, the latest is, I have a small committee who has really assessed that whole situation, Oakland, San Francisco, and it is complex. You talk about complex situations; they have done a terrific job. I know there are some people who think it's taken too long and I understand that. I'm willing to accept that. But you make decisions like this; I've always said, you'd better be careful. Better to get it done right than to get it done fast. But we'll make a decision that's based on logic and reason at the proper time.
Q. And this is an issue that's been almost a tradition now to look into, and you guys have carried that on year after year.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: We have.
Q. The cope of the game has obviously expanded and that leads us into our next question, worldwide. Vincenzo from Italy: Will a worldwide MLB draft be implemented next season?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: I hope so. It's part of our labor negotiation. I believe in an international draft. I believe in slotting for free agents.
You know, you use a series of mechanisms to really level the playing field in terms of talent. And we did that starting in the 90s with a lot of different things, and carried on. And where this is important, I've always said -- we talked about fans before.
In baseball, I used to make this speech when I ran the Brewers, but today I believe it's the most important part of my job and our job: That hope and faith, everywhere, whether it's Phoenix, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, on and on, every club, or as many clubs as possible on April 1 have what I call hope and faith; hope and faith that their team will be competitive.
And so what I would say to you, is that all of these things have worked. We have more competitive balance, or parity, call it whatever you want that ever, ever before. So I believe when we talk about this that -- I think that it's very important that we provide all of the clubs a level playing field so they have a chance to have hope and faith.
And so I believe in the worldwide draft. I believe in slotting, and, yes, that's part of our labor negotiation.
Q. That's exciting because talking about hope and faith, it would give to players around the world certainly a fair amount of. That?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: You bet.
Q. We of move on to Michael from Springfield. MLB has encouraged fans to suggest players they would like to see participate in the Home Run Derby through online voting. Do you foresee taking this one step further and allowing fans to actually select the participants?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: As I said earlier, we went to a different device this year that we chose David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox, who certainly has been a great part of this game, for a long, long time, and a great player, I may add; and Prince Fielder, who is having a great year, and who has had a number of great years.
So nobody can quarrel with Prince Fielder or David Ortiz, and we let them pick their guys, and I think they did a terrific job. I have to say, I think this is the best field we've ever had. And they are different players from different teams. Tonight I think you're going to see some real fireworks, and I know, Big Poppy will want to beat Prince's team and Prince will feel the same way about David Ortiz. So this should be terrific. And I couldn't think of two better people to do that.
Q. It was exciting in that sense of school yard baseball.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: You bet.
Q. Let's move on to Bryce from Evergreen. I'm a Colorado Rockies season ticket holder, and I would like to see some of the elite players in the game play when they come to Coors Field. Why can't the DH be used in NL parks and the pitcher hit in AL Parks during interleague play.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: That's a good question and we have talked about that. I want to say, that really is a good question. That is something that we ought to consider, because the National League fans could see the DL and the American League fans will see the game they remember before 1972. I like that suggestion.
Q. So something you would take under advisement?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: You bet, and then some.
Q. Zack from Bakersfield, California has our next question. MLB plays a long season to determine the best teams. The true test of depth and preventing a club from getting hot for two weeks and securing a post-season berth. So why would you advocate adding a one- or three-game playoff series that could throw all of that away for a team in the blink of an eye?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, we started -- you know, I remember when I went to the wild-card. Oh, people were so upset: Oh, this is terrible; oh, my goodness, gracious, this is all; baseball can't do it. Of course, every other sport had been doing it.
Now, of course, everybody loves the wild-card, and it's produced some great moments in history. The Angels winning in 2002. The Red Sox coming back from 3-0 to the New York Yankees.
So the wild-card's worked out great, but we only have eight of 30 teams. That's least number in all sports. If we go to ten, that's ten out of 30, 20 go home. That's not too many; on the contrary, I could make a case for ten; no more than ten, but I could make a case for ten.
Now the question; how many games do you play to determine that. We haven't decided that yet. But I do like ten out of 30. I think that's imminently fair.
Q. And it's still the lowest percentage of any major sport.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: By far.
Q. From Troy: What is MLB doing to improve the quality of its umpiring?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, we grade umpires. We view them on electronic analysis of every ball and strike decision. I know Joe Torre is now spending a lot of time, and actually last night when we were having dinner, a couple of umpires walked in. Fortunately both of them have had very good years so, it was an easy meeting.
But we work at it, every day, every game, and I will sit -- the best nights I have, I can sit and watch all 15 games when I'm home. So I see a lot of things, too.
But we are very mindful of it and I will continue to be mindful of it.
Q. Are you surprised by how much scrutiny that seems to get in general?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Nothing surprises me anymore. But, well, you know, with instant replay and with all of the video and all of the things going on, they are under a lot of pressure, I have to say. There's no question about that.
But no, I'm not surprised, and overall, they have done a remarkable job. But remember, the first hundred pitches of an umpire gets 100% and then he blows a call on (pitch) 101. The worst part was when I ran the Brewers, I was terrible when it came to umpires. So here I am defending them now every day. But overall, they do a very, very good job. There's no question, we pay attention to every game.
Q. During your tenure, you were able to assist in updating nearly all of the stadiums of the previous generation. I put the lifespan of those parks at about 30 years. Is there an expected lifespan that MLB uses to plan for the distant future of these current ballparks?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: I'm very proud of the fact that we have 22 new ballparks, which is amazing. It's absolutely amazing, changed the game, and the ballparks themselves are so good, because they really reflect the area that they are built in, which wasn't true in the 60s, 70s and 80s, to build these round, circular ballparks that I used to kid people a lot; that if the night before, you may have had too much to drink, you woke up the next morning looking at the ballpark, you couldn't tell where you could have been. You could have been in Pittsburgh, you could have been in Cincinnati, St. Louis. They all looked alike and were built alike, Philadelphia. There were about eight of them.
Now, every ballpark is different. We are lucky, because our ballparks reflect the game. Just take Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium. This is history. This is -- they are called cathedrals and they are, and they reflect the area beautifully. The new ballparks do, too, so I'm very proud of that. We'll continue to build ballparks where we have to. Florida is going to start next year with a beautiful new ballpark, and so we have worked our way through this generation pretty well.
Q. And it is amazing, the character in each club now is represented by the building in which they play; beautiful.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Absolutely.
Q. Chuck from Glenville, New York has our next question. I think the World Series home-field advantage should be determined by the results of the yearly interleague play. Have you ever considered or discussed this option?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Yeah, we have, and I like what we are doing, frankly. And I know that there's some controversy, but I don't understand that.
No. 1, if you took it just on interleague play, I mean, it's exciting -- the one time where they meet one another really in a meaningful game, this is it. Look, the game, the way we did it for many years, was one year you got it and the next year you got it. And, there was no brainpower there. It was just one year the American League got it and one year the National League got it.
This has added life to the game. Give you the example. In 2002 in Milwaukee, and people think that that's why I did it, and it wasn't. That was the year there was a tie. Players are leaving in the third or fourth inning. There seems to be, what I remembered as a kid growing up, showing you my age here, in 1950, I was in Comiskey Park, the great Ted Williams, left fielder of the Boston Red Sox, maybe the greatest hitter of all time went against the wall in Comiskey Park and broke his elbow. He played all 14 innings, and it was amazing.
So we had to do something that brought the game back. It is the Midsummer Classic. But what do we do? We added this rule.
The next year in Chicago, game tied, home run in the eighth inning, you look at both dugouts, and there they are, every player there, every player on the top step.
I'll never forget in the ninth inning, Rafael Furcal hit a long fly ball that looked like a home run and thought, oh, no, don't tell me, we are going to have another tie. But it was caught at the wall. You could tell players were excited.
And since then, the games have been very competitive. I like that. I like the rule, and as far as I'm concerned, as long as I'm around, the rule stays.
Q. Well, this will be our final one from MLB.com. Kevin W. from Oxford. Is there a possibility of seeing a salary cap in this new Collective Bargaining Agreement?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: No. But we have done a lot of economic things that I really have moved the game forward. It's been really helpful. The fact that you're seeing the competitive balance today that you're seeing, think about this.
Pittsburgh has made an amazing comeback. The Cleveland Indians have made a remarkable comeback. Every division has races. We have at least 20 clubs who are still very much in it, and maybe more. We have some teams like Minnesota who are now I think only six games out this morning. So the economic system has changed. It's completely restructured, and you know what it's working.
So we use different mechanisms and devices to provide and do the things that we have to get where we are.
Q. Certainly nobody can argue that it's been a thrilling era in baseball.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: No question. No question about it.
Q. With the recent Buster Posey collision and related injury, there was a lot of discussion within the media regarding the need to protect the catchers, is there anything on Major League Baseball's agenda to do that?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: When that happened, the terrible injury to Buster Posey, I've worried about that and I've seen a lot of collisions since then. But I immediately called Joe Torre, who, after all, caught, when I first knew Joe back in 1960 when he was a catcher with the Milwaukee Braves, and then for a long time. And I know -- and he said to me, there's no reason to change it, and he went through a long list of reasons why.
Mike Scioscia who was a great catcher for the Dodgers for years said the same thing. Johnny Bench came out and said the same thing. No, I really don't think there's any reason to change the rule. I think everybody's got to be a little bit more mindful, but I'll take the advice from people who have caught for years and they don't think there's any reason to change.
Q. I called my dad this morning, he's 89 years old, I bought him a ticket but he couldn't come today. He had a question. When did you get involved with baseball? When was the time that you really knew that you wanted to get involved?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Well, that's -- I'll tell you as briefly as I can. It was my mother who got me interested in baseball when I was about four years old. My father would go to games just to be, so, that we could be together, but it was my mother who really created a great interest in baseball.
And when I was in college, I really thought I was going to be a history professor. I was coming back to the University of Wisconsin and went in the service and got out. And then the Braves left Milwaukee years later, and took a lot of history -- four years trying to get a club, and then in 1970 we finally got a team and the history is well known.
So I do go back to Madison, the University, because I'm teaching a class there, and I think back, I never could have envisioned this. But it did happen. But that's how it all happened. It was a long story, which I could add to that, but in the end, I'm going to give my mother credit for creating the interest, because she did.
Q. So we have your mother to thank then I'd say, glad about that.
COMMISSIONER SELIG: Thank you.
Q. There's been a lot of talk about speeding up the tempo of the ballgames. My suggestion to you is to think about enforcing three rules that are already in the rule book. There's a rule in there that allows the umpire to add a strike if the batter takes too long, to add a ball if the pitcher takes too long and to call a balk if the pitcher takes too long to pitch. Is there any real problem with enforcing those rules?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: No, I don't think so. I agree. We talk about that all the time. We may need some other rule changes, but you are right. A lot of hitters will tell me -- and when I say this, I've said it publically, so I'll say it again.
Hitters get out of the box, ball one. And now they are out and they are adjusting all their equipment, well, hell, they didn't swing, so there's nothing really to adjust, but they do it anyway. And pitchers will kick dirt and walk around and do all those kind of things that they do. But I must tell you that, yeah, we are going tone force the rules and then some. But that's a very good question and your solution a correct one.
Q. Thanks for that one. Before we go, when you first became commissioner and acting commissioner, could you have foreseen the growth of this entire week, of the growth of baseball worldwide in the way that it has?
COMMISSIONER SELIG: No, I can't tell you. I sometimes have to stop and pinch myself. In 1992, hard to believe it's 19 years now. The greatest barometer, because the sport today is more popular than it's ever been, by far, by anything that you want to it use, any barometer, any criteria.
And it's gross revenue was 1.2 billion. We were lagging. The sport had hit a period for about 20 years where we were lagging. And this year the gross revenue will be about $7.5 billion. It's had meteoric growth in attendance, television and popularity and everything else. You know, we have changed a lot of things, and been very fortunate. They have worked.
I'm proud of the sport, I really am, in every way.
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Long-haul Covid-19 raises new questions about HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This site has reported on HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for 15 years.
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Trigger warning: the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome will devastate snowflakes!
The first newspaper to understand the significance of HHV-6
Now you can read the whole history of the newspaper that broke the HHV-6 story in The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic cover-up.
We need a new age of AIDS activism that links Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to AIDS.
The CFS/AIDS New Deal calls for equal funding for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS research, treatment, and prevention, and that they be researched side-by-side to determine if they are actually one epidemic. The CFS/AIDS New Deal also calls for a special institute to study the role of HHV-6 in the CFS/AIDS epidemic now that Bhupesh Prusty has made it clear that it is the key to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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On April 16, 1996, Congressman Jerrold Nadler spoke on the floor of Congress about his request for a General Accounting investigation into how the CDC had handled the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic. Nadler did that at the urging of Charles Ortleb, the publisher and the New York Native and his reporter Neenyah Ostrom. Ortleb and Ostrom had made the case to Nadler that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the virus it had been linked to, HHV-6, were serious public health issues.
In an interview in New York Native with Neenyah Ostrom,Congressman Nadler said, "Congress can mandate research into CFS as a viral disease. Maybe it will turn out that HHV-6A is the cause of CFS; maybe it will turn out that other viruses are involved. But Congress can mandate research into CFS as a contagious, viral disease. I will certainly try to get Congress to do that as soon as possible."
Unfortunately, back in 1996, Nadler's warning to Congress and the medical establishment fell on deaf ears. But now that the Democrats have regained power in the House of Representatives, the newly prominent Congressman Nadler may finally be able to bring the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic and HHV-6 to the public's attention.
This book by Charles Ortleb, which details Neenyah Ostrom's diligent reporting on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is necessary reading for anyone who wants to know the whole history of an epidemic which has been hidden in plain sight. For a decade, starting in 1988, Ostrom reported on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the damage that the virus HHV-6 does to patients. What her reporting uncovered about the true nature of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will shock you.
In The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, Charles Ortleb recounts his newspaper's fascinating struggle to get the medical and political establishment to pay attention to Ostrom's pioneering investigative reporting on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
By the time you finish Ortleb's stunning memoir, you will understand why the CDC has been unwilling to tell the public the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The CDC does not want the public to know that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a transmissible illness linked to a virus that affects every system in the body. They have covered up the illness for so many decades that the neglected virus is totally out of control. Now it is causing a long list of other illnesses and many cancers. The CDC has put us all in danger.
Ostrom's decade of reporting on HHV-6 was recently vindicated by this statement from scientists at the University of Wurzburg:"While HHV-6 was long believed to have no negative impact on human health, scientists today increasingly suspect the virus of causing various diseases such as multiple sclerosis or chronic fatigue syndrome. Recent studies evensuggest that HHV-6 might play a role in the pathogenesis of several diseases of the central nervous system such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or Alzheimer's."
The big question about Neenyah Ostrom and New York Native is this: How many lives would have been saved if the scientific establishment and the mainstream media had paid more attention to Neenyah Ostrom's reporting on HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in New York Native?
One day, if there is any justice in the world, the CDC and the medical establishment will apologize for not paying attention to Neenyah Ostrom's groundbreaking work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that Charles Ortleb published in New York Native. That would be a fitting end to one of journalism's greatest David and Goliath stories.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy pushes back after Louisiana Gov. Jindal rips Obama
A news conference meant to brief reporters on bipartisan talks between the nation's governors and President Barack Obama disintegrated into partisan squabbling Monday, with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy jumping into the fray to push back against Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Jindal, a longshot presidential hopeful whose approval ratings in his own state are among the lowest in the country among governors, took to the mic to make disparaging comments about the Obama administration on issues such as the Keystone pipeline and raising the minimum wage.
"This president and the White House seems to be waving the white flag of surrender, after more than five years now under this administration," Jindal said. "The Obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. I think we can do better than that, I think America can do better than that."
The governors were in Washington for the annual National Governors Association conference — a platform that generated a lot of media attention for Malloy, who appeared with three other governors Sunday morning on CNN's "State of the Union" show.
Behind Jindal, Malloy seemed to mouth to someone off camera that he'd take to the mic next.
"Until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty cooperative road," Malloy said when he stepped forward, adding that not everyone agreed on the things raised by Jindal.
Malloy touted that Connecticut has raised the minimum wage and is seeking to raise it again to $10.10.
"I don't know what the heck was a reference to a white flag, when it comes to people making $404 a week," Malloy said. "I mean that's the most insane statement I've ever heard."
Jindal took to the mic again and said, "if that was the most partisan statement he's heard all weekend, I want to make sure that he hears a more partisan statement," before telling the crowd he thinks the administrations should delay Obamacare mandates as a way to further grow the economy.
A spokesman for Malloy said he didn't have anything more to add than was said at the news conference.
But Malloy heaped criticism on Jindal in an interview with TIME Magazine after the news conference.
"Here's a guy who didn't come to any of the meetings except this one today, and has the nerve to pull that stuff on everyone, ten feet from the West Wing," Malloy told TIME.
Malloy and one other governor had said Jindal had not paid his fees for the NGA, though a spokesman for Jindal later said that he does.
"He doesn't come to the meetings of the organization, and then he wants to swing for the fences for obviously political reasons," Malloy told TIME. "I didn't mind pushing back."
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Pundits have said the R8 is one of the most eminently "livable" supercars. Would you take that phrase all the way?
Welcome to Morning Would, where we present you with some of the most desirable, controversial cars ever built and ask what you would do to drive one.
When most car reviewers say a car is "livable," they mean it's reasonably comfortable and you could, without too much trouble, drive it to work everyday. What they probably don't mean is that you could actually buy one for the purpose of living in it. Would you do that for the Audi R8, though?
The R8 is comfortable and surprisingly calm and quiet when you want it to be. But then again, the seats don't lay flat, there's no internet connection, and from what I understand a bathroom isn't even optional.
Your house is actually probably worth more than an R8 (it is, by super car standards, a bargain), so if you sell it to buy one chances are you might be able to afford a good chiropractor. But would you really sell your abode to move into an Audi? To the comments you go.
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does anyone else hate the new ending to RotJ? i love the song that ended it before, "celebrate the love"(?i think?), but the SE had a totally different song and ending
argh, same sets, different packagings! hate decisions! first reservoir dogs, now this?!? boxes look great though.
those pictures is gone now...
From The Digital Bits:Yeah, we know this is going to get some people's undies in a bunch again... but we can say with some confidence now that when Lucasfilm and Fox release the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD in September, the films ARE going to include new footage. We've confirmed "unofficially" with three separate sources, each in positions to know, that at least SOME new footage is being added to the films, and that more special effects enhancements, tweaks and fixes are being done. We're also told that Lucasfilm MAY include additional deleted scenes for the trilogy on the bonus disc, separate from the material added into the films themselves (rather like they've done with Episodes I & II). We've been told of at least a few changes that are being made, but we're going to wait to confirm them better before we post anything. Keep in mind that we have no idea how extensive or minor the whole of the additions and changes will be. Hopefully, we'll learn more from Lucasfilm in the near future.
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I spent eight hours this weekend watching the Senate debate on whether to proceed with debating on whether to pass a health care bill. This was largely a sort of kabuki ritual, since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid already knew that he had the sixty votes needed to stop a Republican filibuster. But it tells you what the talking points are on each side, which is going to matter as the debate actually plays out.
The Republican position is fairly incoherent. The major talking points are these:
1. This bill uses accounting gimmicks to front load the taxes and back load the spending, which is the only reason it's deficit neutral over the ten year window.
2. The Democrats are refusing to let cuts to doctor payments stand, and also, doctors don't get paid enough.
3. Millions of people are going to be added to Medicaid, which is a terrible program because providers don't get paid enough. Also, it would be too expensive to add people to Medicaid.
4. Medicare costs too much, and also, shouldn't be cut.
5. The Republicans favor "real reform" which mostly seems to consist of liability caps.
Somewhat to my surprise, John McCain was on fire, in full on "flaming sword of righteousness" mode. He was practically shaking with anger as he called out the government for negotiating with the pharma companies, and yelled at the pharmas for raising their prices this year. Pharma seems to have followed a standard "Memorial Day Sale" strategy--they've raised prices by about 10% this year, in preparation for the deep discounts they'll have to offer in the future. John McCain thought that this was terrible, and said so, to awkward silence from his colleagues. They brightened up considerably when he said "Shame on the AARP" for endorsing this plan that does its members no good, accused them of getting paid off, and told people to tear up their AARP cards. He and Bob Corker were pretty much the high points. The rest was mostly boilerplate.
Luckily for the Republicans, they weren't exactly playing against the varsity. The Democrats had their own set of uncompelling talking points:
1. Insurance companies are evil institutions which deny everyone any care that costs more than a pack of Freedent gum. Also, they cannot control health care costs without substantial government intervention, because they spend far too much on expensive procedures.
2. Ted Kennedy sure was a swell guy, wasn't he? He'd be proud of every dang one of us today. (It is impossible to exaggerate how great a role this point played. There was a five minute stretch which consisted largely of people telling Ted Kennedy's replacement that Teddy would be awfully proud of him, and him saying, "No, really, Ted would be proud of you.")
3. Small- and medium- sized businesses are groaning under the weight of their health care costs. Also, starting next year, we're going to force them to give you much more generous coverage from your employer, such as coverage for non-dependent "children" up to the age of 26.
4. This problem is incredibly urgent, which is why we have to pass this bill, which now takes effect in 2014, RIGHT NOW.
The best talking points on both sides were, sadly, anecdotes. Democrats had the predictable parade of people who were denied coverage for various treatments. Republicans had doctors who cannot afford to take Medicaid, hospitals which can't survive on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement levels, and Senator John Barasso, whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer by a mammogram in her early forties.
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When you think back to Pitfall, the lead character in the classic Activision game didn't seem like he was in that much of a hurry. Granted, the Atari 2600 didn't create speedy animations but it seemed like Pitfall Harry was straight-up leisurely. I distinctly remember taking the time to line up jumps from alligator head to alligator head just right, like I had all the time in the world.
But, there's nothing leisurely about Harry's latest spiritual descendant, the archeologist you control in iOS game Temple Run.
In Imangi Studios' jungle adventure, you steer an intrepid explorer who bursts out of an ancient temple with scary mutated gorillas hot on his tail. The game's of the run-as-long-as-you-can variety, where you swipe up to jump over gaps, down to slide under obstacles and tilt to angle your run. Like Jetpack Joyride, you collect coins to unlock different characters and power-ups.
Unlike a lot of Canabalt-style infinite runners, though, it feels you're controlling the world in Temple Run as much as you are the character. The running happens on an elevated bridge structure that's randomly generated and the swipes you use to turn left or right feel like you're turning the world on a pivot. A good sequence will drop those pesky apes out of view but all it takes is a few stumbles to remind you that they're still there and never letting up.
I like Temple Run for its good looks and simple controls, but I've been frustrated by misread inputs where a side swipe gets turned into a jump or a slide gets interpreted as a turn. Still, I played it constantly over the holiday break, with the same hope that I played Pitfall with back in the day: hustling in pursuit of an escape that I know will never come.
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'Sesame Street' gets new Hispanic character
NEW YORK -- As a child in Puerto Rico, Ismael Cruz was delighted by the colorful characters in "Sesame Street," who not only entertained and educated him, but helped him learn "inglés." He could not have imagined that two decades later he would be playing with them in front of the cameras.
Cruz is the newest Hispanic addition to popular children series' cast, playing Armando, or "Mando."
"'Sesame Street' is a magical place. It doesn't matter if you are working there or just visiting, or if you're watching on TV, that magic is always there," Cruz, 26, told The Associated Press. "I grew up watching the show, and for me it was a place that really existed and to which as a child I aspired to go, a place so diverse that I could see myself in the faces of the people that were there. Being on the set now is that, but with cameras."
Cruz's character is a Hispanic writer from Brooklyn who writes everything from short stories to essays and movie scripts. He also loves technology and social media.
The addition expands a cast of Hispanic characters that includes Maria (Sonia Manzano) and Luis (Emilio Delgado), who debuted on "Sesame Street" in 1971 as human characters, as well as Rosita, the charming turquoise monster who joined in 1993 with Mexican puppeteer Carmen Osbahr, who also voices Ovejita.
The show wants to reflect the population changes in the U.S., where Hispanics are the fastest growing minority. It also features African-American, Asian and American Indian characters.
"It's a show that's always cutting edge, that is always aware of what's going on with the population, so by including a character that is young, with new perspectives, Latino, and that bring that new generation, it is carrying on with that message," Cruz said.
Cruz grew up poor in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, and his mother tuned in to "Sesame Street" so his son would learn English. Cruz studied music and dreamed of being an actor, eventually attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Before "Sesame Street," he appeared on "The Good Wife" and in films "In The Blood," "White Alligator" and "Chaser."
The casting call for a new Hispanic character on "Sesame Street" attracted hundreds of bilingual actors last August.
"I hadn't seen it, (but) many people who knew me and read the description of what they were looking for sent me messages through Facebook, email and phone telling me, 'You have to do this audition, this is perfect for you.' And that's how I began this process," he said.
"Mando" will make his debut on the 44th season of "Sesame Street," which starts airing on September 16. Carol-Lynn Parente, executive producer of "Sesame Street," said she and her team knew immediately that Ismael was the perfect addition.
"He has a passion for creative expression and a warmth that comes right through the camera," Parente said in a statement.