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Creating a fairer Britain
27 March 2012
The Commission today publishes its strategic plan for 2012 to 2015. The plan identifies how the Commission can add most value to the protection and promotion of equality and human rights through the effective use of its unique powers and its duties as the National Human Rights Institution.
The strategic plan was drawn up as the Commission faces a period of tremendous change and development. Like other public bodies, its resources are being reduced – with its budget due to fall very sharply by 2015. Much of this reduction will be accommodated in a significant change programme to be delivered in the first year of this strategic plan. This will result in staff numbers being reduced from 420 to between 150 and 180.
The UK Government carried out a consultation on the Commission's powers and duties in 2011 the results of which are yet to be made public. The government has already decided to bring some of the frontline services the Commission provided in its first four years inside the Government Equalities Office in the Home Office. These include the helpline and grants programmes.
The Commission will refocus its activities from direct services to a more enabling role: using its expertise and influence to support the development of policies and services that promote equality of opportunity and safeguard fundamental human rights.
To maximise its value to the public, the Commission is committed to working better with others to avoid duplication and join forces wherever it can. There is a range of regulatory bodies with powers in their own sectors, whose influence could encourage change and improvement. The Commission will work with these bodies to help them fulfill their own obligations and achieve shared goals. This collaborative approach will cut out duplication, provide certainty for those being regulated, and build confidence and credibility in the regulatory system as a whole.
The Commission's 2012/15 strategic plan is the result of widespread consultation with partners, stakeholders and the public. It identifies three strategic priorities for the country which were identified from the research carried out for its 'How fair is Britain?' reviews. These are:
Mark Hammond, Chief Executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission said:
'The Commission is working towards a Britain where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and we all have an equal chance to succeed. To help achieve this aim, we will focus on the role we can play in protecting and promoting equality and human rights as the economy recovers, and we see major changes to public services.
'We look forward to working with business, the public sector and all our partners to deliver on these aims. Our Strategic Plan sets out a clear and robust sense of direction so that the public, our partners and our staff know what to expect from us and hold us to account for the value we deliver.'
For more press information, case studies or interview requests contact the Commission's media office on 020 3117 0255, out of hours 07767 272 818. For general enquiries please contact the Commission's national helpline: England 0845 604 6610, Scotland 0845 604 5510 or Wales 0845 604 8810.
A copy of the Commission's Strategic Plan can be found at: www.equalityhumanrights.com/strategicplan
The Commission is a statutory body established under the Equality Act 2006. It took over the responsibilities of Commission for Racial Equality, Disability Rights Commission and Equal Opportunities Commission. It aims to reduce inequality, eliminate discrimination, strengthen good relations between people, and promote and protect human rights. The Commission enforces equality legislation on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, and encourages compliance with the Human Rights Act. It also gives advice and guidance to businesses, the voluntary and public sectors, and to individuals.


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A low temp of 130F in an oil burner not rated for cold starts would ruin more than just your chimney, it would ruin the boiler. Consult the manufacturer's specs for minimum return-water temp- that would be the same low-limit you should run for the boiler in summer. (140F is usually "safe".) If you have a stainless chimney liner rather than terra-cotta or masonry liner, and cold-start boiler rated for 130F return water (unlikely) you can leave it as-is. But bumping up the min to 140F (or even a bit higher, with a terra-cotta liner) is prudent.
I have know idea what a "summer/winter" mixer is. For under $100 you can buy a fully thermostatic mixing valve and set the output to 115F or whatever it takes, and you can run anything from 115F to 215F water into the hot side, and it will mix down to 115F at the output, and if the hot side goes under 115F it'll deliver whatever temperature the hot side is, with no mixing.
For less money you can buy a tempering valve, which usually requires an input temp ~10F higher than the output temp, but works in a similar fashion.
I'm not sure what code is in PA, but ALL hot water heaters (including tankless coils in boiler) installed in my state require either a mixing valve or tempering valve at the output as scald protection. You can set the boiler/heater temp and mixing/tempering valve to whatever you like, as long as it's capable of mixing down to at 120F or lower.
At the abyssmally low (~40%) water heating efficiency in summer that you get out an oil boiler you can buy an electric HW heater, plumb it in series with the output of your tankless coil and put the mixer on the output of the electric tank, then just turn off the boiler for the summer. In summer the cost of heating with a $200 bargain-basement barely code-legal 0.90EF electric hot water heater at 15 cents/kwh (~$49/MMBTU) will be less than heating it with a 40% efficiency (water heating mode only) tankless coil in an oil boiler at $3.50/gallon ($63/MMBTU). If you're burning a couple hundred gallons or more from May-September it would pay for the electric HW heater well within the anticipated lifespan of an electric hot water heater.
For anybody heating with oil in PA it's worth considering heating at least one large zone with a ductless mini-split heat pump, since the cost will be less than half that of heating with oil. A 1.5-2 ton mini-split has enough output to heat most average-sized houses at the wintertime average temp, but not necessarily at the 99% outside design temp. But if you can heat with the mini-split at the wintertime average, it's still delivering more than half the heat (at a lower cost) even at the 99% outside design temp when using the oil-burner as the back-stop. The net result is that you end up burning only about 1/4 the amount of oil, but adding about 1/3-1/2 of the oil dollar savings to the oil bill. eg:
Say you use 800 gallons year during the heating season, and are paying $3.50/gallon for $2800 total. If you add a decent sized mini-split the oil use drops to 200 gallons/$700, but your power bill goes up by about $1000, net savings of a bit over a grand per year. A decent name-brand 1.5 ton mini-split runs about $4500, installed, a 2 ton is a few hundred more, less than $5K. If you're handy you can cut that roughly in half doing most of the installation yourself (after reading up about it), bringing in the qualified tech only when it's time to pump down the system and add the refrigerant charge.
And, you get ultra-quiet highest efficiency air conditioning out of the deal too.
In tight higher-R homes it's possible to get off oil entirely with these things, but most houses with code-min (or lower) windows & R-values will have comfort issues unless you start adding ductless heads, which can add up. But a 3-head 2.5-3-ton multi-split is still usually under $10K installed, and would be good enough for most homes, if the heads can be optimally placed.
It's a chunk of change, probably way more than what's in the coin jar on your bedside table, but so is the annual oil bill. Even with the increased US production due to fracking technology, oil still sells at the world price, and the odds of heating oil dropping back to $2.50/gallon for any period of time (where it might be competitive with the world's least efficient ductless) seem really remote to me. YMMV.

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet."
We really have a crazy-sounding religion. We confess that God exists as one, yet three. Totally irrational! We confess that one of those three, the Son, became a human by being born of a virgin. What a fantasy!
"No offence, but Muslims love Jesus as much as Christians do." On December 19, 2001, this is how John Casey, a Cambridge scholar, entitled an article in the Telegraph on the issue of Christian and Muslim theology.
"Jesus Christ is the sum and quintessence of the gospel; the wonder of angels; the joy and triumph of saints" (Watson, A Body of Divinity, 161). He is, as we saw in Q&A 36, the mediator of the covenant of grace between God and man. The question for us to meditate upon is how did he become this mediator?
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I am pleased to be back in Samoa for the second time in a month … this time to meet a high-level US delegation arriving from Washington. Leading the delegation is my good friend Dr Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. With him will be Admiral Patrick Walsh (Commander of the US Pacific Fleet), Nisha Biswal (Assistant Administrator of USAID), Brigadier General Richard Simcock (Principal Director of the Office for South/Southeast Asia), and several others.
During the trip the team will meet with government officials, NGO leaders, entrepreneurs, veterans, scientists, and members of the general public in Samoa and seven other island nations.
Discussions will focus on the full range of issues of concern to those of us whose homelands touch the waters of the Pacific … including fisheries security, climate change, sustainable economic development, disaster planning, humanitarian relief, support for civil society, renewable energy R&D, regional political issues, and donor nation coordination.
Also on the agenda will be the Pacific Island Forum (to be held in Auckland just before the Rugby World Cup this September), as well as American business investment in the Pacific and ways to increase mutually beneficial business opportunities.
The composition of the delegation and the diversity of the agenda illustrate America's "3D" commitment to robust engagement in the Pacific … through Diplomacy, Development, and Defense. We already have strong bilateral political, economic, and security relationships in our shared Pacific neighborhood. The current trip will take a broad inter-agency approach to building further on that firm foundation.
The journey started yesterday in Kiribati, where the delegation met with President Anote Tong for discussions focused on climate change and economic development prospects. There were wreath-laying ceremonies at a World War II monument and cemetery to commemorate the immense sacrifices made by Americans during the Battle of Tarawa and elsewhere in the Pacific in the service of peace, stability, and self-determination.
As I write this, the delegation is en route from Kiribati to meet me here in Samoa, arriving in time for dinner. We will launch the visit with an outdoor banquet for senior officials and other community leaders, so that the American team can get a sense of the diversity and vibrancy of Samoan society in a festive, casual environment.


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"And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."
MRS. ELIZA ROE was born in Coon, County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the 3rd day of December 1808. She departed this life on the 21st December, 1868, being 60 years of age. Her mother, Jane Poole, died Oct. 12th, 1811, before Eliza was three year's old. Being the youngest daughter of a family of twelve children, and her father, Thomas Poole, a widower 38 years, she was early the subject of household duties and responsibilities, and few there were better fitted, by nature and by Providence, to guide the house and manage domestic affairs.
Her father's house was not only the home of the Methodist Missionaries in Ireland, for more than half a century, but his largest room was occupied as a preaching place for many years, and a large class met there from week to week. He being a class-leader for seventy years. The ministration of the word and ordinances so early, and so constantly enjoyed, were made a blessing to her, and in early life she was made a partaker of the grace of God, which bringeth salvation. Her evidence of justifying grace was clear and abiding. The fruit of that change was visible through all her after life.
When her brothers and sisters were removing to Canada she was constrained by filial affection to remain in her native land to care for her aged father. With all a fond daughter's kindness and love she smoothed a parent's pathway homeward, anticipating his every want, and as far as possible supplying his every necessity, until on the 3rd of January, 1849, he told her "the ministering angels had come to carry him home; adieu, farewell, we meet again. I am going home to die no more." Thus, like a "shock of corn fully ripe," the venerable warrior, full 98 years old, "passed clean over Jordan."
The attractions that were in the new world now prompted herself and her affectionate husband and interesting family to seek their home and fortunes in Canada, where, after a few month's visiting their friends, they settled in Howick, one of the newest parts of the new country. In her new home she immediately gave herself anew to God and to his Church. She gave a right cordial invitation to the Wesleyan Missionaries, and her house in the wilderness, became like her father's house in the old world, a "Bethel," the house of God.
The Rev. J.W. Savage gives testimony "That she bore a cheerful part in the erection of a new Wesleyan Church in her neighborhood; and that when that house was dedicated to the service and worship of God, her gratitude to God abounded. That she always gave the messengers of the Lord a hearty welcome, and a comfortable home. That her zeal and attachment to the cause of God was visible to all who knew her; the warmest wish of her heart being, to ornament that gospel which had made her free from the bondage and dominion of sin. That her love for the ordinances of God's house was not chilled by the icy storm of an inclement winter, or damped by the drifting gale. "Whoever was absent, Sister Roe," he says, "was always in her place to cheer us by her joyous expression, and gladden us by her song." –
She was long blessed with good health, and was a true specimen of the joyous, happy children, carrying the whole doxology in her face, full of sunshine and of joy. After many year's absence, I visited her at her own residence, on my saying, "Well, Aunt, are you still in the land of the living?" She said promptly, "I'm going there." I found to my delight that she was a daily student of the Bible, a constant reader of the "Christian Guardian," and of the "Guide to Holiness," being, thus, well-informed in Bible truth, and well read in the history and progress of the Church of God. She had "meat to eat that the world knew not of." She drank "of the sincere milk of the word."
For some time before her death she was afflicted with a tumour in her side, which, as it became developed, gave her great pain, and admonished her, and her family that her race here was almost run. Her Pastors, Mr. Savage and Mr. Turner, say:– "That though her path became rough and thorny through severe bodily affliction, such was her faith in the wisdom and goodness of God, that a murmur never escaped from her lips; that she realized that there was 'one like unto the son of man with her in the fire.' In her case:
"The fire forgot its power to burn, The Lambent flame around her played."
Mr. Savage says, "that when he visited her she was praising the Lord, and that she gave the most satisfactory evidence of her readiness 'to depart and to be with Christ,' that she used to say, with emphasis, 'the will of the Lord be done.' This was her song and her prayer by night and by day, in ease or in pain 'His will be done.' In the midst of her sufferings she often said 'For which cause I faint not; but though my outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.' The approach of death was pleasant to her as that of a dear friend affording her the heart cheering prospect of a speedy reunion with loved friends who had passed on before. When called to pass over Jordan, Christ was with her in the swelling thereof, the flood retired, Jordan was divided, and there, away down in the valley, she raised her voice of praise in dying testimony to the power of saving grace. Her Joshua went before her and administered to her an abundant entrance into the promised land."
She left her husband and eight sons, now grown up to manhood, and a loving class, and an appreciative community to mourn her loss. Her eldest son, Thomas, is a Local Preacher and a Recording Steward, giving good evidence of the benefit of early religious instruction, and the other sons and their wives are endeavoring to follow her as she followed Christ. May they all be found faithful and meet her above; and in all their trial, like her, may they experience the truth of the poet's words:–
"Who suffer with our Master here, Shall soon before his face appear, And by his side sit down. To patient faith the prize is sure, And all who to the end endure The cross, shall wear the crown." W.H. POOLE.
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Wife of John N. Roe
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A native of Ireland
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I absolutely Love this school, the Teachers and the Director Ms.Jessica are all awesome. are not any staff turnover, they love what they do and I will always and always remember Trinity!!! I also like the fact that they don't only watch the children. All teachers are qualified early childhood educators and you can tell when your child comes home and is pointing out words and pictures in books. My child and I will never forget about Trinity. Bring your child here, you will never regret this
I must say i absolutey loved this school when i went there. I never had any issues with any teachers in fact the small class size made it a lot easier to get the attention I needed when I had a hard time with anything. I still remember the impact a teacher made on me Mrs. Meeks was not only a wonderful teacher but a great mentor as well. She always taught life lessons and she made absolutely fun. Also my little sister attended the school starting at 6 weeks old the nursery school teachers were always very professional. They also showed grat amounts of TLC for the children. Never did we have any bad expierences with anything. I wish words could express how much I loved being a student!
Do not send your children to this school. – I sent my 5mth old daughter to this school in 2008, and had a very bad experience. She was ok in the infant room however there were alot of little things that just seemed odd that the teachers were doing, like putting a blanket over their faces when it was naptime so they would fall asleep and thats just one. The next class was the one i was always leary about, the teacher was cold, rude, and just not the person you would want looking after your child. I had my suspicious and would always feel very uneasy about dropping my child off but as a first time mom I didnt want to over react at something that may not be true. My uneasy feeling was correct. My child was left to cry alot and called a cry baby, she was left on the cold floor with a onesie on and a cold bottle, while the teacher had her back to my daughter holding another child. My child was made to stay in a wet or dirty diaper and when she had to go in her diaper she would want to stand up and she was made to sit down, she was deprived of her sleep, she would always fall asleep at the table at lunch and her teacher would say oh she always sleeps at lunch, i said because she is a baby she needs two naps a day and you need to give them to her. My daughter was force fed when she didnt want to eat and the list goes on. The other children were teased and one was hung upside down for a brief moment, he was acting up and the teacher while i was there said watch this and hung him upside down and he cried and then she put him down. I questioned alot of things and there was always an excuse or a reason and i tryed to believe she was a good teacher and that maybe i was a bit protective. She called children lazy, didnt console them when they were upset, it was a nightmare. My child was in that class for approximatley 4 months and moved on to another class, however we pulled her out anyway and reported the school to the Sheriffs office and DCF. They investigated, fired the one year old teacher, however the minister and director are still there and they were the ones that allowed it to go on, they were well aware of the situation, they actually had suspended this teacher before for innapropriate activities. I have to live with the nightmare forever. Im sure the school has cleaned their act up a little however if they get another bad teacher in there, who is going to stop them.......the director and minister didnt before, why would they now. They are not proactive in the school and there is not enough monitoring or actions taken when things go wrong. Dont take a chance on your child with this school.
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At Indiana Wesleyan University, our Photography program is designed to offer a Christ-centered approach to improving your craft as an artist. Our faculty members bring to the classroom comprehensive experience in the digital imagery field. Your learning experience here will take you far beyond basic design theory as you are encouraged and challenged to develop your own personal vision as a photographer.
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Professor Dallas Walters was born in Leon, Iowa, and remains a Hawkeye and small town boy at heart. He married Debra Jimmerson in 1974. Early in his career he was involved in studio and commercial photography. He and his wife moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1979 where Professor Walters completed an M.A. degree at Iowa State University. They relocated to Peoria, Illinois, in 1994 in order for Dallas to pursue an M.F.A. in Photography from Bradley University. Hired by IWU in 1999 as an assistant professor of Art, Professor Walter's interests include fine art photography, woodworking, exploring the United States, and motorcycling.
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Professor Walters' primary interest is in the integration of the visual image (photography) and the third dimension as evidenced in mixed media outcomes. The concepts of time and time marking as related to reality and the futility of the process continue to provide a creative challenge that perhaps borders on hyper-reality. See vita for exhibition record.
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Lydian provides reserves update
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012Lydian International Ltd. (TSX:LYD) ("Lydian" or "the Company"), a gold-focused mineral exploration and development company, today announced a correction to the reserve statement reported by the Company in its press release dated September 7, 2012 and as set out in the Amulsar Resource Update and Heap Leach Feasibility Study (the "Feasibility Study") dated September 3, 2012 and prepared for the Company.
The press release and Feasibility Study incorrectly stated the mineral reserve estimates, without including dilution associated with mining.
The table below details the corrected mineral reserves as per the feasibility schedule, with a dilution factor of 7%. The average grade of the dilution material is assumed to be 0.15 g/t gold head grade and 1.5 g/t silver head grade. These dilution grades are significantly below the average grades of blocks surrounding scheduled undiluted ore, which are 0.21 g/t gold and 2.2 g/t silver (when surrounding inferred material is zeroed).
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Im stucked with a situation where i want to redirect my request from create action to update actions directly in RESTful manner. I searched and so far im not been able to find a method to specify HTTP method (here it is PUT) with redirect_to method. Any ideas? I tried render_component also and it doesn't support REST either.
Consider how redirects work for a moment. The server responds with a redirect response code and a URL. The browser then makes another, separate, request for the specified URL. This second request is always a GET request; I believe the HTTP standard specifies this. More importantly, the second request will not contain any of the parameters from the first request, so if you were able to redirect from #create to #update you'd end up in the #update action with no data.
I suspect that redirection isn't what you're looking for. What sort of behavior are you trying to model?
I agree with Adam, you should tell us what you need your code to do, or why you need to do such redirect so we can be more helpful and give you ideas. Redirecting create to update seems forced to me, I think you should find a more natural "rails like" way to do it.
Ya i got it completely wrong in the case of specifying http method with redirect_to. Since this is just another browser request it always comes as GET. Now i come to the problem, I have created a certain resource and i use create action to create new records . also UPDATE action for update records. After sometime i noticed that there are some cases where i want to do the exactly same updation as soon as i did the creation for the particular record. That is why instead of repeating the same code in create action or taking both code out and make it common method for update and create, I tried to use update action directly. It seems not ok i guess. So i will go for the option of making it common..........
Usually, when people are wanting to use controller actions in other controller actions it's because they've got their business logic in their controller instead of in their model where it is meant to be. Really, all that should be in your controller is a call to .new or .find and to .save or .update_attributes
Take Jason's advice, the model must be fat and the controller thin, the thiner the better. Also try using callbacks and validations to get the behaviour you want.


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Why in the hell is South Carolina ranked?
AP Poll: Florida State a big winner after major shakeup of Week 8
Welcome to the carnage. With five teams in the AP Top 10 going down on Saturday, Week 8's poll was detonated and voters were left trying to piece it back together.
Clemson, LSU, Texas A&M, Louisville, UCLA, South Carolina and Georgia all fell, making room for other teams to move up and some interesting storylines to emerge. There are now just two undefeated SEC teams, Alabama and Missouri, and Florida State leapfrogged Ohio State (and picked up two first-place votes) after its decimation of Clemson. UCF joined the poll after beating Louisville, although the Knights find themselves ranked behind Louisville. Auburn jumped all the way from No. 24 to No. 11 after its win over Texas A&M.
The complete AP Poll (with first-place votes in parentheses) is below:
1. Alabama (55)
2. Oregon (3)
3. Florida State (2)
4. Ohio State
5. Missouri
6. Baylor
7. Miami
8. Stanford
9. Clemson
10. Texas Tech
11. Auburn
14. Texas A&M
15. Fresno State
16. Virginia Tech
17. Oklahoma
18. Louisville
19. Oklahoma State
20. South Carolina
22. Wisconsin
23. Northern Illinois
24. Michigan
25. Nebraska
• It's a judgment call, sure, but not sure why Michigan State isn't ranked. The loss to Notre Dame hurts the Spartans, but MSU's defense is about as dominant as Virginia Tech's, and Sparty might just be the best team in the Legends division. It's a toss up regardless between Michigan, Nebraska and Michigan State right now.
• Missouri moved up to No. 5 after a pretty strong win over Florida on Saturday. Despite playing with freshman quarterback Maty Mauk for the injured James Franklin, the Tigers moved the ball and played well defensively. Mizzou controls its own destiny in the SEC East and has South Carolina this coming Saturday.
• Fresno State climbed up to No. 15 after the Bulldogs' win over UNLV, and NIU stayed at No. 23 after beating Central Michigan. These are your two non-AQ hopes to bust the BCS.
Can't really argue, but I would have liked to see ASU ranked again. Lost to ND in Dallas 37-34, and lost to Stanford on the road thanks to a dismal 1st half. Destroyed USC and Washington and beat (kind of) Wisconsin. Those three wins are light years better than anything Baylor has done. But, like I said, not going to kick and scream for it since the polls really don't matter. Just like propping up my Devils.
Missouri jumping, deservedly so. Nice.
Florida State jumping Oregon? Now that's puzzling.
Auburn fan here- with Auburn's 13 point jump to number 11, I'm curious, what is the biggest jump ever in a team's standing from one week to the next? This jump to #11 surprised me nearly as much as our win against TAM did.
Wow, Missouri went from 25th to 5th in two weeks after beating a couple of 4-2 teams.... Maybe the famous names had something to do with it?
Any College Football Poll with a human element is such a joke. There are 120 "Division 1" schools (oops, I mean FBS schools … hey, how many people voting in these polls know what FBS means? I guarantee not all of them, hopefully at least half though). So the minimum of games to watch all the schools is 60 per weekend (excluding byes). Obviously you could probably narrow that 120 down to the top-20 schools (although not sure how determine who the top-20 are?). Assuming that you can narrow down to 20, how many of these voters watch the entire 3 hours of each one of these 10 - 20 games each week, before they vote on Sunday night? (Well the answer to that is ZERO). My favorite poll is of course the coaches poll. Obviously they have a lot of time to watch all the games … well … maybe they do! :-)
Exhibit A why no one should care about Minor League Football anymore. Just pay the players and stop pretending.
People complain every week when these polls come out... its a waste of time. Authorities KNOW its biased and unfair... but THEY DON'T CARE. It sells magazines, gives them material to write stories, strokes their egos, and most importantly whips fans into frenzies so they'll buy tickets and merchandise. Its worse than a rigged jury... its a scripted infomercial.
A real system would do it like the pros (who don't have or need polls), with teams assigned to conferences/ divisions whose winners meet in post-season bracket playoffs. Simple as that!
Rotten system in every way.
None of this would even matter if they had a decent playoff system. You don't hear many people whining about the rankings halfway through the college basketball season because everybody knows it means less than nothing.
The only thing worse than opinions polls is giving these polls credence by including them in the selection process to decide your sport's national title. That's college football for you. I realize NCAA basketball also does it in a similar fashion but at least a) it's not basically a system where deserving teams get left out, call the NCAA tourney diluted but better you let in undeserving teams than let a deserving team sit out and b) there's a clear criteria set by the NCAA.
If a team from a conference other than the SEC can't win a NC this year, you won't have a right to complain about the SEC's so-called favoritism. Prove you can do it!
What I find most telling is that last week Oregon had 5 number 1 votes. This week they have 3. Alabama still has the same 55 that they had last week. Not saying Oregon cannot win it all I just find this very interesting.
As long as voters move teams up and down based on some artificial week to week sliding scale, the polls will be a joke. Just because Clemson was #3 going into the weekend, doesn't mean a loss only moves them down a few slots. Just because Louisville was top 10 before its loss, doesn't mean it only should go down a few points as well. Both teams should be out of the top 20.
Each week the poll should be a "power rankings" system. If a team is #1, its because you believe in a head to head matchup they would beat every other team. If a team is #12 its because they would beat teams 13-25 but lost to teams 1-11. Unfortunately thats not how it works. Instead pollsters arbitrarily move teams up and down relative to their position to start the season.
As long as rankings occur like this, they're a joke - FORTUNATELY we are getting a selection committee who will take a raw look at resumes, eye-tests, and intangibles from a total perspective at the end of the year in the future.
This top 25 is a joke. LSU has two losses one loss to a three loss Georgia team and one to an unranked opponent. They deserve to be a the bottom of the Top 25. Same goes for A&M. Losing at home to Auburn? Clemson losing by about 100 at home and still in the Top 10? Ridiculous. And finally South Carolina just sucks and they don't deserve to be ranked. They got handily beat by Georgia and just lost to a bad Tennessee team.
@entprof It's that SEC bias
@First1 Mizzou fan here--I'm surprised by the big jump too. Mizzou's good, and they may be a top 10 team, but we got some good teams when they were down and jumped on them quick, and I think the pollsters have to justify themselves so they see the wins as monumental. I'm not saying Mizzou is not good or that Florida/Georgia are jokes, but that is a pretty quick jump--same for Auburn over A&M: 14 spots! I'd put Mizzou at 10-15 right now. Both the Georgia and Florida wins were still in doubt until late in the game. Mizzou stomped Florida on stats, but we couldn't get in the touchdown often--5 field goals. Until Mizzou's offense gels a little more with Mauk and their red zone production picks up, I'll view them as top 10-15. If they can pull off S.Carolina and Tennessee, I'll call them top 5!
@thebigdawg3 Yeah, those darn humans have a knack for ruining everything.
@thebigdawg3 we all know its a joke lol...but they promote page views, which is the endgame
@Chessmaster Uh, college football is not professional football. If it were, it would be called professional football.
@Chessmaster playoff coming soon enough - just deal for one more year
@Vinny Cordoba a playoff is coming next year dude
@mystafugeeYou can certainly tell who's teams got bumped down the list! If it were the other way around (your team climbing the polls) all the attitude in these viewpoints would be less. . . astringent. The polls are a work in progress and with 5 more weeks left, there's a lot of adjustments coming. In my opinion there are several teams ranked 2-3 spots off, but as the season progresses positions will jockey. In all fairness, the polls are relatively accurate, particularly as the regular season winds down. We do need a playoff BUT There's no way we need a 32 team playoff. Pac 12, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC champions get automatic bids, the committee picks 5 more (and the whinin' goes on & on & on. . .) and we play till one's left.
@jeffcooper71 Did you see the FSU game? I'm surprised they didn't steal more votes, from BOTH Alabama and Oregon.
@jeffcooper71 Oregon gave up 38 points to Washington State - while Florida state played the #3 team in the rankings and beat them 55-14. Its as simple as that - and it makes sense.
@AaronDunckel Polls simply are not that inaccurate this late in the season. It would be complete chaos w/o them!
@JaysonR1212Not so!! LSU would most likely win head to head match-ups with every team below them in the polls. Same goes for A&M, Auburn will be a 2 loss team, maybe even a 1 loss team, they have Alabama @ home (they do have a chance) and are steadily improving week after week. You've heard it all before, but the SEC west is the toughest place to play in the nation right now, hence LSU & A&M's high marks. Those of you outside the SEC hate it, tired of it, I know, but that's just how it is.
@JaysonR1212 Anything that has to do with Georgia after the Tennessee game is moot. The shell of a team that was left after that game is just not the same as the one that started the season. Funny thing about Clemson ... who else would you put in the top 10? I'm blown away at the amount of parody we are seeing this season.
@JaysonR1212 You do realize teams can improve? Yes Tennessee is not the best SEC school by far but they are not the same team that got crushed by Oregon a few weeks ago. They continue to improve.
@AaronDunckel @Vinny Cordoba What's coming next year is not a playoff. It is a modified version of the current mess.
A playoff is what the FCS, DII, and DIII schools use, as well as NAIA. They have a draw of 16-32 teams that play each week until they determine a champion.
FBS football needs to go to a 24 or 32 team playoff system, like the other divisions do.
My idea is this.
32 teams. All conference champions of FBS conferences get in. The remaining teams are selected by a selection committee using criteria including strength of schedule (winning percentage and opponents winning percentage) and performance in the later half of the season. For example, if a team starts out 2-2, but plays Oregon and Alabama in the first 4 games, then runs the table the rest of the way, they should not be penalized severely for scheduling those two opponents and should still have a legit chance to make the post-season, unless the rest of the schedule was against sisters of the poor.
Once the 32 teams are selected to the post-season, they are then seeded with a few seeding guidelines. No teams from the same conference may meet in the first round. Teams will be seeded 1-32 with the top seed hosting each game unless they are unable to do so.
The playoff system will go as follows:
Round 1 second weekend in December (conferences may need to back up schedules a week or 2).
Round 2 the third weekend in December.
Round 3 New Years Day or New Years Weekend
Round 4 Weekend after New Years Day (minimum 7 days after)
Championship Game (4th weekend in January).
Teams not qualifying for the post-season would still be allowed to participate in post-season Bowl Games (as is allowed at the dII level now).
@AaronDunckel , can't get here soon enough.
Yes Oregon gave up 38 points as a team but did you watch the game? Does it matter that O's 1st team D gave up 17? Does it matter that 14 of Wash St points came in the final 3:48?It helps if people would actually WATCH these games vs looking at the final score.
@AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71 I agree that FSU deserves some first place votes. I was just surprised that it was Oregon voters that defected as opposed to Alabama voters.
@barfield.j @AaronDunckel But they are inaccurate at the start of the season. They shouldn't be done until most teams have played at least six games.
@Ted3 @JaysonR1212 "Parity" is the term.
@Ted3 @JaysonR1212 agree on the parody - but Clemson was clearly exposed and took a 40 point beating at home. They deserve to be out of the top 10 regardless of who replaces them
@jeffcooper71 @JaysonR1212 they might improve - but you have to judge teams based on obvious common opponents. Tennessee might do slightly better against Oregon - but ALL teams change as the year goes on.
the Reality is that Oregon beat Tennessee by a ton, while Tenn hung tough with UGA and beat SCAR.
@jeffcooper71 @JaysonR1212 They are still an unranked, 3 loss team. You could argue that every school is "improved" after 6 games.
@barfield.j @stiffasaward He's absolutely right, that was a fourth or fifth team defense giving up those points. If you can convince pollsters not to drop a team for running up the score, then we'll have it your way and leave the starters in until the end of the season for avoiding injury.
@stiffasawardNO, IT DOES NOT MATTER!! WASHINGTON STATE?? C'MON DUDE. . .
@RJC lol!
@stiffasaward @Wesley7 @jeffcooper71 Exactly. Wash St was playing against the Ducks' third team D and Oregon shut down its offense the entire 4th Q again. If the Ducks played starters the entire game the final would have been 90-24.
Yes Oregon gave up 38 points as a team but did you watch the game? Does it matter that O's 1st team D gave up 17? Does it matter that 14 of Wash St points came in the final 3:48?
It helps if people would actually WATCH these games vs looking at the final score.
@MarkCleary This diabolical plot to screw Miami does not seem to be working so well. They are 7th in this poll and the BCS. Your paranoia seems a bit misplaced.
@jeffcooper71 @AaronDunckel 'Bama won 52-0, while Oregon had their hands full. If anybody was going to lose votes, it would be Oregon.
Honestly, had FSU jumped them, I'm not sure they would have had a case to argue it.
@MarkCleary @Wesley7 @RJC @AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71
Actually, the VT comment was in reply to " The only team Alabama beat worth anything was A&M" (and I'd say Ole Miss is worth a little something as well).
@Wesley7 @RJC @AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71 Um, don't you mean "Why is everyone so busy screwing Miami over that Virginia Tech is under the radar?"
Yes, you do. Please be quiet until November 9.
As David said, Alabama's game was 52-0 with incredible stats in Alabama's favor. Hard for voters to defect based on that. Oregon won, but allowed 38 points. Most Bama voters see Bama as the best team until proven otherwise as two-time defending champions. Many Oregon voters see them not as the best team, necessarily, but the most likely to be able to beat Alabama. Watching FSU, they revised that to FSU being the most likely to take down Alabama.
@RJC @AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71 Why does everyone ignore VT?
@RJC @AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71 *no sacks allowed
@RJC @AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71Bama had no penalties, no sacks, no points allowed and no turnovers in its victory. There really would be no reason for a voter to drop them after that result. However, FSU looked VERY impressive.
That said we don't know if any Alabama voters changed their votes or not. We only know totals. Oregon voters could have gone to Bama and Bama voters could have gone to FSU. Secondly Alabama and Oregon have essentially the same SOS, 42 and 43. Thirdly, Bama has beaten TAMU, VA Tech, and Ole Miss which were all ranked when Bama played them and 2 still are, Ole Miss is 27. FSU only has the Clemson victory to point to unless someone really thinks highly of either Boston College or Pittsburgh.
Hang on guys, This season is starting to get very interesting.
@AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71 FSU unproven? WHAT? The only team Alabama beat worth anything was A&M AND BARELY. FSU destroyed #3 Clemson... they should be ahead of Oregon and Alabama should have far less #1 votes.
@jeffcooper71 @AaronDunckel most people voting for Alabama are going to be stuck there until they lose or have an awful game. Oregon and FSU are still unproven commodities and thus as they have good or mediocre games the voters are going to swing back and forth between them
@AaronDunckel @Ted3 @JaysonR1212 LSU also lost to UGA who Clemson beat.
@AaronDunckel @Ted3 @JaysonR1212 Lol ... Me too! This weekend was the most fun I've had watching college football in a long time.
@Ted3 @AaronDunckel @JaysonR1212 much as Im not a fan - LSU losing a close game to Ole Miss is not nearly as bad as Clemson losing by 40 points at home. I'd keep LSU there if I had to. I'd rather leave it blank though LOL
@AaronDunckel @Ted3 @JaysonR1212 Seriously look at the guys after Clemson and tell me who else should be there. They were exposed, but everybody else after them has been also.
@jeffcooper71 @AaronDunckel @JaysonR1212 they may not have lost a game since, but who have they played? You have to consider that all teams are going through the season and either getting better or worse, but if two teams play the same team, and one destroys the common team while another loses to it - that there is a vast difference
the oregon game wasn't even close... and the fact that Tenn almost beat UGA and did beat SCAR shows a distinct disconnect between the quality of the SEC's premier teams, and perception
@AaronDunckel @jeffcooper71 @JaysonR1212 No you do not. Virginia Tech was taken to the woodshed by Alabama the first game of the season. They have not lost a game since.
Some teams improve and some do not. UGA is a prime example. 5 injuries are why they are not still in the NC picture.


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I said no. Very early. I was clear in my support for the moment of silence. Not sure why you are being so weird about this whole thing other than just general dickishness.Originally Posted by you
So you have a new question.Originally Posted by Odie
OK. Why not?
No. I don't think the IOC should accede to anyone's demands. Are we done here? Can we move on to something that happened in the Fall, maybe?
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Federal law requires overseas ballots to be mailed 45 days before an election.
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Nevada was named one of fifteen "all-star states" by the Military Voter Protection Project this year for its efforts to ensure military personnel stationed overseas are not left out of the voting process.
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Mark Gibney, UNC Asheville professor, author, and creator of the website politicalterrorscale.org, has been named the 2011 Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights by the American Political Science Association (APSA). He will receive the award at APSA's annual meeting, which will take place September 1-4 in Seattle.
Gibney developed the Political Terror Scale in 1984, and, in collaboration with other UNC Asheville faculty and students, he maintains this online scorecard of political violence which is frequently cited in scholarly works and by human rights advocates. At UNC Asheville, Gibney teaches courses in constitutional law, human rights and international politics, immigration and refugee law and policy, and individual rights and civil liberties.
Gibney had a key role in three important books on human rights published last year. He was author of "Global Refugee Crisis" (2nd edition, ABC-CLIO), co-author of "The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity" (Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of "Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations" (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Gibney, the Belk Distinguished Professor in UNC Asheville's Political Science Department, is the chair-elect of the Human Rights Section of the International Studies Association, is a past president of the Human Rights Section of the APSA, and was the 2006 winner of the Human Rights Coalition of North Carolina's International Human Rights Award.
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116 E Woodlawn Rd, Charlotte, NC | Directions 2821735.178596 -80.882390
Mon. - Sun. 24 Hours
Neighborhoods: Montclaire South
Fun Mexican Restaurant with Mariachi Band on Fridays – Don't be put off that Azteca Mexican Restaurant is part of the Days Inn, haha! It has great food, very fast service, and even a fresh guacamole cart (what more could you need?!) My family and I went for my birthday and they were all a little worried about the place until they sat down. The waiters are always great with their service, the price is inexpensive, and I love the food. Also, they might have the best "Happy Birthday" song from the waiters in town!!! I'm pretty sure it was a whole band and they sang 3 songs...plus a sombrero! Always a good time at Azteca.
Best in Charlotte – My fiance and I usually go to Azteca at least once a month. I've never had a bad experience here. We usually split an order of the fajitas and both leave satisfied. I, unlike some of the other reviewers, like Azteca for what it is: good, quick Mexican food. This is not the fanciest, most "authentic" Mexican but that would seem pretty apparent if you were willing to do any homework beforehand.
Azteca has good food – My husband likes this spot and this location happens to be the one we've been trying. Great food, good hospitality. Lunch prices are a bargain, dinner dishes are truly authentic.
terrible and generic – Why are the reviews for this place good? Generic pseudo-mexican slop. We ordered from the more "authentic" portion of the menu, and the execution was very poor - why bother? The pork carnitas was tough, and appeared to have been deep fried, and tasted vaguely of teriyaki for some reason. The arroz con pollo somehow tasted like chicken cacciatore. All the flavors were muddy and indistinct. The margaritas were gigantic, but disgustingly sweet, and contained not nearly enough alcohol to make up for this poor dining experience. This place is inferior to pretty much any chain mexican restaurant.
Not Great – We eat at Mexican Restaurants all the time. Read the reviews and thought we'd try it. Terrible!! They don't give you nearly enough chips and salsa. (1/2 a basket and 1/2 a small bowl) and after you have 2 baskets they charge you $3 for the 3rd. The plates are HUGE!! which was good and the burrito was yummy. We also got done with our meal in less than 30 mins because we were in a hurry to get to a Bobcats game. Had to send a quesadilla back because it was WAY to cheesy and un-eatable. The rice and beans weren't great. But the service was great. Overall, If you're looking for Mexican food in Charlotte I'd look for somewhere else.
YUMMY! – This Mexican restaurant has THE BEST pico de gallo. My husband and I buy it by the pint to take home and eat. Margaritas are good and the food is even better.
Everything a lover of Mexican food could want. – The Food
The starter salsa and tortillas are so good you have to be careful not to fill up, but don't be tempted to skip the meal in favor of a chip-and-dip frenzy. The lunch specials are generously portioned and nicely varied. For an out-of-the-ordinary lunch choice, try huevos rancheros instead. Many think of it as a breakfast dish, but it's a nice contrast to a companion's burrito or chimichanga--particularly if you get to sample off each others' plates.
Skip the taco in favor of a combo or a chicken dish.
The Scene
You might be concerned at Azteca's close proximity to a motel--not always what you're looking for in a restaurant. In this case, the location is irrelevant, except that its convenience draws voluminous lunch crowds. Plan to eat off-peak or be prepared to wait. It's worth it.
get a Hungry Man – Its the same thing. Noone in Charlotte (or east of the Mississippi for that matter) knows Mexican food. Its terrible, frozen, and just plain bad. This place is for those that like Pace's Picante sauce, refried beans with cheese, and Taco Bell. By the way, its the best that Charlotte has to offer.
Treat yourself to this one!!!! – You know when you apporach the parking lot, that the food has to be great. Once you are seated inside, you know you are in for a grand treat. The wait staff is so friendly and you won't find your glass empty. They are very attentive. The food...oh my goodness...you will love it. Certainly a huge amount of food per order, be preparred to take home the left overs.
not good – I have eaten there twice. The service is horible. The food is good, so if your hungry I would get it to go.
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SUNNYSIDE, Wash.-- Sunnyside police are looking for a man they say pointed a gun at two people in a local nightclub, and then fired it into the ceiling.
It happened at the Dark Horse Inn Dance Club, on Yakima Valley Highway just after midnight Thursday.
Police say Armando Ramos, 31, assaulted his ex-girlfriend, when a good Samaritan tried to step in and help. That's when Ramos pulled out the gun and fired several shots. Luckily, no one was hit.
"Anytime a gun is involved it always escalates things to the potential for injuries," said Sgt. Scott Bailey.
Police say Ramos forced the woman to leave with him, but officers later found her at home, unharmed.
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SUNNYSIDE, Wash. - Sunnyside Police are looking for a man who officers say threatened people with gun shots in a night club and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend.
Police say around 3 AM on Friday, 31-year-old Armando Godinez Ramos pointed a hand gun at two people inside the Dark Horse Inn dance club on Yakima Valley Highway, and then fired the gun into the ceiling.
Officers say he also kidnapped his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend, and forced her to leave the dance club with him. Police say Ramos and the woman had been arguing on the dance floor when a man at the club tried to stop them. Officers say the man knocked Ramos to the floor, Ramos pulled out a handgun, pointed it at the man and another woman, and then fired it twice into the ceiling.
Police later found Ramos's ex-girlfriend in good condition at her home, but officers haven't found Ramos or the gun.
Officers describe him as 270 lbs, 6'0", bald with hazel eyes. Police say Ramos also goes by a number of aliases.


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Worst Salon Experience Ever – I have been to this salon before for waxing and hair, but my most recent visit was so terrible, it was definately my last.
My appointment for a brow waxing was with Emily, who was rude and rushed from the beginning. She barely introduced herself, and rushed through the process like she was too busy to be doing what she was doing. The salon was pretty empty by the way, likely a sign that I shouldn't have been there either. She didn't take the time to move my hair/bangs out the way, so of course they got stuck and pulled in the wax. Then she hacked away at my skin with the tweezers, leaving little cuts. I must have been bleeding afterwards because she wiped my eye area with a paper towel. I can't imagine any salon situation where it is ok to wipe a customer with a rough paper towel in an area where they were just waxed. Ouch! It was the most painful waxing I've ever had and I"m not new to the process. I was in tears afterwards. I could have also done without the rude mid waxing comments such as "How long has it been again since your last waxing."
I called back later to talk with the manager, but they were unavailable. I didn't feel comfortable saying anything at checkout because Emily hovered over my transaction the entire time. They definately make you feel pressured there. I tipped poorly, but in retrospect wish I wouldn't have tipped at all. I don't usually ever feel intimidated, but I felt that way at this salon. I left a message with the receptionist to tell the manager I had a bad experience with Emily, but no one ever called me back. I will never go to this salon again, and probably not any other chain salon. I think because there is no true owner presence, no one there has a sense of accountability, and customer service is lacking.
If you are considering this salon, skip it, spend your money elsewhere. Especially never ever see Emily. You will definately regret it.
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The Columbus Dispatch - April 17, 2012 12:04 PM
Ohio Democratic chairman Chris Redfern picked up his party's battle cry on tax-filing day, calling for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns to the public.
Democrats and President Barack Obama's campaign have long tried to use Romney's considerable personal wealth against him, attempting to portray him as out of touch with middle class Americans because of his worth. But Redfern said the call for Romney to release more of his tax returns isn't about Romney's wealth.
"There are many examples of elected officials, Democrats and Republicans, who've been successful regardless of personal wealth or lack thereof," Redfern said. "This more has to do with secrecy. Whether it was John Kasich's attempts in 2010 to hide from the public what had occurred over the last 10 years in the course of his personal life ... and that of Mitt Romney."
But later in the same news conference, Redfern said "what is it that (Romney) did at Bain Capital, how much did he make at Bain Capital to gut Main Street America and to turn profits off of it?"
"How does that better qualify him than President Barack Obama" to oversee the nation's economy, Redfern asked.
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12 Fun Facts on the State of the Union Address for the Obama Speech to Congress
Here's some interesting trivia, regardless of what we call the Obama speech.
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
I know, I know President Obama isn't giving a "State of the Union" address this week; he's simply speaking to a joint session of Congress about the state of our Union. That's clear, right?
With that important distinction out of the way, here are some firsts and other bits of trivia about State of the Union speeches (or whatever we want to call them):
- Actually, the speech was not always called the "State of the Union" and, for that matter, was not always a speech. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." George Washington and John Adams gave their reports in the form of speeches, but Thomas Jefferson, the third president, started a long tradition of presidents sending their reports up in written form. The next president who gave the annual report (not yet the "State of the Union," mind you) in person as a speech was Woodrow Wilson in December 1913. Six of his eight reports were delivered in person, with two written. Both of Warren Harding's were spoken, as was Calvin Coolidge's first. "Silent Cal" then lived up to his nickname, sending his final five reports as written messages. Herbert Hoover delivered his four in the same manner.
Franklin Roosevelt started the modern tradition by delivering his first report to Congress, in 1934, as a speech. It was the first such address titled the "State of the Union." It wasn't until 1947, however, that the name came into general usage.
- Coolidge's 1923 address was the first broadcast over the radio; Harry Truman's 1947 State of the Union was the first broadcast on television; George W. Bush's 2002 speech was the first webcast from the House's website.
- The longest State of the Union (or whatever we call it) by words: Jimmy Carter's 1981 address—which was also the last such written message—was an astounding 33,667 words. I guess Carter felt like he had to get four more years worth into his final message. Perspective: Remember the endless Clinton State of the Union speeches? His longest was 9,190 words—which also made it the longest delivered as a speech, at least in terms of words.
- The shortest such speech in terms of words was the first: Washington's 1790 report to Congress, which he delivered to a joint session in New York City, was a mere 1,089 words. The picture of brevity.
- The excellent American Presidency Project at U.C.-Santa Barbara has calculated how long these speeches have taken, since 1966 and conclude that the longest was—no surprise—Bill Clinton's 2000 address, at almost an hour and a half. Richard Nixon's 1972 speech was the shortest in that period, clocking in at 28 minutes and 35 seconds. (Nixon, as I recount in my book White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters, would grouse about the laundry list qualities of the State of the Union—"Why do we have to have all that dull stuff about agriculture and cesspools?"—hit on the idea in 1972 of giving a very short speech while submitting a 17,000+ word written version of the annual report.)
- Lyndon Johnson was the first president who gave a prime time State of the Union address, in 1965—before that the speech had been delivered in the early afternoon. Republicans quickly grasped the importance of the change and in 1966 started the tradition of the opposition party delivering a televised response. That first was jointly delivered by Everett Dirksen, the Senate Republican leader, and Gerald Ford, the GOP House leader, who would of course go on to become president eight years later. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, delivering the response to Obama's speech, hopes to match Ford one day.
- So is this a State of the Union address or not? From a 2006 Congressional Research Service report:
...the past four Presidents (Ronald Reagan in 1981, George H. W. Bush in 1989, William Clinton in 1993, and George W. Bush in 2001) have chosen not to give an official State of the Union Message the year they were first inaugurated, having just previously delivered a keynote inaugural address. In each instance their first speech to a joint session of Congress closely followed their inauguration, but was not officially categorized as a "State of the Union Message." One observer noted in 1993 that by not calling such an address "State of the Union," the president could present a more focused message, while still deriving "the benefits of a joint session; nothing competes with the pomp and circumstances of the evening...."
A State of the Union by another name, in other words, would sound as ... well, I'll let you fill in the blank.
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