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As Ezra noted, Bill Clinton's speech Wednesday night was full of policy substance. But does that substance check out? Sarah already covered the Medicare portions, but I took a look at the rest (with a special Sarah Kliff guest appearance on health spending).
TRUE WITH A BUT -- Well, since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private- sector jobs. So what's the job score? Republicans: twenty-four million. Democrats: forty-two.
If you look at total private-sector employment, this checks out. But nonfarm payrolls are the preferred measure. There, the Democratic record is actually more impressive, with 43.8 million nonfarm payrolls added. But Republicans added 35.3 million. More generally, these numbers would benefit from being compared to population growth. As it turns out, very rarely do any presidents manage growth that outpaces the growth in the size of the civilian population older than 16:
The blue areas are Democratic presidencies, the red areas Republican ones. As you can see, only four times did growth in nonfarm payrolls outpace population growth: under LBJ, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. All of which supports Clinton's contention that Democrats do better on job growth.
But note that these kinds of estimates rely heavily on when you start the clock. If you take into account policy lags -- so, you start the clock a year into a president's first term, and stop it a year after their final term -- the picture can change dramatically. James Campbell, for instance, has found that "When economic conditions leading into a year are taken into account, there are no presidential party differences with respect to growth, unemployment, or income inequality."
TRUE WITH A BUT -- We know that investments in education and infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all the rest of us.
Measuring the effects of individual-level policies like education on growth is tricky, but we know incontrovertibly that investments in good education, especially early on, greatly increase student incomes. Smaller class sizes at kindergarten have been shown in a randomized study to increase lifetime earnings for students, as has high-quality preschool for 3-year-olds.
Same story for infrastructure. A notable study by economists David Canning and Peter Pedroni found (pdf) that "in the vast majority of cases infrastructure does induce long run growth effects."
What about R&D? Well, a literature review (pdf) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Leo Sveikauskas found that the returns to society of private R&D spending are as high as 65 percent — truly remarkable. But the returns of government R&D spending are much lower, often nearing zero. What's going on? Well one theory, floated by Obama's former chief economist Austan Goolsbee, is that since most federal research spending goes to scientist salaries, the returns mostly go to those scientists' wages, not to the actual conduct of research. That implies that better designed R&D spending — such as creating prizes for certain accomplishments, as NASA has done, or funding private companies, as the stimulus has done for green energy — will work better.
TRUE -- When I was a governor, I worked with President Reagan in his White House on the first round of welfare reform and with President George H.W. Bush on national education goals.
Reagan thanked Clinton by name when signing the Family Support Act of 1988, the first federal welfare reform effort. And private accounts credit Clinton as "instrumental" in setting up the National Education Goals Panel under Bush. Here he is at the summit that launched that process:
TRUE -- I'm actually very grateful to -- if you saw from the film what I do today, I have to be grateful -- and you should be, too -- that President George W. Bush supported PEPFAR. It saved the lives of millions of people in poor countries.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that between 2004 and 2008, PEPFAR saved 740,000 adult lives alone, whereas a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine put the total number, including children, above 1 million.
TRUE WITH A BUT -- Chicago is getting an infrastructure bank because Republicans and Democrats are working together to get it.
Chicago is getting an infrastructure bank but this gives Republicans in the area too much credit for their involvement. The Chicago Republican Party has condemned the initiative. And the City Council is 100 percent Democratic, so Republican support was not needed to pass the bank.
TRUE -- Just in the last couple of elections, they defeated two distinguished Republican senators because they dared to cooperate with Democrats on issues important to the future of the country, even national security.
Clinton is likely referring to Dick Lugar and Bob Bennett, who lost to primary challengers in 2012 and 2010 respectively. Richard Mourdock, who defeated Lugar in a primary this year, attacked him as "Obama's Favorite Republican," and Bennett's defeat is often attributed to his sponsorship of a universal health-care bill with an individual mandate, along with Democrat Ron Wyden.
TRUE -- They beat a Republican congressman with almost 100 percent voting record on every conservative score because he said he realized he did not have to hate the president to disagree with him.
Clinton is talking about Rep. Bob Inglis, who had a 93 percent American Conservative Union rating but voted to censure fellow South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson for shouting "you lie!" at the State of the Union. Inglis then lost renomination in 2010, 71 percent to 29 percent.
TRUE -- As the Senate Republican leader said, in a remarkable moment of candor, two full years before the election, their number-one priority was not to put America back to work. It was to put the president out of work.
Here's the video of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying that:
TRUE -- They want to cut taxes for high-income Americans even more than President Bush did.
The 2001-08 tax cuts reduced taxes on the top 1 percent by an average of 7.3 percent of their income, in 2010. The latest House Republican budget, crafted by VP nominee Paul Ryan, cuts taxes on the top 1 percent by 11.7 percent of their income.
TRUE -- They want to get rid of those pesky financial regulations designed to prevent another crash and prohibit federal bailouts.
House Republicans voted to end all of Dodd-Frank last year as part of Ryan's budget plan, and just this year pushed for repeal of the "resolution authority" provisions meant to wind down failing banks without bailouts.
UPDATED: TRUE -- They want to actually increase defense spending over a decade $2 trillion more than the Pentagon has requested, without saying what they'll spend it on.
The 2013 Republican budget (pdf) funds defense at $6.2 trillion over the next decade, whereas the Pentagon request (pdf) funds it at $5.6 trillion over a decade. That's $600 billion, not $2 trillion.
But Mitt Romney's defense plan does increase spending by $2.1 trillion over the Pentagon baseline. So Clinton's statement checks out there.
TRUE -- And they want to make enormous cuts in the rest of budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor children
Over 62 percent of the cuts in the House Republican budget hit low-income people, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
TRUE -- When President Barack Obama took office, the economy was in freefall. It had just shrunk 9 full percent of GDP. We were losing 750,000 jobs a month.
In quarter four of 2008, GDP shrunk by 8.9 percent, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. And according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payrolls fell by 818,000 in December 2008 — even more than Clinton's figure.
TRUE -- In 2010, as the president's recovery program kicked in, the job losses stopped, and things began to turn around. The Recovery Act saved or created millions of jobs…
As I've explained, most studies suggest the stimulus created millions of jobs.
TRUE - … and cut taxes -- let me say this again -- cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people.
The "Make Work Pay" tax credit in the stimulus helped 94.3 percent of Americans.
TRUE -- And in the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs.
Dead-on: Private sector employment went up by 4.544 million over the past 29 months, according to BLS.
TRUE WITH A BUT -- More than 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under President Obama. That's the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s.
Measuring from manufacturing's trough in January 2010, jobs have increased by 532,000. But many manufacturing jobs were lost between January 2009 and January 2010 -- which means they were also lost under Obama. Whether you want to blame Obama for that first year is up to you.
That said, the last time there was a month of positive 12-month net change in manufacturing jobs was July 2000 -- but the last time there were gains anywhere near the scale of those under Obama's tenure were during the 1990s.
TRUE -- It saved more than a million jobs, and not just at GM, Chrysler, and their dealerships, but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country
The Center for Automotive Research estimates the auto bailout saved 1.5 million jobs.
TRUE -- So what's happened? There are now 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than on the day the companies were restructured.
The companies were formally restructured in July 2009, with GM, for example, being reorganized on July 10. Since then, auto industry employment is up by 233,800 workers, according to BLS.
TRUE -- Now, the agreement the administration made with the management, labor, and environmental groups to double car mileage, that was a good deal, too. It will cut your gas prices in half, your gas bill…according to several analyses, over the next 20 years, it will bring us another 500,000 good, new jobs into the American economy.
It's true -- the new mileage standards will double fuel efficiency which, in principle, should halve fuel costs. A study by the Blue Green Alliance, a joint labor-environmental group, estimates the standards will create 570,000 new jobs. That's hardly an independent source, but it shows Clinton's not pulling the number out of thin air.
TRUE WITH A BUT -- The boom in oil and gas production, combined with greater energy efficiency, has driven oil imports to a near 20-year low and natural gas production to an all-time high. And renewable energy production has doubled.
Oil imports are at a 20-year low, and domestic natural gas production has never been higher. And the share of energy production going to renewables has doubled. But the actual production of renewables hasn't doubled -- it's gone from 7,205 trillion BTUs in 2008 to 8,064 trillion in 2010.
FALSE -- There are already more than 3 million jobs open and unfilled in America, mostly because the people who apply for them don't yet have the required skills to do them
There is no evidence that unemployment in the United States is due to a skills mismatch. Studies from Federal Reserve economists and former Bush administration chief economist Edward Lazear (pdf) confirm that unemployment is high due to low demand, not because workers lack the necessary skills.
TRUE -- So the president's student loan reform is more important than ever. Here's what it does. Here's what it does. Here's what it does. You need to tell every voter where you live about this. It lowers the cost of federal student loans. And even more important, it gives students the right to repay those loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years.
It's true -- Obama has lowered interest rates on student loans, and the reforms passed as part of the health-care reconciliation package allow you to pay back as a percentage of income, rather than based on the principal. Then again, the latter policy was already in place, but Obama lowered the cap from 15 percent of income to 10 percent. He also saved money by having the Department of Education loan directly rather than using private companies, and used the proceeds to increase Pell Grant funding.
TRUE -- When some Republican governors asked if they could have waivers to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama administration listened.
Republican governors did request waivers for welfare on the same lines as those the Obama administration is implementing.
TRUE WITH A BUT -- For the last two years — after going up at three times the rate of inflation for a decade, for the last two years health-care costs have been under 4 percent in both years for the first time in 50 years.
Clinton delivered this line as part of his defense of the Affordable Care Act and the good that the law has done so far. The facts here are true: the National Health Expenditures report showed, in 2010 and 2011, health-care costs grew at 3.8 and 3.9 percent, respectively, much lower than the years prior.
It's unclear, however, whether we can attribute that to health reform. For one, the health-care law's big provisions -- extending health insurance to most Americans and the requirement to purchase coverage -- don't even start until 2014. Academic research, meanwhile, has shown this health spending slowdown to stretch back as far as five years.
Some do argue though, that certain provisions in the health care law -- especially those that reimburse doctors for quality, rather than quantity -- are a contributing factor to the lower growth in spending.
TRUE -- And the administration agreed to give waivers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent, and they could keep the waivers only if they did increase employment.
HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been very clear on this point: "Governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20% more people from welfare to work compared to the state's past performance. States must also demonstrate clear progress toward that goal no later than one year after their programs take effect. If they fail, their waiver will be rescinded. And if a Governor proposes a plan that undercuts the work requirements established in welfare reform, that plan will be rejected." Ron Haskins, the Republican architect of welfare reform, agrees that the waivers will encourage, not discourage, work.
TRUE WITH A BUT -- We moved millions of people off welfare. It was one of the reasons that, in the eight years I was president, we had 100 times as many people move out of poverty into the middle class than happened under the previous 12 years, 100 times as many.
Since reform, the rolls have shrunk from 12.6 million to 4.6 million. Poverty fell by 6.4 million people under Clinton, whereas the number of people in poverty increased by 7.4 million between 1981 and 1993 (and the rate went from 14 percent to 15.1 percent). If anything, Clinton is too generous to Reagan and Bush I on this count. But it's worth noting that welfare reform led to a huge spike in extreme poverty, as defined as the number of households making under $2 a day.


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Howard W. Buffett to Lead Father's Foundation
Howard W. Buffett, the grandson of the billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, will become executive director of the foundation created by his father, Howard G. Buffett, says the Omaha World-Herald.
The younger Mr. Buffett, 27, will serve at least two years in the top post at the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, starting August 1.
His father will continue to chair the foundation, which awards nearly $40-million a year for economic-development, conservation, and humanitarian projects. Much of its work supports research designed to boost food production and help poor farmers in the developing world.
"He's been to so many countries with me and seen the way I've done things that it's amazing how he can think like I need him to think for me," Howard G. Buffett said of his son. "He'll be able to figure out what I would do."
From The Chronicle: Read more about Howard G. Buffett's philanthropy, which got a big lift when his father provided $1-billion to the foundations of each of his three children.

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COLUMBUS -- Wanted: 35,000-plus registered Ohio voters willing to work more than 12 hours in one day, for about 100 bucks, helping to bolster our democracy in the process.
If you fit that bill, Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted and local elections officials want to talk to you -- soon -- as they gear up for the coming November presidential election and polling places across the state that need to be staffed.
Husted, Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty and other officials launched a new website (www.DayForDemocracy.com) Monday morning, with hopes of recruiting thousands of Ohioans. They're also urging companies and nonprofits to consider promotional efforts to allow their employees to spend Nov. 8 working at the polls.
There are nearly 9,000 precinct polling places in Ohio. Poll-workers will put in a long Election Day -- the polls will be open from 6:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
"It's an enormous undertaking to run an election, and particularly a presidential election, as we experience such high voter turnouts," Husted said. "We need more than just bodies at the polls. We need people with good attitudes that are properly trained. We want to create a great experience for every voter that comes out to vote on election day."
He added, "The poll-worker is the face of democracy in America. The poll-worker is the person that will create the experience for ever voter in the state that turns out on Election Day."
Registered voters are eligible to serve as poll-workers. There's also a state program that enables high school seniors (age 18 and up) to participate.
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USF's fifth practice of fall Friday morning suggests that the Bulls are still tinkering with their starting lineup at key positions.
Take linebacker, where USF has been consistent in saying that senior Tyrone McKenzie would move from strongside to start in the middle, with sophomore Sabbath Joseph in line to take over at strongside. But Friday morning, junior Kion Wilson -- who'd been limited by injury in spring drills -- was lined up as the first-team middle linebacker, with McKenzie back as the starting strongside linebacker. Senior Brouce Mompremier remains entrenched as the starting weakside linebacker.
There was another wrinkle in the first-team look on the offensive line Friday. We'd told you Wednesday that starting center Jake Griffin watched from the sidelines while the Bulls gave center reps to guard Ryan Schmidt. Well Friday, there was a new combination, with Griffin back at center, Schmidt shifted to left tackle and Marc Dile flipping sides to right tackle.
It brings a curious question: For all the confidence USF's coaches have shown in former walk-on Jake Sims at right tackle, do the Bulls want to start an unproven lineman when doing so would put an experienced starter on the sidelines? USF has three guards with at least a full season of starting experience -- Schmidt, Zach Hermann and Matt Huners -- and Schmidt, back in December, had mentioned that coaches were considering using him at tackle.
The second-team line Friday? Sims was working at center, with redshirt freshman Jeremiah Warren at left tackle, walk-ons Chaz HIne and Joe Herzhauser at guard and redshirt freshman Mike McGowan at right tackle. It's barely a week into practice, but right now, it appears true freshmen Mark Popek and Damian Edwards aren't working with the top two units.
One more bit of news Friday morning: Another big name getting a look on returns, as sophomore receiver Carlton Mitchell was one of four guys lining up deep on kickoff returns.


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NEW YORK (Sep. 18)
Two youngsters, one 12 and the other 15 years old, were taken into custody early Sunday morning on suspicion of arson and vandalism against a Brooklyn synagogue.
Orthodox Congregation Rabbinical Institute Sharai Torah in the Midwood section was broken into about midnight Saturday by intruders who set a series of fires around the building and spray painted 15 swastikas and obscenities on the walls.
Five and probably all six of the congregation's Torah scrolls were desecrated and burned. One may be missing.
The incident evoked memories of Nazi attacks on synagogues in Germany in the 1930s. It was swiftly denounced by national and local Jewish community leaders and city officials, including Mayor Edward Koch and Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward.
Rabbi Max Schreier, president of the Rabbinical Council of America and religious leader of the Avenue N Jewish Center, also in the Midwood section, declared, "This terrible act of ruthless vandalism, the likes of which have not been seen since the Holocaust, comes as a shock to a Jewish community which has tried to foster good community relations.
"It shows us the need for vigilance to safeguard religious freedom in this country," Schreier said.
Police said the two suspects have been released in custody of their parents, pending an appearance in family court. Their identities were not revealed because of their age. The police would not say whether the youngsters were residents of the neighborhood or outsiders.
Rabbi Hillel David, religious leader of the congregation, could not be reached Sunday for comment.
The attack on the synagogue was ferocious, according to police and others at the scene. The charred remains of the Torah scrolls indicate they were pulled out of the cedar-paneled Ark, their ornamented velvet coverings ripped off and the scrolls unrolled on the floor, stamped on and set afire.
Fires were set on the main floor and spread to the second floor of the two attached buildings, once private residences which contain the sanctuary, classrooms and other facilities of the congregation.
No immediate estimate of the damage was available. There were conflicting accounts. One said the fire caused extensive interior structural damage. Another said it did little damage to the building, which has been closed.
According to some members of the congregation, the destroyed Torah scrolls represent a loss of $25,000 each. City Councilman Noach Deer, who represents the district, said funeral services for the Torah would be held Sunday afternoon. According to Jewish tradition, desecrated scrolls must be placed in a coffin and buried.
The attack on the synagogue, only a few days before Yom Kippur, sent shock waves through the Jewish community in Midwood and the entire city.
Because a house of worship was the target, the attack was declared a bias incident, and a special police and fire department task force was set up to conduct the investigation.
Police said they were not aware of any previous incidents in the quiet middle-class neighborhood, which is heavily populated by Jews. But one member of the congregation claimed that unidentified people have pelted the synagogue buildings with eggs.
The fact that the synagogue buildings resemble two family homes common to the block and have no signs indicating they are houses of worship led some residents to believe the perpetrators are local people.


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Utah State Defeats Southern Utah 90-57 - Recap
Southern Utah was run off the court by Utah State on Tuesday as they blasted them 90-57 at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.
Utah State won and also put money in the pockets of their supporters by covering the 22.5-point spread as favorites.
Utah State got 24 points from Jarred Shaw and another 11 points from Spencer Butterfield. Marcel Davis contributed 6 assists, while Jarred Shaw cleaned the glass with 10 rebounds.
Southern Utah got a 11-point performance from Trey Kennedy, who was supported by 10 points from Cal Hanks. Trey Kennedy had 2 assists in a losing cause for Southern Utah, while Casey Oliverson grabbed 9 rebounds.
First-half bettors who backed Utah State were victorious, as the score was 46-26 at the break.
Utah State won the battle of the boards, outrebounding their counterparts 44-22.


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I have three cats. The Maine Coon would probably run in fear from an attacker (he's big and powerful when he jumps on you, problem is he'll only jump on ya to be petted!). The Russian Blue/who knows what mix would probably hiss at you and then run, and the little alley cat would probably want to cuddle! As for them charging, if you're so scared of cute little kitties that you'd put a round into them, than tisk tisk, and you PROBABLY shouldn't be carrying ANY type of weapon.
Now, as for the ferrel cat laws, mine are all indoors cats, and stick close to the house whenever they make the great escape. We had one get loose for a week (scared of cars so she'd run every time anyone would pull into the condo parking lot), so I wouldn't be too worried about THAT one. And as far as home protection goes, my little alley cat is so damn cute that a bad guy would probably get caught up in cuddle time, then BAM!!!
Seriously, anyone who lives in a neighborhood where they even remotely know their neighbors PROBABLY knows their dogs as well. I know that I could tell whether my neighbors' dogs had snapped and wanted dinner, or if they're being their normal selves and craving attention and the innevitable bit of food which I'll give them if I'm coming in from a food run...
And if you're in a strange neighborhood, or somehow your neighbor gets pissed and orders their dog to attack, then yes, defend yourself. I'm fortunate enough to live in a small town where I pretty much know everyone's habits, even if I don't know them personally. However, I realize that not everyone is so FORTUNATE as I am to be in a tiny little nowhere town where the people in the stores and such know their names. So yes, err on the side of caution if you're really not sure, then watch Animal Planet for some closure.
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With Featherston's plans to win the war by cutting the US in half having failed at the point of victory, this war's turning into one that he did not want - one where the infinitely larger resources of the US can be brought to bear. However, Featherston has determined that his troops shall take the city of Pittsburgh to damage the US's output. Pity no-one told the US that was the plan...
With dark deeds on the plains of Texas and rebels tearing the heart out of both the US and Confederacy, you might find it handy to take notes. You also might find it useful to have a good history text of the era available just to make sure just who was there really and just who Turtledove has made up :-)
Oh, yes, and you'll want to have a nice *soothing* book to take away the taste. Trust me on this!!
If there is anything that mars the book it's the way Featherston changes from quite a capable leader with the Touch, to one who was blind to the tactical realities. This is required if Turtledove is to keep the echoes of the real WW2, but it's... unconvincing.
(This review refers to the 2005 version titled "Drive to the East")
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Young Retirement Rumors Denied, Again
Ahh, how the rumors fly at a convention. Buzz has heard twice today that Congressman C.W. Bill Young is going to retire and that his wife Beverly Angello Young will run for his seat.
Young spokesman Harry Glenn checked with his boss Saturday afternoon and said that nothing has changed with the Congressman and that he has not decided if he will run again.


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^Agree with everything, and particularly the last sentence.
hellokitty, I feel bad that your partners are acting so selfish. It's cool that they really really want to spend time with you, but you need to let them know how the pressure affects you. Ideally, your partners would be interested in your happiness as well as their own. They are acting from a mentality of entitlement and competition, which is so destructive for a happy poly relationship.
I would like to ask you, does this kind of competitive view prevail in other situations, too, or is it just the holidays that is bringing it out of them?
I had been with Alec for 7 years when I started a relationship with Mya. Over the last 1,5 years, I've become very familiar with hinge guilt. That guilt will tell you that anything bad either of your partner feels - loneliness, jealousy, insecurity - is your fault, because you have multiple partners/are getting more out of it/should know how to balance their needs/etc. It's an understandable feeling, because the whole culture and society is telling us that, firstly, we are incredibly selfish for being with several people and, secondly, that partnerships are about making each other happy (usually to a pretty worrisome, unhealthy degree of self-sacrifice).
But the guilt is just a feeling. It's not true, if you understand what I mean. Even if you feel like you're the one "making them feel lonely/abandoned/whatever", it is not true. Even if you feel like it's your fault, that is not true. When all of you decided to form a poly relationship, all of you agreed on that, all of you consented. Whatever consequences that decision has, are the responsibility of all of you, not just yours alone even if it is you who is the one with multiple partners. It was not your decision alone, it was a mutual decision, and if they feel bad about something, they need to recognise that they chose to be here. I.e. they consented. Also, as important is the fact that both of them are consenting every day. Because when you enter poly, you can't foresee what will happen and how you will feel. In the end, everybody is responsible for their own happiness, and that means they are free to leave the relationship if they are not happy.
So, if your partners feel bad, you are not
making them feel bad
. You need to know that, and they need to know that.
It's enough to fight the internalised crap without your partners guilt-tripping you: they need to stop that immediately. You should ask, making it clear how important it is. If they do not stop, you may want to reconsider the relationships.
Think about what you want. Don't balance what your partners want (because it is not a competition and your time is yours to give), balance all the things you want. My suggestions:
- the guilt-tripping to stop
- time for work (with people acting like adults, i.e. understanding you need to work)
- time for yourself, to relax and unwind, doing things you want to do
- some time with one or both of your partners, spent enjoyably (again, not going over why they are not getting more)
It is not your responsibility to make them both happy. It is not your responsibility to make your bf happy and do everything he wants or everything you've usually done simply because you've been with him longer. It is not your responsibility to spend all your time with your gf just because she has nobody else to spend the holidays with.
Also, if they view poly from the place of entitlement and competition, as they are doing now, there really can only be bad feelings: they will not appreciate the time you choose to spend with them, only thinking about how you should be with them more. It will not be enjoyable for either of you. And even if one of them "wins", i.e. you choose to do what s/he wanted, s/he also looses, because you will resent the fact that you are under pressure and cannot freely choose how to spend your time.
I guess my basic advice is the same as many have given you: figure out what you want to do, and do that. My broader advice is to start learning to manage feelings of guilt. That will help you anyway, but it is particularly important if you have loved ones who will guilt-trip you. Good luck!
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Some state lawmakers from both parties say they hope to raise the limit on the amount of money a candidate for state office can raise and spend.
Gov. Dayton earlier this month urged lawmakers to raise the contribution limit. He made the comments on the day his campaign finance report showed him with $94,000 in the bank at the end of 2012.
He isn't alone.
The chairs of the House and Senate Election Committees both say they want to increase the limits. The top Republican on the House Elections Committee also says he's likely to back the plan as well.
The reason is simple. Political candidates feel like they're being dwarfed by spending from outside interest groups. Candidates for statewide office can raise $500 in the years they're not on the ballot. They can raise $2,000 in election years. Legislative candidates can raise $100 in non-election years and $500 in the years that they're on the ballot.
Rep. Steve Simon, DFL-St. Louis Park, said those limits are too low.
"We should increase both the contribution and the spending limits so that we can better equalize the size of megaphones and those who are trying to help or hurt them in elections," Simon said. "The outside interests have a huge megaphone now as compared to the actual candidates running for office."
Simon, who chairs the House Elections Committee, noted that outside interest groups can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on any race.
He is holding a hearing today on a proposal by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board that calls for hiking the contribution and spending limits. Update: The committee held a hearing on a different Campaign Finance Board proposal.
Rep. Tim Sanders, R-Blaine, the top Republican on the House Elections Committee, also says it's likely he'll support some sort of increase. Sanders said there hasn't been an agreement between committee members as to what the new limits should be. He said, however, that increasing the limits will make races more competitive.
"It always struck me as incumbent protection," Sanders said, referring to the low contribution limits.
Sen. Katie Sieben, DFL-Newport, also wants to hike the limits. Sieben, who chairs the Senate Elections Committee, said she's heard from a bipartisan group of lawmakers who expressed concern about the level of outside spending on legislative races in 2012. GOP Senate Minority Leader David Hann said his caucus hasn't discussed the idea but said he thinks there is support for it.
A proposal to increase political contributions will likely be included in a broader elections bill. Gov. Dayton has said he won't support any elections bill unless it has broad, bipartisan support.


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Which leaves the defense with little wriggle room. Their last best chance to avoid the death penalty may lie in a kind of Catch-22 that defense experts have already addressed: After the prosecution rejected Kaczynski's offer of a guilty plea, his only way to beat the rap is with a mental-defect defense. Who, then, but a crazy man would insist that he's sane?
Whose Trial is it Anyway?
SACRAMENTO: An intransigent Theodore Kaczynski has forced his defense team to abandon plans to call mental health experts to testify during the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, according to court papers filed late Monday. The move means that reams of pre-trial documents asserting that the Unabomber suspect is schizophrenic, and unable to form the intent to kill anyone, have been set aside.


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Sen. Al Franken Monday urged the passage of pending health care reform legislation and said he was not surprised about Norm Coleman's decision not to run for governor.
On the eve of a hotly contested Senate race in Massachusetts, Franken said Democratic candidate Martha Coakley has been hurt by misinformation about the health care legislation.
Conservative discussions about government-run "death panels" have plagued Coakley's "flat footed" campaign for the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, Franken said, in an hour-long interview with MPR's Gary Eichten,
Franken commented briefly on Coleman's announcement not to enter the gubernatorial race.
"That's his choice and the Republicans get to choose their own nominee," he said.
Franken also stressed the importance of creating jobs and voiced support for President Obama's economic recovery program.
The senator also weighed in on international and domestic anti-terrorism efforts, reporting renewed optimism about U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan after a recent trip to the region.
"We're using classic counterinsurgency tactics, and I feel much better," he said.
The military should not rule out U.S. military intervention in Yemen, he said. "You can't rule out using air power," he said, "but we have to be careful. You don't want to get in everywhere."
The senator called for the government to merge so-called "no-fly lists" into one easily searchable database, following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas.
Franken said full-body scans at airports should be limited, for the most part, to people on the no-fly list.


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Safari in Salinas' Serengeti / Netting, tents and wild encounters part of charm at Vision Quest inn
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, April 20, 2003
2003-04-20 04:00:00 PDT Salinas -- The lion roars all night. The sound pierces our tent's walls and reverberates across the surrounding fields. At dawn, sprinklers come to life, showering silvery arcs over the Salinas Valley's budding salads-to-be.
While cars crawl down the highway in the distance, their drivers unaware of the big cat's existence, we sip coffee on the porch of an African safari-style tent at Vision Quest Bed and Breakfast, less than an hour's drive from Silicon Valley. A male ostrich just a hundred yards away is dancing on his knees with wings spread wide and head wagging sideways, doing his best to impress his unresponsive female companion.
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"Did you hear Josef roar last night?" asks trainer Christy Ingram, as she brings a basketful of fresh pastries for breakfast. To our enthusiastic "Oh, yes," she responds, "Good, then he gets his paycheck today."
Vision Quest's sister company, Wild Things Animal Rentals Inc., is one of a half-dozen California companies that train wild animals for film, television and educational work. Owner Charlie Sammut wanted to find a way for his menagerie to work without traveling, so he combined 20 years of wild animal training experience with his family's hotel business background to create a bed and breakfast that provides close encounters of the wildlife kind.
Ingram is Wild Things' head trainer. Her companion, Georgie, is a 10-year- old baboon who loves red licorice. He thinks Ingram and Sammut are senior members of her troupe and threatens anyone else who might join them. Georgie is the third animal we've met here.
The previous evening, trainer Susan Mathison and Eli were almost invisible as they walked up the hillside from the animal compound toward our tent, Mathison's blond hair and Eli's tawny fur blended with golden end-of-summer grasses. Eli is a serval, a black-spotted cat whose head barely reaches Mathison's knee. Servals compensate for their small size with big attitudes, Mathison said, and as a youngster, "He was nasty. No one wanted to work with him." Now 13 and geriatric among his species, Eli accepted our hesitant caresses with growls that seemed more habitual than dangerous. He butted Mathison's head and lay down to wash his paw while she talked about his career posing for educational photographs and National Geographic magazine appearances.
Half an hour later, Ingram arrived with Domino, a black leopard. Domino once saw a woman wearing leopard-print stockings on our tent's porch and has been convinced since then that another leopard is invading his territory. His jet-black-on-dark-brown spots gleaming in the evening sun, he growled and glowered, "exercising his right to be a leopard," as Ingram described it. She told us Domino developed a heart problem soon after a Kansas breeder delivered him to Wild Things, so he is retired. He lives with Ingram, her border collie (who helped raise him) and her cat, who stays out of his way. Domino's only job is to take occasional walks to guests' tents.
After they left, we had a look around the ranch. The four tent cabins, imported from South Africa, sit on high ground looking out over the Salinas Valley, a fertile 30-mile-wide strip bounded by the Santa Lucia and Gavilan mountains. The tents surround the elephants' 5-acre playpen, a space they share with a zebra, the dancing ostrich and his prospective mate. Wild Things' buildings and cages lie beyond, like a small zoo, home to Josef the roaring lion and more than a hundred other animals, including spiders, tortoises, tigers and monkeys.
Sammut and his staff combed catalogs looking for just the right furnishings for the tents, decorating each with a different animal theme. We could have slept among elephant, zebra or big cat images, but we chose Giraffe Manor, where images of the long-necked creatures cover the bedspread, hold up a small table, surround the mirror and still leave ample room for a king-sized bed, sofa and rocking chair. The mosquito-netted bed creates a warm safari feel, but as we fell asleep on a cool evening, the electric heater and bed-warming mattress pad came in handy.
As comfortable as the tent-houses are, animals are the stars here. Although the elephants usually deliver breakfast, carrying the pastry basket in their trunks, Ingram and Georgie the baboon bring it today because the elephant trainers are away. To compensate, Ingram invites us to turn the tables and deliver the pachyderms' snack instead.
At the elephant compound, Butch and Buffy wail and rock with concern, each high-pitched cry echoing against the barn, as Ingram and her assistant bring Lisa out of the enclosure. Her mud-coated skin hangs like a dirty gray raincoat, but the 15-year-old approaches like an ingenue, her Oreo-sized black eyes flashing behind a forest of eyelashes. The playful teenager answers Ingram's questions by blowing raspberries, then shakes her head no when asked if she's being silly.
When a creature the size of a small truck approaches, it's hard to hold your ground, but Lisa stops just before stepping on my toes. I feed her sweet potatoes and apples, feeling her breath as she plucks them with her trunk from my outstretched hand. Each one disappears in two crunchy chews. When they're gone, she pulls a whole melon from my hands, wraps her trunk around it and pops it into her mouth like a bonbon. Sandpaper-textured ears flutter as I caress skin as rough as a gravel road, furrowed like the back of an old man's neck and dotted with coarse hairs. Her sidelong glances make me wonder if she knows that she has a new admirer.
Our visit ends with the daily Wild Things tour, which feels like a visit to old friends. "There's Eli." "Look! It's Georgie." The most familiar face, though, belongs to an animal we haven't met before: Josef, the source of the nocturnal roars.
Josef was Sammut's first animal, received by mistake after he ordered a tiger cub through an animal broker in 1988. He opted to keep the lion cub. The tiger arrived six months later, but it was Josef's success as an animal actor that encouraged Sammut to start Wild Things Animal Rentals.
It's no wonder Josef looks familiar; his long list of credits include Dreyfus Fund commercials and the movie "George of the Jungle," and he was the model for Mufasa in "The Lion King." Wearing his dark brown mane like a king's cloak, he sleeps with white-bearded chin on his paws, oblivious to the fact that without him, this bit of the Serengeti in the Salinas Valley might not exist.
-- Vision Quest Ranch is five miles south of Salinas, about two hours' drive south of San Francisco, a little over an hour from San Jose. Take Highway 101 south to Salinas and take the Laurel Drive exit. Turn right, move immediately to the left lane. Traveling west on Laurel Drive, turn left onto Davis Road, then left on Reservation Road, which turns into River Road. The ranch entrance is the first right past Pine Canyon Road.
-- Vision Quest Safari, 400 River Road, Salinas CA; phone, (800) 228-7382; Web, www.wildthingsinc.com. Adults-only bed and breakfast; $225 per night includes continental breakfast, animal visits and the one-hour daily tour. If you have an animal favorite, ask for your room by name: Giraffe Manor, Pachyderm Palace, Zebra Zone or The Little BIG Cat House. Plan to be around your tent between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., when the trainers bring the animals by. Four-hour VIP Tours and Walk with the Animals packages are available for an additional fee. The daily tour by itself is $10.


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The party was formed in 1973 as a loose coalition of rightist factions in an effort to topple the leftwing Labour party from power. Labour had dominated Israeli politics since the country was founded in 1948.
Mr Sharon, a controversial retired army general who defected from Labour, served in the cabinet of Menachem Begin, who became Likud's first prime minister in 1977.
In September 1999, Mr Sharon became the party's leader, and his visit to the Temple Mount, a shrine in Jerusalem that is holy to both Muslims and Jews, in September 2000, helped to spark the intifada. He was elected Israel's prime minister in 2001 and 2003.
Likud and Mr Sharon were keen champions of Jewish settlement on lands captured in the 1967 war. So when Mr Sharon confronted his settler power base by ordering an Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip earlier this year, it split his party. Rebels in the Likud faction in parliament withheld support for his initiatives, preventing him from adding two supporters to his cabinet and demonstrating that his government could not continue to function.
Mr Sharon is expected to take a number of prominent Likud cabinet ministers with him to his new party, along with Labour figures such as Shimon Peres, the former prime minister and ex-Labour leader. This would enable Mr Sharon to cast his new party as one of the centre, leaving Likud as a bastion of hardliners who are opposed to compromise with the Palestinians.
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text: Old, Bold and Big by Gordon Ferguson One of the most dramatic statements on the horizon of Southern Africa is made by a tree - the baobab. Looking more like a cartoon drawing than a real-life object, the baobab is an exceptional member of the plant kingdom in more ways than one. Its trunk size is overwhelming. This tree is not just big or enormous, it's beyond gigantic - it's colossal. This is a tree with more than a XXX LARGE tag. In Zimbabwe one hollow specimen can provide shelter for up to 40 people. For compassionate treelovers this giant needs a team of many people linking arms around the trunk to give it a good, old-fashioned hug. In Southern Africa you'll find baobabs with stems of up to 8 meters in diameter and 28 meters in circumference. The botanical name, Adansonia digitata comes from a man called Michel Adanson who saw one of these trees for the first time in Senegal in the 18th century. The digital, finger-like leaves account for the species name, digitata. Most people use the common name, baobab, which probably has its origin in the words 'bu hobab', an adaptation of the Arabic term 'bu hibab' meaning 'fruit with many seeds'. The San people have called this 'the upside-down tree' because the branches look more like the tree's roots. It is often called the monkey bread tree in reference to the fruit which is enjoyed by monkeys, while the 19th century explorer and missionary, David Livingstone, described it as 'that giant, upturned carrot'. Our more contemporary cartoon description of this tree is equally valid. It is almost like a caricature of a posing bodybuilder with more than just one pair of muscular arms. The trunk is stocky and the branches reaching to the sky seem to ripple with flexed power. The texture and color of the bark is also unusual for a tree. It has a smooth surface and it is pinkish, pinkish-grey and sometimes coppery in color. The prehistoric appearance of the average baobab tells you that this is a tree that 'goes back a few years' - anything up to 1 000 years, sometimes more. According to scientific dating methods many particularly massive baobabs have had their date of germination estimated to be before the birth of Christ. The fruit of the baobab was apparently available in herb and spice markets as long ago as 2 500 BC while some ancient specimens are believed to be up to 3 000 years old. In Southern Africa baobabs grow in poor, shallow soils in very hot, dry conditions at low altitudes. Well prepared for frequent droughts, the baobab effectively stores large volumes of water in its thick, corky and fire-resistant trunk. In extremely dry seasons the trunk may shrink as less water is available for storage. What water there is in the stem during droughts is often extracted by elephants which poke holes in the tree with their tusks and suck out the water with their trunks. This is a leafless tree for about nine months of the year. When the baobab finally has a flush of green foliage some of the leaves are plucked by local communities to make soup, condiments and medicines. With so many years of life ahead of it the baobab really takes its time to blossom. This tree only comes into flower at about the age of 20. But the large white flowers of the baobab are pollinated within hours of opening. Appearing just before nightfall the flowers, which are luminous in the dark, attract fruit bats, bush babies and nocturnal insects. As they suck the nectar and move from one flower to the next these creatures effectively and very quickly carry out the process of pollination. The fruit of the baobab looks like a small, light-green or yellowish- grey version of a rugby ball. Inside this hairy, velvety, ovoid pod a white powder, commonly called cream of tartar, surrounds several seeds. The fruit of the baobab is very popular amongst local inhabitants, both human and animal. It is a valuable food for baboons, monkeys, antelope and elephants. The seeds are often crushed by rural people and drunk as a substitute for coffee, while the cream of tartar is used for baking. The fibrous bark of the baobab is sometimes used by local folk to make baskets, nets, ropes, floor mats and even paper. Holes in the trunk of a baobab provide ideal nesting sites for all sorts of birds - rollers, hornbills, kestrels and barn owls. Even the large ground hornbill can find a place to rent in a baobab. Eagles, vultures and storks find the branches of a baobab useful platforms to build nests of stacked sticks. And, if there is a colony of nests in a baobab it probably belongs to a crowd of buffalo weavers. Looking more like a mammoth cartoon figure than a tree, the baobab doesn't seem to belong to this millennium or this world. But it does - and it offers more than its fair share to provide shade, shelter, water and food for all sorts of mammals, birds, insects and people. Reproduced with friendly permission of Parinari Investments (Pvt) Ltd. From the April 2006 Newsletter "Wild Heritage Africa". Baobab Forest in Madagascar


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(Notre Dame, Ind.) The Holy Cross men's soccer team, without four starters including starting goalkeeper, defeated Andrews University tonight by a score of 7-3. Senior midfielder, Luis Delgado (Lexington, Ky.) led the Saints with 1 goal and 2 assists for 4 points on the evening.
The Saints entered tonight's match coming off a tough road series with Taylor University and Indiana Wesleyan University, where they let both games slip away in the final minutes of action. Prior to the match, the Saints record stood at (1-2-0) and they were looking to get back on the winning track.
"The guys knew we needed to get this win and get back on track," said Saints head coach Omar Gallo. "Coming off two tough losses like we did this weekend, it was important to not only start off fast, but to be consistent all 90 minutes."
Without freshmen goalkeeper Victor Navarro, the Saints turned to starting midfielder Eduardo Berruezo (Madrid, Spain) to mind the nets.
Berruezo finished the game with 7 saves, and most importantly recorded his first win as goalkeeper for the Saints.
Senior Luis Delgado go the Saints going early in the first half netting his 2nd goal of the year off the pass from junior defensemen Tj Hendzel (Lisle, Ill.). Connor Simpson (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) followed up with a penalty kick goal at the 16 minute mark.
The Saints also received goals from Alex Clarke (Liverpool, England) and Tj Hendzel to give them 4 for the first half, and a two goal lead.
Holy Cross was able to continue to capitalize in the 2nd half as standout freshmen Troy Padgett (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) notched two more goals bringing his season total to 5. Finn Hartel (Uhingen, Germany) also netted his 3rd of the year in the 73rd minute to give the Saints their 7th of the game, and a cushioned lead to close out the game.
"I'm pleased with how the team fought to get this win tonight," said head coach Omar Gallo. "Coming off those two tough losses over the weekend, it feels good to get back in the win column. With 4 starters out, we had guys step in and fill that role. Now we must turn our focus to Marian this weekend, and hope we can build off of this win."
The Saints (2-2-0) will travel to Indianapolis, Ind. this weekend to take on the Knights of Marian University, and return home next Wednesday, September 19th at 4:00pm EST with a match against Huntington University.


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Heh. On his own show this evening, Chris Matthews took umbrage with his early-morning colleagues on Morning Joe for what he sees as their apparently oh-so-irksome tendency to be "open to all people's points of view on that show." Yes, how very… uhm… dreadful of them? Via NewsBusters:
Screw ups are not need for penitential action, simply correction. But when Reince Priebus has the nerve to cross the line into giving us moral leadership, we all must laugh – laugh heartily. The administration's bungling of the IRS issue has opened, of course, the door for GOP featherweights like RNC chair Reince Priebus to launch some serious accusations. They're not serious coming from him. They sound serious. Priebus tweeted – which is a perfect means of communication for him yesterday – "Great show with Sean Hannity tonight. It's lawlessness and guerilla warfare and Obama is in the middle of it." This is what a leader of a political party talks like – a thirteen-year-old. This morning he doubled down on those accusations. Here he was on Morning Joe. I don't know why they put him on. I guess they're open to all people's points of view on that show.
Good grief, man — tell us how you really feel, why don't you. I certainly won't pretend that I harbor any fondness or intellectual deference for DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (ahem), but if you're at least trying to create some semblance of balance and diverse discussion of DC politics on a news show, the national chairman of the Republican party is kind of a legitimate get, no? Also, not sure I understand the implied insult with Twitter being "the perfect means of communication for him." …Yeah, it's a great means of communication for a lot of people, journalists and politicians and your fellow MSNBCers alike, and part of a social-media strategy that the Democrats used to great effect in the last election. Good one?


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ha loved that comment. This man cracks me up with the things he says.Originally Posted by MK202;2742737;
ha loved that comment. This man cracks me up with the things he says.Originally Posted by MK202;2742737;
Put me in a special school, 'Cause I am such a fool.
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I loved Yau man last time, but will be surprised if he lasts long this goround.
I have found the Truth and it doesn't make sense.
Uhh aren't you forgetting last time when he dominated in the challenges? He had like 4 or 5 surprise performances where he did better than all the younger guys.Originally Posted by MisterSSS;2742761;
With tough players like Jonathan (Not JFP) and Ozzy to contend with, I wonder how long Yau-Man will last.
Now that you mention it, I do remember that! They were pretty embarrassed to be outplayed by him, if I recall. He's pretty small physically but he did pretty well considering.Originally Posted by Humpski;2747322;
Yeah! Exactly, it was great.Originally Posted by sweetpea;2752063;
They knew Yau Man is clever (well, 'cunning' if you like to address in this way) before the game started. I doubt he would last long.
There are so many other strong physical players that they others will be worrying about so I don't think Yau will have a problem right away.
Yes! Yau-Man is back!
I'm going to assume that at some point the tribes get shuffled up so fans and favorites are no longer separated, because every survivor that has started off divided by some identity marker (gender, race, age) has wound up shuffling it up to see how people interact in mixed environments. Assuming that (which may be wrong), I think Yau-Man will stand a good chance once he's with the fans, because he'll know how to work them strategically and he's so well-liked, but the "favorites" may decide to get rid of the most popular contenders who fans already like, so people like Yau-Man and Cirie may be early targets amongst the returning survivors.
And I sing sometimes like my life is at stake because you're only as loud as the noises you make.
I love Yau Man but I agree, he doesn't stand a chance. I wouldn't automatically put him at a physical disadvantage right away though. It all depends on what the challenges are-he proved that by how well he did in his own season. You never know what the are going to throw at them.
His brains and resourcefulness are his strength and they all know it. I would expect the fans to target him, Ozzy and Cirie first if any ever end up on a team with a fan majority. There's no way any fan could compete in a finale with their popularity and previosly known game reputation. I think the favorites are at a disadvantage from the get go. The fans know what they are capable of. The favs have no idea what the fans are capable of


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Illinois Court Dismisses "Bad Mothering" Suit
Fresh off our recent coverage of the prosecution of Jessica Beagley, for using hot sauce to punish her son, we think it is time now to consider whether alleged bad parenting can give rise to civil damages.
Consider the suit brought by two grown children in Illinois against their mom for bad mothering.
Yes, you read that right.
The suit alleges a range of offenses against their mother, including failing to take her daughter to a car show, threatening to call the police if her son, then 7, didn't buckle his seat belt, or calling her daughter at midnight to come home from celebrating homecoming, according to this report from the Chicago Tribune.
For their emotional distress, the children sought more than $50,000 in damages.
The litigation did not end well for the children. . .


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A Boger City furniture manufacturing company celebrated the grand opening of its new retail store in Denver this week.
David Faulkner is the owner and mastermind behind Faulkner's Upholstery in Boger City and, now, Faulkner's Custom Furniture in Denver. With more than 20 years of experience in the furniture business, Faulkner designs and constructs tables, dressers, nightstands, entertainment centers and chairs. His specialty is custom-made contemporary furniture, and he has created his own line of acrylic furniture.
"We cater more to designers and people who want one-of-a-kind or high designer-type pieces," Faulkner said. "You can't really compare it to Big Lots or Rooms To Go. But we're less expensive than name brand furniture."
Although he was born in Lincoln County, Faulkner spent the majority of his childhood in Gastonia.
"My dad was a carpenter, so I grew up around (the trade)," Faulkner said. "He built and framed houses. During high school, any time I was on vacation — winter break, summer break, I helped him out."
It was not until Faulkner turned 18 that he decided to return to Lincoln County, working in the cutting department at a La-Z-Boy Furniture warehouse. After honing his craftsmanship skills with the company for almost eight years, he moved on to Bernhardt Furniture in Cherryville, and a few years later to Ethan Allen in Maiden.
It was during his time at Ethan Allen that Faulkner began working out of his garage in the evenings.
"About six years ago, I started building stuff from scratch at home," he said. "Like, out in the yard, I'd start building a frame from scratch and then I'd bring it in and started building my own frames and my own furniture. It just went from there."
Working all day for the furniture factory and half the night at home, Faulkner soon realized he needed to choose between the two jobs. He thanks his wife, a nurse, for giving him the support to start his own business.
"I had so much going on at home and at Ethan Allen, I just figured I'd give one of them up, so I gave up Ethan Allen," he said. "I went on my own, and opened a shop on the western end, out next to Saine's Hardware (in Lincolnton). So, we opened that shop…and within a year, we outgrew that shop."
With business continuing to grow, Faulkner opted to move three miles down the road to the 12,000 square-foot building located at 2473 East Main Street in Boger City, quadrupling his facility's square footage.
"When we moved to the West Lincoln shop, it was just re-upholstery," he said. "But once we started here, we really started focusing on designing our own frames. And once we had that going on, we started doing some furniture shows around the area. People started liking our product, and we realized we had a lot of furniture just sitting in containers, sitting in the shop, not making any money, just sitting there. That's when I decided to open a shop in Denver."
While Faulkner wanted to open a retail store for years, he had been hesitant about moving forward.
"One day, a customer came in…his name's Joe Mannino, and we do a chair for him," Faulkner said. "And he asked me, 'Why do you have all this furniture sitting around?'"
After explaining the situation to him, Mannino informed Faulkner that he had a storefront open at a strip mall in Denver.
"There was a big furniture manufacturing store that shut down out there recently, and then the fabric and drapery store is going out of business…I don't know that there's many upholsters out (in that area) anymore," Faulkner said. "They need (our store) because they don't have anything locally."
Faulkner believes opening the Denver retail store during the summer months will allow the business enough time to settle in and brace themselves for what he calls "re-upholstery season."
"Right now, re-upholstery is not really busy because of the time of year, but by October, November, we get slammed with re-upholstery orders," he said. "Everybody wants stuff re-upholstered before the family comes over for Thanksgiving and Christmas."
In addition to catering to clients in Lincoln County and the greater Charlotte area, Faulkner's Upholstery has also developed a large client base in Atlanta.
"This designer I knew, who often shopped in Atlanta, told me about this great furniture show down there," Faulkner explained. "That's how I found out about it."
Since learning about Scott's Antique Show three years ago, Faulkner has made the four-hour trip to Atlanta every second weekend of the month. The business also makes an additional trip or two down there each month to deliver furniture orders to clients. Through working in the large metropolitan area, Faulkner's Upholstery has constructed custom furniture for the Zac Brown Band at their Nashville studio as well as for the estranged wife of Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons.
Since opening his business, Faulkner has welcomed two of his brothers, a niece and nephew to the business.
"My brother, Doug Faulkner, is our master carpenter and does a lot of our frame design," he explained. "He had built houses for years, and then the housing market crashed."
It was during a conversation between the two brothers at Faulkner's Upholstery that David Faulkner realized his brother's craftsmanship could be transferred to the furniture business.
"I asked him to build this funky-looking ottoman I hadn't gotten around to yet, and we went from there," Faulkner said. "Now, I can just show him a picture or a sketch of something, and he'll build it. He's been the backbone of our framing department."
Today, the business has become somewhat of a family affair. Faulkner's eldest brother, Roger Meadows, works in the frame shop, while his nephew, Chris Faulkner, and niece, Brittany Faulkner, work in the upholstery department.
"Running a business is pretty stressful," Faulkner admits. "If help is needed anywhere (in the store), I'm there. I run the whole show. It's been a lot of learning along the way, but I have a good work ethic, and I try to make things happen."
Faulkner's retail store is located at 1891 Highway 16 in Denver. For more information about Faulkner's Upholstery and Faulkner's Custom Furniture, visit www.faulknerscustomfurniture.net.
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Internet rumors are swirling this week about everyone's favorite Twilight couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Earlier this week rumors surfaced that the 26-year-old Pattinson and 22-year-old Stewart had reconciled their relationship, which was on the rocks after Stewart's affair with Snow White And The Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders, in July.
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Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio may bemoan Barack Obama, but not in every area.
The underdog rival to Gov. Charlie Crist is striving to emulate the small-donor fundraising model that helped propel Obama past another money-raising titan, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A closer look at the Senate candidates' latest campaign finance reports, in fact, shows Crist has relied so heavily on large donors that his financial advantage over Rubio is less enormous than it might appear.
That's because individual donors can give only $2,400 for the Republican primary, and any amount above that is restricted for use in the general election. More than 850 people have contributed more than $2,400 to the Crist Senate campaign — totalling about $2.5 million restricted for the general election. Fewer than 50 of Rubio's more than 11,000 donors gave more than $2,400.
Not that Rubio has much to crow about. As of Sept. 30, Crist still had a 5-to-1 financial advantage — $4.17 million on hand for the primary vs. $802,000 for Rubio, who had about $90,000 restricted for the general election.
"At this stage, a 5-to-1 disadvantage suits me fine, especially since the overwhelming bulk of our donors can keep giving and his can't," said Rubio campaign adviser Pat Shortridge.
Part of what helped Obama beat Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary was a vast pool of small donors who could give again and again before reaching the maximum contribution. Clinton, meanwhile, maxed out more big donors early, leaving her at a disadvantage.
The Crist campaign did not respond to questions about its donors, but the Rubio campaign said its average donation this year has been $119.
Rubio is generating a ton of national publicity since conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman knocked liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava out of a congressional special election in upstate New York. Conservative activists and media figures have been casting the Rubio vs. Crist contest as the next big fight.
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The team that takes the field this fall will be a different Buccaneers club with a new head coach, two new coordinators and a host of different players.
Just as big will be the schematic changes. After seven seasons in former coach Jon Gruden's version of the West Coast offense, Jeff Jagodzinski prepares to take over and implement his offense. And after 12 seasons under Monte Kiffin's Tampa 2 defense, Jim Bates takes the reigns and will overhaul the defense somewhat.
So, given the changes, which players stand to benefit most from the alterations? Let's take a look:
- CB Aqib Talib: He tied for the team lead in interceptions as a rookie last season even though he played, by his estimate, about 40 percent of the defensive snaps. Now, with an emphasis being placed on bump-and-run coverage -- for which Talib is a perfect fit -- he likely will be in position to make even more plays. Under Kiffin's zone-heavy system, the cornerbacks often covered an area of the field and not a specific receiver. The switch to a more man-to-man system will give Talib the opportunity to become one of the league's premier cornerbacks if he steps up to the challenge.
- WR Michael Clayton: I know a fair number of our regular readers have had it up to here with Clayton, and that's understandable given his lack of production. But here's why it's possible he could break out: Jagodzinski has vowed to get more receivers involved in the passing game. Whereas Gruden's offense tended to feature single players (Antonio Bryant, Joey Galloway and Clayton in 2004), Jagodzinski seems more likely to spread it around. Doesn't make his approach better. Just different. Either way, Clayton figures to be on the field and could be a beneficiary of the new system after seeing very few balls the past two seasons.
- RB Earnest Graham: This guy has sustained lots of bumps and bruises over the past two seasons, in large part because he has taken a lot of hits. Under the zone-blocking system being put in place, running backs -- theoretically -- will take fewer hits. Zone blocking allows runners to read the play find one of the cutback lanes that should develop. Under the man-to-man blocking scheme employed in the past, the goal was to create a single hole for the runner. Problem is, if that hole doesn't develop or if the defense commits too many defenders, the running back often has to try to break tackles and drop a shoulder. That means more wear and tear.
- Offensive line: The zone blocking system is a perfect fit for the Bucs' offensive line. The young unit is one of the league's most athletic, meaning it possesses one of the most important qualities for a group that will engage in zone blocking. The tackles (Donald Penn and Jeremy Trueblood) are very good lateral movers, and the guards have shown in the past that they are nimble when asked to pull. Center Jeff Faine is regarded as one of the more agile players at his position and has proven that with his ability to get to the second level and take on linebackers.
- Young players: Gruden has more football knowlege in his pinkie finger than most people do upstairs. But maybe that was the problem sometimes. His complicated scheme and lengthy gameplans clearly overwhelmed some young players. It's a chief reason players who came to the Bucs out of college often didn't develop as much as you would hope. Even a veteran like Warrick Dunn admitted to me last season that he noticed many young players hesitating rather letting their ability take over because they lacked a comfort level in the offense. QB Luke McCown is on record saying Jagodzinski's playbook is roughly half the size of Gruden's. Jagodzinski says he'll have a lot less verbiage, too. All this will make the transition easier for young, talented players.
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I'm here today to bring the news that Resistance 3 has gone gold, and has been delivered to manufacturing for its September 6th release date. Everyone here at Insomniac is excited for you to get your hands on the game we've been working so hard on for the last three years. Even now, our work isn't complete, as we are actively working on the Online Beta, and will be bringing a Day 1 Patch to the game to bring updates and tweaks to the final product. The public beta begins today for folks who have codes from SOCOM 4, so we're looking forward to fragging you online.
In celebration of our gold announcement, we wanted to give you the first look at a brand new gameplay trailer from Resistance 3. For those of you who have followed R3 since the announcement of the game at GamesCom last year, this trailer brings things full circle. I don't want to spoil it, so take a look below:
Many of you have been getting very excited about the chance to play Resistance 3's competitive multiplayer modes online when the Resistance 3 Public Beta launches. Today, we're happy to give some additional info about the launch dates for the beta.
For those of you who have received Early Access to the Public Beta via specially marked packages of SOCOM 4, we will be opening the beta to you at some point on Thursday, August 4th. Your existing codes will be able to be redeemed via the PlayStation Store and the Redeem Code button. PlayStation Plus subscribers in the U.S. will also be invited to join the beta beginning on August 23rd. If you're a subscriber, all you'll have to do is navigate to the PlayStation Plus section of the PlayStation Store to download the beta.
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Welcome to the second week of the UNCHARTED 3 Multiplayer Beta!
We're exceptionally excited as today is the day the UNCHARTED 3 Multiplayer Beta goes public! By the end of today, anyone and everyone with access to the PlayStation Store should be able to view and download the UNCHARTED 3 Multiplayer Beta – no codes required!
You'll notice Team Objective and Co-op Hunter as new additions for this week. I've been liking the Co-op Hunter gametype lately – the twist of adding in human players into what seems to be a Co-op mode is quite intriguing. You can catch some clips of Co-op Hunter in action in the video below, or on our YouTube channel.
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If you're not an owner of inFAMOUS 2 or a current PlayStation Plus member, we're opening the floodgates to the UNCHARTED 3 Multiplayer Beta for EVERYONE on Tuesday, July 5.
Hope you're all enjoying the final stretch of the SOCOM 4 Multiplayer Beta! Just a little over a week until SOCOM 4 hits store shelves on April 19th, and the excitement continues to build. To heighten the anticipation, we've got some equally exciting news to share—by picking up a specially marked copy of SOCOM 4, you'll get early access to the Resistance 3 Public Beta! That's in addition to the full breadth of single player, 32-person multiplayer, and five-player co-op gameplay you'll get with SOCOM 4.
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