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For cooks and eaters alike, Fall is the season when our favorite foods take a turn for the better: pies become pumpkin, Starbucks gets sweet, and corn takes to candy. If you still aren't convinced why you should love this food-filled season (which kicked off yesterday!), these 16 reasons should certainly seal the deal.

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I've been kicking this around for a few weeks, and now that the trade deadline is fast approaching I'll ask the questions. Should Larry Fitzgerald be traded? The Arizona Cardinals are in a rebuild mode, no matter what the organization says. They have holes to fill at QB, LOT, OLB, TE, and SS. Additionally, they need to think of finding an heir to Darnell Dockett as well as an upgrade across from Patrick Peterson so that adds DT and CB to the list. Not to mention that if the team does trade away Fitz, a hole at WR.
So, lets count up the needs as 5 and the nice to haves as 2. We won't include the WR value of 1. That's seven picks, and yes, I know the Cards get seven picks. However aside from the few gems, finding a game changer the deeper into the draft one heads is exponentially less likely.
Of the five needs, the SS position in the draft looks weak for prospects and as a Card I wouldn't look to make an impact in the draft there. But make no bones about it the Cards need to find a hard-hitting, wide ranging safety that can trail the new wave of TE and lay the wood or make the big play on the ball. The first 7 games of the season have shown every fan as much, see Yeremiah Bell.
The LOT position worries me as the few available prospects are likely to be snatched up before the Cards make it to the clock. Anyone past Jake Matthews or Taylor Lewan has flaws and I question their ability to step in day one to play. Of them are Cameron Erving and Antonio Richardson who posses great size and have great feet, allowing them to contend with quicker pass rushers. The knock on Erving is his experience, while Richardson has given up a big play or more against pass rushers from Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. That makes them projects rather than plug and play players.
Then there is James Hurst, the guy who played next to currently injured 1st round pick Jonathan Cooper. Hurst has nice feet but is light at only 305 pounds and after watching Bradley Sowell get pushed around I wonder if Hurst has the bulk and strength to step in and handle the NFL bull rushers.
QB has promise, but once again there are only a few "can't miss" prospects, of which Johnny Manziel is not on the list. I'm sure Johnny Football will make some team happy at their ability to take him in the draft, I just wouldn't be the team if I were the Cards.
Moving past my Manziel statement leads me to one QB I'm sold on, Teddy Bridgewater. He and Marcus Mariota are hot commodities right now and won't be around when the Cards pick unless they move up. Also atop the list of hot QB prospects is Brett Hundley who has all the physical tools but would still be a project from the first round. While a project, he's also likely to be gone when the Cards draft.
A big bodied QB that looks to fit Bruce Arians scheme and who might be available is LSU QB Zach Mettenberger who has the physical tools but needs to improve on the technique, footwork and accuracy. However, is a project at QB where the Cards want to spend their 1st round pick?
If an LT and a QB are out of reach without trading up, that leaves OLB. One name being associated with the Cards at this time is Khalil Mack who has good size and motor. Mack looks to be a complete player, is a senior and has quality production. This pick looks to be one that could step in right away and contribute.
In review the Cards, if the season were to end today would be in a position to fill the OLB need, but would still have glaring holes at QB and OLT. This is where the Fitzgerald trade comes in. Is Larry right now worth a pair on 2nds and a pair of 3rds? More? Less?
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The Green Bay Packers are urging fans to stand behind a cheerleader who was targeted on a Chicago Bears Facebook fan page.
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Stevie Wonder boycotts Florida over Zimmerman verdict
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Stevie Wonder is now among the many celebrities who have taken a stand against George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
During his concert in Canada on Sunday, the 63-year-old singer told the crowd that he will boycott performing in Florida until the state's Stand Your Ground law is abolished.
"I decided today that until the Stand Your Ground law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again," Wonder told the crowd. "As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world."
Florida's Stand Your Ground law gives people wide latitude to use deadly force rather than retreat during a fight.
A fan in the audience managed to capture the musician's speech on camera and posted it online.
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Pooh Bear Cake
This cake was for my daughter's 3rd Birthday. The pot is cake and pooh bear is marshmallow and crispy rice treats covered in white chocolate.
You'll need:
- Your favorite cake mix (enough for four 8" round cakes)
- Your favorite buttercream frosting
- Your favorite fondant recipe
- Marshmallow and crispy rice cereal treats (prepare according to cereal box)
- Modeling chocolate
- Food coloring
1. Bake 4 8" round cakes. Allow to cool and begin assembling Pooh's pot. You will only use 3 of the 4 cakes. Place one round on the center of your cake plate top side down, put buttercream icing in center of cake and spread a thin layer. Place the second cake top-side down on top of the first cake, spread icing over top and place last cake on the top. Cut the top edge of the top and bottom cakes off at a 45 degree angle and trim off any ragged edge
2. Frost entire pot with buttercream. Color two pounds of fondant sky blue. Roll fondant out to desired thickness and cover cake with fondant. Make 2 long snakes of fondant for top and bottom lip of honeypot. USing a bamboo skewer held horizontally, make the indentations on the side of the pot. Roll small amount of fondant out to make the label for the pot. Cut in rectangle and place on the pot. Pipe "HUNNY" on pot using buttercream colored black.
3. To make Pooh bear, form slightly cooled krispy treats to make poohs body, head, arms and party hat. Make the hat and arms smaller than you think they should be. Cover the head and half the arm in egg yellow modeling chocolate. Cover his torso and upper arm in red. Color a small amount of chocolate black to make his eyes, eyebrow, nose, and mouth.
4. Cover the party hat in desired color chocolate. Using a garlic press, place a small amount of contrasting color chocolate in the press to make the fringe for the hat and the pom pom on top. push a toothpick in top of poohs head. Push hat down on toothpick. Place pooh bear on the honeypot. Use a skewer to secure his arms if necessary, cover hole with more chocolate. Use lemon yellow colored buttercream to pipe honey on pooh and down sides of pot.


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The Bake Pop cake pan set is designed to be a fun and easy way to make pops from your favorite cake or brownie mix. The pan comes in two pieces, with some silicone clamps to hold it all together. The bottom pan holds the batter. The top pan completes the mold to form a globe.
Before I start, I want to note the instructions call for a few alterations to that regular box of cake mix. The goal is to make a denser cake here, so it calls for a box of your favorite pudding, and extra egg, and to trade the water for half as much milk. With the alterations made, the cake batter mixes to the consistency of let's say cheesecake batter.
A sprits of baking spray with flour on both insides, and I'm ready to pour the cake mix to start baking. I pour the mix into the base pan molds and spread with a spatula. I remove the excess batter before securing the top pan with four included silicone clamps. Finally, I take a shot of baking spray to the top to help remove any spillover which will bake out of the holes in the top. The pan slides into the oven to bake for 25 minutes. Oh, bonus, there's enough batter left to make a small cake or to save to make more pops!
After removing from the oven and cooling in the fridge for a few minutes, I peel off the spillover off the top with ease. Then I remove the top to uncover my perfectly cooked strawberry cake pops! I use melted chocolate candy coating to secure the provided sticks to the cake and re-chill to harden.
Meanwhile, I bake the brownies. The batter is dense enough, so there are no alterations to the box mix. I fill the eighteen base molds with batter, cover with the top, and clamp the two pieces together. I add a little more to the molds through the top holes using a bottle filled with brownie batter.
With all the brownie balls cooled and cooked, it's time to decorate using a variety of candy coatings and sprinkles! The Bake Pop set is easy to use but decorating is a bit messy for a novice. Heading around the office for a taste test, and I find several satisfied customers.
It looks as if the Bake Pop could help make your sweetheart feel a little bit sweeter if you cook 'em these treats. The Bake Pop pan set rounds to a YES with sprinkles on top for this week's "Does it Work?" test.
The Bake Pop pan set ran us a bill of about $20 at a local retailer. It comes with a top & bottom pan, clamps, and eighteen plastic pop sticks.
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What is it that you want in a backpackers accommodation? I'll tell you what I want when I go backpacking and I'll tell you why I started Hard Rock Backpackers back in 2010. Besides the obvious things like safety, cleanliness, etc (not that we lack any of that, but more on that later), the thing that I most want from accommodation is an unforgettable, memorable experience. It should be fun, awesome, and gnarly! I want great rooms, lively hosts and I want to feel welcomed, I want to be part of the experience. The problem was that I couldn't find a place like that. So I made my own. So what is it that I enjoy most, what vibe would I love? I love music! I love surfing! So I decided to open up a backpackers in Jeffreys Bay, the tube surfing capital of the world! Hard Rock Backpackers is walking distance from some of the best surf you'll find anywhere on the globe. Now we need a kick ass music atmosphere to go along with that! Hard Rock Backpackers was born.
From the moment you walk into the front doors, you'll know what I'm talking about! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a rock star? At Hard Rock Backpackers, in the humble surfing village of Jeffreys Bay, you'll be greeted and treated like the VIP rock star you've always wanted to be. Once you get your backstage pass, you'll be in the presence of eternal legends like Jimmy Hendrix, Tom Morello, Jonathan Davis. Need I say more?
The location of our unique accommodation is in Jeffreys Bay, or J Bay to the locals. Surfing utopia, South African paradise and backpackers dream. Jeffreys Bay offers pristine blue flag beaches and plenty of really cool activities other than surfing. There is just such an indescribable vibe here and we are proud to offer the best hostel accommodation in Jeffreys Bay, if not in South Africa. And if a surfing holiday is what you're after, then you have definitely come to the right place and you're definitely at the right backpackers, you are walking distance to the world renowned "Super Tubes", home of the Billabong Pro international surfing tournament as well as "Magnatubes" and "Boneyards", also some of the best surfing spots in the world. Hard Rock covers it all and surfing is a way of life in here Jeffreys Bay. At the right time of year you'll also be greeted by dolphins and the odd whale, you have to be here to experience the magnitude of this awesomeness!
Hard Rock Backpackers prides itself in being one of the cleanest hostels in South Africa, it sounds cliché, but it's true, our reviews speak for themselves, no one wants to wake up to untidiness and dirt. Llike I said, our guests are rock stars and treated as such, just have a look at our facilities. Besides, we wouldn't want to disappoint the great legends that Hard Rock is built upon. Seriously though, are rooms are well kept, kitchen and bathrooms are always clean and you can ask for your laundry to be done.
The quality of our hostel accommodation is arguably the highest in South Africa and we are stoked at gaining our 4 star grading, read the reviews at hostelworld.com and tripadvisor.com to hear what others had to say about their stay. Our accommodation comprises of 4 types of rooms, each unique to your needs. We have a private room with a double bed, closet, TV, fridge and en-suite bathroom and we also have a private 4 bed room with similar features. Then we have a 2 bed private room with a closet and a fridge and a 6 bed dorm style room sharing a bathroom.
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To let your hair loose after a hectic day of surfing, or sight-seeing or whatever you've been up to, head over across our huge garden to our trendy bar where you'll once again be greeted by more rock gods, Hard Rock style! We have a pool table and all the makings for some great parties. We also encourage our visitors to write on our walls so that they can leave their legacy behind for new rock star guests to gaze upon. Often times we have local bands and celebs grace us with their presence and we welcome them here with open arms and if we're lucky enough, we can entice them to play us a tune or 6. It's all happening here man!
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The Izaak Synagogue, formally named the Isaak Jakubowicz Synagogue, and also called the Isaac synagogue, is a synagogue built in 1644 in the historic Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. The synagogue is named for the donor, Izaak Jakubowicz (d. 1673) who was also called Isaac the Rich and who was banker to King Wladislaw IV. The synagogue was designed by Francesco Olivierri, an Italian working in Poland in that era. Jakubowicz is buried in the Remuh Cemetery. Variants of the name include Ayzik , Izaak, and Isaac. Izaak is the standard Polish spelling. Jakubowicz is Polish for "Son of Jacob."
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Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
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Coutin, Gary Michael
August 9, 1947 – August 27, 2012
From a heart attack. Gary was ASB President at Glendale High, graduated Stanford University, and Hastings Law School. Following his own lights, driven by his unrelenting passion, he fought for electoral reform the rights of the oppressed. He is survived by five brothers, one sister, four nephews, six nieces, two great-nephews and one great-niece.
Funeral Services to be held at Home of the Peace on Sunday, September 9th at 10.OO AM.
Gary Coutin Passed Away August 27, 2012
Coutin, Gary Michael
From Gary Coutin
The Electoral College violates the Declaration of Independence and the self-evident truths it expresses: The Declaration is the Supreme Law of the Land.
The Slaveholder's Constitution of 1787 was written by slaveholder's for a government of slaveholders for the benefit of slaveholders.
The Constitution not only established the government but it rigged the government for the benefit of the one percent of the people that owned slaves.
The Slaveholder's Constitution of 1787 also rigged the means of amending the Constitution so that it would not be possible for the national government to eliminate slavery by amending the Constitution.
Slaveholder's Constitution of 1787 ceased to have any legitimacy when the Slaveholders launched the War of the Slaveholder's Rebellion we call the Civil War.
The Slaveholder's Constitution of 1787 was replaced by the People's Constitution of a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The Electoral College is not only a relic of slavery from the past but it is a mechanism of slavery in the present.
The Judiciary has jurisdiction to rule the Electoral College "unconstitutional" because the alternative to adjudication is a resumption of the Civil War and the courts are an alternative to violence.
Gary Coutin's Three Point Plan May 3, 2012
Lawsuit will be filed in Philadelphia. Electoral college violates the declaration of independence. Declaration of independence is the law of the land. One document 1787 (Constitution – 3/5ths of a human) and one in 1776 (Declaration – all men created equal) both in the same room in Philadelphia. This is the issue that started the Civil War that Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration was the law of the land. This was settled on the battlefield. And the constitution was later reconstituted.
We're not under the old constitution any more. We're under a new constitution. He can't find a single court that says the Declaration is not the law of the land. Even Dred Scott. It implies that it is but it doesn't cover the African Americans because they were brought here as articles of commerce as property. That is the slave-owner point of view but that decision was never overturned. Dred Scott is still the law of the land. But Dred Scott does accept that the Declaration is the supreme law of the land — but it qualifies it and says that Africans are not people and the Declaration wasn't intended to apply to them. Well the Declaration says that "all men are created equal" and all means all.
That's the essence of the lawsuit and it's never been involved. He will file the lawsuit in a state court in Philadelphia testing whether the Declaration of Independence is the supreme law of the land. Filed July 4th.
The argument is 800 pages long. He's going to have to get it printed and copyrighted before he files it. Gary doesn't have any dates in mind.
THE SECOND part of the litigation would be to file another lawsuit in West Virginia. And the West Virginia lawsuit is that under the old constitution West Virginia doesn't exist and shouldn't have any electoral votes. The old constitution said that no state shall be divided and Virginia never agreed to be divided.
Gary started working on this in the year 2000 the day after the election. "I knew then that the Electoral College was the enemy. It was plain to see. Everything looked fine, the future looked bright. Al Gore had a half million votes more and the the Electoral College reared it's head and bankrupted the country."
THE THIRD lawsuit has to do with the fact that when the Republicans were fighting the Civil War, they changed the Enabling Act — the statute in which congress enables a state to be formed. It started with Nevada in 1864 and every state after that every state should be consistent with the Declaration of independence. In other words, the Enabling act admits that the Declaration of Independence is the law of the land. He went to Nevada and filed the lawsuit four years ago and they changed judges on him. They took away the black judge and gave him a woman from Virginia. When he said "of by and for the people," she said "that's just a politician speaking." "I want to take away the electoral votes of all the Rocky Mountain States because the electoral votes contradict the declaration of independence. You take away the electoral votes of all those Rocky Mountain states plus Alaska and Hawaii and the Electoral College will collapse.
He wants to hold a press conference in each of those states and start a mass movement of people filing lawsuits against the Electoral College. He wants to start this movement before this election.
"I'm working for the people of the United States and they don't even know it. The powers that be put me in the dark and the press won't cover it."
The electoral college was designed to put the slave-holders in control of the government and the slaveholders were the 1%. At the time of the Civil War, there were only 300,000 actual slave-holders and the U.S. population was over 30,000,000. They were the 1% but they controlled the whole government — supreme court, half the senate and 2/3 of the democratic party. That was the original 1%. As the country became more industrialized, the capitalists fought it out with the agrarian south. … The emergence of the majority is what caused the Civil War."
The constitution was a dictatorship. There was no bill of rights. They only reason we have the amendments is peoples the people would not pass a constitution of dictatorial powers without the bill of rights. It was a dictatorship.
I'm completely out of the mainstream. I'm challenging all of academia and the whole legal system. The only person would would understand me is Abraham Lincoln. What I'm challenging is the whole accepted view of the history of the United States. To me, it's obvious, but it's against the established way of thinking. I'm like a stranger in my own country. The electoral College is unconstitutional. And the country landed in the hands of literally an enemy who sabotaged our country and our well-being. The upcoming election is a sham election. We're still operating under the Electoral College. It doesn't matter how you vote in California and Texas. Two thirds of the peoples' votes already don't count. That's a sham election. As they tell us on ABC, "Your Voice, Your Vote." What a crock of shit. Only if you're in a swing state. I want to change the entire dynamic. All the votes count. Every vote by every American everywhere counts — if I can knock out the Electoral College. Is that having an impact? I think so."
Men in Black broke his ribs while he was homeless in San Francisco. Made his way down to Orange County where he was sleeping behind grocery stores and parking lots, etc. He's been homeless for ten years. "My case was going to the Supreme Court. They had to stop me. That's when I became homeless.
I am the Attorney Vox Populi from Gary Coutin
I am the attorney vox populi speaking for the
majority to vote directly and equally for the President as set forth in the
Declaration. I have been suing the Electoral College since November 2000
when the Electoral College threatened to reverse the vote of the American
people. This is illegal. Andrew Jackson said it was illegal 180
years ago.
To the people belongs the right of electing
their chief magistrate; it was never designed that their choice should, in any
case, be defeated, either by the intervention of electoral colleges, or by the
agency confided, under certain contingencies, to the House of Representatives.[i]
The Electoral College is a device of the one
percent to reduce the 99% to a state of slavery, for if you cannot vote
for the President, then you are nothing but a slave. The Electoral
College is unconstitutional.
…Let all the
votes of all the voters be collected in one general return; and let the
election be decreed to him who has a majority of the whole.[ii]
The Constitution (e.g., the Electoral College)
denies the American people the right to vote for the President and then gives
the weight of the vote unequally (e.g., depending upon the place where the vote
is cast). This is a violation of the Declaration. If the
Declaration is the Supreme Law, then the Electoral College is
The law of the
Electoral College violates the Constitution itself. For if the majority of the
people, could by mutual agreement enter into a binding social compact, then
certainly a majority of the country could by direct and popular vote choose the
leader of the executive branch of government established under that
The Electoral College is inextricably tied to
slavery in its origins. In 1958, a
political scientist from Princeton named Lucius Wilmerding so concluded that
the Electoral College was "unconstitutional." [iv] Wilmerding had spent years researching the Electoral College as a
consultant to Congress. He tied
the Electoral College its distortions to slavery and succinctly described the
Negro Slush Fund created by the Electoral College:
Slaves could not vote, but in the basis of
representation five slaves counted for three freemen. Had the national plebiscite system prevailed in the election
of the President, the Southern states would have lost the privilege allowed
them by the Constitution of votes upon three fifths of their population other
than freemen.
Later on, the difficulty became, if
anything, even more obvious. The
Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery.
In so doing, it added to the Southern bass of representation two fifths
of the former slaves.[v]
As long as the Electoral College exists we
are nothing but slaves. If you have no rights to vote for the Chief
Magistrate then you have no rights at all. Six amendments to the Constitution say that there is a
"right to vote." But the Supreme
Court said that you have no "right" to vote for the President in Bush v.
The 1% in 1787 demanded and obtained
"protection for their property." (e.g., protection for
slavery) at the Constitutional Convention. 1) the right to go to African
and engage in war upon innocent people, and to kidnap them by force and
violence and bring them to America (international slave trade); 2) to reduce
those captured and held illegally into "property" by denying them the freedom
of movement; 3) using that "property" in slaves which only slave owners possess
into political power against the will of the slave and without consent of the
governed at 40% (e.g., the 3/5 clause) for representation in Congress; 4) and
converting that unwarranted representation in the House into unwarranted voting
power for the President.
E.G., say Thomas Jefferson had a hundred slaves. When he voted for himself to be
President, the weight of that vote was 61, because he had his own vote (one)
and 60 for the 100 slaves reduced by the three fifths factor). This was the original package of
subsidies to slavery in the Slaveholder's Constitution written by slaveholders
for a government of slaveholders for the benefit of slavery.
At the time of the Civil War, 70, 000 slaveholder
owned 80% of the land in the South and that was disproportionately the best
land. Through
ownership of this land (and the slaves to run it), they controlled the state
legislatures. The state
legislatures at that time appointed Senators. So the Slaveholders controlled the Senate, unwarranted
votes in the House, unwarranted power in the election of the President, and
therefore the Supreme Court. In
other words, the four pillars of slavery "rigged" the government for the
benefit of the 70,000 slaveholders.
Now slavery was not ended by amendment. It was ended by Civil War and then
reinstituted by Jim Crow laws enacted by the same slaveholders after the Civil
War who ignored the existence of amendments 13, 14, and 15.
The four pillars of slavery are called the Negro
Slush Fund as it takes the right to representation due to African Slaves and
converts that right of representation into representation of the white slave
master. This "rigs" the
So why not amend the constitution to get rid of
the Negro Slush Fund (and the four pillars of slavery including the Electoral
College). Because of a
hidden pillar of slavery, the fifth pillar). The mode of amending the Constitution is also rigged" to
prevent you from getting rid of the rigging of the government by the Negro
Slush Fund.
You can't end slaveryexcept by civil war.
And by parallel construction, you can't end the Electoral Collegeexcept by civil war. Or you can file a lawsuit
in a court of law to end the Electoral College to declare the Electoral College
unconstitutional as a violation of the Declaration of Independence. The action should be filed in
Philadelphia because that is where both the Declaration of Independence and the
For if the Declaration is true, the Electoral
College is false. As the
Declaration was to be law for all people at all times in all places, there is
no time place or people bound by the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an
ongoing crime against the people of the United States.
[i] Andrew
Jackson, Recommendation to Congress (December 8, 1829). See "The Addresses and Messages of
the Presidents of the United States," New York (1842), at p. 359. In TheExecutive Power
In the United States: A Study of Constitutional Law,
by Adolphe de Chambrun, Translated from the Original French by Madeleine Vinton
Dahlgren, Inquiry Printing and Publishing Company: Lancaster, Pa. (1874), at p.
42. In the first seminal study of
the electoral college, a political scientist from Princeton named Lucius
Wilmerding, Jr., concluded that: "The Electors were never meant to choose
the President but only to pronounce the votes of the people." The Electoral
College, by Lucius Wilmerding, Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick,
[ii] The
Electoral College, by Lucius Wilmerding, Rutgers University
Press: New Brunswick, N.J. (1958), at p. 95.
[iii] The
Electoral College, by Lucius Wilmerding, Rutgers University Press: New
Brunswick, N.J. (1958).
[iv] Lucius
Wilmerding was one of the most original characters to graduate Princeton in
1927. As an undergraduate was a
member of the varsity chess club and a clearheaded thinker. His subsequent
career included 10 years of distinguished service with the Treasury Department,
work for the city of New York, and service as a naval staff officer in England
during World War II. He later
taught at the Army/Navy staff college.
A prolific writer and a nationally recognized authority on the origins
of the Constitution, Lucius, following the war, became a fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Study. http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW97-98/09-0211/0211cns.html.
[v] The
Electoral College, by Lucius Wilmerding, at p. 100.
Dear Press of Philadelphia from Gary Coutin March 9, 2012
Dear Press of Philadelphia,
I learned your names and emails during the recent fight to alter the Electoral College law of the State of Pennsylvania. This effort to rig a two hundred old law by partisans for partisan advantage got me to thinking that the law governing the election of the highest official of the nation should rest upon the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence.
What better place to hear a lawsuit than on the Declaration of Independence than Philadelphia, home of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Home of the place where the Constitution was written. In Pennsylvania, home to the battle field where the proposition was to be tested whether a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could long endure.
This lawsuit will be the last battle of the Civil War. This lawsuit will be the last battle of the American Revolution. Is the Declaration of Independence the Supreme Law of the Land, superior to the Constitution of 1787 where the two are inconsistent and repugnant to one another? That is the question.
I have written many articles and books on the subject. I will be sharing them over the next few days.
I have been suing the Electoral College since November 2000. This lawsuit is sponsored by Roseanne Barr as part of her political campaign for the Presidency on the Green Party Ticket. Her platform is that the Declaration of Independence is the Supreme Law of the Land, superior to the Constitution of 1787. Abraham Lincoln thought so as well. He said so at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Third parties led the movement which led to the direct vote for Senators and the votes for women. Don't speak too soon. The wheel's still in spin. And there's no telling who it is naming.
Yours truly,
Gary Michael Coutin


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The League of Women Voters® opposes Assembly Bill 54 (AB 54), which limits the ability of municipal clerks to serve their constituents and the opportunity for citizens to cast a ballot.
This bill limits the hours that clerks may hold for in-person absentee voting before an election. It bans evening and weekend hours for early voting and limits total hours to no more than 40 hours per week in a two-week period prior to the election.In Wisconsin, our local election officials are known for their commitment to helping every qualified voter to cast a ballot. This bill does not uphold this tradition of public service. It does not set a minimum level of service, but rather a maximum level at which clerks can serve their constituents.
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Zoo hosts photo-shoot
Linton Zoo in Cambridgeshire has been welcoming photographers for behind the scenes photo-shoots.
40 photos which were taken during the events have been entered into a photography competition.
The zoo says the standard of entries was outstanding. The winning shot of Zuri the lion was taken by Ellis Hall of Cambridge.


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Full Report: World class athletes visit Carlisle school
Two top athletes went back to school today in the hope of inspiring a new generation.
UK javelin champion Lee Doran, a former pupil at Morton School in Carlisle, was accompanied by his girlfriend, silver and bronze paralympic medalist Bethanie Woodward.
After a year of UK triumph in both the Olympic and Paralymics the reaction of the pupils to the local sporting superstars was pure gold.
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PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island judge heard arguments Monday in a legal tug-of-war over sealed documents relating to the Legion of Christ, a disgraced Roman Catholic religious order.
The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Providence Journal, and the National Catholic Reporter want Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein to unseal documents from a lawsuit contesting the will of an elderly widow who left the Legion $60 million. The Legion argues that the information could taint prospective jurors and wants it to remain hidden from public view.


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An odd, yet fun climb that takes a little power and, you guessed it, technique a la footwork. Then again, if you're tall, it will probably seem easier. Sit start with both hands matched in the chalked up crack in the middle of the face. Pull off the ground and gaston your left hand in another crack. Move your feet around, then make a big move, left hand again, to a crimp above your head (crux). Once you have the crimp, you can either continue straight up over the bulge on jugs, or traverse into the finishing crack on the Standard Route.
Yosemite Boulder (El Cap). This problem starts on the face left of the arete facing the trail to Devil's Den. Downclimb through the large chimney system.
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Reeman Dansie auction house raised £3,000 in a charity auction for St Helena Hospice. James Grinter (left) presents cheque to Sophie Harvey from the charity along with Dave Ross and Jackie Gould who also helped raise the money.
AUCTIONEERS handed over a cheque for £3,000 after a series of charity events.
Reeman Dansie raised cash for St Helena Hospice by holding a private viewing and auction, as well as an art exhibition.
Fundraising work continues by the Severalls Business Park auction house, with hopes for more events in the future.
- A valuation day, also in aid of the charity, is being held on Saturday between 10am and 1pm at the Holiday Inn, Abbotts Lane, Eight Ash Green. Valuations cost £2 per item.
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Seagulls suspend Gus
Brighton confirmed the news in a statement this evening that offered no reason for the surprise move, which comes three days after the Seagulls exited the play-offs at the hands of bitter rivals Crystal Palace.
The statement read: "Brighton & Hove Albion has confirmed that it has suspended its manager, assistant manager, and its first-team coach from their duties.
"The club will now follow its internal procedures with regard to this matter and will make no further comment at this time."


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BOSTON -- The Panthers decided to fire coach Kevin Dineen late Thursday night and officially made the move early Friday morning.
Dineen was told of his fate in a meeting with general manager Dale Tallon at the team hotel in Ottawa. Assistant coaches Gord Murphy and Craig Ramsay were also released.
Peter Horachek was informed he would replace Dineen on Thursday and flew to Ottawa on Friday morning and met with the team and ran that days practice. Dineen, Murphy and Ramsay did not return calls seeking comment.
He was unhappy and I dont blame him, Tallon said of his meeting with Dineen. Hes a fiery guy and a fiery competitor and an emotional coach, and I dont blame him for being upset. I didnt expect anything less from him. Hes a class guy, hard-working guy. Its one of the toughest decisions Ive ever had to make.
The Panthers have lost seven in a row, their longest skid since the final weeks of Pete DeBoers time behind the bench at the end of the 2010-11 season. DeBoer was fired the day after the season ended and was replaced by Dineen.
Entering Friday, the Panthers were seven points behind Montreal for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
There are a lot of challenges, for sure, said Horachek, Floridas 12th coach. I have to learn the personnel, get them to play the way they need to. There is so much for me to gather in a short period of time. I havent had a lot of sleep, but this is an exciting time.
Horachek, who spent a decade as an assistant at Nashville before being fired after last season, was hired in June to coach Floridas minor-league team in San Antonio. Horachek led the Orlando Solar Bears to the IHLs Turner Cup in 2001 and was a minor-league coach for four seasons before joining the Predators in 2003.
Tallon said Horachek will be the interim head coach, but Horachek said, That was never said to me. We just talked about the immediate change that needed to happen. That was the talk. I never heard the word interim.
Original Florida captain Brian Skrudland who had been serving as the teams director of player development and former Panthers center John Madden (2011-12) will replace Murphy and Ramsay.
Madden was in his first year as a pro scout for the Panthers.
Murphy was an original member of the Panthers and was a defenseman in Florida from 1993 to 99. He joined DeBoers staff in 2010.
Ramsay was in his second stint with Florida, serving as an assistant coach from 1993 to 95 before returning after winning the Stanley Cup in Tampa Bay in 2004 and serving as the final head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers.
Horachek makes his NHL head coaching debut Saturday at 2 p.m. when the Panthers take on the host Senators.
Goalie coach Robb Tallas, video coach Jason Cipolla and strength and conditioning coach Craig Slaunwhite will remain on the staff.
Kevin, Gord and Craig worked very hard. But for some reason the message was not getting through, Tallon said.
Were all responsible for this record. This marks the first change to start turning this franchise around and become a winning organization.
Dineen, who celebrated his 50th birthday just last week, went 56-63-38 in his two-plus seasons with the Panthers. In his first year, Dineen led Florida to its first Southeast Division title in franchise history and first playoff berth in 12 years.
Floridas second season under Dineen was marred by a lockout-shortened and injury-riddled campaign. Florida finished last in the entire league for the first time.
This year got off to a good start with wins in the season opener Oct. 3 at Dallas and in the home opener Oct. 11 against Pittsburgh. But Florida has won only one other time and that shootout win over Minnesota on Oct.19 will go down as Dineens final victory as Panthers coach.
You hate to see these guys go, alternate captain Brian Campbell said Friday afternoon.
In one of his final statements as coach of the Panthers following Thursdays loss in Boston, Dineen said [Friday] will be a big decision-making day for us.
Dineen was talking specifically about the potential return of goalie Tim Thomas. Apparently the decision to fire him had already been made.
This is the first of many changes that were making, Tallon said. Theres the old saying, Its easier to fire the coach than 23 players. ... We need to be better.
• Panthers forward Jesse Winchester was suspended three games without pay by the NHL on Friday for elbowing Boston forward Chris Kelly on Thursday night.


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A fast-moving Tropical Storm Andrea, the first named storm of the 2013 hurricane season, sped up the East Coast without doing serious damage last week. But the storm did bring record rainfall to some locations, the Virginian-Pilot reported ("Weakened Andrea breaks Northeast rainfall records," by Jake Pearson/AP). "Andrea dumped 6.64 inches of rain on Gales Ferry, Conn.," the paper reports. "The 4.16 inches that fell on New York City's Central Park was more than double the previous record for the date, set in 1918. The 3.5 inches of rain that fell at Philadelphia International Airport doubled the 1.79 inches that fell in 1904. Newark, N.J., saw 3.71 inches, breaking the previous mark of 1.11 inches set in 1931."
Tropical Storm Andrea quickly spun up into a strong tropical storm with 60-mph winds as it crossed into Florida from the Gulf of Mexico, then weakened into a fast-moving rainmaker as it raced up the Atlantic Coast.
But the fast-moving storm passed on into the North Atlantic without doing significant damage. Even the vulnerable North Carolina Route 12, the slender lifeline serving the Outer Banks, carried uninterrupted traffic, according to North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) reports.
In a Weather Underground blog post, hurricane expert Jeff Masters says Andrea is an example of a striking trend: In recent years, hurricane season has been starting earlier and lasting longer ("Tropical Storm Andrea Spreading Heavy Rains to U.S. East Coast"). "Andrea's formation in June continues a pattern of an unusually large number of early-season Atlantic named storms we've seen in recent years," comments Masters. "Climatologically, June is the second quietest month of the Atlantic hurricane season, behind November. During the period 1870 - 2012, we averaged one named storm every two years in June, and 0.7 named storms per year during May and June. In the nineteen years since the current active hurricane period began in 1995, there have been fifteen June named storms (if we include 2013's Tropical Storm Andrea). June activity has nearly doubled since 1995, and May activity has more than doubled (there were seventeen May storms in the 75-year period 1870 – 1994 [0.137 per year], compared to 6 in the 19-year period 1995 – 2013 [0.316 per year].)"
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Pulitzer Prize, History, 2003
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern learner can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.
Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.
Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.
An Army at Dawn is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History.
©2002 Rick Atkinson; ©2013 Simon and Schuster
"The Africa campaign was Real War!"
I loved that, for once, The Africa Campaign was shown for what it was: Intense, gruesome struggles, replete with all the terror and drama that illuminates battles like those on the islands of the Pacific in WWII.
I must deduct a star, because this book requires frequent consulting of maps, and I lost a lot by listening, instead of buying hard copy. (To be fair, even hardcopy books often provide sorry maps, tossed in as an afterthought, without serious effort at illustrating towns or topography described in the text.)
I wish Audible, or the publisher, or the author, or somebody would supply a web site that contains maps that one could follow. What a difference that would make!
Rick Atkinson's WWII trilogy has been hailed for the superb way it describes WWII. This praise is deserved. But may I also recommend Michael Shaara's four WWII novels, which I consider as enjoyable and informative as Atkinson's, and less map-dependent? Yes, read Atkinson, but also read Shaara.
Long time Audible member (8 years, 500+ books). Avid flyfisherman, hunter, bicycler.
"Couldn't Finish It"
I really wanted to soak up this book, I'd never studied WWII in Africa in detail and I was itching to learn about it. But listening to a detailed book about it was not the right approach for me. While very well researched and written, it's a constant barrage of names, places, facts, dates, scenarios..... I simply couldn't keep it all straight in my mind. I think that a book like this is much better read in print, where you can look at maps, stop and let something sink in, remember a person, look up a reference point for clarification, etc.
"It doesn't get any better than this."
If you like WWII history, you will not regret getting this book. Both the writing and the performance come together to emerse the reader in the entire conflict in North Africa, from the the day to day perspective of soldiers fighting the battles, to the personalities and trials of the high command as the Allies made the first large scale effort to defeat the Axis.
Non Fiction Reader
"An important chapter in WWII well narrated"
What comes to mind is that so many blunders of WWI were repeated in WWII. The African campaigns were no exception. American was ill prepared for war and the British seemed not to have learned much from fighting in WWI. But also, as this book unfolds, we learn that only the Germans had learned their lessons and developed new strategies nd tactics, i.e. the blitzkrieg and mechanized warfare. What this theater did was toughen up the Americans, and the allies, physically and mentally, for the long, grueling battles to come.
The author personalizes the battles with snippets from soldiers' diaries (both sides). It proves welcome respite from recalling all the maneuvers and the places they occurred at.
What I wished the book paid more attention to was the installation of Darlan as head of the French forces. There was a mighty bit of political intrigue going on in France, Britain, and American when dealing with what was thought as the least of an unattractive situation. I wished this aspect was explored more in depth.
What the book posits is that this early campaign, won with great difficulty by the allies and lost after horrific fighting by the axis, showed the way to the ultimate destruction of the axis. It gave the allies confidence, sometimes false, and the axis doubts which they were able to overcome to fight on to great tactical victories but ultimate defeat.
I have always doubted the Montgomery's generalship and this book shows how his weaknesses were manifested in his victories but also how they would appear in later battles (his tendency to "tidy" up his lines before making his next assault while the enemy was right in front of him ready to be exploited) to extend the war, e.g. Market Garden.
I highly recommend this book if you wish to examine WWII in a broad context.
As for the narration: it is nothing short of amazing how Guidall can get into the mind of the author and make the story come alive with an inflection here and there. He is a true master of the art o narration.
"What war movies didn't tell you"
Yes, because it tells the truth and strips the BS away from the history we were taught. We watched movies like Patton and thought the US was amazing in WW2. The reality is that, like in the build up to Iraq, the Americans were naïve. To me, it was stunning to see how ill prepared and clueless we were going into WW2. Thank god we went to Africa first and got our asses kicked, otherwise we would have gone straight to Normandy, lost, and Germany would control Europe still today.
I will listen to any thing he narrates. He is the best!
"Details, details, details- US in Africa, WWII"
The book delves deep into operation Torch and the campaign for Tunisia, the African "Stalingrad" for the Axis in Europe. Sometimes too deep... do I need squad level tactics in an engagement of 4 armies, 5 nations and hundreds of thousands of men?
Maybe I do. The letters to home, newspaper articles and diary articles make this a first person account. A couple of characters emerge, Patton, Eisenhower, but the picture of the US soldier is most clear. "Learning to hate", learning to fight, learning to be an army,
When Patton orders his division commander to personally lead a hill assault leading to a needless and serious wound, I wondered what causes someone to be a hero to history versus a villain.
When the British and US finally started to roll, overcoming Kaserien Pass, I decided the next book would be first on my list of books to listen to next.
Beautifully written with abundant use of primary sources. The author ties the beginning and end to the story of the 34th Division from Iowa, whose members could be from any Midwestern state.
"Finally unabridged!"
I was so happy to see that this book was released in an unabridged version. This is narrative history at its best. The stories of the men and their sacrifice (and in some cases faults) is mesmerizing to read. Cannot wait for the third book of the trilogy to be released.
"A close up view of the campaign"
the sense of awful waste is just heartbreaking.
I just finished Manchester's Churchill biography, and I suppose I was expecting this kind of high level view of the war. This is not that book.
This performance is very good.
I am in the early part of the book. The Americans seem to be going out of their way to waste their tank service and perhaps the infantry. The systemic stupidity is unbeleviable.
I almost stopped listening to this book because I felt it missed the high level strategic view. But I think that isn't the point- this is all at an individual level, even if the individual is Eisenhower.
"We DID win the War"
Atkinson, probably not. Guidall, YES, in a heart beat.
From start to finish, the most negative reading ever. I had to force myself to continue. Atkinson dwells and amplifies every mistake, and poor decision made by the allies. A total imbalance. How we lost every battle but won the war (through Atkinson's eyes) I will never know. We obviously won some battles, but little credit given......
Guidall can read anything and make the best of it. He's the best. The only reason I kept listening.
Looking back, NO
I've said enough.
"Difficult to follow"
George, yes. Rick, no
The storyline jumps enough that I cannot tell when a battle is over, lost, or won
Yes, Good narrator
Yes, I find the topic very interesting. Just couldn't keep up with the story line
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