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MESA, Ariz. -- The diving catch in right field by Cory Sullivan on a line drive by the Cubs' Ryan Theriot in the fifth inning of an 8-6 Rockies loss Thursday was as predictable as it was dazzling.
Scott Podsednik's full day on the bases -- a single, two walks and two steals -- was another case of a guy doing what he does best. The contest between the two for the final outfield spot is strength (Sullivan's defense) vs. strength (Podsednik's speed).
Sullivan was the Rockies' starting center fielder for much of 2006, so he has the advantage of being a known commodity. Sullivan's 1-for-3 effort on Thursday lifted his spring average to .167, but Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said he's not being evaluated on his Spring Training numbers. Sullivan hit .286 in a late-season callup last year, and has a .281 average in 337 games with the Rockies.
Podsednik has given the Rockies much to consider. He has hit .355 with a sizzling .524 on-base percentage and eight steals. His frequent playing time is a test of his health, since muscle injuries limited him to 62 games last season with the White Sox.
The difference could be strategy. It also could be roster convenience -- Sullivan is signed for $1 million and would be expensive to hold in the Minors while Podsednik is in camp under a Minor League contract ($750,000 in the Majors).
"We've asked Scott to come in and turn it up a notch and steal bases and lay out for balls, and he's done all that," Hurdle said. "And we know Cory's consistently shown improvement over the course of his time in the organization. So it'll be one of the more challenging decisions we have to make."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The two met in 1941 in her home state of Georgia when Cannon was 14 years old.
Her family had just bought a new home. A few days before they moved in, they were standing outside admiring it when a young man rode up on a bicycle.
"He went up to my dad and said, 'My name is John Cannon. I'm your paper carrier. Would you like to take the paper?' Well, I thought he was so cute," Cannon said, smiling like the schoolgirl she once was.
Since the teens attended separate schools and churches, they had no opportunity to pursue their relationship further until John dropped out on his 17th birthday in order to join the Navy and fight against the Axis Powers.
John wrote to her from a camp in the Great Lakes. Cannon, then 15, asked for her mother's permission before writing him back.
They corresponded for four years. By the time World War II ended, Jeanne Cannon had finished high school and two years of college.
She had also become engaged to another young man whose family had been among her parents' closest friends since the two were children.
After asking for her hand in marriage when she was 17, he had agreed to a long engagement so that Cannon could enroll in college and he could get established in the family business.
John Cannon quickly made her doubt her decision about the future when he called after returning from the Pacific Theatre and then paid her a visit.
"John was frozen in my mind as the paper boy. There stood this tall, good-looking sailor. I liked to have died. He took my breath away," Cannon said.
Although Cannon had agreed to marry someone else, she had not yet accepted a ring. (She did, however, have her fiancé's jeweled fraternity pin.)
The engagement had not been formally announced, but the time to do so was drawing near when John walked back into her life.
After debating for days whether to marry the man she was promised to or the one she felt drawn to, Cannon decided to elope to Alabama with John.
Instead of the large society wedding that her mother was already planning, Cannon exchanged vows in front of a justice of the peace at the courthouse in Heflin.
When Cannon returned from her honeymoon 10 days later, her parents had quietly broken off the other engagement, published the announcement of their daughter's marriage in the local paper and organized a large reception in honor of the newlyweds.
"Bless their loving hearts. What they ever said to my fiancé and that family I will never know," Cannon said.
Cannon's father insisted that his daughter be married by a minister. John agreed on the condition that his new in-laws accept that he and Cannon were already man and wife.
"Just before this huge reception, our minister came in and did the whole ceremony in front of our families. When he came to the end where you normally say, 'I pronounce you man and wife,' he said, 'I confirm this marriage.' I always thought that was so special," Cannon said.
John became a Presbyterian minister himself. After several years, he felt God calling him into counseling.
Cannon said that although she loved being a pastor's wife, she supported her husband. Her only request was that they "go somewhere fun" while he pursued his degree.
They selected a Baptist university near Daytona Beach. They loved the area so much that they stayed for 30 years.
Cannon has decorated every room of her apartment at the Terrace in a beach theme to remind her of the many memories from that time in her life.
Cannon came to Jasper in December, less than a year after the death of her beloved husband.
"Everywhere I looked, I saw John. I thought, 'I need to move, but I'm not ready for assisted living,'" Cannon said.
Cannon selected the Terrace because it is close to her granddaughter, Melanie Turner, a teacher at West Jasper Elementary School.
Cannon said although she never considered spending her final years in Alabama, it seemed fitting once she realized that three of the most important events in her life are tied to the state.
"I was baptized in Alabama as a child. I was married in Alabama, and I will likely die in Alabama," Cannon said.
Cannon said she has come to love Jasper because while it is not as picturesque as her hometown of Covington, Ga., there is a sense of pride in the community that she has never encountered anywhere else.
Cannon now feels so at home here that she makes a point of visiting others who move to the Terrace to make them feel welcome.
Although Cannon's life has taken numerous twists and turns, Cannon said as she sat reminiscing last week that one thing has never changed.
"God gave me a cup of joy when I was born, and He has never taken it away," Cannon said. "Throughout my entire life, there has been joy. It's not easy to grow old, but each day when I wake up, I tell myself, 'This is the day the Lord hath made. Jeanne, it's up to you to rejoice and be glad in it."


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Is this directissima? I remember this as an easy jug haul arete that should not be missed! Like 5.5, but this looks steep, I remember slab at this point!
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Her four year old daughter, Aurora of Twin Moons, is just getting her feet wet.
Alijna van den Oostenbrugge is a mid 15th century woman from Amsterdam (Amstelledamme) in the Netherlands. She is born of a noble painter father and a midwife mother, though much to the surprise of her parents it was painting she became infatuated with, not midwifery. While traveling with her father so that he might be commissioned for portraiture, she came to the hall of a young nobleman on the northern coast of Germany, Albrecht von der Meer. There she became his mistress and bore him an illegitimate daughter, before fleeing and arriving in Concordia.
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CHATEAUGAY — Chateaugay Central School Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, at the school.
Agenda items include the elementary principal brochure and application, Project Challenge, an insurance report and the New York State Council of Superintendents Conference.
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18Lena Dunham Says Rihanna's a Piece of Crap Who Makes Her Sad
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"[Being a role model] is amazing. It's an amazing thing and it's like, it's a platform that you have to take seriously. Which is why sometimes it's like I used to be really into Rihanna, that pop star, and then it's like again, I don't want to ever throw stones from my glass house, but I follow her on Instagram and I just think about how many little girls beyond what I could even comprehend are obsessed with Rihanna. Like you know, she left Barbados, she's had this amazing career, she's won a Grammy. … She's talented. And then she gets back together with Chris Brown and posts a million pictures of them smoking marijuana together on a bed. And it cracks my heart in half in a way that makes me feel like I'm 95 years old."
Yup. That's what Lena Dunham had to say to Alec Baldwin about Rihanna, and guys, and duh. Lena Dunham is completely right, once again.
I don't know about you guys, but I have a feeling that we're going to be talking about Lena Dunham a lot this year. I think there's lots of big, big things that are going to come about because of her and her very special mindset, and I'm excited.
January 23, 2013 at 10:30 am by Sarah
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I don't know who she is or what she did to become famous, but I just fell in love with her. Such a smart lady.
I have a mad girl crush on her.. (Lena).and of course she is dead right about Rihanna , but Rihanna is too stupid to realize the gravity of her choices… When Rihanna's relashionship ends very badly, I pray her little fan club will choose to not follow in her bloody foot prints.
It's funny, because Lena Dunham is someone who makes fun of victims of rape and murder via Twitter so I think Lena Dunham should shut the fuck up about being disappointed by people's bad decisions. Also, I think Lena Dunham is very lucky that she doesn't understand the toxic dynamics of an abusive relationship such as the one between Chris Brown and Rihanna and thinks leaving your abuser as easy as deleting a phone number. All in all, I think Lena Dunham should go back to writing her overrated show about a fairytale land where New York City is an overwhelmingly white city and stop talking about others. She gets on my fucking nerves so much.
Love this comment..so true.
I love Lena Dunham. Is her show ridiculous in the way it shows spoiled white girls living in the city? Yes. Is it wonderful? Yes. This bitch is doing what SHE wants, and I think that's awesome. You know why everything she does is so controversial? It's because she's not pretty. I hate to say it, because I love her, but it's true. If this were a below average looking male comedian, nobody would care what she says or what she does. In fact, Daniel Tosh got away with a shitload of over offensive jokes until I think he finally broke the camels back with that whole rape joke towards that girl. Lena Dunham wasn't even making a joke about Rihanna. She was being serious, and she didn't even bash Rihanna. So I think you are being extremely oversensitive.
Lena Dunham indeed does get more exposure because she is a woman in a man's world, but I'm not being oversensitive. I just am calling out Dunham on her shit because she speaks like her shit doesn't stink. She has got as much self-awareness as a goldfish in a fishbowl, and I am sick of people praising her when there are many talented women out there who don't have her connections and therefore can't succeed like she has.
Yes, @mireee. Even if people think "Girls" is somewhat entertaining, which I do, "Tiny Furniture" was a terrible indie-film. If that was the premise for "Girls", it's even more obvious how much help she's had, that wasn't deserved, based off of her film.
Miree you are completely right! I think the wider problem is that people idolize celebrities too much. Why should a singer be a role model? Why not a teacher, doctor, news anchor? Every second kid is focused on being a superstar and that's why we end up with droves of tone deaf people trying out for American idol.
She also happened to attempt to get young people out to vote for Obama by comparing that to sex for the first time …
And her book proposal was heavily criticized on Gawker.
Of course, when looking at someone, always look at Twitter.
"I'm mad about the way some stuff on earth is going and I expressed it by putting new hairstyles on the headshots in a Playbill with wite-out"
"Everyone else's routine is so impressive to me. Today I saw a woman carrying a thermos to work, almost jumped out of my skin with awe."
… and …
"I know what it's like to be pulled back from death and appreciate life more since I dropped my cell phone in the toilet and it still works"
No, I'd say she isn't smart. At all. She doesn't appear charming. At all.
What you see expressed in the above tweets is a type of person I loathe … the sittin' in front of (whichever) bookstore pretending to be knowledgeable and having no *bleeping* clue. There is a bonus if there is a guitar involved.
So many people HATED Lena last year – but when you see or hear her interviewed, her sweetness comes through and you can't help but know that, (a) she is a very smart cookie, (b) she is incredibly talented, and (c) she doesn't take anything for granted – she knows how lucky she is. I love that she's calling Rhianna out – that is bold! She even won over Howard Stern – he was prepared to hate her because she didn't meet his ridiculous standards of beauty, but he fell in love with her show and they had a fantastic interview last week. This IS her year!
Rihanna is a woman with issues. She exhibits no common sense and will inevitably have another run-in with her loser boyfriend. Goof for Lena calling her out on her bullshit.
Miree I love your comments and I love this one. Agreed.
Yes, to bad she can't do awesome things like create a show where it's totes hilarious to have your boyfriend piss on you.
Unfortunately most of the really big things coming from Lena this year are her dumps. Hope someone picked up a case of industrial strength Draino.
I am glad that Lena is drawing attention to what trash Rihanna is.
True that, Lena!


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The Moorhead Fire Department has determined the cause of a fire on Wednesday night that killed an area family's pet. The cause of the fire was determined to be accidental.
Assistant Fire Marshal Chad Stangeland says gasoline was used to start a fire in the fireplace, and that is what created the fire. Stangeland says this highlights the dangers of gasoline and that is should never be used to start a fire, inside or outside.
Stangeland says gasoline vapors can accumulate very quickly and when ignited can cause flash fires, with a high probability of burning the person starting the fire. In this case, both occupants only had slight smoke inhalation, but fire officials say they are fortunate they did not get burned.
The fire call came in just before 8:15 p.m. on December 11. The two people home at the time were able to get out of the house, but unfortunately the dog was found deceased.
The house sustained heavy fire and smoke damage throughout the first floor and moderate smoke damage to the basement.
Crews are cleaning up and clearing out smoke after scrambling to knock down a house fire in Moorhead around 8 p.m. Wednesday night.
Two people safely evacuated the residence at 1019 11th Avenue South. A dog was later found dead.
According to the assistant fire chief, the fire was contained to one room, but the entire first floor sustained significant smoke damage.
Both The Salvation Army and the American Red Cross were at the scene. A room for a few nights as well as money for food and clothes will be provided to the homeowners.


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Disheveled people can be very productive. Many of them make important contributions, but just as often, they struggle with recognition and job hunting.
Hal was a lawyer who was frequently a little late and disorganized. His clients loved him because he came up with brilliant solutions. But he worked for a very buttoned down law firm that treated him poorly.
He needed to leave, but his job hunting wasn't going well.
It was easy to see why. He was like the proverbial absent-minded professor. During conversations he often looked away and appeared not to be paying attention. His hair was shaggy, his clothes rumpled.
It was no problem to get his hair trimmed, and his clothes pressed, but his lack of visual and verbal contact was a difficult habit to break.
He decided instead to try to normalize it at the start of interviews by saying: "People have told me I have a bad habit of seeming to go away in the midst of a conversation. I hope you'll bear with me if that happens. Whats going on is I am thinking hard about what youve just said. He said that while smiling and looking directly at the person.
Another tactic was networking with lawyer friends to identify firms who had senior partners with styles of operating like his.
Hal eventually found a firm that accepted him for his disheveled self and valued the very real contributions he could make. But to get there, he first had to button down his job hunting style.
(The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of St. Louis Public Radio.)
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Anna Navarro is the founder of Work Transitions, a nationwide organization dedicated to helping individuals find satisfaction and fulfillment in their work.


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Seedy Sunday 2014 brings local seeds and gardening wisdom to Rossland
Spring is near and the green thumbs are twitching, so Rossland will host yet another "Seedy Sunday" this weekend, March 23, to fill gardener's pockets with local varieties of vegetable and flower seeds.
After the crops are planned, a charismatic guest speaker, scrumptious dinner, and an uplifting movie will raise the spirits.
Kicking off at 1 p.m. at the Miners' Hall (1765 Columbia Ave.), Kootenay gardeners can buy seeds from farms such as Cherry Meadows, Mountain Seed Co., Salt Spring Seeds, and Stellar Seeds.
Other tables will host seed swapping, so bring spare seeds to sell or trade. Other local vendors will have art, crafts, and local cuisine for sale.
It's more than a seed fair as the charismatic visionary Dan Jason—owner and operator of Salt Spring Seeds—takes the stage at 4 p.m. to expound the virtues of "Seed Saving: as if our lives depended on it!"
Rossland chefs Kim and Brad Robinson—The Harvest Table and The Mountain Chef—will put out a delicious veggie curry at 5:30 p.m., just $8 per plate.
Proceeds from the dinner will help fund Rossland REAL Food's activities, including the Community Garden, the Mountain Market, gardening workshops, and other local food initiatives.
Then it's time to sit back, relax, and digest "Growing Cities" on the hall's big, brand-new screen. This newly released film explores inspiring urban farms across the United States. Tickets are $5 at the door and the movie starts rolling at 6:30 p.m.
All proceeds from the movie will be shared by the event co-organizers, both non-profit societies: the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture and Rossland REAL Food.
So come on out to the Miners' Hall this Sunday for superb, locally adapted seeds for your garden, mind-blowing inspiration from a true seed-saving pioneer, a stick-to-the-ribs dinner, and a relaxing tour of burgeoning urban farms across America.


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I have been dying to make sushi cupcakes forever. My Japanese sister Yoko spent last week with us... we took her to Elton John and we stuffed a moose with her at Build a Bear Workshop. Imagine coming all the way from Tokyo to Saskatoon and seeing Elton John! Of all places. We also made sushi out of brownies, angel food cake and assorted candies.
Rice bundles of Rice Krispie cake topped with a Swedish fish candy... check out the wasabi. It's a mini marshmallow painted with food colour.
Those funny green candies are actually Japanese sugar crystal candies that our friend Kai sent us.
Check it out! Red non pareils look like caviar!
Yoko was a genius making the candy sushi. Don't you love the gummy worms stacked inside the rolled up sour candy? She giggled and giggled because she pointed all of the worm's faces upwards!
These are The Fan's creation... the cut bits of angel food cake look like rice cakes, don't they? The "crab meat" are gummy lip candies with the red lips cut away... if you look closely, you can see where we used the lips...
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The M1 passes about 10 miles to the east, making Derby the perfect gateway to the Peak District. It does tend to be overshadowed by the attractions of Nottingham half-an-hour's drive to the east, but this large regional city, which made its name as the pioneer of silk, bone china and Rolls-Royce engines, has plenty of charms. There's the pretty Cathedral Quarter – with its smaller independent shops, boutiques and home to Derby's café culture – plus the usual array of high-street chain stores in the city centre and at the large Westfield shopping centre on the outskirts. It's also a passionate sporting city – home to Derby County FC and close to the Donington Grand Prix racing circuit. Nottingham offers all the big meal tickets as restaurants in Derby tend to be mid-range national chains. However, exceptions include Anoki for good Indian food, and Darleys for lively modern British cooking.
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Update: The Morris County Sheriff's Office says their manhunt is over and the suspect is in custody.
The Morris County Sheriff says the manhunt started last night off of Highway 11 near Daingerfield State Park.
Witnesses say the Morris County Sheriff's Office, the Hughes Springs Police Department, and the Lone Star Police Department were all at the scene.
The Morris County Sheriff says the search stems from an incident that happened late Friday night. Three men were driving from Daingerfield State Park to Cason. In the car, one of the men took out a knife, and started stabbing the other two men.
When the car stopped, the accused stabber got out of the car and ran.
Morris County authorities have already found the knife they believe belonged to the man. Their search for the suspect continued Saturday morning after a witness saw someone matching his description.
The suspect's name and description have not been released, but he is from Marion County. The two stabbing victims, also from Marion County, were hospitalized. One has already been released, while the other has injuries that are not expected to be life-threatening.
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Calling all British bloggers - do you let me know if these memories strike a chord with you?
There could only be one key memory of radio in my childhood- "Listen with Mother" with its phrase "Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin" - with 15 minutes of a story and rhyme, sitting on my mother's knee; closely followed by Saturday morning's "Children's Favourites" with Uncle Mac - singing along to such music as:
The Owl and the Pussy Cat, sung by Elton Hayes,
There was an Old Lady who swallowed a fly, and Big Rock Candy Mountain sung by Burl Ives,
The Animals went in Two by Two
Nelly the Elephant, sung by Mandy Miller (my favourite)
Happy Wanderer
The Runaway Train went over the Hill
The Laughing Policeman.
Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace
I remember sitting at Saturday or Sunday lunch with Family Favourites (Cliff Michelmore and Jean Metcalfe) playing requests for soldiers in BFBO (I loved the sound of reciting those initials for British Forces Stationed Abroad). Later years brought the comedy programmes such as Hancock's Half Hour and The Navy Lark. Sunday was a favourite radio night for the family with popular classics on Melodies for You, Sunday Half Hour (hymns) and 100 Best Tunes.
1953 was the year television came to our house in the shape of a small 10inch screen Bush set , so we could watch the Queen's Coronation on June 2nd. There was only one channel and broadcasts were generally just in the evening, introduced by the announcers in dinner jackets (Macdonald Hobley) and evening dress (Sylvia Peters and Mary Malcolm) - talking what seemed very pucka la-di-da accents to someone from the North of England. If we switched on too early we got the test card with the little girl with long hair in the centre. The interludes were as much a delight - the potter's wheel, or horses ploughing a field.
Children's TV seemed to centre on puppets - Muffin the Mule and Sooty (with the spin off toys as Christmas present). I must surely have been too old for Andy Pandy, and Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men, but perhaps saw them with my brother. The forerunner of family soaps The Grove Family and The Appleyards were also favourites; as were were Billy Bunter's Schooldays (I had a crush on Bob Cherry), George Cansdale from London Zoo on Looking at Animals, and Crackerjack, with its Double or Drop challenge
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Z Cars (Jock Weir my favourite)
What's My Line
Man from Uncle (David McCallum my favourite)
Gripping modern drama which seemed either to be Welsh miners trapped underground, or a plane about to crash with the crew going down with food poisoning and a passenger saving the flight.
American programmes came into vogue:
Doctor Kildare
Phil Silvers
Dick van Dyke Show
Jack Benny Show
George Burns and Gracie Allan
I love Lucy
Perry Como Show
The BBC was the natural channel for current affairs and we always had the news on and special coverage to see Yuri Gargarin, the first man in space, the Amercan space launches, and ocean splash downs; major events such as royal weddings, funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, Aberfan disaster, assassination of John F. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. By the time of the first man in the moon, we set the alarm to get up during the middle of the night to see the "first step", and then dashed into the garden to look up at the moon in the sky.
Two programmes my father absolutely refused to have on were the new satirical comedy show "That was the Week that Was" and irreverent comedy Till Death Us Part - the previews were enough for him to ban them. He always had to watch Panorama - until they were showing a programme on maternity care when he suddenly decided this was not family viewing.
Pop Culture passed me by and I was never into it, though I remember 6.5 special and Top of the Pops. Of course everything I saw was in black and white, and I did not see colour TV until 1970 which I think was when it reached Scotland.
But I was enough of a TV teenage child to compile a scrapbook, with cuttings from the "Radio Times "of cast lists and photographs of my favourite actors and performers to pour over and admire!


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Following previous failed attempts at implementing a management framework for Ireland's inshore fisheries, marine minister Simon Coveney has launched a dedicated platform and suite of measures for this sector which comprises over 80% of Ireland's fishing fleet. The development package consists of three parts: establishment of a National Inshore Fisheries Forum (NIFF); a funding package of €1m in 2014 and conservation measures to support lobster and shrimp stocks.
Sea anglers and charter boat skippers are being reminded that the Bluefin Tuna recreational fishery remains closed in 2014. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and the Sea- [ ... ]
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Norah Parke A very successful two-day meeting of the ACRUNET (Atlantic Crab Resource Users Network) [ ... ]
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A National Capital Forum will be establsihed 'to advance a comprehensive economic assessme [ ... ]
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BETHANY BEACH, Del. - Considering everything that's happened in Boston, one Bethany Beach fifth grader wants to help in a big way.
Avid runner, Blake Hundley decided to share his love of the sport and host a 5K run next Friday, May 3rd on the boardwalk of Bethany Beach. The 11-year-old and his father tell WMDT after seeing the images from the attack, helping was their only option.
"It didn't take long for him to realize that if he was there watching me run [the marathon], that's where he would have been," said Rick Hundley.
"I knew that the victims of the Boston bombing, it was just a tragic event and they need support from other people and I feel like I need to help them," said Blake Hundley.
All proceeds from this event will go to "One Fund Boston." Registration is $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the race.
Runners can register at www.BlakesRunForBoston.com.


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The MA reflects the (inter)disciplinary and (inter)period interests of a number of staff in English and American Studies - one of the most innovative and exciting subject areas in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. The research cluster from which this MA emerged, which includes Naomi Baker, Anke Bernau, Jerome de Groot, Terry Eagleton, David Matthews, Gale Owen-Crocker, Jackie Pearson and Alexander Rumble, has an international reputation in a number of the most important themes that are currently stimulating scholarly debate.
You will be taught by scholars who are at the forefront of their fields and are undertaking and publishing cutting-edge research. You will be taught innovative, hands-on research techniques as well as key theoretical approaches; you will be able to use a world-class research library; you will be part of a dynamic graduate community. The department regularly runs postgraduate masterclasses by visiting speakers; seminar leaders have included Steven Knight, Blair Worden, Sharon Achinstein, Ann Hughes, Martin Dzelzainis and Catherine Belsey.
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Maxim Integrated Products Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM)
Q4 2012 Earnings Call
July 26, 2012 5:00 pm ET
ExecutivesVenk NathamuniBruce E. Kiddoo - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice PresidentTunc Doluca - Chief Executive Officer, President and DirectorAnalystsRomit J. Shah - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research DivisionParag Agarwal - UBS Investment Bank, Research DivisionJohn W. Pitzer - Crédit Suisse AG, Research DivisionVivek Arya - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research DivisionJeffrey A. Schreiner - Capstone Investments, Research DivisionJames Schneider - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research DivisionShawn R. Webster - Macquarie ResearchTore Svanberg - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research DivisionChristopher B. Danely - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research DivisionJoAnne Feeney - Longbow Research LLCChristopher Caso - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research DivisionBlayne Curtis - Barclays Capital, Research DivisionCraig Berger - FBR Capital Markets & Co., Research DivisionCraig A. Ellis - Caris & Company, Inc., Research DivisionDavid M. Wong - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research DivisionSumit Dhanda - ISI Group Inc., Research DivisionBrendan Oliver Furlong - Miller Tabak + Co., LLC, Research DivisionMark Lipacis - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research DivisionRoss Seymore - Deutsche Bank AG, Research DivisionMark Delaney - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research DivisionTerence R. Whalen - Citigroup Inc, Research DivisionDoug Freedman - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research DivisionElizabeth HowellPresentationOperator
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River Bend (A great place, no mater what the season) in Sunriver
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 8
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$ 875 - $ 1,250 / week
$ 1,700 - $ 1,800 / month
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River Bend, is a newly constructed three bedroom home. This 1700 sq.
ft. home is ready to welcome you to Central, OR. These three
wooded acres nearly surrounded by the Little Deschutes River,and
only three miles south of Sunriver, features a large open floor
plan, with living room windows and glass door opening to 240 sq. ft.
barbeque deck. A Large kitchen, with all stainless steel appliances,
separted from living room by a full lenght eating bar.
New, high quality Oueen size beds, 2 Master suites, 3rd bedroom has
twin beds.
Also If needed, Oueen size, above floor air bed. Large
utility room,& pantry.
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Janice Portscheller 209-275-2633
house rental amenities
A Bottle of WINE, red or white. plus glasses. Popcorn, Cheese & Crackers.
All, High quality, linens provided
All cooking utensils and dishes for ten. Blender, toaster, coffee and
pot/coffee, elec. griddle, mixer, chopper, waffle baker, electric can
New Large 55" LCD, HD, screen TV, Satellite, DVD, VCR, CD player, Video
Library, 1st run Adult & Childrens Movies, plus a reading Library.
Two car garage with automatic garage door opener, with outside key pad
Lots of off street parking for RV/Boat/Trailer
Gas/BBQ Grill, Outdoor Fire Pit, Outside Space Heater,
no rentasl fee, Two bicycles with Helments, 2 fishing poles, board games and cards.
Washer, Dryer, Iron and ironing board
Now has Secure Wi -Fi Wireless Satelite, Scanner and Printer Avaliable.
activities and attractions in Sunriver Oregon
Recreation abounds, Mt Bachelor, Oregons premier ski area is
less than a 30 min drive. 500 miles of fishing rivers, and 150 lakes,
20 golf courses all within a short drive. River Bend is surrounded by
State & National sights. (Activities include):
Golf, Shopping, Sightseeing, Restaurants, Rafting, Kayaking,
Boating, Swimming, Biking, Cross Country Skining, Downhill/Alpine
Skining, Snowboarding, Snowmobiling, Sledding/Tubbing, Wildlife
Viewing, Hiking, Fishing, Rock Climbing, Live Theatre.
Relax and enjoy Central OR. weather. Climate is dry w/snow in the
winter, more than 300 days a yr. of sunshine, warm days and cool
nights. Bring a sweater.
vacation rental rates
January 02 - June 02 .... $125/night
June 03 - September 01 .... $145/night
September 02 - December 02 ... $125/night
December 03 - January 01 ..... $145/night
All holiday's rates at ............ $145.00/night
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- Sunriver music festival
- Golf, 30 golf courses in and around Bend
- Sking
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- Fishing from River Bend shore line
- Visit National and State parks
- Pole-Peddle-Paddle Race
- Cycling
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- Summer Music Festival - Bend
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Roger Day has been coaching baseball at Danvers High for 25 years.
With an impressive 392-171 record, he will take his rightful place in the Massachusetts High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame next month. Although his induction was a no-brainer, Day was officially nominated to the hall by Frank Carey, who has put together an even more impressive run as the baseball coach at North Reading High.


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Alphabet Letter Y Yacht Theme
Instructions and Suggestions
Alphabet > Letter Y > Y is for Yacht
Crafts > Yacht
Holidays and Events >
*May > Transportation Month
Transportation > Water transport
Here are printable materials and some suggestions to present letter Y.
Transportation > Water > Yacht
A yacht is a small water craft used for private trips or racing. There are sailing and motor yachts. The luxury yacht featured in the printable craft is a motor yacht. Yacht racing is a sport.
Alphabet Activity: Alphabet Letter Y is for Yacht
Present the letter Y yacht (sailing yacht) six-piece online jigsaw puzzle to practice problem solving and view letter Y in upper and lower case. Adjust number or pieces using the Change Cut button on the left.
Present and display your option of alphabet printable materials listed in the materials column.
Children Ages 3+ to 6:
1. Letter Y Lower Case Flash Card and Yacht Craft > Visit this activity to recognize, trace lower case letter Y and make a yacht craft.
2. Letter Y words: Letter Y Activity Worksheet and Mini-Book:
This worksheet and matching mini-book can be used as part of Letter Y program of activities to reinforce letter practice and to identify related Y words. Read suggested instructions for using the worksheet and mini-book.
* Finger and Pencil Tracing:
*Trace letter Y's in upper and lower case with your finger as you also sound out the letter. Invite the children to do the same on their coloring page.
Encourage the children to trace the dotted letter with your choice of sharpened crayon, fine tip marker, coloring or regular pencil and demonstrate the direction of the arrows and numbers that help them trace the letter correctly. During the demonstration, you may want to count out loud as you trace so children become aware of how the number order aids them in the writing process.
*Find the letter Y's: Have the children find all the letter Y's in upper and lower case on the page and encourage them to circle or trace/shade them first. Visit each child to make sure they have identified the letter Y's and then discuss the locations with the worksheet.
*Coloring Activity: Encourage the children to color the images in the worksheet.
Discuss other letter Y words and images: First 'brainstorm' and ask the children about other words that have that beginning sound and write them on a board (dry erase board) as the children come up with example. You can print letter B in a different bright color to make it stand out. If you have illustrated alphabet books you can also use images in them. You can also display other Y posters and coloring pages or even make a letter Y classroom book using coloring images or color posters. Visit Letter Y Printable Materials to make your choice.
Letter Y Word Search & Handwriting Practice
The four word search game features a luxury yacht and letter Y words with pictures and handwriting practice.
Advanced independent handwriting practice:
1. Print your choice of printable lined-paper and encourage children to draw a yacht.
2. Drawing and writing paper Encourage children to draw, color and decorate a yacht and write letter Y y.
*coloring and writing materials
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Yes, Madison Bumgarner is taking a shutout into the seventh inning.
So is Doug Fister.
Which is more surprising? Which is more impressive?
Bumgarner hasn't pitched this well since late August. Fister took a line drive off this cranium in the second inning. So, you choose which is more surprising.
As for impressive, Bumgarner's probably got that one locked up so far. He's given up only two hits and one walk, while Fister's given up three hits and one walk. The only real difference is that Bumgarner's got eight strikeouts already, Fister only three. The bottom line, of course, is that both have pitched exceptionally well, which is how Game 2 remains scoreless after six innings.
Postscript: Oh, there's one other huge difference between them. Despite having only three strikeouts, Fister has thrown 107 pitches and clearly won't be in this game much longer. Bumgarner, on the other hand, has somehow thrown only 72 pitches and figures to keep pitching until he gets into trouble or there's an undeniable pinch-hitting situation.


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Comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension Director John Rebar were included in a Bangor Daily News editorial urging support for an upcoming vote on referendum Question 2, a $7.8 million bond request for the University of Maine System. Rebar provided educational information on the work currently being done in UMaine's animal and plant diagnostic facility and what a proposed new facility would mean for UMaine. An online version of the editorial carried a photograph of UMaine Extension insect diagnostician Clay Kirby. The website of the Foster's Daily Democrat newspaper carried an article that advanced a talk Rebar will give on the proposed facility at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25 during UMaine Extension's annual meeting in the York County Extension office in Springvale. The meeting is free and open to the public.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756


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By Karu F. Daniels
05 Oct 2013
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It had to seem like a match made in heaven — as far as musical theatre goes.
The creative minds at Encores! City Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center (two of New York City's finest live arts organizations) collaborating to bring a show to the stage every two years was a stroke of genius. Their inaugural endeavor was 2011's Cotton Club Parade, a musical revue paying homage to the stylings of jazz legends like Duke Ellington juxtaposed with the poetry of laureate Langston Hughes and the famed Harlem hotspot as the backdrop, circa 1930s.
With nine-time Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis helming the band and Drama Desk Award nominee Warren Carlyle (A Christmas Story The Musical) choreographing and directing, Cotton Club Parade was a show not to be missed. Six sold-out performances during its limited run led the producers to order seven more for the 2012 season. And those were a smash.
"This is really an inspired show that is going to combine old school with new school," producer Scott Sanders revealed. "It's going to have all the sexy elements from great 1930s Harlem clubs put through the prism of 2013 and modern sensibilities of certain artists, certain dancers, certain performers and certain vocalists."
One vocalist in particular is Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox, who has been with the past and present iterations of After Midnight and is elated to return to Broadway. (Though the Memphis native hasn't been on the boards since 2009 — with a short stint in Chicago — she's amassed a steady film career with roles in "The Blind Side," "Lee Daniels' The Butler," "The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete" and "Love Is Strange," which is currently shooting in New York.)Continued...


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Loyd George joined what was then called the Army Air Corps in 1943.
But because the training centers were overcrowded, he wasn't called up for another year.
When he finally was sent into combat, he made up for lost time, co-piloting his B-26 Bomber in 31 missions over Germany.
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Second in a series of 10 Super Bowl top-10 lists excerpted from "The Ultimate Super Bowl Book" by Bob McGinn.
1. Jackie Smith, TE, Cowboys, XIII: The veteran TE, summoned from retirement by the Cowboys in September, tried to body-catch an endzone pass on third and 3 from the 10 late in the third quarter. The wet turf gave way as Smith reached for the ball, which was thrown a bit prematurely by Roger Staubach. The pass bounced off Smith's hands incomplete. If caught, it would have tied the score at 21. The Cowboys went on to lose, 35-31.
2. Antonio Freeman, WR, Packers, XXXII: The clock was down to 42 seconds and the Packers trailed, 31-24, when Brett Favre fired a bullet pass to Freeman, who had a step on CB Darrien Gordon at the Denver 15. It was the costliest drop of Freeman's eight seasons in Green Bay. The Packers had time for two more incompletions before their hopes of repeating were extinguished.
3. Preston Dennard, WR, Rams, XIV: The underdog Rams gave the Steelers everything they could handle until the fourth quarter. They had a chance to take a 17-10 lead from the Pittsburgh 13 in the final minute of the first half. On first down, Dennard had room to make a tough catch in the very back of the endzone, but Vince Ferragamo's pass skipped off his hands. Frank Corral had to kick a field goal.
4. John Mackey, TE, Colts, III: The game was scoreless before the Jets broke through six minutes into the second quarter. Late in the first quarter, Earl Morrall had Mackey open on a first-down pass from the Colts 42, but the Hall of Fame tight end dropped it. Coach Don Shula said it very well might have been a touchdown.
5. Don Beebe, WR, Bills, XXVI: Although Jim Kelly had one of the poorest games of his career, his numbers would have looked much better if Beebe had come up with a pass at the goal line in the final minute of the first half. It should have been a 20-yard touchdown.
6. Charlie Garner, RB, Raiders, XXXVII: The Bucs had just scored midway through the second quarter to take a 13-3 lead. On the Raiders' first play of a new possession from their 29, the Bucs blew a coverage, leaving the entire left side of the field open. Garner checked down in the area about 7 yards downfield and, with his speed, probably would have gained at least 50 — only he dropped the pass.
7. Patrick Johnson, WR, Ravens, XXXV: On the Ravens' second possession in a scoreless game, Johnson ran by CB Jason Sehorn deep along the right sideline. Trent Dilfer threw a beautiful, long pass that hit Johnson in stride in the endzone for what should have been a 46-yard touchdown. Instead, he dropped it and the Ravens had to punt.
8. Mark Seay, WR, Chargers, XXIX: The Chargers were reeling, down 28-7 late in the first half, but then they moved 60 yards to the 49ers' 13-yard line. On second down, Seay gained a step on FS Merton Hanks in the left corner of the endzone. Not an easy catch, by any means, but he got both hands on the ball before it fell incomplete. It was San Diego's last chance to make a game of it.
9. Charley Taylor, WR, Redskins, VII: Down 14 at halftime, the Redskins opened the second half with a 53-yard drive to reach the Miami 17. On second down, Taylor was free on a sideline pattern between CB Lloyd Mumphord and FS Jake Scott. As Billy Kilmer's pass approached, Taylor stumbled on loose turf and dropped the ball at the 3-yard line.
10. Dan Reeves, RB, Cowboys, V: The score was tied at 13 and only a minute remained. Facing second and 35 from their own 27, coach Tom Landry decided to go for broke. Craig Morton sprinted right, stopped, and tossed a high floater back inside to Reeves. The veteran running back leaped and barely managed to get both hands on the ball, but couldn't pull it in. Linebacker Mike Curtis cradled the tipped pass for the interception that set up Jim O'Brien's game-winning field goal.
Bob McGinn, the author of "The Ultimate Super Bowl Book," has covered the Green Bay Packers and the NFL for 30 years, including the last 19 for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has been Pro Football Weekly's correspondent in Green Bay since the early 1980s. McGinn spent 4½ years interviewing more than 150 head coaches, assistant coaches, players, general managers, scouts and owners, as well as studying tapes of every game, in preparation for writing his book. His objective was to break down why each game was won. "The Ultimate Super Bowl Book," published by MVP Books, is available at mvpbooks.com, Amazon.com and book stores across the country. It contains more than 25 top-10 lists, a comprehensive statistical summary of each game and a list of Super Bowl records.


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Nebraska joins wildfire compact with nearby states
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill that will have Nebraska join forces with Colorado, Wyoming and the Dakotas in fighting wildfires.
Heineman announced Friday that he has designated Al Berndt, assistant director of the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, to represent Nebraska in the Great Plains Interstate Fire Compact. Heineman approved the bill earlier this week.
The compact lets member states share their firefighters and equipment in an emergency without going through the federal government. The compact requires each state to choose a person who is responsible for forest fire control.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Al Davis of Hyannis, says pooling the states' resources could lead to faster response times in remote and hard-to-reach areas of Nebraska.
The bill is LB961
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Here is a statement that may surprise some of my more regular readers (yes, all four of you): it's a good thing that Barack Obama won the presidential election last fall.
That might seem an odd comment coming from me. Am I not a radical writer who has spilled more critical jet-ink than any known leftist on Obama's corporate and imperial world view and (after January 20 2009) policies and on his pacifying impact on progressive forces at home and abroad? Am I not a left Marxist who wrote an entire book (well before the election) exposing the Obama phenomenon as the vile spawn of the United States' "corporate-dominated and militaristic election system and political culture"?
Yes, I am. And I stand by all of it.
Has the new president not richly validated the harshly unfavorable analysis that I and other left critics have given of him by: sustaining the occupation in Iraq, expanding imperial violence in South Asia, increasing "defense" (empire) spending, butchering innocents (including more than 130 civilians recently bombed to pieces by the U.S. Air Force in western Afghanistan) in "Af-Pak," reviving military commissions, continuing the practice of renditions, expanding the Bush program of targeted killings (with predictable high "collateral damage" to innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan), maintaining secret prisons (for persons "held on a short-term, transitory basis"), continuing the unspeakable torture of prisoners by an "extrajudicial terror squad" (Jeremy Scahill's description of the Pentagon's sadistic "Immediate Reaction Force" in Cuba) at Guantanamo Bay, threatening England into preventing a Guantanamo victim from having his day in court on the Bush administration's torture practices, sustaining the Bush administration's abrogation of habeas corpus rights in regard to the roughly 600 "enemy combatants" kept at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, sustaining the Bush policy of military detention without trial for "terrorist suspects," making bogus moral and political arguments ("better to look forward than backward") to prevent the investigation of Bush administration crimes, sustaining Bush's domestic wiretapping program, invoking the "state secrets" doctrine to prevent disclosure of evidence in response to lawsuits emerging from Bush era rendition and surveillance policies, suppressing photographic evidence of U.S. torture practices, advancing a fake-progressive health care "reform" that leaves the leading parasitic insurance corporations (major campaign sponsors of his) in power, abrogating his campaign pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (so as to insert stronger labor and environmental protections), failing to seriously advance an elementary and overdue labor law reform (the Employee Free Choice Act) he campaigned on, and failing to advance a moratorium on foreclosures or appropriate levels of support for working class homeowners?
Yes, Obama has done all of these and other terrible things. It's pretty sickening – thoroughly predictable (and in fact predicted, by yours truly and many others on the left) but shocking nonetheless. Along the way, to make things yet more nauseating, Obama's image-makers and the dominant (so-called "mainstream") corporate media have wrapped it all the officially respectable aura of "realism," "pragmatism," supposedly virtuous and democratic "centrism," and the noble "duties of governance." A ridiculous segment of the "liberal' electorate (including more than a few drunken and weepy eyed academicians I know) still clings to the pathetic notion that Obama's presidency is "progressive" and that Obama is some sort of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" character ready, willing, and able to take on the corporate and military powers that be. Obama's power to pacify and marginalize what's left of the U.S. left has been something to behold, just as I feared and predicted. To maker matters worse and also as predicted, his "black but not like Jesse," officially race-neutral campaign and presidency have been a powerful weapons for white supremacist claims that racism no longer poses serious barriers to black advancement and racial equality in the U.S.
After all that, how can I say that Obama's election was a good thing? Five reasons.
First, no genuinely Left presidential candidates can ever win or even remotely challenge under the openly plutocratic U.S. elections and propaganda system. Obama's only seriously contending opponent under that authoritarian system last fall was of course neither Ralph Nader (for whom I voted in Iowa) nor Cynthia McKinney (to whom I made a modest financial contribution). It was John McCain, a dangerous, demented and blustering messianic militarist who proposed (among other things) to (i) create of neo Cold War "League of Democracies" (excluding and provoking nuclear Russia and China) and (ii) put an openly idiotic evangelical proto-fascist (Sarah Palin) more (given McCain's age) than the usual "heartbeat away" from the most powerful and potentially annihilation-inflicting office on Earth. We shouldn't have to think too hard about the sort of judicial appointments and other domestic and global policies that truly vicious and dangerous bastard John McCain could have been expected to enact to get a chill down our spines.
(Imagine if you will what a racist statement it would have been for the nation's electorate to have been seen "choosing" the obviously inadequate McCain-Palin ticket over the outwardly erudite charisma of "Brand Obama." [1] Racial prejudice would have been an obvious leading reason for a John McCain victory in light of the Republican candidates' astonishing liabilities and the deep unpopularity of the Republican Party in the wake of the long national Bush-Cheney nightmare. It is a major reason for the disturbing fact that McCain-Palin won the majority of white votes last fall.)
Second, differences that seem (with good reason) quite minute to radical intellectuals can have significant multiplier consequences for masses of people living under the rule of highly concentrated power systems like U.S. state capitalist corporate-imperialism. As the left-liberal political scientist Larry Bartels showed last year in his book Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, during the past six decades "real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the real incomes of working-poor families have grown six times as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans." This difference (at which it is bad political and moral form to sneer from the left) reflects technically small but real economic and social policy differences between the two reigning factions (Democrats and Republicans) of the U.S Chamber of Commerce and Pentagon Party.
Third, there is no reason to believe that progressive activists and citizens would be any more energized or active if the Republicans had managed to retain the U.S. executive branch last year. Having Bush and Cheney in power did little to energize the Left, really, despite the initially impressive anti-Iraq War movement, which faded after it became apparent that the bipartisan imperial Establishment was going to do as it wished in Iraq with minor regard for irrelevant public opinion. A McCain-Palin victory (plausibly "stolen") might have sparked some initial resistance, some quite fierce. But progressive forces and people would have sunk yet further into despair, fragmentation, torpor, isolation, and irrelevance while the FOX News crowd crowed. There wouldn't have been all that much been much cool progressive backlash and civil unrest on the whole. Such serious disruption as might have occurred would have been crushed with ruthless, proto-fascistic ease.
Fourth, as part of their co-optive mission/assignment as the bourgeois U.S. electoral system's largely fake "party of the people" [2], Democrats tend to initially increase and channel rather than simply depress popular expectations for progressive change. As my book on Obama suggested last year, Obama rode, reflected, and raised popular expectations for democratic transformation that an Obama White House would be certain to disappoint and betray. That certainty need not, I argued, be a source of dark dismay and depression for those who remain attached to left-progressive ideals. It carries the radical potential to help move citizens off what the left social critic Charles Derber aptly calls "The Election Trap" – the belief that serious progressive change is mainly about voting in quadrennial, corporate-crafted, and candidate-centered "electoral extravaganzas" (Noam Chomsky's excellent phrase) – and into the more significant work of building the sorts of grassroots and political movements that have previously forced serious progressive change from below in American history. It could also help fuel popular demands for changing the political system in such a way the electoral hopes could become less of a "trap." Revolutions, historian Barrington Moore argued, come when there are rising expectations.
Fifth, intimately related to point 4, the Democrats are best exposed as agents of empire, inequality, and "corporate-managed democracy" (the late Alex Carey's useful term) when they hold top offices. That's when the hot rubber of their populist- and peaceful- sounding campaign rhetoric hits the cold pavement of corporate-imperial governance. Why has the Left done best – made the most noise, with the greatest impact – in this country when Democrats have held power, as during the 1930s, the 1960s? Part of the explanation, I think, is that the Democrats tend to come into power having made rhetorically populist and progressive campaign promises that are more conducive to popular organizing. At the same time, the Democrats' rhetoric and policies tend to create more open space and freedom for left progressives to breathe and organize.
But another factor is a bit more complex. It is that the corporate- and empire-captive Democrats are better able to deceptively pose as a progressive alternative to corporate-imperial rule and the Republicans when they are out of office than when they are in power. They are more effectively exposed as ultimately inadequate tribunes of the ordinary working people they claim to represent when they hold power and then quite naturally fail to deliver on popular hopes and dreams they've ridden and/or raised on the road to office. They are less able to hide their essential identity as the other business and empire party when they sit atop the political system.
Nobody captured my sentiments on the ironic sort of hope that could be meaningfully drawn from the prospect of an Obama White House last year than the clever Marxist writer Doug Henwood. In an April 2008 essay titled "Would You Like Change With That?," Henwood criticized: Obama's subservience to big capital, Obama's militarism, Obama's disingenuous claims to be against the Iraq War, Obama's "empty" slogans, Obama's vapid "fan club" ("he doesn't really have a movement behind him"), and Obama's denial of the extent of racial inequality in the U.S. But then Henwood shifted gears to reflect on the potential historical upside of an Obama presidency:
"Enough critique; the dialectic demands something constructive to induce some forward motion. There's no doubt that Obamalust does embody some phantasmic longing for a better world – more peaceful, egalitarian, and humane. He'll deliver little of that – but there's evidence of some admirable popular desires behind the crush. And they will inevitably be disappointed."
"There's great political potential in popular disillusionment with Democrats. The phenomenon was first diagnosed by Garry Wills in Nixon Agonistes. As Wills explained it, throughout the 1950s, left-liberals intellectuals thought that the national malaise was the fault of Eisenhower, and a Democrat would cure it. Well, they got JFK and everything still pretty much sucked, which is what gave rise to the rebellions of the 1960s (and all that excess that Obama wants to junk any remnant of). You could argue that the movements of the 1990s that culminated in Seattle were a minor rerun of this. The sense of malaise and alienation is probably stronger now than it was 50 years ago, and includes a lot more of the working class, [who are] …really pissed off about the cost of living and the way the rich .are lording it over the rest of us."
"Never did the possibility of disappointment offer so much hope. That's not what the candidate means by that word, but history can be a great ironist."
Now, most middle-aged and senior leftists and progressives probably don't require an education from Obama on the bipartisan nature of American Empire and Inequality, Inc., on the painfully narrow nature of the dominant U.S. political spectrum, and about how "life is [still] a crock of shit" (to quote Kurt Vonnegut in his 1997 novel Timequake) with "corporate Democrats" (Ralph Nader and John Edwards' useful phrase during the primary campaign) in charge. We have living recollections of Democratic betrayals perpetrated by (depending on our age) Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, John Fitzgerald Kenney, Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore (whose excessive corporate centrism helped cost him the presidency in 2000) to remind us of all that. [3]
But many in a new and younger generation of real and potential left progressives DO need the education, however. No amount of lecturing or warning from older progressives can begin to match younger progressives' experience of Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emmanuel, Hillary Clinton, and Harry Reid et al.'s right-center policy and practice — epitomizing what former Clinton administration official David Rothkopf last fall called (in reference to then-President Elect Obama's transition team) "the violin model: you hold power with the left hand and you play the music with the right" [4] —- when it comes to learning that "everything still pretty much sucks" when Democrats hold the top jobs in the American System. They have to live it themselves.
Older lefties can be forgiven, perhaps, for chomping at the bit as they watch Obama's honeymoon with much of the electorate, young and old, linger into the summer of 2009. But liberal and progressive disillusionment with "Brand Obama's" egregious state-capitalist corporate and bankers' bailouts (amidst growing poverty and unemployment),with the "new" White House's repackaging of terrible anti-civil-libertarian Bush-Cheney policies (surveillance, renditions, torture, anti-habeas corpus, "state secrets," secret prisons, military commissions, etc.), and the expanding Obama war on "Af-Pak" is steadily growing beneath the president's still high approval ratings (naturally sky-high among Democrats). Nothing is for certain in our heavily propagandized, thought-controlled age of mass "mind management" (Herbert Schiller) and "manufactured consent" (Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky), but I expect the progressive disenchantment to deepen in coming months and years in accord with the continuing deep recession (capital slashed yet another 600,000 plus Americans from payrolls last month) and Obama's fierce commitment to the American Empire Project and to the post-9/11 National Security State.
This disenchantment will not be worth a hill of progressive beans, however, unless popular forces develop considerably more capacity and willingness than they are currently exhibiting to organize for meaningful social and political change from the left and from the bottom up. More than merely meaningless, that disenchantment can actually become quite dangerous in the absence of such development, for popular resentment abhors a vacuum. Disconnected from the deceptive hope-phoria of "Obamalust," and deepened by deepening, capitalism-imposed economic dislocation, the "pissed off" feelings of "malaise and alienation" in which Henwood found ironic hope last year could easily feed a dodgy right-populist (proto-fascistic) rebellion against supposed Obamaist "socialism" (the "right wing talk radio mob's" preposterous description of the administration's and Democratic Party's world view and agenda). On the hard right, of course, there is no shortage of powerful demagogues ready to appeal to anxious and oppressed people with real grievances. Just listen to and/or watch Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the nation's still powerful right wing noise machine.
Paul Street ([email protected]) is a veteran radical historian, political commentator, and author in Iowa City, IA. He is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (Rowman & Littlefied, 2007), and Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Paradigm, 2008): http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987
1. The prolific left author and political analyst Mike Davis recently put the candidate contrasts in amusing light. "Multi-tasking on his beloved Blackberry or plugged into his MP3 player during his morning workout," Davis writes, "Obama was easily cast as an epitome of those 21st-century competencies that some psychologists claim may represent a human evolutionary leap, while McCain, with his self-confessed computer phobia and archaic elocutions ('My friends…') was prone to caricature as an escaped Alzheimer's patient." See Mike Davis, "Obama at Manassas," New Left Review (March-April 2009), pp. 10-11.
2. See Lance Selfa's instructive book The Democrats: A Critical History (Chicago: Haymarket, 2008). See also my review of this excellent study: "A Left Case Against the Democrats," International Socialist Review (May-June 2009): 73-75.
3. My lived memories click in with LBJ's vicious War on Vietnam (inherited from the arch-militarist JFK), which bitterly divided my father (anti-war) from my paternal grandfather (pro-war) for at least three years during the middle and late 1960s.
4. For the Rothkopf quote, see David Sanger, "Obama Tilts to Center, Inviting a Clash of Ideas," New York Times, November 21, 2008, A1. Translation: Obama may have campaigned and gained office with populace-pleasing progressive-sounding rhetoric but he has governed in standard service to existing dominant corporate and military institutions.


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How I became a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, and saved myself over 35 years of grief.
Oct 23: A night of firsts for Backstrom, Lafleur and Carbonneau
Habs autograph and collectibles news
The Boston Bruins Mark Recchi sounded off on the Montreal Canadiens "embellished" medical reports as the two teams get set to square off on Thursday.
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I went down to my local bookstore early this evening and finally got my hands on this years NHL "Official Guide And Record Book", about two months later than usual.Once there, I couldn't believe my...
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