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The Diana DeGette Guide to Gun Safety
Posted Thu, 04/04/2013 - 11:38
By Rep. Diana DeGetteIn light of the on-going gun debate, as a service to my constituents I have drafted a quick guide to gun safety. It explains how guns work as I understand it and offers some commonsense tips.
At right, you can see a diagram of a magazine. Magazines are ammunition, they're bullets. If you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.
1. Remember to never use your magazine more than twice, as it will become unstable after two firings.
2. Always load your gun by pouring black powder into the barrel, sliding the bullet in, and then using a stick to push it in.
3. Do not attempt to eat your firearm.
4. Always keep your rifle disassembled when not in use to reduce risk from electromagnetic radiation that is generated when firing.
5. Never fire your gun.
Mike Maday to challenge Michael Merrifield in Colorado Springs senate primary
Posted Thu, 02/21/2013 - 15:26
Michael Merrifield's campaign for Senate District 11 in Colorado Springs has attracted its first Democratic primary opponent. Mike Maday, an Obama organizer and social worker, will be running against Merrifield.
Maday was an early booster of the Obama campaign and was a key organizer for it in El Paso County. He now hopes to spin his position into a candidacy for State Senate and can be expected to run as a grassroots insurgent against Merrifield and will likely attempt to out-flank him on the left.
Much like his primary opponent, Maday also takes a dim view of gun owners and dismissed them as "gun nuts" in a particularly bitter screed he submitted to the Colorado Springs Independent titled "Making Gun Nuts Happy":
Let's be thankful we have a city council that sees to it the paranoid mentally ill and fanatic gun nuts feel comfortable and included in our community. Their policy of allowing lethal weapons of all types, unconcealed, concealed and partially hidden, in their own meetings, our public buildings, city parks, etc. ensures these sometimes marginalized groups can feel reassured packing heat everywhere.
Unfortunately some people are bothered by this progressive policy. Of course, whining is being heard from the usual enemies of freedom -- citizens attending City Council meetings regarding zoning changes, teachers wanting to take their students on field trips to city hall, golfers at city courses, parents with their kids at public pools and old people using our parks.
These wimps think that some of our armed citizens may get pissy and actually start firing some of their weapons, maybe blowing away innocent bystanders. This is not New York City. Thank goodness our City Council is brave enough to stand up to these pressure groups even though it might make it difficult for some people to vote for them next election.
Merrifield Anti-Gun Group Jumps Into Self-Defense Debate
Posted Wed, 02/20/2013 - 08:46
As embattled Rep. Joe Salazar's offensive comments implying that college-aged women are not competent enough to be entrusted with the right to defend themselves with a firearm are gaining national attention, Democratic Senate Candidate Michael Merrifield's employer has chimed in to make clear they do not value the right to self-defense either. This was posted to Mayors Against Illegal Guns' Facebook page last night. The timing of the post makes it clear it is in response to the controversy surrounding Salazar:MAIG seems to be believe that no-one has the right to defend themselves from violent attackers, as opposed to Salazar who is mainly concerned with depriving young women of that right. Whether that is a more or less offensive position, we will leave to the reader.
Despite serving as state coordinator for MAIG and being a candidate for State Senate, Michael Merrifield has attempted to stay hidden throughout the debate over gun control. How much longer can Merrifield remain silent on his disdain for the 2nd Amendment and opposition to self-defense?
Judy Solano running for Colorado State Senate
Posted Wed, 02/13/2013 - 06:29
Former state Rep. Judy Solano (D-Brighton) is preparing to run for Colorado State Senate District 24 in Adams County to replace term-limited Sen. Lois Tochtrop.
Solano, a former teacher, focused on education issues during her tenure in the State House. She is an avowed opponent of student testing and school evaluations. Solano introduced bills nearly every year while in office to erode the ability of parents and state regulators to gauge classroom performance.
In 2009 she played a key role in killing legislation that would have required school districts to place their budgets online, allowing taxpayers and parents to see how their money was being spent. The Public School Financial Transparency Act passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support on a vote of 26-8 but was killed by the House Education Committee, on which Solano served, before having the chance to receive a full honest vote in the House. [1]
Solano, a former union member and major beneficiary of union campaign contributions, colluded with the effort to kill the Public School Financial Transparency Act following an intensive lobbying campaign by union-affiliated groups.[2] Despite considerable Democratic support for the bill, Solano and the Democrats on the Education Committee took unusual procedural steps to thwart the Democratic Speaker of the House from having a chance to reintroduce it.
Solano has yet to announce a campaign platform, but her record shows that her priorities would be to reduce transparency in education and to support union interests at the expense of students and parents.
[1] Sunshine Review: Colorado Senate Bill 57 (2009)
[2] Independence Institute: Exposed: Ed lobby strategy to oppose transparency, March 13 2009
[2] Independence Institute: Exposed: Ed lobby strategy to oppose transparency, March 13 2009
Michael Merrifield on Education
Posted Tue, 02/12/2013 - 05:24
Michael Merrifield, candidate for Colorado Senate District 11, holds strong views on the topic of education reform. In 2007, he was forced to step down as head of the House Education Committee after inflammatory emails he authored were leaked to the press in which he declared that there is a "special place in hell" for opponents of the failing status quo in our education system. [1]
Michael Merrifield's political campaigns have been funded in large part by money from teacher unions. This explains in part his hateful statements towards supporters of charter schools, home schooling, and education reform as well as his long record of obstructing progress in the education system. One Republican Senator even received threats from an unbalanced union supporter provoked by Michael Merrifield's reckless and dangerous rhetoric. [2]
Merrifield has also demonstrated highly questionable positions in regards to classroom material. He has stated that "machines can replace the left-brained functions emphasized in math and science courses" and advocated for less of a focus on math and science and replacing these courses with "music , dance, [and] theater." [3] His priorities in education seem to have little to do with preparing students to find jobs or be successful in life. [4]
[1] Colorado Springs Gazette: Hell 's bells - Inflammatory e-mail sets off alarms, April 3, 2007
[2] 9News: CBI investigates threatening e-mail case, April 10, 2007
[3] Rocky Mountain News: Merrifield raising Hell again, October 26, 2007
[4] Denver Post: Increasing math, science is counterproductive (by Michael Merrifield), October 18, 2007
[2] 9News: CBI investigates threatening e-mail case, April 10, 2007
[3] Rocky Mountain News: Merrifield raising Hell again, October 26, 2007
[4] Denver Post: Increasing math, science is counterproductive (by Michael Merrifield), October 18, 2007
Michael Merrifield preparing campaign for Colorado State Senate
Posted Mon, 02/11/2013 - 01:39
Former State Representative and gun control activist Michael Merrifield (D-Manitou Springs) is preparing a campaign to run for State Senate in 2014. Merrifield will be running for Senate District 11, currently occupied by Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) who will be term-limited.
After leaving the State House, Merrifield ran unsuccessfully for El Paso County Commissioner in 2010 receiving only 39.7% of the vote in a two-way race. In 2011 he ran unsuccessfully for Colorado Springs City Council, being defeated by Lisa Czelatdko. Clearly he is holding out hope that the third time's a charm. He has also been serving as Colorado "state coordinator" for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been described as an "extremist organization" by University of Denver Adjunct Professor Dave Kopel [1]. They have come under criticism in the past for advocating policies that would in effect eliminate the right to carry concealed firearms and draconian bans on both types of firearms legally available and those who would be allowed to carry them. Notably, Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach and Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan have rejected membership in the organization.
The extent of Merrifield's duties within the group are unclear, though the "state coordinator" program has come under fire in other states following revelations that the gun control activist's salaries were being payed by taxpayer dollars being funneled to them by Democratic administrations. [2]
Merrifield's career in the State House was punctuated by his resignation from the House Education Committee following inflammatory comments he made stating that supporters of charter schools and private schools are bound for a "special place in hell." [3]
Merrifield does not yet have any announced opponents for the Democratic nomination or Republican opposition in the general election.
[1] Denver Post: Aurora Mayor Hogan declines national anti-illegal gun mayoral group
[2] Orlando Sentinel: Gun advocates take aim at Orlando gun-law staffer
[3] Charter School Solutions: Hatred for Charter Schools in the State House
[2] Orlando Sentinel: Gun advocates take aim at Orlando gun-law staffer
[3] Charter School Solutions: Hatred for Charter Schools in the State House


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Behind the Kitchen Door: Expediting with Executive Chef Ethan Kostbar of Moderne Barn in Armonk
Posted By Patrice Costa On December 18, 2012 @ 10:00 am In Behind the Kitchen Door,Features | 3 Comments
I was lured into executive chef Ethan Kostbar's kitchen with the promise of snippets of Gordon Ramsayesque behavior. And really, who doesn't love a bad boy chef? Sadly, there were no screams, tantrums, or tears in Moderne Barn's kitchen. What chef Kostbar did deliver was an organized and calm service with him in the forefront keeping his team on point with dish after beautiful dish being turned out quickly and efficiently.
[1]chef Kostbar expediting in the middle of service
[2]view of the dining room from the second floor mezzanine
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[4]FOH (front of house) info sheet
[5]staff meeting before service
Pasta – Ever Valdez
Fish – Byron Lopez
Sauté – Antonio Comacho a/k/a "machine" (He earned that title because he always gets the job done!)
Fryer – Colleen Noonan
Grill – William Novice
Broiler – Anthony Rinaldi
Back to garde manger, this station turns out crispy crust pizza from the double Baker's Pride pizza oven and is where all the fresh salads are created (including house made mozzarella).
[7]white clam pizza hot out of the oven!
[8]heirloom tomato salad with house made
mozzarella, red watercress & pesto
Just a few steps around the corner is the pastry station in the very capable hands of Amanda Smith. She started out as a hostess but is now following some sweet endeavors in culinary school.
[9]Daniel Yacashin and Amanda Smith
[10]first tickets of the evening
[11]bourbon chicken wings and blackened swordfish tacos
[12]appetizer special ~ lobster corn chowder
The flurry of activity that ensues on the line when tickets are fired can easily be described as organized chaos with a dash of cacophony (I've always wanted to use that word in a sentence, and I couldn't have found a better situation!).
When the entrees are ready, they move from the pass to the counter where the plates are wiped down by the runners and Ethan inspects the quality of each dish. The runners double check the tickets and take the dishes to the dining room.
Once all the dishes have left the kitchen, Ethan moves the completed ticket to the spike (the scary looking vehicle for impaled tickets).
Working the line is definitely a pressure cooker (pun intended), but chef Kostbar and his staff make it seem almost easy. Much thanks to chef Kostbar and his entire staff for giving me a glimpse into their world behind the kitchen door. Next time, though, could you conjure up just one little tantrum?
With all those amazing dishes passing right by me all night, it would be extremely selfish not to share some foodie eye candy; but be warned, do not view the following pics if hungry.
Details: Moderne Barn [16], 430 Bedford Road (Route 22), Armonk, 914.730.0001. Moderne Barn is open for lunch Monday through Friday, noon to 2:30 pm and Sunday brunch, 11:00 am to 2:30 pm. Dinner is served Monday through Sunday starting at 5 pm.
Patrice Costa [17] is a passionate foodie who is on a personal culinary mission to learn it all from local chefs. She looks forward to sharing her experiences as she goes behind the kitchen door in some of her favorite restaurant kitchens. When not on blogging assignments, she can be found happily working in the kitchen of Harvest on Hudson [18].
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Militarist Machinations
Here's a great idea: Why not send U.S. military forces to Georgia, one of the most volatile places on earth at the moment? That way, American troops, ships and planes can go eyeball-to-eyeball with Russian forces on a war footing?
Sound like a good plan? It does to ole Butt-Thumper Bush, who made another one of his squinty appearances outside the White House on Wednesday to announce that American military forces are going to Georgia to carry out a "humanitarian mission." [Let's hope it doesn't turn out like the "humanitarian mission" that Daddy Bush sent into the volatile war zone of Somalia back in 1992.] Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili, who has been pleading for America to come and rescue him from the bloody hash he has made, immediately seized on the announcement and proclaimed that the United States would be taking military control of Georgia's ports and airports.
Of course, Saakashvili, like his Kremlin counterparts, has been given to outrageous exaggerations and falsehoods throughout the crisis — and for now, the Pentagon is denying any intent to take over the facilities in Georgia. But in any case, the introduction of American military forces into this extremely tense and explosive situation seems a remarkably stupid move — unless, of course, one is trying foment conflict and tension in order to advance one's long-held, openly-stated agenda of militarism and geopolitical dominance.
Robert Scheer thinks that could well be in the case. In an article at Truthdig, he zeroes in on John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, lobbyist Randy Scheunemann. This hired mouthpiece was pocketing fat checks directly from Saakashvili until March, while his two-man firm went on raking in the Georgian dough until May, when Scheunemann officially (and no doubt very temporarily) left the lobbying shop. Scheunemann has long been guiding McCain toward the most bellicose stances on behalf of his Georgian paymaster, and is obviously crafting the clueless candidate's latest fierce belches against the Russkies.
Scheer excavates some very interesting facts about Scheunemann, including his key role with our old friends, the Project for a New American Century — you know, the Cheney-Rumsfeld outfit that in September 2000 declared that only a "new Pearl Harbor" would allow them to implement their plan for gargantuan increases in military spending at home and aggressive expansion of America's military empire abroad. And as we've noted here often, those lucky duckies got just what they wanted a year later, on September 11, 2001.
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?Butt-Thumper's announcment is a strong indication that the PNAC-neocon gambit — if deliberate gambit it is — might work, despite their local boy's slapdown. The military move into Georgia is certainly consonant with the aggressive militarist agenda advanced at every step by the Bush Administration, which has followed the PNAC plan as if it were holy writ.
...Previously, Scheunemann was best known as one of the neoconservatives who engineered the war in Iraq when he was a director of the Project for a New American Century. It was Scheunemann who, after working on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign, headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, an invasion that clearly was expected to produce a Russian counterreaction? It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain's presidential campaign.
...Scheunemann is at the center of the neoconservative cabal that has come to dominate the Republican candidate's foreign policy stance in a replay of the run-up to the war against Iraq. These folks are always looking for a foreign enemy on which to base a new Cold War, and with the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Putin's Russia that came increasingly to fit the bill.
Yes, it sounds diabolical, but that may be the most accurate way to assess the designs of the McCain campaign in matters of war and peace. There is every indication that the candidate's demonization of Russian leader Putin is an even grander plan than the previous use of Saddam to fuel American militarism with the fearsome enemy that it desperately needs...
What is at work here is a neoconservative, self-fulfilling prophecy in which Russia is turned into an enemy that expands its largely reduced military, and Putin is cast as the new Josef Stalin bogeyman, evoking images of the old Soviet Union.
However, at this point, it is still unlikely that Butt-Thumper and the gang will actually take a pop at the Russians. But they don't have to, not right now. The racheting up of tensions, the resurrection of the mega-profitable Cold War tropes, and the convenient burial of the huge, fetid mountain of Bush Regime crime — torture, aggression, corruption, tyranny — by a juiced-up media with a new conflict to play with: all of these will serve the militarists very nicely, thank you.
Of course, if it does come to live fire, and the deaths of some of the American cannon fodder that Bush is throwing into the Caucasus caldron — well, so what? As we noted here the other day, there is and always has been a powerful faction within the American elite that longs — with a deep, strong, pyschosexual yearning — to drop the Big One. And Russia has always been their favorite target, because the Russians have long represented the most powerful balk to their openly stated ambitions for "unipolar domination" over world affairs. And it was not the Soviet political system they objected to, anymore than they care what kind of authoritarian regime Putin and his cronies impose in Russia. After all, they avidly support regimes far more repressive than Putin's, or the later Soviet Union for that matter, such as Saudi Arabia. It's the competition that a strong Russia represents, and the lack of kow-towing, that our unipolar dominationists can't stand.
None of this should be taken as an endorsement of the Putin regime, or of the Russian military action in Georgia...although it doubtless will, because many people — such as 97 percent of the American media and political establishments, for example — simply cannot, or will not, accept anything but the starkest binary view of any situation. Somebody must be the "good guy" (the one that the American government supports) and somebody must be the "bad guy." And anyone who speaks ill of "our" guy, or even tries to understand the viewpoint of the "bad" guy, is, obviously, one of the "bad guys" too. This is one of the most durable, and tedious, and corrosive dynamics in American political discourse.
Where's Barry?
McCain is clearly on board the War-Whoop Express. No surprise there. But what of Barack Obama?
The candidate for Hope and Change interrupted his vacation long enough this week to line up squarely with McCain, Butt-Thumper, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol and the whole war-whooping crew in declaring his support for fast-tracking Georgia's entry into NATO. As many others have noted, if Georgia had succeeded in its earlier Bush-backed attempts to join the military alliance, NATO's other members would have been obliged by treaty to wade in on Georgia's side in this week's war with Russia. Thus the remarkably foolish decision by Saakashvili to launch a brutal military assault on South Ossetia — provoking a brutal Russian response — could have quickly led to World War III.
(No, wait; it would have been World War V, right? Because the war-whoopers tell us that the Cold War was World War III, and their Terror War is World War IV. But is the War on Drugs in there somewhere? Then that would make the next big thing World War VI, wouldn't it? It's so hard to keep up.)
So Obama is now pledging to wage war on Russia whenever a Georgian leader decides he needs to goose his poll numbers by killing some Russians. With "progressives" like this, who needs PNAC?
Oh, by the way: Butt-Thumper took the opportunity of the Georgian mission announcement to condemn the Kremlin once again for invading a sovereign nation and occupying it with military forces. And once again — inexplicably — the earth didn't immediately crack open and swallow him up out of sheer embarrassment that such a blood-soaked, mass-murdering hypocrite is allowed to walk around in comfort and safety and privilege and power.
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Type | Private |
Foundation date | New York, New York |
Headquarters | New York, New York |
Key people | Michael Sanchez, Co-founder and CEO Andrew Shue, Co-founder |
Employees | 120 (April 2013) |
Website | Cafemom.com |
Alexa rank | 1,578 (February 2013[update])[1] |
Type of site | English |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | December 2006 |
Current status | Active |
This article appears to be written like an advertisement. (March 2011) |
Type | Private |
Foundation date | New York, New York |
Headquarters | New York, New York |
Key people | Michael Sanchez, Co-founder and CEO Andrew Shue, Co-founder |
Employees | 120 (April 2013) |
Website | Cafemom.com |
Alexa rank | 1,561 (April 2013[update])[1] 1,578 (February 2013[update])[1] |
Type of site | English |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | December 2006 |
Current status | Active |
CafeMom is an ad-supported social networking site which is specifically targeted at mothers and mothers to be. It was founded in 2006 by Andrew Shue and Michael Sanchez.
Within one year of its launch, CafeMom became the most trafficked website for women (by page views) on the Internet, according to comScore.[2] CafeMom gets more than 8 million unique visitors a month, accounting for over 140 million page views.[3] According to their own website, as of 2009, CafeMom.com has turned profitable.[4]
On March 30, 2010, CafeMom announced the launch of The Stir,[5] a new blog for moms featuring original content covering topics such as celebrity gossip, parenting dilemmas (and solutions), current events, and home decorating.
Based in New York City, the company has about 120 employees. CafeMom is owned by privately held CMI Marketing.[6]
CafeMom was founded in 2006 by Michael Sanchez and Andrew Shue.
In 1999, the childhood friends established CMI Marketing and subsequently ClubMom, the predecessor to CafeMom. ClubMom was a web site that provided parenting information in the form of blogs, articles and message boards. It also organized a shopping rewards program with various sponsors. [3][7] ClubMom ran until 2007, when CMI Marketing decided to end the website in order to focus on their sister site by the name of CafeMom.[7]
The idea of CafeMom originated with Andrew Shue when he became a father and he saw how his wife counted on other mothers for support and information. Shue realized that there was a need for all mothers to have a way to share and talk with other women and there was nothing out there that was bringing them together [8] [9]
CMI Marketing put together ideas of how the CafeMom website would look and function by looking at features of other social networking sites. The company then took these ideas and simplified them when creating CafeMom to make the website as effortless as possible in order to save the time of busy mothers.[8]
CafeMom was officially launched and went live on November 15, 2006.[10] Many original ClubMom members were encouraged to join the newly formed social networking site CafeMom in order to help it succeed.[8]
CafeMom is owned by CMI Marketing Inc., a New York-based company, founded in 1999, which offers Internet community services. The services typically involve online chatting and photo sharing.[11] According to the company website, as of 2013, CafeMom's leadership team includes:
CMI Marketing Inc. primarily makes money via advertising revenue; their clients include leading mom companies like General Mills, Kmart, P&G, Nestle, Coca Cola, Kellogs, Johnson & Johnson, Target, Unilever, Dell, Chase, Samsung and dozens of others. They also have investors, as noted in the online newspaper MediaPost Publications; in 2007 the companies Highland Capital Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson invested some $5 million in the company.[13]
Since the end of 2008, CMI Marketing has been growing. CafeMom reaches 8.1 million unique visitors (ComScore, July 2011) and more than 20 million unique visitors to the CafeMom Plus Network.[14] CafeMom Plus is a network of mom-oriented websites who are in partnership with CafeMom, including: Birthday Partnership Ideas; Coupon Cabin; Education.com; and Families.com.
CaféMom's Board of Directors consists of John Fisher, Shelly Lazarus, Sara Levinson, Dan Nova and Michael Sanchez and Andrew Shue.[15] The Board of Directors is a governing body of an incorporated firm that is responsible for setting the company's policies, monitoring the performances of the management team and managing the company's finance. The members are normally elected by company members.[16]
CafeMom is an ad supported website that generates revenue from over 100 different advertisers. Some of the revenue comes from typical banner type ads that are placed on the website.[17] However, unlike other social networking sites, CafeMom also generates revenue using a slightly different approach to their advertising by allowing registered mothers to interact with a sponsor's product. In fact, most of CafeMom's revenue is generated from customized programs that allow the mothers to interact with various products. These customized campaigns will cost a company $500,000. The interaction begins when selected members of CafeMom are given trial products to sample. These products are then marketed to other mothers through comments posted on CafeMom about their experience and opinion of the product. This type of ad program generates a great deal of revenue for CafeMom while allowing them to reduce the number of ads that they need to display on the website.[3][18]
The CafeMom logo consists of black and green letters. The word 'Cafe' is in black lettering in script followed by 'mom' in green lettering. The CafeMom logo is sometimes changed or enhanced with animation for holidays or seasons. It is often the letter 'O' space in the word mom that is used to make the logo seasonal. For example, for Halloween one year the CafeMom logo featured a pumpkin in place of the letter 'O' and for Earth day, in April 2011, a spinning globe was inserted in place of the letter 'O'.[19]
There are two different ways to use the CafeMom website; one way is for nonmembers and the other for registered users. If you are not a member of CafeMom and are still interested in using CafeMom, you are free to browse the website to find information, read posts and articles without logging in. You are also able to use the search option to find information on something specific. Access to the various tab features is also granted to nonmembers. For example, there is the Answers tab where anyone can browse and read questions that other mothers have posted and the responses they received to those questions. You can even vote in the CafeMom online polls by using the Polls tab without joining the site.
However, most mothers do join CafeMom, because as with other social networking sites you need to be a member in order to ask questions, post your own advice or create a blog. As a bonus, a member can also choose to receive free products from various companies that sponsor CafeMom. Joining is free and requires a user to complete a form requesting information similar to what other social networking sites require users to provide. You must also agree to the joining terms set by CafeMom which states that members must be at least 16 years old.[20] A majority of the members are women from the United States; however, there are women from numerous other countries represented on the website.[21] CafeMom typically attracts moms between the ages of 25 and 54 (the average age is 32) who have children under the age of 18. The main reason women join CafeMom is for conversation, friendship, entertainment and to seek advice on various topics from raising kids to eating healthy.[22]
Anyone can join CafeMom and become a member as long as you are not a dad.-It is a dad free zone-.[23] If men try to join, their accounts are deleted in order to keep CafeMom a place where women can talk freely about the diverse issues that concern them. Dads can go onto the page and get information and advice from sources such as Cafe Answers; they are just not permitted to be a member.[24][25]
CafeMom is set up in a similar way to other social networking sites. Each member has a profile where they can upload a photo, post a comment and other members can leave messages. There is also an email feature and a buddy list that allows users to see which friends they have online. As of 2005 and the formation of the Meebo powered network, CafeMom members have also been able to connect simultaneously with their friends on other social networking sites such as Facebook chat.[26]
Members of CafeMom users can meet other mothers online. This can be done by visiting the CafeMom homepage, and then by clicking on the tab entitled "Groups". After the page has loaded members can then browse or search through lists of groups which have been set up by moms online. According to one estimate, made by the founder of CafeMom Andrew Shue in 2009, there are approximately 70, 000 groups online which mothers can choose to join, and all of those groups are one of a kind.[27]
Alternatively mothers can meet other moms online by asking or responding to questions in the answer section of the website and/or by posting comments about articles which have been written by moms using the site. The CafeMom website also enables its users to keep in touch with friends in the real world. Once a member of CafeMom, all users are given an e-mail account which enables them to send e-mails to their friends in the real world.
Similar to other social networking services like Facebook or Bebo, Cafemom enables its users to determine who can view their profile page. Every CafeMom member's profile page has a drop-down menu which can be set to all, friends, or private. Whereas the "all" setting allows everyone to see their profile page, the "friends" setting and "private" setting only allows them or their friends to see their page. Furthermore, CafeMom also allows its members to control who can view the information which they put online. For example, if a mom does not want others to know such facts as their age but does want others to know such things as their interests then they can select from a series of drop-down menus which facts they want to share with others, and which they do not.
However, as noted on the company website, there are certain features of the profile page which CafeMom does not enable its users to set to private. Such features as their CafeMom screen name, online avatar, and mood can be viewed by anyone at any time. In addition, there are separate privacy setting for all the journal articles and photographs which members post online.[28]
In 2009 CafeMom introduced a new section to their website, the online games section. Created in collaboration with the developer Arkadium, there are more than 20 games which mothers can choose to play online including card, puzzle, arcade, word, strategy, a sponsored game with Clorex and the CafeMom game, Latte land.[29] The section was launched in 2009 as studies found that women aged between 25-64, many of whom would be using the site on a daily basis, like to play games online in order to relieve stress and escape the challenges of everyday life. According to one study which was carried out by eMarketer in 2008 more than 27 million women in the United States visited online gaming sites in August 2008 alone.[30]
CafeMom has been featured in newspapers, magazines and television and radio programs. Recent examples of its appearances have consisted of research studies as well as reporting on its own status in the media. These articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America along with programs on The Today Show and Webmaster Radio. In 2009, the marketing news and expert advice website, Clickz, published an article on CafeMom's newly launched games section, and the impact it was making.[31] [32][33][34][35][36]
In August 2010, it was reported that Yahoo! was seeking to acquire the profit making social networking site aimed at mothers. CMI Marketing and Yahoo negotiated over the price. Other interested companies included The Walt Disney Company.[37]
CafeMom publishes an online journal called The Stir. It provides newspaper articles about parenting and issues surrounding children that members can comment upon and discuss. It also links to related stories on the site as well providing links to similar articles in the press, and gives links to Twitter and Facebook where members can continue the debate. Suburban Turmoil's Lindsay Ferrier is a fashion columnist for the journal, after selling her style blog, She's Still Got It, to CafeMom.[38]
The blog is interactive, allowing CafeMom followers to write in and ask questions, appeal for fashion advice and discuss trends. Ferrier became involved with CafeMom after following CafeMom bloggers on Twitter and getting in touch with them.[38]
In 2007, CafeMom was ranked the #8 fastest growing site by Compete.com.[39]
In 2008, CafeMom won the Mashable Open Web Awards for "Top Niche Social Network".[40]
The same 2008 year, CafeMom was selected by AlwaysOn as one of OnMedia's "Top 100".[41]
In 2010, CafeMom won a Lead411's award "New York City Hot 125".[42]
In 2011, CafeMom was selected by Time magazine as one of their Top 50 Websites of 2011.[43]
In 2012, CafeMom won the MediaPost OMMA award for "Website Excellence" in the category Family/Parenting/Women's Interest. [44]


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Creform Corporation (Greer, SC) has designed and built a series of AGV carts to meet the needs of an automotive manufacturer for safely moving unpackaged parts and components. At the heart of the vehicles are Creform AGV split drive, bi-directional, bolt on drive units, with each end following a magnetic tape guidepath independently for accurate and repeatable tracking in space restricted areas, explains the company. The drives are powered by two 12V AGM batteries and respond to floor positioned RFID tags for speed control and obstacle sensor views. An optical communication control system between the drives and stationary devices controls an opportunity charging station and powered conveyor load/unload transfers.
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Swearing-In Ceremony for President James Buchanan
Eighteenth Inaugural Ceremonies, March 4, 1857
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'Fellow-Citizens: I appear before you this day to take the solemn oath "that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.'
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A direct replacement for the same one I bought years ago. It is a great umbrella. Only maroons would leave any umbrella up in very windy conditions. Treat it well and it will last. Where the two poles screw together I did a little work to strengthen by adding glue to the surfaces between the metal sleeves and the wooden poles. That connection point is the weak point and should be strengthened. I would buy it again, and probably will, years from now.
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Perhaps it was inevitable, though, that he would offend people who believe it's wrong to sleep on park benches. People like County Commissioner Javier Souto. The library, located on Coral Way at SW 94th Avenue, is in Souto's district. The commissioner holds regular meetings with his constituents there.
Souto has long been known for his outspoken antipathy toward loiterers and vagabonds. According to a 1994 El Nuevo Herald article, he once shocked county bureaucrats by declaring, "The more [homeless people] we have in jail the better." Now, librarians and others believe, Souto has unfairly targeted O'Keefe. A bizarre incident this past July that resulted in the homeless man's arrest and jailing fueled their suspicions.
What would a powerful commissioner want with a mousy 60-year-old homeless guy?
Souto denies he has anything personal against O'Keefe. He says he just wants to discourage homeless people from bothering taxpaying citizens. He acknowledges that, well yes, he does know O'Keefe. "I've seen him around the library, and going around on his bicycle picking up cigarette butts," Souto muses. "I've seen him in shopping centers. I don't know what he does for a living. I don't know where he hides, but I do know we passed a tax for [a homeless program]. We have two or three good places for [homeless people] and I think they should be in those places."
O'Keefe doesn't think he should be in a shelter. He isn't an alcoholic or a drug abuser, and he is mystified about why countless employers have rejected his applications. At times, however, he makes deluded statements and refers to patently unreal scenarios. And he simply ignores friends' and social workers' occasional challenges to these delusions. Overall, though, O'Keefe gets by pretty well. "Everywhere he goes he makes friends," says Elena Prieto, a library employee who has become his chief advocate. "And the story is always the same: 'Oh, how nice Francis is; how educated.'"
Asked about his background, O'Keefe presents a recently acquired copy of his birth certificate that shows he was born in Havana in 1939 to a Cuban mother and an American father. He immigrated to the United States in 1960; both parents, he says, died before the 1959 communist revolution. For several years O'Keefe lived with a relative in southern California. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1963 to 1965, according to a certification of military service that he keeps. In 1972 he earned a master's degree in Latin-American Studies from UCLA. (The university verifies he matriculated there.) He says he worked as a draftsman during and after his time in school, but lost his job in 1975.
O'Keefe's account of the past 24 years is sketchier. He says he wandered East, taking refuge in churches and eating donated meals before arriving in South Florida in 1987. Before he found the west Miami-Dade library in 1996, he slept in the street near a Farm Store, "which provided me with milk." The library, with its computers and books, gives succor to O'Keefe, who spends hours surfing the Web and sending and receiving e-mails. Somehow he has developed a highbrow British accent. "He never bothers anybody and in fact I have seen him helping out many confused people on the computer," offers Miguel, a transient who often sleeps in his truck in the library parking lot (and who declines to give his last name).
"I was always impressed with his intelligence," adds Claire Jacobson, a woman who met O'Keefe at Matheson Hammock Park and dedicated herself to helping him. She is one of the small but loyal collection of people who passionately believe O'Keefe is an innocent victim of a heartless politician. Jacobson and the others trace the beginning of O'Keefe's troubles to this past February, when the county initiated "la limpieza de los homeless" (the homeless cleanup). They contend Souto ordered it.
The commissioner doesn't deny he takes a hands-on approach to keeping his district neat and orderly. He claims he has heard disgusting stories about homeless men bathing in library bathrooms, sometimes in front of children. But he says he didn't issue any specific anti-homeless or anti-O'Keefe mandate. "They can blame the pope, President Clinton, or humanity in general," Souto retorts. "But when the neighbors complain, you bet I'm going to call the [Miami-Dade County] Homeless Trust. The whole area is very well patrolled by the police and the Homeless Trust, and that's what we pay tax for."
Enrique Strachn worked as a security guard at the library for two and a half years until this past May, when he was transferred. He relates that Souto came by in early February and noticed Miguel (the truck-dweller) in the parking lot, checking his vehicle's radiator fluid. "The commissioner came up to me and said, 'These homeless people are running off the public,'" Strachn recalls. "'If the people are scared, they won't come back, and the library will have to close.' Then [Souto] said, 'Don't say anything about this,' and he left. After about fifteen minutes, he sent over a police car."


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The latest update to Compression HD brings over the Blocked mode from the iPhone version. We previously loved it and that remains our stance here. For a full overview of the new mode, check out our review of Compression for iPhone. As before, it runs for $0.99, but considering Little White Bear Studios was generous enough to make the app a free download we were more than happy to cough up the dough yet again here.
With iPad game prices getting higher, Little White Bear Studios (makers of TanZen HD) have gone the route of free, with no strings attached. Still not convinced you should just go ahead and download this twist on Tetris? By all means, read on.
In our review of the iPhone version, we laid out what makes Compression unique from other similar games. After every three blocks dropped, one of the three walls moves in. You must clear all of the hollow blocks before stacking over the top of the screen in order to advance. The rest should come naturally.
If this was Tetris, you'd be done for.
For free, you get the 'classic' mode described above. The iPad version doesn't yet include Blocked mode, which was our favorite from the iPhone version, but the developers have said they will be looking into bringing it over via an in-app purchase if the game proves to be successful. The only ads currently in the game are for Little White Bear Studios' other offerings, and they show up once your winning streak ends.
As expected, Compression HD includes higher-resolution graphics and keeps that same 'one more try' factor found in the iPhone version. We recommend the game not only due to the irresistible price, but also the entertainment value you get for it. iPad owners should expect to play this for some time to come.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA's new enforcement rules are now in effect.
Legislation passed last fall imposes tougher penalties on rule-breakers and holds coaches more accountable for their actions and those of their staffs. Other notable changes include ending the two-tiered penalty structure in favor of four tiers, finding more consistency in handing down punishments and increasing the number of infractions committee members to speed up the hearing process. Among those added to the infractions committee are former coaches Lloyd Carr and Bobby Cremins.
NCAA President Emmert told The Associated Press that the NCAA has "upped the ante" on schools and coaches that are willing to use risk-reward analyses to determine whether to play by the rules.
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This is a list of pets belonging to United States Presidents and their families, while serving their term(s) in office.[1]
In 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for his fourth term when rumors surfaced that his Scottish Terrier, Fala, had accidentally been left behind when visiting the Aleutian Islands. After allegedly sending back ships to rescue his dog, Roosevelt was ridiculed and accused of spending thousands of taxpayers' dollars to retrieve his dog. At a speech following this Roosevelt said, "you can criticize me, my wife and my family, but you can't criticize my little dog. He's Scotch and all these allegations about spending all this money have just made his little soul furious."[2] What was later called the "Fala Speech" reportedly helped secure re-election for Roosevelt.[citation needed]
Richard Nixon was accused of hiding a secret slush fund during his candidacy for vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He gave a televised "Checkers speech" named after his cocker spaniel; denying he had a slush fund but admitted that, "there is one thing that I did get as a gift that I'm not going to give back."[2] The gift was a black and white cocker spaniel, Checkers, given to his daughters. Although Nixon had been in danger of being kicked off the ticket, following his speech he received an increase in support and Mamie Eisenhower reportedly recommended he stay because he was "such a warm person".[3][4]
Pets also featured on presidential elections. Herbert Hoover got a Belgian shepherd dog during his campaign, King Tut, and pictures of him with his new dog were sent all across the United States during his campaign.
On the other hand, many believe that President Lyndon B. Johnson's image was damaged because of his pets. He was photographed picking his two Beagle dogs named Him and Her up by their ears. Much of the public was outraged and animal lovers spoke out against it. Others, however, did not understand the basis of the uproar and President Harry S. Truman was even reported to have said, "What the hell are the critics complaining about; that's how you handle hounds."[2] While it may not have hurt his presidency, this scandal shed a new light on the president's image.
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James K. Polk | |
Zachary Taylor |
Millard Fillmore |
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Andrew Johnson |
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Rutherford B. Hayes |
James A. Garfield | |
Chester A. Arthur |
Grover Cleveland |
Benjamin Harrison | |
William McKinley |
Theodore Roosevelt |
William Howard Taft |
Woodrow Wilson |
Warren G. Harding |
Calvin Coolidge |
Herbert Hoover |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Harry S. Truman |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
John F. Kennedy |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Richard Nixon |
Gerald Ford |
Jimmy Carter |
Ronald Reagan |
George H. W. Bush | |
Bill Clinton | |
George W. Bush |
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Kids are natural innovators with powerful imaginations. And creativity offers a bounty of intellectual, emotional and even health benefits.
One study found that kids' imaginations helped them cope better with pain. Creativity also helps kids be more confident, develop social skills, and learn better. Below, three experts share how parents can encourage their kids' creativity.
1. Designate a space for creating. Carving out a space where your child can be creative is important, said Pam Allyn, executive director of Lit World and Lit Life and the author of many books, including Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age.
But this doesn't mean having a fancy playroom. It could be a tiny corner with a sack of LEGOs or a box of your old clothes for playing dress-up, she said. Allyn has seen creativity flourish in the most cramped spaces, including the slums of Kenya. The key is for your child to feel like they have power over their space, she said.
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When I was a kid, my best friend and I used to make up new episodes of our favorite TV shows and act them out on the playground, at the pool, in our backyards, in our basements, even at the bus stop before school. By the time we graduated high school, both of us had won regional writing contests and my best friend had played the starring role in "Hello Dolly." I firmly believe that the way we played as kids helped us develop and perfect those skill sets.
I would add: Get the visual entertainment system out of your car. Creativity thrives on boredom. Support your child to have a rich inner life, rather than have something external fill it up all of the time. Yes, the adult will have to deal witht the negative dynamics that come out of boredom, but this is called parenting, and its what we signed up for. Relegating behavior management to the DVD player is a creativity win lose on the parent child axis.
i totally agree! as a kid, i had to endure countless times where my sisters would watch a dog movie and then argue over who gets to be which dog for a couple of hours afterwards XD movies affect creativity quite a bit… but i would argue that as long as the kid is using his creativity (as in drawing, lego, pretend games etc.) then some films are fuel for their imagination. I personally loved star wars and have based many games on interstellar combat so, i guess you can't stop them from getting ideas, but make sure that they don't watch TOO much TV, then they will become lethargic and have trouble thinking clearly… i know because that happened to me a lot X_X but other than that knit-picking, great post! i whole heartedly agree with the in-car DVD players!!! (but the scariest things are what goes on the household television)
I love the picture of the little girl X3 tres chouette… but this is a great article! my only issue (which is small)is that most of these things have to seem natural, you cannot force creativity into a designated area. It is always best for the kid to freely express their creative ideas anywhere (provided they don't knock over things)
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