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I was at a Pet Expo last weekend, took Rocky to his first public event, and he did great with all the people and other dogs.
I looked for boots, since he gets really sensitive to the cold and snow, but there weren't many and the ones they had were too small.
But one of the vendors had Musher's Secret, so I picked up a small jar of it to try and wondered if any of you had used it and what you thought of it?
LOL! Great! Thank goodness I only bought the small bottle.
Has anyone used those disposable boots?
Rocky is a smooth-coated collie mix, with very small paws .. I can't see that the boots that velcrow around the foot will stay on his small little paws in the snow ...
Sorry, I have no experience with disposable boots. I just know that many dogs will fight boots tooth and nail, it can take a lot of work to get them used to them.
I would work on toughening up his pads by walking him on all kinds of terrain. He should have callouses built up that most things won't be able to effect. Granted, I know that it's skin and not shoe soles but still, those things can get really tough and thick.


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I Prefer the Old School Matches to Your Lighter Thanks.
How unartistic matchbook covers have become! Here are the Los Angeles Time's 50 best old school matchboxes from the good ol' days. Hmm, I have a bowl filled with different matchbooks in my living room, maybe they would look better if they looked like these!
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Due out this spring for PC and Mac, the game will once again revolve around putting together an unstoppable transportation network to fuel city growth. This absolutely is the kind of thing you could spend a full day playing, under the right conditions.
Having to deal with increasingly less predictable public-transit commute times theses past couple years, I can't help but wonder if I could do better. Not in real life, mind you, but in a simulation like Cities in Motion 2. If I were a betting man, I'd probably bet against myself.
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Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, said there would be a vote on authorising the use of limited military force no later than the week of September 9, when politicians are scheduled to return from recess.There were some initial critical reactions from senators, notably John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two longtime Syria hawks who said they would not support a military strike that did not try to topple Assad.
"We cannot in good conscience support isolated military strikes in Syria that are not part of an overall strategy that can change the momentum on the battlefield," they said in a statement.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that the US provide evidence of the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons to the UN Security Council.
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Syria has denied carrying out the attack, and Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said on Saturday that Syria's army is ready for potential foreign strikes against it and has its "finger on the trigger".
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Louay Safi, spokesman for the opposition Syrian National Coalition, told Al Jazeera that Obama's statement was a "failure of leadership" and urged the US to act more decisively.
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The British parliament rejected a motion calling for military action on Thursday night. The French government, however, still seems committed to military action.
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repotting to gritty in the heat of summer?
Hi everyone,
Earlier this year, I repotted a kumquat (see this thread) and a Meyer's lemon into gritty mix, and they have responded very positively. The kumquat has now set over thirty fruits, and the lemon has five! They've also put out some new growth. I'll post some pictures once it stops raining.
Anyway, I had such great success, but never had time to get around to my other two citrus (blood orange & variegated lemon) before it warmed up. I know that it's best to repot in the spring, and even then the plants need to be sheltered from direct sun and wind. I'm wondering if it would be better to repot the two trees soon while it's still hot and let them grow into the gritty before winter, or let them sit in the heavy nursery soil until next spring. I could bring them inside next to a south-facing window if necessary.
Other possibly useful info:
-The orange put out tons of new growth during the spring, then a lot of it was damaged by a freak hail storm. It put out a little more growth after, and has recovered from the hail damage just fine. No flowers or fruit.
-The variegated lemon flowered a lot through the spring and early summer, dropping most of its fruit immediately. A few fruit stuck around for up to 2 weeks before also dropping. It stopped flowering a few weeks ago and put out new growth at 3 or 4 locations, with many leaves, all of which are much larger than the older leaves. It seems to have about finished this growth spurt (and has started flowering again), but I'm not that familiar with the frequency.
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Just because of that ima listen to more MC Hammer
Actually, I like MC Hammer. but I also agree with the rest. Nirvana is...Nirvana!
You're listening to MC Hammer? Okay, now you're just being an arsehole... you can't actually like that... of course, I'v only heard one song, but that's enough. And just for that, I'ma listen to some Tool.
Yeah, but Metallica's last album sucked. And then there was that whole Avril Lavigne incident...
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Yeah, but Metallica's last album sucked. And then there was that whole Avril Lavigne incident...
Avril Lavigne incident? Elaborate? (I searched Google and found nothing)
And yeah, their only good album was Metallica (Black Album).
And Nirvana... \m/
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Like Linkin Park would be a good band to instert in there.
Why would someone put another band on their album? That's a stupid thing to say. Linkin Park WAS good. But as soon as you come within 5ft of Jz and don't attack him, verbally or physically, you become horrible. Jz is evil, and LP is commercilized.
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Erm, no. The emu reigns supreme. I mean, yeah, you beat off Jeff Archer's by a LONG, LONG, LOOOONG shot, but still, Seph is old, and that's not the best pic of him.
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I don't even know who the x'ed one was.
Don't really need to know who it is. Look I've uploaded another one done in a similar style.
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The main contribution of this work is to show that a number of fundamental and seemingly unrelated problems in database design, pattern recognition, robotics, computational geometry, and image processing can be solved simply and elegantly by stating them as instances of a unifying algorithmic framework that we call the multiple query problem. The multiple query problem (MQ, for short) is a 5-tuple (Q, A, D, φ, ⊕), where Q is a set of queries, A is a set of items, D is a set of solutions, φ: Q×A→D is a function, and ⊕ is a commutative and associative binary operator over D. The input to the MQ problem consists of a sequence Q=〈q1,q2…,qm〉 of m queries from Q and of a sequence A=〈a1,a2,…an〉 of n items from A. The goal is to compute, for every query qi (1⩽i⩽m) its solution defined as φ(qi,A)=φ(q i,a1)⊕φ(qi,a2 )⊕···⊕φ(qi,an ). We begin by discussing a generic algorithm that solves a large class of MQ problems in O(√m+f(n)) time on a reconfigurable mesh of size √n×√n, where f(n) is the time necessary to compute the expression d1 ⊕ d2 ⊕···⊕ dn with di ∈ D on such a platform. We then go on to show that the MQ framework affords us an optimal algorithm for the multiple point location problem on a reconfigurable mesh of size √n×√n. Given a set A of n points and a set Q of m (m⩽n) points in the plane, our algorithm reports, in O(√m+log log n) time, all points of Q that lie inside the convex hull of A. Quite surprisingly, our algorithm solves the multiple point location problem without computing the convex hull of A which, in itself, takes Ω(√n) time on a reconfigurable mesh of size √n×√n. Finally, we prove an Ω(√m+g(n)) time lower bound for nontrivial MQ problems, where g(n) is the lower bound for evaluating the expression d1 ⊕ d2 ⊕···⊕ dn with di ∈ D, on a reconfigurable mesh of size √n×√n


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Update: Iran: Mourning Mothers Released
All members of the Mourning Mothers who were detained in Laleh Park in Tehran on Saturday, 9 January, have been gradually released, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today. The Campaign strongly condemns the harassment and detention of the Mourning Mothers and to address their legitimate grievances. Mourning Mothers is a group of mothers and relatives of those killed by government forces during recent events and was formed following the death of Neda Agha-Soltan. The group has grown to include the mothers and relatives of political prisoners who were executed in the past.
The group meets every Saturday in Laleh Park in Tehran to grieve the loss of their loved ones. However, security forces have routinely attacked and dispersed their gathering. On Saturday, 9 January, thirty-two members of the group were detained and taken to Vozara Detention Center.
On Sunday, 10 January, the mothers were taken to the Revolutionary Court and arraigned. Two elderly detainees who suffered serious health problems were released on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday evening, another fourteen detainees were released, while the remaining sixteen were transferred to Evin prison. On Monday evening, the authorities released two more detainees from Evin prison after they posted guarantees from a government employee. The remaining fourteen mothers were released on Tuesday evening, 12 January, after they also posted guarantees. The sixteen mothers who were taken to Evin prison, though released, have an open judicial file against them and can be prosecuted in the future.
These recent detentions represent the second time that security forces have detained the group's members in less than a month. On 5 December 2009, authorities detained fifteen mothers in Laleh Park in Tehran.
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Without DH, Francona forced to sit a hot hitter
October 26, 2007
DENVER (AP) -David Ortiz banged his powerful paw into a stiff, black first baseman's mitt in the visitor's clubhouse at Coors Field.
So, how does it feel?
``Brand new.''
The Red Sox designated hitter - make that former Red Sox designated hitter - will play first base when the World Series resumes on Saturday night in the home of the Colorado Rockies. Boston leads two games to none.
With no DH in the lineups for the NL park, Ortiz either has to play the field or sit out, and Boston manager Terry Francona doesn't even want to consider a lineup without him. Regular first baseman Kevin Youkilis moves to the bench as a potential defensive replacement.
``It's hard to get one of your guys out of the lineup,'' Ortiz said Friday before the Red Sox worked out at Coors Field. ``But you've got to do something.''
Ortiz made 27 appearances at first base over the last three years, mostly in interleague play. In the 2004 World Series, he brought his mitt to St. Louis and made a heads-up throw to trap a runner drifting off third base.
``I've played first base before and it wasn't that bad,'' Ortiz said. ``It's just not Gold Glove-caliber.''
Francona also said his plan is to move Dustin Pedroia into Youkilis' No. 2 spot in the batting order and switch center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury from ninth to Pedroia's slot leading off.
Another option had been to sit Mike Lowell and move Youkilis to third base. Francona indicated in Boston that he could envision playing Ortiz in all three potential games in Denver, but he said Friday he hasn't ruled out a different configuration for Game 4, or 5 if necessary.
``I think David is a really good hitter, and I think Mike Lowell is a really good hitter, and I actually think Youk is a really good hitter,'' Francona said. ``But they won't let us play all three of them. So we'll go with this.''
Ortiz batted .332 with 35 homers and 117 RBIs this season, but he played just seven games at first base when the Red Sox visited NL parks in interleague play. He hasn't made an error this year.
Ortiz has also been playing most of the year with a partially torn meniscus in his right knee, an injury that required a cortisone shot over the final weekend of the regular season. Ortiz said the knee is fine, especially considering he might only need to play two more games; Francona said he'll keep an eye on how the big slugger is moving.
``The worry I have - some of it is physical - but some of it is just the fact that he hasn't been out there,'' Francona said. ``And even if you're a really good Gold Glove-caliber player, when you're not out there every day, it's not fair.
``But he's done it in the past, and he's handled it in the past.''
Francona faced a similar dilemma - every AL manager does, actually - when the 2004 Series went to St. Louis for Game 3. Ortiz started at first base for both games at Busch Stadium and Doug Mientkiewicz relieved him both times to shore up the defense and protect Boston's lead.
But that just meant sitting Kevin Millar, who batted .238 in that postseason; this year, playing Big Papi means sitting either Lowell or Youkilis, each a key part of the offense that has outscored opponents 45-7 over the last five postseason games.
``We're here to try to win a World Series. You can't be upset,'' Youkilis said. ``We're in a great position right now; we're up two games to none. ... You should move on and go to another team if you're worried about your playing time and think you need to play over somebody else. This is the World Series. You've just got to be happy to go out and help in any capacity you can.''
Lowell drove in 120 runs to lead the Red Sox in the regular season and is batting .333 in the postseason while averaging an RBI per game. Youkilis ended his nine-game hitting streak in Game 2, but he's still batting .396 with four homers and 10 RBIs since the start of the playoffs.
``Having to play National League (rules) takes one of their big boppers out of the lineup,'' Rockies pitcher LaTroy Hawkins said. ``It definitely helps. The whole dynamic of the game has to change.''
Still, if it were just about the offense it would be an easy decision.
Merely indispensable in the regular season, Ortiz becomes otherworldly in October. He is batting .385 in 12 postseason games this year, and with 13 walks to go with his 15 hits he has gotten on base more often than not.
So it's no surprise that Francona wants to keep him in the lineup.
But Ortiz is a risk in the infield - an experiment Francona would rather not make in the season's most important games.
``Anything around me, it's going to be (caught),'' Ortiz said. ``After that, I don't know.''
Youkilis has handled 1,586 straight errorless chances at first base in the regular season, breaking Stuffy McInnis' club record for first baseman. At third, Lowell is the all-time major league leader with a .976 fielding percentage.
Francona said he would go with offense for now, and keep Youkilis handy as a defensive replacement if Boston takes a lead.
``You're talking about a guy that drove in 120 - two guys that drove in 120,'' Francona said. ``And we love Youkilis as a hitter, too. It's a difficult situation to be in. ... I'd just rather play all three of them.''
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Rockies struggling to find their groove at the plate
October 27, 2007
DENVER (AP) -Asked about his team's batting woes in the World Series, Kaz Matsui turned philosophical.
``Hitting,'' he said Friday through a translator, ``isn't an absolute science. Sometimes, we can hit. Sometimes, we can't.''
Right now, the Colorado Rockies are leaning more toward can't.
Colorado led the NL with a .280 batting average, but have managed just two runs in losing the first two games to Boston. The Rockies hitting only .180 overall heading into Game 3 on Saturday night at Coors Field.
``Maybe we're trying to do too much,'' Garrett Atkins said. ``We're trying to get the big hit. We just need to get some singles, some walks. They've killed us by stringing together quality at_bats. That's the same kind of offense we have - we've just got to do it.''
Perhaps a change is in order to break the club out of its hitting doldrums?
``I'm thinking through some things,'' manager Clint Hurdle said. ``Anytime we get challenged offensively, you always need to rethink things and look at your options.''
The Rockies could possibly move Matsui up a spot to lead off and slide shortstop Troy Tulowitzki into the No. 2 slot. That's what they did when Willy Taveras missed time at the end of the season with his quadriceps injury.
But Taveras doesn't think a change is necessary. He thinks the Rockies should keep the lineup the same. He likes the speed he and Matsui bring to the top of the lineup.
``This has worked before,'' said Taveras, who's hitting .120 in the postseason. ``This can work. We have a lot of guys who can hit.''
Hard to tell since their eight-day layoff leading into the Series. The Rockies have struck out 22 times in the first two games of the series.
The Rockies simply couldn't replicate Red Sox aces Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling through simulated games.
Now, it's coming back to haunt them. Not that Colorado had many options at the time.
``There's only so much you can do,'' Rockies hitting coach Alan Cockrell said. ``There's nothing like going out and playing. But we're very close. Very, very close to getting our timing and rhythm back.''
Ryan Spilborghs said the team just needs a hit off the end of the bat that falls in, or a broken-bat single, or anything else to break loose.
``We don't need it to pad our egos, just to get something going,'' Spilborghs said. ``Just something.''
Atkins couldn't agree more.
``We're one good inning away from getting our confidence back offensively,'' he said. ``We're going to need a big inning to get back in this series.''
The Rockies aren't accustomed to a losing streak. They had won 21 of 22 coming into the World Series. The team hadn't lost consecutive road games since Aug. 27-28 at San Francisco.
``It's a little shocking,'' Tulowitzki said. ``You don't now how to react now. We became used to winning and used to shaking hands, coming into the clubhouse and playing music and celebrating after wins. To come in and have it dead quiet? It's like, 'Hey, what's going on here?' It's definitely different.''
Yet he doesn't have any easy solutions for the team's hitting slump.
``If I did, I'd let these guys know what the trick was. Hopefully, we can get our bats going and make it a series here,'' he said.
Spilborghs can't believe the hitting funk that Colorado has fallen into during the series. But he doesn't expect it to last.
``We're not too far off,'' Spilborghs said. ``We're a good hitting team.''
Tulowitzki feels the same way. He's anxious to show a nation the real Rockies - the team that led the NL in hitting.
``Honestly, we do feel like we belong here,'' he said. ``I think we belong here. Now, it's time to go out there and show some people.''
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Boston (9-2) at Colorado (7-2)
The Rockies return home down 2-0 and in search of their offense in Game 3 tonight when they send Josh Fogg (10-9, 4.94 ERA) to the mound to face Boston's Daisuke Matsuzaka (15-12, 4.40) at Coors Field in Denver.
Boston swept Games 1 and 2 at Fenway Park, winning 13-1 in Wednesday's opener and 2-1 Thursday. Colorado comes out of Boston with a .180 batting average and with 22 strikeouts in two games, getting dominated by the Red Sox Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling.
Matsuzaka led Boston to its Game 7 ALCS win over Cleveland, allowing two runs on six hits over five innings in the 11-2 victory Sunday. The Japanese right-hander has struggled on the road lately, going 0-4 with a 6.75 ERA in his last six on the highway, including a 4-2 loss in Game 3 of the ALCS at Cleveland when he game up four runs in 4 2/3 innings.
For the season, Matsuzaka was 7-8 on the road with a 4.02 ERA.
The Red Sox have outscored the opposition 45-7 in their last five games and they've outscored the opposition 39-14 in their six-game World Series winning streak dating back to 2004. A key component will be out of the Boston lineup today when Kevin Youkilis finds himself on the bench. Manager Terry Francona said David Ortiz will start at first base tonight as there is no DH used in the National League stadium.
Fogg has pitched well this postseason, throwing two innings of scoreless relief in Game 2 of the NLDS on Oct. 4 and he won Game 3 of the NLCS on Oct. 14, holding the D'Backs to one run over six innings of a 4-1 victory. The veteran righty is 4-0 with a 3.50 ERA in his last eight starts overall.
Fogg faced the Red Sox back on June 13 at Fenway Park, giving up two runs in five innings of a 12-2 victory. For his career at Coors Field he is 12-9 with a 6.06 ERA in 166 1/3 innings.
The Rockies are still 21-3 in their last 24 games despite the two straight losses in Boston. In front of the home fans, Colorado is on a 40-14 run and 15-3 in its last 18 games as an underdog.
The Rockies hit .296 against right-handed pitching at Coors Field while the Red Sox hit just .262 against righties on the road.
The Red Sox are now 46-14 in their last 60 interleague games, including 10-4 this year. Colorado is 10-10 against the American League, including 2-3 against Boston.
The under is 6-3 for the Rockies in the playoffs (2-1 at home), but the over is 6-3-3 for Boston (1-1-2 on the road).
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Forecast cool but clear at Coors Field
October 26, 2007
DENVER (AP) -The Colorado Rockies might have a hard time warming up their bats when the World Series shifts to Coors Field on Saturday night, where the weather is expected to be cool but dry for Game 3 against the Boston Red Sox.
Temperatures for the first World Series game played in Colorado are expected to be in the high 30s or low 40s, with a slight breeze and no precipitation, said National Weather Service forecaster Mike Baker.
``It doesn't look too bad if you have a nice jacket and keep warm,'' he said Friday.
Boston swept the first two games at Fenway Park, stifling the Rockies' powerful offense in a 13-1 rout in the opener and a 2-1 victory Thursday night.
The forecast is particularly good news after a storm swept through the state on Sunday, dropping several inches of snow and forcing the Rockies indoors for their next-to-last workout before flying off to Boston.
Game 4 on Sunday should be even better, with gametime temperatures in the upper 40s or low 50s.
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This situation is also an excellent example as to the importance of having elected public officials who are willing to be a check and balance. From the Plain Dealer article,
State school board member Stephanie Dodd questioned Ross about the requirement and its critics Tuesday. Ross told her that he considers the Community Connectors program too important to be disrupted by a court battle, so he would rather drop the requirement than threaten a program he believes will help a lot of students.
If you think that even changing up who is in a political minority caucus doesn't matter, let alone making sure that those who have been there speak up for us, think again.
Who stands out to you? I see a lot of Dem women and people of color in ranking member roles, especially compared to Republican women in chair positions, but they have fewer women to choose from as it is (13 out of 65, while the Dems have 13 out of 34) and I believe just one person of color in the official Republican caucus?
Agriculture & Rural Development
Chair: Rep. Brian Hill (R-Zanesville)
Vice chair: Rep. Tony Burkley (R-Payne)
Ranking member: Rep. John Patterson (D-Jefferson)
Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety
Chair: Rep. Terry Johnson (R-McDermott)
Vice chair: Rep. Rick Perales (R-Beavercreek)
Ranking member: Rep. Hearcel Craig (D-Columbus)
Commerce & Labor
Chair: Rep. Ron Young (R-Leroy Township)
Vice chair: Rep. Anthony DeVitis (R-Green)
Ranking member: Rep. Michele Lepore-Hagan (D-Youngstown)
Community & Family Advancement
Chair: Rep. Tim Derickson (R-Oxford)
Vice chair: Rep. Tim Ginter (R-Salem)
Ranking member: Rep. Stephanie Howse (D-Cleveland)
Community & Family Advancement Subcommittee
Minority Affairs (Chair: Rep. Kevin Boyce, D-Columbus)
Economic & Workforce Development
Chair: Rep. Nan Baker (R-Westlake)
Vice chair: Rep. Mark Romanchuk (R-Ontario)
Ranking member: Rep. Kent Smith (D-Euclid)
Chair: Rep. Bill Hayes (R-Harrison Township)
Vice chair: Rep. Andrew Brenner (R-Powell)
Ranking member: Rep. Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo)
Energy & Natural Resources
Chair: Rep. Al Landis (R-Dover)
Vice chair: Rep. Christina Hagan (R-Alliance)
Ranking member: Rep. Sean O'Brien (D-Bazetta)
Finance & Appropriations
Chair: Rep. Ryan Smith (R-Bidwell)
Vice chair: Rep. Kirk Schuring (R-Canton)
Ranking member: Rep. Denise Driehaus (D-Cincinnati)
Finance and Appropriations Subcommittees
Agriculture, Development and Natural Resources (Chair: Rep. Andy Thompson, R-Marietta; Ranking member: Rep. Sean O'Brien, D-Bazetta)
Health and Human Services (Chair: Rep. Robert Sprague, R-Findlay; Ranking member: Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Akron)
Higher Education (Chair: Rep. Mike Duffey, R-Worthington; Ranking member: Rep. Dan Ramos, D-Lorain)
Transportation (Chair: Rep. Cheryl Grossman, R-Grove City; Ranking member: Rep. Alicia Reece, D-Cincinnati)
Primary and Secondary Education (Chair: Rep. Bob Cupp, R-Lima; Ranking member: Rep. Debbie Phillips, D-Albany)
Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development
Chair: Rep. Lou Terhar (R-Green Township)
Vice chair: Rep. Steve Hambley (R-Brunswick)
Ranking member: Rep. Christie Bryant Kuhns (D-Cincinnati)
Government Accountability & Oversight
Chair: Rep. Tim Brown (R-Bowling Green)
Vice chair: Rep. Bill Blessing (R-Colerain Township)
Ranking member: Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D-Kent)
Health & Aging
Chair: Rep. Anne Gonzales (R-Westerville)
Vice chair: Rep. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City)
Ranking member: Rep. Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood)
Chair: Rep. Robert Hackett (R-London)
Vice chair: Rep. Mike Henne (R-Clayton)
Ranking member: Rep. Heather Bishoff (D-Blacklick)
Chair: Rep. Jim Butler (R-Oakwood)
Vice chair: Rep. Nathan Manning (R-North Ridgeville)
Ranking member: Rep. Michael Stinziano (D-Columbus)
Local Government
Chair: Rep. Marlene Anielski (R-Walton Hills)
Vice chair: Rep. Scott Ryan (R-Granville Township)
Ranking member: Rep. John Rogers (D-Mentor-on-the-Lake)
Public Utilities
Chair: Rep. Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster)
Vice chair: Rep. Kristina Daley Roegner (R-Hudson)
Ranking member: Rep. Mike Ashford (D-Toledo)
Rules & Reference
Chair: Rep. Ron Amstutz (R-Wooster)
Vice chair: Speaker Clifford A. Rosenberger (R-Clarksville)
Ranking member: Minority Leader Fred Strahorn (D-Dayton)
State Government
Chair: Rep. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon)
Vice chair: Rep. Stephanie Kunze (R-Hilliard)
Ranking member: Rep. Ronald Gerberry (D-Austintown)
Transportation & Infrastructure
Chair: Rep. Terry Boose (R-Norwalk)
Vice chair: Rep. Doug Green (R-Mt. Orab)
Ranking member: Rep. Michael Sheehy (D-Oregon)
Ways & Means
Chair: Rep. Jeff McClain (R-Upper Sandusky)
Vice chair: Rep. Gary Scherer (R-Circleville)
Ranking member: Rep. Jack Cera (D-Bellaire)
One of the early exchanges made me laugh out loud:
What's your standard line on speculation that you will run in 2016?
We're definitely going to consider it. The decision I have to make is: Where is the best place for me to further my agenda? Is it as a presidential candidate or is it as a U.S. senator? And that's what I'm in the process of weighing.
This in particular: "The decision I have to make is: Where is the best place for me to further my agenda?"
Really? Really Senator? You are, how old? 43. And in two years you will be 45. And if you were to become president and take office in 2017, you'd be verging on 46. And you've served less than a full-term as a U.S. Senator, plus service in the Florida Statehouse.
But the decision about whether to run for president of the United States hinges on where you decide the best position is for furthering your agenda?
Compare Rubio's response to the Facebook post announcement from Jeb Bush, whom Rubio says is a mentor, when Bush signaled his interest in the president's job. In pertinent part:
As a result of these conversations and thoughtful consideration of the kind of strong leadership I think America needs, I have decided to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States.
In January, I also plan to establish a Leadership PAC that will help me facilitate conversations with citizens across America to discuss the most critical challenges facing our exceptional nation. The PAC's purpose will be to support leaders, ideas and policies that will expand opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.
In the coming months, I hope to visit with many of you and have a conversation about restoring the promise of America.
The contrast between these two declarations speaks volumes and amplifies why Rubio will never be president so long as his decision hinges on where he can put his agenda into action.
Talk about taking the public out of public service.
Of course, this does plump up the proportion of women in the Democratic delegation – 62 women in the 188-member House delegation (about 33%), and 14 out of 44 in the U.S. Senate team (32%). But it's hardly a cause for celebration as the overall proportion (104 out of 535) hovers at 19% – less than two of every ten members of the U.S. Congress are women. In 2015.
Think on that for a while.
As for the whole bench-building thing when it comes to gender, I don't know what pipeline they think they're building to the bench, but I don't see it – and it's not in much evidence in the state mansions or statehouses either.
Governors? Five out of 50. State legislatures? No change from 2014, standing at 24.2% (1784 seats out of 7383 seats). Also abysmal. In Ohio, 26 (13R, 13D) of 99 House seats and just 7 (3R, 4D) out of 33 in the Senate for a whopping 25% (33 out of 132).
What can be done about this? For one thing, find, support or run as a candidate for local office in 2015 and for the statehouse in 2016. The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has the 2015 list of candidates and election calendars up already.
March 8, 2016? An eye blink away.
It's hard to pick a pertinent part of Jackson's remarks because they are such a great example of telling it like it is. When you need to show what speaking truth to power and truth about power looks like and reads like, this is the video and transcript to present. It goes a little something like this:
Most people don't know this, but Democrats were completely excluded from the budget-making process. Well, like it or not, we represent millions of North Carolinians. By excluding us, you exclude all of them. You're telling millions of people that you don't care what their representatives have to say. And at the same exact time, you're telling those folks to trust your judgment, trust your priorities, and trust this budget. What you're really telling folks is that when it comes to setting priorities for this state, you don't need to hear from half its citizens. No negotiation. No give and take. No exchange of ideas. No true competition among ideas. No collaboration. No conversation. No listening to each other. No learning from each other. This isn't a budget. This is an ultimatum being delivered to millions of people across the state.
You may feel like you have a real debate over this budget, but you didn't. Republicans in the senate and Republicans in the house do not comprise a two-party system. You thought you were having a debate, when you were really just talking to yourselves all along.
Here's the full video – it's only a few minutes and worth every second:
Possibly the most common way in which we think of holding electeds accountable is by going to the ballot box. But we should never forget or let lapse the reality that the people we elect take an oath to hold the system accountable every day after they swear to do so. And in a state like Ohio, so lopsided in partisan political representation, that's exactly what our elected Democrats need to be doing: holding the political majority accountable to the democracy that is supposed to govern us all – not their ideology.
Maybe you read what I read today – that government dysfunction now tops the economy as the number one concern of voters (you can see the Gallup detail here). I think this is an excellent sign which I read to say that people are fed up with how democracy has been disabled and taken offline. We need to bring it back online, checks and balances and all, and public servants like Jeff Jackson, who demand that it be allowed to function, are exactly the kinds of electeds Ohio, for sure, needs now.
I've heard Joe Scarborough's innumerable references about his races and stint in public service that started over 20 years ago and ended more than 10 years ago enough times to know that I don't ever want to sound like that, if only because my wins and losses are on so much smaller of a scale. So if I'm picking on him, well, that's just silly. However, the deconstructing of what happened and why is an ongoing process. And I'm done avoiding the usefulness of writing about it because, as a wise Facebook friend commented:
…you can write openly and honestly, or you can run for political office. If you tell the unvarnished truth as you see it, your "truth" may come back to haunt you. If you go for safety, you bore the heck out of your readers and come across as an apologist for the status quo. With that in mind, what's on your mind, Jill? Lol!
I feel like typing, "Get ready!" but really, it's about me being ready.
Even more strange to me is how you'd think – I'd think – that fodder for what to write piles up faster and to greater heights at the end of the year. The quantity of listicles outnumber their own length and relate to everything: the best, the worst, the top 10, the bottom 5, predictions, resolutions, regrets. And then there's the news – guns, planes, police, football, death, birth. And travel. And holidays. And the year in review.
Still, none of this has made it any easier for me to write in the last few weeks. The ideas captured in piles of scrap paper and digital notes in my digital devices' cloud don't even overlap with the usual subject matter suspects. I've known every day that I've been a writer that the trope of being an open book because you write what reads to others as being personal is, itself, a deceptive and superficial critique. But the mixture of compulsion, danger and desire I'm feeling to press beyond the break walls I've built lead me to know that in 2015, something is going to have to give and it's going to take courage.
Let's unpack why this is such an odd and uncomfortable juxtaposition – and yet it has the potential to benefit all of public education if we had a few good, smart, honest education advocates from a variety of stakeholders who would demand and enforce implementation of charter school oversight and transparency. (I'd throw in the elimination of for-profit charters in Ohio too, if we're really looking for the money pit.)
First, plug into any search engine the phrase, "throw money at problems" and see what comes up. Chances are more than half of the results returned will be about how we should not throw money at problems, and many of those will come in the context of political debates on how to tackle some issue. The Heritage Foundation, for example, says,
While the federal government does need to take action to better protect U.S. borders and enforce immigration laws, throwing money at the problem is not the solution, especially funding that exploits emergency spending provisions in the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011.
Likewise, we've often heard this about public education. I'd never heard of the website, "State Budget Solutions" before doing a search on the aforementioned phrase plus the word "education," but there they are with an article from just two years ago called, "Throwing Money At Education Isn't Working." On their blogroll we see familiar entities like Ohio's the Buckeye Institute, the previously noted Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, the Drudge Report and the Franklin Center – all entities often viewed as leaning right or libertarian.
Then, consider this, from Educate for Texas (also something I'd never heard of before doing an Internet search), "Does 'Throwing Money at the Problem' Actually Work?":
"You can't just keep throwing money at the problem" is a phrase you often hear when the topic of school funding comes up. If you listen closely you'll hear various groups, legislators, and taxpayers parrot this now-common refrain as if it were gospel. But, have you ever considered the validity of this claim? Is it true or has it just been repeated so often that it's become the conventional wisdom? Fortunately the facts are in and we no longer have to speculate about whether "throwing money at the problem" is truth or mere rhetoric.
So when I read about the recommendation from a couple of very recent and reasonable reports on Ohio charter schools, I couldn't quite sync their pursuit of more public money with this history of the rhetoric about how you don't just throw money at problems.
The reality in Ohio is that our public education system has been and is both horrifically and inequitably underfunded. So now, these reports that focus on charters, appear to be saying, the charters are underfunded and suffering in their ability to succeed because of that underfunding, too.
The reports do identify numerous other problems with Ohio's charters, and these efforts have received positive and wide recognition, as they should. They are not timid in calling out the worst that exists in the Ohio charter school landscape (and noting the excellent ones, many of which are located in Cleveland).
However, regarding the reports' conclusion that charter schools' success depends upon receipt of more money, I am left wondering:
How can we leverage the reports' acknowledgement of the role funding plays in the success of schools so that we can 1) put to rest the old and incorrect rhetoric about not throwing money at problems, and 2) leverage the reports' own words about the primary role of funding in education to the benefit of all public school kids, and not (absolutely not) exclusively to the charters, as the reports would most likely want us to conclude?
There's a thoughtful Facebook thread about it here and you can see how many shares it's gotten in just two days. 'Round the web, here's what they're saying:
Inc. Magazine interviewed the makers:
Yudovich, inspiration for the project came more directly from her years working in finance prior to entering business school. In fact, the voiceover in the video's first scene reflects feedback she received in the business world, like "People find your tone a little off-putting," and "Man, the way she wouldn't budge on that part of the contract…."
Bloomberg BusinessWeek didn't have a clue about how to review it and thought it only "minimally" NSFW while Cosmopolitan call the lyrics, "brilliant." MTV says it "…should be required viewing for every human being on the planet." Go MTV. (The video has nearly 1.5 million views as of 12/14/14.)
Luckily, Bustle – and a few of my Facebook friends who comments in the aforementioned thread, put this parody in its proper place in getting across a sadly evergreen reality for women:
It's well established that women in business face all kinds of obstacles, from a wage gap that exists all the way up the corporate ladder all the way down to gender double-standards. This despite the fact that study after study after study has shown that companies with women in positions of power actually have an advantage over companies dominated by dudes.
So in light of all that, it's great to see a group of business school ladies declaring themselves to be over the sexist crap — and to see them lighting a stack of paper literally titled "Bullshit Contract for Women" on fire. The video is full of lots of little touches that are brilliant, and it's as sure to get stuck in your head as the original. (Though it should be noted in light of a few references to genitalia that all women — regardless of biological sex — deserve to succeed in business if they so wish).
Judge for yourself.


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Roundup: Steven Gerrard to the LA Galaxy; Terrorist Attack at Magazine in Paris Kills 12 & Dad Arrested for Throwing Daughter a Playboy Bunny Party
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VIDEO: Nene Ejected After This Fracas With Jimmy Butler
A literal tête-à-tête
Jimmy Butler Sprinted Behind the First Row to Get Back on the Court
Good job, good effort.
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Roundup: Jordan Crawford Traded to the Warriors, "Devil Baby," Ronald McDonald Arrested in Florida
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OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users 58
from the better-living-through-collaboration dept.
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As mentioned, http://map.project-osrm.org/ [project-osrm.org] is one of the best routers that uses OSM data. There is also http://open.mapquest.com [mapquest.com] which might even integrate with the MQ mobile app so you can find a route in a browser, then send it to the MQ app to take in the car. There is also routing on http://maps.cloudmade.com/ [cloudmade.com] although sometimes it seems like they are a little out of date.
But there is code being worked on to integrate OSRM into the osm.org website itself.
"Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC.