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The Truth about Welfare
After absorbing months of attacks on him as an economic royalist, Mitt Romney is hitting back with an ad as dishonest as any you'll ever see, accusing Barack Obama of coddling welfare recipients ("You wouldn't have to work … they just send you your welfare check"). Literally every word after the 8 second mark on this ad is a lie, with the exception of "I'm Mitt Romney and I approve this message." But the welfare attack is an old Republican standby; if the middle class suspects you're not one of them, remind them that their resentment should be pointed down, not up. The real enemy is poor people, and those who would indulge them. A GOP presidential campaign that doesn't eventually bust out this attack would be like a wedding band that doesn't know how to play "Y.M.C.A."
But since there hasn't been much debate about welfare in some time, it's a good opportunity to remind ourselves of what the program is and isn't, and what role it plays in America today. Needless to say, you won't get this information from a campaign ad.
What we call "welfare" today has its origins in the 1935 Social Security Act, which provided aid for states to give assistance to a number of classes of Americans, including the elderly, the blind, and the unemployed. The Act provided money for monthly payments to poor children where at least one parent was absent or unable to work. In practice, this meant that the vast majority of aid went to widows and single mothers. The program gradually expanded to all 50 states and in the early 1960s became known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
Then in 1996, the Republican Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which fundamentally altered the nature of welfare. The name of the program was changed to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), with the accent on "temporary." The new program would have a five year lifetime limit on cash benefits and require that recipients be working or in a job-training program. Critically, it ended welfare as an "entitlement," meaning that states were no longer required to accept any applicant who met the program's qualifications. Instead, the money goes to states as a "block grant," with the state deciding how many people it will serve and how many it will turn away. The number of people on the rolls immediately began to decline. In 1996, according to the census, there were 4.4 million families receiving welfare; in 2008, it was only 1.6 million.
And when the Great Recession hit in 2008, the states began turning away people in droves; even as millions of Americans fell into poverty, the welfare rolls didn't increase, meaning that a smaller and smaller portion of America's poor families are getting cash assistance from the government.
For Republicans, this is a feature, not a bug; they hope to convert food stamps and Medicaid to block grants as well.
Because TANF is a federal/state program and each state sets its own eligibility standards, benefits vary widely. As you might expect, benefits in Southern states run by Republicans are far more meager than those in Northern and Western states where Democrats govern. In 2011, benefits ranged from a low of $170 a month for a single-parent family of three in Mississippi to a high of $753 for the same family living in New York. TANF spending was set at $16.5 billion per year in the 1996 bill, where it has remained—without any adjustment for inflation—ever since.
So who gets welfare? This is where the race issue enters. Contrary to popular perception, the recipients of TANF are about equally divided between whites, blacks and Hispanics. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2009 the TANF rolls were 31.2 percent white, 33.3 percent black, and 28.8 percent Hispanic. Yet the primary image of a "welfare recipient" in most people's mind is a black woman. This has been demonstrated in study after study by political scientists, psychologists, and communication scholars. Most Americans not only drastically overestimate the proportion of welfare recipients who are black, they also tend to believe that welfare makes up a huge proportion of the federal budget, when in fact it accounts for less than 1 percent of federal spending. As Donald Kinder and Cindy Ham wrote in Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion, "means-tested programs like AFDC and food stamps are understood by whites to largely benefit shiftless black people." The racialization in perceptions of welfare is reinforced by the news media, which usually use images of black people to illustrate stories about welfare and poverty (Martin Gillens' Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy is the most complete examination of this topic).
So when you say the word "welfare," the image that immediately pops into most people's heads is a black one. Opinions about welfare and opinions about race are inextricably tied together, and there is no one who works in politics, Republican or Democrat, who doesn't understand that. Which leads us to our final question.
Does Mitt Romney's new welfare attack constitute race-baiting? The fairest answer is, yes and no. Its goal is without question to encourage middle-class people to resent poor people who are allegedly taking their money to lay about and do whatever it is poor people do with their cushy lives, and to adopt the false belief that Barack Obama is changing policy to make that happen more often. Note the difference between Romney's ad and the following ad from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. The policy goals expressed are the same in both—work requirements, time limits—but Clinton's ad doesn't frame welfare as undeserving poor people taking money from virtuous middle class people.
When an ad like Romney's arrives, it travels a well-worn path that Republican politicians have been carving for decades. The division between hard-working middle class people and parasitic poor people was the message of this 1972 ad from Democrats for Nixon, in which a hard-hatted construction worker contemplates the droves of new welfare recipients he'll have to pay for (and apparently also contemplates hurling himself to his death over it, if the vertiginous shots are any indication).
Like the Romney ad, this one doesn't mention race, but the Nixon campaign knew exactly what it was doing. So did Ronald Reagan, who famously complained of a mythical "welfare queen" in Chicago who supposedly drove in her Cadillac to get her checks. Here's an excerpt from a February 5, 1976 article in The New York Times, which pointed out that while "the former Governor of California has not made any direct appeals for antiblack votes," his indirect appeals weren't all that subtle:
Last night, for example, at an overflow rally in Fort Lauderdale, he said working people were outraged when they waited in lines at grocery store check-out counters while a "strapping young buck" ahead of them purchased T-bone steaks with food stamps.
The ex-Governor has used the grocery-line illustration before, but in states like New Hampshire where there is scant black population, he has never used the expression "young buck," which, to whites in the South, generally denotes a large black man.
In the years since, prominent Republican politicians have become only marginally more circumspect in the way they talk about the social safety net; you still hear occasional comments like the one Newt Gingrich made earlier this year when he was asked if he would speak before the NAACP, and he replied that if he was invited, "I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps." The point is that when Republicans talk welfare, race is usually a subtext (at least).
Nevertheless, the racially charged nature of the welfare issue shouldn't mean that we can't debate it, and Republicans should be able to criticize the welfare policies of a Democratic administration without being charged with racism. But what's happening now isn't a "debate" by any stretch of the imagination, and the substance of Romney's attack is so spectacularly insincere that it simply can't be taken at face value. Up until a couple of days ago he hadn't said a word about welfare; on the policy, this is a battle Republicans emphatically won 16 years ago. Every last criticism of Obama in the Romney ad is simply made up out of whole cloth. Ordinarily, when a candidate makes a dishonest attack on his opponent there's at least a thin tether to the truth, even if it's distorted or taken out of context, but in this case what the administration has done is pretty much the opposite of what Romney says. That leads strongly to the conclusion that Romney has chosen to go in this direction for little reason other than the hope that something, anything, will generate a visceral reaction against the president. Don't think for a moment that Romney doesn't know that if his attack generates the reaction he wants, racial resentment will be part of the reason.
Fri, 2012-08-10 15:38
This certainly isn't the first time that the poor were selected as a popular scapegoat, but this IS the first time that even America's left, who tend to have a clearer perspective of how we're all linked so that the conditions of the poor directly impact the middle class, has turned its back on all who "choose the poverty life style." As a result of policies that we don't bother discussing, the infant mortality rate among America's poor now surpasses that of some Third World countries, while the life expectancy of the poor has actually fallen below that of some Third World countries. There was no welfare discussion or debate, and America never heard the other side of the story -- including how welfare was essential for maintaining a middle class (which has been shrinking since Clinton axed welfare). After over 30 yrs of anti-poor propaganda, rarely disputed by progressives (other than such notables as Noam Chomsky, Molly Ivins and, surprisingly, Stephen Colbert), ignorance about poverty is the norm. That's unfortunate because it covers a full range of issues that, if we would connect the dots, show a very cohesive picture of where we're going (hint: Wear a parachute when you get near the cliff's edge). The poor have been blocked out of the media, censored out of the public discussion. After the US has shipped out a massive number of jobs, then tore out the social safety net, we don't mention the consequences. "What, me worry?" One sure thing about poverty -- the longer we ignore it, the deeper and wider it grows.
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Fri, 2012-08-10 22:01
I don't understand why people who have more income than those on welfare begrudge the pittance they receive. Clinton should have left welfare alone. Bad as it was it was still better than what he signed into law. A mother with small children has a job on her hands without requiring her to work. I'm all for training and job programs for those who prefer to do so however that would allow the welfare recipient to acquire a living wage job after training.
The way society is set up now, with jobs sent oversea, workers let go, cries by people who should know better to downsize government which effectively translates to job loss for public sector employees it makes little sense to demand that single mothers get a job.
As a former Postal Employee I think that the push to privatize the Post Office as a disguise to save it with HR2309 is also rather strange as the Members of Congress that point to the Postal Workers as overpaid are paid $174,000.00 a year for 120 days of being present in Congress. On the other hand the tea-baggers are urging passage of HR2309 with 100,000 letters for the stated reason to save taxpayers money, even though the Post Office ,despite some questionable decisions remained solvent until 2006 when Congress passed a HR6407 mandating that the Post Office fund 75 years of retiree health benefits in 10 at 5.5 Billion a year.
The similarity between Clinton's welfare reform and what is being touted as the Post Office going broke because of overgenerous pay and benefits and a decrease in mail is the misinformation accepted as fact .HR2309 and S1789 attack on Postal Emploees
I understand that HR2309 will be on the House Floor sometime this August
.Just because Issa made considerable profits as a business owner doesn't qualify him to dictate how the Post Office should be run particularly when his solutions promoted as saving the Post Office, if enacted, would do the exact opposite.
If Issa wants to save the USPS he should look at what expenses can be deleted without disrupting the service.
#1. The Postal Accountable and Enhancement Act needs to be rescinded. In 2006 the PAEA ,signed by Bush, mandated that the USPS fund 75 years of retiree health benefits in 10. As the USPS was solvent before the PAEA (HR6407) was passed it stands to reason that the USPS would once again become solvent if this law was rescinded.
#2. Overpayments the USPS has made to the Civil Service Retirement Service should be returned.
#3. Overpayments the USPS made to FERS need to be retrieved.
#4. Charge more for delivering UPS parcels that UPS has the Post Office deliver to places they don't.
#5. Adjust the ratio of managers to workers .
But Issa, in HR2309 hasn't proposed that any of these things .
Issa's solution is to cut the workforce by at least 100,000. Issa's solution is to weaken the unions, so that Postal Workers' wages and benefits would depend on a separate board when a contract wasn't agreed upon by the USPS and a union.
This is a case where Issa's cure would cause the death of the USPS as a public service and have it revived as a business with lower paid workers, higher rates and less service.
Tue, 2012-08-14 01:08
I worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare for 17 years as a Caseworker. Most of what is said about any welfare program is not true. People think most of the money goes for cash benefits. Cash assistance is the smallest part of the program. The greatest amount goes for Medicaid, especially for seniors in nursing homes. Food stamps is next with cash programs bringing up the rear.
All the talk about putting resource limits on Food Stamp recipients is bull unless the resource limit was dropped after I retired in 2004. We always had a $2000 resource limit when I worked there.
Wed, 2012-11-14 18:08
The data provided is not a good way to identify race issues when it comes to recipients of welfare as you are only looking at the numerator, and not the denominator.
Let's say there are 100 recipients of welfare. 33 White, 33 Hispanic, 33 Black, with 1 Other. This roughly follows existing distribution. Although as an aggregate it is split evenly, it does not account for how much of the population are of each demographic.
In 2010, roughly 72% of the US population was white, 15% Hispanic, and 13% Black, with a total population of 308,745,538.
Although the welfare recipient dollars are spread evenly across ethnicities, they are not spread equally when you consider the population size of each ethnicity.
If whites comprised about 222M persons, Hispanics 46M, and Blacks 40M, then you can see why the referenced "even split" does not accurately depicts equality in distribution between ethnicities.
Based on these numbers, there is nearly 5 times as many whites in the country, than Hispanics or blacks, so if welfare recipients were even, whites should have 5x more recipients than other ethnicities. This is not the case.
I'm not saying it is right to portray any single ethnicity as the face of poverty, but that would seem to me why many feel this way.
Thu, 2012-12-13 16:21
If you are concerned about equality in distribution between ethnicities by pointing out things on a per-ca-pita basis, I am not sure why you would want to point that out when they are isolating the program itself and talking about who and how much is given in these programs, not a per-ca-pita basis, the actual face of the numbers within this program are not the face of a group, but is also white itself...again the picture of this program itself. I can understand your comment that is why it seems why many feel that it is the face of the black person, but these are simple numbers and statistics, the society in which is made predominately up of whites have a statistic of their own in which they will hire a white with a criminal history over a minority with no criminal history, or the trillions in bailouts that go predominantly to whites...that sounds like a great white welfare program to be a part of, they take our tax money and get paid millions...but it is the white view of minorities that counts. Whites can paint the picture and point out the denominator, but they won't own up to the trillions they have received in corporate welfare and bailouts than any minority group. Maybe whites should jump onto this and own up to the fact that the bailouts and corporate welfare programs are a form of "assistance" to nicely put it...I wouldn't expect many whites to admit that they receive much much more money from the federal government than any minority for any type of "welfare" in general. Whites discriminate against blacks and and whites even prove it with their research, whites pay themselves more, hire themselves more often than not with or without a criminal history, whites hire whites even if their black counterpart has a higher credit rating and educational background. Try doing some research on white privilege (google it and read a whole article not just a part) in our country and own up to it, we whites have it very well.
Jim Locke
Thu, 2012-11-15 22:00
We've spent nearly $2,000,000,000,000 on the "poor" since LBJ declared war on poverty. Poverty has hovered around 11-14% or so ever since. A nation cannot spend its way to prosperity for itself or anyone else. California just elected a "super majority" meaning total one party rule with no opposition. This is going to be fun to watch and hopefully a lesson for 'progressives, liberals, Democrats, left wingers' or whatever else they're called. The problem in America is.... absolutely... spending.
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I follow Alessio on Facebook, but have to get things translated as he writes in Italian. He posted a long message which I had translated to me. It says he's struggling with the weight cut to MW and doesn't think he can compete at LHW. He is contemplating retiring but taking some time to think about it.
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It's difficult to answer everyone that wrote me in the days after the match. I'd like to answer everyone, but you're too much. What I write it's for all you. After my last match I feel destroyed, unhappy. It happens when I undestand that my train and my hardwork for a few moths are not enough, and I don't have the results I hope. I rtain a lot for this match, I've been training up to the limit like everytime. This work theaches me, every day, that only hardwork and sacrifice a part of my life I can obtain good results. I agree sacrifice because I love my work and I love fighting.
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I have already read all the Pratchett novels am am obviously a big fan etc. I drive alot in my work and have been a huge listener of audio books so findign every TP novel on audio is a must.
The best examples are defined by the reader so far i have found three different readers of TP and was interested to find out what other people think.
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A Nigel Planer
B Tony Robinson
C Stephen Briggs
D Unknown
I am torn between A & C, Nigel Planner re-creates the wiches exactly as i imagined and his bumbling wizards from UU are perfect. However Stephen Briggs Cohen the Barberian is hilarious. Tony Robinson is not bad but i find his vocal range a little narrow.
Just wondered what other readers people may have heard and/or what their experices are?


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Alpine's feature-packed CD/HD/BT receiver comes packed with technology and content. Enjoy built-in HD Radio® with multi-cast channels, Bluetooth® Plus, iPod® and iPhone® music playback, and Pandora® control for Android™ and BlackBerry®. With this many features and content you'll have all the company you need on the open road.
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With the CDE-HD137BT in your dash you'll always have your favorite tunes playing. Never miss a beat with smart reception management for HD Radio that keeps your channel playing even if the signal is temporarily lost, or enjoy Pandora internet radio control for Android and Blackberry. The Advanced Bluetooth controls make receiving and making phone calls while driving a breeze, and improves your safety behind the wheel at the same time. The CDE-HD137BT also comes with a convenient Front Panel auxiliary input – so you or your passenger can plug in a portable media player as an additional source.
"Not too long ago it was almost inconceivable a car audio head unit could have the ability to receive digital radio broadcasts, allow hands-free telephony, playback music from a USB drive, control and charge an iPod, let alone stream music from our own personal internet radio stations! But, now the Alpine CDE-HD137BT allows all that and more for under $220 bucks! "
"If you have a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and are a Pandora user, this unit is made for you. Check it out at a dealer near you or online at www.alpine-usa.com. For more info on HD radio or Pandora internet radio, visit www.hdradio.com and www.pandora.com."
Stream music from your Android or Blackberry smartphone using Alpine's Advanced I technology. Enjoy easy, wireless operation of your favorite Pandora channels with Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down buttons directly on the faceplate, QuickSearch features, and even create new Pandora stations and bookmark your favorite tunes on the go. Alpine's DSP-Sound Expansion circuitry ensures the best possible sound for streaming music from your Pandora connection.
Note: Third party services may not be available in all areas; please contact an authorized retailer for coverage in your area.
Don't fuss or fiddle with your phone and say goodbye to uncomfortable headsets and earpieces. Most importantly, stay focused on safe driving. Many state laws require you to use a hands-free device if you are driving behind the wheel, and with good reason. The perfect way to stay safe and still carry conversations in the car is with the use of a hands-free device. Get the convenience of both with the CDE-HD137BT! This unit is equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology so there is no need for any additional adapters.
This unit comes with all that's needed for Bluetooth convenience. The CDE-HD137BT comes with a tuned microphone that's engineered to reduce noise interference and feedback. This allows optimal placement in your car, for the best possible sound quality.
Now, make and take phone calls conveniently. You can set up your cell phone/head unit to automatically answer your calls. Use the supplied microphone to speak, and then listen through your car's speakers. When a call comes in, your music mutes to carry the phone call. View caller information including caller ID, missed, dialed, and received calls right from the head unit display. If you receive a second call, you can have the first caller wait momentarily by pressing 2 for call waiting mode. Once both calls are finished, the music plays again. This truly makes the transition from your phone calls to music an enjoyable, convenient driving experience. You can even use the preset buttons on the CDE-HD137BT to quickly jump through your phone book, or set presets with your favorite callers to navigate to your contacts much faster.
To bring sound balance to your Hands-Free experience, you can adjust the CDE-HD137BT's mic gain, phone output and ring tone volume. If that's not enough, there are 5 sound quality settings to choose from to get the balance just right for you. This flexibility will make your phone calls a pleasurable experience.
Do you have a large music library on your phone? The CDE-HD137BT can stream A2DP and AVRCP music. Not only can it control and stream your music through Bluetooth, it can process your music using its built-in DSP Sound Expansion to ensure you get the best sound you deserve.
Expecting an important text message? The CDE-HD137BT can give you a notification on the display with a blinking mail icon indicator for 30 seconds while receiving a text message. The mail icon indicator will remain on if there is an unread message on a connected mobile phone.
*Depending on the mobile phone, this function may not be available.
If your car has factory Bluetooth steering wheel controls, then it will also control your new CDE-HD137BT's built-in Bluetooth. Or, control your head unit right from your factory installed steering wheel controls by adding a third party adapter. Use popular brand names such as Soundgate or PAC to add this feature.
Improve Bluetooth® compatibility with your Apple iOS 6.0 (or later) smartphone and enable audio streaming control with song information display. Download the latest software here.
With a dedicated USB input and USB cable, you can even connect USB memory devices like thumbdrives. Song lists on USB devices are displayed in alphabetical order, and allows eight levels of file / folder search capabilities. This unit will find music files while ignoring other file types on the USB device.
Note: MP3 device or cell phone can only be independently controlled through the head unit when using the USB connection, not with the AUX connection.
Select from 10 different EQ modes to get the best sound from all your sources. (Flat/Pops/Rock/News/Jazz/Elec Dance/Hip Hop/Easy Lis/Country/Classical). If the Equalizer presets aren't enough for your listening taste, there's a 3-Band Parametric Equalizer you can adjust and save as a user preset for a better sound response curve. The setting – Bass, Mid and Treble- can be adjusted in the 3-Band Parametric mode.
Get all the music and programming you want to hear in a crystal-clear digital format. FM stations with CD-quality sound and AM stations with FM-quality sound, with virtually no distortion. Extend your music choice further with multi-casting capability HD1, HD2, and HD3 and you'll hear more talk and more music content from the stations you already receive.
Traditional HD Radio equipped tuners will use an auto-switching method when listening to the main & multi-casting channels. It works really well on the main channels, however when listening to a sub-channel, you will be switched back to the main channel if the digital signal is temporarily lost. This interruption can be a frustrating experience to stay engaged on a particular multi-casting channel if the digital signal is weak. Alpine's solution provides Smart Reception Control through the default setting "Digital MC". The Digital MC setting uses a Hybrid method of auto-switching analog and digital on the main channel, and uses all-digital for sub-channels. Alpine's solution keeps you on the channel you desire, resulting in a better overall HD Radio experience.
The CDE-HD137BT is enabled for iTunes Tagging and when you hear a song you like, simply press the on-screen [Tag] button that is displayed below the song information. This iTunes Tagging feature lets you Tag songs you hear on HD Radio stations and stores the song info on your iPod. The next time you connect your iPod to iTunes, you will be able to preview your tagged songs and purchase and download them from directly from iTunes.
Note: Third party services may not be available in all areas; please contact an authorized retailer for coverage in your area.
The CDE-HD137BT is more than just a CD player, it is designed to work with your iPod or iPhone - so you can enjoy all your favorites wherever the road takes you.
Connect your iPod or iPhone using the USB cable that came with your iPod or iPhone and you've got access to all your music, right from your head unit. Adding the optional heavy-duty, automotive-grade Alpine KCU-445i USB iPod/iPhone cable is an even better option. This cable can stand up to the rigors of in-car use unlike the cable supplied with your iPod or iPhone used primarily for charging. With USB you get convenient control so you can scroll through all your Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Songs - and view all your song information right from the head unit display. Enjoy all your music whether from your iPod or iPhone, Alpine brings the music to your car.
Note: MP3 device or cell phone can only be independently controlled through the head unit when using the USB connection, not with the AUX connection.
Compatible iPods and iPhones
Visit the Apple site to identify your model iPod.
Friends managing music in your car earning the coveted passenger seat just got easier. The CDE-HD137BT has a "Passenger Control Mode" that gives the passenger control of the tunes directly from the iPod's or iPhone's menu. The driver still has play/pause, track up/down, and volume control right from the CDE-HD137BT's faceplate. When the driver wants to take control again, a 1 second press of the volume knob switches the control from the iPod back to the CDE-HD137BT's menu.
For especially big music libraries, Percentage Search function uses the preset buttons for quick jumps to specific parts of the list. Save yourself from scrolling through each song one by one, when you can just jump to a segment of your library with a touch of a button.
Have tons of music? Find it fast! With Alpine's exclusive QuickSearch technology, you'll be able to find what you want, the quickest and easiest way possible. With so many ways to listen to thousands of songs, now you can get super-fast access to artists, songs, albums, playlists, and radio stations. Large control buttons and a rotary encoder make it easy to scroll through all your sources, including your iPod, Radio stations and CD's. No interruptions, while you search, just let the Alpine play.
Standard in-vehicle solutions may drain the battery of your phone, but with the CDE-HD137BT, your phone charges via the USB cable, so you can enjoy nonstop music and recharge your phone at the same time.
With Alpine, expect the premium sound your ears deserve. This head unit allows you to customize your crossover adjustments so you can control where you send high and low frequencies, so you get the best sound out of your factory or upgraded system. Of course for a true power upgrade just add-on the KTP-445 Power Pack to instantly increase your head unit's power to a true 45Wx4 RMS, now we're talking about some serious sound!
The CDE-HD137BT comes equipped with 3 pairs of RCA pre-amp outputs, – ideal for adding more power and clarity from your amplifiers to speakers and subwoofers.


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BOULDER, CO. (January 3, 2013) – The Golden Spike Company announced today that it has entered into a contract with Northrop Grumman Corporation for the design of a new lunar lander that fits within Golden Spike's "head start" commercial lunar architecture.
Northrop Grumman's participation brings heritage lunar engineering expertise to Golden Spike. Northrop Grumman is a major aerospace and defense contractor. Its legacy companies -- Grumman and TRW -- designed and built the Lunar Module and Lunar Module Descent Engines for the Apollo moon landing missions that between 1969 and 1972 ferried a crew of two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back again six times.
Golden Spike debuted last month as the first commercial aerospace company planning to offer routine exploration expeditions to the surface of the Moon by the end of the decade. The company aims to use existing rockets and emerging commercial-crew spacecraft to allow nations, individuals and corporations to mount their own lunar expeditions. The lander is the only significant hardware that needs to be designed from the ground up.
"This is a significant step forward in our plans," said Golden Spike's Board Chairman, Gerry Griffin. "Northrop Grumman brings Golden Spike a unique body of knowledge and skills as the only company to ever build a successful human-rated lunar lander, the Apollo Lunar Module."
Dr. S. Alan Stern, Golden Spike's President and CEO, added: "We're very proud to be working with Northrop Grumman, which has the most experience and successful performance record for human lunar lander designs in the world."
Among the tasks Northrop Grumman will perform for Golden Spike are:
• Reviewing requirements and synthesizing a set of study ground rules and assumptions emphasizing system reliability, automated/ground command operability, and affordability
• Establishing velocity (Δv) budgets from and to low lunar orbit for pragmatic lunar landing sites
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• Establishing the design trade space and establish pragmatic limits for future more detailed analysis and development
"This study is one of a number of initial studies we're undertaking to begin creating the design requirements and specs for the lander contract competition we expect to hold to select a Golden Spike lander for flight development," said Golden Spike's Lunar Lander Systems Study (LLaSS) engineering chief, James R. French.
Golden Spike predicts its customers will want to explore the Moon for varying reasons—scientific exploration and discovery, national prestige, commercial development, marketing, entertainment, and even personal achievement. Market studies by the company show the possibility of 15-25 or more expeditions in the decade following a first landing.
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Northrop Grumman Completes Lunar Lander Study for Golden Spike
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has completed a feasibility study for a new commercial lunar lander for the Golden Spike Company (GSC). The study confirmed the viability of lander concepts for Golden Spike's human lunar expedition architecture and conceived a novel new, low-mass ascent stage concept dubbed "Pumpkin."
About Golden Spike
The Golden Spike Company (GSC) is a US-based commercial space company incorporated in 2010 with the objective of providing human expeditions to the Moon. It is named after the ceremonial final spike that joined the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States, on May 10, 1869, and opened up the frontier to new opportunities. Golden Spike wants to sell trips to the moon to countries with less developed space capabilities but who want to take their space program to the next level.


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Much to the chagrin of two of its neighbors, the Sag Harbor Methodist Church is moving right along with plans to open its basement classroom space to Our Sons and Daughters preschool program. If all goes according to plan, the 12-student program, for children ages 3 to 7, would be housed at the church starting this September.
"We've heard from other property owners that there's been a positive impact on the area because of the church," said Diane Lavery, an attorney for the church, at a Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) meetings last Thursday, April 5. "Since the church has been there, property values have increased."
Neighor Pam Wright staunchly disagreed.
"There's going to be more commercial traffic to the area: supplies being dropped off, trash being picked up… It's going to [negatively] affect our property values," she said. "This church has already affected our neighborhood."
Wright and her neighbor Linda Velsor, who also attended last week's meeting, expressed concern with the notion of increased traffic in the area due to an added preschool/kindergarten program on site. While Lavery explained the 13-student school doesn't intend to grow any larger than 30 students, that didn't sit well with Wright and Velsor, who also worried about the potential for more growth—including summer programs.
Again, Lavery attempted to quell their concern.
"The summer camp is run at the Ludlow Farm, and [Our Sons and Daughters] plans to do that in the future," she explained. And as for the increased population at the church, Lavery further noted that the school has board meetings four times a year, bringing about four to five people in each time, as well as one monthly administrative meeting for which 10 to 12 people typically show up.
Adding to a laundry list of complaints, Velsor said she is also concerned with the level of noise during school hours when the kids go outside for recess.
"It's a situation that we want to be aware of," she added. "Because children at that age are not quiet when they're outside."
That may be true, Pastor Tom Mcleod noted, but he said the outdoor area was strategically built 8 feet below grade for that very reason: to stifle noise. In fact, the church had been considering holding its own Sunday School or pre-school programs on its grounds when the church was initially constructed. Mcleod said he was very conscious of the noise issue, and made sure the outdoor play area was constructed below grade so that it would have natural noise buffers.
"These kids would have to be having a major rock concert to be heard on Carroll Street," he added.
Finally, Velsor expressed disappointment over the notion of increased traffic that would be brought by the new school. "I feel the increase in traffic on that road would be very hazardous to the area," said Velsor, who lives on Carroll Street. "Cars come down faster than the speed limit, and they go racing up Carroll Street."
However, as attorney Lavery explained, the planning board already adopted the building plan, which allowed the church to create a building with an occupancy of 200.
"We're only talking about adding 13 additional cars to an existing 65-parishioner church," she said. "We're not talking about enlarging the impact."
Board member Adam Grossman said he understood Velsor's concerns, but added "I'm not sure what we can do to address traffic except not issue the variance."
More importantly, he said the planning board is in support of the project. Planning Board Chair Herbert Phillips added that for this 128,000-square-foot lot—which can legally be divided into eight spaces—"to have an accessory use there really isn't a burden."
The ZBA is currently waiting for the final SEQRA determination to be approved by the Southampton Town Planning Board before it makes its final decision.
Before moving on to the next issue, board member David Reilly addressed the two women: "I have a feeling your parade of horribles is just not going to come to fruition," he said.


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We are entering the Connected Age, an age that brings people, systems, and the 50 Billion Things (sensors, devices, machines) together to provide the opportunity for a step change in operational innovation and resource efficiency. ThingWorx uniquely enables organizations to rapidly build and run connected applications to capture the business opportunities offered by the emerging pervasiveness of smart Things. ThingWorx operates in:
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ThingWorx can help every organization benefit from the data, events, and insights offered by the connected world.
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Manufacturers around the globe have been automating their plants for decades to improve efficiency, time to market and cost of production. The gains from these efforts are providing diminishing returns while the challenges of the global competition and sustainability are rapidly increasing.
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In the Oil & Gas industry, physical systems are highly distributed and remote – creating maintenance and upkeep challenges. Oil and Gas companies constantly look for ways to improve performance and lifespan of equipment in the field, and remote site monitoring and management is critical for their ongoing operations. The right remote service solution is essential to improve safety and prevent severe fault conditions in remote pipelines, tanks, and compression equipment.
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Since the creation of public power energy producers have been helping drive success in economic development and growth for the world. As the world faces the challenges of resource competition and global warming, the power sector is being faced with unprecedented levels of complexity in efficiently, securely and reliably managing energy delivery. Renewable energy, smart homes, smart factories, and smart transportation, all combine to make building and implementing the smart grid an enormous challenge.
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ThingWorx allows enterprise software vendors to offer connected applications, allowing them to better understand how to operate and service their software as much as embedded sensors offer the same for physical products. Furthermore, connected software empowers the customers of these vendors to better analyze, understand, operate, and service their own installations. Learn more about ThingWorx and Connected Software.
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While many people's view of the connected world starts and stops at remote service solutions and M2M applications, it is so much more than that.
The connected world integrates sensors, systems, and people into a highly collaborative environment, rapidly adapts to changing operational requirements, and operates on a scale much larger than simple M2M applications.
Unfortunately, existing M2M vendors are based on older technology that is insufficient for the demands of the connected world.
This is why we've developed the ThingWorx platform. ThingWorx is an M2M application enablement platform (AEP) designed specifically for today's connected world. The ThingWorx platform's
hyper-productive development environment lets you build applications that leverages the distributed intelligence built into devices in a fraction of the time of other approaches. This provides you with a unique competitive advantage, as it enables you, and your customers, to extend the value of your remote devices by rapidly layering applications that leverage the activities, services, and inter-relationships not only of the devices, but all people, systems, and devices in the network. ThingWorx also enables a new type of application that continuously evolves and increases in value over time, harnessing the Connected Intelligence of all network participants to drive Operational Innovation in the areas of solution development,opportunity discovery and capture, and problem solving.
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Smart medical devices, remote health care, and outcome-based approaches are the driving forces behind stabilizing our medical costs and extending quality of life to an aging population. ThingWorx provides a safe and secure approach to integrating medical devices and remote health systems into efficient medical processes. ThingWorx also provides a unique searchable and semantic data framework that enables Connected Intelligence to be applied to help identify successful outcomes. Learn more about ThingWorx and Medical Devices.
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Manufacturers of complex machinery and equipment are extending their relationship with their customers by providing real-time condition-based maintenance, benchmarking and collaborative technical support services.
Accomplishing this requires much more than just a typical M2M solution. A complete solution integrates equipment, systems, and people into a highly collaborative environment, rapidly adapts to changing operational requirements, and operates on a scale much larger than simple M2M applications.
ThingWorx provides the complete set of functionality including IT friendly connectivity, data collection, real-time device interaction, business logic, collaboration, and "drag and drop" application development, to enable you to quickly build solutions specific to the rapidly evolving needs of your business.
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The tipping point to smart transportation is here with the pervasiveness of smart infrastructure, mobile networks, location awareness, and vehicle automation. ThingWorx will accelerate your initiatives by providing a framework for quickly composing applications that merge these technologies in a unified platform.
Smart transportation promises to reduce energy consumption, ensure traveler mobility, improve safety, and enhance smart delivery of goods, maximizing corporate and tax payer ROI.
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A ThingWorx license is available for education and non-commercial public use to support applications that advance knowledge of the connected world, and to foster the development of applications that use these technologies for the public good.


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Hillary Clinton's Enemies Can't See Straight
Rand Paul, who is weirdly a potentially serious contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, got asked on Meet the Press this past Sunday about a comment his wife had made about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. His answer was revealing, I think, of a mindset Republicans are going to struggle with mightily should Hillary Clinton run for president. I bring this up not because I think Paul's comments are all that important in and of themselves, and not because Republicans are likely to spend a good deal of time talking about Monica Lewinsky come 2016. But there's an impulse when it comes to Hillary Clinton that presents a real danger for Republicans. There are so many things they hate about her and her husband that they barely know where to start. And that hatred could well be their undoing.
If you heard "Rand Paul attacked Hillary Clinton over Monica Lewinsky," you've been slightly misled. First of all, it was David Gregory who brought it up (here's the transcript), and second, you can see in Paul's answer the conflict between his rational brain, which says, "This is not what we should be talking about," and his lizard brain, which says, "Grrr! Clinton!" A couple of times he tries to say that the issue is one for Bill Clinton's "place in history," but he can't stop himself from trying to make the case that Democrats are hypocrites because they criticize Republicans for waging a "war on women," when Bill Clinton had an affair with an intern fifteen years ago.
Even after all this time, and after the Clinton impeachment turned out to be such a disaster for them, so many conservatives still can't wrap their heads around the idea that other Americans don't think about that episode in the same way they do. For them, it's a tale of crime and injustice, the injustice being the fact that Bill Clinton got away with it. It goes right to the heart of what they hated so much about him. It wasn't that they had policy differences with him, though they did. What angered them so much about Bill Clinton was that he was better at politics than they were. He beat them again and again for so many years, and nothing embodies their frustration over those defeats more than the Lewinsky scandal. For god's sake, they cry, the guy was caught diddling a twenty-something intern in the White House, and he still managed to wiggle his way out of it!
So when Rand Paul or any other conservative hears the name Lewinsky, the immediate emotional reaction he has is one of anger, frustration, and contempt for the Clintons. But most Americans don't have the same reaction. First of all, they aren't that angry about it anymore. It was a decade and a half ago. And second, their memories of the whole sordid affair are as much about Republicans going too far—an impeachment that never should have happened, Ken Starr's salacious and obsessive pursuit of Clinton, an opposition party that grew more desperate and deranged the clearer it became that they'd never take down their white whale—as they are about the President's misdeeds.
As for Hillary, well as far as they're concerned she's complicit in everything Bill did, and then you can add to that the contempt they have for her as a powerful woman. You just cannot overestimate the degree to which Hillary Clinton brings out the ugliest misogynistic feelings and sexual insecurities in so many people (not all of them conservatives, I would add). This is something I've written about before, and I'm sure I'll be writing about it again, because it's going to be a central part of any campaign in which she's involved.
There are few things more fundamental to smart political strategy than the understanding that other people may not share your beliefs, and may not have the same emotional reactions you do to certain people and events. That understanding is what allows you to make thoughtful decisions about how to persuade the number of people you need to achieve your political goals, whether it's passing a piece of legislation or winning an election. This is something Republicans often struggle with, but when it comes to the Clintons, they're absolutely blinded by hate. To take just one example, if Hillary runs, we're going to be hearing a lot about Benghazi, because Republicans are not only sure she did something scandalous, they're also sure that if they just hammer away at it long enough, everybody else will become convinced, too. But just like with Bill's impeachment, exactly the opposite is likely to happen: the more they talk about it, the more voters will become convinced that they've taken leave of their senses.
And that, more than anything else, may be what gives Hillary Clinton such a good chance of winning in 2016. When they're looking at her, her opponents just can't see straight.
Tue, 2014-01-28 15:14
MY CONTEMPT for Hillary is because she is an asshole, an incompetent, and arrogant. Bill was not incompetent. My dislike of Bill is that he loves to LIE. And among other felonious things he habitually does, he lies under oath. A Presidential felon is imho guilty by definition of High Crimes and misdemeanors and deserves Impeachment and Removal and Imprisonment.
But...BOTH Clintons are less of an asshole less arrogant and less incompetent in Hillary's case (Bill not being incompetent at all) than my current President.
Mo Freedom
Tue, 2014-01-28 16:35
Tue, 2014-01-28 15:38
I won't be voting for Hillary Clinton because I don't believe she can do the job. But I feel that way about most of the proposed candidates. I have very little faith that either Democrats or Republicans are fit to be in office. Both only care about their party, its power and the money they can make off the various offices. Either party caring about the good of the American people has been lost. IOt's time for election reform and legislation reofrm. I'm sick of MY legislators "taking care" of the big guys because if they dont' they'll lose their bribes (opps, I mean campaign contributions). Any good people can't run because they dont' have millions to buy to offices. It's time for us, the voters, to take back our elections. How can we expect anyone spending millions to understand budgets? How can anyone making so much understand what it's like to live on $35,000 or less? How can we expect anyone who hasn't lost their job understand what it's like for those who have. Why should the religious beliefs of one group, infringe on MY RIGHTS? I hear ignorant statements from both party members. Both side lie and cheat. It's time to elect people who can bring America to its real goals. A country in which people can live as they wish as long as they don't infringe on the rights of other citizens! A country that controls its borders and doesn't reward criminal acts.
Tue, 2014-01-28 16:03
Apparently Hillary Clinton's friends cannot see straight - to quote the author, "Even after all this time, and after the Clinton impeachment turned out to be such a disaster for them," Really. In the next election we held the Senate at the same level as before, we lost only 4 House seats (retaining a sizable majority), and WE WON THE WHITE HOUSE.
Kind of makes me want to impeach somebody now.
Tue, 2014-01-28 19:01
Sandy Berger Clinton's NSA and a close fiend of Hiliary (she tried to hire him as an advisor during her run in 2008) illegally removed and destroyed sensitive documents from the National Archives. What did he destroy ? who was he protecting? After being disbarred Hiliary hired him...Why?
Thu, 2014-01-30 15:44
I think you're forgetting the timing of the impeachment. It happened in 1998. The effort failed, and the Democrats wound up with an historic achievement. 1998 was the since 1822 that the party not in control of the White House had failed to gain seats in the mid-term election of a President's second term. I don't know why you'd point to the 2000 election, as it was years later (which is a lot in political terms), Clinton wasn't running, and the Republican running for president (Bush) lost the popular vote. Still, if you want to see a repeat of the 1998 elections, then I suggest impeachment hearings right now.
Tue, 2014-01-28 16:06
This half-Kenyan has done irreparable damage to America. Started the class and race wars. Encouraged the majority of Americans to be on public assistance. Used Federal agencies against whites in the Tea Party and at Fox News for political revenge. Destroyed the military, which is now morally bankrupt. Our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us.
And soon, he's going to tell us that he will rule by executive diktat to push his reparations agenda.
He belongs in an orange jumpsuit.
Mo Freedom
Tue, 2014-01-28 16:40
Can the coattails gal separate herself from her philandering hubby?
Can the one-time partner of & lawyer for Whitewater continue to distance herself from that scandal by saying she knew nothing about what Whitewater was doing (reminiscent of Benghazi)?
Can she blame her dismal performance as Secretary of State on the President? (But if she couldn't sell her boss on proper foreign policy, how on earth would she be able to sell it to the rest of the world?)
Can the lady with no accomplishments other than parlaying her husband's fame into elected & appointed office & being a doormat for him play the role of champion of women's rights? Really? Should we all stand up and cheer because she showed other women what not to do? Or does her example inform women they need to marry the right guy & turn their backs on his philanderings if they want to get ahead?
Mo Freedom
Tue, 2014-01-28 16:47
Why wouldn't Republicans talk about Bill & his shameless affair with a naive & callow 20-year old intern?
How can Hillary champion women's rights when she was an enabler for her husband by turning her back on what was happening & then defending him against a multitude of accusations from women?
Tue, 2014-01-28 16:53
Thu, 2014-01-30 11:41
You miss something in your quick dismissal of Hillary's ability to fight women's rights. By suggesting that she is an enabler, you give power to her husband and remove it from her. Hillary is able to show that women must still play within the rules to get to the top of the game. those rules include a tendency to show mercy when it is convenient politically. it was very convenient for Hillary to forgive her husband. by doing so, she rose above him, and made all those small people out to be wrong, who insist that a woman cheated on should shoot herself and her husband in the foot. her main ambition has been power. His was adulation, it seems. to get power, you must show strength, guts, and the ability to forgive, but never to forget. Hillary is showing herself to be the ultimate power monger. and what else could someone want, who wishes to show women the way up, but a pathway to the highest office, complete with all her baggage, not in spite of it?
Tue, 2014-01-28 17:47
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Wed, 2014-01-29 00:56
Wed, 2014-01-29 02:36
Hillary's biggest problem is that if elected President, she would at 69 be the oldest person after Ronald Reagan to take the oath of office for the first time. Dancing with Father Time will slow her down — it slows down all of us — and dull her faculties, perhaps sharply, perhaps imperceptibly; we don't know how much, but we do know it will happen. I wish that she — and her supporters who evident believe she will live forever — would face the facts, realize that her time has gone, and pass her torch to the next generation.
Thu, 2014-01-30 11:29
Why? should we not allow the massive amount of information and experience that resides within an able bodied woman to work for us? are there not methods in place to reduce the likelihood that an aging pol goes berserk? have we not already seen enough errors from the young and immature crowd (yes, that's you, Mr President, and Mr Ex President) to recognize that a bit more wisdom is needed?
Wed, 2014-01-29 07:33
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Thu, 2014-01-30 11:33
Interesting, how quickly the story changes, isn't it? Clinton can be considered the penultimate misogynist: the kind who insists he loves women, but in reality needs to best them to feel manly. and yet, the GOP is not able to make this line successful, precisely because they are not hammering their point of the broader underlying moral landscape. Which is ironic, given their moralism on practically everything. Perhaps, however, they recognize that galvanizing their base to protest the ungodly actions of a Democratic president might also shine a light on all the other transgressions that conservatives forget they should oppose: adultery is towards the top of the lst, but let's not forget divorce (which in itself begets adultery, after all); greed; usury; and all the other commandments the so -called moral majority constantly break themselves.
Thu, 2014-01-30 11:25
Wait a moment: is Mr Waldman pointing out something other than his stated point about Hillary Clinton?
"When they're looking at her, her opponents just can't see straight."
I think he's secretly reminding us that some people, when they see HIllary Clinton, see a closeted gay woman.
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- Receiver—The receiver is the part that is implanted. It is a magnetic disk about the size of a quarter. It is placed under the skin behind one ear. A wire that runs from the receiver to an electrode is placed in the inner ear, where it stimulates the nerves of the cochlea.
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