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I met George McGovern while he was gearing up but befor getting the Democratic nomination
I was a college student and an anti-war activist. McGovern spoke at my University and was well received. He didn't rush off campus immediately. I and a small group of other activists had set up a tent as a protest focal point on a central grassy area central to the campus. After McGovern's speech we made it back there to reassemble. It wasn't too long after when we looked over to see George McGovern strolling over toward us, without staff. He greeted us, shook our hands, thanked us for our activism, and could not have been more gracious or sincere. He was very much a man of my father's generation, and he looked it. Unlike RFK there was absolutely nothing "cutting edge" about the way he manifest. He was heartland America, naturally at home in staid and conservative attire. We were every bit as straggly as any Yippie one might have encountered at the time. None of that mattered in the slightest. The connection we felt with George McGovern that day was as warm and natural as a family reunion.
That was the moment when I began to truly admire him, and nothing has happened since then to do anything other than deeper the admiration I still have for George McGovern. That brief meeting taught me something deep and very important on a level that penetrated well beyond words. Remember, those were still the days of the "anti-establishment" "counter culture". I may not have admitted it consciously at the time, but I was subtly alienated from people who came across to me as mainstream and traditional in appearance and lifestyle. George McGovern was a light year.away from me in conventional experiences, and a massively significant generation removed from my late 60's centric world view, But I knew he was my brother none the less, and from that moment on I never viewed the world as narrowly again.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:57 AM (1 replies)
Romney Senior Advisor Don Senor Undermined U.S. Security Interests Today
It happened during an interview with Andrea Mitchell while he was trying to distinguish Mitt Romney's policy regarding Iran's nuclear program from President Obama's. That was not an easy task because both policies are identical. After making some standard hawkish noises, Senor quickly scurried back toward the center under Mitchell's questioning to deny that Mitt Romney has advocated for any military action against Iran. No, Romney simply believes that a threat of possible U.S. military action against Iran must be credible to give diplomacy a chance to work.
What Senor said next after Andrea Mitchell pointed out that President Obama has left the option of military action on the table was interesting to say the least:
"They say it is on the table, no one believes that. Yes they say it's on the table but no one believes it is on the table. We're not saying the military option should be used but we are saying that the threat of military action should be credible so it focuses the Iranian leadership on reaching some diplomatic solution..."
There is more but that pretty much sums up the salient point. All parties seemingly agree that a credible threat of possible U.S. military action against Iran is a critical component of any effort to pursue a diplomatic alternative to war. All parties understand that Barack Obama will be President of the United States at least until next January and quite possibly until January 2017. Obama is our Commander in Chief. If the U.S. decides to attack Iran more than likely Barack Obama will be issuing the order. If Iran takes the potential of U.S. military action against it seriously it will be because they take the words of Barack Obama seriously when he says that the military option is on the table.
Clearly Mitt Romney's Senior Advisor doesn't take those words seriously. And by casting dispersion on the words of the United States President he directly undermines the credibility of possible U.S. military action against Iran should that nation persist in seeking the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
Here's the link to the video of Senor's interview. The portion directly quoted begins at about the 5:55 marker.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:36 PM (16 replies)
Incoherent on the Middle East
Probing for a weakness to exploit, Mitt Romneys campaign has turned to attacking President Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Romney claims U.S. leadership is lacking in the region, and that U.S. interests are suffering as a result. He points to recent outbreaks of extremist Islamic anti-American sentiments in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world, and to civilians being slaughtered by the Assad regime in Syria, as evidence of U.S. impotence in the region. He blusters on Iran, insinuating that the Obama administration has withheld support from our stalwart ally Israel, while failing to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Mitt Romney argues that the Middle East is not how we would like it to be, and offers that as an indictment of Obama, but fails to make the case for how he would make it better. Romneys proscriptions open onto worse scenarios. His policies could push us from the frying pan to the fire.
On Iran Romney offers absolutely nothing new, but that hasnt stopped him from criticizing the President. Is he opposed to the harsh sanctions that the U.S. has led much of the world to imposing on Iran? Of course not, since they represent the only overt means available to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, short of forceful military actions that our own Pentagon acknowledges would likely lead the U.S. into another major regional war. Does Romney advocate taking the U.S. into another Middle East war? Of course not, because the American electorate is not prepared to support that currently. Its clear that both the President and his challenger support covert actions against Iran, but by definition they cant really be debated. There isnt an inch of daylight between Romney and Obama on their stated positions toward Iran, so instead Romney tries to attack Obama on how those positions are stated.
A Romney spokesperson interviewed by Andrea Mitchell acknowledged that Obama and Romney are backing the exact same policy toward Iran regarding nuclear weapons; prevention not containment. President Obama publicly asked Mitt Romney recently if he was now arguing for going to war with Iran, but his spokesman ducked and covered rather than answering. Romney, he said, believes that the potential use of American military force against Iran must remain a credible threat in order for diplomacy to hopefully succeed. That of course is consistent with the stated policy of the U.S. government, with the President clearly stating that all options remain on the table whenever he is asked about the possible use of force against Iran. So what does that leave Romney with as a political line of attack against Obama?
Romneys spokesperson argued that no one really believes that Obama actually means it when he says all options remain on the table. Pause here for full implications to sink in. Barack Obama holds the office of President of the United States. His words are official U.S. policy, and Americas friends and foes alike weigh them while determining their own course of action during international conflicts. Surely by now Mitt Romney understands that not only is Barack Obama the United States President today, there is at least a decent chance he will remain our President for four more years. If Mitt Romney believes that the possible use of American force against Iran during this nuclear crisis must remain a credible threat in order for diplomacy to succeed, then his campaign just undermined the very policy he claims we should pursue. Romneys position is incoherent. But it doesnt stop there.
Mitt Romney argues that American leadership is lacking in the Middle East. He also belittles Obama for the naiveté he supposedly showed for starting his first term in office showing a willingness to negotiate directly with Iran over issues outstanding between our nations. In doing so Romney displays a key ignorance over how American diplomacy works. President Obamas oft stated willingness to deal in good faith with Iran if that good faith were reciprocated was a crucial factor in gaining international support for strong economic sanctions against Iran. The U.S. cant force sovereign nations to back economic sanctions against Iran, they must agree to. Had President Obama pursued a bolted door policy toward Iran from day one, it would have been far more difficult, and in some significant instances impossible, for him to have won broad based international support for the economic sanctions now in place against Iran.
Here again Romneys position is incoherent. The sanctions policy that Romney says he supports against Iran was enabled by Obama first making an effort to give peace a chance, before moving on to harsher alternative when Iran failed to respond positively. Mitt Romneys anti-diplomacy tough guy posturing only undercuts his own stated diplomatic policy objectives in building a broad coalition against Irans nuclear ambitions.
There is nowhere Mitt Romneys incoherent Middle East policy is more obvious though than it is in regards to current unrest in the region and the Arab Spring. If there is one word that Mitt Romney loves to use above all others in this campaign season, that word is freedom. Freedom he says is the well spring of societal progress. Well freedom is afoot in the Middle East but it isnt always delivered in an antiseptic package. Our own American journey toward greater individual freedom has not been free of strife. Basic civil rights have been fought over here ever since the American Revolution gave birth to our nation. Why would the path be smooth in Libya, Syria, or Egypt?
Romneys foreign policy team is dominated by Neo Con ideologues who last were in ascendancy during the prior Republican Administration. Ridding the Arab world of dictatorships was a cause they heartedly embraced, not only as a noble cause, but as a tenet of U.S. foreign policy in pursuit of U.S. interests. The lack of liberty in the Middle East, they intoned, fed unrest on the Arab street and pushed frustrated youth into the hands of Islamic militants who blamed the West for the ills of their own corrupt societies.
The American invasion of Iraq was partially defended by Neo Cons as a mission to help bring Democracy to the Arab world (especially after weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq were found to be sorely lacking). What followed that American invasion was chaos and bloodshed on a scale that totally dwarfs anything that has happened in Libya or Syria to date. The Democracy we left behind in Iraq is seriously flawed by any standard we would apply here at home, yet Mitt Romney will not disown it, nor argue that the people of Iraq were better off with a iron fisted dictator. Anti-American protests broke out in Iraq also in response to the Anti-Muslim propaganda film that was filmed in the United States. Today Iraq is on warm terms with its Shiite neighbor Iran although, just like Egypt, Mitt Romney would certainly not characterize Iraq as an enemy of America. How much more leadership, how much more strength, how much more money and how many more lives should America have committed to bring about the results we see in Iraq now, let alone better ones?
Compare what was accomplished in Iraq after ten plus years of American occupation, to the situation that confronts us in Libya and Egypt today, less than two years after dictatorships were replaced by democracies in those nations. Would there be less anti-American sentiments in those nations today if the United States had fought to thwart the Arab Spring that brought increased liberty to those people? Would we have more leverage in Egypt now had we stuck by Hosni Mubarak until he was lynched, or until Egypt dissolved into a Civil War like Syrias?
The Obama Administration rightfully recognized a turning tide of history inside the Middle East, and wisely chose not to rage against it to no avail. As a result we still have productive open channels with the governments that the Arab Spring spawned, imperfect as they might be. That was not a preordained outcome. It took effective American leadership to accomplish. We all saw what happened in Iran when the U.S. clung to the Shah far too long until the Iranian people deposed him. Mitt Romney bemoans that we dont retain enough influence over Egypts current government; while also lamenting that Egypts first free democratic elections resulted in a Muslim Brotherhood President. That position again is fundamentally incoherent. Unless Mitt Romney is prepared to advocate for yet another American Middle East invasion, it is dubious that his bad mouthing the current elected Egyptian government will lead to greater U.S. influence over it.
Israel is counting on Egypt to honor their mutual peace treaty in these turbulent times; Mitt Romney might want to reconsider the advantage of Egypt having a government that is credible with non extremist Islamists, that the U.S. still retains real ties with. Mubarak, like Irans Shah before him, isnt coming back.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Tue Sep 25, 2012, 05:45 PM (3 replies)
A man earning $30,000 giving $300 to charity sacrifices more than a Billionaire giving away millions
The creed of false equivalence gets used to bludgeon common sense, and often obscures our grasp of true morality. A portion of every persons income is needed to support life itself. Another part allows for simple pleasures. Beyond that lies realms of ascending privilege, that lead toward self aggrandizement, and ultimately wanton gluttony. Once the latter was viewed by Christianity as a sin.
It is good when those with wealth donate large sums to worthy charities - that money is sorely needed for important causes and wealthy individuals are blessed with the means to give ample assistance to them. Our society does not shun nor shame those who choose not to become benefactors, so it is therefor appropriate to acknowledge those who take on that role voluntarily. Yes it is good that Mitt Romney gave millions of dollars to charity, but the fact still remains that he has150 million put aside in an IRA and untold amounts more stashed away in secret bank accounts.
It is not a matter of begrudging anyone success. There are very few among us who would not gladly embrace similar good fortune should riches somehow come our way. But keeping perspective is important, especially during a political year when talk about the need for Americans to make sacrifices to reign in future entitlements is a common refrain. Perspective is needed when negative aspersions are cast upon those who labor at minimum wage jobs because, unlike those who receive much higher compensation, they don't make enough to pay income taxes.
The working poor never earn glowing headlines when they donate $25 to their volunteer fire department's annual fund raising drive, or when they buy 5 boxes of girl scout cookies to help a neighbor's kid afford some enriching experience. But their charity comes at far greater personal sacrifice than the millions that someone like Mitt Romney is in a position to donate. Some people simply have plenty they can give without hurting, and some people's survival isn't at risk when they are forced to "sacrifice" just a little bit more for the essentials of life.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:49 AM (30 replies)
When Worker Productivity Goes Up & Worker Pay Goes Down - That Is Wealth Redistribution
The U. S. is a capitalist nation and our wealth primarily flows through our national "market place". Who ends up with that wealth is an unambiguous result of how that wealth is distributed. When corporations generate more money than they need to operate, decisions must be made where to allocate those surplus fiscal resources. They can go toward upgrading facilities, toward research, toward marketing, toward employee compensation, or toward owner profits. These are conscious choices.
The hands that guide that distribution are not some invisible unseen market force. They belong to managers and owners and corporate boards. They belong to the one percent and to their most trusted agents. Together they have directed a massive redistribution of American wealth away from middle class Americans to the wealthiest among us. When both worker productivity and corporate profits rise while the income of the average American family falls, that isn't preordained and blameless. It is the ownership class in America furthering its own interests by redistributing the fruits of the American economy disproportionately into their own pockets simply because they can, and they are counting on no one stopping them. That's why they want a smaller government, and that's why they are willing to invest heavily in the political process in order to buy one.
We know wealth redistribution in America. It is the class warfare that most of us currently are losing.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Fri Sep 21, 2012, 10:01 AM (25 replies)
Romney wants more Americans with good paying jobs paying income taxes.
Too bad he was a pioneer in outsourcing those types of jobs to China. Still there is work to be had in America, at the prevailing minimum wage, but those people dont earn enough money to pay income taxes under our current Republican crafted tax codes. Ronald Reagan was quite proud of signing the earned income credit for the poor into law. He wanted people to work for their poverty.
There are a whole lot of people working grueling 40 hour a week jobs who dont even make enough to pay income taxes now. Mitt Romney thinks that is a problem. He thinks they might stop feeling like victims entitled to food and shelter, if only they paid income taxes too, just like richer Americans like him - well maybe not like him personally but like some richer Americans at least.
The good news is that this can be arranged. Republicans could accomplish Romneys goal simply by supporting raising the minimum wage to a living wage. Democrats would certainly back that type of Republican leadership, and many of the grubbers would finally have the means to start caring about themselves again. As it is now patriotic businesses that want to do right by hard working Americans are being punished by businesses who want to mooch off the strenuous efforts and high productivity of American workers. There must be plenty of businessmen who Mitt Romney knows personally who would love to pay their workers more, if they didnt fear being undercut by competitors paying poverty wages stealing their clients away due to lower costs.
Its an elegant solution. Since most of the good paying jobs in America have been lost overseas due to the pioneering efforts of Bain Capital and their cohorts, we can encourage more deadbeat American moochers to become real income tax paying Americans worthy of Mitt Romneys respect simply by paying them more at the lousy jobs that remain. Surely Mitt Romney will support raising the minimum wage. It must be part of his secret plan.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:24 PM (3 replies)
The Romney Campaign reminds me of McGovern in 1972
I better explain what I mean. First off, I loved George McGovern then and I still do now. I think he would have made an excellent President. Second, no I do not believe that Mitt Romney will lose this election as badly McGovern as lost in 1972 either. That isn't the point.
The similarity that strikes me is this: Romney has been playing catch up in this race from day one; from before then actually if you set day one as his acceptance speech at the RNC. Romney got off on the wrong foot and he has never regained his stride, if he ever had one. That is what happened to George McGovern with the Eagleton fiasco. The problems with McGovern's campaign became the focus of the ccoverage he received.
When that happens it's like a ship loosing power and floating dead in the water in an area uinfested by pirates. The seige is certain to follow and a death spiral commences. Lots of other things may have changed, but in that key way this is feeling like 1972 agan.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Tue Sep 18, 2012, 07:58 AM (5 replies)
It sounds familiar, doesn't it?
"My job is is not to worry about those people."
Thats Mitt Romney caught talking to wealthy donors about the "47% of voters who will vote for the President no matter what... there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them". That's damn near half the nation who Romney figures it's his job not to worry about while he runs for President
"I'm not concerned about the very poor".
That too was Mitt Romney speaking earlier this year, that time about people who presumably form a subset of the 47% of Americans who he thinks it is his job not to worry about. At least Romney is consistent in not worrying about tens of millions of Americans who almost certainly did not start out life with all the advantages that Mitt Romney had.
In admitting his lack of concern for the very poor, Romney justified that lack of interest in their needs by further stating; "We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it."
There Mitt Romney must be referring to all those entitlements that 47% of Americans, you know, those self identified victims, depend on. They ended up hooked on health care, food, housing, you-name-it. We all know the type; Veterans with disabilities. small children born into poverty, millions of retired folks getting by on Social Security, people whose jobs got outsourced to China when who can't find jobs paying a living wage to replace them with. Yup, the roll call of Americans who Mitt Romney knows will never take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
Somehow they all got the notion that their government is supposed to care about them. That to Romney is a problem. Their dependence on a safety net to survive is a problem, one that Romney no doubt intends to repair. You cant depend on something that no longer is there.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:44 PM (4 replies)
The Politics of "Bring it On!"
That notorious quote from President George W. Bush continues to echo in today's Republican Party. The same macho posture, the same "our troops can handle anything the enemy throws at us, so let them try" invitation to even greater carnage. It was easy for George W. Bush to say, he sat 7,000 miles away from the action surrounded by the Secret Service
The last time I looked Mitt Romney wasn't stationed in the Middle East either. Nor does he have children stationed there. Nor does he work for an airline that flies there, or even an Oil Company that works there. For all of his devotion to the Mormon Church, Mitt Romney doesn't toil for Christ as a missionary in Africa, and he isn't an aid worker there either, feeding and caring for families at risk of dying from malnutrition.
No, Mitt Romney is safe here inside America, running for President of the United States. He isn't in physical danger when passions surge over religious issues in Africa or the Mideast. He can afford to act tough and try to score political points against the President while American lives are at risk. Because his isn't. It's only those who find themselves in harms way who have anything to worry about. The troops Romney so conspicuously failed to mention during his acceptance speech, for example, and our diplomatic personnel who risk their lives daily serving American interests in the four corners of the world. Yes Republicans love the military. Its just the soldiers they can't bring themselves to support.
Does Mitt Romney condone hate speech against other religions? Does he favor sticking it to people of a faith that is not his own? That might explain his defiant rejection of any attempt to calm the waters as mere "sympathy for terrorists". Perhaps that is it. It's more likely though that Romney is just a politician trolling for votes during an election campaign, indifferent to the fate of innocent lives that his crass bravado puts at greater risk.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Wed Sep 12, 2012, 10:24 AM (3 replies)
More Of The Same With Obama
Politicians spit it out like an epithet; only more of the same! As if thats always the worst option possible, give us anything but more of the same. Democrats and Republicans instinctively belittle the day when nothing new is offered beyond the oft ridiculed more of the same. Except when times are good of course. When times are good the temptation sets in to change absolutely nothing, not even your jersey if youre a baseball pitcher on a winning streak. Keep a good thing going and dont tinker with success. Politics flickers like a bad fluorescent light bulb; change, freeze, change, freeze. What gets lost in the strobe lights is usually common sense.
We know better in our own lives, at least most of us do. Our personal decisions are less mechanical. Just because drinking that first vodka and tonic brought about generally desirable results is no reason to assume that drinking a second, third, or fourth one will do the same. Most of us resist that blind assumption. Common sense and experience kick in instead. Likewise with lifes adversities. You start running a high fever so you see the Doctor. She says you have a bad infection and prescribes antibiotics as a treatment. You go home and take a full dose but still feel absolutely awful. Same thing happens in the morning: Little or no improvement. What do you do that evening? You go for more of the same.
It is the nature of calamities that destruction comes in s relative blink of an eye, while recovery can seem to drag on for eternity. An assassin nearly took Gabby Giffords life. The world she knew was obliterated in an instant. It required drastic action to save her, but there was no rapid way to restore her health. Gabby is an inspiration and an American hero. Everyday she faces more of the same; more stressful physical therapy, more frustrating mental exercises. Over and over the prescription essentially remains the same, because slow as it may be, that is the best route to her recovery.
We have all been schooled well about the weather. We know the difference between a category one, two, or three storm. Hurricane Cindy struck Louisiana during the same year that Hurricane Katrina did. Recovery from the former was rapid, not so the latter. Americans understand that not all hurricanes are the same. Neither are recessions. Over the past hundred years the United States has experienced numerous recessions, but only one was a category 5, and that was The Great Depression. Recovery from that one dragged on for nearly a decade, and many believe it would have taken even longer had it not been for World War II.
The Recession that President Obama inherited the first day he stepped into the oval office might not have clocked in then as a category 5, but it certainly rated a high category 4, the deadliest economic storm our nation has faced since the 1930s. When Hurricane Cindy first struck Louisiana in July 2005 it was initially categorized as a Tropical Storm, but was later upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane in the post-storm analysis. Something similar happened with The Great Recession.
While President Obama fought to prevent an economic slide into a second Great Depression, he assured America that we could turn adversity around; that our worst fears would be averted, and that strength would be restored to Americas economy. As FDR once famously stated, We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and Barack Obama worked hard to resstore consumer confidence in the American economy by proclaiming his own confidence in Americas future. He staked his political reputation on an economic recovery, and we are in one today.
Our recovery is slower than the President initially forcast, but it turns out that the recession itself was far worse than how experts were characterizing it when Obama actually made his recovery projections. That fact was revealed in revised figures documenting the actual GDP loss during the recession that were retroactively released by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis:
The overall pattern of quarterly changes during the downturn was similar in both the revised and previously published estimates, though the revised estimates show larger decreases for 2008:Q4 (-8.9 percent compared with -6.8 percent) and for 2009:Q1 (-6.7 percent compared with -4.9 percent).
Americans love Super Glue and Duct Tape, but there isnt always a quick fix for every problem. Some solutions play out over time, and require perseverance to achieve. Sometimes it takes more of the same. Sometimes it even takes four more years. One thing though is certain. No disaster victim is ever well served by sending them back to a disaster zone. Wrong policies caused our economy to crash in 2008. Restoring those who advocated them to power in Washington would be a change from more of the same. It would be more of what caused the disaster in the first place.
Posted by Tom Rinaldo | Sat Sep 8, 2012, 02:14 PM (2 replies)


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I spent one night in Amsterdam for a sightseeing weekend. I had booked a room overlooking the canal but on arrival found that I had been automatically upgraded to a suite. It was lovely - antique furniture, large sitting room, massive bed and bath, all the amenities (and the Wifi actually worked, which it often does not in hotels). It had its own entrance also. The staff were very nice and the upstairs rooms looked very luxurious (I didn't have breakfast because I prefer to eat out). The location is perfect - the canals around the hotel are the only place to stay in Amsterdam, which can be ugly in parts.
The one downside was the sleeping - I am a light sleeper, and people passing by the window kept waking me up. It is generally a very quiet area so I'm sure this would not be a problem if you were higher up - I was at the very bottom, half the room was below street level and half above. It was perfectly light and lovely, but the disrupted sleep would be an issue if I was staying longer.
Apart from that, it was excellent.
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- Over the years, the Ambassade Hotel has expanded considerably. Starting with just one canal-side building in 1953, it now has 58 hotel rooms distributed among 10 of these buildings. Eight of these canal-side homes are on the "Herengracht" canal, while two others are located on the "Singel" canal. Other buildings are in use by the Ambassade Hotel too, but for other purposes: a few houses further along the Herengracht is the hotel's Float & Massage Centre known as Koan Float and 150 meters further along the Singel canal you will find the hotel's conference room. Except for the building at 335 Herengracht, all the canal-side buildings are physically interconnected. So as not to unnecessarily damage the original character of these canal-side homes, small sets of stairs and landings can be found at various places in the halls and in some of the rooms themselves to bridge the differences in floor elevations between the buildings. Over the years, two lifts have been installed, making all rooms easily accessible. The canal houses have been carefully restored to maintain their authentic character and all rooms and suites have been stylishly furnished and decorated. The furnishings are predominantly Louis XV/XVI style with the use of colorful fabrics and in all rooms and public areas you will find original paintings by artists from the famous Cobra movement. ... more less
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Assistant State Climatologist Wes Tyler said there were not a lot of rainy days in recent weeks, but that when rain did come, it provided a good soaking.
SAVANNAH, Ga. - After four busy nesting years on beaches from Georgia to the Carolinas, loggerhead sea turtles this summer laid their eggs at a much pokier pace.
Dove hunters on both sides of the Savannah River will enjoy longer seasons this year, due to amended guidelines at the federal level.
...owner Eddie Moyer is responsible, but since he has not acted, the responsibility transferred to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, which could not be reached for comment Friday.ACTION PROMISED: Though it is not their responsibility...
EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. - J.M. Butch Pendarvis, Jr., age 75, of Edisto Island, SC, passed away in his sleep on Thursday, October 9, 2014, at the Trinity Mission Health & Rehab of Edgefield in Edgefield, SC. Relatives and friends are invited to attend
In hopes of raising money for Special Olympics, the Aiken County Sheriff's Office and others will be hosting the 2014 South Carolina Law Enforcement Torch Run.
I wish Gov. Nikki Haley would look into this office, because something fishy is going on at the DNR.
...homeless camp, according to Savannah Riverkeeper Tonya Bonitatibus.ACTION TAKEN: When the boat sank, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Coast Guard assisted the Riverkeeper with removing all contaminants. But removing the...
Hunters who visit the Phinizy Swamp Wildlife Management Area will enjoy a cleaned up, widened access road, courtesy of an in-house project organized by the Wildlife Resources Division.
The South Carolina DNR is investigation a canoe accident which left a 74-year-old Aiken man dead Tuesday afternoon in Aiken County. The name of the victim has not been released.


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Sønderborg Things to Do
Walk by the waterside
Soenderborg is a small town but it has a nice waterfront. There is a brick castle, and it is worth walking around the outside because there are views across the water. We also liked the windmill that is nearby. Facing the water with the castle to your left, if you turn right you can walk along the waterfront. There are some nice and colurful houses, and when we visited a tall ship (the Roald Amundsen) was moored which made it rather special. We found a nice restaurant (Colloseum) serving local and home-cooked food which was very nice.
If you face away from the water and walk uphill then you reach some shopping streets that we found worthwhile.Related to:
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Danish Christmas in Sønderborg 2
Southern Denmark has been subject to bitter war between Denmark and Germany and the people here still have accommodate the custom inherited from that past. Here the Danish flags are decoration items alongwith angels and gifts with Christmas tree.
Beach & Forest
Sønderborg has a big area of maintained forest. The sea is rather calm since its a narrow waters between Danish and German border. Picture was taken in late autumn.
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Scandic Sonderborg
Ellegardvej 27, Sonderborg, 6400, Denmark
Satisfaction: Average
Good for: Families
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Colosseum: Home-cooked food by the waterfont
Colloseum is a little restaurant by the waterfront in Soenderborg. The food is cooked to order and was both very good and generous. We tried 'King Frederick's Favourite' - a creamy, mild curry. It was really nice. So much that we could not eat all of it, and the lady waitress kept asking us if we wanted her to bring more. An especially pleasant meal in a nice location.Related to:
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Anywhere in Danmark: Mmmm softies!
so soft and cool... you will love it, enjoy it in the beach.. . ;) yummm... specially during the day on summer!
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Technique Quilling
Article courtesy Scrapjazz.com: by Heidi Anne Giebel
I moved in March and while unpacking some boxes I came across my old quilling set from 2003. I stopped and thought, "How can I update and use quilling in a whole new way?"
The first thing I thought of was shimmer and some sparkle. Then, I thought of some of the most popular shapes in scrapbooking and card making today. Immediately, I thought of cupcakes and banners.
Here's a mini lesson on quilling and some fun quilled shapes that really add a fresh look to cards and scrapbook pages.
Quilling is the art of paper curling. Essentially, you are rolling thin strips of paper around a metal tool. There are two basic types of tools. The slotted tool has a notch to insert the paper into and the needle tool does not. The slotted tool is easier to use for beginners; it holds the paper more securely. The needle tool does not make a crimp at the end of your paper.
Here are the supplies you need to get started: a quilling tool, long thin strips of colored paper and glue. Additionally, I used Glimmer Mist and Stickles.
To begin, place one end of a strip of paper into the notch of the slotted tool.
Hold the paper with your fingers and twirl the tool to create the curled paper circle.
Once you have curled the whole strip, slide it off the tool.
Your circle will relax and expand.
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I pinched four corners to make the square shape. For the half circle I pinched two evenly spaced corners leaving a dome look at the top. For the triangle, I pinched three equally spaced corners.
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Hello. I am xXxShiningDarknessxXx. You don't really need to know much else, but...
I like a lot of stuff.
I'm really into anime above all other forms of entertainment. Despite this, there are exceptions.
My favourite anime are: Durarara!!, Pokémon, Naruto, Yu-gi-oh!, Oreimo, Haganai, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Attack on Titan, Code Geass, Ouran High School Host Club, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fairy Tail, Free!.
My favourite Cartoons: South Park, of course. I don't watch much cartoons anymore, but I like Hey Arnold!, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Invader Zim, Teen Titans, Young Justice and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Gravity Falls is my favourite right now.
My Favourite TV Shows are: Merlin, Sherlock and The Big Bang Theory.
My Favourite Movies: Frozen and The Rise of the Guardians. Harry Potter, as well. Star Trek reboot.
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South Park: Kyman (Kyle and Eric) (OTP)
Candy (Wendy and Eric)
Stendy (Stan and Wendy)
Stanman (Stan and Eric)
MLP:FiM: Pinkiedash (Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash)
Rarijack (Rarity and Applejack)
Sparity (Spike and Rarity)
Gravity Falls: Pinecest (Mabel and Dipper)
Invader Zim: Zadr (Zim and Dib)
Durarara!!: Shizaya (Shizuo and Izaya) (Favorite)
IzaMika (Izaya and Mikado)
IzaKida (Izaya and Kida)
Shinra and Celty
Naruto: NaruSasu (Naruto and Sasuke)
Oreimo: Kirino and Kyousuke
Haganai: Sena and Kodaka
Pokémon: Pokeshipping (Ash and Misty) (Favorite)
Palletshipping (Ash and Gary)
Rocketshipping (James and Jessie)
Yu-gi-oh!: Puzzleshiping (Yugi and Yami Yugi)
Prideshipping (Yami Yugi and Seto Kaiba)
Revolutionshipping (Yami Yugi and Anzu)
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
54 Years ago today....
Fifty-four years ago today my father died. This is the appreciation his friend and fellow automobile collector Sam Scher wrote in Antique Automobile magazine.
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Saturday, April 11, 2015
VMCCA Award
I had a lovely surprise the other day in the form of an unexpected parcel. It contained this award plaque given to my father in 1959, and came from Dick King of Redding, Connecticut. What a gift! I am thrilled to have it. The 1907 Rolls Royce was one of my father's (and my) favorite cars. It was painted dark green and had red leather seats, hence the license plate XMAS.
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Sunday, February 15, 2015
1925 Rolls Royce
1925 Rolls Royce
Back in November, I visited a friend in Bethesda, Maryland. As part of our sightseeing tour around the area, we went to visit Hillwood, Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate (now a museum) in northwest Washington. Quite a fascinating place.
It wasn't until I got home that I remembered that Mrs. Post GAVE my father a car, a 1925 Rolls Royce Town Car. He wrote about it in his memoir of car collecting Bright Wheels Rolling. [I do intend to contact a curator at the museum to see if there is any information in their archives about this gift to my father.]
Here is what he wrote in the book:
"Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies owned this Twenty Town Car, and believe it or not, she gave it to me. Not only did she give it to me, complete with solid ivory interior fittings, but she put brand-new tires on it first. And when I said I would send a man for it, Mrs. Davies said certainly not, she'd send it to me. And she did!"
And there's another connection (tenuous as it may be). Mrs. Post's first husband was Edward Bennett Close, who is the grandfather of my Rosemary Hall school mates artist Tina Close and actress Glenn Close.
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Monday, February 2, 2015
Apologies! and a nice story...
Apologies for the six months hiatus. In October, when I retired, after 26 years at Dartmouth College, I thought I would have much more free time. I seem to have less. Or is it just less self-discipline? At any rate, for what it's worth, I'm back on track.
Here is the most recent James Melton legacy story:
Here is the most recent James Melton legacy story:
When I was in Maine last August, doing the reading from my book at the Seal Cove Auto Museum, I was reunited with Tina Weeks, who is the daughter of Richard Paine, whose antique car collection is the museum. One of the cars in her father's collection was once in my father's collection. (A 1913 Peugeot.) See September 6, 2014 blog post. In between my father and her father, the car was owned by Dr. Sam Scher, a plastic surgeon in NYC. He was a good friend of my father's in his later years. Well, Tina had somehow contacted Dr. Scher's grandson, Bernard Shuster, and urged me to do likewise. So I did, and sent him a copy of my book. Some weeks later a large box arrived from Dr. Shuster. In it was a hat that had belonged to my father! (Barely worn, Knox, with my father's name stamped in gold on the inside band.) Also included was a very nice note that his grandfather had owned the hat, and that he—Bernard—had hoped someday to repatriate it to a member of the Melton family!! Isn't that amazing. I mean, my father has been dead for 54 years! (Dr. Scher died in 2000.)
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
A P.S. to the Seal Cove visit
The trip to Seal Cove also gave me a chance to reconnect with Tina Weeks, daughter of Richard C. Paine, Jr. whose collection forms the Seal Cove Auto Museum. I consider her something of a "soul sister" on account of our car-collecting fathers. Here we are in front of the 1913 Peugeot which belonged to my father, and then hers (with ownership by Dr. Sam Scher in between Melton and Paine).
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Seal Cove Auto Museum
A little over a week ago I did a talk about and reading from The Tenor of His Times at the Seal Cove Auto Museum on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. I had the opportunity to reconnect with Roberto Rodriguez, former executive director of the museum, now its chief curator, who had invited me to speak, and meet the museum's new executive director, Raney Bench.
You may recall that in September 2010 I did a talk at the museum. That was before my book was published. (See posts from 9/15/10 and 9/29/10.)
Because it's such a long drive to Mt. Desert (although worth every hour! I love Maine!) I asked my friend, Heidi Hoskin to accompany me, and we took a few extra days to make stops along the route—at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden near Boothbay, and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland. We had a wonderful time on the whole trip, and were especially delighted with the welcoming hospitality at the Seal Cove Auto Museum.
This is Heidi and me in front of the 1913 Peugeot "Skiff" that was previously owned by my father.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Hershey 1958
I had a nice surprise last week -- a photo taken at the Hershey meet in 1958 – sent to me by Alan Ballard.
He writes: "The photo shows our fathers standing next to a 1910 Thomas Flyer Flyabout that once belonged to my father. (The picture was taken by Ken Stauffer, a long time friend and past president of AACA who died earlier this year.) The person in the middle is Tom Lester, who bought the car from my father and is showing it for the first time. I believe your father once owned a similar Thomas.
As someone who also was "born" into the antique car hobby, I remember your father not only for his love of antique cars, but for his musical talents. I still recall his referring to his antique car friends as "squirrels'!
Best regards,
Alan Ballard"
It's always delightful to hear from folks who actually knew my father! Thanks for the photo, Alan. And on the subject of "squirrels," did you know my father had a license plate that read SQRL?
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Carrie Underwood may be known for her incredible legs, but the singer also has killer arms. Even while pregnant, she's working hard to keep her physique looking its best.
Carrie Underwood may be known for her incredible legs, but the singer also has killer arms. Even while pregnant, she's working hard to keep her physique looking its best.
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Wouldn't you just love that one of country's only girls on top could have landed the biggest gig on the planet?
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There are five common types of adenocarcinoma (actually I would say four since "mixed" doesn't seem to me a specific 'type") recognized in the WHO classification of lung cancer. But this classification also includes five rare but distinctive variants: fetal adenocarcinoma, mucin-producing adencarcinomas (mucinous "colloid" adenocarcinoma, mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, and signet ring adenocarcinoma), and clear cell adenocarcinoma.
While rare to exceedingly rare as pure tumors, the variant patterns are important to be aware of because they occur much more commonly as a component of mixed type adenocarcinomas, are associated with particular clinicopathologic features, and often require the exclusion of a different primary site. Another challenging variant is the nonmucinous lung adenocarcinoma which resembles colorectal adenocarcinoma but I'll review this variant in another post. Hope you all find this of use.
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Morphologically similar to non-pulmonary mucinous carcinomas from GI tract, pancreas, ovary, and breast.
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|Cake flour
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|Baking powder
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|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
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|California walnuts
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Stir butter to soften.
Sift in dry ingredients.
Add half the milk and the egg; mix until all flour is dampened.
Then beat vigorously 2 minutes.
Add remaining milk and extract; beat 1 minute longer.
Stir in nuts.
Place paper bake cups in muffin pans and fill 1/2 full.
Bake in moderate oven (375°) 25 minutes or till done
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Combine 1/4 cup melted butter or margarine and 3/4 cup brown sugar; quickly spoon over hot cakes.
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Bill Murray paid crew members to compose lines for his character BOB HARRIS, while filming Lost In Translation.
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3M launches library e-book and e-reader program
April 29, 2012 | 4:15 pm
By Chris Meadows
Is there room in the library e-book field for a competitor to Overdrive? Wired reports that tape and media manufacturer 3M thinks so, and is launching a library e-book lending initiative called the 3M Cloud Library with 40 publishers (including Random House, HarperCollins, Harlequin, and Wiley) and over 100,000 titles. (Last year we covered 3M's investment in the txtr e-book company and its plans to create a library program.)
The biggest difference to the Overdrive model is that it will also be producing its own e-ink e-reader devices that libraries can buy and lend out to patrons with the books loaded on-board.
Wired reports that the 3M readers are compatible with Nook e-readers, which probably means that it uses EPUB and the standard Adobe DRM that goes with it. There will also be apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X devices, and the brochure (PDF) indicates it will feature the same sort of last-place-you-read tracking across multiple devices as Amazon. The system will feature touchscreen kiosks, and also allow readers to check out titles over the web.
It isn't clear whether consumers can buy their own 3M e-reader units or they're library-purchase-and-check-out only. I would tend to suspect the latter, since that way 3M won't have to worry about competing directly in an already-saturated direct-to-consumer market. (And if it's compatible with the Nook, patrons who want their own e-readers can just buy that instead.) Besides, 3M is probably more comfortable working with libraries directly—it has been providing a variety of physical-book-related services for libraries for 40 years.
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