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Tonight's guests:
- Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist with the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
- Nebraska State Sentator Jeremy Nordquist
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Wednesday's Mini-Report, 5.27.15
Today's edition of quick hits:
* More on this on tonight's show: "Nebraska has repealed the death penalty following a dramatic vote Wednesday by state lawmakers to override the governor's veto. The high-stakes vote to override the veto of Legislative Bill 268 was 30-19. It requires at least 30 of 49 senators to overturn a gubernatorial veto."
* The new rules would apply to more than half of the nation's bodies of water: "President Obama on Wednesday announced a sweeping new clean water regulation meant to restore the federal government's authority to limit pollution in the nation's rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands."
* FIFA: "Seven of the most powerful executives in soccer were arrested in Switzerland on Wednesday in what American prosecutors called a generations-long scheme to corrupt the most popular sport in the world."
* Deadly storms: "Rescue workers waded through receding floodwaters in southeastern Texas on Wednesday in search of other missing victims who may still be alive. But their efforts came as authorities revised the death toll higher -- identifying at least two more victims while another round of storms rolled through earlier in the morning."
* Probably the right move: "President Obama will put off a confrontation at the Supreme Court over his immigration executive actions, choosing not to ask for permission to carry out the programs while a fight over presidential authority plays out in the lower courts, officials said Wednesday."
* Arkansas: "A 2013 Arkansas law banning abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy has been permanently blocked by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in a decision issued Wednesday. The three-judge panel affirmed a district court's earlier decision finding the ban unconstitutional and placed a permanent injunction on the law, which was one of the strictest abortion prohibitions in the country."
"Nebraska has repealed the death penalty following a dramatic 30-19 vote to override the governor's veto" http://t.co/q8X4MK9WET— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 27, 2015
One party has become more extreme (and one hasn't)
Arguably no single development in American politics has mattered more in recent generations than the radicalization of the Republican Party. As anyone who's read Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein knows, the GOP's shift to the far-right has fundamentally remade the policy landscape and changed the nature of the political rules in ways nothing -- no scandal, no crisis, no war -- has in many decades.
At least, that's what all available evidence tells us. Peter Wehner, the White House director of "strategic initiatives" in the Bush/Cheney era, not only disagrees with the thesis, but actually suggests the evidence has it backwards -- it's Democrats, he claims, who've become more extreme. From his New York Times piece today:
Among liberals, it's almost universally assumed that of the two major parties, it's the Republicans who have become more extreme over the years. That's a self-flattering but false narrative.This is not to say the Republican Party hasn't become a more conservative party. It has. But in the last two decades the Democratic Party has moved substantially further to the left than the Republican Party has shifted to the right. On most major issues the Republican Party hasn't moved very much from where it was during the Gingrich era in the mid-1990s.
Intrigued, I dug into the piece, eager to see Wehner's proof. He noted, for example, that while many Democrats embraced a conservative approach to criminal-justice reform 20 years ago, most Dems are now widely concerned about the societal costs and effects of mass incarceration and police abuses.
I'm afraid Wehner hasn't fully thought this through. Democrats adopted a position, implemented it, and are now weighing changes after scrutinizing the results of their own policy. Plenty of Republicans agree with the Democratic conclusions, and support the same reforms. That's proof of a party that's become more extreme? Not by any definition I'm familiar with.
Well, maybe Wehner's piece just got off to a rough start. How about his second piece of evidence? The piece soon after complains that while Bill Clinton reformed welfare, President Obama created the Affordable Care Act.
Perhaps Wehner hasn't fully thought this through, either.
Rick Santorum is ready for his close-up (again)
At the Republican National Committee's spring meeting two weeks ago, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) was eager to remind party activists that over the last half-century, Republicans have nominated just three types of people for president. "No. 1, they were a vice president. No. 2, they were the son of a former president," Santorum said. "No. 3, they came in second place the election before, and ran again."
For Santorum, it was a self-serving observation -- he arguably came in second in 2012, winning 11 primaries and caucuses -- which happened to be true. If Republicans regularly turn to the "next in line" candidate, the former Pennsylvania senator has reason for optimism.
But realistically, that optimism is almost certainly misplaced. This report from NBC News' Perry Bacon Jr. rings true.
In the early stages of the race, key party officials and donors have bypassed Santorum to back other candidates, particularly ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In Iowa, where Santorum won in 2012 after visiting all 99 counties, some of his key backers in 2012 are already defecting to other candidates, particularly Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.Santorum, despite finishing second in 2012, is so low in national polls right now that he may be excluded from a debate Fox News is hosting in August.... That low standing suggests he built little of a national following during this 2012 campaign.
I re-read this morning the piece I wrote when Santorum quit in 2012, and I was reminded of his improbable success. The former senator, who suffered a humiliating re-election defeat in 2006, parlayed failure into an unfocused, underfunded national campaign that managed to win quite a few states in spite of itself.
But in hindsight, we can now say with confidence that Santorum's success was something of a mirage -- lingering far-right skepticism about Mitt Romney led conservatives to look for an alternative who occasionally spoke in complete sentences. Santorum fared pretty well, not because of his competence as a national candidate, but because he was a warm body not named Mitt Romney.
Four years later, as Republicans grow the largest major-party presidential field in American history, rank-and-file GOP voters have all kinds of choices -- and they've shown absolutely no interest in the former Pennsylvania senator whom they got to know pretty well the last time around.
Wednesday's Campaign Round-Up, 5.27.15
Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) appeared on msnbc this morning and held many in his party partially responsible for the rise of ISIS militants. "ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately, and most these arms were snatched up by ISIS," he said.
* Scott Walker suggested he's prepared to skip Florida's presidential primary, given the notable Floridians already running. "If we chose to get in, I don't think there's a state out there we wouldn't play in, other than maybe Florida, where Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are," Walker said yesterday,
* Bernie Sanders, who held a big campaign kickoff in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont, yesterday, has reportedly raised more than $4 million since announcing his candidacy in late April. Given that the independent senator doesn't take PAC money, that's a whole lot of small-dollar donors.
* Carly Fiorina apparently doesn't think highly of the Chinese. "I have been doing business in China for decades, and I will tell you that yeah, the Chinese can take a test, but what they can't do is innovate," she said. "They are not terribly imaginative. They're not entrepreneurial, they don't innovate, that is why they are stealing our intellectual property."
* The far-right Club for Growth has apparently taken an interest in Florida's Democratic Senate race. The group launched a new TV ad yesterday, criticizing Rep. Patrick Murphy's (D) support for the Export-Import Bank, while praising Rep. Alan Grayson's (D) opposition.
* Though there's been some scuttlebutt that Chris Christie might forgo the presidential race, those rumors appear to be wrong: he's scheduled a series of campaign stops in June in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Why Jeb Bush's line on Alzheimer's matters
Like most Republican presidential candidates, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R) tends to emphasize his support for cutting spending on most domestic priorities. But as NBC News reported yesterday, there are apparently exceptions to Bush's preferred approach.
Presidential candidate Jeb Bush says that the nation should increase funding to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease and should speed up the approval process for medications to treat it.The GOP presidential hopeful, who spoke last week about his mother-in-law's struggle with the disease, proposed the ideas to NBC News Special Anchor Maria Shriver during an email exchange.
Bush specifically said, "We need to increase funding to find a cure. We need to reform FDA [regulations] to accelerate the approval process for drug and device approval at a much lower cost. We need to find more community based solutions for care."
The former governor also tied his policy position to his own personal, family experiences. "My sister-in-law and husband are the caregivers for my now 95-year old mother-in-law," Bush added. "Columba helps all the time. She is a blessing from God."
To be sure, there's nothing wrong with this. Endorsing increased funding and related steps in the campaign against Alzheimer's is a perfectly reasonable position to take.
But in Bush's case, there are some notable angles to keep in mind. The Tampa Bay Times' Adam C. Smith, for example, noted that the Florida Republican's current position is likely to annoy the state lawmakers in both parties who "recall Bush vetoing their budget items targeting Alzheimer's research and care while at the same time approving tax cuts often mainly for the benefit of specific businesses or wealthier Floridians."
Smith noted several key measures, including Bush vetoing funding in 2003 for daycare centers in Boynton Beach serving 100 adults with Alzheimer's Disease, and then in 2004 also vetoing funding for construction of outpatient treatment centers connected with the University of South Florida's Alzheimer's Research Institute.
At the time, the Republican governor called it a "want," not a "need."
Rick Perry to GOP senators: Go home, run for governor
Republican senators running for president don't exactly have history on their side. The party has only elected one sitting senator to the White House -- Warren Harding, whose two-year term did not go well -- and only a handful have even won their party's nomination.
What's interesting now, with four sitting GOP senators (and one former senator) in the national mix, is how eager Republican governors are to keep the historical pattern alive.
On Friday, for example, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) told the Southern Republican Leadership Conference that the candidates "in Washington" are all "fighting the good fight," but "they haven't won a whole lot of victories." The message wasn't subtle: Cruz, Rubio, Rand Paul, et al, are fine, but they don't have any real accomplishments (unlike, say, Scott Walker).
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was even less guarded when making a similar point.
Former Texas governor Rick Perry has a message for three of the current Republican White House hopefuls: Run for governor before you run for president. Speaking about Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul, all three U.S. senators, Perry said in an interview last week with THE WEEKLY STANDARD that he's hearing from GOP voters that they want executive experience."I've had more than one individual say, 'You know what, if you want to be the president of the United States, you ought to go back to your home state and be the governor and get that executive experience before you go lead this country,'" said Perry.
At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Perry added, "Leadership's not just a speech on the Senate floor; it's a record of action."
What Marco Rubio sees as 'a real and present danger'
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has invested considerable energy in creating a specific political "brand": he's the young one in the Republican presidential field, offering a fresh, modern perspective, untethered to old assumptions and stale, 20th-century ideas.
It would be a far more compelling pitch if there weren't such a chasm between the message and the messenger. Consider, for example, the Republican senator's latest interview with radical TV preacher Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody, Rubio warned that gay marriage represents "a real and present danger" to America because gay rights advocates are bent on labeling any anti-gay messages, including those from churches, as "hate speech."
It stands to reason that when a GOP presidential candidate sits down for an interview with a televangelist's outlet, he or she is going to take some pretty hard lines in the hopes of impressing the religious right movement. But I'll admit to being a little surprised by just how far Rubio was willing to go with CBN.
"We are at the water's edge of the argument that mainstream Christian teaching is hate speech, because today we've reached the point in our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage, you are labeled a homophobe and a hater," Rubio argued with a straight face.
"So what's the next step after that? After they're done going after individuals, the next step is to argue that the teachings of mainstream Christianity, the catechism of the Catholic Church, is hate speech. And that's a real and present danger."
No, actually, it's not. In fact, it's rather alarming to hear a leading candidate for national office share such paranoia out loud and on camera.
Walker defends state-mandated, medically unnecessary ultrasounds
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) isn't the only far-right policymaker to push state-mandated, medically unnecessary ultrasounds. He is, however, arguably the most deliberately obtuse when it comes to understanding why the policy might be controversial.
Right Wing Watch reported yesterday on Walker's latest interview with conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch, and the governor's curious defense for his policy.
Walker told Loesch that criticism he received about the ultrasound bill was merely an attack from the "gotcha" media, and that he was in fact just trying to provide women with "a cool thing.""The thing about that, the media tried to make that sound like that was a crazy idea," he said. "Most people I talked to, whether they're pro-life or not, I find people all the time who'll pull out their iPhone and show me a picture of their grandkids' ultrasound and how excited they are, so that's a lovely thing. I think about my sons are 19 and 20, we still have their first ultrasounds. It's just a cool thing out there.""We just knew if we signed that law, if we provided the information that more people if they saw that unborn child would make a decision to protect and keep the life of that unborn child," he said.
Willful ignorance is an amazing thing.
This has been going on for quite a while -- long enough for the far-right governor to get a clue about the subject. In 2013, for example, Walker defended his policy by defending ultrasounds themselves. "I don't have any problem with ultrasound," he told reporters. "I think most people think ultrasounds are just fine."
A year later, Walker said the ultrasound policy simply provided "information." Now he thinks it's a "gotcha" story from the media, which suggests he doesn't know what those words mean, either.
It's hard to say with confidence whether the Wisconsin Republican is pretending to be dumb for political expedience or whether he's genuinely confused, but either way, it's probably worth setting the record straight.
Rand Paul's new book draws fire on its first day
There's nothing unusual about a sitting senator writing a book. About a third of the current Senate includes published authors, who've written books on policy, fiction, history, and even children's literature.
But has there ever been a senator quite as prolific as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)? In 2011, his first year in elected office, Paul authored, The Tea Party Goes to Washington. A year later, the Republican wrote an updated version of the book called, Not Politics As Usual, and then also released, Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds.
This week, Paul released his latest book, Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America, and in the fall, the senator's publisher said yet another Paul book, Our Presidents & Their Prayers: Proclamations of Faith by America's Leaders, will hit bookshelves.
It's astounding, isn't it? Rand Paul has time to be a U.S. senator, tend to constituent needs, attend committee hearings, participate in debates, maintain a high public profile, appear in media, travel, prepare a presidential campaign, and still churn out one book after another. A cynic might question whether the Kentucky lawmaker is actually writing any of them.
Of course, as BuzzFeed noticed, just because the Republican is releasing books doesn't mean the books tell the truth.
The publisher behind Rand Paul's new book will update future editions to correct a mistake: The book misstates the number of people killed in the Benghazi attack. [...]"I believe judgment day for Benghazi is also at hand," writes Paul. "When the secretary of state answers a question concerning the murders of six Americans, including an American ambassador, by saying, 'What difference, at this point, does it make?' I think that's a pretty clear indication that it's time for that person to go."
This is actually two glaring errors at once. As Paul -- or his possible ghost writer -- should know, four Americans were murdered in Libya. What's more, Hillary Clinton did not say, "What difference, at this point, does it make?" in reference to the slayings.
Wait, it gets worse.
Putting 'one person, one vote' on the line
Conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court have already undermined some important pillars of modern American life. Is the "one-person, one-vote" principle next? The answer, as of yesterday, is maybe.
The high court announced yesterday that the justices will hear arguments in a case called Evenwel v. Abbott. As Adam Liptak summarized:
The case, a challenge to voting districts for the Texas Senate, was brought by two voters, Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger. They are represented by the Project on Fair Representation, the small conservative advocacy group that successfully mounted the earlier challenge to the Voting Rights Act. It is also behind a pending challenge to affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.In the new case, the challengers said their voting power had been diluted. "There are voters or potential voters in Texas whose Senate votes are worth approximately one and one-half times that of appellants," their brief said.
Under the status quo, legislative districts are based on total populations: the Census counts the number of people and lines are drawn accordingly.
But some conservatives want a more restrictive model. Counting everyone, they argue, ends up including people who can't vote -- noncitizens, ex-felons, and those under the age of 18 -- which skews district lines. It's better, the right insists, to look exclusively at the number of eligible and/or registered voters.
And why are they pushing this change? Because, as elections-law expert Rick Hasen explained yesterday, "A ruling that states may not draw legislative district lines taking total population into account will benefit rural voters over urban voters, and that will benefit Republicans over Democrats."
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Question: I bought a home in California in 2005. There is a first mortgage on the home with a balance of $250k and a second mortgage with a balance of $60k. Our home is now worth only about $150k, and that's on a good day. Over the past couple of months our business has not been doing to well and we have now missed a couple payments on our second loan. We have been reading many stories of other homeowners that were able to settle their 2nd loans for less than what is owed.
Should I negotiate a settlement of my second mortgage?
Answer: If you are considering trying a settlement on your second mortgage because you can no longer afford the monthly payments and you owe more than your house is worth, by all means go for it. But please keep in mind that they are very tough to settle.
In the recent past, there were some mortgage lenders offering settlements on these loans ranging anywhere from 5-50% of the outstanding balance. It seemed that lenders were well aware that because of our current financial crisis, many homeowners can no longer maintain two mortgage payments each month, and many like yourself are draining their savings just to keep up. However, times have changed and these same lenders have been playing hard ball with down on their luck borrowers.
Many lenders are now unwilling to work out a deal to settle these 2nd loans. The new method of operation by loan servicers is to charge this debt off and sell it to investors on the secondary market for the same price they could have settled with the current borrower.
But some borrowers are still able to negotiate successfully with their servicers or the new collection company. This is doable and you will need some good negotiating skills to manage this process.
One would think that since home values have dropped so much in value, that your second mortgage holder cannot collect any proceeds if your home went into foreclosure. Because of this, it would make perfect sense to secure the settlement, but that is simply not the case in this market.
Everyone is aware of loan modifications as they are still the number one solution to help an individual like yourself avoid foreclosure. However, you will soon come to find that a modification does not come with ease. The loan modification process has to be one of the longest and most stressful processes one will ever endure, especially when trying to modify a second mortgage. Because your second is typically a much smaller payment, and with a modification only lowering the interest rate, this assistance might not be enough to put you at ease.
Be aware that many 2nd mortgage holders may be willing to negotiate a settlement on the loan, especially if the loan is underwater. Since you have now missed a couple of payments this is the perfect time to submit an application for the settlement. The application process will be exactly like the modification application as you will have to provide your bank statements, paystubs, tax returns, and a hardship letter explaining the hardships that have caused you to pursue this option.
Generally, some lenders will work with you on a settlement once you start falling behind. But for some they will be stern to negotiate until he account is charged off and then sent to a collection agency. I would definitely suggest applying for the settlement with your lender, and if they do not assist you, start negotiating with the collection agency as soon as the debt is charged off.
You will need to come up with a fair price to offer your lender when applying, and this will need to be included in your hardship letter you send in. Most professionals suggest to start out with a low offer like 5% and slowly work your way up until you can negotiate an agreeable amount. We have seen many people able to settle these loans for as little as 10-20% of the outstanding balance.
I would also like to encourage you to join our free forum here on LoanSafe.org. We are a community of over 32,000 professionals and homeonwers alike. Here you will find all the tips and information you can possible need about trying to settle your second, or other strategies to help you prevent foreclosure, if it comes down to that.

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I am going to start with a number and repeatedly take inventories of the digits in it. For example, if I start with 1531, then I read this as "one 1, one 5, one 3, one 1", which can be written as an inventory of 11151311. This new list has "three 1s, one 5, one 1, one 3, two 1s" and so has an inventory of 3115111321. This list, in turn, has an inventory of 13211531131211, and so on. Notice that in this last case, the original number appears as part of a subsequent inventory (as underlined).
Find another four-figure number with the same property - one that appears as part of a subsequent inventory. Your original number must be a palindrome and its digits must add up to a two-figure number.
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by Walter Chaw The pinnacle of Fritz Lang's American noir output, The Big Heat vacillates between hard-bitten and surprisingly tender. A movie of dualities, it positions Glenn Ford's Det. Sgt. Bannion on the liminal borders between dialectic states: he presents a familiar hardboiled veneer on the one side, a broken, exhausted, eventually devastated family man on the other. The picture partitions noir bodily, forcefully into the margins of the gender divide, and it confronts, full-on, the popular conception of the '50s nuclear family. It appears fully formed, an irritant to the hegemony of the American myth of nuclear/consumer nirvana, and it suggests that the cultural upheaval that would result in the helter-skelter '60s started showing its fatigue early. The Big Heat is Rebel Without a Cause, except the mother is killed and the gay kid lives.


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PLATTSBURGH — It's time to hear the buzzer and watch the chairs turn around once again for "The Voice" winners Danielle Bradbery and The Swon Brothers as they will be performing at this year's Clinton County Fair, along with many others.
Bradbery, winner, and The Swon Brothers, third place winner, from NBC's hit "The Voice" Season 4 will be performing a two-hour show beginning at 7:30 p.m.
"We are going to put on the best Swoncert that you guys have ever seen around here," said Colton Swon from The Swon Brothers. "There's going to be lots of energy, and we can't wait to get there."
The Swon Brothers are an American country music duo from Muskagee, OK, who stayed under Blake Shelton's wing throughout the competition. Even though they received third place, they were the first duo to make it from the Top 12 live shows to the season finale. They went on to sign a record deal with Arista Nov. 1, 2013, and released their first official single, "Later On," the following month.
"It's just what we were born to do, as cliche as it sounds," said Zach Swon from The Swon Brothers. "We've done it for so long, and we started when we could make noise, and it was something that was natural for us.
"I guarantee that it's the funnest thing that we've ever done and ever will do, and we will probably do it until the day we die."
The other country singer winner is Bradbery from Cypress, Texas. She became the youngest contestant to come in first place also under the watchful eye of Blake Shelton. After signing with Big Machine Records, she released her debut studio album, Danielle Bradbery, Nov. 25, 2013, featuring the hit single "The Heart of Dixie."
The show will take place on the Casella Stage at the Sample Lumber Co. Waste Management LLC and D.S. Specialties, Inc. Grandstands.
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CINCINNATI Research led by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has revealed new clues into what causes different types of a particularly aggressive group of blood cancers known as mixed lineage leukemias (MLL) and how the disease might be treated, according to a study in the June 9 issue of Cancer Cell.
"We document early biological processes where human leukemia stem cells can be altered to form a particular type, or lineage, of leukemia by the factors they are exposed to in the microenvironment of blood-forming tissues," said James Mulloy, Ph.D., a researcher in the division of Experimental Hematology/Cancer Biology at Cincinnati Children's and the study's corresponding author. "These new details about molecular events associated with MLL, and the new mouse model we developed for the study, will allow testing of novel therapeutic strategies for MLL patients. They will also yield information that may be directly translatable into clinical interventions."
Leukemia is the most common blood cancer and includes several diseases, according to the National Cancer Institute. The four major types are acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
Mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) results when chromosome mutations involving the MLL gene fuse with certain partner genes. These so-called translocations result in the MLL gene being rearranged to send instructions to create either AML or ALL. This process can start before birth, and while MLL translocations are associated with 7 percent of AML cases and 10 percent of ALL cases, they are found in a majority of infants with acute leukemia. In some instances the clinical disease is diagnosed within a few months of birth.
Dr. Mulloy and his colleagues discovered that disrupting a protein known to regulate cell growth (Rac1) has potential for curbing MLL. The discovery came about a
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Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Romney with big SC lead
by Paul Burka
Sun January 15, 2012 8:45 am
How they stand in SC:
Romney 37
Paul 16
Santorum 16
Gingrich 12
Perry 6
Huntsman 3
The attacks on Romney's role and tactics at Bain Capital did not hurt him. They will be heard again in the general election. The only thing the attacks accomplished was to strengthen Obama and weaken Romney. There is no longer any suspense about who the Republican nominee is going to be. Romney's impending victory in South Carolina takes all the air out of the Florida primary.
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Teenager injured in assault outside Barrow post office
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an assault outside a post office in Barrow.
Police probe Millom burglary
POLICE have appealed for information after a property was burgled in Millom.
UPDATE: Family and friends pay tribute to man found dead in Windermere
FRIENDS of a man found dead in Windermere yesterday have said he will be "sadly missed".
Barrow council to recover costs of beached car removal
A COUNCIL is actively working to recover the costs of more than £1,100 to remove a sunken car from a popular Furness beach.
Barrow death not believed to be suspicious
THE body of a young man was found in a Barrow flat last night, police have confirmed.
Ulverston woman to take on 35 fells after brother's cancer fight
A MOTHER-OF-TWO is taking on 35 fells over a course of five days to raise money for a charity which cared for her brother during his battle with cancer.
Maggie and Chaz need to be rehomed
ONE animal charity has set itself a special challenge but with good reason.
Young Charlie is a handful
CHARLIE is the most adorable little character and full of fun.
Former floating nightclub set to leave Barrow for Denmark
AN iconic part of the Barrow community is set to depart for new shores later this month.
PHOTOS: South Cumbria racegoers enjoy historic Sunday of racing
THE going was good for an historic first ever Sunday of racing in south Cumbria, which looks set to be a firm favourite with punters.
PHOTOS: Walney Energy for Life fun run attracts hundreds of runners
AN event which helps the community of Furness keep fit welcomed hundreds of runners despite the bad weather.
South Cumbria braced for "heatwaves and thunderstorms" as tropical weather arrives
BARROW is braced for blistering sun and baking heat as a summer heatwave heads to south Cumbria.
Well done to all who took part in the Energy for Life Walney Family Fun Run
THE fifth annual Energy for Life Walney Family Fun Run saw more than 350 people defy the rain to complete laps of Biggar Bank.
Boxing Star to inspire females in Barrow through Olympic and Paralympic legacy project
A BRITISH boxing star is set to pack a punch at Barrow Amateur Boxing Club.
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RELIABLE centre-back Danny Livesey will sign a new two-year Barrow AFC deal tomorrow.
'Exceptional' Barrow teacher nominated for award
A TEACHER described as exceptional and a credit to her school has been nominated for a county-wide education award. (2 comments)
Chance to honour stars - and unsung heroes - of education in Cumbria
WE mark this week's return to school by launching the 2015 Golden Apple awards – our annual celebration honouring the best in education and training across Cumbria.
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ORGANISERS have praised the community spirit which has continued to drive the success of an annual initiative aimed at helping people get fit.
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I'm getting older. It's a sad fact of life, but there you go. How do I know? I know because when I was sent this link I genuinely thought it was brilliant. Not because of its clever programming (it hasn't got any). Not because of its amazing graphics (it hasn't got any of those either). I thought it was brilliant because I knew exactly what it was for. That's because I listen to Radio 2.
There. I've said it.
Many a morning I've spent in the company of Ken Bruce (Terry Wogan's a bit early for me) and his Popmaster quiz is a popular feature. Of course, you can keep score using paper and pencil - but where's the fun in that?
This site allows you to hit "right" or "wrong" as you answer the questions and then tallies up your final score. If you register, it will keep track of your results to give you an average.
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In addition to Hadley, Meet the Press featured interviews with Senators Carl Levin and John Warner. In addition to platitudes on Iraq, they also opined on Bush's nominee to replace Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. When asked whether or not he will be confirmed next week, Levin said "I think it's likely he'll be confirmed, but it's very important that there be a thorough process, and I want to give our chairman credit for making sure that there is a thorough process." Warner punted, saying "I think--I say with a great deal of confidence that our committee will do a very thorough job on Tuesday. I hope we can vote the nomination out at the conclusion of a long, open session to be followed by a closed session, and that on Wednesday, there'll be, at the direction of our leadership, a floor debate and a vote."
Fox News Sunday featured interviews with senators Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham, both of whom said they would support Gates's nomination. Graham also laid out his vision for Iraq, and reminded the audience what exactly is at stake in Iraq. "We need to respond to the agenda of our enemy. If we redeploy to a friendly nation under these circumstances, the terrorists will see that as retreat and defeat, and they will come after us in that friendly nation. They will say 'Aha, we got them to break and leave in Iraq, they've gone to this new country [where] they think they are safe. Well we're going to show America you're not safe. If you want to be safe America, leave the region to us. Let us have our way in this region. If you want to be safe, give us Israel.' That's their agenda. So we've got to win in Iraq. And any strategy that unites the country and we lose, I'm against. I'd rather be divided as a nation and win then united as a nation and lose."
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There seems to be an increasing amount of rhetoric about government spending — how much of it there is, whether or not it's affordable, the extent to which Obama is bankrupting the nation, that government spending is "crowding out" what the private sector might spend, etc., etc. So, does it wash?
Most readers will have already picked up on the fact that I've taken to using the "indexing" feature at FRED, as it allows for level-playing-field, apples-to-apples comparisons of various metrics over different time periods. For a variety of reasons, such comparisons are sometimes hard to make, but without them it is often difficult to contextualize data. A great introduction to indexing is provided here at the website of the Dallas Fed (Indexing 101, if you'll pardon the bad joke).
That said, exactly what has been going on with government spending over the last five presidencies (FGCE at FRED)?
(As always, click through for ginormous. Indexed periods are started at Q1 of each president's term and run through Q1 of the following president's term.)
While the chart above provides the big picture (no pun intended) on federal spending, I know the immediate criticism will be that – for reasons that get far too political to discuss here – we need to strip out defense spending. Agreed. So let's do exactly that, and revisit the chart looking at only nondefense spending (FNDEFX):
Not to leave anyone in suspense, here's the scorecard five quarters from the inaugural quarter (i.e. 100 at inauguration through the sixth quarter of the presidency):
- Reagan — 100.9
- Bush Sr. — 115.6
- Clinton — 100.2
- Bush Jr. — 115.1
- Obama — 109.5
More on this file when we get the third quarter GDP numbers later this month, but it would appear the facts speak for themselves.
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In the The Fiscal Times, Bruce Bartlett takes a well deserved swipe at the neocon deficit hawks who refuse to even consider cutting anything in the department: "Establishment conservatives love to talk about the need to cut government spending, but they always seem to find an excuse whenever there is a serious effort to actually…Read More
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I mentioned this morning that Jeff Hirsch is the anti-Prechter — forecasting a wild $38K Dow in 2025. (Discussed this AM here, with Jeff's full piece here) Jeff and I are in the same secular bear market camp; However, he argues that the current secular Bear market will end ~18 years after the last secular…Read More
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Each year, I try to avoid writing anything about 9/11. But I had some issues to work through this year, and I find jotting a few notes down helps me. My personal experience on 9/11 was secondhand. I was in the LI office of the firm where I was Market Strategist. Our HQ and trading…Read More
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I have always been fascinated by the Tony Blair paradox. On the one hand, he seems like an intelligent, articulate, thoughtful politician (at least from NY).
On the other hand, he dragged Britain into George W. Bush's ruinous war of choice in Iraq. Sold to the public — in both GB and the US — on false pretenses, it cost both nations a fortune in blood and treasure.
I am tempted to read his book, A Journey: My Political Life, if for no other reason than to find out why. Not that I expect honesty in any politician's memoirs, but I am especially curious about this conundrum.
I am less than enthralled with Blair'sdiscussions on the financial crisis — at first glance, they seem to be hackneyed clichés. For the most part, he makes bad excuses. But worse, he doesn't seem to understand what happened, didn't see it coming, and is utterly lacking in economic insight.
All the usual excuses — "no one saw it coming, but it was not a failure of free markets" — are classic political after the fact excuse making. Expecting economic insight from any politician is like asking a prostitute for her insight into love: You are bound to be disappointed.
As to the war, consider this excerpt from the WSJ:
What is the nature of the threat? It does not derive from something we have done; there was no sense in which the West sought a confrontation. This is essential to the argument. The attacks of Sept. 11 came to most of our citizens as a shock that was utterly unforeseen. Countries like America and Britain were not singling out Muslims for unfair treatment; and insofar as Muslims were caught up in generalized racism towards those of a different race or color, such attitudes were on the way out, not the way in.
The extremism we fear is a strain within Islam. It is wholly contrary to the proper teaching of Islam, but it can't be denied that its practitioners act with reference to their religion. I feel we too often shy away from this assertion, as if it stigmatizes all Muslims. But if it is true—and it is—it has to be faced, not just because it is true, but because otherwise we don't analyze the problem or attain the solution properly. If it is a strain within Islam, the answer lies, in part at the very least, also within Islam. The eradication of that strain can be affected by what we outside Islam do; but it can only be actually eliminated by those within Islam.
Here is where the root of the problem lies. The extremists are small in number, but their narrative—which sees Islam as the victim of a scornful West externally, and an insufficiently religious leadership internally—has a far bigger hold. Indeed, such is the hold that much of the current political leadership feels impelled to go along with this narrative for fear of losing support.
This is a situation with practical consequences. Iraq and Afghanistan are seen as the West's battles. With a few notable distinctions, this is not perceived as a struggle for the heart and soul of Islam. Yet the outcome is surely vastly determinative of such a struggle.
I have my criticisms of Israel and my ideas of to how to make progress. But leave aside for a moment the details of the peace process. As I started to spend more time in Palestine, I was surprised to find it is often easier to raise money for the "resistance" than to fund the patient but essential process of Palestinian state-building. Israel can and should do more to push forward the necessary changes on the ground—the West Bank and Gaza—that can underpin the peace process. However, it is also true that if the Palestinian cause gave up violence emphatically and without ambiguity, there would be a peace agreement within the year. Not enough voices in the Muslim world are asking them to.
It is America today that leads the challenge to Iran and its nuclear ambitions. But let us be frank: Iran is a far more immediate threat to its Arab neighbors than it is to America. It is of course a threat to us, too, but this is partly because of what a nuclear-armed Iran would mean for the Middle East, rather than as a direct threat.
The problem is this: Defeating the visible and terrifying manifestations of religious extremism is not enough. Indeed I would go further: This extremism won't be defeated simply by focusing on the extremists alone. It is the narrative that has to be assailed. It has to be avowed, acknowledged; then taken on, inside and outside Islam. It should not be respected. It should be confronted, disagreed with, argued against on grounds of politics, security and religion.
Our people say, "How long are you seriously saying we should hold out?" If, in the 1950s, when faced with the threat of revolutionary Communism, I had asked you how long you expected us to fight it, you would have answered: As long as the threat exists. If I had said it may be for decades, you would have raised an eyebrow, as if to say: Well, if the threat remains for decades, what choice have we? In other words, you would have seen this as a clearly defined threat to our security that left us no alternative but to take it on and beat it. Of course, there were those who said "Better red than dead," but that was surely one of the least appealing slogans to the human spirit ever devised, and only a minority bought it. Most people realized the threat was real and had to be confronted, however long it took.
The difficulty with this present battle lies in defining what "it" is. After Sept. 11 the phrase "the war on terror" was used. People distrusted this, partly for its directness, partly because it seemed too limited. So we dropped it. Yet if what we are fighting is not a war, what is it?"
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David R. Kotok Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Mid-August Bullets August 22, 2010 > Middle East geopolitics raise the fear quotient. The Obama administration's response to Middle East tension remains a mixed message. Israel faces another "flotilla" plus the Iranian nuke threat. For Prime Minister Netanyahu, this is a two-front geopolitical war that can threaten…Read More
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Debka via UBS' s Andy Lees (in London) by way of Art Cashin in NY: Geopolitics – Debka file reports that the announcement that Russia is set to activate Iran's first nuclear power station by loading the fuel on August 21st has caused a major flap in Israel as it is reported that Russia has…Read More
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You know I am a sucker for these sorts of infographics: > Chart courtesy of NYT > Source: The War: A Trillion Can Be Cheap ELISABETH BUMILLER NYT, July 24, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/weekinreview/25bumiller.html
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Huge investigative piece in the Washington Post into "A hidden world growing beyond control" — National Security Inc. — about the massive expansion of the private and government intelligence and counterterrorism activities. What was historically sensitive government-only activities has been outsourced to for-profit vendors, with a variety of problems associated with this: "To ensure that…Read More
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Burn down the disco. Hang the blessed DJ. Because the music that he constantly plays, it says nothing to me about my life.
M2 you make some great points. But I think the bottom line is how many people - especially kids and teens - are going to watch soccer in person and on TV? I've read you guys' posts about English soccer and how exciting it is compared to soccer in other countries. Problem is, this isn't England. You still have a game where you have guys passing the ball back and forth and seemingly nothing happens. Then from outside the penalty box someone gets a shot on goal and it's usually a floater the keeper can corral without a problem. I just don't think kids and adults are going to sit around and watch something with so little action no matter how many stars you import. Especially when, as you said, there are so many other choices.
When I was a kid we didn't have cable TV. I loved sports so when any sporting activity was on I'd watch it. Basketball, football, baseball, of course, hockey, wrestling - both pro and college and, yes, even soccer. I remember when Pele and Beckenbauer and Chinaglia came to the Cosmos and played in Giants Stadium. I have a vague recollection of a soccer game at the Orange Bowl in Miami where they played on the artificial turf of the football field and kept the football markings on it. Kind of weird seeing soccer played on a football field. I also remember watching soccer on public TV from England, I believe. I didn't know who the teams were and I didn't care as long as it was sports, I watched it. But I couldn't go to England and watch it. I didn't know who the players were and it made it tough to develop a rooting interest. I can still remember the announcer's name: Toby Charles, but I couldn't remember any players' names. And the stars from the Cosmos soon retired and after that, TV coverage was about nil, as Mr. Charles would put it. No TV coverage, no league and no soccer to watch for little old me.
The TV coverage is key. Sure, you can stick MLS on the Ocho and draw maybe a little better than the WNBA but advertisers aren't going to shell out big bucks to TV networks if people aren't watching the product. And even if it's July and Beckham and the Galaxy are on ESPN or ABC people are going to watch the Yankees and the Red Sox on Fox. I imagine it's going to keep chugging along. There's enough channels out there to put it on and keep people who really enjoy it watching. But I don't believe it's ever going to be big time no matter who is playing because it's just not the kind of sport that is going to keep the kids riveted in front of their TVs.
The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
Chip, I think your points are valid, but I also think they represent that old school way of thinking that one has to cater to the suburban TV-watching public in order for a sport to gain traction nationally. People note low ratings for MLS games, but they don't take into account the games being watched on Univision or other Spanish language channels. You have that revenue stream in addition to what you have on ESPN and ABC. If MLS teams are able to start competing in the international tournaments on a regular basis, I think you'll see that interest grow. I will give the MLS credit as well, that adding Beckham does raise its profile internationally. Now the MLS might see more of their games carried outside of the country. It's more than just marketing to soccer moms and their soccer playing kids.
As far as your typical American sports fan, I think they need to work to get more people out to the games. It's hard for someone who has little exposure to soccer to get a feel for the ebb and flow of the game merely from watching it on TV. It's way better as an "in person" sport than it is as a TV sport, at least if you have the right kind of fans. I went to a Chicago Fire game back in 2000 or 2001 and it was really pretty crazy how the supporters section had cheers and songs going for the full 90 minutes of the game. I thought it was pretty awesome even at Soldier Field, which was half-empty at the time. I can only imagine what it would be like in one of those 20,000 seat soccer-only stadiums. It wasn't quite to the level of the Austria Salzburg fans, but it was still pretty intense.
In any case, the MLS just has to keep building a base of strong supporters. Once they get a sufficient level of people who strongly support the sport, the casual fans will come along to find out what all the hubbub is about.
Burn down the disco. Hang the blessed DJ. Because the music that he constantly plays, it says nothing to me about my life.
One idea I've always liked is some sort of cross-pollination between the MFL and MLS. There would be no better way to galvanize interest in the American league then by establishing some sort of cup or challenge competition against the Morelias, Pumas, and Americas of the world.
Perhaps an 8-team Mexican-American Cup or the like. And if we could get at least a qualifying chance at Libertadores, that would be colossal as well.
(And yes, I'm aware of the CONCACAF Champions League but it's frankly a sideshow and neither the US or Mexican teams seem to ever field full strength squads)
They've been talking about soccer catching on in this country for twenty years.
The NFL has the best product going, I think it would be tough to see football go by the wayside in favor of soccer.
The money is insane. We have been laughing about all the hype over here. Great right foot though. It will be strange for him to be able to be the main set peice taker now he hasn't got all the the real superstars to fight with.
Also speaking about Freddy Adu, did you know Man Utd rejected him after a recent trial in Manchester .
Man U (or the EPL as a whole) is the last place Freddy should be going.
I pray he ends up in the Primera at a mid-level club where he can best develop into the #10 the USA needs so desperately.
There was some talk a while back of Ronaldo playing for the Metrostars. Could see the likelihood of that occurring ratcheting up considerably after the Becks move.
This thread alone has over 500 views and 50 replies, it's coming whether you like it or not, because 30 years ago it was a blip on the screen compared to now. Plus no one said Soccer has to only take on the NFL.
I guess you better wake up from that deep
The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
I thin Beckham will find that people care about 1000 times less here than they did in Europe. We haven't had an US-equivalent athlete as far as exposure goes compared to Beckham. He might find that refreshing, but he might wind up begging to go back to Europe. Either way, I'm glad to see a big name player coming to the MLS while he's still got something left, even if it's not that much.
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The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
Chip, I figure soccer will steadily get more popular over time. I doubt it's going to have a singular breakout moment. Like I said before, the English and Mexican leagues will probably remain more popular in the U.S. than MLS. I certainly expect soccer will be more popular than hockey at some point. I think it could become as popular as basketball in a few decades.
But I do expect the typical American sports fan is going to change from today's standard model and any change probably won't benefit football.
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Make that a thing.
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Dan added a bug in Bug TrackerIPS\Request::url() doesn't work on servers where REQUEST_URI doesn't include the query string...On my (nginx) server, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] does not include the query string, so the url() method ends up working like so:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = string(31) "/forums/admin/install/index.php" $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = string(23) "controller=applications" $path = string(31) "/forums/controller=applications"Obviously, this isn't a "proper" fix for the issue, but I just put in this bit of code (after your $path = line) to fix it:
if (stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) === false) { $path = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; }
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Dan added a post in a topic Social Networks loginJust a quick question - How hard are these sign in methods to implement? I'm thinking of setting up a forum, but would need Github as a sign in option.
Dan added a post in a topic Heartbleed and IPBI think Greenlinks is referring to the idea that if you can steal someone's session ID by exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability, you can gain access to other people's accounts within IP.Board by hijacking their session, and is looking for mitigations for that.
I guess this is where session IP validation would come in, if you're particularly paranoid about man-in-the-middle attacks, but there's very little else IP.Board could do.
Dan added a post in a topic IPS 4.0 backward compatibility
I think this is your key misunderstanding, which is logical, but still incorrect. Whilst it would certainly be possible to maintain near 100% backwards compatibility if IP.Board included a specific app-facing API, wrapped around the core logic that actually makes things happen, that is not the case.
In IP.Board (and all competing products,) any part of the software can be used as an API. Third party developers have the ability to extend and modify *any* class within the system, as well as hooking into specific points within templates and pre-defined data hooks. In theory, certain data hooks could be maintained as part of a rewrite, and there could be an intermediary layer allowing "old style" plugins to continue working where they only use those data hooks. However, by their very nature, plugins that hook into core classes within the platform couldn't possibly work if that class no longer exists. The same applies to hooking into templates, if that template (or the part of it you were relying on) is no longer there, how can it be hooked into?
It is very different developing a piece of forum software than it is developing firmware (or even, for example, a ReST API.) In the latter case you pre-define everything you want to expose, you know what you need to maintain and how to maintain it. It's just not possible to do that when you allow developers limitless access to the core of your application.
Dan added a comment on a blog entry 4.0 - Rethinking XML Handling
That's fighting talk. :p
I think the support folk would agree that your sentence should end "That will no longer happen in 4.x (except when it does.)" GoDaddy and XTREME MEGA HOSTING will make sure of it.
Dan added a post in a topic Use SQL Timestamp & Datetime for dates in 4.0I agree on the front of using DATE/DATETIME columns in SQL, they're more commonly accepted as the standard for storing dates these days - There was a time when you'd be seen as a crazy person for doing so, but that time has passed. All of the major frameworks use DateTime in PHP and the appropriate DATE types in MySQL now.
ENUMs, however, I disagree with. They're fine if you're going to use MySQL strict mode, but in a situation where you can't control that (as IPS is,) I wouldn't go near them. In anything other than strict mode, MySQL will silently fail if you pass an invalid value for an ENUM column, storing a blank value in the database - they just can't be trusted.
The biggest improvement I could see for the IPS suite in terms of using the database is properly using foreign keys (incl. the ON UPDATE / DELETE functionality) and, where fitting, triggers. It can save an awful lot of code.
Dan added a comment on a blog entry 4.0 - Javascript frameworkNeato.
I like the look of this. :)
Dan added a comment on a blog entry 4.0 - Login Handlers
I'm sure I'm rehashing (har har!) old discussions here, but why are you targeting an already end-of-life version of PHP as your baseline for a brand new version?
Dan added a comment on a blog entry 4.0 - Login HandlersIs there a reason you opted not to use the new built-in password_hash() method in PHP? There's a library that provides compatibility to older versions: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat
Dan added a comment on a blog entry 4.0 - Dev IntroductionOut of interest, how have you guys implemented monkey patching? I assume you're still allowing for multiple hooks to extend any given class?
Dan added a comment on a blog entry Introducing IPS Backup ServiceThis sounds pretty awesome!
How does the service get initialised in the first place, for a pre-existing database? Do you send a full SQL dump to the service?
Dan added a post in a topic IP SEO - Options not to track visitors and keywords
I don't work at IPS any more, but I do believe they are currently working on an upgrade to IP.SEO for IP.Board 3.3. :)
Dan added a post in a topic IP SEO - Options not to track visitors and keywordsAssuming it hasn't changed since I last saw it, you can just disable that one hook and the rest of IP.SEO will continue to work fine without it. :)
Dan added a post in a topic Dan what are you doing?
I no longer work for IPS, so I don't know what the status of this project is, nor what is going to happen to it going forward.
Sorry guys.
Dan added a post in a topic Suggestion - Improve the "Manage ACP Restrictions"Have you seen this blog entry?
If it doesn't cover what you're suggesting, can you please provide a little more detail. It's not clear what you want changing.


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Black Sea Tour 2011 - 2up on a Transalp
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Day 10 Giresun Sinop 360 km
The first 200 km to Samsun were on the good 4 lane coastal road, then it turn into a 2 lane road. In Samsun there are 2 options: one is to take a sort of ring around the city, and the other one is to stay on the coastal road and ride through the city. We took the second option. It was wrong.
Of course the fuel line broke again. Fixit and ride on.
80 km before Sinop the road narrows again for 50 km, and with 20 km left to Sinop it gets good again.
Side stand contact broke so I switched on direct. It is like that ever since.
The road has spectacular views of the Black Sea.
In Sinop we had no reservation and most of the places where full. We find a hotel, a bit expensive (130 lira) with breakfast included.
The legend say that Sinope, daughter of the river god Asopus, outwittedZeus. He wanted to marry her, and promised she could have "anything she wanted." She requested eternal virginity, and Zeus, outwitted, allowed her to enjoy it here on this promontory giving the town its name.
Sinop is known also for the attack of Imperial Russian Navy over the Ottoman fleet in 1853 which was in port there. The "massacre of Sinop" was one of the events precipitat-ing the Crimean War (1853-1854) in which Great Britain and France fought with the Ottoman Empire against the Russian Empire.
Also the Cynic philosopher Diogenes (c. 412-323 BC), who carried around a lantern "looking for a good man" (and not finding one), was born in Sinop.
We visited the Kale and the port and had a less than impressive dinner at Saray restau-rant (supposedly famous for fish dishes). The City is very small and its made famous by model wooden boat. You can find then anywhere in the city.
Black Sea Tour 2011 - 2up on a Transalp
Romania - Ukraine - Russia - Turkey - Bulgaria - Romania
- a 17 days ride in the Balkans
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