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An injection molding process for making a multiple layer, plastic structure. A plastic sleeve is placed and then enclosed in a mold cavity. A flowing heated plastic is conducted into the mold cavity, radially inside the sleeve, and forced radially outward against the sleeve. The flowing plastic forces the sleeve outward and forms, with the sleeve, an integrally bonded laminated structure. The mold is opened and the plastic structure is removed, and this structure may then be reformed to form a container particularly suitable for containing beverages, foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
1. A preform for a beverage container comprising:
a neck portion, a sidewall portion including an inner layer integrally connected to said neck portion and a bottom portion integrally connected to said sidewall portion to form a one piece preform, said sidewall portion including a generally cylindrical pre-extruded plastic sleeve outer layer integrally bonded to said inner layer to form a preform having a laminated sidewall and single layer non-laminated neck and bottom portions, wherein said neck portion includes one or more threads to receive a cap.
2. The preform of claim 1 wherein said inner and outer layers are made of different plastic materials.
3. The preform of claim 2 where said outer layer is made of recycled PET.
4. The preform of claim 1 wherein the neck, sidewall and bottom portions are made of PET.
5. The preform of claim 1 where the plastic sleeve has a low gas permeability.
6. The preform of claim 1 wherein the plastic sleeve includes a lower portion that slants radially inwardly forming a conically-shaped portion.
7. The preform of claim 1 wherein the plastic sleeve includes a lower portion that curves radially inwardly.
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/137,888, filed Oct. 15, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,443,767, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/951,319, filed Sep. 25, 1992, now abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/546,093, filed Jun. 29, 1990, now abandoned, which is a divisional of Ser. No. 07/238,979, filed Aug. 25, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,942,008, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 06/753,402, filed Jul. 10, 1985, now abandoned.
This invention generally relates to processes for manufacturing plastic structures and to containers made from those structures. More specifically, the invention relates to a process for manufacturing laminated plastic structures via an injection molding process and to containers, especially well suited for holding carbonated beverages, foods and chemicals, made from those plastic structures.
Plastic containers are often used to hold carbonated beverages, and in fact, their use for this purpose has steadily grown over the past few years. While many plastics may be used for carbonated beverage containers, polyethylene terephthalate (referred to herein as PET) has achieved a major role in this area because, when manufactured properly, it has many desirable characteristics such as low cost, light weight, durability and rigidity.
Most of the excellent physical properties of PET become evident only when the resin is stretch-molded into a bi-axially oriented condition, and the majority of PET bottles produced for carbonated beverages are manufactured by, first, molding a PET preform via an injection molding process, and second, reforming the preform into the final desired shape. With most PET containers a different machine is employed in each of these two manufacturing steps; however, a significant number of bi-axially oriented PET bottles are also formed in one apparatus having a plurality of positions or stations. Some PET containers not requiring high mechanical properties are produced via conventional injection blow molding and have little or no molecular orientation.
The major cost element in the manufacture of PET bottles is the cost of the PET resin itself. Accordingly, PET bottle suppliers are interested in decreasing the amount of PET resin in the bottles, and one way of doing this is to reduce the thickness of the walls of the bottles. There are lower limits, though, on the thickness of the sidewalls of PET bottles. In particular, PET is gas permeable; and when used to hold a carbonated beverage, the sidewalls of a PET bottle must be thicker than certain minimum sizes if the bottle is to meet industry standards relating to carbon dioxide retention levels. For example, as defined by the industry, the term "shelf life" for a carbonated beverage bottle is the time, in weeks, for the beverage to lose 15 percent of its original carbonation level, when stored at room temperature. The major carbonated soft drink manufacturers in the United States have established a requirement that a PET bottle larger than one liter, when used to package a carbonated soft drink, must have a shelf life of 16 weeks. Bottles less than one liter generally have had to compromise on a shelf life of about ten weeks.
One way to reduce the amount of PET in a bottle and also extend the shelf life thereof, is to use a laminated structure, where the bottle comprises a first layer formed from PET and a second layer formed from a material which has a very low gas permeability (referred to herein as a high gas barrier material).
The use of a laminated bottle structure is advantageous for other reasons as well. For instance, it is highly desirable to employ used plastic material in beverage containers. Such a use, first, would provide a productive outlet for the large number of plastic bottles that are currently simply discarded, and second, would reduce the cost of the materials needed to manufacture new bottles. Government regulations, however, do not allow reprocessed plastic to come into contact with products stored in beverage containers and, instead, require that only unused plastic materials come into contact with those products. One way to meet these regulations while still using reprocessed plastics in a beverage container is to form the container from a laminated structure with a first, outer layer made from the reprocessed material and a second, inner layer made from unused plastic material.
While there are several ways to form a bottle with a laminated structure, it is very desirable to use an injection molding process. Such a process, first, would require relatively few changes to the present processes used by many in the industry and thus could be readily adapted thereby, and second, would have the typical advantages associated with injection molding processes such as dimensional precision and high productivity. Heretofore, however, the art has not been able to develop a practical, efficient and cost-effective injection molding process for manufacturing large numbers of laminated PET bottles.
In part, this is due to the fact that with typical injection molding processes used to make plastic preforms, as a practical matter, it is necessary to make the preform with a slight axial taper. This taper allows the mold to open and permits the preform to be removed therefrom without breaking or tearing the preform. For example, with a prior art method of making a laminated, plastic preform using an injection molding process, a first plastic material is cut, preshaped into a tapered form and placed on a mold core rod. Then, a second, liquid plastic is injected around that rod, and the first and second plastic materials bond together to form the laminated structure. Because of the time and expense needed to preshape the first material into the desired, tapered form and to place it over the core rod of the mold, this general type of method is not believed to be a practical way to manufacture large numbers of plastic preforms. This process also results in the preshaped material being on the inside wall of the formed structure.
The general object of the present invention is to provide an improved injection molding process for making laminated plastic structures and preforms.
A more specific object of this invention is to use a plastic sleeve in an injection molding process to form one or more layers of a laminated plastic preform without deforming the shape of the sleeve prior to placing the material in the mold and without requiring separate specific steps to shape the sleeve into a tapered form.
These and other objects are attained with an injection molding process for making a multiple layer plastic structure comprising the steps of placing a plastic sleeve in a mold, and closing the mold to enclose the sleeve in a mold cavity. A flowing, heated plastic is conducted into the mold cavity, and forced radially outward against the sleeve. The flowing plastic forces the sleeve outward, for example into an outwardly tapered shape, and forms, with the sleeve, an integrally bonded laminated structure. Once that structure is made, the mold is opened, and the structure is removed therefrom and if desired, reformed to form a container. The container so made comprises neck, side wall and bottom portions connected together to form a one-piece bottle. The side wall portion includes outside and inside layers, while the neck and bottom portions of the container consist of a single plastic material.
FIG. 1 is a side, cross-sectional view of a plastic preform made in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an axial cross-section through a mold which may be employed to manufacture the preform shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a tube from which a sleeve may be cut and then used to make an outer layer of the preform shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a side view of a bottle made from the preform illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion of the mold shown in FIG. 2.
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of another portion of the mold shown in FIG. 2, exaggerating the space between the sleeve placed therein and the adjacent surfaces of the mold.
FIG. 1 shows laminated preform 10 having a generally U-shaped cross-section and comprising side portion 12, bottom portion 14 and neck portion 16. Side portion 12 includes outer layer 20 and inner layer 22 that have been integrally bonded or fused together in the process described below. Bottom and neck portions 14 and 16, however, are not laminated and, instead, are each formed or consist of a single plastic material. As is conventional, neck portion 16 includes one or more threads 24 provided to receive a bottle cap after preform 10 has been expanded to form a container and the container has been filled with a beverage.
FIG. 2 illustrates mold 26 for making preform 10. Mold 26 includes male and female subassemblies; and, in turn, the female subassembly comprises outside mold base 30, inside cavity block 32, end cap 34, and upper thread splits 36, and the male subassembly of mold 26 includes elongated rod 40 and support piece 42. Thread splits 36, cavity block 32, and end cap 34 form a cavity 44 in mold 26, and end cap 34 has a gate 46 for conducting liquid plastic into that cavity. FIG. 2 shows mold 26 in a closed position, wherein rod 40 extends into mold cavity 44. The shape of mold cavity 44 determines the shape of preform 10, and the mold cavity includes side, bottom, and neck portions that are used to form side wall 12, bottom 14, and neck 16 of the preform. As is conventional, mold 26 may be opened by moving apart the male and female subassemblies of the mold and removing rod 40 from cavity 44 of the mold.
Mold 26 is provided with suitable cooling fluid passages to ensure proper temperature control of the mold and the preform made therein. To facilitate opening mold 26 after a preform has been made therein, and to assist removing the preform from mold cavity 44, the substantially axially extending surface 52 of cavity block 32 and the opposing surface 54 of rod 40 slightly taper upwardly outwardly.
FIG. 3 shows plastic tube 60 from which a sleeve 62 may be cut and then used to form outer layer 20 of the preform 10. To manufacture preform 10, sleeve 62 is cut from tube 60 and placed in the cavity 44 of mold 26, closely adjacent surface 52 of cavity block 32. This is done, it should be noted, when mold 26 is open--that is, prior to inserting rod 40 into mold cavity 44. Once plastic sleeve 62 is properly located in mold cavity 44, rod 40 is inserted thereinto and a flowing plastic material is injected into the mold cavity, via gate 46, radially inside the plastic sleeve. The plastic injected into cavity 44 via gate 46 is in a heated, liquid, pressurized state, and the heat and pressure of this plastic heats plastic sleeve 62 and forces that sleeve outward, into a shape conforming with the shape of the adjacent surface 52 of cavity block 32--that is, into a shape slightly tapering upwardly outwardly. At the same time, the heat and pressure of the liquid plastic also causes sleeve 62 to change into a plasticized state whereupon the liquid plastic fuses therewith to form an integrally bonded, laminated structure. After mold cavity 44 is filled, it is cooled to solidify preform 10, and mold 26 is opened and preform 10 is removed therefrom.
With an alternate procedure, molten PET may be flowed into cavity 44, to fill the cavity partially, before rod 40 is inserted thereinto. This may be done either prior to or after placing sleeve 62 in mold cavity 44, although it is believed preferable to conduct the flowing plastic into the mold cavity after the sleeve 62 is placed therin. In either case, once mold cavity 44 is partially filled with the molten PET and sleeve 62 is properly located in the mold cavity, mold 26 is closed and rod 40 is inserted into the mold cavity, forcing the molten PET radially outward against sleeve 62 to push that sleeve into the desired tapered shape and to make preform 10.
Thus, in accordance with the present invention with either of the above-discussed procedures, a laminated preform 10 is made using a pre-made plastic sleeve 62 to form an outside layer 20 of that preform, and it is not necessary to perform any specific, separate steps or operations on that sleeve to provide it with the desired, tapered shape in mold 26.
After being removed from mold 26, preform 10 is expanded to form bottle 64, shown in FIG. 4. The upper and lower edges of the layer of bottle 64 formed from tubular segment 62 are shown as 62a and 62b, respectively, in FIG. 4. Preform 10 may be expanded into bottle 64 in any suitable way. For example, in accordance with one conventional process, preform 10 is reheated, inserted into a second mold cavity, which conforms to the shape of the finished bottle 64, and then expanded outward against the surfaces of the second mold cavity by means of a pressurized fluid forced into the preform. This technique and others for expanding preform 10 are very well known in the field.
Also, it should be noted that preform 10 is heated and cooled during different stages of the process in which it is formed and expanded into bottle 64, and sleeve 62 may also be cooled or heated prior to insertion into mold cavity 44. Any suitable technique or techniques may be used to control the temperatures of preform 10 and sleeve 62, and numerous such methods are very well known to those skilled in the art.
Preferably, again with reference to FIG. 2, sleeve 62 is held axially stationary within mold cavity 44 as liquid plastic is forced against the sleeve. This may be done in several ways. For example, sleeve 62 may be forced into cavity 44 of mold 26, in a tight pressure fit against surface 52 of cavity block 32, and this pressure fit, by itself, may be used to hold the sleeve 62 stationary as the liquid plastic is forced against the sleeve. Alternately, mold 26 may include one or more shoulders (not shown) projecting slightly into cavity 44 to hold sleeve 62 in place. Such shoulders may extend into mold cavity 44 from lower portions of thread splits 36, for example. If this latter arrangement is employed to hold sleeve 62 in place in mold cavity 44, these shoulders are moved away from preform 10 prior to removing the preform from mold 26.
With reference to FIG. 5, as liquid plastic is injected into mold cavity 44, the plastic tends to move upward, past the bottom of sleeve 62, before completely filling the space 66 immediately and directly below bottom edge 70 of the sleeve. Preferably, means are provided in mold 26 to vent air radially outward, away from mold cavity 44, from space 66 to allow the liquid plastic to flow into and eventually fill that space. Special apertures may be formed in mold 26 extending into communication with space 66 to vent air therefrom. Alternately, air in space 66 may be vented therefrom simply through an interface formed by two or more pieces of mold 26, and which is in communication with the space directly below edge 70.
With reference to FIG. 6, as the liquid plastic is injected into mold cavity 44, the plastic may move upward past the top edge of sleeve 62, before the sleeve expands outward to lie fully against the adjacent surface 52 of mold 26. Mold 26 may further include means to vent air radially outward, away from mold cavity 44, from the space 72 that is radially outside sleeve 62. This venting means allows sleeve 62 to expand into space 72 without requiring that the air therein pass through the liquid plastic material itself. Here too, special apertures may be formed in mold 26 extending into communication with space 72, or air from that space may be vented through an interface formed by two or more of the pieces forming the female subassembly of mold 26, for instance through the interface formed by thread splits 36 and inside cavity block 32.
Sleeve 62, from which outer layer 20 of preform 10 is made, may itself be made of various materials or multiple materials. For instance, the tube may be made from a material having a very low gas permeability, for example, a material comprising a diacid component comprising thiobis(p-phenyleneoxy)!diacetic acid, sulfonylbis(p-phenyleneoxy!diacetic acid, and mixtures thereof or polyesters blended with bisphenols. The use of such a material for outer layer 20 of preform 10 would enable a plastic bottle to be formed having a low gas permeability and with a reduced side wall thickness and, hence, a reduced total amount of material. Also, sleeve 62 may be made or formed from recycled material such as PET. With the process of the present invention, the inside surfaces of sleeve 62 are completely covered by the liquid plastic injected into mold 26 so that sleeve 62 itself will not come into contact with any product held in a container made from preform 10.
Sleeve 62 may be made in several ways and may comprise one or more layers of plastic. For example, as explained above, sleeve 62 may be cut from tube 60 which may be a mono layer plastic, or a multi-layer coextrusion. Preferably, tube 60 is formed by extrusion through a die, but it can be formed by other techniques such as by winding a sheet of plastic on a mandrel. Examples of multi-layer compositions are: reclaimed PET on a high gas barrier polyester: polypropylene/adhesive/ethylene vinyl alcohol co-polymer/adhesive; PET/adhesive/ethylene vinyl alcohol co-polymer/adhesive; Acrylonitrile co-polymer/adhesive; Polycarbonate/high barrier polyester; Polyamides/adhesives; and Polycarbonate/Polyetherimide.
For applications such as holding carbon dioxide inside a package, it is advantageous to have the layers of sleeve 62 integrally bonded together. However, in many applications where sleeve 62 is used to reduce the permeation of oxygen into a container, such as food packaging, a tight mechanical fit between layers of the sleeve is adequate. As shown in FIG. 3, sleeve 62 has a uniform circular cross section, but the sleeve may have any suitable shape.
In particular, the lower portion of sleeve 62 may slant radially inwardly, forming a conically shaped portion, or the lower portion of the sleeve may curve radially inwardly. Regardless of the specific shape of sleeve 62, when the sleeve is used with a mold where the heated plastic is injected into the mold via a gate located below the sleeve, preferably the sleeve has a lower or bottom opening to conduct that heated plastic into the interior of the sleeve. Sleeve 62 may be cut from tube 60 in any acceptable manner, or the sleeve may be formed with a shape and size appropriate for use in the present invention, eliminating the need for further shaping, cutting or reforming to use the sleeve in this invention.
Further, sleeve 62 may be used to provide bottle 64 with different colors, with specific designs, with colored stripes or with other desirable design features. For instance, sleeve 62 may be formed from a plastic differing in color from the flowing plastic conducted into mold cavity 44. Yet another embodiment could have plastic sleeve 62 formed with stripes of differing color, printed matter and/or decorations that are incorporated into the finished container 64, producing a prelabelled or predecorated container. Sleeve 62 may contain additives such as ultraviolet light absorbers, antistatic agents, or dye receptors to facilitate printing material or information on container 64.
While preferably liquid PET is injected into mold cavity 44 to form preform 10, a large number of other plastics may be used in the practice of this invention. These other materials include: polyhexamethylene adipamide, polycaprolactam, polyhexamethylene sebacamide, polyethylene-2,6- and 1,5-naphthalate, polytetramethylene-1,2-dioxybenzoate, and copolymers of ethylene terephthalate, ethylene isophthalate, polycarbonates, polyacrylates, polyolefins, vinyl polymer of nitrites, chlorine, styrene and other similar plastics polymers.
Preferably, the PET liquid is injected into mold cavity 44 at a temperature of between 500� F. to 575� F., and an internal coolant at 30� F. to 110� F. is passed through the cooling passages of mold 26. Preform 10 is cooled to below about 245� F. before being removed from mold 26.
Container 64 is well suited for many purposes. For instance, as discussed in detail above, container 64 is especially well adapted for holding carbonated beverages. The container may be heat set to improve the thermal stability of the container and make it suitable for packaging products, such as fruit juices or ketchup, that are commonly hot filled, as well as for packaging oxygen sensitive products such as beer. Moreover, the top portions of container 64 may be trimmed to yield a completely biaxially oriented container having a cylindrical shape with a closed end--the shape of a conventional metal can. The present invention is particularly well suited for forming such can-shaped containers because the position of the sleeve 62 can be controlled during the molding process so that it is not later trimmed off the container, maximizing the utilization of the material used to make sleeve 62.
In addition to container 64 and the modifications thereof previously described, the present invention may be effectively employed to manufacture other useful products. For instance, the invention may be used to make a container suited for packaging foods that can be reheated in the package using conventional or microwave ovens. Such a container can be made by using a sleeve formed from a high gas barrier resin and inserted into a mold cavity having the shape of a can. A molten polycarbonate is injected into the mold cavity to form a laminated structure that can be used as is or subsequently expanded into another final shape. This invention may also be used to mold structures having windows that can function as visual level indicators for products such as toothpaste in a pump dispenser.
The method of the present invention has several advantages compared to processes using multiple injections or coinjection of differing plastics. For instance, the use of sleeve 62 allows for a precise placement of the layer formed by the sleeve in the body of the article being molded. Further, use of a relatively cool sleeve 62 reduces the time required to cool the molten plastic conducted into cavity 44, and thus can result in increased productivity.
The process of this invention may be utilized to form laminate layers of a wide range of thicknesses, while multiple injection processes are normally limited to fairly thick layers. The tooling requirements and control of multiple or coinjection systems are usually much more complex and expensive than what is needed for the present invention. In addition, as a practical matter, structures formed by multiple injection or coinjection processes are limited to having two different plastic materials, while the process of this invention may be used to form structures having more than two different plastic materials.
While it is apparent that the invention herein disclosed is well calculated to fulfill the objects previously stated, it will be appreciated that numerous modifications and embodiments may be devised by those skilled in the art, and it is intended that the appended claims cover all such modifications and embodiments as fall within the true spirit and scope of the present invention.
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The Silkn Flash & Go Lux is brilliant if you're sick of constantly shaving unwanted hair and spending a small fortune on salon professional waxing every other week. You can say goodbye to ingrown hairs and razor burns, and as it's recommended by dermatologists you know it's not going to be too harsh on your skin. However, it is worth noting that it's not suitable for dark or recently tanned skin.
The Silkn Flash & Go Lux uses gentle pulses of light to work deep into the roots of your hair to stop growth – meaning you'll get lasting results with virtually no pain at all. Despite common misconception, it's actually safe to use on sensitive areas like your bikini line, which is perfect if you're heading away on holiday. The 4cm applicator spot is the perfect size for both large and small areas, so you only need the one product for all of your body. As it plugs into the mains as opposed to running on a battery, you can use it all over without the fear that it'll run out of power.
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Comparison - Laser Hair Removal vs HPL
The technologies for home hair removal that currently exist and dominate the market are laser and intense pulsed light (IPL). Scientists and designers at Home Skinovations Ltd. have developed a newer innovative technology called Home Pulsed Light (HPL), which allows the benefits of the proven IPL technology to be used safely and effectively in an at-home environment. With two years of significant clinical results, HPL is a proven leader in the home hair removal market.
Both laser and IPL/HPL technologies generally use an intense beam of light for the removal of unwanted hair and based on the principle of selective photothermolysis. This is a selective manner of targeting pigment in hair shafts without damaging the surrounding skin when treating. Both technologies are equally applicable for women and men alike.
The Home Pulsed Light technology is highly superior and much more suitable for home use because of the following:
HPL technology provides two levels of safety: a skin sensor to detect skin color to eliminate any possibility of burns and a skin-touch mechanism that allows the system to fire only when there is direct contact with the skin.
Superiority in wavelength:
HPL with its wide spectrum of light is good for a wide variety of hair colors. On the other hand, laser technology is based on a single wavelength of light, which is best suited for one hair color. Professional clinics that conduct laser hair removal usually use 2-3 different lasers with different wavelengths that enable them to treat a greater range of hair colors. HPL with its spectrum of wavelengths is suitable for a broader range of hair color, not confining efficacy.
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HPL uses a low energy level with a high peak power to provide excellent hair removal results. On the other hand, laser hair removal uses a high level of energy which requires skin cooling with gel.
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Due to the low joules of energy emitted in each HPL pulse, it is allowed for use on the face. Studies conducted with HPL technology on more than 60 patients show very noticeable results on the face after approximately 4 treatments.
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Light Based Hair RemovalThe process of laser and light-based hair removal is well known and established. It has been proven in clinical use around the world for over 15 years as a safe and effective way to achieve permanent hair removal.
Light-based hair removal is based on the theory of selective photothermolysis in which optical energy is used to disable hair growth. In order to achieve such thermal effect, the hair shaft needs to selectively absorb light energy and transform it into heat. This selectivity is achieved when high optical energy that is delivered to the tissue is mostly absorbed by hair shaft pigment, while the epidermis and the surrounding tissue is actively cooled (by a cooling mechanism). Melanin is the pigment in the hair shaft that is responsible for the absorption of the light, which generates the heat that eventually disables hair growth. When hair growth is disabled, permanent hair removal is achieved.
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Silkn Flash & Go is a personal combined-energy based device for long-term hair removal. The Silkn Flash & Go is based on Home Pulsed Light (HPL) technology which is a proprietary and patented technology of Home Skinovations Ltd. Epilation with Home Skinovations' proprietary HPL technology is enhanced by a unique acoustic effect that improves the normal process of photoepilation, enabling permanent epilation with low level of optical energy without the need to cool the skin.
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Updated: 08/29/2009 - PHOENIX - Former Aces' Catcher John Hester hit a home run in his first career major league at-bat on Friday night.
Updated: 08/29/2009 - PHOENIX - Former Aces' Catcher John Hester hit a home run in his first career major league at-bat on Friday night.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Green Bay starting wide receiver Greg Jennings left Friday night's game at Arizona early in the first quarter after a blow to the head.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - LANDOVER, Md. (AP) - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has a sore throwing shoulder, the result of a crushing hit by Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Scott Kazmir was traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night, giving the AL West leaders a major boost to their unsteady rotation.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Kyle Busch held off Todd Bodine on a restart with seven laps to go, then cruised to a victory in the NASCAR Camping World Truck series race at Chicagoland Speedway on Friday night.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco Giants have optioned right-hander Joe Martinez to Triple-A Fresno and brought up lefty reliever Alex Hinshaw to provide a much-needed arm in their overworked bullpen.
Updated: 08/28/2009 - Six months after losing the biggest fight of his life, Joey Gilbert is climbing back into the ring.
Updated: 08/28/2009 - RENO, Nev. — Former Nevada Wolf Pack baseball player Konrad Schmidt was transferred to the Reno Aces Friday afternoon from the Class-A Visalia Rawhide, and will likely make his home debut Monday night at Aces Ballpark.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - Josh Mauga's career with the Jets ended before it even got started.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Webb Simpson has found enough birdies on long, tough and wet Liberty National for a 3-under 68 to build a two-shot lead in the Barclays, the opening playoff event on the PGA Tour.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A northeastern Pennsylvania man is charged with smashing a championship trophy won by a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Qualifying for next season's Daytona 500 will be held one day earlier than usual, a move that avoids running the session on the same day as the Super Bowl.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - RENO, Nev. — The Reno Aces return home Monday, Aug. 31, for the final homestand of the 2009 season, an action-packed eight-game set against the Sacramento River Cats and Fresno Grizzlies.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Manny Lawson wants nothing more than to wreak havoc on opposing quarterbacks and force turnovers, even more so than he did while developing into his role last season for the San Francisco 49ers.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA has suspended Denver's J.R. Smith and Phoenix's Jason Richardson after both were recently convicted of driving offenses.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The Alamo Bowl will be the Pac-10's top game after the Rose Bowl starting in the 2010 season.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Michael Vick experiment lasted six plays before Donovan McNabb walked over to offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg on the sideline and yelled "Cut!"
Posted: 08/28/2009 - CHICAGO (AP) - Alfonso Soriano ended his home-run drought with a three-run shot in the eighth inning, making up for several miscues in the outfield during the Chicago Cubs' 5-2 victory over the New York Mets on Friday.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - Manager Joe Girardi says Chamberlain will start on normal rest for the remainder of the season beginning with Sunday's game against the Chicago White Sox. Girardi says the Yankees still plan to hold down the right-hander's innings by taking him out of some starts earlier than usual.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Open players and their entourages are being told to be careful about what they post on their Twitter accounts.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A Division II school in Virginia has canceled its 2009 season opener because it doesn't have helmets or football pads.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - CHICAGO (AP) -- New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes may need surgery to repair his torn right hamstring tendon.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Cowboys receiver Roy Williams did not break his shoulder during a collision with a teammate. He's getting more tests and likely will not play the rest of the preseason.
Posted: 08/28/2009 - DETROIT (AP) -- Lions coach Jim Schwartz says Daunte Culpepper will start Detroit's third preseason game and insists the quarterback competition with Matthew Stafford is still open.
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Eddie is really old for his breed, a lot of Dobermans die around 10. He's lived on the farm for nearly his whole life, so he's really active. There have been a few times within the last year that the BO has contemplated putting him down. Then he gets better, and convinces us that he's not ready to go yet.
While they are away, they have the dogs in a stall with a heat lamp and blankets. Today, when I went to go check on them, Eddie wasn't looking too good.
He's shaking like he's cold, although he's under the heat lamp and his body feels warm. He keeps stretching his front leg against the wall, and sort of scratching with it. He's licking his legs a lot.
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Camarillo police were looking Tuesday for a suspect in a carjacking Monday.
Police said a man persuaded a motorist to give him a ride about 11:40 a.m. Monday in the 400 block of Carmen Drive. Once inside the vehicle, the man said he wanted the car.
The victim refused, and the man pulled out a knife, stabbing the driver but causing only minor wounds, police said. The man then pushed the motorist out of the car and drove a short distance before abandoning the vehicle. He was last seen running through the Carmen Plaza shopping center.
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South Texas report: R-F football coach Chancellor headed to Edna
EDNA - EDNA — Raymond "Huey" Chancellor, the head football coach and athletic director at Rockport-Fulton the past three seasons, was hired in the same capacity by Edna High School on Monday night.
Chancellor went 15-18 in three seasons at R-F, guiding the Pirates to a 5-7 record last year and a trip to the Region IV-3A Division I semifinals, where they were eliminated by Gonzales.
Edna finished 4-6 last year under Mike Pierce, who retired following the season. The Cowboys, who played in Class 2A last year, will be a 3A school under the new University Interscholastic League realignment next year.
R-F vs. T-M game moved to Tuesday
The Rockport-Fulton vs. Tuloso-Midway baseball game scheduled for Wednesday has been moved to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Whataburger Field.
The chance of inclement weather Wednesday prompted the change, Corpus Christi Hooks spokesman Matt Rogers said.
Isles 11th at Classic
The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's golf team shot a first-day 635 (319-316) to sit in 11th place through the first two rounds of the Islanders Classic at Corpus Christi Country Club.
Krista Fenniak (77-77) and Lindsay Biehler (78-76) led the way with matching scores of 154 through the opening day.
Ana Paredes (83-80—163) and Vanessa Johnson (81-83—164) rounded out the scorers for the Islanders. Claudia Galindo shot 87 in the opening round but had to withdraw for the second round due to injury.
Lamar (302-295—597) leads all teams, while Houston Baptist (292-310—602) sits in second place. Oklahoma City (301-305—606), North Texas (308-307—615) and Central Arkansas (308-309—617) round out the top five. Texas A&M-Kingsville (344-339—683) is 16th.
Oklahoma City's Elia Folch leads all individuals with a 1-under 143 (70-73), while Sam Houston State's Alisa White (72-74—146) is three shots back. Kelly Erasmus of Lamar (74-73—147) is in third, while four players are tied for fourth at 148.
The third round will tee off with a shotgun start at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday at Corpus Christi Country Club.
A&M-CC edges UTA
Freshman Paul Cook squeezed out a 7-4 tiebreaker in the second set to lift the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's tennis team to a 4-3 victory over UT Arlington at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
"Great courage and resiliency from our team today," Islanders coach Steve Moore said. "This last week has been a tough journey being on the road a lot. We dug a hole for ourselves with some bad choices, but we really showed a lot of courage to dig out."
Singles — 1. Peter Nagy (A&M-CC) def. Marek Pesicka (UTA) 6-1, 6-0; 2. Ricardo Mayagoitia (A&M-CC) def. Carlos Arbiza (UTA) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; 3. Danie, Armengol (UTA) def. Guillaume Rauseo (A&M-CC) 6-2, 7-5; 4. Sebastian Erimicioiu (UTA) def. Matt Westmoreland (A&M-CC) 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; 5. Javier Pujol (A&M-CC) def. Mario Muniesa (UTA) 7-5, 6-4; 6. Paul Cook (A&M-CC) def. Francesco Migliano (UTA) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4)
Doubles — 1. Javier Perez/Arbiza (UTA) def. Nagy/Rauseo (A&M-CC) 8-4; 2. Pesicka/Erimicioiu (UTA) def. Westmoreland/Cook (A&M-CC) 8-3; 3. Pietro Jordao/Philip Kuehnen (A&M-CC) vs. Austin Robles/Danie Armengol (UTA) 6-4, unfinished
Order of finish — Doubles (2,1); Singles (1,3,5,2,4,6)
Records — UT-Arlington 3-6, A&M-Corpus Christi 9-5
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From No Greater Joy -When You Need a Miracle by Erin Harrison During those black years I felt it would never end. Maybe you didn't bring into your marriage the baggage I did, and maybe your husband is a mean, lazy jerk or even a pervert, but pity, despair and bitterness will not set you free from your own state of nothingness, lack of productivity, wanting of challenge, or any real rewards. Do you know what I am talking about—working and never seeing the end … [Read more...]
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by Vyckie Garrison of No Longer QuiveringI seriously need to stop reading the writings of contemporary Patriarchs ... I thought the Persevero News article that I posted earlier today which defends child abusers was bad (and it is!), but Vaughn Ohlman's latest is equally infuriating!! … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: A Watchdog?
by Nancy Campbell from Above Rubies - You Are A Watch Dog Mother, you are the guardian of your little flock. It's a 24/7 job! 1 Peter 5:8 tells us we must "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." He wants to devour your children. He wants to get hold of their minds and infiltrate them with subtle deceptions against God and His truth. He wants to mar their spirits and take away their purity. He wants to destroy their souls. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: So You Are Important Enough For Satan to Steal Your Socks to Keep You From Church?
by Betsy Childs posted at Ladies Against Feminism and originally posted at The Gospel Coalition - Scargoyle Attacks the Family My dear Moldwhistle,I received your letter of acceptance, and I am pleased to know that you will be joining my team in service to Our Father Below. I have heard from your last supervisor that you are a devious fellow who would value the chance to work for a master tempter. With all due modesty, I believe I can give you that opportunity. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Respect Him Anyway?
by Matt Walsh of The Matt Walsh Blog - Your husband doesn't have to earn your respect A few months ago I wrote a post about pornography. I stand by every word I typed, but I feel like I could add another couple thousand sentences to the end of it. Ever since I published that piece, I have heard from hundreds and hundreds of men and women on both sides of the porn problem. … [Read more...]
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by Kristen Rosser cross posted from her blog Wordgazer's WordsThis week John Ensor posted at the Desiring God blog a piece called "An Olympic Lesson for Husbands and Wives." Here are a few reasons he thinks pairs ice skating is the perfect metaphor and illustration of Christian complementarian (male-headship) marriage: … [Read more...]
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by Suzanne cross posted from her blog True Love Doesn't RapeVaughn Ohlman has posted over at his blog True Love Doesn't Wait about families and the Bible, that families must glorify God and fathers are to rule over their families, right down many generations. He claims that the church is somehow 'feminized' and that men have been stripped of their masculinity.There's just one problem, I'm not seeing much scriptural support for his extrapolations of Biblical law. … [Read more...]
CTBHHM: Debi Takes Us Back To The 1950s
by Libby Anne cross posted from her blog Love, Joy, FeminismCreated To Be His Help Meet, pp. 154—156Debi begins this section with some history. Liberated to SorrowBeginning with the women's "liberation" movement of the 1960s, women have been taught and are expected to resent men in authority. Um . . . no. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Ruling Women?
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1934: Robert Moog is born in Queens, N.Y.
1954: Moog founds R.A. Moog Co. as a part-time business to design and build theremins.
1957: Graduates from Queens College with a bachelors degree in physics and from Columbia University with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering.
1963: Moog creates his first Moog Synthesizer
1964: Moog demonstrates his new instrument at the Audio Engineering Society convention and begins taking orders on the spot.
1967: The Monkees use the Moog Synthesizer on their album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd., with Micky Dolenz playing synthesizer in the studio. This is thought to be the first commercial rock use of the instrument.
1968: Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos releases Switched-On Bach, which sold more than 1 million copies and won three Grammy Awards.
1969: The Beatles use the synthesizer on their album, Abbey Road; George Harrison releases Electronic Sounds.
1970: R.A. Moog introduces the Minimoog, a compact performance synthesizer; Moog wins his first Grammy Award.
1971: R. A. Moog changes its name to Moog Music.
1973: Moog Music becomes a subsidiary of Norlin Music.
1978: Robert Moog moves to Asheville and founds Big Briar to develop and build electronic musical instruments with novel player interfaces.
1986: Norlin Music stops making Moog keyboards.
1989 (to 1992): Moog teaches courses in music technology at UNC Asheville.
1991: Big Briar introduces the Series 91 theremins.
1996: Moog writes a do-it-yourself theremin article for Electronic Musician; Big Briar begins producing Moogs Ethervox MIDI theremin and introduces the Moogerfooger analog effects modules.
2002: Moog regains the rights to the name Moog Music and Minimoog. He resurrects his namesake synthesizer and introduces the Minimoog Voyager. Moog wins his second Grammy Award.
2003: Moog Music introduces the Piano Bar, which allows an acoustic piano to control electronic sounds via the keyboard.
2004: Moog Music introduces the Etherwave Pro, a professional theremin.
2005: Moog Music and The Orange Peel sponsor a theremin convention, attended by about 50 thereminists.
Robert Moog
NAME: Robert A. Moog
BIRTH DATE: Born May 23, 1934, in Queens, N.Y.
EDUCATION: Bachelors degree in physics from Queens College and bachelors degree in electronic engineering from Columbia University, 1957; Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University, 1965.
CAREER: Founder, R.A. Moog Co., 1964; engineer, Norlin Industries, 1973 to 1977; founder, Big Briar Electronic Musical Instruments, 1978 (renamed Moog Music Inc. in 2002); Kurzweil Music Systems, consultant and vice president of new product research, 1984 to 1988; research professor of music at UNC Asheville, 1989-1992.
FAMILY: Wife, Ileana; former wife, Shirleigh Moog; daughters, Laura Moog Lanier, Renee Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa; son, Matthew Moog; stepdaughter, Miranda Richmond.
Service and memorials
Funeral service
A service for friends, family and invited guests will be held at 4 p.m. today at Beth Israel Synagogue
Memorial celebration
The life of Robert Moog will be celebrated with music and remembrances at noon Wednesday at The Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club, 101 Biltmore Ave.
The Bob Moog Memorial Fund
Contributions can be made through the Western North Carolina Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1888, Asheville, NC 28802-11888.
Memorial contributions also may be made to WCQS, Mountain Area Hospice or Beth Israel Synagogue.
Definition of terms
Moogs Synthesizer
n A synthesizer is a device that generates sound by creating waveforms electronically or from stored samples of musical instruments.
n The principle behind Robert Moogs first synthesizer, released in 1964, was the use of voltage-controlled electronic music modules, which allowed the performer to create his or her own sounds by connecting modules with electric wires and by turning knobs.
n The instrument allowed musicians to generate a range of sounds that could mimic nature or seem otherworldly by flipping a switch, twisting a dial, or sliding a knob.
n First conceived as a huge modular instrument for studio use, it evolved into a portable keyboard instrument typical of todays synthesizers.
Compiled by Michael Flynn from answers.com, synthmuseum.com, Harvard University Press, wire reports
The Theremin
n Invented in 1919, the theremin is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. Requiring no physical contact in order to produce music, the instrument consists of a box with two projecting radio antennas around which the user moves his or her hands to play. One antenna controls volume, and the other controls pitch.
n As a high school student, Robert Moog began his career building theremins in the 1950s. Moog credits what he learned from the experience as leading directly to his groundbreaking synthesizer.
n Today Moog Music is a leading manufacturer of performance-quality theremins.
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ASHEVILLE Robert Moog, the world-famous inventor of the music synthesizer who died at his Asheville home Sunday, was hailed by friends and family as an unparalleled technical genius beloved for his humor, heart and humility.
Moog, 71, was diagnosed with brain cancer in April. He had lived in Asheville since 1978 and was considered the Edison and Bell of electronic music. His 1963 creation of the now-common Moog Synthesizer, and its smaller 1970 sibling the Minimoog, revolutionized music with a device that could duplicate a variety of sounds.
The synthesizer was quickly embraced by rock bands, first by the Monkees in 1967, then by The Beatles, who used it on Abbey Road in 1969. Its impact remains huge in many forms of music without it, there would have been no New Wave rock of the 1980s, or techno or dance music of today. He also popularized and built theremins, an electronic instrument that creates eerie sounds by movement of the performers hands through a wave field.
Moog (whose named rhymed with vogue) changed the possibilities of music, said Grammy-winning producer Steven Heller of Asheville, who remained in constant touch with his friend. He created a new world of sound. And yet he was so humble about it. People would say he had invented something, and hed say No, there were others working on it. He never tried to take the credit.
After his diagnosis, Moog received radiation treatment and chemotherapy. He remained positive through his illness, said his 30-year friend, UNC Asheville music professor Wayne Kirby, who last spoke with Moog in July.
He was upbeat and felt that he was going to beat this thing, Kirby said. He had that great attitude that he always had.
Moog faced death the way he lived his life, said his daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa.
He lost the use of his left arm and then his left leg, and then he was bedridden, she said. And all through it, he accepted his situation with such grace.
Moog, the family man
Moog never was comfortable with fame, said daughter Renee Moog.
When he won his second Grammy in 2003, (wife) Ileana had to tell him to call the kids, she said. We had a celebratory dinner, and we talked about it for a few minutes and then he said that was enough. He wasnt comfortable with the recognition, even from his family.
Beyond his technical wizardry, Moog was a great friend and a real lover of life, Heller said. He had a great sense of humor and loved a good laugh. He appreciated the simple things of life. He practiced yoga. He chopped wood. He loved being outside. He appreciated his family, his children.
Moog was drawn to nature, his children said Monday. He loved being outside, whether it was in his garden or camping.
He taught me how to build a campfire, daughter Laura Moog Lanier said. He taught me how to make an A-frame fire and a log-cabin fire and got me to the point where I could light it with two or less matches.
He also loved good food and wine, his stepdaughter, Miranda Richmond, said.
He loved chocolate and he loved ice cream, she said. Friday night, we all had Ben and Jerrys ice cream, and we put a dab on his tongue.
His presence in Asheville
And though he was hailed as an international music hero, he remained part of the Asheville community, teaching electronic music at UNCA, and giving local performance and lectures.
He was a wonderful fellow to spend time with, said veteran Asheville musical and composer Dan Lewis, who played a pair of 1980 concerts with Moog, including a date at that years Bele Chere festival.
He had a childlike enthusiasm that was contagious. He was always interested in the work, not the acclaim. He never seemed to seek out the limelight.
Were going to miss him, said Michael Adams, president of Asheville-based Moog Music This guy has affected the lives of literally tens of thousands of people.
He was the kind of person who never let his public persona overtake the person he was. He was always humble about what he did and what he contributed. People sensed that immediately when they met him. It was never Dr. Moog. It was always Bob.
He attended concerts, he knew the musicians, his son, Matt Moog, said Monday morning. He wasnt just building instruments, he really knew and appreciated what musicians needed.
'I'm an engineer'
Jason Barile, who first heard Moogs synthesizer played as a child on the song, Popcorn, from the 1960s, was drawn to both the synthesizer and theremin as a child. He met Moog in 1996 and in 1997 came to Asheville to visit Moog Music.
He was incredibly generous, said Barile, who operates the Web site, www.thereminworld.com. He took me into his storage unit and gave me an old cabinet he made in the 1960s. Its my prized possession.
Barile, of Apex, accompanied Moog to a convention in the mid-1990s.
People came up to him and literally bowed to him and he was so clearly uncomfortable with that, Barile said. That wasnt what he was about at all.
Moog often made it clear that he wasnt an entertainer. Im an engineer, he told the Citizen-Times in 2002, after winning a Technical Grammy. He also avoided the limelight. I think (the Grammy) is a feather in the cap of the people that I work with, he said.
Nor was he tuned into the myriad of musicians who used his invention. I dont know as much (about current pop acts) as other people in our shop do, Moog said. I feel very grateful and glad that I could make this kind of contribution.
Since Moog moved to Asheville in 1978, a steady stream of world-class musicians has come to visit, Matt Moog said.
Its very gratifying not just because musicians love him for what he did for their music, but because millions of music fans love what the musicians do for them, he said.
He is survived by his wife, Ileana Grams, and his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog and Miranda Richmond, as well as the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.
Moogs family has established The Bob Moog Foundation for the advancement of electronic music. Among Moogs longtime collaborators who agreed to sit on its executive board are Rick Wakeman, keyboard player for 70s classical rock supergroup Yes, and Wendy Carlos, whose recording Switched-On Bach brought Moogs synthesizers to national prominence.
Read more about the life and contributions of Robert Moog at www.moogmusic.com and www.caringbridge.com (under the Visit a CaringBridge site, type in bobmoog).
Staff writer Paul Clark contributed to this report.


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Democratic leaders seek to avoid primaries | ERIC BRADNER COLUMN
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Democratic leaders seek to avoid primaries at all costs.
The decision that the three candidates seeking the 8th District U.S. House seat decided to put the party's nomination in the hands of 38 county Democratic officials, rather than thousands of district Democratic voters, is the latest example.
After the most recent election cycles, it is a pattern that has become undeniable.
The no-primaries strategy started after 2008, after Jill Long Thompson and Jim Schellinger devoted a great deal of their energy and financial resources to hammering each other in a gubernatorial primary
Long Thompson entered her general election campaign against the popular and well-funded Gov. Mitch Daniels so hobbled that there was no way to catch up.
Since then, state chairman Dan Parker has worked hard to keep it from happening again.
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh did not announce that he would not seek re-election in 2010 until close enough to the filing deadline that Democrats got to nominate U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth for the job in a meeting of the party's 32-member state central committee, rather than in a primary.
As for 2012, high-profile Democrats have occasionally detailed meetings and conversations orchestrated by the Indiana Democratic Party.
The goal was to sort through the potential candidates for offices such as governor and U.S. Senate before anyone officially entered those races.
Since one-man fields are what Democrats were shooting for, they've succeeded so far.
Prospective candidates such as state Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson, outgoing Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel, Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott and others have stayed out of the way.
Meanwhile, former Indiana House Speaker John Gregg is the party's only candidate for governor, and U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly is the only Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
Former state Rep. Dave Crooks, the Democrat who many party insiders expect to defeat former Ellsworth aide Patrick Scates and Warrick County Democratic Chairman Terry White in the party caucus Dec. 10, is certainly happy.
He seems to be entering a process that favors him. The other candidates reside closer to the 8th District's population base of Evansville, while Crooks, of Washington, lives in its rural center. The county chairs from those rural areas, though, get votes with the same weight as the county chairs from Vanderburgh and Warrick counties.
Is avoiding primaries smart? Well, that depends.
Indiana is a conservative state, and Democrats whose last name is not Bayh, and who are running in the Daniels era and will have President Barack Obama at the top of their ticket, already face an uphill task.
What that means is that raising name identification among voters and making a compelling argument for election costs Democratic candidates a lot of money.
It's a fact compounded by the reality that saturating the state with television and radio advertisements means buying airtime in the expensive Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton and Chicago markets.
Raising the money to compete against a strong Republican in a general election becomes much harder when half of it is being spent just to escape a Democratic primary.
On the other hand, the "our milquetoast candidates are less offensive than those right-wing radicals" message that Democrats end up sending — without giving their activists a chance to try for something else in a primary — could not be much less inspiring.
And the "smoke-filled room" optics are less than ideal. It leaves the party open to criticism like what the state's top Republican Party official offered Friday.
"Disenfranchising voters, discouraging involvement and eliminating competition within their own party has become a way of doing business for Indiana Democrats," said Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb.
"Rather than let voters pick who wins their nomination, Indiana Democrats have handed the decision-making process to a small group of insiders. If there's anything we've learned from Barack Obama's failed economic policies it's when you pick winners and losers we all lose."
It's a fair point, since the road to victory for Republicans like Daniels and U.S. Sen. Dan Coats has passed through the primary process.
Democrats, though, prefer the scenic route around it.
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Near Miss on Constitutional Crisis
The story says State Police were sent to Terri Schiavo's hospice to take her to a hospital and re-insert her feeding tube. Local police stationed at the hospice refused to let them enter unless they brought a judge with them. A "showdown" was averted when State Police backed down.
In related news, late last week a man was arrested for offering $250,000 for the murder of Terri Schiavo's husband and $50,000 for the death of the judge that ordered her feeding tube removed.
Motivating these actions is a lot of right-wing rhetoric that equates the removal of feeding tubes with "murder." I predict that the rhetoric will continue long after Terri passes away.
I pray that it ends before other lives end in tragedy.
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It seems that you can never utter a word about this tragedy without taking a swipe at the right-wing (presumably the Republicans and the Catholic Church).
Coming from an anti-semite such as you who seems to be throroughly pro-death (whether it be Terri, Zionist Jews, by leagal abortion, or by legal death penalty,), I'm surprised that a murder contract would bother a cold-hearted soul such as yourself. Murder is wrong is any and all forms and should not be selectively condemned. We cannot pick and choose.
I condemn it all.
- Tig said...
Child of God, I would rather debate policies that engage in character assassination, but Pharisees like you can't keep the personal out of the debate.
Interesting that it is now coming out that Tom Delay aided in just such a murder, by using the right wing's analogy, of his own father in 1988. News story on Yahoo today.
Woe unto to you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites in the name of the Lord.
Would that President Bush's words about erring on the side of life applied to those he allowed to be executed while governor of Texas, Would that it also applied to those he has turned such a blind eye to in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanimo that have been tortured and killed in the name of helping them become Democracies.
I learned in Speech class that people listen to the speaker, not the speach. The time has finally started to arrive where the American public realizes that Karl Rove, Bush, Delay and the other Thugs leading our country say one thing and do another.
Not all issues can be as easily enveloped into right-wing/left-wing as you would prefer. And in case you failed to notice, both President Bush and Leader DeLay were recently reelected to office.
Though I have no doubt that you hold Saddam Hussein (mustard gas, rape rooms, mass graves and all) and other leaders bent on the destruction of Israel in higher regard than Bush or DeLay, you might be wise to keep your powder dry until the next election season. America dislikes a sore loser.
- Nate said...
Well, I will say that this is not entirely about the right wing. I consider myself thoroughly liberal, in fact I am the administrator of the Alliance for Moderate, Liberal and Progressive Blogs which you belong to, but I oppose the withdrawal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
I'll also say that I don't think the insults in the comments of this thread are at all called for. We should be able to disagree about these things without calling each other anti-Semites and Pharisees. I think it's a shame when we can't discuss our disagreements rather than insult each other because of them.
- Snoofy said...
Does anyone realize that they take patients off feeding tubes (not just respirators) all the time? A friend at works tells me they did that to his aunt in Texas some years back as her heath deteriorated with Alzheimers. Another friend had a sister with serious complications from diabetes who requested she be taken off the respirator after being on one for about three months. The doctors complied. She couldn't stand living that way, and there was no hope for recovery.
Let me tell you what it's really like for Terri Schiavo. First, she poops in her pants several times a day. For a person in her condition they put use the plastic diapers. So, unless the press is around, she sits in her poop for most of the day before someone gets around to changing her (because everyone hates doing it) - I know because I have a relative in this condition. But Terri is actually lucky. Since only her brain stem is functioning and her brain cells associated with higher reasoning have been long dead and replaced with water, she doesn't know what is going on.
The most forceful thing that even the ardent pro-lifer Richard Land can say is that Terri's family should be given more consideration by the courts (rather than letting her husband decide what her will would be). I keep looking for him to say Terri should stay hooked up the way she is, but I haven't seen him say it.
I'm afraid much of the nation and the U.S. Congress has been taken for a ride by a viscous family feud.
- TammyJo58 said...
Child of God,
The comments you write and the tone with which you write them call into question the name you have given yourself.
I am not the least bit surprised that my faith would be called into question here (that's what Baptists do best, isn't it?). After all, this is a Baptist site. Being a Catholic, I realize there is a pocket of anti-Catholicism that runs deep in Baptist circles.
Just take a look at the articles posted here and you'll almost all of social/political positions of the Catholic Church criticized in one form or another. Mr. Prescott has even revived the old warning of looming "theocracy" that many Baptists raised 45 years ago when John F. Kennedy (the last pro-life Catholic to become President) was elected. The Baptists looked silly then, just as they do now.
The Catholic ethos of supporting life in all forms and caring for the least among us has been good for America, I assert. I look forward to the day when a Catholic who is fully welcomed to the communion rail is elected President again.
Perhaps my words have been harsh, but I'll never back down from defending my church and defending life.
- Snoofy said...
Child of God,
"The Catholic ethos of supporting life in all forms and caring for the least among us has been good for America, I assert."
I agree with your statement as long as life is not made an end in itself and recognizes that God is above and over all life. Certainly a Christian may be asked to give his life for God, and then giving up life is good. We must also recognize that God has given each a special time for life, that all life ends by God's design, and that this is God's plan and is also good. Abortion is wrong because it interrupts a natural process that leads to life. I then ask you to consider that it might also at times be wrong to interrupt a natural process that leads to death. I submit that both fall under what you Catholics call "natural law," a concept that I as a Baptist sometimes find instructive as well.
- TammyJo58 said...
Child of God,
I am a practicing Baptist, happily married for almost 21 years to a practicing Catholic. I know and worship with a lot of beautiful, Christian Catholics. My husband knows and worships with a lot of beautiful Christian Baptists. They all love their Church AND their Lord, and they manage to do that without passing judgement on others, which is something that we are asked not to do anyway. They know that it can only help the Church, when all Christians work together to spread Christ's message. Criticizing one another and calling names only opens the door for Satan to work. It is NOT Christian. As a Christian, what you say and how you say it IS important, it is a reflection of Christ in you.
God Bless,
There is certainly a wide array of various beliefs in Christian circles relating to "natural law". At one extreme, some shun modern medicine entirely, allowing nature to take its course uninterrupted by human interference. Others believe that God's appointed time arrives only when all conceivable instruments of man fail or cannot be applied. I (and I'm pretty sure you) fall into the middle of that spectrum.
The tragedy here is that--try as we might--this particular case does fall into any of our neat little ethical or theological compartments as easily as we would wish. It is in the very dispute surrounding this matter (concerning the family, the various medical and legal advisors, the will of our legislative bodies vs. the judiciary, etc.) that I find the ethos of "supporting life" and, if anything, erring of the side of life particularly useful.
The emotion and rhetoric of this case has gotten too hot, and I'm guilty of engaging in it as are many of you. The point I wish to make here is that not all of us crying out for Terri's life are trying to make political hay out of this. There are a number of lawmakers that voted an honest conscience on this, and a number of religious and legal advocates that are speaking from conscience and conviction on this.
I do take offense at Mr. Prescott's claims that we are all taking this stand for the sake of politics. Even if that were true, he becomes guilty of the same offense by volleying back.
One thing we can all agree on, however, is that the Schaivo and Schindler families need our prayers.


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