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Hits You Never Heard Of, Part 5
by Chuck Eddy | November 9, 2012
Do different musical styles congregate more toward different parts of the alphabet? Sounds ridiculous, but I've been combing through Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 Billboard chart reference book these past few months to unearth Hot 100 hits lost to the sands of time, and it sure does seem that way sometimes. Part 1 (A to C) had lots of high-energy early rock 'n' roll and '80s/'90s AOR; Part 2 (C to F) swung toward pop rock, doo-wop and old-timey-throwback country weirdness; Part 3 (F to H) included plenty of novelty silliness and '90s hip-hop, but almost nothing from the '80s; Part 4 (H to J) went even heavier on '90s R&B and rap, and had more than its share of New Wave garage-rock covers, moonlighting actresses and war-protest songs.
Now it's time for Part 5: a two-hour mix, as usual, this time covering alphabetical territory from mid-'60s D.C. soul girl group The Jewels through mid-'80s British proto-house-music synth-pop duo Kissing the Pink -- and it turns out this is by far the most Southern soul-saturated Hits You Never Heard Of playlist yet. It's also the only one with two 1990 Latin freestyle songs and two Wu-Tang-affiliated '90s Staten Island rap acts. The latter pair, King Just and Killarmy, close the mix with a loud bang.
The freestyle songs are "Dream Boy/Dream Girl," a power-packed duet between Johnny O. and Cynthia that got to No. 53 on the pop chart, and "Counting the Days" by their fellow New Yorker Joey Kid, which hit No. 70 just a few months before. Neither of which is quite as exotic as Kano's Italo-disco "Can't Hold Back" (No. 89 in 1981), Kaoma's Portuguese-language French/Brazilian/Antillean forbidden dance "Lambada" (No. 46 in 1990), or even Katalina's campy Valley Girl disc-jockey's-girlfriend-arguing-with-door-bouncer-over-a-club-guest-list-goof "D.J. Girl" (No. 86 in 1996.)
Fern Kinney's Jackson, Miss.-bred soul-disco-diva floor-burner "Groove Me," which hit No. 53 in 1979 and shows up here in its super-percussive nine-minute album version, is probably even better for dancing than any of those. It's also notable because Fern starts out saying "sookie sookie now," perhaps referencing a funky Steppenwolf track from a few years before. And that biker band's East German-born throat John Kay makes this mix too, with his only solo pop near-hit -- a boogiefied '72 cover of country Canuck Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On."
Early '70s-critic-beloved feminist Berkeley cult folkies Joy of Cooking boogie down too, in their sole chart-creaser "Brownsville," from 1971. Both they and Kay (and Casey Kelly of Baton Rouge, La., with "Poor Boy" from 1972) manage to sound pretty darn soulful for hippie white folks. Still, they probably couldn't hold a candle to Shreveport, La.'s gospel testifier Theola Kilgore (1963's "This Is My Prayer"); Bastrop, Louisiana's blues belter Mable John (1966's "Your Good Thing"); New Orleans' Mardi Gras gumbo mover-and-shaker Joe Jones (1960's "You Talk Too Much"); Jacksonville, Fla.'s quiet storm lover-man Glenn Jones (1987's 'We've Only Just Begun"); or especially Miami's truth-teller Paul Kelly, who kicks plate-passing preachers from the temple in 1970's "Stealin' in the Name of the Lord," so devastating a sermon it would've been criminal not to open with it.
Nat Kendricks and The Swans -- really James Brown and the JBs, but under a sneaky fake name! -- dish up a different soul-food recipe in 1960's "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes (Part 1)." It's sort of a novelty number (later recooked for delicatessens as "Hot Pastrami" by The Dartells), but surely not as much a novelty number as Chicago proto-swing revivalists Jump 'N the Saddle Band's Top 20 1983 Three Stooges joke "Curly Shuffle," easily the most difficult thing to sit through here. Country duos The Kendalls and The Kinleys should go down much easier, as should 1980 New Wave pan-flashes The Kingbees and The Kings (and even later-'80s MTV New Wave hypes King). How's that for a royal flush?

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Friday, February 20, 2015
The Japanese Have Really Learned Something Since 1945...
"...We will continue our efforts to deepen relations with the Middle East, building on coexistence, co-prosperity and collaboration."
In tomorrow's issue, Chancellor Merkel reveals her plan for a final solution to Greek debt.
Speaking of which, courtesy of TheGirl, and also not made up-
"We utilize chemicals, heat, exclusion, and cryogenics to eliminate pests. "
Exclusion... like you put them into a little area all their own?
And I do NOT want to know which chemicals.
(For those who don't understand why this is hilarious, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亞共榮圏 Dai-tō-a Kyōeiken) was an imperial propaganda concept created and promulgated for occupied Asian populations during the first third of the Shōwa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan. It extended greater than East Asia and promoted the cultural and economic unity of Northeast Asians, Southeast Asians, and Oceanians. It also declared the intention to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers". It was announced in a radio address entitled "The International Situation and Japan's Position" by Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita on June 29, 1940.[1] An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus—a secret document completed in 1943 for high-ranking government use—laid out the superior position of Japan in the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, showing the subordination of other nations was part of explicit policy and not forced by the war.[2] It explicitly states the superiority of the Japanese over other Asian races and provides evidence that the Sphere was inherently hierarchical, including the Japanese Empire's true intention of domination over the Asian continent.[3])
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Colt Will Reintroduce the 1903 Pocket Hammerless Automatic...
Well, maybe they will. You'd think they wouldn't have had someone tool up unless they meant to sell them. I suppose the cost savings in current manufacturing techniques makes the project viable.
At any rate, all this is extrapolation from a prototype I've handled, and it's pretty indistinguishable from a standard Parkerized military issue example. There's nothing that I could see that's updated or improved, that is to say, cheapened. Just a straight 1903, markings and all. Didn't get to strip it, though
You read it here first.
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Sony Pictures Press Release about "The Interview"-
We're responsible people, and we won't release it in theaters.
So it's free now. We abandon our copyright.
We'll mail a free DVD to anyone who wants one.
It will stream free on our own web site as long as someone wants to see it.
We'll post it free on YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and anywhere else that will let us.
So there, murdering North Korean tyrant trash."
I wish.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
November 11 2014
We went to the terrifying thing a couple of days ago. I had never seen it from a distance, the only other visit was in fog. On a clear day Lutyens' effect is even more aweful. From a distance, it looks tiny and playful, like some sort of chinoiserie folly. As one drives up it grows and grows, but it still is just a massive, vast ornament without a clear purpose.
Not until you're within thirty yards or so, when the whole thing is so big the eyes' field can't hold it and its massiveness oppresses, do the names just pop into view.
But today, we went to Vauxbuin which is a French , British , and German cemetery. And although they were removed and buried elsewhere, Americans from Company D were killed right here on July 19, 1918 pushing the Germans- some in this cemetery- off the road we parked on.
The stones put three thoughts in my head today.
Mrs. Gartside-Tipping's reminded me that there are all sorts of people who volunteer to help in an emergency, even patrician old widow ladies whose (twenty year over age for service but volunteered anyway at age 67) husbands vanished into the icy sea the year before. And that soldiers losing their minds is not just ripped from the headlines.
The French graves of men from (L-R) Morocco, Madagascar, and Somalia made me think about how bewildering the European diaspora, and the diasporas it spawned, are.
And finally I am sure that many of the Jewish tombstones in the German cemetery name fathers, who in their minds served and died to protect their children from a foreign menace.
How savage we are.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
David Weigel, Wrong but Brave Journalist...
At last, a trained journo chooses to be responsible about a publicity murderer-
"I'm simply not comfortable printing the name of the killer. More than most of his spree-murder peers, he made it very clear that he wanted to be loved and worshiped, saying as much in a self-pitying manifesto and a series of mopey vlogs. Let's forget the guy and leave him for the worms."
Although we disagree about a lot of things, THANK YOU Mr. Weigel for not printing the killer's name, and adding insult and degradation. That's the only practical way to deter them.
Everyone knows the next one is watching, and the way other media outlets persist in rewarding publicity killers is so irresponsible that it suggests they want more of them .
I wish he ran CNN, or at least could convince his employers to stop encouraging these useless losers- because the sidebar to his Slate article is full of killer-building stories.
One of which is the most next killer encouraging story I have ever seen, from the New York Post- a cover and skimpy clothing pictures of a woman the trash loser blamed for his acts. Not only is her life wrecked, but copiers will see their power to use our trained, expert journos' "news" "judgement" to embarrass and injure the targets of their perverse wrath.
Beyond shameful, if they had the ability to feel shame.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Chipotle? Gun owners used to have some self-respect.
"armed to the jowls..."
This is seriously funny and NOT anti commentary, in the Guardian forsooth.
"There was no apparently interest in reporting that, while many people say "kill me" after eating Chipotle, most gun deaths are caused by people who do, in fact, kill themselves."
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Farmers Giles, Butch and Thom...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Mass Murderer Posthumous Endorsements!
Let's check their facebook, shall we?
Look, endorsed by
dead mass murdering terrorists!
I think Speer would have been better, though, what with being a prize winning architect and having at least supervised the construction of modular
And Stalin, with that White Sea Canal!
Friday, February 14, 2014
That Day, Continuing Last Year's Theme...
Monday, January 27, 2014
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Monday, January 06, 2014
The Easternmost Explication of the Second Amendment...
Eastport is a pretty little town, once a busy port but now they have tourists in the summer and the rest of the year just take in each others' washing. A pleasant, tasty breakfast at the Liberty Cafe and walking over the town. We ended up in front of the Peavey Memorial Library.
Before which stands, as one might expect,
a cannon.
Being from down South and always interested in artillery displayed, I thought I'd wander over to see if it was a trophy from Tredegar, or a Yankee veteran.
I was surprised to see that it was neither. Aside from a Boston founder's name and an 1836 date, the tube was devoid of any marks of State or National ownership.
And that got me thinking. Uh oh...
Our master's latest push to disarm his subjects concentrates on what he calls "weapons of war", which have "no business on our streets". Funny, that "our", coming from a man who will never again walk a street unguarded. And the Government's weapons of war seemed to be perfectly fine on the streets of Ludlow and Detroit, and for special occasions like Katrina and Kent State. Not to mention Libya and Syria. Or just riding around in ordinary police cars.
But I riot. Back on the line, weapons of war.
When our Republic was new, a bronze muzzle loading cannon was the most deadly weapon there was. Unlike an infantry musket, cavalry horse, or M-4, there was and is no use for artillery other than killing people and smashing their buildings.
This six pounder was the cutting edge and definition of a "weapon of war".
In pretty much every time in every culture with a coast, the ship of war is the most complex, expensive, and deadly thing a society's brains and technology can combine to make. Salaminia, Sao Martinho, Victory, Gloire, Freidrich der Grosse, Nimitz- all embodiments of the top end of an entire country's ability to do violence.
And in 1836 the killing end of the warship was artillery just like this.
What does this have to do with the Second Amendment?
Our Betters assert that the Second Amendment does not apply to "weapons of war" and they always advert to artillery as an example. They read the initial clause to mean that although "weapons of war" are not the arms referred to in the Amendment and are not protected to the people, the Amendment's purpose is to insure that State and Federal reserve forces are able to have, um, "weapons of war". Go figure.
'Ware riot again. Anyway, in 1836 the Second Amendment was 45 years old. Quite a few of the men who adopted and ratified it were still around. I'll submit that they knew what it meant.
And in 1836, someone- some private citizen- maybe a few yards away at America's oldest ship chandler- (still in business today, with a lovely line of yellow leather gloves) laid down gold and bought this pure "weapon of war".
In fact, anyone with the cash could have gone into any big port in the country and bought just as good a warship as the Navy's best. The seas were infested with pirates, armed ships were ordinary components of commercial voyages. You didn't need permission, or registration, or anything else but the money or credit.
Commercially produced ships of the era were fully war capable. Golden Hind was private property. Before 1600 or so, national navies were largely formed of commandeered private ships and their civilian crews. American, British, and French privateers- privately owned and operated ships of war- were very active in the World Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. On occasion East Indiamen and Mail Packets fought and captured Naval vessels.
A quarter of a century into this gun's life was the apotheosis of the cash and carry weapon of war. An insurgent organisation used its money and credit to buy high tech ships of war on individual private account, and then swept the seas clear of the second largest commercial fleet on the planet.
And when the dust settled, the United States' position was not that John Laird
shouldn't have sold warships to private individuals, but that the yard shouldn't have sold them to known representatives of active belligerents knowing that the buyers would use them as "weapons of war" in violation of local neutrality law.
I don't know when it became unlawful in the United States for an individual to just put down money and buy a navy for himself, if in fact it is. I know the various neutrality acts interfered with the ability of nations to buy warships, and applied the Alabama Claims' rules to sales to those acting for governments. And I know that British, French, and American shipyards supplied most of the warships, and nearly all the capital warships, to much of the world on a straight up cash and carry basis until after 1914. After 1918, the cut price sale, loan, or gift of surplus ships in government hands as a tool of policy killed the business.
Private possession and sale of artillery in the United States wasn't Federally regulated until 1968 (thanks Tam), which means that when this gun was 131 years old an American could still buy and own a destroyer, battleship, or aircraft carrier for his own use if he could find one for sale.
And I suspect he still can, if the artillery and torpedoes are properly NFA registered.
So no matter what the bien pensants assert, there's no indication from our past that the Second Amendment is meant to confine "weapons of war" to government possession.
This little cannon proves it.
Thursday, January 02, 2014
The Funniest Sentence in the News Today...
The agency sent its new marijuana inspectors to recreational shops to monitor sales and make sure sellers understood the state's new marijuana-tracking inventory system meant to keep legal pot out of the black market.
Marijuana tracking system. Forsooth.
"Umm, I think I have some pot, somewhere..."
For serious,
"Medical pot users worried they'd be priced out of the market. Colorado's recreational pot inventory came entirely from the drug's supply for medical uses.
"We hope that the focus on recreational doesn't take the focus away from patients who really need this medicine," said Laura Kriho of the patient advocacy group Cannabis Therapy Institute."
the FIRST DAY begins agitation for special medical weed subsidies. Already trying to get some market control and distortion based on the power of guilt.
Also, the Colorado State Marijuana Inspectors- are they subject to Colorado's pre employment drug screening?
And if they test negative after they are hired, is that grounds for termination?
Because how could they be inspecting if they aren't around it?
P.S., can't sell these any more- it's Impersonating an Officer!
The Colorado price, according to the article? $560. Go, free market. Instant pricing.
I suspect there will be a quick drop though, because of competition. Most people buying illegal things have a single source. 24 legal marijuana shops puts an end to that.
I predict a hotel and gasoline boomlet. And an uptick for Colorado UPS and FEDEX revenues too.
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Kubrick's Estate Should Sue....
big all seeing eyes? What would be a good name for those? Hmmm....
Monday, November 11, 2013
Armistice day 2013...
A couple of miles away I passed through Fere-en-Tardenois. Great minds
Which led me to a new sad thought.
Of course all these men had stories that they never got to finish. Every one of them had a goal, a plan. Start a business. Go back to the mill and work up to foreman. Teach at the school. Build up the family farm. Take a correspondence course. Marry the girl. Play catch with the boy. Go fishing with the Old Man or eat Mother's peach cobbler. Shoot craps with the fellows on the corner. Sit under a tree on a hot day and chew on a blade of grass.
Not one of those dreams happened.
Every one of these men started a telegram, and with it a new batch of stories. Every one of those telegrams had one of these names on it.
Where did they get Charley and Giovanni and Asa? The same way we get our Jamal and Chip.
Every one of those names was chosen carefully by proud parents for their perfect little son, their hope.
Let's use uncle's name. Daniel is fine, a brave Prophet. Alright, we'll call him after YOUR father. Jövünk Magyarországról, de mi hívjuk George Washington elnök után. You're my best pal, will you stand up at the christening?
And all those mothers and fathers saw all those names on all those telegrams.
Everyone who votes for a war, everyone who cheerleads for one, should have to do it from a place like this.
Oh, and one more thing. We were there for an hour and a half.
Had the place to ourselves.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Back to France! Day one at Cheverny...
Comme vous êtes maintenant donc une fois c'était moi.
Comme je suis en train de vous le seront bientôt,
Préparer chaque jour pour me suivre.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
More of our Cold Hearted Staff...
Monday, June 24, 2013
Just for Roberta..
The National Electronics Museum, who knew? Bonus, one can see it from a Booz Allen Hamilton building!
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Our Illiterate Journalists...
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Jay Hileman Coward,I Am Embarrassed For My Profession...
So the news tells us that coward Jay Hileman has been frightened away from prosecuting a case.
Every day we ask victims and ordinary citizens to come to court and testify. The criminals know who the witnesses against them are and where they live. They don't have special protection. Many live in violent slums, gang ridden housing projects or out in the country far from help.
We expect out Police Officers to go out day after day on predictable patrol routes, wearing uniforms.
For a prosecutor to give in to the fear from which victims, witnesses, and Police Officers CANNOT "withdraw" is shameful.
" Security concerns"? Every old lady in every bad neighbourhood in the country has "security concerns" you cannot imagine, Mr. $100, 000 man in a suit.
This is almost worse than Nifong.


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There's too much happening in New Orleans' French Quarter — especially on a holiday weekend, and especially when hundreds of thousands of people are in town for the annual Essence Music Festival. There are living statues and five-piece bands and drinks a foot-and-a-half tall and people from all over the world ambling in the middle of the street.
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This week, BBC's Panorama programme investigated the burgeoning "trauma industry" in the UK, and Ros Wynne-Jones commented in The Guardian that: "No Win, No Fee Britain ... now suffers PTSD at the click of a mouse, with personal injury claims websites listing the symptoms and then a Start Claim button."
While earlier this year, The Independent reported that "ambulance-chasing claims firms are preying on victims of crime, road accidents and financial mis-selling by cashing in on hundreds of millions of pounds worth of compensation."
In response to the furore over unfair no win, no fee arrangements, the Ministry of Justice recently proposed an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently being examined in the Lords; it seeks to regulate aspects of "damages-based agreements" - sometimes referred to as "contingency fee agreements" - which allow lawyers to claim a percentage of awards won on behalf of their clients.
Announcing a consultation paper on this issue - called 'Regulating Damages Based Agreements' - Jack Straw, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, said:
"Unregulated contingency fee arrangements expose claimants to unfair terms and conditions ... which could lead to huge slices being taken out of their damages. These arrangements - unlike, for example, conditional fee agreements [which, confusingly, are also referred to as no win, no fee agreements] - have until now been without statutory regulation because of a longstanding legal anomaly. The ... government seeks to redress this, offering proper regulation to protect the interests of consumers."
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About 40 Republican digital operatives met behind closed doors on Thursday at the Capitol Hill Club, for a campaign post-mortem and a reading of the will.
Mitt Romney's digital director Zac Moffatt and his counterpart on the Republican National Committee, Tyler Brown, listed the assets that the party would be inheriting from Romney's failed bid for the presidency.
According to someone who attended the meeting, the Romney campaign has delivered 1 million e-mail contacts from online donors, and 2.2 million new active e-mail contacts overall. Additionally, the party gets Romney's data-management system and the infrastructure for their Facebook operation and mobile app.
Moffatt also disclosed that the campaign raised $182 million online since May 1 of this year.
The meeting, which was described as constructive and educational, examined the campaign's online advertising, social media, e-mail list development, mobile apps, and the integration of the digital shop with other campaign departments.
An RNC official who did not want to be quoted by name said, "Clearly what we did this cycle wasn't enough but we did a lot of good things with the time and resources we had and our efforts have steadily improved over the past decade. This is the first step in a multistep process as we lay out the direction our party goes with its digital presence and how we get there."
The Republican inheritance of Romney's data machine, the attendee said, contrasts with what the Democrats are getting from the Obama campaign. This is a reference to the uncertain future of the vaunted Obama digital operation.
At a post-election event on Wednesday, Andrew Bleeker, a senior digital adviser to Obama for America and president of Bully Pulpit Interactive, demurred when asked whether the Democratic Party or a particular candidate would get access to the Obama team's data and insights for the 2016 race.
The big challenge for Republicans, the attendee said, is to take Romney's legacy and combine it with a new structure and plan for the future, including the full integration of digital with other campaign functions, such as communications, finance, and political operations.
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Sprinklers could be required in all new homes if Illinois legislators pass a bill they're currently considering.
Proponents say the sprinkler system requirement would help reduce deaths from fires, but opponents think it will do more harm than good.
Right now all of the cities in Illinois are on different code cycles. The 2012 cycle mandates sprinklers to be put in new homes, but most cities are on the 2009 cycle that makes sprinklers optional.
"It's up to each city here locally to decide how they want to do that, enforce that or not," says Julie Awkerman, executive officer for the Quad Cities Building and Remodelers Association.
Right now Milan is the only city in our area that is enforcing sprinkler systems. Everyone else is waiting to see how legislators vote.
"We have Iowa communities that have already pushed it back through their local meetings until August so a lot of things are up in the air right now," says Awkerman.
She says she has no problem putting sprinklers in new homes, but she thinks it should be the homeowner's choice.
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She also says it would make new homes more expensive, saying, "It increases the home price when building between anywhere from $2,500 up to over $10,000 just depending on the size."
Awkerman says this cost isn't worth it, since less than one-half of one percent of fires occur in new homes.
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Coronary artery disease develops over time with the build-up of cholesterol and other fatty materials on the walls of coronary arteries. "When fatty material builds up, it attracts calcium. If enough calcium accumulates, the artery wall may become hard and even bone-like," says Palmetto Health Heart Hospital cardiologist Dr. Stephen Humphrey.
Calcium scoring uses a highly sensitive and specially adapted CT scanner (cat scan) to measure the amount and distribution of the calcium inside the arteries, producing a calcium score. "There tends to be a correlation between the amount of calcium in an artery and the amount of fatty material in the artery wall," says Dr. Humphrey. "Thus, the calcium score, in theory, can detect early coronary disease before it will be seen by other tests."
Unfortunately, patients under age 55 may have significant coronary plaque, but not yet significant calcification to detect by this method. Other tests such as EKG, treadmill tests and nuclear scans measure blockages by detecting alterations in blood flow within the coronary arteries, providing more information about prognosis. Although a calcium-scoring test does not indicate blood flow problems nor provide a picture of the artery itself, it can detect the disease before there's a blood-flow altering blockage.
Fortunately, the damaging effects of coronary artery disease can be controlled by adopting a heart-healthy lifestyle. A low-fat diet, regular exercise, smoking cessation, diabetes and blood pressure control, and the use of cholesterol lowering drugs will have the biggest effect.
"A calcium scoring test may help decide how aggressive we will be in the use of other diagnostic tests and treatments. It is critical to note that calcium scoring should never be used on its own to diagnose coronary artery disease" says Dr. Humphrey.
Calcium scoring should not be the only test used to diagnose coronary artery disease. "As we age, calcium naturally accumulates in the arteries regardless of the presence or absence of fatty plaque. So in patients over age 55, the calcium-scoring test becomes less reliable," says Dr. Humphrey.
Also, the great majority of patients with diabetes will have a high calcium score, making this test less useful in the diabetic population. Calcium scoring is not, therefore, the best screening tool for coronary artery disease. Calcium scoring should ideally be used in special cases where the physician needs more information to factor into the decision of how aggressive an individual's treatment program should be.


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B.O.B. Jogging Stroller Recall
Moms on the run need to be aware – roughly 350,000 B.O.B. jogging strollers are being recalled across the US and Canada.
The issue identified in the recall is with a drawstring used to tie back the stroller's canopy. There is a risk that a child may become entangled in the string, which could lead to strangulation. To date, one incident has been reported, in which an 11-month-old baby girl became tangled in the drawstring. The child's mother was able to free her daughter before serious injury occurred.
11 models of B.O.B. strollers are being recalled - including models from the Sports Utility line, Revolution line and more - and can be identified by the yellow / orange drawstring used to collect the canopy material. The company's name can be found on the stroller's cargo basket and on the front cloth panel, while serial numbers can be found stamped on the frame or on a label on the rear right leg of the stroller.
A complete list of models and serial number ranges, as well as images and other details of the recall, can be found on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website and the Health Canada website.
Owners of the models listed in the recall are advised to stop using the strollers immediately and remove the drawstring from their units. A corrective retrofit canopy kit can be ordered free of charge on B.O.B.'s website, www.bobcanopy.com, or by contacting B.O.B. Trailers at (855) 242-2245 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday.


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01/23/12 – Fetch ReflexesJanuary 23rd, 2012 | by christopher
I always found it peculiar that dogs want to play fetch, but are so unwilling to let you throw the thing in question. Maybe they're bringing it back purely to play tug-of-war? I don't know.
01/21/12 – Unseen FriendJanuary 21st, 2012 | by christopher
I don't know if this is true, but if it is, I wouldn't know it because i wouldn't see the elephant sitting next to me on the subway, would I?
01/20/12 – In Your SleepJanuary 20th, 2012 | by christopher
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This is an oddly written strip, all over the map, but somehow the chaos of their lives hold it together. Sometimes the mechanics of what i do are beyond me, I just have to do it until it feels right.
01/19/12 – Dances With WolvesJanuary 19th, 2012 | by christopher
I don't know a single canine who isn't a sucker for milkbones.
01/18/12 – Nothing DangerousJanuary 18th, 2012 | by christopher
Buy This Artwork!
Hypotheticals have no right showing up in flesh-and-blood, otherwise there'd be wayyyyy too many times in my life when I would have been in BIG trouble.
01/17/12 – An Elephant Was HereJanuary 17th, 2012 | by christopher
I think Dee shows a very healthy level of skepticism here.
And, ahhh…. I so do love a good belly laugh like that. :)
01/16/12 – Not AvoidingJanuary 16th, 2012 | by christopher
I hadn't planned it, but it was nice when Alida immediately brought out a more tender side to Vachel. Writing can be such a strange process of discovery.
01/14/12 – Elephant in the FieldJanuary 14th, 2012 | by christopher
It can be a challenge to force the written word to make the sounds one desires. "Aw-heyyy" being said when he was about to say "awake" I think worked particularly well.
01/13/12 – The Bridge ApproachesJanuary 13th, 2012 | by christopher
Sensitive moments cannot last long when one is easily distracted.
01/12/12 – Vachel's Quiet PlaceJanuary 12th, 2012 | by christopher
I feel a great tenderness and nostalgia for some of the feelings of my childhood, and it's strips like this where I feel I captured them. I was always a contemplative one.


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Deputies: Girl assaulted as she slept next to boyfriend
By Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News : January 20, 2014 : Updated: January 20, 2014 3:28pm
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SAN ANTONIO — The Bexar County Sheriff's Office charged a man Sunday with sexual assault of a child, saying he attacked a 16-year-old girl as she slept next to her boyfriend.
The teen was sleeping about 3 a.m. Sunday in a home in the 7000 block of Mallow Drive when she awoke to Francisco Antonio, 44, assaulting her, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Antonio lives in the home, according to the warrant.
Reports indicate that the teen pushed Antonio off, but he continued to perform sexual acts on her, according to the warrant. When the teen shook her boyfriend, Antonio jumped off the bed and turned on the light, according to the warrant.
The teen was crying and her boyfriend began yelling at Antonio's daughter, who then took them home, according to the warrant. At that point, the police were notified and the teen was taken to a hospital for a sexual assault examination, according to the warrant.
Antonio was nowhere to be found but was later detained and interviewed, according to the warrant. Deputies said Antonio has a history of leaving the country.
Deputies arrested Antonio about 2 p.m. Sunday and he was released on a $75,000 bond.
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Tell Speaker Boehner: Enough Already
John Boehner is caving to Tea Party Republicans.
In 2011, John Boehner called a potential government shutdown irresponsible and costly. Now, we are in the midst of a shutdown that is harming our economy—all because the Speaker is letting the Tea Party call the shots.


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It may seem funny to have a wishlist on a store of this size, but it would be very useful.
I can't put this book in my shopping cart, since it's not available yet. (And using shopping carts for things you don't want to buy now but rather eventually is kludgey anyway.) And I can't just bookmark it since I'm using someone else's computer at the moment. (Okay, I could post it to del.icio.us, but I've never been satisfied with any browser/del.icio.us integration I've tested, so it would just get lost there anyway.) A wish list is really the right solution, and would be very handy.
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agreed - I put it on my amazon universal wishlist - but would have preferred to put it on my pragprog wishlist
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Me too! I primarilly buy PDFs, and like to manage my purchases on the site. It would be great to be able to also manage my wish list. OMG! Where'd that Wishlist button come from! I guess make it clearer I get the option once I log in :)
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Internships Opportunities
Marketing Intern: The Courtauld Gallery
3 days a week for 3 months, £6.19 per hour, starting on 21 January 2013
The Courtauld Gallery is one of the world's finest small museums with outstanding collections and an acclaimed programme of temporary exhibitions. Set in historic Somerset House in central London, the Gallery is an integral part of The Courtauld Institute of Art, an international centre for the teaching and study of the history of art and conservation.
The Courtauld Gallery has an opportunity for an intern to work with the Gallery Marketing & Communications Manager.
Role Description
Main duties:
- Updating the marketing database (appropriate Raiser's Edge training will be provided)
- Researching marketing and promotional opportunities for forthcoming exhibitions
- Generating ideas for richer content on The Courtauld Gallery's website and social media platforms.
- Researching and writing content for The Courtauld Gallery's e-newsletter.
- Leaflet mailings and distribution.
- Filing of media coverage and other items
- Assisting the Gallery Marketing & Communications Manager with day-to-day tasks and office duties.
Skills required:
- Good research and internet skills
- Good administrative and IT skills (including Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel)
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and interpersonal
- Attention to detail
Skills and knowledge that will be developed:
- Awareness of market research tools and their appropriate use.
- Awareness of promotional opportunities in the field of London art galleries.
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- Ability to understand what will and what won't generate media coverage.
- Copywriting skills.
Please also indicate your preferred time for an internship.
For further details and an application form:
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Please note that CVs will not be accepted. All applicants must complete an application pack.
Closing Date: 12.00 pm, Friday, 11 January 2013
Interview Date: Thursday, 17 January 2013
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Lepage Asks Lawmakers to Help Fight Drug Problem
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – Maine Gov. Paul LePage is calling on lawmakers to support his proposal to boost law enforcement to combat the state's drug problem.
The Republican governor has submitted a nearly $3 million measure to fund 14 new drug enforcement agents. It would also add four judges and four prosecutors in the attorney general's office.
LePage said Tuesday that the measure is not a silver bullet and that that prevention and treatment are also important. But he says it's time to take action, hunt down the drug dealers and get them off the streets.
Critics say increasing law enforcement won't solve Maine's drug problem. The Maine Civil Liberties Union says LePage is "proposing a continuation of the same policies that have wreaked havoc on our communities and state budgets."
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CHURUBUSCO — For the past four seasons Churubusco head baseball coach Mark Grove has gone into every game writing one name into the catcher position.
Jordan Turner.
The four-year starting catcher for the Eagles signed his letter of intent to play collegiate baseball for the Manchester Spartans.
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BLOOMINGTON — With temperatures nearing 100 degrees in the stands and maybe more on the track, athletes braved the hot and humid conditions Saturday at the girls' track and field state finals at Indiana University.
Among the athletes running for a top-9 state medal were three Columbia City Lady Eagles.
Two seniors and a freshman made up the most Lady Eagles to appear in the state finals for Columbia City since 2005.
BLOOMINGTON — Blistering hot, both on track and in the air, the Indiana high school boys' track and field state finals got under way Friday at Indiana University.
Among the 4,411 fans in attendance, six athletes from Whitley County took to the track.
A pair of seniors from Churubusco, known better as Y2K, capped off a record-setting Eagles career.
MONTICELLO — The Lady Eagles state-bound run ended with a dramatic finish Saturday.
Columbia City was ahead against the No. 12 state-ranked Andrean 3-0 until the bottom of the sixth-inning, when the 59ers took off with a five-run rally to win, 5-3.
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KENDALLVILLE — A pack of Wildcats went into Friday's East Noble boys' golf sectional at Noble Hawk Golf Links and one remained after the dust settled.
As Whitko missed one of three advancing positions as a team by nine strokes, Daniel Zawlocki used his round of 77 on the par 71 course to take the fifth and final regional qualifying spot as an individual.
Homestead took the team title at 292 ahead of Carroll (305) and DeKalb (316) — who also advanced to regional.
The success of 2011 for Columbia City girls' track and field comes down to a trio of Lady Eagles Saturday.
Invitational trophies, conference championships and several school records achieved, three girls and three events remain with one meet left to go.
Through this trio, the young talent of Columbia City comes through in freshman Samantha Roush. The timeless veteran experience of two sectional team championships is held down by seniors Corinna Raypole and Renee Menzie.
There were a lot of unknowns when Whitko's distance team came into the track and field season.
Not knowing what they truly had on their hands, the Wildcat foursome of Brian Menzie, Jude Stieglitz, Brody Wilson and Trapper Mize began to see signs of something special.
When Churubusco lore looks back on 2011, the success of boys' track and field will begin with possibly the best the program has ever seen.
Two Eagle seniors have cemented their place in 'Busco athletics to the point where people simply ask, Monk or Mathewson?
Not only bearing the same first name, the two Kyles have been side-by-side in what has been four years of rewriting the record books at Churubusco.
COLUMBIA CITY — In a matter of two nights, Columbia City softball went from just another season to its best since 1997.
After claiming the class 3A sectional Monday, the Lady Eagles returned to Morsches Park to add another title to its season.
Regional champion.
Behind the brute power of its offensive lineup and shutdown pitching, Columbia City upset No. 2 Mishawaka Marian 8-3.


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Five Pomona College Staff and Faculty Members Retiring
At the end of the school year, five beloved members of the Pomona College community will enter their well-deserved retirement. Please join us in saying goodbye to these faculty and staff members.
Deanna Bos, Housing Director
Deanna Bos started at Pomona College in August of 1983 as secretary in the then newly formed Housekeeping and Maintenance department. In 1986, Bos transferred to what was then known as the Office of Residence Life and became the administrative assistant. Over the course of her tenure in the department, and with encouragement and support from some of the deans she worked for, the position of housing director was created and she was promoted into this role.
During her almost 28 years at the College, Bos has worked for 11
different deans. There have been many changes in residential living at
Pomona during that time, she recalls. Her first "computer" was a word
processor with a 10" floppy disk. Students went from hall phones to
landlines to cell phones. When she began, staff desk receptionists held
on to spare keys for students who lost theirs.
Room Draw procedures were particularly archaic. "Number assignment took all day as students came to a room and physically drew their own number out of a bucket marked Seniors, Juniors or Sophomores," says Bos, whose tenure has seen the building of Lyon Court and the new residence halls, as well as the renovation of every other residence hall at least once. "Room selections were written down and entered into a database after room draw was over.
In her retirement, Bos plans to spend time with her children and grandchildren and explore new volunteer opportunities.
Toni Clark, Associate Professor of English
Toni Clark came to Pomona in 1983 as dean of women, associate dean of students and associate professor of English. She developed the Women's Union, established the Women's Union Thursday Noon Discussion Series and, with Joe Jimenez '99, established The Closet, which became the QRC. She served as one of the College's three grievance officers, chaired the Women's Commission, served two terms as coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, and organized the Faculty Advisors' Workshop. She provided academic and personal advising for students, and served as 504 coordinator.
In 2007, she left Alexander Hall and moved across the street to chair the English Department for a year before beginning phased retirement. She taught courses in Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and modern and postmodern English and American literature, including environmental literature. All of her classes except for ID1 were cross-listed with gender/women's studies, and her environmental literature classes with environmental analysis. She chaired the EA track Race, Class, Gender and the Environment.
Clark received her A.B. from UC Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from UCSB where, with Robert Potter, PO '56, she developed The Innovative Project in English, a program offering classes open to EOP students that focused on writing about Black and Chicano literature. Prior to Pomona, she taught as a lecturer in English with adjunct status in Chicano Studies for four years at UCSB, then moved to Augsburg College where she was assistant and then associate professor of English and American literature. At Augsburg, she chaired the Women's and Minority Studies Program and, as chair of the Faculty Senate, instituted a graduation requirement in Women's, Minority, or Urban Studies. She directed the summer school program and The Interim, the intensive January term, for several years, and took several groups to London for a Theatre in London course during The Interim. She also chaired the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities Creative Writing Committee that presented the Midwestern Writers' Festival, a week-long program that brought five major writers to the Twin Cities, including Margaret Atwood, Donald Justice, Audre Lorde, Tillie Olsen and James Welch, and produced a two-day bookfair.
She plans to volunteer at Rancho Santa Ana and read intensively in environmental criticism and theory before beginning a new research project.
"Although I'll be even sadder than usual during Commencement, there is some consolation in knowing I will remain in contact with many of my students, like those whose photographs and portraits of their families line my bookcases at home," says Clark. "I will still miss them and the classroom, though. Working with students has brought me great joy over the past 28 years."
Neil Gerard, Associate Dean of Students, Director of Smith Campus Center and Student Programs, and Director of Bridges Auditorium
Neil Gerard has been with Pomona since 1993. He was an integral leader in the planning and construction of the Smith Campus Center in the 1990s and then led subsequent changes and renovation from 2005 to 2007. As director of the Campus Center, Gerard instituted the annual Open House event, the late-night Pancake Breakfast and the SafeRides program, among other programs. More recently, he has provided leadership and vision to the College in assuming the additional roles as director of Bridges Auditorium and as chair of the Distinguished Speakers Committee, which brought to campus David Plouffe, Sandra Day O'Connor, Van Jones and Bill Gates.
Throughout the years, Gerard has been an advisor and advocate for students and groups, including ASPC, the Metate yearbook, Mortar Board, International Student Mentoring Program, and the Jewish Student Union. Neil and his wife, Joan, have hosted many international students, and invited countless students into their home for dinners and holidays.
Prior to coming to Pomona College, Gerard worked as Cal Poly Pomona, Adelphi University in New York and the State University of New York Agricultural and Technical College at Alfred. He earned his M.B.A. from Adelphi University and his B.A. from CUNY Queens College. He served in several roles at the Association of American College Unions International, including international president, and the organization recognized him with an Honorary Membership award, which is conferred on those who have given exceptional service and usually reserved for college union and student activities professionals on their retirement.
"Pomona has been the perfect capstone to years of service as a college/university educator. It is an extraordinary place by all measures," wrote Gerard recently in a letter to The Student Life. "It attracts the best and the brightest as students, educators and staff. It nurtures and protects; nourishes and encourages; and supports people when they leave. It is truly a family affair."
Gerard's retirement will be only partial. After a few months off for visiting friends and family, he will return to campus for a quarter-time/10-month position working with Bridges Auditorium and on emergency preparation.
Jerry Irish, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies
Professor Jerry Irish joined Pomona College in 1986 as vice president and dean of the college and professor of religious studies. In this position, which he held until 1993, Irish facilitated increased diversification of the faculty, instituted the Steele Leave for junior faculty and the rotating Associate Deanships in the Dean of the College office, facilitated increased attention to the Arts (e.g. planning and construction of Seaver Theatre; increased resources for the Dance program), and strengthened collaboration among the Claremont Colleges, including minority and women's studies programs and centers; modern languages instruction; and Pomona-Pitzer athletic resources.
As a professor, he won three Wig Awards for Excellence in Teaching (1997, 2002 and 2007) and chaired the Arts Task Force, which laid the groundwork for current campaign with respect to the arts, and the Faculty Grievance Committee. He was also a member of the Animal Care Committee, which he says rounded out his experience as an ethicist.
Prior to Pomona College, Irish taught at Stanford University (where he won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1971), Wichita State University and Kenyon College, where he also served as provost as well as professor of religion. "A huge highlight that runs through all of my time at Pomona College has been working with talented and dedicated staff members, stimulating and supportive faculty colleagues, and extraordinary students," says Irish.
Monique Saigal-Escudero, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature
Monique Saigal has been teaching at Pomona for 45 years. She began teaching both French and Spanish, but moved toward a focus on French. Courses she particularly enjoyed teaching included Paris: Myth and Reality, Contemporary French Film, and Literary Analysis. She was a popular presence at the French tables in Oldenborg and always participated in the annual French show.
Interested in the mother/daughter metaphor, she wrote Writing: a link between mother and daughter in the Works of Jeanne Hyvrard, Chantal Chawaf and Annie Ernaux in 2000.
In 2008, she wrote French Heroines 1940-1945: Courage, Strength and Ingenuity, which was published first in French and then in English in 2010. For the book, she traveled to interview and film women who took part in the French Resistance in World War II.
The topic is a personal passion for Saigal-Escudero. "With this book I was able to honor my grandmother gassed at Auschwitz and my Righteous ones, as well as extraordinary women," she explains. The book was well-reviewed and Saigal has given countless readings and talks on the subject. (For more on Saigal-Escudero's World War II research, please read "Reclaiming the Past" in the winter 2004 issue of Pomona College Magazine).
Saigal-Escudero won the Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997 and the Sontag Fellowship from 2003 to 2008, which allowed her to hire students work on translating her book. She was also the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities summer grants in 1993 and 1997.
In her retirement, she plans to volunteer at the House of Ruth and work on a documentary featuring the interviews from her book, as well as work in her vegetable garden, play more tennis and return to playing flamenco guitar. "I will miss the students because they are the ones who inspired me to innovate and they kept me young at heart," says Saigal-Escudero.


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CULVER CITY, CALIF. (May 7, 2012) -- Tonight Jeopardy! will enter the second week of its Teen Tournament from Washington, D.C. This year's semifinalists visited the district's most prestigious address -- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- to tour the White House with "Jeopardy!" Host Alex Trebek. A White House curator led the teens through some of the White House's most historic rooms. The contestants also viewed Michelle Obama's kitchen garden.
Jeopardy! also took the teens to some of the district's most iconic sites, including the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial.
The nine semifinalists will compete for the $75,000 grand prize in front of an audience of thousands at DAR Constitution Hall. This year's competitors were selected from over 20,000 students who applied for a spot in the elite tournament.
Jeopardy!, the winner of a 2012 Peabody award and 29 Emmy awards, including the 2011 Emmy for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Program, was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most awards won by a TV Game Show. The series is the #1-rated quiz show in syndication with 25 million viewers each week. Jeopardy! is produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company. It is distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and internationally by CBS Television International, both units of CBS Corp.
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Dembski's talk at the Athenaeum, second in a three-part series on intelligent design sponsored by the Salvatori Center, will critique the idea that natural selection, the key mechanism of theories of Darwinian evolution, acts as all information ratchet that gradually accumulates the information that organisms need to acquire novel adaptations. He maintains that this gives natural selection too much credit, and that it is unequipped to handle the innovative problems that biological systems have solved in the course of natural history. Dembski's work has placed him at the center of the growing debate on Darwinism and intelligent design and its broad implications for philosophy and theology, which he addressed in Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology, published in 2002.
A mathematician and philosopher, William Dembski is associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University and a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. He is also the executive director of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (www.iscid.org). His graduate degrees include an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and a master of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is currently coediting a book with Michael Ruse for Cambridge University Press titled Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (2004).
The third and final lecture in this series, "Intelligent Design: Not Ready for Prime Time or Why Scientists Reject Intelligent Design," will be presented by Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, on Monday, March 8.


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Between columns, Buck discusses the major developments in sports and what's on his readers' minds.
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Bubba the pioneer
Bubba Smith wanted to play for the University of Texas, but that wasn't going to happen then. Jerry LeVias was still a few years away from breaking a color barrier at SMU. So Smith left Beaumont for Michigan State, and he had two requests: He wanted to live in a dormitory with regular students, and […] [Read More]


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House Republican leaders including John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy are meeting Wednesday with the Fix the Debt coalition and will remind the campaign's leaders that entitlement reforms must be part of the solution to the fiscal cliff.
Republicans on and off the Hill have complained that too much of the debate has focused on tax reform at the expense of a discussion on how to rein in spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
"Right now there's been a lot of discussion on the tax side but there needs to be a discussion about entitlement cuts," said a House GOP leadership aide. "Let's not forget what the other side of a 'balanced approach' is. Everybody's talking about the revenue and nobody's talking about spending cuts."
In a Monday statement, Boehner echoed the need for a "balanced approach ... that involves both major spending cuts and additional revenue via tax reform with lower tax rates."
Republicans off the Hill were more blunt.
"Obviously they're not really being balanced in this," said Tony Fratto, a former aide to President George W. Bush. "They're not pushing for entitlement reform. They're giving it lip service, but what they really, really want is Republicans to relent on marginal tax rates. They see Republican relenting on marginal tax rates as something that will put this all behind us."
The participation of General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Honeywell CEO David Cote, both of whom have close ties to President Obama, has also raised suspicion that the group is aligned with the White House, according to Steve Bell, senior director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Fix the Debt, he said, clearly has "tacit White House approval."
Erica Elliott, a spokeswoman for McCarthy, who is organizing the meeting, said the meeting wasn't called to take the group to the woodshed. Rather, it is a followup meeting to a Nov. 13 meeting between McCarthy and coalition member Maya MacGuineas. GOP leaders are meeting with a number of stakeholder groups. For example, McCarthy is scheduled to meet with a group of small business owners on Dec. 5.
Wednesday's meeting between House GOP leaders and representatives from the Fix the Debt Coalition will take place at 10:30 a.m. in McCarthy's office and will include MacGuineas, Cote, Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Allstate CEO Thomas Wilson, Airlines for America CEO Nick Calio, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini and Fix the Debt co-founder Erskine Bowles.
Alex Roarty contributed.
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(This is the second post inspired by reading the introduction of Scott Timberg's "Culture Crash: the killing of the creative class." Read all the book club entries)
In between the last post and this one, I've been reading a number of articles about how Amazon reviews are gamed – that authors will often purchase hundreds of fake 5-star user reviews to push their books up to the top of the Amazon search engines.
The result is that crappy books by people gaming the system push out legitimately good book – even books with good (real) reviews, just not hundreds of them. For people who want to find and read good books – never mind paying the authors, just finding out about the books in the first place – it is increasingly hard. A system like Amazon's, that relies largely on the free market, claims to be a neutral arbiter but in fact supports the people who are gaming it rather than the artists struggling to do good work.
I can think of no better example of what Scott Timberg is talking about when he says that the "hollowing out" of the cultural structures has serious consequences.
Timberg isn't referring specifically to artists here, though he includes them of course. When he refers to the "creative class," he's talking about people who support art and culture by serving as gatekeepers: people who help the "good" art distinguish itself from the bad. He's talking about video clerks, radio DJs who do their own programming, arts journalists, and of course critics – among many others.
The idea of having "gatekeepers" has gotten a lot of bad press in the digital revolution, but the degree to which we need people to separate the wheat from the chafe has never been more clear: without gatekeepers who are not in it for the money, only the art with a publicity budget will ever be found amid the mass production that the digital revolution has unleashed. Sure we can all "vote" with our "likes" and our "tweets" – but these systems are not only easy to game, they exist specifically to be gamed. They drag all art appreciation down to the level of "American Idol," which is great on its own terms but not really – not really – a serious way to evaluate music. As a result, the good work gets drowned out.
And let me be clear about this: a system that is agnostic about quality is actively against it. To say "our system of publicity shouldn't care whether art is good or bad" is to dig good art's grave. (more…)


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September 26, 2011
Schroon Lake Central School runners completing the Adirondack Half marathon were, from left, Dan Maisonville, Levi Williams and Caleb Maisonville.
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Paul Allison and Jocelyn Leavitt raced to victories in the Adirondack Marathon Sept. 25. Allison, a North Creek runner, covered the 26.2 miles around Schroon Lake in 2 hours, 41 minutes, 54 seconds to win the men's title. Stanley Larkin of Saint Basile le Grand, Quebec, was second in 2:57:17. Leavitt, from New York City, won the women's crown in 3:03:24. Virginie Rebeuh-Poritzky of Greenfield Center was second in 3:17:25.
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The Washington Wizards traces back it's history to the Chicago Packers and Zephyrs. The franchise made a stop in Baltimore and eventually called the nation's capital home in 1973 as the Capital Bullets. A year later, the team's name was changed to Washington Bullets. The 1970s prove to be their most successful decade for they made the NBA Finals four times but won only once in 1978. In this era, the team was led by the frontcourt duo of Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld.
Since 1997, the team has been known as the Wizards and they have achieved average success including play-off berths in the mid-2000s courtesy of a team led by Gilbert Arenas, Larry Hughes and Antawn Jamison. Now, the team is out to claim back post-season glory through John Wall, Bradley Beal, Nene, Leandro Barbosa, Trevor Ariza and Emeka Okafor. With deficits being a recurring topic among government institutions, the Washington Wizards aims to shorten the deficit towards the franchise's second NBA championship.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Pubs in Ipswich have been warned that they could be shut down if they allow any derby match trouble.
Police have sent a letter to pub owners advising them to close their premises for two hours after the match between Ipswich Town and Norwich City tomorrow.
A spokesman from Suffolk Police said: "The letter was sent to all licensed premises highlighting their licensing condition and warning that if there is public disorder then their licenses could be revoked."
Ipswich fans will be looking for a revengeful comeback after their 5-1 defeat in April 2011.
The match kicks off at 12.15pm at Portman Road, Ipswich.
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How many people who embarrass themselves by supporting the nefarious goings-on at Offshore Investment FC go for a few drinks before or after the mind-numbingly tedious games? A few hundred? A thousand or so? Seems odd that this ignorant minority who stain the memory of the football club that once played at Portman Road are allowed to sp inconvenience the hundreds of thousands who would like their saturday lunchtime and afternoon back..... and local businesses.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
If the police are so concerned why not have the match played behind closed doors, shut radio Suffolk up talking about the match stirring things up all week ,and how they think it will bring thousands of extra turn over to businesses when those that would have benifected will be closed,
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Who do the police think they are. They don't have the power to revoke a licence; merely recommend it be revoked to a panel of borough councillors. What licensee is going to want trouble in their establishment; it's bad for business and with a full house likely at Portman Road, it's a cash cow no licensee can afford to miss out on. It's time for Suffolk police to be held to account for bending the truth about what they can legally do.
Friday, August 22, 2014
In one article the Star are saying businesses are hoping for a boost on Saturday, and in another they are saying businesses are being forced to close at that exact time they were hoping for bumper trade.
Friday, August 22, 2014
There is is about 1 arrest for every 14,000 people who attended football matches in this country in the 2012-13 season. Yes there might be a little more excitement around for a local derby but let's keep things in perspective.
Friday, August 22, 2014
if these derby games cause trouble , dont play them in ipswich or norwich.
Friday, August 22, 2014
'Three pints for the price of two, and all fighting welcome'. As if...
Friday, August 22, 2014
What about people who have not the faintest interest in football, are they not allowed a drink. Where is George Orwell when you need him.
Friday, August 22, 2014
is this a joke
Friday, August 22, 2014
after the game ? what about before . does before not count
Friday, August 22, 2014
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