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Harrison's is a brand of certified organic, formulated bird foods that were developed by avian veterinarians and nutritionists after extensive research about the nutritional needs of pet birds and parrots. Available in two major formulas, these bird foods are a complete diet that is recommended by most avian vets who understand bird's physical and nutritional needs.
It is recommended that you start all new and baby birds on Harrison's High Potency Formula for at least 6 months. Breeding birds, stressed or ill birds and molting birds also benefit from the increased nutritional benefits of high potency formulas. Some parrot breeds in particular do better on High Potency year round, but many species can "wean" to the Adult Lifetime Formula once they've established excellent nutrional status.
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Fresh Vegetables, Low sugar fruits, Organic Grains
African Greys
High Potency 1-1/2 to 3 Tbs (15 to 30g)
1/2 to 2 tsp, choose calcium rich leafy greens along with organic orange, red and green vegetables
1-1/2 to 3 Tbs (15 to 30g)
1 to 2 tsp
High Potency Consult with Vet 1-1/2 to 5 Tbs (15 to 50g)
2 tsp up to 1 Tbs
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High Potency 2 to 6 Tbsp (20 to 60g)
2 tsp to 1 ½ Tbs; Omega 3 rich nuts, Sunshine Factor, Organic Coconut Oils
Conures & Pionus
½ tsp to 2 Tbs
2 tsp to 1-1/2 Tbs
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½ - ¾ tsp Fine Pellets
¼ - ½ tsp greens, grains & veggies
High Potency 2 to 4 Tbs (20 to 40g)
Organic juicy, fiberous fruits and vegetables, greens, legumes
High Potency 1 1/2 to 3 Tbs (15 to 30g)
1 to 2 tsp
Before you embark on switching your bird's diet, we suggest that you inform your vet.
**ALWAYS monitor your parrot's weight in grams with a reliable bird scale at least 3 times per week while attempting a diet change. Weigh your bird at the same time each day, such as before breakfast or right before bed. Feel the birds keel and observe droppings several times a week, too Should your bird's body begin to deteriorate you'll be able to act quickly and slow the "pellet acceptance teaching" process down until your bird can maintain a desired weight relative to its body history and for its species.
While some birds may eagerly try new food items, a lot of parrots are fearful of trying new food. Birds learn what to eat from their parents or hand-feeders. Picky or fearful eaters will need special teaching methods and coaxing. Keep in mind that switching to a premium, healthy bird pellet is WELL worth the effort. Here are some methods for teaching your bird that Harrison's Bird Food is safe, try these ideas:
It would not be unusual to allow 4-8 months to teach your bird that pellets are a safe diet.
Supplement Harrison's with only 10% or less of your pets overall dietary intake. Harrison's and noted avian nutrition experts recommend fresh, certified organic vegetables and low sugar fruits in small quantities. Choose bright yellow and orange root based or meaty vegetables like Vitamin A rich sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, mango or papaya. Vitamin A and Calcium rich dark green leafy like kale, broccoli, parsley, kelp and spinach are excellent bird food supplements.
If your bird shows signs of excessive iron please consult your avian veterinarian. Symptoms of Iron Storage Disease include difficulty breathing due to lung damage, a distended abdomen and paralysis.
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C-Body Sway Bars - Roll ControlWritten by on February 22, 2012 Helping a C-Body Handle
There's no denying that Mopar C-Bodies have been overlooked in terms of collectability and performance, which amazes us since cars like the Imperial, New Yorker, Monaco, Polara, and Fury were some of the most desirable automobiles when they were produced. Driving a C-Body during the sixties and seventies meant you had made it, that you didn't care about mileage and deserved the roomy comfort and excellent ride quality offered only by a full-size car. Chrysler sold plenty of full-size cars during this era, some with the same high-performance engines found in musclecars. And while C-Bodies can be made to accelerate and stop well, their sheer size and bulk have generally limited their handling capabilities.
Fortunately, Performance Suspension Technology (PST) hasn't forgotten about the Mopar C-Body, and offers a full line of suspension rebuild products as well as items specifically designed to improve your car's handling. With so much mass, it's important to keep a C-Body's suspension and steering up to specs in the interest of safety, but a good suspension also makes the car much more fun to drive. This month we'll install a pair of PST's sway bars on our '69 Newport, improving the handling, traction, and even braking of our full-size Mopar.
Before any handling upgrade should be considered, the overall health of the car's suspension should be considered. If ball-joints, tie-rod ends, and leaf-springs are all worn out, adding front and rear sway bars won't be much help. Showing some 68,000 miles (we assume it's 168,000), the suspension of our Newport was worn to the point of requiring a rebuild. In fact, it was past the point of a rebuild and probably hazardous to drive, let alone test a pair of sway bars on. With that in mind, we rebuilt our Newport's front suspension with new PST bushings and steering components, and replaced the sagging leaf springs out back. With these tasks complete, we addressed the issue of installing our new PST front and rear sway bars.
While nearly every modern vehicle has front and rear sway bars, older Mopars were lucky to get just a front one. Generally known as "sway bars", these components are actually anti-sway, or more correctly anti-roll bars, and are designed to keep the car flat when cornering. Staying flatter, with less body roll, the car will have much better traction as the inside tires will have greater contact force with the pavement. The outer tires will then tend lean less, and build less heat, improving traction all the way around. Braking will also be improved, especially during cornering, as each wheel will have more equal-contact with the road. Theoretically, traction will be improved as well, with a rear sway bar, as the rear bar acts as an anti-roll bar, preventing roll-rotation and ensuring both rear tires stay planted equally. Since sway bars only work during cornering or heavy acceleration and deceleration, our smooth C-Body ride quality won't be affected.
PST's sway bars are manufactured from the highest quality materials, and come in kit form with all of the required brackets and hardware. The front bar measures one inch compared to the factory bar's 3/4-inch diameter, and simply bolts in the location of a factory bar, or in place of the factory sway bar. Installing the rear bar requires drilling four holes in the rear frame rails and installing brackets around the rear leaf springs, but is easily accomplished with an electric drill and basic hand tools. We had both bars installed in an afternoon, taking the car for a drive that evening.
Since the benefits of PST front and rear sway bars are especially noticeable in a larger vehicle like our Chrysler, these sway bars produced a big improvement in our car's performance, making the already fun convertible even more fun to drive. Body roll was noticeably reduced and ride quality wasn't sacrificed at all. While braking, the car stays flatter as well, letting the rear brakes do their share of the work. The real payoff, however, is while driving the car. Our Newport now seems far more nimble than its mass should allow, keeping up with much lighter vehicles through the curves and when changing lanes. At just $169 per kit, PST sway bars surely offer the most bang for the buck in terms of handling performance. We encourage you to check out PST's website and check out the components they have for your Mopar.
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3. Most C-Bodies like our Newport are equipped with a 3⁄4-inch diameter front sway bar, which we'll replace with the PST one-inch diameter unit. Our sway bar bushings were shot, but the PST kit comes with all new bushings and hardware.4. The PST front sway bar bolts right in place of the factory sway bar, and is simple to install with basic hand tools. Since everything is included in the kit, installing the front bar only takes an hour or so. This is a simple procedure and requires only basic knowledge and hand tools to accomplish right in your driveway.5. Side by side, the PST front sway bar looks similar to the factory 3⁄4-inch diameter bar, but is a larger one-inch diameter for added stability. This entire job is inexpensive and easy to do, and will make a big difference in the way our Newport handles.6. Installed, the PST sway bar looks very much like the factory bar, but will limit body roll even more than the factory sway bar thanks to its larger diameter.7. Since C-Body Mopars weren't equipped with a rear sway bar, installing one is slightly more involved than replacing the front sway bar was. Thankfully, the PST kit includes all of the brackets, hardware, and bushings to make the job easy.8. The first step to installing the rear sway bar is to place the supplied brackets around each leaf spring, locating them as close to the axle housing as possible.9. The rear sway bar can now be attached to the leaf spring brackets, in order to properly locate the brackets that will be attached to the rear frame rails. Putting weight on the wheels or a jack under the rear end housing will simulate the proper ride height, and the frame brackets are used to mark the location on the holes.10. Using a drill, two holes are placed in the rear frame rails above and behind the rear end housing.
11. With the attaching brackets installed on the leaf springs and rear frame rails, the rear sway bar can be bolted in place and the job is complete. The fasteners that hold the sway bar ends should be made snug, but not over-tightened, and each side should be tightened equally.12. Prior to installing our sway bars, we took the car around a closed course at a constant speed to check body roll. This photo is before installing the PST sway bars, and body roll is very apparent.13. After installing the PST front and rear sway bars, our Chrysler is much more stable going around the same course at the same speed. Body roll is dramatically decreased even at higher speeds, and braking around a turn is much more stable as well. Even better, our car seems far more nimble than a C-Body should, making our Newport convertible that much more fun to drive. MM

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But the presidential race raced back to gaffes over trade policy when Mother Jones posted amazingly candid footage of Romney speaking to millionaires at a fundraiser. In the videos, Romney straightforwardly outlines campaign strategy. In one video, Romney said he doesn't care about getting the vote of the 47 percent of Americans that don't pay taxes because he doesn't believe he can convince them to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The Obama team retaliated in a statement: "It's shocking that a candidate for president of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives. It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."
Ohioans love their local schools, a new survey shows. The survey also found Ohioans trust their local school boards of education with education-related decisions, but they really don't trust the state superintendent, governor or legislature.Hamilton County courts want to go paperless. The move would save money and space and make the system more efficient.
County budget meetings are still chugging along. Different department directors are still pleading for no cuts, but the commissioners insist cuts have to be made somewhere.
Cincinnati police announced a new Taser policy. The new policy disallows the use of frontal shots except in situations involving self-defense and the defense of others, reinforces the fact officers need to make sure such force is necessary and points out people have been injured due to Taser use. The new policy was brought about due to findings Taser use can kill in rare situations.
Cincinnati launched a national design competition for the decks over Fort Washington Way that will connect the Banks and Central Business District.
A new Hamilton County initiative to improve neighborhoods will tear down 700 dilapidated homes.
The streetcar's yearlong delay got an explanation yesterday. A few issues are to blame, including the city's ongoing conflict with Duke Energy over who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate for the streetcar.
The amount of people on Ohio's death row is shrinking. After Donald Palmer's execution, Ohio will drop to its lowest death row population since July 1995.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted launched a mailing campaign to clean up voter rolls. Using data from U.S. Postal Service National Change of Address Registry, Husted mailed 70,000 former Ohioans encouraging them to cancel their voter registration. The action is a lot tamer than Republican-led efforts to purge voter rolls in other states, which states like Florida, Iowa and Colorado have backed out of — at least for now.
Duke Energy unveiled its new logo.
A new meta-analysis found fish oil may not live up to its health hype.
NASA is now saying faster-than-light travel may be possible and feasible. The technology would allow spaceships to travel to Mars in minutes. Still, the theory does have some problems.
President Barack Obama announced a new trade action against China during a Cincinnati campaign stop on Monday, where he also took the opportunity to attack Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
The U.S. filed the case at the World Trade Organization on Monday and claims that China offers "extensive subsidies" to native automakers and auto-parts producers.
The Chinese government filed its own complaint before the WTO on Monday, challenging tariffs the U.S. imposes on Chinese products ranging from steel to tires. The tariffs are meant to protect American manufacturers against what the U.S. government claims are unfair trade practices by China.
"(The U.S. action is) against illegal subsidies that encourage companies to ship auto part manufacturing jobs overseas," Obama said before an estimated crowd of 4,500 at the Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park. "These are subsidies that directly harm working men and women on the assembly lines in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest."
"It's not right, it's against the rules, and we will not let it stand. American workers build better products than anyone. 'Made in America' means something. And when the playing field is level, America will always win."
Obama went on to criticize his Republican challenger, saying Romney made his fortune in part by uprooting American jobs and shipping them to China. Obama accused Romney — who has criticized Obama's foreign policy, saying the president apologizes for American interests — of talking the talk without being able to walk the walk.
The Romney campaign countered with an email after the rally, saying that Obama's economic policies were hurting the private sector and harmed manufacturing.
"The President's misguided, ineffective policies have hampered the private sector and allowed China to flaunt the rules while middle-class families suffer," Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg wrote.
"As president, Mitt Romney will deliver a fresh start for manufacturers by promoting trade that works for America and fiscal policies that encourage investment, hiring and growth."
The email pointed to reports from Bloomberg finding that manufacturing and production have shrunk recently.
Before the Obama rally several Ohio Republicans held a news conference behind a Romney campaign bus near Eden Park, where they focused more on the deficit than foreign trade.
U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot said it was "laughable" that Obama considers himself a budget hawk. He pointed to the decline in budget negotiations between the president and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, saying Obama "walked away" from talks with Speaker John Boehner.
"Basically as president from that time last August until now, it's been all politics," Chabot said.
Chabot also attacked Obama on foreign policy, claiming the president has left Israel hanging in the Middle East and is not serious with Iran, who he says is on the brink of getting nuclear weapons.
The president in his speech said he did have a plan to reduce the federal deficit, and would reduce it by $4 trillion over the next 10 years without raising taxes on the middle class.
Monday's visit to Cincinnati was Obama's second of this campaign and his 12th trip to Ohio this year. Romney has visited the state 18 times during his campaign.
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There are 16 political pieces in the plastic bags, including an ad for the anti-Obama movie You Don't Know Him. All but one are properly labeled with disclaimers that show who paid for each piece. For example, the Mitt Romney flier says it was paid for by the Romney campaign. The Sean Donovan for Sheriff of Hamilton County was paid for by Donovan for Sheriff. But a piece that attacks U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is a mystery — nothing identifies its source. You cannot discover who is behind it. The flier lists 10 reasons why Ohio voters should replace Democrat Brown with Republican candidate Josh Mandel. The piece concludes by saying, "This November 6, Vote for New Leadership for Ohio. Vote Josh Mandel for Senator."
The secret source of the handbill has the earmarks of a dirty trick. Laws and rules governing electioneering make it clear printed material seeking to influence voters must disclose where it came from. The mandatory disclaimer is what a person endlessly hears on TV commercials — "I'm so and so and I paid for this ad." Print material has the same requirement — "Paid for by Save the Seahorses" or whoever is responsible.
So whoever gave the conservative ladies the anti-Brown handbill for their plastic bags seems to have broken the law. Perhaps it was the coal mining industry, perhaps it was the Chinese government, perhaps it was Ayn Rand back from the dead. Without a disclaimer there is just no way to know who paid for the anti-Brown attack. You are left to guess. All we know is that the writer didn't have the guts to stand behind the attack. They preferred shadowy and sneaky over open and upright.
The Federal Election Commission publishes the rules campaigns must follow. It says, "On printed materials, the disclaimer notice must appear within a printed box set apart from the other contents in the communication. The print must be of a sufficient type-size to be clearly readable by the recipient of the communication, and the print must have a reasonable degree of color contrast between the background and the printed statement."
By the way, the group that is tossing the plastic bags into driveways calls itself Women for Liberty. There is no website for the group, although it appears to be an offshoot of another group with the same name that is based in a Washington, D.C. suburb and cites a libertarian philosophy.
President Barack Obama is in town today. Expect some coverage from CityBeat this afternoon. Last time Obama was in Cincinnati, he discussed gay rights, small business support and girl scout cookies. Ohio is typically considered a must-win for presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but he is currently losing in aggregate polls.
Ohio Rep. Connie Pillich of Cincinnati criticized the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees for former UC President Greg Williams' severance package. She told The Enquirer, "It's really disappointing that the trustees would make such a decision while so many students and families are struggling with rising tuition costs. As the trustees vote to needlessly spend over a million dollars, the University is trying to decide how to fund $10 million for the Cintrifuse project and students are taking out more loans to pay a tuition that was increased by 3.5 percent this year." Williams got a package totaling $1.3 million after abruptly leaving the university, citing personal reasons. Despite the allegedly rocky past between the Board and Williams, the Board of Trustees insists it did not force him out.
Local governments setting 2013 budgets are feeling big cuts from the state government's Local Government Fund.
Eligible residents could save $163 a year with natural gas thanks to a new aggregation program in Cincinnati. The city announced Friday it's working on the new plan with Duke Energy, and customers should get details about the deal soon. The city says the deal will reach about 64,000 residents and small businesses.
Voter fraud is still not a widespread problem. A Butler County Tea Party group found zero complaints with sufficient proof to remove anyone from the voter rolls.
As part of its expansion at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, DHL is adding 300 jobs.
U.S. senatorial candidate Josh Mandel of Ohio claims he
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There is a lot of criticism being hurled at public charter schools. While some charter schools are successful, some have serious financial and educational problems. Critics say the schools need tougher standards.Romney is facing criticism for saying middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less. However, Obama made a similar distinction in the past when he said income up to $250,000 is middle class. The reason for this strange distinction from both sides — most Americans would find $250,000 to be beyond middle class — is to protect small businesses. Typically, politicians try to bundle up small businesses with middle class protections, and taxing income between $200,000 and $250,000 as if it's not middle class could potentially hurt small businesses.
Dissatisfied with the lack of innovation in the iPhone 5? Apparently, you might be alone.
Scientists can now levitate fluids with ultrasonic sound.
The Ohio Ballot Board on Thursday approved new summary language for Issue 2, which would take the decennial redistricting out of the hands of politicians and task a nonpartisan commission with redrawing congressional lines. The Dispatch reports that the new summary removes factual inaccuracies and included previously omitted information about who would select members of the new citizens commission. Secretary of State and Ballot Board Chairman Jon Husted said the board tried to make the language as generic and concise as possible, but Democrats and voter advocates say the new language is too long and technical and would confuse voters.
Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld became the first elected official in the nation to host an online town hall. The Enquirer reports that Sittenfeld is taking questions on the online tool CrowdHall and by next Friday will have answered them via text or video. He is also asking Cincinnatians to post suggestions as to how they would balance the budget or spend the new casino revenue.
Rush Limbaugh on Thursday theorized that Al Qaeda colluded with President Barack Obama to give up Osama bin Laden to help Obama look good and win reelection.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney defines "middle income" as $200,000 to $250,000 a year. The Associated Press reports that Romney made the comments during an interview broadcast Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." The Census Bureau meanwhile reported this week that the median household income is just over $50,000. CityBeat's reporting staff wishes management would promote us to middle income level.
Speaking of ABC, they're being sued by Beef Products Inc. for $1.2 billion over a report of the beef filler "pink slime." The beef company says the defaming report disparaged the safety of pink slime.
Obama again apologized for America called Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and called on him and the Muslim Brotherhood to stand with Washington against protesters who are attacking the U.S. Embassy in what The New York Times called a "blunt phone call."
Jimmy Kimmel took the iPhone 4S onto the streets, telling people it was the new iPhone 5, proving that Apple cultists enthusiasts will love anything the company puts out.
More bad news for Secretary of State Jon Husted. The Ohio Supreme Court told Husted his approved ballot language for Issue 2 contains "factual inaccuracies" and must be rewritten by the Ballot Board. Voters First previously contested the language as misleading to voters. If approved by voters, Issue 2 will put an independent citizens commission in charge of redistricting. Under the current system, state officials redraw borders, sometimes using the process for political advantage. In Cincinnati's district, the Republican-controlled process redrew the district to include Warren County, giving the district more rural voters that tend to side with Republicans instead of urban voters that tend to side with Democrats. Voters First mocked the process with a graph showing how redistricting decisions can sometimes be made in 13 minutes with no questions asked. CityBeat covered the redistricting process here when Issue 2 was still in the petition process.
Ohio's median income dropped last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. But rates of poverty and uninsured rates remained the same. Nationwide, uninsured rates dropped from 16.3 percent in 2010 to 15.7 percent in 2011, meaning 1.4 million people gained health coverage. Some of that is attributable to health-care reform passed by President Barack Obama.Former University of Cincinnati President Greg Williams is getting a pretty nice going-away present. The Board of Trustees approved a package for Williams that adds up to more than $1.2 million. It includes a bonus, retirement benefits, consulting fees, a year's salary and a contract buyout. Williams abruptly left UC on Aug. 21, citing personal reasons.
Homeless shelters will cost more than expected, says 3CDC. The nonprofit group said it will cost about $40 million to build three homeless shelters and help finance others.
With the support of Democrats and Republicans, the Ohio legislature approved pension reforms yesterday. The reforms lower benefits, raise contributions requirements, increase the retirement eligibility age, establish new cost-of-living guidelines and set a new formula to calculate benefits, all for future retirees. For the most part, current retirees are not affected. Senate President Tom Niehaus, a Republican, said, "We know the changes are not popular, but they are necessary." Before the changes, the system was losing $1 million a day, according to a statement from Rep. Robert Hagan, a Democrat.Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is pushing against banks that take advantage of college students. In a letter to Higher One, Brown told the bank to rework its contracts with universities. Brown wrote in the letter, "Federal student aid programs should help students prepare for the future, not extract fee income from them." He went on to ask the bank to redo its contracts so they are "consumer-friendly and consistent with reforms that Congress enacted for the credit card market."
Ohio's inspector general found ODJFS wrongly reimbursed organizations in central Ohio with federal stimulus funds when the organizations did not follow rules.
Vice President Joe Biden was in Dayton yesterday. During his speech, he spoke about the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya, which led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Biden vowed justice will be served.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney unleashed a big foreign policy gaffe yesterday when he politicized the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. The attack was revealed to cause the death of Stevens after Romney made his comments.
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DAYTON – Vice President Joe Biden took time at the beginning of his Wednesday campaign stop in Dayton to condemn an overnight attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, while praising the work and courage of American diplomats and promising to bring to justice those who carried out the attack.
"(This) brave — and it's not hyperbole to say brave –— ambassador was in Benghazi while the war was going on. Our ambassador risked his life repeatedly while the war in Libya to get rid of that dictator was going on," Biden said.
"These men are as brave and as courageous as any of our warriors."
The Tuesday attack took place during a protest against an amateur short film made in the United States that protesters say insulted the Prophet Muhammad. U.S Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his staff members were killed.
"Let me be clear — we are resolved to bring to justice their killers," Biden said.
The vice president made no mention of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's criticism of the Obama administration's response from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, which he characterized as "akin to an apology" and a "severe miscalculation," but the vice president quickly segued into politics, alluding to Romney's relative lack of experience in foreign policy.
"The task of a president is not only to defend our interests and causes and the cause of freedom abroad, it is also to build a nation here at home, to which the entire world can look and aspire to be like," Biden said. "Whether we do that and how we do that, that is literally the essence of the choice we face in this presidential election. It really is that basic, and foreign policy is not some sideline to all of this."
The Romney campaign in Ohio was quick to respond, calling Biden's remarks "hypocritical" in an emailed statement.
"Vice President Biden's appearance in Dayton only served further damage to his credibility as he reprised hypocritical and widely debunked attacks against Mitt Romney. Not only did the Vice President mislead Ohioans, but he attacked Mitt Romney for supporting the same tax policy the Obama Administration supported just last year," Romney Ohio spokesman Christopher Maloney wrote.
"With today's Census report showing nearly 1 in 6 Americans living in poverty and incomes continuing to decline, it appears that misleading attacks are all the Obama campaign has left to offer 400,000 Ohioans looking for work."
Maloney's email also fact-checked a claim made by Biden during his speech. Biden said that he opposed the so-called "territorial tax," which he said would allow American companies that invested abroad to avoid paying taxes in the United States.
The email included links to an Associated Press fact checking article that concludes that Romney's proposal was aimed at encouraging investment in the U.S. rather than overseas.
Biden spoke to a packed house at Wright State University in Dayton, with overflow crowds estimated in the hundreds viewing in separate rooms in the Student Union.
The vice president reiterated many of his usual stump speech points — the Romney tax plan's negative effects on the middle class, the benefits of the Affordable Care Act and the Obama administration's commitment to manufacturing — but much of Biden's speech focused on education. He said a president Romney would cut funding for Pell Grants, meaning many students in the audience would have to leave school. He also lauded President Barack Obama's administration's enactment of a tax break of $2,500 for every family that sends a child to college.
The usually bombastic Biden wasn't without his gaffes. Twice he referred to Wright State as "Wayne State," which is in Detroit, despite a large Wright State University banner displayed in the conference room where he gave his speech.
The crowd was quick to correct him after the second time he misspoke.
"Wright State, which also includes Wayne State," Biden said after he was corrected, eliciting laughs from the audience.
The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber released its positions on this November's ballot issues. The chamber supports the Cincinnati Public Schools tax levy and Hamilton County mental health and services levy, but it does not support extending City Council's terms to four years. The chamber also opposes Issue 2, which would place the redistricting process in the hands of an independent citizens commission instead of a commission run by politicians. The chamber said it opposes Issue 2 partially because it excludes "some Ohioans" from the redistricting process. The excluded Ohioans are lobbyists and politicians, who have a vested interest in redrawing district boundaries in politically advantageous ways in a process known as "gerrymandering." In Cincinnati's district, the district was redrawn by the Republican-controlled commission to include Warren County, which puts more emphasis on the rural vote that tends to vote Republican instead of the urban vote that tends to vote Democrat. CityBeat previously covered the redistricting issue here and here.
Related to Issue 2, the controversial ballot language that was approved by the state seems to be weighing down the amendment. Public Policy Polling said voters are confused by the ballot initiative.Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost found Value Learning and Teaching (VLT) Academy, a charter school in downtown Cincinnati, to be wasteful and unethical. According to a state audit, the school had multiple instances in the 2010-2011 school year in which it made excessive payments in possible conflicts of interest.
In another audit, Yost also criticized his own political party. Yost found the Ohio Republican Party accepted prohibited contributions and improperly spent money.A recent police chase that resulted in a crash and the the injury of minors is coming under scrutiny. The cop involved was found to be in violation of department procedure.
Even though he resigned abruptly, the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees is considering separation payments for former UC President Greg Williams. Board Chairman Fran Barrett says the payments will tie up "loose ends" and buyout Williams' tenure.Gov. John Kasich is asking public colleges to collaborate on a funding formula. He says the schools should have a better idea than the state government of what they need. The schools previously collaborated on a construction wishlist, which apparently impressed Kasich.
A proposed state policy will force schools to keep better
track of who is kept in seclusion rooms and for how long, but the
details will be closed to the public.
The fired Democrats suing Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted will be getting their day in court. Yesterday, a federal judge agreed to a hearing on Sept. 21. The fired Democrats are suing Husted after he dismissed them for attempting to extend in-person early voting, which broke Husted's uniform rules on voting hours.
Even Republicans are now demanding more substance from presidential candidate Mitt Romney.A North Dakota college football player says he got kicked off his team for kissing his boyfriend.
Scientists planted false short-term memories in the brains of rats.
President Barack Obama will visit Cincinnati Monday. No
details were given for the event. Last time Obama was in
Cincinnati, he held a town hall meeting to tout his support for small
businesses and the LGBT community. Ohio is considered a vital swing
state for the presidential election, and it's widely considered a
must-win for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. However, after the
Democratic National Convention, aggregate polling at FiveThirtyEight and
RealClearPolitics hugely favors Obama, establishing many paths for the
Democrat to clinch the presidency. Obama could lose Ohio, Virginia and
Florida and still win the election, which shows how many options he has to victory.
The 2013 Hamilton County budget process is "challenging," says Commissioner Greg Hartmann. He says the county is dealing with a $200 million budget instead of the $300 million budget of six years ago, which is presenting new problems. Hamilton County Sheriff Si Leis said budget cuts could lead to up to 500 jail bed cuts. CityBeat previously covered the county commissioners' inability to tackle challenging budget issues — sometimes at the cost of the taxpayer.
State Auditor Dave Yost says his investigation into attendance fraud at Ohio schools could last well into the year. The investigation, which began after Lockland Schools in Hamilton County were found of attendance fraud, is slowed down by the state's data-reporting system, according to Yost. Schools may falsely alter their attendance reports to improve grades in the state report card.Secretary of State Jon Husted has been sued again. This time he's being sued by the Democratic Montgomery County election officials he fired. The officials tried to expand in-person early voting hours in Montgomery County to include weekend voting, but the move violated Husted's call for uniform hours across the state.
The Ohio EPA will host a workshop in Cincinnati on Sept. 25. The workshop will focus on the Ohio Clean Fund and other tools and incentives to help individuals and groups embrace clean energy.
For the first time since December, Ohio's tax collections were lower than expected. The state was $43 million below estimates in August.
A study found wind power could meet the world's energy needs. Wind currently supplies 4.1 percent of the United States' energy needs. Obama greatly boosted the production of wind energy with tax credits. Romney vowed to repeal the tax credits in a brief moment of substance.
Secretary of State Jon Husted has not had a good year. He's dealt with his party's early voting policies, which are only defended by racial politics and costs, and he was sued by President Barack Obama's campaign to restore in-person early voting for the weekend and Monday before Election Day — a lawsuit he lost. Now he's being sued by two Democratic Montgomery County Board of Elections officials he fired.
Dennis Lieberman and Tom Ritchie filed a lawsuit today claiming wrongful termination. The election officials claim they were wrongly fired when Husted suspended then fired the men for refusing to follow uniform in-person early voting hours he established.
In a statement, Lieberman said Husted was setting a bad example with the terminations: "We believe SOS Husted was wrong when he unjustly fired us. He violated our free speech and the free speech of other county elections board members. SOS Husted fired us and then dared other election board members to try and stand up for the voters in their community."
The Montgomery County Democrats refused to abide by
Husted's uniform voting hours because they did not include weekend
voting. The Dayton-area officials saw the hours as a step back.
"Dennis and I did nothing wrong," Ritchie said in a statement. "We knew that 11,000 Montgomery County residents voted during early weekend hours in 2008. The county has the money to pay for the extended hours. We were only trying to give people a fair chance to vote."
However, the Montgomery County Democrats did break the rules. The whole point of uniform voting hours, which Husted established due to outcries from Democrats about county-by-county voting hour discrepancies, is uniformity. If any county gets more or less hours, the entire premise is broken.
Husted's office could not be immediately reached for comment over the lawsuit. This story will be updated if comments become available.
UPDATE (4:50 P.M.): Husted's office issued a statement in response to the lawsuit after this story was published, crediting the statement to Husted: "Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Ritchie were fired for breaking election law. They are free to say what they want, but they are not free to do what they want."Republicans have had a difficult time defending their anti-early voting policies. Doug Preisse, close adviser to Gov. John Kasich and Franklin County Republican chairman, defended the policies perhaps too bluntly when he wrote in an email to The Columbus Dispatch, "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine."
Republicans have also cited costs. But as Ritchie said, Montgomery County has the money to pay for more early voting. A previous analysis from CityBeat also found extending early voting hours comes at a fraction of a percent of Hamilton County's budget.


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(Sports Network) - Washington Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg will try to snap
his career-long losing streak when he takes the mound Monday in the opener of
a four-game series against the NL East-rival Atlanta Braves.
Since winning on Opening Day back on April 1, Strasburg is 0-4 with a 4.07
earned run average and the Nationals have been giving barely any run support.
Washington is averaging 1.8 runs per game when Strasburg takes the hill.
The young right-hander struck out seven and allowed three runs in seven
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Strasburg is 0-2 in two road starts and 3-4 with a 3.59 ERA in eight career
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The Reds had an 11-5 advantage in hits and got to Nationals starter Ross
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Ian Desmond highlighted the offense with two hits, an RBI and a run scored.
Kurt Suzuki drove in the other run for the Nationals, who are 2 1/2 games
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Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa said of Atlanta a few weeks ago. "They
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The Braves had a stronger hold on the division lead, but four straight losses
and seven in nine tries allowed the Nationals to creep back into the picture.
Atlanta was swept in three games at Detroit over the weekend and failed to
salvage Sunday's finale of the set with an 8-3 loss. Chris Johnson, Evan
Gattis and Dan Uggla each had an RBI for the Braves, who went 3-7 on a 10-game
road trip.
"It was a tough road trip," Uggla said. "You could tell it wore on us -- the
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Atlanta starter Mike Minor gave up six runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings to
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homestand, hope young right-hander Julio Teheran can build on his recent
start when he takes the hill Monday. Teheran earned his first win of the
season last Tuesday in a 10-2 victory at Colorado and allowed only a run in
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Teheran is now 1-0 in four starts with a 5.48 earned run average and did not
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line in that one was four runs and six hits in six innings. That was Teheran's
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Atlanta swept the three-game series a few weeks ago at Nationals Park and has
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St. Louis (KSDK) - A mechanic who was working on one of the broken trams at the Arch was injured and taken to an area hospital, according to Frank Mares from the National Park Service.
The man, in his 50's, was taken to St. Louis University Hospital with broken ribs Wednesday morning following the accident.
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Marco Rubios Serious Plan To Fix Immigration By Creating Permanent Slave Class (VIDEO)
By Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario
Senator Marco Rubio, the GOPs Great Light Brown Hope, went on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday and spent about fifteen minutes saying, well, basically nothing. Although he did mention he wouldnt mind turning his fellow Latinos into a permanent underclass of slaves. There was that.
Host Bob Schieffer introduced Rubio as a key member of the so-called Gang of Eight who are working on immigration reform. Rubio immediately launched into his well-prepared spiel about how undocumented immigrants need to step forward to identify themselves, pass a rigorous background check, and pay a fine in order to get a worker permit.
None of this sounds particularly onerous until Rubio continued. From CBS:
it will allow them to stay in the US, work, travel and pay taxes. They will not qualify for any federal benefits of any kind, including Obamacare and they will have to be in that system for over ten years before they can apply to the existing legal immigration system for a green card
That sounds an awful lot like legalized slavery. You pay taxes for things that you are not legally allowed to benefit from? Like unemployment insurance, Social Security and Medicare? What about food stamps and Medicaid? Curiously, one of the key complaints from the Tea Party is that the government is stealing peoples money via taxes. They always gloss over the part where they are personally benefitting from those taxes, but imagine if they were legally forbidden from getting certain government services in return? They would go on a rampage. It seems unlikely that Rubios attempts to use millions of immigrants to fund other peoples retirements and healthcare will bother the faux fiscal conservatives very much.
Another interesting aspect to Rubios fix is the built-in mechanism for failure. By linking the ability of undocumented immigrants to enter the existing immigration infrastructure to the implementation of universal E-verify, Entry-Exit tracking and securing the border, Rubio is ensuring that they will NEVER be able to gain legal status. Aside from the glitchy nature of E-Verify, the states that rely on migrant workers working for pennies will do everything in their power to stymie the implementation. Georgia stands as a stark example of what happens when you actually drive away the only workers willing to do the kind of back-breaking labor necessary to pick crops for the kind of poverty wages farmers are willing to offer. E-Verify would cripple several agriculturally dependent state economies.
This becomes a convenient excuse to keep sucking taxes out of guest workers while denying them the chance to ever profit from the labors of their work. Gee, were sorry we turned you into a permanent and codified underclass to finance our tax cuts. We hope to have the situation resolved sometime in the next century.
Some of Rubios final words on immigration reform, of course, were a sop to the racists in his party who are always in need of cover for their nativist rantings on securing the border:Now, this is isnt to say that drug violence isnt a problem or that a terrorist couldnt sneak into the country from Mexico but lets be honest: this is nothing more than hand waving and thin excuses for securing the border. What this really means, though, (and its the loudest of dog whistles and about as subtle as a Mack truck) is NO MORE MEXICANS! In this era of Republican outreach, in which calling Mexicans wetbacks is slightly more frowned upon than usual (but just slightly), having a Hispanic Republican pretend that what the right is really worried about is terrorists and gangs is kind of sad.
what keeps us up at night is the worry that a terrorist can come across that border one day or the activities that are being undertaken there now by criminal gangs that are human traffickers.Yes, the terrorists are swarming across the border. Would this be the same border that we made such a huge effort not bothering to secure after 9/11? The same border that Obama doubled the number of agents working to secure? And the gangs are obviously a HUGE problem! Why, they took over a whole ranch in Texas and NO ONE DID ANYTHING! Because in the state with a cowboy for a governor, that sort of thing could totally happen. For reals. And dont forget about all the headless bodies in the Arizona desert.
I wonder if someones already coined the phrase Uncle Juan?
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Wozzi is IN, Kiri is so OUT. Finally.
According to the double bagel, Stella McCartney has dropped the struggling Russian and has chosen the rising Dane as the new global face for her eponymous line with adidas.
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Stella McCartney has been directly involved in the selection of the main model for the new design, which launches across the world while at the same time, Caroline Wozniacki as the only player on the top level using it during the U.S. Open.
"It obviously feels good, that I was chosen and that Stella has also said that she would like me to represent her line. She will always have something that is new and fresh. She constantly seeks new inspiration, and I just think that she thought that I am new and on the way up and would be a good role model for the clothes, " sounds Caroline Wozniacki's own opinion on why she now become the subject of a worldwide campaign for the company she has been associated for several years.
Hmmm, World No. 9 with a bullet vs. World No. 58 and tumbling? No brainer. I guess those are the breaks Kiri. I mean, you're cute and all but Stella would like to sell some clothing. Plus, it'll be nice to finally see the clothing and often - if Wozzi keeps winning, that is.
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Thanks Bill. Hey, while I have your attention:When I bought my AVL second hand, it came with the PWK. On the opposite side of the idle-screw is a hole that I have highlighted in the attached image. It was sealed with epoxy when I received the bike. When I first started getting my rich bog, I thought the epoxy might have a hole in it so I removed it and put in an extra idle-screw and screwed it in tight. It didn't fix anything but as my carb was running great all year I've not taken it out. Do you have that hole plugged on your PWK? Or is it wide open? It's open in this pic.Thanks. Boggy
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I had a hard time finding a blank form for this on the Internet so I made one. Here's a blank JPG of the form. Feel free to use it as desired...no credit required, since I didn't exactly design the thing.
I'm working on the PSD file with placeholder text, symbols, placement guide, etc. - all in layers so colors, fonts, etc. can be changed. One thing that'll enable is, for instance, making the background black and using colors on the symbols. If anybody's interested in the PSD I can try to post it...though it'll probably be too big for the forum so I'll have to host it elsewhere.
Still working on symbols but here a black version and one with a starry background.
Beautiful work!
... but my printer and wallet shudder at the thought of printing out a sector's worth of mostly black "color" images.
Thanks. Yeah. I intended the white blank one for printing. The other two will probably only end up on my iPad during games!
I understand that you are just reproducing the 'official' forms, but I always thought that a sub-sector should be Hexagonal, composed of a smaller hex grid, and fitting together with other hexagonal sub-sectors ... more of a 'sphere' of influence than a Section-Township-Range in space.
... but that's what I like best about Traveller - the player's unalienable right to tinker.
Heh. I always thought that space should be, well, space-like...instead of page-like! I first saw and perused the Traveller LBBs (I was babysitting for my parent's geek friend who had Traveller and an amazing collection of WWII vehicle models) when I was in about 6th grade (around 1980, but that's telling) and I was amazed. The Spinward Marches book and the maps in there were so cool but, even then, I wondered how you could map space as flat. Even so, I still can't look at a subsector map without going, "Oh!" and starting to come up with stories about the worlds there...
Here's a test map (on white) of the Jewell subsector in the Spinward Marches. This is based on the data shown on the Traveller Map site. It doesn't *quite* match the data in my old Spinward Marches supplement but I'll take it they've done their research.
I kinda want to put the UPP in there, which is why the world names are so small. Still figuring out what I want to show...hard to balance providing a lot of info with keeping it simple. The early maps put very little on there but seem to grow more complex as the years went on. Still, I don't want to load it up too much.
Edit: And one on black for good measure. This one needs some tweaking.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I for one would LOVE a psd of this. I've done some little tinkering with the set-up of the maps, but for now I've been working with hand-drawn hexes on 1cm graph paper. It's a little...time consuming, to say the least. And I've yet to come up with a good way to draw in the various connecting routes without making the map completely illegible.
I'm also still tinkering with what I can/want to show on the subsector maps, but I can show some of what I've got, if people are interested.
My current worldbuilding experiment(s):
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-W.B. Yeats
Do you mean the .jpg at the start won't work?
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When its over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best that you were capable of? If so, the score does not matter. But if you find that you did your best you were capable of, you will find it to your liking. -John Wooden
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I'll try to post up a link to the PSD, but might not get to it until Saturday or so. Right now, I've got the base white, black, and starry sheets in a bottom layer and then layers with mapping symbols and text so you can just get them and copy-move them to where you want for your own custom maps. The jump-routes are just a long piece of graphic that you can copy, move, and rotate into place and then trim to fit. In the PSD, I'll leave a sample map in there so you can see how it's all used...at least in my formulation, though you can do what you like with the pieces. I've done passable symbols for the white and black maps but was hoping to add some detail to the color map (maybe world type by color or something) so there's some more information.


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Ned Yost media session: August 1
Manager Ned Yost met with the media inside the dugout prior to batting practice today and the first topic of discussion involved the Royals' move this morning recalling right-handed reliever Jeremy Jeffress from Triple-A Omaha. The move got the roster back to 25 players after the trade of Jonathan Broxton on Tuesday. Yost said in outings earlier in the season consistency and command have been an issue for Jeffress. He said he has been progressively gaining better consistency and in one or two inning stints he has been able to command his fastball very well. Yost went on to say there may still be a hiccup or two here and there, but he has been doing much better and they want to give him a look. One media member brought up the question whether or not it would be a possibility to see Jeffress stretched longer than just one or two innings out of the pen since he has had experience with longer relief in the past. Yost responded saying that will most likely not be the case with him here. He said they plan to use him in situations they could do that, but as it stands now the Royals are not bringing him up to be a long guy. He went on to say they have Everett Teaford who has been handling the long relief role very well, but if there was an instance in which Teaford throws a large amount of innings one day then they could probably get through the next just using Louis Coleman and Jeffress out of the pen as a combined long guy. As of right now, however, that is not what they Royals see happening.
Outfielder Lorenzo Cain was the next topic of discussion and, more specifically, where Yost sees him hitting in the batting order long-term in his career. Yost said he is all about trying to win a ballgame therefore it depends on his productivity and his numbers at any given point in a season or situation. However, as far as projecting goes, he said Cain is a middle of the order guy. The Royals have him in the three-spot right now and he has been producing very well and putting up good numbers. Somewhere around that spot in the order is where Yost sees him hitting throughout his career. He can hit for power, he has good speed and can get the job done. Cain's health was brought up next. He returned to the team July 9 during the All-Star break after spending much of the season on the disabled list and Yost said his legs are getting better each day and he is getting stronger. He said he is running well and has stolen a few bases so he continues to get better in that regard.
The production out of the Royals' nine-spot in the order was the final topic brought up by the media. The nine-hitters lead the league in batting average (.293), RBI (51) and are second in runs scored (46) through 102 games this season. Yost said it is good production and they have had some very good hitters in that nine-spot all year long. Alcides Escobar who is among the league leaders in batting average and has a total of 36 RBI on the season spent a long time in that slot before moving to the two-hole. He said they have been in pretty good shape out of that spot all season long including yesterday when Jarrod Dyson went 3-for-4 with a double and a triple. Yost said they really like having Dyson in the nine-spot because it is like having two leadoff hitters in a row after he turns the lineup back around to Alex Gordon at the top. He said Dyson can get on base, steal bases and then they have the top of the order coming right back up.


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Been out of the mapping game for a while now (too busy moving house and getting settled into my new location) and this seems like the perfect theme to draw me back.
A couple of questions regarding the theme;
* As most of the world has already been mapped, must it be remapped or can one use real-world maps for an 'underlay'? An Alternate Earth will have (mostly) the same geography as this Earth and only that which is artificial will differ.
* When can it be set? Altenrnate Past, Present or Future?


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How to discipline my 3 year old son without spanking?
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'Nightingale' takes flight at La Jolla Playhouse
Musical by 'Spring Awakening' team has been a long time coming (and now faces friction)
For years, a lingering question about a long-gestating musical has echoed the lament in the fable it's based on: How long will it be until "The Nightingale" sings? Now there's an answer — or at least a start to the show's most important chapter yet — as Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's much-anticipated adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen tale takes the stage at La Jolla Playhouse.
The very first song that Sheik, the show's composer, and Steven Sater, its writer-lyricist, completed for "The Nightingale" — a number called "Think What Heaven Must See" — remains in the work just as it was first conceived more than a decade ago.
As for the rest of the show: It "has gone in a number of directions with a number of directors" in the years since they began, Sater says (with some understatement). "And it's fair to say there would be several years at a time when we weren't working on it.
"The Nightingale"
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"But there've also been many periods — and this is one of them — of intense work, intense concentration, intense revision. Intense creation."
There were plenty of reasons "The Nightingale" took such a meandering flight to the Playhouse, where it just opened in the theater's Page to Stage workshop program. For one thing, Andersen's curious story — about a Chinese emperor who neglects the ravishing song of a real nightingale in favor of a mechanical imitation — proved elusive to translate for the stage. Meanwhile, Sheik and Sater were involved in plenty of other projects.
Which brings us to a little thing called "Spring Awakening."
Sheik and Sater are the creative team behind that smash-hit musical, which likewise had its first stirrings at the Playhouse (as a workshop in 1999). The duo's profiles rose immensely with the success of that show, which ran on Broadway for two years and won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including best musical.
Lessons of 'Spring'
For the pair — one an established pop singer-songwriter ("Barely Breathing"), the other a seasoned writer of straight plays — there suddenly was a flood of opportunities to get musicals and other projects made.
Sheik returned to theater with "Whisper House," the spare show that premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in 2010. Sater worked on shows including "Some Lovers," his musical collaboration with Burt Bacharach that also debuted at the Globe earlier this year.
While the "Spring Awakening" phenomenon was a factor in "The Nightingale" being delayed, Sater also says the two absorbed lessons from the experience that they're now applying at the Playhouse.
Sater gives an example: " 'Spring Awakening' opens so quietly, with this young girl coming out and standing on a chair and singing 'Mama Who Bore Me.' And so I felt, all right, I could open this (new) musical with something quite simple."
Director Moisés Kaufman, Sater adds, "has opened it up with this ravishing world of puppetry and music, but it begins with just a solitary female voice welcoming the night. It doesn't go for big production numbers in that respect."
In 2001, Kaufman directed the Playhouse's very first Page to Stage production — "I Am My Own Wife," the Doug Wright play that went on to win the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is the third major director to take on "The Nightingale," after former Playhouse artistic chief Des McAnuff, whose scheduled production fell through for contractual reasons; and James Lapine (director of the Playhouse's "Little Miss Sunshine" last year), who workshopped several versions.


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The Mother Courage of Rock
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On Patti Smith.
It was easy for lazy journalists to caricature her as a stringbean who looked like Keith Richards, emitted Dylanish word salads, and dropped names—a high-concept tribute act of some sort, very wet behind the ears. But then her first album, Horses, came out in November 1975, and silenced most of the scoffers.


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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Ryan Seacrest will be the face of New Year's Eve for ABC for years to come.
Seacrest has extended his deal to host "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest."
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What toys will be on children's wish lists this holiday season? Retailers have their own best guesses.
It really comes down to what kids like — but the people who stock store shelves for the holiday season can't wait for them to decide. So they come up with their own lists of toys they think will be popular.
Lists compiled by Walmart, Kmart and Toys R Us all include an Elmo that gives out hugs, Barbie's Dream House and a new robotic Furby.
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Toys based on TV shows were popular with the focus-group kids, including a Sofia the First talking doll and a Doc McStuffins Get Better Check Up Center, along with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Secret Sewer Lair Playset.
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The Toys R Us list of the top 15 toys is split nearly evenly between exclusive items and those available everywhere.
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Romney would take us backward
To the Editor:
As a father of four and grandfather of five, and as someone keenly interested in the state of our nation, I got to thinking about what a future Romney administration (or two) might offer. Like so many others in Rockville Centre, I am concerned about the America our children and their kids will inherit. Reviewing the Republican platform and its candidate's pronouncements left me concerned.
Scuttling health care for tens of millions, including our children in their early 20s who are living at home and our parents in nursing homes, seems indefensible. While a policy of "deregulation" may look bold and liberating, has recent history encouraged us to place much faith in the motives and actions of an unregulated private sector? Why put the water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we consume at risk?
Do we really want food assistance and student loans to be cut sharply, along with unemployment benefits and research funding, even as the defense budget swells? A Romney administration would surely encourage additional cutbacks in federal and state employees and continue the pressure on public service workers and their unions.
Meanwhile, the Republican social agenda will gain momentum and threaten the advances made by women (a troubling situation, as I have three daughters and four granddaughters) and other groups long marginalized. Appointments to the higher federal bench, including the Supreme Court, will lock in a mindset that is out of step with a majority of Americans.
Romney and the Republicans strongly imply that our society (and by extension, the world) could benefit from a heavy dose of tough love. Romney's policies will assuredly be tough on tens of millions of Americans — actually even more if we consider the implications of his "47 percent" remarks. On the other hand, try finding anything like love, caring or compassion in his proposals.
There's good reason to be concerned about the future no matter who wins. Still, to my mind, Governor Romney's proposals represent a disturbing step backward, and cannot bring us to the place where we need to be.
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If there was an award for being 'hipper-than-thou', Angelenos would vie for it. From the crème-de-la-crème of Hollywood hipsters to bohemian Venice Beach and exclusive and lush Beverley Hills, Tinseltown oozes chic charisma. A blend of Gap and Gucci, the sprawling city is as distinct and engertetic as its residents. And then, of course, there's the sun-kissed climate…
People-watching is the raison d'être at Venice Beach. Seaward from the Walk, jump into the flow of the winding boardwalk, where you can rollerblade or cycle, watch or play volleyball or basketball, and check out the pumped-up men and women who work out at Muscle Beach. Street parking is jammed, but there are several parking lots; try the end of Rose Avenue or Windward Avenue, off Pacific Avenue.
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Is there anything more torturous than the days leading up to a three-day holiday weekend? So close, yet so far away. To pass the time, this writer finds herself browsing celebrity rags in an attempt to ignite some sort of inspirational flame within. Nope, nothing. That is, until an article from Lucky magazine touting "50 of the Chicest Celebrity Airport Outfits Ever" pops up. Since most of the country will be participating in some form of travel this weekend, why not casually try one of the celeb-approved ensembles along the way?
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They make it look so easy. Boyfriend jeans? Check. Fedora and pointy-toe flats? Check. "If celebrities are good at one thing, it's being able to emerge off their first-class flight looking largely flawless, with nary a hair out of place nor a speck of oil clogging their pores," writes Maura Brannigan. "Whether clad in a tracksuit or stilettos, this crop of celebrities has the whole airport-style thing down to a science."
That they do. So I guess I'll be leaving my favorite (read: tattered) yoga pants at home this trip.
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One of my father�s favorite punishments was sending his daughters to bed early. I now realize that he did this mostly because it gave him a break from listening to two small girls try to kill one another using the twin tactics of subterfuge and hair pulling. We were close enough in age to want to beat the snot out of one another, but far enough apart that we didn�t have to share friends. We also didn�t want to share anything else, but since we usually lived in two-bedroom houses (that�s what the military provided), we had a room together.
That translated to twin beds, where we tortured one another by hurling insults like �My Betsy-Wetsy pees better than your Betsy-Wetsy!� In the world of 5- and 7-year-olds that was blazing wit. But it also meant there was little way to separate us, so once we were in our room at night, we had myriad opportunities in which to French fry one another, and we never let a moment pass without capitalizing on it.
And that is why sending one of us to bed early was a brilliant punishment on Daddy�s behalf. If he sent a single child to her room, the other one was forbidden to be there, so he and mom had a slight chance that the banished one would fall asleep before the other one could gain entry and commence the nightly mayhem that marked bedtime at our house. He did this when we refused to eat dinner, which was quite often.
My sister and I had very different tastes in food. I would not touch onions or anything that had even a remote onion flavor. I also went through a meatless phase once I figured out where it came from; my sister was simply finicky and didn�t like much of anything (not talking out of school � she admits to it). So on any given day, at least one of us would refuse to eat something on our plates.
And that gave Daddy all he needed to sentence one child to premature bedtime. Since we ate dinner very early, it was a huge window of time. Nothing like going to bed at 5:30 in the afternoon to make a kid want to eat lima beans. Or at least you�d think that, wouldn�t you?
In the true sense of rebellion, to my memory neither of us ever gave an inch on the foods we refused to consume and looking back on it, I think Dad was actually pretty okay with that. Early to bed for us meant not trying to figure out which one dunked the other one�s bear in the commode out of spite. What parent wouldn�t appreciate that? And I never really �got� it until I had kids of my own.
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