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To fully comprehend the power of Osmo Active Hydration, we need to dispel the haze surrounding the current hydration ideology. Essentially, you'll find that most sports hydration mixes feature a high carbohydrate level, with the prevailing intention of having you drink your calories during exercise. However, as Osmo's peer-reviewed and empirically-proven testing shows, this is not only incorrect and ineffective, but it's actually minimizing your power output and effectively dehydrating you. This assertion cuts right to the core of Osmo's founding hypothesis and namesake -- the importance of osmolality and the types of sugars that're used in beverages.
So, what is osmolality? Basically, it's the amount of solutes within a solution, and for the purposes of hydration, we view the blood plasma and the drink itself as solutions. Blood's osmolality sits around 280 to 295 mOsm, while Active Hydration is around 265-270 mOsm. Now, let's get into why this important. Osmo works by looking at how actual physiology works. Around 95% of water absorption occurs at the small intestines. And what facilitates this absorption into the body is a combination of sodium, glucose, and sucrose -- all in small amounts. combining specific sugars and sodiums with water in order to accelerate fluid absorption. But, whereas most industry mixes maintain too high a ratio of sugars to sodium, effectively slowing down absorption, Osmo's proprietary ratio actually accelerates fluid absorption with the three components maintaining a 3.2% solution. Through extensive research, Osmo discovered that fluids that have an osmolality greater than 290 mOsm, and are comprised of fructose, maltodextrin, and sucrose, create a solution that actually inhibits water absorption and hydration potential. As a result of this optimal range, Active Hydration removes the common, unwanted side effects found in typical hydration mixes. That's right, we're talking about the sloshing, bloating, and other gastrointestinal distresses that arise from not being able to properly absorb fluid.
Now, if you feel like your current hydration mix is effective, we're going to drop some knowledge on you. The body works on a system of checks and balances, with one of the most vital being the fluctuation of body temperature. This shift in temperature is the result of the heat output from working muscles, and to keep you from boiling from the inside out, the body regulates your core temperature by moving blood plasma to the skin. From there, heat is offloaded through the process of vasodilation (the dilation of blood vessels that decreases blood pressure) and evaporative cooling -- better known as sweating. Now, while this preventative system is highly effective, it's completely dependent on your ability to continually replenish the body with the water needed for plasma volume and perspiration. This should be putting the aforementioned in perspective. When your mix's osmolality is blocking water absorption, your body starts to shut down on itself and overheat. And not surprisingly, many blame this feeling of 'bonking' on a lack of caloric intake instead of properly placing the blame on dehydration. This where the founding Osmo ethos reigns true -- you're not bonking, you're dehydrated.
Interestingly enough, many don't recognize the effects of dehydration, and this is due to a problematic side effect called cardiac drift. This is where the heart rate remains high, but power output drops off dramatically. So, if you're only in-tune with your HRM readings, you'll feel a natural level of exertion while your power is actually decreasing. By optimizing fluid intake and hydration, the Active Hydration formula increases thermo-regulation of your core temperature, reduces cramping, and actually increases your power output. We understand that this sounds too good to be true, so we'll provide an explanation on how this occurs.
We mentioned earlier the importance of Active's sugar-to-sodium ratio and how it works with the body's natural physiology in order to maximize water absorption. However, what we didn't say is how difficult this was to achieve. Osmo was forced to be highly selective in its ingredients, and accordingly, its sugar value is the result of a proprietary ratio of glucose to sucrose. Additionally, Active makes use of sodium citrate over plain ol' salt. Sodium citrate does two things. First, the sodium works with water in order to enhance water absorption. Secondly, the citrate works in aerobic metabolism to keep the krebs cycling bolstered while its total sodium level also balances Active's electrolyte profile -- a vital component commonly depleted through sweating. Through this balance, Active staves off cramping and promotes cellular respiration, or aerobic metabolism. So, with extra circulating citrate, there's more essential substance available for enzyme activity, and thus, there's a greater cofactor available to keep aerobic metabolism high and effective. This means that your cells are uninhibited in their ability to convert nutrients into biochemical energy, and eventually, release them into waste.
As a result, the body functions in harmony and your core temperature is regulated. This is of the highest importance in regards to race results. You see, once your body temperature rises above 102 degrees Fahrenheit, the body's systems start to become compromised. Accordingly, once you get your first inkling of thirst, you're already experiencing a 2% total body water loss, which in more applicable terms, translates directly to around an 11% decrease in top end power. However, with all of the aforementioned benefits of Active's sugar ratios, sodium profile, and dialed-in osmolality, testing has actually proven that you can expect an increased power output of anywhere from 2 to 20%. In fact, a recent test showed an average differential of around 38 watts when compared to high-carb sports mix. Think about that, Active provides nearly twice the watt conservation than the most aerodynamic wheels on earth.
Not only does Active Hydration bolster your output, but it's also comprised of high-quality, natural, and organic ingredients. So, not only are you assured that what you're drinking is healthy, but more importantly, you won't experience the flavor fatigue that's all-too-common with the majority of hydration mixes. This means that every sip from the bottle will feel new, tasteful, and refreshing.
The Osmo Nutrition Active Hydration is available in one 400g container and in the flavors Organic Blackberry and Organic Orange.
- Proprietary balance of sucrose, glucose, and sodium citrate
- Subtle flavor doesn't become onerous after 50 miles
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Excellent electrolyte replacement but..
I have been using Osmo Active Hydration the past couple of years, switching between the orange and blackberries flavors. They both taste good and they are effective in replenishing electrolytes.
One note though: If you are ordering the orange flavor active hydration, you may want to wait until after November 2015 because if you order them now, you most likely will receive the batch that has a best by date of 11/15. My last two orders of the orange flavor Active Hydration - the most recent one in September - were all from this batch. I have complained to Backcountry about being shipped with products that will be "expiring" so soon but to no avail. So this is rather disappointing.
All I use now.
I rode 32 centuries last year, half in hot weather. I only cramped on one ride, and that was the one I drank the sports drink that was supplied, instead of my Osmo.
As with others, I like the fact that the taste is mild, so I don't have to overdilute it to drink it.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I really like it. The taste it awesome, not as sweet as most sports drinks out there and it tastes OK even after it has warmed up after a few hours in the sun. This plus solid food is what did the trick for me not to have my stomach shut down 90km into an Ironman bike leg.
The orange tastes a bit more natural than the blackberry, at least to me.
Great tasting Hydration Drink.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I like this hydration drink because of its mild taste. I don't care for the strong taste of most hydration drinks. Just the right amount of nutrition for a 50 + mile bike ride.
No cramps
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
My quads used to cramp up, to the point my legs would go stiff and i couldn't bend me knee for a few mins. since i started using Osmo a few years ago, I haven't had a single cramp. I like that the flavor is very mild, and I like that the portion is quite small, so easy to carry several bottles worth of powder with you on a long ride. The ingredients are all natural...so no it doesn't last forever. I don't want it to either. :) i do find i have to shake my bottles more as it seems to distill quickly, but i take that as a sign of less chemicals in the product to keep it mixed.
Am I totally crazy or is this stuff spoiling on me? Two tins now (blackberry) have dark discolorations on the surface after a few weeks (tin #1) and as soon as I unsealed it after it sat in my pantry this winter (tin #2)? It looks vaguely like mold but hard to tell. Maybe I'm just crazy. The implied shelf life is quite long so maybe some discoloration is natural and I shouldn't be worried. That said I threw out the first tin because it looked suspicious. The second tin had been sealed so hard to believe it was spoiled too.
That ?darkness? is the natural freeze dried blackberry powder, as well as the sugar crystals. That is a naturally occurring process when you don?t use any preservatives. Nothing to be worried about.
Natural, smoothness. Ideal drink mix.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Omso hydration mix. I've read all about it almost a year ago, and then finally found them on sale (during the TdF) and went with two containers: one in each flavor. I was mostly intrigued with trying the Blackberry, but figured I'd get a bottle of the orange just to compare it with the Skratch in a blind taste test. Both Osmo mixes provide a good, subtle taste. You get the taste without being blasted with flavor or sugar - which I find is ideal on a ride. Personally, I find both flavors to be great, but I lean towards the blackberry when I need a pick-me-up or when I'm going for a fun ride. I just prefer it. Orange is such a common flavor and so it's hard to impress me with an orange sports drink. No doubt the blackberry will be ordered by me again. As far as downsides go, the Osmo rarely goes on sale, which is disappointing. I'm a bargain kinda guy. I dislike paying full price for anything. In that regard, Skratch takes the cake. It seems every two months or so, Skratch is on sale, which means when it comes to sports drinks, Skratch dominates on my rides. Plus the wide array (and expanding!) of flavors is encouraging.
Now to that blind taste test: I poured 8 oz of room temperature water in two glasses and labeled one glass "A" and the other "B". I then did the math to figure out how much mix should be used in each glass and then had my brother mix them in random glasses while I was out of the room. The flavor was orange. After sipping from both several times, I found it hard to tell the difference. The Skratch had a more Airborne taste (vitamin product). Not terrible, but it was my first thought. Keep in mind, I've used several Skratch exercise mixes throughout the year, so I had some experience with the taste. Overall, I selected the Osmo during the blind test, but unless it's on sale, my bottles will be full of Skratch.
-Subtle taste
-Easily digestible
-Rarely on sale (I'm a bargain hunter!)
-Subtle taste (could be a con for some)
-Not many flavors
Taste Great!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Love this hydration mix. Works well if you use carbonated water, mix, leave in the fridge to soften and vola! A great hydration mix!
OSMO Active Hydration Orange flavor.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I love this stuff. Goes down easy. Doesn't make me have gas and my stomach agrees with it. Have always bought the Orange because it tastes good, but is not too strong. I use this for every type of cycle racing and will continue to. Great product.
Easy to drink, makes a huge difference
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've been using this for over a year. I prefer the orange, but the blackberry is OK, too.
It is noticeable how much easier it is to drink than straight water. So much so that I buy it in bulk for shorter rides from home. I buy a pack of the single serving packets to put in my jersey pockets for longer rides from home or for organized rides where I will be refilling on the road, and only water is available for refills. Mix and go.
Not only is it easier to drink than water, it stays easy to drink when it gets warm, as it inevitably will on longer rides.
Best sugar composition
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I'm an exercise physiologist and I recommend Osmo products to all my athletes and buy/use them myself because the science behind it is rock solid. This particular mix has the best sugar composition (types and amounts) on the market for performance, it's easy to digest so it's not likely to cause GI distress, it hydrates better than most other drink mixes, and the taste is great - not sickeningly sweet like other drink mixes, just a mild orange flavor. If you are serious about performance, this is your drink mix. Well worth the price point.
Great taste.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Osmo really got it, specially on flavor, even after you been riding for a while, and it warms up, still tastes really good, i live in Florida, and your thermal bottles dont last for a long time unless you add ice and i mean lots of ice, the orange is my favorite, but i really like both flavors, I even mix them some times, second to this i go with Skratch Labs.
Easy to Digest
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This product goes down easy and isn't full of sugar or artificial flavor that most other sports drinks are full of. The taste is very subtle while providing nutrients to keep going and going throughout the day. I strongly prefer the Blackberry flavor over the Orange, but that's just my opinion. If either of the flavors don't jive with you, take a look at Skratch Labs Exercise Hydration as it is very similiar, with different all natural flavors.
Very good flavor
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Not too sweet so it doesn't make you thirsty.. light and good.
How good for Osmo Nutrition Active Hydration...
How good for Osmo Nutrition Active Hydration ? Please tell me that bececause Peter Segon is using that items.
It works. The idea is that it has a very specific formula that optimizes the blend of glucose, sucrose and sodium to maximize the body's absorption of the fluid so you stay hydrated.
It also tastes pretty good, which is probably why Peter Sagan likes it.
Very good. As with all hydration mixes you gotta try it and this one is a safe bet as the taste is not overpowering.
taste great
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I like this supplement and,like skratch labs, is gentle on the stomach. It has a nice,gentle taste and provides just the right combo of carbs and electrolytes. I like the blackberry flavor......Top notch!
Its obviously down to Skratch or Osmo
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I am basically a camel when I ride. I typically don't drink enough. That was before skratch and osmo. I got skratch first and instantly loved the taste and the performance benefits. Its my go to drink as I think it has more flavor (opposite of Perry Hall) than osmo. That being said Osmo has great flavor also. I have tried both blackberry and orange. Both good; no preference between the two. I will probably stock both skratch and osmo and use based on which one is on sale. I tried the sample packs in the specific amounts of water indicated so I got the tastes that is expected from the company. Its light and tasteful....just not as tasteful as skratch.
Alternates with Skratch in my Cabinet.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
If I'm feeling a little more adventurous and want a bit more flavor to savor, I will use Osmo instead of Skratch. I find the performance to be nearly identical (read: AWESOME). I would suggest this to anyone who doesn't like a gatorade-y overpowering taste, but thinks that Skratch is too watery.
Having to choose one or the other is like picking a favorite child.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Simply put the best hydration product I have tried. I love the taste, very subtle and have a hard time using anything else for hydration
Saved me!!!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I wok landscaping in the Hot humid Texas weather and get heat exhaustion too often. Yesterday I came home from work feeling very weak. The UPS guy just delivered my first order of OSMO Active Hydration . I made a 20 oz drink. Drank it. In less than 30 minutes I felt great. I went back out into the hot weather and never got sick again. To top it off I got out of bed this morning and my legs felt very strong and not stiff at all!! Thanks for selling this awesome product!!


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Manchin Warns Of Airport Closings
Senator echoes list of potential cuts sent out by President Obama
February 27, 2013
WHEELING — Despite speculation by a national news organization, Sen....
Close them. This is another example of taxpayers subsidizing the wealthy. How often have you gluten your plane to Wheeling Airport?
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more threats from the rich and powerful.close all the airports.nobody cares.the fleecing of america.
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I'm a pilot. I have flown into and out of the airport on numerous (hundreds) times. I have also flown into and out of many other airports with much more traffic than HLG that do not have control towers. Believe me. I know. Wheeling Ohio Co. Airport does not need a manned control tower. Never has. Never will. It's just a Bob Byrd pork barrel carry-over.
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hmmmm, "Tominack said there are about 17,000 airports across the nation, and approximately 450 of them have air traffic control towers."
Mojo has his pilot license...how many readers on this site have a pilot license?
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Every time Obama does not get his way, which is unlimited spending of our kids futures, he goes on television and says he may not be able to send out next months social security checks or some other horrendous thing..meaning the people trying to get some control over spending are really mean, huh? So who makes the decision of what gets closed? The President does. So they trot out these scare tactics and fire up "the rich guys are being mean again." And there goes the fearful chanting from the dumb and easily bullied. Obama has done this twice threatening to not be able to pay the troops and their dependents...but that is one of the things he cannot stop. The rest of this is just oatmeal for the stupid. Speaking of rich guys, how many people use the OC airport? Can you afford a plane and do you need to have a tower for private planes? No you don't. Though a lifelong Dem, I admit Obama sees his job the same way Chavez and Castro see theirs, he loves power.
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Are Joe and Barry telling us that a mere 2-1/2% budget cut is immediately going to wreak all this havoc in a government that is riddled with waste up to their ears? Oh come on. Give me a break!
We are being treated like sheep in a pen being kept in fear by wolves nipping at us through the fence. On one hand our freedoms (2nd amendment included) are being stripped from us every day to make us defenseless and on the other hand we must pay more taxes to make the wolves back off. The sheep in my pen are getting sick of it.
The truth is, we need budget cuts to protect this country from total disaster for our children.
Show some leadership, Barry, you idiot, and rather than being out on the campaign trail blaming and fear mongering, figure out the best way to cut the 2-1/2% without shutting down half of the control towers in the country. My God !
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"Our Nation will be fundamentally transformed when the sheeple become so ignorant that they can be easily led"
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as long as us older people keep our kids informed that this is not the way to run a government and these kids pay attention to us we should at least be able to keep them from being brainwashed by these incompetents[this might be a brainwashing in it's own way but you do what you gotta do].i know that our parents have to be turning over in their graves.so's george washington.and everybody else that fought for freedom.manchin,manson,whatever.the threats no longer faze us.
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Didn't take long for you to change big Joe.....you forget where you came from already.....sounding like Hussein Obummer are we? You were one of the few "doomocrats" I had a little respect for...no more...
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I still say we will know the Govt. is serious about making cuts, when they cut off paying so many holidays for employees...won't happen...the leaders would rather bankrupt the country
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The sky is falling, the sky is falling.....
Just more idol tactics to gin up fear amongst the American people.
When will the folks catch on to fear-monger political games just so the politicians can swoop in at the 11th hour and continue to spend us into oblivion?
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The FAA's share of the cutback is approx $600 million out of their $15,172 million budget (Google Dept of Transporation 2013 Fiscal budget). So if the traveling public bears the brunt, it would only be due to the FAA's spending priorities. From USA Today, "•The amount of money spent on low-priority projects hit a record $507 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That's nearly five times the amount in 1998, when the FAA established a new ranking system for airport projects. •More than $2 billion in low-priority funds has gone to airports used mostly by private jets and piston-engine planes, including $700 million for terminals. Pellston Regional Airport in Michigan used $7.5 million in federal funds to build a terminal with stone fireplaces and cathedral ceilings. The airport averages three departures a day."
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If the traveling public is affected it's only because the FAA prefers spending money on the politically connected!! But then again that is the Liberal way, so yes we'll probably see delays at the airport!!
I find it somewhat hypocritical that the President accuses Republicans of not bargaining to protect private jet owners, yet threatens airport dysfunction while the FAA subsidizes unprofitable regional airports (i.e. the home of private jet owners).
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Big Drama Obama--- 1 cent cut for every dollar is going to CLOSE airports?
Give me a a { bleeping} break.
The government is WORRIED they will shut down and NOBODY will KNOW the difference!!
Road Repair?? It bleeping sux NOW!
BMV? fahgettaboutit!
TSA? Bunch of Idiots!!
etc. etc.
Government: FAIL!
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FAA Has 37,000 employees....
My friend (he works for DHS) sent me the break-down of what the DHS will be cutting...Hiring freeze, less travel spending, no extra training, and no promotions! The sky is falling.....
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Citizen math: Spend $50,000 this year and $50,000 next year equals no increase/no decrease in spending.
Government math: Spend $50,000 this year and $50,000 next year equals a spending CUT by evil white males who hate minorities, seniors, children, kittens and private jet owners.
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Mr. Manchin---please don't allow yourself to stoop to the scare tactics of other politicians around the country--Shame on you!!!
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Treasonous Joe is great at telling lies!!!
He and his corrupt party REFUSE to make cuts in THEIR salaries or eliminate THEIR bribes and perks and threaten to steal from the people so that they will support their lies and propaganda!!!
This corrupt government MUST be FORCED to eliminate entire departments starting with the department of homeland security, the department of education, and FEMA!!!
Joe is a TYRANT and a TRAITOR and is CLEARLY guilty of HIGH TREASON!!!
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I don't think the histrionics over a 1.2% cut in projected increases has anything at all to do w sequestration. I think Obama is blowing things wildly out of proportion to set up ALL future budget/fiscal/economic issues on those dastardly Republicans! Just think about it!! High unemployment! Republicans allowing sequestration! Debt problems ditto! Poverty, crime, Grandma not getting her meds, dog died, STD's ALL because of sequestration! Nothing will be Obama's fault after Friday!!
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In the (Oval Office) Mr. Pres. What are we to do with this Bob Woodward? Pres." What yo say?" Bob Woodward. The last Reporter that is telling the TRUTH about You and the sequester. Pres. "Oh, Damn. I thought you already took care of any one speaking the truth" "Take care of him" Bob Woodward. The last of a dieing breed. Soon to meet a drone near you.
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these fast talkers made us workers take a 2% pay cut through more taxes.you adjust.they just don't want to work together.you politicians stink.we'll see how many airports they close[i bet it'll be none].
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I recall my first landing at the Wheeling OC Airport. I had been piloting a small plane from the midwest crossing Ohio in route to the airport for several hours. I had refueled along the way, so I could have flown on to another field. When I reached the Ohio Valley the air was thick with smoke, dust and fumes from the mills. Visibility was often less than one mile. I dropped low to maintain ground visibility. If I had not been familiar with the area and didn't have a radio beacon to follow I possibly would have been lost.
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On my first cross-country solo flight, my landing gear was frozen, and I hadn't eaten all day. My dog, flying right seat, had to pee and was scratching at the door handle. Just as I was turning a hard right, the door flung open and we both fell right out of the cockpit. Luckily we were over the OC airport. The plane, my dog, and I all floated down to earth on an imaginary cloud of smoke, dust, and fumes. I was glad to be alive. My dog was really happy to find some grass.
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Newlywed Angelina Jolie has debuted photos of her surprise nuptials to Brad Pitt, revealing she wore a designer wedding gown featuring artwork by their six children.
The Hollywood couple tied the knot during an intimate, secret ceremony at its Chateau Miraval estate in Correns, France on 23 August, and made the event a family affair.
The Miraval property in Correns, France, is owned by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Jolie and Pitt were married Saturday Aug. 23, 2014 in Chateau Miraval, France, says a spokesman for the couple. (AP Photo/Lionel Cirronneau, File)
In the first images of the ceremony, released to People magazine, the Tomb Raider beauty is shown wearing a flowing Atelier Versace wedding gown, designed by the brand's master tailor Luigi Massi.
And Massi helped created a special accessory for Jolie, as her veil was covered with colourful drawings by their kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox.
Gushing about Massi's work to the publication, she says, "Luigi is like family to me and I couldn't imagine anyone else making this dress. He knows and cares for the children and it was great fun putting it together."
As for Pitt, he decided to wear a suit from his closet, complete with a tie borrowed from one of his sons, since the actor forgot to pack his own.
The kids were also involved in the ceremony, with Maddox and Pax walking Jolie down the aisle, Shiloh and Knox serving as ring bearers, and Zahara and Vivienne playing the roles of flower girls.
Jolie and Pitt add, "It was important to us that the day was relaxed and full of laughter. It was such a special day to share with our children and a very happy time for our family."
Another picture features the entire Jolie-Pitt clan sitting on steps at the estate as they pose in the formal wear for a family portrait, while a photo published in Hello! Magazine shows the couple's first kiss, as the two happily lock lips after exchanging vows.
Jolie and Pitt began dating in 2005 after meeting on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and became engaged in 2012.
It is Pitt's second marriage following his divorce from actress Jennifer Aniston in 2005. Jolie was previously wed to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.


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Kitsumura is a hengeyokai village needed for the second adventure of my Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story setting publication for Pathfinder RPG. The adventure is called, The Gift: Part 2 - Dim Spirit.
This map uses my hand-drawn style given soft colors using Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0. This is the same style used in my March 2010 Map Challenge Entry: Snow Country.
While the March Challenge features a winter styled village, Kitsumura needs a summer season. Kitsumura is located in the mountainous interior of the Island of Yonshu, hidden away from imperial and provincial authorities, as a kind of barbarian village. Hengeyokai are animal barbarian shape-changers, of which there are several types, though Kitsumura features - kitsune (fox), musashi (badger), and tanuki (raccoon dog).
The village has what is typically found in any rural Japanese village.
I created this first having created roofs in 3D and used as a reference to hand-draw at 24 x 36, then scanned into Photoshop, imported to Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0 where all the colors, shadows, bevel effects were applied.
Kitsumura is a key rest area between action for the PCs in The Gift: Part 2 - Dim Spirit adventure module. This module should be published sometime in May 2010.
Here's a link to the WIP Forum thread for Kitsumura:
Kitsumura - a village in Kaidan
I had lots of fun creating this, especially the cool stream and waterfall. This map is my second true Isometric map (the challenge map this month was my first.)


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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - A 24-year-old St. Johns County man is charged with child abuse for throwing his 2-year-old daughter down a flight of stairs, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
"There was a lady holding a little baby and she said the baby is hurt and I said 'I'm a nurse, give me the baby!'" said Joseph Izzi's neighbor.
Izzi's neighbor didn't want their identity revealed, but told Channel 4 what happened in the Domenico Circle Apartment Complex Monday morning.
"I had blood on my arms so I knew there was an injury to the back of her head ," said the neighbor.
When Channel 4 knocked on Izzi's door Tuesday night, his roommate didn't answer, but instead left a note on the door that said "go away."
Izzi's roommate did speak with police though, according to the police report, Izzi's roommate told police that he and Izz (pictured, right)i had been smoking marijuana before Izzi lost control and threw the toddler down the stairs. The roommate told police after he threw the toddler, Izzi then tore off all of his clothes.
Joseph Izzi Jr. is also charged with assault on two deputies who found him running naked in the parking lot of the apartment complex in the 600 block of Domenico Circle after smoking marijuana, deputies said.
The girl was taken to Flagler Hospital, as was Izzi. Deputies said he already had scratches and bruises on him when they arrived. They said he then banged his head on the cage in the deputy cruiser after being taken into custody.
According to the Department of Child and Family Services, the 2-year-old girl is now in the custody of relatives.
"The Child is safe," said Department of Children and Family Services, John Harrell. "The child is with relatives but we're continuing to investigate because we want to see if there were any other issues or any other concerns regarding maltreatment."
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Harrison Barnes is still a non commit. I think he is still ours to lose. He appears to be a very smart kid. So the only schools I see him ditching us for are a Duke or Stanford type team.
Also rumors about L.A. Pomlee are true. We could have one more kid for the 08 class. I think the staff beleives someone will be leaving (not Lucca at this point). So I think there is one more guy we will get.
Also there is one kid on the team that is very home sick. It's kind of a weird deal. He is a freshman and he will probably stick it out. However this one has me confused. Once I hear more I will let you know.
Nothing new on Royce White or Rodney Williams. They are reaches but there is still a line of communication with them. I think Williams is a better shot for us than White. I have also heard taht Williams has the most potential. Grades may be an issue with him though.
I heard Vette is homesick...dont know if its true or the person you are talking about
Thanks for the info!
So someone is leaving... is that just a guess by the coaching staff that someone almost always leaves, or is there someone specific that might not be here. If it is someone specific, can you say whether it is academics or PT or something else?
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O.K so maybe everyone know's that Vette is homesick. THat is weird to me.
The homesickness issue is a tough one to overcome! As much as these kids are being treated like kings on campus...it is still a tough adjustment. I am surprised more kids don't leave during the first semester on campus. Especially when you consider that these kids were probably legends in high school and now are fighting just to get on the court.
Thanks for the report!
I thought I read that Vette was homesick. Good thing he didn't go to Indiana State like he originally planned.
As for someone leaving?? If the rumor is true that Brister has been late to games, practice, class, etc. How long until he is deep in the doghouse?
Just my thoughts.
Someone find Vette a girlfriend...that will settle him in a bit!!!
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Also there is one kid on the team that is very home sick. It's kind of a weird deal. He is a freshman and he will probably stick it out. However this one has me confused. Once I hear more I will let you know.
McDermott mentioned on a pre- or post-game show that Clayton Vette is very homesick. It's a huge adjustment to come to ISU from a small-town high school. And on top of that, to have the demands of D-I basketball has got to be extra difficult. I don't know if you're talking about Vette, but in any case, I sure hope he can work through it.
"The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs over adversity." -Jared Diamond, Collapse
What are the rumors about Pomlee?
Vette is about 110 miles from home, it could be worse.
Go Cubs Go!
Vette's from Waverly isnt he? Thats a short drive back home, hour and a half or so. I can't imagine that he couldn't make it home every couple weeks or something
During the season that's next to impossible.
Yet I still don't understand that. I was excited we got him yet my excitement has tapered quite a bit seeing him on the floor and such.
Homesick from Waverly? Man, I couldn't wait to leave my town when I was growing up!
Just in case you didn't know... I'm a girl.
I hope Vette can get over it. It wasn't really that hard for me but I had a great support system when I came to school. He really doesn't have any other options closer, since he can't transfer to another Mo Valley school.
As to his ability, does anybody remember young Homan? I thought he would be awful.
That's too bad to hear that somebody might be leaving. I hope it's not CJ - but he doesn't seem to be fitting in too well right now.
I've got a question for somebody in the know... does the staff think Lucca will hang around even if he can't play this year? He was one of the recruits I was most excited about.
Vette needs to transfer to Wartburg if he is homesick:)
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UNCW Sports - Seahawks pick up veteran guard
Published: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 9:48 p.m.
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In a recruitment best described as fast and somewhat unexpected, UNCW snagged another veteran piece for their backcourt Friday night, receiving a commitment from Ben Eblen.
It was assumed Eblen's career was over after he left the Alabama program prior to the 2012-13 season to concentrate on academics. He had spent the three previous seasons as a backup to All-SEC point guard Trevor Releford.
UNCW nabs 7 event titles at CAA track event
UNCW athletes finished second in the men's track meet and third in the women's on Saturday in the Colonial Athletic Association Track & Field championships at Unitas Stadium. The Seahawks combined to win seven events.
William & Mary captured the team titles in both the men's and women's meets.
Senior sprinter Jeremy Johnson led the Seahawk men with event wins in the 100 meters (10.60 seconds) and running a leg of the 4x100 relay with Cam White, Jordan Reed and David Lindsay. His third-place finish in the 200 meters also earned him All-CAA honors.
Junior Meena Reid gave UNCW a sweep of the 100 meters when she clocked in with a first-place time of 11.66. Reid also earned All-CAA honors in the 200 meters (second) and the 4x100 (third).
UNCW also posted a sweep of the discus throw with Kyle Barbour (153-3) taking the gold for the men and sophomore Clarissa Perkins winning the women's with a mark of 147-9. Barbour added All-CAA honors with a second-place showing in the hammer and Perkins also earned all-conference honors when she placed third in the women's discus.
Junior Anthony Colon captured top honors in the 400 hurdles with a time of 54.26.
Rounding out UNCW's event winners was junior Aerial Chatman, who claimed the triple jump with a distance of 48 feet.
Hawks fall to Hens in softball
NEWARK, DEL. | Senior Maria Newman recorded a RBI single in the bottom of the 11th to break a 1-1 tie and lift Delaware to a 2-1 victory over UNCW on Saturday at the Delaware Softball Stadium.
The Seahawks finished their first season under head coach Kristy Norton with a 16-37 overall record and 3-17 league mark.
The Blue Hens improved to 35-20 overall and 12-9 in league play as they finished the regular season in fourth place in the league standings. Delaware will be the No. 3 seed in the 2013 CAA Softball Championship, scheduled for May 7-9 at Hofstra Softball Stadium.
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Seeing was not stellar, about 7/10 with very few really steady moments.
Some detail could be seen in the 30 minutes I spent trying to render a sketch. There were a few surprises, however. First, there seemed to be this closed loop feature between two festoons approaching the preceding limb. It seemed to have another soft streak trailing from it, as shown. Saw that several times. Kind of weird, really, almost like an illusion.
Inside this structure, and up against the NEB, there did seem to be a bit of a brighter spot. It gave the impression of a notch in the NEB between the two festoons. Strikingly, the larger festoon near the trailing limb had a very similar brighter feature tucked right up against it. The strange thing is, this brighter feature appeared to fan out off much like a comet. It was pretty impressive to see, so I decided to post this sketch.
Ganymede's shadow was transiting with Ganymede just off the trailing limb. I did jump to 480x to study Ganymede, again. No luck, really, nothing to really call an albedo feature. But, I felt like I was close. Ganymede was just jumping around too much.
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This is an outstanding value in a fresh, minerally, unoaked Chardonnay. Tastes a lot like a high quality Chablis.
This was a terrific, refreshing rose.
An example of what would have been -- if not for the use of small oak instead of the typical large casks -- an excellent wine. The influence of the small barrels made it too oaky for its own good.
This garnacha (grenache) and samso (carignane) blend was excellent. Very soft, ripe, and balanced.
Not really worth their own blog entry.
My brother Angy and his wife Susan were visiting for several days from Connecticut (which answers the question, who ever comes to Houston in summer for vacation?). To try to revive them from heat shock, we opened up several great bottles. But I was feeling too hot myself to do any serious analysis, so these are just quick impressions from memory.
. . . a hectic summer vacation travelling schedule (visiting family in New England) and heat/humidity in Houston have conspired to both prevent me from having the time, and to sap my energy, to blog.
Stay tuned for a possible guest blogger post on some recent, slightly-more-expensive-than-usual treats I have enjoyed, however . . . .
A really refreshing, bone-dry Riesling. Very good value. Not as complex and deep as a good Alsace, but terrific for a hot day.
A decent, fleshy, but fairly simple Grenache.
Eh. Decent, but a bit out of balance.
Another well-made, good value wine from this consistent Chilean producer. Lots of flavor and body for the money.
A very nice, fleshy rosé. Just barely off-dry.
A very interesting wine and a good value. Very chameleon-like, changing dramatically as it aired out.
I love good rosé in the Houston summertime. It gives some of the flavor of a light red, but you can drink it well-chilled on days when it's just too damn hot to pop a red.
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Engineers Without Borders
Taking Solutions — and Standards — Where They Are Needed
It's a simple enough idea. Engineers Without Borders–USA, based in Denver, Colo., like a number of similarly named groups around the world, aims to deliver engineering project know-how to developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life.
In keeping with its academic roots and related goal of providing learning experiences for students, "Most projects are run by individual chapters and most chapters are student-run organizations affiliated with engineering colleges or universities," says Kelly Latham, P.E., EWB's international community programs director. In practice, she says, "students are the true leaders, but they work under a mentorship arrangement with professional engineers."
"Engineers Without Borders ... allows students to gain hands on experience in project management, engineering design and implementation," says Caitlin Augustin, a Ph.D. student at the University of Miami's Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, and an ASTM student member.
Augustin explains that ASTM International standards are a key part of project design and implementation strategy. "There is a commitment to design and construct projects to standards using the best available technologies, and many of these standards come from ASTM," says Augustin. Furthermore, ASTM's educational and student outreach program makes it easy for EWB members to do research and find applicable standards for their projects. Currently a member of ASTM Committee E60 on Sustainability, Augustin was sponsored by ASTM in 2009 in the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering program, a paid 10-week summer internship focused on the public policy process. She also served as president of the University of Miami's student chapter of EWB from 2008 to 2010 and is currently the treasurer for the South Central Florida Professional Chapter of EWB.
Augustin says when she volunteered as a project manager for a development project in Nicaragua, ASTM provided her team with many resources in Spanish and English, so they were able to work with in-country counterparts to design a project that incorporated the standards from the beginning. "This type of outreach helped me shape the conversation for many EWB projects — helping my school's EWB teams move away from volunteering to provide a 'good' solution to providing a 'best-in-class' solution," she explains.
James Olshefsky, ASTM International director of external relations, presented at EWB's 2009 regional conference in an effort to engage a greater audience in these ideas, she says. And, she notes, that effort has had a great impact. "Students have been inspired to draft their own sustainable design and construction standards and propose them to ASTM — standards for things such as native 'green roofs' or water quality for localized solar hot water heaters," says Augustin.
Another ASTM student member, Clemson University's Kathryn Gasparro, became interested in the program as a freshman. Her plan was to study international relations and civil engineering. "My freshman year, I worked on a biolatrine system that used human waste to produce energy for a community in Liberia," she explains. At the beginning of her sophomore year, she was asked to lead a Latin American project. "Along with eight other students, we found a nonprofit based in Atlanta and working in communities in Nicaragua. We eagerly contacted them and began a partnership with the nonprofit as well as the community in Nicaragua," she explains. The joint project is now three years old, focused on plans for a clean water source.
After working with EWB for two years, Gasparro applied for and won ASTM sponsorship in the 2012 WISE internship program. "I had learned a lot about infrastructure projects in developing countries but wanted a more local perspective on infrastructure policy in the United States," she says. During her summer in Washington, D.C., with WISE, she says she began to understand the connection between policymakers and engineers. After graduation, Gasparro hopes to pursue a career in infrastructure policy and development, "to help communities realize their potential through infrastructure projects that provide transportation networks, clean water and reliable energy sources."
"Standards play a large role in our work in Nicaragua and with EWB," says Gasparro. "Understanding how ASTM and quality standards are applied in the United States helps us implement best management practices with developing communities." Indeed, Gasparro says she and her team compiled reports during every phase of their project to make sure that they were, to the best of their knowledge, in accordance with applicable standards.
"Standards are something that all of our EWB projects are required to follow, using either local or international standards," says Latham. "As an organization we are always trying to make it clear which standards apply where, though it is ultimately an effort that happens at the chapter level and is specific to the community where they are working," she adds.
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It's hard to imagine, but Hoon Lee, the 39-year-old actor who plays Job, the F-bomb dropping, bald transvestite hacker on Cinemax's Emmy Award-winning original series Banshee, is the same actor voicing the sagely Master Splinter on Nickelodeon's hit reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And the award-winning stage actor didn't even plan on an acting career. Instead, the Harvard-educated Lee studied the visual arts and worked in graphic design during the first dot-com bubble.
"I think that all these creative processes cross-pollinate easily," he says of navigating deftly between designing and acting. "It doesn't mean that the skill sets required to perform at a higher level are not specific and hard won, but like with romance languages, if you are fluent in one form of creative activity, you have a fighting chance at picking things up quickly in another."
Lee's role as the voice behind the iconic Master Splinter is something of a personal passion. The Korean American grew up on comic books and animation and still considers himself a fan. When asked if he'll use the wise Yoda-like sayings of Master Splinter as a parental tool, Lee laughs and replies, "My son's a little young for Ninja Turtles, but I'm hoping he'll get into it. But the cynical side of me thinks that he'll say, 'Aw, Dad, that's so lame.'"
Lee's other gig on the action drama Banshee, as the loyal criminal associate of ex-con and master thief Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), who assumes the identity of sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pa., has made him a fan and critic favorite. "Job is a character that is fairly extreme, and I wouldn't have really pegged that for myself," admits Lee. "In the casting process, it's a succinct description of who this character is supposed to be, so it's sort of an illustration of the intense generalization that happens in show business, which in and of itself is a reflection of greater societal generalizations that happen. But Job being such a strange collection of things — a transvestite, criminal, computer hacker, foul-mouthed diva — you begin to butt up against the inefficiency of the encapsulation of those terms. I find it very interesting because when people react to Job, I begin to see their own mechanisms for understanding who he is."
In preparing for the role, Lee found that his background in tech helped inform Job's character. But there was nothing that could help prepare him for the unique wardrobe requirements. "I had to trim down to fit into those leather dresses, and even then I'm strapped in to the busting point," he laughs.
When asked about playing a unique Asian American character, Lee responds, "That's tricky for me as an actor because when you choose to identify yourself or a role as Asian American, it kind of grants permission for other people to use that as the primary identifier, and that's a really difficult balance to strike. Job is of Asian descent because I'm of Asian descent, but in descriptions of him, the race dimension is only one of many."
Instead, Lee feels there may be a universal message in characters like Job. "What people are hopefully enjoying about him is that he's somebody that is explicating that search for who he is, and he's welcoming all the complexities that it means. And that's something that anyone who has felt on the outside, and that's most of us, can identify with."
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On March 31, Greg Collins and Brendan O'Neill made a first ski descent of the North Face of the Grand Teton. The two are professional mountain guides and Collins had previously put up a new climbing route on the North Face called The Golden Pillar (5.12).
"The north face has obvious appeal, it's a steep nasty face with a long colorful history," said O'Neill. "We had skied a new line on Mount Owen earlier this winter which gave us a good current view of the route and the closer we looked at it the more skiable it appeared"
Collins and O'Neill started out by ascending the Grand (13,770 feet) via the Tepee Glacier and Stetner, Chevy and Ford Couloirs in seven hours."It was in 'easy' condition," Collins said. "We free soloed with one ice tool."
They then rappelled from the top, which had been blown clear of snow, and skied a series of ledges. "We rappelled to the bottom of the 'Pendulum Pitch' and began skiing this very exposed ledge," said Collins. He describes the crux as a "5.5 slab."
"The hardest part was finding cracks and building anchors to descend," said O'Neill. "The crux skiing required some tricky exposed side stepping and straight lining a narrow pinch "They used no rope in any of the skiing. Their total time for ascent and descent was 15 hours.
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Don't forget the barber! You can't have a huge Western brawl without at least one guy in his undershirt with shaving cream still on half his face.
So I've started my next big project for RPGNow, and this one might kill me before it is finished. Basically, I am mapping a full wild-west town. In 100dpi, encounter-map style. This bad boy is going to be huge-- 2x poster size, all together with, last count, 18 buildings in a classic cowboy "main street" road. I may end up dying due to stress... and actually, I kinda regret not having fit/included more buildings: I am running out of space for all the classic cowboy locations! Let me think--Saloon, stables, hotel, apartments, general store, gunsmith, church, town hall with clock tower, jail, undertaker's, brothel, mayor's house... and a little room for a couple more. I am racking my brain for all the other classic locations. If anyone can think of more, let me know.
The idea is that this is geared for VTT players to be able to wander around in and use as a "home base" for a western campaign. I guess it could work for things like Deadlands or Weird West. I dunno. There just isn't a lot of western-themed stuff out there so I thought I'd fill the gap.
Here is a super quick render of the view of the town from the entrance. Apart from lots of missing textures (which makes it look like winter or something), it looks ripe for a showdown at high noon, no? My only problem so far is that I can't think of a way to have awnings/overhangs that wouldn't cause problems with the overhead view.
Don't forget the barber! You can't have a huge Western brawl without at least one guy in his undershirt with shaving cream still on half his face.
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Newspaper office, stage depot, bathhouse, Certified Painless Dentist & Surgeon, barbershop (often double duty with the dentist), assay office (if there's mining nearby), tack & feed store, bank, post office, land office, jail, supply yard (either there's a local sawmill, or else they bring lumber in by wagon - in either case, gotta have boards & nails), blacksmith, school (or is this town pre-family?), dance hall and/or fraternal hall, firehouse (once the place had burned down a couple of times), corral (parking lot for stock, as the stable might be parking lot for horses?), water tower & windmill, graveyard (OK, might be outside of town), boarding house (slightly distinct from apartment or hotel), a bunch of privies out back...
'Course a bunch of those could double up or be skipped if it's a young/small town. Aaaaand of course many a town would have multiples....
Your initial render is pretty awesome. I agree the missing overhangs diminishes the look; maybe once the board sidewalks are rendered it'll look less stark? Claiming it's in Arizona and it last rained in '47 won't do, since then the sun would be just as big a deal as rain. Could you maybe just blatantly have the overhangs on a separate layer and render 'em only if you're doing a street view? Maybe go all schematic & lightly crosshatch covered pieces of sidewalk in the over head view?
Barber! Perfect! Handlebar mustaches EVERYWHERE.
As far as the overhangs go, I've been trying my darndest to wrap my mind around how I might include them without messing with the usability. It would be easy(ish) to have them as separate images for VTT use, but for I can't think of anything that wouldn't be a huge hassle for printed use.
Doing things like semi-transparency or crosshatching always feels like it throws off the look of the map to me. That's one of the reasons I deeply, deeply hate trees--there never seems to be a good way to handle foliage.
What are you using for the modelling?
sounds like a great idea - and I'm sooo with you on the overhangs/trees/other small base big top thingies.. working on my city maps myself and also thinking what to do about roofs and stuff
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US President Barack Obama has urged Democrats and Republicans to work together to find a solution to the debt ceiling crisis.
"What's clear now is that any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan", he said. "The power to solve this is in our hands", he told reporters on Friday.
"There are plenty ways out of this mess... The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now", he added.
But he warned that his country could lose its AAA credit rating over the crisis.
The US are currently locked in crunch talks over whether to raise the debt ceiling. If Congress do not approve the plans by August 2, the country's Treasury could run out of money.
The crisis could affect bonds issued by banks across the world, which use dollars. Last week Business Secretary Vince Cable said it was the biggest threat to the global economy.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised Democratic lawmakers for bringing the country "back from the brink of default" and said now is the time to shift attention to jobs.
"We just completed a very lively leadership meeting of the House Democrats, where we talked about ... the necessity of Democrats to save the day yesterday, pulling our country back from the brink of default," Pelosi said during a Tuesday press conference.
"It was a bitter pill for us to swallow, but we did," Pelosi said of the final debt deal. "And as we did, we saved Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
With that bridge crossed, the next step is refocusing Congress on job creation, she said.
"Jobs, jobs, job, jobs, jobs. You cannot say it enough," Pelosi said. "I really liked what Willie Nelson said, or at least he was quoted as saying -- the American people are more concerned about a ceiling over their head than raising the debt ceiling. We know we need to do both."
The Minority Leader ducked questions about when she would announce her picks for the newly created "Super Congress," a 12-member panel of lawmakers who will decide where to make up to .5 trillion in spending cuts. Pelosi also wouldn't say if she will require her picks to insist on new revenues in addition to cuts. The goal, she said, is to strike a balance in cuts and spending while preserving entitlement benefits.
"Whoever is at that table will be someone who will fight to protect those benefits," she said.
-- Jennifer Bendery
AARP is relieved that the debt deal did not hack into Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, but the lobby for older Americans is worried all those programs could get whacked by a secretive super committee that's supposed to find an extra .5 trillion in deficit cutting.
The super committee -- made up of 12 lawmakers who will bypass the normal legislative process and produce a bill that cannot be amended -- will have to work quickly, coming up with a massive cutting plan by Thanksgiving.
"We are concerned that a fast-track committee process will deny Americans a voice in the discussion about critical tax, health and retirement issues," said AARP President Barry Rand in a statement.
"AARP believes that the American public deserves a seat at the table in any forum, including the newly created super committee, that discusses potential changes to these critical programs," Rand added. "We believe that our nation's leaders should work together to strengthen health and retirement security for current and future generations."
-- Michael McAuliff
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), one of the only Democratic leaders to vote against the debt bill, lamented on Tuesday that the new law includes the creation of an all-powerful "Super Congress" of 12 hand-picked lawmakers who can decide where to make up to .5 trillion in future spending cuts.
"I think you've asked a very important question," DeLauro said, when asked why lawmakers created a special committee to do what should be Congress' job. "My preference obviously would be to have Congress take on these responsibilities. But clearly there's a view that there's an impasse and therefore, hopefully, a commission can do that."
DeLauro, a co-chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, split from other Democratic leaders in voting against the debt bill, which increases the government's spending power by .4 trillion through 2013 while imposing as much as .5 trillion in cuts, mostly from non-defense spending. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) all voted for the bill.
"For me, voting against the bill yesterday was about, given what is in this piece of legislation, it makes these opportunities for economic investments and economic growth all the more difficult," DeLauro said. "If we choke off all of our opportunities for investment, we will take this nation backwards instead of forward."
-- Jennifer Bendery
|@ CNNPolitics : WH says President Obama has now signed the debt ceiling bill into law
Senior citizens lobbying force AARP is happy that Social Security checks will not be interrupted by a debt ceiling standoff and that future benefits won't get automatically clobbered if the 12-member so-called super Congress fails to reach an agreement on deficit reduction.
"We are relieved that Congress has acted on a bipartisan agreement to address the debt ceiling and prevent default to ensure that seniors will continue to receive their Social Security checks and have access to health care," AARP CEO A. Barry Rand said in a statement. "Going forward, we are pleased that Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare benefits are protected if the so-called 'super committee' fails to reach an agreement later this fall, but we will remain vigilant in our efforts to protect the health and retirement security of seniors and future retirees. We are concerned that a fast-track committee process will deny Americans a voice in the discussion about critical tax, health and retirement issues. We also are concerned about the potential use of a trigger that would arbitrarily cut provider payments under Medicare, which could unfairly shift costs to seniors."
-- Arthur Delaney
Speaking just minutes after the Senate passed legislation to raise the debt ceiling -- removing the last political hurdle for that bill's passage – President Obama delivered a speech in the Rose Garden in which he once again pleaded for a renewed focus on jobs.
Sounding at times exasperated that the political conversation had veered so swiftly to the topic of austerity, Obama urged Congress to present him with job-creating bills as soon as it returned from its August recess. The specifics were pretty much the same as the White House has pushed for weeks if not months: free trade agreements, patent reform, an infrastructure bank, regulatory changes and the extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits.
"Growing the economy isn't just about cutting spending, it is not about rolling back regulations that protect our air and water and keep people safe. That is not how we are going to get past this recession. We are going to have to do more than that," he said.
"There already is a quiet crisis going on in the lives of a lot of families and a lot communities all across the country. They are looking for work and they have been for a while ... that ought to compel Washington to cooperate, that ought to compel Washington to compromise and that ought to compel Washington to act."
Coming so soon after both the president and a large portion of the Democratic party signed off on a bill that takes roughly .4 trillion out of the economy in the next 10 years, it was hard to imagine that the remedies being offered would have much of a cumulative effect. Moreover, a "pivot" to jobs was already tried unsuccessfully after the tax cut debate at the end of 2010 and the government shut down debate in the spring of 2011.
But Obama's speech was more about establishing the proper tone than it was about forging out new legislative remedies. With the debt ceiling debate now over until after the 2012 election, the major discussion shifts back to what, if anything, government can do to spur economic growth. One portion of that argument will come when Congress must pass a budget to fund the government by the end of September. But the White House will likely try and create some sort of defining contrast between the president and his Republican critics well before then.
-- Sam Stein
HuffPost's Michael McAuliff and Elise Foley report on the Senate vote:
The Senate did its part Tuesday to end a months-long standoff and raise the debt ceiling, passing a bill that dramatically cuts spending and creates a new "super committee" that will slash budgets even more.
The Senate approved the measure 74 to 26. The bill will go to President Obama's desk with little time to spare; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that the country would begin to default on its obligations at midnight if a bill was not passed by then.
Although Democrats had many complaints about the bill, they supported it overwhelmingly, with 45 voting "yes" and six voting "no." Twenty-eight Republicans voted in favor of the bill, meanwhile, while 19 voted against it. The Senate's two Independents, Sens. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.) voted "yes" and "no," respectively.
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"Neither side got what they wanted. ... That's the way our system works. That's what compromise is all about."
The final vote is 74-26, more than the 60-vote majority required for passage.
HuffPost's Mark Blumenthal reports:
An overnight poll conducted by CNN and ORC International finds more Americans disapprove (52 percent) than approve (44 percent) of what the pollsters described as "an agreement between Barack Obama and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress [that] would raise the federal government's debt ceiling through the year 2013 and make major cuts in government spending over the next few years."
The poll delved deeper into specific aspects of the agreement and found support for spending cuts but opposition to the lack of tax increases for wealthy Americans. Specifically,
- 65 percent approve of trillion in cuts in government spending over the next 10 years (30 percent opposed)
- 60 percent disapprove of the fact that the agreement does not include any tax increases for businesses or higher-income Americans
The survey also included an unusual question that dramatizes the way Americans feel about the overall debate. More than three out of four respondents said elected officials in Washington that have dealt with the debt ceiling debate have behaved "mostly like spoiled children" (77 percent) rather than "responsible adults" (17 percent).
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Hours before he is set to sign legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling, President Obama met with the AFL-CIO's Executive Council whose members are more than a bit worried and upset about the direction of the bill.
Union officials had stayed largely silent in the day or so since the final debt ceiling deal was reached. The ones who did speak out were either already out of office or saved their blistering remarks for near, or after, Monday night's House vote.
The AFL-CIO, which is the largest union federation in the country, has not yet formally commented at all -– in part because Obama's appearance was on the schedule for Tuesday morning. And in a statement put out after that meeting, a federation spokesman was short on specifics and decidedly forward-looking.
"This morning's meeting with the General Board of the AFL-CIO was a conversation about the urgent need to focus on job-creating policies that will propel working people and our economy forward," said Alison Omens, an AFL-CIO spokesperson. "AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other union leaders talked with President Obama about working together for solutions that will put people back to work. Working people are desperate to hear how we're going to focus on the real economy and the jobs crisis and President Obama conveyed his own feeling of urgency around dealing with the jobs crisis."
-- Sam Stein
The Senate vote is scheduled for 12:00 noon. The president is expected to speak at 12:15. We'll have live video at the top of the blog.
A spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that he would be willing to appoint senators to the soon-to-be-created deficit-reduction super committee even if they vote against raising the nation's debt ceiling.
"He will have serious discussions with ALL those who are interested in serving prior to making any appointments," emailed McConnell spokesperson Don Stewart. "No one is stronger in his opposition to tax hikes than Sen. McConnell. He will have serious discussions with all those who are interested in serving prior to making any appointments."
Stewart's comment came in response to a Weekly Standard report that McConnell would hold members' votes against them when it came time to choose his three committee members (each chamber gets six members, to be divided equally among the parties). Such a policy would, seemingly, rule out some of the more fiscally conservative voices in the party who have refused to vote to raise the debt ceiling, either out of belief that the corresponding cuts didn't go far enough, or conviction that the United States wouldn't risk default.
In actuality, however, those lawmakers likely won't be in consideration for the super-committee as they are either younger members -- Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) -- or individuals whose legislative purviews don't necessarily include budget matters -- Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) or (R-S.C.).
-- Sam Stein
HuffPost's Sam Stein, Elise Foley, and Jennifer Bendery report on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' (D-Ariz.) emotional return to Congress Monday night. Read the complete report, see photos and watch video of Giffords on the House floor here.
Giffords entered the chamber to sustained, standing applause, shaking hands with colleagues whom she had not seen since that January day. Her vote, a sideshow to the far more important and compelling personal drama, was in favor of the bill, which passed through the chamber by a margin of 269 to 161.
"I have closely followed the debate over our debt ceiling and have been deeply disappointed at what's going on in Washington," Giffords said, in a statement from her office. "After weeks of failed debate in Washington, I was pleased to see a solution to this crisis emerge. I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics. I had to be here for this vote. I could not take the chance that my absence could crash our economy."
Giffords' office tweeted word of her return to Washington after the vote had begun. And as she showed up on the floor -- smiling and with her hair cut short -- the attention of lawmakers drifted from the vote tally to her presence. Her office, in a statement, noted that in December 2009 and again in February 2010, she had objected to raising the nation's debt limit. This vote, the statement added, "was substantially different, with the strength of the U.S. economy hanging in the balance."
After the vote was cast, Giffords received multiple additional rounds of applause, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called her "the personification of courage."
"Her presence here in the chamber as well as her service throughout her career in Congress, brings honor to this chamber," Pelosi said. "Thank you, Gabby."
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) came out swinging on Monday night after it was reported that Vice President Joe Biden suggested that Tea Party-backed lawmakers "acted like terrorists" in contentious debate over raising the nation's debt limit.
According to Politico, Biden made the comments in question during his meeting with House Democrats on Monday.
Bachmann, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, wrote in a campaign fundraising email to supporters on Monday night:
The Democrats have stooped to a new low. This afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden reportedly led a congressional meeting where Tea Party members were labeled as "terrorists."
Only in the bizarro world of Washington is fiscal responsibility sometimes defined as terrorism.
Our belief that America should live within its means and not spend more than it takes in distinguishes us as patriots who love our country, not to be equated with the terrorists whose sole aim is to destroy it.
The subject line of Bachmann's message: "Tell Biden: We are not terrorists."
More than 90 Democrats in the House voted for the debt limit bill, but those who did not found the measure galling.
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who thought President Obama should have taken matters into his own hands, fired off an especially blistering statement:
"Defaulting on our debts is not an option. That's why I voted for a clean debt ceiling increase, free from the unnecessary clutter of budgetary or other non-related matters. And that's why I voted for Senator Reid's plan this past Saturday, though parts of that plan were excessive and imbalanced. I am also the lead sponsor on a resolution to support the president's use of Article 2, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to raise the debt ceiling – solely as a last resort. But this so-called compromise – "the Budget Control Act" – is just the latest blackmail request from extortionist Republicans.
"This legislation lays out an unbalanced, callous plan that will strangle the middle class and working poor, to say nothing of the elderly and kids. These blackmailers are telling the American people, 'either you will accept deep cuts to vital programs that support seniors, students, children, women, and the poor, or we will force this nation to default on its debts' – an unprecedented and reckless move that would lead to skyrocketing interest rates on mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and the like. So, either we stifle our economy and stymie job growth, or we kill the middle class and stymie job growth.
"Shockingly, while Republicans are holding us all hostage, telling us our country is broke and we have to cut programs that are lifelines to millions of Americans, they are letting the wealthiest among us – the corporations, millionaires, billionaires, and oil companies – off scot-free, without doing their fair share."This proposal is exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. With our economy still struggling and gasping for air, with more and more Americans looking for jobs, we should be promoting job growth and those federal and state programs that put people to work. But, instead of doing the things Americans do best – that is, building things and creating opportunity – Tea Partiers want to send this country over the cliff. We must say NO."
-- Mike McAuliff
Vote is 269 to 161.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who has been away from Washington recovering from a gun wound after she was attacked in January, returned to Congress on Monday to vote in approval of the debt limit increase.
"Gabrielle has returned to Washington to support a bipartisan bill to prevent economic crisis," her office tweeted.
-- Elise Foley
HuffPost's Jason Linkins reports:
Way back when this whole saga started, the GOP's gambit was, "Give us what we want or we will put the full faith and credit of U.S. Treasury bonds into default." It shouldn't have been necessary to point out to the press that this was an utterly insane, from-the-furthest-reaches-of-Mars position to take. After all, the debt ceiling had been raised many, many times before, without any fuss worth mentioning. If you cannot say objectively that threatening to blow up the world's economy was an extreme position, then the word "objectivity" is meaningless.
But far from taking an immediate stand against the insanity, the press treated the threatened demise of global society as just another interesting point of view among many. It was an exciting tactic, sure to cause waves in the political waters of the Imperial City. Pop some popcorn and let's see where this takes us! Well, where it's taken us is "past the brink." Our political culture has been permanently altered. It has now been deemed an acceptable tactic, in politics, to take hostages and make demands.
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HuffPost's Lila Shapiro reports:
For American workers -- both those employed and those looking for work -- the deal reached over the weekend to stave off an American default could spell disaster, labor economists say.
The deal struck between Obama and congressional leaders, announced Sunday night, may have averted a historic U.S. default, but the 7 billion dollars in cuts planned for the next decade could worsen an already stagnant labor market.
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HuffPost's Will Alden reports:
The deficit-reduction deal that emerged late Sunday runs the risk of exacerbating two opposite problems at the same time: It cuts enough government spending to imperil a weak economy, yet not enough to spare the United States from the prospect that its credit rating will be downgraded.
The plan would cut .4 trillion in federal government spending over the next decade, an initiative that economists say could harm the economic recovery as growth remains painfully slow. With home prices falling, the unemployment rate rising and gross domestic product expanding at a rate that's worryingly close to zero, federal spending cuts or tax increases could hinder what little progress is being made, experts say.
But seen another way, the deficit-reduction plan might not be big enough: It falls short of the criteria that the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's alluded to last week. Fears that the U.S. government's debt might be downgraded have not been allayed, with some experts saying a downgrade could come this week.
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HuffPost's Sam Stein reports:
The debt ceiling bill set to be voted upon Monday evening has left labor advocates in yet another precarious -- and deeply frustrated -- position. A president who began his term with the promise to not only stem the tide of job loss but also reconfigure the wealth disparity in the country has been bitten by the austerity bug. Moreover, there seem to be fewer and fewer legislative or political outlets for unions to explore.
In the immediate aftermath of the announcement Sunday evening that a deal had been struck, the nation's major labor unions bit their tongues, choosing to either carefully craft press statements or remain silent altogether. In private, however, the discontent was palpable. And it wasn't just driven by fear that massive spending cuts –- billion in 2012 and .4 trillion over ten years –- would adversely affect workers or the unemployed. It was a touch more personal than that.
"We have now had at least three or more experiences of the president explaining to people that he has a plan and it is under control but the results don't match," said Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union. "He has an unreasonable Congress that doesn't respond to reason. So why continue to reason with them?"
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is pushing his Republican colleagues to vote in favor of the debt deal, even though he says he's worried about what could happen if the super committee it calls for fails to make more cuts and the "trigger" kicks in to cut the defense budget.
"I think we've achieved a significant success," McCain told reporters. "There's no tax increases, we kept the government from being shut down, we do have a plan long term."
Though the prospect of the trigger kicking in does worry him, McCain said he'd fight to save defense spending if necessary. He also said that he did not expect the trigger to be pulled.
"I believe that 12 members of Congress will achieve a result," he said, arguing that for them to do otherwise would would be to "abrogate" their responsibility.
While McCain's fellow Republicans seem inclined to accept potential defense cuts as their incentive to come up with a budget-cutting plan, they refused to accept any sort of tax hikes.
-- Michael McAuliff
HuffPost's Jason Linkins reports on media coverage of the debt ceiling debate:
As noted here earlier, the debt deal that's in the offing is said to be a Great and Virtuous Thing not because it results in any tangible benefit for ordinary Americans (other than the fact that, as Wall Street was promised months ago, there will be no default and thus no subsequent destruction of the global economy), but rather because everyone on Capitol Hill hates it, at least a little bit. Glibly put, the best compromise is one that leaves everyone unhappy. Which is all well and good when the grand compromise doesn't also usher in a new era of governance that features permanent hostage-taking dysfunction.
HuffPost's Hunter Stuart has created a two-minute video mashup of debt ceiling media coverage that shows how this has become the dominant narrative.
|@ JakeSherman : pelosi is a YES on debt ceiling package.
In his meeting with the Democratic caucus on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden reportedly told the assembled House members that Tea Party Republicans "have acted like terrorists."
According to Politico:
Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.
"We have negotiated with terrorists," an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. "This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money."
Biden, driven by his Democratic allies' misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: "They have acted like terrorists," according to several sources in the room.
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Monday that Vice President Joe Biden told the House Democratic Caucus that President Barack Obama was, in fact, prepared to use the Constitution to raise the debt limit.
"We heard in there that the president, if this all had failed, was willing to invoke the 14th Amendment," DeFazio said after the meeting ended.
The news runs counter to what the White House, and even Obama himself, had said for weeks: that option has been off the table because it is unclear whether the president has the legal authority to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling himself.
DeFazio maintained that the 14th Amendment is "the best option now" for raising the debt ceiling. He blasted the debt deal negotiated between the White House and congressional leaders because, he said, it includes no revenues and caters to the Tea Party.
"What's the package about? It's all about cutting, cutting, cutting!" he shouted at reporters. "Tax cuts and reductions in spending are not going to create jobs in this country. We need some investment."
The bottom line, Defazio added, is that Obama should "invoke the 14th Amendment. Don't go forward with this package."
-- Jennifer Bendery
|@ BreakingNews : Senate GOP leader McConnell tells @CNBC #debt deal vote will be tomorrow - @CNBC
|@ jonkarl : @NancyPelosi tells @DianeSawyer it probably is a satan sandwich "with satan fries on the side" but she's still a "absolutely" a yes.
|@ mitchellreports : 74 member Progressive Caucus Rep Keith Ellison now saying they will vote no. "preventing the worst from happening is not enough"


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