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Thats awesome! Lets ride this jerseys out!
PS Id REALLY enjoy the lighter material jersey. Id be ok for $75.
Thats awesome! Lets ride this jerseys out!
PS Id REALLY enjoy the lighter material jersey. Id be ok for $75.
I'm good with what is lined up. Just throwin' it out there.
Nothing is finalized yet, but here are the initial results. Verifying that HTFU will not appear on the outside of the pocket, but on the inside. enjoi is going over the results with Primal now to be sure his design maintains the features he wants.
I for one am very pleased so far.
Today's lunch ride featured the death of the bibs I was wearing. They are old DeMarchi's that were about to be sent to pasture anyway, but they absolutely had to go as soon as I took them off. The chamois was flat and lifeless, and my arse was witnessing the beginning of what would be my very first saddle sore.
This is a great opportunity to legitimately purchase cycling goods that I need, not that I want.
excellent work.
By the time you're experienced enough to get something germane out of a test ride, you won't need a test ride.
Bump to get some more exposure. If we get to 25, these get cheaper. That's only eight more jerseys my friends.
#41kit lookin' good.
I had to go back several pages to find this link
Need to keep it handy so folks can update if they are interested.
1) Get David Broon to update this thread showing only the kit and a link to the spreadsheet with a one sentence explanation along the lines of "This is your final chance to get in on this kit, we only need 00 more people to bring the total cost of the kit down to $00.00
2) If that can not happen we can start one last thread on it. I think this could be even more successful since the title could now read "BF "41" KIT IS HERE!". There were a lot of people doubting this could happen and I think seeing that it finally has will sway some people. Once everyone sees that this is for sure the final design and this is where to go for the spreadsheet (or better yet the actual order form). So yea, maybe we make the final push when we have the actual order form up if possible?
I think the easier we make it for people, the better chances of us moving units.
Right now this thread is confusing as **** for anyone not following closely.
One more thread with pics and a link to the Primal store would be great. We've got the minimum commitments from folks here and a new thread will possibly pull in more folks.
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My plan was to, once we get the final version, start a new thread called 'Group Buy - 41 Kit' and open the store at that time. I can't open before then it because it is only able to be open for two weeks max.
As soon as we hear from Primal, I will start the new thread and a reference to this thread will be among the bullet points in the new thread.


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Retail Therapyby David Olenick
Our quality crafted Tote Bags are hand sewn in America using durable, yet lightweight, poly poplin fabric. All seams and stress points are double stitched for durability. Available in 13" x 13", 16" x 16" and 18" x 18" variations, the tote bags are washable, feature original artwork on both sides and a sturdy 1" wide cotton webbing strap for comfortably carrying over your shoulder.
shopping, retail therapy, shopaholic, addiction...
Was it Carl Sagan who first said this? hahaha...
Hahaha .. hilarious. Love your fun artwork David. Your creativity is to be admired :)
haha! very close TBC… he actually said: "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through shopping."
thx barruf!
thx barruf!
thx, you are kind, ©2012! :-)
If only temporarily :) Works really well on the bag.
Well, that's true!
bahahahahhahahaha :D I NEED DIS!!! Also admit it, all your pics use the same pair of eyes!
thx vestart, rick, studio sputnik and kristy!
lidija, i recycle because i care about the environment. ;-)
lidija, i recycle because i care about the environment. ;-)
Even your comments back are lol ! :)
a little bit sad but it's true) nice work!
thx veronica!
That very cute bag is telling the whole truth!! Great colors combination David!
thanks aguvagu!
fantastic art work , p
thx mark!
Haha brutal!!!!! :D
So cute! :)
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Im in the market for a new wheels. A TRike this time. as I'm getting older I'm less stable on my little Sun bike .a folding unit. I like it for it lightweight and fold ability when shopping.
I do all of my bicycle riding for errands. As I dont need the exercise. Most jaunts are to the grocery under a mile a way or to mailbox etc. Occ will take the bus like to Dr appointment downtown. Will put Sun bike on the bus bike front rack. It holds two bikes. If bike rack full have folded up quickly and took on bus.
I occasionally get out my older 26 inch regular bike and trailer , and old Bugger . I bought prob over 30 years ago used. to hail like stuff I find in neighborhood from junk pickup or occ firewood from neighborhood curbs.
Checked out a used but excellent condition 1980s trike yesterday. It was nice. But hand brake and single speed. testing ride it on the owners street was easy downhill but back to his house , more work on the bit of hill.
Do any of you all think I could convert my Giant Revive a semi recumbent into a TRIKE. I saw on utube a conversion unit It would cost around $400 for just the part. Plus gentlemen said my Revive had too many Gears.
thinking strongly about the Pacific Carry All or the Workman PAV3 the Mission folding trike looks good but expensive Like those cause they dont seem to sit too high like a regular trike. Local dealers only have Schwinn, SUN EZ 3 . TrEK Pure ,but no other trikes in stock
any input PLEASE
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Volunteer Assistance Needed for Annual Ride
Volunteer Needed for Annual Ride to collect the LAB forms and develop a "registration form" with info about each of our participants - emergency and bio data, screen name and real name, etc. Then to email a summary of the form - think excel spreadsheet or similar - to all who are attending ahead of time, and printing it for distribution at the ride.
Also to collect money. $5 each. Checks or cash to be sent to you.
Once collected, we would need a check sent to LAB and the insurance company.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Three children were injured when they were struck by a car on a dark road in Gwinnett County.
Police told WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/18zhnuG ) that the Volkswagen hit the children late Thursday as they walked to a store.
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We are committed to engaging in external corporate responsibility initiatives - and to provide thought leadership through our active involvement in discussions on key societal topics. This commitment supports us in our efforts to advance in areas that are already mandated by government and regulators, as well as in areas that, while still largely voluntary, are nonetheless of significance to strengthening our corporate responsibility agenda.
UBS has endorsed and signed several charters:
In 2000, UBS became one of the first companies to sign the United Nations (UN) Global Compact. This global corporate responsibility initiative unites governments, business, labor organizations and civil society, fostering adherence to 10 principles covering the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment and anti-corruption.
In 1992, we were one of the first signatories to the United Nations Environment Program's Bank Declaration.
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We remain strongly committed to promoting stringent anti-money laundering standards for the financial industry as a whole. As a prime example of this, UBS was one of the driving forces behind the launch of the Wolfsberg Group and its issuance of global anti-money laundering principles in 2000.
UBS Asset Management is an Investment Manager signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). This global investor initiative, in partnership with the UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact, is designed to provide a framework for better integration of ESG issues into mainstream investment practice.
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Book your room at Super 8 Marion
Get an overview of this hotelMotel in Marion with free breakfast and 24-hour front desk
Situated in the business district, this motel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Rent One Park, Illinois Centre Mall, and Kokopelli Golf Club. Heartland Regional Medical Center and Williamson County Historical Museum are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Property Features
Along with a 24-hour front desk, this motel has a TV in the lobby and free breakfast. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided.
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Super 8 Marion2601 Vernell Rd Marion IL 62959
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- 24-hour front desk
- Free breakfast
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Number of floors - 3
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 63
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- Free Wi-Fi
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Free self parking
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- Air conditioning
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- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
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- Private bathroom
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning.
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Smoked Salmon Cheesecake
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 50 mins
A rich savoury cheesecake baked in a springform pan, then refrigerated. Because it is served at room temperature, this is a great make-ahead appetiser, and an ideal dish for occasions when you're serving a large group of people. The preparation and cooking times do not include cooling and refrigeration times. I have adapted this recipe from one I found on a Canadian website.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄2 cup round cracker, crushed
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup monterey jack cheese, shredded
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream, low fat is fine
- 4 ounces smoked salmon, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup purple onion, minced
- 1⁄4 cup red bell pepper, finely chopped
- 1⁄4 cup capers, well-drained, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon dried dill
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, to taste
- Sprinkle the cracker crumbs in the bottom of a lightly greased 9-inch springform pan and set aside.
- Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer at medium speed until the mixture is fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.
- Add the remaining ingredients and mix until all the ingredients are well-combined.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared springform pan, and bake at 325ºF for 45 to 50 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven and cool it on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Gently run a knife around the edge of the pan and release the sides of the pan. Cool the pie completely, and refrigerate until you are ready to serve it.
- Serve at room temperature with crackers or crusty bread.
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Really tasty, and always a big success at cocktail parties. I like to dress it up with extra chopped red pepper, onion, Italian parsley, and fresh dill on top, and put a border of paper-thin English cucumbers around the edge. If the cucumbers don't want to adhere, "glue" them on with sour cream! The only change I made was doubling the amount of smoked salmon.
Loved this - it was very easy to make and tasted yummy. I made this for a work 'do' and served it at room temp with crackers and a bowl of sour cream. It was a hit !!! I'll be keeping this receipie !


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Baking multiple json files into one
Baking multiple json files into one
This plugin requires Grunt
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-json-bake --save-dev
This module allows you to merge multiple JSON files into one. It looks for a certain hooks like so
"key": "{{path/to/folder}}".
All values are parsed and replaced. If the hook is a path to a JSON file, the hook will be replaced with the JSON file content.
If the hook is a path to a another file allowed to be inclued, the hook will be replaced with the file content. If the hook is the path to a folder it will take all the JSON files in this folder and put them into an array.
Includes can be nested. That means any JSON that you include will be recursively parsed a swell. Also folders of JSON files can be nested. When a folder is turned into an array it parses the content of a folder for json files. If it comes upon an folder, this will be turned into an array and recursivly all the content will be travirsed for JSON files/folders.
gruntinitConfig json_bake: your_target: options: {} // multiple files in a key value pair // the key is the destination and // the value is the root of the parsable files: "dist/final.json": "app/base.json" ;
Default value:
This Regex is used to parse every value of all key-value-pairs. If the value has a formet like
{{path/to/something}} it is resolved and parsed as well.
The path is relative to that file and can point to a folder or a file.
Default value:
If this is set to
true it will remove every key-value pair that has the key
Default value:
This defines the amount of indentation of the JSON being generated. Setting this to
null will produce a minfied version.
To get what NPM uses as a default use two spaces:
" ".
Object with keys and values. See the default values below.
includeFiles: json: resultType: "json" html: resultType: "string" separator: "" csv: resultType: "string" separator: ";"
The keys of
includeFiles define the extensions of the files that can be included with
resultType can have the values
json or
If the
resultType is
json, then the file is included as a parsed JSON object.
If the
resultType is
string, then the file content is included as a string.
If the file content consists of multiple lines you can define the
separator to connect the lines.
Object with keys and values.
Default value:
"{}" (empty object).
This is used to define variables that will be replaced by their corresponding values.
The variables can be used anywhere in the json file(s), by wrapping the variable name with
The variable definition style can be changed with the next setting.
Object with keys and values.
Default value:
This Regex is used to parse all string values in the JSON files to swap them for their counterpart
in the
options.variable object. By default is would look like
Given the following folder structure:
base.jsonincludes | - author.json \ - books | - 1.json | - 2.json \ - 3.json
This is the
With an
and three files in
includes/books/* like so:
This would generate a new json from
"books" will be an array of the content of each of the JSON files in the book folder.
Make sure to turn it on in the
gruntinitConfig json_bake: options: stripComments: true your_target: "generated.json": "base.json" ;
In your base.json you can now add comments like so:
This will generate generated.json:
Define the targets and variables in
gruntinitConfig json_bake: production: options: variables: "env" : "production" files: "production.json": "base.json" dev: options: variables: "env" : "dev" files: "dev.json": "base.json" ;
In your base.json you can now use the defined variable like so:
With an
Running json_bake:dev will generate dev.json:
And running json_bake:production will generate production.json:
In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.


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East Hartford - It was halftime Friday and Norwich Free Academy somehow still had a shot at winning the Class LL state football championship.
The Wildcats watched all-everything tailback Marcus Outlow get hurt on the sixth play of the game. Defensive back Chris Johnson went down several plays later with an ankle injury and couldn't return. They struggled to move the ball.
Yet it was halftime, and NFA only trailed Class LL kingpin Xavier by six points.
The second half began ... and Xavier proceeded to batter the Wildcats.
The Falcons ran for 408 yards and six touchdowns and routed NFA 48-14 to win a state-record third straight Class LL championship before 4,576 at Rentschler Field.
"I thought we were going to shut the run down completely," Wildcats senior Joey Paparelli said. "They came out ready for it and they played a great game. There's no doubt about it."
NFA, ranked eighth in The Day's Top 10 state coaches' poll, finished 12-1.
"We're moving in the right direction and will continue to do that," NFA coach Jemal Davis said. "Hopefully one day, we'll get back here and it'll be ours. Now we know what it's like."
NFA was feeling good about itself at halftime. It scored with a second left to cut its deficit to 20-14.
"I was concerned because they had all the momentum going into the half," Falcons coach Sean Marinan said. "I was getting flashbacks to the Hand (of Madison) game (a 40-20 loss)."
Xavier outgained the Wildcats in the second half, 258-63.
"We were excited," Davis said. "We thought, 'Hey, if we could just come up with a way to stop them offensively, we would be alright.'
"We just missed some opportunities, but that's the game."
It didn't help the Wildcats that Outlow pulled a muscle in the back of his ankle on his second carry. He returned later, but was too hobbled.
"They (Xavier) deserved it," Outlow said. "It's just unfortunate that I couldn't play to my full potential tonight. I was excited because the game plan was to get me the ball 30 times tonight, maybe even more.
"It just sucks that I came out here, and the one game this season that mattered the most, I got hurt. I could've taken it earlier in the season. I would've been fine with that. But to get here and have it happen, it's just unfortunate."
Davis said, "The story is really about what (Xavier) did, not the fact that anybody got injured."
The fifth-ranked Falcons (12-1) finished with an insurmountable 517-169 advantage in offensive yardage.
DeAngelo Berry carried 30 times for 260 yards and three touchdowns.
Xavier ran 52 times for an average of 7.8 yards.
"(Berry) started tearing it up, so we decided to ride him for the duration," Marinan said. "We could tell the beginning of the second half that we were really wearing on them and they weren't going to hold up against the run game."
Paparelli completed 7 of 19 passes for 86 yards with two touchdowns - all to Ryer Caruso - and an interception. Khaleed Exum-Strong ran 12 times for 90 yards for NFA. Elisa Formiglio kicked two extra points to become the first female to score in a state final.
The Falcons led 21-0 when Paparelli threw a 49-yard touchdown to Caruso with one minute, 56 seconds left in the first half.
Xavier fumbled the ensuing kickoff and NFA's Airec Ricks recovered it at the Falcons' 20.
Paparelli threw a 6-yard touchdown to Caruso with a second left in the first half.
"We knew we gave those points away," Berry said. "They didn't earn them. We knew we had to go out there and make a (defensive) stop, and that we were going to take the ball and score again and again and again."
NFA had minus 1-yard of total offense in the third quarter.
"It wasn't meant to be, I guess," Paparelli said. "We surpassed a lot of people's expectations. I thought we had it in us. I thought we were going to bring it home, but it just wasn't the case."
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Craven County Sheriff Jerry Monette went before the county commissioners Tuesday asking that a magistrate be assigned to the new judicial center.
The facility opened two years ago on Clarks Road, several miles away from the current downtown location. So far, no magistrates have moved there.
Sheriff Monette asked the commissioners for help in getting at least one magistrate there. "What we're seeing is a dramatic increase in our jail population and what we feel is it directly attributes to the lack of having a magistrate on sight out there to manage the jail population." Sheriff Monette says it's that increase and travel time to and from the magistrate's office in downtown that's costing the county over a million dollars each year. He also says it's also a safety concern.
But not everyone thinks moving the magistrate is in the best interest of the citizens. Attorney Kirby Smith says he's concerned for how citizen's who don't have transportation will get to Clarks Road.
The county commissioners do not have the power to send the magistrates to the new facility...that decision can only be made by the district judge.


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USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll
The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/Los Angeles Times Poll project is a series of statewide public opinion polls in California, designed to survey voter attitudes on a wide range of political, policy, social and cultural issues.
Conducted at regular intervals throughout the year, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll is one of the largest polls of registered voters in the state and has been widely cited, helping to inform the public and to encourage discourse on key political and policy issues.
This site serves as a repository for surveys, data sets, polling results, videos, press releases and links to related news media articles. Follow the project on Twitter (@usclatpoll) to receive alerts when new polls and results are forthcoming.
November 2015 Poll Results
USC Dornsife Press Releases
Majority of Californians dissatisfied with economy (Nov. 9, 2015)
Californians see immigration as creating economic challenges, but believe American society is strengthened by their presence (Nov. 8, 2015)
Los Angeles Times Poll Articles
'Tale of two Californias': Coastal voters upbeat on economy, inland residents anxious (Nov. 9, 2015)
On the left and right, voters express anxiety over future (Nov. 8, 2015)
Why an online poll? And why SurveyMonkey? (Nov. 7, 2015)
USC/LAT poll: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz gain ground in Republican presidential field (Nov. 6, 2015)
Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC Dornsife, and David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief discuss respondents views on various challenges to the nation.
Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC Dornsife, and David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief discuss respondents views on the economy.
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Jordan Walden has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 lat strain. Mozeliak said Walden will miss "a few months." #stlcards
MLB Trade Rumors "Cardinals setup man Jordan Walden won't return to the team this season or in the playoffs, reports Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The 27-year-old Walden, acquired alongside Jason Heyward this offseason, landed on the DL on April 30 due to a biceps injury that initially came with..." September 08
Walden out for the remainder of season. And without surgery he has a rigorous rehab to attempt return, says Mozeliak #cardinals
Walden left Wed appearance in Memphis after 2/3 IP because of heat there; it was scorching. Arm OK. Will pitch Fri, as planned. #Cardinals
Jordan Walden has another bullpen set for tomorrow. He tells me if it goes well, he's hoping to go out on a rehab assignment. #STLCards
Hardball Talk "Right-hander Jordan Walden was initially placed on the disabled list earlier this week with biceps inflammation, but now the Cardinals have announced that he'll miss 6-10 weeks with a strained/torn shoulder muscle. " May 06
#STLCards place RHP Jordan Walden (right bicep inflammation) on 15-day DL. Recall RHP Sam Tuivailala from Memphis (AAA)
RHP Jordan Walden has been placed on the 15-day DL (retroactive to 5/5) with a strained left hamstring. #Braves
#Braves reliever Walden hasn't pitched in a week because of a sore hamstring. Ran yesterday and will throw side session today.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution "After five days off to rest a strained groin Brian McCann said he felt fine and was ready to go for Thursday's division series opener. "I feel great" McCann said Wednesday. "I probably could have played that last game (Sunday) but at the same time you get another couple days off to let that..." October 03
Atlanta Journal-Constitution "The Braves activated right-handed setup man Jordan Walden from the disabled list Wednesday and optioned reliever Cory Rasmus back to Triple-A Gwinnett. The move keeps the Braves bullpen at six relievers. Walden pitched a scoreless inning in a minor league rehab outing Monday night for Syracuse. He..." May 29


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It's late afternoon along the Morrison Slide Trail at the north end of Red Rocks Park and the sun is starting to disappear behind the foothills to the west. A beautiful February day by most standards, it's perhaps a little bleaker than normal for the Front Range … more
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Lakewood girls basketball coach Chris Poisson is once again guiding another state-contending team as the Tigers move toward a fourth consecutive 20-win season. Teams like Highlands Ranch, Grandview, Broomfield, ThunderRidge, George Washington and … more
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Maurice "Stringy" Ervin, who never cut a swimmer during his more than 30 years as coach at Littleton High School, told a poignant story during his recent induction into the Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame. Ervin … more
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Before his whirlybird spin in the air forever etched him in NFL lore, two-time Super Bowl champion John Elway called his mother on the team flight from Pittsburgh after winning the AFC championship on Jan. 11, 1998. "I said, 'Mom, guess what? … more
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The conference names are majestic, but the new league alignment that will apparently be approved for Class 5A football teams has left many observers with altitude sickness. For the 2016-17 cycle, the Colorado High School Activities Association … more
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Valor Christian girls basketball coach Jessika Caldwell likes to be hands-on and very demonstrative during practice. That didn't change while she was pregnant. With the baby due in just days, … more
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High school wrestlers have become stronger and more technically advanced over the years. "Wrestling is evolving all the time," said Pomona coach Sam Federico, citing an increase in club and year-round participation. Still, the basic moves … more
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It's true that many times the most valuable player on a basketball team doesn't have gaudy statistics, but it's still meaningful to highlight a few of the state individual leaders from games played before the holiday break. Kolton Peterson … more
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Midleton Park Hotel - Cork (county)
This hotel has its own restaurant serving lunch and dinner where you'll find a selection of items to try. The Wellness Centre is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering facials and body scrubs, as well as body treatments, massages and massage/treatment rooms. Relax in the indoor pool during your stay. The bar/lounge is a perfect place to have a drink.
In addition to the on-site spa, a health club, a spa tub and a sauna are among the leisure facilities on offer. Family-friendly amenities at this hotel include a children's pool, a free children's club and babysitting. Guests can make use of the free WiFi.
Midleton Park Hotel - Cork (county)
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $91
- Double or Twin Room
- Family Room
- Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 78 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Free children's club
- No pets or service animals allowed
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Free self parking
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Health club
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Fitness classes on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Golfing nearby
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room massage available
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Plasma TV
- Satellite TV channels
- DVD player
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Special features
The Wellness Centre has 6 treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body scrubs, and body treatments.
The spa is open select days.
DiningPark Cafe Bar - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Midleton Park Hotel - Cork (county)'s small print
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Full breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 10 per person (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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More than $57,000 has been raised to help the families of the two teenagers who died and a third who remains hospitalized following a swimming accident in Edinburgh on June 6. The Franklin Family Fund keeps growing as residents continue to sell Franklin Strong T-shirts, jewelry and accessories and local businesses and groups donate proceeds from fundraisers.
About $23,000 has been spent to help pay for funeral expenses for Jason Moran and Michael Chadbourne and for ongoing medical treatment and support for family members of Sarah McLevish.
Those three and their friends Trent Crabb and Mark Nally all went over the dam near State Road 252 and got pulled into the swirling water near the dam's face. Moran was pulled under the water and drowned, while Nally and Crabb were able to pull Chadbourne and McLevish out with the help of passers-by.
Chadbourne died less than a week later after his family took him off life support. McLevish remains hospitalized and in a therapy program at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis.
The momentum to show support for what some people call the Franklin Five and their families isn't slowing more than a month later, said Torey Denzio, who is organizing this weekend's festival at the Franklin American Legion post.
"That really starts with the giving hearts that have been so involved with it," Denzio said. "They just don't want to stop giving yet, and we want to add on to that as much as we can. Things do fizzle out pretty fast, and we don't want to do that."
All of the proceeds from the festival will go to the Franklin Family Fund, Denzio said. That will include money from food and drinks, people selling Franklin Strong items, vendors who will donate profits from selling others items such as Avon or Scentsy, a silent auction with items donated by local businesses or organizations, and a two-hour Zumba workout where participants will be asked for a minimum donation.
The event also will have activities for kids and eight bands scheduled to provide music throughout the day, Denzio said. She hopes the event will raise at least $5,000 for the fund but thinks the community could easily help break that goal. A motorcycle ride and street party hosted in late June raised about $11,500 for the fund.
Jeff Mercer, Franklin Community School Corp. executive director of finance, said the fund will help pay for headstones for Moran and Chadbourne, while the remaining money could continue to help McLevish's family pay for treatments.
The school district, which is managing the fund, has been able to stay in contact with the families through Nally's mother, Deb Brown-Nally, who is the school district's director of curriculum and instruction, Mercer said. That's allowed them to use the family fund to immediately help out when the families needed something, he said.
"Anything they've needed, we've done. We didn't want to be overbearing, but we've stayed in constant communication; and when they need something, we've got it," Mercer said.
Mercer wasn't sure how the remaining funds or any additional money would be spent at this time.
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That networking has helped Franklin Strong keep the momentum while school staff prepare for school to start again in early August and plan ways to address the tragedy and support students in the first few weeks back in class, Harter said.
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Denzio said those passionate community members are now flocking together for the large event this weekend. Several Franklin Strong supporters had talked about a festival, but a scheduling conflict with another event almost derailed the idea, she said.
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As the critical link between its upstream customer (the producer) and its downstream customer (the textile mill), the cotton ginning plant shoulders a great responsibility to do everything it can to maintain the cotton's quality properties. Since 2010-11, world cotton production is substantially higher, while the ginning infrastructure remains relatively static (if not reduced in some areas). Existing ginneries will be expected to process even greater throughputs without abnormally extending the length of the processing season.
While this may seem a daunting challenge to some, it does not have to be. The fiber quality properties required by textile mills around the world (reduced short fiber content, less neps, higher uniformity, etc.) are in no way new to the industry. The basic concepts for ginnery design and operation have been developed over decades of ginning research and empirical experience. This information, combined with an industry mindset geared toward continual improvement, will result in a product that will lend itself to a multitude of end uses, through the wide array of spinning technologies found around the globe. This article will discuss many of these concepts, along with some of the latest issues facing the ginning industry, and the responses of the industry to those issues.
Lint contamination continues to be one of the industry's most formidable challenges. Regardless of the harvesting method, non-cotton content within the incoming seed cotton—be it paper, plastic, wood, or metallic in composition—poses problems in many forms. Of course, the worst issue is for any contamination to find its way through the ginning process all the way to the final bale. When this happens and the bale enters the textile mill processes, contamination can result in major downtime, and fibrous types of contamination can actually reach the final finished yarn—and even into the fabric. This is disastrous, because the marketability of the end product is highly compromised, and therefore, the mill's profitability is adversely affected. Improved bale identification technology frequently allows the mill to trace a defective bale back to its source, and this can have negative financial repercussions throughout the stream of commerce.
Even if the contamination does not reach the finished bale, non-cotton content entering the ginnery can cause a myriad of problems. Large pieces of contamination (e.g., wood stumps, wrenches, wire, etc.) will, in most cases, cause machinery damage and downtime. Since the ginnery is a seasonal business, its ability to maintain consistent throughput with little or no unscheduled downtime is tantamount to its financial success.
Because a large share of the responsibility for contamination prevention rests with the producer, the ginnery must nevertheless be diligent about reducing contamination in any way it can. Some of these techniques include inspection of the incoming seed cotton as much as possible, in whatever form it reaches the ginnery (sack, wagon, truck or module) to identify any signs of possible contamination. Many of the lightweight plastic shopping bags and snack food wrappers that blow into the fields are brightly colored, which aids in their identification. Worn tarps that cover trailers or modules and the twine used to secure them should be scrutinized to see when they are becoming worn and frazzled. These types of contamination can often make their way through the ginning process and into the finished bale.
Hand tools used in maintenance of the ginnery and fasteners (nuts, screws, bolts, etc.) must be closely monitored to ensure that they do not fall into machinery or ductwork, because they usually cause significant and expensive damage to the gin machinery. Finally, proper and timely machinery maintenance must reduce the potential for actual pieces of the machinery (rubber flashing, spikes from cleaning cylinders, internal fasteners, etc.) to become loose and make their way into downstream machinery or, worse, the finished bale.
Drying and Precleaning Systems
Although there are many areas of the world that still harvest cotton by hand, mechanical harvesting—either spindle picking or stripper harvesting—has been the industry standard in many regions for years. Additionally, the past decade has seen a significant increase in mechanical harvesting in countries like Brazil and China. Machine-harvested seed cotton contains significantly more moisture and trash, which must be removed prior to the ginning process.
In order to accomplish this, properly designed seed cotton conditioning (drying) and precleaning systems must be designed to facilitate effective trash removal, while preserving the fiber quality. Any ginnery drying and precleaning system should be designed with flexibility in mind—to allow for only as much drying and machining of the cotton as is required to maximize value and minimize damage. Heaters should be designed for worst-case moisture conditions and feature modulating capability to throttle back on fuel usage when applicable.
The drying system itself should be engineered to provide for a high ratio of heated-air-to-seed cotton, whether it is a single-stage or multiple-stage system. Higher volumes of air allow for more heat-carrying capacity in the air stream at lower temperatures.
The importance of adequate seed cotton precleaning was documented by research performed at the USDA-ARS Lubbock Ginning Lab in the early 1990s. Pepper trash (very small pieces of leaf and sticks), a major problem for textile mill processing, had long been assumed to be created in saw-type lint cleaners at the ginnery.
The only place in the ginnery in which pepper trash is increased is in the saw gin itself, and it is the result of larger leaf (which is not removed in the upstream precleaning) being ground into smaller particles in the saw gin stand. Hand-harvested seed cotton typically requires minimal seed cotton conditioning and precleaning (normally only one stage).
However, the increased moisture and foreign matter content in machine-harvested seed cotton mandates that two stages of precleaning be used for successful ginning. Precleaning machinery should be specified to adhere to the accepted capacity range of two- to two-and a-half 500 lb. (228 kg) bales per hour per foot of machine width (2-2.5 bales/hour/ft width), or six-and-a-half to eight bales per hour per meter of machine width (6.5-8 bales/hour/m width). When the seed cotton is in optimum condition, capacities exceeding these recommendations can be attained, but not usually without some adverse effects on fiber quality. Finally, machinery should be arranged with bypass capability wherever possible to allow only as much machining of the cotton as is necessary.
Ginning and Lint Cleaning Systems
Saw-type ginning continues to be the predominant method of lint/seed separation around the world. Continued product development has resulted in individual saw-type gin stand capacities reaching anywhere from 15 to 25 bales per hour. Within the industry, there has been arisen a misconception that high-capacity ginning results in lower-quality fiber.
However, when the ginnery and all its sub-systems have been properly designed, operated, and maintained, this has been shown not to be the case. Increased ginning capacity without compromised quality will continue to be one of the major goals of the industry, since it will result in lower per-bale ginning costs and more cotton being processed in a given amount of time.
Roller ginning, while making up a much smaller percentage of the ginning market, has seen advancements in the last few years, primarily due to groundbreaking work performed at the USDA-ARS Mesilla Park Ginning Lab in New Mexico. Their high-speed roller gin, now commercially available and in operation at numerous locations in the United States, shows great promise to revolutionize not only the processing of extra-long staple (Pima) cotton, but premium Upland (fuzzy seed) cultivars as well, producing finished fiber that is one or two staple lengths longer, has higher uniformity, and with fewer neps and reduced short-fiber content (all traits that are highly desired by the textile industry).
Ginning at the proper moisture content (typically between 5 percent and 7 percent) and maintaining the gin stand's manufacturer-recommended settings are the best way to ensure peak performance. Monitoring of residual lint content on the seed (keeping it typically at 10 percent or below by weight) is an excellent measure of effective seed cleaning, and when this goes above that figure, it is time to perform maintenance on the gin stand.
Lint cleaners in modern ginneries fall into two basic categories: flow-through, air-type centrifugal lint cleaners and saw-type lint cleaners. Because they have no moving parts, air-type lint cleaners cause no fiber damage, and they should be designed into any modern ginnery as the first stage of lint cleaning.
Controlled-batt saw-type lint cleaners were introduced in cotton gins throughout the United States in the late 1940s, in order to reduce the unprecedented amounts of trash which resulted when mechanical harvesting replaced hand harvesting.
Numerous tests run on saw-type lint cleaners have quantified the level of fiber breakage that takes place in these machines. Further, these studies show that almost all of the fiber breakage takes place in saw-type lint cleaners where the sharp saw teeth plow through the firmly held batt of fibers being fed to the saws.
Based on this information, many ginneries over the last decade have opted to install an alternative saw-type lint cleaner, which is does not utilize the conventional lint cleaner feed works to meter the lint onto the saw. This non-controlled-batt saw-type lint cleaner applies individual tufts of fiber directly to the saw (through the use of a high-speed applicator brush cylinder and stationary perforated panels for air/dust removal), rather than agglomerating the fiber into a batt on a low-speed revolving condenser drum.
Studies in both single-stage and two-stage (tandem) installations of these new lint cleaners have documented substantially better fiber properties (brighter color, better uniformity, and reduced dust, short fiber content, and neps) than conventional controlled-batt, saw-type line cleaners, with no reduction in visual quality grade.
Ginneries equipped with tandem saw-type lint cleaners should bypass the second lint cleaner whenever possible, using it only when the trash content of the lint warrants doing so. Also, lint cleaners should be strictly maintained and adjusted according to the manufacturer's specifications, because those that get out of adjustment or that have badly worn parts (saw cylinders, doffing brushes, grid bars, etc.) not only can result in fiber damage, but they can also be prone to expensive downtime, damage, and even fires. If the speeds of specific rotating components are not correct for the given ginning rate, the lint cleaner's performance can be severely compromised.
Moisture Restoration
There are two major areas in which moisture may be introduced to the cotton. The first is in the seed cotton just prior to ginning, and the second is in the lint cotton prior to the baling press. In many regions of the world, high ambient temperatures and low relative humidity during the harvesting and ginning season can produce seed cotton with moisture content levels in the 3 percent to 4 percent range. Since some warm air in the drying system is critical to condition the seed cotton to release its trash, this moisture content can be even lower when the cotton enters the hoppers above the extractor feeder.
Thus, moisture restoration hoppers, which induce moist air into the seed cotton, are recommended in arid regions to raise the seed cotton moisture level to the recommended ginning range of 5 percent to 7 percent). Doing so helps to preserve fiber strength and reduces fiber breakage during the ginning process.
Restoring moisture to the lint cotton prior to the press typically allows the press to handle higher capacities while expending less energy in the tramping and final pressing of the bale. Uniform lint moisture restoration–to no more than 7.5% at any point in the bale–can reduce the amount of hydraulic pressure required to compress the finished bale from 30 percent to 40 percent, which means less wear on both the tramping and compression systems of the press.
It is important to note that USDA-ARS tests have shown that lint moisture restoration at levels above 7.5 percent resulted in fiber degradation and reduced performance at the textile mill. Therefore, it is imperative that moisture levels be monitored on a regular basis.
Maintenance and Safety
In addition to the adherence to recommended ginning practices, two essential components to successful ginnery operation are a well-planned program of in-season and off-season maintenance and a comprehensive safety program.
In order to maintain consistent capacity and daily/weekly throughput, the ginnery must operate at its peak efficiency whenever it is not down for scheduled maintenance. This can only be accomplished by keeping all the machinery properly adjusted, in good repair, and operated per the manufacturer's recommendations. A detailed log of all downtime–including cause, duration, and corrective action–can provide a blueprint for off-season expenditure, whether it is a repair or a replacement of a specific machine or system within the ginnery.
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After ObamaCare, What?
A transcript of the weekend's program on FOX News Channel.
Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report," anticipation builds ahead of the Supreme Court's health-care decision. Could the White House benefit if the mandate falls, and are Republicans ready with a coherent response? Plus, panic on the left? Does the Obama campaign need a shake-up? Some prominent Democrats think so. And the latest in the education wars. A showdown in the president's hometown pits the teachers union against his former right-hand man.
Gigot: Welcome to "The Journal Editorial Report." I'm Paul Gigot.
Well, all eyes on the Supreme Court, where justices will rule this week on the constitutionality of President Obama's Affordable Care Act. So when are we likely to get a decision, and how is the White House and the GOP likely to respond?
Let's ask Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor Dan Henninger, editorial board member Joe Rago and Washington columnist Kim Strassel.
So, Dan, if the law is upheld, obviously the status quo prevails, and we'll fight it out in the election. The interesting thing happens, politically and every other--and legally and everything--if some of the law is overturned. Let's assume that part of the law, the mandate, and maybe some of the other regulations that go with it--that is, the purchase mandate, that you must buy insurance--are overturned. How is the White House likely to respond to that?
Henninger: Well, if that happens, Paul, the first thing they do, needless to say, is attack the Supreme Court as they did after the Citizens United decision.
Gigot: Really? Make that the central issue of the campaign?
Henninger: It will be a political response for starters. Then they'll say that this threatens to turn health care back to the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies, because that's always part of the Democratic riff. Thirdly, the president will say he intends to work, if elected, to preserve the best parts. He will need to work with Congress; he will need a Congress that will work with him. And he'll also mention the middle class as being the victims of this decision because he's running on being the protector of the middle class.
Gigot: You have good sources in the White House, Dan, I think that sounds like exactly what they're going to say. All right, Joe?
Rago: Well, I mean, the core of this bill are the subsidies, so they'll say, whatever they throw out, "we never really meant that." These are the most unpopular part of the bill, so they'll keep it and they'll say let's make it work.
Gigot: The most unpopular part of the bill, the mandate.
Rago: The mandate. But they'll say, "Look, let's start the spigots flowing."
Gigot: But you're saying that that's the heart and soul of the bill, the subsidies are still the core of the bill from the Democratic point of view. So if you can get the middle class--
Rago: Right, and the implicit government control. You get the middle class on to being--on board with entitlements, and they're hooked for life.
Gigot: Kim, what do you think about this Supreme Court tactic, making the Supreme Court an issue? Because I will tell you my view is that's a loser. If you go out and attack the Supreme Court for this, you're going to look partisan, and I don't think that's the winner. I'd say--here's what I would do if I were the White House: "Look, we're disappointed. We thought it was constitutional. We made a good argument. OK, the Supreme Court has spoken, but now we've got the rest of this bill"--as Joe and Dan said--"we think it's a good bill. And by the way, Mitt Romney, what's your plan?" That's the way I'd--
Strassel: No, I agree. Yeah, I mean, agree, I think it's a loser. But I don't know if this president can help himself. He has actually come out before and rapped the Supreme Court. He sent out a bit of a warning in a speech a couple of months ago suggesting he would go after them. What they may do, Paul, on the Supreme Court front, is rather than attack them directly for this, or in addition to attacking them directly, they may talk about the stakes for the Supreme Court. They may make the argument that Obama needs a second term, so that if there's a retirement, they can appoint a new person and therefore make sure that you don't have decisions like this again.
But in a way, going to your other point, what they're going to do--remember, the president came out last week and talked about how this was now about two visions going forward. They're going to work this into this. They're going to make the argument that whatever it is that the Supreme Court strikes down, all or part of it, they're going to claim that this is part of the Romney plan, the Romney vision going forward, that he's going to take you back to a day when people aren't covered by health care, and that that's going to be the choice, and that he's got to stay in office to make sure that doesn't happen.
Gigot: Kim, do you think this could turn out to be a net plus for the president politically if part of his signature achievement is overturned?
Strassel: That will depend, as always, on the Republicans. You know, the Republicans have had a lot of intellectual confusion over the years on health care. One of the reasons the country has the health-care bill is because Republicans didn't know how to address health reform, and they didn't even when they were in the majority. They are now facing this question of how to respond, and there's a little confusion about, in particular, as we were talking, some of these more popular provisions of the bill. Do they embrace those, which goes against their principles? Do they put out a full replacement, which embraces free-market principles, or do they consider that too dangerous in an election year and do nothing?
Gigot: All right, Joe, you've been reporting this, no doubt much to your dismay. You drew the short straw. Where are the Republicans on this?
Rago: Well, there's a real furious internal debate about how to go forward. And the danger for the party really is they become the dog that caught the car. This debate never gets resolved, and you just see a mishmash of responses that don't cohere in any kind of way.
And the larger problem is that they really haven't thought enough about the "replace" part. They said, "Repeal and replace, repeal and replace." But "replace" is just a word, and they really haven't come up with something that will appeal to the public. They haven't tried to educate the public enough about what reform alternatives would look like.
Henninger: And I think he's right. It's going to revert to the pre-ObamaCare status quo, which is the health-care system is a mess, nobody knows what to do about it, and they're not going to attend to it next year at all.
Gigot: But think about what we're saying here. You're saying that the Republicans could get this gift of a historic constitutional victory, a victory for liberty from the Supreme Court, and they don't know what to do with it?
Rago: Right. And there was an AP poll this week that said if the Supreme Court overturns all or part of the law, 77% of the public wants a better health-care system, wants Congress to go back to the drawing board and look for some constructive alternatives. And it's really too bad that we're not seeing that.
Gigot: Who is the single best Republican on health care in the Congress?
Rago: I would say it's, like most issues, Paul Ryan.
Gigot: And they're not listening to him as much as they should. OK. All right. Well, thank you all. We'll see.
When we come back, liberals lament the state of the Obama re-election campaign, as angst over his economic message grows. Is a shake-up coming?
Gigot: Is it time for a shake-up in Chicago? Many on the left seem to think so. This week, Bloomberg's Al Hunt summed up how fellow liberals are feeling about the president's election efforts. In a column titled "The Obama Campaign Needs an Intervention," he writes, quote: "For Democrats, June has been the cruelest month. There has been discouraging economic news, the re-election candidate has made mistakes and seems out of his comfort zone. The supposedly superior Obama campaign looks amateurish, and complaints about the operation's insularity have reached a fever pitch."
We're back with Dan Henninger and Kim Strassel. Wall Street Journal columnist and former Bush speechwriter Bill McGurn also joins the panel.
So, Kim, what do you make of this liberal angst about the Obama campaign? Is it warranted?
Strassel: Well, it comes out of watching the Obama campaign of the past couple of months, which has been all over the place. First, they said the economy was getting better. Then they said, well, it wasn't as bad as it might have been. Then they went after Romney on Bain Capital, and they went after him on his handling of Massachusetts and the "war on women" and student loans. They've been throwing everything they can at him to try to get something to stick without much traction.
So last week, the president came out with an attempt at a reboot. This is when he laid out his two visions forward--"mine, or the terrible one that belongs to Romney." This, interestingly, has actually begun to calm some nerves out there among the Democratic base and among the political community. Because, in part, they realize that this may be the best opportunity he has. He can't really talk about his record or the economy, but he can try to make this maybe a referendum on Mitt Romney.
Gigot: Bill, is this pivot likely to work?
McGurn: I don't know that it's likely to work. It's probably wise. Look, you mentioned liberal angst. Liberals are always anxious when they have to explain the failure of liberal policies. For two years, this president has a Democratic majority. He put in a stimulus that didn't stimulate. He put in a health-care bill that may be declared unconstitutional, and unemployment is higher than he would like.
My experience has always been that when people say there's a campaign problem or a PR problem, it's always a substance problem. I think I told you, when I was in the White House, we once had an acrimonious meeting about war speeches, way before the surge. And everyone was complaining about the speeches--that we should be saying this and the ratings would go up. My line was, "You give me a better war, I'll give you better speeches"--which happened with the surge.
Gigot: It's hard to make a losing war sound good.
McGurn: Yeah.
Gigot: And it's hard to make a poor economy sound like it's somebody's fault other than your own.
McGurn: Right, so everyone concentrates on the message, how you can get the message. But this is the only place he can go. I mean, a reboot--just what does it mean? It means a new spin on facts that he can't really talk about.
Gigot: Yeah, Dan, I think that--I kind of agree with Bill on this, in that if I were the Romney--and I disagree with the liberal critics of Obama's campaign. I think that they--what else do they--can they do?
Henninger: What do they want?
Gigot: They've got to change the subject. You can't say "8.2% unemployment, that's fabulous! Housing prices down again, that's fabulous, too!" You've got to say, "Romney would make it worse," "It's all Bush's fault," or, "Let's talk about contraception or immigration or something else." They're playing, as well as they can, a rotten hand.
Henninger: Well, it's because it's the hand they've been holding for about 40 years. Look, they want Obama to somehow come up with a new magic idea on the economy. The Democratic idea since at least Lyndon Baines Johnson can be summed up in three words: tax and spend, OK? That's what they do. And Barack Obama, in that Cleveland speech, said--he calls it "investments." He's going to invest in education, infrastructure, energy, research and development.
Gigot: But you wrote this week that you think that could be a winning message because of the way he pitches it and the focus on the middle class.
Henninger: Yes. I think there is tremendous anxiety out there in the country among the electorate and among the middle-class electorate. People are upset. They don't know why the economy is performing as badly as it is, and they want it to get better. And it's going to be up to either of these two candidates to tell those anxious people why his ideas are going to make it better. And I think if the president keeps drilling and drilling on himself as the protector of the middle class without a refutation by Romney, it could work.
Gigot: All right, Kim, how do you think Romney should respond, and is he likely to the way that Dan says he needs to?
Strassel: Well, this is the Romney challenge, because fundamental to the president's reboot in this argument is this narrative, this sort of rewriting of history, this argument that the financial crash was fundamentally the fault of conservative policies and philosophies, and that everything that is wrong in the country is because of that and stems from that. And Romney's challenge is going to have to be to explain why that's wrong, to talk about what really caused the financial crash, to talk about why we haven't recovered since then.
He hasn't done that much. He's been very good offensively saying what the president hasn't done right, but he has not talked a lot about the bigger ideas and gone back to try to correct that history. And that's what he's going to have to do. Because otherwise, if there is a choice, people may, as Dan said, go with what is. It seems safer if they think that the alternative is worse.
Gigot: Romney speaks in practical terms:"Obama isn't working." Obama speaks in moral terms: "This is right, this is wrong." That's a more powerful argument.
McGurn: I would say--play devil's advocate a little bit. I'm not sure Romney has to get so detailed. Look, President Obama came in on "hope and change" with almost no details, because people were tired of Bush, tired of war, financial crisis--they were tired of it. A lot of people may be tired of Barack Obama.
What I think that Romney has to really do is speak to aspirations of people. People are struggling. I think there are a lot of people that are out of work. There are a lot of people that are in work but afraid they're going to lose their jobs or they're not moving forward. He has to grab--he's starting to do that. But he has to really grasp their aspirations.
Gigot: Does he have to show how we get out of it?
McGurn: Yeah, I think he does, but I think that's the part. Tether it to an economy that lets people achieve their dreams.
Gigot: OK. All right. Thanks, Bill.
Forget Wisconsin. There's a labor battle brewing in the president's home state. And Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't the only Democrat taking on the teachers unions. We'll have the details next.
Gigot: Move over, Scott Walker and Chris Christie. Now Democrats are taking on the teachers unions. A showdown on President Obama's home turf is pitting his former chief of staff, now mayor, Rahm Emanuel, against Chicago teachers over issues of pay and longer school days. And last weekend the U.S. Conference of Mayors, led by Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, unanimously endorsed so-called trigger laws that allow parents to seize control of failing public schools.
We're back with Dan Henninger and Bill McGurn. And senior editorial page writer Collin Levy also joins us from Chicago.
So, Bill, I never expected to see this. National Council of Mayors siding with parents over teachers? Solar eclipse? What accounts for it?
McGurn: Right. What a change. Remember, when just a few years ago in Washington, Dick Durbin got the poison pill inserted to kill the vouchers program, and it looked like nationally choice and accountability was dying and on the losing end. And what's happened instead--around the country, it's flourishing and people are having to embrace it. That said, the parent trigger, it's a good thing the mayors did it. We need a little more teeth in that. We need, for example, to prevent the school boards from being able to access public funds to block these charter schools. A lot of this is the how question.
Gigot: Which they are doing in the two places in California--
McGurn: Right.
Gigot: --Compton and Adelanto, where parents have pulled the trigger.
McGurn: Right.
Henninger: I think what's happening, here, Paul, is that the inner-city school status quo is indefensible. It's even obscene. We've known that for a long time.
Gigot: Morally so.
Henninger: Absolutely. But because of the process of charter schools, more and more black parents have been engaged in that system, and they're discovering that the status quo was indefensible. And I think they're becoming a political force that the Democrats are beginning to have to recognize. And in this case, like Chicago, better late than never.
Gigot: All right. Speaking of Chicago, Collin, what accounts for this miracle? And what's the state of play there, Rahm Emanuel versus the unions?
Levy: Yeah, it's amazing. Rahm Emanuel is really leading a very important charge here. And I think you have to acknowledge that liberals are incredibly desperate that this not be seen as an aftershock of the Wisconsin battle sort of right next door here in Chicago, and here we go again. But I think there are strong parallels here for Rahm Emanuel and Scott Walker, namely, that there are very strong financial incentives. Rahm's looking at a situation where he basically can't govern unless he takes care of some of these issues. And the schoolteachers, what they've proposed--the teachers union has proposed--will cost about $800 million, and there's no way to pay for it.
Gigot: Collin, are they proposing a 30% increase? Did I read that properly?
Levy: Yes, they're proposing a 30% increase over two years, and they're objecting to the mayor's request that they lengthen the Chicago school day, which is, by the way, the shortest in the nation. It's currently about 5½ hours. So they're saying they now need more pay just to do the work that most teachers already do.
Gigot: And they're threatening to strike as soon as this summer if they don't get what they want.
Levy: Right, and they've really kind of jumped the gun on the strike in a way. They've already authorized the strike, and it's really a sign of how much fear there is here. I think they want to send a very strong message: "Hey, look, we can't have Democrats falling out of line here. We've already fought the Republicans." And I think that unions know, if they lose that battle with Democrats, then they're really sunk.
Gigot: Yeah, Bill, I think you deserve as big an increase, but I'm not sure that in Chicago the people will say that they do--that their teachers deserve--
McGurn: Right.
Gigot: Nobody else in Chicago's getting a 30% raise.
McGurn: To follow Collin, this is a Wisconsin--what Wisconsin showed is that the teachers unions--unions in general, public-sector unions--are not as strong as people think. Their bark is a lot worse than their bite. It's coming in with Idaho, too. There's a referendum to change back reforms, and we're going to find out. I think Rahm is reading tea leaves. He sees from Wisconsin he might be able to take them on and win. He's finding he can't afford his teachers. But let's be clear, this is mostly a financial reform. This isn't a reform of one of the worst school districts in the nation.
Gigot: Although I've talked to Emanuel about this, about education. I think he's deadly serious on the substance of it, too. He's endorsed parent trigger during the campaign even though he hasn't been able to implement it, and he really thinks that these schools, if they continue to fail 50% of the kids--in Chicago it may be a higher percentage--then we're sunk as a nation.
McGurn: Right.
Henninger: Yeah, but it's not over till it's over, Paul. These teachers union are like an old industrial union. They're like the miners union. They are tough, and this thing is not going to be won easily, whether it's in Chicago or Los Angeles, Cleveland, because they have fought successfully to overturn vouchers programs in some of those cities.
Gigot: And a sign of that is in New York, where Gov. Cuomo just agreed to be able to hide evaluations of students from everybody except the parents whose--your child's teacher that year.
McGurn: And they put so many hoops. You have to go into the school or something. It's ridiculous.
Gigot: And you can't even use--they will not even be able to see--let's say your kid is in second grade. You can see the evaluation of the second-grade teacher, but not the third-grade teacher--
McGurn: Right, that you're going to get.
Gigot: --that you're going to get next year. How can you make a decision about where to send your kid next year?
McGurn: Well, let's hope some entrepreneurs set up their websites and start sharing some information out there.
Gigot: All right. We have to take one more break. When we come back, "Hits and Misses" of the week.
Gigot: Time now for "Hits and Misses" of the week. Collin, first to you.
Levy: Paul, this is a hit to a group of plaintiffs, including the State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, which this week filed suit challenging the Dodd-Frank law, which created vast new regulations over the financial system. And a group of plaintiffs basically say that Obama's stealth appointment of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray and the two agencies that were created by the law were given so much power that it basically violates the Constitution's separation of powers. So this is a law that's created incredible burdens for business and a lot of regulatory uncertainty, and we're glad to see it get its day in court.
Gigot: All right. Joe?
Rago: Paul, a miss this week for the reality-free zone known as California. Gov. Jerry Brown succeeded in getting a $9 billion one-year tax increase on the November ballot. But here's the thing. That's the compromise. The other option for voters is a $20 billion tax increase that will start on people earning as little as $7,000 a year. Only in California is Jerry Brown a moderate.
Gigot: At least that's truth in advertising, because eventually they go after the middle class. All right, Bill.
McGurn: A half hit for the Plymouth-Canton Cafeteria Association of Michigan. This is a union, part of the Michigan Education Association. Recently their members received a letter from their president saying they need to pay their dues if they expect to have a job, and they can do it three ways: providing a credit card, a bank account, or paying in full at the beginning of the year. The letter is in reaction to a new state law that prohibits them from collecting. I call a hit, because better unions collect this stuff than the taxpayer. It's a half hit because a federal judge has suspended the law for the moment.
Gigot: All right, Bill, thank you.
That's it for this week's edition of "The Journal Editorial Report." Thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. I'm Paul Gigot. We hope to see you right here next week.


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- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups confectioners sugar, sifted
- 3 cups semisweet chocolate chips, melted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- optional - liqueurs, other flavorings
- 1 1/2 cups (dark, milk, or white) chocolate, melted (whatever you prefer to coat)
1. In a large bowl, mix cream cheese until smooth. Gradually mix in confectioners' sugar until well blended. Stir in melted chocolate and vanilla (To flavor truffles with liqueurs or other flavorings, omit vanilla. Divide truffle mixture into thirds. Add 1 1/2 tablespoon liqueur (almond, coffee, orange, etc) to each mixture; mix well) until no streaks remain.
2. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Roll into 1 inch balls (i found it easiest to use saran wrap to assist with this).
3. With a toothpick or fork, dip balls into melted chocolate, let set on wax paper. Top with nuts, candy bits, or swirl with a different chocolate.


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