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By Mark Wedel
Special to the Gazette
Too many cooks, if they have enough time and enough talent, can set up a tasty buffet.
Producing director Mark Liermann and too many WMU students to mention started work on "Fuse 1" a year ago with the goal of creating original theater pieces that united dance, music, writing and acting.
The seven results running in the York Arena Theatre this and next weekend are a nice smorgasbord of theatrical variety -- fun to melancholy, fine to very strong.
Some didn't fulfill the promise of including all performance genres, but that wasn't a problem. "Missing Touch" (choreographer Sarah Hudson, visual artist Karie Kuiper) was pure dance (dancers Eric R. Davis, Megan Jacobson, Elizabeth Jenkins), flowing and peaceful.
"Now And At The Hour Of," (playwright Karen Wurl, director Amanda Cowper) had no dance and only recorded classic rock for music, but it didn't need any extras. The scene of a woman (Leigh Fryling) going back in time to talk to her younger self (Ashleigh Twining) and her old boyfriend (Joel Hoard) about their doomed relationship, was heartbreaking.
The best at using all ingredients was "Throwing Straws" (playwright Mitch Vermeersch, director Benjamin Fergus, choreographer Scott S. Hamilton). It's the whimsical Dr. Seuss-like story of Sid (Joe Drake) a food lover who looses his sense of taste after attempting to eat a beam of light. He searches for flavorful music and spicy dance, bringing us to nutty performances (by Cassandra Weekley, Zack Apman, Jeremy J. Neal, Tori Blade, Danielle Percy, Justin Garascia, Samantha Galvin) of dance and songs including the '70s novelty tune "Bread and Butter," a loopy version of the Pixies' "Where is My Mind," and hip-hop beatboxing by shadow puppets. It was a lot of flavorful silly fun.
With a strong performance and script, the other best piece was the night's closer, "I'm Still Here" (playwright Lia Floreno, director Jason Nuzzo, choreographer Sara Rabbers). Shannon Elizabeth McPhee was funny and moving as Lydia, "the Cancer Girl" who has given up on chemotherapy and is planning on dying as a reality TV star.
She auditions for all the big reality shows, eagerly selling herself. Who could tug at the heartstrings better than a young dying woman? she asks unseen producers. What's more real for "The Real World" than death? Wouldn't it be great for ratings if someone on "Survivor" didn't survive?
Lydia's auditions go from dark humor to philosophical and touching monologues on life and death. The piece showed how important it is to have one's dignity survive, even if death is certain.
"Cascade Falls" (playwright K. Frithjof Peterson, director Benjamin Fergus, composer Tim Krystoff, choreographer Amanda Pease) was an interesting piece. The story -- a mortuary salesman looks for life in a young woman (Derrick Marshal, Ayanda M. Dorsey) -- mixed with modern dance and jumpy abstract jazz played by a live trio, felt interestingly retro, like an old black-and-white episode of "Playhouse 90."
The night also included the short but engaging "Recess" (playwright/ director Christine Iaderosa, choreographer Rebecca Shulman), a look at children's cute rhyming games of love that evolve into rhymes of adult love grown bitter. Also interesting but a bit politically unsubtle was "Exploding New Buildings" (playwright Michael Scott, director Mark Liermann, composer Adam Reifsteck, choreographer Julia Nichols), with dance and junkyard percussion by a large group of misfits in a Soviet state, carefully observed and scrutinized by officers of the totalitarian revolution.
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"Fuse 1" -- Performed by students from Western Michigan University's playwriting, theater, dance and music programs. Directors: Amanda Cowper, Benjamin Fergus, Mark Liermann, and Jason Nuzzo. Continues at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29; 2 p.m. March 30, York Arena Theatre, Gilmore Theatre Complex, WMU. $17 for adults, $12 for seniors or $5 for students. 387-6222, www.wmich.edu/theatre.


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It's the last game of the season and means just about everything for the Yankees.
Win, and the Yanks are the No. 1 seed in the AL playoffs and can rest until Sunday.
Lose, and well, the Bombers could be facing a one-game playoff for the division Thursday -- if the Orioles should defeat the Rays.
If the Yanks and O's both lose, the Yanks win the East, but the Oakland A's -- who stunned the Rangers earlier Wednesday -- get the top seed. In that case, the Yanks would face the Tigers.
7:15 p.m. -- Top of the first -- Cody Ross lofts a single off Hiroki Kuroda into left and the Red Sox take an early 1-0 lead. Not a great start.
Hopefully, the Bombers will be patient in the early going, work Dice-K Matsuzaka and then lower the boom on a pitcher who is having an absolutely dreadful season (1-6, 7.68 ERA).
Since his 2007 MLB debut, only three pitchers with at least 600 innings pitched have a higher walks-per-9-innings than Matsuzaka, according to ESPNBoston.
7:22 p.m. - Bad start for the Yanks. Dice-K throws all of six pitches to retire Derek Jeter, Ichiro and A-Rod.
7:38 p.m.- Bottom of the second -- Matsuzaka is bad for a reason. Robbie Cano singles, Nick Swisher walks and Mark Teixeira, that man again, ip up with two runners on. But Dice-K blows Tex away. However, on the first pitch to Curtis Granderson, the Grandy Man homers to right, number 42 on the season and RBIs 103,104 and 105.
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8:11 p.m. -- Top of the fourth -- Cody Ross leads off with a single, his second hit off Kuroda, who is just OK right now.
8:17 p.m. -- Ross is erased in a James Loney DP and Jarrod Saltalamacchia strikes out to end the fourth. The Red Sox are swinging early in the count looking like a team that just wants to end the season. Bobby V. looks he'd rather be anywhere than managing this crummy Red Sox team at Yankee Stadium.
8:35 p.m. -- Kuroda is rolling now, retiring the side around a Pedro Ciriaco hit. In five innings, Kuroda has thrown 60 pitches, surrendered one run on four hits.
8:45 p.m. -- Bottom of the fifth -- Alex Rodriguez rifles shot down the left-fieldd line for a double and then Robbie Cano unloads again! This time off the immortal Clayton Mortensen. Robbie is now batting .312 with 33 homers and 92 RBI. It's 7-1 and this one, dare I say, is just about over.
9:06 p.m. -- Kuroda is sailing and has thrown just 70 pitches through six. Bottom of the sixth, and it remains Yanks 7, Red Sox 1.
And over in Florida, the Rays are shutting out the Orioles 4-0, in the bottom of the seventh.
At this point in time, anybody have a problem with Joe Girardi?
9:20 p.m. -- Bottom of the sixth -- Can anyone get Robbie Cano out? Not Scot Atchison, who serves up a two-run single to the hottest hitter on the planet. It's 9-1 Yanks as Russell Martin and Jeter score. Cano, who has six RBI for the game, is now batting .313 with 33 home runs and 94 RBI. Jeter, who singled in the inning, now has 216 hits for the year.
9:35 p.m. -- Top of the seventh - A Ciriaco double and Jose Iglesias single makes it 9-2. But Yankee fans need not fear an uprising from this Dead Sox team. Kuroda fans Jacoby Ellsbury to end the inning. Kuroda, over seven, has thrown 94 pitches, allowing just two runs on seven hits.
10:07 p.m. -- We have been in gar-bage time for a bit now. Granderson goes yard again, Ichiro doubles home two and Nick Swisher gets into the act with a single. Teixeira even gets into the act with a sac fly he didn't hit last night. It's 14-2 after seven.
10:15 p.m. -- The firm of Cody Eppley and Clay Rapada retired the Sox without any damage in the top of the eighth. Bobby Valentine is now in his last inning as Red Sox skipper, a nano-tenure that won't be confused with the golden era of Terry Francona and Theo Epstein. It's 14-2 in the bottom of the eighth.
10:34 p.m. -- Freddy Garcia strikes out the side on 15 pitches and the rotten Red Sox are put to sleep 14-2.
The Yanks will next play Sunday on the road vs. the winner of the Orioles-Rangers wildcard playoff.


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Wolverines upend league-leading La Conner; 5-4 | Softball
Junior Kaylen Meeker sparked a two-out rally that put Friday Harbor out in front for good, as the Wolverines squeaked by league-leading La Conner for a 5-4 victory, Thursday, in their home opener.
Trailing 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth, Meeker slapped a single into the right-center and then scored on a pass ball to tie the score after Ashleigh Brown followed with a hard-hit single of her own that advanced Meeker to third. Junior Sierra Truesdale knocked in what proved to be the game-winning run with an RBI single in the next at-bat.
The Wolverines turned in several defensive gems to help pitcher Jean Melborne earn her second win of the season, including a 6-4-3 double play that pulled the rug out from under the Braves fifth-inning rally. Trailing 3-2, La Conner (3-1, 4-2 overall) scored twice in the fifth to reclaim the lead and had a runner in scoring position when shortstop Liz Taylor and Truesdale, at second, teamed up with Lizzy Starr at first to complete the double play and put an end to the inning.
Melborne, who gave up just one base hit in a five-inning shut out at Darrington on Saturday, struck out nine Braves en route to Thursday's home-opening victory.
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Needless to say, things haven't quite gone as planned for the Boston Celtics this season.
Currently fourth in the Atlantic Division and seventh in the Eastern Conference with a lousy 11-9 record, Boston certainly had higher aspirations for the first season after reloading following the loss of Big Three member Ray Allen.
The combination of Courtney Lee and Jason Terry has underwhelmed at times, Jeff Green has yet to be consistently explosive, and there still isn't a clear-cut big man to replace Kendrick Perkins, who was traded in early 2011 for Green.
That being said, there are a handful of things that we've learned about this team and their immediate competition; some good, some bad.
Luckily, it's still early December and there's plenty of time left to fix the issues involved and maintain the successes.


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I think of Deathbringer Saurfang as the "Bubble boss". I can't think of any boss, certainly no others in Icecrown (yes, of course we haven't seen them all yet) that make you think: Yes. It's good to be a Priest.
Algalon the Observer made me think "Yes, it's good to be a Shadow Priest" but Saurfang is weak against all Priests. Discipline most especially.
You'll reach Deathbringer Saurfang at the very end of the first wing of Icecrown Citadel 10/25 man. Technically the wing is called The Lower Spire but at the moment it doesn't really matter because it's the only wing that you can reach anyway. That one wing, with 4 boss encounters, is Icecrown Citadel as far as I am concerned. Just to recap here are the first four bosses summarised below:
The half skeleton:
Looks totally wicked, but he's actually not very scary or painful at all
The chick with the mana shield:
Requires some coordination between casters and melee and a clear understanding that Hunters fall in the sweet spot between those two things. Go physical DPS! (Go go DoTs too)
The ship battle:
Think pirates with rockets and canons on wings. Don't worry, this is not a vehicle fight. Props to Blizzard for finally getting it right!
The bubble boss:
Or, if you're not a Priest, you may think of him as the "Blood boss". Either works.
Deathbringer Saurfang
Now let's get to the Bubble boss. If, like us, you make the mistake of doing zero research before attempting the boss fights in ICC, you may read the situation completely wrong and think it's an endurance fight that requires you to kite/kill his adds and have excellent healers. But don't be mislead! It's actually a DPS race. It gets progressively harder to heal, so kill him quick.
Saurfang has quite a few abilities that, handled poorly, cause him to regenerate health. He also has a "rage" bar. We'll call it blood power. It's orange in case you were wondering. The key to winning this fight is to avoid, at all costs, doing anything that causes Saurfang to generate blood power. And he generates blood power when his special abilities deal damage to the raid.
The ability that we, as Priests, are particularly interested in is Boiling Blood and, further into the fight, Mark of the Fallen Champion.
- Boiling Blood, Unlimited range, Instant
Boils the blood of an enemy, inflicting 5000 Physical damage every 3 sec for 15 sec.
- Mark of the Fallen Champion, 100 Energy AKA blood power, Unlimited range, 1.5 sec cast
Causes Deathbringer Saurfang's melee attacks to splash to this target, inflicting 6175 to 6825 additional Physical damage. If the target dies while under this effect Saurfang is healed for 5% of his total health.
Yes, Mark of the Fallen Champion is a doozy. But it also can't be cast until the boss has generated that much blood power. You need to kill Deathbringer Saurfang before your raid has been marked five or more times because around that point your healers will break and someone who is marked will die.
Power Word: Shield absorbs damage before it hurts the target. So if you bubble targets afflicted by Boiling Blood and Mark of the Fallen Champion you can negate a portion of the blood power regeneration. How cool is that?
In our 25 man raid we have a Discipline Priest as part of the healing team so they are assigned to prioritise shielding targets taking damage as often as possible, wherever possible. Their shields are the strongest and strengthened by Discipline talents (and this one) that nearly all other healing or DPS Priests skip.
You probably could, if you loved Holy and didn't have a full time Discipline Priest, just modify your talents to pick up 3/3 Improved Power Word: Shield for this fight. But you'd probably struggle significantly with the high mana cost as a Holy Priest cannot also talent into Rapture.
In 10 mans you don't need a Discipline Priest, although, of course, it really really really will help you if one of your 3 healers happens to be a Disc Priest. We dropped down to two healers for 10 man (Lathere, Resto Druid and a Holy Paladin) and I helped them by shielding as Shadow. Us Shadow Priests may be stuck with a 4 second cooldown, non-boosted bubble, but it still works.
I believe a Holy Priest in a 10 man run would also contribute a lot to this fight by reaching for the Power Word: Shield button first to protect players with Boiling Blood and Mark of the Fallen Champion. I know it may seem strange, but if it delays future Marks just a little bit, it's worth doing.
To help you help your raid I strongly recommend that you set up your preferred raid frames so you can see the Boiling Blood, Mark of the Fallen Champion and Weakened Soul debuffs. They show up on the default Blizzard UI raid frames and you can modify VuhDo, Healbot and Grid by setting up custom debuffs.
ps. I apologise if the links above refer to earlier versions of these Addons. As a VuhDo user I know the guide above refers to a 3.2 version of VuhDo because some of the configuration menus have changed. Here's where you'll find the VuhDo settings in the latest version for WoW 3.3:


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Author Archive
Imaginary Extensions: A Conversation with Caleb Crain
August 6, 2013 | by Anna Altman
This week sees the publication of Caleb Crain's first novel. Necessary Errors takes place in Prague shortly after the Velvet Revolution and offers a view of the changes that roiled the city in the early nineties. We see it through the eyes of Jacob, a young American teaching English to support a dilatory life abroad. Prague itself figures prominently in the story: more than a setting, the city's linguistic currents, architecture, and Communist-tinged daily interactions are portrayed so deftly as to render the city a character itself. Crain is likewise evocative on the granular moments of frustration and incremental clarity that accompany acquiring a language.
Often, a book about a young person going abroad or otherwise finding himself is presented as a string of solitary experiences. Necessary Errors, on the other hand, portrays the alternating feelings of camaraderie and loneliness endemic to group expatriate life, about learning who one is from a diffuse group of people. Ardent, self-conscious, and introverted, Jacob, having only recently discovered that he's gay, ventures into social life with new purpose. Through his apprehensions and misapprehensions—his necessary errors—the reader gleans not only a vivid group portrait but a sense of the quotidian consequences of the seismic shift from Communism to capitalism.
Last week, I spoke with Crain, an accomplished critic and essayist, over chamomile tea (him) and wine (me) in New York. Crain, too, lived in Prague in 1990 and 1991 and shares qualities with his protagonist (Harvard graduate, gay male, literary aspirations), but he maintains that the work should be understood as fiction. As he explained, expressing his disinterest in the question of how much of fiction comes from lived experience, "The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott wrote that the child's toy was the precursor to the adult's field of culture, and he said the one question you're not suppose to ask the child about the toy is, Does it come from inside or outside? In other words, was the bear born in the hundred-acre wood and did it grow up with the wizard, or did Mommy buy it at Walmart?" Necessary Errors may or may not have benefited from notes scribbled twenty years ago, but the novel is better served by leaving its fictional shell intact, so one might appreciate the writer's gifts in transporting us to a dynamic social world twenty years removed.
At the beginning of Necessary Errors, Jacob's friends seem incidental—they are people he's happened to meet at the school where he teaches, other expats like him—there's no particular affinity that draws them together. But if there is a primary love story in the novel, it's with this group of people.
When people are young adults, they have these packs, or tribes, that they form. Those connections are very real, and yet another, more powerful social narrative is that you're supposed to pair off and have children—and never see your friends again. In the case of the gay world, there's an additional element, in which you're supposed to spin away from your straight friends and be part of a gay world. Both ideas of adulthood are sad to me, and I was attracted to a group of friends as a lost paradise, and one that there's no way to keep.
As a technical matter, with Necessary Errors I wanted to write as much in dialogue as I could. Mikhail Bakhtin was right when he wrote that novels are dialogic texts, where lots of voices come together. Focusing on a group of friends was a way of having lot of different voices. I spoke with somebody who works in TV not long ago, and I discovered that, in television, that kind of arrangement—in which explication happens through dialogue among a certain group—is called a "precinct." I guess it comes originally from a cop show, but the idea is that there is some social institution that requires a group of people to come back into contact with each other on a regular basis. In between, they have adventures and misfortunes and romances, but at the end of the show they report back to the precinct. It serves to anchor the world of the show. Maybe the group of friends, meeting in their various watering holes, is the precinct of my novel.
Two Versions, One Heti
July 27, 2012 | by Anna Altman
I recently picked up a copy of Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?, out last month from Henry Holt, to find a favorite passage. It appeared at the beginning of the novel's fifth act, or at least it had in the first copy I had read, a Canadian version published by Anansi in September 2010. But flipping through this new edition from Heti's American publisher, I couldn't find it. I felt disoriented and wondered if my memory was failing me, and as I looked more closely at the American version, I saw that much else had changed: passages had been deleted or transposed; new characters appeared; objects changed value and form.
After a few minutes of searching, I found the passage I was looking for. It hadn't changed much between the first publication and the second, but its new placement left me confused, and surprisingly disappointed. I wanted to find the book exactly as I'd left it, and felt the same as Jonathan Franzen, who recently expressed his misgivings about e-books: "When I read a book, I'm handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing—that's reassuring." Books often feel like restorative, reliable old friends—and although Heti's book hadn't forfeited its material qualities, my assurance of its fixity had been shaken.


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In June the sad saga of former LSU two-sport star Chad Jones turned a page toward the positive. After an horrific car crash three years ago apparently ended his football career, he was drafted as a left-handed pitcher by the Cincinnati Reds.
Recently he put on a uniform for the first time since the accident as he began working out with the Reds Rookie Arizona League team in Goodyear, Ariz.
Jones was the subject of a front page Cincinnati Enquirer story Sunday that says Jones' scars tell the story. Here's another story about Jones' rehab process that makes his accomplishment even more inspirational.**************
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Deep 1.4 GHz radio continuum imaging of Abell 2255 is presented. This cluster is among the better nearby candidates for rich cluster- cluster merger systems, with evidence including an elongated X-ray morphology, the presence of a radio halo, and substructure present in its galaxy distribution. Our radio observations reach an rms sensitivity of ~40 microJansky per beam, enabling us to detect (at 5-sigma) star formation rates as low as 1.4 solar masses per year from the center of the cluster out to a radial distance of 3h75-1 Mpc. The radio data are complemented by optical imaging and a large spectroscopic database, allowing us to separate all galaxies brighter than MR=-20 into cluster members and foreground/background galaxies. The spectra are also used to associate the galaxies' radio emission with either star formation or AGN. By comparing Abell 2255 to other nearby clusters, we demonstrate an unusual amount of activity in this cluster. It appears that the merger strongly effects the evolution of cluster members, including both the powerful AGN and the optically-faint star-forming galaxies.
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According to the National Weather Service, there is a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. More thunderstorms are possible overnight.
Here is the full forecast from NWS:
- Today: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Southwest wind 6 to 13 mph.
- Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 9pm and 3am, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 44. West southwest wind 9 to 16 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
- Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.
- Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. Blustery, with a north northwest wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 9 to 14 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
- Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 57. North northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.
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FENTON, Michigan -- Lynn Markland wrapped up his first day as Fenton's city manager Monday by presiding over a City Council meeting.
"We're so happy to have you," said Mayor Sue Osborne, officially welcoming the former city manager of Durand on board. Council members stood and applauded.
Before the meeting, an informal reception was held at City Hall for Markland, who replaced Michael Senyko after a monthslong search.
Markland, who grew up in Flushing, has nearly 22 years of experience as a city manager in Sandusky from 1983 to 1993 and in Durand since 1993.
"I'd like to thank the City Council for hiring me as city manager," he said. "I'm really looking forward to working here in Fenton and facing the challenges we all face together."


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Here are our top 10 picks for this week:
Tech (or any) Writing: KISS
from Crawford
Just because you understand tech terminology, don't assume the rest of the world does. By some mystical process, insider terminology transfers to brand marketing without much forethought — companies assume that technologies and protocols are great product names that the everyday person can relate to.
5 Ways Digital Has Forced Agencies to Adapt
from Mashable Business
Technology advancements have changed the way business gets done for all kinds of companies, including media agencies. Established agencies are competing with newer, more nimble firms founded by digital natives, and leaders in the field are innovating best practices and inventing new ways to deploy messages, activate consumers and measure outcomes.
The CCO vs. CMO: Who wins? Hint: It better be the customer
from RepMan
Customer service is ultimately the most important part of an organization. It won't be long before we see enlightened CCOs or CMOs elevate customer service to the primary function in the organization, with marketing and communications reporting into it. The title really doesn't matter.
The 6 social media personas marketers need to understand
from PR Daily
To appeal to consumers online, you need to know who they are first. That's the gist of a new infographic from marketing firm Aimia, which identified the six types of social media personas—from the "No-Shows" to the "Mix-N-Mingler." The language in the infographic is packed with jargon ("marketers must leverage a segmentation approach"), but the personas are certainly worth noting.
10 terms to avoid in business writing
from Ragan.com
In business-to-business writing, allowances should be made for poor word choices—except, that is, when it comes to these 10 unforgivable words. Whatever your industry, avoid these terms, because they are the fastest way to sabotage your message.
How Can We Measure This?
from March Communications by Sarah Love
PR measurement has been a hotly debated topic for almost as long as PR has existed, and it seems that every marketing and PR professional has their own way to define success. Is it coverage? Number of sales leads? How happy your CEO is? And even if you are able to define the result of a successful PR campaign – how can you measure which sales leads came from PR?
Survey finds automated campaigns on the rise
from BtoB Magazine
Marketers plan to increase the number of automated campaigns, according to a survey by marketing automation company Silverpop and Forrester Research, with 59% reporting they'll boost automated campaigns this year.
LinkedIn facing privacy backlash
from PRWeek US
Mobile security researchers have discovered that LinkedIn's mobile app is transmitting personal data from calendar entries back to LinkedIn's servers without users' knowledge.
5 Reasons You Should Measure Social Media Return on Investment
from Social Media Examiner by Nichole Kelly
There are many who would argue that a financial return doesn't show the true value of social media for the organization. I would agree that ROI doesn't paint the full picture. However, the bottom line is that executives and business owners sleep, eat, and breathe ROI.
What Is A Public Relations Consultancy?
from The Holmes Report
Organizations need to engage their stakeholders (consumers, employees, shareholders, communities and others) in honest and authentic conversation in order to develop real relationships with them.


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Form 2439, Selection Acknowledgement
Effective Date: 3/2015
English PDF: 2439.pdf
Spanish PDF: 2439-S.pdf
Updated: 3/2015
To give the individual released from the Medically Dependent Children Program (MDCP) interest list the choice to express interest in or decline an application for MDCP services.
When to Prepare
DADS staff transmit the form to individuals/families with children whose names have been released from the MDCP interest list. This form should be completed and returned to the case manager before initiating a home visit.
Number of Copies
This form is included in the enrollment packet sent to the individual released from the MDCP interest list. The individual/family complete and return this form to the case manager.
Form Retention
The case manager must retain this form in the applicant/individual's case file. If the individual declines to apply for MDCP services, the form is filed in the closed case file until the end of the fiscal year plus five years.
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Individual's Name— Enter the individual's name.
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Mailing Address— Enter the individual's address.
Area Code and Telephone Number— Enter the individual's area code and telephone number.This section is completed by the individual/family:
Box 1— The individual is interested in applying for MDCP services.
Box 2— The individual is no longer interested in MDCP services.
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This form must be completed ...— Enter the date that is 30 calendar days from the date on Form 2440, Release from the MDCP Interest List, or Form 2441, Release from the MDCP/CLASS Program Interest Lists.
Signature Line— The individual/parent/guardian must sign and date the form upon completion.
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DOJ Could Sue Apple As Soon As Today Over E-Books, Works to Settle With 5 Publishers
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April 11, 2012 9:15 AM
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) could
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over allegations regarding raised prices of e-books via an agency sales model.
Last December, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into whether five international e-book publishers had been partaking in anticompetitive practices with the help of Apple and its e-book store iBooks. The five e-book publishers include
Hachette Livre (Lagardère Publishing France), Harper Collins (News Corp., U.S.A.), Simon & Schuster (CBS Corp., U.S.A.), Penguin (Pearson Group, United Kingdom) and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck (owner of inter alia Macmillan, Germany).
Traditionally, publishers sell physical books to retailers for about half of the cover price, which is considered a wholesale model. Retailers then had the ability to sell those books to customers for a lower price if they wanted to.
But when e-books came along, this model was challenged. Amazon started selling best sellers for as low as $9.99 to encourage its Kindle e-reader sales. Publishers were not happy.
Apple then came along
with iBooks
, and publishers began to worry that it would take over the book industry the way Apple's iTunes took over the music industry, where customers would choose to purchase cheap, digital books instead of physical books.
However, Apple struck a deal with publishers in 2010. An agency model was implemented, where publishers were allowed to set the price of a book and Apple would take a 30 percent cut. The only restriction was that publishers were not allowed to let rivals sell the same book at a lower price.
This model helped Apple because its original iPad launch occurred in 2010, which was coupled with iBooks. To assure a successful launch of the device, DOJ believes Apple cut the agency model deal with publishers, which turned out to be an anticompetitive move.
After the European Commission opened an investigation of this agreement, DOJ climbed aboard as well. After looking further into the situation,
DOJ threatened Apple and the five publishers with a lawsuit
just last month for allegedly conspiring to raise prices, which violates federal antitrust laws.
Now, DOJ may sue Apple as soon as today while still working to reach a potential settlement with the five publishers, according to
. Nothing has been set in stone, but DOJ does plan to pursue Apple.
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Who declared heart-shaped sunglasses summer's hottest accessory? Because apparently, every celebrity under the sun (no pun intended) received the memo.
Stars like Drew Barrymore, Katy Perry, Kelly Osborne and Madonna have all been spotted sporting heart-shaped sunnies and I have to say, it's a bit disturbing.
I don't know about you, but heart-shaped sunglasses remind me of my youth. I first purchased a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses while visiting Sea World when I was 5 years old. I was also wearing stick-on earrings, edible jewelry and a hot pink fanny pack, but I don't think I'll be working those fashion relics back into my wardrobe anytime soon.
Glamour's "Slaves to Fashion" blog echoes my sentiments exactly, bashing Drew, Kelly and Madonna:
"At age 24, Kelly Osbourne is at least a decade-and-a-half too old to be doing it. Drew Barrymore, 34? Treading on scandalous territory. And I have no idea how Madonna, who just celebrated her 51st birthday, can justify her behavior with any answer other than 'I'm Madonna.'"
As you can probably tell, I have my own, very strong opinion about this trend. However, the decision still rests with you! Heart-shaped sunglasses: hot or not?
E-mail Lynsey Roumell: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Cuyahoga County has spent or committed nearly $3.2 million to remove asbestos from an historic downtown office tower and to design a new administrative center that would replace it, even though the county could soon halt work and sell the building.
Historic preservationists have protested the county's intention to raze and replace the 29-story Ameritrust Tower because the building, located on East 9th Street just south of Euclid Avenue, is the only tall office tower completed by Marcel Breuer, one of the 20th century's leading architects. The tower was finished in 1971 as the headquarters of Cleveland Trust, later Ameritrust.
Even if work stops immediately, the tower has been damaged irreparably. This raises the question whether the county has degraded the building's value even while it thinks about selling it.
Barbara Shergalis, the project manager for the county, said that workers from Precision Environmental Co. have demolished a portion of the tower's lower facade, made of glass and polished black granite, to make way for two large garage doors. The doors are being used as portals through which containers of asbestos-contaminated material are being hauled out of the building. Shergalis said the workers were unable to remove the black granite without destroying it.
Asbestos removal has continued for at least two weeks while the county commissioners have talked openly about selling the tower to a developer and finding a new site for an administrative center.
But County Administrator Dennis Madden said today that the commissioners may take official action at their next meeting Thursday, or at the following meeting on Nov. 15, to open a formal bidding process for developers who may want to buy the building.
The county can't accept bids without such a vote, Madden and other officials said.
At that time, Madden said, the commissioners are likely to suspend the absestos removal as well as the design work on the new county headquarters proposed for the site.
"Within the next several days, we will be making a decision on whether to go out for bids (to sell the tower) and if we were to do that, we would undoubtedly suspend the work," Madden said.
In response to a call today, Shergalis said "it's news" to her that asbestos removal and design could soon halt. But she said it made sense to stop spending money while the county entertains offers to sell the Ameritrust Tower.
Until then, however, work continues on asbestos removal and design.
Last Friday, Shergalis and Deputy County Administrator Lee Trotter scheduled a meeting for Jan. 4 with the Cleveland City Planning Commission to review new designs for the county complex, which are being authored by Robert P. Madison International of Cleveland and Kohn Pedersen Fox of New York.
Shergalis said that the county has paid $778,000 so far to Precision Environmental for asbestos removal, and that the company has billed an additional $1.64 million for work already completed. The total value of the abestos removal contract is $7.44 million, she said.
Madison has been paid $635,000 for design so far, and has billed another $120,000 for work completed, Shergalis said. The total value of the design contract is $13.5 million.
The county bought the Ameritrust Tower and several adjacent structures two years ago for $22 million. Bidding for the complex will open at $35 million, and County Commissioner Time Hagan has said the county won't lose money if it sells the tower. But it's unclear whether the county would break even at $35 million.


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August 2012
Carolina League Playoffs Set
With four days remaining in the second half, the Carolina League playoffs are set. The Dash will take on the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in the Southern Division Championship Series, while Lynchburg and Wilmington will tangle in the Northern Division Championship Series. Here is the game-by-game breakdown:
Myrtle Beach v. Winston-Salem (Dash won season series 11-9)
Game 1 – Myrtle Beach at Winston-Salem – 7:00 p.m.
Game 2 – Myrtle Beach at Winston-Salem – 7:00 p.m.
Game 3* – Myrtle Beach at Winston-Salem – 7:00 p.m.
Wilmington v. Lynchburg (Blue Rocks won season series 11-9)
Game 1 – Lynchburg at Wilmington – 6:35 p.m.
Game 2 – Wilmington at Lynchburg – 6:05 p.m.
Game 3* – Wilmington at Lynchburg – 6:05 p.m.
* = if necessary
For what it is worth, here are the season series results of the four possible Mills Cup Championship matchups:
– Winston-Salem won season series over Wilmington 15-5
– Lynchburg leads Winston-Salem 10-9 (one game remaining)
– Myrtle Beach won season series over Wilmington 11-9
– Lynchburg leads Myrtle Beach 10-7 (three games remaining)
If the Dash were to make it to the Mills Cup Championship Series, they would host Game 1 and Game 2 next Saturday and Sunday before heading to the N.D.C.S. champion's home September 11-13.
– Brian
Gearing Up For The Playoffs
The Dash have been one of the most active teams in minor league baseball in terms of transactions, and the last two days have been no different. Here is a quick look at the moves from the last two days:
- Infielder Chris Curley promoted to Winston-Salem from Low-A Kannapolis
- Right-handed reliever James Hudelson promoted to Winston-Salem from rookie-level Bristol
- Infielder Kyle Shelton promoted to Double-A Birmingham from Winston-Salem
- Infielder Drew Thompson activated off disabled list and released from the White Sox organization
Curley hit .271 with 11 homers and 29 RBI in 49 games with the Intimidators after signing with the White Sox earlier this year. Hudelson went 1-3 with a 5.86 ERA in 21 games with Bristol. Shelton hit .313 with two homers and six RBI in nine games with the Dash. Thompson spent the entire season on the disabled list.
The Dash sit at the CL-maximum 25 players. Winston-Salem and Lynchburg meet in a series finale from BB&T Ballpark tonight at 7:00. Join us at 6:45 here.
– Brian
Different Circumstances, Same Results
Last night's division-clinching victory was much different than the Dash's first-half triumph.
In June, the Dash jumped out to a big lead before holding on for the win. Last night, Lynchburg's three-run lead was an early obstacle.
In June, Winston was playing some of its best baseball of the season when it clinched at Wilmington. Last night, the Dash were aiming to avoid their longest losing streak of the season, which still sits at a meager three games.
In June, the Dash needed to best a struggling Wilmington squad on the road in order to knock down a division crown. Last night, the Blue Rocks completed a sweep of second-place Myrtle Beach to help the Dash to another division title.
In June, Erik Johnson and Keenyn Walker were in Kannapolis with a middle-of-the-road South Atlantic League squad. Last night, Johnson earned the win and Walker made a spectacular game-winning catch.
In June, Taylor Thompson was on the disabled list after a tough first half. Last night, he was wrapping up his 12th save and adding to his remarkable second-half resume.
In June, the Dash stormed into the clubhouse for a special celebration. Last night, more than 4,000 fans at BB&T Ballpark applauded as their hometown team simply slapped hands in the middle of the diamond.
In June, the jury was still out about the Mills Cup favorite. Last night, the Dash officially assumed that large target following their 84th victory.
However, all of these differences still resulted in one undeniable similarity between June 16 and August 30.
Winston-Salem had once against clinched the best record in the Carolina League during the current half.
Winston is two-thirds of the way to a clean CL sweep in 2012. However, this next two-week journey is the defining period of the season. A championship is on the line, and the Dash will fight with Myrtle Beach, Lynchburg and Wilmington for the league's greatest prize.
That's why last night was so different after the game. There was no need to celebrate, because the important part of the season begins in five days.
And it will kick off at BB&T Ballpark, the home of the Carolina League's overwhelming favorite.
– Brian
Black, Thompson Added To Prestigious List
Winston-Salem has had the top record in the Carolina League locked up for almost a week, so it should be no surprise that the Dash dominated the year-end awards, as you can see on wsdash.com.
The Dash also took home two of the top three honors on the circuit. First baseman Dan Black earned the Carolina League Most Valuable Player award, while skipper Tommy Thompson is the Manager of the Year.
Now, the duo joins these prestigious lists:
MVP winners in Winston-Salem history:
1951 – Ray Jablonski
1960 – Ed Olivares
1966 – Robbie Snow
1990 – Gary Scott
1991 – Pete Castellano
1993 – Bubba Smith
1998 – Joe Crede
2005 – Leo Daigle
2011 – Ian Gac
2012 – Dan Black
Manager of the Year winners in Winston-Salem history:
1960 – George Kissell
1964 – Bill Slack
1976 – Tony Torchia
1979 – Bill Slack
1986 – Jim Essian
1998 – Chris Cron
2009 – Joe McEwing
2010 – Joe McEwing
2012 – Tommy Thompson
Here are a few trends based on those lists: Winston has had the Manager of the Year in three of its four years as the Dash, and the franchise has won the MVP honor seven times since 1990.
Congrats to Dan and Tommy for their well-deserved awards.
– Brian
Thompson, Barton, Alums to Fall League
The Arizona Fall League rosters have been released for this autumn's action, and the Dash are represented well. Current Winston-Salem closer Taylor Thompson, along with five former Dash stars and current White Sox farmhands, will suit up for the Salt River Rafters.
Thompson will join outfielder Trayce Thompson, hurlers Andre Rienzo and Santos Rodriguez and infielders Carlos Sanchez and Andy Wilkins in the AFL. Winston-Salem trainer Cory Barton will also head to Arizona in the same role with the Rafters.
All six White Sox representatives have played in Winston-Salem during their minor league careers. They will join highly-touted prospects from Arizona, Colorado, Toronto and Washington's farm systems.
Taylor Thompson is 2-1 with a 2.59 earned run average in 30 relief appearances this season. After battling some injuries in the first half, the Montgomery, Ala., native has responded with a second-half ERA of 0.60 in 30 innings of work.
Three other soon-to-be AFL players donned the Dash purple in 2012. Rienzo made four starts and posted a 1.08 ERA in 25 innings before earning a promotion to Double-A Birmingham, where he is 4-3 with a 3.27 ERA. Sanchez is now with Triple-A Charlotte after hitting .315 with 42 RBI and 58 runs scored with Winston during the season's first three months. Trayce Thompson is also in Triple-A Charlotte following a promotion today. He still leads the Carolina League with 90 RBI and is tied atop the circuit with 22 homers.
Rodriguez was with Winston-Salem throughout the 2010 and 2011 campaigns. In the CL, Rodriguez amassed a 4-3 record and a 3.69 ERA in 72 appearances largely out of the bullpen. He is now with Triple-A Charlotte after boasting a 2.81 ERA in Double-A Birmingham this season.
Finally, Wilkins is with Birmingham, where he is hitting .236 with 17 homers and 66 RBI. The former Arkansas slugger hit .278 with 23 long balls and 89 RBI for the Dash last season.
This season marks the 20th in AFL history. The season runs from October 9 until the annual championship game November 17.
– Brian
Outfielders On The Move
Some roster moves are bigger than others. Today, the White Sox announced a handful of moves with significant ramifications.
We begin with the Dash's new highly-touted outfielder. Courtney Hawkins has earned his first career promotion to High-A two-and-a-half months after the White Sox chose him with the 13th overall pick in this year's draft. In a corresponding move, Mark Haddow heads to Double-A Birmingham for the first time after playing four games with Winston.
Hawkins debuted with rookie-level Bristol and hit .272 with three homers and 16 RBI in 38 games in the Appalachian League. The Corpus Christi, Texas, native then jumped to Low-A Kannapolis, where he hit .308 with four homers and 15 RBI in just 16 contests. In his fifth game as an Intimidator, Hawkins came up with a walk-off single, and he followed suit with another game-winning hit one day later.
Another White Sox transaction does not affect Winston-Salem, but it is a great day for a former Dash slugger. Trayce Thompson has reached Triple-A Charlotte for the first time in his minor league career. Thompson played in 14 games with Double-A Birmingham and hit .280 with three homers and six RBI. The former second-round pick is tied for the Carolina League lead with 22 homers and sits atop the circuit with 90 RBI.
We will have more on Hawkins, Thompson and the rest of the Dash as we continue along. Winston's magic number is three with six games to go. The Dash continue their four-game set with Lynchburg tonight at 7:00.
– Brian
One All-Star Ballot
PLEASE NOTE: These selections do NOT represent the award winners in the Carolina League. This is merely my opinion on the end-of-season awards.
The Carolina League's end-of-season All-Star Team should be announced sometime this week, and it is a vote involving media members, general managers and skippers. Here are my best guesses, along with a few others who deserve mention (in alphabetical order).
CATCHER: Braeden Schlehuber (Lynchburg)
The All-Star reserve earns this spot, but it was one of the toughest ones to pick. Winston-Salem's Mike Blanke made a late surge and certainly could get this spot.
Close calls: Mike Blanke (Winston-Salem), David Freitas (Potomac), Evan Gattis (Lynchburg)
FIRST BASE: Dan Black (Winston-Salem)
He won't win the triple crown in the CL, but he will come closer than anyone else. The Big Black Bear has been one of the circuit's most consistent hitters all season long.
Close calls: Chris Garcia (Lynchburg), Travis Shaw (Salem)
SECOND BASE: Carlos Sanchez (Winston-Salem)
It was embarrassing that Sanchez did not make the All-Star team, but this should be a nice consolation. That, and being in Triple-A Charlotte now.
Close call: Tommy La Stella (Lynchburg)
SHORTSTOP: Xander Bogaerts (Salem)
Boston's second-best prospect is now a Portland SeaDog, but he was a force offensively in the Carolina League.
Close calls: Nick Ahmed (Lynchburg), Marcus Semien (Winston-Salem)
THIRD BASE: Michael Almanzar (Salem)
Almanzar needed a second season in High-A ball, but he improved greatly from year one.
Close calls: Giovanni Urshela (Carolina), Christian Villanueva (Myrtle Beach)
OUTFIELDERS: Jackie Bradley, Jr. (Salem), Brady Shoemaker (Winston-Salem) and Trayce Thompson (Winston-Salem)
Bradley, Jr., and Shoemaker were the CL's two best players in the first half, and Thompson boasted the most gaudy numbers on the circuit.
Close calls: Michael Earley (Winston-Salem), Jeremy Nowak (Frederick)
UTILITY INFIELDER: Travis Shaw (Salem)
It was tough to pick among many great players for this final spot, but Shaw was a key cog in Salem's huge first half.
Close calls: Jesus Aguilar (Carolina), Ronny Rodriguez (Carolina), Semien
UTILITY OUTFIELDER: Michael Earley (Winston-Salem)
Earley had a career year, and he definitely belongs somewhere on this list. He fits in well here.
Close calls: Kevin Keyes (Potomac), Nowak
DESIGNATED HITTER: Aaron Baker (Frederick)
With all of the great first basemen in the CL, Baker had to fight to get on this roster despite his big power numbers.
Close call: Jeremie Tice (Carolina)
STARTING PITCHER: Cody Buckel (Myrtle Beach)
Buckel's 1.31 ERA in 13 starts was ridiculous, and he still places 14th in the CL in strikeouts despite playing in Double-A Frisco for much of the second half.
Close calls: Matt Barnes (Salem), Dylan Bundy (Frederick), J.R. Graham (Lynchburg), Gus Schlosser (Lynchburg)
RELIEF PITCHER: Ben Rowen (Myrtle Beach)
This was one of the tougher selections, but Rowen has been electric as a submarine specialist.
Close calls: Juan Jaime (Lynchburg), Mike Olmsted (Salem), Taylor Thompson (Winston-Salem)
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Brady Shoemaker (Winston-Salem)
Shoemaker carried the Dash past a loaded Salem squad in the first half. If he had been in the CL throughout the season, the Indiana State product could have posted some ridiculous numbers.
PITCHER OF THE YEAR: Cody Buckel (Myrtle Beach)
The numbers were just too good.
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: Tommy Thompson (Winston-Salem)
This isn't even a conversation. If he isn't the unanimous choice, voters don't know what they are doing. Thompson has taken the Dash to the brink of minor league baseball's best record despite significant turnover.
Agree? Disagree? Let me know.
But you have to like the fact that Winston-Salem paces the All-Star team with five representatives, plus the MVP and Manager of the Year.
– Brian
Dash Bullpen In Flux Again
The Dash's bullpen has been the most dynamic part of the roster this season. Relievers have come and gone more than any aspect of the roster. Today, two more relievers earned promotions, with Ryan Buch heading to Double-A Birmingham and Bryan Blough returning to the Triad from Low-A Kannapolis.
Buch is heading to the Southern League for the first time in his career. In 22 appearances this season, Buch is 4-5 with a 6.21 earned run average. He joined the bullpen at the tail end of the first half and struggled for a few outings in that role. However, the former eighth-round pick has allowed only three runs on eight hits in his last seven appearances spanning eight frames.
After his second stint in the South Atlantic League, Blough returns to Winston-Salem, where he went 2-0 with a 4.40 ERA in seven appearances. With the Intimidators, Blough was 2-6 with an ERA of 4.23 in 32 appearances, six of which were starts.
The Dash are back at BB&T Ballpark for the first of four against the Lynchburg Hillcats tonight at 7:00. Pre-game coverage begins at 6:45 here.
– Brian
DL Switch, Meaningful Game Tonight?
The Dash are off tonight, but the roster did change a bit in advance of the season's final week. Outfielder Ross Wilson was placed on the disabled list with a right hand injury, while Kyle Shelton is back from a DL stint due to a left hamstring strain.
Wilson had played four games since rejoining the Dash following a four-week trip to the disabled list due to an abdominal injury. Overall with Winston-Salem, Wilson is hitting .190 with six RBI and 11 runs scored in 25 games.
Shelton is back in Winston-Salem after posting a .364 mark in six games with Winston earlier this season. He has been on the disabled list since mid-July. Shelton has also played in eight games with Triple-A Charlotte, going 4-for-20 (.200) with a homer and two RBI.
Also, Winston-Salem may be off today, but the club could still lower its magic number to four. Second-place Myrtle Beach opens up a four-game series in Wilmington tonight at 7:05. The Dash own a three-game lead with seven to play in the chase for a second-half Southern Division title.
Enjoy the night off. I'll talk to you Tuesday.
– Brian
BaseBald Photos
Earlier this weekend, many Dash players participated in BaseBald, which is a program designed to fund critical childhood cancer research through the St. Baldrick's Foundation.
If you missed out on the special postgame ceremony, we have you covered. Check out some of the photos here (courtesy of Dan Barber, Jody Stewart and Brandon Cathey):
From left to right, Juan Silverio, Kevin Vance, Chris Bassitt, Michael Earley and Taylor Thompson.
A great look for Chris Bassitt, created by fellow Dash righty Terance Marin.
Justin Collop won the game Friday, and then cancer survivor Grant Ivey, who threw out the first pitch, shaved Collop's head.
Dash players and fans watch the BaseBald ceremony.
Many of the participating Dash players pose with Grant following the event.
Thanks to BaseBald and to those who participated or supported the cause. What a special night at BB&T Ballpark.
– Brian


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CNN reporter Lou Dobbs (and others in the press, including El Rushbo) really got the rhetorical juices flowing on eligibility by seriously discussing Mr. Obama's birth certificate (or lack thereof). In fact, according to WhoRunsGov.com, some individuals are so mad at Mr. Dobbs that they've set up a site to try to take him out of the reporter's chair:
By the way, Media Matters has unveiled a new site solely devoted to attacking Lou Dobbs and CNN for turning the network over to birthers, which is another sign that the birther tale is good business both sides.
And as you might have noticed from the referenced link, now Congress is officially trying to get around the eligibility issue as Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) attempted to introduce legislation that not only recognizes the 50th anniversary of Hawaii as the 50th State, but declaring that Mr. Obama was born there (via OpenCongress.org):
While the struggle to pass health-care reform legislation continues as the biggest story in Congress right now, that other "news" story just won't seem to die:
Dem Rep. Neil Abercrombieof Hawaii is going to introduce a resolution on the House floor today that seems designed to put House GOPers who are flirting with birtherism in a jam.
The measure Abercrombie will introduce commemorates the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood. But here's the rub, his spokesman tells me: It describes Hawaii as Barack Obama's birthplace.
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