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Unbelievable 9th Inning Comeback
Down 4-5 in Game 4 of the NLCS against the Dodgers, the Phillies were down to their last out and their last 2 strikes when Jimmy Rollins stepped to the plate with 2 runners on. Win, and the Phillies would have a huge 3-1 games advantage. Lose, and the series would be tied 2-2. What took place next was not only improbable, but it absolutely stunned the Dodgers.
Things looked good when the game started and Ryan Howard nailed a 2-run shot in the 1st inning. But the bats went quiet as ex-Phillies Randy Wolf bore down and kept the Dodgers in the game. Joe Blanton started for the Phillies and got roughed up a bit in the middle innings. By the end of the 6th, Blanton had allowed the 2-run lead slip away into a 2-4 deficit.
The bullpen took over in the 7th and held the Dodgers to those four runs. Chan Ho Park, Ryan Madson, Scott Eyre and Brad Lidge got the job done. However, the offense still seemed sleepy after that 11-0 rout the previous day, so a comeback was looking unlikely.
But then Matt Stairs stepped the plate with one out in the 9th and everyone began hoping for the same miracle that occurred in Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS: Stairs nailed a 2-run homer in the 8th inning of that 2008 game to give the Phillies the lead. Could this be a repeat performance?
Well, not quite. Facing the very same pitcher he got that hit off in 2008, Jonathan Broxton, Stairs felt confident. Broxton may not have felt quite as confident as he threw Stairs four straight balls. Eric Bruntlett was put in as a pinch runner. Broxton then proceeded to hit Carlos Ruiz with a pitch.
But Greg Dobbs lined out for the 2nd out and things were looking good for the Dodgers. J-Roll stepped to the plate with one final out remaining and 2 runners on base. With a 1-1 count, Rollins whacked a line drive into the hole in right-center field. Bruntlett and Ruiz tore up the base path, scoring 2 runs to win the game for the Phillies. Phillies fans screamed in celebration while Dodgers fans squirmed in agony.
As amazing and uplifting as this win was for the Phillies, on the other side of the spectrum it was equally as painful and gut-wrenching for the Dodgers. This was a killer blow, putting the Phillies at a 3-1 advantage; they now need only one more win in 3 possible tries to lock up a second consecutive trip to the World Series with a chance to repeat.
This win also shows why the Phillies are the defending World Champions. They believe they will win, they support one another and they never give up until the final out is recorded. To be able to witness this is the greatest joy of any fans life. Repeat or no repeat, Phillies fans should be proud of their team! What a year this has been…and it is not over yet.
Here is the Photo Album from the game…Go Phillies!!!
PS: Thank you to all my readers for making Phillies Phollowers the#1 Phillies fan blog on the MLB site for the entire 2009 season! And I am #8 overall for ALL fan blogs! Your support is greatly appreciated; it is an honor to bring you the Phillies through my eyes…Thank you!
Photos by Jenn
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As a Dodger fan I have to agree this ending was gut wrenching. However I do not agree it was "improbable." Broxton has not been good against the Phillies and I know the memory of Stairs last year must have been getting into his head. Most of us Dodger fans were dreading what happened next but we were almost expecting it. As for Randy Wolf, I wish he would have gotten a better result. I am one of the few who can say I was at his no hitter in Dodger Stadium long before he pitched for the Phillies and this guy was tough as nails. All these years later, it is hard to believe but it's his first playoffs and his second playoff pitching start. He is a class act. Don't know if we can pull one out from you tonight or not but I would hope it is not over for us. But it might be.
Jenn, not to be picky, but Ruiz got hit by the pitch before Dobbs, who was hitting in the pitcher's spot, made the second out (just a minor detail). Anyway, talk about a nail-biter! If I indulged in that particular nervous habit, I'd have chewed down to the knuckles watching that game! Let's see if they can wrap it up tonight!!
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kingmansperformance – I loved Wolf when he was with us…felt a little bad for him after that. Guess we'll see what happens tonight!
Sue – yeah, was still half asleep when I wrote that. Still not caught up on sleep either. Hope it is done tonight!!
You could say I was surprised… I mean, I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor. It's never over until it's over and the Phils are looking like THE team to beat right now. They sorta remind me of the '93 team w/ all those power bats. Wow.
Jenn, congrats on your placing! I can't talk about that game … waaaaaah! ; )
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Jenn, that was some game – and your pics are great. Congrats on being one game from the big series. I watched the end and thought the Dodgers had it won. But no! Your guys came back and stunned everybody. Amazing.
The game just reminded us all – it ain't over til it's over. Congrats.
I'll have to hope my hometown boy is NOT on his game tonight. 🙂 The Phillies have had a great run at us so far and it was that close to being tied. I hope it isn't over…yet!
p.s. Kingman, you were at his no hitter? Wow, pretty good. Wish he'd pitch one for the Dodgers! 🙂
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It's the holiday season and I am feeling in a giving mood. Inspired by listening to the Los Straitjackets surf rock holiday album and this eggnog I'm sipping I thought I would give the gift that keeps on giving: hyperlinks! I don't know your size or if you have food allergies but I do know you have a web browser with an internet connection. (Not exactly sure how you would be reading this otherwise.) Therefore I would like to share some links to Adobe articles that I have run across that might be of use. Uninstalling and disabling things are truly the kind of thing that brings a smile to the faces of IT admins this time of year.
Silent install/uninstall CS3:
Silent install/uninstall CS4:
(Why am I giving links to uninstalling CS3 and CS4? You might want to uninstall the older Suites before deploying CS5.)
Disable CS Live internet access from CS5 applications for system administrators:
Disable internet access from CS5 Community Help Client for system administrators:
Disabling Adobe Application Manager automatic updates for system administrators:
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Although Intel Corp.'s initial Core i7 lineup includes a central processing unit that sells below $300, the new microprocessor family may never become mainstream, at least, based on Intel's plans. Apparently, the quad-core Core i7 will have a tiny share among Intel's desktop shipments even in three quarters from now.
According to Intel's plans that X-bit labs has learnt, Intel pushes its highest-performing Core i7 chips based on Nehalem micro-architecture only into personal computers aimed at consumers. But even on that market Intel has no plans to be really aggressive with promotion of the new platform or flood the market with processors, while reducing the supplies of existing Intel Core 2 Quad central processing units (CPUs).
The share of Intel Core i7 chips is expected to be below 1% of all microprocessors that Intel will ship in Q4 2008, slides from certain product planning documents claim. Moreover, the proportion of Core i7 chips will hardly rise above 3% even in Q2 2009. In fact, even in the third quarter of next year, when Intel releases the first mainstream market-oriented Nehalem-based quad-core chip code-named Lynnfield, the share of Core i7-based platforms is projected to be below 5% of all CPUs sold by Intel.
The comparatively slow adoption rate of a new microprocessor design may be easily explained by the fact that Intel Core i7 chips require a completely new infrastructure: new core-logic sets, new mainboards, new sockets, cooling systems and so on, which is why system integrators might not demand rapid transition. In fact, since Lynnfield will use different infrastructure and code-named Ibex Peak core-logic compared to currently-shipping Core i7/Bloomfield (which is supported by Intel X58-based mainboards), its adoption rate may also not be fast.
Transitions to new micro-architectures along with new infrastructures have never been rapid neither for Intel nor its smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices. This time is not an exception, but gloomy economic outlook may further slowdown adoption of Intel's Nehalem.
Officials from Intel did not comment on the news-story.
Tags: Intel, Bloomfield, Nehalem, Lynnfield, X58, Core, Core i7, 45nm, Ibex Peak


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A Blockbuster History special review, in honor of the kind of mind-blowing box office take that makes the word "Blockbuster" seem woefully insufficient. We all have seen the joke, I am sure, that The Avengers is not the first film in recent memory with that title, but I would have to be the idiot who actually went and watched the other one.
The Avengers. We are not here to discuss it, so I will not dwell long on its complicated history; let it suffice to say that in the course of six series, it clocked five distinct cast changes, starting as the story of a medical doctor and an intelligence agent avenging the death of the doctor's fiancée (and thus the title, otherwise rendered totally inexplicable), and ending up as the same agent's rotating collection of hot female partners fighting mildly fantastic crime. It was not a great show; I will not even claim, citing ignorance, that four of the six series were even any fun. But from 1965 to 1968, The Avengers was the stuff of legend, the years that Patrick Macnee's John Steed was joined by Diana Rigg's Mrs Emma Peel: a pleasant, stuffy middle-aged man and a gorgeous woman in a catsuit, representing in their pulpy, frivolous way one of the most compelling depictions of the tension between solid, celibate old Britain and the ebullient garishness of mid-'60s youth culture ever filmed in any medium: even viewed in later years, it is playful, it is sexy, it is thrilling as hell if you are eleven and it is is a gratifyingly breezy way to get a quick spy adventure fix if you are older, and it is an irreplaceable time capsule from one of the most distinctive moments in all the annals of pop culture. Also, Diana Rigg in a catsuit. I cannot stress that enough.
The non-Rigg years have their defenders, in particular Honor Blackman's stint as the first of Steeds's female partners, and there was even an abortive attempt to bring back the concept in a pointedly Rigg-free manner with 1976's The New Avengers, but for the most part, when somebody says "I loved the Avengers", they are referring the Steed-Peel incarnation. And this is because that incarnation was freaking fantastic: the leads' chemistry, their personality conflicts, their perfectly timed awareness of how goofy their adventures were (and it is never entirely clear if the actors or the characters are not taking themselves seriously), all add up to absolutely marvelous TV - not art, but entertainment of the highest order. And that should be enough for you to go on for the moment.
My younger readers may not believe this, but there was a time when the vast majority of major releases were not sequels, reboots, remakes, or upgrades of preexisting properties. Nowadays, when "brand name" is such a key element of what films get made and for how much money that even the most casual moviegoer can discuss marketing conceits like a Variety reporter, the surprising thing is not when an old television program that more people know by name (if that) than have seen it is polished off and turned into a new movie, it's that there are still old television shows that haven't been remade.* But this didn't used to be the case at all: within living memory, TV-to-movie adaptations were very rare indeed, and most of them had Star Trek in the title - and for that matter, TV remakes, with a brand-new cast, were virtually unheard of (the earliest example I know is 1995's satirical The Brady Bunch Movie) (but I was wrong, see comments).
While the first Mission: Impossible is probably the reason that this seemed like a good idea in general, I suspect that we can look rather to three movies at the end of the 1990s as being primarily responsible for letting this particular genie out of the bottle, all of them impeccable examples of a property that lots of people have somewhat vaguely heard of and virtually no-one in the target audience has seen: going in reverse order, summer 1999 saw the magnificently costly flop Wild Wild West, spring of that year saw the truly spurious The Mod Squad, and August, 1998, bore witness to The Avengers, and now at last I have reached the point of this post.
Above and beyond the fact that they are all remakes of slightly obscure 1960s series that had a warm reputation among exactly those people least likely to willingly entertain the thought of such a remake, the three films share two very important traits in common: first, is that they are excruciatingly, almost indescribably bad. And actually, there's not a second thing, but they're just so fucking bad that I figured I would count it twice. And that is the last I will speak of Wild Wild West or The Mod Squad, for there is no earthly reason that anyone could have to talk about them, and instead I will focus, laser-like, on The Avengers, even though there is also no earthly reason to talk about that, either, except that I had a "cute" idea based solely on the film's title, and so finally watched the film after 14 years of assiduously avoiding it, and I would really hate for that singularly unpleasant 89 minutes of my life to have been a complete waste without even a review to show for it. Am I stalling? I am. Can I stall more? Probably. Hey, did I mention Diana Rigg's puberty-inducing catsuit? Well, I will do it again.
The Avengers '98 is a horrifyingly bad movie by any measure; but it feels like the graphic proof of a vicious God in comparison to the television show. Gone is the prancing interplay and super-casual sexual sizzle between Macnee and Rigg, replaced by stiff, itchy, shrill barbs tossed back and forth by Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, the latter of whom, you may know, is not English. And if you didn't know it, boy oh boy oh boy, would you ever be able to figure it out after listening to her pretending to be for an entire feature-length film.
There are just so many sins in The Avengers, but the saddest of them is that Fiennes and Thurman are wildly unlikable as two characters whose bright, flirty interplay is the whole entire point of the franchise. The Razzies are no more a reliable indicator than the Oscars, but the pair was nominated for Worst Couple, in addition to individual acting mentions (out of nine nominations overall); and that frankly seems about right.There are films in which a couple bickers and fights and trades insults, and you can tell, due to the spark between the actors, that they are hot for each other, and it is delightful. There are also films in which a couple bickers etc. and because the actors don't click, it seems like they really just hate each other, and its dreary. But in The Avengers, we find something that I didn't ever know existed: a film in which a couple banters and winks and laughs at each other's jokes and all but announce out loud how much they look forward to screwing, in which the two actors are so weirdly confrontational in doing so, Thurman especially, that they don't seem like potential lovers, or even flirty co-workers as much as dueling assassins forced to pretend to a kind of affection and friendship they do not feel in the slightest degree.
And then there is the plot. The Avengers, the show, beat Dr. No by a full year, but the height of its popularity was well into the English-speaking world's James Bond infatuation, and the slight sci-fi tinge to some of the show's plots can be seen as a kind of feather-light Bondian touch. The Avengers '98 is functionally a James Bond movie. A lousy one. The worst one. But what The Avengers did not have was supervillains with comic book plans for world domination, and what this film has is Sean Connery (See? SEE?) as the mad Sir August de Wynter - not giving him a treacherous girl henchman named April Showers must have taken every last molecule of writer Don MacPherson's self-control - who has used the climatology research that Mrs Dr Peel was working on (she's not even a spy in this movie, just a physicist that Steed teems up with, because sure, fine, whatever) to create a death machine that will destroy the planet with storms unless he is paid a king's ransom.
This was Warner Bros.'s second year in a row with an Uma Thurman movie in which a supervillain tried to rule the planet with weather, and it says a whole lot about how much The Avengers ruins everything that I actually can't decide if it's better or worse than Batman & Robin. Thurman herself is better here, but given that her Poison Ivy in B&R is one of the worst performances of the 1990s, she'd almost have to be.
Anyway, the plot is ridiculous, but that's not inherently a problem: plenty of great spy movies have ridiculous plots. That everything else around the plot is also ridiculous is a problem, like the fact that when de Wynter is in his Board Room of Evil, he and all of his evil colleagues are dressed up in huge, brightly colored teddy bear costumes. Here and elsewhere, you can tell from Connery's rather manic line readings and glazed expression that he flat-out gave up on this movie, and that is entirely his right - that nobody else in the cast is as visibly angry at what they have to do as Connery is is frankly a bit shocking. But still, this is the same Sean Connery who was able to summon up enough self-respect as an actor to turn in at least a functional performance in even as toxic a movie as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That he checked out of The Avengers so completely is rather telling. Meanwhile, he seems positively sensible when stacked next to a bizarrely over-qualified cast including Jim Broadbent, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Eddie Izzard, and a cameoing Patrick Macnee, all of whom indulge to some degree in an attempt to actually play their characters; one of the fun games you can play with the movie is trying to figure out which scenes they shot after realising what a shitpile the film was going to be, when they're performance suddenly becomes sweaty and dead-eyed.
What sums the film up, I think, is not the strange weather plot, which is rendered virtually incomprehensible thanks to a last minute edit that removed nearly a half-hour of footage - ordinarily I object to such vandalism, but it has the merit of making The Avengers shorter, and that is an absolute good - nor the demented manhandling of the Steed-Peel relationship, nor the godawful faux-Shirley Bassey song about storms over the end credits, nor the confusing action sequences in which director Jeremiah Chechik proved that light family comedies and quirky romances are not good practice for effects-driven thrillers (though the CGI itself is sort of good, in that late-'90s "we only have enough time and money for a couple of big scenes, so make 'em count" way), but the bees. The mechanical flying bees the size of go-karts that for no obvious reason chase Steed and Mrs Peel out of de Wynter's secret lair. What the fuck with the bees? Because, bees are famously sensitive to changes in the weather and that is why they sometimes die out mysteriously? I don't even know if that was a new story yet in 1998. But, I mean, big damn metal bees, a whole squadron of them. Compared to that, even James Bond's notorious invisible car is damn near sane.
Addendum: How did I manage to forget the most important part? One of the most galling and hateful things about the whole movie is its theme park idea of England, doubly obnoxious in light of how essentially British the original show was, in its humor, its performance style, its narrative sensibility, and its cultural commentary. The 1998 movie was made, apparently, by people who weren't even aware that there was a real-world United Kingdom that exists outside of wacky comedies, and everything is ratcheted up to such twee extremes that I'd assume it was a parody if anything else in the whole movie seemed to be even marginally intelligent. In this film, for example, there are at least three separate moments where the plot is literally stopped in place so that the characters can enjoy their afternoon tea - I say "at least", because truth be told, there was a stretch of time where I realised that I hadn't been paying attention, and I might have missed one. Not, by the way, "I feel asleep", or "I was doing something with the TV on in the background": while staring at the screen and doing absolutely nothing else, I hit a wall where I simply stopped processing the movie for a few minutes, probably because my brain was trying to murder itself. And that, I'd wager, is the best measure of just how wretched the movie is.


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Born to love
Re-evaluate the internal defense mechanisms that inhibit passion and intimacy
By Patti Carmalt-Vener 11/03/2011
Dear Patti,
I'm 42, married to a beautiful woman, have two wonderful children, and I'm very successful both financially and career-wise. I had a difficult childhood, but, for the most part, have moved past it.
My wife approached me yesterday and talked to me in a way she never had before. She said I'm a "perfect" husband and father, but that if she's truly honest, she oftentimes doesn't feel passion or strong love from me. This makes her very sad and heartbroken, because she truly loves me.
She related that I'm very mechanical in my responses and actions toward her and the children. Although I became indignant and hotly denied it, the truth is that she's right. For much of my adult life, I've gone through the motions at home and at work but have actually felt very little.
Part of me hates this and wants more than anything to be alive again, like I was as a child. The other part of me likes the way I am — free of the attachments that make life messy and unpredictable. I can't imagine changing my personality so drastically after all these years, even though I truly want to. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the subject. ~Robert
Dear Robert,
Reread what you just wrote to me; "… wants more than anything to be alive again, like I was as a child." To be able to feel passionate emotions is your birthright. You weren't born this way. When people experience emotionally traumatic experiences — whether a large, traumatic injury or a succession of negative experiences — their personalities can unconsciously create various defenses as a way to cope with the emotional distress.
While these defenses will limit the quality of life in the long run, they provide a way to cope in the short run. This is especially common when children feel helpless to defend themselves against overwhelming pain. Problems occur when they no longer need the defense and have long outgrown it but still operate from that reality.
What you're describing is the defense of emotional detachment or emotional numbness. It's one thing if you're voluntarily choosing to detach yourself from a person or situation. Doing this involuntarily or chronically, however, reflects an inability to emotionally connect and is often a component in anxiety and stress disorders. A person with this problem is often viewed as preoccupied or distracted, even when he or she is physically present or intellectually engaged. An extreme fear of emotional intimacy causes this individual to avoid expressing feelings toward others or being affected by any emotions that are directed toward him or her.
If you've gone through a traumatic experience or suffered repeated trauma, you may be disconnected and unable to trust.
Avoidance behavior gives you a false sense of safety and being in control, where nobody can emotionally devastate you again. It also creates an internal war in which the healthy side of you really wants to give and receive love but the unhealthy side wants to stay detached.
Look at your situation as two walls you must knock down. The first is the wall between you and your buried feelings. Knock down this wall, and you'll feel your emotions again. The second wall is between your feelings and others. Knock down this wall and you'll express these feelings toward others, including your loved ones. In the process, it's likely you'll relive old childhood pain as well as intense feelings of longing, loneliness, fear, rage and grief. A trusting therapist can guide you through these experiences and encourage you to lovingly listen to yourself and understand what you've been through historically. In turn, these buried feelings will disappear and you will no longer have to have defenses against them, such as emotional detachment. You can feel alive again, more connected and intimate with others and yourself, just as you were born to do.
Patti Carmalt-Vener, a faculty member with the Southern California Society for Intensive Short Term Psychotherapy, has been a psychotherapist in private practice for 23 years and has offices in Pasadena, Santa Monica and Canoga Park. Contact her at (626) 584-8582 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit her Web site: patticarmalt-vener.com.
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Is policy killing red-state women?
I see some on the Left passing around this map showing that female mortality worsened in many counties between the early/mid-'90s and the early/mid-2000s. (Meanwhile, male mortality only worsened in 3.4% of counties.)
They noticed red states doing worse than blue states, and thought that this must, of course, be due to the Republican war on women™.
The mortality rate of females [worsening] in 43 percent of U.S. counties from 2002-2006 is eye-opening. This map from health researcher Bill Gardner helps you see where the worst results are typically coming from — red states and the redder parts of blue states.
It apparently did not occur to these partisans to control for a fairly simple, innocent phenomenon: old people just die more frequently than younger people.
- Rural areas are aging faster as they have fewer kids who stick around – and it's mostly women left behind, since women have a longer life expectancy than men in the US. So the mortality rate of a county could go up even if people are as healthy for their age as ever.
- On the other hand, when you have an influx of young people (like in high-immigration counties), the mortality rate drops.
As evidence for this, look at the overlaps between the above map and two others:
More old people combined with fewer people in the prime of their health tends to mean a higher death rate, and vice versa. It's not a perfect correlation, but at very least it's something that should be taken into account before blaming policy for deaths.
It certainly seems like less of a stretch than trying to blame the trend in female mortality on suicides connected to expanded gun ownership:
[A]nother study suggests that red states' high levels of gun ownership make them especially dangerous:
With few exceptions, states with the highest rates of gun ownership — for example, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Alabama, and West Virginia — also tended to have the highest suicide rates.
How big of a stretch is this as a contributor to female mortality? Two little hints:
- suicide is not even close to a leading cause of death among women
- men commit suicide almost four times as often as women in the US, and seven times as often with guns, yet male mortality dropped in almost all counties even as gun ownership expanded
And then there's this bold prediction:
With red states rushing to turn down the Medicaid expansion, these results will likely only get worse.
That's not outlandish as guesses go, since women consume two thirds of medical care in this country, but there's not an obvious nationwide relationship between Medicaid dependence and changes in women's mortality (though controlling for ethnicity might be a start):
Blaming the party elected by older people for higher mortality in the areas they govern is like blaming Democrats for young urbanites being more prone to violent crime than old rural farmers. If you're not controlling for other causes, you're just trolling for partisan causes.
On casting stones at same-sex couples
Over at RedState, Erick Erickson promoted a post in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage by "mjdaniels," a Christian conservative and long-time lurker there. It's a long post that makes a number of good points, but he ultimately makes a number of rhetorical errors that give his fellow Christian conservatives an easy way out, and they did fix on those errors. So it is that the people I see praising his argumentation with the fewest reservations are mostly not currently practicing Christians or self-identified conservatives.
Among those errors, the biggest was probably when he said, "Is Homosexuality a Sin? I. Do. Not. Care." Christians are supposed to care whether others sin. The proper question is the duty others have to sinners. And behold all the RedState regular commenters saying that they're called to rebuke sin and lead sinners away from sin, out of love. Many deny that enshrining these rebukes in legal exclusivity is tantamount to "hunting down sinful people," and they claim that it isn't them but same-sex marriage activists who are trying to "wield the power of the government to enforce my convictions on others."
I'd sorely like to see how his fellow Christian conservatives would respond if they couldn't focus on those errors. In particular, I wished "mjdaniels" had better focused on something he only said in passing at the end of his post: that opponents of same-sex marriage were essentially calling for "casting the first stone at" this set of sinners.
It seems to me that when persuading Christian conservatives, one should be absolutely clear that the status quo is coercion – discriminatory taxes and inheritance rules, and denying the right to contract, all of which conservatives agree is state coercion when it's applied to them – and that when Jesus was challenged to support such coercion (stoning a woman caught in the act of adultery, according to Mosaic Law), he in turn challenged the teachers of law and Pharisees that the first stone should be cast by one who is without sin. When no one would stone her, he said he would not condemn her that way either, and he simply told her to leave her life of sin.
If even Jesus doesn't think it's humans' place to punish violations of one of the Ten Commandments dealing with marriage, then it's an uphill climb for a Christian conservative to argue that it's their duty to uphold the use of such force based on moral strictures that are much less clear.
I find it baffling that conservatives think the government is capable of making a compact sacred by calling it a marriage, but there I see it in the RedState comments. Do they teach their children that the state's refraining from coercion is an indication of societal approval of a behavior? No; what is not prohibited is merely left to be governed by the other aspects of civil society (the family, the market, churches, social pressure, etc.) and, if Christians are correct, God's ultimate judgment.
Painting the map… different.
Some of you have already seen this graphic. It's what the United States woud look like if all 50 had the same population, with a few extra factors taken into account so that the borders still make as much sense as they can.
The extra factors include keeping almost all existing counties whole, aiming for compact shapes and not splitting up metro areas unless really necessary. They also try to keep drainage basins together. Click on the picture if you want to see the whole proposal.
The purpose of this exercise is to solve the perceived problem of unequal representation in the federal government. This way, not only do all U.S. senators represent the same number of people, but so do all members of the House of Representatives. So each person has equal representation in the Electoral College as well, though of course some states would still be more competitive than others. (Oh, and DC gets to drop the "Taxation Without Representation" license plates.)
This isn't intended as a serious proposal, but it mixes two things that I love because they both tug the mind out of its usual grooves of thought:
- altered maps – When you first saw a simple "upside-down" map of the world, didn't it just demand to be stared at for a while?
- visualizations of unusual political/social reform proposals – It's easy to think of the status quo as natural, and easier yet not to think of why things are quite the way they are; illustrating the world in a way markedly different from reality challenges the mind to justify the current order. I suspect this has something to do with my enjoyment of sci-fi and historical what-ifs; instinctually turning toward such questioning may be a common trait among libertarians.
I try not to be too hasty in throwing out the current order; Burke and Hayek had useful insights about the limits of knowledge and reason. So I haven't adopted this reform proposal, but it has been fun thinking about it. I even spent part of today lightly crunching the county-level numbers from the U.S. Senate elections since 2008, just to see how it would affect the balance of power there. (I still haven't gotten around to checking how it would affect recent presidential elections.)
But beyond the electoral reform, you can spin your mind for hours about the economic and cultural consequences of following these simple and (each taken in isolation) sensible algorithms. The artist who created the map asked people to "take it easy with the emails about the sacred soil of Texas" – though I do wonder whether the four senators from Dallas-Fort Worth and the greater Houston area would be very different from the senators Texas usually elects. What else jumps to mind?
- Just try to picture the kind of senators the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago are likely to elect when they don't have to appeal to a swath of suburban and rural voters. Picture it!
- The first three of those metro areas got more than 75% of the benefit of housing-related tax benefits like the mortgage-interest tax deduction, according to a 2001 study.
- L.A. and NYC would have less influence on the sources of much of their drinking water; that could easily tip the balance and allow landowners upstate to open their land to energy development.
- For that matter, imagine governing the Great State of People Who Commute to Chicago. "Chicagoland Minus Chicago."
- Y'know, if you look at how Susan Collins and Kelly Ayotte did in Casco counties in 2008 and 2010, compared to Elizabeth Warren's margins in her part of the new state, it's not hard to imagine Republican senators representing Boston. Just sayin'.
- Chinati, the rather heavily Hispanic border state, narrowly voted more for Republican senators than Democratic ones in 2012.
- The Black Belt in the South appears to prevent none of the new states from electing Republican senators, including Ozark, Tidewater, and even Atlanta, though it would have been close in 2008.
- Right now, the heaviest dependence on direct government benefits is particularly concentrated in certain places, and mostly not in urban counties.
- Specifically, the Coal Country patch from West Virginia into southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky would be split between more states, while the patch of heavy dependence in the Ozarks (southern Missouri into northern Arkansas) would be concentrated into… Ozark. The most dependent part of Michigan is combined with the most dependent part of Wisconsin. The most dependent parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado would be combined in Shiprock.
- Would the big cities that were disconnected from poorer hinterlands become less tolerant of federal redistribution? Would Boston, now sharing a much larger territory with more people dependent on benefits, take a dimmer view of state-level redistribution?
- Meanwhile, the urban centers of today's Colorado would get to be in the same state as the Bakken shale oil boom: Ogallala, which is also a great beneficiary of…
- Agricultural subsidies! You can already see the representatives of Nodaway wearing their Farm Bill buttons. Then there's Ozark again, straddling both banks of the Mississippi River and getting another dose of federal money. Another notable dependent: Tidewater.
This is going to a lot of trouble to ensure that a voter in Billings has the same level of representation as a voter in Cheyenne, and that a Californian has equal say in the Senate as a Rhode Islander. But maybe all that trouble from such simple rules is why it's so ripe for speculation.
How Republicans will lead again
What will the Republican Party look like when it retakes the lead in governing? I'd bet it will be a coalition that identifies more with what Alex Castellanos is laying out at NewRepublican.org.
Some of it is new messaging for old ideas. Castellanos rebrands spontaneous order and subsidiarity as "open," "natural," "organic," and "bottom-up." He tags statism, command economies and federal control as "closed," "artificial," and "top-down." Those are elegant ways to tell Whole Foods shoppers and Silicon Valley what we're about without assigning them F.A. Hayek or a history of the Soviets.
Castellanos also stresses the superiority of private compassion over state welfare, but instead of getting trapped by placing charity in a bidding war with the welfare state, or quibbling over the definition of charity, he casts the state welfare agencies as "machine-like" or "factory-like" and "archaic," and more importantly labeling them as "social mercenaries" that allow Americans to "distance ourselves from our responsibilities as human beings," which involve "person-to-person" compassion.
That leads into a much more substantive change: redirecting social conservative energy to where it can actually accomplish something for itself and for the party, namely local and fulfilling private action instead of trying to seize the top and push down, which outsources to politicians and bureaucrats the promotion of our values.
Several items on the list of 67 beliefs of New Republicans (67!) deal with this:
4. We believe in freedom nationally and values locally.
6. We believe that when we allow big-government to enforce our values, we legitimize it to enforce other values, as well.
7. We believe in natural and organic ways of addressing social challenges, not political and artificial controls directed by Washington.
12. We believe Washington should stay out of our wallets, and out of our bedrooms.
39. We believe we are Republican for Everybody, and Republicans Everywhere. We believe our principles are an indispensable force for good, needed now to alleviate poverty, misery, dependency, and family breakdown destroying American lives in our inner cities.
Social conservatives lost the battle to use federal levers to enforce family and religious values, and damaged the good reputation of those values in the attempt, but those beliefs are still popular in many states, towns, and households. They can still gather a majority coalition with libertarians and moderates to carve out the space to practice their values and their faith without interference from the state, with more confidence and optimism than Paul Weyrich had in the late '90s; if they revert to using top-down power, those potential allies will be embarrassed of their association with social conservatives. That's coalition politics.
The New Republicans will avoid being associated with Big Everything, including Big Business. What saps the Republican Party's entrepreneurial spirit and daring to cut government and promote free markets is its reliance on forces that want the state to protect them against change and competition; Milton Friedman repeatedly observed that this makes business community a frequent enemy of free enterprise. But the GOP need not be anti-business, just suspicious to the extent of keeping anything Big at arm's length.
Finally, Castellanos does stress a couple of times that New Republicans believe in "campaign[ing] for our solutions in the most benighted parts of America, from the barrio to the inner city." I've heard noises to that effect from Republicans for years, but that will only succeed if it's a major, sustained effort; if we have nothing to say about urban problems beyond school choice, and we don't learn how to assertively persuade people that we are absolutely superior at addressing poverty, we're cooked. These things require practice, trials and errors, and personal experience with the poor and with urban life. We have to be able to win at least sometimes, electing mayors and city councils in major metro areas, to show that our way of governing works for the growing portion of the country living in cities.
I said at the beginning that this is how Republicans will think when they regain the lead in governing, and I chose those words instead of "winning elections" because it's possible the GOP can temporarily get over 50% here and there by other means, but it won't have the initiative until it accepts the challenge to persuade all of America that its principles are relevant to them. The party could and should also make gains by modernizing the way it learns and reorganizes itself, how it encourages and channels activism, its campaign tactics and strategy, and more. But those things go naturally with a mindset that's reflexively entrepreneurial and not only open to change but so hungry for it that we're unafraid to stop doing what isn't working.
Speaking plainly about force
One of the most useful things I've learned about communication is the importance of stating things plainly and concretely.* But thinking about that lesson frequently makes politics maddening.
Euphemisms are the health of politics. If a government really wants to get away with murder, even secrecy can be less useful than making that particular murder sound unremarkable, justifiable, sensible, or even dutiful.
So lift those heavy eyelids
What if people could easily function with much less sleep?
Jon M at Sociological Speculation asked that question after observing that "new drugs such as Modafinil appear to vastly reduce the need for sleep without significant side effects (at least so far)." At extremes, as Jon M noted in a follow-up post, modafinil allows a reduction to 2.5 hours a night, but "the more common experiences seem to be people who reduce their sleep by a few hours habitually and people who use the drugs to stay up for extended periods once in a while without suffering the drastic cognitive declines insomnia normally entails." In fact, alertness is not the only reported cognitive benefit of the drug.
The US brand of modafinil, Provigil, did over $1.1 billion in US sales last year, but for the moment let's dispense with the question of whether modafinil is everything it's cracked up to be. We're speculating about the consequences of cheaply reducing or even eliminating the need for sleep for the masses.
If I can add to what's already been said by several fine bloggers – Garett Jones at EconLog on the likely effect on wages, then Matt Yglesias at Slate sounding somewhat dour about the prospect, and Megan McArdle at the Daily Beast having fun with the speculation – the bottom line is that widely reducing the need for sleep would be a revolutionary good, as artificial light was.
For a sense of scale, there are about 252 million Americans age 15+, and on average they're each awake about 5,585 hours a year. Giving them each two extra hours a night for a year would be equivalent to adding the activity of 33 million people, without having to shelter, clothe, and feed 33 million more people.
Whatever objections critics have, sleeping less will be popular to the extent that people think the costs are low. For all the billions of dollars spent trying to add years to their older lives, obviously people would spend more to add life to their younger years. Who ever said, "If only I'd had less time!"?
Consider that the average employed parent usually sleeps 7.6 hours each workday. He spends 8.8 of his remaining hours on work and related activities, 1.2 hours caring for others, and 2.5 hours on leisure and sports.
If he spends more time working productively (i.e. serving others), that's good for both him and society. The time and effort invested in birthing, educating, and sorting people for jobs is tremendous, so getting more out of people who are already born, educated, and sorted is just multiplying the return on sunk costs.
That's a godsend for any society undergoing a demographic transition after the typical fall in birthrates, because aside from hoping for faster productivity growth, the specific ways to address having fewer workers per retiree – higher taxes, lower benefits, more immigration, or somehow spurring more people to invest in babies for decades – are unpleasant or difficult or both.
And if he uses extra hours to pursue happiness in other ways, that's generally fine too. A lot of people may simply get more out of their cable subscription. Others will finally have time for building and maintaining their families, reading, exercising, or learning a skill.
Yes, once a substantial number of people are enhancing their performance, others will likely have to follow suit if they want to compete. But then, that's also true of artificial light and many other technologies. If people naturally slept only four hours a night and felt rested and alert, who would support a law forcing everyone to sleep twice as long, cutting a fifth of their waking hours so that everyone would slow down to the speed that some people prefer to live their lives?
I don't think most people have such a strong presumption in favor of sleep. We like feeling rested, or dreaming, but not sleeping as such; a substantial minority of Americans sleep less than advised despite the known costs, and so reveal their preference for waking life over oblivion.
To give is to waste?
My friend George Scoville wrote a Black Friday-appropriate post on a problem with gift-giving, which touches on a broader point that libertarians should heed.
A microeconomics paper that's bounced around econ-blogs for several years says gift-giving causes a huge deadweight loss: when someone else picks a gift for you, it may not be what you would have bought for yourself when you would have bought it, which normally implies that goods and services are being distributed inefficiently.
If that's true, then Christmas is a tremendously wasteful institution, within an order of magnitude of the income tax, and we'd be better off giving each other cash gifts.
First, on a technical note, that paper was written in 1993, before Amazon wish lists and social media made it easier to detect people's interests and needs, so perhaps we're getting better at matching gifts with recipients.
More importantly, the paper fell short of meaningfully capturing deadweight loss, because it focused entirely on the value of the goods. Gift economies mostly operate on another kind of supply and demand: the desire for social cohesion, meaning closer relationships with family, friends, and other peers.
This is no trivial matter: relationships with people we can count on make us happier, healthier, and more successful. Anything that helps to build and cement those bonds is valuable, and while some academics and marketers try to quantify that value (it may be more than you'd think), the normal rule is that relationships of trust should not be fungible with cash. All societies have some social taboo against trading off the sacred and the mundane, which sometimes leads to absurdly stupid conclusions, but also allows people to build trust without worrying that anything intimate or of an extremely hard-to-price value (what's the rest of your life worth?) will be easily sold for any of the mundane things that can be bought with cash.
It's awkward when people give each other cash as gifts even if the amount is equal, and gift exchanges in which only one side puts any thought into it show unequal empathy. If you put a lot of thought into anticipating someone's wants, and that person gives you a very generic gift, it's like being put in the Friend Zone.
The point of gifts is to trip a hardwire in the brains of social mammals: cycles of giving and gratitude that go beyond simple reciprocity. When you're trading cash, everyone is acutely aware of the value of what's been exchanged, and there's no fudge factor in the brain for "the thought that counts."
That's something we disagreeable, rationalistic libertarians should keep in mind, because the gift economy is a powerful force in human relations that resists and resents the intrusion of market forces, even if markets efficiently bring us the gifts.
Why the Right Should Embrace "Fairness" in Entitlement Reform
This is a departure from my previous two posts; it's not about a particular group that has pulled away from the GOP. Romney pulled a slightly larger share of older voters than McCain did, even if fewer total turned out than in previous years. That the Romney-Ryan ticket did this while proposing entitlement reform is a substantial feat, but it did involve watering down the reforms a great deal. For example, Republicans now make a habit of promising that nobody under age 55 will be affected by their reforms.
Why make this concession when the lion's share of the fiscal problem is current retirees and the many, many Baby Boomers who will retire soon? Boomers vote, of course, but what motivates them? I don't think most seniors could bring themselves to act on straightforward greed; I think they're voting based on a particular concept of fairness.
Specifically, they paid into the system over a long career, and they believe they should be able to get back what they paid in. And even though current Medicare beneficiaries get two to six times as much in benefits as they paid in (if this is right), only about a third of Americans think Medicare beneficiaries get any more than they paid in. As long as they think that way, they'll continue to oppose means testing and raising the retirement age by wide margins.
You might be tempted to say that our task is to educate them, but it's much easier to persuade people based on their current beliefs than to convince them of inconvenient facts first. Republicans basically conceded that cutting benefits to older voters at all would be unfair, and pushed complicated plans that few people aside from Paul Ryan can competently defend.
But we might be even bolder if we just hugged that core fairness principle tighter.
September's Reason-Rupe poll (PDF – fixed link) asked Americans if they'd support cuts to their own Medicare benefits "if you were guaranteed to receive benefits at least equal to the amount of money that you and your employer contribute into the system." It was a blowout: 68% yes, 25% no. Three quarters of Tea Partiers said yes.
At a stroke, you could slash Medicare in half with a reform based on that principle. (Their August 2011 poll suggested similar support for applying the principle to Social Security, but the cuts would be much more modest.)
Centering a reform on that principle achieves steeper cuts and seems easier to defend than what Paul Ryan is trying. Because if Democrats fought us on it, they'd have to make the wildly unpopular case for entitlements as redistribution programs rather than as "insurance" or "savings."
The kind of coalition the Right needs for sustainable entitlement reform has to include people who highly value fairness (or, as Jonathan Haidt would call it, proportionality). If we want the project of liberty to be successful, we have to pluck on other heartstrings.
Why Conservatives Should Embrace Gay Marriage
I already mentioned that marriage, kids, and a mortgage are very strong indicators of conservatism. Here's a straightforward causal explanation: when you're invested in something, you don't want it to be taken from you, and you're skeptical of starry-eyed meddlers doing anything that might threaten it. Probably the best thing done for the cause against gun control was teaching others how to use and maintain a firearm: once people own one, it sharpens the mind to cut through any argument for taking it away.
But a gun is a small investment compared to a committed and intimate relationship, custody of children, and homeownership. A dollar taxed is one that you can't spend on your family when they want something, a dollar borrowed is one that your kids will pay back, and that meddler on TV is rolling the dice with a major part of your life.
In the case of immigration, Hispanics are already primed to be conservative because they're already invested. With gay marriage, you have a group trying awfully hard to get more invested.
The conservative argument for embracing gay marriage is that marriage seems to be a fine institution that benefits even people who can't have children together, and that it may strengthen the institution and the country to expand the institution so that a nontrivial minority of the population is on the inside trying to protect it rather than on the outside where their exclusion leads to thorny political issues of respect and tribalism.
Another conservative argument is that if gay marriage is politically inevitable, conservatives should proactively move through legislation to ensure that it goes smoothly without infringing on other freedoms (like those of association and contract), rather than allow this to play out entirely in the courts or in a referendum. If conservatives keep trying to board the windows, more stuff is going to end up broken than if they just opened the door.
As with immigration and Hispanics, marriage may not be gays' top priority, but it matters, and the way Republicans approach and discuss the issue can signal that "you're not one of us," which is poison for coalition-building.
The flip side of that coin doesn't have to be pandering; given the consciousness of gay communities about targeted violence and bullying, it'd be awesome if conservatives taught more gays how to use and maintain firearms.
Why Conservatives Should Embrace Free Immigration
After the election, Righty circles are naturally engaging in some soul-searching, finger-pointing, and bickering. Some of this is unproductive venting, but it's also the start of the process of working out how to move on and improve, and there's no time to waste.
My conversations with fellow Righty operatives and bloggers have spurred me to suggest several ways Republicans could simultaneously make the party more attractive (or less repulsive) to voters and achieve more conservative results. This post is about immigration and reversing the trend of Hispanics rapidly abandoning the GOP; the next is about gay marriage; and the final post is about entitlement reform.
First, let's dispense with the notion agreed upon by many on the Right: seal the border first, so that whatever follows is more controlled and orderly. This is an expensive fantasy. Conservatives need to apply their skepticism of huge, complex, market-distorting government plans to every issue surrounding immigration, starting with any plan to spend tens of billions of dollars on thousands of miles of fence, surveillance, unionized government employees, and a verification system forced on every employer in the country.
It's a joke that the Republican Party, which is practically defined by marriage, babies, and mortgages, holds at arm's length a whole demographic (Hispanics, especially foreign-born) that tends to be more religious, marry younger and longer, and have larger families than the average American voter.
Mass immigration could work for the GOP if the GOP went with the tide instead of trying to stop it.
- If Republicans want school choice, they should have natural allies among those who are religious, have large families, and see their children suffer under the worst public schools. When you hear complaints that Hispanic immigrants don't speak English, suggest vouchers and education savings accounts for private-school English language instruction.
- If Republicans want to revive farms and stop the population drain from rural areas, make legitimate cheap labor more available: open up a bunch of farm worker visas.
- If Republicans want to cut the cost of new housing so that young people can form households and families, make legitimate cheap labor available for that too. Heck, why not try to break various trade unions by inviting enough skilled immigrants to swamp or bypass their system?
- So the entitlement system is a problem? Yeah, Milton Friedman famously said you can't simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state. Shouldn't the Republican response be "Bring on free immigration"? If math dooms Medicaid and the subsidized industrial-age hospital model, why not make the math even harder?
- Conservatives have longed to shift taxes away from production and toward consumption. Nobody wants to remove labor tax wedges (AHEM: the payroll tax) as much as someone in a labor-intensive business, the kind that tends to thrive when there's a lot of cheap labor available. That goes for both employers and the employees whose compensation is tilted toward wages rather than benefits; we know it suppresses the Hispanic savings rate. And the payroll tax, of course, helps to maintain the accounting fiction that SocSec and Medicare are like savings.
Now, about the security problem: is it easier to pick out a genuine security threat in the crowd if everyone just has to pass a security check, or if hundreds of thousands of people are trying to cross the border undetected because the only legal route is a seven-year byzantine process?
Heather Mac Donald at NRO offers a potential counter-argument: Hispanics are more suspicious of Republicans for supporting class warfare than for opposing immigration according to a poll (from March 2011), and a majority favor gay marriage, so they're not such a conservative bunch. But:
- Immigration may not be most Hispanics' top concern, but it isn't trivial either. And because politics is so tribal, there are many ways to alienate a group without actually disagreeing on policy – many of which Republicans blunder into when discussing immigration.
- Republicans shouldn't cede the class warfare argument either: it wouldn't hurt if the party focused more on the poor, as Mac Donald's colleague Kevin D. Williamson exhorts the GOP to do. If you're a small-government type who reads the previous sentence as a plea to compromise on principle, that reaction is part of the problem.
- Finally: social issues. Mac Donald points out that a majority of Hispanics favor gay marriage. I'll argue in my next post that conservatives should proactively embrace gay marriage, which should resolve this issue nicely.


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I have read many times that I should be able to eat anything while breastfeeding, to be healthy in my choices and eat a little of everything. However, I notice that there are certain foods that make my newborn's colic worse, such as beans, chocolate, cranberry juice. Is there any other foods that you've noticed that makes your baby cry more with colic, or reflux?
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The Broncos and Seahawks will play at Sports Authority Field at Mile High to open their preseason schedule sometime Aug. 7-10, with the exact date and time to be finalized at a later date.
The Buffalo Bills and New York Giants will open the preseason in the nationally televised Pro Football Hall of Fame game from Canton, Ohio, at 4 p.m. ET on Aug. 3.
Eight national TV games headlined by the New Orleans Saints visiting the Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs playing at Carolina marked the 65-game NFL preseason schedule released Wednesday.
The San Francisco 49ers open new Levi's Stadium on Sunday, Aug. 24, against the San Diego Chargers, a 4 p.m. ET kickoff to be aired nationally on FOX.
---University of Phoenix Stadium will host the 2015 Pro Bowl, seven days before the Super Bowl is played at the home of the Arizona Cardinals.
After considering cutting the all-star game entirely, the 2014 Pro Bowl was deemed a success by commissioner Roger Goodell. The annual exhibition played in the playoff bye week between conference championship games and the Super Bowl will not relocate from Hawaii on a permanent basis.
In 2015 the game will be played Sunday, January 25, 2015 and televised live on ESPN at 8 PM ET from University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, the site of Super Bowl XLIX a week later on Sunday, February 1. The Arizona Cardinals and Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee will host the Pro Bowl and surrounding activities.
The Pro Bowl following the 2015 season will be played on Sunday, January 31, 2016 and televised live on ESPN from Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, which first hosted the NFL's All-Star game in 1980. San Francisco will host Super Bowl L the following Sunday.
An agreement with the state of Hawaii ties the NFL to playing the Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium following the 2016 season pending final mutual approval.
The 2014 Pro Bowl drew 11.4 million viewers.
The 2015 Pro Bowl will be the third one played in the same city as the Super Bowl. The Los Angeles Coliseum hosted the first Super Bowl on January 15, 1967 and the Pro Bowl the following week. South Florida hosted the Pro Bowl in 2010 a week before Super Bowl XLIV.
---The New Orleans Saints restructured the contract of defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley to create $2.85 million in salary cap space, according to reports Wednesday.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that Bunkley cut his 2014 salary from $4.5 million to $1.65 million. His base salary in 2014 is now $1.3 million and he will receive a $300,000 roster bonus on April 10. His base salary in 2015 and 2016 will remain at $4.4 million.
The 30-year-old is a rotational defensive tackle. He played in 13 games and had eight tackles and five assists last season.
---The San Diego Chargers re-signed offensive lineman Rich Ohrnberger to a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday.
The 6-foot-2, 300-pound Ohrnberger appeared in 13 regular-season games in 2013, making one start at right guard. He also played at left guard and center.
Ohrnberger, 28, has appeared in 31 regular season games (five starts) in his NFL career. He has also played for the New England Patriots (2009-2011) and Arizona Cardinals (2012). Ohrnberger was a fourth-round selection of New England in 2009.
---The Buffalo Bills signed free agent punter Jake Dombrowski on Wednesday.
The 6-foot-1, 190-pound Harvard product appeared in 31 career games (2009-12) for the Crimson, booting 146 punts for 5,839 yards. A native of Gaylord, Mich., Dombrowksi earned First-Team All-Ivy League honors as a senior.
The signing means competition for veteran punter Brian Moorman, who re-signed with the Bills early in the offseason. He averaged 41.2 yards per punt with a 36.6 net average last season.
---Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne said he expects to be cleared April 25, in time to fully participate in offseason workouts.
The 35-year-old Wayne had surgery in October to repair a torn ACL. He said he is ahead of schedule and stoked to return to a wide receiving corps that added former New York Giants first-round pick Hakeem Nicks.
"I'm a fan of (Nicks). We can combine all the winning he's done and we've done and come out with a nice mixture," Wayne said. "He's a big target, great skills, big hands ... I really don't think there are a lot of guys that can cover him."
Third-year receiver T.Y. Hilton caught 99 passes, including playoffs, last season and emerged as quarterback Andrew Luck's top target in Wayne's absence.


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Commissioners decide to purchase property
NEW CUMBERLAND – The Hancock County Commission is buying more property. This time it's the Dollar General store on North Chester Street in New Cumberland.
"We thought it was too good to pass up," Commissioner Mike Swartzmiller said on Wednesday.
"It could be used for a couple of things," including as a garage or for records storage, Commissioner Dan Greathouse said.
Commissioners voted unanimously on Wednesday to buy the property for $232,000. The county originally offered $219,000 for the store, which measures about 7,000 square feet, Greathouse said.
Commissioners expect to take control of the property after the store vacates the location on April 30, he said. The Dollar General is moving to a new location on Ridge Avenue, at the former site of the Mid-Ridge Cafe. The restaurant, now named MJ's Midtown Diner, was razed last month and has moved to 206 North Chester St., behind the New Cumberland Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3526.
The Ridge Avenue property was sold to DG Strategic LLC in December, according to the Hancock County Assessor's Office.
Greathouse said the purchase makes sense because the county owns the land adjacent to the Dollar General, as far south as Paula's House of Pets & Grooming.
Greathouse said the county, in addition to needing more storage space, is trying to acquire an inventory of properties available for economic development. In December, commissioners bought the properties of Newell Memorial Field and the former Jimmy Carey Stadium in Weirton from Hancock County Schools for $400,000.
Commissioners are preparing a bid package for the sale of the football fields and hope to have the demolition done by April 1, Greathouse said.
In other business Wednesday, commissioners agreed to seek bids for private operation of Kennedy Marina & Campground west of Newell. The marina currently is operated by Hancock County Parks and Recreation.
Commissioner Jeff Davis said whoever gets the contract would have to submit a development plan and reinvest the profits into the operation of the marina, which includes a concession stand, boat docking, boat launches, and camper and trailer rental.
Under the agreement, the county would receive a minimum of $2,000 of marina revenues each month – or $24,000 a year, Davis said.
Any contract also would be subject to approval by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service.
In a related matter, commissioners also approved a new set of bylaws for Hancock County Parks & Recreation and agreed to advertise for new members of the parks and recreation board, which currently has five members but is supposed to have nine.
Commissioners also agreed to solicit bids for grass cutting on various county properties and cemeteries. Sealed bids will be accepted until 2 p.m. March 25, and a contract will be awarded on April 4.
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Doors open 5:30 p.m. and show starts at 7. Admission is $7. Door prizes will be given at intermission.
Stacey is from Portland and has been on the Refugio Country Opry many times in the past.
She is a lady with a big voice and a real crowd pleaser. Stacey is host of the Portland Opry show in Portland, and that show is the second Thursday of each month.
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L.A. is from Corpus Christi and is also a return performer to the Refugio Opry. He has performed on many of the other Opry shows in the area.
The Fierova Family provides an excellent food court, and, like the Opry, all their net proceeds go toward a scholarship fund for graduating seniors.
Come early and eat with them as they will be serving up all your favorites.
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Over-reliance on natural gasNovember 19,2013
National Grid of Massachusetts recently submitted a tariff request that will raise electricity rates for its residential customers by nearly 20 percent and its industrial customers by 30 percent. These increases will have a major impact on jobs, as a 30 percent increase in electricity rates to all Massachusetts industries would result in $600 million in additional electricity costs annually and countless job losses. The elderly and poor will also be highly impacted as a greater portion of their monthly expenses go to energy costs, leaving them with less money for food, medicine and other essentials.
These rate increases are a direct result of New Englands over-reliance on natural gas for electricity generation, which will only be magnified as reliable base-load power options like Brayton Point and Vermont Yankee are retired. Immediately after Entergy announced the retirement of Vermont Yankee effective at the end of 2014, the Algonquin Citygate natural gas futures basis price rose 50 cents per million Btu. Natural gas set the price for electricity in New England during 80 percent of operating hours which leaves ratepayers extremely vulnerable to increases in natural gas prices.
The explosion of the natural gas industry nationwide has been a boon to our economy and a benefit to ratepayers by lowering electricity costs. Unfortunately for New Englanders, the benefits of low-cost natural gas are tempered by restricted natural gas pipeline capacity in the Northeast. New England electricity generators have become increasingly reliant on natural gas over the past two decades, and electricity from natural gas now constitutes over 50 percent of power generated in the region up from just 5 percent of generation in 1990.
Additionally, local distribution companies account for most of the firm commitments on pipeline capacity in the region in order to provide home heating fuel to customers in the winter resulting in restricted natural gas supplies for electricity generation and sharp price spikes in the region on colder winter days. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, on Jan. 25 natural gas prices in New England reached $35 per million Btu while prices in the rest of the country remained below $4 per million Btu. In February electricity prices increased 400 percent during one cold spell.
Due to environmental constraints, new coal and nuclear plants are off the table, and currently 20 percent of the regions capacity is supplied by uneconomical oil-fired plants that are utilized only when demand is high or scarcity conditions call for them to be dispatched but at a premium. Oil-fired units have value to the grid because they provide capacity and reliability, but they shouldnt be considered as a long-term solution to our electricity needs.
Putting all of our eggs in the basket of one fuel source is asking for trouble and will only further add to what are already the highest electricity rates of any region in the lower 48. Legislators and stakeholders need to take a more discerning look at the future of our energy grid and promote policies that will provide the region with dependable, reliable, affordable electricity, not one that is profligate with politically preferred projects that offer nothing but high electricity rates to the individuals and businesses that pay the bills.
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Robbers Fire Over three days, the Robbers Fire had consumed 1,157 acres in the American River Canyon and was still only 10 percent contained according to Cal Fire.
Robbers Fire Smoke Smoke quickly rises as the Robbers Fire spreads. Credit: Chris Chavez
Robbers Fire Smoke 2 A small army of firefighters continued to battle the wildfire in Placer County on Friday as the effort stretched into its third day.
Robbers Fire Air Drop The fight to contain the fire has been exacerbated by the rugged terrain, making it difficult for engines to access the blaze and forcing the fight to the air.
Robbers Fire Smoke 3 The weather Friday is expected to be significantly cooler than the triple digits of the past two days, but strong winds could pose a problem for firefighters.
Robbers Fire Smoke 4 A view submitted photo of a view of the smoke from the Rollins Reservoir. Credit: Anna Trinidad
Robbers Fire Helicopter Firefighters battle the Robbers Fire from the air.
Robbers Fire Flames There are 1,800 personnel working the fire, focusing on the area around Yankee Jims Road and the community of Iowa Hill. No structures have been damaged yet but 150 homes have been evacuated, affecting about 300 people.
Foresthill Shelter The Red Cross moved its evacuation center on Friday afternoon from the Veterans Memorial Hall in Forestill to the high school, located at 23319 Foresthill Road. Residents displaced by the fire can go there for food, shelter and counseling services. The larger high school site also has showers available.


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Think twiceDecember 10,2013
Sen. Bernard Sanders ought to think twice before lining up with those in the Senate who are considering new economic sanctions as a way to prod Iran toward new concessions on its nuclear program.
The pro-sanctions senators are working on the flawed assumption that because sanctions have succeeded in bringing Iran to the bargaining table, additional sanctions will help in securing a long-term agreement. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that in Iranian eyes new sanctions will appear like bad faith bargaining and will wreck negotiations.
Some senators have bought into the good-cop, bad-cop cliche. Sen. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said last week, We consistently hear about how we have to worry about the hard-liners in Iran. And it seems that the Iranians get to play good cop-bad cop, [Iranian President] Rouhani as the good cop, the hard-liners as the bad cop.
The implication is that we need hard-liners, too. Indeed, senators are lining up for the bad-cop role, including Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. It helps them to demonstrate their toughness with Iran and the ardor of their support for Israel.
Posturing has its role, no doubt, and it is likely that the Iranians have heard loud and clear, over several years, the mantra from both Obama and the Israelis that everything is on the table for dealing with Irans efforts to develop nuclear weapons. If Sanders is tempted to do some bad-cop posturing, however, he ought to consider whether adding new threats to the U.S. arsenal of threats would be likely to drive Iran away from the bargaining table altogether.
Its clear what the U.S. response would be if Iran were to add dodges and feints to its nuclear activities during this period of negotiation. The U.S. would conclude Iran was not serious about a deal.
During this week of remembrance for Nelson Mandela, it is helpful to recall the lessons of Mandelas life. He was tough when he needed to be in mounting resistance to apartheid in South Africa. But when it came time to achieve peaceful change, he understood it was necessary to develop trust with his enemies and to allow for the dignity of people on all sides. That meant negotiating with sectors of society that had a long history of murder and oppression. If Mandela could successfully allow for an epochal change from white to black rule in South Africa, the United States and its allies can allow for change in our relations with Iran without adding poisonous new measures to the agreements we are trying nurture.
Certainly, Iran has acted as an enemy, helping Shiite insurgents wage war against Americans in Iraq, supporting terrorism in Lebanon, propping up Bashar al-Assad, the besieged president in Syria. It has also acted to help the United States, as it did in ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
Sen. Patrick Leahy is standing with the Obama administration on the sanctions issue and in negotiations with Iran. He understands that a good-cop, bad-cop routine also requires a good cop, someone who is willing to take chances for peace. Indeed, the negotiations under way in the Middle East, both in relation to Iran and between the Palestinians and Israelis, together have the potential for reshaping the politics of the region. The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 touched off a decade of anarchy in the region, setting in motion a variety of jihadi groups, usually Sunni, who promise to reconstitute as al-Qaida-like threats to the United States. The position of the United States in seeking to restrain Sunni violence would be improved if we were less beholden to Sunni Saudi Arabia. Iran is a rising power. If its power can be more closely aligned with American interests, it could become a force for stability rather than an outlier, seeking to gain influence only by causing trouble. Sanders should not stand in the way of these historic possibilities.MORE IN CommentaryAdjusting to snow, sleet and cold after spending over a month in an exponentially warmer climate ... Full StoryColin Kaepernick is the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers. Full StoryIt has been one month since the voters chose the next President of the United States. Full Story
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New Hope and Osculation – Kisses from World War II
In celebration or act of affection, in the light of day or dark of night. It gives me hope, and it gives me motivation. You say goodbye to me with a kiss and I have reassurance, you say hello to me with a kiss and I have comfort. And while we kiss, there is the exchange of our deepest emotions, our secrets, our tastes, our fears, and our scents. Selfless love and trust. I'll march around the... Read More »


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I tried twice to reply to your pm's. They both say I've tried to send reply to too many people. What does that mean? I did use the reply buttom each time I tried to get a reply out. Actually right now I don't much care about changing the avatar as the one I changed to is just fine. I tried to have my husband help me out as he used a computer at work but I know more than he does which is not much. Righ now I can't reply to pm's. Site management will have to figure out what is wrong with my pm's. Thanks anyway smokie...ndunn
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Ever since Super Desserts quietly ceased to be a going concern last year, this city has wanted for a sprawling twee brigade worthy of adoration. Turns out that band already existed — it just hadn't ventured very far out of the shadows.
Deadwood Floats began three summers ago, but only recently have they become a burgeoning presence in Columbus bars. The ever-expanding ensemble cut their teeth at Campus house shows, which is where I saw them last Saturday. Experiencing this band in its native environment was a good call; wow, do they know how to work a (living) room.
I cite Super Desserts because of the obvious aesthetic similarities — the tendency to play unplugged, the expansive roster of members, the wide range of instruments (for Deadwood Floats, this included accordion, bongos, xylophone, violin, acoustic guitars, ukulele and a drum set).
But where Super Desserts were proper and buttoned-down in their approach, Deadwood Floats fling their emotions around fearlessly and recklessly. Though their default is a gorgeously ornate strand of indie-folk akin to Horse Feathers or Blind Pilot, there's more than a hint of early Modest Mouse's raucous, uncouth spirit in there, too. They stomped and shouted almost as much as they daintily strummed and coyly crooned.
Many of them contribute songwriting, and all six of them sing. As any Beatles fan can tell you, this arrangement can work out wonderfully when all parties have something special to contribute, and this crew seems uniformly talented. It's like they opened up the display case at the ice cream shop and let you have all the flavors.
They can play, too, and they know just how to deploy their wide range of sounds. Harmonies raged from the start; one time they even pulled off a gospel choir feel. Just like the voices, none of the instruments dominated. They just shared space and shined when they needed to, from snappy drum fills to tear duct-loosening violin lines.
They have a huge selection of covers stored up on Bandcamp, but Deadwood Floats were at their worst Saturday when performing other people's songs, particularly a closing rendition of Arcade Fire's "Crown of Love" that substituted volume for grace. That's OK — I'm not sure anything could have ruined this set.


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Keeping the Doors Open: Sustaining Success
Blueprints for programmatic change are rarely implemented in a formulaic way. The stakeholders in each of these profiled schools are anchored by a shared mission, but they remain flexible enough to adapt to altered circumstances, whether loss of start-up funds, changes in district demographics, turnover of leadership, or anything else that might shake up a school.
The flow of funding for public schools in general can be uncertain, a common threat to sustaining innovative reform. Grants run out, state budgets can be cut, enrollment trends may force district leadership to reorder fiscal priorities. Beyond its start-up costs, a successful magnet school requires money for ongoing professional development, new theme-based materials, and updated technology to remain cutting-edge and attractive to constituents.
The experiences of these profiled sites illustrate Einstein's observation that "in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." In the face of adversity, the staff at these schools have developed stronger systems, processes, and networks. Sustainability involves more than program maintenance. These schools have staying power because of their adaptability and capacity for meeting challenges without diluting the integrity of their mission.


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District 158 will welcome new parents and students for the coming school year during the district's kindergarten registration, beginning Feb. 12.
The three-day registration lasts from Tuesday, Feb. 12 through Thursday, Feb. 14 at the district's administration office, 650 Academic Drive, Algonquin.
Parents with last names A through H can register from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 12. Parents with last names I through P can sign up during the same times on Feb. 13, and parents with last names Q through Z can register from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 14.
The rising kindergartners are required to attend and take their photo for a school identification card. Parents unable to attend can stop by the administration office from Feb. 25 through April 1 to register.
Registration requirements include:
• Child must be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1, 2013
• Official birth certificate from the county office in which the child was born
• Proof of residency within District 158 (house closing statement, real estate tax bill, or lease agreement, utility bill for renters)
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Conference South has been launched with six teams (Bristol Sonics, St Albans Centurions, Leicester Storm, Northampton Demons, Nottingham Outlaws, Sheffield Hallam Eagles).
Looks like clubs have voted for 15 games and triple round robin.
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Autism and Prenatal Vitamins
Science has found no evidence that vaccines cause autism; but the true cause(s) of autism have not yet been determined. So far the available evidence has pointed towards a largely genetic cause with possible interaction with environmental factors. A new study supports that interpretation. It also supports previous evidence that autism is triggered prior to birth, rather than at the time of vaccinations.
Schmidt et al. published a study in Epidemiology on May 23, 2011, entitled "Prenatal Vitamins, One-carbon Metabolism Gene Variants, and Risk for Autism." It was a population-based case control study of 566 subjects comparing a group of autistic children to a matched control group of children with normal development. They looked at maternal intake of prenatal vitamins in the 3 months before conception and the first month of pregnancy, and they looked for genotypes associated with autism. They found that mothers who didn't take prenatal vitamins were at greater risk of having an autistic child, and certain genetic markers markedly increased the risk. There was a dose/response relationship: the more prenatal vitamins a woman took, the less likely she would have an autistic child. There was no association with other types of multivitamins, and no association with prenatal vitamin intake during months 2-9 of pregnancy. (more…)


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- Oil testing to save farm equipment
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Tracking the "blood work" on a piece of equipment can save money and increase its value at trade-in.
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With advancements in farm equipment technology becoming more frequent, today's farmers are keeping up by trading in their equipment more often than in the past.
"Years ago, farmers would buy a tractor and keep it for 25 years. Now, farmers are trading them in more often," says Paul Hendrix, equipment-pricing analyst for IronPlanet, an online auction house.
This trend makes equipment maintenance more important, and replacing or testing the equipment's engine and hydraulic oil is an essential component of any maintenance program. The long-term savings can add up when comparing the cost of an oil test to the cost of replacing parts. In addition, tracking a piece of equipment's oil analyses over time can mean greater trade-in values at the dealership.
"Because they are trading [their equipment] in, fluid analysis can help them out with trade-in value of the equipment. It can show that maybe there weren't any problems and it would command higher value, or maybe there was a problem that was addressed," says Jason Papacek, data analyst manger at POLARIS (Performance Oil Analysis Laboratory and Reliable Information Services) Laboratories, an international oil-testing company.
While many farmers understand the importance of purchasing and replacing quality lubricants, few consider the value of testing those lubricants as an alternative to simply replacing them.
"I would say more don't than do," said Jacque Powers, director of marketing and communications for POLARIS. Powers said that while POLARIS provides ample lubricant-testing services for owners of farm machinery, not many use the service.
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• Relatives of Tillie Carlson hosted a birthday dinner and reception at the Portales Inn in honor of her 100th birthday. • A workday was held at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds in preparation of the upcoming Roosevelt County Fair. • "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" was playing at the Tower Twin.
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By Andy Jackson
Noe Anzaldua wanted all of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren to be together for the holidays.
A longtime Muleshoe resident, radio station manager and on-air personality, Anzaldua died in a one-vehicle rollover Thursday night while bringing his family together.
Traveling with his wife of 52 years, Viola, Anzaldua had picked up his great-grandchild, Fernando Rodriguez, 10, in Lovington, and headed for Littlefield, Texas, to be with other family members, said Anzaldua's daughter, Mimi Garza.
Anzaldua, 71, was driving on Farm-to-Market Road 298 in Bailey County when his 2003 Honda sport utility vehicle veered to the south side of the road. Anzaldua overcorrected twice, which caused him to slide off the south side of the road into a small burrow ditch and his SUV rolled over 1 1/2 times, officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
Anzaldua was not wearing his seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. He died later at a nearby hospital, officials said.
Rodriguez, uninjured in the accident, attempted to use a cell phone to call police, but couldn't get service in the remote area, Garza said.
After a passing car didn't stop to help, Rodriguez walked a half mile to a residence and called for help, Garza said.
Viola Anzaldua suffered a broken collar bone and will be released today from the hospital, Garza said.
Anzaldua was a jokester who loved to make his 13 great-grandchildren and 10 grandchildren laugh.
"He wore dentures. He'd pull them out and scare his grandchildren, then they'd all laugh," said Juan Garza, Anzaldua's son-in-law.
Anzaldua's family said he was passionate about music, dancing and speaking to his community on radio station KMUL, where he worked for 48 years, Mimi Garza said.
"He liked to play music and tell jokes over the radio. He'd make people feel good about themselves — if they work on a field, whoever they are, by dedicating songs," Juan Garza said.
Anzaldua's family described him as a jack-of-all-trades. He owned a bail bond company, sold cars and houses, translated for Spanish speaking people in court, and served in the U.S. Army, Mimi Garza said.
Anzaldua liked to dance to Cumbia music (salsa style) and eat, Juan Garza said. "He'd eat anything. Even if he had just eaten, he'd eat whatever was put on the table."
Born in Mercedes, Texas, Anzaldua moved to Muleshoe in 1957. He remained loyal to his family and would travel to southern Texas each year to visit his three sisters, Mimi Garza said.
Anzaldua was a member of Muleshoe Immaculate Conception Church.


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The science data were selected based on findings from The Grism-ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES), HST proposal 9793: S. Malhotra et. al. The science team includes: N. Pirzkal (STSCI/ESA) S. Malhotra and J. Rhoads (Arizona State University), and C. Xu (Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics).
This image of the HUDF was created from HST data from the following proposal: 9978: S. Beckwith, S. Malhotra, M. Giavalisco, N. Panagia, J. Rhoads, M. Stiavelli, R. Somerville, S. Casertano, B. Margon, C. Blades, J. Caldwell, and M. Clampin (STScI), M. Corbin (STScI/CSC), M. Dickinson, H. Ferguson, and A. Fruchter (STScI), R. Hook (STScI/ECF), S. Jogee, A. Koekemoer, R. Lucas, M. Sosey, and L. Bergeron (STScI).
The NICMOS HUDF data were from proposal 9803: R. Thompson (University of Arizona), G. Illingworth and R. Bouwens (university of California, Santa Cruz), M. Dickinson (STScI), D. Eisenstein and X. Fan (University of Arizona), M. Franx (University of Leiden), M. Rieke (University of Arizona), A. Riess (STScI), and P. van Dokkum (Yale University).
The Spitzer science team includes: H. Yan (Caltech), M Dickinson (NOAO), D. Stern and P. Eisenhardt (Jet Propulsion Lab), R.-R. Chary (Caltech), M. Giavalisco (STScI), H. Ferguson and S. Casertano (STScI), C. Conselice (Caltech), C. Papovich (Steward Observatory), W. Reach (Caltech), N. Grogin (STScI), L. Moustakas (Jet Propulsion Lab), and M. Ouchi (STScI).


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