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JOHNSBURG – Work on Fairview Avenue and Johnsburg Road project will start next week, according to news releases.
The grinding down of Fairview Avenue between Chapel Hill Road and about 150 feet north of Johnsburg Road had been expected to begin this week has been pushed back to Tuesday due to rain in the forecast. The paving will follow on Thursday or Friday, depending on weather.
Electronic message boards were placed around the Johnsburg Road project Wednesday ahead of working starting on the project next week.
The contractor, Pirtano Construction Company, will begin widening the westbound lane to accommodate an eastbound detour.
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Sen. Bernard Sanders against Social Security cutsBy DAVE GRAM
The Associated Press | November 13,2012BURLINGTON U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders said Monday he would rather tax cuts expire next year as scheduled than see Democrats agree to spending cuts to Social Security and other programs relied on by low- and moderate-income Americans.
The left-leaning independent who caucuses with Democrats said he hoped President Barack Obama would travel the country, including to conservative states, to campaign for Democratic budget priorities as Congress negotiates a way to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff.
Congress is facing a series of deep, automatic cuts in defense and domestic discretionary spending and the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts for all taxpayers, scheduled to begin taking effect in January.
If we are unable to reach an agreement, is it better to deal with this issue in the next session, rather than accept a bad agreement in this session? Yes, it is, he said.
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said later Monday he doubts an agreement will be reached before Jan. 1 to avert the cuts that Congress had approved in an earlier budget agreement.
Sanders said he was prepared to compromise, just not too much, and noted that Democrats won 25 of the 33 Senate races, putting Democrats in a position of strength. After the election, Democrats enhanced their majority in the Senate by two seats and Republicans kept their majority in the House.
Will there be compromises? Yeah, there will. Should there be? Yeah, there should. But lets be clear. In a democracy, the majority is supposed to rule ... The truth of the matter is that on Election Day we had two very different sets of principles offered by Obama and by Republican nominee Mitt Romney, Sanders said.
He said Democrats are in a strong position to use the proposals they articulated during this years campaigns as a starting point in negotiations.
The principles that the president campaigned on, and that many of us campaigned on, should be the principles under which we begin that discussion, he said.
Sanders spoke nearly a week after cruising to a second Senate term, defeating little-known Republican John MacGovern by a margin of 71 percent to 25 percent.
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Despite their creations remaining celebrated to this day, some people live out the rest of their days hating the things they made, sort of like George Lucas and the Star Wars Christmas Special, or Leonard Nimoy and that hobbit song.
But it's not just embarrassing YouTube-fodder that makes creators wish they'd never set pen to paper. It even happens with works that are considered classics, like...
6Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee's 2005 film was both a commercial and critical success, going on to win three Academy Awards and its rightful place in history as the definitive movie about gay cowboys in Wyoming. Meanwhile, the collection of stories it was based on by author Annie Proulx was nominated for a Pulitzer.
We found these when we were cleaning up the office.
So it's surprising that Ms. Proulx has repeatedly told interviewers that she wishes she'd never written it.
Why She Regrets It:
The reason for her bitterness is Brokeback Mountain fanfiction.
And this. Mostly this.
According to Proulx, since the release of the movie she has been inundated with alternative scripts, sequels, sexually explicit retellings and "fixes" that change the ending of the story so that the two star-crossed cowboys end up together. And unlike most fanfiction writers, who tend to keep their habits confined to niche message boards, Star Trek web rings and other shame ridden corners of the Internet, Brokeback Mountain fans apparently like sending their work directly to the author's address.
"After the lightsaber fight, Jack and Ennis have sex on top of a Diplodocus."
Surprisingly, Proulx says most of the fanfiction is written by people claiming to be straight males. So ladies, now you know what your boyfriend is doing on the laptop late at night when he claims to not be looking at porn.
What a relief.
5A Clockwork Orange
The violent dystopian film A Clockwork Orange remains one of Stanley Kubrick's best-known works. In the U.S. it was nominated for several Oscars, but in the UK A Clockwork Orange was withdrawn barely a year after its general release. It never came out on video there or aired on television, and 20 years later the ban was still strictly enforced to the point that a London cinema was sued by Warner Bros. for screening the movie.
The theater owners were then savagely beaten by Malcolm McDowell and tossed into a river. But that probably would have happened anyway.
A Clockwork Orange only became widely available in the UK after Kubrick's death in 1999, ending a stream of furtive trips to France for young British hipsters. In a bizarre twist, the man behind the ban was Kubrick himself, who used his high standing with Warner Bros. to get them to voluntarily withdraw the film.
However, Eyes Wide Shut is still readily available.
Why He Regretted It:
The film appeared at an unfortunate time in British history. Crime rates were on the rise, and several lawyers defended their clients by saying they'd been driven to rape and violence by emulating the hero of Kubrick's film.
Hundreds were killed while riding bombs under similar circumstances.
According to Kubrick's wife in an interview after his death, his family also began receiving numerous death threats. Hurt and appalled by the public reaction and concerned for his family's safety, Kubrick made a personal request to Warner Bros. that they withdraw the film and they obliged.
Now that we mention it, Anthony Burgess, the author of the book the movie was based on, didn't think much of the movie either (Kubrick chopped off the book's happy ending where the protagonist straightens up and realizes the error of his ways), and hated the additional attention that it brought to a book he wasn't crazy about himself.
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In reading that section again, I noted a small error in Jerry's book, when he says the change in the differential housing from the .3894860NF to the 3989341NF pn occurred in September'69. The differential in my mid Sept '69 Z28 has the 341 housing assembly dated '0829', so that change occurred earlier than stated.


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Workers Compensation: Finding faultMarch 24,2014
Fault doesnt always matter, but sometimes, it does.
The workers compensation system is a no fault system. An employers fault doesnt matter. The injured worker doesnt have to prove it was the negligence of the employer that caused the injury.
The employees fault doesnt matter either, except when it does.
The key instance when fault becomes an issue occurs when an on the job injury is caused by an employees failure to use a safety device provided for his or her use. To promote workplace safety and support, employers try to protect their employees by providing safety equipment, and the Commissioner will consider the fault of an employee who doesnt use that equipment.
Safety Inc. is a hypothetical workplace where young Sam is a mechanic. As part of his duties Sam is responsible for cleaning down the production floor once a week. Sam uses a pressure washer and a cleaning solution to get the chore done and he does it well. His co-worker is named Sally. Sally works on odd jobs around the plant and she enjoys it. She is the one person who understands the HVAC system and everyone looks to her when there is a problem with ventilation.
At Safety Inc. a handbook was given to all employees and it outlines: when and where safety equipment is required to be used; that failure to use the safety equipment will result in disciplinary action; and that if the equipment is not in working condition or is unavailable then a supervisor should be notified immediately. Both Sally and Sam received the manual.
Safety Inc. posted signage in conspicuous places reminding people which protection was needed when. The company supervisors were adamant about enforcement of the rules and disciplined workers who did not use the equipment when they were supposed to.
Cleaning day arrived, as it does every week. Sam set up the machine to pressure wash the floor. He put on his gloves but not his protective eyewear. He didnt like wearing the glasses because he didnt like how it felt. Sam knew he was supposed to use the protection and in fact he had been written up twice by his supervisor. However, on this day the supervisor wasnt around and Sam would get the work done with no one the wiser.
Sally also had her hands full that day, as a vent piece was loose making an awful racket. She pulled her safety vest on and climbed the ladder. The vest was required when she was working on the catwalk. When she reached the top she hooked it to the safety line, or so she thought. She started to fix the pipe when she took a misstep. As she started to fall she saw the safety rope dangling loose in the air and she realized she hadnt completely hooked the safety rope on to her vest. She fell to the ground and was injured.
Sam, hearing the crash behind him, quickly spun around. The pressure washer in his hand shot the cleaning spray at a wall and it splashed into his eye causing him to get hurt.
Sometimes fault does matter.
To prevail by using the defense that the injury was caused by an employees failure to use a safety appliance provided for his or her use, the Department will require:
The employee must have been given actual notice of the requirement and an explanation of the danger involved in its violation.
There must be enforcement of the requirement to use the equipment.
The equipment must be available, in working order and use of the equipment would have prevented the injury.
The employee must have had no valid excuse for the violation.
Here, notice was given in the handbook and through signage. Supervisor enforcement was clear, the equipment was available, in working order and use of the equipment would have prevented the injury. The Department will focus on whether Sam or Sally had a valid excuse for the violation. While Sam may not be eligible for benefits, the Department has held in a similar case that Sally would be entitled to workers compensation.
Employers who provide safety equipment for their workers to use should consider: Giving actual written notice of the requirement; posting signage; enforcing non-use with disciplinary action; and documenting availability and working condition of the equipment. Those that take those steps will be in a better position if someone is injured while failing to use the equipment.
John W. Valente, Esq. is an attorney with Ryan Smith & Carbine, Ltd., in Rutland, Vermont. He is the author of Understanding Workers Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs. These materials are for general information only and are not intended as legal advice. Readers should not act upon this information without seeking professional counsel tailored to their specific facts and circumstances.MORE IN World/National BusinessWASHINGTON Long-term U.S. Full StoryNEW YORK Its not just the musical Hairspray that will air live on NBC tonight. Full StoryOXON HILL, Md. Far from the Las Vegas Strip, MGM Resorts International opens its $1. Full Story
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We need a real game-changer, a complete step-change in the scale of investment in energy efficiency."businesses. We're going to create a mechanism whereby the cost of making these [energy-efficiency] measures can all be financed through pay-as-you-save models, with the finance being repaid over a period of 20 years through the bill on each individual property. Now, that's a big change. To date it had to be paid upfront, either by the individual homeowner or through a grant. By pinning the repayments to the bill of the property, it means it's not a debt. It's not even a mortgage. It doesn't need to be credit-scored, because if the individual living in that particular home moves, dies, ownership changes, or they cease to rent, it stays on the bill of that property, just like the conventional energy bill.
The green investment bank is critical to our vision for a low-carbon economy."wind, but we've actually got to make it a great place to manufacture the capability that we're going to deploy. So we, the new government, have an ambitious vision to create the necessary supply chain. And that means attracting in new participants, attracting new investment into the UK, making sure we have an optimum business condition. That's why despite the fiscal situation we're bringing down the corporation tax, why we're streamlining planning measures, and why we're looking to reform the system for support of offshore wind to make sure that it's extremely competitive internationally.
We are confident the private sector can come forth with viable projects for a new fleet of nuclear reactors."action to turn that around and to transform public finances. Unless the market's going to have confidence in the public finances, unless the economy is on a sound fiscal footing, then no sector can grow over the long term. So we see returning the public finances to a sound state of affairs an absolute priority across the board. Obviously that does mean that some tough choices have to be made, but the low-carbon transition and investment is absolutely vital to our recovery, and we are determined that we will endeavor to protect the core public investment in that.


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Gordon S. Sweet Sr.May 20,2013
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NORTH BENNINGTON Gordon Spencer Sweet Sr., 82, died Friday, May 17, 2013, at Vermont Veterans Home.
He was born in North Bennington on July 26, 1930, the son of Rose (Seaton) and Clover E. Sweet Sr.
He was a 1950 graduate of North Bennington High School.
Mr. Sweet was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean conflict, serving with Company I, 172nd Infantry Division.
He married Edith L. Blodgett on June 16, 1951, in North Bennington. She died in 1999. He married Elsine LaCroix on July 5, 2003.
In earlier years, he was employed at BenMont Paper Co. in Bennington and later at Agway Petroleum. In 1974, he and his wife purchased Cross Oil Co. which they operated for several years. At retirement, he worked as a purchasing agent for Bennington College. He also spent many years as owner of GSS Fire Extinguishers in the area.
Mr. Sweet served in the North Bennington Fire Department, including as department chief. He was also a member of St. Peter Episcopal Church, American Legion Post 13 and the Bennington Moose Lodge.
He enjoyed camping and music.
Survivors include his wife of North Bennington; four daughters, Lynn Sweet of Bennington, Patti Kelley of Manchester Center, Wendy Fagerholm of Shaftsbury, and Corey Sweet of North Bennington; two sons, Perry Sweet of West Arlington, and Leigh Sweet of South Burlington; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was also predeceased by a grandson; a sister, June Bruneau; and a brother, Clover Sweet Jr.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, at St. Peter Episcopal Church with the Rev. Justin Lanier, rector, officiating.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the Mahar & Son Funeral Home.
Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Vermont Veterans Home Activities Fund, in care of Mahar & Son Funeral Home, 628 Main St., Bennington, VT 05201.
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Laura Beth Reynolds
May 6, 1993 – October 31, 2009
Laura Beth Reynolds- this beautiful 16 year old girl was killed on Halloween night 2009. Kenneth Scott Blake was driving down the wrong way of a divided highway (24 hwy westbound) in Independence, MO, 1 mile from her home. Kenneth was nearly 3 times the legal limit/BAC, coming from an underage drinking party hosted by Sandra Triebel (merely slapped on the hand with 40 hours of community service and some probation). Laura and her friends were driving home from a movie around 10pm that night. Kenneth was speeding down the wrong side of the highway, barely missing multiple cars, when he finally smashed into Laura's side of the car at the apex of a curve, killing her at the scene. Her friends fortunately had survivable injuries (physical and mental) while Kenneth Blake walked away completed unscathed. As she struggled to take her last breaths, trapped in this heap of metal, Kenneth screamed "I didn't do anything, they rear-ended me" all while attempting to leave the scene. Local residents held Kenneth in place until police arrived to arrest him. Judge Charles Atwell suspended Blake's involuntary manslaughter sentence (due to Kenneth's age and "how prison will affect him as a future part of society") and became eligible for parole immediately in August 2011. The parole board stated "we will keep him as long as we can," which is a total of 4 years. Blake is currently in jail for vehicular assault, for the injuries the other two girls in the car suffered. Laura's family cannot even attend or be a part of his parole hearings because he is not in jail for killing Laura. He will be out in November 2013, possibly eligible for parole again sooner. Blake will be 23 years old when he is released. Laura would be 20.
God only knows what her last thoughts were, what she felt, and suffered. We have to live with this thought daily and Laura lost her life, while Kenneth has the rest of his life…
Join us in a 5k run/walk to remember Laura Beth Reynolds. The second worst tragedy, next to losing Laura, is the world forgetting her. Let's not allow this to happen.
Let's cultivate prevention and raise drunk driving awareness together. Laura's death was 100% preventable. This didn't have to happen.


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Safety firstJuly 25,2014
State officials have learned valuable lessons from the tragic loss of two young lives this year. A hearing on Wednesday by a special legislative committee shone a light on some of those lessons.
It was the death of 2-year-old Dezirae Sheldon of Poultney that first revealed problems with the states child protection services. The death of 15-month-old Peighton Geraw of Winooski in April underscored those concerns.
Tom LEsperance, director of the Vermont State Police, told the committee in written testimony that state officials had failed to identify the offender who was responsible for breaking Deziraes legs in an incident last year. Deziraes mother, Sandra Eastman, lost custody of her daughter because of negligence in seeking treatment for her broken legs, but last fall, the Department for Children and Families returned the girl to her mother, despite opposition from other family members.
An investigation of the case revealed that DCF had learned that Deziraes stepfather, Dennis Duby, had been responsible for the girls broken legs, but that information was not communicated to the familys social worker or Deziraes court-appointed lawyer. If they had known about the allegations against Duby, red flags presumably would have arisen as they decided whether to return the girl to her family.
Instead, Duby now stands charged with murdering the little girl.
At the hearing on Wednesday, David Yacovone, commissioner of DCF, addressed the question of his departments priorities in child welfare cases. One of its aims is reuniting families that have been separated because of abuse, neglect or other problems. But that is not the primary goal, Yacovone insisted. Our goal is the safety of children, Yacovone said.
Social workers dealing with troubled families are often called upon to make Solomonic decisions about what is best for children and families. When children are removed from families, they face the prospect of years in foster care. There are foster care success stories and foster care failures, and state officials understand a family that can heal itself from whatever had divided it may ultimately be a better answer for a child than a substitute family.
But these are hard calls to make. It is important that Yacovone has emphasized the importance of child safety. His social workers need the backing of their department in standing by tough decisions to keep endangered children away from parents who may have good intentions but who may be unable to raise children in safety.
Yacovone stressed the importance of adequate staffing. If youre always rushing, if youre always behind, you cannot do the job thats needed to protect children and strengthen families, he said.
Gov. Peter Shumlin has recognized the department has suffered because of short staffing, and he has decided to add 17 social workers in places where the demand is the highest. There will also be two new supervisors and a domestic violence specialist. The state has taken action specifically addressing the situation in the Rutland office of DCF, transferring the director of the office away from Rutland and bringing in a new interim director to help guide the office through the latest crisis.
These are all necessary and welcome actions. It is important to recognize how state officials have not reacted. They have not adopted a defensive posture, trying to make excuses or cover up problems. They have not tried to minimize problems. They have not focused on a scapegoat. Rather, they have pursued organizational reforms that will address the conditions that might have led to mistakes. They have also sought to clarify priorities so social workers on the firing line know that childrens safety trumps family reunification. These are important steps.
Bureaucracies have their own sorts of momentum, and it could happen that at some future time, DCF may become too heavy-handed in dealing with families and too lacking in flexibility in working to reunite families. In the meantime, it is becoming more acutely attuned to the imperatives of childrens safety.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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"God pardon you and make a Paul of your Saul. I heartily forgive you."
~ Swithin Wells; Venerable, English Martyr; his last words pardoning his persecutor, Topcliffe, just before he was hanged at Gray's Inn Lane, London, opposite his own home.


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Rash of car break-ins gets worseDecember 10,2012A weekend string of car break-ins in Mendon and Rutland Town has police warning residents to lock their cars and garages.
Police said someone entered unlocked vehicles on Townline Road in Mendon and Rutland Town sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Then on Saturday night into Sunday, multiple cars and garages were entered and items of value were stolen on Cedar Lane in Mendon and on Park Lane and Post Road extension in Rutland Town.
According to police, an unknown subject entered, rummaged through unlocked vehicles, and stole various items. During two of these thefts, unattached garages were entered and items were stolen.
Rutland residents are strongly encouraged to lock their vehicles and keep valuable items out of plain sight, and are encouraged to report any suspicious vehicles and/or activity, police said.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER — FairPoint Communications is being purchased by Illinois-based... Full Story
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Procrastination Station #148Friday, January 22nd, 2016
It's been ages since I did one of these!
This was kind of sad for me to see, as a typewriter enthusiast… but it would also make a great short story! Two guys discover a derelict typewriter shop.
It's kind of hip to hate on Malcolm Gladwell, no? Well, I like this books, and I liked this thoughtful response to the haters.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti talks about 'minding the shop' while the Beats all got high. Related: some footage of the Beats hanging out in New York.
You've probably already seen Men Explain Lolita To Me, but if not, read it, for it's great. It will also lead you to 80 Books No Woman Should Read, which may be even better.
Oh my goodness. This deeply sad essay about the death of a whale is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.
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Who woulda thunk homophobes were lurking around MMOGs? Apparently The Family Research Council and the Florida Family Association (FFA) have a bone to pick with EA, which has included queer characters, romances and plotlines in games likes Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3.
As Forbes.com puts it "[FFA's] anti-EA campaign reads like satire:
Will the makers of Star Wars video games create Darth VaPaula, a (mock) transgender version of Darth Vader – RuPaul, for kids to choose as their action character?
While we are living for the idea of RuPaul in a Star Wars game, "Darth VaPaula" is the dumbest thing we've heard this millennium. (This is the kind of humor you get when you ban gay people.)
Activist group AllOut decided to thank EA for fighting the Dark Side with a petition that has garnered more than 68,000 signatures.
But aside from the professional bigots, there's been also a lot of hate mail and viciously homophobic comments spewed as a result of EA creating more inclusive, realistic universes. These players are put out by the fact, that somewhere in there virtual world, two aliens of the same gender may be getting it on, even if they never have to interact with them.
What you should by: Mass Effect 3. It's got a same-sex-romance option and we hear it's pretty rad. Or, y'know, you could buy The Sims 3: Katy Perry's Sweet Treats. (Eek!)
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I don't thing so, just give me a freakin bullet list.
@tj — Then how would Queerty inflate their page visit statistics?
Let's increase that number. I want them boycotting TONS of companies!
They won't be able to keep track of them, and the more they boycott, the more ridiculous they look. And of course, the more they have the, the more likely these boycotts will fail.
It isn't enough that you shop there, you have to let them know why. I bought a freezer from Home Depot a d specifically let them know it was because of their support of equality.
@ChristopherM: I agree. Companies actually listen to customer feedback, especially when positive. Letting these businesses know WHY you are a customer is a good idea.
@Joe: The bathrooms at HomoDepot are always dirty, why not just cruise any given aisle?!!?
AFA concerned about Home Depot influencing children, interesting. I would like to meet some of these children so in love with Home Depot.
i support them all with the exception of Archie Comics and EA ( no longer a comic collector and have never been a gamer). Guess I will be shopping at the Home Depot more than Lowes now.
Support most…don't really do comics..unless they're in movie form….and Girl Scout cookies are evil…as I sit here munching on a thin mint. LOL
Here is a list of anti-gay companies and business (all on one page) as well as a list of companies that have changed their ways. http://guydads.blogspot.com/2008/12/anti-gay-companies.html
I would hold off on buying those placemats at JC Penneys. They just abruptly fired their new progressive CEO after just 8 months. Somehow, I don't think we'll be seeing much of Ellen anymore either.
Yeah man!! H o m o D e p o t R O X!!!
Of course all you have to do is dload HRC's
buying guide!!!( there's an app 4 that) And you will see everyone's point lists.
I don't leave home without it AND I let them know, it's GAY $
@guydads: thanks for the list link. Sad that Queerty is in it for the money and couldn't just list the list in one link.
Add American Airlines to that list. They sponsored Barcelona Pride 2012 and, I'm sure, a few other ones.. they also have an LGBT travel site.
Try going one day without using something made by Proctor and Gamble, Kraft, or General Mills. Good luck 40,000 moms.
As an adult Girl Scout I just wanted to add that you can make donations of product to local troops (example: when my troop marched in a Homecoming parade, the fabric and paints for our banners were all donated by a church Ladies' Aid). This is helpful to the girls–more projects are possible and so are bigger projects, thanks to not having to use as much of their designated money–and you can hit a double-whammy by, for example, buying the T-shirts for their parade from J.C. Penney.
And if there are any girl-loving gays floating around–my troop always needed more chaperones for outings, and we definitely had dads, not just moms, who signed up for stuff like Field Day and movie trips. Contact your local troop or GSUSA division and see how you can get involved.
I just bought two containers of Oreos, now, it may be a "pipe" dream, but I've got to go buy a plank of wood, some sort of spray, a plant, something, anything to "hammer" the message that we are going to "nail" 1,000 hormonal moms by bringing truckloads of business to Home Depot. Hatred will be "insulated" by LGBT dollars as Home Depot will be "raking" in the money. What "tools" these mortals be. They never "saw" it coming.
If you really want to add insult to injury do what I did. I went to the One Million Mom site and sent an email from their site thanking Oreo for what they've done. It's easy, they allow the email to be altered so I changed the wording to thank them for the support of gays around the world.
@w.e.: Actually the Chairman of the board was responsible for Ellen. But because they have lost money with the 'no sales" campaign someone had to go and unfortunately it was the CEO. I do think we'll continue to see Ellen.
What is the "no sales" campaign?
LOL agreed, I'm just not going to bother going past the first page.
We gay people are so lucky that our opponents are so stupid.
I already buy things from 90% of the LGBT supporting companies….I KNOW! Let's ban ALL MARRIAGE and see how straights like their marriages becoming null!
I guess that I, a female living with her boyfriend, am considered homosexual since I'm absolute hoping that that rainbow Oreo can actually get made, even if the thing comes in singular colors, but lined up all together to make the rainbow.
\o/ Proud, straight support! I love EVERYONE, regardless of race, religion, who you love, what you do… Well, everyone excluding jerks anyway.
@1equalityUSA The JCP "no sales" campaign is that they won't be putting ads about sales or sending out flyers and they won't be having sales because they are going to give us the lowest prices they can give us. I was already buying from these companies and I have called the managers and area managers to let them know that it is "gay" $$$$ they are getting and why. I got two companies owned by in-laws to buy from HD first before looking elsewhere and believe me they spend thousands of dollars a month and I let the area manager know why we were moving our business to them. And thank you CAMERON I didn't know about AA but we will be choosing AA above the other airlines as much as possible now.
You know what, bitch-who-dislikes-homedepot-for-supporting-pride-parades, it's not home depot who makes children watch pride parades, it's your hatred and homophobia which creates the need for pride parades in the first place! So don't you go whining about the "sodomy" and "sexual exposions" which might occur during pride, because it's your own fault!
And furthermore, if you don't want them to see it, then don't let them see it. Golly.
It really is a shame I live in Sweden and can't support those companies…
Then again, I live in Sweden which has marriage equality and adopting rights for gays…
So I guess when I grow up, I will be able to get married! (I'll hopefully move to NYC, but still)
@jack: im 100% anti gay its great too because pro gay say its their right to be gay true true but its also true I have the right to be intolerant & you have to accept my intolerance just like how I have to accept your gay shit GOD BLESS THE U.S.A we fuck up everything
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So it's all going well. She's cried a few times, really angry and upset at me, but I am able to comfort her other ways so I am sure she'll soon stop.
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As an avid hunter and gun enthusiast for the better part of 35 years, I feel compelled to respond to the expected knee-jerk reaction immediately following the massacre in Newtown, CT that claimed the lives of 26 people, 20 of which were children.
As expected, the media and our elected officials have politicized this tragic event and have placed the blame directly on all gun owners, on the availability of firearms of all types in America and on our right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.
Please do not misconstrue my opinion as a gun owner and hunter, but I feel we are missing the point.
Please allow me to explain.
As thousands in our area do every year, I made the trek to a deer camp in northern Wayne County this fall for the opening day of buck season. With Remington in tow and thoughts of a nice buck swirling in my head, I sat patiently in my tree stand in the darkness of opening day. As the sun rose, a small buck crossed my path. Safety off, scope pinned on the shoulder, I was ready. But then, with the click of the safety, I made the decision not to pull the trigger. The buck was too small.
Fast forward to December 14, 2012: A young man named Adam Lanza made a "decision" that fateful morning, one with horrendous and deadly consequences compared to the decision I made a few weeks before. He "decided" that this would be the morning he would arm himself and go on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook School. Twenty-six people lost their lives that morning due to Lanza's "decision."
To further my point, on April 19, 1995, a man named Tim McVeigh made a "decision," too. He "decided" to pack a rental truck with a lethal combination of fertilizer and diesel fuel and park it in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City. The result of his "decision" was a massive explosion that killed 168 people, 19 of which were children. By the way, after a trial, it was "decided" by a jury of his peers that McVeigh should be put to death. He is dead, too.
We cannot just throw a dark blanket over these tragedies and react without thinking about the cause of these "decisions," focusing only on the means by which they are carried out. There needs to be intelligent dialogue about what is the catalyst behind these tragedies. This dialogue must include why people make the "decisions" they make.
I pray for those who lost their lives in Newtown this December and in Oklahoma City in 1995.
In the meantime, I will make that same trek into the woods next opening day with Remington in tow. And if that buck I "decided" to pass up this year is a little bigger, I am guessing I will make a different "decision."
And it won't have a damn thing to do with the Remington in my lap. That "decision" will be mine, and mine alone.
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Thanks for the update. It IS so so hard - and it sounds like you are managing it incredibly well. Three cheers for you, your LO and your DH for helping you all get through this. It's wonderful that you can reconnect and spend as much time as possible with your DD when you are at home.
For what it's worth, I need to admit that last January - as in 6 months after I returned to work - I had a real emotional melt-down about being apart from my son as much as I was due to work. We started all kinds of investigating to see if there is any way we can ditch my salary and still keep our house, etc., etc. At present, I'm still working and while it does get easier, gradually, I *do* still miss my son and I still dream, nearly every day, about being able to stop working and spend more time with him. I have it as my goal and hopefully, one of these days, it will happen. I have to keep believing and while I do so, keep doing all I can to make the most of every minute...
I try to remember that J knows nothing other than our love. He knows nothing other than the way we do things - so while it may cause me undeniable ache to know I am missing hours with him, he doesn't really know to compare and he is fine and he is thriving. And the love he showers on me, clamouring onto me and bouncing up and down on my tummy; climbing into my lap with a book, simply collapsing into cuddles on my shoulders, are proof. The private giggles we share as he hooks his toes against my face (sometimes I think he is part monkey) when I nurse him before bedtime or when I make him "fly" into his crib... they are our precious moments. No one can ever take those or replace our bond. And let me tell you....once I was able to let these feelings take over in place of the guilt I had - and still do have from time to time - over leaving him to go to work, the better it all started to feel.
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First base is Kendry Morales' job to lose this year, so sabermetricians are spinning their statistical heads trying to prove he's the next big bust.
Sam Miller at the Orange County Register, who's doing quite a nice job breathing fresh air into the paper's Angels coverage, posted a blog entry on February 25 reporting that a formula concocted by Baseball Prospectus writer Nate Silver called PECOTA predicts that in 2009 Morales will post an AVG/OBP/SLG of .253/.295/.389.
Part of the denigration, Sam writes, is due to PECOTA trying to adjust for Triple-A Salt Lake's hitting friendly environment.
What PECOTA knows is that Morales has spent most of his minor league career in extreme hitting environments. It adjusts his minor league numbers to Major League Equivalent numbers. Going from Salt Lake City (elevation: 4226), in the Pacific Coast League, to the majors strips Morales' numbers of most of their shine.
For instance, his .341/.376/.543 Salt Lake line of 2008 translates to .262/.297/.422 in the majors. The first line looks like a star; the second line doesn't deserve a starting job in the majors. Giving credibility to PECOTA's translations, Morales has hit a very similar .249/.302/.408 in 307 real major league at bats, which gives us more reason to be suspicious.
To quote Shakespeare, "Ay, there's the rub."
If you're a regular reader of my blogs, you know I'm hard on statheads, and this is one reason why. They look for macro-trends and then apply them in individual examples, which is the lazy way out. What they should be doing is analysis of the individual player.
I've written many articles in the last couple years about how to properly analyze Salt Lake players. You don't just look at home/road split, or the nonsensical Major League Equivalent formula.
In the PCL, there are five hitter-friendly parks — Salt Lake, Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, Las Vegas, and Tucson. So what you do is look at a player's performance in those five parks versus the rest of the league.
It requires a little bit of effort, namely collecting the game-by-game data in a year for a player, then sorting them into "hitter-friendly" versus the rest.
I spent a half-hour last night looking at Kendry's splits for 2007 and 2008. Here's what I found (AVG/OBP/SLG):
2007 (Age 24):
2008 (Age 25):
2007 is what you'd expect, better numbers in the hitter-friendly parks. But in 2008, Morales had much better numbers in the neutral/pitcher-friendly parks!
I checked those 2008 numbers looking for any mistake I may have made, but it looks legitimate. And the sample size is about the same for both groups (164 vs. 153 AB).
So does this mean that Morales is a future Hall of Famer?
Of course not.
But what it does show is that off-the-shelf statistical formulas designed for fantasy leagues are no substitute for context.
If Morales had posted that .359/.404/.595 line in a neutral park instead of Salt Lake, he might not have been dismissed so easily by the calculator crowd.
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Pecota's line of Morales is the weighted mean, relative to the 50th percentile. Silver also says that Morales "could be a real sleeper in 2009" and Baseball Prospectus' bevy of writers have also said the same in oodles of other posts.
In life, I prefer to not get mad at a computer. Statheads are not spinning their wheels trying to prove he's the next big bust (Is 'next big bust' related to next big bat?). They're looking at a ton of comparables with similar lines, body makeup and environment (specific park factor IS actually included because his comparables played in the same situation – in the other parks). End of story.
'Statheads' and 'calcuator crowd' aren't 'trying to do' anything. They're simply averaging out historical data using a ton of peripherals to come up with a comparable line. They are NOT saying this is what's going to happen. They're saying this is what the numbers say. They routinely scream this from the highest mountaintop and it seems people still don't hear it.
For instance:
The BABIP for Morales the last two years were .373 and .359. That's unsustainable. .290 is MLB typical. That is historically proven and can't be disputed. The major league equivalent formula is part of that. Given his walk and k rate, his comparables saw a drop-off. That's all. Now, that's not to say Morales can't have a .370ish BABIP next year and have a great season (In fact, his 90th percentile prediction has him having a pretty good season – .285/.332/.479). And he can use that season to adjust to major league pitching over the long haul and have a great career. No projection system disputed that. None.
Heck, the CHONE projection system, run by a hardcore Angel fan, gives a line similar to BP's 75th percentile.
Your splits are nice but it's a terribly small sample size and not that predictive. For example, it doesn't take into account the possibility that Morales caught a string a crap-*** pitchers or what his BABIP was. It's one year and only about 160 ABs in each.
And respectfully, the idea that PECOTA, Bill James, etc is designed for fantasy leagues is patently ridiculous. Read up on it.
They're not telling you to believe anything. It's just delving into probability, working to take advantage of the human irrationality for continuing to believe commonly-held theories and use it to find market inefficiencies.
They're not using macro-trends. In fact, some are as micro as it gets. Critique the entire methodology if you find issues with it instead of basically labeling them geeks and leaving it at that.
I think Morales is being undervalued by PECOTA. And so do a lot of BP writers. His comparables tell a different story, sure. I look at that and it might give me a brief pause but I still think he has a great chance to go .290 with 20-23 hr and 85-95 rbi in his first full season in the majors.
Believe what you want to believe. No stathead is telling you to do otherwise. Your denigration calls to mind the Shakespearian phrase "Me thinks thou doth protest too much."
Apparently we've had different experiences with sabermetricians.
There are some analysts with a statistical bent, such as John Sickels at MinorLeagueBall.com and Sam Miller at the Orange County Register, whose work I respect because they understand that stats have their limits. They also acknowledge that there's a "lunatic fringe" out there in the sabermetric world. Here's what John wrote in the introduction to his 2000 Minor League Scouting Notebook for the now-defunct STATS Inc.:
I come from a sabermetric background. I believe that on most issues, the number crunchers are correct. Which makes it all the more painful when some of my sabermetric allies act more like inquisitors than searchers for the truth. Some people in the sabermetric community demonstrate excessive zeal in the prosecution of "heretics." Some authors attack their fellows for being insufficiently sabermetric, which sounds almost Stalinist. People are forgetting that numbers are a tool to find the truth, not the truth itself …
Sabermetricians, we need to be more humble. Our tools are good, very, very good, better than what anyone had before. But they aren't perfect. Our job is to study baseball, not attack people who don't buy every bit of sabermetric orthodoxy.
John wrote that nine years ago. Since then, he's gone independent, publishing his own annual prospect handbook. He'll tell you that he's moved further away from sabermetrics and spends more time doing traditional scouting. He's travelled with professional scouts from time to time to learn their craft.
But his sentiment about some zealots acting "Stalinist" still rings true.
I've been bombarded many times over the years by these zealots with hate messages on bulletin boards and in e-mail because I dared question sabermetric orthodoxy. For example, about 5-6 years ago I coined the phrase "Contactball" to describe the Angels' style of play — they would rather be aggressive by advancing and scoring runners than taking more pitches waiting for something to happen. I showed that the Angels were able to score runs just fine despite a low OBP, and that when their rate of scoring was down it might have something to do with other factors than OBP (e.g. more strikeouts or otherwise failing to make contact in a way that advances/scores a runner). This created quite a fury on stathead sites. Then an analyst on (I think) ESPN.com came up with a "Productive Outs" formula, which led to more howls of outrage. How dare we question the mantra that OBP is the Rosetta Stone of all analysis?!
Now, if they were being like truly objective analysts following scientific method, they would have actually analyzed the merits and flaws of these out-of-the-box theories, instead of dismissing them with insults. To be fair, some analysts did. But my personal experience is that such objectivity seems to be more the exception than the rule.
Over the years, I've been told some truly wacky things by statheads. For example:
* "Defense is irrelevant." That's a direct quote.
* Personally watching or listening to a game taints the purity of statistical analysis, because by doing so you introduce subjectivity. Therefore, if you're a true sabermetrician, you must never ever watch or listen to a game.
* Major League Equivalents (MLEs) tell you what that player would have done had he been in the big leagues that year.
* Any evidence that disproves sabermetric orthodoxy must be dismissed as an "anomaly" or a "fluke."
I'm happy to debate the pros and cons of sabermetric analysis any time with someone actually rooted in the real world. But statements like the above are made by people who more interested in treating sabermetrics as a religion rather than "a tool to find the truth," as John put it.
But like everything is life, you take what rings true to you. And like everything in life, you dismiss the A-holes and pay attention to people with a sound and thoughtful process.
Who has time for the dippy ramblings of people who make such statements (especially the "defense is irrelevant" comment…Wow! Heck, all of them)?
The Angels' OBP situation is a tough one. Something that can't be disputed is that historically, there is a direct correlation between winning and higher OBP. That's been proven without a doubt. In fact, it's been shown that of all the statistics in baseball – pitching, hitting, fielding – the only one that actually did have a historically direct correlation was OBP.
Now, that's not to say teams can't win without it. Just that there is a direct correlation. It's something to bring into the equation if you want to eliminate some of the margin of error. What I think some people believe is that because someone talks about OBP, it means they think every guy in the lineup should walk at least 100 times. That's not the case, it's not realistic and would be especially counterproductive for some hitters' approach. And a bit boring.
But to look at the case of Kendrick again. He's probably my favorite Angel. But what we saw in the second half of last year was a case of Kendrick not owning the strike zone. He wasn't selective (especially prone to fishing for the away slider) and pitchers began to exploit it. A little more selectivity, thereby seeing more pitches, allows to reduce the likelihood of prolonged slumps, get a better gauge of breaking pitches, thereby helping in successive at-bats and simply being on base more.
He's never going to walk 100 times. But 50? He would be a better hitter. It's not simply "waiting for something to happen." It's smart baseball. Selective and smart aggressiveness is better than unchecked aggressiveness.
The Angels have had a nice run since the '02 Series. But they have played in a division where Seattle and Texas have steadfastly refused to field competitive teams. Interestingly, in 2002, the Angels were 6th in baseball in OBP and 6th again in 2007, when Seattle decided that winning was actually a good thing and there was a real pennant race with them. Any race with Oakland lined right up with Oakland sitting in or very near the top 10 in the league.
In short (HAHA!), it depends on the player. Kendrick would benefit from an increase. Figgins? Not really. Morales? Yes. Guerrero? Of course not. Rivera? Probably. Wood? Yeah. He'll need to at least learn to work counts to get his pitch to succeed early on. Hunter? No. Aybar? Here's an odd one. The Angels wanted him to work on it in winter ball and he more than doubled his walk rate to great results. Yeah, it's winter ball but I wonder how it's going to end up translating in his world this year. 40 walks? He's better.
But getting back to the original point, there are oodles of dopey sabermetricians out there. And I mean absolute jerks. Pick the ones you like and see if they're actually building a better machine and adding to real, concrete truth. The rest isn't worth the time.
I recently bought "Baseball Between The Numbers" by the guys at Baseball Prospectus. It's quite good and eye-opening in many respects (the article titled "What If Rickey Henderson Had Pete Incaviglia's Legs" is worth the price alone). BP's pretty great, Dewan's always interesting, Bill James is usually a good kind of cranky, Fangraphs likes themselves a bit too much and so on and so on.
It's just tough not to take issue with the across-the-board lumping in of all sabermetricians without at least acknowledging the good work being done and the fact that a better evaluation system has actually been built. Heck, that's exactly what John Sickels said.
And I'll certainly acknowledge there are people for a non-sabermetric bent who make foolish demands all the time.
The difference, though, is that sabermetrics is supposed to be a scientific approach to baseball analysis. I've had plenty of these people tell me they're "objective" while in the same breath they dismiss any evidence that disproves their "theories." And that's why I think it's up to people who call themselves sabermetricians to police their avocation. One reason I admire John Sickels is that he called out these wackos in print, risking their ire (and loss of their business).
A few weeks back, I started work on a blog entry called "Contactball Revisited," but got distracted by other priorities. (When you're unemployed, finding income takes priority.) I wanted to see if the links between contact and run production still held from a few years ago. I'll try to pick it up when I have some time.
But one problem I think exists in deifying OBP is that it assumes that a walk is better than advancing (or scoring) a runner. You write that there's a "direct correlation between winning and higher OBP." Well, yes and no. OBP has nothing to do with the quality of a pitching staff. And it has little to do with the ability to score runs. The idea is win ballgames. You can win them 1-0, 10-9, or 10-0. They all go in the win column.
The Angels preach an aggressive offense philosophy, but that doesn't mean chasing bad pitches. That's a common false interpretation by statheads. I've watched this philosophy evolve over the years in the Angels' system. They do NOT tell batters to swing at bad pitches. I've got plenty of managers and coaches on the audio record saying that. What they DO preach is that if a batter sees a pitch he can drive, either for a hit or to advance/score a runner, he should swing. If it's not a good pitch, they shouldn't swing.
Using your example of Howie Kendrick, he got into a bad habit there late in the season. No one in the Angels' organization told him to swing at those bad pitches. That's his problem. Brandon Wood had a similar problem; even at Rancho in 2005 when he hit the 43 HRs, I saw pitchers get him plenty times on two-strike breaking balls down and away.
The cause isn't Angels management telling batters to swing at bad pitches. The cause is very young batters learning to master pitch recognition. Major league pitchers have a lot nastier stuff than in the minors. You don't learn how to adjust to that stuff until you actually face it. Some guys never adjust; but that's true of all 30 organizations, not just the Angels.
I suppose you could make the argument that the Angels' "Contactball" philosophy makes it harder for young hitters to make that adjustment. But that's an argument that would require a lot more evidence than currently exists.
Continuing to use Kendrick as an example, I did some simple math and found that for Howie to bat .330 he'd need 165 hits in 500 at-bats. Now, let's see how many walks he would need to jack up his OBP:
* Add 20 walks and his OBP goes up to .355.
* Add 30 walks and his OBP goes up to .367.
* Add 40 walks and his OBP goes up to .379.
Howie's career minor league AVG was about .360, so I don't think a .330 AVG in the big leagues is all that unreasonable.
If you assume six games a week in a 162-game schedule, that means the Angels will play for 27 weeks. 20 walks is less than one walk a week. To get to 40 walks, he'd need about 1.5 walks a week.
It just isn't that big a difference, in my opinion.
The big advantage of hits over walks is that they advance runners. A walk doesn't advance a runner unless there's a force.
Let's also take this hypothetical situation … The Angels have a runner on third with one out. The batter sees a pitch he can drive that may be an out, but it would probably score the runner. He could let the pitch go by, hoping to coax a walk, but what's to say the next batter will see a pitch he can drive to score a run?
That's the crux of the difference in approaches. The Angels' approach is to score a run. The sabermetric orthodoxy is to maximize OBP, regardless of whether it generates a run.
I don't know how you'd go about measuring missed opportunities, because you'd need to know if a batter saw a pitch he could have driven to score a run but let go by in the hope of coaxing a walk.
Now, this doesn't excuse stupid stuff like having Aybar try to suicide squeeze Willits in the playoffs. That was wrong, and I wrote at the time it was wrong. But that's one play, not an entire season's worth of offense philosophy.
I don't have any particular animus for the Angels' philosophy. I can't speak for what the saber-guys said to you. I don't know them.
I think when you talk of sabermetrics, you may be talking of Billy Beane's OBP at all costs Moneyball-type philosophy. Or what those guys may believe. But that idea is at the extreme end of the spectrum.
In your example, Kendrick should absolutely swing at a pitch he thinks, or better yet, has proven that he can drive. The idea of an OBP philosophy would be to carve up the strike zone into quadrants and thoroughly understand what you can do with each. Wait for a pitch you can actually do something with. In other words, know your strengths and know limitations. It's about taking back control of the strike zone from the pitcher. Walks are a benefit relating to that.
It's not about 'hoping to coax a walk'. It's about having enough discipline as a hitter to know there are pitches he can't do something productive with.
Two walks a week for 27 weeks equals 54 walks. It's also not unreasonable to think that could generate about 10 extra runs over a season without any effect on an aggressive approach. 10 extra runs equals a win by pretty much every measure in the statistical world. Nothing to squeeze at. Means a lot, actually, if you can get three guys in your lineup to increase their walk rate on par with the example. Not 100 walks. Just 54. That's three extra wins averaging things out and taking into account historical probability. Again, not saying that's going to happen, just more probable given everything we know about history.
I know you disagree, but that's what made Kotchman expendable in my book. He was regressing in his ability to control the strike zone and his decreased walk rate was a by-product of that.
And if Kendrick were to lead off, seeing more pitches – not even talking about walks – benefits everyone who hits after him. How a slider breaks, how the pitcher sets up his fastball, how he nibbles, what he does in deep counts, what he thinks his out pitch is, all these things are things Kendrick can pass on to the rest of the lineup by virtue of his at-bat. A high rate of swinging at the first pitch can actually be a huge detriment.
Again, I'm a big fan of Kendrick. But if he would have had enough at-bats last year, he would have been 5th worst in the league among qualified batters in swinging at pitches outside the zone. If he's going to be a .330 hitter in the league, that is unquestionably going to have to improve. And a by-product of that improvement would be something better than what his 30 walks in 950 at-bats in the majors has shown thus far.
Essentially, we're splitting hairs here. We're on the same side of the coin and debating details. We both know that pitch recognition is commandment #1. I just think it would benefit the team if a slightly higher rate pitches seen were established.


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Michael Makoto Honda (Japanese: 本田 実 born June 27, 1941) is an American Democratic politician. He currently serves as Congressman for California's 15th congressional district, which encompasses Silicon Valley. (map)
A Japanese American, Honda was born in Walnut Grove, California in 1941 and spent his early childhood in Granada War Relocation Center, an internment camp in Colorado. His family became strawberry sharecroppers in Blossom Valley in San Jose after their return in 1953.
Honda graduated from San Jose High Academy and then San Jose State University in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and Spanish and earned a master's degree in 1974. From 1965 to 1967 he served in the United States Peace Corps, working in El Salvador.
Honda became a science teacher and went on to serve as the principal at two public schools. In 1971, Honda was appointed by San Jose Mayor Norman Mineta to San Jose's Planning Commission, and won election to the San Jose Unified School Board in 1981. He was a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors (1990) and the California State Assembly (1996–2001).
Honda was elected to the U.S. House as a Democrat in 2000, succeeding Republican Tom Campbell. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a member of the Science Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. In 2007, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appointed Honda to the influential Appropriations Committee. Honda also serves as Regional Whip for Northern California and Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Honda is most famous for introducing resolution AJR 27, which demanded that Japan apologize for its actions in WWII and compensate its victims.
Rep. Honda has consistently supported the causes of civil rights groups, such as the NAACP and Human Rights Campaign. However, he has drawn criticism for his refusal to criticize human rights violations in China, a stand he explains by saying that he believes "things can change" in the country. Honda visited China in 2001.
In November 2004 Honda was among a small group of politicians and lawmakers who were invited to spend the evening with Presidential candidate John Kerry in Boston on election night. [1]
On February 12, 2005, he was elected a vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee under the chairmanship of Howard Dean. His term is expected to last until 2009.
On May 15, 2007 Honda was initiated into the San Francisco Lodge of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. He is the first regular member of the organization who is not of Chinese ancestry.[1]


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Chris Kluwe: Serial Killer
Chris Kluwe says he's lazy and doesn't dress up for Halloween. "I say I'm a serial killer – they dress like everybody else."(credit: CBS)
Michael Jenkins: Black Panthers
"I feel like growing up I was always a football player so that's not all that great. Last year we actually won Kevin William's costume party. My wife and I came as Black Panthers, with the big afros and the whole ensemble and everything."(credit: Getty Images)
Everson Griffen: MC Hammer
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Christian Ballard: I Don't Know
"I don't really dress up for Halloween. I just enjoy watching other people. I like originality; who can come up with their own super heroes or something funny."(credit: Getty Images/Jupiter Images)
Ben Revere: Cheerleader
"I lost a bet … and dressed up as a cheerleader, a female cheerleader. Worst thing. I wouldn't say that's my best but it's probably my funniest. We went to one of those Halloween costume stores, got a little tank top, a little skirt and the pom-poms. He tried to get me to wear a bow but I was like, 'no go.'"(credit: CBS)
Justin Morneau: Scarecrow
"Halloween's my favorite. Favorite time of the year other than Christmas. The most memorable one I've had is when I played in the Arizona Fall League. Rob Bowen and I were teammates and we dressed up as scarecrows and we sat outside the entrance of the clubhouse, put masks on and we had a little sign that said "Happy Halloween from the Arizona Fall League." And then as people were walking in to the clubhouse, we'd jump up and scare them. It was hilarious. It was the old trick that you do where you put the candy bowl in the scarecrow's lap and then when the kids go to get the candy, you jump up and scare the kids but we actually did it to grown men. We actually had a couple of guys try to punch us because they were so scared."(credit: CBS)
Joe Mauer: Football Player
"Well recently I haven't been very good. When I was younger, the easy one and the one I'd always use was a football player. I played football that fall and still had my uniform so that was probably the safest play for me. I haven't been very creative the last couple of years, I need to get on that."(credit: CBS)
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"I'm going to go ahead and say, last year, I was Phil Dunphy from Modern Family. If you're a Modern Family fan, you'll understand but he's a power walker for his exercise so I went and got some power walking gear with the walking sticks, the headband and short shorts with the half-way up the knee white socks and sleeveless shirt. I tried to pull that off."(credit: CBS)
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Candice Wiggins: Huey from Boondocks (credit: CBS)
Monica Wright: Janet Jackson
Monica Wright said that when she was 10, she begged her mom to make her a costume so she could be Janet Jackson from "Rhythm Nation."(credit: CBS)
Derrick Williams: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (credit: CBS)
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Brandon Roy: Batman (credit: CBS)
Luke Ridnour: Superman (credit: CBS)
Dante Cunningham: Robot
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Lou Amundson: A Ghost (credit: CBS)
Frank Vascellaro: Captain America
"I always wear a costume to my kids' school around Halloween. They get a big kick out of it. Sadly, they are growing up and soon this will go from, 'Dad is fun' to 'Dad is a geek.'"(credit: CBS)
Amelia Santaniello: ChiChi's Cantina Girl
"I'm not sure it's my best, but it was certainly my easiest. I worked as a waitress at ChiChi's restaurant and went out after work in my uniform as a cantina girl."(credit: CBS)
Chris Shaffer: KISS
Chris says his best was "Halloween 2010 when we went as Kiss! My wife gets credit for the awesome make-up! Long live Paul, Gene, Ace and Peter!"(credit: CBS)
Jason DeRusha: Superman
"In 2006, my 1-year-old Seth and I dressed up like matching Supermen for Halloween and went to a costume contest at Mall of America! Halloween was awesome as a kid, but even more awesome now with kids of my own."(credit: CBS)
Angela Davis: Farrah Fawcett
"I went as Farrah Fawcett one year. I did the feathered hair and everything."(credit: CBS/Getty Images)
Mike Binkley: Superman (credit: CBS)
Matt Brickman: Jimmy Dean Sun
"(I went as) a homemade (by Kate) 'Jimmy Dean Sun' costume. She was the moon – although everyone thought she looked like chocolate chip cookie."(credit: CBS)
Jamie Yuccas: Tomato (credit: CBS)
Ira Glass: Fatal Attraction
He and his then-girlfriend dressed up as the characters in "Fatal Attraction." (Glass was in town to promote his film, "Sleep Walk with Me.")(credit: CBS)
Joss Stone: Morticia, from Addams Family
"I dressed up as Morticia. My friends and I did the whole Addams Family. Last year, I dressed up as a man, one of the Blues Brothers." (Stone performed in St. Paul on Oct. 4)(credit: CBS)
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WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In August, we gathered stories about farm life at the Pasto Agricultural Museum at Ag Progress Days outside of State College. Gary Petersen is interviewed by his eight-year-old grandson Evan Mellace, about growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin.
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Despite of the fact that Nvidia Corp. does not have a license to develop and sell core-logic sets compatible with Intel Corp.'s microprocessors featuring built-in memory controller, the company still wants to introduce a chipset supporting central processing units based on Nehalem and Westmere micro-architectures early next year, according to media reports.
Nvidia plans to release three new single-chip core-logic sets in Q1 2010, according to reports from DigiTimes and HKEPC web-sites. Nvidia code-named MCP85 core-logic will be aimed at microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices, code-named MCP89 is designed for Intel Core 2-series processors and will be compatible with 1333MHz quad-pumped processor system bus, the most intriguing part is named MCP99, which will utilize so-called direct memory interface (DMI) and will be aimed at Intel core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 microprocessors. The new media and communication processors, as Nvidia calls its chipsets, will feature integrated GeForce graphics cores and dedicated memory controller to enable higher performance in video games.
It should not be a problem for Nvidia to release its MCP85 and MCP89 for AMD and Intel processors: it has all necessary technology licenses and the products are likely to be in demand, especially in the notebook segment, where current-generation chips will be used for quite a while going forward. Considering the fact that performance of integrated GeForce 200M graphics core is likely to be higher compared to existing built-in graphics, many PC makers may be very interested in such a platform. Nvidia may even brand the new chips as Ion 2 to attract maximum attention.
The release of MCP99, which will support both Nehalem and Westmere generations of microprocessors, seems to be rather controversial. Firstly, Nvidia cannot legally release a chipset supporting Intel's processors with integrated memory controller and its legal dispute with Intel is unlikely to come to its end by Q1 2010. Secondly, there is hardly a need for integrated graphics core in premium systems based on quad-core Intel Core i7 "Lynnfield" microprocessors, whereas mainstream dual-core Intel Core i5/i3 processors will feature integrated graphics core and Nvidia's new core-logic does not seem to be needed again. Theoretically, Nvidia's solution may offer considerably higher performance compared to Intel's integrated core, however, it is unlikely that PC makers will pay for two integrated graphics cores for mainstream personal computers.
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story of my life... pretty much lol
are we the same person?....that happened to me too lol
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are we the same person?....that happened to me too lol
I will find him and I will kill him.
lol nice meme
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Useless thread.
Every thread on this sub is irrelevant, if you're not happy quit browsing it bro.
Lol i witnessed it happen xD
It's called a garage...
However, I own a truck. Not a new truck that I worry about and clean on a regular basis. No, this is a used truck that not only had dints and scratches on it when I bought it, but I also added my own fair share doing some serious construction work. In fact, the tailgate is bent pretty bad after my brother and I tried lifting a 400 pound rock into the bed...sadly we didn't get the rock.
I have no use for a clean car...I do have a use for a beat up truck that runs great after you've thrown hell at it.
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Lol so true I have fallen victim to this fate as well
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How did other moms gradually decrease number of pumping sessions while transitioning to exclusive breastfeeding in NICU/ICN and keeping up milk supply?
I started nursing Penga (now almost 1 week old (corrected)) while visitng her in ICN without supplementation (of my breast milk) except for giving her medication and vitamin/iron with small amount of breast milk. Penga usually nurses every 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Penga has reflux, which sometimes triggers desat and brady, so I usually hold her upright right for at least 30 minutes after feeding. With this schedule, it has been difficult to have an pumping sessions in between.
I usually nurse her 2-4 times a day, depending on my and my family's schedule.
My supply was decreasing I think it was because I was not pumping frequently enough not only in ICN but also at home + we were going through eomotionally challenging time with Penga's delayed discharge. So my LC prescribed me to reglan. I really want to keep up my supply.
Please share your story. Thank you!