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|12th April 2009, 06:55 AM
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Marantz CD52 (again!) tray disassembly help
Hi all,
could someone, by any chance, provide me with instructions for replacing the loading tray gear mechanism on a Marantz CD52 MkII (teeth chewed up on the pinion, as usual).
I have the service manual (in pdf) but the pictures aren't that clear. It looks like I have to take the disc player off its mountings to release the gear, but I'd prefer not to do that if there's an easier way.
I'd appreciate some advice from anyone who's done this successfully.
|12th April 2009, 08:05 AM
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Heaps of Philips based CD players have this problem, but the only one of mine that I've had to replace the gear on was coincidentally a Marantz CD 52 mkII.
- Take the top cover off (four side screws, two at back)
- Remove the disc clamp by swinging it vertical, where it will lift out
- Slide the disc tray out a couple of inches
- Remove the disc tray faceplate by pushing on the top of the faceplate while pulling at the bottom lip of it
- Remove the front panel of the player by undoing the three screws along the top of it and unsnaping the clips on either end. It will hinge away from the base of the player
- Pull the disc tray all the way out
- Slip the belt of the tray gear, and lever apart the two plastic supports to remove the gear
- Put the new gear in, and reassemble the player in reverse order to that above
A couple of hints on reassembly:
- To put the faceplate back on, press in on off centre to the left by half an inch or so, then slip it to the right. It should latch.
- The leftward disc tray guides are spring loaded, and need to be depressed somewhat to put the disc tray back in.
Have you got a replacement gear yet? I've got one for you if you don't.
Good luck,
|13th April 2009, 06:03 PM
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Marantz CD52 MkII
Hi Anton,
Thank you so much for your clear instructions and generous offer of a replacement part.
I have already ordered a replacement on eBay from "tube-buyer" in Hong Kong.
Probably paid over the odds at US$20, but if it does the job then I've saved money by keeping my perfectly good machine working.
I will read your instructions carefully before installing it!
Thanks again,
|27th April 2009, 05:07 PM
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Marantz CD52 tray disassembly
Operation completed successfully.
Here's an update.
Everything as Anton suggested except:-
For the lid
2 screws on each side (Ph 1)
1 screw (only) at the back (T10)
For the front panel
3 screws along top (PH1 as I remember)
PLUS 1 machine screw, underside, bottom right (T10 as I remember)
Also, remove the (pull-off) headphone volume knob.
The front panel doesn't hinge forwards but instead, it comes away forwards. Mine was fiddly because the detach path was snagged (at the tray port) by the edge of what seemed to be an oversize circuit board attached to the back of the panel. The edge of the board broke away in the process. Maybe I was too rough, but equally, maybe the board should have been trimmed at assembly because there was a channel in it for (perhaps) that purpose. No harm done as it was just pc board edge with no copper track on it. Phew.
CD52 back together now and sounding sweet ...
|28th April 2009, 07:19 AM
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Cool, I'm glad it worked. I didn't have my CD52 mk2 handy when I wrote those instructions, but my memory wasn't too bad!
|13th September 2009, 01:06 PM
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I did this repair on my own CD52 mk2 SE recently trying to use the service manual, and I'd echo the revisions Nijinski made to amc184's original procedure.
Removing the front panel was my biggest problem perhaps because the underside Torx-headed screw doesn't appear in the service manual instructions. There was no need to take off the headphone volume knob (although I did it too, in desperation). On mine the 3 screws along the top of my panel were Torx-headed rather than cross and I managed to turn them by jamming a regular flat-blade screwdriver into the head. The panel seemed to be mostly retained by some large plastic clips along the bottom in preference to the minor ones on the side. I also heard a worrying crack when I broke into the perforated section of PCB during the repair and I suspect the original assembly wasn't done in this sequence. A small amount of filing was required on the axle pin of my replacement gear wheel to mount it satisfactorily into the smaller hole of the two supports, but no real problems.
Anyway, little else seems to go wrong with these players, so (touch wood) I can look forward to many more years listening to the old lady duetting with her Pioneer A400 husband and of course watching the tray glide smoothly in and out.
|13th September 2009, 11:31 PM
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In fairness, I did this while I didn't have my own CD52 Mk2 handy, so they were all from memory.
There seems to be a systematic fault with the drive gears the CD52 uses. I've never seen any other players with that style of CDM-4 loader with broken drive gears, yet I've never seen a CD52 where the drive gear was intact. Other players seem to use a translucent white nylon drive gear, but these Marantzes use an opaque brown one that seems to be much more brittle.
Also, do yourself a favour, splash out and get a Torx T10 screwdriver. I hated them too when I first came across them (mainly because I didn't have a driver). All Philips players, and many Philips-based players, use them, and they actually work really well. They drive better than any other pattern of screw head, and they cant be stripped.
|24th February 2010, 08:56 PM
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Thanks for giving me confidence to try this repair and save me a few bob. Took less than 30 mins.
The drive wheel was extremely worn. Also very brittle - edges breaking off as I removed it. No problem with circuit board etc.
I took the advice from elsewhere and didn't bother with the £15 for a new drive gear - instead I simply attached some black insulating tape to the underside of the tray to act as a handle - works a treat.
p.s. I took out far more screws than I needed to and even managed to have one left over when I put it all back together again - oops!
|7th March 2010, 07:13 PM
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My advise to anyone with the gear issue is to read up and replace the gear with a chinese plastic CDM4 gear on ebay (check international sales if you can't find one). Its relatively straight forward to replace and you'll have a decent player working exactly as it should after about 30 mins messing!!
When Bitstream came out, I thought, my God, what are we going to do...? Ken Ishiwata http://www.hifisounds.co.uk
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|7th March 2010, 09:40 PM
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@UV101 - It fixed it in that I can now operate the CD player without suffering the horrendous racket that comes with a worn gear that fails to operate the tray. I simply pull the tray open manually and push it shut. I may treat myself to the CDM4 gear sometime, but meantime I've got a CD player that meets my needs. Sorry if this offends the sensibilities of the forum. I only posted initially to offer my thanks.
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Guide No. 29A: Basic American Land Terminology
Grants Royal, colonial, federal, state land grants a grant consisted of a land warrant which authorized 1) lands to be laid out and surveyed; 2) a plat showing the location; 3) a patent or title to the property.
Deeds Land transactions between two parties. They include sales of land, gifts of lands to relatives (or others) and settlements following disputes.
Mortgages Temporary transferals of title to property for the purpose of paying debts. Relatives of parties to mortgages are often mentioned in these records.
Power of Attorney The appointment of individuals as attorneys for persons who have usually moved away, but who become involved in business transactions in places of former residence. These include: sales of land and other properties, collections of legacies left to those who have removed and settling of debts.
All county records are usually located in the office of the clerk of the county where the transaction occurred. Deeds, leases and mortgages are usually indexed, and many of the indexes and actual records have been filmed by the Family History Library. Also, subscribers to Heritage Quest can borrow rolls of microfilm to read deed indexes and transcripts.
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Articles of Agreement Made between property owners and their heirs or assignees concerning how property is to be settled after events or conditions transpire, such as decease of the owner, after heirs reach a certain age, or after services rendered.
Bills of Sale Papers showing transfer of ownership of slaves, cattle, livestock, furniture or crops.
Contracts Sales of property on contract and other agreements based on the terms of a contract between individuals or parties.
Leases on Property Made to individuals or companies for farming, mining, logging, etc.
Tax Records Real and personal property assignments and collections, describing land holdings, slaves, livestock, carriages, and sometimes show inheritances, assessments for children in school, for eligible voters, etc. During colonial period may include tithables payable to church wardens of a state for church expenses, such as caring for the poor.
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- Administrator/administratrix A person appointed by the court to settle the estate of someone who died intestate .
- Alien To transfer (lands, title) to another.
- Alienation A transfer of title or property to another.
- Assigns Anyone acting on behalf of or in place of the nominal owner. Example: The owner may have transferred his rights to someone else or appointed an attorney to act on his behalf.
- Bargain Mutual agreement among two or more people to exchange or purchase goods.
- Bargain and Sale Deed A type of deed in which title is transferred but in which there is usually no guarantee as to the validity of title.
- Cadastral Map Land ownership map. Generally used for tax purposes.
- Chattel A tangible, movable article of personal property, as opposed to real property .
- Collateral Property put up by someone getting a loan. If they fail to repay the loan, the property goes to the person granting the loan.
- Condemn The taking of privately owned land for public use by eminent domain. In the U.S. just compensation must be provided for any lands thus taken.
- Consideration The money (or other property) used to purchase land.
- Deed A document giving the holder the title to property. More generally, any document sealing an agreement, contract, etc. The most common types of deeds Bargain and Sale , Quitclaim , and Warranty .
- Deed of trust A transfer of property to someone to be held in trust for another. See trust . More specifically, however, deeds of trust are used in a number of states instead of a mortgage to secure a loan. The deed of trust names the trustees in whom title is placed as security against failure to meet the terms of the loan.
- Deed poll A deed not indented; deed made by one party only.
- Dower A wife's interest in her husband's property, inheritable at his death. English probate law set this at one-third. In the U.S. it was common for a woman to formally relinquish her dower claim on land sold by the husband. This further guaranteed that the property was clear of all obligations.
- Entry Filing of the intention to get a land grant or patent. This was the first step of a multi-step process of getting land, the other steps generally being Survey, and Grant.
- Escheat Land ownership reverting to the Crown, government, or estate owner because of a lack of heirs.
- Estate A property right held by someone. There can be many estates held on a single piece of property, for example, relating to specific uses of the property. Mineral rights, water rights, and so on are examples.
- Executor/executrix The person named in a will to carry out the terms of the will. See administrator .
- Fee simple Ownership of land that can be inherited by any heirs. To hold in fee means to possess.
- Fee tail Ownership of land restricted to a specified class of heirs, generally direct descendants.
- Feoffment Transfer of inheritable real property.
- Grant Transfer of title from the government to the first titleholder of a piece of property. This term is generally used by states and the federal government.
- Grantee The person receiving a grant, or buying property.
- Grantor The person issuing the grant, or selling property.
- Headright A colonial system used in Virginia of land patents, in which immigrants, including minor children, were entitled to 50 acres of land apiece. It was customary for the person paying passage to claim the headright. Headrights could be sold or assigned to others and also used in other states.
- Improve To make land more valuable by clearing and planting. Land that was not improved by the owner might revert to the government.
- Indenture A written agreement. (Originally, the document was written in duplicate, and the two copies placed side by side and 'indented', or cut, with a wavy line so they fit together perfectly.)
- Intestate Without a will. If someone dies intestate, the court appoints an administrator to settle the estate.
- Instrument Legal document.
- Messuage A dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and lands appropriated to the use of the household.
- Moiety One-half. One of two equal parts. A share or portion.
- Patent Transfer of title from the government to the first titleholder of a piece of property.
- Planting and Seating See improve . In Virginia colonial law a patentee was required to cultivate an acre of land and build a small house on the property, otherwise the patent would revert to the government.
- Probate The process of proving a decedent's will and settling the estate.
- Quitclaim Deed A common type of deed in which the seller relinquishes claim to whatever rights were held on the property, but does not guarantee that that the property is actually free of claims by others.
- Real property Land.
- Remainder Transfer of ownership to someone on the death of another. For example, land may be sold to person A for use during their lifetime, but then remaindered to person B at the death of A.
- Revert Return of ownership to a former owner (or heirs).
- Title Legal ownership as evidenced by a deed or other instrument.
- Trust Confidence placed in someone by giving them property to be held or used for another's benefit.
- Trustee An individual to whom another's property is entrusted.
- Warrant A governmental order authorizing some action. A land warrant instructs a state to issue land to someone.
- Warranty Deed A deed in which the seller warrants having a valid title and that the property is clear of any liens.
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Links in this Guide (in order they appeared)
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- Heritage Quest

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Caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly, the state butterfly of Oklahoma, feed on parsley, carrots, dill, fennel, celery, and Queen Anne's lace. The female lays a single yellow egg on a leaf or flower of a host plant. It hatches in four to nine days. It overwinters as a chrysalis. Sometimes when disturbed, a caterpillar displays a forked appendage on the top of its head known as an osmeterium that emits a foul smell used to discourage enemies. It's harmless to people. The caterpillars find high, sheltered places for their pupate.
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Jacob Prak, the chief executive officer of Michigan Manufacturing International (MMI; Stevensville, MD) recently returned from Hosur, India where the new MMI plant has been completed.
This stop was part of Prak's annual visit to MMI locations in Mumbai, Coimbatore, and Bangalore, India, and Shanghai, Fuyang, Ningbo, Jinan, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Hong Kong, China.
The MMI Hosur facility is primarily an assembly plant that receives its inputs from a highly qualified local supply base. "We estimate that approximately 65 percent of our sales in India come from the Hosur location, making this plant very important for us. It is vital to our ability to offer the best and most cost-effective supply options to our customers," Prak said.
Prak estimates that MMI purchases 10 percent of the company's total volume from South Korea, 10 percent from the Pearl River delta region in China, 50 percent from the Yangtze delta region in China and 30 percent from India.
During the trip to Asia, MMI filled two key positions. Prabhu Rajendran was chosen as the new worldwide quality control manager. His primary focus will be implementing and managing quality assurance processes. Jarbo Lu was named as the new supply manager for Shandong province in China.
"These new MMI team members will be instrumental in ensuring that MMI products meet the highest quality control standards," Prak said. "I am very pleased to have them join our growing company."
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Well, it's finally happened. I've adopted a kitten of my own. Her name is Pepper and it's all I can do to not bake her in a quiche and eat her, she's just so cute. Even when she's sinking her teeth into my arm flesh, which is approximately 100% of the time.
Here are seven reasons adopting a kitten is awesome. Mostly.
1. Inviting a kitten into your home is a great way to relinquish control in your life.
It takes roughly 12 seconds for a new kitten to lay claim to your home and all your possessions. For the next 12-18 years, there will be a tiny creature in your home who believes it is the boss of you (which, over the years, you will begin to agree with).
I can't eat a sandwich anymore without allocating a portion of my turkey to the cat. I can't sleep comfortably anymore, because she requires the exact center of the bed, meaning I have anywhere between 1-3 limbs dangling off the edge of the bed. Sometimes while she sleeps, in order to make myself feel better, I whisper to her, "I saved your life, I can take it away."
2. Kittens teach you to be flexible in life.
This is mostly because kittens are so physically flexible themselves. It's a well known fact that kitten bones are made of chlorosulphonated polyethylene, and they will essentially take the shape of whatever container suits them.
It's impossible to not draw parallels to your own life after watching a kitten melt and take the shape of a gravy boat or that sawed-off human skull you bought for six dollars from an Aghori guru while on vacation in Nepal. You look at the kitten and think, "I should learn to compromise more. Maybe I shouldn't have shoved Karen off a cliff in the Adirondacks because she wanted to go hiking and I wanted to smoke weed in the tent and eat Sun Chips. And I definitely shouldn't have hacked her corpse up and buried it in a shallow grave. Hmm. You live, you learn, I guess."
3. Owning a kitten is a great way to channel your maternal instincts into something without actually having to commit to birthing a human and raising it for 18 years.
If I'm honest with myself, this is probably the main reason I got a kitten. I need to channel my love into something that doesn't actually require a lot of upkeep, unlike a spouse or a '61 Thunderbird. And kids? Please. I can't imagine being a parent.
4. Kittens will help you get over your body issues.
At some point your kitten will see you naked, and it straight up won't care. You could parade around your living room wearing a woman suit while blasting "Goodbye Horses" and your kitten won't so much as bat an eyelash. Side note: do kittens even have eyelashes? I'm suddenly freaking out that I don't know the answer to this.
My kitten has taken to watching me shower. It was awkward at first.
She wouldn't stop, so in retaliation I started singing 98 Degrees songs at her while she pooped. We agreed to respect each other's privacy in the future.
5. Kittens cure loneliness.
Having a kitten around is a great excuse to talk to yourself without feeling like a loser. I mean, you'll still feel like a loser, just less of one.
It's sort of like going on a date with someone in a medically induced coma. Maybe your words aren't really sinking in, but it doesn't matter. You get to talk uninterrupted, and when it comes right down to it, isn't that what matters? It reminds me of the time in fourth grade when I had to give a speech and I chose to talk about Sailor Moon and I went over the allotted 10 minutes but I didn't want to stop talking because I had barely started explaining Sailor Saturn's seizures, and I really wanted to tell everyone about how she gets possessed by Mistress 9, but Mrs. Hawk said I needed to wrap it up, and I was so mad that I didn't even get to touch on the Dead Moon Circus, and...
6. Cats will
It's nice to know that I can gain 200 pounds and grow a long, greasy wizard beard, and my cat will never leave me (mostly because she can't figure out doorknobs, but let's not split hairs).
7. Kittens teach patience.
Any cat owner knows you have to be on the ready with your camera phone at all times, because when a cat does something cute you have to be quick, lest you miss out on literally tens of Instagram likes.
I actually filled up my phone with cat photos and videos. Like, to capacity. I got an error message that said something along the lines of, "Really, dude? Enough with the cat pix. There's no more space. Go for a walk. Look at your life choices. Maybe catch a matinee. I hear Fruitvale Station is great." Or something like that. I forget.
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I am a single mother of a 14 year old and I have been out of a 8 year relationship for 3 years now. I have fallen and picked myself up and finally I have been "Doing Me"!! So I am 5'2, nice set of boobies, thick thighs, and deent hips. I will have to lose weight, but cannot and do not want to lose my boobs, thighs, or curves.... The only thing I am missing is a booty. I am not wanting something that looks too big for my body, however I am hoping with my thickness I can get atleast 1,000 cc's and get away with it.
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I am getting a BBL and will most likely get my inner thighs done as well. He will propbably suggest a TT, but thats not my thinng and not that important to me.
I enjoy reading everyones story and know that as much as I read and know, I will never be prepared for FEB 7th!!! I'm ok with it.
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It was really great to meet some of the people at the Bay Area Lunch last Wednesday who are involved in Derby! One of the people that I met there was Kim Haase. Kim and I have been contributing documentation to Derby, and naturally we discussed the Derby Library during the lunch. An area that we think might be good to improve is the organization of information which discusses how to setup and start working with Derby. We discussed the possibility of moving the entire content of the Working With Derby manual into the Getting Started Guide. The Working With Derby content is really good, but might be better if it is placed in context with the installation and getting started information. Additionally, the information in the Getting Started Guide that describes SQL syntax might be better in the Reference Manual, where the SQL statements are actually documented. There currently is no information in the Reference Manual that explains the syntax diagrams. How does the rest of the Derby community feel about us analyzing the current organization of the Getting Started Guide and the Working With Derby information, with the intent to propose a reorganization of the information? Are there other areas in the Derby Library that seem to be organized poorly? -- Laura Stewart
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The following information was taken from El Dorado County sheriff's reports:
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Vandals strike
Dec. 26: Vandalism was reported on Pardee Court.
Dec. 26: Thieves broke into a vehicle parked on Mt. Rainier Way.
Town Center targeted
Dec. 27: Vandals damaged property in El Dorado Hills Town Center.
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Dec. 27: A Yosemite Lane resident reported medication stolen from his mailbox.
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Dec. 28: Deputies arrested a 61-year-old woman on suspicion of public intoxication on Harvard Way.
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Dec. 28: A burglary was reported on Lakehills Court.
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Dec. 29: A 33-year-old woman reported her wallet lost in Town Center.
Dec. 30: A petty theft was reported on Stage Stop Court.
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Dec. 31: A vehicle burglary was reported on El Dorado Hill Boulevard.
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Jan. 1: A 47-year-old woman in Town Center reportedly tried to assault a deputy while her 49-year-old husband obstructed law enforcement officers from apprehending the woman. Both suspect were arrested.


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|terrymichael.net | thoughts from a libertarian Democrat
The results of the 2006 mid-term election, if they're anything close to predictions, will suggest two near-seismic changes in the national political landscape.
Evangelical Christians, after three decades of dabbling in politics, are ready--perhaps even eager--to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things which are not the Republican Party's.
And the Democrats' Cold War "soft-on-defense" ghost will be exorcized, a scarecrow image that has been propped up in the fields of American politics for years, not only by Republicans but by the foreign policy neo-conservative Democratic minority, which colluded in the Iraq War.
Three things should be stipulated about those generalizations.
First, they apply specifically to the strategic thinking that should inform presidential candidates in their appeals to the broad center of the electorate in 2008.
They obviously don't match every congressional race in the country. If you're a Democrat running in a marginal, particularly a Southern, district, you run to the right on social cultural and national security issues, and if you're a Republican running in a Democratic-leaning, particularly Northeastern, district, you tilt left.
Finally, these assertions are reached not just by the likely outcomes of Democratic control of the House and a possible majority in the Senate. They come from trends that have been developing in a two-or-three decade shift from the Nixon/Reagan Democrat center, to the Baby Boom and soon-to-be Gen X domination of the middle of American politics in the next several national elections.
Evangelicals to eschew politics.
If you need anecdotal proof of the souring of fundamentalist Christians on political involvement, look no further than David Kuo's recent book, "Tempting Faith." The former White House faith-based initiative aide reveals that the national Republican Party is really laughing behind the backs of "people of faith," at the same time they mine their churches for votes.
That is also apparent from GOP triangulation tactics, in which Republicans attempt to distance themselves from the religious right agenda. It wasn't for nothing that Vice President Cheney publicly discovered his lesbian daughter a few months before the 2004 election. And George Bush found he had no problem with civil unions just days before he was re-elected.
The national Republican leadership understands the religious right scares the bejesus out of the center. Witness the recent mother-in-law moment at the swearing-in ceremony for a new global AIDS coordinator, where Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in the presence of Laura Bush, used that reference in acknowledging the mother of openly-gay Ambassador Mark Dybul's domestic partner--curious talk in a party that has championed marriage as a one-man, one-woman kind of thing.
The decline of the religious right in national politics has been largely missed by a media and a political class that have virtually swooned over Karl Rove and his vastly overrated strategy to wield politicized evangelicals as a GOP sword. Conservative Christian involvement in politics began in the late 1970's and began to show clout in the 1980's, when the Depression Era/World War II generation, with conservative social and cultural values, dominated the center of American politics and produced Reagan Democratic voters.
The religious right reached its apogee when it was energized by Newt Gingrich and the Christian Coalition in the 1994 elections that yielded GOP control of the House for the first time in decades.
But the new center of the electorate is populated by the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll Sixties generation, soon to be replaced by the also more social/cultural liberal Gen X'ers and their offspring.
Ironically, the consultant class of the Democratic Party, failing to understand this shift in the center, is ill-advising their clients to engage in a kind of "religion lite" political communication, when the middle increasingly is being turned off by mixing religion and politics.
Center also has shifted on national security.
As the center eschews Christian conservative values, it also has turned against the foreign interventionism of the GOP neo-Cons. And that will empower the non-interventionist Democratic Party majority, fed up with their neo-conservative-lite foreign policy "experts" like Sen. Joe Biden, who colluded in Bush's elective war and who continue to support it.
Any reasonable reading of independent voters in the 2006 election will have to conclude that the middle is mad as hell about the sacrifice of young American lives, in what they have come to believe is the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the right time.
Cowering as the White House hurls the "cut-and-run" epitaph in their direction, congressional supporters of the war, like Biden, continue to defend their votes for going into Iraq, and argue that the center, while disenchanted with the war, doesn't want to just, well....cut and run. If you've seen that movie before, you're old enough to have lived through Vietnam, in which the then-best-and-brightest also refused to declare victory and withdraw–-sending tens of thousands more young men to their deaths in the jungles of Southeast Asia after the American public concluded that war was a mistake around 1968.
The truth is, Biden and others like him don't want to set a date for withdrawal, because they would have to admit they helped send thousands of young men and women to their deaths in the desert. But in reality, the opinions of the center are waiting to be formed by the leadership of the Democratic Party in the direction of an Iraq exit strategy. The results of the mid-term elections will surely empower war opponents, to a point that may even cause the new Democratic majority in the House and maybe the Senate to promote an end to the waste of lives and treasury.
Like the shift of the center on social cultural issues, the center has also moved on foreign policy, since the self-styled Democratic Leadership Council was formed in 1984 after the World War II generation helped re-elect Reagan in a landslide.
The DLC made an important contribution by moving the party to a more free market position on economic policy, resulting in Bill Clinton's election in 1992. But the organization became obsessed with trying to prove that Democrats weren't wimps on defense, and apparently can't get over the fact that the Cold War ended under Bush 41.
The DLC has successfully peddled its tough-on-defense line to the congressional Democratic defense and foreign policy establishment, as well as to a national press corps filled with baby boom era reporters whose perception of where the center is on national security hasn't caught up with reality.
Thus, the media that interprets politics and those in positions of power in the Democratic Party saw to it that there was no real engaged public debate in the run-up to the Iraq War, leading to the disaster that ensued.
Anyone who can't read the results of the 2006 mid-term elections as a repudiation of the war is, well....probably a writer for the editorial page of The Washington Post.
So long religious right. And good riddance neo-Con warriors. Presidential candidates for 2008: ignore those lessons of 2006 at your peril.
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Grilled-Pepper Salad with Currants, Capers and Feta
It's no surprise that Steven Raichlen can grill any vegetable you throw at him. The trick, he says, is to figure out how long the vegetable needs to cook and adjust the grilling method accordingly. "Tender vegetables with a high water content should be grilled over direct heat," he says, meaning on the grate right above the coals. "Dense, starchy vegetables, which take longer to cook, require indirect heat. Some, like whole potatoes or onions, I bury directly in the embers." This simple salad gets a burst of Mediterranean flavors from the addition of sweet dried currants, tart capers and salty feta cheese.
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- 1 large red bell pepper
- 1 large yellow bell pepper
- 1 large orange bell pepper
- 1 large green bell pepper
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons pine nuts
- 2 tablespoons dried currants
- 1 tablespoon drained small capers
- 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
How to make this recipe
Light a charcoal grill. Grill the peppers over high heat, turning, until charred all over. Transfer to a large plate and let stand until cool enough to handle. Peel the peppers and discard the charred skins, seeds and stems. Quarter the peppers lengthwise and arrange them on a platter.
In a small skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Add the garlic and pine nuts and cook over moderate heat until golden, about 4 minutes. Stir in the currants and capers. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining 1/4 cup of the olive oil. Let cool to room temperature. Whisk in the vinegar and stir in the parsley and feta; season with salt and pepper. Pour the dressing over the peppers and serve.


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In the past few months, a new blue chipper has scaled the corporate ladder at a phenomenal pace. He has displayed unmatchable athleticism, and gained a ring presence rivaling the greats. His following spreads like wildfire as he speeds through the competition with an unmatchable (and until recently, flawless) winning streak over the likes of former dominant world champions. He's shown great diversity for a big man within the hallowed squared circle, and has become a success over night. His name is Bobby Lashley.
In the history of World Wrestling Entertainment/Federation there have been many dominant champions. Triple H, the Rock, Shawn Michaels, John Bradshaw Leyfield; the list goes on like a who's who in main eventing staples of the industry... but never in the history of this federation has there been a true black champion.
Some could argue that Booker T was champion. My only objection to this is that he was only champion because he came in riding the coattails of WCW, and the title technically wasn't a WWE title at that time. Some could claim the Rock was the first African-America champion, but he was also half Samoan and it took a pedigree of three generations in the business and a re-vamped attitude to take him to the top. With all of these debunked exceptions aside, could Bobby Lashley be the first ever to break the color barrier in World Wrestling Entertainment" Let's look at the usual path to victory within World Wrestling Entertainment.
Usually someone viable for the title captures the U.S. or I.C. title initially. Bobby Lashley has held the U.S. title, and recently lost it to the dastardly Irish Fit Finlay thanks to the help of his illusive Little Bastard. If history shows a pattern, the next step is World Title contendership, something Smackdown is lacking currently. With such a vacant world title division, could Lashley rise to the occasion and grab that fabled brass ring" Or will his star burn out too soon"
Many could compare this skyrocketing success to Brock Lesnar, a man who peaked too soon. Many have compared this phenom to the Next Big Thing, both in career path, diverse wrestling ability, and physique. Could this make the boy's in the back leery of giving such a shot to Bobby" Another recent scare behind the scenes lately is the disrespect of seasoned veterans. Recently Dave Batista, a man not unlike Lashley in rising stardom and physique, was reported to have had harsh words with the former WCW champion Booker T at a photo shoot. This allegedly ended in King Booker being crowned by a punched in the face by the disrespectful youth. Many other new bloods have displayed this disrespect toward those who put wrestling on the map, among the list rests the names of those who were given a shot early in their career. So far, no reports have shown Lashley to be a problem behind the scenes, and the NFL doesn't seem to be knocking down his door currently. Hopefully the powers that be will find Bobby is committed and able enough to brunt the load of the oncoming future of the business.
Regardless to what happens with Bobby, it's safe to say he's a breath of fresh air in an industry known for it's opportunistic and somewhat appalling approach to race, lifestyle, or religion. Bobby Lashley is truly a man making his way based on his talent and not on the color of his skin. In a sense, he's already broken so many stigma's left by Papa Shango, Virgil, Kamala and so many other misguided souls. I say it's only the beginning, and I'm letting my chip's ride on this sure-fire future icon of the industry.
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Henry Waxman: The Democrats' Eliot Ness
The sweeping Democratic congressional victories in 2006 have not translated into the kind of oversight many voters had hoped for. In particular, the Senate
Judiciary Committee has been notably unable to penetrate the Iron Curtain of Justice Department resistance.
The Bush administration has figured out it can derail the traditional hearing process by simply refusing to cooperate at all, by withholding all relevant documents or either not showing up at hearings, and if there, having nothing interesting to say. White-maned senators, who look like they were sent from Central Casting to play the part of "outraged representatives," are reduced to rolling their eyes when witnesses "do not recall."
Without the facts being handed to them on a silver platter, the senators seem inclined to weakly extend deadlines for cooperation or just give up. How can we do oversight, they ask, if the White House won't help us?
There is another path to oversight, though, and its model has been developed by a 68-year-old Jewish congressman from the Westside of Los Angeles named Henry Waxman. But it takes a lot more work than the standard model.
With a hostile president, even a Democratic majority in Congress cannot legislate. But it can do oversight, and in the long run, oversight creates a constituency for legislation. Oversight is about information and public education.
In fact, Waxman already did more oversight while in the minority than many Democrats have been able to accomplish with the majority. Back in 2005, David Corn wrote in the Nation magazine that Democrats considered Waxman to be their "Eliot Ness," and that many members wished the rest of the party would adopt his approach.
The standard oversight model is the congressional hearing. But hearings are not good vehicles to gather information, and they do not work as public education without some effort and creativity. Senators who think they are one great question away from breaking the case wide open and getting their names into the history books instead find themselves drawn into obscure debates with uncooperative witnesses, which leave the public baffled or indifferent. It's doubtful that anyone will repeat Sen. Howard Baker's memorable Watergate line: "What did the president know, and when did he know it?" So why bother trying?
A hallmark of Waxman's work as chairman of the incomparable House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (which, Waxman notes, allows him to poke into "everything") is that his staff does the legwork before hearings are held. Before the 2006 elections brought him into the majority, Waxman used his minority position on the committee to establish an investigative staff. He has used his staff even more effectively in the majority.
Majority staff reports on a wide array of topics are made available to the media in an accessible format. There is usually a "hook" that fosters active media coverage. For instance, in 2004 he issued a staff report listing "237 misleading statements" by Bush administration officials about Iraq.
The groundwork for the issue is defined by Waxman, and the baseline information does not depend on cooperative witnesses. These reports, covering a vast array of urgent topics, make for good reading on his committee Website. The Web site also includes a "whistleblower hotline." The hearings then add to the data and even add some drama.
Once the report is issued, hostile witnesses have an incentive to appear before the committee to do damage control. That is why Blackwater's founder had to testify following a blistering and well-publicized staff report that investigated the company's activities in Iraq. Waxman knows how to run a dramatic hearing, as shown by the famous day in 1994 when he got tobacco executives to raise their hands and commit perjury about the effects of smoking.
Waxman's latest foray into Blackwater suggests that if he keeps pulling that thread, he may bring home to the public the scope and impact of the private war the taxpayers have been financing in Iraq. That's what congressional investigations are supposed to do.
He is worrisome enough to Republicans that one California congressman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), issued a veiled threat: "If Henry Waxman today wants to go to Iraq and do an investigation, Blackwater will be his support team. His protection team. Do you think he really wants to investigate directly?"
Waxman is easy to underestimate. He is obviously not a member of the Washington society A list. He is known for never having attended the Academy Awards in his hometown. After the 2006 elections, he told Time magazine, "It's such a long night. When I watch it on TV, I can get a snack."
Those who know Waxman's political history, however, are not surprised that he is tenacious and effective. While Waxman is very idealistic about how government should work and is not a Beltway shmoozer, he is a sophisticated political practitioner.
Before he won a seat in Congress in 1974, Waxman was a young Democratic activist during the heyday of Democrats in California politics. He upset an incumbent to win election to the state Assembly in 1968. He and his close ally (and, after 1982, fellow congressman) Rep. Howard Berman (D-Van Nuys) pieced together one of the few successful political organizations in Los Angeles political history.
Labeled the Waxman-Berman "machine" (which was undoubtedly an overstatement encouraged by the lack of such organizations in California), their combine backed numerous candidates for the state Legislature and other offices. They nurtured the early career of Zev Yaroslavsky.
Waxman and Berman were effective campaign organizers and team builders. They were at the center of a loyal group of elected officials, many of whom were Jewish politicians on the Westside; others were African Americans and Latinos.
So as Democrats struggle to define their role of congressional majority facing a hostile White House, they would do well to consider that neither the White House nor the mass media will do their work for them. If they want to see how it is done, they would be well served to ask the West Los Angeles expert.
Raphael J. Sonenshein is a political scientist at Cal State Fullerton. His column appears here monthly.


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The French rider won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984, and was runner-up in 1989 when he lost by just eight seconds, the smallest margin in the history of the race, to American Greg LeMond.
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We reported earlier tonight about the drug violence in Mexico that is increasingly crossing over the border into American cities.
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On the smoggiest of days, Beijing sidewalks are congested with people sporting leopard print patterns, Hello Kitty logos and other quirky designs across their faces. But one local startup offers a more practical version of such products, one that isn't nearly as flashy.
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How do your nose filters work?
Users can insert the filters in their nostrils and dispose of them at the end of each day. We understand that putting things into your nose can be a very new experience. But we liken it to many years ago, when contact lenses were new, and putting something in your eyes was foreign to most people. Our product comes in three sizes that cover the general range of nose diameters. We spent over two years researching and developing soft, comfortable materials. Soif you select the right size, combined with its soft material, it will fit well for you and block a lot of pollution.
What are these "soft materials" that you mention?
That's a trade secret, which we need to keep to stay competitive. But we have done third-party tests with the American National Standards Institute. They checked our efficiency against PM2.5s, and our filtration material was able to block particles at over 99 percent.
Are there any risks in terms of what the filters are made of?
Definitely not. That was also part of our research and development. We ensured the materials were safe, nontoxic and recyclable. Our invisible air mask design is new for the Chinese market; before we created this product we didn't have a product standard to compare it to. So we had to write our own product standard, which the government has accepted.
Why is government approval something to strive for?
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A South Korean filter firm said it is unsafe for Infipure to not divulge what materials you use. What are your thoughts on this?
Our filtration material is modified from a similar type of substance used in a well known anti-air pollution product, which we can't name because of our trade secret. We chose it because it is proven, soft, and effective. Our filters also have a low amount of air resistance, helping them conform to the numerous sizes and shapes of noses while maximizing breathability and effectiveness. The plastic components on our product, which are a medical grade polymer often used in the healthcare industry, were selected because they have a high stretch point to minimize potential breakage.
The filter's look and functionality have been criticized. How do you respond to that?
We don't feel it's right to critique our specific competitors. We all have the same goal of trying to help people improve their health by defending against air pollution. Our product may appear simple in design, but this was intentional. The nasal passage is narrow, so we wanted to ensure that we weren't over designing filters with extra plastics or other material that would create breathing resistance.
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