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In Scripture, are grammar and structure important?
When gathering with the church, have you ever had a discussion about grammar and structure in Scripture? I have… several times. And, the last time this happened was last Sunday when we were studying Ephesians 5.
I know what you're thinking… "How can a discussion about grammar and sentence structure be edifying to the church?" Well, believe it or not, it can be. In fact, in some cases, it's important to discuss grammar and sentence structure in order to understand Scripture.
But, in this particular case, we were looking at Ephesians 5:22-33. Of course, this is a very famous passage because everyone wants to argue about what it means for a wife to submit to her husband. (Although, I've found it strange that there are very few arguments about what it means for a husband to love his wife… and why there are few – if any – websites or "ministries" devoted to the husband loving the wife. But, I guess that's a question for another day.)
At one point, I mentioned that Ephesians 5:22 does not include a verb, and that it follows directly from Ephesians 5:21. I also mentioned that Ephesians 5:21 is a participial phrase that is part of the sentence that begins in Ephesians 5:18. In other words, "wives submit to your own husbands" is part of the description of "submitting to one another" which is part of the command "be filled with the Spirit."
Let's take this the other way: When Paul writes, "Be filled with the Spirit…" (Ephesians 5:18), he then gives 4 results (at least, I think they are results of being filled with the Spirit – but that's actually another grammatical question): 1) addressing one another… (Ephesians 5:19a), 2) singing and making melody (Ephesians 5:19b), 3) giving thanks (Ephesians 5:20), and 4) submitting to one another (Ephesians 5:21).
Then, as part of "submitting to one another," Paul next addresses wives and instructs them to submit to their own husbands as an example (Ephesians 5:22). So, whatever it means to submit to one another, and whatever it means for wives to submit to their husbands (and, yes, we discussed this), it all begins with being filled with the Spirit. (By the way, I didn't say all of that on Sunday morning, but other people did bring up different grammatical aspects of this passage based on the relationship between Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 5:21, and Ephesians 5:22.)
What's interesting is that after we talked about this and continued to the end of the chapter. A few people later wanted to talk about it again. One of the questions that was often brought up is this one: What does it mean that addressing, singing, giving thanks, and submitting all follow from being filled with the Spirit?
So a grammatical / structural question not only led to understanding Scripture better, it also led immediately to encouraging one another about being filled with the Spirit. Plus, it puts the whole discussion about husbands / wives, parents / children, and masters / slaves in a completely different light… because it all begins with being filled with the Spirit.
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Lloyd-Jones' "Life In The Spirit" is a good one on this, from his expository sermon series on Ephesians.
Dear Alan: Thanks for your comments regarding Eph.5:22ff and especially the information that the sentence begins with verse 18. I got myself into a quandary with both moderates and conservatives, circa 1985, by pointing out the possibility of biblical justification for what Sandy Creek church and assn. die with reference to having eldresses who exhorted the congregation. The moderates did not apparently care for it as I based it upon verbal inspiracion, inerrancy, and infallibility, and the conservatives did not like it as it violated their favor clear statements, never mind the ambiguities of dealing with a word from God which so clearly reflects the subtleties of the omniscient being inspiring such a work. Since I was doing a simple work of history, I sought to reconstruct the justification for such a view in the 1700s, in a period when there was no questioning of the word of God in the churches that were orthodox. There was, of course, questioning as to meaning. I found justification in a Puritan, which Shubal Stearns and his brother-in-law were, coming from that background, especially the former (I think Marshall might have had more of a Presbyterian background at this point). The Puritan commentator, Matthew Poole, pointed out that "I suffer not a woman to teach or to usurp authority over man" was true "except it be for a specially called, gifted, and endowed woman such as" and he proceeded to name the leading prophetesses and other females of the Old and New Testament who had served as God's messengers or agents of leadership for His people at some point in the biblical timeline. Our Reformed folks, and we are originals, I think, if you leave me off of the Landmarkers' list, who remembered that the church was congregationalist in nature, from the meaning of ekklesia, and that the complementarity issue was simply one of functionality with checks and balances.
In functional linguistics, it is well-established that communication is isomorphic to grammar. So to speak, all of grammar and structure is about communication. Grammar indeed serves communication. Therefore, grammatical analysis, broadly speaking, is critically central to exegesis. Amazingly you pointed it out by illustrating how you can see the Holy Spirit in action only by carefully considering grammatical concerns.
Actually, grammatical analysis is pervasive in everyday life. We do it whenever we are communicating. We do it so automatically that we don't pay attention. Methodologically, what we can learn about your experience is a careful consideration of grammatical concerns in a systematic way, even for "easier" parts of the Scriptures. Needless to say that it will be amazing. We will indeed feel the Holy Spirit incrementally teaching us.
I'd be interested to read more about how the one(s) facilitating the grammar discussion helped to guide the discussion. I think this is an important skill for believers.
Not yet Alan. But so far, I have been using various grammatical tools for my personal Bible studies and annotation in Xiphos. Using those tools sounds rather natural and intuitive, as far as I am concerned. Of course, they have proven to be effective and insightful in several respects. I am part of a choir where we use to share the Scripture. I am planning to introduce the grammar-based method.
Good thoughts as usual. I have always thought the breaking of Ephesians 5 between verses 21 and 22 as is commonly done unfortunate at best. There are of course other examples where man has placed a division in a less then ideal spot, or added words because they seemed to make the passage grammatically correct. Or at least what they felt was grammatically correct since far too many times we then interpret it differently than a strict reading of the Greek/Hebrew would seem to indicate. I am not a Greek or Hebrew scholar, but it has been my observation that such careful scrutiny is necessary, along with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, if you are to rightly divide the Word.
Great article. Much to think about and go back and reconsider.
Thanks for a great article. here are a few of my musing on this passage.
It is great to see how the grammar helps to see what a passage says. We could take it a bit further. Are the participial clauses subordinate one to the other or are they coordinate? Either way, it would all be subordinate to being filled with the Spirit. If they were subordinate to one another then submission comes first, then giving of thanks, then singing, then addressing. There is a sense that when we submit we then can truly give thanks, which in turn helps us to sing and then to speak. That shows us how important it is to submit.
The word submission is interesting when one looks at the grammatical word which always follows it. It is a reflexive pronoun, which means it is a voluntary decision by the one making it. It can never be made for you nor can it be forced, then it is not submission. That directly helps us to understand what a husband's love is all about.
The definition that I appreciate for submission is a voluntary attitude of cooperation.
Context is what seems to be the key in your passage. How often has interpretation been divorced from a passage's surroundings!
This grammatical approach used here also supports of passages of NT scripture like Eph 6, I Peter 5:5 and Colossians 3:18-25.
Have you ever known anyone to support mutual submission with Romans 8:7 to defend the concept of mutual submission and even husband and wife co pastor teams? If so how would you respond?
Please visit http://www.realgodlylove.com and like us https://www.facebook.com/Coupled-in-Christ on facebook. God has graced my wife and I to address the disappearance of man and the role of man as lover and savior (in type) of his wife, in our bi-weekly fellowship groups and are starting touch to man's role on our website.


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Kentucky Democrats have been abuzz with news that actress and activist Ashley Judd could be considering a run in 2014, but so far Judd hasn't committed to the idea of a run. Judd was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and has been a strong supporter of President Obama, but experts say those credential may not get her far in her native Kentucky.
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"I cherish Kentucky, heart and soul, and while I'm very honored by the consideration, we have just finished an election, so let's focus on coming together to keep moving America's families, and especially our kids, forward," Judd told Us Weekly last month.
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Good article in Rolling Stone:
Good article in Rolling Stone:
It is apparent that the Republicans aren't too concerned about the Norquist pledge when it concerns the most regressive tax in the tax arsenal. Somehow, tax increases on working folks making under 110K per year aren't a big deal,, but you have to fight to the death to make sure billionaires only pay cap gains and dividends at a 15% rate, and to make sure an estate tax with a $5 million exclusion gets repealed.
I'm in awe of the marketing prowess in getting the middle class to sign on to a shifting of the tax burden from the rich to the middle class over the last 30 years.
The millionaire surtax would also apply to capital gains and dividends. This would be yet another surtax on investment income, as Obamacare already applied an extra 3.8 percent tax. Combined with that surtax and the President's policy of increasing the capital gains and dividends rate to 20 percent from the current 15 percent rate, the millionaire surtax would raise the total rate to 29.4 percent"a 96 percent increase over the current rate.
Higher capital gains taxes would further impede job creation because it would increase the cost of new capital for businesses looking to grow or replace worn-out capital. This would make it more expensive for businesses to buy the equipment, tools, and other things they need to employ more workers and make their current workers more productive. The end result would be fewer jobs and lower wages for American workers.
The President frequently calls his tax hike plans "tax reform." But one of the goals of tax reform is to lower the cost of capital to improve economic growth and enhance job creation. Higher taxes on capital are opposed to the aims of true tax reform.
Did you even READ the article I lnked?
I see no reason in a world where single selfemployed working taxpayers making under 110K a year are taxed at 43.3% (28% marginal rate +15.3% payroll taxes) marginal rates, that Millionaire's shouldn't have tax rates raised to 29% on investment income.
The divide between investment tax rates and income tax rates are absurd. The argument that lowering capital gains will create more jobs is fundamentally absurd given the current economic situation, where rates are at an all time low, Corporate profits are at the highest percentage of GDP in well over a century, and jobs are nowhere to be found. A lot of people are swallowing a lot of bad economics that paid propagandists like the Heritage Foundation spew out.
You can cut Cap gain and dividend rates to nothing, and profits could soar higher, and companies still wouldn't hire because there is no demand by the debt ridden lower and middle classes.
Actually it is a foundational belief of much of the Republican Party that there be no death taxes (estate tax), nor tax on capital gains, nor tax on dividends or interest. This of course would mean that much of the income of the very rich would never be taxed. It really amounts to re-establishing an aristocracy. People who are dumb enough to work for their money will pay for all of the taxes. You might call it 'life taxes'. Income, in my opinion, is income. Why should a hard working doctor pay more taxes than an idle rich person who got their money from daddy.
Note - Eisenhower, Nixon, and Democrats were not opposed to a notably progressive tax rate. The country seemed to do fairly well after Clinton "You can't tax your way to Prosperity" did just that.
I read the article. I currently work with the Federal Govt and have lobbied on behalf of and against several of the key points mentioned over the last few years. I have previously written here about efficient tax theory, so I won't repeat those critiques.Originally Posted by "missjane":2x772z97
Everyone in DC plays with the tax code to reward their favorite ideas and punish those they oppose. It is a truly bipartisan activity.
There is so much wrong with the article that it is unworthy of an 8 page fisking. Beleive what you want. Any political argument about our current deficit and budget fiasco that includes this:
"Historically, Republican and Democratic administrations alike had met the financial burdens of war by raising taxes."
is simply illegitimate and reflects no comprehension of the antecedents to our current crisis.
Flat tax, anyone?
Mahler fer prez!!!
Cracks me up. The guy gets in office gives away a trillion bucks to the mafia and repubs are called the party of the wealthy. What a hoot.
Probably true, but which side has "punished" ideas that primarily benefit the investor class? Correct answer: Nobody.Everyone in DC plays with the tax code to reward their favorite ideas and punish those they oppose. It is a truly bipartisan activity.
There may be points in that article to quibble over but big picture-wise one party has done more to push the trickle down theory than the other. It doesn't take an economist to look at taxation trends over the past three decades and note some connection with growing wealth inequality.
That's the magic of FOX and am radio isn't it?Originally Posted by "gasem":38o8vhm0
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I quit voting for Republicans in 2000.
If I had been paying attention I probably would have sooner than that.
They jumped the shark a good 15 or 20 years earlier than that.
Right about the time the effects of the "Southern Strategy" starting to kick in.
Today's Republican Party bears very little resemblance to the party of Eisenhower that I grew up knowing.
As opposed to the guy before who gave away Trillions to the military industrial complex.Originally Posted by "gasem":31t10uhc
I don't have much trouble with the folks who don't believe the Democrats are acting in their best interests, but the true believers who believe the Republicans are any better are clearly sniffing glue.
Why would we want to punish the Investor Class? That is a broad target and includes the funds saved by unions, corporations, and local governments to finance their pension plans. One of the great ironies of the constant hectoring of the financial sector by organizations like the AFL-CIO is the fact that they willingly line up and pay us to manage their money and generate the returns they need to maintain benefit levels.Originally Posted by "kuri":2q3634z2
Agree. I also didn't make that point, nor would I in a tax discussion. But if the writer just wanted to trash the current marketing scheme of the republicans, he could have done so with trying to make the other side seem above it all.Originally Posted by "kuri":2q3634z2
The problem with the current discussion of taxing investment income is that it is polluted with this "tax the rich" nonsense. I am with Mahler, except for the destitue, everyone should pay the same percentage as income tax. Citizens have equal responsibility for taxes. And yes, I recognize that might cause me to pay more taxes than I do now (which seem quite enough to me). Its still the right thing to do.
But if we are going to tax certain types of income less for policy reasons, the issue should be decided based on the whether this helps or hurts the economy overall.
The problem is, the Republicans are aggressively trying to shift the tax income from cap gains and dividends, to earned income. That effectively lowers tax rates on people like Warren Buffet to 15%, while soaking the working middle class with effective rates of 35+%.
When you have people like Newt Gingrich talking about zero capital gains taxes, Class Warfare has been declared. As Bill Gross of Pimco said, it's about time the left has started class warfare, since the Right has been aggressively pursuing it for decades.
Economics almost always become completely irrelevant in elections, which should be fairly clear by now. A great deal of middle america, and often florida and texas, vote counter to economic interest. The "fiscally conservative" republicans have been very successful at pushing this agenda by getting in bed with christian fundamentalists, and of course even more moderate christians who respond to wedge issues like gays in the military, flag burning, prayer in schools, creationism, and abortion. With those issues alone, it's been very easy for them to drum up support. It did not work in the last election as well as it could have, but it defined the Bush era.
People are likely to pay more attention at this point, but in the end, big scary social issues will almost always take precedence over tax rates and trade treaties.
The funny thing is that the government's position on social issues is mostly irrelevant, since most social policies are driven by the culture. It's why the same opposition to thing like gay rights is ultimately doomed in the same way opposition to women's voting and rights of African Americans not to be slaves was doomed despite opposition from the same groups of mouthbreathing fundamentalist religious groups.
Although I agree with you those things do probably drive more voting behavior, government is usually a trailing factor rather than a leading factor. It's a shame that things the government can control, fiscal policies, international policies, trade policies, seem to be afterthoughts.
Newt Gingrich will never be President. Not because of his policies or ideas which could be debated, but because he cheated on his wife and abandoned her when she had cancer. That's just the way politics works. The emotional issues usually trump the rational ones.


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Stephen Harper set out as Prime Minister in 2006 with the express goal of taking back the Criminal Code from the Liberal Party, and the toughening of crime laws has become a permanent and central feature of his agenda. But how fundamental have those changes been?
The Globe and Mail spoke to law professors, Crown attorneys, defence lawyers, criminologists and victims' advocates for an answer. The question comes at a time when the Conservative government is taking heat over justice issues, with the Auditor-General's report on prison overcrowding and the Prime Minister engaging in an unprecedented public battle with Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
The consensus is that Mr. Harper has kept his promise: Love it or hate it, he has broken with some long-standing principles and made major changes to how criminals are punished.
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In 1976, when Parliament abolished capital punishment, it made a life sentence mandatory for murder, with the first parole hearing after 25 years for one or more first-degree murders. There was also a "faint-hope clause" – after 15 years, a killer could ask a jury for an early parole hearing. Canada was similar to England and Wales, where mandatory lifers – murderers – serve an average of 16 years before release.
The Conservatives abolished the faint-hope clause, saying it increased the suffering of the families of victims. Then they borrowed from the United States, which has "life without parole" in 49 states (all except Alaska). Of 140,000 inmates serving life sentences in the United States, 40,000 are serving life without a possibility of parole, a Canadian government briefing paper says.
This measure could be a stepping stone to some day raising the 25-year parole eligibility in especially brutal single killings, now that the psychological barrier of 25 years has been breached.
The first case:
Last summer, Travis Baumgartner, a 21-year-old armoured-car employee in Edmonton, pleaded guilty to killing three coworkers in a heist, and his lawyer accepted a plea deal of 40 years' parole eligibility – the harshest sentence since the last death penalty case in 1962. He will be eligible for parole at age 61.
The major impact will be felt by the families of victims, who won't need to attend nearly as many (or perhaps any) parole hearings, says Steve Sullivan, head of Ottawa Victim Services.
Sue O'Sullivan, federal Ombudsman for Crime Victims, say the provision is important in holding offenders accountable for each life taken. It may therefore build public confidence in the justice system.
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There may be some deterrence. Some justice officials say word is out among criminals that carrying a gun on the street means three years in jail. (Academic studies suggest mandatory minimums are ineffective deterrents; Mr. Clewley, the former Crown attorney, says studies can't show what crimes people would have committed but for a tough law.)
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The former NFL defensive player of the year's disappointing turn in the nation's capital came to an end Monday when he was cut by the Washington Redskins for refusing to commit to the team's offseason workout program.
The Redskins wanted to add a workout clause to Taylor's hefty contract, but the 34-year-old defensive end declined. The clause would have required Taylor to take part in 25 days of offseason workouts.
The flap is reminiscent of last year, when Taylor clashed with the Miami Dolphins for competing in ``Dancing With the Stars'' rather than working out with the team in the offseason. Taylor finished second to Kristi Yamaguchi on the reality television show.
about $8.5 million this season. The Redskins, however, were willing to give him the full salary if he had agreed to the workout clause.
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The calf injury caused him to miss three games and hampered Taylor for much of the season. Also, he struggled to fit into a Redskins' defensive scheme that gave him less freedom than he had with the Dolphins. Taylor, whose 120 1/2 career sacks are the most among active players, had only 3 1/2 for the Redskins, his lowest season total since 1999.
``He played hurt,'' coach Jim Zorn said in a statement released by the team, ``but still gave his best effort to be prepared and play hard every week.''
fensive line that would consist of three renowned sack-masters: Taylor, Andre Carter and Albert Haynesworth, who on Friday signed a seven-year, $100 million contract with a record-breaking $41 million in guaranteed money.
With Taylor gone, the Redskins are expected to focus on re-signing defensive ends Daniels and Demetric Evans, who became free agents last week.
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Hi jesscat,
It all comes down to the Goodreads API in terms of what options it has and how we should fit it into the plugin.
I'm not a Goodreads expert so hopefully you or someone else can help me out but my understanding from the API perspective at least is that specifying the date read is associated with a user's review for a book. I've mentioned reviews a few times in this thread, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around exactly how they are supposed to be used from an API perspective.
For instance there is also an API call to create a review:
You can see it takes information like rating, date read, some review text, the goodreads id of the book (we have that from linking) and an "optional" shelf name. What isn't clear to me is why it would take a shelf name - what relevance does the shelf you have it on have to submitting a book review?
My bigger question is what happens if you already have a review for that book? Can you "review" a book multiple times? If so what happens - does the latest review just replace earlier ones?
I noticed that when you add a book to one of your shelves for the first time, Goodreads creates a "review" for you behind the scenes (it just doesn't have any information on it, until you fill it in). We make use of that "dummy" review to identify what shelves a book is on, for use with those "Download shelves as tags" type features in the plugin. Now what happens if we create a new review for a book using that API call above - does it replace the "dummy" review?
There is also an API call for updating a review:
It takes similar information to creating a review, except you need to know the review id AND what shelf that book is on. That is doable, it just means an extra API call to Goodreads each time to ask "what review do you have for this book", and then using that information to do an update.
So you can see I have a bunch of questions around it, which no doubt the Goodreads forums might be able to answer if none here know. I haven't got time to look into it myself at the moment, but if someone else out there wants to ask the questions to give me the information then go for it
The other aspect that would need to be answered would be the whole UI for this. For instance as stated above you are creating/updating reviews. So in your case you want to send the read date from a custom column. Presumably other users may want to send their Calibre ratings. And (maybe) someone else actually wants to do a genuine review so wants to specify some text of their own notes about what they thought of the book or whatever. So all of that needs to be considered as well in terms of how to build this into the menus (I think it would sit within Linked book submenu), and then what dialog/options a user has...
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Benadryl and Motrin for Kids Recalled
Nearly 5 Million Packages Are Recalled Because of Manufacturing Issues
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Nov. 23, 2010 -- Johnson & Johnson says it has ordered a voluntary recall of about 4.8 million packages of children's medicines due to "insufficiencies" in the manufacturing process.
Company spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs tells WebMD the company is recalling 4 million packages of Children's Benadryl allergy tablets and 800,000 bottles of junior-strength Motrin caplets.
She says the medicines are not dangerous and that the recalls are being done at the wholesale and retail levels, including drugstores.
Consumers may keep taking the medications, she says.
No Adverse Events Reported
"This is not a consumer level recall," Jacobs tells WebMD. "This is not being undertaken on the basis of adverse events, but because we identified insufficiencies in the manufacturing process."
Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit says in a news release that the recall was ordered in consultation with the FDA for Children's Benadryl Allergy Fastmelt Tablets in cherry and grape flavors.
The tablets were distributed in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Barbados, and Belize, the company says.
The news release says the recall was ordered "after a review, conducted as part of McNeil's comprehensive action plan, revealed insufficiencies in the development of the manufacturing process."
It says "there is no indication that the recalled products do not meet quality standards."
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The McNeil unit says the recall includes all product lots of Junior Strength Motrin Caplets, 24 count, distributed in the U.S. It says there is no sign the caplets don't meet quality standards and that the recall, like the one for Benadryl, is not being initiated due to any reports of adverse events.
Products being recalled are Children's Benadryl Allergy Fastmelt Tablets, cherry flavor, with a code number of 50580-347-18; Children's Benadryl Allergy Fastmelt Tablets, grape flavor, code number 50580-348-18; and Junior Strength Motrin Caplets, 24 count, code number 50580-498-24.
The company says consumers with questions should call 888-222-6036 Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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Art Impressions is the next exhibitor in our "Meet the Exhibitors" series. Art Impressions is a family-owned business, which opened in 1987. Since starting out primarily selling educational stamps, the company has grown significantly over the past 28 years. Today, Art Impressions is well known in the craft industry for its comical characters, whimsical designs and interactive stamping techniques. What makes the company stand out is its incredible diversity of images, each one created by the company's sole designer and co-owner, Bonnie Krebs. All of Art Impressions' products are made in the USA.
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Concord, NH—It's been more than a week since news broke on Scott Brown's $1.3 million advisory role with a shady beauty supply company turned arms manufacturer and Brown is still refusing to answer serious questions the scandal raised. The latest revelations suggest securities fraud may have been committed and yet Brown is still stonewalling and refusing to file his personal financial disclosure that would highlight his ties to the controversial company.
"It's been a week since Granite Staters learned of Scott Brown's advisory role with this shady penny stock company, and yet he still refuses to answer questions or release his personal financial disclosure form," said New Hampshire Democratic Party Communications Director Julie McClain. "New Hampshire voters deserve honest, up front answers about his role with this controversial company and potential violation of SEC regulations. What is Brown still hiding? It's time for him to come clean."
Below are some highlights from this weekend's coverage:
WCVB Boston: "New Hampshire got a chance to see why Scott Brown was Wall Street's favorite senator. He had the chance to make $1.4 million dollars for a company that has nothing, sells nothing, and does nothing, and he didn't have to do anything to do it. And, by the way, voters there saw Brown giving you, and every other reporter there the Heisman, as they did with him, and they don't like that. So… so you can change the state you run in, but you can't change who you are."
Boston Globe: "With Global Digital Solutions, Brown comes off more like just another opportunistic politician trying to enrich himself by lending his name to a sleazy-sounding enterprise. Was it because he didn't know or didn't care about the company's shaky foundations?"
Boston Herald: "This week's forensic analysis of Brown's latest hoof-in-mouth misadventure reveals his appetite for a fast buck is only exceeded by his stunning, perhaps even alarming, stupidity."
Sentinel & Enterprise: "Calling the questions about his involvement a campaign "distraction," Brown earlier this week severed his relationship with Global Digital and relinquished control of his stock. Our question is: Why didn't Brown see this coming?... It leaves New Hampshire voters with legitimate questions about his judgment, should he succeed in representing them in the U.S. Senate."


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The Welsh finance minister says the UK government's public cuts and austerity measures have been too fast and deep.
Jane Hutt has joined forces with counterparts in the other devolved nations to call on the UK government to inject more cash into capital projects.
In a letter to Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander they call for investment in infrastructure at next week's budget to stimulate growth.
The prime minister said changing course would plunge the UK "into the abyss".
Ms Hutt said: "The Welsh government's focus has continued to be on boosting growth and jobs but the UK government's cuts have been too deep and too fast and have hampered our efforts to boost economic growth.
"We have a range of capital projects that could be accelerated if additional resources were available so I would urge the chief secretary to the treasury and the chancellor to act now to provide a much needed boost to economic growth in Wales and across the UK."
Last week, David Cameron said changing course on the economy would plunge the UK "back into the abyss".
In a speech in West Yorkshire, Mr Cameron echoed Mrs Thatcher by saying "there is no alternative" to "sticking to the plan" on the economy.
The warning followed suggestions by Business Secretary Vince Cable that the government should consider borrowing more to kick-start economic growth.


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When Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, it was organized around a radical idea: Software should be free, not just as in free of charge, but free as in the concept of liberty. During the next 20 years that idea turned out to be not just radical, but surprisingly practical. Beginning with Stallman's Emacs text editor, to the various Gnu utilities, the Linux kernel, and beyond, free software has proved to be an enduring success.
Much of the credit for that can be given to Stallman himself. Through his tireless campaigning, he has transformed this idealistic notion into something that the wider world, and even the business community, can accept and take seriously. Although it may not always be easy to agree with him, his arguments have been rational, and if nothing else, intellectually consistent to the last.
All the more reason to be disappointed by the FSF's recent, regrettable spiral into misplaced neopolitical activism, far removed from its own stated first principles. In particular, the FSF's moralistic opposition to DRM (digital rights management) technologies, which first manifested itself in early drafts of Version 3 of the GPL (Gnu General Public License), seems now to have been elevated to the point of evangelical dogma.
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The FSF's most recent effort -- an anti-DRM protest staged at Microsoft's WinHEC conference last week, complete with demonstrators costumed in hazmat suits -- was particularly troubling. It signals a shift in the FSF, from an advocacy organization to one that engages in hysterical activism cut from the PETA mold.
Emblazoned across the demonstration's home page is the alarming statement, "There is no more important cause for freedom than the call for action to stop DRM from crippling our digital future."
Sure. And if you buy that one, I've got a bridge to sell you that stretches from North Korea to the Sudan.
For starters, market realities right here in the United States put the lie to the FSF's histrionics. Apple's iTunes Store, which sells DRM-encoded music and videos to millions of iPod owners, is going like gangbusters. Clearly, despite DRM's widely discussed inadequacies and regular aggravations, more than a few consumers are willing to put up with it when the price is right. That's just basic free-market economics.
In a statement regarding the demonstration, FSF executive director Peter Brown said, "A media player that restricts what you can play is like a car that won't let you steer" -- a false analogy so patently absurd as to be laughable to a grade-school student.
You know what customers would do with a car that couldn't steer? Run like hell. If their MP3 files were really similarly crippled (though perhaps not quite as deadly, Mr. Brown), I'm willing to bet they would do the same -- to non-DRM competitors such as eMusic, perhaps, or even to plain old-fashioned CDs. For DRM to fail in the entertainment industry, all that needs to happen is for customers to choose not to buy it, which in turn should convince artists not to use it.
But the FSF has chosen a different path. Convinced, perhaps, that average consumers are too stupid to know what's good for them, it's embarked on a mission that's even more insidious than the DRM it opposes. No DRM system ever told an artist what notes to play or what lyrics were OK to sing. But the FSF seems intent on doing just that.
One of the original tenets of the GPL was that users of software should be free, not just to run the software and make copies of it, but to examine its code and improve on it. Free software means, among other things, the freedom of programmers to write code.
But not, apparently, under the new FSF order. In this new worldview, DRM is Wrong. It is verboten. And who knows what other algorithm or subroutine might be cast out next; but who are we to question? By abandoning social and economic arguments in favor of a moral one, the FSF is in effect telling us that God is on its side.
This shift is very troubling. Among its other devices, the FSF has chosen to unilaterally re-christen DRM as "digital restrictions management." If I were to stoop to that level, I might describe the FSF as the "Fundamentalist Software Foundation." But why go there? If free software is going to maintain its relevance to the broader user and business community, it must resist the temptation toward further radicalism, give up the name-calling and demagoguery, and re-embrace the rationality that Richard Stallman has demonstrated in the past.
Free software has proved its worth. That good reputation can only be damaged by turning a movement into a crusade.


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It seems like a hip young chef is born every hour to jolt the jaded city palate with an inventive olio of Asian-ish street food: the kimchi burrito, the cumin lamb burger, the kung pao pastrami. The last living purist in the game might be Eddie Huang, 30, who holds the keys to BaoHaus, an unassuming East Village bun shop that serves Taiwanese street food and the ever-trendy pork belly. Huang's M.O., though, has little to do with reinterpreting original flavors, but rather brings it back old school—all the way to, say, an Asian grandmother's kitchen: nostalgic, authentic, with a soupçon of crazy.
You may be surprised to learn of the circuitous path that took a Taiwanese-American boy out of the suburbs of Orlando and onto the streets of New York, a picaresque journey that earned him two stints in jail, a law degree, and a defunct streetwear label—all before the age of 25. Live and learn, as they say. Huang is a fearless raconteur, a talent that has gained him a strong social media following through platforms like his food blog and VICE show, "Fresh Off The Boat," and now the multi-hyphenate can add 2013 TED Fellow and published author to his CV with the newly released Fresh Off The Boat: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau), a coming-of-age tale of identity and assimilation told in a flambéed and unorthodox vernacular all his own. Huang's writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.
We recently Skyped with the chef to chat about shaking off stereotypes, green juicing, and his last meal on earth.
JEANINE CELESTE PANG: [To a blank screen] Eddie? Hi, it's Jeanine.
EDDIE HUANG: Cool—just give me one second, I've got to put a shirt on. I just got out of the gym, and I'm like, "What am I wearing?" I'm just going to wear my robe. [Laughs and turns on the screen.]
PANG: So you're in your bedroom in New York right now?
HUANG: Yeah, yeah. I went out super hard last night, and woke up at like 10 or 11. It was a disaster.
PANG: Well, you've got a reason to celebrate! Barnes & Noble just put you on their Spring 2013 Discover Great New Writers list. But I have to ask—writing a memoir at 30 can seem a little premature or presumptuous. What was the big draw to publish now?
HUANG: I remember talking to an agent who thought my pursuit was crazy and laughable. I told her point-blank, "I've lived five times over what you've done already—I can just look at your shoes and tell." [laughs] I've lived a very, very full life so far. Growing up an '80s baby, things moved so fast: 30-year-olds are like 50-year-olds now. The midlife crisis happens when you're 25, two years out of college, and realizing that all you do is go to work and have sex. I wanted to write the book just getting out of that period of my life when I had figured something out, when things were fresh. I mean, I remember what color shirt I wore, or the shoes I wore, when a lot of the things in the book happened.
PANG: That's what I found striking; you have very strong memories from your childhood and teen years, with references to the fashion and the music and the books.
HUANG: I literally went back through my emails, through yearbooks and letters to see what I was saying and doing at that time. The thing is, I really felt that this was the time to write it. I'm sure I'll read it in five years and be like, Damn, man, did you have to go that hard? People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that. I think that if I wrote this in five or 10 years, I would be fat and jaded.
PANG: How do you want to affect your readers?
HUANG: I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about. I don't fit into a lot of the silos that America has created, so by being such an outlier, I think people will naturally think that there exist other weirdos that break the mold and are a new archetype. I hope people will say, "You know what? When that kid Eddie came out, when he dropped, that was some different shit." Like Charles Barkley when he came out and everyone said he was too short to play power forward, but then were like, "Yo, but you can have a shorter power forward—if he's explosive." I just want to be that dude that opens that door for others to be the individuals they are.
PANG: You've made up a lot of pseudonyms for yourself: Rotten Banana, Bang Bros. Connoisseur, Sars Blackmon, The Human Panda. What's wrong with just Eddie Huang?
HUANG: I think as an '80s baby, you grew up with '90s hip-hop. Everybody had nicknames; all the Wu-Tang cats had aliases. You're constantly reinventing yourself and playing around. Wordplay was really big for me; I'd always flip things on people. Kids used to make fun of me and say, "Eddie Huang, sitting on a jumbo gong." And I would say, "Nah, fuck that, I'm Magic Don Huang." It was a way of owning my identity.
PANG: The food blogs peg you as the rabble-rouser and the chef who doesn't play nice with others. Demystify us—is the bad-boy thing just a ruse?
HUANG: Yeah, you know, the food blogs need to create daily headlines. When Grub Street wrote that Eddie can't get along with chefs and that he hates Danny Bowien [of Mission Chinese], he and I were literally at BrisketTown, eating barbecue together and just totally laughing about it. I'm good friends with Danny. But my thing is, I'm not an ass patter. I treat the culinary world like I do sports. I hate it when people tell you "good game" when you know you didn't have one, so I like to talk X's and O's with the chefs like they're players and give constructive criticism. I might say, "Yo, step out more on the pick and roll." Also, the blogs like to paint me as the hip-hop chef, which I hate. I was born in '82—if you weren't listening to hip-hop, you were an idiot.
PANG: Speaking of hip-hop, your love for that genre is stamped all over the book. You're constantly quoting rappers, and then you flip it and write about your love for literature, so that Jonathan Swift is referenced in the same graph as Dr. Dre. Where does that dichotomy come from?
HUANG: I think it comes from having parents that weren't immersed in American culture. It was a blessing and a curse—which is a dichotomy in itself. I didn't even know how to use a semicolon until my senior year of college. But it was also a blessing, because I didn't have someone handing me a syllabus for life and telling me about the cultural things I needed to watch, worship and hold high. So I went and found Cam'ron. I thought, "I fuck with Killa—but I also like this guy Mark Twain." It was all genius to me. I was able to make my own call, so I think the things that I found inspirational are because I got to go out on that scavenger hunt by myself, with no guide.
PANG: What do you find inspiring these days?
HUANG: Right now, I'm definitely on a health kick. The thing is, I feel disgusting eating all that food on the VICE show, so I've gotten very interested in cold-pressed juices. You feel great after drinking it. I've been working on a juice project and teaching kids in Harlem how to juice. Look at this. [Holds up a plastic tumbler of green juice.] I made it myself.
PANG: That's very green! What's in it?
HUANG: I put kale, spinach, lemon, ginger, Fujiyama apples and Chinese herbal supplements. I wake up in the morning and make myself a green juice for breakfast. I go to the gym, and after I work out, I can have fat, protein and carbs, so that's when I go eat at BaoHaus. For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
PANG: And is it true you nix carbs after 3 pm?
HUANG: Yeah, I try to just eat protein and fiber after 3 pm. I think chefs have a societal responsibility—similar to bartenders—you've got to cut people off when they've had a little too much. So I may end up opening more juice bars. I wonder how people will respond, they might say, "How do you go from pork belly to this?"
PANG: Probably the biggest fans of pork belly are the ones who will need the juice.
HUANG: Well, for the next BaoHaus, my brother and I are retooling the menu based on our lifestyle—we're never going to live one life and sell you another. Our pork belly bao will always be there if you want to indulge—we're not the government—but we'll give you healthier options too, and try delivering the same flavors with lean poultry and tofu.
PANG: If you were to plan your last meal, what would be on the menu?
HUANG: I would definitely have soup dumplings. I would also love a good Cantonese sticky rice in lotus leaf, Lion's Head meatballs, hong shao rou (red cooked pork shank), some stir-fried chili cabbage, stir-fried snow pea shoots, eight-treasure glutinous rice dessert, the KFC egg tarts from China, a slice of pizza, fried chicken, and Jamaican ox tail. Oh—and Peking duck from Da Dong and maybe two slices of Peter Luger's steak and bacon. Just two. And three pieces of sushi—kinmedai, shimmaji and kanpachi. That's the dinner; that's a wrap.
PANG: What do you think about people calling you the new Anthony Bourdain?
HUANG: I get why they say it—in a lot of ways he's been my career godfather—but I don't think it's fair to him, because I'm just a kid. When people compared me to David Chang, I was really upset and really didn't like it. We don't have the same goals; I thought it was more because he and I looked similar. But I feel like Tony is a kindred spirit. At the core, the thing that ties us is that we're both very honest and incapable of not saying something. I've been out with him on the street and strangers will ask him very uncomfortable things, and you'll see him stop for a second, flinch, and spit out an answer. He's very inspiring.
PANG: In your book, you talk about being an in-betweener. There's a line that struck me: "Forget countries and boundaries, you can call me international."
HUANG: I'm so glad you brought up that quote, because that quote is amazing. I was reading the Tao Te Ching last night, high, and I realized it holds the same ideology. Countries and boundaries and whatever—you don't need to announce it. If you talk about it in terms of New York real estate, you don't need someone to tell you where the Lower East Side ends and where the Lower East Side begins. I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
It's true.
Often I'm asked "Are you insane?". Considering the content on my websites it's a reasonable question. Being a reasonable man I created this website. And there you have it. I'm not insane. Plain and simple. Have I ever spent time in a mental health facility? No. Am I a schizophrenic? No. Am I on medication for a flurry of personality disorders? No. Does walking down the street holding this sign prove that I'm not insane? I'd like to think so. And so I do it as often as I can. Wouldn't you?
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Strangers photograph my calm demeanor.
People never feel safer than when they are with someone who declares clearly that they are not a threat. Often in crowds people want to get a record of a truly sane person. I imagine they ask themselves: "Who is this nice man... and why do I feel so comfortable with him?" It's because I'm not insane. Often they take two pictures, one horizontal and one vertical. Why should that cause me distress? I do not suffer from mood, cognitive or personality disorders. They want two pictures to share their experience of being with someone free from psychological and behavioral patterns which could cause harm to them or their loved ones. I display the fundamental characteristics of a person who is not insane ... and people people feel good around me. I liked to set fires as a young boy... but that was long ago.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Individuals want to be close to me.
My interactions in public when holding my sign yield wonderful results. People know that they will not come to any harm. They feel secure in knowing that I am free of mental problems. They often want to pose next to me. We even put our arms around each other. They feel safe with me and that is because I reflect a bastion of mental health.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
I am trusted by groups.
Generalized anxiety disorder? No way. I go out in public all the time. Strangers see that I am not plagued with acute dysfunctional behaviors. Groups of people want to have their picture taken with me. Groups! What other proof could anyone possibly need than to see me in a photograph with several people all of whom feel comfortable with me knowing that I am free of sociopathic tendencies or prenatal brain damage?
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Mark Martin was the first Camry driver to the finish line in this afternoon's Daytona 500. Toyota drivers Clint Bowyer (11th), Denny Hamlin (14th) and Bobby Labonte (15th) registered top-15 finishes. Camry driver Matt Kenseth led a race-high 86 laps, before retiring from the field on lap 149 (of 200). Toyota drivers that led laps in today's Daytona 500 included Hamlin (33 laps) and Travis Kvapil (one lap). Other Camry drivers in today's race included David Reutimann (16th), Michael Waltrip (22nd), Martin Truex Jr. (24th), Travis Kvapil (25th), Kyle Busch (34th), Matt Kenseth (37th) and Joe Nemechek (43rd).
MARK MARTIN, No. 55 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Finishing Position: 3rd How was today's race? "First of all, I want to thank all the fans for all their support. It was a great run for our Aaron's Toyota. The guys gave me a good race car. We tore a bunch up early in the week and they had me a good piece for the (Daytona) 500. I appreciate it. I was so close there. I just couldn't get the run. Brad (Keselowski) was giving me some shots, but I wanted it off of (turn) four and not into (turn) one. I was afraid to go too soon and lose my chance. It was a good run for us -- I'm real happy."
How much of a factor was the driver today, and how much was the race car? "If I said it was all me, I would be lying. There's a lot of luck involved in all that and I have to be thankful for Michael Waltrip Racing -- and this 2013 Camry was fantastic -- and thank Aaron's and Rodney Childers (crew chief). I was definitely not going to push the effort too much early -- I really wanted to be in it at the end. We managed to get there. We were in the mix -- just not quite there. But, if Brad (Keselowski) could have got me a run. He gave me a shove into (turn) one twice, but I didn't want to go into (turn) one -- I wanted to come off of (turn) four or at least go into (turn) three. We were yo-yoing -- he would get up on me and we would get a run and then he'd fall back and it was coming and going. We were close, just didn't get the run off of (turn) four."
What were you able to learn in the race? "You have to watch the race and you have to watch what everybody else does. I didn't experiment a lot, but I learned everything I needed to know without having to pay the price for it. We ran a really smart race. Rodney Childers (crew chief) called a great race. Our strategy was try to be there on the last two laps and be in the thick of it, and there we were."
What was the racing like today? "It was okay. The car is actually less stable in a big pack than what we've had. We had to keep ourselves separated a little bit more for good measure until it came down to the end and then nobody cared. Wrecking was okay. You had to give each other a little more room -- that's due to the little spoiler. When we get in these things next week, they are going to be stuck like glue and we're going to be breaking track records. Kudos to the Gen-6."
CLINT BOWYER, No. 15 5-hour ENERGY Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Finishing Position: 11th How was the race? "It definitely could have been worse. You only have one shot at this race every year. Another year gone by. Not a fast race car. Had some troubles with some of my teammates and even some of our other manufacturer buddies. I guess we have to be lucky that we finished. All in all, it was a decent day for our 5-hour ENERGY Toyota."
How was the handling of your race car? "We were handling fine -- I just never could start on the outside. That outside just prevailed so much more. The one time the 48 (Jimmie Johnson) was down there and we were able to go with Denny (Hamlin) and him and myself -- we could kind of make that bottom work and that was about it."
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Express Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finishing Position: 14th
BOBBY LABONTE, No. 47 Kroger Toyota Camry, JTG-Daugherty Racing Finishing Position: 15th
DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 83 Burger King Toyota Camry, BK Racing Finishing Position: 16th
MICHAEL WALTRIP, No. 26 Sandy Hook School Support Fund Toyota Camry, Swan Racing Finishing Position: 22nd How was your Daytona 500? "It was a great day. We got up front and we were able to use some strategy and get up in the top-five and top-10. I know when we led that lap I heard a big cheer and I think it came all the way from Newtown, Connecticut. That was special for me to give those folks something to smile about. I hope running up front today made them happy. I have to thank everyone for letting me do this. It's been a fun couple of weeks for me down here. You don't get to do stuff like this forever so I don't take it for granted. I'm thankful."
How was the 2013 race car? "They are going to be fast when we get to Phoenix next week. There's a lot that we have to learn about them. It's like getting a new toy -- you don't how to play with it just right yet. I can't wait to see the racing this year -- it's going to be good."
MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Finishing Position: 24th How was your Daytona 500? "We had a shot at it. We were in the hunt and that's all any driver can ask for. We were in position there. I am not sure what else we could have done. Up until then, everything was perfect. Toyota has been a great partner to us so I am sure they will look at our car as well as the (Joe) Gibbs (Racing) cars who had trouble too and get us all back up and running for next week. It was a lot of fun out there driving this new NAPA Toyota. NASCAR's Gen-6 is raising the bar for us so hopefully Phoenix will be our race. Time to go racing."
TRAVIS KVAPIL, No. 93 Burger King Toyota Camry, BK Racing Finishing Position: 25th
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M's Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finishing Position: 34th What happened to force you out from the race? "I don't know. Just broke an engine for some reason. Just unfortunate that this whole team has got to go through this stuff. We got bottled up back in traffic a little bit there. I hate it that I wrecked the 5 (Kasey Kahne) and the rest of those guys that were racing around us. But, unfortunate for us we broke pieces."
Do you know what broke? "Just broke something inside the motor. There's pieces that are supposed to stay together and they didn't stay together. I hate it for this whole team. These guys -- they do a great job and work too hard and it sounds a lot like 2012 already."
Are there any positives you can take from this race? "No. It just shows you how much more devastation there is to it when you can have cars like that and running that fast and that they stay up front and their good. All of the guys at JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) built an awesome piece. All three of us have been fast since we've been down here. The best we've qualified here in a while, so kudos to all of the guys building these cars, but we've got to have engines that last."
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finishing Position: 37th What happened to sideline you from the race? "I'm not sure if it's an engine or a transmission -- if it's a transmission we'll get out, but if it's an engine then obviously we won't. Disappointing end to a great day. I really want to thank Joe Gibbs, Toyota, Dollar General and Home Depot for all them guys getting together and putting this deal together for me. We were obviously one of the cars to beat today and I think we're going to be a force all year. We have a lot to look forward to."
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing (continued) What happened to your teammate? "I saw the 18 (Kyle Busch) go by -- I don't know what happened to him. Obviously, we have to work and make it to the end of these races -- you can't drop out and win championships. I feel like we have a great package at Joe Gibbs Racing and these guys did an awesome job all winter and hopefully we'll get it fixed. If we don't, we'll look forward to getting to Phoenix"
What was the racing like today? "It's been about pit stops and restarts -- it's really been about track position. You had to make your move in the first four or five laps on a restart to really be able to make anything happen. Fortunately, I was toward the front most of the day so I'm not really sure what it was like towards the back. Like I said, our Dollar General Camry was really fast. Just disappointed that it's here in the garage."
Is it disappointing knowing you had a car that could win? "It's disappointing obviously, but it's also really encouraging. I thought we did all the right things. We had a great pit stop right there at the end -- I thought Jason (Ratcliff, crew chief) had a great pit stop there at the end when we needed it. He just had a great strategy. Our Toyota was really fast. We had all the right things -- we just didn't make it to the end. Those are things we can fix. Really excited with how we ran and really thankful to be part of this team and just looking forward to getting to Phoenix."
How was your first race with Joe Gibbs Racing? "I know we're sitting in the garage so everyone is going to thing we're bummed out and I am, but I can't be any more thankful or excited honestly. I don't think the week could have gone any better. Our finishing position doesn't show it, but it's just a great group -- really, really fast race cars if you have really fast race cars and we get some reliability stuff fixed then we're going to win races and hopefully contend for championships."
How are you still in such a good mood? "It could have been worse -- we could have ran last all day and be sitting in the garage. There's a lot to look forward to. As disappointed as I am, it would be easy to be disappointed and throw my Gatorade at you or whatever. Man, there's a lot to look forward to. I just can't help sitting here thinking how thankful I am that they put this together for me and just can't wait to get to Phoenix."
JOE NEMECHEK, No. 87 Florida DOT/D.A.B. Constructors Toyota Camry, NEMCO Motorsports Finishing Position: 43rd
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Calcuttas extended winter begot a summer scourge when it finally took leave of the city this week. And this is just the beginning.
The sudden discomfort has more to do with the abrupt change in weather rather than any abnormal temperature for this time of the year, say weather scientists.
The average minimum temperature last Tuesday and Wednesday was 13.2 degrees Celsius while the corresponding figure for February 25 and 26 was 20.1 a jump of seven degrees. The average minimum temperature too has risen from 25 to 29.6 degrees Celsius.
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People are feeling the heat because of two major factors
a prolonged winter ensured that when the temperature returned to normal, the change seemed magnified. Two weather systems looming on the horizon have raised the citys relative humidity, slowing down the evaporation of sweat, said a weather scientist at the India Meteorological Department, Calcutta.
Wednesdays maximum temperature 30.1 degrees Celsius was in fact a notch below normal.
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The cold North Wind and winter normally withdraw from Calcutta by the second week of February. This year was no exception but a smart shower on February 16 pulled the Celsius down to winter level while snowfall in the Himalayan states reinvigorated the fading cold wind.
It was winter with a chilly wind and clouds in the sky just a week ago. Now its summer and you cant do without the fan, said Munmun Basu, a 35-year-old Entally resident.
S. Mitra, a south Calcutta college professor, said the jostle for AC trains in the Metro has begun though he didnt mind commuting in a non-AC carriage till the other day.
Mitra and the lakhs of Calcuttans dependent on the citys crowded public transport system could blame a cyclonic circulation in Chhattisgarh and a high-pressure belt over the Bay of Bengal coast for the balmy weather. The minimum relative humidity, which indicates the volume of water vapour in the air during daytime, has been ranging between 45 and 55 per cent over the past three days.
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The city is currently sandwiched between two strong systems and, hence, relative humidity will naturally remain on the higher side. But the systems are likely to spawn clouds to block the sun. Else, the discomfort will increase, an IMD official said.
The cyclonic circulation could bring rain to parts of Bengal on Friday and theres an outside chance that Calcutta too might get drenched a bit. Experts warned that rain would not bring the Celsius down like it did two Sundays ago because the North Wind has lost its sting.
The northerly wind was active last week in the western districts and it rushed towards Calcutta after the rain. The wind is weak now. Any fall in temperature would be moderate, the IMD official said.


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The mudslinging is vicious after the controversial fundraising email that Grayson put out.
The email shows a burning cross with members of the KKK in the background. The cross that is on fire in the picture depicts the letter 'T' in Tea Party.
The Head of Florida's Republican Party called Grayson "a pig" Tuesday night, after the anti-tea party picture was released.
"Alan Grayson, he is a mud dweller and he is a pig," said State Republican head Lenny Curry. "Politics is a rough sport and hits happen every day, but the idea that he would invoke a burning cross and KKK is disgusting, below the belt. The Florida Democratic party needs to condemn this, it's just disgusting."
Carole McManus, one of the founders of the First Coast Tea Party, took a more congenial tone when responding to Grayson's email.
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Formal arraignment was Wednesday for Frank Sabolcik, 33, of Elizabeth Township, who is charged with felony counts of theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception and receiving stolen property.
Sabolcik was arrested by county police on Aug. 8 and accused of stealing $73,000 from the no-kill animal shelter along Lincoln Way, across from the borough building.
He started as a volunteer, and became shelter manager and vice president.
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Sabolcik was bound over for trial by Magisterial District Judge Beth S. Mills and ordered to face formal arraignment.
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TheAdmiral wrote:Run DLC wrote:But but but but, He's a better all-around player than LeBron James.
He may not be the better player (certainly not the better all-around player), but he doesn't deserve to be called a chucker as well. He's having a significantly more efficient season at 24 years of age in terms of scoring compared to LeBron's season when he was the same age.
Impressive game by Durant.
not sure how we are comparing age now? Durant is a better shooter so he can score easier (jump shots) but Durant also didn't have to develop the way lebron did. DUrant's team >>>>>>> Lebrons Cavs and its not even close. Durant could manage to lay low all game, let Westbrook do whatever and just score when needed. He can chill, lebron could never chill. He can't even chill now.
Lebron's pressure to be engaged at all times in every game is nothing Durant will ever have the pressure of doing, he can pick his shots however he pleases. You give a great shooter a team where his next best teammate can outplay him on any given night and he won't be efficient?


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Bernadine Edith ANDREWS
b.6 JUN 1905 Howard, Elk Co., KS
d.23 DEC 1973 Winfield, Cowley Co., KS
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m. 19 MAY 1927
m. 28 APR 1947
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Bernadine attended Panhandle A. & M., Goodwell, OK and KS University with major in Business Administration; good athlete; after death of 1st husband in Howard she supported family by employment as Night Supervisor Telephone Co.; encouraged children in school athletics. Near death accident in 1964, by sheer will power and family encouragement resumed club work and other activities from wheel chair.
Letter From Eunice (no date - as written)
When I was typing off the account of the wedding from the paper, I thought that Bernadine and Forest were flower children, long before the term flower children was so popular. Doing their own thing, Forest especially, making his own rules as to when he called on Bernadine and what he wore when he came over. He might show up nearly before breakfast, unshaven, and looking like he had put on just whatever clothes he could reach the easiest. I'm not putting him down, I really liked him, and he must have been nice to all of us little brats that hung around when he was there. Long before they invented Rock and Roll, Bernadine could and did go through all those gyrations with us kids, with the victrola furnishing the music. I can remember laughing till my sided hurt, and I'm sure we were very noisy, but I don't remember the folks coming in to make us be quiet. I'm sure Bernadine would have been pleased if one of her younger sisters had been as good in sports as she was or even had been as interested. To me, thinking back, she was the recreational director of Howard, unpaid of course. But she worked many, many hours getting a place for a tennis court, and then working to get it and keep it in shape. I don't remember about the baseball diamonds, but I'm sure she did her share. I think we can all remember the Sunday afternoon walks she took with us, and the times she took us fishing. I can remember her and Ernest and I, digging fishworms in Vinsons pasture in the middle of the night, I expect she had to work late and we decided to go fishing after she got off work. She also went frog hunting with us, where we were in the boat and flashed the light to see the frogs sitting on the bank, and grabbing them and putting them in a gunny sack. Of course we had frog legs the next day. She also went with us one time when we went to cut wood out in the blackjack country. And remembering that, made me think of picking wild strawberries when they lived on the, was it the Mullendore place? Anyway it was when Edith was quite little. She believed that kids were happiest when they were busy, and I've gone to her house when she had her kids and their friends washing the woodwork and enjoying it. She paid for my piano lessons, 20 of them at 50 cents apiece. In 1935 when Ernest was going to Coyne Electrical School, she loaned us $100, of course that has been paid back a long time ago. But thinking back I can't believe we were the only ones she aided. I guess the most wonderful thing about her was being a good listener, as well as a good conversationalist.


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Top Toastmasters speakers will show off their skills 7 p.m. Friday in Chandler.
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