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Say you had to kill someone using a fruit. What fruit would it be, and what method would you use? I was thinking a pineapple bashing would be good, or strangling someone with a banana. What do you think?
Well of course, I must first remind you that you should never attempt to kill someone with fresh fruit, lest they have basic training:
"When you're walking home at night and some homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me!"
Anyway, there are any number of poisonous fruits out there, if you're looking to kill someone in the most passive-aggressive manner possible: nightshade, jimsonweed ("horrific symptoms, including dilated pupils, racing heartbeat, hallucination, delirium, aggressive behavior and possibly coma or seizures"), and more. But that's not the kind of fruit-related murder we're talking about. You're looking for a more aggressive kill, a face-to-face, "I am now ending your life" kind of weapon. You're looking for...THE DURIAN FRUIT.
The hard spiky shell allows for expert bludgeoning, and should the fruit crack open, the rotting stench inside will stun your opponent and allow you extra time to pulverize his face. I would also recommend coconuts. Very hard, much more so than a pineapple, which could split open upon impact. Raspberries would be a last resort.
By the way, ever prick your finger on a pineapple or an artichoke? It really hurts. I don't like any fruit or vegetable that's so hostile to your fingertips. It's just an artichoke. It doesn't even taste good. Artichokes are bullshit.
Would you sit in your car for two weeks straight if it meant you'd never have to wait at a traffic light again?
Ground rules:
1) We're only eliminating the waits at traffic signals. All other forms of traffic backups are still in play (wrecks, presidential motorcades, Tracy Morgan running down the street naked, etc.).
2) You are not allowed to leave the driver's seat of your car for any reason whatsoever. You will have medical staff monitoring your health during the process and making sure you keep the blood flowing (don't want any Deep Vein Thromboses). You will be given a temporary catheter and a temporary colostomy bag for your evacuation needs. Barring any serious health issues during the two-week span, you do not leave the car.
3) Your car will be parked and stationary for the entire two weeks, so you can spend the time however you choose. Read books, listen to music, learn a new language. Whatever. The world is your oyster.
Do you do it?
It's not worth it to me if the two weeks don't also eliminate traffic from my life forever. The average stoplight wait is under a minute. That's not terrible, plus it gives me a second to yell at my children or check Twitter alerts for my name because I'm a disgusting person. Now, I say that knowing that some rogue traffic lights will keep you waiting for hours on end. There's an intersection in my vicinity that's so busy, you have to wait for the three opposing points of traffic to get their own light before you finally have your turn. It's the worst.
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But it's still not as bad as traffic. You underestimate just how much worse traffic is than any other road obstruction. I go into any road trip FEARING it. That's how awful traffic is. It has a grip on your psyche, the way death and sexual rejection do. I can hear my life being wasted when I sit in traffic. I can picture everyone else at my end destination already there, happy and free from their vehicles. I want to burst out of my skin and become a rampaging monster when traffic happens. I'd happily stay in a car for two weeks to banish it from my life forever. But just stoplights? Not worth it. Although it would be fun to live in your car for two weeks and see if you could do it. Friends could bring you pizza and weed. You could listen to the radio all day. By the second week, you'd smell like a hobo. Oh, how I've dreamed of being a homeless person living in a car—to hit rock bottom and wind up squatting in the back of an old van ... so romantic. It would be a real experience.
Full disclosure, I'm a Texans fan and work in Radiation Oncology. Is it just me or is the ChuckStrong shit out of control? I mean, the team had like two months together before he was diagnosed. How strong could the connection have been? Also, it's the most curable form of cancer.
I know I'm an ass going to hell but come on already. Also, fuck Jim Irsay that guy sucks.
You better watch your back, Texans fan. The people at BIG WRISTBAND do not take kindly to such cynicism. Anyway, I know Chuck Pagano wasn't the Colts head coach for very long before he received his diagnosis. I'm sure there were players on the roster who barely knew him. But you're discounting the affection that Pagano engendered AFTER his illness, and the graceful way that both he and Bruce Arians handled the situation. Remember: Coaches are fucking weirdoes. If it had been Bill Belichick getting a leukemia diagnosis, he would have issued a gag order to his oncologist, wiretapped Josh McDaniels's phone to make sure he wasn't getting TOO comfortable in his interim position, and he would have kept on banging your aunt.
Say Calvin Johnson pulls a 10-inch crank out as part of a TD celebration. What are the ensuing penalties and suspension?
He gets 15 yards and the gate for unsportsmanlike conduct. Then I think he gets a two-game suspension for the dong exposure, plus any ensuing legal penalties, including possible legal action from the networks, hoping to cover their asses so that the FCC doesn't fine them. And then you'd have a cottage media industry spring up around Megatron's penis. Colin Cowherd would demand to know who the penis's daddy was. Gregg Easterbrook would remark that a tight end would never do such a thing. And First Take would continue doing all the things First Take does. And then Whitlock would write an entire column about how white people are afraid of black penises. "You know we're packing. Serena Williams ain't settling for no lollipop stick." It would be horrible. So let's all rest easy that Detroit is out of the playoffs and Megatron can't flash anyone. THAT WOULD BE A DISGUSTING ACT.
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My five year old caught me eating the strawberry jam chunk off the sandwich I was making her. She was quite upset. The proportional response is to hide the strawberry and feed her only orange marmalade for the rest of her life, right?
Damn right. You paid for that jam. Daddy gets the big strawberry hunk. Your daughter doesn't even understand that you were doing her a favor. The strawberry chuck is impossible to spread. Best to eat it and leave the rest for an even application.
When I was in college, they had a PB&J bar, and the tubs of jam and peanut butter had these big spreader knives that you could use to put 50 pounds of each ingredient onto the bread. I miss those spreaders. They were like forklifts for chunky-style.
If you could have an NFL team made only from clones of one player, who would that player be?
My first thought was someone like RG3, but that won't work because it would have be a player who is large enough to adequately handle line play but swift enough to play skill positions and cover receivers. And they have to occasionally throw the ball and kick. That means you're gonna have to choose a tweener kind of player, like a tight end (a whole team of tight ends? THE FOOTBALL GODS ARE SMILING ON THESE CLONES) or a linebacker, like Patrick Willis or Von Miller. Either way, that team will lose every game by 75 points, even if you chose to clone someone as brilliant as Von Miller. The beauty of football is that one team is forced to employ such a diversely skilled set of players: QBs who can throw, RBs who can run, DTs who can eat entire stacks of pancakes, etc. To have all those miniature skill displays happening simultaneously on every down is what makes it fun.
My friends and I were arguing who, out of the NFL's starting QBs, is the biggest masturbator. Consensus choice: Big Ben.
No wonder his penis is gray. Maybe he fapped until it turned sour. But no, my choice is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Harvard boys be fappin'. Just think about it: a cold-weather campus, with average-looking students, many of whom are so bogged down in their studies that they don't have time to orally pleasure members of the football team ... it's a recipe for mass fappitude.
Do you think that guys should have to pay half for their girlfriends' birth control? My girlfriend says yes; I obviously say no. Your thoughts?
Women usually don't go dutch on rubbers (which ain't cheap, by the way), so I say you shouldn't have to. There should be enough sharing of meals and gifts in your relationship that her birth control tab isn't a hair worth splitting. Besides, while forcing you to pay half of it is perfectly logical, it's one of those gestures that says to a man, "Oh hey, I'm having sex with you as a favor, so be happy with what you get," which is shitty.
Either way, there needs to be a male birth control pill. It's 2013. We have pills for depression, erectile dysfunction, addiction, incontinence, and a million other ailments. The male pill is long overdue. Think of the money pro athletes would save. Apart from the ones too stupid to use the pill, which would be 80 percent of them.
What would you do if your poop was clear? And when you wiped you had no idea if you were clean or not but it still had the same smell if you missed something?
Clear poop would be monstrous. You would feel like you just birthed an alien blob. I know poop is no picnic in its current state, but the idea that fecal matter wouldn't be readily visible to the naked eye is just too horrifying to contemplate.
I took my kid to the playground the other day and I had to use the port-a-potty. The biffs at this playground are notorious for being unkempt, but I had no choice. When I walked in, there was shit smeared all over the back of the toilet. Like someone threw a hefty bag full of shit at the wall and then fled. It was horrible and I almost threw up. But if that poop had been clear, I would have been none the wiser until I was INCHES away from it, if that. I could have sat on it! NO! NONONONONONO. The brown color helps alert you to poop's presence, which is critical.
This year's Super Bowl-winning NFL team versus your high school football team - but your alma matter gets to put 22 guys on the field for every play and can ignore all formation rules. Who wins?
I still say the NFL team wins. Having that many players on the field simultaneously isn't necessarily a big help. You'd have a bunch of rickety middle-aged guys tripping all over each other at every turn, and none of them would be able to outjump Demaryius Thomas anyway. Half of them would be wiped out with injury by the half, if not sooner. The NFL GLORY BOYS would beat your gritty squad of undrafted free agents handily.
How much would you need to be paid to never "eat" again? You can have three flavourless shakes to fill in for meals that meet all your nutritional needs. But no eating of actual food. Would you do it for $100,000 a year?
Can you still drink alcohol? Because that matters. I don't think it's worth that price either way, because your ability to experience BOLD FLAVORS is surely more valuable than any set amount of money. I know Roger Ebert has come to grips with the fact that he'll never be able to eat again: "The food and drink I can do without easily. The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments and shared memories I miss." But I dunno. The food is pretty damn important. If it's between talking to you and eating my burger, I'm choosing the burger. Burgers taste amazing.
At my place of employment, they mandate that we wear our employee ID badges on our hip so that we can always be identified. Beside the fact that we have to swipe our badge to get from room to room, it isn't that big of a deal. However, every time I go to drop a deuce in the bathroom I always make sure that once I drop my drawers, I turn my badge (which, as aforementioned, is affixed to my pants) around so that the guy dooking next to me doesn't know who I am. Am I insecure?
No, I think that's a smart move. Always better to be the mystery dumper. It gives you more freedom inside the stall to make noises and look at naked people on your phone.
Why can't you wear your badge on a lanyard around your neck? Putting it on your hip makes it like a cell phone clip, which is so weak. If I have to rock an ID badge, I'm putting around my neck and pretending I have a Level XXXVIII Security Clearance. Oh, you think I'm taking a shit? Turns out Stall G actually contains a secret tunnel leading to NORAD headquarters. It was the best way for us to track down bin Laden. FIND ME PEOPLE TO KILL.
Blowing your nose into toliet paper while taking a shit then using that toliet paper to wipe your ass is perfectly acceptable, right?
Do you fold it, so that the snot part doesn't touch the poop part? You have to fold it. You're an animal if you don't do that.
Have we reached a point where celeb sex tapes are no longer a big deal? I saw that Emma Stone might have a sex tape and my first reaction was, "eh who cares"... I mean obviously I'll find it for free online and fap to it but I'll forget about it 5 min later.
That's probably true. There's such a massive quantity of naked bodies online, and it's increasing by the thousands every day. One more sex tape added to the pile can barely make a dent. There will come a point at which everyone is filmed at all times and everyone has a sex tape out there whether he or she likes it or not. That's just the way civilization is progressing. Everyone is watching and monitoring each other now, almost as if we live in a dictatorship of each other. I like things this way. It allows me to judge people without knowing them, and that's healthy!
Out of the top ten most important coaches in sports, how many are football coaches? I would guess eight, with Popovich and Calipari being the exceptions. My other picks would be Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, both Harbaughs, Mike Tomlin, Chip Kelly, Urban Meyer, and Peyton Manning(OC). FYI I know nothing about soccer, rugby, cricket, slamball, horseshoes, etc.
I swear I'm not trying to be Mr. Equality here, but doesn't Geno Auriemma have to be in the mix? I really don't give a shit about women's basketball, but that guy pretty much stands alone in the sport. I would make this the list:
• Belichick
• Saban
• Calipari
• Popovich
• Meyer
• Jim Harbaugh (but not John)
• Coach K (barf)
• Sean Payton
• Auriemma
• (Space reserved for important soccer coach. Jose Mourinho?)
There are no baseball managers on this list, but that's OK because managers are useless. I do like that Jim Leyland though. He smokes! That's something. Replace Auriemma with Chip Kelly if you are SEXISSSSS.
Email of the week time! It's another GREAT MOMENT IN BAT-KILLING HISTORY.
I was the third of five children in my family, but the oldest male so I always got tasked to do the manual work around the house. I was about 15 years old when my siblings and I were spending a summer night at the house - my parents were out of town at a banquet - when we sensed something was wrong. Growing up in Wisconsin, it's common to have a bat sneak into your farm house once or twice a summer, so you quickly learn the tell-tale "squeak" sound it makes while hovering in its terrorizing flight pattern in your living room. This night was no exception; as soon as we identified a bat, all the kids scurried to an upstairs room. We sealed the bottom of the door with a blanket and called it a night, foolishly hoping maybe it'd find its own way out.
First thing in the morning, I was given the inevitable task of search and destroy. Since we holed up in my room, I had my sports gear at the ready, including an aluminum baseball bat and a tennis racket. Being summer and being on a team, I chose the bat thinking I had some relevant practice. I peeked my head outside the door and quickly identified the flying rodent across the hallway underneath a ledge below the ceiling. After a minute, I gained enough courage to slip outside, position myself, and take a mighty swing upwards.
However, my bat hit the ledge, which managed to protect the bat. The beast didn't even flinch, staying in its upside-down slumber.
I decided to change tools and go for the tennis racket. It was lighter and maybe I'd have a little more accuracy in keeping the racket below the ledge and hitting only the bat. I choked up again and swung. I made solid contact with the bat and it fell straight to the floor without a sound or move. It laid there at my feet.
What happened next haunts me to this day. I had no idea what to do next; after all, this was my virgin bat kill. I thought to myself, "Maybe I just stunned it. Better check this out." To see if it was still alive, I used the surface of the tennis racket to press down on the bat a bit and see if it would move. If it was still alive, I would have it trapped and could figure out something to do then.
When I pressed down with the racket, the bat made a sound that still gives straight-up chills. I can only describe it as a squeal of hell: high-pitched, loud, angry and really, really pissed. It was something out of this world and terrifying, like something a demented special effects guy would come up for the sound the mother Alien makes at Ripley, a territorial hiss. My teenage self then proceeded to freak the fuck out and scream back at it, then unleashed hell with my tennis racket, raining full-force blows over and over again on this evil creature. I think this went on for about twenty, maybe thirty seconds before I realized I had pulverized this animal. I do not consider myself a violent person at all, but this shrill changed me, even if for that instant.
Somehow I haven't had to kill a bat since then. Good thing because I still hear that awful, awful sound in my memory to this day and I'd probably just respond by curling up in the corner.


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Apparently, though, there are more than a few folks who appreciate the value of fitness, outdoor recreation, and quality-of-life.
This from Max Brantley's Arkansas Times blog:
* BRIDGES TO SOMEWHERE: The Pulaski County Road and Bridge Department says electronic counters show 57,371 people used the new Two Rivers Park pedestrian bridge April 10-May 7. In 2011, 100,000 people used the nearby Big Dam Bridge, based on security camera monitors. That means the Two Rivers bridge could exceed Big Dam Bridge traffic. Building the bridges to encourage people to get outside apparently "is working," the county says.
Yep, I'd say it is working just fine, and based on the streams of riders, walkers, runners and skaters crowding the bridges earlier this evening, I'd say those numbers will just grow as more and more Central Arkansas residents discover the recreational gold in our backyard.

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Call of Duty and Fifa 13 were the UK's two best-selling entertainment releases of 2012, beating films such as The Dark Knight Rises and albums including Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events.
UK, You are free of Bieber, doesn't mean you can buy crappy games. The bad cancels out the good.
I don't know if its because I have now owned a COD game since MW2 but I got BO2 on the WiiU to see what a FPS game was like on the WiiU and I am enjoying the MP. Ive not played SP or Zombies yet and its not as good as Halo 4 imo but I can see why people like this game.
I could not buy the game every year though.
Also Fifa is bound to be the biggest sports games as here in the UK the one and only sport is Football. For me Rugby and Ice Hockey are better sports but this is the reason why it sells so well here in the UK as its the country's number 1 sport by a long way.
Is this what we are doing now to make this game relevancy spike, creating awards to fit the game?
Entertainment title of the year?!
Nice PR.
this is great news and some try to say consoles are dead how with these kind of numbers. i sat out this go around of cod blop2 cus i only like cod game with MW in the title blop1 left a very bad taste n my mouth but for the next gen x720 i well be picking up mw4.bf4.ACBF.splinter blacklight.and lots of new ips.


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Why Mom and Pop Should Be Kept Away from Banks' Bailout Bonds
Two new ETFs will let ordinary investors buy risky bank debt, which isn't a good idea
By Paul J. Davies
Yield to maturity on an index of Cocos*
Source: IHS Markit
Note: *iBoxx USD Contingent Convertible Liquid Developed Market AT1 index
Banks are hard enough to understand when it comes to owning their shares. But the complexity is doubled if you invest in their risky high-yield bonds, which are designed to pay for losses in times of trouble.
Mom-and-Pop investors in most countries have been blocked from owning these technically complex securities directly, which are often known as Cocos, an abbreviation of "contingent convertible." However, now, retail investors can buy them in two exchange-traded funds. That might be a sign that this young market is growing up. Or perhaps it is a recipe for disaster.
European and Asian banks have issued Cocos worth billions of dollars to help shore up their balance sheets since the 2008 crisis. They are cheaper to finance than equity, but still absorb losses in times of crisis and therefore make taxpayer bailouts less likely.
However, they have been criticized for being too complicated even for institutional investors and performance has been volatile. Prices plunged in early 2016 when fears around Deutsche Bank's Co cos and misunderstandings about how they worked sparked panic in the sector. The collapse brought a spike in yields, which reached 10.7% for the iBoxx index of the most liquid, dollar-denominated Cocos in mid-February 2016, up from 7% at the start of January.
This index is the basis for Invesco PowerShares' new AT1 Capital Bond ETF, which was launched last week. WisdomTree launched a similar fund in May, based on a wider, multicurrency iBoxx Coco index. Neither fund is aimed at the retail market, but anyone can buy them.
Individual investors can access lots of assets through funds they couldn't buy directly—corporate junk bonds or emerging-markets debt, for example. However, bank capital poses more problems than just complexity when held by retail investors.
In Italy, banks were allowed to keep selling similar bonds to individual investors. That has made fixing problem banks more difficult, because politicians were fearful of imposing losses on ordinary savers.
This is the essential problem with allowing nonprofessionals near these bonds: If the bonds can't take losses, they don't work as capital. One bond going bad in a fund should just mean a small loss, which is fine. However, if a lot of retail money is involved during a wider crisis, taxpayers' money will be at risk again.


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This webcast is part of The Conference Board Director General Series. A series of briefings with senior officials from the EU Commission. Our guest speaker for the December webcast is Director General for Environment, Karl Falkenberg.
Mr. Falkenberg will provide an overview of policies and plans in the environment policy pipeline, focusing in particular on the Commission's soon-to-be-adopted proposal for a Seventh EU Environment Action Programme, which will cover the period up to 2020.
The programme will focus on the contribution of environment policy to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, pulling together various recent initiatives, including on resource efficiency, biodiversity and the low-carbon economy, into a coherent narrative and showing how they relate to and reinforce one another, and point to a limited number of gaps that need to be filled.
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The Whitsundays are Australia's most famous islands, right in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef. These 74 jewels are blessed with powder-white sands, emerald rainforest, untouched reefs and upscale resorts, as well as the iconic Heart Reef and Whitehaven Beach.
The mainland gateway to the Whitsunday islands, Airlie Beach is surrounded by beaches, lagoons and national parks. When the sun goes down, the town comes alive with sprawling pubs, raucous bars and buzzing nightclubs. Discover Conway National Park, just 15 away, with its rainforest-clad hills, deserted beaches and sweeping views over the Whitsunday Passage.
Proserpine Airport is about 40 minutes from Airlie Beach, with car, taxi and shuttle bus transfers.
Each of Whitsunday islands has its own special charm. Hamilton Island is the most developed, with bars and restaurants, a large marina and multiple accommodation options, including family-friendly hotels and self-contained apartments. The vast, uninhabited Whitsunday Island is covered in pristine rainforest and boasts the award-winning Whitehaven Beach, a seven-kilometre stretch of brilliant white sand.
Boats depart daily from Airlie Beach to sail to the Whitsundays. The journey to Hamilton Island takes one hour and you can explore Whitehaven Beach on a half-day tour.
The Whitsunday Coast is just as impressive as the islands. Spend a day beach-hopping, swimming, fishing or lazing around Cape Gloucester and seek out the tiny hidden hamlet of Hydeaway Bay, with its long sandy beach and fringing reef. Take a dip in Cedar Creek Falls, surrounded by wild orchids, colourful butterflies and curious turtles.
Fly into Proserpine Airport from Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne. It's just a short drive from Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday Coast. By car, the region is about 12 hours from Brisbane or seven hours from Cairns.
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At the E3 event of 2018, Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demos were unleashed to the public. With this move, fans, media, and other gaming panies can see for themselves the gameplay of this new console. On Monday, the first release of the gameplay of the new game was presented by Developer CD Projekt Red. This followed a cryptic Twitch stream of several codes.
While the public is yet to see what the gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 really looks like, this release will bring home a clear view. Some gameplay demos released by the publishing firm will give fans an idea of what is really onboard. This content will give an insight of what the gameplay of the Cyberpunk 2077 looks like.
CD Projekt Red has been able to position itself in the leading spot of the RPG world with amazing changes. The game design, graphics, and other items have been greatly improved. At the moment, it is safe to mention that Cyberpunk 2077 can be called an RPG fire. This is with plex interactions, player choice, the environment to reflect the storyline, non-player characters, and in-depth character personalization.
It is not only the hair color or gender that players can tweak in this game. In fact, players will be offered the opportunity to state their favorite character's back-story. This can be found in childhood events that can touch the way people players the game. The view of the game is also another thing that can be surprising to players. One amazing thing about this game is that it remains a first-person RPG.
The elements of world traverse, loot and bat in the game's demo are like that of the first-person RPGs. Fallout and Deus Ex are good examples to back the view of the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo. There is a hacking device that enables you to explore the entire network of the game after checking every person connected to the system. There are branching dialog options, slow-mo shooting and other amazing features in the game.
Scanning to know enemy characteristics and weaknesses is something you will find in the game. In short, the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo is something you should properly review. Having a clear understanding of Cyberpunk 2020 is a gateway to know the new game's gameplay. The Cyberpunk 2020 game came into reality around events of the late 1990s & 1980s and a beloved role-playing console. It introduced cyberpunk tropes in the opening of the game.
The new game es with trench coats, freaky future drugs, neo-noir aesthetics, devious punk-rock hackers, nefarious corporations, and cybernetic enhancement. After the globe goes to hell, you will also discover the US sitting at the support of mega-businesses. These businesses will bee fiefdoms at the pleasure of their own secret plots and interests to dominate the world.
California Night City will be within the fighting environment. This is the environment that gamers can play their foes as street doctors, rebel rock-and-roll stars, corporate raiders or even clear old cyborg assassins.


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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Pink on Pink & Confident Twosday Linkup
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I love this pink on pink look - perfect for Valentine's or any other day you want to look pretty in pink! I love pieces that will transition well from one season to another and I can totally see you wearing this dress with sandals. Pretty from head to toe!ReplyDelete
this is such a pretty pink outfit, you look gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Love this!!!ReplyDelete
Love that pink coat!ReplyDelete
Love your pink on pink look! Those sleeves are so chic. Thanks for the link up Laura!ReplyDelete
Oh I love the pink on pink, the two pieces pair so perfectly together, and you're right it's such a fitting outfit for Valentine's Day :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for the link up!
Hope you are having a lovely start to your week! It's so hot here, another heatwave!
Away From The Blue Blog
Love all the pink!! It's always my favorite. :)ReplyDelete
Those shades of pink are really great on you. great styling.ReplyDelete
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Laura, these pinks are super cute! I am on a mad, crazy pink kick lately! And your little black booties are really fabulous!ReplyDelete
I love your dress and coat! So pretty for spring and Valentine's Day. CherylReplyDelete
Lately I've been wearing a ton of pink so it's perfect for the "love month"!!ReplyDelete
You look so pretty in pink! You're all set for Valentine's Day! Such a beautiful look!ReplyDelete
Love this pink look for Valentine's Day! The ruffle sleeve is so pretty!ReplyDelete
xx, Elise
You can never go wrong with the color pink.ReplyDelete
I love the two shades of pink on you! This is the perfect Valentine's look!ReplyDelete
I love this pink on pink look so much. Those soft pinks are awesome. Your coat and dress are stunning on their own and even better together. Great VDay look Laura! Looking forward to stopping by here more and commenting more often! Also looking forward to our collab next Tuesday.ReplyDelete
Really digging the pink combo- and so good for this week! :)ReplyDelete
Le Stylo Rouge
I love the pink on pink, especially for Valentine's Day! Such a cute dress, and I'm loving the sleeves!ReplyDelete
I am so obsessed with pink! I am really happy that this is one of the it colors this year. So many shades out there and I love that you paired these together!ReplyDelete
I really love pink shades too Laura! I have my pink coat i wear through most of the winter. yours is lovely and the darker pink dress is adorable, it looks soft!ReplyDelete
jess xx
So pretty in pink! I love pink and black together!ReplyDelete
You look adorable in this colour pink, love the whole look. x JacquiReplyDelete
You look so pretty in all of these pictures! Pink is definitely your color...the coat is beautiful and I'm sure you'll be able to wear it with everything!ReplyDelete
You are so very pretty in pink! Such a sweet smile and such a fabulous outfit!ReplyDelete
The sleeves on that dress are so pretty! I just love the pink on pink with that coat as well! I have been loving all the pinks I've been seeing this week!ReplyDelete
Fantastic colours! What a fabulous dress, I love those sleeves.ReplyDelete
I love those two shades of pink together. I would never think to do that. I also have a purse similar to that one but it's a light pink color.ReplyDelete
Well this is just about the cutest Valentine's Day outfit! That dress is darling and I especially LOVE that coat!!ReplyDelete
Gina || On the Daily Express
Ah! I absolutely love the pink on pink!ReplyDelete
Sincerely, Jennie
This pink on pink look is absolutely lovely on you, Laura! It is perfect for Valentine's Day or really any spring day, I think. =)ReplyDelete
I hope you are having a great week so far!
Perfect look for Valentine's Day!ReplyDelete
xo Jules
I do declare! The perfect amount of pink for this romantic day. Happy Valentine's! X.ReplyDelete
Is it silly for me to want a pink coat even if we don't have the winter weather to wear it? I guess so. But I LOVE your pink coat and the price of the 'save' version from Mango, is doable. Sarah at Foxy's Domestic Side has an enviable pink coat, too.ReplyDelete
When I was in 7th grade, I wore my blue faux fur coat nonstop...truly, nonstop for months...inside, outside, day in and day out. Maybe I could get a pink one and do the same!!
such a cute look for valentines day!!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful mixing of the pinks there girlie! Both pieces will give you a lot of wear and are so sweet. Happy Valentine's Day!💕ReplyDelete
Normally, I'm all about red. However, Valentine's day brings out a feminine feeling in. So around this time year I'm all about the shades of pink. By the way, I love this shade of pink on you. It's so cute and feminine.ReplyDelete
Love your pink coat! If I were going to wear something pink today it would definitely be outerwear!ReplyDelete
How can more pink be ever bad. Love pink on pink look.ReplyDelete
I've been away on Carnival holiday ... so I just realised its Valentine's day a few hours ago.ReplyDelete
On the other side, I love this pink on pink look, beautiful as usual Laura.
I am loving this look! It's such a beautiful color and I love how everything compliments each other.ReplyDelete
Cute pink dress! Love the bell sleeves!ReplyDelete
Love this pink on pink combo on you! You look gorgeous in this color!ReplyDelete
I love this pink on pink look! Looking fabulous!ReplyDelete
Happy Valentine's Day!
Andrea's Wellness Notes
Love your pink dress! It's so pretty with the ruffle sleeves and it goes really well with your coat.ReplyDelete
Maureen | www.littlemisscasual.com
Love how you styled this look around shades of pink! Brilliant!ReplyDelete
Sending love from Napa!
Paulina | SHENSKA
This pink on pink look so fab! You look great, babe !ReplyDelete
xo, Sheree
That's a lovely combination of pink and blush you got there dear. And yes, you can't go wrong with pairing it with black, especially with that beautiful bag.ReplyDelete
Jessica | notjessfashion.com
Love all the pink! The dress is so pretty, I especially love the sleeves.ReplyDelete
Xx, Nailil


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Administration of Justice Instructor
During his 23-year career as an FBI Special Agent, Pat Connolly taught part-time at the University of Phoenix and provided training for law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, foreign law enforcement agencies and others.
Three years before mandatory retirement from the FBI, he heard about the opening in MiraCosta's Administration of Justice Department. "This looked like a very good opportunity to start a second career," says Pat, who since 2003 has led the department and teaches Introduction to Administration of Justice, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, and lectures on other topics such as organized crime, the Death Penalty, homicides, and other related areas.
Pat brings to those classes a first-person perspective. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law, had a private practice and was a state prosecutor in Howard County, Maryland prior to his entry into the FBI in 1990. He was trained as an FBI hostage negotiator/crisis intervention specialist, and crisis management coordinator and his FBI investigative experience involved investigating violent crime, organized crime/drugs, white-collar crime, civil-rights related activities, and international investigative techniques targeting significant criminal and terrorist enterprises. His assignments have included tours as an investigator/supervisor on both east and west coast. He also served as an FBI representative on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., and as an FBI SA attorney responsible for advising FBI management and field divisions on various legal issues, with emphasis on electronic surveillance and undercover operations. He also managed the FBI North County Residence Agency, and coordinated FBI San Diego's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
In addition to teaching at MiraCosta, he has taught aboard Nuclear Carrier U.S.S. George Washington and provides presentations to community members and business organizations.
"MiraCosta is a great place to work and learn, and we are fortunate to have an exceptional faculty, who have the knowledge and the experience to create a unique learning environment for the students. We are all keenly aware that teaching creates such a great opportunity and responsibility because of its influence on the lives of others", says Pat. "And the topics we cover are not timely given the importance of justice issues, law enforcement, and terrorism issues, but they are also just plain interesting."


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I WAS glad to accept appointment as Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York because of the opportunity to get some experience in public office in my home state. Though I knew that I would gain considerable experience in the law and the way it was administered in New York, I did not know that I was also to learn a great deal about practical politics in that connection. While I already knew generally that political parties help their friends, I never realized until this experience in the Attorney General's office how far special privileges and favors really went.
I was assigned to the New York City Bureau of the Attorney General's office in January, 1915. The main office, of course, was in Albany. I was given charge of matters ranging from legal work for the State Department of Agriculture to looking into unpaid mortgage taxes and conducting litigation with the Federal government. I took my work seriously, though I soon found that not all of the deputies did so and did not seem to be expected to put in a full day's work.
One interesting experience in the Attorney General's office gave me considerable knowledge of the ways of politics and justice. It had to do with trivial violations of the Conservation Law of the state. Every year fish and game inspectors brought in a sheaf of complaints against fishermen on Long Island for violating the law by taking scallops under one year old. A large number of these cases were scheduled for trial. I went out to Long Island to try them.
There was no question of the guilt of these fishermen. It was easy to establish that they took the young scallops. In each case the fishermen had been caught coming in with their catch, and samples of the scallops had been taken. But in case after case juries disagreed. I just couldn't understand it. Finally, I got to know the jurors pretty well, and after about the fifth or sixth disagreement, I asked some of them about it.
They were very frank. "Why, Mr. Attorney General," they said, "there is no question that these men are guilty. We understand the need of conserving fish life and not taking scallops under one year old, but this has been going on for a long time. Now, all of a sudden, the state indicts these small, individual fishermen. Why don't you go after the big oyster companies? We are not going to convict these little fellows. The big companies do the same thing day after day and are never bothered."
On the way home I asked the conservation officials about it. They looked at me and said: "Would you prosecute one of those big companies?"
"Of course I would," I said. "It's a violation of the law, isn't it?"
"Yes, but -" They sort of hemmed and hawed and said finally that they didn't believe any such action would receive approval "all the way up." They had been in the service many years.
I told them to go out and get the evidence. Within two weeks they had brought in complaints against most of the large oyster companies. They were really large corporations. They owned their own tugs and also owned a large part of the waters from which they took their oysters, clams, and scallops. I adjourned all pending cases against the small, private fishermen and went out to try my first big oyster company case.
The company was represented by a prominent lawyer who later became a Supreme Court judge in New York State. He asked for an adjournment and before I could open my mouth, it was granted. I went out to Riverhead, Long Island, to try this case at least four or five times, and each time adjournment was requested and immediately granted. Finally, after many weeks of these delays, I appeared in court on the date last set for trial, and much to my surprise, the company was ready for trial.
I had not even adjusted myself at the counsel table, and the first juror had not yet been called, when counsel for the big company addressed the court and requested the court to ask the Attorney General to advise under what section of the law he intended to prosecute. That was easy. The law was not more than one and a half lines long. "No scallops under one year of age shall be taken" was the way it ran. I cited it. Whereupon, the company's counsel, with a happy grin, took a telegram from his pocket and said: "If Your Honor please, that law was changed last night, and I have a telegram from the Governor so informing me. Now, if Your Honor please, inasmuch as this law has been changed, I submit that it would be hardly worth while to continue with this trial. Clearly the legislature has seen the fallacy of such a law."
The judge seemed not a bit surprised. He seemed to know more about it all than I did. "Oh, yes, Counselor, I quite agree," he said. "Of course, if the Attorney General insists on a trial, I suppose we will have to go through with it, but I quite agree that it will serve no purpose whatsoever." The law had been changed simply by inserting the words "in public waters." The little fisherman caught his fish in public water, while the big companies had leased private waters along the coast!
I did not proceed with the trial, as it would have been useless. But I also did not prosecute any more of the cases against the small fishermen. I learned afterwards that there had been an understanding for many years that the big oyster companies were not to be disturbed. I suppose the same condition exists to this date. Law is all right so long as big interests are not disturbed. It seems it was easier in that case to change the law than to change the Attorney General.
ANOTHER time I was given the first case under a new Weights and Measures Law. The law required that the true weight be stated on all food in containers. The first case was against some large packing houses for misstating the weights on hams and bacon. It looked like a very simple case to me. There was no question as to the identity of the hams and bacon. There was no question as to their weight, or that they were underweight. Several ounces underweight made a difference of perhaps 5 per cent in price.
The State Department of Agriculture was very keen about establishing the efficacy of this new law, for it had taken several years to get it enacted. The violation was a misdemeanor. The case, therefore, was of a criminal nature and was instituted in the Magistrates' Court of the City of New York. When the case was called, my neighbor in Greenwich Village, State Senator James J. Walker, later Mayor, appeared for the defense.
I called my first witness, one of the inspectors of the packers' plants. Whereupon, Senator Walker addressed the court, stating that he was the author of the law, that it was never intended to apply to "wrappers," that the hams and bacon were in wrappers, and not in a container, that the requirement that true weight be shown only applied to containers made of glass, wood, or tin but did not apply to wrappers. And, of course, he knew, for he had written the bill.
He also knew the judge, who was an affable Tammany judge. The judge went out of his way to be nice to Jimmy, and my case was dismissed then and there. I started to protest—for all the good it did me! I had known Jimmy for some time, and after the case was dismissed, the judge came out, and Jimmy and the judge invited me to have a drink.
I was still protesting at the dismissal of my case. "Jimmy," I said, "how in the world can you possibly appear in a case to defeat your own law?"
And Jimmy, in his urbane way, said: "Fiorello, when are you going to get wise? Why do you suppose we introduce bills? We introduce them sometimes just to kill them. Other times we even have to pass a bill. Why are you in the Attorney General's office? You're not going to stay there all your life. You make your connections now, and later on you can pick up a lot of dough defending cases you are now prosecuting." And, of course, the judge acquiesced in all that.
"But," I said, "a lot of little storekeepers have been fined for selling the same kind of hams in wrappers."
"Fiorello," said Jimmy, "you stop worrying about those things. What are you in politics for—for love?"
Well, that was the end of the Walker Law so far as the big packers were concerned. When I reported the incident, no one in the department seemed to be shocked. They had run into the same kind of thing in the course of trying to enforce a great many of our laws. Once in a while, a conscientious deputy would proceed with his case, but sooner or later he would find himself blocked if big interests were involved. Politics, politics, politics! I found very little difference in their philosophy among members of either big party. I was to find the same kind of thing going on after I went to Congress.
But I just could not be a regular. Not to comply and accept the established custom, things as they are, but to raise a howl and kick, brands one as an insurgent. I managed to survive, but many others who bucked the machine during their early careers were through before they could get their start. I enjoyed the work in the Attorney General's office. I left it much wiser and not so innocent as when I entered it.
IN November, 1914, when I ran for Congress the first time and was defeated, there was very little war talk in the United States, though the war in Europe had been going on for four months. War orders were having their stimulating effect on employment, production, and business in general, and the country began to pull out of the depression it had been in just before the European nations went to war. While I was serving as Deputy Attorney General in 1915, I became convinced that the situation was serious, and decided that I might as well get myself ready for war.
I decided that I wanted to go into our Air Corps. I got hold of my friend Giuseppe Bellanca, the brother of my friend August Bellanca, the garment workers' leader. As a boy in Sicily, Giuseppe had got interested in aviation, when Santos-Dumont first started to fly there. Bellanca spent hours on the Sicilian beaches scaling flat stones and watching them hop. He carefully watched the birds fly and studied aerodynamics by himself. He managed to get a grounding in higher mathematics. Even as a boy he was always talking about flying.
Giuseppe Bellanca came to this country before the war and started making airplanes by hand. I was the attorney for the company he formed, which consisted of about twenty-five cooks and waiters, each of whom had put in about $100. All of thorn attended all the meetings of the company, which were quite exciting. I did their legal work free of charge.
Besides building planes, Giuseppe Bellanca ran a small flying school at Mineola, Long Island. It was there that I studied flying. Aviation was young then. Bollanca had two planes. One was used for instruction. It was a light Bleriot-type monoplane with a three-cylinder Anzani motor. It was a pretty little toy, but it flew. The motor was supposed to develop about thirty horsepower. If we got fifteen out of it, on actual test, we were doing well.
Quite an assortment of individuals were learning to fly at this school. We flew irregularly, whenever we had the time, and whenever the wind was right. I taught Bellanca how to run my secondhand Ford, while we were on route to his flying school. Mile-a-Minute Murphy was one of the other pupils. He was a New York City policeman who had made a record a generation before by riding a bicycle at the speed of a mile a minute, paced by a Long Island Railroad train. Bicycles were now too slow for him, so he decided to learn to fly. There was a Chinese, who was always mysterious about himself, and we never did learn where he had turned up from. There was also a Vermont farmer whose aunt was paying his bill and was very eager that he should learn how to do stunt flying. Then there was a young lady who had a perfect wardrobe of flying clothes, but who showed up very seldom for her lessons.
We felt our way and learned to fly like fledglings. Our first lessons were devoted to what we called grass-cutting. We would sit in the instruction plane for a ground run of about a mile and a half. Then we would get out, turn the plane around, and taxi back. It was necessary to control the throttle so that we would not lift off the ground. After we had qualified at doing that and were able to keep the machine straight, the next step was a straightaway hop on the same course. We would lift the machine about fifteen to one hundred feet in the air and then land. This simple instruction went on for quite a while before we were allowed to circle the field.
The instruction plane had no dual controls. It was a single-seater, and one had to remember what one was told and then trust to luck. After I went through this course, I had got the feel of the air and learned the nomenclature of a plane and the terms used in flying, but I was not much of a flyer. It did help me to get into the Air Corps later, however.
I believed then, as I believe today, that Giuseppe Bellanca is one of the greatest plane designers the world has ever known. He could got more lift out of less horsepower than any other plane maker. He always had tough going. He never had enough capital, and many of his associates were always more interested in promotion than in production. Bellanca produced the Columbia plane, built by hand. That type of plane had more crossings of the Atlantic to its credit than any other plane during the early period of transatlantic flying. In fact, the old Columbia is still kicking around somewhere. Bellanca planes of that period won all the efficiency contests at air meets, so many that the contests were finally eliminated. I actually saw the present multi-motor two-winged monoplane, now of standard typo, on Bellanca's drawing boards back in 1914. During World War II, the Navy took his design, went into production, with not even a word of credit or thanks to Giuseppe Bellanca. Some contractor made a lot of money out of it.
I kept pretty busy in 1915 and 1916, what with my work in the Attorney General's office, learning to fly, and building my fences for the 1916 Congressional campaign. I had my heart still set on going to Congress, and my first defeat did not discourage me. Once when I was in Washington, a member of Congress gave me a card to the "family" gallery. I would not go. I did not want to enter the House of Representatives until I could go on the floor as a member. But I read the Congressional Record religiously. That was the easiest part of my preliminary training. The big job was making friends so that I could win the election.
I knew that I could not depend much on the Republican organization, because of my first experience with it in 1914. It was pretty clear to me that the seat in Congress from my district appeared to belong to the National Liquor Dealers' Association in the name of Michael Farley, the Democratic incumbent, by tacit agreement with the Republicans. But I kept building up my contacts. My law office was a regular Legal Aid Society, and after Office hours at the Attorney General's office I made many friends useful to me in politics by going to clambakes, balls, weddings, and funerals—functions inseparable from the life of a man in politics. I got to know a great many people in my district.
WHEN the time came for the Congressional nomination in 1910, I was shocked and hurt to learn that I was not slated for the place on the Republican ticket. I felt I was entitled to it because of the run I had made in the previous election two years before. But that run had attracted a great deal of interest in the nomination. Everybody was nice, giving me good advice about not taking another licking. I was destined, they said, to be a judge or something big like that. "Just be a good boy, go along with the organization, help wherever you can," they told me. That didn't register very well with me.
I got my petitions printed. I was told that was not in the books, that recognition had been given me by my appointment as Deputy Attorney General; I must not hurt my own interest, but just go along and be a good soldier. I insisted that I would contest any nomination made by the party and run in the primaries against another Republican organization choice.
Finally, I made an appointment to see Fred Tanner, who was then Republican State Chairman. He had been leader of my home district. Fred Tanner was a prominent lawyer, scholarly and gentlemanly, who was interested in politics. He had had a meteoric rise in the Republican Party, but he was far too refined and clean to make a success as boss of the New York State Republicans. Naturally, Tanner was greatly occupied, as it was a Presidential year. New York State was going to the Republican convention in Chicago with its Governor, Charles S. Whitman, as its favorite son. I do not believe Fred Tanner was very hot about Whitman.
I had an interesting talk with the State Chairman. He repeated the old gaff about my future in politics, and he tried to convince me that it was to my interest to stay put that year. I was not a bit impressed. He was frank enough to tell me that a young outsider wanted the Congressional nomination badly that year. And this young man's friends had promised to make a substantial contribution to the Republican Party if he got the nomination. The outsider's name was Hamilton Fish. There is no doubt that he wanted to go to Congress, and he succeeded after World War I. But he was elected to Congress from Dutchess County, a long way from 14th Street in Manhattan.
Fred Tanner made one blunder in his effort to talk me out of running that year. He said that if I had gone to any expense, such as printing my petitions, or anything else, he would see that I was reimbursed. Well, I just hit the ceiling. I don't think Fred meant it the way I took it. But I blew up, and that just about ended our talk. As I started out of his office, Fred shouted to me, "Fiorollo, hold your horses. Damn it, if you want to run, go ahead and do it. Don't blame me if you're licked again."
Harry Andrews was a very useful man around our district. He was young, a good stenographer, did most of the clerical work, and acted as secretary to the district leader. He had a job as a secretary to a judge. In 1914 he was in my corner, and he was very helpful to me in the primary stage of the 1916 campaign as well as in the election. I got him to study law and had the pleasure of seeing him grow and develop to the point where I appointed him a magistrate when I was Mayor. I learned a great deal about politics from Harry, and he, in turn, I believe, learned some things about government from me.
We got my petitions signed and filed. Though I never got a nod or a word from the Republican Party officials, no opposition developed, much to my surprise, and I entered the primaries unopposed. I did have opposition for the Progressive Party nomination. My friend Ben Marsh, a real liberal and a true progressive, who has been on the right side of many losing causes, was my opponent. I won the Progressive nomination, too, and always had a feeling that Ben voted for me.
The campaign was hot. I got a tremendous start on my opponent, the sitting Congressman. His office-holding had gone to his head, and he was terribly inflated. He seldom showed up at his saloon, and when he did, forgot to treat the boys. He had become a "big shot," and was seldom seen in the district. That would not have been so bad if he had ever done anything in Washington. So I had plenty of material to work on.
This time I did not wait for the party leaders to get me started. I was 'way ahead of them. The campaign was difficult because my district had such varied interests. The East Side section was interested in economics and the future of Europe; Washington Square, before Greenwich Village had become The Village, was most conservative—for higher tariffs, lower taxes, big business stuff; and the West Side Irish were anti-British and completely Tammanyized.
While I had many friends in the Socialist Party, they waged their fight against me on the East Side. It was their tactics to accept an ultraconservative rather than a progressive. Tammany was counting on a heavy vote in the West Side section of the district and the solid Little Tim Sullivan Third District on the East Side.
This time my candidacy was not taken by Tammany Hall as the joke it had been to its henchmen two years before. They were in a dilemma. They didn't dare put Mike Farley, their candidate, on the stump. So all sorts of stump speakers were imported into the district. We had a great time with them. I covered every corner in that district, I think. We would start early in the evening, on the West Side, keep going east, and it was not unusual for the last street meeting to end 'way past one o'clock in the morning. Then, to Stuyvesant Hall or some coffeehouse on the East Side for another hour or two of campaigning.
Tammany was not really worried. They depended on two things: on the Democratic majority usual in that Congressional district, which they considered overwhelming, and on the count. Republican leaders in the West Side districts and in some of the East Side districts were not only weak but untrustworthy and venal. The Republican leader in Little Tim Sullivan's East Side district was an Italian who had made a fortune as a padrone for the Erie Railroad. He worked very closely with Tammany Hall and would do nothing to incur its displeasure. He always got advice, protection, and help from the national Republican administration. He was illiterate, ignorant, and arrogant. He didn't even treat his family well. The Tammany leader in the same district was one of the Sullivan clan. Little Tim Sullivan was personally a nice fellow, but as tough a Tammany leader as they came. We prepared for fraud, by organizing in this district a corps of volunteer watchers for the count, a precaution I have always taken in my subsequent campaigns.
The fighting Irish were helpful to me in that campaign. I knew more about the history of Ireland than Mike Farley did, and some of the Irish thought Mike Farley had not been anti-English enough. I was greatly aided by a corps of volunteers headed by one who became known as the Irish Joan of Arc. She was a real spellbinder; she was not particularly supporting me; but she was certainly opposing Mike Farley.
In my talks on the East Side I dismembered the Hapsburg Empire and liberated all the subjugated countries under that dynasty almost every night. The funny part of it is that I was not fooling and happened to guess future history correctly.
Charles Evans Hughes was the Republican candidate for President against Woodrow Wilson, running for re-election. Naturally, the interest in the campaign was focused on the Presidential election, which was a tense and close struggle. In the Republican part of the district, which constituted only a small percentage of the total vote, I had the advantage of the fact that they were all for Hughes and would vote the straight Republican ticket, including me. Hughes was very popular as a former Governor of New York and a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. We were certain of getting a big vote in that "silk stocking" section of district, and, in fact, we did very little campaigning there.
WE WERE all pretty tired that last Monday night before election day. We stuck it out at meetings until two o'clock in the morning. We had to get up very early on election day, for we had a job to do. After about three hours' sleep, we covered the two or three lodging houses in the district, "flophouses." At five o'clock we visited these, for we knew that Tammany planned to vote the inhabitants in a pack between eight and nine that morning. Our boys were ready with coffee and rolls and doughnuts, that by the time the Tammany men came around, the flophouse inhabitants had already voted. It was the first time in years, some of the old-timers remarked, that the guests of these flophouses had voted sober.
We had a little trouble early in the morning when word was spread, allegedly by one of the Republican leaders, "La Guardia hasn't got a chance, so trade votes for Congress for a Republican Assemblyman." We got hold of that leader quickly, took him in the car with us, and went from polling place to polling place straightening out that one.
Our real trouble started when the polls closed and the count began. In those days we still had paper ballots. The count was long and tedious. There was ample time and opportunity for marking ballots so that they would be disqualified, for substituting ballots, and for every other kind of dirty, dishonest political trick.
I took the toughest district on the waterfront to watch. This attracted a lot of attention, and finally Charles Culkin, one of the top men in Tammany Hall, who held high office from time to time, and was the Tammany leader of that district, came to the polling place. He gently told me, "Why La Guardia, what are you doing here? You shouldn't be here. Everything is all right."
"Everything is not all right," I said, "and what is more, Charlie, you sit here and help me watch the count. There is going to be an honest count, or, if not, someone is going to go to jail, and I mean you, Charlie. You stay here and protect your own district."
He did. I took a few precincts even in Charlie Murphy's own home district, although he was then the strong boss of Tammany Hall.
I had all sorts of people watching that district of Charlie Culkin's as well as the other districts. There were schoolteachers, doctors, businessmen, long shoremen, and some tough guys on our side. In the final count in the district where I was helping to watch, I defeated my Tammany opponent by a very small margin. The Democratic vote in that district was usually five to one against the Republican. Charlie Culkin's jaw dropped. He shook his head and asked me if I was satisfied with the count.
"Yes," I said, "as soon as the certificate is signed and turned over to the police." It was.
All through the Democratic districts on the West Side river front I was running 'way ahead of the ticket. We knew then that if we could keep up that lead, we would overcome the normal majority for the Democrats. We were going well on the East Side. It, too, was well organized. All of our watchers were instructed to remain on duty until the count was entirely completed, the returns officially signed, and the ballot boxes sealed.
It was about four in the morning before we could get a final count. I had won the election. But it was a good thing we had watched that count carefully, for I won by 357 votes—7272 for me, 6915 for Parley.
I got quite a reception on the East Side. Sam Koenig, who was the Republican county chairman, was genuinely elated at my victory. There is one thing I could always say about Sam Koenig then and during the many years following: if he gave you his word about something, he kept it. I anticipated an enthusiastic reception in other parts of the 14th Congressional District. After all, it was the first time a Republican had been elected to Congress below 14th Street since the foundation of the Republican Party. I particularly thought I would get a riotous reception in my own home district. I never saw such gloom anywhere. The hangers-on at the club hardly nodded to me. Someone was on the telephone in the rear office, assuring the Democratic leader of the district, who was supposed to be his rival, "No, Joe, we didn't double-cross you; we didn't do anything for this fellow. You just can't control him." An apology for my victory was what I heard instead of congratulations!
I got another lesson in politics from that campaign of 1916. William M. Calder, then a Representative in Congress from a Brooklyn district, was running for United States Senator from New York. There was no sham about Bill Calder. A successful builder and an active member of the House of Representatives for many years, a staunch Republican, most conservative, he made no claims to being a progressive and always remained a real party man. He and I had already become close friends.
Calder was opposed by Robert Bacon, who had been in the State Department for a long time as Assistant Secretary of State. In 1909 he had succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary of State. Mr. Bacon was a partner of J. P. Morgan. There was plenty of money in the primary campaign on the Bacon side. But the boys in our district were for Calder, though the Republican organization seemed to favor Bacon.
On primary day the "Bacon boys" went up to party headquarters and came back with plenty of dough. During the early evening hours, Bacon cars came through the district dishing out more money. But the "Bacon boys" were amateurs, and the regular district boys were hard-boiled politicians. They were taking Bacon money, but they were getting Calder votes.
Calder carried the district overwhelmingly and won the Republican nomination. I don't know whether the same funny situation went on in other districts, but the final result throughout the state was that Calder was nominated and was elected. That impressed me with the fact which I have insisted on so many times, namely, that money in and of itself just cannot win a campaign. This is not to say that Robert Bacon did not have the qualifications for the high office of United States Senator. In fact, he did. But he just didn't have the political appeal.
It was at this same period that the New York Central and Wall Street were in the habit of dividing the United States Senators from New York between them. At the same time in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Railroad took one Senator and the steel interests the other. But that period was coming to an end in 1916. Later Robert Bacon's son, Robert Bacon, Jr., ran for Congress, after his father's death, from a Long Island district and was elected. He was a gentlemanly, amiable, and useful member of the house during the entire time of his service there.
President Wilson called the Sixty-fifth Congress, to which I had been elected, into extra session, to meet on April. I was glad to get started. I visited Washington often between my election and the meeting of the extra session. Since I was a sort of freak, having been elected on the Republican ticket from such a strong Tammany district, I created some interest, and this gave me the opportunity of meeting the leaders of the House, with whom I afterwards served. I grew very fond of many of them and developed great respect and admiration for them. I entered the House under the rule of courtesy by which members-elect are permitted on the floor. My dream of a lifetime had come true.
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The Palestinians will take their case to the United Nations Security Council before the upcoming Israeli elections schedule for March 2015, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday.
"There is nothing wrong with the Palestinian draft resolution, which calls for ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and establishing an independent Palestinian state in the light of a specific timetable," Abbas told the state-run Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission in Ramallah.
Abbas also reiterated that the Palestinians "cannot and will not recognize" Israel as a "Jewish state."
"We will stand against this enterprise, not out of obstinacy, but because it contradicts our interests," he said in an interview published with the Egyptian daily Akbar Al-Yawm.
The Palestinian leadership had previously established the end of November as the due date for its submission of a draft UN resolution setting November 2016 as the deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from all Palestinian territories occupied in 1967.
If the resolution is shot down by a US veto in the Security Council, Abbas said he would take Israel to the International Criminal Court.
"If they want to take me down, I will take them along with me," Abbas said, in reference to a lawsuit, accusing the Palestinian president of terrorism, recently filed against him by an Israeli NGO at the International Criminal Court.
Abbas said Israel was a difficult negotiating partner because its efforts in achieving a lasting peace were not genuine.
"Working with Israel is very difficult, if not impossible. We are conducting mutual relations with people who don't believe in peace. You ask for peace, and they do not want it," he said.
"If we cannot get what we want, there are other steps we can take. The first step is joining many international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice."
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On February 9, the City Council unanimously approved a districting map and election sequence that Shapes Anaheim's Future. The Council adopted the Recommended Plan (Map 3). Election sequence for districts 1, 3, 4 & 5 was also approved for November 8, 2016 ballot. The remaining two districts (2 & 6) will hold elections in 2018. This concludes the districting process that included months of community meetings, public hearings and hundreds of hours committed by Anaheim residents. Thank you for your commitment, participation and interest in Anaheim's future. The FAQs have been updated accordingly.
For November 8, 2016 election-specific information visit www.anaheim.net/elections.
What is changing?
For the first time in its 150-year history, Anaheim's "At-Large" system for electing City Council Members will change to a "By-District" system. The number of council members will expand from five to seven (six Council Members and the Mayor). The Mayor will continue to be elected "At Large" from across the city, and may be able to live anywhere in the city. The six council members will be elected "By District" from each of the six districts, shall live within their district, and can only be elected by residents who reside in that district.
Why is this happening?
Anaheim voters approved the change during an election on November 4, 2014. Measure L was approved by 68.8% of the voters, resulting in six City Council voting districts. Measure M was approved by 54.2% of the voters, resulting in increasing the City Council membership from five to seven members.
When does the districting plan take effect?
During the November 8, 2016, general election, four of six City Council district seats will be up for election.
Are there changes to term limits?
No. The Mayor and Council Members will continue to be limited to serving two terms, no more than eight consecutive years.
How will the changes be implemented?
On November 8, 2016, four council members will be elected "By District." One of the four council members elected in November 2016 will be randomly selected to serve a shorter two-year term, following the administration of the Oath of Office; the remaining three members will serve four-year terms. In November 2018, three council member seats will be elected "By District." Only voters living in the respective district where a council member election is being held can vote for that council member seat. The election of the mayor will remain At-Large. No council members elected to an "At-Large" seat will have their term shortened or residency required prior to the November 2016 election.
Which Districts will elect a Council Member in 2016, and which in 2018?
Districts 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the Recommended Plan will be placed on the 2016 ballot. Districts 2 and 6 will elect a council member in 2018.
Will Council terms remain the same?
Following the 2016 election, one of the council members elected in 2016 will be randomly picked to serve a two-year term. The member who picks the short 2-year term will be required to run for office in 2018, thereby placing three seats on the 2018 ballot. This is the only change. Except for this one-time adjustment in 2016, both council members and the mayor will continue to serve four-year terms. The terms will continue to be staggered. No one can serve more than eight consecutive years.
What is the purpose of the one, shorter term?
Anaheim staggers City Council elections to ensure continuity. A two-year term by one district member elected in 2016 will ensure that three council seats are up for election in 2018, and every two years thereafter.
What was the process led by the Advisory Committee for Electoral Districts?
At the City Council meeting on April 7, 2015, an Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts was established and members were selected by random draw from a panel of retired judges who served on the Orange County Superior Court. The five selected judges served as volunteers, and held 10 public meetings across Anaheim between May 12 to September 16, to gather public comment and review 39 draft maps. The Committee submitted the Final Report and Recommended Plan, Map 3 to the City Council on October 6, 2015. More background about the districting process can be found under the History tab on the main page of the Districting website: www.anaheim.net/districts.
When must the boundary map be filed with the County?
By July 6, 2016, per Election Code.
What is the legal criteria for a City Council voting district?
The City received consultation from a demographer, Justin Levitt, vice president of National Demographics Corp., Glendale, CA, as it did throughout the portion of this process led by the Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts. Submitted boundary map plans were evaluated according to federal and state law, judicial rulings and geographical and demographic considerations, including:
• The U.S. Constitution
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• California Elections Code
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What was the role of the demographer?
The demographer provided and maintained census and other relevant data, including analysis of the city's population. During the Committee process, he provided tools for the public to create and comment on district maps and communities of interest, assisted the public in learning about the districting process, attended neighborhood community meetings, all Committee meetings and City Council meetings. At the final City Council public hearing stage, he provided technical, expert advice and will assist the City Clerk with the implementation of the final map to the Orange County Registrar of Voters.
Now that the districting process is complete, how will residents continue to stay involved and learn about what "districts" means to them?
The City Clerk's office will implement the new District Map through various forms of communication and Map placement at various city facilities, such as all city libraries. Community outreach will continue and as the November 8, 2016 election nears, the "Anaheim Votes" campaign will kick off. The City Clerk's office will attend various city events and speak at neighborhood meetings; community members are encouraged to contact the City Clerk for additional information or to request a presentation at any group meeting.
Visit the city's election webpage at www.anaheim.net/elections. Between now and the November election, the City will continue to release election information in both English and Spanish; other languages upon request. The election webpage can be translated into other languages (click on the "language link").


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During the formation of PSA, a Who's Who in Photography listing was created - the only such list in the world. Each exhibitor had to enter a minimum of ten exhibitions each year to be included in the Who's Who list for that year. A favorable review of this program created the impetus to develop the Pictorial Division's Award of Merit, which evolved into the PSA Star Ratings program. The first actual publication of the Who's Who in Photography list was in the January 1942 issue of the PSA Journal.
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You import a list of players by supplying a tab-delimited text file (the register file) containing the player details. This file can be read when you choose the Import register option on the File Menu. The file is examined for any format or player duplication errors, and the first error is reported with a line number indicating its position in the file. In this case no players will be imported.
If the file is error free, all the players are added to the register. The format rules governing register import are exactly the same as for manual entry via the keyboard. These are defined in the following sections.
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Must be 'r' or 'R' to indicate the player is registered, and empty if the player is not registered.
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2012 has been rough for the company behind FarmVille. Zynga has lost a total of $160 million during the nine month period from January to September 30, 2012, the company said in an earnings report today.
This includes a loss of $52 million over the past three months. Yesterday, Zynga laid off 150 staff and shut down 13 games. (We still don't know exactly which games were shuttered—I've reached out to the company for clarification.)
That's not to say they're falling apart: as the company noted in its financial report today, they're still controlling half of the top-10 games on Facebook: Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Bubble Safari, ChefVille, and FarmVille 2.


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Houston Dynamo players Tyler Deric and Warren Creavalle were arrested this weekend after a dust-up with an off-duty cop working security at a bar. From Deric's attorney: "Mr. Deric was with other soccer players, some who were African-Americans. The club did not want them coming in . . . He's not guilty of assaulting that off-duty officer." [Houston Chronicle]
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A family emergency (don't ask) meant that The Hub was gone for the weekend. The bad news: I lost my personal chef. That's okay. Cooking is like riding a bicycle. Well, at least if what you cook is pasta. You can't screw up spaghetti, right?
Okay, yeah….So, the noodles had a bit of a bite to them. And I used a tad more red pepper flakes than it needed. (TONGUE ON FIRE FOR FIRST FIVE MINUTE! YOWZA!)
Now the good news: I had a night all to myself, to do whatever I pleased.
And what do women do, when left with a Saturday night to themselves? Grab a gal pal for a night on the town, right? Paint the town red….or at least a little pink? Find some dive bar out in the avenues, where the beer is cheap but cold and the wine is bad and comes in only one color–rose–
And where no one knows your name. Which, I guess is good, because when you sashay up on that bar counter with your best Coyote Ugly move, you're going to be happy that they don't.
That brings me to how I spent my Saturday night (which, you'll be happy to hear, was not in traction):
Channel surfing.
Any TV executive will tell you that Saturday nights are a dead zone. When it comes to original programing, no arguments there. I would imagine, though, that any Quirky Alone who considers herself a fashionista would revel in the quantity and quality of vintage couture to be found on 900 channels in the dead cold calm of a Saturday night.
Does her heart skip a beat somewhere between the MGM lion's growl and the credit that announces, with a flourish, "Gowns by Adrian"? Does she squeal with delight when she runs across a 1950s Hitchcock flick starring some elegant ice hot blonde in a clean-lined tight-waisted suit by Edith Head? No doubt, the dialogue in a 1960s cinema verite will be dated, but the minis are certainly groovy.
Which brings me to Pretty in Pink.
Prom nights movies are catnip to woman sitting solo on a Saturday night. Except for the movie Carrie (which will soon be remade), it's the modern Cinderella story: mousy girl finds boy, girl loses boy to some bee-hatch, then boy discovers that the mousy girl only needed the right ball gown to transform herself into a desirable princess. I think we'd all agree that the 1980s wasn't the best decade for fashion. But watching teen queen Molly Ringwald at the height of her career doing what she does best–breaking the hearts of best bud Jon Cryer, heartthrob Andrew McCarthy and snotty rich kid James Spader–makes you forget it was the era of Wham, shoulder pads, and high-waisted acid-washed jeans.
Not to mention that Molly felt it necessary to tear up Annie Potts' keepsake Mad Men-era prom dress to make the rucksack eyesore she ends up wearing to the prom.
Fashion be damned. Bring on the teen angst and the Duckman miming Otis Redding!
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On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh Levin makes a simple, fair case for why cuddly Verne Lundquist, CBS's lead college football play-by-play announcer, ought to call it a career. Lundquist makes a lot of mistakes on air. Levin captures many of them here. Listen up:
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