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Democrats struggled Thursday to extend jobless benefits for people who have been out of work for long stretches as lawmakers worried about the growing budget deficit balked at a scaled down package.
House leaders had scheduled a vote Thursday on a bill that would extend the benefits through November, but they ran into opposition from Republicans and some Democrats concerned about the cost of the overall bill.
"They need to go back to the drawing board," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, a member of the conservative Blue Dog coalition.
Coalition members are unhappy with that the bill would add $84 billion to the budget deficit. They met with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Thursday morning, but were unmoved.
"We have serious reservations," said Rep. Dennis A. Cardoza, D-Calif. "There are many small sticking points."
Across the Capitol, Senate Democrats had far better success in advancing an almost $60 billion measure to pay for President Barack Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan.
The 69-29 test vote sets the stage for a final vote as early as Thursday evening. About half the money would cover the 30,000 additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The bill also includes $5 billion to replenish disaster aid accounts, and there's money for Haitian earthquake relief and aid to U.S. allies in the fight against terror.
If Congress doesn't extend the unemployment benefits, thousands of people would begin to lose jobless benefits when an extension of unemployment insurance expires next week. A 65 percent subsidy for health insurance benefits for the unemployed under the COBRA program also expires.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the "real emergency" is the growing national debt, which just hit $13 trillion.
"And even some Democrats seem to agree with me," McConnell said Thursday. "That's why we're seeing a quiet revolt over in the House on this bill."
The benefits are part of a sweeping package of unfinished business that lawmakers hope to complete before their Memorial Day recess.
Democratic leaders cut the package of spending and tax cuts Wednesday by about $50 billion — to $143 billion — in an attempt to pick up votes.
It's a tough vote for lawmakers who want to help constituents hit hard by the recession but are wary of being labeled big spenders. The economy is starting to pick up, but unemployment is still high as the nation continues to struggle from the loss of more than 8 million jobs. At the same time, angst over deficit spending is growing as midterm congressional elections near in November.
Time is running short for the House to vote because the bill still has to go to the Senate, which can take days to act. Senate leaders have said they are confident they will have the votes to pass the bill. But some House members are wary of voting for an expensive package, only to have it languish on the other side of the Capitol.
"Unemployment's too high, too many people can't find jobs and obviously we have to act," said Hoyer, D-Md. "But there is still great concern about spending levels."
The expanded jobless benefits provide up to 99 weeks of payments in many states, at a cost of nearly $40 billion. The benefits are part of a bill that includes a one-year extension of about 50 popular tax breaks that expired at the end of last year and a delay in scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors.
Subsidies to help laid-off workers pay for health insurance would continue through November, at a cost of $7 billion. States would get $24 billion to help cover Medicaid costs.
The cost of the bill would be partially offset by tax increases on investment fund managers, oil companies and some international businesses. The tax increases total about $57 billion over the next decade. Changes giving underfunded pensions more time to improve their finances would raise $2 billion.
The original package unveiled last week would have extended unemployment benefits through December and delayed a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments until 2014. The pared-down bill would delay the Medicare cuts until 2012, when lawmakers would have to address the issue again.
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In the case of Twitter, the only improvement that's happened here is that anyone with a decent browser can access it.
Maybe the cause of your surprise is that you're trivializing things that are actually quite important.
By making Twitter accessible via a web site, the effort required to follow a feed went from (minor, and slightly technical) to (nada). With something like Twitter, which is of only marginal value to most people, I'm guessing that using it needs to have just about zero degree of inconvenience, or else people just won't bother.
If people have such a low desire for something that they will only go for it when all (or nearly all) inconvenience is removed, that potentially tells me two things: 1) the people are lazy or unmotivated so when they say they want something, they do NOT mean they are willing to endure a small amount of effort or inconvenience to obtain it, and 2) Twitter's services were never very valuable to anyone or else near-zero inconvenience would not have been necessary for its explosive growth.
Either 1) is true, or 2) is true, or both of them are true. In all cases, that would mean I am recognizing that this is inherently trivial and would not mean that I am trivializing something that is inherently important.
What you are dealing with in the general public are flighty, fickle persons of the moment. They do not decide for themselves what they want. When they say they want something, they do not mean they are willing to take any and all actions which do not violate their legal/moral/ethical codes in order to obtain it. Instead, they wait for the next biggest thing to appear on the marketing stage and they jump on that bandwagon until the next biggest thing after that shows up. There is no lasting or enduring value for them, nor are there concepts like acting out of principle. Twitter has had some success because it has recognized this as its environment and has tried to adapt to that environment. That is a form of pandering and while I recognize the business case for it, it's also responsible for many of the reasons why I won't use their site and most of the other trendy sites. They are aiming themselves towards a demographic that does not include me.
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Dyslexia because of thinking too fast.
You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your email communication.
I think you don't understand the concept of "reasonable expectation of privacy". It's not a technical idea meaning "this data is secure". It's a social/legal idea, meaning "third parties are supposed to know that this data is private, and so they should keep out of it even if they are technically able to look".
By that measure, you certainly do have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" for your email. For example, if your ISP started posting your emails to a public web page, you would have grounds for a lawsuit. Therefore, you can "reasonably expect" that your ISP won't do that.
A race is where people see it and racial divisions are certainly not a universal concept. Closer to a social construct if you ask me.
So we need to accept all of that "it means whatever you think it means" bullshit, merely because words like "race" and "ethnicity" and "nationality" and "religion" and the differences among them are too hard? Really?? How about we instead decide that if someone doesn't have a working understanding of what those terms mean, then perhaps that person is not qualified to speak about them. That's so much better than lowering the standards and this is one area that has a particularly low signal-to-noise ratio.
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What is this TAVERN you speak of? Have you been watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Star Wars didn't have TAVERNS. It had CANTINAS.
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We recently attended the baptism of My niece. She is the youngest in my oldest brother's family and thus was extremely excited to become an official member of the Church like her older siblings had done. We watched her in her cute white jumpsuit, walk through the door that led to the font. Then we heard a scream. A painful, awful scream.
She put her foot into the font and discovered someone didn't fill it up with warm water.
It was ice cold.
My brother, who was stepping into the freezing water from the other side, also winced in pain, but proceeded on until he was in the center of the font. He streached out his hand for his sweet baby girl and said, "Come on. It's going to be okay." She looked at him with such a sad face. "Daddy, it's so cold!" We all helplessly looked on silently. What could be done? The Bishop, standing amongst us, quietly said, "I'm sorry. I filled the font and didn't realize. But we can't drain it and fill it up again. It would take too long."
My Mom, bless her sarcastic, blunt, in your face, lil' heart, said loudly......"I bet you the water that Jesus was baptized in wasn't nice and warm." I turned and looked at her with a "Are you serious? Really. You had to make that comment right now?" kinda expression.
But she was right. That River Jordan was no heated pool, I imagine.
My niece then did the most courageous, faithful thing I'd ever seen her do in her entire life.
She walked into the font.
My brother took her in his arms and with the power of the priesthood, she became the newest member of the church.
When she came up out of the water, her smile warmed the entire room. Her mother was waiting for her at the top of the steps with a towel as well as tears in her eyes.
We all breathed a sigh of relief that my brother got it right the first time. For a moment, my mind went to an image of him messing up the words or not getting her completely emerged, and having to see her go into that freezing water over and over again until it was done right. But then I thought. She would've done whatever it took to become a member of the Lord's church. And that gave my heart peace.
And it reknewed my Testimony.
It was a great day.
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Justin B. Terry-Smith has been involved in Gay and HIV Activism since 1999. He is a Air Force 9/11 Disabled Vet. Raised in Silver Spring, MD, he now lives in Laurel, MD with his husband Phil and son. He has worked for Gay orgs such as the National Black Justice Coalition, Human Rights Campaign, Equality Maryland, A&U Magazine and thebody.com. He earned an AA in Communications, a BA in Political Science, Masters in Public Health.and is currently working on his Doctorate in Public Health
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Born in Harlem, New York on May 24, 1962, Ray grew up in the neighborhood of West 153rd Street. He attended the New York High School of the Performing Arts, the inspiration for the film Fame, but was kicked out after one year. "It was too disciplined for this wild child of mine," his mother has been quoted as saying.
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How All Of The Yankees Hitters Were Acquired: 2014 Roster Tree
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The success of most franchises usually occurs when a huge core is built up through a drafting system, and then the club can piece the rest of the club together.
The 2nd best way to create a winning squad is to trade for players with the organizational pieces you have supplanted in the Minors or Majors.
Then there is the Yankees way of doing things. Hiring Free Agents – and spend boatloads of dollars.
Out of the majority of their hitting roster in 2014, most of them came through the Free Agent route.
Mark Teixeira, Brian McCann, Carlos Beltran, Brian Roberts, Kelly Johnson and Yangervis Solarte were acquired through outright Free Agency.
Ichiro Suzuki and Brendan Ryan were both acquired in deals, then have since re-signed as Free Agents in the open market afterwards.
Alfonso Soriano, was brought over in a deal, and is in the last year of his current contract signed back in 2007.
Yes, he was originally signed by the "Pinstripers", but the new chain of transaction, had the club giving away a pitching prospect for his services, even though he is still tied to A'Rod.
Derek Jeter, Brett Gardner and Francisco Cervelli stand alone as the only 3 players to have been drafted by the club – and have remained Yanks their whole playing time thus far. Read the rest of this entry
The NY Yankees Roster Tree Part 1: The Hitters Acquisitions For Each Player
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At the MLB Reports, we intend to show you the Roster Tree for the Yankees – and how they assembled their current roster for hitting and Pitching. It will work in a six degrees of separation like format.
Once we figure out the origin of how many trades going back in time it takes to see where the tree started, it will be time to dissect how the team fared on the deals.
If a player has never left the organization at all, the tree will be easy – as it will just be the year they were drafted.
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Follow @sullybaseballCarl Crawford Is Off To A Surprisingly Hot Start As The Dodgers Leadoff Guy
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When the Dodgers acquired Outfielder Carl Crawford last year, they definitely didn't know what they were getting, it was a pretty much a gamble they were able to afford. With the Dodgers' new ownership willing to spend the big bucks on big players, this trade seemed like the ideal move to do for General Manager Ned Colleti.
Crawford wasn't able to perform at all right away after he got traded to the Dodgers as he was rehabbing from his Tommy John Surgery but he was able to get healthy just in time for Opening Day. He has been healthy ever since.
Dodgers' skipper Don Mattingly right away decided to make Crawford the leadoff hitter since Opening Day and has not disappointed. Through April 29th, 2013, Crawford is hitting .307 with OBP. of .390 (obviously doing his job as Leadoff hitter) with 4 SB and has been caught twice. He has also walked nine times but perhaps the most impressive stat is his team leading 4 HRs.
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Welcome to the 1st installment of the Mid – Week Around the Horn blog. This weekly piece will feature random thoughts from the MLB – that I just cant go on without saying something.
Will somebody please (for the love of god) remove Adam Dunn from the #4 slot. I think he would be best hitting 9th – even 2nd (if he continues to walk). Hitting a .100 as the cleanup hitter has to have cost the club some games.
Shin-Soo Choo is off to a hot start and we are having an awareness week for him at the MLB Reports. He has a Career 3 Slash Line of .282/.386/.856 and had 20+ Stolen Bases in 3 out of the last 4 years. The one year he didn't achieve 20, he swiped 15 Bags in 85 Games.
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I must say I am completely shocked at the Dodgers spending as much money as they are since the ownership change. I listened to Magic say how he 'was not going to do anything stupid', I will give him this much. However, the amount of payroll the team has taken on is enormous. The Dodgers are going to be over 200 Million Dollars in Payroll for years to come.
After I put their top ten salaries on the board, I will break down the rest of the roster to analyze some more projections for salary. The Dodgers have about 218 Million Dollars in signed contracts.
If you can believe this next part, they even are paying Manny Ramirez 8.33 Million Dollars still in 2013, Andruw Jones 3.375 Million and Huroki Kuroda 2.0 Million. That is roughly 13 Million Dollars on guys that are no longer in your organization.
Back to the trades that have brought in several players. I do agree for the mentality of it. The Dodgers fans were given a raw deal by the past management and the new guys are showing the rest of the MLB that they intend to be the big dog.
With Cole Hamels re-signing with the Phillies, their coveted starter was no longer available in Free Agency. Gonzalez was there to be had if they would take on the Carl Crawford/Josh Beckett contracts.
The team went out and signed Zack Greinke (15 – 5 with a 3.48 ERA split between the Brewers and Angels) instead.
Here is a nice highlight clip of Carl Crawford below. As a side note: The only inside the park Home Run I have ever witnessed at a game live was hit by Carl Crawford at Us Cellular Field in 2008. He was one of the best lead-off hitters back then.
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Toronto Blue Jays: Clubhouse Cohesion, New Faces, And The World Baseball Classic
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The Toronto Blue Jays had a very well publicized off-season. Many moves were made, including two blockbuster trades, the signing of one of baseball's best and most controversial contact hitters, and a new (old) manager. A core of the former Blue Jays remained intact, but between the big moves made by GM Alex Anthopoulos this off-season, along with the smaller additions, the Blue Jays have 12 new players on their 25 man roster. These 25 players are expected by many, to hit the gates running, and to at the very least, earn Toronto a spot in the playoffs come October 2013.
Clearly, team chemistry plays are huge part of winning championships. We have seen numerous teams boasting extremely talented rosters have merely moderate success, and we have seen teams loaded with professional journeymen have historic success. Michael Jordan is noted for making the comment, "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships".
The 2013 Blue Jays are very unique in that while half of their team is in fact new to Toronto, many of these players have played together and have cultural bonds. The blockbuster trade with the Miami Marlins brought a total of 6 players to Toronto, all of whom, were quite obviously teammates in South Florida. 5 of these players are expected to immediately be impact players in the clubhouse. Another big trade with the Mets brought over three players who will likely contribute to the team to varying degrees, and have already formed close ties amongst each other due to the relationship that exists between a knuckleball pitcher and his battery mate. Right off the bat, we can account for 8 of the 12 new players on the roster who at the very least, already are familiar with each other and are not entering a new city completely unfamiliar with their teammates. The following players might all make their way to the ALL-Star Game at Citi Field this year: R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes and Edwin Encarnacion .
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Alex Mednick (Blue Jays Fan and Writer for MLB Reports): Gibbons May Work Out!
Tuesday November 20th, 2013
Note from Lead Writer Chuck Booth: Just to be fair on this whole John Gibbons hire, I am posting this article written by my fellow colleague/Baseball Writer at the MLB Reports) in order to give a different vantage point. Alex is a Blue Jays fan, so he has a passion for the team. His thoughts are of his own and while I may not agree with his opinion, that is okay. That is why we all have our own minds and are not all sheep! So here is his article (based on a question he answered on my previous piece this morning.)
Alex Mednick (Baseball Writer and Analyst):
I responded to our Lead Baseball Writers Message about not liking the Gibbons hiring in this article earlier today here.
It was, frankly, my initial reaction as well..I was not pleased when I first read this news about Gibbons. I think AA also realizes the consequences of spending his bosses money and then making a poor decision. If it does not pan out, it could mean his job…AA is not untouchable, even though there has been a demi-god status applied to him. Bosses don't like when you squander their money…period.
But for some reason I am intrigued by this hiring. I was absolutely fed up with the Ricciardi/Gibbons regime, and thought that they should have been fired 2 years before they were. But Gibbons acted largely as the puppet of an egotistical, and nonsensical J.P. Ricciardi, which I can attribute to a lot the reasons he was criticized. There is no doubt, even though managers do not take any at bats themselves, they have a large impact on the team. Look at Bobby V and Boston.
I think that Gibbons was a stooge for JP Ricciardi and that is part of why he is so attractive to AA. AA actually stated during the hiring process he was looking for someone who could fall in line with his and the organization's theory. Farrell was the opposite of that, a free thinking executive type, who also seemed disinterested in the organization as a whole. He didn't take the job seriously.
Hiring John Gibbons Is A Huge Mistake
Tuesday, Nov.20/2012
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I am in complete shock that the Jays hired John Gibbons as their recycled coach. For a guy that has largely supported Alex Anthopoulos on many moves since he has taken over the helm, I can't believe he pulled this guy off the scrap heap for managers. Gibbons managed the Blue Jays from 2004-2008 and held down a mediocre 305-305 record. While he did post back to back winning seasons in 2006 and 2007 in a tough AL East, he also had some talented players to work with. Roy Halladay was the premier pitcher in the American League from 2005-2008 and would give a 11-13 games over .500 clip just by taking the hill every year. In the 3 full years that Gibbons had Halladay, he was 44-16 (.733) in 72 starts, so if he had been healthy for 96 starts in this time frame, he would have won about 59 Games versus only 24 losses. In Gibbons best year as a manager, he was 87-75 with the 2006 club. Halladay was 16-5 (11 Games over .500).
I would never want to re-hire a manager that has 0 playoff appearances when the current club is going to be graded on exactly that. The Jays will have a serious 'PR' nightmare if this hire does not work out. No one would have faulted AA for hiring a manager with playoff experience. If those guys aren't available as your top choice, at least bring in someone fresh that has not tasted failure for the club.
Don Mattingly has managed The Dodgers to the 'Best Record in the MLB'
Wednesday, May.30/2012
Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)-At first glance at the LA Dodgers you will see a team that leads the Major League with a 32-17 record heading into action tonight. Matt Kemp has missed the last two weeks of action and yet the team still continues to put up wins. Before his injury, Kemp was playing like an MVP candidate and Andre Ethier has racked up 43 RBI to the lead the National League. Clayton Kershaw has been his usual dominant self. Key pitching contributions from Chris Capuano (7-1) and Ted Lilly (5-1) have paced the club in the pitching department, where they rank 2nd in a lot of categories amongst pitching staffs in the NL and the Majors.
Don Mattingly has battled several injuries, a team of platoon players, a lowered payroll due to the impending ownership changes en route to this record. It is clear why the Dodgers are winning ball games, Mattingly is making good managerial decision at the key times. When you look at how the current club is configured, you would see there is great baseball pedigree in the stable. There are 4 sons of ex major league ball players on the roster: Scott Van Slyke (son of Andy), Tony Gwynn Jr. (son of Tony Sr.), Dee Gordon (son of Tom) and Jerry Hairston Jr (son of Jerry Sr.) These guys are hardly trailblazing their way to Cooperstown anytime soon, however they play good fundamental baseball having grown up in Major League clubhouses. (On a side note, I would pay good money to see a father son game with these boys versus their fathers.) Read the rest of this entry


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Spectators at Friday's non-league battle between the Lorena Leopards (Lorena, TX) and the visiting Gatesville Hornets (Gatesville, TX), saw Lorena's baseball squad knock off Gatesville by a count of 9-3.
Coming up next, the Leopards play the China Spring Cougars (China Spring, TX) in a non-league battle, on Monday, March 15. Lorena will attempt to move on its 8-5 season record. The Cougars enter the battle with a 2-4 record after their 9-5 non-league win over Whitney (Whitney, TX).
The Hornets now possess a 2-6 record. They take the field next when they travel to Eastland for a non-league battle on Tuesday, March 16. Gatesville will play a Mavericks squad coming off a 14-8 non-league win over Breckenridge (Breckenridge, TX). The Mavericks record now stands at 3-1.
The Gatesville Hornets baseball team tied Friday's away tournament game against Lorena by a score of 7-7.
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Sir Paul McCartney has revealed how he had planned to get the musical pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme to make one of The Beatles' most famous songs, "Yesterday", into an early piece of electronica.
He told how he approached Delia Derbyshire from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to work on the song, even visiting her home, after showing an interest in experimental music.
Sir Paul spoke about the historic collaboration that might-have-been in a new interview with Q magazine.
Derbyshire is hailed as a hugely important figure in electronic music, working with synthesisers and tape loops to create groundbreaking sounds. Her work on the Doctor Who theme famously meant the composer Ron Grainer barely recognised his own tune.
Sir Paul said of their encounter: "I even found out where Miss Derbyshire lived, and went round to visit her. We even went into the hut in the bottom of her garden.
"It was full of tape machines and funny instruments. My plan in meeting her was to do an electronic backing for my song, 'Yesterday'.
"We'd already recorded it with a string quartet, but I wanted to give the arrangement electronic backing."
Derbyshire - who died in 2001 at the age of 64 - studied maths and music at Cambridge and had been fascinated by the possibilities of sound. As well as her work with the Radiophonic Workshop, she also recorded with the futuristic groups Unit Delta Plus and White Noise.
Derbyshire's work went on to share a bill with The Beatles when it featured at an event for London's underground scene which featured an airing for the Fab Four's experimental track Carnival Of Light, which has never been released.
Sir Paul does not explain why his hoped-for electronic version did not happen in the interview with the new edition of Q, which is out on Tuesday.
But he spoke of his love of experimentation: "The Radiophonic Workshop, I loved all that, it fascinated me, and still does.
"But there came a time when John (Lennon), because of his association with Yoko and the avant garde, became thought of as the one who turned us all on to that. But that early era was more mine."
Yesterday is famously one of the most covered songs of all time and was the first Beatles recording to feature just a sole member of the group. He played an Epiphone Texan acoustic guitar and was backed by a string quartet of viola, cello and two violins, with a score by Sir George Martin.
The track was released on the 1965 album Help! and by the following year The Beatles were working on their own sound experiments, such as the backwards loops of Tomorrow Never Knows. They went on to use synthesisers on a number of tracks on their Abbey Road album, released in 1969.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the band's debut album Please Please Me.


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Default, Punt nua, snap election, immediate budget balancing, Irish banks collapse, foreign banks leggit, civil unrest, food, fuel and meds shortages, huge public sector strikes,
Dark times, but will eventually lead to recovery and growth, hopefully during the collapse we will have realised that we new a new constitution and an understanding of what government is supposed to do!
If the next Greek government turns out like the current Hungarian one, anything can happen. They could do something crazy, like stir up trouble with Turkey. What with the stuff going on in Syria (and across the middle east) the whole place could go up. Right on Europe's doorstep. The EU is being very cavalier about this whole thing, IMO.
how many D-Days have Greece had now?
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George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon
The Duke of Gordon | |
The Duke depicted in highland dress by George Sanders, now in Goodwood House
Born | George Gordon 2 February 1770 Edinburgh, Kingdom of Great Britain |
Died | 28 May 1836 Belgrave Square, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
(aged 66)
Known for | Nobleman, soldier, and politician |
Nationality | British |
Wars and battles | |
Offices | Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland (1792 to 1794) Member of Parliament for Eye (1806 to 1807) Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (1828 to 1830) Privy Counsellor (1830 to death) |
Predecessor | Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon |
Successor | Line ended |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Brodie |
Issue | Georgiana McCrae |
Parents | Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (father) and Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (mother) |
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George was born at Edinburgh on 2 February 1770, the eldest son of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon and his wife, the celebrated Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, née Lady Jane Maxwell. He was educated at Eton. He became a professional soldier and rose to the rank of general. As Marquess of Huntly, he served with the guards in Flanders from 1793 to 1794. He raised the 92nd Highlanders and commanded the regiment in Spain, Corsica, Ireland and the Netherlands from 1795 to 1799, where he was badly wounded. He commanded a division in the Walcheren Expedition of 1809.
He was a freemason and was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1792 to 1794. He was Member of Parliament for Eye from 1806 to 1807. On 11 April 1807, at the age of 37, he was summoned to the House of Lords in one of the minor peerages of his father (Baron Gordon of Huntley, co. Gloucester). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1830, was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland from 1828 to 1830 (a post that his father had held until 1827), and from 1827 to 1836 was Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
He married at Bath, on 11 December 1813, Elizabeth Brodie, who was twenty-four years his junior. Brodie was the daughter of Alexander Brodie of Arnhall in Kincardineshire. Elizabeth Grant described her thus:
His bride was young, and good, and rich, but neither clever nor handsome. She made him very happy and paid his most pressing debts, that is her father did, old Mr Brodie of the Burn, brother to Brodie of Brodie.... He made a really large fortune; he gave with his daughter, his only child, £100,000 down, and left her more than another at his death. Really to her husband her large fortune was the least part of her value; she possessed upright principles, good sense, and she turned out a first-rate woman of business. In her later years she got into the cant of the Methodists.[2]
However, at the time of his marriage and, in fact, until he inherited the Dukedom, George found himself in almost constant financial difficulties. He was referred to as "Lord Huntly now in the decline of his rackety life, overwhelmed with debts, sated with pleasure, tired of fashion, the last heir male of the Gordon line".[2] While his marriage remedied some of these problems, it did not supply the much sought-after heir.
Like his father, George acquired many of the positions which the Gordon family could expect almost as of right. These included the posts of Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, Chancellor of Marischal College, Aberdeen and Lord High Constable of Scotland. He held the latter post of Lord High Constable for the Coronation of King George the Fourth in 1820.
By the time of his succession to the dukedom, he had established a reputation as an extreme reactionary. He steadfastly opposed the Great Reform Bill and when the majority of Tory Peers opted to abstain, he remained one of the twenty-two "Stalwarts" who voted against the Third Reading of the Bill in the House of Lords on 4 June 1832.
Throughout much of this period, his wife served Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of King William IV, at Court. Indeed, she was given the Queen's Coronation robe, which is now to be found with many other Gordon memorabilia at Brodie Castle.
Nathaniel Parker Willis, the American journalist, has left us with an interesting account of life at Gordon Castle in the twilight years of the 5th Duke's life. He described the "canonically fat porter" at the lodges who admitted him to a "rich private world peopled by ladies cantering sidesaddle on palfreys, ladies driving nowhere in particular in phaetons, gentlemen with guns, keepers with hounds and terrier at heel, and everywhere a profusion of fallow deer, hares and pheasants. At the castle a dozen lounging and powered menials." Willis continued: "I never realised so forcibily the splendid results of wealth and primogeniture." Just before dinner the Duke called at his room, "an affable white-haired gentleman of noble physiognomy, but singularly cordial address, wearing a broad red ribbon across his breast, and led him through files of servants to a dining room ablaze with gold plate."[3]
The Duke died at Belgrave Square, London, on 28 May 1836, aged 66. The Dukedom of Gordon became extinct, but the Marquessate of Huntly (created in 1599) passed to his distant cousin the Earl of Aboyne while the Gordon estates passed to his nephew, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond. The Gordon moveable property was left by the Duchess to the Brodies of Brodie.
Elizabeth Brodie, the last Duchess of Gordon, retired to Huntly Castle Lodge, where she became more fervently religious than she had previously been until her death on 31 January 1864, when the last trace of the original Dukedom of Gordon was also extinguished.
The Duke and Duchess of Gordon established the Gordon Chapel (Scottish Episcopal Church)[4] in Fochabers that contains a memorial tablet to the 5th and last Duke.
The Duke had three illegitimate children: Charles Gordon, Susan Sordet, and Georgiana McCrae.
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- ^ "Hon. Frances Ingram-Shepheard". The Peerage. 8 March 2009.
- ^ a b Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. London: John Murray, 1898, p. 229.
- ^ Willis, N. P. Pencillings by the way. quoted by Turner, E. S. Amazing Grace. London: Michael Joseph, 1975, pp. 250–251.
- ^ Gordon Chapel
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The Earthen Dove Effigy Mound is a "living memorial" which pays tribute to POWs and MIAs. Because there are many among us who, while home in body, are missing emotionally or in spirit. At The Highground, MIA also stands for "Missing in America".
This "living memorial" is a replica of a Native American effigy mound. It was designed by David Giffey and constructed by volunteers from throughout Wisconsin. It contains soil from all 72 counties as well as hundreds of locations throughout the United States. Located southwest of the point of the plaza, The Dove measures 100' head to tail; the wing span is 140'.
At the 1989 dedication ceremony, Vietnam veteran and Native American, John Beaudin (Wa Kanja Hoohega), explained the symbolic purpose of the mound: "It is a spiritual place where you can go and let your mother, the Earth, hold you. Let the children play on it. Dance on it. Use it to unload your grief and pain, to renew and strengthen you. Lay back in the soft fold of its wings and let Mother Earth unburden you. Then get up and leave your troubles and cares there on the mound, as you walk, away, renewed and refreshed."
John's words have been memorialized in the spring of 2003 with a plaque inset into a 6600 lb red granite stone.


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Wes Welker Was Passing Out $100 Bills At The Kentucky DerbyTom Ley5/05/14 12:18pm503EditPromoteGo to permalinkBroncos wide receiver Wes Welker was at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, and he had a grand ol' time. It's pretty hard to have a bad time when you've got stacks upon stacks of cash in your hand.
Terrence Williams Is Going To Miss The Queens Strip ClubsBarry Petchesky12/15/10 11:55am69EditPromoteGo to permalinkNow's an excellent time to call attention to these photos of Williams (red cap) making it rain (with Ron Artest!) at Perfection Gentlemen's Club. Too bad there aren't women who take their clothes off for money in Houston. [What's Poppin, h/t BSnO]
Adam Jones "Makin' It Rain": The Video (NSFW)Dashiell Bennett7/17/09 11:45am261EditPromoteGo to permalinkWe compared the Las Vegas Journal Review's massive feature on the Minxx strip club incident to the Warren Report, but now we finally have the Zapruder Film. Video (that's probably not safe work) of Adam "Pacman" Jones making it rain.
The "Pacman" Jones Strip Club Shooting Gets Its Warren ReportDashiell Bennett7/13/09 2:45pm17EditPromoteGo to permalinkThe Las Vegas Review-Journal has launched a massive three-part investigation into the strip club incident that cost Adam Jones a year of football and another man his ability to walk. Oh, the things we have seen ....
This Should Just About End The 'Making It Rain' Fadmjdeadspin6/24/07 11:00pm387EditPromoteGo to permalinkClay Travis of Sportsline's SPiN on Sports is really embracing the "Making it Rain" phenomenon ... so much so that he's spread the act to his dad and to the hoes at Home Depot. I think this is exactly what Fat Joe had in mind when he recorded the song.
NFL General Managers Make It Rainmjdeadspin3/03/07 12:30pm14EditPromoteGo to permalinkThe first twenty-four hours of the NFL's free agency period have come and gone. There was a flurry of activity last evening ... let's get ourselves caught up.
Craig Gower Also Has Time For Rugbymjdeadspin2/25/07 4:30pm10EditPromoteGo to permalinkThe Australian sporting landscape seems to have a different breed of derelicts than our own. When our athletes misbehave, someone ends up getting shot in a Vegas strip club. When Australian athletes misbehave, they walk naked around a resort and proposition the daughter of a sporting legend.
I Agree Completely, He Really Shouldn't Have Made It Rainmjdeadspin2/24/07 5:00pm26EditPromoteGo to permalinkI hope that one more post doesn't overdo it on the Pacman Jones story, but I did particularly enjoy this report from WSMV in Nashville. One line in particular really does tell you all you need to know. "He shouldn't have made it rain, then." Yes.


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PALESTINE'S GREAT HOPE: THE EMERGENCE OF SALAM FAYYAD IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN AGES: Salam Fayyad has completely transformed the West Bank from an immiserated backwater into a thriving, integrated society.
PALESTINIANS BUILDING REAL INSTITUTIONS ON THE WEST BANK, by Thomas Friedman, NYT: "The only thing that is important: forging a two-state solution. .. This dynamic — Palestinians building real institutions from the ground up and getting Israel to cede to them real authority — is the ballgame... The new model, pioneered in the West Bank by Abbas and Fayyad is: "Judge me by how I perform — how I generate investment and employment, deliver services and pick up the garbage. First we build transparent and effective political and security institutions. Then we declare a state. That is what the Zionists did, and it sure worked for them."
In Gaza, A Complex, Dysfunctional Way of Life -
ISRAEL WITHOUT CLICHES, by Tony Judt: "If (Palestinians) pre-concede every Israeli demand — abjurance of violence, acceptance of Israel, acknowledgment of all their losses — what do they bring to the negotiating table? Israel has the initiative: it should exercise it...As American officials privately acknowledge, sooner or later Israel (or someone) will have to talk to Hamas. From French Algeria through South Africa to the Provisional I.R.A., the story repeats itself: the dominant power denies the legitimacy of the "terrorists," thereby strengthening their hand; then it secretly negotiates with them; finally, it concedes power, independence or a place at the table. Israel will negotiate with Hamas: the only question is why not now."
ISRAEL'S ADVERSARIES HOPELESSLY DIVIDED: "Israel's regional enemies are so profoundly divided among themselves and have such divergent relations with Israel that an effective coalition against Israel does not exist — and is unlikely to arise in the near future... Israel's Arab neighbors are incapable of forming even a partial coalition against Israel... the Arab countries no longer have a military force that can challenge the Israelis, nor the will nor interest to acquire one....(Terrorist threats and bombings) are real, but...do not threaten the survival of Israel.
IN THE LONG RUN, TURKEY, EGYPT, SYRIA COULD BAND TOGETHER AND THREATEN ISRAEL: "A hostile Turkey aligned with Egypt could speed Egyptian military recovery and create a significant threat to Israel. Turkish sponsorship of Syrian military expansion would increase the pressure further. Imagine a world in which the Egyptians, Syrians and Turks formed a coalition that revived the Arab threat to Israel and the United States returned to its position of the 1950s when it did not materially support Israel, and it becomes clear that Turkey's emerging power combined with a political shift in the Arab world could represent a profound danger to Israel...Therefore, defusing the current crisis would seem to be a long-term strategic necessity for Israel." -- Analyst George Friedman, STRATFOR. TERRORISM CAN WORK: "In the early 1940s, while Britain was at war with Nazi Germany, Menachem Begin, the leader of Irgun, and Yitzhak Shamir, the leader of Lehi, waged terrorist campaigns against the British in Palestine. In 1945, they were joined by the larger Haganah. Ninety-one people were killed when Irgun operatives blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Such atrocities played a leading role in persuading the British they could not continue to exercise a mandate in Palestine. They withdrew in 1948, leaving the Palestinian Arabs to face the much better-armed and organised Jews. In the war that followed, Rogan says the "image of a Jewish David surrounded by a hostile Arab Goliath is not reflected in the relative size of Arab and Jewish forces." -- Robert Irwin, The Guardian.
EGYPTOn this trip to Egypt, the beggars were the one who gave (CSM)
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In 1914, my grandmother and her sister made a pilgrimage to the pyramids. Ninety-five years later, her grandson and great-grandsons made the same journey. I was thinking about how the pyramids have changed in that time. When she visited, the pyramids were in a remote desert. Now they are smack dab in the largest city in Africa, Cairo, and the area around the pyramids has become highly commercial -- with even a KFC nearby. Her experience was probably more evocative of ancient times than ours was, with all the aggressive vendors hassling us. Still,we were seeing one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the only one to survive until modern times. We were in the vicinity of the oldest buildings on the planet, constructed 4500 years ago!
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King Faisal, who was imposed by the British as king of an artificial nation – Iraq, in 1921 – wrote of his unloved and unloving subjects: "There is still – and I say this with a heart full of sorrow – no Iraqi people, but unimaginable masses of human beings devoid of any patriotic idea, imbued with religious traditions and absurdities, connected by no common tie, giving ear to evil, prone to anarchy, and perpetually ready to rise against any government whatsoever."
It's as if it were Iraqi President Maliki writing to Americans in 2010.
In 1918, the British who took over from the defeated Ottomans in Iraq promised a national government and self-determination, before imposing by force of arms a British mandate on the hostile Arabs and Kurds. The French behaved with even greater colonial arrogance and brutality in Morocco, Algeria and Syria. -- Robert Irwin, The Guardian.
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Israel's apartheid against Palestinians (60 Minutes) (above).
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What You Don't Know About Gaza (NYT), by Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University.
Fighting to Preserve a Myth, by Gideon Lichfield, a correspondent for The Economist, and the magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief from 2005 to 2008.
In U.S. Media Coverage and Political Positioning on Middle East, Is There Only One Side?
What It Says About Current Israeli Government, by David Shulman, New York Review of Books: "The very nature and future of Israel's society and political system are at stake, and the danger of collapse into a repressive regime run by the secret security forces is very great. Many of us would say that the line was crossed long ago. It is important to understand the depth of the change that Israel has undergone since the present government came to power in the spring of 2009. Netanyahu heads a government composed largely of settlers and their hard-core supporters on the right. Their policy toward Palestine and Palestinians rests upon two foundations: first, the prolongation, indeed, further entrenchment of the occupation, with the primary aim of absorbing more and more Palestinian land into Israel—a process we see advancing literally hour by hour and day by day in the West Bank. Second, there is the attempt to control the Palestinian civilian population by forcing them into fenced-off and discontinuous enclaves...The very idea of peace based on mutuality, compromise, and at least minimal respect for the dignity of the other side is anathema to the men and women in the Cabinet who are making the decisions."
Hope for Peace in Israel? by David Shulman, New York Review of Books: "Some ten thousand Israelis have demonstrated in Tel Aviv against the siege of Gaza...Small groups of Israeli settlers in the territories who have come to the conclusion that the current situation cannot endure, and that new modes of coexistence are called for....Moshe Arens, former minister of defense in three Likud governments and a prominent spokesman for the right (in my view, the extreme right), published a column in Haaretz arguing that an Israeli retreat from the West Bank and the evacuation of settlements are inconceivable;...the Palestinian population on the West Bank—some 1.5 million by his count, probably a little low—should be granted Israeli citizenship and integrated into the Israeli state....By far the best solution to the problem of Hamas rule in Gaza would be to cut a deal with the moderate, responsible, and by now increasingly effective Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. Such an agreement, built on Israeli withdrawal to the Green Line and the evacuation of the settlements, would put an end to the overtly colonial enterprise on the West Bank, which is incompatible with basic democratic values and human rights. All careful studies show that a large majority of Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza would support such an agreement, which would in all probability undermine Hamas's attempts to retain power in Gaza or to expand its power to the West Bank. Instead, the Israeli right prefers to indulge in displays of impotent and self-righteous fury, as happened on the Mavi Marmara.
FLOTILLA'S LESSONS FOR MIDEAST PEACE ADVOCATES , by Jeremy Ben-Ami, president and founder of J Street and a former deputy domestic policy advisor to President Bill Clinton, based on conversations with Ami Ayalon, former Commander of the Israeli Navy and Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service). Sykes was also obsessed with fear of Jews, Fromkin writes, "whose web of dangerous international intrigue he discerned in many an obscure corner." Not the least of these was the sadly mistaken view that the Young Turks party were governed by Jews, when in fact none were privy to their inner circle. This pathetic distortion of reality was informed by oriental affairs interpreter Gerald FitzMaurice, and shared by Gilbert Clayton, an adviser to Lord Kitchener. Like too many other British misconceptions about the Middle East, it was never investigated or much less corrected... John P. Jones review: Fromkin lays much of the blame for the misunderstandings between the West and the Middle East on Kitchener. In a description true of individuals today, he said of Kitchener: "The peculiarities of his character, the deficiencies of his understanding of the Moslem world, the misinformation regularly supplied to him by his lieutenants...... and his choice of Arab politicians...." The book is replete with other ironies, such as a footnoted exchange:"... on the Arab question, shows Lord Kitchener asking, "Wahabism, does that still exist?" and Sykes answering, "I think it is a dying fire." Robert Steele review: The author sums up the roots of the Middle Eastern troubles as being directly on the heads of the English in particular, who lied, cheated, and stole without mercy. He says of Loyd George: "His political deviousness and his moral and financial laxness were never forgotten." Soren Swigart review: The system of states as we know it in the Middle East was created by Europeans around 1922 as a way to extend their empires, to carve up the fallen Ottoman Empire and establish dominance as they had done with other countries after previous wars. The process of Middle Eastern statehood is a story involving Britain, France, Russia, Greece, and on the fringes, America. The road is littered with misinformation and lies on all sides; disasterous and stupid assumptions and unwarrented mistakes, egos, and naked imperialism. Given the lack of interest of Turkey in continuing to ride herd of this region, a thankless task but one she carried off pretty well, all things considered,its hard to see how letting the Arabs settled their own affairs by force would not have been preferable to the setting up of the phony nations that make up the middle east today. So who are the bad guys in this story? Well there's plenty to go around but three stand out - Hussein bin Ali, the self proclaimed "king of all Arabs" an inverterate conniver and liar, the egotistical and greedy French and the lying double dealing and even more greedy British. Of the three the British have the most to answer for yet somehow they have escaped almost any blame in the public consciousness. The war the Americans are fighting now in Iraq, regardless of how you think we got there, is a war to make right what the British, more than any other single party, broke long ago. Garrett Wilson review: Points I found particularly interesting: Zach Ajmal review: Now there is an interesting topic for 'What if'...: "David Ben-Gurion and Itzhak Ben Zvi […] offered to organize a Palestinian Jewish army in 1914 to defend Ottoman Palestine. But, instead of accepting their offer, Djemal deported them and other Zionist leaders in 1915. Ben-Gurion and Ben Zvi went to the United States, where they continued to campaign for the creation of a pro-Ottoman Jewish army. But early in 1918 they rallied to a Jewish army formation that was to fight in Palestine on the British side against the Ottoman Empire. Nothing the wartime Ottoman government had done had given them cause to remain pro-Turk." Eric Brahm review: "Due to continually changing perceptions of global politics and domestic political coalitions, ultimately, "British policy-makers imposed a settlement upon the Middle East in 1922 in which, for the most part, they themselves no longer believed." (563) The consequence of these events, as subsequent history bears out, has been that the borders and the governments created would be in dispute with global consequences."
If the "Great Powers" after the First World War had sought to create conflict in the Middle East that would last a century or more, they couldn't have done a better job than they did. In "A Peace to End All Peace," historian David Fromkin, a professor at Boston University, shows how contemporary hostilities between Arabs and Israelis stem from the political inheritance imposed upon the region by the Allies, or colonial powers after WWI as they anticipated the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. They drew lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon.
In the formative years of 1914 to 1922, everything -- even an alliance between Arab nationalists and Zionism -- seemed possible. But "diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence, and political upheaval" turned the Middle East into the mess it is today.
Alyssa A. Lappen review: One major culprit can only be described as legendary British stumbling throughout World War I. At the core of Britain's Middle Eastern advisers was a group of bigoted, bumbling idiots, who could not see past the end of their noses. Sir Mark Sykes, for example, described many groups whose destiny he influenced with disgusting pejorative. Town Arabs, he described as "cowardly," "insolent yet dispicable [sic]" and "vicious as far as their feeble bodies will admit." Bedouin Arabs he called "rapacious, greedy...animals."


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Jewish World Review March 13, 2009 / 17 Adar 5769 Obama's Science Fiction By Charles Krauthammer
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Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and during my five years on the President's Council on Bioethics that, contrary to the Bush policy, federal funding should be extended to research on embryonic stem cell lines derived from discarded embryos in fertility clinics. Every weekday NewsAndOpinion.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". HUNDREDS of columnists and cartoonists regularly appear. Sign up for the daily update. It's free. Just click here.
On this, Obama has nothing to say. He leaves it entirely to the scientists. This is more than moral abdication. It is acquiescence to the mystique of "science" and its inherent moral benevolence. How anyone as sophisticated as Obama can believe this within living memory of Mengele and Tuskegee and the fake (and coercive) South Korean stem cell research is hard to fathom. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment on Charles Krauthammer's column by clicking by clicking here. © 2006 WPWG |
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A closer look at the crank... |
The deal here, to quickly recap, is to make it so you can turn a triple crank into a double, yet have the optimized chain line that dedicated double only crank sets achieve. This is accomplished by offsetting the 36T and 22T rings 1.5mm to the outboard side of the crank. The fact that you have a triple crank is masked by FSA's clever little "ears" that mount on the outboard side of the spider, giving you a clean look.
Okay, so now that I've covered this, here are the conditions I got to ride in yesterday.
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- The FSA chain seemed to be a bit grumpy and not very "happy" to be meshing on teeth right away, but this quickly subsided. By the time I was coming back home it was smooth as silk. It shifted very nicely on both ends.
- The chain rings shifted better as time went on as well. Partly due to a cable that needed adjusting, the up-shift was balky, but after the adjustment it was working acceptably. So far, these are at least as good as Shimano/SRAM stuff. More time needed....
- Gear ratio: The taller front drive ring was a bit of a concern at first, but I think the 36T is acceptable. I really like having the 22T on the bike for the deeper, slower "trundling" necessary to traverse the slush and deep snow. The bigger ring also extends the range on the high side, which I appreciated on the long downhill section coming home. The Snow Dog spins out on this frequently.
More on this set up later...