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CNN Poll: Are GOP policies too extreme? — Washington (CNN) - Just over half the public says that the GOP should give up more than the Democrats in any bipartisan solution to the country's problems, according to a new national survey. — And a CNN/ORC International poll also indicates …
Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS, Crooks and Liars, ABCNEWS, The Plum Line, Democracy in America, The Democratic Daily, Weasel Zippers, New York Times, Business Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, The Hill, New York Magazine, Post Politics, First Read, Wall Street Journal, Prairie Weather, Booman Tribune and Towleroad News #gay
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS: Merry 'Cliffmas': Obama, Boehner Deal Dims
Blue Texan / Crooks and Liars: CNN Poll: Majority of Americans Think Republican Party is "Too Extreme"
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS: Fiscal Cliff: GOP Confident in Plan B's Passage as House Readies Vote Tonight
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Boehner's 'plan B' would redistribute wealth upwards
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Cantor Says They Have Enough Votes In House To Pass Plan B, Dem Leaders Fume...
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: John Boehner's 'Plan B' Raises Just $300 Billion In New Revenue — And It Could End Up As A Political Disaster
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: OBAMA'S COMPLETE LIST OF AVAILABLE NEGOTIATING PARTNERS: (1) TERRORISTS; (2) HIMSELF
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Poll: 53% say Republican policies are too extreme
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: Poll: Majority say GOP should compromise more
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Boehner's Plan B Fails; Inmates Running Asylum
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics: CNN Poll: GOP is too extreme
Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal: The Boehner Mutiny? — House Speaker John Boehner's support within …
BooMan / Booman Tribune: Big Picture
Andrew Belonsky / Towleroad News #gay: 53% Think Republicans 'Too Extreme': POLL
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Leader Reid rules out Senate vote on 'Plan B' — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday the Senate will not vote on Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) "Plan B" to extend tax rates for family income below $1 million. — The Democratic leader blasted Boehner for wasting time on …
Seung Min Kim / Politico: Murray makes 'Plan B' contraception joke
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Cantor: We have the votes for Plan B
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Reid: Senate will not hold vote on Boehner's 'Plan B'
House set to vote on Boehner's Plan B — Washington (CNN) — The House is set to vote Thursday on Plan B, a GOP version of an agreement on the fiscal cliff, and another measure designed to lure support for the plan from hard-line Republicans. — The White House threatened Wednesday to veto that plan …
Discussion: The Agonist, Freedom's Lighthouse, National Review, Business Insider and Politico
Brian / Freedom's Lighthouse: U.S. House Likely to Vote on Boehner's "Plan B" Today; Would Cave on Raising Tax Rates for People making over $1 Million
Robert Costa / National Review: Boehner's Burden — The House will take up "Plan B," …
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Proof That The White House Is Freaking Out About Boehner's New Fiscal Cliff Plan
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Harry Reid: 'We Are Not Going to Do Anything' — Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, made his "fiscal cliff" position clear in a press conference today. "We are not going to do anything," said Reid. — Reid added, "We are not taking up anything they are working on over there."
Discussion: CNN
John Boehner / CNN: Boehner's 'Plan B' not THAT 'Plan B'
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama in focus, yet all over the map
Obama in focus, yet all over the map
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, First Read, Belmont Club, Betsy's Page and The Spectacle Blog
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Fiscal Cliff Negotiation Stalemate: a Political Re-run Inexorably Poised to Go Off Fiscal Cliff?
Richard Fernandez / Belmont Club: President Pac-man — When Rahm Emmanuel remarked that 'one …
F.H. Buckley / The Spectacle Blog: All Politics is (Supposedly) Personal
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Republicans put Obama in a box
Republicans put Obama in a box
Discussion: Balloon Juice, AEIdeas, Eschaton and The Daily Caller
Zandar / Balloon Juice: Coulda Been A Rubin-Con Tender
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas: Obama's second term mandate won't make it to Obama's second term
Atrios / Eschaton: What's Boehner Thinking
Fiscal cliff: The lowest point
Fiscal cliff: The lowest point
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Hill, americanthinker.com, Washington Examiner, The Plum Line, First Read, Talking Points Memo and Quartz
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run: Have the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations Reached a Dead End?
Russell Berman / The Hill: Boehner scrambles for votes on tax bill
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: Popular in Politics — Taxes are set to go up by $4.6 trillion on January 1st.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: The Morning Plum: White House should let Boehner keep twisting in the wind
Michael O'Brien / First Read: White House: Obama would veto GOP's 'Plan B'
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo: How 'Plan B' Scrambled Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
Inouye praised as 'quintessential American' in Capitol ceremony
Inouye praised as 'quintessential American' in Capitol ceremony
Discussion: Politico
Scott Wong / Politico: Daniel Inouye honored in Capitol Rotunda
Brian Thompson / nbcnewyork.com:
Cory Booker Will Run for U.S. Senate in 2014: Sources — Newark Mayor Cory Booker will not challenge New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year's gubernatorial race and will instead run for U.S. Senate in 2014, political sources familiar with his decision tell NBC 4 New York.
Discussion: Politico, Taylor Marsh, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, GOP 12, Hot Air, Runnin' Scared, First Read, Towleroad News #gay and National Review
Ginger Gibson / Politico: Cory Booker: I'm looking at Senate run
Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Corey Booker moves toward Senate run
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Report: Cory Booker Will Run For Senate, Not New Jersey Governor
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Report: Booker will run for Senate
Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air: Report: Cory Booker will run for Senate in 2014, pass on Christie challenge
NBC's Carrie Dann / First Read: Booker picks 2014 Senate run over Christie challenge
Andrew Belonsky / Towleroad News #gay: Watch Cory Booker Announce Potential 2014 Senate Race: VIDEO
Katrina Trinko / National Review: Christie Won't Face Booker as Dem Opponent
Cory Booker:
Finishing the Work We Started — I love Newark. I did not come to this city through the providence of birth. I chose Newark, and Newark, thank God, accepted me, embraced me and allowed me the greatest privilege of my life - to serve as mayor. — As Mayor, the politics and process of change hasn't been easy.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, ABCNEWS, BuzzFeed, New York Times, CNN, msnbc.com and Daily Kos
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo: Booker Adviser: 'The Mayor Intends To Be A Candidate' For Senate
Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS: Newark Mayor Cory Booker to Explore Run for Senate in 2014
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed: Sources: White House Had A Hand In Booker's Decision
Daniel Inouye / CNN: Booker won't challenge Christie, will explore U.S. Senate run instead
Sarah Blackwill / msnbc.com: Booker to explore Senate bid
David Giambusso / New Jersey Online:
Cory Booker won't challenge Christie, eyes U.S. Senate instead
Cory Booker won't challenge Christie, eyes U.S. Senate instead
Discussion: The Fix, Post Politics and The Hinterland Gazette
Sean Sullivan / The Fix: What Cory Booker's decision means for Chris Christie
Sean Sullivan / Post Politics: Cory Booker won't face Chris Christie
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich On Mitt Romney: 'I Would Have Probably Done Better' Against Obama … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Gingrich 2012, Newt Gingrich, Video, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Gay Marriage, Newt Gingrich Gay Marriage, Newt Gingrich Immigration Reform, Newt Gingrich Mitt Romney, Rnc Review, Romney Media, Politics News
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Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: Gingrich: Republicans must embrace same sex marriage and immigration reform
Andrew Belonsky / Towleroad News #gay: Newt Gingrich Accepts 'Reality' Of Marriage Equality
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch: What a Difference A Year (and an Election) Makes
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Newt Gingrich Supports "Reality" Of State-Sanctioned Marriage Equality — A major shift for a key conservative. Gingrich oversaw passage of the Defense of Marriage Act as speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990s. — Image by Jemal Countess / Getty Images
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
I don't agree with any of my FNC colleagues or anyone else who is a tad bit sarcastic on our air about Secretary Clinton's health — I believe that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is suffering from a concussion. She has never shied away from a fight (assuming the testimony would even amount to that) …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: Van Susteren knocks Fox News colleagues for 'snarky' questioning of Clinton's illness
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Greta Blasts Fox News Colleagues Who Got 'Snarky' On-Air About Hillary Clinton's Concussion
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Allen West: Hillary Clinton caught 'Benghazi flu'
Allen West: Hillary Clinton caught 'Benghazi flu'
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Associated Press and New York Times
Samuel Knight / Washington Monthly: Allen West Takes Whackjob Benghazi Theory to New Height of Ugliness
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Allen West: Concussion Truther
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Allen West Snarks: 'I'm Not A Doctor' But Hillary Clinton Caught 'Benghazi Flu' And Missed Testifying
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
A sad announcement — I know I probably shouldn't have done it — especially because yesterday was a snowy day with the temperature here in Colorado dipping well below freezing — but on a whim I took all my guns and ammunition out in a small skiff on one of the nearby lakes and, sad to say …
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Joan of Argghh / Primordial Slack: While Awaiting the Cryin' Mayan Day of Doom
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Florida Man Invokes 'Stand Your Ground' Law After Shooting Fellow Pizza Customer — A Florida man defended his decision to shoot an impatient pizza customer over the weekend, citing the state's infamous "Stand Your Ground" law. — Michael Jock, a 52-year-old resident of St. Petersburg …
Discussion: Gawker and AMERICAblog
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Brings On Santa Claus To Discuss The 'War On Christmas' — Fox and Friends took its coverage of the so-called "War on Christmas" to the front lines on Thursday morning by inviting Santa Claus to weigh in on America's changing culture and secularization.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Gawker, BuzzFeed and Towleroad News #gay
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Fox News Interviews Santa Claus to Prove There's a War on Christmas
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed: Fox News Interviews Santa Claus About The "War On Christmas"
Andrew Belonsky / Towleroad News #gay: Santa Discusses 'War On Christmas' On Fox: VIDEO
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Connecticut congressman: Rick Perry a 'testosterone laden' individual with blood on his hands … During a press conference on gun control yesterday, Rep. Jim Himes D-Conn. blasted Texas Governor Rick Perry for vocally supporting Second Amendment rights for American citizens after the horrific school shooting in Connecticut.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Connecting.the.Dots, Riehl World News and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Libs Unhinged: Far Left Congressman Says Rick Perry Has Blood on His Hands For Supporting Second Amendment (Video)
Dan / Riehl World News: Video: CT Rep Jim Himes (D) Rick Perry a 'testosterone laden' individual with blood on his hands
Ann Coulter / Official:
WE KNOW HOW TO STOP SCHOOL SHOOTINGS — In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre.
Discussion: protein wisdom, Hot Air, The Hinterland Gazette and The Gateway Pundit
Jeff G. / protein wisdom: Ann Coulter makes herself useful
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Quotes of the day — President Obama's vow Wednesday …
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: Ann Coulter on How to Stop School Shootings: Enforce Concealed Carry Laws.
Steven Greenhouse / Media Decoder:
'Charlie Rose' Show Agrees to Pay Up to $250,000 to Settle Interns' Lawsuit — Charlie Rose and his production company have agreed to pay as much as $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a former unpaid intern who claimed minimum wage violations.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Politico and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Samuel Knight / Washington Monthly: Charlie Rose Settles Intern Class Action for $250,000
Dylan Byers / Politico: Charlie Rose to settle unpaid intern lawsuit
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Charlie Rose Agrees To Pay Up To $250K To Settle Unpaid Intern Lawsuit
Ian Austen / New York Times:
In $18 Million Theft, Victim Was a Canadian Maple Syrup Cartel — OTTAWA — It was an inside job of sorts. Thieves with access to a warehouse and a careful plan loaded up trucks and, over time, made off with $18 million of a valuable commodity. — The question is what was more unusual …
Discussion: National Review and The Tell
Katherine Connell / National Review: Maple-Syrup Mystery Solved
Tom Bemis / The Tell: Maple syrup reserve thefts solved: report
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Miss USA Wins the Crown — Say what you will about Donald Trump, he runs a pretty good pageant. I didn't live-blog tonight's Miss Universe show, but I kept notes as it went along, and so what follows are my impressions as the event unfolded. With a lot of stuff left out …
Discussion: Althouse
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Henninger: No Guardrails, Again — For its own protection, American society needs to rediscover self-control and self-restraint. — With Newtown, the American people seem to sense that it is a moment to stand down and think hard about whether something's amiss in their society. And it's not just the guns.
Discussion: Little Green Footballs, The Spectacle Blog and msnbc.com
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Right Wing Pro-Gun Excuse of the Day: Blame the 1968 Democratic Convention
Jeffrey Lord / The Spectacle Blog: Joe Connor Rejects Obama Pardon for FALN's Lopez
Rick Bosh / msnbc.com: What we're reading: Thursday, December 20, 2012
Fred Thys / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Brown Would Be In Strong Position For Special Election — BOSTON — A WBUR poll of 500 registered voters (PDFs - topline, crosstabs) finds U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is in a strong position should there be a special election to fill U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat.
Discussion: The Hill, Michelle Malkin, Boston Globe, Politico, National Review, Hot Air, Ballot Box and msnbc.com
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill: Ben Affleck on Senate bid: 'One never knows'
Steven Senne / Boston Globe: Specter of Edward Kennedy Jr. Senate campaign highlights name-dropping period
Kevin Robillard / Politico: Mass. poll: Scott Brown for John Kerry's seat
Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box: Poll: Brown leads likely competition to replace Kerry in Senate
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Chuck Hagel Once Opposed Nominee Because He Was "Openly Aggressively Gay" — The man who would be Secretary of Defense also supported the ban on open military service for gays and lesbians. — Image by Ali Jarekji / Reuters — WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Chuck Hagel …


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Fossil Insects and Botanicals in Amber
Amber Sculptures
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The Los Cabos Amber Gallery sells exquisite, one-of-a-kind, jewelry, sculptures and fossil insects and other fossil inclusions from 22-25 million year old, 100% natural, untreated Chiapas amber, specializing in rare Chiapas red amber.
The artist Ronsai travels to Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico, where he hand picks the finest raw stones and purchases them from miners descended from the Mayans. Combining the ultimate in fine Chiapas amber and daring exploitation of design, Ronsai has created a one-of-a-kind collection of perfume bottles, amulets and jewelry for the discerning buyer. See the artist at work in the gallery/workshop.
New for the 2013/2014 season, The Los Cabos Amber Gallery Fine Art Annex features the works of multi-media, international award winning artist Nancy Pridham and internationally acclaimed photographer Bruce Herman, whose photos of Los Cabos and Mexico have appeared in travel magazines, guide books, and other publications throughout the world.
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"Billboard" Music Awards Air Live from Vegas Sunday
(LAS VEGAS) -- Star-studded collaborations are on tap for Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, airing live on ABC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Fans will see solo artists like Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars perform, of course, but they'll also enjoy some musical collaborations during the telecast, which starts at 8 p.m. ET.
Justin Bieber is actually doing double duty Sunday night: he'll sing his song "Take You" solo, and then team up with Will.i.am for their collaboration, "#thatpower." Pitbull is also doing double duty: he'll perform "Live It Up" with Jennifer Lopez, as well as "Feel This Moment" with Christina Aguilera and an unannounced "special guest." We're betting that special guest will be A-ha, the Norwegian '80s pop group whose song "Take On Me" is sampled in "Feel This Moment."
Other collaborations include David Guetta, Ne-Yo & Akon, who'll perform the song "Play Hard," and Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, who'll perform "High School."
Solo performers on the show include Swift and Bruno Mars -- debuting his new single "Treasure" -- as well as Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Chris Brown, Miguel, The Band Perry, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Icona Pop and even music legend Prince, who will receive the Billboard Icon Award during the telecast.
Other stars who'll appear on the show include Madonna, who'll receive a special award for her top-grossing MDNA tour; and presenters Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Ke$ha, Carly Rae Jepsen, Miley Cyrus, PSY, Kid Rock, Cee Lo Green and Alanis Morissette.
As for the actual awards, Taylor, fun. and Maroon 5 are the leading nominees. Because there are so many different Billboard charts, it's impossible to list who's nominated in every single category, but Taylor, fun. and Maroon 5 are finalists in 11 different ones. Taylor and Maroon 5 also are both competing for the night's big honor: Top Artist of the Year. The other nominees in that category are Rihanna, Justin Bieber and One Direction.
Speaking of Rihanna, she's nominated in 10 different categories, while Carly Rae Jepsen's represented in nine, thanks to the success of "Call Me Maybe." One Direction is represented in eight categories.
Here are the nominees in a few of the biggest Billboard Music Awards categories:
Top 100 Song
"Some Nights"
"Somebody That I Used to Know"
"Call Me Maybe"
"One More Night"
Top Billboard 200 Album
Up All Night
Take Me Home
Top Duo/Group
Maroon 5
One Direction
Mumford & Sons
Top New Artist
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Lumineers
One Direction
Top Pop Artist
Maroon 5
Bruno Mars
Justin Bieber
One Direction
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Explore the Wonders of Historic James Bay. Before there was Victoria, there was James Bay. This is the oldest residential neighbourhood in Victoria, as well as the oldest in all of Canada's West Coast. Many important Canadians have lived in this in this neighbourhood, including artist Emily Carr, Governor Sir James Douglas, and physician John Sebastian Helmcken.
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A 40-year-old woman is dead after being stabbed in the stomach during an assault incident that sent three to the hospital just outside of Loveland last week.
Loveland resident Stephanie Smith was one of three people transported to the hospital after police responded to a late-night call at a home in the 4000 block of West Eisenhower Boulevard on July 3. Smith died a day later at Medical Center of the Rockies, the Larimer County Coroner's Office said Tuesday.
The coroner's office has ruled the death a homicide; Smith died of massive blood loss after being stabbed in the stomach, according to Coroner's Office Investigator Jerre Gunderson.
The sheriff's office was called to the incident at the home just outside of city limits around 11:30 p.m. on July 3. The initial call, according to the sheriff's office, was for a report that a woman had been stabbed.
The sheriff's office and Loveland police secured the area and identified three people who were injured in the assault.
All three people — Smith, an unidentified 38-year-old Loveland man and an unidentified 28-year-old Loveland man — were transported to local hospitals. The 28-year-old man suffered minor injuries and was treated and released while the 38-year-old man is still being treated for injuries suffered in the stabbing incident.
Smith died around 8 p.m. on July 4, according to Gunderson.
"From the beginning, we knew that her injuries were very serious," Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said Tuesday.
The sheriff's office, who announced in a news release Tuesday that the victim had died, has been investigating the stabbing since it took place, Sheriff Smith said, with those who were at a gathering that night tracked down and interviewed as well as those in the area.
"Our first priority was to make sure we didn't believe the public was in danger and we didn't believe there was danger to anybody else," Smith said. "Then our priority was to get to the truth."
While details about what led to a triple-stabbing and one woman's death are coming together, the sheriff said the case remains under investigation. A complicating factor in the investigation was that because those involved were injured, interviews were made difficult, Smith said.
Only in the past couple of days was it possible for deputies to interview the 38-year-old hospitalized man due to the severity of his injuries.
"There were a lot of unknowns in the beginning," Smith said. "A picture is coming together as to what happened."
Smith would not comment on whether charges will be filed against either or both of the men, or what those charges might be. The sheriff's office continues to gather evidence in cooperation with the Larimer County District Attorney's Office, he said.
"Because of the seriousness of the event we want to make sure we're answering all the questions that are relevant," Smith said, estimating that it will likely be a matter of days before the case is formally presented to the district attorney.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact the sheriff's office at 416-1985 or Crime Stoppers at 221-6868.
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These pages are the successor to the "Unofficial SCCA Pages". I started working on those pages in the early 90s, in the early days of the web when the latest and greatest browser was Mosaic version 1.0, before it occured to Microsoft that there might be something in this Internet business. When the first official SCCA web site was awarded to another party, I took the best parts of what I'd done and transmuted it into this site. Work has gone forward in fits and starts, but I've been going at things pretty steadily for 3 years now. I "finished" the race track directory only to discover that it requires continuous updating, so I'm now making a long update slog through the directory I thought was finished.
This page works best with a decent web browser and a reasonably sized screen - that is, this site attempts to be standards complaint, and should display reasonably in any modern, sane browser as long as you don't have a postage stamp for a monitor or a 1993 vintage video card. Most if it should also be tolerably usable with image downloads turned off entirely. Some parts of it may be migrating to the use of AJAX (which is what systems like Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps Beta use), so if you have an older browser in which those systems don't work, it may be a good idea to upgrade (Firefox is free and works well.)
I currently do most testing of new pages with Camino 1.5 (a sibling of Firefox for Macs), with periodic spot checks using Opera, Safari and Internet Exploder.
If you want to grab a copy of Firefox (It's MUCH nicer than Internet Exploder), there's a link on the right side of most pages on the site, including this one. Full Disclosure: if you download, install and use Firefox from a link on one of my pages, I do get a small referral fee.
There is no ActiveX on this site.
There are no Frames on this site.
Javascript is limited to Google and Weather Channel inserts, but may appear in improved mapping features in the near future.
The original site (which dates back to the early 90s) was written entirely with simple HTML and server side includes. Subsequently, there was a partial conversion to the use of some simple PHP templates, but I finally (in early 2005) settled on a system based on Mason and at this point have converted everything to Mason, except for two external software packages that remain in PHP.
In the near future, I will likely move the race track data into a PostgreSQL database, as there are clearly some reasons why it would be nice to be able to write queries against it.
The buttons on the left go to the major sections. A running log of updates, changes, and additions is kept; the "See What's New" button in the index takes you there, and you can use the RSS Feed to keep up with changes made to the New Stuff page.
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Sunday I thought I would try and call a distant cousin of mine. My Great Great Grandfather was born in Pulaski County, Virginia. He had a half
brother, who was a few years younger who was born there as well and remained there for his whole life.
So, my Great Great Grandfather's half brother had a son whose name is Howard Ross Sr. The only reason I knew all this is back in the 60's and 70's he wrote a book on the Ross family and my Grandfather was given a copy for some of his help with the book. I knew Howard was around 81 years old. It just happened a few years ago, I ran upon a missionary who served in the West Virginia mission. I asked if he ever served down around Bluefield, West Virginia and he told me he served in that ward. I asked if he knew a Howard Ross who was about 80. He laughed and confirmed that anyone who lived in Bluefield knew Howard Ross. That missionary was very helpful in securing his address for me. Well, I wrote ole Howard a letter and to my delight he called me one evening in Logan, Utah while at school (about 2004). I was in the middle of a party of sorts, so I told him I would call him back. Somehow I lost his number and could not call him back. Worst of all, I did not have his mailing address either. On top of that, I did not know how to contact the missionary who gave it to me. So I was where I had left off.
The only thing I remembered from that short conversation was that he personally knew my Great Grandfather and my Great Great Grandfather had visited his family when he was still a boy.
Since moving to Virginia, even while in DC last year, I tried to find Howard Ross. Ross is a common name, and there was not a Howard Ross in the phone book anywhere near the area I needed. I ended up calling several dozen Ross numbers in the book in Western Virginia, but not one knew who I was trying to get. So I had decided I would just have to drive out there and ask people on the street of Bluefield. I never got the courage to do so as it is several hours away and if I found him, I was sure he would be out of town.
Sunday, something came over me, and I thought to try and find him again. I went to my family history and tried to find a name I might be able to only have one or two hits on in West Virginia and Virginia. I decided maybe I would look through my file and see if there were some towns which were small and possibly a Ross might be in one. Well, I saw Naoma, West Virginia as the birthplace of a family. I searched it, and a Willie B Ross came up. I had a Willie B Ross in my file, and so I called. It was a little awkward as I had him as dead. I rang the number and I asked for Willie's wife. Sure enough, it was her. I told her how I was related and she said she did not know as much about that as her husband and that I would have to talk to him. That was a little awkward knowing he was dead, a little more so when she went to fetch him!
In the conversation with Willie B Ross, he was indeed the person I had in my file (I did not tell him he was dead though). We went through all the
children, dates, birthplaces, and then he gave me his son's phone number, John Ross. John is a physicians assistant in Beckley, West Virginia and
personally knows ole Howard Ross. Well, I thank them, hung up and called John. It was a good visit with him. He informed me it would have to be
short as his basement was flooding at that moment. He was kind enough to give me Howard Ross's phone number, and his son, Howard Ross Jr, and his daughter's number, Sally's number, and then chatted on and on. I was feeling guilty since his basement was flooding and so I excused myself and let him go.
I then phoned Howard. Number disconnected. I called Howard Jr. Number disconnected. I thought and prayed for Sally to answer. Well, some old man answered and I knew I was at a dead end. I told him my name was Paul Ross. He asked if I was the son of Milo Paul Ross, grandson of Milo James Ross, great grandson of John William Ross, and great great grandson of James Thomas Meredith-Ross. I knew I must be have hit the mark.
He too was in the middle of a family crisis at the moment and visited with me only for a short 20 minutes. In the meantime, I gleaned this much
My Great Grandfather came to visit in the 1930's. Howard remembered it because he was missing a finger. He asked what happened. Apparently he had a spider bite and because of what was happening to his finger, he dipped it in acid. Well, the doctor said he saved his life, but was going to have to lose his finger. I thought, what an interesting story. He then asked if I knew anything about my Great Great Grandfather. I said I did not. He told me he also came to visit in the 30's from out California. Apparently he was a Bishop in Fresno, California. He came to visit the family and was upset they did not have a cow. He asked how they could be self-sufficient without a cow. Apparently he went out and purchased a cow for the family for the time he stayed there. Howard roared with laughter when he said then when he left, he went and sold the cow, and went back out west. We had a good little visit about life and where I was, and what he was doing, and then his crisis brought him back to reality and he excused himself. We set up an appointment for a meeting sometime in the spring, he said only if he lived, he was not going to be there if he was dead. I very much hope I can meet up with him, to learn some stories on the side I know so little about.
After hanging up the phone, I called my Grandfather to confirm and pick his brain a little. Grandpa is usually pretty tightlipped about the family, but he opened up about quite a few things last night. Here is some of what I got (combined with what I already know).
He was born in 1921 to John and Ethel Ross in Plain City. Ethel had been in an accident on the old train line that used to go out to Plain City. She
had received some type of settlement from the railroad (documentation I will have to try and find) and then moved to Paul, Idaho and bought a
confectionary. It was on what is now Idaho Street. Dad has a good stash of checks, paperwork, and other stuff from the old confectionary. It was
there, running the confectionery, that she met Mark Streeter after he returned from military service. I don't know where or how much he served in WWI, but they were married. I don't know that either, but they had a daughter, June Streeter who now lives in Adelanto, California. Grandpa said Mark Streeter ran off on her.
She kept busy at the confectionery until she met John William Ross. He and all his family had lived in West Virginia in the 1910 Census. I think his
sister, Fanny Ross Phibbs (her husband was Judge Calvin Dickerson Phibbs in Rupert) was the first one out. I think she came first(between 1912 and 1916), and then convinced the rest of her family to come out. Especially with the opening of the new sugar factory at Paul, and the building of the new city for all the employees. Fanny obviously lived in Rupert, and the rest of her family came out. I don't know when John met Ethel, but he served in the Army. While he was stationed at Fort Logan, Colorado he was a cook. She went to meet him, and in 1920 they were married at Fort Logan. I assume they had met at some time previous to his military service. I don't know the dates of his military service, and where all he served. Grandpa said he thought his father had been gassed, but was not sure about that. The 1920 Census has him in Colorado as an army cook.
On a side note, John had been married in 1910 in West Virginia. He had a son in 1911 named Hobart. I will get to some stories about Hobart in a
Grandpa was born in Plain City in 1921. Paul was born in Paul, Idaho in 1922. Harold in Burley, Idaho in 1923. Then Ethel had Ernest in 1925 in
Plain City. Ernest was born in July, Ethel died in August, and Ernest died in September.
Grandpa does not remember living in Idaho. Of course, he was probably too young. He does remember his mother's death. He was terribly upset because they would not let him see his mother in the casket. They said he was too young. He said he was old enough to know his mother was dead and wanted to see her.
He remembers his father afterward bundling them up, they went to Ogden, and caught a train to Idaho. They then lived with James and Damey Ross in Rupert, Idaho. He doesn't remember his father being around during this time. James and Damey contacted the Sharp's (Ethel's maiden name) and had them come get the boys. They could not afford to feet them anymore. Sometime in the early spring, he said Os (Oscar) Richardson and Dale Sharp drove up to Rupert in Os' Hudson and picked them up. He remembers the drive past the poplar trees from the old town outside the Paul factory through Heyburn, over the river bridge there, through Declo, Malta, and all the way back to Plain City. He lived with Ed Sharp, whose wife was an East; Paul lived with Fred and Vic (Sharp) Hunt, and Harold lived with Delwyn Sharp. Paul in 1922 fell from a barn and died of a concussion a few days later.
From that point on, he never saw his father until 1948. So from 1925 until 1948. Apparently the Sharp's forbid him from coming to visit. Grandpa has a whole bunch of letters from his father that were sent to Vic Hunt, but they were never given to the boys. Only after she died, did Grandpa and the others find out about the letters. They are actually very tender. Grandpa said his father had told him the reasons why the Sharp's forbid him from coming to visit, but he did not want to disclose them. He said he was going to say nothing against the Sharp family who were so good to him. (I took that to mean it was not so much John's fault, but the Sharp's.)
Grandpa said he got a letter in early June 1948 saying his father was in Livermore Hospital and would only live a few more days. His sons were
requested to come and visit him. Great Grandpa Donaldson, Grandma's Dad, gave Grandpa the money to go see his father. Harold did not want to go. Grandpa went to Livermore, Alameda County to the hospital. He walked in the building, up the stairs, and right to the room where his father was. He just knew where it was at. He sat down there and saw his Dad in pretty bad shape. This was a veteran's hospital.
They started to talk. The hospital staff escorted him out because he was to have no visitors. He explained the position, showed them the letter from the Red Cross, and they let him go back in. He stayed there through the night talking with his Dad until he passed away. He said he learned quite a few things. I could tell Grandpa was crying over the phone. He would not tell me most of what he said. He just said he sat there and held his hand while talking through the night.
He found out that he used to take a taxi from Ogden, pick up Betty Booth, and they would ride out to the Sharp farm. John would sit in the taxi while Betty did whatever she was doing there. Grandpa remembers the taxi sitting there by the side of the field and the man and woman waving at him. He never knew that was his father or Betty Booth. Later in life, he said Betty was an old widow who could not take care of herself. Grandpa and Grandma would pay for her coal and Grandpa did repair work for her home. He even reshingled it one year, and Betty's family made him sign an agreement that she did owe him anything. Her family did not know Grandpa and Grandma were paying for the coal. They thought it was the Maw family, who delivered the coal. Grandpa found it very moving to find out that he had supported the woman who had made it possible for his father to see his children. He thought it was a fitting service.
Grandpa would tell me nothing about what they visited about that night other than his father talked about life. Apparently he married an old widow in California who was wealthy and that took care of him the rest of his days. Grandpa did not know if the widow was still living when his father passed away.
Grandpa then took me through some of his war stories. He dwelt mostly on a recent deal where he had been honored at some stadium for being so decorated during WWII. He said the announcer interviewed him first and this was some of the things he told the announcer.
Those who were decorated during WWII were only the lucky ones who lived through the battle. He said the more that died around you, the more
decorated you became. He said his awards are not for his bravery, but a symbol of how many more died around him and he was fortunate to not have fallen. Grandpa was wounded 4 times during the war. He said they were all part of doing the job just like you smash your thumb once and a while with a hammer while working. He found it terribly disappointing that the longer time goes on, the more we honor the living who made it through the war. He points out that it is the dead who need remembered, not the living. What about those who never had family? Grandpa has a family who will remember him. What of those whose lives were snuffed out and have not family to remember them?
He pointed out to the announcer that a bar of soap was his best friend. He lived for weeks at a time in a foxhole. He even brushed his teeth when he had extra water with a bar of soap. On more than one occasion, a man would jump into his foxhole for cover, and by morning the man was dead. He had spent a couple days with a dead man because they could not get him out. One man he buried there by the foxhole and later told others where he was buried when the battle was over so they could go back for him. He said we don't understand war. He said do we realize that in a foxhole for days, weeks you have to go to the bathroom. You put some dirt in your helmet, do your duty and set your helmet out of the hole until morning so you could bury it and hope your head was safe uncovered in the meantime. You always hoped you had enough water to rinse out the dust and whatever else so it didn't stink too bad. The same clothes for weeks at a time, in a very humid, wet environment.
He said his awards for bravery were because he did what needed to be done because he was tired of the foxholes. He wanted to move forward. He was lucky that artillery and others gave enough cover that they were able to take the high ground.
Anyhow, it was a great conversation. I enjoyed the time. He cut it off, said he appreciated the phone call, and to call again some time. He then
hung up. (In usual Ross fashion, we are not much for telephone etiquette)
It was an interesting conversation. A man who never knew his father really, then had a crash course for a day until he died. His mother is only a
memory of younger childhood. Ed Sharp from what I understand was very hard worker and worked his children just as hard. I need to talk to Dean and get some more information about his parents before he gets too old.
Well, that story pretty much ends there. But there is another one that goes with it.
I started looking at applying for University of Virginia Law when I noticed it asked for family members who had gone to UVA. I remembered Evelyn Hoogland (who is a first cousin of my Grandma Ross through the Van Leeuwen family) telling me her daughter graduated from UVA. I needed to know what year she graduated. I called Evelyn and she gave me Kay's phone number and told me to call her. So I called my cousin, Kay Hoogland. She graduated in 1981 from UVA and I remember Evelyn showing me a magazine or two with Kay on the front page. I knew Kay had made a name for herself. I phoned her at home outside Chicago. We had a wonderful visit and like we were old friends, I enjoyed our talk. She gave me encouragement, offered help, proofreading, even a letter of introduction. I was thrilled. She gave me one professor to contact and get to know who apparently is from Northern Utah. His name is Richard Merrill, and with a name like that, I would assume is related to Marriner Wood Merrill and his family comes from Cache Valley. I guess I could even be related to him! We will have to pursue that end.
It is time to wind down, and I am over my time limit. I learned a whole heap on Sunday. Made some new connections, and I hope opened some doors. I only scored average on the LSAT (only those who were diligent to read this far will get this news) so I am going to need a miracle to get into UVA or any other wonderful law school. Kay could be the unlocking of that miracle. More importantly, I unlocked a great number of doors to my own history and family on Sunday. The Spirit of Elijah is alive and well. An effectual door has been opened, and there are many more yet to come!
Time for rest and FHE. Love to you all. I love you, I know the church is true!


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- 2 pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 pound skinless pork fatback (not salted), cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 5 flat-leaf parsley sprigs
- 1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
- 5 scallions, 3 halved crosswise and 2 finely chopped
- 2 cups water
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- 1 medium carrot, finely chopped
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- Preheat oven to 325°F with rack in lower third.
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- Boil carrot until crisp-tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in chopped scallion and cook 1 minute. Drain and cool slightly.
- Drain pork mixture in a large sieve set over a bowl, reserving liquid. Finely shred meat and lightly mash fatback with tines, transferring both to a bowl. Skim and reserve fat from liquid. Stir 1/2 cup liquid into meat with vegetables, remaining tablespoon Sherry and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, and 1/2 tsp pepper. Cool.
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Officials to lobby for bypass
The Merced County Association of Governments and representatives from Los Banos will attend a hearing in Sacramento on Thursday to ask for money for the Los Banos Bypass.
"We are the closest we've ever been to constructing the first phase," said Marjie Kirn, MCAG's executive director of MCAG.
Mayor Mike Villalta and Merced County Supervisor Jerry O'Banion will be giving a five-minute give the presentation regarding MCAG's application for $50 million for segment 1 of the Los Banos bypass to the California Transportation Commission. The panel, which allocates funds for the construction of highway, passenger rail and transit improvements in California, will be conducting hearings for applicants for potential projects.
The list of Projects that will be approved by the transportation commission in February approves and adopted in March. The Transportation Commission has $1.26 billion for new projects.
If the commission funds the bypass, the first phase will be built in 2018.


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The verb is 'swung', the past tense of 'swing'.
Interested in Language
Consider the sentence:
The gate swung shut behind him.
Both 'swung' and 'shut' are capable of being verbs. In this case I take it that 'shut' is the main verb. What role does 'swung' play? As I understand the term 'swung shut' is not a phrasal verb, and 'swung' is not one of the common auxiliary verbs.
Many thanks
The verb is 'swung', the past tense of 'swing'.
Thanks for the reply 5jj. Modifying my question. What role does 'shut' play?
The gate swings until it ends up in the shut position.It's an adjective.
Many thanks for your further help 5jj and Frank. I think what you, Frank, refer to as a linking verb I would call a copular verb. This now makes sense. As 'swung' is used as a copular verb it may be followed by, what I understand as, a (Subject) Complement Phrase. In this case the adjective 'shut'. This gives:
Subject phrase: The gate (the - determiner, gate - noun)
Verb phrase: swung (swung - copular verb)
Complement phrase: (shut - adjective)
Adverbial phrase: (behind - preposition, him - objective personal pronoun).
If anybody disagrees with this analysis I would be delighted to hear from them.
I don't understand the British terms very well.
But I hate to see "the verb in the sentence". Verbs and simple predicates are different things. A verb is a part of speech. A simple predicate is a part of a sentence. Simple predicates will always and only be verbs, but verbs can do other things in sentences beside being simple predicates.
"Swung" and "shut" are both verbs. The first is the past tense of the verb "to swing". The second is the past participle of the verb "to shut". Only "swung", however, is the simple predicate in this sentence.
Hello Frank
I am at the beginning of a syntactic journey so I will undoubtedly make many mistakes. My apologies if I have misunderstood your arguments. In particular I am not sure what point you are making as nobody has used the term 'the verb in the sentence'. You say that both 'swung' and 'shut' are verbs. In my first post I said, I think more accurately, that both 'swung' and 'shut' are capable of being verbs. That is, capable of being verbs in the appropriate context.
In the present context 'swung' acts as the verb while 'shut' does not. I am not familiar with the term simple predicate but it appears to be what I would call a verb phrase, verb element, or where the verb phrase (element) consists of a single word, the verb.
This is partly because of the confusion of British vs American terms and partly because of the morphology vs syntax division.
They are separate subjects.
I can only use the American system. And by that system, "swung" and "shut" are both verbs (in morphological terms). If you look them up in a dictionary, I think it will say that they are verbs, or derived from verbs.
When speak about how they act within the sentence, then you are in the realm of syntax. A dictionary cannot help you there because it would have to know the sentence.
Why I say that they are both verbs is because the pass the test of changing with time -- Today I swing (shut), yesterday I swung (shut), I have swung (shut). Now, in the case of "shut", the word does not change. It is, however, still a verb.
eg. "to shut", "shutting".
I am not sure if this helps, but what is CRITICAL is that you do not mix syntax with morphology.
PA And, no, verb phrase is not the same as a simple predicate. I really think that you are failing to realize that syntax and morphology are separate things.


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Fox News Calls For Yearlong Payroll Tax Cut Extension -- After Weeks Of Attacking It
Fox News figures have repeatedly complained about the Senate's two-month extension of the payroll tax cuts, saying that the tax cuts should have been extended for a full year. But Fox News figures themselves have repeatedly attacked the tax cut extension, falsely claiming it won't promote job growth.
Fox Figures Call For One-Year Extension Of The Payroll Tax Cut
Carlson: "The Big Stink Here Is The Timeline On This." On the December 19 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, the co-hosts discussed the Senate version of the payroll tax cut extension, which would extend the current tax cut for another two months. As co-host Steve Doocy said, "The House is supposed to vote on it tonight ... It is expected that [the House Republicans] will probably kill it." Co-host Gretchen Carlson later said, "The big stink here is the timeline on this. So this current form only extends the payroll tax cut for two months, and what some of the House Republicans are saying is, 'Let's not continue to kick the can down the road, let's make it a year.'" Guest host and country singer Larry Gatlin then said: "Right. Don't you think that's really big of them to do it for two whole months?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/19/11]
Perino: "I Think Most Reasonable People Wanted A One-Year" Extension Of The Payroll Tax Cut. Later in the broadcast, co-host Steve Doocy summarized the Senate's action on the payroll tax holiday by saying, "Looked like the Senate passed that bipartisan bill to extend the payroll tax cut for two whole months!" He then summarized Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) recent remarks on Meet the Press by claiming Boehner had said: "Come on, Mr. President, two months? We ought to do a year." Carlson later acknowledged that Obama did want the tax cut extended for a year. The co-hosts and guest Dana Perino repeatedly called for a one-year extension rather than the short-term deal that was passed, but Perino also called for broader tax reform:
DOOCY: And it sounds like the House is going to kill that, the Senate-passed bill, tonight.
PERINO: Right so, let's see. Two months is like - half of that is the president's vacation [it]self that he's about to take in Hawaii, which I'll get some heat for, but it's not good policy either because if your expression is -- if your policy is that the payroll tax cut helps get money into the economy and helps people -- give them more certainty so they can plan ahead, the year-long tax cut makes a lot more sense because if this -- if we do this two months from now, it is just going to get boiled down into the presidential politics.
DOOCY: Absolutely.
CARLSON: Well, the president wanted a year. I mean, let's be fair. He probably doesn't love this --
PERINO: Yeah, he should want a year.
CARLSON: This two --
PERINO: But now he's supporting the two-month deal because [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid it's said that's the only thing they can get done in the Senate.
CARLSON: But what does it say about [Sen.] Mitch McConnell and John Boehner? Because McConnell supported this two-month thing, and now the leader of the House, John Boehner, Speaker of the House, saying no can do.
PERINO: McConnell also wanted the one year. I think most reasonable people wanted a one year. When Reid said the only thing they could get done was a two [month] to avoid a tax increase and make sure people had that certainty, but also the other thing that McConnell and Boehner did was add something I thought was very smart, which was the [Keystone] XL pipeline.
PERINO: I do think that this will all work out. I think that the payroll tax cut will be extended, probably for the year, and then this will be able to move forward. What we really need, if that question is better asked on a bigger picture level, which is we can't have this nickel and dime type of tax reform -- that a leader that wants to actually change things in America would say, let's do something quite dramatic, either a flat tax or a fair tax, do something bigger rather than a two-month extension on a payroll tax cut which will not make a difference in the economy at all. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/19/11]
Fox Previously Attacked Payroll Tax Cut As "Far Too Small" And Claimed It Didn't Create Jobs ...
Perino Claims Keystone Pipeline Would Be "Much More Beneficial" For Job Growth "Than A Temporary Payroll Tax Cut." Previously, on the December 8 edition of Fox News' The Five, Perino, a co-host of the show, dismissed the economic and job benefits of a "temporary payroll tax cut" :
DANA PERINO (co-host): I think though that the Republicans were pretty smart in tying the payroll tax cut to the pipeline, and the reason is the pipeline would be 20,000 jobs plus others for that middle-class blue collar worker, much more beneficial than a temporary payroll tax cut, of which the American Enterprise Institute Alex Brill says only 22 percent of people actually spend that money.
PERINO: Can we hear the sound bite? Can we hear the sound bite? Because a lot of people do know about the pipeline, and we're going to make sure even more of them do now.
OBAMA [video clip]: Here's what I know. However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline, they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance.
PERINO: So for the next year, who benefits from a delay in the payroll -- in the XL pipeline? It is white collar lawyers, PR folks, the communicators, and the bureaucrats. It doesn't help the middle-class workers that he said he wanted to help the other day.
BOB BECKEL (co-host): Of course it does.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (co-host): All the wrong people are going to benefit from it. That's the problem. Why not create some jobs and be for it? [Fox News, The Five, 12/8/11, via Media Matters]
Payne Calls Payroll Tax Cut "Far Too Small" And Instead Hypes Tax Holiday For Foreign Profits. On the December 2 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jenna Lee asked her guest, Fox Business host Charles Payne, "Will a payroll tax cut extension be key to bringing ... Americans back into the labor force? Is that incentive enough, or will that do enough to the economy to help create jobs moving ahead in the next year?" Payne replied, "No, no, it's far too small." He later said:
PAYNE: It's interesting that this payroll tax thing is the number one issue in Washington right now, because if we're talking about tax cuts, why stop there? Why not give all hardworking Americans, and forget about what economic class they're in, a tax cut? Why not give businesses a tax cut? ... How about letting American businesses bring money back from overseas? There's almost $2 trillion sitting overseas, offshore. If they were to lower taxes, a lot of that money would come back. [Fox News, Happening Now, 12/2/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about tax holidays for foreign profits, SEE HERE.
Carlson Downplayed Employment Impact Of Payroll Tax Holiday While Claiming She's Spoken To "Tons" Of Economists On The Subject. During an interview with White House press secretary Jay Carney on the September 8 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson downplayed the employment impact of a payroll tax holiday, claiming that "[w]e've already had that," and "I see dismal [job] numbers." From the show:
CARLSON: We'll see if Congress does rally around the president based on what he says tonight. But let me ask you this. Why go before the joint session of Congress if you're going to say stuff that the American public has already heard time and time again in 10 to 12 speeches before? Why say I'm going to go on vacation for a month, and then I'm going to come back and give this grandiose speech --
CARNEY: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait -
CARLSON: -- if it's going to be the same exact thing that they've already heard?
CARNEY: Gretchen, I'm not sure what -- whose talking points you're reading here, Gretchen --
CARLSON: So please tell me what new thing is the American public going to hear today. What new thing will the American public hear tonight from your boss?
CARNEY: The American people will hear a lot of new ideas. I want to correct you. The folks who went on a month-long vacation weren't the president, it was the Congress. Secondly, the American people will hear a lot of new and innovative ideas that they haven't heard before. They will also hear very common-sense, sensible ideas like a payroll tax cut for every working American that has tradition --
CARLSON: We've already had that. That's not new.
CARNEY: Oh, and is that a bad thing?
CARLSON: No. Well, did it create jobs?
CARNEY: I'm sorry, is that a bad thing because it creates jobs? And it grows --
CARLSON: Did it create jobs?
CARNEY: Absolutely.
CARLSON: When I look at the June job report and the July job report and the August job report, I see dismal numbers.
CARNEY: Gretchen, I'm not sure if you've talked to any economists, but there is not an economist --
CARLSON: Tons.
CARNEY: -- whose Ph.D. is worth the paper it's printed on who does not agree that when you cut the payroll tax, it has a direct impact on economic growth and job creation. If you're asking me if there were other headwinds that affected this economy, like the tsunami in Japan, like the Arab uprising that affected oil prices and the situation in Europe, that's absolutely the case. But cutting taxes, I used to think --
CARLSON: Yeah, Mr. Carney, with all due respect, we've heard all of those excuses before. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/8/11, via Media Matters]
... But Economists Agree That Cutting Payroll Tax Cut Has A Positive Impact On Employment And Economy
Frank: "Perhaps The Most Promising" Policy To Reduce Unemployment "Is A Payroll Tax Holiday." In a June 25 New York Times op-ed, Robert Frank, economics professor at Cornell University, wrote:
If the economy could generate jobs at the median wage for even half of these people, national income would grow by more than 10 times the total interest cost of the 2011 deficit (which was less than $40 billion). So anyone who says that reducing the deficit is more urgent than reducing unemployment is saying, in effect, that we should burn hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods and services in a national bonfire.
We ought to be tackling both problems at once. But in today's fractious political climate, many promising dual-purpose remedies -- like infrastructure investments that would generate large and rapid returns -- are called unthinkable, in the false belief that they would impoverish our grandchildren. Yet there are other ways to attack unemployment that could garner bipartisan support.
Perhaps the most promising is a payroll tax holiday. The payroll tax was originally meant to pay for Social Security, and in recent years, employees and employers have each contributed 6.2 percent of total salary -- with no additional levies on salaries beyond $106,800. Congress should both declare an immediate payroll tax holiday for employees and exempt employers from making contributions for newly hired workers -- and keep both provisions in effect until the end of next year. [The New York Times, 6/25/11]
Seidman: "To Boost Private Sector Spending And Jobs," Congress Should Implement An "Immediate Suspension Of The Entire Employee Payroll Tax." In a July 17 op-ed in Delaware's News Journal, University of Delaware economics professor Laurence Seidman wrote:
To boost private sector spending and jobs, any budget deal negotiated by the president and Congress should contain an immediate suspension of the entire employee payroll tax through 2012.
Why? Because leaving more money in people's paychecks will cause them to spend more, and in response to their spending, private sector employers will expand production and create private sector jobs. Without this stimulus to the private sector, the economy is likely to fall back into a deep recession.
According to the simulations, if the suspension begins promptly, then in the fourth quarter of 2012 the unemployment rate would be 1 percentage point lower than it would have been without the temporary employee payroll tax suspension. [News Journal, 7/17/11, accessed via Nexis]
Tyson: Jobs Plan Should Include "At The Very Least" An Extension Of "The Temporary Payroll Tax Cut For Employees." In a September 6 post on the New York Times' Room for Debate blog, University of California Berkeley professor and former Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Laura Tyson wrote:
The labor market is suffering from two problems: first, an immediate jobs gap, primarily the result of the collapse in demand after the 2008 financial crisis, and second, a long-term gap in rewarding jobs for American workers, primarily the result of skill-biased technological change and global competition.
The jobs gap requires additional fiscal measures to increase private spending and promote job creation. At the very least, the temporary payroll tax cut for employees enacted at the end of 2010 should be extended and a temporary payroll tax cut for employers that increase their payrolls or a tax credit for new hires should be introduced. [The New York Times, 9/6/11]
CBPP: "Failure ... To Extend The Temporary Payroll Tax Cut" Would Remove "Needed Support From The Still-Weak Economy." In a September 7 post, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) wrote, "Failure by Congress to extend the temporary payroll tax cut enacted last December would reduce all paychecks starting on January 1, withdrawing needed support from the still-weak economy." From CBPP:
Failure by Congress to extend the temporary payroll tax cut enacted last December would reduce all paychecks starting on January 1, withdrawing needed support from the still-weak economy. The measure, part of the tax cut-unemployment insurance deal between President Obama and Republican leaders, reduces the employee share of the Social Security payroll tax, boosting workers' take-home pay by an estimated $120 billion in 2011. The tax cut is worth $934 to the average worker.
By extending the payroll tax cut -- and the provision of additional weeks of unemployment benefits to workers who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state-funded UI benefits without finding a job -- policymakers can avoid increasing the risk of renewed recession. But they should do more to reduce the probability of a double-dip recession and increase the probability of a sustainable recovery that generates sufficient jobs to shrink the massive jobs deficit. While a discussion of various steps needed to shore up the economy is beyond the scope of this paper, in the payroll tax arena, policymakers should consider strengthening the payroll tax reduction as part of a larger set of economic measures. [CBPP, 9/7/11]
For more economists' and experts' statements on how the payroll tax cut would help job and economic growth, SEE HERE.


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GAO, Mali (AP) — Hundreds of French and Malian soldiers have retaken the jihadist stronghold of Bourem, a town where many radical Islamic fighters were believed to have fled, officials and witnesses said Sunday.
Militants launched two suicide attacks last week on a checkpoint leading into Gao on the road from Bourem, raising fears of a protracted insurgency in northern Mali after French and Malian forces initially dislodged them from Gao without much resistance.
About 1,000 forces from France, Mali and other African countries are now in the town of Bourem, according to a French military official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't permitted to speak to press.
The joint military operation was launched Saturday afternoon as part of the ongoing effort to secure Gao, where the radical militants invaded one week ago and exchanged gunfire with Malian forces for hours.
"As the general has said, the jihads are always close," the official said.
While Gao has been restored to relative peace in recent days, officials say the ousted fighters are just on the other side of the Niger River, from which they launched last week's assault when they arrived in wooden boats.
Bourem is located only 60 miles (95 kilometers) away from Gao, where the radical Islamists ruled for nearly 10 months by imposing their strict interpretation of Islamic law known as Shariah.
They carried out a dozen amputations for alleged crimes in the Gao area, and also whipped women for going out in public without wearing veils.
Witnesses in Bourem on Sunday described a column of French armored personnel carriers lining the streets. Some 50 trucks from the French military along with about a dozen Malian vehicles could be seen.
Mali was plunged into turmoil after a coup in March 2012 created a security vacuum that allowed secular rebel Tuaregs, who have long felt marginalized by Mali's government, to take half the north as a new homeland. In the following months, the rebels were kicked out by the Islamic extremists who imposed strict Shariah law in the north.
France launched a military operation Jan. 11 against the Islamic extremists after they started to move south into government-controlled areas and captured key towns. French and Malian forces have since retaken the major northern cities of Timbuktu and Gao, though French forces acknowledge that pockets of resistance likely remain.


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World needs pilots! Record growth leads to record need
By Charlotte Glennie, for CNN • Published 24th February 2014
A 35% increase in demand for air travel.
A tripling of the region's airplane fleet.
Up to nearly 13,000 new planes needed.
Predictions for growth in the Asia Pacific aviation industry over the next two decades are impressive.
But one question keeps recurring in the region and, indeed, around the globe.
Will there be enough pilots to fly the new planes and enough technicians to maintain them?
"The airlines say, 'OK, we've just bought a bunch of airplanes and we've put in all our funding into the airplane,'" says Bony Sharma, vice president of Mil-Com Aerospace Group, a Singapore-based aviation training company.
"Now where does the funding come in to train the pilots, to train the engineers, to train even the management people, to keep these airplanes operational and safe and flying? That's the biggest challenge that we're facing."
100 flight school
'still not enough'
Boeing modeled its wares at February's Singapore Airshow.
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Mil-Com runs training for a number of Asia-based airlines, including the privately owned Vietnamese carrier VietJet Air.
Earlier in February, the low-cost carrier signed a $6.4 billion contract with Airbus for 63 new single-aisle A320 planes, the lease of seven and the option to buy a further 30 aircraft.
Like so many of Asia Pacific's low cost carriers, however, VietJet Air is struggling to recruit enough personnel to fulfill its lofty ambitions, due to what Sharma describes as an "extremely serious" shortage of pilots.
"All the airlines in Vietnam are heavily dependent on international pilots," says Sharma. "They're competing from the same pool of pilots as the Middle East, with the growth of Singapore, the growth of AirAsia. It's that same pool that all these airlines are competing for, so it's a big challenge in Vietnam."
Mil-Com has been working with VietJet Air since it was founded in 2011, training engineers, technicians and cabin crew.
At February's Singapore Airshow, Mil-Com and Eagle Flight Training of New Zealand signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vietnam's Aerospace Engineering Services JSC (AESC), to open a flight school in Vietnam, focused on training pilots.
"Even if we set up 100 airplane flying schools tomorrow, it still wouldn't be enough," says Sharma. "The shortage is that extreme."
Half a million pilots needed globall
Released in August 2013, the Boeing Pilot and Technical Market Outlook for 2013-2032 forecasts nearly half a million new commercial airline pilots will be needed to fly all the new airplanes entering the world fleet over the next 20 years.
The problem is acute in Asia Pacific.
There the Boeing report says the explosion in demand for air travel will mean 192,300 new pilots will be required by 2032, including 77,400, or 40% of them, in China.
It's an issue the industry is working to address.
"What we can do is partner with governments, partner with training agencies, partner with airlines and focus a training curriculum that allows the training of those pilots," says Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "We're trying to get out in front of it."
Together with partner airlines, Boeing runs pilot training schools in Singapore, South Korea, Australia, Japan and China.
Ground crew also in short supply
According to Star Alliance, All Nippon Airways' (ANA) is the world's ninth largest carrier, operating about a thousand flights per day.
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Boeing's chief competitor Airbus has a training school in Beijing and last week announced a new joint venture with Singapore Airlines to set up a $64 million facility, offering full pilot training in Singapore.
Mil-Com works in China, too, with joint venture training centers in Xian in central northwest China and in Tianjin southeast of Beijing.
As in Vietnam, the country is heavily dependent on foreign pilots because of the shortage of trained locals.
Sharma says pilots in China are paid 25% more than anywhere else in the region, and even then airlines have problems holding on to them for any more than a couple of years.
But he warns there's an even more pressing area of concern in the region.
"Everybody talks about the sexy industry of pilots," he says. "Nobody talks about the poor mechanic who's in the hangar working day and night, in sweat, rain and humidity."
"That's challenge number one -- attract the talent pool, because a lot of kids just say, 'Yeah I'd rather be an IT guy, work in an air-conditioned office, rather than be standing in these conditions working on an airplane,'" says Sharma. "So that's a big, big challenge to attract the right talent."
According to Boeing's Pilot and Technical Market Outlook, Asia Pacific will need 215,300 new maintenance technicians to service the new airplanes entering the region between now and 2032.
That's 43% of the projected global demand for technicians.
David Stewart is a UK-based aviation analyst for ICF International, a government and commercial consultancy based in the Washington, D.C. area.
"You can get a new pilot in 18 months," he says. "You can take it from zero, to being in the right hand seat, in 18 months. It might worry some people, but that's the truth."
"And if you're growing at Japan Airlines you can go and recruit out of a low-fare carrier because the pilot at the low-fare carrier wants to fly a bigger plane. So the people who've got the problem finding the pilots are the low-fare carriers, the bottom of the food chain.
"Mechanics take five years before you can sign off a plane certificate for release. So the supply chain is much more difficult there because it takes longer for it to react."
Same problems, new solution?
AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes has built the Malaysia-based company into Asia's largest budget carrier.
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Stewart says pilot shortages have been talked about for years, as has the shortage of mechanics in the United States, yet somehow the issue always gets sorted out.
Boeing's Randy Tinseth agrees.
"The market's going to double over the next 15 to 20 years, but remember it doubled over the last 15 to 20 years that we've just come through," he says. "It's something we can manage through, but we have to get out ahead of it."
Relatively hidden among the thousand-plus exhibitors at last week's Singapore Airshow was a small Florida-based company called DiSTI, which says it has the software to help contribute to the industry getting ahead.
DiSTI does virtual maintenance training for military aircraft, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the F-16.
During a demonstration, in what looks like a video game, a maintenance technician circles an aircraft, in 3D.
DiSTI President Joseph Swinski says his company is engaging the digital generation by giving them a platform they can relate to, with real training value.
"The aircraft's always running just like it would be in the real world," he says. "So if somebody goes and pulls the wire somewhere or breaks a wire, the whole aircraft will then function in the way that it does in the real world. It's a much more realistic training."
DiSTI global sales manager Christopher Giordano says by using software, you can train more cheaply, more quickly and more effectively.
"Stereotypical maintenance training right now is all done with hardware," says Giordano. "Hardware's extremely expensive to build and it breaks a lot. So if you go into a virtual world and you break something, all you need to do is hit reset and you can continue your training."
The company hopes to break into the market for training commercial aircraft maintenance technicians, but concedes this could still be some years away.
"We find the commercial guys are a little bit slower to adopt things than the military," says Swinski. "The military likes to try things out and then validate it."
"The commercial guys seem to want to wait until the military's done all that, make sure it works right and then they take a look at it. So we're kind of at that point right now."
As technology improves, simulation-based pilot certification training is also starting to take on a greater role internationally.
Asia Pacific has all the predictions for growth.
Whether its support systems keep pace with demand remains to be seen.
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