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Noticing that the coals in the woodstove were ash gray, I reached for my trusty bellows. After just two strokes of the handcrafted puffer, the embers glowed a cheerful red. And—warmed by the revived fire—I resumed totaling up the profits of my homestead bellowsmaking enterprise, a business that's contributed both physically and monetarily to my comfort.
Now I'll admit I'm pretty danged enthusiastic about my little cottage industry, but I'm not at all miserly about it. In fact, I'm here to tell you that anyone who delights in the feel of genuine wood and leather, enjoys building practical tools that also please the eye, and doesn't mind making extra money while indulging in these inclinations is a prime candidate for a successful home business selling handcrafted fireplace bellows. You won't have to "blow" (sorry about that!) a lot of your cash getting started, either, since most of the raw materials can be had for the asking, and many of you probably own all the tools you'll need. It's a good bet that—in very short order—your own distinctive line of puffers could be blowing fires to life in fireplaces and woodstoves throughout your neck of the woods, and putting cash into your pocket in the process.
Some of you have already seen MOTHER's previous articles on basic bellowsmaking. However, if you're going into the business, you'll need to offer your buyers a broad selection of styles and sizes. Mastering the following techniques will enable you to build and market quantities of these windy wonders, and to do so in less time than you'd ever imagine.
Tools for Making Fireplace Bellows
The first step is to check your toolshed for the following: a jigsaw, a saber saw, or a band saw, a brace or a drill and some 1/2" and 5/8" bits, and a rasp or a file (a four-way rasp is helpful). You'll also need a hammer, some sandpaper, a sturdy pair of scissors, and some general-purpose glue. For openers, you might want to borrow whatever tools you don't have on hand, and then later purchase your own with the proceeds of your early sales.
Once the necessary implements are gathered together, search your pile of scrap wood for boards 3/4 " to 1" thick and a minimum of 6" wide and 14" long. (If the planks you find are worn and weathered, that's all the better, because I'll tell you exactly how to give the most ragged piece of barn siding an appealing finish.)
Getting the Fireplace Bellows Materials
When you have your tools and boards located, it's time to grab the phone book, hop into the old buggy, and head for town, stopping at every furniture upholstery shop along the way. Introduce yourself to the proprietors of those establishments, spend a couple of moments chatting about the coming cold months (a perfect lead-in to a description of your business), then ask them about their scrap piles, consisting of those leftover pieces of high-quality leather and vinyl that were just too small for use on another project. The original customer already paid plenty for that material, but its scraps usually end up stuffed in big boxes, ready for the dump.
As you've probably guessed, your aim will be to propose a swap: You'll volunteer to clean up the mess for the pleasure of carting it away! Many shop owners will jump at the opportunity to see the eyesore disappear. And if anyone seems hesitant, you might offer to trade the whole pile for one of your finished bellows. Finally, if you encounter an individual who insists upon getting some cash, make a laughably low bid for the stuff. I've never had to pay more than $5.00 for a pile of material (and that was for a scrap heap big enough to produce 40 "blowers"!).
Then, as you head for the door with your treasures, ask if you can buy a bunch of decorative upholstery tacks. Most shops have box after box (each typically holding 1,000, which is enough to decorate over 20 bellows) of the fancy fasteners, in every style and color imaginable. A proprietor will probably sell you a box at (or a little above) wholesale. I've found that the brass-colored metal tacks (in size 1 or 2) are particularly good for use on most bellows, and a whole box of them will usually go for about $10 or $12, which is approximately a third of the cost of buying them by the card at the hardware or variety store. In fact, if the upholstery folks take a shine to you, they'll often throw in a handful of standard 1/2" carpet tacks (another necessity) for almost nothing!
Your next stop should be the best "bargain" hardware store you know of. Pick up a quart of contact cement (or a gallon, if you're really counting on a lot of business). Don't buy the little 4-ounce bottles: their cost per ounce is high, and they'll eat up your profits in no time!
With that out of the way, you have yet another obligatory stop, at the largest retail/wholesale plumbing or air-conditioning supply house in your area. Tell the folks there that you make and sell bellows, and that you want their best price for 1/2" × 1/2" male-to-male compression pipe couplers and 1/2" brass flare nuts. These items are used to make decorative nozzles for your blowers, with next to no manufacturing time required on your part. Get one coupler and one flare nut for every bellows you plan to make. Insist, too, on the classy-looking "extended" flare nuts with the smooth finish, as shown in the photos. (You may want to comparison shop for these; I've found them priced from 39¢ to 95¢ apiece.) Male-to-female air nozzles intended for spray equipment will also serve as handsome tips for your blaze blowers. And, once again, it never hurts to ask about the possibility of a trade—you'll be surprised (and pleased!) to discover how interested people become in bartering once they find out what your product can do!
Finally, while on your way home, drop by a few secondhand stores and check out their supplies. I've paid as little as 10¢ each for nozzles in trash bins, and good, old leather from wrecked or junked furniture or cars can be found, too. But only take quality materials, because your customers will know—and appreciate—the difference.
Now that your vehicle's straining under the weight of all the leather, vinyl, glue, tacks, and nozzles (for which you've probably spent $25, at most), it's time to head back to the homestead to set up your cottage industry.
Designing and Crafting the Fireplace Bellows
At last, you've come to the most fulfilling part of the bellows biz (next to pocketing the profits, that is): creating your own designs. Let your imagination flower (since it's subject only to the limitations imposed by the scrap leather and wood you've gathered). Keep in mind that your customers will want practical sizes (usually 14" to 20" long), with plenty of blow power. I've designed everything from a hefty, flounder-sized "pufferbelly," fit for a blacksmith's forge, to a svelte trout-shaped unit that went to an avid fisherman. Just be creative…after all, ideas are (ahem) blowing in the wind.
For your first attempt, however, you might want to stick with a basic model, in order to develop some time- and energy-saving techniques. First, outline an attractive-looking bellows on newspaper or light cardboard. (Don't forget to allow for the length of the nozzle when designing.) Then cut the pattern out and fold it in half lengthwise, down the center line, so that you can see whether the outline is symmetrical. With that done, open up the paper again and hold the bellows-to-be in your hand to get a feel for the design.
Once you're satisfied with the pattern, pick out a scrap board that's big enough to accommodate the bellows' two identical sides. Lay the paper pattern on the wood, trace it twice (once for each handle of the blower), and cut out the paddles. (Be sure to save all your successful paper patterns, because you might want to transfer them to thin wood stock so they'll stand up to repeated use when you're producing that model in quantity.)
Next, align the two halves and—using a rasp or file—trim off excess wood around the edges until the paddles are identical. If the wood will take a smooth finish, now's also the time to sandpaper the surfaces that will be exposed when the bellows is complete.
Then choose the most attractive paddle and set it aside for the moment. Take the other half and draw a center line the length of the piece. You'll want to drill two 5/8" holes along this line, one in the handle, equidistant from the end and the sides of the grip, and the other at a point about midway into the belly of the paddle. The first hole will later be fitted with a "hangup" thong, and the second will be part of the flapper valve that makes the tool work.
Now, take the "handsome" paddle you set aside, draw a center line as you did on the other component, and then pencil in another straight line, intersecting that first scribe at a right angle about 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches up from the narrow nozzle end of the bellows. Saw along the second line, then glue the severed endpiece to the matching portion of the paddle with the holes (see construction diagram).
When the adhesive is thoroughly dry, drill a 1/2" bore to accommodate the nozzle. The hole should pass through the very center of the nozzle end, in line with the joint of the two glued pieces, forming a tunnel that will bring the air from the bellows' interior to the metal nozzle you'll be installing later.
Applying the Finish
Before you continue construction, you'll want to put a nice finish on the wood. The best treatment I've encountered for rough, weathered lumber involves using a small propane torch and a stiff wire brush. Holding the torch head about an inch from the surface of the wood, draw the flame along the grain, overlapping your strokes as you move the fire back and forth. Keep the flame moving so it merely scorches the surface, making it smoke a bit. Using this technique, blacken the two exterior sides of the paddles, and also the inside surfaces of the handle grips. Then take the wire brush and scrape away the charcoal dust, working with the grain. This procedure raises a very attractive rustic pattern and leaves the wood a pleasant deep brown color. If you want to add yet more depth to the finish, wipe it down with some boiled linseed oil and let it dry.
When treating smoother surfaces and newer wood, you might want to simply coat the sanded surfaces with brown shoe polish (the paste kind) and rub it in well. On the other hand, if you want to produce a black, ebony-like finish, soak some rusty nails in white vinegar for a couple of weeks. Wait till the mixture begins foaming, and when it's ready, brush the liquid into the bellows' wood, it produces a great stain, and does so at no real expense to you. And of course, if you insist on spending money, you can use any of the commercially available wood stains and finishes. (Either Danish or tung oil works very well.)
Then again, if you're creative with oil or acrylic paints, you might try sketching simple regional landscapes on the front surface of the "good" paddle. That sort of artistic touch can turn a handcrafted implement into a real piece of folk art, and increase its sales price significantly.
Furthermore, if the bellows turns out to be particularly striking, why not autograph your work? Just use a black permanent-ink marking pen, the kind with the needle-sharp tip, to print the name and phone number of your company across the inner surface of the handle grip that doesn't have a hole. (After all, when the owner of one of your creations impresses his or her friends with the bellows' blow power, you'll want those folks to be able to find you so they can buy their own.)
Hinges and Flaps
Now, it's time to install the flapper valve and the hinge. Go through your leather and vinyl scraps and choose a piece that looks attractive with your wood finish. You'll need, at most, about 4 square feet of matching material to finish off the bellows (the exact amount will depend on the size of your design). The following is the easiest valve-making method that I've found. After cutting a small section about 1 1/2" square and a second piece that measures approximately 1 1/2" × 5", place the square—finished (or grain) side down—across the inside opening of the valve hole, with any two of its opposite corners aligned along the center scribe (see construction diagram). Next, use carpet tacks to secure the other two corners. Then place the longer strip of leather along the line in such a way that its center point rests over the middle of the square you've just attached. Tack its four corners down, and that's all there is to it!
In order to test the valve, put your mouth over the hole on the "exterior" side, and blow. A good value will let air through, but will prevent it from returning when you suck in.
Making the hinge is easy, too. Just cut a small square of leather or vinyl, the heavier, the better. Join the two sections of the cut-off paddle with the hinge piece, first using some contact cement (to assure long wear) and then some carpet tacks. A heavy-duty staple gun will also work well for attaching both the hinge and the valve, and will speed up the process, too.
Skirts and Boots
The care that you take in measuring and installing the leather skirt can make or break a bellows, so remember the magic word: pattern. Each of your designs will have its own unique shape, and you can't afford to waste good leather or vinyl, so cut out a paper pattern before you take scissors to your valuable material. No matter what the shape of your creation might be, the following method can be used to make its pattern.
Lay out a folded sheet of newspaper. Then measure the "back end" of your bellows, starting from the widest point of the belly of the paddle, going up over the shoulders and across the base of the grip, and then down again to the opposite widest point. Now, place the unclothed bellows on the paper, positioning the wide point of the belly exactly half that measured distance (it'll equal "A" in the pattern layout) in from the fold of the newspaper.
With that done, open the paddles so you have a good 5" to 6" gap between the ends of the handles. Be sure that both paddles are positioned at the same angle to the tip of the nose end, and are the same distance from the fold of the paper. (If you don't do this, you'll end up with too much material on one side of the finished product, with no place to put it!)
Trace along the edges of both sides of the bellows and draw another line about 1/2 inch out from the first. When you reach the widest point on either side, extend the scribe straight back to the fold of the paper. Then, at the nozzle end, bring the pencil lines straight out a good 4 inches.
The next step is to remove the bellows, cut along the outer line of the pattern, and open up the paper at the fold. To test the accuracy of your pattern, fold in the edge along the inner pencil line, and position the resulting paper skirt on the bellows to check the fit.
Once you're satisfied, reflatten the just-creased edge, trace the pattern onto the leather or vinyl, and cut out the skirt. Then fold down the skirt's 1/2" border all around and seal it in place with contact cement. (Always provide for plenty of ventilation when you're working with the glue.) This cemented "hem" will give the skirt a finished, professional look.
Next, you'll make the boot, a decorative cover that fits on the hinge and nozzle end. To do so, cut a piece of leather that's long enough to pass down over the hinge, across the bellows' nose, and up the same distance on the opposite side. Again, leave a 1/2" margin all around (see boot pattern).
Oftentimes, when working with leather, you'll find that one side of the hide has an attractive rough finish. When I have such a piece for the boot, I use it "as is." Otherwise, I tuck in the 1/2" hem on both the front and back boot edges, at the points where they meet the flat faces of the bellows. By cutting small notches as shown, you can easily fold the hem under and glue it down.
Finishing Touches
Now, you're ready to coat the skirt hems and the matching narrow side edges of the bellows' paddles with contact cement. Let them dry, and then carefully press the skirting into place along one paddle. Go on to do the same with the opposite half. (The glue assures that your bellows will be airtight all around, producing a real windmaker that will please the most demanding customer.) With that done, bring the extended ends of the skirt around and across the nose of the tool, and cut them off evenly where they meet over the midpoint of the nozzle hole.
The final steps are easy. Nail decorative upholstery tacks along the narrow edges (and across the boot lip, if you like the look), spacing them about 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches apart. (Be certain that they match, in both location and number, from one side to the other!) Cut out the piece of leather that blocks the nozzle opening, and—after coating the threaded end of the brass coupling piece with glue—twist that component into the hole. (You may need to use a wrench.) Then screw a flare nut onto the coupling. Cut a long thong from matching scrap leather, tie it through the hole in the grip, and you're ready to make those coals glow!
Starting Your Home Business
After you've made your first bellows, how, you might well ask, can you best use the newly acquired skill to make money blow your way?
Well, first dream up five or six different styles that you enjoy making, looking at, and using. Then, to produce these and future beauties efficiently, plan to make several at once. Cut enough paddles for, say, six finished blowers. You can assemble them, two at a time, at your leisure. While the glue on one is drying, you can proceed with the next step on the second bellows. After you get in a little practice, you should be able to assemble two windmakers in about an hour.
It's best to give each of your styles a colorful title, such as "Sirocco," "Zephyr," or "Blowhard," so merchants can order them by name. Come up with a memorable moniker for your business, too, it'll help folks remember, and recognize, your distinctive products. I chose "Buffalo Wind Bellows," a tag that I feel evokes images of the great Western outdoors.
The next step is to take color photographs of each style you make, and to place them in a small folder or album. Carry this sales tool—along with two or three samples of your favorite models—when you head out to market your wares to retailers.
If you wish, make up a single, photocopied page of instructions to give out with each purchase. (You might include simple suggestions on the care of wood and leather, as well.) This sheet will help keep the name and address of your business in the eyes of prospective buyers, retailers, and interested friends of those who've already discovered the delights of your product.
When setting your prices, you might want to check out the competition first. You'll find that there are very few bellowsmakers in this country, and the usually shoddy toys from overseas (which commonly cost from $15 to $30!) aren't likely to rival your quality creations. Figure your costs (they should average no more than $2.00 to $4.00 per implement), then time yourself—after you get the knack of construction—and decide just how much your hours are worth. (Be sure to take into consideration how much fun you're having making the tools.) Depending on the wood finish and the leather or vinyl used, my bellows sell from $15 to $35 each. Almost all of my raw materials are scrounged or traded, but the quality of workmanship would never reveal this "secret," and quality is what people really appreciate, and pay for.
How to Sell Your Bellows
The recently increased popularity of wood- and coal-burning heaters, cookstoves, and fireplace inserts has triggered a growing interest in bellows. Most folks buy the windmakers as gifts for fellow woodburners, so fall and winter are obviously the prime sales seasons. It's smart to approach retailers by late summer since that's when you'll catch them busily ordering for the winter, and you'll want to be sure that you make your sales before all their buying funds have been committed elsewhere!
Woodstove dealers will probably be the best retail outlets, but you'll often have to show the store owners just how efficient—and valuable—your product is. Many have never even used a bellows, and think that their modern heating devices don't need such old-fashioned fireside implements. A good way to sell these people on carrying your line of bellows is to let them see for themselves what a quality puffer can do. Go over the tool's uses with them, then try to get an order. Offer the free use of a bellows for a couple of weeks, under the stipulation that—if the dealer finds the device to be a great help in tending fires and a lot of fun to use—he or she will stock them for customers. And whether your offer is taken up or not, leave one bellows as a gift for the shop. That gesture will bring you far more than the value of the tool in goodwill and future sales.
When dealing with store owners, keep in mind that the retailer has to mark up his or her items 40% to 50%, so set a wholesale price for your bellows that will give the businessperson room to charge a reasonable retail price. I'd also suggest that you avoid consignment deals whenever possible; always try for a cash sale.
In addition to stove outlets, you can approach chainsaw dealers; hardware stores that sell woodburners, stovepipe, and such; and stores offering local arts and crafts. If you live in a tourist area, gift shops (even those in airports) are also likely marketing targets.
Of course, you don't have to rely exclusively on retailers. You might, for instance, join a craft guild and set up a booth at some of the larger craft fairs in your vicinity. (Your local chamber of commerce can usually supply you with the location, date, and sponsor of festivals near you.) Many arts and crafts fairs are now juried, with only the finest workmanship accepted for display, and shows are held almost year round. Visitors to these affairs tend to spend freely for unique gifts of real quality, and handcrafted wood-and-leather bellows usually win immediate interest (and sales).
Finally, as you did when designing your bellows, use your imagination to make your marketing efforts come to life. How about approaching firewood dealers, or chimney-sweeping firms? The growth of your business (and your enjoyment of it) will largely depend on the energy and thought you put into it. With a little inspiration and effort, and with beautiful, handcrafted bellows as your product, you can pocket extra cash, barter for other goods and services, and enjoy bringing a blast of fresh air into the world of small business!


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Two pieces recently published by the Rockford Register Star, a story by Kevin Haas, and an interview with Marc Miller, director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resource, highlighted the negative impacts of farm land being taken out of the Conservation Reserve Program and put back into crop production.
The Nov. 12 news story cited The Associated Press report that concludes that the environmental costs of plowing up grasslands and filling in wetlands are high. They are indeed.
Prior to settlement in the early 1800s, prairie dominated our region. By the 1890s, innovations in farming technology and the expansion of the railroads created an agricultural industry that plowed, drained and replanted much of the native prairie. Today less than .01 percent of Illinois' original prairie remains. The Nature Conservancy recognizes tallgrass prairie as the most diverse repository of species in the Midwest and habitat for some of its rarest species.
Grasslands and prairies are some of the most imperiled ecosystems in the world. These scarce natural communities are highly valuable for wildlife habitat and the ecological services they provide to human populations. Naturally vegetated lands anchor and regenerate our soils, infiltrate our drinking water, sequester carbon, protect rivers, control flooding and provide habitat for native plant and animal species. As vital grasslands, and the wetlands and marshes within them, continue to be destroyed we are losing our natural life support systems.
Some good news is that in northern Illinois local land preservation agencies, like the Winnebago County Forest Preserve District (WCFPD), are creating systems of restored natural communities that help mitigate the adverse effects of grasslands and wetlands lost to urban and agricultural land uses. By acquiring, restoring and managing tens of thousands of acres of land and water resources, the Winnebago County Forest Preserve District, the Boone County Conservation District, the Byron Forest Preserve District and the Natural Land Institute are supporting life in our region in very real ways.
WCFPD has restored approximately 2,900 acres of prairie and wetland habitat, which is managed on ongoing basis to create thriving natural communities. Additionally, WCFPD has restored and manages 3,000 acres of woodlands for a total of 5,900 acres in Winnebago County that is critical to rare and declining species — especially pollinators, reptiles and amphibians, and migratory bird species.
Combined with the 3,000 acres managed by the Boone County Conservation District, 3,000 protected by the Natural Land Institute, 1,500 restored by Byron Forest Preserve and 3,000 acres at Rock Cut State Park, our region reaps the benefits of a total of around 16,400 acres of revitalized natural land. This is a small fraction of our total land cover, but an invaluable one.
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DNR Director Miller referenced the threats of increased erosion and nutrient pollution in our waterways due to loss of CRP land. The more than 8,000 acres of naturally vegetated forest preserves along this county's four rivers reduce these threats to our rivers, the Mississippi River and even the Gulf of Mexico.
Illinois government is limited in what it can do to offset the detrimental effects of the national trend in loss of CRP land. Not all Illinois counties are fortunate enough to have a forest preserve district, conservation district or private land protection organization and they will continue to suffer the adverse impacts of diminishing conserved land.
The Winnebago County Forest Preserve District and our neighboring conservation partners are providing valuable solutions for north central Illinois. Support your local land preservation and conservation organizations. They are major contributors to this region's sustainable future.
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Heartbeat Adventure
Heartbeat Adventure is a new club on the block organising adrenalin related adventures for individuals and corporate as well.
This will be the club to bring similar interest people together. It will be a club not only to organise but also where people can join as members, receive benefits as member, share photos, videos and their adventure.
This contest is to design the home page, about us, the product information, and the registration page and contact us of the heartbeat website. Eventually will add photos, videos, testimonial and comment pages etc. The home page is the most critical and should set the design tone for the additional pages.
Follow on work may be available on design extensions.
The heartbeat adventure is for people who are up for a one-off adrenalin experience or an on-going adventure junkie. Mainly targeted to 20-40 years, male and females but also whoever who has been dreaming and wishing they could experience such adrenalin even just once in their life.
I would like the target audience to be proud to be associated with the club, to think they are cool to be a member.
I am looking for a website that represents style yet fun. The name - Heartbeat represents adrenalin or to do something close to your heart.
I don't want any design to look:
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4) No cartoons
I would like the website to represent
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3) Edgy
4) Rough
5) Adventure
6) Style
At this stage, the website will have these:
- Home
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An idea - the BIG compass star (as per the logo) to be on the front page by itself - shining or glowing whatever - but not too strong.
And when you move the cursor on one of the pointer, e.g. "about us" will appear but have to click on it to go to the page - if that makes any sense.
Having said that, please feel free to throw in your ideas, design, colours, style and layouts.
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CHAPEL HILL — A former interim dean of UNC-Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences has sent a letter to Chancellor Carol Folt and Provost Jim Dean, challenging their claims that the university was not admitting athletes unable to read at a high-school level.
Madeline Levine, a highly honored professor emeritus, said that as a dean, she was made aware of instances in which the university has admitted athletes with substantial academic challenges, including one she suspected was "functionally illiterate" during her tenure.
Levine also accused the university of resisting efforts to get to the bottom of a long-running academic fraud scandal that is drawing sustained national attention since it made The New York Times' front page on New Year's Day. She said Dean took the wrong tack two weeks ago in publicly lambasting whistle-blower Mary Willingham, a former learning specialist in the athletes' tutoring program. Willingham said her research found that more than half of 183 athletes specially tested for learning deficiencies over an eight-year period could not read at a high-school level.
"Mary Willingham was courageous in speaking out about her experience as a reading specialist and academic counselor for such students," Levine wrote. "It is appalling that the highest officials at UNC — before it became clear that attacking a whistle-blower is not a smart PR move — mounted a concerted public attack on the accuracy of Ms. Willingham's statistical analysis and, by implication, against her personally, while steadfastly refusing to engage with the core issue that concerns her: the exploitation of student-athletes and the concomitant abuse of the academic values by which a great university should live."
Levine, 71, is the highest-profile UNC official to challenge the university over its handling of the scandal. She served as interim dean in the 2006-07 academic year, is a professor of Slavic languages and twice has headed that department. She won the university's Thomas Jefferson Award in 2005, an honor given by the faculty to the professor whose "teaching, writing and scholarship" best reflects the ideals and objectives of the nation's third president.
Folt and Dean could not be reached for comment. Both took their positions in mid-2013, well after the scandal was exposed, but now have the responsibility to try to set the university on the proper course.
On Thursday, Folt responded to Levine in an email, saying she valued the input and was passing the comments along to Dean and to athletic director Bubba Cunningham. "I can assure you that I and the new leadership team take the past athletic and academic issues very seriously," Folt wrote. "We also want to be clear in saying that we accept accountability for the past and are continuing to learn as a community from those painful lessons."
Last week, Folt said the university admits responsibility for the scandal and acknowledged it had an athletic component with the disproportionate number of athletes enrolled in the no-show classes. She said UNC needs to get to the bottom of the scandal, but she did not provide specifics as to how she would do that.
Dean, meanwhile, had a similar message Saturday when he traveled to New York City and met with a Bloomberg Businessweek assistant managing editor, Paul Barrett, who has written several columns this month chastising UNC over its handling of the scandal. Barrett reported that Dean was launching an internal study into the history of the African and Afro-American Studies Department, which is at the heart of the scandal, and was also going to look into athletes' clustering in certain majors and courses.
UNC spokeswoman Karen Moon said Dean's plans do not rise to the level of another probe.
"The University has not launched a new investigation into the past academic irregularities," she said in an emailed statement. "What … Dean is doing with the department is looking at historical research. As part of a new leadership team that started last July, he's interested in better understanding the formation of the department as part of our ongoing efforts to assess the overall academic environment at the University."
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In interviews, Levine has said she did not know about the no-show classes at the heart of the scandal. A UNC-backed investigation found more than 200 lecture-style classes confirmed or suspected of having never met, that date back into the mid 1990s. Students were typically assigned a paper to be turned in at the end, and the investigation found little evidence those papers were read. They almost always received high grades.
Athletes accounted for 45 percent of the enrollments, well above their proportion in the student body.
But Levine wrote in her letter that she had concerns while she was interim dean that the university was admitting athletes who could not do college-level work.
"During the year that I served as interim dean I was made aware of the serious academic deficiencies that some of our newly recruited athletes would have to overcome if they were ever to succeed at UNC," Levine wrote. "From what I was told … I thought it highly probable that one of these students was functionally illiterate."
She wrote that she went to the university provost, who was then Bernadette Gray-Little, now chancellor at the University of Kansas.
She said she was "told what I already knew – that the decision had been made to grant special admission to this student and there was nothing to be done about it by then. That was true, but I still feel guilty that I let the matter drop and did not publicly express my dismay."
Gray-Little could not be reached. A spokesman, Jack Martin, said Gray-Little does not remember talking to Levine about the issue.
N&O seeks data
Levine has not seen Willingham's data on athletes' reading levels, and admitted the possibility that it could be flawed. Dean, in a presentation before the faculty council meeting, said Willingham had misread vocabulary scores from a Scholastic Abilities Test for Adults in such a way that she had overstated the athletes' reading challenges. He called her research "a travesty."
Dean did not describe all of Willingham's research. He did not tell the faculty that the athletes were also given a written component of the SATA test in which Willingham said some also performed poorly.
The College Board, which administers the SAT test for high school students, said the SATA test is commonly used to measure a student's academic achievement in reading.
Willingham said she stands by her work, but the university's institutional review board, which oversees research, stopped her out of a fear she had not removed information that would identify individual athletes. The board told her she needed to get its approval in order to continue. The N&O is seeking the data from UNC and Willingham.
In an interview Wednesday, Levine said Dean's presentation amounted to an attempt to misdirect the public away from the larger issue of the long-standing academic fraud, how it started and festered for so many years, and how it helped academically challenged athletes maintain their eligibility to play sports. She called for an independent investigation.
"The evidence has been there, and it's been there prior to (Willingham) going public," Levine said. "But it's a tried and true diversionary measure to just angle in on something small and try to distract attention from something much larger behind it."


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Jason Cone said something about Lenoir County Schools� approach to autism was unique.
The behavior psychologist with Behavior Consultation and Psychological Services � the company that partners with LCS autism specialists � has worked with the school system for six years and said officials understand that both social and academic skills have to be addressed in autistic students.
�A lot of times when we go into schools systems, the county is really concerned about their academic growth,� Cone said. �Lenoir County is not only concerned about that but understands that for students with autism, they have a social communication disorder.�
He said it�s important these students learn social skills and ways to communicate, and the earlier, the more effective.
�That�s just as vital as teaching them those math skills or those science skills,� Cone said. �I think (LCS) does a good job of understanding that with their students.�
LCS has recognized National Autism Awareness Month this April by selling bracelets, posting flyers and addressing the topic during this month�s school board meeting.
However, the most significant acknowledgement was hiring a second autism specialist to serve the 106 children in the school system identified with autism.
�We need to be in classrooms and the schools even more,� said Danielle Stroud, LCS Exceptional Children�s program director. �We can only do but so much. We�ve added another position, so we�ve doubled our resources.�
Julia Shaw started as an autism specialist Monday to join Betty Pelletier.
As the only previous designated autism personnel in the LCS, Pelletier was responsible for individualized learning plans for students, classroom observations after teachers made referrals and home visits � all of which she was often accompanied by a representative from Behavior Consultation and Psychological Services.
The team also prepares specialized learning plans for each student with autism using evidence-based research.
�Every child with autism is different,� Pelletier said. �We need to make the public aware. If you see this child screaming and having a fit in the mall, they may not just be a bad child having a temper tantrum. This child may have autism and all the lights and noises are too much for him to handle.�
The schools try to identify students with autism by his or her eighth birthday, unless there is a clear indication of the disorder.
Some preschool students are considered developmentally delayed, and although they�ve showed signs and characteristics of autism, they haven�t been identified as autistic.
Stroud said there are 14 signs of autism that are good indicators for parents, including inappropriate laughing or giggling or echoing words and phrases.
�(Parents) know we�re bringing them the resources and we�re doing the work to help find solutions for their kids,� she said. �If we�re truly going to be successful, the home and the school need to be on the same page and following the same kinds of programs.�
Dana Woods is a parent who took the initiative to start an Autism Society Chapter after her 9-year-old son Twhy Craig was diagnosed with autism five years ago.
�The school has helped,� she said, �but I feel as a parent, he needs extra. We can�t just rely on the school; you have to do outside research.�
She said Twhy has been in various therapy classes and she networks with other parents during appointments.
She noticed there were limited autism resources when she moved back to her hometown of Kinston after living in Georgia, which motivated her to start the Lenoir-Jones Counties Chapter of the Autism Society.
�As a parent, I like being an advocate,� Woods said.
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- Some scientists have argued that dinosaur fed only on dead things
- Researchers say fossil of dinosaur tail with tooth in it proves otherwise
- Tyrannosaurus rex was among top feeders, Kansas paleontologist says
Was Tyrannosaurus rex a predator or scavenger? The question has been a point of controversy in the scientific community for more than a century.
"You see 'Jurassic Park,' and you see T. rex as this massive hunter and killer, as incredibly vicious. But scientists have argued for 100 years that he was too big and too slow to hunt prey and that he was probably a scavenger, an animal that feeds only on dead things," University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham said.
Burnham and researcher Robert DePalma got what Burnham described as his "lucky break" when they found the fossil of a duckbill dinosaur's tail with a tooth in it.
"The features of the tooth are like fingerprints, and we were able to identify it as T. rex," he said.
They took the fossil to be analyzed at the University of Kansas and for a CT scan at the local hospital, where the doctor told them, "It's too late for your patient."
But Burnham was thrilled at what the fossilized bones told him about the life of the duckbill.
"We were giddy like schoolkids," he said. "This now returns T. rex as a predator. So the monsters that we see in dinosaurs are real. They did go chasing after things, kill them and eat them. They actively pursued live prey."
The mystery was solved.
"Our evidence is new because we have a T. rex tooth inside a duckbill dinosaur, that bit it so hard and so viciously that the tooth broke off, the duckbill dinosaur got away, and over the next few years, the wound healed," Burnham explained.
He determined that the duckbill lived long after the attack by comparing the time it took for the bone to heal around the wound with studies done on modern animals.
"Before our evidence, everybody was looking at bite marks and tooth punctures on dinosaur bones and using that evidence for both theories of predation and scavenging. They were using the same bit of evidence to argue both sides," Burnham said.
For Burnham, the discovery brought to life the behaviors of these legendary creatures and proved the T. rex's place in the prehistoric world.
"Here is T. rex, one of the biggest animals ever known, 5-foot-long skull, 40 feet long nose to tail and weighed 7 tons. What were these guys doing in the ecosystem? Now we know they were the top feeders."
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Eritrea: End Doesn't Justify Tyranny
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In an editorial posted on the government-owned website of the Ministry of information on September 1, the interim governmental authority in Eritrea has charged the US with pursuing a policy of "brutal Machiavellian principle of 'The End Justifies The means'."
Well, how else does the authoritarian regime of Isaias Afewerki explain and justify the maintenance of its repressive grip on and sole authority to reign over our country, Eritrea? Is it not by the same brutal modus operandi that it is now charging the US with employing? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
After nipping the national constitution in the bud and quarantining it into oblivion a decade ago, where does the tyrannical regime of Isaias Afewerki draw its authority and legitimization from? How does it act and speak on behalf of the people and country of Eritrea at all if not for the barrel of the gun?
It is an open secret that in Eritrea, constitutional governance has long been trashed, been subjected to mockery and, yes, been replaced by the brutal Machiavellian principle of the end justifies the means.
The tyrannical regime of Afewerki points to sound accomplishments as the end that would justify the brutal means of governance. National and international media are inundated with daily reporting of even trivial accomplishments of Afewerki's totalitarian regime to that effect, as a means to shift focus away from terror that has befallen our country, and as a ploy to feign societal normalcy.
The Afewerki regime perpetuates this "brutal Machiavellian principle of 'the end justifies the means'" by ruling without restrains of the national constitution, parliament, political opposition, rule of law, accountability, freedom of speech and more.
And in order to enforce conformity, Afewerki's ruling party, PFDJ, penetrates the entire country through regional, provincial, local and "primary" (party-cell) organization. Youth, professional, cultural, and sports groups supplement the party's political control.
A paramilitary secret police ensures compliance. Information and ideas are effectively organized through the control of television, radio, the press, and education at all levels.
Isaias Afewerki's "brutal Machiavellian principle of 'the end justifies the means'" is not limited to national issues only. Afewerki's foreign policy is also guided by this same approach.
Eritrea's efforts to seek harmony and peace between and among the nations in the Horn of Africa--Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan--and to strive for the stability and security of the region is a very noble cause that deserves all the credit and is worth every endeavor in the world.
But this noble goal, or end, does not justify the means; Afewerki's egomaniacal and tyrannical unilateral actions and dictates. That is what's getting Eritrea's tyrant Afewerki into trouble with others including the US, not his ostensibly noble intentions.
Regional problems mandate regional solutions first and foremost and if necessary need to be reconciled with the interests of continental and international stakeholders. No one is and can be against Eritrea for trying to help the Somalis, the Ethiopians or the Sudanese. But every one is rightly against Isaias Afewerki's tyrannical means of attaining this laudable goal because the end, regardless how noble it might be, does not justify the means.
I salute the editorial board of shabait.com for recognizing that "the end" does not "justify the means" and I hope they mean what they say and communicate to president Isaias Afewerki that paving the way for constitutional governance in Eritrea, is the only way forward.
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"Game of Thrones" closed out its fourth season on Sunday with skeleton warriors, sorcery, dragons and murder. One thing it didn't have was pirates -- Davos Seaworth is reformed. Those were only in the real world. According to the website TorrentFreak, the finale episode became the most pirated show on TV, surpassing the series' own record.
In the 12 hours following the show's Sunday night debut, 1.5 million people downloaded pirated versions of the episode through various sites. It's expected that number will grow to 7.5 million in the coming days and weeks.
TorrentFreak also found that, according to the Demonii torrent tracker, 254,114 people were downloading the same torrent file at the same time. That is a new world record for a single torrent. The previous record was 200,000 people sharing a single file, which was, once again, a "Game of Thrones" episode.
"Game of Thrones" was the most pirated show of 2013, with the third season finale getting 5.9 million downloads. This year looks on track to beat that, meaning that "Game of Thrones" will likely be the most priated TV show of 2014 as well.
HBO reported the season finale had 7.1 million subscriber viewers on Sunday night. Adding in the multiple airings that night, the audience grew to 9.3 million. It was 32% higher than last season's finale in 2013.
The global fandom of the series, and a delay in airing around the world, helps fuel the piracy. Many of the downloads were from countries other than the U.S., where "Game of Thrones" airs well after the American premiere.
Last August, Jeff Bewkes, chief executive of Time Warner, HBO's parent company, said on an earnings call that the word of mouth from being the most pirated show in the world was "better than an Emmy."


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One of my all time favorite trips was to Edinburgh Scotland...It was so unlike anywhere else I had visited including the areas of England I'd been too. One of the aspects of the city that I found so fascinating was the history, the ghostly, unexplainable stories and legends that are so much a part of the Royal Mile, the hub of the ghastly goings on which have been talked and written about for centuries. Back to those later...
The city itself was exciting, all the people hustling and bustling through the streets as we took in all the sights...
And those sights? There are so many of them, but none can compare with the sight of Edinburgh Castle...what an imposing structure that is, as it sits above the city, looking quite mysterious, lending a truly a theatrical and almost surreal feel to the town, including the very beginnings of the spot where it was built, on the site of a dead volcano, called Castle Rock.
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Inside the Castle people flock to visit tiny St. Margaret's chapel, which had been built in the 12th century and, not to be missed, are the States apartments, the most popular one, the bedroom where Queen Mary, Queen of Scots, gave birth to James VI, who later became James the first, King of England. Another room you just can't miss is the Crown Chamber, here you find on display the Royal Crown, the Sword of Scotland and the Royal Scepter. But the most eerie are the French Prisons. where huge storerooms had been turned into a prison and a dungeon during the 18th century, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Napoleons soldiers were imprisoned there. During their captivity they carved their initials and pictures onto the walls, still visible today. Napoleonic graffiti!
On the other side of the Royal Mile, Edinburgh's oldest street, is the Palace of Holyrood...this palace is filled with mysterious hidden chambers where all sorts of strange goings on took place, including murders and political intrigues throughout the centuries. Today, the Queen of England still takes her yearly trips to the Palace and, during those visits, tourists aren't allowed in. You can tell when she is there by the royal flag displayed above the palace. We were lucky to have been there when she wasn't there so we had a most interesting tour of the place including the old ruined Abbey...these ruins are quite a sight and has some very interesting stories to tell as well.
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But I've decided to concentrate on what seemed to intrigue me the most, The Royal Mile itself with all the spine chilling legends of witches, ghouls, ghosts, and quite a few really disturbing tales of the mile. Most of which remain unexplained!
If you have any interest at all in ghostly doings, witches and things that go bump in the night then the Royal Mile is a walk you must take....This famous mile, an old cobbled street, runs from the Castle to the Palace and, in every nook and cranny, there are stories to be told of the past...The historial John Knox house, from the 15th century, is certainly interesting to tour, Knox began the Presbyterian Church of Scotland with all the reforms that went with it and did not make the citizens very happy at the time...this is the only original Timbered house left and the hand painted ceilings inside are still intact...Knox is buried on the property.
You can also tour the Gladstone Estate from the 17th century..once owned by a merchant of great wealth, the tour shows off the original furnishings and decorations, all quite elaborate, demonstratring the taste of the times...Gladstone Estate is run by the National Trust and conveys the feeling that it's still lived in today.
There are quite a few other historic sights to see on this Royal Mile but it was the alleyways and the small neighborhoods called "The Close", where strange goings on have always intrigued those who have been there...myself included!
These alleys leading off the main street certainly have had their share of "ghostly going's on....The most famous is called Mary Kings Close....It was here that the plague struck very hard, killing more people than anywhere else during the epidemic of 1645...in order to prevent the disease from spreading the magistrate sealed off the Close so, all those poor unfortunates, who were within the enclosure were trapped and doomed to death.
|Nothing like a little fog to make a castle more eary
Those who were outside couldn't get in either so more tenements were hastily built for the destitute but eventually the homeless made their way back inside the Close...Soon strange ghost stories were told, folks who died of the disease were seen again, more and more stories came out, even about dogs that fell sick, roaming the streets. It became so bad, that the Close was eventually abandoned. Then a fire broke out destroying all that had been left behind to decay and rot.....Now there is a big gate where once the entranceway stood leading off into different directions.......Nobody but nobody is allowed in, but there are whispers in the night, are they keeping us out? Or something in?
Another tale that has been documented has to do with music which seems to come from under the ground The story goes like this: once there was an underground tunnel that ran from the castle dungeon all the way to the Palace...a young piper was told to explore the pathway and was ordered play the entire time, so those above could follow him. But, only halfway through, the music stopped. This poor young man was never seen again... It is said that pipe music can be heard today.
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Other stories are rampant. One, called the death coach...a ghostly wagon is recorded in some old documents as being seen, just before a disaster strikes, galloping from the Palace to the Castle led by a headless horse, breathing fire as it races through the streets.
There was always something strange going on in and around the Mile. Our story wouldn't be complete without a tale of witches. Edinburgh was once thought to be the principal center for witchcraft. Between 1479 and 1722, more than 300 women were burned to death on Castle hill after being found guilty of "working with the devil". Today a plaque in a wall at the foot of the esplanade, opposite Cannonball house, marks the spot. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Presbyterians of Scotland, under strong Puritan influence, gave the go ahead for the burning, no matter how flimsy the evidence.
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Most of the women had probably never committed a crime, but we have to remember, those ancestors were extremely superstitious and truly believed that some seemingly ordinary women took the form of old hags at nightfall, to fly through the air on brooms, dispensing evil spells like confetti. They were not allowed any defense and were always proven guilty. Even some men were considered witches and were similarly punished.
Edinburgh is also famous for some very heinous crimes and murders...In 1827-1828, two men, Burke and Hare, are said to have strangled 16 people, at least, in order to sell the bodies for medical experiments and research...at first corpses were dug up from graves but those gruesome men decided it was easier to kill then to dig...
And, last but not least, one of the most famous pubs, Deacon Brodies Tavern, opened in 1806, (which is pointed out when you are on a tour), has another myth most of us have heard about...Deacon Brodie, the owner of this tavern, is said to be the inspiration of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous book, "The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"....Brodie was a model citizen by day but at night he was said to be a thief and probably a murderer....He ended up being hung in October, 1778.....today, the tavern is a very popular one for locals and of course visitors, many who come just to say they have been there, to the house of Dr. Jekyll.
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The Castle itself has many stories of strange sightings and things that go bump in the night...It would be no surprise since so many people had been murdered or just disappeared after being brought to the dungeon.
It seems to me that if ghoulish happenings, unexplained noises, witches tales and strange disappearances seem to happen often along this famous Royal Mile, they shouldn't come as any surprise...with all that went on for so many centuries, I certainly wouldn't want to be there alone, on All Hallows Eve, or, at any time, for that matter...Would you?


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Today is the day of International Worker Solidarity
Original post made by Wokers of the World Unite, another community, on May 1, 2013
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a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on May 1, 2013 at 1:28 pm
"President Obama's promise ... to transform the United States into a socialist country modeled after Scandinavian Socialism"
Fringe freaks, trolling for a response. Do not feed the trolls.
But I'd love to see that promise! Show the quote?
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on May 3, 2013 at 1:25 pm
I doubt if there was a quid pro quo between President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. The president is so committed to socialism that no promises needed to be made. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee was so elated that it found its foil that it knew Obama would serve up Socialism without any encouragement on its part. Obama is a man on a mission and that mission is to push the United States to Socialism as quickly as possible.
a resident of Atherton: other
on May 3, 2013 at 2:14 pm
The socialist has taken down capitalism and the free market and businesses have suffered SO MUCH!!!
DOW Breaks 15,000.
Yeah, business and captalism will never be the same....
Of course, political observer buys all his products from Communist China....
What a bunch of trolls.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on May 3, 2013 at 6:52 pm
The only reason the stock market is doing so well is the Fed at the direction of Obama is keeping interest rates artificially low. That means there is a flight of cash from bonds to stocks because bonds are offering moribund returns.
Obama is doing this to monetize the debt. The U.S. Government is the largest borrower of money in the world so interest rates are are being kept artifically low by the FED (Has anyone bought T-Bills lately?) This is done to keep the interest paid on our national debt low. But the debt is so staggering the interest paid on that debt even at the unprecedented low rates is like a runaway train. So more and more budget is being allocated to pay off interest which crowds out needed spending.
The U.S. national debt is currently 16 Trillion 845.8 Billion Dollars. When Obama took office the debt was 10 Trillion 626.9 Billion Dollars. The debt has increased 6.2 Trillion dollars under Obama's watch (4 years and 4 1/2 months). By comparison the national debt increased $4.9 trillion dollars on Bush 43 over an 8 year period.
All those poor saps under the age of 30 who voted for him because he was so cool will be left holding the bag. The thirty and under generation will be the first geneartation with a lower standard of living than their parents and they have Obama to thank for that.
a resident of Atherton: other
on May 4, 2013 at 7:06 am
Poster No Free Lunch - please show the links to your posts complaining about Bush when he dounbled the national debt.
And kept artificially low rates.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on May 4, 2013 at 7:32 am
I am not your research assistant. But if you do the math you can easily see that Bush 43 did not double the national debt. You can also see that if Obama continues on the same course he will more than double the national debt and will come close to running up more than 3 and 1/2 times as much debt as Bush 43 did in his 8 years. In fact I am willing to bet you that Obama will run up 4 times or more debt than Bush did.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on May 4, 2013 at 12:50 pm
He called you a hypcrite for not showing links to your posts objecting about Bush doubling thedebt from 5 to 10 trillion, fter being given a budget surplus from Clinton
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 4, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Reagan tripled the debt from 900B to 2.7 trillion
Bush 1 added a trillion to 4 trillion
Clinton added a trillion to 5 trillion
But Clinton balanced two budgets and left a surplus for Bush (~$120 billion surplus for Bush)
Bush II doubled the debt from 5 trillion to ten trillion -- while giving America it's first trillion dollar deficit
If someone didn't make a post about Bush doubling the debt, then it's obviously hypocritical to be whining now. I looked in the 2008 posts and do NOT see any posts from poster No Free Lunch, nor any of the libertarian or conservatives who have moaned about Obama for the last 4 years.
Prove me and the above posters wrong about your hypocrisy --- share the link to your posts about Bush.
Hypocrites? or ahead of your time?
Prove it.
a resident of another community
on May 4, 2013 at 5:57 pm
Oh Lordy -- clearly the local Republicans aren't very good at political satire or humor.
These attacks on Obama as a "Socialist' are pathetic and unsophisticated -- and not even a good cover for local racism.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on May 5, 2013 at 7:46 am
Slow to non-existent economic growth has become the new Obama standard thanks to his growth-stagnating policies that have produced an economy that consistently underperforms expectations. This is Socialism at it finest and an economy on life support.
When Obama first took office in January 2009, he forecasted 4% GDP growth for 2011 and 2012, as did most economists.
Unfortunately the actual results are a moribund 1.8% growth in 2011 and an anemic 2.2% in 2012.
Just last summer, Obama was bragging that Q4-over-Q4 growth in 2012 would be 2.6%. The result is a very disappointing 1.5%. The political Reverend Ike cons us once again.
Now with Obama's Socialism kicking in, stoked by gargantuan tax hikes, his regulators are once again dancing around the Maypole, while ObamaCare's ominous storm clouds are looming ever so closely over the horizon.
With Obama deficits expected to top $1 trillion for the fifth consecutive year, why should anyone be surprised if the economy underperforms again in 2013? And the Keynesian coma becomes ever deeper as our quality of life continues to diminish while liberals drink the Kool Aid in vain attempts to forget their folly.
Socialism is the last refuge of a liberal. It makes conservative "scoundrels" look rather respectable these days. Libs should just "roll another one just like the other one"
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 5, 2013 at 9:33 am
Post removed. Lets tone down the rhetoric and stop the personal attacks.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 5, 2013 at 2:03 pm
@freelunch moves the goalposts from debt to GDP
Jobs are the key to GDP growth, as jobs are also key to increasing revenues and decreasing deficits; look at the jobs numbers for the last 8 Aprils:
April 2006: + 181,000 Bush
April 2007: + 76,000 Bush
April 2008: - 215,000 Bush
April 2009: - 704,000 Lingering effects of Bush Great Recession
April 2010: + 229,000 Obama policies take effect
April 2011: + 304,000 Obama
April 2012: + 112,000 Obama (numbers decline due to GOP debt ceiling threats)
April 2013: + 165,000 Obama (numbers decline due to layoffs from sequester)
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on May 5, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Heyward Robinson would be a much better president than Obama. Mary Jo Borak would be a great vice president. Paul Collacchi would be a great secretary of transportation. And of course having Gail Slocum heading up the EPA would be a no brainer. Menlo Park has some real talent.
a resident of Portola Valley: Portola Valley Ranch
on May 5, 2013 at 7:03 pm
Thanks to the posters who went back and searched the threads from 2008 and Jan 2009 looking for posts from all these moaners and whiners complaining about the national debt, and found that none of the hypocrites had actually posted any comments at all about BVush doubling the national debt.
So according to No Free Liunch, it's okay for Bush and the GOP to double the national debt after being given a surplus, but omigosh, if that ##### guy does it, he's a SOCIALIST!!!!
To be fair, it wasn't Bush alone that said Clinton's surplus' were paying the national debt off too fast, he had help from that fraud Greenspan: (Jan 2001) "The most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade. This is in marked contrast to the perspective of a year ago when the elimination of the debt did not appear likely until the next decade."
So Greenspan blessed Bush's policies of taking the annual surplus left by Clinton, and essentially doubling the national debt over the next 8 years.
When it could have been paid off instead. For No Free Lunch to blame Obama for the debt to be inherited by "the thirty and under generation will be the first geneartation" is grossly disingenuous, if not a flat out lie.
Bush not only left us with a doubled national debt (after getting a surplus) his recession left the next president with a -8% GDP and job losses of almost a million jobs lost per month.
The Under Thirties ought to be ticked off alright... and they are!
That's why Obama won in a landslide.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on May 5, 2013 at 8:29 pm
Obama's win had more to do with who he ran against than the other nonsense posted above. Had Romney actually been able to project something CONSISTENTLY as to who he was and what he was going to do, he might have had an actual chance. But he couldn't. So, sorry, Obama's win had less to do with what his policies might be and what Bush's policies were than who he ran against. Just sayin'...let's keep things honest. They both suck.
a resident of Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda
on May 5, 2013 at 8:57 pm
Evidence and facts that Bush and the GOP were handed a surplus that would have in about a decade virtually PAID OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT, is called "nonsense"?!? Yet conservatives now moan about the big debt being handed to our grandkids?
Bush in 2001: "Last month George Bush told Congress that his administration would pay off as much of the public debt as it could, which meant paying off just over $2 trillion over the next ten years. The rest—the irreducible minimum—he said was $1.15 trillion." Web Link
Instead of reducing the debt to a paltry $1.5 trillion, Bush ballooned it to $10 trillion and left the country in the worst recession since the Great Depression. How can someone call those damning facts "nonsense"?!? Bush was an unmitigated disaster.
Americans didn't cast aside Romney because he "sucked" (per Menlo Voter) or because he flip flopped; Americans cast Romney aside because he was just another Bush -- he used the Bush economic team in his campaign. America cannot afford Republicans and their phony trickle down economics.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on May 5, 2013 at 9:26 pm
we can't afford the Democrats and their "whatever" either. The Democrats and Republicans are opposite sides of the same coin. Neither party has the best interest of the county at heart. They are both beholden to special interests. They are BOTH screwing us. Be advised, those of you from either side that try to claim one is worse than the other are just blinded by your own partisan demagoguery.
a resident of Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda
on May 5, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Menlo Voter: while some of your opinion is valid (campaign finance reform, giveaways to corporations, and of course, the recent mockery that was the FAA vote) I think you belittle the differences at our country's peril. Just off the top of my head, a few differences:
- A women's right to choose: huge differences between the parties
- equality: huge differences
- taxes: huge differences (Dems favor progressive, Repubs favor flat)
- fair pay protections for women: significant differences
- minimum wage and worker protections: significant differences
- environmental protection, clean water, clean air: significant differences
- economy: as outlined in posts above, just look at the differences between Clinton (surplus) and Bush (doubling the national debt after promising to virtually eliminate it)
- sensible gun legislation: significant differences
- feeding poor children so they stand a chance in school: significant differences
If I listened to your opinion, I'd think there is no difference. That doesn't mean I don't seek significant change in the party I favor, either.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on May 6, 2013 at 7:14 am
of course there are "differences." The differences are in what way each party is screwing us over. You're clearly a democrat, so I don't expect you to get it any more than I expect a republican to get it. You're too wed to the supposed "ideals" of your party.
a resident of Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda
on May 6, 2013 at 9:13 am
A Simply Fabulous Response!!!!!!!!!!
You're one of THEM, so You Clearly Don't Get It. (how did THAT ONE work in debate class?!!?)
Never mind actual history and factual evidence, "You're too wed to the supposed "ideals" of your party" to get what those of us who don't live in the reality based world know so much better than you sheep!!!
Mr/Ms Menlo Voter: are you saying Nancy is wrong about a woman's right to choose? That Republicans are the same as Democrats?
Are you saying that Republicans favor your closeted gay grandson's right to marry the person he loves?
Are you saying that WJ Clinton's surplus is the same as GW Bush's deficits?
Who's drinking the Koolaid now? How's it taste?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on May 6, 2013 at 9:40 am
"The differences are in what way each party is screwing us over." That bit of blindness glosses over some realities.
How is a budget surplus "screwing us over"?
How is equality and the right to marry "screwing us over"?
How is asking criminals, convicts and the insane to undergo a universal background check to buy a semi-automatic "screwing us over"?
How is funding Head Start and cancer clinics "screwing us over"?
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 14, 2013 at 1:02 pm
Our first trillion dollar deficit was Geaorge Bush's.
Poster No Free Lunch lied with his statement: "With Obama deficits expected to top $1 trillion for the fifth consecutive year..."
From the CBO today:
"If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year—at 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—will be less than half as large as the shortfall in 2009, which was 10.1 percent of GDP."
$642 Billion.
The lowest since the start of the Bush Great Recession.
No Free Lunch lied about a trillion dollar deficit.
We need to invest in jobs, education and infrastructure to continue to enhance revenues and further reduce the deficit.
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DETROIT -- Brandon Morrow led the American League in strikeouts per nine innings in 2011, and he fanned eight Cleveland Indians over six innings in his last start. He had nine two-strike counts out of 21 batters against the Tigers on Tuesday, but no strikeouts.
Morrow had eight guys reach base with two outs in an inning. His day ended with two outs in the fourth inning when Miguel Cabrera cleared them.
That, as much as anything, might tell the story about the offense in the Tigers' 7-3 win over the Blue Jays at Comerica Park. On a day the Tigers welcomed school field trips to Comerica Park for their Math Day promotion, they leveraged the numbers.
The Tigers had plenty of other statistics, too, from Cabrera's second four-hit performance in three games to Prince Fielder's four times on base to Torii Hunter's three hits to reach 2,000 for his career. But they had very few bad at-bats.
The Tigers missed out on chances to add on, leaving the bases loaded against Morrow in the third inning and failing to convert a bases-loaded, no-out opportunity against Esmil Rogers in the seventh. Yet on a day when Anibal Sanchez struck out eight Jays over seven innings of two-run ball, they did plenty.
"This lineup, it's amazing," Sanchez said. "That's why I took the decision to come back here. I know that we have a pretty good team. I know that right now we have Victor [Martinez] out, but if you put out that lineup, I think everybody has to play harder. They have to play hard with us."
Morrow threw 52 of his 83 pitches for strikes, but lasted just 3 2/3 innings, giving up five runs on nine hits. He had plenty of quality pitches to get ahead of hitters, but nothing to finish them off.
"I kept throwing my slider in the dirt," Morrow said. "I tried to make an adjustment that last at-bat to Hunter and left it up a little bit. They just weren't biting on the stuff when I was ahead in the count. They got back into some counts, I left some pitches over the plate when I was ahead, and that was kind of the whole game."
The Tigers, in turn, made him pay. Four of the five runs they scored off Morrow came after he had two outs and nobody on.
Cabrera was actually the catalyst in the first rally, singling to continue the first inning for Fielder to drive him in with a double to the out-of-town scoreboard in right-center field. Alex Avila, seeing his first pitch at the plate since he became a father on Sunday, lofted it beyond the fence in right field leading off the second inning for a 2-0 lead.
Cabrera nearly had another RBI on his third-inning single, getting an 0-2 fastball down and in and grounding it through the right side before Rajai Davis threw out Hunter trying to score. A pair of two-out walks, including Avila after an 0-2 count, loaded the bases before Morrow escaped with a Jhonny Peralta groundout.
Still, with this lineup, Morrow was tempting fate. The fourth inning was one time too many.
Hunter's early tear was already well known, especially his ability to hit to the opposite field with Austin Jackson on base. Once Jackson hit a ground ball through the middle to extend the inning, Hunter took a fastball and fouled off another before Morrow thought he had him set up.
"He got us down early by keeping a little cutter low and away, and we couldn't really do much with it," Hunter said. "And then with two strikes, he'd elevate and we were able to do something with it."
With a 3-1 count on Cabrera, Morrow had two choices: Load the bases for Fielder, or challenge Cabrera -- who already had two hits -- with a strike. Cabrera got to the slider and sent it down the right-field line. It was his first home run of the year, and the first example of the year of him hitting to right field with authority.
"To me, he's the best opposite-field home run hitter, probably in the history of the game," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I've never seen anything like it, to be honest with you. I truly believe that. I think he's got the best opposite-field power of anybody I've ever seen."
Cabrera became the first player with 100 home runs in Comerica Park, once known among the toughest home-run parks for hitters. Hunter became the 14th active Major League player to 2,000 hits when he singled off Rogers in the sixth, again working his way out of an 0-2 count.
In fact, the Tigers didn't have a strikeout until their final out of the day, when Edgar Gonzalez fanned Peralta to end the eighth inning. If not for that, they would've had their first game with at least 15 hits and no strikeouts for the first time since 1982, and just their second since 1958, according to research on baseball-reference.com.
Sanchez (1-0) retired his last seven batters he faced after Melky Cabrera singled in Jose Reyes in the fifth to draw Toronto to within 5-2. He was helped by Don Kelly's catch to take a home run away from J.P. Arencibia leading off the second inning.


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Four years earlier Amendment #1, a women's suffrage referendum, was presented on the November 1915 ballot for approval from the men of Pennsylvania. By this time thirty states of the US had already voted for at least partial rights for women's suffrage. The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association kicked off a statewide campaign to convince the male voters to vote for the amendment. The "Justice Bell", an exact bronze replica of the liberty bell was cast with the words "Establish Justice" in the inscription. The 2000-pound bell required a special truck to transport it. At a cost of $2,000., the bell was a gift from Katherine Wentworth Ruschenberger of Strafford, PA. The clapper was muted by chains with the idea that the bell would not ring until women were granted the right to vote.
The bell began its 5,000-mile tour of the state of Pennsylvania in Bradford County in May of 1915 then continued on through the rest of the 66 counties. It zigzagged through the state ending in Philadelphia in time for the November election. The bell was escorted by a group of speakers and campaign props. Popular items in demand by local suffragettes were "votes for women" fans, buttons, paper napkins, pennants, note-paper, drinking cups, lanterns, flowers, lead pencils, candy, and children's toys. Yellow was the color adopted by the Association and could be seen displayed prominently at the rallies. The bell arrived in Bethlehem on August 29, 1915.
In addition to the Justice Bell tour the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association organized open-air speeches from automobiles and county fair booths as well as booking halls for their speakers. Bethlehem turned out in record numbers to hear Dr. Anna Shaw speak at the Broad Theater on October 3, 1915. Dr. Shaw was the first woman ordained by the Methodist Protestant Church. As a minister, she would not perform a marriage ceremony in which the word "obey" would be used. Dr. Shaw noted that none of the marriage ceremonies she officiated ended in divorce. She was national superintendent of franchise of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Of her speech in Bethlehem, she was quoted in the October 4, 1915 edition of the Globe Times as stating, "Being human beings women have the qualities that belong to humanity and having them, should have the right of exercising them." She went on to say, "A republic is a form of government conducted by representatives of the people. You never read a definition of a republic which granted the right of one half of the people to vote and elect representatives to govern the other half." Those who attended roundly applauded Dr. Shaw's speech.
A local suffrage leader, who attended Dr. Shaw's speech, was Ruth Frick, the great granddaughter of Asa Packer, great-granddaughter of Robert H. Sayre and daughter of Robert P. Linderman. She was the Lehigh County chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party. Frick offered her car for open-air speeches by several visiting women's suffrage dignitaries. Frick and others went on to form the Allentown Women's Club.
On November 2, 1915 Amendment #1 was soundly defeated in Pennsylvania. The 50,000 votes against the referendum were significantly represented in Berks, Lebanon and Lehigh counties. It was widely known that a majority of Pennsylvania German men were against the amendment because various temperance organizations supported the amendment.
The women's suffrage campaign turned its focus on a constitutional amendment with support from President Wilson. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the amendment. When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states and became law.


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Sarasota Music Festival
Sometimes we have to die a little before we can really live. That seems to be what's happened to the Sarasota Music Festival. It almost went under last year but, thanks to the resuscitation of a grant from the Jay and Becky Kaiserman Foundation and some brilliant reworking on the part of Artistic Director Robert Levin, it's back.
Friday's concert of chamber music at the Sarasota Opera House was positively permeated with Levin's fresh but challenging endeavor to infiltrate more students into the mix, starting with an enthusiastic, if occasionally rushed, performance of the opening movement of Mendelssohn's passionate F minor string quartet, featuring the newly appointed concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony, violinist David Coucheron; Curtis violinist Maia Cabeza; Cleveland Institute violist Sergein Yap; and Peabody cellist Paula Cuesta Redondo.
Mozart's familiar oboe quartet in F major was given a stylish and musical reading by veterans Allan Vogel (oboe), James Buswell (violin), James Dunham (viola) and newcomer Abe Feder — principal cellist of the Sarasota Orchestra.
Schumann's E flat piano quartet, Opus 47, one of the most fervently song-filled works of the repertory, had a less fortunate execution, despite the experienced efforts of cellist Clive Greensmith and Colburn violist Jeremy Berry. This lushly romantic work also featured veteran icons John Perry, pianist, and violinist Joseph Silverstein, whose performances offered more inspiration than accuracy.
The music took an upward turn following intermission, when Levin, Alexander Kerr and Greensmith presented Ravel's A minor piano trio in a performance so stylish and exquisitely played, it should be recorded as a testament to what this festival is all about.
Four of the seven sections of Milhaud's charming "La Cheminee du Roi Rene" were presented with spirit and finesse by flutist Joanna Martin and clarinetist Michael Bartnik, both from the University of Texas; Eastman oboist John Upton; Northwestern bassoonist Gareth Thomas; and Juilliard hornist Craig Hubbard.
The concert's grand finale, the gypsy-inspired final movement of Brahms' G minor piano quartet, had a rather odd performance — perfect in notes but somehow wrong-headed in style — by Juilliard violinist Jin Suk Yu; Colburn violist Born Lau; Eastman cellist Jonathan Lo; and freelance pianist Marina Radiushina.
— June LeBell
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