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If the Bellevederes isn't Baltimore's best soul/R&B band — and it just might be — it's certainly the biggest.
There are 10 people in all, including a horn section and a hype man known as Velvet Johnson (aka Justin Metzger). Technically, they're a cover band — but unless you're a music nerd, you'd probably never know it. Members of the Bellevederes spend hours digging up obscure songs from the '60s and '70s to play at their shows. They're a live band through and through; they've recorded an album, but aren't sure if it makes sense to release it.
Two women — Kelly Butcher and Denny Finnerin — share the lead vocals on songs traditionally sung by men. Occasionally, they don't update the lyrics to reflect that, which makes for some head-turning moments at their shows. That will most likely be the case at their New Year's Eve gig at the Windup Space in Station North on Monday. The Bellevederes will perform with Baltimore funk mainstays the All Mighty Senators. Things might get sweaty.
We caught up with the Bellevederes not long before the big gig to talk about their love of unknown soul tunes and their history as a band. They got together about four years ago, and spent time playing with fellow retro-sounding Baltimore musician Bosley.
How did you guys get together in the first place?
Denny Finnerin: Ryan [Finnerin, the guitarist] was the mastermind. Ryan's thought was, "I want to do something that is a good time, technically challenging for us," but he pulled together all of his favorite people to play with. We thought if it was a good time, we'd keep doing it, and if it didn't work, it didn't work. It's kind of continued to work.
You guys have played with the Baltimore musician Bosley in the past, right?
Finnnerin: He came up to us at a show and said, "I really like what you guys are doing, can I come out to some rehearsals?" We became friends and he played with us for a while. We ended up being the backup band — all of the instrumentalists were the backup band for his album that he has out right now. We've played with him off and on for a while. We don't play with him as much now.
Ryan: He's pretty ambitious.
Kelly Butcher: And we're pretty lazy.
Ryan: This is a nice hobby for us. I pulled [Bosley] aside one time, after we'd had a big run of gigs where everybody was worn out because, you know, we have kids and day gigs. I said, "You need to find a group of hungry young kids that want to go tour." We didn't hear from him for a while. Then he resurfaced with the band he has now, and I think it's great he was able to take that advice and run with it.
Where do you find some of these songs you play?
Butcher: Youtuuube! Hours and hours of digging. YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, record stores, WTMD. There have been instances where I've heard a song on WTMD and I go, "What is that song?" and then it will start us down the wormhole of Internet searching.
How often to people come up to you and say, "Oh my gosh, that was such a great song," and think it's your song?
Butcher: It's happened quite a few times. And then it's like the sad trombone: "Nah, it's not [ours]."
Denny: The intention has always been to write our own stuff, it's just, when you're in a band with 10 people, who all have other jobs, other bands, other issues. And it's really hard to live up to that really good soul level that we want to attain.
You've recorded songs but haven't released an album yet, and may not release one at all.
Finnerin: We feel like, to an extent, you come to a Bellevederes party as much as you come to listen to Bellevederes music. You're coming to dance, you're coming to have a good time, you're coming to let loose. I think the live experience is as much a part of what we do as the music itself. We're trying to put on a good show, which is why we've got Velvet Johnson, our MC, who comes with us to every show and brings a certain level of performance — which I don't know that you would get on an album. Are you going to sit in your living room on a Thursday night and listen to it? I don't know.
This New Year's Eve show sounds big.
Ryan: It's the big to-do. We're going to share the stage with the All Mighty Senators, Baltimore's funk legends and grand masters. We're very fortunate to be able to follow in their footsteps. I know everybody in the band has seen them at least half a dozen times. We're really excited about that. It's fantastic. … It will absolutely be the funkiest party in town.
If you go
The Bellevederes and All Mighty Senators perform at 10 p.m. Monday at the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave. $15. Call 410-244-8855 or go to thewindupspace.com.


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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision. - Jean Baudrillard
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Winter can be tough, especially if you live in a part of the country where winter seems to be never-ending -- after months of cold weather, snow days and bad weather, boredom sets in and you've likely exhausted all of your ideas for entertaining little ones suffering from cabin fever. So we racked our brains to come up with new and unique winter activities -- including some activities that your kids may never have done before. Here are seven fun and eco-friendly activities to break out when the winter blues start to take over.
1. Grow an Organic Garden Indoors
Nothing says spring like new life growing up from the earth. Even though spring is several cold months away, you can enjoy the season a little early inside your home. Growing an organic garden indoors can be as simple as planting herbs in small reusable pots in your kitchen window, or sprouting bean seeds or cold crops in a miniature window greenhouse. Children will delight in first planting the seeds, then watching as the seeds sprout and begin to grow into seedlings. Then, when spring does arrive, they can help plant their seedlings in the family garden.
2. Send them on a Nature Scavenger Hunt
All children love a scavenger hunt. There is just something fun about finding hidden objects. Add a little nature to your scavenger hunt by making a list of items from nature that will be harder to find when snow is covering the ground. Your list could include; a leave, blade of grass, a flower petal, a spoonful of dirt, a berry, a rock, a stick or anything that they could find in your backyard with a little searching and digging. For added interest you could hide a few household objects as well such as an empty milk jug, or a rubber duck.
3. Sleepover at the Museum
A night at the museum isn't just for the movies. Did you know that many museums around the country have events where children can spend the night? The children arrive at the museum after dinner and enjoy a tour of the museum, usually followed by a related movie, popcorn and then a sleepover under the exhibits. You can increase the fun by having your child get into character. For example, if your child is spending the night at a natural history museum, they may want to dress up as a prehistoric creature. Check with your local museums to find an upcoming event.
4. Go Geocaching
Have you heard of geocaching? Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a GPS receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches"). Think of it as a type of treasure hunting — you follow the coordinates to a box of small mystery prizes, which children can not resist. Geocaching is even more fun in wintertime, because the caches are harder to find. Check with your local nature and community centers — many will offer geocaching activities.
5. Throw a Recycled Crafting Party
Children are very imaginative, they can create something out of almost nothing, by simple using their creativity. Invite your child's friends over for an afternoon of crafting from items found in the recycling bin. You'll be amazed by the creations your children can make when given a milk carton, scissors, recycled paper and glue. If you need inspiration, check out Inhabitots' green DIY projects.
6. Take a Reflective Winter Walk
The world that surrounds us looks, feels and even smells differently during the winter. Take your children for an afternoon winter walk with a journal and a pen in hand. Walk around your neighborhood, taking periodic breaks to note the differences in the environment during winter. This is a great way to encourage children to stop to observe the life around them and to appreciate the many different aspects that our Earth has to offer.
7. Make Every Night, Family Game Night
Since the days are shorter and those after dinner runarounds in the grass are a distant memory — children end up spending a lot more time inside the house. Add a little fun and togetherness by making every night of the week, game night. Assign each family member a day of the week on which they will get to choose the game that is played. Whether you're playing a classic board game, enjoying a Wii bowling match or playing duck, duck, goose, each member of your family will delight in being in charge of choosing the nightly game.
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If you have questions or would like additional information, contact the Scout Service Center at (607) 796-0699 or (800) 724-6099.
- You will know easily if there is a mistake in the registration of Scouts in your unit the youth who aren't registered won't be on the list.- You will be able to fix any past mistakes or omissions in Council Advancement records for your Scouts as their records are all visible to you.- No rank awards will be able to be purchased at the Scout Shops without the Internet Advancement report generated by the system.- When the Scouts eventually go to an Eagle Board of Review there will be a clear picture of their Scouting History. (There have been many instances at Eagle Boards where youth have been told it looks like they joined Boy Scouts at age 11, and they seem very disappointed as they tell us they were a Cub Scout for five years; but there was no Advancement recorded for them in Cub Scouts so this was not reflected)
- Advancement is an integral part of the success of your unit, your District, and our Council. This system reflects the success of your Scout as they advance in Scouting.- A complete record of your youth's Scouting career will be documented all the way from Bobcat through Eagle Scout rank.- Your Scouts will have correct records in the Council system, as your Advancement Person will be managing your own unit's records.
- Each unit should have one person who handles Internet Advancement. Cub Scout Packs should have a person designated as the Advancement Chair/Person to handle Internet Advancement. All Den Leaders should report their Advancements to the Advancement Person/Chair.- Troops should have an Advancement Person/Chair, or the Committee Chair in smaller troops could handle Internet Advancement.
- There will be a training breakout at the University of Scouting- There are also step-by-step instruction sheets available at the Scout Shops, and on this page starting with "What is required?" below.
Internet Advancement will require that the user have access to a computer with a browser that is IE 7.0 or greater.
To enter advancements:
1. The unit eligible for Internet Advancement designates an adult member as the unit advancement person.
2. The unit advancement person gathers all the information needed for recording advancements.
3. With the advancement information at hand, the unit advancement person navigates to Internet Advancement. You can also access this through MyScouting.org if you are logged in and an eligible user.
- Click on Resources, Unit Resources, Internet Advancement at the bottom- Then click on Begin Using Internet Advancement- Sign in as First Time User or Returning User; whichever is appropriate
4. In Internet Advancement, the unit advancement person registers/logs in to Internet Advancement and follows the intuitive process. In Internet Advancement, the unit advancement processor will do the following:
Stage 1: Load Roster Load the unit information from the council or upload an advancement file.
Stage 2: Update Member Select the members you wish to update and insert new advancement information.
Stage 3: Submit Report Submit your unit's advancement information to the council. Then print the Advancement Report packet that includes the Unit Awards Summary.
5. After double-checking the information, the unit advancement person submits the file to the council and prints the advancement report package.
6. The appropriate people sign the advancement report, and the unit advancement person or another unit adult sends the paperwork to the local council and obtains the insignia needed for youth members.
Each unit has a specific Unit ID and password. This can be obtained by contacting one of the names listed below or by contacting the District Executives as follows:
Andaste District Indian Waters District Thunderbird District Williamson Road District
Council Registrar
The National system requires Internet Explorer. You should be able to have one person in your unit with access to Internet Explorer. If problems are encountered, a computer will be available for your use at each Service Center.
There are many ways the system makes it easy to do this reporting. These will be discussed at training. Periodic training can be available through your district executive.
Your unit's use of Internet Advancement will contribute significantly to tracking your unit's advancement against your goals, and help your district and our Council provide programs that support these goals.
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Brighton's oldest law firm, Quality Solicitors Howlett Clarke, has gone into liquidation.
The firm was a grandee of the south coast legal market. Jackie Gillespie, its Managing Partner, was recently appointed President of the Sussex Law Society. Its website – still extant at the time of writing this – proudly boasts of it being ranked as a Leading Firm 2017 in Legal 500 and of its 240 year history. Which ended earlier this week.
Email enquiries went unanswered and no one was picking up the phone. But a spokeswoman for the wider Quality Solicitors group confirmed that Howlett Clarke was in liquidation and clients were being contacted. She had no further information, and the SRA, as usual, said that it was unable to confirm the firm's status or discuss the matter. But RollOnFriday has been told that the firm recently lost a large number of staff, which can't have helped the situation.
Unfortunately Howlett Clarke is the second "quality" firm this week to fail to live up to its moniker.
Contrary to the claim made, it's not "Britain's oldest law firm". That accolade belongs to Thomson Snell & Passmore which was founded in 1570.
Plenty of others pre-date Howlett Clarke: Farrers (1701), Blandy & Blandy (1733) and Freshfields (1743), to name but a few.


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Sometimes sequels can be a good thing — a very good thing.
That's the story with "Turks & Caicos" and "Salting the Battlefield," the second and third films in what PBS is calling "The Worricker Trilogy," a terrific trio of made-for-TV movies that started in 2011 with "Page Eight," starring Bill Nighy ("Love Actually") as veteran MI5 agent Johnny Worricker.
When last we saw Worricker at the end of "Page Eight," he was in an airport and on the run from just about everyone and everything in Britain. Think Cary Grant in "North By Northwest."
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SHOREHAM — Ernest John Turpin, age 82, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, at Helen Porter Health & Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.
Ernie was born in New Haven on March 11, 1936. He was the son of Edgar and Ruth (Naylor) Turpin. He grew up in Shoreham, where he received his early education and had attended Shoreham High School. He served proudly in the United States Army. Following his Honorable Discharge in 1961 he returned home and worked the family farm. He retired from Shoreham Telephone Company in 1998 following 30 years of service.
The Addison Independent publishes paid obituaries and free notices of passing. Paid obituaries cost 25-cents per word, and $10 per photo. The obituary will publish as it is submitted on the date of the family's choosing.
For those who do not wish to purchase an obituary, the Addison Independent offers anyone with a local connection the opportunity to publish a notice of passing. These notices may be up to 100 words and are subject to editing by our news department.
Submissions must be received by 11 a.m. on Wednesday for publication in the Thursday paper and 11 a.m. on Friday for Monday's paper.
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Hawthorne students visit the library with their class and teacher every week for at least 30 minutes.. Most teachers will also schedule an extra 2-3 sessions per project to finish larger research or literature-based projects or webquests. Many projects involve using the chromebooks or the TRC.
Book checkout is on a "semi-flexible" basis, with students in grades 1-5 having access to our collection every day. Students in grades 3-5 have been instructed in the use of our online catalog to assist them in their search for the perfect book.
Kindergarten does have a set schedule.
How to find Mrs. Weaver's links
If you are looking for the resources you can use from home, look on the left panel of this page. Click "library online catalog." Then click the same words in the middle of the page. This will bring you to the home page that you see in the LRC. You can find all the links Mrs. Weaver teaches you how to use on this page.
Reading Program Lists
Click here for the 2019 Rebecca Caudill (grades 4-8) Master List:
To access the Bluestem (grades 3-5) and Monarch (grades K-3) lists, click here:
Look on the left hand side under "Book Awards."
Book Checkout
Students in K-1 visit the LRC once a week to check out library books. Grades 2-5 may visit the LRC for checkout as often as necessary during designated checkout hours. Checkout time is one week, and new books may not be checked out until the previous week's book has been returned. Students have been reminded of our simple book care rules:
1. Keep your books clean and dry.
2. Keep your books in a safe place away from food, drink, younger sublings who like to color, rip, or tear, and animals that like to nibble.
3. Use only flat, clean paper as a bookmark. Please! No dogears!!
4. Return your books on time so all may enjoy them. We do not charge fines, but lost or damaged books will result in a replacement charge.
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CULTURE- MUSIC- Nels Cline: Refusing to get technical on us
It's not unfair to call Nels Cline the brains of Wilco as long as we also concede that Jeff Tweedy is the heart. Ever since his induction in 2004, Cline has become a mascot of sorts and a definite fan favorite as a result of his ability to inject X-factor noisy guitar solo freakouts into the heart of Tweedy's sweetest of pop gems.
But when he's not answering to the band or to Tweedy's compositional whims, Cline also keeps busy with more outlandish projects. He's had an eponymous trio of one sort or another since the late '80s and also managed to work in occasional projects with the likes of Willie Nelson, Thurston Moore, and Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins.
But it's bands like the free jazz trio he's bringing to the Paramount that really let him spread his wings; when he talks about its guiding principles, his brainier side comes to the fore and it becomes ever more obvious that he's capable of way more than a nimble pop-rock sideman.
The Hook: How do your non-Wilco projects typically go over with the Wilco fans?
Nels Cline: Gosh, I haven't had that many opportunities to play the non-Wilco projects for Wilco fans. There's no beautiful Jeff Tweedy singing.
The Hook: Instead, you have the Nels Cline Singers, which doesn't actually feature Nels Cline singing– or any singing at all, for that matter. So what's actually the defining feature of this trio?
Nels Cline: I had another trio from '89 to '97. The reason I keep doing trios originally was to kick my own butt technically, because I didn't think I could pull it off, and also economically it's much easier to make a go of it. We combine absolute spontaneity with a high degree of discipline. That's not just good for the audience; it's good for us.
The Hook: What do you mean when you talk about discipline, exactly?
Nels Cline: Some of my compositions are pretty specific, and they require not just an ability to play an instrument, but also a fair amount of dynamic control, and also a certain sensitivity to the harmonic vocabulary. That's where the discipline comes in– listening, and not just waving your arms. I find that a lot of fusion guitar doesn't have a whole lot of dynamics.
The Hook: Fusion, eh? That's such a funny word.
Nels Cline: I don't really have an aversion to the term, because I'm 52 years old, and it was born out of music that I was highly influenced by: Miles and Herbie Hancock. Fusion now comes from instrumental R&B like Grover Washington Jr., or from classic rock chops, like Return To Forever or Weather Report– groups that show a certain athletecism.
The Hook: Kenny G is staring at you from the page next door. What would you like to say to him?
Nels Cline: It's obvious that to many people, Kenny G has ruined soprano saxophone for the musical lexicon– the whole thing he did with the Louis Armstrong duet that Pat Metheny ended up raging against. I'd like to think of him as the Herb Alpert of our day– those were huge instrumental hits. And I'm into instrumental hits, but I'm a little disappointed that it has gone the Kenny G route, because it doesn't do anything for me. It goes back to the fusion– there's a certain kind of fusion that goes back to instrumental R&B– there's a certain kind of music that people listen to as the background to their fancy lifestyle, or to aspire to their fancy lifestyle, of that you put on to impress: "Oh, this sounds really good on my fancy stereo."
The Hook: You got to rock before jazz. Was it intellectually difficult for you to cross over?
Nels Cline: Coming into it as a teenager, I didn't know anything about it, and my introduction was completely happenstance. I don't think I ever understood bebop and chord changes and all that.
The Hook: I read in another interview that you covered a Coltrane record strictly as a reaction to the Marsalis movement.
Nels Cline: Late Coltrane was being seen as a mistake, and we just wanted to say that free jazz was important to us, and risk being loathed. We thought we'd be quite vilified for it, but we got nominated for some international award.
The Hook: You've said that this project is equally about both free improvisation and structured composition. How do they interact? Do you like doing structured improvisation, or do you feel like you're just regurgitating licks?
Nels Cline: There's all kinds of doctrine about free versus composed, but I just categorically ignore all that– I don't have some sort of doctrine about "free." You'll find that some of the greatest free improvisers use compositional and structural parameters and don't just get up there and do whatever. We have enough stuff that we don't get up there and play the same set every night; it's a complete mix, and that way it keeps all of us engaged and keeps the audience fascinated and on its toes.
The Hook: You're an emotionally driven player, but in many cases jazz is a highly technical form of music. Do the two ever conflict? Do you have to come back from the trance to nail the key change?
Nels Cline: I think that the balance between consciousness and complete immersion is a mystery, but it's definitely what I'm about. Maybe it's emotionally satisfying to make that weird chord change?
Nels Cline performs at the Paramount Theater June 6 at 8pm. It's a bargain at $25.50, but recommended for only the bravest of Wilco fans.


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Sen. Joe Lieberman made history but will retire without a party
He was the first Jewish American named to a major-party presidential ticket, and he came within a single Supreme Court vote in 2000 of becoming the vice president. Years later, he was seriously considered for the same spot on the ticket – of the other party.
Joe Lieberman will retire Thursday, ending his 24-year term in the U.S. Senate and in a political world that's changed around him. He exits as a voice often without an echo, an independent without a comfortable spot in either political party, a man in the middle of a political system that prizes partisanship over moderation.
Lieberman usually voted with Democrats, yet many Democrats can't erase the memory of his enthusiastic support for the Bush administration's Iraq War effort. They remember how the onetime head of the Connecticut presidential campaign for liberal icon Robert Kennedy in 1968 stumped for Republican conservative John McCain 40 years later, how he wound up addressing the 2008 Republican National Convention and criticizing Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
Lieberman, 70, has had constants: unwavering devotion to a muscular defense and stronger environmental and civil rights laws, and a thoughtful approach to issues. The Connecticut senator also will be known, former aide Dan Gerstein said, for his conscience and character.
Faith and fierce ambition have long motivated the deeply religious Lieberman, ambition that's sparked charges that his positions are too malleable, his style too calculating.
Lieberman sat in his Senate office recently, explaining his drive.
"I have a lot of values put in me by my upbringing, which was a religious upbringing, and the whole idea we are blessed to be here," he said. "With that comes a responsibility to do tikkun olam, to make the world better. I chose, for various reasons, public service as a way to try to do that. Of course, you can't do it unless you're in office."
He insisted that ambition did not trump faith when convenient. "If you calculate every decision you make based on how it's going to affect your re-election, you're not going to end up doing very much," he said.
Lieberman was taken aback when offered an example of what critics call his calculating style. He gained national attention in 1998 for his Senate speech branding President Bill Clinton's behavior in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal as "immoral" and "disgraceful," but he didn't urge impeachment. Critics called that vintage Lieberman, getting national attention but stopping short of a bolder step.
"I thought . . . the president's action didn't deserve impeachment," Lieberman recalled. Impeachment is a way to eventually oust someone from office, he explains, but Clinton remained popular.
That's trademark Lieberman logic, and sometimes it was a problem. He thought trouble could be overcome by an appeal to reason and a confidence that the world worked in logical ways. Opponents often saw him as a master of calculation, not commitment.
"He was pretty good on labor and social issues, but he never met a war he didn't like. The Democratic Party will not miss him," said Robert Borosage, a co-founder of the liberal Campaign for America's Future.
Lieberman likes to say that life is a series of chapters, and his Washington story had four. His rise began with his arrival in the Senate in 1989 and continued through the 2000 election. He was a different Democrat, aligning himself with Clinton as a center-left alternative to liberal party orthodoxy.
Though he lost the vice presidency in 2000, he returned to the Senate and never hinted at even a trace of dismay.
" 'You just lost an election. You didn't lose your life, and you've got a lot of years ahead of you when you can do a lot of things,' " he recalled his mother saying.
"I'm not haunted by it," he said. "Do I go back to it periodically and feel disappointed, frustrated, angry? Of course I do."
Work and faith were his salves, and this next chapter was arguably the most productive of his Senate career. As the chairman of the Senate committee that oversees homeland security, Lieberman led the fight, and worked closely with Republicans, to revamp the nation's domestic anti-terrorist efforts and create the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Bush administration resisted the commission. "We went up against the status quo and challenged the status quo," Lieberman recalled, grinning.
Those triumphs were quickly clouded. His bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination went nowhere, and he became the Democrats' most visible supporter of the increasingly unpopular Iraq War. By 2006, even his home-state support had eroded, and he had a primary challenge for his seat from businessman Ned Lamont.
"I thought, 'I'm a Democrat. I've been a Democrat all my life,' " Lieberman said. "I understand how strongly they want us to get out of Iraq quickly, but, you know, I worked so closely with so many Democrats, so I'm going to take this (Senate primary) on. . . . I'm not going to leave on my own."
They did want to kick him out. He lost the primary on what he called "the most hurtful night of my career."
That night also proved to be the beginning of a new, bumpier, chapter.
He ran for the Senate as an independent. "Election night . . . maybe I even felt better and more excited that night than I did the first night I got elected to the Senate," he recalled, as he won easily.
Lieberman returned to the Senate a pariah of sorts. He caucused with Democrats. But by the time the 2008 presidential campaign rolled around, he felt the draw of his friendship with Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., and supported him, a stunning break for a man who'd been on the Democratic ticket just eight years earlier.
McCain reportedly came close to picking Lieberman as the Republican vice-presidential candidate before settling on Sarah Palin as more acceptable to his party's conservative base.
.Lieberman praised McCain and Palin – and ripped into Obama – in his convention speech. "He has not reached across party lines to . . . accomplish anything significant, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party to get something done," he said of then-Sen. Obama.
"As I look back at it," Lieberman said recently, "I wish I'd left those lines out. It wasn't my purpose there."
A lot of Democrats saw the speech as an act not of bipartisanship, but of treachery. Adding to Lieberman's new world was a new kind of Senate, in which he wasn't roundly embraced by either party and key legislation passed because Democrats and their strong majority stuck together, rarely reaching across aisles.
"There's no middle anymore," Senate Historian Donald Ritchie said. "That's why people like Lieberman are now seen as mavericks."
Lieberman leaves on a somber note. He delivered his farewell address Dec. 12, and while full of lofty recollections, he conceded that his quest for common ground remained unfulfilled.
"Today, I regret to say, as I leave the Senate," he said, "the greatest obstacle standing between us and the brighter American future we all want is right here in Washington."
He'll be succeeded by Democratic Rep. Christopher Murphy of Connecticut, who in the most recent Congress voted with Democrats consistently.


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2013: The final component of One World Trade Center's spire in installed, making the building once dubbed the "Freedom Tower" the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The 104-story building reaches a symbolic height of 1,776 feet at its spire, making it the fourth-tallest building in the world. It stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center, which was demolished after being damaged in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that brought down the original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. [ + - ]
2003: The New York Times announces that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud." In an unprecedented 7,239-word story, the newspaper called the 27-year-old reporter's misdeeds "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper." Blair had resigned from the newspaper on May 1, 2003, in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories. [ + - ]
2002: A 39-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end with a negotiated deal allowing the armed Palestinian gunmen who had seized the church and taken hostages to surrender to Israeli forces. Thirty-six of the militants were sent to the Gaza Strip and the 13 most wanted were eventually transferred to British Army custody and extradited to Italy and Spain, after those countries agreed in principle to accept them. [ + - ]
2002: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period. He had pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in July 2001. [ + - ]
1995: Five-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Missy Franklin is born in Pasadena, California. [ + - ]
1994: Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. He's seen here casting his ballot in 1994, the first time he had voted in his life. [ + - ]
1994: John Wayne Gacy, who had been convicted in March 1980 of the murders of 33 men and boys, is executed via lethal injection. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his Chicago home. Three further victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River. [ + - ]
1983: The sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" comes to an end after 178 episodes and eight seasons. The show, which originally starred Cindy Williams (left) and Penny Marshall (right) as single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery, was a spinoff of the sitcom "Happy Days." It finished in the top three in ratings its first four seasons, including being the most-watched TV show in its third and fourth seasons. In the sixth season the show's setting shifted from Milwaukee to Los Angeles and Williams left the show two episodes into the eighth season. Despite the departure of one of its stars, the show retained the name "Laverne & Shirley" and stayed steady in the ratings during its final season. [ + - ]
1978: Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson, best known for his work on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series "All That" in his teenage years and as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live," is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Thompson also starred on the sitcom "Kenan & Kel" and in the films "Good Burger" and "Fat Albert." [ + - ]
1977: Actress Joan Crawford dies at age 73 in New York City from a heart attack, while also reportedly ill with pancreatic cancer. Crawford, who was born Lucille Fay LeSueur, started out as a dancer and chorus girl in stage productions and went on to become an Academy Award-winning film and television actress. She was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1930s and won an Oscar for Best Actress for 1945's "Mildred Pierce." She earned two more Oscar nominations, for 1947's "Possessed" and 1952's "Sudden Fear," in a career that spanned nearly five decades. Some of her other memorable movies include "The Unknown," "Grand Hotel," "The Women," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?," "The Damned Don't Cry," "Flamingo Road" and "Humoresque." [ + - ]
1975: Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan. With the introduction of the VHS videotape format in 1976, the two formats were pitted against each other in a fierce format war, with VHS eventually coming out on top in most markets. [ + - ]
1973: Wilt Chamberlain plays his last professional basketball game, scoring 23 points and grabbing 21 rebounds in the Los Angeles Lakers' 102-93 loss to the New York Knicks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The future Hall of Famer averaged 13.2 points and 18.6 rebounds in his 14th and final season, winning the rebounding crown for the 11th time in his career. He also shot an NBA record 72.7 percent for the season. Chamberlain won two NBA titles in his career, one with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1967 and another with the Lakers in 1972. [ + - ]
1967: Rapper Young MC, best known for his 1989 hit "Bust a Move," is born Marvin Young in London, England. Since his first success, Young MC has continued a rap career and has had acting roles in films and television, including a cameo as himself in the 2009 George Clooney film "Up in the Air." [ + - ]
1962: Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of "The Incredible Hulk." The superhero was gray in this first issue, but color problems in the printing paved the way for a change to his trademark green color by the next issue. [ + - ]
1960: Singer-songwriter Bono, best known as the lead singer of the rock band U2, is born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland. Bono is also known for his philanthropy and activism. [ + - ]
1957: Rock musician Sid Vicious (left), best known as the bass guitarist and vocalist for the punk group Sex Pistols, is born John Simon Ritchie in London, England. Vicious, who joined the Sex Pistols in 1977 and became known for his charisma and wild antics on and off stage, died at the age of 21 on Feb. 2, 1979, from a heroin overdose. [ + - ]
1955: Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon in December 1980, is born in Fort Worth, Texas. After initially putting forward an insanity defense, Chapman would eventually plead guilty to killing Lennon and be sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. He's seen here in a 2011 mugshot. [ + - ]
1954: Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock." A little more than a year later it would become the first rock 'n' roll record to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Pop charts. [ + - ]
1946: Singer-songwriter Donovan, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee best known for hits such as "Sunshine Superman," "Mellow Yellow" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man," is born Donovan Phillips Leitch in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. [ + - ]
1944: Film director Jim Abrahams (right), who directed the movies "Airplane!," "Top Secret" and "Ruthless People" with the brother team of Jerry (left) and David Zucker (center), is born in Shorewood, Wisconsin. Abrahams also served as a writer and producer for all three "Naked Gun" movies and went on to direct the movies "Big Business," "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael," "Hot Shots!" and "Hot Shots! Part Deux" on his own. [ + - ]
1942: Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jim Calhoun, who guided the University of Connecticut to three NCAA championships (1999, 2004, 2011), is born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He coached UConn from 1986 until his retirement in 2012 and also coached at Northeastern University from 1972 to 1986. He finished his career with a coaching record of 873-380 and is one of only six coaches in NCAA Division I history to win three or more championships. [ + - ]
1941: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. Hess, a prominent German politician who had been appointed deputy head of the Nazi Party in 1933, was immediately arrested and would be held in British custody until the end of World War II, when he was returned to Germany to stand trial in the Nuremberg Trials as a war criminal. He was sentenced to life in prison and committed suicide at the age of 93 while still imprisoned in 1987. [ + - ]
1940: Nazi Germany invades France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg during World War II. [ + - ]
1940: Winston Churchill is appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom. [ + - ]
1930: Pat Summerall, the football player turned legendary NFL play-by-play announcer, is born Lake City, Florida. He was best known as a broadcaster for teaming with former NFL coach John Madden for 22 years. Summerall became the voice of the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s, calling most of the league's signature games, and worked more than 10 Super Bowls. As a player, he was a placekicker and played 10 seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants from 1952 to 1961, scoring more than 500 points as an NFL player. He died of cardiac arrest at the age of 82 on April 16, 2013. [ + - ]
1924: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the director of the Bureau of Investigation, the predecessor to the FBI. He would hold that post through the agency's transition into the FBI in March 1935 and on until his death in 1972. [ + - ]
1916: Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition arrive at South Georgia after a 16-day journey of 800 nautical miles from the uninhabited Elephant Island. The effort was a rescue mission for the rest of the crew of the ship Endurance, which had become stuck in the ice and sunk before reaching Antarctica. Shackleton was able to organize a relief effort and return the rest of his men home without loss of life. The rescue expedition is seen here departing Elephant Island on April 24, 1916. [ + - ]
1909: Musician Maybelle Carter, best known as a member of The Carter Family musical act and the mother of June Carter Cash, is born Maybelle Addington in Nickelsville, Virginia. She died at age 69 on Oct. 23, 1978. Pictured here is an exhibit featuring her Gibson L-5 guitar in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. [ + - ]
1908: Mother's Day is officially observed for the first time in the United States with a ceremony in Grafton, West Virginia. [ + - ]
1902: Film producer David O. Selznick, best known for producing the Best Picture Academy Award-winning movies "Gone With the Wind" and "Rebecca," is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Selznick also produced movies such as "King Kong," "David Copperfield," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Third Man," "Duel in the Sun" and "Spellbound" during his career. He died of a heart attack at age 63 on June 22, 1965. [ + - ]
1899: Dancer and actor Fred Astaire, known for movies such as "The Gay Divorcee," "Top Hat," "Swing Time," "Holiday Inn" and "Easter Parade," is born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska. Astaire, who is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made 10 films, died of pneumonia at age 88 on June 22, 1987. [ + - ]
1893: The Supreme Court of the United States in Nix v. Hedden affirms a lower court ruling that the tomato should be classified under customs regulations as a vegetable rather than a fruit. The Court's unanimous opinion held that the Tariff Act of 1883, which required a tax on imported vegetables but not fruits, used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable" instead of the technical botanical meaning. The case has been cited in three Supreme Court decisions as a precedent for court interpretation of common meanings, especially dictionary definitions. [ + - ]
1872: In New York City, the newly formed Equal Rights Party nominates Victoria Woodhull for the U.S. presidency, making her the first woman to be so nominated. She would be arrested on obscenity charges a few days before the election for publishing an account of the alleged adulterous affair between the prominent minister Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, preventing her from attempting to vote in the election. She did not receive any electoral votes, and there is conflicting evidence about how many popular votes she received. [ + - ]
1869: The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah, with the golden spike. [ + - ]
1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia. He would be indicted for treason a year later and spend two years in prison before being released on bail of $100,000. The charge was eventually dropped in February 1869. [ + - ]
1863: Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after being accidentally shot by his own troops during the Battle of Chancellorsville. The 39-year-old general's death would prove to be a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public. [ + - ]
1838: John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer and famous stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, is born in Bel Air, Maryland. [ + - ]
1818: Paul Revere, the American patriot most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, dies at the age of 83 in Boston, Massachusetts. [ + - ]
1775: Representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally toward independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. [ + - ]
1775: Early in the American Revolutionary War, a small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Col. Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York. [ + - ]
1774: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become king and queen of France. [ + - ]
1773: The Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade, receives royal approval in Britain. Colonists upset over being forced to pay duties on the company's tea organized opposition efforts that culminated in the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16, 1773. [ + - ]
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In 1926, Congress passed the Public Buildings Act, which set the stage for a huge increase in the federal building program. Under the act, Congress appropriated $165,000,000 for public buildings in 85 cities across the country.1 One of these cities--Louisville, Kentucky--received funds for a new post office and federal building to replace an existing federal building from 1858. The 1920s was a prosperous decade for the city. Louisville was the largest city in Kentucky at the time and played an important role in the regional manufacturing and shipping industries. Located on the Kentucky-Indiana border along the falls of the Ohio River, the city was a major shipping port. Population growth, a boom in new manufacturing industries, and major new construction in the downtown area reflected the city's prosperity. The need for a new federal building was another important indication of Louisville's prominence.
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Learning to Trust, Again
"Brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying"
-- Marvin Gaye
I hadn't given it a whole lot of thought before now. My close friends and family had all commented on it, and of course I had noticed it, but it had never really bothered me like it did today.
As I placed the makeshift ice pack onto the finger that I had just slammed in my car door (ouch!), I began to really pay attention to just how dark my hands had turned. I had first noticed it while I was hospitalized a couple of months back with issues pertaining to my digestive system. I don't know what caused the darkening of my skin or exactly when it began. I have tried to trace it to a particular medication, but I am on so many that the task is nearly impossible.
I spoke with a brother from my support group here at TPAN, Brothers United in Support (BUS), who I've noticed is experiencing the exact same thing. But he is just as clueless as I am. I have asked several people in the medical profession and none of them seem to know.
Upon approaching my partner with my concerns today, he reminded me of the importance of African American participation in clinical trials. At first I really wasn't trying to hear him, because all I was thinking about was how I was slowly losing my "high yellow" complexion that I had grown to love. At first, I couldn't see what clinical trials had to do with that. But the more we talked about it, the more I understood where he was coming from.
Since HIV was initially recognized as a virus that only affected the gay, White community, most of the initial studies and research concerning the virus and medications that would be used to treat it were done on gay White males. African Americans and women were generally not a representative part of these studies and therefore, information on how the virus affects us specifically and how we react to the medications used to treat it is still relatively limited. But my hands and face have turned at least five shades darker in the past three months and seem to be getting darker every day. I am truly perplexed and now I am desperately seeking answers.
When my partner was initially diagnosed with CMV retinitis, he was told that he was guaranteed to lose sight in both of his eyes. Upon hearing this dreadful news, he had planned suicide, not able to live with the thought of being blind for the rest of his life. Thankfully though, through a paid study that follows the development of the infection, he has gone through experimental treatments, as well as a couple of surgeries, that have restored his sight and given him a whole new outlook on life, a life that he now lovingly shares with me.
As we continued to talk, I gave thought to the reasons why African Americans do not participate in clinical trials, particularly in relation to HIV.
Like victims of abusive relationships, learning to trust again has proven to be a difficult task for the African American community. Being brought to this country as slaves against their wills and then denied basic civil rights for many years, even after being legally set free, has taken its toll on a community of people who have never really been able to comfortably consider this country their home.
To African Americans living in the 1930s, nearly 70 years after the signing of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the question of what freedom truly was still loomed. Racism and segregation prevented them from accessing equal educational, employment, as well as equal health care opportunities.
Being in good health was a Black man's only sure ticket to securing work of any kind (generally manual labor) that would allow him to support himself and his family. Missing a day from work due to illness would usually mean a day without meals for his wife and children. The cost of seeing a doctor in regards to that illness probably meant several days without meals.
Therefore, when the government presented an opportunity to receive free health care in a little town known as Tuskegee, located in Macon County, Alabama, hundreds of illiterate African American sharecroppers willingly responded. What the respondents were not told was that they were being enlisted in an experiment that was being carried out by the U.S. Public Health Service, designed to study the effects of syphilis on the human body.
Of the hundreds of respondents, 600 were accepted to receive free health care, 400 of whom had syphilis and 200 who did not. The catch, however, was that they were not told that they had syphilis, but were instead told that they had "bad blood." They were denied access to treatment, even for years after penicillin (found to be an effective treatment for syphilis) came into use in 1947.
When the study was finally exposed in 1972, 28 of these men had died of syphilis, 100 others were dead of related causes, nearly 40 wives had been infected and 19 children had contracted the disease at birth, which is now known to have caused mental retardation as well as many handicaps among them (from CNN Interactive's Tuskegee Study Web site). It was not until 1997 that the United States government offered an official apology for its Tuskegee experiments, which came through then-President Bill Clinton.
Fast forward to the year 2004. HIV is the leading cause of death for African American women between the ages of 25 and 44 as well as black gay men in the same age bracket. But before we can really begin to deal with the issue of African Americans not being willing to participate in clinical trials associated with HIV/AIDS, we must take a look at why we are dying from a disease that is preventable, with advanced medications available that are not only saving lives, but offer HIV-positive individuals a quality of life previously unobtainable.
Clinical trials are saving lives and improving the quality of life for those who are infected and affected with HIV. However, the fact that we as a community have neglected to participate in them, nor have we accessed of the proper care that is available and necessary to saving our own lives, is very frightening indeed.
The stigma that has always been associated with homosexuality as well as HIV/AIDS plays a huge role in helping to perpetuate this reality. Although my photograph rests on this page and you are reading my innermost thoughts via a journal that is geared towards the HIV/AIDS community, I am still not 100% comfortable with my AIDS diagnosis, and sometimes even my sexuality, as it relates to the African American community (95% maybe, but not 100). It is still not easy for me to have dialogue with people of color who are not gay, or not HIV-positive, about those subjects.
Don't get me wrong, I have these conversations. I am just not 100% comfortable doing so.
There are various reasons for that. One is because I know the views of the African American community towards homosexuality. In a lot of ways, we are like the military: "don't ask, don't tell." And if one does decide to tell, he/she is always associated with being "gay," and the rest of their identity, the most important parts, are disregarded or minimized.
Another reason is because I also know our views concerning people who contract HIV. I'll save the details for another article, but let's just say that those views are not pretty. The stigma associated with homosexuality and HIV/AIDS kept me in denial and in the closet about my own AIDS diagnosis for far too long and almost cost me my life.
So, we could say that the reason why African Americans do not participate in clinical trials and are dying of AIDS at such an alarming rate is because of our mistrust of the government, particularly due to the Tuskegee experiment. Many of us still view HIV as a government invention, designed to kill off gays and blacks.
However, it can also be said that the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS plays an even bigger role in this devastating dilemma.
In the spirit of an African American legend and one of my many role models, I propose to you a question that simply asks, "What is really going on?" Let's talk about it.
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The mission of the UCR Stem Cell Center is to advance the stem cell field by fostering basic and translational research and engaging in education and outreach.
Researchers at the Center have expertise in many different fields including developmental biology, cancer biology, endocrinology, aging, nanotechnology, neuroscience and bioengineering.
We offer graduate courses in Stem Cell Biology (CMBS 207), the Bioethics of Stem Cell Biology (CMBD 208), and Advanced Topics in Stem Cell Biology (BCH 230). In addition, students are exposed to stem cell biology in undergraduate courses such as CBNS 108 (Introduction to Development) and CMDB 169 (Human Embryology).
We offer workshops in Stem Cell Biology.
We draw students from a number of different graduate programs in Engineering, Chemistry, Biomedical Sciences, and the Life Sciences.
Diseases that could in the future be treated by stem cell biology include (but are not limited to) diabetes, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's disease, aging, heart disease, stroke, burns, amputations, and osteoarthritis.
Stem cell biology will form an important component in both the UCR Health Sciences Research Institute and future Medical School, which will work to facilitate translational research.
Web link to UCR Health Sciences Research Initiative: http://www.hsri.ucr.edu/
Web link to Medical School: http://www.medschool.ucr.edu/
The UCR Stem Cell Center is making major contributions to stem cell biology by attacking basic biological problems at an interdisciplinary level, enabling translation to the clinical level, and by using stem cells to monitor the effects of the environment on human health.
The Center has faculty working with various types of stem cells including human embryonic, mouse embryonic, hematopoietic, and human umbilical cord stem cells.
Stem cells are valuable tools that have the potential not only to treat numerous diseases, but also to study development and evaluate the toxicity of chemicals and drugs.


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Drug Crazed – USA
Remember when that "Zombie" in Miami chewed a homeless man's face off in real life? Think back to early 2012. Yes, that wasn't a dream. The crazed man, who had to be shot dead, was on a little-known drug at the time. This investigation looks at "bath salts' and the rising danger in America.
"It's robbed him of a life. It's taken his soul." Tiffany Russell watches footage of her 24-year-old son Skyler, a bath salts addict.
Tiffany feels that the American Government has taken too long to act on this new simmering epidemic. Drug Enforcement has finally stepped in, but it may be too late for people like her son. The government has banned the substance, but chemists, entrepreneurs, and drug lords were quick to tweak the banned formula so that it could be legally available once again. "Now we have to pass new laws," says a representative of the United States Homeland Security office. The new form of the drug is, by all means, technically legal. The effects are devastating. An Important short documentary that is worth watching!


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Democrats aren't thrilled that taxes are only rising on those making $400K and above, as they had hope to see a rise on those making $250K.
But it's a negotiation, and Obama didn't give up much else, and the "leverage" Obama was going to have once we went over the cliff was always overstated.
The big worry is not the deal per se, but that after failing to draw his line in the sand in this fight, he'll fail to live up to another promise, which is not fighting over the debt ceiling again.
This is shaping up to be a big standoff. Obama has flatly said he will not negotiate over raising the debt ceiling (i.e. honoring the nation's obligations). Republicans are spoiling for another 2011-like fight, and are calling it the big opportunity. They also think they have more leverage this time than they had over the Fiscal Cliff fight, since taxes aren't about to rise on 100% of taxpayers.
Here's Krugman, who was very hard initially on Obama as details of the deal came out, but moderated his tone a little bit:
So why the bad taste in progressives' mouths? It has less to do with where Obama ended up than with how he got there. He kept drawing lines in the sand, then erasing them and retreating to a new position. And his evident desire to have a deal before hitting the essentially innocuous fiscal cliff bodes very badly for the confrontation looming in a few weeks over the debt ceiling.
If Obama stands his ground in that confrontation, this deal won't look bad in retrospect. If he doesn't, yesterday will be seen as the day he began throwing away his presidency and the hopes of everyone who supported him.
And here's Dean Baker in The Guardian:
...President Obama insisted that he was going to stick to the $250,000 cut-off requiring that the top 2% of households, the big winners in the economy, go back to paying the Clinton era tax rates. He backed away from this commitment even in a context where he held most of the cards. We are now entering a new round of negotiations over extending the debt ceiling where the Republicans would appear to hold many of the cards.
While the consequences may not be as dire as the pundits claim, no one could think it would be a good idea to allow the debt ceiling to be reached and force the government into default. The Republicans intend to use this threat, however, to coerce further concessions from President Obama. The president insists that there will be no negotiations over the debt ceiling: no further concessions to protect the country's financial standing.
At this point, though, is there any reason for people to believe him?
So what we have is two more showdowns in which the parties disagree not just on the outcome but even on the parameters of an outcome. Obama thinks the debt ceiling needs to be raised, full stop, without becoming a bargaining chip in a fight that threatens the stability of the global economy. Republicans want to use that chip. Then there's the sequester, which Obama thinks should be replaced with spending cuts and tax revenue, and Republicans think should be replaced with spending cuts and more spending cuts.
If Obama makes it through both these events without either accepting draconian social policy or triggering an economic meltdown, then today's compromise will be seen as a clever first step. That's not what I expect. I expect instead that his willingness to bargain away his strongest leverage, and the central theme of his reelection, will make the next rounds harder, and embolden Republicans further. I suspect he will wish he had ripped off the Band-Aid all at once, holding firm on tax cuts and daring House Republicans to defy public opinion.
So there you go. Everyone's worried about another Obama cave in a fight where the GOP feels emboldened.
While Obama says he won't bargain on the debt ceiling, he HAS to bargain on the sequester (unless he wants the spending cuts to happen as is) so that's probably where he'll wiggle and end up in a bargain that would likely include the debt ceiling.
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October 2017
"They might live peacefully among the humans now,
but they still had their own laws to worry about."
~ from Katie Reus'
Alpha Instinct
Recent Releases
The Secret of the India Orchid
Nancy Campbell Allen
Historical Romance. Although Anthony Blake, the Earl of Wilshire, is "truly, madly, passionately" in love with Sophia Elliott, a secret mission for the War Office puts an abrupt end to their courtship. Heartbroken by Anthony's departure, Sophia joins a "Fishing Fleet," a ship full of women traveling to India to seek husbands. Upon her arrival in Calcutta, Sophia encounters Anthony again. He's determined to pick up where they left off, but Sophia has her doubts. Fans of Jennifer Moore's
Lady Helen Finds Her Song
, may enjoy this chaste historical romance, also set in early 19th-century India.
The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke
Tessa Dare
Regency Historical. When seamstress Emma Gladstone approaches the formidable Duke of Ashbury with the bill for his ex-fianc
e's wedding dress, she receives a marriage proposal instead. Believing that his battle-scarred face may deter potential brides, Ashbury offers Emma a house and financial independence if she's willing to live with him until she conceives the heir he desperately needs. But what if Emma wants a real marriage? Witty banter and comedic situations add levity to an emotionally intense Beauty and the Beast story in this 1st installment of the Girl Meets Duke series.
My Fair Lover
Nicole Jordan
Regency Historical. Six years ago, Lady Katharine Wilde threw herself at American privateer and merchant Brandon Deverill and was rebuffed. Now Brandon, who has just inherited a title, needs Katharine's help to acquire the social polish he'll need to navigate his new life. Despite her reservations, Katharine agrees to turn him into a proper gentleman if he promises to serve as her bodyguard during a dangerous voyage to France. This Regency-era, gender-flipped Pygmalion story is the 5th book in the Legendary Lovers series, which begins with
Princess Charming
You Say It First: A Small-Town Wedding Romance
Susan Mallery
Contemporary Romance.
Pallas Saunders is in desperate need of a Roman soldier. Her company, Weddings in a Box, stages elaborate themed wedding celebrations, which means that she
be one legionary short on her client's big day. Thank goodness for sculptor Nick Mitchell, who arrives for a job interview just in time to save the day -- and win Pallas' heart. Fans of author Susan Mallery's Fools Gold novels should enjoy this heartwarming new series, set in the charming small town of Happily Inc, California.
Escape to You
Jennifer Ryan
Romantic Suspense. Whatever happened to Ashley Swan? Although many believe that the famous actress simply wanted to escape the spotlight, undercover DEA Agent Beck "Trigger" Cooke has just stumbled upon the truth: Ashley's been living in captivity ever since a deranged fellow celebrity abducted her. But a daring rescue is just the beginning for these two, especially once a ruthless drug kingpin gets wind of Beck's activities.
Escape to You
is the 2nd drama-filled, action-packed Montana Heat novel, after
Protected by Love
Focus on: Shapeshifters
Pride Mates: A Shifters Unbound Novel
Jennifer Ashley
Paranormal Romance. Lawyer Kim Fraser's shapeshifter client faces a murder charge for killing a woman -- despite the fact that he wears a collar that prevents him from harming others. If she's to succeed in defending him in court, Kim must venture into Austin's Shiftertown and enlist the aid of local pub owner Liam Morrissey, who serves as a liaison between the city's human and shifter communities. Kim and Liam's mutual attraction is instant and powerful, but probably unwise in their strictly segregated society. Fast-paced and steamy,
Pride Mates
kicks off the Shifters Unbound series.
Sara Humphreys
Paranormal Romance. This opening volume of the Amoveo Legends introduces a race of shapeshifters who live alongside humans (without their knowledge, of course). Artist Samantha Logan has just moved back to her hometown. It's not where she thought she'd end up, but the move has its consolations: namely, her handsome next-door neighbor, Malcolm Drew. Although Samantha is drawn to Malcolm, she has no idea that they're destined to be together, just as she doesn't know that her biological father was a shifter, making her a rare human-shifter hybrid. What she'll do when she finds out all of this is anyone's guess.
The Mark of the Tala
Jeffe Kennedy
Fantasy Romance. Her elder sister is intelligent and bold; her younger sister is beautiful and kind. Princess Andromeda, on the other hand, doesn't really stand out. That changes after Rayfe, King of the Tala, claims her as his bride. But what could the ruler of a realm of shapeshifters and demons want with a seemingly ordinary young woman? Fans of C.L. Wilson's
The Winter King
should enjoy this 1st book in the Twelve Kingdoms series, which is connected to the author's Uncharted Realms series.
Alpha Instinct: A Moon Shifter Novel
Katie Reus
Paranormal Romance. Now that most of Ana Cordona's pack has been poisoned, the remaining lupine shifters are vulnerable to attack from their (many) enemies. To ensure everyone's survival, Ana agrees to become the bondmate of alpha wolf Connor Anderson and merge their packs. Despite their complicated past, Ana and Connor's union is a mating of convenience, not love. At least, it starts out that way.
Alpha Instinct
is the 1st book in the Moon Shifter series, which continues with
Primal Possession
Hungry Like the Wolf
Paige Tyler
Paranormal Romance. If you like alpha males, you'll love Gage Dixon. Not only is he the head of the Dallas PD's SWAT team, he's also the leader of his werewolf pack. Fearing exposure, Gage goes to great lengths to keep the spotlight away from his heroic band of lycanthropes. When beautiful investigative journalist Mackenzie Stone starts shadowing them in an attempt to learn their secrets, Gage is confident that he can keep the team's secret safe; he's less certain that he can guard his heart. Fans of steamy, action-packed paranormal romance won't want to miss this 1st installment of the SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team series.
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Yale PRs
1500m 4:03.37
3000m 8:34.53
5000m 14:48.96
XC 8k 24:48.2
XC 10k 31:22.0
High School PRs
1600m 4:21.01
3200m 9:17.72
2013-2014: Finished in Yale's top five four times...Placed in the team's top seven in all six races in which he competed...Finished third on the team at XC Regionals...Set his 8K PR at Heps...Qualified for NCAA East Preliminary Round in 3,000-meter steeplechase...Finished first in 5,000-meters at Giegengack Invitational...Competed in 5,000-meters at indoor Heps...Placed 10th in steeplechase at Penn Relays...Finished fourth in steeplechase at outdoor Heps...Placed sixth in steeplechase and set ninth-fastest PR in school histroy at outdoor IC4As...Earned All-East honors.
2012-2013: Competed at Fordham, New Englands, CCSU and against Harvard...Set a personal record at the New England Championships, where he was fourth on the team...Finished sixth on the team and 13th overall at the CCSU Mini-Meet...Emerged as team's 3,000-meter steeplechase specialist, placing first at Harvard-Yale and the Yale Springtime Invitational...Set his PR in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at Heps...Placed ninth in the 3,000-meters against Dartmouth and Columbia.
High School: 6th overal and first in Division II in the 3200-meter run at the CIF sectional championships...9th at cross country state meet...Age group winner at San Diego ITU Olympic Distance Triathlon and San Diego International Triathlon...2012 CIF/Farmers Scholar-Athlete of the Year.


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YEOVIL Town striker Paddy Madden is reportedly on the brink of signing for League Two side Scunthorpe United.
Madden, 23, was placed on the transfer list after a fall-out with the Glovers and reports in Ireland suggest the two clubs have agreed a £300,000 fee for the striker.
The Republic of Ireland striker was the top scorer in League One during Yeovil's famous promotion season, but has only made nine appearances in the Championship, failing to find the net.
Madden joined Yeovil on a permanent deal in January 2013 following a loan deal from Carlisle.
He scored one of the Glovers' goals at Wembley in the play-off final against Brentford and received a call up to the Republic of Ireland squad in August 2013.


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They were still on the tarmac when Buffalo tied Denver, preparing to take off into the unknown.
The Chargers left Florida on Sunday afternoon with both their persons and their playoff prospects up in the air. They had done their bit to sustain the suspense, throttling the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by the gaudy count of 41-24, but their ultimate fate still hinged on the Bills rising up to beat the Broncos on the road without much in the way of tangible motivation.
"I don't know if I can watch," said defensive end Luis Castillo, averting his eyes from the locker room monitors. "It's just unfortunate that we're in a position where our fate is decided by somebody else."
Yet if fate sneered at the Chargers in September, it bared its teeth in pearly beneficence Sunday. Somewhere near New Orleans, the Chargers learned that the Bills had stunned the Broncos, 30-23, lending meaning to a season finale that would otherwise have been moot. The 7-8 Chargers and 8-7 Broncos will meet Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium for title to the AFC West and the chagrined playoff berth that entails.
Henceforth, when San Diegans speak of Buffalo wings, they should specify whether they mean spicy chicken or the adornment of angels.
"We're hoping like (heck) that Buffalo pulls it out," Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson had said before departing Raymond James Stadium.
LT's confidence level, however, was low: "Just cause I've been in this situation, the Buffalo situation, where you don't really have anything to play for," he said. "Hopefully, they keep fighting."
That, demonstrably, they did. Equally noteworthy, the Broncos crumbled in the clutch. And though Denver's Brandon Marshall professed to be, "licking my chops," in anticipation of Sunday's scrum, the Bolts opened as 7½-point favorites and sentiment soon bumped the line up to 8½.
These are not the Chargers we anticipated in August. Their pass rush has atrophied in the absence of Shawne Merriman, exposing huge holes in their secondary. Their run-blocking has deteriorated, exposing Tomlinson as a mere mortal.
Still, reprieved by Denver's repeated inability to close the deal, the Chargers have reached their regular season finale with a three-game winning streak and enough weapons to make anybody anxious. Though they are hardly a great team, it is not clear that any great teams exist in the NFL. Should the Chargers subdue the Broncos on Sunday, they would earn the privilege of opening the playoffs at home.
That it could come to this, just three weeks after the Chargers were left for dead against Atlanta, speaks to the NFL's ability to wring drama out of mediocrity and to the puncher's chance a hot quarterback provides.
That would be Philip Rivers, whose omission from the Pro Bowl roster moved from an oversight to an outrage Sunday. Already the most efficient passer of this NFL season, Rivers riddled the Bucs with four touchdown passes – a career first – and made no mistake more costly than an intentional grounding penalty. He will start Sunday's game with 32 TD passes, one short of Dan Fouts' single-season franchise record.
"It looked like 7-on-7," linebacker Stephen Cooper said of Rivers' precision against the Bucs. "The wide receivers were doing a good job. The offensive line played great. They kept Philip protected. As long as they do that, Philip is going to sit back and pick any defense apart."
There is a goofy, gawky quality to Rivers, a tendency to indulge his emotions that causes some to sell him short. But in the most desperate days of their season, the Chargers were able to count on Rivers for consistency. He threw nine touchdown passes over the last three weeks, against one interception.
After the Chargers were airborne, Rivers roamed up and down the aisle of the airplane, spreading cheer and soliciting updates from public relations assistant Scott Yoffe, who was tuned to a live feed of the Bills-Broncos game.
"It was like we were at the game," tight end Antonio Gates said after the Chargers landed in San Diego. "Every Denver first down drew a groan. Every big play by Buffalo drew a cheer."
Earlier, defensive end Jacques Cesaire had been asked if he were prepared to parachute into Denver to be of assistance to the Bills.
"I'd rather just sabotage Denver," he said, "put a little drop of cyanide in their water."
Cesaire quickly amended his lethal plan, substituting eyedrops for cyanide.
The Broncos have been warned. They ought to be worried.


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|Alternative development continues to be recognized by Member States as a fundamental pillar of a comprehensive drug control strategy and plays an important role as a development oriented drug control approach. […] Let us not forget that behind the policies, we have hundreds of thousands of farmers affected by poverty, food insecurity, lack of land, instability who as a result engage in illicit drug cultivation. It is our common responsibility to continue addressing the livelihood of these people, despite the challenges that the international community is faced with today, including the financial constraints.
|Yury Fedotov at the opening of the side-event "Outreach to new Stakeholders in the Field of Alternative Development"57 th CND, 2014
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Millennial Media, which bills itself as "the leading independent mobile advertising platform company," second only to Google, had an amazing Q1 2012: Revenue increased 53.2 percent to $32.9 million.
Yet it made another loss; this time of $4 million. The loss last year was just $23,000.
This is counterintuitive: The company sits at the center of the biggest digital advertising gold rush since the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, and yet somehow it is failing to make money. Its boat sits on a tide that rises more than 50 percent a quarter, and it ain't floating.
What's going wrong?
The 10-Q gives this obvious clue:
"The number of full-time sales and marketing employees increased from 48 at March 31, 2011 to 84 at March 31, 2012."
Put another way, while revenues went up about 50 percent, ad sales staff went up roughly 100 percent.
The technology and the medium may be cutting edge, but the revenue model is decidedly old school: Millennial makes its money by employing a lot of guys to drum up business through sales calls.
These charts show how those sales staff costs are currently in lockstep with its revenues:
("Gross profit" is the revenue Millennial keeps after it has paid its pass-through media costs.)
The obvious problem here is that Millennial's real revenue took a seasonal dive in Q1. Sequentially, its business actually went down in the post-holiday lull. Its costs, however, only went up.
Moreover, Millennial is keeping less and less, proportionately, of its billings over time:
CEO Paul Palmieri told Wall Street he was happy with the performance:
"Our first quarter performance exceeded expectations with strong year-over-year revenue growth, as well as expansion in the numbers of unique users and apps on the Millennial Media platform."
He's right: The growth in the underlying business is certainly there. It's a shame his business model can't yet take advantage of it.
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The Narrative
I am in love with every step of the process. Taking the raw energy of your idea and distilling it into its most potent form. Finding the words to tell your story. Creating the images to say what words cannot. Synthesizing both words and images to build something greater. Translating all of it to a screen where the world is watching. And making sure they know to watch. Every opportunity a new adventure, every idea a new challenge.