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On your Gibsons, do you stick with the stock humbuckers or do you guys drop in something else?
BH: It's the same deal as with effects man, I don't like getting too complicated or messing with something that works. I can't even tell you what pickups I play… whatever happens to be in the guitar when I plug it in. I'm just technology-challenged.
BK: I've been dropping the Seymour Duncan Distortion pickups (SH-6) in my guitars for years, but I recently tried out some of the new EMG X Series pickups (85/60) in my white Explorer and it shreds with some killer-crunching tones. I've been so used to the Seymour Duncans and know what to expect from those Distortion pickups, but then again, I'm always experimenting with things.
Brent Hinds and his First Act 12-string
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BK: Its a great guitar. I actually use it quite a bit in the studio, particularly on the title track "Crack the Skye," but I haven't mastered all of our songs on it live yet. I might bring it out on this tour and bang on it for a few tracks. I've yet to see how road-worthy it is, so the Crack the Skye tour might be the perfect testing arena.
BH: I love 'em man. They are probably some of the best guitars I own. And I'm not a guy that says that and keeps them in a closet. If you come to one of our shows, more than likely, you'll catch me rocking out with a First Act. I mean, the guys at the Gibson Custom shop are the ones building those for the custom orders, so you really can't go wrong there with their quality and attention to detail. However, I will admit, on both my 12-string First Act guitars and others owned by friends have had the neck pickup fall out. So I don't know what that's all about, but we just tape it in there and it sounds killer. Who knows, maybe the tape gives it some enhanced tone.
Brent, you've been known to play banjo, its even featured a few times on Crack the Skye, how has that helped your guitar playing hybrid-picking abilities?
BH: My family is deeply rooted in country and bluegrass, so I first learned how to play the banjo, then my dad bought me my first guitar and I studied music too [Alabama School of Fine Arts]. So I mean, since I learned the banjo first and studied music, there's going to be an indirect influence on my guitar playing with banjo-type fingerings, but its nothing I specifically set out to do. I guess my dad knew what he was doing by giving me the banjo first.
Anymore, I don't really even practice the guitar; I play the guitar. When I'm not jamming or touring with Mastodon, I'm playing with a lot of other bands that are completely different from each other. I'll play guitar pretty much for any style of music; I just love it.
Brent, tell me about your other bands and what styles of music they play.
BH: Let's see, Fiend Without A Face [also features Mastodon's drummer Brann Dailor] is fun because it's a combination of old surf-rock, psychobilly and bluegrass, which are all types of music I love. So, why not jam them all at once? Another band I play guitar for is The Blood Vessels, which has more of a classic rock vibe, kind of like Thin Lizzy with similar arrangements, guitar parts and lyrics. Then there's this other band called the West End Motel, which is an acoustic country band. It's just me on guitar and singing and another guy [Tom Cheshire] who is just singing. The music is in the vein of broken-hearted country songs like Hank Williams, Buck Owens and Gram Parsons. Another country-esque band is the Blue Eyed Devils which I play acoustic and electric guitar and we also feature a guy on a steel pedal guitar and banjo, a stand-up bassist, mandolin player, drummer and two lead singers [a woman and man]. And when I do have a free night or weekend, I'll always just pop in local studios or gigs and just jam. I guess I'm just the local musician-dude that anyone will call up because they know I'll play if I got the time. I just truly enjoy playing; it's what gets me up in the morning.
Well it seems you might not "practice" much, but you definitely play a lot.
BH: For me, I get so much more out of just playing all types of live music with people than sitting down and playing by myself. That's how I get better. I don't say I'm just going to play metal or rock. For instance, a few of our riffs on the new album are chicken-pickin' [see "Divinations" intro] or surf-style rock. However, that's not to say sometimes I don't sit up until all hours seeing how fast I can go or noodle on some solo bouncing around in my head. But for the most part, I just play with whoever, whenever.
Guitarists, like most inventors, tend to come up with ideas during inopportune times, what do you guys do to retain any riff ideas?
BK: I just play guitar as much as I can and anytime I think of something that sounds cool I'll either record it onto my Pro Tools rig or even hum a lick into my phone and revisit it later. I just try to build up a collection of riffs and ideas and then go through it later. It's funny, a lot of times, the stuff I thought was hot or cool at the time, when revisited, sounds like shit, but it often creates new, better ideas for riffs. So, I tend to even keep the bad ideas because if nothing else, they'll turn into good ones eventually… or so I think! But what I think it comes down to is that we just have a lot of music in us, its just sifting through the "riff-pile" and finding what is "Mastodon."
BH: Well, since I'm always playing somewhere, with someone, hopefully I catch the idea while its still hot and play it. Also, I keep a guitar at my bedside so when I can't sleep or wake up with a killer idea I can play it out right there in bed. I don't really ever record or write anything down in a book. I figure if I can't remember the riff, it's probably not worth remembering or good enough to play.
Bill, while Brent takes a lot of the leads, your rhythm playing often carries the force of the song. What do you attribute that to?
BK: I've always played rhythm a lot in previous bands. I played in a lot of three-piece bands where I had to play the solos and leads, but at the same time carry the bulk of the song. When I was a kid I played along with albums and just used it as a modern-day Pro Tools or other computer software by following the drums and bass. Obviously, back then, I was unable to do any of the solos, so I just focused on locking in on the rhythm.
I'm just trying to keep up, especially playing with Brann since he's all over the place sometimes—he doesn't even play the beat. He just goes off and plays the same exact notes as I am and on top of it, he's playing a million miles a second at certain points so it forces you to be on your game. I've been playing for so long, so hopefully it shows a little.
Brent, how does Bill's solid rhythm playing help your own guitar playing, especially the solos and overall development of the guitar parts in Mastodon's songs?
Bill, seeing Mastodon as kind of a chameleon band, how does the variety of styles and genres the band has fit into affect your set lists or adjust the way you guys perform?
BK: If we're doing a tour with Slayer, we're definitely not going to play a 20-minute song like "Hearts Alive" because we know the crowd wants to hear fast and heavy. So, we'll hit the "fast-and-heavy-Mastodon switch" and give them what they want. But if we're on tour with a band like Isis or Clutch, with a following that is more accessible to something more than the fast and hard shit, we'll play around with the set and do some experimenting with songs and arrangements. [laughs] If nothing else, in a setting like that, we can just play three 20-minute songs and be done! Playing with bands like Isis or Neurosis, you have a little more freedom to do something off the cuff or alternative, but when you're with Slayer and their legions of fans you want to come out swinging; you don't want to give the kids any reason to boo or throw shit at you. I've seen it happen to really good, talented bands when faced by the Slayer army.
With your upcoming summer European tour opening for Metallica, how do you guys feel when people suggest this pairing as a kind of passing of the torch from the band that forged the heavy metal genre in the '80s, to you guys, who have helped reinvigorated it?
BK: It's quite an honor. It's pretty fucking cool because when I was a kid first putting on a guitar I wanted to emulate them. I had the jean jacket with patches, ripped jeans and I tried learning all their famous licks. It's rewarding to have people lump us with an act like Metallica and their lineage of classic albums. I guess all this hard work on practicing guitar for hours and hours finally paid off when you put it like that.
BH: Shit man, that's cool with me… [laughs] because we all listened to those albums when we were growing up, so to have our name and albums thrown in with those guys, come on, who isn't going to like that?! It's not something we set out to achieve by saying "Crack the Skye has to our Master of Puppets," but we definitely wanted to make a statement of the roads we've traveled, the ups and downs and who we are as a band today. And we think we achieve that with this album.
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Fall is by far my favorite season and the past couple days it has begun to feel like Fall here in DC. The morning low today was only 50 degrees today and the afternoons are beautiful. I will definitely be taking my little man for a walk today. With the change in seasons comes baking with pumpkin. I could not wait to break out the pumpkin so in addition to these muffins, I also made pumpkin pancakes for dinner one night last week. These muffins are a little time consuming, but are incredibly delicious. They perfectly embody everything about the season. I think they would be perfect with a Pumpkin Spice Coffee.
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3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon mace
1/2 teaspoon fresh nutmeg
1 cup milk
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons maple extract
For cinnamon coating:
6 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon + teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Line 2 muffin pans with paper or foil liners.
Mix flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, mace, and nutmeg in a large bowl. In a separate bowl whisk together the milk, pumpkin, egg, 2 tablespoons melted butter, vanilla, and maple extracts. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients until combined. Batter will be a moist dough.
Meanwhile combine 1 cup up sugar and the 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Drop rounded teaspoons of batter into the 6 tablespoons of melted butter. Once coated in butter, drop and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Drop four coated dough balls into each prepared muffin cup, pressing down slightly. Bake in preheated oven for 10-12 minutes until tops of muffins spring back when touched.

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I recently discovered there is another reader of Chicken-Fat who works in Villa Rica, Georgia. This one is a male. The other Villa Rica Chicken-Fat reader is a female.
I wonder if they are fans? Or are they critics? Or do they read Chicken-Fat neither as fans or critics, but as researchers. They are looking for me to mess up so they can run and tell somebody I was talking about them in a bad way and maybe the people they tell sue me and they will get a percentage. I know how people are!
Whether they are fans, critics, or researchers I think they should meet weekly and discuss my writings and swap notes.
Just think, there are so many readers of Chicken-Fat in Villa Rica they could fill a house up from wall to wall. *
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>>I have PostGreSql on a 4 way server & it's consuming all 4 processors
as needed.
Good to know.
>>Standard Edition One is restricted to 2 cpu's and user based
Hmmm, interesting as that is not information that was given when we purchased last year.
Oh well, we are not purchasing again...just renewing for maintenance and support. ;o)
>>BTDT still hurts. Long story though.=20
>>the companies constant push to "reduce cost".
I hear you. While I'm the same guy who has been saying "pay for Oracle", most of the Oracle/Linux implementations I have supported the SA just grabs the "same" paid for Linux CD and lets me know when the "box is ready". Open Source often suffers from the "free" connotation....often paying for one server and installing every where. I'm often the (panicked) DBA telling SA and manager that we need OS support too!...if you want to live in the 24X7 world.
>>But with new applications...cheaper solutions
No only cheaper, but what is available...often the app is designed by what the developer downloads!
>> Oracle...brought up the idea of "site licensing"=20
Yeah the Enterprise site I was at had that, but Oracle changes there sales plan regularly!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:DGoulet_at_vicr.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:58 PM
To: Marquez, Chris; Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: RE: Oracle alternatives
Right now I have PostGreSql on a 4 way server & it's consuming all 4 processors as needed. The limit is not PostGreSql, but the version of the OS your running. Also we had Oracle in here just a week ago & they did say, very clearly, that Standard Edition One is restricted to 2 cpu's and user based licensing. Now I highly doubt that it won't run on a 4-way & use all of the processors, but come audit time you'll be in a pickle. Believe me on that one, BTDT still hurts. Long story though. The MAJOR problem I am having, which IS causing the Open Source revolution to hit home is the companies constant push to "reduce cost". Like you I've tried hard to make the case to not turn a cold shoulder on the rdbms that is currently holding our corporate data & will for the foreseeable future. But with new applications coming on line, especially those facing the WEB, cheaper solutions are the mandate. And as of right now PostGreSql is the cheaper, supportable, solution that is going in. It's a damned shame, but sometimes managers only see dollar signs.
Now to Oracle's credit/discredit they, namely Larry Ellison himself, brought up the idea of "site licensing" some time ago but failed to make anything creditable out of it yet. =20
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Marquez, Chris Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:29 PM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: RE: Oracle alternatives
I don't think I missed the point, Open Source is a real viable option. As an Oracle DBA I get sick of hearing people say; "Oracle is always more expensive, lets talk about free stuff". My point is your article and comments have validity, but not based on price for the level of the offering.
>> "Now I'm not saying that PostGreSql is a replacement for Oracle, but=20
>> it's gotten to the point where one really needs to take a careful
If it is not a replacement *and* I can use Oracle supported for the same price, what's the advantage?
Let me ask you because I don't know...How many CPU's can PostGreSql take
true scalability advantage off?
More importantly, How many PostGreSql users run PostGreSql on more than 2 CPU's (even if it can)?
My guess is not the majority. If I'm correct than telling me that Oracle low end option is "restricted to 2 cpu's" is not a restriction at all, but rather a fair comparison.
>>even the commodity priced Intel boxes are sporting more than 2.
Yes, but consider this. Dell one of the largest providers of Intel server ships, by far, most of thier server configured as two CPU boxes...that is a known fact.
Plus they have sold more the any vendor the most pre-configured 2 CPU + Oracle servers than anyone.
And just recently Dell said the are considering getting "back in" to the 4-way market.
My point is, there is a very real active low-end hardware and software market and Oracle can complete...offer more and be less expense. The cost factor when you include support, in an Open Source vs. Commercial Database Software discussion holds no water. Again refer to each vendors own sales web site.
I too have worked for organization that had Million dollar Oracle
budget, but they had the business that could pay for and demanded that
level of service and support. This same organization had a
signification "production" problem with an Open Source web server (not
Apache) for which the could NOT pay for support and only had the email
address for some developers.
Take a guess as to what the discussion was on the morning after...it was not about getting another free web server. I'm not bashing the free web server...that is not the point...that point is they real didn't want or need "free"...the needed and wanted a product that worked (for them)...a product that came with support.
People pay when the are in pain, or they foresee pain...the more pain they are in, the more they will pay...and not having the ability to pay, might be the most painful of all.
>> The key point is "True, Oracle has a lot more to it, but open source
is catching up".
>> And their catching up FAST. So fast that to not consider them is no
longer becoming an option.
I couldn't agree more...this is the story and reality of Linux, but running and supporting Linux is hardly free.
>> Sorry you can't use Standard Edition One any more.
>> Nor can you CPU license it for deployment to the Internet.
You have a reference for this, as this is not what our Oracle sales rep told us just 12 months ago.
>> As my CIO has said, we're coming into a time when software will
become a commodity item.
>> And commodity items do not command the large dollars in either
acquisition or support costs.
Yes, but consider this. "commodity item's" can often be thrown away...they are deposable.
Years of vital corporate information is not a "commodity item" and thus those that values there data spend significant money to support that data.
So even if the software is free, when the time comes, not "if" but "when", the time comes for voluntary or involuntary change, someone will pay someone else.
Years ago I bought an Palm handheld. They guy at BestBuy ask if I
wanted a "support" warranty.
I told him he seemed to be confusing my desire to backup and restore my data with the need or ability to buy another "commodity" Palm handheld. The Palm handheld is a "commodity", but my personal data would be difficult to reproduce.
Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:DGoulet_at_vicr.com] Sent: Thu 5/5/2005 10:36 AM
To: Marquez, Chris; Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: RE: Oracle alternatives
You did a wonderful job of zeroing in on one portion of the article & missed the main point by a country mile. If you'll re-read the article you'll see:
"Of course there's more to licensing Oracle than that and I could go on and on about that"=20
"Now I'm not saying that PostGreSql is a replacement for Oracle, but it's gotten to the point where one really needs to take a careful look"
Yes acquisition cost, or sticker shock, is a reality with the closed source world and that is driving a lot of folks to alternatives, and yes I probably ranted too much on that point. But that one sticky point is having an enormous impact on my working life at the moment. The key point is "True, Oracle has a lot more to it, but open source is catching up". And their catching up FAST. So fast that to not consider them is no longer becoming an option. Also the cost of hardware is dropping equally as fast such that the initial cost of software is now popping out as a greater significant factor. Oh yes, you can acquire Standard Edition One for the same cost as the server, but now your restricted to 2 cpu's. or cores, when even the commodity priced Intel boxes are sporting more than 2. Sorry you can't use Standard Edition One any more. Nor can you CPU license it for deployment to the Internet. And Yes Support is becoming everyone's, save for MicroSlop, cash cow. We're paying over $100K per year to Oracle for support. Support for PostGreSql is going to cost us about $10K no matter how many servers and data bases there are. And there is a mailing list with the developers of PostGreSql on it who are just as helpful as OTS, even more so in some cases not to mention that LazyDba has added MySql, FireBird, and PostGreSql to their discussions. And patches/upgrades are readily available from www.postgresql.org. All in all a better, though I'll give not idyllic equivalent.
As my CIO has said, we're coming into a time when software will become a commodity item. And commodity items do not command the large dollars in either acquisition or support costs. Take a serious look at that laptop or PC your working at. It's a commodity nowadays. Software is just around the corner & I'm afraid that Open Source is leading the way.
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The practice or custom observed by a political official of filling government positions with qualified employees of his or her own choosing.
When the candidate of a political party wins an election, the newly elected official has the right to appoint a certain numbers of persons to jobs in the government. This is the essence of the patronage system, also known as the spoils system ("To the victor go the spoils"): appointing persons to government positions on the basis of political support and work rather than on merit, as measured by objective criteria. Though the patronage system exists at all levels of U.S. government, the number of positions that are available through patronage has decreased dramatically since the 1880s.
The patronage system thrived in the U.S. federal government until 1883. In 1820 Congress limited federal administrators to four-year terms, leading to constant turnover. By the 1860s and the Civil War, patronage had led to widespread inefficiency and political corruption. Where patronage had once been confined to the cabinet, department heads, and foreign ambassadorships, by the 1860s low-level government positions were subject to patronage. The loss of a presidential election by a political party signaled wholesale turnover in the federal government. When President Benjamin Harrison took office in 1889, 31,000 federal postmaster positions changed hands.
The assassination of President james garfield in 1881 by a disgruntled office seeker who did not receive a political appointment spurred Congress to pass the Civil Service Act, or Pendleton Act of 1883 (5 U.S.C.A. § 1101 et seq.). The act, which at the time only applied to 10 percent of the federal workforce, created a Civil Service Commission and advocated a merit system for the selection of government employees. By 1980, 90 percent of federal positions had become part of the civil service system. In addition, the passage in 1939 of the Hatch Act (53 Stat. 1147) curtailed or restricted most partisan political activities of federal employees.
State and local governments have employed large patronage systems. Big-city political machines in places such as New York, Boston, and Chicago thrived in the late nineteenth century. A patronage system not only rewards political supporters for past support, it also encourages future support, because persons who have a patronage job try to retain it by campaigning for the party at the next election.
Large-scale patronage systems declined steadily during the twentieth century. During the Progressive Era (1900–1920), "good government" reformers overthrew political machines and installed civil service systems. Chicago, under Mayor Richard J. Daley, remained the last bastion of patronage, existing in its purest form until the late 1970s.
Patronage has its defenders. It is a way to maintain a strong political organization by offering campaign workers rewards. More importantly, patronage puts people into government who agree with the political agenda of the victor. Cooperation, loyalty, and trust flow from this arrangement. Finally, patronage guarantees some turnover, bringing new people and new ideas into the system.
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PATRONAGE. The right of appointing to office; as the patronage of the
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During the presidential campaign I checked http://www.fivethirtyeight.com, like, several times a day. As one whose gifts lie not with the maths* I really appreciated his analysis, and the mounting sense of excitement I got that Indiana might go blue.
Yet even Nate Silver suspends his just-the-numbers-ma'am approach when it comes to obesity. Here he suggests that it's "certainly true of Americans is that they don't elect very many fat governors."
CERTAINLY true. Well, okay. Please bring on the mathematical certitude then!
Running through pictures of the 50 sitting governors, I come up with only about 10 (20%) who are distinctly overweight, and only 3 (6%) — Haley Barbour, Bill Richardson, and Sonny Perdue — who are clearly obese. This compares with percentages on the order of 65 percent and 30 percent for the U.S. adult population.
Ah. So we're using the rigorous look-at-the-pictures-and-see-if-someone's-fat-fat-fatty-fat-as-determined-by-male-onlooker method for the governors, and then assuming that will track with the BMI's, errm, fanciful standards for "overweight" and "obese."
And what follows is a lot of stuff that you've all heard before [edited to add: and, actually, some nearly-there guesses about what it means that "fat" is now a political vulnerability. -AS]. Including Nate Silver demurring that "my classifications are probably a bit conservative given that overweight is the new normal in America."
(Er, no, dear. It's really not. "Normal" is the new "overweight." You know when I first suspected, though, that you would not already be squared away on that point? When this post appeared at 538; and no, it wasn't written by YOU, but rather by Sean Quinn, BUT STILL. IT IS YOUR BLOG. That's when I first got wise to the fact that I was likely eavesdropping on a doodily doodily dood conversation, and not so much participating in a smart-people-talking-politics conversation. I mean, really? "Just for kicks!" Hee hee! "Just for kicks, here's a leering photo at a woman, y'know, working in American politics." So that's now TWO kinda douchey things, fellas, that I know of. And I haven't read your blog since the election, really. Might I gently suggest that you all suck on some male privilege mints before speaking further?)
Anyway, all that is just to say: on that "Signs of the Obesapocalypse" you have hanging on your fridge, please add "Governor-Electorate Corpulence Disproportion" right under "Declining Mitten Sales" and "Barbie Cankles."
* – Side note: I actually enjoyed math until I had a math teacher in eighth grade who would say things, in class, like: "Oh, all these mistakes in the textbook? Are because there were so many women on the editorial board!" Or, "Hey! Let's make a list of all the things that women are good at! Let me get a very very tiny piece of paper…" Now, would I have been a brilliant mathematician had it not been for him? Who knows; probably not. But that was it for me and math. Eighth fucking grade. Awesome, dude. "Children! Children! Future! Future!" [/jazz hands]


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Maher, a perennial bomb thrower with a hard left ideology appeared on CNN's Feb. 16 "Larry King Live," facing the king of softball interviews, Larry King, and let it be known he thought alleged terrorism plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in New York City and that health care should be forced through by the Obama administration, despite the wishes of the American people.
And why should the American people's wishes be ignored? They're "not bright enough."
"But what the Democrats never understand is that Americans don't really care what position you take, just stick with one," Maher said. "Just be strong. They're not bright enough to really understand the issues. But like an animal, they can sort of sense strength or weakness. They can smell it on you."
Maher insisted a trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the heart of lower Manhattan should appeal to Republicans - despite the factors of cost, legal questions, etc.
"So when you back off a situation like that, you just look weak on top of which, somebody who is going to have to explain to me why the Democratic position on this shouldn't really be the Republican position," Maher said. "It seems like the Republicans, who are always the, you know, Jack Bauer, '24,' tough guys, macho, they should be the ones who want to try this guy in Manhattan. That, to me, seems like the breast-beating macho position. Yes, we're going to try him right where the crime occurred."
Later, Maher took the opportunity to reiterate his elitist disdain for the American people and their pushback on policies involving the expansion of government [emphasis added]:
KING: We have a blog question for Bill Maher: "Do you think it's socialism for the government to take over health care to make sure that every American can afford to have it?" Do you think that's socialism?
MAHER: Of course it's not socialism. Oh, God. Americans have no clue what socialism is. They just know it's something super terrible.
MAHER: No. Well, first of all, you know, we have socialism already in this country, as does every modern democracy.
KING: Social Security is socialism.
MAHER: Yes, of course it is. And so is the Marines Corps. You know, so is the mail. Every modern industrialized Western democracy is a hybrid with elements of socialism in it. It's - it's not evil. You know, again, the Democrats have done a rotten job of selling health care. There's a lot of good stuff in that health care, but to - to have it be characterized as socialist - to let people characterize it as socialism was a big mistake from the beginning.
Maher suggested what many gung-ho health care proponents have - force the Senate version of the health care bill despite the wishes of the American people through the House of Representatives instead of going the new route of a televised negotiation to iron out a new, amicable bill.
KING: Do you think they're going to get a weak bill in, if they get a bill at all?
MAHER: You know, the Senate bill that already passed is not that bad. Yes, it's not what a lot of people would have liked. But it does cover 30 million more people. You can't get thrown off for a preexisting condition. It - it - it saves money. It does reduce costs. Medicare is solvent until 2026. That's not a bad start.
You know, you can't solve legislation, usually, in one fell swoop. There's usually a good start, then you go back and you get some more. Why Obama just doesn't, you know, make - tell the House to, you know, adopt the Senate bill, take it into reconciliation and push this through, instead of having this televised supposed love fest with the Republicans. Larry, they're just not into you. I keep telling them, they just are not that into you.


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Officials at the Menil Collection don't know why a man spray-painted Pablo Picasso's "Woman in a Red Armchair" at the museum, but the act wasn't caught just on surveillance cameras.
It also was captured by a bystander with a smartphone camera and subsequently posted on YouTube with a caption naming the alleged perpetrator as a young artist.
Menil communications director Vance Muse, reached Monday in Germany, said museum security discovered the vandalism almost immediately Wednesday afternoon.
The damaged artwork, with the spray paint barely dry, was rushed down the hall to the museum's conservation lab, where chief conservator Brad Epley quickly began its repair.
The 1929 painting, one of nine by Picasso owned by the Menil, has "an excellent prognosis," Muse said.
The vandal, who has not been identified officially, stenciled a small image of a bullfighter killing a bull and the word "Conquista" on the painting. He fled and wasn't caught.
Houston Police spokesman Victor Senties said the vandalism was being investigated as a criminal mischief case. Anyone who witnessed the attack or has information is asked to call 713-308-0900.
KPRC (Channel 2) interviewed a man who said he captured the vandalism on his phone camera. The witness told Channel 2 the man identified himself as an up-and-coming Mexican-American artist looking to honor Picasso's work.
John and Dominique de Menil acquired "Woman in a Red Armchair" in 1956. It has been displayed often since the Menil Collection opened in 1987 and has been loaned to other museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The Menil also owns 14 drawings, a terra-cotta sculpture and more than 100 prints by Picasso.
Muse said the incident brought to mind an act in 1974, when artist Tony Shafrazi, who later became a gallery owner, defaced Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" at the Museum of Modern Art.


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After reading a play, students create a resume for one of the characters. Students first discuss what they know about resumes, then select a character from the play to focus on and jot down notes about that character. Next, they search the internet for historical background information. Students then explore the play again, looking for both direct and implied information about their characters and noting the location of supporting details. Finally, students draft resumes for their characters and search a job listing site for a job for which their character is qualified.
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In her article "Teaching Ideas: Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report," Diana Mitchell explains "Students tire of responding to novels in the same ways. They want new ways to think about a piece of literature and new ways to dig into it" (92).
Mitchell's observation is supported by Jim Cope's survey of 272 high school seniors in five Georgia high schools. In the article reporting his findings, Cope states, "Book reports were listed as the third most negative school reading experience, and can be considered a subset of students' general disdain for assigned reading" (21). Like Mitchell, Cope suggests that teachers "move away from the traditional book report and consider more exciting activities" in order to raise students' interest and engagement in reading. The end result of book report alternatives, such as the one explored in this lesson plan, is that the activities "whet the interest of students in exploring new directions and in responding with greater depth to the books they read" (Mitchell 92).
Further Reading
Mitchell, Diana. "Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report." English Journal 87.1 (January 1998): 92-95.
Cope, Jim. "Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading." English Journal 86.3 (March 1997): 18-23


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Görlitz – the most easterly town in Germany and for many the most beautiful. Perhaps not surprising when you consider the town has over 3,500 architectural monuments spanning 500 years. Most have been lovingly restored and are a real visual treat for visitors. Among the grand old churches, mighty fortifications and ornate facades, there is a wonderful, vibrant and friendly town just waiting to be discovered.
Görlitz is in fact split into two parts – the eastern section in Poland is called Zgorzelec – yet the visitor is unable to sense a division between the two. Building bridges could quite easily be Görlitz and Zgorzelec's motto, especially when it comes to the popular festivals that take place in the town. The Tri-Nation Short Film Festival, for example, features contributions from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, while the Via Thea street theatre festival attracts performers and theatre companies from all over Europe. In late August, the old town festival in Görlitz and its Polish equivalent are held on the same weekend. This unique double festival celebrated on both sides of the border is the perfect time to pay the town a visit.
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Because Görlitz survived the Second World War virtually unscathed, it has retained much of its medieval character. But visitors will also be impressed by its grand streets and squares from the late 19th century and its ornate art nouveau houses. The department store on Demianiplatz was once a leading destination for shoppers. This art nouveau gem with its vast atrium soaring upwards past floor after galleried floor has barely changed since the day it first opened. Close by is the beautiful Schönhof, a former brewery and one of the most splendid buildings in the town. Today it is home to the Silesian Museum which displays arts and crafts from the 17th to the 19th century, as well as art, artisan goods and industrial products from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Görlitz's Toy Museum is a real treat for the young and young at heart. It features over 4,000 toys from the Erzgebirge region, dating from 1850 to the present day.
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Görlitz is also a first-class location for film-makers. Take the town hall, for example, with its clock dating from 1524 – the perfect backdrop for bringing the Renaissance period to life on the big screen. In the days of East Germany, many historical films and fairytale dramatisations were shot here. Since German reunification, Görlitz has been transformed into 19th-century Paris for a movie, and only a short time ago Brad Pitt and friends painted the town red as the 'Inglourious Basterds'. While in Görlitz, they would have been able to sample the rustic German cuisine on offer. One of the best places to do this is 'Zur schwarzen Kunst', a traditional inn with an open fire, atmospheric vaulted cellar and beer garden.
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This is part of NRN's special coverage of the 2012 Food & Wine Classic held in Aspen, Colo., June 15-17. Follow all of our coverage at NRN's 'Aspen Food & Wine Classic' section.
I accidentally crashed a really nice party yesterday.
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I'm in Aspen for the Food & Wine Classic, a festival with which I have a love-hate relationship. It's fun because I get to hang out with a bunch of really great industry people and go to a lot of different parties with delicious food and terrific alcohol.
But it's also really annoying. That's because food in the United States has been transformed from a necessity of life, and a subject of some interest to a certain group of connoisseurs, to a national obsession and sometimes kind of a gross fetish, the Food & Wine Classic has an added, lurid component of celebrity chef groupies, and they kind of wear me out.
But yesterday, I guess I kind of was a celebrity chef groupie.
I was invited to a Ferrer Wine Estates party at Jimmy's, a restaurant and bar in Aspen that is the host of many parties during the Classic.
I wandered in and New York restaurateur Drew Nieporent, head of the Myriad Restaurant Group and always a strong presence at the Food & Wine Classic, greeted me warmly from his spot on the restaurant's balcony.
I got a drink — a nice gin-based thing with Cava and some sort of bitter Italian liqueur — and joined Drew on the balcony, where he was hanging out with Bobby Flay, Flay's wife Stephanie March (you might know her as the stunningly beautiful assistant district attorney Alexandra Cabot from the Law & Order franchise), his business partner Lawrence Kretchmer, Nilou Motamed of Travel & Leisure (and now quite a well-established TV personality), her husband Peter Lindberg (a very well respected journalist in his own right) and others.
Drew grabbed me and had me pose for a picture with the group, and then I took a picture of him and everyone else.
I hadn't met Stephanie, so I introduced myself and she graciously pretended to know who I was and made small talk about food. I was catching up with everyone else, when Jimmy, the owner of Jimmy's, introduced himself, shook my hand, and just as nicely as could be ushered me off of the balcony and back into his restaurant telling me that Lawrence's wife (presumably Lawrence Kretchmer's, but I guess I can't say for sure) had organized that balcony as a private, intimate gathering.
But hey, I got a nice picture out of it, which Drew was nice enough to e-mail to me this morning. And I managed to soldier on to the Food & Wine Classic's opening reception at the Ritz-Carlton and then to the annual Wines from Spain party with my ego reasonably intact.
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The expose decorator notifies CherryPy that you want a particular method to be exposed to the web, describing the output of your controller method, and starts/commits the automatic transaction support for databases that support transactions.
Adding an empty expose decorator above your method says that you want the method to be available on the web, but that you'll handle all of the content formatting and header setting:
More common is to provide TurboGears with a reference to a template:
Since the template keyword argument is the first parameter to the expose decorator function, you can also simply write:
When you do this, you're expected to return a dictionary from your controller method. The values in that dictionary are made available to your templates. Most templates will expose the key/value pairs as local variables in the scope of the template. In other words, returning {'a':2} causes all the ${a}'s in your template to be replaced by 2.
If the values you want are already in the namespace of your controller method, you can just return locals().
The template we listed above ("projectname.templates.baz") would use your application's default template engine to render the template – Kid by default. If you wish to use a different template engine just for one method, you just put the name of the template engine at the front, followed by a colon:
Some (well, only one at the moment) template engines might not even require a template file reference. JSON output works this way. In those cases, you can just list the name of the template engine itself:
Given that your controller methods are just returning a dictionary, you'd think that dictionary could be plugged into different template engines to return different results. And you'd be correct:
@expose("json", as_format="json", accept_format="text/javascript")
def yourmethod(self):
return dict(a_value="something")
If you haven't changed your default template language, the dictionary will be plugged into the projectname/templates/baz.kid Kid template for most calls. If, on the other hand, yourmethod is called with "tg_format=json" or if there's an "Accept: text/javascript" header, the JSON formatted data will be returned.
Since JSON is such a common and useful format for Ajax operations, there's a shortcut for getting the JSON output:
@expose("projectname.templates.baz", allow_json=True)
def yourmethod(self):
return dict(a_value="something")
This example is equivalent to the previous example. Adding the allow_json=True parameter is equivalent to tacking on a second @expose matching the complete JSON expose decorator in the previous example.
You are, of course, not limited to just a default and a JSON output. If you would like to use Kid for your HTML output but return Cheetah-formatted text, you'd use:
as_format="plain", accept_format="text/plain"
If your method is called with a URL parameter of tg_format=plain (as_format controls this) or with an "Accept: text/plain" header (accept_format controls this), the Cheetah template will be used to render out a plain text version of your page. If you omit the content_type, the document will be served with a text/html MIME type. Most clients can handle misconfigured MIME types on text, but if you've got some templating engine that's returning non-text output, such as PDF or PNG, you'll want to set the MIME type correctly.
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For example, to output SVG, you will do something like this:
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def create_user(self, name):
emailaddress = name +'@foo.invalid'
User(user_name=name, display_name=name, email=emailaddress,
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return {}
Of course you can (and should!) use a validate decorator and an error_handler decorator to check for syntactically invalid user names. But until you really commit your changes, you can not be sure that the database won't raise an IntegrityError. For example, your user may just hit the register button twice.
Side note: Catching the generic Exception is not very smart! In order to catch exceptions thrown by the database, you should only catch the appropriate exceptions. See the SQLObject or SQLAlchemy documentation for more information on this topic.
You can override the template specified in @expose by returning a dictionary with the key tg_template, e.g.:
def create_user(self, name):
emailaddress = name +'@foo.invalid'
User(user_name=name, display_name=name, email=emailaddress,
except Exception, e:
return dict(error=e, tg_template='projectname.templates.user_creation_error')
return dict()
TurboGears will remove the tg_template key before it calls the specified template. The same holds true if you use testutil.call_with_request() in your unit tests: You won't see the tg_template key in the output.
Last but not least: Handling exceptions in functions is such a common task that TurboGears comes with a specialized decorator to handle it. Have a look at the exception_handler decorator which provides the facility to separate your exception handling code from the normal program flow.


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TurboGears widgets are a simple, yet powerful way to bundle up bits of HTML, CSS and Javascript into reusable components. As a consumer of Widgets, you can use them to create everything from HTML Forms, to Ajax based AutoComplete fields.
Perhaps the most common use of Widgets right now is as a convenient way to include form controls in a web page.
In this case, each field is a widget, and the whole form is also a widget - a compound widget that contains the field widgets. In a simple case the fields would use standard form controls such as text boxes.
Widget based forms have a number of useful properties. For example, you can set up the individual form fields to know their validation rules, and when you do this, the Form Widget knows how to display any validation error messages next to the appropriate field if a user enters bad data.
The beauty of widgets is that replacing standard text entry fieds with "fancy" alternatives is easy for the programmer. For example, you could use a CalendarDatePicker instead of a TextField, to get a pop-up calendar.
Widgets are python objects, which need to be instantiated and setup before you can use them in your view code. The standard way to do this is to instantiate a widget in your controllers.py file. We'll start with a simple TextField widget that isn't very exciting, but is easy to understand in full. Don't worry, though this isn't all there is. We've got fancy javascript heavy widgets that do animation, lightboxes, and autocomplete fields.
To instantiate a TextField widget instance in your controller you'll need to import turbogears.widgets into your controller, and create a widget instance like this:
fname = TextField(default="Enter your First Name")
This will create a widget instance, which you can pass into a template and display using it's .display() method:
This will automatically add a text input field to your page. The rendered HTML should look something like this:
<INPUT ID="widget" TYPE="text" NAME="widget"
VALUE="Enter your First Name" CLASS="textfield">
The VALUE is picked up from the default value we provided at instantiation time.
But you can override the default at render time, just by passing a value to the display method, either as the first parameter, or explicitly as the named parameter value:
Which would create the following HTML:
<INPUT ID="widget" TYPE="text"
VALUE="mark" CLASS="textfield">'
As we mentioned, you can also assign values with the value parameter:
So, now that we've seen a couple of simple examples how we create a widget and assign parameters, it's probably worth taking a deeper look at how all of this works.
Widgets instances are stateless, which means that they should not try to have any request specific data stored in a widget.
Because widgets are stateless, it's really only safe to assign widget attributes at instantiation time or display time.
In fact, to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot, if you try to modify an attribute after the widget is instantiate, (other than as a .display() option) you'll receive a friendly warning message reminding you that widgets are display logic, not a place to store data.
Let's take a look at the various attributes all widgets have, and what they do.
In addition several widgets have other attributes which you can setup. For example, form widgets have an action attribute which defines what URL the form will send it's HTTP Post to for processing. Another common example is the select field widget which has an options parameter which takes a list of tuples which define the value returned by the drop down list and the name that should be displayed in the list.
But for now, let's just use the options attribute of the SelectField widget as an example of the final way that you can pass information to widget attributes. You can define a callable (generally a function, but any callable will do) which returns the data needed by the widget, and pass that callable into the widget at instantiation time. The widget will automatically call that function whenever you display the widget on a page.
So, you might want to create a function which gets data from the database, and creates an options list for display in some widget. In this case, we're just going to define list statically in our function, but extending this to do interesting stuff is just standard python:
def get_options():
options= []
for item in range(11):
options.append((item, "item %s" %item))
return options
my_selector = widgets.SingleSelectField(options=get_options)
This creates a new my_selector widget with a bunch of selection options. When you do a my_selector.display on your page template you'll get code like this:
<SELECT CLASS="singleselectfield" NAME="widget" ID="widget">
<OPTION VALUE="0">item 0</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="1">item 1</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="2">item 2</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="10">item 10</OPTION>
In addition to the above attributes, there are a couple more, which define CSS and JavaScript files that need to be imported into your template for the widget itself to work properly. These can only be setup at instantiation time (at render time, it's too late to inject them into the form itself).
If you're just using existing widgets, you shouldn't ever have to worry about css and javascript attributes, they should already be set up for you.
On of the most common cusomization needs when working with Widgets is some slight modification of the widget template code. The Turbogears Toolbox includes a WidgetBrowser application which, among other things, shows you all the template code for every widget you have installed. If for instance you need to edit the TextField widget's template to include a
 tag after the field you could easily do that by grabbing the existing template code from the widget browser and modifying it.
Once you've got a modified template, you can either create a new file (say widgettemplate.kid) and saving it in your templates directory, or you can pass it to the template attribute as a string.
So if you've saved your new template as widgettemplate.kid you can instantiate a new text field widget that uses this new template with code like this:
field1 = widgets.TextField(name='Field one",
Or if you don't want to bother with the extra template file for short templates, you can just pass your template definition to the template attribute as a string like this:
field1 = widgets.TextField(name='Field one",
<input xmlns:py="http://purl.org/kid/ns#"

Single widgets are pretty simple, and you can use them to create reusable view elements pretty easily.
But there's a whole lot more that's a available to you if you're willing to go beyond single widgets, and look at the way that Widget based Form handling integrates Form handling tasks, making it easy to reuse the same widget to get new data, edit existing data, and handle the display of validation errors.
Your next step in the Widgets Journey is creating a Widget-based form.


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France's press freedom record continued a downward slide, in large part because authorities attempted to violate the confidentiality of journalists' sources and interfere with editorial decisions. Most of the recent cases stemmed from the "Bettencourt affair," the alleged illegal financing of the presidential party by the billionaire Liliane Bettencourt. In 2010, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office ordered the secret services to identify sources leaking information about the matter to the press. Journalists from major media outlets were targeted, and the secret services obtained phone records of a Le Monde journalist. In October, the director of domestic intelligence was charged with violating the secrecy of correspondence and confidentiality of sources. Press-government relations were further strained during the 18-month abduction of two France 3 journalists in Afghanistan, which ended in June. Élysée Palace and the army had criticized the "recklessness" of the reporters. In November, the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed and its website was hacked after the satirical weekly published a spoof edition "guest-edited" by Prophet Muhammad.
Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière, two journalists with the French public service channel France 3, were freed on June 29, 2011, after being held by the Taliban in the Kapisa region of Afghanistan since late 2009. Three Afghan colleagues were also released.
Data from the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, showed that penetration climbed significantly since 2006. France adopted tough legislation on Internet file-sharing, and it applied to the Web its strict laws on defamation and hate speech.
In September 2010, Le Monde announced it was filing lawsuits alleging that the Sarkozy government unlawfully used the country's intelligence services to identify a source for journalist Gérard Davet, who had been covering the Bettencourt affair. An appellate court ruled in favor of Le Monde in December 2011.
Le Monde v. the French government:
June 2010: The news website Mediapart began publishing secretly taped conversations between L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt and her financial advisers, revealing allegations of illegal political financing and tax evasion. Le Monde and other news media picked up the story.
September 2010: Le Monde said the domestic intelligence service used surveillance to identify a justice ministry official as Le Monde's alleged source for the Bettencourt affair. The paper filed a formal lawsuit a month later.
October 2010: Burglars stole a computer and a GPS device from the Paris apartment of Davet, Le Monde's editor for investigations.
September 2011: French Interior Minister Claude Guéant admitted that domestic intelligence spied on Davet in July 2010, obtaining his detailed phone bill from a mobile operator in order to identify a Le Monde source.
October 2011: Bernard Squarcini, head of domestic intelligence, was charged with "illegally collecting data and violating the confidentiality" of Davet's sources.
December 2011: The country's top appeals court ruled in favor of Le Monde.
In late 2011, Investigating Magistrate Sylvie Zimmerman was questioning Bernard Squarcini, head of domestic intelligence; Philippe Courroye, a state prosecutor; and Fréderic Péchenard, France's chief of police, as part of an inquiry into the illegal surveillance of Le Monde's Davet. Squarcini was charged on October 17.
Worldwide victories for source protection:
August 2007: After journalist protests in Nairobi, President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya rejected a bill that would have forced editors to name their sources in court.
March 2009: The Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague confirmed the right of Liberian journalist Hassan Bility to maintain the confidentiality of a source from a reporting trip to Sierra Leone. During the trip, Bility documented alleged ties between Liberian government troops and Sierra Leonean rebels.
September 2010: The European Court of Human Rights held that media premises are exempt from police searches and seizures. The decision stemmed from a case in the Netherlands, where police had threatened to arrest an editor and close his newspaper if he refused to surrender journalistic material.
July 2011: A U.S. federal judge in Alexandria, Va., ruled that reporter James Risen could keep confidential his source for sensitive material in a book about the CIA. The government appealed the decision in late year.
September 2011: London's Metropolitan Police dropped their attempt to use the Official Secrets Act to force The Guardian to reveal confidential sources on a phone-hacking scandal.
In November 2010, the satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné and the news website Mediapart accused Sarkozy's office of directly supervising espionage against journalists covering the Bettencourt affair. Sarkozy's chief of staff and the head of domestic intelligence sued the two outlets for defamation in late 2010. By June 2011, as the government's own actions came under fire, the complaints were withdrawn.
Other legal attacks on French media:
November 2008: Paris police detained and abused Vittorio de Filippis, a former editor of the newspaper Liberation. Police interrogated him for five hours without a lawyer in a 2006 libel case and forced him to undergo strip searches.
June 2010: A Paris prosecutor indicted Augustin Scalbert, a journalist with the news website Rue89, on charges of "stealing and keeping" a video that showed Sarkozy reprimanding public television journalists for not giving him enough airtime. Rue89 had published the video two years earlier. Scalbert faced up to five years in jail. The case was pending in late 2011.
July 2011: Rue89 prevailed in a defamation lawsuit filed by Lola Karimova, daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov. The outlet had called the Uzbek leader "a dictator" in a 2010 article. Karimova had demanded 30,000 euros (US$41,500) in damages.


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Two infield errors led to the winning run coming home on a passed ball in the bottom of the seventh inning as Framingham Post 74 fell at Northbridge 10-9 in an American Legion Zone 4 game on Thursday night.
Two infield errors led to the winning run coming home on a passed ball in the bottom of the seventh inning as Framingham Post 74 fell at Northbridge 10-9 in an American Legion Zone 4 game on Thursday night.
Framingham (9-10) jumped to a 5-0 lead in the top of the first with Andrew Mooney hitting an RBI single, Matt Cronin hitting a two-run triple and T.J. Hanley hitting a two-run double.
Northbridge scored four runs in the bottom of the first before Framingham scored two runs in the second to make it 7-4.
Northbridge scored two more runs to cut the Post 74 lead to 7-6 after three.
Cronin singled and later scored on Christian Seariac's single for an 8-6 lead in the fourth.
Northbridge scored a run in its half of the fourth to make it 8-7.
In the top of the fifth, Marco Roffo had an RBI single to push the lead to 9-7. But in the bottom of the fifth Northbridge tied it 9-9.
Post 74 committed five errors in the loss.
"We keep giving them four outs and in the last inning we gave them five outs," said Framingham manager Bunkie Smith. "We're not winning, but the only team we're losing to is ourselves. It's very frustrating."
Cronin, Roffo and Mooney each had two hits as Framingham totaled 11 hits in the game.
"We hit the ball but shot ourselves in the foot," said Smith. "The errors are killing us."
Framingham plays at Milford on Thursday in their annual Fourth of July game starting at 11 a.m.
MILFORD-MAIN SOUTH POSTPONED: The continuation of the Milford Post 59 vs. Main South American Legion game was postponed when Main South's manager was unable to attend.
The Zone 4 game, which was postponed to Thursday because of thunderstorms Wednesday night with Milford leading Main South 7-1 entering the top of the fifth inning, was rescheduled to continue Saturday morning at Foley Stadium in Worcester starting at 10 a.m.
With a tropical storm forecasted to hit southern New England on Thursday, the start of the annual Framingham vs. Milford Fourth of July game has already been moved from noon to 11 a.m. at Fino Field in Milford. There's a possibility it may be moved again to 10 a.m.
"I think everyone is in the same boat with the weather and coming up with the regular season scheduled to end on Tuesday," said Milford manager Steve DiVitto. "Every team is finding a way to get these games in.
"The Fourth of July game means a lot to both teams. (Framingham manager) Bunkie (Smith) and I will do everything we can to get this game in."
Defending state champion Milford is 11-7 and riding a four-game win streak.
Former Valley Tech star and three-year Milford Legion veteran, Dan Avery, is a possibility to start on the mound for Milford.
Milford's pitchers have shut out Framingham the past two years in their Fourth of July clashes. Last summer Mike Tracy scattered six hits in a 2-0 win over Post 74. Two years ago Steve Morganelli threw a no-hitter in a 1-0 win for Post 59.
Three years ago in a battle for first place in Zone 4, it was Framingham that posted the shutout, 3-0 over Milford.
"Anytime you play Framingham it's a great rivalry game and it does not matter what the records are," said DiVitto. "Both teams come to play. It's great for both teams. It's always an exciting game."
The weather could be an issue, however, with rain in the forecast for Thursday.
"Some things you can't control and Mother Nature is one of them," said DiVitto.