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During his campaign for the Mayors office, Bob Filner promised a new age of municipal transparency and announced that former City Councilmember Donna Frye, San Diegos queen of open government, would be among his first hires. The townspeople rejoiced.
Alas, were nearly two months into the Filner era, and the figurative gates of the city are bolted shut. In fact, the city is far less open at this stage than it was at any point during Jerry Sanders second term as mayor, when the ample communications department was really quite responsive to requests for information from the press and aggressively engaging on social media.
So far, its been nearly impossible for any reporters in the city, including those whom Filner likes, to get questions—about anything, big or small—answered by his two-member communications staff. We suspect that its not their fault; Filner brought with him a reputation for insisting on making every little decision himself. We suspect that press questions are fed to the mayor and end up languishing on a pile of things to do.
The one way Filner is being open is by crisscrossing the city, speaking to groups of people. It seems that the only way to get a question answered is by showing up at one of those appearances, which is easier said than done because most of the time, we dont know where hes going to be.
There are folks encouraging us to be patient, and aside from the occasional snide comment on Twitter, we have been patient. In fact, save for one U-T San Diego reporter who did a story on Filners unresponsiveness to his question about the Mayors offices initial hires, the entire San Diego press corps has been remarkably patient.
But if we—the folks at CityBeat—were to be honest with ourselves, wed acknowledge that if this were Carl DeMaio not answering questions, wed be screaming bloody murder by this point and asking what the little baby-faced anti-government crusader had to hide. (Truth be told, for all his many faults, communication with the public is something DeMaio is very good at—hes a marketing machine.)
Were gathering that Filner likes to communicate to the press and the people in his own way: public appearances and the occasional press conference, rather than answering questions as they come into the office. Its our guess that hes come to the conclusion that if a handful of reporters bitch and moan about not getting calls back or emails returned, well, theres not much of a public-relations downside to that; citizens arent exactly going to pour into the streets, raise a ruckus and demand change. Filner can put money that Sanders put into communications into something he cares more about.
But that doesnt mean answering questions isnt important. Newspapers, radio, TV and the web are how people get information about how their government is spending their money and servicing their basic needs. The mayor controls everything in the city other than the City Council and the City Attorneys office. He controls police, fire, water, roads and sewers. Most of the time, the questions are basic and non-confrontational; often, we dont even need the mayor himself to answer it. The information we provide helps people make decisions for themselves and their families. Heck, when the matters are really serious, the mayor should want to get his side on the record.
Particularly when the media—or the public—are requesting government documents, it behooves Filner to provide them without delay. Judging from his performance so far, he interprets public-records statutes too narrowly at best and unlawfully at worst. CityBeat had a records request rejected this past week that we believe wasnt handled properly by the mayor. We fully support Filners agenda of putting citizens before lobbyists and neighborhoods before special interests. Wed hate to see him and his team get bogged down in lawsuits over the dissemination of public records, which are sure to come if things stay as they are.
This is to say nothing of the possibility of a major public-safety or public-health disaster—another fire, an earthquake, a plane crash, widespread power failure, water contamination—and the mayors ability to communicate quickly and effectively with the citizenry and keep us informed and safe.
We hope that Filner realizes sooner rather than later that its in his best interest to work cooperatively with the press.
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Rayne Embley is wife to West Coast Eagles player Andrew Embley. She is also a business woman, presenter and mother of two, Autumn and Lux. I caught up with her to find out how she juggles life as a busy AFL wife and mother.
Andrew and Rayne Embley with their children, Lux and Autumn
Tell us a bit about life as an AFL wife and busy mum of two:
It's full on! I guess it's like anyone's life, we don't really know any different. Trying to juggle children, your husband's career and business interests, it's always about finding balance. It's been extra crazy lately with Andrew injured, 11 month old Lux deciding to walk and a very strong willed (or bossy) 2 1/2 year old Autumn who likes things done her way. It's so fascinating to watch them come into their own, but I am just finally getting used to lifes 'new normal'.
We are also part owners in a restaurant Beluga, where I work behind the scenes. We are also working on a very exciting new business venture. I promise to keep you posted!
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You looked so amazing after the birth of your children. How did you get back into shape and how do you stay so fit and fabulous?
Oh, thanks Amy. You are very kind. Honestly, for the first 10 months the old cliché of breastfeeding and running around after a toddler really worked for me. Both my kids loathe sitting in a pram so I have had to get creative around the house. We listen to a lot of music and dance, it's also a great way to get Autumn to pack up her toys. I will say I have just discovered Xtend Barre at Pure Moves in Cottesloe. When I have an hour to exercise I want a good hard workout that gets your heart pumping and tones and tightens at the same time. I don't want to have spent an hour feeling like I haven't done anything. I'm the sort of girl that like to get red faced and little bit sweaty and it gives me just that. It's amazing! I must admit, I'm starting to get slightly addicted.
Lux, 11 months and Autumn 2 1/2
You attend lots of glamorous events with your hubby. Where do you get your style inspiration and who are your favourite designers?
I do enjoy getting dressed up! Poppy Lissiman was gorgeous enough to design me a fabulous gown for last years Brownlow. I also fall in love with everything in her store everytime I go in there. I must admit, I'm not a very good shopper. My kind of shopping is looking around on the net for pieces I love or standing in a change room and having someone throw clothes at me to try on. My girlfriend Sara Smith is a stylist and personal shopper and she has done this for me on many occasions. I am absolutely in love with Manning Cartell. I wear a lot of Nicholas and I also love Alice McCall, Peridot and Anna & Boy.
Andrew and Rayne at the 2011 Bronwnlows
How do you like to enjoy some time out?
Like that half hour we get before we go to bed? Ha! I try and find time to get my eyebrows groomed, my waxing done and generally just get things done that make me feel good. Andrew and I love eating out so we make a special effort once a week to get a babysitter and try some of Perth's fabulous restaurants. A great glass of red is always on the top of my list of relaxing things to do. Yum!
Autumn is quite the fashionista – just like her gorgeous mum!
Thanks so much to the lovely Rayne for taking time out to have a chat with me.
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To Alexander Hamilton from Nathan Rice, 8 July 1799
From Nathan Rice
Hingham [Massachusetts] July 8th 1799
My dear General
Your several favours of the 18th. 19th.1 & 24th. ulto. I have received. I have sent my Quarter Master2 to Springfield for the arms & have directed him to distribute them to the several companies at their rendesvous, many of which are in the vicinity of Springfield, & will save thereby considerable expence to the public for transportation to the regimental rendesvous. I do not yet find that any provision is made in this quarter for cartridge boxes, pray Sir how shall I obtain them? Knapsacks must be immediately necessary for the soldiers, if such could be had as would keep out the rain, being covered by some kind of skin dressd with the hair in, they would be very much preferable to painted canvass; I think in the end, by their durability they would be cheapest to the public. Canteens will be also wanted, if they are not provided already I think I can procure them cheaper where I live, than they can be obtained in any other place, as that kind of business employs most of its inhabitants. Would it not be best to have a set of Tent poles, provided, made of such wood as would be light for transportation, & in such a manner, as would prevent them injuring the Tents by pitching.
Perhaps Sir there may be an impropriety in addressing these enquiries to you, a conviction of which very forcibly impresses my mind—but Mr Jackson the Supervisor who appears in some instances to be acting, in the department to which these things belong,3 is destitute of authority & Instructions in many points, & will not act without them. I knew not therefore to whom I am to make application, & pray you to excuse my addressing them to you.
The Hats, as you suggested might, have arrived without cockades;4 I applied to the Supervisor, he had no instructions, & could not supply them—agreeable to your directions, I have contracted for a sufficient number for the regiment at eight Cents each, a sample of which I have seen. they are well made. The Tin Eagles I have also engaged, for a Cent & half each.
I have received the form of the monthly return,5 a copy of which I have put into the hands of the commanding officer of each company. I expect to be able to transmit you my monthly return in the course of next week.
You may be assured Sir, the most exemplary strictness shall be had in scrutinising into the state of the recruits on the definitive Muster of them, at the regimental rendezvous. As a caution to my officers I have informed them, that every disqualification for the service which shall be discovered, in a recruit, at this scrutiny, which existed at the time of his inlistment, & which it was in the power of the officer inlisting him to have known—He will be held responsible for; & for all monies he shall have paid him.
General Lincoln has inform'd me that a Mr. Francis Barker who has received letters recomendatory of him, for an appointment,6 needed an expression of my wishes & approbation only, in order to his meeting with success in his application.7 I had written at his desire to the Secretary of War in his favour & I can only now say that I believe him to be a deserving young man & would make a good Subaltern officer.
With every expression of esteem I have the honor to be Your Most obt Servant
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ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
2. Daniel Hastings. See Rice to H, May 24, 1799.
6. Benjamin Lincoln to H, May 18, 1799 (listed in the appendix to this volume).
7. Barker became a second lieutenant in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry on July 22, 1799 (Heitman, United States Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, 1903). description ends , I, 190). On May 14, 1800, the Senate confirmed his appointment as first lieutenant in place of Nathaniel Soley (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 345, 355). Soley, who had been nominated on December 31, 1798, had declined his appointment (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 300).


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Battery FAQ In General
1. How are batteries rated? (What Are Volts and Amps?)
There are two ratings on every battery: volts and amp-hours (AH). The AH rating may also be given as milliamp-hours (mAH), which are one-thousandth ofan amp-hour (for example, 1AH is 1000mAH). The voltage of the new battery should always match the voltage of your original unless the batteries are different chemistries (NiMH and Li-Ion batteries have different voltage ratings, even if they're for the same laptop). Some Hi-Capacity batteries will have higher amp-hour ratings than the original battery found in the device. This is indicative of a longer run-time (higher capacity) and will not cause any incompatibilities.
2. How can batteries be connected?
Batteries may be connected in series. The positive terminal of the first battery is connected to the negative terminal of the second battery; the positiveterminal of the second is connected to the negative of the third, and so on. The voltage of the assembled battery is the sum of the individualbatteries.The batteries are connected: + to - to + to - to + to -, etc. The capacity of the battery is unchanged.
Batteries may also be connected in parallel. The positive terminal of the first battery is connected to the positive terminal of the second battery, the positiveterminal of the second is connected to the positive of the third; the negative terminal of the first battery is connected to the negative terminal of thesecond battery, the negative terminal of the second is connected to the negative of the third and so on. The batteries are connected: + to + to + and - to - to-. In this configuration, the capacity is the sum of the individual batteries and voltage is unchanged.
For example, (5) 6V 10AH batteries connected in series produces a battery array that is 30 Volts and 10AH. Connecting the batteries in parallel produces abattery array that is 6 Volts and 50AH. Ordinary auto batteries are designed in the same fashion. Six 2-volt cells are arranged in series to produce a 12vbattery. Many NiCad batteries are arranged in the same way Note: When interconnecting batteries (cells), they must be identical in voltage and amprating!
3. Do batteries self-discharge when not in use?
All batteries, regardless of their chemistry, self-discharge. The rate of self-discharge depends both on the type of battery and the storage temperature thebatteries are exposed to. There is very little self-discharge in the solid electrolyte system, but it is very notable in the liquid electrolyte system. It is alsoinfluenced by the surrounding temperature. Summer can have more influence over it than winter .In the case of primary battery, the rate of selfdischarged are followed below:
Manganese battery : 10%/year
Alkaline battery : 5%/year
Lithium battery : 1%/year
The self-discharge rates of second battery are higher than those of primary battery. Particularly, the performances of second batteries are differentdepending on battery makers. It is because they form artificial, chemical structure in order to make it possible to use the battery many times. Withthis reason, there are differences of performance depending upon the battery makers although the variations are not big. Here are some examplesbased on second batteries.
Ni-MH cell : 5 ~ 10%/month
Ni-Cd cell : 25 ~ 30%/month
Li-ion battery : 2%/month
Lead-acid Battery :
Pb-Sb alloy group : 25 ~ 30%/month
Pb-Ca alloy group : 2%/month
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Batteries in portable consumer devices (laptops and notebooks, camcorders, cellular phones, etc.) are principally made using either Nickel Cadmium(NiCad), Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) or LithiumIon (Li-Ion) technologies. Each type of rechargeable battery technology has its own unique characteristics.
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PCDA order 2014-Payment of dearness relief on disability element of disability pension during re employment period.
Office of the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pension),
Draupadi Ghat, Allahabad-211014
Circular No. 173
No. AT/Tech/263-XVII
Date : 07.04.2014
1. The Director of Treasuries of all state ……
2. The District Treasury Officer ………….
3. The Manger CPPC of Public Sector Banks………….
4. The CDA (PD) Meerut……………
5. The CDA-Chennai……………..
6. The Nodal Officers (ICICI/IDBI/AXIS/HDFC Bank)……..
7. The Pay & Accounts Officers……………
8. Military Attache, Indian Embassy Kathmandu, Nepal.
9. The DPDO………..
10. The Post Master………………
Sub: Payment of dearness relief on disability element of disability pension during re employment period.
The provisions for payment of dearness relief during re-employment / employment / permanently absorption of pensioners / family pensioners under the Central or State Government or in a Statutory Corporation / Company / Body / Bank under them in India or abroad, are provided in Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Deptt of P&PW letter No. 45/73/97-P&PW(G) dt. 2nd July, 1999 and Ministry of Defence letter 79(1)/95/D (Pen/Services) dated 28th August 2000 and Deptt of P&PW UO No. 41/42/2007-P&PW(G) dt. 3-4-2008. For uniform implementation of above orders/provisions by the PDAs, position was re-clarified in this office circular No. 165 dt-22.2.2013 & circular No.166 dt-07.03.2013.
Representations from the Commissioned officers against non payment of dearness relief on disability element were being received by Ministry of Defence as well as by this office. The issue has been reexamined and clarified by the Ministry vide letter dt-28.06.2013 & 03.10.2013 (copies enclosed) that disability element of disability pension is also a type of pension and provision of Govt. of India DOP& PW OM No. 45/73/97-P&PW(G) dt-2.7.99 applies regarding payment of dearness relief. As such dearness relief on such service/ disability pension(including disability element) during re employment is not admissible in respect of pensioners who held Group 'A posts or rank of commissioned officers, at the time of their retirement.
As regards payment of dearness relief on disability element of disability pension to pensioners who held post below Group a or posts below the ranks of commissioned officers, will be admissible only if their pay on re employment is to be fixed at the minimum of the scale of the post in which they are re employed. The ex servicemen who retired before attaining the age of 55 and re-employed thereafter and their pay fixed at a higher stage because of advance increments and no protection of the last pay drawn is being given, the pay should be treated as fixed at a minimum only for the purpose of ignoring the entire pension and allowing dearness relief on pension.
(B. Mukhopadhyay)
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The Care Sciences Research Unit (CSRU) forms part of the Centre for Research and Innovation in Care Sciences, based at the University's Glyntaff Campus. The CSRU is a world-class facility that acts as a national and international hub.
Our activity is focused on international service design & configuration developments which produce innovative solutions that advance the provision of healthcare. We have a very successful record of translational research which goes from 'bench to bedside'. We take a strategic approach which addresses practice, education and simulation (Simulation Centre).
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On the blog I've previously written about accessible gaming and our fantastic visit to Sega. So it should come as no surprise to you that we love gaming in our family. We're all very passionate about gaming and the opportunities and fun it provides to everyone in the family.
Everybody's Gaming
Sharing how we game as a family and include Chase in our gaming is something I love to do. So with that in mind I am delighted to say that I have launched a dedicated YouTube channel to share our inclusive gaming story! The channel is called Everybody's Gaming and you can check out our introduction video below!
We're hoping to update with a new video at least one a month. As you can imagine filming in our house is hectic but if I can upload videos more often than that then I will. If you like our introduction video then please subscribe to the channel. We're off to EGX a gaming convention next weekend so our first video is going to be all about the convention!
How Everybody's Gaming became possible
There's quite a back story to how this all became possible. I'll be able to share full details in a months time or so hopefully.I must give a special mention to the gaming charity Special Effect as without them Chase wouldn't be able to game. But I can tell you that you'll eventually be able to see our story elsewhere on the internet! If you're not into gaming but do like reading the blog then don't worry! The blog will continue as normal with new posts being updated once a week (more or less!).
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This suffering must come to and end! These razors within me must be expelled! Whoever dreamed such a glorious dream, that a tremendous expulsion could bring me such joy? The release of the pressure, an end to the suffering, a warm, moist feeling as I leave you behind. The glorious emptiness within me brings tears to my eyes, but now it must be filled with the giver of life. Gorge myself with it's sweetness, keep it all for myself. There is none left for you, I am not yet complete. I must devour you as well, your life's blood will become a part of me. Become a part of me, for I'm the almighty Bunt.
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"Choosing the right path will change your life forever."
Before knowing Nu Skin, Joey owned and ran a fashion boutique. After a while, she got bored with the traditional business and came to realize that operating such a business was unable to help her achieves her dream.
"Once skeptical about Direct Selling, I decided to venture into the Nu Skin business because of the business opportunities it offers. Nu Skin is a business, not a job. The differences between Nu Skin and other companies are its culture and mission. I am confident that Nu Skin is able to help me achieve my dream," declared Joey with great confidence.
"Nu Skin gave me a chance to explore my potential and made me into someone with greater influential power." She kept reminding herself to challenge the limit and explore the greatest potential in her. She believes that people will generate great breakthrough during the most challenging moments!
Joey wanted to provide a chance for her parents to enjoy a great life and be proud of her. "I am able to do so with Nu Skin! Thank you Nu Skin for helping me achieve my dreams. It made me believe that even young adults like us, are able to achieve financial and time freedom," she is determined to help people around her to improve their lives.
"I was able to achieve my dream through Nu Skin. For my success making it to a Blue Diamond Executive at the age of 23, I would like to thank my uplines for their support and faith in me," said the young Blue Diamond Executive.
Joey conveyed her most sincere appreciation to her direct upline, Blue Diamond Executive, Macy Wong, and 1 Million Dollar Circle Member & Team Elite 2 Years, Evelyn Lai & Jonathan Chong for their guidance and leadership, as well as the sharing and encouragement from her sidelines.


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Crescendo is a Community Choir for Faversham, bringing together people of all ages and abilities who enjoy singing.
Everyone is welcome – there are no auditions – and the repertoire is a wide selection of classic and contemporary songs from films, shows and the pop charts.
Singing in a choir is known to be very good for you, so what are you waiting for? Come along and join in in! It's all about having fun and building confidence.
Crescendo meets on Wednesdays during term time from 7.15pm – 8.45pm at Faversham Baptist Church (use the St Mary's Road entrance) and offer a taster week for free. More details on the Crescendo web site.
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First Minister, do you know how many people slept rough on the streets of Wales last night ? Asks Andrew RT Davies
The Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies was in good voice this afternoon telling us how last Wednesday , he was out at the crack of dawn with the Wallich, a rough sleeping and homeless charity, serving breakfast to those who had spent a night on the freezing streets of Cardiff.He wanted to know if the Welsh Government had been collecting data on the number of rough sleepers in Wales so as to better help them? It seems in England a new initiative called ''Street Link'' enabled a very accurate monitoring of the problem using online tools and smart apps to help take every person off the streets all year round.
The First Minister had a few choice things to say in reply.
Meanwhile, it was Leanne Wood who decided to focus her attention this week on the Welsh Government's record. She wanted to know , under the FM's leadership, what exactly had been delivered to the people of Wales in terms of the Economy , Health and Education. According to the First Minister, absolutely loads.
Kirsty Williams, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats also decided to have a pre Christmas go at the FM on his record and got similar short shrift in reply
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Yahoo could reportedly be the subject of a buyout deal, after the struggling internet giant's co-founder Jerry Yang sounded out private equity firms about a takeover move.
Reuters reports sources close to the situation as saying that Yang, the former Yahoo chief executive, has been spending more time at the firm's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
It is thought that Yang is preparing a deal to take the $20 billion (£12.7bn) company off the public markets, involving him and other key Yahoo executives rolling over their stakes in the company. However, talks with private equity firms are said to be "informal" at this stage and no bid is imminent.
After firing its chief executive Carol Bartz in September, Yahoo and its advisors, Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co, launched a strategic review of the company that was an internet pioneer, but has more recently seen its market share dwindle against rivals firms.
Jack Ma, the chief executive of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, of which Yahoo owns a 40% stake, said last month that he would be "very interested" in buying Yahoo.
Microsoft is also rumoured to be considering another bid for the search engine giant, after it famously failed with a $47.5 billion move three years ago. The bid was blocked by Yang and the board, much to the disappointment of shareholders.
There has further been talk of a merger between Yahoo and AOL, as the two businesses seek to join forces to regain market share from Google, Facebook and others.
A Yahoo spokesman declined to confirm the details of Yang's current role, but did say: "The entire Board, including Jerry, is fully aligned and unanimous in support of the comprehensive scope of the ongoing strategic review. As always, Jerry's singular focus remains to serve the best interests of Yahoo - its shareholders, employees, users and advertisers."
Any new owner of Yahoo will have to resuscitate the company that saw its share of the US search market slump to 16% in August, down from 19% two years ago, according to ComScore.
In contrast, Google has remained the steady market leader at 65% and Microsoft's Bing engine had climbed to 15% from just 9% two years ago.
Yahoo's display ad impressions in the US also fell to 10.2% in June, while social network Fascebook saw its ad impressions increase to 34.2%.
Reuters says that Yahoo's advisors will send out financial information to interested bidders this week, while any talks are described as only "informal" at this stage.


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For nearly 30 years, James has recorded and toured with some of the most noteworthy rock icons of our time, including Dave Mustaine, Zakk Wylde, David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Ace Frehley and the list goes on.
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More recently he's recorded on albums for Bobby Brown and DMC expanding into session work throughout the greater Los Angeles area. He's lent his talent to the final season of "Californication" on HBO.
James is a currently a member of American rock legend, John Fogerty's band.
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I've never prepared a butternut squash without nearly impaling myself on my kitchen knife. Butternuts have a skin that defies you to remove it. The flavor of the squash, once you ultimately get there, is as buttery and nutty as its name implies, but, for crying out loud, getting there is more than my nerves can stand.
Had I had the good sense to watch Executive Food Editor Kemp Minifie's video demonstration on simplifying the butternut-prep process before Stephen and I planted this year, there may have been more of those big boys in our garden mix. But, I decided, my days of squash wrangling were over. Give me a winter squash whose skin is thin enough to eat, yet which has all the rich flavor of the classic butternut. And, at Stephen's suggestion, along came the heirloom Cucurbita pepo 'Delicata'.
It's a beauty of a squash: The typical delicata has an oblong creamy-yellow body with green stripes and weighs in at a pound or two when mature. (A variety called Sweet Dumpling has a more flattened shape.) Delicata vines snake along the garden, but with fruit sized at six to eight inches—smaller than some winter varieties—you can train the plants up a trellis to save space. That said, they still need room to sprawl (and produce about five to seven squash per vine). Give each plant two feet on either side. This is think-ahead squash. At 100 days to maturity, it's not a last-minute garden decision. But it's one, if made, that you'll be thankful for.
The flesh of the delicata is golden and sweet, with a light, fine texture. (As their names imply, the Sugar Loaf and Honey Boat varieties amp up the sweetness.) One of the simplest ways to eat it—roasted, sliced, and perched atop a plate of fresh greens and sprinkled with nuts and a drizzle of olive oil—is, for me, one of the most satisfying. You can throw yourself headlong at fall with a side dish of delicata squash with roasted mushrooms and thyme, or—as chef Peter Hoffman does at his New York restaurant Back Forty—treat it to a light tempura batter.
I'm not saying that in growing delicata we didn't have to deal with the evil squash bugs and vine borers that all members of the cucurbit family are subject to. There will always be plenty of bug-squishing where squash lives. It's also prone to powdery mildew, which you can help to avoid by giving your squash plants well-drained soil (and avoid watering the plant's foliage; stick to the stem area).
Yet there's something more vibrant about a delicata when it begins to poke from beneath a leaf around this time of year. Maybe it's the unabashed look of August in its yellow and green stripes that helps me cling to summer, when a glimpse at the pumpkin-y shades of the butternut gives me a flashback to Thanksgiving dinners and steaming bowls of squash soup. I'm not going gentle into that good season. Not yet.


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Americans have a lot to be proud of as we forge ahead in the 21st century. We owe it to ourselves to try to ignore the economy and our future job prospects for a moment and appreciate some of the good that has been nurtured here: our stunning national parks, the Internet, the pretty commendable job most everybody does of navigating those crowded streets and maybe even cheeseburgers. But besides these accomplishments, there is one achievement that is something remarkable all on its own — our nation's historically increasing acceptance and integration of diversity.
It hasn't been easy but more and more, minorities and historically oppressed groups are gaining traction in the land of opportunity. There is still plenty of work to be done, but the progress made so far is reason to believe that instead of stagnating, diversity in all its forms will be even further embraced.
The most encouraging sign that the incorporation of diversity will continue is found in the most recent addition to our national melting pot. Like all struggles against marginalization, victory for this oppressed group has been a long time coming. Yes finally, thanks to the brazen thinking of the Supreme Court, the dream of corporate personhood has been made a reality. Dr. King must be proud.
In the decision for Citizens United against the Federal Elections Commission, the Supreme Court recognized that campaign finance laws limiting political spending by corporations are an inhibition of freedom of speech. In winning over five of the justices, lawyers for Citizens United pursued a broad interpretation of the First Amendment by making the small theoretical leap that corporations are in fact people, too, and should therefore enjoy the same right of free speech protected by the Constitution.
By accepting corporations as people, the Court has righted a series of past discriminatory rulings and a century of election law that rather obscenely differentiated between human speech and corporate speech. By eliminating Congress's long-held ban on corporations' and unions' expenditures on "electioneering" and political commercials, these entities are finally free to express themselves to their hearts' content. Though, I hope you will forgive my metaphor analogizing a corporation to the human body — it does seem like a bit of a stretch.
There are many in the United States who disagree with the ruling, but change is usually hard. In time, the value of these extra voices will become more apparent as we adjust to corporations becoming more fully integrated into our democracy.
Just think of the exciting possibilities — BP and other oil companies can finally buy those TV ad spots for their favorite anti-oversight political candidates. JPMorgan Chase is now free to dip into its immense general fund to pay for as much airtime as it can to ensure pro-Glass-Steagall candidates never make it into office. Defense contractors can purchase all the commercials for Dick "the hawk" warmongers that money can buy. And pharmaceutical companies get to enjoy the full free speech rights Thomas Jefferson and friends envisioned by buying up ad slots for any politician who promises to keep those dirty, cheap Canadian drugs out of the US market.
With so many corporate voices and so much money to make them as loud as financially possible, we might think the victors here are the corporations — but no, the real victor here is democracy, which flourishes when power is appointed to the people. It took a very long time, but the recognition that corporations are people, and that they are entitled to free political speech finally completes the unification of government with the interests of those who can make their voices heard.
While we as a nation at first struggle to adjust to the integration of these newly minted corporate personhoods, there continue to be many objections to this marked change in what is considered acceptable political discourse.
Certain alarmist folk may put forth the argument that corporations can now legally and overtly buy political influence. But political influence has always been up for sale in Washington — there is a whole industry of lobbyists to facilitate the procurement of a senator's ear. The beauty of Citizens United is that the Supreme Court has eliminated the middleman. Lobbyists inevitably drive up prices, and a more efficient marketplace for political influence can only result in the money corporations save being passed on to us, the consumer! Better get in line to cash in on the imminent discounts on hedge fund portfolios and tomahawk missiles.
The influence of money on legislators in Washington is well known. As the Supreme Court's perpetual swing vote and writer of the court's 5-4 majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy responded to the threat of increased corruption by explaining that any danger a torrent of corporate money might bring would be mitigated by the court's additional mandate (8-1) for "transparency (which) enables the electorate to make informed decisions and give proper weight to different speakers and messages."
So there it is folks, it all works out — the electorate is actually empowered by the court's decision because we are now privy to know exactly which corporations are propping up political candidates. Citizens United actually simplifies the voting process — if you don't like big oil, now you know who not to vote for. Alarmists be damned, the Supreme Court has thought of everything.
Well, almost.
After the Citizens United ruling, 501(c)(4) non-profit organizations became the preferred conduit for corporate electioneering. The court's disclosure mandate did not apply to these organizations and undisclosed contributions to 501(c)(4)s skyrocketed in 2010 midterm elections. Oh, well.
Still though, another victory for "freedom."