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FASHION WEEK: A Tour of Front of House and Backstage at MBFW
Entrance to the "Theater" and Paparazzi "corral" behind MBFW tentPhoto 5 of 11
The back of the giant tent, 62nd Street behind Lincoln Center.Photo 6 of 11
The communal area of the "tents"...the view from the Press area.Photo 7 of 11
A full house for Alon Livine at MBFWPhoto 9 of 11
Maggie Mulhern front row at Alon Livine during MBFWPhoto 10 of 11
Modern spends a lot of time covering New York Fashion Week, and most of that time is spent in the Mercedes Benz tents. There are several venues for shows during NYFW, but Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (MBFW) is the most exclusive and elite. This season 80 designers offered their collections under the MBFW umbrella.
Admittance is by invitation only, and these invites are to industry professionals including buyers, fashion jounalists, stylists and other fashion insiders. There is one way to "buy" a ticket (through American Express), but these are limited and offered for just a handful of shows. Designers pay a hefty fee to participate at the tents, but that fee is normally picked up or softened by the sponsors (hair, nail, make up and skin care manufacturers among others) that sometimes pay the designers to be part of the show. The sponsors, in turn, get bragging rights and mentions in the credits.
The "tents" is actually just one giant temporary structure in the Lincoln Center area of NYC on the Upper West Side (entrance at Columbus and 65th). It is comprised of one large central or communal area (information, check in, press lounge, exhibitors) with three offshoots: the "theater", the largest of the venues (holding up to 1100 fashionistas); the "studio", the second largest (holding 800); and the "Box", the smallest venue used mostly for presentations (capacity several hundred). While classic fashion shows are the most exciting, "presentations" (models standing on a platform for 1 - 2 hours while guests mill around) are cost effective and becoming more popular. A handful of official MBFW shows are held offsite, but these designers prefer to keep their shows noted as MBFW for the exposure and cache. (Other popular venues include Milk Studios on 15th Street and Style 360 on 18th Street, each hosting dozens of designers.)
New York Fashion Week lasts more than 7 days, with some shows held days before and after the official "week". There are hundreds of shows throughout the city, including a few in the outer boroughs. There are events including beauty lounges and gifting suites that are held during NYFW that make it never a dull moment. Modern covers at least 12 shows (front, back or both) and events each day. Our fashion/beauty teams zig zag the city to vie for space and time with hair, nail and make up "leads" who must direct their teams while chatting with the press. This season Modern had to deal with the sad of stubbed toes and bumped cameras, as well as the wonderful of front row seats and exclusive interviews. Swollen feet are the order of the day. One editor ditched her heels on day three, switched to "comfy" flats and wore through her gel polish! Fashion Week is exhausting, stimulating, inspiring, fun and FABULOUS.
Some notes:
-The "season" is all about forecasting and presenting for the buyers and the press. In other words, these shows that just took place in September 2013 are for the spring/summer 2014 months.
-The beauty teams normally show up three hours before showtime.
-The backstage area is quite cramped.
-Shows, on average, begin 30 - 45 minutes late.
-The show typically lasts 10 - 12 minutes.
-Celebrities sit front row, center.
-Celebrities are sometimes paid to attend a fashion show (for the buzz generated).
-Most celebrities arrive via the backstage area. The paparazzi camp out at the corner of Amsterdam and 62rd where the cars or cabs pull up to drop off.
-Many of the people working a show, including most on the hair, make up and nail teams, are volunteers.
-When NYFW "wraps" most of the popular beauty leads and models pack up their bags and head off to London Fashion Week, followed by Paris and then Milan.
Here Maggie Mulhern takes us on a tour of "the tents" from the point of view of an artist or participant (model, hair, make up, nails) and from a typical "guest" (fashion journalist, stylist, buyer, fashionista). She selected a "light" day to make navigation easier (on a busy day, or on the weekend, this would have been close to impossible). The MANY security guards had been prepped to allow easier entrance.
The show covered here is by designer Alon Livine, who was showing for the first time in New York and at MBFW. The beautiful braids were by Nick Irwin (TIGI), nails by China Glaze and make up by Bobbi Brown. Included is the finale walk of the models after a show that lasted about 10 minutes.


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Dong Ding Ming Xiang oolong tea is produced in the Dong Ding mountain area of Nantou county in Taiwan. Dong Ding is one of the most famous oolong tea producing regions in Taiwan. Its history stretches back to the 1860's when a Dong Ding native brought several tea plants from China back to Taiwan. Dong Ding mountain proved to have ideal climate and soil conditions for oolong tea cultivation.
The Dong Ding area was near the epicentre of the 1999 earthquake that devastated Taiwan. In the aftermath of the disaster many of the tea plantations were left unattended. When work resumed on them and the neglected wu long was picked and processed it was found to have a deliciously sweet honey flavour.
Investigation showed that the oolong tea gets its honey flavour from secretions left on it by cicadas. In order to encourage this special flavour, Dong Ding Ming Xiang wu long tea must be grown without the use of pesticides.
Taiwan Ming Xiang wu long has a distinctive sweet taste and aroma. It brews a dark colour wu long tea that has a lingering sweetness that settles on the back of the tongue. Dong Ding Ming Xiang is truly one of the jewels of Taiwan wu long tea and is highly valued by oolong tea connoisseurs.
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Denver is the capital city of Colorado, USA and the largest city in the state. Known as "The Mile-High City", Denver has an altitude of 5,280 feet/1,600 meters and lies where the Midwestern plains give way to the Rocky Mountains. The city has marked the exact "Mile High" point by a gold band embedded in the steps of the state capitol building.
Denver is a bustling city of over 579,000 people supporting a fast growing metropolitan area of nearly 3 million people. The city embraces its cowboy and mining past, but also looks toward the future with a vibrant arts and performing arts scene, dozens of great outdoor festivals, and distinct neighborhoods each offering a unique experience. You'll find everything a cosmopolitan city has to offer, plus easy access to the beautiful Rocky Mountains, which are only 15 miles west of town.
Denver does have its growing pains. Urban sprawl is becoming a problem, with the metropolitan area sometimes growing faster than the infrastructure can really handle, especially with public transportation. Denver is generally a driving city, and problems with pollution and traffic are a part of everyday life, including some pretty bad road-rage incidents. Large mass transportation and freeway expansion projects are underway to keep up with the city's growth, including the popular light rail system. Denver's street grid pattern is fairly efficient as well, though there is often confusion at the intersections of the NE-SW, NW-SE downtown grid, with the N-S, E-W grid of the rest of the city.
Denver residents enjoy a mild climate and tons of sunshine, but they are subject to four very pronounced seasons.
The winter months of December through March can and do bring biting temperatures and heavy snow to the region. While Denver does receive a major blizzard every 6 years on average, most snowstorms bring less than 8 inches of snow, and the foothills just west of Denver get a whole lot more. Winter is also when the Denver area gets pounded by a phenomenon known as the "chinook". That's when air flows over the mountains to the west and sinks on the leeward (eastern) slopes of the foothills and warms up. This raises air temperatures dramatically, bringing strong wind gusts and lasting for several days. If you're planning to visit Denver during the winter, be prepared with full winter gear, but consider packing a light sweater or t-shirt; you never know what you may be treated to (though it'll probably involve sun and blue skies).
Spring in Denver is pleasant, though generally rather brief. Trees begin budding by late March and are in full leaf by late April to mid May. March, on average, is Denver's snowiest month. Severe weather is most prominent in Denver during June, so keep your eyes to the skies (and the local weather reports) if you're visiting during this time.
By mid-June, Denver enters its summer season. Temperatures typically rise in earnest at this time, with most heat waves beginning toward the end of June and continuing through July, usually Denver's hottest month. By mid-July, the southwest monsoon kicks in. Temperatures rise rapidly from morning through early afternoon, when thunderstorms develop over the mountains and foothills to the west and spread east over the Denver area. These heavy afternoon rains can bring those high temps down fast. This trend generally sticks around until late August. By then, there's a noticeable difference in evening and night time temperatures as the days get shorter and average temperatures begin to drop. Slather on that sunscreen all summer long; the rays are strong and the air is dry, with temperatures often reaching the upper 90s in July and August.
Autumn is a peaceful time to visit, with mild temperatures, little severe weather and lots of that famous clear blue sky. You'll get to see the trees display their fall colors, which usually peak around mid-September in the mountains and October in the city itself. October usually brings the first snowfall of the season to Denver, although it's not usually heavy. By November, it's clear that winter is on its way, with plenty of clouds, some snow and much cooler temperatures.
Get in
By plane
Denver International Airport [49], (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN). Commonly referred to as DIA, it's about 20 miles east of downtown. Frontier Airlines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines all maintain hubs in Concourses A, B, and C respectively. Most other major domestic carriers also have service here.
The airport is set amidst rolling plains, pretty far from any conceivable local destination. The public transportation service skyRide [53] offers 5 bus routes from the airport with several stops each, delivering you to many "Park and Ride" locations in the metro area for $6-$10 one way. Purchase tickets at the RTD desk in the main terminal. The airport can be crowded due to a post-9/11 security redesign that created a single central screening station, followed by a train that passengers must take to Concourses B and C. It can take up to an hour to get from the ticket line to the gate, so travelers should get to the airport at least 1.5 hours before their scheduled departure time. There are a number of airport shuttles [54] you can take from DIA to the city and beyond.
Private pilots mostly fly into Centennial Airport (ICAO: KAPA), south of town. On warm days the density altitude may make takeoffs difficult; Centennial has long runways for this reason, and to accommodate a large volume of private jet traffic. Flight visibility in the Denver area is often in excess of 100 miles; weather fronts tend to travel quickly N-S along the front range. For small planes, any direction but west is a good choice.
By car
By train
By bus
Get around
By car
With Denver's considerable sprawl, car rentals are the most convenient form of transportation for visitors. Local companies tend to offer better prices, but national chains might be more convenient as far as return policies and hours.
Rental companies include:
Meters are free on Sunday, and run until 10PM on weekdays. In the downtown area near Coors Field, The Pepsi Center, and LoDo, there is pretty much no free parking on weekdays. In some areas a few blocks from the city center there are a few non-metered spots within reasonable walking distance of downtown. However, just because you don't see a meter doesn't mean that parking is free. Denver is increasingly using "European-style" meters, where you purchase a paper ticket from a machine somewhere on the block and place it on your dashboard.
Areas outside of the downtown core (20th St, Speer, Wynkoop St, Colfax and Broadway) usually have meters that end at 6PM and are free on weekends, so parking is much easier during those times. The area just northwest of downtown, across the train tracks from Union Station, has free 2-hour parking spots.
By public transit
The RTD (Regional Transportation District) [62] operates public transit throughout the Denver area, including buses and light rail.
In 2004, voters approved FasTracks [63], a plan to significantly expand Denver's public transportation system. However, this plan won't be completed until around 2016, so public transportation is still somewhat sparse outside the downtown area.
Denver's existing light rail [64] system, though limited, can efficiently get you from downtown to some south central and southeast suburbs. One light rail line travels parallel to I-25 from the southern part of the Denver metro area past the Tech Center, with a small spur on I-225. Another light rail line connects downtown Denver to Englewood and Littleton. Nearly all light rail lines get you to downtown Denver either through central downtown via the Convention Center or to Union Station past INVESCO Field and the Pepsi Center. Light rail tickets must be purchased (cash, Visa or MasterCard) from vending machines at the stations before boarding the trains. They cost between $2 and $4.50, depending on how far you travel.
There are also many RTD buses you can take throughout the city. Buses are $2 a trip with a free transfer that's valid for two hours. RTD runs a free shuttle along the 16th Street pedestrian mall, which is a little over a mile long and takes you close to most places downtown. More information about RTD can be found at the Market Street and Civic Center bus stations at either end of 16th street in downtown.
Denver is a vibrant city with plenty of attractions for visitors, plus a diverse collection of neighborhoods that can be attractions in themselves. Many of Denver's older areas are the perfect density for exploration; you'll find an an interesting mix of apartments and homes with flowery front gardens, wide flagstone sidewalks, bright green lawns and big, shady trees. Capitol Hill, Highlands, Baker, Berkeley, Uptown, Sloan's Lake, Cheesman, Washington, City and Congress Parks are just some of the neighborhoods bustling with people and places to see.
Denver has many beautiful parks that are full of colorful gardens, meandering paths, crystal clear lakes, abundant wildlife and recreation opportunities. The city has a rich pioneer history, and there are plenty of museums where you can learn all about it. It's also a very environmentally conscious city, with one of the nation's first municipal "Green Fleets", public transit vehicles using hybrid and alternative fuel and a city tree-planting initiative. Hop on a green bus, grab a bike or just walk around to discover Denver.
Parks and Gardens
Late spring and early autumn are excellent seasons to do things outdoors in Denver. Besides the city's various lush green parks, there are plenty of outdoor festivals, sports, and gondola rides. (Yes, gondola rides.) In winter, the snow-peaked mountains in the distance and the crisp air on your cheeks make it the perfect time to tour Denver's famous breweries or check out the downtown arts scene.
Amusement Parks
Performing Arts
Festivals & Events
Denver is the main business center of the Mountain West, with major industries in the Denver metro area including Technology, Telecom, Defense, and Tourism.
There are a number of shopping areas in Denver. The two most prominent are the 16th Street Mall, and the Cherry Creek Shopping District.
Specific retailers
Mexican food is abundant and satisfying and takes a local Denver flavor. Green Chili is the order of the day: a brown, chunky and spicy sauce made from pork and Pueblo or Hatch green chilies that works well on everything from chorizo and eggs to tamales. Denver is also known for "western" food using ingredients such as angus beef, buffalo, rattlesnake, cutthroat trout and Rocky Mountain oysters. Denver has most types of cuisine as other large cities and has several restaurants recently noted in top food publications. A recently passed bill had outlawed smoking in bars and restaurants statewide. However, some places with outdoor patios still allow smoking there.
The restaurant section of the weekly independent newspaper Westword [79] (available for free every Thursday at newsstands and locations across the city) is a good place to find the food your interested in for your price-range and location. Below is a sampling of some consistently good choices.
Colorado has more microbreweries per capita than any other state. In fact, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper was a microbrewer before running for office. Notable breweries in Denver and environs include:
One should keep in mind that the effects of alcohol are magnified at higher elevations, so people may find themselves inebriated more quickly and with greater effect than they would at lower altitudes. Moderation is probably a good idea until you understand your body's reaction to alcohol and can acclimatize to its effects at higher elevations.
That said, the following are some of the best bar-hopping locales in the city:
Bars in Lower Downtown (LoDo)
LoDo is the name Colorado locals have given the Lower Downtown district of Denver. It's a great place for meals, entertainment, and nightlife, where restored Victorian buildings now house more than 90 sports bars, brew pubs, jazz clubs, and restaurants.
Bars in Capitol Hill & Other Neighborhoods
Bars On Colfax
Colfax Avenue, described by Playboy Magazine as the "longest, wickedest, street in America," stretches 26 miles through Denver and its suburbs. Colfax has long had a "gritty" reputation for being home to prostitution and drug peddlers. However, through much urban development work, Colfax has shed its past and emerged hipper, cleaner and more popular than ever. The many bars, restaurants and nightspots along the street give it a 24/7 ambience.
Downtown Coffee
Music Venues
Wireless Internet
Stay safe
Denver is pretty safe for a city its size. Use your common sense when traveling, particularly in downtown and some of the other inner-city neighborhoods. Denver does have a higher than usual population of homeless people, but the city has strict laws about accosting for money. In general, they are not really harming anyone. Downtown has a fairly active 24/7 population, especially in LoDo, so it's generally safe. Still, it may be a good idea to not travel alone, especially at night, and especially in some of the neighborhoods surrounding downtown. Unlike some larger cities, there are really no neighborhoods where one should not travel at all. Violent crime is fairly low in Denver for a such a large city. Muggings and theft are not nearly as common in Denver as other cities, but common sense dictates that you should be careful with your money and valuables. Probably the most common theft in Denver is stealing from cars, especially around busy shopping districts. Take extra care with valuables in your vehicle, and consider either keeping them in your posession or keeping them at the hotel. At the least, keep valuables out of sight in your trunk.
Altitude Sickness
Altitude Sickness or Acute Mountain Sickness is an ailment that potentially anyone can have when they visit areas with higher altitudes than they are used to, due to decreases in barometric pressure (though not oxygen content). Denver is called the Mile High City for a reason -- at an altitude of a mile above sea level, one can start to experience some of the effects of altitude sickness, though generally this condition becomes more pronounced at elevations around 8,000 feet (2,500 meters) and above. Some normal changes may occur when people travel to higher altitudes that are not altitude sickness. These include:
The above are generally nothing to worry about, though problems with breathing may be helped by a drug called acetazolamide. If you think you may have problems, get advice from your doctor before traveling to Denver.
Some people get Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), which can be serious, at the higher elevations you will experience if you are touring through the Rocky Mountains. A diagnosis of AMS is usually given if a person has a headache accompanied by one of more of the following symptoms:
Some people liken AMS to a bad hangover or worse. It occurs because your brain tissue swells at higher elevations than it is used to. If you are feeling unwell at high altitudes assume that you are suffering from AMS unless there is another logical explanation that would be accompanied by other symptoms (food poisoning or a viral infection). To avoid AMS, try to get to a lower elevation until your symptoms subside, drink lots of fluid to avoid dehydration, and avoid traveling at high rates of ascent. If the symptoms continue or worsen, travel to a lower altitude. AMS can turn into High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE), a potentially fatal condition where the brain swells so much that it ceases to function properly. Symptoms of HACE include confusion, inability to think clearly, lethargy, ataxia (walking staggerdly, as if one was drunk), and changes in behavior. The person may not recognize they have HACE, but if you or a person you are with experiences any of these symptoms (especially ataxia), they need to immediately be taken to lower elevations for medical treatment.
Another very serious condition, called High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) causes fluid in the lungs. If someone suffers chest tightness, congestion, gurgling breaths, blue or gray fingers or lips, cough producing frothy or pink liquid, and difficulty breathing even at rest, they should be taken to a lower elevation and receive medical treatment immediately.
Although not particularly common, keep in mind that these illnesses are possible, and that anyone is susceptible to them, even if you have traveled to high elevations before. For more information about AMS and related illnesses, see [161].
Another medical concern at higher elevations, particularly those in Colorado and Denver, is sunburn and skin cancer. The higher elevation means that there is less atmosphere protecting the skin from harmful solar radiation. This is especially true in Colorado, with both dry air that saps the skin of protective moisture and with the beautifully sunny days we have in the state. Colorado actually has the highest rate of skin cancer in the country, so it's always a good idea to wear a lot of high SPF sun-screen, hats, long sleeve shirts and pants. Don't think that you are protected from the sun in the winter either. The sun's rays can actually be reflected by the snow on the ground, still causing skin damage, so when in Colorado, do as the locals do, and wear sunscreen on any exposed skin surface at any time of the year.
Get out
Winter Sports
For skiiers and snowboarders, winter is the best time to visit Denver. Hoards of people fly into Denver International Airport each season on their way up to the ski capitals of Summit and Eagle counties, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Loveland Basin, Arapahoe Basin, and Breckenridge, Winter Park; a little further away are Steamboat, and Aspen. You can find information on resort shuttles at the desks in DIA's main terminal.
There are many ski resorts about 1 1/2-2 hours west of Denver along I-70, but weekend traffic to them can be very slow, especially in inclement weather. Steer clear of the crowds by skiing during the week or planning your trip outside the busy season (Thanksgiving to New Year's). There are also plenty of mountain trails for snowshoers and cross-country skiers, which are generally free. You can also take the RTD [164] Ski-n-Ride service from Boulder to Eldora Ski Resort west of Boulder, which is the only resort with scheduled bus service.
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Here I am again, on the road, chasing racecars around the US! This evening I am in my hotel room at the Holiday Inn in Houston but I will update this thread as I progress along my Houston & Talladega roadtrip.
Day 1
Up at the crack of dawn I set off for the airport, somewhat nervous, as I'd never flown to the US on my own before. I'm not sure what I expected would go wrong... plane hijacked by terrorists, refused access by the US immigration people, maybe the ultimate nightmare... sitting next to an abnoxious South African? Anyway, as it turned out, there were no problems at all. In fact, the flight was a pleasure, the food was great, the flight attendants were pleasant and, best of all, I was sat on my own so I could spread out in my seat. Fabulous.
As the plane made its way to the stand, we watched as another Continental plane passed beneath plumes of water from a couple of airport fire tenders. Slightly mystified, (Wikipedia suggests that it could be to mark the retirement of the pilot), the thought soon passed to the back of my mind as we made our way to immigration. Expecting an hour long queue, as I had encountered the last two times I flew into the US, I was amazed to fin myself walking straight through, without any delay, and with a friendly welcome from the immigration official too.
Maybe it's a fact of life of being British, but I expected that there would be problems around the corner somehow. But, no, my bags arrived safely and I picked up the car, a Mustang convertible, from Hertz without any problems. Welcome to America!
After a couple of wrong turns, I arrived at my hotel and checked in, before walking across to the Reliant Stadium to collect the tickets for the first two installments in my quest to chase racecars. Having collected the tickets I decided to go and explore the circuit and within a couple of minutes, a guy from one of the raceteams spotted my 'Le Mans 24 hour' cap and came up and introduced himself and started teling me his favourite memories from Le Mans. After chatting for about 25 minutes he apologised that he 'really had to go' as his car had been out on track for 10 minutes and, well, he was the crew chief, so he really should be in the pit box!!!
Still chuckling to myself as I left, I popped into Office Depot and picked up a copy of Microsoft Streets & Trips in the hope that it would help me avoid those aforementioned wrong turns for the rest of my trip.
Day 2
With the change in timezones playing havoc with my sleep pattern, I woke at 4am, in pitch darkness. Somewhat surprising myself, I managed to go back to sleep for a couple of hours until it was light. Opening the curtains I had to convince myself that I was in Houston, not San Fransisco, I couldn't see more than 20' because of thick, and I mean THICK, fog. An unexpected start to the day!
Being British, I always look for the differences in culture between our two countries, and have developed a bit of an interest in baseball over the past two or three years. I always try and fit in a visit to any MLB ballparks if they are on my route and, with Houston being home to the Houston Astros, I really had to go and visit Minute Maid Park and, as I have always done before, pick up a souveneir baseball for my collection. Having installed the software that I bought yesterday, I plugged the GPS device into my laptop which, amazingly took me right to my destination.
Having walked around the perimeter of the park, and having been told at least four times that it had seen a concert by somebody called Jimmy Bufett the night previously - presumably he must be a big 'name' given the excitement with which the story was relayed - but the only thing I was interested in was getting a look around and picking up that baseball for the collection. It was a no-go, however, the place wasn't opening up until 2pm. Great.
I had previously arranged to meet up with Laura (lhuff from this site) and her sister at 12ish back at the track. Having originally planned to meet up for a drink and simply to put faces to the names, we managed to chatter for the rest of the day! Having missed most of the ALMS race as we chatted, I finally headed back to the hotel around 9pm! My ears were ringing for all the noise - okay, I really should have worn ear plugs, but I'm British and it's more manly not to! :) - and my throat was sore as hell for shouting constantly over the cars for hours on end. It had been a fun, but exhausting, day!
Day 3
Having been tipped off by a guy in the hotel bar that I really should visit a place called 'The Waterwall', and keen to take off in the car for a bit, I decided to head off and have a look. According to the guy I spoke to, presumably he worked for the tourist board, it was 75' high and, pumping out 27,000 gallons a minute, it is better than Niagara Falls, something, according to this page which wasn't strictly true. Next time I'll do my research before heading off... especially as, when I got there, the damn thing was out of operation! Ah well, two days, two disasterous trips out... back to the race track.
Once again I met up with Laura and her sister but, before the Champcar race started, I left them to go and take up my seat in the grandstand. I felt bad leaving them to watch from the side of the track, especially as Laura's sister had a broken foot, I hope they'll forgive me!
I had been unable to book race tickets online, as Ticketmaster don't ship internationally, so I emailed the organisers one Saturday evening (very early Sunday morning local time) and was amazed to receive a personally typed response back within 15 minutes. From that time, the guy personally took care of sorting me out with my tickets, I'd been very impressed with the service he'd given right up until then - you just don't get that level of service in the UK - but I was blown away when I took my seat an realised it was one of the best in the house... on the front row, right on the start/finish line, with a great view of the pitlane.
I am really starting to enjoy my latest experience of the US!


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Southern Style Striped Pangasius with Pickled Garden Salad
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Want comfort food with a twist? Pair this Pickled Garden Salad with down home flavors and hand breaded style of our Southern Style Striped Pangasius, and you're sure to please.
10 Southern Style Striped Pangasius fillets
3 cups pickled garden salad mix, drained
1 cup marinated artichoke hearts, drained
1 cup marinated mushrooms whole, drained
1/2 cup pitted ripe medium olives drained–set aside pimiento
2 cups cucumber, seeded and sliced
5 medium tomatoes, quartered
6 tablespoons green onions, thinly sliced
1 1/2 oz. lemon juice
2 fresh garlic cloves, chopped
1 teaspoon sugar
Pinch of salt
- In a plastic bowl, combine garden salad mix, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, olives, cucumber, tomato, green onions, lemon juice, pimiento, sugar, garlic and salt until well mixed.
- Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours before serving.
- In a heavy bottom skillet or fryer, heat oil to 350 degrees and fry fillet for 4 to 5 minutes until an internal temperature of 160 degrees is obtained.
- Place 1 cup of salad mix on host plate and affix fish atop.


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I'm writing
today to urge you to take immediate action to protect critically endangered
loggerhead sea turtles in the waters off Baja California.
species of sea turtles on Earth are in danger of extinction. North Pacific
loggerheads gather in large numbers in Mexican waters, a critical phase of this
animal's life cycle. Sadly, more than 1,000 of these endangered sea turtles die
every year as bycatch in the nets of Mexican fishing boats. The toll is disastrous -- nesting turtles
have declined by as much as 90 percent in recent years.
leads the world in the number of Northern Pacific loggerheads who are killed as
incidental bycatch during the fishery restrictions in the summer months. To
give these reptiles a fighting chance of survival, we ask you to take two
important steps:
- Establish
a sea turtle sanctuary where the densest concentrations of loggerheads can feed
in safety; and
- Institute
fishing reforms that would require Mexican fishing boats to take measures to
minimize turtle bycatch.
Your prompt attention to this urgent
conservation matter is greatly appreciated.
Defenders of Wildlife
This petition closed about 5 years ago
North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles spend up to a decade feeding on small crabs in an area off the coast of Mexico's Baja California. Alarmingly, more than 1,000 North Pacific loggerheads...
Pacific loggerhead sea turtles spend up to a decade feeding on small crabs in
an area off the coast of Mexico's Baja California. Alarmingly, more
than 1,000 North Pacific loggerheads die every year when they are
accidentally caught up in fishermen's nets. The bycatch toll of
loggerheads in Mexican waters is one of the highest in the world — and it is
jeopardizing their survival.
Urge the President of Mexico to protect these
sea turtles — while there is still time.


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After five weeks, so much of our lives has returned to 'normal'. Jack and I get up, go to work/school, worry about meetings and midterms, come home, hang out, eat dinner, watch TV, go to sleep.
A lot of things in our routines have changed. Patti handled every aspect of our domestic life. She walked the dogs, paid the bills, did the shopping, arranged dates with our friends, and a million other things I never knew needed doing, Sure, Jack and I helped out with a lot of that stuff, but she insisted on handling most of it. Now it all falls to me and Jack.
Oddly, doing chores isn't a chore. On the contrary, it gives me a sense of order and control which I have been sorely lacking.
I like packing Jack's Scooby Doo lunch box each night (it's the same one I had when I was 13. Back then I was mocked for it but Jack's turned it into a badge of coolness). I make sandwiched, pack snacks, write him lame little jokes notes.
I like walking the dogs and getting them back on schedule (I wondered how they would react to Patti's absence. Would they miss their constant companion? She drove them around on her scooter everywhere, Joe at her feet, Tim in her basket. They were weird but are getting back to normal too. They have had some stomach problems and totally forgot their housebreaking for a while but they are getting better. I enjoy retraining them. Today we worked on sitting and shaking hands).
I like bonding with Jack though I have to beware that I don't get too overbearing and overprotective. He is still a 15 year-old-boy and needs to stretch his wings. But, of course, because he is all I have left, I worry a bit excessively. He has a new phone so I can text and email and call him anytime. Sadly, I do.
I have been back at work for a couple of weeks. It's been very busy and the routine distracts me. My tolerance for stress and bullshit is lower than it was. I still care but not necessarily in the same way I have for years.
Patti is still a part of my days. I think of her when I am at the butcher, picking ham. I think of her when I wake up in the middle of the night and want someone to discuss my dreams with. I see her down the block — only it's not her. I bury my face in her overcoat in the closet and smell the last atoms that once touched her skin. Patti and I had a special vocabulary of our own, silly words I'll never utter again except into my pillow.
Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I make myself cry. Crying is like starting a car that's been sitting in the garage all winter; turning over the engine keeps the feelings alive, keeps my soul lubricated, stops me from becoming a dessicated husk. Pandy will always be in me, always be in Jack, so our sadness has been ironed into us, a layer of who we are, but not a crack or a break in us.
I am changed most because my future is blank. The many plans and decisions we made over the past 24 years are gone. Instead, I have to form a new map, a new set of goals, a new vision of what I'll be in the years ahead. I imagined that Patti and I would keep growing old together, leave the City one day, go somewhere warm and easy, drawn and paint side-by-side, visit Jack and our grandchildren, feel free in new ways, live a full creative life. Now, it's just empty. Not bleak or barren but absolutely undefined. I could do anything. Jack and I could move anywhere, anytime. The security I have been saving for all these years seems irrelevant now. I have to provide for Jack till he graduates …. but then what? Who will I be? What will I want? I have no idea.
I have lived with disability for 14 years, always looking for curbcuts, accessible bathrooms, room to maneuver. In an instant, that consideration has vanished. There are restaurants we can go to we never considered before. We can travel without worrying if the hotel has a roll-in shower. And, yet, I would do anything to have that limitation once again, give up any freedom to help Patti through the door or up the step.
Life goes on. The road bends. New obstacles and opportunities, ditches and valleys appear. I am taking them turn by turn, mile by mile, step by step. Head up when I can keep it up. Looking back now and then, but still moving forward.
My friend, d. price, called me from his surf shack in Hawaii and told me: "The universe picked you and decided to test you. It decided you were strong and had everything and so it would throw you a curve. First, Patti had her accident and it watched to see if you would crawl into a hole or would make the most of the experience. When it saw that you had become stronger and wiser, had discovered that everyday matters, the universe decided to test you again by taking Patti away altogether. Now it's waiting to see what you will make of this, will you use it to learn, to share what you learn, to make the world a better place? The universe is just waiting to see." I said, "Why can't the universe just leave me the fuck alone?" He just laughed.
"Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. … You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free." -Cookie Mueller


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Hello Experts,
I have a SSRS report column named sales value. And it aggregates total sales values for each store. I want to get sales value percentages of each store in a separate column named Mix%.
I have tried to use:
=Fields!Sales_Value.Value / SUM (Fields!Sales_Value.Value)
But it always shows 1 as result.
How can I solve this problem? Any idea?
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Hi all,
My machine is alread installed with Sql Server 2005. I need to install sql server 2005 reporting services as a add-on.
Where can i download this from. Can anyone post the link here..?
Thanks in advance
Hello, I've a MDX Query that has where clause as shown below.I'm designing report using SSRS 2008. How can i pass date as parameter ? I tried to setup @from and @to as parameter but not working ?any ideas....
WHERE ( {[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[2010-04-01 00:00:00]:[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[2010-08-30 00:00:00]} )
need it to work as WHERE ( {[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[@From]:[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[@To]} )
I need to create a complex report and export it to Excel. In the first column header, text is displayed as "Hide Daily Columns", but I need the text to change as "Unhide Daily columns" when I click on it and when the text changes the columns under "daily" header (I have 3 columns under this header) present in the report shud be hidden and only weekly columns shud be visible. Any ideas please. I am new to SSRS and tried out many ways but didn't get it.
Hi Guys,
Is there a way to set up a subscription that will send e-mails based on the contents of a report? For example, I want to schedule a daily subscription that will only send an e-mail if the report contains data, otherwise it will do nothing for that day. i.e If the report has more than one row, it should send the mail otherwise it should not send the mail.....
Is it possible in SSRS 2005 or is there any other way to do it???
I have a web application where users can authenticate using either SiteMinder or Windows domain accounts. This is actually configured as two separate virtual directories within IIS 6. Both applications need to use the same instance of SSRS. Is it possible to configure the SSRS web application so that if a user is authenticated by SiteMinder it impersonates a Windows account, but if they are already Windows-authenticated that account is used instead?
I upgraded our enterprise sql server 2008 to sql server 2008 r2 last weekend. Along with this i installed the report builder 3.0 on the servers as well and the updated ssrs add in for sharepoint. The upgrade went fine, no errors that i could
find. The problem is now when i go to a library that has the report builder content type enabled and click report builder report under new it does not load report builder 3.0.
I updated the custom report builder url in central administration from /_vti_bin/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder_2_0_0_0.application to /_vti_bin/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder_3_0_0_0.application
however when i do click the new report builder report it kicks me over to
http://company.com/ReportServer_MossEnt which itemizes out each individual sharepoint site in the farm.
Is the integration of ssrs 2008 r2, sharepoint 2007 and report builder 3.0 work? did i install the wrong version of the report builder add in? The above is the only problem i am having now.
all servers are server 2008, 64 bit and moss 2007 enterprise with sp2 & april 2010 cu
I need help figuring out the limitations in a multi-database server environment and MOSS 2007 installation with SSRS. Here is the run down:
Questions: does this architecture requires SSRS 2008 add-in or SSRS 2008 R2 add-in (integrated mode)? Will there be an issue of building SSRS 2008 reports that go after SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2008 data mix?
Our client has a SharePoint (moss2007) site on Windows 2008, SQL2008 R2 Enterprise, and Reporting service is integrated with SharePoint
The authentication on the share point integration is set to windows, else the authentication for the SSAS datasource gives and error
The extranet zone ( forms) and intranet (Customer Forms) and default (Windows) zones are all access from inside the firewall and the reports render in each with no issues, as the datasources are configured to pass a sql username and password.
However, report rendering is a problem from the internet (external site), the following error is displayed:
I am running the report from SSRS report server in the view i am finding that the window title is Report Viewer - Windows Internet Explorer.
How to remove this name and get the name of the report over there.
I am using java at the back end to call the repot through url.
Please help me .
Thanks ,
Microsoft provided 3 example reports for Sharepoint report usage. Does anyone know where they are located? I used them about 2 years ago.
Is there any way to implement tooltip on bars and column of charts in sql reporting servies?
Greetings -
I am required to plot the following graph in an SSRS report.
Sum of Total Credits to be shown on Positive side and total sum of Debits for a month on negative side. I have created a query which retrieves all the expenses for the month and sums them up before feeding the same to the graph for plotting. Both values returned are positive integers.
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Data Mining solution - SSRS Problem I have created a Data Mining - Time Series solution and I am getting proper results from SSAS(Mining Model prediction tab) & SQL Management Studio query. However when I try to create an report using SSRS, In the field where I am expecting the predicted
value, I am getting "#Error" Any suggestions as why this is happening.
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CCBC Choices: 1987
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- Cooperative Children's Book Center
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- 1988
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- Bibliographies; Children's Literature; Young Adult Literautre
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- CCBC CHOICES is an annual list of recommended books for children and young adults selected by the librarians at the Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. CCBC CHOICES 1987 recommends 221 titles for children and young adults published in 1987. It includes a brief commentary on the 1987 publishing year, including statistics on the number of books by and about Africans and African Americans published for children and teens.
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text: NAMI Honors California Volunteer for Exceptional Service and Dedication Outstanding Member Award Goes to Bill Harwood at National Convention, "On the Frontier of Recovery" Jun 20 2005 Austin, TX — NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) has presented its annual 'Outstanding NAMI Member' Award to William (Bill) Harwood of Santa Ana, California. The award is the highest honor that NAMI gives to one of its own. It was established to recognize exceptional efforts by volunteers who serve the NAMI movement. Harwood has earned the gratitude of the NAMI National Board and of consumers and family members in California for his outstanding leadership in the Family-to-Family Education Program. "Bill has served as both a teacher and trainer for the program, and perhaps most importantly, as a mentor for others in his state and across the country," said NAMI Executive Director Mike Fitzpatrick. More than 1,500 family members, consumers of mental health services, health care providers, researchers, and business leaders from around the country are attending NAMI's convention, four days of workshops and activities focused on the theme, "On the Frontier of Recovery." More 2005 Convention Coverage With more than 210,000 members, NAMI is the nation's leading grassroots advocacy organization solely dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and severe anxiety disorders. NAMI's efforts focus on support to persons with serious brain disorders and to their families; advocacy for nondiscriminatory and equitable federal, state, and private-sector policies; research into the causes, symptoms and treatments for brain disorders; and education to eliminate the pervasive stigma surrounding severe mental illness. NAMI has more than 1,200 state and local affiliates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Canada.


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Kyle Busch wins Bristol Truck race
Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Truck Series race Wednesday night at Bristol Motor Speedway for his record 14th overall victory on the high-banked, 0.533-mile oval.
The Sprint Cup driver took fresh tires with 16 laps to go, passed Ryan Blaney for the lead with six laps left and held off Timothy Peters in a race to the finish that ended with Peters crashing on the frontstretch.
"He wrecked a pretty good race truck, and I hate it for him," Busch said. "But, we had a pretty good race truck. We got behind with a penalty on pit road, but we just stuck in there and persevered to get back to the front."
Busch broke a tie with Darrell Waltrip for the NASCAR track victory record. Busch has four victories at the track in the Truck Series, five in Sprint Cup and five in the Nationwide Series.
"Some might say you're not breaking anything until you win 12 Cup races," Busch said. "I've been fortunate in my career to have a lot of great vehicles here to race. I've won here with a lot of different vehicles, a lot of different crew chiefs. I'd like to be able to win 13 Cup races and break that record, too."
The victory was his third in eight Truck starts this season and pushed his career total to 33. Busch also has three victories this year in Sprint Cup and eight in Nationwide. He has 119 victories in NASCAR's top three series — 27 in Cup, and a record 59 in Nationwide.
Busch started 10th in the No. 51 Toyota and worked his way up to second early in the race. He was given a penalty for speeding on pit road on lap 85 and fell back to 26th. He was 12th, nearly a lap down with 20 laps to go before the caution came out for a wreck by Jeff Agnew.
Busch charged to second on the second-to-last restart, and then passed Blaney on the inside for the lead on Lap 194. Peters raced to the inside of Busch with two laps to go and the two remained side-by-side to the finish. Busch inched ahead at the line as Peters' No. 17 Toyota spun out of control and slammed the inside wall.
"I was going for it. It was either wreckers or checkers," Peters said. "Kyle was holding his line a little low, but that's what he's supposed to do. I got into him a little at the end and the truck took off. I hate it that we tore up our truck, but I was going for it."
Blaney finished third, but was fuming over an incident with Peters laps earlier.
"He ran me up to the fence at the end, and I wasn't too happy about that," Blaney said.
Peters was unapologetic about the contact.
"That's short-track racing," he said. "He might as well get over it."
Johnny Sauter finished fourth in a Toyota, and Chase Elliott was fifth in a Chevrolet.
Elliott, the 17-year-old son of former NASCAR champion Bill Elliott, won the pole with a lap of 15.328 seconds (125.183 mph). He led the first 63 laps of the race before Peters passed him for the top spot.
After the race, the crews of points leader Matt Crafton and Joey Coulter scuffled in the pits over an on-track skirmish. Crafton finished 10th, one position ahead of Crafton.
Ben Kennedy, the great-grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., was 20th, one lap down, in his series debut.
Earlier, Mike Stefanik won the NASCAR Whelen Modified Series race. The seven-time series champion passed Todd Szegedy with 10 laps remaining for his series-record 74th career win. Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman finished fifth.


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Vice presidential candidates Mike Pence and Tim Kaine got their one chance to debate, and it was a fact-checking bonanza:
- Pence said "that's nonsense" after Kaine claimed Trump was proposing a "deportation force" to "go house to house" and send away millions of immigrants who are here illegally. Trump did say that.
- Kaine claimed Pence was "the chief cheerleader for privatization" of Social Security. That's misleading. Pence proposed voluntary private accounts, not a private-sector takeover.
- Pence implied Clinton was wrong when she cited the fatal shooting of a black man by a black cop as a case of "implicit" bias. But research shows there can be implicit bias against members of the same racial group.
- Kaine claimed that Trump's plan would "raise taxes on the middle class." That may be true for some middle-income taxpayers, but the Tax Foundation found that most would get a tax cut.
- Pence said the Clinton Foundation gave less than 10 percent to "charitable organizations." That's misleading. One philanthropy watchdog said the foundation spent about 87 percent on charitable work.
- Pence said, "The Trump Foundation is a private family foundation and they give virtually every cent to charitable causes." But that's far from true.
- Kaine and Pence were both partly right and partly wrong in characterizing Donald Trump's statements on other countries, including Japan and South Korea, getting nuclear weapons.
- Pence denied that he said, as Kaine claimed, that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "better leader" than President Obama. But Pence did say that Putin has been a "stronger leader."
- Kaine claimed that Trump said "we need to get rid of NATO." Trump did say NATO is obsolete or may be, but he hasn't said that the international security alliance should be eliminated.
We also flagged a host of repeated claims on job growth, Trump's tax returns, abortion and more.
Note to Readers: Our managing editor, Lori Robertson, was at the debate at Longwood University. This story was written with the help of the entire staff, based in the Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., areas.
The only 2016 debate between the vice presidential candidates was held at Longwood University on Oct. 4 and moderated by CBSN's Elaine Quijano.
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republican nominee, spoke little about themselves. Instead, they focused their attacks largely at the two candidates at the top of the ticket, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Deportation Force
Pence said "that's nonsense" after Kaine claimed Trump was proposing a "deportation force" to "go house to house" and send away millions of immigrants who are here illegally. Trump did say that, although he has since backed away from it.
Kaine: These guys — and Donald Trump have said it — deportation force. They want to go house to house, school to school, business to business, and kick out 16 million people. And I cannot believe…
Pence: That's nonsense. That's nonsense. …Senator, we have a deportation force. It's called Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Kaine: …So you like the 16 million deportations?
Pence: Senator, that's — that's nonsense.
Actually, Trump himself said last November in an interview on MSNBC, "You're going to have a deportation force, and you're going to do it humanely."
"People will leave, people will leave, they're going to go back where they came from. That's the way it's supposed to be," Trump said. "They can come back, but they have to come back legally."
Trump was speaking of those now living here illegally, currently estimated at about 11 million.
Later Trump laid out a plan to target about half that number for quick deportation – but stuck by his ultimate goal of deporting all. "Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation," Trump said in a Sept. 1 speech in Arizona.
Trump also has said that the children of unauthorized immigrants would have to leave, even if they were born in the U.S. and are by law American citizens. On NBC's "Meet the Press" on Aug. 16, 2015, Trump told Chuck Todd that "they have to go."
Todd, Aug. 16, 2015: So you're going to split up families? …
Trump: Chuck. No, no. We're going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together.
Todd: But you're going to keep them together out–
Trump: But they have to go. But they have to go. …We will work with them. They have to go. Chuck, we either have a country or we don't have a country.
If the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants are also deported, the total could conceivably reach 16 million. The Pew Research Center estimated that in 2012, 4 million unauthorized-immigrant adults lived with one or more U.S.-born children.
So, "nonsense" or not, Trump indeed has called for a "deportation force" and the expulsion of many millions of unauthorized immigrants and even their U.S.-born children.
'Chief Cheerleader for Privatization'
Kaine claimed that Pence was "the chief cheerleader for privatization" of Social Security. That's misleading.
Kaine: When Congressman Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of social security, even after President Bush stopped pushing for it, congressman Pence kept pushing for it.
It would be correct to say that Pence, back in 2005, was willing to go further than President George W. Bush in establishing voluntary private accounts that would allow workers to invest a portion of their Social Security payroll taxes in diversified stock mutual funds similar to those the federal government runs for its own employees and retirees.
Pence was then chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative lawmakers who called for allowing workers to invest 6 percent of salary in private accounts, rather than the 4 percent proposed by Bush.
But as we've written before, it is a deception to call such a plan "privatization," which implies turning the entire system over to the private sector. The private accounts then being proposed would have been purely voluntary, and would not have been available to anyone already retired or nearing retirement.
Implicit Bias
Pence implied Clinton was wrong when she cited the fatal shooting of an African-American man by an African-American cop as a case of "implicit," or unconscious, bias. But research shows African Americans are not immune to this form of bias against members of their own racial group.
In his criticism of Clinton, Pence was referring to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by officer Brentley Vinson on Sept. 20 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both men are African American.
When asked if "we ask too much of police officers in this country," Pence responded by criticizing what Clinton said about the issue of law enforcement and race relations during the first presidential debate.
Pence, Oct. 4: Hillary Clinton actually referred to that moment [the Charlotte shooting] as an example of implicit bias in the police force … when she was asked in the debate a week ago whether there was implicit bias in law enforcement, her only answer was that there's implicit bias in everyone in the United States. … Senator, when African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?
Pence was right that Clinton did say that she thinks "implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police." And she did refer to the shooting in Charlotte that took place on Sept. 20 in passing during the debate.
But she didn't directly accuse Brentley Vinson, the African-American police officer involved in the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, an African-American man, of implicit bias.
Regardless, Pence was wrong when he implied that African Americans can't be subject to implicit bias of other African Americans.
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "implicit bias" refers "to relatively unconscious and relatively automatic features of prejudiced judgment and social behavior." While implicit bias is a psychological mechanism that can influence judgments on a variety of topics, substantial research has concentrated on "implicit attitudes toward members of socially stigmatized groups, such as African-Americans, women, and the LGBTQ community."
"Implicit bias" is opposed to "explicit bias," or judgments a person consciously holds. In other words, it's possible for a person to explicitly believe that white and black Americans should be treated equally, for example, but implicitly judge situations counter to that explicit belief.
Scientists at Harvard have used what they call an "Implicit Association Test" to quantify implicit bias by measuring "the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy)."
The group has looked at a variety of biases, including those concerning racial issues, and found that "even numbers of Black respondents showing a pro-White bias as show a pro-Black bias." They hypothesize that this bias "might be understood as Black respondents experiencing the similar negative associations about their group from experience in their cultural environments."
So Pence was wrong when he implied that African Americans can't experience implicit bias against members of their own racial group.
Trump's Tax Plan
Kaine claimed that Trump's plan would "raise taxes on the middle class." An analysis of the Trump plan by a New York University professor found that some middle-income taxpayers would see a tax increase, but the Tax Foundation found that most middle-income taxpayers would get a tax cut.
Pence: Donald Trump and I are going to cut taxes. We're going to — we're going to …
Kaine: You're not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.
Asked for backup for Kaine's claim, the Clinton campaign pointed to a Vox article about an analysis of Trump's tax plan by Lily L. Batchelder of the New York University School of Law. Batchelder concluded that Trump's plan "would actually significantly raise taxes for millions of low- and middle-income families with children, with especially large tax increases for working single parents."
In all, Batchelder estimated Trump's plan would increase taxes for about 7.8 million families with minor children, or roughly 25 million individuals.
The business-backed Tax Foundation told us it was able to replicate a number of Batchelder's results. But its full analysis of Trump's plan — using the same assumptions as Batchelder — found Kaine's comment was too sweeping.
"As our distributional tables show, the typical middle class family would get a net tax cut of several hundred dollars," Alan Cole, an economist with the Tax Foundation, told us via email. "Simply put, the middle class as a whole would see a tax reduction, but some middle class families would see a tax increase."
Batchelder's analysis was about specific examples, Cole said, not the middle-income group at large.
Cole said Batchelder's estimate of about 7.8 million households (with a total of 25 million individuals) "sounds about right to me," but he noted that "the U.S. as a whole has about 319 million people." That comes to a little less than 8 percent of the population.
"All in all we're talking about a single-digit percentage of households," Cole said. "Absolutely worth mentioning, but not 'the middle class' as a whole."
Overall, the Tax Foundation concluded that Trump's plan would cut taxes by between $4.4 trillion and $5.9 trillion over 10 years. It found that, on average, taxpayers would see a tax cut at every income level, but that the amount and percentage of tax cuts would be greatest for those with the highest incomes.
Clinton Foundation
Pence claimed that "less than 10 cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable organizations." That's misleading.
Pence is referring only to the amount donated by the Clinton Foundation to outside charities, ignoring the fact that most of the Clinton Foundation's charitable work is performed in-house.
One independent philanthropy watchdog did an analysis of Clinton Foundation funding and concluded that about 87 percent of its funding went to charity.
Carly Fiorina made a similar comment during the Republican primary, and as we wrote at the time: "Simply put, despite its name, the Clinton Foundation is not a private foundation — which typically acts as a pass-through for private donations to other charitable organizations. Rather, it is a public charity. It conducts most of its charitable activities directly."
Among its charitable activities: training rural farmers in Africa and helping them get access to seeds, equipment and markets for their crops; helping reforestation efforts in Africa and the Caribbean region; lowering the cost of HIV/AIDS medicine in nations around the world; and working with local governments and businesses in the United States to develop wellness and physical activity plans.
The Clinton Foundation's latest IRS Form 990 shows total revenue of nearly $178 million in 2014, and total outside charitable grant disbursements of about $5.1 million (see Part IX). That comes to less than 3 percent of the budget going to grants. It came to about 6 percent in 2013.
Katherina Rosqueta, the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania, described the Clinton Foundation as an "operating foundation."
"There is an important distinction between an operating foundation vs. a non-operating foundation," Rosqueta told us back in June. "An operating foundation implements programs so money it raises is not designed to be used exclusively for grant-making purposes. When most people hear 'foundation', they think exclusively of a grant-making entity. In either case, the key is to understand how well the foundation uses money — whether to implement programs or to grant out to nonprofits — [to achieve] the intended social impact (e.g., improving education, creating livelihoods, improving health, etc.)."
According to Charity Navigator, the Clinton Foundation spends about 87 percent of its expenses on "programs and services it delivers." It gives the Clinton Foundation an overall rating of Four Stars. Charity Watch gave the Clinton Foundation an "A" rating.
"The Clinton Foundation spends 87 percent of its budget on charitable work, as affirmed by independent charity watchdogs," Brian Cookstra, a spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, told us in an email after the debate. "The Clinton Foundation is an operating foundation, which means our programs do the charitable work on the ground themselves. We are not a grant-making organization."
Pence said the Clinton Foundation "has been a platform for the Clintons to travel the world, to have staff." As we wrote in June, the Clinton Foundation spent 12 percent of its revenue on travel and conferences and 20 percent of its revenue on salaries in 2013.
But the Form 990 specifically breaks out those travel, conference and salary expenses that are used for "program service expenses" versus those that are used for management or fundraising purposes. For example, nearly 77 percent of the $8.4 million spent on travel in 2013 went toward program services; 3.4 percent went to "management and general expenses"; and about 20 percent went to fundraising.
Trump Foundation
Pence said, "The Trump Foundation is a private family foundation and they give virtually every cent to charitable causes." But that's far from true.
There have been several examples of the Donald J. Trump Foundation making expenditures on items and groups that are not charitable causes:
- In 2013, the foundation gave $25,000 to a political group connected to Florida's attorney general, Pam Bondi. This year Trump paid a $2,500 penalty to the IRS because of the improper gift, according to Jeffrey McConney, a senior vice president and controller at the Trump Organization.
- The foundation also paid $258,000 to settle various legal problems, including a 2007 dispute with the town of Palm Beach over the height of a flagpole.
- The foundation also famously paid $10,000 for a portrait of Trump, which ended up on the wall of a Florida golf course he owns outside Miami. (A spokesman said Trump was doing the foundation a favor by "storing" it there.)
- The foundation also paid $20,000 for another, six-foot-tall portrait of Trump reportedly shipped to another of Trump's golf courses in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
And unlike typical family foundations, the Trump Foundation's money has since 2008 come from others, not from Trump's own pocket.
The Washington Postreported Sept. 10: "In tax records, the last gift from Trump was in 2008. Since then, all of the donations have been other people's money — an arrangement that experts say is almost unheard of for a family foundation."
In all but four of its first 28 years of operation, the Trump Foundation took in well under $1 million. By far its biggest year was 2007, when it took in just over $4 million (of which only $35,000 came from Trump himself), according to the Washington Post.
Trump and Nuclear Weapons
Kaine and Pence were both partly right and partly wrong in characterizing Trump's statements on other countries, including Japan and South Korea, getting nuclear weapons.
Kaine: Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. He said Saudi Arabia should get them, Japan should get them, Korea should get them. And when he was confronted with this, and told wait a minute, terrorists could get those, proliferation could lead to nuclear war, here's what Donald Trump said and I quote, "Go ahead folks, enjoy yourselves."
Later in the debate, Kaine asked Pence to defend Trump's positions, starting with "more nations should get nuclear weapons." Pence responded: "Well, he never said that, senator."
Trump didn't make a blanket statement about "more nations" getting nuclear weapons, but he has indicated that perhaps Japan and South Korea should have nuclear weapons to protect themselves.
For instance, here's Trump in an April 3 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace:
Trump, April 3: So, North Korea has nukes. Japan has a problem with that. I mean, they have a big problem with that. Maybe they would in fact be better off if they defend themselves from North Korea.
Wallace: With nukes?
Trump: Maybe they would be better off — including with nukes, yes, including with nukes.
About a week earlier, the New York Timesreported that Trump had said in interviews with the newspaper that "he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on the American nuclear umbrella for their protection against North Korea and China." The Times quoted Trump as saying if the U.S. "keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they're going to want to have that anyway, with or without me discussing it."
On March 29, CNN's Anderson Cooper tried to pin down Trump on those comments. In the back-and-forth, Trump said, "I don't want more nuclear weapons," but also said, "wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?"
Trump, March 29: At some point we have to say, you know what, we're better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we're better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start to protect itself, we have…
Cooper: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
Trump: Saudi Arabia, absolutely.
Cooper: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
Trump: No, not nuclear weapons, but they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.
Here's the thing, with Japan, they have to pay us or we have to let them protect themselves.
Cooper: So if you said, Japan, yes, it's fine, you get nuclear weapons, South Korea, you as well, and Saudi Arabia says we want them, too?
Trump: Can I be honest with you? It's going to happen, anyway. It's going to happen anyway. It's only a question of time. They're going to start having them or we have to get rid of them entirely.
But you have so many countries already, China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia, you have so many countries right now that have them.
Now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons? And they do have them. They absolutely have them. They can't – they have no carrier system yet but they will very soon.
Wouldn't you rather have Japan, perhaps, they're over there, they're very close, they're very fearful of North Korea, and we're supposed to protect.
Cooper: So you're saying you don't want more nuclear weapons in the world but you're OK with Japan and South Korea having nuclear weapons?
Trump: I don't want more nuclear weapons.
As for the "go ahead folks, enjoy yourselves" quote that Kaine mentions, that wasn't directly in response to Trump being told that terrorists could get hold of nuclear weapons, or that proliferation could lead to nuclear war, as Kaine suggested.
Instead, Trump said that in an April 2 campaign appearance in Wausau, Wisconsin, in talking about Japan protecting itself against North Korea and the two countries potentially fighting.
Trump, April 2: We're protecting Japan from North Korea. … I would say to Japan you gotta help us out. … And I would rather have them not arm. But I'm not going to continue to lose this tremendous amount of money. And frankly, the case could be made, that let them protect themselves against North Korea. They'd probably wipe them out pretty quick. And if they fight, you know what, that would be a terrible thing, terrible. "Good luck folks, enjoy yourself." If they fight, that would be terrible, right? But if they do, they do.
Putin a 'Better Leader'?
Pence said that he did not say, as Kaine claimed, that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "better leader" than President Obama. Technically, Pence didn't say "better leader." He said that Putin has been a "stronger leader" in Russia than President Obama has been in the U.S.
Kaine: Governor Pence said, "Inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama."
Pence: That is absolutely inaccurate. I said he has been stronger on the world stage.
In a CNN interview on Sept.8, Pence said: "I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country. And that's going to change the day that Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America."
Two days later, Pence told a crowd at the Liberty Farm Festival that his comment was meant as an indictment of Obama and not an endorsement of Putin.
"When Donald Trump and I said that the small and bullying president of Russia was a strong leader on the world stage, that wasn't an endorsement of Vladimir Putin, that was an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of this president and [Hillary Clinton]," Pence said.
Trump and NATO
Kaine claimed that Trump said that "NATO is obsolete" and that he wants to "get rid of NATO." Trump did say NATO is obsolete or may be, but he hasn't said that the international security alliance should be eliminated.
Kaine: That's why Donald Trump's claim that he wants to — that NATO is obsolete and that we need to get rid of NATO is so dangerous.
Pence: That's not his plan.
Kaine: Well, he said NATO is obsolete.
There is no question that Trump has said, more than once, that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization either is obsolete or may be obsolete. He also previously suggested in an interview with the New York Times in July that he would not automatically defend NATO allies that do not pay their share of defense costs.
However, as we wrote in May, Trump has said that he doesn't want the U.S. to leave the NATO alliance even though he once said that he would "certainly look at" doing so.
Then, during the first presidential debate with Clinton, Trump said that he is "all for NATO."
Trump, Sept. 26: I said, and very strongly, NATO could be obsolete, because … they do not focus on terror. And I was very strong. And I said it numerous times. … But I'm all for NATO. But I said they have to focus on terror, also.
And Trump has since said, "When I am president, we will strengthen NATO."
More We've Heard Before
And there were more claims from the candidates that we've fact-checked before:
Unemployment: Pence compared apples to oranges in talking about the two candidates' records as governors, when he said: "In the state of Indiana, we've cut unemployment in half; unemployment doubled when he was governor."
As we wrote in August, Kaine was governor during the Great Recession, when every state saw unemployment rates rise significantly, and Pence, who took office in 2013, has served during the subsequent economic expansion, when every state but one saw job gains.
Job Growth: Kaine cited a Moody's Analytics report on the impact of Clinton's plans on job growth, but he left out important caveats.
Kaine said, "Independent analysts say the Clinton plan would grow the economy by 10.5 million jobs. The Trump plan would cost 3.5 million jobs." First, most of those 10 million jobs would occur under current law; only 3.2 million would happen as a result of Clinton's plans. Plus, Moody's said the figures cited by Kaine were unlikely to happen. In the most likely scenario, job growth under Clinton was "a bit higher" than under current law and jobs would be added under Trump, but not as many as current law.
Trump's Tax Returns: In criticizing Trump for refusing to release his tax returns, Kaine made a misleading comparison to Richard Nixon, claiming that Nixon "released tax returns when he was under audit" and chiding Trump for failing to "meet Nixon's standard." Nixon never publicly released his tax returns as a candidate, though he did amid a swirling tax controversy during his second term in 1973.
Abortion: Pence criticized Clinton for supporting "a practice like partial-birth abortion," adding that "the very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me. " As we have written before, Clinton has said she's "open" to restrictions on late-term abortions if there are exceptions for endangerment of the life and health of the mother.
Border Security: Pence wrongly claimed that Clinton and Kaine have "a plan for open borders." Clinton supported a bill that would have created a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally, but it also would have increased border security.
On her campaign website, Clinton says she would "focus resources on detaining and deporting those individuals who pose a violent threat to public safety." But the site also states that she will "uphold the rule of law" and "protect our borders and national security."
Minimum Wage: Kaine repeated the misleading claim that Trump said "wages are too high." Trump has not said that overall wages are too high. At a Nov. 10, 2015, GOP debate, Trump was asked about raising the federal minimum wage to $15, and he said he was opposed to that.
New Jobs: Pence criticized Kaine's economic policy by saying the policies of the Obama administration, "which Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine want to continue, have run this economy into a ditch." In response, Kaine claimed "Fifteen million new jobs" were created under the Obama administration. Actually, the number of new jobs created is 10.5 million.
Kaine's count, which Clinton also has used, excludes public-sector job losses and starts at February 2010, the low point of employment during the Great Recession. A total of 15.1 million private-sector jobs were created between February 2010 and August 2016. However, overall employment, including government jobs, has increased by 10.5 million since Obama took office in January 2009.
Correction, Oct. 6: We removed an item from this story regarding the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email system. We misattributed a quote to Pence based on a live rushed transcript that proved to be inaccurate. Kaine said that the FBI "concluded that not one reasonable prosecutor" would bring charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information. We wrote that Pence disputed Kaine's characterization of the FBI's findings, and we mistakenly quoted Pence as saying, "That is absolutely false." But Pence did not say that. We regret the error.
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Foster's inquired our readers to share what they are so thankful for this season. Several responded with heartfelt stories thanking family, medical professionals and utility workers.
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MILTON — I am thankful to see. I was blinded for many years by a pharmaceutical error. Mass Eye and Ear said I would never see again. Slowly, over years, my sight returned. I don't know how anyone who can see could ever be bored.
I am thankful for my wheelchair. It enables me to live a full and active professional and personal life despite a catastrophic disability.
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I am grateful for friends and people who have helped and supported me along life's journeys. You have taught me a lot. I am thankful.
I am grateful to my deceased husbands, my children, pets here and gone.
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DOVER — During the past six months, my wife and I have had to use the medical services at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. My wife was initially treated at the WDH emergency room before being transported to MGH, and I recently underwent partial knee replacement surgery at WDH.
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SOMERSWORTH — It has been a really tough year for me and my family. With the basics that most families face like financial woes, health, and mechanical difficulties. I actually am still thankful for everything we do have ... but what makes it extra special is my oldest daughter. She was diagnosed not that long ago with Tourettes. Facing this diagnosis came with a host of other problems. Which included OCD, Depression, and TONS of peer pressure and people just not understanding the disease itself. Even through all she's faced and will be facing she is STILL not only a happy and thoughtful girl, she also is an Honor roll student, and wants to become an ER doctor one day. To see her go through so much, more than I could ever imagine, has made me so thankful for everything I have, and made me realize how every moment in life is so precious. She makes me look at life in a very hopeful light. So I guess, I am thankful for my oldest Daughter. Without her, I'd be a cynical and jaded person by now. Thank you my munchkin.
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SOMERSWORTH — I am thankful today that I finally have heat and hot water. I am on disability and on very low income have not had any oil or hot water for a few months. After trying to get help from multiple organizations with no luck I turned to City of Somersworth Finance and thanks to Shawn Smith I will have oil for the holidays. I had my electric shut off last week because of a past due balance I could not afford to pay. Thanks to the N.H. Public Utilities they worked out an agreement with PSNH to get my electric turned back on. Without these two organizations helping me I would have a very bad holiday.
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Foster's inquired our readers to share what they are so thankful for this season. Several responded with heartfelt stories thanking family, medical professionals and utility workers.