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THE TOUGH CUSTOMER- I may be cheap: Website offers holiday tips, savings
The other day I came across a blog that epitomizes the Internet's promise of empowering local consumers in these difficult economic times.
Just in time for Christmas!
Called I May Be Cheap (imaybecheap.wordpress.com), it's a running cavalcade of announcements of great deals, sales, coupon offerings, and money-saving ideas, punctuated by occasional reviews and trenchant commentary.
Community consumerism on the Web, particularly in airing consumer grievances and exposing corporate wrong-doing or hypocrisy, is not new. The biggest such site is The Consumerist (consumerist.com). And automated search engines abound on the Web to help folks search for low prices for practically any product.
I May Be Cheap is different, however, for two reasons.
First, it's local, created by Emmy Smith of Harrisonburg. And people might find the scale more approachable and comfortable than a large national site like consumerist.
Second, like most good blogs, I May Be Cheap reflects the enjoyably quirky personality and enthusiasm of Smith.
This is a woman who craves a good deal.
For example, she doesn't just list where one can get an Oster Two-Tier Food Steamer for a great price. She reports that while she doesn't personally know about it, it has "good reviews and a great price!" The Scrabble Game Folio, for only $4.99, "looks really neat," and for $15 "you can't beat the price" of the women's Wyoming low-heeled boots from Overstock.com.
Smith says she has stepped up her blogging for Christmas. Over the past few weeks, her site is filled with suggestions for great stocking stuffers.
"Times are really tough right now, and people really need this type of thing," she says. "I'm posting daily deals on hot toys."
In addition to great deals, Smith points readers to such goodies as a free shipping day from Target, and various online product giveaways. She recently highlighted a site that searches Amazon to find inexpensive products to help shoppers reach the $25 threshold for free shipping without spending more.
Then there's the kind of stuff Smith lives for, the Holy Grail of bargain hunting: the combination of sale prices, coupons, and rebates that Smith puts together to get free stuff.
Just recently, for example, she found that buying The Royal Travel Clock and Digital Frame together with a clip-on digital photo album from Circuit City would actually net the shopper two cents after rebates, prompting one of her growing cadre of regular readers to gush, "You are amazing."
Smith started the blog in June 2007. "The idea just kind of popped into my head," she says. "I've always tried to save money, but about four years ago, I was getting a divorce and raising two small children. It quickly became much more important to me to save money."
Smith says "watching a woman named Angela Henley on the Today Show" inspired her to start the site. "She was being interviewed about her frugal ways, and I realized I could do it too," Smith says.
"I thought starting the blog would help people locally weed through the scams and deals that really aren't all that great," she says. "Some people think bargain shopping is too much work, so I want to make it easy for them."
Smith says she spends about two hours a day working on the blog and considers herself particularly fortunate to hold a flexible day job so she can post throughout the day. She spends evenings going through emails and monitoring the websites and newsletters that serve as her sources.
Smith isn't certain how many readers she actually has, but based on the number of comments her posts garner and other feedback, she senses readers are increasing.
Other than appreciation and satisfaction, Smith earns no money for her efforts. "I've had a few people tell me they've tried a new product or got something for free," she says, "and it makes me feel good."
For the future, she hopes to post more personal commentary, and she hopes to do a better job of highlighting local businesses, not just online and big box stores.
If there's a downside to her bargain hunting, Smith says, it's her occasional stockpiling of items that she consider irresistible deals.
"I have enough toothpaste to last a lifetime," she laughs.
Got a consumer situation? Call the Hook newsroom at 434-295-8700x405 or e-mail the Tough Customer directly.


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Federal mine safety regulators have said they don't know if they ever gave Massey Energy written technical reports that recommended ways to avoid methane problems that have been pinpointed as one of the causes of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster.
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration disclosed the potential problem in correspondence sent to Congress just one day after MSHA released the report of its investigation into the April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners.
MSHA chief Joe Main wrote to House Education and Workforce Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., in response to concerns Kline raised last month about Upper Big Branch and about the circumstances surrounding the April 2011 death of a silver miner in Idaho.
"Our preliminary review reveals that MSHA verbally communicated the results of the technical support investigations, including the recommendations, to both operators at close-out conferences following the investigations," Main told Kline in a Dec. 7 letter. "We are still trying to determine if the mine operators received copies of the technical support reports at the time of the investigations."
At Upper Big Branch, MSHA experts had outlined a variety of steps Massey could take to stop methane leaks from the floor of the Upper Big Branch Mine, following a review of a methane ignition in 1997 and two large methane leaks in 2003 and 2004.
MSHA now believes those recommendations were never followed by Massey, and agency investigators concluded methane leaking from the floor ignited the explosion on April 5, 2010.
"The mine has a history of methane incidents on prior longwall panels," the MSHA report said. "These incidents put the operator on notice for methane hazards on the longwall face."
MSHA cited Massey with "moderate negligence" related to the methane leaks, noting that the company did not implement agency recommendations - such as drilling de-gasification holes or increasing fresh-air flow to the mine face - after the earlier methane incidents.
At the Lucky Friday silver mine in Idaho, public radio's Northwest News Network discovered after a fatal roof fall in April that a 2008 MSHA report documenting roof control problems and recommendations for dealing with them had not been provided to mine operator Hecla Mining.
Kline, in a Nov. 30 letter to Main, questioned what he called a "lapse of communication" between MSHA and the mining operators it is supposed to regulate.
"MSHA's failure to transmit these reports raises concerns about potentially systemic problems within MSHA's district offices for both the metal/nonmetal and coal mine divisions," Kline wrote. "Such reports contain important technical recommendations that could improve miner safety. However, this information is useless if the agency fails to put it into the hands of the mine operators."
Kline asked MSHA to investigate its procedures, and determine whether any additional safety reports have not been provided to the mine operators in question, and to examine agency practices to ensure such reports are provided.
Main responded, "I have initiated a complete review of our procedures and protocols for drafting and transmitting technical support reports to ensure that important safety information is shared with all appropriate parties in a timely manner. That review will include the updating of any policies and procedures to ensure that reports are transmitted as expeditiously as possible."
Problems in which MSHA field offices didn't work closely enough with the agency's technical support division were previously outlined in an internal review of the October 2000 Martin County, Ky., slurry spill and an independent report on the August 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster in Utah.
MSHA officials have said that questions about their handling of the previous methane incidents at Upper Big Branch are among the issues about agency performance that are being examined by an MSHA interview review team that has not yet completed its work.
But on Friday, Kline raised questions about the Upper Big Branch internal review in a letter to MSHA noting the departure of the review team's leader, Jack Kuzar, who retired from the agency.
"It is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for the head of an internal review team to depart in the midst of such an important examination," Kline wrote in a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. "That such a departure occurred 16 months into the review and as the final report was nearing completion is also troubling."
At the same time, a lawyer for the widows of two miners who died in the January 2006 fire at Massey's Aracoma Mine continue to raise questions about ties between MSHA employees and Massey mine managers in a federal court lawsuit against the agency.
In appealing the dismissal of that case, lawyer Bruce Stanley notes that MSHA's own internal review at the Aracoma Mine noted the potential for conflict of interest among agency enforcement personnel in Southern West Virginia.
The Aracoma internal review team concluded, among other things, that MSHA efforts at industry-friendly "compliance assistance" may have hampered inspections and enforcement at the Logan County mine prior to the deaths of miners Don Bragg and Ellery Hatfield.
"The internal review team believes that some of the identified deficiencies may have stemmed from the relationship that MSHA developed with the Massey Energy Company representatives in early 2001," the internal review report said.
The report noted MSHA personnel "worked closely" with Massey management to develop miner training programs, but that "using enforcement personnel in this manner ... may have created a conflict of interest that, over time, may have affected the level of scrutiny that MSHA provided."
Stanley argued in a brief to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that MSHA personnel, "may have failed to take appropriate corrective actions or even conduct promised inspections at all because of conflict of interest created by their close relationships with, and lack of independence from, the operator and its managers."
In response, MSHA lawyers wrote that Bragg and Hatfield "died in undeniably tragic circumstances in a mine fire caused by the negligence" of Massey subsidiary Aracoma Coal Co.
"The Mine Act explicitly emphasizes that responsibility for safety is on the mine and the miners themselves, not on MSHA ... MSHA owned no duty of care to plaintiffs' husbands here," MSHA lawyers wrote.
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Dahle Stack Cutters are manually operated but make easy cutting of up to 700 sheets of paper at a time. Safety shields can be found on either side of the cutting blade and will not allow the blade to move while they are in the up position. Once the shields are in place, you have the ability to cut cleanly though 200, 500 or 700 sheets of paper with very little effort. This clean, burr free cut through such a large stack of paper is made possible through a ground Solingen Steel blade and a paper clamp that places even pressure across the entire cutting surface. Dahle Stack Cutters can be found in art departments, custom frame shops, and print & copy centers throughout the world.
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Familiar Raises $1.3M for Social Screen Savers and Slideshows
If you've taken a personal pledge to stop reading blog posts about photo-sharing apps, you'd best stop now. But if you want to hear about a little start-up that's breathing new life into some tired old formats, this one's for you.
Here's the premise: Familiar automatically shares photos among multiple generations within a family.
So, as parents snap photos and upload them to Facebook, Picasa, Instagram, Flickr and iPhoto, their own parents can get an updated stream of pictures of their grandkids.
(People without kids can try the app too, but families with children are the main demographic so far.)
Familiar, which first came out for Mac and Windows late last year, now has Android, Kindle Fire and iOS apps. These viewing apps display screen savers (how terribly old school!) or slideshows shared by users within a private circle of family and friends.
Driven largely by being featured by Apple, Familiar already has some loyal fans. In August, Familiar users displayed 21 million of each others' photos (which is not a terrifically useful stat, but it's all I have at the moment, as the company isn't sharing actual user or usage numbers).
Apparently, a lot of investors love the idea of a nifty app to share pictures of their kids. Seattle-based Familiar, whose team came out of music start-up iLike (acquired by Myspace in 2009), has now raised $1.3 million from a large group of backers, among them Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, Acequia Capital, Allen & Company, Hadi and Ali Partovi, Nat Brown, Dave Goldberg, Blake Krikorian, Emil Michael and Owen Van Natta.


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Team Liquid is a community site focused on StarCraft and pro-gaming.
This extension provides list of streams currently active on teamliquid.net
as well as the reddit tab, containing submissions from chosen subreddits
- list streams ordered by number of viewers or other criteria
- the reddit tab, by default set for /r/starcraft
- countdown until next GOMTV broadcasting
- notification if preset phrases appear in set subreddits
- choose to list only games you are interested in (sc2, dota2, lol, d3,...)
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Jets cornerback Aaron Berry will have a $465K base salary this season. He is scheduled to make $650k in base salary in 2013
• Rex Ryan and Tony Sparano have come to be known for their creative genius in coaching circles, with Ryan consistently deploying a wide array of overload blitzes and Sparano being the first to introduce the "Wildcat" formation to the NFL in Miami. Both were on board with bringing wild card Tim Tebow to New York, in large part to keep defenses guessing how they will use him. In San Francisco's 34-0 shutout victory, which easily could have been 41-0 had Colin Kaepernick not slid down on the Jets' 3 to avoid running up the score after a long run in the final two minutes, it was the proud sledgehammering Jim Harbaugh that outfoxed the opposition, sparking the offense by sprinkling in the option run by Kapernick. For the 49ers to climb the hill, they need more production from the quarterback position and are wise to be finding ways to get Kapernick much-needed experience, even if it's not coming in traditional fashion.
• With WR Stephen Hill out and Santonio Holmes going down with a foot injury on the heels of last week's loss of the NFL's best coverman, Darrelle Revis, the Jets' season is beginning to look hopeless. They are now 0-2 without Revis in the lineup, and their top offensive skill talent could be out for an extended period. As much as fans might be pointing their finger at QB Mark Sanchez, he was heavily handicapped Sunday without his two top receivers and an overmatched offensive line that did him no favors. No team has been hit harder by key injuries in the first quarter of the season, and it will be an uphill battle for the Jets to remain competitive the rest of the season. Good teams never use injuries as an excuse and find a way to lock and reload. Ryan and GM Mike Tannenbaum have their work cut out trying to resolve a lot of lingering issues.
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re: rex's blitzes
Do we even blitz anymore?? I feel like that's all I saw in 2009 and 2010 and I have barely seen it since.
The best think that could have happen to mark Sanchez was to lose Santonio Holmes and Dustin Keller.
Rex is following on the magini path. Start out aggressive and win. and get more and more conservative each year and end up a loser.
Sigh, i just hope that something is done in the off-season, please bring in Polian to fix this mess!
Rex is following on the mangini path. Start out aggressive and win. and get more and more conservative each year and end up a loser.
OT possibly.
I am not a Tebow Supporter.....BUT
Why are there quotes from Rex about how the Wildcat isnt working how he thought it would?
Have i missed some drives, because i didnt think Tebow has even had a Offensive series to himself yet.
How many Times has Tebow ran the ball?...8-10 times? in 4 games?
If Rex thinks that they are going to get production from Tebow by tossing him out there for a play or 2 a half, he is a worst coach than i thought.
How about giving Tebow an actual drive to show you what he can/cant do before you dismiss him as non productive?
Everybody knows whats coming when you toss Tebow out there for 1 snap a quarter.
Where the **** is the cliff?
Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain
Say what you will about Sanchez, but the #Jets are 30th in the league avging 3.2 yards a carry and 30th in run D, allowing 4.9 yards a carry
Football 101 - When your team controls the line of scrimmage good things usually happen
Poor drafting, poor coaching, poor game planning and poor execution.
Just because the team around him isn't any good doesn't mean that he's good. Sanchez is NOT a quality NFL and he never will be. Blame the whole world if you want, it won't change that fact.


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Softpedia: Samsung GT-I9500 emerges in AnTuTu Benchmark running Android 4.0.4
A new handset from Samsung has made an appearance on online benchmark websites, namely the Samsung GT-I9500, which is said to be the company's reference design handset for the Tizen OS. The handset was spotted in the AnTuTu benchmark with a quad-core 1.5GHz processor packed inside, and with a score of 12,585 next to it. […]
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WPP companies produce hundreds of pro bono campaigns for good causes every year – tackling a wide range of social and environmental issues. Here we feature a small selection produced during 2011.
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Client: Avril Elizabeth Home WPP company: JWT, Johannesburg
Avril Elizabeth is a care home for intellectually and physically disabled individuals. Avril Elizabeth relies heavily on public donations to enable them to provide care for many of their residents who are orphaned or abandoned.
In 2011, JWT worked pro bono to create a promotional television and cinema commercial starring residents of Avril Elizabeth Home to help touch the public's empathy and prompt donations. Disabled residents of Avril Elizabeth Home held up a series of word cards to form sentences. Even though the spelling of the words were deliberately 'jumbled', the sentences still made sense. In the same way, even though the residents of Avril Elizabeth Home may be a little different, this doesn't change their value.
JWT negotiated free media space on behalf of Avril Elizabeth Home, gaining several prime-time slots in local cinemas to help raise awareness and funds. JWT also elicited the help of a mobile media agency to enable donors to make monthly donations via their phone accounts.
The pro bono campaign, worth $170,000, won a Bronze Cannes Lion and a Bronze Loerie.


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I just spent a few minutes looking at Karate and Kenpo magazine covers on Ebay. Phew! What a lot of violence and testosterone!
If you have practiced Karate for a while, you might have appeared in articles or even on a magazine cover. The photographers for such things does tell you to, "Look calm, look peaceful, look like you don't want to fight." Quite the opposite! Covers have to be exciting -- at least in part to people who really don't understand the martial arts.
I watched a video of a well know escrima teacher from the Philippines. What got me about it was how casual and natural the teacher looked. Karate people tend to act like they are doing Karate. They seem to take on a persona -- like they are acting. This escrima teacher looked like an ordinary Filipino man, just moving around naturally -- but with exceptional ability. Except for that exceptional ability, you could not tell him apart from any other man. Even the terminology he used was ordinary language. There was no pretense or drama.
Again, he was perfectly ordinary seeming, but with exceptional ability.
Of course, it should be same in Karate. We should be perfectly normal, but with exceptional ability. We do not have to put on a gi or "act" like the people we see on magazine covers. We do not have to act at all. We can just be ourselves. Our facial expression does not have to change when we move or execute techniques. We are not being photographed for a magazine cover or video. People are not watching. The only person who might be watching is the attacker, and he probably won't care about our facial expressions.
My wife is Filipino and my four children at mestizo (mixed). My first Karate instructor was Filipino. I first thought that Karate must be a Filipino martial art because so many of the teachers were Filipino. My early Karate teachers were also escrima instructors. Perhaps this is why their Karate looked so natural and unforced.
Karate should be natural. We should just be ourselves -- with exceptional ability.
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I just spent a few minutes looking at Karate and Kenpo magazine covers on Ebay. Phew! What a lot of violence and testosterone!
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I'm selling my Polaris blue. Good condition. SE model.
I imported it from the UK to Ireland and so the car is here with me but I can ship it back of course. Have done that before for my prior v6.
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The flag was flying at half-mast at The Kielbasa Factory in Rockville. Everyone was in mourning for the incompetence that has finally settled in the White House.
"There will be no more chrusciki for President Obama," a spokesperson said.
Gone are the days, when someone like Henry Kissinger was hired to proofread Presidential speeches to avoid public embarrassment. That funding was cut as soon as G Dubya was permitted to say words such as "misunderestimate," "hispanically" and "subliminable;" using the excuse that he was just being himself, like Mark Twain presented the unedited version of himself. They called it the Twain Budget Cut.
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The Action News crew members were standing outside the Pierniczki Shoppe asking what they thought about Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk's, reaction to Obama's unedited speech.
"Obama's been drinking too much Zywiec," one of the customers said.
"What has he been smoking?" another asked.
"Maybe there was something in the Krupnik!"
Afterward, at a press conference, Obama was trying to explain the gaffe, when a member of the Polish press asked him if he resented his country for not wanting him reelected in 2012:


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What is START?
START (Students Teaching in the Arts) is a program that matches Dartmouth student volunteers with local 1st-8th grade classrooms. Over six classroom visits, volunteers develop and deliver original arts integration activities that complement regular classroom curriculum, enhancing the learning experience for students. START is active in fall, winter and spring terms.
Check out this video from one of our partner teachers, Miss Cherie Blessing, from Mid Vermont Christian School in Quechee, VT:
Who Can be a START Volunteer?
START volunteers are Dartmouth undergraduates who are passionate about the arts and want to share their time and talent in a leadership role in Upper Valley classrooms. While volunteers do not need to be experts in an art form, they do need to be creative and collaborative. START values volunteers that stretch their imaginations and the imaginations of their students. More than just arts and crafts, START wants to provide students with "outside the desk" thinking so that students connect sit-down subjects to on-your-feet activities.Interested in learning more about what we do? Click here for volunteer information, past projects, and a term overview!
Who Can be a START Classroom?
START works with grades 1-8 in classrooms within a 25-30 minute travel radius of Dartmouth. While the START volunteers develop and teach the lessons, continued teacher support and presence throughout the term is essential to a strong partnership. Teachers also give valuable feedback to the volunteers throughout the term and help manage the classroom during individual START visits. START volunteers often supplement classroom curriculum as requested by the teacher—through art, we've explored geometry, poetry, outer space, ecosystems, democracy, and even grit!
START visits classrooms during regular school hours, once a week for six weeks during the fall, winter, or spring season. These visits can be up to 60 minutes, depending on the classroom schedule. Each term the availability of volunteers shifts; the more flexibility a classroom has in terms of the scheduling, the more likely we'll be able to place a START group. While the season-to-season volunteers may change, START seeks to create lasting collaborations with teachers and schools. Many of our teachers have been with us for over 5 years!Interested in learning more about what we do? Click here for sample lesson plans, past projects, and a schedule overview!
2018/2019 START Calendar
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Steffi has been with the START program since 2016 and has worked in 2nd-6th grade classrooms teaching anything from the Civil Rights Movement to geometry. She values START as a time to get off campus and to engage meaningfully with the surrounding community, as well as a chance to refresh her 3rd grade math skills. Though a Geography major, Steffi loves painting and can usually be found in the VAC. Steffi joined START as a way to participate in art while not taking studio art classes but soon realized she is also passionate about teaching and education policy. Her favorite START project was creating "stained glass windows" to illustrate radial symmetry. When she's not with START, her favorite place in the Hopkins Center is the Donald Clafin Jewelry Studio.
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HURON - Trial dates have been set for a South Dakota father and son accused of sexually abusing girls at a home day care.
Fred Sylaart's trial on charges of sexual contact with a child under 16 years old is scheduled for June 12-14. His 18-year-old son, Jordan, is to stand trial May 14-16 on rape charges.
Jordan Sylaart was under 18 at the time of the alleged crimes. He has been charged in adult court but KOKK radio reports that his attorney is seeking to have the case transferred to juvenile court. A judge will rule later.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Alan Culpepper has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after placing fourth Monday at the Boston Marathon.
In only his fourth marathon competition, Culpepper ran 2 hours, 13 minutes, 39 seconds to finish fourth in the best performance by an American male at Boston since Dave Gordon placed fourth (2:13:30) in 1987. The 2004 Olympic Trials marathon champion, Culpepper also had the best U.S. time at Boston since Keith Dowling's 2:13:28 in 2002. He only competed in one marathon before last year's Olympic Trials and finished 12th at the 2004 Olympic Games.
World-leading performers at the Mt. SAC Relays were University of Arkansas sophomore Wallace Spearmon Jr., who won the men's 200m in 19.97 seconds. His performance also broke the UA school record of 20.07, previously held by Tyson Gay. Also at Mt. SAC, Dominique Arnold won the men's 110m hurdles in 13.35 and Bernard Lagat ran 13:14.71 in winning the men's 5,000m.
World-leading field event marks were posted by 2004 Olympian Breaux Greer, who just missed the American record by two inches in the men's javelin throw with a toss of 87.65m/287-7, and Georgia Tech junior Chaunte Howard and 2004 Olympian Amy Acuff each cleared 1.93m/6-4 in the women's high jump. Another world-leader was established in Tempe, Ariz., by two-time Olympic medalist John Godina, who won the men's shot put with a heave of 21.06m/69-1.25.
Now in its fifth year, USATF's Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize outstanding performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF website. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week.
2005 USATF Athlete of the Week Winners: January 4, Amy Rudolph; January 11, Dathan Ritzenhein; January 18, Janine Davis; January 25, Wallace Spearmon Jr.; February 1, Erin Gilreath; February 8, LaShawn Merritt; February 15, LaShawn Merritt; February 22, Walter Davis; March 1, Angela Daigle; March 8, Gov. Mike Huckabee; March 15, Kerron Clement; March 22, Lauren Fleshman; March 29, Deena Kastor; April 5, Deena Kastor; April 12, Tianna Madison; April 19 Alan Culpepper.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY —State and local nonprofit groups are working on a deal to buy the development rights to the 99-acre Bingham Farm off Creek Road, property that would fortify a large block of land that has already been conserved at Middlebury's southern gateway.
"The boys have enjoyed growing up here and I didn't want to see it developed," said Marilyn Bingham, whose family has owned the farm since 1959. "I enjoy living here. I like the view, and the quiet."
While nursing has been her main occupation, Bingham raised five sons on the farm and the oldest, Alpine, lives on the farm and runs a small, diversified vegetable business. Alpine Bingham had previously managed several farm businesses on the spread, including a milking herd of 50-55 Holsteins. He sold the cows several years ago, and has focused on growing vegetables on around three acres while renting the balance of the cropland to a nearby dairy farmer.
The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) and Vermont Land Trust (VLT) are now working on a conservation deal with the Binghams that would allow the family to invest in their farm while keeping it open, in agricultural production and available for possible inclusion in a larger "Trail Around Middlebury."
Officials at MALT and the VLT are now working to raise around $200,000 for the Bingham Farm deal. Middlebury selectmen have agreed to tap the town's conservation fund for $10,000 to go toward the transaction. That $10,000, according to VLT Champlain Valley Co-Director Alan Karnatz, will be used to leverage approximately $190,000 in grant money through the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB). Karnatz said he is very optimistic the VHCB will approve the grant this month.
By LEE J. KAHRS
BRANDON –– The Vermont Tubbs furniture company here has been sold after an unsuccessful five-year bid by the previous owners to turn a profit. But the town of Brandon and the state of Vermont are committed to keeping the company here and retaining the 90 jobs at stake.
"We're willing to work with whichever owner wants to work with us," said Brandon Town Manager Keith Arlund. "The town stands ready to assist in the transition in any way possible."
A June 4 press release that was vague on details said that BSF Transition LLC, an affiliate of Brownstreet Furniture of Whitefield, N.H., had bought "certain assets" of Brandon-based Vermont Tubbs.
The 168-year-old Vermont Tubbs specializes in handcrafted, hardwood beds and other bedroom furniture, as well as custom-built office furniture. Brownstreet Furniture manufactures high-quality, solid wood cherry, pine, maple, and ash furniture. Tubbs officials stated that they will continue to manufacture in the existing facility on Arnold District Road while Brownstreet assesses future production plans.
"The entrance of Brownstreet couldn't come at a more opportune time," said Tubbs partner Jon McNeill in the release. "My partners and I will continue to be involved to provide assistance for a successful sale."
Calls for further comment from Tubbs officials were not returned by the Friday afternoon deadline for this edition of the Independent.
The move comes after months of wrangling to secure $580,000 in state and local economic development grants intended to preserve the 90 jobs at Tubbs by providing needed operating capital. The Vermont Community Development Program (VCDP) award was announced April 15.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON — Jeff and Julia Gosliga are expecting not one but two children this summer — the first, their fourth child, due in just two and a half weeks, and the second, a seven-year-old resident of the Bronx, N.Y., returning for her second summer vacation on Gosliga Farm in Addison.
Despite the busy summer ahead, the Gosligas are welcoming their out-of-state visitor with open arms. When she arrives in August, Naomi, who spent two weeks with the family last year, will join 50 other children visiting Addison County this summer through the New York City-based Fresh Air Fund. The Fund, an independent nonprofit organization designed to create opportunities for children living in disadvantaged communities to enjoy free summer vacations, has served more than 1.7 million children from low-income households since its inception in 1877.
For Naomi, the Gosligas' farm — home to not only the Gosliga clan but also the 450 cows they milk daily — could not be more different than the hustle and bustle of her home in the city. The open spaces — and yes, fresh air — are a welcome change of pace for many of the children the organization serves.
"If you think about where these kids come from, you say, 'Man, these kids deserve a break to just be kids and have fun,'" Jeff Gosliga said.
A trip to the farm, he continued, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many of these children.
"They love it," he said. "They have so much fun."
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Week 17. Miami. A win and we have homefield throughout the AFC playoffs. A loss and we need Denver to lose to get that. So, our worst case scenario is the 2 seed. Not bad.
Notable inactives for us are (and there are a lot) Chander Jones, Jules, Dont'a Hightower, Sebastian Vollmer, Seaver Silaga, Justin Coleman, and Johnathon Freeny.
Notable inactives for Miami are Mike Pouncey and Jelani Jenkins.
Ed Hochuli is the ref. Kevin Harlon and Rich Gannon have the call. The weather is in the high 70s with showers.
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According to latest news from Human Rights Activists more then 400 people have been arrested in the past few days in relation to protests and turmoil because of rationing of gas.
For farsi speakers please feel free to visit the origional link and for non-Farsi speakers I have translated the article.
تا کنون 255 نفر از بازداشت شدگان حوادث اخیر تهران به زندان اوین منتقل شده اند که از این تعداد 100 نفر در اندرزگاه یک { قرنطینه } و 40 نفر به سالنهای 7 و 8 و 10 اندرزگاه 8 و 25 نفر به سالنهای 1و2و4 اندرزگاه 7 و 6 نفر به بازداشتگاه مخوف 209 اطلاعات و 84 نفر به بند 241 حفاظت قوه قضاییه منتقل شده اند.
As of today 255 of individuals arrested in regards to the recent protests in Tehran have been transferred to Evin prison. About 100 of these individuals are in Section 1 of the prison while 40 of them are in rooms 7, 8 and 10 in Section 8 of the Evin Prison. 25 people are in rooms 1,2,4 in section 7 and six people have been taken to s. 209 of the Evin prison. Also 241 people have been taken to revolutionary detention centers.
90 people were arrested last night and taken to Evin prisoner, however their names have not officially been registered with the prison, therefore their families have no way of knowing their whereabout, or can get in touch with them.
The 84 people in section 241 of the Evin prison are under terrible conditions, with 3 to 4 people occupaying a tiny cell and their bodies are completely bruised due to torture and physical abuse which they suffered before being taken to the cells. Among the people who have been arrested there are at least 6 women. Most of these individuals have been charged with insulting the Islamic Regime leaders, protesting and one individual has been charged with carrying a weapon.
The Human Rights Activists in Iran are extremely worried about the well being of these individuals and demand an immediate and fair look into their files.
Mostafa Daryanavard-Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike0 comments - published on Friday, June 29, 2007
Latest news from Human Rights Activists In Iran regarding another political prisoner Mostafa Daryanavard who is on his 5th day of hunger strike.
Mostafa Daryanavard a political prisoner in Iran who is on the 5th day of his hunger strike, was threatened by prison officials to break his hunger strike. Once the prison officials realized that their threats would not be successful, Davoud Baghviye the Evin prison warden for s. 7 of the prison further and repeatedly threatened him.
Mr. Daryanavard has stated that he will not break his hunger strike until such time where his demands are met. His major demand is the separation of political "crimes" v. non political crimes as well as the separation of political prisoners including himself from non political criminals.
Human Rights Activists in Iran condemn the treatment of Mr. Daryavand as well as the general detainment of political prisoners with common criminals as a from of psychological torture. At the same time the Human Rights Activists in Iran are extremely concerned about the health and well being of Mr. Mostafa Daryanavard.
فشار بر یک زندانی سیاسی
تاریخ : 86/4/۹
شماره : 86/28۸
به نام آزادی
زندانی سیاسی مصطفی در یانورد که پنجمین روز اعتصاب غذای خود را سپری می کند پس از آنکه اعمال فشار شورای زندان به ریاست مومنی معاونت زندان اوین در روز چهارشنبه مورخ 6/4/86 بر وی جهت شکستن اعتصاب غذا به نتیجه نرسید ظهر پنج شنبه توسط داود بالوایه ریاست اندرزگاه 7 برای شکستن اعتصاب غذای خود مورد تهدید قرار گرفت این در حالی است که نامبرده اعلام نموده است تا زمان احقاق حق خود یعنی رعایت اصل تفکیک جرایم و انتقال به نزد سایر زندانیان سیاسی به اعتصاب خود ادامه خواهد داد.
فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران ضمن محکوم نمودن عمل شنیع استفاده از تضاد عقاید به عنوان ابزار شکنجه روانی که مغایر با اصول کنوانسیون بین المللی منع شکنجه و رفتار غیر انسانی می باشد نسبت به سلامت این زندانی سیاسی ابراز نگرانی می نماید.
Human Rights Activists in Iran
Khaled Hardani at Risk of Imminent Execution
Khaled Hardani is an Iranian Political Prisoner whose execution date has been set for July 4th 2007. Mr. Hardani was first arrested in January of 2001 when along with 11 members of his extended family he attempted to Hijack a 30 seater passenger air craft.
He wanted to attempt and force the plane to fly to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Reportedly the family was trying to escape the extreme poverty and discrimination they were facing as members of Iranian Arab Minorities.
Mr. Hardani along with two of his brother in laws were sentenced to death on charges of acts against national security (egdam aleyhe amniyat) and Moharebeh or enmity with god, not in relation to specific charges regarding the hijacking of the plane.
Khaled Hardani has been in prison for the past seven years under severe physical and psychological torture. He was originally sentenced to hang on January 19, 2005, however the head of Judiciary ordered a stay of execution, so that his lawyer could appeal the sentence.
Two months ago Mr. Hardani was transferred to Raji Shahr Prison which is one of the worst prisons in Iran. Numbers of his family members including his wife and small child have also been imprisoned in the past. On June 7th 2007 he was informed of his new date of execution which is set for July 4th , 2007. He has appealed to all human rights activists and organizations to help save his life.
Although we have become aware of his situation at the last minute, there is still time to try to help. We may not be able to stop the execution but we can certainly try. History has shown time and again that international pressure does work. Executions have been stopped, people have been saved from torture and death sentenced have been commuted thanks to international pressure.
Please write to your MP's, contact different human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights watch as well as write about him on your websites and blogs. Lets get the word out as fast and as wide as possible.
Sayeh Hassan
Captivity in isolation, probable ill-treatment and an unfair military trial precede the death sentence on an army officer.62 comments - published on Friday, June 29, 2007
AI Index: MDE 13/080/2007
Death penalty / Torture
29 June 2007
Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam (m), aged 40, army colonel
Colonel Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam was sentenced to death by a military court in February 2007, and is now facing execution. The charges against him are reported to have been politically motivated, and the court proceedings appear to have fallen short of international fair trial standards.
Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam was detained on or around 26 February 2006 and reportedly spent 11 months solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison. The full details of the charges are not known, but they included spying and "transmitting state secrets to foreign interests". He reportedly "confessed" after ill-treatment and possibly torture.
He appealed against his sentence, and on around 11 June a higher military tribunal reportedly upheld the verdict. His case has still to go before the Supreme Court for a final appeal.
Torture has been used systematically in Iran for many years to extract information, and "confessions" are sometimes broadcast on television. Torture is facilitated by laws and procedures governing detention and interrogation which permit solitary confinement and prevent detainees having access to lawyers until the process of investigation is completed, and by the existence of parallel and sometimes informal institutions which run their own detention centres to which the judiciary has no access.
Tehran Burns0 comments - published on Wednesday, June 27, 2007
With virtually no warning, the Islamic Regime declared gas rationing in oil-rich Iran, sparking furious protests across the country — and Pajamas Media has video of the angry crowds setting gas stations on fire. ... For more on this article please visit:
Please visit http://sjk-news.blogspot.com/ for the latest pictures AND video clips of tonights protests and the gas stations on fire.
Big thank you for activists in Iran who have provided us with these pictures and videos.
Here is a wonderful article by my good frind Ardeshir Arian.
Iranian Regime's Heavyweight Gunned Down
PJM Barcelona
June 26, 2007 5:00 AM
The killing of a senior figure in Iran¢s regime, the third in two months, is again downplayed by the country¢s authorities. PJM special correspondent Ardeshir Arian explores the implications.
The Iranian government has decided to ration oil. The result?? Already 15 gas stations have been set on fire by people. You can see some pictures of this above.
Further Information on UA 113/07 (MDE 13/054/2007, 15 May 2007) Fear for safety/Fear of torture and ill-treatment
and new concern: Medical concern
Students at Amir Kabir University, Tehran:
Bejaz Ahmad Qasabian (m)
Moqdad Khalilpour (m)
Pooyan Mahmoudian (m) (spelling corrected)
Majid Tavakkoli (m)
Majid Sheikhpour (m)
Babak Zamanian (m)
New names:
Ehsan Mansouri (m)
Abbas Hakimzadeh (m)
Ali Saberi (m)]
A further three students have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the publication of articles that "insult Islamic sanctities". One student has been released on bail. All those in custody have reportedly denied any involvement in the publication of the articles, and have reportedly been tortured in an attempt to extract confessions.
Babak Zamanian was reportedly released at the beginning of June, on bail of 500 million Riyals (US$54,000). Three other students were reportedly arrested in late May and early June. All the eight students now in custody are reportedly in solitary confinement; they have had no access to their families or lawyers.
Ehsan Mansouri, the secretary of political affairs of the Islamic Student Association (ISA) activist body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, was reportedly arrested at his home on 22 May. His family had reportedly received threatening phone calls for two weeks before he was arrested. Revolutionary Guards had visited the family home looking for Ehsan Masouri, and reportedly beat some of the family. It appears that Ehsan Mansouri was severely beaten while being taken to Section 209 in Evin Prison, breaking his shoulder.
Abbas Hakimzadeh and Ali Saberi, both ISA committee members at Amir Kabir University, were reportedly arrested at their homes in Mashhad, east of Tehran, on 6 June and taken to Section 209 of Evin Prison by plainclothes security forces. The security forces reportedly searched their houses after they had been arrested, confiscated their personal computers and CDs and told their families to contact the Revolutionary Court for more information about their situation. Abbas Hakimzadeh had recently undergone surgery on his spine; his doctor has reportedly said that he cannot sit or stand up for long periods, and any physical attack could be life-threatening.
The crisis at Amir Kabir University started with the publication of student newsletters carrying articles deemed insulting to Islam on 30 April.
These newsletters, bearing the names and logos of four student publications, were distributed throughout the campus. They contained three controversial articles and two caricatures deemed critical of the Iranian regime and insulting to Islam. This took place one week before the annual elections to the ISA.
One article questioned the infallibility of the Prophet Mohammad, the first Shiite Imam Ali and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Another criticised the government's crackdown on modern female clothing, and a third ridicules Islamic women's attire.
The crack down on student activists in Amir Kabir University continues. Abbas Hakimzadeh a student activist in Amir Kabir University was arrested last night by the intelligence ministry agents. His computer and a number of other personal belongings were also confiscated. He is reportedly being kept in s. 209 of the Evin Prison.
Before his arrest Mr. Hakimzadeh had been suspended for two terms from Amir Kabir University for his political activities.
In the recent weeks 7 other student activists namely Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghasaban, Majid Sheykhpour, Majid Tavakoli, Maghdad Khalilpour and Pouyan Mahmoudiyan have been arrested and transferred to s. 209 of the Evin Prison.
I recently had the opportunity to read an article written by David Harris which promotes a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
David Harris, Citizen Special
Published: Monday, June 04, 2007
When the United States strikes Iran -- as it will -- the result will be a disaster, but a disaster that cannot be avoided.
Today, Iran's radical Islamist military, security and intelligence machine reflects the extremism of its history and entrenched masters. It has made Iran an engine of global instability and menace. For Iran today is on the verge of grasping the nuclear club, even as it remains an ungovernable influence in the international community.
Iran's extremist and uncontrollable nature has been well defined through action.
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Following are comments which I sent for him.
Dear Mr. Harris,
I had the opportunity to read your article in the Ottawa Citizen and had a few comments that I felt I should share with you.
I certainly agree with almost everything you said regarding the brutality of the Islamic Regime and its danger towards the Iranian People as well as the global community as a whole. However I strongly oppose a military attack even on the nuclear sites for a number of reasons. As you may very well know most of these nuclear sites are underground and in heavily populated areas and a military attack would only cause the death of many civilians, with no guarantee that these facilities may have been destroyed.
Second In your article you only spoke about the negative effect a military action in Iran would have on the West (ie the suicide bombings) but you failed to mention the effect it would have on the Iranian people. After the 8 year war with Iraq our countrys infrastructure was destroyed and we lost close to 1 million people, I strongly believe I speak for most Iranians when I say we do not need another war.
Further I have no doubt that the IRI would welcome a military attack since it would only serve to increase its popularity and at the same time create hatred towards the west, which is exactly what they want. Right now there is a very strong pro-democratic movement going on in Iran (although we do not hear about it much in the west) and that is the only viable solution to the dangers of the Islamic Regime.
I was dissapointed to see you did not mention anything regarding the strong anti regime movement inside Iran and focused only on a military invasion, which in the long term will not only have terrible consequences for Iranians but for the West as well.
As someone who is directly in touch with student and human rights activists in Iran I can assure you that Iranian people want change, and they are risking their very lives trying to achieve it. They need the support of Western Governments in order to accomplish this hard task, not a military invasion.
I find it troubling that Canada allows for many high ranked IRI officials to come to Canada and invest millions of dollars, and then they talk about a military attack on Iran. Why not atleast try helping the democratic movement in Iran first, by stopping to support the IRI officials, and if that does not work, then move towards a more drastic option?
Those are just a few thoughts I had which I wanted to share.
All the best


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The most popular form of public transport in Nairobi is the matatu, usually Nissan minibuses, which operate on set routes collecting as many passengers as possible along the way, with people boarding and disembarking wherever and whenever they choose. Loud music goes along with the ride in these cheap but unregulated and usually overcrowded vehicles that have become part of Kenyan culture. No less risky, but not as colourful, are the local bus services, which operate on set routes and schedules through the city streets, and are renowned for overcrowding and speeding. Taxis are widely available and convenient, usually congregated in the street around hotels and areas frequented by tourists. Taxis are not metered and the fare should be agreed upon before departure. Nairobi taxis are marked with a yellow line along the side of the vehicle, or they are, surprisingly, large black London taxis. The better taxi companies have more modern vehicles, which can be booked by telephone. The best option if you are spending a day or two in the city is probably to hire a taxi and driver recommended for you by your hotel or tour operator. Three-wheel auto-rickshaws, or tuk-tuks, are also used as taxis in Nairobi. Walking in the city can be dangerous and is not a good idea after dark or outside of tourist areas.
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The international access code for Kenya is +254. Hotels usually add a hefty surcharge to their telephone bills; it is less expensive to either call from one of the international phone services, which are available in larger towns, or buy a pre-paid calling card for use in public telephone booths. For international operator-assisted calls dial 0196. All major urban areas are covered by the mobile network; the local mobile phone operators use GSM networks that have roaming agreements with most international mobile phone operators. Internet cafes are widely available in most towns and tourist areas.
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On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., introduced legislation that would place a heavy tax on bonuses paid by national banking firms that accepted federal bail out money. The proceeds from the tax would finance a small-business lending program.
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I (vaguely) recall my first swimming lesson amounting to something like this: My instructor, probably an overzealous young punk who must've studied under Genghis Khan, picked me up and chucked me into the community swimming pool. It was the lunkhead's way of cutting to the chase, I suppose, reasoning in a Neanderthal kind of way that if the little kid instinctively moved his arms and legs in a desperate act of self-preservation, he was teachable and could earn his water wings.
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Ann Romney, apparently a "rock star" in the Romney campaign, recently riffed on her husband's difficulty relating to regular folks, and threatened to unleash the "real Mitt Romney" upon us. During a radio interview in Baltimore, Ann Romney responded to suggestions that her husband came off a bit stiff on the campaign trail. "Well, you know what," she said, " guess we'd better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out because he is not!"
Fortunately, that won't be necessary. We've seen and heard plenty of the "real Mitt Romney" in the course of the GOP primary. And not just from his Republican opponents. Mitt Romney has more than revealed himself to American voters.
The Gaffe Man Cometh
Of course, there are the gaffes. So many, in fact, that they're hard to keep up with.
- We know that Mitt Romney thinks corporations are people.
- We know Mitt Romney can make a $10,000 bet as easily as most of us make a $10 bet.
- We know Mitt Romney likes being able to fire people.
- We know that even when Mitt Romney was unemployed he earned $374,000 in speaker's fees, and that it was "not very much."
- We know that Mitt Romney's wife drives two Cadillacs, and doesn't think of herself as rich.
- We know that, while he doesn't follow NASCAR, Mitt Romney has some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.
- We know Mitt Romney has a really funny story about the time his father closed a Michgan-based factory and move operations to Wisconsin.
- We know Mitt Romney is not concerned about the very poor.
There are more gaffes, and there will be even more between now and November. And they are telling. But when it comes to the real Mitt Romney, the wealth-related gaffes are really a kind of shorthand.
Mitt's Moral Document
Budgets, Jim Wallis says, are moral documents. They reveal our priorities, and show the world what — or whom — we're willing to sacrifice. Mitt Romney has shown us both.
In February, when Mitt Romney released his new economic agenda, Ezra Klein summed it up in less than 150 words.
Mitt Romney is promising that taxes will go down, defense spending will go up, and old-people programs won't change for this generation of retirees. So three of his four options for deficit reduction "taxes, old-people programs, and defense" are now either contributing to the deficit or are off-limits for the next decade.
Romney is also promising that he will pay for his tax cuts, pay for his defense spending, and reduce total federal spending by more than $6 trillion over the next 10 years. But the only big pot of money left to him is poor-people programs. So, by simple process of elimination, poor-people programs will have to be cut dramatically. There's no other way to make those numbers work.
Romney showed us his priorities with a budget that includes a 20% "across-the-board" tax cut that essentially requires across-the-board cuts to programs that serve and support the poor, as well as the working- and middle-classes. Romney showed us his priorities with a budget that preserves his 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends, eliminate taxes on investment income for those earning more than $200,000 per year, and lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%.
Romney showed us what and whom he is willing 10 sacrifice, with a budget that would require cutting non-defense programs by $637 billion in 2016 alone, and $6.5 trillion between 2014 and 2021. Romney showed us who and what he is willing to sacrifice with a budget that would shred the safety net, throwing 10 million off the benefit rolls for food stamps, and leave 30 million without health care coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act.
Romney showed us what and whom he is willing to sacrifice with his embrace of Paul Ryan's budget. Romney showed us what and whom he is willing to sacrifice with his support of a budget that would end Medicare as we know it, and render America itself unrecognizable.
Most of all, Mitt Romney showed us his priorities by presenting and supporting budget plans that do all of the above without deducing the deficit, but actually increase it by $2.6 trillion
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Mitt Romney is no moderate. As E.J. Dionne pointed out, he is the beneficiary of a "terrible bias in the mainstream media that judges 'moderation' entirely in relation to social issues." That bias is what makes Romney's "gaffes" news, without drawing attention the glimpses of the real Mitt Romney those so-called gaffes provide.
Romney's "gaffes" look unmistakably like glimpses of the real Romney — not a bad person, but a man with no ability to see beyond the small, cosseted world of private equity and great wealth that he inhabits. He has to be reminded that most voters live in a world where people drive their Cadillacs one at a time.
That bias, Dionne writes, allows the real Mitt Romney — an extremist for the privileged — to hide behind gaffes that are not really gaffes.
My friend and colleague Matt Miller wrote recently that "everyone knows Romney is basically a pragmatic centrist." No, "everyone" does not know this. The evidence from his tax plan, in fact, is that he's an extremist for the privileged.
We're witnessing what should be called the Two Cadillacs Fallacy: Romney's rather authentic moments suggesting he doesn't understand the lives of average people (such as his comment on his wife's two Cadillacs) are dismissed as "gaffes," while Santorum's views on social issues are denounced as "extreme." But Romney's gaffes are more than gaffes: They reflect deeply held and radical views about how wealth and power ought to be distributed in the United States. These should worry us a lot more than Santorum's dopey "snob" comment or his tasteless denunciation of JFK.
I don't think most voters have been fooled, though. And those who have been fooled won't be for much longer, now that the presidential race has begun in earnest. The Republican primaries may have helped the real Mitt Romney to hide behind so-called "gaffes" and the cartoon-like extremism of his GOP opponents. But in the general election, the real Mitt Romney — the extremist for the one percent — won't be able to hide so easily.
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Jeremiah 21-36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Volume 21, Part 2
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This second book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah's royal house, sexual immorality among the clergy, and true versus false prophecy. Yet the prophet who thundered Yahweh's judgment was also the one who gave the remnant people--in oracle and in symbolic action--a promise and a hope, expressed climactically in a new and eternal covenant for future days. Here too is the only report in the Bible of an accredited scribe writing up a scroll of oracles for public reading at the Temple.
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