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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – The National Basketball Association announced today that forward Jonas Jerebko was named to the NBA's All-Rookie Second Team. He is the first Pistons' rookie since Rodney Stuckey to be tabbed as a second team selection (2008) and the 16th player in franchise history to receive all-rookie team honors.
The T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie Second Team also includes New Orleans' Marcus Thornton, San Antonio's DeJuan Blair, Oklahoma City's James Harden and Minnesota's Jonny Flynn.
"We are pleased that Jonas Jerebko has been recognized as a member of the NBA's All-Rookie Team," said Joe Dumars, President of Basketball Operations for the Pistons. "Jonas did some great things for our team both on and off the court this season and he has a bright future ahead of him."
Photo by Brian St-Pierre/In Play! MagazineJerebko appeared in 80 games (73 starts) averaging 9.3 points (.481 FG, .313 3FG), 6.0 rebounds, 0.7 assists and 0.99 steals in 27.9 minutes per game. Among NBA rookie leaders he ranked third in rebounds (6.0 rpg), fourth in blocks (0.36 bpg), fifth in minutes (27.9 mpg), eighth in steals (0.99 spg) 10th in scoring (9.3 ppg) and T18th in assists (0.7 apg). Jerebko's 73 games as a starter ranked second in franchise history behind Kelly Tripucka and he became the fifth rookie in franchise history to win the Rookie of the Month award (Isiah Thomas, Kelly Tripucka, Grant Hill, Zeljko Rebraca). The 6-foot-10 product from Sweden was named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for February averaging 10.2 points (.564 FG), 6.0 rebounds and 1.0 steals in 13 games.
The voting panel consisted of the NBA's 30 head coaches, who were asked to select five players for the first team and five players for the second team, regardless of position. Coaches were not permitted to vote for players on their own team. Two points were awarded for first team votes and one for second team votes.

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Electrostatic electricity
Static electricity occurs in almost any business. It is caused by poor adhesion of electrically conductive materials. The electrostatic charge (ESC = Electrostatic Charging) of persons and objects are difficult to recognize, however the discharge can be spectacular (ESD = Electro Static Discharge). We all know the unpleasant shocks that can be felt when getting out a car or touching a door handle. Most discharges are harmless to people and goods. However, electrostatic discharge can also cause fire, explosion or disruption and / or damage to electronic equipment.
An electrostatic discharge has sufficient energy to ignite or explode a flammable liquid or gas. The required ignition energy to realize a fire or explosion depends on the type of substance, concentration, temperature and humidity.
Static electricity and transport of hazardous substances
In industrial processes, attention should be payed to the transport of hazardous substances. For example liquids with a flashpoint below 55 °C, powders, grains, flour or granules for the production of plastic. Before loading or un-loading the ground cable should always be connected between the supplying and the receiving tank to eliminate the potential difference.
TAS, Tank Automation System
For safe refueling, the usage of an earth terminal is not always sufficient. A secure solution continuously monitors the quality of the earth connection. This can be achieved by a ground monitoring control unit.
Ground Monitoring Control Unit
The ground monitoring control unit consists of an intrinsic safe earthing clamp, to provide a secure discharge. Even in case of corroded barrels the hardened clamps ensures a proper connection.
The red or green light indicates whether the grounding is successful. A signal contact can control an alarm sounder or safety control valve.
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- Series 8485: for zone 1 en 2
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- Suitable for extreme temperatures -50°C to +60°C.
A secure working environment with video surveillance
Procedural errors can occur when the work has to be done by extreme warmth, cold or nightly activities, whether or not combined with inevitable time pressure. Competent control is a must!
The monitoring units of STAHL-HMI can be used to visualize the procedures, whether or not supplemented with wireless product- or personal identification (e.g. RF-identification).
With a STAHL camera, based on Ethernet/IP, the situation can be followed. By using motion control detection or automatic video recording, the contact time in a hazardous area can be reduced.
Good lighting is essential, also on loading stations. Fluorescent emergency lighting is available for these applications; e.g. fluorescent (emercency) lighting, floods lights and hand lamps. Of course, the new LED torch is also an useful tool.


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- Throw or use the included high-powered launcher.
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The NERF Nuke is quite simply the pinnacle of NERF weaponry. Load it with 80 NERF darts and crank the arming mechanism (which is also the trigger button, so be careful). To conserve space, the NERF Nuke uses a reverse-plunger system, which compromises distance for compactness. But hey, it'll still fire the darts up to 30 feet when it hits. However, the NERF Nuke Launcher is a tripod-mounted, direct-plunger system, and can rocket the NERF Nuke itself up to 40 feet - just far enough for you to be outside the blast radius. When you need to end it, and end it fast, there's no other choice than the NERF Nuke!
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I choked on my pumpkin seeds when I saw this one. Chelsy Davy, Prince Ginger Harry's now ex girlfriend, a mix of piggy-benico del toro-oompa lumpa and posh blonde bimbo has been layering the tan:
I can't even begin to understand how you can not look in the mirror and go "URGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!" then use a pumice stone on your face in an attempt to get it all off.
This is an epic epic fail. Home girl also needs to do something about her eye bags – I recommend sleep and eye cream. Failing that big sunglasses, big, big ones.


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By Steve Aschburner, NBA.com
VIDEO: Wizards close out Bulls with 75-69 win in Game 5
CHICAGO – Training wheels off, coddling over. Ted Leonsis stood in the hallway outside the Washington Wizards' dressing room at United Center Tuesday night and let the warm glow of accomplishment and expectations met wash over him.
His NBA team had just completed its gentleman's sweep of the Chicago Bulls, the so-called "wild card" club that other Eastern Conference foes allegedly wanted to avoid. Washington, so inexperienced (no playoff appearances since 2008), so unprepared, not only flexed superior talent but beat the Bulls at what those guys do best: defense, rebounding, hustle, the proverbial grit of the game. And did it by sweeping all three games on Chicago's court.
Leonsis had staked out this sort of thing back at the start of the season, and not in the most delicate terms. So as a coach or a player walked by and occasionally wrapped him up in a hug, Leonsis mostly beamed.
"For the last two months, you could really see this team coming together," the Wizards owner said. "Our young kids are starting to get that experience. And they didn't look scared at all. After the first game, we said, 'We're going to be OK,' because John Wall and Bradley Beal just looked and felt like they belonged."
Wall, the third-year point guard, had been the answer-in-waiting, a Jimmy John's-quick ball handler who needed to stay healthy enough, and trust in his teammates enough, to bring Leonsis' vision into focus.
"I think it just took time for me. My first couple years, I was dealing with injuries and not playing the full 82 games," said Wall, 23. "They did a great job of rebuilding and adding great pieces around me, veteran guys and also in the draft. And I put a lot of pressure on myself to get better, to better my game as a player and also stay healthy.
"Sitting out [40 games] last year kind of let me know what this team could be. … We built this as a group. We trust each other. We do everything as a family. And that's the reason we're playing good basketball right now."
Beal, 20, showed that precocious is way different from inexperienced. He led all scorers in the series (19.8 ppg), hit 45.5 percent of his 3-pointers and like Wall, met the defensive demands of coach Randy Wittman.
Where Wall was going to be the cornerstone of Leonsis' and general manager Ernie Grunfeld's dig out of the post-Gilbert Arenas ashes, Beal represented a final piece. The owner made it clear way back on the night Beal was drafted in 2012 that he'd had enough lottery fun. Rookie forward Otto Porter, the No. 3 pick last June, had an injured and lost season which was almost OK; the Wizards had hoped to be done with high draft picks anyway and felt their pieces were in place.
Leonsis said in October he was tired of losing. He had committed money and resources to enhancing both the roster (Trevor Ariza, Marcin Gortat) and the Wizards' creature comforts (new locker room), and it was time for some return on his investment.
Some claim the owner decreed this to be a playoffs-or-bust season for the lot of them. Including, or maybe most of all, Wittman. The accidental head coach (he had gained two of his three positions by taking over for a fired boss) brought a 47-84 record as Wizards coach into this season and 147-291 career mark, 0-for-8 in playoff berths.
"I'm very proud of the coaching staff," Leonsis said. "This was Randy's first playoffs and I thought he was magnificent. He did a really smart job on the matchups, I thought he called timeouts at the right time, and he was sensing and responding to the film game-by-game."
Sounds downright avuncular, until you remember that Leonsis spent his weekend firing coach Adam Oates of his NHL Washington Capitals and severing ties with GM George McPhee. So maybe it was a good thing the Wizards, while clearly on the rise and a legit threat to keep going for a while, didn't put his expectations to the test.
"Aww, I think it's more hugging them and loving them, more than lighting a fire," Leonsis told NBA.com Tuesday night. "But we're in it together. We did set expectations. We said, 'To those whom much is given, much is expected.'
"Frankly I promised that we would have a long, hard rebuild but there would be a big payoff at the end. And sometimes you have to be bad to get good. … So we deserved this. The good news is that no one in there is overly jubilant. Stay hungry – why not? We're playing well, a good team, lots of talent. It's a confident group and they're not unfocused just by winning one round."
VIDEO: Postgame reports from Wizards' Game 5 win in Chicago


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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
Examples: ((hd *) => *) ((printer * state) => (mv * * state)) ((mach * mach-state * state) => (mv * mach-state)
General Form: ((fn ...) => *) ((fn ...) => stobj) or ((fn ...) => (mv ...))
fn is the constrained function symbol,
... is a list
of asterisks and/or the names of single-threaded objects and
stobj is a single-threaded object name. ACL2 also supports an
older style of signature described below after we describe the
preferred style.
Signatures specify three syntactic aspects of a function symbol: (1)
the ``arity'' or how many arguments the function takes, (2) the
``multiplicity'' or how many results it returns via
MV, and (3)
which of those arguments and results are single-threaded objects and
which objects they are.
For a discussion of single-threaded objects, see stobj. For
the current purposes it is sufficient to know that every single-
threaded object has a unique symbolic name and that
state is
the name of the only built-in single-threaded object. All other
stobjs are introduced by the user via
defstobj. An object that
is not a single-threaded object is said to be ``ordinary.''
The general form of a signature is
((fn x1 ... xn) => val). So
a signature has two parts, separated by the symbol ``=>''. The
first part,
(fn x1 ... xn), is suggestive of a call of the
constrained function. The number of ``arguments,''
n, indicates
the arity of
fn. Each
xi must be a symbol. If a given
xi is the symbol ``*'' then the corresponding argument must be
ordinary. If a given
xi is any other symbol, that symbol must
be the name of a single-threaded object and the corresponding
argument must be that object. No stobj name may occur twice among the
The second part,
val, of a signature is suggestive of a term and
indicates the ``shape'' of the output of
fn. If
val is a
symbol then it must be either the symbol ``*'' or the name of a
single-threaded object. In either case, the multiplicity of
is 1 and
val indicates whether the result is ordinary or a
stobj. Otherwise,
val is of the form
(mv y1 ... yk), where
k > 1. Each
yi must be either the symbol ``*'' or the name
of a stobj. Such a
val indicates that
fn has multiplicity
k and the
yi indicate which results are ordinary and which
are stobjs. No stobj name may occur twice among the
Finally, a stobj name may appear in
val only if appears among the
Before ACL2 supported user-declared single-threaded objects there
was only one single-threaded object: ACL2's built-in notion of
state. The notion of signature supported then gave a special
role to the symbol
state and all other symbols were considered
to denote ordinary objects. ACL2 still supports the old form of
signature, but it is limited to functions that operate on ordinary
objects or ordinary objects and
Old-Style General Form: (fn formals result)
fn is the constrained function symbol,
formals is a
suitable list of formal parameters for it, and
result is either
a symbol denoting that the function returns one result or else
result is an
mv expression,
(mv s1 ... sn), where
n>1, each
si is a symbol, indicating that the function
n results. At most one of the formals may be the symbol
STATE, indicating that corresponding argument must be ACL2's
state. If
state appears in
formals then
state may appear once in
result. All ``variable symbols''
other than
state in old style signatures denote ordinary
objects, regardless of whether the symbol has been defined to be a
single-threaded object name!
We also support a variation on old style signatures allowing the user
to declare which symbols (besides
state) are to be considered
single-threaded object names. This form is
(fn formals result :stobjs names)where
names is either the name of a single-threaded object or else
is a list of such names. Every name in
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For more information about the exhibits listed below or to schedule a conference, session, or workshop, please contact your local representative.
|Conference Name
|Young Harris, GA
|Georgia Council of Teachers of English (GCTE) 2019 Conference
Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa
|Feb. 7 - 9, 2019
|Chris Opstad
|Savannah, GA
|34th Annual Georgia Compensatory Educational Leaders (GCEL) 2019 Conference
Savannah Marriott Riverfront Hotel
|Feb. 11 - 13, 2019
|Athens, GA
|Georgia Conference on Children's Literature
UGA Hotel and Conference Center
|Mar. 28 - 29, 2019
|Ames, IA
|Iowa Reading Association (IRA) Conference
Iowa State University Scheman Building
|June 24 - 26, 2019
|Heather McGuire-Bourke
|Baltimore, MD
|47th Annual Conference of the State of Maryland Literacy Association
Delta by Marriott, Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore
|Apr. 3 - 5, 2019
|Staci Clarke
|Chatham, MA
|CACE (MA Title One Directors) Conference 2018
Chatham Bars Inn
|Nov. 29, 2018
|Heather McGuire-Bourke
|Quincy, MA
|Massachusetts Reading Association 50th Annual Conference
Boston Marriott
|Apr. 4 - 5, 2019
|Flint, MI
|Genesee Literacy Conference
Genesee Independent School District
|Jan. 2019
|Marlene Malkin
|Grand Rapids, MI
|2019 Annual Michigan Reading Association Conference
DeVos Place Convention Center
|Mar. 9 - 11, 2019
|Dearborn, MI
|2019 Michigan Association of Bilingual Educators
The Dearborn Inn
|May 9 - 10, 2019
|New York
|Brooklyn, NY
|NYCESPA Convention
New York Marriott, Brooklyn
|Feb. 9, 2019
|Sussman Sales
|Brooklyn, NY
|Middle School Principals Association Conference
New York Marriott, Brooklyn
|Mar. 2, 2019
|Melville, NY
|Long Island Language Arts Council and Nassau Reading Council Conference
Melville Marriott, Melville
|Mar. 22, 2019
|North Carolina
|Raleigh, NC
|50th Annual NC Reading Conference
Raleigh Convention Center
|Mar. 31 - Apr. 2, 2019
|Amber Harlow
|South Carolina
|Hilton Head, SC
|44th Annual Conference of the South Carolina International Reading Association (SCIRA)
Marriott Resort and Spa, Hilton Head
|Feb. 14 - 16, 2019
|Heather McGuire-Bourke
|Murfreesboro, TN
|Tennessee Conference for 1st Grade Teachers
Embassy Suites Nashville SE, Murfreesboro
|Jan. 28 - 29, 2019
|Heather McGuire-Bourke
|Murfreesboro, TN
|Tennessee Conference for Kindergarten Teachers
Embassy Suites Nashville SE, Murfreesboro
|Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 2019
|Houston, TX
|33rd R.T. Garcia Early Childhood Winter Conference
Kingdom Builders' Center
|Jan. 26, 2019
|Gilda Bazan-Lopez
|Norfolk, VA
|52nd Annual Conference of the Virginia State Reading Association
Norfolk Waterside Marriott & Hilton Norfolk The Main, Norfolk
|Mar. 14 - 16, 2019
|Staci Clarke
|Milwaukee, WI
|2019 WSRA Convention
Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee
|Feb. 6 - 9, 2019
|Keith Ahrens


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Parallel XT90 Adapter
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Connect two batteries in parallel for charging or discharging with this simple splitter cable.
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SEATTLE — Regular yoga practice may help prevent middle-age spread in normal-weight people and may promote weight loss in those who are overweight, according to a study in the July/August issue of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.
Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study involved 15,500 healthy, middle-aged men and women who were asked to complete a written survey recalling their physical activity (including yoga) and weight history between the ages of 45 and 55. The study measured the effect of yoga on weight change, independent of other factors such as diet or other types of physical activity. For the study, regular yoga practice was defined as practicing at least 30 minutes once a week for four or more years.
The researchers found that between the ages of 45 and 55, most people gained about a pound a year, which is a common pattern as people age and do not adjust their caloric intake to their declining energy needs.
However, men and women who were of normal weight at age 45 and regularly practiced yoga gained about 3 fewer pounds during that 10-year period than those who didn't practice yoga, said Alan R. Kristal, Dr.P.H., the study's lead author.


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Shoppers never stop shopping, and retailers must evolve to stay ahead of the pack and keep consumers engaged.Today, brick-and-mortar stores need to innovate continually to capture their shoppers' attention as e-commerce attracts a growing number of users. In addition, while consumer confidence was on the rise in over half of the countries Nielsen surveyed in the third quarter of 2013, including the U.S., shoppers remain focused on value for their money. As a result, retailers need to stand out to compete for consumers' limited baskets.
Innovation captures consumer interest and attention, attracting both new customers and faithful loyalists. It can provide retailers with an edge in five major shopper-need categories: convenience, choice or assortment, shopability, price-value, and brand equity.
However, there is no secret formula for successful ideas and certainly nothing that can be protected by patent. At the same time, breakthroughs are often copied quickly and easily. Consequently, retailers must innovate continually to grow and stay ahead.


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From the PhotoNOLA website comes this announcement about the 2009 event, certain to be fantastic:
PhotoNOLA is an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and alternative venues citywide.
This year's festival will run from December 3 – 13, 2009 and will include exhibitions, workshops, lectures, a gala and more.
The PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review is scheduled for Dec 12 & 13 at the International House Hotel.
Registration for this event will open on September 1.
More information is coming soon. Check back in late August for the updated website, including workshop and review specifics.
In the meantime, if you'd like to be on our mailing list please drop us a line. firstname.lastname@example.com"


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Talk about a game-changer. Do you know the Barack Obama campaign tracked the buying, subscription and leisure habits of 29,000 voters as far back as 2008? Most presidential campaigns track about 1,500 voters for six to 12 months. It turns out this is exactly what Mitt Romney's brain trust did. Is it any wonder then why Obama was reelected?
I mention this in light of a mid-September poll commissioned by Friends of the Earth. The results indicated strong support among Southern California Edison customers for closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant. The poll surveyed 700 customers who live inside Edison's service area. It found that 58% percent, or 406 people, oppose restarting the plant, which has been shuttered since January after a leak of radioactive gas prompted the shutdown of one of its two reactors.
Given how the Obama folks conducted their surveys of voters, is it fair to say those 406 Edison customers are the nail in San Onofre's coffin? Not according to SCE. Thirty percent of those asked do not favor closing the plant. Here's what an Edison spokeswoman had to say two months ago:
"Any survey of its customers' opinions should 'accurately describe the role San Onofre plays' both in power generation and 'reliability and grid support' — that is, the fact that the nuclear plant produces power round the clock, regardless of weather, unlike wind or solar power."
Don't tell former presidential candidate Romney this, but the September survey also reports that 47% of those polled believe Edison puts profits, not safety, first. Not surprisingly, SCE says that safety is its main priority.
Believing that the plant should have been subjected to more thorough review of steam-generator design changes by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Friends of the Earth has been critical of Edison's handling of the problems at San Onofre.
They aren't the only ones. A thoughtful local elected official I have known for years, and who has attended nearly every public forum on this topic, says San Onofre has the worst safety record in the nation.
According to a story in the Register, "Regulators determined that the problems were caused by flawed computer modeling that led to design flaws. In the Unit 3 reactor, changes in the fabrication process caused more problems.
"Both units showed significant wear in some of the nearly 20,000 tubes in each pair of steam generators for each reactor unit. But because of more extensive wear in Unit 3, Edison does not foresee Unit 3 coming online in the near future. The massive steam generators, two for each reactor, were built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan and installed at San Onofre between 2009 and early 2011."
Please reassure me that's not the same company that built the Fukushima nuclear power plant. When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disabled Fukushima, a 30 kilometer evacuation zone surrounding the plant was imposed. Today, Japanese authorities have declared a 20 kilometer zone as a no-go area. Only government-approved personnel in hazmat suits may enter the contaminated zone.
At this point, the cities of Laguna Beach, San Clemente and Irvine have signed resolutions opposing rebooting the nuclear power plant. I'm not surprised, since I represented several beach cities and the Orange County Board of Supervisors in the "No on Offshore Oil Drilling" fight back in the mid-1980s.
I like to think that the combination of 22 local Republican mayors and numerous conservative business leaders all saying no to the Reagan Administration proved to be too much for the Interior Department. Okay, and O.C.'s congressional delegation at the time, too. They lobbied hard on Capitol Hill to kill the idea of drilling along our coast.
Is it possible for a host of cities in Orange and San Diego counties to shut down San Onofre for good? I don't know but I commend them for trying. What I do know is tracking the opinions of tens of thousands of voters made a difference in the outcome of the 2012 presidential campaign. If that's the new normal for polling, then Friends of the Earth better go back to the drawing board.
As powerful as the mid-September poll results were, I'm afraid the beliefs of 406 Edison customers won't be the game-changer Friends of the Earth is counting on to close San Onofre. No, there's a better way to accomplish that goal.
I realize that most people are more interested in the holidays now than politics; however, it's never too early to start working on the next phase of the "No on SanO" campaign. Who's with me?
Denny Freidenrich lives in Laguna Beach.


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As per an unconfirmed research it is known that drinking liquor gives you the same benefits which doing Yoga does, enjoy the yoga positions vs liquor positions (drunk positions)
|Marjayasana Yoga Position stimulates the midriff area and the spinal column.
|Dolphin Yoga Position for shoulder area, thorax, legs, and arms
|Halasana Yoga Position for back pain and insomnia.
|Malasana Yoga Position for ankles and back muscles.
|Salambhasana Yoga Position stimulates the lumbar area, legs, and arms.
|Savasana Yoga Position for total relaxation.
|Setu Bandha Sarvangasana Yoga Position calms the brain and heals tired legs.
|Balasana Yoga Position brings sensation of peace and calm.


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I asked Microsoft if they could tell me which Tegra chipset was used in the KIN handsets and finally got an answer: it's the Tegra APX 2600. I basically wanted to make sure that it was not the 2500 version (see full KIN specs here). The APX 2600 is indeed the same SoC used in the Zune HD so it should be pretty clear now that the underlying OS used on the KIN handset is closer to the Zune OS than it is to WP7 (which doesn't use the same Kernel). One has to wonder why Microsoft didn't announce some kind of A/V connector for the KIN Phones to output HD content bought in the Zune Marketplace orsShot with the 8Mpix camera of the KIN TWO. It would be great if their was a HDMI dock similar to the Zune HD one IMO.
When it comes to world wide availability of the handsets, Microsoft has already announced that Vodafone is set to launch them in Germany,Spain, italy and the UK. Microsoft didn't ink a deal yet with French operators yet, but they expect/hope to release them this fall. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft is going to deal with the nearly simultaneous launch of Windows Phone 7 and KIN in Europe. The Zune Pass/Marketplace will also officially launch in Europe at the same time. Unfortunately this doesn't mean the Bing is going out of beta in those countries (expect in the UK where it's already out of beta), Microsoft told me that the Bing roadmap isn't tide to the Windows Phone 7 and Kin launch in Europe.


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My Fund-Raiser With André
Why Romney never met a pol he didn't forget.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
The Mitt Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney was surging toward the Republican nomination, pulling into the lead in two polls in Iowa and three in New Hampshire. Then, the man couldn't recognize Ralph Reed at his own fund-raiser. In the latest American Research Group poll, Romney is second behind McCain in New Hampshire and third behind McCain and Giuliani in Iowa. Perhaps voters are sending Romney a message: We thought you were someone else.
In an amusing attempt to contain the damage from not being able to tell Ralph Reed from a hole in the wall, the Romney campaign told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it had the case of mistaken identity all wrong. The newspaper had reported that Romney saw Ralph Reed across a crowded room and called him Gary Bauer. But campaign spokesman Gail Gitcho gave the paper a different story:
According to Gitcho, Romney mistook Reed for South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, with whom he'd just met, and not Gary Bauer, as our sources recalled.
Gary Bauer is a friend of Romney and has been a guest in his home, so he wouldn't mistake him for Reed, Gitcho said.
That explanation will come as a great relief to Gary Bauer, who probably doesn't like being mistaken for Ralph Reed any more than I do. But it doesn't do much for Romney. With his thick eyebrows and 5 o'clock shadow, André Bauer doesn't look at all like the baby-faced Reed. If there's one thing worse than going to a state Republican convention thinking all Christian operatives look alike, it's going to Georgia thinking all white Southerners look alike.
Camp Romney might have a better case if their candidate hadn't seen André Bauer in years. But their excuse is that Romney couldn't remember the man because he had just met with him.
This would be a serious, if sometimes comical, handicap in the White House, because presidents have always just met with someone. Bush got in enough trouble talking about what he saw when he looked in Putin's heart. Imagine the repercussions if an American president came away from bilateral talks with the Russian leader saying he'd never met the man, or saw Putin across the room at the G8 and shouted, "Nick Sarkozy!"
Will Rogers said he never met a man he didn't like. Romney's campaign says he never met a pol he didn't forget.
In the meantime, the poor fellow has to endure at least another eight months of just having met people on the campaign trail. Other candidates have their own worries now that the Fred has landed. But Romney's programmers can't possibly have anticipated that taking over the planet would involve a race against two men named Thompson.
Faceless multitudes of Slate readers have already responded to the Mitt Romney Look-Alike Contest, the winner of which will be announced on Monday. Reader M. H. Dunlop wrote in to suggest that "Romney suffers from 'face blindness,' sometimes called prosopagnosia, which appears to be, or is claimed to be, an inherited defect." Two decades ago, neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about another form of agnosia—or "nonknowledge"—in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
More likely, Romney's brain simply uses a different classification system than we do. André Bauer and Ralph Reed may not look alike, but their differences are mostly skin deep. Both are ambitious upstarts who ran for lieutenant governor, a job that is all prospects and no power.
Bauer won, so he gives us an insight into the kind of lieutenant governor Reed might have been. One of Bauer's main responsibilities is giving annual writing awards to fifth- and eighth-graders. The contest rewards originality but insists that in order to win, "close attention should be given to punctuation, spelling, grammar, and neatness."
If Ralph Reed entered his famous e-mail to Jack Abramoff—"I need to start humping in corporate accounts!"—whatever points he might gain for creativity, he would lose for punctuation and sloppiness. Bauer's own work wouldn't even be eligible. On his official Web site, he writes, "Let us all congratulate this years winners, they have written inspiring works."
On the same site, Bauer's description of his press page could easily be mistaken for the story of Reed's life: "A collection of press releases, my beliefs, my life and official photographs." In other words, it's hard to tell where the press releases stop and the beliefs begin. Those are two faces Mitt Romney can recognize. ... 1:40 P.M. (link)
Friday, May 25, 2007
A Ralph By Any Other Name: From the start of his presidential bid, Mitt Romney has seemed unsure of his political identity. As governor of Massachusetts, he embraced the right to choose, paved the streets with health care, and hired illegal immigrants to mow his lawn. After climbing into the phone booth of the Republican primaries, however, mild-mannered Mitt emerged a new man—lifetime NRA member, xenophobe, pro-life, and anti-rabbit.
Mitt Romney is the Jay Gatsby of American politics—a fiction within a fiction who was born in the Midwest, made his fortune in the East, and never stops reinventing himself to impress those he meets along the way.
It turns out that in one respect, at least, Romney is consistent: He's as unsure of other people's identities as he is of his own. Last week, Romney saw Ralph Reed across a crowded room and called him Gary Bauer. But longtime Romney watcher Seth Gitell writes that it wasn't the first time. Romney made an eerily similar mistake during his 2002 governor's race, mixing up two of his general-election opponents in a televised debate. Romney got into an exchange about bilingual education with the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein. His first words to Jill were, "Carla, I agree."
"Carla" was the name of the Libertarian candidate, Carla Howell. She didn't look like Jill, or think like her, either. As Gitell wrote at the time in the Boston Phoenix, "Romney's faux pas seemed to suggest a candidate who could not be bothered to listen to the differences between the Greens and the Libertarians."
To Romney, not only all Christian conservatives look alike, but all women look alike, too. The cyborg programming must be even more primitive than we thought.
All campaign long, Romney has seemed like a serial identity thief. But perhaps he's really a serial identity jumbler. Legal and illegal, one-time and lifetime, pro-choice and pro-life—these normally bright-line distinctions aren't easy for the identity challenged. We don't criticize the color blind for not being able to tell the difference between green and orange. Should we be so quick to call a man a flip-flopper when he can't even tell one opponent from another?
Memorial Day can be an ordeal for the politician who can't remember—in this case, who he is, what he stands for, where he comes from, and to whom he is speaking. As a special tribute to his special challenge, Slate is proud to announce the Mitt Romney Look-Alike Contest. Other candidates look in the mirror and see the next president. When Mitt Romney looks in the mirror, he sees yet another face whose name he can't quite place.
What person comes to mind when you look at Romney? Some bloggers think he looks like Wink Martindale. Slate's separated-at-birth team came up with a host of other suspects, from Stone Phillips to Ricardo Montalban. Send your entry to email@example.com. The winner gets a copy of Romney's favorite book, Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard—or, as Mitt likes to call him, "Tom." ... 3:17 P.M. (link)
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Stranger in a Strange Land: For someone who suddenly likes to pick on foreigners, Mitt Romney is an awfully recent immigrant himself. If you want to know just how foreign Romney is to the conservative circles he now frequents, read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's account of his fund-raiser last week during the Georgia Republican Convention:
Romney gestured to Ralph Reed and said, "Why it's good to see Gary Bauer here." Romney then caught himself. "Oh, I'm a little mixed up here," he said. But Romney still couldn't place Reed's face—and had to move on.
It's bad enough that in his rush to convert to conservatism, Romney forgot he was pro-choice, had hired illegal immigrants, and never hunted. Now the man can't even keep track of his religious-right has-beens.
The Christian right was built in large part on resentment that Eastern elites think all evangelicals are alike. This confirms their worst fears—that even the Republicans from Harvard are in on the conspiracy.
To be sure, politicians shouldn't be expected to remember every person they meet. For example, here's a photograph of another Georgia Republican, Rep. Phil Gingrey, who appears to have put on a fake mustache simply to confuse Romney.
But mistaking Ralph Reed for Gary Bauer at your own fund-raiser is like going to a Star Wars convention and mixing up Luke Skywalker and Yoda. Bauer is short, bug-eyed, and tight-lipped. No one noticed his 2000 primary bid until he fell off the stage at a pancake-flipping event in New Hampshire. Reed is lanky, with narrow, shifty eyes and a big, plastic grin. In fact, Reed's eye/grin ratio bears a much stronger resemblance to Romney's own features. At first glance, you'd think Romney and Reed would know each other well from their time together as cyborgs taking orders from the distant, politically ambitious planet that sent them.
Anybody can confuse two people who look alike. Confusing two people who look different but think alike is a far more revealing error. First, it tells us Romney hasn't spent much time around either Ralph Reed or Gary Bauer. That's the good news. The bad news is that it increases the chance that Romney might be a cyborg, after all.
Politics is a people business, so most politicians file people in their minds by face, name, and place. None of those apply in this case (what would Bauer, who lives in Virginia, be doing at a Romney fund-raiser in Georgia?). That means Romney must use a different, bloodless classification system. When he studies his conservative flashcards, Romney files people by type. Bauer is a true believer, while Reed is a shameless opportunist—but to Romney, they're interchangeable evangelicals with the same carbon dating.
Of course, the episode raises other questions, like what was Ralph Reed doing at a Romney fund-raiser? Giuliani helped him in his losing race for lieutenant governor, a career move that worked out less well for Ralph than for Rudy. Yet the day before Romney forgot his name last week, Ralph went on the Christian Broadcasting Network to shill for Romney and Giuliani in equal measure. Reed dodged a question about whether his phone was ringing off the hook, but said, "I have friends who are running for president, and I talk to my friends."
I've come to terms with being mistaken for Ralph Reed. But I draw the line when the same person who gets confused with me starts being confused with Gary Bauer. I could live with Jack Bauer, or even Eddie.
Ralph Reed should know a phony when he sees one. Friends don't let friends call them Gary. ... 2:15 P.M. (link)
Monday, May 21, 2007
Tale of Two Cities: Week before last, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani flew to Houston to tell conservatives at a Baptist college his latest stand on abortion. The same day, his successor, Mike Bloomberg, flew to Houston to give a very different speech—telling business leaders what the United States needs to do to save energy and stop climate change.
Both appearances were rich in political symbolism and irony. New York and Texas have long been on opposite sides of the blue-red divide, disagreeing on 11 of the first 14 presidential elections after Texas became a state, as well as all five since 1988. New York magazine called its hometown the "Abortion Capital of America." Houston is the energy capital of America, if not the world. Bloomberg's choice of venue made more sense than his predecessor's. Nearly half a century after JFK went to Houston to promise Protestants he wouldn't take orders from the Vatican, Giuliani asked the Baptists' forgiveness for not doing the pope's bidding.
If crossing paths in Houston was a coincidence, it was a revealing one. Giuliani's never-ending stumbles over such an obvious hurdle as abortion suggest that he has approached his campaign with insufficient seriousness. By contrast, Bloomberg's calculated bids for attention on climate change, education, and guns give every indication that his unannounced campaign for the presidency is running on all cylinders.
As a shadow candidate, Bloomberg is running the campaign Giuliani should have run, as a pragmatist who helped a big city take on big problems. Earlier this month, Bloomberg launched a Web site that outlines his stands on the big issues in greater detail than Giuliani can provide after five months in the race.
To add insult to irony, a Bloomberg candidacy is predicated on candidates twisting themselves into the very pretzels that Giuliani has already become. In an Air America interview with Mark Green, the man he beat, Bloomberg points out that a third-party candidacy only works if the first two parties both fail to offer a compelling choice. He admitted that when the primaries are over, "[t]he public may not feel that they don't have any choice."
In the end, the two parties aren't likely to give Bloomberg a big enough opening to win. Part of the reason that Giuliani, McCain, Romney, and Fred Thompson are struggling to claim the conservative mantle is that they're closet pragmatists by their party's standards. Apart from Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic field doesn't even have an ideologue. The energy speech Bloomberg gave in Houston is one that many Democratic candidates have already given.
In that respect, the prospect of a Bloomberg candidacy can do more good than an actual one. Any prospective third-party candidate has to consider the nightmare of becoming the next Ralph Nader, who siphoned off just enough votes to make sure none of his ideas could ever happen.
The greatest power of a third party is its gravitational effect on the other two. To have that kind of impact, Bloomberg doesn't even have to run. The most successful third-party candidacies—Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, Ross Perot in 1992—did less to determine the winner than to shape the debate. Woodrow Wilson and Bill Clinton would have won those elections anyway. But Roosevelt made Wilson earn a progressive mandate, and Perot inspired Clinton to put more emphasis on deficit reduction and reform.
Like most billionaires, Bloomberg is a firm believer in the power of markets. If market forces work in politics, his lurking presence on the sidelines should be enough. In the midst of the silly season, when some partisans are raising their hands to deny reality, the sword of Bloomberg is a useful reminder that when the primaries are over, the earth will be round again and reality will go back into effect. ... 1:38 P.M. (link)
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Don't Know Much About History: Hillary Clinton just asked supporters to choose her campaign song, but Republican candidates already agreed on theirs. Perhaps the next debate will feature a barbershop quartet of Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney singing:
Don't know much about history/ Don't know much biology/ Don't know much about a science book/ Don't know much about the French I took.
To be fair, the Republican race is a particularly difficult kind of history test. In order to pass, a GOP candidate must persuade Americans to miss the '80s, fear the '90s, and start the current decade over without Bush. For some, like Romney and Giuliani, traveling back to the Reagan era has the additional benefit of rewinding past all the positions they've taken in years since.
Once again, Republican candidates and the American people are headed in different directions. The National Assessment of Educational Progress reported yesterday that while political leaders are doing their best to ignore history, young people are doing much better at it.
The educational standards movement appears to be paying off. Between 1994 and 2006, the number of fourth-graders performing at or above basic level in U.S. history jumped from 64 percent to 70 percent. Civics scores went up, too. Jay Mathews of the Washington Post points out that scores even rose among high-school seniors, who hadn't improved in any subject in the past eight years.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings was quick to attribute the progress to No Child Left Behind, glossing over the inconvenient fact that fourth-grade history scores rose slightly faster between 1994 and 2001 than in the years since NCLB was passed. In any case, if young Americans are making progress on these two subjects, Spellings' boss deserves the credit. At last, President Bush may have found the perfect excuse for his failures at home and abroad. The Imperial Presidency isn't a way to abuse power—it's a way to teach civics. Never mind Iraq's failures as a war—it has been a great history lesson.
If anything, the Bush administration might well be accused of teaching to the test. The NAEP report says that to perform at basic level in history, fourth-graders must be able to "interpret a presidential quotation." Give Bush credit—he has been quizzing those kids every day.
While Mickey Kaus may be despondent about where the Senate is headed on immigration, he should take heart that the next generation aces the issue. On the civics test, 75 percent of all fourth-graders correctly answered that noncitizens can't vote. If Monica Goodling were still around, those 9-year-olds would be made U.S. attorneys.
The nation's eighth-graders showed no progress on civics, but we can't fault Bush for trying. Consider this question from the eighth-grade test:
Teresia is a small country that has been invaded by its neighbor Corollia. The king of Teresia is a long-standing United States ally who has been living in exile since the Corollian invasion. Teresia is an important exporter of uranium; it sends most of its supply to members of the European Union. The king appeals to the United States and the United Nations for military help in driving Corollia from his country.
Identify two pieces of information NOT given above that you would need before you could decide whether or not the United States military should help Teresia. Explain why each piece of information would be important.
C'mon, kids! How many countries does the president have to invade before you start getting the right answer?
Only 13 precent of eighth-graders had an "acceptable" response, which is even lower than the president's own ratings. Just 3 percent of the responses were "complete"—so Bush is not the only one.
Bush can take some comfort as well from the sample answer in the NAEP report. That particular eighth-grader outperformed Bush by asking to know more about Corollia's motives and allies. But the student didn't ask anything about whether Teresia was really exporting uranium.
Of course, President Bush may be a great teacher, but how would he do on the test? The past six years have trained him well for one measure of basic fourth-grade achievement: "Students should know that the world is divided into many countries." Bush has spent enough time around the Coalition of the Unwilling to know that.
But other NAEP standards might be harder to meet. In civics, fourth-graders at the basic level should be able to "recognize that the president is an elected official" (somewhat more difficult since 2000) and "identify an illegitimate use of power" (which may have been Lynne Cheney's real objection to these standards all along).
The advanced achievement level for fourth-graders is harder still: "Given age-appropriate examples, they should recognize differences between power and authority and between limited and unlimited government." And there's just no getting past the section, "What Fourth-Graders Know." A "proficient" fourth-grader can name the two political parties. But to be considered "advanced," a fourth-grader must be able to "identify the legislative branch." By that standard, this administration could be stuck in grade school for a long time. ... 3:57 P.M. (link)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Hear Me Roar: These are tough times for the newspaper business, so editors everywhere should be grateful to Slate's parent company, the Washington Post, for an ingenious cost-saving measure—the reusable headline. Saturday's Post carried a story entitled, "Giuliani Tries To Clarify Abortion Stance." No matter how many times Giuliani addresses the subject, it's the only headline any newspaper will ever need.
The savings don't stop there. Today, the Post's Dan Balz was able to recycle Saturday's lede for his curtain-raiser on tonight's debate: "Much of the focus [is] likely to be on former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and his continuing effort to extricate himself from a controversy over his position on abortion."
This weekend, Giuliani was busy clarifying his abortion stance on Fox News Sunday. "Let's start with abortion and any confusion that remains about where you stand," Chris Wallace began. The more Giuliani tried to extricate himself, the more he had left to clear up.
Wallace asked, "Most Americans would feel passionately one way or the other. Why are you so indifferent to such a deeply held issue?" Giuliani insisted, "I'm very, very passionate about the issue." He proved how much he cares about abortion by repeatedly referring to the landmark case as "Roe against Wade." Moments later, when Wallace asked him if he'd be upset if Roe were overturned, Giuliani showed all the passion of Mike Dukakis. "I don't think it's a question of being disappointed or being happy about it," he said. Vive l'indifference!
On Friday, Giuliani tried to recast his views on abortion and guns as a profile in courage. On Sunday, he once again made clear that he was brave enough to pander. He promised not to change the pro-life Republican platform. He affirmed his support for abortion limits he used to oppose. He promised conservatives what they want most on abortion—strict constructionist judges. And as an example of what he means by judges not legislating from the bench, he praised the D.C. Circuit's recent decision to overturn a 1939 Supreme Court precedent on the Second Amendment.
Giuliani did manage to clarify one issue on Sunday. In fact, he offered what may be the single most definitive statement of his campaign so far: "I'm not a woman."
Wallace wasn't even trying to clear up any confusion on that score. Giuliani just wanted to show that his passions on the abortion issue only go so far:
"I believe abortion is wrong. I believe, as a personal matter, if it were my personal choice — and of course, it will never be my personal choice. I'm not a woman."
It's hardly news when a thrice-married man clarifies his stance that he is not a woman. But Giuliani went further, volunteering that he will never be a woman. Fox viewers can rest assured: Some options are off the table.
Yet just a few sentences later, Giuliani threw even that certainty into some doubt, telling Wallace:
"If you said to me, as a woman, 'I have an equally strong view of this as you do' … I would support that."
The strict constructionist reading of "If you said to me, as a woman" is clear: Giuliani thinks he's a woman. Another flip-flop! But a more liberal interpretation might reach the opposite conclusion: Giuliani thinks Chris Wallace is a woman.
No wonder Giuliani is losing the Republican base. He has done so many Inner Circle productions, he thinks "fair and balanced" is Rosalind in As You Like It—a man playing a woman playing a man playing a woman.
Either way, Giuliani's second point is as confusing as the first. Giuliani says he would happily defer not just to Chris Wallace but to any other woman who has "an equally strong view of this" as he does. Yet as Wallace demonstrated at the outset of the interview, it would be hard to find anyone in either gender as indifferent to the subject as Giuliani.
Despite his incredibly bad week, Giuliani still leads national polls. But in the more sophisticated political-futures markets, Giuliani shares are in free fall. Between Thursday and Monday, he dropped from 31 to 27 on Intrade, while McCain jumped from 23.5 to 29.5.
If this is clarity, the Giuliani campaign can't afford much more of it. On Mother's Day, the mayor made clear he is not now nor never will be a woman. Within hours, his stock plunged 5 percent. ... 12:59 P.M. (link)
Friday, May 11, 2007
Multiple Choice: In 1960, JFK went before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association to put the Catholic issue behind him. Today, Rudy Giuliani spoke at Houston Baptist University in yet another attempt to put the abortion issue behind him. JFK wanted to prove that in America, there is no religious test to become president. As he labors to explain his ever-changing heart on choice, Giuliani seems determined to prove that there is no history test, either.
Giuliani is not alone. Mitt Romney doesn't want a religious test or a history test. His about-face on abortion is even less convincing than Giuliani's. Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, and Tom Tancredo, who don't believe in evolution, want to prove there's no science test. All the Republican candidates are supply-siders, hoping to prove there's still no math test.
As a last resort, Giuliani now wants to turn his abortion stand into a badge of honor. The press will give him credit for setting up a showdown with social conservatives. Today's Times gave the Giuliani campaign the headline they want: "Can the G.O.P. Accept Giuliani's Abortion Stance?" But Giuliani's abortion stance is such a muddle, the issue is not whether a pro-choice candidate can win in a pro-life party. It's whether a campaign predicated on leadership can survive a candidate who has already said he was for Roe before he was against it.
Emily Bazelon made a good case for why voters have a right to judge Giuliani's presidential bid by his disastrous home life. Here's another reason: His presidential bid is rapidly starting to mirror his disastrous home life. Giuliani seems to have the same attitude toward his abortion positions that he has shown toward marriage—who's counting?
The Times offers a helpful interactive timeline of "Giuliani on Abortion." In 1989, he was for public funding. In 1993, he called choice a constitutional right. In 2000, he opposed a ban on late-term abortions. Last month, he divorced himself from his previous stands on public funding and late-term. This month, he sought to annul his position on choice as a constitutional right. Now he's of three minds: Abortion is "morally wrong," women should be able to make their own choice, and so should conservative judges.
Giuliani's decision to buck his party on abortion would be refreshing and courageous, if he hadn't already tried so hard to have it both ways on the issue. He tells conservative audiences not to worry about his pro-choice record because he personally "hates" abortion and will appoint judges like Scalia, Roberts, and Alito. He boasts that during his tenure as mayor, abortions dropped 16 percent—but doesn't mention that abortions nationwide dropped 15 percent over the same period or that New York City still has an abortion rate three times the national average.
The Giuliani campaign trotted out the perfect man to vouch for the mayor's credentials: Steve Forbes, who was pro-choice in his first presidential bid and pro-life in his second. "Thanks to Giuliani's success on welfare reform, where rolls were cut 60%, the abortion rate in New York City fell faster than the national average," Forbes told RealClearPolitics. "Rudy may be pro-choice—and I happen to be pro-life—but the policies he pursued help the pro-life cause."
Welfare reform has done a great deal to promote work, demand responsibility, and reduce poverty, but even ardent proponents like me have trouble crediting it with short-term reductions in abortion. Most conservative welfare reformers had the opposite worry—that a concerted effort to reduce illegitimacy might cause a spike in abortions. During the 1996 welfare reform debate, Senate Republicans rejected House plans to deny benefits to unwed teen mothers and cap benefits for mothers who had additional children on welfare for that very reason—Catholic conservatives feared those provisions would make abortion go up. A plan to reward states for reducing out-of-wedlock births was rewritten to deny the bonus to states where abortion rates increased at the same time. Of course, Giuliani urged Clinton to veto the 1996 welfare reform bill, so don't be surprised if he now claims his moral opposition to abortion as the reason.
Why does the choice issue so often manage to turn grown men into pretzels? Conservative doubts over Giuliani's abortion position were hardly a surprise attack. Yet judging from his halting response so far, the same man who knew just what to do on 9/11 would have been stumped for months if al-Qaida had simply sent him a NARAL questionnaire.
Charles Krauthammer says the fault is with Roe, not Giuliani. But that's letting him off the hook too easily—akin to Giuliani saying, "the court made me do it, and the justices I appoint may or may not undo it." Rich Lowry of the National Review offered a more persuasive explanation of Giuliani's troubles with the issue: "One of the big ironies for him is he doesn't care about abortion." If Giuliani had the courage to say that, we might start to believe him. ... 3:23 P.M. (link)
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Mood Ring: If malaise, like revenge, is a dish best served cold, the Bush administration is keeping Republicans exceedingly well-fed. In the latest Newsweek poll, the president matched Jimmy Carter's record low with a 28 percent approval rating. It took Richard Nixon a quarter-century to have Seven Crises. For George W. Bush, seven crises is a pretty good week.
Republican presidential candidates are trying their hardest to look on the bright side. At last week's debate at the Reagan Library, the field mentioned optimism more often than bin Laden. Giuliani chanted the word four times—three times in a single answer. Bush's favorite word, resolve, didn't come up once.
Republicans may be right to miss Reagan—not because his policies worked, but because the country has so soured on their party that only an actor could still put on a happy face. That's the role many Republicans have scripted for Fred Thompson. They don't much care what he stands for, provided he can cheer Republicans up.
If that's his goal, Thompson got off to an odd start in an address to Orange County conservatives this weekend. Jonathan Martin, who covers Republicans for the Politico, said Thompson's speech was "low key and at times meandering." Robert Novak, conservatism's biggest grump, called it "a downer." (Ironically, the best part of Thompson's speech was his joke that he'd spent the whole night trying to keep Novak from seeing his notes.)
Far from helping Republicans escape their despair, Thompson couldn't stop reminding them of it. "We've had our ups and our downs," he said, insisting that the party's post-Watergate gloom wasn't as bad as it seemed at the time. He warned that we're "even hearing that old malaise talk we used to hear," then indulged in some, noting that there's "some concern that maybe we're slipping away like all the great powers have."
Thompson echoed another actor-turned-politician by repeatedly borrowing Arnold Schwarzenegger's trademark tic, "and things of that nature." He closed his speech by inadvertently giving a good impression of Reagan's famous "Highway 1" closing statement in the second 1984 debate. In Thompson's rambling story, a group of sixth-graders in North Hollywood asked him why he went into politics. The question made him think back to Washington, Lincoln, the Revolutionary War, and our common heritage. The answer: not clear.
But the award for most surprising performance by an anecdote in a supporting role goes to two other historical cameos in Thompson's speech. In a rare turn for the 2008 Republican campaign trail, Thompson praised Wendell Willkie, the Republican nominee who lost the 1940 election in a landslide but became one of FDR's most important allies.
More remarkably, Thompson went out of his way to stick up for perhaps the greatest wimp of the 20th century: Neville Chamberlain. The Bush administration has spent the last six years trying to tie Democrats to Neville Chamberlain. Don't even ask how he got there, but Thompson was working off a different set of talking points. He didn't defend Chamberlain's record, but he did paraphrase Churchill's eulogy to say, "Neville Chamberlain marched in the ranks of honor."
Perhaps that was Thompson's indirect way of saying something nice about Bush. The next line in Churchill's eulogy fits Bush even better: "It fell to [him] in one of the supreme crises of the world to be contradicted by events, to be disappointed in his hopes, and to be deceived and cheated by a wicked man." More likely, Thompson was just making the noble point that compared with politicians today, Churchill was a class act.
In any case, it's a modern political first: Fred Thompson could go down in history as the only presidential candidate in either party to put in a good word for Neville Chamberlain.
Could this be the future of conservatism? Will Republican candidates try to prove they're not the next George W. Bush by leaving open the possibility of being the next Neville Chamberlain?
In 2000, Bush invented compassionate conservatism to distance himself from Newt Gingrich. The GOP's challenge is even greater in 2008, but Thompson may have found the answer: appeasement conservatism. With a Republican Party that loses elections as gracefully as Willkie and loses wars as pre-emptively as Chamberlain, America will forget the Bush presidency ever happened. ... 1:54 P.M. (link)


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How do I know what Fruits and Veggies are in season?
I know some obvious stuff like apples and squash in fall, and watermelon in summer. But there are lots of produce that I'm not sure.... People say look at the prices, but I haven't been shopping for myself much - and when I wanted strawberries in the dead of winter - I'd buy them. Now I want to be a financially sound consumer...
P.S. I live in the Northern Hemisphere - PA - USA....
......and it was delicious!
Berries of most sorts are in season at the beginning of summer. Stone fruits, like apricots and plums and peaches are in season towards the end of summer. Apples and pears are after that. Citrus fruits are usually in season in winter I think. Corn is usually after berries and before stonefruits. Asparagus is before berries. Carrots and parsnips are pretty much always in season. Some things, like Brussels sprouts and swede (I think you might call them rutabagas in America) are best after they've had some frost on them, so try to buy them in winter.
I just did a wee web search and found this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/301858/Fruits-and-Vegetables-in-Season which I'm pretty sure would be OK for you.
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Your response remindsme of those logic questions where you need to put the boys in order form youngest to oldest and they tell you all this crazy stuff lol.
That is really helpful though
It is a bit isn't it? It's how I remember them though - I used to eat very little fruit (often finding it disappointing), until an orchard in Central Otago started delivering orders to work. They fax through a list of what's being picked, we order what we want, and they bring it through and leave it for us. We only get what is being picked and it is scrumptious. I discovered I can easily eat a kg of cherries in an afternoon! Anyway, that made me aware of the order in which things become ripe, and I won't eat oranges until after the apples have stopped being delivered because they are nasty (imported or stored) beforehand. I know I can have asparagus for my birthday, and then the other veges just sort of slot in around the asparagus and fruit in my mind.
I like your point about the seasonal veggie/fruit calendar.
I remember back when I first got involved with amateur astronomy --one of the things which I most enjoyed was a growing sense of my place in time, my place on this particular planet. I got to where even during the day I knew where the moon was; I could find a bright planet like Venus even during a bright sunny day; I came to look forward to winter because of the constellations which rise during that season (yay Orion!).
I think I have a similar response to being a gardener and a consumer of locally grown foods. Things like apple season, trout fishing season, strawberry season (which can't come soon enough), all of these dictate not only what I eat but how my days are spent. All of this taken together gives me this deeply satisfying sense of comfort, and makes me feel more grounded, somehow.
Fruitful topic!
What a great question (and answer)! :)
Oh and hello Pirateking. I grew up near Pittsburgh in Fayette County. Go Steelers! ;)
The Northeast Regional Food Guide has some lists of produce that is seasonal and locally grown. Also, if you can find a green market in your neighborhood, try going there at least once a month or so...you'll get a great idea of what is actually in season, and grown in your area. At the supermarket, try to see where the stuff you are buying comes from (I know such labelling requirements vary by region and by store.)
For people in Europe, BBC Food has a great What's In Season page - this guide could be used generally for anyone in temperate northern hemisphere areas. Also, I wanted to point out this page, which is on a site run by a Swiss couple who hold highly regarded cooking classes in Zürich. They update that in season page every month, and it also is useful for temperate northern hemisphere areas.
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Wow, I really love the laughinglemon site!
It's very useful for me as I live in northern Italy, so it's quite close, and I love the fact that they list the names in four different language :)
Yesterday I bought some salsify after seeing them on that site, I had never tasted them before but I like them :)
You could also learn what's in season by following the blog of someone who frequents farmer's markets, especially if yours closes during the winter. (Think the blog tableauvivante!)
Wow! Thanks for all the great info!
Yay! Steelers :)
Smelling things is a good way too tell if your not sure. A lot of fruits and vegetables smell very different in season than they do otherwise.
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She could easily have added Al (he invented the internet) Gore and John ( "I don't fall down") Kerry. Has any party ever nominated in back-to back elections two men as pompous and conceited as these two? I'm having trouble thinking of even one other such presidential candidate.
One of my least favorite expressions is the modern one, "it's not bragging if you can do it." Actually, it is bragging if you can do it; if you can't do it, it's lying. I'll leave it to our readers to determine which (or how many) of these two categories Gore and Kerry fall into. Suffice it to say that President Bush, a modest personality, played these two like they were accordions, and almost surely would never have become President Bush had Gore been half a twist less conceited.
Younger readers may wonder whether the past differed significantly in this regard. I hope this piece I wrote two years ago about John Kennedy will help provide a sense of how differently our leaders used to behave.
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