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Who's running for governor?
- July 28, 2010
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As the dog days of August approached, I ran into several politicians at a variety of events around Virginia. Even sultry weather fails to slow things down in a state where lack of a second term for the sitting governor keeps the political landscape alive with speculation about his successor. Although we won't vote for governor again until 2013, several potential candidates already are working the crowds.
For example, the Virginia FREE Leadership Luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton Tyson's Corner in early June drew a variety of politicians. Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, Virginia's "Chief Jobs Officer," had a chance to address the crowd, as did Gov. Bob McDonnell. Off the podium, Terry McAuliffe, a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate, drew a lot of attention.
About two weeks later, former Sen. George Allen, a Republican, was working the room at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond at a black-tie gala for Hugh Keogh, the retiring CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Early speculation on Allen was that he would attempt to regain his seat by challenging Democratic Sen. Jim Webb in 2012. However, we've talked to many who think he may be more likely to take a run at the governor's office, which he held from 1994 to 1998. That move would throw a wrench in Bolling's plans, but it also might be an election that Allen would more likely win.
A few days later, Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was at the ribbon-cutting for Williams Mullen's new offices in downtown Richmond. For the first time, we noticed he's wearing cowboy boots. Maybe he's worn them all along, but one can't help wondering if Cuccinelli is trying on Allen's shoes.
In any scenario, it looks like there is a lot of potential competition for the governor's office coming from the Republicans. The challenge will be to find a candidate with statewide appeal who can pass enough of the fractured party's litmus tests and still win votes north of the Rappahannock. Cuccinelli does well with the far right, but he failed to carry the vote in his home county, Fairfax, on his way to the attorney general's office.
On the Democratic side, early picks are less obvious. McAuliffe is positioning himself as a leading advocate of green energy and is working on personal investments in bio-mass that have the potential to bring jobs to downstate Virginians. This follows the successful formula of Sen. Mark Warner, who was elected governor in 2001. Warner's investments helped build his credibility on the economic issues and won over voters in parts of the state where Northern Virginia roots don't play well.
Under the right set of conditions, McAuliffe can do a lot better than he did in the 2009 Democratic primary, where state Sen. Creigh Deeds pulled more conservative NOVA-Dems in one direction and former Del. Brian Moran pulled more liberal ones in the other.
The 10th District's Del. Ward Armstrong, minority leader of the House of Delegates, is another name that comes up on the Democratic side. Armstrong is well known and respected among his legislative colleagues. Like McDonnell, he could put his political experience to work quickly in the governor's office. But while insider reputation and experience are helpful in governing, they aren't necessarily assets in winning an election. Creigh Deeds certainly had the inside game, but it wasn't enough to win. Armstrong's district is located west of Martinsville along North Carolina. Again, as Deeds found in his failed campaign, geography can become destiny when it comes to winning or losing in Northern Virginia.
When we asked people who they thought would run for governor, one surprising name to come up is former Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine. That speculation raises the intriguing possibility of a match between former governors, Kaine and Allen. The winner would be the first governor since Mills Godwin to serve a second (but not consecutive) term. Godwin was elected governor as a Democrat in 1965 and as a Republican in 1973.
Kaine, currently chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is more likely to remain focused on four more years for President Obama than on four more years for himself. The smart money says that, if Kaine can succeed in helping Obama win a second term, the former governor will have a cabinet seat.
The vote for Virginia's next governor in November 2013 may seem a long off, but we'll be there before we know it. If we had to pick candidates today, it would be Allen for the Republicans and McAuliffe for the Democrats. Both are high-profile candidates who are sure to keep the nation's political eyes on Virginia.


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In general I would like to know about the significance of conformal Killing spinors (especially keeping in mind supersymmetric theories on curved space-time).
If $\epsilon$ and the $\bar{\epsilon}$ are the holomorphic and the anti-holomorphic conformal Killing spinors then apparently the following are true,
In a conformally flat background it satisfies $D_\mu \epsilon = \gamma _ \mu \kappa$ for arbitrary spinor $\kappa$ and on a flat background it is identically sastified by $\epsilon = \xi_1 - x^\mu \gamma _\mu \xi_2$ for $\xi_1, \xi_2$ being arbitrary spinors.
On a $S^3$ with radius $r$ there are apparently $4$ independent anti-holomorphic ones (how?)and they split into $2$ satisfying $D_\mu \bar{\epsilon} = \pm \frac{i}{2r} \gamma_\mu \bar{\epsilon}$
If the $S^3$ above is replaced by $S^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ then apparently the equation changes into $D_\mu \bar{\epsilon} = \pm \frac{1}{2r} \gamma_\mu \gamma_3 \bar{\epsilon}$where $r$ is now the radius of $S^2$.
I would be glad if someone can explain or give a reference which has a quick explanation for this.
Also I want to know how the representations of the isometry group of $S^2$ i.e $S0(3)$ somehow help "classify" the solutions. (like I think the claim is that each of the set of two actually lies in a two dimensional irreducible representation of $SO(3)$). I would like to know of the explanation for this classification and if there is a general representation theory idea which works always (like also may be in the first two cases?)

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By Jeff Caplan, NBA.com
HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — LeBron James' new Cleveland Cavaliers jersey is flying off the shelves.
Only that's not completely accurate. For the time being, LeBron jerseys are still kind of on the tarmac, awaiting takeoff.
The NBA Store's website and phone lines are ablaze with demand for LeBron goods. The NBA doesn't release sales figures outside of its regularly scheduled reports, but a league source provided this glimpse into recent demand for all things LBJ: Since James announced his return to Cleveland on July 11, his Cavs replica jerseys (all three color versions: home, road and alternate) are the top three best-selling items on NBAStore.com. Eight of the top 10 items sold overall since then are LeBron Cavs items.
The store initially sold out of all LeBron jerseys, but it's now restocked in just about every size. The problem: When shoppers buy their LeBron jerseys, they get this message in red type:
"This item will ship within 2-4 weeks after the player has officially signed his contract and is assigned a number by the NBA."
Ah, yes. LeBron picked his city. But he has yet to pick a number.
Of course, the NBA won't assign the King a jersey number, like he's some 7-year-old at the YMCA.
COACH: "Here you go son, got No. 18 for you."
LeBRON: Hmm … Got 23?
COACH: "I got 18. Youth medium."
A week ago, James summoned the aid of his 13.75 million Twitter followers:
James wore 23 during his first seven seasons in Cleveland, the number he picked as a prodigy at Akron, Ohio's Saint Mary's-Saint Vincent's in honor of his hero Michael Jordan. When James took his talents to South Beach in 2010, he ditched 23 for 6, the number he wore in the 2008 Olympics.
Neither number seems like a proper fit for The Return. His first number, 23, still invites all those insufferable comparisons to Jordan. And 6 would just feel weird in Cleveland after all that's gone down since the original Decision. It should stay in Miami.
With James winding down a Nike-sponsored tour of China, maybe picking a number will soon become top priority. Right behind getting Kevin Love. (For the record, Love wears 42, in honor of the uniquely gifted former NBA star Connie Hawkins. In Cleveland, Nate Thurmond's 42 is retired in the rafters.)
All this number talk shouldn't be shrugged off. A player's number is a key part of his identity. It typically holds a special meaning.
So we've been busy mulling a third number for Phase Three of James' career. We want his fans to get their jerseys sooner rather than later.
The old flip-flop
32: Obviously it's the reverse of his original 23, which wasn't an original at all. James wore No. 32 as a freshman in high school apparently because 23 was already taken by an older kid who didn't quite yet recognize James as the King. There's a larger hook here. The player James is most compared to stylistically is not Jordan but Magic Johnson. There's been a lot of big names to wear 32, which might or might not motivate James to pick the number: Bill Walton, Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin McHale, Karl Malone, Julius Erving with the Virginia Squires and New York Nets and one of my personal favorites, Seattle's "Downtown" Freddie Brown.
The old flip-a-roo
9: Flip the 6 and what do you get? Yep, 9. Makes sense. Plus, James already has done 9, so it makes even more sense. He wore the number for a season as an all-state receiver in high school before giving up football to focus on hoops. Last summer James purchased new Nike uniforms for his alma mater's football team. For the arrival of the new gear, James actually showed up in full uniform, pads and all, and surprised the gathered crowd. The number he chose for his jersey? Yep, 9. There's some standout players currently wearing 9; Tony Parker and Rajon Rondo. Old-time great Bob Pettit wore it, too.
Honoring the Big O
14: Forgive me for bringing up Mount Rushmore, but it was LeBron who started the whole thing when he said Oscar Robertson would be on his personal NBA Mount Rushmore (along with Magic, Michael and Larry Bird). LeBron's game can also be favorably compared to Robertson, the original triple-double machine. Robertson wore 14 with the Cincinnati Royals for a decade. He averaged a triple-double in his second season and darn near did it three other times. Bob Cousy, Sam Perkins and LeBron's Cavs teammate on the 2007 Finals team, Ira Newble, also wore No. 14. This would be an intriguing choice and would once again shine a worthy spotlight on the Big O's amazing career.
1: When Cincinnati traded Robertson to the Milwaukee Bucks for Charlie Paulk and Flynn Robinson, the Big O traded in his 14 for 1. LeBron choosing 1 could have dual meaning, paying respect to Robertson while proclaiming to world, "I'm No. 1." A lot of No. 1s have come and gone in the league, but the list is short in terms of all-time greats. Tiny Archibald wore it before he got to Boston, then there's Tracy McGrady, Chauncey Billups and, of course, Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks.
King Football
84: It seems every year we hear fantasy stories about LeBron joining an NFL team and instantly becoming an All-Pro receiver. Hey, at 6-foot-9, 260 pounds, who's gonna get in his way? So why not buck traditional NBA numbers for a traditional NFL one? Since James was an All-State receiver in Ohio (we covered his No. 9 above) it makes sense that he pick a traditional NFL receiver's number (between 80 and 89 and 10 and 19). My first inclination is to pick 88 because of LeBron's love for the Dallas Cowboys and the lineage of players — Drew Pearson, Michael Irvin and now Dez Bryant — who made the number famous. Only three NBA players have ever worn 88 and one currently does: Portland forward Nicolas Batum. So, scratch that. If we narrow the numbers to tight ends, the position LeBron would likely play in the NFL, he'd probably choose between two Cowboys greats, No. 84 Jay Novacek and No. 82 Jason Witten. One has more titles than LeBron. Go with Novacek. Only one NBA player, Chris Webber, has ever worn 84 and for only one season (2007 with Detroit). No NBA player has ever put on 82 (according to basketball-reference.com).
29: It's the sum of LeBron's first two numbers, and it's a pretty rare one in the history of the NBA with Paul Silas being the most famous 29.
33: It's just a great basketball number worn by such luminaries as Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Bird, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Scottie Pippen and the underappreciated Alvan Adams.
40: This comes with an eye toward some serious goal-setting, as in 40K, as in 40,000 career points. No player has ever reached it. Abdul-Jabbar remains the league's all-time scoring leader with 38,387 points. James, 29, has scored 23,170 points in 11 seasons. It is doable.


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Take our pet goats, for instance. As soon as the three of them see my husband and me preparing to move their fence to new pasture, they come bounding up to us with eager smiles, saying, "That looks interesting. Here, we'll help." The next thing you know, they're weaving in and out between us, nibbling on the fiberglass posts, stepping on our feet and generally being more problem than solution.


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Prepping for a PrEP Trial
Critical Observations Before the Study Even Begins
I recently accepted a position as Project Director for a research study designed to assess the initial acceptability and feasibility of a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trial among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in Chicago.
The concept of PrEP, in a nutshell, involves administering medications used in the treatment of HIV (particularly Viread or Truvada at this point) to "high risk" HIV-negative individuals, in hopes of preventing transmission of the virus. Several PrEP trials are currently underway across the globe, many of which will likely demonstrate the efficacy of both Viread and Truvada as biomedical interventions for the prevention of HIV.
Though young men who have sex with men, particularly those of color, continue to contract HIV at alarming rates, these current trials ironically have very few young men enrolled in them. Therefore, if in fact these studies are able to prove the effectiveness of PrEP, we will know very little about its implementation within the population that could benefit most from this technology. The PrEP study that I am involved with seeks to provide some insight into this.
For this study, we will attempt to recruit 99 YMSM between the ages of 18 and 22, and to follow them over the course of two years.
There are three separate arms in the study. All participants will go through an intensive evidence-based behavioral intervention and then be randomized to one of three groups. One group will receive once-daily Truvada, another group will receive a placebo (or sugar pill), and yet another group will receive nothing. Participants will be regularly monitored for HIV seroconversion, behavioral disinhibition (getting buck wild sexually because they feel that they are protected by PrEP), and any adverse effects (among a host of other things).
Aware of my search to hire research assistants who will largely be responsible for recruiting and retaining participants, a close friend recommended a friend of his for one of the positions. Trusting the judgment of my friend, I followed up on his recommendation and called his friend to arrange an interview.
I didn't expect him to be knowledgeable about PrEP. The average person wouldn't be. His sexual orientation and racial identity were also of no concern to me. I simply needed him to be able to connect to the population that we have committed to engage in order to recruit and retain them in the study.
I asked him what kind of experience he had with HIV prevention, and he mentioned that he had done some work within his church. Knowing that he was African American, and curious about the position that his church takes on homosexuality, I asked him how he addressed this when it came up during his prevention work there. His response made my head spin.
He told me that he does not condone homosexuality, but that he doesn't knock anybody for their choice. He said that everybody has to answer to God for their own sins, and that all he can do is help to steer people in the right direction.
As taken aback as I was by this response, that wasn't actually the part that did me in. Unfortunately, I've come to expect this type of mentality from people who make an effort to do HIV prevention work in the church (though I must point out that I have been pleasantly surprised at times). What got me was that while telling me about this friend of his who might be a good fit for this position, my friend who'd recommended him inadvertently told me that he was somebody he "got down with every now and then." Of course, I didn't mention that during our conversation, but listening to him dissociate himself from his own sexual behaviors made me sick to my stomach.
There was no way in hell I could trust him with the potentially vulnerable members of the population that our study intends to enroll. To do so would be like throwing the whole "do no harm" clause of ethical research out the door. The young people who choose to participate in this study deserve to have someone working with them who will support and encourage them to lead healthier lives -- physically, mentally, and spiritually. I immediately thanked him for his interest, but assured him that he was not the man for this job. I then called my friend back and chewed him out for wasting my time by not screening this guy before giving me his number, but also to thank him for helping me to put some things into perspective.
Could this mentality be partially to blame for why the existing PrEP studies (and many other types of studies related to HIV for that matter) lack participation from young people, and young people of color specifically? We continue to hear that people are more likely to become engaged in research and services if they feel that they have some connection to the researcher or service provider. But just because a provider looks like you and may even engage in some of the same behaviors as you do, it doesn't necessarily equate to a connection between the two of you. And, even if it does, there is no guarantee that such a connection will be a healthy one. That person's negative or judgmental feelings about themselves and their own behaviors will most certainly have a negative impact on you, especially if you are already vulnerable.
This observation is not one that will be included in the results of our study, because it deviates from the objectives that we have set out to measure. However, it has everything to do with the implementation of PrEP as an acceptable and feasible HIV prevention intervention among young men who have sex with men. We talk a lot about cultural sensitivity and inclusiveness within research and prevention, but self-awareness and radical acceptance are often careless whispers.
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This piece is part of an On Leadership round table exploring the reasons behind the persistence and prevalence of outsized executive pay.
High CEO pay is like a zombie that will not die.
And it's hard to understand why, considering most leadership advice and organizational theory would stop excessive pay packages dead in their tracks. They put too much emphasis on one person's contribution, distort decisions, encourage excessive risk-taking, and damage morale at a time when the rest of the company is being forced to cut back.
Study after study also shows that high differentiation in pay between the CEO and lower-level staffers hurts organizational performance. And there is no shortage of outrage over CEOs who get rich whether their companies do well or not.
But social psychology helps to explain why so little has changed — and why not much is likely to, either. CEOs and directors are people, too, and succumb to a number of decision biases.
For one, when decisions are questioned (and decisions about CEO pay have certainly been under attack), the first thing people do is justify the choices which, after all, are part of their identity. This justification and rationalization of past decisions actually escalates one's commitment to them. In the process of explaining their choices, leaders may not convince their opponents, but they will certainly further convince themselves.
Moreover, research shows that when under threat, leaders and the people who work for them retreat to what they know and do best, a process sometimes called the "threat rigidity" effect. External threats lead to internal rigidity and a resistance to change. Put these two processes together, and ironically, the very attacks on CEO pay are almost certainly reinforcing the status quo. No one wants to feel pushed around or pressured, powerful CEOs least of all.
CEOs and the boards of directors who set executive compensation are also hurt, perhaps unwittingly, by the powerful perches they occupy. These positions cause them to trust their own judgment more than empirical research.
And the research abounds. Yes, there are studies on the ineffectiveness of stock options, which seem to drive little more than risky behavior and the need to restate financial results. And yes, a meta-analysis of more than 200 studies finds no consistent relationship between CEO equity ownership and corporate performance. And scores of studies over the years demonstrated the weak connection between CEO pay and corporate performance.
But what makes anyone think CEOs, or for that matter the directors of their boards or their advisers, know or care about any of this? Recent studies show that power leads to — no big surprise — reduced reluctance to take advice. People in high-ranking positions know what they know, and many are remarkably unperturbed by any contrary evidence. Making matters worse, pay advisers are motivated to keep their clients happy, as compensation consultant Graef Crystal pointed out decades ago in his tell-all book In Search of Excess . It's a dynamic that is still the same. That's why pleas to use compensation practices backed up by good evidence fall largely on deaf ears.
Then there's what I call the "above-average effect." Studies have shown that people, under most circumstances, tend to believe they are better than their peers on virtually all positive traits. That's one of the reasons performance appraisals are often so contentious: The people getting reviewed all think they are above average, even if this is a mathematical impossibility. The same goes for CEOs and the boards of directors who hire and pay them. If you have supposedly above-average boards deciding on the pay of assumed-to-be above-average CEOs, then it must be the case that all CEOs have to be paid above average, right?
Finally, social psychologists have shown repeatedly that where you stand on the distribution of pay, rather than the absolute amount you are paid, determines its meaning. In other words, $2 million might seem like a perfectly reasonable annual compensation until it is viewed against one's peers who are making $12 million or $22 million. As a result, ironically, the more discussion and disclosure there is of CEO pay, the greater the pressures grow to keep pay high. Who wants to admit to others — and least of all to themselves — that they don't "measure up" in the rankings?
Put all of these forces together and it's no wonder most CEOs earn a lot. Add to it the fact that because reform attempts seldom begin with any understanding of the causal factors at play, these efforts are more likely to make things worse than better. When leaders come to see the measure of their worth not so much in what they earn but in what they actually do for the various stakeholders whose lives they affect, then things might be different. But judging from the current rhetoric, I would not hold my breath.
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. His most recent book is Power: Why Some People Have It—And Others Don't.
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology); Associate Director, Pediatric Clerkship, Pediatrics
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Dr. Phatak received her medical degree from India and completed her Pediatric internship and residency at Goryeb Children's hospital in NJ. She completed her fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Yale New Haven Children's hospital. During fellowship, Dr Phatak's research focused on understanding the immune mechanisms in children with inflammatory bowel disease. She provides care to children with inflammatory bowel disease at the multidisciplinary pediatric IBD clinic on Tuesday mornings at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital in New Haven. Dr Phatak is the director of the pediatric gastrointestinal program at Norwalk pediatric subspecialty clinic. She performs video capsule endoscopies in children.
Education & Training
|Topiwala National Medical College (2001)
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Yale Pediatric Faculty Scholars Program's Friends of Yale New Haven Children's Hospital - Young Investigator Award (2011)
Professional Service
Professional Development Committee, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. (2014 - Present)
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Tiitu Takalo is a comic artist, visual artist, illustrator and feminist. She is a graduate in fine arts from the Tampere University of Applied Sciences and has also worked as a comics teacher at the Liminka School of Arts. Her stories are generally from a feminist perspective, as can be seen in her short story collection 'Jää' (2008) and her graphic novels 'Kehä' (2007), about a 16-year-old girl boxing girl who falls in love with a girl, and 'Tuuli ja myrsky' (2009), about women who have grown tired of being victims.
She has a small-publishing company called Hyeena-kustannus. The most important publication of Hyeena-kustannus is called Irtoparta, a magazine that was published from 2001 to 2007 and consisted of comics by female artists and authors from Finland and abroad.
Her comic 'Netta' appeared on the youth pages of Aamulehti newspaper's weekly Valo supplement from 2005 to 2008. She has also made a comic strip about violence towards women for Amnesty Magazine from 2005 to 2007. She is a contributor to the feminist magazine Tulva since 2006.
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Richard Cizik resigned Wednesday night as vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) during a week of growing uproar over his comments that he is shifting his views on same-sex unions.
"Although he has subsequently expressed regret, apologized, and affirmed our values, there is a loss of trust in his credibility as a spokesperson among leaders and constituencies," Leith Anderson, president of the NAE wrote to board members today. Cizik did not return calls for comment.
Last year, more than two dozen evangelical leaders sought to oust Cizik, who worked at the NAE for 28 years, because of his "relentless campaign" on global warming.
"For better or for worse, Rich became a great, polarizing figure," said Charles Colson of Prison Fellowship. "He was gradually, over a period of time, separating himself from the mainstream of evangelical belief and conviction. So I'm not surprised. I'm sorry for him, but I'm not disappointed for the evangelical movement."
Cizik spoke mostly on the environment in a December 2 interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, but he made brief remarks about same-sex civil unions, gay marriage, and his early support of President-elect Barack Obama.
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Change was in the air at the New Orleans Hornets' annual Top Hats and High Tops fundraiser Saturday night. A sense of measured uneasiness cloaked the room as team officials, players and sponsors raised funds and a glass or two for a local charity at the recently renovated Hyatt Regency Hotel.
On one hand, everyone was relieved the 16-month ownership odyssey was mercifully over. On the other, folks wondered what changes this new dawn will bring.
Ownership change usually means changes in other areas. Some good, some potentially not so good.
One of the first changes Tom Benson said he plans to make is to the team's nickname, and this one falls under the "good change" category.
Benson's proclamation has created, well, a buzz among the fans, who have universally endorsed the idea. Mascot Hugo Hornet might be the lone dissenter.
Under team president Hugh Weber's shrewd direction, the organization has done a remarkable job of rebranding itself into a New Orleans business since moving back home in 2007. The color schemes and logos have changed to better reflect local customs, and this strategy inspired the popular "NOLA" Mardi Gras uniforms.
But the club stopped short of changing the nickname.
Benson now says he wants to take the next step, and it's not an easy process. The league usually requires a two-year window to complete the task, primarily because of merchandising and marketing purposes.
It also can be expensive. Everything in the organization must be rebranded, from office supplies to domain names.
Consequently, many teams choose to keep their color schemes, logos and nicknames when they relocate. This is how you end up with confounding combinations like the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies and, the most illogical of all, the Utah Jazz.
Every once in a while a relocation inspires a complete rebranding. The Houston Oilers became the Tennessee Titans in 1999, the Seattle SuperSonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008, and the Atlanta Thrashers became the Winnipeg Jets this season.
Rarer still is the rebranding of an existing team. The Washington Bullets changed to the Wizards for obvious reasons in 1997, and the Tampa Bay Rays wisely dropped the Devil in 2008.
Otherwise, nickname changes have been few and far between.
In this case, the Hornets' nickname isn't particularly bad, but it's far from appropriate. Yes, we have Hornets in New Orleans, but so does every other city in North America. A world-class city with such a unique distinctive way of life demands a unique distinctive nickname for its pro sports teams. "Hornets" simply doesn't cut it.
It's time for a change.
If only Benson could do as well as forefathers Dave Dixon and John Mecom did when they came up with the Saints' nickname, logo and color scheme back in 1966.
Fans and journalists pushed for a red, white and blue color scheme, but Mecom went with the unique black and gold combination to honor his father's oil business (Black Gold). The fleur-de-lis logo is distinctive and emblematic. To this day, the nickname, logo and color scheme are unique in American pro sports.
You recognize the Saints instantly when you glance at one of their games on TV. That's not the case for most teams. Is that the Lions or the Cowboys?
New Orleans' basketball club needs a similar brand.
This is a big decision, and if done right, a nickname change can be a merchandising gold mine. If not, it can lead to widespread embarrassment that can take years to undo.
The Washington Wizards recently rebranded again, committing to their retro red, white and blue color scheme and uniforms.
One thing is certain, team officials will have no shortage of suggestions, and few things stir fan enthusiasm more than a name change.
HornetsReport.com, a fan website devoted to the team, features a thread on its message board with 429 posts about the subject. Everything from ArcAngels to Witchdoctors has been suggested. There's also Brass and Crawgators and Grenadiers and Knights and Krewe.
I'm partial to Louisiana Swamp People. The marketing potential is unlimited. "Choot it!" could become the official team cheer. Copyright infringement, I fear, might be an issue.
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Digital Agenda: Commission's Open Data Strategy, Questions & answers
What is meant by 'open public data'?
Public data is all the information that public bodies in the European Union produce, collect or pay for. This could include geographical data, statistics, meteorological data, data from publicly funded research projects, and digitised books from libraries.
We speak about 'open' public data when that data can be readily and easily consulted and re-used by anyone with access to a computer.
In the European Commission's view 'readily accessible' means much more than the mere absence of a restriction of access to the public. Access and re-use of data can be made difficult by public authorities – often unintentionally – because of a number of barriers:
Barriers such as these mean that public data cannot be called truly open data.
Why is open data important?
Opening up governmental data for re-use can have major benefits for citizens, businesses, and society and for the governments themselves:
What kind of new services can public-sector information give rise to?
Data can be integrated into new products and services, which we use on a daily basis, such as car navigation systems, weather forecasts or other useful "apps" on smart phones. Opportunities for re-use have multiplied in recent years as technological developments have spurred advances in data production as well as data analysis, processing and exploitation.
Some examples:
Have there already been some success stories?
Public sector bodies which have drastically cut their charges for re-use have seen the number of re-users increase by between 1,000% and 10,000%. For instance, in the case of Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority (DECA) the number of re-users went up by 10,000% leading to a re-use market growth of 1,000% over eight years. The additional tax revenue for the government is estimated to be 4 times the reduction in income from fees.
The lowering of charges brings in new types of users, particularly SMEs. For example SIRCOM (the Communication Service of the French Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industry) has been collecting data on fuel prices in France regularly. It introduced a pricing and licensing model for re-use of this data in 2009 (re-use was unregulated before). NAVX, a venture capital company active in the field of location-based services, acquired a licence for commercial re-use right from the very start.
NAVX enriches public data in three ways:.
The enriched data is then used for the company's own GPS and smart phone applications and sold to NAVX's sub-licensees. NAVX focuses on both the B2C business of selling its applications directly to end-users and on the B2B2C business of providing its enriched location-based content to GPS manufacturers, geo-information companies and mobile operators. Building on its strong home market in France, NAVX has been able to expand further to cover at least eight different European countries.
How important is open data for the economy?
The market size and growth of the geographic information sector shows the potential of public data as an engine for job creation. The German market for geo-information in 2007 was estimated at €1.4 billion, a 50 % increase since 20001. In the Netherlands, the geo-sector accounted for 15000 full time employees in 2008. Other areas such as meteorological data, legal information and business information also form the basis of steadily growing markets.
A recent study estimates the total market for public sector information in 2008 at € 28 billion across the EU2. The same study indicates that the overall economic gains from further opening up public sector information by allowing easy access are in the order of € 40 billion a year for the EU27. However, the total direct and indirect economic gains from easier PSI re-use across the whole EU27 economy would be in the order of € 140 billion annually.
What are the elements of the Commission's Open Data package?
The package consists of 3 elements:
In addition, the Communication will support the creation of Europe-wide open data portals, making public data easily useable.
Why do we need a European Directive on this?
Rules and practices around the re-use of public sector information differ between the EU Member States. Common rules that apply across the EU will help companies to capitalise on the size of the Internal Market, and make it easier to use public data from other EU countries. Only a harmonised set of ambitious rules can enable the market to take full advantage of the commercial and non-commercial opportunities that re-use of public data represents.
Which public bodies have to comply with the Directive and what will change in this respect?
The Directive is applicable to all public sector bodies. Under the existing rules from 2003, these bodies are already complying with a minimal set of rules on fair competition, transparency and a number of practical requirements. Public bodies are obliged to:
The Commission's updated Directive will broaden the scope of applicability of the provisions of the Directive by bringing in sectors previously not covered, and move to a presumption of openness for those bodies where the Directive already applies.
More specifically, the updated Directive proposes to make these minimal set of rules applicable to cultural heritage institutions such as libraries (including university libraries), museums and archives which are currently not subject to EU PSI rules
For those public bodies to which the 2003 Directive has already been applied, the proposal for the Directive introduces new features
Under the 2003 Directive, and the new update, the EU open data rules will not apply to:
What about privacy, or copyright protection?
Personal data (e.g. medical data), data protected under existing privacy protection or accessibility rules (e.g. protection of national and public security) are not re-usable. Likewise, data protected by intellectual property rights of third parties are excluded from re-use.
What is the relationship between access and re-use?
Access, under national freedom of information regulations, is all about obtaining the information. The Directive does not touch upon the existing access regimes in Member States.
Re-use builds on existing access rules, but involves making use of the public information other than the original purpose for which it was created or collected.
Why should a public body, which has spent time and money producing this information allow others to re-use it?
Information prepared as part of a public sector organisations' public task has been gathered at the taxpayers' expense and for their ultimate benefit. As such, it is a public good and the taxpayer has a right to access and re-use that information.
However, it is also reasonable sometimes to expect the re-user, not the taxpayer, to cover the costs of making the information available for re-use. In some special cases some of the costs of gathering that information may therefore be recovered.
Can there be conditions on re-use?
Public bodies should make their data available for re-use as freely as possible. However, there can be conditions on re-use, such as the requirement to indicate a source reference, but they should not unnecessarily restrict the way in which the information can be reused or restrict competition.
On the other hand, all type of re-use is allowed irrespective of its purpose – commercial or non-commercial (the rule is "purpose blind").
How can re-users contest the charges, the re-use conditions etc?
Re-users will have the right to appeal to an independent authority, which the Member State is obliged to establish either by creating a new one or by granting appropriate competence to an existing regulator, such as a national competition authority or the authority dealing with access to information.
In case of dispute over the charges, the burden to prove that the charges for re-use comply with the rules of the Directive will in the future be on the public body and not (as previously) on the re-user.
When is the proposal likely to come into effect?
The revised Directive is likely to come into effect in 2013. Member States will then have 18 months to implement it into their national legislation. There is, however, nothing to prevent any public body adopting before this date the types of improvements to access and use which the Directive introduces. Those Member States that have already adopted more open policies on this issue are already benefitting from the growth of new services in this area.
What are the changes in terms of re-use of information held by the Commission?
The Commission's existing rules on re-use already go beyond the provisions of the Directive: Re-use is allowed at no cost for all accessible Commission information. In exceptional cases marginal costs of dissemination can be recovered. The changes brought by the revised Decision on re-use of Commission information are therefore limited. The main changes are:
What is the role of Open Data web portals?
Citizens and business sometimes find it difficult to know what kind of information exists and which authority holds this information, in particular if the information is in another Member State where the structure of government and public administration may be unfamiliar.
A number of countries, regions and municipalities have already created portal websites on accessible data. These include http://opendata.paris.fr.; www.dati.piemonte.it; www.data.gov.uk, www.data.gouv.fr; www.data.overheid.nl.
In 2012, the Commission will set up an Internet portal for its own data. It proposes that other EU institutions, bodies and agencies make their information accessible through this portal, making it the single access point to EU information.
In 2013, the Commission will establish a pan-European portal, bringing together data from different Member States as well as from the European institutions.
What financial assistance will the EU provide to support Open Data?
The Commission funds research and will use different instruments to test and promote the development of innovative solutions, and to ensure the widest possible uptake of open data. Funding will include:
To find out more:
Assessment of the Re-use of Public Sector Information in the Geographical Information, Meteorological Information and Legal Information sectors, MICUS, December 2008.
Review of recent studies on PSI re-use and related market developments, G. Vickery, August 2011.
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In February Mark Bittman - NYTimes, Minimalist featured this recipe:
I have prepared it several times, quite like it, and think that it is going to be part of my rotation.
Might not be 'authentic' as Bittman freely admits.
Confession time...one of my favorite kinds of yakisoba is the instant 'pour hot water in, wait 3 min, pour out of spout, mix, enjoy' kinds ^_^;
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It was UFO yakisoba that introduced me to adding mayonnaise to my yakisoba a few years ago. All those years I had only been eating yakisoba with laver and benishoga (red ginger). I've been using a dab (ok, several dabs) of Kewpie ever since!
I've tried yakisoba sauce in the bottle and homemade. The base I enjoy the most is Sapporo Ichiban's dried noodle in the white packet. *hangs head in shame*
It's wonderful with a kick using shichimi togarashi. My husband prefers to fry it up with sriracha.
I love the tub instant kind as well! I know it's not that good for me, but I love them anyways. You're not alone!!
Cassaendra, I never thought of adding mayonnaise to noodles...tried it yesterday and it was yummy, I'm hooked!
There are not many savoury things that mayonnaise is not nice on. And it wouldn't surprise me to find that is was good on sweet things too!
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I remember my mother going on a mayo baking kick a few years ago. Makes for super moist cakes, breads, muffins, etc. Not exactly sure how to work that into an existing recipe, but if someone would like to try it out I am sure there are recipes on the internet.
Super fattening too, no doubt. Why are delicious things so fattening?
This seems like an opportune time to mention the 'mayora' phenomenon (マヨラー). A label for mayo junkies.
The phenomenon has its own wikipedia page, sadly, it's still to be translated from Japanese
This page has a list of popular items that mayora will put mayonnaise on and these include Rice, Pilaf, Yakisoba, Curry, Udon, Zaru soba, Sashimi, Sushi, Bread, Corned Beef, Natto and, yes, cake (it included okonomiyaki and takoyaki but I consider mayo to be fundamental to these foods, but then I am myself rather too fond of mayonnaise). Devoted mayora will even drink the stuff. Someone has put forward a theory that mayo rewards the eater with Beta-endorphins (β-endorphins are supposed to have 80 times the analgesic potency of morphine, so the theory must mean that those who eat it feel very relaxed and chilled out)
An English article about mayo addicts is here: http://web-jpn.org/trends01/article/020808fas_r.html
(just learned from here the tip about adding mayo to an omelet to make it fluffier - interesting.)
Sushi often comes with mayo on here, I definitely eat it on corned beef (or any meat) sandwiches, and it's mandatory on chips (French fries).
There's this video that shows that mixing up some plain maguro (the low-fat part of raw tuna, that is way cheaper than toro) with mayonnaise makes it 'taste just like toro!'
I don't know...I like maguro, and I like mayo, but somehow the combination doesn't appeal...
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Day: May 1, 2011
Osama bin Laden Is Dead – People Gather Across America For Those Who Died On 9/11
Remember – Bush Wasn't That Concerened About Osama bin Laden!
Remember this, jump to 1:20 for the meat of it.
Jane Hamsher Is A Parasite On The Democratic Party and the "Progressive" Movement!
I"ve been a supporter of the Democratic Party since I was 10 years old, stuffing envelopes and handing out leaflets for George McGovern in his run against President Richard Nixon. In all that time, I've grown up and matured as a Democrat and learned that although everyone in the party doesn't necessarily agree, the greater good that comes from electing Democrats is unmistakable. There ARE consequences to elections. I'm writing this post because I firmly believe that some people who claim to represent the base of the Democratic Party and claim to speak for us – are parasites, feeding on our party for their own selfish gains and in bitter retaliation for Barack Obama kicking their asses in the primary and going on to win the presidency. This post is going to focus on revealing Jane Hamsher, her tactics and how they are undermining the left. It is an expose', to try to understand why she has focused her efforts so squarely on damaging our Democratic president and how we should deal with it as a party.
Jane Hamsher Comes To Prominence With A Just Cause, Electing A Liberal – She Just Screws It Up Really Bad!
I first noticed Jane during the Ned Lamont primary versus Joe Lieberman and I was definitely rooting for Ned, not knowing that Lieberman would run as an independent. I have no idea what Joe Lieberman's problem is, he is one of the strangest politicians I've ever seen. Back then, I actually bookmarked Jane's website, signed a petition and got on her email list. But very quickly, I started to see how she plays the game. The photo she put up on a Huffington Post column had a picture of President Clinton with Joe Lieberman, "photoshopped" with blackface, it was taken down very soon after it went up. She was trying to make a statement about Lieberman's appeal to African Americans. This was just the first example of her vitriol. Here are some reactions to that event.
From Dan Balz at The Washington Post…(emphasis mine in all below)
Arianna Huffington, the founder of HuffingtonPost.com, said that no one from the Web site has asked for the photo to be removed. "We did not ask her, nor would we have asked her," she said. "It was a satirical point she made in the picture, and there was nothing in the text that was racist, and there is nothing about Jane that is racist."
Yea, well, Arianna…I've spilled a lot of digital ink on her as well. Some more reaction to Jane's "blackface" problem…
Then it was Ned's turn. "I don't know anything about the blogs," he said according to Dan Balz in the Washington Post. "I'm not responsible for those. I have no comment on them."
Lamont, who thus far remains the "not Lieberman" choice, is also missing a chance to be senatorial. His spokeswoman denounced Hamsher. Why didn't he? The campaign asked Hamsher to take down the image from her post; she did, and then offered the non-apology preferred by loutish boyfriends—I'm sorry if I made you upset. Lamont should have gone further to show some spine.
Here is Jane's response, at least the first two paragraphs. I don't EVER link to Hamsher, that's what she wants.
I sincerely apologize to anyone who was genuinely offended by the choice of images accompanying my blog post today on the Huffington Post. It's also important to note that I do not, nor have I ever worked for Ned Lamont's campaign. However, at their request, I removed the image earlier today.
Unfortunately, Senator Lieberman's campaign has used this in attempt to hurt Ned and score political points, mustering their own faux indignation in attempt to further distract from the issues important to the voters of Connecticut.
You're kidding Jane, a political candidate trying to "hurt' his opponent and score political points, say it ain't so Jane? To me that sentence speaks volumes about Jane's intelligence and political naiveté. Just amazing. And her lack of political acumen shows up in a lot of her writings. I wonder if she's ever watched C-SPAN for 5 minutes?
BagNews in the Notes section did a great expose on this event too.
What follows is a snippet of Hamsher's apology (or, "non-apology," according to Dickerson) for the photo-illustration (also featuring a link to a Connecticut site documenting a racial flier allegedly circulated by the Lieberman campaign). What makes the response particularly BAG-worthy, however, is the question Hamsher poses about the relevance of her choice of images. She writes:
"For weeks, Senator Lieberman has attempted to woo African Americans by pretending to be someone he clearly is not. Meanwhile, his campaign has liberally distributed race-baiting fliers that have the "paid for by" Joe's campaign disclaimer at the bottom, lying to the press about their intended recipients.
But for some reason, more questions have been asked about me, a blogger. With so much at stake this election, is the choice of images used by a mere supporter really newsworthy?"
First off, Jane needs to step a little closer to the plate. This "mere supporter" just happens to attract about 450,000 page views a week. Also, excuse me for being technical, but the phrase "choice of image" is not that forthcoming, either. As I understand it, Hamsher didn't just choose this illustration — she conceived it.
More important, however, is the question of whether a blog image is newsworthy. Interesting question coming from a site that leads nearly each post with an image, a great many of which constitute strong parody, or almost stand-alone op-ed.
Jane As The Self Appointed Leader For Progressives and Feminists!
Next I want to take a look at Jane and the idea that she represents progressives and feminists. This next link is to a diary at Daily Kos by Deoliver47, it's a very good read. She is very wise and her views are through the eyes of someone new to Jane Hamsher's world, which also makes it interesting. Although Jane seems to think the world revolves around her and that she has some sort of right to represent "progressives", Deoliver47 didn't even know who the hell she was…and we were almost done with the health care debate at that point. I only wish I didn't know who she was then, I may be on a smaller dose of high blood pressure medication.
From Deoliver47 (go read the whole thing, it is wonderful)
It has come to my attention, that somehow a filmmaker and blogger named Jane Hamsher, who seems to be the new leader (appointed by whom I don't know) of a portion of "left progressives" has proposed a new political alliance with Teabaggers.
Curious I went over to HuffPo, to read what this woman had to say, barely able to imagine that anyone in their right mind who calls themselves a "leftist" or a "progressive" or a "feminist" would countenance an un-holy alliance with a rabble of racists, reactionaries and anti-abortionists.
Since I know nothing about her at all…and had no idea that she was my "new leader" and "spokesperson" for leftists and feminists I did what we all do and headed over to wiki to find out some more about her political credentials to lead a movement from the left.
Hmmm. Nada. Zilch. No organizing experience, no electoral experience (that's okay, though cause my leadership in the past like Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer and Malcolm and Martin didn't have any electoral experience either).
The google is good. I found her critique of Carolyn Kennedy, a woman I admire for her quiet work here in NY vis a vis inner city education.
She said of Caroline:
It seems Caroline Kennedy has decided she'd rather have a US Senate seat than a pony for Christmas[…] Really? She's "making calls this morning to alert political figures to her interest?" I guess it was either that or get her nails done.
Nice, real sisterly solidarity.
Deoliver47 goes on to show some images that the Tea Party were circulating during the campaign and says this, "Now before y'all get in a snit. Miz Jane didn't carry these signs. She just wants us to form a coalition, to primary Barack Obama with the people who did." and a little while later, she follows it with this "You are not my leader Miz Jane. In my book you are not a feminist. My Feminism allows for no alliances with racists."
Along those lines, BlatantLiberal at DKos posted this about Jane Hamsher's unholy alliance with the enemies of progressive ideas.
There is a fundamental flaw in FDL's argument that is not pointed out enough. Coalitions with political opponents can be desirable when the end goals are the same (ex. lefty groups and libertarians making common cause for marijuana legalization). If they are not, they don't make any sense.
Ostensibly Ms. Hamsher wants a better health-care bill (I actually doubt this, but let's assume it's true for arguments sake). Grover fucking Norquist doesn't want a better health-care bill. He doesn't want any bill. He wants to dismantle the entirety of the US social safety net, repeal the New Deal, and (his words) "drown the government in the bathtub".
The stupidity of this alliance is astounding. How is weakening the President and trying to kill his legislative agenda going to help get "progressive" legislation passed?
The final sentence of that quote says it all, really, "How is weakening the President and trying to kill his legislative agenda going to help get 'progressive' legislation passed?" That's the part that bothers me the most about the Professional Left and makes me skeptical of their real motives. In regards to the health care debate, if they can't understand anything about the environment the President was operating in with so many on the left and right demanding things and drawing lines in the sand and threatening filibusters throughout the process – then they surely can't comprehend that the President kicked some ass and passed national health care. He got coverage for children with pre-existing conditions, for people with children in college, for seniors who were trapped in the donut hole of Part D and for people who will get treatment for the first time in their lives at community health clinics. And that isn't all, there was a lot more good that came out of that historical piece of legislation. The status quo apparently looked better to Hamsher and her selfish minions and that is disgusting, absolutely disgusting that someone who calls herself a progressive, let alone a leader of the progressive movement, can be so unconcerned about real people. Clicks man, clicks. $$$$
Some Hillary Supporters Completely Lost Their Minds And Revealed Their Deep Seated Hatred, But Jane Got Lots Of Clicks!
In my research for this article, I came across an incident I wasn't aware of that happened during the 2008 campaign. Since I am and was a political junky, reading everything I can, it's curious that I missed this one. Well, I guess it isn't that curious, I was very busy that year and I won't cry a river about it here.
I came across the clip below at Ebogjonson.com of an angry Hillary Clinton supporter and "Ebog's" commentary on the event that happened during the 2008 campaign. It was at the height of the tension between the Clinton camp and the Obama camp. I've been saying that the people on the "Professional Left" were some of the bitter Hillary supporters and the same vitriol they displayed during the campaign never went away, they just shelved if for a few minutes. Literally, a few minutes. At Ebogjonson.com, he sheds some light on Jane Hamsher in a post called "A Special Kind of Stupid"…
I'm late to this party, but, I had to make sure the ebogblog's search results included this bit from my dear friend Jane "Blackface Joe" Hamsher. As many of you know, I'm no fan of Hamsher's. To me she and her acolytes represent a revanchist strain of the Democratic party that was popular before the Age of Obama, where faux-muscular white Democrats / netroots types tried to prove their fitness for taking on the right by making a big show of reclaiming the Democratic party from the troubling grip of special interests, coloreds, political correctness and identity politics.
The first :52 seconds of the clip are the remarks that are important to the discussion below.
More from Ebogjonson.com…
Anyhoo, this is the Hamsher quote that caught my admittedly biased, anti-Jane eye. Writing of the video she took of Harriet Christian, the racist Clinton supporter who called Barack Obama "an inadequate black male," Hamsher says in the Huffington Post:
The clip became a YouTube phenomenon; by the time I got home over 200,000 people had seen it. It's now been viewed by over a million people. It appeared on CNN, Fox News and the Daily Show. Within 24 hours, 10 of the top 20 political videos on YouTube were people's responses to it.
The comments section (which now stands at nearly 19,000, one of the most commented upon political videos on YouTube of all time) was filled with people arguing fiercely about the contest. Some calling Christian a racist who showed the true face of the Clinton campaign, others calling her a truth teller who speaks for them. She turned into a Rorschach test for a Democratic party divided. She was raw, but we were all raw.
I want to point out how important getting internet traffic is to Janey. For her to actually go into such great detail on how many views and comments her Youtube clip got is so revealing. A woman goes on a rant and says this about our future president, "The best nominee that's possible and the Democrats are throwing the election away. For what? An inadequate black male!?" And what do we get from Jane, she basically tells us how fucking proud she is about how many people watched the clip and commented on it. That speaks many volumes to me, how about you?
I don't want to keep pasting from Ebogjonson.com, you really have to just click over and read it. It's very good. He goes after the "Rorschach test" line and breaks down the rant from the Hillary supporter above. Go, now, then come back. Or go later, free will, gotta love it.
It's The Clicks And The Money, Stupid!
Even before the President took office in January, the "Professional Left" who made lots of cash on their blogs and with their PACs during the Bush years, turned their focus from Bush to Obama in no time flat. They took every rumor, lie and prediction of what the President was "going" to do as the gospel and rather than waiting to see what he actually would do, say with health care, they proceeded to set up a straw man, knock it down, set up another straw man and knock that down too. I think the Professional Left was responsible in large part for how the health bill turned out, by pounding on the president so hard, they weakened him, gave the media fodder for their meme and diminished the President's negotiating strength. It was very clear to me that they were more concerned with crying and whining and attacking the president than they were helping poor people get health care. They had to try to prove to themselves and everyone else that the Democratic voters made the wrong decision when we nominated Barack Obama. They refused to give him credit, to listen to anything he said during the general election and proceeded to chip away at him from the left for their own petty and selfish needs. And when Robert Gibbs pushed back, after taking hit after hit after hit, they all ran to jump in front of the bullet. They all wanted to be the Professional Left, clicks man, clicks.
One incident that shows the Professional Left's ability to twist things to fit their narrative is the incident where Rahm Emmanuel offended them by attacking an idea, but they successfully turned it around as an attack on them personally. Very much a Republican like tactics in my opinion. From The Wall Street Journal…
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, [progressive activists] say, is the prime obstacle to the changes they thought Mr. Obama's election would bring.
The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul.
"F—ing retarded," Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items.
And the one and only Booman responds to the idea that Rahm was calling them retarded.
Rahm Emanuel didn't say that progressives were retarded. He said that the decision to target Blue Dog Democrats with campaign ads was retarded. And his reasoning was that it would not convince them to support stronger health care reform, but alienate them and make it harder to pass anything at all. You can disagree with Emanuel's assessment without walking around with wounded feelings for the rest of your life.
Although I've seen how ham-handed Rahm can be, as a Democrat who watched wimpy politicians for years not standing up to bullshit, not fighting hard for our ideas and being so respectful and cautious while Republicans pull out all the stops was just a little frustrating. Rahm wasn't like that and I rooted for him, even though he wasn't opposed to running moderate or conservative Democrats in conservative districts…what a concept? We would be in much deeper shit in both the last two years of the Bush administration and the first two of President Obama's if Rahm hadn't done that. I've read some people who think Jane's hatred for the Obama administration was because of her dislike of Rahm. If she didn't love her clicks so much, I might put some links up where she twists and turns Rahm's comment as a personal attack against her and her minions. Once again, jumping in front of those bullets, even if the bullets are aimed at a concept.
Leftover links That You Should Check Out If You Need More Examples
There are some very fishy things going on with her PACs, which Karoli writes about.
And here is another one of those PAC stories, hat tip to Oliver Willis.
Angry Black Lady is not a fan of Ms. Hamsher either and has lots of great posts over their, this one is particularly good and so is this one.
Don't forget about Jane' cozying up to the Tea Party folks and bonding with them.
Who can forget Jane Hamsher's attack on Hadassah Lieberman the international spokesperson for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity.
Shoq at Shoq Value has a great post about Jane Hamsher and her PAC for Bradley Manning's defense, a second one…that she gets paid to administer…and isn't really needed…and if I'm not mistaken, our "friend" Glenn Greenwald is in on that too.
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right, takes Jane's Firedoglake to task for their misleading polling, another very revealing item about Jane's character.
My Final Thoughts On Why This Is Important To Winning On November 6, 2012
There is a lot more out there about Jane Hamsher's journey to this point and the wreckage she has left along the way for the Democratic Party and the liberal movement in general. I take comfort in the fact that I'm not the only one who sees through her charade, her money making scheme, her pent up irrational hatred for our first black president and the vitriol with which she displays her anger and hatred. I actually have a lot more I could add to this post including her experience producing "Natural Born Killers", that nice family movie that glorified violence so much, Quentin Tarantino wanted his name pulled from it. Some of the sources for that stuff aren't very reliable so I didn't go there, I stuck to her politics.
As I was proofing this piece today, I realized what that feeling in the pit of my stomach is like, when I listen to or read Jane Hamsher's writing. It is like being on a team in sports where you have that one player on your team, who seems to be doing more to help the opposite team. The one who looks like they purposely fumbled the ball or are so incompetent that they couldn't help themselves. In my mind, I wish I could put Jane Hamsher in the incompetent camp, but based on the persistence of her vitriol and her utter lack of self-awareness, I am finding it hard to do that. She can't find any time to attack Republicans these days.
The definition of the word Insidious is (last two entries apply here) "2. stealthily treacherous or deceitful: an insidious enemy. 3. operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect: an insidious disease." What Jane Hamsher and her buddies Glenn Greenwald and Cenk Uygur are doing to the Democratic Party is insidious. They are deceitful and operating from within the "progressive" movement in a seemingly harmless way, but in reality they are attempting to bring the party to it's knees. Glenn Greenwald all but admits that in some recent articles I've read about that man, the subject of my next expose', coming to a blog near you – as soon as I get it all together.
As we head into the next battle with the Republicans, who are more right-wing than ever before, do we need a parasite like Jane Hamsher undermining us as a party as she plays to the Tea Party and other populist dimwits? Do we need a person who can't give any credit where it is due, for fear that she might look like an Obot or admit that President Obama represents the left very well, considering the political circumstances we are in. Do we need someone who calls people that support our Democratic president – Obama-lovers or Obots or any number of other clever words. With friends like her, who needs enemies. We need to confront these people right away before they begin to chip away at the momentum our party is experiencing in light of what is happening in several states across the country. We need a team that is all in, willing to fight hard against the right and willing to cover our backs when the going gets tough. Hamsher's group has none of that and they either need to stand up for progress or go find some other money making scheme.
And progress is what it is all about, in my mind. These people like Jane Hamsher have thwarted progress for the last two years while trading on the idea that they are actually for it. They've usurped our Party by claiming to be leaders within it, while they have been slowly eating it from the inside out. It's time to remove the parasite and win in 2012.


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On the Ball: Panther Field Hockey Catches a Cabrini
Six points is an off day for, say, the Fair Haven football team against Middlebury Union High School in a Division II semifinal.
Six goals in a field hockey game? Well, that's another story.
But that's what the Middlebury College field hockey team racked up on Wednesday afternoon against overmatched Colonial States Athletic Conference champion Cabrini, which drove a long way from near Philadelphia to absorb a 6-0 loss in a first-round NCAA Division III tournament game.
The 12-4 Panthers bounced back big from their upset loss in the first round of the NESCAC tournament, piling up advantages of 28-2 in shots at goal and 16-2 in penalty corners against the 12-8 Cavaliers.
Middlebury advanced to a weekend regional to be hosted by Ursinus (18-1). The Panthers will take on NESCAC foe Tufts (15-2), which defeated the Panthers, 3-0, at home in the opener for both teams. Ursinus will meet Juniata (18-4) in the other Saturday game, and the winners will meet on Sunday.
Middlebury coach Katharine DeLorenzo saw the game vs. Cabrini as a boost for the Panthers after they didn't play their best in losing to Trinity in a NESCAC quarterfinal, an Oct. 30 result that snapped a nine-game winning streak.
"We scored a lot of different types of goals, and a lot of different people scored," DeLorenzo said.
The Panthers' skills looked crisper than against the Bantams, even considering the lesser opposition, and DeLorenzo agreed they did a much better job at attacking from the wings after too often forcing the ball up the middle vs. Trinity.
"We did it well enough that it could have been the same against Trinity and still worked," DeLorenzo said. "I thought we distributed the ball well and that's why we controlled the tempo and controlled the possession."
The Panthers took the lead 3:48 in. After outstanding Cabrini goalie Caitlin Donahue stopped Sally Ryan's bid on the first Panther corner, Middlebury's Liz Garry broke up the clear and sent the ball back into the circle to leading scorer Lauren Greer. Greer picked the lower left corner from about 15 feet.
At 24:48, Greer made it 2-0 on a perfectly executed corner. The injection went to the top of the circle and then to the end line to right wing Charlotte Gardiner, who relayed to Greer in stride cutting to goal. Greer picked the same corner.
Donahue then made a series of fine stops on left wing Hannah Clarke and Greer, and in that stretch Panther goalie Becca Shaw came out to clear away a ball and was credited with her only save. One other drive from outside the circle by Cabrini's Colleen Anastasi was tipped wide in the 13th minute.
The Panthers finally added to their lead at 3:23, when middie Heather Karpas collected a ball on the left side of the circle, spun, and drove the ball just inside the near post.
Even when DeLorenzo subbed freely in the second half, the Cavaliers could have used LeBron — they failed to put a shot on either Shaw or substitute Madeleine Brooks after the break. Credit should go to the Panther defense of Madeleine Kahn, Garry and Margaret Souther, who played particularly well advancing the ball into the attack.
The Panthers added goals by Ryan, who tipped in a Garry drive; Gardiner, who dove to deflect in an alert goalmouth pass from Greer; and Hannah Deoul, who poked home a ball from close range in a scramble, with Katie Thiess assisting.
DeLorenzo put the game in perspective, including noting that Cabrini's Donahue led the nation in save percentage and total saves in 2009.
"In a game like this you know you're going to have lots of chances, so it sort of takes the pressure off and you play a little more relaxed. You know the pressure will be on and you'll have to make the most of fewer chances against a better team," she said. "But the Tufts team doesn't have a better goalie than we just played against."
Asked if the game against a weaker opponent would hurt the Panthers against tougher competition, or give them a needed boost of confidence, DeLorenzo chose the latter.
"Absolutely," she said. "Absolutely."
Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected].