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What the Data Say About How Biden Should Govern
The words and deeds he’ll need to lead the country and build his coalition.
Last month, I examined the exit-poll data to answer the question How did Joe Biden win the presidential election? I distilled six “hard truths” that help explain his victory. Drawing on those findings, I want to turn to a related question: What lessons does his victory hold for how he should govern?
This question may sound quaint after Donald Trump’s malicious incitement of a seditious riot at the Capitol and the partisan acrimony now surrounding the impeachment proceedings getting underway. But it is meant to be a tough-minded approach to address the challenge of how best to confront and overcome Trumpism, the dangers of which only became clearer on January 6.
It comes down to isolating and then reducing the ‘MAGA nation’ diehards, whom exit pollsters found were 31 percent of the electorate, while seeking to convince the remaining 15 to 16 percent of Trump voters that Trumpism is the wrong path for our nation. Success for the Biden administration will come from snaring over time at least some support from this segment of Republicans who have not swallowed Trump’s Kool-Aid, even as they voted for his re-election. This will mean, at times, pursuing policies and political messages that pit the wings of Trump’s coalition against one another.
Such a mutually reinforcing approach to politics and governance will require Biden to take one page from the playbook of Theodore Roosevelt and another from that of James K. Polk. He should pursue a TR-vintage bully pulpit presidency, marshaling public opinion as a fundamental tool of presidential leadership. Meanwhile, he should govern as Polk governed: Measured purely on his administration’s capacity to meet policy objectives, Polk had one of the most productive presidencies in American history.
I am not suggesting that Biden pursue popularity for popularity’s sake. TR always saw the bully pulpit as a tool for overcoming congressional and special-interest opposition to his reform agenda. Nor am I proposing that Biden seek to imitate the substance of Polk’s policy (he pursued goals that exacerbated the regional tensions and led to the Civil War) or that Biden declare himself a one-term president (part of what got Polk elected). Rather, I am suggesting that Biden would be wise to govern as if he will never again have to face the gauntlet of presidential primaries.
Both the nation and the Democratic party need to have the Biden presidency meld political popularity with purposeful policy. As Richard Neustadt argued in his seminal treatise Presidential Power, any president’s ability to succeed is contingent upon maintaining and deploying his public prestige. Having strong polling numbers is not an end in itself. With good strategy, though, public support can be leveraged to produce results—such as securing legislative successes and Senate confirmations of appointees, not to mention potential victories in special elections and the 2022 midterms.
Having begun with my conclusion, let me now explain how I arrived at this recommendation for President Biden.
What Voters Want Most
Let’s start with a universal lesson of American politics: For all elected officials, there is a gap between why they wanted people to vote for them and why people really did vote them into office. It is pretty clear that Trump was defeated in 2020 because voters felt he had mishandled the coronavirus pandemic. In effect, Biden’s voters wanted his presidency to break the back of COVID-19, as a precursor to sustained economic growth whose fruits are distributed more equitably to middle- and working-class families, supplemented by making progress on a trio of longer-term problems (affordable health care coverage, racial justice, and climate change).
This is shown in the AP VoteCast exit-polling data: 41 percent of all voters cited the pandemic as their most important issue in deciding how to vote—and they broke for Biden over Trump by 73-25. In that same exit poll, those citing the economy as their most important issue (28 percent of the total vote) broke for Trump by 81-16 percent.
The other issues that broke for Biden over Trump were health care (rated the most important issue by 9 percent of the voters), race relations (7 percent), and climate change (4 percent). Altogether, some 61 percent of voters picked one of these issues as their most important—dwarfing the 39 percent who selected one of the issues from the cluster that went for Trump (the economy, immigration, abortion, law enforcement, and foreign policy). Consequently, for Biden the key to meeting the expectations of voters lies in defeating the pandemic (both the efficient distribution of the vaccine and, relatedly, a slowing of new cases and deaths) and generating economic growth (especially as measured in terms of jobs and disposable income among middle- and working-class households), while over the long haul guaranteeing health care coverage, helping to diminish racial strife, and forging a consensus around addressing the existential crisis of climate change.
If the Biden administration can succeed at cracking the code of that cluster of issues, it will be meeting the expectations and aspirations of the overwhelming majority of voters.
Getting the Suburbs to Dislike Your Side Less
A second lesson: Neither party has a lock on the support of the nation’s suburbs. The suburbs cast a much larger share of the total vote (45-47 percent in large-turnout elections and 48-50 percent in low-turnout elections) than either the urban cores (31-34 percent share) or small-town and rural communities (17-22 percent depending upon the overall turnout pattern). In fact, neither party has realigned the electorate to form an enduring majority coalition, precisely because the suburbs have zigzagged between the parties by narrow margins. In 2008, Barack Obama carried the suburbs by 3 percent; in 2016, Donald Trump did by 4 percent. To realign the electorate, either the Democrats or the Republicans must once again consistently carry the suburbs by double digits (as Democrats did in 2018 and as Biden replicated in 2020).
From the Democrats’ perspective, if President Biden and his administration can hold on to their gains in the suburbs and increase their urban turnout margins by 8-10 percent, while shaving just 5-7 percent off the current Republican margins from rural and small-town voters, the Trumpist coalition will look a lot less formidable, perhaps even vestigial by 2028.
But that will be no easy task. For one thing, the suburbs are increasingly diverse when measured by income, educational levels, race, ethnicity, and religion (including lack of organized religion). They vary, too, from the inner-ring suburbs close to urban centers, out to the middle-ring suburbs, and then to the exurbs. These suburban voters see things to both like and dislike in the dominant wing of each party.
And what drives the dominant wing of each party? For the Democrats, it is the urban core. For the Republicans, it is the rural roots. This has left suburban voters in the uncomfortable position of voting more in opposition than in support of both parties and their candidates in presidential and congressional elections. Against the Republicans in 2006, 2008, 2018, and 2020, especially for president; and against the Democrats in 2002, 2010, 2014, and 2016. Therefore, if they want to forge sustaining governing majorities, candidates of both parties would be wise to listen carefully to the political concerns reflected in the voices of suburban voters.
Common Ground on Criminal Justice?
On matters of criminal justice reform, there are two views held by distinct but overlapping majorities.
A majority of American voters wants to end racial profiling, which they associate with violent, race-based tragedies.
And a majority of American voters does not support defunding the police.
While advocates on both sides of those two issues see the choices as mutually exclusive, polls show that most voters see a more nuanced reality. One senses that a majority of voters is actually yearning for an enduring and singular majority around criminal justice issues, one that protects communities with proactive community policing but does so without practicing racialism, which far too frequently ends in the tragic loss of life.
Politically, seeking common ground on criminal justice reform can prove tricky at best and treacherous at worst. Elected officials trying to find that common ground tend to run into what Burke Marshall—who headed the civil rights division in the Justice Department under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson—once observed: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall catch hell from both sides.” But there is common ground out there, as elusive as it can seem: Voters, especially those in and around the urban-based metro centers, want safe communities and racial justice.
Governing and Gridlock
To best nurture and ultimately to expand his party’s electoral coalition, Joe Biden needs to produce governing success. In this regard, the great diversity of the Democratic coalition can be a huge vulnerability. Each component has its own concerns and challenges—which means its own potential sources of dissatisfaction. Millennial voters may be more concerned about their economic challenges while minority voters might be more concerned about justice issues and seniors might be more concerned about the pandemic or health care in general.
This means that governing gridlock hurts Democrats far more than it does Republicans. And Mitch McConnell loves gridlock. “I am a proud guardian of gridlock,” he said back in 1994. He relished making gridlock his fundamental goal in President Obama’s first term. His gift for gridlock has continued into the present—contributing to the squabbling over COVID relief last year. Even with the Senate now evenly divided (with a Democratic vice president as the tie-breaker and a Democratic majority leader controlling the calendar), McConnell will find ways to stall and delay.
The deeper reality is that while McConnell takes grief in the media, the Senate Republicans he leads feel little actual pressure from their base to forge compromises with the Democrats. Meanwhile, the gridlock that McConnell’s Senate imposed in Obama’s second term contributed to Trump’s election in 2016 (by producing cynicism that invigorated GOP turnout and flattened Democratic turnout). Democrats can bemoan this irony-laced reality all they want, but they would be wise to realize that governing productivity will be a vital building block in their ability to offset the bleak recent history of a president’s party losing one or both houses of Congress in its first midterms (Clinton in 1994, Obama in 2010, Trump in 2018).
The Bully Pulpit and Policy Progress
With these lessons in mind, how can Joe Biden best position his presidency and his party for both governing and political success?
First, Biden’s overarching goal should be to produce results, right off the bat and continuing throughout his term as president, focusing like a laser beam on the issues the electorate cares most about. That means the Biden administration should do everything it can to break the hold of the COVID pandemic as a public health threat, leading into generating sharp economic growth by the end of 2021 into 2022. Then, as mentioned above, the Biden administration should look for results on expanding affordable health care coverage, crafting a new consensus around balanced criminal justice reform, and addressing the threat of climate change.
A silver lining: Generating results, especially with a 50-50 Senate, will require skillful compromises that expand rather than contract public support for Biden’s program and policies.
While the progressive wing of the Democratic party is made up of master diagnosticians of the inequities in social justice in our nation, a large majority of the electorate does not yet trust pure progressives to be the prescribing physicians implementing public policy. When liberals are just under a quarter of the electorate, as measured in the Edison exit polls (remembering that progressives are but a fraction of the total liberal base), it is a function of hard math that to enact progressive goals, Democrats need to do so by inculcating moderate and even a smattering of conservative support (in terms of public opinion) as a precursor to success in Congress. It would be foolhardy for Democrats to mimic Trump and naïvely act as if obsessing about one’s own base, while shunning the quest for majority support from the overall electorate, proves a wise approach to governing.
Thus, second, Biden would be wise to pursue TR’s bully-pulpit approach to presidential leadership. Biden should strive at every point to maintain and expand his own personal popularity, but also public support for his administration’s programmatic thrusts, so that public opinion becomes a battering ram to push a heretofore gridlocked Congress into timely action. How refreshing it would be, after Trump never crossed 50 percent in terms job approval in the public polling data, if Biden as president rarely or never dropped below 50 percent. The goal here would not be to satisfy his vanity; rather, the goal would be to give Biden the leverage needed to engage Congress in “action, and action now,” as FDR liked to say. Negotiated compromises that enact measures that the public is demanding—especially to combat the pandemic and its derivative economic toll—offer the best hope of locking in public support.
Third, the best way for Biden—like Polk before him—to make productivity his hallmark is through purposeful, albeit incremental, gains via by executive orders and statutes. Even though Democrats on the left will recoil from the need to compromise, if Biden and his administration make progress on the public’s expectations for the problems that need government’s attention, that will help the Democrats avoid the kinds of crippling political losses most recent first-term midterm elections have delivered. The Democrats need to find and hold the vital center of American politics and infuse it with meaningful action. Progressive leaders and advocacy organizations may scoff at half-a-loaf victories, but if they produce real results, that will help Democrats overcome five decades of consistent and quite effective conservative messaging that liberals (now read progressives) can’t be trusted to lead the nation.
Ironically, Trump’s approach to governing has done grievous damage to the public’s trust in the governance skills of Republicans. That in turn creates an opening for the Democrats. When you pierce the veil of the exit-polling data from the 2020 elections, one senses but can’t quite grasp that a relatively silent majority of the electorate wants the adults to take charge of government—leaders of action and competence and integrity and transparency. The question becomes whether Biden’s Democrats can fulfill that yearning; doing so will be essential for maintaining the consent of the governed. My hunch is that if Biden combines the best of TR and Polk, he can get his job approval ratings consistently up to at least 56-58 percent. To repeat, sustained public prestige, at a high level, is an essential ingredient in effective presidential leadership, even in a deeply polarized electorate.
Unlike Polk, Biden need not announce that his will be a one-term presidency, but he would be wise to govern as if it were. If Biden governs as if he never intended on facing Democratic primaries ever again, he could still respect his party’s left flank without genuflecting to it. Nor would he have to cower before the right. The paradox is that by governing in this way, Biden would be giving the Democratic party, including its progressive wing, its best chance for marching toward majority support. As Thomas Jefferson observed after his own narrow election win in 1800, great initiatives are not built upon slender majorities. When liberals are still less than a quarter of the electorate, Democrats will need the strong support of moderates—and would benefit from an ongoing alliance with Never Trump Republicans—to accomplish meaningful results in the next four years. Those who doubt such realities should study history and recall the importance of Lincoln absorbing Free Soil Democrats into his governing coalition and FDR doing the same with the old Bull Moose Republicans, who were his era’s swing voters in the Midwest and West, when he consolidated the New Deal coalition.
Both to govern effectively and to become the transitional political leader he promised to be at the outset of his campaign, Biden’s best course will be to use the bully pulpit to help in generating a productive first term, by either smashing or vaulting over gridlock. In his newly redecorated West Wing, President Biden should consider prominently displaying portraits or busts of Polk and TR—within eyesight of every visiting member of Congress.


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Sweet Alyssum: a thick wavy carpet of loveliness
garden birds and faeries delight
These pictures are part of the Sunday Shadow Shot challenge at hey harriet. Join in, its fun. It is really nice actually being part of a weekly photo challenge. I just joined Pink Saturday at How sweet the sound. It is really nice, on the weekend I have the fun of taking lots of interesting pictures, but no pressure to come up with a ton of content to write up (though anyone who stops by here knows I write like I talk…and talk…and talk…) and I have met so many great kindred blogging spirits by being part of these challenges.
So happy clickin' and bloggin' to all like-minded souls out there.

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It's September 20th. In our band we all know what that means. Our EP, Off By One, is now available to the whole world!
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Instead of the Night Light, we will be playing at Oakland.Secret, at 577 5th Street, Oakland! Still with Surplus 1980 and the Dirty Snacks Ensemble! Still a formidable night of music! Hooray!
Monday, September 12, 2016
Thursday, September 08, 2016
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Diatessaron are a Canadian progressive rock band currently on their first US tour, and they've asked Reconnaissance Fly and Grex to provide local support. Come see and hear us this coming Tuesday at 8 pm at the El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco. The Facebook invite can be found here.

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The Impact of Nutrition on ADHD
Proper nutrition is important to the proper function of the brain; this is a no truer statement when it comes to managing ADHD. ADHD is a neuro-biochemical imbalance in the brain characterized by either hyperactivity, inattentiveness or a combination of both. As with most chemical imbalances in the brain, diet and exercise can vastly improve the symptoms and let those with ADHD harness the massive energy and creativity that comes with it.
The ADHD brain learns differently, thinks differently, and is often highly creative. Some of the best inventors, musicians, entrepreneurs and comedians are ADHD, Einstein, Edison, Robin Williams, and Richard Branson to name a few.
From reading up on the disorder, I’ve discovered a few things. People with a neuro-typical brain think linearly. They can logically put together a project, with a beginning, middle and an end. The ADHD brain on the other hand thinks tangentially. A person with ADHD is more likely to ignore the directions for that flat packed Ikea cabinet and opt to examine the pieces and then put it together. They see connections to things others may miss and it’s this out of the box way of looking at the world that for some makes ADHD a blessing most of the time.
ADHD is not new, although we are seeing an increase in the number of children diagnosed with it and an increase in the number of Ritalin prescriptions. It’s just been with in the last twenty years or so that more and more is being discovered about ADHD, it’s comorbid combinations and connections to learning disabilities. If ADHD has been around for generations, why does it now seem to be an epidemic, wreaking havoc in our schools, places of employment and in our relationships?
Let’s consider for a minute the changes to our food supply over the last forty years. The food our grandparents grew up eating was fresh, locally grown and free of unnecessary additives. Today our food is shipped to the local big box corporate grocery from anywhere in the country. It’s laced with artificial colors, flavors and other chemical additives designed to make the food taste better. We eat more processed foods than necessary, and even our fresh foods lack some of the nutrients they once had. Most researchers suggest that diet, especially a large consumption of sugar and artificial colorings, high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavors are detrimental to the ADHD brain. Is it possible that the diet we feed our children is the cause of the increased issues in schools with ADHD?
When I was in Great Britain last year, I noticed not one child anywhere we went had issues with attention or behavior. There were no outbursts or temper tantrums. Unlike in the US, their food supply is local, and a bit less commercial. They don’t fill their foods with chemicals, or an abundance of sugar. Eating clean is a way of life for them. Could the lack of chemicals in their diet be the reason they have fewer cases of diagnosed ADHD? In fact, French children diagnosis rate is only .5%. That is not to say it doesn’t exist, but perhaps, it’s more controlled with the unique characteristics of an ADHD brain working in the person favor rather than against them.
If you or your children have been diagnosed with ADHD, the best treatment is to change your diet, first. Eliminating sugar, soda, artificial colors and processed junk will help minimize your symptoms, it won’t cure your ADHD brain, but it will help with the ability to focus and concentrate. Eat a balanced diet with an emphasis on lean protein, fresh fruits and veggies and healthy fats. One problem with the ADHD brain is it craves carbs, and not the good kind. It wants the sugar to satisfy the need for that “feel good” chemical dopamine. Getting plenty of exercise will help satisfy that craving rather than giving into the desire for the empty calorie of high sugar foods.

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Shaping brief in comfortable stretchy cotton. Natural and anti-allergic, helps the skin breathe. Designed to follow the natural movements of the body. Seamless, it is completely invisible under garments. Shapes the waist, lifts the bottom, smooths the tummy. Note- the item pictured is the White version used for illustration purposes only. Item for sale is the Black version.
78% Cotton 12% Poliamide 10% Elastan

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The Benefits of Car Parking Barrier Gates
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Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” will Star Pamela Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, and Billie Lourd
Gia Coppola is directing The Last Showgirl, which stars Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, and Billie Lourd. The script was written by Kate Gersten, with Robert Schwartzman and Natalie Farrey serving as producers. Pinky Promise’s Jesse Burgum and Kara Durrett will executive produce.
“I’ve always wanted to make a movie in Vegas,” says Coppola. “I’m so proud of our cast and crew, especially Pamela. I can’t wait to share her daring and heartfelt performance!”
The movie centers on an experienced showgirl who, after her 30-year run, must make plans for the future as her show abruptly ends. She is in her sixties and is a dancer who is unsure of her future. She tries to mend her troubled mother-daughter connection, as her daughter was frequently overlooked in favor of her showgirl relatives.
“Dream project, dream cast,” Schwartzman said “We couldn’t be more honored and appreciative of the chance to tell an authentic Las Vegas story that pays homage to the iconic Showgirl, told through Gia’s unique sense of style and visual storytelling.”
Production on the movie was just completed. Sales are handled by CAA. Untitled and CAA are Coppola’s representatives. Independent Artist Group represents Anderson. CAA is Curtis’s rep. Meisner Entertainment Group, CAA, and lawyer Karl Austen represent Bautista. CAA and Brookside Artist Management represent the song. Anonymous Content and WME are Shipka’s representatives. CAA is Lourd’s rep. Gersh and 3 Arts represent Gersten.


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How Jerseyville Was NamedHickory Grove, a settlement near a point of timber in the Macoupen [sic] prairie, Greene County, 12 miles south of Carrollton, and on the road to Alton. The settlement is spreading over a fine, rich prairie, moderately undulating. From J. M. Peck, A Gazetter of Illinois, published Jacksonville, Illinois, 1834.
Information from published history with additional information from a resident.
In 1834, for the purpose of establishing a Post Office here, the principal inhabitants of Jerseyville vicinity met at the Red House, to give the new town a new name. Those who attended that meeting were, G. Patterson, Geo. Richards, J. E. Cooper, G. W. Lowder, J. Allen, R. B. Robbins, Isaac Darneil, E. A. D’Arcy, Alfred Carpenter, John Ellis, J. W. Lott, E. M. Daley, Murray Cheney, N. L. Adams, A. H. Burritt, N. Miner, Franklin Potts, and J. A. Potts, Dr. E. A. D’Arcy was chairman of the meeting. Several names were proposed for the new town. Major Patterson proposed that it be called Livingston. Carpenter, an old soldier, wished it to be called Liberty. Richards, a New Hampshire man, wished to immortalize the memory of that decaying state; by christening this promising town with the insignificant name New Hampshire. Cheney proposed that the proprietors of the town should give it whatever name they pleased. This proposition seeming to meet the views of the majority of the meeting, Dr. Lott, a native of New Jersey, was called on for a name. He arose and thanked the people, and with a characteristic expletive, and in the genuine Jersey dialect, cried out, “I’d like to have it called Jerseywille.” The doctor, sharing the common fate of humanity did not obtain the full accomplishment of his wishes, for the meeting voted to call the place Jerseyville, not Jerseywille, and then agreed on E. M. Daley for Postmaster, subject to the will of the higher powers. After this important matter was accomplished, the meeting adjourned, according to the Illinois liquor law of those times, to drink the health of the new town in flowing bowls of tanzy bitters. The people obtained their desire with regard to the Post Office and Postmaster; E. M. Daley being appointed the first Postmaster of Jerseyville.
From “A Thanksgiving Discourse Delivered by Rev. L. Grosvenor, in the Presbyterian Church, November 24, 1853.” In Rev. Marshall M. Cooper, History of Jerseyville, Illinois 1822 to 1901. Jerseyville Republican Print, 1901. Also printed in the 1919 History of Jersey County.
Jersey County Democrat, July 14, 1881
While in Virden last Saturday we met Capt. Cheney, father of Supervisor Cheney, and listened to an interesting account of the naming of Jerseyville over a jug of whiskey and tanzy. One of the company wanted it named Livingston; another, “Liberty,” because he had fought, bled and died for liberty (hic); but it was left to Lott & Daly, who laid out the town and called it Jerseyville. “Although at that time,” said Capt Cheney, “there were no more signs of a Jerseyman in the town than there is that there is one in the kingdom of heaven.”
Jersey County Democrat, August 25, 1881
The Naming of Jerseyville
The following communication, sent by Mr. Ayres, is in answer to Capt. Cheney’s account of the naming of Jerseyville. Mr. Ayres is now a resident of Chicago and is one of its wealthy citizens. He is always pleased to meet with residents of this place, and is well versed in the history of our city and its citizens:
Chicago, Aug, 1st, 1881
J.M. Page, Editor Jersey County Democrat:
Dear Sir – My attention has been called to an interview had by you with Capt. Cheney, relative to the naming of Jerseyville, in which the Captain remarked that there were no more signs of a Jerseyman present on that occasion than that there is one in the kingdom of heaven.
As to the truth of the latter clause of the above paragraph, I leave to Capt. Cheney to be verified by him in the hereafter. But as one of the survivors of the little band of Jersey blues present on that occasion, I beg to remind the Captain that Jno. W. Lott, Rescarrick Ayres and myself were from New Jersey. The two former with Col. Daly of New York had purchased, in the summer of 1834, 40 acres of land from Mr. Carpenter, and had entered several tracts of government lands at what was then called Hickory Grove – now Jerseyville.
On the occasion of naming Jerseyville, invitations were sent out to the surrounding farmers, and nine persons, all told, assembled to do honor to the occasion. amongst the honored and honoring guests was my old friend Capt. Cheney. And the name of the village was a foregone conclusion with us, knowing, as we did, the potency of a name upon Jerseymen, as from them help was expected – and, be it to their credit, did come – to build up the village and reduce the vast rolling prairies into one of the most charming rural districts in this, our adopted state. But this is a digression from the point.
Hickory Grove Hotel, or the Red Tavern, was an unpretentious edifice, full of good cheer to the hungry traveller, and presided over by Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, situated at the foot of the rise of ground and in the grove, just north of the village site. On the opposite side of the road stood a long, low log stable, at which the stage horses were fed, and from which Mr. Carpenter and his guests drew their inspiration. Mrs. Carpenter – the kind, good soul – was an exemplary woman, and believed in tanzy for its medical virtues, but in combination with whiskey she could not tolerate it about the house. So, when the all-important christening of the bantling took place, a jug of tanzy whiskey was furnished by mine host, and under the shade of a friendly hickory the ceremony took place, but whether the beverage was partaken of by either Capt. Cheney or myself perhaps I should not mention here.
Very respectfully, Enos Ayres

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The 10 Best Spinning Reels
10. Pflueger President
- stainless steel main shaft
- loud sure-click bail
- slightly wobbly on retrieval
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9. Okuma Cedros
- drag dissipates heat well
- feels a little off-balance
- corrodes quickly from saltwater
|Rating||4.1 / 5.0|
8. Okuma Avenger ABF
- good hook setting capability
- drag system is watertight
- clicker isn't very loud
|Rating||3.9 / 5.0|
7. Abu Garcia Orra SX
- best suited to light game fishing
- nine high performance bearings
- crank can be set to either side
|Rating||4.2 / 5.0|
6. Penn Spinfisher V
- double drag system
- built like a tank
- smooth casting and retrieving
|Rating||4.9 / 5.0|
5. Daiwa Black Gold
- high line capacity
- doesn't require mono backing
- great value for the price
|Rating||4.2 / 5.0|
4. Shimano Stradic FK
- shielded bearings
- counterbalanced rotor
- smooth low-vibration drag
|Rating||4.3 / 5.0|
3. Abu Garcia Revo SX
- doesn't flex under heavy pressure
- rarely winds up with wind knots
- performs like more expensive options
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2. Penn Battle II
- made with all non-corrosive metal
- simple locomotive gearing
- easy to take apart for maintenance
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1. Shimano Saragosa
- roughly a 40-inch retrieve per crank
- robust one-piece bail wire
- handle has a comfortable grip
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A Reel For Every Fisherman
Spinning reels are the most popular type of fishing reel in use today, most likely because of their ease of use and versatility. Unlike traditional baitcasters, it doesn't take much skill to learn how to use one, and the chances of winding up with a messy bird's nest, which is what fisherman call a knotted up mess of line resulting from poor casting technique, are relatively slim. Depending on the build quality and size of the reel, they can be used in salt or freshwater, for catches big and small, and for everything from trolling to finesse fishing.
In addition to their completely open design and horizontal orientation, one of the main things that separates a spinning reel from a traditional baitcaster or fly reel is the fixed-spool. In a spinning reel, the spool never moves and instead the line is retrieved by the bail and line roller spinning around the spool. On most other types of fishing reels, except for a spincaster, the actual spool will rotate.
All spinning reels have a drag system that allows the fisherman or women to set the amount of resistance a fish feels when it bites on the line. The tighter the drag is set, the more resistance a fish feels, and vice versa. Drag systems also help when fighting a fish. True anglers know that using the lightest tackle possible not only makes for more fun, but also gives the user a better feel for what is happening on the other end of the line and makes it easier to present lures in the most lifelike fashion possible. In addition, light tackle reduces the chances of a fish seeing or sensing the line and becoming spooked.
Unfortunately, this also means that fisherman are often landing fish capable of breaking their line if they run at full power in the opposite direction. The drag system can be set for a certain resistance level so that instead of the line breaking when a fish runs, the spool feeds out more line. Then the angler can begin reeling again when the fish takes a break. This give and take wears out the fish so that it can eventually be pulled up to the boat or shoreline. If handled correctly, a fisherman can even land large game fish on light tackle.
Choose Your Reel Carefully
If you are planning to go fishing and are in the market for a quality spinning reel, there are several factors you should consider before making your final purchase.
First, you can choose from a front drag or rear drag spinning reel. In general, front drag reel models are the best performers and hold up the longest to continuous use. They are best for going after that big catch that you brag about to all of your buddies. The rear drag model, while not as durable and long-lasting, is easier to use and might be the best choice for someone who has never used a spinning reel before.
Second, check for the number of ball bearings your spinning reel has. Most quality reels use stainless steel ball bearings, and the more ball bearings, the better the reel performs.
Third, make sure you check the gear ratio. This means finding out how many times the reel spins each time you turn the handle. The higher the gear ratio, the better the reel. With some spinning reels, you can even choose a gear system where you have the option to switch from high to low gears.
Fourth, find out what material your reel frame and spool are made of. If they are made from aluminum, they will be heavier but more durable and more likely to hold up in the event of a big catch. If they are made of graphite, they are lighter weight and less prone to wear, but they are not as strong and can break under too much pressure.
Fifth, check for balance and comfort. The reel and rod need to be the right fit for your hands, and you need to be able to operate it comfortably. Even if it has all other elements that you want, if it feels too large or cumbersome or too small and flimsy, it's probably not the right reel for you.
Finally, consider where you plan to use it. Are you fishing on the open ocean, or do you plan to stick to fast moving rivers? Where you intend to fish and what type of fish you intend to catch will help you make your final decision.
A Brief History Of The Spinning Reel
Written evidence of fishing reels date back as far as the 4th century. Throughout the centuries, fishing reels were depicted in Chinese and Armenian artwork. In 1651, a version of the fishing reel was mentioned in "The Art of Angling." There is evidence of fishing rods dating back as far as 2,000 B.C. depicted on stone in Egypt, China, Greece and other ancient civilizations.
During the English civil war, fly fishing began to become popular. Several books were published over the next fifty years on the art of fishing and angling and the best ways to catch the biggest fish. This is when fishing rods and reels began to see a rise in development.
Spinning reels were first used in North America in the 1870s. They were created so they could be used with fishing flys or other types of lures to catch freshwater fish such as salmon or trout. They also helped to prevent the line from tangling during backlash if a fish slipped the line.
It wasn't until 1948 that an advanced type of spinning reel was introduced by Mitchell Reel Company in France. It was called the Mitchell 300, and it fixed the reel permanently to the rod and was offered in a wide variety of types and sizes for fishermen in both fresh water and salt water.
Today, there are many popular reel companies that develop and sell high-quality spinning reels offering a wide range of options from which consumers can choose.


Hamilton, GA – The police chief of Hamilton resigned in disgrace and one of his officers was fired after bodycam video was discovered that showed them using racial slurs and having a “horrifying” conversation about slavery and now the district attorney wants to charge both men (video below).
Buddy Walker, assistant to Hamilton Mayor Julie Brown, said the conversation held between the two law enforcement officers took place before a June 2020 Black Lives Matter rally was discovered after officers told city leaders they weren’t wearing their bodycams because they didn’t work, NBC News reported.
Walker said the problem was investigated and it turned out the cameras were just full.
A city employee went through the footage to make sure that there wasn’t anything important left on it before it was all deleted, NBC News reported.
That’s when the footage of the conversation between now-former Hamilton Police Chief Gene Allmond and Hamilton Police Officer John Brooks came to light.
The city employee notified Mayor Pro Tempore Ransom Farley, who oversees the Hamilton Police Department, of what he had found, NBC News reported.
Farley and Walker watched the video together on Jan. 25.
Walker said that Farley, who is black, had an especially strong response to the offensive video and the “reaction from him was enough to break your heart,” NBC News reported.
“We watched the first portion, and he got up and left the room until he could calm down, and we watched the rest of it,” Walker said.
The video began with Chief Allmond and Officer Brooks having a conversation about what was said on FOX News about the fatal officer-involved shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta after he stole an officer’s Taser and tried to shoot him with it.
“What they’re saying now is, ‘Well, they didn’t have to shoot him, it’s just a Taser,'” Officer Brooks told the police chief in the video. “Then how come when you tase a f—ing n—a, it’s like you done killed him 27 times?”
He went on to explain that shooting Brooks was justified because firing a Taser at an officer is an aggravated assault, the video showed.
“The mayor up there, she’s already fired the officer … without a hearing,” Officer Brooks added, referring to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. “She’s pushing real hard. They say she’s now the front-runner to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential candidate.”
“You’re kidding,” Chief Allmond replied in the video.
Then Officer Brooks opined that he would rather “f—k the mayor than than Stacey Abrams.”
“Yes, sir,” Chief Allmond agreed in the video.
At that point, the dispatcher attempted to send the men to respond to a woman with a gun call, but Officer Brooks responded the call was outside the city of Hamilton.
So Chief Allmond called the dispatcher on his cell phone and told her that he and Officer Brooks were going to be tied up with the Black Lives Matter protest, the video showed.
Then the chief began muttering to Officer Brooks about Black Lives Matter protests in general.
“Protests, son of a b—h. (Unintelligible) — these f–king people,” Chief Allmond said. “I didn’t own no slaves, my folks didn’t own no slaves. What are we talking about? Two hundred f–king years ago?”
Officer Brooks told Chief Allmond that he had researched his own family and found evidence they were slave owners, the video showed.
“I’m sure there were a lot of them mistreated; I don’t have any doubt about that,” Chief Allmond told Officer Brooks. “But for the most part, it seems to me like they furnished them a house to live in, they furnished them clothes to put on their back, they furnished them food to put on their table, and all they had to do was f—ing work.”
“And now, we give them all those things, and they don’t have to f–king work,” the police chief added.
Hamilton City Attorney Ron Iddins said that once he and the mayor had seen the video, Chief Allmond and Officer Brooks were given the option to resign or be fired, NBC News reported.
Iddins said that Officer Brooks asked to view the footage and then after he saw it, he chose to resign.
“He was instructed to turn in his city equipment and pick up his personal belongings Tuesday morning. He did not. Therefore, on Wednesday he was terminated,” the city attorney explained.
Chief Allmond resigned the next morning, NBC News reported.
“The next morning we found his equipment and resignation letter taped to the computer monitor in the police station,” Iddins said.
He said that neither now-former Chief Allmond nor now-former Officer Brooks believed the bodycam was working, NBC News reported.
Walker said that former Officer Brooks tried to apologize to Farley but Farley did not accept it.
“This was just heartbreaking for him,” Walker said. “I’m 74 years old — I grew up in the South. You know, I’ve heard a lot in my life, but I can honestly say without a doubt it was the most unbelievable and horrifying video that I really think that I have seen.”
“It’s like it’s a nightmare, honestly,” he added, according to NBC News.
Neither the former police chief nor the former officer had any official complaints against them when they resigned, but Walker said anonymous complaints against both of the former law enforcement officers have rolled in since the video surfaced.
On Tuesday, Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Mark Jones announced he intended to charge both former Chief Allmond and former Officer Brooks with violating their oaths of office, WTVM reported.
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A chilling video posted online Tuesday, purportedly from the Islamic State militant group, shows Japanese hostage Kenji Goto saying he and a captive Jordanian pilot have less than "24 hours to live" unless a terrorist detained in Jordan is released.
The message shows Goto, who is reportedly the only surviving Islamic State hostage captured last week, wearing an orange prison outfit and holding a picture of the pilot, Moaz al-Kassasbeh. It was posted to social media accounts that sympathize with the terrorist organization.
Goto says this is his "last message" and "it is me for her," referring to suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi. She's currently awaiting execution in Jordan for her role in a series of deadly al-Qaida attacks in Amman that left at least 57 people dead in 2005.
The video comes on the heels of a message released last Saturday with Goto holding a photo of what appeared to be the corpse of the other Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa. The group previously requested a $200 million ransom for both men.
"You have seen the photo of my cell mate Haruna slaughtered in the land of the Islamic caliphate," Goto says in the tape. "You were warned. You were given a deadline, and so my captors acted upon their words. ... [Prime Minister Shinzo] Abe, you killed Haruna. You did not take the threat of my captors seriously and you did not act within the 72 hours."
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Seriously, spoilers after the jump. But let’s get real, there’s an Avengers movie coming down the pike with Thor in it, and everybody knows that. This ain’t The Crying Game.
• Why did Agent Coulson let Thor walk out of the SHIELD compound, even when he knew he was not Dr. Donald Blake?
• So Donald Blake has nothing at all to do with Thor except … he’s Jane Foster’s ex? The Thunder God’s alter-ego from the comics is a peel-off nametag in the movie?
• Thor couldn’t lift Mjolnir (“Meow-Meow,” lolz) because he was being a dick. When he became selfless and offered to get blown up to save the world, the hammer flew out of the pit and came to him. Is that because he was suddenly worthy? Or because at that exact moment, as we saw, Odin woke up from the Odinsleep? That is to say, did Thor triumph on his own merits, or was he saved by the Dad Out of the Machine?
• There are four women with dialogue in this film. Do any of them ever talk about anything other than Thor and, vaguely, astrophysics and how not to drive in a blinding dust storm? (This review aside, I would argue that the answer is largely “no.”)
• Does Thor’s mom have a name? I mean, I know she does, but does anybody in the movie call her by that name?
• Does Thor even really like Jane Foster, in anything more than a courtly, thanks-for-helping-out way? She’s the one who gets all kerfuffily around him, and when he leaves for Asgard, she’s the one who shoves her tongue in his mouth.
• Loki’s mad at Odin for favoring his older son over him, and at the Frost Giants for leaving him to die by exposure as a baby, right? Because that wasn’t super-clear.
• But Odin said he found Blue Baby Loki in the Jotunheim temple. Is a temple the kind of place one leaves a child to die? Wouldn’t there be lots of other Frost Giants there going, “Hey, did somebody forget a baby?”
• Every upswept ponytail in this movie leaves an unsightly thatch of hair decorating the back of the neck. Hair colors offer no complement to actors’ skin tones. Every male has hair that is either ridiculous (Fandrall, Odin, Hogun) or simply there (Selvig, Loki). Every woman has hair than can be described as simply “long.” Not one wig looks like anything other than a wig. Is hairstylist Amy McHale (TV’s “Cavemen”) the worst cosmetic artist working in Hollywood today, or did she simply build and apply all the hairpieces using only her elbows while recovering from Lasik?
• Do you think Kenneth Branagh, the foremost Shakespearean adaptor of our day, sees any parallels between the story of Thor and those of Hamlet and Lear? Any parallels between Volstagg and Falstaff? Do you think you could ask him that question and build an entirely useless trend/feature article out of it, Houston Chronicle? Isn’t asking a Shakespearean star to point out Shakespearean parallels in drama kind of like asking a physicist to point out gravity during a basketball game?
• If Thor can so seriously get shit done once he’s carrying his hammer … and for real, Thor with his hammer gets shit done … why does he even need to join the Avengers?
• So … are the Frost Giants okay?

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The Sierra Club, Friends of Makakilo and an attorney for state Sen. Clayton Hee are vowing to sue the Hawaii Land Use Commission to block its decision that OK'd the land reclassification necessary for D.R. Horton - Schuler Homes Division to pursue its Hoopili master-planned community in West Oahu.
LUC commissioners approved by an 8-1 vote last Friday a land designation change from agriculture to urban for the 1,554 acres between Kapolei, Ewa and Waipahu where D.R. Horton wants to build the massive housing project.
Honolulu Civil Beat is reporting that the LUC ruling is likely to set off a string of legal posturing by opponents of the project.
In addition to possible lawsuits by the Sierra Club, Friends of Makakilo and Hee, Civil Beat also is reporting that Honolulu mayoral candidate Ben Cayetano has said he would work to kill the Hoopili project if elected.
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Liverpool at risk from surface water flooding
Liverpool is the 4th worst city at risk through surface
water flooding in England (not rivers bursting banks). These were the
findings of a Flood Risk Assessment report given to Liverpool’s
Regeneration, Housing & Sustainability Select Committee on 25th
Greenfield sites were identified as efficient drainage areas to reduce
flood risk and that many built hard surfaces in Liverpool were at risk
to surface flooding. Green spaces in the flood risk areas of Liverpool
serve to limit flood risk. The effects of Climate Change may also make
Liverpool more vulnerable to surface flooding.
The committee was told that lakes in parks help to prevent flooding. For
example, the lake in Sefton Park is important to flood risk management
- whereas the former lake at Dovecot Park L14, after it was filled-in,
caused local flooding.
The recent work on the River Alt water course in Croxteth was to limit
flood risk. The river was diverted into a channel alongside Stonebridge
Lane. A walkway was added and with landscape planting the area named 'Alt
Meadows Park'. Altering the course of the river has opened up a large
area of land with limited flood risk and for the potential of a substantial
development site near the A580 East Lancs Road.
More former school playing fields
dug up for housing
Many former school playing fields are in the process of
being purchased or developed for housing. The loss of school grounds,
many designated green space, do not need to be publicly advertised for
disposal and therefore there is no public consultation over the loss of
this green space. Councils seek permission to decommission school sites
directly from the Secretary of State for Education.
In Liverpool at the beginning of 2016:
Redrow Homes plan to build 22 houses on the former Ernest Cookson Special
School, on Mill Lane in West Derby. Comments for the planning committee
can be made for this planning application, ref. 16F/0083 before the 12th
February 2016, on the Council’s
web site from this link along with details of the development.
Redrow are completing two substantial housing schemes over the former
14-acre New Hayes school site between Mather Avenue and Calderstones Park
with 119 homes.
Redrow have started to build on former Watergate School, opposite St.
Julies School in Woolton Village.
Purchase proposals from Redrow have been submitted for the 6.5-acre site
once home to Redbridge and Bank View High Schools in Fazakerley. Redrow
were authorised to demolish the site last October to bring the project
forward by 6 months.
Redrow expects to start building 60 dwellings on the grounds of Holly
Lodge Girls' College in West Derby this Easter. In December 2015, in spite
of many local objections, approval was given to demolish Holly Lodge House.
The Grade II listed Fremont and Sandheys buildings will be converted for
Palmerston School will be declared surplus to requirements when the school
relocates in the spring of 2017 and planning for this site will commence
at the end of 2016.
There is little evidence in Liverpool to certify, under Section 77
of the School Standards and Framework Act (1998), that existing playing
fields are re-provided when schools are relocated.
Under a Central Government initiative, Mayor Anderson has a £169M
fund to build 12 new schools. Many of the completed new schools that have
playing fields are a fraction of their original size.
Open Space Study for Liverpool -
final public engagement
As recommended by house builders, a mayoral strategic
green and open spaces review board was established at the
beginning of 2015 followed by public consultation meetings throughout
Liverpool seeking views on parks and open spaces. A Green and Open Spaces
interim report has been published and there were 3 further meetings in
January 2016 for the public to engage and provide feedback on the report.
Liverpool's Local Plan
will establish local planning rules and cultural guidelines for the next
15 years. The final conclusions of this Green and Open Spaces Report will
inform the Local Plan to help shape the greenspace infrastructure of Liverpool
and future allocations of green and open space for housing and other building
The final report is expected to be finalised at the end of March 2016
- enquires about this Review can be made by email to email@example.com
or call 0151 233 7045.
Review of Liverpool parks under
threat in 2016
Campaigns to save the public greenspace of Woolton
Woods Park, Sefton
Park Meadows and Walton
Hall Park are now actively engaged in the fight against private
building development plans and sell-offs.
Woolton Woods Park
On 16 June 2015 Liverpool's Planning Committee approved
extension plans for St Julies school over Woolton Woods Park. Then on
4 September the Council continued with the appropriation and disposal
of Woolton Woods land to deliver the new build school project. In exchange
for 5% of popular parkland the school owners will offer the Council woodland
it does not maintain and can not use.
Sufficient land is available on the existing school footprint for the
St Julies school extension. However, the private school owners, the Sisters
of Notre Dame, want to hold onto 4.37 hectares of school land for a potential
residential land sale.
An historic Public Right of Way runs adjacent to the school boundary sandstone
wall. Does the Council need to legally agree to the diversion of this
Public Right of Way before they can make a full disposal of the public
green space? Will the organisation formed to save Woolton Woods present
a legal challenge with regard to the land covenant by Colonel James Reynolds?
Woolton Woods 8 February 2015 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir
who in 1917 "gifted these two open fields to the people of Liverpool".
Sefton Park Meadows
For nearly three years there has been a great deal of
public misinformation and misleading assertions regarding the status,
disposal and so-called beneficial sale of the designated Green Space of
Sefton Park Meadows. The land is officially described in Council bye-law
records as the Meadow Fields of Sefton Park. The Council were mislead
by the advertised disposal notice in early 2013 when Sefton Park Meadows
were described as 'incidental open space'.
Redrow Homes NW, with the full backing of Liverpool Mayor Anderson, intend
to amend and re-submit it's planning application to build housing over
the entire 6.5 acres of the Meadowlands. When a planning proposal is submitted
to the Planning Authority the Campaign to Save
Sefton Park Meadows will present a robust challenge against
any development plans.
more details on Sefton Park Meadows
Sefton Park Meadows - the Meadow Fields dissected by Park Avenue at the
entrance to Queens Drive.
Walton Hall Park
The Friends of Walton Hall Park have been campaigning to
save their park since September 2014 when Everton Football Club confirmed
they wanted to build a new football stadium over the Park. In November
2015 EFC Chief Executive announced to shareholders, "Walton Hall
Park is a fantastic opportunity for this football club and will remain
a key priority for the board." The expectation to acquire this historic
and popular park is made possible by the support of Mayor Anderson and
his powerful rule over the Labour-led Council.
But before any planning proposals are made, according
to a Liverpool Echo report in November 2015, the Club has to raise
£300m. for the project. Will the Board of Everton FC raise the necessary
capital for a new stadium while it still has the support of Liverpool's
The origins of Walton Hall Park date back to 1199. If Everton FC plans
go ahead will English Heritage and it's recently formed planning arm of
Historic England give it's
blessing for the sale of Walton Hall Park - as it did for Grade II listed
Stanley Park when up to half of this historic park was sold to Liverpool
Detail of 1610 map held at The Atkinson, Southport.
Calderstones Park - described as land off Harthill Road
Land Trust Study demonstrates value
of green spaces to society
This recent study found that every pound invested in parks
and nature reserves contributes £30 towards health and well being
benefits and £23 towards crime reduction and community safety.
The national land management charity, the Land Trust, commissioned an
independent study by economic consultants, Carney Green to assess
the value of the green spaces in its portfolio. The study measured the
impact of Land Trust services to identify the value that people place
on their local green space as well as to estimate the financial value
it contributes to the health and social sectors.
Follow these links for more details:
Land Trust Study demonstrates value of green spaces to society
The Carney Green research for The Land Trust 'Perceptions
Survey and Social Value Study' pdf
In brief: Strategic Housing Development
November 2015 Cabinet meeting disclosed the first batch of about 580
new homes for the Strategic Housing Development Programme (SHDP) - which
will be updated again in March 2016. This is part of a 5 year scheme to
provide 1,500 newly constructed homes (many on school grounds & open
space) and a further 1,000 brought back into use.
Cuts to Local Authorities impact on
The Government’s cuts to Local Authorities for local
public services, combined with the lack of statutory protection for open
spaces, are causing real threats to urban greenspace. This is provoking
a growing number of local grass-roots campaigns throughout Britain as
local communities mobilise to defend spaces under threat of neglect, privatisation
At the same time the evidence continues to stack up on the vital and unique
role our parks and greenspaces play for health, biodiversity, flood control,
climate change mitigation, social cohesion and many other essential needs
of all sections of all our communities.
Parks and Playing Fields in Public
(Protection from Sale) Bill 2015-16
A cross-party group of MP's is supporting a Private
Members Bill (Bill 53 pdf) to strengthen protective measures
and to 'require public consultation to be carried out in local areas where
the sale of park or playing field land owned by a public body is proposed;
to require referendums on such proposals in certain circumstances; and
for connected purposes'. A record of the first
reading of Bill 53 at the House of Commons on 13 July 2015 can be read
from this link. The Bill, sponsored by Tom Pursglove MP,
is expected to have its second reading debate on 5 February 2016.
Following pressure from UK greenspace organisations, such as the National
Federation of Parks of Green Spaces, The
Parks Alliance and others, the previous outgoing government
administration recommended that the newly elected Government consider
hosting a National Inquiry into the future funding and management of our
Please sign and promote the UK ‘Save Our Parks’ petition to step
up the pressure on the Government and all political parties to take seriously
the future funding and protection of our vital green spaces.
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A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology by three Florida State University psychologists suggests that playing video games won’t make people smarter. The study also argues that violent games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 don’t damage gamers’ brains or compel them to commit violent acts, the Associated Press said Friday. The research is on a par with studies performed by Texas A&M International University clinical psychologist Christopher Ferguson, who has found “nothing” after researching whether or not violent video games may compel gamers to commit acts of violence. Other scientists have spoken out against the Florida State report, however, and while they didn’t discuss the effects of violence, they did suggest that playing video games actually can increase a gamer’s cognitive function. Read on for more.
Scientists from Rochester’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Science and the University of Minnesota argued that playing games actually can result in “a wide range of behavioral benefits, including enhancements in low-level vision, visual attention, speed of processing and statistical inference.” Still, more research is required before any conclusions are made about whether video games make gamers more violent or whether or not games have the ability to increase our cognitive abilities.
“Play these games because they are fun and you enjoy doing them, and let’s kind of wait for more research to suggest whether or not they are actually good for us,” Walter Boot, a Florida State University psychologist involved with the study said. “Don’t sit down and play a game. Go out there for a walk,” he added, noting that exercise is the best proven way to boost one’s brain power.

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AZUSA, Calif. -- The NAIA’s No. 5-ranked Azusa Pacific generated more chances in 20 minutes of overtime while playing a man down than it did in 90 minutes of regulation, and the Cougars ended up with an ungratifying 0-0 double-overtime draw with The Master’s Tuesday afternoon. The result extended Azusa Pacific’s unbeaten streak to 7 games. The Cougars’ now have a 5-game shutout streak and have not allowed a goal in 473 consecutive minutes.
Azusa Pacific generated just 1 second-half shot, when 1 of the Cougars’ 9 corner kicks gave freshman midfielder Andrew Kirby a look, but his shot went wide of the goal. Around the 55-minute mark, 3 yellow cards were issued in a span of less than 60 seconds, and 8 minutes later, sophomore midfielder Ashkon Banihashemi was issued a red card while moving forward with the ball for contact made with the Mustang defender. The referee, who was trailing the play, ruled that Banihashemi had thrown an elbow to the jaw of the defender, and his ejection left the Cougars to play the final 27 minutes of regulation a man down.
Despite not getting another shot off in regulation, Azusa Pacific sent the game to overtime still scoreless, thanks in part to an outstanding save from senior goalkeeper James Crawford. In the 66th minute, Fabio Joaquim drilled a 20-yard effort that appeared to be on track to slip just underneath the crossbar, but Crawford’s quick reaction allowed him to tip it just over the bar for his only second-half save of his 5 saves in the game. Crawford also stopped a point-blank rip early in the first half from Jacob Marchesani, laying out to block the angle at the near post, and Crawford used his upper body to block Marchesani’s effort.
The Master’s outshot Azusa Pacific by a 13-9 margin, but the Cougars weren’t completely lacking for quality scoring chances. In the 59th minute, senior defender Jared Karkas sent a free kick from 30 yards out curling away from Mustang goalkeeper Kevin Lawson to the far post, sailing just over the head of the Cougars’ season scoring leader, sophomore forward Alex Earl. Less than 2 minutes later, another Karkas serve from the left went just over the head of Earl and the other Cougar attackers in front of the Mustang net.
Junior forward Mike Wilson was involved in a pair of chances in the second overtime, although neither resulted in scores. Junior midfielder Dana Yoshizu played over the top from the midfield, and just before Wilson was able to run onto it for a one-on-one touch in the penalty area, Lawson was able to snag the ball just ahead of Wilson. A minute later, Wilson played back to senior defender Beau Hayden, who lofted a 35-yard strike from the right side that hung in the air and lazily drifted down towards the far upper corner on the left side of the goal. Lawson retreated to the post and just got a hand on it, tipping it into and over the crossbar for the save on what would have been a game-winner.
With the tie, its first scoreless draw since a GSAC game at Westmont on Sept. 30, 2006, Azusa Pacific now has a 7-2-3 overall record and is 4-0-1 in GSAC play. The Master’s is now 7-1-3 overall, 2-1-2 GSAC. The Cougars return to action when they host Biola on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m.


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(ADPnews) - Sep 15, 2010 - Spanish renewable energy firm Iberdrola Renovables (MCE:IBR) will launch an 80 MW wind farm in Romania next year, Bucharest-based daily Ziarul Financiar reported on Sunday.
Taking into account the farm's capacity, the investment is likely to reach EUR 120 million -140 million (USD 154m-180m), the daily wrote.
The wind farm, kocated in Mihai Viteazu, Constanta county, has already signed a grid-connection contract.
In April, the Romanian Government authorised Iberdrola Renovables to hook up a total 1,500 MW of wind power to the national electricity grid. The licence allows Iberdrola Renovables to start its Dobruja project, which envisages the start-up of 50 wind farms in the region of Dobruja, southeastern Romania. The wind farms will be built between 2011 and 2017. Their combined energy output could meet the needs of nearly one million households in Romania saving annual emissions of 2.6 million tonnes CO2.
The Spanish company opened an office in Romania's capital -- Bucharest, last year, as part of its ongoing plan to extend presence in Eastern Europe. It is implementing all its projects in Romania with company Eolica Dobrogea, owned by Swiss engineering group NEK and Romanian companies C-Tech and Rokura.
Last year, the Spanish company channelled nearly EUR 100 million into renewable energy projects in Eastern Europe.


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If traffic is the metric of popularity, then our Web 2.0 Summit interview with Google CEO Eric Schimdt suggests he is still the most popular guy in the Internet economy. Our discussion with Schmidt, led by John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly, received the most traffic during the livecast and continues to be the most viewed video in the archives from the conference, which you can find at InformationWeek.com.
An interesting contrast to relative youngster and upstart Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, who's video interview I posted previously ; "Zuckerberg Grows Up", the interview with Schmidt struck a far more sober tone, reflecting the unique position that Google now holds. I've spent time with Eric through the years and have seen him interviewed many times. He seemed a bit agitated in this interview and was uncharacteristically dismissive at times. It's clear that the recent press on talent retention and privacy issues has gotten to him. Sitting in the front row watching the interview, Shakespeare's line "Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown" came to my mind.
John and Tim did a great job getting Eric to share his thoughts on mobile and the implications it has for search, payment and advertising. They also got his take on the application marketplace as well as his thoughts on talent retention at Google. He sets the record straight on the "raise issue" and said that the retention percentage at Google has not varied in the last 7 years. He noted that Google hires 200 people a week. Speaking of astounding stats, he also mentioned that there are over 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. Astounding. When asked about Apple Schmidt referred to being a "very proud former board member".
His comments on privacy and their approach to Google Street View are fascinating and reflect the still challenging nature of Internet privacy. Take a look and feel free to post your comments on how the CEO of Google views the Internet landscape today.


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Seals and characters for summoning the greater demons Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Astaroth. In order of effectiveness, the symbols must be drawn in either: the sorcerer’s blood, the blood of a sea turtle, or engraved on emerald or ruby. From Grimorium Verum (16th Century) and The Grand Grimore (18th Century). Source: “The book of black magic and of pacts”, A.E. Waite, Embassy of the Free Mind
Barong is the benevolent king of the spirits in Balinese mythology, and the enemy of Rangda, the demon queen. In Bali, each region of the island has its own version of Barong modeled after different animals, including a lion, pig, and tiger. Image: an edit of work by Beeyan on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Alchemist and Magician Edward Kelly, in the act of invoking a spirit of the dead at the churchyard of Walton Ledale, from “The book of black magic and of pacts” by A.E. Waite, 1898. The companion in the circle is likely Paul Waring, who helped him with all of his conjurations.
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Story of “Pakistan Gallery”(First Gallery of its kind in Pakistan)
The project was conceived in October 2014 and this building was selected for setting up of Pakistan gallery based on its historical and architectural merit. This 125 years old building, which had dilapidated over the years, was painstakingly renovated and restored by a team of highly dedicated and skilled experts back to its original state. Pakistan Gallery is meant to showcase the scenic beauty, cultural diversity and rich history of Pakistan. Indeed, there is no other place in the world to offer such diversity of terrain and culture.
Renovation of 125 years old building was perhaps an easy option but “restoration” was chosen as challenge. This Victorian era building was constructed without using cement and bricks (like others of 19th century). Instead, the walls were made of stone, pitched with lime mortar (mixture of sand & lime), and roof / floor made of pine wood.The conservation phase of the building was carefully guided by a panel of officers who circumvented numerous challenges through round the clock supervision, in order to bring out the true elegance of the original structure. Over the last century, many layers of cement had been plastered on the original stone walls, and several coats of paint had been applied to the wood. A lot of planning and effort went into reversing some of these damaging interventions and alterations to the original edifice.
The team designated to undertake this project included, Lt Col Sajjad Haider (EME), Maj Safiyan Ali (Baloch) and Hav Habib (FF), all novices. Hence, most of the work was undertaken with “common sense”, though few consultants on structural design, lights and interior etc were hired as and when required. Later, Maj Tehseen (Engineers) joined in for some expert opinions.
The small room at the entrance was originally planned to house photo gallery, but owing to the requirement of more space, the bigger room was also added and a sitting room constructed in between (on the old structural design). All the windows were shifted on outer side of bay to create space for frames / souvenirs etc. Two windows and a door were closed in bigger room for beauty and space. False ceiling was added to bigger room and the sitting room. Choice of material (PVC) was based on its matching value with the structure and its light weight. Glass Wool was placed between the CGI sheets and PVC panels to reduce the effects of condensation and add to fire / sound proofing. Walls of sitting room have double glass for temperature control. Niches on the walls of bigger room were recovered / exposed with lot of care, to bring back the original structure. Wood flooring of the hall and sitting room was done on the British pattern. Wooden floor is 4 inches above the cemented base and has been screwed to the wooden mesh beneath it. All wood work has been chemically treated for water proofing. Stone on the walls had lost its original tint due to seasoning and plastering effects, which was restored by chemical treatment. False walls were created in the middle of hall to create space and give contemporary look to the gallery. Lighting arrangement of the complete gallery was a highly technical issue and was resolved after consulting scores of lighting experts. Finally, it has been kept simple for easy maintenance and power consumption. Write up for Pakistan & different province was compiled by Miss Hira Bint-e-Asim. Photographs have been thematically arranged, colours and motifs kept in relevance to respective province. Variety of mediums has been chosen for installation, to add life and strength of expression.
“Pakistan Gallery” was commissioned on 17 Oct 2015, on the eve of “1st Commandants Re-union”. ASL gratefully acknowledges the assistance of; Mr Arshad, Mr Farid Nasim, Miss Maryam Sher and Mrs Huma Ahmed for their structural design, Mr Bashir, Huzaifa, Azeem, Iftkhar and Saeed for their masonry, wood and restoration work. Contribution of Mrs Hina Mahboob for her art and design added matchless value to the gallery. Mian Yousaf Salah ud Din and Mian Iqbal Salah Ud Din (Grandsons of Allama Iqbal) through “Dabistan e Iqbal”, contributed to the data collection for Pakistan Movement. Moreover, various Army HQs, Army Heritage Foundation, Capital Development Authority and Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (through Mr Ali Jan) also added valuable contributions. There is a long scroll of volunteer photographers who contributed to the Gallery, few to name are Mr Gulraiz Ghauri, Mr Yasir Nisar, Mr S.M. Bukhari, Mr Mubeen Ansari, Mr Abbrar Cheema, Mr Fahad Mahmood and Col Dr Imran Rashid
The restoration work took six months, including freezing winters. Needless to say that this project would not have been possible without dedication of our soldiers and civilians,a relentless team under Havildar Habib.


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