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DIY Toiletry Bag Organizer Insert

I’m a little particular about the products I use, especially those I travel with, and I’m always searching for the perfect stuff.  I thought I had found the perfect toiletry bag last year but I became frustrated that my stuff got tossed around during every trip.  So during a particularly boring day at the lab, I made an insert to keep things organized and save my sanity.

My wife gave me a great toiletry bag for our wedding and it is my favorite of several that I’ve owned.  I especially love that the top expands when it opens to you have full access while it’s sitting on the counter.  But I don’t love that my stuff moves around in the bag regardless of the trip, the duration, or the location.  This makes it hard to find things and easier to forget them in a hotel bathroom.  Seen below: my nightmare.

I looked around online for inspiration and saw that some bags have these pockets on the inside to keep your stuff from moving – that would certainly solve this problem.  However, I like my current bag and don’t like the overall design on the other ones I’ve seen.  Plus, there’s about a 0% chance the pockets would be the right size and in the right location for my stuff.  But this gave me an idea and I decided to create a plastic insert that would fit around the inside that I could then attach my stuff to.

The biggest requirement was that this be cheap so I was determined to use leftover plexiglass from the lab/shop and but it on the lasercutter.  I also wanted this to be flexible – it would suck to have to redo it every time I changed the size of the tubes I was carrying in the bag.  So I settled on the current design.  There’s a 1/16″ thin base plate and two side pieces made out of 1/4″ plexi.  There are two rows of thin slots cut into the side pieces so that a rubberband can be passed through and tied on the back.  You could do this without a laser cutter by using a jigsaw and a drill.  Just use small holes instead of slots and it’ll work fine; maybe use hair ties instead of rubber bands if you have round holes.  You can find the PDFs I used to cut the pieces here and here.

I drilled holes in the bottom of the side pieces and tapped them to fit a 4-40 screw attached from under the base plate.  You could also use an acrylic glue for this part and it would probably be just as good or better.

Then I did a test fit and put all of my bottles and tubes where I thought I would want them.  I looped a rubberband around them and through the slots and tied it on the back.  It took a couple of tries to find the right balance between too tight and too lose but it’s a rubberband so it’s pretty forgiving.  And if you snap one, just go buy some more asparagus and there you go – another rubberband.

I like having two rows of slots to be able to adjust for taller and shorter items.  And that’s pretty much it.  Put it in the bag and you’re good to go.  It’s easy to just cut a rubberband off and put a new one on if things change.  It doesn’t hold everything in my bag but it holds almost everything against the side so that it’s much easier to find what you need in a hurry.

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You Ought to Be in Pictures

mobile phone picture smartphoneSecretary of State Madeleine Albright once said, “We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.”  I’m pretty sure she wasn’t referring to Pinterest or Instagram but that doesn’t make the statement any less true for them.  Image-based technology has quietly moved from the next to the current biggest thing. We have begun to communicate in short snippets of information and pictures.  One blogger said it best when she wrote, “In a world where we only have 140 characters to tell our stories, a picture is worth 1,000 tweets.”

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project 46 percent of American internet Continue reading

It’s a kitty and I’ll cry if I want to…

Were you aware that there existed a report of virality? I was not even aware that virality was a word. It doesn’t naturally exist in the Microsoft Word dictionary, but it is in fact a word that describes how viral something is. As the mother of two kids I would argue that everything is viral as we are constantly fighting a virus or fighting to avoid one that is “going around.” But that isn’t exactly the same kind of viral that virality refers to.

What causes some online content to be shared and shared again? I hadn’t given it much thought before, but not to fear, someone has studied it of course. I came across this report while briefly perusing viral videos.

The report titled, “What Makes Online Content Viral?” found that it all hinges on Continue reading

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future. – Niels Bohr

crystal ball, emerging media predictionsAs we start into the last quarter of 2012 predictions of what’s to come for 2013 and beyond will begin to pop up everywhere.  Each year new lists appear but does anyone ever go back to check up on the accuracy of the old list’s predictions?  I came across a list of trends and predictions about new media from 2007 and thought it would be fun to see how far we’ve come in five short years.

Greg Johnson, Executive Director of Interpublic’s Emerging Media Lab, announced a list of the top five trends in emerging media for the next year in February 2007. They looked at information from their network of agencies and clients and the research they do for the clients. They then aggregate the research that exists externally from the IPG Lab and puts it all together with some opinions as well to put together the list of predictions.

The 2007 top five list of predictions were: Continue reading

How tweet it is…

Twitter ChatI admit I’m kind of new to Twitter.  I didn’t really understand the platform until last summer when I took the IMC class Social Media and Marketing.  That’s when I learned the difference between @ something and # something and the whole twitterverse seemed less like a foreign language. It still amazes me that younger people can spend five minutes on Twitter and totally understand how everything works, but since I am old enough to remember CB radios and cordless phones being communication innovations I guess it’s natural that it takes me a little longer to catch on, and apparently I still don’t understand all the ways Twitter can help Continue reading

Big Results Can Come in Small Packages

As a marketer I get excited to see the evolution of advertising and all of the new and creative ways companies come up with to advertise their brands. One of the ways that has become very popular in the last decade or so is short films. Short films give companies a chance to be creative and explain their brands and their products with more depth and attention than a traditional 15 or 30 second commercial can afford.

The first time I saw the Chipotle “Back to the Start” short film I had no idea it was selling anything.  I was nearly in tears listening to Willie Nelson sing this song I loved anyway in such a haunting way and watching these little piggy’s be “processed.” For those two Continue reading

Read ’em and reap

They tell you what you want and you go buy it – that’s how marketing works. At least that’s how it used to work. There has been a lot of talk about the paradigm shift from traditional marketing or a push strategy to relationship marketing and a pull strategy. The customer is suddenly in charge. You see something  you want, then you search the internet for information about it, and you ask all your friends and a bunch of perfect strangers how they like it, and then you buy it – or not.  It’s the “or not” part that concerns companies the most. They have, in fact, recognized the immense importance of the customer reviews. Most online retailers now have product reviews, and just like we learned in Economics 101, the laws of supply and demand have made it big business.

There was the case of the guy who was selling book reviews. It started out innocently Continue reading

There really is an “i” in team

It’s finally here! I have waited and waited and it’s finally here!  Well, almost… just a week away. The much anticipated iPhone 5 was finally announced yesterday in Apple style at an event in San Francisco. By much anticipated I mean much anticipated by me.  See, I am living with the 3G iPhone. Not the 3GS – the original 3G.  The one they stopped from upgrading the operating system at about iOS 4.2.1.  My 7 year old can look stuff up faster in an encyclopedia at the public library than I can open an app and look it up with this phone. Needless to say I am a little giddy at the thought of a faster operating system.

Lucky for everyone with a newer i-device iOS 6 will release on September 19, and with it comes a whole host of new opportunities for the i-user.  The first thing that comes to mind when I read about the iOS 6 features is  integration. It seems at least some of the world of Continue reading


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University Avenue facade

Street level facade

Site context. The UC Berkeley campus is at far right

Massing model in context

Aerial from south

Building sections

Ground Floor

Typical floor

Roof plan

Roof garden

Material palette.

Roof garden with glass windshield. Wonderful views of the bay and the hills.

Decorative cornice detail. The exterior skin is entirely rainscreen,.

University Avenue facade

This proposed seven-story building will contain 50 apartment units, a 1,500 sf ground floor restaurant and a roof garden for residents. The building will be built to LEED Gold standards. The building has won all Planning Approvals. Construction is expected to commence in the summer of 2016.

Trachtenberg Architects:  Isaiah Stackhouse, David Trachtenberg, Neven Krickovic
Owners: 2067 Shattuck LLC.
General Contractor:  JS Builders
Structural Engineer:   Peter Yu Structural Engineers
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Landscape Architect:  Robert Trachtenberg, Garden Architecture


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Joe Dante on

Children of the Damned

Released 1964
Distributor MGM

Underrated sequel-cum-remake of Village of the Damned didn’t get much attention in 1963, but it’s a gripping and well-made movie with plenty to say politically and allegorically. One of the better British films of a fertile period.

About Joe Dante

Joe Dante is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career.  He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Innerspace, Matinee, Small Soldiers, The ‘burbs and the 3-D thriller titled The Hole, first winner of the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival. His TV directing work includes:  the HBO film, The Second Civil War, the “Masters of Horrors” titles,  Homecoming and The Screwfly Solution, episodes of Eerie, Indiana , which he was in on the creation of, as well as episodes of CSI: NY, Hawaii 5-0 and Salem. His latest feature, the zom-com Burying the Ex, is currently available on VOD.


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Fall 2013 Advocacy Day Recap

More than 100 Michiganders from around the state took part in Trans4M’s Advocacy Day at the Capitol last Tuesday, November 12 – almost triple the turnout from our April 2013 Legislative Day!

We were glad to host such a diverse and passionate group transportation advocates at this event. We had attendees from many cities, a variety of backgrounds and different areas of expertise. Michiganders attended from Northern Michigan, Detroit, metro-Detroit, Holland, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and many more cities all traveled to Lansing to meet with their elected officials. There were representatives from a variety of disability rights groups, environmental justice groups and faith based organizations in attendance. We were pleased to also welcome advocates from all age groups, such as a number of college students that attended and high school students from Programs to Educate all Cyclists.

Our group gathered for a photo on the Capitol steps

Trans4M Advocacy Day attendees on the Capitol steps

We met at the office of a Trans4M core member, the Michigan Municipal League, for breakfast and a breakdown of the day by Tim Fischer, from the Michigan Environmental Council and John Lindenmayer, from the League of Michigan Bicyclists. Former state Representative and Trans4M advocate Mark Meadows also spoke, giving an overview on how to speak with legislators. Afterward, individuals split into small groups to attend meetings with elected officials.

Aside from a general overview about Trans4M and information about our current policy campaigns, legislative meetings focused on two main policy issues – the Vulnerable Roadway User Protection bills (HB 4792 and HB 5080) and Merit-Based Transportation Infrastructure.

The Vulnerable Roadway User bills were reported unanimously from the Criminal Justice House Committee. The bills would impose enhanced penalties on motorists who strike a bicyclist, pedestrian or wheelchair user while also committing a moving violation. The purpose of these bills is to create awareness among drivers to be aware of non-motorized transportation users, and that the state takes the protection of these vulnerable roadway users seriously. Overwhelmingly, during the legislative meetings, we found that senators and representatives indicated support for these bills. Many said they look forward to seeing them on the House and Senate floors.

Trans4Mers snapped a photo with Representative Adam Zemke (D-Ann Arbor) after a productive meeting

Trans4Mers snapped a photo with Representative Adam Zemke (D-Ann Arbor) after a productive meeting

The Merit-Based Performance Measures policy is draft legislation at this point, and is being championed by Representative Jim Townsend (D – Royal Oak). The legislation would help to ensure that our limited transportation dollars are used in the most efficient and strategic ways on projects. Examples of this criteria could ensure projects are consistent with neighborhood design, support local economic growth, foster Complete Streets principals and support other human elements of the transportation system. Rep. Townsend spoke on the issue at the day’s Legislative Lunch; he described the concept of the bill, discussed potential implementation strategies and answered questions from attendees.

Rep. Townsend speaks to our group about Merit-Based Transportation Infrastructure during the Legislative Lunch

Rep. Townsend speaks to our group about Merit-Based Transportation Infrastructure during the Legislative Lunch

In many discussions, we were pleased to hear that many legislators were aware of current news on the Regional Transit Authority and Complete Streets policies, and that they were in support of the progression of these two initiatives.

All told, we spoke with 71 representatives and senators from around the state. Our group educated these legislators about our campaigns and along with hearing how constituents feel on Michigan’s transportation future. Thank you to all of our participants, legislators and legislative staffers for taking part in productive meetings and working to move Michigan! We look forward to seeing the impacts of our discussions on our legislators and continuing these meaningful conversations in the near future.

Written by Kajal Ravani – Trans4M Fellow

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Transliteracy Workshop

IMG01008.jpgToday is the day!
Following on from last year's transliteracy unconference we're holding a transliteracy workshop. Last year the vote was to have a day where we could put into practise our ideas of transliteracy in order to *make* transliterate objects.
We have piles of string, coloured papers, digital cameras, computers, scanners, robot lego, old answering machines, playstation and more.
As a reminder, the definition of transliteracy (so far) that we're using is:

"The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks."

The aim of making transliterate objects will help us understand *why* something is transliterate as right now we seem to have an innate idea of what transliteracy is but how to we begin to describe it in words, images, sounds etc…?

Making Transliterate Objects – Works in Process
Group A) cardboard “futurizer”
Group B) “How do we point to the ‘it’ in transliterate object”? What makes it transliterate? (merged with group D)
Group C) Models of Collaborative Narrative
Group D) decided to embark upon the creation of an “offline web that becomes something else”
Internal Narrative of Group D’s collaborative objective *middle* connection:
“I found myself awake far too early last Tuesday. In a huff I threw the quilt back and stumbled over to my laptop, banged a few keys and cursed its inability to respond adequately to my desires. I whipped the handbook open and searched for instructions that would solve this annoyance. Twenty minutes later, I gave up. Fuck it all! I figured Gavin would be up by now, so I rip-trapped his number into my land-line, reading aloud to myself from my mobile fone. He was out. Again, having organised yet another rambling trip through Facebook. I cast about my room, once again disappointed in both technology and friendship.

Stage 2)
Quick Thoughts:
– So far we seem to be in agreement that transliteracy is more about processes than objects.
– As Group D’s transliterate web tried to demonstrate is the importance of different kinds of connections and that each user/reader will have their own personal way of making connections.
– Importance of imagination
– rules are important both for guidance but also instigators of creativity – working against the rules
taxonomy of connections (group C)
-realisation that all our objects and the making of them are integrated
-also idea is that communication about transliterate objects is part of the process
– palindromic world where the virtual and the real have similar properties (Through the Looking Glass)
– Mark = idea of provisional coherence
– Sue – you have to be in it to *know* what’s going on
– Jess = role of temporality, can’t quite be a transliterate object because is always already a process, about becoming rather than a static *thing*, also that each view is actually a view in time which also changes
Sue – so how is that different from ordinary literacy?
Martin – because of the protean nature, the data structures, the way social networking happens, the ways tides happen to flow…
Mark L – maybe traditional literacy has a certain standpoint and if you approach it from a different standpoint it doesn’t quite work or can’t quite be read, there is a sense that there is a feedback element is less apparent in the traditional way, there is more of a singular directionality
Ann – there are several moments of understanding something, but with transliteracy there is always going to be reinterpretation, not only by the maker but also by the person who engages with it
Martin – semipermeable and open systems
Sue – the transliterate space, estuary, salt and fresh water mixing etc…there is always a constant flux going on, a messy space that some people would prefer not to be in so maybe the *tidier* areas are traditional literacy but the muddy bit that is constantly changing is the transliterate area, leaky and liminal
Mark L – thinking of objectness of something like icons in Facebook which look like a *something* which you can attach. The object is the ongoing series, the ongoing way of mapping relationships, is about an ongoing process.
Sue – perpetual beta
Bruce – Is there a literate object?
Chris M. – there are objects that demand transliteracy.
Ann – it’s a cultural artifact and with a transliterate object you can’t just come to it and learn it but you must come to it and relearn it and relearn it so it is the process of relearning it
Mark H. – If I have to teach 10 year olds how would we do it, that’s the acid test. If I really had to say it is *this* maybe it only exists in a conceptual sense.
Ann – its the practise of engaging with a technology (a song, a work, online etc…). The flexibility of moving between different kinds of literacies, being in a position of being able to engage *appropriately* with the technology (it’s rules).
Sue – if we were to create and index of transliteracy what kinds of questions would we ask? But what’s the role of self-taughtness, it isn’t really measurable and that is thrown into the mix of transliteracy.
Chris – good teaching (transliterate) would see transliteracy in action and then help inculcate it
Martin – traditional education is still about books in the world
Chris – We’re in something of a crisis because literary knowledge is shrinking because there is all this other kind of learning happening but we’re not attending to it and helping people move between blogging and tv and cinema and books etc…
Ann – no one is tackling the known unknowns
***Mark L’s initial thoughts:***
Transliteracy of / in objects
Things – the boundedness of a thing – “the open object”
The system as an object – a system of links / of linking(s)
If I can point to it as an ‘it’, is that because I recognise thingness in it ?
The ‘object’ as a complex of functions – or the tool as the object
Literacy as an ability to operate or manipulate the codes – the glass table object operates as a modelling – both in its being built and in the discussion around it of how the conception of a transliterate object might come about – it remains in process, a doing rather than an it – or perhaps we can point to the process as a thing
Boundedness – I can point to an ‘it’ and a what it is not – A / not-A
I can identify when I am in the object, engaged with its traits / characteristics –
Layering / accretions –
The object is what the coming together / the clustering / the accreting or cohering makes evident – if viewed from the wrong direction from the other side from a different vantage point it may not be apparent – standpoint?
The literacy may arise in being comfortable or familiar or fluent in working / operating / using media across forms / on and off line, to build? Or make? Or bring into provisional coherence a functioning or attractive or …
Stage 3)
Respond to a transliterate object and add/modify it; groups will choose to modify or add to a transliterate object that they did not help to create:
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6 thoughts on “Transliteracy Workshop

  1. Fascinating that the focus is on “tranliterate objects” rather than transliterate processes or transliterate relationships, especially given comments about activity at the edges, boundaries, margins (estuaries).
    Pleased to see that there was some mention of learning (in the whole sense, as something that people do anyway, all the time, not purely as sanctioned education and teaching). Some theories of learning might be helpful for thinking about and interpreting transliteracy.
    I’m interested in the effect of culture and context on transliteracy. Originally, I took the “use” term in the definition of transliteracy to mean the practical ability to operate within/in/on different media. However, now I think it is much more about the abilities to interpret, interrogate, make connections and relationships, make judgments, create/recreate knowledge and meaning, understand and move between different cultures and contexts.
    I also think we’re all innately transliterate, anyway, just going about our everyday business. This process/experience, the one the PART group is going through, is about elucidating that (rather than inventing or creating it) and making it visible.
    What’s the role of story telling in all of this?

  2. As a newcomer to transliteracy it struck me when we were asked what a transliterate object might look like -just how close we came to creating biological analogues embodying relational process in yesterday’s workshop. That is self-sustaining systems with internal logic, but acting as magnets or attractors to outside data-exactly as a primitive organisation operates in an interplay of collaborative parts or cells with their own specific agendas, which benefit from mutual co-operation. The biological /viral metaphor was extended into the taxonomic deconstuction of a group artifact and also in the making of a story ball which had a viral appearance and external nodes to link to other story worlds.

  3. Shani you make an excellent point and I think by the end of the workshop we were mostly in agreement (I think I’m right in saying this) that transliteracy is more about processes and connections and how we (and perhaps objects) *emobdy* connections or demand/suggest/instigate a transliterate response rather than an object per se being transliterate.
    The most interesting part for me was discovering what transliteracy is *not.* At least for me…when a group in the final session (I think it was Sue and Chris M.) took apart and catalogued what another group (Ann, Keno, Mark H., Mark L., Sascha and I) had made. The visual result of all our pieces lined up, categorised according to type (large paperclips, coloured paper, postits etc…) not only meant that each item became something else, what were *tags* and keywords to us were now *just* postits and what were connectors and data traps were now paperclips and cellotape but also that the connections between the pieces had been broken. All parts where now single items rather than connecting to other parts or at least enabling connections…so I guess for me, the possibility to connect is a large part of transliteracy.

  4. Martin I think you’ve hit on a key idea, the linking to story worlds. We talked a bit about the role of narrative in the making of the *story ball* (I’ve forgotten who came up with that brilliantly apt name) and for us it was quite important that there would be a *infinate* (of course this would depend on the size and growth of the database) opportunity to connect to other stories (or parts of stories) across modes (sound, vision, text, kinesthetics etc…) and platforms.
    Mark L. probably has a lot more to add to this idea.

  5. This is all very interesting and I’m sorry I missed the day. Actually breaks my head trying to recreate some of these ideas. Before the event I spent time trying to imagine what a transliterate ‘object’ would be and I see now why it’s so difficult. I had got as far as separating multiple-literacy: ability to be literate in a number of ways, trans-literacy: awareness of communicating in different modes simultaneously and Transliteracy: unconscious / seamless movement between different modes. With Transliteracy also, in my view, there is a resulting potentiality that was not expected.

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I’m a subscriber to Bike Magazine, I’ve been for a while now. I was strangely methodical about trying out every motorcycle magazine I could to find one that had a tone that I got on with and Bike seemed about right – Not too speed obsessed but also still able to have fun. Also my dad used to get it and I can remember reading the Ogri strips while sat in  the cupboard under the stars.

Anyway, I’d like to write some stuff for Bike but I’m not sure what I could talk about with authority so I’ve not pitched anything yet. So I was slightly surprised to find myself quoted in this month’s issue. Sadly it’s in an advert, and technically it’s a misquote but it’s a start, no?

I’ve taken a photo of it so you can enjoy the cringe-worthy comment for yourself.

A god of biking eh?

The god of biking eh? I don't actually remember saying that.

It’s nice to be quoted on something, and Charley is a lovely chap but I’m still cringing all the same.


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Albion » MR5 / MR7 / MLH3

MR5 / MR7. 1954-1957. Introduced in 1954 was the underfloor engined Claymore MR5 and MR7 for loads of 3 and 4 tons. Fitted with the horizontal EN219 3.83 litre diesel engine, it shared all the major components of the vertical EN218 from the FT25/27, except that it had a different sump casting and repositioned ancillaries. Taking full advantage of the underfloor configuration, the extended frame dropped down ahead of the front axle allowing a three man cab to be mounted at a low position for particularly easy access. Freedom from engine noise, fumes and heat were other selling points, and the short wheelbase produced a small turning circle ideal for local deliveries in tight loading bays. An Albion 4 speed constant mesh gearbox was fitted with synchromesh on third and top, driving to the usual overhead worm axle. Only tyre equipment differentiated the MR5 and the MR7, although the MR7 was available in a longer wheelbase.

MLH3. 1955-1957. In 1955 another underfloor engined chassis was introduced, the short lived MLH3 'Cairn' for payloads of 30 to 35 cwts. The mechanical specification was similar to that of the Claymore, except that lighter axles with 6 stud wheels were fitted, the rear axle was an Albion spiral bevel unit and not the usual worm drive arrangement.

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The group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays is working overtime to get lies into public libraries. Our friends at Queerty said today that PFOX was embarking on a public library project to get titles like Arthur Goldberg’s, “Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality,” and “A Parent’ Guide to Preventing Homosexuality,” by Joseph and Linda Nicolosi.

The only way such titles should be in libraries is in the fiction section. These are essentially fake medical books without scientific backing. Librarians literally have millions of books to choose from – so why take books that have theories rejected by all medical and mental health organizations?

From Edge Boston:

Peter LaBarbera’ posting (Americans For Truth) announced that his organization and P-FOX would work together with what LaBarbera termed “other pro-family groups and ministries” in order, LaBarbera wrote, “to attain–at the very minimum–balance in the selections that libraries carry on the homosexual issue.”Added LaBarbera, “There is no logical or common sense reason why taxpayer-funded public libraries should make available every latest ‘gay’-affirming book–including those designed to open up young minds to the false and dangerous notion that homosexuality is normal–while NOT carrying faith-based and ex-‘gay’ books that oppose a pro-homosexual ideology.”

It seems to me that barring political books posing as legitmate science-based material is quite logical. What next, a slew of books promoting that the earth is flat? When frauds like LaBarbera can show us real ex-gays who are not on the payroll of anti-gay organizations, then we might listen. Indeed, three of his poter boys (John Paulk, Wade Richards and Michael Johnston) have fallen off the hetero wagon. If there is one person in America who should know better than to promote ex-gay books, it is Mr. LaBarbera.


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I didn’t attend Boundless Way Zen’s weeklong sesshin this year.  It ended today.

I found myself “participating” sympathetically throughout the week, sometimes almost telepathically.

I was really missing our sesshin-attending sagha-mates at Tuesday night’s sit at the Greater Boston Zen Center.  My legs became strangely tight and painful, much like they would after days on retreat, and not at all like I normally experience after 20+ years of 1-2 25-minute sits most days.

Sitting at home during the week, I sometimes felt like I was sitting in the zendo at the Boundless Way Temple, where our sesshins occur.

Lying in bed one night, I could almost hear the day’s closing chants, which end with this stark, ghostly reminder of how precious this life-time is:

“Let me respectfully remind you: Life and death are of supreme importance.  Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.  Each of us should strive to awaken… awaken!  Take heed!  Do not squander your life.”

Long sesshins are wonderful.  I have benefitted immensely over the years from the many week+ retreats I’ve attended — intensive practice periods, during which one sits and meets with teachers from early morning until late at night.  I look forward to attending more of them in the future.

And extended, leisurely periods of time with family and friends, or with oneself, also are wonderful.  For many Zen practitioners, and perhaps mainly for those of us with younger children and/or spouses who are not Zen practitioners (sympathetic, like my wife, though they may be), devoting a full week to sesshin each year can be a real challenge.

Most people still in the workforce have limited vacation time, and vacations may need to be coordinated with school schedules and a spouse’s schedule.  Even if one can arrange time for sesshin, a week at a Zen retreat may mean a week of family vacation lost.

This is my current reality.  We have school-age kids.  I have missed a week of family vacation time for the past several years by attending our weeklong sesshin.  My family is truly supportive of my Zen practice, and yet this just feels like too much.  It certainly feels like a huge loss from my perspective, even though I know there’s much to be gained from intensive periods of practice.

One of the big projects inherent in Zen’s migration west — one of the big opportunities we’re presented — is about adaptation of the traditional forms and practices to this new context-era.  Numerous features distinguish this new context-era from those in which the traditional forms and practices evolved, but perhaps none is more prevalent and salient than the relative leveling of lay life/practice and the path of priestly and/or monastic life/practice.

This leveling has many causes and many implications.  It is bound up with other progressive trends, like democratization and increasing gender equality, in ways that make them impossible to separate entirely.

The practice of sesshin developed in context-eras in which there were sharp distinctions between the laity and monastics, whether they be lifelong monks or young men spending some months or some small number of years in a monastery as a rite of passage.

And these monks were mostly childless men.  If the monastic life was their permanent vocation, it was their livelihood, their work.  They begged and contributed to the institution’s other income producing endeavors throughout their lives.  If they were passing through, they begged and contributed to those same endeavors while they were there, knowing they would eventually return to lay (and likely family) life and some form of work less conducive to spending weeks or months on a cushion all day.

Fast forward to today . . .

On the one hand, a week isn’t a long period of time, particularly compared to the month+ retreats that are common in many Asian monasteries, even still.

On the other hand, see above.

From one perspective, perhaps there is something to be said for making a stoic effort to attend longer retreats, despite family and work obligations and opportunities, but I’m not much moved by that perspective.

These sorts of discussions and thoughtful experimentation are happening within BoWZ, and I’m very excited to be part of this organization and this project.  In addition to our annual weeklong sesshins, we have several shorter sesshins each year and numerous daylong intensives.

The weeklong (or longer) retreats truly are wonderful.  For some, “shifts happen” in these longer, intensive periods of practice, and perhaps would be less likely to happen for them in another context.  Bonds develop.

And, I must say, in recent years I have found my most profound shifts happening, and my most transformative bonds developing, within the context of family life.  Of course, Zen practice, including the weeklong sesshins I’ve attended, has been hugely supportive of this.  That’s the point, as BoWZ’s teachers continually remind us.

One of the really exciting and heartening things about this BoWZ project is the community’s recognition that Zen practice needs to work in the context of people’s ordinary lives.  Indeed, that Zen is our ordinary lives.

And, yet, there is a tradition that we have received, and that tradition transmits to us a treasure trove of forms and practices that people have found powerfully useful for awakening to the full richness of this ordinary life.  The adaptation/experimentation project is tricky.

It’s important not to cling slavishly to traditional forms, holding up intensive practice — the longer and more frequent and more ardent, the better — as “real Zen.”  And it’s important not to dilute the forms down to nothing.  They’re nothing in one sense, of course, and yet most definitely not nothing.

At least until our youngest (who’s now four) goes to college, I suspect my rhythm will be marked by frequent short retreats and daylong sits, and only very occasional long sesshins.  I settled down relatively late in life, and I am fortunate to have participated in many longer retreats before starting a family.

Every Zen practitioner should experience longer retreats.  If one feels one benefits from them and can swing it, one definitely should participate in them regularly.  Looking over the arc of my 20+ years of sitting practice, I now see them not as more valuable than other forms of practice, but as differently valuable — and as having been differently valuable particularly at specific points in my own journey.

For those who find that hard to do or otherwise legitimately undesirable, however, I’m very interested in seeing us continue to develop adapted forms of intensive and/or extended practice that offer folks some of the immense benefits of longer intensives in more flexible packages.  Not as a substitute for sesshins, but as a complementary sort of opportunity.  The wonderful, much westernized, “drop in and out freely” Ango practice period that’s occurred at the temple (and, simultaneously and by extension, at many of our homes) the past couple of years is a marvelous example of this.

I look forward to the time when longer sesshins fit more comfortably into the parameters of my life.  And, in the meantime, I really look forward to those family vacations.

And to continuing to be a part of this living, communal project of ours . . .


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The end of moral superiority?

It’s getting harder and harder to be a self-righteous curmudgeon.

For years I’ve congratulated myself on being physically active – getting regular exercise and standing, rather than sitting, at work – and been mildly, privately critical of those who let themselves go entirely.

Mountains of data confirm that our bodies evolved to move and that the sedentary lifestyle so prevalent in, and, increasingly, beyond, the west is sapping our personal health and vitality.  (The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, and Live Longer by Gretchen Reynolds, the fitness writer at The New York Times, provides a very good, very accessible survey of the research, if you’re interested.)  The body is a temple, after all.  Treating it like a clothes rack will be the ruin of our healthcare systems, and so our economies.

Turns out there’s a genetic component to liking exercise:  there’s a gene that influences how we respond to fatigue, and one that affects how easy and rewarding exercises feels, and one that influences how the body regulates energy.  Etc.

It’s still quite possible to acquire the taste.  Once you do, you won’t want to stop.  The problem is, starting is harder for people whose genes don’t predispose them to enjoy, or at least better tolerate, the work required to become and remain fit.

I don’t know whether I have any of these “exercise genes,” but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn I do.  Regardless, the exercise gene notion has bucked me right off my high horse.

There is, of course, at least a partial genetic component to many forms of addiction, from alcoholism to overeating.  I suppose that makes it hard for one to be too snooty about being moderate.

There’s no single gene for anything, as Richard Dawkins, the famous biologist and atheist, rightly reminds us, but genes apparently have a big influence on many of one’s dispositions and behaviors.

Here’s one that completely blows me away:  our genes significantly influence whether we are conservative or liberal!  You heard it:  that idiot, _____________ [Obama or Romney, Maddow or Limbaugh], may view the world the way he or she does at least partially because of his or her genetic makeup.  Same with you, oh you-who-fills-in-blanks.

A handful of important values undergird our social landscape, each of which has an opposite: caring/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, sanctity/degradation, and liberty/oppression.  Conservatives actually are tuned to give each of the positive values their due, whereas liberals tend to pay heed mostly to just two of them (caring and fairness).

(As for me, I’ve long been center-left – a compassionate moderate, if I do say so myself – and so I feel well justified in continuing to feel better than the remaining 94% of us – that’s 47% + 47% – who are hopeless ideologues.)

I learned about the genetic basis of our morals while reading a fabulous new book by my favorite social scientist, Jonathan Haidt, whose academic research on the psychology of morality I’ve tracked for 15+ years.  It’s called The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Haidt actually is pretty convinced that moral righteousness isn’t going away anytime soon, and he successfully (in my non-expert estimation) shows how it’s essential to our survival to this point in history and our continuing evolution.  He recognizes the need for people of different orientations/perspectives to be able to talk to one another civilly and work together productively, and the ultimate goal of his book is to help us do just that.

I can’t recommend Haidt’s book highly enough.  It’s easily the most important book I’ve read in, well, since I last declared a book “most important” (which I probably do every few years).  You absolutely must read it.  If want one very open-minded, big-hearted, incredibly creative social scientist’s view of what it is to be evolved members of our interdependent physical and social environments, you’ll be well rewarded for reading this short, engaging, insightful book.

And if you don’t read it, there can be no excuse.  You’re clearly an apathetic misanthrope.

There’s surely no genetic profile for that, is there?  🙂


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Speaking Eyes

She fell of the rung . He came running through the doors .  Her ankle was hurt , minor injury though .  He could not bear her suffering . She looked through his eyes ,  the same pain and suffering  she was going through for past 10 years . The separation had been traumatising .  They had moved on in life but that  moment took them 10 years back.

“Honey, I have told you so many times not to use this ladder , its broken “. Throwing the ladder away he lifted her in his arms . He put her on sofa , softly caressing  her ankle  and asked ,”Is the pain bad ? , she said.” No , it doesn’t seem to be, but it’s paining severely “. He ran for the first aid kit , and started  applying cream . Unable to bear the pain , she twitched his  biceps . He tried to divert her attention by kissing her on the forehead  ,playing with her hair , hugging her . Slowly he took his hands running down her body and gave a twist to the ankles . She shouted and pushed him apart.

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So… NPM doesn’t care about intellectual property rights?

The NPM organisation, a for-profit company, has just demonstrated that it doesn’t care about the IP rights of contributors. As a organisation built entirely on the contributions of others, this is a worrying precedent.

Azer Koçulu had developed and distributed, via NPM, a module called
left-pad. It’s a simple library, consisting of 11 lines of code, that does what it says on the box – pads a string by adding spaces to the left.

This module then got picked up and used by lots of other modules. Apparently it had been downloaded nearly 2,500,000 times in the last month.

Koçulu had another module, called Kik. He received a cease-and-desist order from a lawyer complaining about trademark violation. He disputed that, and the lawyer then went to NPM. NPM decided to transfer the ownership of the Kik module – not remove it, but to assign ownership to a third-party.

Not surprisingly, Koçulu was annoyed by this. So he yanked all of his modules – about 250 of them – from NPM. Including left-pad.

This broke lots of things – heaps of projects around the world started to see failures due to the missing dependency on left-pad. In many cases, these were secondary dependencies – where ProjectA breaks because it depends on ProjectB, which depends on left-pad.

There is no question that this is a messy situation. But the fix that NPM decided on was worse. They un-unpublished the most recent version of left-pad, apparently at the request of a new owner.

What NPM should have done

It’s fine that someone can claim the left-pad module – if it’s been abandoned, it’s up for grabs. Nothing particularly wrong with that.

But the new owner only gets access to the name – they don’t suddenly get rights to the previously published code. Nor can NPM assign them the rights – by their own terms of service, they lose those rights when a module gets unpublished.

The new owner should have taken the couple of minutes it would have taken to fork the left-pad code base (which, under the WTFPL license used to distribute it, would have been perfectly fine), then packaged it up and submitted to NPM as a new module. They could even have re-used the version number, which would have solved everything.

In the case of Kik, NPM could have expelled the offending module. They could have claimed a safe-harbour provision and left it there. But they should not have assigned ownership to a third-party. And they really should not have double-downed on their transgression by doing it again.

NPM does not care about the IP rights of its contributors. They have shown they are willing to transfer IP to third-parties, and even to transfer IP they’ve explicitly had their rights to distribute removed.

I would suggest not publishing anything to NPM.

Lessons learnt from a bug

This is a rant about a bug report I raised with ExtJS a few weeks ago. That said, I’m using the bug more as a teachable moment than anything else; I’m certainly not trying to bag ExtJS (which I quite like, despite some of its quirks). But this bug does highlight a number of “things done wrong”, which I want to learn from so that I don’t commit the same errors.

(No knowledge of ExtJS is required, and whilst I will describe the details of the bug in depth, the technical issues involved aren’t meant to be the takeaway points)

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Annoying issue with Javascript and arrays

Stumbled across this one recently. Stumbled as in I fell down, grazed my knees, and couldn’t get up properly for a couple of hours. Turns out that arrays in Javascript can have a length that is totally utterly wrong. 😦

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There are times that I really hate Internet Explorer

I’m working on putting some band-aid fixes into an application supplied to work by an outside vendor. For various reasons, I can’t say who, which I really think is a shame, but…

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CSS Reference Data Type

The initial CSS keyword is used to apply a property’s initial value as its specified value (value specified by the CSS author). This means that no matter what the cascaded or inherited value of the property is, it will be “reset” to its default initial value if it takes this keyword.

All CSS properties have initial values, hence, this keyword can be used with any CSS property.

Some CSS properties inherit their values from the cascading nature of CSS. For example, if you set a text color of an element, then all the descendants of that element will inherit the same text color. In such a case, you may want to reset the color of one of the descendants instead of having it inherit the color from its parent, so the initial keyword could be used to do just that. The same applies for properties that are not inherited, but you still want to reset their values to their initial values.

Assume that you have a container and that you have set the text color of that container to be of a certain color. The following resets the text color of all .original paragraphs inside that container to their default text color.

p.original {
    color: initial;

The following example will style all h3 tags and give them an italic font style. We’ll use the initial keyword to reset the font style to its initial value (which is normal) for h3 tags that are found inside the sidebar.

h3 {
    font-style: italic;

.sidebar h3 {
    font-style: initial;

Browser Support

CSS initial value

A CSS value that will apply a property's initial value as defined in the CSS specification that defines the property

W3C Candidate Recommendation

Supported from the following versions:

  • 4
  • 19
  • No
  • 15
  • 3.2

Mobile / Tablet

  • 4.0
  • 2.3
  • No
  • 57
  • 52

* denotes prefix required.

  • Supported:
  • Yes
  • No
  • Partially
  • Polyfill

Stats from caniuse.com

The initial keyword is supported without prefixes starting Firefox v24.

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January 19th, 2009, 03:58 PM
I have stupidly managed to delete my bottom task panel I have been all through out the systems preferences and administration menus but am not seeing how I can restore this...

Any body have any advice in return you can have mine.....Don't leave the mouse on your lap whilst typing it may just drop off and decide to delete your task panels! :)

Many thanks in advance!

January 19th, 2009, 04:03 PM
Right click the top and create a new panel then tweak it.


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The cHIE is a secure electronic network that empowers healthcare professionals to communicate faster, safer, and more clearly about important medical information. It brings peace of mind to both providers and patients by helping ensure that providers have the information they need, when they need it.

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Scattered information wastes provider and staff time, causes unnecessary duplicate tests and procedures, and may contribute to medical errors.

Patients can see multiple providers and may not recall important details of their medical history. Records are often stored at different healthcare organizations and frequently are not shared. This is where the Clinical Portal helps.

Healthcare professionals can use the cHIE Clinical Portal to quickly and securely locate their patients’ information from other sites of care. More complete information leads to better coordination across care teams, improved care quality, and less time and expense associated with record searches. The Clinical Portal includes records from over 400 clinics and more than 80 hospitals in Utah and neighboring states, three major labs, and Utah Medicaid’s medication history.

The Clinical Portal organizes information into easily-searchable categories. Records available include problems, allergies, medications, test results, procedures, and discharge summaries.

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The cHIE Alerts system sends you secure notifications when your patients are admitted to, or discharged from, a hospital or emergency department, so you can offer prompt post-acute care. When your patients have been hospitalized, they need timely follow-up care to lessen their risk of readmission or complications.  cHIE Alerts supports you in offering transitional care management services, which may lead to higher reimbursements from Medicare and some commercial payers.

You can receive cHIE Alerts in real time or choose custom delivery times. Alerts are delivered via cHIE Direct secure email, SFTP, or through HL7 messages pulled into your EHR.

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cHIE Direct is an encrypted email system supporting large files in multiple formats. cHIE Direct is based on nationally-accepted standards, and can send up to 40 MB of files per message in formats including Word document, PDF, JPEG, and TIF. cHIE Direct accelerates the reimbursement cycle by allowing providers and payers to exchange claim attachment requests and documentation within a single system. It also enables long-term care facilities to quickly submit prior authorization requests when admitting Medicaid beneficiaries.

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CareAchieve, UHIN’s analytics tool, makes personalized medicine possible for care settings of all sizes. CareAchieve allows healthcare professionals to create customized dashboards and graphs of patient cohorts. These tools identify at-risk patients to allow proactive intervention, track the prevalence and severity of a health condition among each cohort, and highlight patterns in a condition’s development within a particular demographic group.

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Hungary is home to many springs such as the Gellert Baths, perfect for a relaxation getaway. The capital Budapest has more than half of the hot springs in the entire nation. In addition, the country's history is fascinating. Formerly a part of the unified Austro-Hungarian empire, the legacy of the grand families of the past is visible in some of the most superb architecture to be found anywhere in the world. While at the capital, also known as the Paris of the East, make sure to visit the spectacular Buda Castle. Stroll on the banks of the Danube River dividing the two cities of Buda and Pest. Make sure to visit other areas including historic spa towns such as Lake Heiz. Hungary Hotels from will make it easy to stay anywhere in the country. Check in at Lake Balaton, a nature reserve or explore the stunning Caves of Lillafured. Splendid castles and palaces also abound so make sure to explore a couple including Eger Castle and the Visegrad Royal Palace.

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Sandwood Bay Beach

Sandwood Bay beach, Blairmore, The Scottish Highlands

Place Category: Beaches

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  • Sandwood Bay is a natural bay on the far north-west coast of Scotland and lies about 5 miles south of Cape Wrath. Spend time exploring the mile of golden sand and dunes, with rocky cliffs and the Am Buachaille, a giant sea stack. The large sandstone stack, Gaelic for The Herdsman, was first climbed in 1968 by Tom Patey and Ian Clough.

    Behind the bay’s large sand dunes, stretches Sandwood Loch – a freshwater loch full of brown and sea trout.

    This beach is remote with no road access, but is easily reached by a 4.5 mile long walk from the hamlet of Blairmore along a bleak fairly flat moorland track.

    The beach is a good place to spot dolphins and other marine mammals.

    Local legends include a sighting of a reclining mermaid of ravishing beauty on the rocks in the bay in 1900.

    No facilities and the car park is at Blairmore and then the beach is a 4.5 mile walk.

    Sandwood Bay Beach has dog restrictions. Dogs allowed but must be kept on lead as sheep roam free.

    Why not check other beaches nearby as we have one beach around Blairmore, 40 beaches in The Scottish Highlands, or check our Dog Friendly Beaches.

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      Highlight of the Highlands.
      Tourists don’t come this far north, only travellers, people with a sense of adventure and wonder. People that want to see what the majority miss. So, you’ve come this far, what’s another 4.5miles? meander thought the wild untamed natural landscape of the north west. As you get closer to the beach you will start to smell sea, to hear the sounds of the waves crashing on to the shore and the sea birds crying overhead. You’ll pass Sandwood Loch on your right, climb up the last of the dunes and filially look down at an endless white sandy beach that just seems to go on and on and on. We found a sheltered dune, unpacked our picnic and just watched. The sun came out, the wind was warm and there was no one there. Just as we were about to pour our next cup of tea a handful of bouncy young things launched themselves onto the beach with whoops of joy and amused us for an hour as we watched them doing a mix of yoga and pilates – a more perfect spot will be hard to find.
      Things to know: there are no loo’s on the beach, no burger vans, no ice cream vendors no anything…. just sun, sand, peace and space.

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One bedroom equipped with a bathroom

Occupied the space is a queen-sized bed

Matched dark brown color with makeup drawer and clothes cupboard

Hanger for prayer clothes and mat

A book shelf that’s filled up all books

Carpets that warmed everyone who walk into the room

Air conditioner that cools off sweats

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A quote for the week – I can hardly believe someone would say this…

This is a quote that was published today by Buck Banks in Pensito Review. It was headed “Now This Guy Is A Sore Loser!”

Eric Dondero

“All family and friends, even close family and friends, who I know to be Democrats are hereby dead to me. I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them. They are in short, the enemies of liberty. They deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt…. I strongly urge all other libertarians to do the same. Are you married to someone who voted for Obama, have a girlfriend who voted ‘O’. Divorce them. Break up with them without haste. Vow not to attend family functions, Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas for example, if there will be any family members in attendance who are Democrats.”

— Former Ron Paul aide Eric Dondero, asserting that the only recourse to President Obama’s re-election is “outright revolt” and therefore is launching a “personal boycott” of Democrats.

Eric Dondero blogs at

I am impressed with how much difference can be read into the American psyche. What is wrong with these people? What good is a country where everyone believes the exact same things? How woud progress ever happen? Who would have invented the goddam lightbulb?

Quote of the Day – A campaign is suspended

“I will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.”

Ron Paul

Although his chances of winning the Republican nomination are virtually non-existent, Paul said that he and his remaining staff will spend time gathering delegates for the Republican Convention.

The Party leaders are not trying to pull Paul out of the game altogether out of fear that he will start up a third party and cut into the Romney vote. (Personally, I’d encourage him to do just that – either he believes in what he is saying or not.)

The House has voted to take away your privacy – what do you do now?

Yesterday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed CISPA – the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act – by a vote of 248-168. CISPA now goes to the Senate.

CISPA gives the government, including military spy agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA), virtually unlimited powers to capture our personal informationmedical records, private emails, financial information — all without a warrant or proper oversight.

Tell Your Senators: Stop CISPA.

And this is not just a Democrats vs. Republicans thing…Civil liberties groups and progressives unanimously opposed the bill, but so did Ron Paul.

President Obama warned the House that he will veto the bill because it does not protect our privacy, but they ignored his warnings.

Let’s hope he doesn’t have to. Get word to the Senate now.

The Great Southern Primary Day

Well, it’s the Tuesday of the Alabama and Mississippi Republican Primaries (and the Hawaii Caucus as well), and everyone is waiting to see who carries the South.

All of the remaining candidates have been sucking up in great Southern fashion (of course, Ron Paul remains in his same format… no need to change here.) Romney raves over “cheesy grits,” although I’m not sure they will ever get on his campaign plane’s menu. Santorum pushes himself as the “true Conservative”when he faces the Romney challenge. Newt knows he is from the south and needs to get at least one of the two states to maintain his position if there is a brokered convention.

Of course, all of them have to look squarely in the eye of the EDUCATED SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE POPULATION! How educated? Well, as examples:

The poll of Mississippi Republicans found that 52% said they believed Obama is a Muslim, 36% weren’t sure and only 12% said they believed he is a Christian

Alabama Poll

See? This is a thinking group of voters who are not held back by either truth or proof. They believe what they want to believe, right or wrong. How this relates to the current candidates, we will know tomorrow.

Funniest Quote of the Day (from All Hat, No Cattle)

“As of today, Rick Santorum will be assigned Secret Service agents. This is the first time Santorum has agreed to use any kind of protection.”

–Conan O’Brien

If all we had was a funny line a day, we might get through all this crap. Thanks, Conan.

C-PAC is over and it looks like Santorum came out on top…

From Public Policy Polling:

Part of the reason for Santorum’s surge is his own high level of popularity. 64% of voters see him favorably to only 22% with a negative one. But the other, and maybe more important, reason is that Republicans are significantly souring on both Romney and Gingrich. Romney’s favorability is barely above water at 44/43, representing a 23 point net decline from our December national poll when he was +24 (55/31). Gingrich has fallen even further. A 44% plurality of GOP voters now hold a negative opinion of him to only 42% with a positive one. That’s a 34 point drop from 2 months ago when he was at +32 (60/28).

Santorum is now completely dominating with several key segments of the electorate, especially the most right leaning parts of the party. With those describing themselves as ‘very conservative,’ he’s now winning a majority of voters at 53% to 20% for Gingrich and 15% for Romney.  Santorum gets a majority with Tea Party voters as well at 51% to 24% for Gingrich and 12% for Romney. And with Evangelicals he falls just short of a majority with 45% to 21% for Gingrich and 18% for Romney.

Not sure what Romney’s going to do now… look for really bottom feeding TV ads attacking Rick and lots of money spent by Mitt. This should be fun.

First primary poll I’ve seen from Florida…

After Newt’s win in South Carolina, he seems to be having a surge in Florida. I just saw an InsiderAdvantage poll of of 557 registered Republican voters and Gingrich leads Romney by 8 points:

  1. Gingrich: 34 percent
  2. Romney: 26 percent
  3. Ron Paul: 13 percent
  4. Rick Santorum: 11 percent
  5. Other: 2 percent
  6. No opinion: 14 percent

“Gingrich has been closing the gap nationally, according to the Gallup tracking poll. Florida is a reflection that Republicans nationally are moving toward Gingrich.”

– Matt Towery, chief pollster for InsiderAdvantage

Mitt is going to be going heavily into the Florida media market… look for him to be on the offensive instead of the defensive petitions he held in South Carolina… and there are two debates ( first one tonight) before the primary voting.

This will be interesting to watch, unless, like me, you don’t want to miss the new episode of House.

What Fun! The Republicans now have Newt as a Winner :)

Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina Primary and this morning he exploited his win over all the network Sunday morning news shows. His ego glowed like a radium ion.

So Santorum has Iowa (we guess), Romney has New Hampshire, and Newt now has South Carolina. Now there is no REAL leader and we’re looking toward Florida to see what happens next.

I doubt that Ron Paul is going to quit yet. Wouldn’t it be funny if he took Florida?

There’s also the potential, now, for a brokered Republican Convention… this means that a wholly new candidate could be brought in by the Party and made nominee (Chris Christie, maybe?)

So now we have one candidate that often switches positions solely to get the vote  (Mitt), one that makes Democrats look sane (Newt) and one who puts religion and ant-gay hysteria on top of governing the country (Santorum.)

As to which one of these Obama would prefer to tun against…who knows? Any one of them has great benefits for the Democrats. I’d prefer Santorum, but that is the least likely.

Primary Poem

Today’s the day that Perry quit.

His backing goes to Newt, not Mitt.

And Newt’s ex-wife may crash his carriage…

She says he wanted Open Marriage.

Now Iowa has changed its score

and Rick leaves Mitt upon the floor.

Ron Paul takes all this at its face…

Ignoring his past views on Race.

So four are left in fume and smoke

And Saturday will be a joke.

Let’s look at South Carolina Polling:

It doesn’t look like a commanding lead for Romney.

The former Massachusetts governor’s lead is so small in South Carolina that he’s essentially tied with Newt Gingrich, according to a poll conducted for The Augusta Chronicle by InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research:

Romney and Gingrich are in a statistical tie.

The really dirty advertising is starting across the board, so expect these numbers to change.

Taegan Goddard just posted this…

… on the Political Wire:

Romney Wins New Hampshire Primary

Based on exit polling (as of 8:15 PM), the TV networks declared Mitt Romney the winner of the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire.

Ron Paul will finish a strong second and Jon Huntsman a more distant third.

Unless, of course, you don’t believe in exit Polling, this ends it here. Do you think Perry is smart enough to quit, or has he not thrown enough money away?

The Polls close in New Hampshire in about two hours…

… and none of the news programs have any idea of where the results will be. They are all bouncing around the idea of Romney as the winner without committing themselves to that as a final opinion… and the big controversy is who will come in second.

Will Paul screw up Romney’s lead? Will Huntsman’s apparent rise in poll numbers make him the second placer and hold Romney’s numbers down? And what about the angry drive of Gingrich who seems to want Romney destroyed?

On top of everything else, eyes are starting to turn to South Carolina with a question as to how many of these guys are going to be running there. Gingrich is already spending millions on anti-Romney films. Perry is using his New Hampshire campaigning to reach South Carolina audiences… he’s likely to be dead last in NH. He’s also the one most likely to disappear after tonight.

Then there’s Santorum. He doesn’t seem to have the same push he gained in Iowa and, given his views on contraception, welfare reform (ie: take money away from the poor, especially the black poor, so they will work) and his anti-gay marriage and adoption stance, he may be turning folks off – FINALLY!

If I were a Republican (that is sooo hard to say), I’d vote for Huntsman. At least he seems to be campaigning to be everyone’s president… not just right wing weirdos.

Meanwhile in South Carolina, here’s what’s polling:

Stephen Colbert? Are people taking this prinmary seriously?

Quote for a Sunday (about Last Night’s Debate):

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“But the real lesson of this debate is that this crew is the worst assembled for the nomination of a major party that I can recall.”

 – Andrew Sullivan

So true, so true. And this debate was only topped by this morning’s update Debate – or Romney hunt – where the five other clowns got to continue sniping.

A Weekend’s Entertainment – Everyone Against Romney!

The Inverted Sextet

The six remaining Republican presidential candidates start at 9 pm ET tonight in New Hampshire debating on ABC TV for two hours. Twelve hours later, at 9:00 am Sunday, they’ll take part in the NBC News/Facebook debate on Meet the Press. You can send in your questions on Facebook and attack Romney, too.

I expect the most fun from Newt Gingrich whose

Fun For All!

sole objective seems to be getting even with Romney for the negative ads his PAC pulled off in Iowa. Next will be Ron Paul, who is getting just as negative.
And, of course, we will all look for another “Oooops!” from Perry, who is really playing to the South Carolina Audience.

So have a nice weekend. I know I will.

Waking up to Romney by 8 votes… Really!

Romney and Santorum… a close tie at 25%, but Romney led by 8 votes. Ron Paul was 21%. Gingrich was 13%. The rest were so low it didn’t matter.

My main view of the Iowa Caucus was that it was meaningless. No one came out with enough of a lead to be the official Republican challenger. The three at the top will certainly be easy pickins’ for Obama (you can come back in November and quote me on that.)

Next Tuesday is New Hampshire and that’s a winner-take-all affair. Let’s see what happens then.

Does it matter who wins tonight?

Maybe. Maybe one or two of these yoyos will drop out of the race. Bachmann, who should, has said she won’t. Huntsman, who will come in at the bottom has not really campaigned here… he may be waiting to see what happens in New Hampshire.

Newt, if he comes in lower than fourth, will likely disappear. Santorum, if not in the top three will either drop out, or skip New Hampshire and throw all his remaining money into South Carolina.

Ron Paul, who is likely to come in second, should really not be in the race at all. I don’t think he is ready to drop out yet and will probably come in second to Romney tonight. Rick Parry is an unknown, but bottom level, quantity. If I were he and came in low tonight, I’d quit or look even more stupid…ooops!

In moving to New Hampshire, someone has to appear to be a moderate. Romney and Huntsman are the only two who can do that. Newt is threatening to do nothing but really dirty Romney attack ads in NH… this may have the backlash of doing Newt in. Let’s hope.

Fun and games at the bottom of the New Hampshire list…

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

Frank Zappa

John Huntsman, toiling at the bottom of the list in Iowa, is putting his effort into New Hampshire… and to do that he has released a video called “Unelectable” attacking Ron Paul (gee, you think he’d go after Romney instead of wasting his time on the Loser In Chief.)

Here it is:

🙂 🙂 🙂

What to do if you support Ron Paul and intend to go to Caucus:

The Ron Paul campaign has put out requirements for Caucus attendees

1. Shave

2. Hide tattoos

3. Dress well

No word about what political thoughts you should have.

May be this is the time for the other candidates to come out for Tattooed folk. Or bearded guys in jeans.

Oh Please Get This Iowa Crap Over With…

One day it’s Newt, the next it’s Ron Paul… then there’s a “surge” for Santorum, plus insufferable jabs at all of them from Bachmann. And, of course, Romney still polls in the 25% range and can’t seem to get major Conservatives behind him. Huntsman might as well be invisible and you wish Perry would be.

And without Herman Cain we no longer have the kind of comic entertainment which lets us ignore the rest of these clowns.

Add to all of this the need of all the news stations (and Fox) to keep all of this brouhaha on the air all the time without even making the least amount of difference. Not one candidate shows any sign of being able to serve all of America.

They all seem to have a view of the Constitution as a document defined by one or two articles… it’s easy to ignore the ones you don’t believe in. No matter how they comment on Obama (or in many cases each other), none of these folks would know a real Socialist if they tripped over one at a Karl Marx picnic on May Day.

And, hey, we still have New Hampshire, South Carolina and all the rest to look forward to.

Getting Ready for the End of the Earth in 2012…

So the year 2012 starts on Sunday and we have a few possibilities (improbable as they may be) which can stagnate our minds in a thick depression if we let them.

The Mayan calendar, say. Sometime next December, the ancient Mayan calendar ends and with it, some disturbed thinkers claim, the world. So what will do it? What will make the world crumble and the pieces drift into the universe? Maybe some of the actions we might take along the way.

For instance, we might elect Newt Gingrich as President. This would make our military grow and perhaps bring us into a new and destructive war while wiping out all the aspects of government that deal with education, poverty and civilian participation. Then again, we might elect Ron Paul who wants to turn off recognition of Israel, turn on recognition of Palestine and acknowledge, but not indicate any changes, in remarks stated in racist newsletters in the 90s. These factors would certainly end MY world, and I’m not sure that they wouldn’t lead to ongoing destruction across the planet. What fun.

Or we might continue to ignore Global Warming (like the majority of Tea Partiers) or air pollution, or ongoing poisoning of our water, or the Monsanto chemicalization of our food. Then we might all be gone and who cares what happens to the planet.

So let’s celebrate the coming of 2012 and begin the campaign to educate and change the world (even though both Paul and Gingrich would end the Department of Education) and do what we can before it’s too late. As to the Mayans, they didn’t stick around long enough to update their predictions… but, hey, that’s how it goes.

Here’s a good one – Virginia Republican Primary will be a little lighter…

In a major stumble, both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich came short of Virginia’s ballot requirements and will miss the Super Tuesday state. As far as I know it’s too late for them to do anything about it (perhaps they can seek write-in votes, but that will take mucho effort.)

This is a reasonable sign of each man’s management/organization capabilities, no?

Rival candidates Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) qualified for the primary. On the Democratic side.

It was unclear if Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum or former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman submitted petitions to the state board in time.

Am I missing something here?

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A quote for the morning:

“Our campaign has a comprehensive plan to win the delegates needed to either secure the nomination or enter into a brokered convention in Tampa.”

Ron Paul campaign manager Jesse Benton

Found this on Taegan Goddard‘s blog. I guess people can believe what they want. Last I looked, Paul was still in single digits.

A noted Conservative rates the participants in last night’s Economics Debate…

I didn’t get to see the debate because we don’t get the Bloomberg Network… so I’ve been reviewing it on line in pieces. I’ve also looked at remarks around the web commenting on it. Andrew Sullivan, whose opinions I usually disagree with, made an interesting summary which the parts of the debate I have seen back up:

“Huntsman I can understand and appreciate. Perry is an empty bad suit. Romney lies with such facility it unnerves me. Bachmann is a fanatic, as, although I am extremely fond of him, is Ron Paul. Santorum just seems like a lost child from the 1950s, trying to have the campaign he dreamed about when he was ten. Cain is an egomaniac businessman with a talk show host patter and a mild wit. Gingrich is a giant, gaseous asshole.”

I especially agree with his view of Gingrich, who is still in the race because…?

New Poll pulls Obama ahead of Perry by 11 Points

Perry is heading down!

Last week when Perry pulled ahead of Obama in the polls, the tea party folks were cheering.

Looks, though, like Perry’s “Ponzi Scheme” statement on Social Security and Obama’s active push for the American Jobs Act has switched things around. It’s now 52 to 41 and still spreading apart.

In Republican-only polling, Romney is ahead with moderates, but perry is ahead with conservatives… and conservatives seem to be controlling the Party.

Plenty to watch out for…

Why is Ames, Iowa, the new Comedy Capital of the World?

Michele Bachmann won a straw poll of Iowa Republicans Saturday, confirming her status as the front runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in the state that kicks off the real voting next winter.

“Bachmann, a U.S. representative from Minnesota, edged out Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota finished a distant third, a disappointment for a man who freely invested time and money in search of a strong showing to boost his flagging campaign.”

The rest of the nation looks on with astonishment.