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Tammy Kennedy is not a Chiropractor.  She is
evaluating patients and claims to be treating them.
Her grandfather is Dr. Earl Craton.  She claims
that he showed her his techniques and she now
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Nanotechnology 2013: Advanced Materials, CNTs, Particles, Films and Composites (Volume 1)
Chapter 3: Carbon Nano Structures & Devices

Composite microelectrodes from PEDOT and carbon nanotubes enable advanced neuronal recording, stimulation and sensing

Authors:R. Gerwig, P. Cesare, U. Kraushaar, S. Reinartz, M. Giugliano, A. Kilias, P. Ruther, A. Stett, M. Stelzle
Affilation:Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, NMI, DE
Pages:300 - 303
Keywords:CNT, PEDOT, neurotechnology, recording, stimulation, microelectrode array
Abstract:The aim of this work was to design an advanced microelectrode material for neurotechnology. In order to improve signal-to-noise ratio, stimulation and sensing properties as well as cell viability, microelectrodes were modified with poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and carbon nanotubes (CNT). Coated electrodes show extraordinarily low impedance (< 20 kΩ for d = 30 µm) and significantly higher capacitance (4-10 mF/cm2) when compared to state-of-the-art neuro microelectrodes. Electron microscopy reveals the rough nanostructure of the composite material. Coatings can be produced in a reproducible quality and withstand intensive rinsing with solvents, autoclaving, UV irradiation, and repeated use in cell culture without delamination. The robustness and reproducibility make them feasible for real world applications. The applicability in neuronal reserach was shown in diverse in vitro as well as in vivo experiments. In summary, results demonstrate exceptional performance of nanostructured PEDOT-CNT microelectrodes. Based on these results we anticipate significant improvements in applications in in vitro neurotechnology as well as in neuroprostheses to become possible in the future.
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I was sitting in a bleachers viewing an outdoor graduation ceremony. I heard an airplane noise coming from behind me (I sat facing directly west). After scanning the skies briefly and seeing no plane, my eyes fell upon a long, white or light silver colored object gliding quickly, steadily from northwest to south east. I probably watched it for 10, maybe even 15 seconds. It seemed to fade in and out of visibility, but would always be where it should have been on a regular path. It did not reappear where it had disappeared. Then a small plane did fly over, and the object disappeared for good, but it was clear that the object was lower than the plane. It was a light sunny day, few clouds. It was clear that the object had been traveling faster than the airplane (some sort of small plane) was. I did not point this out to anyone in the crowd, and evidently i was the only one who noticed. The object left no contrail.


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Posted Date: January 22, 2016
TAKE ACTION TODAY! - Multiple bills have been introduced into state legislatures that could affect vaccine exemptions. Visit www.NVICadvocacy.org to learn about what is happening in your state and what you can do to help. Thank you for standing up for freedom!

Quick Facts and Resources for New Hampshire Residents

Quick Fact: If a parent objects to immunization because of religious beliefs, the parent or legal guardian shall sign a notarized form stating that the child has not been immunized because of religious beliefs.  Medical exemptions are also allowed.

Other Resources: Many vaccination and exemption information links are date specific. If the links below have expired, click on the state's department of health, or immunization program link provided below, as they are likely to provide links to updated information. The General Information link leads to the overview page provided by the state at the time of this webpage's update and may also be helpful.  Please email NVIC with broken link information.

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  • Vaccination Requirements – New Hampshire law does not require vaccines to enter college. However, each college may establish their own rules about what immunizations are needed to enter. You should check your college's registration packet for details on what's required for your school. Vaccines that may be required for entering college students.
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I. All parents or legal guardians shall have their children who are residing in this state immunized against certain diseases. These diseases shall include, but not be limited to, diphtheria, mumps, pertussis, poliomyelitis, rubella, rubeola, and tetanus. The commissioner shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A relative to other diseases which require immunization.

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Step back in time to July 4, 1889 at the Northwest Railway Museum

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SNOQUALMIE–Travel back in time to July 4, 1889 at the Northwest Railway Museum this Fourth of July.

On July 4, 1889 the inaugural passenger excursion train arrived in Snoqualmie from Seattle. Coordinated by the M.E. Church Society over the lines of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company, that first train brought tourists from Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls and back in just one day. 125 years later, the Northwest Railway Museum continues the tradition of train excursions to Snoqualmie Falls.

To celebrate the 125th anniversary, two commemorative trains (12:30 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.) will depart from the historic 1890 Snoqualmie Depot to Snoqualmie Falls on July 4.

During these “train excursions” guests can step back in time with travelers from the 1800s who are experiencing that first touring excursion to the valley. Roundtrip fares from the Snoqualmie Depot for these commemorative trains are: $12/Adult (13-61); $10/Senior (62+) and $5/Child (2-12). (These trains do not run to North Bend.)

Visitors to the museum experience the excitement of a working railroad while learning about the important role railroads played in shaping the character of the Pacific Northwest. The Snoqualmie Depot, exhibits and Depot Bookstore are open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more information: or call (425) 888-3030.

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The Suburban Prejudice

In response to:

Pound's Book of Beasts from the June 2, 1988 issue

To the Editors:

Denis Donoghue’s article “Pound’s Book of Beasts” [NYR, June 2] sent me, as an Idaho native, rushing to the dictionary with this sentence:

It [Pound’s anti-Semitism] started as a common suburban prejudice of Pound’s youth in Idaho and Pennsylvania….

Had I misused the word “suburban” all my life? No, it does, as I thought, mean the outlying part of a city, such as the North Shore of Chicago. What, then, is he talking about? Hailey, Idaho, Pound’s birthplace and childhood home, has become, in the last ten years, a kind of suburb of Sun Valley, but in Pound’s time Sun Valley, the resort, did not exist, and Hailey was a ranching village of, I would guess, fewer than 2,000 people. The only nearby town, Bellevue, was, if anything, a suburb of Hailey. In Pound’s time, all of Idaho had fewer than three quarters of a million people and the only “city” was Boise, which had a population of less than 50,000, and was a full day’s drive distant from Hailey. No matter how you stretch meanings, Hailey, Idaho, was not a suburban place during the time Ezra Pound lived there.

Of more interest is the general question of “common prejudice.” I grew up before World War II in Boise and Burley, Idaho. The latter was near to, and roughly the same size as, Hailey. I did not know what a Jew was, other than through Sunday School Old Testament history, until I moved to West Hartford, Connecticut. There, after I started the fourth grade, I missed the first Jewish holiday of the school year due to illness, and experienced a mystifying change in attitude among my classmates. It is the sharpness of my memory of this event which brings home to me the lack of Semitic prejudice in prewar Idaho.

Now, I am a generation younger than Pound, but my parents, both Idahoans through their college years, are not, and we have discussed these matters. Prejudices existed in Idaho, but mostly against Mormons and Basques. It would be the latter who would have been the principal targets of prejudice in a community like Hailey, which was in sheep ranching country and not in the path of Mormon migration. Yet Basques, proud, lonely nomads, who camped out alone for whole seasons with their sheep, would be the kind of person whom Pound revered.

The point of bringing this up is not chauvinism for my native state, but because, unless Hailey was an atypical pocket of anti-Semitic prejudice in Idaho, Pound could not have gotten his anti-Semitism as a “common suburban prejudice.” At least not from his Idaho days. It would be interesting to know how, then, it did come about.

Ivan Strand

Lake Bluff, Illinois

Denis Donoghue replies:

I should have made it clear that I was alluding to a now famous phrase in Ezra Pound’s vicinity. Talking to Allen Ginsberg in 1967, Pound confessed that his “worst mistake” was his “suburban prejudice” of anti-Semitism. In The Genealogy of Demons Robert Casillo quotes and discusses the phrase; he quotes, too, a distinction made by Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Guterman between “the kind of ‘bona fide’ suburban anti-Semitism, which is not usually associated with a conscious political purpose, and totalitarian anti-Semitism, in which the Jew is primarily an object of political manipulation.” There is evidence in John Tytell’s Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano that suburban anti-Semitism was a fairly common sentiment in Wyncote during Pound’s years there. Perhaps Hailey, Idaho, was more enlightened, but I doubt it. Mr. Strand calls Hailey “a ranching village.” Tytell calls it “a frontier town of two thousand people, an outpost for miners or men selling mining supplies out of wooden shacks.” I’m not claiming that suburban anti-Semitism was commoner in Hailey, Idaho, and Wyncote, Pennsylvania, than in, say, Dublin, Ireland; only that there was enough of it around to make it, in Pound’s early years, unexceptional. Suburban as a word of topographical reference is of course a different and happier matter.


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Nights at the Opera

Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times

by Peter Heyworth
Cambridge University Press, 486 pp., $39.95

Otto Klemperer
Otto Klemperer; drawing by David Levine

Most televised orchestra concerts offer close-up footage of the conductor as his musicians see him, beating time and meter, cueing, manipulating dynamic levels, emoting. Otto Klemperer, with Toscanini and Furtwängler one of the great conductors of the century, barely gestured at all in his later years, and, except through his eyes, was physically unable to register sentiments histrionically. Yet he communicated his musical meanings and drew performances from players and singers surpassing what they had thought of as the limits of their abilities. Of the many musicians quoted to this effect in the long-awaited completion of the late Peter Heyworth’s two-volume biography, none ventures to say what he actually did.1 Moreover, he himself denied the existence of a teachable art of conducting, remarking that it is “so minimal” you could learn it “in a minute,” and understanding that nothing can be instilled into a student that is not already there.

Heyworth meticulously provides the logbook of Klemperer’s professional career: the performances—and the cancellations, at times almost one on one—the recording sessions, the rehearsals, the managerial business, the pros and cons of press notices, and the preferred repertory: Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler; and the Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner operas, for he was a theater conductor above all. Apart from this information, the book’s sustaining interest is in its running commentary on the conductor’s personality disorders, and the eventual triumph over them of his indomitable will. The life, at once tragi-comic and heroic, is one of the strangest in music history.

Nathan Klemperer, the conductor’s father, was born in the Prague ghetto, like all of his known ancestors. His wife, Otto’s mother, descended from a Sephardic family, was brought up in Hamburg, where she raised her only son. Otto seems to have inherited his musical gifts from her, as well as his manic-depressive affliction. Deeply religious by nature, at age thirty-four he converted to Catholicism, not to further his career, as his idol Mahler had to do under Viennese law, but out of “intellectual conviction, and belief in God and the efficacy of prayer.” He remained a communicant—more fervently in his manic phases, when he would go to Mass daily—until near the end of his life when, in a gesture of solidarity with Israel and as a result of revelations concerning Catholic quiescence during the Holocaust, he returned to Judaism.

The earliest manifestation of the manic-depressive stigmata, the oscillations between extremes of temperament that determined the course of Klemperer’s emotional life, occurred in his twentieth year (1905), while he was a music student in Berlin. His apprenticeship in Prague, where a recommendation from Mahler helped him to secure a conducting post, was apparently not disturbed by untoward manically-induced incidents, but this was not true of his next post, at the Stadttheater in Hamburg. Remarking on his elevated, vertiginous mood while leading a concert in the city, a reviewer noted…

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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) Commissioner Matthew Sapolin today hosted a reception at Gracie Mansion to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Sapolin presented five awards recognizing individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to increasing accessibility for people with disabilities.  Mayor and Commissioner Sapolin were joined by Deputy Mayor of Legal Affairs Carol Robles-Román and representatives of the organizations that were recognized during the reception. Signed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act has fostered independence, empowerment and inclusion for millions of Americans.

"The Americans with Disabilities Act is one of our nation's important victories in fulfilling our founding promise of equality for all," said Mayor Bloomberg.  "The 20th anniversary of the ADA is our opportunity to celebrate and highlight the everyday work of the many individuals and organizations that share this Administration's commitment to bettering the lives of people with disabilities. We have worked hard to make sure New Yorkers with disabilities have improved access to every aspect of the city, and we remain dedicated to making New York the greatest city in the world for people with disabilities."

"On this significant anniversary, it is only appropriate that the Mayor and I continue what has become an annual tradition by granting awards to some of the people and organizations who help people with disabilities fully participate in every aspect of city life," said Commissioner Sapolin.  "The recipients, through their programs, services and actions, have demonstrated, and continue to demonstrate, their dedication to the benefits provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act."

At the reception, Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Sapolin presented awards to five recipients in recognition of their contributions to accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act.  They are:

Bank of America:  TITLE I Employment Award
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.  It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.  Bank of America is being honored with the Title I Employment Award for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in its everyday activities such as charitable giving to organizations aiding those with disabilities, promotion and encouragement of internal volunteer-based affinity groups, and recruitment of diverse talent including its job accommodations group that integrates people with disabilities and arranges accommodations.  Bob Qutub, Chief Financial Officer, Global Banking and Markets, Bank of America, is accepting the award.

American Museum of Natural History:  TITLE II Public Service Award
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition.  AMNH is being honored with the Title II Public Service Award for its accessible exhibitions, theaters, and food service areas, as well as its Science Sense tours, which are geared for the blind and visually impaired, are free with admission and involve specially trained museum tour guides who highlight specific themes and exhibition halls while engaging participants through extensive verbal descriptions and touchable objects.  Ann Siegel, Vice President for Operations and Capital Programs, American Museum of Natural History, is accepting the award.

The NYC Independent Living Centers:  TITLE III Reasonable Accommodation Award
The New York City Independent Living Centers (ILCs), which include:  Bronx Independent Living Services; Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled; Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York; Harlem Independent Living Center; and Staten Island Center for Independent Living, are part of the Independent Living Centers movement, a national network of grassroots and community-based organizations that enhance opportunities for all people with disabilities to direct their own lives.  The ILCs are being honored with the Title III Reasonable Accommodation Award for providing a wide array of services to people with disabilities free of charge, including benefits counseling, housing assistance, transition services for youth with disabilities, employment-related assistance, healthcare access, peer support groups, personal and systems advocacy, crime victims and domestic violence services, individual living skills training, community education & outreach, computer training, cooking classes, information and referrals, and recreational activities.  Robert Gumson, Unit Manager, Independent Living Services, New York State Education Department's Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals With Disabilities (VESID), is accepting the award.

The AbleGamers Foundation:  TITLE IV Telecommunications Award
The AbleGamers Foundation (AGF) is a 501(c)(3) public charity devoted to improving accessibility in the digital entertainment space and innovations in enabling hardware.  AGF is being honored with the Title IV Telecommunications award for its use of technology and accessible telecommunications, including its website,, which is now the largest destination on the web for the disabled gaming community and offers a safe place for any gamer with any disability to explore and to solve issues as a team and family; its annual "Game Accessibility Day", designed to show how gaming can be used for rehabilitation, testing, or just plain fun; its interactive event "The Accessibility Arcade" that allows non-disabled people to look at, and experience the gaming world from the perspective of the disabled; and its "Path to Games Accessibility Project", which convenes leading games accessibility experts, game technology vendors, and lead game programmers, producers, artists, and testers to identify and clearly state what technologies and processes can be developed by 2015 that will greatly enhance the ability of people with disabilities to better play the videogames they want and love.  Suzanne Robitaille, Board Member, The AbleGamers Foundation, is accepting the award.

Autism Speaks:  Frieda Zames Advocacy Award
Autism Speaks, a nonprofit corporation, has grown into the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism.  Autism Speaks also serves increase awareness of autism spectrum disorders, advocate for the needs of individuals with autism and their families and aims to bring the autism community together as one strong voice to urge the government and private sector to take action to address this urgent global health crisis.  On June 13th of this year, its annual "Walk Now for Autism Speaks" event in New York City raised over $1 million and involved the participation of over 4,700 walkers.  For these reasons, AS is being honored with the Frieda Zames Advocacy Award, given to an individual or organization whose tireless efforts for greater accessibility are a fitting tribute to the late Frieda Zames.  Mark Roithmayr, President, Autism Speaks, is accepting the award.

This evening's reception was sponsored by Bank of America, Autism Speaks and Anheuser-Busch In-Bev. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) donated dog bowls for the service dogs at tonight's event.  As guests departed from tonight's event, they received a new calendar that was a collaborative effort between VSA Arts, an international nonprofit organization founded more than 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts, and MOPD.

The Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, established in 1973, serves as a liaison between city government and disabled individuals, as well as organizations dedicated to improving the lives of New Yorkers with disabilities.

Stu Loeser/ Evelyn Erskine   (212) 788-2958

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The reclining Buddha at the Wat Pho temple complex. Credit Lonnie Schlein/The New York Times

THE heat. The traffic. The crowds. That’s all anyone ever talks about when you say you’re going to Bangkok. All of it’s true, of course — particularly the part about the traffic, as you will discover if you bypass this city’s efficient mass transit system and instead find yourself trapped in a one-hour cab ride covering a distance that, on a map, looked like no more than a 10-minute journey. But there are surprising pockets of tranquillity in this city of nearly 9 million people — leafy temple complexes, graceful neighborhoods, inviting restaurants — that offer a chance of momentary rest or rejuvenation before you head back out into the mesmerizing chaos that is Bangkok.

5:30 p.m.

The Chao Phraya River, with its constantly running ferries, water taxis, long-tail boats and freighters, is one of Bangkok’s most beguiling features, and there is perhaps no better place to take in its charms than the terrace bar at the Oriental hotel. Have a Singapore Sling — if not here, then where? — as you watch this watery procession glide by. Ferry stop: Oriental (N1).

8 p.m.

The contemporary Thai art scene hasn’t generated the buzz of either China or Vietnam, but you can get a quick glimpse of what local artists are up to at Eat Me (1/6 Soi Pipat 2; 66-2-238-0931; This coolly elegant restaurant, with seats in both the sleek dining room and the inviting outdoor garden, features rotating exhibits of local artists, often in conjunction with the well-regarded H Gallery on nearby Sathorn Soi. Among recent offerings were lemongrass prawns with coconut cream and betel leaves (260 baht, or about $8 at 33.5 baht to the dollar), a tea-smoked spatchcock with eggplant relish and tamarind butter (590 baht) and a dessert of “spiced, drunken fruit” with ginger ice cream (280 baht). Skytrain stop: Sala Daeng.

11 p.m.

Tacky, even offensive, but still worth seeing, is the red light district of Patpong (and its nearby gay counterpart, Soi Pratuchai) in the Silom neighborhood. You’ll need to use strong-arm tactics to keep the touts at bay — hawking everything from strip clubs to “sexy DVDs” — but Patpong is an undeniably lively scene that gives you a glimpse of this indefatigable economic institution, practically unchanged since it was first memorialized in "The Deer Hunter." Skytrain stop: Sala Daeng.

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10 a.m.

The National Gallery (4 Chao-fa Road, 66-2-281-2224; is a great place for a crash course in traditional Thai art, including ancient Buddhist paintings and numerous holdings from the personal collections of King Rama IX and King Rama VI. One eye-catcher: a rather festive portrait of a royal cremation ceremony, circa 1887. A popular artist is the portrait painter Chamras Khietkong, who seemed to specialize in flattering likenesses of the aristocracy. (The Thai John Singer Sargent?) The museum is air conditioned, worth the 30 baht admission on a hot Bangkok day — which is to say all of them. Ferry stop: Phra Arthit (N13).

11:30 a.m.

Follow the hordes of tourists marching toward the Grand Palace (Thanon Na Phra Lan), an inevitable spot on the Bangkok itinerary. This dauntingly huge complex dates back to 1782 and is home to the royal residence, various chapels and galleries. The big draw is the Emerald Buddha (which, despite its name, is actually made of jade), one of the most venerated treasures in all of Thailand. Appropriate dress (modest cover-ups for women; no shorts for men) is strictly enforced. Admission: 250 baht. Ferry stop: Tha Chang (N9).

1 p.m.

A short walk from the Grand Palace is a pleasant spot for lunch, the S&P, in the Maharaj Pier Building (1st floor, Maharaj Road; 66-2-222-7026), part of a well-regarded local chain. Deftly prepared dishes include steamed sea bass, soft shell crab and delicious fresh fruit drinks. Lunch for two should run about 1,000 baht. Ferry stop: Maharaj.

2 p.m.

For an up-close view of Bangkok, take a ride on one of the dozens of long-tail boats that navigate the Chao Phraya and its surrounding tributaries. As you glide past the city’s traditional stilt houses or wind your way through one of the floating markets, you’ll get a quick sense of the city’s rhythms and traditions. You can hire a long-tail boat at several stops along the river, including the Tha Chang ferry stop. Expect to pay about 100 baht per person.

4 p.m.

There are dozens of wats (temples) in the city, but there is perhaps no better one-two punch than Wat Pho and Wat Arun. You could easily spend an entire day wandering the sprawling temple complex of Wat Pho, off of Thanon Thai Wang (admission: 20 baht) admiring the mesmerizing tile work and the beautifully tended gardens. It’s not exactly a tranquil spot — you’ll spend much of your time darting among Japanese bus tour groups, Thai schoolchildren on a field trip and camera-wielding visitors from around the world — but it is worth visiting because of the famed reclining Buddha. (Amazing!) Then, take the commuter boat (3.50 baht) across the river to Wat Arun, a somewhat downscaled version of Angor Wat, with its own dizzying climb to the top (admission: 20 baht). Ferry stop: Tha Tien (N8).

6:30 p.m.

Visitors with acrophobia might want to skip a visit to Vertigo Grill and Moon Bar, the aptly named rooftop bar at the Banyan Tree hotel (21/100 South Sathorn Road; 66-2-679-1200; But others will be dazzled by the incomparable views from this open-air perch set 61 stories above the sprawling Bangkok metropolis. Stifle a scream (“Don’t jump!”) as other patrons lean over the railing to peer down at the city below, and instead order another icy martini to calm your nerves. Skytrain stop: Sala Daeng.

8 p.m.

It’s not every restaurant that greets you with an out-of-season Christmas tree decorated with brightly colored condoms and then offers more condoms on your way out. But then not every restaurant combines Thai cuisine with safe-sex education. That just about sums up Cabbages and Condoms (10 Sukhumvit Soi 12; 66-2-229-4610), a lively spot serving up simple, yet well-prepared local specialties (deep-fried chicken wrapped in pandanus leaf; sweet and sour grouper) in a decidedly eccentric setting. Dinner for two, with wine, shouldn’t run more than around 1,600 baht. Skytrain stop: Nana.

10 a.m.

Start the day with a walk down leafy Soi Rambuttri, a somewhat bucolic alternative to the tourist-heavy Kho San Road. Grab some freshly squeezed orange juice from one of the many street vendors, shop for knickknacks among the web-like alleyways and then finish your morning with a leisurely ferry ride on the Chao Phraya, watching the city reawaken. Ferry stop: Phra Arthit (N13)

12:30 p.m.

Exhibit A for the seductive power of Bangkok is the Jim Thompson House (6 Soi Kasemsan 2; 66-2-216-7368; This artfully designed complex of six teak buildings is the former home of an American architect-turned-intelligence-officer who was posted to the Thai capital in the waning days of World War II and then moved there permanently. Thompson disappeared in the jungles of Malaysia in 1967, but his house remains as a monument to traditional Thai architecture. Admission is 100 baht. Afterward, have lunch in the lovely riverside restaurant, where dishes include refreshing Thai salads (120 to 180 baht). Skytrain stop: National Stadium.

The secret to getting around Bangkok comes down to two things: water and sky. Between the efficient (and incredibly cheap) ferry system that navigates the Chao Phraya, with colored flags designating express and local stops, and the equally efficient (and almost as cheap) Skytrain, you can get almost anywhere you want without once getting stuck in a cab. In fact, a good rule of thumb for visiting Bangkok might be this: If you can’t there by boat or by train, don’t go.

Several airlines fly between New York and Bangkok, including American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Thai Airways. Round-trip fares for travel in mid-to-late July start at about $1,600.

Like boxers facing off in the ring, the Peninsula (333 Charoennakorn Road, 66-2-861-2888; and the Oriental (48 Oriental Avenue; 66-2-659-9000;, sit on opposite banks of the Chao Phraya, warily eyeing each other. The Oriental has history on its side, as well as superb service and lovely views. The Peninsula has a slightly hipper crowd, a livelier pool scene and sweeping views of the city. Call it a draw. Rates start at $289 for the Oriental and 12,000 baht (about $358 at 33.5 baht to the dollar) for the Peninsula.

The Metropolitan (27 South Sathorn Road; 66-2-625-3322;, part of the boutique hotel empire of Christina Ong, is an oasis of urban chic in the busy Silom neighborhood. The sleekly elegant Cy’an restaurant (with several tables overlooking the hotel’s inviting pool) is a popular hangout for the young and the gorgeous. Rates start at $250.

Equally charming, but considerably more affordable, is the 10-room Old Bangkok Inn (607 Pra Sumen Road; 66-2-629-1787;, which marries traditional Thai style with 21st- century conveniences like in-room PCs with high-speed Internet access. Rates start at $97.

Correction: June 29, 2008

An earlier version of this column misidentified the film that memorialized Patpong. It was "The Deer Hunter," not "Apocalypse Now."

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Ryan Getzlaf of Canada scored a goal against Evgeni Nabokov of Russia during the game between Russia and Canada on Wednesday. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — “We want gold! We want gold!” the Canada Palace crowd chanted, roaring like a jet engine as the seconds counted down in Canada’s astonishingly easy 7-3 quarterfinal victory over Russia on Wednesday.

On Sunday, Team Canada was in crisis, reeling from a stunning 5-3 loss to the United States that sent it to the qualification round and to potential early elimination by its rival hockey superpower, the Russians.

Now, the Canadians are the gold medal favorites again and the Russians are out of the tournament after a dismal performance.

“Our Olympic Games are over and I apologize,” Russia Coach Vyacheslav Bykov said. “It is a very, very good impression from the Canadians, and unfortunately I can’t say the same for the Russian team.”

The much-anticipated showdown between Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin never materialized. Remarkably, neither of the two, who are tied for the N.H.L. goal-scoring lead with 42 apiece, registered a point.

Ovechkin and his linemates, Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Semin, were shut down by the checking line of Jonathan Toews, Mike Richards and Rick Nash. A fierce Canadian defense left Ovechkin no room to operate. In the first period, he was stood up by Shea Weber’s body check and later flattened to the ice by Drew Doughty.

“We came out with a physical edge,” forward Corey Perry said. “It was pretty quiet in the room before. Everyone knew what they had to do.”

Meanwhile, practically every Canadian player had at least one golden moment. Six different Canadians scored, led by the heretofore ineffectual Perry, who had two goals. Only 2 minutes 21 seconds into the game, Ryan Getzlaf scored on a cross-ice feed from defenseman Dan Boyle, who himself went on to score on a power play at 12:09. Forty-six seconds later, Nash scored, and at the end of the period, Canada led by 4-1.

The second period dissolved into an N.H.L. All-Star Game, an empty exercise in easy scoring.

The Russians’ collapse was baffling. This was a team that had beaten Canada in the last two world championship finals, including the 2008 final in Quebec City, and had eliminated the Canadians from the 2006 Turin Olympics.

But on Wednesday, they were a gang that could not shoot straight. Defenseman Anton Volchenkov let Boyle skate around him on the first goal. Alexei Morozov fanned on a one-timer that seemed certain to tie the score at 1-1. Malkin had the puck stolen by Toews, starting a break that led to the third goal for Canada.

Sergei Zinoviev lost track of Brenden Morrow, allowing him to walk in from behind the net and stuff in the puck to make the score 4-1.

Evgeni Nabokov, normally one of the world’s top goalies, stopped only 17 of 23 shots before Bykov replaced him with Ilya Bryzgalov.

The Russians, like the Canadians, were under pressure to reach the gold medal game. But instead they go home after falling to Canada and losing a shootout to Slovakia.

“Same thing like if it was the Canadians,” Bryzgalov said when asked what it meant for Russia to lose. “It’s a disaster. End of the world.”

After the game, Ovechkin did not agree that the Canadians were better.

“No,” he said, “they were simply better tuned than we were. We are practically at the same level, but today they had more focus.”

The Russians had two wins, an easy one over Latvia and a narrow one over the Czechs. And their eight-game Olympic winning streak against Canada, stretching back to 1960, is emphatically over.

The game on Wednesday did not do justice to the all-consuming hockey rivalry between the two countries, one that reached a level of savage intensity with the Summit Series of 1972, an eight-game series that changed the sport forever, with the rivalry persisting at a fever pitch ever since.

“There is no personal war,” Ovechkin told Russian reporters on Tuesday when asked about Crosby. “It is not Ovechkin plays against Crosby — it is Russia battling Canada, two major hockey powers meeting in a duel. It will be interesting and exciting.”

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Drones for Hire

Authorities are coming to terms with a commercial drone industry that has emerged in recent years.

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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Mr. Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies. Flying drones for commercial purposes, the police said, violated federal aviation rules.

“I was paying the bills with this,” said Mr. Gárate, who recently gave an unpaid demonstration of his drone in this Southern California suburb.

His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

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American courts have generally permitted surveillance of private property from public airspace. But scholars of privacy law expect that the likely proliferation of drones will force Americans to re-examine how much surveillance they are comfortable with.

“As privacy law stands today, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy while out in public, nor almost anywhere visible from a public vantage,” said Ryan Calo, director of privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. “I don’t think this doctrine makes sense, and I think the widespread availability of drones will drive home why to lawmakers, courts and the public.”

Some questions likely to come up: Can a drone flying over a house pick up heat from a lamp used to grow marijuana inside, or take pictures from outside someone’s third-floor fire escape? Can images taken from a drone be sold to a third party, and how long can they be kept?

Daniel Gárate controls his $5,000 drone with a hand-held joystick. A mounted camera records lush, high-definition video. Credit J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times

Drone proponents say the privacy concerns are overblown. Randy McDaniel, chief deputy of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in Conroe, Tex., near Houston, whose agency bought a drone to use for various law enforcement operations, dismissed worries about surveillance, saying everyone everywhere can be photographed with cellphone cameras anyway. “We don’t spy on people,” he said. “We worry about criminal elements.”

Still, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups are calling for new protections against what the A.C.L.U. has said could be “routine aerial surveillance of American life.”

Under the new law, within 90 days, the F.A.A. must allow police and first responders to fly drones under 4.4 pounds, as long as they keep them under an altitude of 400 feet and meet other requirements. The agency must also allow for “the safe integration” of all kinds of drones into American airspace, including those for commercial uses, by Sept. 30, 2015. And it must come up with a plan for certifying operators and handling airspace safety issues, among other rules.

The new law, part of a broader financing bill for the F.A.A., came after intense lobbying by drone makers and potential customers.

The agency probably will not be making privacy rules for drones. Although federal law until now had prohibited drones except for recreational use or for some waiver-specific law enforcement purposes, the agency has issued only warnings, never penalties, for unauthorized uses, a spokeswoman said. The agency was reviewing the law’s language, the spokeswoman said.

For drone makers, the change in the law comes at a particularly good time. With the winding-down of the war in Afghanistan, where drones have been used to gather intelligence and fire missiles, these manufacturers have been awaiting lucrative new opportunities at home. The market for drones is valued at $5.9 billion and is expected to double in the next decade, according to industry figures. Drones can cost millions of dollars for the most sophisticated varieties to as little as $300 for one that can be piloted from an iPhone.

“We see a huge potential market,” said Ben Gielow of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a drone maker trade group.

For Patrick Egan, who represents small businesses and others in his work for the Remote Control Aerial Photography Association in Sacramento, the new law also can’t come fast enough. Until 2007, when the federal agency began warning against nonrecreational use of drones, he made up to $2,000 an hour using a drone to photograph crops for farmers, helping them spot irrigation leaks. “I’ve got organic farmers screaming for me to come out,” he said.

Bill Kerbox, a real estate agent in Malibu, hired Mr. Gárate for several shoots before a crackdown. Credit J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in Texas bought its 50-pound drone in October from Vanguard Defense Industries, a company founded by Michael Buscher, who built drones for the army, and then sold them to an oil company whose ships were threatened by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The company custom-built the drone, which takes pictures by day and senses heat sources at night. It cost $300,000, a fraction of the cost of a helicopter.

Mr. McDaniel said his SWAT team could use it for reconnaissance, or to manage road traffic after a big accident. He said he regretted that he didn’t have it a few months ago, to search for a missing person in a densely wooded area.

Mr. Buscher, meanwhile, said he was negotiating with several police agencies. “There is tremendous potential,” he said. “We see agencies dipping their toes.”

The possibilities for drones appear limitless. Last year, Cy Brown of Bunkie, La., began hunting feral pigs at night by outfitting a model airplane with a heat-sensing camera that soared around his brother’s rice farm, feeding live aerial images of the pigs to Mr. Brown on the ground. Mr. Brown relayed the pigs’ locations by radio to a friend with a shotgun.

He calls his plane the Dehogaflier, and says it saves him time wandering in the muck looking for skittish pigs. “Now you can know in 15 minutes if it’s worth going out,” said Mr. Brown, an electrical engineer.

Earlier this month, in Woodland Hills, Mr. Gárate, the photographer, demonstrated his drone by flicking a hand-held joystick and sending the $5,000 machine hovering high above a tennis court. A camera beneath the drone recorded lush, high-definition video of the surrounding property.

Bill Kerbox, a real estate agent in Malibu who hired Mr. Gárate for several shoots before the L.A.P.D. crackdown, said that aerial video had helped him stand out from his competitors, and that the loss of it had been painful.

Mr. Gárate, for now, plans to work mainly in his native Peru, where he has used his drone to shoot commercials for banks. He said he was approached by paparazzi last year about filming the reality television star Kim Kardashian’s wedding using a drone, but turned down the offer. “Maybe the F.A.A. should give a driver’s license for this, with a flight test,” he said. “Do a background check to make sure I’m not a terrorist.”

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When Mr. Ryan was defending his plan to reshape Medicare so future beneficiaries would receive fixed amounts of money to purchase private insurance or buy into the existing government program — a model for Mitt Romney’s proposal — he described his plan as “bipartisan,” and called it “a plan I put together with a prominent Democrat senator from Oregon.” But he failed to note that he later lost that Democrat’s support.

Mr. Ryan was referring to a paper outlining a Medicare plan that he drafted in December with Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon. But Mr. Wyden withdrew his support of the plan after Mr. Ryan reduced the rate at which the federal subsidies would grow — a key point that could decide whether future beneficiaries would face higher out-of-pocket costs as a result of the new program.

Mr. Ryan also said that the Romney-Ryan plan would not affect people “in or near retirement.” While their plan to reshape Medicare would not, their proposal to repeal President Obama’s health care law would, because the law has a provision that helps Medicare recipients pay for prescription drugs, to help cover the gap known as the “doughnut hole.” So far this year, the Department of Health and Human Services said last month, the law saved the average recipient $641 on drug coverage.

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Here is a closer look at the Medicare debate, as well as other foreign and domestic policy questions that came up Thursday night.

Medicare Comparisons

No program faces bigger changes under Mr. Ryan’s budget than Medicare, and his plan to overhaul the program forms the basis in many respects for Mr. Romney’s plan.

Mr. Ryan’s plan calls for reshaping the current government-sponsored, defined benefit fee-for-service insurance system. Under his plan, which would begin a decade from now, each beneficiary would receive a fixed amount of money — Democrats call it a “voucher” — to purchase private insurance or buy into the existing government program. Under the most recent Ryan plan the money, known as “premium support,” would rise each year by the growth of the economy, plus 0.5 percentage points, considerably slower than health care’s current rate of inflation.

Mr. Ryan believes competition will drive down the cost of health care, keeping the voucher’s value up to date. The Congressional Budget Office projected that over time, the value of the voucher would erode, shifting the extra costs to seniors.

Critics also warn that under Mr. Ryan’s plan, private insurers would try to sign up the healthiest seniors, leaving the sickest, most-expensive-to-cover seniors to enroll in the government program. That would raise the government’s costs and steeply erode the value of those seniors’ vouchers.

Mr. Biden noted that Mr. Ryan’s original Medicare plan would have cost future beneficiaries $6,400 in higher costs and questioned what his current plan would cost. But it is difficult to assess what Mr. Romney’s plan would cost, because he has not released key details.

Unlike Mr. Ryan, who proposed capping the growth of premium support to the growth of the economy, plus 0.5 percentage points, Mr. Romney has not specified how much money he would give to future beneficiaries to buy coverage, or how fast it would grow — making the effects of his proposal difficult to assess.

The Romney campaign’s policy director, Lanhee Chen, wrote that while higher-income seniors might be asked to pay more under Mr. Romney’s plan, “all seniors will be guaranteed sufficient support because the support is actually set based on what plans will cost.”

But the campaign has not said how its plan would work.

On the Stimulus

Mr. Ryan issued a broadside against Mr. Obama’s stimulus plan, noting that it did not keep unemployment below 8 percent, as Mr. Obama’s economic advisers projected it would before he took office. Mr. Biden defended the bill, saying it had helped the economy recover. Who is right?

Before Mr. Obama took office, his economic team issued a paper calling for the passage of a large economic stimulus plan, and printed a chart that they later came to regret. The chart projected that the unemployment rate would remain below 8 percent with a stimulus plan and hit 9 percent without one. (A footnote warned: “Forecasts of the unemployment rate without the recovery plan vary substantially. Some private forecasters anticipate unemployment rates as high as 11 percent in the absence of action.”)

In fact, the unemployment rate had already hit 8.3 percent in February 2009, Mr. Obama’s first full month in office and the month he signed the stimulus into law. It peaked at 10 percent that October and dropped to 7.8 percent last month.

There is plenty of debate over how effective Mr. Obama’s economic policies have been, especially given the painfully slow recovery. But even critics who believe that the president’s stimulus law was a missed opportunity — from liberals who say it was too small to conservatives who say it was wasteful and poorly targeted — tend to acknowledge what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has found: that it did save or create jobs, lower the unemployment rate and help the economy grow in the short term.

The Libya Attack

The debate started with moderator Martha Raddatz focusing on the terrorist attack last month in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

“Wasn’t this a massive intelligence failure, Vice President Biden?” Ms. Raddatz asked.

Mr. Biden did not answer the question. Instead, he mourned the loss of the Americans and vowed that the government would “get to the bottom of it.”

Republicans have singled out Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, for criticism, and Mr. Ryan continued that critique. On Sept. 16, Ms. Rice said that the attack on the compound in Benghazi had begun with an angry protest of an anti-Islamic film that was “hijacked” by extremists. It was not until three days later that Matthew G. Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, became the first official to call the assault a terrorist attack.

Ms. Rice said she was using information provided to her by American intelligence agencies, a defense Mr. Biden repeated. “The intelligence community told us that,” Mr. Biden said. “As they learned more facts about exactly what happened, they changed their assessment.” That is, indeed, what the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Sept. 28.

But in the hours after the Benghazi attack, American officials have said, spy agencies intercepted electronic communications from fighters from Ansar al-Shariah, a local extremist group, bragging to an operative with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terror group’s North African franchise. Another intercept captured cellphone conversations of militants on the grounds of the smoldering American Mission in Benghazi that suggested links to, or sympathies for, the regional Qaeda group.

Republicans have pointed to this information as evidence that American officials suspected the involvement of the Qaeda franchise much earlier than the administration publicly acknowledged. ERIC SCHMITT

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More delays for Wellington train commuters

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Wellington commuters have been warned to expect train delays for second day due to staff shortages.

A number of services in out of Wellington have either been cancelled or replaced by buses, a Tranz Metro spokeswoman said.

The disruptions were caused by staff illness and training commitments for a number of Tranz Metro's locomotive engineers, she said.

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Passport to the other person

Musings on the art of casual conversation

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And now, a few short messages from Bartlett's: "Sometimes the perfect reply is to say nothing ... Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech ... I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude ... Be silent and safe?#34;silence never betrays you ... How gracious, how benign is solitude ... Silence is golden."

If all that be true, where does it leave kind talk and gentle banter?

Comedienne Joan Rivers asked, "Can we talk?" Indeed we can.

Today more than ever; tomorrow more than today. There's the Internet, the website, the chat room, the cell phone, e-mail, voice mail, blogs and their bloggers. Our sensibilities are all but overwhelmed with instant messaging. Twenty-first century communication, electronics, or nothing at all.

Plus a few relics like books, radio and television, which only transmit and rarely receive.

Yes, Ms. Rivers, we sure can talk. We can even listen. Sometimes too much, yet not enough on matters meaningful, personal or playful.

And we hardly speak face-to-face, human-to-human, with the grace and sincerity that comes from listening.

Some of our least meaningful and unfunny exchanges are spoken at work (by men, mostly). If a fellow worker greets you at all in the morning it's likely to be with one of two sounds?#34;"Wuzzup?" or "Wuzznew?" Neanderthal mouthings at their lowest and animal grunts at their best; small talk at its most unimaginative and insincere.

Two syllables, and he's off the social hook.

And guess who's "on?" The burden is yours. You can sink to his level with a guttural "Nuthinmuch," or rack your brain for an unusual event that probably never took place over your all-too-usual weekend. Yet, it doesn't really matter because, by now, your fellow drone is already three offices down the hall.

"Howyadoin?" is another example. Nobody likes a liar, yet 90 percent of the time "fine," is the answer, regardless of how we are, which is probably stressed.

The lame answer belies the limp question, or rather, the insincerity behind it. Could it be that the asker just may not care how you're doing?#34;that he's miming a witless convention?

You could create your own designer answers to rectify this. If George Carlin is not a family member, it may be tough to come up with a satisfying squelch. One hint: give the asker more information than he wants like, "Howmidoin?" I'm doin' pretty good. My syphilis seems to be clearing up." Or..."I'm doin' alright, but my tapeworm seems to be doing even better."

Snarky rejoinders like these may not garner new friends and could earn you the Smart-Ass Award for that week; still, you'll be positively boosting your sense of self-worth and integrity. Such "over-answers" may also serve to ward off future hollow questions?#34;and that's got to count for something.

It might be best to answer truthfully, "I don't know, I haven't thought about it." For godsake, don't reply "Fine, and you?" You could invite a recitation of the other's woes, and both of you have work to do, places to go, people to see.

So what's a caretaker of the English language to do when caught with the top down during a storm of cliches? Take cover under an umbrella of sarcasms? Play the "polite game"?

Either way, you could easily be nailed as a "literal, flaming liberal" with the chutzpah to have some respect for words and their meanings.

The supreme annoyance, "Havanizeday," has reached epic proportions and may never go away. It has been said and heard so many times that its meaning has long faded, and only the sound remains.

It is at once unwelcome and overworn out, and should be given a merciful burial.

Why? Because the human ear is starved for fresh speech, and new sounds and always has been.

If "Wuzzup?" and "Wuzznew?" were ever bonafide questions?#34;then [I hope you] "Havanizeday" must have started as a solicitous farewell, sort of a godspeed, only to have been corrupted and truncated to a command that, like gesundheit, few bother to acknowledge.

But those few inevitably reply with a spirited fusillade of "You toos." All for what? Better to say something "fresh" and "new" like, "Hot enough for you?" or "When you get through washing yours, how about...." Or bite your tongue and think how neat and zany it would be to yell out just once in your life, "Hey, your pants are on fire!" A blessed change of pace.

So don't despair if there are no cure-alls for dullness in speech?#34;there are remedies. For the energy-depleted the best reply to "Havanizeday" may be to swallow hard and say nothing, nothing at all. When feeling more feisty or magnanimous you may choose to reciprocate the "command" in kind tenfold with a cheery and robust "Haveanizedecade!" (The other person may think his hearing has tricked him.) Should the condition persist, and you're told yet once more what kind of day to have, josh your well-wisher by fibbing that you were in the midst of deciding what kind of day to have, and that you had already chosen to have a "nize one."

When all else fails you can always ease the other guy's concern, with "Thanks, but I have other plans." The afore-mentioned may be spoken in the spirit of "Hey, if I have to be told to "havanizeday," I don't deserve one!"

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   The College Republicans first became a chartered student organization at Oberlin College in 1982, about two years into the first term of President Ronald Reagan. The Charter of the CRs (which has since been revised) was approved by the Student Life Committee on March 2 of that year, and then went to the General Faculty on March 16. The CRs officially became recognized 30 days later, on April 15, 1982.
   According to the archives of the Oberlin Review, the Oberlin College Republicans were generally active until about 1994. For reasons unknown to the organization's current members, the CRs then lapsed into over a decade of inactivity, beginning in the same year that the Republican Party took control of both houses of the U.S. Congress with its historic Contract With America. To our knowledge, Oberlin College lacked any conservative political student organization during that period from 1994 to early 2005.
   Unsatisfied with the state of political dialogue on campus, and eager to expose the student body to the ideas of the GOP, a small group of students worked to re-establish the CRs during the Spring 2005 semester. On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, the Oberlin College Republicans held their first meeting in years -- a general interest meeting which was attended by over 25 students, some self-described conservatives or Republicans, and others simply eager to learn more.
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Brad Richards, Rick Nash, Mats Zuccarello, and Derek Stepan each scored for the Rangers in the victory. Richards opened the scoring for New York, finding the back of the net at 9:50 of the first period. The goal was assisted by Derek Stepan and Ryan McDonagh.

Cam Talbot stopped 29 of 30 Ottawa shots in the victory.

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The roles of higher education institutions are changing and in many countries their relation to central government is also evolving. Institutions are becoming more responsible for the development of their own strategies and for the management of their operations. Accountability, evaluation and corporate responsibility are now part of a process, which – to some extent at least – draws on models found in the private sector.

One area where corporate world elements are getting a strong foothold is in the senior management and governance of institutions. These changing patterns of governance formed the framework for this seminar, where the focus was on top level institutional governance, where much had changed in the previous decade. Key common elements were a transfer of power to the Rector, Vice-chancellor and other leading administrative figures, and a loss of authority and decision-making power on the part of traditional participatory and collegial bodies. Increasingly, higher education and university boards and senior leaders are being appointed rather than elected.

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Linux compilation error, depend on variation of default _POSIX_C_SOURCE level in glibc version. Simply change any occurence of "getline" to "parseline" in angstrom-dev/work/simpad-angstrom-linux/linux-2.6.24-r26/linux-2.6.24/scripts/unifdef.c file.

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Race for Hamilton County GOP Chairman Gets Ugly

Big developments in the Hamilton County Republican County Chairman's race.  Recently a letter circulated in Hamilton County detailing Pete Peterson's supposed criminal history.  Prior to my being forwarded the letter, I was sent Peterson's a document which purported to be a listing of his criminal offenses.  Upon examining the document, I concluded it was a list of arrests and charges, often without clear indication of how the charges were disposed of.  Plus, I had no way to be 100% sure it was THE "Pete Peterson."   Further, the criminal charges I saw were approximately a quarter of a century old and the fairly minor offenses that might have been disposed of with diversion if they weren't dismissed outright.  The only offenses in this century were minor traffic violations in Hamilton County.

Needless to say, I wasn't impressed and decided not to publish.  Apparently because there was some suspicion as to who authored and sent the letter, The Constitutional Patriots, in a letter authored by Dwight Lile, disavowed doing so.

In more pertinent news, acting Hamilton County Chairman Laura Campbell sent a letter firing the 71
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precinct and vice committeemen appointed by outgoing Hamilton County Chairman Peter Emigh.  Emigh had clearly made the appointments to try to rig the vote for county chairman later this month for the candidate he favored, Pete Peterson.  Campbell is also a candidate.

In an email to State Republican Chairman Jeff Cardwell, Campbell, who is also a candidate for the Hamilton County Chairman, explained her decision:
When I looked over the list, I was shocked to see that about 71 people (the “Emigh Appointments”) had been appointed to the list on 11/29/2015. Upon a review of the names of those 71, it became clear to me that Emigh was attempting to stack the deck to ensure Peterson would win. The 71 that were appointed included Peterson’s daughter, his mortgage broker who co-signed on his home loan, vendors who do business with Fishers, Fishers city employees, and a host of others who would clearly vote for Peterson. Only a few of the Emigh appointees have ever had anything to do with Hamilton County Republican politics.
I immediately contacted Kim Good, our central committee secretary, who had no idea that Emigh was resigning and had not received notice of any of the Emigh appointees mentioned above as the rules require.   At this point I knew that as acting Chairman, I had 30 days to hold the caucus and did not have to do it on January 5 as Emigh and Peterson wanted.
The Emigh Appointments were not in compliance with our rules, done for an improper purpose, and will disenfranchise the hundreds of elected precinct and vice precinct committeemen who actually do work on behalf of our Party and make Hamilton County the stalwart of Republican Politics that it has become.
Campbell then goes on to explain in exhaustive detail the rules she looked at and the basis for her decision. This includes the fact that the rules appear to require those eligible to vote be in office 30 days before a vacancy to vote.  Nonetheless, the state rules clearly specify that appointed PCs and VPCs, as opposed to those PCs who are elected and VPCs who receive their appointment from an elected PC, serve at the discretion of the county chairman. So Campbell, the acting county chairman, seems perfectly within her authority to remove the "mummy dummy" PC appointments that were clearly made for the purpose to rig the vote.

Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness is challenging Campbell's decision with the State Republican Party Rules Committee which is today hearing the matter.  Fadness is one of the "mummy dummy" appointees who was put into place to cast a ballot for Peterson and now finds himself unable to do so.
I just want to say "thank you" to Campbell for making this decision.  For years, I have seen these county chairman elections, as well as vacancy and slating caucuses, rigged by the county chairman appointing mummy dummy PCs to outvote the elected and appointed PCs who do the actual work in the party.  Even though Campbell's move benefits her, it was the right decision to make.

I hope that this blowup in Hamilton County encourages Chairman Cardwell and other members of the State GOP organization to make some much needed changes to the rules to stop the practice of "mummy dummy" appointments that so undermine the power of grass roots party workers.

Anonymous said...

Whatever happens. Cardwell is not going to reform the State GOP in regards to how the County Chairman are picked! Wonder what Charlie White thinks of this.

Anonymous said...

And just how should they be chosen?

Indy Sentinel said...

LOL. The alleged uber-Christian Jeff Cardwell is a coward and, despite his public pronouncements of prayer on FB and twitter, won't be reforming anything.

As for the county party. That seems like a different life. I was extremely naive trying to impose a "merit system". People that do volunteer work for the party from different walks of life have some level of empathy for each other and can appreciate each others' sacrifice. I had a lot of empathy for people that worked because of the years I had to work. I might be deluding myself, but as imperfect and for as much of a daily struggle as it was, I feel like we have "some" level of peaceful co-existence within the party when I was Chairman.

The laziest people, many of which are tied to either the corrupt Steve Dillinger gang or the Mitch Daniels posse downtown back in the day did not care if people work and would react almost violently against any silly "merit system"....they don't want peace...they want power...and they want all of it right now...especially the power of procurement....they will put a grenade in your mouth and pull the pin if they think you are in their way. On the other hand, SOME who are not connected to anyone and are extremely lazy, just complain that power is not handed to them immediately because of their alleged "superior intellect" to govern all of us little people. It was the lazy and corrupt who don't want to work, demand power now, and happened to know the usual bootlickers in the media, that took away my equal protection under the law because of "payback time".

Had the corrupt and the lazy in Hamilton County not pulled a "Tonya Harding" on me, ripping away my equal protection under the law, I would have still been the chairman today. One of Mitch's enforcers had made several attempts to get me to quit being county chairman.

Not that it matters now, but because I had seen how ineffective State Party had been for years back when I was involved, I planned on trying to create an informal cooperative group amongst county chairs who wanted to honestly work on grass roots and fundraising where they could get guidance and assistance on best management practices for county parties that would make PCs as well as county party officers more productive and feel more appreciated...I have no idea how the state party is now, but back then, I wondered what they really did except for playing "palace politics" and treating volunteers, PCs and many chairman like dogcrap (unless you were a powerful insider outside of your role). I figured that the state GOP would feel some pressure to reorganize if many of the big and small counties were working together and more efficiently without them. I noticed a lot of things that we as county chairs could have helped each other on when I talked to a lot of them while I was on the road for two years from 2009-2010.

Having given nearly thirty of my life to the party, I am very sad that I have been put in a ridiculous situation by a few lazy & corrupt folks in Hamilton County that make it impractical for me to ever return as chairman. On the other hand, I have missed so much life with my family because I helped a lot of people who didn't appreciate it as I seemed to have picked up all their enemies. 'Obviously', my approach to being a county chairman, for those who were around enough to truly know what my approach was, must have been "tyrannical" to the lazy or a road block to those craving all the power whenever I wanted to spread things around. Keep in mind, the only reason why I am where I am today and because is because of an effort by a handful of savage sore-losers who wanted me out as county chairman so they could remove an obstacle or simple get even over positions they never deserved...after everything that happened to me, I am surprised anyone wants the position.

Pete Boggs said...

This "party" is a f8ck#ng fascist / statist disaster in need of grassroots reform.

Anonymous said...

I am thinking that Charlie White would say "job well done" to both Mr. Emigh and Ms. Campbell. I personally think yes it does benefit Ms. Campbell to some degree but it also shows how alert and decisive Ms. Campbell is on matters of integrity ! The Republican Party is lucky to have her lead the way !

Paul K. Ogden said...

Anon 6:54,

County chairmen should be selected by elected PCs only, just like they were up until the mid-1980s. In the absence of returning to that system, then only appointed PCs who have actually worked an election in the precinct they purport to represent should be voting, as well as those who are elected. In no circumstances should the county chairmen be able to appoint a slew of people at the last minute to vote for his or her re-election or the election of the chairman's buddy. That is exactly what Peter Emigh did.

John Accetturo said...

These people are a disgraceful.

Anonymous said...

What happens, generally, when a county organization goes corrupt is that the ranks of "independent" voters rises. The road then to insurgent splinter groups then becomes easier, and the sclerosis proceeds as the folks with intellect, energy, and morals leave the rotting hulk. They then tend to elect sorts like Ballard who are soon captured, bought off, and the process starts over. That there is an opening for Democrats is not perceived by them for reason that they were long ago captured and deformed by organized labor...a force that is now steadily losing its grip for lack of oxygen to their few brain cells.


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2013 Season (Sophomore): Boren played in all 14 games as the backup center to first-team all-Big Ten center and NFL Draft pick Corey Linsley ... he played a career-high 57 plays in the season opener vs. Buffalo and added stints of 49 plays (vs. Florida A&M) and 34 vs. San Diego State and Purdue, respectively ... for the season, he took part in 198 offensive plays from scrimmage and played in six games while earning his first Varsity O letter.

2012 Season (Freshman): Boren enrolled at Ohio State in January 2012 and went through part of spring drills before having shoulder surgery ... he came back in the fall and played well enough to back up Linsley at the center position ... he played in two games: 14 plays from scrimmage vs. Miami and 23 vs. Illinois.

More on Jacoby: During the winter months Boren plows snow in the evenings and late into the night on campus as part of his family's business ... in high school he earned first-team Division I Ohio all-state honors by the Associated Press as a senior after leading Central, coached by Jay Sharrett, to the first Division I state championship game in school history and an 11-3 record in 2011 ... Boren was a two-way player on a team that lost its first two games of the season, but then won 11 consecutive games before losing in the state championship game to Cleveland St. Ignatius ... was rated the No. 37 offensive guard in the country by Rivals.com and No. 41 by ESPNU ... also rated as the No. 37 player in the six-state Midwest region by SuperPrep ... a four-year letterwinner, a three-time all-Ohio Capital Conference first-team performer, an all-central district honoree and a member of the Columbus Dispatch 2011 all-Metro team ... is the son of Mike and Hope Boren, both of whom were student-athletes at Michigan ... Mike finished his football career at Michigan in 1983 as the second-leading tackler in school history with 332 tackles, a total that still ranks sixth all-time in school history ... Hope competed in track and field.


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