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10 NDC aspirants withdraw from race

As the much trumpeted National Democratic Con-gress’ (NDC) national delegates’ congress gathers momentum, snippets of information gathered by this paper indicates that about en aspirants have withdrawn from the race and more might follow in the coming days.

At least two others have been disqualified at the ongoing vetting of the aspirants.

About 4,000 delegates of the party would be at the congress to elect its national executives in Kumasi on Saturday, December 20. The delegates would further approve some amendment to the NDC’s constitution.

At the close of nominations last week, 104 aspirants had filed to contest for 29 elected positions at the national level.

Preceding the December 30 event, the women and youth wings of the party would hold their congresses at the Upper West regional capital, Wa.

A source at the NDC headquarters confirmed the withdrawals and disqualifications, saying the full list of candidates would be made available after the vetting.

It however, declined to mention the names of the “casualties”, but noted that some of them withdrew based on consultations with others aspirants.

With barely a fortnight left, the race for various positions have hot up with candidates trotting round the constituencies in the country to solicit for votes.

So far, four persons are contesting for the national chairmanship, 17 for six slots for national vice chairman, two for general secretary, three for national organiser, four for national treasurer and three for national propaganda secretary positions.

For the five positions for national executive members, 13 aspirants have filed nomination papers.

Three women are vying for the national women’s organiser post, while seven aspirants seek the youth organiser position.

Six aspirants are battling it out for two deputy general secretaries’ positions and another four filed for two slots for deputy national organisers.

For the position of deputy national treasurer, five people have filed, while 12 aspirants are vying for two slots for deputy propaganda secretaries.

The two deputy national women’s organisers position would be keenly contested by 11 aspirants, and the two deputy youth organisers positions have 10 youths contesting.

By Ian Motey

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About Giff...

A one-sentence summary of my hobbies might go along the lines of "always trying to learn more and see more..." I got into nature study through my early twin loves of fishing and photography, starting in Maryland the early 1970s. Here are a couple of shots from those years:

 Near the beginning!                  Largemouth Bass, 8 lbs.                A nice Brown Trout, 22 1/2 ins
         (1975)                                         (1982)                                                (1984)

Along the way I joined the US Navy and then went through Navy Flight School.

     USNA, 1977          My first trainer, the venerable T-28, 1982               Learning to fly the P-3, 1983

I got out in 1988 and have been flying for Delta Air lines ever since..

      US Navy P-3, I flew these for 3 years                                        What I fly now, the 737-800

          I fly these too, the 737-700 and -900                              Link to bonus page of photos of  planes landing in low-vis

Fishing gradually gave way to birding, and has expanded now to an interest in just about any living creatures, especially insects. The sheer amount of beauty and variation in nature continues to astound and fascinate me, and I look forward to many more years of enjoying the amazing diversity all around us...

Here are some shots from a couple of birding trips:

              Rabun Bald, GA, with Jon Dunn                                            Khao Yai, Thailand, with
                               Jan 1995                                                           Kamol Komolphalin Sep 1996

        Gambell. AK, June 2000. L-R Jim Flynn, Earl Horn,                           Taping nocturnal migrants
  Bob+Deb Zaremba, Lex Glover, Adam Byrne, Pierre Howard, me           with Bill Evans, Sep 2002

         TX Big Day team L-R Adam Byrne, Ron Weeks (team leader), me, Bob Kemp, Dwight Peake
      Apr 24, 2001, 258 species in one day, for several years the ABA North American Big Day record.
                  (This has now been broken several times by some great Big Day teams!)

And here are some more recent shots from the field of other natural pursuits...

Shooting Purple Bluet female                          Comparing tiger beetle shots with Mike          Shooting Septima's Clubtail  in AL, 2007              Holding Indigo
    near Tallahassee, 2005                              Thomas (L) and Steve Krotzer (R) 2007                                                                                Snake Dec 2008

My latest gig: Leading Civil War and birding trips with Jon Dunn for WINGS.

                                  WINGS group at Ft Sumter, SC  Apr 2010                                             WINGS group at Gettysburg, PA (20th ME Monument) Jun 2011

As of 2014 I''m on a hiatus from this while my twins are little, but hope to get back to it soon. For details, check the WINGS site. Click here for more info.

                                      Entomology trip to French Guiana Oct 2010.
                     L-R Bill Krinsky, me, Maishe Dickman, Mike Thomas, Leonard Munstermann

Best news of all, in 2011 I married Allie Kelly, and we had some great trips, like these:

         Along the Flint River, a Georgia Conservancy trip, June 2011                                                  Kayaking in Johnstone Strait, BC, with killer whales, July 2011

Birding at Koh Ker, Cambodia, on our honeymoon!!  Nov 2011

There will be fewer and less timely updates to these pages, because on 3/14/2013 Allie and I were graced with two awesome sons!!

  These are thumbnails... in both pictures, that's Wyatt Paul on the left and Gifford Day on the right.

This photo was on 3/14/14, one year old! Gifford on left and Wyatt on right. They are happy little dudes!!

Here they are again, at 18 months old. They think they are little boys, not toddlers! Note, these are thumbnails of large images. Gifford on left, Wyatt on right.

Two years old! 3/14/2015. Same chair as one year old photo, Gifford on left and Wyatt on right. Still happy little dudes but capable of much more mayhem now!

So, lots of changes in our house. Fewer trips afield, so fewer photos to upload until these guys get big enough to be interested in the outdoors. Sometime in the next couple of years I will have to completely revamp all these pages, because this old Front Page software is running out of steam. So stay tuned for new adventures and new pages sometime! And check out my Flickr link below...

In addition to trying to keep up with all these trips and web pages and SONS, I have written a few books about birds and nature.

Signed copies of any of these books can be purchased from me (except the ACOGB, Birding Georgia, and the Breeding Bird Atlas) by emailing me at giffbeaton@mindspring.com

My first book was Birding Georgia, a guide to the best birding sites in Georgia, published in 2000. Click here to go to the book's web site, which has all the latest updates for the locations covered in the book. ($22.95)

This book is now out of print and Falcon/Globe will not give me the rights to reprint it, sorry.

The next project was the fifth edition of the Annotated Checklist of Georgia Birds, or "ACOGB." It came out in 2003. I wrote several sections of the text, with the rest coming from Paul Sykes and John Parrish, and then did most of the editing. It is available from GOS, and can be ordered by clicking on the image to go to the GOS website.

Birds of Kennesaw Mountain was next, coming out in 2004. It's an annotated checklist covering twelve year's worth of almost daily migration walks at Kennesaw Mountain. This book would not have been possible without all the many folks who kept meticulous notes of the daily results. Click on the cover at left to go to an updates page that has some data since the book came out, but it no longer being updated regularly. ($20.00, all goes to GOS)

The next project was Birds of Georgia by Lone Star Press. I was fortunate enough to work again with John Parrish on this one, and he did most of the work! It came out in 2006. ($24.95)

The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast was next and came out in 2007. As the name suggests, it is a field guide to the odonates of the southeast. You can click on the image of the cover to go to a preview page with ordering information from the publisher, UGA Press. This book has just been updated (2013) with some text revisions and about 18 new improved images. No new species accounts. ($27.95)

Latest is The Breeding Bird Atlas of Georgia, which I co-authored with Todd Schneider (senior author and did most of the work!), Tim Keyes, and Nathan Klaus and came out in 2010. It is the state of the art of what is breeding in Georgia, and where... if you are interested in birds in the South, you should have this book. You can click on the image of the cover to go to a preview page with ordering information from the publisher, UGA Press.($45.47)

This is my own Flickr site, with lots of images that aren't on these pages, and usually more current ones... here.

Bob Cammarata and I have known each other for over 35 years. We used to fish together constantly (the fish photos at the top of this page were taken by him) and now we both have gravitated to photography. His website has some amazing shots, he is an amazing photographer, as well as award-winning. You can check it out here.

Greg Lasley and I also started out doing something else, birding, and have been sharing this passion for over 20 years. He has been at the photography gig longer than I have, and is also a phenomenal photographer (award-winning too I might add). Check his website here.

Steve Krotzer and I have chased bugs together for about 15 years now, and his skills as a naturalist and as a photographer are simply unmatched. Check out his amazing insect photos, including underwater nymphs, here.

Mike Thomas and I have also chased bugs together for about 15 years now and like Steve he is a consummate naturalist and photographer. After viewing his and Steve's links you may not ever look at my page again! Check out his site here.

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Here is a simple example for it:

How to use Client Object Model with Office 365 from a remote client

SharePoint Online active AuthN basics

It is also very important to be aware of which Office 365 subscription that you are targeting. Next step would be to pass along the cookies for each request. If the user agent is not set then a 403 forbidden error is thrown by SharePoint Online in the case of an E-subscription. This is not required if you are using SharePoint Online or using the web browser because in this case you are either already authenticated and it is the web browser that handles all the authentication with the use of active authentication.

You may use the helper class called MsOnlineClaimsHelper. While it works fine on P-subscriptions but doesn’t harm if added. Along with SharePoint development the developers can also help their customers to define and analyse their application requirements, guide them through different techniques for integrating business requirements and execute it over a set which is well planned.

context.ExecutingWebRequest += claimsHelper.clientContext_ExecutingWebRequest;

Let us get to the core of this article. This is a responsible method for creating cookie container more on this one later. After having the cookies the next step would be to create a Cookie Container object in which cookies can be added. STS returns the security token if authentication is successful and token is then sent to SharePoint. How would the code look? There are some helper class originated from Steve “SharePoint Claims” Peschka.

This article gives you the details of performing active authentication to SharePoint online in Office 365. HTTP is used by P-subscriptions while communicating and HTTPS must be used by E-subscriptions.

using (ClientContext context = new ClientContext(url))

Show me the code to get the cookies!

Let us see and understand how the code works before going deep into the actual code. When using manually the WebRequest objects then the same procedure is used. Adding cookies and user agent would be just fine.

MsOnlineClaimsHelperclaimsHelper = new MsOnlineClaimsHelper(url, username, password);

There is huge rise in demand for various SharePoint development services which include services like SharePoint customization, SharePoint consulting, development of customized web parts, customized migration, troubleshooting implementation issues and much more. For accessing sharepoint objects programmatically you need to active authentication by using client object model, web services or WebDAV from outside of Office 365. It contains everything you might need for authentication, retrieving and caching the cookies and piggyback the cookie container on the CSOM web requests. After the validation the token will return two cookies which must also be passed with all requests to SharePoint.

Console.WriteLine(“Name of the web is: ” + context.Web.Title);. With the use of SAML 1.1 protocol, the password and username would be passed on for the requested token from STS. Then the cookie container should be added to the request done by Client object model and for this an even called Executing web Request can be used. It should also be noted that a User Agent of the request to a new value.

To invoke methods on SharePoint online with the use of Client Object Model (CSOM), web services or WebDAV we need to authenticate first. The first step would be to request a token from STS which is located at login.microsoftonline in Office 365

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Posted in Quick Hits on July 31st, 2008 by Ed

Ben Wattenberg put on a magnificent display of hackery on The Daily Show last night, pointing out (logically!) that the only problem with neoconservatism is that the name has a bad reputation. If we named it something else, 90% of Americans would sign up!

Brilliant, Ben. Watch it here.

Posted in Election 2008 on July 31st, 2008 by Ed

Forget everything you think you know about Obama's appeal and focus on electoral geography. He may be wildly popular, but some of his visibly enthusiastic support is concentrated in a few areas (Illinois, California, etc) and amounts to little more than ensuring that he will win those states in a landslide as opposed to a mere 10-point margin. He is also very popular among certain voters in states he won't win (i.e., among black voters in Georgia or college kids in Texas). That does not mean he can't win. It means that the broader perception of his support isn't relevant in a presidential election. What matters is: in how many states can he cobble together enough supporters to constitute a plurality? Hitting 70% in Illinois or losing 52-48 (instead of 60-40) in Georgia doesn't really matter.

He can win. It won't be easy in this environment. One or more of the following will need to happen:

1. Black turnout rates approximate white turnout. In 2000, survey research indicates that 93% of black voters voted for Al Gore (what would it be for Obama, 99?) The problem is that black turnout severely lags other racial groups. John Kerry gave a yeoman's effort to turn out urban black voters in 2004, namely in Cleveland, and to some extent he succeeded. But without being crass, let's say Obama has some advantages over Kerry in motivating black turnout.

2. Young people vote. 18-to-24s are by far the worst at turning out. The demographic seems really excited about Obama but historically they talk a big game and fail to back it up. They could be determinative in tight states. I'd spend some serious money on registration and election day door-knocking on the Ohio State, Wright State, Akron, Oberlin, and Cleveland State campuses just to name a few.

3. McCain's comedy of errors continues, destroying his credibility among all but Republican diehards. This doesn't seem to be working so far, but there's a lot of time left and he's getting worse by the minute. There could be, but certainly doesn't have to be, a "Dukakis in Tank" or "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" moment that ends it.

4. Obama hits on an issue that speaks to the "all important" angry blue-collar white people demographic, keeping them from being enticed by McCain's promise of 186291 additional tax cuts. He has yet to do so. Come up with a better answer than "taxes" for the only question these people care about: Why am I broke?

5. Hold every state Kerry won in 2004. This is absolutely essential, although Obama can (and probably will) drop a small one like New Hampshire. Too many competitive states are too close for Obama to surrender anything Kerry won and figure "I'll make it up elsewhere." This means holding Pennsylvania, which was the closest state in 2004 (not Ohio. Really.)

6. Fuck Florida. It's gone. Hillary is popular among Floridians, so maybe she can help there. But mentally tabulate it as a loss and be pleasantly surprised if it comes through. Do not base a strategy on taking Florida.

7. Spread McCain thin. He is going to be outspent, the first time in….ever….that the Democrat will raise more money. Do not make the Kerry error of competing only in the 10 states that are in play. Spend money in places like Nebraska, Indiana, Alaska, or Georgia. Obama won't win any of those, but if he can get McCain paranoid it's worth it. This worked phenomenally well in 2006. Creating the impression that people like Scott Kleeb could win House seats in Nebraska A) panicked the GOP and B) created the image of Republicans In Trouble, i.e. "Gee, if they're losing Nebraska they must really be in the shitter." Kleeb lost, of course. Doesn't matter though. It made a point. Obama has already started doing this by claiming that Virginia is in play, which it probably isn't.

8. Win one of Wisconsin or Iowa. Even with Ohio, Obama will need one of these to win (assuming McCain takes NH and Obama takes New Mexico, both of which are likely). They are crucial. Turning out Madison and Milwaukee can seal the deal for Obama.

9. Prepare for losing Ohio. Don't put all of the eggs in the Ohio/Florida basket. If McCain takes OH and FL, Obama can still win with Iowa, Wisconsin, New Mexico (all reasonably likely), Colorado (depends on who turns out), and Montana (Democratic governor, state legislature, and Senators).

10. Thank God for the House majority. If Obama wins all the Kerry states (minus NH) and McCain wins all the Bush states except NM, CO, IA, and WI, the election is 269-269. This is the most plausible tie scenario we've seen in ages. If McCain holds Ohio somehow, the specter of a tie is real. The election could swing on a tiny state like Montana or New Hampshire. Why do we have an even number of electoral votes again? Oh yeah, because the EC is retarded.

This is a very hard race to gauge at this point, and it likely will remain that way until October. One gets the feeling that Obama could cross some tipping point where this becomes a laugher and he wins a Reaganesque 40 state blowout. But right now it feels more like 2004, where we're doing a lot of mental calculation of how a victory can be scraped out vote-by-vote.

Posted in Election 2008 on July 30th, 2008 by Ed

Defying all conventional logic and proving a number of very important things about the ideology of the American public, this presidential race is essentially a coin flip at the moment. Polling is of limited value and the candidates will likely gain separation as the campaign season enters full swing. But there is little doubt that an election which should be a posterizing tomahawk dunk for the Democrats is, despite the GOP's best effort to tank it, a toss up. In response to Monday's comments, today and tomorrow will be dedicated to explaining the likely scenarios in the event of each candidate's victory.

It's important to note that the odds of either candidate hitting 300 Electoral votes is about 10% IMO. We're in for a lot of close elections until something about the geography of party support changes. So whoever wins this is basically going to sweat it out.

McCain wins by being Not Obama, Not a Liberal, and taking advantage of the fact that the American public is, in this political era, far more conservative than it is liberal. Since the collapse of the New Deal coalition in the 1970s every Democratic victory has been a brutal, bloody, Middle Ages siege of a fight. In other words, Democrats can win by being exceptional, doing everything right, and getting some luck. Republicans can win by showing up. That's what being the dominant coalition is all about.

It wouldn't be fair to be that vague. So here's how McCain actually wins:

1. The droves of "disaffected" Republicans and white working- and middle-class voters who have been loudly criticizing the war and President they elected. But when the chips are down they "vote with their pocketbook" (a phrase that makes me vomit blood) and pick the guy who they think will cut their taxes again. Never mind that Obama's tax proposal also cuts taxes for everyone making less than $200,000. When I recently pointed this out to a conservative, the response was "Yeah, but Obama's lying." Hard to compete with logic like that. White people in the suburbs – people who live balls-deep in debt – fall for the guy who offers Buy Now, Pay Later financing.

2. McCain successfully sells his "maverick" image, allowing voters to vote for "change" without actually changing anything. The suburban masses realize that a 72 year old white Republican who has disagreed with George W. Bush like twice is about the kind of "change" they're ready for.

3. Obama takes Ohio, a state in which the GOP fortunes have plummeted since half the state party got indicted in 2004, and Pennsylvania easily. Bad news for McCain, right? But Florida is becoming a Democratic lost cause – too many religious nutbars, too many panhandle hillbillies, and too many suburbanites. McCain wins Florida and New Hampshire (where he has always been popular). Assuming everything else from 2004 remains the same, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri become the keys. New Mexico goes to Obama (thanks to Bill Richardson) but Missouri remains Republican, giving Obama 263 EV with Iowa (7) and Wisconsin (10) to go. McCain wins those thanks to a large rural turnout and he wins the election without having to lift a finger in Ohio or PA.

4. Alternatively, McCain keeps it simple and just wins Ohio. In that case Obama could win WI, IA, NH and NM and still lose 274-264 (calculator here). Given the preponderance of deindustrialized, angry white people in that state, it's going to be hard for Obama (an admitted black guy) to make up the 120,000 vote margin of Kerry's defeat in 2004. I could easily see McCain winning the whole taco just by squeaking out a 5,000-vote Ohio victory in the suburbs of Cleveland and Cincinnati or in blighted shitholes like Akron and Dayton. If McCain wins Ohio, Obama has to win everything Kerry won plus Iowa and New Mexico (plausible), and one of either Virginia, Arkansas, Colorado, or Florida (all longshots).

So that's how easy it is for McCain to win. The country might seem to be sick of Republicans and McCain might be a terrible candidate, but the magic of the Electoral College means that McCain can be really, really bad (he is) and still win without anything exceptional happening. I think Obama can hold Wisconsin (Madison, Milwaukee) and New Mexico is on balance a favorable Democratic state. But the GOP has an edge in the others. If Obama loses Ohio (or PA, which is essentially the same) because the "salt of the Earth" crowd can't pass up yet another tax cut (one they will be shocked to find out does not solve their economic woes) he is really in trouble. He will need to win states where Democratic candidates have not won a majority (although Clinton got pluralities) since 1976. And that was with a white southerner running.

Posted in Quick Hits on July 29th, 2008 by Ed

If you're wondering why a violent waterhead who thinks exactly what talk radio tells him to think would shoot up a church because he hates "liberals," maybe he was simply doing what talk radio told him to do.

Posted in Rants on July 29th, 2008 by Ed

Andrew Brietbart, the man who took a reasonably well-regarded book about the idiocy of Hollywood celebrity culture and turned it into a career as a phenomenally stupid right-wing pundit, columnist, and stuff-linker for the Drudge Report, has some interesting ideas about how to get more right-leaning product out of Hollywood. Given your understanding of conservative ideology, try to guess his answer! Ready? Let's see if you got it.

While conservatives own an ironclad argument that Hollywood discriminates against our kind, we are certainly not blameless for the predicament.

"Ironclad"? Hollywood is a business. If studios thought they would make money off of "conservative" product they'd step over their mothers to sell it. I thought you right-wingers understood the market. Maybe – just maybe – Hollywood thinks that no one wants to watch the kind of movies that Breitbart's "kind" find interesting. I mean, think of the market for films about how Ollie North is a hero and George W. Bush was right and supply-side tax cuts rule.

Also, kudos for consistent application of right-wing victim-blaming ideology. You're being discriminated against, but it's kinda your fault. You deserve it, you whore. Look at how you were dressed.

The most frequent snipe thrown our way by industry stalwarts and Huffington Post bloggers (when presented with the overwhelming evidence that the entertainment industry tilts dangerously to the left) is to say that we sound whiny. The truth hurts.

Here's a better argument: Box office gross for Fahrenheit 9-11, $220,078,393. Box office gross for Michael Moore Hates America, $0. Box office gross for Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, $7,598,071.

Nielsen ratings for the Daily Show: 1.5 million (0.7). Nielsen ratings for Dennis Miller's shitfest: cancelled when they hit zero. Nielsen ratings for The Half-Hour News Hour: impossible to calculate since everyone involved with its production was shot in the face at point-blank range, cremated, and had their ashes fired into the sun aboard a Russian space probe investigating the interaction of solar wind and Mercury's atmosphere.

The victim card – liberalism's reliable ace in the hole – is not a winning ploy for conservatives who want to make inroads in Hollywood. David Geffen certainly owes it to no one to produce work that runs contrary to his point of view. Until artists and entrepreneurs work together to make a stream of successful products openly rebelling against the status quo, then the game isn't even on.

OK, you admit the problem is that what you've been pitching to Hollywood thus far has been complete and utter dreck. Where's the discrimination? You know, the discrimination you were just talking about five sentences ago?

When conservative icon Paul Weyrich wrote in 1999, "we probably have lost the culture war," he was grossly mistaken. We never fought it. What a terrible message Mr. Weyrich sent to young foot soldiers looking for a battle plan at the end of the subject-rich Clinton years. If Bill Clinton couldn't spawn a cultural revolution, then who can?

Yes, those years were subject-rich! What great source material there was for movies about how Clinton couldn't holster his dick. Or how Clinton was a tax-and-spend librul. Or how terrible the economy was under his administration. Shit, the box-office gold practically writes, films, and advertises itself!

Where are the young playwrights that romanticize freedom over servitude? Where are the brash Gen Y artists mocking baby boomer excesses? Where are the scholarships cultivating fresh talent? Where are the venture capitalists ready to fill the void? Where are the movie stars telling the press gaggle at Cannes that America is still beautiful?

I will answer your questions individually and sequentially.

1. In business school. Find me a young playwright who is conservative. Find me a single one.
2. Yeah, no one has ever made a film about that.
3. What?
4. Hollywood is laden with people who will financially back anything with the merest potential to break even, i.e. exactly what your Young Conservative Artists can't produce. The Adventures of Pluto Nash was greenlit. Starship Troopers 3 is coming out soon. These people are not picky.
5. This is roughly akin to asking "Why don't any actors have the balls to go to Cannes and talk about how tasty McDonald's is?"

While it's mostly true that the conservative experience in Hollywood is long on diagnosis and short on remedy, what sets us apart from our liberal counterparts is that we don't ask for a legislative fix.

Surely there's an affirmative-action program that can put Republicans to work in the entertainment industry at ratios similar to our numbers in the general population.

I swear I did not edit this. These sentences follow one another.

And…if you guessed that the conservative solution would be affirmative action, YOU WIN! Come on down to the ring-toss booth and collect your prize: a 13-foot stuffed Mallard Fillmore and a pink tambourine made from Phyllis Schlafly's surgically-removed excess labial skin!

Conservatives who allegedly embrace free markets need to take responsibility for allowing the left to become the dominant pop cultural force, and for granting homogenized radicals creative control over America's second-largest – and arguably most important – export.

I would like to reiterate that I am not presenting this out of sequence. This is actually how he wrote it – as a perplexing, whiplash-inducing exercise in alternating paragraphs about personal responsibility with pleas for affirmative action.

Today, the conservative movement is alive and well at the American university, though certainly not at the faculty level. The College Republicans, Young America's Foundation and the Leadership Institute, not to mention countless alternative campus newspapers, all exude a rebel spirit that greatly resembles the motivations and enthusiasms of the liberal counterculture of the '60s and '70s.

(chokes, spits up YooHoo)

He's not seriously going to propose that the solution to the lack of right-leaning entertainment media is to dip into the well of creative talent that is the average College Fucking Republicans meeting, is he? Is he?

Yet mistakenly, when they receive their degrees, they are directed to Washington, D.C., and their state capitals, thinking politics is how you win. Or they think the path to victory is becoming the next George Will or Rush Limbaugh.

Sounds like they understand A) how the market works and B) what they do well. Fools.

This has to change. Now!

Send your application packet, a money order for $7 made out to "cash", and two color photos of women urinating to:

Young Conservative Talent Search
c/o Andrew Brietbart
Abandonded Metal Shipping Container 3F
Bagram Air Force Base Sex Offender Detention Unit
Charikar, Afghanistan H3M P4J

There are enough talk-radio and opinion-journalist aspirants in the pipeline to last us through the Sasha Obama administration. AM radio harangues, books, speeches, seminars and campus affirmative-action bake sales may be wildly provocative and endlessly entertaining

The fact that you think this qualifies as "provocative and endlessly entertaining" says everything you need to know about why the situation that is the basis of this column exists.

Today, we have the resources to change things a lot. Perhaps we can wage a different kind of culture war – and not one directed by armchair generals from church pews in Virginia.

Andrew Brietbart, you are a horrendous writer. Just horrendous. Aside from the hacky reference to "armchair" anything, your War metaphor has "generals" who sit in church pews in Virginia. That does not even make sense. I must also come to the conclusion that, unlike me, you have never been to a College Republicans meeting. No one who has attended a College Republicans meeting would feel that the people in attendance could create televised programming that isn't immediately preceded by "Made possible by a grant from the John M. Olin Foundation."

We need to break out of this mind-set and send our best young minds to Hollywood. There are tons of low-level jobs that lead to greater opportunities for industrious young adults. Our armed forces coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq provide us with a source to replenish the Hollywood creative bloodstream, too.

Keys to winning culture-product war:

1. 19 year old buzzcuts who finished at the bottom of their high school classes
2. College Republicans

You have just identified the two most creative groups in society. By far.

Soldiers should vie for leading roles – especially with all those Laguna Beach swimming-trunk-laden shows.

I ask Andrew Brietbart, avowed expert in the talent potential of sweaty, shirtless men, why these Marines are more qualified than the tens of thousands of "hot bod" "actors" already staffing the Inland Empire's minimum wage sector.

Wouldn't a Marine who helped turn around the Anbar province make a better grip, runner or mail-room clerk at CAA than Maggie Gyllenhaal's yoga instructor's niece?

OK, this is how it ends. This is the end of the piece.

Andrew, I am going to offer you a free lesson in writing like you are not the world's biggest hack. The "comically obscure friend/relative" reference is only slightly less hacky than concluding with "Talk to the hand!" Spend 10 seconds doing research on Google to find a real example of an obscure – and perhaps even humorous – celebrity friend or relative working in such roles. I bet that wouldn't be too hard. And it would reassure the reader that you are a Pro Writer putting a little effort into your column. Try to convince us that you are not just some dragon-shirted asshole pounding this garbage into your iMac off the top of your head (20 minutes before deadline) like the overgrown fratboy you are.

To that end you might also consider explaining the "affirmative action" idea rather than orphaning the metaphor that was allegedly the main fucking idea of your column.

Posted in Election 2008 on July 28th, 2008 by Ed

Just for shits and giggles, I'm going to (sort of) agree with Glenn Beck. A little.

With the exception of a few ill-advised and feeble attempts to defend McCain, Beck's write-up of the media's "embarrassing" coverage of Obama's Middle East trip is unusually readable. He mentions some facts worth mentioning. Unfortunately I can't tell what he expects anyone to do about it.

I think Beck is cherry-picking to note some of the ridiculous things the media report as "news" – the contents of Obama's iPod or workout routine. There was plenty of coverage about George Bush's iPod and love of mountain biking back in the day. This isn't Obama-specific, it's just the kind of vapid fluff that passes for news these days.

His second point – the vastly larger number of reporters vying for spots on Obama's foreign trip compared to McCain's – is valid. There is no way to ignore the numbers. So we agree on the basic facts. The conclusion is subjective, though. This doesn't prove that "bias" is the problem. Maybe – just maybe – McCain is the problem. He's a phenomenally boring person running a boring campaign utterly devoid of media savvy. He is essentially a walking blooper reel who shows complete disdain for the media (as do his followers). Since the media are in the business of selling newspapers and keeping viewers interested, McCain is poison. Of course they spend as little time with him as possible.

Why is there no story about John McCain's iPod? Well, he doesn't own one. Why are there no stories about his hobbies? Well, he doesn't have any. He's an ancient, surly, out-of-touch person. What is there to cover? How does one write sympathetically about a person who is "aware of the Internet" but never used it? Reporters don't make him sound like your doddering grandfather. He does that himself. So on the fluffy "human interest" stories, McCain is bound to get the short end of the stick. It's hard to do personality coverage of a man who doesn't have one aside from the occasional burst of anger.

What about the "hard news?" Arguably McCain does not get slighted as badly in this category, but the same basic problem exists. Beck says:

And while Obama was flying from country to country this week in a plane packed with celebrity reporters, McCain flew to an event in New Hampshire. After his Boeing 737 landed in Manchester, he stepped out onto the tarmac and glanced at the one reporter who'd bothered to show up. Yes, one.

But why would more than one reporter show up? Does Beck expect that a throng will attend something that has zero news value and even less commercial appeal? The event was a town hall meeting at the Rochester, NH Opera House. Can you think of anything that sounds more boring or less newsworthy? His campaign's media savvy is so bad it's comical. As Obama spoke to 200,000 in Berlin, McCain spoke to six people at "Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant" in Ohio. Are those two events supposed to get equal coverage? Maybe Glenn Beck should direct his anger at whatever asshat McCain has running his media team and setting him up in these ridiculous, humiliating, bush-league "appearances."

If the media are slighting McCain's "message", it's probably because there isn't a single part of it that is new, exciting, or original. Name one policy he has proposed that differs from George W. Bush. I dare you, name one. There is a reason that people do not show up to rallies to scream "WOOO! STATUS QUO! WOOOOO!" Campaigning for a third term of Bush's presidency is what it is. "McCain says: stay in Iraq, keep Bush's tax cuts" hardly makes an interesting headline. Who can even muster the energy to pretend like that's exciting? The media can't.

Reporters are people. They are not robots who can divorce themselves from the demands of their industry and their own sense of what is or isn't interesting. The media would cover McCain's wild rallies or speeches to 200,000 people if McCain had wild rallies or could get 200,000 people to watch him speak. They have less interest in McCain because, as Beck points out, he doesn't sell. But they also have less interest in him because the public has less interest in him. Not necessarily politically (he's polling decently and he'll probably win in the end) but as a Story. We'd sooner watch news stories about an old guy in a nursing home, and we might be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 27th, 2008 by Ed

Overwhelming Visual Awesomeness alert: the White Sox American Giants took on the Detroit Tigers Stars in historic duds for the 14th annual Negro League tribute night. Back in the day, the two cities took turns hosting the Negro Leagues East-West Classic, or all-star game.

Holy crap. Olde-timey awesome.

Posted in No Politics Friday on July 25th, 2008 by Ed

In the interest of "preventing terrorism" security guards at Yankee Stadium are confiscating sunblock from paying customers as they enter. That's a questionable thing to do to people who are paying $50 to sit motionless in the searing July sun for three hours. But don't worry! Inside the stadium they will sell you 1 oz packets of SPF 15 for $5. At least it's Terrorist Proof Factor is off the charts.

Leave it to New Yorkers to take being a raging dick to a new level. But this is just part of a larger trend – extract revenue at all costs – and certainly par for the course in an industry that charges $8 for a Miller Lite. If I may speak candidly, I fucking hate being advertised to. I understand that advertisements are necessary to sustain businesses like print or broadcast media. In most industries, though, it's simple greed. We pay $9 per movie and have to sit through 5 minutes of Axe Body Spray / National Guard ads. We force kids to watch ChannelOne in schools, lest they miss a batch of Stridex commercials. And going to a live sporting event is little more than a three-hour exercise in being advertisted to these days.

I'm not so naive as to think that any for-profit enterprise run by rational people is going to turn down the chance to make a buck, but sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. As Tim Gunn might say, you have to edit. The theater might ask itself "Well, these folks are already paying $9 for a ticket and $10 more for some Diet Coke and popcorn. Do we really need to pile on the commercials?" The unblinking answer these days is Yes. Yes We Do.

It wasn't that long ago that I could go to a baseball game (at Comiskey Park or County Stadium or Tigers Stadium, now US Cellular Field, Miller Park, and Comerica Park) and enjoy the seventh inning stretch, not the Yahoo! Seventh Inning Stretch into Savings At Wal-Mart. Bringing in relief pitchers used to be a fun opportunity to mock the departing starter and perhaps catch a glimpse of that silly bullpen car. That has been replaced by the Verizon Wireless Call to the 'Pen. The jumbovision plays Chevy Truck commercials among the Doritos Home Run Replay (Doritos: The Official Triangular Pressed-Corn Leavings Chip of YOUR Kansas City Royals). Male fans get to take a leak with "urinal advertising" 8 inches from their faces. Can I please piss without being told of the wonders of 1-800-CASINO.com (Not a gambling site)?

Sadly our society bombards people with so many sponsorships, pitches, ads, and commercials that most people either barely notice or would feel naked without them. Yes, we are a free country and businesses may do whatever paying customers are willing to bear. The Yankees can confiscate their fans' sunblock and charge them $5 to replace it, but should they? We can slap a Geico ad on every flat surface on the planet, but should we? We can sell the naming rights to our National Parks (seriously, that is a real proposal) but should we? Alas, with all the hyper-free-market leg-humping of the past two decades, we see the idea of corporate sponsorship as the mark of quality.

Posted in Rants on July 24th, 2008 by Ed

Typical undergraduates, the 18-to-22 kind, are at a crucial developmental stage. They are about to be told "no" for the first time in their lives in an academic setting. Someone is about to evaluate their work, say "This is shit," and demand better. This is a turning point. One of two things will happen. The student can say "I did something wrong. I need to figure out how to do it right." This student will, in all likelihood, go on to be successful in his or her endeavors. Conversely, the student can say "That professor hates me / is biased against me / doesn't recognize my brilliance." These students will go on to work as 6th-string bloggers for Powerline or Little Green Footballs.

That is college teaching in a nutshell – getting students to realize, in the age of David Horowitz, that I don't fucking care what you write about or what you believe. I care that you get the facts right, cite your research, employ half-decent reasoning, and separate fact from opinion. If I give you an F on your Ronald Reagan Was the Greatest Man Ever paper it is not because I don't like you or Ronald Reagan. It is because you can't write sentences in basic English, didn't do any research, and generally lack even a rudimentary grasp of a college-level research paper. It is not personal. It is not ideological. It is simply that you did something wrong. You can choose to learn how to do it correctly.

The editorial staff of the New York Times is learning what this feels like. The second they rejected John McCain's editorial submission, I shuddered. I knew what was coming.

The editorial response to McCain's submission is almost verbatim what a decent teacher would write on a bad high school or college paper. No one said "Your submission was shit and you should give up on writing editorials." No, like anyone dealing with a clueless student the editors practically re-wrote the editorial for McCain:

"The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans … It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq."

If they weren't so busy getting indignant and going apopleptic about the damn liberal media, the McCain and his wingnuts might realize that the editor practically wrote the goddamn revised editorial for them. Look at that. It is a road map. It is a sugar cookie recipe for kids. It is paint-by-numbers. DO THESE THREE THINGS AND I WILL GIVE YOU AN A PRINT YOUR EDITORIAL. They are practically screaming this at McCain. They are begging him to write something that meets the bare minimum standards for publication so they don't have to listen to Michelle Malkin.

The pedagogical tone is hard to miss; it's a tone one only adopts upon realizing that The Student does not get it and is unlikely to figure it out. Frankly, McCain is getting more mileage from milking the martyrdom angle than he would from the silly editorial. But the sad fact is that there's no point at which he (or his blogosphere cheerleaders) will sit back and think, "Gee, maybe I wrote a shitty Obama slam piece instead of an editorial." Their twisted take on "objectivity" boils down the issue like every other: they ran a liberal editorial, so now they have to run a conservative one.

Posted in Election 2008 on July 23rd, 2008 by Ed

Imagine this for a moment. Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki gives an interview with a well-respected news magazine and says:

"Look, there is absolutely no way the government of Iraq can support a timetable for American military withdrawl. It's the wrong plan, period. We need American troops here until the job is done and we don't know when that is."

In other words, imagine that he stated John McCain's position almost verbatim. Tell me what the reaction would look like among the American media and voters. I will save you the trouble: shit would not hit the fan, for no fan on Earth would be powerful enough to withstand the nor'easter of shit that would result. The fan would literally be buried under an Everest-sized mountain of rhetorical feces. And Obama's campaign would rapidly become an updated version of McGovern '72. McCain would do nothing but repeat this single talking point incessantly. Your email inbox would fill to bursting with forwarded emails of al-Maliki's quote and endless derision of Obama's contrarian position. We wouldn't have a campaign so much as we'd be having Obama's wake.

Of course, Mr. al-Maliki did not say that. He said the exact opposite. In effect, he offered Obama's position as his own opinion on withdrawl:

"That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes," al-Maliki was quoted as saying. "Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic. Artificially prolonging the tenure of U.S. troops in Iraq would cause problems."

While one high-profile Republican strategist responded to this development succinctly ("We're fucked.") this will ultimately amount to a minor flap in the campaign. No eulogies will be sung for McCain. The man who thinks Pakistan and Iraq share a border or that Czechoslovakia is still a country or that he knows what Iraq needs more than the Iraqis do will continue to wear the Foreign Policy Expert crown. Obama will remain the guy your aunts and uncles very seriously intone about as "too inexperienced," lacking McCain's many years of experience in being white promising to cut taxes international affairs. No one will point out that McCain has repeatedly stated that when the elected government of Iraq wants us out, we'll leave.

No one will question the GOP's mind-boggling insistence that A) Iraq is so goddamn safe we can hardly believe it but B) we can't leave. They declare victory for democracy while simultaneously trying to convince people that Iraq will become Uncle Osama's Terrorism Fiesta if we leave. We've achieved victory – stable democratic government and peace – but without 150,000 troops on the ground it would quickly become the seventh circle of hell. That's a pretty curious interpretation of having achieved stability and peace.


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U Win Htain, representative from Meiktila township constituency, asked whether to design a curriculum of democracy at the civil service institutes in Phaunggyi of lower Myanmar and Zibingyi of upper Myanmar.
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An overview of North Carolina's child custody laws

The divorce of two North Carolina parents can result in the creation of a child custody order. Child custody orders establish the responsibilities of the child's parents once they have officially ended their legal union. There are a variety of ways that custody can be divided, and this post will briefly touch on some of the types of child custody arrangements. Readers are reminded, though, that their child custody plans may take on different characteristics as no two familial situations are the same.

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The Graham.Nuckolls.Conner. Law Firm, PLLC, is located in Greenville, North Carolina. It offers its clients a wide range of family law legal services including but not limited to guidance and representation on divorce, child and spousal support and adoption. The attorneys of the firm also help their clients work out child custody arrangements that may be incorporated into court-enforceable agreements and orders.

How can you successfully co-parent after divorce?

Divorce is complex. Not only is it usually an unexpected process, but it can stir up many emotions and negativity. Because of that, many North Carolina parents seek to do everything they can to protect their children throughout and following marriage dissolution. When amicability is possible and fair and open communication is present, a co-parenting relationship is often sought by parents. But this does not mean this child custody agreement is not filled with its obstacles and pitfalls. While no custody arrangement is perfect, there are ways to make them more successful.

We fight for ideal child custody agreements

Although couples in North Carolina and other states across the nation don't intend to divorce when they decide to tie the knot, divorce is as common as ever in our soicety. Because roughly half of all marriages end in divorce, there are many broken families. Most divorcing parents seek to protect the best interests of their children, and one step to help ensure that is by developing a fair and workable child custody agreement.

The best way to handle child custody issues is with respect

Most North Carolina parents see their children as a blessing and only want what is best for them. They will also go out of their way to protect their kids from harm, be it physical or emotional. As a result, many parents are willing to put their children's well-being ahead of their own. Unfortunately, sometimes a situation between two adults becomes untenable, and a separation or divorce is the best course of action for everyone involved in the long run, even if the kids may be confused and upset by it. When this occurs, it is important that parents remember the kids when they deal with potentially contentious issues such as custody and visitation.

Why have a lawyer in child custody mediation?

Most North Carolinians have probably heard of mediation, if only in the news or on legal television shows. They might also understand that it is considered an 'alternative dispute resolution method.' This method, which provides an alternative to litigation, is often used in family law cases like divorce and child custody. There may be a few reasons why mediation might be a good option in certain cases, but one should always understand that using such an alternative process without legal advice might not be a great idea.

How is 'visitation' decided in North Carolina child custody?

We've previously discussed several aspects of child custody cases in North Carolina. As many readers will no doubt remember, child custody can be decided as part of a divorce proceeding, or as a separate petition, sometimes along with other issues such as paternity and child support. A few weeks ago, we touched on the differences between 'sole' and 'joint' custody. To refresh, sole custody is given to one parent, while both parents are involved in a joint custody arrangement.

What is "sole" and "joint" child custody in North Carolina?

Perhaps the hardest part of a divorce or non-marital paternity case is determining how to divide the time parents can spend with their children. When two separate households are involved, it is often the case that some compromises will have to be made and that no one party will be given everything he or she wishes for. However, the more parents can work together to find common ground, the better the chances of both being satisfied with the child custody arrangements.

North Carolina and electronic visitation

This blog has previously touched on the basic types of child custody that are used by North Carolina family courts in divorce and non-marital custody determinations. To refresh, there is legal custody, which deals with decision-making regarding the child's health, education, and other important issues, and physical custody, which determines where the child will reside. Either of these types of custody can be 'joint' or 'sole,' meaning that either both parties, or only one parent, will have that type of custody. A common arrangement is to give both parents joint legal custody, while giving one parent sole physical custody.

Child custody considerations in North Carolina

Under North Carolina law, there are different types of child custody. The main types are joint custody and sole custody. As is always true when considering child custody, what is in the best interests of the child is the guiding principle when determining child custody. However, North Carolina courts also consider the child's wishes, which may not necessarily be the same as the solution the court determines is in the child's best interests.

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In this round of the Spanish Primera team Real Madrid will hosted in Elche, where they will want after yesterday’s defeat of Barcelona to build the lead to 4 points.

It’s hard to say that Elche can defend against Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema and other quality players that the team has played, like Real class. Real during the week had a guest appearance in the context of the Champions League at Schalke, where they won 2:0 and thus acquire advantage before the rematch, which is in two weeks. Modric is still not ready because of injuries he received in a remarkable game quite serious and no one at the club does not want to risk him but his position is currently filled Illaramendi and Khedira. An interesting fact is that Ronaldo is not in the league scored in the previous five matches which has not happened a long time ago that many games a player of that type so it is expekting to be in this game.

Elche will need the points to stay in the league sought against some other teams because Barcelona is lagging behind Real Madrid just one point and no relaxation for the players and when we consider that Barcelona were defeated by Malaga then it adds even more imperative to win for Real. Elche after the flood which suffered from Barcelona still managed to somehow arrange and come up with two wins they certainly were needed in the mission of staying in the league.

Hardly anyone gives a chance Elche against Real Madrid and for me everything except Madrid would landslide victory would be a surprise if this is football and surprises in a sport event indeed. I still believe that this is real as it should do and celebrate in a guest appearance with two goals difference, because attacking tandem Real tough defense Elche can stop.

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An Erie man who shot another man in the leg faces a maximum of 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty Monday in Erie County Court.

Shaiquan K. Stanback, 23, pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony count of aggravated assault in an agreement with the Erie County District Attorney's Office.

First-degree felony counts of attempted homicide and aggravated assault were dropped as part of the plea deal.

Stanback, who is in the Erie County Prison on $150,000 bond, will be sentenced Aug. 4 before Judge John Garhart, who accepted the plea.

Erie police said Stanback approached the victim near East 20th and Wayne streets on Oct. 16, shot him in the leg with a handgun and threatened to "smoke" him. The bullet traveled through the victim's left leg and into his right leg, police said.


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Inclement weather could ruin a golf trip. The trick is to prepare for it.  (Getty Images) Nobody likes playing in the rain, but it can be tolerable with the right attitude and accessories.  (Getty Images) Buying a rain suit, like this one from ProQuip Trophy, will help you survive wet weather. (Courtesy of ProQuip)

Rainy day? Tips for handling wet weather on the golf course

Moving to California three years ago has made me softer than a pillow.

I check the forecast constantly before any round of golf and freak out if the temperature will be less than 60 degrees. I bought more than a dozen hand warmers for my first trip to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon in March because the forecast never inched above 50 degrees. I got rained on, hailed on and wind blown all week and still had a great time.

My Michigan self would have embraced the Bandon weather. I once had an Irishman tell me during a wickedly wet round at Ballyliffin Golf Club I was an excellent “mudder”, the term given to Tom Watson, who won five Open Championships in the cold, wind and rain. But that was years ago when I was younger, tougher. Now I wince at the softest of weather, taking every precaution I can to survive the round as dry and comfortable as I can. Here are my best tips to survive playing golf in the rain:

1. Accessorize

You can’t play golf if you can’t grip your clubs. Buy a pair of rain gloves and keep them in your bag at all times. The wetter they get, the better your grip. They work. A rain-proof bucket hat is also a great addition.

2. Don’t forget your umbrella

There is a time and place for using that oversized golf umbrella. When it’s windy or you’re in a cart, it’s useless. But if you’re walking and there’s a pouring cloudburst, it’s a life saver. There's a great debate within the golf industry: I swear by taking an umbrella to Scotland or Ireland. Others say they are useless and only add bulk and weight to your bag. You decide what's right.

3. Spend big on the rain suit

Other than the driver, there’s probably no other golf accessory that will cost as much as a rain suit. Don’t go to the sale rack. The best rain suits – I’ve got both a Gavin Green and a Footjoy – never go on sale. Pony up the money for a good one with Gortex. They last a lifetime, and you’ll be laughing at your soaked buddy wearing the discount brand.

4. Waterproof your everyday gear

Not every golf bag or pair of golf shoes is water-proof. When you're shopping for new ones, make sure you buy ones that repel water. Soggy socks are one of the big drawbacks of playing in the rain. A rainproof golf bag is a must for me, as I'm always carrying an expensive camera that I keep wrapped in an extra plastic grocery bag and hidden in my golf bag when bad weather attacks.

5. Bring extra

I stuff an extra towel in my golf bag for later in the round when my original is soaked and useless. I also take a few extra golf balls just in case my game gets as sloppy as the weather. A backup scorecard is another great idea just in case the first one starts to disintegrate.

6. Dry clothes for the 19th hole

Even with a great rain suit and shoes, chances are your pants and socks will still get wet. I always make sure I have an extra pair of dry socks and pants in my car or locker, so I can enjoy a pint at the 19th hole without feeling like a drowned cat.

Rain tips from The Golf Channel Academy

1. Cover your clubs

Whether you’re riding in a cart or walking, be sure to cover your clubs, either with the rain fly on the golf cart or the rain hood that came with your golf bag. You have a fighting chance to score well with dry grips and a dry clubface.

2. Take a free drop

Casual water will eventually pool up around the course. Unless you're playing in the U.S. Open, feel free to move the ball to dry turf. Don't get greedy, though, and drop balls sitting in the rough back into the fairway. Nobody wants to be labeled a cheater by their buddies.

3. Avoid taking a divot

Water on your clubface and from the surface of the grass will affect whether you hit a shot with crisp contact. After wiping off your clubface, try to make a shallow swing that doesn't take much, if any, divot. That should help minimize the water's effect on the ball.

4. Adjust to wet sand and greens

Obviously, wet greens will roll slower than normal, so hit your putts a little firmer. I haven't met a single golfer who doesn't dread wet bunker sand. Michael Breed, host of ‘The Golf Fix’ on The Golf Channel, says to "create some dig" by closing the face and slow the tempo down, so the ball doesn't fly as far. Shots from wet sand tend to jump off the face and fly a little farther than normal.

5. Change your attitude

Ultimately, how your day goes depends entirely upon your attitude. Cranky and dreading the remaining holes? There's no chance you'll score well. Once you realize you need to grind out every shot, embrace the challenge and lower your expectations, you've got a fighting chance.

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NEWPORT, R.I. – Freshman Sanjay Mukherjee finished in a tie for ninth overall on the individual side for the Tufts University men's golf team at the Bentley Newport Classic on Tuesday, as the Jumbos placed three golfers in the top-15 overall during a fourth-place finish out of six teams in Newport, Rhode Island.

Brandon Karr shot in the 70s for the fifth time this season for the Jumbos.

Mukherjee was the Jumbos' top-finisher at an event for the first time during the 2016-17 season, carding a 4-over-par 76. This was only the second event that Mukherjee has suited up for during his rookie year, as he was the Jumbos' fifth-place finisher at the Detrick Invitational on Sept. 10-11, in Newington, Connecticut.

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Junior Aaron Corn placed in a tie for 22nd, while being the Jumbos' fourth-place performer with an 81. Rounding out the scoring for the Jumbos was sophomore Brian Creonte, as he carded an 88 on the course.

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For five Greenwich families, the Binney Park Fourth of July fireworks display has become a tradition.

As kids twirled neon glow sticks Saturday evening and the concussive thump of pyrotechnics echoed across Binney Park pond, the Harrisson, Gunzburg, Soro, Chan and Debs families, with a giant blue tarp beneath them, did what they have done for eight years.

They enjoyed the show.

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The finale of the display included dozens of deep-booming, rapid-fire explosions, scattershots of brilliantly colored starbursts, and streaks of red that trailed toward the treeline like comets.

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The group put out a table filled with fruit, brownies and cookies well before the 9:11 p.m. start to the show.

Both Old Greenwich fireworks displays -- one in Binney Park and the other at Greenwich Point -- went on as planned, despite the threat of severe thunderstorms in the Greenwich area Saturday afternoon and evening.

The Greenwich Point fireworks were slated to begin about 20 minutes after Binney Park's display launched.

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Officials met earlier in the afternoon and then again at about 6 p.m. to discuss postponing the fireworks until Sunday, Theis said.

First Selectman Peter Tesei said earlier in the day that crews need several hours to prepare the fireworks for launch.

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Residents and non-residents -- the events drew an untold number of Stamford residents, whose city didn't have fireworks for a third straight year -- were already setting up their chairs and picnic blankets in both locations in the early afternoon in anticipation of the pyrotechnic displays.

Over at Greenwich Point, Greenwich resident Steve Griffiths, who was enjoying the beach with his family, was quick to explain that fireworks are a little different on this side of the Pond.

According to Griffiths, who moved to Greenwich from Scotland three years ago, the fireworks in his area of the United Kingdom don't measure up to the displays here in town.

"It's freezing cold [there]. Everyone is freezing, and it's miserable," said Griffiths, explaining that fireworks in the U.K. typically occur in November in celebration of Guy Fawkes Day.

"It's completely different scenery here," he said. "You're sitting on the beach. It's my favorite night of the year."

Bypassing the more traditional frisbees and footballs that beach-goers were throwing around Saturday afternoon, Griffiths and company were enjoying a round of boules, a game similar to bocce in which heavy metal balls are tossed toward a jack.

"You throw it backhand, so it has backspin on it," explained Griffiths, who demonstrated tossing one of the silver balls into the sand.

Though the Griffiths will fly to the U.K. on Monday for a vacation, Griffiths "promised the kids we'd stay for the fireworks."

"I love it," he said. "I love the way the boats come in."

Lifeguard and Greenwich resident Alex Coburn, home for the summer from the University of Michigan, was perched atop a lifeguard stand nearby, making sure some of the boats anchored outside the Greenwich Point swimming area -- including a Grady White and Boston Whaler -- didn't come too close to the beach.

"I don't think it's going to get any more crowded," Coburn said at about 3 p.m. The overcast weather and brief rain shower early in the afternoon probably kept the crowds down, he said.

"This is normal for a Saturday," he said. "But for a fireworks, it's very spartan ... Because of the fireworks, we'll probably get out around midnight."

Twelve lifeguards -- four more than normal -- were on duty for the day, and, halfway through the afternoon, Coburn had no problems to report.

Outside the concession stand at the Point, a crowd of hungry kids gobbled up King Cones and ice cream sandwiches.

Inside, 17-year-old Greenwich resident Jon Lazar was busy serving up frozen treats.

Lazar, like Coburn, said the crowds were a little down for the day of a fireworks display.

"Only because it's cloudy and really hot," he said. Lazar, like Coburn, said he would likely work until around midnight.

A short distance away at Binney Park at 4 p.m., hundreds of multi-colored lawn chairs and tarpaulins dotted the park grounds, and ice cream trucks and vendors lined up near the tennis courts.

Few people sat in their pre-fireworks spots, however, and even by 5:30 p.m., much of the lawn was empty.

By 7:30 p.m., many more people had spilled into the park. There to entertain them was the 57-year-old Sound Beach Community Band, which took the stage at 8 p.m.

"We're going to play Stars and Stripes Forever," conductor Barbara Freedman said before the performance, explaining that the music would lead into the fireworks display.

"They hear us play, and they do it," she said of the moment the fireworks were set to begin. "Hopefully we get it just right."

Not far from the band, Greenwich Police Lt. Richard Cochran was on the lookout for any parking, traffic or safety issues.

He said that, for the first year, no parking was allowed on Arch Street near Binney Park.

Though some complained about the parking ban, Cochran said the setup is preferable to past years.

"This is something new in hopes that it'll get people out safer and quicker," he said.

When asked if police had dealt with any drunken antics at the park during the day, he replied, "Everyone's good and behaving themselves."

At 8 p.m., GEMS personnel reported no injuries except a few cut toes.

Dan Dauplaise, Democratic candidate for state Senate from the 36th District, was at the park at 5 p.m. greeting scattered groups of people awaiting the pyrotechnics.

"It's the best fireworks display in southwestern Connecticut," he said.

In addition to being beautiful, fireworks unify each and every American, Dauplaise said.

"I think it gives every single person something they can relate to," he said.

Looking around the park, Dauplaise added with a smile, "I've never seen such a variety of lawn chairs."; 203-625-4428


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