I don't like your new blog!
In my last post, I warned everyone that I would be making some changes to the layout of my blog. I was experimenting with colors, sidebar items, etc. I have always wanted to showcase my content and have the sidebar items complement it. Last night I was talking to my mother on the phone. Out of the blue, she says, "I don't like your new blog!" Just like that. Momma doesn't hold her tongue about much. My mouth fell open. Coincidentally I was in front of my laptop replying to comments. I looked at the layout as she continued to tell me what she didn't like about it.
It looks too commercial. It's not personal looking like it was before. I can't follow it. There's too much stuff going on. I can't find your old posts. Are you advertising other blogs on your site? I clicked on something and I was reading someone else's blog. Do you get paid for that?
My eyes were darting all over the screen trying to see it as she saw it. I tried to defend myself to her, but as I did–I realized that she was right. So I changed the theme back to the simple, clean, colorful one that I chose when I first switched to WordPress. I was trying to make my blog design different when it was fine the way that it was. Thank you for your honest opinion, Momma. Your advice has always been appreciated even when I didn't want to hear it. I'll be enjoying smoked turkey and all the fixings tomorrow with my extended family. The forecast has temps in the 30s in New Orleans!
Check out my Thanksgiving board below. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Be safe.
Have you ever received unsolicited advice that served you well? Who is the voice of reason in your life? Are you planning to partake in the Black Friday sales this year?
LOL! I always tell my kids, that I am always right, so they should just get used to it! LOL! No way I ventured anywhere near any Black Friday shopping. Stayed comfy in my recliner! Thanks for sharing at the Show Off weekend party! Have a great rest of the week!
I waited until Cyber Monday to leave the house. Thanks, Stacey!
I appreciate that, Lizzy. We all need that wake up call moment at times.
Funny about your mom and her comments. I like the way the blog looks (and I liked it before!). Good that you knew your mom meant her comments in a nice way!
Thanks Kim! My mother has always been a big supporter of mine. We are both the oldest child. And both are Virgos–very detail-oriented.
LOL, this is so awesome! Hey, feedback is feedback, right? It's so true that sometimes we go by what we want and like and don't think a lot about what our blog's audience would like or need. That's what should matter most!
Hi Delia! Yes, we need to step back and look at our work through others' eyes sometimes. That can be hard to do. Thanks for stopping by!
Your mother was straight to the point. We can count on them to give it to us that way. I actually did get some last weekend. The mister was like, you are being to fun and talking about your activities all the time….When is the last time you ended your post with your tag line?
Face palm….he was right! I jumped on the defensive initially but, I had to listen. I am not sure why I got out of the habit but that is the entire point to inspire people to Live healthy, active and prosperous lifestyles!
Like you said recently, "your blog is your baby". And that's how I feel. So your first response is to defend it. But…good advice cannot be denied. I had to check my own self on not do enough happier, healthier, and wiser references. We get comfortable, girl.
LOL. My Mom is the same way. She doesn't have a problem critiquing my work. In fact, she prides herself in how well she can spot the problems and offer advice. It's all good.
Oh wow, Momma wasn't playing huh? LOL! As Alison stated, Momma knows best! We may not always want to listen to it, but ultimately they're only looking out for us. I hope you had a very good Thanksgiving!
No, Momma wasn't playing. I had a great Thanksgiving. Thanks, Kennie!
Momma knows best, Kimberly! My back tends to go up when I get unsolicited advice but depending on the source, I might listen. I'd listen to my mom, even though I might catch feelings at the beginning.
I'm sitting out the Black Friday madness. The most I'll do is go drop some letters in the mailbox at the foot of the road and go to Kinkos to laminate something. The madness… I just can't, girl. Old age, I guess. And unwillingness to part with even more of my money under the guise of a "good deal"!
I am all about buying online, Alison.
Well it looks good now! But I don't remember the differences. Sometimes unsolicited advice is right on the mark!
IKR! At first, I was like OMG did she just diss my blog theme?! Then a light bulb went on and I surrendered. Willingly. She's always supported me, Kate. I couldn't disagree in the end.
LOL, I'll be quiet now. I don't write filler posts anymore just to be blogging. When I did have a few fillers in a row my daddy said, "What's going on with your blog. It's boring." I was mad at him temporarily but it blew over. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
The ironic thing is my mother reads my blog every other week not daily like my father. But she has a good eye for things. So…. Happy Thanksgiving, girl!


Home Recipes Free Range Fruitcake: Something to Cluck About!
Free Range Fruitcake: Something to Cluck About!
Behold an exceptional fruitcake, one that deserves a little respect.
Oh, go ahead, start with your jokes, mock the baked good that moonlights as a doorstop, wrecking ball, and scapegoat for holiday angst. Get it out of your system fruitcake grinches, for I am here to redeem the reputation of this much maligned Christmas confection.
Great fruit makes for a great fruitcake: dried apricots, cranberries, blueberries, golden raisins, homemade orange peel, and sour cherries.
I'm a big fan of vintage baking pans, so I bake my fruitcake in these metal molds designed for steamed puddings.
I have to admit the neon-bright candied fruit of old-school fruitcakes can be off-putting, but that's an easy fix; indulge in the amazing variety of dried fruit available these days, usually found in the bulk section of a grocery store. For me, that includes all or any combination of the following dried fruit: apricots, candied orange peel , golden raisins, currants, sour cherries, blueberries, figs, and crystallized ginger.
When you bake with a lidded pudding tin, the cake tends to come out moister and denser. If you don't have a lid, you can always cover the pan with foil. And leave off the lid should you like a dryer cake.
I'd like to share a recipe, an updated version of this bejeweled baked good, a recipe festooned with the sweetmeats of summer and sopped up with a wee bit of worthy spirits. The recipe comes from one of my favorite celebrity chefs, Alton Brown, the no-nonsense science guy of cooking.
Alton (oh yeah, we're on a first name basis) calls it a free range fruitcake, no doubt because he takes what has become the sad standard and improves upon it ten-fold. His cake is moist, aromatic, spicy and chockablock with sweet treats to tease your tongue.
Here's the Recipe for Alton Brown's Free Range Fruitcake.
As fruitcake is known for the boozey company it keeps, I went local and substituted the rum with Idle Hour Whiskey from the Seattle Distillery which is located here on Vashon Island. It's a smooth bourbon-remiscent spirit, that is tamed with just a nuance of honey. So let's toast to our new year, your new love of a better fruitcake, and a plenty of idle hours to enjoy.
Beautiful, architectural, and now I want cake. Hope you continue to heal & that the rest of your holiday is merry & bright & full of good things to eat.
Thanks Anne, I just finished up an amazing loaf of panettone bread that my pal Karen baked. Mama Mia! Thank goodness for great Italian cooks and bakers. I'm on the mends and filling like a million bucks today. Well enough to tackle the house that I ransacked while ill for the last week.
Great find! I doubled this recipe for Holiday cakes and they were a big hit especially for the folks who used to eat the fruitcake with all the colored fruit (yuck!) Now they'll never go back!
Barbara, I too doubled the recipe and I'm glad to report, like you, that it works beautifully, though there was barely an inch to spare at the top of the mixer bowl, and for a while I thought it may kill my KitchenAid mixer. I finished it off my hand stirring the batter.
At long last, I don't have to hide my love of fruitcake – even the doorstoppers, hesitate to add. This recipe reads well and your end results make me wish I could reach through the monitor screen and help myself to a wedge of fruity goodness.
Mr. Brown is my favorite celebrity chef/food science guy; you're a neck-and-neck-second. Time to visit the grocery and dig out my pudding crocks.
Alright Martha! United we stand in gaining ground for the due respect of fruitcake. Happy New Year and thanks for the putting me in such good company.
Tom, those tins are amazing. I have not seen anything like them before -just lovely. They make the cakes very special. I hope that you and your furry family had a lovely Christmas.
Thank you Jacqui, Happy New Year to you and yours!
I'm sorry you have been ill, Tom. I have been wondering where you've been! The fruitcakes look amazing–one of my favorite cakes. Have you read A CHRISTMAS MEMORY by Truman Capote? I am thinking of that story today brought on by your post! Lovely!
Pam I was down for the count indeed. I sure love feeling well. 😉 Funny you should mention "A Christmas Memory" I love that short story. I always read it with a Southern accent in my head.
What stunning fruitcakes and presentation! You have been very busy. Please do a post on all of your vintage molds sometime. And… have a Happy New Year!
Truth be told Eileen, I was out sick for a while and these cakes were baked well before Christmas. Speaking of vintage molds, I sure love the ones you posted on your blog once, the ones with the triangular shape loaf pan–stunners! Happy New Year!
Glad to hear that you are feeling well. Wondered if you were on vacation when you did not post for so long. Hope you , Boz and Gracie have a happy new year.


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2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky
← 2010 November 6, 2012 (2012-11-06) 2014 →
All 6 Kentucky seats to the United States House of Representatives
Majority party
Minority party
Republican Democratic
Last election
Seats won
Seat change
Elections in Kentucky
United States Senate elections
House of Representatives elections
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The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 to elect the six U.S. Representatives from the state of Kentucky, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a quadrennial presidential election. Primary elections were held on May 22, 2012.[1]
2 Redistricting
3 District 1
3.1 Democratic primary
3.1.1 Primary results
3.2 General election
3.2.1 Results
6.2 Republican primary
United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2012[2]
Republican 1,027,582 58.87% 5 +1
Democratic 684,744 39.23% 1 -1
Libertarian 4,914 0.28% 0 —
Others 28,137 1.61% 0 —
Totals 1,745,377 100.00% 6 —
Redistricting[edit]
Redistricting legislation was passed by both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Steve Beshear on February 10, 2012.[3]
District 1[edit]
See also: Kentucky's 1st congressional district
Republican Ed Whitfield, who has represented the 1st district since 1995, ran for re-election.[4] In redistricting, the 1st district was made slightly more competitive, but continues to strongly favor Republicans.[5]
Democratic primary[edit]
Primary results[edit]
Democratic primary results
Democratic Charles Kendall Hatchett 19,127 59.1
Democratic James Buckmaster 13,239 40.9
32,366 100.0
General election[edit]
Results[edit]
Kentucky's 1st congressional district, 2012 [2]
Republican Edward Whitfield (incumbent) 199,956 69.6
287,155 100.0
Republican hold
See also: Kentucky's 2nd congressional district
Republican Brett Guthrie, who has represented the 2nd district since 2009, ran for re-election.[6] In redistricting, the 2nd district was made slightly more favorable to Republicans.[5]
David Lynn Williams won the Democratic nomination without opposition.[7]
Craig Astor is running as a Libertarian:[8]
Kentucky's 2nd congressional district, 2012 [2]
Republican Brett Guthrie (incumbent) 181,508 64.3
Democratic David Lynn Williams 89,541 31.7
Independent Andrew R. Beacham 6,304 2.2
Libertarian Craig R. Astor 4,914 1.8
See also: Kentucky's 3rd congressional district
Democrat John Yarmuth, who has represented the 3rd district since 2007, ran for re-election.[9] The 3rd district was made more favorable to Democrats in redistricting.[5]
Brooks Wicker, a financial advisor and unsuccessful primary candidate for the 3rd district in 2010,[10] won the Republican nomination with no opposition.[11]
Yarmuth defeated perennial candidate Burrel Charles Farnsley in the Democratic primary.[11]
Democratic John Yarmuth (incumbent) 43,635 86.7
Democratic Burrel Charles Farnsley 6,716 13.3
Kentucky's 3rd congressional district, 2012 [2]
Democratic John Yarmuth (incumbent) 206,385 64.0
Republican Brooks Wicker 111,452 34.5
Independent Robert L. DeVore, Jr. 4,819 1.5
Democratic hold
See also: Kentucky's 4th congressional district
Republican Geoff Davis, who had represented 4th district from 2005 to 2012, resigned due to family health issues.[6] In redistricting, the 4th district was made more favorable to Republicans.[5]
Candidates[12]
Bill Adkins, lawyer
Greg Frank, military veteran
Democratic Bill Adkins 17,209 68.6
Democratic Greg Frank 7,869 31.4
Republican primary[edit]
Results of the primary by county. Red indicates a county won by Massie, green by Webb-Edgington. Gray indicates a county that is not within the 4th congressional district.
Candidates[6]
Walter Christian Schumm, building contractor
Marcus Carey, lawyer
Thomas Massie, Lewis County judge-executive
Gary Moore, Boone County judge-executive
Brian Oerther, teacher
Alecia Webb-Edgington, state representative
Tom Wurtz, business consultant
Republican primary results
Republican Thomas Massie 19,689 44.8
Republican Alecia Webb-Edgington 12,557 28.6
Republican Gary Moore 6,521 14.8
Republican Walter Christian Schumm 3,514 8.0
Republican Marc Carey 783 1.8
Republican Tom Wurtz 598 1.4
Republican Brian D. Oerther 257 0.6
Kentucky's 4th congressional district, 2012 [2]
Republican Thomas Massie 186,036 62.1
Democratic William R. "Bill" Adkins 104,734 35.0
Independent David Lewis 8,674 2.9
Republican Hal Rogers, who has represented the 5th district since 1981, ran for re-election.[6] The 5th district was made slightly more competitive in redistricting.[5]
Lawyer Kenneth Stepp[13] defeated Michael Ackerman to win the Democratic nomination.[14]
Democratic Kenneth S. Stepp 12,275 52.7
Democratic Michael Ackerman 11,016 47.3
Republican Hal Rogers (incumbent) 195,408 77.9
Democrat Ben Chandler, who has represented the 6th district since 2004, ran for re-election.[6] In redistricting, the 6th district was modified with the effect that, had the 2008 presidential election been held under the new boundaries, Democratic nominee Barack Obama would have received a share of the vote 1.5 percentage points greater than that which he achieved under the former boundaries.[5]
Randolph S. Vance ran as a write-in candidate.[15]
Andy Barr,[16] an attorney who unsuccessfully challenged Chandler in 2010, won the Republican nomination.[11][17] He defeated Patrick J. Kelly II[6] and Curtis Kenimer[6] in the Republican primary.[7]
Republican Garland "Andy" Barr 20,104 82.8
Republican Patrick J. Kelly, II 2,823 11.6
Republican Curtis Kenimer 1,354 5.6
Republican Andy Barr 153,222 50.6
Democratic Ben Chandler (incumbent) 141,438 46.7
Independent Randolph Vance 8,340 2.7
Republican gain from Democratic
^ "2012 Kentucky Election Calendar" (PDF). Retrieved August 16, 2011.
^ a b c d e f g "2012 Primary and General Election Results". Kentucky State Board of Elections. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
^ Brammer, Jack (February 10, 2012). "Beshear approves new congressional map that splits Jessamine". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
^ Alessi, Ryan (December 29, 2011). "U.S. Rep. Whitfield to run again in 2012, responds to questions about donations and residency". Pure Politics. cn|2. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
^ a b c d e f Alessi, Ryan (February 12, 2012). "Analysis: New congressional map only slightly moves the political needle in the 6 districts". Pure Politics. cn|2. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
^ a b c d e f g "7 Republicans file to run for Davis' 4th District seat". The Courier-Journal. February 17, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
^ a b AP primary results
^ http://apps.sos.ky.gov/elections/candidatefilings/statewide/default.aspx?id=4
^ Alessi, Ryan (September 5, 2011). "U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth to run for fourth term in 2012". Pure Politics. cn|2. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
^ Alessi, Ryan (October 6, 2011). "Republican Brooks Wicker to run for Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District". Pure Politics. cn|2. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
^ a b c Carroll, James R. (May 22, 2012). "Three U.S. House races in Kentucky will be reruns this fall". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
^ "Lewis Countian Thomas Massie Wins GOP Nomination in Ky. 4th District". WSAZ-TV. AP. May 22, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
^ "Manchester Attorney Files to Challenge Congressman Hal Rogers". WFPL. February 1, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
^ Adams, Steve (May 22, 2012). "Kentucky's primary election has low turnout". WOWK-TV. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
^ Carroll, James R. (February 7, 2012). "4 Kentucky congressmen are unopposed in primary". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
^ Hohmann, James (June 9, 2011). "Barr launching a rematch with Chandler". Politico. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
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United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2012 at Ballotpedia
Kentucky U.S. House at OurCampaigns.com
Campaign contributions for U.S. Congressional races in Kentucky at OpenSecrets.org
Outside spending at the Sunlight Foundation
House and Senate Campaign Finance at the Federal Election Commission - House and Senate Campaigns
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Poll: Christie Running Away With New Jersey Gubernatorial Race
Elissa Gomez
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows State Senator Barbara Buono trailing even further behind Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey's gubernatorial race.
The poll, released Wednesday, finds Christie leading his Democratic challenger 64 percent to 30 percent. The governor leads Buono in nearly all categories of likely voters. Among his own party, Christie leads Buono 94 percent to 3 percent. Among independents, Christie leads 69 percent to 23 percent, 69 percent to 26 percent among men, and 61 percent to 32 percent among women.
Although the "Buono camapaign and Buono's political background are big on women's issues," as Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Director Maurice Carroll notes, "even women favor Christie."
Democrats, however, back Buono 60 percent to 35 percent.
The margin between Christie and Buono has widened significantly over a period of several weeks. In early August, Quinnipiac surveyed registered New Jersey voters and found Buono was the underdog; Christie—who gained nationwide attention for his response to Hurricane Sandy—led Buono 58 to 30 percent among registered voters.
Over the summer, both candidates have attacked each other on a variety of issues. Earlier this month, Christie accused Buono of criticizing his weight — an issue that the governor has addressed in the past — condemning her for making "derisive comments about someone's physical appearance" and saying she is "really beneath the office she's seeking."
Most recently, Christie, who is eyed as a possible 2016 presidential contender, denounced Buono for hiking taxes, but voting "to raise her own pay 40 percent."
The attack ads may be taking a toll on Buono; among likely voters, she gets a negative 23 percent to 36 percent favorability. However, Christie's favorability remains high, at 67 percent to 27 percent.
As Carroll writes, "There is no silver lining for State Senator Barbara Buono in the cloudy outlook for her campaign."
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Q: Error writing react test: By default "node_modules" folder is ignored by transformers When running my react test, I get the following error:
  ● Test suite failed to run

    Jest encountered an unexpected token

    Jest failed to parse a file. This happens e.g. when your code or its dependencies use non-standard JavaScript syntax, or when Jest is not configured to support such syntax.

    Out of the box Jest supports Babel, which will be used to transform your files into valid JS based on your Babel configuration.

    By default "node_modules" folder is ignored by transformers.

    Here's what you can do:
     • If you are trying to use ECMAScript Modules, see https://jestjs.io/docs/ecmascript-modules for how to enable it.
     • If you are trying to use TypeScript, see https://jestjs.io/docs/getting-started#using-typescript
     • To have some of your "node_modules" files transformed, you can specify a custom "transformIgnorePatterns" in your config.
     • If you need a custom transformation specify a "transform" option in your config.
     • If you simply want to mock your non-JS modules (e.g. binary assets) you can stub them out with the "moduleNameMapper" config option.

    You'll find more details and examples of these config options in the docs:
    https://jestjs.io/docs/configuration
    For information about custom transformations, see:
    https://jestjs.io/docs/code-transformation

    Details:

    /Users/test/dev/pm/client/node_modules/spacetime/src/index.js:1
    ({"Object.<anonymous>":function(module,exports,require,__dirname,__filename,jest){import Spacetime from './spacetime.js'
                                                                                ^^^^^^

    SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

       6 | import search from '../../assets/images/search.svg';
       7 | import Dropdown from 'react-bootstrap/Dropdown';
    >  8 | import spacetime from "spacetime";
         | ^
       9 | import languages from "../../libraries/languages/language-list";
      10 | import _ from "lodash";
      11 |

      at Runtime.createScriptFromCode (node_modules/jest-runtime/build/index.js:1728:14)
      at Object.<anonymous> (src/components/Mentor/MentorList.js:8:1)

Here's my package.json
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },

Here's the test
import MentorList from "../MentorList";
import React from "react";
import moment from "moment";
import { shallow } from "enzyme";

const setup = (props = {}) => {
    return sallow(<MentorList {...props} />);
}

describe("MentorList", () => {
    it("renders without error", () => {
        const wrapper = setup();
        expect(wrapper).toMatchSnapshot();
    });
})

What am I doing wrong?
Heres my jest.config.js
    const esModules = ['spacetime'].join('|');

    module.exports = {
        // ...
        transform: {
            [`(${esModules}).+\\.js$`]: 'babel-jest',
            '^.+\\.(ts|js|html)$': 'jest-preset-angular/preprocessor.js',
            "^.+\\.(js|jsx)$": "babel-jest",
            // ...
        },
        transformIgnorePatterns: [`/node_modules/(?!${esModules})`],
        // ...
    };

What am I doing wrong?

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Sununu: White House 'numb and dumb' on jobs report
CNN's Dana Davidsen
(CNN) - As both sides of the aisle put political spin on Friday's job report, outspoken Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu weighed in, calling the White House and advisers' comments on the report "numb and dumb."
"They're numb because they're insensitive to the 25 million people that are unemployed and underemployed. And they're dumb because they're deceptive," the Romney national campaign co-chairman said Friday on CNN's "The Situation Room."
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Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor and chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush, continued, "There were 162,000 jobs created primarily by the artifact of a seasonal adjustment. There were 175,000 fewer people working last month than the month before. These people - if (President Obama) wants to brag about 163,000 phantom new workers, the 152,000 who lost their job are not very happy to hear what Mr. Krueger and the president have to say about trying to spin this as good news."
July's jobs report showed an increase in hiring in the private sector but also an increase in the nation's unemployment rate, which a 10th of a percentage point from 8.2% to 8.3% from last month.
Earlier Friday, Alan Krueger, chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, touted the 172,000 new jobs in the private sector, steering away from the rising unemployment numbers.
Obama followed suit, highlighting the private sector portion of the report in remarks in Washington.
"That means that we've now created 4.5 million new jobs over the last 29 months and 1.1 million new jobs so far this year," Obama said at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Friday. "Those are our neighbors and family members finding work and the security that comes with work."
At a campaign event in Nevada - a state with unemployment numbers above the national average - presumptive GOP presidential nominee Romney said the report was a "hammer blow to struggling middle-class families."
"A lot of people are suffering in this country," Romney said. "I think it's an extraordinary failure of policy, a failure of leadership, and I think it's a moral failure for a country as successful and prosperous as our own to go now four years in a mode which feels to many people as a recession."
Sununu also defended the Republican candidate on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's allegations that an unnamed Bain Capital investor told him that Romney had not been paying taxes. Reid and fellow Democrats have been calling for Romney to release more of his tax returns, suggesting that the wealthy businessman may have something in his financial profile that he wants to hide.
Romney has made public the full 2010 tax return and an estimate for 2011, with a pledge to release the full year once it's complete. He filed an extension for an October deadline, refusing to release further tax documentation.
A loyal Romney aide, Sununu said the political conversation would veer away from distractions like Reid's comments as the public begins to pay more attention to the campaign - a shift that he says will happen about a week or two out from the Republican National Convention in late August.
–CNN's Tom Cohen and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report.
- Check out the CNN Electoral Map and Calculator and game out your own strategy for November.
Filed under: Jobs • John Sununu • Mitt Romney
California Gary
The fact that this particular individual would come out and refer to anyone else as "dumb" is just too funny. If I was in the Romney camp, I would be pushing to dump this guy as quickly as possible.
August 3, 2012 07:47 pm at 7:47 pm |
Mitt Romney's surrogate lap dog John Sununu is such a tough guy !
All sandwich and no Cuban !
fullclarity
And, John, jus what is it you've done to address the American economy? Nothing that's we've seen thus far. so, it's you who's numb and dumb for chairing a candidate whos' being dishonest with the American people. Ask him about what he promised iin the temple and every Sunday when he takes the sacrament. He is not being honest with anyone, least of all himself.
Prove Mr. Reid wrong. That is Romney has to do. Until then, Amnericans don't trust him. For all we know, Romney could be getting money from the Taliban or the Mexican Drug Cartel since his SuperPac funders are also secret. The economy... Obama is one man....is there not 435 people in Congress and how many polticians in each state? So why aren't these politicians producing jobs and showing us their numbers. We have 2 parties.....so half of the jobs problem and the blame of it belongs to the GOP.
w l jones
Strange coming frorm a person who do not know the history of labor in America.
Pander Bear
This from the jackwagon who said "I wish this president would learn how to be an American". Classless conservative.
mjw
The only numb and dumb is Sununu and Romney supporters. Romney is playing all of you for a fool, because he knows you are all so obssessed with getting rid of Barack Obama you will accept and do anything like lap dog. Romney has been as big a disappointment as Sarah Palin and will produce the same result. I have to say rick Santorium was right. Romney is so wrong in every way.
IrvineCAvoter
He's just upset that the number has given the POTUS credit and not the GOPT/Repubs any credit.
Vote Obama/Biden this year America. Romney thinks we're little working class people that don't deserve anything.
vic , nashville ,tn
Do we have to vote for the policy put us in to this mess or slow recovery? Many will pick slow recovery over the policies put us in to this mess
John Sununu doesn't get that
Mokeman
Given the fact that the world economy is in the tank and we are still seeing growth (athough slower than we would have like), I will take Obama any day.
Bill in Florida
I don't think an ugly, fat slob such as Sununu should go around insulting people. He needs to look in the mirror!
Bootstomper
The republican party, the party of sensitivity. Give me a break.
george of the jungle
where did this clown come from all of a sudden. Repos must be worring they keep digging up these old guys to attack the predident Forward 2012 Hey mitt wheres your tax returns??????
jesse james. take them to street and shoot them like the dogs they are
Sununu get your old thefing ass back to the retirement center. Release the tax returns.
As White House Chief of Staff, Sununu reportedly took personal trips, for skiing and other purposes, and classified them as official, for purposes such as conservation or promoting the Thousand Points of Light.. Sununu's jets "took him to fat-cat Republican fund-raisers, ski lodges, golf resorts and even his dentist in Boston.. Sununu had paid the government only $892 for his more than $615,000 worth of military jet travel. , Sununu said that his use of the jets was necessary because he had to be near a telephone at all times for reasons of national security.
Romney / Sununu
True American Fiscal Responsibility 2012
Sununu, of course, is correct – Obama has become such an embarrassment that now even the Kenyans are saying he's from Hawaii.
Sununu thinks alexithymic Mitt's tax evasion problem will go away? NO WAY
then we can start a conversation about how raising middle class taxes to lower taxes on the rich will do anything to move this economy.
Doc_Hollywood
Hey, Sununu, if the government wasn't forced by the republicans to cut public sector jobs, the unemployment rate would more likely be in the 5 to 6 percent range. You guys just can't handle ANY good news can you? I think at night you people sit and pray for companies to lay off people so you can say how bad Obama is. It must really chap your balls that the numbers stay positive, huh?
I know its silly but I couldn't resist.
How much goo does a Sununu spew when a Sunnunu spews out goo?
What a silly man and what silly spin... We all know, the truth is that Democrats know how to create jobs.
Since John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1961, job growth under Democratic presidents has outnumbered that under Republicans by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis. During that period, non-government payrolls grew by almost 42 million jobs under Democratic presidents, compared to 24 million when a Republican party member was in power.
The pattern seems to be holding true under President Obama. During the first three years and two months of his presidency, the country hasn't lost nearly as many jobs as during that same first period of his predecessor, according to an analysis from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. In April, the total number of private sector jobs finally surpassed that which existed when Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Bloomberg Government report.
wonder how much this guy has made on wars and overseas investments
De Odorizer
Sununu put his foot into his less than attractive mouth about a month ago and people made him eat crow.
So, now he comes for seconds. He is still the same guy who used military planes even to get to the dentist to a cost of 695k to the tax payer under Bush I. Look him up in Wikipedia. Even a Tapir shows beauty compared to this....
MakesSense
Sununu – Sue – new' -new. n. An irrelevant politician who runs around in circles, spouting irrational conservative propaganda to an audience usually measuring in the single digits to teens...
Sununu again. Lets wait may be he will try to refrace his statement or retract it entirely. Do you have to use profanity when you are in disagreement with the otherside. Yesterday, Romney told an elderly man to put up or shut up. That is unprofessional for someone who is aspiring to be the leader of the world. Where are the so called christain conservatives. Are you buying into these insults. God will judge iyou f you fail to stand for the truth. Remember abortion is not the only, but lieing is big sin.
He never said that about Bush because Sununu is a scathing Right Wing idiot, like the rest of 'em.


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Chapter 1 – Sky
The clouds gathered beneath the city like foam on the waves of a stormy sea. Arsha stood at the railing, the cold air running over her thickly gloved hands as bright sunlight warmed her face. Her goggles were pushed up over her forehead, the leather strap pulling her hair back. She closed her eyes and listened to the sounds of the city. The creak of the wires, the hollow booming of the wind against the canvas balloons, the soft humming of the lightning crackling through the floatstones.
Sunlight scattered off the myriad windows, off the brass and steel of the railings and support struts. Wind hammered at the wood-panelled walls of the many structures that had been lashed, bolted, and welded together over the years, to form a single vast and labyrinthine mass, suspended high above the clouds.
Ships dotted the skyline around her, fat bellied galleons and trade cogs drifting on the breeze as they waited for permission to dock. Here on the upper decks it was still quiet, the university only barely creaking to life as students slouched towards the first lectures of the day, but down at the docks she knew it would be a riot of activity as ship after ship was unloaded, their cargoes whisked away to the storehouses before filtering up to the shops and cafés of the merchant districts.
She heard the sound of a door closing. Her father's footsteps were slow and solid as he crossed the observation deck towards her.
"I thought I might find you out here."
His hands settled on her shoulders, and he leaned down to plant a kiss on the top of her head. She smiled up at him. He was clean shaven, his hair neatly combed and waxed. That meant he had a meeting today, probably with the dean and the bursars.
"Morning, Daddy. Are they making you sign things?"
"A final review of procedures, for the arch-dean. Just formalities. We'll still be setting off early tomorrow."
"They'd better not try to change anything now. You've been planning this for months."
"They all take months of planning sweetheart, and a lot of paperwork. But it's mostly just saying the same thing in a dozen different ways, so that everyone will agree that you meant it when you said it. Even if you didn't."
"Like, 'I, Professor Rishi Chandra, promise not to do anything incredibly silly or dangerous whilst running around the middle of an uncharted jungle exploring ancient Ur ruins that no one's seen for a thousand years'?"
He laughed.
"Yeah, I've been telling them that one for years."
"But you still make me stay at the camp," she added, scowling. "Taking stupid risks is my prerogative. Keeping you safe is my job. At least until you're sixteen."
"That's not even a year. What difference is a year going to make?"
A look of uncertainty flashed across his face.
"You forgot again, didn't you?" she said, grinning.
Creases lined his face as he squeezed his eyes shut.
"You can't be fifteen already."
"And three months." She stuck her tongue out, laughing at his pained expression. "You got me a holographer, remember?"
"No… That was your fourteenth, surely…"
"Fourteenth was the new sending stone. You had it engraved."
"So," he sighed, "apart from embarrassing your old man, what are your plans for the morning, young lady?"
"I'm supposed to meet Shani after her first lecture, so we can go down and wait for Milima and Abasi at the docks."
"How long before they pull in?"
"About an hour, I think. Look."
She pointed at one of the ships drifting low over the clouds. It was a slender little thing, dwarfed by the trade-ships that surrounded it. A sleek body, with wide canvas wings and two float-stones mounted on outriggers, just above the twin propellers. It was an explorer's vessel, and it was the only place she'd ever really thought of as home. The Triskelion.
"It'll be good to see them again. You remember we've got dinner planned tonight?" he said.
"Meet at the department, six thirty. I remember."
"OK, well, I'll see you there. Now I really should get going. You've had breakfast, right?"
"Go sign your papers, Daddy. Or whatever they want you to do. I bet it's all really boring."
"Crushingly dull." He gave her shoulder a squeeze. Then he was gone, long strides carrying him across the observation deck.
She took one last look at the open sky, and then she followed him inside.
On her way down to the café, Arsha stopped in at the apartment to collect a few things. Their lodgings were on loan from the university, whilst her father and his assistants were staying in Skytower, and in the three months they'd been living there she still hadn't managed to make it feel like any kind of a home. She snatched up her bag from the back of a chair, and was turning to leave when she heard a soft trilling sound from atop the dresser, as Penelope lifted her head from under her wing and shook her feathers out. Mother-of-pearl eyes gleamed under shining silver eyelids as the tiny mechanical bird cocked her head from one side to the other.
"Well come on then," Arsha said, standing impatiently in the doorway. With an almost musical sound of metal wings fluttering, Penelope crossed the short distance to land on Arsha's shoulder, tucking herself up just under the wave of her hair. She reached up to stroke the back of Penelope's head, the little bird twisting to nuzzle her fingertips. Though her metal body gave no heat, Arsha always felt sure there was a spark of warmth when the little autom pressed up against her.
By the time she reached the café where they'd agreed to meet, Shani was already sitting at a table overlooking the concourse. Her long plaits were pulled back in a loose braid today, and she wore a bright green tunic with silver embroidery. Like her mother, Shani had skin the colour of polished ebony, and a smile like sunlight.
"Hey you," she said, as Arsha slipped into the chair across from her. "Ordered you a coffee."
"How was your lecture?" Arsha said, depositing her satchel. As she settled herself, she felt Penelope poking her nose out from under her hair. With a friendly chirp, the little bird dropped down onto the table.
"Ugh. Boring. Markus goes on and on," Shani said, tickling Penny under the chin with the tip of her finger. "Hey, want to see something neat?"
Arsha nodded, and Shani produced a small object from her bag; her sending stone, the crystal a deep amethyst with squared off corners, set in a brass frame.
"This is a new weave I've been working on. You link it to your harmonic, right, and it listens to all of the waves that are playing in your area… And then, you just, you know, whistle or hum a little at it, like, any song you have in your head, and it finds you the wave that's got the closest thing to that. So, you know, whatever kind of music you feel like listening to, it'll find it for you. Come on, grab your stone and I'll swipe it over to you."
"That's really cool," Arsha said, smiling. "But, I don't think I'll be able to use it much. Most of the time we can barely even get the Guild station. I don't think they'll even have that where we're going now."
"Yeah, Tyren's really the middle of nowhere huh? Hey, don't worry, you'll find ways to entertain yourself. Maybe you'll meet some nice Tyren boys, eh?" Shani smiled and gave her a friendly slap on the arm.
For a moment, Arsha tried to return the smile. Then her face fell, and she felt a twisting knot tighten in her stomach.
"It's not going to be the same," she said, miserably. "Not without you. First Elim left, and now you're here studying, and it's just me…"
With a solemn look, Shani gave her hand a gentle squeeze.
"Maybe it's time to think about what your father said. Going to the Guildhall to study. Boarding school could be a lot of fun. I bet there's a bunch of kids there whose parents are explorers or archaeologists just like your dad," Shani said. With a shrug she added "Or captains, like mine. It's not like we're the only ones that habe, like, weird parents and stuff."
"Yeah, I know. It's just… What if I hate it there? What if no one likes me? Or what if I don't make any friends, or I'm no good at my classes, or…"
"None of those things are going to happen. Arsh, you're like one of the nicest people in the world, and you're smart, and you're fun, and I love hanging out with you. My friends all think you're awesome. Do you have any idea how crazy that is? University students are not normally impressed by fifteen year old girls."
Arsha felt her cheeks tingle, and for a moment she had to pretend to scan the concourse as a smile crept across her lips. At that moment a waitress arrived with their order. Arsha was blowing the steam off her coffee when Shani's sending stone chimed. She waved a hand over the crystal, and the message flickered into view, suspended over the surface in faintly glowing letters of light.
"Oh, hey, that's Mum and Dad. Someone missed a slot, so now they're pulling in to dock already. Come on, we gotta go."
They drank their coffees quickly, wincing at scalded tongues, and snatched up their bags.
"Come on," Arsha waved at Penny as they set off. The little bird swept into the air, gliding over their heads as they walked.
Once they left the brightly lit concourse, the corridors of Skytower grew tighter and darker, ceilings low and crowded. Arsha had to coax Penny back down onto her shoulder for fear that she wouldn't have room to fly. They made their way down a creaking old stairwell, and emerged into the bustling chaos of the docks. Arsha breathed in the mingled scent of oil, smoke, and canvas wax. Keeping to the upper catwalks, they watched as the dockers worked the level below, carts laden with crates and barrels being hauled by broad shouldered men and women in grease stained overalls.
Eventually the girls found their way to the dock where the Triskelion was pulling in. Through the tall windows that ringed the catwalk she could easily see the ship ahead of them, floatstones still dancing with energy, even as the propellers were slowly coming to rest. She could almost hear the the canvas snapping in the wind.
"Hey, hold up," Arsha said, pausing to reach into her bag. She pulled out her holographer and raised the viewfinder to her eye. Gently squeezing the capture, she froze a few stills of the Triskelion in the dock.
"Are you done playing with that that thing yet?" Shani laughed, as Arsha tucked the holo away in her bag again.
They made their way down a small stairwell, and through a heavy door that lead them out onto the pier. As they stepped outside, the wind struck them both like a hammer. Arsha pulled her goggles down, and watched as Shani produced a scarf from her bag.
The Triskelion's deck was long and flat, save for the vast form of the conning tower that rose up over the aft. The bridge had a curved window across its entire front, giving a clear view over the deck. Just below, at the base of the tower, was the heavy iron hatchway that lead inside. As they crossed the deck, Arsha saw the hatch swing wide as two figures emerged. With a sudden thought, she pulled out the holo from her bag again and caught a quick still of Abasi and Milima as they were stepping out onto the deck.
"Seven Names Arsha, did you really have to?" Milima called out to her, laughing as the wind whipped around her. Abasi heaved the door to and turned just in time, as Shani flung her arms around the both of them. Arsha caught a few more quick stills, as the couple embraced their daughter. Then the three of them were strolling towards her, Shani clinging to her parents arms as she walked between them.
"Hey you," Abasi said, his voice booming like thunder as he threw an arm around her. She squeezed her arms around his rotund waist, and pressed her face to his chest as the man towered over her.
"Uncle Abasi. How was your trip?"
"Long," Milima said, peeling Arsha away from her husband, and pulling her into a fierce embrace. Milima smelled of cinnamon and nutmeg, a sure sign that there was a fresh load of pastries and cakes waiting aboard the ship.
"So, listen, we've got dinner at seven," Shani said, "Arsha's dad booked some super fancy place in Upper East. What do you guys want to do to kill time until then?"
"Oh I don't know dear. Whatever you like," Milima replied.
"Is Liam going to be joining us at all?" Abasi added, with a curiously hopeful look.
"Ugh, no." Shani made a face. "Liam and I, uh… We kind of split. Look, it's a really long story."
"Oh sweetheart," Milima said, putting an arm around her daughter. "If you want to talk about it we could find somewhere quiet…"
"Maybe later." Shani smiled, and patted her mother's arm. "Come on, let's head up."
Arsha trailed behind a little as they walked, listening to the conversation as Penelope chirped happily in her ear.
The day passed in a gentle haze of shops and cafés, as Abasi and Milima caught up on Shani's life at the university, and filled the girls in on what they'd been doing. In the three months since dropping off Arsha and her father at Skytower, Abasi and Milima had been travelling all across the Guildlands and beyond, gathering items that her father had needed from various far flung outposts. It wasn't especially exciting, but after months cooped up in one place, Arsha envied them. She missed the Triskelion, and her cosy little cabin.
As six o'clock rolled around, Abasi and Milima made their way back to the ship, to change into something suitable. Shani made her excuses likewise, and Arsha found herself walking alone back to the apartments. She was trying on a matching deep blue salwar and kameez when her father knocked and poked his head in through the door.
"Hey Daddy," she said, "is this OK for tonight?"
"You look perfect, love," he said.
She pulled a face.
"You always say that. It doesn't help if you always say it."
"Listen, I've got one more errand to run. Can you wait down at the department for me? Micah and Ilona will be there already."
"And you do look perfect. Just like always."
She felt a tingling in her cheeks, even as she rolled her eyes at him.
"Alright, I'm going," he said.
After picking out a gold shawl from her wardrobe, Arsha settled Penelope on her shoulder again, and set off down the avenue. At a doorway with a brass plate that read 'Department of Exploration and Archaeology' she knocked politely, and a grey haired porter let her in with a smile.
She made her way through the twisting maze of corridors, finally stepping through a set of double doors that lead into the lab. Long worktables lined the room, nearly every inch of them now covered in neat stacks and rows of equipment. Tools were laid out and labelled by size, stacks of supplies had neat little tags indicating type and quantity, and more still were already being packed away into crates filled with straw. Piles of loose equipment, as yet unsorted, dotted the floor throughout the room.
Ilona sat to one side on a wooden stool, with a notepad resting in her lap. The woman was wearing a black dress with silver trim, cut in the Novarsi style that she preferred. Her pale blonde hair was pulled up into a tight bun, revealing the delicate sharpness of her features, the paleness of her skin standing sharp against the black satin. The woman was staring at her notes intently, and didn't seem to even notice when Arsha entered the room.
Sat between two benches, crossed legged on the floor, Micah was slowly untangling a small mountain of climbing rope. His dark hair was tied back in a pony-tail and his shirt sleeves were rolled up. One braided forelock had been woven with a handful of coloured beads. He turned at the sound of the door, and whistled when he set eyes on her.
"Hey there little bear," Micah said with a broad grin. "You look exceptionally pretty today."
She smiled, and propped herself up on one of the benches.
"Dad got you working late?"
Micah shrugged, broad shoulders moving expressively.
"Gotta get done. We're still pitching to set off early tomorrow if we can."
"You're not going to change?"
"We'll catch up and meet you guys at the restaurant. Or something. Honestly I'm just glad we're finally going to be out there doing something again. I gotta tell you, girl, I am literally losing my mind cooped up here behind all these books."
"Goodness, it's almost like assisting a Professor of Archaeology involves more than just knowing how to fold a rope. How terrible for you," Ilona said. Her tone was sharp, but Arsha had seen the two of them argue often enough to expect that. She'd never really quite understood the way Micah and Ilona were with each other, but the fact remained that no amount of bickering and sniping had ever seemed to keep the two from remaining friends. Or, something like friends. She wasn't really sure if she knew exactly what to call it.
Hefting a coil of rope, Micah just shook his head, sadly.
"I swear you and Rishi live behind those books of yours. You're like a fated match, the two of you. When you going to admit it and just tie the knot already?"
Ilona's eyes narrowed, just a little, but the woman said nothing.
"What do you say Arsha?" Micah continued, ruffling her hair as he walked past, "How'd you like to have Ilona for your new mum?"
"Fates, you are such an ass," Ilona snarled. "Talking about her mother like that…"
"Hey, hey, OK. I'm sorry," Micah said, throwing up his hands in a gesture of surrender as Ilona scowled at him.
"It's OK. It really doesn't bother me," Arsha said. "I mean, I never knew her, so it's not really like I can miss her or anything."
She did her best to sound unconcerned, but an uneasy silence still fell over the room. It was always awkward, the way people were so wary of discussing a woman she'd never even met. She supposed it must have been different for people who'd had a mother and a father, but all she'd ever known was growing up with her dad. She'd spent so much of her life aboard the Triskelion that she'd never really been lonely. There had always been Micah to give her piggy-back rides around the deck, or Milima to read her a bed-time story and stroke her hair as she drifted off to sleep. She'd explored every inch of their floating home playing hide and seek with Elim and Shani, crawling through hatchways and hidden nooks until their parents went mad trying to find them. All of the crew had become her family in their own ways.
The silence ticked on. Ilona's eyes were fixed on her notes again, as Micah went back to counting off carabiners. Arsha was still wondering if she should say something when the door swung open and Shani swept in. Arsha found herself momentarily dazed by the sight of the older girl, looking gorgeous in a flowing gown of green and gold, with a brooch at her neck.
"Hey sweetie." Shani smiled at her. "You look stunning."
Arsha looked away, feeling her cheeks tingling again.
"Our parents are waiting outside, if you're ready to go," Shani added. "Oh, hey, Micah, I have got to show you this."
As Shani danced across to where Micah was sitting, Arsha got up and began to make her way outside. At the entrance to the lobby, she paused. Milima and Abasi were standing alone together in the empty lobby. Milima's face was upturned, Abasi's hand resting lightly on the back of her neck as her husband's lips met hers.
Arsha coughed. Giggling, Milima took a step back, nodding in her direction.
"Hello again, trouble," Abasi growled, smiling.
Arsha just smirked at him, and stuck her tongue out.
"Your father's outside, love," Milima said. "Had to take an urgent sending all of a sudden. I don't suppose you know where Shani got to?"
"Showing off one of her new toys to Micah, so, I don't know, they'll probably only be all night," Arsha replied.
Abasi sighed, and rolled his eyes.
"Why did I ever let that girl near one of those stones in the first place?"
"Oh I don't know dear," Milima replied, patting his arm, "perhaps because your daughter is doing something she's incredibly passionate about, and can probably make a very successful career out of?"
Abasi just rolled his eyes again. Moments later, Shani glided into the lobby, Micah and Ilona following close behind her. Micah was talking whilst Ilona listened with pursed lips, in what Arsha recognised as their version of an animated conversation.
Shani glanced around the room at everyone.
"So, are we just waiting for the esteemed professor?" she said. Almost on cue, the outside door opened, and Arsha's father walked in.
She sensed the change in him as soon as he stepped through the door. It was in his eyes, in the way he walked, in the way his hands moved at his sides, as if he wasn't entirely sure what to do with them. The others sensed it too, and for a moment no one spoke.
"Rishi, what's wrong?" Abasi said, breaking the silence.
"Nothing's wrong, Abasi, it's just…" He pushed a hand through his hair, seemingly not for the first time. "Something's come up." He paused. "How quickly can you plot us a new course?"
"Well," Abasi said, speaking with an almost exaggerated caution, "that depends on where we'd be sailing to."
"It's…" He paused again, as if unsure how much he could say. "It's beyond the Veil. A city called 'London'. We have to set sail as soon as possible."
"Rishi, come on now, what's wrong?" Milima stepped forward to lay a hand on his arm. "All these plans we've been making…"
"Yes, I know. I'll explain things to the dean tonight. As best I can, anyway."
"But why? What in the world could be so important that you need to abandon everything you've been working for this last year? What is this about?"
"Milima, you know I wouldn't ask, not unless it was absolutely necessary."
"So we just have to trust you?" Milima scowled.
For a moment, Milima said nothing, her eyes fixed on his. Then she gave a nod.
"I'll have the ship ready by daybreak," Abasi said.
The argument apparently settled, her father turned to look at Micah and Ilona, both of whom had been watching everything keenly, but without saying a word.
"I'm so sorry about this. I'll have arrangements made for both of you to stay here at Skytower. Or, I can pay for passage if there's somewhere else you'd like to be."
Ilona's sharp features pulled back into an angry sneer.
"You absolutely must be joking," she snarled. Her father's eyes creased with sadness.
"I really am so sorry. This situation…"
"Professor, I think what 'Lona's trying to say," Micah interjected, "is that we really don't give a rat's arse what the situation is. We're not sitting this one out just because the plans have changed. I know how much this expedition meant to you. Whatever this thing is that's come up, it's obviously pretty damn important."
"You feel the same, I take it?" her father said, looking at Ilona. The woman inclined her head, ever so slightly.
"Well, thank you, both of you," he said. Micah raised his hands in an easy-going gesture.
"You did promise me we'd get to travel. I've never been past the Veil before."
Despite his outward calm, Arsha had known Micah long enough to recognise the nervousness in the man's eyes. That same nervousness was lurking behind every face in the room, a tension crackling in the air, as her father excused himself and stalked away, his shoulders hunched over as his coat flapped around his heels. Arsha felt Shani's hand enclosing hers, a gentle, reassuring pressure as the woman smiled at her, a little sadly. Neither of them seemed to have any idea what to say.
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China & Vatican exchange medical supplies
April 4, 2020 Editor	1 Comment
by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
During the so-called Corona pandemic, the Vatican and China have engaged in a curious exchange of medical supplies.
According to reports, the Vatican sent 700,000 medical masks to China. According to Asianews.it this shipment was sent in February, and a tenth of those masks were designated for the people of the Wenzhou Diocese, which is governed by a Catholic Bishop, not by a government-approved bishop, Mons. Peter Shao Zhumin, who was nominated by Pope Benedict XVI and consecrated in 2011.
IlFattoQuotidiano.it, however, reports that the medical masks were shipped to China by the Vatican Pharmacy, but were donated by the Chinese Catholics of Italy. The collection began on January 27. They were shipped from Fumicino Airport, here in Rome, bearing the seal of the Papal Almsgiver.
The need for the shipment was not clear, since according to Il Fatto Quotidiano, more than 50% of all medical masks manufactured in the world, are made in China.
Mons. Peter Shao Zhumin, then called upon the faithful of his diocese to return the favor. This was also done in many dioceses throughout the People's Republic of China and in Hong Kong. You can see a photograph of him in the Featured Image of this article. Bishop Shao Zhumin is 57 years of age.
Then, on April 1, there arrived from China, 100,000 medical masks, according to AgenSir.it. The Catholic Charity organizing the shipment is Jinde Charities (Ed. Note: Warning, this link goes to a server in the PRC), founded by Father John Baptist Zhan.
Fides.org is reporting that the value of the masks and equipment sent from China, by Jinde Charities, amounted to 450,000 Euros. The shipment which was sent from China to Milan, by plane, was stored in the warehouses of Caritas Ambrosiana, at Milan, before being distributed to hospitals in Italy and the Vatican.
The material sent from China is described by Fides.org as the following: 10, 000 masks (model N95), another 500,000 disposable masks, 27,000 surgical gloves, 8,000 coveralls and 6,000 protective glasses.
Fides.org also reports, in the same article, that earlier this year, the Vatican donated 200,000 Euros to China to help with the Corona epidemic and did this through the same charity, Jinde Charities, which is now sending medical supplies to the Vatican.
However, Avvenire.it, the official daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference is saying that this 200,000 euros was sent to various organs of the Catholic Church in China.
But LaStampa.it says, rather, the Vatican sent $100,000 USD, before Christmas, the payment being made to Jinde Charities by the Vatican Department for Integral Human Development, but destined for the poor of mountainous regions of Hebei and Guizhou provinces. In passing, La Stampa also reveals that Jinde Charities in 2017 held a fundraiser at the Cathedral of the Patriotic Church in Peking, which was attended by many political organizations of the Marxist government. La Stampa's report glories in the collaboration of the Vatican with the Marxist government.
How the Chinese government can be so bitterly persecuting the Church in China but allowing Catholic charities to operate and engage in such large scale shipments, is not clear. It is also not clear whether the entities in China accept or not the Vatican-China accord which illegitimately subjected the Church in China to the governmental authorities demands: an accord which is, till this day, secret, and not even revealed to Cardinal Zen, as to its precise terms.
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Class of '65 celebrates Clemson ties, generosity
September 4, 2015 / in Lifelong Tigers / 0 Comments / by: Kenneth Scar
Fifty years after they walked the stage to receive their diplomas, nearly 100 alumni from the Class of 1965 presented the school a check for $1,227,872 to help future students do the same.
The group gathered near the Class of 1965 sidewalk — a shady path that cuts under the lush oak trees of Fort Hill — to celebrate their Golden Tiger Reunion and present the check to President James P. Clements.
Clements praised the group for their initiative and dedication.
"We cannot thank you enough for establishing this scholarship fund to help students have the same great Clemson experience that you all had,"
he said. "I am so grateful for your forward thinking that will help students for generations to come."
The Class of 1965 Scholarship Endowment was established in 1989. It made the class one of the first to establish a scholarship in conjunction with its 25th reunion. The class members' goal was to get the endowment to at least $25,000 by their 25th reunion, and they far exceeded that goal with $43,000 by the time they gathered to celebrate.
The endowment has been growing and regularly providing support for Clemson students ever since.
Rising senior Kaci Bennett, a recipient of Class of 1965 scholarships three years in a row, took the podium to thank them for their generosity.
"I am so excited and incredibly honored to be able to thank each and every one of you for this generous gift," she said. "As an out-of-state student, part of the reason I chose to go to Clemson was because of the feeling of the Clemson Family. Seeing all of you here today shows me how strong the Clemson Family is."
"When we started planning our 50th reunion, we decided to put our focus on building our scholarship endowment to a truly significant level," said Gary Faulkenberry of the 50th reunion planning committee. "We reflected on the many years and the many ways that we have benefited from the education that we received at Clemson. Clemson did not just teach us how to make a living, it also prepared us to make a life. In gratitude for that, we decided that we would use this opportunity — our golden anniversary — to make a lasting impression of our own for future Clemson students."
Their endowment will do just that, said Clements.
"At the end of this ceremony, you will take a walk down your senior class sidewalk where you will see your names etched into the pavement," he said. "But, because of your scholarship endowment, the legacy you are leaving behind is much bigger than that. Your legacy is represented by each of the students who benefit from your generosity."
The contribution to the endowment is part of the Will to Lead for Clemson capital campaign to raise $1 billion to support Clemson students and faculty with scholarships, professorships, facilities, technology and enhanced opportunities for learning and research. Including the endowment, the class has given a total of $15,122,050 to Clemson initiatives.
While the Class of '65 was celebrating their 50th, alumni from classes ranging from 1939 to 1967 made it the largest reunion in 10 years.
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With Two Months To Go, a Steady Presidential Race
These last two weeks provided Pres. Trump the best opportunity to change the trajectory of this race. His GOP convention offered a rosy (and inaccurate) portrayal of a president who effectively tackled the coronavirus pandemic. Both during and since the convention, Republicans and the president have focused intensely on the unrest in Kenosha, arguing that it was a snapshot into what the country would look like with Joe Biden in the White House.
Pollsters and strategists we spoke with over the last couple weeks of August — Republican and Democrat — told us that that didn't see much, if any, real changes taking place in voter perceptions of the election.
This week, a slew of new, high-quality polls out this week confirmed their off-record observations: Biden continues to hold a steady lead over President Trump.
Post-convention national polls from Quinnipiac, Suffolk/USA Today, CNN and Selzer & Company show Biden ahead of Trump by 7-10 points. The FiveThirtyEight model, which incorporates a larger universe of polls, puts Biden's lead at 7.4 percent. That's not much different from Biden's pre-convention lead in early August of 8.3 percent.
Battleground state polling from Monmouth, Quinnipiac and Fox News find Trump trailing. More importantly, these polls show the president stuck in the low-to-mid 40 percent range.
As I've written for a while now, the margin between Biden and Trump is less instructive than the vote share that Trump is getting. For example, a Monmouth poll out this week found Biden's lead over Trump in Pennsylvania had narrowed from seven points in July (51-44 percent) to four points (49 to 45 percent.) A poll out from Quinnipiac this week showed Biden leading Trump by a more robust eight-point margin (52-44 percent) in the Keystone State. While the margins may be different, or have changed, one thing has remained constant: Trump has not been able to improve his share of the vote. He remains stuck at 44/45 percent of the vote. Pennsylvania is one of six states that Trump carried with less than 50 percent of the vote back in 2016. The fact that Trump continues to poll in the mid-40's suggests that his 48 percent showing here in 2016 is his ceiling. That was enough to win the state when third party candidates combined for four points. This year, he can't count on third-party candidates siphoning away that vote.
The Good News/Bad News For Trump
First, the good news for the president: he's not trailing as badly as he was back in July and August. On July 1, the FiveThirtyEight model put Biden's lead at almost 10 points (9.5 percent). On August 1, Biden's lead was 8.3 percent.
Trailing your opponent by seven points just two months out from an election is less than ideal for an incumbent president. But, at least Trump is no longer in free fall. That's good news as well for the House and Senate candidates — in traditionally red areas who were watching their own races tighten with Trump's summer plunge.
The question going forward is if this trend line toward a more competitive national contest will continue (Trump trailed Biden by a more modest 4 points in the FiveThirtyEight model in early March), or if the race has plateaued at Biden +7/+8.
What The National Polls Can Tell Us
Understandably, many folks are wary of relying on national polls to give us an accurate picture of the race. After all, Clinton's 2.1 percent national margin was good for only 227 electoral college votes.
We also know that the country is as polarized as ever, making national polling less reflective of individual state outcomes.
For example, in 1988, George HW Bush beat Michael Dukakis by seven points; basically, the same margin the race sits today. That margin netted Bush 426 Electoral College votes. But, in 1996, Bill Clinton's eight point popular vote win over Bob Dole netted him 47 fewer electoral votes than Bush got just eight years earlier. Barack Obama's 7-point margin in 2008 got him 365 electoral votes — 14 fewer than Clinton received in 1996.
At the same time, high-quality national polls are more consistently fielded than high-quality state polls. And, for all the criticism of polling in the 2016 election, the national polls were also the most accurate.
As such, the best way to think of the national polls is that they can help get us in the right neighborhood, but not necessarily to the correct address. The bigger the margin for Biden, the less important that we get the exact address. For example, a seven or eight-point margin may not be enough to put Georgia or Texas into Biden's column. But, it's enough to get him the states he needs to hit 270. The closer the margin is to four points (like we saw back in March), the less helpful the national polls become. And, the more we should just assume a close contest for the Electoral College.


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Sara Tolbert: Sara's research is focused on broadening participation in the sciences, technology, and engineering as well as supporting youth and teachers to engage social justice and sustainability issues in science teaching and learning. Sara also draws on Indigenous ethics, feminist studies and science-technology-studies (STS) to theorise (or re/imagine) possibilities for radical equality and multispecies justice in/through science and education.
Angus Macfarlane: Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane affiliates to the Ngāti Whakaue tribe in the north island. His research focuses on exploring Indigenous and sociocultural imperatives that influence education and psychology. Dr Macfarlane's prolific publication portfolio and exemplary teaching abilities have earned him national and international standing in his field of scholarship. In 2010 he received the Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research for outstanding contributions to Māori research. In 2013 he was awarded the University of Canterbury Research Medal – the first ever Māori recipient and the highest honor that the UC Council can extend to its academic staff – acknowledging sustained research excellence.
Kathryn MacCallum: Kathryn MacCallum is an Associate Professor of Digital Education Futures within the School of Educational Studies and Leadership at the University of Canterbury, NZ. Kathryn's research has centered around exploring how technology can be effectively used to support teaching and learning. She has been involved in a number of research projects, both in New Zealand and Internationally, developing innovative approaches to the integration of technology within all sectors of education. She has authored over 40 articles on this topic, and also serves as Editor in Chief for a number of international journals focusing on education technology.
Billy O'Steen: Billy is interested in the effects and impacts that educational experiences have on learners and then determining how to make them more effective. As much of his research occurs outside the classroom, he is especially focused on looking at the individual components of field experiences and linking those to the course learning outcomes, the UC Graduate Profile attributes, and the UC vision of tangata tū, tangata ora – people prepared to make a difference.
David Pomeroy: David uses approaches from sociology and gender studies to examine the relationship between who we are (in particular our social class, ethnicity, and gender) and which school subjects we like and do well in. As a former secondary mathematics teacher, he is especially interested in educational inequalities in mathematics learning. Where do these inequalities come from and what can be done about them? He is starting to explore the role of educational policies in tackling educational inequalities.
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Brandy Alger (Quake Core): Quake Centre and Quake Core outreach program co-ordinator Brandy Alger uses her passion for engineering to develop a series of exciting community initiatives, as part of her role.
Simon Hoerman (School of Product Design): Simon's research focus is to understand how technology like Virtual and Mixed Reality and game elements can influence user experience and support healthy and people with disabilities in achieving their full potential. Simon's area of expertise is virtual reality technology for health and wellbeing applications. It is an interest that has taken him a long way from his undergrad years studying applied computer science at the University of Bozen, in Italy. Simon is currently involved in a number of research projects on virtual reality and games design for health and training interventions. This includes how to use virtual reality technology to help people with eating disorders, a social skill training game for deaf and hard-to-hear children, a training simulator for aerial firefighting, and a virtual reality smoking cessation game, to name a few.
Tom Logan: Tom's research is focused on transforming how we design and realize our cities in the face of climate change. His research lies at the intersection of urban and civil systems, risk analysis and uncertainty, and resilience and adaptation to a changing climate. Tom was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and his prior research investigated modeling sustainable cities.
Tim Bell: Tim's research interests include computer science education, compression, and computers, and music. Tim is interested in innovative projects such as Computer Science Unplugged which is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.
Rob Lindeman (HIT Lab NZ): Rob's research focuses on virtual Reality (VR) and involves immersing people in digital worlds. I am interested in supporting effective use of VR for entertainment, work, tourism, and other areas that enhance the user experience. He uses a holistic approach tohis research because this better matches how people sense in the real world – balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each sensory system to make sense of the world.
Heide Lukosch (HIT Lab NZ): With her research, Heide aims to understand how applied immersive games , games that have a specific purpose such as training and learning, and use immersive technologies such as virtual or augmented reality for this, have to be designed and used in order to achieve the intended effect.
Ben Kennedy: Ben's main areas of research are understanding why volcanoes erupt and what are the best ways to learn and teach about planet Earth. The research questions that he works on are sourced from the needs of society relating to education and hazard awareness, but also an insatiable curiosity and sense of fun and adventure. Some fun projects he is currently involved in include researching how students learn on virtual and real field trips, developing online tools for digital storytelling around volcanic hazards, earthquake experiments to shake magma, and understand links with volcanic eruptions among others.
David Conradson: David's research is concerned with community welfare and well-being in western societies and shaped by work in psychology and psychotherapy, community and public health, and by interdisciplinary scholarship on emotion and affect. A number of his current projects are connected to recovery after the Canterbury earthquakes.Some of his research projects include: shaping Places / Future Neighborhoods (NSC11 Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities) and transforming geographical education: learning for Earth futures etc.
Kate Pedley: Kate's active involvement with Geoscience Education research is part of her full-time teaching role. This includes the use of electronic learning media, learning analytics, and curriculum innovations, particularly in response to a disaster scenario, but with wider applications. Some of her research interests include: Marine Geology & Geophysics; Geoscience Education; Active Geomorphology & Tectonics; Geological Mapping; Subduction processes and seafloor response and Structural Geology.
Tim Stahl: Tim studies how faults deform the Earth and lead to the uplift of mountains, as well as all the surface processes that occur in the million year interim and is interested in Innovative ways of Teaching about Geology. Likewise, I am interested in processes that occur over the timescale of a single earthquake to many millions of years. His work involves a broad range of survey, mapping, geochronology, and modelling techniques to quantify rates and styles of faulting.
Peyman Zawar-Reza: Peyman's research centers around air pollution, boundary layer meteorology, climatology. More specifically he is interested in mesoscale numerical modeling and computational physics; regional climate modelling and Earth Systems science. He uses computer models to study the effects of wind movement on pollution. His work looks at the effect of weather on air pollution and how, in turn, that air pollution affects people's health.
Jonathan Davidson: Jonathan's research interests centres around how rock properties changes in space, especially in areas where rocks have been intensly deformed. He is also interested in understanding how student learn about the earth effectively. He is excited about the prospect that new technologies bring that allow of to virtually transport students to exciting location, immersing them in a situation that they might find themselves in during their professional careers. Some of his broad research interestes include: structure of Geothermal Fields; earth Science Education; radon in soil gas; physical properties of rocks; crustal stress.
Heather Purdie: Heather's research espertise is in the field of glaciology, specifically glacier mass balance, dynamics, and climate change, with a focus on mountain glaciers in Te Tiritiri-o-te-moana, the New Zealand Southern Alps. She is also interested in interactions and feedbacks between all aspects of glacier mass balance from snow accumulation processes to ablation processes, including the role of avalanche nourishment to glacier resilience.
Matt Walters: Matt's interests are in the areas of Science Communication, Science Outreach, and Scientific Photography. Matt has developed range of Biology outreach modules to primary and secondary schools. He has extensive experience in designing figures for scientific publications to effectively communicate complex scientific information within the constraints of journal guidelines.
Jack Heineman: Jack's research interests include the genetics and molecular biology of bacteria, phage and some single-celled eukaryotic microorganisms, horizontal gene transfer, particularly conjugation, effects of stress, particularly induced by antibiotics and agrichemicals, evolution and risk assessment, and biology education research. Specific interests are the biochemical and genetic characterization of antibiotic resistance causation.
Giulio Dalla Riva: As a data scientist Giulio is interested in exploring and understanding of complex, dynamical networks. He is interested in ecological networks and the evolutionary processes that modify them in time; in particular I develop mathematical and statistical tools to study the relationship between ecological biodiversity and evolutionary diversity. He is also interested in Social Networks, especially online.
Ed Challies: Ed is interested in understanding how communities and groups collectively decide on the distribution of environmental goods and bads in society. This entails examining a variety of processes and arrangements for participatory and collaborative environmental governance, with a view to understanding the extent to which they are (a) effective in terms of securing or advancing social and environmental sustainability, and (b) democratically legitimate in terms of procedural and distributional justice. He is interested in collaborative environmental governance in diverse settings, and across scales, from the governance of global flows and networks, to grassroots community initiatives and local projects.
Michelle La Rue: Michelle focuses on interdisciplinary tools, such as GIS and high-resolution satellite imagery, to study spatial and population dynamics of penguins, seals, & cougars – species facing substantial conservation challenges as both the physical and social environments change across the world. In 2007 she started out as the GIS lead for the Polar Geospatial Center and eventually pursued a PhD. in Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on using high-resolution satellite imagery to learn about the ecology of polar animals: emperor penguins, Adélie penguins, Weddell seals, and even polar bears and muskoxen.
Michele Bannister: As a planetary astronomer, Michele is interested in understanding how planets formed, evolved and reached their present orbits. She uses wide-field imaging surveys to discover minor planets, and large telescopes to understand their surfaces. Some of her research interests include: mapping & characterising minor planet populations throughout the Solar System, interstellar objects and their Galactic population; formation and evolution of planetary systems; spacecraft missions for planetary exploration and science communication and public awareness of science
Travis Horton: Travis's research focuses on stable isotope geochemistry and biogeochemistry, interactions among the different spheres of the earth system, and relationships among tectonic, topographic, and climatic processes and conditions. Travis has championed the establishment of a new paradigm for animal navigation: a data based framework that includes both spatial and temporal cues for orientation. This entirely natural system of navigation allows whales (and other animals) to find and follow identical migration routes at distinctly different Julian calendar dates and times during the most awe-inspiring of animal movements. Travis looks forward to applying this mechanistic understanding of animal navigation to the development of predictive models of animal movement for conservation purposes and satellite-free global positioning systems.
Learning Evaluation & Academic Development
Erik Brogt: Erik's main research interest is the application of educational psychology to teaching and learning in university settings. Erik examines the interplay between instructors, students, the curriculum and the setting (both physical and mental) in which the teaching and learning is taking place. He is also interested in adaptations and optimizations of generic good teaching practice strategies to a given classroom situation to fit the local sociodynamics. As an academic developer, he works closely with other academic staff to support their teaching practices, curriculum and assessment development, and discipline-based higher education research efforts.


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The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has raised concerns about the government's post-Brexit plans for EU Block Exemption Regulations.
Research from the IMI has found that an estimated 40,000 independent businesses could lose access to information and data needed to repair vehicles on the road today if government fail to guarantee continuation of the 'Right to Repair' scheme post Brexit.
The professional body says it could have massive repercussions for independents if this key content of the EU Block Exemption Regulation is not protected by government. The current EU Regulation means all manufacturers are obliged to share information on all new cars, which secures a fair market for independent businesses to operate in.
Steve Nash, chief executive at the IMI, said, 'The developments in new technology has already begun hitting the most vulnerable area of the industry so without the Block Exemption Regulation in place their will be catastrophic consequences for the independents that make up 80% businesses engaged in servicing and repairing motor vehicles in UK.
The IMI also claims that employers in the automotive sector face further uncertainty with new immigration laws potentially excluding nearly 10% of multi-national employees.


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