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Degrassi Promos: Sparks Will Fly Pt. 2
Kary on April 15, 2014
Sparks Will Fly Pt. 2 will air on Tuesday, April 22nd at 9pm EST. It will be the final episode of 13C before Degrassi goes on hiatus.
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dollface100 April 16, 2014 at 3:51 am
OMG CLARE AND DREW ARE GOING TOO KISS THIS MAKES ME FAN GIRL RIGHT NOW WE WAITED LONG ENOUGH WE FINALLY HAVE CLEW BABY!!!!!!!!
Jessica H-M. April 16, 2014 at 10:15 am
Okay, if Miles really, really wants to lose Maya – he's walking the right way to do it, the idiot. This is kind of what I was talking about a few weeks ago – Miles is Mr. Revenge. He can't just let things go or be the bigger man. Yes – Zig and Tiny beat the snot out of him, obviously – but what he's about to do is so much worse, even if the gun is a fake. And the behavior of both Zig and Miles continues to make me believe that Maya is going to end up alone – cause if I was her – I wouldn't choose either of the guys at this point, based solely on their behavior.
lyz April 16, 2014 at 1:32 pm
Miles is gonna end up in therapy. He needs help for his constant need to get revenge/lashing out at people.
Anon April 17, 2014 at 12:12 pm
I /hope/ Maya ends up alone. I'm so tired of this show pairing up girls one after another with guys. It's OK to be single, to work on your own issues and needs without a "Prince Charming."
pocksuppet April 17, 2014 at 12:48 pm
THIS! And it applies even more to Alli.
I do have to admit that I would be less annoyed if Maya wasn't the new Emma/Clare type. The writers really need to stop worshiping those types of characters. They aren't that amazing!
Olivia April 16, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Part of me wanted Clare and Eli to work out SO badly. I feel like Eli cheating on Clare was so out of character, but I guess we all have those moments where we stop thinking about our actions and just start acting them out. It sucks how much their characters drifted apart because they had such a strong chemistry; for me they are one of the most believable couples Degrassi has produced. I loved watching their relationship grow; from the moment Eli drove over her glasses, to the night when Clare lost her virginity to Eli (although I like to think they lost their virginity to one another since we never find out Eli's virginity status.) Just goes to show, sex is the imminent doom for a relationship on Degrassi. RIP Eclare. </3
JK apparently Eli and Julia were sexually active. Whatever, I'm still gonna pretend.
just another April 16, 2014 at 9:19 pm
Maya should end up alone- her behavior causing a bunch of problems. Maya has become so damn stupid. The way she's treating Miles is just ludicrous. It's simply unreasonable to expect someone you care about to put up with her kind of shit. It's really unfair to expect Miles to be "the bigger man" when Zig has a habit of ruthlessly instigating people.
I'm sick of Eli showing up every time there's a chance for Clew to progress. This will be the third time now that the guy whose main issue is never being around is going to suddenly pop up when Clew could be busy getting down.
Zig is an ass. Eli is an ass. Maya is a dumbass. Zoe is trying to give herself PTSD or something. I don't know, everyone on this show seems crazy right now.
Tiffani April 16, 2014 at 11:22 pm
hahahahaha i love this
Dan April 17, 2014 at 3:14 am
hahaha well said man! I can't wait for Clew too! And I liked Maya and Campbell in season 12. But now she's such a dumb bubblehead.
You hit the nail right on the head here. I think what these episodes are really driving home is that when a relationship/boys are causing you more harm than good, you're probably better off dealing with your own issues and needs. Maya clearly needs time to herself if she can't sort out her feelings for Zig and Miles; she needs to knock it off with these dumbs mind games. Clare needs to dump Eli's cheating ass and go masturbate and relieve her sexual frustration before she hops on over to Drew.
Caroline April 18, 2014 at 11:57 pm
Time to bring out Spike's vibrator!
Angelina April 23, 2014 at 11:32 pm
XD lmaoo this is by far the most accurate comment…you have read my mind.
carly April 16, 2014 at 11:12 pm
i love miles but if he wants to stay with maya he should be the bigger person gosh he can be so stupid some times
Hailee April 17, 2014 at 12:09 am
Sometimes I wonder why they didn't have all the guys falling for Zoe. I mean, it's different now after what happened to Zoe, but I'm surprised they didn't previously do it…
What I meant was having that happen to Zoe instead of maya.
Robin April 17, 2014 at 2:03 am
I bet Eli is either dating Lenore or sleeping with her.. Something is not right it seems like he's hiding something. Why does he keep bailing on Clare at the last minute after planning something. I still think Lenore is living with him. There is no hate on Lenore but I can see that they may become endgame. BTW yes I know about NY pic that doesn't mean Clare and Eli get back together it could be closure and maybe Columbia. Yes I love Drew & Clare.
As for Maya she need to end it with Miles & Zig to figure things out.. And maybe some therapy. She's not over Cam's suicide.
I'm not to worried about Zoe right now.
mike April 17, 2014 at 2:08 am
hmmm a love triangle with one guy trying to use threats and violence to scare the other on school grounds. where have i seen this before? Does that mean the uniforms will be back in season 14? ;)
lakehurst89 April 17, 2014 at 12:00 pm
I remember people saying Zig kind of looks like Fitz now. lol coincidence?
I am not an Eclare or Eli fan. However, why is everybody ignoring the fact that Drew is a much worse cheater? Why does everybody assume that Clare will be the girl to make him change his ways? What does she have that Bianca, Katie, and Alli didn't? I know that the writers think that Clare is amazing, but come on now. Why do people condemn Eli for cheating, yet want Clare to be with a guy who cheated on three different girls?
Robin April 17, 2014 at 2:08 pm
I honestly think Drew is done with Cheating and people do change. When he and Bianca were finally strong and pushed the past behind them he did not cheat on her. To me that a big step. As for Zoe that's was dumb on his part I don't think he even knew she was 15.. Laws are different in Canada than the States. ???? I think Clare needs to drop both guys just like Maya and figure out what she really want. BTW how do we knot know if Eli is still cheating with Lenore. Stohn & Stefan said she's still very relevant. There's two sides of the story right now we only have Clare's. We have to wait for part 2 to figure stuff out. Also Clare is still bottling feelings. BTW This is coming from a Drianca and Anti Eclare fan.
Ann April 18, 2014 at 4:31 am
Drew changed with Bianca, so I dont think that people think Clare is going to change him. Remember he has grown as a character, and even though he made a huge mistake with Zoe, its still obvious that he is a different guy now.
Well, first off, he DID cheat on Bianca, even if he was drunk at the time. Secondly, Drew changed BECAUSE of Bianca. Bianca was the one girl he truly cared for. Clare is not Bianca. Why are people so quick to assume that he'll be faithful to her? What special quality does Clare have that will make him stick to being faithful?
just another April 18, 2014 at 10:34 pm
pocksuppet, maybe people aren't assuming Drew won't cheat on Clare. Maybe that isn't the big issue. I don't think people are pro-Clew because they think Drew is a better man than Eli… It's just that Clare and Eli have no chemistry anymore, they have no fun, and Eli already cheated on Clare. If that happens in the beginning of a long distance relationship, forget it- the trust is broken, it's done. Clare and Drew actually have fun together, so why not try it out? You seem so against serious relationships, but you're also against fun ones?
pocksuppet April 19, 2014 at 3:08 pm
@just another, to be quite honest, my main issue is that I'm just sick of the Emma/Clare/Maya types having multiple guys falling for them, despite the fact that they are pretty insufferable and annoying characters. It's obvious that they're the writers' favorites, which is probably why they're never single. I'd be less annoyed if it was Jenna or Imogen or somebody else instead. Clare has had guys worshipping her nonstop since she became a regular in Season 8 and it really makes her look like a Mary Sue. Why can't she be single for once?
I have seen plenty of Clew shippers saying that Drew will treat Clare better than Eli.
Any April 17, 2014 at 2:38 pm
I really love idea of Clew. I think it will be one of the most lovely story. You know, bad boy and good girl are getting together seems like the ordinary scenario, but in truth it is very sweet and you never tired of it.
Some of us are pretty sick of it, TBH.
Chloe April 17, 2014 at 2:55 pm
Miles is just like Cam he dosent want to lose Maya and he'll do anything to make sure no one is going to come between them. He's doing stupid shit but what he dosent relize is he won he got Maya and he is just ganna lose Maya unless her apoligises like Cam but im pretty sure she won't forgive him for holding a gun to zig. I still want Matlingsworth to live on though and i hope Maya dosent catch Miles with the gun, but i know she does😥
Jill April 17, 2014 at 10:13 pm
What ticks me off the most is watching the promo for the next week. It's always better than the last and then you realize that you have to wait a week to watch it. All I hope is that all the questions get answered and it does not leave us hanging during the break.
Hailee April 17, 2014 at 10:50 pm
I don't think Drew would cheat with Clare. I'm not saying that Clare has anything that Bianca, Alli, and Katie don't have. As someone else mentioned, I too think that Drew has changed, and I feel like the events of Bianca's role in their relationship has changed him for the better. Bianca helped him grow a lot, ie nominating him for president, encouraging him to come back to degrassi in season 12, getting engaged and then breaking it off. After Bianca called it off with him, I think Drew grew up a LOT and made some changes. I know about Zoe, and I'm not supporting what he did, but he was having a moment, and it's understandable because everyone goes through that. Believe me, I'm actually not a BIG fan of Drew. I don't want you guys to think I'm defending him because I think he's attractive, because that's not the case with me. I'm just stating how I feel about his character. Does this mean if Clare and Drew get together that Drew WONT cheat on Clare? No, and it's crazy to think that. But do I think he will? I don't. Character-wise, who would he cheat on Clare with? Alli? No, we've already sailed that boat. Jenna? Unlikely. And there's really nobody else I could see him cheating on Clare with. This is senior year, possibly his last high school relationship, so why would he even bother cheating? Any thoughts guys? :)
I guess my real problem is that people are saying that Clare deserves better than a cheater, yet they turn around and ship her with a worse cheater. I see some Emma Nelson-level hypocrisy there. Even if Drew doesn't cheat on Clare, he'll still always be a cheater, since he did it THREE TIMES before.
Denny Smith April 18, 2014 at 11:58 am
I can't believe Clare is a degrassi sex symbol, buzz your girlfriend woof, plus those cankles.gross!
Yousuck April 18, 2014 at 10:26 pm
Rude much ? Aislinn is gorgeous.
I dunno why people are always so confused as to how Clare gets guys. 1) It's not actually that hard to get a boyfriend; 2) she's, like, the bustiest girl on the show; 3) guys like the virginal type, and even though she's been deflowered, she's still not gonna be viewed as the loose type like Jenna or Alli would be. Brutal honesty here, people. Like my momma always said: "As long as there's a hole…"
It's not about looks. Emma ended up being gorgeous, but I still didn't understand why so many guys wanted to date her, because she was a heinous person. Personality-wise, Clare is not realistically the type that guys go for. I do wonder if she would attract so many guys if she was an Ellie or Liberty type instead. I know I harp on this a lot, but the fact that she's the new Emma probably has a lot to do with the amount of guys she attracts, because for some reason, the writers absolutely love that type of character. Maya is following in those footsteps too.
Aislinn is stacked, its just the clothes she wears on the show that make it look like she isnt. lol
Denny Smith April 18, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Now imogen and Becky god damn those two are fine
natalie jones April 18, 2014 at 7:13 pm
it is obvious that they are just trying to write the character of Eli out of the show. You can't keep a character on a show when he goes out of the country for school
Autumn April 18, 2014 at 11:47 pm
cookie April 19, 2014 at 6:16 am
Everytime I think Clew is going to happen Alli pops in my head. Alli and Clare are best friends and if my best friend was in love with my ex-boyfriend I wouldn't be so happy about it. sure, people need to move on but does your ex need to be with your BFF? Alii and drew happened a long time ago I know but not Clare or Alli or Drew seems to think about that relationship. It's like never mentioned!
Degrassi seems to forget about a lot of stuff that has happened….
Rakath April 20, 2014 at 4:07 am
Yes, like when Manny started dating Jay, Emma brought up how weird it is that her best friend is dating the guy she gave blowjobs for plastic bracelets!
Wait, that conversation didn't happen…
Sometimes, due to the fact that they keep characters around and need them all to stay relevant, you just have to let activities from past seasons go. We're not bringing up Jenna is dating her babydaddy's best friend either.
Ok but it isn't fair to base Drew's persona on his cheating on girls in the past. I don't think it matters what he did in he past. He's in a whole new relationship.
Nikki. April 19, 2014 at 6:19 pm
People do change.. Drew before was a 16 hormonal boy who didn't care unless he got some ass.. After dating Bianca his engagement, His brothers death & break up with Bee changed him. Yes he make a horrible mistake with Zoe, Zoe & Drew are past that. Also Not once did Clare down Drew about it she picked on him that's about it. Politics & Clare changed that and so did his past.. I love the idea of Clew I hope they do take baby steps, rebounds suck. Another problem fans didn't pick up that Lenore is Clare's trigger. Why is Eli still friends with the girls he cheated with?? Does Eli like Lenore more than saying? You never know, Eli may end up being endgame with Lenore.. I think that's where there going with Eli & Clare.. Falling for other people.
Hailee April 20, 2014 at 8:16 am
Maybe the writers sometimes just envisions character in a "certain" way, such as having many guys falling for her, and they just stick with that throughout their run on the show. I mean, forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of Maya's first "real" problems on the show involving a guy? Maybe the writers just see potential that we don't. Perhaps they feel like Maya's character would be better suited for a love triangle than,let's say, Jenna. I don't know why the writers do this sort of stuff to emma, Clare, and maya type characters, but I do definitely think the writers have a reason for it.
There's definitely a reason for it. I just wish the writers would explain their attraction to that type of character. What elevates them above the rest? Some people might bring up the "good girl" thing, but there have been other nerdy or good girl types outside of those three characters that didn't have ridiculous amounts of guys falling for them. Just compare the amount of guys interested in Clare to the much smaller amount of guys interested in Darcy.
Hailee April 20, 2014 at 4:53 pm
Is there not going to be an MTV Canada "Sparks Will Fly Part 2" promo? It's already Sunday and there hasn't been a promo, at least I couldn't find one, but maybe I'm missing something?
Rosie April 22, 2014 at 5:11 pm
-.- I don't like Miles. At All. Like, a gun? Really? I hope Maya & Zig get together. Seriously. Miles needs to go away. And I use to like Eli, but now he's just meh.
Zaya & Clew forever!
ZAYAFOREVER April 22, 2014 at 6:53 pm
I've hated Miles from the beginning. He may seem like a good guy but he has a lot of problems and I honestly think he's going to end up going somewhere for therapy. I think Maya really does like Zig. I mean she liked him the first time she met him, but, tori was in the way of that. I really hope they end up together i've been wanting it to happen for a long time. And I think there is a reason Zig is bad now, he didn't use to be like that I hope they answer that question soon. But I think Miles poitning a gun at Zig's head is going to be the breaking point of Miles and Maya. I hope they don't get back together. I hope it's finally time for Zaya to happen!
kaitlynn April 23, 2014 at 6:42 pm
OMG! DREW AND CLARE LIKE FINALLY. I WONDER WOULD DREW CHEAT@
Maya needs to sort things out. She is sooooooo bling and ignorant. I can't stand it. She's being stupid. So is Zig though. Miles seems like he only one who's trying. Though he may have some unorthodox methods, who cares? He's honestly the better guy at this point. Preferably ending up with Miles and Maya being happy? But no that can't happen! We know Degrassi will put Maya and Zig together and I'm just waiting. Cause I know I'm gonna hate it. But what are we gonna do? Degrassi has it's mind made up and probably has every single season until the end planned out.
YAYYYYYY! Clew just needs to happen. Well it kind of already did..in the prop room . I just hope they end up together.
Oh and does anyone know what they say at the end? My recording thing cut off the last like 2 minutes :((
Madi April 25, 2014 at 11:33 pm
TBH, I'm a huge Eclare shipper. I understand that they've had ups and downs in their relationship, but think of their history together. It's a truly lovely story if you think about it. They have so much going for them if Eli would commit a little more. But also, Clare could have done without always hanging around Drew. I mean, sure Eli was gone, but they were still together. Yet, Clare let herself hang around Drew. I know Eli kissed Lenore, but it's obvious he loves Clare more than anything. I'm really sad to see them ending, but I don't think this is the end of Eclare. I hope not anyways.
aliceblog20 April 26, 2014 at 3:12 pm
I love Degrassi!
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Yankees sign Masahiro Tanaka to 7 year, $155 million deal
Tanaka is gone, and the Yankees shelled out the same amount of money to get him as the Mariners did to keep Felix Hernandez.
By Scott Weber@scottyweebs Jan 22, 2014, 7:48am PST
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Masahiro Tanaka is a New York Yankee, and everything in the baseball world is back to normal. So much for all the talk about reducing payroll, as the Yankees followed up one $150+ million contract to Jacoby Ellsbury with another to Tanaka, who gets himself an absolutely monster deal at $155 million over seven years. Tanaka also gets the chance to opt out after four years, so if he dominates over four years, he can cash in yet again at age 29. If he sucks, the Yankees are stuck with a monster deal on the books, which they're well equipped to handle and cover up with more money. The Yankees just paid the same amount of money for Tanaka as they offered Robinson Cano: $175 million.
It's a dream contract for an international pitcher, and very few franchises are in a position to offer up that kind of a deal. The Yankees are back to their free spending ways, and Alex Rodriguez's suspension decision coming down to clear his salary off the books helped them decide to drop massive coin on Tanaka.
I'm not losing any sleep over this one. While I would have loved Tanaka on the Mariners, the advantage in signing an international free agent is that you have a chance to get a bargain out of it if the pitcher is as good as advertised. Tanaka doesn't possess the same upside as Yu Darvish, yet his total cost is going to be over $60 million more. If you include the posting fee, it's the most money spent on a free agent pitching contract ever, the same amount of potentially guaranteed money that the Mariners gave Felix Hernandez when they handed him his $175 million extension. Tanaka's $155 million doesn't include the posting fee, so the total cost of this deal is the same as Felix's deal and just below Verlander's extension. This for a pitcher who hasn't thrown a single pitch in the major leagues.
In a word, it's insane. There's no bargain here, in fact the deal looks completely baffling - not only was Tanaka able to land an MLB market value deal, but he got an opt-out clause too. That makes the deal even worse for the Yankees, who will potentially drop over $100 million through the next four years, then have to hand out another $175 million to keep him at age 29 if he's the star he's supposed to be. Or, they'll pay $175 million for the rights to a pitcher who won't think he'll get more on the open market in 2018. Plus, the Yankees are going to get hammered with the luxury tax. This deal is beyond a premium. It's among the most irresponsible contracts in Major League history, but that's apparently the price commanded for the rarely available free agent about to enter his prime years.
There's a line, and the Yankees just took it and snorted it with million dollar bills.
I'm flattened. Blown away. While the Mariners already paid out an insane contract of their own this offseason, they gave it to a truly fantastic player, one who is very likely to continue being a great player for at least several years. Robinson Cano looks pretty attractive compared to Tanaka, who carries far more risk of being a complete zero for a) being a pitcher with questionable mechanics and workload and b) only a scout's guess as to how he'll translate.
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Roger Edward Martin (born March 10, 1935) is an American businessman, state legislator, and lobbyist from Oregon.  He was an electric equipment sales executive with Martin Electric and served six terms in the Oregon House of Representatives.  In 1978, Martin ran for governor of Oregon, but lost to Victor Atiyeh in the Republican primary. Following the 1978 election, Martin became a lobbyist at the Oregon State Capitol.

Early life
Martin was born in Portland, Oregon on 10 March 1935, the son of Ray and Georgiana Martin. He grew up in Portland and he graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1953.  He went on to attend the University of Oregon, receiving a bachelor's degree in history in 1957.

After college, he served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958 and Army Reserve from 1958 to 1963, where he became a captain.  Martin then went to work for Martin Electric, an electrical supply company owned by his family.  He was also a partner in United Sales Associates.  He was active in the Lake Oswego Rotary Club and the local Toastmasters group.  In the early 1960s, he was a member of the citizen group that advised the Portland area Metropolitan Transportation Study Committee.

Political career

In 1962, Martin ran as a Republican for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives.  He ran in District 7, one of four seats that represented Clackamas County.  He got 9,722 votes, but lost to the incumbent Democrat.  Martin ran again in 1964.  This time he got over 26,000 votes, but was still unable the unseat the incumbent.  That same year, Martin was appointed chairman of a volunteer committee chartered to reform Lake Oswego's city government.  The result of that effort was the creation a city manager position to oversee the city's day-to-day business.

Martin ran a third time for the District 7 House seat in 1966.  This time, his campaign was helped by a strong personal endorsement from Tom McCall, Oregon's popular Secretary of State and future governor.  Martin easily defeated his Democratic opponent in the general election, receiving 59 percent of the votes cast in District 7.  He took his seat in the state legislature in January 1967.  Martin was active in the 1967 legislative session which lasted from 11 January until 14 June.  He served on the elections, local government, and fish and game committees.  He also served on the tax committee during a special legislative session held in November 1967.

Martin was easily re-elected to his District 7 seat in 1968 and 1970.  The Republicans enjoyed a majority in the House during both sessions.  Martin's Republican colleagues selected him to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore during the 1971 legislative session.

After the 1971 legislative session, the Oregon House of Representative was re-districted and Martin's home in Lake Oswego became part of District 24.  The new  district represented much of the area previously covered by District 7.  In 1972, he ran for the House seat in District 24, winning with 55 percent of the district's vote. Following his election, he served in the regular legislature session from January through July 1973 and then a special legislative session from mid-January through mid-February 1974.

Martin was re-elected to his District 24 seat two more times, in 1974 and 1976.  This allowed him to serve in the legislature's regular sessions in 1975 and 1977 plus two special sessions, one in December 1975 and the other in September 1978.  During this period, Martin's Republican colleagues in the state House of Representatives elected him as their leader.  Because Democrats held the majority of seats in House, he served as the House minority leader for four years.

During the stormy 1977 legislative session, Martin helped build a coalition of Republicans and moderate and conservative Democrats that ultimately stripped the Democratic speaker, Philip D. Lang, of his power.  At the beginning of the session, Martin encouraged his Republicans colleagues to vote for conservative Democrat, Dick Magruder, for speaker.  As a result, Magruder came within one vote of being elected speaker.  While unsuccessful, that effort encouraged further cooperation between the Republican minority and conservative Democrats in the House.  The influence of this coalition continued to grow throughout the legislative session.  In May 1977, a small group of moderate Democrats joined the coalition.  In a quick legislative move, the expanded coalition voted to transfer the speaker's power to the House Rules Committee which was controlled by the coalition leaders.  While the speaker was not removed from office, the Rules Committee took control of virtually every aspect of House operations.  As a member of the Rules Committee, Martin helped set the legislative agenda for the remainder of the 1977 session.

In 1978, Martin decided not to run for another term in the Oregon House of Representative.  Instead, he ran for governor.  He faced former governor Tom McCall and state senator Victor Atiyeh in the Republican primary.  In his campaign, Martin highlighted his business background and experience as a leader in the state legislature.  He emphasized his ability to craft common sense solutions for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of state government without raising taxes.  Here is what Martin said in the primary election voters' pamphlet:

In the May 1978 primary election, 42,644 Republicans voted for Martin.  That was 17 percent of the ballots cast in the Republican primary.  He finished third behind Atiyeh (who got with 46 percent of the vote) and McCall (who got 33 percent).  Atiyeh went on to defeat incumbent governor Robert W. Straub in the general election in November 1978.

Lobbyist

After leaving the legislature, Martin became a lobbyist at the Oregon State Capitol.  He founded Roger E. Martin and Associates in 1978, a public relations and lobbying firm.  By 1979, Martin's clients included the Oregon Transportation Association, United Grocers, Oregon World Trade Council, Hood River Distillers, Chemical Specialties Manufactures Association, Oregon Library Association, and the Oregon Catholic Conference.  In 1981, Oregon's state circuit judges hired Martin to represent them at the state capitol.

As a lobbyist, Martin was particularly active in advocating issues for retail grocers and transportation interest groups.  Over the years, he was also engaged in lobbying for several public policy issues.  In 1984, he led a campaign to get a sales tax initiative on the state ballot.  Two years later, he headed an effort to defeat an initiative to legalize marijuana in Oregon.  Between 2001 and 2006, he joined Democratic congressman Earl Blumenauer and other former state legislators to oppose legislative term limits.

For more than three decades, Martin has been an active lobbyist.  In 2009, his client list included the City of Lake Oswego, Oregon Transit Association, Alaska Airlines, Union Pacific Railroad, Oregon Amusement and Music Operators Association, Williams Companies, WOW Energies, Oregon Golf Association, and the Oregon Catholic Conference.  As of 2014, Martin was still representing the Oregon Catholic Conference, Oregon Amusement and Music Operators Association, Oregon Golf Association, and Williams Company as a lobbyist.

Legacy

As a former state legislative, many public documents with information about Martin's legislative career are maintained by the Oregon State Archives.  Martin's personal papers and other private documents are now part of the Oregon Historical Society research library collection in Portland, Oregon.  The historic records cover the period 1950 through 1987, with much of the documentation coming from the 1960s and 1970s when Martin was serving in the Oregon State Legislature.

References

External links
Oregon Legislators and Staff Guide from Oregon Secretary of State
Roger E. Martin papers at Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Interview with Roger Martin for Oregon State Capitol Foundation Oral History Project

1935 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Politicians from Lake Oswego, Oregon
Businesspeople from Portland, Oregon
United States Army officers
Central Catholic High School (Portland, Oregon) alumni
University of Oregon alumni
United States Army reservists

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Truso, auch als Atlantis des Nordens bezeichnet, war im 9. Jahrhundert ein altpreußischer Ort im Weichseldelta am Frischen Haff bzw. der Ostsee. Er lag unweit der Stelle, an der der Weichselarm Nogat damals in eine Bucht des Frischen Haffs mündete. Diese Bucht entspricht dem heutigen Drausensee (poln. Druzno, prußisch Drusin), der durch Verlandung vom Haff abgetrennt wurde.

Der Name dieser Bucht wurde später auf den entstandenen See sowie auf den Handelsplatz Druso übertragen ("Truso" in der Aussprache Wulfstans). Um 890 unternahm Wulfstan, wie er selbst berichtet, im Dienste von König Alfred dem Großen von Haithabu (im heutigen nördlichen Schleswig-Holstein bei Schleswig) aus eine Schiffsreise nach Truso. Zu dieser Zeit hatten die Wikinger, vor allem Dänen und Norweger, fast ganz England erobert.

Truso lag verkehrsgünstig an einem Handelsweg, welcher von Birka im Norden über Visby auf der Insel Gotland in der Ostsee nach Truso bzw. zur späteren Hansestadt Elbing führte. Von dort aus zogen die Händler weiter bis Carnuntum an der Donau. Diese alte Bernsteinstraße führte unter Umgehung der Ostalpen bis ans Mittelmeer. Der Ost-West-Handel erfolgte von Truso entlang der Ostsee bis Jütland und weiter im Inland bis Haithabu, welches damals eines der größten Handelszentren war.

1897 wurde bei Gut Hansdorf eine große Fläche mit archäologischen Funden entdeckt, in den 1920er Jahren wurden Ausgrabungen unternommen. Ebenso fand man ein großes Gräberfeld bei Elbing. Die Funde kamen in das Elbinger Museum. Weitere Grabungen konnten wegen des Krieges nicht fortgeführt werden.

Mehrere Orte in der Umgegend Elbings bezeugten den Namen, wie Neuendorf, welches bis Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts Deutsch-Drusen hieß, sowie Drusenhof zwischen Elbing und Preußisch Holland.

1945 kam das Gebiet unter polnische Verwaltung. Wiederaufgenommene Ausgrabungen der 1990er Jahre haben gezeigt, dass Truso wie andere Handelsorte einen multiethnischen Charakter hatte und Waren der Prußen (in lateinischen Quellen Aestii Gotisch Aesti genannt), Skandinavier, Slawen und Friesen ausgetauscht und in Werkstätten Artikel hergestellt wurden.

Eine dicke Brandschicht und Pfeilspitzen lassen vermuten, dass die Stadt von Seeräubern zerstört wurde. Die Fläche beträgt etwa 20 Hektar mit zweierlei Gebäuden, einerseits mit den Abmessungen 5 × 10 Meter sowie andererseits Langhäuser mit etwa 6 × 21 Meter.

Die Namensbedeutung des preußischen Handelsortes Truso geht vermutlich auf die idg. Wurzel "dreu-/ dru-": ablaufen, eilen zurück; andererseits kann man in Altsächsisch, wie in Mittelenglisch trussen, English truss, erkennen, das so viel bedeutet wie zusammenbündeln, umschließen, beim Bau unterstützen, also ein Handels-Wohnstätte, und in der Lautverschiebung wie Duer zu Tür, Tor, Düringer zu Thüringer. Möglich ist ebenfalls eine Ableitung aus prußisch "truszas, tružas": Schilf, Rohr.

Fußnoten

Literatur

 Maria Biolik: Zuflüsse zur Ostsee zwischen unterer Weichsel und Pregel = Nazwy wodne dopływów Bałtyku między dolną Wisłą a Pregołą (= Hydronymia Europaea. Lfg. 5). Steiner-Verlag Wiesbaden, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05521-5.
 Wilhelm Gaerte: Urgeschichte Ostpreußens (= Ostpreußische Landeskunde in Einzeldarstellungen. Bd. 1, ). Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg 1929.
 Georg Gerullis: Die altpreußischen Ortsnamen gesammelt und sprachlich behandelt. Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger, Berlin u. a. 1922.
 Sebastian Brather, Mateusz Bogucki, Norbert Buthmann, Peter Kühn, Heiko Steuer, Benno Zickgraf (Hrsg.): Der wikingerzeitliche Seehandelsplatz von Janów (Truso): geophysikalische, archäopedologische und archäologische Untersuchungen 2004–2008 Bonn 2012

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Ort in Ostpreußen
Archäologischer Fundplatz (Mittelalter)
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Polen
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Europa
Gmina Elbląg
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Most modern people are familiar with the cognitive and psychological effects of insomnia. When you have not had enough sleep, you simply do not perform as well. People who have not had enough sleep — particularly restorative deep sleep — do worse on tests, have trouble remembering even basic information and can suffer from more intense ranges of emotion. According to recent research, those sleepless nights may also contribute to diseases such as Alzheimer's that can cause a more permanent decrease in cognition and memory.
The aging process can affect every organ and system in our bodies. Our circadian rhythm appears to be especially impacted by age-related changes. Getting enough sleep, especially deep sleep, is a challenge for many people in their golden years.
Older people tend to fall asleep earlier in the evening and wake up much earlier. This in itself is not a problem, but there are other, more pathological changes that can occur in old age. People in old age tend to sleep more lightly, with fewer and shorter periods of deep sleep and REM sleep. They awaken more often throughout the night and have more trouble falling asleep once again.
This can have devastating effects on the health and the daily function of older Americans. Older people are more likely to be impacted by the negative effects of insomnia, such as fatigue, decreased memory and increased accidents.
Although some changes in sleep are inevitable, scientists believe that many age-related sleep issues are preventable. Elderly people are more likely to suffer from medical and psychological conditions that cause insomnia. They are also more likely to take medications that impact sleep. Addressing these health issues can help people of all ages to sleep more soundly. According to a new study, getting this sleep-saving health care may be especially important for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Many people struggle to get quality sleep as they age. This is particularly true for people with different forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease is one of the most feared age-related illnesses. People gradually lose not just their ability to function in daily life, but their memories as well. One lesser-known effect of this disease is its effect on sleep. People with this disease suffer from many sleepless nights and have worsened effects in these hours, a phenomenon known as sundowning.
In a recent study, researchers looked at the brains of more than 100 people aged 60 and over. 80 percent had no cognitive decline. Researchers measured the levels of different markers of Alzheimer's disease and monitored their sleep carefully.
People who had less deep sleep throughout the night had higher levels of Tau protein in their brain. Increased Tau proteins are linked to Alzheimer's disease and believed to cause much of the cognitive decline associated with the illness.
It is difficult to tell if the lack of deep sleep caused the build-up in this protein or if the sleep changes are merely a symptom. Although more study will be needed to determine the nature of the correlation, it is clear that a lack of deep sleep is somehow linked to developing Alzheimer's disease.
Reducing your Alzheimer's risk is not the only reason to keep your internal clocks on track. Numerous studies have linked insomnia to serious physical and mental changes. People who do not get enough sleep suffer from mental issues such as lower cognitive function, memory loss and increased depression. They are more likely to get in serious accidents on the job and in vehicles. They also are more likely to develop hypertension, heart disease and stroke. Even a few sleepless nights can decrease your immune system, making you more likely to get sick.
Getting the right quantity and quality of sleep can be a challenge. However, it is a challenge that is essential to long-term, whole body health.
High-quality sleep depends on a functioning circadian rhythm. Regardless of your age, you should go to sleep and wake up at the same times every day. Before you go to sleep, turn off lights and screens to encourage your brain to produce melatonin, the hormone that contributes to sleep. During the day, make sure you get plenty of exposure to high quality natural light, as this cues your body to release hormones associated with wakefulness.
Part of maintaining a healthy circadian rhythm is maintaining overall good health. Almost all lifestyle changes that help you to stay healthy will also help you to sleep well. The modern world was not designed to support optimal health, so this can require changes. However, the benefits of a good night of sleep will make the effort more than worth it.


CCHS focuses on providing services to people who live, work or study within the City of Glen Eira, City of Stonnington, City of Port Phillip and City of Bayside (North of South Road). We are also able to provide some services for people from other areas.
We are able to provide assistance for people who have a visual or hearing impairment and those requiring interpreters.
Is there nearby public transport to Caulfield Community Health Service?
The number 605 bus stops just outside Caulfield Hospital, where we are located.
Once your referral has been accepted a clinician will contact you to make an appointment. Depending on the type of appointment, your first appointment may be here at the centre or in your own home.
Please arrive at your appointment 10 minutes early to check in. Please note that a fee payment is now required before all appointments.
At Caulfield Community Health Service, we have a fair and transparent fee for service process. Fees are set in line with Government guidelines and are based on your income.
A fee for service is a financial contribution that you make towards the cost of the health care service you receive. This fee will depend upon your income level. At the time of your referral, we will ask you to declare if you are a high, medium or low income earner. We will explain to you the high, medium and low fees for the relevant services at the time of referral processing.
These income level categories and fee levels will be indexed annually. Your fee may be reassessed if your financial circumstances change or if you request a review.
You are welcome to visit CCHS during business hours to find out more, or contact us by email at cchs@cgmc.org.au.
Fees apply to most programs and services within CCHS. In exceptional circumstances, fees may be reduced or waived.
Find out more about fees for service.
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We encourage you, your family and carers to be involved in your care. The team will talk with you and the people who support you (with your permission) about your needs and answer any questions you have. Together we will help you achieve your aims.
If your circumstances change please contact main reception on 9076 6666. We require 24 hours or more notice for cancellations or rescheduling.
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Providing high quality services is important to us. We care about your views and experience, and value your feedback.
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I grew up in the 1950's in Arlington Heights, IL, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The skies were dark in those days. I could easily see the Milky Way. My main concern was getting away from the Dutch elm trees in our yard which blocked a good portion of the sky here and there. Sadly, the elm trees and the dark skies are now gone. The elm trees have been replaced by stately maple trees. The dark skies are now blotted out by extensive light pollution. Someday disease-resistant Dutch elm trees could make a comeback. I hope so. What is even more challenging than bringing back Dutch elm trees is restoring the stars to suburban and urban skies. The challenge is daunting, but the solution is rather simple – turn off unnecessary lights, use only the amount of light needed for the task at hand, and shield all lighting so it shines down where it is needed not up into the sky or a neighbor's window. IDA is making a big difference. Many good lighting fixtures are available, dark sky places are being preserved, lighting ordinances are more common, and the detrimental health and ecological effects of poor nighttime lighting are better understood. Please contribute whatever you can to the International Dark Sky Association's 2017 Matching Gift Challenge.
Your gift – $50, $250, or $1,000 – whatever amount is right for you – will be doubled, but only for a short time. Please help us raise $140,000. Every dollar you give will be put to work right away to support our dark sky programming.


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High school hoops tournament opens with 'Ogichidaag fever'
Bob Collins March 13, 2014, 3:11 PM Mar 13, 2014
There's a pretty fair chance the Fond du Lac Ojibwe School boys basketball team — known as the Ogichidaag — won't get the attention the big city studs at this week's Minnesota State High School League basketball tournament will get — they're just a Class A team — but the squad appears to have all the qualities of a Cinderella team.
They've never been to a state tournament before, winning their first sectional title this year. They've got 10 players in a school of a few hundred dozen students. Some of the boys were concerned about playing in a venue like the cavernous Williams Arena. But this afternoon the Cloquet team beat fourth-seed Canby, 85-to-82 in triple overtime to stay alive in the state tournament.
Two of the players fouled out. Two others played all three overtimes with four fouls in today's game. They could've folded. Fond du Lac Ojibwe led by 17 in the second half, before Canby went on a 19-2 run to tie the game with a minute left in regulation.
Pressure? No pressure. Check the faces of the kids at the ceremony last week, when Frank Goodwin, Anishinaabe spiritual and cultural advisor, sent them off to the sectional game. (h/t: JP Rennquist)
"I'm just looking for a lifetime moment for my boys," head coach Earl Otis told Northland News Center.
Junior forward Cameron Thompson said he was excited to have his whole community "coming together and just being one for once."
"The community is really great," Trevontae Brown, the only senior on the team, told NNC. "Everywhere we go, there's someone coming up to us to say we're doing a good job or we had a good game. It's a big deal to the community."
The Ogichidaag will now play Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High School — the top seed in the Class A tournament — tomorrow afternoon. A win sends them to a game Saturday afternoon for a state title.
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"The Price For Letting Them Off Easy": The Bush Era Starting To Take On Less Of The Flavor Of Criminality And More Of Mere Incompetence
Things that make me want to sanitize my brain by dunking my head in a bucket of iodine:
As George W. Bush's public image improves, more former Bush officials are running for office — and are starting to tout their connections to the former president rather than running from them.
Top former Bush advisor Ed Gillespie included photos with his old boss and talked of his work in the White House in the video announcing his Virginia Senate bid on Thursday.
Gillespie isn't the only Bush alumni looking to be on the ballot this fall. The former Republican National Committee chairman joins a long list already looking to launch their own electoral careers: Alaska Senate candidate Dan Sullivan (R); Elise Stefanik, the current GOP front-runner for retiring Rep. Bill Owens's (D-N.Y.) seat in upstate New York; North Carolina congressional candidate Taylor Griffin (R) and West Virginia House candidate Charlotte Lane.
Former Bush officials Tom Foley (R) and Asa Hutchinson (R) are also running for governor in Connecticut and Arkansas. Neel Kashkari, who served both the Bush and Obama administration as assistant Treasury secretary running the Troubled Asset Relief Program, is mulling a bid to the GOP nominee for governor in California. One of Gillespie's little-known Republican primary opponents, Howie Lind, served in Bush's Department of Defense.
I know it is unrealistic to think that the Republican Party could field a nation of candidates without using anyone who served in the Bush administration, but it galls me that it might be anything but a liability.
There was way too little legal accountability for the various crimes of the Bush administration, and the effort to reach out (remember the vote on the Stimulus?) was met with a petulant stiff-arm. The result is that the Bush Era has begun to take on less of the flavor of criminality and more of mere incompetence. In reality, it was a lethal combination of both, and we should have never let America develop amnesia about that fact.
By: Martin Longman, Washington Monthly Political Animal, January 19, 2014
January 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | George W Bush, Politics	| Bush-Cheney Administration, Ed Gillespie, GOP, Republicans, Virginia | Leave a comment
"Derailing The GOP Jihad": Deeper Message, Republicans Wasted A Year Arguing What Turned Out To Be Phony Issues
The Senate Intelligence Committee made headlines last week by reporting that the 2012 attack in Benghazi was preventable. But frankly, we knew that. The deeper message of the bipartisan report was that Republicans in Congress wasted a year arguing about what turned out to be mostly phony issues.
The GOP's Benghazi obsession was the weird backdrop for foreign-policy debate through much of last year.
Sen. Lindsey Graham used it as a pretext for blocking administration nominations. Rep. Darrell Issa used the issue to impugn the integrity and independence of a review conducted by retired Adm. Mike Mullen and former Ambassador Tom Pickering.
Driving the Republican jihad was a claim, first reported in October 2012 by Fox News, that CIA personnel had wanted to respond more quickly to the Benghazi attack but were ordered to "stand down," perhaps by political higher-ups. Although this claim was promptly rebutted by CIA officials, it was repeated by Fox at least 85 times, according to a review by the liberal advocacy group Media Matters. This barrage fueled Republican charges that the Democrats were engaging in a cover-up.
The Senate Intelligence report addressed this inflammatory charge head-on. "The committee explored claims that there was a 'stand down' order given to the security team at the annex. Although some members of the security team expressed frustration that they were unable to respond more quickly to the mission compound, the committee found no evidence of intentional delay or obstruction by the chief of [the CIA] base or any other party."
The Senate panel also rejected the insinuation, made repeatedly by Republicans, that the Obama administration failed to scramble available military assets that could have defended the Benghazi annex and saved the lives of the four American victims. "There were no U.S. military resources in position to intervene in short order in Benghazi," the report says flatly. "The committee has reviewed the allegations that U.S. personnel … prevented the mounting of any military relief effort during the attacks, but the committee has not found any of these allegations to be substantiated."
These are bipartisan findings, mind you, endorsed by the panel's Republican members as well as Democrats. GOP members offered some zingers in their additional minority views, but the Democrats rightly credited their colleagues for standing up to the right-wing spin machine: "We worked together on a bipartisan basis to dispel the many factual inaccuracies and conspiracy theories related to the Benghazi attacks."
The Obama administration's supposed cover-up on Benghazi became a crusade for leading Republicans. A low point came when Issa's Committee on Oversight and Reform issued a report last September questioning "the independence and integrity of the review" by the Mullen-Pickering group. These were extraordinary charges to make against a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former ambassador to six countries — especially since Issa didn't present any conclusive evidence to back up his allegations.
The Republican tirades about Benghazi were unfortunate not just because they were based on erroneous speculation but because they distracted policymakers from the real challenge of framing coherent policy in the Middle East. Sometimes, it seemed as if Benghazi finger-pointing was the only issue that leading Republicans cared about.
In fact, the Senate Intelligence report echoes many of the themes of the earlier report by the Accountability Review Board, which noted "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies." Warnings about deteriorating conditions in Benghazi were ignored; proposals to add additional security there were rejected; even as evidence mounted of al-Qaeda's growing power in Benghazi, the State Department failed to respond adequately. The Senate report makes clear that some important security mistakes were made by Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the courageous but sometimes incautious diplomat who was among those who died in the attack.
Perhaps the silliest aspect of the Benghazi affair was the focus on the errant "talking points" prepared for Congress, which cited incorrect intelligence about "spontaneous demonstrations" in Benghazi that wasn't corrected by the CIA until a week after the points were delivered on Sunday talk shows by Susan Rice, then U.N. ambassador. Rice is still under a cloud because she repeated the CIA's "points" prepared at Congress' insistence.
Next time, the Senate report notes, the intelligence community should just tell Congress what facts are unclassified — and let the legislators do the talking.
By: David Ignatius, Real Clear Politics, January 19, 2014
January 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Benghazi, Republicans	| CIA, Darrell Issa, GOP, Lindsey Graham, Mullen-Pickering Report, Senate Intelligence Comittee, State Department, Susan Rice | Leave a comment
"A Diabolical Chicken-And-Egg Conundrum": Fear Is Why Workers In Red States Vote Against Their Economic Self-Interest
Last week's massive spill of the toxic chemical MCHM into West Virginia's Elk River illustrates another benefit to the business class of high unemployment, economic insecurity, and a safety-net shot through with holes. Not only are employees eager to accept whatever job they can get. They are also also unwilling to demand healthy and safe environments.
The spill was the region's third major chemical accident in five years, coming after two investigations by the federal Chemical Safety Board in the Kanawha Valley, also known as "Chemical Valley," and repeated recommendations from federal regulators and environmental advocates that the state embrace tougher rules to better safeguard chemicals.
No action was ever taken. State and local officials turned a deaf ear. The storage tank that leaked, owned by Freedom Industries, hadn't been inspected for decades.
But nobody complained.
Not even now, with the toxins moving down river toward Cincinnati, can the residents of Charleston and the surrounding area be sure their drinking water is safe — partly because the government's calculation for safe levels is based on a single study by the manufacturer of the toxic chemical, which was never published, and partly because the West Virginia American Water Company, which supplies the drinking water, is a for-profit corporation that may not want to highlight any lingering danger.
So why wasn't more done to prevent this, and why isn't there more of any outcry even now?
The answer isn't hard to find. As Maya Nye, president of People Concerned About Chemical Safety, a citizen's group formed after a 2008 explosion and fire killed workers at West Virginia's Bayer CropScience plant in the state, explained to the New York Times: "We are so desperate for jobs in West Virginia we don't want to do anything that pushes industry out."
I often heard the same refrain when I headed the U.S. Department of Labor. When we sought to impose a large fine on the Bridgestone-Firestone Tire Company for flagrantly disregarding workplace safety rules and causing workers at one of its plants in Oklahoma to be maimed and killed, for example, the community was solidly behind us — that is, until Bridgestone-Firestone threatened to close the plant if we didn't back down.
The threat was enough to ignite a storm of opposition to the proposed penalty from the very workers and families we were trying to protect. (We didn't back down and Bridgestone-Firestone didn't carry out its threat, but the political fallout was intense.)
For years political scientists have wondered why so many working class and poor citizens of so-called "red" states vote against their economic self-interest. The usual explanation is that, for these voters, economic issues are trumped by social and cultural issues like guns, abortion, and race.
I'm not so sure. The wages of production workers have been dropping for thirty years, adjusted for inflation, and their economic security has disappeared. Companies can and do shut down, sometimes literally overnight. A smaller share of working-age Americans hold jobs today than at any time in more than three decades.
People are so desperate for jobs they don't want to rock the boat. They don't want rules and regulations enforced that might cost them their livelihoods. For them, a job is precious — sometimes even more precious than a safe workplace or safe drinking water.
This is especially true in poorer regions of the country like West Virginia and through much of the South and rural America — so-called "red" states where the old working class has been voting Republican. Guns, abortion, and race are part of the explanation. But don't overlook economic anxieties that translate into a willingness to vote for whatever it is that industry wants.
This may explain why Republican officials who have been casting their votes against unions, against expanding Medicaid, against raising the minimum wage, against extended unemployment insurance, and against jobs bills that would put people to work, continue to be elected and re-elected. They obviously have the support of corporate patrons who want to keep unemployment high and workers insecure because a pliant working class helps their bottom lines. But they also, paradoxically, get the votes of many workers who are clinging so desperately to their jobs that they're afraid of change and too cowed to make a ruckus.
The best bulwark against corporate irresponsibility is a strong and growing middle class. But in order to summon the political will to achieve it, we have to overcome the timidity that flows from economic desperation. It's a diabolical chicken-and-egg conundrum at a the core of American politics today.
By: Robert Reich, The Robert Reich Blog, January 15, 2014
January 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Public Health, Public Safety	| Chemical Companies, Environment, Freedom Industries, Jobs, Middle Class, Red States, West Virginia, Workers | Leave a comment
"But I Only Moved The Cones!": Chris Christie May Pay A Big Toll For The Bridgegate Scandal
Texas populist politician Jim Hightower is noted for the saying, "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
That's not the case in New Jersey. Here the middle of the road is often occupied by a toll booth. And nothing could be a more fitting symbol of the crisis that seems to be ending our governor's national ambitions.
As of last month, the toll on the George Washington Bridge rose to $13 for rush-hour traffic. It was a mere $8 when Christie took office. Consider that in light of Christie's claim, repeated in his State of the State address last week, that he has never raised taxes.
That claim rests on the assumption that those tolls are "user fees," not taxes. In fact, only a small percentage of the toll money goes to maintaining the bridge. The rest is raked off for so many pet projects that the Port Authority might better be named the "Pork Authority."
Without all the extra swag from those and other tolls — and a lot of creative bonding — Christie could never have kept that no-tax-hike pledge that would have served him so well in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
I say "would have" because after last week the odds of such a run are no longer in Christie's favor. The hearing room was crammed with cameras as the Assembly Select Committee on Investigations held its first session Thursday. Afterward, Chairman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) announced that 17 people would receive subpoenas. Among them were a host of key Christie aides who should have plenty to say both about the closure of those bridge lanes and the motive, which was political vengeance.
Christie's political future rests on his claim that, over the four months the scandal unfolded, he had no idea the "traffic safety survey" behind the closure was a sham.
That claim brought comparisons to the Sergeant Schultz character from the old TV comedy "Hogan's Heroes." One wag even posted a picture of Christie's face inserted under the World War II German helmet of the prison camp guard whose biggest laugh line was "I know nothing! I see nothing!"
They say a great man can survive anything but ridicule. We'll see if that's true in the coming weeks as those hearings reveal just what Christie knew and when he knew it.
The results will likely clear some traffic from the middle of the road in the 2016 race. Christie's claim to fame was electability and he had quite a claim until Bridgegate. Christie's appeal was based not on his ideology but his popularity. After that 22-point landslide re-election win, he could make a plausible claim that he could break the Democrats' stranglehold on at least one blue state, his own, and perhaps others.
The rest of the middle-of-the-road candidates look ready to repeat Mitt Romney's performance in 2012, when 40 states were not seriously contested and the election was decided by 10 swing states that swung Democratic.
So that's not good news for the GOP. Christie was the one candidate who might have brought about a realignment. Virtually everything he did over the past few years was designed to make that case, from endorsing New Jersey's version of the Dream Act giving in-state tuition rates to undocumented students to reaching out to minorities and urban mayors.
It looks like his campaign reached a bit too far when seeking the endorsement of at least one mayor. Last month, Christie was running just three points behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in an NBC News/Marist poll of potential candidates in the 2016 presidential race. By last week, that poll had Christie trailing Clinton by 13 points. So it looks like this moderate Republican governor may not be going anywhere.
This points out a key problem not just with Christie but with moderates in general. Their moderation is often a cover for an approach to politics that focuses more on doing well than doing good. Over the coming weeks, we can expect to learn a bit about the politically connected lawyers and developers who enriched themselves while wheeling and dealing behind the scenes at the Port Authority.
The mainstream media may not think much of extremists. And they certainly have their flaws, whether they're leftists or rightists. But as Hightower noted, there's a reason the voters often prefer them. Sometimes a little bit of idealism can get you a long way down the road.
ON THE OTHER HAND, insightful reporter Matt Katz takes the position that Christie may survive this scandal with his national ambitions intact:
Consider that most of his potential presidential opponents have avoided slamming him on the controversy. Or that a New Hampshire poll released Thursday showed him leading all Republican comers — by a larger margin than in September. Most of those questioned had heard of Bridgegate, and 14 percent of GOP voters said it made them like him more.Yes, Christie was scorned in a (hilarious) "Born to Run" parody by Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon. But there could be worse things for a Republican with base troubles than to get raked through the coals by the media elite.
Christie's political advisers say interest was high for fundraisers he's hosting this weekend in Florida, and national donors are calling to express support. The road to 2016 may now have some more traffic on it, but if Christie's name doesn't make a damning appearance in a subpoenaed Bridgegate document, he will have the cash and connections to mount a strong bid for the presidency.
Katz was the guy who asked the question at that Dec. 2 press conference that elicited the "I moved the cones" wisecrack from Christie. That remark will certainly come back to haunt Christie. And unless the governor can explain why he still believed that "traffic study" was legit, he won't be putting this scandal behind him.
By: Paul Mulshine, The Star Ledger, New Jersey, January 18, 2014
January 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Chris Christie, GOP	| Bridgegate, Election 2016, John Wisniewski, media, New Jersey State Assembly, Republicans | Leave a comment
"The Anti-Establishment Establishment": In The GOP, The "Kids" Have Stopped Listening And The "Adults" Are No Longer In Control
To those of us who are perpetually skeptical of the alleged power of the incredibly "adult" and deeply "responsible" Republican Establishment to keep the "constitutional conservatives" in line, a Timothy Carney piece in the Washington Examiner earlier this week was especially interesting. It argued that the ability of said Establishment to kick ass and take names in Congress was being sharply eroded by the loss of a monopoly over money and jobs in Washington:
Cold cash, together with control of institutions, is what makes the Establishment the Establishment. But in the current Republican civil war, the insurgents have secured their own money pipelines, and they control their own institutions – which means the GOP leadership and its allies in the business lobby have a hard fight in front of them.
The firing and hiring of conservative staffer Paul Teller makes it clear that the anti-establishment has built its own establishment.
Teller was a House staffer for more than a decade, and was longtime executive director of the conservative Republican Study Committee. The RSC always exerted a rightward pull on party leadership, but it is nonetheless a subsidiary of the party.
After the 2012 election, the Republican Establishment captured the RSC, in effect, by getting Congressman Steve Scalise elected chairman. Scalise is a conservative, but he is also a close ally of the party leadership – much more so than his predecessors Jim Jordan and Tom Price. Scalise immediately swept out most of the RSC staff.
Last month, Teller was accused of working with outside groups such as Heritage Action to whip RSC members – and Scalise showed Teller the door.
In the old days, this might have been a disaster for Teller. He had lost his job and landed on the wrong side of the party leadership. Anyone who picked up Teller would be spitting in the eye of the Establishment. But this week, Sen. Ted Cruz announced he had hired Teller as deputy chief of staff.
Carney goes on to discuss the rapid rise of alternative sources for campaign money like the Club for Growth and Super-PACs, and the conquest of one important Beltway institution, the Heritage Foundation, by people openly hostile to The Establishment.
Now when you add in the already virtually complete control by hard-core conservatives of basic formulations of GOP ideology and messaging (the best example remains Jim DeMint's Cut, Cap and Balance Pledge, an insanely radical piece of fiscal flimflammery that a long line of Republicans, from Mitt Romney on down, lined up to sign in 2011 and 2012) and the disproportionate strength of conservative activists in the presidential nominating process, it's increasingly clear the "adults" are not necessarily in control. Indeed, like parents who try to behave like a kid to maintain some influence with their kids, Establishment folk are forever conceding territory to the "activists" they privately call crazy people. And the loss of its monopoly over jobs and money is like a parent's loss of a teenager's car keys and allowance. At some point, "the kids" just stop listening.
By: Ed Kilgore, Contributing Writer, Washington Monthly Political Animal, January 16, 2014
January 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | GOP, Republicans	| Club For Growth, Conservatives, Heritage Foundation, Paul Teller, Republican Study Committee, Steve Scalise, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment


If you were to take one part the climbing and exploration of Uncharted or the modern Tomb Raider games, one part the minimalist approach to gameplay and story of Shadow of the Colossus, mix it together, take out any combat that may have leaked in, and set it in a post-apocalyptic world of a drowned city, you will start to get an idea of just what Submerged is all about. While it is a simple game, the lack of combat or conflict certainly making it a game that's not for everyone, that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, as, in fact, I found myself quite enchanted with the experience all the way through.
The game opens as a small motorboat makes its way through the remains of a city completely covered in water. Only the tops of the tallest buildings and structures are still left above the surface. Coming to one such building, a sister carries her grievously wounded younger brother out of the boat and up into a small room, setting him down to rest. A torn parachute from what could be a supply drop is fluttering on the next building over, and from there, the exploration begins.
As the player steps into the shoes of the sister, Submerged tasks you with finding a number of supply crates, all to help your younger brother. And that's it. Submerged doesn't have a twisting plot or hordes of enemies to fight, just an interesting, ruined city to explore and a reason to explore it. Using your spyglass you can find other buildings that have supply crates. You can even spot the roughly 100 other collectibles sprinkled throughout the city, including pictograms showing the story of the city and how it came to be under water, distinctive landmarks, speed upgrades for your boat, and even the wild animals that now populate the ruins.
While up to the first supply crate is fairly linear, serving mostly as the game's tutorial, after that, the game opens up entirely and the player is given complete freedom for where to go and what great building to climb next. With each supply crate, you are given a small glimpse, also through pictograms, of how the brother and sister came to the ruined city. This, and seeing the toll the exploration of the city is taking on the sister, becomes the main reason to keep moving forward. While neither is as bombastic as someone shouting at you to do the next objective, they served their purpose, allowing me to enjoy the experience of simply wandering the world.
Coming in at a length of a few hours or so, longer if you're a completionist, Submerged is short and sweet. The climbing, of which you will do a lot, doesn't become too repetitive over the course of the game, though it likely could have if it went on for much longer.
The world is interesting, inviting, and artistically beautiful. The boat is fun to motor around in, if at first a bit hard to get used to. The calm piano music even, propels you forward, growing louder and more dynamic the closer you are to the right path. And the minimalist story that unfolds is genuinely interesting. All that said however, Submerged still just doesn't have that special spark of emotion like Journey, or storybook nostalgia of something like The Unfinished Swan, two games that manage non-combat remarkably well. Uppercut Games should absolutely be applauded for what they have down with Submerged, a non-combat, post-apocalyptic game being something few would be brave enough to pursue, but ultimately, the game never grabs hold the way the developer so clearly wants it to.
For instance, unlike the personal story pictograms, beyond the tutorial, the ones concerned with the city's story do not unlock in a specific order, allowing you to find pictograms 58, 59, and 60, long before you find 4,5, and 6. Eventually, this means the images you do find hold no meaning or sense of progression until you look at the full list, making the emotional impact of them lost or put off until long after you find each one.
While there were moments in Submerged, especially as the sun set, bathing the city in a reflected orange glow, that I did stop and just stare at the screen in awe, the polished refinement the game needed in order to be something special was never quite there. With character animations that were a little too stiff and exploration paths that were a little too clearly laid out, there was never a point I completely forgot I was playing a game and lost myself to it.
There are very few things wrong with Submerged, but there also just isn't anything that reaches out and elevates the game above the crowd. For anyone looking for a calm, relaxing game that really is as simple as exploring an interesting place, no overly frustrating puzzles or blood-pressure-spiking combat, Submerged is perfect, especially considering how rare such games are. For anyone not specifically looking for that however, there just isn't enough here to pull you in or make it worth it.


Ambala Vol 1 – is the first release from Original Cafe Del Mar DJ Phil Mison on the Music For Dreams label. Continuing a fruitful, fifteen-year plus relationship with the label as Cantoma and Frontera, Phil Mison is back with a brand new collaborative project Ambala recorded with Danish musician and engineer Volmer across a series of weekend sojourns in the scenic streets of Copenhagen. The first single release from the album this year was the magical, summery house track 'Calypso Beach', which showcases Phil's creativity in mixing classic house with Caribbean vibes – a hooky steel drum, live bass, dreamy pads and an irresistible melody making for a winning combo.


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As a student of history, one of my favorite research topics was the legendary politician, Huey Long from the great State of Louisiana. He was basically not the most politically correct man on the planet and yet he accomplished great things for Louisiana. It's a case of a leader who accomplished good deeds while remaining corrupt. Mr. Long is still remembered and revered in many parts of Louisiana – he's a loveable train wreck. For added effect, Huey Long ran on the concept that "Every Man a King" and he had his loyal "subjects" believing this. Huey Long KNEW ABOUT THE VALUE OF PERCEPTION.
So it goes with our current economic and real estate markets where, like a textbook history lesson, PERCEPTION is King. Everyone thinks THEY are special.
We can tell Sellers the truth about market conditions and we can also share with buyers that every home is NOT depressed or in foreclosure but they have a different perception based on news media and print publications.
Sadly, no matter how much you educate the listing client, they still cannot grasp the severity of our current real estate market and the concept of declining values. After all, their home is the ONE home that is different and worth more than all the others regardless of what statistics and facts we present.
The buyers on the other hand treat all homes the same – as a foreclosure or short sale. While sales executives know that every home is different and unique, many buyers have the misguided notion that every home is a "steal".
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Doing same kinds of exercise, again and again, can be boring and monotonous. Challenging yourself will only lead to improvement in your personality and similarly incorporating physical challenges for your body in your workout routines will help you in getting the best body in quick time. It will also reduce the monotony of your workout routine as you will have different exercises to perform and new goals to achieve. Read on to know the physical challenge you can take this month and make most of your workout routine.
The best way to shed the extra kilos from your body is to walk. Make walking a regular part of your daily routine. Not only will it make you fresh but also burn the extra fats and calories. Although, long walks can be tiring but they can reap you numerous benefits. Set a particular time in your schedule that you will walk for. For example, instead of taking rides you can walk to your workplace or school.
Setting goals always help in every field of life. They infuse certain enthusiasm in a person and make them work harder for it. If you are overweight, you can set a certain achievable weight level that you reach by the month's end and work hard for it. The results will be fruitful even if you won't be to reach that exact level. It will give you the motivation to work harder for the next goal you will set.
Regular workout regimes can be boring. It is always advantageous to add up new workout forms to your current regime for enhanced benefits and keep the interest going. Learning a new workout form such as kickboxing or any martial arts form will give you high motivation and interest level and a better body.
You can also opt for trying an exercise activity that was once a part of your regular exercise regime. This has turned out be another popular way of breaking the monotony other than opting for a new activity. You can try the sports activity that you found interesting in schools such as playing basketball or any other sport.
Swimming is one of the most favorite activities of almost every athlete. It has many benefits associated with it. You can try setting different goals in swimming like increasing the swimming time, time to stay underwater or swimming in colder water for a longer period of time to challenge your body. It will make your body resistant to severe environmental factors and boost your immunity system.
You can set different challenges every month to achieve in order to make yourself fit and adopt a healthy lifestyle.


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Tweetcap of Dec 9 UVSS Board of Directors Meeting
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On Dec 9, UVSS board members met to discuss updates to their electoral policy and to share what they are doing to enact changes on campus.
The board started with motions to amend the policies surrounding Separately Incorporated Fee-Levied (SIFL) groups, campaign endorsements, and campaign resource limitations — pushed up to the presentations portion of the meeting so the new Chief Electoral Officer, Shaun Slavin, could answer questions.
Some debate was had regarding questions of objectivity and which groups could or could not provide support for referendums. After lengthy discussion, the board passed the amendment regarding what SIFL groups can contribute to campaigns.
Blecha asks: What if an advocacy group representative on the board wants to support a referendum?
— The Martlet (@TheMartlet) December 10, 2019
The next motion addressed regulations surrounding third party endorsements. Candidates are still prohibited from seeking third party endorsements, but the motion removed some regulations pertaining to these endorsements. Going forward, this would allow for a more loose enforcement of this policy.
"It was too hard to govern," said Efe Turker, Director of International Student Affairs. The objective of the amendment, he said, was to simplify the process of appropriate disciplinary action if a candidate accepted endorsements from a third party.
There is a motion to amend the word "seeking" with "accepting" in terms of third party endorsements.
"There is a possibility that, based on the wording of this amendment, that if a candidate accepts an endorsement, there could be sanctions," says Slavin.
Though some board members found the policy unclear, Director-at-Large Caelen Cook clarified that this policy ensures that candidates do not accept any endorsements they are not entitled to.
Next, the board discussed the elimination of the system of candidates running as slates in favor of "cooperatives" of two or more candidates. Ideally, this will allow candidates to cooperate in their campaigning, making the electoral process easier and more welcoming to navigate. However, the candidates would still be elected individually and serve their terms as independent representatives.
A "cooperative" would be a group of two or more people who campaign together.
"We realize there may be lower voter turn out," says Victoria Eaton, Director of Student Affairs. But she hopes that since we're the only school who might do this, that it could create some incentive to vote.
"It seems to me that collectives have the larger advantage," Cook adds. The unfairness of slates that we want to address isn't really addressed in this policy, he explains.
Though some members of the board were not sure that this policy addresses the current issues with the current electoral system, the motion passed.
Finally, they moved on to director reports almost an hour into the meeting. Jonathan Granirer, Director of Outreach and University Relations, explained that he has been lobbying to reduce the cost of educational resources. He noted that the UVSS has contributed to the development and distribution of electronic textbook resources with the intention of reducing educational resource costs.
Jonathan Granirer, Director of Outreach and University Relations, discusses UVSS outreach initiatives on campus. One of the priorities is making the UVSS more relevant to students using face to face contact. He wishes to know more about what students want.
Near the end of the meeting, a motion was brought forth discussing the distribution of a letter to UVic's president, vice presidents, and relevant university faculty recommending that the university take action to solve transportation and accessibility issues for disabled students.
The letter will express that students are in the best position to propose solutions to transport and accessibility problems, and Natalie Blecha, Society for Students with a Disability rep, assured the gallery that parking accessibility would be an important part of the necessary changes mentioned.
Some points on the note are regarding improvements which could be made to the current policies as well as additional policies which could be put in place.
Additionally, the board discussed whether the UVSS's annual survey would ask students what should happen to the collected student fees associated with the now defunct VIPIRG. Board members expressed their desire to find out what students want.
"It is our job to consult students," said Hannah Ahluwalia, a DaL. The motion passed.
"A survey is a good first step into consulting our student body," says Blecha. "I support this motion."
To finish up the meeting, nominations were opened to fill a vacancy on the Personnel Committee. The nominee was required to be a woman, transgender, or self identified non-binary. Victoria Eaton, Director of Student Affairs, was acclaimed to the position as she was the only nominated member.
After over two and a half hours, the final UVSS Board of Directors meeting of the semester was finally moved in camera. The next UVSS meeting will take place Monday, January 6, 2020 in the upper boardroom and lounge.


Blame, winner of the Whitney Handicap (gr. I) in his most recent stakes race, returned home to his barn at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., after traveling and spending the summer in Saratoga.
With exercise rider Casey Chavez up, Blame worked five furlongs on Sunday, Sept. 5 at Keeneland, in a sharp 1:00 1/5. He looked good on the track and his connections seemed pleased.
Back at his barn Blame received mints while walking the shedrow and after his bath. Blame's hotwalker talked to him and rubbed on the colt's nose as he posed for photos after his bath. Blame seemed to love the attention, even during his bath.
The 4-year-old's next scheduled appearance is the Oct. 2 Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I) at Belmont Park. A major contender for champion older male, Blame is owned by Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm.
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Kathy Sanders, age 67, passed away January 1, 2022 at her home in Myrtle Beach, SC.
She was born November 29, 1954 in Clinton, SC and was a daughter of the late James O. Sanders and Gladys Satterfield Sanders. She was a graduate of Clinton High School, and she was retired having worked for 36 years with several Orthodontists Offices in the Upstate of SC. She also worked part-time taking care of the elderly, most of which had Alzheimer's or Dementia. She also enjoyed carving and painting wooden ducks, which one made it to 2nd Place and Honorable Mention, along with working in the yard and playing golf.
Ms. Sanders is survived by her son, Charles Wesley Foster of Matthews, NC; her grandson, Lucas Foster, who was her heart; her brothers, Jimmy Sanders and Mike Sanders; her sister, Jan Davis; and her numerous nieces and nephews.
Graveside Services will be held Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 1:00 pm at Rosemont Cemetery in Clinton. The family will greet friends following the service.
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorials be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 4124 Clemson Ave, Anderson, SC 29621
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