It's sometimes said "moderation is a virtue," though in our incredibly polarized times it's hard to see how very many are taking the concept to heart. The vast majority of people today are gravitating to one extreme or the other, basically doing the opposite of tempering themselves.
Such is certainly the case for those in opposition to President Donald Trump. Though Trump would not necessarily be called "moderate" in any sense of the word, the people who don't like the new commander in chief are going to the "extreme" in letting their feelings be known.
Yes indeed. The more fanaticism that's associated with liberal causes the more "moderate" Trump starts to appear to American voters. Congresswoman Maxine Waters even said Trump will need to be impeached because of the way he is "acting." She's been in Congress over a quarter of a century.
One of the issues Democrats are encountering in effectively addressing Trump is they're not quite sure where to strike. Like a military commander having to choose between which holes in the line to plug, Trump's legislative offensive has opened up so many new fronts that Democrats are literally spinning around trying to figure out where to concentrate their fire.
For the leftist protesters, they use "real" fire – but I'm guessing their actions are leaving a decidedly negative impression on the vast majority of Americans. Even those who might otherwise be inclined to oppose Trump will begin to see him as a more sympathetic character when he's going before the nation (as he did last week with the Neil Gorsuch nomination ceremony) and preaching unity on behalf of all citizens while a group of thugs burns public property, throws rocks at police and pepper spray innocent bystanders on live TV.
Of course the "extreme" elements on the left are intending to wreak havoc. They're attempting to portray the country as being so distressed and volatile in their rejection of Trump and his conservative administration that the riots are just a naturally occurring spontaneous byproduct of the new president's policies.
While there don't appear to be many Democrats who are open to anything Trump has to say, the people "out there" living in the towns and suburbs, farming communities and rural areas see crazed anarchy as threatening and ugly. It violates their values.
Take Wisconsin as an example. Governor Scott Walker was elected as part of the Tea Party wave of 2010 promising to reform the public employee pension system that threatened to bankrupt the state and also to allow state employees to opt out of their unions if they so choose.
The reaction of the left was swift and intense. Protests rimmed the state Capitol Building. Sit-ins were organized. National unions poured money into Wisconsin trying to generate pity for the poor oppressed state employees and to fan opposition to the governor and Republican state legislators.
It didn't work. Not only did Wisconsin pass many if not all of Walker's proposed reforms as-is the governor himself survived a recall effort that was coordinated by many of the nation's most powerful liberal interest groups.
The lesson? Leftists can gather in public places all they want, scream as loud as they can and claim that changing the status quo will bring great hardship to some group or favored establishment constituency. But the voters aren't buying it.
In the process Wisconsin has all-but flipped from a solid blue state twenty years ago to a red state that's beginning to go rosy in hue. Walker is in the final two years of his second term. The state assembly now has a 65-34 Republican advantage and the state senate is comfortably GOP as well at 20-13. And as everyone knows, last November Wisconsin went Republican in the presidential election for the first time in decades and Senator Ron Johnson defied the polls by winning re-election.
No one is necessarily claiming the fringe kooks who protested Walker so unreasonably in 2011 are the sole reason why Wisconsin is going Republican in a big way now. But if you need a case study on how the "extreme" elements of the left are slowly nudging public opinion, look no further than what's happening in the Badger State and all over the Midwest.
The movement started long before Trump; and his emphasis on common sense reforms and "Making America Great Again" culturally is likely to shift these places even farther away from the kooks.
That's a dilemma facing the national Democrat party in a big way as personified by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner reports, "Schumer, who is in his first term as Senate Democratic leader, is in a difficult political position as the Senate considers the nomination of Gorsuch, a highly respected jurist currently serving on the bench of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
As revealed by his tear-filled crying fit a little over a week ago, Schumer is no doubt feeling overwhelmed by the pace of Donald Trump's successes. Thus far despite a massive quantity of hot air expelled by his fellow Democrat caucus members he hasn't managed to stop a single Republican cabinet nomination – and he won't unless more weak-kneed Republicans jump off the Trump train.
Schumer also has to contend with potential defectors within his own party, such as West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who seems to have little patience for the leftist kooks making such a stink about Donald Trump.
No matter how you look at it, "moderation" doesn't appear to be in great supply in the Democrat party these days. It's something that can and likely will cost them not too far down the road.
With Trump in the White House who is really in charge of the GOP?
It's safe to say there were many times during the 2016 campaign where you had to wonder how the Republican Party and Donald Trump would ever get along should the New York outsider manage to win the nomination and then the election.
Trump steered his own ship all throughout the campaign, dispensing with tradition as well as the typical party establishment "rules" of decorum that other nominees reflexively adhered to. Trump was a Republican, yes, but were members ready for Trump to lead the party?
To some extent, the mystery still exists.
Rebecca Berg of Real Clear Politics writes, "There is no guarantee that Trump will continue to endorse the RNC as the leading force for his political objectives. After President Obama's 2008 victory, Obama opted to empower his own campaign organization, Organizing For Action, to continue rallying his base around policy objectives — stripping some power and personnel from the Democratic National Committee.
Trump also has close personal advisors like son-in-law Jared Kushner working with him in the White House. There's a good mix of ideologies and motivations there.
In pondering the question of the RNC's role under Trump it should not be forgotten it was only about a year ago that Trump the candidate was openly questioning whether the party itself was "rigging" the primaries against him. Then-party chair Reince Priebus fought against the notion and eventually the tension subsided.
Of course Trump ended up winning and people have short memories, but there's bound to be tension developing between the president and the people who run the party machinery at some point, especially if there's a feeling Trump isn't doing enough to raise money or support party candidates.
He can be the star but he's still got to travel and play with the team.
Normally there wouldn't be such concerns, though Trump has never hesitated to use Twitter to make an example out of someone who he views as having crossed him. Up to now it's only been a few senators and a candidate for state party chair in Ohio. But somewhere down the road there will be conflict.
There are already signs Trump is moving to get Congress in line.
Scott Wong of The Hill reports, "The White House won't only be working back channels with congressional leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers. Allies say Trump will likely bring his bully pulpit on the road, holding campaign-style events that specifically target vulnerable Democrats in red states like Montana and West Virginia.
Wong's article indicates most of Trump's push will be aimed at Democrats, but if history is a guide, the president won't hesitate to make an example out of Republicans as well. One can only imagine the chaos that would ensue if Trump decides to get involved in individual primary races.
There would be more fireworks than the Fourth of July, I'd imagine.
But if the establishment folks are smart, they'll give Trump some leeway to do things a little differently in hopes of growing the party beyond its traditional base. If Trump can't do it himself, his policies will. While it's true that Trump lost the popular vote, he is particularly strong in areas of the country the GOP will need to remain viable both nationally and in Congress.
Having Reince Priebus in the White House certainly carries with it some dangers for the conservative agenda, since the party establishment is seated at Trump's side. But so are conservatives Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon and Vice President Mike Pence.
By all appearances there's a harmonious relationship between the new president and the Republican Party. We can only hope it lasts.
While the country looks on in disgusted fascination at the leftist protests of President Donald Trump, his nominees and his agenda, the people who will likely be competing for the Democrat presidential nomination in three years are trying to demonstrate to the party base how ticked off they are.
And why not? It's their major selling point.
In emphasizing the degree of anger Democrats feel towards Trump it's become obvious the central argument for defeating the Republicans in 2020 will not be some sort of positive airy "hope and change" theme led by an inspirational candidate who promises to halt the rise of the oceans and make sure every transgender individual has a safely identified gender neutral bathroom to relieve himself/herself/itself in.
No, the campaign will focus on how much rage and demonstrated opposition to Trump the candidate provided to the party base. Already the possible line-up of Senate hopefuls – Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders (again), Corey Booker and Kamala Harris – is each making herself or himself known to the kook fringe that will dominate the 2020 primaries.
Meanwhile leftist groups are demanding rubberstamp opposition to Trump's agenda as a precondition for support the next time around. Poor Elizabeth Warren – she's already had to apologize and explain her "yes" vote on HUD Secretary Ben Carson's nomination.
California's Kamala Harris has only been in the Senate a month and she's regularly appearing at various events. In her case I don't think conservatives have anything to worry about – she's not nearly as articulate as Obama. Leftist kooks don't care as long as she says the right things though.
If Hillary Clinton didn't have a theme to run on other than "I'm a woman!" in 2016, then don't expect the 2020 group to be any different. Brace yourself now for the ideological war to come. It ain't going to get any easier, folks.


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As lawmakers grapple with controversy over Facebook's handling of user data, Michael Boskin renews his call for technology policy in this op-ed featured in The Guardian.
The New York Times cites Susan Athey's research on a privacy paradox, showing how people gave up their friends' email addresses in exchange for free pizza.
Bruce Cain is quoted in The New York Times, discussing how the digital economy and 'homogenous bubbles' are a key part of why disadvantaged populations are getting pushed out into far-flung exurbs.
Matthew Gentzkow tells USA Today that targeting inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues is easier said than done.
George Shultz, honorary chair of the SIEPR Advisory Board, and SIEPR senior fellows Michael Boskin, John Cochrane, John Cogan, and John Taylor, team up to write this Washington Post editorial. They say it's time to act now — before a debt crisis hits.
This New York Times story features the latest research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Raj Chetty.
A new report from the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, featuring work by SIEPR's David Grusky and other SIEPR fellows, finds that progress on eliminating gender inequality has slowed or stalled entirely.
The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights research by Senior Fellow Thomas Dee showing that instructors are nearly twice as likely to respond to comments from white male students in online courses than to those from any other race-gender combination.
Insights by Stanford Business speaks with SIEPR Senior Fellow Paul Oyer about his research from behind the wheel as an Uber driver.


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27th January 2021 by Spear's
Chartered status sorts the wheat from the chaff, says Dave Neal
Accountants, surveyors and engineers all need chartered status to sell their services. You wouldn't dream of commissioning advice from professionals like these without knowing that they had the proper qualifications – or a seal of approval from a reputable organisation.
But, for a long time, the security sector has been different. Even though security professionals play a vital, trusted role in the lives of many HNWs and their families, they have historically been hired on the basis of word-of-mouth recommendations – and not much else. That's beginning to change, however.
This piece first appeared in the Spear's 500 2021. Click here to access the new Spear's 500 website
Since 2011, the gold standard for the security sector in the UK and internationally has been the achievement of chartered status. Those who achieve this status become chartered security professionals and have the right to use the post-nominals CSyP.
The letters represent the highest standards in the security industry and can only be earned by someone who has at least five years' experience of operating at the level required to attain chartered status. Candidates must pass background checks and go through a rigorous selections and vetting process which culminates in an interview with a panel.
There are only 200 chartered security professionals (or 'CSyPs') on the register, indicating how rigorous the selection process is. Those who have made the grade must adhere to a strict code of conduct, a professional disciplinary code and programme of continuous professional development that is reviewed annually to ensure it is relevant, current and equips the CSyPs to deal with the constantly evolving threats their clients face. Having left the army in 2019 as a brigadier and head of the Royal Military Police, I'm proud to say that I am now a CSyP.
Uniquely in the private sector, chartered security professionals have access to intelligence and classified threat material from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), the physical security arm of M15. The CPNI makes advice available to those with the CSyP qualifications allowing this to be routinely incorporated into threat assessments and analysis of risk.
The existence of chartered status provides an objective measure of experience and competency – and the assurance that you are hiring someone at the top of their profession.
Dave Neal CSyP is a strategic security adviser at Blackstone Consultancy
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NBCSL President, Rep. Gregory Porter of Indiana, contributes on a panel to discuss issues of health equity at the National Medical Association (NMA), 19th Annual National Colloquium on African-American Health.
On March 9 to March 12, 2018, the National Medical Association (NMA) held its Nineteenth Annual National Colloquium on African-American Health at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. This event brought together health experts, the media, and government officials to discuss the health disparities for African-Americans.
The Colloquium offered an opportunity for health experts and community leaders to address pressing issues facing African-American patients and healthcare providers. This year's Colloquium was titled, "The Urgency of Now: Creating a Culture of Health Equity," and focused on implementing actions and policies that will quickly result in positive health outcomes for minority populations. During the Colloquium, stakeholders collaborated on solutions to address health disparities, access to essentials health services for patients, and how to increase the number of African-American physicians. They also explored a myriad of action items and policy solutions that would improve the health outcomes for minority populations throughout the nation. During the Colloquium's awards ceremony, NMA honored leaders of health equity initiatives with signature NMA awards.
The National Black Caucus of State Legislators has a history of participating in this event. This year, NBCSL President, Rep. Gregory Porter of Indiana, contributed on a panel to discuss issues of health equity from the perspective of state and local elected officials. Pres. Porter was joined on this panel by the mayor of Grambling, LA, the mayor of Tuskegee, AL, and former NBCSL President, Mayor Catherine Pugh of Baltimore, MD. Other featured speakers included: NAACP President Derrick Johnson and National Urban League Senior VP for Policy Don Cravins on a panel discussing Health Equity as a Civil Rights Issue, media personality Roland Martin, Atlantic writer Van Newkirk, and POLITICO Health Care Editor Adriel Bettelheim.
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Top 10 Kansas City Royals Rivalries
Randomator The Royals have had some beef with various teams throughout their existence. Here's some of the more notable rivalries
1 St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League Central division.
I am a St. Louis fan, oof.. - ArcticWolf
These two teams have some history Often called the I-70 series or the Show me series these two teams have played annually for a long time. The peak of this rivalry was the 1985 World Series which Kansas City won. This rivalry has lost some meaningfulness since then with KC becoming irrelevant and St Louis becoming a dominant force in baseball. St Louis has beat up on the Royals but there's still some bitterness between the fans which still makes it a big rivalry in my book. Not as big in Kansas but ask any Royals fan in Missouri and they'll tell you the Cardinals are the biggest rival. - Randomator
2 Chicago White Sox
yeah - Oliversky
Probably the biggest division rivalry. Chicago and KC Have always had bad blood. They haven't really had many games of significance other than fighting for being better standing in the division. There's the whole Jeff Samardzija brawl in 2015. There's also the time two White Sox fans attacked Tom Gamboa - Randomator
3 Oakland A's
The A's once played in Kansas City and so there's been some saltiness ever since they left. They had some battles in the 70s. There was also some tension in the 2014 wild card game which was the best one ever change my mind. Plus the Raiders and Chiefs were already rivals - Randomator
4 New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Bronx, New York City, New York, that competes in Major League Baseball.
The Yankees are the New England Patriots of the MLB. Pretty much everyone hates them. The Royals and Yankees were bitter rivals in the 70s but nowadays this rivalry isn't as big - Randomator
5 Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball as a member of the American League Central division.
The Tigers and Royals are kinda similar ever since they have been in the same division they have been kinda good/ bad at similar times. There's been some competitive matchups in recent years when the Tigers were contenders and KC was competitive but now in 2019 they both suck again. Overall there hasn't really been any bad blood between these two teams - Randomator
6 Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Indians compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League Central division.
Sure they're division foes but Cleveland and KC haven't had much beef recently. They're more or less just a division foe and that's it. - Randomator
7 Minnesota Twins
They were rivals in years past but now they're nothing more than division rivals. Like Cleveland they really haven't had much beef. - Randomator
8 Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Blue Jays are a member of the East division of the American League in Major League Baseball, and play their home games at Rogers Centre.
KC came back from 3-1 in the ALCS in 1985 and they beat Toronto again in 2015. The true villain in this rivalry is Jose Bautista who went as far as to taunt Royals fans and complain at every call he disagreed with. - Randomator
9 Los Angeles Angels The Los Angeles Angels (known as the California Angels from 1965 to 1996, the Anaheim Angels from 1997 to 2004, and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2005 to 2015) are an American professional baseball franchise based in Anaheim, California, near Los Angeles. The Angels compete in Major League ...read more.
Not as big of rivals anymore but back in the 80s they had a great rivalry and won a combined 9/10 division titles between 1976-1986. The rivalry was sparked once again in 2014 in the ALDS in which the Royals swept the Angels - Randomator
10 Houston Astros The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas. They won the World Series in 2017.
The Astros and Royals are a very recent rivalry but they met in the 2015 ALDS and KC won the series including a game 4 comeback which has to leave their fans somewhat salty. It's still recent but this has the potential to become a good rivalry if KC becomes competitive again - Randomator
11 New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in New York City. They play in Flushing, in the borough of Queens.
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Today I'd like to welcome Lisa Veldkamp, author of the soon-to-be released paranormal novel, The Elemental – Part 1 of The Fire Trilogy.
Can you give us your quickest description of The Elemental?
Haha. That's a great description. It says immediately what the feel of the story is. What type of supernatural elements do you use?
I use the elements, obviously, as it's called The Elemental. The main protagonist can control earth, air, fire and water. I also use healing powers, the ability to see the future, to see and sometimes stop death, empathic abilities, mind-readers. Actually, I use quite a lot of them, hahaha! I'm trying to describe them as normal, though. That's part of my hidden agenda. Making the paranormal – normal, but don't tell anyone I said that.
I'm working on part II of The Fire Trilogy, The Empath. It's the same timeline as The Elemental, only seen from Tristan's point of view. We learn a lot more about his world, and his motives. It means a lot more research for me, because every conversation they have with each other, has to match. Also, the timeline has to match, so I keep going back and forth. There are moments when I want to throw my laptop out the window.
I also recently finished my first short-story for teenagers, The Bridge Between Yesterday and Tomorrow. I loved writing it so much, I think there's more to come. I'm not quite done with the world of trolls and Sweden. Yes, there's a bigger story in there.
You can't see me, but I'm nodding in sympathy about the the "timeline has to match" dilemma. That's really interesting. So is it the EXACT same story, just from a fresh perspective?
Yes, it is the exact same timeline – it is a completely different story, though. In The Elemental you see Catherine and Tristan interact, yes, but not that much. So it's only the moments they interact that are the same. Tristan leads a very different life and The Empath focusses on that life. It was rather interesting, however, to write the same scenes from his point of view.
I know other authors have done this. Stephanie Meyer did with Midnight Sun – Twilight from Edward's point of view. I loved it, but it's not really a new book as Edward and Bella have a lot of interaction in the original. So only the stuff away from Bella shows you something more. I wanted to avoid that. It is a trilogy, after all, not two books from a different perspective and one follow-up. At least, I hope I've been able to do that. Write three different books. Time will tell.
That is a really cool idea. So who inspires you to write?
Well, my family and friends of course, but my main source of inspiration is the band Placebo. If I never listened to their music, The Fire Trilogy would never have been written. I've said this many times, but when I was seeing them play at Pinkpop festival in 2009, something special happened. I had a vision of Catherine's world and later I dreamed the outlines of the entire trilogy. I took it as a sign to give writing a go. I love their music, but Brian – the singer – has been my muse ever since. Let's just hope they won't stop until I'm done with this trilogy. I have the complete outline, but some of the details are still fuzzy. I need him for that. He inspires me.
I don't know that I've ever heard that from another author – an entire trilogy of books inspired by hearing a band. What was it exactly that first gave you the vision of your fictional world? And can you think of other authors who've been similarly inspired?
The lyrics of Come Undone must have touched my brain on an unconscious level. I created a world of people with hidden talents. Talents which have to remain hidden. People with secrets. People who tell lies for a living, trying desperately not to lose themselves in the process. They balance their lives by doing very mundane things, which makes it easy to identity with the main characters. Don't we all create some form of escapism?
As for other authors, I'm sure there are many more out there, but nobody famous comes to mind. I know of musicians who write and books that have inspired bands or artists to write music. Just think of Kate Bush with Wuthering Heights and The Cure's Killing of an Arab, which was inspired by Albert Camus' disturbing novel The Stranger.
The interaction between art forms is always interesting to me. In that vein… In a perfect world where you could cast The Elemental for a movie, who would you pick for your main characters?
The main characters, wow, that's difficult.
For Catherine it would have to be a small actress and, if possible, British or in possession of a British accent. I loved Ophelia Lovibond in Elementary. (Mmm, close to my title, isn't it.) And I also liked her in Guardians of the Galaxy. I think she has it in her to play the main protagonist. I absolutely adore Sarah Michelle Gellar, but I'm not sure she could be convincing as a British woman.
Tristan is also very difficult. He's of Italian descent, so he has to have a southern vibe to him. He's quite strong, both physically and mentally, but he doesn't rub your face in it. Some of my personal favourite actors like Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise are what I call 'canon-fire'. They take over the entire screen and I can't have that with a character like Tristan. He knows how to blend in, to walk in the shadows. Maybe someone like Christian Bale or Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Danish is not very southern, but I just love him in Game of Thrones, I think dark hair would suit him.
Alan's a bit easier, to me, at least. Someone strong, but mysterious, with a hint of both good and bad guy. Paul Bettany could pull it off or Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes, someone along those lines.
I love that you put so much thought into the type of presence the character needs to project. Sidetracking a little bit, why do you think that's so important in an effective actor – portraying the internal persona rather than just an outward "look" of a character?
I think that's what sets aside the good actors from the really great actors. If you can let go of your ego and truly become someone else, that's its own form of magic, I think. For example, Heath Ledger's performance of The Joker really gave me goose bumps. He transformed into someone else. It can be dangerous too. Vivien Leigh from Gone with the Wind stated more than once she lost herself in her roles and Tom Hanks went to extremes in Cast Away with a whopping weight loss and spending weeks in water, causing a nasty infection which almost led to blood poisoning. He even required surgery. It does leave me with a feeling of awe, to be able to show such kind of dedication.
The rituals and meditations described in the book are based on real experiences. I adapted the Healing Flame meditation to the specific needs for one person, but anybody could use it. As long as you take it seriously and take you time. Rome wasn't built in one day, you know.
Do you think it takes guts as a writer to use one's own experiences? Or do you think there's an easy shield to hide behind in that "it's just fiction"?
I think it's a bit of both. If things get too personal, I can always hide behind "It's just fiction, you know." On the other hand, I'm proud of who I am and if people choose to put me in the 'weird' or 'fringe' box, then so be it. So yes, it does take a certain amount of courage to write about your own experiences, because I base my stories around real-life events. I'm not Catherine, nor any of her friends, but The Elemental does contain aspects of my life. So in a way, it'll be out there for all to see. That's kind of scary.
Thank you, Lisa, for sharing!
Thanks for the interview Sunshine. I really enjoyed talking to you. You ask some great, original questions!
Thank you for your interesting, unique answers! This was all a lot of fun to learn.


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B-Mets start strong with 8-4 win over Thunder
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The B-Mets beat the Trenton Thunder, 8-4, in their first meeting since last year's playoffs.
B-Mets infielder/outfielder Dustin Lawley went 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs.
Yankees pitching prospect Manny Banuelos allowed three runs in 31/3 innings.
The B-Mets' rotation got bolstered by additions of three starters to the roster prior to the game.
BINGHAMTON – Things could have been different if this Binghamton Mets club had been the one facing Trenton in the Eastern League playoffs last September.
The B-Mets hammered their Eastern Division rivals, 8-4, in front of an announced 3,427 at NYSEG Stadium on Thursday night. Dustin Lawley drove in four runs including a three-run home run in the first inning. Dilson Herrera scored two runs and also had two hits, including a double. Jayce Boyd went 2-for-3.
The win was the fourth in a row for the B-Mets. The game marked the first time the two teams have met since the Thunder eliminated the B-Mets from the Eastern League playoffs in September. The Thunder went on to win the league title.
The final game of their playoff series took place at NYSEG Stadium and featured multiple ejections, including B-Mets manager Pedro Lopez, and the benches of both teams being cleared in a brief altercation.
Lopez and Thunder manager Tony Franklin spent several moments at the end of the B-Mets batting practice session talking on the field.
"The first thing I said was I congratulated him on last year," Lopez said. "I thought they did a hell of a job. I thought that they deserved to win. They played well, and I told him that I felt like we got beat by a better team, and I think it showed at the end by them winning the whole thing."
As for the current season, the B-Mets have now won nine of their last 11 games. They remain in second place in the Eastern Division, and their pitching staff received a shot in the arm with the addition of three starters with six wins apiece prior to being promoted to Triple-A. All three had been promoted within the past three weeks.
Tyler Pill (6-5, 4.12), Matt Bowman (6-5, 3.50) and Greg Peavey (6-1, 2.86) are expected to start, in that order, for the B-Mets on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. All three returned after brief stays with Las Vegas, and Cory Mazzoni went to Triple-A after two starts with the B-Mets.
Depending on how long this new rotation remains intact, the B-Mets look built for success down the stretch again this season.
"Our pitching staff is very good," Lawley said. "We've got a great bullpen. We've got good starters. Our lineup, we're swinging it right now. We could make a run, but we ain't looking that far ahead. We're just taking it one game at a time and having fun."
The B-Mets have collected nine hits or more in 22 of their past 27 games. Trenton starter Manny Banuelos, who missed the 2013 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, lasted just 31/3 innings.
Franklin removed Banuelos, the 11th-ranked prospect in the New York Yankees farm system according to Baseball America, after 65 pitches. His last pitch plunked Darrell Ceciliani in the back.
The B-Mets scored three runs against Banuelos, all in the first inning and all scoring on a towering home run off the bat of Lawley, his team-leading 17th home run of the season. Herrera doubled and Brian Burgamy walked to set the table for the three-run blast over the left-field wall.
"See something up that I could just put the barrell on and hit something hard," Lawley said of his approach in his first at-bat. "That's basically been my approach my whole life, see something I can hit hard, and sometimes they go out."
The B-Mets added three more runs against reliever Jairo Heredia in the fifth inning on an RBI single by Lawley, a sacrifice fly by TJ Rivera, and an RBI single by Ceciliani to take a 6-2 advantage.
That lead expanded to as many as six runs, 8-2, in the sixth inning. The Thunder scored two runs in the seventh inning against reliever Ryan Fraser.
B-Mets starter Steven Matz struggled with command of his fastball from the start of his outing, and he allowed two runs (one earned) on five hits and two walks in five innings. He also struck out four while picking up his third Double-A win in five starts.
"My changeup got me out of a lot of stuff today," Matz said. "That was working well. Usually I pitch off of my fastball. I was just focusing on just trying to pitch downhill. (Pitching coach Glenn Abbott) came out and talked to me and just tried to tell me to make some little adjustments here and there. I was able to fight through it and get through five."


In about an hour, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will join President Obama and Senate Majority Leader (D-Nev.) in the Oval Office, launching the next phase in the debt-reduction talks. Before McConnell gets there, he's already trying to take part of a bipartisan solution off the table.
Hours before a meeting with President Obama at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that any debt-ceiling deals that included tax hikes would be "politically impossible" in the current Congress because most Republicans and many Democrats oppose them.
"Those who are calling for tax hikes as a part of these debt discussions either have amnesia about the fate of similar votes just six months ago — when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress as well as the White House — or they're acting in bad faith, since we all know that including massive, job-killing tax hikes would be a poison pill," said McConnell on Monday from the Senate floor.
McConnell said he plans to ask the president for ideas on how to solve the debt crisis that do not include tax increases. "I intend to ask the president what he's prepared to do, outside of raising taxes, about the massive deficits and debt that have accumulated on his watch", said McConnell.
Let's unpack this a bit, because I think it's important, especially now as the talks enter the final phase.
First, to characterize tax increases as necessarily "job killing" is idiotic, even for a congressional Republican.
Second, McConnell, like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), seems to believe that the caucus he ostensibly leads is so unreasonable, he can't even ask them to consider a bipartisan compromise. Indeed, as of today, McConnell believes anyone who suggests a balanced, bipartisan compromise is "acting in bad faith," because they're asking Republicans to do what every other bipartisan debt-reduction package has always done. This is insane.
Third, it's almost amusing to hear McConnell demand a presidential plan "outside of raising taxes." Does McConnell want to reduce the deficit or not? Does Obama get to say, "I intend to ask the Minority Leader what he's prepared to do, outside of job-killing spending cuts"? If not, why does McConnell — the leader of the Senate minority — get to bark orders to the majority about what can and cannot be on the table?
And finally, my personal favorite is McConnell whining about the "massive" debt that's "accumulated" on Obama's watch. Since McConnell is so concerned about "amnesia," let me refresh his memory: the The Kentucky Republican voted for the Bush tax cuts, and added the costs to the national debt. McConnell then voted to finance the war in Afghanistan by adding the costs to the national debt. He then voted to put the costs of the war in Iraq onto the national debt. McConnell supported a massive expansion of the government's role in health care, Medicare Part D, and voted to pile all of its costs right onto the national debt, and then backed the financial industry bailout, and added the bill to the national debt. All the while, McConnell had no qualms about voting to raise the debt limit, over and over again, without conditions.
But now he oft-confused Minority Leader is demanding (a) that Obama clean up McConnell's mess; and (b) do so in a way McConnell finds ideologically pleasing.
Tell you what, Mitch. Republicans concerned about who's responsible for the fiscal mess the GOP created should take a look at this chart, recently put together by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
When Republicans are done looking at it, they can start by apologizing.


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Jetskier blasted into river: 'He turned on the key and boom, it exploded'
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A jetski was left badly damaged when a fishing trip ended explosively before it had even started. Photo / Supplied
By: Sophie Ryan
News Team Leader, NZ Herald
sophie.ryan@nzherald.co.nz@sophiealiceryan
A man died and another was hurled off his jetski in an explosion in separate jetski fishing incidents over the weekend, but a leading figure in the jetski fishing community says it's a safe hobby.
The body of a 61-year-old jetski fisherman was found floating in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf yesterday after he went missing on Saturday night.
The Auckland man notified Coastguard at 2.30pm on Saturday when he set off from Half Moon Bay for a day of fishing. His wife raised the alarm at 8.30pm when he didn't return
from his trip.Waikato police chase ends dramatically in Tauranga
His jetski was found overnight Saturday, anchored, with a fishing line out.
Police said a local boatie found a body floating in the water between Waiheke and Motuihe islands about midday yesterday.
Police said the body was identified as the missing jetski fisherman, who had been wearing a lifejacket.
Kirk Davis, who hosts jetski fishing show Fishy Business on TVNZ, said jetski fishing was more popular in New Zealand than anywhere else in the world.
He said he had never had an accident on the jetski, and had never heard of any injuries or accidents before.
"It's a really safe sport, jetskis are very stable. You can stand on the side of a jetski and it doesn't tip. You hear of people drowning fishing in little boats quite a lot."
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Jetski fishing had been around in New Zealand for about ten years, Mr Davis said, and people who do it are usually former boaties with a lot of experience on the water.
"It's the ease of launching by yourself, they're very light, quick to wash down, and you can fish where boats can't go sometimes," he said.
"It's a lot of fun and you can get some big fish."
He said he didn't know the circumstances around the Aucklander's death, but understood the man had done everything right in terms of preparations for a day jetski fishing.
"What people don't understand is that if you fall in the water in a place where there's strong currents, you can quickly get separated from your ski, from your boat, from whatever you've anchored."
The man's death was an "absolute tragedy", Coastguard spokeswoman Georgie Smith said.
"But, there is some closure in bringing him home to his family," she said.
New Zealand Jetski Fishing Club president Andrew Hill said a big group of people joined the search for the man.
"We were only just one of the many assisting with the search."
He said the man had the "best intentions" and took safety precautions, including operating a VHF radio and lodging a trip report.
Meanwhile, in a second incident, a jetski fisherman was blasted into the Kaituna River, east of Tauranga, in a spectacular explosion yesterday afternoon.
Nothing was left of the front hatch of the jetski from yesterday's explosion on the Kaituna River.
Petrol fumes from fuel that had leaked into the hull of the jetski were understood to have been ignited by a spark when the rider turned on the engine.
It blew off the seat and engine cover, hurling the man into the water, where he was quickly retrieved by bystanders and a friend who had been parking the jetski trailer.
The Rotorua man, in his early 20s, was treated for possible concussion and a back injury before being taken by ambulance to Tauranga Hospital for observation.
Maketu Fire Brigade chief fire officer Shane Beech said the jetski was being launched for an afternoon's fishing about 1pm.
The explosion took place at the boat ramp in about 1.5m of water, a few hundred metres from the river mouth.
Bystanders told Mr Beech they heard the sound of the jetski being fired up and then the boom of an explosion.
"He turned on the key and boom, it exploded," Mr Beech said
"He lived to tell the tale."
The explosion blew the fire out, Mr Beech said.
- Additional reporting from John Cousins of the Bay of Plenty Times
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Been almost two weeks into the new year and I can't really seem to get into a regular pattern of blogging. I'm busy, but not crazy busy. The usual things in my life, taking my father to doctors appointments and learning something new. Finally learning something, that will hopefully be useful to me, learning to code. It's been very slow and everything still reads like gibberish. I'm amazed (little jealous) at people who have no experience and when they start learning to code, just get into some zone and learn it a rapid pace. To keep myself from going nuts, I take a little time and look for interesting stories to read. Here's a few links to keep you busy, till my next post.
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Things are starting to heat up between Teofimo and Kambosos
Teófimo López and George Kambosos went face to face in their last press conference before their fight this Saturday. The Madison Square Garden will host another historic match in which the World Boxing Association (WBA) Lightweight Super Championship will be at stake, along with the IBF, WBO, and WBC belts.
Lopez will make the first defense of his crowns, which he earned last year by beating Vasyl Lomachenko. After being out of the ring for various reasons, he will return to try to prove that he is the best in the division.
Both spoke about what they expect from the fight but the friction between them was evident. Some strong words were exchanged before what promises to be a war this weekend.
Teofimo assured that New York is his home and that this gives him an advantage for the fight. He also promised that he will put on a great show and win.
Kambosos is not the favorite for the fight but he was very confident: "He doesn't want it as much as I want it. Let's see what he does after the first round, when I'm still standing there".
The weigh-in ceremony will take place next Friday, where both boxers will have to weigh a max of 135-pounds. Teofimo and Kambosos are undefeated, the former has won 16 bouts with 12 KOs, while the latter has 10 KOs in 19 victories.
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Pepper spray nation With most of the UC board of regents being in the 1%, student demonstrators should expect more police brutality
Tuition fees at US Davis since 1992 have increased a staggering 534 per cent [EPA]
San Pedro, CA - The viral video of Lt John Pike casually pepper-spraying a line of peacefully seated student protesters has deep resonance for the Civil Rights generation. It's impossible to escape comparisons to Bull Connor ordering the use of fire hoses on the black youth of Birmingham on May 3, 1963. Pike sprays the students' faces as if they were cockroaches, many have said. The youth of Birmingham were sprayed with such force that some were knocked over like paper dolls. But it was segregation that was about to fall. The UC Davis students face a much more formidable foe, not least because it is harder to define. But their sacrificial courage holds the promise of helping to change that.
The details may differ between Davis and Cairo, but the underlying struggle is fundamentally the same: It is not just youth against age, freedom against repression, innocence against cynicism, hope against fear, dreams against nightmares - it is all that and more. But it is also something historically much more specific. It is the neo-liberal promise against its own grim reality, represented in the street battles in and around Tahrir Square, as well as the pepper-spraying of docile students at UC Davis.
How does it come about that this is the example that America sets for the world? How does a purported liberal democracy become a police state? The drama at Davis provides two paths towards answering that question.
First is the bizarre bifurcation of America's First Amendment freedoms, with one virtually unlimited form for 1%, who really don't need any protection, and another, carefully constricted form for the 99%, who really do need it. For the 1%, "money is speech", an absurd proposition that effectively transforms democracy into plutocracy. But for the 99%,actual speech, along with the closely-linked right of assembly, is subject to all sorts of restrictions as to "time, place and manner". Tents may cost money, but that doesn't make them speech. Don't be ridiculous. We're not talking about the kind of money that the 1% has.
Sticks over carrots
The second answer is a bit messier one. It has to do with the gradual recasting of a social democratic state - with a broad ethos of shared struggle, shared prosperity and a bedrock foundation of common dignity - into a neoliberal state with a runaway individualist ethos that ultimately tends towards psychopathy. Despite the stories they tell themselves, neoliberal elites are actually much closer to elite conservatives than they are to their own self-imagined liberal base. Their public rhetoric may still carry occasional echoes of FDR and LBJ, even Martin Luther King. But the privatising logic of how they think of policy is vastly more similar to that of Ronald Reagan, or the far less visible figures who worked busily in his shadow.
In his 1999 book, Lockdown America, Christian Parenti explains how he set out to try to understand why America had come to lock up so many of citizens - mostly black or brown - in such a short time. He began with the notion of "prison-industrial complex", but found the idea insufficient to explain the scope of the changes he observed. Instead, he identified an overall shift in the very nature of how capitalist America organised itself. Put simply, prior to the early 1970s, American capitalism sought to seduce the masses. But then, he wrote, the "crises of over-production, declining profits and the domestic challenge of racial and class rebellion required a move away from the politics of the carrot toward the politics of the stick".
For decades now, increasingly paramilitary police forces have been deployed against communities of colour, particularly the young, though others suffer less regularly as well. Nonetheless, the promise is that those who keep their heads down, study hard and get into top colleges will largely escape the sort of raw brutality that Lt Pike casually unleashed on the UC Davis campus that day. Obviously now, it's not a promise that can be kept. For once it is decided that human dignity is conditional, the dignity of everyone is in peril.
California's fading dream
Behind the headline-grabbing brutality of the pepper-spray video lies a decades-long story of the gradual privatisation of California's public college and university system - even as resources shifted to building a massive prison system instead. On the one hand, students face skyrocketing tuition costs - up more than 1,000 per cent in just over two decades, if current plans go forward - while tax increases on the wealthy are anathema. A 50-state study in 2009, "Who Pays?" found that California's 1 per cent paid taxes at a rate a quarter lower than its poorest 20 per cent did. On the other hand, students are ruled over by overpaid operatives of the 1%, whose orientations are utterly divorced from the spirit of public service.
Exhibit A on the latter point is UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, on whose orders the riot police were deployed. Katehi is both a member of the 1% and an overt supporter of police repression on campus. Although she has tried to disavow any responsibility for the pepper spraying of students, it has quickly emerged that she was a co-author of a report used to justify the recent repeal of a 1974 law, banning the police from Greek universities. That law was passed following the overthrow of a military junta. The repeal came just in time, earlier this year, to help suppress Greek protests against the imposition of harsh austerity measures.
As for her economic status, Katehi was hired in 2009 at $400,000 per year plus substantial benefits. That's the same base pay as the American President, and well more than double the pay of California's governor, who makes less than $175,000. Katehi holds numerous patents and her husband also teaches at UC Davis - more than enough to place her solidly in the 1%. Her salary represented a massive 27 per cent increase over the pay for the previous chancellor - the very same year that student fees were being hiked by 32 per cent, while classes were being cut. The reasoning was... well, it's not reasoning, really. It's just how things are done within the 1% - a procedure based on comparing pay for the heads of various different colleges, public and private, including Johns Hopkins, Yale and the University of Chicago.
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This makes perfect sense, considering the governing body behind her, the UC Board of Regents. It's a veritable Who's Who of the 1% in California. The Chair is Russell Gould, a former Senior VP of Wachovia Bank; Vice Chair is Sherry Lansing,former Chair and CEO of Paramount Pictures. Others include Richard C. Blum, president of his own investment firm and husband of US Senator Dianne Feinstein; Eddie Island, former VP for McDonnell-Douglas; Norman Pattiz, founder and chair emeritus of Westwood One, America's largest radio network company.
Now UC Davis is a very good school, but even UC Berkeley isn't Yale. It's not so much a question of educational quality - it's a question of founding mission and purpose... which are not very well served by the sorts of people sitting on the Board of Regents,none of whom has a distinctive educational background. The UC system is part of a three-tiered college system - universities, state colleges and community colleges - that according to California's 1960 Education Master Plan is supposed to provide affordable higher education to every high school graduate in the state who wants a public college education. Indeed, technically, it's supposed to be tuition-free. But student "fees" now make a mockery of that. The 32 per cent fee increase mentioned above was just a tiny fraction of the enormous fee increases since 1992 - roughly 1/16 of the 534 per cent total increase in dollars through 2009 - or 1/10 of the total when adjusted for inflation. It's now even higher, and current plans would jack that increase up to more than 1,200 per cent over 1992 levels in just the next few years.
Fee hikes haven't been smooth. They've skyrocketed in stages as public funding from California's state budget has plunged in a series of successive budget crises. But the dynamics are more complicated than first meets the eye, as UC Santa Cruz politics professor Bob Meister explained back in 2009. There are actually incentives for university officials to welcome state budget cuts, explained Meister, President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations. State budget money comes with strings attached, prioritising education. But money from student, ironically, has no such restrictions, and hence is perfect for empire-building, he explained.
"How does UC sell $1.3bn in construction bonds immediately after declaring an 'extreme financial emergency,' slashing funds for teaching and research and cutting staff and faculty pay? By using your tuition as collateral," Meister wrote online at KeepCaliforniasPromise.org. "Higher tuition lets UC borrow more for construction even while it cuts instruction and research." And this is only the beginning, he explained.
"UC's most recent (post-"emergency") construction bonds are just the beginning of a long-term (10-15 year) plan to borrow very much more against very much higher tuition in order to fund individual projects that no longer have to be approved by the state or paid for out of each project's own revenue."
In short, rather than the university existing to serve the students, it's the other way round. From the Board of Regents' point of view, the students are - above all else - a revenue stream to secure Wall Street funding. Hardly a surprise, really, when you consider the makeup of the Board.
Neoliberal markets gone awry
But that's only a part of the picture. At least two other broader frameworks need to be considered, both illuminating neoliberal economics. First is the existence of a higher-education bubble. While not identical to a classic asset bubble, since education as an asset cannot be sold, other key components are clearly in place: The accelerated inflation of college costs reflects the same dynamics of over-investment as classic asset bubbles (such as housing), while the rapid build-up of student debt reflects declining returns from renting the value of one's educational asset.
Asset bubbles in general are connected to neoliberal economics, since downward price pressures on wages are an inherent part of the neoliberal model, regardless of propagandistic denials. With wages declining, or stagnant at best, asset-holding of one sort or another remains as the only credible option for economic advancements. The lack of alternatives then results in over-investment, driving up asset prices into a bubble. The housing bubble was a classic example of this, but the underlying logic is quite general.
The second, related framework is that of overvaluing private services and undervaluing public options. Neo-liberals like to claim that they are really no different from social democrats, or New Deal liberals, so far as values and goals are concerned. It's only that they favour "the use of private means for public ends", as Ed Kilgore put it - a position often cast as "pragmatic" and "non-ideological". But this justification generally doesn't hold up to sustained scrutiny. It's not just that private means are so ripe for corruption, it's also that these market enthusiasts tend to misread how markets actually work.
In a very saavy post last April, "On Public Funding of Colleges and Towards a General Theory of Public Options", Mike Konczal first summarised the neoliberal argument at its best:
"One of the general principles of a neoliberal approach to providing goods is that it is better to give people cash to spend among private providers of a good rather than the government provide these goods themselves at a discount. Giving people cash fosters competition, innovation and choice, while the government providing goods directly at a discount will likely lead to stagnation, dependency and wasted resources."
But then he observed that this only applied to perfectly competitive markets, which generally don't exist. In the real world, private providers tend to get most of the value, as more money available drives up the price much more than it increases supply. That's a big reason why college costs inflate relative to other costs, as mentioned above. Konczal went on to quote from "Public Options: The General Case" by JW Mason:
"Conversely, when public funds are used to reduce tuition at a public university, they don't just lower costs for students at that particular university. They also lower costs at unsubsidised universities by forcing them to hold down tuition to compete. So while each dollar spent on grants to students reduces final tuition costs less than one for one, each dollar spent on subsidies to public institutions reduces tuition costs by more."
In short, real-world markets favour the non-market approach as more efficient! This really shouldn't be so surprising, considering how much Medicare drives down prices, for example. Whatever the field, private oligopolies will capture massive unearned rents, unless there's at least a vigorous public option to compete with them, and force their prices back down to genuinely competitive levels. The last thing in the world that private oligopolies want is a competitive-free market.
If one looks again at the Board of Regents, one sees that it's packed with oligopoly capitalists, well insulated from the rough-and-tumble of the idealised competitive marketplace that conservatives rhapsodise over. Both the actual capitalists and the idealised marketplace are far removed from everyday reality - as far removed as any theocracy on Earth.
Indeed, market fundamentalists are like any other fundamentalists: sacrificing the lives of their young in the self-deluded service of their gods. And that's the real bottom line behind the pepper spray video, and pepper spray nation for which it stands.
Paul Rosenberg is the Senior Editor of Random Lengths News, a bi-weekly alternative community newspaper.
You can follow Paul on Twitter: @PaulHRosenberg
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.


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When you enter a new home, it is understandable if you want everything in the house to remain perfect. However, as many people soon find out, a neat look doesn't just happen. It takes a lot of home maintenance and repairs to sustain it. A majority of first-time homeowners, however, find such tasks overwhelming for several reasons. Some honestly do not know what maintenance issues are likely to crop up. While for others, it could be that they do not know how to either prevent the unforeseen emergency or how to handle it when it occurs. So, how can a homeowner stay on top of his or her home maintenance? Here are some inspirational pointers.
Even if you had conducted a thorough property inspection before purchasing the property, it is prudent to re-examine it once you occupy it. In this instance, however, you will be on the prowl for signs of potential damage or wear. Find out what features or areas of the home are more likely to break down. While at it, also consider the geographical location of your asset, as that will significantly influence the type and frequency of maintenance activities to conduct. If you are in an area prone to heavy wind or storms, for instance, roof repairs are something that you might have to contend with frequently.
If you desire to stay on top of your home maintenance exercise, craft a list of all areas that need attention. It should include fire, smoke, and carbon monoxide sensors, plumbing, electrical circuits, HVAC systems, water heaters, roof, gutters, crawlspace, attic, door, windows, and chimneys. You should also examine the yard to determine the kind of maintenance it requires. For instance, weeding, mowing and pruning overgrown bushes. With such a list in place, it becomes easy for you to source for whatever maintenance tool or equipment you might need.
The good thing about home maintenance is that most of the activities involved are relatively easy to handle. Excellent examples are cleaning the property, discarding the trash, doing laundry, carpet cleaning and much more. Still, others like roof repairs, servicing the HVAC systems and fixing the electricity require expert skills. Take an objective assessment of your skills and determine which among the items on your list you can handle. Moreover, make sure that you have adequate time and resources to complete the task satisfactorily.
If after the above assessment you discover that you lack some essential home maintenance skills, consider acquiring those skills. Thankfully, there are many offline and online platforms from which you can learn how to tackle various household repairs and maintenance. These include practical lessons and DIY videos tutorials on how to test GFCI receptacles, change batteries in a fire or smoke detector, fix a leaky tap, change a worn out or dirty AC filter, unclog the gutters, remove stubborn stains on the upholstery and much more. Armed with such knowledge, it becomes relatively easy for you to tackle those pesky repairs.
Have you ever watched a home improvement episode on TV and wondered how they manage to make the maintenance exercise look so smooth and effortless? Well, the secret is that they have the tools and supplies appropriate for the job. Do yourself a favor by sourcing the right maintenance equipment and supplies such as vacuum cleaners, pressure washers, cleaning detergents, dishwashing machines, shovels, aprons, hand gloves and any other relevant tool. Such equipping will give you an easy time when handling the repairs and maintenance exercises.
If you are prudent, look for qualified professional service and maintenance contractors for your home. Go for the ones who have excellent reputations, great customer reviews and are affordable. Thanks to their background, your home will always enjoy impeccable service. It is equally important if they offer twenty-four hours emergency services. After all, you rarely know when you might need their services. It can be disastrous if a technician is unreachable when you are suffering a bathroom emergency.
At times the only reason you find property maintenance a daunting task is that you do not have a particular routine of handling it. As such, you might end up overlooking the "boring stuff "and only concentrate on the easy-to-do fun activities. The only problem is that the tasks that you ignored will eventually catch up with you in the form of breakdowns or high energy bills. Avoid such a predicament by developing a practical home maintenance and cleaning schedule and stick to it. Soon enough the entire exercise will seem effortless and natural to you.


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Board of County Commisioners
County Board of Equalization
Commissioner District Map
District 1 - East of Greene Street and North of
Austin Lashley
Austin is a local business owner and was elected in 2020. He previously served on the Silverton Town Board.
District 2 - West of Greene Street and North of
Scott Fetchenhier (Chairman)
Scott was elected in 2012. He has previously served on the Silverton District #1 School Board.
District 3 - South of
Ernest Kuhlman
Ernie has over 30 years of public service across numerous elected positions, including Mayor of the Town of Silverton.
The Board of County Commissioners serves as the administrative and policy-making body for San Juan County. The Commissioners are elected by voters to represent three districts. The Board approves the budget, hires staff, oversees land-use planning and development, and administers county services.
Voters elect the Clerk and Recorder, Sheriff, Assessor, Treasurer, Coroner and District Attorney, although the Board sets the budget for these offices each year.
Counties in Colorado are a constitutional subdivision of state government. Their boundaries, which are set forth in statute, were drawn by the General Assembly. Initially, counties were created to carry out the programs and policies of the state. These functions have grown over the years to encompass many policy and operational areas not contemplated 130 years ago. Counties can exercise only those powers specifically expressed in statute or in the constitution.
County Government Structure
For most purposes, San Juan County acts through its Board of County Commissioners (BOCC). The three-member board acts, by majority vote of a quorum present, to adopt ordinances in those limited areas for which specific authority has been given by the State Legislature, and to adopt resolutions to conduct all of its other business. The BOCC performs legislative, executive and quasi-judicial functions. The Board serves as the legislative, policy-making and administrative body governing the unincorporated areas of San Juan County. The BOCC appoints a County Administrator to carry out the policy directions of the Board and to supervise and coordinate the work of the staff in the departments that fall under direct control of the Board. With the exception of the County Attorney, the County Administrator will have line authority over all County divisions under the BOCC. The County Attorney is a constitutionally prescribed county office. By statute, the County Attorney is a position that is filled by appointment of the BOCC. The County Attorney's Office provides legal advice and representation for the BOCC. The County Attorney, with the approval of the BOCC, also advises and represents all other San Juan County elected officials, the County Administrator, department and division heads, and appointed commissions, boards and committees.
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For this month's second entry, I've decided to once again cross the pond, and highlight one of my favourite stops when in NYC. These photos are from the First Street Green Art Park, which as the name suggests is on East first street, near Houston (pronounced HOWS-ton), just on the border with the Lower East Side. It's a community effort, and features new art nearly every time I visit. I enjoy this space, because many of the murals, in addition to being quite beautiful, also convey positive, optimistic messages. Something in short supply these days. There aren't too many concentrated spots for street art in this part of the city; it is plentiful, but scattered. Here is the space's twitter account, so you can keep up with any goings-on.


Extent of the advance or move toward the completion of a job, program, or project, or the attainment of an objective.
It is important to always be making progress in your business so that other companies do not come along and pass you by.
Your business should always be trying to make progress for the future so that the profits will continue to keep rising.
Often times people expect to see progress in the gym right away, unfortunately it takes time and dedication before true results can be seen.
"Good jockeys will do well on good horses, but not on broken-down nags. Both Berkshire's textile business and Hochschild Kohn had able and honest people running them. The same managers employed in a business with good economic characteristics would have achieved fine records. But they were never going to make any progress while running in quicksand. I've said many times that when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."


The Utah Olympic Park will open its extreme tubing hills for the summer in early June.
On Monday afternoon, a crowd gathered around the Spence Eccles Olympic Freestyle Pool at the Utah Olympic Park as a group of aerial skiers slid down the ramps and flipped their way into the water below.
With music playing, crowds gathering around the pool and athletes practicing their craft, summer is almost in full swing at the UOP.
"You can tell it's summer when you can hear the skis going down the ramps," UOP Marketing Manager Melanie Welch said. "The jumpers started last week. It's going into full swing, but we'll really see it ramp up next week after Memorial Day. We'll have all the different [skill] levels going off the ramps soon."
This weekend marks the official start of summer at the UOP, with most activities set to begin operating seven days a week.
"Memorial Day weekend is really our true kickoff," Welch said. "Beginning this Friday, all our activities will be open daily. Kicking off, we'll have the usual suspects like the alpine slide, the extreme zip, the freestyle zip, the three levels of adventure courses and then the drop tower. Those are all activities visitors have seen the last couple of summers."
Comet Bobsled rides on the bobsled track will also kick off this weekend. Rides are available from 1-5 p.m. on weekdays and 1-6 p.m. on weekends.
Beginning in early June, the UOP will bring back extreme tubing, which Welch said drew a lot of visitors to the park last summer.
"We introduced extreme tubing at the end of last summer, which was a big hit," she said. "Right now, on the big Nordic jumps, they're putting down a turf material and extending it out into the outrun. Once that's complete, we'll open that for extreme tubing.
"This year, we're going to offer tubing on the small hills behind the museum as well. That'll open it up to a little bit younger of an audience. Last year, it was ages 10 and up. On the small hills, we can have a younger audience give it a go."
To participate in unlimited activities for a particular day, the UOP offers a Gold Pass, which costs $65 for adults and $40 for youth until June 30. Those prices are also offered from Sept. 9 to Oct. 23. The peak season (July 1 to Sept. 5) prices are $70 for adults and $45 for youth on weekdays and $75 for adults and $50 for youth on weekends.
Welch said there's extra value associated with the peak season weekend pricing, though.
"Something new for the Flying Ace All-Star shows is the price is now included in the Gold Pass," she said. "If you come up to do some of the activities on a Saturday or Sunday, the Gold Pass will include the freestyle show as well."
The Flying Ace All-Star shows, which feature USSA and other top athletes performing jumps into the pool, begin Sunday, June 26. They'll be held every Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. until Sept. 4.
A final public activity — the Psicobloc climbing wall — will open later this summer, Welch added.
"It's not up right now — they're doing some work on it as we speak," she said. "The ETA we've been given is the end of June. We'll open that to public climbing as soon as it's up. This year, we're going to include shoe rental as an option for out-of-town climbers who may not be travelling with their climbing shoes."
For those who want to hike or bike, the UOP is building new trails on both sides of the park, Welch said.
"We do have some new trails coming in, but they're not all totally finished just yet," she said. "Over on the bobsled track side of the park, there will be four new trails. They're finishing cutting those, so mid-summer they should be up and running. It's hiking and biking over there.
"We're also adding another trail over by the Nordic jumps. That's a really great way to see the jumping in the summer and it's a nice little switchback trail that takes you all the way to the top. It has several viewing points of the jumps and those are hike only."
For more information on activities and events at the Utah Olympic Park, visit http://www.utaholympiclegacy.com .