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            05.19.15

Sens. Rand Paul & Mark Warner Introduce the Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2015

U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mark Warner (D-VA) today introduced the Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2015. This bipartisan legislation will empower those on the front lines of federal spending to find efficiencies and improve productivity to return value to the taxpayer in the form of deficit reduction and less government borrowing. Building on the current federal law, the Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act would allow a U.S. government agency's inspector general to pay a bonus of up to $10,000 … Continue Reading

            05.18.15

Sen. Rand Paul Releases Third Edition of 'The Waste Report'

U.S. Senator Rand Paul today released the third edition to 'The Waste Report,' which is an ongoing project highlighting egregious examples of waste within the U.S. government.
The third edition of the 'The Waste Report' exposes thousands of dollars of waste in the U.S. Department of Education. In the coming weeks, the U.S. Department of Education will offer a multi-day writing course designed to teach twenty of their employees how to write an e-mail in the workplace.
'The Waste Report' can be … Continue Reading

            05.12.15

Sen. Rand Paul Votes to Release Wrongfully Imprisoned U.S. Citizens in Iran

U.S. Senator Rand Paul issued a statement following the passage of S.CON.RES.16, a concurrent resolution calling for the immediate release of four American citizens unjustly imprisoned in Iran. Among the detainees in Iran is Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American pastor that has been indefinitely imprisoned on account of his religious belief.
In November 2013, Sen. Paul was an original co-sponsor of a Senate resolution calling for the government of Iran to immediately release Pastor Abedini. Followi… Continue Reading

            05.11.15

Sen. Rand Paul Releases Newest Edition of 'The Waste Report'

U.S. Senator Rand Paul today released the newest edition to 'The Waste Report.' 'The Waste Report' is an ongoing project to catalog egregious examples of wasteful spending throughout the U.S. government. This week's report uncovers thousands of taxpayer dollars of potential waste in the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA). 'The Waste Report' can be found HERE or below.
Nuclear Waste: Dep. of Energy's $13K Treadmills
The National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) of the Department of Energy pu… Continue Reading

            05.08.15

TIME Op-Ed: What You Discuss on Your Phone Is None of the Government's Business

I've long said what you discuss on your phone is none of the government's business, and the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agrees.
Today, the federal court struck down the government's sweeping, undefined, and illegal war on civil liberties, ruling that it is unlawful for the National Security Agency to collect the bulk phone records of American citizens.
The three judge panel slams the overreach of the NSA's limitless metadata collection and privacy intrusion, writing in the opinion … Continue Reading

            05.06.15

Sen. Rand Paul Unveils 'The Waste Report'

U.S. Senator Rand Paul yesterday unveiled 'The Waste Report,' which will identify egregious examples of wasteful spending throughout the U.S. government. Periodically, 'The Waste Report' will highlight a new example of government waste. 'The Waste Report' can be found HERE or below.Medical Waste: Coast Guard Medical VacationsIn February, the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Homeland Security issued a report documenting a lack of oversight in the Coast Guard's Travel to Obtain Health … Continue Reading

            05.05.15

Sens. Paul, Ernst, & Boxer Introduce Legislation to Arm the Kurds in Support of Fight Against ISIS

Today, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced bipartisan legislation to provide for a temporary, emergency authorization of defense articles, defense services, and related training directly to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Other cosponsors include Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Marco Rubio (R-FL). This legislation would allow the U.S. to provide direct assistance to the KRG, a critical partner in the fight agains… Continue Reading

            05.04.15

Sens. Paul and McConnell Introduce Bourbon Bill on 51st Anniversary of Congressional Bourbon Resolution

On the 51st anniversary of Congress designating Bourbon as a distinctive product of America, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Rand Paul are introducing legislation which corrects a provision in the tax code to ensure that Kentucky's Bourbon producers are no longer at a disadvantage with their global competitors.
Earlier today, Senators McConnell and Paul introduced "The Advancing Growth in the Economy through Distilled (AGED) Spirits Act," which would level the playing fi… Continue Reading

            04.30.15

Sens. Paul, Schatz & Rep. Ellison Introduce RESET Act

U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) yesterday reintroduced the Reclassification to Ensure Smarter and Equal Treatment Act of 2015, known as the RESET Act. This bipartisan and bicameral legislation would reclassify specific low-level, non-violent drug possession felonies as misdemeanors, eliminate the distinction between crack and powder cocaine for sentencing, and ensure that food products containing drugs are weighed fairly. R… Continue Reading

            04.29.15

Sen. Paul Questions Secretary Jeh Johnson on Data Privacy and Encryption "Backdoors"

U.S. Senator Rand Paul today attended the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to question the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson regarding the scope of Fourth Amendment protections for American citizens.
During the hearing, Sen. Paul noted that the transition to encrypted data is a market-driven response to the U.S. government's bulk collection of the records of millions of Americans, and reiterated his view that law enforcement should instead … Continue Reading

            04.29.15

Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Joint Resolution of Disapproval to Repeal Internet Regulation

Sen. Rand Paul today introduced a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to nullify Internet regulations recently published by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Through the resolution, Sen. Paul will seek a vote in the U.S. Senate against the FCC's unnecessary and overreaching power grab for control over the Internet.
"This regulation by the FCC is a textbook example of Washington's desire to regulate anything and everything and will do nothing more … Continue Reading

            04.23.15

Sen. Rand Paul Reintroduces Constitutional Amendment Requiring Congress to Live by the Laws it Passes

Sen. Rand Paul today reintroduced a Constitutional amendment that would hold Congress to the same standard as the American people by requiring all laws to apply to Congress, just as they do to ordinary Americans. The legislation similarly contains two provisions that would apply this same principle of accountability to the Executive Branch and Judicial Branch of the federal government. "I oppose allowing Congress to exempt themselves from any legislation. To that end, today, I reintroduced a Con… Continue Reading

            04.21.15

Sens. Paul, Wyden and Rep. Lofgren Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Aaron's Law

Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced bipartisan legislation today to better target serious criminals and curb overzealous prosecutions for non-malicious computer and Internet offenses. The legislation, inspired by the late Internet innovator and activist Aaron Swartz, who faced up to 35 years in prison for an act of civil disobedience, would reform the quarter-century old Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to better reflect computer and internet ac… Continue Reading

            04.21.15

Sens. Paul, McConnell Introduce FOCUS Act of 2015

U.S. Senator Rand Paul and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today reintroduced the Freedom from Over-Criminalization and Unjust Seizures (FOCUS) Act of 2015. This legislation removes each and every reference to "foreign law" within the Lacey Act and substitutes the Lacey Act's criminal penalties with a reasonable civil penalty system.
The Lacey Act, originally passed in 1900, is a conservation law that attempts to prohibit the trafficking of "illegal" wildlife, fish and plants. It has sin… Continue Reading

            04.17.15

Sen. Rand Paul Participates in Bipartisan Panel Discussion on Criminal Justice Reform at Howard University

Sen. Rand Paul yesterday took his conservative message of criminal justice reform to Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C. The panel discussion titled, "From Protest to Politics: A Bipartisan Approach to Criminal Justice Reform" was moderated by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD). Panelists participating in the discussion included: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Reps. Raul Labrador (R-ID), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI).
"The War on Drugs has had a … Continue Reading

            04.17.15

Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2015

Sen. Rand Paul yesterday reintroduced the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2015. This legislation will bring common sense back to federal water policy by redefining "navigable waters," exclude ephemeral or intermittent streams from federal jurisdiction, and restrain the powers that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers hold over American landowners.
"Every year, thousands of property owners across America fall victim to the EPA and Army Corps of Eng… Continue Reading

            04.16.15

Sens. Paul, Boxer Introduce Bipartisan "Invest in Transportation Act"

U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would extend the Highway Trust Fund and create jobs. The Invest in Transportation Act of 2015, S. 981, incentivizes companies to bring some of the estimated $2 trillion in foreign earnings that are being held overseas back to the United States.
"Our nation's highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair and demand our immediate attention. My legislation with Senator Boxer is a fiscally r… Continue Reading

            03.31.15

Sens. Paul, Grassley Introduce Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2015

U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week introduced the Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2015. This legislation will remove Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) impediments to market competition and innovation in America's transportation fuel market.  "The EPA's onerous regulation of fuels is artificially limiting options for consumers and producers and preventing the adoption of new fuel options that could benefit our environment, our economy, and our energy se… Continue Reading

            03.27.15

Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Offset Increased OCO Funding

Sen. Rand Paul today introduced Amendment 992 to S.Con.Res.11, the Budget Resolution. This amendment would pay for the $96 billion of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding in the budget. That funding is exempted from budget caps and slated to cover ongoing war costs and increased defense spending in the regular defense budget contrary to the 2011 Budget Control Act.
"First and foremost, a strong national defense should always be the federal government's main responsibility. I believe C… Continue Reading

            03.26.15

Sens. Paul, McConnell, Heller, and Capito Introduce Legislation to Help America's Rural Communities

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation today to help rural communities harmed by Obama Administration policies that restrict access to rural lending opportunities. Sens. Dean Heller (R-NV), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Rand Paul (R-KY) are original cosponsors of the Helping Expand Lending Practices in (HELP) Rural Communities Act, which would provide rural communities with better access to credit opportunities that can help grow their local economies.

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Conservative Columnists Blame Abortion–Not Patriarchy–for Skewed Sex Ratios
6/29/2011 by Georgia Platts
A woman's right to safe, legal abortion has created a world of missing women, according to the most recent anti-choice talking points.
A new book by Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men—reviewed here on the Ms. Blog–reports that in the natural scheme of things, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. But those numbers are skewed in many countries: In India 112 boys are born per 100 girls, in China 121, in Azerbaijan 115, in Georgia 118 and in Armenia 120.
Hvistendahl does not blame the right to chose. But others do. Conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard (writing a book review for the Wall Street Journal) look at this study and blame abortion rights. Feminists cannot be consistent advocating the right to choose while criticizing sex-selective abortion at the same time, they say. In their view, abortion must be restricted in order to save the world's girls and women and regain the natural sex ratio.
But the right to choose is not the problem. The core culprit lies in valuing male children over female. When girls are esteemed as much as boys, parents will no longer seek to have sons and not daughters.
Douthat wrongly claims that patriarchy isn't the core problem. He sees women's empowerment as leading to more sex selection, not less, with many women using their increased autonomy to choose sons. Somehow he fails to see that patriarchy lies behind the phenomenon. Strange, since his next sentence admits that sex selection occurs "because male offspring bring higher social status."
Unfortunately, patriarchy becomes embedded in women's and men's minds alike. If males are more valued in a society, women unconsciously pick that up at a young age. Or they may ask their parents, who are likely to reinforce the status quo. Is it any surprise, then, that so many women choose sons over daughters, hoping to increase their own worth?
Meanwhile, the proposed remedy of abortion restriction would only devalue women further.
Another recent New York Times article introduces us to Danielle Deaver of Nebraska, a state which restricts abortion after 20 weeks. She was devastated when her water broke at 22 weeks, leaving her fetus little chance of survival. She risked serious infection without induced labor, but that wasn't allowed under the new law. She had to wait another 10 stressful days until she went into natural labor. The baby only survived 15 minutes, while Deaver developed an infection. Angered, she said, "This should have been a private decision, made between me, my husband and my doctor."
Last year, there was another even more horrifying instance of how restrictive, moralistic abortion policies impact women's lives. In this case, a Polish woman named Edyta died because doctors felt that treating her colon condition could lead to miscarriage or force an abortion. As writer Brittany Shoot explained,
Poland is one of several countries (along with Italy, Hungary and Croatia) in which doctors, not unlike pharmacists in the U.S., can refuse to treat someone on moral grounds.
Do these restrictions really value women? Or do we become disposable nothings whose bodies, hearts and minds don't really matter?
Despite what Douthat and Last say, feminists are consistent in being pro-choice while criticizing sex-selective abortion. We must get at the root of the world's missing women–the devaluation of women–and not try to remedy it with a "cure" that exacerbates the core problem.
For more feminist perspective on the issue of sex-selective abortion, see "Selecting the Same Sex," from On The Issues magazine, and Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.
Tagged: Abortion Access, Reproductive Justice
About Georgia Platts
Georgia Platts holds a Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA and currently teaches sociology and women's studies at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. She has occasionally lectured at San Jose State University. Her specialties are psychology of women and social psychology. As a qualitative sociologist, she's interested in the personal identities, emotional worlds and realities people work to create as they interact in everyday life. She is currently working on a book on motherhood. Georgia also volunteers with RESULTS, an anti-poverty group that works to economically empower the poor through adequate health care, asset building and education, with a strong focus on women and girls.
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Europe--Where "Up" is "Down"
According to Maxed Out Mama, the European sky is falling. The current crisis involves the controversial and elitist draft EU constitution. Though five EU nations ratified the draft without a plebiscite, at least ten countries "have agreed to hold referendums, which must take place before the end of 2006." (Voters in Spain already said "Si.") Recent polls suggest the constitution's in trouble in France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and the UK.
The French vote on May 29th and President Chirac is panicked about faltering public support. Pro-Constitutional forces -- particularly the Brussels bureaucrats the Constitution empowers -- have become Chicken Little:
Former European Commission president Romano Prodi has warned that a French No to the European Constitution would mean the "fall of Europe".
In an interview with French newspaper Journal du Dimanche (24 April), Mr Prodi said that a French rejection of the document on 29 May would result in "no more Europe".
"We will go through a great period of crisis. The problem will not only be a catastrophe for France, but the fall of Europe."
Luxembourg Premier Jean-Claude Juncker frets, "France will lose its pride of place in Europe if it rejects the constitution." And in Britain, debate about the draft Constitution is dominating both Tory and Labour campaigns for the May 5th general election.
Opponents of the constitution complain of empowering a centralized bureaucracy, lack of voter accountability, increased red-tape regulation and the probable hostility to competition and free markets. Quite unintentionally, French Justice Minister Dominique Perben revealed the principal problem: "This constitutional treaty is an enlarged France. It is a Europe written in French." Christopher Caldwell agrees:
Ever since France, Germany, Italy, and the Low Countries united in a common market half a century ago, Europe-wide cooperation has taken place on France's terms.
That can't be good.
Surprisingly, the French opposition disagrees, says Daniel at Bloggledygook:
The No campaigners, ironically, have been able to portray the constitution as giving the "Anglo Saxons" too much influence. . .
Presently, the EU has in place protectionist rules that make it difficult for individuals and businesses to sell their services outside their home market. This is a big deal because this sector accounts for half of the aggregate economy of Europe. French businesses and labor unions are worried that removing the restrictions would damage their businesses because the comparatively high wages and benefits currently paid to French workers would mean that businesses and jobs would be lost to countries with lower-wage employees.
Indeed, that's why the French government favors ratification:
President Chirac: "This text is the crowning of what one could call the French vision for Europe, against the Anglo-Saxon vision, purely free-trade, intergovernmental and souverainiste. This Constitution was wanted by France, and is largely inspired by France."
Budget Minister Jean-François Copé: "To vote 'yes' is to show one's attachment to the French model and one's refusal of the Anglo-Saxon or Polish model."
Minister for Transport and Tourism Giles de Robien: "A 'no' vote is an open door to an Anglo-Saxon Europe."
Polish and Anglo-Saxon markets?--Quelle horreur!
It's all quite mysterious. Perhaps French logic relies on untranslatable idioms. Alternatively, the French might be insane. Still, a "no" vote won't change much: The EU has a history of disregarding democracy, says Lancelot Finn:
Why did the Irish referendum [on the 1992 Maastricht Treaty] have to be held twice? Because the first time, the Irish didn't give the answer that Euro-elites wanted. This has happened before: Denmark, too, held a second referendum after they rejected the Maastricht treaty. When the Euro-elite wants something, "no" is considered a temporary answer, "yes" a permanent one. Repeated referendums are the only tip of the iceberg of "democratic deficit."
The reason for Europe's autocracy? Paternalism: "The Euro-elites, like many visionaries, are reluctant to let their plans be contingent on voters. Voters are unreliable. They do things like vote for Le Pen." Put differently, in Europe, the ends justify the means.
More evidence Europe's no role model. Unless you enjoy the falling sky.
MaxedOutMama further analyzes Europe's "democracy deficit" and also links to this must-read article by Charles Wyplosz:
The French regard with great sadness their declining status and prestige - not only in world politics, but also in culture, science and, importantly, language. Europe, in their view, was always a way of reclaiming world influence. . .
[But] successive EU enlargements over the decades have brought in other powerful contenders, chiefly Spain and the UK, as well as smaller countries that are unwilling to bow before French-German leadership. In short, France has lost control of Europe. This is not new, but it has only recently started to sink in, and it hurts.
France is also economically wounded. Here is a country that has long cherished its "exception" from the normal rules of market economics, a foggy view that rejects both central planning and free markets and claims to offer a well-balanced middle ground. The French do not care that they have never been able to articulate their vision of a "third way," for they remain deeply convinced that the state has a key role to play in steering markets in order to defend "higher" values from the single-minded pursuit of materialism.
This view, propagated since World War II by a quasi-Marxist intelligentsia, is so ingrained that the French do not even bother to understand how markets operate. They look upon economics as an ideological battleground, where all views can be entertained without being confronted with logic, much less with facts.
And in his Weekly Standard piece on the new Pope, Joseph Bottum is pessimistic about Europe:
Does anyone doubt that Western Europe is tumbling downward? It cannot summon the will to reproduce itself. It has aborted and contracepted its birthrate down toward demographic disaster: perhaps 1.4 children per couple across the western end of the continent, when simple replacement requires a rate around 2.1. It can discover neither how to absorb nor how to halt the waves of Islamic immigrants swamping its cities, and it has proved supine in the face of those immigrants' anti-Semitism, anti-Christianism, and even anti-Europeanism.
Meanwhile, Western Europe's economies are soft, its unemployment rates are shocking, and its emerging continent-wide government is elitist and antidemocratic. Its people are hedonists and materialists, its soccer clubs are nativist militias in waiting, its churches are empty. . . The newly elected Pope Benedict XVI has just inherited the world's greatest pulpit, but, on his home continent at least, there's hardly anyone in the pews to listen.
Sixteen hundred years ago, a magnificant and unified culture disintigrated because, among other things, "the long period of peace and the uniform government of the Romans gradually extinguished the industry and creativeness of the people, as well as the military discipline and valour of the soldiers [and] the multiplication of oppressive taxes was countered and evaded by the rich, who shifted the burden to the poor, who in turn also dodged them and fled." Sound familiar? If the EU was aiming for empire, there's a job opening for a new Gibbon to chronicle its decline and fall.
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The view from Holland, in the April 28th London Times:
Europe, for the Dutch, has lost its allure. Few politicians now call for an ever-closer union. Even fewer see in Brussels a model of efficiency, probity or accountability. The Dutch are to vote on the European constitution three days after the French referendum. Disillusioned with EU bureaucracy, resentful that they pay a disproportionately high share of the EU's rising costs and fearful of losing their national identity, the Dutch may vote decisively against. . .
Several factors contribute to this unease. The first is disgust at the way the French and German governments conspired to destroy the Stability Pact, revealing that in the EU some animals are far more equal than others. Dutch enthusiasm for the single market has also been tempered by the feeling that other Europeans have taken advantage of, or abused, Dutch liberalism, which was the cultural cornerstone of the country. However, the Dutch have come to realise that its generosity has been abused in Brussels, where true liberalism is seen by many as weakness.
Nowhere has this issue been more controversial than in the field of immigration. The large number of recent immigrants has strained Dutch social security budgets at time when economic retrenchment has forced painful cuts. Some immigrants have not only failed to integrate into Dutch society, but even actively oppose, as sinful and corrupt, its liberal values. With the murder of the right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn, and the more recent killing of a controversial film-maker by Muslim extremists, many Dutch fear that their hospitality and tolerance have been exploited by the intolerant.
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Nah, I don't think much will change if this constitution isn't ratified. I think they'll just send it back and back until the voters learn their lesson and ratify it.
I find it very funny that the MEP's are dashing around in hysterics about the possibility of France not ratifying!!! Of course, it hasn't stopped them from trying to improve their pay and benefits package a bit more.
Lancelot Finn says that Europeans know that they are dominated by an elite and don't see voting as particularly important because it doesn't change things. That may be so, but that may be ending. The services directive looks like it was the straw that broke the socialist's back, and I see the same concerns in Germany.
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Looking backward at the future
posted by Jason Kottke Aug 31, 2005
As technology plunges ever forward (or as we perceive it doing so), it's not often that we stop to take a look back at how people thought the future was going to unfold before them. Peter Edidin of the NY Times recently did so, reviewing prognostications about radio, films, and television. It's fun to read the ones where people thought the new technology was going to complete overtake and eliminate an older technology (which does happen, but not as often as people expect). Bruce Bliven on radio in 1922:
There will be only one orchestra left on earth, giving nightly worldwide concerts; when all universities will be combined into one super-institution, conducting courses by radio for students in Zanzibar, Kamchatka and Oskaloose; when, instead of newspapers, trained orators will dictate the news of the world day and night, and the bedtime story will be told every evening from Paris to the sleepy children of a weary world…
D. W. Griffith, the great filmmaker of the early era, had this to say of film in 1915:
The time will come, and in less than 10 years, when the children in the public schools will be taught practically everything by moving pictures. Certainly they will never be obliged to read history again. Imagine a public library of the near future, for instance. There will be long rows of boxes of pillars, properly classified and indexed, of course. At each box a push button and before each box a seat. Suppose you wish to "read up" on a certain episode in Napoleon's life. Instead of consulting all the authorities, wading laboriously through a host of books, and ending bewildered, without a clear idea of exactly what did happen and confused at every point by conflicting opinions about what did happen, you will merely seat yourself at a properly adjusted window, in a scientifically prepared room, press the button, and actually see what happened.
But it's also fun to see when people got it right, more or less. In 1936, J.C. Furnas had this to say of television:
It is my hope, and I see no reason why it should not be realized, to be able to go to an ordinary movie theater when some great national event is taking place across the country and see on the screen the sharp image of the action reproduced - at the same instant it occurs. This waiting for the newsreels to come out is a bit tiresome for the 20th century. Some time later I hope to be able to take my inaugurals, prize fights and football games at home. I expect to do it satisfactorily and cheaply. Only under those conditions can a television get into my house.
Under that set of criteria, it probably took awhile for a TV set to enter the Furnas household, but by the time NBC started broadcasting sporting events in the mid-1940s, they probably had one.


The processing of sugarcane, and by extension molasses, can be traced back through history to 500 BCE India. This process and its resulting products spread to China and the Middle East. Arabs then passed it along to Europeans.
Sugarcane was planted in Spain and Portugal in the 1300s. When Christopher Columbus set off across the Pacific he carried sugarcane with him. The plant found the perfect growing environment in the West Indies. By the 1600s, it had moved up into the southern American colonies.
Here, the origins of molasses becomes somewhat checkered. Molasses was, at least, partially responsible for the slave trade. During a period starting in the 1600s and extending into the 1900s, traders engaged in the most infamous example of Triangle Trade.
They carried slaves from Africa to the Caribbean where the slaves were sold and often put to work on sugarcane plantations. Molasses from these plantations were loaded aboard as payment, and the traders continued on to the second leg of the triangle, north to New England. Here, the molasses were sold to make rum, and rum was taken on board as payment. The third, and final, leg of the journey was back to Africa.
Everyone wanted a piece of this highly profitable trade, including non-British colonies nested in the West Indies. Unable to compete with the sugar plantations of their French colonial rivals, British Parliament passed the Molasses Act of 1733. This act imposed stiff taxes on molasses, sugar, and rum imported to North American colonies from non-British sources. The imposed monopoly and higher taxes did little to endear continued British rule to New Englanders, and the Molasses Act became one of the catalysts that would spark revolution.
Not only did this tax hurt many New Englanders who were getting rich off the trade, it also made it more expensive for ordinary colonists to buy one of their most valued staples. Molasses was the standard sweetener in colonial America, a daily dietary addition to baking, fried vegetables, beans, corn grits, coffee, and marinades. Children were often given warm milk with a hint of molasses before bed. Colonial brewers, too, found the "black honey" indispensable.
The usual brewing ingredients were hard to come by in the New World. But for some wild hops, the bittering herb was scarce and the barley varieties usually relied upon did not grow well in America.
Immigrant brewers turned to using spruce tips, anise, and coriander to bring some balance to their brews. Importing barley from Britain was expensive, and only the more well-to-do brewing families could afford the cost.
So, many brewers had to find other sources of sugar. Squash, bran, maize, parsnips, persimmons, and most popular of all, molasses, were all used to feed the yeast and produce beer.
Gregg Smith documents in his book Beer in America that, as a result of using, what some deemed, questionable brewing ingredients, beer purity laws were put in place by British authorities starting in the mid-1650s. But, there was a loophole.
The laws only covered colonial taverns, not those beers brewed around the home fires. So, in effect, all the laws managed to do was increase the amount of "corrupted" beer brewed in the home.
An English traveler to Maryland seems to corroborate the popularity of molasses in colonial brewing, even to the point of choosing it over maize. This observation was originally published in 'The London Magazine' in 1746, and reprinted 161 years later in the The William and Mary Quarterly (1907).
Recipes for beer using molasses give some idea just how big a role the ingredient played. There is George Washington's famous recipe for a Small Beer, written in the journal he kept as a young colonel during the French and Indian War.
And in his 1830 book, The Town and Country Brewery Book, W. Brande publishes the following Philadelphia "recipe to make a wholesome cheap drink".
The recipes continue down through the 1700s and 1800s, making it easy to track its ongoing use. Molasses are included in Captain James Cook's recipe for spruce beer, along with the spruce beer recipe in Amelia Simmons's 1796 book American Cookery, and Mary Randolph's recipes for both spruce and molasses beer in her 1824 book, The Virginia Housewife.
Interestingly, from about 1820 to around 1880, there were beer purity laws in effect in Britain. These laws made it illegal to use many "adulterants" while brewing, and very nearly limited the usable ingredients to just water, yeast, malt, and hops.
There were claims of using things like opium, marble dust, salt of steel (iron sulfite), copperas, and tobacco. Oddly, other common brewing ingredients were also banned, including honey, raw grain, and molasses.
Though, some of these claims were no doubt true, there seems to be less proof in other cases. Acclaimed author Ron Pattinson points out, that most of the prosecutions were for watering down beer or adding something to increase head.
Pattinson even gives a reference to a list of prosecutions from 1815 to 1818, taken from A Treatis On Adulterations of Food by Friedrich Accum. The list shows that along with using salt, salt of steel, and watering down beer, one of the main ingredients brewers were prosecuted for was molasses.
At one time, molasses was also used to darken beer, especially porter. Before Daniel Wheeler invented the drum kiln in 1818, making black malt possible, molasses was one of the types of sugar often used to make essentia bina; a black extremely bitter thick syrup, which was then used to darken beer.
To make the stuff you basically let molasses or some other form of sugar heat up in an iron pan until it catches fire then quickly douse it. Sounds exciting.
Of course, the invention the drum kiln and the ability to make black malt made this form of coloring unnecessary, but it could still play a role if trying to authentically recreate a pre-1800s porter.
Molasses is a byproduct of the sugar making process. The raw material can either be sugarcane or sugar beets, but only molasses from sugarcane is used in cooking and brewing.
To extract the cane juice, the stalks are pressed by a series of heavy rollers, squeezing the juice from the pulp. The juice is than boiled until it the sugar crystallizes out of the syrup. A centrifuge is used to separate the sugar crystals from the syrup. The leftover syrup is molasses. The number of times the syrup is boiled results in the different varieties of molasses.
Below, we have put together a guide on everything you need to know if you're wanting to brew your own beer using molasses. While it may not be the most conventional ingredient in modern day brewing, it still has the ability to add all sorts of interesting characteristics to a recipe.
First, you have to decide what type of molasses you want to use in your recipe.
There are three main types of molasses derived from the number of times the sugarcane is boiled. Each successive boiling creates a darker, less sweet, but more robustly flavored syrup.
Come from the first boiling of the sugarcane. Other names include "Barbados," "sweet," "mild," or "first." It is amber to light brown in color and contains about 65% sucrose.
This is the syrup produced from a third boiling of the sugarcane. It is near black in color, very thick, bitter, and has a sucrose content of only 55 percent.
Note: There is a fourth type called Fancy molasses, but it doesn't come from the same process as the other three. Instead it is 100% condensed sugarcane juice. Thus, it is lighter in color and sweeter than any of the other types. It is much like maple syrup in its color, sweetness, and consistency.
As with any other brewing ingredient, you should examine it before using. If there appears to be mold or it looks like it has separated, it's better to be safe and buy new. If everything looks good, do a smell and taste test. Does it smell like molasses should? If it smells alright, then try a small sample. If it tastes like molasses, than your most likely ready to brew!
First, is easy to overdue molasses. Always, keep this at the forefront of your mind when you are preparing to brew a recipe with it.
Flavor wise, molasses will usually work best in darker beer styles. It can match and enhance the characteristic flavors of caramel and dark fruit found in darker malts. The lighter the beer you're planning, the lighter color molasses you'll want to use. Darker molasses in lighter beer will run headlong over the subtler flavors in the beer, to say nothing of adding a lot of color.
Molasses can be added straight to the boil. Be sure to stir often to avoid burning.
In all but the case of recreating a colonial molasses brew, you'll want to stick to this rule of thumb, don't make more than about 20% of your fermentables adjunct sugar. This is especially true, even might be a bit high, when it comes to the robust flavors in the darker molasses.
Adding 20% blackstrap to your beer is going to make it have more in common with a colonial molasses beer than one with 10% blackstrap. Discretion must be taken with an ingredient having such characteristic and strong flavors.
Experiment with the quantity over several batches of the same beer. Start small. A good quantity to start with is about one cup for a 5 gallon batch.
You don't want to overpower the other flavors in your beer. That is, unless you're going straight-up colonial and doing a molasses beer with no other sugar sources involved.
Always look for unsulphured molasses.
If they have a strong metallic flavor you are probably better off looking for a different product.
Contains notable amounts of fructose and glucose and half, or less, the amount of sucrose found in refined sugar.
Molasses is widely available and can easily be purchased in most local grocery stores. Try to get organic if you can, and always make sure there are no additives. Many homebrew supply stores also carry medium/dark and blackstrap. The finer varieties may be available in the grocery store or can be special ordered.
If stored properly, molasses can have a shelf life that extends for a couple of years. However, it is possible for it to last much longer. Pay attention to the expiration date, but don't take it as gospel. I have a bottle of Plantation Organic Blackstrap with an expiration date of 2013, and I can't tell much of a difference between it and a new bottle I bought.
But also remember, unlike honey, molasses can go bad. Mold can form on molasses in the form of small fuzzy, discolored spots or a hard-to-see slick on the surface. Molasses cannot be salvaged after mold has started to grow, so if you find you've got mold it's time to spring for new bottle.
Store your molasses in a cool dry place, like the back of a pantry. Make sure your lids are tight, and clean off any excess syrup around the opening and off the jar before you put it into storage.
As you choose a variety that goes up in color, expect it to become more robust in aroma and flavor.
Light: Buttery, sweet, slightly rummy notes.
Medium/Dark: Fuller mouthfeel, light sweetness, deeper rum notes, and slight tarry or burnt character.
Blackstrap: Full, Robust, heavy. Some bitterness, notes of rum and raisin, along with heavy tar and burnt caramel.
Like honey, molasses is a more nutritious alternative to refined sugar. Sugar from molasses is absorbed into your blood stream slower than refined sugar. It also contains trace vitamins and minerals, including B1, B3, B5, B6, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus. All of which are important to your bodies healthy function.
So, going with molasses instead of a more refined sugar in your beer recipes may have some added benefits. Of course, I'm not a doctor.
To help you gain a better idea of how molasses can add to the character of different styles of beer, I would recommend you sample as many of these as you can find. This, ummm… "research" will, no doubt be fun, but also give you a deeper understanding of how you might use molasses in your own recipes.
Poour Richard's Tavern Spruce from Yards Brewing Company (USA) – Also uses spruce tips.
Glutenator from Epic Brewing Company (USA) Gluten Free.
Spruce Ale from Clan Brewing Company (UK) – Aged in whiskey casks.
What kind of yeast would be best for a colonial style beer? Molasses beer / honey beer and Ginger beer. Only doing gallon batches and only buying organic ingredients / purified spring water..
A slower ferment could make a thicker head and a fizzier could happen from an added tiniestl pinch of yeast towards the end right when bottling. Also, the wine yeast is smoother and less raw so stick with traditional beer yeasters? My last idea is to use a small amount of a cocktail fruit in the brewing, like pineapple. Other milder fruit would make a smooth beer? but not as foamy.
I like your ideas of varied gallon batches, easy to try without a huge commitment and then easily duplicated for best beer 🙂 !


On today's 164th Episode. Christopher Nolan's Next Movie has a Release Date and that's pretty much all it has! But it's Nolan and were British so we're going to talk about! Aqua-Man 2 is in Development, and its the most successful DC Movie, So we'll about talk the Birds of Prey Teaser instead! And the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Blows the Oscars Best Picture Race Wide Open! All that and more on the Glorious Movie Show.


Insulin 'Pill' Could Replace A Shot Someday, Researchers Say : Shots - Health News A lot of vaccines and some medications need to be delivered by injection. Two groups of researchers are designing ways of delivering these medications by putting them in pill form.
A team of researchers in Boston has developed an insulin-delivery system that injects the medicine directly into the stomach wall, which is painless.
Many vaccines and some medicines, such as insulin, have to be delivered by injection. That's a pain, both for patients and for health care providers. But two groups of researchers are trying to put some of these medications in pill form to avoid the needle.
One team of scientists, from MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, developed a system to deliver insulin that actually still uses a needle — but is so small you can swallow it and the injection doesn't hurt.
They built a pea-size device containing a spring that ejects a tiny dart of solid insulin into the wall of the stomach, says gastroenterologist Carlo Giovanni Traverso, an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"We chose the stomach as the site of delivery because we recognized that the stomach is a thick and robust part of the GI tract," Traverso says.
So far so good, but Traverso says there was a problem the team had to overcome: "How do we get these devices to self-orient such that the end that is doing the injecting part is in direct contact with a tissue?"
"Leopard tortoises happened to have evolved a way of doing this," Traverso says. The shape of the tortoise shell helps the turtle flip over if it happens to wind up on its back.
And there was another source of inspiration: Weebles, those egg-shape toys that wobble but don't fall down.
The self-righting capsule orients itself inside the stomach and ejects a tiny dart of solid insulin that's about a quarter of an inch long.
As the researchers report in the journal Science, they've tested the device on pigs, and it can deliver a therapeutic dose of insulin provided the pig has an empty stomach.
"It actually propels [itself] using bubbles in a reaction of magnesium with biological fluids," Fang says.
Much like Traverso's design was inspired by the shape of a tortoise shell, the bubble-propelled microrocket travels like a bacterium.
"If you had bacteria invade your gut, they're not just going to be sitting around statically, they're going to be swimming around, and they're going to make it to the intestinal wall," Fang says.
As Fang and his colleagues report in Nano Letters, their delivery system works in mice, but human testing is probably many years off.


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Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain"; Barese: Castídde d'u Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.
It stands on a promontory, where it was constructed during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily.
In the 18th century, the castle's interior marbles and remaining furnishings were removed.
It has neither a moat nor a drawbridge and some considered it never to have been intended as a defensive fortress; however, archaeological work has suggested that it originally had a curtain wall.
Described by the Enciclopedia Italiana as "the most fascinating castle built by Frederick II", the site is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Dissecting Mr. Rockefeller: First Circuit Rejects Copyright Infringement Claim Based on Unoriginal Elements of News Photograph
Posted on January 17th, 2013 by David Kluft
Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, lived a double life until his conviction for child abduction in 2009. He was subsequently charged with an unrelated murder in California, and that trial is set to begin later this month.
But the most recent chapter in the Rockefeller saga has very little to do with Rockefeller himself. In 2007, before anyone had ever heard of the man, a Boston newspaper photographer named Donald Harney was assigned to take some pictures of Boston's tony Beacon Hill neighborhood on a Sunday in early Spring. One of the photographs he took was the picture above on the left, depicting Rockefeller and his daughter.
A year later, however, Rockefeller abducted his daughter. The photograph, which was used on FBI posters to facilitate the safe return of the little girl, became a temporary icon of sorts. Harney let the FBI use the photograph for free, but also licensed it to multiple media outlets.
In 2010, Sony Pictures produced a made-for-television movie about Rockefeller, entitled "Who is Clark Rockefeller?" In order to portray the role of the photograph in the story, Sony decided to recreate it, resulting in the image above on the right. Harney objected to the recreation of his photograph, and sued Sony for copyright infringement in Federal District Court in Massachusetts, arguing that Sony's image was substantially similar to his own.
Earlier this month, on the eve of Rockefeller's murder trial, the First Circuit affirmed the District Court's tossing of Harney's case on summary judgment. The case came down to a fight between competing methodologies for determining substantial similarity. Harney argued that the court should focus on the photographs' overall expression of the Rockefeller saga to determine whether they were substantially similar. The First Circuit, however, rejected this methodology and stuck to what it refers to as "Dissection."
In the dissection analysis, the Court first must pick apart the plaintiff's photograph to determine which elements are works of expressive authorship and which are unprotected facts, which cannot be copyrighted. These unprotected facts are not considered when comparing the images. This analysis is particularly important in the case of news photographs, because the artists normally have no independent copyright in their subject matter.
In the Harney photograph, for instance, Harney could be credited with choosing the backdrop, the framing and the lighting. However, these were not the elements that were copied. The elements that were copied, including the daughter riding piggyback, the dress of the actors and the piece of paper in the man's hand, were "facts" that Harney did not create. Thus, even though Mr. Harney's photograph was admittedly the basis for Sony's photograph, the protectable elements of the two images were not substantially similar.
Neither the First Circuit nor the District Court reached Sony's fair use argument.
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Economics has developed into one of the most specialised social sciences. Yet at the same time, it shares its subject matter with other social sciences and humanities and its method of analysis has developed in close correspondence with the natural and life sciences. This book offers an up to date assessment of economics in relation to other disciplines.
This edited collection explores fields as diverse as mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, sociology, architecture, and literature, drawing from selected contributions to the 2005 Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). There is currently much discussion at the leading edges of modern economics about openness to other disciplines, such as psychology and sociology. But what we see here is that economics has drawn on (as well as contributed to) other disciplines throughout its history. In this sense, in spite of the increasing specialisation within all disciplines, economics has always been an open discipline and the chapters in this volume provide a vivid illustration for this.
Open Economics is a testament to the intellectual vibrancy of historical research in economics. It presents the reader with a historical introduction to the disciplinary context of economics that is the first of its kind, and will appeal to practising economists and students of the discipline alike, as well as to anybody interested in economics and its position in the scientific and social scientific landscape.


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La casa en la playa foi uma telenovela mexicana produzida por Yuri Breña e Pinkye Morris para a Televisa e exibida no horário nobre do Canal de las Estrellas, entre 10 de abril de 2000 e 7 de julho de 2000, em 65 capítulos de 40 minutos, substituindo Mujeres engañadas e sendo substituída por Mi destino eres tú.

A trama foi protagonizada por Cynthia Klitbo e Sergio Goyri, antagonizada por Marga López, José Carlos Ruiz e Blanca Guerra, e contou com as atuações especiais de Ignacio López Tarso, Yadhira Carrillo, Mario Cimarro, Valentino Lanus, Margarita Magaña e Mariana Levy.

Antecedentes

Enredo

Em seu testamento, o magnata Ángel Villareal expressa uma última vontade que pode ser fatal para vários integrantes de sua família. Seus quatro filhos deveram conviver na mesma casa durante um ano, como condição para herdar a fortuna que lhes corresponde. Angel Villareal quis que em sua morte se realize o que não pode ser em vida: a união de sua família.

A todos os filhos a noticia caiu como um balde de água fria, já que cada um realiza atividades diferentes uns dos outros. Mas as cláusulas não terminam ai. A situação se agrava porque no mesmo testamento, o defunto senhor Villareal deixa a sua filha Paulina, única mulher da família, a frente da construtora, negócio que sempre havia estado a cargo de César, o maior dos irmãos.

E também coloca em um dos postos mas importantes da companhia Juan Carlos Cabrera, sobrinho de Serena Rivas, mulher que se tripudia e inferniza os irmãos Villareal desde que ficaram orfãos. Juan Carlos tem sido durante anos o principal colaborador de Don Angel na construtora, feito que provoca constante inveja em César. Paulina e Juan Carlos não só ficaram unidos com a última vontade do pai dela, mas também com a paixão desenfreada que sentiram um pelo outro.

Paulina já viveu na cidade de Acapulco muitos anos; teve que sair da Cidade de México junto com seu filho Paolo para evitar que a criança descobrisse um terrível segredo: Vicente Rojo, ex-esposo de Paulina, morreu em um acidente estranho do qual a culparam; desde então a chamam de: 'a viúva negra'.

Agora que volto a Acapulco, Paulina se encontra com a triste situação de seus irmãos, estranhos para ela. César é controlado por sua esposa Marina, avarenta e invejosa. Roberto é o menor cuja única ambição é se divertir ao máximo, Salvador é um alcoolátra que viveu atormentado porque Don Angel o separou do amor de sua vida. A este pequeno grupo se une também Elisa, uma jovem mulher que se casou con Don Angel pouco tempo antes dele morrer.

A vida de todos estes personagens transcorre, e se entrelaçam todos os dias entre as quarto paredes de La Casa en la Playa...

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Equipe de produção
 Libretos y adaptação livre: Fernanda Villeli, Marcela Fuentes Berain
 Edição literária: Ricardo Tejeda, Violante Villamil, Valentina Sánchez
 Tema de entrada: "¿Dónde Está la Vida?"
 Autor e interprete: Francisco Céspedes
 Escenografía: Mirsa Paz
 Ambientação: Octavio Ortega
 Design de vestuário: Laura Villafaña, Juan Antonio Martínez
 Chefes de elenco: Guillermo Pineda, Ernesto Bretón
 Gerente administrativo: Miguel Ángel Amador
 Gerente de produçãl: Edith Molina
 Coordenaçãl geral: Celia Arvizu
 Editores: Brígido Herrera, Jesús Hernández
 Direção de câmeras: Manuel Barajas, José Morris Chávez, Boris Breña
 Direção de cena: Mónica Miguel
 Ideia original e direção geral: Enrique Gómez Vadillo
 Produção executiva: Pinkye Morris, Yuri Breña

Transmissão
Em uma segunda-feira, 10 de abril de 2000, o Canal de las Estrellas começou a transmitir La casa en playa nos dias úteis (segunda a sexta) às 21 horas, substituindo o sucesso Mujeres engañadas. O último episódio foi transmitido na sexta-feira, 7 de julho de 2000, tendo Mi destino eres tú como substituta no horário.

Foi reprisada pelo canal de televisão por assinatura TLNovelas de junho a setembro do ano de 2006.

Audiência
A trama alcançou uma média geral de 20.2 pontos, sendo considerada uma audiência baixa visto que sua antecessora, Mujeres engañadas teve uma média geral de 27.5 pontos.

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Versões
 O canal TVI em Portugal fez uma adaptação intitulada Baía das Mulheres, estrelada por Ana Brito e Cunha e Alexandre de Sousa em 2004.
 Em um dos episódios da série de Histórias Pessoais, do Ecuador, é mostrada uma história muito semelhante à do romance, exceto pelo detalhe da casa na praia, mas com exatamente os mesmos caracteres.

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Prêmio TVyNovelas de 2001

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There were several ways to tell big kids from little ones during the '70s. Size topped the list, of course, followed by pimples, breasts, and wispy mustaches. Music was up there, too. No self-respecting big kid listened to the Jackson 5's cover of "Rockin' Robin, for example, nor was the typical grade schooler immersing himself in Dark Side of the Moon while staring at a lava lamp.
The great two-wheeled differentiator was the bicycle. Big kids didn't ride Stingrays. Schwinn realized that customers aged out of their best-selling product, so in 1971 they introduced the Manta-Ray, an oversized Stingray for bigger kids, but nobody cared. The company dropped the bike from their lineup after a two year run.
What Schwinn didn't realize was that big kids don't want to be little kids, nor did they understand that statement's corollary: little kids want to be big kids. While Mikey Peterson and I were popping boss wheelies from our banana seats, the big kids cruised in style on ten speeds. They looked so grown up with their hand brakes, gear shifters, and drop handlebars. When the big kids rolled past on their ten speeds and saw me on my puny Stingray knockoff, I felt the same embarrassment that accompanied my father catching me watching Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers.
"Ten speed" was really slang for any diamond-framed bike, the number of gears was irrelevant. Any bike comprised of straight tubes welded into a couple of triangles, a stubby saddle rather than a banana seat, and handlebars that curled downward was called a ten speed. A third category of bikes existed–bikes that weren't Stingrays or ten speeds–but those were for girls and old people.
The coolest big kid in the history of big kids was Johnny O'Donnell. Good looking, athletic, and most importantly nice to me, I idolized Johnny. Everything he did I wanted to do, and everything he had I wanted. I was Spike to his Fonzie. One Saturday, Johnny came home from a police auction with a purple ten speed. The paint was chipped and the handlebars needed to be re-taped, but it was a step up from his lime green Huffy, which had all of the hallmarks of a ten speed without the gears. Today we'd call Johnny's a Huffy a fixie, or fixed gear bicycle, but that label isn't accurate, either, as the green bike bore a coaster brake like those found on Stingrays.
He loved his new ride so much that he asked my sister to take his picture. Buried somewhere in a long forgotten photo album rests a blurry photo of Johnny O'Donnell leaning on the purple top tube of his new bicycle as if it were the split rail fence in an Olan Mills Studio portrait. Behind him sits my father's '62 Chevy pickup, and behind that the bright white door of our detached garage. It would be quite a colorful photograph if not for the cruddy but charming quality of 110 film.
"Do you want to buy my Huffy?" Johnny asked. "I'll sell it to you for ten dollars." He may as well have asked if I wanted Fonzie's jacket or Evel Knievel's motorcycle.
I eagerly agreed, and then I did the math: On a 25 cent weekly allowance, after baseball cards, Wacky Packages, and Lik-M-Aid, Johnny's lime green Huffy would be mine somewhere around never. I ran to the garage and found my father. "Can I do some chores for money?" I asked.
"Why can't you do some chores just because you're a member of this family?" he said.
"There's nothing wrong with your bike. We bought you that goddamned bicycle only three years ago," my father said, and then he went back to whatever he was doing at his workbench. Something must have passed between us–a look, a pause, a Parent Trap body swap–because he softened. Not much, but he softened. "I guess if you want to work for something we can find a job for you to do," he said.
He grabbed a garbage bag and what looked like a cross between a knife and a shovel attached to a broom handle. We walked to the front yard, where thousands of dandelions bloomed, a sea of yellow flowers awaiting a Little House on the Prairie romp. "I'll pay you a penny for each dandelion you dig up," my father said.
I grabbed the knife-shovel thing and tried to force it into the hard ground, but I wasn't strong enough. We went back to the garage and my father ran a heavy bolt through the handle. "Now you can use your feet to push," he said.
And that's what I did. For weeks I hopped on the knife-shovel thing as if it were a pogo stick, prying the dandelions from the unforgiving earth, careful not to break their milky roots. It seemed like a waste. My mother loved flowers. As a preschooler I trailed behind her while she planted her tulips, snapdragons, and marigolds. Why was my father paying me to wipe out all of the free pretty flowers that were decorating our lawn?
It didn't matter. All that mattered was raising the dough to buy Johnny's cast off bike. I finished the front yard, and then I hit the side and back yards. When I was finished, three black garbage bags filled with dandelions lay next to my father's pickup truck.
I guess it's possible that our yard held 1,000 dandelions. I suppose it's equally likely that a nine year-old boy with an improvised weed extractor managed to pry all 1,000 out of the ground roots and all. These things are both possible and unlikely.
What's more likely is that my father never bothered to inspect the contents of the garbage bags. That they bulged with weeks of hard work was all that he was after. He had taught his boy about the value of hard work, and that was worth the money. He handed me a ten dollar bill, and I ran to Johnny's house and knocked on the door. The green Huffy was all mine.
So what happened to the three year old bike?


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Last month we packed up the van with all the camping gear and set off for a long weekend at Norman's Bay Camping and Caravanning Club Site at Pevensey on the East Sussex Coast. We chose the site for its' location directly opposite a shingle and sand beach, close to the town of Eastbourne. We were due to be camping at The Star at Alton but sadly Simon's cousin passed away and her funeral was to be held in Eastbourne. We decided to change our plans so that the children and I could be close to support him and spend time with the family.
I have a very old sat nav which I have had since I started driving many years ago, these days it does tend to take us on a bit of a magical mystery tour so actually we didn't find the site very easily. Coming away from it was much better as we travelled into Eastbourne and then joined the A22. The campsite is situated just off the A259 between Pevensey and Bexhill. I wouldn't recommend you borrow my sat nav to get there!
We arrived around 7pm and to be honest were not in the mood for pitching the tent after our long drive. We did, however, receive a warm welcome and were quickly shown to our pitch along the back of the site not too far from the play area where we could watch the children playing whilst we did all the groundwork. To be fair, thanks to our tent being super easy to put up we had it pitched in less than 20 minutes and with great confidence in our skills to finish off we decided to head into Eastbourne for tea with the children. This turned out to be a very silly idea as we were all too tired to be making beds when we returned to the tent a few hours later – lesson learnt!
Amenities Block – there are two main amenities blocks on the site which are equipped with WCs, showers, laundry room, parent rooms and washing up facilities. One block is centrally positioned and the other is to the bottom end of the site but both are within easy walking distance.
Water Points, Refuse Disposal and Fire Points – the water points are regularly spaced throughout the site. Our nearest point was directly in front of our tent. The water points were all lit up at night for good visibility and fire point.
Play Area – the play area was tucked into the corner on the left of the site behind the Ready Camp units. The play structure is a good size for multiple children to play on and is suitable for the young to the junior age levels.
Recreation Room – we didn't actually find this room until the day we were leaving but to the far end of the site from the Play area is a recreation room with a pool table and games which would be great for entertaining the kids on a wet day.
Information Area – the main information area is in a small room to the left of the Reception area and is packed with really useful information leaflets and discount vouchers for local attractions, walking maps and magazines.
Night Lights – There are night lights on the top of all of the electric hook-up units and further lights centrally positioned along the site but the ground had a few dips and holes so you definitely needed a torch to watch your footing when walking at night.
Dog Walking Area – there is a designated dog walking area but we didn't actually look for it or see it as we didn't take Bramble with us on this occasion. There is also the beach directly opposite which is great for wearing out your dog.
Disabled Facilities/Pot Washing/Chemical Toilet Disposal – both amenities blocks had a large pot washing room, disabled facilities, laundry room and sluice room.
Ready Camp – There were four Ready Camp units on site, all to the left hand side as you drive through the campsite. We did actually ask if we could upgrade our booking and stay in a Ready Camp when we arrived because we were too tired to put the tent up. We arrived on a Thursday and they said that Ready Camp bookings can only be taken Monday to Thursday and Friday to Sunday. They said that the Ready Camp was available Friday to Sunday. When we entered the site we saw that one unit was empty. We found this ruling to be daft as it had obviously been vacant Monday to Thursday and they refused our booking for Friday to Sunday for the sake of one night?? Doesn't make sense to us.
Wi-fi – I had taken my portable modem with me but the signal to the site was very patchy and unreliable so I paid for the on-site Wifi which costs £3 per day or £10 for a week. It was quick and easy to set up with a strong, fast signal which offered exactly what I needed to be able to keep on top of emails whilst I was away from home.
Over the course of the weekend the site became very busy so we ended up with campervans positioned between ourselves and the road. They were staggered but this did make it quite difficult to get the van in and out from the back row and we felt like we had been hemmed in, especially when one family with their campervan sat at the back of their van which meant we were nearly sitting on top of each other.
The location of the site was very good being so close to the beach. Whilst Simon and his family went off to the funeral on the Friday, the partners came to me at the campsite so that we could all take the children to the beach for the day.
In general the noise level was pretty good but it is worth noting that there is a rail track which runs immediately behind the site (approx 200 yards away) and trains pass approximately every 15-30 minutes throughout the day. Initially we thought this could pose a problem as the trains started around 7am and didn't finish until around 11pm but honestly, you quickly got used to them and in the end didn't even notice them.
The staff on site were very friendly and helpful. The site was well maintained and the facilities were always very clean and fresh.
Within 10 minutes you can be in the seaside town of Eastbourne. We found the out of town retail area which had a large Asda, TK Maxx, Next, Boots, cinema and a Frankie & Benny's.


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