My blogger friends are a damn hard bunch to keep up with.
As a blogger, I'm always trying to be this Martha-esque perfectionist, always baking the perfect cookies, frosting the perfect cupcakes and baking the fudgiest brownies.
Of course I'd love for everyone to flock to me, grovel at my painted toes and get all Wayne's World on me: "we're not worthy!!" and praise my culinary creative genius.
Okay, so I totally would not want that because the idea of people–strangers–near my feet is freaky. Also, I'm not good with crowds. And while I can take a compliment gracefully, I really dislike overcomplimenters. You know, the ones that like won'tstop and after awhile it sounds totally awkward and canned? Blah.
And while I try to aim to please, some days, I just can't freaking think of anything fascinating that A) hasn't been done before, B) hasn't been posted recently on another blog, or C) just, uh, anything. Because I'm human and my brain likes farting a lot. Sorry.
Enter these cookies. The idea, of course, is nothing new, but they're absolutely marvelous and they begged to be shared with you, my dearest bloggy friends. And if you trust me to bring you exciting, innovative treats that also taste incrediballs, you can bet your booty that the average-joe, plain-jane looking stuff I'll bring you will be just as outrageously delish.
Pinky swear–it's what friends do.
1. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars. Mix in the peanut butter, eggs and vanilla until incorporated. Lastly, slowly add in the baking soda and flour gradually. Do not overmix the dough. Cover and let chill for at least 30 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with silicone liners or lightly mist with cooking spray.
3. Scoop out heaping Tablespoonfuls of dough into your palm. Press a PB cup in the center of the dough ball, then enclose the PB cup with the dough. Roll the dough ball in sugar, then place on the baking sheets. Space dough about 1″ apart from one another.
4. Bake cookies for approx. 8-10 minutes until lightly golden. Cookies will look super soft and may look undone; that's what you want.
5. Allow cookies to cool on the pan approx. 5-10 minutes before transferring to wire racks to finish cooling. Store leftover cookies airtight, at room temperature, up to 2-3 days… if they make it.
While PB cookies are one of my favorites, I loved that these were soft-baked, meaning they were a lot puffier, softer (duh) and chewy than normal crunchier-baked PB cookies. I liked the additional crunch + texture from the chunky peanut butter, and the peanut butter cup surprise in the middle was gooey and unexpected. They're totally not your average PB cookie!
they look so good! I have had my eye on Sally's cookies for awhile and have been wanting to make them and now that I see yours, oh, I am in soft cookie heavy! I love my cookies soft 'n chewy. No crunchy for me!
These PB cookies are my FAVORITE cookie recipe ever. They are so soft! I have to make them again, you convinced me! And I know what you mean, sometimes I have bakers block! CAn't come up with anything myself. Love all this PB on PB action Hayley!!
I think you do a fine job creating goodies! When all else fails and your mind goes blank, go to chocolate and peanut butter, you can't go wrong!! I love soft cookies personally. You can't go wrong with Reese cups stuffed inside!!!
You don't even know how much I will devour these. They are my favorite.
Devouring is encouraged, my friend.
I know how you feel!!!! But you're totally awesome and you rock so you shouldn't worry. Plus, PB&C is, like, the best thing evvvaahhh!
These are simply wonderful, Hayley!! Who can resist a soft pb cookie stuffed with a pb cup?!
No worries when it comes to Reese's!! Looks yummy Hayley!!
Hey Haley-you crack me up. I'm a newbie blogger and am stressed trying to keep up trying to be Martha. (Not that I'm complaining! It's quite crazy fun actually).
Hahahaha thanks Lisa 🙂 and it IS crazy fun, in a somewhat hectic but hey, at least I have cookies kinda way, isn't it?!
My brain farts a lot too when it comes to new ideas 🙂 Can totally relate! These look amazing…can never get enough peanut butter in a recipe!
I know what you mean. I started my little blog really as a way to share recipes with my family and to keep track of what things my family liked. Now all of a sudden, I feel pressure to come up with all of this STUFF, when really all I want to do is cook/bake and eat. But Hayley, you have nothing to worry about–your posts are always awesome! Just like these cookies–wowza! Who can resist PB cookies and Reese's???
Just keeping doing your thang and being the creative recipe genius you are! These cookies look awesome btw. Double the peanut butter, double the fun.
I hear you with the constant feeling of having to keep up with other bloggers! These cookies look simply divine! So puffy and soft and stuffed to perfection!
I bet they did not last long?
Okay, I need these right now! Can you overnight ship to Ohio please?!?!
I'm excited I found you. You're cute & these look amazing.
New idea or not, they look divine!
I second that! Most of my things have been done before (other than that time I made my monster cookies based off marshmallow fluff then put every single candy bar known to man in it). OK, so not every single candy bar, but I did go a leetle crazy! Other days I have brain fog too.
You don't need to worry mi'lady. Everything you post I crash my head against the wall thinking why did *I* think of that. Gah! And the Reese's cup stuffed PB cookies are no exception.
These were amazing! I made these when my boyfriend first started dating. I took them to the Fire Department (he is a firefighter) and they were gone in no time flat. Everyone was raving over them. He still requests me to make them for him all the time. Thank you for the recipe!
So glad you loved them Ashley!
what recipes can i use with all the Pumpkin shaped Reeses's I have left over from Halloween? Can I substitute them for Reese cups? thanks !!!


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Behind BJP's record performance in Gujarat, an agile leadership and Modi-Shah factor
Behind BJP's record performance in Gujarat, an agile leadership and Modi-Shah factor
Gujarat Election Result 2022 Analysis: The ruling party carried out an organisational overhaul and expedited its poll preparations months in advance. Now, it is on course to eclipse the Congress's 1985 record of 149 seats.
Written by Liz Mathew
Delhi | Updated: December 8, 2022 21:38 IST
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel along with BJP state president C R Paatil arrive at the party headquarters in Gandhinagar on Thursday. (Express Photo: Nirmal Harindran)
Gujarat Assembly Election Result: Going by the early trends, the BJP is heading for a record win in Gujarat, one of its bastions where it had lost a few layers of its sheen in 2017.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intense campaign and a meticulously planned organisation strategy, the party, which was limited to 99 five years ago, is on course to win more than 150 seats — more than its highest tally of 127 so far — and eclipse the Congress's record of 149 seats in the 1985 Assembly polls that came on the back of a sympathy wave created by Indira Gandhi's assassination.
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Unlike in 2017, when the Congress launched a massive campaign and legwork to capitalise on a strong Patidar agitation and widespread anger among the farmer community against the then BJP government, the party did not have any major mass movement to deal with. But the anti-incumbency was strong and there has been complacency and fatigue among the cadre.
Concerned about surveys showing the fraying of its absolute dominance in the state, a yearning for change, as well as the nimbleness of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has proved as adept as the BJP at the perception game, the BJP leadership had expedited its preparations a few months back. The leadership carried out an overhaul in the organisation, changing everyone right from the chief minister and state president to ministers and office-bearers.
The leadership assessed that the Gujarat results would be an indicator of the robustness of the organisation, so far an unbeatable election-winning machine, the effectiveness of its strategies, and the enduring popularity of its leadership.
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Conceding that anti-incumbency had sharpened due to the "non-charismatic" state leadership, the party completely overhauled the Cabinet and made Bhupendra Patel the chief minister. Vijay Rupani who had taken over the reins from Anandiben Patel just ahead of the 2017 elections struggled to find his feet and could not rise to the expectations of the leadership. The leadership did not take pains to remove him. In an interview to The Indian Express, Rupani said he was in the dark till the last moment that he was being removed. CR Paatil was brought in as president of the state unit in July 2020 ahead of crucial local body elections, replacing Jitu Vaghani, a Patel by caste. There were key changes in the organisation such as Ratnakar replacing Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya as the general secretary for organisation. Dalsaniya was appointed the general secretary (organisation) of the Bihar unit.
In the candidate selection, too, the party was ruthless. The BJP replaced "uninspiring" legislators — it dropped 41 of its sitting MLAs — and introduced fresh faces to overcome anti-incumbency feelings.
While Prime Minister Modi engaged in direct outreach for renewing his connection with the electorate in the state, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was stationed in Gujarat weeks ahead of the elections to oversee the booth-level preparations. According to sources, he chaired meetings of booth-level workers almost every day, gave them instructions, and reviewed the progress of the campaign closely.
"He even wanted to know why one particular spot was chosen for election rallies, he reviewed the door-to-door campaign, publicity material — everything in detail. His meetings would go for hours till the wee hours," said a party leader from Gujarat.
Specific community outreach was another strategy the BJP introduced more vigorously this time, said sources. It deployed all its top Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, and senior leaders to different parts of Gujarat. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityananth and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma were top on the list. The party also launched a "carpet bombing" strategy, with all the leaders campaigning intensely on particular days simultaneously.
The trends indicate that the party's strategies — targeting a record win — have worked. In 2017, the BJP tally came down from 115 in 2012 to 99 (it later won bypolls and got Congress turncoats to join, to take its MLA count up to 111). While 99 was the BJP's lowest since 1995, its tally had been consistently falling in the state — having got 127 seats in 2002, and 117 in 2007. However, its vote share always hovered around the 50 per cent mark.
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We will discuss the Wisconsin Results tomorrow
San Luis Obispo, CA, 04-06-2016 Wednesday: I began writing my two posts on Tuesday afternoon so I am not entirely clear at the time of the writing as to who was going to win the big state of Wisconsin yesterday—we will talk about that tomorrow.
Friends, I began a meme over at the main blog regarding how the government supports all forms of perversion and now seeks to force it upon everyone, especially upon Christians BUT NEVER on Muslims.
It is as if the White House alerts its street thugs that Christians are akin to Jews in old Nazi Germany, it is open season on them to force the vilest of sexual perversions down their throats without facing any sort of consequences.
Beverly was an opinionated individual
Those of you who remember the late great Beverly Carrick know that she was an artist who moved through a world of fellow creators, actors, musicians, and of all different types of people.
She kept her feelings in check while she was in business but once in retirement—during the time of Obama—she began letting her feelings known to those around her.
If anything maddened her more than Obama's lack of patriotism, it was his desire to infest the public mentality with ideas that perversion was a-okay.
It angered her to no end to listen to Obama at the BEGINNING stage of what we now see coming to fruition, a society in which, the bottom is the top and the top is the bottom and the weight of the two crushes the middle.
Barack Obama has been the most destructive force in American politics
What I am saying is that Barack Obama is the worst destructive force we have seen leading our nation and everyone knows it. His minions, the union thugs, the perverts, the LGBT and other sick communities seek to make their way of life the norm while prosecuting through the law and persecuting when the law does not aid them the people who have long lived within the Christian world.
While we see genocide occurring against Christians, Jews, various other religious minorities, and even the gay community in the Middle East, we see the groundwork for the same eventual goal of stuffing the same disgusting lifestyles down our throats whether we want it or not.
This is WHY the 2016 Elections are so important but before we complete this post, we must take a look at the next batch of beautiful Beverly Carrick artworks:
BEVERLY CARRICK ORIGINAL ARTWORKS FOR APRIL 06, 2016:
#1101 30" x 40" "Monterrey Coast"
#1102 12" x 16" "City Life"
#1102 B 8" x 10" "My Garden Sparrows"
#1103 16" x 20" "Mojave"
#1104 24" x 36" "It's Been a Long Day"
#1105 12" x 16" "Western Glory"
#1106 11" x 14" "Golden Glow"
#1107 8" x 10" "Hanging Out"
#1108 5" x 7" "In My Garden"
#1109 8" x 10" "Surfin' Dudes"
#1110 8" x 10" "Sparrow and Petunia"
#1111 8" x 10" "My Garden Sparrows"
#1112 8" x 10" "Creek Crossing"
#1113 8" x 10" "Hiding our Tracks"
#1114 8" x 10" "Wild Mustang"
#1115 9" x 12" "Journey to Monument Valley"
We all lived in the SAME world but Beverly truly SAW it
I believe these are some of the most beautiful paintings Beverly ever painted, and I am excited every time I am able to come here and to view her glorious visions of the world in which all of us live but which she truly SAW.
We are lucky to be a part of the two blogs that comprise the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day because we are participants in a select community open only to those who appreciate the same artist: Beverly Carrick.
Beverly created an immense body of work that continues to bring fans and owners of her artworks to this blog to seek out images of paintings they might own to corroborate that what they own is indeed a "Carrick" original. However, for those who call here to see if we will buy back a painting or worse, a print, folks, stick it where the Sun does not shine. That is not how the art world works.
Thanks for joining me today
Anyhow, thank you for joining me here today and participating in what it is we do here at the blog. We attempt to discuss politics while combining it with what we know and recall of Beverly Carrick. She was among the most opinionated, powerful artists that the world has ever known and that is why we celebrate her here once a week, taking delight in her beauty, she was a true gift from God. Talent emanates from the Lord and once He bestows it upon someone, they have it throughout the duration of his or her life and Beverly sure had it.
To all who wish to return paintings, hold on to them, folks. We will see them begin to climb in value in another decade or so until they shoot straight up and whatever painting you possess becomes a bankable item. Thanks for joining me over here, be sure to meet me over at the main blog.
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Chef Murph MacDougal writes from San Luis Obispo, California.
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04-06-2016 W Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part XCII: "Beverly was a Great Artist and a very opinionated Woman, one who grew up during World War II and who recognized Fascism when she saw it: Barack Obama is a wannabe Dictator and that is WHY this Election is so damned Important!" by Chef Murph MacDougal.
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MacDougal, Murph. "Beverly was a Great Artist and a very opinionated Woman, one who grew up during World War II and who recognized Fascism when she saw it: Barack Obama is a wannabe Dictator and that is WHY this Election is so damned Important!"
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This artwork is #1106 an 11" x 14" original oil painting by Beverly Carrick, which is entitled, "Golden Glow." It is among her more beautiful works and is available for sale. You can see much more of her work at her Website, located at or at Brian Carrick's Facebook page. At her Website, you will see not only more original oil paintings but also lithographs, giclees, prints, miniatures, photographs, and even her award-winning instructional video entitled, "Painting the Southwest with Beverly Carrick." Beverly has been painting for more than 60 years and known around the world for both the beauty and timelessness of her artworks. Hanging in private and public galleries and followed by many fans encircling the globe—her works instill awe because of her artistic brilliance and personal beauty. We urge you to go to her Website NOW and view her work. It is possible that you will find something you like and will want to buy it for yourself, a friend, a loved one, or a neighbor! You will not be disappointed so please: do yourself a favor and go there IMMEDIATELY! Thank you, the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day!
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TODAY IN HISTORY—APRIL 06, 2016:
Merle Haggard:
A. 46 B.C.: Julius Caesar and his legions defeat the combined armies of Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus.
B. 1320: The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
C. 1652: Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established.
D. 1663: King Charles II signs Carolina Charter.
E. 1672: France declares war on the Netherlands.
F. 1712: In New York Colony, a slave revolt breaks out against the slave owners and their ilk.
G. 1722: Czar Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards.
H. 1789: The first U.S. Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City.
I. 1830: Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
J. 1841: Mormons lay the cornerstone for their second Mormon temple, in Nauvoo, Missouri.
K. 1848: The government of Prussia grants Jews equality.
L. 1862: The Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee as Confederate forces launched a surprise attack against Union troops, who back the Confederates the next day.
M. 1864: Louisiana opened a convention in New Orleans to draft a new state constitution, one that called for the abolition of slavery.
N. 1868: Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife.
O. 1896: The first modern Olympic Games formally opened in Athens, Greece.
P. 1909: American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole.
Q. 1916: The German parliament gives the 'okay' to unrestricted submarine warfare in its war against Great Britain and France.
R. 1917: The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war against Germany.
S. 1924: The Italian Fascist Party receives 65-percent of the vote for seats in parliament.
T. 1934: In Nazi Germany, authorities arrest 418 Lutheran ministers.
U. 1937: Merle Haggard, famed country singer and guitarist, was born in Oklahoma on this date.
V. 1938: Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett.
W. 1939: Great Britain and Poland sign military pact.
X. 1941: Italian -held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces.
Y. 1943: "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was first published in the U.S. by Reynal and Hitchcock of New York.
Z. 1945: During World War II, the Japanese warship Yamato and nine other vessels sailed on a suicide mission to attack the U.S. fleet off Okinawa; the fleet was intercepted the next day. Meanwhile, massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa.
AA. 1954: A month after being criticized by reporter Edward R. Murrow on CBS' "See it Now," Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., given the chance to respond on the program, charged that Murrow had, in the past, "engaged in propaganda for Communist causes."
BB. 1959: "Gigi" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1958; Susan Hayward was named best actress for "I Want to Live!" and David Niven was named best actor for "Separate Tables." The scheduled 2-hour ceremony fell about 20 minutes short.
CC. 1963: The United States signed an agreement to sell the Polaris missile system to Great Britain.
DD. 1973: Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became Major League Baseball's first designated hitter as he faced pitcher Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Blomberg was walked with the bases loaded; Boston won the game, 15-5. Meanwhile, NASA launched Pioneer 11, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn.
EE. 1974: Swedish pop group ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton, England, with a performance of the song, "Waterloo."
FF.1987: Al Campanis appears on Nightline saying blacks may not be equipped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy.
GG. 1988: Tirza Porat, a 15-year-old Israeli girl was killed in a West Bank melee. Although the Arabs were initially blamed for the incident, the army concluded Tirza had been accidentally shot by a Jewish settler.
HH. 1992: Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo.
II. 1994: Liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns. Elsewhere, Juvenal Habyarimana, the Hutu president of Rwanda, was killed along with the president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, when their plane was apparently shot down near the Rwandan capital of Kigali. What followed was 100-day genocide in Rwanda during which, more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were killed by Hutu extremists.
JJ. 1998: Country singer Tammy Wynette died at her Nashville home at age 55.
KK. 2002: Kevin Kelly, former drummer with the Byrds, the Rising Sons, and Fever Tree, died of natural causes in North Hollywood on this date.
LL. 2004: Jordan's military court convicted eight Muslim militants (six of them in absentia) and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida. Meanwhile, the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team beat Tennessee 70-61 to win a third consecutive NCAA title, a day after UConn also won the men's championship.
MM. 2011: Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling loses his appeal against his conviction for fraud in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Elsewhere, amid criticism from rebel fighters, NATO pledges to protect the besieged town of Misrata, Libya.
NN. 2013: The recent meat adulteration scandal prompts Swedish furniture megastore IKEA to stop sales of its moose meat lasagna in its worldwide stores.
OO. 2014: Famed actor, Mickey Rooney, dies of natural causes at age 93.
As always, we thank the good folks at Brainy History for doing the hard work of compiling historical happenings, dates, and everything else by which at the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day publish a blog that draws readers from all over the world! Thank you and God bless you for doing this very important work!
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On Roadtrips
Posted on May 5, 2015 by brendankeogh
(All images in this post are screenshots I captured in The Crew. More in a gallery here.)
Last week I moved to Brisbane, Queensland from Melbourne Victoria. My partner had moved up several months earlier to start a new job, so I drove for two days and about 1700 kilometres by myself. In America, that's about the distance from New York to Memphis. In England, that's about the distance from London to Budapest. An important difference to stress, though, is that Australia is far less densely populated than America or Europe. The vast majority of Australians live in urban centres along the east coast around Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Beyond these, towns can often be hundreds of kilometres apart.
Usually when we drive from Melbourne to Brisbane, we go via Sydney. It's almost impossible not to. Sydney is a concrete sprawl that sucks in all the roads around it. If you want to get from one side of Sydney to the other, you either need to go through Sydney or way, way around it. We have friends up the coast so we typically use the drive as an excuse to see these friends. An easy day's drive up the dual-carriageway of the Hume Highway from Melbourne to Canberra; a short day from Canberra to Maitland through Sydney after the morning peak hour and before the evening peak hour; then a final long day up the ever-terrible Pacific Highway through the beautiful scenery of northern New South Wales and wide freeways of the Gold Coast to Brisbane.
I didn't want to go to Sydney on this trip and, besides, recent flooding was reportedly causing havoc around some of the major bridges just north of Sydney. So I took the inland route. I started early, around 7am, and took the Hume Highway just past Gundagai and the Dog on the Tuckerbox before exiting onto Muttama Road. From there, it was all winding old roads through towns with names like Coolac and Cootamundra. Towns with a few thousand people living in them, at most. Mostly retirees and children and teenagers just waiting to turn eighteen and move to the city. Some towns are mere intersections in the highway. After driving 110km/h in a straight line for ninety minutes, you hit a Give Way sign at a T-section with a pub on one side and a gas station on the other that has either been closed for one day or ten years.
Sometimes the endless farmland turns into endless scrub and forest. Driving along the Newell Highway through the Pilliga Nature Reserve it's all red dirt and brown trees and the occasional emu. You can do this trick with your eyes (the road is so straight that there's nothing else for them to do) where you shift your focus so at 110km/h you either see the endless strip of red dirt on each side of the asphalt, or you see the endless line of discarded plastic bottles tossed out of car and truck windows.
I have no interest in cars. I know how to drive them but beyond what sort of petrol to put in one and which pedal makes the car move faster, I know nothing about them. I drive an automatic and have zero understanding of how a manual car would even work. But I enjoy driving. Or, more accurately, I enjoy moving over land. Cars or trains or buses, it doesn't matter. Air travel makes places too discrete, but when you travel over land you are forced to appreciate just how much land there is, that this place is connected to that place. All that 'in-between' space are places too. You drive past an old woman watering her garden behind a cyclone fence hours from the nearest town and you are hit with this realisation that this is somewhere; not just a between.
It's the continuity, I think. The gradients and rhythms. The way there are moments where you are definitely 'in' a town or 'in' a forest but if you went and tried to draw a line at the exact point a town ended you wouldn't be able to do it. Towns turn into suburbs turn into industrial areas turn into farms turn into farmland turn into forests turn into farmland turn into farms turn into industrial areas turn into suburbs turn into towns. It's this constant rhythm that's incredibly clear at any given moment but trying to distinguish any one point is like trying to determine where one ocean wave ends and the next begins.
But cyclical rhythms are always punctuated by linear repetition, as Henri Lefebvre might say. The undulating landscapes are punctured in a roadtrip by toilet breaks and refueling. Every two hours you hit another town that might as well be a carbon copy of the last town and you stop in another Lions Park where the only difference is the names in the toilet graffiti. But you go to pay for your fuel and the cashier knows the guy who came in before you after filling up his mud-covered ute. These people live here and know this place and you're just some city guy in a Toyota Echo riding the asphalt surf through their lives.
Driving, in particular, forces an attention be paid to this passing of land that getting a bus or a train might not. It's just as uneventful and 'boring', but demands far more attention. At any moment a truck might require overtaking, or a kangaroo might jump out onto the road. A police car will drive in the opposite direction at just the moment you realise you haven't actually looked down at your speedometer for a minute or so. It demands an attention if not to the landscape around you then definitely to the landscape in front of you, to that constant shifting of landscapes. To what's coming next. But you never truly see what is coming next. Even a huge city like Brisbane is just kind of not there and then, suddenly, is there.
The best open-world videogames capture this rhythmic continuity of space. They don't just have a City Zone and an Ice Zone and a Desert Zone. Rockstar are masters of this, and it is why I will keep playing every new Grand Theft Auto despite the dreadful and embarrassing writing. In Grand Theft Auto IV you will travel from a poor socio-economic area to a business district but you could not place your finger on the exact street where things changed. In Grand Theft Auto V the city peters into green hills into barren wasteland and trailer parks with an expert granularity. I can think of few non-Rockstar titles that achieve this. A good roadtrip videogame would have to achieve this.
The Crew is not a good videogame by any stretch. It's a poorly designed, Frankenstein mess of ill-conceived systems and incoherent user interfaces. The story is as as naive as it is forgettable. It is literally unplayable without a constant internet connection. It is a full-priced triple-a game with microtransactions. It remains, however, one of the best roadtrip simulators I have ever played. Not through any deliberate accomplishments of the game (with the exception of the environment artists who truly have done a spectacular job), but more through the ability to ignore everything the game wishes you to do. The entire world is unlocked from the get-go, and every single interface element can be switched off, leaving nothing between your car and the open road.
The world is huge and, largely, empty. It's an abbreviated "postcard America" as Austin Walker describes so beautifully in his review of the game for Paste (still one of the best things written about videogames in recent times). I am not particularly interested in The Crew's accuracy of portraying North America, but in its vastness and diversity of spaces and—crucially—the continuity that has city roll into countryside without a clear distinction between the two. I appreciate it's willingness to let me bored.
In The Crew I leave the highrise mess of New York and drive south down the freeway towards Miami as the sun rises over the ocean to my left and paints the orchards on my right a blood red. As I near Miami I turn west and twist around the swamps before hitting another freeway that crosses a massive expanse of desert. Perhaps I leave this freeway, too, and turn back north down a dirt road, driving by trailer parks and overtaking slow tractors. Eventually I end up near the West Coast and find myself spiralling up a mountain range past giant trees and, ahead of me, I see the smoggy high-rises of Los Angeles as the sun begins to set.
Night time driving is the best. Beyond the cities, the stars shine bright and the ground is tinted a dark blue. Sometimes you can see break lights disappearing around the next corner or the inverted galaxies of another city across the desert. It's lonely and quiet and black and boring and uneventful and beautiful. Sometimes you drive through a small turn and all the lights are off except the flashing neon of the motor inn by the highway.
A good roadtrip game would be long and boring and mundane with an ever-changing landscape demanding your full attention. It would feel like being in the middle of 'nowhere' while, at the same time, if you pulled over anywhere in that 'nowhere' it would feel like somewhere people live. It would force you to do nothing but drive for hours (actual hours) at a time, but have you constantly on the lookout for cars to overtake or obstacles to avoid. Not constant obstacles, but a constant potentiality of obstacles.
It would be like a walking simulator but one that is obnoxiously long. Imagine Dear Esther or Proteus but six hours long, perhaps with an ability to save your progress only appearing once every two hours at a motor inn. You would have to plan ahead before you sit down and start playing it.
It would tell stories through its environment. At one point in my roadtrip last week I saw the same billboard every 30 or so kilometres between two towns, advertising the Duck Inn Cafe. When I eventually got to the next town, I saw the Duck Inn Cafe. "That's the cafe from the signs!" I thought to myself. As I drove by, I saw the curtains were all drawn and a FOR SALE sign was stuck to the closed door.
It would be intrinsically pleasurable to play. It would use a controller like a 360 gamepad, something that just feels satisfying to hold. Something you can get comfortable with while you use. Holding that right trigger in at just the right pressure to maintain a constant speed while your palm grips plastic like it would grip a steering wheel. You wouldn't need to 'do' anything because driving and looking out the window would be enough. (In The Crew you can, at any time, rotate the right stick to look in any direction as you continue to drive forward, greatly increasingly the game's roadtrip potential).
Several existing games capture the roadtrip feel well, but typically that roadtrip-ness is secondary to other goals. Glitchhikers and The Long Way are two games about hitchhiking (in the first you pick them up, in the second you are trying to be picked up). Each captures this nice, banal feeling of long drives, but each is relatively short and focused more on conversations than the drive itself. Glitchhikers still deserves special mention for the phenomenal sense of solitude and mystical introspection that comes with long-distance night driving.
Joe Wintergreen's in-progress Magenta Sunrise has inspired ideas such as using the car itself as a sort of inventory. Being able to play with all the 'bits' of the car. Maybe you want to wind the window down for a while and listen to the rush of wind and the nearby cicadas rather than the dull thud of the engine and your own music. Maybe you need to change the radio station while also keeping your eye on the road. Maybe you have a spare tank of petrol in the boot for particularly long drives.
Deadly Premonition doesn't do roadtrips, but it does do long, banal drives at the speed limit around a town spectacularly well. It offers the same sense of downtime and introspection with the character talking to himself as he putters along.
Fuel, got the vastness and the boringness right, but perhaps didn't have enough of actual interest to look at. It perhaps felt too empty (though, in an essay for Kill Screen, Ben Abraham noted just how similar driving in Fuel felt to driving through western New South Wales). It still provided decent roadtrip material, however.
Robert Yang's Stick Shift isn't about roadtrips but it captures the atmosphere and lighting of night driving in a really satisfying manner.
There's an intrinsic pleasure in traversing space and seeing all the places between here and there. Videogames like The Crew don't understand that driving across land in and of itself is (or at least, can be) a pleasurable activity. There is no need for racing or stunts or challenges. Give me places to see and a wide open road to connect them and the means to look at them and a satisfying vehicle that I can just drive for hours on end.
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of two New Hampshire college students seeking to block a controversial new requirement for voters in the state, saying it imposes an unconstitutional "poll tax" on voters and makes it disproportionately harder for students to cast a ballot.
The new measure, HB 1264, which is set to take effect on July 1, removes the phrase "for the indefinite future" from the definition of resident and makes it identical to the definition of domiciled. Thus, anyone claiming to be "domiciled" in order to be eligible to vote is also saying they are a resident and is then obligated to required to get a driver's license and register their car within 60 days.
They also say it violates the 24th Amendment, which prohibits poll taxes, as well as the 26th Amendment, which grants the right to vote to anyone 18 or older.
Julie Ebenstein, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU Voting Rights Project, noted New Hampshire lawmakers had been trying for decades to impose similar restrictions on college students' ability to vote. In 1972, a three-judge panel said a law that barred people who planned to leave a New Hampshire town at some point in the future from voting was unconstitutional. In 2014, a state court struck down a law that explicitly required anyone who registered to vote in New Hampshire to get a state driver's license and to get their vehicle registered there. That decision was upheld by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
New Hampshire Republicans passed HB 1264 shortly after Democrat Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes for one of the state's U.S. Senate seats in 2016. In the same year, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Republican Donald Trump in the state. Ebenstein noted the bill passed along party lines in the legislature and that lawmakers appeared to be targeting young voters and college students based on a perception that they supported Democrats.
"College students are perceived by legislators as being more liberal or being more left and we know that because the legislators said so. ... Given legislators' perception that young people are going to vote and are going to continue to vote a certain way, I think that's why they're being targeted," she said in an interview. "The 2016 election was very close in New Hampshire." She added that because of the state's small population the 13,000 undergraduate students at the University of New Hampshire can make a difference in a close election.
The plaintiffs in the case, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, are Caroline Casey and Maggie Flaherty, two sophomores at Dartmouth College who are registered to vote in New Hampshire despite growing up outside the state. Both voted in the 2018 midterm elections there. Neither woman has a New Hampshire driver's license and both intend to leave the state after graduating from college. Neither has a car and said in the complaint filed Wednesday that traveling to the nearest Division of Motor Vehicles would be a burden to them.
In an advisory opinion last year, the New Hampshire Supreme Court found 3-2 that the new measure did not violate either the New Hampshire Constitution or the First or 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The court said the law did not amount to a poll tax nor did it target young voters.
"Simply put, the State may legitimately establish procedures by which persons who may be tempted to insincerely claim domicile for voting purposes are discouraged from doing so by the prospect that such a claim can result in their incurring the full panoply of obligations imposed on all other state residents," the majority wrote.
The ACLU is suing New Hampshire over a change in the legal definition of "resident." The change is set to go into effect later this year.
But Ebenstein said the two students in the case had already shown they were legitimate New Hampshire voters. The state, she said, was essentially adding an additional hurdle for the students to prove they were bona fide residents.
"Our clients, who moved to New Hampshire, been active on campus, been active in their communities, who have already participated in the political process in New Hampshire are fully committed to their state and their role in the local community and certainly do to New Hampshire play a large role in the political conversation and process. That's most likely why they're being targeted," she said.
This lawsuit is nothing more than a desperate attempt to dredge up arguments that our State Supreme Court already rejected last summer. The Supreme Court addressed each of the legal arguments made by opponents of House Bill 1264 and found that the law ensures that every voter is treated the same. I fully expect our federal court to reach the same conclusion.
Given that House Bill 1264 does nothing more than align New Hampshire with virtually every other state in requiring residency in order to vote, the plaintiffs in this suit should be asked whether they plan to file identical lawsuits in every other state.
This story has been updated with a statement from Sununu.


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Forbes 2014's Highest Paid Musicians
Posted on December 11, 2014 December 11, 2014 by EDM Ranks
Dr. Dre is Forbes 2014's Highest Paid Musicians and being one of the best producers in the world, It makes sense that he is the top-earning musician in the world this year.
50 Cent – 'In Da Club' is just one of many songs Dr. Dre has produced in his career.
There's roughly half a billion dollars separating him from the second place earner, Beyonce.
Calvin Harris is the only electronic dance music artist on Forbes 2014's Highest Paid Musicians , Ranking in at #9 with $66 million. Mostly because EDM is still just starting to come alive and become widely popular worldwide.
Tiesto did not make the list, Neither did Armin Van Buuren or Paris Hilton.
World's Highest Paid Musicians (2014)
1. Dr Dre: $620 Million
2. Beyonce: $115 Million
3. The Eagles: $100 Million
4. Bon Jovi: $82 Million
5. Bruce Springsteen: $81 million
6. Justin Bieber: $80 million
7. One Direction: $75 million
8. Paul McCartney: $71 million
9. Calvin Harris: $66 million
10. Toby Keith: $65 million
11. Taylor Swift: $64 million
12. Jay Z: $60 million (tie)
12. Diddy: $60 million (tie)
12. Bruno Mars: $60 million
15. Justin Timberlake: $57 million
16. Pink: $52 million
17. Michael Bublé: $51 million
18. Rihanna: $48 million
19. Rolling Stones: $47 million
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Despite lousy weather, we made it to the Gulf Stream 40 miles off Ponce Inlet on Sunday, 7 Oct. Seas were 4-6', winds NW 15+ and shifting to north, overcast skies, and less than optimum conditions. Species diversity was minimal, only 2 kinds of shearwaters and no petrels or terns, skuas, etc. However, there were literally hundreds on Cory's Shearwaters from just inside the edge at 180' out to 400', as deep as we went. There were always several in view at any time, more than I have ever seen before in one day. In one flock of 20 sitting on the water, there was an Audubon's/Manx spp, but due to the conditions I could not determine which. We caught (and released) a sailfish right by the flock of Cory's; they were over a school of bait. There was also a lot of variation in coloration of the Cory's; some were very pale (worn?), and some very dark colored (appearing at first dark like a Sooty, but with all of the white underneath). Some of the color variation might be attributed to lighting and view, but some was observed in the sitting flock. Interestingly there were no Greater Shearwaters among them anywhere.
It may be worth a trip to bird the "disappearing island/party bar" across from the Coast Guard Station just inside Ponce Inlet. Because of being in a 40' boat, I could not get up close to sort everything out, but there were thousands of gulls and terns roosting on the bar late on Sunday afternoon. All of the regular species, including ad and imm Greater and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Boneparte's Gulls, Caspian Terns, etc. Who knows if there is something like a Kittiwake or an Arctic Tern mixed in? For those interested, it will probably take a small boat for the best view, that draws little water and can be pulled out onto the bar. You can launch from the Lighthouse ramp on the Daytona side, or maybe put a canoe in from the Dunes Park on the New Smyrna side. With a good scope you might be able to get some views from the western beach of the Dunes park, but a boat would be best.
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Research council overdue for overhaul, says Clare
Julie HareEducation editor
Aug 30, 2022 – 5.00am
The body that oversees $700 million in research grants is set for an overhaul amid growing criticism of how it operates, a lack of transparency and political interference.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare will on Tuesday announce a review of the Australian Research Council and will also temporarily put on hold a three-yearly national assessment of the quality of research conducted in Australian universities.
Speaking to The Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit in Sydney, Mr Clare will demand that the ARC produce a timetable of when funding rounds are to be announced and stick to it. Delays have been more frequent and longer as bureaucratic and political interventions have stymied timely announcements.
Education Minister Jason Clare wants an overhaul of the Australian Research Council. Alex Ellinghausen
"Delays and political interference damage our international reputation and make it harder for universities to recruit and retain staff," Mr Clare will say, according to speech notes.
"We need to make sure all future grant rounds are delivered on time, to a predetermined time frame. I have also committed to an independent review of the ARC and the legislation that underpins it."
The ARC has attracted widespread criticism in recent years. Most recently, researchers have taken to social media to condemn the organisation for repeatedly returning the 150-word statements it requires to explain why a research project is in the national interest, even though the project has been approved.
Known as NIT-picking, researchers say the national interest test is being overzealously policed with the result that funding rounds have been delayed for many months. They also argue that basic or blue skies research, which may produce the next Wi-Fi or mRNA vaccine, may not have any apparent national interest in its early stages.
"I know the way the current national interest test operates is causing problems," Mr Clare will tell the Higher Education Summit.
"When Brian Schmidt, the vice chancellor of ANU, tells you the research he did that won him the Nobel Prize wouldn't qualify under the current test, you know you have to make some changes."
The ARC has also been subjected to repeated political interference by Coalition government ministers in the allocation of funding for projects. Last December, then acting education minister Stuart Robert vetoed six grants that had been approved for funding, arguing they were not in the national interest.
Mr Clare has appointed Professor Margaret Sheil, vice chancellor of Queensland University of Technology and a former head of the ARC, to run the review. She will lead a team that includes Professor Mark Hutchinson, director of the Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics at the University of Adelaide, and Professor Susan Dodds, senior deputy vice chancellor at La Trobe University.
They will report by the end of March 2023.
Mr Clare will also announce a delay of the Excellence in Research Australia assessment of research quality.
"I have asked the ARC to discontinue preparations for the 2023 ERA round and come back to me by the end of the year on a plan to develop a modern data-driven approach to the ERA, informed by peer review," Mr Clare will say.
Mr Clare will also tell the Summit that he is eager to find ways to encourage more international students to stay in Australia following graduation and will be raising it during this week's Jobs and Skills Summit as part of the discussion around skilled migration.
"At the moment only 16 per cent of international students stay on after their studies end. A lot of those students are delivering us food and serving coffee in between classes.
"But when they graduate, they go home. Wouldn't it be great if they stayed on and helped us fill some of the chronic skills gaps we have got?
"[It] seems like a no-brainer. Other countries have cottoned on to this and have changed their visa settings, and it's something I think that's worth looking at here too."
Julie Hare is the Education editor. She has more than 20 years' experience as a writer, journalist and editor. Connect with Julie on Twitter. Email Julie at julie.hare@afr.com
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EDSA walkway project to start in Jan.
The government is planning to build a five-kilometer covered walkway along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA). — ADB HANDOUT
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has greenlit a $123-million (P5.9-billion) loan to the Philippines to build elevated walkways along the traffic-clogged Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA).
In a statement on Monday, the ADB said the loan will partly fund the P8.5-billion EDSA Greenways Project, which involves the construction of a five-kilometer covered walkway connected to mass transit stations along EDSA.
The walkways will be linked to four mass transit stations, namely Balintawak, Cubao, Guadalupe, and Taft.
The structures will be five meters wide, and have elevators and monitoring systems to allow easy access for elderly, pregnant women, children, and people with disabilities.
"The EDSA Greenways Project is an integral part of the government's transport strategy to make Metro Manila a better place to live, work, and visit," said ADB's Southeast Asia Transport and Communications Director Hiroaki Yamaguchi.
Another $15-million (P721-million) loan for the project will be granted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Catalytic Green Finance Facility, to be administered by the ADB.
The remaining $41.3 million (P1.99 billion) will come from the government's budget, the Department of Transportation (DoTr) said in an e-mailed statement to BusinessWorld. The amount will be used for the taxes and right-of-way payments.
The DoTr said it targets to sign the loan agreement with the ADB in the next 2-3 weeks. The project is expected to start by January, and partial operations eyed by December 2021.
"These are critical dates for the DoTr to achieve partial operations by Dec 2021 and full operations of Balintawak and Guadalupe (stations) by third quarter 2022, and Cubao and Taft (portions) by first quarter 2023," the DoTr statement sent on Monday read.
The proposed EDSA Greenways is among the 100 flagship infrastructure projects that the government hopes to fast-track before the Duterte administration ends its six-year term in mid-2022.
The project hopes to encourage Filipinos to reduce the use of private cars and shift to mass transport instead, said ADB Senior Transport Specialist for Southeast Asia Shuji Kimura in the statement.
"The project, to be built with cutting-edge technology for cantilever overhead walkways, will provide safe, inclusive, and equitable access for commuters while lowering CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions," he added.
The civil works contracts for the project are likely to be awarded in the first half of next year, according to the ADB.
"The project will support Metro Manila's recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. It is expected to create much-needed jobs during the construction period, with P3 billion ($61 million) to be spent on local raw materials," it added.
Construction of new and improvement on existing walkways will only cause "minimal traffic disruptions," the ADB said.
Feasibility study on the project is currently ongoing with an unnamed international consulting firm and DoTr.
A 2019 report by the ADB showed Metro Manila is the most congested city in Asia in terms of population, land area and length of road networks.
In EDSA, the average daily traffic rose by six percent to 405,882 vehicles last year compared with the 2018 levels, the ADB said citing data from the government's Metro Manila Development Authority.
The ADB's lending program to the Philippines is expected to hit an all-time high of $4.2 billion this year as it helps the government boost its war chest against the coronavirus pandemic, while proceeding with the infrastructure-heavy lending pipeline set last year.
In 2019, the ADB extended $2.6 billion in loans to the Philippines.
For the government's pandemic response alone, the multilateral bank has granted $3.925 billion in budget support and project loans to the Philippines as of Nov. 23, data from the Finance department showed. — Beatrice M. Laforga with Arjay L. Balinbin
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Etihad buys stake in Aer Lingus in possible link-up deal
Abu Dhabi-based airline Etihad has quietly acquired 2.987 per cent of Aer Lingus's shares over the past couple of months.
Aer Lingus last night confirmed it was in discussions with Etihad in relation to reciprocal code-sharing arrangements. The two airlines are also investigating the possibility of joint procurement opportunities.
Aer Lingus said Etihad had given an undertaking it does not intend to increase its shareholding pending the outcome of these discussions. Aer Lingus said: "There is no certainty as to the outcome of these discussions."
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Etihad Buys into Air Seychelles
Etihad Airways is buying a 40% stake in Air Seychelles. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier is investing $20 million in the airline and giving the carrier a $25 million loan. Air Seychelles also is receiving a $20 million capital infusion from the Seychelles government. The deal includes a five-year management contract and a state official says the new shareholder will name a new CEO and CFO.
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Etihad and Air Berlin form an alliance
Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi and Air Berlin, Germany's second-largest airline, announced a strategic partnership Monday that will see Etihad become Air Berlin's largest shareholder and gain access to new European routes as it seeks to keep pace with its larger Gulf-based rival, Emirates.
Under the terms of the agreement, Etihad will increase an existing 3 percent stake in Air Berlin to just over 29 percent through the purchase €73 million, or $95 million, in new shares while providing up to $255 million in loans to finance new jet purchases.
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If ever there was proof of President Dwight Eisenhower's timeless counsel to President-elect John Kennedy, it's the crisis in and around Syria. After all, more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's brutal civil war. Scud missiles and cluster bombs are raining down onto population centers. The war is metastasizing across international borders, with Jordan and Turkey drowning in a tidal wave of some 2 million refugees, Syrian dictator Hafez Assad's forces firing into Jordan and shooting down a Turkish plane, Israel launching airstrikes into Syria, Iran sending equipment and men to Syria via Iraq, Hezbollah fighters moving in from Lebanon, and al Qaeda fighters moving back and forth from Iraq. Perhaps worst of all, Assad has re-opened the Pandora's Box of chemical warfare.
In short, Syria is "no easy matter." But the president's erratic response—drawing "red lines" then not enforcing them, calling for Assad's ouster then sending only nonlethal aid to Assad's opponents, vowing to punish Assad for gassing his people then promising it would be "a very limited…shot across the bow," requesting congressional authorization then withdrawing the request—hasn't made it any easier.
For more than two years, the president tried to keep Syria at arm's length, and understandably so. Americans have no stomach for another war in the Middle East, which explains why the president has worked hard to disentangle the United States from the region. Witness the pullout from Iraq, drawdown in Afghanistan, lead-from-behind approach to Libya, and pilotless drone war over Pakistan and Yemen.
Not only is this approach politically understandable; it is historically justifiable. Indeed, many thoughtful observers have made the case that after some 20 years of U.S. military interventions (e.g. Kuwait, Iraqi Kurdistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), it's time for Washington to return to a less hyperactive foreign policy—the sort of interests-based policy that guided the United States during the Cold War.
But the longer the war raged in Syria, the more difficult it was for the president to avert his gaze from it. Syria is not just another "quarrel in a far-away country, between people of whom we know nothing," as was said during an earlier time of troubles. Syria is affecting close allies like Israel, Turkey and Jordan—see above—and serving as fuel for determined foes like al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Iran. Nor is the world the same as it was during the Cold War. What's happening in Syria—as before in Somalia and Bosnia—is being beamed around the world in real time, crying out for a response from the one country with the military means and moral standing to do something.
If that sounds like the situation in Syria—and it does—it explains why nonintervention in Syria is so hard to reconcile with intervention in Libya.
A strong case could be made for staying out of both civil wars on interests/realist grounds. A strong case could be made for intervening in both civil wars on humanitarian/idealist grounds. There is even a way to bridge the gap between ideals and interests in Syria: Like West Berlin in 1948 and Afghanistan in 2001, Syria may have been one of those unique instances where humanitarian ideals and national interests overlap. Early intervention to protect the Syrian people (a humanitarian motivation) by targeting the Assad regime could have dealt a blow to Syria's patron in Iran, blocked jihadists from gaining a toehold and prevented Assad from using or losing his chemical weapons (all national-security interests).
But sounding like Vaclav Havel in making the case for intervening in Libya while acting like Henry Kissinger in steering clear of Syria is difficult to square.
The use of chemical weapons is what spurred the president into action last month, and for good reason. More than 1,400 civilians were killed in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta by sarin gas. The footage from Ghouta shocked the civilized world. After all, these ghastly weapons have been used only five times since the end of World War I.
But the president undermined himself again by delaying such a response and then asking Congress for pre-authorization to strike Syria. Make no mistake, seeking congressional authorization for military action—something the much-maligned Bush administration did before Afghanistan and Iraq, but the Obama administration did not do before Libya—is the preferable way to go to war. However, the political handholding leading up to congressional authorizations for the Gulf War in 1991 and Iraq War in 2003 underscore that persuading Congress requires time and effort. And other precedents—Reagan in Grenada, the elder Bush in Panama, Clinton in Kosovo, Obama himself in Libya—underscore that congressional authorization for a Syria strike was not essential.
At first glance, the Russian proposal to cajole Assad into rounding up and handing over his chemical weapons may look like a way to deescalate the crisis. Some observers describe it as an "off ramp" from the crisis. However, Moscow's plan is not likely to bear real fruit as long as the civil war continues—just how would an international force secure tons of chemical weapons amid a multisided war?—which suggests the proposal may be more of stalling tactic than a solution. Indeed, upon closer inspection, the Russian proposal is something like asking a serial killer to hand over his bullets, letting him keep the gun, allowing him to avoid prosecution and prison time, and trusting one of his accomplices to hold the ammo for safekeeping.
Still, we shouldn't miss one important lesson amidst all the smoke and confusion created by Moscow's diplomatic flashbang: The fact that Russia even proffered the idea—and Syria so eagerly embraced it—is proof that diplomacy backed by the threat of force works. Indeed, it may be the only thing that works with autocrats. After all, Russia and Syria were recalcitrant until the last week of August, when Washington finally bolstered two years of warnings with a credible and highly visible threat to carry out punitive military strikes against Assad—strikes that have now been put on hold.


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White House determines 18 states are in coronavirus 'red zone,' but doesn't publicize findings
Louisiana, and almost all of the South, is on the list
By: Guest Author - July 17, 2020 10:08 am
In this file photo from July, Vice President Mike Pence, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, speaks during a visit to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for a roundtable discussion with state leaders about the state's coronavirus response. The task force is reporting a a 175 percent increase in Louisiana's COVID-19 cases since last week. (Photo by Wes Muller/LAI).
This article about the coronavirus red zone was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom based in Washington, D.C.
By Liz Essley Whyte
A document prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force but not publicized suggests more than a dozen states, including Louisiana, should revert to more stringent protective measures, limiting social gatherings to 10 people or fewer, closing bars and gyms and asking residents to wear masks at all times.
The document, dated July 14 and obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, says 18 states are in the "red zone" for COVID-19 cases, meaning they had more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population last week. Eleven states are in the "red zone" for test positivity, meaning more than 10 percent of diagnostic test results came back positive.
It includes county-level data and reflects the insistence of the Trump administration that states and counties should take the lead in responding to the coronavirus. The document has been shared within the federal government but does not appear to be posted publicly.
The July 14 Louisiana report says the state over that previous week had had 234 cases per 100,000 people, well over the national average of 119 cases per 100,000 people. It lists East Baton Rouge Parish, Jefferson Parish and Lafayette Parish as the three jurisdictions with the highest number of new cases, but lists a total of 44 parishes in the red zone and 12 more in the yellow zone (between 10-100 cases per 100,000 people). The report recommends that the "public use of masks" be mandated "in all current and evolving hot spots."
Specifically, the guidance recommends that public officials "ensure that all business retailers and personal services require masks and can safely social distance." It also recommends that all bars and gyms "in hot spot parishes" be shut down.
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced an order July 11 that mandates that masks be worn publicly in 61 of the state's 64 parishes. His order also shuts down bars across the state. However, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has said in an attorney general opinion — which does not have the force of law — that Edwards' order "does not pass the constitutional test."
Though the governor's order jibes almost exactly with what the White House task force recommends, his spokesperson Christina Stephens said, "We actually got the Louisiana-specific recommendations Tuesday morning." She said, "The advice of our own public health experts and general guidance from the CDC informed the Saturday order."
Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said he thought the information and recommendations from the task force were mostly good.
"The fact that it's not public makes no sense to me," Jha said Thursday. "Why are we hiding this information from the American people? This should be published and updated every day."
Dr. Deborah Birx, a leader of the task force, referenced an earlier version of what appears to be the same report — which she said was updated weekly and sent to governors — in a press conference July 8 in which Vice President Mike Pence urged local leaders to open schools in the fall. She said Arizona, California, Florida and Texas were among the states the task force was monitoring carefully and that "a series of other states" were also in the red zone and should consider limiting gatherings.
Three days after Edwards announced his order, Pence, the head of the coronavirus task force, visited Louisiana to speak with Gov. John Bel Edwards and members of the state's Congressional delegation in a closed-door meeting.
According to a transcript released by the Office of the Vice President, Pence told Edwards, "I want you to know you have our full support in the steps that you're taking for Louisiana. And you have our commitment to — whether it be testing, whether it be PPE, therapeutics or the like, to — we're going to continue to move heaven and earth and to make sure you have what you need to implement your plan."
It's clear some states are not following the task force's advice. For instance, the document recommends that Georgia, in the red zone for both cases and test positivity, "mandate statewide wearing of cloth face coverings outside the home." But Gov. Brian Kemp signed an order Wednesday banning localities from requiring masks.
The 18 states that are included in the red zone for cases in the document are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
The 11 states that are in the red zone for test positivity are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas and Washington.
In May, the World Health Organization recommended that governments make sure test positivity rates were at 5 percent or lower for 14 days before reopening. A COVID-19 tracker from Johns Hopkins University shows that 33 states were above that recommended positivity as of July 16.
"If the test positivity rate is above 10 percent, that means we're not doing a good job mitigating the outbreak," said Jessica Malaty Rivera, science communication lead at the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer organization launched by journalists from The Atlantic. "Ideally we want the test positivity rate to be below 3 percent, because that shows that we're suppressing COVID-19."
The White House and Kemp did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.
Correction: July 17, 2020, 11 a.m.: A previous version of a map in this story incorrectly identified North Carolina's status as a state in the "red zone" for test positivity. The map has been updated to reflect that North Carolina is in the "yellow zone" for test positivity.
Editor Jarvis DeBerry contributed to this report.
by Guest Author, Louisiana Illuminator

White House determines 18 states are in coronavirus 'red zone,' but doesn't publicize findings

by Guest Author, Louisiana Illuminator
July 17, 2020


SOMERVILLE (CBS) – Starting next year, e-cigarettes will only be available in 21-plus tobacco stores in Somerville. The city says they are the first municipality in Massachusetts to implement these restrictions.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Surgeon General declared e-cigarettes an epidemic nationwide. The number of high school students who admit using an e-cigarette in the last 30 days is up 75-percent over last year. Vaping among middle schoolers increased nearly 50-percent.
Health officials in Somerville say their local numbers match the troubling national trend.
The Somerville Board of Health voted last week to adopt new rules that will limit access and exposure to e-cigarettes by restricting where they are sold.
"We are moving vaping materials as well as menthol cigarettes from a regular retail store to a tobacco store which is a 21-plus to enter into the store itself," said Kress.
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone hopes other towns and cities will soon follow in their footsteps.
The new restrictions go into place in Somerville on April 1, 2019.


C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. plans to acquire regional distributor Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative Inc.
Financial terms of the deal, announced late yesterday, weren't disclosed. Keene, N.H.-based C&S said it expects the transaction to close early next year.
Olean Wholesale serves more than 270 independent food retail and convenience stores across New York, Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. Plans call for President and CEO Robert Ketchner to continue to manage the Olean, N.Y.-based co-op's day-to-day operations.
Founded in 1922, Olean Wholesale distributes all major product lines, including grocery, frozen, dairy, meat, produce, general merchandise and health and beauty aids.
The company also offers a range of retailer services (such as operations, technology, accounting, advertising, pricing and store development) as well as private label products, including more than 1,400 items under the Shurfine brand. Other private brands distributed by Olean include TopCare, Valu Time, Simply Done, @ease and Paws Happy Life.
The nation's largest grocery wholesale company, C&S supplies more than 137,000 products to about 7,700 independent supermarkets, chain stores, military bases and other institutions.