May 17 2012

Mitt Romney’s Appointment of Gay Aide Richard Gre

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Last week, Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell as his new foreign policy spokesman. Grenell was President Bush’s communications director at the United Nations for eight years, and has been a spokesman for a handful of prominent Republicans such as George Pataki and Dave Camp.

Along with his qualifications Windows 7 oem key, Grenell is  also gay.

When the campaign announced the hire, Grenell’s sexual orientation wasn’t noted in media coverage, nor, arguably, should it have been. He got in a bit of a tangle for scrubbing his Twitter profile to erase messages he wrote about Newt Gingrich and his wife, but that was about the only newsworthy development in the hiring announcement.

That is, until a  gay-bashing radio host at the American Family Association wrote in his blog that by appointing Grenell, Romney was telling the so-called pro-family community to “drop dead.” CNN amplified that message from Bryan Fischer  by inviting him on for an interview.

“The homosexual agenda represents the single-greatest threat to religious liberty and freedom of association in America today,” Fischer declared.

The problem, gay Republicans say, is not that homophobes like Fischer are still around  but  that a person’s sexual orientation is still newsworthy enough to provide  a cheap story or mini-controversy.

Grenell isn’t the first gay person Romney has hired Buy Windows 7 Product Key, and he probably won’t be the last.

“Bringing orientation into the matter is ludicrous,” said R. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, which supports gay and lesbian rights.  “I still can’t figure out why it’s such a big deal that Rick’s orientation has been made a point, when he is not the first or last gay person to be hired by a Republican candidate or a Republican official.”

Gay marriage advocates rejoiced this year when their movement gained ground Windows 7 oem key, notably in Maryland, where lawmakers of both parties passed a bill to allow gay marriage. Republicans in particular saw it as evidence, reinforced by polling data, that more and more Americans were becoming more accepting of it.

Grenell’s appointment also signaled that the Romney campaign had fully moved on from the primary in which the former Massachusetts governor vaulted to the right wing of his party to win conservative voters who were  less likely to support gay rights.

In a general election, however, being open to gay rights could even help Romney win some independent voters – especially against a president who has been timid about outright support of  gay marriage.

“Those younger voters that are oh so important to winning elections, those young voters who become future candidates themselves, they don’t judge people on their orientation,” Cooper,  who worked in the Bush administration on United Nations issues, said.

Fred Karger, a gay Republican activist who waged a long-shot bid for his party’s presidential nomination, said he ran for president to show that “anyone should be able to work for any Republican regardless of sexual orientation.

“I think acceptance is there,” he said. “People now, like Rick Grenell, can be out and working. And he was for eight years in the Bush administration, at a very high level with security clearance in the State Department.

“All we are striving for,” said Karger, “is just to be accepted and treated no differently.”

 

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May 17 2012

Major cuts to ANU School of Music

The Australian National University (ANU) is cutting jobs as part of a major restructure of its School of Music.

The university is axing one of its two undergraduate degrees and reducing one-to-one teaching opportunities.

A total of 23 academic and nine administrative staff at the School of Music will be sacked and invited to apply for 20 positions available from next year.

Those who do not get a job will be paid their full entitlements.

ANU vice-chancellor Ian Young says the new Bachelor of Music will be more flexible and offer students more choice.

He says it will better equip students for a career in music.

“The new program acknowledges the fact that successful 21st century music professionals engage in a broad range of activities as they build their careers replica watches,” he said.

“They need to be highly-skilled creative artists, who are business and technology savvy, with entrepreneurial skills and a good basis in teaching practice.”

Professor Young says the new model is more financially sustainable.

“The 2011 Lomax-Smith review of higher education funding confirmed that government funding does not cover the costs of one-to-one music tuition, let alone buying instruments or providing appropriate teaching rooms replica watches,” he said.

“Change is essential if music is to survive at a tertiary level here and across the rest of the sector.”

'Radical action'

Stephen Darwin from the Tertiary Education Union says the cuts are a short-term response to a long-term problem.

“It is time for this university to start valuing its staff, not just disposing of them when there's a curriculum opportunity.

“This is poor treatment, it hasn't happened at other Australian universities, it shouldn't happen at the ANU.”

Mr Darwin says the cuts will be met with union action.

“What they've told those staff is that their skills, even though they work in a school of music replica watches, can no longer be used in a school of music. That they want to recruit a whole new work force,” he said.

“This is dramatic, it is radical and it's in violation of the ANU enterprise agreement.”

Student anger

The university has guaranteed existing students will be supported to finish the degree they started.

But ANU Student Association president Dallas Proctor says students are angry.

“There'll be no more individual music lessons for new students from next year, and it will be really focused on things to help them get jobs,” he said.

“And that's just not what the school is about.”

He says he is not convinced students will be able to finish their degrees.

“As we saw with ANU Drama, jobs get cut and the teachers leave and there's no one able to teach the remaining students,” he said.

“They're conceding that some of the most instrumental teachers will leave because there won't be enough work for them to do and that students are going to have to rely on things like video conferencing to actually have lessons.”

Both the Students Association and the National Tertiary Education Union say they will fight the changes.

The ANU will hold information sessions for staff and students in the coming weeks to discuss the changes.

May 17 2012

Group envisions Maine-to-Florida E-ZPass toll syst

It takes Galloway Township resident Earl Jensen a day and a half to drive down Interstate 95 to his second home in St. Augustine, Fla. So he doesn’t want the trek to take any longer than it has to.

Jensen, who said he makes the drive to and from Florida about six times a year, purchased the quick toll cards for every state so he can swipe a card and pass through the tolls instead of having to wait in line and pay the toll operator every time.

“It’s so much faster,” he said. “A lot of time the tolls say you have to have exact change and you get to the booth and there is no one there.”

And if plans by an interstate agency move ahead, Jensen’s drive to Florida could soon become E-Z-er.

The Interagency Group — the organization that oversees E-ZPass — is working with southern states to allow motorists to use the system along the entire I-95 corridor from Maine to Florida.

P.J. Wilkins, the organization’s executive director, said IAG is coordinating with state-run toll agencies in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida so they can adopt the system that allows drivers to move through tolls at a higher rate of speed.

Twenty-two million customers use E-ZPass, a 17-year-old program that started with seven agencies in three states, Wilkins said.

“We’ve grown a lot, and we’re looking for ways to continue growing,” he said.

Other states have toll agencies with their own system, but the Interagency Group is working with them to update their equipment so they can also accept E-ZPass, Wilkins said. The immediate plan is to put E-ZPass on the entire I-95 corridor Tattoo Ink, and in the long term to have the system available nationwide, he said. There are no timetables for these initiatives, he said.

“(I-95) is a very important highway,” he said. “If we can do that, we’ll get the entire eastern seaboard.”

Millville resident Frank Thon drives a tractor trailer to Miami twice a week to pick up shipments of flowers. Having E-ZPass and the quick toll cards in the other states saves him considerable time and gas from not having to stop at all the toll booths.

“Especially in the summer time,” he said. “You can sit in line at a toll for up to 40 minutes.”

Currently, the North Carolina Turnpike Authority has a “Quick Pass” system that works like E-ZPass but does not accept the E-ZPass system.

But in February, the Interagency Group’s board approved expanding its membership to North Carolina, and Wilkins said they hope to complete it by summer. They are also talking to the other southern states along I-95.

“We’re working now to identify what the obstacles are: How do we work together and how to transfer the funds,” he said. “We’re eager to get some of these things going.”

Before other states join, the state agencies will update equipment when it’s practical for them, Wilkins said. IAG will not supply funds to the local agencies, he said.

Once the change is complete, E-ZPass lanes will be opened in North Carolina and the other states, and those customers will know they can use E-ZPass when they travel through the northern states.

“All toll agencies like to see people use their electronic lanes,” Wilkins said. “Most of the agencies want to be available to us. To some, it will be a cost for new equipment and they’ll do it when the time is right.”

In North Carolina, the toll agency would sell plastic cases for Quick Pass or Quick Pass and E-ZPass, Wilkins said.

“The benefit is for the customers so they can have seamless travel up and down the corridor,” he said. “Our customers who have it want to use it wherever they may be. It will make people’s lives a little bit easier.”

Quick Pass Marketing Director Mike Gentry said he hopes to implement E-ZPass by August. Though they do not have statistics for how many out-of-state drivers use North Carolina highways, Gentry said he believes E-ZPass will make a difference.

He said many new residents said they will wait until E-ZPass is available before they register with Quick Pass.

“It definitely will make a good impact,” he said.

AAA does not track the number of people from the area who drive to Florida, but Tracy Noble Intenze Tattoo Ink, spokeswoman for AAA Mid-Atlantic, said the addition of E-ZPass lanes in the south will add convenience for those southbound drivers.

But Noble said she does not expect the addition of E-ZPass lanes to change driving habits overall.

“It does help the flow of traffic, and (drivers) do not need to sit (in line at tolls),” she said. “I don’t know if there will be a lot of long-distance driving because of the high cost of fuel.”

Kevin Rehmann Tattoo Kits, spokesman for the South Jersey Transportation Authority, which oversees the Atlantic City Expressway, said the agency sees the spread of E-ZPass as another reason to use it in its promotional campaigns.

“It’s great because it will make it more popular,” he said. “It’s even more of a reason to love it.”

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May 17 2012

Pinterest Prompts a Start-Up’s Pivot Meet Curala

Pinterest’s rocket rise may be slowing, but there are still lots of companies struggling to keep up with the image-sharing site. Apu Gupta wants to help: His Curalate promises to help brands and e-commerce companies track the use of their products on Pinterest, and eventually on other image-focused sites, too.

Curalate’s pitch: You need basic information about the way users and potential customers are interacting with your products on Pinterest, but it’s very hard to do it on your own, because users usually don’t identify the products they’re “pinning,” so there’s no effective way to search for your stuff.

The company says it can solve that with image-recognition technology, which it licenses from a  third party Tattoo Kits, and an analytics engine it created itself.

Curalate’s arrival is inevitable, because every big social platform eventually spawns a set of third-party analytics/brand tracking companies — see Twitter, Facebook. But the company didn’t exist a few months ago.

Up until late last year, Gupta’s company was called Storably, and it was pursuing another hot start-up meme, as an “Air BNB for parking and storage.”

But that one never got traction and, after six months, Gupta — a Philadelphia-based Wharton grad — looked for a pivot. He and his four-man team cast around for a new idea and, after considering some 70 ideas Tattoos Machines Kits, landed on Curalate. At the end of 2011, the company raised a $750,000 seed round from NEA, First Round Capital and MentorTech Ventures.

Now Gupta says he has 150 customers Tattoo Steel Machines, including Kraft Foods and Time Inc.’s “Real Simple,” and he charges them up to $99 a month for his services.

May 16 2012

Ann Romney Says Talking to Women Makes Her Sure of

STAMFORD, Conn. — Ann Romney gave a passionate and at times emotional speech to the party faithful here tonight, telling them she knows “we are going to win in November” because of what women tell her at campaign events all over the country.

Romney said while supporters “swarm” her husband, she talks to women at campaign stops and asks them, “Why are you here? What made you come out of your house today to this event?”

At this point Romney became emotional and her voice began to crack recounting the prayers being said on her behalf.

“The kindness and sweetest of all is that so many women that I’ve never met before and may never see ever again in my life tell me how much they care for me and how much they are praying for me,” Romney said at a GOP fundraiser and awards ceremony here. “And I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long and the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when I have this little gray cloud that’s over my head when it’s going to start raining on me again and I do need those prayers, but I honestly feel like we are there for a purpose.”

Clearly trying to confront the gender gap her husband is facing head on, Romney said it’s the economy that women on the trail tell her they are concerned with: “Their husbands’ jobs, their jobs, their children’s jobs.”

Dressed in a pink sweater, she admitted the campaign can be “emotional draining” when she watches her husband being “maligned at times” or “being misrepresented at times.”

Although she said campaigning “doesn’t come naturally” to her she got an enthusiastic reception and painted an empathetic portrait of her husband just one day before Connecticut Republicans cast their primary vote.

She described him not only as a successful businessman and governor of Massachusetts, but also touted his work as a leader in the Mormon Church, not something either of the Romneys usually bring up on the campaign trail.

“He also served in our church,” Romney told the crowd of about 800. “He counseled people when he was tired, people would be coming in to the house late at night needing help and needing some encouragement. I never knew why they came. Often I didn’t even know who they were. They would come in a side door if they didn’t feel like they wanted anyone to share they were going through a difficult time, never once did Mitt ever tell me one thing about the things he was helping these people with. He kept it in such strict confidence.”

She briefly brought up the media firestorm from earlier this month when a Democratic pundit said she had “never worked a day in her life.”

To cheers from the dinner-goers she said, “Some people think I didn’t work Discount Chanel Dresses,” but said until she had her fifth son she took care of all the household tasks, citing laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, and bill paying, without any outside help.

“I know what it’s like to wake up early in the morning and get them off to school; I know what it’s like to be up in the middle of the night when they are sick; and I know what it’s like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have,” Romney said. “So we are grateful for the response that we got from that and appreciative of recognizing that women have choices in life and some choices are not all the same, but we value everyone’s choice that they make in their profession.

“Sometimes like isn’t easy for any of us,” she said.

She also gave the group a glimpse into how her family and husband made the decision to get behind another presidential campaign after losing the GOP primary four years ago. Unlike the last time, Romney said it was only “one son who felt strongly Mitt should go forward and there was only me who felt Mitt should go forward” this time.

She said as her husband, five sons Replica Emilio Pucci Dresses, and five daughters-in-law spoke about other possible candidates and her husband’s chances she said, “I don’t care about any of that that. That is not what I’m going to make my decision on … you never know how the playing field can change.”

“I only want to know one thing, Mitt, if you get the nomination which isn’t easy,” Romney recounted telling her husband. “If you beat Barack Obama, can you fix it? I need to know if it’s too late. Has America gone over the proverbial cliff? … I need to know if it’s worth to go through all of that and you are going to tell me then it’s too late, and he said, ‘No it’s getting late, but it’s not too late.’”

The Prescott Bush Awards Dinner held at the Marriott was a $250-a-plate fundraiser and attendees who paid $5,000 got an opportunity to meet with Romney. The Connecticut Republican primary is Tuesday.

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May 14 2012

Geneva PreviewRolls-Royce 200EX Concept teaser sur

The oft-spied Rolls-Royce RR4 finally has a name — 200 EX — and will be unveiled in concept form at the Geneva Motor Show in a couple of weeks. The 200EX will be a new Missoni Dresses sale, smaller model to slot in below the current Phantom sedan and coupe Hale Bob Dresses sale, riding on a new platform and with an all-new engine. The underpinnings are believed to be derived from the just launched 7 Series and may be powered by a newly designed V12 engine. If 12 cylinders are employed Buy Missoni Dresses, the engine will not be a variant of the motor used in the Phantom Karen Millen Dresses sale, but an all-new design.

Judging from the teaser Discount Christian Audigier Clothes, Rolls-Royce is sticking with the lower wider grille look that debuted on the 100EX and then the Phantom coupes and lighting is likely to come from a full LED array rather than the usual xenons. Steel is believed to replace much of the aluminum used in the Phantom for improved durability and a power closing “coach” doors will carry over from the Phantom. We should be seeing more complete photographs and other details of the 200EX in the coming days.

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May 14 2012

Biden Finds a Role

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Joe Biden used to joke about whether the vice president was less powerful than the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. Biden is naturally self-deprecating, but the joke contained a germ of truth: Biden had genuine ambivalence about what the job would be like. When Obama picked Biden Missoni Dresses sale, he told him he would have a key role, but the six-term senator wasn’t sure what that would mean in practice. During the campaign, the two didn’t have much time to talk about it. They were rarely together, campaigning in separate states most of the time, and Biden was necessarily in the background. Strategy for the campaign was handled by Obama and his long-serving team, and Biden was often kept out of the limelight.

Now that the Obama administration is (mostly) in place, the two men are enjoying an intense courtship after the marriage. Some days, Biden is with Obama for five hours in security and economic briefings and meeting foreign heads of state. As a result, Biden isn’t making jokes about his role anymore. He’s plenty busy, which he relishes. This week, he took his third substantive foreign trip to meet with NATO officials about the hot spot of Afghanistan, and Thursday he chaired a daylong meeting with state budget officials on the implementation of the stimulus bill.

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When Obama announced that Biden was the top enforcer for how the stimulus bill would be spent and accounted for, it wasn’t exactly confidence-inducing. “Nobody messes with Joe,” Obama said in his congressional address. When you are the kind of person nobody messes with, it should be self-evident. Bush never had to say, “Nobody messes with Cheney” because, as one of Cheney’s aides once put it, everyone saw Cheney as “the guy in the loin cloth with the knife in his teeth.” (I’ll let you pause for a moment to recover from this image.) By contrast, Bush did have to testify to Harriet Miers’ toughness Cheap DKNY Clothing, which diminished her.

It may be paradoxical that the administration’s most expansive personality is being put in charge of restraint. But Biden’s role as the top stimulus cop is serious. It has to be. Before Dick Cheney, it was common for a vice president to have a pet issue that was sort of off to the side. Al Gore’s job was to reinvent government. Biden’s role as stimulus cop could be seen in that tradition—except that the bill and its success are crucial to the success of the Obama administration.

Politically, Obama is being attacked for spending too much. Voters don’t trust that government, even the government of a president they like Replica DKNY Clothing, will spend money wisely, and Republicans are attacking Obama for being a spendthrift. Biden’s role—making sure the money spent is accounted for and spent wisely—is crucial to improving trust and beating back those critics. It also is necessary because Obama is going to be asking for more. As Biden told the state officials Thursday, “If we don’t get this right, folks, this is the end of the opportunity to convince the Congress that anything should go to the states.”

That Biden has been given this portfolio could mean the president has just signed him up to be the chief grief catcher: When the inevitable waste is discovered, Biden will take the rap for it. This was the dynamic during the early Bush days when White House officials tried to blame Cheney’s staff for the poor rollout of the administration’s energy plan.

But it can also be seen from another perspective. One state official, struck by how much pressure Biden is putting on everyone receiving federal money, told me that maybe the administration would be only too happy to find an example of wrongdoing—because it would then be able to show that it’s being fiscally responsible. As the president said Thursday at the meeting of state officials, “I know Joe emphasized this to you—if we see money being misspent, we’re going to put a stop to it, and we will call it out, and we will publicize it.”

As a personal matter, Biden is still learning, after more than 30 years in the Senate, how to work for someone else, which often means watching what he says aloud. He is, as one administration adviser put it, at once the administration’s biggest adult and biggest child. He was called on to deliver the administration’s first major foreign-policy speech at a security conference in Munich Herve Leger sale, Germany, in February, but he also caused a message detour when he told congressional leaders that Obama could do everything right—and there was still a 30 percent chance of failure. When Obama addressed the comment in a press conference, he appeared to diminish Biden, which didn’t help either man. And then there are Bidenisms that are simply incomprehensible, as when he didn’t know the number of the government’s Web site for the task force he leads.

Most of Biden’s gaffes Christian Audigier Clothes sale, however, tend to illustrate Kinsley’s law of politics: He says things that are true but that politicians are not supposed to say. Administration aides say the president admires this candor, and its public downside will perhaps ease once Biden gets comfortable with his place in the relationship, something Biden also likes to joke about. As he entered the swearing-in ceremony for Gil Kerlikowske, the new drug czar, Biden told the standing audience, “Please sit down, I’m only the vice president.”

May 14 2012

Checking the Boxes

Read more from Slate’s coverage of Sonia Sotomayor.

Checking boxes: That’s the crude shorthand that usually attends a president’s Supreme Court pick. By picking Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama has checked a lot of boxes.

Woman: Check. (She’ll be the third in history if she makes it.) Hispanic: Check. (She’s the first Hispanic nominee.)Bipartisan: Check. (She was first nominated by President George H.W. Bush.)Experienced: Check. (She’s been confirmed by the Senate twice and has more federal judicial experience than those sitting on the court did when they were nominated.)Liberal: Check.Smart: Check. (She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and has a law degree from Yale.)Legal range: Check. (She has been a prosecutor, trial judge, and private lawyer.) Biography: Check and check. (Obama praised her “extraordinary journey.” Sotomayor grew up in a housing project and lost her father at age 9.)

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As a bonus, Sotomayor is even credited with saving baseball. No word yet on her stance on apple pie.

To undo Obama’s pick Cheap Emilio Pucci Dresses, Republicans will have to uncheck those boxes. It might be possible to argue that Sotomayor either is too liberal or too out of the mainstream, but in making that case Replica Herve Leger v neck, Republicans risk damaging their party’s already dismal standing with women  and Hispanics. (History check: Last year, Obama won among Hispanics 67 percent to 31 percent.)

Going into this debate, Republicans have been mulling the opportunity and challenges. The math of the Senate makes it likely Obama will get his nominee. As a thoroughly crude political matter Discount Bandage dresses, the confirmation seems very secure. Obama already has a nearly filibuster-proof majority with 59 Democrats. It’s also unlikely that the two moderate female Republican senators from Maine would vote against Sotomayor. (The two other GOP women might not, either.)

But just because the math points toward confirmation doesn’t mean Republicans don’t have political opportunities. As Republican Sen. John Cornyn said last week at a breakfast with reporters, his party is traditionally strong on judicial issues. (Of course, he also admitted Republicans are facing extinction.) The nomination offers the opposition a chance to talk about values in a way that reminds conservatives why they like Republicans, and it also allows Republicans a big platform to make the case that the president is on the ideological left. “It’s a big television moment Cheap Marc Jacobs Dresses,” says one senior Senate leadership aide. “It’s definitional.”

But the nomination and how to respond to it come at a moment when the GOP is having an identity crisis. On the one hand DKNY Dresses sale, people like Gen. Colin Powell are arguing that the party should be more inclusive. That means expanding beyond its base in the South and not relying so heavily on its appeal to “Joe the Plumber” types. If Republicans beat up on Sotomayor too much, they might set back this effort.

On the other side of the debate are conservatives like Rush Limbaugh Buy Emilio Pucci Dresses, who will argue the nomination fight provides the perfect opportunity for the party to make proud declarations about what conservatives really believe. That means railing against judges who would legislate from the bench and lambasting the scourge of identity politics, which they see in the Sotomayor pick itself and in her decision in a case involving white firefighters charging the city of New Haven with reverse discrimination.

In early reaction to the pick, Republicans were already targeting what they saw as Sotomayor’s judicial activism. “We will thoroughly examine her record to ensure she understands that the role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law evenhandedly, despite their own feelings or personal or political preferences,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The political downside for Obama becomes acute only if Sotomayor is found to be a closet radical in a way that would shock a wide range of people. On the upside, he has answered Latino groups that have been complaining that they are underrepresented in the administration.

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May 13 2012

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May 13 2012

Spy ShotsPorsche working on Boxster Speedster

The Speedster variants Porsche made out of its 911 range in the ’80s and ’90s went down as one of the most iconic in the company’s history. But with the Boxster already in the line-up, making a 911 Speedster today would make about as much sense as Where find Replica Audemars Piguet Watches, um…. mounting a flat six behind the rear axle. So what are they preparing instead? Well, if these spy shots are any indication, some sort of Boxster-based Speedster.

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