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OMAHA, Neb. Late last Thursday, hours after Mitt Romney had wrapped up a large rally and one of the most successful fundraisers in Nebraska history, Gary Wilwerding was camped out with about a dozen others inside a small office in a strip mall here that was buzzing with activity.
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As he has done for six to eight hours most weeks, Wilwerding, a 64-year-old retiree, was working to train other volunteers and help piece together data gathered from neighborhood canvassing and phonebanking.
His objective: To defend the dot.
The dot would be the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District, an area that then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) narrowly won four years ago despite losing Nebraskas statewide vote to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by a 15-percentage-point margin.
That win wasnt for naught: Nebraska, along with Maine, is one of only two states in the country that award a portion of their electoral college votes by congressional district, meaning that Obama came away from deep-red Nebraska with one of the states five electoral college votes.
Six months out from November 2012, the Obama camp believes that in a close race, Omahas single vote could make all the difference. And volunteers like Wilwerding a self-described independent who has supported Republicans in the past are working to keep their hold on what has come to be known as Obamaha.
I think nationally, if this one little area has that one electoral vote again, it says something about the people of Nebraska ... that there are people in the Midwest here that are very committed to the ideals of the Democratic Party, Wilwerding said late last week in an interview at the Obama campaigns Omaha headquarters. I would hate people to think that thats not the way it is. Nebraskas got an opportunity, and last time, they came through with shining colors.
The 2008 election marked the first time in history that the Cornhusker State had split its electoral votes since a 1991 law made it one of only two states in the country able to do so.
One of the last remaining bells from a D-Day landing craft that was built right here in Dorchester has been discovered after being lost for nearly 70 years. The bell, which even has a bullet dent from the assault on Omaha Beach, is now being sold by an English antiques dealer after it was discovered in a scrap dealers yard.
The bell is inscribed with the name of the landing craft it graced the LCI(L) 403 and though the story of the boats heroics in the war is partly documented, its journey for the last 65 years remains a mystery.
The ship was built by the George Lawley & Sons Shipbuilding Corporation in Neponset in the mid-1940s. It then sailed to Portsmouth in March 1944 as part of a convoy of 500 ships. Just two months later the 403 was part of the D-Day landing force that stormed the enemy at Omaha Beach on June 6.
During the assault on the beach the stormy and crowded sea forced the 403 to crash into a fellow landing craft and it lost its port ramp. Despite the setback, the craft managed to collect 32 wounded soldiers and ferry them safely from the front line.
After 15 months service in Europe the boat returned to the States and was refitted as a gun-boat in Boston. But the war ended soon after and the boat did not see active service again.
What happened to the boat and its bell is not known until this year when it turned up in Yorkshire and was spotted by a militaria dealer from Hemswell Antique Centres, which is now offering the bell for sale for 1,500.
Bells from LCIs are, I believe, quite rare. Not all had them, said John Cummer, president of the USS LCI National Association in the US. One of the few remaining bells of this kind belongs to the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum in Portland, Oregon and is used in memorial services and annual reunions.
The museum is now restoring a landing craft to preserve the history of the Amphibious Forces in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and to educate the public on the rich naval maritime heritage that the Amphibious Forces have played in US history.
It is an item we would love to have in our Museum, said museum board member Gordon Smith, who served for five engagements himself on LCI 43.
Some LCIs did have a small bell and to have one with the ships number engraved on it is so unusual it makes me think that the Captain may have had the bell or at least the numbering fabricated for him.
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Things are always done differently in Orange County, so I guess I shouldnt expect kiddie birthday parties to be the same as Vancouver. For one thing, nearly all the OC birthday parties are done outdoor. You have the great Southern California weather to thank for that. In addition to the standard inflatable castle, this birthday party included horseback riding and a miniature train. I hope Sally is not expecting a bigger production when her birthday rolls around.
In addition to the real birthdays of Orange County, this edition of Dot Com Pho features Charlie the Dot Com dog, a girl who cant stop laughing, straw as art, and I put a $1,0Ǡ bounty on the Bowtie man. Anyone is welcome to join us for Dot Com Pho. Follow me on Twitter to find out the time and location of the next one.
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In Vancouver, Michael Kwan tells us about how to get free comic books, Ed Lau gets into the culinary delights of pig anus, and Spencer shows off the rugged Griffin Survivor case for the new iPad. This episode was shot on the Samsung QF20 camcorder, which also serves as the gadget of the week.
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Analysts sit like civilian generals in their ivory towers waiting for reports from the battlefields to pour in. When all data is received, they come to a collective consensus, the distribution of which, taken as gospel by most investors, often causing seismic activity in stock charts. However, most of these Wall Street number crunchers don't see the permutations of the game as it is being played. It is the soldiers in the trenches that see the fight as it evolves.
While Enron was robbing citizens of California, and falsifying their figures to meet Wall Street expectations, "experts" on the street screamed "Buy! Buy! Buy!" based on their so called "exhaustive research," publishing glowing reports filled with spreadsheets and projections, sending many lemmings over the cliff and to their doom.
The company was a house of cards. When you ignored the hype, and took an objective look at what they actually produced (nothing), and why anyone wouldwish to invest in them (hopefully you didn't) it became a very simple equation. Yes, there were reporters that actually did serious investigation and unearthed the fraud, but where were the analysts during all this? Drinking the Kool-Aid and passing on cups to their clients, who trustingly drank down the poisoned spreadsheets.
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Look, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that number crunching, and analytics aren't necessary. I'm not advocating purchasing a stock just because you and your friends use the product; more investigation is needed. You can have a great company, with wonderful offerings, and be paying way too much for your shares without analyzing what's a fair price. Case in point, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in 2000 was a great company, with bright prospects, but overpriced. Steve Ballmer, while certainly no Steve jobs, has increased revenues, profits, and created value, but investors have been clamoring for his head because the stock still is nowhere near its all time high, but whose fault is it that investors had bid the price up to the moon? (not his) Today, Microsoft is at a turning point, if Windows 8 is a hit, on computers and in mobiles, Softy might even get back to levels seen way back, well ... in 2000.
My point, most huge trends and huge price movementsare so obvious in retrospect, but few people take advantage because they can't see them, their heads are buried in the numbers, collective consciousness, and the premise that the analysts know all.
Let's take a look at some examples of some situations that we can see clearlywith 20/20 hindsight
In the mid 1990s, newspapers (do they still exist?) were yelling about the information superhighway that was coming. The term snail mail was invented; a radical, new, disruptive technology was coming into being, creating real value for society, and yet there was a several year delay before Internet stocks shot into the stratosphere.
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