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EditorsNote: updates with NFL response NFL submits requested information in Vilma case
Federal judge Ginger Berrigan requested more information from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regarding the league's timeline for handing down discipline to players, coaches and executives in the Saints' bounty scandal.
The NFL responded Thursday by submitting a letter from the NFLPA along with a sworn statement from Goodell, according to NBCSports.com. The NFL submitted a March 7, 2012, letter from former NFLPA general counsel Richard Berthelsen to NFL general counsel Jeff Pash in which Bethelsen requested a 60-day delay for disciplinary proceedings, according to the report. The NFL seems to suggest this indicates the NFL did not improperly prejudge the four players suspended in the bounty investigation.
Goodell also issued a sworn statement indicating he was ready to administer the player discipline on March 21, the same day he announced suspensions for coaches and executives. But Goodell's statement says he agreed to delay announcing the player suspensions following a conversation with DeMaurice Smith, head of the players' union.
The case, in which Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has claimed defamation of character, requires showing Goodell acted with malice or reckless disregard for the truth.
The NFLPA and Goodell had until Friday to turn over details after Goodell intimated that he was ready to deliver punishment for players on March 21, when he announced suspensions for Saints coach Sean Payton, former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, assistant head coach Joe Vitt, general manager Mickey Loomis and owner Tom Benson. However, the players' union asked Goodell not to rule on player punishment at that time.
The NFL obliged, and now Vilma's representatives argue that Goodell had already determined his own course of action and thereby also assumed guilt -- Vilma's and other players -- before he had all the facts.
Berrigan, a U.S. District Judge in Louisiana, isn't expected to rule immediately.
Berrigan suggested last week that she is in favor of Vilma receiving an injunction against his year-long suspension but isn't sure she has the authority to do so. That's because the league's collective bargaining agreement clears Goodell as the all-empowered disciplinarian in NFL matters.
However, a three-member panel is reviewing whether that arrangement is just and whether the pay-for-performance payments should be viewed as "on-field behavior" when the majority of evidence came from meeting rooms and locker rooms.


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For all the times I've been to Yosemite Valley, the north side of the Valley Loop Trail was a new one for me. I'd been on parts of it here and there, but not the whole thing. It was pleasantly deserted, and offered some very nice perspectives on familiar sights from new angles. I started at Yosemite Falls and walked around the base of Yosemite Point (above), which towers about 3,000 feet above. That little spire near the tip is Lost Arrow, a famous destination for rock climbers. It formed as a consequence of vertical joints (fractures) in the granitic rock.
Precious? Every day in Yosemite is precious! If you want to learn more about the geology of this wonderful place, check out my newly revised roadguide to the geology of Yosemite Valley at Geotripper Images. I also did a themed blog series some time back called Under the Volcano and Into the Abyss.

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Question # : 150
Can we use interest money from bank to pay income tax to government?
Answer : 150
Published on: May 20, 2007
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(Fatwa: 718=489/H)
It is allowable to pay interest money in income tax. (for details see: Fatawa Mahmoodiah, vol 4)
Allah knows Best!
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband
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Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to research from Purdue University.
"Childhood disadvantage has long-term health consequences—much longer than most of us realize," said Kenneth F. Ferraro, distinguished professor of sociology. "A novel aspect of this study is that childhood disadvantage was linked to the onset of new health problems decades later."
A new study finds that more than half of all "children" in the U.S. either misperceive or reject their parents' political party affiliations.
Children of undocumented Mexican immigrants have a significantly higher risk of behavior problems than their co-ethnic counterparts with documented or naturalized citizen mothers, according to a new study.
The difficulties come in two forms: sadness or social withdrawal — what the authors refer to as internalizing behavior problems — and issues such as aggressiveness towards others — which the authors call externalizing behavior problems.
Early adolescent girls lose friends for having sex and gain friends for "making out," while their male peers lose friends for "making out" and gain friends for having sex, finds a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups.
Despite having only about 5 percent of the world's population, the United States was the attack site for a disproportionate 31 percent of public mass shooters globally from 1966-2012, according to new research that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
When a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit japan in 2011, the effects were felt by over a million expatriates worldwide.
Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, we examine the relationship between childhood disadvantage and health problems in adulthood. Using two waves of data from Midlife Development in the United States, we investigate whether childhood disadvantage is associated with adult disadvantage, including fewer social resources, and the effect of lifelong disadvantage on health problems measured at the baseline survey and a 10-year follow-up.
Drawing on theories of social norms, we study the relative influence of female and male students using a year-long, network-based field experiment of an anti-harassment intervention program in a high school. A randomly selected subset of highly connected students participated in the intervention. We test whether these highly connected females and males influenced other students equally when students and teachers considered the problem of "drama"—peer conflict and harassment—to be associated with girls more than with boys.
Building on calls within the health literature for a deeper engagement with the concept of agency, we utilize nationally representative survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 13,592) to develop an empirical conception of the traditional treatment of health agency focused on two social psychological constructs that build upon current foci on personal control within the stress process model: (1) "subjective vitality" and (2) a forward-looking orientation ("optimism").


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Frogfall: It's raining fish and fowl
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Q. From a Cincinnati reader: "Can anyone yet explain the fish rain in Honduras and the frog rain in other parts of the world? Could it ever literally rain cats and dogs?" –P. Michaels
A. Fish, frogs, and strange debris such as books, letters, a box of chicken, and an ice-encrusted turtle have reportedly fallen from the sky during rain and storms, says Keith C. Heidorn, the Weather Doctor and author of The BC Weather Book. Most likely a tornado or waterspout lifts them to great heights within a thunderstorm cloud. Thus fish could easily be carried many miles and dropped on an unsuspecting population. Another possibility is that large waves from hurricanes launch the fish up into strong winds which ferry them afar. In extreme conditions, people, cows, even vehicles have become airborne, so a dog or cat would be easy.
Q. On the one hand are Birale, Saami, Yup'ik, Livonian, Enets and Narau; and on the other hand are Hindi, Bengali, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and English. What are the two hands here? –M. D. Berlitz
A. The first are a few of the world's many endangered languages, often with fewer than 50 speakers, says Daniel Comiskey in the Indiana (University) Alumni Magazine.
The second includes the largest languages, with maybe hundreds of millions of speakers, dubbed predator languages because they swallow up the littles. Languages today are dying at the rate of about one every month, but number of speakers is not always the critical issue. In fact, only 20% of the world's 6,000 languages have 100,000 speakers or more. To survive, a language needs to be used in everyday life by a community of committed speakers, who speak it with their children, says New York University linguist Gregory Guy.
What stands to be lost when a language dies is the richness of diversity, says Mark Abley in Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages. For example, endangered Karbadian, of the Caucasus Mountains, has 48 consonants and 0-3 vowels. In Boro of India, "onsra" means "to love for the last time." Mohawk is polysynthetic, where "I am currently bringing the sugar to someone" becomes "tkhetsikhe'tenhawihten:nihs."
It's told that 19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt went looking to study the Atures people of Venezuela. Led by a neighboring tribe through the isolated village by torchlight, he was taken to the cage of a parrot, which recited its limited vocabulary, says Comiskey. "Thus, the last speaker of the Atures language was a bird."
Q. That new drug you're taking that just hit the market. Guess who's been included in the experimental test group? –T. Leary
A. You– because the testing process probably isn't over, says Robert Matthews in "A Risk We Have to Swallow" from NewScientist magazine. For a decent chance of uncovering side effects that show up in 1-in-1000 people, the clinical trials should as a rule include 8 million recruits. Yet "most clinical trials involve fewer than 1000 patients."
While this is often big enough to show a drug's effectiveness, it may fail to detect side effects even when occurring in as many as 1-in-every-10 people. The result is a drug like Vioxx that winds up being used for a while, then is withdrawn as the data accumulate.
"What's beyond question is that clinical trials are typically far too small to detect worrying levels of side effects," Matthews says. So society can wait for years until countless small clinical trials assure a new drug's safety, or go forward, carefully monitoring benefits vs. risks. In this sense, we all become volunteer guinea pigs when we newly medicate ourselves.
Q. What's the trick to ear wiggling– V. VanGogh
A. No trick at all. It's in the genes and runs in families, like the ability to curl one's tongue, says R. Steven Ackley, communication disorders specialist at Gallaudet University, and a wiggler. The three extrinsic muscles of the ear are probably becoming vestigial in humans. Moving the ears and tightening the forehead was probably part of early man's bluffing challengers for a mate, much like other primates still do. To be sure, we do not need to orient our pinnas toward a sound source the way wolves can do. Some of us (throwbacks) can still contract at least the "auricularis posterior," which pulls the pinnas back.
"But give our species another hundred thousand years or so, and there may be no more Stan Laurels among us," Ackley says.
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And for a compliation of everything in one place, check out our Learn to Knit video!
Before you knit, you have to get the yarn onto the needle. This process is called "casting on." There are lots of ways to cast on, but the most common method is the Long Tail Cast On.
And even under the rubric of Long Tail Cast On, there are several variations! Below you'll find two: the Slingshot Method and the Thumb Method. They look exactly the same in the end, but perhaps the Thumb Method is a little easier for beginners. Try them both and tell us which you prefer!
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To figure out where to tie your slip knot, first measure out a length of yarn 3½ times the width of what you plan to make. So for a 6-inch wide scarf, measure out approximately 21 inches of yarn, and at that point, make a loop.
Bring the yarn that is on top around to the back of the loop.
Slide the knitting needle under the yarn that is behind the loop.
Pull both lengths of yarn so that the slip knot is just grazing the needle. Try to resist the temptation to tug on the yarn, making your stitches too snug around the needle. If your cast on is too tight, your first row of knitting will be quite unpleasant and your finished piece will have a taut edge, so be gentle.
Loop the terminus end of the yarn (the "tail") around your thumb. The tail should come from the needle, around the back of your thumb to the front of your thumb.
With the tip of the needle, pick up the front strand of the loop in an away-from-you motion (i.e. from front to back), sliding the needle up your thumb.
With your right hand, bring the yarn that is coming from the ball (the "working yarn") behind and around the needle in a counter clockwise direction.
Now, with a toward-you motion (i.e. from back to front), bring the needle through the loop on your thumb, allowing the loop to pass over the tip of the needle.
Slip your thumb out of the loop and pull both strands of yarn to gently secure the stitch on the needle.
Position a new loop on your thumb and continue to cast on in this manner until you have the correct number of stitches. (All patterns tell you how many stitches to cast on.)


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From midnight tonight Mr Monkey will no longer be posting any new material on his blog.
The decision to call it day was a difficult one because Mr Monkey knows that he has built up a large following in record time. He's caused mayhem in the corridors of power and he's enjoyed every minute of his blogging experience.
This chimp is especially happy to know that every senior council officer, councillor and the editor of the Shields Gazette are scared shit less at the thought of being featured on Mr Monkey's Blog. But the icing on the cake was knowing that Mr Monkey put an end to the Westminster ambitions of councillors David Potts and Ed Malcolm and exposed council leader Iain Malcolm as an election fraudster.
Although no new material will be posted on this blog, Mr Monkey has decided to leave the site as it is so that bloggers can trawl through the archives to learn more about Mr Monkey's crusade to expose the corruption, scheming and cheating that has become so entrenched in local politics.
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You know, sometimes there's a few car in videogame, sitting and waiting for some virtual trackdays, but still sits there because nobody even bothered to touch them. Case in Example: Jaguar S-Type and Renault Avantime in Gran Turismo.
Jaguar S-Type R is surprisingly good fun to drive. If you keep the aids on, it'll become a very grippy and sporty jaguar. Especially if you keep the active suspension. And the engine is also growly and rubles like a proper V8. It's also quite fast as well, if you're good you can manage somewhere arround 7:50 in the Nurburgring and maybe even lower. Yes it's ugly, but it's good!
While the Renault Avantime, it's suprisingly good as well. I think it's the best minivan in the game. I mean, it's a heavy 2-door minivan, it's not designed to be a racecar. But i think it's the bes minivan on this game. Yes it's not fast, but it handles really good. There's so much grip when you take some corners, and it's so confidence doing the turns like it was born for that. Cracking car, the Avantime.
So, any weird car but fun to drive you ever drive on video game? Or a car that looks fast but slow? or a car that seems easy to drive but you ends up making slow laptimes? Or any other surprises? Just comment here!


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Hemingway is a fascinating character. Many tell stories, but Hemingway lived in an epic poem. He traveled the worlds, participated in wars, hunted, fished, went through four marriages only to commit suicide. If I needed source material for an epic tragedy, I wouldn't need to look further. I wouldn't even need to add themes – masculinity, romance and war are constant themes in Hemingway's life. This fascinating Hemingway is the only good thing about Men Without Women.
Nowadays, Hemingway's prose reads more like a parody of realism. He didn't understand the purpose of it. When he talks about his Iceberg Theory, he talks about hiding things from the reader. Yet holding back information isn't good storytelling. It's how cheap thrillers keep us hooked by hinting that if we invest more time, a revelation will come. The purpose of minimalism is to reveal using few words.
Carver came years later and saw it through. When you read Carver, you don't need to dig deep to find buried ideas. Rather, Carver's bare prose makes everything float up to the surface. If something is hidden or implied, it means that the mere fact of it being hidden is important. At the end of "One More Thing", Carver tells us the man doesn't know what to say. That's enough to show us how confused, how broken that man is. If Hemingway wrote that story, it would end with "The Man said.", as if not telling the reader what he said is somehow more profound than showing the man is at loss for words.
These aren't stories of beginnings, middles and conclusions. They're snapshots of life, which is fine. "In Another Country" is a story that goes nowhere, but it's so lifelike. That story must be close to him since it deals with war wounds. He's not worried about being obvious there, but just let the images stand on their own. In it, there are machines that are supposed to cure body problems. Despite being the first of their kind, there are images of before-and-after. It's not a complex image and perhaps not a very subtle one, but it's more powerful than anything here.
"Hills Like White Elephants", perhaps the most famous story here both shows where the style works and where it generally fails. It's routinely praised for only implying it's about abortion instead of saying it, but what's the point? If you insert the word 'abortion' there, would it change the story drastically? Often that word dies to appear on the page, especially if you read an analysis of it. Hemingway writes it while struggling not to mention it for fear of being obvious. It's like a band who stumbles upon a great melody, but repeats it only once in fear of being 'poppy' or 'mainstream'.
This isn't being concerned with literary quality, but with literary image. A story that aims for critically-approved traits like subtlety and depth misses the whole point. Even if you do switch the word 'operation' with 'abortion', the story would remain excellent. It's really about a couple who reached a stumbling block in their relationship and don't know where to go. There's a reason they spend the whole story in a train station.
If you found his dialogue stiff and repetitive before, it's even more so here. Some stories have sections like a broken record. "The Killers", an otherwise excellent expression of fear of organized crime, has at least a page worth of unnecessary dialogue. Whenever Hemingway slips into this, you can feel him dying to say something but too afraid of ruining his image. He's not completely awful in his style of omission. He said he left out the whole Chicago thing from the story and that's a wise decision since namedropping the city wouldn't add anything. Organized crime is scary regardless of where you're at, but killers who repeat the same words ad nausam just don't make sense.
Across his books, Hemingway's flaws are as repetitive as the dialogue. Yet I keep reading because there's something beating here. Discovering Hemingway lead an epic life isn't surprising once you read a few pieces of prose by him. There's distress, a desire for more, an obsession with concepts that fuels great people. It's also not surprising Hemingway killed himself. Literature was an outlet for his troubles, but he couldn't let it out.
Again, his Iceberg Theory stabs him in the back. Being a stereotypical man means bottling up your emotions and going fishing. Men are supposed to be tough and invulnerable. A vulnerable man can't protect your children, after all. The stories try to dig into these masculine troubles, but end up conforming to stereotypes instead of breaking them.
The troubles are distinctly masculine. Violence and heartbreak often plague our characters. The violence is either for glory or for survival. As for women, their role is to provide a respite from this life. Perhaps that's why the man in "Hills Like White Elephants" is so vague, anxious both to make the abortion and telling her she should choose. He's afraid of losing her because if she's gone, all he will have left is bullfighting and war. There's glory in bullfighting and connection when you're at war with your buddies, but these things can also be your downfall. Then again, in Hemingway's stories women can also be the downfall.
Downfall is always around the corner, but the sense of dread which the characters feel never surfaces. Hemingway wants to imply so much that the stories feel like a person opening up about his break-up, only to shut up once he talks about the real reason. You, as a listener, is being teased and your curiosity isn't satisfied. The person who needs a good talk is too afraid to speak, so he doesn't get any help. The best stories here are "In Another Country" and "Now I Lay Me". Hemingway lets himself go in these. There's a bit more telling, but the emotional punch of them is powerful. Both can slot nicely into a Carver collection without a change in quality. The worst story is "The Undefeated", where Hemingway flexes his jargon and ruins what could've been a beautiful story.
Don't read Hemingway to say you're reading the canon. Read Hemingway because you're interested in his personality. None of his books that I've read are truly great (I'm yet to reach Bell though) but they each expand on his unique personality. If you find Hemingway an interesting enough person, read this. It's not good, but like anything else he wrote it's an essential piece of the puzzle.
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Welcome to My-O's 32 Birthday Blog Hop! Shannon is turning 32 and what better thing to do then have a hop with her crafty people to celebrate!! If you stumbled upon this hop by chance, excellent!! Just make sure you start back at the beginning to give Shannon, http://my-o-scrappin.blogspot.com the birthday girl, some warm wishes and for a chance to win some awesome yummy candy!!
If you came here from my crafting buddy Shannon's blog you are on the right track! Even tho I did a little hanging out with my friend this weekend, I did not show her the card I made her- I left her guessing alllll weekend! Happy Birthday my friend I hope you had a great day with Wyatt, and a wonderful dinner!-
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My name is Lorenzo Crescini and I'm Italian. These "Flashes on Good and evil" reflect the same mood characterizing the Flashes on the Holy Gospels and Turin's Holy Shroud I wrote in Africa: making myself useful to our Lord Jesus Christ. I will start by quoting the best Prayer to Jesus I've ever read. At the very beginning some reflections concern the devil one. I thank all those who will read me, write to me, will ask for an explanation and those who will be able and willing to advertise what they read by Web, the press or however they like. I am confident that the last of my Reflections containing a few lined short account of my life, will be devoted to all of us who are proud of the Lord. Web site www.lorenzocrescini.it/reflections personal e-mail for communications firstname.lastname@example.com Best regards Here are three Reflections as an example 24) One cannot or mustn't say to those who are ill and suffering: " That's God who puts you to the test". In this way we would offend The God of Endless Love who cannot wish our suffering. One needs say to those who suffer: " God's Son himself suffered because of evil, but you will also resurrect with Him, as He did". That is the truth and only the truth can give one who suffers the Hope which won't let him fall into that despair the devil one wants to seize his soul and conscience! Saying: "it's God who puts you to the test" gives a suffering man the same relief a learned lecture on food chemistry gives a starving one. 29) We can give or take from God, Creator of all things, nothing, except for two things: we can take from Him Honour by offending Him with our refusal, we can give Him our love, by accepting Him in our heart! With what insolence might we wish or boast His Light one day, we, if we had denied Him all life long, being able to believe Him and not doing that? 38) There are many Evangelic miracles showing the spontaneity of a memory, neither built nor adapted, which nevertheless is engraved in the memory of those who were present to the event. It is from conveyed small details that the truth of the memory of a lived and handed down episode transpires.


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The Cheshire Mouldings Timber Grading is to have a substantially knot free timber on three sides (of the Oak timber, before machining to D-Mould.); The grading allows several knots per piece, but in practice there are few knots in most pieces, and a few pieces may be knot free. The specification for timber bead from our suppliers also allows engineered and finger-jointed timbers to be used.
- OM005 American White Oak timber in stock in 2.4 metre lengths - 03/02/2020
21mm Oak D-Moulding should be treated and fixed in place as soon as possible to help minimise any movement/twisting and surface checking/splitting that occurs naturally with changes in moisture content; Small oak mouldings can not be recommended for use externally; External use of 21mm x 6mm Oak D-Mould is at your own risk - Timber life expectancy is increased with good timber treatment and protective weather-proof finishing coats. It is better to use pressure treated timbers externally.
- OM005 D-Mould sizes measured as at - 24/03/2016
Sizes may be the usual timber nominal size that the 21mm Oak D-Moulding is machined from, with a finished size that is generally obtained; Planed 21mm x 6mm Oak D-Mould sizes are generally ± 1mm on thickness / ± 2mm on width, ± 10mm cross-cutting tolerance & there may be one splitter saw cut-edge; This is the size immediately after machining the timber, and cannot take into account any movement later, caused by moisture movement into, or out of the Oak D-Mould Bead. (Be aware: For a multitude of reasons, size and profile of timber may vary from batch to batch, so it is best to purchase all you need for a job in one go, rather than buying more at a later date.)
- We cannot be held responsible for any variations in machined OM005 Oak D-Mould sizes, pattern, construction, grading, moisture content, treatment, certification, knots, colour or grain.
- If it is important, then you need to check these or any other details before ordering, or commencing work & notify us in writing on your order.
We can supply certified Prepared Oak D-Mould with our Chain of Custody certifications, (CoC) :
JAS Timber CoC Certification - 21mm Oak D-Mould INT-COC-003944.150 or 21mm Oak D-Mould INT-PEFC/COC-001119.150 - poa;
- Add to basket - 1 Certification Charge per different product, or moulding size - Cheshire Mouldings CoC PEFC Certification.
- Check all component dimensions, mouldings, glazing or any other details are correct prior to any work on site;
- JAS Timber cannot be held liable for the consequences of any variation;
- We cannot exchange any Oak D-Mould once work has commenced. Larger orders of OM005 D-Mould, and Direct Deliveries are supplied as a Special Order.
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Payment - We can take Debit Card, BACS, Cash, Cheque or Credit Card payment online for Cheshire Mouldings® OM005 Oak D.Moulding
Van Delivery of 21mm Oak D-Mould on our van, in Blackburn, Lancashire & the North-West, from £5 +vat, or £1 +vat per mile - poa ( from: £30 Manchester, £35 Lancaster, £45 Liverpool, £60 Leeds, all +vat )
Oak OM005 21x6mm D-Moulding chargeable carriage weight is 0.75Kg per 2.4m length, to include some packaging, our careful packing and XDP® Zone-A Carrier Charge;
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Haulier Delivery by pallet can be arranged for larger quantities of Oak Mouldings.
( Please tell us the post-code for your enquiry about Oak OM005 D-Mould and Half-Round Mouldings, so that we can quote for delivery. )
- The January 2019 Oak Board Price List is current - 01/03/2019
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Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Woelki, accuses the CSU of creating a split in society. With their demands for limits on refugees or a preference for immigrants from the Western Christian culture the party contributes to even greater polarization and is in the same business of the right-wing populists of the AFD. "I do not think much of parroting afterwards what others have thought about wrongly beforehard," Woelki told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger".
The Cardinal celebrated the Corpus Christi Mass
this year on a model of a refugee boat
A preference for Christian refugees, as the CSU discussed at their executive meeting this weekend, would be "exactly the opposite of what we must be concerned about as Christians: creating spaces for encounter and to know each other".
"We now need clear, reliable rules for immigration in the future," said CSU leader Horst Seehofer.
Seehofer: "Without limitation, we will not make it"
The Archbishop called on the CSU to be loyal to the German constitution. "If the CSU accepts the basic law seriously, they cannot support an upper limit. This does not allow the right of asylum. And the right of asylum must remain as it is. "Therefore, according Woelki, "the nonsensical discussion of limits must stop. "
AfD does not deserve the label "Christian"
He warned the CSU also from assuming they could benefit from a policy and rhetoric of agitation. "Who wants what the CSU touted votes in the end equally for the AFD. They will have the last laugh."
In a joint reception of the Archdiocese and the Diocesan Council of Catholics, the laity representation in the archdiocese, Woelki considered the result of the state elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a week ago with 21 percent of the vote for the AFD as "terrible" and as a "disturbing challenge". He disputed the label "Christian" for the right-wing populist party and the positions that they take.
"Christians do not discriminate according to origin, race or religion, but recognize in every human being the image of God." Whoever wants to defend the "Christian-Western tradition," should give space to the values of the Constitution and provide for the human dignity of each individual the Cardinal continued. He called for the social consensus to be respected, which the populists of right and left threatened to squander with their slogans. "The language is brutalized language. It is argued and lived at the cost of others.


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MONKEY World director Dr Alison Cronin has told MPs the UK's legal primate pet trade represents a "huge and significant" problem for animal welfare.
Dr Cronin, who has spent more than two decades rescuing neglected monkeys and apes from across the United Kingdom, was giving evidence to MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.
This select committee, meeting as parliament looks to review legislation governing the care of primates in the British pet trade, was told up to 9,000 monkeys are being kept, legally, as pets in homes across the country.
They were also told it was possible to buy a monkey over the counter as easily as purchasing a goldfish.
Dr Cronin says many of the monkey's she has taken in from British homes were found in a "terrible physical and mental condition."
"Monkey World is an international primate rescue and rehabilitation centre, but more and more we find ourselves being called to rescue and rehabilitate monkeys being kept as pets, legally, in Britain today."
Over the past two years staff at the Wool ape rescue centre have rescued 26 monkeys, from six different species, from private homes and pet shops across the country.
Dr Cronin told the committee the problem is "growing exponentially."
She added: "Most of the trade seems to be coming in the delisted species that are commonly purchased over the counter at a pet shop, like you would a goldfish or a budgie.
"These primates that have very specialist needs are being bought and sold to grandmothers, to young lads and even children. There is absolutely no regulation currently governing their breeding, their distribution, their sale and the care that they receive after."
"Breeders, dealers and pet shops are often telling people that they make lovely pets, that they are nappy trained and can live as a member of the family, that they are friendly with the children and other pet animals – it simply isn't true."


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Graduate Council Meeting
February 13, 2006
I. The meeting was called to order at 2:40 p.m.
Voting members and alternates present were: G. Alter, B. Baker, K. Bennett, G. Bernhardt, N. Bourbakis, R. Dodge, R. Grandhi, C. Holdcraft, B. Jung, T. McKee, S. Nelson, J. Ovington, J. Paietta, L. Ream,
J. Rudisill, C. Ryan, V. Shalin, J. Sherman, T. Sudkamp, J. Thomas (Chair), P. Vermeersch
Non-voting attendees were: L. Higgins, D. Hopkins, J. Kimble, G. Malicki, W. Sellers, K. Wilhoit
II. Approval of Minutes
It was moved and seconded that the minutes of the November 14, 2005 meeting be approved as written. Motion carried unanimously.
III. Report of the Dean (J. Thomas)
Dean Thomas introduced Leslie Higgins as the new Student Government representative to Graduate Council.
Enrollment figures appear very strong. Winter quarter data indicate an increase of 4.4 % in headcount, and an increase of 3.9 % in graduate credit hours.
Programs are encouraged to nominate their top students for Graduate Council Scholarships. The progran features a stipend of $12,000 and tuition remission for up to two years. Accelerated awards may be made for exceptional students. The Graduate Council Student Affairs Committee selects the remaining awards. Typically, five awards are presented per academic year. Nominations should be sent to Dean Thomas.
Noel-Levitz consulting firm has been on campus to review and advise on WSU's recruitment strategies and enrollment goals.
Provost Hopkins discussed the importance of future enrollment growth in Ohio's institutions of higher learning, from both the University's and the state's perspectives. Enrollment growth over the next five years will be very important because of impending changes in funding by state government. A taxpayer expenditure limitation (TEL), which will appear as a constitutional amendment on the November 2006 ballot, is a serious concern for all state universities because it limits nearly all spending, not just that derived from state subsidy. The Innovation Incentive program, part of the FY 06 budget bill, will provide new funds to match internal reallocations into STEM-related Ph.D. pograms. This provides an opportunitty to focus and strengthen doctoral programs.
Provost Hopkins stated that J. Thomas is relinquishing his Vice President for Research duties; however, he will retain the position of Dean, School of Graduate Studies. J. Thomas plans to retire within the next two years, and this would allow for a good transition period. Wright State will soon launch a search for a new Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. L. Howard will be chairing the search committee.
IV. Committee Reports
• Policies Committee (L. Ream)
The Master of Public Health (MPH) Program requested that the number of quarter hours required for completion of the MPH degree be increased by four (4), from 52 to 56 hours. MPH is seeking professional program accreditation, and this change is required to satisfy accreditation requirements. This change was unanimously approved by the Policies Committee.
The Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program proposed changes in its curriculum, particularly in the foundation (core) course area. This modified some degree requirements; however, the total number of credits required for completion of the Ph.D. degree remains the same at 135 hours (or 90 hours for students who possess an appropriate Master of Science degree). This has been unamimously approved by the Policies Commiitee.
The Policies Committeee recommended that effective Fall quarter 2006, electronic format be required for thesis and dissertation (ETD) submission. ETD's will be submitted to OhioLINK in Columbus for deposit. A specific policy has been drafted for inclusion in the SoGS Policies and Procedures Manual. The change to require ETD's was moved, seconded, and unanimously approved by the Graduate Council.
• Membership Committee (J. Thomas)
The Committee met February 7, 2006 and considered and recommended 5 nominations for full graduate faculty membership and 2 nominations for adjunct full graduate faculty membership.
The full member nominees are:
|Finegan, Colleen
|Teacher Ed/ED&HS
|Huang, Chaocheng
|Math & Stats/S&M
|Huang, Qingbo
|Math & Stats/S&M
|Kinateder, Kimberly
|Math & Stats/S&M
|Wang, Weizhen
|Math & Stats/S&M
The adjunct full nominees are:
|Kolonay, Raymond
|Sritharan, Subramania
|Environ Sci/S&M
It was moved and seconded that the nominees be approved; the motion passed unanimously.
- Research Council (W. Sellers)
In the Early Start/Augmentation segment of the Research Challenge Program, figures between Fall 2002 and Fall 2005 show an average of 13 awards of 44 submitted proposals, with an average total award amount of over $234,000.
Awards for this fiscal year are down from last year. However, this is partly due to delayd account set-up and entry of awards into the Banner system.
Effective February, 2007, NIH will require electronic submission of grants through grants.gov. Procedural changes are now being communicated to faculty members affected by this change.
V. New Business
Two members of the Graduate Council volunteered to serve on Dean Thomas's Five-year Review Committee, Nikolaos Bourbakis and Tom Sudkamp, both from the CSE Department. After the meeting it was agreed that Robin Dodge would replace N. Bourbakis so that both would not be from the same department.
VI. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m.


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- CNN's Kat Kinsman finds her beloved New York City in dire straits after Superstorm Sandy
- Those with power and amenities can do only so much to help less fortunate neighbors
- The divide is stark between those able to communicate and residents who are shut off
- Kinsman invited residents to share Sandy impressions using the hashtag #sandy5words
My favorite thing about New York City is that there are so many different ways to live here. As I love to tell first-time visitors and far-flung friends who ask me why I'd choose to make my home in such a crowded, expensive, dangerous, stuck-up, difficult place: first of all, it chose me; and second, it's what you make it.
Depending on your means and motivations, you could spend your days on the floor of the Stock Exchange, basking in the bright lights of Broadway, stoop-sitting in the East Village, hawking fish in Hunts Point, maxing out your platinum card on Fifth Avenue or selling arepas under the 7 train after the nightclubs let out in Jackson Heights, Queens. There are as many New Yorks as there are New Yorkers.
Or at least there were. Today there are two: those with power and those hunkering down in the dark.
When Superstorm Sandy savaged much of the Eastern Seaboard on Monday night, it swallowed up lives and livelihoods and homes, and left the United States' most populous city with widespread electrical outages, and effectively landlocked. The disconnect is sharp, eerie and painfully familiar for longtime New Yorkers who have weathered all manner of wounds to our city.
I'm writing this from my well-lit and warm apartment in Brooklyn, as I wait for my husband to ferry my friend Sarah and her dog Sheldon here from their home in Manhattan. While we were lucky enough to suffer only power flickers and some overturned plants, Sarah rode out the storm in her Stuyvesant Town apartment, just blocks from where a transformer exploded in a power plant in the height of the storm.
Sarah has been without electricity, running water, heat or much in the way of communication, and she's uncertain what she'll find -- other than total loss and an astonishing stench -- when she's finally able to re-enter the walk-in refrigerator of her East Village restaurant. And yet, in the face of loss of possessions, inventory, revenue and shelter, she's expressed just one emotion, gratitude, and one impulse -- to help others.
And there's a lot of help needed here. Those in the dark zone -- effectively Manhattan below 40th Street and areas of Brooklyn and Queens, especially along the waterfront -- who have been able to send up occasional digital flares have painted a dire picture of what's going on around them. "Isolated, no power, work coming," reads a tweet from Jayelle @GreenEyedLilo.
Business owners are baling out and assessing damages from many feet of standing water. Elderly residents are trapped in apartments accessible only by pitch-black stairways. Toilets can't be flushed, hourly wages can't be earned, food can't be cooked or chilled or even purchased and, in some cases, loved ones can't be contacted.
It's smelly, dirty, dull and dangerous, and the novelty of camping by candlelight in one's own apartment has long since worn off and been replaced by weariness, frustration, helplessness and (though we tough New Yorkers would never cop to it) a little bit of fear -- mostly that those of us with working amenities just aren't understanding the full impact of what's going on a few scant blocks away.
"We're left in the dark," Hyun Kim wrote, when I asked friends on Faceook and followers on Twitter to find five words to describe the city's atmosphere.
"Isolated, eerie, and discombobulated silence," wrote Syieve Locklair on Facebook.
"Normalcy" is a word that keeps cropping up. It's in awfully short supply, and for those of us with comfort and resources at home, it's proving difficult to share. "Utterly normal. Bubble of calm," Brian Ragan responded.
New Yorkers are, by our nature, not a driving people, and the subways -- the circulatory system of this typically thrumming metropolis -- are currently immobilized as the MTA assesses the damage caused by the incursion of floodwaters. It's easy to forget that Manhattan is an island connected by bridges and tunnels to outlying boroughs, until suddenly all the river crossings are blocked off, forbidden or flooded and we aren't free to hum along as one.
And what I said before about there being two kinds of New Yorkers? Fahgeddaboutit. There's only one: people who wouldn't choose to live anywhere other than this crowded, expensive, dangerous, stuck-up, difficult, wonderful, generous, big-hearted place and who won't stop until we're all free to do so again -- with the power back on.
Share your Superstorm Sandy reflections on Twitter #sandy5words and in the comments section below.


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From 1909 until 1939, marathons were run from Laurel to Washington or Baltimore. After the first few marathons, they not only became AAU-sanctioned, but the race was one of the qualifying marathons for the U.S. Olympic team. There was one constant in all those years: The starting line was in front of the Laurel Hotel on the corner of Main Street and Washington Pike (Route 1southbound).
When the modern Olympic Games were started in 1896, the marathon was included. The following year, the Boston Marathon was inaugurated. Those two events triggered a worldwide interest in the marathon, leading to the international, big-money spectacles of today. As the popularity of marathons exploded, they became big business in the advertising world.
An enterprising publisher, Frank Munsey, took notice. Between 1900 and his death in 1925, Munsey bought, merged and sold at least a dozen newspapers. Among his holdings were the original Washington Times (no connection to the current) and the Baltimore News-American.
In 1905, the Munsey Building was built on E Street, N.W., in Washington for the Times staff. The building, near the National Theatre and a half-block off Pennsylvania Avenue, was demolished in 1980.
Munsey took advantage of his presence in both cities, and capitalized on the marathon craze by creating a competition between Washington and Baltimore. The event was sponsored, naturally, by his newspapers, and they churned out daily reports hyping the race. The finish line in Washington was, coincidentally, the Munsey Building. But where would it start? As it has so many times in its history, Laurel's mid-way point between the two cities made it important.
In the first race, on June 12, 1909, 76 runners toed the starting line in front of the Laurel Hotel. According to the Baltimore Sun, "The event had been eagerly looked for by the residents of Laurel and many people along the course, and most of them were on hand to get a look at the athletes." That Route 1 was largely a dirt road did not seem to be a problem.
The Washington Times published the route the runners would follow: "From Laurel Hotel, Laurel, Md., to Washington Pike, following this route past Contee, across the railroad tracks, past Beltsville, again crossing railroad; thence by College Park, Hyattsville, and Bladensburg to Bladensburg Road and Fifteenth Street to Maryland Avenue, Washington, by Stanton Square, around the Capitol building grounds on the B Street side to First Street, to Pennsylvania Avenue, when a romp to the finish, at Thirteenth Street (Munsey Building), will complete the journey of twenty miles."
Since 1896 the lengths of marathons varied, but it wasn't until 1924 that the worldwide standard of 26 miles, 385 yards was set.
Some runners had attendants who rode the course on bicycles, offeirng encouragement. The Times offered some sage advice: "Attendants are not compulsory, but it is advisable to look out for your friend."
The race was only marred by one accident: "When near Riverdale, J. Herbert Williams was all in and he took the bicycle of his attendant. Weak and wobbly, he rode along with little control of the machine. Soon he struck Howard C. Bucher … Bucher was bowled to the earth and suffered a number of contusions and severe shock."
In the first race, the Washington team beat the runners from Baltimore.
The second race, in 1910, was also won by the Washington team. This time the Baltimore Sun had a more partisan, local slant on the results: "James D. Mahoney, Washington, is the winner of the inter-city Marathon race of 1910. The race was exciting from start to finish, and at the end Daniel Miller, of the St. Andrew's Public Athletic League, Baltimore, actually crossed the line a few seconds after the winner."
The Laurel marathons became very popular. The 1911 race produced much more publicity than the inaugural race two years earlier. Training schedules and qualifying races were all breathlessly reported. On April 19, Bob Thayer's Sporting Gossip column in the Times reported that "the two defeats Baltimore has suffered in the past has aroused the Marylanders to such an extent that the athletic promoters have got practically all of the hill and dale men in that city to enter the coming event."
The runners from Washington were defeated by the Baltimore squad that year. Henry Elphinstone was the winner. Again the Sun took a partisan slant: "It was Baltimore all the way in from Laurel. Once Elphinstone settled into his stride, he began plowing through the novices like a liner through a school of porpoises."
The Times almost ran out of ink congratulating itself. Headlines ran the day after the race: "Times-News Intercity Marathon Is Voted A Distinct Success On All Sides"; "The Times-News Marathon Proves Glorious Success"; "Runners Well Pleased With Management of Contest"; "Popularity of Race Established."
The paper's coverage continued with "At Laurel, practically the whole town was out to see the runners get on their way."
In 1912, it was decided to start alternating the finish line between Washington and Baltimore. Coincidentally, just in time for the race, Munsey's new building in Baltimore opened for the staff of the News-American, providing a convenient finish line there. The Munsey Building in Baltimore still sits today on the corner of Calvert and Fayette Streets.
The Laurel-to-Baltimore route was described this way in the Times: "Beginning at the Laurel Hotel, the roads are in splendid condition …. These ideal road conditions continue for nearly twelve miles, and only when Elkridge is reached, will the athletes have to exercise keen judgment. … About one and one-half miles from Elkridge … the roads are extremely bad, though the wet weather of the last few days had the roads at their worst … from Elkridge the roads begin to improve, and … the city line finds macadamized roads in good condition. Upon reaching Columbia Avenue it would appear to be well to use the pavement, for the streets are cobble stoned and unfit for running at this stage of the great race. Opposite Carroll Park the pavements will again stand in good stead, and until Lexington Street is reached the runners will have pavement running. On Lexington and over the other streets to the finish are smooth paved and ideal for the finishing run."
At some point before the 1920s, Munsey's newspapers ceased their sponsorship. After that, the finish line in both cities would change from year to year.
Marathoner Frank Zuna was on the U.S. Olympic teams in 1920 and 1924. In the Baltimore Sun in 1970, he recalled running in the Laurel marathons to qualify for the Olympics: "… we rode to Laurel, got into our togs, and assembled at a white line painted across Washington Boulevard in front of the Laurel Hotel." Zuna's winning time in 1924 set a world record.
Apparently the popularity of the races, along with the number of fans following in cars, presented problems. As Zuna told the Sun after the race, "such slight interference from vehicles as occurred didn't bother me. …"
Records were found that indicate the race was run as late as 1939, but nothing after. It's assumed that the buildup before World War II was the reason for its demise.
History Matters is a monthly column rediscovering Laurel's past. Information for this story was found at the Laurel Historical Society's John Brennan Research Library. Do you have old pictures or stories to share about a historic event in Laurel? E-mail Kevin Leonard at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The maker of FarmVille, shedding users by the millions, got a jolt of good news on Tuesday when the game's parent company reached an agreement with Facebook, settling a standoff over the handling of virtual currency transactions.
Specific terms of the five-year pact were not mentioned by Zynga in its news release, but it did say that it "expands the use of Facebook Credits" in Zynga's games. Facebook Credits are an all-in-in one currency system that would override in-house microtransactions for FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other Zynga properties – with Facebook getting a 30 per cent cut, of course.
A showdown over currency presented unappealing options to both parties: FarmVille, said to consider building its own games portal and trying to migrate its 244 million monthly active users to it; and Facebook seeing a major driver of traffic and user participation skip town.
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I regret to inform you that I will be spending less time focusing on your heart problem because I have decided to focus on the heart and medical problems that Medicare deems important to assure I get paid. They call this initiative "Pay for Performance (P4P)."
You see they published a list of 74 criteria that will be measured to see if I give good care, so I will get paid appropriately. Fortunatelty for cardiologists, we only have to do four things:
The ACC (American College of Cardiology) is asking cardiologists to report on these Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed measures, which include at this time:And the specifications for how we should do this providing and documenting good care can be found here (Caution, this pdf file is 181 pages long!).
• ACE or ARB therapy for heart failure patients with LVSD (left ventricular systolic dysfunction)
• Antiplatelet therapy prescribed for CAD (coronary artery disease) patients
• Beta-blocker therapy prescribed for CAD patients with prior MI (myocardial infarction or heart attack)
• Beta-blocker therapy prescribed for heart failure patients with LVSD
So, dear patient, I'm sorry if you have pericarditis or heart block. I'm gonna need to focus on my heart attack and heart failure patients a bit more to make sure my office staff can still return your calls.
I hope you understand.


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Texas AG welcomes Nugent's apology for Obama slur
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ted Nugent "rightly apologized" for degrading comments that resurfaced after Abbott welcomed the polarizing rocker to his campaign for Texas governor.
But Abbott in a statement Friday didn't back away from inviting Nugent in the first place. He said "it's time to move beyond this" after his appearance with Nugent put Abbott on the defensive for one of the first times in his campaign.
Nugent last month called President Barack Obama a "subhuman mongrel" in an interview. He apologized earlier Friday after Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky disavowed the remark.
Abbott said Nugent's comment was "not the kind of language I would use or endorse in any way."
Democrats have called on Abbott to distance himself from Nugent.


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The only people who may love chocolate more than those who receive it on Valentine's Day are the folks who sell it.
Feb. 14 is one of the busiest times of the year for chocolate sales.
VIDEO: Chocolatiers prepare for Valentine's Day
Lori Presser-Murphy and her team at Ultimate Confections in Wauwatosa are getting ready for the big day.
"It's been very busy. We're packing as fast as we can," she said.
Presser-Murphy's team has to coat 5,600 strawberries in chocolate. And then there are the white chocolate pretzels, turtles and various other sweet messages for sale.
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(CNN) – Republicans threatening a filibuster on new gun laws are woefully stuck in another era, Vice President Joe Biden told an audience of law enforcement officers Tuesday.
"I am so convinced that those folks who are trying to stop any action are in a time warp," he said, adding the issue of bolstering background checks on gun sales "has moved beyond where it was five, ten, even three years ago."
More than a dozen GOP lawmakers – including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - have said they plan to block a vote on ramping up background checks in the Senate, though other Republicans say they oppose the attempts to stall the bill from proceeding.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said a vote to open debate on tougher gun laws would come Thursday. It would require 60 votes to pass.
The mere optics of preventing a vote on new gun laws in the aftermath of a tragedy was "embarrassing," Biden asserted Tuesday,
"As of now, you got leading senators, the most august legislative body in the world, are saying we're not even going to talk about this? A tragedy that traumatized a nation and caught the attention of the entire world … and the climax of this tragedy could be we're not even going to get a vote? Imagine how this makes us look," Biden said.
"At the end of the day, I can't believe that it will actually happen, that they will follow the lead of the minority leader and the 13 or whatever the number of people is," he said later. "I know too many people on that side of the aisle. I just can't – I just don't believe they'll do this."
One proposal being considered would expand background checks to gun shows and internet sales, but would not require checks for any other private transactions, according to multiple sources from both parties who are familiar with the talks. That falls short of the universal background checks favored by Biden and President Barack Obama.
The powerful National Rifle Association is staunchly opposed to the bill, yet recent polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans favor making a change to the background check system.
"The public is so far beyond where the Congress is," Biden said Tuesday. "So far ahead of the way they're talking. They don't understand. They really don't understand."
The vice president charged the NRA with "engaging in a campaign which I am not unaccustomed to, of disinformation, to try to scare people," adding that claims the new laws would force sellers or the government to keep records on gun buyers were false.
"It doesn't violate anyone's Constitutional right," Biden said. "It doesn't have any impact on your Second Amendment right. It just doesn't do anything that's not already being done. Nothing. Not a thing."
Well it sure looks like the Democrats and lefties are coming unhinged as their far left anti-gun agenda falls flat on its face.
@Just Stating the Obvious: It's time to start calling like it is. The senators who are blocking this vote are cowards.
Where is the "freedom" in blocking a vote of a bill that is before the Senate because of the direct will of the American people?
If these Republicans are so concerned about freedom, then they should man up and allow this vote to happen so all Americans can see just who stands where on this very important issue.
It is time to call out Republican obstructionists for what they are: shills for the gun industry, men who are too scared of the NRA to take a stand out of fear of being "primaried" and losing their job.
Well you know what? I think the safety of Americans is more important than the jobs of those 13 obstructionist republican Senators.
Speaking of time warp...remember we already had an assault rifle ban years ago? Didn't work back then either... so what is so progressive about revisiting old failures?
And you, sir, are in some kind of control warp. Go back and harrass some women Joe! And get back to your shady deals in your home state!
You are a time wrap.
Enough said for our second in no command leadership.
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@jonnyg – The assault rifle ban is not a part of the proposed legislation. Please keep current. You're just making Biden look good with those types of comments.
because people believe in the constiution the vp feels he can attack them what a pitiful excuse for a vp he is
We had an Assault Weapon Ban in this Country from 1994-2004. George W. lacked the political courage to push for a renewal. Between 1994-2004 there is not ONE Instance of anyone having guns confiscated, hunting opportunities being lost or home invasions from lack of firepower. We could live with this Govt. Tyranny back then for 10 years. WHAT HAS CHANGED ?
And Biden knows what the people want? Coming from the man who gave sound advice of discharging a weapon in public to "scare off" an intruder. Great advice, only, it's illegal to do so in most states and would land the shooter in jail. Yup, he knows what the people want.
Oh Lord, please let this hair plugged ego mainiac run for president.
these ideas of gun control will do nothing to prevent another crime like sandy hook or columbine. why aren't obama and biden talking about school safety, like one entrance and security measures, why aren;t they talking about mentall health issues. i watch the world news everyday and not once have i heard anything about these issues. its all gun control gun control gun control. get a clue america
No point debating with conservatives Biden. These people think evolution is a lie, how are you going to change their view on gun control if they aren't swayed by facts?
Restrict our rights and you democrats will be working at Burger King in 2015.
We will still be your bosses. Keep wishing, though, if it makes you feel good.
I usually like Biden – he seems like a fairly decent guy – but I can't get behind him on this one. Characterizing people who object to the current anti-gun proposals as simply deluded or out-of-touch is not only grossly unfair, it serves no purpose except to further polarize the issues.
There are lots of reasons why people might not support the current proposals. The desire to preserve personal liberty. Fear against setting precedent for further regulation. The thought that even if you agree with the ends, the means will prove to be ineffective. There are many more and reasonable people can go back and forth on any of them, and you only need to feel strongly for ONE reason in order to say "no, let's not go ahead with this."
Republicans on the hill are the pocket of gun manufacturers. Their fight has nothing to do with gun right but, to do with the perks they get from the manufacturers. Republicans in congress do not do anything without getting something in return. Hey we still have the best politicians money can buy and it bought the GOP...
Many states had no will to enforce the PREVIOUS ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN. IT WAS ALSO NOT TIED TO EFFECTIVE BACKGROUND CHECKS !!
Duh!! big surprise it failed not because it was bad law but :-
a) The law was inadequately enforced and
b) There remained severe leakage due to incomplete background checks.
Get real NRA La pierre supporters and use you brains and not emotion. the obama bide ideas do not go against the 2nd amendment, no one is taking " reponsible gun owners" guns away. And give us a break of our government being able to attack us to become a dictatorship or socialist utopia.... its paranoia gone mad ( ha ha) with the checks and balances in our political system = gridlock in that environment how can Obama ( any other president) mobilise the armed forces to civil war without a 67% war vote in the Senate.
He's right. They want 1950's segregation laws back. They want 1950's control and oppression of women back. They want the entire New Deal and things like Roe v Wade never to have happened. They want Medicare and SS and Medicaid destroyed. They want labor laws and unions to go away like they never existed. They want to resurrect the civil war states' rights and nullifaction arguments. They want a woefully underregulated Wall Street like the 20's and 30's. And, they want their "cowboys and indians"...altho it's now "cowboys and muslims"...perception of the world to be the prevailing fantasy of every white male in Amurika. "I dont' care if it's not reality or it isn't correct and that science and historical record disprove it all...WE WERE HAPPIER THAT WAY!!!!" Indeed, one might argue that the entire GOP/Teatroll platform can be reduced to "ignorance is bliss, so let's make that our goal."
"Well it sure looks like the Democrats and lefties are coming unhinged as their far left anti-gun agenda falls flat on its face."
Nothing's falling flat on its face. 90% of Americans want a universal background check system and other fixes. The GOP/Teatrolls are going to filibuster and use the cowards way out to avoid voting beacuse they know that 90% of Americans support these things and they don't want to be on record as actually voting against 90% of the public. They'd rather hide behind procedural tricks and cowardly rules manipulation than explain their position and defend it publicly. Why? Beacuse their position is "ankles behind the ears" for the gun manufacturers and retailers, that's why.
BTW, an assault weapon ban isn't part of it anymore, so you can let that strawman go.


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Madison County Supervisors blame N.Y. Legislature's unfunded mandates for rising local taxes
WAMPSVILLE >> Madison County supervisors are renewing their cry to the state for mandate relief.
Expected to be voted on by the board at its meeting Tuesday, a resolution declares "mayday for mandate relief;" a message to Albany to stop imposing financial burdens on local governments with unfunded mandates.
The resolution points state mandates as a factor in worsening local governments' economic woes. The New York State Association of Counties estimates more than $4 billion of local tax dollars - nearly 90 percent of all county property tax levies across the state - are being spent on unfunded mandates, including Medicaid, public assistance, Child Welfare Protection and Preventative Care, special education pre-school, early intervention, probation, indigent defense, youth detention and pensions.
This results in fewer and fewer tax dollars being devoted to local programs and services, the resolution says.
"These state mandates are the root cause of high county property and sales taxes in New York and have led to a decline in the delivery of important local services," the resolution reads. "Madison County hereby declares the month of May to be 'Mayday for Mandate Relief" to raise awareness that decisions made in Albany have a direct impact on the property tax levy and local community services here in Madison County."
The resolution also calls on the governor and state Legislature to enact meaningful mandate relief and discontinue their practice of imposing requirements without funding.
The county will again amend is agreement with Family Counseling Services of Cortland County, which now operates the county's ADAPT program. The state has not yet officially approved the transfer of the program's operating license to the private agency, delayed because minor site modifications need to be made. That process could take another three months. In the meantime, the organization needs to hire three additional workers.
To compensate for that change, the county will amend its agreement to provide Family Counseling Services $26,700 monthly, $11,000 more a month that the current agreement.
Similarly, the board will vote on abolishing five positions within its Mental Health Department, including three addictive substance counselors, a senior counselor and an office assistant, effective May 24.
At Tuesday's meeting the public will also have an opportunity to voice its opinion on the county's proposed local law to slightly modify its weighted voting apportionment. The legislation will make small adjustments to the the number of voted each supervisor controls to account for changes in municipal populationsecorded by the 2010 Census.
If the board approves, the planning and workforce development department will take on an intern from Morrisville State College to work on projects on solar energy, greenhouse gas emissions inventories and climate action planning. The internship will be part of AmeriCorp and will require to the county to kick in $3,160 as the "host agency." Funds will be used from unused dollars budgeted this year for an unfilled position within the department along with assistance from CNY Solar and the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board.
The board will request that the state grant a home rule allowing it to collect an additional 1 percent in sales tax, maintaining its 4 percent rate. If the state approves, the rate would be extended through November 2015.
In other business, the board will also consider:
Creating a temporary summer youth counselor position in the planning department at $11 per hour from June 10-Aug. 16.
oCreating a temporary position to operate the mechanical vegetation harvester and provide services to lake associations at $31 per hour; the county operated the same program last year at a fee for those benefiting from the service.
oCreating a part-time "motor vehicle representative/recording clerk" in the clerk's office at an hourly rate of $14.60.
oAn agreement with Lanpher's Transport Inc. to provide transportation for children to the New York School for the Deaf, at a cost of $261 per day.
The board is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the county office building,