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Farmers question value of 'responsible' coffees
Posted by TheShot on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade
With coffee prices reaching new highs, suddenly the premiums that organic and Fair Trade coffee beans used to command are dwindling in comparison to the additional overhead required of growers. Or so suggests an article today from Reuters: Reuters AlertNet – FEATURE-Farmers question value of 'responsible' coffees.
The article points out that coffee farmers that follow these 'responsible', sustainable practices are promised more of a consistent, living wage — rather than a guarantee of profit sharing in an up market for coffee commodities trading.
But to make matters worse and more confusing in the area of Fair Trade, today London's The Financial Times published a couple of articles that questioned the worker wages and authenticity behind some coffees that carry the Fair Trade seal of approval:
- Euro2day :: 'Ethical' coffee workers paid below legal minimum
- Euro2day :: The bitter cost of 'fair trade' coffee
Things have gotten so questionable, in fact, that Intelligentsia Coffee in Chicago — one of the premier, high-quality, smaller-batch roasters in North America — recently stopped working with Fairtrade for their certified coffees.
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[…] I recently saw TV chef/personality, Anthony Bourdain, speak at the Commonwealth Club about (among other things) the subject of the organics movement. Pretty much his take, like my own, is that organics is only as good as the quality of the food it produces [starting at 28′ in the linked audio track]. Quality is much easier to verify than ideology or pedigree, given the recent woes with Fair Trade certification. So if the quality isn't there, the organics label is worthless to me. […]
[…] "Look for the Fair Trade label" seems like the most obvious, simplistic strategy for the consumer who can only scratch the surface of this issue — in a busy life full of dizzyingly complex ethical consumer decisions. However, Fair Trade has also hurt a number of other coffee producers who hold practices at least as ethical and sustainable (locking them out of access to certain markets, placing conform-or-perish ultimatums on some family farms, etc.). Furthermore, Fair Trade itself is also rife with problems. For example, earlier this year, the London Financial Times reported on several problems with Fair Trade, including weak enforcement of certification, allowing farmers to plant in protected rainforests, and certifying growers who do not pay their employees a living wage. […]
[…] One of the things I really like about Barefoot is that they don't succumb to the latest popularized specialty coffee trends. For example, some baristas have recently glommed on to the (not-so-new) Cup of Excellence phenomenon — as if Cup of Excellence-competing coffees have a monopoly on unique, distinctive, high-quality flavor profiles. But Barefoot knows there is plenty more out there to choose from, like Finca Hartmann. (We've arguably witnessed a similar phenomenon in the past year with socio/eco-conscious types discovering Fair Trade coffees en masse and attributing it with a monopoly on ethical and sustainable growing practices — putting a blind eye to Fair Trade's many shortcomings and problems.) […]


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A French inquiry into a record 4.9 billion euros ($7.17 billion) trading loss at Societe Generale widened to a second broker on Friday as investigators sought to establish whether rogue trader Jerome Kerviel acted alone.
The news emerged as a court prepared to rule on whether Kerviel, the 31-year-old trader blamed by Societe Generale for huge unauthorised dealings, should be taken into custody.
A legal source familiar with the matter said police were questioning a trader at a brokerage that executed orders on behalf of Kerviel. The source said an initial 24-hour detention period had been extended by another day.
The brokerage is a SocGen subsidiary formerly known as Fimat but renamed this year as Newedge after it merged with Calyon Financial. The brokerage's offices were raided by police on Thursday.
If the investigation establishes that others were involved in Kerviel's illicit trades, prosecutors may have new grounds to press fraud charges.
Societe Generale lawyer Jean Veil said it was "premature" to comment on the developments in the probe.
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Kerviel has been placed under formal investigation for breach of trust, computer abuse and falsification, but was freed under judicial supervision on Jan. 28 after investigating magistrates dropped fraud accusations from the charge sheet.
The Paris prosecutor's office appealed against that decision, and the appeal hearing is due to be heard from 1300 GMT on Friday.
The prosecutor first said he feared for Kerviel's psychological state but has asked the court to put Kerviel in detention because of concern he could abscond.
"It is necessary to verify whether Kerviel profited personally," Ulrika Weiss, spokeswoman for the prosecutor, said on Thursday.
Societe Generale accuses Kerviel of unauthorised trades which led to a record 4.9 billion-euro loss when it closed out his positions.
Kerviel told Agence France Presse news agency in an interview on Tuesday that he accepted his share of responsibility for the losses but did not want to be made a scapegoat.
He said he conducted the trades to make money for the bank but was not seeking to enrich himself.
Societe General is working on a 5.5 billion-euro rights issue to repair its balance sheet after the trading losses and write-downs linked to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis. The rights issue is expected to be launched next week.


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Newly released audio of phone calls made last November from a New Mexico prison is shedding new light on an alleged plot to murder Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber.
Police say the calls were between Dana Martin, the 45-year-old prisoner accused of masterminding the plot, and one of the men he allegedly hired to carry out the gruesome plan.
In the tapes, Martin tells the nephew of a former jailhouse friend how to suffocate Bieber using a paisley scarf — apparently his signature move.
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"That just seals the deal," he adds.
In another clip, he asks Ruane whether his uncle, Mark Staake, has gone over "the Bieber thing" with him.
"Nah, the way I like to work, dude, the way I work — I like to know as little as possible," Ruane replies.
At another point in the call, however, he tells Martin they have bought hedge clippers, which police have said the would-be killers were to use to castrate Bieber, his bodyguard and two other men unconnected with the star.
Authorities say Martin, who is serving two life sentences in a New Mexico prison for the killing of a 15-year-old girl, told them he had hatched the scheme after Bieber never returned messages he sent to the 18-year-old "Beauty and a Beat" singer.
Police recounted in an affidavit filed late last year in a New Mexico court that Martin, who has a tattoo of Bieber on his leg, told them the perceived slight was part of what led him to dream up the alleged murder plot.
The promise of notoriety provided another incentive, police wrote in the affidavit.
They said Martin drew Staake into his scheme, and Staake brought in Ruane, his nephew and right-hand man.
Staake was released on probation at the end of October and started to track Bieber's whereabouts, Martin told police.
The murder was to take place in New York at the end of November, according to the affidavit, which was when Bieber was in the city to give a concert.
The plan was derailed when the accused would-be assassins accidentally ended up at the Canadian border.
The U.S. border agent found Staake had an outstanding probation violation warrant from New Mexico and he was arrested.
Martin and Ruane spoke on the phone later that day, and when Ruane told Martin that Staake had been arrested, Martin called off the plot.
In the phone call, which was recorded by authorities, Ruane expressed disappointment at Martin's decision, saying they had found one of the first two victims' homes and had brought a pair of hedge clippers for the castrations.
Staake and Ruane were arrested on charges of two counts each of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts each of conspiracy to commit aggravated battery.


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ALLEN PARK -- Jason Hanson's college degree is in zoology which he now calls utterly useless.
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Hanson is an open book when it comes to talking with the media. It appeared he was being totally honest that no decision has been made.
"What else would I do? I have no skills other than this so I better come back and stop whining,'' Hanson said. "I went through what everybody does. When you come out of a season you're just mentally beat up. I've said this before, there's no wind in your sails, but you come back each year ready to go.''
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(Paula Pasche covers the Lions. Follow her on Twitter @PaulaPasche. Read her Lions Lowdown blog at oplions.blogspot.com.)


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Skakel to take stand in Conn. murder appeal
VERNON -- An attorney for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel said Wednesday he plans to call him to testify as he challenges his 2002 murder conviction on the grounds his trial attorney failed to competently defend him.
Skakel, the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, is expected to testify Thursday in Rockville Superior Court, said his attorney, Hubert Santos. He didn't testify at his trial but spoke last year when he was denied parole.
Skakel is serving 20 years to life for the 1975 golf club bludgeoning of Martha Moxley when they were 15-year-old neighbors in wealthy Greenwich, but he maintains his innocence. He's hoping to get out of prison through a writ of habeas corpus arguing he was deprived of his constitutional right to effective legal representation when Michael Sherman was his attorney. Skakel, 52, argues Sherman got caught up in the limelight of the high-profile case and failed to prepare.
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Holowaty has been Eastern's coach for the past 45 years and school officials tout him as the winningest coach in the history of New England intercollegiate athletics with more than 1,400 victories. He's led the Warriors to four Division III national titles and was named national Coach of the Year four times.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Gay rights advocates were surprised Thursday that the president of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has taken a public position against same-sex marriage.
Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy said this week that his privately owned company is "guilty as charged" in support of what he called the biblical definition of the family unit.
The Atlanta-based chain opened its first location in a Georgia mall in 1967 and grown to more than 1,615 restaurants in 39 states and Washington, D.C,. with annual sales over $4.1 billion, according to its website.
"We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that," Cathy told the Baptist Press, the news agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign that works for same-sex-marriage, said Thursday that Chick-fil-A "has finally come clean" after cloaking its positions for years.
"While they may have been in neutral, kicking this fight into overdrive now allows fair-minded consumers to make up their own minds whether they want to support an openly discriminatory company," Griffin said in a statement. "As the country moves toward inclusion, Chick-fil-A has staked out a decidedly stuck-in-the-past mentality."
Chick-fil-A released its own statement, saying it has a history of applying biblically-based principles to its business, such as keeping its stores closed on Sundays.
"The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender," according to the statement.
"Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena," it said.


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My wife is in the Kingdom of Swaziland this evening. If she was a developer over there and wanted to use Web Platform Installer to get Visual Studio or some large download she would have to patiently bring the bits down over 3G. If she was very well off, she might have ASDL with a maximum speed of 512kbps down, most likely with a cap. I've talked about limited connectivity in African countries and other nations (*cough* New Zealand *cough*) before on this blog and it's no fun. I've told the wife in the past that I'm happy to live overseas but I needs me some bandwidth. It sucks when tools you like don't conserve your bandwidth.
Making sure products are available and convenient for customers without a "fat pipe" is a passion of mine and I'm always the guy in the meetings at work to remind people within the Redmond Reality Distortion Field that not everyone in the world has 35 megabit fiber to their house.
We've also been trying to push for transparency and openness in all things (no more secrets, I like to say) and it usually comes down to this: They don't like to announce stuff if they aren't sure they are going to ship it. That's cool, and I get it.
But, when I saw that the folks on the WebPI team have heard you and I and told me they are working on an offline experience for WebPI today I had to share it with you, Dear Reader. Here's the deal, I'm looking at daily builds off the developer's machine. This IS NOT the final experience and this IS NOT anything other than a daily. They are looking at shipping this soon, but they told me to put lots of disclaimers. Disclaim! There it is. As this is a daily build, there are likely more questions than answers, so I'll show you how it works now, with my commentary throughout.
Web Platform Installer Offline
The problem is, of course, that the Web Platform Installer assumes that you and the 50 people at your company sharing internet are cool with downloading the same x gigs 50 times. It also assumes that your system IS connected to the internet in some way. It's a wasteful way for us to get you bits and everyone loses.
I think the ideal use case is that someone who has the bandwidth and the time downloads all the apps they want then puts them on a DVD or a network share and then all the consumers point to that offline cache. Companies could have a share or feed that's refreshed monthly, for example.
Products in WebPI have an "AppID" or Product ID. You'll need to know the AppID for the thing or things you want to install. For example, with the online Web Platform Installer if you want to install "all the web stuff" in one click, you'd use this URL http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=VWDorVS2010SP1Pack.
See the "VWDorVS2010SP1Pack" part? That refers to an AppID inside of the Feed that Web Platform Installer consumes. Everything in the feed has an AppID and you can string them together. For example, you can say http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=MVC to get ASP.NET MVC 3 for VS2010. You can add lots of AppIDs separated by semicolons ";" to get multiple products and all their dependencies.
I am testing a spike of an offline command line tool called wpiutil.exe but the plan is to merge it with the Web Platform Installer Command Line tool. So, even though I'm showing two tools, pretend there are one.
You can find an AppID inside the Atom Feed that the Web Platform Installer consumes. The main feed is at https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9767054 which isn't really discoverable, so you can use the command line tool to find what you want.
I can run WebpiCmdLine.exe /list:all and get a big list of products and applications, then collect the IDs I want to install or cache offline for later.
Current language of installers is English
--Previously Installed Products
ID Title
AppFabric Windows Server AppFabric
AppFabricSetup Windows Server AppFabric Setup
MVC3 ASP.NET MVC 3 (Visual Studio 2010)
MVC3Loc ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update Language Packs
MVC3Runtime ASP.NET MVC 3 Runtime
ID Title
AcquiaDrupal Acquia Drupal
Atlas Atlas
Umbraco Umbraco CMS
WordPress WordPress
Scott Feedback: I told the team that I thought these AppIDs could be also on this page in the GUI. We could add "Product ID:" to screens like this?
So now I can do this:
C:\>wpiutil.exe /create-shadow /shadow-path:c:\webpicache /product-ids:MVC3;IISExpress
Loading products in webpi feeds ...
Creating shadow for following products:
Processing feed: 'https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9767054'
Processing resources ...
Processing product entries ...
Processing product entry: 'MVC3Installer'.
Processing product entry: 'MVC3'.
Processing product entry: 'NETFramework4'.
Processing product entry: 'IISExpress'.
Processing product entry: 'WindowsImagingComponent'.
See how the tool got the the dependencies as well? Here's the folder structure that was created locally:
Now I can point the command line tool at my new custom feed. My custom feed contains ONLY what I've downloaded. It's a subset, although I suppose a company COULD make a complete (or at least a large) shadow copy of everything and keep it on a server.
C:\>WebpiCmdLine.exe /xml:"C:\webpicache\feeds\shadowfeeds\shadow-webproductlist.xml" /List:All
Successfully loaded metadata from feed C:\webpicache\feeds\shadowfeeds\shadow-webproductlist.xml
Current language of installers is English
--Available Products
ID Title
MVC3Installer ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update Installer
IISExpress IIS 7.5 Express
MVC3 ASP.NET MVC 3 (Visual Studio 2010)
NETFramework4 Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Then I can install the products I want like this:
C:\>WebpiCmdLine.exe /xml:"C:\webpicache\feeds\shadowfeeds\shadow-webproductlist.xml" /Products:MVC3
Here's some of the my personal feedback to the team in no order:
- There should be as much visual feedback as possible from the command line tool, given that it'll be run over slow networks (even 3G) so something like a (345kb of 56 megs) updating text area...
- A way to switch the Web Platform GUI to be completely offline by pointing it to a local feed.
- The command line tool should be smart about relative vs. absolute paths, as well as UNC, or even running your company's custom internal Web PI server.
- Maybe consider using BITS (background internet transfer service) like Windows Update so folks could run it in the background over many days.
- "Shadow" isn't a good name as it sounds like the Shadow Copying feature in Windows. Just call it offline.
- More documentation on how customers can make custom feeds for their products. Just as NuGet gets libraries for Visual Studio 2010 projects, WebPI consumes feeds of MSIs and their dependencies.
- It must be smart about resuming after a dropped connection or call and must retry corrupt downloads.
- Group policy support so that IT Administrators could control how WebPI works inside a large enterprise and where it loads files from.
- Should have a smart default path like c:\webpicache or .\webpicache if it's run without a full path.
Now, this is your (and my) opportunity to provide comments and suggestions to the team and affect the final direction of the product or future versions.
From what I've shown you, Dear Reader, my questions to YOU are:
- Will this be a good feature?
- Will it help you?
- Is it useful or useless?
- Is it important to be a GUI or is a Command Line good too?
- What has been forgotten?
- What's a "must have" and what's a "don't need?"
Discuss, they are listening!
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U.S. Dept. of Education issues long-awaited rule defining gainful employment
NEA president says for-profit companies need to make students top priority
WASHINGTON - June 02, 2011 -
The National Education Association (NEA) is encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education's issuance today of rules defining "gainful employment" when determining eligibility for federal student aid for for-profits and non-degree programs.
According to the Department of Education, nearly half of all student loan defaults involve students who were enrolled in for-profit programs. Notably, 25 percent of for-profit schools receive 80 percent of their revenue from federally funded student aid.
Investigations conducted by the Government Accountability Office revealed questionable practices by some for-profit colleges including deceptive and aggressive recruitment practices; inflated job placement rates and false reporting to authorities; overstatement of program value and understatement of program cost; and dismal completion rates. Many victims of the abuses are women, low-income students, minority students, and veterans seeking to further their education and enhance their employment opportunities.
"We must promote the use of federal student aid for programs that give students hope of a brighter future. Completion of career-focused programs should give students real prospects without excessive debt. Our goal must be to increase student access to quality and affordable education. Our nation's public 2- and 4-year colleges lead in this regard. We do not have to sacrifice quality for convenience and accessibility," said Van Roekel. "This rule advances the common-sense principle that federal financial aid should go to career education programs that consistently provide what they promise and don't leave students buried in debt they cannot repay. We look forward to further consideration of this critical issue with Sen. Harkin."
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The Renualt Wind is a new compact targa set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show. It's principle innovation lies in the car's flip-and-store roof, which disappears in 12 seconds and doesn't hog all the trunk space.
We've all seen compact, front-wheel-drive targas before, the Honda Del Sol being one of the most recently notable, but where the Del Sol used a lift-off lid, the Wind stows it on-board with some elegantly simple design. Rather than complex folding mechanisms, the roof on the wind just rotates and stores upside down just under the trunk lid. The rear window is completely detached from the roof, allowing it to stay in place as a wind buffet and have the frame act as a roll hoop. Very clever Renault, very clever.


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AC LED Lighting Controllers Made Easy with X-FAB
X-FAB offers the first and only 650V SOI foundry process enabling AC LED lighting topologies requiring multiple on-chip high-voltage domains. The SOI approach is able to deal effectively with the 650V design challenges leading to compact footprint and faster time-to-market. This allows customers to participate in the fast growing AC LED market which is replacing incandescent and CFL (compact fluorescent lighting) solutions.
AC LED Lighting Controller - Block Diagram
AC LED Lighting Controller
This LED controller handles the power network AC (240V) line input conversion for the LED string at the output. The HV section of the application is on-chip, providing power for the LED output.
Power Factor Correction Control
This control adjusts for phase shift and minimizes distortion of the main nets. It provides the regulated DC supply for the buck converter.
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Jefferson on beer
Did Thomas Jefferson have a special recipe for beer? If so, maybe someone could use it and make a fortune. But as Monticello's executive vice president Ann Taylor informed us, it's not quite that simple.
"The answer, in a nutshell, is that Jefferson did not have a specific written recipe for beer," says Taylor.
Indeed, when Former governor James Barbour requested Jefferson's recipe for his ale in 1820, Jefferson responded:
"I have no reciept [sic] for brewing, and I much doubt the operations of malting and brewing could be successfully performed from a reciept. If it could, Combrune's book [Michael Combrune's Theory and Practice of Brewing] on the subject would teach the best processes: and perhaps might guide to ultimate success with the sacrifice of 2. or 3. trials. . . ."
Jefferson went on, "We are now finishing our spring brewing. If you have a capable servt. and he were to attend our fall brewing, so as to get an idea of the manual operation, Combrune's book with a little of your own attention in the beginning might qualify him."
Jefferson began brewing beer at Monticello in 1814, after having his slave Peter Hemings trained in the art by Capt. Joseph Miller, an Englishman who stayed in the County during the War of 1812. That fall there was a brew house on the grounds and Jefferson began malting his own grain. However, while Monticello historians have recreated Jefferson's beer cellar, they haven't yet figured out where the brew house was located or what it looked like.
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Great stories about Monticello. Glad I stumbled on your mag and blog. Thanks for getting a quote about Jefferson's non-recipe. I have waged many a historic beer battle regarding some of these "colonial" brews from "authentic" recipes.
How would I cite your blog in something I am putting together for my site about colonial beer?


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Paul Edward Kennedy Mullan, a photographer who made headlines as a foundling discovered in a Towson apartment vestibule, died of a brain tumor Feb. 27 at his parents' North Baltimore home. He was 34.
The story of his first days filled news columns in January 1979. The Sun reported he was discovered near the vestibule mailboxes of a Towson garden apartment near Towson University. Days old, he was wrapped in a plaid blanket and dressed in a J.C. Penney shirt and a diaper held together with Scotch tape.
Baltimore County police officers took the infant to nearby St. Joseph Medical Center, where he was informally named Joseph Francis Towson, or Joe Towson.
"Joseph is the star attraction of the nursing station in the pediatrics ward ... where the nurses think he is beautiful," a Sun story said.
Months later, the baby was again making news stories. He became the subject of an adoption conflict, part of which was jurisdictional. Dr. Paul A. Mullan, a St. Joseph staff member and a pediatrician who cared for the infant after he was found, and his wife, Carol, a school teacher, had no children of their own and sought to adopt him.
The Mullans then lived in the 3900 block of N. Charles St. in the city, several miles from the Baltimore County line.
Judge John N. Maguire held a two-day hearing and by July 1979, the baby became the couple's legally adopted son.
The baby was diagnosed with a congenital heart ailment that required open-heart surgery later performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz, then of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Mr. Mullan was enrolled at the Gilman School, where he graduated in 1997.
"He brought nothing but joy," said Gilman's headmaster, John E. Schmick, who had been his faculty adviser. "He was always on the sidelines, cheering. He was a real positive member of his class."
Mr. Mullan spent three years in the architecture program at the Catholic University of America, but left after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and underwent surgeries.
On his website, Mr. Mullan discussed his decision to leave architecture. "My memory was too impacted by my surgeries and other treatments. That brought me back to my photography," he said in his essay.
"I started my photography in the 6th grade. I was the photo editor for both the yearbook and newspaper while attending high school. ... When my junior and senior years came I had to develop Independent Studies in photography," he said in the website. "Spending every summer on the Eastern Shore of Maryland I wanted to capture the sights found from the Chesapeake Bay to the Atlantic Ocean."
He also said that he devoted months to doing fine art photographic essays. "Photographs cannot have smells, tastes, texture, or sounds, but I try to involve all the senses in each photograph by capturing enough to have the viewer associate the image with the actual subject," he wrote. "By working hard to capture the image in perfection, that image can create the feeling of being there by your imagination or a quick day-dream."
He took photos of the stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, where he was a member and he and his father were ushers. He also photographed the Isle of Wight, Assateague Seashore Park and the Dominican Republic.
He also spent time in Ocean City, where he assisted lifeguards patrolling the surfers' beach.
Ginny Milanicz, a family friend from Fallston, said, "He was a happy, energetic person who did a lot of work for other recovering cancer patients."
A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N. Charles St.
Survivors include his parents.


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Chris Cooper has signed on to play Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin, in Marc Webb's sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. Cooper joins Dane DeHaan as Osborn's son Harry, Jamie Foxx as Electro, Paul Giamatti as the Rhino (man, it's never not weird typing that), Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson, and Felicity Jones possibly as the thief Black Cat... for now. There could be more casting announcements coming. Who knows?
Clearly, Webb is trying to pack as many characters into ASM2 as possible. There's only one way this movie doesn't end up a complete mess — and that's if Webb is assembling the Sinister Six. In which case it still could be a complete mess, but it would probably be a massively entertaining mess, at least.
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Kids Play Kitchens
Play kitchens have been a very popular childrens toy for decades, and every young member of the family is sure to reap the benefits of our range of Little Nation play kitchens. In addition to allowing kids to use their imaginations and role play skills, play kitchens help them develop social skills, strengthen their math skills, learn how to identify fruits, vegetables, and other healthy food options, encourages language development, develop organizational skills and teaches daily routines. The imaginations of our littlest budding chefs are given the opportunity to run wild!


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ROCHELLE — Cassidy Ziech of Rochelle was named to the fall 2013 dean's list at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, according to a news release sent June 27.
Ziech an information systems major. To make the dean's list, students must have a 3.4 GPA or higher and complete 12 credits.
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SAITAMA, Japan – Mark Hunt admittedly was a bit rusty after injuries put him on the shelf for more than a year, but with his latest triumph, the suddenly surging heavyweight now just wants to stay busy.
The Kiwi kickboxer scored a violent third-round knockout of Stefan Struve at Saturday's UFC on FUEL TV 8 event at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
After two even rounds fought both standing and on the mat, Hunt (9-7 MMA, 4-1 UFC) finally connected on his 7-foot-tall opponent. He followed a right hook with a vicious left that put Struve (25-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC) down for good.
It continued a remarkable turnaround for the former PRIDE and DREAM fighter. Back in 2010, Hunt made his UFC debut and looked flat in a 63-second submission loss to Sean McCorkle. Many, including UFC President Dana White, figured that'd be the end of Hunt. The 38-year-old, though, campaigned for one more shot. And since then, he's posted consecutive wins over Chris Tuchscherer, Ben Rothwell, Cheick Kongo and Struve. Three of the four wins have come via knockout.
"I'd like to fight as soon as possible," Hunt, who now has the longest win streak in the UFC heavyweight division, told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "(A) top five (opponent) or whatever, man."
To set up the victory, the 5-foot-10 Hunt had to test his grappling chops against Struve, who pulled guard in the first round before giving up an easy takedown in the second. For Hunt, it was a difficult proposition, but in many ways, a needed one.
"Look man, after a year without fighting, it was hard to get someone even close to Stefan, (and I was) working with someone who wasn't even 6-foot-8," he said. "It was hard to gauge him, especially after a year off. My timing and everything was off. Like I said, I was willing to go anywhere. It was fine. Just my timing and a few other things went right."
The timing couldn't have been better early in the third round, when he landed the fight-stopping combination. Hunt was so sure of the victory that he walked away before referee Herb Dean officially stopped the bout.
Luckily, Dean quickly realized Struve was in a daze, and Hunt didn't need to deliver any further punishment. Of course, after eating plenty of heavy shots himself, Hunt didn't really remember the finish anyway.
"I thought it was over, but he told me to keep going," Hunt said. "Then I went over there to try and finish it. I don't know, whatever.
"I was a bit banged up too, you know?"
For more on UFC on FUEL TV 8, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.


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Monday, November 19, 2012
'Condescending classics' do not attract new audiences
Just a few days ago I pointed out that many of classical music's current problems can be attributed to futile attempts to herd minority interest groups spread across many small niches into a single mass market. And now classical music has done it again with the newly launched Sinfini Music website which is bankrolled by Universal Music, although the site itself doesn't tell you that. Universal's classical labels, of course, include Deutsche Grammophon and Decca, and the group distributes ECM releases in many major markets. As can be seen from the accompanying examples, Sinfini Music is a product of the 'condescending classics' school of marketing pioneered by producers at BBC Radio 3, and by editors at the Gramophone and at the defunct Classic FM Magazine - the latter publication, incidentally, spawned Sinfini. They have all adopted the 'condescending classics' approach in their attempts to create a mass market, and, as independent audience data proves, they have all failed dismally. There is little point in questioning the editorial independence of a website that claims to be "run by a team of music" fans, but which is in fact managed, owned and funded by a major record company, or deploring the self-interested promotion of the site by certain music bloggers. There is little point because Sinfini will soon become a victim of its own hubris. Classical music is not about corporate condescension. It about inspiration, aspiration, independence, diversity, innovation, passion, and, yes, honesty. If you are still not convinced, read how the corporately condescending Gramophone' lost two-thirds of its print circulation and failed to gain any traction as an online publication.
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- Pliable said...
Adam Sweet comments via Facebook - 'I enjoyed this post. Classical music is facing the same challenges that face any other major musical genre. I think there are ways to reach out to audiences, but I think that in general classical music organizations are old school in how they market...'
- 5:17 pm
- Andrew Morris said...
But haven't you heard? Classical music media will never look the same again .
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- Pliable said...
Yes Andrew, and someone else is saying Sinfini Music will end you.
Strange how ambiguous both those headlines are....
- 12:07 pm
- Andrew Morris said...
I think the irony might be lost on at least one of those bloggers.
- 12:08 pm
- Unknown said...
I thought the same thing when first clicking around the site. "Oh boy! Another classical site that brings no decent classical reporting, no context to music of the past or of our time, and no interviews or discussion of musicians of interest! Sign me up!"
Beware, the sharks are circling in the deep end of the pool. And you can believe me, I work in academia.
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Manufacturer's Description
Includes the official add-on 'Wings of Luftwaffe' plus a bonus poster!
Wings of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war's most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in -- The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Ardennes, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun' representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.
Wings of Prey also boasts an all new damage effects engine as well as advanced environmental visuals enriching the game play. Wings of Prey features hundreds of airplanes taking part in air battles. The unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes that allow players to see breathtaking ground support actions.
- Authentic World War atmosphere: Cutting edge technologies with highly detailed visuals bring the epic battles to life;
- Engage in more than 50 missions from famous historical battles over Eastern and Western Europe;
- Historically accurate aircrafts: Experience over 40 planes including fighters, battle planes and bombers. Learn to master Spitfire, Mustang, Messerschmitt and many more;
- Flexible difficulty level system: from arcade to realistic simulation;
- Downloadable content support: more planes and missions are coming next year;
- Support of 6-DOF TrackIR, TripleHead2Go, Saitek and Thrustmaster joysticks, mouse and voice headsets;
- Thrilling multiplayer: 4 game modes to choose; VoIP, lobby game system, leaderboards, friends lists, join-in-progress and host migration features provide great experience;
- Realistic sound effects and original music from Jeremy Soule
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Soundcard, DirectX compatible
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Franz Stangl
Franz Stangl (March 26, 1908 – June 28, 1971) was an SS officer, commandant of the Sobibór and of Treblinka extermination camp. His role in the mass murder of men, women and children was known to the Austrian authorities but Austria did not issue a warrant for Stangl's arrest until 1961. In spite of his registration under his real name at the Austrian consulate in Brazil, it took another six years before he was tracked down by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and arrested in Brazil. After extradition to West Germany he was tried for the deaths of around 900,000 people. He admitted to these killings and was found guilty on October 22, 1970. Stangl was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died of heart failure in Düsseldorf prison on June 28, 1971.
- My guilt is that I am still here...I should have died. That is my guilt.
- Quoted in "Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder" - Page 364 - by Gitta Sereny - History
- I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.
- When asked how he felt about the execution of children. Quoted in "The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections on Germany" - Page 125 - by Gitta Sereny - History - 2001.
- No, no, no. This was the system. Wirth had invented it. It worked. And because it worked, it was irreversible.
- When asked if he could have gone against his orders. Quoted in "The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections on Germany" - Page 125 - by Gitta Sereny - History - 2001.
- Cargo. They were cargo. I think it started the day I first saw the Totenlager in Treblinka. I remember Wirth standing there, next to the pits full of blue-black corpses. It had nothing to do with humanity-it couldn't have; it was a mass-a mass of rotting flesh. Wirth said, 'What shall we do with this garbage?' I think unconsciously that started me thinking of them as cargo.
- About the victims. Quoted in "Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical Implications for Today" - Page 96 - by Jack Bemporad, John Pawlikowski, Joseph Sievers - History - 2000.
- He was a Dragoner (one of the imperial elite regiments). Our lives were run on regimental lines. I was scared to death of him.
- About his father. Quoted in "The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections on Germany" - Page 96 - by Gitta Sereny - History - 2001.
- My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty...
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Insurance giant Aetna will pay up to a total of $120 million to out-of-network physicians to settle a dispute over determination of "usual, customary, and reasonable fees," according to a proposed plan filed in federal court in New Jersey.
The settlement, which includes both plan members and providers, stems from a lawsuit filed by the American Medical Association (AMA) and several state medical societies. The suit alleged that Ingenix, a subsidiary of health insurer UnitedHealth that tracked usual-and-customary physician fees for Aetna and other insurers as a way to help them set their reimbursement rates, had essentially cooked its books, artificially deflating the fees recorded in its database for many markets.
The settlement agreement, which must still be approved by a judge, divides the money to be paid out by Aetna into three different parts: a general settlement fund of $60 million and two "prove-up funds" of $40 million each. Aetna did not admit any wrongdoing.
Although the settlement addresses plan members and providers, it does not include the AMA and the state medical societies, which are continuing their lawsuit in pursuit of barring Aetna from persisting with the under-reimbursements; they also want a more transparent system for setting usual and customary rates.
Under the settlementâs general fund provision, out-of-network physicians who saw Aetna patients during the years covered by the suit, and who didn't want to fill out lots of paperwork, would receive $40 for each year -- starting in 2003 -- that they saw members of the plan. Subscribers who had to pay co-insurance for services from out-of-network providers would receive a similar amount.
Providers willing to provide documentation for claims filed between June 3, 2003 and August 19, 2011 that they feel were under-reimbursed may apply to the $40 million "Provider Prove-Up Fund" and, if the claim is approved, will receive "an amount equal to the lesser of the Balance Bill outstanding for that Covered Service or Supply or 5% of the Allowed Amount for that Partially Allowed Claim," according to the settlement terms. They will receive a slightly lesser amount (3% instead of 5%) for claims incurred after the August date.
Claims must involve a minimum aggregate balance bill of $750 for individual physicians, or $1,000 for provider groups, to be considered for the Prove-Up Fund. Providers must choose whether to apply for payment from the general fund or from the prove-up fund, but cannot get payments from both.
The settlement also includes a similar "Subscriber Prove-Up Fund" of $40 million for plan members willing to submit documentation. The amount of money paid out from either prove-up fund may be less than the $40 million in each of them, depending on how many subscribers and providers submit the required paperwork and how much their claims amount to.
The Aetna settlement is the latest action in a series of lawsuits filed against insurers that used the Ingenix system. The AMA and two medical societies settled with UnitedHealth in 2009 for $350 million over a similar case; UnitedHealth also agreed to disband Ingenix and to support development of a new, independent physician-fee database to be run as a nonprofit. Cases against Cigna and WellPoint are pending.


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Jeffrey Holmstead
Jeffrey R. Holmstead is an attorney and lobbyist for Bracewell LLP in Washington, DC. Bracewell LLP, formerly known as Bracewell & Giuliani,* is a top K Street lobby group representing energy industry companies like Southern Company and Duke Energy.
Jeff Holmstead began his political career as the Associate Counsel to former President George H.W. Bush, moving from his government office to a lobbying firm to the Environmental Protection Agency to his current lobbying firm. During the Clinton years, Holmstead spent his time as a lobbyist for Latham & Watkins. In 2001, Holmstead was appointed to Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation, where he played a key role in the George W. Bush administration's efforts to roll back clean air and climate change protections.
Holmstead left the George W. Bush EPA in 2005, later joining the litigation firm Bracewell LLP as head of the firm's Environmental Strategies Group (ESG), which Bracewell describes as "a multi-disciplinary group that includes environmental and energy attorneys, public policy advocates, and strategic communications experts – most of whom have had high-level government experience." Holmstead is also part of Bracewell's Policy Resolution Group.
Holmstead obtaied a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987 and a B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1984. His professional contact information is available on the Bracewell website:
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*Bracewell & Guliani was renamed in January 2016, following the departure of its namesake founder, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
"The benefits of reducing mercury are very insignificant."
-Environmental Law Institute debate, "Resolved: EPA Utility MACT is the right tool at the right time," 25:58, June 7, 2011.
"The answer isn't just to regulate our way to clean energy."
-Jeff Holmstead at Politico Energy Forum, November 15, 2011.
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Jeff Holmstead appears to be poised for a high-level position in Donald Trump's cabinet, presumably at the Environmental Protection Agency, which Holmstead has both worked for and worked against as a utility lobbyist. The Washington Post reported that Holmstead filied a new lobbying disclosure indicating he has dropped all of his longtime lobbying clients, including Duke Energy and Ameren, which he has represented since 2007.
On June 19, 2017, reporters at Axios learned that Holmstead was being considered for the #2 position at EPA under President Trump and Administor Scott Pruitt. Jeff Holmstead's colleague, Scott Segal, told The HIll that this announcement was "premature" but did not deny the rumors. According to Public Citizen's Climate Program Managing Director, David Arkush, Holmstead's appointment may be designed to please coal executives since EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is notably more connected with the oil industry.
Coal Money for Lobbying:
Jeffrey Holmstead's energy company clients are almost exclusively coal mining and utility companies. While his career has been largely dedicated to slowing or eliminating regulations of pollution that could affect his clients' revenue, he is descibed as a "leading climate change lawyer" defending companies "confronting major environmental and energy development challenges." Holmstead's clients have paid Bracewell & Giuliani heavily since Holmstead joined in 2007 and began personally consulting for them.
Current clients:
- Electric Reliability Coordinating Council: $10,697,500
- Southern Company: $3,380,000
- Ameren: $1,718,000
- Duke Energy: $1,638,000
- Energy Future Holdings: $1,598,000
- Arch Coal: $1,540,000
- Progress Energy: $948,000 (merged with Duke Energy)
- DTE Energy: $710,000
- Salt River Project: $624,000
- LG&E & KU Energy (PPL subsidiary): $210,000
Former clients:
- Mirant (now GenOn): $270,000
- Chase Power Development (power plant construction + private equity): $260,000
- CSX Corp & CSX Transportation (ships coal by rail): $198,000
- Edison Electric Institute: $60,000
Most of these companies, including Southern Co, Duke, Progress and EFH, are known members of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council (ERCC), a coal utility front group run out of Bracewell's office by fellow B&G lobbyist Scott Segal. The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council doesn't voluntarily disclose its other members.
As explained by NRDC's Brian Palmer, Holmstead's position on air pollution has shifted, depending on if he is employed as a lobbyist or as a government administrator:
Holmstead also has an embarrassing history of inconsistency when it comes to air pollution. While at the EPA, he argued that reducing emissions from power plants would save thousands of lives. As a lobbyist for the utilities, however, Holmstead said he didn't believe that such emissions were killing thousands of people. As an EPA official, he called mercury a "potent toxin that causes permanent damage to the brain and nervous system." As a lobbyist, he said, "It's pretty hard to say that [mercury from power plants] is a significant public health issue."
Dismissal by Federal Judge in EPA Lawsuit against Ameren Missouri
Holmstead was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility. In an ongoing case, filed July 2012, U.S. EPA charged Ameren Missouri with Clean Air Act violations at its Rush Island coal plant after upgrades excluded certain pollution controls technology. Judge Rodney Sippel granted U.S. Justice Department's request to remove Holmstead as a witness, confirming that the lobbyist's history at U.S. EPA posed "multiple conflicts of interest." More can be read in the Judge Sippel's motion to dismiss Jeffrey Holmstead, which notes Holmstead's in-and-out role at U.S. EPA while working for coal companies to undermine EPA pollution law enforcement.
Holmstead in George W. Bush EPA:
While Jeff Holmstead has been a polluter ally as a lobbyist, he also worked internally to undermine the Clean Air Act during his time as EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation. Most notably, Holmstead himself made critical decisions that stalled mercury pollution controls on US power plants for eight years. EPA estimates that these rules can save 4,200-11,000 people from prematurely dying every year.
At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:
In his time at the EPA, Holmstead worked to weaken the new source review program, which ensures modified or upgraded power plants don't increase pollution after they are retrofitted, and "oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation," which would have allowed for three times more power plant pollution than the Clean Air Act. Holmstead refused requests from former Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) to reveal internal documentation concerning the Clean Air Act. For these reasons, Holmstead was named "Clean air villain of the month" in March, 2002 by the Clean Air Trust.
Underwriting legislation for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK):
Jeff Holmstead received notable attention in 2010 for working with Sen. Lisa Murkowski and lobbyist Roger R. Martella, Jr. to craft legislation intended to stop EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gasses. Before working on the obstuction legislation with Murkowski and Martella, Holmstead's employer and two of his major clients (Duke and Southern Co.) donated over $125,000 to Murkowski's PAC. Other companies that both donated to Murkowski and paid Holmstead's firm to represent them in the 2009-2010 Congress were Ameren, Progress Energy, Arch Coal, and the Salt River Project.
'Citizens for the Environment' and Koch Industries:
Jeff Holmstead has ties to Koch Industries through the now-defunct Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), which became astroturf group FreedomWorks as its associated sister group, the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, became Americans for Prosperity and the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Holmstead was an adjunct scholar for Citizens for the Environment (CFE), a spinoff of Citizens for a Sound Economy. The Pittsburg Post-Gazette reported that Citizens for the Environment "labeled most environmental problems -- including acid rain, natural resource depletion and shrinking landfill space -- as myths," and noted that the group had "no citizen membership of its own." Citizens for a Sound Economy was founded and funded by the Kochs; the Americans for Prosperity Foundation is still a major recipients of Koch dollars, and David Koch is the chairman.
Repeated Dishonest Arguments Opposing EPA's "Clean Power Rule" to reduce Carbon Emissions from U.S. Power Plants
Jeff Holmstead has used his credentials as a former EPA Air and Radiation assistant administrator to cast doubt over the legality and efficacy of new rules to reduce carbon emissions at US power plants, including coal plants operated by Holmstead's clients. On multiple occasions, Jeff Holmstead has knowingly misrepresented the EPA's proposed rule, conflating a rise in electricity rates with threats that consumers' utility bills will increase, which is not expected to occur due to cost savings from energy efficiency investments. Holmstead has done this on numerous occasions since EPA proposed the Clean Power Rule.
On June 2 during a PBS interview, Holmstead demonstrated that he understood the difference between rising rates and lowered utility bills, saying,
"EPA's argument is, well, the rates will go up, but your bills will go down, because our program will require you to use less electricity. That is just not very credible, and it will be expensive to reduce carbon."
The next day (June 3) on The Diane Rehm Show, Holmstead had to be corrected by other guests for conflating the raised rates with raised utility bills:
"But I think the concern comes from people who use a lot of electricity because there's no question that this will increase the cost of electricity. And even EPA concedes that fact. EPA's projections are that the utility rates will go up."
NRDC's President, Frances Beinecke corrected Holmstead on this false assertion:
First of all, the way to make this rule be the most cost effective is to have a very significant investment and energy efficiency around the country. So even if rates may go up, the consumer's bill will go down if their homes, businesses, industries are designed to be much more energy efficient. We've seen huge gains, for example, in the state of California on energy efficiency.
Holmstead later insinuated that California has higher utility bills because of its higher electrical rates:
Energy prices in California are much higher than the rest of the nation. Energy prices in the Northeast are significantly higher than the rest of the nation. So when you adopt these policies, you just need to be honest about what it means. It does mean that there'll be significant costs that people will have to pay for their energy.
Again, NRDC's Beinecke had to correct Holmstead's misleading assertion:
So I just think that Jeff's point -- in California, they have made major investments in efficiency, billions of dollars of investments, and the actual consumer bill in California is lower than in other parts of the country because of those investments. So, yes, the rates may be higher, but the bills are lower.
On June 5 at Resources for the Future, Holmstead did not make the false comparison between EPA's estimated rise in electrical rates but reduction in utility bills, though he called a carbon tax "politically incorrect."
On June 18th at the Bipartisan Policy Center's panel event for the EPA's Clean Power Plan, Holstead again make the false conflation between electrical rates and utility bills, which was corrected by Sue Tierney of Analysis Group. See "Panel Presentation" video below at 27:58.
After the Bipartisan Policy Center event, PolluterWatch activists asked Jeff Holmstead about his consistent opposition to policies and regulations that would require his clients to spend money to reduce their pollution, seeking an explanation for Holmstead's recognition of climate change as contrasted with his denial of proposed solutions. Holmstead was also asked why he only employs his expertise to protect polluting coal companies rather than serving the country by finding viable solutions to global warming.


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Ark. lawmakers taking up gun proposals
Arkansas lawmakers are taking up a proposal to allow concealed handguns in church and a resolution encouraging government officials to not infringe on 2nd Amendment rights.
The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected Wednesday to consider a bill that would allow concealed handguns in churches. The measure by Republican Sen. Bryan King of Green Forest would allow churches and other places of worship to determine who could carry a concealed handgun into their facilities.
Concealed weapons are currently banned from churches.
The House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee also planned to consider a non-binding resolution by Republican Rep. Richard Womack of Arkadelphia encouraging state, local and federal officials to "respect and preserve the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment."


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A couple of days ago I posted about being nominated by elliott.org for the "Favorite Travel Blogger" award. I shared my reasons for even mentioning it in the previous post, and it was intended more in good fun than anything else. The outpouring of support and kind comments reminded me once again that y'all are my BFFs. The voting was supposed to end at 5PM EST today, and last I checked I was leading by over 400 votes.
My mom even called me earlier this afternoon as she was clearing the mantle for my new award — "Benji, daddy and I are so proud of you, what a great honor." It's nice to have my career choice validated, even if for all the wrong reasons. 😉
Well, the poll just ended and I was looking forward to giving my acceptance speech until I saw this on Elliott's site:
Update (11/16): Thank you for your participation in this survey. Unfortunately, we've had some reports of voting irregularities. I'm going to need to investigate them before posting the results. Thank you for your patience.
One eagle-eyed Tweeter was quick to point out that obviously there was fraud involved:
But even my good pal Chris Elliott saw through it:
"Voting irregularities?" Are you trying to tell me that me busing people to polling stations and offering them free meals isn't allowed?!
So, Chris Elliott, you're an investigative journalist — can't wait to see you get to the bottom of this one!


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Are you scared yet?
Thanks to Allison for introducing us, and welcome to murdershewrites.com. Be afraid, be very afraid. I thought Jennifer Apodaca and I were ENOUGH trouble when we were blogging together as we sorta stalked Kelly Ripa. Turns out neither one of us was very good at stalking, since Kelly doesn't know us from
Regis Adam, but we tried.
Right now it's kinda a free-for-all around here, with the blog just up and running, and all of us trying to get our thoughts in on top of each other (except Karin, who is APPARENTLY cruising somewhere. Does SOMEONE have TOO much time and TOO much money on her hands? Hmmmm?) but bear with us.
We shall have a regular blogging schedule, and all that good stuff. We'll try not to make the body count too high, or too low, and we'll certainly try to keep you entertained.
I just think you all should know that my suggestion for our tagline, before the Mae West quote, was "Killing Them Softly, One M%#&er F&%$@er at a time." I got outvoted.
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62 Hours to Cam Sur Wake Park
Photos by Patrick Wieland
We're at the halfway point of our journey on the other side of planet earth AKA The Philippines. After a 4-day trek from Orlando to Naga, we arrived just in time for the Ultimate Wake Championships to begin at Camsur Watersports Complex. CWC is the coolest park I've visited HANDS DOWN, plus the Governor LRay totally hooked us up with a place to stay for the entire time and lent us his helicopter. Not a bad gig huh?
As far as the contest goes we learned a few new things:
1. Daniel Grant is a total Badass. He's a 13 year old rider from Thailand doing 720's off kickers on his wakeboard AND his wakeskate. If you don't know of him yet, you soon will.
2. If the "pimple" on your ass grows bigger than a golf ball, it's time to go to the doctor.
3. Contrary to popular belief, it IS possible for Jeff McKee to stand up two passes and a double up.
The contest has been over for two days now and we have been venturing into town a bit more. Today Nate Perry got a pair of Air force one's for $5 and I got ran over by the sweet little carts that ride on the train tracks. Rusty Malinoski and Spencer Smith are here with a couple of other riders and videographer Joey Arcisz shooting for momentum. Combined Rusty and Spence have eaten all of the food at the restaurant on site so we are all starving now. No just kidding, they got more food today plus Rusty and Spence have moved on to the McDonalds at the mall to experience the local culture…not.
Here's a couple of Photo's from the trip thus far…We're looking forward to a Heli shoot in the AM and then Nate Perry is literally going to destroy the System 2 rail park with his wakeboard. If you havn't visited the Philippines yet, book your ticket to the CWC NOW…
Oh Yeah, also Patrick Wieland lost his wallet a couple of days ago too so if you have it hit him up with a comment. Sorry he didn't have more cash.
Big Thanks to Governor LRay and the entire staff at the CWC Watersports Complex for all of their Hospitality.
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Picture 7, second from the left. I miss that little kid. He was so loud trying to sell peanuts every morning outside my trailer.
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10 Ways to Celebrate Grab Some Nuts Day
It may sound nutty, but according to our food holiday calendar, today is Grab Some Nuts Day. Everyone, at least everyone who's not allergic, loves a fistful of roasted peanuts at a summer baseball game or a plastic tub full of boiled peanuts to shell on the dock (even if peanuts aren't technically nuts). Or when you're at the bar, some salted cashews and almonds to go with a cold beer, or a bag of GORP (good ol' raisins and peanuts) while on a long hike. Here are some of our favorite ways to enjoy nuts.
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ASUS has started rolling out the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update for the first-generation Padfone, which the company had unveiled at last year's Mobile World Congress.
The Jelly Bean update for the original Padfone will bring with it Project Butter, Google Now, enhanced voice recognition with offline voice-to-text support, and minor UI improvements. ASUS has also taken this opportunity to tweak the camera performance and application, and bundled in an improved File Manager and support for NTFS and FAT formatted microSD cards.
ASUS is not really known for rolling out software updates to its devices via OTA, and the hefty Android 4.1.1 JB update for the original Padfone needs to be downloaded from the Taiwanese marker's website.
It was only last month that ASUS had unveiled the PadFone Infinity at MWC in Barcelona. While the Padfone coupled with its docking accessory, now known as the FonePad, is really a nice idea, ASUS has consistently failed to execute it properly with limited availability of the handset(s) and extremely high prices.
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After being re-elected Tuesday, President Barack Obama showed a side of himself few have rarely seen before: While thanking his campaign staffers, the POTUS got choked up with tears.
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Obama waxed poetic about first moving to Chicago when he was 25, knowing that he somehow wanted to make a difference. "It's not that you guys actually remind me of myself, it's the fact that you are so better than I was," Obama told his campaign workers. "I'm absolutely confident that all of you are going to do just amazing things in your lives."
He went on to say that the work his staff has done has proved that his job has come full circle from that 25-year-old who strived to make a difference. Watch the full video here.