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Bumblebee Population Declining, Farm Capital Restructuring
- Wild bumblebee populations around the globe are declining.
According to a study a major source of the decline is the spillover of parasites and pathogens and disease from managed honeybee hives. The ailments causing the decline of commercialized honeybees are hurting bumblebees even more.
The research does not prove the diseases go from honeybees to bumblebees but the evidence points heavily in that direction. Bumblebees likely pick up the diseases when they go to flowers after infected honeybees or when they invade honeybee hives and steal nectar.
The study did not look at colony collapse disorder.
- A study released Thursday by Kennedy and COE and Farmers for Tax Fairness shows proposed changes to the tax code restricting the use of cash accounting by agricultural operations would reduce agriculture's access to capital by as much as 12.1-billion dollars over the next four years.
According to the study, U.S. agriculture producers forced to switch from cash-basis to accrual-basis accounting under new laws would have to pay out as much as 4.84-billion dollars in taxes during the next four years.


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Cowboys Extra Points: Rockstars and Superstars
The Cowboys announced that Daughtry will be performing during the halftime show at the Thanksgiving Day game. The game will be Thursday, Nov. 26 against the Oakland Raiders. Daughtry is a rock band from North Carolina lead by frontman Chris Daughtry.
Felix Jones will return to kickoff returns this weekend as Allen Rossum has been sidelined for two to four weeks with a hamstring injury. Rossum injured his leg last week in his Cowboys debut.
Patrick Crayton will take on punt return duties once again.
Former Cowboy Julius Jones is excited to return to Dallas to face his old teammates.
"It's always good for me to see some of the guys that I played with down there. Bradie James, (Terence) Newman, Jason Witten, it'll be good to see them before the game. And then beat them up during the game and then talk to them afterwards."
Yeah, good luck with that Julius!
DeMarcus Ware is being compared to hall of famer Lawrenece Taylor by none other than Bill Belichick.
I can't imagine DeMarcus Ware hindering any team's defense," Belichick said during his daily press conference with New England reporters. "The guy's one of the best players in the league. It's like when we had Lawrence Taylor with the Giants. That guy was a force on every play. The offense had to account for him on every play. I think he helped our team defense probably as much as any player I ever coached."
Patrick Crayton has commented about his demotion as starting wide receiver. He had this to say yesterday (Thursday):
"I've still got (the chip)," Crayton said Thursday, glancing at his left shoulder. "It just got a little bigger last week. It's going to stay there. It's a permanent fixture there."
Crayton referring to his punt return for a touchdown last Sunday:
"However they come my way, I've got to maximize them. I've got to squeeze 100 percent of the juice out of it."
Before last week's game, after learning of his demotion:
"I had a dropped pass and a muffed punt," he said. "And the other guy had 250 yards."
About the notion that he should start ahead of Roy Williams:
"When you give up a first, a third and a sixth and pay a guy that much, he has to play."
Well, what do you expect him to say? He got demoted, the younger, faster guy got the job. As long as he gives 100% on the field, I don't really care what he says to the media.


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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College administration announced this month that it will launch two new schools in the Middle East in the coming years, bringing its total number of schools in the region to three.
Middlebury launched a program in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2007. Students in that program were evacuated in late January in the face of growing unrest in the country. The two new programs are in Beer Sheva, Israel, and Amman, Jordan.


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By Michael Deibert
(This article was cross-posted on the Huffington Post, where it can be read here)
Throughout what has been a dolorous summer in the Haitian capital, the image of the Caribbean nation's new president has gazed out at passersby from billboards and murals affixed to walls that did not topple during the country's apocalyptic January 2010 earthquake.
Depicting a man with a bald pate and broad smile, with messages such as "Nouvelle Haiti" and "Bienvenue au pouvoir" stenciled painstakingly next to them, the murals' optimism belies the intense political struggles of the first three months of the rule of Michel Martelly, a well-known singer who performed under the moniker Sweet Micky.
"I love President Martelly, I voted for President Martelly, so did my mother and my sister," says Carlos Jean Charles, who resides in Camp Toussaint, a 2,800 person collection of fragile tents set up in front of Haiti's once-grand National Palace, which still lies in ruins 18 months after the tremor.
"I think Martelly has a good heart," Charles says, echoing the statements of others in the camp. "But the problem is the parliament. Those people have been doing this shit for 25 years, fighting for power. They don't give him a chance."
A day after he was sworn in this May, Martelly announced that he was submitting the name of Daniel Rouzier, a businessman and devout Catholic, to serve as his Prime Minister, only to have the nomination rejected by parliament a month later.
On July 6th, Martelly announced that his new pick for Prime Minister would be attorney and former Minister of Justice Bernard Gousse, at which point 16 of Haiti's 30 senators announced, before the nomination had even been considered, that Gousse was also to be rejected, which he was earlier this month.
So the country, where an estimated 634,000 survivors of the quake still live in makeshift settlements in and around the capital, remains without a government.
The situation is reminiscent of the the first mandate of the man that Martelly replaced as president, René Préval, in the late 1990s. During that era, following the resignation of Préval's Prime Minister, the post remained vacant for nearly two years as an opposition-dominated parliament rejected successive nominees in an effort to deprive the Préval government of oxygen.
It is a modus operandi that is being repeated today in Haiti, but under much worse conditions and this time with the parliament dominated by members of Préval's own coalition (several of them elected in highly disputed circumstances), though the amount of control the former president still exerts over the disparate group of legislators is a matter of some debate.
"The population who voted for Martelly perceived the change he offered as drastic change, a complete rupture from the way things were done in the past," says Marilyn Allien, the director of La Fondation Héritage pour Haïti, the Haitian chapter of the anti-corruption organization Transparency International.
"But the way things were done in the past was very good for some people. There are people who thrive when corruption and impunity prevail, and it doesn't serve them at all if a new leader comes in and tries to institute the rule of law."
A political novice who ran on an education platform and whose very distance from Haiti's rancid political class was a large part of his appeal, Martelly has relied on a close circle of advisors, some of questionable reputation, to give him counsel when dealing with parliament.
Lurking in the background to all of this are Haiti's two recently-returned former leaders, Jean-Claude Duvalier and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Duvalier, the scion of a family dictatorship started by his father François that ruled Haiti for 29 years, was chased out of the country in 1986 amidst an uprising that has yet to fulfill its promise of democracy, social and economic justice. He returned to Haiti from his long exile in France in January to the outrage of those who suffered at the hands of his regime.
Aristide, a former Catholic priest, was at the forefront of the anti-Duvalier movement and became Haiti's president in 1991, only to be ousted in a military coup seven months later.
Restored to the presidency by a US-led military intervention in 1994, Aristide turned over the reins of government to Préval in 1996. He was returned to power during a violence-wracked ballot in 2000, with his second mandate marked by high levels of official corruption and political violence before he too was overthrown by an armed insurrection after months of large-scale street protests against his rule.
Since his return to Haiti from exile in South Africa in March, Aristide has been largely silent, though some in the camps and elsewhere have darkly suggested they see his hand in the parliamentary maneuvers currently underway.
Further complicating the mix, the 12,000 person United Nations mission in Haiti, in place since June 2004 and known by the acronym MINUSTAH, has probably reached the nadir of its reputation during its time in the country.
Once welcomed as a bulwark against political chaos, the mission has seemed adrift since the earthquake, which killed nearly 100 of its personnel including the head and deputy head of the mission.
A cholera epidemic which has killed more than 5,800 people since last October, has been linked to the mission, with a June report by a group of of epidemiologists and physicians in the journal of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said that evidence "strongly suggests" that the cholera strain had been brought to Haiti by UN peacekeepers.
Often unfairly derided as "turista" (tourists) by Haitians, the mission now appears to be largely living up to the scathing sobriquet, with some of its members a feature in some of the capital's more expensive hotels, getting loudly intoxicated and carousing often only feet away from the meager encampments of those made homeless by January 2010's tremor.
Shortly before I visited Haiti this month, I had made plans to visit with an old friend.
Jean-Claude Bajeux, the co-founder of the Centre Oecuménique des Droits de l'Homme (CEDH), was also a former Minister of Culture, a militant for human rights and democracy and a great Haitian patriot.
Virtually his entire family had been killed by François Duvalier, sending him into a long exile during which he received a PhD from Princeton University in the United States, and lived and taught in both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
He fought against both the Duvalier family dictatorship and the military juntas that followed and, in more recent times, against the violent anarcho-populism with which Aristide attempted to rule the country. Well into his twilight years, when most men of his age would be playing with their grandchildren, I would see Bajeux bravely march in demonstrations at times when it was physically dangerous to do. Lately he had provided an important analytical voice to Haiti, critiquing not only Haiti's political machinations but those of outsiders involved in the country, as well.
Bajeux passed away, if not exactly unexpectedly, then rather suddenly, earlier this month at the age of 79, before I had a chance to see him. His goal of an inclusive, transparent and just political system in Haiti is still an unrealized dream.
Shortly before he died, in a conversation with a friend, Bajeux had time enough to deliver a simple charge.
"My generation is passing away," Bajeux said. "We did all we could. Now it is up to you."
There can be a sense of tragic timelessness in Haiti, an impression that one gets when driving northwards from the capital along Route Nationale 1, where tent camps now ring either side of the road, and which meanders along the Côte des Arcadins and into the agricultural heartland of the Artibonite Valley.
As one drives, to the left the Caribbean Sea glitters blue-green, and resorts from when Haiti was once a tourist destination - now largely empty save for Haiti's wealthy and the moneyed foreigners in the country - front the ocean. Skiffs with canvass sails ply the channel between the mainland and the immense, isolated Île de la Gonâve in the bay.
Back in the capital, ebullient Creole evangelical hymns still reverberate in the mornings from the mountainsides and ravines that crisscross the city, and radios still pump out a non-stop diet of sinuous konpa music of the kind that first brought Michel Martelly to prominence along with the driving racine rhythms of vodou and endless political chatter.
Given the long odds he faces, there is something moving about the faith of ordinary Haitians that Martelly is the figure who will transform their immensely difficult lives. And, despite what one may read, the Haitians, even in the wake of the extraordinary amount of suffering that has been foisted on them in recent years, are not a defeated people.
The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosene lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. One can see them by the roadside, hoping for one more customer, one more sale, one more ray of life.
Haiti is like that, too, persevering ever onward as long as the slenderest flicker of hope remains.


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Autumn Statement: What has changed?
What has changed as a result of this Autumn Statement? The answer is nearly everything about Britain's economic and fiscal situation has changed, though not as dramatically as it did in the last one.
The only thing that hasn't really altered is George Osborne's basic approach. He's just halved the number of fiscal rules that he is going to abide by - from two to one.
For economists, the key change is to the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) assessment of the economy, which I mentioned earlier.
Though it is more optimistic about the immediate room for growth, the OBR has revised down its growth forecasts for the next few years, and once again deferred the time at which we will get back to our long-term potential growth rate, which they now think will not happen until 2016.
The more transparent treatment of the net gains to the Treasury from quantitative easing make the picture brighter, but the underlying deterioration is there.
Grim years
For the ratings agencies, the OBR's re-assessment of growth is important, but also key is Mr Osborne's abandonment of his promise to have the debt ratio falling by 2015-16.
Fitch said after Mr Osborne's announcement that the government's policy framework had been a key factor helping the UK to hold on to to its top AAA credit rating, and the loss of the debt rule had weakened both the coalition's credibility and the rating.
What will everyone else take away from Wednesday's announcements? Behavioural economists say it's human nature to notice concrete losses more than gains forgone.
That might help the chancellor when it comes to some of the measures he has announced. But he can't get away from the fact that it's going to be a grim few years - a grim few years that he has decided he is powerless to confront.
Some businesses might see an absolute fall in what they pay in corporation tax in 2014. Or they will find, with the help of Mr Osborne's new £2bn investment tax allowance, that they can invest more cheaply than they did before.
The same is true of the individuals affected by the increase in the personal allowance - which, incidentally, the OBR says has put the government on course to achieve at least one of its targets. From now on Mr Osborne only need to increase it in line with inflation, in the usual way, for it to get to £10,000 by 2015-16.
So, these companies and individuals could well see a cash gain, as a result of the new measures.
It's true and important to note that many working households will see that gain offset, in reality, by the below inflation rise in tax credits. But tax credits will still go up, on the new plans. So will public sector pay. They just won't go up as fast as inflation.
In other words, a lot of the losers from today's measures are "real terms" losers, but they will not find that cash is being taken out of their pockets that they have now.
Politicians have been pilloried for drawing such a distinction in the past. Anyone concerned about the day to day needs of lower income households - and, indeed, most economists - would not think that it matters. However you cut it, these families are worse off than under previous plans. But for politicians and quite a lot of households, the difference between cash losses and real terms losses is, er, real.
Many of the benefit changes introduced since 2010 have or soon will cut households' income in cash terms. The changes to housing benefit and the benefit cap are the most obvious examples, or the removal of child benefit from higher income families.
By and large, the benefit and tax changes announced on Wednesday will not do that, though that will be cold comfort for the 400,000 extra people who will now hit the higher rate income tax threshold in 2014.
But, however those losses are ultimately perceived, it's probably not Mr Osborne that has done most damage to the prospects of ordinary households this week. It's the economy - or at least, the economy as viewed by the OBR.
As the Resolution Foundation points out, in its forecasts the OBR has once again put off the date at which average earnings will start to keep up with inflation, from the second quarter of next year until the second quarter of 2014.
At that point the median full-time wage will be 7.4% lower than it was in 2008 level. The Foundation reckons that the wages of someone in the middle of the income distribution in 2017 will still be lower than in 2000.
Positive difference
As I predicted earlier in the week, the OBR has given him this bad news, but it has also given the Chancellor a good alibi: it says the basic deterioration in Britain's economic health since 2010 is not his fault.
That is extremely helpful politically but it does raise the risk that he will seem to be the prisoner of events - holding on to his plans and the OBR's justifications, as the economic picture gets steadily worse.
As it happens, the OBR does think Mr Osborne made a positive difference to the economy with Wednesday's announcements. On balance, it thinks the chancellor has boosted growth between now and 2015 by 0.1%.
Apparently, Mr Osborne believed that this was the most he could do, without damaging the UK's credibility in ways that could ultimately do more harm than good. (I say apparently, because if he thought he could do more, you have to assume he would have done it.)
We will literally never know whether the chancellor was right to think his room for manoeuvre in the winter of 2012 was this small. That is one question the OBR is never going to answer.


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Board also discusses music trip eligibility policy, storm day activity cancellation policy.
Numerous times in recent years, the Crookston School Board has approved the school district's share of tax abatements over two years that are part of the City of Crookston's housing incentive package.
But as part of the new Crookston Homestead Act, the abatements on 16 residential lots along the east side of Barrette Street could remain in place for as long as 15 years. Despite the longer commitment, school board members approved the district's portion of the abatements, although technically the vote wasn't unanimous because Keith Bakken abstained after expressing some concern about the length of the abatements.
"You abstain? (Vote) yes or no. Why would you abstain?" board chair Frank Fee asked Bakken. "Are you going to buy a lot over there?"
Bakken said he wasn't buying a lot. "An abstention is same as a no," he told Fee.
Supporting the community
Prior to the vote, Superintendent Chris Bates recommended board approval of the abatement. "It's hard for the school to stand in the way of our community making progress," he said. "It's a relatively short-term, minimum effect on the district that in return is good for the community and school district over the long term."
Fee acknowledged that the longer abatement means the district would lose more tax revenue than with the two-year housing incentive abatement. "But it's not like we're getting any revenue from those lots now; if they don't develop them, we'll never realize anything," he said. "Hopefully we'll get some families to build some houses and their children will attend our schools."
The Polk County board will also be asked to approve the abatements.
Music trip policy
The board tabled a vote on a revised CHS Florida music trip eligibility policy, written by board member Dave Davidson under the direction CHS Music Department staff, so the board's Policy Committee can take a more detailed look at it.
The modified policy puts official language to paper regarding academic performance and behavior, and how both relate to a choir, band or orchestra student being able to make the trip. Davidson used the example of a senior music student still potentially being haunted by a failing grade earned as a freshman, even if the failing grade had eventually been rectified and the senior is on track to graduate.
Asked by Fee if the eligibility policy demands that a failing grade from four years ago still impact's a student's eligibility, Bates said it doesn't, "but it doesn't say it doesn't in the current policy."
CHS Principal Lon Jorgenson said he believes that, currently, 158 of the 160 students set to travel to Florida this spring are academically eligible, and the two ineligible students are working to become eligible.
Davidson said he's a fan of the policy. "It gives kids an incentive to stay on track and do the right thing," he said.
Activities policy on storm days
As he has in the past in the wake of a school day being cancelled by a winter storm, Fee reiterated his desire for the board to approve a written policy that cancels school activities after school and in the evening when school is cancelled due to weather. The policy also needs to address, either permitting it or prohibiting it, teams getting together to practice in the event their games are cancelled, Fee said.
Bates agreed with Fee that approving an official policy would be wise. He estimated that 85 percent of other school districts in the region cancel school activities on days that school is cancelled, "but that virtually none of them have a policy in writing."
When school was cancelled on Monday, the Pirate girls' varsity hockey team still traveled to East Grand Forks for a Section 8A playoff game, long after the Sunday storm had subsided. Fee said it was his understanding that the outright cancellation of the game, since it was a post-season game, was not up to the school district, "but we reserved the right to not send our students there."
It's all about clearing up confusion, Bates said.
"I'm not sure what we gain by not having a policy in writing," he said.


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And The Winners Are…
Dear Readers,
After two weeks of nominations and finals voting, and over three quarters of a million pageviews (double last year's pages), we finally have six remarkable winners to wear the Homies Champion Crown for 2012:
There are awards for all sorts of blogs, but no one ever pays enough attention to the home blogs, so we started The Homies. It's our way of surveying the blogosphere each year for the best new home design & cooking blogs and sharing what we find. It's not so much a competition as a celebration of the richness and awesomeness of home bloggers around the world. Join us, share your favorites and check out the ones you don't know.
None of our blogs or past winners are eligible (see below).
Week 1: Add your favorite home blogs
Friday, February 24 – Thursday, March 1 (until midnight EST)
Week 2: Vote on the top nominees
Friday, March 2 – Friday, March 9 (until 3pm EST)
Winner's Day: Winners announced!
Friday, March 9 afternoon!
The technical prize is $50 to the winner of each category, but the real prize is lots of traffic as we publish the six winners in big congratulatory posts across our network on Friday, March 9th. We want to elevate good home blogs, see who you love and gain awareness for the home niche.
Home Design
2010 Young House Love
2009 Remodelista
2008 design*sponge
Home Tech
2010 Technology Your Way
2009 Ikea Hacker
2008 tie: Engadget & Gizmodo
Kids @ Home
2010 Under the Sycamore!
2008 Inhabitots
Green Home
2010 A Way to Garden
2009 Maya*Made
2008 Green (Goody)
Home Cooking
2010 Gina's Skinny Recipes
2009 Smitten Kitchen
2008 Vegan Explosion
How does it work?
Nominations for the best blogs in these categories are collected all week and you can vote or nominate as many as you like (but only one nomination per blog per person), we then choose the top six favorites, and then you all get one powerful vote starting next week.
Who is eligible?
Any blog, amateur and professional in the homespace in the six categories listed above. Past winners and Apartment Therapy blogs are not eligible.
What is the homespace?
It's the media space dedicated to folks who love their homes, and it concerns decor, cooking, entertaining, raising kids, working at home and a whole host of green issues. We're willing to think broadly, but, remember, we're not concerned with things like cars, restaurants, the stock market and Hollywood gossip.
How many blogs can I nominate?
As many as you wish.
How many new favorite blogs can I discover?
As many as your brain can handle before bursting.
When do we vote?
After a week of nominations, we'll collect up all your input and sort them down to the top six contenders. On Friday, March 2nd we'll post these top six for a week so that you have plenty of time to see them and vote. With one week of nominating and over one week of voting, we should have a good turnout.
Can we vote more than once?
Not in any one category, but you certainly can vote in all six categories.
Can we encourage our friends to vote (for us, even)?
Yes. Not only can't we stop it, we know that the web is a community and word of mouth is how it works.
How do you catch cheaters?
Our ability to catch cheaters, or those who try to stuff the ballot by voting multiple times under different names is managed by closely watching multiple votes under similar names and/or the same IP address. While it's impossible to be perfect, we seek out and remove any serious multiple voting in these two areas. We will also notify the person suspected.
We are fully aware that schools and offices often will have multiple votes coming from one IP address. We are very good at this point at differentiating between this and someone who is just trying to hack our system.


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No school today! It's Eid al-Adha
CAIR helps Muslims petition for Islamic holidays
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is helping petition a Maryland school district to add a pair of Muslim holidays to its calendar of school closings.
An organization called Equality 4 Eid Coalition, which is sponsored by CAIR's Maryland chapter, is seeking signatures to petition the Montgomery County Public School system, or MCPS, to close on the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The first holiday marks the end of the month of Ramadan, and the second marks the Hajj pilgrimage, the dates of which change every year because of the Islamic lunar calendar.
The MCPS includes over 200 elementary, middle, senior high and alternative schools, and already closes for some Christian and Jewish holidays.
"Montgomery County Public Schools close for Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah and Passover," the petition itself states. "However MCPS doesn't close on the two annual Muslim holidays of Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha. It's time to treat Muslim staff and students equal to those of other faiths by closing schools on these holidays."
The organization lists six other school districts that it knows of, where schools close for the Eid holidays: Burlington, Vt.; Cambridge, Mass.; Dearborn, Mich.; Paterson, N.J.; Skokie, Ill.; and Trenton, N.J.
Dana Tofig, spokeswoman for MCPS, told the New York Daily News the district already makes allowances for Muslim students to observe their faith's holidays.
"Teachers are encouraged not to give tests on days that many students will be absent," Tofig told the newspaper. "Students can't be penalized for observing religion."
"Absence due to a religious holiday is considered excused," Joshua Starr, superintendant of schools, explained in letter to the Montgomery County Council. "The Maryland State Department of Education testing calendar does list Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as days that state exams will not be administered. It is possible that quizzes or tests may occur on holidays when school is open; however, a process is in place for students to make up missed classwork and/or quizzes and tests."
But merely making allowances is not sufficient, area Muslims claim.
"My Christian friends have Christmas off," argues Anhar Karim, 17, an Equality 4 Eid co-chair and president of Montgomery County's Muslim Student Association. "This is our holiday, but we have to leave school and miss exams to celebrate it."
Mimi Hassanein, a resident of Brinkow, Md., who immigrated to America from Egypt 42 years ago, told the Daily News she's worried her 15 grandchildren in the MCPS are losing their Muslim identities and wishes they didn't have to choose between spending the holiday with family or doing make-up work at school.
"Of course it's hard when they miss a class and have to make up an exam," Hassanein said. "But it's like asking them to go to school on Christmas."
The petition in support of the Islamic holiday school closings can be found on the Equality 4 Eid website, and the MCPS board of education can be contacted via email by clicking here.


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The Canadian woman who fell for a Secret Service Agent when they met in Ireland, has spoken about her love affair with the married man – whom she thought was single.
Arthur Huntington, 41, a disgraced secret service agent was part of President Obama's security team during his visit to Ireland in May 2011. The security official was forced to quit after claims that while he was on official duty in Columbia he gave prostitute Dania Suarez just $28 of an $800 tab.
It later emerged that the married father-of-two began another affair in a Dublin nightclub with a Canadian in May 2011.
The woman involved, Cheryl Visser (42) told the Irish Independent that she was furious when she discovered he was married, but the Canadian admits she still had sympathy for him.
"He never blagged about work or flashed his badge; he never mentioned it. The only thing he did was show me his diplomatic passport," said the Canadian.
"He was amazing. He was very attractive. He was kind, sweet, complimentary. He said everything that a guy has to say to get a girl.
"(But) he lied to me and told me he was divorced."
The Canadian woman recalled how he wooed her in Copper Face Jacks night club in Dublin.
"He looked at me and said: 'You are not getting away from me this time'," she said, explaining they had first met the previous evening.
"I said: 'Why are you here?', and he said: 'You know Obama is here and I am actually with the Secret Service'. But he wasn't blagging and he wasn't flashing his badge."
Then the pair had a rendezvous in New York the following August before Visser learned the agent had lied about his marital status.
"I totally lost the lid, I just lost it. I was like: 'I don't want to be anyone's mistress'. I called his number and it went into a recording. He always picked up his phone but not this time.
"Then it all came out and I learned about the Colombian prostitute. He is in hiding right now and no one knows where he is. Obviously he has had so many affairs that he knows women are going to go ape-sh**," she said.
"Of course I am very upset about it because I was lied to. There are absolutely more out there, I know there are."
The former agent has since put his home on the market, where he had lived with his wife and two sons in a leafy suburb of Washington.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is moving higher in early trading after the government reported a decline in the unemployment rate last month.
Earnings gains from several U.S. companies including Expedia also drove the market higher early Friday. The market had its best day of the year the day before.
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Is there a high tech turnaround ahead? In particular, what does the landscape look like for the MCAD sector? One industry observer offers his thoughts on the subject
In the overall high tech sector, what do the broad Q1 2003 financial results tell us about the status of the three-year technology slide that began with the March 2000 NASDAQ meltdown? Despite the current ~9 percent unemployment rate in places like Silicon Valley, there are some fresh business statistics from Q1 2003 that provide optimists with hope for an eventual high tech turnaround. US Government Commerce Department figures show a Q1 2003 up-tick of 15 percent in business purchases of computers and software. Earnings for 60 tech companies in the S&P 500 Index are up 16% in Q1 2003 vs. Q1 2002, according to Thomson First Call.
However, gloom still grips many high tech companies. The gains mentioned above are from just a few companies, analysts speculate. Modest improvements here and there still leave the vast majority of high tech companies in the doldrums, because the protracted market slide has been so severe.
Indeed, Oracle Corp. Chairman & CEO Larry Ellison has been quoted as saying that the software industry will never again be as strong as it was in the late 90's. Others are more sanguine, since software spending is almost half of every dollar spent on technology these days. Most observers believe, however, that a high tech recovery will follow any general economic recovery, which probably means (notwithstanding promised "stimulus packages" from the White House) that the real high tech rebound and more high tech jobs are 12 to 24 months away.
Is the picture in the MCAD portion of high tech any better?
To gain a better understanding of what this means for the MCAD sector, let's take a closer look at some of the top players in this category. MCADcafe.com currently tracks the financial performance of eight (8) public companies in the Mechanical CAD market. Four of these companies (Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, PTC and EDS PLM Solutions) represent approximately 85 percent of the total revenue in this grouping, and each of these four companies offers a wide array of software and services products across the entire design to manufacturing space.
The remaining four public companies (ANSYS, Moldflow, MSC.Software and Tecnomatix) offer specialized software/services products in specific MCAD niches and together they create the remaining 15 percent of the total group-of-8's revenue. Indeed, these latter four companies frequently partner with the initial four to provide end- customers with broader solution suites.
The combined worldwide total annual revenue of these eight companies is nearly $4 billion, not an insignificant sum. But it is, in fact, less than 3 percent of the $150 billion spent annually on all types of software. So why study MCAD companies at all? The key to MCAD's importance lies in the leverage its users apply to create the everyday durable goods with which we are all familiar: automobiles, trucks, military gear & weapons, appliances, farm & construction equipment, aircraft & aerospace vehicles, etc. In short, MCAD is arguably responsible for enabling today's manufacturing industries, which are the centerpieces of creating real productivity and wealth in every modern economy.
Understanding the comparative MCAD revenue content of various vendors is not merely academic. For example, it helps observers better understand the likely future competitive MCAD strength of each vendor relative to its peers in such areas as amount of money available for R&D, for potential new acquisitions, for financial stability to weather economic cycles, and for other key business factors.
In comparing financial performances of the four largest MCAD companies tracked by MCADcafe.com, it's
instructive to account for the actual MCAD content of each.
For example, the revenues of Dassault and PTC could arguably be considered 100% MCAD in nature, whereas Autodesk's total revenue is only partially made up from its business in MCAD. Some Autodesk revenue (~15%) stems from its Discreet segment, which provides systems and software for creating and animating imagery. Even in the remaining 85% of Autodesk's total revenue, derived from its Design Solutions Segment, is divided among solutions for Manufacturing, GIS, the building industry, and the platform technology group. Only the solutions of the Manufacturing Group, (Inventor, AutoCAD Mechanical, Mechanical Desktop, Streamline, Point A, etc.) might be thought of as "pure" MCAD revenue.
EDS' MCAD revenues are created by EDS PLM Solutions, the mid-2001 union of SDRC and UGS. While EDS PLM Solutions represents less than five percent of EDS' total revenues ($21.5 billion in 2002), EDS PLM Solutions annual revenues are right there at similar levels as the world's other MCAD revenue leaders Dassault and PTC.
For purposes of our discussion, we'll consider the revenues from the remaining four public companies (ANSYS, Moldflow, MSC.Software and Tecnomatix) to be 100% MCAD.
So how did the eight MCAD Companies do in calendar 2002?
In an industry striving for double-digit compounded annual growth rates (CAGR), clearly 2002 was not kind to most of these companies (see Figure 1). Indeed, anything better than "flat with 2001 revenues" might be viewed as a minor 2002 victory. MSC.Software was the only company with more than double-digit percent growth in 2002, driven primarily through it acquisitions, but the company's 2002 net income was way off from 2001.
As shown in Figure 1, only three of the eight companies improved their net income performances in 2002, with Dassault Systemes leading the pack with $142 million. Notably, ANSYS continued its steady multi-year growth of both revenues and net income, apparently unperturbed by the harsh economic times.
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Figure 1 – Eight public MCAD Companies' Yearly Financial Performances2
1 The revenues for the Design Solutions Segment of Autodesk, which contains Manufacturing Solutions' MCAD revenue, increased 6% in 2002 vs. 2001.
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Court Tosses Out Ridiculous Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
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Assuming myTriggers even has the money, writing a $335k check to Google (and I bet Google would have taken less!) is almost assuredly cheaper than paying three law firms to mount an antitrust assault on a $20B/year behemoth. Assuming that myTriggers wants to maximize profits, then either (1) myTriggers thinks its odds are good enough that it will win AND make enough money to pay the 7 lawyers on the counterclaim's signature page plus their teams, or (2) the law firms struck an unbelievably sweet deal on fees.Or... you know, perhaps someone else was financing the whole thing. Google has been pretty vocal about the fact that it suspects Microsoft is behind this. But, the bigger issue is that the case itself is a joke. Google can set up its ad ranking algorithms however it likes, and while this case was purposely filed in response to Google's attempt to collect in Ohio, since whoever was behind it knew that would keep it in an Ohio state court rather than a federal court, it turns out that the court might not have been as clueless as those who filed the lawsuit expected. That's because the case has been dismissed.
You can read the full ruling below. It consists of two key issues. First, Google tried to have the case dismissed under Section 230 of the CDA, claiming that as a service provider, it's not responsible for blocking or demoting ad content. This is a slightly different part of Section 230 than we usually discuss. This is the part that is designed to encourage companies to voluntarily filter "objectionable" content, and to not face liability for doing so. Here, the court ruled that ads don't qualify as objectionable content. The caselaw it relies on here is a little murky, but for the most part, this did seem like a bit of a stretch as an argument. So that wasn't very effective.
However, the case was still dismissed on a much bigger issue: which is that myTriggers failed to properly allege an antitrust violation. You would think that with all those big, fancy and expensive lawyers, they would have done a bit better. The problem, of course, is that to show antitrust you have to show harm to competitors. But, as the court notes, all myTriggers did was show (potential, possible) harm to myTriggers. In fact, part of myTriggers' own argument was to show how other vertical search engines performed much better in Google, which undermines myTriggers' argument:
"[T]o prove antitrust injury, the key inquiry is whether competition--not necessarily a competitor--suffered as a result of the challenged business practice."The court also notes that just because myTriggers thinks its been blacklisted, that's not a real claim. It's just a random guess by myTriggers.
Here, the counterclaim only alleges harm to myTriggers itself. In addition, myTriggers' counterclaims contain allegations that other competitive vertical search sites were indeed favored by Google. In paragraph 12 of its counterclaim, myTriggers alleges that "Google has entered these favorable agreements with Shopping.com, shopzilla.com, PriceGrabber.com, bizrate.com, NexTag.com * * *." Such an allegation undercuts myTriggers' argument that competition as a whole within the relevant market is being injured.
There are a few other claims by myTriggers, and in each and every case, the court points out that it failed to establish a legitimate claim. It's a pretty complete rejection of the lawsuit, though you have to expect it'll be appealed/amended. This marks the second of a trio of such cases that has been tossed out by courts. One wonders if grandstanding politicians using these silly claims as evidence of Google antitrust violations may start to quiet down.


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It's a new year and our stores have already been busy in their local communities – riding, racing and volunteering. With over 100 stores all across the country, we've got quite a few events and people to highlight from January, so read on below to see a sample of what they were up to last month. Remember to check out our local store pages for regularly scheduled Spin Doctor clinics & group rides.
To start this month's recap, we thought we'd start by highlighting the new World Champion at our Newark, DE store! Katrina Dowidchuk, one of our store associates, won the Womens 40-44 division race at the Masters Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville, KY. We recently caught up with Katrina to hear more about the race, her training, and her advice for those thinking about racing cross. To read more, click here!
While we're talking racing, we want to congratulate Jon Chambers, a bike builder (on the left above) from our Allentown, PA store. In the picture above, he's holding trophies for the winning the PA Track BAR (or "Best all around") stagiaire category and PA Track BAR Masters title. Jon also received 2 Silvers and a Bronze at Track Nationals this year, and won the 30-34 age group all around (you can tell he's fast by the blurry photo – he can't even hold still long enough for a camera!)
Sticking with our racing theme, a few of the associates from our Chandler, AZ store headed out to Fontana to race the Winter Series Downhill and Super D events. Here's a shot of one of our tents set up as base camp at the race – Dennis from the Chandler store took 2nd in his Super D class (with a crash) and 27th in pro Downhill!
Performance Bicycle made the news in Texas, as Jeff, from our North Austin, TX store, and Shelly, from our South Austin store, were on the local Austin Live morning show talking trainers and indoor training. What do you think – Jeff's got a future in TV if he ever gives up his bike gig!
Our Castleton, IN store was involved in a community event in Indianapolis, where they helped Brooksource with a team-building event where their employees built bikes for kids impacted by incarceration, in partnership with the U.S. Dream Academy. Our store manager, Tom, plus Jimmy and Brian, from our store team, helped supervise the build process and also donated a helmet for each of the kids who received bikes.
The Brooksource bike builders all had a great time and, considering the teams building each bike numbered about 6, they were surprisingly efficient at building! Our team completed the final bike safety checks just as the last helmet was being fitted.
Our guys helped build 13 bikes on site, had two pre-built, and got each kid fitted with their new helmets. The kids from the US Dream Academy were all surprised with their new bikes, and the build teams were just as thrilled to be able to present each kid with their new bike and helmet!
Associates from our Philadelphia, PA store participated in their local MLK Day of Service at Neighborhood Bike Works, a neighborhood bike co-op. Along with other volunteers, our 3 person team worked on projects to renovate and organize the space. They had a blast working with each other outside of their usual work environment, all while helping out a deserving non-profit.
Dennis and Adrian from our Chandler, AZ store, along with Adam from our Scottsdale store, broke out their work gloves last month to help Park Rangers with some trail-building on the South Mountain National Trail near Phoenix.
It always feels good to help out on trails that you love to ride, plus they got to work on a sweet rock garden (we're a sucker for rock gardens).
Here's a picture from our Pittsburgh, PA store last month as they hosted their local Major Taylor Club (Major Taylor was one of the first American cycling champions, on the track and in 6 day races). All members of the club needed to get certified on road safety as part of a national program, so we turned our virtual training area into a powerpoint display to help them out.
Our Akron, OH store played host to a younger crowd last month, as they hosted a local Cub Scout pack for a clinic on basic bike knowledge taught by our Eagle Scout sales associate, Don. He taught them how to put the correct amount of air in the tires, how to clean a chain, and how to make sure that their brakes were working properly. Each scout left with a water bottle after answering a bike maintenance question!
Our Columbus, OH store held their own Cub Scout clinic in January as well, as a group of local scouts came by the shop. Our lead Spin Doctor, Mike, went over proper hand signals, tube/tire changes and basic maintenance to keep a bike in great shape. The scouts loved it and couldn't wait for their chance to be tested about basic mechanical problems.
Of course we also held clinics for the big kids out there, like this Basic Maintenance Clinic in our Oceanside, CA store. Remember you can always check on our site to see when the next free bike clinic is scheduled in your local Performance Bicycle Store.
Our Cincinnati, OH store helped out with a fundraiser put on by a local elementary PTO. The carnival raised money for science and music programs at the school – our team at the event talked about bike safety and helmets while handing out water bottles to the hundreds of kids!
While the energy-filled youngsters spun their legs out on our kids bike display, we talked to parents about our Grow Up kids bike program. We had the opportunity to fit the kids on bikes, and we even got to give away 2 bikes to lucky raffle winners!
Finally, our stores have been holding indoor training classes, including our Novi, MI store. Above is a shot from their latest class – that's the daughter of one of our regular customers leading the pack! Below is a picture of the training group at our Tucson Speedway, AZ store.


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St. Louis, Mo., August 31, 2012 — No. 1 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater broke open a three-point game with 17 points in the second quarter as the three-time defending NCAA Division III national champion posted a 34-0 win at Washington University in St. Louis in both teams season opener on Friday at Francis Field in St. Louis.
The win for UW-Whitewater was its 46th-straight dating back to 2009, the longest active streak in college football and fourth longest all-time. The Warhawks are on win away from tying the University of Oklahoma for third place.
Wisconsin-Whitewater had a 376-55 advantage in total offense, and limited the Bears to just four first downs in the victory. The Warhawks rolled up 235 yards on the ground, led by Desmin Ward's 108 yards on 14 carries and one TD. Ward is the first player since Nov. 6, 2010 (Trevor LaBarge, Case Western Reserve) to gain 100 or more yards on the ground against Washington U.
Washington U.'s defense was the story in the first quarter, limiting the Warhawks to just six first downs and just three points. The lone points of the quarter for UW-Whitewater were a 43-yard field goal by Eric Kindler with 11:43 left.
A 26-yard punt by senior Eric Chalifour resulted in great field possession for UW-Whitewater at the WU 35-yard line midway through the second quarter. Five plays later, Lee Brekke threaded the needle with a 17-yard touchdown pass to Steve Morris to make it 10-0 with 8:15 left before half.
Senior quarterback Dan Burkett was picked off for the second time in the half, this time by Kyle Wismer, to give the Warhawks great field possession at the WUSTL 28-yard line. Ward scored from 19 yards out three plays later to make it 17-0. A 21-yard field goal by Kindler with 17 seconds left made it 20-0 at halftime.
UW-Whitewater outgained Washington U. 238-0 in the opening half of play and did not allow a first down by the Bears. Morris had seven catches for 103 yards and a TD in the first half. Sophomore defensive back Ryan Bednar led the Bears' defensive unit with seven tackles (six solo) in the first half.
Washington U.'s defense held UW-Whitewater's offense in check in the third quarter, but Marcus McLin intercepted Burkett and took it 59 yards for the touchdown with 1:54 left in the third to push the lead to 27-0. The Bears outgained UW-Whitewater 32-17 in total offense in the third quarter. Tyler Huber added an eight-yard rushing touchdown with 12:13 to play in the fourth to round out the scoring for the Warhawks.
Burkett struggled on the night completing 8-of-23 passes for 45 yards and was picked off four times. Senior H-back Trevor LaBarge was the lone bright spot for the Bears offensively hauling in five receptions for 34 yards.
Junior linebacker Peter Lowery and Bednar each had career nights on the defensive end for Washington U., recording 11 tackles and a forced fumble. Junior defensive backAndrew Skalman also had a career-night against UW-Whitewater, registering a career-high six tackles and four pass break-ups.
Washington U. (0-1) takes on Rhodes College on Sept. 8, at 1 p.m., in Memphis, Tenn. The Bears posted a 48-21 win over Rhodes a year ago at Francis Field.
Bear Notebook: This was the first meeting in school history between the two teams … It marked the first game on the new turf on Francis Field … UW-Whitewater has played in the last seven national championship games … Washington U. is 18-6 in season openers under head coach Larry Kindbom.


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Jeff Ecklund Wins Melges 32 ACURA Key West 2008
26 January 2008
Key West, Florida - Jeff Ecklund from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on STAR is Melges 32 ACURA Key West 2008 Champion. This is a very special event for the Melges 32 as it is also its Midwinter Championship. With Harry Melges calling tactics and crew of Eric Hood, Scott Norris, Tom Burnham, Lindsay Bartel, Debbie Capozzi and Genny Tulloch, Jeff delivered a performance well worth the win. "Key West is a big event for us, so we are very happy to have won. There are some really great teams out there in the Melges 32 now. We had some good starts and nice boat speed." comment Ecklund just before taking the award.
One thing that Ecklund is very quick to acknowledge is his crew. Bear in mind this is not just any crew. They are full of youth, energy, sailing experience and overflowing with talent. "It was the usual me and Harry on board but everyone else is new — Eric, Scott and Tom. I think the fact that we had three girls with us really says something about this boat. Lindsey has sailed with us before, but to have Debbie and Genny there too was a real treat."
The fleet headed out to the course an hour earlier than originally scheduled with the mindset of getting as many as three more races completed. The conditions were to the max — 20-25 knot winds with little gusts here and there and a substantial sea chop. Ecklund literally blasted off the starting line. Claudio Recchi from Italy on Let's Roll was not so fortunate. As he tried to start at the pin end, he caught the anchor line attached to the pin end boat causing him to start far behind. But Recchi was quick to make up ground. At the weathermark it was Philippe Kahn on Pegasus 32 taking the lead and blasting downwind putting some distance between himself and the rest of the fleet. Both Ecklund, Marty and Mike Kullman from Tampa, Florida on New Wave were hot on his transom. Ecklund caught Kahn at the gate and worked hard to bring the challenge back neck-and-neck on the upwind beat. Kahn eventually got the best and took it to the finish. Kahn's team is an exceptional one as well — Richard Clarke, Bruce Mahoney, David Giles, Erik Boone, Curtis Florence and Allan Megarry.
For race two of the day, it was Michael Illbruck from Germany on Pinta stepping up to the plate and taking the win. Illbruck's team was no slouch either. He was accompanied by Cameron Horne, Vince Brun, Ross Halcrow, Don Cowie, Glenn Horne and Andrew Finnick. Together they dominated over Kahn who scored a two and Jason Carroll (Sean Doyle, Brian Fox, Peter Strotherman, Kai Cox, Patrick Mauro, Sam Rogers and Clay Bischoff) from Larchmont, New York on Argo taking third. The third and final race of the day, as well as the Key West series brought out the best in Recchi as he won over Armando Giulietti on Hiroshi from Milan, Italy scoring second and in third was Carroll again.
The final results with one discard put Ecklund at the top, two points ahead of the spectacular, all-amatuer Kullman/Carroll New Wave team comprised of John Jennings, Steve Liebel, Alex Shaffer, Judah Rubin, Ron Hyatt and Jay Kuebel. In third was early regatta leader Joe Woods on Red from the UK. Woods' team is quite a group as well that includes Ruairidh Scott, Tim Powell, Paddy Bettesworth, Jamie Binmore, Shane Hughes, Tim Edwards and Sophie Esson.
- Jeff Ecklund, STAR
- Marty Kullman/Mike Carroll, New Wave
- Joe Woods, Red
- Claudio Recchi, Let's Roll
- Kate Mullin/John Sherlock, Arkle
- Stephen Pugh, Taboo
- Philippe Kahn, Pegasus 32
- Michael Illbruck, Pinta
- Pieter Taselaar, Bliksem
- Bob Hesse, Lake Effect
First and foremost the class would like to thank Peter Craig and his incredible staff at Premiere Racing as the organization of this event was world class and the committee work spectacular. We look forward to 2009!
The next event for the International Melges 32 Class is the Sperry Top-Sider St. Petersburg NOOD Regatta coming up February 15-17, 2008 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tampa Bay is a great place to race so be there!
Visit the official event website of ACURA Key West 2008.
Kattack Performance Applications has partnered with the International Melges 32 Class Association for ACURA Key West 2008.
For more information about the Melges 32 in Key West, please contact:
Joy Dunigan
International Melges 32 Class Press Officer
+1 (912) 398 5776


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Bonn-o-Tron wrote:This has epic potential, but having it in your drive way poses potential problems.
piltogg wrote:Ok thanks to all. A table is almost out of the question (to many things to fit/ some people have short arms) I probaly wont make a very detailed report for this because it would take to long but I will take few pics.
also brikwars alone for a few hours probaly won't keep people entertained long. so Does anyone have ideas for lego building during the other teams turn.
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