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Did you know that water is sticky? It may not look sticky, but water molecules love to stick together. Water molecules pull and tug on each other from all directions.
Look at a glass of water. A special stretchy "skin" forms at the top of a glass of water because the molecules are pulling from the sides and from below, but not from the top. This "skin" is known as surface tension. Surface tension allows the water level to get higher than the walls of the glass without spilling! Let's put this to the test.
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4. Observe the water at the top of the cup. Eventually it will begin to bulge out.
5. Add pennies until the water begins to drip over the edge of the glass. How many pennies were you able to get into the cup?
6. Now, remove all of the pennies and get a new cup of tap water. This time add several squirts of dishwashing liquid to the cup and try the activity again.
7. Were you able to add more pennies or did it hold less? What do you think is happening? Research and find out!


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SOCORRO, N.M. August 28, 2009 – New Mexico Tech chemistry professor Dr. Michael Heagy has been making headlines for his work with dual fluorescent dyes in recent weeks.
Chemical Communications reported about Heagy's work in early August. That report was then summarized in Highlights in Chemical Science. Both journals are published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences.
"We're kind of excited about this publicity," Heagy said. "We've been involved in fluorescent dyes for a while. We published a fairly significant paper about five years ago, but this sort of recognition is exciting."
Heagy and three graduate students published the paper, "Discovery of Dual Fluorescent 1,8 Naphthalimide Dyes Based On Balanced Seesaw Photophysical Model," in Chemical Communications in August. The student scientists include leading author Prem Nandhikonda, a doctoral student; Dr. Michael Begaye, who graduated from Tech in May 2008; and Zhi Cao, who earned his master's at Tech in December 2008.
|Dr. Micheal Heagy (right) and Prem Nandhikonda illustrate the seesaw analogy of dual-fluorescent dyes -- complete with different color T-shirts. Heagy represents the excited state of a molecule, while Nandhikonda represents the opposite state.
Heagy's group is doing groundbreaking work in identifying patterns that characterize dual fluorescent dyes. Most fluorescent dyes emit one color. Heagy is finding predictors that will help chemists create new dyes that emit two colors.
For the article in Highlights, Heagy was quoted as saying, "Just as green and red traffic signals convey far more information to a motorist than a single yellow caution flasher, so also is the greater information obtained from dyes that emit in two colors. … The ability to obtain two colors from an organic dye improves biological analyses by providing a second signal or output to monitor."
Heagy first stumbled upon a dual fluorescent dye in 2003, quite by accident.
"It was an anomalous finding," he said. "The initial discovery of dual fluorescent dyes was made 30 years ago, but I was unaware of that. After we discovered one, we've been pursuing others ever since. I learned years ago from my Ph.D. advisor, Nobel Laureate George Olah, that the anomalies in science usually make the most interesting pursuits."
Heagy published a paper in Organic Letters in 2004 about his initial findings. That paper has been cited more than 60 times already.
After that initial publication, Heagy and his students synthesized 42 compounds in an attempt to find a pattern, finding five dyes with dual fluorescent. In Heagy's second attempt, Nandhikonda and Begaye synthesized a more refined matrix of nine dyes, with five of those exhibiting dual fluorescence.
"A lot of credit goes to Prem Nandhikonda. His tireless efforts really facilitated in getting this work out and into print," Heagy said.
"We developed a photophysical model to predict dual fluorescence," Heagy said. "If you can predict dual fluorescence, you'll save a lot of time and energy. We don't use the shotgun approach; we're looking for the silver bullet approach."
|This graphic explains the chemical properties that predict a dual-fluorescent dye. A seesaw balanced photophysical model is used to balance the dyes' electronic properties by directing substituent groups on the dyes to the correct positions. Graphic by Prem Nandhikonda/New Mexico Tech
Dr. Robert Strongin of Portland State University develops new dyes for biomedical use. In the Highlights article, he was quoted as saying that Heagy's work represents "a breakthrough that will allow better understanding of fluorophore properties and enable the design of improved optical materials."
The "shotgun approach" would be synthesizing a large library of 50 or more compounds. Heagy's "silver bullet approach" involves identifying the characteristics common to dual fluorescent dyes.
As noted in the title of the paper in Chemical Communications, Heagy compares the predictive factor to balancing a seesaw.
"Through synthesis, we can 'decorate' a dye with different functional groups," he said. "We're looking for two molecular occupants that should be balanced. Most dyes have one predominant excited state and we're designing them with two excited states. There has to be chemical equilibrium between those excited states."
To be more specific, Heagy has found that a trait similar to most dual fluorescent dyes is that both excited states have similar energy but different geometry. One rotamer, or rotational isomer, of the molecule typically emits short-wavelength fluorescence and the other end emits long-wavelength fluorescence.
In the lab, Heagy and his students are looking for simple methods of producing these dyes and simple methods of testing them. He is looking for dyes that can be synthesized in as few as three steps (while some synthetic processes require up to 15 steps, or more).
Also, to test dyes, Heagy uses only a spectrofluorimeter – no expensive lasers or synchronized ultrafast pulses are required.
The applications for dual fluorescent dyes are wide ranging, but the two main uses would be in biomedical diagnosis and energy applications, like biofuels from microalgae and solar power, Heagy said.
Functional dyes are effective in biomedical research because they can adhere or bond to analytes that have no color, allowing researchers to track the movements of ions or biomolecules.
One of Heagy's previous goals has been the development of dyes that attach to sugars, allowing diabetics to be able to monitor their blood-sugar levels in real time.
"For diabetics, that would be a real advent of technology," he said. "Instead of pinpricks throughout the day, one could develop a continuous, real-time monitor of blood glucose. That's a big goal for biotechnology."
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The Boston Architectural College celebrated its 2013 Commencement on Friday, May 24 at Old South Church in Copley Square. One hundred and forty-eight students graduated in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and design studies.
In keeping with BAC tradition, a jazz band accompanied graduates, special guests, and members of the Board of Trustees and Overseers in a procession through the city of Boston's historic Back Bay. They walked in full regalia from the iconic BAC building on Newbury Street to the church building in Copley Square.
Hayley Elizabeth Bouza, Bachelor of Architecture, was awarded valedictorian of the Bachelor's Program, and Phebe Apgar Williams, Master of Interior Design, was awarded valedictorian of the Master's Program. Hayley and Phebe were honored along with their fellow distinguished classmates at the Honors and Awards Ceremony hosted at the BAC on the evening of Thursday, May 23.
"Our graduates are encountering rapidly changing environments where their work will make interiors more healthful, buildings more sustainable, and landscapes more accessible," said President Ted Landsmark. "They will use new technologies, entrepreneurship, traditional design skills, and a commitment to public service to reshape and improve the worlds within which we live, work, and play."
The Honorable Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, LEED AP, the architect of the Capital, provided the Commencement address, and was awarded an Honorary Degree along with Carl Sapers Esq., AIA (Hon.), and Morse Payne FAIA. Stephen Ayers will be awarded a Doctor of Public Design, Carl Sapers a Doctor of Design Jurisprudence, and Morse Payne a Doctor of Design Leadership.
"Take risks, travel far to serve the design professions," said Stephen Ayers. "Be honest, humble, compassionate leaders; continue on path to sustainability that will reduce dependence on foreign energy supplies; design, construct and operate buildings to assist other cultures to use advanced building codes; work to support preservation movement. Be part of the solution."
Ayers completed his Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Maryland and received his Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. After attending Officers Training School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, Ayers was commissioned as an officer in the US Air Force and assigned to Edwards Air Force Base. There he served as a staff architect with the 6510th Civil Engineer Squadron, managing numerous design and construction projects. He was promoted to design team chief and progressed to the rank of captain. Ayers was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and after five years of active duty, decided to pursue a career in public service in another way. After working in the architectural and engineering community in the Washington, DC area, Ayers joined the Voice of America as a general engineer in 1991. In 1992, he transferred to Rhodes, Greece, to lead design and construction efforts at several Voice of America sites in Greece and Germany. Ayers returned to the US in 1997 and joined the Architect of the Capitol as an assistant superintendent for the Senate Office Buildings. In February 2007, Ayers began serving as acting architect until his appointment as architect of the Capitol in May 2010. He is a licensed architect in California and an Accredited Professional in Leadership in Energy and Environment Design. He is both a member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the George Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha International, Construction Users Roundtable, Construction Industry Institute, Washington Building Congress, and Construction Management Association of America. Ayers is the recipient of the Construction Industry Institute's 2011 Carroll H. Dunn Award for Excellence. He is responsible for facilities maintenance and operation of the historic Capitol Building, the care of 470 acres of grounds, and operation and maintenance of 17.4 million square feet of buildings including the House and Senate Office Buildings, Capitol Visitor Center, Library of Congress Buildings, the US Supreme Court Building, the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, and other facilities. As architect of the Capitol, he oversees a staff of approximately 2,600 and an annual budget of nearly $600 million.
Carl M. Sapers is a member of the Massachusetts Board of Architectural Registration and is engaged in the arbitration of international construction disputes. A former partner at the law firm of Hill & Barlow for 40 years, he is an expert on the legal aspects of design practice. Now professor emeritus of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Sapers taught courses in Studies in Professional Practice in Architecture. At Hill & Barlow, his clients included the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and more than 50 architecture and engineering firms. Sapers served as acting general counsel to the American Institute of Architects, of which he is an honorary member. He is the author of chapters in several books on legal aspects of the construction process. In 1975, he was awarded the Allied Professions Medal of the AIA. In 1991, he was awarded the Whitney North Seymour Medal of the American Arbitration Association. Sapers was the vice chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and served two terms as a member of the Council of the Boston Bar Association. He was a member of the board of the American Arbitration Association and of the National Building Museum. Sapers was the 1993–1994 president of the American College of Construction Lawyers, and for nine years he was moderator of the Town of Brookline. He received a AB from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School.
H. Morse Payne is a mentor, an accomplished professional, and an inspirational leader. He showed promise as a young man, winning a prize for town planning in Norwood in 1939. A skilled draughtsman, Morse attended the BAC before winning both the BSA's travel scholarship and a scholarship to complete his architecture studies at MIT. After graduation, Morse joined The Architects Collaborative, where he would go on to serve as president. Morse would later return to the BAC as an instructor, where he became known for inspiring his students with confidence and faith in their capacity to accomplish more. During the first of his two terms as president of the Board of Directors at the BAC, he presided over the vote to move to our current location at 320 Newbury Street. He is also our inaugural Cascieri Lecturer. In 1993, Morse delivered the inaugural Cascieri Lecture in the Humanities titled Urban Design in 17th Century New England.


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Gravitational Wave Astronomy refers to a new branch of astronomy, which aims at the detection and analysis of gravitational waves that reach us from astrophysical sources like black holes, neutron stars, or supernovae. Such waves are predicted for the dynamics of massive objects by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The SFB/TR7 is a Collaborative Research Centre (in German, Sonderforschungsbereich) funded by the German Research Foundation. The label Transregio (TR) signifies a collaboration of groups at the Universities of Jena (the lead university), Hannover and Tübingen, and at Max Planck Institutes in Garching, Hannover, and Potsdam.


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Olivia Greer '03 has been named one of the Real Hot 100 women of 2006 by therealhot100.org, a group that encourages recognition of smart women who work for social and political change. The group honors young women from around the country who are "breaking barriers, fighting stereotypes, and making a difference in their communities or the nation."
Rachel Phillips '05 has published articles on home schooling in Home Education and The Link magazines. She also exhibited at a group photography show in March (spectrum21.org/rachelphillips/) and sold a number of her hand-colored prints.
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SOCORRO, N.M., August 27, 2002 -- New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López has been selected by the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG) as one of its first recipients of the William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award.
The Dixon Award is named in honor of Albuquerque attorney Bill Dixon, a leading advocate of First Amendment and public rights under the New Mexico Open Meetings and Public Records acts, and a founder and director of NMFOG. The new award has been established to honor outstanding supporters of the open government cause in New Mexico.
"Dan López understands open government because he was selected as the president of New Mexico Tech in an open process," says Robert H. Johnson, executive director of NMFOG. "He brought New Mexico Tech into membership in NMFOG, and has maintained the school's membership as the only institution of higher learning in New Mexico to commit itself to open government through its organizational membership.
"Other heads of state colleges and universities should look to him for his example," Johnson adds.
Tech President López will be presented with the prestigious award at an special dinner event on September 27 at the Sheraton Old Town Inn in Albuquerque. The awards presentation also will include a talk by Jon Wolman, senior vice president of The Associated Press, and a video acknowledgement of Dixon's longtime efforts in the defense of the First Amendment.
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This double exposure project allows us to step back from having full control of the image making process and trust in one another while allowing coincidences to happen naturally on film. Stephanie exposes a full roll of 35mm film of only "people," and Timothy reloads the film again into the same camera, to imprint only "places" and locations to the same roll. These images are all the end result of our ongoing series and are unedited negatives straight from the camera.
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September 2004
Peering inside the body, with a new spin-literally
Magic Angle Spinning Mouse Makes News
The following news release went out September 14 from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and has resulted in inquiries from both The Scientist and Nature magazines and an article was published in the News and Perspectives section of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The work, led by Robert Wind, was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Medical Sciences Division. Some of the original support came from PNNL Independent Research and Development funds and the Biomolecular Systems Initiative.
A spinning mouse works out the kinks in a new nuclear magnetic resonance system called "slow MAS" that researchers hope to adapt for use in human health, to see tissues and biological processes that are invisible to the magnetic resonance instruments being used in medical imaging today. The slow spinning is harmless to animals.
Peering inside the body, with a new spin-literally
From live mice to raw meat, 'magic' slow-spinning NMR technique reveals hidden biology
RICHLAND, Wash. - This story is unabashedly all spin. What's the angle? Why, magic. Its subject—a mouse in a form-fitted Plexiglas tube—performs the honors, spinning like an old phonograph record, at a leisurely one to three revolutions a second. The mouse chamber is tilted just so inside a magnetic field being pelted with radio waves. The tiny rodent-adventurer and her cohorts are put under and are no worse for the wear.
This technique, in turn, called slow magic-angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy, or "slow MAS" for short, has provided researchers a new glimpse inside living tissue and cells that other biomedical imaging methods cannot render. The difference between conventional nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, and slow MAS is akin to a near-sighted person looking at a mountain range without his glasses one moment and with glasses the next. Once-indistinguishable peaks and valleys appear, the peaks in this case representing previously unseen biochemical compounds as they appear in living tissues.
"It's a noninvasive way to look at function of living organs and the components at work in them such as fat, glucose and other metabolites," said Robert Wind, a physicist and laboratory fellow at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and slow-spin technique inventor. "We think this new technique can be used to diagnose diseases and assess the body's response to drugs and even to observe the working physiology of living cells."
On September 14, at the 7th International Conference on Applications of NMR in Food Science in Copenhagen, Denmark, (http://www.models.kvl.dk/NMRinFood/), Wind described the technique and experiments that show slow MAS's potential for studying metabolism in muscle and organs. His spinning subject in this case was raw (and very dead) rabbit flesh. He also has taken disembodied mouse livers and brains for slow spins around the magnet, revealing chemical spectra in tissue up to 10 times the resolution seen in stationary NMR.
At left, a stationary NMR spectrum of chemical compounds in an excised rat liver; right, rat liver spun at 40 revolutions a second at the magic angle, revealing chemical details invisible in the other.
But it is living tissue that holds the most promise for this method, Wind said, because there is no good way to see what is happening in many areas of the body, especially at the boundaries of organs and tissues and bone or air cavities such as lungs and sinuses. Here, the large magnet used in NMR generates small magnetic fields that broaden the spectral lines so much that information about those fine details is lost.
Wind's slow-spin technique, which can generate detailed spectra from these boundary regions, takes advantage of a quirk in NMR. NMR generates a spectral signature of compounds in a sample based on the frequencies of the sample's atomic nuclei as they jiggle in a strong magnetic field. NMR pioneers noticed more than a half-century ago that they could get better spectral resolution if they spun a sample at a 54.7-degree angle to the magnetic field. The faster they spun a sample oriented in this so-called magic angle, the more structural detail they obtained.
Slow MAS inventor Robert Wind believes the new technology can be applied to diagnosis of cancer and other diseases and used to see if drugs are working in the body as intended.
"This was very fast spinning, an ultra-centrifuge, thousands of rotations per second," Wind said. "If you tried that with intact tissue or a live animal, you'd blow up your bio-sample and kill the subject."
But what if you could slow the spinning down, so that a live animal could withstand the centrifugal force? The problem with slow MAS that Wind had to overcome was that it produced unwanted signals, what Wind and colleagues call "spinning side bands," that obscured the sample's spectra.
Wind let the idea percolate for about six years as he worked on a combined NMR-optical microscope and other devices at the W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory on PNNL's Richland, Wash., campus. When he came at the problem again, he brought reinforcements, most notably in the person of NMR expert and PNNL staff scientist Jian Z. Hu.
Working with Hu, Wind found he could get detailed spectra in biological samples at record-slow MAS speeds by using pulsed radio waves to separate the obscuring spinning side bands from the main spectrum. With this technique they could look at full bodies or zero in on specific organs or parts of tissues.
Wind will continue to refine the technology, for which he recently received two patents, and PNNL will make it available for licensing. As a precursor to studies in humans, Wind said, safety trials in animals would be necessary to see how strong a field and fast a spin they could stand. He admitted that patients might balk at being spun and believes engineers can solve this by building magnets where the magnetic field is rotated around a person in a stationary chamber.


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The mother of one of Columbine High School massacre gunman Dylan Klebold says she prayed that her son would kill himself.
The Denver Post reports Saturday that Sue Klebold made her statement in a new book titled: "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity."
In a chapter about crime, author Andrew Solomon examines how parents of criminals find themselves "morally diminished."
Sue Klebold told Solomon that, "I saw the end product of my life's work: I had created a monster."
Twelve students and a teacher died at the school on April 20, 1999, before Klebold and Eric Harris committed suicide.
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iluvk9 wrote:"Black Sean" getting hit with the hose by Tommy?
Janet "attacking" Tommy and his Capt. asking him if he would like to come along to a fire?
Gary at the hospital with his whacko family?
And the BEST was Tommy's speech at the AA meeting.
iluvk9 wrote:The first scene with the apt falling around them? I was wondering why NONE of them had their helmets on.
iluvk9 wrote:Hopefully he wasn't dancing with it.
Marinepits wrote:iluvk9 wrote:Hopefully he wasn't dancing with it.
Uh, I suppose you could call it that.
Scary freaky episode and definitely too long. Although Uncle Teddy was funny as usual. "I'm just trying to help."
The whole thing with Connor and the home movie was really quite disturbing, but I think what Tommy's dad said was amazingly accurate. Tommy didn't need to take it quite so literally, though.
groovinluv wrote:Is Uncle Teddy the dude with the pillow ? what is up with that?
I love this show but have missed so many episodes..
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Part of this year's storyline is Uncle Teddy helping out in veterans' hospitals and the fact that many of the hospitalized folks keep asking him to kill them. Looks like he's helped out a few.
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The Panthers kept giving the Seahawks chances, and finally, they took them.
A 43-yard touchdown from Russell Wilson to Jermaine Kearse was the only touchdown of the second half, helping the Seahawks to an East Coast win.
The Panthers appeared to be on their way to a potential go-ahead score, when Seahawks safety Earl Thomas forced a DeAngelo Williams fumble late, allowing Wilson to run out the clock.
That kind of black-cat luck will only bring back bad memories for the Panthers. They've gotten off to 2-8 starts each of the last two seasons under coach Ron Rivera.
This won't help, and now moves their record to 2-13 in games decided by a touchdown or less.
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The DNA Disco Center staff is busy evaluating applications for the DNA Residency Program. This is the fourth summer we are offering the residency program, and it really is a tremendous time for celebration of learning, personal and scientific growth, and having fun with terrific teenagers and teachers. I think I can speak for Erica and Kevin when we say how much we end up loving the summer time and the people we spend it with.
Every year making decisions on who to interview and accept into the program is a painful process for the three of us because we end up rejecting many extremely qualified students and teachers. The students we end up getting are always inspirational in how smart they are, how hard they work, and in what they accomplish, but we always wish we could spend time with more of the applicants. The experience is so personalized that we really don't have the capacity to expand the program to a larger scale, even if we had the space or financial resources to do so.
This year, one of the teacher applicants sent us to a link for the DNA Discovery Center promoting it as a place of learning for DNA. These are the kinds of interactions that make me grateful for the support we had in opening the exhibit and for all the terrific people who have been involved in the summer programs. We hope our new web site lets us do even more communicating about the wonders of the museum.


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This does seem to be true, but I don't think they're designing anything with the US as the primary market anymore, and the rest of the world might be a bit more practical and less resistant to change.
I have no interest in the cruiser riding position (although I have very little experience with it to base that on, admittedly), but if I did want to go that route, I prefer this to the retro style everyone else is stuck with. Part of my dislike of cruisers is how freaking boring they are. I do appreciate some aesthetic properties of older bikes that were lost with the advent of fairings, but I don't understand the intolerance of anything that doesn't look like it could be from the fifties.
The naked version is more what I'm talking about...
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The Patriots weren't happy with their level of performance in last week's win over a team from Florida already out of playoff contention so they brought a bit more to the field with them against the Dolphins this Sunday.
New England clicked in all phases of their game and crushed the Dolphins 28-0 to close out the regular season. With the Texans losing to the Colts earlier in the day, the Patriots have secured a bye for the first week of the playoffs and they will host the higher seeded team to advance from the Wild Card game in two weeks.
Everybody got to do a little work for the Pats. Stevan Ridley scored twice, Rob Gronkowski had two catches and a touchdown in his return to the lineup and Wes Welker caught eight passes for 94 yards in his typical day's work. The offense wasn't entirely crisp — Tom Brady hit on 22-of-36 passes — but it was more than enough to make the work of the defense stand up for the win.
Ryan Tannehill was picked off once and he botched a handoff with Reggie Bush that became a second turnover inside the Patriots' 5-yard line. The Patriots also sacked Tannehill seven times, with defensive lineman Justin Francis picking up three of them to lead the team. They are the first three sacks of Francis' career and it was a strong closing performance from the Patriots defense across the board with the playoffs ahead.
No playoffs await the Dolphins, although they do have copious amounts of cap space and a bit more security on the coaching staff and at quarterback than they've enjoyed in recent years. That's a good place to start building a team that can join or replace the Patriots in the playoffs down the road.


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Citizens for the Protection of The Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer OCWP Priority Recommendation - Regional Planning Groups
The OWRB should work with the State Legislature to develop and authorize the creation of at least thirteen Regional Planning Groups to assist in planning and implementing OCWP initiatives at the regional level. These regional groups should be non-regulatory and consist of local stakeholders, as well as appropriate agency representatives, charged with developing regional water plans in a manner consistent with the OCWP and its implementation priorities. Such plans would include the identification of specific projects, studies, programs, research and other evaluations designed to address the unique needs and issues identified by Regional Planning Group participants. The State Legislature should establish regular appropriations to the OWRB to coordinate the activities of these groups.
OCWP – Executive Directors Report – Page 10 What makes the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer unique…. Designated by the EPA as a Sole Source Aquifer (SSA)
•The "sole or principal" source of drinking water for an area
•Supplies 50% or more of the drinking water for that area
•No reasonably available alternative
The Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer is the only such groundwater basin in Oklahoma. Cities and Water Systems using the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer
City of Durant
City of Sulphur
City of Tishomingo
City of Wynnewood
S Oklahoma Water Corp
Bryan Co. RWD #5
Garvin Co. RWD #6
Johnston Co. RWD #3
Murray Co. RWD #1
Pontotoc Co. RWD #8
Pontotoc Co. RWD #7
Bryan Co. RWD #2
City of Davis Buckhorn RWD
Pontotoc Co. RWD #9
S Oklahoma Water Corp
Sulphur Ardmore Dougherty Tishomingo Mill Creek Carter Bryan Garvin Coal Love Pontotoc Johnston Atoka Murray Marshall Hughes McClain Seminole Source - water data obtained from OWRB publication "Rural Water Systems In Oklahoma" - 1998.
•Water system GIS files obtained from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board website.
City of Ada
W. Carter Co. W&S Corp
Pontotoc Co. RWD #6
Tupelo PWA
City of Ardmore
West Davis
Town of Ratliff City
Known springs within the Arbuckle The Aquifer The Arbuckle Simpson provides drinking water to over 150,000 Oklahomans
Other Interests that Depend upon the Aquifer
Turner Falls
Falls Creek
Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge
Slippery Falls Boy Scout Ranch
Oklahoma Fish Hatchery
Nature Conservancy's Pontotoc Ridge Preserve As the only Sole Source Aquifer in Oklahoma The Arbuckle Simpson is governed by two unique pieces of law:
SB597 S.B. 288 Passed by the legislature in 2003
•Adds a fifth precept to Board approval of a groundwater permit: 5) the proposed use is not likely to interfere with streams and springs emanating from a sensitive sole source groundwater basin
(Considers conjunctive use - impact of Groundwater withdrawals on streams and springs)
•Required a comprehensive study be conducted to determine the maximum annual yield
•Only applicable to a Sole Source Aquifer The Oklahoma Water Resource Board U.S. Geological Survey The University of Oklahoma Oklahoma State University The Bureau of Reclamation $5 Million dollars Completed in 2009 Maximum Annual Yield – 67,000 AF Lower Washita Watershed Planning Region Blue-Boggy Watershed Planning Region Central Watershed Planning Region Findings from the Arbuckle-Simpson Hydrology Study could result in a significantly lower equal proportionate share than the current 2 AFY/acre allocation for that aquifer. Permits to withdraw groundwater from aquifers (groundwater basins) where the maximum annual yield has not been set are "temporary" permits that allocate 2 Acre Feet Year/ Per Acre. Pursuant to 82 O.S. § 1020.9(A)(2), the temporary allocation for the Arbuckle-Simpson groundwater basin is subject to the OWRB's case-by case determination of what amount will not likely degrade or interfere with springs or streams emanating from the Arbuckle-Simpson. OCWP
Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan
Percent of Basin Overlaying the ASA
Groundwater Available for
New Permits
Lower Washita - 11 %
384,000 Acre Feet
Blue- Boggy - 6%
196,800 Acre Feet
Total GW Permits Available
580,800 Acre Feet Comparison of OCWP to OWRB Arbuckle Simpson Study
Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan Percent of Basin Overlaying the ASA
Groundwater Available for
New Permits
Lower Washita - 11 %
384,000 Acre Feet
Blue- Boggy - 6%
196,800 Acre Feet
Total GW Permits Available
580,800 Acre Feet
OWRB Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer Study
Percent of Basin
Groundwater Available for Permitting
67,000 Acre Feet Old Recharge Rate Storage depletions occur when demand exceeds recharge The Solution…. Allowing from Basin Management… What we have accomplished thus far…..
Passage of SB288
Passage of SB597
Signed MOU with Hanson Aggregates
Joined with other interests…
Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer Protection Committee
•Participating in Rules process for SB597
•Working on a Draft Implantation Order for SB288
•Regional Planning: Integral to OCWP implementation is due recognition of local issues and priorities identified by citizens, users, and stakeholders. While statewide water planning has served Oklahoma well and oversight is still required at the state level, the time has come to encourage and formalize regional water planning as the new standard that empowers local citizens more in touch with their unique needs, challenges and potential solutions.
A Vision for Oklahoma's Water Future
Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan
Executive Report Creation of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer Management Basin Amy Anne Ford Citizens for the Protection of the Arbuckle- Simpson Aquifer CPASA.net firstname.lastname@example.com 580-920-6156
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.- The Yale men's swimming and diving team ended its regular season with a 175-125 win against Brown on Saturday afternoon. The victory brought Yale's Ivy League record to 4-3 for the season, and its overall record to 9-3.
The Bears made it a close meet, winning six events, including the 200-yard medley relay to start the meet. But the Bulldogs kept them at bay by dominating their strongest events and pushing themselves to pick up crucial points in those that they did not win.
Juniors Rob Harder and Andrew Heymann each won two individual events. Harder won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:40.53, followed closely by sophomore Victor Zhang in second place. Harder also won the 200-yard backstroke. His winning time of 1:47.92 was more than two seconds faster than his nearest competitor. He also swam on the winning freestyle relay team with freshmen Aaron Greenberg and Oscar Miao and Zhang.
Heymann won the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:59.43. Yale swimmers took three of the top four spots, thanks to fast races by freshman Alex Goss, who placed second, and senior Danny McDermott, who placed fourth. Heymann led a similarly successful charge in the 200-yard IM. He and junior Alwin Firmansyah took first and second, while McDermott swam to another fourth place finish.
Freshman Ben Lerude and sophomore Brian Hogan placed first and second in the 1000-yard freestyle, and then traded places in the 500, which Hogan won with a time of 4:29.93. Lerude also placed second in the 200-yard butterfly.
Senior diver Tyler Pramer racked up high point totals to win the 1 and 3-meter dives. His score of 321.91 was more than 50 points ahead of the second place finisher. Brown's Billy Rosenberg challenged him in the 3-meter dive, but Pramer won with a score of 332.33.
Saturday's meet was Yale's last competition before the all-important Ivy League Championship. Tim Wise, the Robert J. H. Kiphuth Director of Men's Swimming and Diving, said that his team is excited to prepare for that final challenge.
"The whole team has trained incredibly hard this season, and we've already seen some of that work pay off," Wise said. "We had a successful regular season. Now we have to stay focused and do everything we can to swim our best races at the championship meet."
The Ivy League Championship Meet will be held from Feb. 27-Mar. 1. at Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, Mass.
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10 Hottest Sideline Reporters Not Named Erin Andrews
Our month of 'Everything But The Game' continues with a look at the job that Erin Andrews helped make famous.
We probably take sideline reporters for granted. Imagine watching an NFL playoff game without getting sideline updates from Armen Keteyian about Andre Johnson's tight hamstring? OK, that was a really bad example. Thankfully a network genius figured out that it would be a good idea to roll out hot female sideline reporters. It's just easier to hear about your team's cleat selection from a former Miss South Carolina.
Without further adieu, here are our tremendous ten – and none of them are named Erin.
Our month of 'Everything But The Game' continues with a look at the job that Erin Andrews helped make famous.
Hazel Mae
Hazel was nearly elected president of Red Sox nation. Thankfully for her she didn't win that lame title, and instead took a job at the MLB Network. Relationship Status: Married to former Major League first basemen Kevin Barker.
Cook & Son Bats' Blog
Kathryn Tappen
The NHL Network's Tappen was an Academic All-American at Rutgers University where she competed on the track and cross-country team. Relationship Status: Married to Jay Leach of the New Jersey Devils.
Lindsay Soto
The NFL Total Access talent was the sports editor of her high school yearbook. We bet she had a hard time finding guys to study with. Relationship Status: Married to a lucky mystery man (that might be banging his head against the wall over her rumored breast reduction surgery).
Lisa Guerrero
The cougar godmother of sideline reporters and former Los Angeles Rams Cheerleader was once described as 'the hardest working sports reporter' by the LA Times. Relationship Status: Married to former MLB pitcher Scott Erickson.
Sara Carbonero
In July 2009, Carbonero, the girlfriend of Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas, was voted 'The Sexiest Reporter in the World' by FHM. She was even blamed for distracting Casillas during a 2010 World Cup match against Switzerland. Relationship Status: As mentioned above, sadly she is taken.
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Samantha Steele
Her SamanthaSteele.com bio states, "Samantha spends her free time working with her family's non-profit organization geared towards inner city youth, M.A.D. (Make A Difference) Ministries, and working on her spiral." Her spiral? How cute! Relationship status: Seems to be single and ready to mingle. Giddy up boys.
Heidi Watney
Before breaking Bill Simmons' heart by taking a job with the Lakers, Watney was a National Merit Scholar and attended the University of San Diego on an academic scholarship. Of course she also competed in the Miss California pageant in 2002 to add some balance to her life. Relationship status: Single and NOT dating Jason Varitek (as was rumored).
Sideline Hotties
Ines Sainz
Famous for causing a stir at New York Jets training camp in 2010, the native of Mexico City can hold her own. She is a black belt in Taekwondo since the age of 14. Relationship Status: tragically, she is married to a television producer.
Alex Flanagan
As if we needed another reason to get sucked into Madden NFL – Flanagan hosts an in-game weekly recap show on the video game. Relationship Status: She is married to a former University of Arizona basketball player that nobody has ever heard of.
Jenn Brown
Shockingly she went to University of Florida (no hot chicks ever go there). Brown played seven sports in high school and broke the record for the most varsity letters by a male or female athlete with 14. Relationship Status: Engaged to the luckiest man in the world, actor Wes Chatham.
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Thank goodness it's here. It's been a rough 2009 so far, but it is finally time for the baseball season to arrive and soothe our weary souls.
The World Fucking Champions will kick off the season tonight against Atlanta and not a moment too soon. The NCAA title game is tomorrow, the NBA and NHL regular season death marches are almost over and the Masters, horse racing, rec league softball and many other things that you can do outside while drunk will soon be upon us. It really is the best time of the year. It makes me so happy, I won't even take an unfounded cheap shot at the Mets in this post. That's the kind of goodwill that only this season can provide.
So enjoy tonight's fake Opening Day before the real one tomorrow, and don't be too hard on Joe Morgan. He means well. (Wow, I really am in a good mood!) Thank you for your continued support of Sunday Funday Deadspin.
A chance to be great for a whole season [Philly Inquirer]
"The Green Fields of the Mind" by A. Bartlett Giamatti [gmu.edu]


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After four seasons, ABC has cancelled "Revenge," Variety has confirmed.
The drama, which stars Emily VanCamp and Madeleine Stowe will not be returning for a fifth season, with the May 10 fourth season finale, serving as the series' final episode.
The news comes just weeks after Stowe's character Victoria Grayson was killed off the series, and the actress confirmed she would not be back for another round, if "Revenge" were to be renewed.
Earlier in Season 4, Josh Bowman, another series regular from the show's start in 2011, was also killed off, leaving only VanCamp, Gabriel Mann and Nick Wechsler, as the original cast members on the show. Throughout...


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The A-Team (i.e. the Access development team) at Microsoft have done something which seems to be unprecedented.
For the first time we are aware of, they've started putting their plans for MS Access on the Office 365 Roadmap. You can read more about it on Anders Ebro's (also known as the SmileyCoder) Blog: Smiley Coder's Review of the Office 365 Roadmap for ACCESS.
You can find the Access part of Roadmap itself: Roadmap for Future Access Enhancements
Note that the two items mentioned here have been the subject of considerable discussion among the Microsoft Access MVP Group for a long time, and the topic of active debate on the Microsoft Answers forum and in Access User Voice. The fact that The A-Team is moving ahead on these first two initiatives sends a powerful message to the many fans of our lovable little database tool.
The inclusion of the BigInt data type increases the compatibility between Access and modern versions of SQL Server. That's a good thing from any perspective.
Restoring the ability to link Access to .dbf format files addresses a HUGE pain point for a couple of industries. Most of us probably shrugged our shoulders when it was deprecated in Access 2013, but to those people who NEED this ability, it was a deal-breaker in upgrading to the newer version of Access.
We couldn't be more delighted to see a public announcement regarding Access as it is proof of the A-Team's commitment to keeping Access strong.
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Appendix C. Selection Aids
RETROSPECTIVE SELECTION AIDS--to be used when starting a library, filling gaps in the collection or evaluating library collection.
Elementary School Library Collection, Eighteenth Edition, 1992. Bro-Dart Foundation, 500 Arch Street, Williamsport, PA 17705-9977.
New editions of this selection tool are published every two years. It contains over 11,000 print, non-print and periodical items appropriate for children. It is arranged by Dewey classification number but has an index of author, title and subjects. Items included are reviewed and recommended by practicing school librarians. Brief descriptions of the items are provided.
Fiction Catalog, Twelfth Edition (1991). H.W. Wilson Company, 950 University Ave., Bronx, NY 10452. $98.
Hardcover volume published every five years. Four paperbound supplements published at one year intervals. The hardcover volume lists over 5,200 books of adult fiction recommended for use in public libraries. Supplements will list approximately 600 newly published titles.
Public Librarv Catalog, Ninth Edition (1989). H.W. Wilson Company, 950 University Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452. Hardcover volume and four annual supplements. $180.
The hardcover volume lists over 7,250 nonfiction titles recommended by practicing librarians for use in public libraries. Supplements list a total of 3,200 additional titles.
Other Wilson publications: Children's Catalog, Junior High Library Catalog and Senior High Library Catalog are also good sources of recommended materials.
CURRENT SELECTION AIDS--to be used for selecting new material to add to the collection.
Booklist. American Library Association; 50 East Huron Street; Chicago, IL 60611. $60 per year.
Published twice monthly September through June and monthly in July and August it reviews several thousand items a year including reference books, non print media, government publications and materials for all levels of readers. It is recommended as the single best source of reviews of new material.
Library Journal. Bowker Company, P.O. Box 1427, Riverton, NJ 08077. $74 Per year. Issued 20 times -a year, it reviews materials in broad subject areas appropriate for public libraries. It also contains brief library news items and articles about library issues.
New York Review of Books
New York Times Book Review
Publishers Weekly
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5 things to know about the Sochi Olympics
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- Fast five, Tuesday edition: Things you'll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.
FLYING TOMATO: Shaun White says he is getting antsy about his upcoming chance to make Winter Olympics history. White says in a video given to AP that he is ready to get going in the halfpipe contest on Tuesday night. If he wins, he will become the first American man to bring a gold medal home from three straight Winter Games, and only the second American athlete to do that, joining speed skater Bonnie Blair.
INDIA BACK IN SOCHI: The IOC lifted a suspension of India's Olympic committee, allowing its athletes who were introduced during the opening ceremony as "independent Olympic participants" to compete under their own flag. Indian luger Shiva Keshava said that would boost his countrymen in the Sochi Games and clear the way for meaningful progress for sports back home.
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SPRING GAMES: Winter is nowhere to be found at the Winter Games. Another day of warm temperatures has organizers has Sochi organizers facing questions about their ability to keep the events coming in the mountain cluster of events. Competition in the halfpipe has been delayed, as has training in the women's downhill, while officials try to address the sloppy conditions.
RUSSIA'S LESSON: Russian hockey legend Vladislav Tretiak says the Soviets did not respect the Americans when the two teams played in the 1980 Olympics. He says Team USA's "Miracle on Ice" victory taught the Russians a lesson about taking teams lightly. "We did not have the respect for the competitors at that time," Tretiak said.
CANADA, NETHERLANDS JUMP IN MEDALS: Canada jumped to the top of the medal standings thanks to its dominance in freestyle skiing, taking six of nine medals possible in three events, including a gold and bronze Tuesday in the women's slopestyle. The Dutch showed their own prowess in speedskating, jumping to second in the medal standings after 18 events by sweeping the men's 500-meter race. Eight more golds were up for grabs Tuesday.
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Money: The Biggest Challenge to Sticking With Meds
I cut my finger on a can and freaked out. I would not touch my son. We were home alone in the kitchen making lunch; he was crying and I was bleeding. Staring at my finger, as the blood slowly trickled down, it felt so weird to look the enemy in the face for the first time since being diagnosed.
YOU, it's you who poisoned me. I wonder if cancer patients ever look at a body part that's cancerous and yell at it, or talk to it and ask it to go away.
Meds: My meds are what keep me undetectable. Money: Money is what keeps me from sometimes getting my meds.
When I have my meds, I take one dose of Isentress (raltegravir) at lunch. I take my other Isentress before bed with Bactrim (co-trimoxazole) and Truvada (tenofovir/FTC).
I'm pretty good with remembering them, except on weekends when I'm not sitting at my desk at work and I space out about my pills. I try to keep a few on me at all times in case we randomly don't come home.
When I was told that all I would have to do is take my meds in order to live a normal life, I thought to myself, Wow, this is going to be easy.
I used to be on a plan where my meds were mailed to me every month. It did not matter if my bill from last month was paid or not; the meds were mailed out.
My new health insurance is not so easy. I have to go into the pharmacy and pay for the meds at the time of pickup. I don't always have money in the bank when I need my refill.
One income for three people with no financial assistance is NOT so easy. We qualify for free food once a week from Lifelong AIDS Alliance; without this free food, I have no idea what we would do. We do NOT qualify for food stamps; I make too much money for that. I ordered my refill for my medications more than a month ago. Waiting to have the funds to get my meds is another story. I do qualify for the Early Intervention Program (EIP); however, with the amount of money I make, my co-payments for my meds are not covered. So, I'm not really sure what the point of EIP is yet.
A year and a half into this crap, I can honestly say it's NOT as easy as I thought it was going to be.
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Republican Election Eve Crimes
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Gene Wilder on Mitt Romney
Saturday Nov 3rd, 2012 11:00 AM
A national newspaper reported the last weekend before the election that Republican operatives are knocking on Democrat doors posing as Democratic Party workers and saying they have come to collect absentee ballots.
They are also calling Democrats at home to say that they can vote by phone.
. Romney's son Tagg was given 10 million dollars to start Solamere, a private equity firm with Spencer Zwick, Romney's chief fundraiser and and Eric Scheuermann formerly of Bain Capital. which bought 50% of Hart Intercivic voting machines in Cincinnati, in Colorado and other swing states and is doing the software programming of the machines. Hart Intercivic is the company which switched 300,000 Kerry votes to Bush in 2004, thus stealing the election for Bush.
. Before Tagg's purchase, Romney, his wife and 2 sons had already heavily invested in Hart Intercivic voting machines http://free.press.org
Republicans own or control Unisyn, owned by a Malaysian gambling company, Scytl, ES&S, Dominion, Sequoia and Hart InterCivic, for a control of 81% to 90% of electronic voting machines… akin to horse race judges controlled by 1 horse owner.
Election Systems and Software of Nebraska allowed CEO Chuck Hagel to count his own votes and install himself as a US senator, Dominion, a conservative Canadian corporationfraudulently installed Governor Walker of Wisconsin.
. The Mormon radio network Bonneville with 1400 stations continues forcefeeding warmonger Rush Limbaugh and Romney propaganda to the public
. Romney purchased Clear Channel.. whose news department and talk show anchors have their checks signed by Bain Capital, men and women know their jobs depend on promoting his candidacy.
. voter suppression through draconian ID rules
. lying ads about Jeep and other issues
. a Republican group called True The Vote which plans to intimidate voters across the
country at the polls
. Republican Secretary of State Husted of Ohio has eliminated
tens of thousands of absentee ballot requests, has eliminated 20% of voting precincts, and was foiled by court action in his attempt to shut down early voting.
WBZ, a Republican station owned by Sumner Redstone's CBS, reported that in Massachusetts 50% are Democrats, 38% independent or third party, and 12% are Republicans. Yet it is this 12%
who are represented as talk show hosts on KDKA, WPHT WBZ and the entire CBS radio network.
China resident Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp which smashed union presses in the United Kingdom and illegally spied on others, (Fox, the Wall St. Journal and many other warmongering deforesting newspapers) was allowed to violate FCC law and expand his tentacles to control 39% of publicly owned US airwaves.
Romney with the help of Mormon church money buys Bain Capital.... after raiding corporate assets, stealing pension funds, filing for bankruptcy and firing workers he makes 250 million dollars. Can such a man be trusted with the Social Security Fund? It was his Republican predecessor Reagan who in 1983 removed by executive order 2 TRILLION from the Social Security Fund (where are these funds banked?) and put it in the general fund in order to triple military spending for his patron General Electric and other war profiteers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWnB9FGmWE (a Newt Gingrich documentary on Romney's Bain Capital of which Romney was the 100% stockholder until 2002)
During the Republican primaries Romney operatives commit vote fraud in 20 primaries against other candidates, with Ron Paul receiving the brunt of the fraud. http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-the-GOP-Establishment-by-Jaret-Glenn-120806-535.html
Romney operatives keep Governor Gary Johnson out of the Republican primary debates. They hire spies to follow Johnson everywhere. They are successful in only 2 states in keeping Governor Gary Johnson, 2 term governor of Mexico, off the ballot. These are Michigan and Oklahoma. Romney was governor 4 years, Johnson 8 years. Romney's wealth was derived by theft. Johnson's was from starting his own company in college from a 1 person employee... and growing it to a company of 1000.
McCain operative Nathan Sproul, whose 'nonpartisan' voter registration drive threw away Democratic registrations in 8 Western states in 2008, is back at work for Romney in 2012 in Eastern and swing states.his fellow Republican criminal Colin Small arrested in Richmond Virginia for following Nathan's example and throwing away Democratic registrations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_ZerkPIMU Why Ireland scrapped their voting machines
Why is Romney 20 points behind where he was governor and 7 points behind where he lived (Michigan)?
Romney was board member of Damon, a company indicted for Medicare fraud and fined 83 million dollars. http://www.youtube.com/watch
Romney was a board member of Mormon owned Marriott International. He prepared the corporation's tax papers.
2 . Romney under public scrutiny ended his Swiss bank relationship.
3 . Romney is still evading taxes with Cayman Islands accounts though after criticism he has ended his Swiss bank accounts.
4. In Massachusetts, Romney cut taxes only for the very rich.
5. Romney as head of Bain Capital bought Clear Channel radio network, itself a network in violation of original FCC rules. Therefore his radio station hosts are promoting his campaign 24×4.
6. Romney has raised over a billion dollars for his campaign which means that after November 6th, he will have profiteered from all the ads that his campaign, Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers, and Sheldon Adelson have run on Clear Channel stations.
7. Republicans control over 81% of the voting machine companies in the US. Diebold sold its machines to Dominion of Canada which arranged for Governor Walker's recall. Election Systems and Software CEO Chuck Hagel installed himself as a US senator from Nebraska, counting his own votes. What other country allows the party of the rich to control the count?
8. Romney's tax plan would give 500 billion in tax cuts to 120,000 families. 10. Romney is 20 points behind where he was a governor (Massachusetts) and 7 points behind where he lived (Michigan).
Historically, the plutocracy was willing to arrange plane crashes for Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Mel Carnahan of Missouri.... 5 times as many Democratic
as Republican candidates have died in plane crashes.
In 2000, Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris removed hundreds of thousands from the voter
registration lists, claiming falsely that they were felons. Police in Florida intimidated black voters, set up road blocks while in South Dakota Thune thugs intimidated Native Americans.
The Jacksonville Times Union in Florida put out a special edition to the black community
instructing that every page of the ballot was to be voted, thus eliminating 20,000 ballots.
An unelected Republican dominated Supreme Court of justices serving for life trumped all
lawsuits as the court ordered a recount stopped.
Picture source: cagle.com
There are acres of weather manipulation machines, called HAARP, in Alaska. Were CIA cells involved in storm Sandy which was directed at blue states?
Romney campaign operatives such as the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, Sheldon Adelson etc have hacked 5 Florida Indymedia sites off of the internet:
Miami, Tampa, Tallahassee, Sarasota and Northwest Florida.
Plutocratic Canadian Company Owns The Wisconsin Alleged Voting Machines.... Fraud
Exit polls, the most accurate election prediction, gave a deadheat in the third governor recall in US history. The other 2 were successful and this was as well, but the victory for the Democrats was not recorded. Many students at Wisconsin colleges could not vote. The election board was flooded by their calls. Walker outspent his opponent 7 to 1. That is not democracy but plutocracy, government by money which like manure, Drew Pearson says, stinks when amassed in one place.
Diebold which arranged the theft of US elections from Gore and Kerry, was headed by a CEO who promised Dick Cheney at the Fairlawn Hilton in Fairlawn Ohio he would win for Cheney.
Election Systems and Software's CEO, Chuck Hagel, was a Republican who managed to declare himself the winner in a Senate race after counting his own votes. Later ESS sold its company to the arrangers of the Wisconsin theft.
Walker, like the Florida governor and Lehman Brothers and Fox News operative John Kasich, who would become the execution governor of Ohio, gave back against popular will the federal mass transit money to Washington.
All 3 are petroplutocrat pawns.
Walker was declared winner even as people were voting though exit polls indicated Walker's opponent had won.
""Command Central is one of Wisconsin's leading vendors of voting machines and election supplies. They are distributors for Dominion Voting Systems, a privately-owned electronic voting equipment company. Founded in Canada in 2002, Dominion is now based in Denver, CO, since their acquisitions of Premier Election Solutions, from Election Systems & Software (ES&S), and Sequoia Voting Systems" from Democratic Underground...
The people who control voting in Wisconsin:
Ethical Elections
Homepage: http://fairpress.org


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Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week's set is 6077 Forestmen's River Fortress.
Forestmen's River Fortress was released in 1989. It is a rock and tree fortess surrounded by water. Special features of the set are the raft, ramp, portcullis, jail, and opening back wall. Five forestmen, one lion soldier, and various accessories are included.


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