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[JURIST] US Marine Corps Pfc. John J. Jodka III [advocacy website] was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in military custody for his role in the murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST news archive] last spring. Jodka, one of eight servicemen originally charged in connection with the killing of Hashim Ibrahim Awad [Wikipedia profile], pleaded guilty last month to assault and obstruction of justice charges [JURIST reports]. Awad was shot and his body left by the side of the road with a shovel and an AK-47, making him look like an insurgent. AP has more.Lance Cpl. Tyler Jackson and US Navy Petty Officer Melson Bacos [JURIST reports] have also pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the Hamdania incident. On Tuesday, Cpl. Trent D. Thomas pleaded not guilty [JURIST report] to charges of murder, kidnapping, and other offenses related to the death. A fourth serviceman, Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr., is expected to plead guilty [JURIST report] to assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice at an arraignment hearing scheduled for Monday.
[JURIST] A federal jury sitting in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that Merck & Co. [corporate website], makers of the painkiller Vioxx [JURIST news archive] that was withdrawn from the market [Merck announcement] after it was found to expose users to increased risk of heart attack and stroke, was not liable for damages [Merck press release] allegedly caused by the heart attack of a Utah man. Charles Laron "Ron" Mason, 64, had taken the painkiller for a 10 1/2 month period. Mason surprisingly revealed under cross-examination that he had actually stopped taking the drug four days before he suffered his heart attack. This was the eleventh Vioxx-related case tried in US courts, and the fourth tried in federal courts. Three of the four federal cases have now gone Merck's way, although it has lost half of the state suits decided so far. More than 24,000 cases have been filed regarding Vioxx with another 15,000 possible plaintiffs who have temporarily agreed to postpone their suits. Merck intends to try each case separately. US District Judge Eldon Fallon [official profile] has presided over all of the federal Vioxx cases, and will continue to handle all pretrial matters for future cases. Mason has not yet decided whether to appeal. AP has more.
[JURIST] Former Enron [JURIST news archive] accounting chief Richard Causey [CBS profile] received a 66-month prison sentence Wednesday for authorizing bookkeeping practices that allowed Enron to defraud investors of billions of dollars. Under the original slate of 35 charges against him, Causey had faced up to 20 years in prison. In December he accepted [JURIST report] a plea deal [PDF text] offering a maximum seven-year prison term for pleading guilty to one count of fraud and forfeiting $1.25 million. His plea deal and agreement to co-operate with prosecutors came just days before the scheduled trial [JURIST report] of fellow ex-Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling [JURIST news archives], who were later both found guilty of fraud. Causey was the key figure responsible for getting Arthur Andersen LLP to sign off on off the book partnership deals that allowed Enron to disguise billions of dollars in debt. In his plea he admitted to conspiring to deceive investors and artificially inflate Enron stock value. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Lawyers for Saifullah Paracha [advocacy website; Wikipedia profile], a multimillionaire from Pakistan in US custody at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], petitioned a federal court Wednesday to enjoin the US military from performing a cardiac catheterization [AHA backgrounder] because the facility there lacks sufficient medical equipment and the backup to ensure his health if something goes wrong. Paracha, who suffered a heart attack while in US custody in Afghanistan, claims the complex procedure will endanger his life, and his lawyer argued that he should be transferred to a medical facility in the US or Pakistan. US Navy officials, however, have asserted that Guantanamo facilities and doctors are adequately prepared to handle the procedure and noted that special equipment and practitioners can be brought in if needed.US authorities captured Paracha in 2003 on his way to Thailand, where he was detained until October 2004 when he was moved to Guantanamo. AP has more.
[JURIST] The High Court of Ireland [official website] held Wednesday that the protection of an unborn's right to life under Article 40 of the Irish Constitution [PDF text] does not include the preservation of embryos frozen as a part of infertility treatment. Article 40, Section 3.3 says:
The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
[JURIST] Pakistan's National Assembly [official website], the lower house of parliament, passed the 2006 Protection of Women Bill [BBC report] Wednesday, transferring rape case jurisdiction from religious Sharia [Wikipedia backgrounder] courts to civil courts. The bill also classifies rape under the penal code and makes it easier for women in Pakistan [JURIST news archive] to prove rape allegations. Religious leaders decried the legislation, saying it will lead to an increase in adultery, while other conservatives expressed fear that it will "westernize the country." Women's and human rights groups praised the bill, noting the inherent discrimination and the inadequacy of the Sharia system in a country where, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan [official website], rapes are perpetrated every two hours and gang rapes every eight hours. If the upper house of parliament and President Pervez Musharraf [official website; BBC profile] approve the bill, Sharia law will no longer apply to rape cases, but civil and Sharia courts will share jurisdiction over adultery claims. Currently, rape and adultery are both prosecuted under the Hudood Ordinances [Pakistan government backgrounder], requiring rape victims to present at least four male witnesses to evade prosecution for adultery, which can be punished with lashing, stoning, and death. Parliament had postponed consideration [JURIST report] of a revised version of the bill in September due to opposition. BBC News has more.
[JURIST] Shaun Hansen, former owner of the telemarketing firm Mylo Enterprises Inc., pleaded guilty to two federal counts of conspiracy to commit interstate telephone harassment on Wednesday for his involvement in the New Hampshire GOP's 2002 phone jamming plot [Wikipedia backgrounder] against the state's Democratic Senate candidates. Prosecutors alleged that Hansen was paid $2,500 to make phone calls to jam Democratic phone lines meant to encourage voters to turn out and help voters get rides to polls on Election Day 2002. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.Earlier this year, James Tobin [SourceWatch profile], President Bush's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, was sentenced to 10 months in prison [US DOJ press release] after being convicted [US DOJ press release] in December for his involvement in jamming phone lines [JURIST report] to block Democratic voting drives. In June, a New Hampshire judge dismissed five of the eight counts [JURIST report] in a lawsuit brought by Democrats against Republicans in a civil lawsuit concerning the phone jamming plot. AP has more. The Manchester Union Leader has local coverage.
[JURIST] US Army Spc. James P. Barker pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl [JURIST news archive] and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area in March. Barker, who will be spared from capital punishment as a result of the plea, agreed to testify against the other soldiers implicated in the incident. According to Barker, Sgt. Paul E. Cortez and Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman, who still face the death penalty in their courts-martial [JURIST report], participated in the planning of the incident and the rape of the girl. Also, Barker's account of the incident identifies former US soldier Steven Green [JURIST report] as the murderer of the girl and her family. Green, who was discharged for a personality disorder and consequently faces non-military criminal prosecution, pleaded not guilty [JURIST report] earlier this month to charges of murder and sexual assault. If convicted, Green could be sentenced to a minimum of life imprisonment or even a death sentence for his involvement.The Mahmudiya case has outraged Iraqi leaders [JURIST report], prompting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official website] to launch an independent investigation [JURIST report] by Iraqis into the crimes allegedly committed by US troops. AP has more.
[JURIST] Lebanese President Emile Lahoud [official profile] Wednesday rejected his cabinet's approval [JURIST report] of a UN draft proposal [JURIST report] for an international judicial tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive]. Lahoud said the measure was invalid because in the midst of other domestic political turmoil all five Shiite ministers had resigned prior to the vote and the Lebanese constitution [text] requires that the cabinet include representatives from all religious groups in the country. Lahoud also called the approval unconstitutional because he had not endorsed the vote [JURIST report], and sent a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan [official profile] refusing to accept the outcome as binding on the government of Lebanon.The UN's most recent plans for the tribunal have not been released to the public, but the tribunal is expected to be based outside Lebanon and will use a combination of Lebanese and international judges and law to make its decision. Previous reports by the UN's Hariri investigatory commission [UN materials] implicated Syrian officials [JURIST report] in the assassination, accomplished in a massive explosion on the Beirut waterfront that killed Hariri and 22 others. The UN's authority to help Lebanon establish the tribunal comes from UN Security Council Resolution 1644 [text]. BBC News has more.
[JURIST] The Labour Party government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Wednesday to "put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system [and] support the police and all those responsible for the public's safety" in its new legislative agenda [PM materials; BBC backgrounder] for the 2006-2007 session of Parliament. In the Queen's Speech [text; PM materials; BBC backgrounder], read by Queen Elizabeth II [recorded video] at the annual ceremonial opening of Parliament [British Monarchy backgrounder], the government announced proposals to eliminate jury trials in difficult fraud cases [BBC bill backgrounder], give the immigration service more power to tackle immigration crime and deport offenders, improve the administration of justice, and crack down on organized crime [BBC bill backgrounder] by, among other things, giving police expanded authority to seize criminal assets. Mention was also made of revising the qualifications for judicial appointees and developing a better method to enforce judgments.Altogether, the government laid out eight individual bills for this session of Parliament, which will end in November 2007. Blair is expected to leave office by September 2007 to make way for a successor, most likely Chancellor Gordon Brown. BBC News has more.
[JURIST] The US decision to build a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border [JURIST news archive] is "inhumane," a senior Vatican [official website] official said Tuesday while delivering Pope Benedict XVI's yearly message on migrants [text]. Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican's Council on Migrant and Itinerant People [official website], compared the proposal in the Secure Fence Act of 2006 [PDF text; HR 6061 summary] to the creation of the Berlin Wall, and encouraged the US to instead allow more immigrants to enter the country legally. Martino also expressed his approval for the voiced opposition to the fence by US and Mexican bishops.President Bush signed [JURIST report] the controversial fence bill in late October. The Mexican government has voiced strong opposition [JURIST report] to the law, saying it will complicate US-Mexican relations [Mexican MFA press release]. Last week, US Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) [official website] said the incoming 110th Congress will review the act [JURIST report] and may scrap the plan after the new Democrat-controlled Congress convenes on January 3, 2007. AP has more.
[JURIST] The US Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged the existence of a memorandum, signed by President Bush, that authorizes the detention and interrogation of terror suspects overseas [ACLU press release] in a letter [PDF text] sent to the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU requested the memo in a FOIA request [ACLU list], sent to the CIA in 2004 [JURIST report], that specifically requested, among 69 other documents, a "[d]irective signed by President Bush that grants the CIA the authority to set up detention facilities outside the United States and/or outlining interrogation methods that may be used against Detainees." The CIA also acknowledged the existence of Justice Department legal analysis of specific interrogation techniques considered for use against top al Qaeda officials. The CIA letter, sent by CIA General Counsel John McPherson, acknowledges the existence of the documents but argues that they need not be released under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act [text; DOJ materials]. President Bush finally acknowledged the existence of US secret prisons [JURIST report] for terror detainees in September. Incoming US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) on Tuesday indicated willingness to investigate CIA extraordinary rendition practices [JURIST report] and the use of secret prisons. Wednesday's New York Times has more.
[JURIST] A Nepal newspaper reported Tuesday that a blue-ribbon panel investigating possible human rights violations in the police response to anti-democracy protests [JURIST news archive] last spring that left 22 dead and more than 5,000 wounded will blame King Gyanendra for the crackdown. The report may undergo revisions before it is presented to the government Friday, but the current version reasons that because King Gyanendra chaired Nepal's council of ministers, he was legally responsible for the actions of the cabinet. Nepal's High Level Probe Commission [JURIST report], which was formed [JURIST report] by the interim government in Nepal [JURIST news archive], is led by a former supreme court justice and has the authority to interrogate officials, issue warrants, and make recommendations regarding actions which should be taken against rights abusers. King Gyanendra was stripped of control over the military [JURIST report] in September, after he was stripped of veto power [JURIST report] in June. After the protests forced Gyanendra to cede control to a civilian government, Nepal's Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) in August presented a draft constitution [JURIST report; PDF text, in Nepali] to government officials and Maoist rebel representatives participating in the negotiations. The interim draft encompassing 172 articles is designed to replace the current constitution [text] until a new representative body is elected and drafts a permanent constitution. Reuters has more. The Himalayan Times has local coverage.
[JURIST] US Vice President Dick Cheney and his former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [defense profile; JURIST news archive] asked a federal court Tuesday to dismiss the civil lawsuit [complaint, PDF; JURIST report] brought against them and other current and former administration officials by Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak case [JURIST news archive]. Cheney argued that his office provides him with complete immunity from civil lawsuits and that the statute of limitations bars the lawsuit. Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, filed the lawsuit in federal court in July against Cheney, Libby, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove [official profile] for their alleged roles in revealing her CIA status. Plame and Wilson also later sued [JURIST report] the former State Department official who admitted disclosing her name to the press. In the suit, Plame asserts that the defendants violated her rights to privacy, free speech, and equal protection under the US Constitution, claiming that the defendants conspired to expose Plame, threatening her career and endangering her family. Plame contends that the defendants revealed her identity as an undercover CIA operative in retaliation for the statements made by her husband, former US ambassador Joseph Wilson, in which he denied that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase materials for a nuclear weapon in Niger, as the Bush administration had claimed. In his motion to dismiss, Cheney also argued that Plame's lawsuit requests impermissible judicial scrutiny into executive branch operations, as the wrongful act allegedly committed by Cheney was his communication of her CIA status to other members of the administration. MSNBC has more. AP has additional coverage.
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold a lower court ruling [brief, PDF; press release] that the NSA domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] is unconstitutional, arguing that the program is an unconstitutional intrusion on privacy and free speech and oversteps the limits of executive power. In August, US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled the program unconstitutional [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] as a violation of privacy rights, and in October, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled [PDF text; JURIST report] that the US government can continue to operate the program pending appeal. In its brief, the ACLU argued:
The Program violates the principle of separation of powers because it involves surveillance that Congress, in a valid exercise of its own constitutional power, has expressly prohibited. The President has no authority to violate the law. Because it operates entirely without judicial supervision, the Program also violates the Fourth Amendment. No exception to the First Amendment's warrant requirement is applicable here, and the government's disregard of FISA - a statute that has proved workable for almost thirty years - is manifestly unreasonable. Because the Program intercepts protected communications without judicial oversight, the Program also violates the First Amendment. ... The government seeks not simply to dismiss this case but to prevent any court from reviewing the legality of the Program. Its view of the standing doctrine would prevent anyone from ever challenging the Program. Its view of the Fourth Amendment would give carte blanche to the President not only to wiretap telephones and comb through e-mails but also to search homes. Its view of the state secrets privilege could shield virtually any national security policy from judicial scrutiny. And, perhaps most disturbingly, the government's sweeping theory of executive power would allow the president to violate any law passed by Congress. This theory presents a profound threat to our democratic system.
[JURIST] Lobbyist Jack Abramoff [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday began serving his six-year prison sentence on fraud and conspiracy charges. Abramoff will serve his sentence at a minimum-security facility in Cumberland, MD, a location close to the Washington, DC prosecutors who are using Abramoff's testimony to bring a corruption case against members of Congress and others. Abramoff was sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty [JURIST reports] to fraud and corruption charges stemming from a 2000 casino purchase. Prosecutors had moved to delay Abramoff's sentence pending his assistance with the corruption probe, but a Miami judge in March refused to delay Abramoff's sentencing [JURIST report] for longer than two weeks. Others involved in the Abramoff scandal include former Rep. Bob Ney, who pleaded guilty [JURIST report] in October to charges of conspiracy and making false statements after accepting money and gifts from Abramoff [JURIST report], and Former White House official David Safavian [Wikipedia profile], who was sentenced to eighteen months after his conviction for lying and obstructing justice [JURIST reports]. Abramoff is also awaiting sentencing on separate corruption charges. In response to the Abramoff and other lobbying scandals, the US House of Representatives passed a lobbying reform bill in May, and in September, adopted a new ethics rule [JURIST reports] requiring lawmakers to disclose their sponsorship of so-called "earmarks" inserted into bills to fund special spending projects. AP has more.
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(b. 1978, Sicily, Italy) is a singer, musician, composer and instrument builder. His first sound experiences, when he's five years old, are made with a red and black Phonola tape recorder: he records sounds of environment, unusual bawls, rattles and improvisations. The tapes have gone lost. He's ten years old when he starts studying guitar and music theory. During his teen years he begins his first musical experiences in rock, folk and improvised music. At the age of 18 years old he moves to Rome, where he studies musical history, ethnomusicology, singing, composition, improvisation, harmony, guitar and musical theory in general. Additionally he participates in the first anthology of Italian popular singing curated by Silvano Spadaccino. Following the roman period, he returns to Sicily, where he collaborates with several jazz and contemporary ensembles, continues his researches in ethnomusicology and dedicates to idiosyncratic reinterpretation of old Sicilian songs. Also he starts to be interested in the research of social and political Italian folk songs. He participates in several radical music projects along with musicians coming form the free jazz world. Since 2001 he is involved in importing and distribution of professional and popular instruments from all over the world, building a remarkable experience in non-western music and instruments. In 2006 one of his songs was included in the first anthology of Sicilian folk music. He works in soundtracks and composition, collaborates in a video production and in 2003 starts to be involved in teaching projects, developing a personal approach to the construction of sound objects and musical instruments. He directs workshops in schools and universities, where is able to explore the areas of sound objects, body and environment sounds. Gradually he moves away from music in "strictu sensu" towards an approach of "total sound". For the improvement of his theoretical background, he researches Luigi Russolo's "rumori", John Cage's silence, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, Antonin Artaud's creativity, Schoenberg's teachings in harmony and the musical critique of Theodor Adorno.


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Friday, March 30, 2012
A Cincinnati reporter says contract-extension talks between Marvin Lewis and the Bengals are "at a standstill."
Rams GM Les Snead says draft preparation is like studying for a "mid-term" exam.
The cohesiveness on the Eagles' offensive line was disrupted with an announcement Friday.
A Charlotte columnist is hoping the Panthers land arguably the top wide receiver in the draft.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Norv Turner expects RB Ryan Mathews to have a "breakout" year for the Chargers.
Peyton Manning is learning to speak the Broncos' language when it comes to play-calling, says a Denver reporter.
Jeff Fisher says there's "a very realistic possibility" that the Rams will trade up or down in the first round of the draft.
Making sure the Buccaneers take better care of the football is one of head coach Greg Schiano's priorities.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tom Coughlin's reward for leading the Giants to another Super Bowl win could be finalized in the next 4-6 weeks.
Eagles GM Howie Roseman discussed his plans for CB Asante Samuel.
John Harbaugh says the Ravens "have to" upgrade their offensive line.
Members of the Jaguars' front office say tough decisions are bringing them closer.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Jets QB Mark Sanchez told reporters he's "not worried" about losing his starting job to Tim Tebow.
A New Orleans reporter says Saints players insist they are up to the challenge awaiting them next season.
Almost all of the 49ers' core players from last season should be with the team in 2012 and beyond, says a San Francisco reporter.
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The Journal Sentinel's Craig Gilbert explores political trends in a purple state and beyond.
Ticket splitters weren't there for Tommy Thompson
In the end, Wisconsin's marquee election contests – for president and senator – bore a striking resemblance to each other.
Democrat Barack Obama won Wisconsin's presidential vote by 6.6 points.
Democrat Tammy Baldwin won her Senate race by 5.5 points.
It was once thought these races might go in different directions. Early in the year, almost 10% of likely voters said they planned to split their tickets and back both Obama for president and Republican Tommy Thompson for senator.
But these ticket-splitters became a vanishing crowd as partisan lines hardened in the Senate race and Thompson, battered from the right and the left, lost his crossover support.
In the exit polls Tuesday, Obama-Thompson voters represented just 3% of the electorate. Only 6% of Obama voters backed Thompson – which was barely greater than the share of Romney voters that backed Baldwin.
In short, ticket-splitting was scarce, and it was only marginally helpful to Thompson. Thompson was winning 16% of Democrats back in June, according to Marquette Law School's polling. He won 5% of Democrats in the exit polls Tuesday, and just 38% of moderates.
It was the hope and expectation of the Thompson campaign that he could survive a modest Obama victory (not one this big, but maybe a three- or four-point Obama win). The assumption was that Thompson, based on his image, familiarity and past popularity, would run several points ahead of Romney in Wisconsin.
Instead, his share of the vote – 46% -- was slightly lower than Romney's (46.15%) in Wisconsin. And he got fewer votes than Romney, 1,370,664 compared with 1,403,038 (partly because fewer people voted for Senate than president).
Baldwin ran slightly behind Obama in the state, winning 51.4% compared with Obama's 52.7%. But the fact she ran so close to Obama was a huge victory for her.
Why did these two races track so closely together? What happened to Thompson's historic appeal across political lines?
You can point to circumstances: the effectiveness of Democratic attacks in separating Thompson from his popular past, and Thompson's shift to the right to win a GOP primary. Both Romney and Thompson were portrayed as wealthy men whose policies favored the wealthy.
You can also point to a shifting political landscape. This is the second big Wisconsin election in a row in which ticket-splitting hit new lows (the chart below shows the share of voters who voted for different parties in simultaneous races for president, senator or governor):
And it was the second big Wisconsin election in a row in which two big statewide contests became almost mirror images of each other. That, too, is a departure from the past.
In 2010, Republicans won the contest for governor by 5.8 points and the contest for U.S. Senate by 4.8 points. A single point separated the two races. This time, Democrats won the state's two big races, for president and Senate, by 6.6 and 5.5 points, and a single point separated the two contests.
The results for Senate and President deviated a bit at the local level. Thompson ran ahead of Romney in southern Wisconsin and behind him in northern Wisconsin.
But the similarities were more meaningful than the differences.
Romney's and Thompson's support by party and ideology was virtually identical:
One lesson from the past two elections is that Wisconsin still swings. Another is that in any given year, big races tend to get nationalized along partisan lines, and it's very difficult for individual politicians to defy those forces, even the most familiar of faces.
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Voters are. Sick and tired of the negative ads and all the lies from Tom. People remember him saying "who better then me to get rid of Medicare n Medicare" and all his dirty money from corporations ! That's why TOM lost! Plain and simple!
Tommy just wasn't an attractive candidate, and despite all of the money spent for him you never got the feeling that the Republican Party much liked him; he wasn't their choice and he was much too independent for their taste.
Baldwin's negative advertising had the advantage of ringing much truer than Thompson's.Hide replies
I don't even think Tommy really wanted to run.
That top graph showing the ticket splitting percentages is something that is very interesting and disturbing at the same time. As a whole we are voting more and more for D's and R's instead of the actual people running for office. If this continues that will only lead to further partisianship and hinder our growth as a country. Like it or not we all need eachother to make this thing work, but that means voting for people, not letters.Hide replies
It looks like the idea to abolish straight-ticket voting didn't help Republicans after all.
Better luck next time with voter I.D. to try to game the system.
Sorry, Tommy.
No more slumming at the public trough for you.
Tommy couldn't even muster as many votes as Romney attained in Wisconsin. If anything, ticket splitters voted for a third party candidate over Tommy.Hide replies
Exactly what I noticed last night!
Well Tommy ....... now you know the price of Miller Park "Stick it to them" right?Hide replies
I remember when he said that. I'm glad he got shafted now. Pay back.
I was really disappointed in Tommy Thompson this election. If he campaigned, it was minimal. He ran a small fraction of the ads that Baldwin did. If he was not going to put forth the effort to win, he should have stayed out of the primary and let another Republican candidate who would actually put forth the effort run.
If it looks like a crook......
I think it is pretty obvious that some legislators vote in lockstep with their party, whether or not they have run on a certain issue. So the voters can't be blamed for not trusting the party that they oppose the most. I used to vote split ticket, but can't do that now. I don't know if others feel the same way or not.Hide replies
I think that you're right. If I don't particularly like a candidate from my party, I am likely to vote for them because they will vote "correctly".
I hope that everyone who voted for Tammy Baldwin gets exactly what they asked for. I hope she taxes them to the stone age.Hide replies
Don't worry about, ain't gonna happen. You can't always believe what republicans tell you, you know... especially in TV ads. If you're that worried about it... move to another state.
What an odd thing to hope for. Do you want just those who voted for her to be taxed to the stone age, or are you willing to chip in?


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AUGUSTA, Ga. —
An Augusta lawyer has been charged with theft for not returning a diamond ring authorities say she found in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
A woman reported the ring missing Feb. 12 and said it was worth about $10,500. Alexia Dawn Davis, a public defender, found the ring Feb. 7 and returned it Feb. 19 after surveillance footage of the parking lot was broadcast.
Davis was charged with theft of lost or mislaid property — a felony because the ring is worth more than $1,500. Paula Frederick, general counsel for the Georgia Bar Association, told the Augusta Chronicle (http://bit.ly/Xfc2nq) if Davis is convicted, she could be disbarred.
Her attorney, Tanya Jeffords, says Davis returned the ring once she knew who the owner was and never wore it.
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Gayton Library reopens after year-long renovation
After waiting more than a year, the Henrico community had to wait one more day than expected to see the $4.8 million renovation to the Gayton Library.
As officials planned to unveil the inside of the building at its reopening celebration June 25, a powerful storm blew through the region and knocked out power to the facility, along with thousands of other locations.
"It was just one of those things," said Kara Rothman, community relations coordinator for Henrico County Public Libraries. "Weather is just out of your hands, but we were glad that we could welcome people and have the ceremony."
The community had to wait until the following day to see the complete interior renovation, when the library opened at its normal time of 10 a.m.
The library, which originally opened in Dec.1988, closed for these renovations last April.
"Before we closed, we had a lot of problems with darkness at night; our lights didn't really work the way they needed to,"said Erin Rogers, Gayton children's librarian. "We had moved shelving around in the years that we had been open, and it didn't really match up with the paths of the lights anymore."
Last week's storms aside, no one will have any problems seeing inside Gayton Library at night anymore, Rogers said.
Other large changes to the interior include a more-segmented children's area, an actual room for the teen area, updated technology in the meeting room and a new quiet study room. The quiet study room, which completely blocks out any noise, came as a result of numerous requests from the community, including at a town hall meeting that occurred during the renovation's planning stages, Rothman said.
"I really think the architects did a great job incorporating all those comments,"she said. BCWH served as the architectural firm, with Charles W. Wray Jr. as the principal architect on the project. Everything went according to schedule, Rothman said.
Both Rothman and Rogers said it would be good for the community to have Gayton Library open for business again.
Rogers said it had been hard to comfort people with how close the Tuckahoe Library was when they had been so used to just walking to the Gayton Library every day. Rothman added that they can walk again, now to a "much more inviting, open and modern"library.
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden raises admission $1
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's admission has increased by $1 across all categories. Admission is now $12 for adults; $11 for seniors ages 55 and older; and $8 for children ages 3–12. Admission remains free for children ages 3 and younger and for members.
The last price increase was in 2011, before the Garden consistently hosted Butterflies LIVE! (which is included with admission). > Read more.
Garden tails
The threat of bad weather didn't keep visitors away from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden July 10 for the facility's weekly Flowers After 5 event (which pairs music and food with a chance to stroll the garden) and its monthly Fidos After 5 (which allows dog owners to bring their pets with them to enjoy the evening). > Read more.
Western Henrico Rotary helps fund Midwives For Haiti Jeep
Thanks in part to a $10,000 gift from the Western Henrico Rotary Club, another bright pink Jeep modified to travel extremely rough terrain has been delivered to Midwives For Haiti so that more pregnant women in the quake-ravaged country will have access to prenatal care and a greater chance of surviving childbirth.
The funds were raised at the annual casino night held in February, club president Adam Cherry said. The Rotary Club also helped purchase the Virginia-based charity's first pink jeep three years ago. > Read more.
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US Army Field Band to perform in Henrico Aug. 3
The United States Army Field Band will present a free public performance at Deep Run Park in Henrico on Sunday, Aug 3 at 3 p.m.
Members of the band are soldiers who also serve as "musical ambassadors of the Army" and perform for schools and communities nationwide.
The Concert Band will be performing along with the Soldiers' Chorus. > Read more.
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Take in a show at several locations this weekend! West End Comedy will provide laughs at HATTheatre; the production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes" will close Sunday; and the youth theatre company CharacterWorks will present "Footloose" at The Steward School. Another show perfect for the kids – "Despicable Me 2" is playing at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center tonight. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Is there an Echo in here?
'Earth to Echo' aims to become this generation's 'ET'
It's no secret that all found-footage genre movies are the same. Grab a couple of characters, give one of them a camera, and expose them to something supernatural that's content to lurk just off-screen until the last five minutes. Everything else will just fall into place.
But that formula isn't particularly family friendly, if only because that thing waiting a few feet to the left of the cast is usually plotting their violent doom.
That's what sets Earth to Echo apart from the pack. It, too, follows a group of characters armed with a camera and a tendency to encounter unknown life forms. But all those familiar parts have been rearranged just enough to make it suitable for a much younger audience. > Read more.
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July 29, 2014
U.S. Senator Herb Kohl will hold 40 listening sessions across the state in the coming weeks to help give farmers a voice on agricultural priorities.
Sen. Kohl says Wisconsin is known as an agricultural leader and provides more than 350,000 jobs in our state. The Senator says it's important for rural America to be heard during the next few months, especially during a period of tight budgets and talk of scrapping a farm policy all together.
The sessions will be held at the following locations:
April 12 - Loyal - 12:30 to 2:00 - Loyal City Hall
April 13 - Wisconsin Rapids - 3:00 to 4:30 - McMillan Memorial Library
April 17 - Stevens Point - 10:00 to 11:30 - Portage County Courthouse Annex
Shawano - 10:00 to 11:30 - Shawano County FSA
Waupaca - 1:00 to 2:30 - Waupaca County FSA
Wausau - 2:30 to 4:00 - Marathon County Courthouse
April 18 - Antigo - 10:00 to 11:30 - Langlade County Resource Center
Rhinelander - 1:00 to 2:30 - Oneida County FSA
Kohl's office noted that producers who cannot attend a meeting can also call 800-247-5645 to share their concerns.
To view the entire article from WisconsinAgConnection.com click here
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---- — It's getting closer to decision time for high-school students trying to figure out what college to attend, a stressful and often complicated process. But SUNY will soon provide a little help, making it much easier to compare its campuses.
The National Center for Education Statistics recently reported that the average cost of a four-year university degree in the United States has risen almost 250 percent since 1980.
Although many private and public colleges have scholarship opportunities, students and their families face a tangle of information in figuring it all out.
How can you find out easily how much a college charges for tuition? What kind of financial aid is available? It used to take a great deal of research to track down all the facts upon which to make a decision.
But this fall, the State University of New York is introducing a new, standardized financial-aid letter. The system's colleges in our area — SUNY Plattsburgh, Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh and North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, Malone and Ticonderoga — will all be using the letter.
SUNY has initiated a Smart Track campaign, which it describes as a commitment to transparency in college financing. The new letter will clearly detail the cost of attendance and financial-aid offerings at each of SUNY's 64 colleges.
The letters will also provide information specific to each campus, such as graduation rates, median borrowing and loan-default rates.
SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said the standardized award letter will allow students and their families to easily compare SUNY colleges "and view a full outline of the financial commitment associated with their education."
The effort is designed to help SUNY as much as the students. The average indebtedness of a SUNY graduate is listed as $22,575, well below the national average of $26,600. But about 267,000 SUNY students borrow money through federal loans each year. The most recent U.S. Department of Education statistics show "more than 75,000 SUNY students entered repayment ... while 6,000 students fell into default (on loans)."
SUNY must cope with those losses. SUNY Smart Track system is designed to contribute toward a system-wide goal of decreasing the student-loan default rate by at least 5 percent over the next five years.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that people with bachelor's degrees can expect to earn, on average, $2.4 million over their lifetime, which is $1 million more than those with only a high-school education.
But a college degree doesn't guarantee a position in the current job market, so students have to make careful choices as they decide how much to invest in their post-high-school education.
SUNY's new award letter will make it all a bit easier to figure out.


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Tonawanda News — I can't believe what I just read in the Tonawanda News about a basket raffle sponsored by the St. Matthew Lutheran church. After the $5 entry fee, it includes free pop and beer. Sounds to me like a definite situation for an accident to happen.
Let's look at facts, shall we? Obama knew innocent people would be attacked in Benghazi. He allowed the slaughter of those Americans. Stop blaming George Bush for a storm that happened years ago. You liberal Democrats support a president who should be charged and impeached.
I ordered something from out of state and when the gentleman put the tax on he said, "Oh my goodness, what state are you from, that's such a high state." I said "New York" and he said, "oh, yeah." What does that tell you? New York is one of the highest tax states with California and California is already bankrupt.
To all you people who make no effort to buy American-made products, you are causing our economy grievous harm. Because of you my share of the national debt is $51,677. Give our country a true Christmas present this year by buying American-made products.
In 2001, the United States entered Afghanistan to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. We detoured and went to Iraq where we never should have gone. Now bin Laden is dead. America should get out. Our purpose is done. We need to save our soldiers and protect our American soldiers. We need to get them home.


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Yes we knew Election Day was coming, but somehow it still seems to sneak up on us.
So if you've got last minute questions about provisional ballots, absentee ballots, whether you're even registered, there is a place to go to get the questions answered.
Check out this recorded show of WCPN's Sound of Ideas which featured listener questions and answers from the Lorain and Cuyahoga county board of elections' directors.
Or go straight to the source, your county board of elections.
Here's their websites and all of them have polling location finders as well as sample ballots.


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Excellence in Highway Design Award - Federal Highway Administration
Conventional Highway Project of the Year TRANNY Award - California Transportation Foundation
Spirit of the Border Award - Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce
Globe Award - American Road & Transportation Builders Association
Transportation Project Achievement Award - Construction Management Association of America
Concrete Bridge Award - Portland Cement Association
San Diego Toll Road Wins Design Innovation Awards
The South Bay Expressway toll road in San Diego and its partners were honored with four awards during the month of July for the road's innovative design and construction. The awards include three PCI Design Awards from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) for the use of precast concrete in the construction of the project's signature Otay River Bridge and the 2008 Transportation Innovation Award from Women Transportation Seminar. South Bay Expressway was nominated for the latter award by Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox. Said Mayor Cox, "South Bay Expressway has demonstrated that the public and private sectors can work together to complete a much-needed transportation project. The project is a national example of a well-executed, successful public-private partnership." In addition to its most recent awards, South Bay Expressway has received six other awards in 2008, including:


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Chat on the Air with LinPsk
Long before the Internet was established, an international group of people was chatting on the air—the radio amateurs. In the beginning, they used Morse code, a special form of digital communication. Over the years, more digital modes have been introduced to ham radio. Today, you can use satellites for communication or the moon to reflect radio waves. In the past, you could communicate with the Mir Space Station; now, it's with the International Space Station. To learn more about the fascinating world of ham radio, take a look at the on-line Resources section for this article.
One of the most popular new communication modes in use today is PSK31. Peter Martinez (G3PLX) developed PSK31 based on an idea by Pawel Jalocha (SP9VRC). PSK31 was designed for enabling keyboard-to-keyboard chats. PSK31 is a phase shift keying modulation technique, requiring a bandwidth of about 31Hz. By comparison, a ham FM signal is almost 500 times as large, about 10kHz.
In the early days, hams built their equipment themselves and tried to improve it. Today, it is hard to compete against industrial transceivers, but under certain conditions, digital modes offer a new chance to compete. All you need is your transceiver, a computer with a sound card and a program that supports the desired mode. If the program is open source, you also have an opportunity to do your own experiments.
Radio operators have developed a kind of language that they use for communication. Some ham-related abbreviations used in this article are listed in Table 1.
Table 1. Abbreviations
|Automatic level control
|Be seeing you
|General call
|This is my callsign. A callsign is a worldwide, unambiguous identifier (like an Ethernet MAC address). The prefix DL stands for Germany.
|Dummy load
|Simulated antenna
|Best regards
My first contact with PSK31 was in 1999. Even though I was a fan of Linux, I had to use a Microsoft Windows program for my first PSK31 QSOs. Later, I tried to develop a PSK31 program for Linux. Luckily, I found WinPsk 1.0, by Moe Wheatley (AE4JY), which had been released in source code form. I used this code as the basis for my initial release of LinPsk 0.2. The version 0.7 release of LinPsk included the expanded functionality of RTTY, and around this time, LinPsk also was made available for Mac OS X as DarwinPsk.
The primary source for getting LinPsk is the LinPsk home page, where you can find the current prerequisites. At the time of this writing, they are GCC 3.3, Qt 3.3.x, fftw 3.0.1 and portaudio v18. See the on-line Resources section for LinPsk sources. A Debian package of the LinPsk is available. Currently, it requires either OSS sound drivers or the OSS emulation under ALSA.
For those of you who are new to Linux, an ISO image is available that contains a complete Linux system with many ham-related programs. This image contains LinPsk. You can download it and burn it onto a CD, then boot your PC from this CD without installing any programs.
If you decide to install LinPsk yourself, the installation is straightforward:
tar xzf linpsk-0.8.0.3.tar.gz cd linpsk-0.8.0.3 ./configure
for an installation directory other than the standard /usr/local/bin.
Finally, do:
make su make install
That's all. You should find a Linpsk executable in /usr/local/bin.
Now, it's time to connect the sound card to the transceiver. There are different ways of doing so, and a few proposals can be found at WM2U's PSK31 page.
No other program should use the sound card while Linpsk is starting. KDE's artsd, for example, should be stopped before running LinPsk, because it allocates the sound device.
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This book is 90% history lesson, 5% running in circles and 5% story. One review had said it perfectly - Dan went through a lot of trouble to describe everything to the last detail! I like the history, but not to much where it takes over the book. He wrote a book just to write a book
"What I expect from the King!"
So far, all of the Stephen King books rank in the top five. The narration is what makes these books come alive.
The plot moved right along. I would not call it an "edge of the seat" listen, but there were enough things going on to keep it interesting.
Well rounded book - it all worked for me
The story is about and amusement park - the name is as good as any.
I had this book on my wish list for a long time. I was worried by the description that this story would not be for me. I should have known that I have not listened to a bad King book yet. There are a couple of overlapping ideas from other books that pop up in this story, but it all works. 7hrs is not as long as most King books, but it was worth the listen.
Yes - the book is an easy listen and entertaining.
The author keeps the story moving along and does not go off on sub plots or dive in to drab details.
There were a couple of twists and turns, but the ending was worthy of the build-up
Oceans 11 meets born identity
The only negative would be the narrator. He did a good job, but you need a few chapters to get used to his style of reading. Almost like he is reluctant to be doing this if that makes sense?
"Not so much"
The narration by Ron and Orlagh made the book
Sure - just disappointed in this one
If it was not for them, this book would have been a snoozer
Not really - nothing new here
The book took a long time getting to the point. You were never able to figure anything out which made the story even more frustrating. Everything gets summed up in the last chapter. What is supposed to be a big cliff hanger just makes you glad to be done with the book. It started off well, died in the middle and then quickly summed up in the end.
A great story of honor. Unbelievable tale of courage. Nice to know this can happen in our world
"Excellent !!!!"
From start to finish the book stayed on course. Narration was perfect and that made this one enjoyable book. Highly recommended.
"Interesting piece of American History"
Note to self............In the future, disregard the first 5 reviews posted. More than likely they are from the author or friends of the author. No book is ever as good as what the first 5 posts claim. That being said, the book was interesting enough and moved along at a good pace. At times the premise was a little distracting but it worked. This is not a normal book for me to listen too, but I'm glad I did.
"Ho Hum................"
The story moved along at a good pace, but I felt as though Patterson thought the more plots, sub plots and another plot he could shove into one story the better it would be. There is no thought process, just a typical crime - good guy get the bad guy. This is about as basic as you can get and proof that money means more than a well written book and that James will continue to crank these out like eggs in a chicken factory. It will be a long while before I buy another Patterson book.
"Is the movie better than the book???"
The narration was great and the story moved right along, but there was nothing earth shattering or surprising. I kept hoping for a twist, but alas - nothing abnormal. I will watch the movie and see what all the fuss was about.
"Different...........but in a good way"
The character development was quick and good. As things move along you can kinda see what was coming. At the point of epic development I felt that it was a little unbelievable, but I can see why that was by the end of the book. The ending did wrap things up nice and tighty.
Moved along quickly and somewhat entertaining - I enjoyed Lisa Gardners book "Gone Girl" so I had hoped this one would be as fun.
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Central Elementary has a talented and caring staff and faculty. We hold high academic and behavioral expectations for our students and ourselves. Our focus is to build an even stronger and more effective community of learners and a place where the staff and students feel proud of their accomplishments. Central Elementary has established a professional culture based on shared beliefs and values, and a climate that is welcoming and accepting for new staff, students, parents and visitors. We value safety and supervision of students and believe that outstanding leadership of the school and classroom leads to providing quality instruction.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 1, 2012
Valve test at Raytown Road, Blue Ridge Cutoff overnight
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Water Services Department will perform a water valve test on Tuesday, May 1at midnight at Raytown Road and Blue Ridge Cutoff.
Customers in the area of Blue Ridge Cutoff south from Raytown Road to 57th Street and Blue Ridge Cutoff west to Byram's Ford Road may experience low water or no water pressure for short periods during the test. The test will be completed by 6 a.m.
"Properly working valves are vital to WSD operations," said Water Services Director Terry Leeds. "Crews must be able to shut valves to isolate a main to make repairs. The fewer number of valves required to reduce pressure from a main means the fewer customers who are impacted during those repairs."
For more information, contact Colleen Doctorian, public information officer for the Water Services Department, at 816-513-0232.
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Through our Together magazine and Annual Report to Donors, we keep you informed about how your contributions impact the lives of children and families.
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Together is a publication of the Nemours Fund for Children's Health. The magazine features stories about our young patients, features about our generous donors, and information about how to support children's health.
Together is published twice a year for donors and friends of Nemours.
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Skin naturally protects itself with antioxidants; however, as it is bombarded with environmental aggressors, its natural supply is quickly depleted and requires supplemental protection.
With nearly 3 decades of research, SkinCeuticals pioneered the industry in antioxidant technology, developing formulations that protect against the DNA mutations that cause serious skin damage. Over the last 15 years, the SkinCeuticals scientific team has researched 100s of antioxidants, discovering only four get into skin and effectively supplement its natural antioxidant reservoir. These include L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C), alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), ferulic acid, and phloretin.
Research shows that specific combinations of antioxidants, when effectively formulated, perform synergistically to provide superior results to any single antioxidant formulation.
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An inherit problem in 911® is the fact that the sun shines on your rear deck lid and dries and cracks your vinyl or leather. This newly redesigned rear deck is better than the original. It is fiberglass reinforced with room for speakers. Unlike the original decks, our decks are fabricated to be easily separated for re-upholstery.
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Exercise pays off
Carole Tanzer Miller, features editor, writes: The scale is back on my side, bouncing comfortably between 136.2 and 138.7. My khakis fit a little looser. I'm breathing easier. Feeling stronger. Life is good.
I've been using meal replacements (having banana pudding as I write this) a couple times a day and watching my intake of sugars, and it is paying off. So is exercise. I'm using the stairs most of the time and getting in a half-hour of Wii Fit or walking most days.
The exercise has also had a beneficial effect on my bones. The results of my annual bone scan show that my bone density is significantly improved from a year ago. Weight-bearing exercise is a key part of the formula for preventing and reversing osteoporosis. I still don't enjoy it much, but I'm sold on the benefits.
Raw also pays off
Community blogger Tahira Nyabinghi writes: Beginning weight: 230/Current weight: 150
For many weeks, a chronic illness has put me in and out of the hospital and on long-term bed rest. During my extended absence from the blog, I have relocated and have taken a new job as well. I posted a current photo so you can see the changes (on the blog). In my case, the raw food lifestyle is better for my condition than consuming any type of cooked or processed food. My physicians informed me that my prolonged illness was due more to the weather and stress, not my diet. Physically, I am doing much better and learning how to appreciate the simplicity of life.
My family, though they understand my changes, can only see with carnivore eyes and do not care for my unique palate. Each day offers different challenges.
Avoiding the sugar
Community blogger Alan Foster writes: Beginning weight: 225/Current weight: 205
I recently read the book "The Belly Fat Cure" by Jorge Cruise. It gave me an interesting insight on the role sugar and insulin play on the amount of fat our body stores.
While I'm not actually counting the grams of sugar I consume as the book suggests, I am paying attention to the sugar content of everything I eat. I'm finding a lot of "diet" foods such as my favorite Lean Cuisines have a sugar content that is a little high according to the book's standards. Even my favorite fruits, such as oranges and apples contribute a notable amount of sugar to my daily intake.
Over the remaining weeks of this yearlong journey, I'm going to try to significantly reduce the amount of sugar I consume. I sure would love to get below 200 pounds before the holidays arrive with pumpkin pie, eggnog and Christmas cookies in tow.
Working out stress
Community blogger Muriel Watson writes: Beginning weight Jan. 1: 326/Current weight: 243
It was inventory week at the store, and that is a huge stressor for me. Rather than letting it get to me, however, I decided to prolong my workout rather than stress over the outcome. To me, working out is a great stress reliever. I ended up doing 130 minutes on the elliptical one day, instead of the usual 100 minutes. Afterward, I felt great!
I lost another 6.5 pounds over the week. After last week's disappointment (I had lost 6 pounds of body fat but had 6 pounds of extra water weight), this week's loss made up for it all. My doctor and I agreed that the extra water weight happened because I wasn't drinking as much water (140 ounces) as I should each day. Unfortunately, that backfired and caused me to retain even more fluid. I have learned my lesson and continue to drink all 140 ounces of water daily.
Overall as of this month, I have lost 166 pounds since I began my weight-loss journey in November 2009. It feels great to know that I am getting closer to my overall goal. I used to think it would never be possible, but now I know it is not only possible, but also becoming a reality!
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A Beltsville, Md., woman who is a biochemist by day and fashion designer by night is among 80 businesses represented at this year's Crystal Couture fashion show and sale.
Lara Akinsanya, who owns the online business L-Shandi, designs, creates and sews custom clothing and is promoting select pieces at the Crystal City event.
Her clothing will be on display from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, wrapping up a five-night exhibition at the annual Arlington fashion show. This year, it's on the 12th floor of 251 18th St.
Akinsanya typically has 500 pieces of clothing ready at any given time, and takes about 60 pieces with her to shows. She also makes a handful of custom creations each month.
"I know every single one of my designs," Akinsanya told Patch. "For me, the fabric is really what drives me to design. Sometimes I see fabric, I see food items, colors in the environment, and at that point, I decide I'll make a skirt from that. It's very organic for me."
Akinsanya sews her clothing in her basement at night, after working during the day for the Food and Drug Association and taking care of her 3-year-old son and daughter.
"Right now I only sell on my website and at shows," Akinsanya said. "I would like to open a showroom so boutique owners and buyers can come and see my range and collection so they can order for their stores."
Akinsanya said much of her clientele is in Georgetown, the U Street area of Washington and Old Town Alexandria. She said it was a dream of hers to have a Georgetown boutique carry her line.
Akinsanya moved to America from Nigeria in 1994 with her parents. Upon arriving to the states she found she wanted to continue to wear Nigerian-inspired clothing while still fitting in with American culture.
"I wanted to blend in at parties and look just different enough for people to take notice," she said.
In 1995, she started to make her own brightly colored clothes.
"(Designing clothing is) about emotion, it's about how I'm feeling, it's about fabric," she stated. "I design as I feel and I don't follow trends."
Moreover, Akinsanya has a new goal. In the fall she will produce her second fashion show, Runway Moms for a Cause. The event will showcase L-Shandi designs with local moms as models. Some proceeds from the event will go to small nonprofits focusing on orphaned and disabled children.
Read more:
Crystal Couture: Fashion Show Returns Bigger and Better
Arlington Designer's Swimsuits to be Given As Gifts at 55th Grammy Awards
Daniel's Boutique: Crystal City Business Caters to Three Generations


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WASHINGTON — Gen. John Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan until 10 days ago, will retire from the Marine Corps to help care for his ailing wife rather than accept a White House nomination to be supreme allied commander at NATO, one of the Pentagon's most prestigious positions.
The Pentagon inspector general cleared Allen last month of misconduct in connection with hundreds of emails he had exchanged with a Florida socialite who cultivated ties with senior military commanders. The investigation had put his promotion on hold since November.


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Professor Carl A. Yirka is the director of the Julien and Virginia Cornell Library at Vermont Law School, where he oversees more than 369,000 volumes. With a career spanning 36 years at six law libraries, he has witnessed the transformation of the law library from a book collection to a digital learning environment. He is interested in the future role of books in law schools, legal scholarship, and law libraries.
A career highlight for Professor Yirka was serving as the program director of the VLS-Petrozavodsk State University Law Faculty Legal Education Partnership. The Partnership combined the environmental expertise and resources of VLS with Petrozavodsk State University in Karelia, Russia. As program director, Yirka secured and administered two grants totaling $500,000 from the U.S. Agency for International Development/State Department to develop the Petrozavodsk legal clinic, distance-learning courses, and the environmental comparative law curriculum. The program also funded faculty exchanges between the two institutions. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rijeka in Croatia, where he taught U.S. Constitutional Law.
At VLS, Professor Yirka teaches Advanced Legal Research and Comparative Law.He is also a f aculty fellow for the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law at VLS and is a member of the board of the Vermont-Karelia Rule of Law Project. Among his other publications, his essay "The Yirka Question and Yirka's Answer" was published in Spectrum, the monthly magazine of American Association of Law Libraries. The article, which discusses priority setting in academic law libraries, won the 2008 Spectrum Article of the Year award. Professor Yirka graduated with a BA degree from Columbia University, a Masters in Library Science degree from Case Western Reserve University, and a JD degree from Indiana University.


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National Air Races
The National Air Races began in 1920, championed by Joseph Pulitzer as a way to promote aviation in a post-World War I economy. Various cities hosted the event over the next few years, and the races were brought to Cleveland in 1929; more than 300,000 spectators attended the 10-day affair, and the event made a profit of $90,000. (The only other venue to turn a profit—a whopping $485—was Spokane, Washington, in 1927.) Read more about Cleveland's long history with the National Air Races here. An airplane flies up and out of this 1932 poster, while other aircraft fly around racing pylons in the background.


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Glen Burnie High School honored four former students on Nov. 2, including two men who served in the U.S. military, by inducting them into the fifth class of the Wall of Honor, according to The Capital Gazette.
Jeff Warfield, class of 1982, served in the Army Reserves and National Guard for 20 years, earning a Bronze Star Medal and three air medals, according to the report.
James Saxon, class of 1964, went on to graduate from Towson State College and then enlisted in the Army, where he was sent to Vietnam. Saxon died in 1971 while on patrol, according to The Gazette.
Rodger Waldman, class of 1961, the founding president of the Chesapeake Audubon Society, was also inducted into the Wall of Honor, along with Jack Roeth, class of 1952, who was an active recreational sports coach.
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The South Decatur junior high cross country team ran against North Decatur and Hauser at home.
The South boys won the meet.
Cole Bower won the race with a first-place time of 11:36, which sets a course record.
Carol Kroger took second with a time of 12:23. Charlie Hamilton followed with a third-place time of 12:36. Nolan Storm took eighth in 13:12, and Conner Bower was 19th in 19:59.
Hannah Miller was third in the girls race with a time of 13:56. Shelby Vannatta was fourth in 14:04. Jordan Luken took eighth in 15:55, and Tori Storm was 16th in 18:24.
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Wow, what a question! The important thing to remember is that it is a lot easier to have your parents send you the things you didn't realize you would need, than to find that you need to go through the hassle of shipping unneeded items to your home from school. We recommend that you communicate with your roommate to decide who will bring large items such as televisions, stereos, or mini-refrigerators*.
Here is a list of items that on-campus residents often find helpful. This is NOT a list of required items, nor does it represent everything you might want or need:
All appliances should be Energy Star rated products.
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The honorees will be inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame at a dinner and ceremony on October 9 at the Mohegan Sun.
The New England Basketball Hall of Fame has recognized Springfield College and several of its coaches and alums in the past for their involvement in the sport of basketball. The College is in fact the only school to be inducted as it is recognized worldwide as the Birthplace of Basketball. Five other individuals associated with Springfield have been inducted, including the game's inventor James Naismith, current Dartmouth College women's basketball head coach Chris Weilgus, former Springfield standout Denis Clark, as well as former Springfield head coaches and Directors of Athletics Ed Bilik and Ed Steitz. Both Bilik and Steitz at one point served as Chairmen of the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee.
Graves has experienced a great deal of success both as a player and a coach. Entering her 19th season as head coach and assistant professor of physical education at Springfield College, and 25th season as a head coach overall, in 2009-10, Graves has directed her squads to an impressive 266-117 record (.697 winning percentage) since Springfield joined the Division III ranks in 1995. Graves has led the Pride to eleven post-season bids in the past 14 years, including five berths in the NCAA Division III Tournament in the past nine years. A graduate from the University of Rhode Island in 1982, she was captain of the basketball team and scored 1,862 career points (second best in school history) while receiving URI Female Athlete of the Year honors as a senior.
Wissel is being inducted after being a highly successful college coach, professional scout and noted author. A graduate from Springfield College in 1960, Wissel spent four seasons at the helm of the men's basketball program from the 1986-1987 season through 1989-1990 . Prior to coming to Springfield, Wissel coached Florida Southern College to the 1981 Division II NCAA Championship and has compiled over 300 victories as a college coach. He also has a wealth of NBA experience as an Assistant Coach with the Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, Memphis Grizzlies, and New Jersey Nets and was also Director of Player Personnel with the Nets and Advance Scout with the Milwaukee Bucks and Dallas Mavericks. Hal's best selling Basketball: Steps to Success has been translated into six languages and Becoming a Basketball Player has been made into five videos.
Broaca has 24 years of head coaching experience including positions at Coast Guard (1971-1984) and Western New England College (1986-1993). He led Coast Guard and Western New England to NCAA Division III Tournaments in 1979 and 1990, respectively, and was selected as the Northeast Region Division III Coach of the Year both seasons. In September of 2004, the 1978-1979 Coast Guard Academy team was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. Broaca will enter his 12th season this year as the Pride's top assistant coach under Charlie Brock. Earlier in his career, Broaca was an associate head coach at the University of Massachusetts from 1966-1971 where he coached the likes of Julius Erving, Rick Pitino, and Al Skinner.


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It is finally here…sort of. After months of relative silence regarding when WoW players could expect to call out of work for a week, the hush has been broken. Numerous sites are reporting today (this sounds like a 1950's radio news broadcast, doesn't it?) that Cataclysm is due to be released November 2, about two weeks after this year's Blizzcon. Whether you are insanely excited or just absurdly excited about the impending cataclysm to our social lives, this is big news. With Cataclysm looming ominously on the horizon, what are your plans for the expansion?
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