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2014 Bald Eagle Bus Tours
Guided, four-hour tours of bald eagle, wintering communities. View and learn about the bald eagle's habits, life history, preservation efforts and threats to its future. Reservations required. Bus departs from Stoney Creek Inn.
CITY: Galena
Bald Eagle Trolley Tours
In January and February ride the trolley from Starved Rock Lodge to the Illinois Waterway Visitor Center for bald eagle viewing and an educational program. Includes lunch during the week and brunch on Sunday in the Main Dining Room.
CITY: Oglesby
Bald Eagle Watching in the Cache River Wetlands
The Cache River Wetlands offers great opportunities for eagle watching, as well as spotting other birds. The Cache River Wetland Center provides resource and identification materials to help you spot eagles and other birds in the area and along the rivers. They will provide maps and directions to the viewing station for the nest just off Illinois Route 37 off Perks road and south of the visitor's center.
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Eagle Watching at Starved Rock State Park
You don't have to travel north to see these majestic birds of prey. Thousands of eagles migrate south from Canada during the winter and Illinois is one of the homes of the greatest population of wintering bald eagles. The Starved Rock Lodge in Utica offers a "Bald Eagle Trolley Tour" in January and February on Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Viewing birds from the Veranda at the Starved Rock Lodge is good as well. Dress warmly though. This great viewing spot is right outside the doors of the Great Room. If you'd like some exercise, take a hike on one of the trails at the Starved Rock State Park. One trail begins right at the Veranda. For a birds eye view, hike to the top of the Rock. Another popular event is "Eagle Watch Weekend" with activites both at the Starved Rock Lodge and the Illinois Waterway Visitors Center.
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APEX — Holly Springs senior Ka'la Jordan knows a thing or two about deep postseason runs.
Jordan, a guard on the Golden Hawks girls' basketball team, also plays left field for the softball team. Holly Springs has advanced to the state softball championships the past two seasons, capturing the Eastern regional both times.
Jordan is hoping some of that deep playoff magic can extend to the hardwood, as Holly Springs has also reached the second round of the playoffs the past two years.
Still, the senior knows that will depend on how the Golden Hawks handle the regular season in a competitive Tri-9 Conference race.
On Thursday, Jordan and her teammates took another step in the right direction with a convincing 47-31 win over Apex.
Jordan scored a team-high 14 points and led the Golden Hawks defensive pressure that turned an early nine-point deficit into a 30-17 halftime lead. The win improved Holly Springs to 9-1 on the season, 5-1 in the conference.
"We really stepped up our intensity on defense, and Ka'la helped lead us with the ball pressure," said Holly Springs coach Richard Young. "We've had some injuries this year, so this was the first time the (original) five starters began the game together. Tonight some role players stepped up as well."
Apex began the game with a 10-1 run, but the Golden Hawks went on a 29-4 spurt to seize control of the game. Jordan, Kiara Leslie and Linnea Hoops forced the Cougars into making hurried passes, which Hadiya Howard and Hannah Buckley often picked off, leading to easy buckets.
Apex (5-5, 3-3) closed the gap to eight points entering the fourth but was held to just one field goal in the final period.
Cougar forward Mia Castagnero played great defense on Leslie, one of the top players in the area, limiting the Golden Hawk junior to 12 points.
"We forced a lot of passes and made some unnecessary decisions instead of playing calmly," said Apex head coach Jay Huffman. "It felt like we never were in a rhythm tonight.
"I am proud of Mia's defensive effort. She is always the one who face-guards the best player on the other team, but the biggest issue we had was a lot of our help assignments were missed."
Samantha "Scoop" Curcuro (nine points) and Castagnero (eight) paced the Cougars.

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"One side is never enough...."
There is a fundamental question about inequality this book fails to address. How much inequality is the right amount? Clearly some inequality is both unavoidable and necessary for innovation. This book seems to take the position that the amount of inequality we have now is way too much, but does not propose a goal equality level. I agree that inequality is a bit high, and is getting higher as corporations and the very rich are no longer paying a fair share mostly using loopholes. Nevertheless, I find many of the author's proposed solutions way over the crazy line. Extending unemployment payments for long periods (do you know people holding off getting a job just in case unemployment is extended again; I do), increasing federal taxes on families earning more than $270K to 70% (history shows this will not work). Stopping investments in productivity (the author phrased it as not investing in labor saving instead invest only in resource saving). Matching the savings of the poor (such policies would be played and end up counter-productive).
It seems the author thinks poor people who were "exploited" by being given homes and a mortgages for which they should never have qualified should now get their mortgages restructured into something they can afford.
The author rages against monopoly powers and do nothing exploiters like Steve Jobs. I found these arguments very poorly supported.
My favorite line was if we follow the author's recommendations "many more people will have a shot of one day being in the 1%". Of course, the top 1% will always be 1%. So to increase the 1% we would need to do a 15 minutes of richness kind of deal. The author also mentions education and legal reform without stating any real proposals.
I did agree with the author on a few things. I am also a strong supporter of the estate tax (I think it should be called the slutty heiress tax, not a death tax) and I strongly agree that existing tax loopholes, earmarks, and pork are out of control and related to unsustainable growth in inequality. I never like one sided books that use one side of statistics to make a point (especially when they are making a point I agree with)!
"Upbeat but Limited Survey of Exponential Change"
This is an upbeat survey of a technical and very rapidly changing field. The field is changing so rapidly some of the technical information in this book was obsolete before it got published. For example there is a section on the Waze GPS mapping system. This was purchased by Google and integrated into Google Maps way back in 2013. As a survey, it provides mostly news stories (computer wins Jeopardy, etc.) and some related statistics, but very little deep thinking or analysis.
I much preferred The Singularity is Near (which is weird, but thought-provoking) and Race Against the Machine (which is very much like this book, but clearer).
The authors make a number of policy recommendations all of which seem amazingly short sighted, liberally biased, and basically ignore the authors' own primary hypothesis of an exponential inflection point in technology growth.
The authors refer to the world being at an exponential inflection point of technical change (that is, the near future is about to be significantly different than the recent past would predict) yet the authors repeatedly indicate while discussing their recommendation, we are not yet on the brink of significant change, pointing out that change in the recent past has not been all that fast. So which is it?
The authors seem largely to focus on mitigating "spread". Spread is the authors' code-word for income/wealth inequality. Interestingly, the book seems to me to have a strong liberal bias, yet it has been edited carefully so this bias is well cloaked from a casual reader.
The Authors' make a bunch of policy recommendations:
Use technology in education
MOOCs in particular
Higher teacher salaries
Increase teacher accountability
Increase hours spent in education
Encourage Entrepreneurship & Start-ups
Reduce regulation
Upgrade Infrastructure
Government support of new technologies with Programs & Prizes
Use technology to match workers to Start-ups, including foreign workers
Tax incentives for start-ups
Raise Taxes
Raise taxes on the rich and famous
Increase maximum tax rate
Increase non-worker tied corporate taxes including VAT
Increase Pigovian Taxes (taxes on pollution)
Traffic Congestion Pricing
Increase Social Support
Guaranteed Basic Income Cash or vouchers or Negative Income Tax
Government run mutual fund paying citizens
Encourage technologies which augment, rather than substitute for, human ability
Implement Made-By-Humans advertising
These policy recommendations seem largely unrelated to the technical revolution and include a lot of government control and wealth redistribution. I am somewhat dubious these are great ideas particularly if government uses the new technologies to enhance its already substantial power.
So many important questions are totally ignored by this book. Is the developed world approaching stuff saturation? If so, how will a new service and entertainment economy work? Will humans be enhanced by technology? Will there be an enhancement backlash? Will nano-technology (or AI, or some other technology) go dangerously wrong? Should we be addressing such risk now? Such questions are raised in other books like The Singularity is Near.
The narration was OK but not superb.
"Weak Start, Decent Finish"
This is a good Koontz, but far from his best work. This seems targeted to young adults more than most Koontz books, thus it is a bit less intense, has less graphic action, has adult themes greatly muted, and even less intricate prose.
This was so sweet as to severely challenge my suspension of disbelieve (which is always necessary in this genre, yet generally less so with Koontz). I don't meet many ten year old catholic black jazz prodigies that cross themselves every time they say "geeze".
The narration was quite good and augmented the story well.
I did not at all regret reading this, but I will not read it again, and would not strongly recommend it, even to young readers.
"Odd and Just OK, but a Must Read for Wolfe Buffs"
This is really two novella, Not Quite Dead Enough and Booby Trap. Both are set during WWII and Archie is a Major in the US Army. These stories both have unique twists making them a must read for any follower of Archie and Nero. These are both quite unusual Nero Wolfe stories. The stories themselves are not the best, but the odd character situation and events make these stories very well worth reading. They should not be among the first read. The narration is excellent as usual.
"A Love Letter to General Relativity"
This is quite an unusual science book, quaint and pleasant. The author's love of relativity clearly comes through in the rich writing and narration. The book contains yet another history of modern physics, but is unusual in having General Relativity as the focal point of the historical developments. This is unusual because General Relativity wasn't actually such a focal point, quantum physics and particle physics were at center stage and General Relativity was a side-player at best. Yet, this odd viewpoint is still enjoyable and interesting. This is also one of the least equation burdened book in this genre.
Unfortunately, General Relativity is not really a perfect theory. We know the theory must be wrong. The theory is non-quantum and stubbornly refuses to quantize. The book was not very thought provoking, as it praised General Relativity instead of delving into its weaknesses. Certainly it is exploring the weaknesses and assumptions of Relativity that will lead to unification.
Often books with lots of science and math don't do well in audible format. This book is not about the science or math of the theory, but instead describes the personalities and stories surrounding General Relativity. This works very well in audible format and the narration is excellent, slow, clear and even passionate.
"Great book but better in writing"
The title of this book is somewhat misleading (which the author admits). Instead it should have been "how to use math to not feel stupid when you are wrong". The author freely admits the dark truth, most people are not going to use the math they learn. Amazingly this is true even of scientists. Most of the math stuff I learned I don't need, as now I use Excel and Mathematica. Yet this book explains the part of math I do use, and many people don't realize is the important part of math, that is, to extend common sense by other means. This book includes primers of the very basics of calculus and statistics that everyone should know. The stories are humorous, interesting, and make the point that a little math can really help make good decisions.
Unfortunately, there are some parts of this book that don't translate well to audio. A table of numbers can be compared at a glance, but a bunch of spoken numbers are not easy to compare. If you wonder what good is learning math, this is a great book, but I would recommend the written version. The author's narration is quite good, with a very positive attitude that comes through.
"Two of the Best Wolfe Shorts and Two Ok"
This book contains four Nero Wolfe short stories; Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic, and Murder Is No Joke (later expanded into the novel Frame-Up for Murder). Although I love short stories in general, I have not enjoyed the Nero Wolfe short stories as much as the novels. I really like the way Stout develops the story and characters in his novels, while his short stories often are missing something for me and generally seem rushed. Two of these four shorts were pleasurable exceptions. I really liked Christmas Party and Easter Parade. Both of these two stories had limited twists, but what they had were quite good. The other two were not bad. The narration was first-rate at usual.
"Three OK Stories, Homicide Trinity much better"
This book contains three Nero Wolfe short stories; The Gun with Wings, Bullet for One and Disguise for Murder. These are all fine short stories but none are among my favorite Nero Wolfe shorts, and I tend to like the novels substantially more than the shorts. Although these stories have a nice tone and fantastic narration, they all lack second level of surprise which allows a great Nero Wolfe short to overcome the limitation of the short story format for a mystery. These each were a simple little mystery without enough twists or intensity of characters to make the stories outstanding.
If you want a good collection of shorts as an introduction to Nero Wolfe, try Homicide Trinity, the best of the shorts in this series. Still, this collection is not at all bad and should not be avoided by an avid Nero Wolfe buff.
"Pleasant Writing Yet Unsatisfying"
This book has many enjoyable aspects yet I found this language dry and stilted and the characters and action uninteresting. The author uses a wide vocabulary and an epic style of narration, but neither rang true to me. There is a lot of action, but the characters don't seem to change and are not deeply explored, which left me unsatisfied. I tend not to delight in books like The Canterbury Tales for similar reasons. I tent to only enjoy an epic style when it have come from an oral tradition. The Dying Earth reminded me of novels based upon Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. The story moves from one undertaking to another, each a short mission, with a clear goal and obstacle, but with negligible building of relationships or character. In many ways the writing is quite pleasant with evocative imagery, creativity and worthy narration, yet I was really quite bored.
"The Last and One of the Best Nero Wolfe Novels"
This Nero Wolfe novel is the final in the fictional timeline and the last written by Stout. It is set in 1974 with references to Nixon, Ford and Watergate. This is a little weird as I always picture Archie and Wolfe as creatures of the 30s and 40s. If Archie was hired in 1930 and must have been at least 23, then in 1974 Archie would be 67, and the older Fritz and Wolfe are still alive and kicking in 1974? Oh well, you have to suspend disbelief for this timeline. Nevertheless the characters and relationships are at their best, the writing is excellent with lots of wit and detail, and the story is interesting with unexpected twists and a killer ending. The narration, as always, is excellent.
This is a must read for any lover of Nero Wolfe, but don't make it your first of the series, or even your tenth. This should be one of the last read, as it will be more enjoyable if you know all the characters really well. This book is one of my all-time favorites of the series.
"Best of the Nero Shorts"
This book contains three Nero Wolfe short stories; Eeny Meeny Murder Mo, Death of a Demon, and Counterfeit for Murder. Eeny Meeny Murder Mo was my favorite of these, and is also one of the stories that A&E adapted for TV. I generally prefer longer Nero Wolfe novels to the collections of short stories, but this was the best of the short collections. As usual Michael Prichard's narration is excellent and audio quality is great. Each of these shorts have a situation or character that is so good, it overcomes the lack of richness I get from Stout's novels. I thought I had read every Nero Wolfe story long ago, but somehow had missed Counterfeit for Murder, which was a pleasant surprise.
If you have never read a Nero Wolfe story, this is perhaps the best introduction to the series. The Nero Wolfe stories are funny, stimulating, and touching, developing a cast of character you come to appreciate in relationships that are like a close, clever, cantankerous family. The stories have twists that are unexpected, yet seldom unbelievable. The logic holds together, and even when I have not figured out the mystery, I almost always feel that I had a fair chance, but missed some subtle point, sometimes a single line.
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Will Emily's List Director Stephanie Schriock Become a Political Candidate Herself?
After dozens of successful campaigns, Schriock must decide whether to make a run of her own.
After years working behind the scenes, President of EMILY's list Stephanie Schriock is considering stepping into the spotlight.
Emily's List Executive Director Stephanie Schriock's No. 1 job is to convince Democratic, pro-choice women that they have the resume to run for political office. Her next job is to make sure they have everything they need to win.
[READ: Montana Senate Race Changes Course With Max Baucus Out]
But the retirement of six-term Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., in Schriock's home state has put the political strategist in a new and puzzling position. The native of Butte, Mont. still has a home in Bozeman and now has a lot of Montanans whispering in her ear that it's time for her to consider her own advice and run for public office.
"I have been overwhelmed by the interest in the Senate race," Schriock said during an Emily's List event Thursday. "I will say this, Montana has a great history of electing women. Emily's List has been involved a long time in Montana and I think, like you, I am waiting to see how this all plays out."
As Schriock considers a run, her Democratic allies back home say that it's not Schriock's role at Emily's List alone that makes her a good fit to serve Montanans, it is the connection to her home state.
"She's not just qualified because of her prestigious position; she's qualified because she knows and cares about Montana," says Aaron Murphy, a democratic strategist based in Montana. "She knows the politics. The issue is whether she decides to pursue it, and that is up to her."
Schriock grew up in Butte, a mining community in central Montana that was uncharacteristically Democratic thanks to the town's strong union ties.
[OPINION: Montana Governor Scores One For Modernity]
She served a stint as student body president at her high school, but she told the Washington Post in 2009 that she decided to be part of politics in 1980 when a union protest led a major mine to close and jobs to dry up overnight.
"At that moment, I knew that at some level, in some way, I've got to be involved in politics," she told the Post. "You just realized that your livelihood could change in a split second and you don't have any control over it unless you organize and you come together."
Schriock first made a name for herself on the national stage as former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's finance director during the 2004 Democratic primary.
"Stephanie basically invented low-dollar online fundraising," the Montana-based Democratic strategist said.
Schriock shattered records in 2004, helping raise a reported $52 million for Dean's primary war chest. That's when a flat-top farmer named Jon Tester tapped her for his own campaign against incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., who was under the microscope for his connections to high-profile lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
After Democrat Tester was elected in 2006 in the Republican-leaning state, Schriock took her place as Tester's chief of staff.
"It didn't matter what the request was; if a Veteran wasn't getting their benefits or if someone wanted Jon to come to the middle of nowhere to see their kids' 4-H pig, Stephanie was responsive to all of it. She was always making sure Montanans were being looked after," one colleague remembers.
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But Schriock didn't stay away from campaigns for long. In 2007, now Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., was looking for a dynamite fundraiser and someone who could take his long-shot, funny man campaign and transform it into a mainstream political machine. National Democratic leaders recommended Franken talk to Schriock. Again, and this time after an eight-month recount, Schriock's team eked out another victory. "She has won every difficult contest she has been involved in. They were all against the longest odds you could imagine," a Democratic strategist says. "She is the kind of person that you meet and immediately like and you immediately trust. And she demands results from people who work with her. She removes barriers so people can succeed."
Since taking over Emily's List in 2010, she's helped elect the largest class of Democratic women in the history of the Senate.


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TCU at Baylor: What bettors need to know
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THE STORY: No. 15 TCU finished last season a perfect 13-0 and has won 27 of its last 28 games dating back to 2008 but return just eight total starters. Baylor is coming off its first winning season since joining the Big 12 and first bowl appearance since 1994.
The Horned Frogs have dominated this series of late, winning the last three meetings against Baylor by a combined score of 89-17.
TV: ESPN. Line: TCU -6.5
ABOUT TCU (2010: 13-0, 8-0 Mountain West): This is the Horned Frogs' final season in the Mountain West before they depart for the Big East in 2012. Coach Gary Patterson lost record-setting quarterback Andy Dalton to the NFL and will ask sophomore Casey Pachall to fill his shoes. Linebacker Tank Carder — the Mountain West's 2010 Defensive Player of the Year — should lead another stout TCU defense.
ABOUT BAYLOR (2010: 7-6, 4-4 Big 12): The Bears' most successful season since the early 1990s ended sourly with a four-game losing streak and blowout loss to Illinois in the Texas Bowl. Junior quarterback Robert Griffin is Baylor's do-everything star, and he has plenty of weapons at receiver in Kendall Wright, Josh Gordon and Terrance Williams. Coach Art Briles brought in highly regarded defensive coordinator Phil Bennett to fix a defense that gave up 30.5 points per game in 2010.
1. TCU has finished No. 1 in the FBS in total defense each of the past three years and in five of the last 11 seasons.
2. The Horned Frogs haven't given up more than 19 points per game since 2004.
3. Baylor returns five players who caught at least 40 passes in 2010.
TCU is 4-0 ATS in its last four games against Baylor but just 1-5 ATS in its last six nonconference games.
Baylor is 18-38 ATS in its last 56 games as a home underdog.
The under is 5-0 in Baylor's last five nonconference games.
Oddsmakers opened with the Horned Frogs giving 6 to 6.5 points to the hosting Bears. But bettors have come in on Baylor with the line dropping all the way to 4.5. This is kind of a dead number, so you could see spread drop another half or full point before kickoff if the books don't get more action on TCU. The total seems to be holding steady between 55 and 56.
PREDICTION: TCU 20, Baylor 14 -- The Bears should be able to keep this one closer than in years past, but the Horned Frogs' defense will be strong enough to pull out a tight victory.


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Technical Marine SynopsisIssued 4:00 PM PDT 28 July 2014 Tonight and Tuesday At 4:00 p.m. PDT today quasi-stationary ridge located on a line
north-south over northern Vancouver Island.
At 4:00 p.m. PDT today cold front located over the central offshore
By 10:00 a.m. PDT Tuesday weakening cold front located over the
Mainland Coast.
Marine Weather StatementIssued 3:54 PM PDT 28 July 2014 A front over the offshore water will move across Haida Gwaii tonight.
Ahead of the system strong to gale force south or southeast winds
over central offshore waters and near Haida Gwaii will ease tonight
or early Tuesday as the front reaches the mainland coast.
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Mountain Bike World Championships
Oakley's Gee Atherton brought home Great Britain's third gold medal when he won the elite men's downhill World Championship. As the final rider down the mountain on a technical and steep, but completely dry 2.25 km course, all eyes were on him. On a day of many small mistakes and more than the usual number of crashes, Atherton rode a consistent race to victory. On his way to the win, he ousted compatriot Steve Peat from the hot seat.
"It's hard for me to say where was critical on the run – where I won. It was a track you had to be on the gas all the way down," said Atherton. "My run wasn't perfect, and I made mistakes, but obviously it was a track where you could afford to make a few. It paid to be consistent."
Switzerland proved it is and will continue to be a force with which to be reckoned by placing three of its riders in the top four in the under 23 men's cross country race on Friday afternoon. Riding a physically and tactically strong race, Oakley's Nino Schurter (Swizterland) won the World Championship.
Oakley's Rafael Alvarez De Lara Lu (Spain) was crowned the World Champion in the 4X at the end of a busy day of gravity racing, which also saw four downhill titles awarded the women, men, junior women and junior men.
The men's race looked like a bowling match with all but one of the four Big Final riders going down. Rafael Alvarez De Lara Lu (Spain) won after he was the only man who avoided the pile-up which sent favorite Jared Graves (Australia) and Mickael Deldycke (France) over the side of the burm and into a pile of photographers and spectators.
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1. Marga Fulana (esp)
2. Sabine Spitz (ger) OAKLEY
1. Nino Schurter (sui) OAKLEY
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The evening will feature musical entertainment by The B Street Band, Big Baby Ernie; The Mike Dalton Band; Undisputed; The Nick Clemons Band; The Wedding Crashers and The Neighbors.
Tickets will be available at the door. Stephanie Salardino, who has been planning this and other benefits, said all 600 tickets she had printed in advance have already been sold.
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The March 13 edition of The Cambrian contained proof positive underscoring the foolishness, if not stupidity, of the Cambria Community Services District decision to hire a spin puppet and flack catcher.
There in black and white were the words of CCSD General Manager Jerry Gruber. Considering how much of our money Gruber and his colleagues walk away with, he should be able to speak and write for himself on the critical matters facing Cambria. He and the elected board members should be available to answer any of our questions at any time. They work for us.
It goes beyond belief that Gruber, CCSD board members and, for that matter, any CCSD employee, is so busy, overloaded by complicated issues and the responsibilities of life that they can not be personally accountable for their actions and the reasons behind them. This is a village, smaller than many high schools, and if Mr. Gruber or the board members cannot take the time to be transparent, accessible and candid then his handsome salary is being wasted and the board members should be replaced.
In more than four decades of journalism I found that hired mouthpieces were more like weasels than carriers of truth and light. These flack catchers are installed to take the heat and build a layer of insulation between citizens or consumers and those who are supposed to be public servants. Hired mouths help craft spin, slicing and parsing truth to the advantage of their keepers. The public is not served. Those who use the puppets are, and in this case they intend to use our money to avoid direct contact with us on sensitive matters. Either you know your stuff, as an executive or an elected representative, or you dont.
In preparing this piece I reached out to a wide range of people who have years of service to Cambria in elected, appointed, public service, research or advocacy roles. No one thought hiring a spokes-puppet was a good idea. Everyone thought it was a waste of money.
There were also concerns voiced about the man hired. Voters rejected him when he ran for CCSD. That isnt an automatic disqualifier, but lets say hes not the most popular guy with many who travel in the North Coast Advisory Council, CCSD, and public advocacy circles. Maybe its not him, perhaps its the other folks, but hes considered controversial and a verbal battler.
Some of those I heard from might also have that reputation. Is that the kind of person the public should be linked to on what Director Gail Robinette called misconceptions, rumor, challenges and the other controversies?
In a time of crisis, as many citizens question the actions of this and past CCSD boards, while our general manager and other executives are among the highest paid, do we really want the additional expense for a hired mouth? Do we need any more toxic involvement? Instead the board and Mr. Gruber can and should speak honestly, candidly, transparently and evince real leadership and service. There is no place in Cambria for a weasel-word hired puppet.
Cambria resident Tom Cochrun has been a journalist for more than 42 years, working in print, radio, television and online media. He is a multiple Emmy winner and a 2006 winner of the George Foster Peabody award. He is a member of The Associated Press and Indiana Journalism halls of fame and is author of several novels.


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NORMAN — Editor, The Transcript:
A recent survey shows that four out of five adults have had problems with joblessness, poverty or had to depend on welfare at one time in their lives. This is depressing news and most of us are now beginning to realize the gap between the rich and poor is getting greater.
My friends and relatives that are searching for jobs are now finding the numbers applying are increasing and the offers less. Neither the Democrat or Republican politicians have given us very good solutions to the problems. Most seem to be mainly concerned about their rich backers.
Yet, the Republican politicians seem to be more active in trying to demolish the system and cut government assistance as demonstrated by those in Congress trying 40 times to get PPACA (Obamacare) overturned and some even wanting to shut the government down to do this.
It is hard to understand why an Oklahoma war veteran, who flew fighter bombers over Europe during World War II, was criticized by numerous readers when he criticized Republicans for their stand on cutting social security and encouraging excessive profits of the rich over the average worker.
He argued in a letter to an Oklahoma paper that Republican politicians are more at fault for this and asked why American workers are still voting for them.
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Monthly Archive: December 2011
Dec 25 2011
Happy whatever you celebrate!
My wife and I are hosting my sister for the day, cooking a small ham and playing video games and drinking wine and generally staying off the intertubes. Whatever you have planned for the day, I hope your plans find you and your friends and family in good health, and I hope you enjoy the …
Dec 24 2011
LHC discovers a new boson
Sadly, it's not the Holy Grail that is the Higgs boson, but it's a new particle that was predicted by the Standard Model but never actually observed. It is called Chi_b (3P) and will help scientists understand better the forces that hold matter together. The as-yet unpublished discovery is reported on the Arxiv pre-print server. …
Dec 24 2011
Merry Christmas, Komodo Dragon Zombie Superman Jesus
Here's the Tim Minchin piece that got pulled from the UK channel ITV's Jonathan Ross Christmas special just in time for the holidays. I don't honestly see what the problem is with this song — he's told a very accurate account of everything believers think about Jesus. Every single line item is absolutely true, though …
Dec 24 2011
Bingo Cards for Evo Psych blog comments
Quick, print out a copy of this card, nicked from The JAYFK, and try it out with Bering in Mind's pedophile-enabling nonsense. Oh, sorry, hebephile. Which is like pedophile, only the middle-aged adults are kind enough to wait for these children to enter puberty, which limits the kids to 8 at the absolute youngest. How …
Dec 23 2011
Marieke Hardy apparently incorrectly named the man who calls her things
A while back, in my post The General Pushback against Misogynist Trolls Begins, I mentioned an incident where Marieke Hardy, a screen writer from Australia, has endured a years-long hate campaign by a particularly vicious little misogynist troll. She posted the name Joshua Meggitt in a post supporting the Twitter #mencallmethings hashtag, only it turns …
Dec 23 2011
In defense of my male feminism
I've had listed for some time, as part of my profile on the right, the fact that I consider myself a feminist. I put it in shortly after joining Freethought Blogs and being assailed in very short order by the winged monkeys who have this absurd tendency of descending onto any pro-feminism post, shouting down …
Dec 22 2011
The Kepler destroys the fine-tuning argument
I've posted this before, but it's worth seeing again in light of the Earth-sized planets Kepler just found.
Dec 21 2011
Canadian-made HIV vaccine headed to human trials!
And I damn well want every syringe to be stamped "Made In Canada". The FDA has approved a 40-person trial of a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang of the University of Western Ontario. "FDA approval for human clinical trials is an extremely significant milestone for our vaccine, which has …
Dec 21 2011
Bryan Fischer represents a Heightened Risk to my Blood Pressure
Via Right Wing Watch, a clearinghouse of all the ridiculous bullshit the right-wing produces as a matter of course, comes yet another gigantic spike in my blood pressure. It's like they're literally trying to make my head explode. In this episode, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association says that homosexuals represent an inherent heightened …


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Legislation sponsored by state Rep. Carol Sente (D-Vernon Hills) would fast track the timeframe for public buildings in Illinois to meet or exceed federal accessibility standards established in 2012. Illinois' accessibility standards have not been changed since 1997.
"At one time, Illinois was a leader in accessibility standards for persons with disabilities," Sente said. "However, the Environmental Barriers Act has not been updated for over a decade, and we have fallen behind. I am proposing that we set a clear timetable for these updates with the goal of comparing our guidelines with the most recent version of the Americans with Disabilities Act and determining where Illinois wishes to mirror the federal law and where we wish to be more stringent."
House Bill 1462 would require the Capital Development Board to update the Illinois Environmental Barriers Act using the federal Americans with Disabilities architectural guidelines as a model. The Americans with Disabilities Act was originally signed into law in 1990 and has since been updated on the federal level as recently as 2010.
"Ensuring that our public buildings are accessible to all members of our community is critically important," Sente said. "We have an obligation to give the most vulnerable members of our community every opportunity to be independent and self-sufficient."
For more information, please contact Sente's full time constituent service office at (847) 478-9909, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
— Submitted by the office of Rep. Sente


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Kansas City Chiefs
Brandon Flowers - #24 - CB
|5' 9"/ 187 lbs.
|Delray Beach, FL
|Virginia Tech
|Years played
|2008, 2nd round, 4th pick by Chiefs
Report: Chiefs land former Jets RB Jones
The Chiefs have found the big, powerful back they were searching for, signing Thomas Jones to a two-year, $5 million contract on Tuesday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Report: Chiefs re-sign WR Chambers
The Chiefs re-signed WR Chris Chambers, an unrestricted free agent, to a three-year contract on Monday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. The deal is reportedly worth $15 million, with $5.9 million guaranteed.
Pioli, Haley both looking for improvement from Bowe
While speaking to the media at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Todd Haley each addressed a host of topics, but both were asked about one player in particular: WR Dwayne Bowe.
Chiefs re-sign WR Copper
The Chiefs have re-signed WR Terrance Copper, the team announced Saturday.
Chiefs sign Vrabel to extension
The Chiefs announced Thursday that they have signed OLB Mike Vrabel to a contract extension. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
AFC West team needs
The trade of Brandon Marshall has left the Broncos with a huge hole to fill at wide receiver. PFW continues its series examining the needs of each team with a look at the AFC West.
Chiefs pick up Palko
The Chiefs further bolstered their quarterback stable on Wednesday, signing free-agent Tyler Palko.
Chiefs cut WR Darling, RB Savage
The Chiefs announced on Wednesday that they have released WR Devard Darling and RB Dantrell Savage.
Haley: Weis will run 'our' playbook
Charlie Weis is coming to Kansas City, but he won't be bringing his playbook with him.
Pioli: Coaching chemistry critical to Chiefs' success
Before the Chiefs embark on free agency or the draft process in 2010, they are already well ahead of where they were a year ago in the mind of general manager Scott Pioli.
Chiefs hire new strength coach and director of football administration
The Chiefs announced Thursday that they have hired Mike Clark as their strength and conditioning coach and Trip MacCracken as the team's director of football administration.
Chiefs release Goff, re-sign Gutierrez, Smith
The Chiefs announced on Wednesday that the club has released veteran OG Mike Goff. The Chiefs also re-signed QB Matt Gutierrez and RB Kolby Smith.
Chiefs finalize coaching staff with three hires
The Chiefs announced Monday that they have finalized their coaching staff for the 2010 season, hiring Bernie Parmalee, Emmitt Thomas and Otis Smith.
Chiefs further shake up coaching staff
The Chiefs have officially let go of defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast and also announced other changes to their coaching staff late Thursday.
Age aside, Chiefs may push to keep WR Chambers
While it was thought a couple of months back that there wasn't much chance the Chiefs would retain 31-year-old WR Chris Chambers in 2010, the stretch run of the '09 season might have changed their mind.
Flowers and safety Abe Elam left Sunday's game with injuries, leaving Kansas City short in the defensive backfield against the Panthers' Cam Newton.||||||| Flowers hobbled to the sideline with a hamstring injury after making a tackle late in the first quarter.
Kansas City starting cornerback Brandon Flowers is active for the Chiefs game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.||||||| Flowers missed the team's season-opening loss to Atlanta last week because of a right heel injury.
Flowers is active for the Kansas City Chiefs' game against the Minnesota Vikings.||||||| Flowers, the Chiefs' best defender in pass coverage, hurt his ankle after returning an interception last weekend against San Diego. He was limited in practice this week but was not on the list of inactive players for Sunday's game.
Flowers says on Twitter that he's agreed to a new contract with the Kansas City Chiefs.||||||| Flowers is in the final year of the rookie contract he signed in 2008. Terms of the new deal were not available. A message left with Flowers' agent Friday afternoon was not returned. The Chiefs' policy is to not announce contract extensions, but Flowers tweeted: "Thanx everyone for the congrats on the new contract...wanted to be a chief forever and we made it happen."
The Chiefs agreed to terms on a multiyear contract with rookie cornerback Brandon Flowers on Wednesday, a day before the start of training camp.||||||| Flowers, a second-round draft pick out of Virginia Tech, agreed to a four-year deal. The Chiefs have now agreed to terms with nine of their 12 draft picks.


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HR 3824, the most sweeping revision of the Endangered Species Act, passed the House Resources Committee late last week (see this post for more). According to the Washington Post:
- Setting the stage for the most sweeping restructuring of endangered species protections in three decades, the House Resources Committee yesterday approved legislation that would strengthen the hand of private property owners and make it harder for federal officials to set aside large swaths of habitat for imperiled plants and animals.
Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo (R-Calif.), who has sought to revamp the Endangered Species Act for more than a decade, said the bill would make the landmark 32-year-old law more effective.
. . . .
The measure, which the panel approved 26 to 12 with eight Democrats voting aye, would require the government to compensate landowners if it declared some of their property off-limits to development to protect federally listed species, and to decide such cases within 180 days.
Real estate developers and property owners have hailed the bill as a long overdue rebalancing of the law, while environmentalists slammed it as undermining critical protections. Critics of the current law note that only a handful of the roughly 1,800 plants and animals listed over the past 30 years have fully recovered, while supporters counter that an equally small number have gone extinct during that period.
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The bill authorizes federal grants for property owners who voluntarily take steps to protect species, and would pay them for lost business profits on land the government sets aside for endangered and threatened plants and animals. It also would allow the interior secretary to set a scientific standard for declaring a species threatened or endangered, rather than asking outside scientists to make judgments on a case-by-case basis.
Coming on the heels of the passage of Measure 37 in Oregon, the new ESA reform bill offers more evidence that the property rights movement is making significant inroads in their fight against regulatory takings (when a government entity effectively "takes" private property without just compensation by over-regulating it). Why do regulatory takings matter here? Not only are they an afront to the property rights protections enshrined in the Fifth Amendment, but the ESA currently creates a counterproductive incentive structure: some owners of property with rare species habitat may chose to destroy the habitat in order to avoid the severe land use restrictions imposed by ESA. The new bill attempts to remedy the situation by incentivizing conservation and making sure that the public-at-large, not individual landowners, pay the costs associated with species preservation.


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Horses Healing Hearts
Original post made on Jun 6, 2012
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on Jun 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Horses Healing Hearts - A fantastic article about a great lady doing all she can for these beautiful animals as well as for the people in her community. I can't wait to visit with my Autistic daughter who is already a huge animal lover. Please donate to this worthy cause and get the word out to everyone. John L. / San Ramon
on Jun 7, 2012 at 9:22 am
Where in Danville, is the reception being held?
on Jun 7, 2012 at 11:19 am
I would like to make the reservation to be there on June 8th however where is this location? It is not clear on the website. This sounds like a wonderful opportunity!!!
on Jun 7, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Contact Melissa on her website. She will let you know the exact location.
on Jun 7, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Horses Healing Hearts location is:
150 yds South on El Rio corner of 300 Romae Ct. Danville Ca, 94526
Private Residence please do not disturb
call for more details follow signs
on Jun 7, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Horses Healing Hearts is located 150 yrds south from the corner of 300 Romae Ct. On El Rio park on street barn runs next to freeway, Danville Ca.
Or call 415-260-2232 look forward to seeing you.
on Jun 8, 2012 at 8:05 am
We live in the area and have watched these horses come in in need of a lot of attention and become healthy and robust in such a short time. We look forward to driving by as often as we can. Thank you for taking on this wonderful program.
on Jun 11, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Thank you everyone who came to meet Spirit,Buddy,Norm&Zorro. It was my pleasure to introduce Dyane Golding www.equispiritexperience.com to Danville on Friday. The reception today went well and I appreciate wveryone who came out to 3H. I enjoyed meeting you all and look forward to promoting these beautiful creatures. I'm often speechless in their presence. Horses are healers. Thank you Dyane for Friday. I promise to keep everyone posted as we prepare for our first fundraiser. An exclusive screening of "Saving Americas Horses" with Willie Nelson at the Orinda Theatre, the date (TBD) to be determined. Please email email@example.com to get on mailing list to receive newsletter. Giddy up! Melissa Austin
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Ranger is a young male German Shorthaired Pointer that has had a rough start on life.
Thankfully, he was brought to Rescues attention while at the Emporia KS shelter. A kind volunteer there has agreed to help with his transport to his new forever home in Chicago, IL.
We would like to move Ranger as soon as possible as shelter life is not benefiting him. As ground transport has fallen apart, I am hoping that he can fly home!
Thank you so much for your consideration and the work that you do! I look forward to hearing from you soon.
***UPDATED PROPOSED ROUTE*****(thank you Sam!)
Leg #1 Emporia, Kansas (EMP) to Kansas City, Missouri (OJC) 75 NM. FILLED--Sam Taylor
Leg #2 OJC to Kirksville, Missouri (IRK) 126 NM. FILLED--Sarah Owens
Leg #3 IRK to Moline, Illinois area (Davenport DVN--SS 100LL $3.84) 127NM OPEN
Adopting family is willing to drive to the Moline/Davenport area to meet the pilot of LEG #3.


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1. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?ERROR_6_ May 16, 2012 9:39 AM (in response to 1Re78GS234)
well I see lag, I had more lag last night then usual, my connection is B+ so I expect it to sometimes do something funcky, but I always have full bars, My ping is a 47, I have the best internet I can buy, I have a direct CAT6 cable going from the modem to the ps3, I tried the port forwarding solution, I saw no difference in lag my nat type is open. So I guess ive doen everything I can do on my end
2. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?gambit1969 May 16, 2012 9:57 AM (in response to 1Re78GS234)
I still get lag a lot of the time and have fibre to my home, 5ms ping and a constant down speed of over 100 and up speed over 10, and all my cables are top quality..
3. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?1Re78GS234 May 16, 2012 9:59 AM (in response to ERROR_6_)
You can have a B+ for your connection, but if your using an ISP that utilizes OUTDATED math theory (still has not been fully proved as a e-physics law for Tx across a copper medium) your gonna get lag. Im sorry but thats fact. Im not trying to rub it in but I get an A+ and tlod Im faster than 100% of the US.
My ping is usually under 10ms when I go to the site your obviously using. I understand that a LOT of cities in the US are still just involved/vested in cable/copper core internet. They claim fiber but thats only to a node (sometimes only in-house/corporate office). As far as using CAT6, thats only really gonna apply for Home Networking speeds.
How straight is the graph showing flux in your speed? When your testing does the needle go up and down and up again to get the result?
@ERROR_6 Unfortunatly you have done everything you can do... as far as your own personal settings. Even more unfortunate, your ISP probably wont want to restrict the Power/Turbo Boost on your line (or cant). But consider, if your ISP was honest about what they sold you would you really buy them. While Im a HUGE fan of Free Enterprise, I think something needs to happen as far as the marketing of those services. A couple of years ago I was out in Cali (starngly enough Silicon Valley has no consumer fiber available :-? and FiOS was only in Malibu and Redondo/Hermosa Beach, the rich areas) and started with TWC but switched to dedicated DSL and the lag went away. With TWC it was something I could not do anything about.
Like I stated; if your interested in seeing real internet that is based on todays REAL technology, look into what iut takes to start a FiberOptic CoOp. You wont be sorry once you get it. All my friends that come and use my PC (even with other devices going on the line) swaer I am an internet hub... YEA, ITS THAT GOOD.
4. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?1Re78GS234 May 16, 2012 10:07 AM (in response to gambit1969)
Try resetting your router. Is your wireless signal protected with a strong key? If your ISP set it up, its probably still wide open. If you use FiOS you got lied to. I can see that your not using an 'honest-to-goodness' fiber copnnection as your DL and UL speeds would be VERY, VERY close to each other. That or your signal has been compromised.... wireless needs some real security updates as the criminal element has gotten VERY, VERY clever.
Or maybe you need to contact your provider and let them know your UL speed is lacking. A real fiber connetion is whats called asyncrounous, or independent of each other. My DL usually falls between 85-95 Mbps and my UL is between 75-90 Mbps. The varation I have is only about whats called 'signal overhead' (system checking files/updates/marketing ticker, etc).
5. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?Frank2069 May 16, 2012 10:27 AM (in response to 1Re78GS234)
Remember that there are tons of people playing this game that still gimp their connections, run their system through a PC and use tools to introduce lag, people downloading torrents or watching Netflix just to try and avoid being host, and you still have people out there using a lag switch to gain a advantage when they are host, until this sort of behavior ends we will continue to see lag related issues in many matches. It also doesn't help when the games matchmaking service constantly pairs you up with people on the opposite side of the globe, which only serve to make lag comp to go nuts.
I have seen a improvement in lag when playing all local (USA based players) which seems to only be when you are playing in a private match knowing where everyone lives. When in public lobbies most of the times you are put into a lobby with people who are not local. The game still needs netcode optimization, lag comp still needs work, the matchmaking needs work so that you wont be put into a non local lobby most of the time, or give us back the option to choose between local or worldwide searches again, because I'm really tired of being behind the action by a split second. I still see people shooting me from around the corner, i still see no hitmarkers when i am dead aim, i still get a whole clip of hitmarkers, i still get killed by people that i shoot first and they turn around and kill me with a few shots. And no its not my connection that's at fault.
6. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?ghamorra May 16, 2012 10:32 AM (in response to 1Re78GS234)
I can stream hi-def 720p video flawlessly while playing scramble with friends on my phone, while my parents watch Netflix downstairs, while my brother downloads albums of music. At night when they all go to bed and every is turned off and I close my laptop and hop on the PSN to play some Call of Duty: MW3 I experience the worst lag I have ever come across. I don't think it's my internet
7. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?Frank2069 May 16, 2012 10:46 AM (in response to ghamorra)
Just because your internet is fast enough to do all of that does not mean you will have lagless online play, speed and ping are not the same, meaning high speeds does not equal low ping and no to low jitter.
8. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?jeffcarlb May 16, 2012 10:50 AM (in response to 1Re78GS234)
For the first time ever last night I could not get into a game for over an hour. I get 50 down & 5 Up. It usually takes 10min or so to get into a 50ms lobby. Lst night was weird once i finally got into a game it was like the lag flucuated i would get killed in one shot, and empty a whole clip and get nothing. 5min later I was unstoppable and no one could get anything but hit markers. It then would switch back out of my favor. I really dont think it is my ISP this happened imediatly after installing the latest update. Honestly it is always spoty I useually wont play in anything but a 50ms lobby as this seems to make it feel realtime. I have come to except that after any update it will take like a week to settle down, thats just been my experience. Lag is crazy after an update. But last night it was a completly new "lag" experience. So while ISPs may have aneffect with some people, I think more is inplay.
9. Re: Are You Still Geting Major Lag?RepublicSoldier May 16, 2012 11:01 AM (in response to 1Re78GS234)
This is way to funny for words but I will try anyway. Hell ya I still got a lot of lag internet or location hmm don't know. I just wish I could choose my games more closer to bring down my bing rate. Most times it is about crazy high. waching how my character got wacked 99% of the time because of this.


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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — I've said it before but, sadly, it needs regular repetition: Remember when Barack Obama was running for president and promised that his would be "the most transparent administration in history"?
He was just kidding — at least about himself. His administration, minimally open from the start, gets more and more opaque every day. Meanwhile, its focus to make its "subjects" — you, the allegedly "free" citizens — more transparent to the government, continues to expand.
It has reached the point where the Dear Leader is demanding the help of federal employees, urging them to spy on one another to prevent any of the wrong kind of government transparency.
Remember, this is not about all leaks. The administration is fine with leaks that it orchestrates to favored reporters that will generate stories that reflect well on the president and his agenda. But those that are not so flattering? Those must be stopped. And the loyal servants of the administration must join in the Great Struggle to stop them.
You may not have heard about it, since the story by the McClatchy news service broke more than a week ago, and it was drowned out by more news about Edward Snowden, the self-described whistleblower on National Security Agency surveillance of U.S. citizens.
But the two are closely related. Snowden was an "insider" — even though he worked for a private contractor, he had access to highly classified government documents. And the president has been seeking to enlist federal workers to root out the personality types of insiders who might do something similar.
So far, the Insider Threat Program does not appear to be working all that well since the president launched it with an executive order nearly two years ago, in October 2011, after U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and gave them to WikiLeaks, the anti-government-secrecy group.
Clearly it did not catch or stop Snowden.
Still, the language of the program is chilling — not many steps away from the Stalinist era in Russia, when children were encouraged to report their parents to the government if they saw or heard them saying or doing anything that sounded disloyal to the regime.
In the government workplace, it's about profiling, which is ironic in the extreme. We are regularly told that profiling is a terrible evil. But, of course, that too is selective. It is evil if it has to do with race, gender, sexual preference or other matters governed by political correctness. The Transportation Security Agency has to put everybody through the same airport security wringer to avoid even the hint of profiling those who have shown, after countless incidents, of being most likely to commit a terrorist attack.
But in this case, workers are told, and trained, to profile - "to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors — like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel - of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do 'harm to the United States,'" according to McClatchy. Other behaviors to report include stress and divorce. It even extends to political leanings — whether or not a worker expresses a desire to help the "underdog."
There are now special "insider threat" offices where managers will have access to the personnel, payroll, disciplinary and 'personal contact' files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms," of any employee who might fall under suspicion.
A disclaimer here: It is reasonable for any organization, public or private, to expect and demand loyalty from those on its payroll. If there is credible suspicion that someone is stealing from the company or sharing proprietary secrets, the company has a right to investigate it.
This effort to turn the federal workforce into an army of Big Brothers is unlikely to make the nation more secure. It is more likely to turn the workplace into an arena of fear, distrust and suspicion.