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Then why are they all alleged Christians? You could only find Christians who do things that shouldnt be repeated? I already gave you plenty of examples of atheists you could have used.
Not trying to 'prove' anything, but like Tyler mentioned, it is fascinating to see some of the behavior carried out in the name of the God; whether that be Christian or otherwise. If there were videos about Muslims calling the Earth 6,000 years old or saying gays caused natural disasters I'd damn sure make fun of them as well.
Oh please, the only nations who still treat homosexuality as a capital offense are all Islamic nations; you werent trying very hard if you were trying at all to be fair. I was shocked that was really the worst Christianity has to offer, it paled in comparison to the worst Islam and Atheism apparently have to offer.
Well, according to the bible, God did kill every person on the planet save Noah & his family. For the stuff that actually happened though, there were the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the mass killing of North & Central American natives by Christian conquistadors & missionaries; to name a few.
All of those add up to a few thousand people, one staunch atheist and Darwinist was able to kill upwards of 60 million people, trust me, you guys win when it comes to killing your fellow humans.
Precisely, a person's religious affiliation, or lack there of, don't inherently reflect one's course of action. I do get the vibe though from some Christians that there's some intrinsic quality about Atheism that makes one more prone to being less 'moral' than one aligned with Christianity, when we know that isn't necessarily the case. I think this is somewhat reflected in society by the very real trouble an atheistic or agnostic politician would have running for a position like the Presidency.
Theres no such thing as a moral person, thats the whole point and that is what the Bible teaches.

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Sunday, November 15, 2009
For Rebecca
and anyone else that is interested in joining us... you can come to our guild meeting [shown above] twice as a guest to get to know us. Or you can join us at a Panera for social knitting.
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Thank you, Tanya! I got your comment on my blog, and I look forward to meeting you tomorrow night. :-) I'm very new to knitting...have learned and "forgotten" a few times, but I just picked it back up and made these cute little purses for my daughters' Christmas gifts. I'm wanting to tackle hats and socks next.
See you tomorrow!
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(a) Additional electronic copy. In addition to the current requirement for paper copies of briefs, it is requested, but not required, that an additional copy of the brief be filed electronically. Electronic filings will be subject to the same due dates as hard copy briefing. If an electronic copy is filed, it must be submitted in the following form and format:
1. Each efiling shall be submitted either by email attachment or on a separate CD, with an electronic copy served on each party to the appeal.
2. Each email attachment or CD must include a label that identifies the case name, the docket number, type of brief (i.e. appellantís brief, respondentís brief).
3. Files shall be submitted as a searchable PDF file because this format generally may not be altered.
4. The email attachment or CD must contain only an electronic copy of the submitted hard copy brief. The email attachment or CD must not contain any document or material that is not included in the original hard copy of the brief filed with the Court.
5. The email attachment or CD must be free of viruses or any other files that would be disruptive to the Court's computer system.
6. If submitting an efiling as an email attachment at the time the brief is filed, please advise the Clerk's office in your transmittal letter accompanying hard copies; please send efilings to email@example.com [1].
7. If an electronic brief is filed, a Certificate of Compliance must also be submitted as a separate document and should read as follows:
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(b) Electronic briefs in criminal cases. In criminal cases the parties may file an electronic brief without the necessity of filing any paper copies of the brief. The filing must comply in all other respects with the requirements set forth in subsection (a) of this rule.
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What a difference a year makes! An actual plot (kind of), fluid animation (barely), a classic soundtrack borrowing elements from the older films and games (mixed in with the usual cheese-pop with an even cheesier translation) and more time for our individual characters to shine (only Misty isn't here anymore). So things are not quite as they seem when a random-ass circus parks itself literally at the feet of Ash, Brock, May and Max, who are travelling through a random-ass desert to catch a glimpse of a random-ass comet which only makes an appearance for seven days, every thousand years (the clue is in the... See full review
Okay, so I thought it was time to revisit Pokemon. The 3rd Generation of Pokemon passed me by a little bit, as it was around that time that my age-group started to think they were too old for the franchise; started to think it was uncool. As much as I am ashamed not to own a copy of Sapphire, Ruby or Emerald, I never really liked the Pokemon introduced within that generation anyway, so perhaps I saved myself from disappointment. I did get the Gen 4 and Gen 5 games though; I'm back in the loop these days. The films are different. They rarely follow the strict rules and regulations of the RPG Pokemon... See full review
Well if you haven't already seen it, go watch it. The story follows the very cynical but likeable Kyon, who has just started his first year of highschool. He quickly becomes interested in fellow classmate Haruhi Suzumiya (of the title), whose odd behaviour on the first day of term (her only interests are aliens, time-travellers and espers, so screw everyone else!) really sets her apart from the rest of the students. Personally, I wasn't impressed by Haruhi initially, but was compelled by Kyon's witty narration and gorgeous visuals. A few episodes in and the ball is rolling. Bored of all the other after... See full review
Zettai Shougeki (Or Master of Martial Hearts as the DVD case says) is, and I almost feel mean saying this, terrible. Just terrible. And it's almost worth recommending. This review not only contains, but REQUIRES spoilers. First, let's get the technical things out of the way. I almost enjoyed the OP, but christ did the songwriters ruin a rockin' song with some bratty, over-loud vocals! At one point I thought about recording it in college, but after the 2nd listen, I got sick of it. Which kind of echoed my feelings on the series (covered below). As for the rest of the music, I can't remember any of it. Go... See full review
Tokko was under £5. That was the only reason I bought the series really, as the reviews weren't particularly praising and I had never even heard of it before. If you can get it that cheap (at the very least under £10), then it's definately worth it. The series follows Ranmaru Shindo, a cop with a dark, mysterious past. You see, 5 years ago, his parents were killed in the Machida massace - an unexplained slaughtering of dozens of people in a block of flats. These days, working for the Tokki police force, Ranmaru and his friend Ichiro are given embarrassing tasks such as cleaning the toilets by... See full review
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Thanks to both of you for the store reports.
I haven't been going out as often either so I didn't know if I'd just missed them or they hadn't shown up yet. I found the Dark Trooper 2 packs last fall in Westminster and they didn't show up for the first time in Frederick for another 2-3 weeks.
I also found the other "lost" 5 comic packs at Target in Silver Spring off 29...haven't seen them anywhere else.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Just missed all of them except alien Bespin by 3 minutes today at the Kingstown TRU (someone had all in hand), and found only the Dark and Space troopers at the Bailey's Crossroads TRU today...so they are hitting our coast.
Good score nonetheless, Major!
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Well I got sick of looking for the WM packs in WM's and ended up buying them off of E-bay. They actually cost less than they would have in the stores and my e-bay bucks paid for the shipping. Now I just need the TRU wave.
Glen Burnie TRU sold out 1 case of EU BAD wave in under a minute....of course, I was working in Columbia, and that TRU had nada.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
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Microsoft is still trying to sort things out following a glitch on Friday that prevented people from getting a promised 40 percent cash back on purchases made on HP.com via Microsoft's Live Search Cashback program.
A crush of traffic led to a glitch that apparently led to a number of problems. Some shoppers were credited with only 3 percent cash back, rather than the promised 40 percent. Microsoft has said all those who made purchases through Live Search during the Black Friday promotion would get the higher rebate.
But some folks were unable to make their purchase at all on Friday. A Microsoft spokesperson told CNET News in a statement Monday that the HP promotion would be restarted in the coming days. However, that statement appears to have been premature.
In a blog post late on Tuesday, the software maker offered a much more vague statement.
"We're working actively to determine next steps for any specific HP promotions," according to the post, which was attributed to Rajat Taneja, Microsoft's general manager of worldwide commercial search. "We regret that we don't have more specific details at this time, but we can point customers to other Live Search cashback merchants with great deals on HP products, including eBay, which is currently offering 20 percent cashback."
The glitch was an unfortunate blow to Microsoft, shifting what could have been a banner day for Live Search cashback into another online black eye for the company.


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Serves 12 to 14, with leftovers
Yields 5 cups gravy
Piny juniper berries in a savory butter rub lend some West Coast flavor to this roast turkey, while they gravy gets its flavor and slightly chunky texture from a generous amount of fresh wild mushrooms. Be sure to let the bird warm up at room temperature before roasting so it cooks up juicy and tender.
Line a 12x16-inch heavy-duty roasting pan with 2 layers of paper towels. Blot the turkey dry inside and out.
In a small bowl, combine the butter with 2 tsp. salt and 1 tsp. pepper; stir in the parsley and juniper berries. Set aside 1/4 cup of the butter mixture for making the gravy.
Slide your hand under the turkey's skin to loosen it from the breast and thigh meat. Using your fingers, spread the butter directly on the breast and thigh meat, being careful not to tear the skin. Season the turkey inside and out with 1-1/2 tsp. each salt and pepper. Tuck the wings behind the neck and tie the legs together with kitchen twine.
Set the turkey breast side up in the prepared pan. Loosely cover with waxed paper or parchment and refrigerate for 1 to 2 days.
Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 400°F. On a large rimmed baking sheet, toss the turkey neck, tail, giblets (excluding the liver), onion, and celery with the oil; arrange in a single layer. Roast, stirring once, until well browned, about 40 minutes.
Transfer the roasted ingredients to a heavy-duty 5-quart pot. Pour 1 cup of the chicken broth onto the hot baking sheet and scrape up any browned bits from the bottom with a wooden spatula; transfer to the pot. Add the remaining broth and 1 quart water. Bring to a boil; lower the heat and simmer gently until reduced to 3 cups, about 1-1/2 hours. Strain through a medium-mesh sieve into a 2-quart measuring cup; discard the solids.
Uncover the turkey, discard the paper towels, and set the turkey on a V-rack in the roasting pan. Let sit for 1 hour at room temperature.
Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and heat the oven to 350°F.
Roast the turkey, basting occasionally after 1 hour and rotating the pan halfway through, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh registers 165°F, 2 to 2-1/2 hours. If the skin gets too dark during roasting, tent with foil.
Tilt the turkey so the juice in the cavity runs into the roasting pan. Transfer the turkey to a platter or carving board. Remove the string, tent with foil, and let rest at room temperature for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour before carving and serving.
Pour the drippings from the turkey roasting pan into a fat separator and allow the fat to rise to the top. Transfer 1/4 cup of the fat to a 3- to 4-quart saucepan; discard the remaining fat and add the defatted drippings to the reserved broth in the measuring cup.
Add the wine to the roasting pan and boil over medium-high heat, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan, until reduced to 1/2 cup, about 10 minutes. Strain through a medium-mesh sieve set over the measuring cup of broth.
Add the reserved butter to the fat in the saucepan and melt over medium-high heat.
Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until browned and tender, about 8 minutes. Add the flour and cook, whisking constantly, until slightly thickened, 3 to 4 minutes. Slowly whisk in the broth mixture and bring to a boil; then turn the heat down and simmer vigorously, whisking occasionally, until the gravy is reduced to 5 cups, 8 to 16 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Carve the turkey and serve with the hot gravy.
nutrition information (per serving):
1 serving of turkey plus 1/4 cup of gravy, Calories
560, Fat
4.5, Fat Calories
220, Saturated Fat
9, Protein
68, Monounsaturated Fat
9, Carbohydrates
6, Polyunsaturated Fat
0, Sodium
620, Cholesterol
265, Fiber
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It's been a while since I've had a chance to post anything here; on the other hand, my book writing is going well. Here are some things that I wanted to post here, with very little commentary. Just getting caught up:
General Academic, and Religious Studies, Links
Ever curious about what the Religious Studies Book Review is really for? What it's supposed to accomplish? Or, how to write one? Here's the first third of a good essay on the topic! The Nature and Function of the Religious Studies Book Review (Part 1 of 3): Writing the Book Review
This excellent visualization of the relative isolation of various academic departments. Hint: anthro is very isolated!
As the financing and operation of the higher education industry becomes an increasingly heated topic, expect more radical discussions, or even (as here, pretty conservative discussions of radical topics) like this – "Do Faculty Strikes Work?" – in places like Inside Higher Ed.
Here's a nice piece on "New Religious Movements" as an interpretive category. Good to read, for those interested in religion and innovation.
Good advice for the adoption of a 'Five Year Plan' strategy (with important distancing rhetoric from the USSR and the PRC!) for academic careers, from Kerim Friedman over at Savage Minds.
This brutal quote about Gender and Success in the Academy, from Kate Clancy's excellent "The three things I learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women: on being a radical scholar":
To be clear, it's not that academia weeds out the weak. The research on attrition for women and people of color indicates it's not that women who leave are not confident, or are weak, but that they know their self-worth and have decided they'd rather take their toys to another sandbox where they'll actually be appreciated.
But those of us who insist on playing with our toys in the academic sandbox need to be radicals. And I do think a lot of the ways we need to be radical involves how we perform our job: we need to set boundaries so that we aren't always doing the service work no one wants, we need to make our passions our scholarly interests in the face of some who would invalidate it, we need to perform our confidence in front of people who might undermine us. We need to get tenure.
Buddhism Links
Those following the fascinating development of Ven. Luon Savath, Khmer Buddhist monk currently promoting "Engaged Buddhism" in Cambodia and receiving a lot of negative pressure from authorities as a result, will be interested to know that Ven. Savath has his own page, and hosts live and recorded lectures there.
Prof. Bryan Cuevas, whose work on death and the afterlife in Buddhism is the subject of a new book by him, is interviewed in an hour-long interview on the great site, New Books in Buddhist Studies!
General Funereal Studies
A good critique of the interminably stupid iGrief masquerading as compassion in the world, with the passing of Steve Jobs. I certainly wish the man no ill, and do not begrudge him compassion, but am more than a little disturbed at the hagiographical saint-making going on here, when videos like this one, below, are almost completely ignored.
A gorgeous HDR photo of a Japanese cemetery should be seen by all (from the astonishingly wonderful "Stuck in Customs")
A small burial site found in Northern Vietnam, changing the way we think about pre-history.
Arch West, the inventor of Doritos, passed. Doritos were sprinkled on his grave. Rest in Powdery Flavor, Arch.
The great Khmer language scholar Khin Sok, also recently passed. The world of Khmer studies is considerably poorer for his passing. Rest In Peace, Lokkru.
Some Random Stuff
For my upcoming "Defense Against the Dark Arts" class, a book I'd like to read: "The Inquisitor's Apprentice."
And, a lovely piece from Ethnography.com on "love, duty, and marriage in a Thai novel," on the novelist Siburapha's "Behind the Painting," originally published in 1938, and translated into English by David Smyth.


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14.14: Big Bang
How did everything begin in the Big Bang?
The time when the universe began is the explosion known as the Big Bang. Everything in the universe was part of that explosion, although not in its current form.
The Big Bang Theory
Timeline of the Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe.
There is a great deal of evidence that the Universe started with a big bang. The Big Bang theory is the most widely accepted cosmological explanation of how the universe formed. Think about the expanding universe, then reverse it. If we start at the present and go back into the past, the universe gets smaller. What is the end result of a contracting universe? A point.
According to the Big Bang theory, the universe began about 13.7 billion years ago. Everything that is now in the universe was squeezed into a point. It was all in a single, hot, chaotic mass. Then an enormous explosion — a big bang — took place. The big bang caused the universe to start expanding rapidly. All the matter and energy, even space itself, came out of this explosion. (See Figure above)
What came before the Big Bang? There is no way for scientists to know since there is no remaining evidence.
After the Big Bang
In the first few moments after the Big Bang, the universe was unimaginably hot and dense. As the universe expanded, it became less dense. It began to cool. After only a few seconds, protons, neutrons, and electrons could form. After a few minutes, hydrogen came together. There was so much energy that nuclear fusion began. This created helium.
Clumps of matter were held together by gravity. Eventually, these clumps formed stars. There are now countless trillions of stars, billions of galaxies, and other structures that form the visible universe.
The galaxies at the edge of the universe are a great distance away. But they are something else that is distant. Because it takes so long for light from so far away to reach us, they are also very far back in time (Figure below).
Images from very far away show what the universe was like not too long after the Big Bang.
Background Radiation
The Big Bang hypothesis was not immediately accepted. But an important line of evidence for the Big Bang was discovered in 1964. In a static universe, the space between objects should have no heat at all. The temperature should measure 0 K (Kelvin is an absolute temperature scale). But two researchers at Bell Laboratories used a microwave receiver to measure the background radiation in the universe. They discovered that it is not 0 K, but 3 K (Figure below). This tiny amount of heat is left over from the Big Bang. Nearly all astronomers and cosmologists now accept the Big Bang Theory.
Background radiation in the universe was good evidence for the Big Bang theory.
KQED: Nobel Laureate George Smoot and the Origin of the Universe
George Smoot, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the origin of the universe. Using background radiation detected by the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE), Smoot was able to make a picture of the universe when it was 12 hours old. Learn more at: http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/nobel-laureate-george-smoot-and-the-origin-of-the-universe/
- Big Bang Theory: The hypothesis that all matter and energy were at one time compresses into a very small volume; then there was an explosion that sent everything moving outward, causing the universe to expand.
- The Big Bang theory states that the universe began as a point and expanded outward.
- No one can know what came before the Big Bang.
- The tiny bit of background radiation in the universe is energy remaining from the Big Bang.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
Stephen Hawking - The Big Bang at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-yWMuBNr4
- When did the Big Bang occur?
- What did not exist before the Big Bang?
- Describe the early universe.
- What was created at the Big Bang?
- What happens when matter and antimatter collide?
- When did the universe become visible?
- If the universe is now expanding, why must it once have been a point?
- What evidence is there that the universe began in a big bang?
- What happened in the first minutes after the Big Bang?
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By Sheena Barnett/NEMS Daily Journal
There aren't any pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch Farms pumpkin patch, but there are lights. A lot of lights.
Pumpkin Patch Farms in Blue Mountain has been hosting fall-themed events every October for 16 years, but this year, owners Clay and Sharon Meeks decided to celebrate Christmas, pumpkin patch style.
"Our kids sat us down and convinced us to do Christmas," Sharon said.
The pumpkin patch closed after Halloween, so the next day, the family started tearing down the fall decorations to make way for big light displays – many of them animated – along with lots of Santas and Christmas trees. The family's 45-acre lot is covered in more lights than they can count.
A visit to the Pumpkin Patch Farms Christmas includes wagon, train and pony rides, reindeer flight school, bonfires and a visit to Santa's Workshop.
The wagon rides will take folks through the family's pumpkin and strawberry patches that are now full of huge light displays that include nativity scenes, bouncing gingerbread men and, of course, Santa. Some of the displays are 30 feet tall.
The train ride will also have its own light show.
Also on the property is Daisy Mae's Bakery and Country Store, which will sell homemade breads, caramel apples, kettle corn, hot chocolate, cookies, jams, jellies and more.
The Meeks learned how to make homemade caramel apples and kettle corn from some of the best in the business.
"You don't open up the packs of caramel and throw it in. This is homemade caramel, and they're hand-dipped," Sharon said.
The kettle corn is made on site, so folks can see how it's made.
As the family puts the finishing touches on their barns, wagons and trees, excitement is growing for their first-ever holiday event.
"We wanted something unique for Christmas. We didn't want the same things at the (fall) pumpkin patch," she said. "We just love having people out here."
• A Pumpkin Patch Christmas
What: Light displays, reindeer flight school, bonfire and train, wagon and pony rides
When: 6-10 p.m. Dec. 7-25, closed Christmas Eve
Where: 2390 County Road 805, Blue Mountain
Cost: $8/person, which includes all activities. Wagon rides are $2 extra on Saturdays.
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By NEMS Daily Journal
Mississippi's 2014 revenue estimate, approved Monday by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and Gov. Phil Bryant begins the long process of agreeing on state spending priorities for the budget cycle beginning July 1, 2013, and almost certainly some adjusted spending for the current budget because of a revised, higher revenue estimate.
The 14-member committee, by law, sets the revenue estimate every year before the next legislative session convenes, and the governor must concur.
In most years that's about as far as agreement extends because what the governor proposes (he will release his executive budget Wednesday) will be followed by what the Legislature proposes, followed by the debates in the session.
The $5.02 billion estimate for 2014 is 1.6 percent higher than 2013 revenues, which is mildly encouraging, but in almost the same breath the state's chief economist, Darrin Webb, says we're still in a mild recession that started earlier in 2012, but we could pull out of it this quarter.
The official economic forecast from Webb and the other experts operating under the umbrella of the public universities has been consistently very cautious since late 2007.
The official economic forecast for the fourth quarter released this month explains Mississippi's situation in more detail:
• The growth rates of output and employment in Mississippi have been lower than the U.S. rates this year. The annual growth rate of real output in 2012 is expected to be under 1 percent, but will gradually accelerate in the coming years, reaching a peak of 2.7 percent in 2015.
• Employment in the state has fallen every year since 2007, and no growth is expected in 2012.
• The heavy reliance on lower-skill workers is more vulnerable to cuts, due both to competition from imports and to changing consumer preferences, which are shifting toward technology-related services. Professional and business employment has expanded at rates of over 3 percent nationally since 2010. Mississippi growth here has turned negative, with the demand for professional, scientific and technical services hit especially hard.
The health care, transportation/utilities and government sectors are the only ones with positive growth since 2008.
Along with making a budget, basic re-examination of our developmental liabilities is in order.


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By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — How much is too much? When it comes to tax cuts, that's the question that lawmakers and Gov. Phil Bryant must decide in coming weeks.
There are at least 17 bills still under consideration that would cut taxes or divert revenues to subsidize businesses. Three others have already been signed into law by Bryant.
The Department of Revenue says it can't tell how much all the bills would cost, but it's clear the total impact will be in the tens of millions of dollars.
Republicans say Mississippi needs to cut taxes to compete with other states and say aiding businesses will improve the economy.
"I think when you cut taxes, you actually make money," said Bryant, a Republican.
Democrats say Mississippi could spend much more on education or Medicaid expansion if Republican majorities weren't reducing taxes so much.
"They don't know what they're doing," said Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, a leading opponent of tax cuts and incentives over the last two years. "They don't know how much they're spending, and they don't seem to care."
Bryan and others say what's happening is that business groups are cashing in on their support of Republicans who took over the House of Representatives in the 2011 election.
"The people who purchased the Legislature in the last election have come to collect," Bryan said.
The House, in particular, has been very receptive to tax reductions, while Lt Gov. Tate Reeves has been more cautious. At least 11 tax break bills passed the House only to die in the Senate Finance Committee. Reeves said he supports breaks when long-term benefits outweigh costs, but said that "we want to ensure that we can fund our priorities."
Mississippi has a weak system of estimating tax break costs. Many bills don't have formal estimates, called fiscal notes, prepared by legislative staff. The Department of Revenue has looked at all 20 tax bills signed by Bryant or pending, but says it can't estimate how much 15 of them will cost.
One example is House Bill 1322, which would give a $2,000 tax credit to businesses that hire military veterans.
The bill passed through the House and the Senate Finance Committee allowing a $2,000 credit each year for five years for every veteran employed. As written, the bill didn't distinguish between currently employed or newly hired veterans.
Without limits, Bryan said that 100,000 veterans could qualify, costing the state as much as $1 billion over five years. The Senate amended the bill to say the credit would only apply to veterans hired after Jan. 1, 2013.
The Pew Center on the States last year urged states to beef up cost estimates of incentives, and to use yearly limits to prevent breaks from ballooning out of control.
Jeff Chapman, a senior researcher for Pew, says figuring out who will use a tax break is hard. But analysts can offer a range of scenarios or at least try to estimate whether a bill will have a significant effect on state revenue.
"But there are states that have taken this on even through the difficulties," Chapman said.
Right now, Mississippi lawmakers are considering cutting the severance tax for the first 30 months of production on hydraulically fractured oil wells, to encourage drilling in southwest Mississippi.
Patrick Sullivan, president of the Mississippi Energy Institute, says the formation is expensive to drill in and yields less oil than formations in Texas or North Dakota.
"We need to send a clear message out from the state — we want your capital here," he said.
He cited Louisiana as an example. But the Pew report, called "Avoiding Blank Checks," singled out the 24-month Louisiana break, saying the cost to the state rose from $285,000 in 2007 to $239 million in 2010 as natural gas drilling boomed.
In Mississippi, the Revenue Department couldn't estimate the break's cost. But the state would forgo $1 million in taxes if a well produces 300 barrels a day for 30 months at $90 a barrel.
Mississippi's tax break push started in the 2012 Legislature, which Bryant continues to proclaim as "the most business-friendly" in state history. One cornerstone was a reduction in the business inventory tax, projected to cost $7 million in the 2014 budget year, rising to $14 million in 2015.
That bill was pushed by the Mississippi Manufacturers Association, also behind several significant proposals this year. House Bill 844, which is in a House-Senate conference, would eliminate the 1.5 percent sales tax on power or fuel used by manufacturers. It would cut state revenue by nearly $6 million a year, according to one of the few projections the Revenue Department has made, and cut cities' revenue by nearly $1 million.
The association pushed a much larger break, a $45-million-a-year bid to exempt manufacturers from the state's franchise tax, out of the House Ways and Means Committee. But it died without a vote in the House after objections from House Appropriations Committee Chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville.
"Taxes are a necessary part of government, but we believe a lower tax rate enables employers to hire more people," said House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton. "There is a balance in there that we're trying to achieve, at the same time, to provide the services we need."
Bryant, too, said the franchise cut was too big for this year. But he's open to helping manufacturers achieve that long-held goal.
"I think there may be some ways in the future to fund that," Bryant said.
Pew Center for the States report on incentives: http://bit.ly/Y4LRlg
Follow Jeff Amy at http://twitter.com/jeffamy
A glance at Miss. tax breaks signed or pending
The Associated Press
The 2013 Mississippi Legislature is considering a number of proposals to cut taxes or redirect tax revenue to subsidize businesses. Here's a look at some proposals that have either been signed by Gov. Phil Bryant or are still under consideration by lawmakers, with estimates of how much each would cost when available from the state Department of Revenue:
Signed into law by Gov. Phil Bryant:
House Bill 841: Cuts sales taxes from 7 percent to 1.5 percent for electricity or fuel used to pump carbon dioxide underground to store it or push up oil from older oil fields. Cost: Unknown.
Senate Bill 2806: Amends projects eligible for tourism sales tax incentives to include "cultural retail projects," making an outlet mall being built in Pearl eligible. Cost: $6.14 million a year for up to 10 years.
Senate Bill 2847: Exempts taxes on aviation fuel for a year when a new passenger airline starts flying to a Mississippi airport or when a current airline starts flying to a new destination. Cost: Unknown.
Under consideration:
House Bill 590: Allows cities to direct sales taxes to repay loans used in revitalization zones. Cost: Unknown.
House Bill 783: Expand motion picture incentives. Cost: Unknown.
House Bill 826: Provide tax rebates to companies that spend money doing research at Mississippi universities. Cost: Capped at $5 million a year.
House Bill 844: Eliminate 1.5 percent sales tax on electricity or fuel used in manufacturing. Cost: $6.94 million a year to the state, $957,000 a year to cities.
House Bill 1322: Gives employers a $2,000-a-year income tax credit for five years for hiring a veteran. Cost: Unknown.
House Bill 1698: Cut severance tax on hydraulically fractured oil wells from 6 percent to 1.25 percent for first 30 months of well production. Cost: Unknown to state and counties.
Senate Bill 2829: Extend exemption of equipment used for broadband Internet service from sales taxes. Cost: Unknown.
Source: Mississippi Department of Revenue and Associated Press research.


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Eryn Leonard approaches the wall in the 100-meter butterfly at Moffat County's home swim meet last season. Leonard took eighth in the event at the state meet. Swimming, which Leonard considers her favorite sport, will become a year-round pursuit when she attends Colorado Mesa University next school year and will be a member of the school's swim team.
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I couldn't figure out if it was a 501 c3 organization but most clubs are... If it is, then the records are published yearly per the IRS code.
I couldn't figure out if it was a 501 c3 organization but most clubs are... If it is, then the records are published yearly per the IRS code.
Darrin Greene
I am not a member of a MN Club just a participant in the events. Some of the accusations would make me upset too. However, the process to propose changes that was detailed above seems like a lot to go though almost to the point of purposely hard to prevent just such a thing from occurring. I am assuming that the meeting is on-site right. So a club has to pay a few thousand dollars to send someone to the meeting and their is a good chance that they would just vote down a measure like that? I think transparency is good and making financial statements more available seems pretty fair. As an outsider, the idea of having member clubs pick up statements in person in this day and age seems pretty odd at least. If it is a good idea just do it.
The Treasurer's books shall be open at all times for inspection by the Board of Directors or any member thereof, or the delegate of any member club.
Two local Presidents penned a letter asking for details regarding the official loss statement put out by the MN and no response following the above by-law was ever recieved. I think they got some phone calls which asked them to back off the subject. I imagine if they'd of kept asking or bringing it up the guy who told me I'd basically be judged unfairly and never pass a test may have pressured them as well. I also got an email from another fella who told me "i don't know SH*t" and need to stop asking questions. Pretty sure his buddy who was a rude SOB to me two years in a row for no good reason will be on the judges ballot this year too. I worked my butt off for these guys who think their stuff smells sweet. Wasn't even running a dog. Just working for the members of the club. Not for the political sideline junk the MN creates.
I think it's a great concept except for the fact it is affecting local tests negatively and the vast majority of club members who donate their money and time get zero gain from the event and the headaches that come along with it. I think this is the reason that Mike's club turned the switch to the "off" position.
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
I do not recommend to any club that they should try to convince the IRS to change their non-profit category to some other category. While the club members can on a whim vote for changing category status, they aren't the ones who will go through IRS-hell. The President and/or Treasure will. Clubs, stay with whatever category the IRS has determined for you. Don't rock the boat.
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Happy is telling us the reality of what happened when two club presidents wrote to the MNRC with questions as why there was such a loss, and they felt they did not get answers.
Think about it. Every club has the phrase in their by laws that the Treasurer's books (or the financial records) are open for inspection at any time. It is a requirement. But the reality is, the Treasurer has those records in their possession and they are responsible for keeping the books. It is unreal to think a member is going to go in person to look at the financial records and the books the Treasurer is keeping.
RE-the MNRC ... for many years the same person was MNRC's Secretary-Treasurer. He lived in Arkansas and that's where the financial records were. The President and Board members for those years lived all over the U.S.
Whether it is a national club or a regular club, if a member has questions, they are going to write to the Treasurer or the President or a Board member or they are going to ask questions at a meeting. It is doubtful that anyone other than the Treasurer has ever seen a club's financial records. The Board will get a financial report (monthly, quarterly, annually), but how many clubs actually conduct an audit?
How many clubs have an independent audit by a CPA at the end of a year? Or at the end of 5 years? Or when they change Treasurers? I would guess not many. At best, maybe a club self-audits, which means there may be an Audit Committee with a chairman who checks the math on financial reports. I don't think many audit committee chairmen/women go to the Treasurer's house to look at receipts, deposit slips, bank statements, check registers, and other paperwork to make sure that all of the money taken in was actually deposited and that all of the checks written had receipts or other documentation. If your club really conducts an audit, let us know. My hat is off to them.
If ever an audit should be conducted, it should be done when a Treasurer is leaving office and a new Treasurer is coming on board. When there is this change, that is when the financial records physically exchange hands and move from one place to another.
Re-the MNRC. An election was held at the 2011 annual meeting. The Board had split the Secretary-Treasurer position into two positions. A new Treasurer was elected. The question needing asking should be was there an audit? The former Sec-Treasurer stayed on as Secretary. The new Treasurer was a CPA living in Texas. That would mean that the financial records would physically leave Arkansas and go to Texas. Around June 2012, I am told, the CPA Treasurer in Texas resigned.
I have no idea who became Treasurer for the rest of 2012. That would be the person who would handle all of the finances of the 2012 master national and who would be responsible for preparing the 2012 annual financial report. I don't know if that was the current Treasurer or not.
The MNRC website says Jimmy Hughes, a CPA in Alabama, is the current Treasurer. I assume that all MNRC financial records were passed on to him and that they are in Alabama. I hope an audit was performed before he took over. I say this because...
... an audit provides protection to the outgoing Treasurer as well as the new incoming Treasurer. It really should be done, but IMHO seldom is done by small clubs. I can understand small clubs not conducting a full-blown audit, but I think a national club with an income of over $225,000 each and every year for a number of years has a lot of inflow and outflow so I hope an audit was done before the new Treasurer took office.
I am very happy to see that a CPA is the financial officer for the MNRC and I wish him well.
Last edited by helencalif; 03-16-2013 at 02:38 PM.
I don't have a dog in the fight but, what on earth is the justification for not mailing a copy of the financial status to the president of each club? I looked at the governance of the MNRC. Under VII Government, Section 6 we find ... "The Treasurer shall report to the member clubs and to the Board of Directors at every meeting as to the condition of the finances of this Club." Note that it doesn't say, "Member clubs in attendance..."
Why on earth does the MNRC think that club representatives have to be present at the meeting to receive a copy of the report? I'd think that one of the last steps in presenting the MN would be for the Secretary to send a nice letter that says, "Sorry we missed you. Here's the report of the Treasurer." That would be the classy approach rather than to hide behind some unwritten rule about a club having to be there.
WRC HR Lennoxlove's Run with Wolves JH, WCX ("Cheyenne") ... still so fondly remembered
HRCh Struan's Devil's in De Tails SH, WCX ("Lucy") ... as is her daughter
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Bleak Jobs View or Not? Gold Price Gives a Head Fake
It's an ugly employment report. Or is it? The erratic reaction in gold's price this morning is practically screaming, It's not as bad as it looks -- so don't think this changes things for the Federal Reserve.
First, the negative: The 113,000 jobs created in January well undershot economists' forecast of 189,000. We apparently can't blame weather, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics says it wasn't a major factor. This figure is instead about shrinkage in the public sector. Private companies actually added an anemic-but-not-horrible 142,000 jobs. Factoring in the losses of sectors like health and education and the net figure is 113,000. The retail sector also shed headcount.
Now the good: Construction, of all sectors, added a surprising number of new jobs. The manufacturing sector also added workers. The longer averages are still in a decent enough expansion, though still too slow. The civilian labor force rose as did the labor participation rate, suggesting the gains aren't fueled by the departure of discouraged workers. The measure of long-term unemployment dropped for the period.
So how does this number play into deliberations at the Federal Reserve? Here's how BTIG strategist Dan Greenhaus sees it:
To be sure, a deceleration in job creation is unwelcome. Additionaly, weather will be an oft cited culprit with respect to both December and January's report and ultimately, there is one more jobs report before the March Fed meeting. The February report could be strong and it could have upward revisions. If such a [scenario] were to unfold, then worries about the economy and the Fed's purchase [program] would [dissipate] as quickly as they arrived.
The most actively traded gold futures contract surged right before the report, then tumbled back where it started. Its price is just about flat at $1,258 Friday morning. SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is also just about flat, rising 0.1%.
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is ahead by 0.6%. Leveraged ETFs Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X Shares (DUST) and Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (NUGT) are moving by 1% apiece. iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is down by 0.5%.


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Family: Kinosternidae, Musk and Mud Turtles view all from this family
Description Carpace flatter than any other species. Greenish/gray patterned neck. Chin has barbels.
Dimensions 7.6-11.4cm. (3-4 1/2")
Endangered Status The Flattened Musk Turtle is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as threatened in Alabama, where it lives in the upper Black Warrior River system. This turtle is a desirable target for the pet trade and has been significantly reduced in number by collectors. The other major threat to its survival has been degradation of its waterways by silt and pollution caused by runoff from mining, industrial, residential, agricultural, and logging concerns. This runoff can be toxic to the turtles themselves (one apparent effect is erosion of the turtles' shells), kills their prey species, and may make them more susceptible to disease.
Breeding Unknown.
Habitat Freshwater. Rock bottomed streams.
Range Very shy. Alabama Black Warrior River system.
Discussion Very shy. Active early morning. Seen interbreeding with Stripe-necked Turtles in its range.


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We've all heard of Aspen, Colorado, the well-known winter sports town in the Rockies that's named for the trees that ring the hillsides there. But there are lots of other American towns named for trees, flowers, and fruits. Test your knowledge of these botanical burgs by taking the following quiz.
1. Which tree family's name is most popular with municipalities?
Oak, of course. Oaks are steadfast, and people like that in a name. Among the more popular varieties are Black Oak (Arkansas, Indiana), Burr Oak (Michigan), Charter Oak (California), Live Oak (Florida), Red Oak (Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma), and Shrub Oak (New York).
2. Which single tree species is most popular?
Magnolia takes pride of place in this category with six towns named for it (Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas). Sycamore follows closely with five (Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, South Carolina), and there are five Walnuts, too (California, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina).
3. How many towns are named after the orange?
A trick question. There are at least three Oranges in English (California, Maine, Texas) and one in Spanish (Florida's Naranja).
4. Is there a town called Peach in Georgia, the Peach State?
No, but there are two communities called Palmetto. Meanwhile, in neighboring South Carolina, the Palmetto State, there are no towns named Palmetto.
5. Where is the town of Trees located?
Louisiana, while the town of Weed can be found in California.


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Cris Houston?
"So whom exactly does that leave when the best free-agent option at cornerback might be Sean Smith the guy the Dolphins are about to let walk out the door?
Try Chris Houston, the best cover corner few outside of NFC North have heard of.
Houston, a six-year veteran who has split his career between Atlanta and Detroit, led the league in interception-return yardage in 2011. And he followed that with perhaps an even better 2012 even if the statistics werent as impressive"


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By now you've heard the words toroidal and hybritoroidal thrown around by virtually every carbon wheel manufacturer. But, did you know that Steve Hed was granted the patent for them in 1991? HED's first toroidal shapes and deep rims were designed in 1989. So, to put it bluntly, other manufacturers have been playing catch-up for quite some time. While they play, HED continues to design some of the most technologically advanced wheels around, and the HED Stinger 4 FR Tubular Wheelset is no exception.
The HED Stinger 4 Carbon Tubular Wheel benefits directly from Steve Hed's original rim design. The C2 platform rims are 46mm deep and 28mm wide on the outside, as compared to most rims that are only 19mm wide and 19-23mm deep. The reason for the greater width is because 23mm tires really are, for the most part, the minimum tire width you should be using on the road. A 23mm tire on a wider rim changes the tire's footprint, so it grips better in a straight line and it grips better in turns because the tire deforms more evenly. A 23mm tire on a 28mm rim also has lower rolling resistance.
If you're planning on wrapping the Stinger 4s in even wider tires (e.g. 32mm cyclocross or Roubaix tubulars) you'll no doubt be pleased with the outcome. This is because the wider rim better supports the larger tire volume, preventing the tire from mushing around or feeling sloppy. In addition, the wide rim shape also means more contact between the rim and tire, which in turn means that it's much harder for the tires to roll off, thanks to the fact that the rims cradle the tire better and there is more surface area to which to glue it.
The Stinger 4s come standard with HED's Carbon FR Sonic hubs. The hubs have a carbon fiber center section and use a minimalist shape in order to maximize aerodynamic characteristics. Both the front and rear hubs run ABEC5 bearings on oversize aluminum axles: 12mm in front, 15mm in rear. The oversized axles are stiff, and with less deflection the bearings run smoother and with less drag. The front hub has aluminum end caps with a carbon-fiber center, and the rear hub is all aluminum with a grease port covered by a carbon-fiber cap. The pawl mechanism for the cassette body ratchets on a titanium ratchet ring.
Like to the rest of the Stinger line, the Stinger 4's front wheel is laced radially using 18 Sapim CX-Ray bladed spokes, while the rear wheel has 24 spokes laced in a two-cross pattern on both sides. The spokes are threaded to aluminum nipples. The two-cross lacing pattern on the rear was used to stiffen up the rear wheel so that no power would be lost to wheel flex, as a result more power is channeled to driving the bike forward.
The rear wheel is available to fit Campagnolo or Shimano/SRAM cassettes and the freehub bodies are easy to swap out with two 5mm hex keys. They come with valve extenders and HED titanium skewers. Any carbon-specific brake pad should work well with HED's braking track. The recommended rider weight limit for the HED Stinger 7 Carbon Tubular Wheelset is 210lbs.
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| Gretchen Rubin, author of "The Happiness Project" and "Happier At Home," advises lowering the volume -- not the boom -- when engaged in an argument. Instead of a tempting-but-unproductive comeback, use one of these equal-opportunity phrases:
"This is important to me. Please listen."
"I hadn't thought of it that way before."
"Let's agree to disagree on that."
"Please keep talking to me."
"I see how I may have contributed to the problem."
"Please try to understand my point of view."
"I realize it's not your fault."
"You don't have to solve this -- it helps me just to talk to you."
"I can see my part in this."
"You may be right." (Leave out the "but….")
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| We've all been there: You're still fighting, but you realize just how asinine you both are acting. Laugh, advises Jay Heinrichs, expert on the art of persuasion and author of "Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion."
A shared laugh can "suck the emotion out, like sucking out snake poison," says Heinrichs. Rubin agrees. Although she admits that her sense of humor is the first thing to go in an argument, she's found in fights with her own husband that, "If one of us can laugh and joke around, the angry mood lifts instantly."
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| Have a shorthand phrase that you both know translates into: We are acting like idiots, let's take a moment to get over ourselves. Until you figure out your own, try Young Frankenstein's immortal "Put. The. Candle. Back!" Or Olivia's (best line ever) "I love you anyway too."
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| Get over it, says Harriet Lerner, psychologist and author of "The Dance Of Anger" and "Marriage Rules: A Manual For The Married." "Happy couples are couples who fight fair, which is different from fighting to win."
As Heinrichs asks, "Win what, exactly? And at what cost? Sometimes giving in can actually get you what you want." Ask yourself what's at stake and what your goal is, he suggests. If your goal is just to win, you will surely lose when it comes to your relationship.
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| When your impulse is to go for the jugular, Rubin suggests going for a hug or expression of affection instead. It's hard to go in for the kill when you're holding hands or touching in some way and it's a lot easier to wage peace.
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| As in listening, not pouting. Per Lerner, listening is as important as talking. And sometimes the best "comeback" is silence.
"Listening well is the greatest gift that we can give our partner." Lerner suggests tempering your passion to be understood with a true passion to understand.
You can say, "Okay, I'm going to shut up now and really listen to you. I want you to do the same for me when it's my turn."
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| When you feel like you are about to blow, Lerner recommends calling for a timeout -- actually stopping the fight and walking away at this point. As she says, you can do this without criticizing or blaming. Just say, "I want to talk about this, but at a calmer time when my head is clearer. Let's take a break for a few minutes." After a break, it's hard to go back to yelling, Rubin says.
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| Sometimes you just blew a gasket and say something you wish you could take back the second it's out of your mouth. Repeat after Rubin: "I'm sorry. That was bad. I shouldn't have said that. That came out all wrong. Wait, can I take that back? I overreacted."
As she has found, an apology (even a cheap one) is one of the best ways to turn down the heat of an escalating dispute.
And don't sit on an apology, advises Lerner. "Offering a genuine apology when one is due goes a long way toward repairing a disconnection. And a willingness to apologize is often contagious."
If your attempt at reconciliation is met with a "screw you," don't push it. Lerner says you can't expect or insist your partner to accept an apology before he's ready.
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| So, the fight has lurched way off-topic, like back to the beginning of time. Re-focus on the immediate infraction or conflict at hand. To avoid getting drawn into a lengthy discussion of every crappy thing either of you has ever done, try the simple, "We're getting off the subject."
If your partner starts listing items from your rap sheet, Lerner suggests letting him know that you'd be glad to address his concerns in a separate discussion but, at the moment, you would like to focus on this issue...
"Focus on the one crime -- the one that touched off the argument -- and shift the tense to the future. That's the tense where you can make choices," Heinrichs says. You can say, "Here's what I'm hoping we can agree on," or "Let's talk about what we can do going forward."
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| That whole "don't go to bed mad" thing is totally bogus. Nothing goes well when everybody's cranky and tired, per Rubin. Agree to table an argument in progress. Cuddle up instead and agree to take it up the next day when you're both fresh.
Lerner advises that you set a rule that outlaws bringing up problems at bedtime.
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So it turns out the best conditions for running a half marathon are freezing cold, a threat of sleet, and wearing just t-shirt and shorts. Comfort leads to slowness.
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The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part III: The Roundtable & the Illuminati
– The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part III: The Roundtable & the Illuminati (Veterans Today, Dec 10, 2012):
According to former British intelligence agent John Coleman's book, The Committee of 300, the Rothschilds exert political control through the secretive Business Roundtable, which they created in 1909 with the help of Lord Alfred Milner and South African industrialist Cecil Rhodes. The Rhodes Scholarship is granted by Oxford University, while oil industry propagandist Cambridge Energy Research Associates operates out of the Rhodes-supported Cambridge University.
Rhodes founded De Beers and Standard Chartered Bank. According to Gary Allen's expose, The Rockefeller Files, Milner financed the Russian Bolsheviks on Rothschild's behalf, with help from Jacob Schiff and Max Warburg.
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When out on a summer adventure such as can be had here in the southwestern U.S., sixteen hours of light per day is more than enough opportunity to wear a guy down. There's nothing quite like crawling into a comfortable sleeping bag at the end of such a long day, but if the air isn't cool enough, it can be frustrating—too hot in the bag, too cool lying on top. Even though nights can be balmy or downright warm when first turning in, they usually get cool enough in the wee hours to warrant a blanket or even a zipped bag at higher elevations.
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Over the summer I slept away more than a month's worth of nights in the Wicked Light 45 from Sierra Designs and I can easily say this is a perfect mild-season bag for me. I've been using it for backpacking as well as overlanding in my Toyota 4WD and the versatility is impressive. I can adapt the bag to the situation and sleep comfortably.
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The semi-rectangular design employs snag-proof zippers (yes, plural, there's two of them) allowing the foot box to be opened separately for adjustable pass-through ventilation. Both zips ride on the same continuous track, so there's no limit to how far you can open the bag from either end. Additionally, the bag can be fully unzipped at the lower corner, turning it into a lay-flat blanket; perfect for car-camping and sleeping on a larger mattress like an in-vehicle bed or a rooftop tent. While backpacking, I've really come to appreciate the lightweight materials and small pack-size. Weighing only twenty four ounces and packed down to six inches by sixteen inches, it's a cinch to tote around and can shrink even smaller if you use a compression sack. Sierra Designs smartly did away with the bulky draft tube and full-size hood traditionally found on a mummy bag; things I certainly don't miss on a 45-degree model, especially considering the snag-proof zipper design is effective keeping minor drafts at bay. If it does get chilly there is a draw cord to snug the collar closer, and along with a beanie or bandana, I sleep just fine. Another clever feature is two removable "Pad Locks"—lightweight, adjustable straps that securely center the bag on my sleeping pad. The shell is made of silky 22-denier polyester with tuck-stitching that helps to protect threads from abrasion and oils. Continuous baffles are insulated with cloud-like 800-fill goose down and allow for further adaptability to the temperature by allowing me to manipulate the insulation if needed. As always, the rating is subject to personal preference, but I find the bag to be true to its 45-degree claim on chilly nights. At the upper end of the spectrum, if the air temperature is over 70 degrees, it's too warm to use as a bag and I'll just leave it unzipped or use like a blanket if needed.
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In Colombia, gang threats force reporter to flee
My chance encounter last year with Los Paisas, a criminal gang that operates in northern Colombia, began a nightmare that continues today. I was heading to an assignment in a tourist area south of Montería on July 9, 2009, when Los Paisas gang members blocked my car. The gang was meeting with local landowners nearby--and journalists were not welcome.


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About Human Rights & Human Biotechnology
Claims to universal human rights depend, in part, on formal recognition of our common humanity. Many countries use human rights as a broad framework to think about regulatory options for human biotechnologies. International declarations also commonly use this framework. Examples include the Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine and UNESCO's Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights.
The Convention on Biomedicine and Human Rights, like a number of other international agreements and declarations, rejects biotechnology applications that would alter the genomes of future generations. Manipulating genes in a manner that encodes inequality into our genes could easily unravel centuries of progress toward respecting human worth.


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The knock against Mark Zuckerberg has always been that he was a kid who, as one Silicon Valley worker put it to me, grew up on a PC, not a mobile device.
And as social networking consumers have increasingly moved to smartphones and tablets to engage, Facebook Inc. FB, -0.08% always has seemed to be one step behind. Zuckerberg himself has second-guessed his company's strategy in the handheld world, but has cushioned that admission by saying, in essence, that Facebook has found its mobile religion.
But with last week's announcement that Facebook has agreed to buy the mobile text-messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion, Zuckerberg appears to be heading down one of three paths trod by nervous CEOs.
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The Mobile World Congress promises to break news of several new phones, including a first look at the Samsung S5. Scott Austin previews the tech week ahead on digits.
Two of the these three aren't very promising for investors. Those are: He's either compensating or desperate.
Before we examine those, let's acknowledge that Zuckerberg may indeed know what he's doing. WhatsApp may be, as he suggested, the perfect platform for messaging inside or outside Facebook. And yes, it is one of the Valley's hottest companies, as its tremendously fast growth suggests. In that scenario, Zuckerberg may not be overpaying indeed.
Or, as Sterne Agee Analyst Arnin Bhatia put it Thursday, "the potential size of the user base and strong engagement on WhatsApp should ultimately lead to meaningful monetization."
Unfortunately, as investors signaled in the wake of the deal, it looks as if the "lead to meaningful monetization" camp has work to do in explaining the deal's economics.
After all, Zuckerberg has just announced the seventh-biggest U.S. acquisition deal this year, the fifth-biggest technology deal of all time, according to Thomson Reuters.
Some of the premium is the current bubble state of technology. We are, after all, in the midst of almost unprecedented spending in technology. More than $42 billion has been spent on tech companies year to date, up 39% from the same period last year, and the biggest start to a year since 2000. And we all know what was happening in 2000.
Most of the price tag, however, goes beyond a bubble premium by almost every measure. For instance, Facebook is paying $42 per WhatsApp user, according to Sterne Agee. Facebook's own customer valuation is $142.
That may seem like a deal, but consider how Facebook is able to target its own customers with tailored advertising and services. WhatsApp is limited by the nature of mobile in what and how much it can throw at customers before they abandon it for the next messaging service that comes along. Moreover, though I haven't seen any numbers on this yet, I suspect there is a good deal of overlap between WhatsApp customers and Facebook customers.
What the Facebook-WhatsApp deal means for BlackBerry
If WhatsApp, the text-messaging service bought by Facebook this week, is worth $19 billion, what is BlackBerry's messaging service worth? Heard on the Street's Dan Gallagher warns it's not such a simple calculation.
That overlap isn't as much of a problem with say, Instagram users, when you're only paying $1 billion (and, yes, "only" is relative when you're talking about the silly money tossed about for Silicon Valley companies). But we're talking about $19 billion in value — more than 12% of your company's market capitalization in a deal where WhatsApp investors will now own 7.9% of Facebook stock — for a company with reported revenue of just $20 million.
Zuckerberg and his entourage of advisers must be reassuring themselves that paying funny money for an almost profit-less platform is the new paradigm. And there is some truth to that given missed opportunities of established tech titans to buy Twitter Inc. and Facebook itself in the early stages.
At the same time, some M&A truths not only endure but are more powerful. Among them: the CEO who deludes himself that he's simply playing by a new set of rules instead of just simply overpaying. See Bank of America Corp.'s Ken Lewis's decision to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. or Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Leo Apotheker buying Autonomy.
Zuckerberg certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt. In just a few years he took a college networking platform and turned it into a global brand worth just shy of $200 billion. More recently, his company overcame a disastrous initial public offering by churning out eye-popping profits and quieting critics of its mobile strategy.
Even if borne of desperation or compensation, WhatsApp indeed may be the next triumph for Facebook. If Instagram and WhatsApp don't pan out, the knock against Zuckerberg won't just be about a lack of understanding about mobile anymore.
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GLORY 5 London: Tyrone Spong vs. Remy Bonjasky Announced For Feb. 16
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GLORY just announced their first big event of 2013, which will see them head to London, England on February 16.
Headlining the card will be Tyrone Spong vs. Remy Bonjasky, a fight that has been in the making for quite some time. Other match-ups announced so far are Jordan Watson taking on Steve Moxon and Liam Harrison fighting Mosab Amrani in Amrani's return fight.
Spong vs. Bonjasky is a huge name fight, with both fighters being amongst the biggest names in kickboxing. Remy made his return this year, in October, when he took a very tough win over Anderson "Braddock" Silva at GLORY 2 Brussels on October 6. Spong recently tried his hand at MMA on November 3, coming away with a win at World Series of Fighting. Before that, Spong defeated Peter Aerts by way of third round stoppage at It's Showtime on June 30.
Steve Moxon gets a tough test in his GLORY debut in Jordan Watson. Watson just made his GLORY debut at GLORY 3 Rome, taking a decision win over Mustapha Haida. What's also very interesting is Liam Harrison being on the card. Liam primarily fights Muay Thai but has devastating low kicks and has destroyed pretty formidable opponents like Andrei Kulebin with them. Mosab Amrani has been out since November 2011 with a bad leg injury, but faces a stiff test in his return.
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Impotence: Term used to describe the inability of a man to perform sexual intercourse or gain an erection.
Inner cell mass: A clump of cells growing within and to one side of the blastocyst from which the embryo develops.
Insemination: The placing of sperm in the female reproductive tract by artificial means. Can be performed using either freshly ejaculated sperm or sperm that has been frozen.
Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI): In conjunction with IVF, where a single sperm is directly injected, by a recognised practitioner, into the egg. A clinic may also use donor sperm or eggs.
Intra Uterine Insemination (IUI): Insemination of sperm into the uterus of a woman.
Intra vaginal culture (IVC): A method whereby sperm and aspirated oocytes are incubated together in a container held in a woman's vagina in order to effect fertilisation in vitro without the need for complex laboratory facilities.
In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF): Patient's eggs and her partner's or donor's sperm are collected and mixed together in a laboratory to achieve fertilisation outside the body. The embryos produced may then be transferred into the female patient.
In vitro: Performed outside the body (i.e. in the laboratory).
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ACLU president to speak, Oct. 18
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Nadine Strossen, New York Law School professor and president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will lecture on "Current Changes in Civil Liberties." The lecture will take place 4:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in Bowl 1 of Robertson Hall.
Strossen was elected president of the ACLU in 1991, becoming the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization. She has more than 200 published works to her credit, including Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights , which was deemed one of the notable books of 1995 by the New York Times.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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You work at putting a dog through the yard and basics.
You work very hard at making sure what you taught is solid.
Should you really consider "going back" or "reviewing',, but instead, making sure you move on to transition and apply what the dog has learned, keeping the standard high?
I get told all the time ,I miss opportunities to handel, work on sit, keeping my standard high..
Its all about applying what you have taught the dog to the field work..
Do you really TRAIN at a Training day?
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
So, the way Sideshow has been presenting this figure has been confusing since its unveiling at Comic-Con. Tamashii Nations is a brand, or a company, or something that encompasses licenses while being owned or something by Bandai, and they've worked with Sideshow on this piece... or something. I dunno exactly, the sign had 5 company logos on it.
Anyway, I'm interested to see what they're going to do with this chogokin figure (die cast) in terms of price, it's got a lot of great sculpting so I'm tempted to pretend like I can afford it, but the reality is that A] as a die-cast figure with this level of movement and accuracy it's going to be unholy expensive (the Japanese price is about $400 or so) and also B] the sample at Comic-Con had a matte finish and so does this preview, and no matter how good the sculpting is a matte finish for C-3PO makes little sense to me, basically it's the Hoth look?
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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are up $3.12, or 0.7%, at $475.42, as the iPhone 5S and 5C went on sale overnight in multiple territories.
Which means it's time for the Street to take another look at its numbers concocted over the last few days. R.W. Bair's Will Power, reiterating a Neutral rating, and a $450 price target, writes that stores he's visited in Chicago, Dallas, and Milwaukee had 100 to 150 people in line a couple hours before opening, which he writes was down from 200 to 300 in prior years. He also observed thinner lines at AT&T (T) and other carrier stores. Overseas lines "appeared solid," he writes.
CNBC's John Fortt was at the Palo Alto store this morning, writing that CEO Tim Cook shook hands with the first hundred or so individuals in line there. (Somehow, CNBC was given a gold model by AT&T to show off on Squawk on the Street.)
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who maintains an Overweight rating on Apple stock, and a $640 price target, writes the lines his team observed in New York, San Francisco, and Minneapolis, were about flat with last year or "up slightly," while the line at the flagship store was "up 83%," in his count. He thinks that supports a view offered Wednesday evening that the company can sell 5 million to 6 million units.
But Timothy Arcuri of Cowen & Co., who has an Outperform rating on Apple, and a $550 price target, writes his meetings with buy-side folks this week suggest investors are expecting 7 million to 8 million units this first weekend, which he actually thinks is "doable."
"Our team observed very long lines throughout both NYC and Boston this morning," writes Arcuri, "and while we believe the iPhone 5S is supply constrained (less due to fingerprint sensor yield issues and more due to controlled supply on AAPL's part, which we think has maintained a conservative build out of the gate), this should not gate reported weekend sales numbers as shipments are independent of this number."
Macrumors's Jordan Golson reports lead times for the iPhone 5S have been slipping in the company's online store system, with the gold-colored model apparently pushed out into October for availability.
The media, meanwhile, has been obsessed this morning with the story of efforts to hack the fingerprint encryption feature on the new iPhone 5S. Reuters's Jim Finkle writes that Chicago-based venture capital firm IO Capital donated $10,000 to a $13,000 fund "along with bottles of booze, Bitcoin currency, books, and other goodies" to hackers to get around the security feature. CNBC had an interview with an IO executive, promoted all morning with mentions of "money, booze, and hackers."
Of course, the arrival of the phones has led to the customary "tear down" by the folks at iFixit. The firm identified several parts from Broadcom (BRCM), Avago Technologies (AVGO), and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS). The Benchmark Company's Gary Mobley this morning writes "Most component suppliers featured in the iPhone 5 are also included in the 5s/5c including Broadcom as the combo connectivity chip supplier and supplier for the touch screen controller IC."
"Broadcom's inclusion should, at least for the moment, alleviate investor fears that Apple is developing its own connectivity silicon (or possibly using another merchant supplier)."
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) are down 65 cents, or 1.9%, at $32.99, following the company's analyst day meeting at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, near its Redmond headquarters.
The company yesterday issued a summary of how it will in future report results in five different segments, "Devices & Consumer," consisting of a "licensing" part, a "hardware" part, and an "other" part; and "Commercial," consisting of a "licensing" part and an "other" part.
Pacific Crest's Brendan Barnicle, who has a Sector Perform rating on the shares, writes that nothing at the meeting suggested the company will break up into separate businesses anytime soon, as some investors have desired. He writes "Microsoft could not answer investors' most pressing question at yesterday's analyst day: Will Microsoft's board allow a new CEO to fundamentally restructure the company?"
Shares of U.K.-based Xyratex (XRTX), which makes disk storage subsystems and manufacturing equipment, are down 12 cents cents, or 1%, at $10.36, but were up about 1% earlier, following an interesting piece on SeekingAlpha late yesterday by Kingsley Park Capital, which notes that activist fund Baker Street Capital has invested half its fund in the stock and owns 23% of The company. Baker Street, according to the article, has recently been a prominent investor in Sears Holding (SHLD) and previously driven up that stock's price.


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The painting and drawing degree teaches all students an understanding of the expressive and investigative possibilities of the two-dimensional formal plastic arts.
Graphic design students will learn to work as both artist and communicator, using traditional artistic skills and advanced digital skills to create digital graphics.
With a growing national reputation, the sculpture program teaches proficiency in materials, processes and techniques, including clay, wood, metal, stone, plaster and multimedia.


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