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Organic Revolution Worldwide LLC launches its ecommerce platform through Alice.com
Dodo Organics supplied several organic products for the private celebrity event organized by Lani Hay and Elle Magazine at the beginning of the summer and has recently had its Daily Facial Serum and Almond Cookie Crisps reviewed extremely favorably by the blog "Where and What in the World". "We had been looking for a comprehensive ecommerce package that could showcase our organic products", said David Lewinson CEO of Organic Revolution Worldwide, "where we could incentivize customers periodically on a product-by-product basis. We saw the power of the coupon system developed by Alice.com and we liked the ease with which we could update new product offerings. The back-end of the platform was an ideal way to organize our sales volume online". Organic Revolution Worldwide LLC provides over 35 skus on the Alice.com platform and will shortly be adding several new products with an enhanced nutrition profile.
About Organic Revolution Worldwide LLC
Incorporated in the State of New York, the owners David and Rose Lewinson are in the process of creating the first universal brand for certified organic skin care and organic food products. Dodo Organics has just had its trademark approved for use in the United States and offers a wide range of gourmet organic snacks and grocery items. Its USDA-certified organic skin care line currently includes products for mothers and babies and will gradually expand into other categories. The company is in the process of launching a global suite of products in China and expects to complete the first stage of this expansion by the end of 2011. The company was launched two years ago and is the publisher of Rose Lewinson's eBook Going Organic Without Going Broke.
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Alice.com provides Ecommerce and interactive marketing services exclusively to the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. The company's Ecommerce platform allows CPG manufacturers to sell direct to consumers online through a unique service that provides always free shipping, automatic coupons, and a reorder tool that makes it easy for consumers to avoid the chore of running out to the store. Alice.com is privately held and headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.
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Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha – In The Name Of Love – Single [iTunes Plus AAC M4A] (2016)
Martin Garrix Bebe Rexha – In The Name Of Love
A power-pop serenade with EDM embellishments, "In the Name of Love" showcases Bebe Rexha's soaring soprano. She and Garrix are fixtures in electronic dance music, but this is more ballad than banger. Aside from bursts of distorted vocals and synths that sound off during the chorus, melody and lyrics are center stage.

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Unanswered: ODBC linked tables & RECORDSET Method
Hi folks,
I have a problem with a MS Access 2003 database.
There are ODBC linked tables in my database, there is no problem to use/update theses tables with a form or directly in the table.
But I would like to add reccord in my tables with the recordset method .. .but it doesn't work .. I have the following error : "error 3146 ODBC--Call Failed" on the update command
This is my code :
set db = DBEngine.Workspaces(0).Databases(0)
set rs = db.OpenRecordet("INVENTORY")
rs!comment="test test"
rs!supplier="Mister mr"
Could you please let me know what's wrong or witch procedure do I have to use to add reccord in this table?
Thank you so much for your help!!!
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set db = CurrentdB
set rs = db.OpenRecordet("INVENTORY",dbOpenDynamic)


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Elite 5 DSI, Elite 4 DSI & Mark 4 DSI Installation & Operation Operation manual manual...
Copyright © 2011 Navico All rights reserved. Lowrance® and Navico® are registered trademarks of Navico. Fishing Hot Spots® is a registered trademark of Fishing Hot Spots Inc. Navionics® is a registered trademark of Navionics, Inc. Navico may find it necessary to change or end our policies, regulations and special offers at any time. We reserve the right to do so without notice.
Table of Contents Introduction ........3 Pages ..........11 Unit Controls ..........3 Steer Page..........11 Inserting microSD cards ......4 DSI Page ..........11 Basic Operation ....... 5 Chart/DSI page ........12 Chart Page ..........12 Setup wizard ..........5 Chart/Sonar split ........
Table of Contents Routes Screen ........23 Index ..........39 Trails Screen ......... 27 Specifications ........ 41 Orientation ..........29 Settings Menu........30 System........... 30 Settings .......... 30 Browse Files .......... 32 Saving Screenshots....... 32 Navigation..........33 Chart ............34 Sonar ............
Introduction Introduction Unit Controls Getting Started LIGhT/POwer: controls backlight To turn on/off the unit, press and Turn unit level and turns unit on/off hold the LIGhT/POwer key for on/off three seconds. KeYPAD: controls cursor & selects items on menus Press the ZOOM In and ZOOM OUT keys at the same time to set PAGeS: allows you to select a page to a Man Overboard waypoint.
Introduction Inserting/removing microSD cards Carefully slide the microSD card into the slot until it clicks into place. To remove, carefully push in the card until it clicks out of place.
Basic Operation Basic Operation Setup wizard Pages The Setup wizard will appear when the unit is This unit has four pages: Steer, Chart, Chart/DSI and turned on for the first time. To choose your own DSI. settings, do not run the setup wizard. Pages menu To restart the Setup wizard, restore defaults.
Basic Operation DSI Page DSI menu Page menus Chart or menu will appear The Steer, DSI, Chart, and Chart/DSI pages have depending on menus that can only be accessed when those which panel is pages are displayed. active. Press PAGeS twice to switch Chart/DSI page active panels.
Basic Operation Accessing the Settings menu working with menus There are several menu types used to make adjustments to options and settings, including scrollbars, on/off features and dropdown menus. Scrollbars Settings menu Select the scrollbar and press the keypad left (decrease) or right (in- crease).
Basic Operation Switches letters nOTe: Press the Menu key to Exit to uppercase/ menus. lowercase Dialogs Switches keyboard between Dialogs are used for user input or for presenting in- Alpha and formation to the user. QWERTY layout Depending on the type of infor- To input text: mation or entry, different meth- ods are used to confirm, cancel...
Basic Operation Cursor The following features are enabled when Advanced mode is turned on: The keypad moves the cursor around the display, • Alarms (Enables arrival, off course and allowing you to scroll the map, select map items and review sonar history. Press MenU and select anchor alarm options) Return to vessel or Exit cursor mode to clear the •...
Basic Operation nOTe: Leaving your unit in Standby mode when your boat is not is use will run down your battery. restore defaults Resets unit options and settings to defaults. Adjusting the display You can make adjustments to the display using Contrast and Color settings.
Pages Pages Direction to Compass Current Track Tree Fish cursor Your location Navigation Frequency Structure information DSI Page Steer Page Displays the water column moving from right to The Steer page has a compass that shows your left on your unit's screen. current track, the direction to your destination, and a digital data navigation panel.
Pages Current location Depth contours Waypoint Chart/DSI Page Zoom Current location; Range distance to cursor Chart/DSI page Chart Page Consists of map that moves in real-time as you Consists of a Chart/DSI splitscreen. Press the Pages move. By default, the map is shown from a birds- key twice to switch active panels.
Pages Chart/Sonar split Overlay Data Allows you to change the Displays selected overlay data on the sonar page. way the panels are dis- played when viewing the Chart/Sonar page. Overlay data Show Enables/disables the display of overlay data, allow- ing you to remove overlay data from the screen without deleting the selected overlay data con- figuration.
Pages To select overlay data: 1. From the DSI or chart page, press MenU. Customizing Overlay Data 2. Select Overlay data and press enTer. 3. Select Configure and press enTer. Access the Overlay Data configuration menu to make adjustments to the size and/or location of 4.
Using DSI DSI menu Press Menu from any DSI page to view the DSI DSI history bar menu. Trackback You can review your sonar history by pressing the keypad to the left until the screen starts to move Stop sonar: in reverse and the sonar history bar appears at the pauses the bottom of the screen.
New Waypoint Contrast Places a waypoint at your current position or at the Adjusts the brightness ratio between light and dark cursor position. From the new waypoint menu, you areas on the screen, making it easier to distinguish can input a waypoint name, select an icon and suspended objects from the background.
Frequency Custom Range — Upper and Lower Limits Controls the transducer frequency Used to select the upper limit and lower limit of used by the unit. 800 kHz offers the a section of the water column. That allows you to best resolution, while 455 kHz has view a section of the water column that does not greater depth coverage.
Overlay Data chrome units only support Grayscale and Reverse Grayscale color settings. Allows you to select data (water temperature, depth, etc) to be displayed on top of the DSI screen. Surface Clarity Surface Clarity reduces surface clutter by decreas- ing the sensitivity of the receiver near the surface. Overlay data Overlay data setup is covered in the Pages section.
DSI Interpretation Baitball Pipes Bridge piling Baitfish on the move...
DSI Interpretation Fish Thermocline Structure Structure Fish Trees...
Chart Using your Chart Chart Menu Press Menu from any Chart pages to open the This section covers chart operation, which includes Chart menu. saving, loading and navigating, waypoints, routes and trails and using chart menus, context menus and submenus. Chart menu New Waypoint Creates a waypoint at your current location or...
Chart waypoints, routes, Trails Used to create, edit, navigate and delete way- points, routes and trails. Press the keypad left/right to toggle between waypoint, routes and trails tabs. Waypoints menu Waypoints menu Waypoints Screen Edit Allows you to edit the name, icon and latitude/longitude.
Chart Sort Controls how the waypoints list will be Creates a new waypoint sorted — by name or by nearest. at the cursor or vessel position. You can also select waypoint name, icon and routes Screen latitude/longitude from the new waypoint menu. Used to create, edit, navigate and delete routes.
Chart Shows selected route Leg name field waypoint on the chart Inserts waypoint between existing route waypoints Adds waypoint to 4. Press MenU, select Add to End and end of the route Remove waypoint press enTer. Route waypoint 5. Highlight Waypoint from list and press menu enTer.
Chart Creating a route using points from chart: 1. Repeat Steps 1-4 from the instructions for Creating a route from waypoint list. 2. Select Points from chart and press enTer. The chart screen will appear. 3. Move the cursor to the desired location. Press enTer to set a waypoint.
Chart To cancel navigation: To access the Edit or New Route menu, select Edit or New on the Routes menu and press enTer. 1. Press Menu from the chart screen. To finalize changes on the Edit or New Route 2. Select Navigation and press enTer. menus, highlight the Accept button and press en- 3.
Chart Trails Screen Used to create, edit, navigate and delete trails. Use the keypad to highlight the Trails tab to access the Trails screen. Trails menu Trails menu Trails screen Creating trails To create a trail: When creating a trail you can customize the trail name and color from the New Trail.
Chart Edit and New Trail menus Navigating a trail Allows you to edit/create trails, select trails names, A trail must be saved as a route before it can be trail color, trail display and the trail being recorded. navigated. You can also convert a trail into a route from the To save a trail as a route: Edit Trail menu.
Chart Overlay Data The Record command allows you to record or resume recording a desired trail. Allows you to select data (course over ground, etc) to be displayed on top of the Chart screen. Delete and Delete All Delete is used to remove individual trails.
Settings Settings Settings Menu System Press Menu twice to access the Settings menu. Adjusts unit settings like language, mute audio and advanced mode. Enables Settings advanced menu features and settings System menu Displays (Advanced mode software only) (Advanced mode information only)
Settings Set Language GPS Source (Elite-5 DSI only) Selects the antenna your unit will Selects the language used on use for GPS. You will use the built- menus and text boxes. in GPS antenna unless you have a LGC-16W exter- nal antenna (p/n: 000-00146-001).
Switches the unit back to default ing the About screen. settings. Lowrance periodically updates unit software to add features and improve functionality. To see the Browse Files latest available software version go to www.low- Allows you to view a list of the files rance.com.
Settings navigation Arrival Radius Sets the arrival radius threshold for the Arrival Controls Arrival Radius and Off Course distance alarm. The arrival alarm will sound when your settings and is used to turn on/off WAAS/MSAS/ vessel comes within a selected distance (arrival EGNOS.
The automatic setting Chart Data reconciles the variation for you. Selects map data that will be used on the Chart display (Lowrance or WARNING: You should only use the Navionics regional map). Go to Navionics.com to Manual magnetic variation setting if see a full selection of available charts.
Settings COG Extension Waypoints, Routes, Trails Accesses the Waypoints, Routes & Trails screen. A line extending from the front Waypoints, Routes and Trails are covered in the of the current position icon that estimates time and distance it Chart section. will take to get to areas in front of you.
Settings Installation Noise Rejection Uses advanced signal processing to monitor the Provides access to Keel Offset and Temp Calibration effects noise (boat pumps, water conditions, settings. engine ignition systems, etc.) has on your display, and then filters out the undesired signals. Manual Mode Restricts digital depth capability, so the unit will Installation menu...
Settings Before setting keel offset, measure the distance from the transducer to the lowest part of the keel. If, for example, the keel is 3.5 feet below the trans- ducer, it will be input as –3.5 feet. Temperature calibration Calibrates data from the transducer temperature Alarms sensor with data from a known temperature source menu...
Settings Units Allows you to select the unit of measure used by the unit. Unit options vary depending on whether the unit is in basic or advanced mode. Basic Mode Advanced Mode NMEA 0183 Output Allows users to select NMEA 0183 sentences the unit will use when connected to a VHF radio or other NMEA 0183 device.
Index Creating trails 27 GPS Source 31 Navigating a trail 28 Cursor 9 GPS Status 31 Navigation Settings 33 About 32 Custom Range 17 Grid Lines 35 New Waypoint 21 Advanced Mode 9 NMEA 0183 38 Alarms 37 Noise Rejection 36 Arrival Radius 33 Data Port 31 Installation menu 36...
Index Time 31 Restore defaults 10 Trackback 15 Routes Screen 23 Trails Screen 27 Turn unit on/off 3 Saving Screenshots 32 Scrollbars 7 Unit Controls 3 Selecting Pages 5 Units 38 Set Language 31 Upper and Lower Lim- Settings Menu 30 its 17 Setup wizard 5 Simulator 38...
Specifications Elite 5 DSI DSI Sonar General 250 ft (76m) Max depth 5.4" H (134mm) x 6.8" W (174mm); 6" H (152mm) Transducer Case Size 455/800kHz with bracket Frequency (5" diagonal) Enhanced Solar MAX™ 480x480 256 50 mph (80 kph)
Specifications Elite 4 DSI & Mark 4 DSI DSI Sonar General 200 ft (76m) Max depth 5.6" H (144mm) x 3.7" W (94.3mm); 6.4" H (164mm) Transducer Case Size 455/800kHz with bracket Frequency Elite 4: (3.5" diagonal) 320x240 (256 color) TFT 50 mph (80 kph) Max speed Display...
Databases Limited Warranty Navico Databases License Agreement "We", "our", or "us" refers to Navico, the manufacturer of this product. "You" or "your" THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE END-USER WHO FIRST PURCHASES refers to the first person who purchases the product as a consumer item for personal, family, or household use. THIS PRODUCT AS A CONSUMER ITEM FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY, OR HOUSEHOLD USE The Databases Limited Warranty applies to the one or more databases that your product may contain.
LEI Extras is the accessory source for sonar and GPS products manufactured by Lowrance Electronics. To order Lowrance accessories, please contact: 1) Your local marine dealer or consumer electronics store. To locate a Lowrance dealer, visit the web site, www.low- rance.com, and look for the Dealer Locator; or, consult your telephone directory for listings.
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On October 29, 2015, an order regarding the motion for an extension of a pending deadline was filed in the bankruptcy case of Saint Michael's Medical Center, Inc. and its affiliates.
The filing was assigned docket number 324 and is described on the court's official docket as follows:
Bridge Order Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1452 and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure 9006 and 9027 Extending the Period within which the Debtors may Remove Actions (related document:[314] Motion to Extend Time For Other Reason re: the Time Within Which the Debtors May File Notices of Removal Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1452 and Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9006 and 9027, Filed by Ryan T. Jareck on behalf of Saint Michael's Medical Center, Inc.). Service of notice of the entry of this order pursuant to Rule 9022 was made on the appropriate parties. See BNC Certificate of Notice. Signed on 10/29/2015. (jf)
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this event was held at Glow Plaza Indonesia, with this event Lancome is introducing their brand new mascra called Hypnose doll eye mascara, that's why our make up theme should be dolly look. for this battle i have to face to face with Marsha from Blushoff Blog.
the event was started at 3pm and we *Marsha and Me* are afraid that no one will come to see our battle, because last week most blogger just came and watch the battle between Carnelin and Hanna. but thank God several bloggers come to support us!
before we go straight to the battle there's opening dance by Lancome Doll models, they look so beautiful and tall and slim and perfect, and our MC yesterday is Rhona and yeah she look so beautiful and cute too!
well i have to say i didn't took many picture on this event because im too busy walking around the counter, playing make up and then im busy to give some direction to my MUA, yes i dont get to do the make up look for my model, i only give the ideas and direction to my MUA, to remake my doll look.
so most of this photo was taken by my boyfriends so the picture quite random but he manage to get good picture. so i'll give you more photo then word after this!
|this is My MUA and Model
|here's Marsha and her MUA
and yes i manage to be narcissist
|and group photo!!
|here's me and Marsha getting nervous for the voting moment
and if you see that face you'll probably notice something?
and yep the winner is Marsha! so Congratulaiton to her. im happy for her.
*dear Marsha if you read this, i dont know if i still want to be ur friends haha!!*
so when in group photo, i dont know why all blogger gather all in my area so i have to step back that's why you cant see me.
thank you so much Lancome for the amazing noon!
and here's my price and goodie bag :D
Rouge In Love Lipstick
Hypnose Doll eyes
Creme Mousse Comfort foam
Tonique Eclat toner
and the goodie bag is : make up case from Glow Lancome Teint Miracle foundation Hypnose doll mini size mascara and Genifique


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With the short break over we can now get back to the good stuff - a Monday full of animation. With the spare week I had a chance to look over the past 10 episodes of the show and there's a clear improvement on last year, it's still not developed a consistent level yet - with it occasionally going off the rails a touch. But it's getting there and this week makes it the shows strongest three episodes in a row for a while.
The show has targeted Google glass this week and like 'Steal This Episode' (but not to the same degree) it has delivered some solid satire. 'Homer' and all the power plant workers are given Google Glasses by 'Mr.Burns' as a company present - but 'Mr.Burns' has an ulterior motive. He uses them as a means of spying on them, which I liked. It didn't implement it as well as I'd have hoped with it putting a light view on the matter - but it has something genuine to say about this kind of thing. The age of spying and company paranoia is growing. The pacing is a little off, mainly because of it flickering between the different plots - when halfway through it becomes a 'Homer' spies on 'Marge' thing. Which again is interesting, but I feel that and 'Mr.Burns' plot would have been better as separate episodes. There's also a B-plot that doesn't really go anywhere- 'Nelson' forcing everyone to give him a valentine with 'Bart' refusing.
There's some clever jokes sprinkled around but it's the respective stories that mainly keep this interesting. It seems like the show is starting to revert to when the relationships was just as important as the jokes and i like that. Naturally 3 episodes isn't the best indication - but I want to believe it. Even though it's not overtly funny there is enough to see it through to the end - it doesn't wait too long to give us something to laugh at. But I do have to admit it contains some jokes I'd prefer they never did - referencing your own title sequence is stupid and the end of the 'Moe bubble was cringe-inducing.
Not the best but not the worst of the season. 'Specs And The City' is ultimately held up by its good take on spying. And even though it shifts its focus somewhat halfway through - both plots are strong enough to justify the change. It's just a shame I didn't pick one over the other as we could have had something great.
Favourite Parts:
- The two connected by slightly different plot both work well - the first was onto something excellent, it's a shame it shifts off it.
- Marge: "Lisa, what did I say about pointing out the meaninglessness of thing?". On the Google Glass screen when looking at 'Maggie' - Attempted Murderess. Mr.Burns walks in "Who are you?" Homer: "Ahh, Mr. Burns!". Mr.Burns: "Mr.Burns?, oh I'm sorry".


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One of our regular forays into Ludlow saw us visit here on Saturday 10th November 2012. We have visited here before when it was called something like the Little Marches Beer Shop (or something like that?) The beer range seems to have expanded and become far more interesting and varied than it was previously. On this visit I saw a good range of Brewdog beers including the likes of TNP, Sink the Bismarck and others. There was also a very good choice of Belgian, German and also decent US beers. I picked a few today including Gregorious the new trappist beer and also Oakham Green Devil IPA. Most of the international beers can be found in the island in the middle (btw it is a small shop) and as you enter the shop the shelves directly in front tend to stock the UK beers (apart from Brewdog which are on the island) and a good selection of locally sourced beers, there is also a decent range of local (mostly Herefordshire) ciders on the shelf immediately on your right as you enter. Prices are about right, the gentleman/owner was friendly and knowledgeable. This is a very good place to stock up if in Ludlow.


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Morphometric analysis of nymphalid butterfly wings: number, size and arrangement of scales, and their implications for tissue-size determination
Version of Record online: 5 JUL 2013
DOI: 10.1111/ens.12046
© 2013 The Entomological Society of Japan
Entomological Science
Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 207–218, April 2014
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Dhungel, B. and Otaki, J. M. (2014), Morphometric analysis of nymphalid butterfly wings: number, size and arrangement of scales, and their implications for tissue-size determination. Entomological Science, 17: 207–218. doi: 10.1111/ens.12046
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The Son That Former NFL Player Rae Carruth Tried To Kill Turns 18, Still Suffering From Permanent Brain Damage
The former wide receiver, who plotted the murder of his ex, Cherica Adams, is scheduled to be released from prison soon.
Media giant Comcast has officially launched its program to expand opportunities for minority tech entrepreneurs.
In partnership with DreamIt Ventures, a startup accelerator program, Comcast Ventures' Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (MEAP) kicked off earlier this month. The program includes five startup companies that have been selected by Comcast Ventures and have at least 50 percent of their business owned by African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latino-Americans or Native Americans.
"It's important not just for African-Americans, but also many other minorities within the tech space," William Crowder, managing director of DreamIt, and overseer of MEAP tells BET.com. "Many large companies do not have a significant number of minorities represented among their co-founding team. A big gap exists. There is definitely talent, people are out there with ideas, but the issue is how do you get those people out there with the ideas in front of those with capital, the ones who want to invest?"
Each MEAP company will receive up to $25,000 of seed funding, one-on-one mentorship with leading entrepreneurs plus donated legal, accounting and administrative help, the opportunity to pitch to dozens of venture capitalists and investors, and education from a weekly speaker series.
Comcast Ventures and DreamIt plan for the funding, mentorship and experiences to result in a diverse set of experiences and exposure to potential investors for the minority-led startups.
"We have research that shows that minority entrepreneurs are often times underrepresented relative to their proportion of the population," Katie Lubenow, senior manager of corporate communications at Comcast told BET.com.
The company states that it is eager to see the five innovative startups prosper and that they look forward to providing resources and mentorship to the entrepreneurs.
"This program is really about giving them the opportunity to move their business forward in a very measurable way and hopefully it will increase the likelihood that they will be successful," Crowder said.
The selected minority businesses include:
ElectNext, Philadelphia: A company that works like a dating site, for your elections. Clients can compare candidates and find the perfect fit.
Kwelia, New York: A company that produces quantitatively derived analytical tools that will facilitate decision-making for residential real estate.
Metalayer, Washington, D.C: A visual search company that turns the real world into sortable data. For example, the search company can turn pictures into 1,000 words.
Qwite, Los Gatos, California: A location-based service, taking clients where they want to go — from intent, to experience and memories.
ThaTrunk Inc., Austin, Texas: A company that uses mobile commerce and geocast technology to help digital creators resonate with their fans and potential consumers.
Hopeful entrepreneurs wishing to reap the benefits from Comcast Ventures multi-million-dollar fund may have to stay patient, however.
"Future funding decisions have not been made at this time, but Comcast remains committed to promoting and increasing diversity in our company, in our programming and in the communities we serve," Louis Toth, managing director of Comcast Ventures, told BET.com in a statement.
With the help of Comcast, these minority start-up companies may be destined for success, and with a $20 million fund, hopefully even more minority startups will have the opportunity to jump-start their businesses, sooner rather than later, as well.
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The True Meaning of the 7 Days of Creation: Spiritual Rebirth
Arcana Coelestia ("Secrets of Heaven")
by E. Swedenborg.
1. The Word of God
From the mere letter of the Word of the Old Testament no one would ever discern the fact that this part of the Word contains deep secrets of heaven, and that everything within it both in general and in particular bears reference to the Lord, to His heaven, to the church, to religious belief, and to all things connected therewith; for from the letter or sense of the letter all that any one can see is that, to speak generally, everything therein has reference merely to the external rites and ordinances of the Jewish Church. Yet the truth is that everywhere in that Word there are internal things which never appear at all in the external things except a very few which the Lord revealed and explained to the Apostles; such as that the sacrifices signify the Lord; that the land of Canaan and Jerusalem signify heaven, on which account they are called the Heavenly Canaan and Jerusalem, and that Paradise has a similar signification.
The Christian world however is as yet profoundly unaware of the fact that all things in the Word both in general and in particular, nay, the very smallest particulars down to the most minute iota, signify and enfold within them spiritual and heavenly things, and therefore the Old Testament is but little cared for. Yet that the Word is really of this character might be known from the single consideration that being the Lord's and from the Lord it must of necessity contain within it such things as belong to heaven, to the church, and to religious belief, and that unless it did so it could not be called the Lord's Word, nor could it be said to have any life in it. For whence comes its life except from those things that belong to life, that is to say, except from the fact that everything in it both in general and in particular bears reference to the Lord, who is the very Life itself; so that anything which does not inwardly regard Him is not alive; and it may be truly said that any expression in the Word that does not enfold Him within it, that is, which does not in its own way bear reference to Him, is not Divine.
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead. The case in this respect is the same as it is with man, who--as is known in the Christian world--is both internal and external. When separated from the internal man, the external man is the body, and is therefore dead; for it is the internal man that is alive and that causes the external man to be so, the internal man being the soul. So is it with the Word, which, in respect to the letter alone, is like the body without the soul.
While the mind cleaves to the literal sense alone, no one can possibly see that such things are contained within it. Thus in these first chapters of Genesis, nothing is discoverable from the sense of the letter other than that the creation of the world is treated of, and the garden of Eden which is called Paradise, and Adam as the first created man. Who supposes anything else? But it will be sufficiently established in the following pages that these matters contain secrets which have never yet been revealed; and in fact that the first chapter of Genesis in the internal sense treats in general of the new creation of man, or of his regeneration, and specifically of the Most Ancient Church; and this in such a manner that there is not the least expression which does not represent, signify, and enfold within it these things.
2. Styles of the Word
There are in the Word, in general, four different styles.
The first is that of the Most Ancient Church. Their mode of expression was such that when they mentioned terrestrial and worldly things they thought of the spiritual and celestial things which these represented. They therefore not only expressed themselves by representatives, but also formed these into a kind of historical series, in order to give them more life; and this was to them delightful in the very highest degree. This is the style of which Hannah prophesied, saying:--
Speak what is high! high! Let what is ancient come out of your mouth (1 Sam. 2:3).
Such representatives are called in David, "Dark sayings of old" (Ps. 78:2-4). These particulars concerning the creation, the garden of Eden, etc., down to the time of Abram, Moses had from the descendants of the Most Ancient Church.
The second style is historical, which is found in the books of Moses from the time of Abram onward, and in those of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the Kings. In these books the historical facts are just as they appear in the sense of the letter; and yet they all contain, in both general and particular, quite other things in the internal sense, of which, by the Lord's Divine mercy, in their order in the following pages.
The third style is the prophetical one, which was born of that which was so highly venerated in the Most Ancient Church. This style however is not in connected and historical form like the most ancient style, but is broken, and is scarcely ever intelligible except in the internal sense, wherein are deepest secrets, which follow in beautiful connected order, and relate to the external and the internal man; to the many states of the church; to heaven itself; and in the inmost sense to the Lord.
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Yesterday I wrote a post saying that the Communist Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio promised to use SEIU/Occupy Wall Street tactics to impose taxes on affluent New Yorkers.: Less than 24 hours later de Blasop made this shocking declaration:
: "We're going to use every recourse we have – legal or otherwise – to guarantee a vote."
Incredibly a mayor that has sworn to uphold the law via his own words promised to use to use illegal methods if necessary to get his way.: This is something that should make the hairs on the back of the necks of every New Yorker stand up!: New Yorkers haven't elected a mayor, but a tyrant who promises with public statements to flout the laws of our city.: : :
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After single dad's house is firebombed, community rallies to help
(WJBK) - What a difference a week can make.
Last Wednesday a single dad and his daughter lost their home and belongings after it went up in flames
But after the tragic story aired on Fox 2 Metro Detroiters pulled together to make sure Matthew Rittenberry and Arianna did not miss out on Christmas
Rittenberry was stunned when he opened the door early Friday morning to find Mojo in the Morning crew members from Channel 955 and other community members with Christmas cheer.
"I thought it was the wrong house because no one comes here this early," he said.
A local radio crew teamed up to deliver some good cheer early Friday morning after Matt and Arianna's presents were destroyed in the fire
"Honestly it wasn't even us seeing it on Fox 2," said Joey Namou, Mojo in the Morning show. "It was everyone who saw it on Fox 2 and was emailing us 'Mojo, you've got to do this.'"
"I thought Mojo could help," said Gina Ciaramitato. "I heard about his breaking and entering Christmas and thought of them. And it all worked out."
And as the presents kept piling up for this father and his little girl, the joy kept spreading
"Really happy," said Matthew's daughter Arianna.
"It doesn't look like it's going to be a struggle for the next three weeks," said Matthew.
Rittenberry and his daughter is staying with his mom in St. Clair Shores, also got a surprise from Lowe's to help replace the tools he lost in the fire.
"It was heartwarming to see that we could really help someone out," Lee Carter of Lowe's.
Some say they hope the spirit of giving continues this holiday.
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Lane Kiffin has been Tennessee's ex-head coach now for almost as long as he held the original title, but between the evaporation of his only recruiting class and the burning desire of some Tennesseans to shoot him in effigy, the residue his 14-month tenure continues to pervade the program a full year after his abrupt departure for USC. Now, there's one final addition to the Kiffin legacy in Knoxville, courtesy of the NCAA, which wrapped up a 22-month investigation Tuesday by dropping an official notice of alleged infractions under Kiffin in the university's lap – one of which stands out, in particular (emphasis added):
The University of Tennessee yesterday received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA regarding the school's men's basketball and football programs. … The notice contains the following allegations of violation of NCAA rules against the football program:
• By former members of the football coaching staff: impermissible telephone contact (16 total calls) with prospective student-athletes from Jan. 3-9, 2010.
• By a former assistant football coach: allegations relating to impermissible contacts with prospective student-athletes.
• By a former head football coach: failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the football program and failure to monitor the activities regarding compliance of several assistant coaches have also been made against a former head football coach, and permitting a football recruiting intern to make impermissible contact with high school staff during a recruiting visit.
Jan. 3-9, 2010, was a recruiting "dead period" (during which coaches aren't allowed to contact recruits) that ended just before the Kiffin clan made tracks for USC on Jan. 12, meaning these allegations do not specifically include recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron's alleged attempts to turn Tennessee commitments to USC as news of their departure was breaking – and all hell was breaking loose – that night. They also don't include anything apparently relating to the deployment of overly friendly "hostesses" to games featuring high-profile recruits.
As expected, the allegations do appear to include the illegal workout reportedly conducted by Orgeron ("former assistant coach") with a recruit during a dead period in May 2009, as well as former intern Steve Rubio's acting as a recruiter in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. If there's a hammer here, though, it comes with the charges of "failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance" and "failure to monitor," which are tied specifically to Kiffin, personally, not just Tennessee: As USC athletic Pat Haden said in his response to the allegations, "The NCAA enforcement process provides for Tennessee and Lane to address those charges," suggesting that potential penalties could follow Kiffin (and possibly Orgeron) to his new gig, even if he hasn't been accused of breaking any rules there.
That's a novel approach to enforcement, which is typically levied against the institution, not an individual coach. One glaring exception to that rule is Kiffin's crosstown counterpart, UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel, who was barred from off-campus recruiting for eight months in 2002, when Neuheisel was head coach at Washington, for recruiting violations that stemmed from his tenure at Colorado in the mid-nineties. Presumably, the notification to USC is notification that Kiffin could face the same fate.
The fact is, as scofflaws go, Kiffin comes across as something of lightweight compared to the epic list of allegations against Vol basketball coach Bruce Pearl – including "failure to furnish full and complete information relevant to the investigation," traditionally a kiss of death when dealing with the NCAA – over the same period. With the Neuheisel precedent hanging over his head, though, Kiffin is officially on the clock, along with his former employer: They have 90 days to formally respond to the allegations, before their date in front in front of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions for judgment in June.
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AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti refused to be downhearted despite Sunday's loss to Serie A leaders Internazionale, a result which leaves them closer to the relegation zone than a European qualifying berth.
Milan are a massive 25 points behind their city rivals, but can point to both the Champions League and Club World Cup titles as the fruits of a successful year.
"We are world champions and we played up to that reputation," said Ancelotti. "No defeat can take the smile away from my face and cancel this state of bliss.
"Our first objective for 2008 will be to get as many points as possible and try to reach the second round of the Champions League in a better position in the league."
Milan were greeted by a guard of honour from their rivals, something which delighted Ancelotti.
He added on the club's official website: "Of course it's a disappointing defeat. It came in particular circumstances, with many unfavourable episodes.
"The Inter players did very well, they also honoured our World Cup victory in a very original and unexpected way.
"We are a more agile, more technical team compared to Inter. We tried to win the game with those qualities."
Esteban Cambiasso's winner came courtesy of a mistake from Milan goalkeeper Dida, but Ancelotti was not in the mood to hand out blame.
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(LAS VEGAS, NV) -- Fashion Model and Skyrocketing Starlet, Veronica Ricci, has an energetic lifestyle. Ever since photos of the gorgeous college co-ed graced the covers and centerfolds of many popular magazines, including Hustler® and Penthouse®, Veronica's fans have gone wild with delight. But, as runner-up winner for the title of 2010 Penthouse PetTM of the Year, Veronica has little (if any) time to meet and greet fans.
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Safe Men Trailer (1998)
"Welcome to the world of disorganised crime." 17 August 1998 Comedy, Crime 88 mins
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
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Is the scientific community finding its political voice? As the March for Science approaches, science correspondent Miles O'Brien meets with researchers who are venturing into the political fray to keep their profession alive.
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Judy Woodruff:
Next: Is the scientific community finding its political voice?
Science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks into what is behind street protests here staged by members of a profession not generally known for their activism.
It's part of our weekly Leading Edge series.
Who is ready to stand up for science?
Miles O'brien:
They are scientists, and on this February Sunday in Boston, they were conducting an experiment they'd just as soon avoid.
Facing a White House that is pushing across-the-board steep cuts in federal science funding, they are taking to the streets. Their hypothesis? In order to keep their work alive, they must dive into the political fray.
Geoffrey Supran, MIT Scientist:
Today, science fights back.
Geoffrey Supran:
I think, scientists, it's not in our natural nature to shout, to make a loud noise, but, apparently, we can do it when come together.
Miles O'brien:
Geoffrey Supran is a renewable energy modeler at MIT. He was there among a few hundred protesters in Copley Square, one of several protests staged by scientists since Donald Trump became president.
The administration has proposed double-digit cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health, and a 20 percent across-the-board cut to research on climate change.
Geoffrey Supran:
As scientists, it's actually our responsibility, and as citizens, to warn the public when we see danger. You know, if you see something, say something. And we feel the civic duty.
Miles O'brien:
The protesters here hope this rally is merely a prelude to something much bigger, a march en masse in Washington and hundreds of other cities all over the world on April 22.
Kishore Hari is one of the organizers of the Earth Day events.
Kishore Hari, March for Science:
Science has been political since the time of Galileo. Nothing has changed between now and then. But it's important that we are nonpartisan because this is a march for science, and that unifies everyone around the world.
Miles O'brien:
But the idea has drawn controversy from some scientists, who are concerned march organizers are also advocating a host of other liberal social causes.
The rally in Boston happened in the midst of the annual meeting of the largest scientific society in the world, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The organization is supporting the political mobilization of many of its members.
Physicist and former Democratic Congressman Rush Holt is the CEO.
Rush Holt, Former U.S. Congressman:
(D) This would be — it's purported to be a demonstration for science, the very idea of science, the essence of science. Isn't that a wonderful idea?
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University:
This rally isn't about promoting a particular policy. It's about promoting the idea that the scientific enterprise as a whole improves our lives.
Miles O'brien:
Naomi Oreskes is a scientist and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. She has written extensively about the role of politics, special interests and science. For most of history, she says, scientists had to be politically and publicly engaged in order to fund their research.
But, in the U.S., that changed after World War II, when federal funding started flowing into laboratories.
Naomi Oreskes:
We lost the sense of a kind of civic obligation, or reciprocal obligation, that if we expect the taxpayer to pay for what we do, that we also should — that they have an expectation that we should be spending time explaining it.
And I think that breakdown, that reciprocal communication breakdown, has had real consequences in our lifetimes.
Miles O'brien:
During that same time, the political pushback against science grew, whether the realm was evolution, acid rain, the ozone hole, or climate change.
Naomi Oreskes:
The scientific community made a mistake in not taking that more seriously. And so now we're in a situation where it's become a crisis. And now the scientific community, I think, realizes that we have a very serious problem on our hands.
Rush Holt, CEO, AAAS:
Scientists, as a rule, are not comfortable being out there politically, but we should. Putting science into politics and into society is something that they can do and should do, probably must do.
Miles O'brien:
Naomi Oreskes is writing a new book, science fiction that imagines a society that embraces climate change science and renewable energy.
Geoffrey Supran is helping her with this. After all, renewable energy is what his research is all about.
Geoffrey Supran, MIT Scientist:
This is where we make next-generation LEDs and solar cells. It's essentially a continuous vacuum facility.
Miles O'brien:
Supran was here in his lab at MIT when President Obama visited in 2009, leaving his autograph on a vacuum chamber used to make better solar cells and brighter LEDs.
He was sitting in the same place when it dawned on him and his colleagues that most of the technology to tackle climate change already exists, but the political will to do something doesn't. He says, for his generation of scientists, that is a call to action.
Geoffrey Supran:
There's a cultural shift throughout that young people are, I'm proud to say, taking the lead, I think. And so we're really starting to see the scientific community adjusting to the landscape and preparing itself better to deal with the political realities of today.
And if they don't get it, let's run for office and vote them out.
Miles O'brien:
Some scientists are hoping to do just that.
Shaughnessy, tell us a little bit about today.
Today, we had our first candidate training for scientists who are thinking about running for office.
Miles O'brien:
A science advocacy group called 314 Action, which is encouraging scientists to run, says 3,000 have signed up for its candidate training program. 314 Action has some 101-level political how-to videos to help them take the leap out of the lab.
Tracy Van Houten, Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
Hi, Heather. This is Tracy Van Houten, and I'm the aerospace engineer who is running for Congress here in this district.
Miles O'brien:
A handful have thrown their slide rules into the ring. Tracy Van Houten is an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who works on Mars rovers.
Tracy Van Houten:
I was in Washington last week, and then the president's budget came out, and I was there advocating on behalf of STEM education.
Miles O'brien:
She ran for in a special election for a vacated congressional seat in Los Angeles.
Tracy Van Houten:
If we really care about doing the big things in the world, for me at some point, it just didn't feel big enough anymore to focus on answering mankind's questions about the universe. I needed to kind of return my focus here on Earth to help out in the community here.
Miles O'brien:
Tracy Van Houten didn't succeed in her experiment. She lost in the primary. Despite her aspirations, she is most at home in a clean room. The smoke-filled room is a new frontier.
Science is not what?
Thank you.
Miles O'brien:
Scientists may find it hard to make the transition, but many of them believe this is a phase change they are compelled to investigate.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Miles O'Brien in Boston.


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West Hawaii residents from Pahala to Waikoloa spent nearly 20 hours without phone and Internet service, after a tree damaged a Hawaiian Telcom fiber optic cable near Waikoloa.
Officials with the telecommunications company said they had service restored by about 11 a.m. Monday. Service cut out for many customers, including everyone in the Ka'u District, around 5 p.m. Sunday. Hawaii County Civil Defense Administrator Darryl Oliveira said his office was in contact with Hawaiian Telcom until about 1 a.m. Monday, and then again after daybreak, getting updates on the situation, which left many customers unable to use their landline telephones and cellphones.
Because of the severe outage in Ka'u, Fire Department officials called on volunteers to take to the roads and be available if someone needed help, but couldn't call for it, Oliveira said. Police Department officials Sunday evening and Monday morning were encouraging residents in need of assistance to drive to the nearest police station for help if their phones weren't working.
The Police Department also stationed an officer at every Ka'u school Monday morning, so the schools could reach out to emergency services via radio in case a student was injured or became ill, Oliveira said.
Businesses were also impacted by the outage, with some stores unable to run credit cards.
He wasn't aware of any major incidents occurring during the outage.
The fiber optic cable that broke was located about 1.5 miles makai of Highway 190, Oliveira said.
The location was so remote, and the road leading to it had been partially washed out, leaving repair workers unable to drive all the way in to make the fix, Hawaiian Telcom spokeswoman Su Shin added. Workers had to hike the last half mile carrying their repair equipment.
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Mumbai, May 5 (UNI) Adlabs Films Limited, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, today announced signing of an agreement for acquisition of majority and controlling interest in Malaysia-based Lotus Five Star Cinemas and will be operating a 51 screen cinema chain in Malaysia.
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Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, shortly after I arrived in the Senate, in 2002, Republicans--my political party--became the majority party, and I quickly learned a few important lessons. First of all, being in the majority is better than being in the minority. But part of the price of being in the majority is that sometimes you have to take some tough votes via the amendment process. In other words, when the Senate is operating the way it was originally intended--and which it always has until recently--any Senator has the right to seek recognition and offer an amendment on almost any topic on almost any bill. My colleagues told me at the time--they said: It has always been that way, and it is the way it always should be, if we are serious about protecting minority rights.
So why should I care, being a Member of the majority, about protecting minority rights in the Senate? Well, in the intervening years, my political party has gone from being in the majority in the Senate to being in the minority. That is one reason to care. The other reason to care is because every Senator was elected by their constituents in their State to represent their State, and when any Senator--whether they are in the majority or the minority--is shut out of the process, their constituents are shut out of the process. That is not what the Constitution contemplates when it says that each State has a right to send two Senators to Washington. If you can tell one of those or both of those Senators to sit down and be quiet, you cannot offer any amendments, you cannot get any votes on your amendments, you are effectively shutting out, in my case, the 26 million people I represent in the State of Texas.
So the message is this: If you do not want to take tough votes, you are in the wrong line of work--you are in the wrong line of work. The way the Senate should operate is that each of us is accountable to our constituents, and when they disagree with us about a vote, then they have a right to tell us. That is called petitioning your government for the redress of grievances.
Accountability, which is the way this Congress is supposed to work, can only work when we have an open process, where the minority gets to participate in the process and the majority gets to participate in the process. And guess what. If you are in the majority on a given subject, you are going to win. But that is no justification for shutting down the minority and saying: Sit down; shut up; forget about the fact that you have an election certificate from your secretary of State saying you were duly and regularly chosen by the voters in your State to represent them in what used to be the world's greatest deliberative body.
Here is something else I learned when I came to the Senate--something that does not happen as much now--but what I learned is this place works best when individual bills are drafted by Senators and move through the committee process. That is because usually the committees that have jurisdiction over those pieces of legislation have some experience and some expertise in the subject matter, and sometimes the subject matter gets pretty complicated. And it is good for the Senate, it is good for the United States to have a committee look at the legislation. People will have a chance to offer amendments and have them voted up or down before they then come to the Senate floor. Then every Senator gets to participate whether they know very much about the topic. Hopefully, all of us get to be smart pretty quickly when a bill comes to the floor because that is our chance to have a say on behalf of our constituents, whether we are in the majority or whether we are in the minority. We do not have a right to win--the minority does not--but we do have a right to a voice and a vote and to participate in the legislative process, which is what has been denied under the current majority leader.
More than a decade after I came to the Senate, I hardly recognize it; it is so dramatically different. Indeed, in some ways it is diametrically opposite from what it was when I got here and, frankly, the way the Senate has operated for a couple hundred years since the founding of our country. Only in the last few years under the current majority leader has the Senate become completely dysfunctional, where the majority leader becomes, in essence, a dictator who says: No, Senator, your amendment cannot be considered, it cannot be voted on. In other words, it is not up to the Senator to offer an amendment to try to shape legislation on behalf of our constituents, to engage in robust debate; it is the majority leader who basically becomes the traffic cop who says who stops, who goes. Of course, that is one reason why the Senate has become so dysfunctional.
Under the current majority leader, an unprecedented number of bills have come directly to the floor from his conference room, from his office, and bypassed the committee process. In fact, many of my colleagues, including many of my Democratic colleagues, have been left wondering: Why in the world have committees in the Senate if we are not going to use them, if we are not going to use the committees for the experience and the expertise those Members serving on those committees have before it comes to the Senate floor.
In addition to bypassing the committee process in an unprecedented sort of way, once the Senate legislation comes to the Senate floor out of the majority leader's conference room--or wherever it is it comes from--Senators from both parties, representing hundreds of millions of American citizens, are routinely denied the opportunity to offer amendments and engage in meaningful debate. We just saw that yesterday as a direct result of the majority leader's denying anyone--the Presiding Officer, one of our Democratic colleagues, or anyone--an opportunity to offer amendments and to get votes on those amendments on an energy bill, which is the first time we have had an energy bill on the floor since 2007. The majority leader shuts down the process and says, in essence: Sit down; shut up; good luck.
During the 109th Congress, when Republicans controlled this Chamber, Democrats were allowed to offer--that is the minority party was allowed to offer--1,043 separate amendments--1,043 separate amendments during the 109th Congress. Do you know how many amendments Republicans have been able to offer since July of last year in the Senate? Nine--nine Republican amendments in 10 months.
Majority Leader Reid has filled the amendment tree--that is the technical jargon; someone has called it basically that it is the gag rule of the majority leader, but it is technically blocking the amendment process--more than twice as much as majority leaders Bill Frist, Tom Daschle, Trent Lott, Bob Dole, George Mitchell, and Robert Byrd combined; that is one, two, three, four, five, six--six previous majority leaders did not do it as much as the current majority leader, Senator Reid; that is, block out any amendments from the minority.
I know because we have talked about this so much before most Americans really are not focused on Senate procedure and they think: Well, maybe this is just one Senator who is a little sore at being frozen out of the process and losing on a particular piece of legislation. But, again, this is not about the prerogatives of an individual U.S. Senator; this is about the people's prerogative, the people's right to participate in the process. The very legitimacy of our form of government depends upon consent of the governed. How can the people the Presiding Officer represents and I represent consent when they have been shut out? Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created our great system of government--to shut our fellow citizens out of the process, to trample on minority rights? Hardly.
Before I conclude, I want to say a quick word about some of the majority leader's most recent comments when we have had a discussion about this problem.
When Americans ponder the root causes of Washington dysfunction and gridlock, I hope they remember the majority leader of the Senate, who leads this great institution and has referred to the minority party in the Senate as ``greased pigs.'' He has accused us of wanting to suppress voting rights. He has claimed we have tried to ``dump on'' women and minorities. He describes Senators representing their constituents with amendments as ``screwing around,'' and he demonizes private citizens exercising their rights under the Constitution of the United States as ``un-American.'' I have to confess, I find these comments insulting, I find these comments disrespectful, and I find them embarrassing.
How can we ever expect to reach compromise, which is the only way things happen here? Neither party can dictate on their own what the outcomes legislatively will be, so the only way we can do it is to try to find common ground and work together, without sacrificing our principles, of course. But how are we ever going to solve some of the most complex legislative challenges that confront us--such as tax reform?
We have a bill on the floor where we are being asked to extend 55 expiring temporary tax provisions. For how long? Well, through 2015. Is that a good way to do business? Well, no. What kind of uncertainty is there when we do not even know what the Tax Code is going to say for more than a year and a half?
Then there is entitlement reform. I mentioned this before. We have these pages here who are serving in the Senate. They are in high school. Someday the $17 trillion the Federal Government owes to our creditors is going to have to be paid back--someday. When that happens, I daresay interest rates are not going to be at zero, which is what they are now thanks to the Federal Reserve because the Federal Reserve is trying to juice the economy, doing the best it can to get the economy back on track, although we do not have a lot to show for it. The economy grew at 0.1 percent last quarter.
How are we going to fix our broken immigration system if the majority leader is going to routinely slander Members of this body and our constituents? How are we going to fix what is broken if the majority leader wants to trash talk folks on this side of the aisle and people he disagrees with. He even called them un-American. For what? For participating in the political process. Well, of course, he would like to
shut them up and make them sit down so he could do what he wants without any resistance or without anybody questioning his actions.
Recently in Austin President Obama and others gathered for a historic celebration. It was the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Civil Rights Act. Do you know how many amendments were voted on by the Senate when the Civil Rights Act was passed? There were 117 amendments.
Do you think this Congress and this Senate today, under this majority leader, would have any opportunity to pass historic legislation to heal the wounds of our country that date back to the very founding of this Nation, given the fact that the minority is shut out of the process, no amendments are allowed, and no votes on those amendments? There is no way. What a tragedy--the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
Then for more mundane matters, when the Panama Canal treaties were debated in this body, there were 75 rollcall votes. That was a very controversial issue at the time. But there are nine rollcall votes in this body coming from the Republican side since July, with no prospect of allowing any amendments on the current tax bill that is on the floor.
Just like the energy bill that we concluded yesterday, there is no prospect in sight for a better outcome and better behavior by the people who should know better. How can we expect to achieve comity in this Chamber when its most powerful Member has done so much to poison the atmosphere.
The Senate of 2014 is certainly not the Senate that our Founding Fathers envisioned, nor is it the Senate that my former colleague, Senator Chris Dodd, described in his 2010 farewell speech. Let me quote just a small portion. Senator Dodd reminded us that:
The Senate was designed to be different, not simply for the sake of variety, but because the Framers believed the Senate could and should be the venue in which statesmen would lift America up to meet its unique challenges.
Unfortunately, the Senate will never be able to play that unique role in American government and American history until the majority leader shows greater respect for the constituents we represent and for this institution.
As I said, this debate is not about procedural niceties, it is not about the prerogatives of the Senator because they think they are so important. When Republicans offer amendments to pending legislation, we are trying to give our constituents the voice that they are guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.
When the majority leader refuses to let us vote on amendments and refuses to let us have a real discussion about America's biggest challenges, he is effectively gagging millions of Americans who don't share his particular views. That is why the Senate has become so dysfunctional, because of the majority leader and his conduct.
I can only hope--indeed, I can only pray--that the majority leader will change his mind and act as the genuine leader the Senate deserves and less as an angry dictator.
I yield the floor, and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
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