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In a recent blog, my esteemed colleague from the great state of Lester Maddox and Saxby Chambliss [and, coming from the state that's given us Tom DeLay, George W. Bush, and the best damned secessionist movement south of Todd Palin's snow machine, I say that endearingly] talked about torture and the so-called one-percent solution, i.e. if there's even a one percent chance of a terror attack, then any methods, such as torture, are legitimate means to get information about and preempt that attack [Bill Stueck, "Torture and the 'One Percent Doctrine.'" http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/torture-and-the-one-percent-doctrine/].
Bill Stueck makes some important points, and many with which I agree. His principal argument is that it's too soon to make a judgement on the Bush torture program, that as historians we need to wait and find out more, get more information, get access to documents, put things into a larger context. I fully agree with him on the need for research and evidence-after all, we are not postmodernists. But I am also unsettled by his claim that it is too early to draw conclusions about the Bush torture program until we can piece together the whole story.
In fact we do know a great deal about it already, and from a legal and political standpoint [I try to keep morality out of these discussions, because I don't believe U.S. policymakers give it much credence when making their decisions] I think we have persuasive evidence that it was quite a failure, and in fact counterproductive. If, as historians, we have to shy away from such judgements based on the evidence, both documentary and from other sources, that we already have, then we have become merely scribblers, or court intellectuals. There is plenty of legitimate information out there, and while admitting that the "full picture" won't be seen for some time, we surely know what it will end up looking like to a good extent.
To begin, I find it interesting that Professor Stueck cited Philip Zelikow to make his larger point about the way historians practice their craft and the need for serious study and reflection. (Zelikow, I must point out, is a graduate of the University of Houston Law School). While this is clearly true, in my estimation, it's unfortunate that Bill's blog appeared immediately before Zelikow himself spoke at great length in the media about the specific issue at hand-the Bush torture regime. Writing on the Foreign Policy website on 21 April [http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/21/the_olc_torture_memos_thoughts_from_a_dissenter ] he made three key points. First, that the focus on waterboarding and other specific acts deflects attention away from the fact that this was a program of torture, not a series of random acts. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times [and Abu Zubaydah 83 times], for instance . It wasn't clear after 182 that he wasn't going to provide any dynamite information? Or maybe if they'd gone for 184 he'd have finally opened up and maybe even told us the truth behind the Kennedy assassination?
Second, Zelikow actually argued that morality should have been introduced into the issue. Rather than focus the debate on torture on its efficacy, whether the means used against prisoners provided useful information-which is what the politicians and media are overwhelmingly talking about now-he suggests that we ask what the unique value of these methods might have been. Instead of simply asking lawyers, "what can we do?" Zelikow suggested the question "what should we do?" Lawyers-like Jay Bybee and John Yoo-might make a contorted claim that something was legal, but that didn't make it okay.
Third, and crucially, Zelikow pointed out that the legal opinions defending torture had "grave weaknesses." At their core, they contravened international laws and, as one of the memoranda from the OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] argued, met the lowest standard for compliance, that the acts were not "cruel, inhuman, or degrading." But, Zelikow tells us, the U.S. is in compliance with international law if it also complies with "the comparable body of constitutional prohibitions in U.S. law." So, if the OLC had it right, American citizens in county jail could be physically abused, deprived of sleep, waterboarded, etc, which, as harsh as American jails are, would not likely pass constitutional muster [even in Texas . . . ].
Zelikow, it's important to note, wasn't covering up his own role in any of this [and I'm not suggesting he had any role in the torture decisions-he clearly did not] by writing about it in 2009. In fact, in 2005, when one of the crucial OLC memos was written, he responded with his argument against torture [at the time Zelikow was counselor to the secretary of state, which did not entitle him to proffer a legal opinion, but he wanted to warn other lawyers and judges that there was a good chance the OLC would be found unsustainable in court]. Zelikow argued that existing case law on the standard of "shocks the conscience" would find the CIA's methods illegal; courts would also find that the OLC memo would be a violation of the 8th amendment "conditions of confinement"; and that the use of a "balancing test" of national security versus individual injury would simply bar many kinds of cruel treatment no matter the alleged gain from it.
For his efforts, the White House attempted to collect and shred all the copies of Zelikow's contrarian memo, though he suspects that "one or two are still at least in the State Department's archives."
Later, on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show [http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/21/zelikow_on_rachel_maddow ] Zelikow explained further his rationale for opposing the OLC position. The proponents of torture did not take account of relevant case law, for instance, that outlawed the type of procedures being used by American operatives against the U.S. detainees at Guantanamo. Zelikow did not believe that "any judges or lawyers outside of the administration" would find the OLC construction of standards of treatment or definitions of cruel, inhuman or degrading acts persuasive. The torture program, he again stressed, was not moral, but also not legal.
Zelikow, and others, also weighed in on what Professor Stueck, and so many others, have made their main point of conention-the idea that torture might have worked, might have forced detainees to provide information about forthcoming attacks that were then stopped before the damage was done. Although Dick Cheney and others have already contended that torture tactics were essential to gaining information that disrupted terrorist plots, each of those claims, Zelikow points out, "has a back story, full of lore and arguments about who developed which leads and whose sources proved out." What is likely, he adds, is that if an investigation is launched, it will discover that torture rarely, if ever, affected a "ticking bomb" Jack Bauer scenario, which would be the only real rationale for torture-to save time. It would also, unsurpringly, have a high level of unreliability. In fact, as Zelikow points out, the kinds of tactics that the Bush legal team okayed could not be legally used by two countries which have had "ticking bomb" crises-Britain [with the IRA] and Israel [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/opinion/24zelikow.html ].
More powerful is the story of Ali Soufan, an FBI supervisory agent who interrogated suspected terrorists, including Abu Zubaydah, who was, according to U.S. sources, a high-ranking al Qaeda operative and close associate of Osama bin Laden. In early 2002, using traditional, non-torture methods, Soufan and others got Zubaydah to disclose information that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and to talk about Jose Padilla, the so-called Dirty Bomber. In addition to being unnecessary, as Soufan observes, the introduction of terror also made a coherent, inter-agency approach to interrogations impossible, as the FBI was pulled off these cases when terror was introduced (CIA officials who objected were simply told to continue [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html?ref=opinion]). Torture tactics, as so many officials have observed, is also counterproductive in that it makes retaliatory torture against Americans who might be captured almost inevitable.
Even the CIA Inspector General could find no conclusive evidence that waterboarding or other torture tactics had helped. Steven Bradbury, an assistant attorney general, wrote in 2005 that he could make no claims of effectiveness "with confidence and precision." Many military officials who had helped develop interrogation techniques likewise warned that information gained by physical torture was "less reliable" than that acquired via traditional psychological measures, according to a Senate Armed Services Committee report. And Robert Mueller, the FBI director and a critic of torture, has publicly argued that intelligence gained from torture did not disrupt any attacks on the U.S. [http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66895.html ].
Even more troubling were the views of two retired and influential military officers. General Barry McCaffrey, no dove by any means [see Seymour Hersh's Annals of War, "Overwhelming Force," The New Yorker, May 22, 2000] described denials of torture by Bush officials as an "out of body experience" and then bluntly said, on an MSNBC interview, "We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during a course of that, both by the armed forces and CIA." [http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a81/kos102/2009/Video/?action=view¤t=McCaffery-Bush-probe.flv]. Lawrence Wilkerson, once chief of staff and best friend to Secretary of State Colin Powell, went further. In testimony before congress last summer, Wilkerson revealed that over 100 detainees had died in U.S. custody and classified over 25 of them as murder [http://blip.tv/file/1003937 ]. More recently he has made the important point that many of the detainees at Guantanamo, at least some of whom were presumably tortured, were innocent men captured by U.S. soldiers who couldn't tell enemy soldiers from noncombatants. Alleged al Qaeda or Taliban operatives captured in Afghanistan were vetted in an "incompetent" manner, said Wilkerson. Of the 800 men held at Guantanamo at one time, about 240 remain, and about two dozen of them are terrorists, according to Wilkerson [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008891921_gitmo20.html?syndication=rss].
One of Richard Pryor's best stories revolved around his wife coming home and catching him with another woman. The woman bolted from the bedroom while Pryor's wife berated him, as he denied that he'd done anything wrong. Finally, Pryor gave the punch line, as he looked at his wife and asked, "Baby, who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?"
I've thought of that far too often the past few weeks as the issue of torture and the released torture memoranda have been so widely discussed. There seems to be a consensus that "enhanced interrogation techniques," the Orwellian term the media has chose to use instead of "torture" did exist, and, though they were clearly distasteful, they might well have been effective in forestalling a terrorist attack. More so, there's a wide consensus among politicians and pundits that no legal action should be take against anyone involved in these "advanced interrogation" situations.
Clearly, these politicos and talking heads don't have the full picture, yet have made their conclusions already, conclusions which cannot be sustained by the evidence we do already have. Surely Bill Stueck is correct-we won't know the full story for a long time because there is so much that we haven't seen [and maybe never will]. At the same time, it would be merely self-delusional to imagine that torture didn't take place, and wistful to claim that it was acceptable because it worked-because it stopped otherwise certain terror attacks. There is no evidence for that. So in the end, as we read the myriad accounts of torture, as we analyze the memos written by Yoo and Bybee and others, as we ponder the contrary views of Zelikow, Mueller, Wilkerson and others [who, we must importantly remember, are not outsiders or dissenters but part of the ruling class], we have to ask ourselves who we're going to believe: the torturers, or our lyin' eyes?
Epilogue: The Justice Department today [1 May] dropped charges against two AIPAC lobbyists for Israel who had been charged under the espionage act for improperly giving out sensitive information [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/us/politics/02aipac.html?hp] . At the same time, a Professor of Sociology at UC-Santa Barbara is being investigated by his faculty senate, no less, on charges of "intimidation" because he sent an email comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to the Nazis [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30522276/ ]. And over 100 detainees, most of them probably innocent of any type of "terror" activities, have been killed by U.S. forces, according to a high-ranking American military official.
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Several football players from the Loganville-Grayson area will be celebrating their official football scholarship signings to colleges around the country on Feb. 1.
Wednesday, Feb. 1st, student-athletes nationwide will commit to colleges and their football programs on National Signing Day. This is the first day the NCAA allows high school seniors to sign a binding National Letter of Intent.
According to officials at , Tyler Zielenske from will be signing a commitment to Mercer University. Tommy Stringer, athletic director at , said LHS Red Devil offensive linesman Avery White also would be signing a commitment to Mercer University. Stringer said a LHS soccer player, Jordan Draughon, would be signing a commitment to a school in North Carolina on a soccer scholarship.
Signing ceremonies are scheduled at both WGHS and LHS at 3:15 p.m. athletic director Andre King said there were no signing scheduled at LCA.

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It plays in iTunes but won't play on my iPod classic 7th generation.
Aug 26, 2012, 11:32 PM
I'm pretty sure none of Apple's portable devices can handle 24-bit/96KHz playback. 24/48? No problem on my iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.
However, 24/96 is something my Mac can handle. Like you, I have an iPod classic in some drawer.
You are best to refer to the iPod specifications. I've never seen Apple claim that 96KHz playback was possible on any of their portable devices.
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NORMAN — It didn't take long for Oklahoma to fill in the gaps in its non-conference schedule for the 2012 football season.
The Sooners officially announced their three games out of conference on Wednesday, completing the 12-game slate.
OU will open the season at Texas-El Paso on Sept. 1 and host Florida A&M on Sept. 8 in the home opener.
The final non-conference will be Oct. 27 when Notre Dame comes to Owen Field.
"We have a philosophy of playing a challenging schedule on a yearly basis that puts our team in the best possible situation to make a run at a championship," OU Head Coach Bob Stoops said in a statement. "I know that Joe Castiglione puts our program's best interests at the forefront when scheduling our opponents and it shows with the quality of teams on our schedule.
"We look forward to another challenging year and hope our fans reflect the excitement we have for this year's schedule."
The trip to El Paso, Texas, will mark the Sooners' first ever for a regular-season game.
Twice OU has ended seasons with games in the Sun Bowl, which the city hosts. The last trip was the end of the end of the 2009 season when OU topped Stanford, 31-27.
The game will mark OU's third meeting with the Miners. The Sooners beat them in 2002 (58-0) and 2000 (55-14) at Owen Field.
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The historic programs have faced each other nine times with the Fighting Irish owning an 8-1 series lead.
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Design will be printed on reusable water bottles and orientation print and web materials
Jacquelyn Molendyke '10 (West Chester, Pa.) and other students in the graphic design course taught by Lew Minter, director of the art department's media lab, recently had the chance to use their design abilities to help the College's new sustainability initiative.
Each of the students designed an environmentally-themed logo for a contest hosted by Hannah Stewart-Gambino, dean of the College. Molendyke's winning logo will be printed on reusable water bottles that will be distributed to each incoming class beginning with the Class of 2012, as well as the print and web materials for Class of 2012 Orientation.
"The College has pledged to gain an understanding of our carbon footprint and begin the process of instituting the personal and institutional changes necessary to become better stewards of our resources," says Stewart-Gambino. "This is only one of the first steps, but it is a step that will be followed by many more."
The water bottle project sprang specifically from the report from last year's Technology Clinic, which was comprised of students who spent the past year researching how the College can better incorporate green practices.
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The winning logo was chosen by the Orientation Steering Committee, comprised of faculty and staff from the Dean of the College and Student Life offices, with input from art professors and Public Information Office staff.
"The elements of the winning design that appealed broadly to the members of the committee, as well as the College designers, were the use of clean lines, a 'youthful' feel, a clear message about the values that we hold as a community, and the subtle reference to the Leopards – signifying the pride of the Lafayette community," explains Steward-Gambino.
"The class as a whole created thorough, well thought-out designs, which made the selection by the committee very difficult," Minter adds. "The students all felt a real connection to the project in great part to how Dean Stewart-Gambino explained it to them. Basically, her position was that this is something for the entire student body, not just incoming freshmen and she felt that because of that, the input from students in the design process was of the utmost importance and would yield the best results."
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Although there are many myths surrounding bankruptcy, filing for bankruptcy does in fact have several factual consequences that you should consider. Some of these consequences are positive, some negative, others are somewhere in between. Like any other legal process, there are various factors that you should weigh before undertaking a bankruptcy filing. However, bankruptcy is a unique legal process, and as a result, even many non-bankruptcy lawyers can be quite confused by its consequences.
Personal Discharge
Starting off on a positive note, one consequence of completing the bankruptcy process is the discharge. The discharge is a permanent order from the bankruptcy court that forever prevents your creditors from seeking to collect on any debt that was incurred before you filed for bankruptcy (there are exceptions however, as certain debts are never discharged in a bankruptcy). The discharge is the ultimate goal of bankruptcy and can be considered the most positive consequence.
However, a negative aspect of the discharge is that it does not extend to your property. For example, if your home loan lender has a lien on your house, the lien will remain after bankruptcy, and the lender is free to foreclose on your home. This is why the discharge is referred to as "personal." The discharge also does not extend to any other person who owes on the same debt. For example, if you and your brother both use the same credit card for purchases, the discharge would essentially erase the debt as to you, but not as to your brother.
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Another positive aspect of filing for bankruptcy is the automatic stay. The automatic stay, as the name suggests, is an order of the bankruptcy court that goes into effect as soon as you file your bankruptcy case. The automatic stay is very broad and prevents creditors from doing many things to collect a debt from you, such as calling you, writing you a collection letter, suing you, and other actions. The automatic stay remains in effect to protect you until the bankruptcy court issues your discharge. The stay continues in effect as to property of the bankruptcy estate until the case is closed (in most cases, shortly after the discharge is issued).
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The change in your credit score as the result of a bankruptcy filing is mixed. Usually, a bankruptcy filing will push your score to the bottom of proverbial barrel. This can be a great concern for many people. However, you can slowly rebuild your credit after the bankruptcy and increase your credit score to a point higher than before you filed for bankruptcy. Although a bankruptcy will stay on your credit report for many years, it many times will have a net positive effect in the end.
A negative consequence of filing for bankruptcy is that everything you file with the court, including all of your bankruptcy schedules, which contain your personal financial information, can be accessed by the public. A lack of privacy is the price one pays for the great benefit provided by a bankruptcy. For some individuals, the lack of privacy may be a deal breaker, however, in comparison with the result you get with bankruptcy, the privacy factor can seem far less significant.
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Probably the most negative consequence of bankruptcy is that you may lose some of your property to the bankruptcy trustee. I must stress the word "may"! If you are able to successfully exempt all of your property the trustee will not be able to sell it. Even if you cannot exempt all of your property, it may not be worth it for a trustee to sell your property. For example, if it is going to cost $1000 to auction off a car that is worth $850, the trustee is likely going to let you keep the property. The trustee will only sell your non-exempt property if he or she believes that a net gain can be obtained.
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If you have a collection of buttons you'd like to display, why not make them into a pretty necklace? Kerry is sharing her tutorial for doing just that at Star Shaped and Shiny.
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December 23, 2012 7:10 pm
The button necklace is adorable. I would like to try it with something other than ribbon.
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December 23, 2012 7:11 pm
Maybe black cord????
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This is really very cute and looks so much retro vintage . You can try to crochet a rope from seed beads or just from silk thread
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Lovely – been wondering what i would do with my extra buttons!


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- Number of floors - 2
- Room service (24 hours)
- 24-hour business center
- Free self parking
- Year Built 2001
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
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Free self parking
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- Air conditioning
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- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
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- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub only
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Sofa bed
- Flat-panel TV
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Hotel Ad Hoc Parque Golf has a restaurant on site.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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Hotel Ad Hoc Parque Golf Policies & Fees
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Check-in time starts at noon
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Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed, Pet maximum weight in kg is 25
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 12 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per day
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Valpo and Milwaukee's first contest of the season had no shortage of offense, and Wednesday night was much of the same as the Crusaders defeated the Panthers 94-80 at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
Charae Richardson (Lafayette, Ind./Jefferson [Vincennes]) scored a career-high 24 points as the fifth-year senior added five rebounds, three assists and two steals in her best overall effort of the season. Sharon Karungi (Kampala, Uganda [Northern Oklahoma College]) shot 11-of-14 from the field as she pitched in 23 points. Karungi has averaged 17.6 points per game since February 10th.
The two teams exchanged points on alternating possessions for the majority of the first half. Richardson had nine of Valpo's first 18 points as she tallied scores from the charity stripe, the paint, and from behind the arc.
The tilt stayed a one-possession affair for much of the first 15 minutes. A Jessi Wiedemann (Palatine, Ill./Fremd) three-pointer with 4:15 in the first stanza pushed Valpo's lead to six points before Karungi threw a layup in on a nice dish from Richardson.
Milwaukee scored the final seven points of the half to cut the Crusader advantage to 46-45. Ashley Green paced the Panthers with 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting as the Brown and Gold struggled to find an answer for the junior.
Valpo emerged from the locker room to go on a 19-2 run to expand its edge to 65-47. Richardson had six points during the Crusader surge.
The Brown and Gold maintained their double digit lead over the Panthers for the remainder of the period as a pair of Milwaukee technical fouls helped keep the Black and Gold at a safe distance.
Milwaukee cut the Crusader lead to 17 points on multiple occasions, but was unable to get any closer than 15 in the waning seconds.
Angela Rodriguez shot just 3-for-11 in the second half as the Panthers attempted to mount a comeback, but Valpo went no more than two possessions in a row without scoring as the Brown and Gold enjoyed a season-high in points. The Crusaders' previous watermark in offensive output was 85 points versus Detroit on January 23rd.
Valpo outscored the Panthers 48-35 in the second half to claim a 94-80 win in the regular season finale at the ARC.
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A family tradition for countless Iowans and other Midwesterners is a visit to the Iowa State Fair at least once during its ten day duration in August. This internationally-acclaimed event has a little bit of everything for nearly everybody. You can get over 50 kinds of food on a stick (cheese cake, fried Twinkies, peanut butter and jelly) or almost anything deep fried (butter, mac and cheese, Snickers candy bars). You can go to a concert, see the famous Butter Cow, ride the double ferris wheel, check out the livestock competitions and winners, or win a cow chip throwing contest. For many families, going to the fair means camping at the fairgounds or going several evenings after work. It's a family tradition.
It's also a great place to do a family lifestyle photo session. I admit, I take the fair for granted. I hadn't been there in at least three or four years, so when I had the opportunity to tag along with two families to document their Iowa State Fair visits, it was like seeing the fair with new eyes.
The first family I spent time with was my childhood best friend. Jill has lived in Germany for the past 17 years, so when she comes home to Iowa, she and her husband and son always make a visit to the Iowa State Fair. My son and I spent the day with Jill's family, her mom, and nephew. We saw a grape stomping demonstration, made name bracelets, played on the playground, rode the tram, got faces painted, ate ice cream, and rode the sky glider.
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The deal means that if Adam Beland, a 7-year officer of the Manchester Police Department, complies with the requirements and stays out of trouble, the two misdemeanor assault charges against him will be dropped, said Kirsten Wilson, a prosecutor with the Rockingham County Attorney's Office.
Doing so also means no criminal record for Beland. Wilson said the resolution is typical for first-time domestic violence charges at Manchester District Court.
"We talked to his wife about this extensively," Wilson said, adding the wife supports the deal.
In January, Beland pleaded innocent to approaching his wife from behind, shoving her two or three times, placing his left hand around her neck and pushing her out of their Country Club Drive apartment.
He was released on bail and initially placed on unpaid leave from the police department, pending trial.
But in March, a judge modified Beland's bail to allow him to work inside the police station. The modification allowed Beland to possess a weapon while at work, but he would surrender the weapon and ammunition upon leaving the building.
Police spokesman Lt. Maureen Tessier said Tuesday that Beland's status remains unchanged; he is working at a limited duty capacity for the department. Tessier said police will not comment any further about the matter.
The Rockingham County Attorney handled the case to avoid any appearance of a conflict, Wilson said.
She said restrictions on possession of firearms remain in effect until the charges are dropped.
Under the deal, Beland must participate in a domestic violence evaluation, which must be performed by a provider approved by the prosecutor. He must take a 10-week anger management class. He must participate in a parenting class, which can be satisfied by the child impact class that is required of all divorce proceedings in the state, Wilson said.
Wilson said such arrangements are made with consideration of how successful a prosecution would be and the best resolution for the victim and society. She said the case involved conflicting witness statements.
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Mr. Robert Fulton Overstreet Sr. of 1708 Wilborn Avenue, South Boston died Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was born Aug. 31, 1926 in Halifax.
He was the son of the late Charles Carrington Overstreet and Annie Crews Overstreet of Halifax.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Jean Eleanor Richardson Overstreet.
Mr. Overstreet was a member of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church in Charlotte County and was an active member of AA celebrating over 37 years of sobriety.
Survivors include three daughters, Patricia Ann Overstreet Hogate and husband Sid of Kernersville, N.C.; Lucinda Carroll Overstreet Mitchell and husband William of Yorktown; Shirley Anne Overstreet Townsend of Farmville; two sons, Robert Fulton Overstreet Jr. and wife Linda of Keysville and John Carrington Overstreet of Rural Hall, N.C.; 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Survivors also include brother Jim Overstreet and wife Adrian, sister Margaret Overstreet Ferris and husband Bill; sister-in-law Gerri Crim; brother-in-laws James Richardson of New York and Jeff Richardson and wife Jenny of Iowa.
He also left behind several dedicated friends including many special friends from AA and the South Boston Speedway.
Funeral services for Mr. Overstreet will be held at Powell Funeral Home chapel Tuesday, April 10, at 2 p.m. with the Reverend Jimmy Lewis officiating.
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Selecting the financing or contracting option for the federal solar project can be a complex decision, especially if funding from the agency has not been designated. If no direct funding is available, then financing options must be considered. Before choosing an available financing option, review the options and information presented in this guide. Then contact a financing specialist to discuss the specifics of the project and confirm the appropriateness of the financing decision.
For option-neutral direction on this topic, contact Michael Callahan at NREL. In addition, the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) maintains a Web site and offers Webinars and workshops to educate participants on the different financing options available.
The financing options considered in this guide are the:
The sections below describe general characteristics, provide case studies and project process, and list available resources.
An agency-funded or agency-appropriated project is one for which funds have been designated for the outright purchase of a project, in this case a solar energy project. The government owns the system, its energy production, and all the attributes of the system (e.g., SRECs).
Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have been used to finance solar projects since 2003 and they are now driving most commercial solar installations. They are increasingly being used by the federal sector. Under a PPA, a private entity (typically a group consisting of developers, construction companies, and finance companies) installs, owns, operates, and maintains customer-sited (behind the meter) solar energy generation equipment. The site purchases electricity or thermal energy through a long-term contract with specified energy prices. Payment is based on actual energy (kilowatt-hours or therms) generated from the solar equipment and consumed by the site. So far, PPAs only have been applied to electricity purchases, but there is no obvious reason why they couldn't be used to purchase thermal energy as well. Be aware that some of the obstacles to PPAs—such as their legality in certain states—does not apply to thermal projects because thermal energy is not regulated in the same manner as electricity production.
A PPA is a relatively new contracting option and, as such, the PPA section of this guide is based on a limited level of federal PPA experience. This section will be updated periodically to reflect new information and recommended best practices—especially if long-term renewable contract authority legislation is passed to make PPAs more financially viable within the federal sector (PPAs almost always require long-term contracts to make the offered price of energy competitive). To address the contract length limitation, federal agencies are exploring methods that are available under existing federal laws and regulations, and also are making other contractual issue improvements. Agencies and industry are encouraged to work to find successful solutions and to share any lessons learned.
Note that innovative options are being used to reduce the transaction costs of completing PPAs, such as multi-award contracts (MACs) that are indefinite delivery, indefinite quality (IDIQ) contracts made with preapproved solar developers. In this example, only a smaller set of project specific details must be worked out and several of the steps listed above can be shortened or can be skipped altogether. An example of this approach is the MAC that the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest (NAVFAC SW) division is pursuing with five solar developers for PPA projects in its region, and which only can be used by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps facilities.
Energy savings performance contracts (ESPC) have a long history of use in the federal sector and have primarily been used for energy efficiency projects. They are increasingly being seen, however, as a long-term financing method for solar projects. An ESPC is a guaranteed savings contracting mechanism that requires no up-front cost. An energy services company (ESCO) incurs the cost of implementing a range of energy conservation measures (ECMs)—which can include solar—and is paid from the energy, water, and operations savings resulting from these ECMs. The ESCO and the agency negotiate to decide who maintains the ECMs. Payments to the contractor cannot exceed savings in any one year. These contracts are recommended for renewable energy projects only if energy-efficiency measures also are being performed.
Multiple contracting options are available to agencies interested in an ESPC. The DOE offers an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract designed to make an ESPC as cost-effective and easy to implement as is possible for federal agencies. Several ESCOs are prequalified and have accepted the terms of the IDIQ contract; these companies thus can respond to project requests. The U.S. Army also has an IDIQ contract in place as an alternative to the DOE option. The discussion below focuses on the DOE ESPC process, which is explicitly defined. Additional information is available on the FEMP Web site. Also, FEMP has extensive resources including contract templates, flowcharts, and process guidance.
Utility energy services contracts (UESC), like ESPCs, have a history of use in the federal sector primarily for energy efficiency projects. Now, these contracts are also being seen as a method of long-term financing, with the added benefit of usually being a sole source contract. A UESC is an agreement that allows a "serving" utility to provide an agency with comprehensive energy- and water-efficiency improvements and demand-reduction services. The utility could partner with an ESCO to provide the installation, but the contract is between the federal agency and the "serving" utility. This contracting mechanism primarily is for bundled energy-efficiency and renewable energy projects, and typically is not used for standalone renewable energy projects. The steps in the UESC process are well defined, but different utilities might describe them differently. The process steps described below are representative of the general process.
An effort currently is underway to define a process for a utility renewable electric service contract (URESC) for parties interested in pursuing a standalone solar electric project with a utility in a specific service territory. The URESC concept is envisioned to produce a cross between a PPA and an UESC. It is hoped that an URESC project will commence in 2010 and define this financing and contracting option.
Note that the following discussion focuses on the renewable energy portion of a UESC project.
For general information and assistance with UESCs, the FEMP offers Utility Energy Service Contract: Enabling Documents.
In the federal sector, enhanced use leases (EULs) have a history of being used to implement infrastructure building projects. Now, they are also being used to realize solar energy projects. An EUL is a real estate agreement that focuses on underutilized land. Prospective developers compete for the lease, and payment can be either monetary or in-kind consideration (in this case, renewable power can be part of the consideration). The value of the lease is used to determine the amount of consideration. An EUL typically is used for large projects, for example those having a capacity that is greater than the site load. A few agencies have the authority to execute an EUL.
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A local about-town-kind-of-guy recently penned a column in another media outlet which was essentially a tirade about gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered being portrayed in a positive light.
I think he did this because as an about-town-kind-of-guy, he's come to assume that Dixon is one large reservoir of anti-gay sentiment that he can tap into.
I think he's mistaken. Dixon may be small, but I don't think the majority of its citizens think small.
In particular, he () zeroed in on a law due to take effect at the end of the year (California Senate Bill 48, or SB48). Reading his description of the law, one would think that teachers would be required to encourage students to become homosexuals.
Past California law required that the study of California history include the roles and accomplishments of most minorities and ethnic and cultural groups. SB48 simply ensures that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered are included among those minority groups.
SB48 also specifies that instruction and teaching materials shall not disparage or express a negative bias in connection with race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality or sexual orientation.
For example, it would have prohibited a former math teacher and football coach of mine from saying, as he did in the 1950s, that African American males have a different body odor than white people.
So, SB48 isn't involved per se with sex education as taught as a classroom subject, rather with the inclusion and portrayal of minorities in the study of California and American history. I don't see much that's controversial here, actually.
However, Mr. Hickman takes the tricky leap to deduce that under SB48, children will "… be exposed to a perverted minority life style."
Back when I was growing up in the 1950s, there was virtually no public information about homosexuality. My parents never talked to me about sex. I once read a Reader's Digest article about prisons, where the unfamiliar word "homosexual" was used.
I tried to find it in the family dictionary, but it wasn't listed! Yes, in those days sometimes we had to really dig to learn about sex. Today, if young people haven't heard about the various forms of sexuality in sex ed and from their parents and friends, they'll certainly find it online.
Mr. Hickman also goes beyond SB48 to speak of gays and lesbians etc. as abnormal and perverted. I guess he puts himself in that great category of "normal," which I guess means that all "normal" people have sex following the same standard manual of Normal and Approved Sexual Practices, which of course doesn't allow for any experimentation to liven up the experience.
Please, sex is one of life's peak experiences!
Essentially, Hickman is labeling 520 Dixonites as abnormal and perverted (sounds like the Salem witch trials). I arrive at this figure by using a standard estimate of four percent of a population identifying themselves as gay or lesbian, and a Dixon population of 13,000 over the age of 18 (according to the latest census).
I suppose each and every one of those 520 is ready to say, "Thank you, Mr. Hickman, for thinking so highly of us, your neighbors, your city employees who may put themselves in danger, your civic volunteers, and the people you deal with in your business."
Mr. Hickman, of course, is free to think whatever he wishes about people who are different than he is. But to mount a soapbox and urge others to join him in a realm of "small thinking" is another thing entirely.
He seeks to stuff behind closet doors those who often traveled a confusing and difficult route in discovering and expressing their sexual identity, an identity that probably wasn't what they and their parents expected, but was part of their basic makeup since their earliest days.
As part of this, what those young people who will become gay and lesbian need are supportive and understanding families and communities. They need to be able to attend school without being hazed and bullied and teased. As in SB48, they deserve to receive the same praise and recognition for their accomplishments throughout their lifetime as all the other minorities do.
Do I dare say in Dixon that gays and lesbians also ought to be able to marry, hold hands in public, and live the full lives that others enjoy? Yes.


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There is absolutely no good reason why David Hasselhoff shouldn't have a reality show. During this time of economic crisis, "a camera in every kitchen" seems to have replaced the promise of "a chicken in every pot," and apparently the Hoff needs the money.
He says so, quite plainly, in Sunday's premiere episode of A&E's "The Hasselhoffs." He's speaking to his daughter Hayley, who is just about to get her big break as pretty girl Amber on ABC Family's "Huge." But as he spends much of the rest of the episode trying to persuade his younger daughter, Taylor-Ann, to stay in school "for at least a year or two" instead of pursuing a career in a rock band, a certain moral balance is achieved.


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Workers in the protective services, for example police and prison officers, were most at risk of violence at work, with 8.4% having experienced violence. Health and social welfare associate professionals, including nurses, medical and dental practitioners were also at relatively high risk. Shop workers and teachers also suffer from high levels of violence in the workplace.
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My Interview with CA Treasurer Phil Angelides
by Jonathan Singer, Thu May 12, 2005 at 04:38:28 PM EDT
This morning I had the distinct opportunity to speak with Phil Angelides, a leading contender for the California Democratic gubernatorial nomination for 2006. In 1991, Angelides became the Chair of the California Democratic Party and in 1998 was elected California State Treasurer, a position he still holds today.Jonathan Singer: There's a cover story in the Washington Monthly by Mark Barabak called "Is Arnold Losing It?" Barabak's contention is that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a lot less of a Ronald Reagan figure and a lot more of a Jesse Ventura - cheap gimmicks that work early but peter off later. What do you think of that contention?
Phil Angelides: I actually saw the article. In fact, Paul Glastris, the editor of the Washington Monthly, was out recently and gave me a copy of it. I would say the following: if you really look at Arnold, he is increasingly a mix of George Bush and Jesse Ventura. He shares the same agenda as Bush in so many respects, but is beginning to look more and more like Jesse Ventura in the conduct of the office.
But when you look at what Schwarzenegger has done as Governor versus what he's said, he has had a down the line Republican economic agenda. He's borrowed massively against our future after promising to tear up the credit card. By next year, the state of California will pay more to retire its deficit borrowing in that year alone than it spends on the entire University of California system. So he's borrowed massively, which is going to constrain the ability to invest in things that count, like schools and transit and good jobs for our people.
He came in the recall saying he would protect education, but, like Bush who has promised to leave no child behind, he is now proposing to $15,000 out of every classroom and became the first Governor in 40 years to break the covenant with the young people of this state that said if they did their work, if they made their grades, they'd have a place at our state colleges and universities. Last year he proposed to turn away 25,000 young people who are fully eligible and fully qualified. He proposed to turn them away from our state colleges and universities in the richest state in the wealthiest nation in human history.
If you look at Schwarzenegger's policies, they are very Bush-like: vetoing the minimum wage, siding with the Chamber of Commerce against working people at every turn. So he's very much like George Bush, but he increasingly has the carnival barker aspects of Jesse Ventura.
Singer: Expanding on the budget issue, another way he is like President Bush is, like you said, running large deficits--
Angelides: Deliberately so.
Singer: When he was running for Governor, he said no more of these magic tricks. We're going to deal with the deficit. But in fact as you've said, the deficit has increased and the debt problem has increased, and you certainly know about this intimately as State Treasurer. What real steps can be taken in the next four years, from 2007 to 2011, to fix the problem?
Angelides: Let me just expound on this a little. I believe President Bush is running deficits in Washington very deliberately. His plan is to finally run up so much debt that it inevitably creates pressure on the funding of things that count, in terms of the long-term strength of the society: educating kids, retirement security for American families. A mini version of that is going on in Sacramento.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor, the state had already piled up about $18.5 billion in what I'd call "credit card debt," which is borrowing to cover deficit. And by the way, those were borrowings I opposed as Treasurer. It's fine to borrow money to build schools and to expand universities and build mass transit systems for the 21st century. It's not good to use your borrowing to live beyond your means and send the bill to the kids.
So he runs on the platform of ripping up the credit card, and what does he do when he gets into office? He accelerates the borrowing. With the budget he signed last year and the budget he's proposed this year, the state's credit card debt will rise to $30 billion, which is about a 67% increase from the day he took office. By next year, the state will have to pay $4 billion, next year alone, to pay that debt - which is more than we spend on the entire University of California system.
What's clear is you're never going to balance the budget by continuing to borrow and pile debts onto our kids and future generations. The only way to balance the budget is to do it fairly.
Now this Governor is willing to borrow against the kids. He's proposed $1 billion worth of tax and fee increases that hit working Californians, students, the elderly and the poor. Big increases in Community College fees, tuition increases at the state colleges and universities. In fact I'm on my way to San Jose right now. I'm doing a press conference because the Governor has proposed to raise $100 million by stripping away property tax relief from the elderly, the blind and disabled who make less than $37,000 a year.
In the end, the budget can only be balanced with fairness. As Governor, I would move to close some of the 55 corporate tax loopholes that have been punched in our tax code in the last ten years. I would ask the wealthiest Californians - those making over $280,000 a year - to pay at least the same taxes they paid under Governor Wilson and Governor Reagan. And if we have some fairness, we have a chance of balancing this budget in a way that makes sense for Californians.
Singer: Moving to another issue, there is a new Pew poll that came out this week of national voters. It said one of the few issues that truly cuts across the partisan divide in America is immigration. The Governor has taken a new tack on immigration, becoming very supportive of the Minutemen project. Some skeptics say that this is more tied to his 40% approval in the SurveyUSA and Public Policy Institute of California polls--
Angelides: Sure. The last refuge of a politician with sinking poll numbers is to attack people of color and to try to divide people over issues of emotional content.
Singer: But there are issues with immigration and the burgeoning population in this state. What type of steps would you take to curtail the problems that a lot of people do see?
Angelides: Look. This is a serious issue. And it is an issue of significance that affects all Californians. But let's be clear about what the Governor is doing. The Governor is not seriously addressing this issue. If he was serious about addressing the issue, he wouldn't have gone on the Ken & John radio talk show - which is a right wing talk show in Southern California - to applaud the Minutemen, he would have his job as Governor.
He went last fall to Ohio and stood right next to George Bush and helped him win reelection. If he was serious about trying to deal with the illegal immigration in California, which is a serious issue, he wouldn't have called Ken & John on their right wing radio talk show, he would have called George Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House.
There are things that a Governor could do to push the federal government to live up to its responsibilities on border control, because after all this is a federal responsibility. I'll give you a couple of examples.
The state of California will spend this year $750 million to incarcerate undocumented persons - undocumented aliens who are in this state who have committed crimes. That is a federal responsibility, and the federal government is going to completely stiff the state of California this year. President Bush is zeroing out in his budget any reimbursement for the state of California for that $750 million in costs.
In the wake of 9/11, the President signed the intelligence reform bill that authorized 2,000 new border patrol agents per year. In this year's budget, the President is funding only 210 border patrol agents.
Much of the illegal immigration problem stems from the fact that too many employers hire undocumented persons. And while we have thousands of border patrol agents, there's only 125 federal employees inspecting work places for illegal hiring of undocumented immigrants.
What the Governor ought to be doing is going to Washington, getting with President Bush and asking him to make sure the federal government does its job to enforce border control and enforce federal laws against the hiring of undocumented immigrants. So there are a Governor can do if they're serious about addressing the issue versus just trying to prop up falling poll numbers.
Singer: Just a couple of more questions.
Angelides: Sure.
Singer: Another issue that really deals with the balance between federal and state government is energy. There's a new documentary out--
Angelides: Yeah. I saw it.
Singer: It's called Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Angelides: Have you seen it, by the way?
Singer: Yeah. I got to see it, luckily. It really lays out a case that the system is completely broken. And the scariest part of it is that it can happen again. What moves would you take as Governor to ensure that it in fact would not happen again?
Angelides: First of all, let just say that when the energy crisis hit California, I was the lone statewide elected official who urged the state to take forceful action from day one to stand up to the energy pirates. I believe from day one we should have moved in and, if necessary, taken over the power plants that were being manipulated to gouge energy consumers in California. I also called for the establishment of a public power authority so the state could control enough of its own energy resources so it would never be subject to energy privateering again.
Of course, when I was doing all that, as the documentary notes, Arnold Schwarzenegger was meeting with Ken Lay and Dick Riordan and Michael Milken in Los Angeles to strategize about how to preserve deregulation.
For decades here, we had a marketplace that protected consumers. When the energy crisis came along, all you need to do is look at the price of electricity before and after, and what you're struck by is this incredible peak in prices that robbed Californians of $30 billion in a short period of time. In less than a year, California ratepayers were robbed of $30 billion that went into the hands of these energy pirates.
As Governor of the state of California, I would make sure that we would have a regulatory system that would protect businesses and homeowners against that kind of gouging.
Since he's come into office, Governor Schwarzenegger hasn't done one thing to shore up California's protection against that type of manipulation. In fact the only thing he's done in the energy field is he blue penciled - or eliminated - all of the funding for the California Power Authority that was created by legislation that I sponsored, the authority that was designed to allow the state to begin to build enough energy resources so we could counter a manipulation.
Singer: Just one final question, and this kind of gets to the heart of it. How does a person who to some is only known in jest as the Vice President for Calendars and Fake IDs for Duff Beer--
Both: [Laughter]
Angelides: By the way, that made me very popular among my three daughters. It raised my hip status among all my daughters and their friends.
Singer: How does the Vice President for Calendars and Fake IDs for Duff Beer combat the Terminator and, possibly, Meathead?
Angelides: I believe in the politics of beliefs and actions. I've learned over my life that movements can succeed, campaigns prevail when they're based on core beliefs and when there's passion around those beliefs and when there's the discipline to organize around those beliefs.
I entered politics as a student activist back in 1971 in the campaign to defeat Richard Nixon for reelection. I've often said it's the only thing I have in common with our Governor, who said he was inspired to enter politics by Richard Nixon.
I believe that Californians are ready for a different route. This Governor promised to balance the budget, protect education, expand healthcare for kids. If he had run in the recall on the basis that he was going to pile up massive debt, cut education and cut back on healthcare for working families California, he never would have been elected.
From day one when he came into office, I've stood up to him - no matter how high his poll numbers are. And I believe Californians are ready for a change from what I call the Bush-Schwarzenegger low road to economic devastation. Schwarzenegger promised to be a moderate, and in the end he's brought the Bush-Cheney policies of debt and division and diminished opportunity to California.
I believe in the high road. I believe the only way we're going to succeed in California in the years ahead is if we have the cleanest environment, the most livable communities, the best trained workers and young people in the world so we can compete for the high wage, high skill jobs of the 21st century. And I believe we can make California a progressive model for the rest of the country. So we are building a campaign of beliefs as well as broad energy and organization.
I entered this race at a time when Arnold Schwarzenegger's poll numbers were at 70%. It's now clear that this is going to be a contest between the conservative assault on fairness and values and what I believe is the Democratic ideal of giving our people more chances, not fewer, the Democratic ideal of an economy of broad participation, the Democratic ideal of investing in the next generation, not piling debt upon them.
My campaign is co-chaired by Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi. When Barbara Boxer started running for the United States Senate, her poll numbers were at 3%, and she won because she ran a campaign of beliefs and organization, and we're going to do the same thing. We already have over 150 elected officials in this state who have endorsed my campaign. We have built an email supporter list of 25,000 people, and it's growing every day. And so I have every belief that we can build a very powerful movement.
There's a lot of frustration in California. People are frustrated that George Bush was reelected in 2004 - or elected for the first time. They're frustrated that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Governor of this state, having broken every promise he made. And I hope to turn that frustration into a movement of hope, and I have every confidence we can do it.
One last comment for you: I took over the California Democratic Party in March of 1991 when we had lost six straight Presidential elections in a row in California, the Democrats had. We had lost three straight gubernatorial elections. The day I took over as party chair, George Bush the first, was at 91% approval. And again we built a campaign of beliefs and organization, and by the time it was all over Bill Clinton had carried California, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer became the first two women from any state to win election to the US Senate, and we changed the course of this state. And I believe we can do it again in 2006.
Singer: Thank you so much for joining me. Good luck in your responsibilities as State Treasurer, and in your campaign, and as a father and family man.
Angelides: Thanks so much Jonathan.[THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.]


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Clean Cleanse: Week 2 Recap + Vegetable Lasagna
Yes. You read that correctly. I made a CLEAN lasagna with the help of the clean cleanse blog. Of course I found a way to work pasta into the cleanse, you didn't think I'd converted completely, did you? But fear not, I didn't break the cleanse with this lasagna as you will see in the recipe below.
Recapping week 2 – this will be much shorter than last week's as the week continued on much like week 1. This week the temptation for me was more alcohol than food. I had a pretty hard week and I really wanted a glass of wine at the end of the [every] day. However, I resisted. Mostly for fear of shaming myself to everyone at work and all my friends if I broke the cleanse, but still. I also had the strong urge to just pig out on something. You know when you eat way too much pizza, chinese food, ice cream, anything and you feel horrendous afterward but you just couldn't stop yourself from pigging out? I missed that this week! Sick and twisted but I did. I'm not much to dive into emotions with anyone, let alone the general public, but I realize that drinking and feasting on bad foods would have just been covering up dealing with my real feelings. I know that but most of the time I don't care. I don't want to have self control, I just want the instant gratification. I don't think the cleanse will change that for me…but just an observation.
I still feel great. Energy level is up and I just feel much lighter. I thought I'd be in a horrible mood for the entirety of the cleanse because of the lack of coffee + booze, but I've been in a fine mood! Probably more chipper than usual, in fact. Hopefully that will stay in week 3 as I finish off the cleanse. I have to admit, I am very much looking forward to a huge iced coffee as soon as I am done.
On to the recipe: Clean Vegetable Lasagna. I was pretty skeptical of this "cashew cream" cheese substitute, but since this was the only clean approved pasta dish, I knew I had to give it a try. Thank God I did because this dish was amazing I made extra cashew cheese and I have been dipping carrots in it like it's hummus. It's ADDICTING. I would make this dish while not on the cleanse in an instant. I was also skeptical of these brown rice lasagna noodles as I've tried whole wheat pasta and been less than impressed. The noodles were surprisingly good and the texture wasn't too far from real pasta. Just make sure you cook them as the package directs. They're more sensitive than normal pasta. The flavor of this lasagna is so perfect – you will just have to trust me and try it out. Feel free to sub in any vegetables you have on hand as I did. The dish is versatile so you could even add in meat if you're so inclined. The only hard part is not devouring the entire pan in one sitting. I'd be lying if I said I didn't strongly consider that option.
- ¼ cup or more coconut oil (split between mushrooms and spinach/onion pans) – I used olive oil
- 1 pound mixed mushrooms (white, crimini, shiitake, chicken of the woods) – I don't love mushrooms, so I used roasted root veggies I already had cooked
- 1 large portobello mushroom – same as above
- 1 large onion, sliced thin
- ½ pound spinach
- 1 box gluten free lasagna noodles (we like Tinkyada brown rice noodles)
- enough water to cook noodles
- pinch of sea salt
- For the Cashew Sauce:
- 1 ½ cups cashews
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 large garlic clove
- water as needed
- 2 teaspoons sea salt
- Garnish:
- sea salt, to taste
- freshly cracked black pepper
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped thyme
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Bring enough water to cover the noodles with several inches over the top) to a boil with a pinch of sea salt. Cook the noodles according to direction on the package. When tender but slightly al dente, drain and set aside. If you do this well in advance of the rest of the steps, be sure to toss the noodles with a little olive oil to prevent them from sticking to each other while they sit.
- Clean and slice the mushrooms thin. Heat a large heavy bottomed skillet over high heat. Add some coconut oil, and in batches, sauté the mushrooms until tender and lightly browned. Continue until all the mushrooms are cooked. Set aside.
- Heat another pan with coconut oil and sauté the onions until soft, then add the spinach and cook until just wilted. Set aside.
- Prepare the cashew sauce by blending the ingredients until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached, using water to help thin in out to desired consistency. Remember, it has to be spreadable so if it's too thick, it'll rip the noodles and won't spread.
- Assemble the lasagna in a square baking dish. I used a 9″x9″.
- Begin by spreading a little cashew sauce on the bottom of the dish, then add a layer of noodles.
- Sprinkle with fresh chopped thyme. sea salt, and black pepper.
- Spread a thin layer of cream sauce over the noodles then top with the cooked mushrooms and onion and spinach mixture.
- Repeat this pattern of steps until you run out of ingredients. To make it easier when slicing, alternate the direction of the lasagna noodles as you build the lasagna.
- Place in the middle of the oven and cook until warmed through, about 20 minutes.
- Serve warm, but it's also delicious as cold next-day leftovers!
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Evangelical Leaders Announce Landmark New Strategy for "Responsible & Balanced" Environmental Care
Washington, DC, May 2, 2007—Amid mounting controversies among some evangelical Christians over the actual causes of global warming and what constitutes responsible environmental policy, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance announced today at the National Press Club an expanded program of outreach and education, as well as a new name for the organization to better reflect its principles and purpose.
Now known as the "Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation," the more vigorous and newly streamlined organization will continue to bring a responsible and balanced Biblical view of the earth's stewardship to critical issues of environment and economic development. Also, through the "Cornwall Stewardship Agenda," now under development, the reconfigured coalition will work more aggressively with churches, educational institutions, and other entities worldwide to promote the important principles of the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship.
That Declaration is an authoritative document put forward in 2000 that has been signed by approximately 1,500 clergy, theologians, religious leaders and other people of faith. It has come to be viewed as one of the most significant expressions of belief about religion and the environment in modern times. "The Cornwall Alliance is organized and built around the principles of the Cornwall Declaration, and the new name is designed to reflect that," explained Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, associate professor of social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary, and the Alliance's national spokesman. "The new name also brings in the very significant concept of the 'stewardship of Creation' which recognizes that God created this world with great wisdom and power, and has entrusted those made in His image, men and women, to exercise faithful stewardship over it," he added.
Beisner is co-author of "A Call to Truth, Prudence and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming." That paper calls for climate policies that will better protect the world's poor and promote economic development and has been endorsed by over 150 leaders drawn from the religious and scientific community. The paper presents evidence that mandatory carbon-emissions reductions to mitigate global warming would "not only fail to achieve that end but would also have the unintended consequence of serious harm to the world's poor, delaying for decades or generations their rise from poverty and its attendant high rates of disease and premature death."
The alliance also announced the formation of a Cornwall Stewardship Agenda task force designed to take the broad Biblical principles of the Cornwall Declaration and translate them into specific public-policy recommendations. The first two areas the task force will undertake are those of "poverty and development" and "climate and energy." The task force will be cochaired by Dr. Stephen Livesay, president of Bryan College, and Dr. Barrett Duke, vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
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