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Gov. Tom Corbett's involvement in the Penn State child rape scandal continues to be controversial
By G. Terry Madonna & Michael L.Young
It was a shocker. And it grabbed headlines, not just in Pennsylvania butacross the nation. Governor Tom Corbett in an abrupt turnabout is suing the NCAA for sanctions imposed on Penn State University in the notorious Sandusky scandal.
But how should we interpret Corbett's now widely reported intentions? Are they the brilliant political strategy of a governor determined to right a wrong and defend his state against the bullying tactics of an out of control regulatory body? Or are they the desperate flailing of an embattled governor feverishly trying to rescue his own career from a political defeat some predict?
What do you think of Corbett's NCAA lawsuit? Tell us in the comments section below.
Certainly many political observers see cynical political calculations
working here, a none too subtle attempt by an unpopular governor to shore up his political strength in advance of a 2014 re-election certain to be challenging for him. A chorus of critics have characterized the planned suit as "frivolous," "grandstanding," "a disgrace," and "laughable."
Moreover, Corbett's own previous involvement in the case is controversial. Critics have long accused him of dragging his feet as attorney general in the early Sandusky investigation to benefit his gubernatorial candidacy. Then last July after the NCAA sanctions were announced, he publicly supported them, calling them necessary "corrective actions" for Penn State.
Corbett's new position puts him squarely on both sides of the issue, leaving little doubt that political calculations are in play. Beyond dispute, the governor's anemic approval ratings stem in part from his handling of the prosecution and his later role as an ex officio member of the Penn State Board of Trustees.
Statewide polls have consistently shown high disapproval ratings for Corbett's management of the case, as well as deep unpopularity for the NCAA sanctions themselves. According to a September F&M poll only one in six (17%) registered voters believe Governor Corbett did an excellent or good job of investigating the Sandusky case when he was the attorney general compared to nearly two in three (65%) who think he did a fair or poor job.
But there is another side to consider. In the same poll a clear majority of voters (54%) believe the NCAA sanctions imposed are unfair. Pennsylvanian's agree with the governor that the NCAA blatantly overstepped its bounds, ignored its own procedures and denied Penn State due process. Legal observers disagree in evaluating the suit, some concluding it will be a hard case to win, while others believe there are significant antitrust issues raised in Corbett's arguments.
Surely, Corbett's arguments are familiar since they comprise many of the same criticisms many Pennsylvanians have leveled at the NCAA sanctions since last year. Corbett's 43 page lawsuit filed in the U S District Court charges that:
. The NCAA is a "trade organization" that overstepped its authority
involving itself in a criminal case. In imposing sanctions on Penn State the NCAA ignored its own procedures and guidelines.
. NCAA virtually blackmailed Penn State into accepting the sanctions
without due process by threatening to suspend the football program
permanently (the "death penalty").
. The NCAA "has punished Penn State without citing a single concrete NCAA rule that Penn State has broken.and with a complete disregard for the NCAA's own enforcement procedures."
. The NCAA penalties have imposed "irreparable damage on Pennsylvania, on its businesses and reputation, and on the Penn State football team.
Whether one endorses these arguments or not, many fair minded people will agree that most of them should have been aired when sanctions were imposed. Corbett's law suit, better late than never, will do that.
The stakes for Corbett in this bold strategy are immense. In going after the sanctions and the NCAA, he is adopting a politically popular policy. At the same time he risks the credible criticism that he is a hypocritical politician who initially supported the NCAA actions as necessary "corrective actions," but now is changing course because he is in political trouble. Furthermore, suing the NCAA puts the case squarely into the 2014 gubernatorial campaign, a strategy with some significant plusses and minuses for him.
All in all, Corbett's action seems to be an instance of doing the right
thing for the wrong reason. In defending the state's rights against what many believe to be an out of control trade group, Corbett is exercising the leadership expected of the state's chief executive. But he is doing it belatedly and perhaps reluctantly. For Pennsylvanians, a measured review of the correctness and proportionality of the NCAA sanctions is a necessary, if painful, exercise. For Pennsylvania's governor it may also be a necessary,
if painful, exercise - and one fraught with potential political peril.
Politically Uncorrected™ is published twice monthly, and previous columns can be viewed at http://politics.fandm.edu. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any institution or organization with which they are affiliated. This article may be used in whole or part only with appropriate attribution. Copyright © 2013 Terry Madonna and Michael Young.
Robert Hollinger
8:33 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Put a fork in Corbett as this turkey is cooked. His legacy will be that he was the worst PA Governor in modern history. PA was the ONLY state in all of America that didn't tax the marcellus shale companies he took campaign money from, and then cut so much money that killed our schools and education system in PA only to give lots of money to prisons. His cronies are pushing Charter Schools that WE taxpayers have to pay for on top of paying school taxes , most of which are scams like the Medical Academy Charter School in Catasauqua that has not ONE staff member with a medical background or healthcare experience. His ever-changing stance on the Sandusky situation depending which hat he wore was disgusting to watch. Now it's just desperate. Tell me one thing he has done to help Pennsylvania. It's embarrassing to call him the leader of the state.
11:46 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I'm going to do ALL I can to make sure this idiot doesn't see a second term.
Conan Kurtz
3:41 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I have some problems with him myself but he is doing what he said he would do if elected. What is wrong with that? And he is balancing budgets which is no easy thing in the new world order. I thought that was what the people wanted?
Out if range
5:17 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Yeah, and JoPa was only doing what he was hired to do. Win football games. What's wrong with that?
Conan Kurtz
5:55 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I am also a big Paterno supporter going back to 1960. I would hope we would have broader minds than to vote or not vote for a Governor based on a suggestion unrelated to role as GOVERNOR. He did not vote to fire JoePa. And if you want to get technical, Joe beat one Top Ten team in his last ten years. I don't call that winning games and we all know what it is called.
victor curll
8:13 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
gov flip flop, penn state should take punishment then sues ncaa?
10:30 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
Let's see a single homosexuals male can now adopt children with multiple sexual partners frequenting the home - but they cannot have sex with an 18 student boy in college. And when convicted of that behavior and the school gets sactioned for allowing it to go on for years, then the govenor says that is not fair. Which is it?
Ronald Lewis
8:31 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
I agree with Corbett (did I just say that ? ) that the NCAA has now established itself as the morality police for every member college and university. However, even as a loyal PSU alum, I also believe that Corbett's failure to pursue Sandusky for his child abuse transgressions and to bring this suit are both examples of catering to the PSU fan base for their support of his political career.
R. Carl Hart
2:03 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
This lawsuit is nothing but a chance for him to set his friends/wealthy donors up with a financial windfall.
Let's be honest, the primary target of this suit is to prevent the $60 million fine that was imposed, from leaving the state. The NCAA has stipulated the fine go to Non-Profit organizations that plan to use the money for childhood sexual abuse education, prevention and healing.
If he succeeds, let's see how many of the organizations that receive money, have ties to Corbett. I know of groups/individuals that have chosen a name and filed for non-profit status in the hopes of getting a slice of the pie. Some of them have not even developed a plan or strategy on how to use the money towards prevention, education or healing. Strangely, these same groups have set the pay scale for their directors.. "cart before the horse"?
Imagine a donor friend of Corbett's filing some legal paperwork and choosing a name like "Alum to Prevent CSA" and getting a $1 million dollar grant. This donor will set himself up as the executive director with a salary of $250,000, and then pay his board of directors and advisory committee a stipend of $50,000 each.
Guess what, the board members and advisers can serve many non-profit organizations. "You scratch my back..."
I know this all sounds like a vivid imagination at work, but seriously, if this lawsuit is won, I hope the authors of this opinion piece will investigate each charity that receives funds for ties to Corbett.


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Someone hacked into Atlus' website yesterday and embedded a trojan that has quite possibly spread to online users.
The publisher warns that those who visited its website between 9:00am PST and 2:30pm PST could have been infected.
"The faith and trust of our fans is of the utmost importance to us, a responsibility we don't take lightly," said a statement released by the company.
Atlus has since temporarily shut the site down and urges those who stopped by to run a malware scan immediately.
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Oh God, no apologies. My oldest brother was stuck inland with friends, at one point he called the house (by some miracle my phone line never got blown out) he was a little drunk and saying "isn't this fun?" He had no idea what we were going through.
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Gov. Nikki Haley raised nearly $400,000 in campaign contributions during the second quarter, and roughly 26% of her contributions came from businesses or organizations representing business interests.
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Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, has said governors are easy targets for out-of-state money because they deal with multi-state issues.
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I appreciate that Fox is trying to get the younger viewer but why must it be at the knowledgeable baseball fan's expense. It is bad enough that I have to turn the Sound down on Buck & McCarver but I can't turn the screen off and still see the game.
Why Fox Why?
I long for the good old days, when the Yankee playoff games were carried on 2 channels, one the Network feed and the local feed. For those of you that don't remember in the 70's, true Yankee fans would watch all the postseason games on Ch.11 with Phil, White, and Messer broadcasting audio over the network feed. I know Friday isn't a playoff game but it would be nice for the game to be on 2 channels. even if it was the Boston feed of the game, even Remy and Will's son are better than Buck McCarver
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A couple of times on these boards I have helped people identify wallpaper manufactures, Lighting resources, identify antiques, recommend paint colors, etc. with no thank you in response. I think those qualify as a "not" and not a "hot" | |||
Thank yous are always nice, but I never really/truly expect them on boards like these. Hopefully the help is appreciated by the poster and often even by others that read the posts. I also never know what to do about acknowledging a board thank you? PM thank yous, I do respond, but on the boards it seems a bit like thanking someone who sent a thank you card? | ||||
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What always gets me about this is that often I will write a long thoughtful answer to the question someone has asked and then someone else will just give a drive by answer and then they will get thanked by the OP and I get ignored. I think there is favoritism on these boards. However there are also people who acknowledge kindly everyone who responds to a thread of theirs. | ||||
You are very gracious to share your time/resources. I agree; there is a 'broad spectrum' of ungrateful folks in this world. I appreciate your reminder that one should never be too busy to issue a thank-you. When I request advice here/there, I will say "thank you in advance" although that is probably a tad tacky | ||||
I agree...saying thank you to someone who has made time and effort for you is just plain old good manners, even if it is by email or message boards. Message boards without messages are very boring indeed. | ||||
Unfortunately, the non responders will always be here to some degree and I know we can all relate from time to time. Tho I wholeheartedly share your dismay Charles, I must say that this doesn't seem to be the case w/ long time regulars who generally take the time to say "thanks". Cyber etiquette, or lack thereof, is an unfortunate reoccuring topic and frankly, not worth fretting over ( you can't fight city hall ). I'm sure these same people fail to respond on other BBs as well. It's indeed sad that people don't routinely take the time to acknowledge a responder who has taken their time to assist out of the goodness of their heart. Some might argue they'll do it after a few responders vs. individual responders and that's okay as long as the acknowledgement isn't long in waiting. I think what we'd most like to see is that they even read our imput. I know I sometimes wonder if they return as their thread nears pg. 2 w/ nary a sign. They need not agree w/ each response or may have solved the given dilemma in the meantime via another source, but it's nice when they let you know your efforts were not in vain. | ||||
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The week 11 BlogPoll is out and Notre Dame is still not in the top 2 spots. Seriously, guys. What's taking you so long?
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Oregon jumps Kansas State, Notre Dame and Ohio State remain constant. Alabama-Oregon is this week's BCS National Championship Game matchup.
Here are the week 10 SB Nation BlogPoll top 25 results. Again, sorry for the Hurricane Sandy delay. Next week's opponent -- Notre Dame -- is up to #4 this week. From the conference, Florida State and Clemson are both back in the top 10.
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Since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government has mounted an unprecedented domestic effort to protect America from terrorist threats. Part of that effort involved a massive reorganization of government; in March 2003, some 22 federal agencies were combined into a new Cabinet-level entity called the Department of Homeland Security. But the initiative also involved new money — stacks of it.
Some of that cash was spent by DHS itself or its new component agencies. Another $30 billion or so has also been awarded in special anti-terrorism and emergency preparedness grants to states and local communities for fighting extremists and bracing for catastrophes.
But just what has all that bought for the American public? Systematic federal efforts to measure the effectiveness of various homeland security programs and grants have been less than a complete success. Other evaluations have been buried in agate type and obscure audits – many of them sitting in dusty file drawers in Washington, D.C. or state capitals nationwide.
Before the 9/11 attacks, interoperability was not high on Washington's agenda. A little-noticed federal program had studied the issue, recommending a handful of "best practices," and the few bureaucrats who took an interest in the problem worked without much encouragement.
"My boss said, 'If that's what you want to work on — interoper … whatever it is — go ahead,'" recalls David Boyd, who now heads a Department of Homeland Security division focused on improving communications. "It was at a meeting three years later that he finally said, 'I get it. This is kind of important.'"
The 2001 terrorist attacks changed the rhetoric dramatically. Since 9/11, DHS officials and members of Congress who focus on homeland security have repeatedly assured first responders that interoperability ranks high on their list of priorities. But the budgets and staffing of the programs designed to focus on the issue tell an entirely different story. For most of the past eight years, the federal government's interoperability initiatives have been under-funded, sparsely staffed, and buried in layers of bureaucracy.
When a cop or a fire fighter pulls out a radio in a television police drama, his message goes through, whether he's in the basement of a building or deep in a forest. In the real world, clear communication is rarely so easy, particularly among first responders from different disciplines and jurisdictions. This reality was dramatically brought home at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when crucial observations from the police department's helicopters did not reach fire chiefs, commanders lost radio contact with responders who ascended the towers, and brigades in the north tower did not hear calls to evacuate.
Since then, an unprecedented amount of federal money has been spent on communications gear and technology, expenses traditionally borne by state and local governments. The goal is to fix the communication problems faced on 9/11 — to create "interoperability" that allows first responders from different disciplines and jurisdictions to communicate. From 2004 to 2008, the only years for which detailed figures are available, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved more than $4.3 billion in grant money to improve interoperability among first responders nationwide. DHS officials have said that more grant money has gone to interoperability than to any other initiative, and it continues to be a major focus for DHS grant programs, while also drawing funding from the economic stimulus package.
Yet for years, results have failed to live up to expectations. In 2004, then-DHS Secretary Tom Ridge promised that by year's end, it would be possible for most first responders to talk to each other in a crisis. But in 2005, Hurricane Katrina proved that the country was nowhere near ready to handle a real disaster. By 2009, DHS officials were still struggling to convince Congress that first responders could reach basic communications goals.
It seemed impossible that John C. Mattman could fail.
But a mere seven months after his company went public in 2006 and began selling shares boasting that its success was assured, the unthinkable happened.
By the end of that year, Mattman had just $200 in a personal bank account and $2.3 million in outstanding claims from creditors. To make matters worse, someone had stolen his Ford pickup truck.
Mattman Specialty Vehicles was one of dozens of businesses that experienced a meteoric rise after the Sept. 11 attacks. Demand for sophisticated law-enforcement gadgets, baggage screening technology, and emergency preparedness gear was insatiable. Police and firefighters had to be equipped for the next major catastrophe, and Mattman was well-positioned as the all-American company ready to satisfy a boundless need to keep the nation safe.
The abrupt and dramatic collapse of Mattman illustrates how small businesses and communities alike struggled to manage the seemingly limitless spending spree on homeland security that emerged after 9/11. Not until years after the hijackings would California officials in charge of federal homeland security funds for the state enact rules to prevent local communities from losing money as a result of companies going bankrupt without warning.
Congress helped fuel the industry's explosion by appropriating vast pools of money to local governments across the country in the form of antiterrorism grants. Topping wish lists everywhere were new muscle-bound but tremendously expensive incident-response vehicles that authorities wanted for fighting terrorism and disasters.
Packed with elaborate tools such as bomb robots, satellite communications, video monitors, biological-testing equipment, computer terminals, and more, the vehicles can cost as much as $1 million. These custom trucks were Mattman's specialty.
Soon after hijackers obliterated the World Trade Center towers eight years ago, Marin County received more than $100,000 in surveillance equipment to keep its water treatment system safe from a terrorist attack.
But four years after the funds were awarded, state authorities found more than $67,000 worth of the gear still boxed in its original packaging.
It had never been used.
The rest of the homeland security money went toward an alarm system to protect remote tank and pump sites. Because of the region's hilly terrain, the system didn't even work.
The Marin County example is not an isolated one. Under the state's open-records laws, California Watch found scores of instances of wasteful spending, purchasing violations, error-prone accounting, and shoddy oversight at agencies across the state during the years immediately following 9/11.
California Watch, a new unit started by the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, examined thousands of pages of documents from 160 monitoring reports written by state homeland security officials who visited cities and counties across California to inspect equipment and grant records for compliance with federal guidelines.
Among the findings:
The Center for Investigative Reporting sought to examine documents from fusion centers in both Denver and St. Paul to better understand what roles they played in the security preparations for last year's Democratic and Republican national conventions. But authorities in Colorado refused a public-records request sent by CIR.
The Colorado Information Analysis Center is run by the state's Department of Public Safety. In a response letter, Spokesman Lance Clem said that releasing the records would be contrary to the public interest and "not only would compromise [the] security and investigative practices of numerous law enforcement agencies but would also violate confidentiality agreements that have been made with private partner organizations and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies."
The Denver Police Department, for its part, has a history of conducting activities that concern civil libertarians today — spying on individuals engaged in peaceful activities. As a result of a lawsuit filed in 2002 by the American Civil Liberties Union, hundreds of pages of records became public proving that starting in 1953, Denver police spied on as many as 3,200 individuals and 208 organizations. The list contained not only suspected criminal elements but also human rights, education, and peace groups such as Amnesty International and the American Friends Service Committee.
Police collected names, home addresses, personal descriptions, and other information on individuals, including writing down license plates of vehicles used by those attending peaceful protests. This appeared to be in violation of a city policy prohibiting the collection of intelligence "unless such information directly relates to criminal conduct or activity and there is reasonable suspicion that the subject of the information may be involved in criminal conduct or activity."
The Republican National Convention was scheduled to begin Sept. 1 in St. Paul last year. With just days left on Aug. 26, a pair of videographers from New York who film street protests wandered around downtown Minneapolis lost and looking for a Greyhound station where a friend from Chicago was arriving. After finally retrieving her, they lugged a pile of heavy gear onto a city bus headed for the northwest section of the city to a house they planned to stay at for the night.
The tired trio climbed off the bus well past midnight near a busy corridor of cargo trains. Two police cars showed up and flooded them with search beams. The officers, saying they were investigating auto burglaries in the area, began searching their packs. They discovered pamphlets handed out by the Welcoming Committee and became alarmed. "It was like they'd found Al-Qaeda or something," Vladimir Teichberg, one of the filmmakers on the scene, recalls.
Cameras, phones, laptops, notebooks, and cash were taken away. Each was questioned individually in the squad cars. Their IDs came up clean. The group made sure, for the record, to deny consent to the searches before demanding itemized receipts of everything confiscated. None were given, nor was anyone charged with a crime. "This is your case number. Call tomorrow," the officers said. They rushed to the house and began contacting lawyers.
The officers later sought approval for a warrant to examine all the electronic equipment they'd taken. The case was assigned to Minneapolis police Sgt. Thomas Stiller, who attempted to establish that the group had committed a "gross misdemeanor" by trespassing on the railroad property. That would mean a violation of the Minnesota Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002, which forbids anyone from nearing a "critical public service facility" without permission. Employees of such facilities are even empowered to carry out arrests of trespassers under the post-Sept. 11 state law.
Initially created with the promise to help fight terror at the local level, the majority of fusion centers across the United States since have shifted to a general crime-busting mission, partly to justify their annual operating budgets as state lawmakers face greater fiscal pressures due to a wilting economy.
Robust political support for them proliferated swiftly after 9/11 when reports blamed a failure to foresee the tragedy on bureaucratic turf wars and reluctance among federal, state, and local agencies to share information with one another. Today, fusion centers collaborate with federal intelligence agencies that once eschewed state and local partnerships.
"Homeland security in a post-9/11 world requires a new paradigm for intelligence support," Charles Allen, former chief intelligence officer for the Department of Homeland Security, told a crowd at the National Homeland Defense Foundation in Colorado last October. "This shift has led to a new information-sharing landscape — one including new partners, new roles, and new rules that are still evolving."
But a report on fusion centers issued in January of 2008 by the Congressional Research Service expressed concern that people without a sophisticated knowledge of intelligence operations and adequate guidance "will engage in intelligence collection that is not supported by law," a reminiscence of spying abuses that occurred in the United States during the '60s and '70s, which led to widespread reforms.
The spying began late in the summer of 2007, after police in St. Paul discovered an amateur video online. It showed youths dressed in black, their faces covered with dark bandanas, tossing home-made fire bombs and seeming to prepare for an assault.
The group called itself the "RNC Welcoming Committee."
For authorities in St. Paul, the whole thing seemed like serious business. The city was deep in preparations for the Republican National Convention, scheduled to take place in September of 2008. Security was their paramount concern, and nothing worse than a terrorist attack could happen during the four-day event.
In the year leading up to the convention, police would spend countless hours working to identify those behind the video and others who might be planning to disrupt the Republican Party's nominating bash. They would draw on a new domestic intelligence infrastructure and take unprecedented advantage of laws expanded after 9/11 that give police more intrusive authorities to halt potential subversives and terrorists before they attack.
But far from yielding major revelations, some police work prior to and during the RNC resulted in a series of missteps, poor judgments, heavy-handed tactics, and inappropriate detentions, according to interviews and a review of official documents obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Critics say many of the police actions were unconstitutional and a judge called one seizure illegal after the fact. Law enforcement officials a year later continue to defend their handling of the convention, arguing it was the only way to keep extremist hoodlums from disrupting the RNC and prevent violent incidents.


text: The date was December 9th, 2011 when cartoonist and Center for Cartoon Studies professor Alec Longstreth shaved off his beard and shaggy do. A promise to himself in 2008, he decided to chart his progress through pictures of his hair and beard growth that would undoubtedly remind him daily of his commitment. Living in a small town with a beard as his shadow, Longstreth went from industrious Fellow of the school to an instructor of both summer workshops and graduate classes to the Acting Director (while James Sturm takes a much-needed sabbatical) . Even after all the excitement, he is still growing and evolving, deciding to learn watercolor on the side. Venture on to read more about the amazing cartoonist Alec Longstreth.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- On the fifteenth day of the trial for the former Horace Mann Middle School wrestling coach accused of sexually assaulting at least 22 boys, the defense finally began its case.
Joshua Carrier is accused of more than 200 criminal charges in which he allegedly sexually assaulted wrestlers during the 2010-2011 school year. He is also a former Colorado Springs Police officer who served as a school resource officer the year before the alleged assaults.
Joshua Carrier's father, Dr. Delos Carrier, took the stand in defense of his son Friday morning. He is a physician at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Delos answered questions from Josh's attorneys relating to Josh's background and personal life, going into details about Josh's volunteerism, interest in medicine and previous healthy relationships.
According to Delos, Josh was a volunteer at a drug, alcohol addition and sexual abuse prevention center in Texas called "Pathways" and won two awards.
"He had a heart for people," Delos said, adding Josh was even nicknamed "Tenderheart" as a kid.
In 2010, the year the accused sexual assaults against Josh began, Delos said he gave his son advice regarding infectious diseases.
Prosecutors cross-examined Delos, focusing much of the questioning on the fact that Josh wasn't a registered EMT.
At one point, prosecutors asked, "Would you agree with me that someone who truly cares for children would not look at child pornography?"
"I would not," Delos answered.
The judge said the trial is ahead of schedule and dismissed the jury Friday morning after Delos stepped down. Carriers lawyers said their next witness wasn't available until Monday morning.
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FILE - This July 1, 2011 file photo shows fake marijuana displayed in a case, at The 2811 Club, a private cannabis club that plans to dispense marijuana to medically qualified patients in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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JunkPoster: here are the facts straight from D.H.S
Patient Age-groups
Less than 18 years 24 0.07%
18 to 30 years 8,518 26.5%
31 to 40 years 6,685 20.8%
41 to 50 years 5,807 18.07%
51 to 60 years 6,826 21.24%
61 to 70 years 3,670 11.42%
71 to 80 years 517 1.61%
81 and older 95 0.3%
Totals 73.44% of users over 30
53% of users are over 50
Will Kavanagh now try to shutdown all prescription medicines, as kids often get those from their parents medicine cabinets?
I believe the issue is not marijuana, but the availability of any controlled substances to a small percentage of youth.
Mr. Cavanaugh (and those of his ilk) seem bound and determined to dictate to the people their own ideals with little or no regard to their constituents and the citizens of Arizona. You can beat that dead horse all you want, but I do know it didn't work for Russell Pearce.
If my children were to have access to marijuana, I would want it to be something locally grown, controlled and financially beneficial to the State, not a drug cartel.
Quit wasting the State's time.
Here follows an extract from "Notes on Democracy" by Henry Louis Mencken, written in 1926, during alcohol prohibition (1919-1933):
The Prohibitionists, when they foisted their brummagem cure-all upon the country under cover of the war hysteria, gave out that their advocacy of it was based upon a Christian yearning to abate drunkenness, and so abolish crime, poverty and disease. They preached a [crime, poverty and disease free] millennium, and no doubt convinced hundreds of thousands of naive and sentimental persons, not themselves Puritans, nor even democrats.
They cannot stop the use of alcohol, nor even appreciably diminish it, but they can badger and annoy everyone who seeks to use it decently, and they can fill the jails with men taken for purely artificial offences, and they can get satisfaction thereby for the Puritan yearning to browbeat and injure, to torture and terrorize, to punish and humiliate all who show any sign of being happy. And all this they can do with a safe line of policemen and judges in front of them; always they can do it without personal risk.
The same people that are trying to stop GUN'S are the LIBTARD weed smokers!!! Keep going with your foolishnes! KEEP IT UP OBAMA FANS! PUFF PUFFF PUFFFFF,WOW ! GREAT DECISION!!!!!!!!!!!![thumbdown]
B/S, I know several kids (under 21s) that smoke weed and they all get it from guys who have cards. Again B/S. This whole law was a big dupe on the voting population of AZ. Smoking weed to cure anything is just about as effective as drinking to cure anything. Look at the statistics, most of the cards given out were to men 25-55 and for "chronic pain"... What the Frac is that!!!
The real reason weed smoking has gone down around a point, kids are now going to illegal scripts, Heroin and Meth... Yes, attitudes like this has given the kids a passe attitude toward weed, which is still dangerous, addictive and unpredictable.
You got that right, Willie. When the conservatives in this state realize that it's really in their best political interest to support the legalization of Cannabis their support base will be stronger than ever. They say they're for smaller government so now they have a chance to put their signatures where there mouths are at and start supporting the full and complete legalization of Cannabis in this state just as Colorado and Washington states have done. Everyone already knows that Cannabis is less harmful to the individual and society in general than, say, alcohol and/or tobacco, let alone most all prescription drugs.
Looks like Kavanaugh must be tired of public service and wanting to make sure he doesn't get re-elected.
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OK, we are FINALLY equipped to test for OE.
I found an old Christmas or Birthday present QX5 digital microscope tucked away forgotten. Undaunted by Windows-only platform description on the box, I went on a search for Mac OS 3rd party software and found one!
Now I just need a bit of coaching in recognizing the dreaded spores under the 'scope. I have to admit this is very cool.
Here are a couple of image captures from suspected butterfly scale sample:
Bottom Lit image:
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Now, this is the only area where there are heavy concentration of these spots that appear to be the spores in the entire sample. How would this butterfly's infection level be rated?


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Rahul K. Gairola, Ph.D. LB1-205 4:00p - 5:00p
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988) famously engaged a critique of a number of white, Western male theorists including Marx, Foucault, and Deleuze. The essay critically placed the woman of color in the role of sati where her sexuality was positioned as "white men saving brown women from brown men." The essay examined the figure of sati as a fatal alibi for upper class, patriarchy to silence and obliterate articulations of subaltern subjects while problematically acknowledging that that very subject transcends subalternty at the moment of utterance. Jumping forward almost a quarter of a century, Spivak's newest work titled An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012) illuminates the dismal plight of the humanities as teachers and students alike negotiate the vicissitudes of the double bind, or the static positioning of being caught in an identificatory binary from moment to moment. How does this divergent work, separated by 24 years of history and scholarship production, come together in the context of race and the South Asian diaspora in the US? This paper argues that Spivak's work condenses on the figure of Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University freshman who was recently tried for the invasion of privacy when he used his web cam to view Clementi and a male partner in an intimate moment.
The knowledge of this intrusion drove Tyler Clementi, his roommate, to commit suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge in New York City, and was one of many tragedies that inaugurated a national movement against teen bullying. While Clementi would not live to experience the popular aphorism "it just gets better" that has been made famous the past few years by Dan Savage of the "It Gets Better Project," the court case of Dharun Ravi produced a media spectacle of sorts. It ranged from a complete condemnation of bullying against gay, suicidal teens to an online movement to "Deport Dharun Ravi." This paper reads Ravi as the quintessential media spectacle of Spivak's double bind in the context of twenty-first century racism as the global economy constricts: both immigrant and emigrant at the same time under neoliberal homonormativity – itself caught in a double bind that pulls on two ends of a knot that tighten yet brings closer together homophobia and xenophobia. Finally, the paper unearths the "white men saving white men from brown men" media discourse that attended the racist xenophobia against Ravi and his family to demonstrate that two lives would be ruined from the fatal mistake made by one. These range from media caricatures of Ravi as cold, to his father as a "slight man" and his mother's over-zealous concern of her son's lack of appetite.
Rahul K. Gairola teaches at Seattle University and the University of Washington (UW), where he completed a joint PhD in English Literature and Critical Theory in December 2009. He has held research fellowships at Pembroke College, Cambridge, the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the UW Department of English, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. He has published and delivered papers widely at home and abroad, and is revising a book manuscript titled Homelandings: Diasporic Genealogies of (Be)longing and Nation along with a few other pieces. He sits on the Executive Committee of the South Asian Literary Association (SALA), and served as Co-Chair of its annual conference in Seattle in January 2012.
Tad Ghirmai, Ph.D. LB1-205 4:00p - 5:00p Abstract: Cognitive Radio is a technology that aims to address the spectrum scarcity problem facing many countries. Traditional spectrum assignment has been based on fixed spectrum access policy in which licensed users are allocated a dedicated bandwidth. The explosion of new wireless services in the last two decades has resulted in spectrum scarcity because most of the available spectrum has been allocated. However, recent studies showed that a large portion of the licensed spectrum is underutilized, and the spectrum scarcity problem is mainly a result of inefficient spectrum allocation policy. To address the problem, therefore, a dynamic spectrum access policy (DSA) is proposed. DSA allows access to a spectrum by unlicensed (secondary) users in a manner that would not compromise the operations of the licensed (primary) user. Cognitive radio promises to realize dynamic spectrum access policy by designing radios that intelligently detect unused spectrum and change their transmission parameters to adapt to the new environment. However, designing a truly cognitive radio is challenging. This presentation provides an overview of the challenges in the design of cognitive radio from signal processing perspective.
Cheryl Cooke, Ph.D. LB1-205 4:00p - 5:00p
Abstract: Some of the historical discourses about nurses were that we were witches and whores, discrediting us as healers. While social understanding about who nurses are and what we do has changed over time, there are other populations of women about whom we can learn based on the social discourses about them. Understanding these discourses can offer important information about a group's assigned place in society, and the people who assign them. In my research, I study the population of women who are in relationships with incarcerated men. The majority of these women and men are low income, poorly educated, and many are of Color. My prior work was focused on studying this population of women in order to design appropriate interventions. However, I have come to realize
that looking for specific interventions cannot occur outside the set of social discourses about these women that shape their experiences, behaviors, and abilities to act in their own best interest. Working from a critical, feminist perspective, my research is now moving away from developing specialized interventions and towards a more nuanced
understanding the broader social discourses that impact these women's abilities to act. I believe that prior to developing any comprehensive intervention, as researchers our understanding needs to take into account the broader social contexts that are at play. In this talk, I will describe both the micro level, individual experiences among this population, as well as the macro, group level at which these women's experiences and identities are presented in society.
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Like others across the country, this Thursday I'll be joining extended family and friends to celebrate each other and the earth's bounty. I look forward to meeting up with cousins coming to town from distant cities, and enjoying the yummy dishes we'll all contribute to the feast.
I'm also hoping we keep the acephate, methamidophos and chlorothalonil off the menu. (Easy for me to say, right?) Sadly, according to government testing, these hard-to-pronounce pesticides are among those commonly found on green beans. And they're not good for you.
This is a global Week of Food Action, and as part of the push, a broad alliance of Christians from around the world has released a set of recommendations for ending world hunger.
Despite best attempts by the chemical industry to use "feeding the world" as moral justification to sell pesticides and proprietary, genetically engineered (GE) seeds to farmers worldwide, members of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance are calling instead for food and farming systems that embody Christian values of fairness, care for creation and sustenance for generations. Rather than pesticides and GE seeds, this global network of Christians calls for investment in agroecology. Why? Because it works.
As a cooking instructor, one of my obvious objectives is to teach people how to prepare simple, tasty and healthy meals at home. Yet there's another essential aspect of what I do, one which flies under the radar of most food television shows and cooking magazines: helping people understand how our food is grown, how these growing practices can affect our health and how to shop accordingly.
A raging public controversy over genetically engineered (GE) rice in China captured media attention in recent months, and has culminated in a surprising win. A few weeks ago, the country's State Council released a new Draft Food Law1 that, if passed, would protect the genetic resources of China's food crops and restrict the application of GE technology in its main food crops.
This is significant progress in the effort by farmers and campaigners in China and indeed across Asia to protect the genetic integrity, diversity and heritage of their rice.
On Wednesday, PAN joined the ever-growing Occupy movement in Oakland and the supermajority of Americans frustrated with corporate control of finances, homes and yes — food.
PAN and partners — including Californians for Pesticide Reform and Food & Water Watch — carved out a space among the thousands of concerned people gathered in Downtown Oakland to discuss the challenges posed by our corporate-controlled food and farming system.


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Jan 24, 2013 11:55 AM
JTV US - how to know it's not Korean one?
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Is there any way be 100% sure guitar I have in hands is US model and not Korean? Do they have special serial number or any other "mark"?
I can buy JTV-69 US for really good price (about 2300 USD) with waranty so I want to be sure it's what it is said it is ;-)
The US version should say "Made in the USA" (or something like that, I forget the exact wording) on the back of the headstock. The serial numbers are different as well. I want to say they begin with a US, but I don't remember entirely. I will be able to tell you for sure later. Also, there are some finishes that are only available in the US version.
I double-checked my JTVUS this evening. There is an oval stamp on the back of the headstock with the serial number (which is just a 6-digit number, no letters), and around the outside of the oval it says, "Handcrafted in the USA".
Thanks for your answer, phil_m. I know about different finishes, but this one is "Candy Apple" so it's same finish as Korean.
I must check my JTV-69 (Korean) but I think it's serial number has different lenght (8-digit number I think).
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to try (and buy) US version!
Ok, it looks like Korean JTVs have totally different serial number, mine starts with W and 9-digit number follows.
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Antidepressant Medicines Used to Treat OCD
How It Works
Antidepressants improve mood by affecting the levels of a chemical messenger in the brain (Reference neurotransmitter Opens New Window) called serotonin.
You may start to feel better within 1 to 3 weeks of taking antidepressant medicine. But it can take as many as 12 weeks to see more improvement. If you have questions or concerns about your medicines, or if you do not notice any improvement by 3 weeks, talk to your doctor. It is possible that one of the medicines will work better for you than another. You may have to try several medicines before you find the right one.
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The 330-pound defensive tackle, already enrolled at Hines Community College in Mississippi, was named the team's recipient of the Golden Helmet Award at last month's team banquet.
During his time at Griffin, the Bears have posted a 41-8 record, finishing region champs one, state semifinalists once, subregion champs three times in four years while making the state field all four years.
STATE SWIM MEET: ATLANTA — Spalding High sophomore Chelsea Jacobs enjoyed a banner day in the state meet Friday at Georgia Tech, not only finishing first in her heat but also setting a new school record in he 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:13.68.
"For me, in my heart, it was like she won state," Spalding head coach Dolores Owen said of Jacobs' performance. "She represented Spalding High to the highest degree."
Although Jacobs finished 26th out of 38 swimmers — eight places ahead of where she was seeded — she still missed qualifying for the later rounds by a full 3 seconds.
It was her first time qualifying for the state meet.
"I was still real proud of her," said Owen. "She has two more years to get where she needs to be."
SHS BASEBALL: The Spalding High baseball team has three upcoming fund raisers.
The first is a BBQ plate sale Feb. 23, furnished by Huckleberry's. Tickets, $10 each, can be picked up from any Jags player. BBQ plates can be picked up from 11 a.m., to 1 p.m., in conjunction with the team's 100-inning game that day.
The second fund raiser is the Applebee's Pancake breakfast from 8-9 a.m., and from 9-10 a.m., March 2. Tickets are $7 and they can be bought from any Jag players. The players will also be there serving breakfast.
The team's third fund raiser is the team's annual Golf Tournament on March 9th at the Griffin City Course. Cost is $200 per team. Start time is 9 a.m.
Anyone interested in buying tickets for either or both events they can contact Jags head coach Mickey Moody, booster club president Ted Harris or any Jags baseball player.


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The Home Show kicks off at Turning Stone
By: Chelsea Rarrick
Updated: February 15, 2013
The Home Show at Turning Stone might be able to help with that.
The weekend long event kicked off on Friday at the resort.
There's over 200 vendors that provide all different aspects of home improvement.
Whether you're looking for things for the inside of your house or landscaping, organizers say it's at The Home Show.
"We all start planning our next spring home improvement project in the winter time. We start to get cabin fever, we want to get out of the house. It's a great place to come, start getting ideas for your next home improvement project," said one of the organizers, Scot Hayes.
The show is open through Sunday.


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Toni Demuro's Illustrations Are Unique And Idiosyncratic
I love Toni Demuro's illustrations – how can you not. They're beautiful; so well designed, bold, striking, idiosyncratic and unique. Yes, I think unique and original are the words to best describe his work. Perhaps his style is due to the fact that he has never trained as an illustrator, was never institutionalised. Infact I believe the only training he's had is a painting and decorating course. I've read that he's also rather reclusive and tries to minimise his exposure to other artists and influences as he believes that his work is a manifestation of his state of mind – it comes from within, not from without.
His blog has very little to say except for an oblique Italian metaphor; 'Dire di sé è come mordere i pneumatici delle auto in corsa' which in google language means; 'Say of himself is like biting the tires of racing cars'. I have no idea what that means except that he obviously likes his illustrations to do the talking.
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Quick was Robeson County's leading scorer and led the Lady Mustangs to the second round of the state playoffs. Snowden, in his first season, helped East Columbus to a 19-6 record and a regular season and tournament championship in the Three Rivers Conference.
Joining Quick on the all-conference first team was South Robeson guard Savanna Hunt, St. Pauls' Tia Glover and Alexis Roberson, Anasia Evans and Na'Jewell Ingram from Fairmont and Red Springs forward Jasmine Murchison.
All-Three Rivers GIRLS
Coach of the Year: Troy Snowden, East Columbus
Player of the Year: Aterria Quick, South Robeson
First Team
Lauren Jenkins, East Columbus; Brittany Hall, East Columbus; Kayla Brown, East Columbus; Aterria Quick, South Robeson; Savanna Hunt, South Robeson; Alexis Roberson, St. Pauls; Tia Glover, St. Pauls; Anasia Evans, Fairmont; Na'Jewel Ingram, Fairmont; Jasmine Murchison, Red Springs; Princess Flowers, West Columbus.
Second Team
Meonti Campbell, East Columbus; Keana Robinson, East Columbus; DeMaya Berry, East Columbus; Ahlea Dickens, South Robeson; Illya White, South Robeson; Dara Locklear, St. Pauls; Chyna Smith, Fairmont; Marsha Clewis, Fairmont; Robyn McPhaul, Red Springs; Jayla Barnes, West Columbus


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We're mad for plaid! The Jasper quilt is a patchwork of bright checks, tartans, and madras prints. The multi-hued design has a fresh look with timeless appeal.
additional product information
- 100% cotton; 100% cotton fill
- sizes available: twin, full/queen, king
- multi-color plaid, patch quilt; solid chambray reverse; lightweight cotton fill;
- machine wash cold, separately. Gentle cycle. Tumble dry, low. Warm iron, if needed.


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Hello "After a thousand battles, one only sees death!" -Chaos Space Marine Predator (Warhammer 40,000)
hello oh and it was and still a great show it is one of the best of all time.
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and 2nd GiG are just as good and complex as any primetime drama cop or paramilitary show IMO
ha so true XD :D =D
i've never seen it is it really good? ~give it, live it, love it~
ya it's a really great show! :D =D


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Current Recruitment need(s):
* Non-Priest Healer
Tank OS:
* DPS Death Knight
* Retribution Paladin
* DPS Warrior
Healer OS:
* Windwalker Monk
* Balance Druid
HOWEVER: We are always looking for exceptional players regardless of current needs as they can vary over time. Extra consideration given to those with strong offspecs, especially healers. Anyone interested in tanking must prove themselves competitive in a DPS or healing role first, and be willing to maintain and use that spec as content dictates. Exceptional applicants of any class will always be considered.
Raid Times:
* EST - 8:30pm to 11:30pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays
* EST - 7:30pm to 11:30pm on Sundays
* Invites go out 15 minutes before the raid begins.
* We DO NOT raid beyond our 10 hour a week schedule.
About us:
T14: 6/6H, 6/6H, 1/4H - 25 man US #120
T15: 10/13H - 25 man US #105
<Electric Sheep> is an established 25 man raiding guild on Kargath-US a PvE EST Chicago datacenter server that has been raiding since Vanilla.
We have a unique mix of a casual approach to the game combined with a serious approach to raiding. We understand that real life is always a priority, but during raids we expect players to be capable, prepared, and communicative. It is this attitude that allows us to make such significant progress in the game while only raiding about 10 hours a week.
Raid spots are given out on a raid-by-raid basis based on whoever signs up for a particular night. There is no set raid team. Progression raid spots are given out based very heavily on merit, farm raid spots are more dispersed to give new members an opportunity to show their ability.
On a personal note the guild is full of great people and amazing officers. The guild is and has been drama free. Everyone is treated with respect by all members of the guild. It can be a great home if you're looking for one
Loot System:
Loot is distributed based on our own version of a zero-sum DKP system that we call Electric Sheep Points, or ESP, that is updated for each player week by week. Items are assigned a cost based on their ilvl, what slot they go in (armor, jewelery, weapon, etc...), and our progress through the tier. As time goes on, the price of items declines, which puts a premium on getting something first, and allows newer players and alts to get items from older content at a discount.
When an item drops, anyone who wants it /rolls and posts their ESP in raid chat. The person with the highest roll who has sufficient ESP to cover the cost is awarded the item. There is no discussion necessary, and no bidding.
You gain ESP by showing up to raids on time, staying the whole time, and for attempts on bosses (so if we don't get any drops you still earn points), based on the amount of points people spend for items that week.
Recruit Policy:
Recruits undergo a roughly 1 month "trial period" after joining the guild, after which a decision to accept or decline the recruit is made. Recruits have normal loot privileges during their trial period, and begin with 5 ESP (which is sufficient to roll for most types of items, depending on progression).
More Info:
If you want to learn more about the guild or have any questions regarding recruitment, please visit our forum at http://www.acdsheep.com or contact an officer in-game. Good people to try are Dibbler, Lauriel, Akorah, or ask a member if there are currently any officers online or on alts.


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Respiratory Problems, Age 12 and Older
Preparing For Your Appointment
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Reference Making the Most of Your Appointment.
You can help your doctor diagnose and treat your condition by being prepared to answer the following questions:
- When did your symptoms start?
- Is your respiratory problem localized, such as involving only one ear, one side of your sinuses, or the lungs?
- Did symptoms start as a cold but now appear to be worse than you would expect from a cold?
- Have you had similar symptoms before? How were they treated?
- Do you have a Reference productive cough? Are you coughing up clear, white, green, yellow, or blood-tinged mucus? How much mucus are you bringing up? Are you coughing up mucus all day long or mostly at nighttime?
- Have you had fever and chills?
- Are you wheezing, or do you have new or worsening shortness of breath?
- Do you have a severe headache, earache, or sore throat?
- Do any other members of your family or work group have similar symptoms?
- Have you recently been exposed to large amounts of dust, fumes, smoke, or chemicals?
- Do you smoke or use other tobacco products?
- Have you recently used an indoor hot tub, pool, or spa?
- What home treatment have you tried? Did it help?
- What prescription, nonprescription, or alternative medicines have you tried? Did they help?
- Have you recently traveled inside or outside of your home country?
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