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With the transfer window open, big clubs are signing big players for big money all across the world. But that doesn't always mean they're making good decisions in the process.
As the deals continue to pour in, we're taking a look at some of the worst decisions from the 2013 summer transfer window so far.
What makes a bad decision? Well, it could mean bidding too much for a known troublemaker. It might mean saying something silly. Or it might be a case of the media taking things a bit too far.
With that in mind, let's get started.
In January, Congolese defender Christopher Samba joined English Premier League club Queens Park Rangers from Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala in a deal worth £12.5, per BBC Sport.
After reportedly earning wages of £100,000 per week during QPR's doomed relegation fight, Samba rejoined Anzhi in July for…£12 million.
And thus closes the perfect circle of bad decisions.
It's not news that transfer rumors can sometimes be wacky, but every now and then, they cross over into the absurd.
Take for instance this nugget from Northern Ireland's Sunday Life, which claimed in June that Manchester United were ready to swoop for Lionel Messi if their move for Cristiano Ronaldo failed to pan out.
Wishful thinking? Evidence of insanity? An April Fools joke that ran a few months late?
Like we said, transfer rumors can sometimes veer off into the realm of the absurd. And sometimes, they're just laughable.
For your consideration, we present this "scoop" from the Daily Star, in which Manchester United's Wayne Rooney is spotted playing golf near Chelsea's training ground despite nursing a hamstring injury. Clearly, then, he must be heading to Chelsea, because otherwise GOLF NEAR CHELSEA and HAMSTRING! Or something.
Printing that didn't just illustrate perfectly a bad editorial decision. It hinted at severe brain damage.
Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara completed a transfer from Barcelona to Bayern Munich in July, reuniting with former Barca manager Pep Guardiola.
A few weeks later, Thiago's father, former Brazil international Mazinho, said Thiago had come close to joining Manchester United instead, per Metro.
And yet, Thiago himself said this, per PA Sport: "The truth is that in no moment did United come to us and talk to us. It came from the press, it was always a lie."
So did Thiago call his father a liar? Or did Mazinho spill the beans when he wasn't supposed to? Either way, a little more coordination could have gone a long way.
After years and years of financial prudence, Arsenal finally appear ready to loosen the purse strings this summer.
With £70 million reportedly available for transfer expenditures, it's not overly surprising that the Gunners would be willing to bid more than £40 million for a player.
But after all that scrimping, all that saving and all the heartbreak generated from losing players to bigger-spending clubs, they decided to bid Manchester City money on this guy.
Perhaps they don't realize that even though they were apparently outbid for Gonzalo Higuain according to the Daily Mail, Napoli still only paid £32 million for him.
Poor Carlos Tevez. Those nasty English fans expected so much from him.
"(T)here was way too much pressure," Tevez told CNN (h/t Telegraph) after leaving Manchester City for Juventus in July. "It came from everyone—the club, the fans. I think that too much pressure just hurts the team."
Said the man who earned £200,000 per week at City.
Next time, Carlos, keep your feelings to yourself.
Veteran Dutch midfielder Edgar Davids, now 40 years old and a player-manager with Barnet in England's Conference Premier (the fifth tier), seems to fancy himself a trend-setter.
After wearing No. 1 during a preseason friendly in July, Davids was asked whether he would continue to do so for the Conference Premier season. He answered in the affirmative, but didn't stop there.
"Yes, that is my number for the season," Davids told the Barnet and Potters Bar Times. "I am going to start this trend."
Hold that thought, Edgar. It's been done before, as ESPN FC explains.
Bayern Munich unveiled Mario Gotze in early July after signing the German attacking midfielder from Borussia Dortmund for £31.5 million. None of that made for a poor decision, of course. Gotze, 21, is one of the most talented and exciting young footballers on the planet.
But during the introductory press conference, Gotze donned a Nike T-shirt despite the fact that Adidas owns a nine percent stake in Bayern, per The Guardian. The embarrassment cost Gotze a fine of €10,000.
For a modern football star, losing €10,000 is hardly a problem. All the same, that was one expensive T-shirt for Bayern's new signing.


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2. This second suggestion somewhat echoes the first in its desire to eliminate play that doesn't best represent the league. The focus in this case is on the Pro Bowl, which you have acknowledged last week raises quality concerns. Even NFL-starved fans in Honolulu, where the game is played, booed some of the lackluster effort exhibited in this year's 59-41 AFC win. Aaron Rodgers, the league's MVP, went so far as to say some of his NFC teammates "embarrassed themselves."
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Clearly, there are many factors that gravitate against the Pro Bowl being a good showcase for serious football. First among them is the contact nature of the sport: No player wants to sustain an injury in what amounts to a postseason exhibition game. Add to this that there is very little practice time, players are in Hawaii vacation mode, and that many of them haven't played in nearly a month and are a little rusty and out of shape, and it's easy to see why this all-star contest either needs to be overhauled or eliminated.
Frankly, it's hard envision how to satisfactorily improve the game. So maybe the best thing is to go in a different direction. Among the possibilities, incorporate recognition for the Pro Bowl players in the NFL's prime-time awards TV show, "NFL Honors," which debuted successfully this season as part of the Super Bowl week festivities. The star-studded, Academy Awards-style affair could include an on-stage introduction of the Pro Bowlers, some of whom, of course, might also collect Rookie of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year, and MVP awards.
The players, of course, won't want to miss out on vacations in Hawaii, so make those a separate reward for Pro Bowl selection, just don't ask them to play in the meaningless game. Instead, go to something closer to the skills-type competitions that have become such popular attractions at the baseball, NBA, and NHL All-Star weekends.
The format for this has long existed in the successful youth "Punt, Pass & Kick" competition, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this season and which the NFL sponsors. At the Super Bowl site, bring together the league's top season-long punters, passers, and placekickers (those not in the Super Bowl itself) for a Thursday night TV event.
The appetite for seeing NFL players during Super Bowl week would seem to support this kind of thing, based on what happened in Indianapolis last week. When the league opened the annual Media Day to the public for the first time, fans quickly snapped up the $25 tickets to the event, even though it meant they were only spectating on player interviews conducted at the Lucas Oil Stadium. If fans are that eager then surely they would flock to a Punt, Pass & Kick competition as much as they do to Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby or the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest.
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This week we remember and commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide – an unspeakable atrocity where one million Rwandans were murdered in a threemonth genocidal onslaught that began April 7, 1994. Indeed, what makes the Rwandan genocide so unspeakable is not only the horror of the genocide itself, but the fact that it was preventable.
No one can say that we did not know – we knew, but did not act.
Five years ago, the Canadian parliament – by a unanimous motion – designated April 7 as a National Day of Reflection on the Prevention of Genocide.
As it happens, this year's National Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Rwandan Genocide Remembrance have fallen on the same day.
Indeed, April has been designated in the United States as Genocide Prevention Month – as the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Srebrenica and Rwanda – in an eerie convergence – all began in what T.S. Elliot once called "the cruelest month."
And so, this week – this month – invites us not only to remember the horrors of genocide, but as the Canadian parliamentary motion called for, to reflect and act upon its lessons. For while the world vowed "Never Again" after the unprecedented horrors of the Holocaust, "Never Again" has happened again and again, symbolized by the international community as bystander in Rwanda.
As Kofi Annan lamented on the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, "Such crimes cannot be reversed. Such failures cannot be repaired. The dead cannot be brought back to life. So what can we do?" The answer is that the international community will only prevent the killing fields of the future by heeding the lessons from past tragedies. What, then, are these lessons, and, as Annan asks, what can we do? The first and foremost lesson of the Rwandan genocide – not unlike the Holocaust – is that these genocides occurred not simply because of the machinery of death, but also because of state-sanctioned incitement to hate.
Indeed, as the case law of the Rwandan genocide demonstrates, the acts of genocide were preceded by – and anchored in – an orchestrated dehumanization and demonization of the minority Tutsi population, invoking also epidemiological metaphors of Tutsis as "cockroaches" as prologue to – and justification for – their extermination.
As the Canadian Supreme Court recognized – and as echoed by international criminal tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda – the Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers – it began with words. It is this teaching of contempt – this demonizing of the "other" – this is where it all begins.
In this 65th anniversary year of the Genocide Convention, the international community must bear in mind – again, as the jurisprudence from the Rwandan genocide, including the Mugasera case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada reminds us – that incitement to genocide is a crime in and of itself. Taking action to prevent it, as the Genocide Convention mandates us to do, is not a policy option; it is an international legal obligation of the highest order.
The second lesson, dramatized by the Rwandan genocide, is the danger of indifference and the consequences of inaction. For the Rwandan genocide occurred not only because of the statesanctioned culture of hate, but because of crimes of indifference and conspiracies of silence.
One has only to read the witness testimony on Rwanda in Philip Gourevitch's book, titled, Tomorrow we are going to be killed together with all our families; or Gerry Caplan's searing indictment in his book on The Preventable Genocide; or Leave None to Tell the Story: The Genocide in Rwanda, published by Human Rights Watch, to understand not only the horror of this genocide – conveyed so movingly by survivors like Esther Mujawago-Keiner – but that it was the complicity of the international community that made this genocide possible. As the UN Security Council dithered and delayed, Rwandans died.
As we remember Rwanda, we recommit ourselves to prevent and to protect the victims of mass atrocities in our time. Indeed, while urgent protective action is needed now in Syria, civilian appeals for help fall on the deaf ears of the international community as bystander. We must break this cycle if we are truly to learn the requisite lesson.
The third lesson is the danger of a culture of impunity that repeatedly emboldens those intent on committing mass atrocities and genocide.
Indeed, if the past century – symbolized by the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda – was the age of atrocity, it was also the age of impunity. Few of the perpetrators were brought to justice.
Just as there must be no sanctuary for hate, no refuge for bigotry, there must be no base or sanctuary for the enemies of humankind.
One need look no further than the case of Ahmed Haroun, the Sudanese Interior Minister indicted for his direct role in the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Darfur, who was then cynically rewarded for this indictment by being appointed minister of state for humanitarian affairs and made responsible for hearing the human rights complaints of the very victims he had assaulted.
Indeed, it is this same Ahmed Haroun who – as governor of South Kordofan – presided over the killing fields of the Nubian people; while Felicien Kabuga, a Rwandan genocidaire fugitive, continues to evade justice and accountability for his role in the 1994 genocide.
Similarly, the world community must also bring to justice the Syrian leadership for its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, aided and abetted by its Russian and Chinese enablers who have vetoed UNSC resolutions to refer Syrian criminality to the International Criminal Court.
The fourth lesson is the persistent danger of violence against women during mass atrocities, in particular, rape as a weapon of war. Indeed, evidence from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda dramatizes the systematic use of sexual assault during the genocide as a means of continued degradation, humiliation and torture. Indeed, rape emerges not just as a consequence of atrocity, but as an instrument for pursuing it.
The fifth lesson is the danger of assaults on the most vulnerable in society.
The Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide occurred not only because of the vulnerability of the powerless, but also because of the powerlessness of the vulnerable. In mass atrocities, it is often the most vulnerable of the vulnerable – the brutalized children, women victimized by massive sexual violence, fleeing refugees – who are the first targets of oppression and violence. Regrettably, this pattern is playing out in Syria, with its massive incidence of rape, the targeting and torturing of children, and the dramatic refugee plight.
The sixth lesson is the cruelty of genocide denial – the denial of the Rwandan genocide – an assault on memory and truth, not unlike the case of Holocaust denial. In its most obscene form, as in both the case of Holocaust denial and the denial of the Rwandan genocide, it will actually accuse the victim of fabrication and falsification of the crimes. Remembrance of the Rwandan genocide is itself a repudiation of such denial – which becomes more prevalent with the passage of time.
Finally, we should recall the heroic rescuers – those who remind us of the range of human possibility; those who stood up to confront evil, prevailed and transformed history.
May the Rwandan genocide – and the genocides of this cruelest month – be an occasion not only for remembrance, but to learn the lessons of the crime whose name we should even shudder to mention.
Irwin Cotler is the former justice minister attorney-general of Canada and a professor of law (emeritus) at McGill University. He introduced the unanimous motion for Canada's National Day of Reflection on the Prevention of Genocide.
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Your thoughts on McDonnell's abolish-the-gas-tax scheme?
This afternoon Gov. Bob McDonnell unveiled an eye-opening plan he said would solve Virginia's transportation funding woes once and for all: He wants to abolish the 17.5 cents-per-gallon gasoline tax and replace it by raising the general sales tax from 5 percent to 5.8 percent.
Because I may be doing a column about that proposal soon, I'm interested in your thoughts about it.
McDonnell says this will raise more than $500 million each year for transportation infrastructure projects in Virginia, which have been sorely hamstrung in recent years. Of course, that's because the legislature irresponsibly hasn't raised the gas tax since 1987.
From the governor's email:
"That's right, no more gas tax at the pump. No sales tax at the pump either. When this plan passes the price of gas will go down, and Virginians will spend $3.5 billion LESS at the pump over the next five years.
"We then propose increasing the sales tax from 5% to 5.8%, still below every neighboring state and the District of Columbia, and putting that increase into transportation from here forward. The advantage of that change? We're ensuring that transportation receives the new funding it needs in the years ahead by tying it to a mechanism that moves in tandem with economic activity and inflation. That is how every other tax works. That is what will make transportation funding sustainable again. Read more »


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A report on the recent independent review of Crawford County jail operations has arrived, but its contents haven't been disclosed publicly yet.
Francis Schultz, Crawford County's district attorney and chairman of the Crawford County Prison Board, confirmed Monday the report from the National Institute of Corrections was at the Crawford County Courthouse.
"It arrived today, but I've not had a chance to review it," Schultz said.
Asked when the report would be made available to the public, "I don't know what the next step is at this point," Schultz said.
The Meadville Tribune Monday filed a right-to-know request with Crawford County for a copy of the report under Pennsylvania's Sunshine Law. Under the law, the county has five business days to respond to the request.
Schultz said he didn't know if the NIC report would be discussed publicly prior to the prison board's April 25 meeting or if the prison board would meet prior to April 25 to review the report.
The seven-member Crawford County Prison Board sets policy for county jail operations. The seats on the jail board, mandated by state law, are the three county commissioners, a county judge, district attorney, sheriff and county treasurer.
The National Institute of Corrections, an agency within the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has no official jurisdiction over county jails, so its investigators only make recommendations, not mandates.
On Jan. 24, the prison board voted to have an independent review of jail operations in response to a small group of critics which publicly had raised concerns about the jail's operations following a handful of high-profile incidents over the past few years at the jail.
Meadville residents Sam Byrd Jr. and Connie Lee are among those who have advocated publicly for reform of Crawford County jail operations.
Both Byrd and Lee were among those interviewed by the two NIC representatives, James Hart, past president of the American Correctional Association, and Denny Macomber, chief of jail standards for the Nebraska Crime Commission, during their two-day visit March 18 and 19. Hart and Macomber also met with jail staff, inmates and members of the Crawford County Prison Board.
Byrd said it must be kept in mind that the NIC report on the Crawford County jail was not a full-fledged investigation.
"It's a review — a review of records, not an investigation," Byrd said Monday. "The (county) commissioners could bring in a full review or investigation. I've said for the longest time a full review is needed."
Byrd declined to comment on what he thinks the NIC report may contain.
"I'll reserve thoughts on that until I see the review," Byrd said.
Byrd said he spoke with both NIC representatives for about a half-hour during his interview with them.
While Byrd said he's reserving judgment until he reads the report itself, Lee expects the report to be critical of local jail operations.
"The report is going to be intensive and scathing in all its facets," Lee said Monday. "They took a lot of notes and had concerns about the paperwork I showed them."
Lee has had concerns with the county about the treatment of her husband, Robert E. Lee Jr., while he was an inmate in 2009, including a period of abrupt withdrawal from his medications.
"I think the report will be extensive and revealing," Lee said Monday. "I'm hoping for a change in (jail) administration."
The review is the first outside independent review of county operations since allegations of mistreatment were first raised several years ago by some members of the public.
The jail has had several high-profile incidents in the past few years.
One federal lawsuit has been filed against the county by the family of an inmate who died at the jail in 2008; another has been filed by a Springboro man who alleges his civil rights were violated when he was denied medications while he was a pretrial detainee at the jail in November 2008.
The jail also has seen deaths, including a Crawford County jail corrections officer who died of injuries sustained while on duty in 2010, and in May 2012 a rape suspect died at an Erie hospital following a suicide attempt at the jail.
As recently as Nov. 15, 2012, a former inmate alleged to county commissioners she was mistreated while an inmate at the jail, though no lawsuit has been filed.
In October 2009, Crawford County's prison board, which included the previous board of commissioners, had an internal investigation of allegations of mistreatment at the jail and said those investigations determined that all allegations were unfounded.
The prison board also has pointed to the county jail's record of five consecutive perfect scores following inspections by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The latest state inspection was in the spring of 2012. Those inspections include review of records as well as interviews with inmates and staff members.
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Legislation introduced by Natural Resources Democrats in the 113th Congress
- H.R. 3976, Wounded Veterans Recreation Act
- H.R. 3859, Oil and Gas Leasing Inflation Adjustment Act
- H.R. 3886, To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000
- H.R. 3780, Ocean Energy Safety and Technology Improvement Act of 2013
- H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
- H.R. 3326, Trinity County Land Exchange Act of 2013
- H.R. 3415, Pinyon-Juniper Related Projects Implementation Act
- H.R. 3178, Preservation Research at Institutions Serving Minorities Act
- H.R. 3131, National Park Service Study Act of 2013
- H.R. 1222, Compact-Impact Aid Act of 2013
- H.R. 3176, To reauthorize the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991, and for other purposes
- H.R. 2601, Beach Act of 2013
- H.R.1445, Sandy Disaster Fisheries Relief Act
- H.R. 1442, Depleting Risk from Insect Infestation, Soil Erosion, and Catastrophic Fire Act
- H.R. 2276, Virgin Valley Tourism and Lake Mead Preservation Act
- H.R.2491, Devil's Staircase Wilderness Act of 2013
- H.R.2488, Rogue Wilderness Area Expansion Act
- H.R.2489, Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013
- H.R. 2200, Territorial Omnibus Act of 2013
- H.R. 2205, Groundwork USA Trust Act of 2013
- H.R. 2015, Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013
- H.R. 2000, Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act
- H.R. 1927, More Water and Security for Californians Act
- H.R. 1837, Clean Water Protection Act
- H.R. 1934, Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013
- H.R. 1834, 21st Century Great Outdoors Commission Act
- H.R. 1799, Arizona Sonoran Desert Heritage Act of 2013
- H.R. 1744, Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan Implementation Act
- H.R. 1677, Yosemite National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013
- H.R. 1600, Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for Executive Consultation with Tribes Act
- H.R. 2467, Abandoned Mine Lands Cleanup and Taxpayer Fairness Act
- H.R. 1411, California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act of 2013
- H.R. 1347, Meers Point Boundary Adjustment Act
- H.R. 1352, Lower Colorado River Protection Act
- H.R. 1351, Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2013
- H.R. 1350, Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2013
- H.R. 1349, Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act
- H.R. 1348, Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act
- H.R. 1384, Wildlife Refuge System Conservation Semipostal Stamp Act of 2013
- H.R. 1329, Marine Turtle Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2013
- H.R. 1630, America's Red Rock Wilderness Act
- H.R.1215, Chetco River Protection Act of 2013
- H.R. 1189, American Natural Gas Security and Consumer Protection Act
- H.R. 1190, Keep America's Oil Here Act
- H.R. 1191, Keep American Natural Gas Here Act
- H.R. 1183, Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act of 2013
- H.R. 1175, Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2013
- H.R. 1080, To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements under such Act for land management related to Department of Defense readiness activities and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency cooperation in conservation programs to avoid or reduce adverse impacts on military readiness activities.
- H.R. 1033, American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013
- H.R. 745, To reauthorize the Water Desalination Act of 1996.
- H.R.696, Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act
- H.R. 666, To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.
- H.R. 674, Rota Cultural and Natural Resources Study Act
- H.R. 622, American Memorial Park Tinian Annex Act
- H.R. 601, Permanent Repeal of Oil Subsidies Act
- H.R. 573, To amend Public Law 93-435 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands, providing parity with Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa
- H.R. 518, To amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 for the purposes of extending the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 through 2018, and for other purposes
- H.R. 512, Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Territorial Fellowship Act
- H.R. 507, Pascua Yaqui Tribe Trust Land Act
- H.R. 412, Nashua River Wild and Scenic River Study Act
- H.R. 71, Coral Reef Conservation Act Reauthorization and Enhancement Amendments of 2013
- H.R. 69, Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2013
- H.R. 44, Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act
- H.R. 139, Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act
H.R. 3 – Northern Route Approval Act (Terry, R-NB) – Transportation and Infrastructure/Energy and Commerce/Natural Resources)
We oppose H.R. 3 because it would have the United States bear all of the environmental risk of transporting dirty tar sands oil without ensuring that American consumers or our energy security realize any of the benefits. Click here to read more.
Democratic Dissenting Views 112th Congress
H.R. 3409 - Coal Miner Employment And Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act (Johnson, R-OH)
We oppose H.R. 3409 because it is so broadly drafted that it could have the effect of preventing the Interior Department from issuing almost any rulemaking dealing with coal mining, including regulations that are necessary to ensure states can properly carry out their programs, regulations that would ensure that mining operations are safe and that public health and American taxpayers are prrotected, and even regulations beneficial to the mining industry. Click here to read more.
H.R. 1904 - Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011 (Gosar, R-AZ)
Resolution Copper Mining, LLC (Resolution Copper) is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP-Billiton. Resolution Copper owns land and holds mining claims on the Tonto National Forest in Southeastern Arizona. The company believes the area is home to a significant copper deposit and is seeking to develop a lucrative copper mining operation. However, approximately 760 acres of national forest land in the area was withdrawn from mining by President Eisenhower in 1955. Resolution Copper is seeking H.R. 1904 to require the federal government to exchange the withdrawn forest land for land owned by the Company so that the mining operation can proceed. Click here to read more.
H.R. 4089 - Sportsmen's Heritage Act of 2012 (Miller, R-FL)
H.R. 4089 is a solution in search of a problem. A majority of federal lands are available for hunting and fishing activities. There is broad agreement that hunting, fishing, trapping, and other wildlife-dependent activities have always taken place on our federal lands and should continue to take place on our federal lands. The number of visitors to public lands who engage in hunting, fishing, and other wildlife-dependent activities remain constant and quite high. Click here to read more.
H.R. 6082 - Congressional Replacement of President Obama's Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan (Hastings, D-WA)
With the passage of H.R. 6082, over the last 18 months the Natural Resources Committee has now reported out a total of 11 bills intended to open up nearly every last piece of our public lands to drilling and hand even more giveaways to Big Oil. All in all, the Majority has cast a total of 62 votes in the Natural Resources Committee that benefit the oil and gas industry.
The Majority has voted repeatedly to allow drilling off our beaches in California, New Jersey and Florida without improving the safety of offshore drilling. They have voted to allow drilling in the crown jewel of our wildlife refuge system, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. They have voted to turn over nearly all of our public lands onshore to the oil industry within a few short years. They have repeatedly voted against putting in place any new
safety standards for offshore drilling following the BP spill, against ensuring that oil companies making record profits are paying their fair share to drill on public lands, and against keeping the oil and gas produced from public lands here in America to benefit American consumers.
We oppose H.R. 6082 because it continues that trend, forcing drilling off the East Coast, stretching from Maine to South Carolina, off of Southern California and in the important fishery of Bristol Bay off Alaska while preventing proper environmental review. This legislation would also dangerously rush additional leasing offshore in the Arctic. Click here to read more.
H.R. 1229 - Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act (Hastings, R-WA)
We oppose H.R. 1229 because it would impose artificial and arbitrary deadlines on the Department of the Interior to approve permits to drill. One year after the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, this legislation could actually make offshore drilling less, rather than more, safe by potentially limiting the review of drilling permits by the agency charged with overseeing the industry. Click here to read more.
H.R. 1230 – Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act (Hastings, R-WA)
Witness after witness before the Natural Resources Committee has made clear that the price of oil is determined on an international market, largely controlled by OPEC. Increases in U.S.
domestic production can easily be offset by reductions in OPEC production in order to maintain high prices.
H.R. 1230 will not change this reality. All it would do is insist on denying the reality of the BP spill and put the Gulf and the Nation back on the dangerous path that led to that tragic event. Click here to read more.
H.R. 1231 – Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act (Hastings, R-WA)
We oppose H.R. 1231 because, in seeking to "reverse" a drilling moratorium that does not even exist, the bill will reverse any progress towards safer off-shore energy production. Click here to read more.
H.R. 4480 - Domestic Energy and Jobs Act (Gardner, R-CO)
In the first three years of the Obama Administration, the Department of the Interior has approved more permits to drill for oil and natural gas, and industry has begun drilling more wells, than during the first three years of the Bush Administration. Moreover, the U.S. has produced more oil from federal lands onshore last year than at any point going back to 2003. In fact, there are now more drilling rigs operating in the United States than in the rest of the world combined. In large part as a result of the Obama Interior Department "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, our dependence on foreign oil has fallen from 57 percent at the end of the Bush Administration to 45 percent last year. Yet oil and gas companies still hold more than 25 million acres of public land onshore – an area roughly the size of the state of Kentucky -- on which they are not producing oil or gas. These companies are also
sitting on nearly 6,700 drilling permits that have been approved by the Interior Department that they are not using.
Title III (H.R. 4381, Tipton, R-CO)
Title III of H.R. 4480, which is the text of H.R. 4381 as reported by the Natural Resources Committee. We oppose H.R. 4381 because it would overturn the multiple-use principle established in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA). By elevating energy production above hunting, fishing, recreation, grazing, conservation and the many other ways that the American people enjoy our public lands, H.R. 4381 seeks to undermine the basic principal which has guided management of public lands for 35 years.
In 2010, more than 58 million people visited BLM lands, generating $7.4 billion dollars to the economy. Nationwide it is estimated that 1.2 million jobs are provided annually by the outdoor industry, many hunting and fishing related. Yet, the plan that would be created by this bill would threaten that tremendous economic engine for our country. Click here to read more.
Title IV (H.R. 4382, Coffman, R-CO)
We oppose Title IV because the bill would set an arbitrary requirement that the Department of the Interior offer oil companies at least 25 percent of whatever onshore areas industry nominates every year, regardless of whether or not drilling in these areas would be appropriate. Under this legislation, the Interior Department could no longer lease in areas nominated by the industry that have the greatest resource potential and where drilling makes the most sense. Under Title IV, there is no limit to the acreage that can be nominated by the oil industry. This legislation would therefore threaten other important uses of our public lands such as hunting, fishing, livestock grazing and recreational shooting by requiring leasing in areas that may threaten these important values.
This arbitrary requirement that a certain percentage of acres be offered for lease also completely disregards the fact that industry already has 25 million acres of public land under lease onshore on which it is not producing. Title IV would also invalidate the BLM's new leasing reforms, which are designed to increase certainty for the oil and gas industry and reduce the number of lease areas that are protested and have already reduced the number of protested parcels by 8 percent.
Title IV would also require the BLM to continue "actively leasing" in areas where land use plans are being updated or revised to protect wildlife or other resource values, deal with a growing population, or incorporate a new recreational activity. Click here to read more.
Title V (H.R. 4383, Lamborn, R-CO)
Title V of H.R. 4480 is both unwarranted and unwise. It would unnecessarily tie the hands of the Interior Department in reviewing drilling operations on public lands and make drilling less safe. This legislation would impose arbitrary deadlines on the Interior Department's review of applications for permits to drill onshore. Just as the Majority tried to do for offshore drilling, drilling permits would be automatically "deemed approved" after 60 days, even if the Interior Department had not finished its safety review or important consultations with tribes or under the National Historic Preservation Act. This provision is especially dangerous given that a Natural Resources Democratic staff review of drilling safety violations on public lands found that between 1998 and 2011, one-fifth of the drilling violations on public lands were related to blowout preventers or other well control equipment.
Title V also includes a likely unconstitutional requirement that would require any American citizen seeking to protest an oil and gas lease, drilling permit or right of way to post a nonrefundable $5,000 "documentation fee."
This is a blatant attempt to deny ordinary American citizens the ability to contest decisions by the federal government.
The legislation also contains provisions designed to close the doors of the courthouse to citizens who believe the federal government is not complying with the law. Click here to read more.
Title VI (H.R. 2150, Hastings, R, WA)
Democrats support responsible drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). President Obama and House Democrats have already taken steps to encourage drilling in the NPR-A. Building on legislation introduced by House Democrats earlier this year, President Obama announced in May that he would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct annual lease sales in the NPR-A and the Department is already moving forward on that schedule. While Title VI includes a similar requirement to hold at least one lease sale per year in the NPR-A, we should make sure that we are drilling in challenging environments like the Arctic responsibly, not seeking to truncate proper review as this bill would do.
Despite the fact that there are no pending applications with the Bureau of Land Management to construct roads and pipelines, Title VI would set an arbitrary clock to issue such permits. This provision could prohibit proper NEPA review of proposals to construct major oil and gas pipelines in the Reserve in the future. This directive would also appear to require the Interior Department to compel other Cabinet-level agencies to act, something far beyond the scope of the Secretary's authority.
Title VI would further require the Secretary to develop regulations to require action on drilling permits within 60 days despite existing regulations that already require consideration of such applications within 90 days. Moreover, there are currently no pending applications at the Bureau of Land Management for permits to drill in the NPR-A and oil companies have actually been relinquishing their leases in the Reserve.
Title VI would also waste taxpayer resources by requiring the Interior Department to conduct unnecessary and duplicative studies. The bill would require the BLM to map out a spider-web of roads and pipelines across the entire reserve before we even know where future oil and gas production may take place would be wasteful and counterproductive. H.R. 2150 would also require the U.S. Geological Survey to complete an assessment of the technically recoverable oil and gas in the Reserve despite the fact that the USGS just completed such an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas reserves in the NPR-A in October of 2010 and a study of the economically recoverable oil and gas in the Reserve last year.
H.R. 2578 - To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced River in California, and for other purposes (Denham, R-CA)
Republican Legislation Creates 100-mile DRONEZONES on Borders; Hands Over Alaskan National Forest; Approves Sea Lion Firing Squads
Kicking off their "Great American Giveaway" week, House Republicans passed a dangerous public lands bill that includes dangerous anti-immigrant provisions while attacking
America's environment, forests, and wildlife.
The bill, H.R. 2578, passed the House by a 232-188 vote. Nineteen Republicans voted against the bill.
The centerpiece of the bill is a section authored by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) which would exempt DHS from more than a dozen U.S. laws that protect American citizens from pollution, land rights, religious freedom,
and other liberties and protections to create a 100-mile "Operational Control Zone" for the Department of Homeland Security on federal lands. It would expand out to 100 miles the area where DHS can use drones to conduct surveillance on our citizens, and represents a new front opened by Republicans in their war on immigrants.
Republicans voted down several amendments offered by Democrats that would have eliminated the creation of a 100-mile "Operational Control Zone" for DHS, to create a pilot program to study how to provide taxpayers with a better rate of return for grazing on public lands, and to ban the export of American timber to China and other countries if the Tongass National Forest is opened to more timber harvest.
H.R. 4402 – National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012 (Lamborn, R-CO)
We oppose H.R. 4402 because despite the bill's title, it has almost nothing to do with rare earths and other strategic and critical minerals. In fact, under the guise of promoting the development of minerals critical to U.S. national security, this legislation would dramatically reshape virtually all mining on public lands for nearly all minerals.
H.R. 4402 is so broadly drafted that it would reduce or eliminate proper review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for almost all types of mines on public lands – including hardrock mines such as silver and uranium; it could limit proper review of mines for minerals that are not remotely critical such as sand or gravel and it would even potentially apply to coal mines. There is virtually no type of mine that would be excluded from the truncated environmental review envisioned by this bill, where the mining industry, rather than the Interior Department, would be able to determine the time available for important environmental reviews.
Moreover, according to Natural Resources Democratic staff analysis of data provided by the BLM for hardrock mines on public lands for which we have complete data, the average time it takes to approve a plan of operation for a mine has actually decreased under the Obama Administration. According to the BLM data, plans of operation for hardrock mines are being approved roughly 17 percent more quickly under the Obama Administration than under the Bush Administration. Despite industry claims, 82 percent of plans of operation are approved within three years under the Obama Administration and according to the BLM, "it takes on average four years to approve a mining plan of operations for a large mine (more than 1,000 acres) on public lands." Click here to read more.


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Target's newest Go International collection, designed by Rodarte sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy from California, will launch in stores and online on December 20 to the delight of fashion mavens everywhere. The 55-piece collection is an eclectic mix of dresses, knits, and accessories in a variety of patterns, textures, and prints. The Mulleavy sisters said the line was inspired by the leading ladies in their favorite Hollywood movies, which seems only appropriate, considering design duo's fan base of young starlets such as Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, and Kirsten Dunst.
When the collaboration was first announced, this summer, many wondered if a mass-market collection would translate well for Rodarte—after all, the designers are known for their handmade details and unparalleled craftsmanship. But the Target looks seem to draw inspiration from a number of Rodarte originals, meaning shoppers can snap up style on the cheap (every piece in the Target collection retails for less than $80, whereas Rodarte pieces usually run from $3,000 to $11,000). Herewith, a preview of ensembles from the collection, plus photos of celebrities wearing similar Rodarte originals.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 7, 2006) – The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today said the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) "Annual Energy Outlook 2007," released earlier this week, severely underestimates growth in production of ethanol from cellulose over the next few years. The EIA's outlook projects very slow growth in production of ethanol from cellulose, reaching only 300 million gallons per year by 2030, just slightly higher than the 250 million gallons per year required beginning in 2013 under the Renewable Fuels Standard included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
"The Energy Information Administration's calculations fail to take into account recent developments in the ethanol industry that will ramp up production of ethanol from cellulose," said Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO's Industrial and Environmental Section. "With industrial biotech processes ready for deployment and production -- by companies such as Abengoa, Iogen, Broin, and Mascoma -- and currently available feedstock from agricultural residues, ethanol production could reach three times current levels within three to five years as ethanol from cellulose is added to the current biofuel technology mix."
The EIA's Outlook report projects growth in production of ethanol from corn to reach 13.6 billion gallons per year by 2030, consistent with projections from the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE). The USDA and DOE report "Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry" also projects production of 47 billion gallons of ethanol from cellulose by 2030.
Erickson continued, "Growth in production of ethanol from cellulose is based on proven biotech advances that could significantly increase the availability of our overall ethanol supply by 2030. Recent announcements by several companies indicate cellulosic biomass ethanol units will either be added to existing ethanol plants or will be built separately within the next two years. For example, Abengoa is building the world's first commercial ethanol from cellulose facility in Spain and Broin has announced plans to add a cellulosic unit to its facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa. This is real evidence the EIA report does not adequately account for rapid growth in production of ethanol from cellulose we see coming."
BIO supports the production of ethanol from all feedstocks. Agricultural biotechnology is helping to increase corn yields, while industrial biotechnology is helping to convert corn starch and crop residues into ethanol more efficiently. With ongoing advances in biotechnology, biofuels can help America meet nearly half its transportation-fuel needs by the middle of this century.
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black_zion is correct. Further, the official amd crossfire compatibility chart states that the 7770 regardless of manufacturer needs a bridge in order to function.
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Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania offers custom engraved iPads to students
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Minister of State Roche welcomes delegates to Middle Powers Initiative meeting on Nuclear Disarmament in Dublin
The Minister of State for European Affairs, Dick Roche T.D, welcomed over 70 distinguished delegates, including Baroness Shirley Williams and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament, Sergio Duarte, to Iveagh House yesterday evening. The delegates were attending the Middle Powers Initiative conference on nuclear disarmament, which is being held in Dublin Castle from 27-28 March 2008.
Speaking at a reception which he hosted on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern TD, he told the delegates that the Government remained "strongly committed to the goal of universal nuclear disarmament and is determined to work with likeminded states, the Middle Powers Initiative and others to achieve this aim"
Minister of State Roche said that he believed that "an important message from today's meeting was that, although we face many challenges, there is now a sense that a real opportunity exists to advance the disarmament agenda"
He went on to say that Ireland was "very pleased to host this important forum in Dublin, which will focus the minds of Governments, civil society and the wider public on the threats posed by nuclear weapons and the need for urgent action on disarmament and non-proliferation".
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breakdown of the 2005 NPT Review Conference. It has
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Thursday and Friday the fifth since 2006. Seventy senior
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for Disarmament Sergio Duarte. The value of the Forum lies in its
contribution to focusing the attention of Governments, civil
society and the wider public on the threat and key challenges posed
by the continued existence of nuclear weapons. Further information
on this initiative can be found on www.middlepowers.org.
The meeting was addressed by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern TD at its opening session on 27 March, as well as hearing a keynote speech from Baroness Williams.
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Title | Fast Private Association Rule Mining by A Protocol for Securely Sharing Distributed Data |
Author | Estivill-Castro, Vladimir; Haj-Yasien, Ahmed |
Publication Title | ISI 2007 : 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics |
Editor | Gheorghe Muresan, Tayfur Altiok, Banjamin Melamed and Daniel Seng |
Year Published | 2007 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Peer Reviewed | Yes |
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It's the home side who have taken the lead in Dortmund, with Robert Lewandowski getting himself on the scoresheet to put his team into the lead.
Real Madrid had appeared to get off to a confident start, but began to defend poorly, and it was their back four that let them down for the goal. Pepe's sloppy pass was smartly intercepted by Sebastian Kehl, and with Pepe and Raphael Varane having drifted miles apart, the Dortmund captain calmly passed to Lewandowski, allowing the Polish striker to simply collect the ball in the central channel before finishing smartly inside Iker Casillas' near post.
It's been a scrappy affair, with neither side covering themselves in glory defensively - shortly before, Neven Subotic almost gifted Real Madrid an opening, before immediately playing Lewandowski through who was very unfortunate to be judged to have fouled Raphael Varane as he bore down on goal. With defending like this, there are goals in this one.


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