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regular email accounts or any other devices that can receive email like email
to cellular phone, email to SMS, email to pager, etc. Alerts to the Email
contacts are free. End user - A natural person who makes use of resources for application purposes. F First Byte Time - The time it takes to receive the first byte of the page HTML, graphic object or other web component after the TCP connection is completed. You can measure the time it takes the first byte of a website to download with our Website Test tool. FTP - The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) provides the basic elements of file sharing between hosts. FTP uses TCP to create a virtual connection for control information and then creates a separate TCP connection for data transfers. The control connection uses an image of the TELNET protocol to exchange commands and messages between hosts. Fullpage Failed - This field shows the total number of page components which were not functioning properly at the time of the test. Fullpage Frames - The WebSitePulse.com monitoring agent is testing all the frames on the web page. Fullpage Images - The WebSitePulse.com monitoring agent is testing all the images presented on a web page, including not only the images called by tags, but also body and table background images. Fullpage Links - The WebSitePulse.com monitoring agent is testing all the links on the web page. Fullpage Other External - The WebSitePulse.com monitoring agent is testing all the forms available on the web page. Fullpage Other Inline - The WebSitePulse.com monitoring agent is checking for Flash movies, Java applets or other plugable components. Fullpage References - This section shows the total number of references which you have selected for testing. These include the images, frames, links and other internal and external page components. G Gateway - A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network. On the Internet, a node or stopping point can be either a gateway node or a host (end-point) node. Both the computers of Internet users and the computers that serve pages to users are host nodes. The computers that control traffic within your company's network or at your local Internet service provider (ISP) are gateway nodes.
In the network for an enterprise, a computer server acting as a gateway node is often also acting as a proxy server and a firewall server. A gateway is often associated with both a router, which knows where to direct a given packet of data that arrives at the gateway, and a switch, which furnishes the actual path in and out of the gateway for a given packet. H Host name - This is the unique name of the server that is used for reaching it on a specific network. This could be a FQDN (Fully qualified domain name) for example www.websitepulse.com or pda.websitepulse.com, or an IPv4 address like 188.8.131.52. Our service now also supports IPv6. However, this option is available only for three of our monitoring locations- Chicago, Toronto and Brisbane. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) - A computer language for representing the contents of a page of hypertext; the language that most Web pages are currently written in. HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol. The Internet protocol used to exchange HTML documents. HTTP Request - The HTTP request message sent from the browser or the WebSitePulse monitoring agent to the server to retrieve an HTML page, graphic object or CSS file HTTP Response - After an HTTP server listening to that port receives an HTTP request, the server sends an HTTP response containing a status line and the requested file HTTP status codes - 100 - Continue - the client should continue with its request by sending the remainder of the request. 101 - Switching Protocols - the server will switch protocols 200 - OK - the request is successful. 201 - Created - the server created a new resource 300 - Multiple Choices - the user has to select a preference 301 - Moved Permanently - the requested resource has a new permanent URL. 302 - Found (Moved Temporarily) - the resource is temporarily moved to a different URL 304 - Not Modified - contents of the requested web page have not been modified 305 - Use Proxy - repeat the request via proxy 306 - Switch Proxy - unused 307 - Temporary Redirect - requested URL is temporarily under a different URL 400 - Bad Request - the request is not understood by the server 401 - Unauthorized - user authentication is required by the server 402 - Payment Required - code is reserved for future use 403 - Forbidden - the server refuses to respond to the request 404 - File Not Found - the server does not find the requested file 405 - Method Not Allowed - the method specified in the request is not allowed 406 - Not Acceptable - the response that can be returned to is not acceptable 407 - Proxy Authentication Required - client has to log in with a proxy server first 408 - Request Timeout - the request was not produced within the time the server is configured to wait 409 - Conflict - there is a conflict with the current state of the server 410 - Gone - the resource is no longer available at the server 411 - Length Required - content-length has to be defined 412 - Precondition Failed - a precondition is evaluated as false 413 - Request Entity Too Large - the entity is larger than the server can process 414 - Request-URL Too Long - the Request-URL is longer than the server can interpret 415 - Unsupported Media Type - the format is not supported 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable - request range is not satisfied 417 - Expectation Failed - the expectation in an Expect request-header can not be fulfilled by the server 500 - Internal Server Error - the server cannot fulfill the request 501 - Not Implemented - server does not support the functionality required to process the request 502 - Bad Gateway - server received an invalid response from the upstream server 503 - Service Unavailable - temporary overloading or maintenance of the server 504 - Gateway Timeout - no timely response from the upstream server 505 - HTTP Version Not Supported - the HTTP protocol version is not supported by the server HTTPD (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon) - HTTPD stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon which is another name for a web server. It is a computer program which listens for and accepts HTTP requests, and serves back HTTP responses which are usually HTML pages and the resources they refer to like images, style sheets etc. HyperText - Hypertext is text which is not constrained to be linear. Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts. I IIS - Internet Information Server. Microsoft's web server that runs on Windows NT platforms. It is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system. IIS is available only for the Windows platform. Information space - The abstract concept of everything accessible using networks: the Web. Instant Messenger Contact - The Instant Messenger contacts may receive alerts in the form of an instant message at their favorite messaging software. Currently we support Yahoo! IM, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, Gtalk and Skype. These contacts cannot be configured to receive the WebSitePulse.com reports. Alerts to the Instant Messenger contacts are free. Internet - A global network of networks through which computers communicate by sending information in packets. Each network consists of computers connected by cables or wireless links. Intranet - A part of the Internet or part of the Web used internally within a company or organization. A local network. Intrusion Detection Systems - ID stands for Intrusion Detection, which is the art of detecting inappropriate, incorrect, or anomalous activity. ID systems that operate on a host to detect malicious activity on that host are called host-based ID systems, and ID systems that operate on network data flows are called network-based ID systems.
Sometimes, a distinction is made between misuse and intrusion detection. The term intrusion is used to describe attacks from the outside; whereas, misuse is used to describe an attack that originates from the internal network. However, most people don't draw such distinctions. The most common approaches to ID are statistical anomaly detection and pattern-matching detection. IP (Internet Protocol) - The protocol that governs how computers send packets across the Internet. IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) - The conditions under which the information created by one party may be appreciated by another party. ISP - Internet Service Provider. A company that provides access to the Internet. In addition to serving individuals, ISPs also serve large companies, providing a direct connection from the company's networks to the Internet. Some users have a cable or some sort of wireless link to their ISP. For others, their computer may dial an ISP by phone and send and receive Internet packets over the phone line; the ISP then forwards the packets over the Internet. J Java - A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. Designed for portability and usability embedded in small devices, Java took off as a language for small applications ("applets") that ran within a Web browser. K Kerberos - Kerberos is a network authentication protocol designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. L Latency - The time delay of data traffic through a network or switch. Link - A reference from one document to another (external link), or from one location in the same document to another (internal link), that can be followed efficiently using a computer. The unit of connection in hypertext. M Monitoring Agent - In WebSitePulse, Agent refers to the WebSitePulse Remote Monitoring Agent which initiates and performs the tests on your e-business components from multiple locations on the Internet. MS SQL - Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) produced by Microsoft. MX record - An MX record (Mail exchanger record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) specifying how Internet e-mail for a spcific email address should be routed. MX records point to the servers that should receive the e-mail, and their priority relative to each other for that email address. You can instantly check an MX record using our MX Lookup tool. MySQL - MySQL is a popular open-source database often used for web development. N Navigation - The process of moving from one node to another through the hypertext web . This is normally done by following links . Various features of a particular browser may make this easier. These include keeping a history of where the user has been, and drawing diagrams of links between nearby nodes. Net - Short for Internet. New Host - The new host name should be added only by entering the domain name or the IP address of the server (e.g. mydomain.com), without protocol name (http://, https://, etc.). NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) - A protocol that defines how news articles are passed around between computers. Each computer passes an article to any of its neighbors that have not yet got it. NS record - An NS record (Name Servers record) specifies the Name Servers responsible for a specific domain name records. NTLM Authentication - A Microsoft authentication protocol used by servers running the Windows operation system Numeric Pagers Contacts - The Numeric Pagers receive alerts in numeric codes, each code representing specific error. There are default codes, which you can modify at any time. Every alert to these contacts is charged at the current rate, billed to your monthly invoice. This notification service is currently available for the US, Canada and UK numeric pager numbers.
The Numeric Pagers cannot receive reports by email. O Open source - Software whose source code is freely distributed and modifiable by anyone. Outside the Firewall - Usually refers to a monitoring process outside of an organization's local area network. P Page Download Time - Usually refers to the time it takes a web browser or the WebSitePulse monitoring agent to download all objects and components of a specific web page. Path - An ordered set of nodes which represent a sequence in which a web can be read. A path may represent the sequence a reader actually used, or may be a sequence recommended to the reader by the author. Ping - Packet Internet Gropper. A utility that uses ICMP to send out echo requests, and then uses the reply packets to calculate latency between the sending and the destination hosts. To see how it works, try a Ping Test from our test tools. Port - In TCP/IP and UDP networks, an endpoint to a logical connection. The port number identifies what type of port it is. For example, port 80 is used for HTTP traffic. Protocol - A language and a set of rules that allow computers to interact in a well-defined way. Examples are FTP, HTTP, HTTPS and other. Proxy - A node that relays a message between a requester and a Web service, appearing to the Web service to be the requester. Proxy server - A server that sits between a client application (such as a web browser) and a real server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request to the real server. Q Query String - A query string (or search string) is an optional part of a URL that goes after the file name and begins with a question mark (?). This part contains additional variables used by the web application - for example the url http://www.domain.com/file.php?myvalue=1 contains one parameter called "myvalue" which is equal to 1. This field should also be used to send POST data parameters when a POST method is selected.
A single short message can be up to 160 characters of text in length using default GSM alphabet coding, 140 characters when Cyrillic character set is used and 70 characters when UCS2 international character coding is used SMS contact - SMS (Short Message Service) is a text message that can be sent to almost any cellular phone or other wireless device in the World. This notification service is provided directly through our multiple SMS gateways. Every alert to the SMS contacts is charged an additional fee and is billed to your monthly invoice. The majority of the wireless networks are charged at US$0.10 per SMS, but some may be more or less expensive.
The SMS notification contacts cannot receive reports by email. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. A protocol used to exchange mail between computers. SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol. A set of rules for management of networks and the monitoring of network devices and functions. SNMP contact - A SNMP trap will be sent to the configured server. This type of contacts
cannot receive reports by email. The WebSitePulse.com MIB file which defines the traps sent by our monitoring agent can be downloaded from the contact configuration page or from the following URL http://www.websitepulse.com/contacts/WEBSITEPULSE-NOTIFY-MIB.txt No aditional fees are added for receiving SNMP traps. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) - SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol, a.k.a. Service Oriented Architecture Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages between applications over computer networks, normally using HTTP or HTTPS. There are several different types of messaging patterns in SOAP, but by far the most common is the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) pattern, in which one network node (the client) sends a request message to another node (the server), and the server immediately sends a response message to the client. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) - The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender address forgery. It protects the envelope sender address (return-path), which is used for the delivery of messages. SSL - Secure Sockets Layer. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, web pages that require an SSL connection start with "https" instead of "http." WebSitePulse supports SSL when specifying URLs for URL monitors. T TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) - IETF RFC793 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0793.txt) defines the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP provides a reliable stream delivery and virtual connection service to applications through the use of sequenced acknowledgment with retransmission of packets when necessary. Time-out - A period of time after which some condition becomes true if some event has not occurred. For example, a session that is terminated because its state has been inactive for a specified period of time is said to "time out". Traceroute - Traceroute is a UNIX communication program that is used to see the route packets take to network host. This program attempts to trace the route an IP packet would follow to some internet host by launching UDP probe packets with a small ttl (time to live) then listening for an ICMP "time exceeded" reply from a gateway. It starts its probes with a ttl of one and increase by one until it gets an ICMP "port unreachable" (which means it has got to "host") or hit a max of 30 hops.
Traceroute will start its probe using UDP port number 33434. Traceroute hopes that nothing is listening on UDP ports 33434 to 33463 at the destination host (so an ICMP PORT_UNREACHABLE message will be returned to terminate the route tracing). TTFB - Time to First Byte. See First Byte Time U UDP (User Datagram Protocol) - The User Datagram Protocol (UDP), defined by IETF RFC768 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0768.txt), provides a simple, but unreliable message service for transaction-oriented services. Each UDP header carries both a source port identifier and destination port identifier, allowing high-level protocols to target specific applications and services among hosts. Uptime - Uptime is the percentage of time that a website, server, web system or web application is working properly and servicing requests. URL Contacts - The URL contacts will open a specific page in case of an alert event. This
service can be used to reboot your server or to perform any other action
that can be triggered by opening a specific web page. The WebSitePulse
monitoring agent supports both HTTP and HTTPS protocols and the URL can
be requested using GET or POST request methods.
The alert details are sent as a single GET or POST parameter that is appended to your URL so you can record them in your database or process them within your web application. It is recommendable to modify the alert contents for this contact so you could process the information sent by our monitoring agent more easily. For example if you set the content of the alert that is set in connection errors to <label>,<targettype>,<status>,<date>,<resptime> you will get a comma-separated list that includes the name and the type of the monitored target, the error message from our monitoring agent, the date/time the problem was detected and the total response time. A sample URL with the notification message attached looks like this http://www.domain.com/alerts/page.php? text=You+server+is+down.+The+error+received+was+Connection+refused To use URL contacts that require basic HTTP authentication you should include the username and the password in the following way http://username:email@example.com/alerts/page.php Both the username and the password should be URL encoded. For example if your username is firstname.lastname@example.com the URL contact should be entered like http://myname%40domain.com:firstname.lastname@example.com/alerts/page.php Alerts to the URL contacts are free. V Voice call contact - The Voice Call contacts receive alerts by a phone call. A human voice will
announce the details of the error based on your customization of the alert
message for each individual voice contact. Each call to these numbers is charged at the current rate, billed to your monthly invoice. This notification service is currently available for the US, Canada and UK phone numbers.
The Voice Call contacts cannot receive reports by mail. W Web - Short for World Wide Web. Web application - Web application is an application that is accessed over the Internet or an intranet. It is usually structured as a three-tiered application. In this form, a Web browser as the first tier sends requests to the middle tier - an engine using some dynamic Web content technology (such as ASP, ASP.NET, CGI, ColdFusion, JSP/Java, PHP, etc.), which services them by making queries and updates against a database - the third tier, and generates a user interface. Web site - A collection of interlinked Web pages, including a host page, residing at the same network location. Web Transaction - Transaction is a sequence of URLs combined into one complete process. Typical web transactions are when a customer logs in a member website, makes a purchase on a shopping site, fills in and submits a web form and performs other interactions with a website and web application. The WebSitePulse Transaction Monitoring allows Customers to measure the experience of online users navigating through multiple steps of their websites. Website Defacement - A website defacement is the substitution of the original home page by a system hacker that breaks into a web server and alters the hosted website creating one of his own. WebSitePulse - A mission-critical subscription-based remote website, web server and web transaction monitoring service, providing accessibility, availability and performance monitoring with real time alert and reporting services for Internet-connected Web Systems. WebSitePulse will monitor up to every 1 minute virtually any TCP- or UDP-enabled Internet Web System, including but not limited to: # Web Sites # Web Servers (HTTP) # Secure Web Servers (HTTPS) # Domain Name Servers (DNS) # E-mail Servers (SMTP, POP, IMAP) # Telnet Servers (Telnet, SSH) # Custom Servers and Applications # Routers and Firewalls # Website content and forms # CGI, ASP, PHP and other Scripts # Secure Web Page Performance # E-business Web Transactions Be informed! Whenever your website becomes inaccessible, returns incorrect data, displays unauthorized contents, or responds slowly to connection requests, the WebSitePulse alerts you within seconds of the event via email, Phone Call, SMS, cell phone, pager or instant messaging. WHOIS - WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. World Wide Web - a.k.a. WWW. The set of all information accessible using computers and networking. X XML - EXtensible Markup Language. A language that lets designers create their own customized tags to provide functionality not available with HTML. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |


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The Ethics Hotline is your direct access to members of the Ethics Committee.
Courtroom Badges
The Maryland State Bar Association Courthouse Identification Badge is available to any attorney who has been admitted to practice law in this state, who is currently a member of the bar in good standing, and who is currently certified by the Court of Appeals as an active practitioner.
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Panther .38 Special +P 2 Inch Barrel Black Camouflage Finish Bronze Frame 5 Round
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Former Bergen power broker Oury spared prison term
The full scope of Dennis J. Oury's cooperation with federal prosecutors remains under court seal, but it was enough to persuade a judge on Thursday to spare him a prison term for scheming to secretly profit from a business venture with former Bergen County Democratic leader Joseph A. Ferriero.
Oury's sentence – a three-year term of probation and a $17,500 fine – came after a year of postponements that had fueled speculation in some legal circles that he was working with the U.S. Attorney's Office to bring new charges against Ferriero, whose conviction was dismissed after a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision sharply limited the anti-corruption statute under which he had been tried.
There was no word on Ferriero's future Thursday as Oury, 62, of Naples, Fla., walked out of court a free man three years after he helped to convict his former close friend and ally, on mail fraud charges.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler branded Oury's conduct "reprehensible," but acknowledged that his significant cooperation and testimony against Ferriero, coupled with his otherwise good works as a lawyer and family man, warranted a break.
"Sometimes people who are good people do very horrendous things," Chesler said. By cooperating with the government, "you've done what you could to rectify the harm."
A prominent Bergen County lawyer who specialized in municipal and election law, Oury built a successful practice representing local governments and public boards.
In late 2001, he and Ferriero, then the chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization and one of the state's top Democratic powerbrokers, decided to capitalize on their political connections by creating a company, Governmental Grants Consulting. The pair marketed the company to Bergenfield and other municipalities without disclosing their ownership interest.
The day Oury was appointed borough attorney in Bergenfield in 2002, the council was coaxed into retaining the consulting firm though it was still in the planning stages.
Oury later used his position as borough attorney to help Bergenfield purchase a historic estate with grants secured by their company, and he billed Bergenfield for his legal work on the acquisition.
The company was paid about $134,000, with Ferriero and Oury each receiving about $25,000, for obtaining more than $1 million in grants and loans for the Bergenfield project.


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Kendrick Meek on VoteMatch |
VoteMatch Responses
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Strongly Favors
topic 1:Abortion is a woman's right
(+5 points on Social scale) | Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated 9% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception: Favors topic 1 NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life: Strongly Favors topic 1 NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime: Favors topic 1 NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions: Strongly Favors topic 1 YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research: Favors topic 1 YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines: Favors topic 1 |
Strongly Favors
topic 2:Require hiring more women & minorities
(-5 points on Economic scale) | Get minorities into home ownership & global marketplace: Favors topic 2 Ending racial profiling is part of fight for justice: Favors topic 2 Issue a commemorative postage stamp of Rosa Parks: Favors topic 2 Rated 94% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Favors topic 2 Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2 Ban discriminatory compensation; allow 2 years to sue: Favors topic 2 Honor the 100th anniversary of the NAACP: Favors topic 2 YES on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges: Strongly Favors topic 2 |
Strongly Favors
topic 3:Same-sex domestic partnership benefits
(+5 points on Social scale) | Increase funding for AIDS treatment & prevention: Favors topic 3 Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance: Strongly Favors topic 3 ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays: Favors topic 3 Repeal Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, and reinstate discharged gays: Favors topic 3 NO on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman: Strongly Favors topic 3 YES on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 3 YES on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes: Favors topic 3 |
topic 4:Teacher-led prayer in public schools
(+2 points on Social scale) | Rated 10% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-family voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 4 Rated 81% by the AU, indicating support of church-state separation: Strongly Opposes topic 4 Sex Ed including both abstinence and contraception: Opposes topic 4 YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration: Favors topic 4 NO on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance: Opposes topic 4 |
Neutral on
topic 8:Death Penalty
(0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
topic 9:Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws
(+2 points on Social scale) | YES on expanding services for offendors' re-entry into society: Opposes topic 9 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 10:Absolute right to gun ownership
(-5 points on Economic scale) | NO on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse: Strongly Opposes topic 10 NO on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers: Strongly Opposes topic 10 |
Strongly Favors
topic 5:More federal funding for health coverage
(-5 points on Economic scale) | More funding for Rx benefits, community health, CHIPs: Favors topic 5 Rated 89% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record: Strongly Favors topic 5 Expand the National Health Service Corps: Strongly Favors topic 5 YES on giving mental health full equity with physical health: Favors topic 5 YES on Veto override: Extend SCHIP to cover 6M more kids: Strongly Favors topic 5 NO on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs: Opposes topic 5 NO on capping damages & setting time limits in medical lawsuits: Favors topic 5 NO on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients: Favors topic 5 NO on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay: Strongly Favors topic 5 YES on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D: Favors topic 5 YES on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility: Favors topic 5 YES on overriding veto on expansion of Medicare: Favors topic 5 YES on expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program: Favors topic 5 YES on regulating tobacco as a drug: Favors topic 5 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 6:Privatize Social Security
(-5 points on Economic scale) | Rated 90% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 6 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 7:Parents choose schools via vouchers
(-5 points on Economic scale) | Rated 100% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes: Strongly Opposes topic 7 YES on environmental education grants for outdoor experiences: Opposes topic 7 YES on $40B for green public schools: Opposes topic 7 |
Strongly Favors
topic 18:Replace coal & oil with alternatives
(-5 points on Economic scale) | Rated 85% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes: Strongly Favors topic 18 Rated 83% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence: Favors topic 18 YES on tax incentives for renewable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 NO on authorizing construction of new oil refineries: Strongly Favors topic 18 NO on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries: Strongly Favors topic 18 YES on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore: Strongly Favors topic 18 YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies: Strongly Favors topic 18 YES on investing in homegrown biofuel: Strongly Favors topic 18 YES on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC: Favors topic 18 YES on tax incentives for energy production and conservation: Strongly Favors topic 18 YES on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets: Favors topic 18 YES on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution: Favors topic 18 YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program: Favors topic 18 |
topic 19:Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it
(+2 points on Social scale) | Rated -5 by NORML, indicating a mixed record on drug reform: Neutral on topic 19 Distribute sterile syringes to reduce AIDS and hepatitis: Opposes topic 19 |
topic 20:Allow churches to provide welfare services
(-3 points on Economic scale) | YES on instituting National Service as a new social invention: Opposes topic 20 |
topic 11:Make taxes more progressive
(-3 points on Economic scale) | $800B stimulus helps, while 95% get tax cuts: Favors topic 11 Rated 22% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes: Strongly Favors topic 11 Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating support of progressive taxation: Strongly Favors topic 11 YES on providing tax relief and simplification: Strongly Opposes topic 11 NO on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends: Strongly Favors topic 11 YES on paying for AMT relief by closing offshore business loopholes: Strongly Favors topic 11 YES on extending AMT exemptions to avoid hitting middle-income: Opposes topic 11 |
Strongly Favors
topic 12:Illegal immigrants earn citizenship
(+5 points on Social scale) | Temporary Protected Status for Haitians living in the US: Favors topic 12 Rated 0% by FAIR, indicating a voting record loosening immigration: Strongly Favors topic 12 Rated 0% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance: Strongly Favors topic 12 Let illegal alien children attend school: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on preventing tipping off Mexicans about Minuteman Project: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on building a fence along the Mexican border: Strongly Favors topic 12 |
topic 13:Support & expand free trade
(+2 points on Economic scale) | YES on implementing US-Singapore free trade agreement: Strongly Favors topic 13 YES on implementing free trade agreement with Chile: Strongly Favors topic 13 YES on implementing US-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Favors topic 13 NO on end offshore tax havens and promote small business: Favors topic 13 NO on implementing CAFTA, Central America Free Trade: Strongly Opposes topic 13 YES on assisting workers who lose jobs due to globalization: Opposes topic 13 YES on promoting free trade with Peru: Favors topic 13 |
topic 15:Expand the armed forces
(+2 points on Social scale) | Rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 15 YES on emergency $78B for war in Iraq & Afghanistan: Strongly Favors topic 15 YES on continuing military recruitment on college campuses: Favors topic 15 YES on restricting no-bid defense contracts: Strongly Opposes topic 15 |
Strongly Favors
topic 16:Stricter limits on political campaign funds
(-5 points on Economic scale) | Military spouses don't lose voting residency while abroad: Favors topic 16 NO on restricting independent grassroots political committees: Favors topic 16 YES on requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations: Strongly Favors topic 16 |
Strongly Favors
topic 14:The Patriot Act harms civil liberties
(+5 points on Social scale) | YES on Veto override: Congressional oversight of CIA interrogations: Strongly Favors topic 14 YES on requiring FISA warrants for wiretaps in US, but not abroad: Strongly Favors topic 14 NO on making the PATRIOT Act permanent: Strongly Favors topic 14 YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight: Strongly Opposes topic 14 NO on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant: Strongly Favors topic 14 NO on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad: Strongly Favors topic 14 NO on retroactive immunity for telecoms' warrantless surveillance: Favors topic 14 |
Strongly Favors
topic 17:US out of Iraq
(+5 points on Social scale) | Consistent advocate of drawdown in Iraq; focus on al-Qaeda: Strongly Favors topic 17 Sanctions on Iran to end nuclear program: Opposes topic 17 NO on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date: Strongly Favors topic 17 YES on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days: Strongly Favors topic 17 YES on investigating Bush impeachment for lying about Iraq: Favors topic 17 |
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The 9 Biggest Sequestration Lies
Though we've come to expect no better from our leaders in Washington, the sequestration lies rank among the most blatant whoppers ever to come out of the nation's capital.
Sequestration, of course, is the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to go into effect at midnight Friday.
Instead of working together to come up with an alternative to replace the sequester, Republicans and Democrats have spent the past several weeks playing a maddening game of political chicken.
Both parties were counting on the fear of sequestration to force the other to cave before it happened.
Toward that end, leaders of both sides have tried to sway public opinion with exaggerations, obfuscations and outright lies.
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The Sequester: What the President Should Do – But Won't
It's just days before the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts known as sequester are set to kick in and the Obama administration says the reductions would drastically hurt essential programs, including national defense, education and medical research.
Republicans, meanwhile, maintain that U.S. President Barack Obama doesn't recognize the problem isn't the sequester.
It's "an excessive, bloated, big federal government that's highly inefficient and highly ineffective," according to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, on FOX News Sunday.
While Coburn said he would rein in spending through a different method than the sequester, some GOP lawmakers are ready to let the automatic spending cuts take effect in their current form.
As Money Morning Global Investing Strategist Martin Hutchinson explained in the accompanying video, the sequester should have been made part of a long-term deficit reduction plan.
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It seems every politician in Washington is up in arms over sequestration, the devastating automatic budget cuts on track to take effect March 1.
For weeks, lawmakers on both sides have been calling sequestration a "bad idea" and criticizing any proposals put forth by the opposing party.
Politicians aren't happy that sequestration not only would cut billions of dollars in federal spending, it would also slash the budget indiscriminately with across-the-board cuts.
Just today (Tuesday), President Barack Obama urged Congress to delay sequestration for the rest of the year or risk damaging the U.S. economy.
"It won't help the economy. It won't create jobs. It will visit hardship on a whole lot of people," President Obama said. "If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness; it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research."
Listening to all the rhetoric, Americans with short memories might believe that those in Washington only have the best interests of the country at heart.
But the rest of us remember how this whole sequestration fiasco really happened. It was their idea - Republicans and Democrats, the White House and Congress. All guilty.
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There was short-term optimism about the U.S. economy after the fiscal cliff deal, but there's still a looming problem for this year that can't be avoided: automatic spending cuts to government programs.
Because Congress did not reach an agreement on them, the automatic spending cuts - known as sequestration - are now delayed until March. Lawmakers will meet in March to try and restructure the cuts.
As of now, the cuts equal $1.2 trillion in savings over 10 years. If nothing is done, there will be across-the-board preprogrammed reductions in a number of government programs, with the defense industry being hit the hardest with $55 billion.
For lawmakers wielding the knife, deciding where to slash budgets is tricky. If there are too many reduction-related layoffs, the automatic cuts could kick the nation back to a recession.
Here's a breakdown of what will be cut if Washington does nothing and lets the sequester go through as planned.
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The looming automatic spending cuts would include a major hit to the U.S. defense industry, slashing $500 billion from the Pentagon budget over 10 years.
The cuts, known as sequester, would result from a law enacted in summer 2011 following Congress' failed attempt to find a balanced way to trim federal spending. Policymakers in Washington sought to resolve the issue again in December after elections, but the only thing agreed upon then was a two-month extension.
With talks set to resume on March 1, expectations have dimmed among senior defense officials that U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress will succeed in mapping out an all-encompassing deficit-reduction plan before the massive spending cuts envelope the country.
As a result, the Defense Department is prepping to ground military aircraft and radio ships back to port should the substantial cuts come.
Reductions in ship and pilot training, flying hours and equipment maintenance would also have to be implemented. Plus, civilian hiring freezes, travel halts and a decrease to base spending are all expected.
The uncertainty surrounding what's ahead has brought widespread concern. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta voiced his unease during a recent Pentagon briefing.
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Like many Newburyport natives, Barbara Dresser can track the big changes in her life by the health of Newburyport's central waterfront.
She first brought her children to look at the water from the ragged banks, then came back as they grew older and the boardwalk was built. She regularly joined her husband for lunch on the boardwalk. Now, nearly every night, she visits with friends she met on the boardwalk, sits on a bench dedicated to her late husband, and looks out from the city's front porch.
The waterfront was always there | and always changing.
"I used to come down here with my kids, before there was anything, and now they're 42 and 45," she said.
Thirty years after it was built, the boardwalk is at once newly renovated and struggling for survival. With some components at the end of their expected life, Newburyport's promenade is threatened by unexpectedly rapid decay in its seawall.
"Can you play pro football 35 years?" asks Jack Bradshaw, who led the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority when the boardwalk and waterfront were established. "I don't think so, even with all the padding and the helmets. It's worn. It's expected to be worn."
Geordie Vining, senior project manager for the city's planning department, said 2002 renovations put long-lasting decking on the top and repaired everything on the land side of the boardwalk, which had endured aging as well as anyone expected when it was built in 1977.
"I think we've basically gotten our money's worth out of the initial boardwalk," he said. "It's just a terrific, an amazing piece of infrastructure, and we're well set for the next generation with the boardwalk itself. Now we have to fix the waterside portion of it so we don't have to worry about it for another generation."
Thick metal sheeting, called the bulkhead, has been protecting the land along the Merrimack River for 30 years. That sheeting has been getting thinner since it was installed. Outside the bulkhead, metal also protected the concrete pilings that give boats places to tie on to.
Some of the pilings have already broken.
Officials last month discovered the steel is corroding rapidly, perhaps from an electrical current. The city is hiring a corrosion specialist to study the problem even as it tries to repair some of the pilings. Repairs to the seawall could cost $1.5 million, officials have estimated.
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The boardwalk, pilings and bulkhead, introduced in the mid-1970s, were vast improvements on the area. By that time the once-thriving waterfront docks had fallen apart, and the shoreline was ragged and crumbling. The rubble and the waste of demolished waterfront buildings created a health hazard.
Rocks were regularly blasted at lunchtime to clear the way for the new bulkhead while the waterfront itself was straightened.
Before the metal bulkheads went in, rotted remnants of wooden pilings had to be pulled out. To strengthen and straighten the riverbank, a chain of enormous barrel-shaped metal structures was pounded down deep, then filled. The bulkhead was pounded down on the river side of the metal structures, and the entire area was filled and leveled. The boardwalk was built on top. The cost was $1.5 million.
The boardwalk itself was initially proposed as a gravel-lined promenade to save money. Public opinion forced the change toward a true boardwalk. Public opinion also forced scrapping the idea of chains to serve as fencing along the waterfront.
In late 1975, architect Stu Dawson said the waterfront area should "become the new heart of Newburyport, as it was in the 19th century, but with a more modern expression of the 20th century." Six months later, Sunday Herald real estate editor Robert T. Killam predicted the promenade "will be a place of trees and benches where the elderly or the tired can sit and watch boat traffic along the Merrimack River." Dawson's vision of vitality became more true than Killam's place of rest.
The boardwalk also improved an area that mixed industry with junk.
"It was awful," Bradshaw recalled. "It was debris and more debris. Whatever pilings were there were bare. It was no place to be. Unfortunately, a lot of unfortunate people made it their home in the high grass and weeds. Certainly there was no boating going on."
Today, the boardwalk is a family-friendly place, a great improvement over what it was. Bradshaw said plans for further improvements, such as a hotel and a line of shops near the Firehouse Center, never happened. The city's plan for a two-mile-long unobstructed walk along the river hasn't happened, either.
Bradshaw says he regrets discussions about creating a maintenance fund for downtown and the boardwalk didn't bear fruit.
"I call it the plaque disease. Once the plaque goes up, there's no more money for maintenance," he said. "... If you got a dime for every person and you got a nickel from every dog that's been on that boardwalk since 1974 or 1975, you wouldn't have any problems rebuilding it."
Once the problems on the boardwalk's water side are fixed, Vining sees a bright future for the boardwalk that brings tourism and quality of life.
"I think it's irreplaceable, and it's part of what makes Newburyport Newburyport," he said.
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The NRA had the power to make virtually all downtown signs conform to the new look of Newburyport. At the NRA's insistence, the sign at Bob's Subs eventually came crashing down in 1976.
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Today - out of NDT. Eeks. None 2hrs before waking today. Woke sluggish with a headache. OTOH, dh also woke with a headache, which never happens. We ate out last night, but had different things. I had a dish that was guaranteed gluten-free, adn it was a very nice restaurant. Pork chop w/ collards. The collards had some kind of vinegar in them ... probably "white" (=corn). I skipped the sauce (probably corn starch). I had a few small bites of fruit leather before leaving. I ate a LOT of food (mostly meat) yesterday. I've needed an afternoon meal several days this week.
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