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The 2014 United Way of Portage County Run, Bike, Unite Duathlon will be held Saturday, Aug. 23, in Stevens Point in parking lot "Q" near the Allen Center on Illinois Avenue at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Register by clicking on the button below. You can also print the brochure and return it to United Way of Portage County, 1100 Centerpoint Dr. #302, Stevens Point, WI 54481.
The Full Duathlon -- Saturday, Aug. 23, at 8:30 a.m.
- Chip-timed event
- Event starts in parking lot "Q" near the Allen Center off Illinois Avenue at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Consists of a two-mile run, a 16-mile bike and another two-mile run to the finish
- Flat bike course through scenic rural areas
- Two run courses
- First run course is on paved streets through the UWSP Campus
- Second run course is a shaded trail run through beautiful Schmeeckle Reserve on the Green Circle Trail
- Click here for maps of the run and bike courses
- Click here to volunteer at the event
- Packet pick-up will be Friday, August 22, from 4 – 7 p.m. or Saturday, Aug. 23, from 6:30 - 8 a.m. in parking lot "Q" at UWSP
- Mandatory pre-race meeting: 8:15 a.m.
- Results will be available online at
Kids' Duathlon -- Friday, Aug. 22, at 6 p.m.
- Event will take place at in parking lot "Q" at UWSP.
- Participants will receive event T-shirt
- Classes: 7 to 9 year olds -- 1/4-mile run, two-mile bike, and 1/4-mile run; and 10 to 12 year olds -- 1/2-mile run, four-mile bike, and 1/2-mile run.
- Click here for maps of the run and bike courses
- Click here if you would like to volunteer at the event
- Results will be available online at
For more information, call Race Director Michelle Peariso of Adventure 212 at 715-343-0212 or email email@example.com.
Click here for a full list of registrants.
- Helmets are mandatory on bike course – participants exiting transition without helmet will be pulled and disqualified from the event
- No outside assistance is allowed except by race staff
- No MP3 players, iPODs, radios or headphones allowed due to traffic concerns
- Complimentary on-site massages, pre-race bike safety checks and on-course bike repairs will be provided
Central Wisconsin Duathlon Triple Crown
Are you up for the challenge of competing in 3 races featured throughout Central WI this summer? Then sign up for the Triple Crown Duathlon Challenge! United Way's Run, Bike, Unite Duathlon will be the final race of the challenge. The first will be held June 14 at the Woodson YMCA/Badger State Games Duathlon in Wausau and the second will be held July 26 at the Hub City Days Duathlon in Marshfield.
People who participate in all three events individually will complete the Triple Crown challenge. Come to the Run, Bike, Unite Duathlon on Aug. 23 to find out who will be successful and who may win the Triple Crown title.
Follow this link for more information on the Triple Crown Duathlon Challenge.
Need a place to stay?
Holiday Inn is offering a special "UW Duathlon" rate of $89. Use the code "DUA" when reserving a room to get the rate.
A special thanks to our event sponsors.:
Please follow this link for the 2013 Run, Bike, Unite race results.
Please follow this link to view photos of the event.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the 2013 United Way Run, Bike, Unite Duathlon held on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Sentry Insurance. We hope to see you in August!


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It's February 1st and the Los Angeles Lakers just won their first road game of 2013. We'll just use the term "won" loosely, as they barely managed to keep a game that was a 29 point lead at one point from turning into another disappointing loss.
Instead, they gave us a disappointing win. So much more fulfilling; like a freshly baked pizza with absolutely no toppings. Or something.
The Lakers started out the game on absolute fire from deep. To the extent that they likely could have used their feet to shoot the ball and would have made at least 1 out of every 3 attempts. While the shots were dropping it was a feel good kind of game. The Lakers were beating up on a team they should have severely outclassed, even with Dwight Howard eating shrimp cocktail in Los Angeles while he undergoes his platelet rich plasma procedure. So, how did the Lakers manage to survive after giving away a 29 point lead and letting it dwindle all the way down to four?
Well, for one, they dominated the glass. With no Kevin Love to stake his claim in the rebounding department, the Lakers outrebounded the Timberwolves 57-40. Pau Gasol, starting for the PRP'ed up Howard, had 22 points and 12 rebounds on the night. He also had 3 blocks to go along with that. Matching him on the boards was Kobe Bryant, who perhaps at time tried to pass too much (yes, the words were typed), ended the night with 17 points, 8 assists, and 12 boards.
When it comes to rebounds, though, it's important to note that the Lakers were very active on the offensive glass. 17 offensive rebounds to 8 from Minnesota. Both Earl Clark (13 points, 10 rebounds, 4 turnovers) and Metta World Peace (6 points, 7 rebounds) had 4 offensive boards and certainly helped salvage the atrocious stretch of "hey let's just shoot 3's until Sunday" that came after the Lakers got all of their good shooting out of their system.
Steve Nash had 17 points on 6-9 shooting (3-3 from deep) and 7 assists while having zero turnovers. Antawn Jamison had a good game off the bench with 18 points and 7 rebounds and continues to show why having a guy who makes intelligent cuts to the basket is important, especially as the Lakers fell in love with jacking up 3's in order to beat the zone defense the Timberwolves implemented.
In the end, it was enough to beat the Wolves, no matter how ugly it may have been. Alexey Shved lead the Timberwolves off the bench with 18 points and 6 assists. J.J. Barea, noted Laker Killer, had 14 points off the bench on 6-10 shooting. Ricky Rubio had 9 points and 7 assists, and the Wolves just didn't have enough firepower to finish their near comeback.
So, there you have it. A rare road win for the Lakers in about as deflating a manner possible. Wins like this are important for the Lakers, no doubt, as a loss would have been detrimental. They need wins no matter how they can get them in order to keep any hope of scraping into the playoffs. Still, the Lakers need to play better basketball, and their bad habits and maddening tendencies continue on. To nitpick, Metta World Peace has been a black hole lately. Tonight against the Wolves he went 2-11 from the field (1-6 from deep). That's too many shots for a guy who simply isn't making shots. On the bright side, though, the Lakers kept their turnovers "down" (for their standards lately) to 12, and hit 21-24 free throws after having an abysmal period of free throw shooting over the last four.
Anyway, a win in a win is a win is a....*endless loop*. Next up on this road trip will be the Detroit Pistons Sunday morning. Beggars can't be choosers, so a face value win is all that's left. I'll go ahead and toss the game film in this flaming dumpster so we can move forward.
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In this second tutorial about Modeshape we will show how to perform some basic operations with a ModeShape JCR repository such as storing binary files (images) and retrieving them.
Modeshape is a lightweight, fast, pluggable, open-source JCR repository that federates and unifies content from multiple systems, including files systems, databases, data grids, other repositories, etc.
Getting started!
In order to get started with ModeShape you are strongly encouraged to use Maven. In your pom.xml you have to specify at least the following elements:
1. At first add dependenciesManagement the Bill of Materials related to ModeShape so you don't have to specify the versions of any of the ModeShape dependencies:
2. The only mandatory module that you need to include is the primary JCR implementation required for the ModeShape engine
3. Then, if you are using ModeShape's public API (instead of just the JCR API) you should also include this dependency:
4. Finally, you need to include JBoss' nexus repository in order to reach ModeShape API:
Creating your first ModeShape application
The first thing we will add, before digging into ModeShape API is creating a repository configuration. The configuration can be arranged either programmatically or using a file. If you are using a file you will need to use, (since ModeShape 3.0) the JSON format:
The above configuration contains just a definition of the default workspace and the security provider to be used in order to access the JCR repository. The anonymous provider is enabled by default and always is the last provider to be consulted. It authenticates all users with read and write permission by default, although the exact roles (either "read", "readwrite", or "admin") can be configured with the "roles" field;
A first taste of ModeShape
Our first example will illustrate how to store some nodes in the Repository, using a J2SE standalone application. Then we will associate some content with that node. Once stored, some meaningful information is extracted from the file
Step #1: Create and start the ModeShape engine
Step #2: Load the configuration for a repository via the classloader, validate the configuration and deploy the repository
Step 3#: Obtain a JCR repository.
As you can see, obtaining a JCR Repository instance is a matter of simply asking the engine for it by the name defined in the configuration:
Step 4#: Creates a Session using the login method.
The login() method allows the implementation to choose its own security context to create a session in the default workspace for the repository.
Step 5#: Store nodes into the Repository!
We will create a root node from the session and add nodes to it : the node type nt:folder is used to represent folder-type nodes, while the node nt:file is used to contain a represent a file name. Beneath the nt:file an nt:resource Node is added to host the Image binary file.
Here's the tree view of your Repository so far:
/ jcr:primaryType=mode:root jcr:uuid=/
jcr:system jcr:primaryType=mode:system
. . . . . . . .
files jcr:primaryType=nt:folder
- jcr:created=2013-02-21T11:11:22.599+01:00
- jcr:createdBy="<anonymous>"
modeshape_logo.jpg jcr:primaryType=nt:file
- jcr:created=2013-02-21T11:11:22.599+01:00
- jcr:createdBy="<anonymous>"
jcr:content jcr:primaryType=nt:resource
- jcr:data=binary (3,20KB, SHA1=4ba33d3d58c62ae8bf8cbf5290745067cedd2a79)
- jcr:lastModified=2013-02-21T11:11:22.599+01:00
- jcr:lastModifiedBy="<anonymous>"
Step 6#: Retrieve nodes from the Repository!
Once saved the session, the auto-created properties will be added as well. Retrieving the nodes and the binary content is a piece of cake. All you need to do is referencing the node which has been stored in the "/files/modeshape_logo.jpg" path. Once that you have got the node, you will be also able to dig into the jcr:content sub-Node which contains the Binary data.
The Binary content is downloaded from the node using the getProperty method show shown. Finally, the InputStream is displayed in a JLabel on the screen!
A final notice: pay attention to the useful printSubgraph method, which is from the JcrTools class and displays the content of the repository (node names and attributes) - quite useful for debugging!


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Are you terrified you might get mad cow disease? Did the news that some bags of greens contained E. coli make you swear off spinach salads for life? Does the word SARS send shivers down your spine?
True, a few people will get those illnesses. But most of us never will. The things most likely to make us sick seem less dramatic: heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes, to name just some of them.
Even when we think about these real threats, we may conclude our risk is far higher or lower than it is.
The way we gauge the peril a given disorder poses is called risk perception. A number of factors may lead us to the wrong view of our risks, experts say. Among them:
Bad information and lack of knowledge
Our own experiences and biases
Groundless but deep-seated fears
Trouble grasping complex statistics
If you think your risk for a certain disease is higher than it is and you focus solely on that disease, you may ignore other dangers. You could be less likely to make changes that could aid your health.
"How people think and feel affects the decisions they make and ultimately influences their health and well-being," says Peter A. Ubel, M.D., a behavioral specialist in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Often, people choose a course of action not by rationally weighing risks versus benefits, but instead by focusing on strong emotions, gut feelings, or social pressures and expectations."
Nearly twice as many U.S. women die of heart disease and stroke than from all forms of cancer combined. Three in five women know heart disease is their top health threat. Yet breast cancer is the disease women fear most.
As women learn of their heart disease risk, though, many take action. The journal Circulation reported in 2006 that such women increased physical activity, lost weight, stopped smoking, ate healthier diets and urged relatives to do the same. The moral: Knowing the enemy is the first step in winning the war.
Although the media can help, frenzied coverage may sway even the most level-headed of us, leading to panic about the risks of a drug or treatment. The hype can make us greatly overestimate the odds that we'll develop a given side effect, symptom, or disorder.
Stay calm and assess the import and reliability of the information behind the headlines. If it's based on a study, how well was the study designed? How many participants were involved? How conclusive were the results?
If you use the Web to learn more, choose reputable sites, such as those of the American Cancer Society or other national groups and government agencies. Ask your doctor if the information is relevant to you. If it is, how might it change your treatment or lifestyle?
"For many diseases, we now have solid scientific evidence about people's risk, or likelihood, of getting the disease. This is based on characteristics such as age, gender, family history, or level of physical activity," says Paul Han, M.D., of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. Computer programs can work out disease risk based on people's risk factors.
But scientists don't know all the causes of diseases like cancer, he adds. "These programs cannot determine whether any single person will get cancer or not. They can really only predict the total number of people in a population that will develop cancer."
Dr. Ubel believes the best way to prevent illness is to "do the things that we all know are basically good for us." That way, you're "covering all bases."
So stay at a healthy weight, eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet, exercise, quit smoking, limit alcohol intake, and track cholesterol and blood pressure levels. If you're at high risk for a certain disease, take preventive steps that focus on it. That can raise your chances of staying healthy.
What your 10-year risk of having a heart attack? To use this tool, you must know your total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, systolic blood pressure (the top number), and whether you take medication for high blood pressure. At http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov, click on "Health Assessment Tools," then click on "10-Year Heart Attack Risk Calculator."
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Names on Invitations
In the case of guests, prefixes such as His Grace and His Excellency are omitted, but The Right Honourable is included for a privy counsellor who is not a peer.
The prefix The Honourable and the suffix Esquire are never used. In both cases a man is shown as Mr John Smith.
unmarried guests
An invitation to a pair of guests with a relationship other than husband and wife takes one of the following forms:
- Brother and sister: Mr John Brown and Miss Elizabeth Brown
- Mother and son: Mrs George Carruthers and Mr William Carruthers (note that invitations to adult offspring are usually sent separately from those to their parents).
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Medical School: Suny At Buffalo Sch Of Med & Biomedical Sci, Buffalo Ny 14214
Graduation Year: 1990
Olympia Fields, IL
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Medical School: Chicago Coll Of Osteo Med, Midwestern Univ, Chicago Il 60615
Graduation Year: 1970
Olympia Fields, IL
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Olympia Fields, IL
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Medical School: Tabriz Univ, Fac Of Med, (Univ Of Azarabadegan) Tabriz, Iran
Graduation Year: 1973
Hospital: Ingalls Mem Hosp, Harvey, Il; St James Hosp And Health Ctr -, Olympia Flds, Il
Group Practice: Horizon Health Care
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Olympia Fields, IL
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Medical School: Shiraz Univ Of Med Sci, Shiraz, Iran
Graduation Year: 1970
Olympia Fields, IL
Olympia Fields, IL
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Medical School: Northwestern Univ Med Sch, Chicago Il 60611
Graduation Year: 1975
Hospital: St James Hosp And Health Ctr, Chicago Hts, Il; Ingalls Mem Hosp, Harvey, Il; South Suburban Hosp, Hazel Crest, Il; St James Hosp And Health Ctr -, Olympia Flds, Il
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Build Strong Bones
Joints thrive with compression and decompression, bathing the joint surfaces with synovial fluid. You can help strengthen bones when your direct the appropriate amount of force through the bone, both along the axis/grain of the bone growth as well as at a variety of angles to the axis of the bone. In this movement sequence, focus first on your foot and ankle joints in preparation for standing and walking. Then concentrate on your hip joints, pelvis, and lower spine. Progress up your spine to the ribs, shoulders, arms, and neck. Practice all the movements by sitting first, then standing. Start sitting to lubricate your joints, then advance to standing in order to stimulate your bones with full weight bearing.
• Move slowly and deliberately initially.
• Accelerate the tempo without sacrificing form.
• Move delicately and easily, coaxing comfort into the movement. Do not force the movement. Repetitions:
• Between 3 and 30.
• Start with just a few. As your form improves, you can increase your tempo and your repetitions.
This foot massage will prepare the feet and ankles to bear weight in standing and walking and bathe the joints of the foot with synovial fluid.
Exercise 1
1. Sit in a chair, crossing your right shin over your left thigh so that both hands can reach the right foot.
2. Place fingers between toes to circle ankle in each direction.
3. Hands move the foot in ankle dorsi flexion and plantar flexion. If you need to modify this exercise, sit on chair, bending your right knee and placing your right foot on top of a low stool so that hands can reach foot. Instead of inserting fingers between toes, hold the forefoot with the opposite hand.
Improve mobility of the hip joint and pelvic area for walking, recreation, dancing and sex.
Exercise 1
1. Stand with your feet at shoulder width, knees bent.
2. Rather than aiming your knees and toes straight ahead, rotate outward from the hip so that your right knee and foot aim slightly to the right and your left knee and foot aim slightly to the left.
3. Imagine a colored light source on your tailbone, aiming straight down to the floor. Move your pelvis as if you could draw a circle with this light source on the ground. Draw seven circles in one direction, then reverse direction. Inhale as you draw the half circle behind you. Exhale as you draw the half circle in front of you.
Exercise 2
1. Stand as if you were preparing for the pelvic circles.
2. Draw a figure eight (an infinity sign) oriented on an axis that runs through your pelvis from left to right. To start, make one lobe of the eight to your right, then pass through center and draw the second lobe to your left.
3. Repeat three times.
4. Reverse, drawing the left lobe first, then the right lobe. Tip: Activate your deep abdominals by drawing in and up above the pubic bone. This will help decompress your lower back as you focus the movement in your hip joints and pe...
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Quote of the Day–Nancy Pelosi's final lie edition
Seriously, this is just a shameless lie. Nancy Pelosi at her final news conference as Speaker of the House summing up the House's priorities under he leadership:
"Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go."
No. It hasn't.
When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi's Speakership on December 22, 2010 the national debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 – a roughly $5.2 trillion increase in just four years. Furthermore, the year over year federal deficit has roughly quadrupled during Pelosi's four years as speaker, from $342 billion in fiscal year 2007 to an estimated $1.6 trillion at the end of fiscal year 2010.
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Pelosi's propaganda piece
If you've ever wondered what pure "spin" looks like, you have as your most current example an article under Nancy Pelosi's name in USA Today. It is a marvel of context free and, frankly, fact free verbiage designed to do nothing more than paint an alternate picture of reality. It is an attempt to effect how history will be written. And it is laughable on its face.
Essentially what Pelosi does is provide a list of discredited Democrat talking points in essay form, never once acknowledging that most if not all have been debunked, shown to be untrue or simply a figment of very fertile imaginations.
My favorite part is where the soon to be minority leader, if that, finally lays out the welcome mat for Republicans – after 6 years of all but shutting them out of the Congressional process.
And, in the running for the most appalling lie among many is this line included after Pelosi lists the "accomplishments" of the 111th Congress:
And we did all of this while restoring fiscal discipline to the Congress by making the pay-as-you-go rules the law of the land.
Good lord. An estimated 6 trillion in further debt heaped upon the country during her watch and she has the audacity to play the PAYGO card? This and the previous Congress under Democratic rule have been the most profligate in our history. And Ms. Pelosi attempts to say everything has been paid for?
Democrats – if you keep this person in your leadership after her 4 years as the Speaker what little is left of your tattered credibility is as good as gone. She is divisive, extreme, partisan to a fault and the perfect leader to ensure you don't see a majority in the House again for a decade or so. She is the gift that keeps on giving for the GOP.
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It's the voters, not us …
In another variation of the "it's not the message, it's the delivery", Nancy Pelosi has informed the world that, "we haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done".
Well Ms. Pelosi, you will get all the credit you deserve on November 2nd.
Pelosi's remarks reflect a growing trend of frustration expressed by Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill and at the White House. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last week that Democrats' biggest failure in this election has been not to adequately sell their accomplishments to voters …
You simply cannot be any more disconnected than this. 3 trillion in debt, almost 10% unemployment and the Democrats 18 month priority? A monstrosity of a healthcare bill that will increase the deficit.
Another note to Ms. Pelosi – it's hard to grab "credit for what you've done" when every single candidate out there is running away from those "accomplishments". Nope – what they've "done" is exactly what they'll be receiving credit for on election day.
By the way, Ms. Pelosi – PAYGO has been a raging success, hasn't it?
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Speaking of pensions and unions
If you loved TARP, were enamored with the government bailout of banks and financial institutions and orgasmic at the government takeover of GM and Chrysler, you'll love this as well:
Legislation introduced last week could shift costs of union pension plans to taxpayers in an attempt to stave off organized labor's pension funding crisis.
Senator Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Democrat, introduced the Create Jobs & Save Benefits Act of 2010 to address the funding problems faced by union-administered multi-employer pension plans.
Multi-employer pension plans have to cover the benefits of members, even if their companies are defunct. Currently the costs are shared among the companies that remain in the pool, but Casey's bill proposes offloading them to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), a federal corporation, which backs the pensions of 44 million workers, more than 75 percent of which are nonunion.
"Multi-employer plans face unique challenges that are overburdening pension plans and the bottom lines of companies," Casey said. "My legislation would help correct these problems to protect the pensions of workers and unburden companies stuck paying a crippling expense that threatens its existence and the jobs of its employees."
Casey said his bill would cost the federal government taxpayer [there, fixed it for him - ed.] $8 to 10 billion.
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Greenspan: Treasury yields "canary in the mine"
Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has commented on the recent sale of treasury bonds we commented on here and talked about on the podcast. They have him worried:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the recent rise in Treasury yields represents a "canary in the mine" that may signal further gains in interest rates.
Higher yields reflect investor concerns over "this huge overhang of federal debt which we have never seen before," Greenspan said in an interview today on Bloomberg Television's "Political Capital With Al Hunt."
"I'm very much concerned about the fiscal situation," said Greenspan, 84, who headed the central bank from 1987 to 2006. An increase in long-term interest rates "will make the housing recovery very difficult to implement and put a dampening on capital investment as well."
When investors go to bonds, they're looking for security. If they want higher risk, stocks are ready when they are. What Greenspan is talking about is this:
The Treasury Department sold $42 billion in 5-year notes on Wednesday at 2.605%, higher than traders had anticipated. Bidders offered to buy 2.55 times the amount debt being sold, the lowest since September. That metric of investor demand also compares to 2.74 times on average at the last four sales of the securities, all for the same amount. Indirect bidders — a class of investors that includes foreign central banks — bought 39.6% of the offering, compared to an average of 49.6% of recent sales and the lowest since July. Direct bidders, including domestic money managers, purchased another 10.8%, versus 9% on average. After the auction, yields remained sharply higher in the broader government-bond market as corporate and other higher-risk debt drew investors away from Treasurys. Yields on 10-year notes, which move inversely to prices, rose 13 basis points to 3.81%.
Says Greenspan:
"I don't like American politics and what's happening," Greenspan said.
Historically, there has been "a large buffer between the level of our federal debt and our capacity to borrow," he said. "That's narrowing. And I'm finding it very difficult to look into the future and not worry about that."
Well join the club – I don't like what's happening either. Nor do a whole bunch of other Americans. And a clue to our addled leftist friends – it has nothing to do with the race of our president. Instead it has to do with the ideology that he and Democratic leadership are pursuing to the detriment of the country and its solvency.
Back to the line I italicized in Greenspan's statement. What does it mean? The obvious – continued economic problems, continued high unemployment and slow expansion. The message? The debt is out of hand, and it isn't being addressed in any meaningful way.
The Obama Administration is asking for $2.8 billion to help with ongoing disaster efforts in that Caribbean nation, responding to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January.
"This request responds to urgent and essential needs," wrote President Obama in a letter sent to Congressional leaders last week. "Therefore, I request these proposals be considered as emergency requirements."
Let me translate that for you: "Therefore, I request that these amount of money needed for these proposals not be paid for, with the cost of the bill simply added to the deficit."
That's what "emergency" spending means in the Congress. It doesn't go on the yearly deficit figure, but it does get added to the overall federal debt.
Now for those who are going to scream, "but Bush did it with the war", I agree. Yes, he did it. And doing that was wrong. Clear enough? So whether it is for war or relief, it needs to be "on budget" – that's if all the nonsense for Obama and the Democrats about PAYGO is to be believed.
Another example:
Last week Democrats in the House approved a $5.1 billion emergency disaster bill to pump more money into FEMA. While there weren't any pork barrel items attached to that bill, the Democrats did add on a $600 million Summer Youth Jobs initiative, along with $60 million for a small business loan program.
And the $5.1 billion disaster aid had the necessary verbiage to keep it "off budget".
"EMERGENCY DESIGNATION – SEC. 102. Each amount in this Act is designated as an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to sections 403 and 423(b) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010."
In other words, the cost does not have to be offset.
Unacceptable. Unacceptable when George Bush and the GOP did it. Unacceptable when Barack Obama and the Democrats do it.
They need to understand and be reminded that such avoidance of the PAYGO law requiring new spending be offset by cuts elsewhere is to be followed to the letter. Certainly there may be real emergencies, but the money spent is just as real. If we have emergencies that require immediate spending, then fine – give Congress some time (90? 120 days?) to find the offsets. But this nonsense about whatever they decide to call an "emergency" is off budget – to include wars – has to stop and stop now.
The money spent is real, the debt becomes larger – the fact that politicians pretend it doesn't add to the deficit is insane and borders on criminal fraud and is certainly no better than Enron accounting.
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PAYGO Is A No Go
You remember the clip the other day in which President Obama told us that Americans were tired of politicians who "talked the talk" about fiscal responsibility, but didn't "walk the walk".
Well PAYGO, recently signed into law – and short for pay-as-you-go – requires revenue (spending cuts elsewhere or tax increases) be identified to pay for whatever Congress passes. That's the "talk the talk" part.
Heh … there is no "walk the walk" part – on their first chance to actually "walk the walk" the House bailed.
Democratic leaders said extensions of unemployment insurance and COBRA healthcare benefits should be emergency spending that isn't subject to the pay-as-you-go statute, which requires new non-discretionary spending to be offset with spending cuts or tax increases.
We all know, that in the budget that is now out there, cutting $53.3 billion in spending elsewhere would simply be impossible, right?
Oh, wait – you know, if they put that freeze on non-discretionary spending in place now and didn't wait a year while they raise that spending a reported 82% (gotta love that bit of smoke and mirrors, don't you?) this year, I'd bet they would find those cuts that would match that spending.
The more you watch these people do business the more you come to understand why they're where they are and not running a real business. And House Democrats aren't the only ones:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is also pushing for emergency extensions of the unemployment and COBRA benefits not subject to pay-go requirements.
The only difference is Reid will most likely do it in a separate bill with the "emergency" disclaimer to bypass PAYGO.
Judd Gregg gets it right:
Republicans voted en masse against the pay-go legislation, criticizing Democrats for including language that would allow exemptions to it. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) said Democrats' move to bypass pay-go using emergency exemptions proves that the pay-go law is just a "political statement, not a substantive event."
"They continue to claim some sort of fiscal discipline … when in fact they basically keep spending money like drunken sailors," Gregg said.
Drunken sailors only spend what is theirs and what they have in their pocket, so in reality, it is an insult to sailors, drunken or otherwise, to compare them to the profligate deficit spenders in Congress busily talking the talk, but rarely walking the walk.
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The "Jobs" Bill Sham
Yes, another in a long line of spending bills which has a purported purpose it won't accomplish. What it will accomplish is an increase in the debt.
None other than Nancy Pelosi is troubled by the fact that it appears the proposed "jobs" bill being rushed through Congress doesn't create, uh, jobs.
The White House session with congressional leaders was supposed to be a step toward bipartisanship, with a focus on jobs. But Pelosi made it clear that there's disagreement, even among Democrats.
White House economic advisers Christina Romer and Larry Summers defended the administration's proposal to give employers a $5,000 credit for each new worker they hire as well as help with Social Security taxes.
Pelosi countered that no one she's consulted believes that the plan will actually lead to the creation of new jobs, sources said.
"She questioned the efficacy of it," one Democratic aide said.
For once, Pelosi is right – any jobs created will be at the margins. In fact, the centerpiece of the "jobs" bill is – wait for it – and extension of unemployment benefits.
And, of course, you remember the big "we're concerned about the deficit" announcement not long ago where Congressional Democrats again said they were instituting PAYGO (a means of forcing Congress to pay for new spending by cutting the budget elsewhere or raising taxes) as a means of controlling it? Yeah, except for this boondoggle. Here's from the last page of the draft bill:
(a) IN GENERAL.–One-half of the amounts in each of titles V and VI are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 403(a) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010.
In case you're wondering what titles V and VI are, Jamie Dupree fills us in:
Title V of the jobs bill deals with expiring tax credits and tax breaks known as "tax extenders" – which Congress constantly renews every year or two, always resisting talk of making them permanent.
Those provisions are said to be worth about $33 billion, so one half of that would go to the deficit.
Title VI of the draft bill centers around extended jobless benefits and extra health (COBRA) provisions for the unemployed. That's another big chunk of money.
The estimated total for the bill is $104 billion with little if anything in it which will actually create jobs.
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Embracing Paygo
Republicans and some allies are criticizing President Obama's proposal for "pay as you go" rules that only cover new and expanded entitlement spending. They rightly point out that legislators can get around these new rules with budgetary tricks like relabeling spending so that "PAYGO" rules don't apply.
But some on the Right have also warned that paygo will just lead Democrats to pass higher taxes. I'm not convinced that that's a bad thing.
Don't get me wrong: I don't like taxes. But deficit spending is taxation — deferred taxation, with interest. If the government is going to spend a bunch of our wealth on things other than emergencies, enlightened fiscal conservatives should want the American people to see the price tag, the sooner the better.
Otherwise we're going to continue this business of borrowing from our children to pay for our reckless spending today – that's what a lot of those tea partiers were protesting against, wasn't it?
So fiscal conservatives should propose even more comprehensive and stringent paygo legislation than the Democrats have. Force the Democrats to put it all on the table – lock in tax hikes or spending cuts, now.
We're going to have to do pay the piper at some point, so how does it help to wait until a real fiscal emergency is upon us?
The longer we wait to pay for it through direct taxation, the more time we give the spenders to come up with clever ways to conceal the cost – whether through inflation, or carefully targeted taxes designed to create as little political backlash as possible. Paygo creates forced errors.
If the Democrats decide to cover the gap with tax increases, that's an issue for 2010 and beyond. Every new big spending plan, like the Obama health care plan, comes with a surefire tax increase in the near future. And as Californians recently showed the country, even Lefty voters don't like the prospect of actually paying for all those neat programs for which they voted.
Sure, it's self-serving for Republicans who engaged in no small amount of deficit spending themselves to suddenly find religion on the need for a balanced budget.
But there are good reasons to suspect that this level of deficit spending (and the necessary money-printing that has followed) is going to hit us in all kinds of unpleasant ways. If we don't commit now to eventually paying off these debts, the problems will get even worse.
So let's do something about it – or turn the heat up on the Democrats until they do something about it. Let's give them all the paygo and fiscal discipline they can handle, and then some.


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Newark is "now home to one-third of all commercial and multi-family development."
"We've seen priests beheaded by the Islamic rebels on the other side. We've also seen an Islamic rebel eating the heart of a soldier."
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"We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before."
Says "Canada has one-tenth of our population—yet it issues far more high-skilled visas (more than 150,000) yearly than we do (65,000)."
The Senate immigration bill "has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being."
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Says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told insurance companies "they couldn't inform their policyholders of what they thought the impact of Obamacare would be on them."
Says Kelly Ayotte voted to "fix background checks."
"Every Florida teacher gets a pay raise."
The Manchin-Toomey amendment "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members" to get government approval.
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Professor Gary S. Gildin has been appointed as senior associate dean of the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, in which capacity he will take a lead role in planning programs for the Carlisle campus. The appointment became effective immediately.
Recognized among the nation's leading teachers of advocacy skills, Dean Gildin joined the law school faculty in 1979. During his tenure at the Law School, his work as counsel in civil liberties cases often affords our students opportunities for observation or participation in significant litigation. As director of the Center for Public Interest Law and Advocacy, Dean Gildin has been instrumental in providing students with many opportunities to participate in public interest law practice, during and after their legal education. He will continue to teach Elements of the Law and Advocacy I in Carlisle.


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State health officials confirm that the number of meningitis cases in Minnesota has risen to four.
No details about the latest case were provided. The three previous cases were all found in women in their 40s, two of whom have since been discharged from the hospital.
The nationwide outbreak has been linked to steroids distributed by a Massachusetts pharmacy that is currently under investigation and has since recalled all of its products. It's estimated that thousands of people could be sickened, but so far there are 205 confirmed cases in more than a dozen states. Fifteen people have died.
At the main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dozens of people are working day and night to bring the meningitis outbreak under control.
Dr. John Jernigan is a medical epidemiologist at the CDC leading the clinical investigation team for the outbreak response. He explained that this infection, which is caused by a fungus, is very unusual because meningitis is typically caused by a virus or bacteria.
The fungus linked to this outbreak is common in dirt and grasses, but it somehow found its way into a steroid injected into people with back pain.
On Thursday, FOX 9 News spoke with the family of a woman who was still waiting for test results after she received multiple injections for her pain treatment at one of the two clinics that received the affected steroids in Minnesota. Her attorney said he filed what he believes is the first federal lawsuit over the outbreak. They hope to open it up to other victims as a class-action lawsuit alleging that the New England Compounding Center was negligent.
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Tonight's Touchstone Energy Scholar of the Week has a 3.9 grade point average at Canton High School. He plays baseball, basketball and football and is a member of the National Honor Society. Zach DeJong is hard worker, as you will see tonight.
You can frequently see Zach DeJong in the halls of Canton High School, but this piece of video is a rarity as he is actually standing still. Zach is usually busy running from class to class and those classes are not cakewalks. "I got 3 AP classes, a couple of them are pretty hard science classes so...and then I am taking an engineering class...it's kind of fun."
Kind of fun for a guy who likes to think in terms of equations and angles. Zach's science teacher, Jordan Hout, is also his basketball coach and says Zach is unique. "What really sets him apart is that he doesn't just care about wanting to get the A or the B, he wants to learn the material and focus on that and excel in that and apply it."
And where will Zach apply all of this knowledge next year? He doesn't know yet: he is still considering colleges. But he says he wants to stay close to home.. he does know for certain what he wants to study. "Hopefully mechanical engineering but I guess whatever college....wherever I choose in college will probably be it."
For being named our Scholar of the Week, Zach will receive a $100 scholarship from Southeastern Electric Cooperative, which is a local Touchstone Energy Cooperative.
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Mosque is back on the cards as PM intervenes (From Cotswold Journal)
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A MAN hoping to create a mosque in Chipping Norton has enlisted the help of a rather powerful friend – the Prime Minister.
As previously reported in the Journal, town councillor Tahirul Hasan was set to convert a former chiropodist in Hitchman's Mews, off West Street, into a Muslim place of worship after securing planning permission in February.
But after the plans were approved, the shop's landlord George Wissinter received a sinister phone call threatening to burn it down, and Mr Hasan's plans were left in tatters.
The father-of-three, who started Friday prayers in the town hall seven years ago, had almost given up hope of finding a venue but after speaking to Prime Minister David Cameron in his Witney constituency surgery, he has new hope his dreams can become reality.
"I was greatly disturbed to learn of threats being made following the district council's decision to grant permission for a prayer room for the local Muslim community," said Mr Cameron.
"I have since met with Coun Hasan and I will continue to do what I can as the local Member of Parliament to assist him with his proposal.
"Chipping Norton has an excellent record of supporting the rights of minority groups and their interests and I sincerely hope this will continue."
Mr Hasan, who has known Mr Cameron for the last eight years, said: "I'm very grateful to him. He was very supportive of what we are trying to do. He was disturbed with the news about the phone call. He was horrified to hear about it."
Despite the threat, Mr Hasan said the majority in Chippy had been supportive.
"The nice thing is, at the taxi rank a lot of people come up to me saying sorry, " he said. "Chipping Norton is not a racist town.
"It's a wonderful place.
I've lived here the last 24 years and I don't find any problems."
Ron Spurs, of West Oxfordshire District Council, said: "We're in regular contact with Mr Hasan and we're still working with him and other organisations to try and assist in resolving the issue."
After Ramadan finishes on August 9, Mr Hasan is inviting residents to attend Friday prayers between 1.30pm and 2.30pm to find out more about what goes on.
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i try to use the report creator for generating a report with all instrumentation
i made sorting list by supplier but i need to generate one excel sheet by supplier is it possible ?
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OK very nice thank you
but is it possible to put 1 supplier by sheet in excel ?
because in the preview it ok but in excel not
you can actually create various different file formats.
After you selected the report click on Edit... (I hope that is what the button says in the English version). Under "Target" you can define the file type and the path/filename.
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thank you very much it's work fine
Tip: The layout of your report effects the layout of your Excel sheet. For example if you get very small columns in Excel it means that the objects in your layout are slightly either overlapping or they have a little gap between them. Just play a little with the position o the object to see the effect. If you understand how it works, you can start aligning all the object so the Exccel sheet looks nice.
unfortunatly i was to quick to said it's work..
in pict 1 you can see it's ok in perview
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Missouri friends, This is thecristilmethod, manager over at For Whom the Cowbell Tolls, your SBNation Mississippi State brethren blog. As I noticed you guys are studying up on us this week to prepare for your move to the ESSS EEEE SEEEE, I wanted to share with you an explanation on our cowbell use. Most fans of schools not named MSU wonder: "why the hell do they ring those annoying cowbells all the time?" Well, you can find the "official" explanation as to where the cowbell tradition came from in the link above. Here's an exert from that link: "The precise origin of the cowbell as a fixture of Mississippi State sports tradition remains unclear to this day. The best records have cowbells gradually introduced to the MSU sports scene in the late 1930s and early 1940s, coinciding with the 'golden age' of Mississippi State football success prior to World War II. The most popular legend is that during a home football game between State and arch-rival Mississippi, a jersey cow wandered onto the playing field. Mississippi State soundly whipped the Rebels that Saturday, and State College students immediately adopted the cow as a good luck charm. Students are said to have continued bringing a cow to football games for a while, until the practice was eventually discontinued in favor of bringing just the cow's bell." If you guys have any questions, shoot them to me! And be sure to come check us out over at For Whom the Cowbell Tolls. [Bumped to the front page.]


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That smattering of almost-wintry weather has got skiers in the mood. And that is certainly good for local ski shops like Bobo's Mogul Mouse in Reno. They have added on staff and stocked up their gear and it's paying off.
"This is the best start to the ski season we've seen in five years!" says Pat Parriguirre of Bobo's Mogul Mouse. "Just a little bit of early weather has been great for business. It has people thinking ahead and we are ready for them."
Bobo's has deeply discounted last year's gear and is also offering the latest and greatest for skiiers. And that's bringing customers in the door.
"We had a storm this week and I really want to be ready when the snow flies!" says Andrea Tash of Reno with a smile.
And ski shops aren't the only ones getting attention. Lake Tahoe ski resorts are all offering their best deals of the season right now. In fact, the prices on passes is expected to jump up and in some cases double in October.
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Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. This internment occurred even if they had been long time US citizens and posed not threat. How could the internment of Japanese-Americans have occurred in "the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Read on to learn more.
In 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 into law which eventually forced close to 120,000 Japanese-Americans in the western part of the United States to leave their homes and move to one of ten 'relocation' centers or to other facilities across the nation. This order came about as a result of great prejudice and wartime hysteria after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Even before the Japanese-Americans were relocated, their livelihood was seriously threatened when all accounts in American branches of Japanese banks were frozen. Then, religious and political leaders were arrested and often put into holding facilities or relocation camps without letting their families know what had happened to them.
The order to have all Japanese-Americans relocated had serious consequences for the Japanese-American community. Even children adopted by caucasian parents were removed from their homes to be relocated. Sadly, most of those relocated were American citizens by birth. Many families wound up spending three years in facilities. Most lost or had to sell their homes at a great loss and close down numerous businesses.
The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was created to set up relocation facilities. They were located in desolate, isolated places. The first camp to open was Manzanar in California. Over 10,000 people lived there at its height.
The relocation centers were to be self-sufficient with their own hospitals, post offices, schools, etc. And everything was surrounded by barbed wire. Guard towers dotted the scene. The guards lived separately from the Japanese-Americans.
In Manzanar, apartments were small and ranged from 16 x 20 feet to 24 x 20 feet. Obviously, smaller families received smaller apartments. They were often built of subpar materials and with shoddy workmanship so many of the inhabitants spent some time making their new homes livable. Further, because of its location, the camp was subject to dust storms and extreme temperatures.
Manzanar is also the best preserved of all Japanese-American internment camps not only in terms of site preservation but also in terms of a pictorial representation of life in the camp in 1943. This was the year that Ansel Adams visited Manzanar and took stirring photographs capturing the daily life and surroundings of the camp. His pictures allow us to step back into the time of innocent people who were imprisoned for no other reason than they were of Japanese descent.
When the relocation centers were closed at the end of World War II, the WRA provided inhabitants who had less than $500 a small sum of money ($25), train fare, and meals on the way home. Many inhabitants, however, had nowhere to go. In the end, some had to be evicted because they had not left the camps.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act that provided redress for Japanese-Americans. Each living survivor was paid $20,000 for the forced incarceration. In 1989, President Bush issued a formal apology. It is impossible to pay for the sins of the past, but it is important to learn from our errors and not make the same mistakes again, especially in our post-September 11th world. Lumping all people of a specific ethnic origin together as happened with the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans is the antithesis of the freedoms upon which our country was founded.


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The Big Ten's 8-4 Michigan Wolverines are headed to Tampa for the Outback Bowl. They'll face a 10-game winner from the SEC East, South Carolina. Jadeveon Clowney chasing Denard Robinson! We'll take it.
The Outback Bowl has been a fixture in the New Year bowl scene since the mid-1980s when it was known as the Hall of Fame Bowl, routinely being played on Jan. 1 or 2. Known as the Outback Bowl since the 1996 edition, the game currently features the third picks from the SEC and Big Ten conferences and has a payout of $7.2 million.
TV schedule: Jan. 1, 1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Locale: Tampa, Raymond James Stadium (65,657)
My thoughts on the title sponsor's services: Aside from the guy with the poor Aussie accent in their commercials, I have not heard anything bad about Outback Steakhouse. In fact, it seems like people are often raving about Outback's food and more specifically the infamous "Bloomin' Onion," whatever it actually is. I've never eaten at an Outback, but hopefully their bowl game is better than the guy's accent in their commercials.
Last year's score: Michigan State Spartans 33, Georgia Bulldogs 30 (3OT)
Look through SB Nation's many excellent college football blogs to find your team's community.


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The Valor was a month old when we cruised on it. The sofa had some stains on it already and one of the lamp shades was broken. The beds were better than I expected. Better than most upscale hotels. A balcony is a must have, we enjoyed watching the sunset and pulling into and out of port.
There was always something to do. We were never bored, if anything it was hard to decide what to do. BTW, if you play bingo, buy more than one card, they always win over the single cards.
The only big disappointment was the under 2 program for kids. They had awful hours and we could never get a straight answer out of anyone regarding when we could come. We were initially told we could come whenever as long as we stayed with our son. Then we were told only between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. (No, that is not a typo). Whose kids are up that late? I finally had to have the program manager call me. I still wasn't happy with the hours, but they did let us borrow some toys to take back to the room. That was all we needed.


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One of my favorite profs at UCLA. He made History of Calif so interesting. To this day we refer to "somnolent, soporific California."
From my UCLA days. Best instructor I ever had. Passionate about History and he "taught" me to share that passion. I appreciated his time and more so the freedom he allowed me to research the "Great Race" and wherewithal to prove many history texts wrong. I liked the mid-term "challenge" of 10 pts that I would not miss any ?'s. Thx COREY SEWARD
Excellent teacher, who really knew his subject (History of the West) and presented it with clarity and enthusiasm and brought in other experts who also made excellent presentations. I can see why the History Channel uses him to such a high degree. He made history come alive. From one History teacher to another, keep up the good work. Thanks, Roger
I remember everything he taught, clearly, after four years. Entertaining, thorough, challenging. One of the top 5 profs in my education career.
HST 488-Cal.
The epitome of a professor. Identifies himself and sympathizes with students of the working-class, not yuppies. He calls himself a "blue-collar Ph.D.! By far, the greatest teacher I've taken at CSUN.
The best professor I had at CSUN. He's a very colorful, talkative guy. The vocab parts of his class can be brutal, but otherwise I'd recommend his courses to anybody.
his 440
loved his class and the way he talks about the topic. the class is hard but he makes it very interesting, and the readings (there's a lot) are very interesting. even though it took alot of my time to study for this class i loved it-but it's not for lazy people.
WW2 Hist
Although he has "rode off into the sunset" for the record, this prof has a deep problem with a romantic nationalist right-slanted view of the world that affects his teaching ability. A tough marine, and extremely smart & interesting, he carries a black & white view of the world around like an anchor
Hist 369
Professor McGrath displayed integrity, and a deep understanding of the complex issues surrounding the history of the American Indian. He knows his facts, isn't afraid to say what he thinks, doesn't follow the Marxist vanguard of teachers at CSUN. He gave interesting lectures and is a great man.
Best teacher I have ever had!
I loved his class- seemed like a good novel of the history of America. Smart and passionate. Just follow the outline and memorize the terms. He really loves and knows what he is talking about. He's smart and funny and more of a good ole boy then a self-righteous intellectual.
Good story teller, plays alot of good movies. A tough Marine with a very direct set of goals, yet happens to be an intellectual, and loves to deviate and tell stories. Only downside is he's a bit of a right-winger and loves to share his sometimes narrow views on politics. Good man, he will be missed
hist 300
great class, be ready for the tests
hist 488
mcgrath is amazing ! you have to pay attention, ( hint- use flashcards for test studying) but if you go to class he explains everything. no tricks on the tests. his lectures are great. he knows this topic so well you can't help but enjoy his passions.
Hist 369
This guy is probably the best teacher I have ever had!-Enough said.
Calif Hist
The guy gives outlines with lists of terms you need to know and basically handfeeds you the essay test questions. How anyone can get below a B in his class is beyond me. Fun, fun lectures. He's a hoot. Enter class with a knowledge of surfing.
More History professors at California State University, Northridge


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Who knew this even existed? And there was a site that tracked it. But apparently we are dominating in swimming recruiting this year!
Forget the money sports, maybe should just take our check from the ACC and pour all the money into the Olympic sports! We could start with swimming and diving and then work our way up to track and field. We could add a boxing and water polo team and then we would well be on our way to dominance.


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An Aurora woman was arrested early Sunday morning after a fight at Bar Louie, 22 E. Chicago Ave. in Naperville.
Shaletta N. Thomas, 27, Aurora, was charged with two counts of battery and one count of obstructing a police officer.
Naperville police want to the bar at approximately 12:38 a.m. after receiving a call that a fight was going on. The victim, a patron at Bar Louie, was part of a group that had been involved in a verbal argumentation with Thomas, police said.
Thomas allegedly grabbed the victim by her neck and throat and threw her to the ground. The altercation was stopped by Bar Louie staff and other patrons.
Thomas was arrested without incident, police said.
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July 25, 2014
It has been over 100 years since the story of Mary Ellen Pleasant, the Mother of Civil Rights in the state of California and the first African American woman millionaire, has been told on the location where she made most of her wealth. Mary Ellen Pleasant became a famous name in the city of San Francisco, described as "a Rosa Parks, a Martin Luther King and a Malcolm X all rolled into one."
May 25, 2014
Last week, rather than allow Marcus Books family members to relocate after evicting them, the Sweis family stole all of the books and used sledge hammers to smash the book shelves and furniture. To the Black community, this is a repeat of history, where invaders come in time and time again to smash the symbols and evidence of a people's greatness. This will NOT be tolerated. Will you stand with us and DEMAND the Sweises respect our history? We need to pressure the Sweises to do the decent thing.
January 30, 2014
"Emmitt Till" does more than call attention to how Till's death ignited the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the '50s and '60s. It points to the quiet heroism of Mamie Till Mobley in the face of unspeakable horror and unrelieved terrorism. Come see this dynamic and inspirational play by Tavia Percia and the Tavia Percia Theatre Company: Saturday, Feb. 1, 7 and 9 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 2, 3 and 5 p.m., at the Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland.
November 30, 2013
I don't know whether any of your names will be recorded in history books as the early leaders of a bold, courageous movement that not only ended solitary confinement as a form of torture, but also ended the entire system of mass incarceration in this country. But I know that the entire movement for freedom and justice in the United States is indebted to you.
June 19, 2013
When Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Orders, Number 3, he had no idea that, in establishing the Union Army's authority over the people of Texas, he was also establishing the basis for a holiday, "Juneteenth" ("June" plus "nineteenth"), today the most popular annual celebration of emancipation from slavery in the United States.
May 15, 2013
The inclusion of Assata Shakur on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Terrorists list last month – marking 29 years since her liberation from a New Jersey maximum security prison in 1979 by members of the Black Liberation Army – while aimed at Cuba's leadership should also be interpreted as a shot across the bow of any internal revolutionary movement or revolutionary activists in the United States.
March 31, 2013
The award winning play, "The Mountaintop," looks at the everyday divinity of ordinary folks and places Martin King right there with them. His greatness is not a greatness which is inaccessible or isolated. In the Lorraine Motel that night, King listens and even agrees at some point with the young maid, Camae, a Malcolm X radical in an apron.
February 21, 2013
Feb. 4, 2013, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Louise MaCauley Parks in Tuskegee, Alabama. Parks was born in the segregated South, where African Americans were subjected to daily humiliations aimed at maintaining the system of exploitation and national oppression which grew out of slavery and the failure of reconstruction.
September 2, 2012
This year marks the 33rd anniversary of Black August, the annual commemoration of the liberation struggle of African people inside the United States. The month of celebration and reflection was initiated by political prisoners, many of whom were members of the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Africa, two of the main revolutionary organizations that emerged during the late 1960s.
August 26, 2012
The struggle is long and arduous, and sometimes we do etch out significant victories, as in the case of our Brotha Mutope Duguma in In re Crawford, a significant step in reaffirming that prisoners are entitled to a measure of First Amendment protection that cannot be ignored simply because the state dislikes the spiel.
July 27, 2012
After seeing the group's concern and anger, the police responded by killing someone later that very evening. Yes, the Anaheim police killed another man less than a day after murdering Manuel Diaz. As Manuel's blood continued to stain that yard on North Anna Drive, Anaheim police killed a man in a car on West Guinida Lane.
July 13, 2012
The parody currently on stage at American Conservatory Theater, "The Scottsboro Boys," staged by director-choreographer Susan Stroman ("The Producers"), through July 22, 2012, takes a historic tragedy in American history and recasts it as buffoonery. Black America should not be surprised. Classic guilt is always re-envisioned in this paradigm. The boogeyman is always Black and male.
February 19, 2012
Welcome to the great month of February, my favorite month of the year! And I'm not just saying that because on Feb. 18 my starship landed here. And on the day before that, the 17th, the voice and moxy of the Black Panthers, Huey P. Newton, was born. And on the 14th of this guilded, star-studded month the furious freedom fighter Frederick Douglass hit the earth like a comet!
February 4, 2012
This is the month we wear our Blackness with pride – so walk on, walk on. I want to thank Rhodessa Jones, Shaka Jamal, Pat Jamison, Elaine Lee, Walter Turner, Vera Nobles and Elouise Burrell for your leads and references for South Africa.
January 16, 2012
As with the path that the U.S. Civil Rights Movement took after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, nothing in Rwanda will ever be the same after Victoire Ingabire's defiance of the Rwandan government's unjust laws. She sparked a spirit of resistance.
December 3, 2011
Sobonfu Somé, West African healer, says that when people die and become ancestors, they get smarter and often try to repair any damage they may have made while in this physical form. Ancestors want to be busy making our lives better. She said we can call on them to intercede on our behalf when we are troubled.
April 4, 2011
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting Black sanitation workers fighting for collective bargaining rights. His support was part of his "Poor People's Campaign," a second phase of the civil rights movement.
January 17, 2011
Although America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution are premised on the principles of democracy, the historical treatment of America's citizens of color is replete with racial dichotomies. Today's youth need to know that Dr. King was only 25 when he began to fight back with the year-long Montgomery bus boycott.
February 19, 2009
We need to confront our racial past – and our racial present. In things racial, we have always been and continue to be essentially a nation of cowards. This Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must – and will – lead the nation to the "new birth of freedom."
December 3, 2008
"Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77" headlines the New York Times story that describes Odetta as "the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement." Also enjoy the 20-minute NYT retrospective. When asked once what songs meant the most to her, Rosa [...]


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Rapture Date Moved Up
Harold Camping has emerged from hiding to announce a new Rapture date.
OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on October 21.
Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.
But Camping said that he's now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.
Too early to be the October Surprise of the next big election.
I have a word of prophesy. All of you who believe in The Rapture, stay away from the voting booth. The voting booth has cooties. Thus saith The Lord.
Coincidence? I Think Not.
The declared winner of the first Republican presidential debate, businessman Herman Cain, has announced that he is going to make an announcement…
Cain's campaign released a statement Friday indicating that he will hold a rally in his hometown of Atlanta on May 21 to "announce his decision regarding a potential presidential campaign."
Cain's communications director, Ellen Carmichael, said the announcement will be "a very large-scale, public event."
"It's not going to be a speech," she said, "It's going to be an experience."
I see a possible scheduling conflict here. May 21 is supposed to be the date of The Rapture. Herman Cain is polishing his Christian credentials to make himself more electable, but what if the base is all waiting on a hill somewhere instead of attending political rallies? Worst of all, what if The Rapture comes and he's Left Behind? I'm sure not going to vote for him, and my Unitarian friends won't either.
Did he just pick that date randomly, or is there an agenda? What does his publicist mean when she says, 'it's going to be an experience'?
I saw a Superbowl halftime show once where Diana Ross was raptured up by a helicopter, so anything could happen. With Donald Trump sinking in the polls there's a performance art gap waiting to be filled.
UPDATE: Herman Cain better watch his right flank, and take a lesson from Buddy Cianci, who would go to the opening of an envelope. Rick Santorum came in first in a straw poll taken at a Party dinner where he was the only candidate to show up. It's a long road to the Oval Office, and a lot of hands to shake on the way.
PAM WILL BE LEFT BEHIND: At Pam's House Blend she posts pictures of billboards advertising the imminent end of the world, May 21, 2011.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE RAPTURE CAMPAIGN: Salon has in-depth reporting on who's paying for all those Rapture billboards. If they were smart they put it on a credit card.


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N' Justice wants you to own there new double CD "The Cigar Chronicles"
so much we are now offering all 26 song on Itunes for $9.99!!!! The CD features
70 guests musicians on 26 songs (1/2 covers & 1/2 originals) and be purchased
on any digital music site, directly through LNJ (www.libertynjustice.net) , ROXX
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For those who have downloaded the CD at the original price of $19.99 please send
proof of purchase to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will compensate you by sending you
a physical copy of "The Cigar Chronicles" . If you downloaded just one
song you now can download the rest of the CD for an even lower price then $9.99!
We appreciate your support and ask only 2 more things (I know we are pushing it)
spread the word and if you have an itunes account and have bought "The Cigar
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track listing:Volume 1 (the covers)1. "Ice Ice Baby" Seann Nicols (Adler's Appetite/ Tarsha) &
Eddie Ojeda (Twisted Sister)originally recorded by Vanilla Ice2.
"I Can't Dance" Stevie Rachelle (TUFF)originally recorded by Genesis3. "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" CJ Snare (Firehouse/ Rubicon
Cross), George Lynch (Dokken/ Lynch Mob), & Jeff Pilson (Dokken/ Foreigner)originally recorded by U24. "Stayin' Alive" Kip Winger (Winger)originally recorded by The Bee Gees5. "YMCA" Kelly Keeling
(Baton Rouge & Trans Siberian Orchestra), Chris Dickens (Mission Of One) &
Neil Zazaoriginally recorded by The Village People6. "Iris"
Tony Harnell (x-TNT/ Westworld) & Alex Grossi (Quiet Riot/ Hotel Diablo)originally recorded by The Goo Goo Dolls7. "You're So Vain"
Phil Lewis (LA Guns) & Chris Green (Rubicon Cross/ Furyon) originally
recorded by Carly Simon8. "Queen Of The Night" Selena McVey
& Brooke St. James (Tyketto)originally recorded by Whitney Houston9.."Blame It On The Rain" Andrew Freeman (Hurricane/Offspring/30
Stones), Pete Fry (FarCry) & Eric Ragnooriginally recorded by Milli Vanilli10. "Bye Bye Bye" Chas West (Bonham) & Jeff LaBar (Cinderella)originally recorded by N'Sync11. "Dancing On The Ceiling"
James Christian (House Of Lords)originally recorded by Lionel Ritchie12."Stuck In The Middle With You" Larry Worley (FearNot), Ron
"Bumblefoot" Thal (Guns N' Roses), Andy Robbins (Holy Soldier/Joe Lynn
Turner), & Anthony Gravley (Windup Rocket)originally recorded by Stealers
Wheel13. "Mmmbop" Jamie Rowe (Guardian), Anthony Gravley (Windup
Rocket), Roxx Hunteroriginally recorded by HansonVolume
2 (The Originals)1. "Devil His Dues" Derrick LeFevre
(formerly of Lillian Axe), Vic Rivera (Crunch), Michael Feighan (White Cross) &
Barry Graul (Mercy Me/ White Cross)2. "The Greatest" David
Cagle,Mark Allen Lanoue (Chasing Karma/ Bilioxi), & Brad Stetler3.
"Cupids Gonna Bleed' Gunnar Nelson (Nelson),Steve Brown (Trixter) with Barry
Carl (Rockapella)4. "Under Construction" Eric Dover (Slash's
Snakepit/Jelly Fish),Mark Kendall (Great White) ,Ian Keith Hafner (Jaguar Blaze)
& Eric Ragno5. "Been There Done That" Ted Poley (Danger
Danger) & Richard Kendrick (Straitjacket Smile)6. "Grace"
Michael Bormann (Jaded Heart/ Rain/ Charade), Phillip Bardowell (Unruly Child/ Beach
Boys) & Mark Slaughter (Slaughter) 7. "Sucker Punched"
Rick Stitch (Hotel Diablo), Jerry Dixon (Warrant) & Xander Demos8.
"Broken Bones" Giancarlo Floridia (Faithsedge), Greg Martin (The Kentucky
Headhunters), & Chad Stewart (Faster Pussycat) 9. "Sin"
Jani Lane, Bill Leverty (Firehouse), & Keri Kelli (Alice Cooper)10.
"Give Em' A Light" Paul Shortino (King Kobra/ Quiet Riot/ Rough Cutt)
& Dave Henzerling (King Kobra/Steelshine)11. "Daddy Long Legs"
Louis St August (Mass) & Tim Gaines (Stryper)12. "Cut Me Mick"
Ron Keel (Keel) & Michael Phillips (Deliverance/ The Sacrificed)13.
"Tomorrow" Terry Ilous (Great White/XYZ),Ron Wikso (Foreigner,The Storm,David
Lee Roth,Richie Sambora,Cher, Gregg Rolie Band), Alessandro Del Vecchio (Hardline,
Ian Paice,Glenn Hughes, Edge Of Forever and Eden's Curse) & PK Mitchelladditional background vocals by Richard Kendrick,Giancarlo Floridia, Phil Vincent,
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This homemade costume for kids entered our 2012 Halloween Costume Contest.
I made this by my own idea. For my grandson I used bandage to cover all his body and put some lipstick for the blood and powder. For props I used a board and filled with web. And we call it the mummy.


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By now we've all heard that everything from hair serum to sunscreen can be teeming with troublesome toxins and crazy chemicals, and many concerned consumers already steer clear of products made with parabens, phthalates, and synthetic scents and colors. But there are hundreds of lesser-known ingredients hidden in many favorite products–some with the potential to wreak havoc on the environment and others that have been linked to breast cancer. Without a universal and enforceable natural or organic standard to regulate the beauty industry, even companies claiming to be natural often produce products laced with not-so-clean stuff.
For their 2nd Annual Beauty with a Conscience Awards, Natural Solutions magazine put its stamp of approval on 101 of the purest and best personal care products using guidelines developed in collaboration with Whole Foods Market, here is their list of the toxic ingredients that you don't want in your products.
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