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After nearly losing it all during General Motors' 2,400 dealer downsizing program in 2009, Don Ledford Automotive is back on top and looking to double its physical presence in Cleveland, Tenn.
Following months of pleas and negotiations with GM, the storied Cleveland dealer has won the right to sell Chevrolet vehicles, provided it meets certain conditions, said Debbie Ledford Melton, general manager and partner at Don Ledford Automotive.
Beginning this fall, she'll start construction on a new wing of her dealership, she said, devoted exclusively to Chevy vehicles. It will be a "twin" to the existing location by size, though its appearance will be different. It will open in spring 2012, she said.
GM spokeswoman Ryndee Carney confirmed that GM sent Melton a letter of intent.
"They have to meet the conditions of the letter of intent before they will have a signed sales and service agreement," Carney said. "Dealers have to have a certain level of capitalization, have to be able to floorplan their facilities and have to meet certain location criteria."
This is a second major victory for Ledford in as many years.
In Spring 2010, she won the right to retain her other GM franchises, including Buick, GMC and Cadillac. But following Hall Chevrolet's closure in 2009, Cleveland Chevy buyers had to look beyond their metro area to purchase the brand for about two years.
"I think it's good news, again, for somebody who had to lose a franchise for no particularly good reason," said Ken Hunt, owner of Hunt Nissan and president of the Chattanooga Auto Dealers Association. "I'm glad they got it back."
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The pilot/airplane owner was landing his tailwheel airplane equipped with over-sized tires on a turf runway. During the landing roll, the left main landing gear collapsed, and the left wing struck the ground. An aviation mechanic who repaired the airplane said the main landing gear leg strut had fractured at what he believed was a pre-existing crack. The pilot stated in a telephone interview with the NTSB investigator that he was unaware of any preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane.
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"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology," says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. "The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history." Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon's 1972 encounter with Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role.
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Some good news for a change -- that you can believe in
I'm jetlagged in Geneva, but I spent part of the flight over thinking about thee bits of seemingly good news:
1. The pro-Western March 14 coalition won a clear victory in the Lebanese election, a promising step towards more enduring stability in that deeply-divided country.
2. The Iranian presidential election campaign has turned into a real dogfight between incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi. Although recent polls in Iran suggest that Ahmadinjed will still win, Mousavi seems to be gaining ground and there may well be a run-off. Even if Mousavi loses, there's clearly a lot of popular disconnect with Ahmadinejad's rule, and a lot of it centers around his bizarrely self-defeating approach to foreign policy. (Side note: is there any other major world figure who has done as much public relations damage to his own country's image and interests? Nominations welcome). Moreover, there seems to be widespread popular support for improving relations with the United States.
3. The New York Times reports that some Pakistani villagers are turning against the Taliban, and may even be supporting the government's more active role against them.
It would be a mistake to give Barack all (or even most) of the credit for these developments, but I don't think its completely unrelated either. (Juan Cole agrees, see here). By striking a fundamentally different tone towards all three countries (and the Arab/Muslim world in general), Obama hasn't made reflexive anti-Americanism go away. But he has made it a less potent political weapon, so leaders like Ahmadinejad or Sheik Nasrallah don't reap the same domestic benefits from America-bashing. (Even Republicans should recognize that Bush and Cheney were nearly-ideal bogeymen; heck, even GOP candidates in the last election did their best to pretend they didn't know them.) It's also possible that Pakistan's government decided to take a more assertive stance against the Taliban after President Zardari got a rather chilly reception up on Capitol Hill, where several key members suggested that they weren't going to shell out endless billions to a government that continued to play footsie with Mullah Omar and his associates. The key lesson: if the United States stops trying to do everything itself, sometimes others will start addressing common problems because it is in their interest to do so too.
Matt Yglesias is right: elections in most countries turn on local conditions and issues and not on what's happening in Washington. But it sure looks like Obama's approach is helping tip the scale in the right direction. Legendary baseball executive Branch Rickey used to say that "luck is the residue of design." If Obama has been getting "lucky" the past week or so, maybe that suggests that his foreign policy design is better suited to contemporary world conditions than that of his predecessor.
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FORT WAYNE – The grin on coach Gary Graham's face these days isn't just because he's gotten the Komets back into the playoffs in his first season.
It's also because this is the time of year he loves.
The things Graham enjoys most about coaching – deciphering the tendencies of players, breaking down film, preparing scouting reports and making sure his players are as prepared as he can get them – are most needed in the playoffs. When the Komets play in Reading, Pa., for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals Thursday, Graham hopes his players will know the Royals almost as well as they know themselves.
This is when I'm most comfortable, to be honest with you, said Graham, whose Komets (36-24-12) are the eighth seed in the conference and will take on the conference-champion Royals (46-22-4), who won the Kelly Cup last season.
Through his time as an assistant coach with Fort Wayne, from 2008 to 2012, Graham got heavily involved in breaking down video of the tendencies of the Komets and their opponents for coach Al Sims, and it helped the team to three championships in the IHL and CHL.
Last season, his first as a head coach in the professional ranks, Graham's pre-game preparation helped the Pensacola Ice Flyers to the Southern Professional Hockey League championship, which he parlayed into the Komets' head-coaching gig after Sims missed the playoffs and resigned.
It's been a tumultuous season – the Komets have made 12 trades and used a franchise-record nine goaltenders – but they have won eight of their last 11 games.
Graham did video work throughout the regular season, but it was normally geared toward fixing the Komets' own play. Now, it will be more about deciphering the Royals, who have also won eight of 11 games entering the postseason.
We know who we are and what we do. Now it'll be about being prepared for Reading and what they do, Graham said.
Reading ranks fourth in offense (3.18 goals per game) and in defense (2.53 goals against per game). Fort Wayne ranks 13th in offense (2.99) and 12th in defense (2.99).
We need to be ready, right wing Brandon Marino said. They're obviously a good team. You don't win a championship and then win the regular season in your conference by luck. We'll have to do our homework and be ready against them. It's not going to be easy, just as nothing has been this year. We're looking forward to it. We're happy to be in the playoffs, but we don't want it to end after one round.
Graham will have his players watch video. Sometimes they'll be expected to study written reports. Sometimes they'll have to do both at the same time.
Everything is different. Everything is a lot more detailed, Graham said of his preparation with the players in the postseason. They'll get individual packets of information with notes, scouting reports, everything. There's a lot more video in the playoffs – that's something I do differently – and everything is a lot more individualized because you have to be that way. When you are that way as a coach, it stresses the importance of the details when it starts with me.


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For the longest time I didn't like salads. Then I went to France…. and that changed. I'm not sure why/how the salads there taste so much better. I make my salads differently now, and I even look forward to them.
One of my favorite salads was at a seaside cafe in Cassis (I think). I was going to get a pizza but l noticed some of our neighbors has this wonderful looking salad with an exquisite thin slice of meat on it. It was ham, but definitely not something from Oscar Mayer (no offense Oscar Mayer—my husband really loves your bologna!). So I order "une salad avec jambon," and that was a good salad.
I made a salad this weekend that sort of reminded me of that wonderful lunch.
Here are the components:
1. Lettuce: I like Boston or Butterhead. Enough crunch without the bitterness On head is enough to two large salads or four small side salads.
2. Tomato: not to sound like a snob, but in season local really does taste better. Back yard even more so (unfortunately my plant is just too tired…).
3. Boiled egg: excellent inexpensive source of protein, and always yummy.
4. Black olives: if you have a nice grocery store with a sort of "bulk" section, you could get just a few really good ones. You don't need a lot.
5. Croutons: I bought them for years then Mark Bittman convinced me to try making my own. I do now, it's totally easy and do able. Add olive oil, cubes of day old bread, and a smashed garlic clove to a pan pre-heated to medium-low. I add salt + Italian dried herbs. Add more oil if needed (the seasonings should stick). I then work on the rest of the salad, keeping an on on my pan to make sure nothing burns and occasionally giving a stir. It's done when it's toasted like croutons (only should take a few minutes). Today I used a bun I got for like 50 cents from the soup section of the grocery store yesterday. Brioche…yum.
6. PROSCIUTTO: BEST PART OF THE SALAD. Prosciutto is awesome. It can also be expensive, if you have a deli section with people and a counter that sells you this– use them. I only use one thin slice per salad; which wasn't expensive at all.
7. Dressing: minced garlic (I used a piece from my crouton pan so it was a little cooked), Dijon mustard, extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. My oil to vinegar is like a 3: 1 ratio. Everything else is a very small amount.
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Can you explain to me where the location of "Roxbury Canada". I found this recently on a record actually and I am not sure where it actually is now or was located?
The town of Warwick, Massachusetts was incorporated in 1742. Before incorporation the area know as Warwick was known as "Gardner's Township", "Mount Grace" , and "Roxbury-Canada".


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Halloween is almost here! Is your kitty dressing up? I don't think I'll be dressing up mine, as they hate it and usually just fall over and lie there pathetically… Such spoilsports!
Here are some of my favorite kitty costumes. I'm sure you've seen several of them before, but I felt they needed to be included in my collection. Enjoy!


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You might call Fountain-Fort Carson junior Markesh Woodson the fastest man in Colorado. He's also the "Loaf 'N Jug High School Athlete of the Week."
Woodson had an incredible day this past Saturday at the 5A state track and field meet in Lakewood. First he won the state title in the 100 meter dash and then a short time later won the 200. He made up for second place finishes in both events a year ago. Markesh also anchored the Trojans' victorious 400 and 800 relay teams. In all he accounted for 40 of his team's 68 points as Fountain Fort Carson won their 19th state track and field title.
Woodson told News First 5's Jordan Mason, "I'm pretty proud of myself. I didn't think I was going to do it and I did it.">
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Officials at the University of Virginia confirmed Saturday night that a student taking part in the Semester at Sea program has died.
Casey Schulman, a fourth-year foreign affairs major from Falls Church, was killed Saturday in a boating accident in Dominica. The trip was organized independently of the Semester at Sea activities.
Grief counseling has been organized for members of the program, and a commemorative service will take place on the ship Sunday evening.
The Semester at Sea ship is scheduled to leave Dominica Sunday evening and return stateside on Friday, Dec. 7.
To the University community:
I write today to inform you of the loss of one of our students. Casey Schulman, a fourth-year Foreign Affairs major from Falls Church, Va., was killed earlier today in a recreational boating incident in Roseau, Dominica.
I have been in touch with Casey's family and ask that you join us in keeping the family and its friends in our thoughts during this difficult time.
Casey was a participant in the Semester at Sea program. The trip during which the incident occurred was organized independently of the SAS activities. Leadership at the Institute for Shipboard Education and senior voyage administrators have also been in contact with Casey's family, the U.S. Embassy of the Eastern Caribbean and University leadership.
Grief counseling and support services have been made available to all members of the SAS community on a 24-hour basis. A commemorative service is planned aboard the ship tomorrow evening. The ship will depart Dominica tomorrow at 8 p.m. local time as planned and will return to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday, Dec. 7.
For any members of the University community, support is available through Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) this weekend at 434-972-7004 or by speaking directly with a dean on call by contacting the University Police at 434-924-7166. A dean is on call 24/7, should anyone need assistance.
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text: On June 14, 2001, at 1130 central daylight time, a Cessna 340A, multiengine airplane, N820B, exited the runway following a collapse of the landing gear during a single-engine landing at Lancaster, Texas. The airplane was owned and operated by Aeroplane Services, Inc., of Waxahachie, Texas. The private pilot was not injured; however, the airplane sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a flight plan was not filed for the personal flight. The flight departed Houston, Texas, approximately 1030, with a planned destination of Lancaster.The pilot reported the airplane was at a cruise altitude of 12,500 feet msl and he was receiving en route flight following from air traffic control. When the airplane was approximately 72 nautical miles from the Lancaster Municipal Airport, the pilot advised the controller that he was going to descend the airplane. The pilot switched both fuel selectors from the auxiliary tanks to the main fuel tanks. The pilot reduced the power to 25 inches of manifold pressure, the right engine lost power, and the fuel flow indicator dropped to 0.4 gph from the 20.4 gph that had been indicated. The pilot selected the low position on the fuel boost pump, advanced the mixture and the throttle; however, the engine did not restart. The pilot selected the high position on the boost pump, verified the fuel selector was on the main tank; however, the engine did not restart. The pilot then selected the cross feed fuel position for the right main fuel selector, and the left engine lost power. The pilot moved the right fuel selector to the main tank, turned the boost pump off, and feathered the right propeller. The power on the left engine was restored. The pilot continued to the destination airport, and subsequently, restarted the right engine. At 1125:07, the pilot reported to the controller that he had the airport in sight. At 1125:56, approximately 7 nautical miles south of the airport, the pilot reported the right engine again lost power. On final approach for runway 13, the pilot completed the before landing checklist, including the selection of the landing gear extension. The gear warning lights in the cockpit indicated that the gear was not fully extended. During the landing roll, the gear collapsed, and the airplane exited the runway.Two witnesses who observed the airplane during the approach and landing, reported that only the left engine was operating. One of the witnesses reported observing the landing gear in the extended position as the airplane turned to the final approach for runway 13. The other witness reported that on final approach the landing gear did not appear to be in the locked down position. Both witnesses reported that following the touchdown, the landing gear collapsed, and the airplane departed the left side of the runway before coming to rest.The pilot reported that the right wing was bent. The right engine was separated from the engine mounts, and the forward bulkhead sustained structural damage. The pilot stated that the "fuel selector valve failed to seal poppet valves internally, resulting in no fuel to right engine. Landing gear did not fully deploy on approach."A review of maintenance records, by the NTSB investigator-in-charge, revealed the airplane, serial number (S/N) 340A-0328, was manufactured in 1977, and the manufacturer was issued authority, in lieu of an FAA airworthiness certificate, for export delivery of the aircraft. Subsequently, in 1995, the aircraft was imported to the United States. On October 13, 1995, the FAA airworthiness certificate was issued for the aircraft. At the last annual inspection, performed on January 5, 2001, the airframe had accumulated 4,678.5 hours, the left engine, S/N 813663-R, 1,839.7 hours (215.3 since rebuilt at the factory in June 1999), and the right engine, S/N 521422, 1,839.7 hours (902.9 since major overhaul in July 1995 at Griffin, Indiana). On June 15, 2002, the FAA inspector, the engine representative, and the aircraft representative, examined the aircraft. Impact damage to the main landing gear assembly precluded a determination of the reason for the collapse of the landing gear; however, the landing gear motor operated when electrical power was supplied. The gear selector handle was found in an intermediate position. Flight control continuity was confirmed. The left propeller blades exhibited twisting and bending, and the right propeller blades were in the feathered position. When the crankshaft was rotated for each engine, thumb compression and continuity to the accessory case was confirmed. Operation of the boost pumps, transfer pumps, and fuel vents was verified, and fuel system continuity was confirmed. There were 20 gallons of fuel in the left main fuel tank, 32 gallons of fuel in the right main fuel tank, 2 gallons in the left auxiliary fuel tank, and 4 gallons in the right auxiliary fuel tank. The handles for the left and right fuel selectors were positioned on the left and right main fuel tanks, respectively. Both fuel selectors were removed for further examination. Both fuel valves were disassembled under the supervision of the FAA inspector. During the disassembly of the right fuel selector valve, the three Rulon-A seals were observed depressed (stuck in the downed position) level with the housing. The spring follower bushings for all three Rulon-A seals were not present. During disassembly of the left fuel selector valve, one of the Rulon-A seals, where fuel enters the valve from the main fuel tank (tip tank), was down below the housing. No foreign matter was observed in either valve during the disassembly process. There were no part numbers found on either fuel selector assembly. On August 16, 2001, the FAA inspector and a failure analysis specialist, re-assembled and pressure tested the fuel selectors in accordance with manufacturer specifications. When the right fuel selector valve was set in the off position, leakage from the main port to the engine port was 212.904 cubic centimeters (cc) (specification 0.5 cc with 40 psig). When the fuel selector was set in the main position, leakage from the auxiliary port to the engine port was 319.3456 cc (specification 0.5 cc with 8 psig). The left fuel selector valve leaked through the crossfeed port when 8 psi was introduced into the auxiliary port. When pressure was applied to the crossfeed port, fuel leaked out of every position. According to the manufacturer's representative, with the "right engine fuel selector valve in the right main tank position the leakage would not prevent the right engine from operating when the fuel boost pumps were in the on position."


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The private security guard's suspicions were raised immediately. On duty at the University of Toronto, the Reilly Security guard watched as a swarm of black-clad individuals got off a bus and entered a nearby building on campus. According to intelligence reports he had received, the individuals fit the description of the "Black Bloc," typically anarchists who dress in all black and obscure their faces to preserve their anonymity and create the illusion of a larger group.
Earlier that day, roving packs of Black Bloc anarchists stormed Toronto's financial and shopping districts damaging business storefronts and setting police cruisers on fire in an anti-capitalist rage during the G20 protests. Fearful the black-clad grouping was preparing for more mischief, the security guard reported what he observed to the University of Toronto's Incident Command Center and the Toronto Association of Police and Private Security (TAPPS), a public-private security partnership that operates an online portal for information sharing. Intelligence confirmed that these 75 anarchists planned to target two large financial institutions the next day. Police were dispatched to the scene and arrested 75 suspected anarchists before they could cause further mayhem.
After months of planning, training, and information sharing, TAPPS had proven its resourcefulness and utility once again—a common occurrence throughout the chaotic weekend of June 25.
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These guys could make it. VMware could be another Oracle, another supplier whose steel is tempered by the furnace heat of Microsoft competition, instead of weakening and melting away like Netscape, the Lotus spreadsheet and other classic Microsoft-whipped suppliers. You get the feeling listening to VMware staffers that they are …
Much as I have distain for Microsoft, in this market they are behind, BUT they can and do support and build an eco system of partners around their solutions, whereas VMware are trying to eat their eco system and do everything themselves. Unless VMware learn from MS in this case then they will suffer and ISVs will gravitate away from VMW and closer to Mr Softy!
Been using ESX 3.0.1 (and VI3) for our core infrastructure for about 3 years now, and I'm now in the process of deploying a new cluster based on 3.5.
Problem is whilst the hypervisor is cool, and technically it's the most advanced out there - ESX / VI still seems like a solid beta.
It just doesn't seem reliable enough. HA in particular is flakey at best. Sometimes the HA agent on the host simply decides it's had enough. There's bugs galore in each release that fixes a load of other bugs.
Microsoft and Citrix are nowhere near as advanced as VMWare, and if I have to virtualise the bulk of our boxes I'd only want to do it on ESX - however in another 5 years I'll be reviewing Microsoft's offer in a lot more detail.
Remember MS have only released 1.0 of Hyper-V. Give it version 3.0 and things could be interesting....!
Yes, stability
True, sometimes HA needs attention, same too for the Vcenter service, and DRS / Vmotion.
With a very few exceptions these can be resolved without restarting the host, or doing things with VM's that users can notice.
I can only think of a handful of occasions where a host has gone down causing the guests to startup on anothe host, and they have been hardware problems that no OS could have handled, and i've supported 250+ host environments.
It seems pretty stable to me.
They need to massively improve their Linux support, which they show signs of doing.
VMware is killing their ecosystem
Agree about Maritz. Seems to be a good fit for vmware and a better speaker than Greene.
Watching the keynotes this week was interesting. VMware stated subtly, but in no uncertain terms, that they want to own everything. And, much like the Oracle example in this article, VMware charges you through the nose and makes no bones about it. Yes, they provide value, but they still cost way too much.
Xen is giving away their hypervisor and live migration capabilities. Microsoft was showing off live migration and will also have load balancing and a whole bunch more in their R2 release. While all the cloud talk is interesting, it still seems like a vision that is many years away.
If it works.... the good news is the bad news is the good news...
@Robert Amleth: Yes, I think so, too; VMWare DO "want to own everything." And so do Microsoft. And so do most of the "bigs"; they don't know how to grow in an open, openly-competitive market ecosystem. VMWare, at least, have told themselves that they do know - and that is the root cause of the "comeback".
Thinking about the "one-throat-to-choke" "nirvana"... experienced managers with an appreciation for history may recall that, in the times when Microsoft and, earlier, IBM big iron ruled their respective worlds, the throat that was most often and severely choked was the customer's. Do we as an industry really want to go down that road again? One definition of insanity, after all, is repeating the same actions over and over, in the firm expectation of differing results...
What are you on about?
"They need to massively improve their Linux support, which they show signs of doing."
In what sense? They support MORE distros that anyone else!
Unless of course you are referring to the lack of a VC client for Linux in which case, just run Workstation with a Windows guest and run it in that. That's what I do (until a client for Linux is released).
Are we forgetting something?
Namely, Xenserver which as is works incredibly well and with Citrix's partnership with MS you have got to be insane in regards to counting these boys out.
Oh and of course the most technically advanced hypervisor out there "Linux KVM" built right into the kernal and shits on anything the others can virtualise.
I am a windoze 7 boy but when it comes to the best hypervisor, platform or loyalty does not count.
up yours.
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I'm calling the second half of the OPI Nordic collection for Fall 2014, 50 Shades of Tan. Okay, I'm exaggerating but there are a lot of neutrals here. So much so, that they seem better suited for the Wild, Wild, West than the Nordic countries. Granted, I've never visited Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden so they could be totally on the nose for that part of the world. Let's take a look!
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117 teams of students from over 65 law schools could come to Wild Wing Café for a registration party on Friday.
More than 250 games in a co-ed and men's league, and a few parties, will take place throughout the weekend, providing a study break and an opportunity to meet other students.
"Finals are coming up, but, luckily, students are able to kind of enjoy the weather and take one weekend where they're kind of balancing their studies with coming out on the softball field and cheering on the UVa teams," said a tournament director Emily Hankin.
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There's plenty of flavor in this bright side dish that's quick and easy to prepare but special enough for company. Jodi Rice of Appleton, Wisconsin seasons sliced carrots and dried apricots with a pleasant blend of dill, fennel, brown sugar and dry mustard.
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8 medium carrots, sliced
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1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon brown sugar
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1 teaspoon dill weed
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Tracks in Foiled: You Make Me Smile, She's My Ride Home, Into The Ocean, What If We Could, Hate Me, Let It Go, Congratulations, Overweight, X-Amount Of Words, Drilled A Wire Through My Cheek, Sound Of Pulling Heaven Down, Everlasting Friend, 18th Floor Balcony, It's Just Me
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- You Make Me Smile Lyrics
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- Overweight Lyrics
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Blue October has a very good mix of sounds. The music that they make, can make you cry, or smile. It even made me do both, which believe me, is very hard to do.
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Progress?30 April 2012
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Social change is a long, drawn out process, frustratingly so. Sometimes it's hard to decide whether to welcome modest change, or wait to celebrate until the change amounts to a significant revolution.
Two of our colleagues -- Rabbi David Rosenn (our COO) and Naomi Paiss (our Communications Director) -- had an instructive email exchange earlier last week about the significance of a recent High Court ruling. I thought it was worth sharing.
Israeli advocacy groups (including our grantees) are talking about this latest High Court ruling: a victory (although partial and complicated) over the ultra-orthodox hegemony on the conversion issue.
It's still a situation where you have to convert Orthodox to be considered Jewish in Israel, so the impact is limited. And this is a case where the Orthodox were trying to reverse other Orthodox conversions – nowhere is there a hint of recognition for Conservative or Reform conversions.
I won't argue about limited impact, but the story here is that the High court told the rabbinical court that they had gone too far. That is a positive within the current framework.
Also, there's an underlying outrage. The rabbinical courts had, in a radical interpretation of Jewish law, retroactively annulled the conversions of people who had been living for years as Jews.
It's like the U.S. Supreme Court telling Madeline Albright that she's no longer a U.S. citizen because they deem her current behavior to be so unAmerican that her oath of citizenship must have been a lie and therefore her status as a U.S. citizen was never valid. Crazy!
We shouldn't have to wait until there is a story about the elimination of Orthodox requirements for conversion, to see progress. Even this more limited issue is significant.
Excellent point, that last one. Unfortunately, if we insist on real pluralism in conversion to celebrate, or even better for the disestablishment of the ultra-Orthodox hierarchy, we might be sitting next to each other at the Hebrew Home when we break out the champagne.
But in the meantime, I'm more worried about by the link you sent me regarding the ordinary, Masorti woman who was threatened in her ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. When the modesty police become vigilantes, the trend we're seeing of extremism shading into violence should be our central concern.
Israeli Independence Day 2048: Shaharit's Centennial Celebration26 April 2012
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Israel of 2012 is a place of stark contradictions. For most Jews, Israel is a dream fulfilled: a national home and a place of their own. It is also a homeland for Palestinians who also seek a state of their own. Israel is a boisterous democracy, with courts committed to humane, liberal values and a contentious watchdog press. It is also a country where discrimination,, especially against Arabs, is commonplace. Israel's economic success has been remarkable, from the agricultural miracles wrought by the collectivism of its early days to the "Start-Up Nation" it has become. But economic growth has left many behind, producing gaps between the powerful haves and the vulnerable and often alienated have-nots. Israel is a rich and splendid quiltwork of cultures - some woven here and some gathered from every corner of the earth – that together produce literature, music, arts, sciences and scholarship of world renown. Yet many see it as a culture in decline, newly reluctant to fund universities, libraries, theaters and museums. Israel is a land of extravagant natural beauty. But its landscape is blighted by strip malls and polluted water and air, as open spaces yield to the asphalt and concrete of thoughtless development.
All these contradiction can equally fund hope and despair. Increasingly, despair wins the day. It is a regrettable fact that most discussions of Israel's future are self-lacerating and unflaggingly critical. They proceed from an unspoken assumption that today's problems will only worsen tomorrow. Polls show that only a minority of Israelis believe that the future will be better than our embattled present. This pessimism is twice a problem. It prevents us from seeing Israel's extraordinary achievements, and thus from identifying those things that can strengthen and expand on those achievements. And it discourages us from giving voice to a vision for a better future. Absent such a vision for the future, it is hard to figure out what we ought to be doing today. Despair breeds inaction which in turn breeds despair.
In the Fall of 2009, the Shaharit initiative was born. Its goals at the outset were at once both modest and ambitious – to bring a diverse group of Israelis together who would together imagine the future, and would then strategize about how to bring such a future into reality. We brought together a unique group of twenty participants, which has met regularly for the past two years. They came from varied social, cultural and religious backgrounds. They are Arabs and Jews, religiously observant and secular, Ashkenazi and Mizrachi, immigrants and native-born Israelis. All of us share criticisms of the current ideological discourse in Israel; we also share an aspiration to establish the intellectual and social infrastructure from which a new approach to Israel's future can emerge.
To do this, we took to the road, meeting with leading scholars of Israel's politics, economics, law, history, culture and society. We spoke with politicians and policy makers. And we set out to revisit the country. We spent days and nights with Ultra-orthodox Jews in Beit Shemesh. We did the same with Russian immigrants in Ashdod, with Palestinian Israelis in Nazareth, with Mizrahi residents in the development town of Yerucham, with Bedouin in the neighboring unrecognized village of Rachma, and beyond the Green Line in the settlement of Kfar Etzion and the Palestinian town of Beit Jallah. We travelled to Efrat, Uhm el-Fahm, Tirat Carmel, Ein Hud, Haifa and Jerusalem. When the summer protests produced tent camps across the country, we visited them from Kiryat Shemona in the north to Dimona in the south.
In every place we visited, we found people working with single-minded devotion to strengthen the places which they live – their neighborhoods, towns and cities -- and to building bridges between these communities and those that surround them. We met with concern for the future of the country, and frequently with disgust for its politicians. No less, we met with quiet and determined hope that things can be better.
Our most surprising finding was a great and growing discrepancy between the way Israeli politics and society are discussed, at home and abroad, and the way they operate for real around the country. The dichotomies that so many of us have for so long believed define the country – Ashkenazi vs. Mizrahi, Jew vs. Arab, secular vs. religious, center vs. periphery, native vs. immigrant, left vs. right – no longer reflect the complexity of Israeli society. There are commonalities in values and in visions that have gone largely unnoticed, and in these things that we share one find seeds of a common future characterized not by conflict, but by community.
We are publishing the conclusions from our experience in a series of essays. The first – Israel at 100 – indeed envisions what 2048 might be. In keeping with the spirit of Shaharit, it chooses optimism to pessimism; hope to despair. And in an attempt to capture something of our own conversations over the last two years, we have chosen to publish it as a Talmudic conversation, with the commentaries of Shaharit's travelers illuminating the essay.
It is of course far from certain that the future we describe will come to pass; the nightmares of the pessimists have a plausibility that one cannot deny. And yet, after revisiting the country and its people, seeing and hearing people of different backgrounds and different beliefs, we have seen that the seeds of such a future have already been planted. With much work, and a good bit of luck, these seeds will blossom and, by the time Israel celebrates its first centennial, will flourish.
In 1906, Theodor Herzl ended Altneuland, his novel anticipating a Jewish State, with an aphorism: "If you will it, it is not a dream." This implausibility was dismissed by Herzl's contemporaries, but only forty-two years passed before Israel was established. Herzl himself insisted that the seeds of the future he envisioned had already been planted when he wrote, and that his was less an act of prophesy than it was of sensitive observation of a future already unfolding. Today there are many who regard Israel with bleak resignation that leaves little room for hope. They are wrong. For those able to look with a careful eye and an open heart, there is far more here, and far more to come, then they are willing to imagine. It takes no great act of imagination to envision an Israel at 100 that is decent and sustaining for all Israelis, at peace with its neighbors and at home in the world.
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Jews in the Desert and Conversations about Social Justice: NIF at JFNA's TribeFest17 April 2012
By: Penina Eilberg-Schwartz, NIF Director of New Generations in San Francisco
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I had the great pleasure of representing the New Israel Fund at the Jewish Federations of North America's (JFNA) TribeFest conference at the end of March. TribeFest was a remarkable thing – over 1500 young Jews convening in Las Vegas to talk about Jewish identities, social media, engagement strategies, social justice, and Israel.
TribeFest was a deeply important place to celebrate the work the Jewish community is doing in the name of social justice – fighting poverty domestically and globally; promoting equal opportunities in education, bringing Jews abroad to witness the challenges of marginalized communities, and that is to name just a few areas of work among many. My colleagues who planned a session with me about Jewish social justice strategies entitled "How do you Tikkun?" (Repair the World, JDC, AJWS) represented organizations doing just that crucial work.
So there was much to celebrate.
Still, celebration of the Jewish community's place within social justice movements can eclipse important self-critique, and reminders of the great work yet to be done.
On the first day of the conference I was sitting in a hotel suite with representatives of JFNA from Jerusalem and the American Zionist Movement in New York, waiting for the arrival of Stav Shaffir, one of the leaders of Israel's tent protests last summer. We were putting final touches on our session about the protests and how they fit into a global context, into a world where things – at least in some arenas – seem to be tipping toward the power of crowds, of the voices of many rather than those of a privileged few.
When Stav walked into the suite, we almost immediately began talking about Las Vegas. She was wondering about the workers in the Venetian hotel – where they were, and how they were treated. She felt like they were invisible in all the extravagance of the enormous restaurants, bars, never-ending casinos, and fake canals of the Venetian Hotel.
"When we go somewhere in Israel now," she said, "we always look for the workers, and if they are not already organized, we organize them. It's our hobby now."
Stav's reaction pointed to a significant incongruence in TribeFest. I, for one, felt uncomfortable talking about social justice work among the casinos and extravagant, yet cheap-looking, hotels. Like Stav, I wondered about the negative socio-economic impact of Las Vegas, and how we as a community might be participating in it.
At the New Israel Fund, our work does not affect workers' rights in Las Vegas. We have, however, been deeply engaged for over thirty years in issues of workers' rights – and other issues of socio-economic justice -- in Israel.
Israel's Declaration of Independence enshrines democracy and equality for all people – regardless of race, religion, or sex. It is a beautiful document, but its values – as in America – have not been so easily translated into reality. There is a contradiction between this written commitment and the reality of the lives of immigrants, women, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and -- as the tent protests affirmed -- of all Israelis. Israel's social safety net has been severely compromised – by policies of privatization, dramatic subsidies for the ultra-orthodox, and funding for the settlement enterprise. There are immense challenges not only for groups with traditionally less power and privilege, but for everyone living in Israel. That is why Stav and other young leaders like her organized a protest. That is why Israelis pitched their tents last summer, and marched through the streets in staggering, inspiring numbers.
In Israel, as in meetings of American Jewry, if we do not look deeply into ourselves and see the extent of the work that needs to be done, if we focus too heavily on celebration, we face a real danger. If we celebrate too much, we won't take to the streets.
In Israel there is a great deal to celebrate – I know that for me, meeting Stav Shaffir, engaging in a new way with the incredibly moving protests of last summer and hearing about the work she is continuing through The Social Movement, reminded me of that. And there is so, so much needed in Israel - repairing the gutted social safety net, protecting and furthering religious pluralism, fighting for environmental justice, and working towards more true and complete equal rights for women, immigrants, and Palestinian citizens of Israel. This is the work of the New Israel Fund.
We should celebrate our communal accomplishments. We should be proud. And TribeFest offered an essential opportunity for us -- speakers and attendees, lay leaders and young Jewish professionals -- to do both. But TribeFest also reminded me of how our Jewish community needs to talk more about the ways we are implicated in the injustices we speak out against, and about how we can do better. Thinking about all of this, I felt proud of the way the New Israel Fund family asks some of the hardest questions and acts so bravely and strategically to address them.
One woman's battle against extremism18 April 2012
By Roni Hazon-Weiss
I was delighted to take part in promoting public awareness for preventing the exclusion of women in public spaces in Jerusalem specifically and Israel in general. My name is Roni Hazon-Weiss, 28 years old, Jerusalemite, married to Nachi and mother to 9 month old Yuval, a teacher and educator at the Givat Ronen school in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, studying for my Master's in Talmud and Halacha and Women's Studies at the Schechter Institute.Add a comment
In addition, I am a social activist in the "Yerushalmim" (Jerusalemites) movement, and a board member of Ne'emanei Torah vaAvodah. I joined Ne'emanei Torah vaAvodah in order to take a part in changing the national religious community in Israel. The movement – which was established in the 70s – seeks to critique the Orthodox community and to present an alternative Jewish, religious, Halachic perspective on issues relating to religion and state, democracy, education, and the status of women. We work to prevent the growing extremism in the religious community. The movement is active in both spirit and deed.
As part of my social activism, I participated in Yerushalmim's campaign, "[Women] uncensored – men and women fighting against the exclusion of women in the public sphere".
The campaign began in Jerusalem, at the initiative of the Conservative rabbi, Uri Ayalon – the Director of Yerushalmim – in response to the absence of women in public space: on billboards, ads etc… The campaign, which started as a Jerusalem-based struggle, expanded into a nationwide struggle about the place of women in public spaces.
When Rabbi Ayalon invited me to participate in the campaign, it was clear to me that I needed to take part in this initiative: as a woman, a mother, a teacher, a Jerusalemite, and an Orthodox person. Participation in the campaign was the beginning of the activities to return women to the public sphere, whether on billboards or as a part of ceremonies, cultural events, and the like.
The sense that Jerusalem is slipping through our fingers prompted a personal and public realization that shaping Jerusalem's character as a pluralistic capital is in the hands of the general public. It's in the hands of the majority to which I belong as an Orthodox woman. We now know that we cannot continue to compromise on our values in the name of the "public sensitivities." After all, we too have feelings. We must therefore stress to everyone the value system by which we live. As a religious woman it was important to me to take a part in the campaign in order to say that there is another Judaism, that this is not the Judaism I grew up on, and that I have a place in Judaism as a woman, both in the private and the public sphere.
As a teacher, I was able to bring this value system to the classroom, to the boys and girls whom I teach. The poster campaign began while I was on maternity leave. When I returned to school, my students asked me about it.
I could feel that my presence in this campaign increased the sense of belonging, and of pride, among my students. It triggered a deep discussion on values, on feminism, on activism, and on the difference between public and private spaces
The campaign began by hanging huge posters from the balconies of private homes, coffee shops, and cultural institutions facing the street. The second stage was to place posters on billboards throughout Jerusalem. The advertising company we approached told us that we were crazy, that all our signs would be destroyed, that it would be a wasted effort. To my delight, they were wrong. Some posters were vandalized, but most were not.
The campaign proved that we should not be afraid. In the wake of our efforts, advertising agencies and cultural institutions, such as the Jerusalem Theatre, found the courage to include women in different ads around the city.
I choose to emphasize the fact that I am an Orthodox woman who is active in Ne'emanei Torah vaAvodah in order to convey that the censorship, the growing extremism, and the obliteration of women from public spaces is not the true face of Jewish Halacha, but the view of a radical minority which has taken hold in recent years and which has no basis in Jewish law. As part of my activism, it is important to me to show a different Halachic perspective, to work to advance gender equality, and to make women's voices heard.
Don't Despair of Religious Zionism02 April 2012
2 April 2012
By Gadi Gvaryahu, Field Coordinator of Yudbet be-Heshvan
During the waiting period before the Six-Day War, the most moderate ministers in Levi Eshkol's government were those from the National Religious Party. Since then, Religious Zionism has undergone a revolution; the sector that forged a historic agreement with Mapai has become a right-wing nationalist group, including a significant National haredi segment.Add a comment
The political radicalization is expressed in Knesset votes, in the National Haredi outlook of educational institutions and yeshivot, in the religious radicalization of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, in halakhic responsa by National Religious rabbis on women's issues (military conscription of women, public singing by women), in disobedience of orders to evacuate settlements, in attitudes towards non-Jews and Palestinians, etc.
Note especially that despite the revolution, the vast majority of the rank and file of the National Religious sector remains loyal to the State of Israel, its laws, government, judges, and symbols. A small but by no means insignificant minority has been radicalized to the point that it does not accept the authority of the state and does not adhere to the rule of law. This refers to groups like the first Jewish underground, the Kahanist movements, Baruch Goldstein, the "Hilltop Youth," "Price Tag" perpetrators, and, obviously, Yigal Amir. Of course, one "successful" price tag attack would be enough to send the entire Middle East into hysterics.
In tandem with the rightward shift, significant parts of the Religious Zionist movement are working on behalf of tolerance, openness, and pluralism. The Tzohar organization of rabbis was established in the wake of the Rabin assassination; the Beit Hillel group was established recently, after extremist remarks by National Religious rabbis against public singing by female soldiers; and dozens of integrated religious-secular schools have been established in mixed communities in recent years. A National Religious community that is willing to send its children to the same school as secular children is undoubtedly moderate, tolerant, and pluralistic.
The moderate National Religious camp composed a special prayer service for the date on which Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, which was distributed to dozens of schools throughout the country. In Jerusalem and outside the city, synagogues on the Shirah Hadashah model, which allow women to take part in the prayer service, have been established. Orthodox schools for boys and girls, which espouse tolerance, openness, and pluralism, have been established in Yeroham, Zichron Yaakov, Kiryat Ekron, and Jerusalem. These schools join the veteran tolerant schools of the Religious Kibbutz movement and in Jerusalem. The national Religious Scouts movement, which works together with the secular Scouts and Arab, Druze and Circassian Scouts, has established approximately 10 branches in the Galilee, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Rehovot. The Ahavat Shalom hesder yeshiva in Netivot educates for tolerance and social sensitivity; one of its students authored a book-length rebuttal to the racist halakhic tract Torat Hamelech. The hesder yeshiva of the Religious Kibbutz movement and the movement's Yaakov Herzog Center lead a moderate state-based line; an egalitarian yeshiva was founded several months ago in Jerusalem. National Religious girls are enlisting in the IDF in large numbers despite the Chief Rabbinate's stringent ruling forbidding such action, and thousands of girls are studying in batei midrash and pre-military academies before and after their IDF service. Social justice organizations and overtly left-wing movements have been established by people from the National Religious camp; even Hagit Ofran of Peace Now grew up in the National Religious world.
We cannot forget the feminist religious women's movements that have spearheaded and continue to lead a revolution in everything related to the status of the religious woman in Israel. Today, they are working day and night to safeguard the rights of agunot and mesoravot get and are proposing laws to improve the status of these unfortunate women. Likewise, we cannot forget the religious organizations and the synagogue in memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that were established in the wake of the Rabin assassination.
Not only will the battle between the National Religious movement that supports the state as a matter of course and the radical religious right determine the image of National Religious Judaism. It may also determine who will have the authority to make decisions in Israel and whether decisions will be made on the basis of a democratic majority or in the "price tag" and Torat Hamelech style.
The state-oriented National Religious movement, which lay dormant for many years and allowed extremists to take the lead, is beginning to awaken and fight back. Anyone who is interested in an enlightened Jewish democratic state must rally to and assist the state-oriented National Religious movement.
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text: A perfect example of the topics of our recent conversation, from this morning's Ansteorra List Digest (#773) - Message #2: >From: "Patricia Gibson" <> >To: ansteorra-announce at ansteorra.org, steppes at ansteorra.org >Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:35:09 -0500 >Subject: [Ansteorra] Volunteers for security at fall court >Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org > > >This is a call for volunteers at fall court...any and all who >are willing to do security please notify Lord Padraig burke. > >His email is snarfster at attbi.com > >Thank you 1) No group name to identify WHOSE "fall court." 2) No date of when the event occurs. 3) No signature, so we don't know who posted this to the list. 4) There is no "fall court" listed on the Kingdom's online calendar. Were all of the above corrected, people might have an idea of whether this is something with which they can help. Date and location certainly would assist If the event is not in Ansteorra, or not an official event, should requests such as this be posted to the Kingdom list, or left to the local lists and meetings? Or have I just opened a different can of worms? ---= Morgan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart." ---= Bob Allisat -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .


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The most obvious harm of the more than $1 trillion that the United States owes to Communist China as part of our $14.8 trillion national debt is the massive amount of interest that our taxpayers must unproductively pay on that debt every year.
But that is not the only consequence of being deep in debt to a nation such as Communist China.
Recently, the United States refused to sell five dozen F-16 fighter jets to the free Republic of China on Taiwan. Instead, our nation sold Taiwan only some material to upgrade a fleet of aircraft that Taiwan purchased almost 20 years ago.
Why did we decline to sell the F-16s to Taiwan? After all, it's a friend and strategic ally to our country, and it needs a strong military to fend off the threat that Communist China may try to seize the island and forcibly reunite the two nations.
Well, relations among the United States, Communist China and Taiwan are complicated, to say the least. Communist China considers Taiwan merely a part of its territory -- a view that democratic Taiwan understandably rejects. Unfortunately, since the Carter administration, the United States has officially recognized Communist China and has not recognized free Taiwan -- though we still have unofficial relations with Taiwan.
But with Communist China holding so much U.S. debt, it's a sad reality that our government fears economic retaliation by China if we appear too friendly with Taiwan. As then-Sen. Hillary Clinton said when asked why the United States doesn't take a tougher stand against Communist China, "How do you get tough on your banker?"
The desire to placate Communist China is part of the reason why the Obama administration has been unsteady in its support for Taiwan.
Regrettably, the United States is paying a high price for our reckless spending and debt -- especially the debt we owe to China.
The failure to tax for what we have spent has left the US with no good options. China takes the long view while the US assumes its premminent position is a birthright.
Thirty years of rapid debt expansion have left us at depression's door. Insolvent out-of-control banks and corrupt government have to be reversed. China will not be paid, nor will most of our creditors unless it is with newly created digitized dollars worth far less than today's dollars.
America is going on a diet, a spending and consuming diet that will strain us like nothing before. We don't have any time left, that diet has already begun and if you don't feel it yet, you will.
You noted "the massive amount of interest that our taxpayers must unproductively pay on that debt every year". The national debt and the interest to service the debt is a double whammy to taxpayers. A large part of the 47% of households who pay no federal income tax are calling for tax increases on the "rich" using the word "fairness" when they pay NOTHING. It's a great mistake to believe they know what the word means.
So conservative, how much money does that 47% have? Have they never paid federal income taxes before? Who are these people? How much do you want to take from them in the name of fairness?
Don't you have any real numbers?
The 47% probably work harder than you, but because of low wages they are one paycheck or one illness away from insolvency. How much would you have them pay to reach your interprtation of fairness? They fight your wars and serve your food and yet you want to treat half of America as though they were disposable.
I have now heard enough from you to know that you are not conservative...neo-conservative maybe, but certainly unable or unwilling to consider the common good...ways to build a healthy country. No, you are a little guy, a small negative thinker, incapable of constructive commentary.
And who am I to say such?...nobody special, but I have started and run businesses, employed lots of people and paid plenty of taxes...probably far more than you...and it makes me sick to listen to a "have" who cares not for the general welfare of the country.


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National Wildlife Refuge System Celebrates 104th Anniversary
In his December 1904 Message to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt took the opportunity to urge lawmakers to authorize the setting aside of certain forest reserves and public lands as game refuges for the preservation of the "bison, wapiti and other large beasts once so abundant in our woods and mountains and on our great plains, and now tending toward extinction." By the time of his speech, Roosevelt had established just two national wildlife refuges -- Pelican Island in Florida and Breton Island in Louisiana. He was just getting started.
By the end of his Presidency, he had created 53 refuges, including Three Arch Rocks Refuge, the first on the West coast; the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge; and a total of seven refuges in Alaska, including protection for the Pribilof Islands that today are part of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Geoff Haskett, Chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System, commented in a recent letter to refuge employees, "On this, the 104th anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System, I can say that what we do every day is important for our country, the resources that we are pledged to protect, and for our fellow citizens."
Haskett acknowledged the importance of non-profit support groups to refuges, like the Coastal Wildlife Refuge Society in eastern North Carolina, "The growing Refuge Friends movement – with 30,000 to 40,000 members in more than 200 Friends organizations – is one clear indication that people believe our work is essential. One hundred twenty-nine members of the House of Representatives, from both sides of the political aisle, have told us our work is critical by their membership on the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus, which is growing every month. The 40 million people who visit national wildlife refuges each year show us just how important refuges are to communities and to those who value our nation's resources."
In his final comment, Haskett acknowledged the value of the employees themselves. "On this anniversary, I thank you for your work, your imagination, your diligence and, most of all, your enthusiasm. You bring pride to the uniform you wear."
The public is encouraged to visit local national wildlife refuges in North Carolina. The 104th anniversary or refuges is the perfect reason for taking the time to make a visit! For more information, visit http://www.fws.gov/northcarolina.


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Wed, Nov 28, 2012 (BabyCenter News) -- Sportspower has announced a recall of about 1,500 of its Liquid Motion waterslides, sold exclusively at Menards, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
The warning labels on the waterslides lack a weight limit and fail to tell users never to slide headfirst down the slide. This poses a risk of serious injury to users of the waterslide. The company has received one report of neck injury after a user slid headfirst down the slide.
The inflatable blue and yellow waterslides are freestanding and not intended for use at a pool. They're not meant for use by people older than age 13 or heavier than 100 lbs. A "Liquid Motion by Sportspower" logo is on the side of the waterslide. Look for item number INF-1375 and UPC 687064031340 on the packaging.
The recalled waterslides were sold exclusively at Menards stores nationwide from April 2010 to June 2010 for about $300. They were made in China.


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Quarterbacks Eli Manning of the New York Giants and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots will meet for the second time in four years at Super Bowl XLVI on February 5th in Indianapolis.
What will happen this year at the second Manning - Brady showdown within only four years? Analyses and predictions are flying.
"The 2007 Giants were the exact same as this year's Giants. A good team in the regular season, if that, but hardly the best team in the league," said Bryan Swartz in a blog. Still, they're headed for the Super Bowl yet again.
Despite a relatively poor regular season record of 9 and 7 this year, Big Blue shouldn't be counted out just yet, says Joshua Greenberg for The Daily Nexus. "Truthfully, the Giants are probably the team best equipped to take advantage of the holes in the Patriots' defense, which is still their weakness."
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The Giants secured their bid for Super Bowl XLVI when they defeated the San Francisco 49ers in overtime on Sunday at Candlestick Park. However, Greenberg writes that the Giants didn't so much win the game, but rather the 49ers lost it.
Brian Tracy of The Washington Post says that there's no way to succinctly compare Brady and Manning; both football stars have their strengths and weaknesses.
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