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Updated: September 24, 2012 6:25AM
Rays manager Joe Maddon had seen this horror show before. Worse yet, this one was a double feature starring Edwin Jackson.
Maddon sat through a chilly Thursday afternoon watching his team fall to 0-6 with a 5-1 loss to the White Sox. That was one thing. Then there was Jackson manhandling his team in much the same fashion Jackson did as an Arizona Diamondback last season, when he threw a no-hitter against the Rays.
Only this time, Jackson was better.
"Yeah, he was,'' Maddon said. "He had much better command. He really had the slider working today. He was throwing them to good spots. He got us chasing a bit — we don't chase a lot, but he was very sharp today. He was very good."
Jackson (2-0) treated a sellout crowd to a 13-strikeout performance over eight innings, a Sox strikeout record for a home opener and a personal high. He walked one and allowed four hits as the Sox (4-2) cruised past Maddon's scuffling Rays.
Jackson's slider was the talk of both clubhouses afterward. Almost all of his whiffs came on that pitch.
"He's got one of the best sliders in the game,'' Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. "He has such good arm action and body action with it. I remember as a hitter saying, I don't want to face him, and thinking, 'my gosh, I don't want to have to hit his slider' because his arm action is so good that it fools guys with not only the [downward] movement but the deception.
"When he got ahead of guys, he was throwing it for a strike down out of the zone. He's tough. When he's on, he's as good as anybody. Hopefully, he can keep it going.''
Without Adam Dunn a second straight day, center fielder Alex Rios moved into the No. 3 spot and delivered a two-run double in his first at-bat and a double in his second against David Price (0-2). Rios, who had hit into tough luck in the Sox' first four games, has four hits in his last two.
Paul Konerko (2-for-4) drove in Rios to give him an RBI in all six games, a Sox record. Juan Pierre (3-for-5) and Brent Lillibridge (2-for-3) each drove in a run.
Jackson took a shutout into the eighth, when pinch hitter Felipe Lopez doubled and Reid Brignac singled him home. Johnny Damon flied out to Lillibridge in deep right, which got a fist pump from Jackson.
"Baseball is a game of inches,'' Jackson said. "One pitch can ruin a whole game — and when he hit that ball initially, I did think it was gone. It was a great feeling to see Lillibridge at the fence catching it for a last out.''
That was all for Jackson, who threw 120 pitches. Sergio Santos pitched a scoreless ninth.
Jackson said he was somewhat surprised to hear his strikeout total. After it settled in, he called it a career highlight. It was his 50th victory, and his sixth (with two defeats) since coming to the Sox at last year's trade deadline.
"Any time I'm able to go out and get in an early rhythm and get outs quick and attack the strike zone, I like my odds,'' Jackson said. "I have trouble in games when I'm coming out and behind in the counts and have to throw strikes. There wasn't too many times where I had to do that — and when I did, I was able to make a quality pitch for an out.''
Said Maddon: "He was getting us out of the zone a bit, but I think that's a tribute to how sharp his breaking pitch was. It does not surprise me that he's turning out this good. We talked about that a few years ago. David was pretty good, but not as good as Edwin was today."


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Just Starting off with my prereq's
- 1Jul 22, '13 by Ambition88Hello Everyone,
In the fall I will be just beginning taking my pre req's needed for the nursing course which is just starting at my community college. I want my chances of getting in the nursing program to be very high, is there any advice that you all can give me? I was also wondering if there is anything that I can study now that will be beneficial to me once accepted into the program. I've really worked hard and came a long way in order to pay for classes, so now that I don't have that stress any longer I want a smooth well... as smooth as possible ride from here. Any suggestions are welcomed .
- 1Jul 22, '13 by lorirn2bThat's awesome! I did those for a couple years and I would tell you one thing I wish I had done. If I followed my own advice I would probably be in year two of the nursing program already instead of just starting (RN) school next month. I would take it 100% seriously and get the best possibe grades I could right from jump. In order to do that, I would have had to minimize my distractions (like an elderly parent, rescuing dogs, and I would have sold my huge house so I didn't have four acres of land to maintain and three horses.) It was HARD doing all that. Therefore my grades suffered when I first started pre reqs. I got control of the situation, made alot of sacrifices and did what had to be done, so my grades ended up really good. But if I had started out that way, I would be in my second year of nursing school and not just starting. Good luck!
- 1Jul 23, '13 by jinglebellrocks25Stay focus and never give up. Hard work pays off.
A&P is a must in nursing, try to understand the systems pretty well. It will be beneficial when studying pathophysiology. Good luck!
- 1Jul 23, '13 by dove01Study hard! And remember that everything will pay off at the end good luck!
- 1Jul 23, '13 by CheripkWork hard to get good grades, especially in your sciences most schools look at those courses such as A&P, and micro hard. Start off strong in those classes also and try to keep the momentum. Learning about the body and being familar with the systems will be helpful even more so when you go into depth in a&p. Focus, try to have a little fun and enjoy its a fun process doing your pre reqs because it leads up to the anticipation of getting into nursing school.
- 1Jul 23, '13 by jabshireI was in your very shoes one year ago to the month! Well, sort of I started out at my local community college toward my associate degree in Information Systems. Close to the end of my first semester, I decided to make a BIG change. Prior to IT, I used to work in law enforcement and I enjoy helping people and making a difference. Since I was already enrolled at my local community college, I decided to change my major to nursing. I've never turned back! Luckily, only one of the courses I took my first semester didn't go towards my nursing degree.
I graduated high school in 2002, am married, work full-time 40-50 hours per week, have two kids, and go to school part and 3/4 time. It is tough at times! As lorirn2b mentioned above, you have to minimize your distractions. You also have to hard-code study time in your schedule and stick to your guns. When school is in session, I make a schedule for myself. I schedule work time, class time, study time, and even time with my family. I hard-code time with my family so I know I don't give too much attention to work and school and not enough to my family. That's not all the time I spend with my family, but I know I at least have that time.
I have four pre-reqs left now. I'm taking A&P I and philosophy this semester and will be applying this fall for admission into the 2014 clinical component. Next spring I will finish up my pre-reqs with A&P II and sociology and I'll be all set. I've tried everything I can do to maintain good grades, since that's one of the main things they look at. I'm also currently studying for the entrance. At my school, you only get one shot on that test, so you have to make it count.
Currently my GPA is 3.94 and it's been tough, but it will pay off soon. Best of luck and congratulations
- 0Jul 23, '13 by ratladyIs there pre reqs for the pre reqs of nursing school? I keep thinking there is, but then I see that 2 of the 4 years of BSN are dedicated to the pre reqs... and if I have most of my pre reqs done will it still take 4 more years to get my degree? Sorry to hijack, still getting the jist of things here!
- 0Jul 23, '13 by madelynsmomQuote from ratladyFor BSN, at least in the schools near me, 4 years includes the 2 years of pre-req's. The 2 years are almost exclusively nursing courses and clinicals.Is there pre reqs for the pre reqs of nursing school? I keep thinking there is, but then I see that 2 of the 4 years of BSN are dedicated to the pre reqs... and if I have most of my pre reqs done will it still take 4 more years to get my degree? Sorry to hijack, still getting the jist of things here!
- 0Jul 23, '13 by madelynsmomFor the OP- I too am starting next month with pre-req's. I will be 28 in September so I am about 10 years late to the show. I received the same advice with some nurses I have encountered over the past few months- minimize distractions. For me, it's a little hard to do since I have a father with Parkinson's who doesn't have much family other than my brother and I, I'm a wife, I'm a mother to a 1 year old (next week) daughter, and I work 7:30-4:30 M-F. I had a VERY demanding job where they expected me to also take my laptop home and work from home a few hours every night and weekend. I finally decided that couldn't work for me, my family, nor my nursing education so I applied for another position at my company and I got it. It is *much* more laid back and flexible. Even though I have a million other things, it's one less thing to stress me out.
- 0Jul 23, '13 by lorirn2bQuote from ratladyI thought........ pondering here, but I was under the impression that your BSN is the same two years of core nursing courses as if you were getting your ADN, plus your clinicals (as with ADN), plus an additional two years of the Arts and Humanities. I think you have to do pre reqs for your BSN same as you do for your ADN, one to two years, which puts your degree at five to six years. I may be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.Is there pre reqs for the pre reqs of nursing school? I keep thinking there is, but then I see that 2 of the 4 years of BSN are dedicated to the pre reqs... and if I have most of my pre reqs done will it still take 4 more years to get my degree? Sorry to hijack, still getting the jist of things here!Last edit by lorirn2b on Jul 23, '13 : Reason: spelling

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Eric has fast food experience. Do you?Posted on 03/01/2010 by Lisa
Tonight at midnight, we're showing the episode of That '70s Show where Eric gets a job at Fatso Burger. Eric looks kind of depressed in this photo, but when I had a fast food job, it wasn't that bad.
One summer, I worked at a frozen yogurt place at a highway rest stop. I feel like people tend to talk about fast food jobs like they are the worst thing in the world, but I was just happy to have a paying job in an air-conditioned place. Some of the customers were rude, but since our place was on a busy highway, we knew we'd probably never see those rude people again.
The best part was that when there weren't any customers, my coworkers and I would take turns hanging out in the walk-in freezer, eating handfuls of cookie-dough topping. (I don't like frozen yogurt, but I looove those little chunks of cookie dough.)
Anybody else out there ever have a fast food job? Were there any perks?
Holly's first day at work.Posted on 02/09/2010 by Lisa
In the "Holly's First Job" episode of What I Like About You, Holly's first day as a waitress doesn't go well (as she puts it "I got there, I sucked, I quit").
My first job was as a cashier at a craft supply store, and I sucked, too. I got stressed out anytime anybody wanted to pay with a credit card, because I thought the little charge machine was too hard to use. Good thing I'm better with computers now, huh?
What was your first job? Did you suck at it?
If you could go back in time and give yourself advice, what would you say? (I would say, "Hey, Lisa -- learn to knit while you've got a discount on yarn!")
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Treat your green-thumbed friends to a present that will beautify their gardens.
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We're digging this shovel and bag combination. Accented with a colorful pinstripe handle, the spade shovel is an adorable tool. Plus, it comes in a matching cotton drawstring pouch for easy transport!
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50 Shades of Grey Devotees, Meet Your New Director
The news comes this afternoon like so many other items of this sort. By way of Deadline's indefatigable Long Island-based scoop meister Mike Fleming Jr.
There has been no shortage of ridiculous speculation about who would get the plum job of directing the Hollywood film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey. Absolutely none of it involved a British woman with a unisex name, four children (from two different marriages) and nary a mainstream movie credit to her name. But that's the bold choice that has been made – meet Sam Taylor-Johnson.
From Fleming's exclusive:
In addition to Nowhere Boy, which garnered her a pair of BAFTA nominations and an eventual husband in that film's star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, she directed the critically acclaimed Love You More which was in Cannes in 2008. She also has ties to [producer Michael] De Luca — the pair are in development on a film based on the Robert Goorlick novel A Reliable Wife which De Luca is also producing. She was a famed photographer and visual artist when she took on Nowhere Boy.


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Lobbyists, according to various definitions, contact, inform, communicate, try to influence, persuade, and influence government officials to pass legislation that favors them or their backers. They also mobilize voters to use petitions to exert public pressure for political actions.
Lobbyists use a broad range of verbal and political techniques to influence legislation. One widely-used tool is the junket, a trip for legislators paid for by the lobby. The junket is corrupt. It amounts to bribery-lite, because a basic fact of human psychology is that when person A gives something to person B, then person B feels an obligation to person A. Specific examples include all-expenses-paid conferences at luxurious resorts, fully paid trips to India, and wining and dining. Although these goodies are duly reported on Congressional financial disclosure forms, they are then typically ignored because the Democrats and Republicans have an understanding that they will look the other way. Tom Delay's trip to Korea shown on Schedule VII of his 2001 form got him into trouble because the lobbyist had registered as a foreign agent. More typically, Mr. Delay spent 10 legal days in Kona, Hawaii in 2002, and the American Association of Airport Executives reimbursed him for $5,967.28.
Some of Washington's foundations and think tanks may be registered as lobbyists, some may not. Functionally, this doesn't matter. They are pretty much birds of a feather. They often generate information, get involved in petitions or grassroots citizen efforts, and otherwise act to influence policy. The Heritage Foundation supported Mr. and Mrs. Delay's trip to Singapore in 2001 to the tune of $8,428, and the National Center for Public Policy Research paid for his and his wife's visit to Scotland that same year. Somehow this 10-day trip came to $28,106, the travel cost being $20,266. They took some side trips.
One site estimates that $14.3 million was spent on Congressional junkets between 2000 and the present. Mr. Delay came in 29th out of the top 100 recipients. Given about 538 members of Congress and a 5-year period, this works out to $5,316 per Congress member per year. The total amount spent by lobby groups to influence legislation is many orders of magnitude greater. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America had $150 million budgeted for 2004. Lobbyists in the State of California alone are reputed to have spent $267 million. Lobbyists for the EU spend $70—100 million a year.
Law is for sale. It is not law on the market because Congress has the legal power to make law and no competition. Ameliorating factors are that the lobbies compete and the individual members of Congress compete. The conscience of the voter and the jealousies of members of Congress also place limits on the corruption.
Some lobbies are very powerful and exert strong pressure by being able to mobilize enough votes to unseat a member of Congress if he or she votes against what the lobby group wants. Strong lobbies include the National Rifle Association (NRA), AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), and the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Another form of corruption is the revolving door between government and the influencing organizations — the lobby groups, foundations, trade associations, corporations, universities, and think tanks. "Lobby Shops Salivate as Big Names Hit K Street" one headline reads. Powell Moore, a senior lobbyist at McKenna, Long and Aldridge, has had "stints in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and at the Lockheed Martin Corp.," and has been "Donald Rumsfeld's chief liaison with Congress for nearly four years." Newly-minted lobbyists who are old Congressional hands include Sen. Don Nickles, Rep. Billy Tauzin, and Rep. Jack Quinn. "A seemingly endless list of staffers has moved as well."
This corrupt activity is wrong, pure and simple. It is very difficult for government officials to act objectively if they have the expectation of being rewarded by cushy jobs by the very groups that they are legislating for while still in office! If a Congressman votes against a measure that benefits Boeing, is Boeing more or less likely to hire him when he retires? Or will Boeing hire its "friends"?
The Heritage Foundation's 2002 Annual Report proudly informs us: "So years ago we assumed the role of matchmaker — identifying and recruiting qualified conservatives for key positions in the administration, in statehouses, on Capitol Hill and university campuses and in the u2018lobby shops,' policy organizations, and business and trade associations that shape public policy in America. In 2002, the Heritage Job Bank filled more than 100 vacancies. As one Senate Policy Director remarked: u2018When we need to fill a position on the Senator's staff, one of the first people I call is Lynn Gibson, Coordinator of Heritage's Job Bank. She always seems to have a ready supply of smart, solidly conservative candidates, many with ties to our home state…'" Granted the Senator favors Heritage out of personal conviction, but won't the Senator's warm spot for Heritage be strengthened and cemented by favors being exchanged? Won't these staff members end up telling the Senator what to think and write?
All of this lobbying, influencing, pressuring, hiring, and to-and-fro movement of personnel is entirely legal. It's also entirely sensible given the way the government operates, but it is corrupt. Corruption naturally accompanies the State. The State is plunder, there for the taking. It's Treasure Island. One only needs the treasure map and a properly outfitted ship. The Jim Hawkins of today is a bright young law school graduate. They come a-flocking. Columbia and Barnard students even have a Lobby Day in Washington. We institutionalize our corruption so that we no longer have to face what it really is.
The State pays out a set of valuable prizes in the form of laws, subsidies, taxes, regulations, tariffs, agreements, contracts and policies, jobs, positions, power, access, credential building, and career enhancement. Competition is keen. The American get-up-and-go spirit is far from dead. Given the rules of any game and given an opportunity to play, Americans will be there aiming to win.
The web definitions of lobbying point to goals such as a specific cause, or laws that further one's own interest or inhibit those of opponents, or establishing an individual's or organization's point of view. This means that lobbyists usually, but not always, are working for the private interests of their sponsors or themselves. They are generally not working for the "General Welfare" but their own welfare. Since the door to such activity has been constitutionally opened by the Supreme Court, the lobbyists and their backers naturally have walked in. That all of this works to the detriment of society has long since stopped being noticed.
One of the basic things wrong with our country is that many people no longer know the difference between right and wrong. Another is that many people do not believe that there is a right and wrong. They believe that we as a group can make up any rules we want and live by them. Only bitter experience can rectify such deep and willful ignorance.
A process that passes laws for private purposes is unhealthy for any society since it means that some gain at the expense of others. Injustice cannot remain indefinitely at the core of a society's ethic without undermining economic and social relationships. A society following such a rule in its public affairs will eventually apply it to its external relations in foreign affairs and to its private affairs internally. Since the State has some importance in people's lives, its undermining of just rules of conduct will tend to sap the morale of the people, producing cynicism, skepticism, and nihilism. If many people then turn away from the State, that is good. That is a corrective action.
A process in which government is basically for sale means that those in and around the lawmaking power extract gain for themselves without worrying about the losses imposed on others. If those losses are spread widely or if the causes of them are hard to pinpoint, then the forces of reaction such as counter-lobby groups may be slow in arising. Bad laws can take the society far away from where it otherwise might go. The military-industrial complex descried by President Eisenhower can foster war after war. A sugar lobby can foster domestic prices that are two or three times the world price. A labor lobby can put minority workers out of the general economy altogether by Jim Crow laws or by minimum wage laws. A construction lobby can devastate neighborhoods. From this viewpoint, the process we have now is rotten.
Counter-lobbies can arise to fight bad laws, a good thing indeed. Nevertheless, the cost of making the system work in this fashion is substantial.
Many reformers observe that the ethics of the Congress and of those exploiting the law-making power are not very pretty. A good deal of thought is going into this subject. However, trying to reform this system by focusing on changing Congressional ethics is about like getting a lion to meow. Even if the lion is tamed down, its appetite and roar won't be.
In my opinion, it is truly low of an elected official to accept any such thing as a paid trip from a lobbyist or think tank or foundation. Widespread publicity can help voters decide how important these things are. In my quaint and old-fashioned view, elected officials should be one-dollar-a-year men of honesty, probity, integrity and judgment. They should voluntarily not accept gifts. If an elected official made a public statement that after leaving office, he would not accept a closely-related position as a lobbyist, that to me would provide a favorable signal of integrity. If they even said that they would only vote in the public's interest, that would be favorable in today's atmosphere. If they would provide the least bit of innovation, such as stating that an independent auditor would at the end of each year compare their performance to their stated principles, that would be an improvement. A person with integrity will have no problem coming up with signals and signs that they mean what they say.
Lobbying, junkets, resume building, job-jumping, are all ingredients in the law-making sausage. I can imagine much more that is unsavory goes on. This is the province of exposés, novelists, and screenwriters. More importantly, who turns the handle of the meat grinder? Who makes up the recipes that Congress cooks? The lobbyists and their backers, the interest groups, are key players.
For the time being, we are living with this system, so what can we say at the margin about it? It seems to me that we can still identify the relatively good guys and the bad guys, the relatively good lobbies and the bad lobbies. The good lobbies are those that are seeking things that libertarians can applaud, which include lowering aggression, repealing intrusive laws and regulations, lowering taxes, cutting programs, enhancing freedoms, etc., while the bad lobbies are those that are seeking more aggression, more coercive laws and regulations, higher taxes, more programs, and fewer freedoms.
Let's evaluate the four strong lobbies mentioned earlier: NRA, AARP, NFIB and AIPAC. I'll argue that the NRA and the NFIB are good lobbies, and the AARP and AIPAC are bad lobbies.
The NRA is basically what I called a "counter-lobby," a lobby whose focus is fighting bad laws, in this case the panoply of gun laws that fly in the face of the Second Amendment. Even if there were no Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms would still exist. Bearing arms is about as basic a natural right as there is, since one's life isn't much good unless it's protected. It is a near certainty that the NRA's political stances do not accord 100% with what libertarians may support, and that there are libertarians who are anti-NRA. For example, the NRA supported Bush over Kerry. The history of the NRA may show occasions when it erred on legislation or compromised. These shadings do not alter the basic thrust of the NRA, which is upholding a right expressed in the Constitution. This is one reason why it is easy to conclude that it is a good lobby. The second, as I stated, is that self-defense is a natural right. A third reason is the path-breaking research-based practical case that has been made in numerous articles by John R. Lott, Jr.
In many respects, the AARP is a benign voluntary organization that provides useful services to its members as a review of its history and operations will show. Its many services, from insurance to discounts on many products, are distinct from its lobbying activities with which I am here concerned.
Its positions are available for download. There are a great many of them, and I doubt strongly that all the AARP members are aware of these. It is also highly likely that significant numbers of members would disagree with one or more positions if they knew them.
The AARP's lobbying is directed against budget caps, against entitlement caps, against cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans' benefits. It is for the prescription drug entitlement. It is against any privatization of Social Security, including voluntary or mandatory personal retirement accounts. It supports the progressive income tax. The AARP looks upon tax measures in terms of their impact on government budgets (that is, tax cuts have a "cost"). It favors the income tax at the federal level. It favors reducing "tax expenditures," that is, revenue losses to the government that arise from deductions, exclusions, and credits, etc. In other words, it favors tax increases from this source. The AARP takes "the need to fund national spending priorities" as a given, for which Congress "must ensure an adequate revenue base." (AARP manages to use the words "need" and "must" in the same sentence.) AARP favors taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income.
The AARP has positions on many more general areas such as housing, transportation, education, social services and utilities. As in the cases of entitlements and taxes, its positions are monotonously of one stripe — the government should do this and do that and do the other thing. It should regulate and control. Such an animal as a market solution that is unassisted or undirected by a government directive does not seem to exist in its view. In short, the AARP's lobbying is thoroughly and one-sidedly in favor of big and bigger government.
The AARP lobby is unabashedly socialist, for it advocates controlling the income produced by the productive efforts of others. If one controls, one owns. The amazing thing about its calls for more and more and more directed to the "elderly" is that there is seemingly no upper bound. Economists tell us that wants are insatiable. They usually analyze cases where freedom to choose is present. We learn from the AARP that coercive satisfaction of wants also is insatiable. No matter how much misery is caused to those paying the bills, the master seeks to extract more from the slave. This seems irrational, so maybe there is an upper bound. The AARP hasn't hit it yet.
As with the NRA it is easy to reach a conclusion, this time in the opposite direction. The AARP lobby is a bad lobby.
The NFIB represents small businesses. It is lobbying for permanent repeal of the estate tax, small business health plans (as unions and large firms already have), ability to bid on federal projects (unbundling them), private sector bidding for services now handled by government, an end to the ban on interest on business checking accounts, and an end to the expansion of tax-exempt rural electric cooperatives. It favors individually controlled personal retirement accounts, no payroll tax increases to fund Social Security, and no increase in Social Security paperwork burdens. It favors a host of tax measures that involve lower taxes and simpler taxes. For example, it favors eliminating the Federal Unemployment Tax and returning the issue to the states and it favors repealing the alternative minimum tax.
Small businesses have been hard hit by numerous laws that place them at a disadvantage relative to larger companies. The NFIB is either directly against many such laws or else notes their bad effect on small businesses. Those mentioned in this vein include the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Davis-Bacon Act, mandatory ergonomics requirements, the Family Medical Leave Act and the minimum wage. The NFIB does not call for repeal of all these, but the tenor of its concern is that they are harming small businesses.
There are a number of other issues such as reforming OSHA, reducing environmental regulations, protecting business property rights, postal reform to prevent rate increases, and limitations on Superfund waste oil liabilities that further provide the flavor of the NFIB lobbying efforts.
A great many of the NFIB efforts are in line with the directions that libertarians favor. Mind you, there is not ever going to be 100% agreement. But the clear direction of the NFIB is to reduce the government presence in the lives of small businesses and open up markets for competition. Their idea is to reduce taxes, end some taxes, and reform and reduce burdensome regulations. These are laudable objectives. The NFIB is a good lobby.
Both the NRA and NFIB contrast with AARP in an interesting way. While the AARP wants more and there is no apparent upper bound, the NRA and NFIB want less. The lower bound exists, and it is the libertarian ideal of complete non-aggression.
Last I consider AIPAC, which is "America's Pro-Israel Lobby." AIPAC differs from the other lobbies in that its orientation is foreign policy, not domestic. AIPAC supports foreign aid appropriations for Israel (about $3 billion a year typically), tighter economic sanctions against Iran in the form of permanent penalties against companies that invest in Iran's energy sector and assistance to pro-democracy forces in Iran. It supported the Congressional resolution asking the EU to place Hizballah on its terror list. It supports the current Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and several West Bank communities. AIPAC is against Iran having any nuclear program in any form. It favors a get-tough policy on Iran involving sanctions rather than negotiation. AIPAC supports the military alliance between the U.S. and Israel that has existed since 1985. It supports increased U.S. assistance to modernize and restructure Israeli armed forces, increased joint defense programs, and enhanced sharing of intelligence. It wants the U.S. to pressure Russia and other countries to prevent Iran and other "rogue states" from advancing their missile capabilities.
AIPAC's general aim is to maintain strong and intimate U.S.-Israeli ties so that the U.S. is thoroughly enmeshed and involved in the many problems and difficulties faced by Israel. Having a senior partner with the strength and capabilities of the U.S. is clearly advantageous to Israel.
This outline of AIPAC's aims is enough to base an evaluation upon. What is the libertarian position regarding foreign aid and policy? Rothbard's answer is still relevant, and Ron Paul's more recent answer also is insightful and useful.
At present, I add the following basic ideas. Self-defense of a person or a country has a clearly delimited goal. It is a goal around which a population can and will rally. It has a well-understood moral standing in the world at large and attracts moral and sometimes other support. It has the "negative" aim of restoring or maintaining rights. It has a logical stopping point. This is analogous to the lobbying actions of the NRA and NFIB to maintain certain rights of their constituencies. By its nature, defensive actions do not have to turn into conquering or expansive actions, although humans sometimes give in to this temptation when they gain the upper hand.
By contrast, intervention in the affairs of another country has no clear boundaries. It can grow and alter. It can backfire merely because there is no clear goal. It involves control of one group by another group, and that leads invariably to complication. It leads to resistance. It creates a seeming imperative for further interventions and entanglements. Interventions are likely to go wrong because of the knowledge problem. The intervener really does not know what the foreign situation is. The State that intervenes is prone to error. A self-defending State has no such problem. It knows exactly what it is about. Interventions are infinitely expandable because there are always new aims that can be imagined, new goods to be done, new worlds to be conquered. Interventionism is analogous to the AARP's agenda. It knows no limits and no bounds.
Many volumes of history bear out the sorry effects of interventionism. If the British, French, Spanish, Italians, Germans, and Russians have failed in recent memory, why won't the Americans also fail? The American intervention in the Middle East is no exception. AIPAC even wants to influence how the U.S. behaves with respect to other foreign countries. That desire is natural because Israel interacts with many other countries, but it shows precisely how one U.S. intervention mushrooms into another and yet another.
AIPAC is a good case study for showing what is wrong with interventionism. It is again an easy call that AIPAC's aims run counter to properly conceived American interests, despite all their rhetoric to the contrary. AIPAC is a bad lobby.
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Based on the 1967 best-selling suspense novel by Ira Levin, this new adaptation of 'Rosemary's Baby' centers on a young married couple who escapes New York and moves to Paris with hopes of leaving their sad past behind. After a series of unfortunate events, Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are presented with an offer they can't refuse - an apartment at the most prestigious address in the city. Problem is, it comes with a haunted past and an immeasurable price.
Rosemary (Zoe Saldana, 'Avatar,' 'Star Trek Into Darkness') and Guy (Patrick J. Adams, 'Suits') are incredulous at their good fortune and find comfort in a strange city among their new friends and neighbors, the Castevets. This well-to-do successful older couple takes the newcomers under their wing and become very involved with the Woodhouses' lives. Things seem to be perfect as Rosemary becomes pregnant and Guy's career takes off. As their spirited best friend, Guy's co-worker Julie (Christina Cole), spends quality time with Rosemary in the city, she finds Rosemary's health worrying and cautions both of them that something isn't right. Soon there are other signs warning Rosemary to be careful.
Guy seems to be pulling away from Rosemary and spending a great deal of time hanging around with Roman Castevet (Jason Isaacs, 'Harry Potter' franchise). Roman's wife, the whimsical Margaux Castevet (Carole Bouquet, 'For Your Eyes Only'), assures Rosemary her herbs and holistic medicine will help with the pregnancy, but are they helping or hurting? Rosemary's quizzical nature leads her to investigate the building and its past residents. She uncovers a dark past and realizes who Roman Castevet truly is. But is it too late? Are the Castavets' perceived sinister motives legitimate or all in the pregnancy brain of Rosemary?
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Rosemary's Baby -- The story of a loving young New York City couple who are expecting their first child. Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences confusion and fear. Her husband (John Cassavetes), an ambitious but unsuccessful actor, makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward.
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Superior Tire & Rubber Corp. is the country's leading manufacturer of high quality OEM and after-market polyurethane and rubber track pads for crawlers, dozers, excavators, milling machines, pavers, trenchers and other specialized steel track driven heavy equipment. STR has set the industry standard for quality and durability. We are very proud of our American made products and offer a 100% Worklife Guarantee to prove it!
STR's Cushotrac® rubber and polyurethane track pads for asphalt and concrete milling and paving machines have been leading the industry in performance for over 37 years. Under the harshest road construction conditions the Cushotrac® Mold On and Cushotrac® Bolt to Shoe track pads have outperformed the competition hands down.
"We offer the 'Best of Both Worlds' for asphalt milling and paving machines" says Jeff Gustafson, Product Line Manager for Superior Tire. "Our polyurethane pads, whether it is the molded style or bolt on style, have lead the industry in wear characteristics and work-life in ever side by side test vs. the competition." "We listen to the contractors. While some are looking for pads that last longer, some need more traction because they're working on grades, or in deeper cuts. So we developed the rubber bolt to shoe pads. Using natural rubber (vs. synthetic rubber) these pads, while not having the cut, tear and abrasion resistance characteristics of polyurethane, give better traction for these machines. According to Mike Hampton from Pavement Recycling Systems, one of the largest asphalt milling contractors in the US from Mira Loma, CA…
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The Federal government plans to fund $2.8 towards a comprehensive motorcycle crash study. Since there hasn't been a comprehensive study like this done in the last 25 years, the American Motorcycle Association is making every effort to make a 50% match for funding. They since have committed $100,000 towards launching the project. To raise the remainder, the AMA is reaching out to industries and individual riders.
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Part of the joy of putting in hard effort is seeing its impact — and that's exactly what Timberland service sabbatical participants Erica Sarcione and Kerri Hewatt did. Erica and Kerri are spending this week in Louisiana working on a wetlands restoration project with In Good Company – a partnership of businesses committed to making a difference through hands-on volunteerism for communities in need.
The In Good Company crew took time out from filling, hauling and planting 4,000 "Gulf Saver" bags (biodegradable bags filled with native plants and grasses that, when planted, help to stabilize areas of rapid erosion) to get a bird's eye view of the area and their work. Erica captured the experience to share with us:
Erica reports, "That was an AWESOME day. You really can't 100% grasp the size and beauty of this place until you see it from above. I hope by the pictures you can appreciate the importance of these wetlands and understand the need to do everything we can to save them. There's so much at stake here!"
With their week-long service experience winding down, we wish safe travels to the entire In Good Company team and look forward to posting final thoughts and photos from Erica and Kerri when they return.
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Simmons First National Acquires Truman Bank of St. Louis
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The acquisition is the third by the publicly traded holding company since it sold additional stock in November 2009 specifically for the purpose of buying other banks. The first two were in 2010 in Springfield, Mo., and in Olathe, Kan. CEO J. Thomas May has repeatedly declared Simmons to be on the hunt for good acquisition targets.
Truman Bank, which was chartered in 1988, had approximately $282 million in assets. Simmons purchased approximately $219 million of those assets and assumed "substantially all" of Truman's $246 million in deposits and other liabilities at a discount of $20.9 million and no deposit premium. The rest of the assets, about $63 million, were purchased from the FDIC at a 12 percent discount, according to the bank's announcement.
The FDIC announcement is available here. Simmons becomes the first Arkansas bank to snag an FDIC-assisted deal in 2012 - the first since Bank of the Ozarks won two bids in April 2011.
Truman lost $15.8 million in 2011 and had lost an additional $9.36 million in the first two quarters of 2010, according to FDIC call reports.


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UK Gov't Launches Phase Two of Plugged-in-Places Scheme
Published: 19-Feb-2013
The Government has launched the second phase of its Plugged in Places scheme which has so far funded 2,800 of the approximately 8,000 charging points for battery powered cars in the UK.
The Department for Transport announced millions of pounds in funding for home and on-street charging as well as charging points at railway stations.
Until now, take up of EVs has been slow, with only 3,000 on Britain's roads.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker is resigning to become an adviser to the chief education official in a major Middle Eastern city.
DeBacker told the State Board of Education on Wednesday that she will step down May 14. She said she'll become an adviser to the director general of the Abu Dhabi Education Council in the United Arab Emirates.
She said she was recruited for the job.
DeBacker is a 53-year-old Kansas native who joined the State Department of Education in 2003. She was named acting commissioner in 2009. The board then named her commissioner in 2010.
Board members praised her as an innovative leader.
The board named Deputy Commissioner Brad Neuenswander as acting commissioner while it conducts a search for DeBacker's replacement.
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Preheat oven to 325°F. In a large bowl, combine the dry milk and sugar. Add the liquid milk, egg, egg white, and vanilla, mixing well. Stir in the rice, raisins, and dried apples. Spray a 6-cup casserole dish with vegetable cooking spray and pour the egg and rice mixture into the dish. Sprinkle top with cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake the pudding for 15 minutes. Stir and continue baking for another 35 to 45 minutes until the milk is absorbed. Serve warm or chilled for dessert or for a breakfast treat with fruit.
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Minister Van Loan to Speak at Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre
Minister will promote Canada's ambitious free trade agenda
(No. A/64 - April 16, 2010) The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of International Trade, will be the keynote speaker at an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
Minister Van Loan will highlight the potential for job creation in the Baltic states, discuss the value of trade relations with Latvia and underscore the importance of negotiations toward a Canada-European Union economic and trade agreement.
Event: Speech (open to media)
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Location: Riga Hall, Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre, 4 Credit Union Drive, Toronto, Ontario
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Astrological aspects, transits and stations affecting us this month.
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We're in for a challenging month… "much activity but not many results."
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Tips for Visiting the Beach With Kids
Even before we moved to Florida our family has always taken vacations to the beach. Both of my kids had their toes dipped into the Gulf of Mexico before they turned 6 months. Regardless of how old your baby or … Continue reading
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Green Gift Guide: For the Tropics
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