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In a new mini-documentary released by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, I explain several of the ways that government spending hinders economic growth.
The New York Times has a long profile today of Cato's Randal O'Toole, scourge of urban planners.
But O'Toole doesn't fit the portrait of a corporate advocate. On visits to Capitol Hill, he blends in as a middle-aged, middle-height man in a dark suit – but his beard gives him away, its shaggy twists seemingly fitting for a forest dweller. He wears a string tie that most Americans would only recognize on Colonel Sanders. His lapel doesn't carry the standard-issue flag pin but a bronze bust of his dog, Chip. The Belgian tervuren won it in a dog show.
O'Toole routinely hikes and bikes dozens of miles, and he proudly announces that he has never driven a car to work. Far from living on a luxurious Virginia manor, he left his last Oregon town when it added a third stoplight.
Now, from his home computer in Camp Sherman, Ore., population 300, O'Toole rails against smart-growth policies as money sponges that never calm traffic, fill seats on trains, or help the environment.
The story ends with Randal on his way to a conference in Las Vegas, which I also attended. There in the 80-degree early morning heat, he biked 50 miles each morning, on a folding bicycle that he could fit into a suitcase – and still got back to the hotel in time to fix my Powerpoint before my speech. He's a Renaissance man.
Obama Considering Another Round of Stimulus
With unemployment continuing to climb and the economy struggling along, some lawmakers and pundits are raising the possibility of a second stimulus package at some point in the future. The Cato Institute was strongly opposed to the $787 billion package passed earlier this year, and would oppose additional stimulus packages on the same grounds.
"Once government expands beyond the level of providing core public goods such as the rule of law, there tends to be an inverse relationship between the size of government and economic growth," argues Cato scholar Daniel J. Mitchell. "Doing more of a bad thing is not a recipe for growth."
Mitchell narrated a video in January that punctures the myth that bigger government "stimulates" the economy. In short, the stimulus, and all big-spending programs are good for government, but will have negative effects on the economy.
Writing in Forbes, Cato scholar Alan Reynolds weighs in on the failures of stimulus packages at home and abroad:
In reality, the so-called stimulus package was actually just a deferred tax increase of $787 billion plus interest.
Whether we are talking about India, Japan or the U.S., all such unaffordable spending packages have repeatedly been shown to be effective only in severely depressing the value of stocks and bonds (private wealth). To call that result a "stimulus" is semantic double talk, and would be merely silly were it not so dangerous.
In case you're keeping score, Cato scholars have opposed government spending to boost the economy without regard to the party in power.
For more of Cato's research on government spending, visit Cato.org/FiscalReality.
Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor of Alaska
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigned from office last week with 18 months left in her term, setting off weeklong speculation by pundits.
Cato Vice President Gene Healy comments:
Palin's future remains uncertain, but it's hard to see how her cryptic and poorly drafted resignation speech positions her for a presidential run. Nonetheless, her departure presents a good opportunity to reflect on the Right's affinity for presidential contenders who - how to put this? - don't exactly overwhelm you with their intellectual depth.
It's one thing to reject liberal elitism. It's another thing to become so consumed with annoying liberals that you cleave to anyone they mock, and make presidential virtues out of shallow policy knowledge and lack of intellectual curiosity.
Writing at Politico, Cato scholars David Boaz and Roger Pilon weigh in on what her resignation means for the former Vice-Presidential candidate's political future:
Will we one day say that her presidency was 'born on the Fourth of July'? I doubt it. This appears to be just the latest evidence that Sarah Palin is not ready for prime time. The day McCain chose her, I compared her unfavorably to Mark Sanford. Despite everything, I'd still stand by that analysis. At the time I noted that devout conservative Ramesh Ponnuru said 'Palin has been governor for about two minutes.' Now it's three minutes.
Running for president after a single term as governor is a gamble. Running after quitting in the middle of your first term is something else again. If this is indeed a political move to clear the decks for a national campaign, then she needs adult supervision soon. But I can't really believe that's what's going on here. I suspect we're going to hear soon about a yet-unknown scandal that was about to make continuing in office untenable.
It seems that since her return to the state following the campaign, activist opponents and bloggers have bombarded the governor's office with endless document requests. And she's faced 16 ethics inquiries, with no end in sight. All but one have since been resolved, but the politics of personal destruction has cost the state millions, as Palin noted. Add to that the unrelenting, often vicious and gratuitous attacks on her and even on her family, and it's no wonder that she would say 'Enough.' It has nothing to do with 'quitting' or with being 'unable to take the heat.' It has everything to do with stepping back and saying you're not willing to put your family and your state through any more. She seems confident that history will judge her more thoughtless critics for what they are. I hope she's right.
Honduras' President Is Removed from Office
In reaction to Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's attempt to stay in power despite term limits set by the nation's Constitution, armed forces removed him, sending the Latin American nation into political turmoil.
Juan Carlos Hidalgo, an expert on Latin American affairs, comments:
The removal from office of Zelaya on Sunday by the armed forces is the result of his continuous attempts to promote a referendum that would allow for his reelection, a move that had been declared illegal by the Supreme Court and the Electoral Tribunal and condemned by the Honduran Congress and the attorney general. Unfortunately, the Honduran constitution does not provide an effective civilian mechanism for removing a president from office after repeated violations of the law, such as impeachment in the U.S. Constitution. Nonetheless, the armed forces acted under the order of the country's Supreme Court, and the presidency has been promptly bestowed on the civilian figure — the president of Congress — specified by the constitution.
To be sure, Hidalgo writes, the military action in Honduras was not a coup:
What happened in Honduras on June 28 was not a military coup. It was the constitutional removal of a president who abused his powers and tried to subvert the country's democratic institutions in order to stay in office.
The extent to which this episode has been misreported is truly remarkable.
Speaking to Bloomberg News, President Obama explicitly embraces a central tenet of supply-side economics, which is the common-sense observation that a growing economy generates additional tax revenue. That's the good news. The bad news is that almost all of the policies being advocated by the White House expand the burden of government, thus making it more likely that the economy will experience subpar growth. This, of course, will give the politicians in Washington more excuses to further raise tax rates:
President Barack Obama said he is "confident" that he won't have to raise taxes on most Americans to close the budget deficit as long as the economy picks up steam. "One of the biggest variables in this whole thing is economic growth," the president said in an interview with Bloomberg News at the White House. "If we are growing at a robust rate, then we can pay for the government that we need without having to raise taxes."
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is very upset that the Obama administration has rejected the California state government's request for a bailout. She tells the Washington Post:
This matters for the U.S., not just for California. I can't speak for the president, but when you've got the 8th biggest economy in the world sitting as one of your 50 states, it's hard to see how the country recovers if that state does not.
First, presumably Lofgren knows that the federal government is projecting a deficit of $1.8 trillion for the current fiscal year – so where is this emergency aid for California to come from?
But perhaps even more importantly, Lofgren seems to confuse the state of California with the State of California. That is, she confuses the people and the businesses of California with the state government. There's no clear and direct relationship between the two. The state government is currently running a large deficit and is warning of a "fiscal meltdown." Of course, as it continued to issue claims of fiscal meltdown and painful cuts over the past many years, California has continued to spend. The state has nearly tripled spending since 1990 (doubled in per capita terms). It went on a spending binge during the dotcom boom and never adjusted to the lower revenues after the bust. During the Schwarzenegger years the state has increased spending twice as fast as inflation and population growth. What were they thinking?
But a bailout for the government won't necessarily help the recovery of the state's economy. In fact, by increasing taxes and/or borrowing, it would likely weaken the national economy. And by encouraging continued irresponsible spending by the state government, it would just be an enabler of destructive policies that suck money out of the productive sector of California's economy. We all want the California economy to recover. But that's not the same thing as giving more money to the California government.
Colleague Dan Mitchell sent me this heart-warming press release from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international government organization.
Tax collectors worldwide to co-operate in revenue-raising to offset fiscal deficits.
The sub-heading is "Tax Commissioners Worldwide Join Forces To Tackle Fiscal Challenges Posed By The Financial And Economic Crisis."
Crazy me, but I thought the way to get out of the economic crisis was for businesses and entrepreneurs to start investing and hiring again. But no, the key is apparently to launch a global drive to drain more money from the damaged private sector and fatten up the coffers of bloated governments.
The chair of the OECD's Forum on Tax Administration, Pravin Gorhan, helpfully points out in the press release: "Tax plays a fundamental role in development through mobilising revenue, promoting growth, reducing inequalities and reinforcing governments' legitimacy, as well as achieving a fair sharing of the costs and benefits of globalisation."
You don't have to be a libertarian to see what a government-centric view these OECD officials have. Taxes promote growth? I don't think so. And we don't need to hear about "reinforcing governments' legitimacy" from an unelected government body that has been far overreaching its authority to force policy changes on the democratically elected governments of lower-tax nations.
If you don't think this sort of worldwide police effort jibes with the American ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, you should contact your member of Congress because U.S. taxpayers pay one-fourth the budget of the Paris-based OECD.
Desperate for fresh revenues to feed the giant spending appetite of President Obama, Democratic policymakers are talking up 'tax reform' as a way to reduce the deficit. Some are considering a European-style value-added tax (VAT), which would have a similar effect as a national sales tax, and be a large new burden on American families.
A VAT would raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year for the government, even at a 10-percent rate. The math is simple: total U.S. consumption in 2008 was $10 trillion. VATs usually tax about half of a nation's consumption or less, say $5 trillion. That means that a 10% VAT would raise about $500 billion a year in the United States, or about $4,300 from every household. Obviously such a huge tax hit would fundamentally change the American economy and society, and for the worse.
Some fiscal experts think that a VAT would solve the government's budget problems and reduce the deficit, as the Washington Post noted yesterday. That certainly has not happened in Europe where the average VAT rate is a huge 20 percent, and most nations face large budget deficits just as we do. The hard truth for policymakers to swallow is that the only real cure for our federal fiscal crisis is to cut spending.
Liberals like VATs because of the revenue-raising potential, but some conservatives are drawn to the idea of using VAT revenues to reduce the corporate tax rate. The Post story reflected this in noting "A 21 percent VAT has permitted Ireland to attract investment by lowering the corporate tax rate." That implies that the Irish government lost money when it cut its corporate rate, but actually the reverse happened in the most dramatic way.
Ireland installed a 10% corporate rate for certain industries in the 1980s, but also steadily cut its regular corporate rate during the 1990s. It switched over to a 12.5% rate for all corporations in 2004. OECD data show that as the Irish corporate tax rate fell, corporate tax revenues went through the roof – from 1.6% of GDP in 1990, to 3.7% in 2000, to 3.8% in 2006.
In sum, a VAT would not solve our deficit problems because Congress would simply boost its spending even higher, as happened in Europe as VAT rates increased over time. Also, a VAT is not needed to cut the corporate income tax rate because a corporate rate cut would be self-financing over the long-term as tax avoidance fell and economic growth increased.
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Now to be fair, I do believe I warned Silius of this before we got started. Maybe he just didn't believe me. In any case, our pile of tombstones were ample proof I was not previously lying or just attempting to downplay my awesome tanking skills.


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Welcome to the East Coast Greenway in South Carolina
In South Carolina, the ECG route stays near the coast through the state's low country, bringing travelers through Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, Charleston, and Beaufort, to the Georgia border. Completed trails furthest north include the Barefoot Resort section of the North Myrtle Beach Trail, the Harrelson Boulevard Trail, and Grissom Parkway Trails in Myrtle Beach. Continuing south, three segments of the Waccamaw Neck Bikeway are coming together to offer safe travel through Georgetown County. The route continues on road to Mount Pleasant, where a separated bike/ped path on the Ravenel Bridge leads travelers onto Charleston's West Ashley Greenway. Further south, Bluffton's New River Trail brings users through antebellum rice fields with great bird-watching potential.
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This one page guide is outlines options for a one or two day trip along the East Coast Greenway in Charleston and Mount Pleasant.
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- Palmetto Cycling Coalition http://pccsc.net/
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Thank you for your support! Your inscriptions are listed on our website and will eventually be posted in a kiosk along the route in South Carolina. Find out more about the Mile Sponsor Program.
More information on biking, trails, and greenways in South Carolina
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"Ark Encounter," a theme park devoted to Noah's Ark — which will, if it's built, include a 500-foot Ark and Tower of Babel — was denied approximately $18 million in tax incentives this week, as the state argued that it will violate the separation of church on state by hiring based on religion. The organization behind the project — an evangelical Christian group called Answers in Genesis or AiG — plans to forge ahead. "There are modern-day Ark legends being spread far and wide by secularists who are seeking to hinder the Ark Encounter project of Answers in Genesis, a full-size Noah's Ark to open in Northern Kentucky in 2016," they said in a statement. They also erected billboards around the state with the message: "To all our intolerant liberal friends: "Thank God You Can't Sink This Ship."
Here are 5 other unusual theme parks from around the world:
Parque EcoAlberto, El Alberto, Mexico
Theme parks are going to the dark side. Parque EcoAlberto, in central Mexico, offers visitors an experience they may never forget — and one that they are implored not to repeat in real life: a simulated illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossing. For entry fees of around $20, visitors have the pleasure of being blindfolded and surrounded by the sound of dogs and sirens. And instead of park employees dressed as Mickey Mouse and Snow White? They get angry border patrol guards and violent drug smugglers. Fake ones, of course. The "Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage" at Disneyland, it ain't. On a happier note, regular hiking and zip lines across ravines are also available.
Proposed theme park, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Osama bin Laden is no Mickey Mouse. And Abbottabad, Pakistan, hardly seems like a candidate for the site of the next Magic Kingdom. But the neighborhood where the world's most notorious and wanted terrorist spent his final days — before being hunted down and killed by U.S. Navy Seals — has been tapped as the location for a new $30 million amusement park. "We have enough space now where bin Laden's compound was demolished," Jamaluddin Khan, the deputy provincial minister for tourism, recently told Reuters last year. The government rejected the idea of a public park, partly due to concerns that some people might call it Osama Park.
The theme park, which would take at least five years to complete, will be part of a 50-acre riverside development in Abbottabad that includes a zoo, water sports, rock climbing and paragliding. "Local people are going to go to that area out of curiosity, so why not give them something to see?" says travel expert and consumer advocate Christopher Elliott. Plus, it could bring some much needed money to the local economy.
Holy Land Experience, Orlando, Fla.
Think "Jesus Christ: Superstar" with fresh air and more of an educational bent. This theme park offers recreations from the Garden of Eden, Jerusalem street markets and — in what could certainly be deemed a sharp detour from other parks — the live crucifixion of Jesus Christ with a wailing actor playing the title role covered in fake blood. "For a lot of people, it's a spiritual experience. For visitors who are not evangelical, parts of it may be disturbing," Elliott says. Len Testa, co-author of "The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World," is one such critic. "I get that it's one of the central themes of the new testament, which has brought comfort and hope to billions," he says. "But from a theme park perspective, I think it's a terrible idea."
Stalin World, Druskininkai, Lithuania
No one gets sent to the gulag at Stalin World, a 500-acre theme park featuring the former Soviet dictator. But surrounded by statues of the communist leader, visitors might feel compelled to watch what they say. Officially named Grutas Park, the grounds include watch towers and barbed wire fences. On a less oppressive note, Stalin World also features a small zoo and a playground for children called Luna Park. According to the park's website, its mission is to educate people about Soviet history and to take "the 'idols' off the pedestal." Hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians were deported to gulags during Stalin's oppressive regime during the mid-20th century.
Love Land, Jeju Island, South Korea
This erotic theme park is strictly adults-only. Opened in 2004 on Jeju Island in South Korea, Love Land features 140 sculptures of erotic art. They come in the form of phallic symbols, and they illustrate various acts of romantic entanglement. (In 2009, another Love Land theme park in China was shut down before it even opened its doors.) "Some parks are wacky because they get attention and it's a good marketing tool," says John Gerner, the managing director of Leisure Business Advisors, a Richmond, Va.-based consulting group. But there's probably a bigger reason Love Land is popular with honeymooners. It's on a volcanic island with a 224-kilometer semi-tropical forested national park, a wild coastline with waterfalls and some of the most elaborate and longest "lava tube" caves in the world.
Dickens World, Kent, England
Opened in 2007, this venue is based in Chatham Dockyard in Kent, close to where Charles Dickens — who wrote such classics as "A Christmas Carol" and "David Copperfield" — lived (briefly) as a child. "You have to wonder whether the breakfast buffet consists entirely of gruel," Testa says. (It doesn't.) It's certainly nowhere near comparable to Universal Orlando's "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" attraction. Instead, Dickens World is housed inside a large warehouse. It has a Victorian classroom, an interactive haunted house, a "Great Expectations" boat ride through a re-creation of the old sewers of London, and a "Fagin's Den" playground for children named after the villain and corrupter of youth from "Oliver Twist." It opens in March for the 2013 season.
Gatorland, Orlando
What began as a roadside attraction in 1949 has steadily grown over the past 60 years. Today, the 110-acre park includes wrestling classes with alligators, an aviary, a breeding marsh, petting zoo and, of course, a gift shop. Attractions listed on its website include the Gator Night Shine: "Armed with only a flashlight and a few hot dogs, you bravely make your way along the winding wooden walkways of Gatorland's Alligator Breeding Marsh." Still, most children expect to hit the more mainstream attractions when they visit Florida with their families. "The Disney vacation is a birthright for every American child," Elliott says.
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Fills a void and cheap. I know a lot of Raven fans wanted him as an undrafted free agent. Me included.
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I don't hate you and I don't disrespect Reed at all. But over the last 2 off-seasons, or 2 of the last 3, he contemplated retirement. That alone tells me he didn't think his body could handle the grind of the Regular season and playoffs. So I would think that anyone that is ready to sign him should think buyer-beware IF they are giving him more than his true market value. Greatest safety of all time in the previous 11 seasons does not mean that he will be greatest safety in 2013 Season. That's just real talk.
ya will hate me i know but Ed is good gone he wants money!! Also that Ed Reed doesnt tackles well either. we need safeties that hit . LT, LB, DL, SS,
I could totally see them drafting all defensive players this year. I have a feeling that they will move KO to LT, and plug Reid in at LG since he got all those reps this past season
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Kruger, Ellerbe, Reed, Boldin, McKinnie
Thats a huge problem! Kruger and Ellerbe are fastly approaching the top 10 best at their position! So do we pay them top 10 money now before we really have to fork out a lot once they have a huge season and want top 3-5 money?
Reed, Boldin and McKinnie played extremely well doing the post season. McKinnie and Boldin domininated! I'm sure they will not take pay cuts after those perfomances!
I do think McKinnie is a MUST!
I say we sign Joe and McKinnie then wait until after the draft before we make any Major decision! Maybe we have a great draft to relieve some pain of possibly losing great players!
I hate the idea of possibly losing any of these players!
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As far as Webb's ACL injury... while it will take time for him to come back to full strength, he's been through this before and came back as good as ever, so I don't know how you can so easily count him out.
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Reed will be back
F/A or Draft Needs..
Elite Pass Rusher Opposite Suggs to replace Kruger, NT to help NGATA cause Keamouatu and Cody are bums. MLB to fill gap Ray left. LT if Mckinnie not signed.. CB/DB Cary Williams is gone, and maybe 1or 2 more offensive weapons..
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Jarvis Jones OLB/DE, Deion Jordan DE,OLB, Alex Ogletree MLB, Shariff Floyd DT/NT, Matt Elam S, John Hankins DT/NT Kewann Short DT, Bennie Logan DT
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Tyler Eifort TE, Tavon Austin WR/TB, Barret Jones OT/G/C, Jesse Williams NT, Kyle Long OT/C
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Bacarri Rambo S, Bandon Williams NT, Mike Gillislee WR/TB, Tyrann Matheiau DB
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Brandon Jenkins DE/OLB, Jelani Jenkins DE/OLB, Sean Porter DE/OLB
Any of these Picks are fine with me... Especially the Pass Rushers and Line Backers
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Jimmy Kimmel has named the funniest video of 2013
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US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel last night presented the award for the funniest 'unintentional comedy' video from 2013.
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- 0Mar 10, '12 by CAPsychTechHi Everyone! This is my first time posting, but I've been reading posts on here for years.
I am a Psych Tech in CA, which has the same scope of practice as an LPN. My husband and I met in Psych Tech school, and have continued our journey to our RN Licenses through Excelsior since 2009. Now, we are almost done!
We have passed nursing exams 1-6, and Transition to the Nursing Role, and finised all general ed except for Microbiology. (Took Information Literacy at Penn Foster, and Anatomy and Biology at StraighterLine.com) We have even taken our CPNE Workshop, and are ready to finish the FCCA and take the CPNE.
But, now, we are stuck! Health Differences across the Lifespan 3 has been the worst. I have failed it twice, and my husband has failed it once. We passed all other exams easily, and are doing the same things to study for this one.
If anyone has any advice, I'd appreciate it! Currently we use StudyGroup101, FlashcardExchange, and the textbook recommended by the school. We also have used the practice exams, but maybe not as much as we should have.
- 3Mar 10, '12 by pinkfluffybunnyI haven't taken it yet but here is what I tell everyone. Go to your nearest Bookstore with a nursing section. Buy a cup of coffee and work NCLEX questions on your topic. Redundancy is a big key in learning.
- 1Mar 10, '12 by Nervous1I failed this one once and recently passed it 2 weeks ago with a B. I memorized the practice exams.....seriously, every question and answer! I studied those exams religiously for each exam. I also used my Saunders (yellow one). You also should read the rationales, because they will also help you on the exam.
- 0Mar 10, '12 by BLAKEY2005Thanks for your advise for LS3 since i'm now studying for it. i have the pratice exams plus i read the med-surg text and took notes from the content guide, along with flascardexchange and Saunders NCLEX. I am also doing NCLEx questions from other books. The question i have for you Nervous1 are these enough to passon the 1st attempt?
- 2Mar 10, '12 by Nervous1If you understand the practice exams along with the rationales and used the Saunders, I think you have a great shot. When taking the exam, one your first round thru, read the questions and the ones you are 100% sure on......like they look so familiar you know the rest of the question without really reading it completely, answer those first and leave the ones you are a little uneasy about. I did this and on my last exam, had 60 unanswered out of 130, that's over half so I was pretty sure I was in good shape based on that. But, read every question, slowly and more than once.
- 0Mar 10, '12 by caliotter3Just curious, since you say you started in 2009, past the 2003 enrollment deadline, do you intend on getting your RN licenses in a different state?
- 0Mar 10, '12 by RyanCarolinaBoyI also am studying for this exam (LS3). I have used the practice tests, and borrowed TCN module from a friend. I'm hoping that I pass this test. From what I hear, it can be a challenging exam. Good luck to all of us who need to conquer this one and move on to "The Beast" lol. I test on tuesday, so I will tell all you my impression after that...
- 0Mar 11, '12 by CAPsychTechHi caliotter3,
My husband and I enrolled when CA was still accepting endorsements on a case-by-case basis. Now that they have changed their policy, we plan to obtain our license in Oregon, practice there and maybe eventually Washington state. It wasn't our original plan, but after getting over the frustration of the policy change, we are actually excited about starting a life in one of the other states.
- 0Mar 11, '12 by CAPsychTechThank you for your advice! I don't have the Saunders book, but I am buying it right now.
Thanks again for your help!
- 1Mar 15, '12 by TashaLPN2006RN2012I failed LS3 twice before too, what i used the final time and passed with a B was this:
TCN practice exams & answers and module
Chancellors Study guide for NC6 (equivalent to LS3) and audio *this helped the most for me!)
and DSLI LS3 study guide i had bought off ebay (almost identical to the Chancellor's one)
EC practice exams questions/answers and rationales
Spent 30 days straight reading those cover to cover, doing practice exams and re-reading rationales...third time was a charm and a B! =) good luck!
ps if i can figure out how to download my audio off my SD card i will send it to you!


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Spring is a perfect time to pop open Rose wines. What a perfect way to add color to a spring themed table of white linens, seasonal pastel flowers and sunny weather. If you're going to celebrate with a Rose, you might feel better knowing some of the purchase price goes toward benefiting others in need. Charity Case Wines, a project of Jayson Woodbridge (Layer Cake Wines), donates 100% of net proceeds to charities that support families and children around Napa Valley.
You may remember my post about Charity Case Sauvignon Blanc 2009. I liked it. This time, I took the Charity Case Rose 2008 to the San Diego Wine Mafia Rose Rumble. We blind tasted 12 rose wines.
Tasting Notes: "Charity Case Rosé is a complex, elegant wine. Aromas of dried strawberry, rhubarb, and kaffir lime peel fill the nose. On first taste, flavors of cranberry, strawberry and red raspberries fill your mouth, then a long lingering finish of orange blossom and hints of delicate white pepper leave you wanting more."
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009
Although still enrolled in her final year in school, Hermione took a rare off-campus journey in clothes of her own choosing. As this was the last movie set in Hogwarts, Watson was overjoyed to ditch her uniform at the end of filming: "I was like, 'Burn it!' Oh my God, to be done with those shoes and that uniformthat was an exciting day."Read MoreLess


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Chinese police have said 14 "rioters" were among 18 people killed in a clash at a police station in the ethnically tense northwestern region of Xinjiang, a government website has reported.
The Xinjiang government-run website, tianshannet.com, said on Wednesday that police fatally shot the 14 rioters after giving "legal education and warnings".
It said the rioters, armed with axes, knives, daggers, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices sneaked into the desert city of Hotan, a Uighur-majority town, days before the clash on Monday.
They "crazily beat, smashed and set on fire" the police station, and hung "flags of extreme religion" on the top of the station, the report said.
Two policemen and two hostages were also killed in the clash, and that four of the rioters were arrested, it said.
"It was an organised, premeditated and severe violent terrorist attack to local politics-and-law departments," the report said.
Hou Hanmin, chief of the regional information office, said, "It is certain that it was a terrorist attack."
But Germany-based exile group, World Uyghur Congress, disputed the official account of Monday's clash.
It said on Tuesday that 14 Uighurs were beaten to death and six shot dead when police opened fire on a peaceful protest, leading to fighting between the two sides. It said 70 others were arrested.
The differing accounts from the government and exile group could not be independently verified.
Beijing, wary of instability and the threat to the Communist party's grip on power, often blames what it calls violent separatist groups in Xinjiang for attacks on police or other government targets, saying they work with al-Qaeda or Central Asian fighters to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.
Many Uighurs - a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people native to the region - chafe under rule from Beijing and restrictions on their language, culture and religion.
They make up less than half of Xinjiang's population after decades of immigration by the majority Han from other parts of China.
Ethnic separatists
Dilxat Raxit of the World Uyghur Congress said he believed the death toll and the number of injured were likely to escalate.
"All forms of protests by Uighurs are met with violent crackdowns. The clash escalated only after the crackdown and the Chinese government later referred to it as act of 'terrorism'," he said.
"The Chinese government consistently uses the term 'terrorism' to quieten down the demands of the Uighurs."
In March 2008, hundreds marched through the weekly bazaar in a protest the city government blamed on ethnic separatists.
Chinese censors blocked searches on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging services, on the attack. Search results for the Chinese renderings of "Xinjiang unrest" and "Hotan" showed a page that said, "according to relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results are not displayed".
A vast swath of territory, accounting for one-sixth of China's land mass, Xinjiang holds oil, gas and coal deposits and borders Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia.
In July 2009, Xinjiang's capital Urumqi was rocked by violence between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people.
Since then, China has executed nine people it blamed for instigating the riots, detained and prosecuted hundreds and ramped up spending on security, according to state media and overseas rights groups.
China has earmarked billions of dollars for the relatively poorer southern part of Xinjiang, where Hotan is located, to try to soothe income disparities that have contributed to ethnic violence.
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MagLab Researcher Uncovers Secrets of Mars Birth from Unique Meteorite
Posted: November 20, 2013
Contacts: Munir Humayun or Kathleen Laufenberg
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As NASA prepares to launch a new Martian probe, a MagLab scientist has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust. Florida State University Professor Munir Humayuns groundbreaking discoveries about the crust and what it reveals about the Red Planets origins were published this week in Nature.
Humayuns work is based on an analysis of a 4.4 billion-year-old Martian meteorite that was unearthed by Bedouin tribesmen in the Sahara desert. The rock (NWA 7533) may be the first recognized sample of ancient Martian crust and holds a treasure chest of information about the origin and age of the Red Planets crust.
In order to detect minute amounts of chemicals in this meteorite, Humayun and his collaborators performed complex analysis on it using an array of highly sophisticated mass spectrometers in the MagLabs geochemistry department. High concentrations of trace metals such as iridium, an element that indicates meteoritic bombardment, showed that this meteorite came from the elusive cratered area of Mars southern highlands.
This cratered terrain has been long thought to hold the keys to Mars birth and early childhood, said Humayun, a professor in FSUs Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.
While craters cover more than half of Mars, this is the first meteoric sample to come from this area, bringing the first opportunity for researchers to understand Mars early crystal growth.
Using the chemical information found in pieces of soil contained in the meteorite, Humayun was able to calculate the thickness of Mars crust. His calculation aligned with estimates from independent spacecraft measurements and confirms that Mars did not experience a giant impact that melted the entire planet in its early history.
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Using a powerful microprobe at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, the team dated special crystals within the meteorite — called zircons — at an astounding 4.4 billion years old.
This date is about 100 million years after the first dust condensed in the solar system, Humayun said. We now know that Mars had a crust within the first 100 million years of the start of planet building, and that Mars crust formed concurrently with the oldest crusts on Earth and the Moon.
Humayun and his collaborators hypothesize that these trailblazing discoveries are just the tip of the iceberg of what continued research on this unique meteorite will uncover. Further studies may reveal more clues to the impact history of Mars, the nature of Martian zircons and the makeup of the earliest sediments on the Red Planet.
Humayuns international team of collaborators include curator of meteorites Brigitte Zanda with the National Museum of Natural History (the Muséum National dHistoire Naturelle) in Paris; A. Nemchin, M. Grange and A. Kennedy with Curtin Universitys Department of Applied Geology in Perth, Australia; and scientists R. H. Hewins, J. -P. Lorand, C. Göpel, C. Fieni, S. Pont and D. Deldicque.
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Millennium Challenge Armenia program "moving ahead in all respects
by Paul Chaderjian and Emil Sanamyan
Published: Saturday August 30, 2008
Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R.-Mich.), co-chair of the Armenian Caucus and senior congressional appropriator, highlighted the importance of the five-year $235 million Millennium Challenge Corporation's program in Armenia as Detroit's Armenian community hosted MCC chief executive Ambassador John Danilovich on August 5.
Interviewed by the Armenian Reporter, Mr. Danilovich said that MCC's program in Armenia was "moving ahead in all respects," including rural road programs, which is being financed by the Armenian government.
"It is very impressive that one of our MCC countries is willing to take tangible demonstrable steps to support the MCC program," he said in reference to Armenia's decision to step in with its own funding not to miss the good summer weather. This happened after MCC "put a hold on the negotiations aspects of some package of the road works [over] the conduct of elections and what transpired after the elections," developments that raised concerns in the United States government.
"De-facto the hold [placed by the MCC] is not having an impact on the program" in Armenia because of the government funding, Mr. Danilovich suggested. He added that he has been in regular contact with Armenia's President Serge Sargsian, who has outlined the steps he is taking to advance democracy in Armenia and expressed hope for continued progress for Armenia to maintain its eligibility for the assistance program.
He described as "constructive and positive" MCC's cooperation with Rep. Knollenberg, who is a senior member of the House of Representatives' Foreign Operations Subcommittee, which oversees budgeting for MCC and other foreign aid programs.
"Rep. Knollenberg and I share a common interest for effective development assistance, for responsible foreign aid, in general, and also specifically in the case of Armenia," Mr. Danilovich said. He added that the United States is committed to fighting poverty and facilitating Armenia's progress, and was benefiting greatly from Mr. Knollenberg's commitment to and understanding of Armenian issues.
The MCC CEO said his meeting with Detroit Armenians and an earlier meeting with the Armenian community in Glendale, Calif., were part of the corporation's policy to reach out to interested American constituencies such as Armenians, Philippinos, and Salvadorans, whose home countries also stand to benefit from MCC compacts.


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07 Feb 13
Can you imagine the immorality of throwing food you've just bought into the trash? Just thinking about it seems paradoxical, but that's what happens, far too often, in the rich West.
In January, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London published a fascinating report on food waste, entitled Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not, which looked at the situation in both rich and developing countries. For example, the report has calculated that household waste in the United Kingdom alone amounts to 7 million tons of food every year, worth £10.2 billion. On average, all this discarded food costs every family £480 annually, which over the course of a lifetime means a waste of between £15,000 and £24,000.
The report is most critical of the richest countries, where waste is greater and also more easily avoidable. The main problems the report highlights are the same as those given in many similar studies, and include impossible-to-finish super-sized portions, "all-you-can-eat" offers, the supermarkets' refusal to sell slightly crooked carrots or blemished apples and consumers' confusion between best-before and expiry dates.
Additionally, the report makes the point that this waste of food translates into a waste of water, land and energy. According to the researchers, if those 7 million tons of food were not wasted in the United Kingdom, the saving of the energy consumed to produce, package and transport it would be the same as removing 20% of cars from the country's streets.
But as well as drawing attention to the waste correlated to the food we throw out, the report also shows that if we adopted a series of virtuous behaviors at an individual and collective level, and adopted appropriate solutions on a case-by-case basis, we would be able to provide 60 to 100% more food, while also freeing up water, land and energy. Slow Food believes we should be taking advantage of this opportunity, and is closely following the issue at a European level. Specifically, the international organization is participating in a work group on food waste coordinated by DG SANCO, which will meet for the second time on February 8 in Brussels.
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Webster Field Road, St. Inigoes, Saint Marys County
St. Ignatius Church and its adjacent cemetery are situated on about two acres of land that are enclosed within a late-19th century iron fence. The walls of the church are 21" thick, of brick laid in Flemish bond with random glazed headers. The exterior wall surfaces were later painted with a stucco like paint which is now worn very thin. The gable-front church is a rectangular one-story structure that is fronted by a one-story wood-framed vestibule on the three-bay west end (front) added in 1886 and, at the rear, a one-story brick sacristy dating from 1817. The walls of the vestibule and the two-story pedimented pavilion that it fronts are covered with fishscale shingles. It has a central double-leafed paneled door flanked by two decorative stained glass windows. Over the door, in the area normally occupied by a transom, is a tablet which reads: "I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice . . . and have sanctified it, that my name may be there forever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually." A second smaller tablet is set within the gable and reads: "THS MARIGNATIUS". On the second floor level of the pavilion is a lancet-arched stained glass window. The main body of the church is three bays in length on both sides. Each bay contains a round-arched stained glass window headed by a projecting arch of rubbed gauged brick with brick keystones and imposts. Although the presence of undisturbed closer bricks on both sides of each window indicates that the window openings are original, the arches themselves are highly unusual and are the only known regional examples of such a feature. The gable roof runs east to west and has a modillioned eave cornice with gable returns. At the west end of the roof is a small wooden belfry that in 1933 replaced a larger one in this same location. The church stands on a molded brick watertable with small, regularly spaced vertical vents. The 1817 sacristy is also of Flemish bond, but without a watertable or gable banding. A single entrance on its south side has a flat arch of rubbed brick and frames a four-panel door. On the exposed east end are two first floor windows headed by flat arches and framing sash of 9/6 panes. Within the gable are two small windows of 4/2 pane sash. The gable roof has a flush chimney on the east end and the modillioned eave cornice, matching in detail and possibly contemporary to the cornice of the main block, has patterned end boards rather than gable returns.
The significance of St. Ignatius Church is that it is a direct descendant of Maryland's first Roman Catholic Chapel at St. Mary's City, whose communicants formed the nucleus of American Catholicism. The name is that of the patron saint of the Maryland venture, St. Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus. Further significance is in its dependence and co-existence with historic St. Inigoe's Manor, on which lands it is situated and which lands were acquired by the Jesuit Fathers in 1637 according to the Conditions of Plantation of the Maryland Colony. In addition to its historical significance, St. Ignatius Church is important as one of the oldest surviving Catholic churches in Maryland. Its decorative details, both those remaining from the original structure as well as the improvement of 1817, are among the most sophisticated in Tidewater Maryland.