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New developments in the Middle East have forced the region to face some tough questions recently.
Will Israel go to war with Iran? How safe are Pakistan's nuclear weapons? Can the United States succeed in bringing lasting stability to Iraq and Afghanistan? And also the dangers of reporting from the war zone.
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Where's the Pregnancy Weight Going?
Knowing that the pounds are building a new little person will make you feel better as you grow — but those new pounds are not all baby.
It's pretty much a given that you won't be giving birth to a 25-to-35-pound baby. And that's a very good thing. Want to know where the rest of those pounds settle? For a 30-pound weight gain, they'll be distributed approximately like this:
- Baby: 7.5 pounds
- Placenta: 1.5 pounds
- Amniotic fluid: 2 pounds
- Uterine enlargement: 2 pounds
- Maternal breast tissue: 2 pounds
- Maternal blood volume: 4 pounds
- Fluids in maternal tissue: 4 pounds
- Maternal fat stores: 7 pounds

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Regular readers might assume that I no longer suffer from that strange disease known as pleurisy. Wrong! Pleurisy has returned in the last week along with its myriad physical offerings that it lays at my door in a strange sort of tribute: these include shortness of breath and burning sensations in my chest. Joy. I have had to curtail my activities at the gym. Again. I have made modifications to my diet to accommodate the fact that I am exercising less. Again. Normally I'd like to be the type to eat big and live big. But I find myself a puny mouse compared to the man I was circa December 2007, before all this started.
Go to the doctor? That does sound like a very sensible idea… except that I've tried it five times already in under three months. I even had to go to the doctor for a medical exam prior to starting work at my job. I've given blood and urine tests. So I'm about tuckered out with the prodding and poking and cross-examination of my body. Unless I think death is imminent, I think I'll just deal with this on my own.
One exercise still open to me is… walking! I like to walk. I've been in Griffintown and Old Montreal quite a lot recently and I'm thinking of a drift through Littly Italy today. These jaunts provide consolation.
Pleurisy has been in my life so long now that I consider it one of the regular torments of my physical and emotional life. I am sure that everyone has their own equivalents. You recognize negative thoughts or feelings or pains… You think to yourself, "Here we go again!" Then you try equip yourself as best you can to deal with them.
Really, though, my lot in life is so good. On my last job interview up in St Eustache, I drove up feeling a bit anxious and sorry for myself. My health then, as it is now, was neither good nor bad. It was just dissatisfyingly mediocre. As I drove into the industrial quarter where my now-employer is situated, I passed a sign warning people of the dangers of driving drunk. Looking out at me from the sign was a woman with her face horribly burned.
Of course, as Anne Frank said in her diary (I'm paraphrasing here) it is not always a consolation to know that there is someone whose lot is worse than your own. But sometimes it does pay to remember it.


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When you're trying to lose weight, it's only natural to want to jump on the scale frequently. But doing so can lead to frustration. Here's why: weighing yourself daily or at different times of day can put you on a weigh-in roller coaster, since body weight can fluctuate throughout the day.
Instead of acting on that urge to weigh yourself constantly, transform it into a more strategic (and ultimately more satisfying) plan. Get on the scale once a week at the same time of day. Experts also suggest that a morning weigh-in, done before eating and drinking, may give you the most accurate and consistent readings.
Remember that the scale isn't the only measure of weight loss success. In fact, if you're strength training regularly, you may find that the scale isn't moving as much as you expected -- even though you feel and look better. The reason: strength training builds muscle, and an increase in muscle weight can mask the fact that you're actually losing body-fat weight. So to put your weekly weigh-ins in the proper perspective, ask yourself a few big-picture questions: Do my clothes fit better?
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Memorial University is currently exploring the possibility of a law school.
The review is restricted to the consideration of a faculty of law as a professional school, as opposed to a degree program or department of law. The review also examines the demographics of existing Canadian law schools, current and future needs for more lawyers, and benefits to Memorial, among other goals.
There have been two previous considerations by the university of establishing a law school. The Harris Report, 1976, concluded that there was no demonstrated need for a law school at Memorial, and the Bruce Report, 1987, which endorsed a law school in principle, but not at that time.
In 2012, the Law Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and the provincial branch of the Canadian Bar Association supported a review of the concept of a Faculty of Law, a position later endorsed by the Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Dr. Lynne Phillips, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, chaired a committee which included Morgan Cooper, Memorial's Associate Vice-President Academic (Faculty Affairs); Karen Kennedy, internal consultant in the provost's office; Bert Riggs, Head of Archives and Special Collections, QEII Library; Heather Clarke, PhD student in the Faculty of Business; Janet Harron, communications coordinator, Faculty of Arts; Justice A.E. (Fonse) Faour, Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, Trial Division; and Dr. Peter MacKinnon, president emeritus and former dean of law, University of Saskatchewan.
Public consultations took place across the province on the following dates:
Gander, July 15, 2013
Grand Falls Windsor, July 16, 2013
Corner Brook, July 16, 2013
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Memorial University, Sept. 9, 2013
St. John's, September 10, 2013
A final report was delivered to Memorial president and vice-chancellor Gary Kachanoski in December 2013.
The next step is the proposal phase where a number of issues including curriculum, student recruitment, costs and potential joint programs will be looked at in greater detail.
This proposal phase will be undertaken by an internal Memorial committee comprised of Ann Browne (associate vice-president, Facilities Management), Dr. Wilfred Zerbe (dean, Faculty of Business Administration), Dr. Noreen Golfman (dean, School of Graduate Studies), Dr. Phillips, Karen Kennedy (internal consultant, Office of the Provost) and Janet Harron (communications coordinator, Faculty of Arts).


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In RN Survey, Younger Nurses Are Positive About Profession, Education
Staffing company AMN Healthcare has released the results of its 2013 Survey of Registered Nurses, highlighting generational differences that have implications for the imminent nursing shortage and the shape of the profession in years to come.
Among key findings, nearly 190,000 nurses may leave nursing or retire now that the economy is recovering, and nearly one in four nurses age 55 and older (23 percent) say they will change their work dramatically by retiring or pursuing work in another field.
Fewer than half the RNs with an associate degree or diploma who were surveyed say they will pursue additional education in nursing. However, younger and mid-career nurses are more likely to do so. The landmark Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, recommends that 80 percent of the nation's nurses have BSN or higher degrees by the year 2020.
While nurses of all ages say they are very satisfied with their career choice, younger nurses (19-39) are much more positive than nurses 55 and older about the quality of nursing today. Sixty-six percent of nurses 55 and older say they believe that nursing care has generally declined.
"The younger generation is more optimistic about the profession and more receptive to the changes the industry is experiencing," Marcia Faller, PhD, RN, chief financial officer of AMN Healthcare, told Advance for Nurses. "These are differences that health systems must understand as they work with multiple generations of nurses."
This was the fourth annual RN survey conducted by AMN Healthcare, which emailed 101,431 surveys in April to opted-in members of NurseZone.com and RN.com. The company received 3,413 responses, reflecting a response rate of 3.36 percent. Statistical analyses were run with a 95 percent confidence threshold.
See the survey results from AMN Healthcare.
Read coverage of the survey in Advance for Nurses.
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Supply of Nurses Varies by Region, Study Finds
A regional analysis of the nursing workforce finds that the South and Midwest have a greater supply of registered nurses (RNs) available to fill positions when nurses retire or leave the workforce than other regions. The study, published in Nursing Economic$, found the South and Midwest have more young nurses to replace fewer older nurses than the Northeast and West.
"Expanding the size of the future RN workforce requires the number of entrants flowing into the workforce to exceed the number of nurses flowing out of the workforce," the authors write.
In addition to surveying the age structure of the RN workforce, researchers used projection models to predict the nurses per capita in each region through 2030. They predict the South and Midwest will continue to see higher growth of RNs to U.S. residents than the Northeast and West.
The findings can help guide national and state health workforce planners, employers, educators, and others who are developing policies and initiatives to address nursing supply in their states, the study says. States in relatively slower RN growth regions might consider actions to recruit more entrants into the nursing workforce, increase efforts to educate policy-makers about their RN age structure, and examine their nursing education capacity.
The research was conducted by Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, David Auerbach, PhD, MS, Douglas Staiger, PhD, and Ulrike Muench, PhD, RN.
Nurses' Evolving Role in Primary Care
While policy-makers in Washington and in state capitals across the nation have been embroiled in a debate over health care reform, many aspects of the health care system have been evolving in response to economic and demographic pressures. The latest issue of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's ongoing Charting Nursing's Future (CNF) series of policy briefs highlights a number of examples of that evolution, all related to nurses' changing role in primary care.
The Institute of Medicine's landmark report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change Advancing Health, noted that nurses "are poised to help bridge the gap between coverage and access, to coordinate increasingly complex care for a wide range of patients, to fulfill their potential as primary care providers to the full extent of their education and training, and to enable the full economic value of their contributions across practice settings to be realized." In fact, as the CNF brief points out, "Nurses are already leading the way in keeping patients healthy, managing their diseases, and reducing their use of costly hospital care by increasing the availability and scope of primary care services."
Will the Primary Care Shortage Get Worse?
Last week, NPR aired a story examining the prognosis for primary care providers in the United States. The country will have tens of thousands fewer health care providers than it needs to care for its the population by 2015, and the shortage is expected to hit rural and underserved areas especially hard.
Part of the problem, the story reports, is that medical students—often saddled with massive student loan debt—are choosing specialties over primary care and family medicine. In addition to higher salaries, specialties allow more schedule flexibility and predictability, and less stress. The nursing workforce, too, has a looming shortage. Many nurses are close to retirement, and a shortage of nurse faculty is making it difficult for nursing schools to educate the next generation.
Provisions of the Affordable Care Act may help alleviate the shortage in the areas most hard-hit, by providing loan forgiveness or other incentives for providers who practice primary care in underserved areas. "A lot of the money in the Affordable Care Act went to beef up programs that train primary care providers, not just doctors but nurse practitioners, physician assistants, what we call mid-level providers," Julie Rovner, NPR health policy correspondent, said. Primary care "doesn't necessarily have to be provided by someone with an MD after their name… [There are] lots of studies that say good primary care can be delivered by people like nurse practitioners, by physician assistants, by nurses."
The show also took calls from listeners—a neurologist, a recent nursing school graduate, a surgical subspecialist, and a nurse practitioner, among them.
Listen to the NPR story or read the transcript here.
In Aurora, A Massacre Becomes a Miracle, and Then Patients Help Doctors Heal
Comilla Sasson, MD, MS, is an attending physician at the University of Colorado Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado. Sasson was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan from 2007 to 2010.
I wasn't even supposed to work that night. I had finished a long day of meetings, and found out at 6:30 pm that my colleague, who had called in sick twice in 40 years, had influenza and he knew it was best not to expose Emergency Department (ED) patients to it. After he called, I remember thinking, "Well, I can just power through until 8 am. Nothing too bad happens on Thursday nights."
The night began as many other nights do in our ED. Twenty-five of our 50 beds were taken up by inpatients who were waiting for hospital beds to open up. The ED was completely full, with another 10 patients in the waiting room. "Another one of those nights," I groaned to myself. We were already on "divert" status, meaning that ambulances would bypass our hospital and go to others in town. This should be a relatively easy night, right?
Until we received the call over the dispatch radio at approximately 12:30 am: Shooting at a theater in Aurora. Hopefully the paramedics remembered we were already at capacity and took the patients elsewhere. Nine minutes later, we received a frantic phone call from one of the policemen on scene: Multiple shooting victims and Aurora Police Department just received permission to transport patients to hospitals in the backs of police cars instead of waiting for ambulances. That's when we realized this was not a gang fight with one or two victims, this was something different.
The first police car showed up at 1:06 am. We raced out to the ambulance bay and started removing patients from the back of the car. The police car looked like a crime scene, with blood splattered throughout. As we were pulling the first two victims out of the car, another police car showed up. And another. And another. In total, we received nine police cars and one ambulance within 45 minutes. Looking out into our ambulance bay with police lights flashing, I realized, this is not like any other shooting I have been involved in. This is radically different.
Health Care Employment Stays Strong
In a month when national employment data were largely unchanged, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the health care industry added nearly 33,000 jobs in May, continuing as a strong and growing field. Over the year, health care employment has risen by 340,000 jobs.
Employment in ambulatory care services accounted for the majority of the new jobs in the industry (23,000). That growth was seen mostly in physicians' offices (9,900), home care services (6,900) and outpatient care centers (4,600).
Demand for health care employees remains strong. Nurse.com reports that data from Wanted Analytics finds that employers posted more than 620,000 online job ads for health care careers in May, an increase of 5 percent from a year prior.
Read more about the Bureau of Labor Statistics May Employment Situation Summary.
Human Capital News Roundup: Soda taxes, suicide-prevention training, the environmental justice movement, and more.
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples:
Michigan Radio reports on a study led by RWJF Clinical Scholars alumnus Aasim Padela, MD, MSc, that examined discrimination against American Muslims in health care settings and what providers can do to better meet the cultural needs of these patients. Read a post Padela wrote for the RWJF Human Capital Blog about the study.
A study co-authored by RWJF Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program alumnus Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, finds that African American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are much more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teen years than are children whose mothers did not smoke, Medical News Today reports.
The Washington Post Wonkblog cites research by RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jason Fletcher, PhD, on soda consumption and the impact of soda taxes on body mass index.
Sick in America: Nurses, Other Providers Stretched Thin
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), NPR and the Harvard School of Public Health commissioned a poll to better understand Americans' experiences and attitudes related to the cost and quality of their medical care. Released on May 21st, Sick in America found that many Americans who experienced a serious illness or injury in the past 12 months are concerned about the financial costs of medical care, and struggle to ensure that their care is appropriate. Nearly nine in ten respondents (87 percent) think the cost of care is a serious problem for the country.
In addition to surveying the public, the poll examined sick Americans' experiences and perceptions. "Sick Americans" (27 percent of adults surveyed) were defined as those who said they had a serious illness, medical condition, injury, or disability requiring a lot of medical care or who had been hospitalized overnight in the past 12 months. A quarter of sick Americans said a doctor, nurse, or other health professional did not provide all the needed information about their treatment or prescriptions – or they had to see multiple medical professionals, and no single doctor understood or kept track of all the different aspects of their medical issues and treatments (23 percent). Three in 10 hospitalized Americans said there was poor communication among the doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals involved in their care.
In addition, 34 percent of patients who were hospitalized for at least one night in the past year said "nurses weren't available when needed or didn't respond quickly to requests for help."
To learn more, NPR published a call-out to nurses on its Facebook page. It was a non-scientific way to gather information, NPR notes, but the response from nurses was significant. "We received hundreds of responses and read them all: piles of stories about nurses feeling overworked, getting no breaks, no lunches and barely enough time to go to the bathroom. Even worse, many nurses say breaks and lunchtimes are figured into their salaries and deducted, whether they take them or not," NPR reported on Morning Edition.
The poll also found that consumers see a shortage of nurses and physicians as one of the problems with the quality of health care in the country today. Of the one-third of total respondents who were asked about major reasons for quality problem, 35 percent identified "not enough doctors or nurses in hospitals or medical offices" as a major problem.
Meet the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program
This is the first in a series of blog posts introducing programs that are part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Human Capital Portfolio. Funded by RWJF, the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) offers intensive and personalized medical and dental school preparation to freshman and sophomore college students from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds. The goal is to help them overcome barriers to medical or dental school.
Meet 26-year-old Carmen Young, a May 2012 graduate of the University of Louisville, School of Medicine who begins her obstetrics and gynecology residency at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis this summer. Her 8th grade commitment—from dream to destination—has been realized with a boost from the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP). Carmen pledges to build a practice that improves outcomes for Black mothers and their babies.
Meet Adrienne Perry, 23, whose eyes were opened to the vast oral health problems faced by adults and children during a trip to Guatemala. That trip, coupled with six weeks of intensive classes through SMDEP, awakened the third-year Howard University School of Dentistry student to similar oral health gaps faced by people in urban communities surrounding her campus in Washington, D.C. When she gets her degree, this Conyers, Georgia native plans to address the oral health crisis among underserved communities both here and abroad. Today, just 12 percent of the nation's dentists are from minority populations.
And meet Drew Gehring, 24, from rural Garrison, North Dakota. He also participated in SMDEP and was inspired to dive into research probing the causes of colon cancer, hoping to contribute to curing the disease.
SMDEP gave these and other students from economically disadvantaged or medically underserved communities a jumpstart to open educational opportunities and clear career paths to medicine or dentistry. They are among the more than 20,000 alumni of the program.
Human Capital News Roundup: Genome sequencing of tumors, Medicare physician fees, cervical cancer among Latinas, and more.
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples:
Alejandra Casillas, MD, MPH, an RWJF Clinical Scholar, spoke to New America Media about why Latinas have the highest rates of cervical cancer. Many women don't go to the doctor as much as recommended because of a cultural belief that their families come first, Casillas says, so raising awareness among men could help encourage more women to get Pap tests.
Healthcare Finance News reports on The Primary Care Team: Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices (the LEAP Project), a recently launched RWJF initiative designed to make primary care more accessible and effective by identifying practices that maximize the services of the primary care workforce. Learn more about the LEAP Project and read an RWJF Human Capital Blog post about it.
A team led by scientists from the Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—including RWJF Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program alumnus Levi Garraway, MD, PhD—has sequenced the genomes of 25 metastatic melanoma tumors, MediLexicon reports. The first high-resolution views of the genomic landscape are published online in the journal Nature.
RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research and political scientist Brendan Nyhan, PhD, gave comments to NPR's Morning Edition about the political landscape, discussing why and how voters reject facts about the political parties or politicians to whom they are loyal. Nyhan's ongoing research suggests that people may be better able to deal with cognitive dissonance—"the psychological experience of having to hold inconsistent ideas in one's head"—if they are first given an image or ego boost.


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Amanda Seyfried to Star in He's F-ing Perfect
Come to think of it, most rom-com titles really aren't edgy enough. Just tell your grandma it's short for He's Fudging Perfect. Amanda Seyfried will star in the upcoming Universal film as a "social media-savvy girl" who uses her Googlin' skills to become her dream man's ideal woman, before inevitably ending up with ... oh let's say ... the concierge at her dog hotel. The title He's a F-ing Concierge at a Dog Hotel is racy enough, but probably a tad too long.


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WASHINGTON – An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal tax refunds. And the scam is proving too pervasive to stop.
A government report in November said the IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the previous year to criminals who were using other people's personal information. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said this week that the "scale, scope and execution of these fraud schemes" has grown substantially and the Justice Department in the past year has charged 880 people.
Who's involved? In a video message released ahead of the April 15 tax filing deadline, Holder said the scams "are carried out by a variety of actors, from greedy tax return preparers to identity brokers who profit from the sale of personal information to gangs and drug rings looking for easy access to cash."
Even Holder isn't immune. Two men pleaded guilty in Georgia last year to trying to get a tax refund by using his name, Social Security number and date of birth on tax forms.
The IRS says it opened nearly 1,500 criminal investigations related to identity theft in fiscal year 2013, a 66 percent increase over the previous year, and has strengthened filters that help detect where the scams are coming from. It says it stops far more fraudulent refunds than it pays out and is making a dent in the problem.
Still, the schemes have grown more sophisticated, attracting criminals with violent backgrounds who see an easy and safe vehicle for theft, according to law enforcement officials who fear that not enough controls are in place.
"I've been on calls with Alabama, Chicago, some other field divisions, where they're now experiencing people who were from Florida and now moving to other states to conduct this same type of fraud," said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jay Bernardo, who works fraud cases in south Florida.
What can taxpayers do? The most important step: Protect their Social Security numbers.
Thieves steal Social Security numbers in any number of ways, including from publicly available sources or workplaces. Victims include school children, prisoners, Medicaid beneficiaries and the deceased. Criminals use the information to file false returns and then pocket the refund checks, often before the legitimate taxpayers have had a chance to submit their own returns. It's a crime made easier by electronic tax filing, which lets crooks mass-produce fraudulent returns. "Part of what's happening is people are reverse engineering," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a House committee this week. "You know, you file a thousand fraudulent returns and then you see which ones go through. ... They can adjust faster than we can adjust."
In the latest sweep in south Florida, a hub for refund fraud, federal prosecutors last week announced charges against 25 people for using thousands of stolen identities to claim $36 million in fraudulent tax refunds. In one case, a middle school food services worker is accused of stealing students' personal information from an electronic database. In another, a jail guard is alleged to have stolen the identities of inmates and used the data to file false refunds. A mail carrier is accused of stealing tax documents out of people's mailboxes.
A Cincinnati woman pleaded guilty in January to submitting false tax returns on behalf of legitimate, unwitting businesses, using her laptop computer in a public library.


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Mary Chin, a teacher at Mesa Preparatory Academy who is finishing her teaching credentials at Arizona State University, has been awarded the Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship, valued at $175,000. The fellowship is given to "premier high school math and science teachers" as they start their careers.
Chin, who holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), went to Wall Street after college, but left to join the teacher ranks.
"It took about three minutes of standing in front of an eighth-grade algebra class to confirm that I'd made the right decision," she said.
Well, it took about 30 seconds for us to be impressed. Thanks for doing what you do, Mary.
College camp hopes to spark future education
Nothing wrong with getting kids excited about college when they're young. That's just what staff and volunteer speakers believe each year as Chandler-Gilbert Community College hosts "Destination College."
The three-week program exposes elementary students and their families to the college experience. This year, 150 sixth-graders from Chandler's Bologna, Erie, Frye, Galveston, Hartford, Knox and San Marcos elementary schools focused on a variety of career fields, as well as studied science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Their "graduation" will be Thursday.
"Hearing about college is one thing, but experiencing it is something completely different; that is the purpose of Destination College," said Maria Reyes, the college's dean of career and technology. "The parent component helps educate parents about what it means to go to college, and provides them with the tools needed to help guide their children on the path to becoming college students in the future."
East Valley schools earn Lowe's grants
With a push to build better schools, Lowe's awarded more than $2.3 million nationwide in grants through its "Toolbox for Education" program.
Two East Valley schools were among the more than 540 in the country to receive funding. Chandler High School and Mesa's Jefferson Elementary School will each receive money from Lowe's for "parent-initiated school improvement projects."
Way to go parents and schools!
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Twenty foodie gifts from Cost Plus World Market
J. Wohletz |
For friends and family members who are still stuck in the late '90s, grab some chipotle-augmented coffee. This would be great in a gift basket with a bottle of raspberry vinaigrette, a cookbook about Asian fusion food and a Weezer CD.
9) Yellow snow. J. Wohletz
Sadly, it's not urine-flavored, but possibly lemon. There also weren't any asparagus-flavored ones -- I checked.
8) Holiday Peeps J. Wohletz
7) Chocolate liquor bottlesJ. Wohletz
These are a true holiday tradition, and I was pleased to see that Cost Plus has the bottles in different-sized boxes -- from casual-drinker, to family reunion, pub crawl, bad first date and all the way up to the gigantic "It's Christmas and I f*cking hate my relatives" sized box.
6) Eggnog in a bagJ. Wohletz
Who needs to go to all the trouble of buying ingredients and making real eggnog when this inexpensive, ultra-convenient eggnog in a bag is available? All you have to do is add liquor, shake and freeze -- just like my uncle Reno.
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Bandwidth issue, clients pulling large amounts of data for updates
We have a site that has been having consistent bandwidth issues, and we want to make sure Symantec is not part of it. The problem though is we still see users pulling 400mb from the Symantec website to obtain updates. Is this necessary? There is a GUP onsite, which is where the clients should be getting the updates from. What can I do to reduces the bandwidth and make sure clients are updating quickly and correctly from the correct source?
Thank you
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400mb is pretty large, a full def size is around 150mb if that. Did you verify client is pulling updates from GUP?
On that client, if you check the System log, it should show if it ispulling from GUP with an entry that says "Downloaded content from GUP"
Check for that entry
You can also enable sylink logging to show where it is pulling updates from
How to confirm if SEP Clients are receiving LiveUpdate content from Group Update Providers (GUPs)
Article:TECH97190 | | | Created: 2009-01-03 | | | Updated: 2011-08-16 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH97190 |
Please click the "Mark as solution" link at bottom left on the post that best answers your question. This will benefit admins looking for a solution to the same problem.
In that policy, set the option to "Never" for the option regarding bypassing the GUP. Also, do you have LiveUpdate Scheduling enabled in the policy?
Please click the "Mark as solution" link at bottom left on the post that best answers your question. This will benefit admins looking for a solution to the same problem.
Here is what I have
In the Server settings
"User the default management server" is checked.
So is "Use a LiveUpdate Server"
The Radio button is selected on "Use the default Symantec LiveUpdate Server"
Use a group update provider is checked
Enable third party content is NOT checked
Under the GUP Button the ONLY thing selected is "Single Group Update Provider IP address or host name. The server is in the white field.
"never" is seleceted.
In the policy, on the Schedule tab, is "Enable LiveUpdate Scheduling" checked and is a schedule set?
This means the client would go out to LiveUpdate
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do you have policy to bypass GUP?
Help Link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=54619
Have you checked if these clients have corrupt defs? That's usually the cause for clients to repeatedly download the full defs file.
Also, can you confirm that you have a sufficient number of defs retained by your SEPM to avoid endpoints unnecessarily grabbing the full defs?
Check this Article:
How to Troubleshoot High Bandwidth usage issues in Symantec Endpoint Protection
Hope that helps!!
Mithun Sanghavi
Senior Consultant
MIM | MCSA | MCTS | STS | SSE | SSE+ | ITIL v3
Don't forget to mark your thread as 'SOLVED' with the answer that best helped you.
Clear out the defs:
How to clear out definitions for a Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 client manually
Article:HOWTO59193 | | | Created: 2011-09-08 | | | Updated: 2012-09-25 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO59193 |
Please click the "Mark as solution" link at bottom left on the post that best answers your question. This will benefit admins looking for a solution to the same problem.
My second comment was with regards to the "Number of content revisions to keep:" option found under ADMIN -> Servers -> Local Site Properties -> LiveUpdate tab.
An especially low number would mean clients are less likely to receive delta definition updates (~200kb) and more likely to grab the full fat defs (~200mb), which is why I mention it.
We came across the same scenario, in a 7 site 2000+ workstation environment there were about 50 misbehaving PCs that would repeatedly try and pull almost 800MB a day from the parent bypassing the local GUPs, 90% of teh workstations were properly operating.
We found an old reference to GUPs and differening subnets, the Symantec tech I talked to insisted that the subnets were not an issue, but we kept seeing results that disproved it as an issue, and our answer was local LU servers in the sites, this resolved it 100%.
We found that some were corrupt defs, some had full C: drives and unable to decompress the defs, and then others were just a mystery.
I know it's not the approved method, but it worked for us.
If you have enough space on the SEPM server then increase the number of contents from 3 to may be 15 - 20 depending on the space you have on the SEPM server.
also can you please collect the sylink logs of around 500KB from the misbehaving client and add it to the thread it would help us to understand if the client is actually bypasssing the GUP or not. also the number of unused contents kept on the GUP increase that aswell.
Content revs:
1. When you have 3 content revs in the SEPM, the SEPM can only provide microdefs for clients having one of the three most recent AV def releases. For a client that check in with a def that is fours revs back it will have to get a FULL def not a microdef.
2. At first, increase to six defs. After three releases, measure how much more space you have used on the SEPM. That will give you guidance on how much further you can increase defs with the SEPM space you have.
3. There is a point of diminishing return, and that is reach when the microdef is just as big as a full defs. Having more content revs than that is a complete waste of resources and gets you no advantage. I did some research on this and the point was reached somewhere below thirty content revs. Offhand I do not recall exactly.


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Rep. Ramsey expects tough immigrant law to survive court review
A lawsuit has been filed in hopes of nullifying the recent sweeping immigration reform law passed by the Georgia General Assembly and signed last month by Gov. Nathan Deal.
The suit was filed in federal court on behalf of a handful of civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, the Service Employees International Union and others.
Much of the suit challenges the new ability police officers will have to check the immigration status of any person even being questioned for a minor crime or a traffic violation. This provision goes into affect July 1; until then Georgia has only authorized such checks for persons booked into prisons on felony charges.
The new law allows those being investigated for misdemeanors or traffic violations to have their immigration status checked by any Georgia law enforcement officer.
State Rep. Matt Ramsey of Peachtree City, who authored much of the legislation and sponsored it, has noted previously that the federal immigration authorities have only elected to deport illegal U.S. residents from Georgia who are accused of serious crimes, not those who are accused of misdemeanors or traffic violations.
Ramsey argued Tuesday that the bill was drafted to remain within the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit claims the law is unconstitutional, asserting that the enhanced law enforcement capability to check a person's immigration status "will subject Georgians ... to unlawful interrogations, searches, seizures, and arrests and will result in widespread racial profiling."
Another part of the new immigration legislation is a requirement for all but the smallest businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to insure that all new hires are in fact legal residents of the United States. Ramsey noted that a similar measure in Arizona was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, so he feels comfortable that Georgia's requirement will survive the legal challenge.
The lawsuit also assails language in Ramsey's bill that will deny public benefits such as food stamps and public housing assistance to persons who are not legal U.S. residents.
According to the suit, that will cause "countless Georgians — including U.S. citizens and non-citizens with federal permission to remain in the United States — to be erroneously deprived of the public benefits that they need and are lawfully entitled to receive. These deprivations will force individuals and families, including those with young children, to be without food and shelter, simply due to an ability to produce a qualifying identity document."
Ramsey said state leaders are confident the bill will be upheld in federal court as it is defended by the office of Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens.
"We think all the provisions in the bill are going to be vindicated," Ramsey said.
I just watched the Belmont Stakes.
The winning jockey was Hispanic. Most jockeys are Hispanic.
If the Belmont was run in Georgia, authorities would be at the finish line to ask for the papers of the jockeys.
Bring People Out of the Shadows
Obama and Biden support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.
And if they don't pay the fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line do they get deported when they are caught or is there another level of amnesty to be considered?
We could let some 350 pound American ride those poor horses!
Yes, they probably do have proper working papers, or are citzens from 2-3 generations of horse riders.
We have a rule that says if we (USA) have a need for a certain profession and they have a job at it here, they can come in right away.
Many Asians do this. Movie Stars, etc.
I don't know how Ahrronnald got here from Austria!
Do you think Many of those Hispanic women in Hollywood are citizens? Heck, the Governor goes and gets them in his plane!
We are a country of "equal" treatment, except some of us are "more equal" than others.
I would bet that all of those jockeys who are not American citizens have whatever they need when they ride here.
We have to secure our borders for security reasons if no other. After we do that I'd change the law so that children born to the illegals are not given citizenship based on just being born here. But if they love this country enough to serve in the military when old enough I'd award citizenship to every one that left the military with an honorable discharge. As for those adults that are already here I'd suggest that we set up intake stations. Those that are here can for a fee to cover expenses apply for a visitors pass. Any visitors that have no criminal background, history of mental illness or contagious disease will be issued this pass. Without said pass no drivers license, or jobs. Those caught without said pass would be deported. Employers that hire people without these passes go to jail. Even with said pass students would pay out of state tuition to attend college. (Unless they served in the military and are now citizens) And they would pay taxes to help offset the expense of them being here.
After we secure the borders we will.........
The borders will never be secure......so your suggestions won't get done will they?
Maybe we could just declare the borders secure.....kinda like "Mission Accomplished?"
Needy people can always come up with a longer ladder or a longer tunnel or a bigger boat or a helicopter or come through Canada or come through the Gulf of Mexico. etc., etc.
We have CIA people in all countries now (also some SEALS) who are illegals there.
It is easy and always will be.
Only ones who get punished are the poor workers!
stamps, medical services, education, etc in those countries?
I was not aware that it is OK to be illegal providing you don't ask for food stamps!
Those Drones bombing Yemen won't ask for stamps either.
Anything we do is OK, right or wrong!
We are going too far interferring in so many countries...time for Obama to curtail the CIA and the Pentagon!
your teachers were constantly telling you to stay on task. It is really amazing the way you connect one subject with another that has no connection. Is this just a quirk with you or are you stripping off too many leaves of that medicinal stuff?
We have a hard time convincing other countries that our borders are extremely important to us as sovereign country, when we are right now bombing and occupying several other sovereign countries!
Seems to me we got real ticked off on 9/11!
I don't see the "stay on course," violation there!
That is like a pentecostal holiness member or preacher who has three mistresses!
So what is the answer oh wise one? Do more than slam others give us your ideas to throw stones at!
He slams others' posts and if you get the best of him he starts talking in his "dialects" and goes off on one of his rambles.
"when you get the best of him"
Lak whin did thet hapen?
Ifn summon did git sich a vantage ide jist relode!
Weuns as Mericans field lak weuns air more beter thin othr places!
Yet we loue banks and wal stret to rob usnins blinde and distroy
hour conomy beyon nere colapse.
What wif tet president thar then ignorin sich goins on!
nowe tht we air a bombin Yemne (dont no what thet air), nex we kin bob Syria (ain't thet in damascus whar st. Paul went on thu rode to?)
I dred Eran when we bom em. They wil wipe out Jews ifn we do.
didn not tht feler say september wuz the end this time? May bee kerect!
Nothing illogical about this!! AMEN!
Rep Matt Ramsey has led the effort to enact in Georgia unnecessary punitive legislation aimed at "illegal" immigrants.
As we all know, "illegal" immigrants are a major problem in Fayette County. (Sarcasm)
Or maybe his motive is to appeal to bigotry and fear of those who are different in his electorate.
So now he had caused major problems for farmers in Georgia who depend on migrant workers.
He has told young people who are children of illegal immigrants that is best that they stay uneducated.
Ramsey's efforts and the new Georgia law is based on fear and bigotry. And don't tell me it is because of the costs of these people to Georgia taxpayers. If Fayette County found that more poor whites were moving here from south Georgia, I doubt that there would be any complaints about the "burden" to taxpayers.
"illegal immigrants are a major problem in Fayette County. (Sarcasm)" - simply check the arrest reports in The Citizen and note the dramatic drop in the number of hispanic arrests from last month to this month.
"caused major problems for farmers in Georgia who depend on migrant workers" - Accordind to this past Sunday's AJC it's not causing much of a problem at all. Cantelopes and other crops are being harvested on time using legal immigrants and local labor.
Face it Lion. The taxpaying public can no longer afford your liberal pipe dreams. What we need to do now is pass a "Drooler" tax to be levied again'st those of you who insist that the rest of us fund your liberal socialist fantasies.
What would the "liberal socialist fantasies" you speak of be?
Were they the unfunded war in Iraq? How about the unfunded fight in Afghanistan? No, that can't be it. Oh! I know! Medicare Part D. Nope, that wasn't sponsored by "liberal socialists" either. How about TARP! Yeah, that's it! Wait a minute. That was initiated before Barack Obama was in office.
you know a tax that will make us big, big money majormike? How about a tax on Medicare recipients who hate "socialism." And we can tack on a tax on *conservatives that said jack squat about deficit spending under Ronald Reagan and W, but now are spitting mad that we are running deficits. We can call you born again conservatives. Y'all once were, very, very lost. But now thanks to Sara Palin and Newt Gingrich, have found the balanced budget jesus once again.
For what it's worth, this legislation won't make it to the street. It just won't, because small govt folks don't want their police departments being required to "shake down foreign looking people." Ain't gonna happen.
people who want to enter this country do so by following the rules? Illegals come in all colors and shapes--many of them are from Eurpoean countries. So, where is the racism? If poor whites moved here from South Georgia, they would be American citizens moving from one part of the country (state) to another---not someone entering the country illegally. Farmers caused their own problems and have been riding the gravy train of cheap labor for a long, long time. They know the law and yet they have continued to hire illegals. And they had time before their crops ripened to try to do something---Ramsey did not spring this bill on us -- we all knew it was coming. Did they make an attempt to find help? No, they left the status quo hoping the bill would go away or they could claim that the outcome from not using illegals would be disastrous to the farming industry and Georgia.
As for the children of illegals, up until now they have had a free ride as far as college goes---if my grandchildren came here to go to school they (American born citizens) would have to pay out-of-state tuition yet illegals did not. These parents knew they were breaking the law when they brought their children here. Does this make it our obligation to educate them? It is more than enough that younger children are allowed to attend school, that illegals can get free medical care at any emergency room and cannot be questioned. I have to pay for my medical care. Why is it the United States' duty to house, feed and educate people from another country when their own country does nothing to make their life better? And why should they when their citizens can come here, many times sending money back home-and putting money in that country's coffers while helping to deplete ours? Racism? No, Bigotry? No. We are at the point that we can no longer afford to take care of everyone else while our country falls apart. Immigrants that go through channels and do things the right way are welcome. But no matter how you sugar coat it illegal is illegal and just how is that fair to those who have been on the list for admittance for years?
I don't think all those white folks who came to the USA from Europe were races! Just Caucasians mostly! Hispanics ain't even a "race." Alabamaians are a race thoe, they air "Crowmagnans."
Maybe we should have tattooed a "G" on the forehead of the Germans, huh?
Now those poor "whites" from South Georgia---that is a dfferent story! They kin hardlie found AT-Lantere!
I have read this complaint maybe 50 times, almost exactly.
Not many disagree with what you said.
It will be interesting to read now what your answer is for this problem--especially the children born here who are now U.S. citizens, and the fact that there are about 15,000,000 of them here.
President Reagan did allow a number to stay legally in the 80s, as he didn't know how to resolve it either.
Now please don't say build more fences, send them all home tomorrow, or foolish stuff like that.
Complaining relentlessly without any workable solution is somewhat ignorant.
You can already see where the contractors and others are devastated by the new law and now have some fear of of going to jail themselves, but I am still waiting for any user of illegals to go to jail---and they never will.
How many has Fayette County officers checked out and arrested lately? None but they seem to give them tickets every week----all those names can't be legals!
We are blaming the wrong people for this mess! It is the users not the workers.
First a law should be passed that would prohibit citizenship for any child born in this country to an illegal. That would certainly stop illegals coming over the border to have children as a way to insure being able to stay here. That may not take care of those already born and here but would stop it in the future. Illegals know when they come here and have children that we will not deport them if their children are citizens. Unless we grow a pair and make our elected officials step up to the plate and enforce laws already on the books we will continue to have this dilemma. As I have said before, if we continue time after time to allow the ones who enter illegally gain citizenship because "our growers, chicken farmers,carpet industries and builders cannot function without them", do we really believe that anyone who gains citizenship would then be willing to work for those wages? No, so the vicious circle starts all over again. I was reading elsewhere where Arizone deported 81,000 illegals last year---that is in one year and one state!! The situation in this country will soon reach the point where we will not be able to take care of anyone--illegal or legal. We have become so docile and complacent as a nation that we allow our elected officials to do as they please and pass laws that benefit them and not our country. We sit and complain and blog but many people do not vote. Our reps in Washington do as they please til election time comes and if they have a nice smile and make promises we should know they do not intend to keep, the sheep vote for them. Until we all step up and do something not only about the immigration problem but all the other wrongs that are eating our nation like cancers we will continue on this slippery slope. We have to start somewhere and since the federal government chooses to do nothing because they want the immigrant vote, then the states will have to step up to the plate. Maybe when enough states pass their own laws then the federal government will enforce the laws on the books and enact other necessary ones with teeth and make sure they are also enforced. Not the perfect answer or solution, but as I said we have to start somewhere.
Did you read #9 here?
Your gibberish in #1 is the same as before---nothing.
"Some can be born here and be citizens, but some can be born here and not be citizens," although infants and can't help where they are born!
That is racism, pure and simple. Put 15,000,000 in jail? Spare me!
Pass another law, pass another law!
Aren't you of the crowd who don't want rules and regulations.
You have no answers that work.
My answer: Have them all register, give them work permits, and put in jail those employers who hire those without the work permits--first time one year!
Isn't that what we did somewhat with the Ellis Island people? I'm pretty sure my ancestors simply jumped a ship in England or was thrown on one, and came here without "papers."
My name used to be Czkrnzoistich, now it is Cosco!
have them go through a process--if you were carrying a disease or were ill you were not allowed to enter. You went back---I always have to shake my head when I read that some illness that was thought wiped out suddenly appears and the CDC, etc., figuratively shakes their collective heads and wonder why it has suddenly emerged. Duh, people are swarming into this country from other areas where they do not have innoculations against these diseases/ sickness. Also, we did not automatically put this emigrees into a welfare system. They were on their own to find work, and they did, even if it was menial labor.
Today we have no idea what someone coming into this country legally or illegally may have; it is politically incorrect to even inquire. As for the babies who did not ask for their mothers to come here and give birth to them, if they are not automatically a citizen at birth, their mothers would not have the incentive to come over the border to give birth. If they were not granted automatic citizenship and were here with illegal parents then they would/should be returned with their parents. After all, children belong with their parents. The same with illegals who bring children here--the fact that they were brought here before they were old enough to make a decision for themselves should not guarantee them citizenship. Again, we have a process to obtain citizenship and we welcome anyone who follows this process--why should you wait 5 years to be admitted, when I sneak across the border illegally and give birth and then say that I have a right to stay because my child is a citizen by birth and then all my family is given precedent over you for citizenship? Does that sound fair?
As for your name being shortened, it should have been shortened to Costco--then maybe you would have had access to medication that would cure what ails you.
You are still just ramnblin on and on with no useable solution to the problem at hand----those already here!
I gave the exact details that might occur if what you and others propose be done and you don't want to hear it, nor care!
Do you REALLY think that all immigrants came through Ellis Island?
Not even a substantial quantity did!
Do you also even have any idea how many were re-loaded on the next ship and returned? (Hint: zero!) No money for passage.
I have never seen so many people as on here who can not imaghine details of how things are done!
Think you need to pull out those history books and study just a tad more, or better yet, forget the history lessons and stick to watching Fox news.
Thousands died at Ellis Island who were sick. Would never survive a trip back.
The Immigrant station at Ellis was only open about 25 years. A few million came in that way.
But there were many fewer than came in there, who didn't come in there since 1900.
Before 1900 if they could get on a ship or cross the border somewhere they just came in--no "papers."
The American Indians tried asking for "papers" of the early Spanish and English and French settlers--but they couldn't manage it either.
If you have a good country people want to live there, and they have so far.
Do you know anyone who wants to go to Europe? China? Indonesia? India? Africa? Ireland? Iceland? Greenland? Middle EAST ANYWHERE?
There is a very definitive policy in the USA about how one legally immigrates here or becomes a migrant/temporary citizen. There is no gray area here, only the people who scream "racism" or "bigotry" without a clue.
You either come here legally or are violating the law by being here. I've been privileged to work in countries where they throw in jail people who are in that country illegally, and it seems to be a huge success in dissuading others of the same mind from trying it.
Tell u what...go to any other country on this planet and experience their immigration laws and even their tourism or work visa programs. Then, come back and tell me how the US has it totally wrong and are a bunch of bigots or other nonsense.
You have China extremely reluctant to even suggest to North Korea that they are idiots despite worldwide condemnation because China doesn't want to deal with a bunch of North Koreans flooding their borders and having to take care of them. I guess they are a bunch of bigots too. Same with almost every other country that allows you to stay there for 30-90 days and then get the hell out unless you have skills and the proper paperwork to comply with their immigration laws.
What part of Illegal do you not Understand? They are here Illegally, not partly
Illegally, not sometime Illegally, they are ILLEGAL! If someone stole your car
and when they caught him/her they told the judge that the reason they stole your car was to make a better life for their family, would you drop the charges and give them the car? Hummmmm?????? I think not.
One of the largest public outlays for illegal aliens is paying for the education of the children of those illegal residents. This cost is borne largely by state and local governments. In the 1982 Supreme Court Plyler v. Doe 5-4 ruling, states are forbidden from denying K-12 schooling to these children. Many of them are born in the United States and are considered to be U.S. instant citizens. But akin to their foreign-born siblings, they would not be in the country and a burden on the US taxpayers if their parents were not illegally squatting in the United States. The State of Alabama costs estimated by (FAIR) Federation for American Immigration Reform in 2005, as $34 million annually and siblings $48 million annually, offering a monstrous consequence that is traumatizing all taxpayers nationwide. The Heritage Foundation projects that over 300.000 babies, come to America across the borders or through ports of entry at airline terminals.
These projections are based on the US Census estimate of illegal immigrant household population. Boding well to stop this inclement illegal alien invasion, is for a mandated perpetually upgrading of E-Verify. This is considered by immigration enforcement, a strong deterrent that will be eventually a 100 percent accurate. We cannot listen to naysayers who are mostly for the open border organizations and the very Liberal press. It is most likely that E-Verify will sometime soon be using state picture Drivers Licenses for identification of the employee, along with the I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification Form.)
Very few states are not straining under cavernous budget meltdowns, as schools throughout this nation are facing some of the most momentous decreases in state education funding in decades. In the majority of states, drastic cuts mean pink-slips for teachers, bigger class sizes, fewer textbooks, and at the same time cutting sports, special projects, and downsizing for after-school activities. Attrition through enforcement or Self-deportation seems to be the only way to whittle-away of the huge masses of foreigners entering America illegally. Education, Health Care and welfare, cash payments and other public services are not only comparable to the amount of money, spent to support overseas war, but is FAIR projection of $113 billion dollars a year from the federal government, this no way influences the sums of money spent to in pandering to the illegal immigration occupation. More of these dollar figures can be substantiated by going to FAIR'S website.
Under the empowerment of either the Republican or Liberal-Democrat leadership we cannot assume that illegal immigration will be brought under control? Only the TEA PARTY—public power can alter this wrong direction for us all and place America back on the right track. The American people who jobless need to contact their federal and State Representatives to insist they enact mandatory E-Verify for every State, at the Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121.
I see that phrase a lot lately, "the right track."
Other phrases are also popular, such as, "American values," and "states rights."
A good one is also, "Christian Nation." Aren't there Jews on the Supreme Court and in the government? What ever happened to Henry Kissinger?
I'm not sure what Judeo/Christian means! Could we include Islamic/Buddhist?
Or maybe Hindi/Pope!
Maybe that is why we shouldn't try to run a country with Religious Heads and rules? That always has caused wars.
Then there are all these "illegal people." Even illegal babies! I thought all babies were God's miracles! No person because they exist is illegal are they?
Also, I have never figured out how the Methodists get to heaven when they are not Pentecostal Christians! I don't think they even understand the language or the dances.
What does the Pope think of Confucians? Did Muhammad and Mormon Smith ever meet a Pope except on the battlefields?
Heck even Auburn hates Georgia, and they both have illegal ball players!
The law just signed in Alabama has some real teeth to it and goes a lot further than GA or even Arizona's attempt. Who knows....maybe the cowards in Congress and the WH will soon realize that this IS a hot-button issue that needs a solution? Nahhh, I didn't think so. They are too busy posturing for 2012 or looking at Weiner's weiner.
Until then, expect even more states to enact their own illegal immigration laws since the federal gov't long ago defaulted on anything resembling leadership or responsibility and are too scared to address the issue or even have a discussion on it. Cowards.
EDIT: glad to see that Morris Dees' SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) group of idiots is already screaming "racism" over this. For people that dislike the ACLU(I happen to sometimes agree with them myself), you can really get a good hate on for an organization of lying hype-mongerers like the SPLC and they actually deserve the disgust.
From the day our current President hit office, the *conservative mantra has become, once again, "states rights." The States, especially those with GOP govorners, don't want the FED telling them what to do on ANYTHING. So how is this a failure at the federal level in the view of anyone conservative? From the rhetoric I listen to very closely, a military which is at war against "them" (whoever they are) is pretty much the only product which, in the new *conservatives' eyes, that should come from Washington. It's hard to know what Federal laws programs, and support people who wish taxes to go away desire from the government they wish was smaller and virtually powerless. Confusing stuff I'm reading these days.
It would be interesting to actually see one of these states passing this illegal law go ahead and start arresting illegals and taking them to the border and shoving them over!
Now they have to sort out which of the kids are legal however, and hold them back at some orphanage, I suppose. they are citizens, born here.
They could rip the kids out of the parents arms and tie them to the truck hauling them, I suppose.
Now those illegal kids in schools would also be marched out of the school house and the same thing done as above. Every kid legal and illegal would have to prove right there and then their citizenship! Don't know how kids can do that.
I guess they could determine citizenship for all kids with a hearing where they ask for "papers." Many "not looking like illegals," also wouldn't have papers.
They also may be dumped into the desert near El Paso or Tijuana and if their parents are notified, how could they go get them without a passport and visa (papers).
Would also need desert survival equipment.
The Federals aren't going to accept these arrested people by state or county or city officers. There is no precedent or proof of citizenship for them!
I suppose we could do what Syria or some African countries are doing, just kill all of them and open mass graves. Or Yemen, or Libya, or Afghanistan, or Iraq does.
that would be an insult to idiots. You always manage to outdo yourself in the asinine department.


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Whether or not we'll get a Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer for the Super Bowl, at least we finally got to see some Fantastic Four footage.
Despite how many modern games are driven by the engine of nostalgia, it can often be difficult to go back and replay the games of your youth -- not just emotionally, but technologically.
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AJ Maddox Makes It Two In A Row For The Top Gun Sprints At East Bay Raceway Park
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November 17, 2012 – Tampa, FL – The Top Gun Sprints returned for the final event of the 2012 Season. Along with them were the Florida Old Time Mods, Outlaw Fours and the Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers.
The first event of the night belonged to the Florida Old Time Mods. Tom McDonald and Dan Darnell won their heat races. For the feature event it was Mark Steve and Robert Campbell. When the green waved it was Roger Herbach charging up to take over the lead by lap one. On Lap seven, Dan Darnell came from the back of the pack to take over the lead and never looked back as they went twelve laps without a caution and Darnell picked up the win. Michael Davis, Jamie Frankland, Roger Herbach and Lars Amundsen rounded out the top five.
Next were the Outlaw Fours. Brandon Yates and Nick Hebrank won their heat races and also made up the front row for the feature. Hebrank took the lead on the first lap, but on lap four, Dorsey Strickland took over the top spot. The first caution of the race came on the next lap as Bill Mort and Hebrank tangled in turn two. The green waved again and Strickland led the field for the next five laps. On lap ten, Billy Howard made a move to try and take over the top spot in turn four. He had it just for a moment as Strickland regained the lead on the front stretch. Several more cautions came out, but when the checkered waved it was Strickland crossing the line first with Hohlbaugh second, Scotty Williams, Raymond Folwell and Brandon Yates fifth. But after tech inspections, Strickland was found illegal which handed the win over to Hohlbaugh. Moving up the top three on position and Kyle Worden now finished in the top five.
Next was the final event of the season for the Top Gun Sprints. Winning their heat races were Tony Agin, Tim George and AJ Maddox. That made them also eligible for the Barfield Sweep of $200 plus the $1,000 if they won the feature event sponsored by Boomtrux.com. When the green waved it was Maddox leading the way with Agin, Billy Boyd, Jr. and Matt Kurtz trying to chase him down. The first caution came out as Gene Lasker tangled with a lap car end ending his night. Several more cautions came out, but with just five to go it was Maddox still in charge. Behind him was the points leader for the series Matt Kurtz with Mark Ruel, Jr. and Billy Boyd, Jr. looking for that win. Maddox once again showed his muscle when the green dropped, but with just two laps remaining, Kerry Gilbert slowed in turn two bringing out the final caution of the night. Maddox went on to win back to back features for the Top Gun Sprints here at East Bay Raceway Park. Matt Kurtz finished second and went on to win the points Championship for the Top Gun Sprints. Billy Boyd, Jr., Shawn Murray and Mark Ruel, Jr. rounded out the top five.
Last feature of the night went to the Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers. Robert Kissam, Don R. Quinn and Brett Calonge won their heat races. Along with Calonge on the front row was Jeremy Douglas. When the green waved, Calonge was on a mission in trying to hold off Robert Kissam as he was trying to make it five in a row. But on lap six, Kissam's transmission exploded ending his night. Patrick Tabb crossed the line first with Calonge second, Douglas third, Don R. Quinn fourth and Troy Dittebrand fifth. But again after tech inspection, Tabb once again was found illegal handing the win over to Calonge for his second win of the season. William Burnside finished fifth with all the others moving up one spot.
ASA Racing continues next week as the David Reutimann Foundation 50 for the Gagel Open Wheel Modifieds run for the $2,000. David and his dad Buzzie will be battling to see who has bragging rights for 2012. Along with them will be the Late Models as it will be their final points night of the season and will be running for double points. The Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers, FL Old Time Mods and the V8 Warriors will also be racing. For further information, log on to www.eastbayracewaypark.com or call 813-677-7223 for more information.


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SPORTING groups that call Alexandra Park home say the ground is in desperate need of upgrades but council is neglecting it.
The West Portland Sporting Community (WPSC), which represents 520 sporting club members from Westerns Football Netball Club, Gorae-Portland Cricket Club, West Portland Junior Football Club, Portland BMX Club and the Portland Greyhound Racing Club, say the ground is the most widely used in Portland but receives little attention compared with Hanlon Park.
The group was formed in April this year to lobby for both long and short-term funding for Alexandra Park.
President of Gorae-Portland Cricket Club, Craig Baldock said the ground hasn't received any significant upgrades since the clubrooms were built in the mid 80s and there are numerous safety issues at the ground.
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CARROLLTON - Essie Loree Narmour Montgomery, age 99, died Thursday January 2, 2014 at Greenwood Leflore Hospital from heart failure.
She was born July 20, 1914 to the late George and Roxie Mann Narmour and attended school in Carroll County. She worked until her retirement at Baldwin Piano in Greenwood and was a member of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, where she was active for years in WMU and the Senior Citizens Group, and was a member of the Eastern Star. She is preceded in death by her husband, M.R. 'Bud' Montgomery, and a son, Erby Montgomery, Sr.
Visitation was 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Sunday, January 5, 2014 at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Teoc. Funeral Services followed at 3:00 p.m. at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church with Reverend Lanny Haley and Reverend Joseph Sansing officiating.
Her grandchildren served as pallbearers. Burial was in Mount Pisgah Cemetery.
She is survived by two sons, James Roy Montgomery of Greenville and Ray Montgomery of Carrollton; four daughters, Mary Frances Tingle of Byram, Nell Whitfield of Carrollton, Shirley Clark of Greenwood, and Polly Acey of Carrollton; one sister, Emerine Lemley of Greenwood; 21 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren and 6 great great grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to the Mount Pisgah Cemetery Fund, 624 CR 256, Carrollton, MS 38917 or to the Mount Pisgah Playground Fund, 286 CR 41, Carrollton, MS 38917.
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April 12, 2011 Board Meeting, Sleep Inn
All board members present except for Ole and Ron (excu= sed absences). Several guests wer= e also in attendance.
Minutes from the April 5, 2011 meeting were discussed = and corrected. All approved.
Guests were at the meeting from M&S Concessions. Discussion held about setting up a Nodak fan page =
cooperation with M&S. Agr=
given for a fan page to be set up.
Discussion held on spring track preparation. Work to begin once we can get on t= he track and bring in some additional dirt.
Bryce Beck addressed the board of about getting kids t=
to hand out at a school he is going to talk with. He also brought up how the two-sea=
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to advertise the races.
Discussion was held on the bobcat the track is going to lease. And also when we can g= et the blade to be used at the track. Other track vehicles and the stage of the repairs being made was discussed.
Discussion was held on equipment needed for the fire crew. Further discussion to b= e held on this at the next meeting.
Lindsay has contacted CVB about helping out with the c= ost of the fireworks display on July 4th. Other sponsors will also be looked= into to help with the cost.
Website updates were discussed. Volunteer lists were updated.
Winners of the mall show were Legends-Jordan Huettl, H= obby Stocks-Mike Vennes, Stock Cars-Rob Stenvold, Modifieds<= /span>-Steve Pfeifer.
Next meeting will be held April 19, 201. Meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm.