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Fallen Vietnam soldiers honored at memorial (video)
Camille Doty
July 14, 2012 at 2:14 a.m.
Updated July 15, 2012 at 2:15 a.m.
Master Sgt. James Henry Calfee, U.S. Air Force
• Sgt. Raymond Jim Kozik, U.S. Army
• Spc. Frank George Michulka, U.S. Army
• Spc. Refugio Canales, U.S. Army
• 1st Lt. Leonard Edward Dornak, U.S. Marine Corps
• Hospitalman Edward Frances Fee Jr., U.S. Navy
• Staff Sgt. Maurice W. Flournoy, U.S. Air Force
• Spc. Jeffrey McClatchy, Jr., U.S. Army
• Capt. Charles Jerome Manske, U.S. Air Force
• Staff Sgt. Percy W. McClatchy, U.S. Army
• Spc. Allen Stanley Mican, U.S. Army
• Warrant Officer Tommie Allen Rolf, U.S. Army
• Pfc Raymond Nito Rivera, U.S. Marine Corps
• Staff Sgt. Howe King (Petie) Clark Jr., U.S. Army
• Pfc Foster F. Triggs, U.S. Army
• Spc Joe L. Love, Jr., U.S. Army
• Spc Julian Mendez, U.S. Army
• Cpl. Danny D. Gard, U.S. Marine Corps
• Pfc Kevin Edward Tweedle, U.S. Army
• 2nd Lt. James Tucker Stovall, U.S. Marine Corps
• Lance Cpl Edward Joseph Edmund, U.S. Marine Corps
• Cpl. Harrell Earl Stearns, U.S. Army
• 9 a.m.- 9 p.m. - Public viewing
• 1 p.m. - Salute and reunion for enlisted military, active and retired
• 6 p.m. - Salute and reunion for Desert Storm, Iraq War, Afghanistan War veterans
• 9 p.m. - Candlelight ceremony for all branches of the U.S. armed forces, honoring the 58,272 killed in action including missing and deaths in captivity who gave their lives in the Vietnam War and all POWs and MIAs
• 8 a.m. - Wall is taken down
EL CAMPO - Tom Banda was fighting in the Vietnam trenches when he heard over the radio his best friend had been shot.
The former E-5 Specialist rushed to rescue Refugio "Cookie" Canales, but it was too late. Banda carried his friend's lifeless body on Nov. 2, 1968, a day he will never forget.
"I lost part of me when he died," Banda said Saturday. Canales was 21 years old.
The 65-year-old Houston resident painted a picture of humanity, while sharing war tales and jokes about this friend on Saturday.
Canales was one of 22 Wharton County soldiers killed in Vietnam who were honored Saturday at the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall memorial service.
The family and friends of each soldier were presented an eagle-shaped figurine in their honor.
The ceremony was part of the almost weeklong visit of the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall to El Campo.
Community volunteers put in sweat equity preparing for the traveling wall, which contains the 58,272 names of the American men and women who died in Southeast Asia.
Five months of preparation was almost washed away in two days of rain. The original grounds were too wet to hold the granite replica. So they blocked off the street for the wall. Blossom Meyer Drive was lined with roses and flags along the wall of ebony.
The ceremony was moved inside the Myatt Elementary School because of the conditions. About 400 people packed the school cafeteria to honor the soldiers.
The deceased soldiers came alive through stories told by friends, former soldiers and family.
Even with moments of laughter, the room became wet with tears. The song "Letters from War" was played with the guitar and an untitled poem by Lisa Dornak Bullen moved even the toughest soldier standing at attention.
Memorial organizers hope the gathering was therapeutic.
"This wall is taking the first step to start the healing process of something that happened 50 years ago," said Greg Welsh, Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall Manager.
The sense of camaraderie helped to soothe Frances Kyle's soul.
"Everyone who walks in this room is here because they want to be," she said, looking down her front row seat.
The 55-year-old El Campo resident was 12 years old when her brother, Staff Sgt. Howe King Clark Jr., was killed in combat.
A telegram came to Kyle's home stating her brother was MIA, two days later he was declared dead. It left the family and the community devastated. The details surrounding his death are still unknown.
"He wasn't just my big brother but my hero," she said. Because of Clark's contributions, he earned three Purple Hearts, a bronze star and a silver star.
Although her blue eyes fought back tears for her brother, she couldn't help but think of others who suffered the same fate.
"Each name on the wall has a story to tell," she said.
Before the tribute, Vietnam veteran Ricardo Castillo rubbed his fingers over the names etched in granite.
He placed flowers by names of his friends lost in combat.
Castillo was 29 when he enlisted in the military because of his pride and the injustice he witnessed chipped away at it.
Castillo said two friends of African-American descent were not allowed to be buried in the local cemetery because of the color of their skin. He's on a quest to visit their place of rest.
After fighting on the front lines in the 101 Airborne Division, the father of three faced different battles.
"I forgot about the racism. It was all about being invisible," he said.
Castillo and others were encouraged to put their uniforms away. The Vietnam hat he wore served as his battle scar. He didn't want people to forget.
After years of nightmares, the 72-year-old learned to function through his pain.
Spectators thanked him for this service, but he diverted the attention away from himself.
"These are the ones you need to thank," he said as he pointed to the wall.
Castillo said it's never too late to express gratitude.
"It's been a long time but I'm glad they're finally recognized," he said.
Banda kept his friend's memory alive by visiting his grave four times a year. Saturday was his first time to celebrate him publicly.
Canales was a practical joker and loyal friend. One day he and Banda stole a ham for the barracks. Everyone lived high on the hog for one night, but the victory was short-lived.
A commanding officer found out about the impropriety and demanded Canales tell the truth. He responded in silence.
"It would have killed him to tell on anyone," Banda said.
For a punishment, Canales had to scrub a grease pit that towered over him. He stood 5-feet-2-inches tall.
Bonds between this crew could not be broken, everyone suffered in silence. The unit had to trudge through the freezing rain while trying to alligator crawl in their undergarments.
It was one of the last, living memories he has of Canales.
Banda said it took him 22 years to contact the Canales family and he was immediately welcomed by them.
"When I see him (Banda) I see my uncle. I can see why the two of them were friends," shared Elloyd Canales, his friend's nephew. Being able to connect gave closure to Banda and the family.
"They lost a son, uncle, nephew I lost my best friend," said Banda.
The grandfather of four presented the Canales family with an autographed flag with other Vietnam soldiers for their beloved Canales.
It was easy for Banda to pass on the memorabilia to the family because he holds Canales in a special place.
"I'll never forget him because he lives with me," he said.


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PM Lee to meet President Obama during official visit to the US
Published on Mar 28, 2013 5:01 PM
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will meet United States President Barack Obama on a four day trip to Washington, DC and New York City that begins on Monday.
This will be PM Lee's first meeting with Mr Obama in the White House and his first official trip to the US since July 2010.
During the visit, Mr Lee will also meet with Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Secretary of Defence Charles Hagel and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, said a statement from the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday.
In New York City, he will meet Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and several business leaders.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Current and future: Quarterbacks
By Sam Khan Jr.
As fall practice and the 2012 season approach, GigEmNation will take a look at where the Aggies stand currently and in the future at each position group. Today, we glance at the quarterbacks.
On the depth chart:
Matt Joeckel
Johnny Manziel
Jameill Showers
Jameill Showers passed for 40 yards last season in backup duty.
None of the three has any starting experience at the college level, as they compete in fall camp for the starting job. Showers, a redshirt sophomore, enters camp as the favorite to win the job, based on his spring performance. He was Ryan Tannehill's backup in 2011 and is the only one of the three who has seen any sort of playing time, though it was limited (he attempted five passes in 2011). Showers brings a strong arm and some mobility to the table. Manziel, who was a high school All-American, is a playmaker, especially with his feet. The redshirt freshman can run but can also make pass plays outside of the pocket. Joeckel has a good grasp of the offense and his strength is as a pocket-passer.
Others of note:
Matt Davis
The true freshman was one of the jewels of the 2012 recruiting class for the Aggies and was an early enrollee who participated in spring practice. The Houston/Klein Forest product is a dual-threat quarterback who, like Manziel, can make big plays on the run or outside the pocket.
Kenny Hill
Kohl Stewart
Hill is the latest in a long line of quality quarterbacks to come through Southlake (Texas) Carroll High School. The 21st-ranked dual-threat quarterback in the country, Hill led the Dragons to a Class 5A Division I state championship last season. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Hill amassed 3,006 passing yards and 25 touchdowns in his junior season, and since winning the starting job midway through his sophomore year, he's 23-1. Stewart, who is 91st overall in the ESPN 150 and ranked the seventh-best pocket passer in the nation, is an intriguing prospect. The 6-2, 195-pound athlete is not only a four-star quarterback, but he's an All-American baseball player, too, and is a likely prospect for the 2013 MLB first-year player draft. If drafted high enough next June, he'll have a significant decision to make. If he heads to College Station, he'll play football and baseball.


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My first and most important question is about pasteurizing. Using the sticky up top I read all about pasteurizing bottles once you have your desired level of carbonation, but I would like to know is if once it is pasteurized can it be unrefrigerated without fear of a potential bottle bomb? Mainly I don't have the fridge space and would be able to keep them in a cooler area, but not the temp of a fridge Second question is how much different is apple juice with lots of sugar vs. actual cider? Is there a huge flavor difference? Reusing beer bottles for bottling, is that a bad idea? I was gonna buy some, but as a college student all the bottles I come by would save a little green in the long run. Also any other tips for a newbie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for any and all help!
Once it's pasteurized the yeast are dead, so if you do it right there should be no explosions. I'm really not sure how people get a good result with added sugar, since even without it the fermentation tends to remove any apple flavor. It would probably be better to add concentrated apple juice instead of sugar, but I haven't tried it so I can't say for sure. The best thing to do is to get juice from actual cider apples, but I don't think it's easy to find. I think everyone reuses beer bottles, just make sure they aren't the twist-off kind.
Would you recommend to splurge and go for glass carboys right away? Or should I start small with basic buckets? Also would it work to have one glass carboy, one bottling bucket, and after primary switch to a second container, wash the carboy and move it back in to save some money from the get go?
I've only done 1-gallon batches so far, and I use either glass jugs or plastic milk jugs. Many people will tell you that there's no reason to use glass carboys over buckets, though.
Depending on how serious you are about brewing (it's addicting) go for the glass or better bottle PET plastic carboys. I use apple juice concentrate to back sweeten. I also reuse beer bottles all the time, just make sure you sanitize the crap outta them.
I've never used any juices with High Fructose Corn syrup in them and I've found that plain white table sugar produces some weird flavors (just my personal experience) I've used Brown Sugar quite a few times. Aging your ciders in a secondary vessel or just letting them sit in the bottles for an extended time will usually bring the apple flavors back around. Certain yeasts are also said to strip some apple flavors. I use ale yeasts and they work best for me. Homebrew buckets work fine for 5 gallon batches, but I personally wouldn't leave a cider in one for more than a month or so. I don't know if it's proven or not, but I wouldn't want to take the chance of a plastic taste or chemicals leaching into my ciders. (again, just personal opinion) Also if you ever do get a small scratch in one it becomes a nice little hidey-hole for crusties to cling to. Glass is easy to clean, works great for long storage and you can watch the cool stuff going on during fermentation. An empty milk crate is nice to put the carboys in so you can move them around or slide it a little. I would just avoid carry handles that attach to the neck. I've heard stories of people breaking carboys when they are full and could do some serious damage to your feet and legs if you drop them.
Thanks for all the replies, but in terms of plastic has anyone had luck with one of the Better Bottle brand plastic carboys? And I've read a few people actually backsweaten with more cider/juice. Can anyone here attest to that method?
I use better bottles all the time, have 3 five gallon bottles. I used apple juice concentrate to back sweeten if needed. It's simple and it just works.


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Candy-Free Easter Basket Ideas For Your Toddler
It seems like so much on the market today that is intended to go inside of Easter baskets is centered around one common item: candy. If feeding your toddler jelly beans doesn't put a spring in your Easter Bunny's step, read on for some fun and creative candy-free ideas that your toddler will be sure to love.
Fisher Price Little People Easter Collection:
- For every season or holiday, Fisher Price comes out with a new line of Little People toys ranging from houses, to trains, to gift sets like the one pictured above. However, many times they can only be found on their website, so check it out early, and have it shipped to you.
Fisher Price Little People Flap Book:
- If you have never seen one of these Little People books, you are in for a treat. The colors are so vibrant, and your toddler will adore lifting up all the different flaps in this book. The flaps and pages are also made from a thicker card-stock so they will not rip in the hands of an eager toddler.
Beatrix Potter Board Books:
- This classic children's book author writes about two popular rabbits: Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit. The added bonus of these books is that they are not Easter specific, and can be enjoyed year round. She has many more animal tales to follow down the road, if your child loves her books.
Musical Egg Shakers:
- Have some percussion fun with these egg shakers! The sound they make is fun for toddlers, and it's never too early to start teaching them rhythms and beats.
- These adorable teddy bears dressed as bunnies are hug-able, and a great keepsake for your toddler to remember their Easter. These Bunny Bears are from Personal Creations, and they have many different stuffed animal items available, and offer free personalizing on everything.
Now hop to it, and spring into action! What are your favorite Easter basket items? Tell us in the comment section.
For a fun Easter Craft idea, check out this post.
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The Getting Of Culture
By Stephen CrittendenApril 19, 2012
Australian culture, once derided as an oxymoron, might emerge with new strengths depending on the focus of a new national policy. We distill hundreds of views from around Australia about what exactly it should include.
An interesting shift is happening in public attitudes about Australian arts and culture. It's probably been coming for a long time. What it boils down to is an increasing recognition of the importance of the "local" and dissatisfaction with "top-down" cultural offerings.
Not only is there a sense of stagnation at the centre counterbalanced by signs of life at the periphery, people outside the centre are increasingly asserting that they too are cultural "makers" who have something valuable to add to the national conversation.
No doubt this is partly a generational thing, emanating from our interactive, digital media culture. But perhaps it's also what happens when arts and culture are neglected and scarce resources are very unevenly distributed for a long time.
It was evident in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney one Friday night last November at an extraordinary "Live at the Village" concert in the Springwood Presbyterian Church Hall — packed to the rafters with locals who had come to hear the first performance of a piece of music they had commissioned themselves with a $9,000 grant from the Australia Council. Composed by Gary Daley and performed by a large band featuring some of Australia's finest musicians, Sanctuary was a mesmerising dreamscape of post-modern folk.
The funding grant was miniscule, little more than a token to help the project get going, and the amount of voluntary labour behind the scenes was immense. At the end of the night the musicians got paid next to nothing (they are expected to live like the lilies of the field). But the artistic standards achieved on the smell of an oily rag in that little church hall in the mountains that night would have done any international festival proud.
The same phenomenon is evident at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in southwest Sydney, where the former director, Kon Gouriotos, once told me people are much more interested in art made in their local community that reflects their own lives than they are in shows brought in from outside.
One of a ring of outer-suburban arts centres built by the NSW Carr Labor Government, Casula Powerhouse has become a creative home particularly for the local Vietnamese community, who began settling in the area decades ago. When I was a teenager growing up in the area, the outer western suburbs were a cultural desert from which I couldn't wait to escape. But the creative face of Australia has changed. Now, every time I go back to Casula Powerhouse, I come away feeling I have learnt something surprising.
The shift in public attitudes about Australian arts and culture is also expressed in the anxiety about whether audiences have been left behind by mainstream performing arts companies. Currency Press founder Katharine Brisbane articulated this in her recent Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture when she criticised Australian theatre companies for failing to carry their audiences with them. And a not too distant sentiment has repeatedly been expressed by the artistic director of Opera Australia, Lyndon Terracini, who says opera risks becoming an elitist club and needs to build a new audience that is more reflective of the changing Australian population.
And it's there in the many public submissions the federal government has received during the consultation phase of its long-awaited National Cultural Policy.
Heralded as a 10-year vision for Australian arts and culture, it is surely a measure of the marginal place of the arts and culture in government thinking that it is the first such policy statement since Paul Keating's Creative Nation in 1994.
In that time there has been a massive digital revolution that has affected every aspect of our lives, and we have seen artists and the arts constantly denigrated in public discourse as elitist.
"Now in the 21st century," says federal arts minister Simon Crean, "it is time for a new phase of policy development designed to bring the arts and creative industries into the mainstream of Australian life."
It is expected that the new policy will be unveiled next month, but doubts have been expressed about whether Simon Crean will manage to secure much extra funding for it in the upcoming May budget. In itself, that fear is surely a measure of the marginal position that arts and culture occupy in Australian government thinking. The same depressing truth about the actual value placed on artists and creativity in this country was confirmed in the recent decision of the newly-elected Queensland Government led by Campbell Newman to scrap the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in order to save taxpayers a mere $245,000.
The federal government's National Cultural Policy discussion paper proposes four major policy goals:
1. To promote Australia's cultural diversity and support indigenous culture;
2. To encourage the use of emerging technologies to support the development of new artworks, the creative industries and greater participation in arts and culture;
3. To support excellence and "world class" endeavour;
4. To strengthen the capacity of the arts to contribute to society and the economy.
So far, there has been little attempt in the mainstream media to analyse the hundreds of submissions the government has posted on its website. That's a pity, because they represent a remarkable distillation of wisdom and experience from all around the country.
In fact, the overall standard is arguably higher than the government's own discussion paper, which comes across as somewhat naïve in its sense of the real world of the arts and artists. Despite some important lines of disagreement, there is quite a surprising consensus in the vision for Australian culture they express.
Some strong themes emerge from the submissions.
There is overwhelming support for the idea that diversity and indigenous culture need to be strongly promoted in the new policy.
Eastern Riverina Arts expresses it most succinctly: "As a statement the goal is unarguable."
But a number of submissions go on to argue that the arts are not doing enough to reflect that diversity. The chief executive of Kultour, Magdalena Moreno, a member of Simon Crean's National Cultural Policy Reference Group, says affirmation of Australia's cultural diversity "is manifested more prominently in other industries such as health and sport". And Fairfield City Council says Australia will know it has a policy that truly reflects the diversity of the 21st century "when we see more diverse faces, bodies and locations on Australian television and media."
There is also cynicism about the government's commitment to indigenous culture. The Commonwealth Public Sector Union chides the government for its "shameful" defunding in the 2011 budget of the language digitisation project run by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. It calls for funding to be restored as a matter of urgency. And freelance arts consultant Mary Travers says indigenous culture should be central in an Australian cultural policy, "but please don't patronise them by going overboard and then not delivering at least a doubling of the Aboriginal Arts Board budget."
There is significant disagreement about whether or not the arts should occupy the central place in the new National Cultural Policy.
The biggest problem with the new National Cultural Policy is that it is trying to be three different things at once: an arts policy, a cultural policy and an industry policy for the so-called "Creative Industries" — a relatively recent concept, commercial in its focus, and encompassing the media, film and television, radio, software, video games, architecture, and even — apparently — marketing and advertising.
The risk in trying to shape such a complex document is that competing sectors end up in dispute or some sectors find themselves being overlooked. And that is exactly what has happened.
Australia's major collecting institutions, including the libraries and museums, feel they have been neglected. "This is in no sense a cultural policy," thunders the chief executive of the Western Australian Museum, Alec Coles, "it is a policy for the arts and creative industries."
Meanwhile, behind the scenes there has been a strong push to dislodge the arts from the centre, or to "de-privilege" the arts.
Some of those advocating on behalf of the so-called "creative industries" — such as Professor Terry Flew of the Queensland University of Technology — even want to suggest that the government should stop talking about the arts altogether and focus instead on "culture" or "creativity".
On the other side of the argument, there are those, including Professor David Throsby of Macquarie University, also a member of Simon Crean's National Cultural Policy Reference Group, who have been arguing for a model that places the "core arts" at the centre of a series of concentric circles that move outwards to embrace, film and television, and other creative industries. The Arts Council of South Australia also presents this view, arguing: "Arts and culture is the epicentre, engine room and research and development arm of creativity. Arts and culture is not an adjunct or sideline to the wide creative industries."
Of course, if there were to be a significant shift in emphasis away from the arts, this may have serious funding implications over time for our major arts institutions.
But so far, if there has been a strong push to shift the focus away from the arts, it seems not to have succeeded. Minister Crean has spoken recently about bolstering government support for Opera Australia, and when Australia's federal and state arts ministers met in Melbourne earlier this month they agreed to even more funding for Australia's major performing arts companies.
Also evident in the submissions is a powerful fight-back for "heritage" and "cultural memory".
The nation's libraries and museums feel the government's discussion paper has neglected the role of the country's collecting institutions and the importance of its cultural heritage. The Australian Institute of Architects adds that the discussion paper has nothing to say about Australia's built environment — surely the most neglected area of Australian cultural life.
A number of organisations have written strong submissions arguing the concept of heritage is deserving of far more attention.
The Council of Australasian Museum Directors cites the British Museum's director, Neil MacGregor: "There's an extraordinary public that goes to Australian museums, enormous numbers. The percentage of the population has to be the highest in the world."
The Council says it finds the government discussion paper's "relative lack of policies and agendas dealing with cultural memory, and the individuals, organisations and institutions which support it, to be surprising given its centrality to community life."
Perhaps that's to be expected when you stop thinking in terms of the communities that make up a nation and think instead about commercialising culture. The Council's take on "culture" is conceptually far richer than that offered in the government's own discussion paper.
"Culture as a concept is much broader than the arts alone. Culture covers both the tangible and intangible aspects of life which give us our identity and sense of self. It includes belief, traditions, memories, languages, practices and knowledge — as well as their artistic expression — but most of all it encompasses cultural memory and the cultural expression which flows when people engage with culture past and present, national and international," says the Council's submission.
This concept of "cultural memory" counters those intellectually thin, highly individualist and commercially-focussed approaches that tend to view the past as another country and culture as something that happens only in some kind of permanent present.
But the Council of Australasian Museum Directors opens up an even more interesting conversation, about who owns cultural capital. "Museums are amongst the most democratic of cultural institutions….Their collections are drawn from and belong to all people across Australia — they tell their stories, memorialise their triumphs and tragedies, preserve their traditions, nourish and encourage their thirst for knowledge and knit together different generations and communities through common understandings."
Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Cheryl Foong and Kylie Pappalardo of Queensland University of Technology Law School take up one implication of this democratic ideal — arguing that the "default" position in relation to digitising the nation's cultural collections is that access should be free and unrestricted. After all, this is material already owned by us all.
There is a very strong focus in the submissions on what it means to be able to participate in culture.
Clearly the public is not satisfied with a view of culture as something that comes to them from somewhere else.
The Cultural Development Network says active engagement and participation is the frontier issue for arts policy: "For too long, the artistic aspirations and activities of ordinary folk have been trivialised, overlooked and undervalued."
The chief executive of the Western Australian Museum, Alec Coles, agrees. In one of the feistiest of all the submissions, he says of the government's discussion paper that "the policy is predominantly expressed in terms of the output of 'producers' and receipt by consumers. There is little sense of shared cultural capital created and owned by the many rather than the few. Nor of participation and co-production."
This insistence that culture is not something delivered "top-down" comes through most strongly in submissions from rural and regional Australia. The Braidwood Regional Arts Group (BRAG) in southern NSW says that funding major companies from the big cities to tour in regional areas at the expense of adequate funding for the regional arts themselves is "doubtless well-meant, but seems patronising to institutions and artists trying to function at regional and rural level.
"BRAG does not deny the importance of Bell Shakespeare's schools program. Nor that, for example, Opera Australia's touring program is high standard and is much enjoyed when it briefly passes through…. NCIs [National Cultural Institutions] are important and deserve the large amounts of public and private sector money already spent on them. But extra funding for regional programs would be far better spent within the regions themselves rather than being laundered via the NCIs."
So, what does the emergence of "Creative Industries" mean for Australian arts and culture?
It is clear that technological development, increasing productivity and connecting with international markets are major priorities in the government's new National Cultural Policy.
In short, the arts are now expected to become a driver of economic growth.
Simon Crean says artists need to be prepared to think of themselves as an industry:
"If they want their profession, their reputation, their talent and their reward to grow, I think they do need to think in those terms. It isn't just a lifestyle, it's a business," he recently told ABC Radio National.
The strongest push for more recognition of the so-called Creative Industries comes from the Queensland University of Technology's Creative Industries Faculty. Professor Stuart Cunningham canvasses the idea there is a distinction between employment growth in the "creative services" sector and stagnation and decline in what he calls "cultural production".
"The growth [between 1996 and 2006] is found in creative services (business to business activities like design, architecture, digital content, software development, advertising and marketing) at around 4.5 per cent. That's a plump two-and-a-half times the growth of the rest of the economy…..It's a different story for cultural production [film, television, and radio, publishing, music, performing arts and visual arts] where employment has plateaued or declined."
The clear implication is that we need to shift public investment to where the jobs are.
What about the artist as a person?
There is precious little in the discussion paper or the submissions that focuses on the artist as a person, let alone on the incomes necessary to make a sustainable career.
One exception is a submission from Rupert Myer, Chairman of the Myer Family Company, as well as a leading philanthropist. He chaired the Commonwealth Government's Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry in 2001-2.
He says: "The centrality of the artist must be the foundation of the policy if it is to be embraced by the creative community. If the policy does not speak to and for artists, it will have no meaning or value for them and the value for the broader Australian community will be significantly diluted."
Myer goes on to mount a defence of art for art's sake that might have been written to address Simon Crean's apparent obsession with measurable outcomes:
"In my view, contemporary policy making about the arts and creativity in many, but not all, Western democracies has tended toward the view that the arts should not be valued or supported unless they can continually demonstrate tangible and immediate social and economic benefits….This approach is clearly an outcome of increasing and competing demands on limited government resources, a narrowing of the definition of the public interest and a short-term, risk-averse approach to policy making."
Freelance arts consultant Mary Travers has done a lot of work on artists' incomes in the past. In 2009 she co-authored the report Arts Plus: New Arts New Money. In her submission, she sounds a note of practical warning about the sustainability of artists' careers:
"Their payment and conditions are in continual decline. The size of grants for established artists to have the time to make work is small…Of course there is never going to be a bottomless well of public money but as it now stands, the administrators, support workers, producers, public servants etc. engaged in the arts are all paid more than the precious talent upon which their existences are based."
Some submissions reflect concern about the fragmentation of government responsibility for the arts.
One of the key intentions of the new policy is that culture and creativity should become a whole-of-government concern.
This is something that is long overdue, and there is a lot of enthusiasm for it in the submissions. As Currency Press founder Katharine Brisbane puts it: "A meaningful cultural policy needs cross-cabinet action." The Cultural Development Network even goes so far as to suggest that "cultural impact statements" should be attached to all new policies, regulations or legislation.
But there is also widespread concern about fragmentation, gaps, and duplication in government responsibility for the arts across the three tiers of government in Australia.
Mary Travers says: "It is time some of the institutional arrangements are streamlined to reduce the amount of money spent by middle persons, and redirect that money to the cost of actually making art. In particular the co-funding of public broadcaster drama production by a number of agencies. If for instance the ABC had an adequate budget for drama, producers would not have to spend a great amount of time and money convincing Screen Australia and state film agencies to also contribute. What is the benefit of this?"
Perhaps one of the most neglected areas in the government's discussion paper is the role of local governmentin supporting the arts and culture in Australia. Local councils spend more than $1 billion a year on the arts, some 70 per cent of which goes to libraries.
Freelance arts consultant Anne Dunn argues in her submission that while many councils accept that they have a key role to play in the arts, many "continue to see this as activity only to be supported if it is paid for by another sphere of government….The Cultural Policy should explicitly identify that Local Government, in planning and building their communities, has a major role to play."
What is the proper place of technology in the policy?
Simon Crean has described the $36 billion National Broadband Network as "the largest cultural infrastructure project Australia has ever seen", and many of the submissions on the National Cultural Policy express optimism that it will help break the tyranny of distance experienced by people in regional and rural Australia. But there is a surprising amount of scepticism expressed about the role of the new technology. Arts Northern Rivers (NSW) says "Technology is not the answer to everything."
Katharine Brisbane says: "Investment in new technology to the detriment of other investment could put the live arts at a severe disadvantage. Technology is a tool to improve product but it can never replace the core knowledge and skill that belong to every profession…. Venues like Gertrude Street Gallery in Melbourne and Rex Cramphorn Studio in Sydney — these places are where art begins. Technology comes later."
Rob Robson of Baw Baw Shire Council in West Gippsland says of the NBN that "It is crucial that the emerging technologies not be used to simply increase the passive reception of ideas, but they should open up opportunities for active engagement, art making, and participation" in regional and remote areas. Chips Mackinolty from Artback NT says bluntly that "For technology to be relevant, people need to have access to the infrastructure to support it and most indigenous communities do not."
The government champions the NBN but has done little over the years to help museums and libraries digitise their collections. According to the Commonwealth Public Sector Union (CPSU), Australia's largest public research library, the National Library in Canberra, has managed to digitise only about two percent of its collection over the past 10 years. The CPSU recommends establishing a national digitisation fund with a national digitisation strategy to coordinate and prioritise the digitisation of Australia's national collections.
Global interaction seems to be an important theme too.
Many submissions are interested in cultural exchange, and there are arguments for far more support for national and strategic international touring programs, as well as views about the role culture and the arts should be playing in Australia's diplomatic efforts.
The Australian Publishers Association suggeststhat Australia should consider increasing support for book translation. "The British Council, Alliance Française, Canada Council, and Instituto Cervantes are good examples of how to promote a nation through the soft power of culture and deliver an economic dividend at the same time….To project Australian culture overseas will cost money but there are no shortcuts if the Government is serious."
Theatre critic Alison Croggon introduces the important concept of "cultural citizenship" in a submission of the Australian Theatre Forum: "Most of all, a National Cultural Policy must recognise that nurturing our culture is fundamental to nurturing our citizenship, not only of Australia, but of the wider world in which we live. In the 21st century, we are not only citizens of this country, but of the globe."
Stephen Crittenden is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Australian Museum.


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We live in a society inundated with the idea of self-absorption and self-victimization. Some people constantly walk around in a state of perpetual "woe is me" being. People are always upset or mad at someone else for something in their lives. People blame their ex for a relationship failing, blame others for the reason they are always in some drama like Knots Landing, or blame society for them not succeeding or going as far as they feel they should have. The truth is the person you should be MAD at is the person you like that every morning in the mirror…YOU!
That ME thing is something that w have twisted in our mind. We want everything to be about us and for us until it comes down to taking the onus or blame in our own lives. We want people to do everything we want them to do with no adherence to what WE should be doing. I am a firm believer that sometimes we deserve the situation we are in because like I have said before WE ARE OUR WORST ENEMY.
Be Mad AT You… For Bad Relationships
For instance, in relationships many times our relationships are sh*** not just because of the other person but also because we are deficient ourselves at something. We have become a society of people who don't want to struggle or build with someone in a relationship. We want everything to feel right all the time and to run like Love Jones. Then if we do try to build with someone we pick the worst and wackest people to decide to want to deal with. We pass by great situations "cause it didn't always feel" right for the situation that "feels right" but is wholeheartedly wrong for us (see The Marcus Graham Chronicles). We have cut off so many of the great people in our lives for trivial reasons that its poetic justice that we are in relationship purgatory. After all of these burned bridges we want to say that it is all someone else's fault we are single or unhappy. People never want to sit back and take self-inventory we just keep moving from relationship to relationship playing the blame game with the wrong person NO, the person at fault is right there in the mirror.
Be Mad At You… For Your Career Sucking
When it comes to our problems we never want to look at the person that we see the most everyday…OURSELVES. We aren't happy in our career so we want to blame or be mad at the system when it's not all the systems fault you don't have the career or money you want. To make anything happen or prosper you have to live, breathe, and eat it and even in doing that you may not get where you want. Are you really living and breathing and going hard on what you want out of life. Do you wake up in the morning and feel sick when you aren't doing the things you NEED and Should be doing? Are you just haphazardly trying something instead of doing it? Are you putting yourself in position to make things happen for you? If you aren't then who are you MAD at? Are you just what I have talked about before trying and not doing? That's right the person you see every day in the rearview mirror.
Be Mad at You…For Always Being in Drama
How patient are you in situations? What negative energy are you putting out there? What negative and ill-willed choices are YOU making? I have always believed that some of the negative things that we encounter are repercussions of the negative energy and decisions we have made in our lives. Here is a story on patience and our lives I want you to take in:
A man was coming back from war and couldn't wait to see his wife that he hadn't seen in years. He walked up the steps and saw in the window his wife embracing another man. He was enraged that his wife was with other man and went to go get a gun to kill them. He couldn't believe that his wife could do this to him after all he had done for her. He went to his father's to get a gun and his father told him that in drastic or big decision you should wait 72 hrs. and if you felt the same way to go ahead and do what you have to do. The man stayed at his father's for 3 days and simmered about the fact that his wife was with another man why he was off fighting a war. On Day 3 he was still enraged so he grabbed his father's gun and rushed to his home. He saw his wife folding up clothes that he knew had to be for a grown man…probably the new guy she was sleeping with. He pulled his gun and started to open the door and as he opened the door. He heard a voice from behind him "Dad!! Is that you??!!" The man turned around to see the man he saw in the window running towards him and hugging him. If he had not been patient the man would have entered his home and killed both his wife and son.
I am going to let that story simmer on the pot for you like Greens on Tuesday before Thanksgiving…
How much drama are you putting in your life at your own behest by making impulsive decisions and not being patient to see what is happening first? Are you bringing that negative energy to yourself by wanting things to happen so fast for you? Things in this world don't happen in a vacuum and come over time. I have minimized my impulsive thought and rash decisions by looking at successful things: relationships, careers, business, spirituality, etc and the one common reason is that none of them happen right away and that they are all a process. The blaming of other people and things has to be stopped. There are things to be happy about in life but the first way to that happens is taking the blame for your problems and effectively attacking and mediating ourselves. Don't forget just because we aren't where we want to be doesn't mean anything but maybe it wasn't OUR TIME. By it is time for us to start looking at the man/woman in the mirror.
Make sure you check out this week's episode of the "Straight Outta Lo Cash" Radio Show. This week's show " What's Love Got to Do With It?" with graphic artist and hip hop culturalist Rhasad "Shadzilla" Whittier". You can also subscribe to the show on I-Tunes or listen on your Android, I-Phone, I-Pad or Black berry with Stitcher Radio


text: Keselowski cruises to his first-ever NASCAR championshipBy the CNN Wire StaffUpdated 9:00 PM ET, Sun November 18, 2012Story highlightsBrad Keselowski wins NASCAR's Sprint Cup title after a Florida raceHe finishes 15th, but earned enough points to wrap up his first ever series championshipJimmie Johnson, who had a chance to win, ended up dropping out of the raceJeff Gordon wins the race, beating the driver he'd wrecked the previous week"We did it!"That exultant Tweet came from Brad Keselowski as he rolled into pit row after Sunday's season-ending race, the Ford EcoBoost 400, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in South Florida.Keselowski didn't come in first, a prize that went to Jeff Gordon. But his 15th-place finish was more than enough for the 28-year-old to cinch his first ever Sprint Cup championship as NASCAR's top driver this year."It means the world -- it really does," Keselowski said, according to a story on NASCAR.com. "I've got the best team in racing, and I'm just so thrilled to be a part of it."The honor capped a breakthrough year for the Michigan resident, who began racing full time in 2010 on the senior racing circuit. He posted five wins (more than doubling his career total), as well as 13 top-5 and 23 top-10 finishes.Considering those statistics, Sunday's race might have been considered a letdown for Keselowski. But it didn't matter, considering his next closest foe -- and the only other driver, coming into the race, with any chance to claim the title -- Jimmie Johnson didn't even finish.The five-time series championship winner bowed out after the 224th lap due to mechanical problems, clearing the way for Keselowski.Gordon had reason to celebrate as well, by beating Clint Bowyer by just over a second to win the race. Just last week, Gordon ran into Bowyer at a race in Phoenix, Arizona -- causing a wreck that basically removed any last hopes Bowyer had for a championship. Afterward, Gordon took part in a brawl with members of Bowyer's pit crew, which prompted NASCAR to fine him $100,000.Keselowski also had to pay a fine after that race, though it had nothing to do with fighting. Rather, NASCAR docked him $25,000 for breaking its rules by having a cell phone in his car. No word on whether more fines might be coming, given that Keselowski shot a picture from inside his car Sunday night, which he then shared with the world via Twitter. But any penalty seems unlikely to significantly damper the new champion's enthusiasm.More from motorsportF1: McLaren star Fernando Alonso out of Australian Grand PrixMercedes and Lewis Hamilton fastest at Circuit de Catalunya testingNico Rosberg leaves rivals trailing as Mercedes shows its hand Powered by Livefyre


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It reflects the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party that this guy is considered a presidential contender. This stock option news may come close to criminal, but consider this is the guy who called an Indian "macaca," displayed a noose in his law office and a confederate flag at his home, is involved with the racist Council of Concerned citizens, according to several witnesses used the n-word in college, opposed the MLK holiday, and championed Confederate History month. This guy is a disgusting human being and the fact that he's leading against Reagan's Sec'y of the Navy, a Democratic conservative, reflects how much white Virginians treasure and want to preserve their racism.
Soros and the rest of the DNC somehow did this, no way can Allen be responsible for this... either that or they changed the text someway.. he cannot be responsible for his behavior. They also disclosed it 4 weeks before the Nov Election, bad people those Dems.
I'm not a George Allen fan ... The less his name is in the news as a Presidential contender the better. If he intends to be a contender then a thorough investigation of his character the better. My belief in people knowing the candidates well when voting in the primaries...it's about time. Let's hope both parties dig on each other...America needs this and it's hard for the public to get info that is swept under the rug.


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Iranian table tennis players qualify for Olympics |
TEHRAN – Two Iranian table tennis players Noshad Alamian and Neda Shahsavari qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games on Wednesday. Neda Shahsavari defeated Yelena Shagarova from Kazakhstan 4-1 at the Middle Asia Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tehran, Iran. Shahsavari is the first Iranian woman table tennis player who will represent her country in Olympic. "I am so happy, not because of who I am the first Iranian woman would participate in Olympic, but because for Iranian women table tennis players. I had lost to my rival at the Dahe-ye Fajr and I got revenge on her," Shahsavari said. Noshad Alamian also booked a berth in the upcoming Olympic after defeating his countryman Mohammad-Reza Akhlaghpasand 4-2.
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Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes admits he expected Gregg Wylde to show more fight to win a place in the team.
Gregg Wylde has joined St Mirren after he was released early from his contract with Aberdeen.
Aberdeen have signed free agent Gregg Wylde on a two-year deal following his release by Bolton.
Bury boss Kevin Blackwell believes that midfielder Gregg Wylde is heading for a return to Scotland with Hibernian.
Bury loanees Troy Hewitt and Gregg Wylde have returned to their respective parent clubs.
Bury manager Kevin Blackwell believes new signing Gregg Wylde can become a crowd favourite at Gigg Lane.
Kevin Blackwell thinks Gregg Wylde will reap the benefits of last week's watching brief when he debuts for Bury against Southend.
Bolton winger Gregg Wylde has joined Bury on loan until 22 December.
FIFA now has the necessary paperwork to prove winger Gregg Wylde is clear to play for Bolton, manager Owen Coyle has confirmed.
Bolton are awaiting a response from Rangers' administrators before Gregg Wylde can play his first game for the club.
Bolton have completed the signing of Gregg Wylde on a free transfer following his recent departure from Rangers.
Bolton manager Owen Coyle has repeated his liking of Gregg Wylde amid reports the midfielder has decided to sign a three-year deal.
Ian Holloway has confirmed an interest in ex-Rangers winger Gregg Wylde and also plans to speak to Liverpool about re-signing Jonjo Shelvey.
Alex McLeish claims he will not be plundering former employers Rangers for their talent, but says Gregg Wylde could be an option for Villa.
Bolton boss Owen Coyle has refused to rule out a move for Gregg Wylde following his departure from Rangers
Gregg Wylde says it was 'a massive relief' to sever ties with financially-crippled Rangers and offer hope to other employees at the club.
Sky Sports sources understand that Gregg Wylde and Mervan Celik are the first players to leave Rangers after they entered administration.
Scotland Under-21 manager Billy Stark wants the Rangers players in his squad to maintain full concentration.
Gregg Wylde believes it is vital for Rangers to retain the services of in-form winger Sone Aluko beyond the end of the season
Gregg Wylde admits Rangers will have to dramatically improve their performances if they are to avoid undoing their good start to the season.
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29th Infantry Division | |
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 29th Infantry Division | |
Active | 1917–68;1985–present |
Country | United States of America |
Branch | United States Army |
Type | Infantry |
Part of | National Guards of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida |
Garrison/HQ | Fort Belvoir, Virginia |
Nickname | "Blue and Gray" (special designation)[1] |
Motto | "29 Let's Go!" |
Engagements | World War I World War II War in Kosovo Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Maj. Gen. Charles Whittington |
Notable commanders | Milton Reckord Leonard T. Gerow Charles H. Gerhardt H. Steven Blum |
29th Infantry Division | |
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 29th Infantry Division | |
Active | 1917–68;1985–present |
Country | United States of America |
Branch | United States Army |
Type | Infantry |
Part of | National Guards of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida |
Garrison/HQ | Fort Belvoir, Virginia |
Nickname | "Blue and Gray" (special designation)[1] |
Motto | "29 Let's Go!" |
Engagements | World War I World War II War in Kosovo Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Maj. Gen. Charles Whittington |
Notable commanders | Milton Reckord Leonard T. Gerow Charles H. Gerhardt H. Steven Blum |
US infantry divisions (1939–present) | |
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The 29th Infantry Division ("Blue and Gray"[1]) is an infantry division of the United States Army based in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. It is a formation of the United States Army National Guard and contains units from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Formed in 1917, the division deployed to France as a part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. Called up for service again in World War II, the division's 116th Regiment embedded in the First Inf. Division was in the first wave of troops ashore ,in support a special Ranger unit tasks with clearing strong points at Omaha Beach in Operation Overlord, the landings in Normandy, France. The rest of the 29th ID came ashore later then advanced to Saint-Lô, and eventually through France and into Germany itself. These actions have since been the subject of many motion pictures and video games.
Following the end of World War II, the division saw frequent reorganizations and deactivations. Although the 29th did not see combat through most of the next 50 years, it participated in numerous training exercises throughout the world. It eventually saw deployment to Kosovo as a commanding element in Kosovo Force, and units of the division also deployed to locations such as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Afghanistan as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, also Iraq as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.
The 29th Division was first constituted on paper 18 July 1917 in the Army National Guard.[2]:319 The division's infantry units were the 57th Infantry Brigade, made up of the 113th Infantry Regiment and 114th Infantry Regiment from New Jersey, and the 58th Infantry Brigade, made up of the 115th Infantry Regiment from Maryland and 116th Infantry Regiment from Virginia. Its artillery units were Maryland's 110th Artillery Regiment; Virginia's 111th Artillery Regiment; and New Jersey's 112th Artillery Regiment. As the division was composed of men from states that had units that fought for both the North and South during the Civil War, it was nicknamed the "Blue and Gray" division, after the blue uniforms of the Union and the gray uniforms of the Confederate armies during the American Civil War.[3] The division was actually organized on 25 August 1917 at Camp McClellan, Alabama.[2]:319
The division departed for France in June 1918 to join the American Expeditionary Force fighting in World War I[4] The division's advance detachment reached Brest, France on 8 June. In late September, the 29th received orders to join the First United States Army's Meuse-Argonne offensive as part of the French XVII Corps. During its 21 days in combat, the 29th Division advanced seven kilometers, captured 2,148 prisoners, and knocked out over 250 machine guns or artillery pieces. Thirty percent of the division became casualties—170 officers and 5,691 enlisted men were killed or wounded.[5] Shortly thereafter the Armistice with Germany was signed, ending hostilities between the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. The division returned to the United States in May 1919.[4] It demobilized on 30 May at Camp Dix, New Jersey,[2]:319 though it remained an active National Guard unit.
At the outbreak of World War II, the United States Army began buildup and reorganization of its fighting forces. The division was reactivated into active service on 3 February 1941.[4] Elements of the division were then sent to Fort Meade, Maryland for training.[5] The 57th and 58th Brigades were inactivated as part of an army-wide removal of brigades from divisions.[6]:159 Instead, the division was based around three infantry regiments; the 115th Infantry Regiment, the 116th Infantry Regiment, and the 175th Infantry Regiment.[4]:592 Also assigned to the division were the 110th, 111th, 224th, and 227th Field Artillery Battalions, as well as the 29th Signal Company, the 729th Ordnance Company, the 29th Quartermaster Company, the 29th Reconnaissance Troop, the 121st Engineer Battalion, the 104th Medical Battalion, and the 29th Counter Intelligence Detachment.[4]:592 On 12 March 1942, with this reorganization complete the division was redeignated the 29th Infantry Division and began preparing for deployment to Europe.[2]:320
The division was sent to England on 5 October 1942 on RMS Queen Mary.[4] It was based throughout England and Scotland, where it immediately began training for an invasion of northern Europe across the English Channel. In May 1943 the division moved to the Devon–Cornwall peninsula and started conducting simulated attacks against fortified positions.[5] At this time it was assigned to V Corps of the First United States Army.[7][8]:30
The cross-channel invasion of France finally came on 6 June 1944, Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy. The 29th Infantry Division sent the 116th Infantry Regiment to support the western flank of the 1st Infantry Division's 16th Infantry Regiment at Omaha Beach.[9]:92 Omaha was known to be the most difficult of the five landing beaches, due to its rough terrain and bluffs overlooking the beach, which had been well fortified by its German defenders of the 352nd Infantry Division.[9]:86[10] The 116th Infantry Regiment was assigned four sectors of the beach; Easy Green, Dog Red, Dog White, and Dog Green. Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division boarded a large number of attack transports for the D-Day invasion, among them Landing craft, Landing Ship, Tank and Landing Ship, Infantry ships and other vessels such as the SS Empire Javelin, USS Charles Carroll, and USS Buncombe County.[9]:86
As the ships were traveling to the beach, the heavy seas, combined with the chaos of the fighting caused most of the landing force to be thrown off-course and most of the 116th Infantry missed its landing spots.[9]:95 Most of the regiment's tank support, launched from too far off-shore, foundered and sank in the channel. The soldiers of the 116th Infantry began to hit the beach at 0630, coming under heavy fire from German fortifications. A Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry, from the Virginia National Guard in Bedford, Virginia was annihilated by overwhelming fire as it landed on the 116th's westernmost section of the beach, along with half of C Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion which was landing to the west of the 116th.[9]:98 The catastrophic losses suffered by this small Virginia community led to it being selected for the site of the National D-Day Memorial. The 1st Infantry Division's forces ran into similar fortifications on the eastern half of the beach, suffering massive casualties coming ashore. By 0830, the landings were called off for lack of space on the beach, as the Americans on Omaha Beach were unable to overcome German fortifications guarding the beach exits. General Omar Bradley, commander of the First Army, considered evacuating survivors and landing the rest of the divisions elsewhere.[9]:100[8]:29 However, by noon, elements of the American forces had been able to organize and advance off the beach, and the landings resumed.[9]:103 By nightfall, the division headquarters landed on the beach with about 60 percent of the division's total strength, and began organizing the push inland. On 7 June, a second wave of 20,000 reinforcements from the 1st and 29th divisions was sent ashore. By the end of D-Day, 2,400 men from the two divisions had become casualties on Omaha Beach.[9]:106-7 Added to casualties at other beaches and air-drops made the total casualties for Operation Overlord 6,500 Americans and 3,000 British and Canadians, lighter numbers than expected.[10]
The entire division had landed in Normandy by 7 June.[7]:122 By 9 June, Omaha Beach was secure and the division occupied Isigny.[4] On 14 July, the division was reassigned to XIX Corps, First United States Army, Twelfth United States Army Group.[7]
The division cut across the Elle River and advanced slowly toward Saint-Lô, fighting bitterly in the Normandy hedge rows.[11]:17 German reserves formed a new defensive front outside the town, and American forces fought a fierce battle with them two miles outside of the town.[8]:31 German forces used the dense bocage foliage to their advantage, mounting fierce resistance in house to house fighting in the ravaged Saint-Lô. By the end of the fight, the Germans were relying on artillery support to hold the town following the depletion of the infantry contingent.[11]:72-73 The 29th Division, which was already heavily underpower after heavy casualties on D-Day, was even further depleted in the intense fighting for Saint-Lô. Eventually, the 29th was able to capture the city in a direct assault, supported by airstrikes from P-47 Thunderbolts.[11]:74-75
After taking Saint-Lô, on 18 July, the division joined in the battle for Vire, capturing that strongly held city by 7 August. it continued to face stiff German resistance as it advanced to key positions southeast of Saint-Lô[11]:105 It was then reassigned to V Corps, and then again to VIII Corps.[7] Turning west, the 29th took part in the assault on Brest which lasted from 25 August until 18 September.[4] After a short rest, the division returned to XIX Corps and moved to defensive positions along the Teveren-Geilenkirchen line in Germany and maintained those positions through October.[4] On 16 November, the division began its drive to the Roer River, blasting its way through Siersdorf, Setterich, Durboslar, and Bettendorf, and reaching the Roer by the end of the month.[4] Heavy fighting reduced Jülich Sportplatz and the Hasenfeld Gut on 8 December.[4]
From 8 December 1944 to 23 February 1945, the division was assigned to XIII Corps and held defensive positions along the Rur and prepared for the next major offensive. The division was reassigned to XIX Corps,[7] and the attack jumped off across the Rur on 23 February, and carried the division through Jülich, Broich, Immerath, and Titz, to Mönchengladbach by 1 March 1945.[4] The division was out of combat in March. In early April the division was reassigned to XVI Corps, where 116th Infantry helped mop up in the Ruhr area.[7] On 19 April 1945 the division, assigned to XIII Corps, pushed to the Elbe River and held defensive positions until 4 May.[4] Meanwhile, the 175th Infantry cleared the Klotze Forest. After V-E Day, the division was on military duty in the Bremen enclave.[4] It was assigned to XVI Corps again for this assignment.[7]
During World War II, the 29th Infantry Division suffered 3,720 killed in action, 15,403 wounded in action, 462 missing in action, 526 prisoners of war, and 8,665 non-combat casualties, for a total of 28,776 casualties during 242 days of combat. This amounted to over 200 percent of the division's normal strength. The division, in turn, took 38,912 German prisoners of war. Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division were awarded 5 Medals of Honor, 44 Distinguished Service Crosses, one Distinguished Service Medal, 854 Silver Star Medals, 17 Legion of Merit Medals, 24 Soldiers' Medals, 6,308 Bronze Star Medals, and 176 Air Medals during the conflict. The division itself was awarded four distinguished unit citations and four campaign streamers for the conflict.[7]:123
The division remained on occupation duty until the end of 1945. Camp Grohn near Bremen was the division headquarters until January 1946. It returned to the United States in January 1946 and was demobilized and inactivated on 17 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.[2]:321
On 23 October 1946, the division was reactivated in Norfolk, Virginia.[2]:320 However, its subordinate elements were not fully manned and activated for several years. It resumed its National Guard status, seeing weekend and summer training assignments but no major contingencies over the next few years.[5]
In 1959, the division was reorganized under the Pentomic five battle group division organization. Ewing's 29th Infantry Division: A Short History of a Fighting Division says that several Maryland infantry and engineer companies were reorganized to form 1st Med Tank Bn, 115th Armor; the 29th Aviation Company was established; and the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 183rd Armor, was established in Virginia as the division's reconnaissance squadron.[12] In 1963, the division was reorganized in accordance with the Reorganization Objective Army Divisions plan, eliminating its regimental commands in favor of brigades. The division took command of 1st Brigade, 29th Infantry Division and 2nd Brigade, 29th Infantry Division of the Virginia Army National Guard,[2]:322 as well as 3rd Brigade, 29th Infantry Division of the Maryland Army National Guard.[2]:323 The division continued its service in the National Guard under this new organization.[5]
In 1968, in the middle of the Vietnam War, the Army inactivated several National Guard and Reserve divisions as part of a realignment of resources. The 29th Infantry Division was one of the divisions inactivated. During that time, the division's subordinate units were reassigned to other National Guard divisions. 1st Brigade was inactivated, while 2nd Brigade was redesignated as the 116th Infantry Brigade, and the 3rd Brigade was redesignated as 3rd Brigade, 28th Infantry Division.[6]:193-94
On 6 June 1984, 40 years after the landings on Omaha Beach, the Army announced that it would reactivate the 29th Infantry Division as part of a reorganization of the National Guard.[5] On 30 September 1985, the division was reactivated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with a detachment in Maryland.[2]:320 The 116th Infantry Brigade was redesignated the 1st Brigade, 29th Division, while the 58th Infantry Brigade became the 3rd Brigade.[6]:194 That year, the division also received its distinctive unit insignia.[3]
At the end of the Cold War, the Army saw further drawdowns and reductions in spending. The 29th Infantry Division was retained, however 2nd Brigade was inactivated in favor of assets from the inactivating 26th Infantry Division, which was redesignated the 26th Brigade, 29th Infantry Division.[6]:194
The largest National Guard training exercise ever held in Virginia took place in July 1998, bringing units from the 29th Infantry Division together for one large infantry exercise. The Division Maneuver Exercise, dubbed Operation Chindit, brought together Guard units from Virginia and Maryland, as well as Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and the District of Columbia. The exercise began with the insertion of troops from the 29th Infantry Division's 1st and 3rd Brigades by UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters into strategic landing zones. NATO-member forces trained with the 29th Infantry Division throughout the exercise.[5] The division also dispatched a task force to Tokyo, Japan for exercises with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force called Yama Sakura 55, a bilateral exercise simulating an invasion of Japan.[13]
Hundreds of soldiers from the 29th Infantry Division completed nine days of training on 16 June 2001 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, to prepare for their peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, as the second division headquarters to be deployed as a part of Stabilisation Force. In all, 2,085 National Guard soldiers from 16 states from Massachusetts to California commanded and served with the multinational force that operated in the US sector. Their rotation began in October 2001 and lasted six months.[5]
The 29th Infantry Division completed a two-week warfighter exercise at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in late July 2003. Nearly 1,200 soldiers of the division participated in the training, which was overseen by First United States Army. Also engaged in the simulation war were about 150 soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division. The exercises covered a variety of operations, ranging from large scale contingencies to airborne and civil affairs operations.[5]
In 2005, 350 veterans, politicians, and soldiers representing the division went to Normandy and Paris, in France for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The Army National Guard organized a major ceremony for the 60th anniversary, as many of the veterans who participated in the invasion were in their 80s at that time, and the 60th anniversary was seen as the last major anniversary of the landings in which a large number of veterans could take part.[14]
The division underwent major reorganization in 2006. A special troops battalion was added to the division's command structure, and its three brigades were redesignated. It as organized around three brigades; the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team of North Carolina, the 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of Virginia, and the Combat Aviation Brigade, 29th Infantry Division of Maryland.[15]
In December 2006, the division took command of the Eastern region of Kosovo's peacekeeping force, to provide security in the region. The division's soldiers were part of a NATO multi-national task force consisting of units from the Ukraine, Greece, Poland, Romania, Armenia and Lithuania under the command of U.S. Army Brigadier General Douglas B. Earhart who concurrently served as the 29th's Deputy Commanding General. The division returned to Fort Belvoir in November 2007.
The 29th Infantry Division exercises training and readiness oversight of the following units;[16] they are not organic:
Ribbon | Award | Year | Notes |
French Croix de guerre, World War II (with Palm) | 1944 | Embroidered "BEACHES OF NORMANDY" |
Conflict | Streamer | Year(s) |
World War I | Alsace | 1918 |
World War I | Meuse-Argonne | 1918 |
World War II | Normandy (With Arrowhead) | 1944 |
World War II | Northern France | 1944 |
World War II | Rhineland | 1945 |
World War II | Central Europe | 1945 |
The 29th Infantry Division has been featured numerous times in popular media, particularly for its role on D-Day. The division's actions on Omaha Beach are featured prominently in the 1962 film The Longest Day,[18] as well as in the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan.[19][20] Soldiers of the division are featured in other films and television with smaller roles, such as in the 2005 film War of the Worlds.,[21]
The 29th Infantry Division is also featured in numerous video games related to World War II. The division's advance through Normandy and Europe is featured in the games Close Combat, Company of Heroes, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Call of Duty 3, in which the player assumes the role of a soldier of the division.[22]
A number of soldiers serving with the 29th Infantry Division have gone on to achieve notability for various reasons. Among them are highly decorated soldier Joseph A. Farinholt, soccer player James Ford, United States federal judge Alfred D. Barksdale,[23] and historian Lawrence C. Wroth,[24] generals Milton Reckord,[25] Norman Cota,[26] Charles D. W. Canham, and Donald Wilson.[27]
Soldiers who received the Medal of Honor during service with the 29th Infantry Division include from World War I Earle Davis Gregory,[28] and from World War II Frank D. Peregory and Sherwood H. Hallman.[29][30][31][32]
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Creator: | Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854 |
Title: | Georgia Geographical, statistical and historical map of Georgia |
Date: | 1827 |
Description: | This map repeats the Lucas maps of 1822, with a continuation of the list of governors to 1826. Relief shown pictorially. Title in upper margin: Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Georgia. Prime meridian: Washington. Includes text in borders. In top right corner: No. 25. Scale [ca. 1:2,200,000] |
Subjects: | Georgia--Maps | Georgia |
Contributors: | Hargrett Library |
Online Publisher: | Athens, Ga. : Hargrett Library |
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DRB Miami is the Democratic Republic of Beer, Now Open
Categories: Booze Hound, Neighborhood Joints
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Gita Shonek kicks back a cold one. |
DRB Miami (255 NE 14th Street, between NE Second and Biscayne) is a bar and restaurant that just opened across the street from the Arsht. The DRB, which stands for Democratic Republic of Beer, has 400 bottled stouts, malts, pilsners, lagers, and more from around the world, and they're gonna be open from 11 a.m. to 5 a.m. seven nights a week.
Co-manager Giorgio Saumat says "We're doing a good portion of our business late at night. Our cheapest beer is $2 for a PBR, which is crap, or we have Deus, from Belgium, which is $40. We have 400 beers, wine, champagne, a full restaurant menu, and all the beer and food is broken down by country."
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1. Radiant Radagast - by Dean Maia of Este
Radiant Radagast
He flared with a radiance that reached for leagues, dimmed the sun, then his light faded and he was a simple, naked, old man.
"That is not right!" their leader growled. He stabbed his staff into the earth, leaned on it, overbalanced, fell, and got his white robes dirty.
"Yes brother, try a quiet color like mine." The grey clad one said.
"Like this?" and he was in brown.
"Oh I do not know, this color looks better." A blue clad one strutted by stumbling on his hem.
"More practice." The other blue clad one said. "We just did got here."
Notes: The five Wizards were White, Grey, Brown, and two Blue
Dean Maia of Este
This is a work of fan fiction, written because the author has an abiding love for the works of J R R Tolkien. The characters, settings, places, and languages used in this work are the property of the Tolkien Estate, Tolkien Enterprises, and possibly New Line Cinema, except for certain original characters who belong to the author of the said work. The author will not receive any money or other remuneration for presenting the work on this archive site. The work is the intellectual property of the author, is available solely for the enjoyment of Henneth Annûn Story Archive readers, and may not be copied or redistributed by any means without the explicit written consent of the author.


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SATA's primary focus will be to develop the Salem Greenway Trail (SGT). The SGT is a continuous multi use recreational trail designed for non-motorized recreational travel that will connect Salem to local green corridors and businesses. The SGT aims to provide health enhancing recreational opportunities for all trail users while preserving and improving our local green spaces.
Our current project includes an 8-mile multi-use trail within the Spring Valley Oregon State Park. Future projects include new and improved trails within several Oregon State Parks along the West bank of the Willamette River, starting at Wallace Marine Park in Salem and traveling North along the Willamette River to Grand Island State Park. Trails within the targeted Oregon State Parks are Phase I of the larger SGT project. Future trail extensions from the State Parks intend to connect vineyards and farms in Polk, Yamhill and Marion Counties.
SATA is working with Adventure Maps to draft a map that outlines the SGT corridors.
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WikiLeaks Defector Slams Assange In Tell-All Book
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On the Swedish Rape and Coercion Allegations
When Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic member of Parliament who worked with Assange on the Iraq video and other projects, learned of the rape allegations against Assange, she told him, "You have mixed WK with this in a very bad way."
He replied: "No WL has sabotaged my private life."
Domscheit-Berg says that when the story of the allegations broke, Assange wrote that he had just been through "the worst week of my life in the past 10 years."
When Domscheit-Berg and others became concerned the allegations would tarnish WikiLeaks, Assange responded angrily with a list of things they had failed to consider doing for him, such as ensuring his legal support or coming up with political approaches to stop what he considered a smear. Among the list was a reference to safe houses and false papers, suggesting Assange might have considered obtaining false papers to flee Sweden before he could be arrested.
Other Revelations
• E-mail sent to the WikiLeaks accounts for spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and an unidentified 17-year-old staffer were automatically forwarded to their Gmail accounts, opening the organization to government monitoring and other security risks.
• Assange passed the U.S. diplomatic cables to an Icelandic volunteer to consider ways to present them graphically, but the volunteer passed them to freelance journalist Heather Brooke, breaking the security chain established for the documents. When WikiLeaks found out, Hrafnsson made the Icelander sign a declaration saying the documents had been taken from him illegally.
• Domscheit-Berg doesn't know what's in the encrypted "insurance" file WikiLeaks posted to the site last July. They'd initially sent it out on about a dozen USB sticks to Green Party politicians, journalists and others, and had planned to distribute a password if anyone tried to take down WikiLeaks. But then the file appeared on the site for anyone to grab, and WikiLeaks has recently said the password would be released if anything "grave" took place involving WikiLeaks staff. WikiLeaks has not elaborated on whether this would mean the password would be released if Assange were to lose his legal battle over the rape allegations, but Domscheit-Berg seems to have interpreted it this way and writes that the file was never meant to be used as a threat for Assange's personal matters.
• When journalists asked about problems with WikiLeaks' infrastructure, Domscheit-Berg would purposely confuse them with technobabble. He writes that it was amazing how often their obfuscation strategy worked. "To create the impression of unassailability to the outside world, you only had to make the context as complicated and confusing as possible," he writes. "It was the same principle used by terrorists and bureaucrats. The adversary can't attack as long as he has nothing to grab hold of." The truth was, he notes, their "technical infrastructure was a joke and irresponsible. If someone knew where the server was located they could have shut WL down permanently … We were acting irresponsibly, playing a risky game with our sources' trust and our supporters' donations."
• Assange has a secret "nanny" (Domscheit-Berg's term for her) who flies in to help deal with problems Assange doesn't want to handle. She's described as an old friend of Assange, who is around 40 and lives in a timezone "far apart" from the U.S. She sometimes arrives just before conferences to write Assange's speeches. "After other people and I left WL she was also the one who ended up traveling the world mediating between Julian and us and asking us not to damage the project by publicly criticizing it," Domscheit-Berg writes. "For personal reasons I don't want to go into here, she would never want to talk about her contact with WL."
• Until WikiLeaks began working with media partners in 2010, it did little vetting of submissions beyond simple Google searches to see if documents seemed legitimate. This proved to be a problem when someone identified in a Julius Baer document as having a secret Swiss bank account claimed he'd been misidentified. Domscheit-Berg says the source who gave them the documents had also "included some background information he had researched about the bank's clients." But the source had apparently confused a Swiss account holder with a German man who had a similar name. When the German threatened to sue for slander, Assange and Domscheit-Berg added a caveat to the document saying, "according to three independent sources" the information might be false or misleading. The three independent sources, however, didn't exist. Domscheit-Berg says they made them up.
• In June 2009 long before the New York Times became a WikiLeaks media partner, PayPal froze WikiLeaks' account over questions about its nonprofit status. A female journalist from the New York Times intervened with PayPal and got the account unfrozen for WikiLeaks telling PayPal that WikiLeaks was "being supported by the New York Times."
Photo: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and then-spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg in Germany, 2009. (Jacob Appelbaum/Flickr)


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Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Will Use EXT4
Use of EXT4 will begin with Google's Nexus S smartphone.
Google's Developer Advocate, Tim Bray, and Kernel Developer Ted Ts'o both confirm in theirblog posts that the move from YAFFS to the EXT4 filesystem is underway and Google's Nexus S with Android 2.3 will be one of the first smartphones to use the EXT4 filesystem.
More information on Android 2.3 and the EXT4 filesystem can be found on the Android Developers website.
Issue 173/2015
Buy this issue as a PDF
Old Vulnerabilities Are Kept Alive Through Bad Configuration
HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
But what do the big numbers really mean?
Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.


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Garcia Rodriguez, Jose and Angelopoulou, Anastassia and Mora-Gimeno, F.J. and Psarrou, Alexandra (2012) Building visual surveillance systems with neural networks. In: Elizondo, David A. and Solanas, Agusti and Martinez-Balleste, Antoni, (eds.) Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security. Studies in Computational Intelligence, 394 . Springer, pp. 181-198. ISBN 9783642252365
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Self-organising neural networks have shown promise in a variety of applications areas. Their massive and intrinsic parallelism makes those networks suitable to solve hard problems in image-analysis and computer vision applications, especially when non-stationary environments occur. Moreover, this kind of neural networks preserves the topology of an input space by using their inherited competitive learning property. In this work we use a kind of self-organising network, the Growing Neural Gas, to solve some computer vision tasks applied to visual surveillance systems. The neural network is also modified to accelerate the learning algorithm in order to support applications with temporal constraints. This feature has been used to build a system able to track image features in video sequences. The system automatically keeps the correspondence of features among frames in the sequence using its own structure. Information obtained during the tracking process and allocated in the neural network can also be used to analyse the objects motion.
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I'm a provisioning guy; it was the way I was raised in the world of identity management. And being a provisioning guy my take on how people are enabled to execute business transactions looks like this:
- Write a provisioning policy such as people in department 10 get LDAP group Q
- Enforce that policy – give people in department 10 group Q
- People get to do cool stuff
In a push-based scenario, this process works so long as the provisioned resource makes it's own authorization decisions.
Let's consider a WAM person's take on how people get access.
- Write an access control policy such as to access this resource you need to be a member of LDAP group Q
- Enforce that policy – check for group Q membership
- People get to do cool stuff
This approach works too – except it makes the huge assumption that the people who show up wanting to do cool stuff are already members of LDAP group Q.
What if the resource to which we want govern access does use WAM for authorizations? My simple Provisioning-guy process won't work on its own, because that process doesn't push a policy to the WAM system to enable authorization decisions. Similarly, the WAM-person's approach won't work because the process only checks for the existence of membership, it doesn't grant membership. So in this case if you talk to either the provisioning team or the WAM team and ask how someone gets access the answer you get sounds suspiciously like the South Park gnomes' business plan; that is to say the answer you get is incomplete.
In order to govern access in this scenario, you need both the provisioning and WAM process (and related policies) to work in concert. The provisioning policy governs access at administration-time, and the WAM policy governs access at run-time. But how often are these policy built in a coordinated manner? Ask yourself, when's the last time provisioning teams and WAM teams sat down and worked out policies and process together? If they do, are the teams interactions and outputs part of your identity governance process?
Why bring up such an old-school scenario? Because we are still living with this chronic pain. We have yet to figured out how to make our administrative and run-time policies act in concert. Unfortunately, these policy continue to be created, maintained, and executed in separate bell jars.
To manage access in a world where authorization decision are externalized from the application (think federated and finer-grain auth scenarios) requires that two different policies, administration and run-time, are created and maintained.In order to understand how someone truly gets access you have to understand both the administrative and run-time policies. Today there is no good automated way to built associated administrative and run-time policies – heck there isn't even a mediocre automated way to do this.
As an industry, we are seeing the emergence of a pull-based architecture, an architecture that relies on externalized authorization management. If we do not find some ways to associate and manage the needed administrative and run-time access policies in a coordinated manner, we will continue to suffer from this chronic pain emanating back from the provisioning and WAM glory days.
Category: Provisioning Tags: access governance, federated provisioning, fga, fine-grained authorization, iag, policy, Provisioning, wam


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quote:Ochsner has one of the best neuro surgeons in the U.S. in Dr. Sulaiman.
quote:Why do people get all up in arms when we have cuts to education and hospital systems. At some point we have to be fricking financially responsible .
quote:There is a difference between cutting spending in a way that is efficient and well planned, and just making planket cuts focussed entirely on only two aspects of state spending. There are many obstacles in place that limit possible cuts exclusively to education and healthcare. So instead of all state departments sharing in the burden of budget cuts, and thereby diluting the effect on any one department, we have massive and debilitating cuts to two departments. This is not fiscal responsibility. This irresponsible and shortsighted.
quote:or are the education and healtcare systems need that much change to them
quote:i havent lived in la in a couple of years. wouldnt it make better sense to make these cuts evenly spread throughout all the state departments? or are the education and healtcare systems need that much change to them
quote:And we don't have the money to pay for this shite. Make a choice, cut hospitals or raise your taxes.
quote:What about the insane number of public colleges that we have? Let's cut them.
quote:Draconian Sanctions Jindal shutting down LSU hospital system in order to privatize it The state is no longer in a budget deficit so this we have to make cuts stuff is no longer valid.
quote:why should tax dollars cover lung or throat cancer that some poor SOB got from smoking 2 packs a day for 50 years?
quote:He received awesome care there.
quote:This. All this is saying is that Jindal wants that secretary of HHS job


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Yes, May is Stroke Awareness Month, and not smoking, maintaining a lean weight, leading an active life and choosing a more plant-based diet will reduce your risk for strokes. But a study reported in the professional journal Stroke reminds us of the importance of keeping sodium intake down.The Northern Manhattan Project examined the diets of >2600 participants for more than 10 years. And ta-da… the higher the sodium intake, the greater the risk for having a stroke.More study results: