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In our most recent book, Fool Me Twice, Aaron Klein and I reported on the $8 billion high-speed rail funds in the 2009 Porkulus bill. As bad as the following excerpt painted the picture, it gets much much worse. Read on.
We wrote in the section "Bullet Trains to Bankruptcy":
- In the original "stimulus" bill, Obama included $8 billion for high-speed rail and called for $1 billion per year for five years in his proposed budget to get his projects "off the ground." Grant awards were designated to lay the "groundwork for 13 new, large-scale high-speed rail corridors across the country . . . part of a total of 31 states receiving investments, including smaller projects and planning work that will help lay the groundwork for future high-speed intercity rail service," as the White House claimed in April 2009.
Grant awards were not announced until nine months later (January 28, 2010). Almost two years after that, in November 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that 2012 was "shaping up to be the year of significant high-speed activity." Contracts had been let by states for design work, planning work, construction materials, and supplies.
A closer look at one of these high-speed rail projects is instructive. Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell wrote at the end of January 2012 about California's prospective "Bridge to Nowhere." Sowell pointed to Japan's famous high-speed rail system between Tokyo and Osaka, in "one of the most densely populated countries in the world." The "bullet train" carries 130 million riders a year. He compares this to the proposed first leg of California's system, the route between Fresno and Bakersfield Tokyo has a population three times that of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined. Fresno and Bakersfield are much smaller communities in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. The 2010 population for all of San Joaquin County was 685,306. "You can bet the rent money that high-speed rail traffic between Fresno and Bakersfield will never come within shouting distance of covering the operating costs," Sowell wrote. "Some people have analogized putting such a rail line between these two towns to the infamous 'bridge to nowhere' in Alaska."
Why is the project in the sparsely populated Valley? Politics. It's about politics. If the high-speed train started where California's governor, Jerry Brown, and Obama wanted it to go—between the mega coastal cities—environmentalists, and politicians connected with environmentalists, would lie down on the tracks to stop the trains, Sowell wrote. Instead, California gets federal taxpayer dollars, and Brown and Obama look like heroes.
Now we learn, via Wynton Hall at Breitbart.com, that a construction firm deeply-connected to Richard Blum, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, has won a contract for a California high-speed project:
- Sen. Diane Feinstein's husband Richard Blum won a construction contract for California's high-speed rail project, reports the California Political Review.
Author Laer Pearce says Perini-Zachary-Parsons, a construction group partially owned by Blum's investment firm, Blum Capital, and their investors, bagged the nearly billion dollar contract:
"The Perini-Zachary-Parsons bid was the lowest received from the five consortia participating in the bidding process, but 'low' is a relative term. The firms bid $985,142,530 to build the wildly anticipated first section of high speed rail track that will tie the megopolis of Madera to the global finance center of Fresno. Do the division, and you find that the low bid came in at a mere $35 million per mile."
This is not the first time Feinstein has come under scrutiny for cronyism using taxpayer dollars.
A recent study by the Reason Foundation found that the California High-Speed Rail System will lose between $124 million to $373 million a year.
By the way, Hall's calculation is a bit off. Do the math: divide that $985 million by 25 miles.
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Here is the Fresno to Bakersfield leg of the system, a distance of 114 miles:
- The section travels south through the center of the southern portion of the San Joaquin Valley. Stations will be in the cities of Fresno, where it will connect with the Merced to Fresno section, and Bakersfield, where it will connect with the Bakersfield to Palmdale section.
Recall that the 2010 population for all of San Joaquin County was 685,306. The population of Madera County, for which the city of Madera serves as county seat, was 150,865 in 2010. The city of Madera had a population of 61,416.
As of 2012, Fresno, the county seat for Fresno County and the fifth largest city in California, claimed a population of 509,039, with less than one million (930,450) in the whole county.
The distance from Madera to Fresno is a mere 25 miles, less than 25% of the Fresno to Bakersfield leg.
Note that as the pieces of the project become smaller and smaller, the cost continues to rise disproportionately. Out of a proposed 800-mile high-speed rail system, a mere 25 miles has been funded — and that singular piece to a senator's spouse's firm.
Also ask yourself why the population of a county with approximately 150,000 (and about 60,000 living in its county seat) needs high-speed passenger rail to transport a small percentage of its residents 25 miles distant to another county seat, where less than half its nearly one million residents reside. It is highly unlikely that the people residing in the fifth largest city in the state have a burning need to travel to a less significant city.
Can we explain it by ethnicity? What makes Madera, with its low median income community, so important? Could it be that Madera's ethnic population is more than 76% "Hispanic" and about 17% "white" (and Fresno is less than 50% "Hispanic" and 30% "white") — with more than 30% born in Latin America (and only 11% of the same in Fresno)? Is it about Democrat voters?
How about cheap labor? Major industries in Madera are "Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting" (28%) and manufacturing (14%), as compared to only 5% agriculturual workers (and no manufacturing) in Fresno.
Are we to believe that the residents of 76+% "Hispanic" Madera are just busting to invest their big agricultural earnings in the "global finance center" of Fresno?
The first week of March, Madera County Supervisor David Rogers proposed a money-saving alternative for the route between Merced and Fresno:
- Supervisor David Rogers, who represents the Chowchilla area, wants to convince the California High-Speed Rail Authority to use about 30 miles of partially abandoned freight railroad right of way between Merced and Mendota and to enter Fresno from the west along a short-line freight railroad. Doing so, he suggested Thursday, would enable the rail authority to almost entirely bypass Madera County — which is suing to stop the high-speed train project — and save the state a pile of money.
Rogers presented his idea at the San Joaquin Valley Rail Committee meeting in Fresno. The committee advises the California Department of Transportation on its operation of Amtrak's San Joaquin passenger trains, but has no jurisdiction on the state's high-speed rail plans.
Rogers said he has no detailed analysis of potential savings, but said he believed the state could save huge sums by using an existing rail corridor and not having to fight with property owners to buy the needed right of way. Additionally, he said, it would eliminate the need to disrupt or relocate roads, utilities and other infrastructure through the city of Fresno along the rail authority's chosen route along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Highway 99.
Rogers, who opposes the high-speed rail project, said he would prefer an upgraded Amtrak San Joaquin service with trains running at 125 mph instead of a separate high-speed line with trains capable of 220 mph through the Valley. "But if they insist on building a brand-new system … they have to look at the cost of doing it efficiently," he said.
"There are literally millions to billions to be saved," Rogers said.
But Diana Gomez, Central Valley project manager for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, said Rogers' proposal comes at least two years too late for serious consideration because the state is only weeks away from choosing a contractor to build the first sections of the line from Madera through Fresno.
The authority finalized its choice of a Merced-Fresno route last May, selecting a "hybrid" route that follows the Union Pacific Railroad freight tracks near Highway 99 between Merced and Chowchilla, wanders east to follow the BNSF Railway tracks east of Madera, and then returns to the UP/Highway 99 corridor from the San Joaquin River to downtown Fresno.
Although not being familiar with the locale, my "gut" tells me that there's a pile of money to be made with all that property acquisition and road, utilities, and other infrastructure relocation. It's always about the Benjamins. How likely is it that Blum Capital and its investors stand to gain a tidy sum? Right.
Well, somebody twisted some arms because on April 2 it was announced that Madera County had dropped its suit against the California High-Speed Rail Authority:
- A divided Madera County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to drop the county's lawsuit against the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
The county was one of several parties that sued the state agency last year over its environmental approval of the Merced-Fresno portion of the proposed statewide rail system.
Manuel Nevarez, appointed to the board last month by Gov. Jerry Brown and a vocal supporter of high-speed rail, tipped the supervisors' scales.
You read that correctly. Gov. Brown pulled an Obama by rigging the vote.
All other lawsuits against the 60-mile stretch of the "proposed rail route between Merced and Fresno" were reported as settled on April 18.
Tutor Perini, Zachry, Parsons
Robert Cruickshank described the firm's credentials on his California High-Speed Rail blog:
- Tutor Perini is based in Sylmar and were the lead contractors on the BART to SFO project and the Alameda Corridor rail project. Parsons was also in on BART to SFO, is a "general engineering consultant" for Caltrain, and worked on the Channel Tunnel, Taiwan HSR, and the Northeast Corridor. The website indicates the consortium is Tutor Perini and Parsons, so I'm not quite sure where Zachry fits in. They're based in Texas and have done a lot of highway projects there. They were also a partner with Cintra in the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor.
Hmmmm. Wonder how many of these projects were funded with taxpayer dollars — voted into existence with the aid of Sen. Feinstein?


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While the 16th annual Double Decker Arts Festival is set to be held in less than two months, the organizers say they still aren't sure who will headline the community's biggest annual entertainment event. (March 2, 2011, Page 3)
Carter brings inspirational message to high schools
Sean Carter, a traumatic brain injury survivor, is bringing his inspirational message on the dangers of drinking and driving to the local high schools. Carter will speak to the junior and senior classes of Oxford High School on Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m., and to the junior and senior classes of Lafayette High School on Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. (March 2, 2011, Page 3)
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The community is closer to getting a new $300 million hospital, but the location of this proposed facility is still not known. (March 2, 2011, Page 1)
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Obama Threatens More Sanctions On Russia
The US has imposed sanctions against Russian officials after Crimea's referendum to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
An executive order by Barack Obama names seven Russian government officials, including top aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Treasury Department is also imposing sanctions on four Ukrainians, including former President Viktor Yanukovych and two Crimea-based separatist leaders.
Mr Obama said the new sanctions aim to make it clear to the Russians "that there are consequences for their actions" in the Crimean peninsula.
The measures are one of the most comprehensive sets of sanctions against Russia since the end of the Cold War.
But they appeared to do little to dissuade Mr Putin, with the Kremlin announcing that he had signed a decree on Monday recognising Crimea as a "sovereign and independent country".
Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who was named in the US list, suggested the measures would not affect those without assets abroad.
"Comrade Obama, and what will you do with those who have neither accounts nor property abroad? Or didn't you think of that?" he wrote on Twitter.
The announcement in Washington came shortly after the European Union slapped travel bans and asset freezes on 21 people.
The sanctions had been widely expected after Crimea voted overwhelmingly in favour of the split in Sunday's referendum.
Crimea's parliament has declared the region an independent state.
In a phone call after the vote, Mr Obama told Mr Putin that Crimea's vote to join Russia "would never be recognised" by Washington.
And US administration officials say there is some concrete evidence that some ballots for the referendum arrived pre-marked in many cities and "there are massive anomalies in the vote".
The US, European Union and others say it violates the Ukrainian constitution and international law, and took place in the strategic peninsula under duress of Russian military intervention.
Mr Putin says the vote was legal and consistent with the right of self-determination.
The Crimea crisis triggered the worst stand-off between Russia and the US since the end of the Cold War.
At home, Mr Obama has faced accusations from Republicans that he has not shown enough resolve against Mr Putin.
Mr Obama is calling on Russia to pursue a diplomatic de-escalation of the crisis and support the Ukrainian government's plans for political reform.
He called on Russian troops in Crimea to return to their bases and halt advances into Ukrainian territory and military build-ups along Ukraine's borders.
The US has warned that any Russian moves on east and south Ukraine would be a grave escalation requiring additional responses.


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1 - In a large skillet, heat 1 tbsp of cooking oil over medium heat.
2 - Season chicken with salt and pepper.
3 - Add the chicken to the skillet and brown the chicken on both sides.
4 - In a small saucepan, add the remaining ingredients together, cooking over medium heat until sauce thickens. Pour sauce into skillet over cooked chicken and mix until chicken is well coated.
NOTE - If you don't want it spicy, leave out the sriracha and just mix it in before serving. The sauce itself should be good as a marinade for anything.
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Here it is, the first trailer for "Scary Movie 5," the latest installment of the successful horror parody franchise that will be hitting theaters in the Spring. This time Ashley Tisdale (from High School Musical fame) takes over, starring as a young mother/dancer who moves her family into a new lavish house, and discovers a couple of disturbing things about her brand-new pad: One, it's overflowing with paranormal activity. And two, the previous homeowner was Charlie Sheen. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother), the film also stars Katt Williams, Erica Ash, Simon Rex, and Heather Locklear. Cameos will include Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Mike Tyson and much more! The movie opens on April 15th. The Scary Movie franchise continues with a fifth entry that will be spoofing Black Swan, Paranormal Activity, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and 127 Hours. Three dancers -- one veteran performer and two upstarts who are also best friends -- vie for the lead in a new production from a snooty, aloof, imperious, and oversexed director. Scary Movie 5 stars Ashley Tisdale, Katt Williams, Erica Ash, Simon Rex, Heather Locklear, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan Release: April 15th, 2013
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- 3.25 cup(s) cake flour (not self-rising), sifted
- 2.00 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1.00 teaspoon(s) coarse salt
- 8.00 ounce(s) (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1.75 cup(s) sugar
- 2 vanilla beans, split and scraped, pods reserved for another use, or 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1.00 cup(s) whole milk
- 8 large egg whites, room temperature
- 1.50 pint(s) (3 cups) blueberries
- 34.00 (1/2 pint; about 1 1/3 cups) raspberries
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- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F, with racks in middle and lower positions. Line 3 muffin tins with 34 liners. Whisk together 3 cups flour, the baking powder, and salt.
- Beat butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, and the vanilla until pale and fluffy. Scrape down sides of bowl as needed. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with milk.
- Beat whites until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining 1/4 cup sugar, beating until stiff, glossy peaks form. Using a rubber spatula, fold one-third of the whites into batter, then carefully fold in remaining whites. Gently toss blueberries with remaining 1/4 cup flour to coat. Gently fold floured blueberries into batter. Divide batter evenly among cupcake liners.
- Bake until cupcakes spring back when touched, 23 to 25 minutes. Let cool in tins on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cupcakes from tins, and let cool completely on wire racks. Frost cupcakes and garnish each with a raspberry.
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Selling my 06 and there's NO way I'm giving these away with the truck... I hate so bad to get rid of them considering all the trouble I went through just to get ahold of a 4th wheel before I could ever even put tires on them and put them on the truck, but they're not going to fit on the next Toyota I have in mind to get (5 lug ) and I'm hoping selling them will help fund my next vehicle purchase.
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about 90% tread left, looks damn near new, have MAYBE 6k road miles on them. no gouges in the tread, even wear, ride VERY good for an MT
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one of them I bought brand new just before mounting the tires, and one of them has a blemish on on of the rings but it's not too bad, will look right over it when on the truck unless you're really looking for it
These are mounted, balance, and ready to roll, so I do NOT want to split these up. No tire pressure sensors in them since I disabled the monitor system in my truck since I went between these and a set of road tires a lot to keep from wearing these.
Comes with lug nuts (not Toyota OE lug nuts but they're similar) along with TWO keys for them.
My truck has 2 1/4 lift and 1 1/4 wheel spacers and had a little rubbing in at full lock, these will DEFINITELY not fit on a stock truck
These wheels routinely go for $1000 a set, and the tires are over $1000 a set too. My price for it all?
Local pickup is DEFINITELY preferred, these guys are pretty heavy. I'm in Lake City and have no issues meeting in Gainesville or Jacksonville.
If you're willing to pay the extra hefty freight charge, I can probably arrange to have them shipped out from my place of work; I can get a quote here or you can set up the shipping from your end. I'll have a weight and dimension by the end of the day. But it's not going to be cheap, that much I can assure you!
Not interested in any trades, looking for cash only. Again, this is going to fund a new ride, the Tacoma is just costing me too much to keep driving
SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY! I think we can both agree this is a pretty big chunk of change, please don't waste both mine and your time if you're just going to try and talk me down a dime at a time... I know what these are worth and I'm not going to give them away!
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Hungry? One-sixth of humanity feels the same.
Decades of progress in food security have been reversed. The long-term solution is more investment in agriculture.
As long as the world made headway in reducing the masses of hungry people, it was easy for wealthy nations to largely ignore World Food Day, which is observed every Oct. 16.
But not so this year.
Decades of progress in fighting hunger have come to a stomach-churning halt.
Last year, the proportion of people in poor countries who are malnourished suddenly rose after a long decline. And that surprise shift continued into 2009 with the number of chronically hungry people expected to top 1 billion this year – the highest level since 1970 – or about 100 million more than last year.
The easy explanation for this setback is that the world's poor have been whipsawed by two recent economic events:
First, there was a spike in global food prices in 2006-07, caused by rising oil costs and a push among rich nations for fuel made from grain. And then in 2008, there was a deep and long economic decline triggered by the US financial crisis.
As a result, some 30 countries now require emergency food aid.
But food shipments don't really begin to reverse a longer-term and more worrisome trend: a falloff in foreign aid for agricultural investment – especially at a time when climate change is taking a greater toll on farm crops.
The Green Revolution that began in the 1960s with new hybrid seeds in rice and wheat helped push more money into farming. The result was progress in reducing hunger until the early 1990s, when a world food summit declared the goal of slashing the number of hungry people in half by 2015.
That goal, however, has remained illusive as the need for investments has grown. The proportion of foreign aid going into third-world agriculture has dropped in the past three decades from 17 percent of all aid to 3.8 percent. Wealthier nations, it seems, have put their aid priorities elsewhere.


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TPC Group Announces Extension Of Expiration Time Of Cash Tender Offer And Related Consent Solicitation For Senior Secured Notes
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The agreement signed January 14, 2015 between the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Social Fund Project Bayóvar Integral (FOSPIBAY) aims to improve the capacities of the most vulnerable people and their institutions to promote food and nutrition security in the Sechura province. The largest of 8 provinces within the Pirua region. Preventing anemia and chronic child malnutrition, with emphasis on the first thousand days of life are the focus of this newly launched project.
The 20th Conference of the Parties (COP 20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place 1-12 December 2014 in Lima, Peru, and WFP will be there.
Based on its experience and leadership in emergency situations in the areas of food security, logistics and telecommunications, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) established as one of its priorities to strengthen the government's capacities to respond to natural disasters in Peru.
The Government of Peru, through the Ministry of Disaster Risk Management of the Council of Ministers Presidency and representatives from the National Center for Risk Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction (CENEPRED); from the National Institute of Civil Defense (INDECI) and the National Center for Strategic Planning (CEPLAN), introduced on September 18th, 2014 the National Plan for Disaster Risk Management – PLANAGERD 2014-2021, which aims to reduce the vulnerability of the population and their livelihood against risk of disasters.
There is often the misconception that hunger and malnutrition refer to the same condition. While the two often go hand-in-hand there are significant differences. With the assistance of The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) we are hoping to break this common misconception. Read on for 11 myth busting facts about malnutrition and examples of how WFP is tackling it in Latin America.
LIMA- The World Food Programme (WFP) in Peru recently carried out an assessment mission of the National Civil Defense Institute's (INDECI) telecommunications emergency infrastructure, with the support of the Fast Information Technology and Telecommunications Emergency and Support Team (FITTEST), based in Dubai. This joint assessment was executed between the 11th and 31st of May 2014 by a team including Oscar Caleman and Roberto Salazar of FITTEST.
PANAMA CITY –The World Food Programme (WFP) has appointed Miguel Barreto, a Peruvian national, as its new Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. His duty will be to oversee WFP operations across the region.
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The WFP Deputy Regional Director and Officer in Charge, Alzira Ferreira, and the Regional Director of Plan in the Americas, Roland Angerer, signed an agreement to work together to fight food insecurity to help the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Staten, MSU force OT, but Rambelles escape with win
It looked like things were finally going Midwestern State's way Wednesday night when Stacey Staten hit a rare 3-pointer with just .7 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.
And when the senior from Mansfield blocked a shot, got the rebound and took the ball the length of the court for a layup to give the Mustangs the lead in overtime, signs were pointing toward an MSU win.
But a pair of turnovers helped Angelo State regain the lead and the Rambelles made five of six free throws down the stretch as they held on for a 96-89 overtime win in D.L. Ligon Coliseum.
It was the fifth straight loss for Mustangs as they drop to 9-15 for the season and 3-8 in Lone Star Conference South action, while the Rambelles notch their 20th win of the season to improve to 20-6 for the year and 7-4 in the LSC.
It was a game where both teams shot better than 50 percent — 53.2 for MSU and 66.7 for ASU — but the Rambelles were unconscious in the second half and overtime, hitting 74 and 83 percent, respectively.
The Mustangs made it tough on themselves by hitting only 5-of-17 shots (29 percent) to start the second half.
"At the start of the second half we didn't shoot the ball well at all and we dug ourselves into a bit of a hole," MSU coach Shannon Burks said. "And then I think we missed a couple opportunities (in overtime) that made the difference.
"We gave up a few easy ones inside to the posts. Angelo always seems to shoot the ball well and they did an exceptional job tonight."
MSU's shooting troubles to start the second half made its 42-36 halftime lead evaporate quickly and a 12-0 ASU run in which Rosy Ofoegbu and Kaylon Hodge went to the bench with three fouls, gave the Rambelles a 54-48 lead.
ASU followed that up with a 16-2 run to go up 70-55 with 6:21 remaining.
The Mustangs cut the lead to nine, 73-64, with 3:10 left then Brandy Moore drilled a 3-pointer, Staten converted a three-point play and Ofoegbu scored on a fast break after a Brittny Smith steal to make it 73-72 with 1:40 left.
MSU would tie it at 77-77 when Staten converted another 3-point play. She could have tied it again when she went to the free-throw line with 30.8 seconds left, but hit just 1-of-2. Camille Perkins would hit two free throws with 20.3 seconds left to put the Rambelles up 81-78.
On the next possession, Moore had a 3-pointer blocked, but Ofoegbu got the ball and missed inside. The ball was tipped way out behind the 3-point arc and Staten made just her sixth trey of the season to send the game into overtime.
The teams alternated baskets in the extra period until Staten put the Mustangs up with her big play with 2:44 remaining, 89-87. MSU would not score again.
Staten led the Mustangs with 20 points and four assists, while Moore had 14 points and three assists. Hodge had 14 points, six assists and six steals; Ofoegbu had 14 points, six rebounds and four steals; Brittni Morrison 10 points, eight rebounds and five assists; and Tiffany Cook also had 10 points.
Kandra Lakey led the Rambelles with 30 points and 10 rebounds, while Perkins had 24 points, Nichelle Parks had 14 points and Tiffany Hardwell and Lindsey Leatherman both had 13.
"Our kids didn't quit playing," Burks said. "It was a furious rally to get back in it and then have a chance to win it. I'm proud of the way they battled. I'm not upset by that at all. We did some things that hurt us, but we did a lot of good things, too.
"It's been a tough couple weeks, and when you get down by 15, it's easy to quit. But they didn't and I'm proud of them."
The Mustangs are on the road Saturday to take on Abilene Christian before playing their final home game next Wednesday night against Texas Woman's University.
Note: Morrison's head hit the floor hard after she made a pass inside for a basket during the Mustangs' comeback. She was down for several minutes before she was helped up and returned to the bench. She returned to the game, but got nauseous during overtime — a sign of a possible concussion — and had to leave. Burks isn't sure if she'll be able to play at ACU.
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Sunderland have again been linked with a move for Martin O'Neill's former Celtic winger Aiden McGeady.
Sunderland have been credited with an interest in the Spartak Moscow wideman ever since O'Neill took charge at the Stadium of Light and they were in the running last summer, but would not pay the Russian club's £10m asking price.
But McGeady saw a £5m move to Wigan fall through in January and he is expected to leave Moscow in the summer, with his contract expiring 12 months later.
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Tomas, army is needed to protect citizens not just from some terrorists, but from capable, large countries. Besides, Russia is a big country so it needs a big army to protect its huge territories. Look at the US' army, it's by no means a small cheap army. Its military budget has been growing annually. Well, as far as military exercises, I was under the impression that NATO had a military exercise with Georgia not a while ago. I am assuming the enemy was Russia, who else could it be?
@Joe the Reader
"I mean, what do they have to offer that the US needs? Seriously, nothing. All they do is begging for money and equipment and complaining about evil Russia planning to invade them."
You are out of reality. I admit that I don't understand the negative comments by so many commentators. What do they expect?
Central European (and maybe also Eastern European) territories are fully stable and Americans really don't need to devise complex special strategies for this territory not only because they have urgent problems to deal with but because I don't have a clue what such a strategy should contain.
On multilateral basis, CE countries are interested to be involved in the MDS project which is what Obama confirmed and the technological and logistical plans are yet to be formed (and I know that there were already numerous negotiations about concrete tasks between military representatives)
On bilateral basis, USA and individual countries cooperate on a daily basis in all areas including military. For example, the Czech Republic is now planning to sign an exclusive agreement with Pentagon about joint military research and access to the latest military technologies (there are many projects already in progress including agent-based navigation systems for controlling pilotless aircrafts that is co-developed by Czech Technical University in Prague). This shows that there is a normal cooperation like between normal allies and there is no need for every particular event to be in headline news.
Of course, former anti-communist dissidents are suspicious about Russian taste to re-new influence in former Soviet-block territory and large military exercises like "Zapad" (West) – including the latest scandal in the form of Russian military excercise for the case of NATO invasion to Belarus from the territory of Ukraine – would suggest that their worries can have a rational basis. And it's nothing againt anything if US ensures the region that Americans do not want to trade increased Russian influance in the territory for some help with Iran, etc.
However, I guess that most people understand this is only a ritual of Russian army that needs to justify its existence and significant influence in the society because after fall of bipolar world, it has problems with finding plausible enemy. What would all the officials do in civil sector? Imagine, they would have to normally work! – I can imagine that it's really hard to justify building huge expensive army to fight handful of terrorist in Chechnya or against mini-countries like Georgia and therefore NATO has to be kept in the minds of Russian public as the main enemy because it is big and representative enough to satisfy the purpose ;-)
I hope these small ex-communist countries will finally realize how important they are to the US (they are not). I mean, what do they have to offer that the US needs? Seriously, nothing. All they do is begging for money and equipment and complaining about evil Russia planning to invade them. If these countries have nothing to offer, US will not do business with them. Take Kyrgystan for example - not many natural resources, but it is located near Afghanistan and serves as a great place for US base at the moment. So who cares that the president (former) is a dictator? As long as he cooperates with the US, Americans could care less about human rights. That's the reality for you, boys and girls, learn to live with it. It's all business, there is no high cause here.
Correct to my previous comments, just realize jason might be singling out "who are proud of their modern government institutions" as the people who would be put off, which is also ridiculous, correcting a silly mistake does not have to do with anything.
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"I would also agree that the grammar of 'ex-communist leaders' seems to be a poor mistake that wasn't caught and is indeed a put-off to the readers who are proud of their modern government institutions."
Mistake is a mistake, and you use that to label people who find the mistake? So according to you people living in a democracy (I don't know whether it includes "ex-communist countries" for the economist) do not have a problem with calling "ex-communist countries' leaders" "ex-communist leaders", maybe for you we ought to revise English grammer to have "democratic" grammer so that this can be seemed as correct. Pure idiocy.
@ wolyn
for your info: an american definition of "international relations" : "one country screwing another" or, in very plain colloquial English: "fucking its best buddy"
Americans have always been that way. I'm surprised you realized only today. The binge failed. Americans now have different preferences in the person of Mr Obama.
American arrogance is staggering. Just read this fragment: "Mr Obama could have simply headed home after the ceremony, or travelled on to a meeting with one big ally. Instead, he chose to invite, admittedly at short notice, all of his ex-communist allies to talk.". The best word to describe East Europe countrys is "ex-communist" and some posh promotional dinner is described like some big gift for those poor ex-comunist allies. Disgusting.
"Where the Bush administration did little on NATO contingency plans for the Baltic states, the alliance's most vulnerable members, Mr Obama has demanded, publicly, that they be drawn up."
No, it was the same Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė, together with Latvian and Estonian counterparts who demanded NATO defence plan for Baltic states, not the other way around. Only then Obama The Greatest said something about that.
A simple window dressing, - designed by Hillary Clinton's staff to keep Obama smiling. All show, no substance.
Another word for "inviting with little notice' is "Summoned"! And you can bet that is exactly the way Obama saw it. He's treated our friends in Eastern Europe with total contempt. He think he knows better than those who suffered for so many years under Soviet domination how to handle the Russians, and he's been taken for a complete fool! Easter Europe must pray the U.S. comes to it senses in the upcoming elections before Obama brings real disaster down upon them!!!
Hey, "heated"...
you say, "We can only hope that diplomacy rules over rash decisions and war."
Tell that to Obama and his diplomacy with Iran.
You also say, "Enabling all citizens to have the basics of life without physically fighting for them SHOULD be everyone's MISSION IN LIFE."
Tell that to Stalin, Putin and other Russian leaders who taught that nonsense to the residents of Gulag and other basics of life programs.
Come to think of it, are you addicted to the Survival show in the US?
Send an email to all nations who lack freedom and suffer Putin like dictatorship and finally tell that to your own children if you have any.
You also say, "The means only justify the ends if all parties are content in the end. Please stop being kids and lets LEARN to share."
Tell that to all the dictators of past and present history, namely Putin who can still hear you and remind him of his "end" in his attempt to poison the Ukrainian leader and others.
According to your plan the only ones who will be content in the end are the victors or survivors, but only temporarily (as is self evident.)
I do agree that you should go back to school and learn about what is self defense and what is offense, and when you do, join a monastery and "SHARE."
You also say, "STOP THE PROLIFERATION OF ARMS and WAR
Profits and technology from this industry can be used more productively"
You did not put a period at the end of that sentence, so I assume that you were not sure for what purpose.
I suspect that you are a Russian Communist (at heart, perhaps in the USA) living in the past (mentally) where you justified past crimes, killings and conspiracies to murder on the basis that your party was in agreement as to the means, committed enough crimes often enough and without being called to account for your acts, to feel that what you were doing was justified, and that Mother Russia is the source of your inspiration.
You can see that the acts of todays Mother Russia foretell that she will soon if not already, develop anorexia, will dry up, stop having menses and convert to a face-less creature in a burka.
If one is secure there is no need to forcibly and criminally impose your will on others.
"May the red rooster sit on your rooftop."
We can only hope that diplomacy rules over rash decisions and war.
Enabling all citizens to have the basics of life without physically fighting for them SHOULD be everyone's MISSION IN LIFE.
The means only justify the ends if all parties are content in the end
Please stop being kids and lets LEARN to share.
STOP THE PROLIFERATION OF ARMS and WAR
Profits and technology from this industry can be used more productively.
Can someone tell me what the "spectacular German flip-flop" was that this article refers to? Were they pro-contingency-defense plans and are now against them after Obama wanted them, or is it the other way around?
While i think Lithuania's action was bold (certainly eyebrow-raising), but somewhat understandable. Your nation, albeit small and excuse me but relatively insignificant on the global stage, it is still a touch rude to give two minutes for one-on-one attention. That seems to be a detail a junior administrator should have foreseen.
The overall dinner was to me at least a good idea, and keeps Eastern Europe warm and happy with America, and they should definitely get a pat on the back since a great deal of them have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I would also agree that the grammar of 'ex-communist leaders' seems to be a poor mistake that wasn't caught and is indeed a put-off to the readers who are proud of their modern government institutions.
With regard to the START treaty, the big win for the US seems to be the exclusion of missile-defense from the treaty's text, while Russia gets to keep a large percentage of their tactical weapons.
Mike, I think your statement "Its never very pleasant being screwed, specially by your supposedly best friend!" needs clarification!!! :-)
I also resent the reference to "ex-communist" countries because it is entirely incorrect at this moment in time.
The Economist should correct its vocabulary and update its understanding of East European countries and start referring to them as "post-communist" copuntries.
I believe that the number of people in Eastern Europe who trust Russia in view of its recent brutal occupation of their lands is no greater than the number of Christian Churches in Saudi Arabia.
I think Obama's actions are nothing more than a wake up call for entire Europe and to start preparations for upcoming Russian intimidations which still linger in the Russian Attention Deficit Disorder Brains.
What is different today then let's say one or two generations ago, is that the Russian Islamic underbelly is where their surgical incision is going to be made.
Is it "ex-communist countries' leaders" OR "ex-communist leaders"? Yet I digress, for the Economist it means the same anyway.
What is in it for America? Other than plotting to contain Russia. Russians must have planted eave dropping devices and listening in every word as dinner goes on. Sad that Europe's once wonderful kingdoms have become pretty marginal in today's ocean dominated civilizations.
Is there someone using a BlackBerry under the table :)?
I'm re-posting my comment from yesterday in which I try to identify US motivation for the dinner as the whole discussion was deleted probably by mistake:
The dinner was a very smart move by US president Obama: last time when he showed an accommodating attitude towards Russia (especially non-standard announcement of changes in MDS plans), politicians from 11 post-communist countries sent him the open letter with reproaches that he threw them across the board. Therefore, this time he invited politicians from countries of origin of the signers immediately after signing the new Start treaty to personally ensure them that it will not significantly affect the new version of MDS. He not only prevented repeating similar criticism but by showing that he takes seriously concerns of CEE countries, he could take the opportunity to ask CEE countries to have understanding for US involvement in the world and send more troops to Afghanistan. I also guess that he does not care who actually comes to the dinner because only the fact that all of the countries were invited is important.
I also heard that some politicians from old EU members felt touched that they were not invited. But again, the reason probably is that they have nothing in common with the letter. But I understand that they expected that Obama would use the magic of the moment and open the issue of withdrawing nuclear weapons (and other troops) from western Europe…
This reduction is entirely window dressing - 100% of nothing is still.. you guessed it nothing..there is no substance beyond the cost savings of not having to manage the things and even those savings will go straight into new expenditure. The military combine is out of control in America it is simply too profitable!
An almost surreally compromised and weakened White house is being bullied into leading the world straight into a major geo-political crisis in central Asia the potential outcome of which looks pretty terrifying from this viewpoint. If America does not stand up for itself and the interests of Americans soon expect a very nasty situation developing on a number of fronts and they will have only themselves to blame.
The bomb is ticking and its nowhere not anywhere near a shoe either..
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