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Janice Arnold-Jones complains about a lack of super PAC transparency and accountability; Gary Smith says Sen. Tom Udall's motive for trying to overturn Citizens United is protecting his own job.
Today starts a series of posts on the U.S. Senate and 1st Congressional District candidates' stances on various policy issues.
Janice Arnold-Jones says the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which tossed out limits on political spending by corporations and unions, has been "detrimental to our electoral system," while Gary Smith opposes efforts to overturn the court's decision.
"The Citizens United decision confines our right to free speech, instead of protect it," Arnold-Jones said. "We have seen a rise of super PACs since this decision, which undoubtedly has less transparency, less accountability and more unpredictability than any campaign committee in the United States."
Smith, on the other hand, criticized U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and others who want to overturn Citizens United with a constitutional amendment.
"It does not surprise me that a career politician like Senator Tom Udall would want to limit the free speech of New Mexicans by amending our United States Constitution," Smith said. "He has no trouble taking 'special interest' money from PACs, but now he wants others to play by different rules giving new candidates a disadvantage."
Arnold-Jones said a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United isn't necessary, but what's needed is "leaders who are willing to take on campaign finance reform."
The Republican candidates for the 1st Congressional District seat in Congress made their comments in response to questions from NMPolitics.net about the influence of money in politics and ethics reform. NMPolitics.net gave the candidates no word minimum or limit, telling them to say what they had to say. The only criterion was that they not engage in personal attacks.
Here are the questions NMPolitics.net asked on money in politics and ethics reform:
- The influence of money in federal races is arguably becoming more and more pervasive, especially with the Citizens United decision and the new prominence of super PACs. Do you view this as a good or bad thing? Why?
- Sen. Tom Udall and others are proposing a constitutional amendment that would restore the government's ability to regulate campaign finance. Do you support that proposal? Why or why not?
- What ethics and transparency legislation would you push if elected?
Their responses, published in their entirety:
Janice Arnold-Jones
"The Citizens United decision has been detrimental to our electoral system. I am always apprehensive when people begin to define exactly what constitutes free speech and what doesn't. It seems as though every time they come to a conclusion all it does is confine free speech to a smaller parameter than before. Our right to speak our minds has been granted by our creator and secured by our Constitution. The Citizens United decision confines our right to free speech, instead of protect it. We have seen a rise of super PACs since this decision, which undoubtedly has less transparency, less accountability and more unpredictability than any campaign committee in the United States.
"We do not need a constitutional amendment to regulate campaign finances. Congress already has the power to do that. We need to elect leaders who have the courage and backbone to do what is right. We need to elect leaders who are willing to take on campaign finance reform and think about how it affects the American people, not about what it will do to their next re-election bid.
"As a member of the minority party I pushed open the doors of the Roundhouse when I took a webcam into the Legislature. It is time that we get serious about the reforms we need to bring to Washington. I believe that we need to make it easier for Americans to access unclassified documents. I also believe, with the exception of the budget, that every piece of legislation needs to be limited to one issue. No log-rolling, no earmarks and no non-germane attachments to any bill any time!"
Gary Smith
"New Mexicans' voices deserve to be heard, and New Mexicans should be free to support the candidate of their choosing. They choose to support candidates in various ways, from volunteering hundreds of hours making phone calls, stuffing envelopes or walking door-to-door. Others wish to contribute financially within their means.
"It does not surprise me that a career politician like Senator Tom Udall would want to limit the free speech of New Mexicans by amending our United States Constitution. He has no trouble taking 'special interest' money from PACs, but now he wants others to play by different rules giving new candidates a disadvantage. Changing the rules for other people is what career politicians do to protect their own jobs, and it's wrong."
FreddyV says:
OakTruncheon, let me ask you this: do you think you have a right, if you wanted to, to pay for a billboard in, say… England that says who you are and that you hope that the people of England will support a certain candidate for office?
The same would apply here. The Bill of Rights applies to everyone. We state that we believe that "all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certian unalienable rights," and among them are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It doesn't say that we believe only American citizens are born with these rights.
So, yes, if a non-citizen, a Canadien, a Brit, a Frenchman, a Mexican, a Russian or any other person from another country wanted to spend their own money and, on their own, put up a billboard to ask people to vote a certain way, then they have that right. There isn't a way to stop them, constitutionally.
Dr. J says:
Well Oak, I would say no, but let me ask you if you think illegal immigrants who are not citizens and have violated our county's law are not attempting to influence the outcome of elections and the formation of public policy? Before you answer please look at what has and is happening in NM as well as other states.
OakTruncheon says:
Here's a question for Dr. J and FreddyV: Should non-citizens have rights equal to citizens in attempting to influence the outcome of elections, and the formation of public policy?
OakTruncheon says:
There are no objective persons, only people who understand the form and function of their own biases.
IcarusPhoenix says:
Mr. Shneider:
From Dr. J: "Mr. Schneider, you have already proven it is useless to argue or debate anything with you, for various reasons." I'd say chief among those reasons would be that, having taken more than thirty seconds to look up basic facts-and-figures rather than parroting back convenient lines from chain e-mails, you have the temerity to disagree with the good Doc. Clearly there is an inverse relationship between rhetorical talent and the necessary virtues of a worthy adversary.
There's something of a strange mix of reality on the waiver issue; certain groups (notably Gingrich's PAC) have been claiming that the Affordable Care Act (which had so pathetically little involvement by the President or his administration that the phrase "Obamacare" is laughable) exempts unions. The reality is that they simply made that up: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/23/crossroads-gps/unions-dont-have-comply-obamacare-says-crossroads-/
There's an equally-invented story that 20% of all waivers are from restaurants in Congresswoman Pelosi's district; this is also false, of course. However, a slim majority of requested waivers thus far have been made by unions, mostly in various relatively low-wage trades.
Dr. J says:
I agree with you FreddyV, but you probably also know that the liberals only believe in the Constitution when it suits their agenda and purposes, in order to promote their politics and causes.
FreddyV says:
Anybody who wants to overturn Citizen's United or SpeechNow.org (look it up) are not deserving of your vote.
It's the First Amendment. You cannot control what others say or how they say it.
Dr. J says:
Mr. Schneider, you have already proven it is useless to argue or debate anything with you, for various reasons.
abqresident says:
I consider myself a moderate conservative with a Libertarian streak but I also belive that Citizens United should go down. I believe that we need a constitutional amendment that creates laws that only allow an eligible voter in a particular election to give to that election. This would ban corporations from unduly influencing the election as well as labor unions and other non-individual interests. As IP stated, the "The people who run corporations already have the exact same representation and opportunities for participation as any other citizen". The same can be said for the leaders and members of labor unions, environmental groups etcetera. I think that the individual limits should be raised or even eliminated with the caveat that only someone elgible to vote in a particular election can donate to candidated running in that election. This way, an oil baron from Texas cannot fund New Mexico's gubernatorial candidate and a Labor Union president from Illinois also cannot fund New Mexico's gubernatorial candidate. They can however, individually, fund a US Presidential candidate as much as they want. As far as the argument that Labor Unions fight for the greater good, I disagree. They fight for their interest only. I have heard (though do not have the evidence handy) that some labor unions have been granted waivers from Obamacare. If Obamacare is for the greater good, then why would a labor union even request a waiver? Elections are currently way too heavily influenced by big money on both sides. The problem is that the right wants to stop union influence and the left wants to stop corporate influence. My idea stops both and therefore would probably only be enacted by a grassroots effort by millions of people forcing the issue….
Michael H Schneider says:
I fully recognize that corporations and their pro-busoness groups, and right wing groups are special interests, just as the enviro-lobby, unions, etc. are on the left side. … Any person, group, company, etc. that seeks to influence and buy politicians votes and get them to write legislation that favors them or their members and causes is a special interest by definition.
Wrong again. A special interest in one which seeks advantage for one subset or group, rather than for society as a whole.
Consider a group that seeks to limit tiny particulates in the air because they believe that these particulates harm people who breathe. Obviously the people in this group are also people who breathe, so it would help the group's members. But it would also – and equally – help non-members, because they too breathe.
However, if it should turn out that there are zombies and vampires among us who do not breathe, then the group seeking to limit particulates would be a special interest. They'd be a special interest, because limiting particulates wouldn't help the undead non-breathers.
For-profit corporations MUST seek the special advantage of their shareholders. That's the duty of management. They must put the well being of their shareholders ahead of any other concern. That makes for-profit corporations special interests in a way that non-profits, or charitable organizations, may not be.
To the extent that things like clean water, clean air, a healthy ecosystem, avoiding global climate change, and improving medical care benefit everyone more or less equally, they are not special interests. However, to the extent that a group that would particularly benefit (nuclear power plant manufacturers lobbying for building more nuclear power plants to avoid global warming, for example), then they are special interests.
Dr. J says:
IP, as an objective person, I fully recognize that corporations and their pro-busoness groups, and right wing groups are special interests, just as the enviro-lobby, unions, etc. are on the left side. Just because you turn a profit and are an incorporated entity under our laws, that does not exempt you from being a special interest anymore than not being organized for profit and using 501 (c) 3 organizational terms. Any person, group, company, etc. that seeks to influence and buy politicians votes and get them to write legislation that favors them or their members and causes is a special interest by definition.
My contention, which you conveniently ignored in your rant, is that Tom doesn't recognize the special interests who support him and his liberal allies with millions of $$ per year as groups that need regulation or oversight. That is where I cautioned Heath toward using this at face value without critical thought as to the motive and to what Tom has hatched up here, and it isn't a bipartisan objective solution to a problem that exists, but rather a way to gain political advantage for his political side.
It is as simple as that, he and his allies would take a vague and poorly written amendment and write it so his groups are favored over the pro-business and right wing groups. That is not equal treatment under the law, but they could get away with it since so many laws already exist that do not provide equal treatment. Now, this could only happen if the liberals had a super-majority, as existed from 2009-2011, and which is impossible to exist again anytime soon, given the mood and majorities in our country, so all this is a moot point anyway. But Tom and his liberal allies on this and other introduced legislation (like the Disclose Act just introduced) are just grandstanding and hoping to score a few cheap political points and fire up their left wing base with these ridiculous bills. They are not statesmen seeking the betterment of society and all citizens' lives, that is why these bills will not pass or even get close to the 60 votes needed.
IcarusPhoenix says:
You're right, Dr. J, I do know this stuff; you, on the other hand, clearly do not. Heath quoted the Senator's stated purpose in the question, and you accuse him of bias because he didn't create a false dichotomy to make you happy? You obviously have little understanding of what constitutes responsible journalism if you want the writer of a story to disregard reality and instead invent the narrative on the spot to fit your frame-of-reference.
While I'm adding the phrase "special interest" to your list of linguistic folly (which I'm rather disappointed in myself for forgetting in the first go-around), I would point out that pandering to or actually being a "special interest" is a blanket charge that you tend to level at anyone to the left of Attila the Hun (to use the admittedly tired cliché), and you do so with neither evidence in your favor nor regard to what the charge actually means – or, for that matter, whether it is indeed a universally negative thing. Thus, I feel it necessary to give you an education in something that, theoretically, you should have learned in junior high school; "special interests" are a guaranteed side-effect of representative government – and yes, occasionally an unfortunate one. Are environmental organizations "special interests"? Of course. Are unions? Yes. Are civil rights groups? Without any doubt, yes. But you seem to forget that the NRA, the National Right to Life Foundation, and the AARP are as well, and no one – at least, no one serious – is proposing keeping any of these groups out of politics, and indeed the Constitution does and always has protected the right of Americans to assemble in groups for the purpose of political participation.
PNM, on the other hand, is not a special interest, nor is Ford, Exxon-Mobil, or Berkshire-Hathaway, and no matter how many PACs they wish to launder their money through, corporations are not voters, nor do they represent voters; their purpose is to turn a profit, while the previously-mentioned organizations exist to participate in the political process and represent the interests of their members. The people who run corporations already have the exact same representation and opportunities for participation as any other citizen, and using their companies as a front to buy more influence than they are entitled to or than ordinary citizens – including their own employees – have the opportunity to is a corruption of our electoral process. Period.
Before leveling wild charges at anyone who has ever had the temerity to disagree with you even once, perhaps you should take the approximately thirty seconds necessary to understand what it is you are actually objecting to, rather than arguing with phantasms.
All of that being said, I have to agree with Janice; a Constitutional amendment is overkill.
Dr. J says:
Heath asks: "Sen. Tom Udall and others are proposing a constitutional amendment that would restore the government's ability to regulate campaign finance. Do you support that proposal? Why or why not?"
False, wrt being fair, objective and non-partisan, since Tom has nothing but partisan and biased motives for restricting donations by only conservative sources of funds, not his special interest, really IP you know this stuff.
IcarusPhoenix says:
Er, Dr. J, nowhere in the above article does Heath so much as allude to holding a specific opinion – one way or the other – on the fairness or objectivity of Senator Udall's proposals. Have you stepped so far away from the mere concept of objectivity yourself that you have actively decided that anyone not presenting information from a linguistic frame that conforms whole-heartedly to your specific biases is themselves being biased against those fantasies, or were you perhaps trying to make your still-as-yet-unsubstantiated opinions look rational by preemptively providing demonstrably-unnecessary advice?
Today's additions to the "List of Words and Phrases Dr. J Frequently Misuses":
They join previous inductees "ad hominem", "left wing", "liberal", "Keynesian", "discredited", and "debunked" on this ever-growing list.
Dr. J says:
Very interesting takes here, well done Heath. But I would caution you in describing Udall's and other left wing Democrats efforts as objective, unbiased toward their advantages with special interests, and "fair" to both parties. They are not and were never intended to be bipartisan, only to entrench their special interest money while removing it for their opponents. The devil is in the details of what would happen, and who would write and implement these "reforms" after an amendment passed.


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Truth about oral sex and hiv - mixed messages received from a test counselor (TRANSMISSION VIA ORAL SEX, 2010)I have been tested at 3 months, 6 months and a year all negative. I was told that I should test up until six months from a possible exposure. The year test was the start of yearly testing I want to begin as part of my routine exams. I also tested...
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation...much more about this controversy and conundrum in the archives of this forum.Regarding the HIV transmission/acquisition risk of oral sex, I do not agree with the information given by the counselor. See below.Dr. BobPlease post this (TRANSMISSION... Read more »
Unprotected Receptive Oral Sex w/EjaculationHello Dr. Frascino:2 weeks ago I gave unprotected, receptive oral sex with ejaculation to a male I do not know. I did not swallow the semen (immediately spit it out), and I rinsed my mouth out immediately. Prior to this exposure, I know for a...
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation...question! All you did was provide a blow-by-blow of the blow-by-blow!What I can tell you is that the risk of acquiring HIV from oral sex is extremely low. The estimated per-act risk for acquiring HIV from unprotected receptive oral sex with a... Read more »
unprotected oral sex with ejaculation IIHi Dr. Bob,I've written to you in the past (i.e., May 18, 2006 is the date of my question/your response to my post) and have sent a donation as well. By the way...your response was quite quick...Thanks a million!! Since my last post, I've...
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation...Hello,Welcome back to the forum.I'll be brief:1.Your HIV risk, unprotected insertive oral sex, carries an extremely minimal risk for HIV acquisition.2.Your symptoms are not consistent with HIV ARS, delayed seroconversion Read more »
Receptive Oral Sex (no ejaculation) on TS escort-risk?!?!Dr. BobThis is the scenario. Had an experience with a TS escort 3 days ago. All Sexual activities included 1. Covered ** on me (she insisted on this saying she always is safe); 2. Uncovered ** on her 30 seconds and 5 seconds (estimated). This was...
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July 2014 cover artist Shepard Fairey is on a bit of a world tour right now, doing murals like U2 does stadium shows. Last week, he finished a new mural at 161 Bowery on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, titled "We Own the Future." Shepard and his team got it done in 3 days, and our new NYC photographer, Joe Russo, captured the process.
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Carnage NYC has released their newest title Banksy in New York by writer and photographer Ray Mock. The 120-page book documents the month-long project or "residency" as the elusive UK artist called it that took place in New York in October of 2013. Banksy in New York offers a first-hand account of his residency: the defacement and removal of his pieces, reactions from neighbors and building owners and interactions between Banksy's fans and foes.
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The buses will roll out shortly from the Maheswaram, Farooqnagar and Falaknuma bus depots, and will complement the existing fleet of 3,700-odd buses.
The GPS-GPRS technology will help authorities run buses as per schedule and help maintain punctuality of services. After a service trial run was conducted in over 50 buses on the Koti-Jubilee Hills and Koti-Patancheru routes, there are plans to introduce the service in 2,000 city buses, RTC Greater Hyderabad zone Executive Director A. Koteswara Rao said.
Of the 575, 150 buses would be procured by the corporation and the rest would be purchased under the Centre's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. Out of the 425 new buses to be procured under JNNURM, 50 would be low-floor buses. In tune with the city's expansion, efforts are on to connect fringe areas with the core ones.
Most new buses would be utilised for augmentation and only 25 per cent of them would replace the old and rickety buses. Officials were already working on identification of potential areas for launching new routes.
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Last year, 193 new buses were introduced and considering the high demand, the number was increased to 575 this year.
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Yo, What's Wrong With The Beer We Got? I Mean the Beer we got drank pretty Good Don't It? I Ain't Never Heard nobody complain about the beer we have..... It Drank Pretty Good. Budweiser...What's the name of some of them other beers ?
so nobody has used these yeast before eh?
Depends what style you're going for more malty flavor geared toward English Stout or a American version of it. US-05 will finish more clean tasting and will give you more alcohol out of the beer. The mutons is more geared toward leaving some residual sugar for more body. So all depends what you want.
English Stout = S-04
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Going cheap = Nottingham
Gambling = Munton's
Attenuation is really important for a stout, if you get to active of a yeast your brew will end up thin( little or no mouth feel)
1.072 you should be fine with S-04.
They are hinting at an English ale yeast on the website...
im leaning towards ordering some s-04 then...
I just got this kit too and I'm going with some S-04 that I washed last week. The main reason is the Munton's was only a 6g package. Would probably need 2 or 3 of those.
I went out and got s-04... and after 2 days, there was no activity - I pitched the mutons and I got activity within 3 hours. Must have had some bad S-04. Maybe eventually it picked up and will help the mutons out.
But it's been fermenting nicely now for about a full week or so. Everytime I think it's about to slow down and stop, it keeps on going! I do shake it every once in a while to make sure the yeast dont get to sleepy too early. I'm going to do 1 month in primary and then bottle.
Don't shake the fermenter once it's fermenting. You're basically just shaking CO2 out of solution, and you think that it's fermenting more because of the airlock activity. It's probably finished. Take a gravity reading.
I'd swirl, rather than shake. Shaking will get more oxygen back into solution, which is not good at this point, but swirling the beer around in the carboy should rouse the yeast with little to no risk of oxidation.
I don't mean to come off as an ass, but whether it's done or not is not a matter of opinion. Your hydrometer will give you the facts. If you're concerned about attenuation, it would be prudent to check the gravity and make decisions about how to treat your beer based on that reading. I'd hate for the beer to be at 1.010 or so and see you swirling it trying to get greater attenuation yet.
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What an opener. How about an encore? The Phillies will face off against left-hander Martin Perez following their 14-run outburst on Monday. One thing to keep an eye on with the offense is their ability to work deeper counts against the lefty starter, something they did well against Tanner Scheppers yesterday.
But the story for today's game is not so much the offense – although we'll all be waiting to see if more fireworks can be lit – but their new starting pitcher A.J. Burnett. Not to put too much pressure on him, but with Cole Hamels out, Burnett will have to pick up the slack. Last season, Burnett went 10-11 with a 3.30 ERA. He also led the NL in K/9. He'll need to be every bit as good this year as he was last with the Pirates.
And, interesting lineup below.
Revere CF / Rollins SS / Utley DH / Byrd RF / Howard 1B / Ruiz C / Mayberry LF / Nix 3B / Hernandez 2B
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Wish I could forget about Natalie Portman, petrified, and covered in hot grits...
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and try to take over europe as well, how dare these europeans do something we don't like?
No, I'm not joking. And stop calling me Shirley.
Why doesn't Europe set up it's own version of Facebook?
We did. It's called netlog [netlog.com]. And then the event horizon of Facebook's socio-gravitational pull engulfed the whole planet and surrounding satellites.
I wonder though, if you find you just can't remove all of the info about yourself that's out there on the net. Perhaps you could just dilute with nonsense. Prospective employers looking for you years from now will find that you kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, were the inventor of Slinky football, were a U.S. Congressman in 1979 who successfully passed legislation outlawing cat juggling, and you were the original drummer for the Banana Splits, before you became an astronaut on Apollo 22.
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I am amazed at the number of college football and basketball players who have festooned themselves with odd haircuts, metal-capped teeth, body piercings and tattoos. What are they thinking when they do this? Is it a plea for recognition? I feel sorry for them.
Only a very few will ever be drafted by the pro teams, where body art will probably have little effect on their careers. Those not drafted will have to find other employment to support themselves and their families.
Piercings can heal, hair can be cut and teeth can be fixed but tattoos are permanent.
Do these young men not realize what an adverse effect body art can have on their employment possibilities? Many professional companies demand that any employee cover all body art. Other prospective employers automatically reject anyone with visible tattoos.
College coaches would do their athletes a real favor by counseling them about body art and its drawbacks in life after college.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct. 20— When the 1997 season dawned, the Giants' status as the youngest team in the National Football League hardly seemed a strength. In pro football's rough-and-tumble world, youth is a code word for mistake prone.
But somebody forgot to tell the juvenile Giants, in first place in the National Football Conference East with a 5-3 record, that they are supposed to be taking baby steps.
With six first-year starters, five on offense, the mark of these Giants has been daring play and bold production under pressure. Youth has served the team well. Apparently, the rookies and first-year starters don't know enough to be afraid with the game on the line.
From the interception by the rookie Sam Garnes that sealed the season-opening victory over the Philadelphia Eagles to Danny Kanell's confident pass up the sideline that won Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions, it is the untested Giants who continue to make an impact at pivotal times.
The 1997 Giants were expected to be in the running for the league's first draft pick, not first place. But that's because no one knew how at ease the team's new blood would be in times of tension.
Consider that Kanell, making just his second N.F.L. start, entered the huddle before the third play of overtime Sunday with a broad grin on his face. ''He told everybody that this play was going for a touchdown,'' said Chris Calloway, who caught the pass from Kanell that became the game-winning, 68-yard score in the 26-20 victory. ''He said it like he could see the future. I believed him.''
Kanell said: ''I did feel comfortable that things were going to be O.K. I've been in a lot of big games at Florida State, I've played in games with that many fans, and more. I've played in games where you couldn't hear because the crowd noise was so great. So none of that stuff worried me.''
From the beginning of training camp, Coach Jim Fassel has tried to infuse the Giants with enthusiasm. He worried about the scars of two consecutive losing seasons and about the residue of the autocratic regime of Dan Reeves, an era when the coaches talked, the players listened and the rookies sat.
Fassel wanted new faces because, in his assessment, the Giants did not have enough players who enjoyed playing and who wanted to express themselves with their play.
''I want guys who go out there ready to rock and roll,'' he said.
The Rolling Stones have left Giants Stadium. Fassel's band -- touring the league for the first time -- plays host to what should be a rejuvenated Giants nation Sunday afternoon when the Cincinnati Bengals visit.
''The guys that we have kept around here all bring a certain fearlessness to the game,'' Fassel said today. ''And it's catching on throughout the team. That's what I wanted.''
So Fassel started Garnes at strong safety, even if it meant cutting the 12-year veteran Maurice Douglass. He started other rookies at center, running back and wide receiver. When Dave Brown went down with an injury, Fassel was quick to throw his full support behind Kanell. At left tackle, he stuck with Roman Oben, who before this season had played exactly one play from scrimmage in the N.F.L. Oben has since put together a string of impressive games.
The rookie Brad Maynard was his punter. In Sunday's game of punts and field possession, Maynard averaged 45.8 yards on eight punts. In the final minute of the fourth quarter, with the game tied, Maynard squelched any thoughts the Lions had of a last-ditch drive for a field goal by dropping his last punt on the Lions' 6-yard line. The Lions let the clock run out rather than try to maneuver from that spot on the field, and they never saw the football again.
Fassel also reached into the anonymous world of the blocking back and found fullback Charles Way. In two seasons, Reeves asked Way to carry the football 24 times. Under Fassel, Way has 56 rushing attempts and 256 yards, an average of 4.8 yards a carry.
''The team has a very good attitude, and it believes it can make plays at the important times,'' Fassel said. ''It's called confidence. Danny Kanell is a good example of that. He came in with a different attitude.
''Dave, the guy was trying so hard. Danny, for the little playing time he's had, shows me a tremendous amount of football instinct.''
Fassel's impact on the Giants was supposed to be as an offensive guru. When people referred to the new-look Giants, they meant a new, fast-paced offense.
But the biggest new thing about these Giants -- besides their place in the standing -- is the ever-revolving lineup of new faces contributing to critical victories: Garnes, Way, David Patten, Kevin Alexander, Tyrone Wheatley, Tito Wooten, Kanell.
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When I was checking on my garden a couple days ago I noticed the banana leaves were very shiny and when I touched them they were sticky. On the other side of the house checking the tomatoes, the PVC pipe used as a brace was very sticky and so were the leaves of the plants in that garden. It's on the lettuce leaves and at the front of the house all over our cars, too, which eliminated something coming from the huge trees in the backyard. Does anyone know if they have been spraying for mosquitoes or anything? When I look at my windshield it's looks like a mist of droplets, but it smears and is sticky. Same on the plants in the gardens around my backyard. I'm actually in Balch Springs part of Dallas.
Thank you for your reply, but I guess I didn't state it right. It's like a fine mist was sprayed and covered everything. Honeydew would only be on some plants and looks very different. This stuff is all over the tables, chairs, vehicles, patio furniture, the vegetables, banana plants...everything. Everything you touch you can feel it's sticky, and it's all over the property. My biggest concern right now is the lettuce since I was planning on harvesting it and now I'm a bit hesitant.
dpgrows, you should contact your local municipality for this information. With a couple of phone calls, you should be able to find out if and when any abatement trucks or planes have been out.
Please note that the honey dew from large trees can be carried in the wind, however odd that may sound.
The only time I've seen that is honeydew from aphids on large pecan trees. Any of those around? It can blow a ways from the tree. This is a common complaint about pecan trees but it seems early for a heavy aphid infestation.
If it is honeydew, rinse the lettuce and it will be fine to eat.
We have four large oak trees in the back yard, no pecans. Aphids are only a few here and there on any of the vegetable plants, so I wouldn't think they'd be overabundant in the trees. The trees dropped all their flowers quite awhile back along with thousands of tiny white maggot looking larvae of some sort. But if honeydew can travel a distance, maybe it is something from the tree. Thanks.
When an aphid creates honeydew it forms in a "bubble" on it's rear and it uses it's hind legs to kick the bubble off itself. If it's falling from a high area it can travel a bit of a distance/angle before it lands.
They love the red oaks in my front yard.
fruitnut, I cannot think of ANY tree that couldn't be the aphid provider in such a situation! Maples are big offenders, for example. Almost any hardwood and conifer alike can harbor the insects that will produce copious amounts of honeydew.


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A Utah company hopes to change that.
Park City-based All Resort Group has invested more than $2 million in its newest fleet equipped with seat belts. Lewis Stages, the maker of the bus, rolled out a three-point safety belt along with a lap belt in its coaches Tuesday.
Company officials say the system will keep passengers in their seats if a bus should rollover.
"In a rare occurrence that there is an accident, we want to be sure that passengers stay in their seats," said Richard Bizzaro, owner of Lewis Stages.
Drivers and passengers who wear seat belts are 50 percent more likely to survive a crash than those who do not buckle up. According to the website Zero Fatalities, "failing to buckle up contributes to more fatalities than any other traffic safety-related behavior."
Bizzaro said people riding his buses fitted with safety restraints are still getting used to the idea of using a seat belt.
"It's been a little bit slow," he said. "Some people don't buckle up, but more and more are as they see them."
Right now, one-third of All Resort Group's fleet has seat belts, with the goal of reaching 100 percent within three years. All Resort Group is first in the state to have seat belts in its large buses, company officials said.
Bizzaro wants Utahns to ask the Legislature to make seat belts on buses mandatory.
"My personal opinion about school buses is that all of them should have seat belts," he said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said school buses are one of the safest forms of transportation in this country. It said buses are designed to be heavier and distribute crash forces differently than a passenger car, therefore making them safer in a collision.
It also said buses uses a safety concept called "compartmentalization," which requires that the interior of large buses provide a protective envelope consisting of strong, closely spaced seats that have energy-absorbing seat backs.
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In northern Gaza last week, thousands gathered at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, awaiting the arrival of 15 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails.
As the bus carrying the prisoners crossed to the Palestinian side, crowds waving both Hamas and Fatah flags lifted the men on their shoulders as they chanted and shot celebratory gunfire and fireworks into the sky.
This batch of prisoners was the first of four releases that will ultimately free 104 long-serving Palestinian detainees, whom Israel agreed to let go as a confidence-building measure to restart peace talks.
"These first moments of my freedom have made me forget all my years in jail. The moment I saw the huge crowds waiting for us at Erez crossing, I forgot the 24 years which I spent in Israeli cells. I felt absolutely free," said Nehad Jundiya, one of the released prisoners.
Jundiya, who is originally from Gaza, was arrested when he was 16 years old, two years after the eruption of the first Palestinian intifada in 1987. On July 13, 1989, after his cousin's death in clashes with Israeli soldiers, Jundiya and his friend Mohammed Hamdiya fatally stabbed an Israeli citizen inside Israel before they sneaked back to their homes in Gaza.
He was later arrested and, following several rounds of interrogation, they both confessed to committing the murder. Jundiya was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
For Jundiya, the years he spent in Israel jails are now a "past nightmare" that he does not wish to recall. "Life in Israeli prisons is full of pain, suffering and oppression. I don't wish to remember those painful memories ... prisoners are deprived of almost everything meaningful and are subjected to all sorts of oppressive measures. But, now that I am out of prison, this is all in the past," he said.
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"I only hope the rest of the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails will also be released. Our freedom is incomplete without theirs," he added.
The 41-year-old said he could find no words to describe his feelings when he met his family at the Erez crossing. He added that he was grateful to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for his efforts to secure his release. His sister Shifa said her family "couldn't still believe that Nehad was finally, and after all these years, among them - and they could see and touch him".
During Nehad's first months in prison, Jundiya's father, whose house was entirely demolished in a revenge attack by Israeli forces following his son's indictment, died of a heart attack. His mother died the following year. "I always thought both my parents died because the distress was too much for them to endure. I wish they had been alive today to see me one last time before they died," he said, grimly.
Another released Palestinian detainee from Gaza, 43-year-old Samir Murtaja, said "the most difficult moment for a prisoner is when they receive the news of the death of one of their parents." Murtaja, jailed on charges of being politically affiliated with Hamas, lost both his parents during the past four years.
"God bless my mother's soul; she would always say that she wanted to see me just one time before she died," Murtaja said. "My father died in 2008, so I always prayed that she would live long enough to see me when I am released. But she died at the beginning of 2012. I lived the worst moments in my entire life, especially because I saw neither of them for the past 20 years I spent in jail."
Murtaja had been married for only a few months before he was jailed. His wife, however, refused to divorce, deciding to wait for him until his release. "The hardships she had to endure and her sacrifices were much greater that mine - since while I had no choice in prison, she actually chose of her own free will to go through all the pain alongside me," he said.
While in prison, Murtaja successfully finished his university education and obtained a certificate from the Hebrew Open University. And his wife, agreeing to his request, finished her high school and university education, and even obtained a master's degree in education.
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In April 2012, protesting harsh prison conditions including a ban on family visits, Murtaja took part in a mass hunger strike along with 1,600 other Palestinian detainees. The strike lasted for 28 days.
"Following the capture of [Gilad] Shalit [the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas in June 2006], all family visits were banned. After his release, we expected family visits to be allowed again, but they weren't," said Murtaja. "So I and other detainees embarked on a hunger strike for 28 days during which we had no food, only drinking salt and water. They were such difficult moments."
In Israeli prisons, to achieve one's demands, one has to be ready to sacrifice their dearest things.
- Samir Murtaja, released Palestinian prisoner
For Murtaja, who had only two months left in his sentence, leaving his cell was not an entirely happy experience. "I was extremely saddened, as I had to depart company with my own brother, who shared the same prison cell with me," he said.
Murtaja's brother, Fadi, was arrested in 2003 in Bethlehem, where he was living with his wife, and given a 16-year sentence. In prison, Samir saw his brother Fadi for the first time since his own conviction in 1990.
"It was such a bewildering experience, I didn't know how I felt," he said. "It's true I wanted to see my brother, but not in such circumstances ... When I first saw him in Nafha prison, I didn't recognise him. He told me that he is Fadi, my brother, and we embraced. I didn't know how I felt. I was happy to finally see and hug my brother, but I was extremely saddened and agonised to know that he was here, in prison."
Samir believes that the Palestinian prisoners' issue should be put above every other issue, and that all Palestinian groups should work hard to secure the release of "those lost lives" behind Israeli bars.
"In Israeli prisons," he said, "to achieve one's demands, one has to be ready to sacrifice their dearest things. One has to pay dearly - with even their own blood."
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1 (8 ounce) can
water chestnuts, drained
1/2 pound
sliced bacon
1 (18 ounce) bottle
barbeque sauce
I have made these for several parties, and everywhere I take them they are a big hit. People just can't believe they are so simple.
I have made these for years. A big plus is that these can be made ahead so they are ready to go in the oven when needed for your guests. I use the precooked bacon you can buy at Costco. !/2 of a slice of bacon works perfectly. The precooked bacon also makes it easier for these to cook and get past that rubbery bacon stage without burning. I use the 6 inch appetizer skewers instead of toothpick for ease of eating and serving. For ease of cleanup, bake on a foil lined baking sheet. Thanks for sharing FLIPPERMD2000. These are winners at our house!
4 Ratings
Our only complaint was it did not make enough!
Super easy
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Chewy Chestnuts
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 477
Calories from Fat: 234
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