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New Yorkers for Students' Educational Rights (NYSER)
is a statewide coalition of parents, concerned citizens and community groups, advocacy organizations, and school boards that seeks to ensure the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students attending public schools in New York State through policy analysis, advocacy, and legal action.
Learn about the new lawsuit seeking fair funding for all New York schools
"The Central Crisis of New York Education"
A recent editorial in the New York Times explicitly draws attention the root inequalities of New York public education that NYSER has been working to illuminate and remedy. It challenges Governor Cuomo to "move beyond peripheral concerns and political score-settling with the state teachers' union," and confront and propose remedies for the "inequality in school funding that prevents many poor districts from lifting their children up to state standards."
Read the editorial here.
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D'Angelo, Wu-Tang Clan, CHVRCHES, Ride, L7, Future Islands, Grimes, and more to play Austin festival.
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A move to The Shrine Auditorium nixes all of the festival's growing pains.
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Daft Punk discreetly releases Human After All Remixes LP
Marking its first-ever American release, the set includes contributions from Justice, Basement Jaxx, and the Robots themselves.
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Featuring Basement Jaxx, Peaches, Soulwax, Digitalism, Justice, and the Robots themselves.
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Tenacious D reveals lineup for Festival Supreme 2014
Over 40 musicians and comedians will hit L.A. on October 25th, including Tenacious D, Metalocalypse, Cheech and Chong, Workaholics, and Eagles of Death Metal.
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MGMT, TV on the Radio, and Foster the People, too.
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MGMT, TV on the Radio, and Foster the People, too.
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Through the blight, seeing a stadium site
A third party, contracted by the Chargers, would run the stadium. Shops and restaurants ringing the first floor of the stadium would be open every day, to my understanding. (How many other events fill the place outside the Chargers' 10 home games will partly depend on whether the stadium is part of a convention center expansion).
Parking lots nearby would have to be converted to multi-level parking structures.
You don't need a real estate license to see the property values going up, some developer making a nice offer to the owners of the dilapidated homes east of 16th.
It's safe to say the stadium would extend the part of downtown we like to think about.
Now, all building a stadium here would do is push the homeless population further out.
But building a stadium is making use of land that has all but been left for dead, and maybe it is prompting us to address the homeless condition in some way. In fact, some sort of major contribution by the Chargers to that end should be a condition of the development's approval.
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Mom of girl shot on Fla. school bus seeks answers
"The drivers have one of the toughest jobs in education and they do it with the least amount of support," Trump said.
The vast majority of bus drivers do not receive training on building relationships with students and averting a crisis, he said.
"In general across the country they are grossly undertrained and under-supported in these areas," he said. "It's the exception, not the norm, to see that training in place."
The Florida Department of Education has state requirements to become a school bus driver, including a criminal background check, drug screening and 40 hours of pre-service training. There is no requirement specified on training for managing students who misbehave or act violently on a bus.
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Family Dollar (FDO) said in a statement that its board rejected the Dollar General bid "on the basis of antitrust regulatory considerations."
The Dollar General (DG) bid, at $78.50 per Family Dollar share, topped the offer from Dollar Tree (DLTR) of $74.50 per share, or about $8.5 billion.
Also, Dollar General offered all cash, as opposed to Dollar Tree's offer combo of cash and stock.
Family Dollar CEO Howard Levine said that the board's decision was unanimous and reaffirmed support for its pending merger with Dollar Tree.
A spokeswomen for Dollar General declined comment. The company's stock dipped on the news.
All three of the chains specialize in low-cost consumer goods.
Dollar General calls itself the largest discount retailer in the U.S., with more than 11,000 stores in 40 states.


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i Feel bad for my Boy Melvin Guillard because his next fight is VS Tibai who is a badass Sub guy, i use to train with Melvin and he will not be able to stop the takedown..but i would love to see him Win by knock out
UFC President Dana White talks about Brock Lesnar and his UFC 100 fight with Frank Mir.
i Feel bad for my Boy Melvin Guillard because his next fight is VS Tibai who is a badass Sub guy, i use to train with Melvin and he will not be able to stop the takedown..but i would love to see him Win by knock out
top two? LOL
Frank Mir is third…. at best.
UFC 102 main card to include Leben vs. Rosholt, Marquardt vs. Maia, and Hamill vs. Vera
i hope leban..
Marquart for sure..
Hamill baby but idk
i was thinking the same thing mike top two my ass frank has subbed a lot of nobodys in his career along with brock and sylvia. Nog and fedor are way better submission artists.
I would say nog is a greater fighter then mir, we all know back in his day he was a legend, but I think as it is right now mir is a better fighter.
Nice work posting as me TJ ur a loser ^
wats wrong too afraid to post as yourself? tired of everyone on this site calling you a moron?
hahaha! wow dude…I have no idea how to post under your name, and that definitly was NOT me. i think ive already said just about everything i had to say to you. i really don't have any more problems with u. but once again…..That was not me
and also- you said that fedor is a better sub artist than mir…u gotta be kidding me man. i mean, u can say he is a better fighter than mir, but come on…mir is WAAAYYYY better on the ground
dane is right TJ and it just goes to show how much you know about mma. you think Mir is better on the ground than fedor. thats the most rediculous thing ive ever heard. fedor has tapped people like fujita, coleman twice, randleman, Ogawa, sylvia, choi, hunt to name a few. he has 16 submission wins and his 7 (T)KO's would have been submitted aswell if he didnt have such good hands.
the only person worthe mentioning mir has ever subbed is tim "fatass" Sylvia. fedor has (T)ko'd as many people as mir has subbed in mma. what accomplishments do you think mir has in BJJ? your delusional if you think mir could stand a chance on the ground with fedor or on the feet. good lord some people are ignorant on the net. this is the same mir that had memorable fights with wes sims a ufc reject who is trying to fight his way back into the ufc on the same TUF as kimbo. Do you know how many times fedor has won the russian combat sambo championships? do you even know the rules of sambo? have you ever even done any martial arts of any kind?
jesus fedor would sub mir in round one if mir didnt go to sleep by a lazy punch first.


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New Group Attacks South Florida Reps' "Confused Prioritiesâ€
Tony Jimenez, a former Bush administration official, launched a new 527 media group this week, attacking two South Florida Republicans for "confused priorities†that focus on Castro's Cuba rather than on jobs, wages, pain at the pump, the housing crisis and energy independence.
The newly-launched organization, One South Florida, focuses its message mainly on these misplaced priorities, which has been a theme of the campaigns of Democratic candidates Joe Garcia (See "One Trick Pony") and Raul Martinez, and asserts (correctly) that efforts to tighten restrictions on Cuba haven't achieved anything:
While our cost of living soared and wages for the poor plunged, our representatives in Washington expired all of their political capital supporting Bush's counter-productive Cuba sanctions. Instead of bringing badly needed funding and economic development programs to our region, they obsess on restricting the right of Cuban-Americans to visit and send money to their relatives on the island. What's worse: their efforts have failed to have any impact on human rights violations in Cuba.
This jives with polling data released by the Foundation for Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations in June. Approximately three-quarters of respondents (77 and 74 percent respectively in FL-21 and FL-25) indicated that they would support a candidate whose top priority will be improving health care, lowering housing costs, and improving our schools. Less than 20 percent of respondents would support a candidate whose top priority will be changing the political system of Cuba or who makes that a co-equal priority alongside domestic issues.
Are high gas prices and falling home values more important than sticking it to Castro's Cuba? These guys think so.
Bring Back the Sandwich Shack, Raul
Much has been made of Raul Castro's interpretation of socialism. Earlier this summer before the national assembly, Castro stated: "Socialism means social justice and equality; but equality of rights, of opportunities -- not of income.†The steps that the "practical Castro,†as he's been called, has taken alongside these statements, while symbolic, have yet to move the nation in any tangible way. And they're unlikely to. Nimble openings of the past may not draw the same headlines, but they may offer a better avenue forward….
Cuba has made much more serious openings in the past, specifically in the post- Soviet period when the island's economy nearly ground to a stand still. In 2005, though, Fidel -- bolsterered by support from Venezuela and China -- recanted on liberalizations. He shut down a broad swath of small, private enterprise that had developed, eliminating 2,000 of the "shack†operations that had sprung up selling pizzas, sodas, sandwiches, milkshakes, and other sweets.
That was just the tip of the iceberg. The Economist reported that 240,000 licensed entrepreneurs and small business owners were whittled down to below 140,000. Along with the opening in the early nineties came legality of possession and use of U.S. currency -- a practice that fueled the flow of remittances from expatriate Cubans, but, along with other openings, was brought to a halt in the early years of the new millennium.
But the reforms that have garnered the boldest headlines since the transition, those allowing the ownership personal computers and cell phones, are symbolic -- Cubans live on an average salary of $17 per month can hardly afford a cell phone, let alone the $700 necessary to buy a computer.
It's likely that the most meaningful of Raul's are not about consumer goods but about property and small business. His willingness to increase limits on land that private farms can own by 200% (99 acres up from 33), might help to offset an estimated $1 billion increase in imported food costs the nation will face this year alone. The legalization of private taxis is another good move.
Allowing other existing private enterprise, in the form of hair salons, cafes, and restaurants, to move out of people's homes and into other locations -- even if property remains owned state, rather than privately owned -- could allow for modest, controlled expansion for already permitted industry.
Ultimately, Cubans are responsible for their own country. Since support for the ideals of the Revolution runs deep, a revolution that has delivered results in terms of universal, quality health care and literacy and that ended the corrupt rule of Battista and his friends in the American mafia, mining, and sugar worlds, the way forward must also be in line with those ideals.
That may mean a nation of small, modern, efficient farms, mom-and-pop shopkeepers, of 99-year leases (like in London) on property and a measured relationship with Chinese, American, and other sources of foreign direct investment. Clearly, however, something has to change.
Democratic Platform on Latin America
I finally got a moment to look at the Democrats' platform on Latin America. In general it's pretty sparse, and on Cuba it only echoes the main bullet points of Obama's speech before the Cuban American National Foundation:
Recommit to an Alliance of the Americas
We recognize that the security and prosperity of the United States is fundamentally tied to the future of the Americas. We believe that in the 21st century, the U.S. must treat Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean as full partners, just as our neighbors to the south should reject the bombast of authoritarian bullies. An alliance of the Americas will only succeed if it is founded on the bedrock of mutual respect and works to advance democracy, opportunity and security from the bottom-up. We must turn the page on the arrogance in Washington and the anti-Americanism across the region that stands in the way of progress. We must work with close partners like Mexico, Brazil and Colombia on issues like ending the drug trade, fighting poverty and inequality, and immigration. And we must build ties to the people of Cuba and help advance their liberty by allowing unlimited family visits and remittances to the island, while presenting the Cuban regime with a clear choice: if it takes significant steps toward democracy, beginning with the unconditional release of all political prisoners, we will be prepared to take steps to begin normalizing relations.
My thoughts on a regional strategy are here. My colleague Steve Clemons has more general foreign policy analysis of the platform here.
More later.
Olympics Highlight Cuba's Conundrum
Cuba, despite the U.S. embargo, has proven a formidable summer Olympic contender. The nation placed eleventh in the medal count at the 2004 Olympics, an impressive showing for a nation of roughly 11 million -- below 70th in the world in terms of population. In 2000, Cuba was eighth in medals earned, in 1996, ninth.
Since the end of the Cold War America has lost touch with the political competitiveness of the games. With the United States' global power unchallenged, we find ourselves often dwelling on the "good will†of the games, or on individual athletes whose stories have inspired us. We've lost touch with the national pride that a victory can inspire. For many nations, a single medal can be as powerful as the 1980 "miracle on ice," or Mary Lou Retton's 1984 all around title.
For Havana, the summer games are seen as a time to demonstrate the success of the revolution. They're an equalizer of sorts -- an opportunity to earn global respect on a level playing field.
But the lead up to the games has had the opposite effect. Multiple defections have underscored one of the many disadvantages of maintaining an authoritarian state with an impoverished economy. Talented people, given the option, will often choose to leave.
And they certainly are. The defection of four major boxers and the sidelining of a fifth who tried to flee but failed, have left the team with inexperienced fighters. This is not isolated. The disappearance of three members of Cuba's AAA Junior baseball team in Edmonton this week, has set a decisive tone for Havana's participants in Beijing.
This is a change from just a few years ago. A recent Miami Herald article recalls Felix Savon, who won three gold medals before retiring after the 2000 games, telling Don King -- who had offered Savon a multi-million dollar contract to defect and box professional in the states: "Why would I box for a million dollars when I can fight for 10 million Cuban people?''
Revolutionary fervor, it seems, must be earned. The poor economic performance of the past decade, combined with Raul's lowering of expectations in his July 26, 2008 speech at Moncada Barracks, is not enough to secure even the loyalty of Cubans who have received the best the government can offer.
Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs predicts this problem: people need security, identity, community, and self-actualization, in that order. If they do not get it they either seek it out --in this case, by defecting -- or they become fertile ground for the next generation of revolutionaries...or counter-revolutionaries.
Appeals to nationalism, and, in Cuba's case, a common enemy, have succeeded for decades in keeping Cubans loyal to the revolution. When Cuba felt the sting of real isolation, this worked. But now Cuba is, in effect, fully integrated with the global economy, with the United States being Cuba's fifth largest trading partner despite the embargo. "El bloqueo", far from hastening a change in the Cuban system, is sustaining it by providing a constant sense of threat.
Nationalism and fear are alive and well in Cuba this summer. Look at the Olympic send-offs from the two Castro brothers. Fidel's comments -- "To the glorious Cuban athletes on their way to the Olympic Games: Go forward, and traveling with you is the love of our people to our native land,†-- rang with the mystique of a fabled revolution, while Raul's farewell -- "You all know what the Cuban people expect from you," sounded far more like the charge of a dictator on uncertain ground.
Cuba stands at a crossroads. U.S. policy has provided a crutch to the Havana regime, a fail-safe scapegoat for any and all of the island's woes. We can continue to prolong a cruel level of economic underperformance, or we can help Cuba face the need to embrace a new path. The choice is ours.
(Patrick Doherty contributed to this post.)
Spring Break, the Fall of the Castros?
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The IMF's new working paper reminded my editor here at the 'Note -- Patrick Doherty -- of a quote Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern offered at the Council on Foreign Relations last year:
"I think there are some Cuban officials -- some in the government, some of the hard-liners who, quite frankly, I think deep down are a little reluctant for change, because it's something they won't be able to control. I mean, I think the two words in the English language that the hard-liners in Cuba fear the most are "spring break." I don't think they would know what to do.â€Â
The laugh line carries considerable weight, though...
As it becomes more and more likely that the embargo will be lifted, it is important to understand how sizable a steamroller U.S. youth culture can be. College undergrads with too much booze, loose inhibitions, and deep pockets might literally grind the nation to a halt if they descended upon Cuban resorts in full force. Too few rooms; too few cabs; too few drunk tanks. Scantily clad, and the very picture of Capitalist materialism, the vanguard of American pop culture would lay havoc to Havana streets.
It is a real possibility. February's Economist laid out two potential paths for an embargo-liberated Cuba: first, the spring break vision -- with a rapid vacuum pulling the Castro's and communism from power -- and second, a model where power structures remain intact as capitalism takes hold, as seen in China, Vietnam, and Mexico.
The reality is that any opening to U.S. travel will be done with caution by Havana. The government has some obvious tools at his disposal -- flight and visa limitations being the most blunt. But internal pressure will grow as the Cuban people see the depth of U.S. demand for Cuban exploration, beaches and culture.
A gradual pace might actually be the best path for both Cuba and Washington. To survive rapid change, as Thomas Carothers points out, effective development of political parties, media, civic education, and civil society at large is reqiure. But the infrastructure of Cuban socialism is not well suited to rapid adaptation. Iraq, of course, has taught foreign policy analysts to not to assume anything when it comes to the pace of political development in post-socialist states.
State failure brought on by rapid economic changes may be more of a threat to U.S. interests than regime survival, as a rapid collapse of the Revolution might just as easily set Cuba on Haiti's trajectory. In such a scenario, the waves of immigrants to South Florida would be overwhelming.
But there is also the question of how much demand there is for political change. Without reliable polling, it's difficult to get an accurate sense of how deep the Cuban commitment is to the spirit of the revolution -- particularly among the young, the fault line for nearly all political shifts. The Christian Science Monitor's recent series on Cuba -- which is worth taking time to read -- suggests that Cuba's generation Y is restless, but not overtly political. Economic issues are much more pressing.
Regardless of the path ahead, spring break will eventually come to Cuba. The questions will be: how soon, and with what force. One thing is certain: as Senator Feingold has put it when talking about Cuba -- "democracy travels best in person.â€Â
Cuba and Latin America: A New Strategy
The Havana Note talks a lot about the need for a new policy towards Cuba. Fifty years of failure is a shameful, bi-partisan indictment of how policy is made in Washington. Luckily, as we have been and will continue to show, more people recognize that change is on the way. But change for change's sake is foolish, and could easily backfire on the United States.
Fortunately, the emerging consensus on changing Cuba policy happens to coincide with another consensus, here in Washington, that America needs a major overhaul of all our relations with Latin America -- and with the rising influence of Hispanic voters.
But both movements lack strategic coherence.
Today I want to propose some ideas on tying these two efforts together in light of the great strategic challenges facing the United States over the next 30-40 years.
Unlike the Cold War or World War II, when ideological foes bent on global aggression defined the central strategic challenges to the United States -- and when a policy of isolation against Cuba made sense -- I argue that the central challenge facing the United States today and for decades to come is the need to create the economic space for the entrance of up to 4.5 billion people into the formal sector of the global economy.
This challenge is presented in stark relief by China. By 2030, 700 million Chinese will leave the countryside and move into the cities, entering the formal sector of the global economy. This alone is the largest rural-urban migration the planet has ever encountered and in the short term it will put incredible global stress on energy, resources, and transportation while requiring new approaches to land use that we have never encountered.
But that same narrative is happening all over the developing world. Rural-urban migration is the dominant migratory pattern. And that migration is the driver bringing people into the formal sector of the global economy. It only follows that the challenge of economic inclusion in the 21st Century is the challenge of sustainability, for, limiting our options in a massive way are the twin constraints of climate change and ecosystem depletion.
Stewarding global patterns of energy and resource consumption, transportation and land use are are the key elements of any new American grand strategy. To the extent that the United States takes the lead in creating the technologies, the metropoli, the products, and the lifestyles of sustainability, strategic pre-eminence will flow once again to our shores.
Our national security strategy flows from this. Abroad America's purpose will be to create the infrastructure of sustainable global growth and in so doing, create the infrastructure of inclusion, prosperity, stability, and ultimately, political liberalism. As we do so, the great strategic liability of the United States in the current global order, our dependence on oil as a transportation fuel, will be mitigated. Our current account will have the best chance at balancing, and economic emigration will be minimized.
As we engage the world, however, we will need to approach the world as a collection of regional economies. Europe, China, India, Japan and the United States are all de jure or de facto regional economies. But the Middle East, the ASEAN bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Russia/Central Asia must all focus on building regional economic engines generating domestic growth instead of exports of raw materials or manufactures.
This also goes for Latin America. As I have written earlier, Europe is pioneering a new kind of sustainability-driven relationship with its southern neighbors that I think should be a model for our own strategy. Integrating the Western Hemisphere's energy grid to support a broad portfolio of renewable sources, including wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, tidal, etc. would be the backbone. With reliable, clean energy, the United States must support the development of sustainable urban cities, based on the example of Curitiba, Brazil, not Rio and its crime-dominated favela slums. Sometimes this will mean supporting urban infrastructure, in some cases, bringing the informal, black market into the light.
Such a vision is closely resonant with where Latin America wants to go. The topic of the 5th OAS Summit Summit of the Americas -- scheduled for April 17-19, 2009 -- is "Securing Our Citizens' Future by Promoting Human Prosperity, Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability." The recently concluded 2008 EU-Latin America Summit in Lima, Peru had the same primary theme: Sustainability and Inclusion.
The United States can pick this up and run with it. And we must. Until we demonstrate to the nations of Latin America that the United States has opened a new chapter, created a new regional doctrine that looks at the Western Hemisphere as part of a global strategy to steer the global economy between the scylla of economic inclusion and charybdis of ecological collapse, the United States is irrelevant to the long-term needs of the region.
Our relations with Cuba preclude any of this. Cuba policy represents the worst of American foreign policy: it is driven by single interest groups, uninformed by our short, medium, or long-term interests, and animated by an irrational sense of threat and a misguided approach to human security. Changing Cuba policy signals to our Latin American neighbors that we have changed. It must also signal that we recognize that top-down, neo-liberalism has failed, that, as the Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen wrote, development is freedom but that development in the 21st century must be sustainable and inclusive.
Ending the embargo and encouraging further Cuban economic reforms so that the Cuban people become role models in this new era, is of the highest priority. While Raul Castro's reforms are encouraging, the larger economic pattern speaks to Cuba becoming a strategic rentier economy, like Yugoslavia in the Cold War. Cuba is playing Lula off Chavez, Beijing off Moscow, all while the U.S. is still its fifth largest trade partner. That is a recipe for economic neglect and an end result more like Haiti than Chile. We cannot afford a failed state of 11 million people 90 miles off our coast.
Such outcomes are unnecessary. We know the road to human security and well-being in Latin America. It is fundamentally an economic pathway steered by a robust, populist, social democracy. The United States needs to embrace this and lead it.
The scale of the economic challenge ahead of us is greater than anything the planet has faced in the past. The struggle between business as usual and sustainability will be fought by the concentrated power of sovereign wealth on one side and the more diffuse but more pervasive price signals from market economies on the other. Cuba's full integration into a regional economy shifting rapidly toward sustainability is essential.
The best opportunity to move the ball forward is for the next president to address the Summit of the Americas in 2009, announce that he will end the embargo against Cuba and decisively support the region towards a sustainable and inclusive future.
Opening Cuba to U.S. Tourism -- Good for the Entire Caribbean?
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A New International Monetary Fund paper suggests it just might be.
The working paper, titled "Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba tourism,†is authored by Rafael Romeu. It can be found here.
Romeu projects that normalizing tourism relations between the U.S. and Cuba would lead to a 10% increase in overall travel to the Caribbean at large. The report states that the opening would lead to "seismic shift†in tourism, with U.S. travel quickly out-pacing the Cuban tourism infrastructure, leading to a spill over of travel for other islands. Cuba currently receives 1.38 million tourists per year. The study estimates between 3 and 3.5 million U.S. tourists would travel to Cuba if restrictions were opened.
Small islands with strong European ties are most likely to gain, picking up European tourists that seek new destinations: Martinique, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados are all projected to receive bumps.
But the study also has some clear losers.
The project's third scenario -- which is based on a model where 2/3 of travelers select Cuba over a different location in the region and where 1/3 are deemed "new " travelers -- projects a 23% decline in the number of travelers for the U.S. Virgin Islands, a 10-15% decline for Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cancun, Bermuda, and a 17-20% decline for Anguilla, Aruaba, and the Bahamas.
Regional governments are already concerned, reflecting the growing understanding that U.S. Cuba policy is about to shift seismically. An interesting op-ed, by Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer, suggests that negative repercussions of possible travel opening may be the driving force behind Mexican efforts to cozy up with the Havana regime.
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart Tries to Stop Little Leaguers' Trip to Cuba
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Yesterday Al Kamen had an interesting piece in the Washington Post, highlighting Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart's (R-Fla.) outcry over a planned trip of Vermont and New Hampshire Little Leaguers to Cuba next month. Diaz-Balart, in conjunction with his work as a member of the "Cuba Democracy Caucus,†is trying to undermine the trip. The Congressman hauled Bisa Williams, of the State Department's Cuban Affairs office, and Barbara Hammerle, from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, to the hill to defend their granting of a travel licenses to the group.
One coach of the team -- John Carey, a Dartmouth College professor and Latin American expert -- said the process required three failed attempts and twenty months of work before travel restrictions were lifted. The trip has gotten some substantial attention, from Sports Illutrated among others, and group has also managed to secure strong political support, including Vermont Lieutenant Governor Dubie (R), Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), Senator Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) Senator John E. Sununu (R-N.H.), and U.S. Representative Paul W. Hodes (D-N.H.) and Representative. Peter Welch (D-Vt.).
As of now, the travel ban remains lifted as the team prepares to head south.
Senator Leahy responded today in a small, Vermont paper saying Diaz-Balart should "Pick on someone his own size.†Leahy added: "I don't like the idea of the government telling ordinary Americans, let alone Little Leaguers, where and when they can travel…If the president can go to China at taxpayers' expense, these kids ought to be able to go on a privately paid trip to Cuba to play some baseball."
Specter on Cuba: Change is on the Way
Yesterday, speaking with reporters, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said a) he is seeking a meeting with Raul Castro, b) he thinks formal relations with Cuba are around the corner, and c) knows that talking with world leaders leads to positive change because he's done it.
It is heartening to see a senior Republican Senator, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, recognize that our policy not only must change, but will be changing shortly. Senators Chris Dodd and Max Baucus should welcome Specter's initiatives and, I would argue, seek to join Sen. Specter in Havana.
There is little time to lose. The next president will be faced with few, if any, other issues that will deliver as much global and regional goodwill as changing our failed policy of regime change. I believe the next president would be best served by announcing a decisive change in policy in the inaugural address on January 20, 2009. Failing that, the OAS Summit in Trinidad in April would work as well.
That does not leave much time to get Congress organized. For real change to happen, Congress must hand control of Cuba policy back over to the White House by repealing Helms-Burton legislation. With Senator Specter's leadership on his side of the aisle and Sens. Dodd and Baucus on theirs, the Senate may just be able to move in time to take full strategic advantage of the moment.
I'll talk more about this in later posts, but I just have to juxtapose these statements from the senior senator from Pennsylvania with recent statements made by Senator Joe Lieberman. It is hard to understate the contrast.
While Sen. Specter sees the irrationality of our current policy and the necessity for change, Sen. Lieberman, this week, made good on his promise to seek clemency for a Cuban-American terrorist convicted of an eight-year string of bombing and assassination in New York City and Miami. According to his spokesman, Sen. Lieberman did what he promised, and delivered the petition to the Bush White House.
One Senator understands what is in the National Interest and the other has placed petty politics above homeland security, the rule of law, and the national interest.
Nixon on Cuba? Normalize
Well, that's what Nixon's last national security aide and current president of the Nixon Center, Dimitri K. Simes said yesterday here at the New America Foundation. It was a great event. For the full video and more, click here.
In 1994, with the end of the Cold War and with the end of Cuba's promotion of revolution and communism abroad, Richard Nixon wrote that the policy of isolation and embargo had failed and it was time for engagement:
''... hard as it may be to accept, our policy toward Cuba has failed and it is now time to change our focus from trying to destroy Cuba's government to helping its people.''
Washington has been a little slow on the uptake. A clear, rational calculation of the national interest has been trumped by domestic politics. Nixon was sick about it. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (ret.) couldn't agree more and offered these words about the current state of Cuba policy 14 years after Nixon called for an end to the embargo.


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festive DOFF rewards
i have just completed a number of the DOFF festive missions and well i got some rewards which i dont quite understand
first one was: Engineering team leader
second was: scientific theory
any idea what these are??
Scientific Theory was a buff given out as an assignment reward. Dunno 'bout the Engineering Team Leader, part of it sounds like a new DOff but it also maybe describes another buff.
so what do they do exacly is it just a temp buff for myself or something attached to my DOFF
I'm assuming it temporarily boosts (there were timers on Tribble) the "Scientific Theory" science skill (which you maybe useless to you if you aren't Science). In line with that the other reward probably boosts the "Engineering Team Leader" skill.
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Indian parenting is in the limelight for the wrong reasons. A couple from Andhra Pradesh was arrested in Norway and remanded in custody on criminal charges of "gross or repeated maltreatment" of their seven-year-old son by "threats, violence or other wrongdoing".
The parents apparently chided him for wetting his school uniform. The Oslo district court would pronounce the judgment on December 3.
This is the second instance where the disciplining methods of Indian parents have come under the scanner in Norway. Attributing such cases to the gulf in cultural perceptions, Indian parents living abroad say they are extra cautious while reprimanding their children for any wrongdoing, fearing legal action if a child complains against them.
In India, parents often believe that sparing the rod would spoil the child. But such a practice could land them in trouble if they were living abroad.
Poulami Ganguly, the mother of an eight-year-old girl, Sreecheta, had moved to the US about three years ago and she now lives in California. She said she was shocked to find parenting practices considered common in India banned in the US.
"I had to learn new ways to reprimand my daughter for any wrongdoing," she said. "It was hard to do so since we have grown up in a culture where a good hiding from mother or father is perfectly acceptable. And we would still snuggle up to her at night. Here, if I behave that way, I will have the child services on my back."
Vinay Aravind from Bristol said if he catches his children misbehaving, he withdraws certain privileges instead of meting out a punishment that would affect them physically
or mentally.
"Same rules as India do not apply to the UK. I have to think twice before raising my voice. If they misbehave, I ground them for 2-3 weeks, depending on the severity of their mischief," Aravind said. "When they are grounded they are not allowed to talk on their mobile phones, access the internet, step out of home except for school. I also make it a point not to lose my temper when I am handling kids."
Samir Dalwai, developmental paediatrician and director of New Horizons Child Development Centre, said Indian and western parenting styles are different; but the laws do not take that into consideration. "Generally, Indian parents do not have a bad intention behind punishing their children. They feel it is in the interest of the child. They do so out of love and not because they are drunk or taking drugs."
He, however, said parents need to understand that it has been proved scientifically corporal punishment does not change a child's behaviour. Instead, it develops hatred and resentment in the child towards his/her parents.
Lina Asher, founder and chairperson of Kangaroo Kids Education Limited and author of a parenting book, said it was high time that India had child protection services. "A child in India has no protection against bad parenting. Practices such as hitting is a reality even in educated families," she said. "We need to create a system that will keep a watch on parents."


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Less than two years after Trey Parker and Matt Stone introduced us to the foul-mouthed Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Kenny McCormick on Comedy Central, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut debuted on the big screen. The boys' crude vocabulary reaches new levels after they see Asses of Fire, a profanity-laced movie starring their favorite comedy duo from Canada: Terrence and Phillip. In an attempt to duplicate a scene where Terrence lights a fart on fire, Kenny dies and is sent to hell where he discovers that Satan and Saddam Hussein are lovers. Kenny's face is revealed for the first time after Satan thanks him for urging him to stand up to Hussein, who rules the relationship. The movie landed in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film" as it contained 399 profanities, including 146 F-bombs. The song "Blame Canada" earned an Academy Award nomination, leading to the infamous appearances of Parker and Stone at the Oscars dressed in drag as Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow. Revisit this comedy classic by checking it out midnight Friday and Saturday at the Inwood Theatre, 5458 W. Lovers Lane. Call 214-764-9106 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
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Hi, this is my first post of my work. The image is an old one from my college days, but I thought it would give me the opportunity to get more into this forum and my artwork.
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Helping Santa soon to be underwayPublished 6:00am Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Even though it may not seem like it, Christmas is only a little over two months away and the city of Russellville is already gearing up for their annual "Helping Santa" toy drive.
Applications to participate in the program became available on Tuesday and Russellville Fire Capt. Randy Seal, who is coordinating the program, said he hopes the city will be able to help even more children than in year's past.
"This is our fifth year to have the city departments participate in the Helping Santa program and every year it's just great to know that we could help some child have a memorable Christmas," Seal said.
The program is open to children in the city limits of Russellville, in the county and any other will be considered after those two groups have been served.
Applications to participate in the program can be picked up at the Russellville Fire Station 1 on South Jackson Avenue, Russellville Fire Station 2 on U.S. 43 and the Russellville Police Department in downtown Russellville between the hours of 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The deadline to turn applications in will be December 3, 2012. All other information needed to apply will be listed on the applications.
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Will rounding cents bring euro zone down?
The 18-country euro zone has had a rough ride in the past 6 years, and even with the glimmers of good news reaching the darkest corners of the debt crisis, the European Central Bank has been anything but ready to sound a crisis-over siren.
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Ending the debt limit crisis: Dear Ben Bernanke
Warren Buffett calls the debt ceiling a "nuclear weapon, too horrible to use." Obama administration official Jason Furman says the consequence of a default on U.S. government debt is "too terrible to think about." When asked about a default, Wells Fargo strategist James Kochan simply commented, "Holy cripes."
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Elusive Greek deal
So euro zone finance ministers conferred about Greece and Germany's Schaeuble came out to declare significant progress although no deal yet. Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker looked forward to a final settlement at the ministers' face-to-face meeting on Nov. 12.
But a source with no particular axe to grind was much more downbeat, saying there was no real progress with Germany and the IMF at loggerheads over the need for euro zone governments and the ECB to take a haircut on the Greek bonds they hold in order to make the numbers add up.
from Global Investing:
UK investors warm to European stocks
British investors are warming up to European equities, with the highest level of positive or rather positive views of the troubled bloc's stocks in a year, an online survey by Baring Asset Management shows:
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An unpleasant surprise may lurk in euro zone GDP numbers
The euro zone economy may be doing far worse than most economists want to believe. That's not good news for a central bank trying to rescue the single currency through a hotly-contested bond purchasing programme that has yet to get started.
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UF Weekend Reads
Yes, Germany and Greece have been in a war of words in the unfolding crisis over the latter's membership in the euro zone, but this afternoon the two nations face off in a different (and far more entertaining) way: they go head-to-head in the European Championship quarterfinal.
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Who expects euro bonds? Look outside the euro zone
It's already been established that economists' predictions about the euro zone's future hinge largely on where their employer is based. Euro zone optimists tend to work for euro zone banks and research houses, and euro zone sceptics for companies based outside the currency union.
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The dangers of a bloated ECB balance sheet
Central balance sheets across the industrialized world have increased rapidly in response to the financial crisis, as recently noted on this blog. In Europe, the balance sheet of the ECB and the 17 national central banks that share the euro currency has grown to around 3 trillion euros after the ECB injected more than a trillion into the market in 3-year loans and loosened its collateral standards.
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INVESTMENT EXTRA: The future won't be up in the air with Penna
We may have limped out of recession in the last quarter, but City experts reckon the shock waves of the worst economic downturn in living memory will continue to rock the nation for some time to come.
Unemployment is set to resume its upward trajectory, with growth expected to be insipid at best this year.
And while corporate earnings are starting to stabilise, the modest gains posted by our exporters and manufacturers pale compared with the gaping hole left by a permanently damaged financial services sector.
Given this cheerful state of affairs, those companies that have survived have battened down the hatches, preparing for more pain.
Some will be more resilient than others, but few will actually prosper in this new era of austerity.
Yet there are a few - outsourcing firms such as Capita, Mouchel and Mitie spring to mind. And Penna Consulting, the HR services firm, is ideally suited to the current conditions.
Penna is expected to be a beneficiary of the downturn and cuts to central services that will come in the aftermath of the general election.
Meanwhile, it is primed for takeoff once the recovery gets into full swing.
The group, headed by Gary Browning, specialises in
recruitment - not something businesses are doing en masse at the
moment - and outplacement services.
Outplacement is a boom sector. During previous recessions workers lost their jobs one day and joined the ranks of the unemployed the next.
Now the process is handled with a lot more sensitivity. Employees receive exit interviews, are given help to update their CV and some corporations even find their ex-staff new jobs. This can be handled in house, but is a lot to ask of any already stretched human resources department.
So big corporations - and increasingly government departments - use outplacement firms such as Penna.
While many private sector job losses occurred in a frenetic period from 2008 to the middle of last year, the public sector has so far been unaffected.
Of course this is expected to change after the election as the new government - irrespective of its political hue - is forced to tackle a huge and bloated central infrastructure in a bid to bring down the nation's debts.
Penna already has experience working with the public sector as it managed the migration of the Qualification & Curriculum Board to the regions.
Next month's Budget is expected to be accompanied by an independent review on re-locating more civil servants. And this is just the
start of what is likely to be a massive upheaval for Britain's bureaucrats - but a potentially lucrative trend for Penna.
Away from outplacement, the firm looks set to become Britain's biggest supplier of interim managers with larger rival Hexagon struggling to maintain that position as it renegotiates its banking facilities.
The integration of the recruitment firm Barkers is going well and should deliver a step- change in earnings.
Once the economic recovery is firmly underway, the recruitment and marketing part of the operation is expected to take a central role.
And while the market's current fascination is with outplacement, recruitment-related activities still account for more than 50pc of turnover.
November's interim results marked a high spot for the shares, which peaked at more than 300p. Since then it has been downhill, with the price currently languishing at 1871/2p yet no discernable reason for the fall.
This has one upside - it offers an attractive entry price with the stock valued at just under nine times 2010 earnings and a projected yield of 4.3pc - rising to 5.4pc in 2011.
But a word of warning. This is a tightly held stock with just three investors controlling more than 50pc, including chairman Stephen Rowlinson, who owns almost 30pc.
The result is a wide spread between bid and offer price, which
means the stock will have to go up more than 10pc before we are
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OUR VERDICT: One to buy and hold with plenty of upside potential from here. Set a stop loss of around 145p a share.
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It's when you have an orgasm during yoga or a particular yoga position-which makes sense especially with certain yoga that can be extremely physical so it really gets the muscles going not to mention the blood flowing. For those who don't know much about yoga it is very spiritual and visceral all at once.
A: I had a major yogasm today after class...
B: Ha! Tell me about it...I know all too well.
B: Ha! Tell me about it...I know all too well.
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When you have an enhanced orgasm by sleeping with someone from your yoga class, the climax of the tantric yoga experience. Made popular by the character Samantha on Sex in the City, who was so horny that she left yoga class with another student to go fuck.
That was an awesome yogasm! The side crow pose is really paying off!
by Laurenita June 11, 2005
When a person practices enough yoga that their genital muscles are strengthened therefore causing a more powerful orgasm.
I think that yogasm was due to all the yoga I've been doing this week.
by J^P August 09, 2004
heart thumping, head to toes,skin to bones in a knee locking, sweat dripping, wide open state of euphoria felt immediately following bikram yoga.
When that 90 minutes of hot horror was over, I had the biggest yogasm ever!!!
by markyd76 January 31, 2009
The feeling in your body when doing an epic yoga stretch and it feels like the most amazing yet painful thing in your life.
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Inhale to a upward facing dog....and exhale to a downward dog...UUUUGGGHHHHHHH AAAHHHHHH (I think that guy just had a yogasm)
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The result of several outlandish excersises, that stress your brain. A softer variety of this is the satisfaction after a long run.
Why are you still standing on your head clapping your hands behind your back? Don't tell me you are trying to achieve that yogasm nonsense again!
by Zdenek August 09, 2004
The feeling of complete and utter physical euphoria that results from eating all natural greek strained yogurt with honey.
Each morning, as she ate her breakfast, she was shocked yet again by the intensity of her yogasm.
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