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It's funny how normal everything seemed at that moment. To put it into perspective for you, a lot had gone down in the past six months. The Ministry had announced the return of the Dark Lord, Harry Potter and the Order had experienced a huge battle in the Department of Mysteries and now, for some reason unknown, Dumbledore was standing in front of us with a grotesquely shriveled and blackened hand. Yet we were all here, back at school during a time of immense danger, listening to Dumbledore ask for new Quidditch commentators and announce the new Head Boy and Girl.
Hogwarts was welcoming yet another new teacher to its staff. Horace Slughorn would be taking the position of potions master and Snape had finally been given the job of teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Everyone around me at the Slytherin table cheered when he was acknowledged, so I followed the crowd and did the same.
What a contrast to Beauxbatons. Every teacher at that school was fully qualified for their position and had been teaching at the school since they were out of the womb. Not literally, but you get the point. This was going to be my first full year at Hogwarts as my family and I had moved to England halfway through last year.
The Hall had broken out in chatter after the news of Snape's new position so Dumbledore brought us all back to attention by clearing his throat.
"Now, as everybody in this Hall knows, Lord Voldemort and his followers are once more at large and gaining in strength."
The silence seemed to solidify as he spoke. I could feel those around me who had been slouched and not paying attention straightening to fix their eyes on the Headmaster.
"I cannot emphasize strongly enough how dangerous the present situation is..."
Something I saw out of the corner of my eye caught my attention. I turned my head and saw Draco Malfoy sitting several seats down from me on the opposite side of the table. He was probably the only one in the whole room not paying attention to Dumbledore's speech. Well, one of two. He was making his fork levitate with his wand, seeming completely uninterested. Suddenly, feeling the weight of my gaze, I suppose, his eyes turned up to meet mine.
I felt my cheeks instantly warm with a blush as I looked away.
"...I urge you, therefore, to abide by any security restrictions..."
Don't get me wrong, I didn't fancy Draco or anything. In fact, my feelings for him were slightly on the side of dislike. He was attractive, of course, but a total jerk. I'd had potions with him last year and it was practically unbearable. I don't know how he and his ego could fit in this room together.
I snuck a glance over my shoulder and almost instantly turned back around. He was staring at me.
I pretended like I was exceedingly interested in what the headmaster was saying as the redness of my face intensified. One of my roommates saw my ferocious blushing and gave me a mischievous smirk.
"What?" She mouthed.
I just shook my head and cupped a hand around my neck.
"But now, your beds await, as warm and comfortable as you could possibly wish, and I know that your top priority is to be well-rested for your lessons tomorrow."
Oh yeah, suuure...
"Let us therefore say good night. Pip pip!"
And with that, the entire hall was filled with the scraping of benches and hundreds of talking voices as students headed off to their respective houses. My friends and I remained seated, deciding to wait until the initial congestion cleared out.
"So what's up Lace? Who was making you blush?" Kathryn asked me from across the table, her eyes twinkling and a grin on her face.
"Oh, no one you know." I crossed my arms and leaned forward on the table, tracing the wood pattern with my eyes. I could feel my face reddening again.
"Ha ha look! She's blushing again! C'mon Lacey, tell us who it is! What happened?" One of my roommates, and good friends, Mina squealed.
"It's nothing, really. I just got caught looking at someone."
I risked a glance down the table again, but he'd already left.
"Who was it?" they persisted.
I let out a sigh and pinched the bridge of my nose and I closed my eyes.
"Draco Malfoy."
They erupted in shrieks and giggles.
"What? Draco? Do you like him?"
"No! Of course not! I was only embarrassed because we made unexpected eye contact."
"Why were you staring at him?"
"I wasn't staring! He was doing something stupid with his fork and I happened to look over at him and he saw me."
I was on the extreme defensive and my friends could tell. Malin, who had hadn't said anything until now, spoke up.
"Draco's cute, but he's such a pompous arse."
"Agreed," said Kat. "He thinks way too highly of himself."
"Not to mention he's a total man-whore who uses girls for sex and tosses them away like trash."
"Mina, what a feisty one you are tonight!" I said. She was usually the sweet everyone-has-a-good-side one of the bunch.
"Yeah, I thought everything was faeries and cotton-candy in your world." Kat said with a smirk. Mina straightened in her seat and started stacking her things to leave.
"For your information, it's 'faeries, cotton-candy and screw you.'" We all busted up laughing and stood to walk out of the Hall.
We shared stories of what we did over summer all the way back to the Slytherin common room. As usual, it was a balmy 50 degrees under the lake and the room was just slightly crowded with students.
"Hey Kat, think fast!"
Peter Landcaster chucked something across the room at Kat. I wasn't surprised. In fact, her incessant flirting with ANY available boy had seemed to have a delayed start this year. Usually she had a small herd following her around before we even got on the Hogwarts Express.
Kat was beautiful, without a doubt, and had a great sense of humor to boot. She was a total "guy's girl" and was always willing to involve herself in whatever annoying new game the male species came up with. She was sometimes referred to as a slut, the way she went around flirting and showing off just a little too much skin, but she was also totally down-to-earth and the best friend I could ask for.
She spun around just in time to catch the Quaffle Peter had thrown to her.
"Tsk tsk, you guys broke into Madame Hooch's office already? It's not even 11 o'clock on our first night back to school!" She chuckled as she tossed the Quidditch ball back to him.
"Do you guys want to go upstairs? It's a bit crowded down here" I said to my girls. They all agreed so we headed towards the stairs to the girl's dorms.
Just to clarify, Mina and I share a room while Kat and Malin are both rooming with other girls. Poor Malin got stuck with the worst of the worst in Slytherin: Pansy Parkington. I had been attending Hogwarts for less than an hour when Pansy had decided to add me to her long list of people she didn't like. I had just been sorted and when I went to sit down at the table I caught the tail end of someone's conversation.
"...and she's such a slag!" I looked up and saw Pansy glowering at me from a small distance away. I wasn't familiar with the term at that point, but some later clarification had me wondering what I did to make her hate me so quickly.
We all decided to hang out in mine and Mina's room since our other two roomies were still down in the common room.
"When are you and Peter going to hook up?" I asked Kat.
"Don't make me gag. Peter is sooo not my type."
"What is your type? Fly already unzipped?" I elbowed Mina in the side. She was only kidding, but still.
"No, thank you very much. Peter's just...too immature." She turned sideways in my mirror, looking herself over. "I need a real man."
"Okay, sure Kat. 'Cause you're so responsible and grown-up yourself."
"Malin, what is with you tonight? Who died and took your virginity with them?"
I couldn't put my finger on it, but something in Malin's face threw me off.
"Oh my god! That's it! You hooked up with somebody over summer!!" Kat was beside herself in shock and smugness for the fact that she was right. A true Slytherin for 'ya there. When Malin didn't respond right away we all crowded onto the bed she was sitting on.
"Tell us! What happened? Who?!"
For us, this was like the sky had suddenly turned hot pink and started raining dragons. As I said before, Malin was the most innocent girl out of the four of us and, as far as we'd known, had never done anything remotely scandalous.
"His name's Timmothy Krendle. Remember how I said I had a job this summer, interning at the Ministry?"
We all nodded. Malin's father was some person of mid-importance in the British Ministry of Magic and had set his daughter up with an internship in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
"He had just started working there as a new employee and we had orientation together. We started hanging out since we were the new kids on the block and, I don't know, we-"
"-banged like animals! How old was this guy, 18? God and you don't turn 16 until next week! I always knew there was a dirty side to you Malin, just waiting to come out. There was no way you could go that long without some sort of release. And God, was your 'I'm a good-girl' reputation starting to get annoying."
"Well excuse me, Kat. At least I have some morality and don't go throwing my cat around at every guy I pass in the hallway."
"I do not 'throw my cat' around!"
"And you want to talk about reputations? How about yours, hmm? The 'Slytherin slut' am I right?"
"Hey now, that was uncalled f-"
Kat cut me off. "Well hey, at least I get some action! The boys actually like me."
"You're such a bitch, Kat! You can never just be a nice person and say something like any normal human being with a little sense of apathy would! You're a cold, heartless bitch."
"Oh yeah? Let me tell you something about you-"
Mina and I looked at each other. We had to do something before this fight got way out of hand and the two of them said things they didn't mean. We withdrew our wands and pointed them at the other two.
It was like someone had pressed a mute button. My ears were ringing in the silence with relief from their screaming. Without a voice to yell with anymore, Kat was far from done being angry and shoved Malin into a bed post. As she righted herself to return her attack, Mina and I hooked our arms around their elbows and pulled them away from each other.
"Had enough?" I said angrily to the two of them.
Kat struggled in my arms, trying to break away but I only tightened my grip.
"Drop it Kat! Now stop this fighting! You two are friends and I don't know what the hell has gotten into the two of you but let it go. Kat you need to apologize. What you said was completely rude, even for you."
She just huffed and looked away.
"And Malin, you know how Kat is. She's a bitch and doesn't say things the right way. But you still shouldn't have said what you did."
Sensing that both parties had lost their drive to fight, Mina and I released them. Kat glared at the wall for a few moments, her fists clenched, before spinning on her heel and storming out the door. Malin stood staring at the ground before she sunk down to the bed behind her. Her voice was coming back, the silencing charm wearing off.
"Don't worry Malin, don't let what she said get to you. You know her, she just doesn't express her feelings well and you shocked her, well all of us, with your news."
"Whatever; I don't care." She shrugged off the arm I had around her shoulders and walked off to her dorm, I presume.
Great. It was our first day back to school and two of my best friends were fighting.
I woke up the next morning to a sound that I really didn't miss hearing over summer: my alarm clock. As I rolled over to turn it off, Ariana and Francine, my two other roommates besides Mina, were already up and moving about the room.
"Can someone tell me why I'm not asleep right now?" I heard Mina grumble from under her pillow two beds over.
"Come on, rise and shine! We've got class in an hour."
"Ana, I don't understand how you're this perky in the morning."
"I'm just an early-bird I guess," she smiled and threw her long dark hair over her shoulder as she talked. One of my arms was completely dead from hanging over the edge of my bed all night. I used my right to bring it up next to me and sat up, swinging my legs out from under the covers and setting my feet on the ground. I let out a huge yawn before I got up and stumbled to the bathroom.
I pulled out my hairbrush and set to work calming the tangles that had made a home of my hair during the night. As I watched myself in the mirror, I thought about my schedule.
Let's see...first transfiguration with the Hufflepuffs, after that Double Defense Against the Dark Arts and then...
I paused momentarily, half-way through a stroke, trying to remember what class I had last today. Mina walked in then and scoffed at me.
"What happened, did you get stuck?"
"Just thinking."
She turned the faucet on and ran her toothbrush under it.
I finally untangled the last knot then copied Mina and brushed my teeth. When I came out of the bathroom Ariana was frantically trying to find her skirt.
"Fran, are you sure you didn't mix it up with yours?"
"Positive" she replied in her tiny voice. Francine was a petite girl, standing at five-foot-two and skinnier than a bean pole. She had auburn hair that she typically wore in a styled pixie-cut.
"Oh, here it is!" Ariana exclaimed, pulling her pleated skirt out from the bottom of her trunk.
I shook my head and proceeded to pull out my own school uniform. None of us had bothered to unpack last night as we'd all stayed up to late talking and catching up.
"Hurry up guys, we only have forty minutes to eat," Mina said, standing by the door ready to go.
The rest of us threw on our last few garments and headed out together.
In the Great Hall, we split to go our separate ways and mina and I found Malin and Kat sitting together at the Slytherin table, looking like they'd made up sometime before we'd arrived.
"Hey guys, sorry about last night." Malin said giving us a half-smile.
"Yeah, sorry. But we cleared everything up and now we're besties again. Right, Malin?" Kat slung her arm around her neck and pulled her in.
"Yeah, sure," she said sarcastically, trying to loosen Kat's hold.
I smiled and shook my head, grabbing a plate and filling it with food.
"You ready for potions today Lace?"
"Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. I still can't believe none of you got into N.E.W.T potions," I replied to Kat's question.
"Hopefully there will be some other Slytherins for you to hang out with. Everyone I've talked to didn't get in."
We talked as we ate, happy to be together again, the four of us. I still couldn't believe how quickly time had flown. I'd known these three girls for what, less than a year? But we were such good friends you could swear we'd known each other our whole lives.
Half an hour later, with ten minutes to go before we had to be in class, we departed the Great Hall.
"I hope Malfoy's ego has calmed down a bit and he's not such a git this year" Malin said. We didn't particularly care for Malfoy, but being Slytherins we had a higher tolerance for him than most people.
"I know. At first, the sexual jokes were kind of flattering but now they're just annoying" said Kat.
"I just hope I don't have too many classes with him and his croonies this year."
"At least you haven't known him as long as the rest of us have, Lacey. You've only spent half a year with him. We've had to deal with him every year."
When we got to the potion's dungeon, I said goodbye to my friends as they headed off to Arithmacy.
And commence awkward moment. Without my friends, I felt uncomfortable. There weren't very many students present and, so far, I was the only Slytherin. I heard footsteps and male voices approaching so I turned around to see who was coming down the hall.
Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zambini and Theodore (or Teddy, as the Slytherins called him) Nott were walking this way. Wow, I lucked out. Of all the people in Slytherin who I thought would have been smart enough to progress, these were the people I was stuck with. It's not like we hated each other, we just weren't all too great of friends.
"Hey Lacey." Blaise greeted me as the three of them came up.
"Hi guys," I responded lamely.
"A sorry lot this turned out to be," Draco sneered as he looked around at the other students.
There were twelve students waiting in the hall for Professor Slughorn to show up; me, the Golden Trio from Gryffindor, four students from Ravenclaw, some scrawny boy from Hufflepuff, Draco, Blaise and Teddy.
"Ugh, how did Potter and the Weasel get in to this class?" Nott scoffed.
"Who knows, Potter probably begged his best friend the headmaster to get him in. God and the mudblood is with them," said Draco
I turned my head to look at the three of them simply because I had nothing better to do. They were talking to the one Hufflepuff boy.
"I wish I could have seen you take down Potter, Draco."
"Yeah, me too. He got what he deserved."
Draco's upper lip curled as his friends praised him. I wasn't sure what to make of him. We had one class together last year and I'd never said more than ten words to him.
At that moment, the Professor opened the door to the Dungeon and we all filed in. He greeted us all as we passed him, paying particular enthusiasm to Harry and Blaise. We took our seats, the four of us at a table, the Ravenclaws occupying their own and Potter's crew shared with the Hufflepuff. The atmosphere of the classroom was rather odd; the room was full of vapors and strange, sickly-sweet smells. Next to our table there was a cauldron of some bubbling colorless liquid.
"Now then, now then, now then..." Slughorn launched into directions. Take out this, take out that.
"Sir?" said Harry.
"Sir?" Nott mimicked in a higher-pitch, earning a round of giggles from our table.
"I haven't got a book or scales or anything -- nor's Ron ---"
"Imbeciles," Draco said, his voice dripping with disdain. "Those two could walk around their own common room and forget where they are."
Slughorn asked a couple questions about the potions he had set up around the room with Hermione Granger answering all of them.
"God, she thinks she's so smart. I'd love to slap that know-it-all look of superiority off her face." Blaise whispered to Malfoy.
Just then, Slughorn asked her about her lineage. Was she related to Hector Dagworth-Granger or something of the like.
"No, I don't think so, sir. I'm Muggle-born, you see."
Draco leaned across to Nott and whispered something I couldn't hear, both of them sniggering.
"Oho! 'One of my best friends is Muggle-born, and she's the best in our year!' I'm assuming this is the very friend of whom you spoke, Harry?"
"Yes sir," he replied.
"Well, well, take twenty well-earned points for Gryffindor, Miss Granger."
Draco's face was priceless.
"Can you believe that!" he hissed. "He gave her points for being Potter's friend! I'll tell my father about this, he's obviously favoring Potter and his precious little Gryffindor."
Slughorn went on about the potions around the room, explaining their names and functions. I couldn't help but notice the growing interest on Draco's face as Slughorn explained "Felix Felicis". He announced that he would be awarding a vial of Liquid Luck to whoever made the best Draught of the Living Dead potion by the end of the period.
As he turned us loose, everyone in the room turned instantly serious. It was dead quiet as students drew their caldrons towards them or went to the reagents' cabinet. Draco was flipping through the pages of his Advanced Potion-Making book as I got up to go retrieve some ingredients. It was odd, seeing him like this. I'd never witnessed him actually treating class-work seriously. All he'd had to do last year was buddy-up to Snape and he passed whatever test he gave out.
When I came back to the table, Draco was doing his usual thing: trying to gain special treatment.
"Sir, I think you knew my grandfather, Abraxas Malfoy?"
I could tell he was jealous of the way Slughorn had so enthusiastically greeted Blaise at the door and was obviously enthralled by Harry. Sure, Blaise was his friend, but to Draco, even friends were subordinates.
I couldn't help a chuckle as Slughorn barely answered him and then walked away.
"What are you laughing at Badeau?"
I looked up from my potion to meet his steely gaze. Even angry, I couldn't help but notice what an amazing shade of blue his eyes were. He dropped his gaze after a few seconds and I immediately dropped mine back to my cauldron. I could feel my cheeks heating up again. What was wrong with me lately? He just glared at me and I'm blushing?
The rest of the class passed quickly. My Draught had proved a difficult potion to brew and, as a result of slightly too many toadstools, turned out too toxic. My table was especially unhappy when Harry Potter was announced the winner of the vial of liquid luck and looks of hatred could be seen of the boys' faces.
"I should have won that potion" Draco said as we stood up to leave. It was almost dinner time and my stomach was growling.
"Geeze, did you eat a baby tiger before you came to class?" Blaise joked. I smiled at him, welcoming his friendliness.
As I turned my head back around, I caught Draco's eye. There was something there in his eyes again, though this time it wasn't malice.
Was it jealousy?
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Lieberman defeat a win for 'Netroots' politics?
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Buzz about the political blogosphere and its potential power reached the national scene during the 2004 presidential race, when former Vermont governor Howard Dean made a name for himself with a campaign that was largely run online. Dean's defeat in the primaries, however, led many to believe that perhaps the Internet's potential as a campaign tool was overrated.
But now that 18-year incumbent and one-time vice presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman has failed to win the Democratic nomination for Connecticut's Senate seat thanks to millionaire cable-TV executive and political novice Ned Lamont, candidates from across the political spectrum may be looking at the "Netroots" more seriously.
Lamont's campaign had an official blogger, regular support from liberal mega-blog DailyKos, and a YouTube group called "Nedheads" that currently ranks 13th in membership on the popular video site. And most Lamont supporters are eager to paint Lieberman as quite the technophobe, a task made easier when the senator's official Web site mysteriously crashed on primary day. Lieberman's campaign suspected the work of malicious Lamont followers; liberal bloggers laughed it off and suggested that perhaps Lieberman's staff hadn't anticipated the amount of bandwidth they'd need to handle election-day traffic.
A Netroots turning point?
According to Lowell Feld, the official "Netroots Coordinator" for Jim Webb, the Democrat who will be challenging incumbent Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia this November, last night's primary was a sign that the blogosphere (or Netroots, a truncation of "Internet grassroots") has established itself as a powerful force in electoral politics.
"The enthusiasm and interest in (the Lieberman-Lamont primary) was incredible," says Feld, a Lamont supporter, citing the various blogs as well as major news sources that experienced bandwidth problems during the primary as a consequence of Internet users trying to find out the race results. "That shows you something right there."
"The Lamont campaign is the best example to date of a tech-savvy campaign," says Zack Exley, who worked at liberal political action committee MoveOn.org when it first emerged during the 2004 elections and later did work for John Kerry's unsuccessful presidential bid before branching out into nonprofit work. A tech-savvy campaign, he says, is one that "understands that the purpose of technology in politics is to get boots on the ground in the real world, and to actually sway voters and turn out voters in reality," a point sometimes missed by campaigns grounded in the online realm.
Lamont's best online tactic, according to Exley, was his first one: The Greenwich businessman's initial campaign announcement said that he would run only if 10,000 volunteers and donors pledged their support. "I think that was the most innovative thing that he did online," Exley observes, "and it really allowed his campaign to start so much faster than it otherwise would have. It allowed him to almost immediately generate powerful grassroots and financial support for his campaign." Exley thinks we'll see other politicians adopt that model, including those in the 2008 presidential primaries.
Besides the blogosphere's strength as a recruitment tool, it can help a candidate by simply being loud enough to attract the attention of the mainstream media, Feld said. "The interest (within traditional media) was enormous," he said. "Why was the interest so enormous? Sure, Lieberman was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, but was it that interesting of a race inherently? Once the Netroots really got in there and started publicizing it and getting enthused about it, it certainly ratcheted it up a few notches."
Yankee Group analyst Jennifer Simpson describes the Netroots as an emerging strategy for bringing together and publicizing already-existing political sentiment. "What we are beginning to realize about blogs is that they represent some feelings that are already out there. By making those feelings available on the Net, you are able to spread them." Prominent blogs, such as DailyKos on the left and RedState on the right, "can really begin to influence who's doing what." But Simpson is reluctant to make assumptions. "It can be very hard to assess the exact power of blogs," she said.
When asked about future implications, Simpson maintains that it's too early to tell, and stresses that a statewide primary election is very different from a national election like the presidency. The "blogosphere" represents "an ongoing and expanding array of tools" for political campaigns, she says, but national campaigns will need to reach a much wider audience and consequently will have to rely on both traditional and new media.
But that won't diminish the enthusiasm among the pro-Lamont crowd, excited over not only their victory but also the potential to further shake up the establishment. On both sides of the political spectrum, Lowell Feld says, "the Netroots is very difficult to control. It's a force, an independent force. You can try to guide it and shape it, but it doesn't necessarily succumb to that at all."
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- This was the best news I've heard all year
- Now is truly the beginning of the end of the democratic party, thank god. This "Net" movement will obviously split the party in two, which is music to a lot of people's ears. Of course that maniac or head of the DNC should be given some credit for starting it all.
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- Yes, this was great news
- We finally got the double agent from CT out of the Democratic party. Anybody who kisses Bush is a traitor.
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- Maybe one win for the cut-and-run kooks
- CutAndMoveOn.org has been losing elections, even with their sugar daddy George Soros' money. Gore, Dean, Kerry - the political battlefield is littered with their defeated candidates.
Kooks can win primaries, but let's see what happens when the rest of us vote.
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- Cut and Run as Starting World War III
- So, the history books will read that the Germans started world wars I and II and the United States started III.
We'll see what happens when the rest of the country votes.
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- Right on!
- And I really like the way those Weinstein brothers backed a pack of losers too in the last major election. Those suckers lost millions! I hope they are duped once again by the left wing extremists.
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- kooks
- right on.. these guys are really far left.. I wonder if they would like to take in some Southern lebanese exchange students.. its quite busy in their country now and they have trouble concentrating on their learning..better yet maybe they would like to find the Egyptian students gone missing.. maybe they're just visiting Mystic Ct and all the other tourist sites.. lets not care about the danger till they blow us up.. Ignorance is bliss!
BTW KOSsacks are not new.. we have had cossacks before.. they are really peaceful people..the parallels are chilling..The hate that they have for Joe Lieberman is seething and quite indicative of their "love and tolerance"(check Daily Kos) for others. I shudder what would be if they or their kind ever get to office..
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- hell yes... a win for the kooks, not the net
- i agree... i think this is a great thing for politics... i would like to see lieberman win for the non partisan party.
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- hell yes... a win for the kooks, not the net
- i agree... i think this is a great thing for politics... i would like to see lieberman win for the non partisan party.
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- Lamont is just a Rebublican and doesn't know it!!!
- I was born and raised in CT and Greenwich is not really part of CT any longer. For that matter all of Fairfield county caters more to NY than CT.
So Ned is a Multimillionaire, Living in Greenwich, owns a Cable Company, Do the math --- He's not here for the working man, He's here for the Rich cronies.
Lieberman will run and win as an independent. When you get down to the issues, what can Ned Lamont say on anything critical to the State of Connecticut.
Lets see what happens when the republicans add someone to the pool.
Or better yet, lets let NY have Greenwich and Ned and Hillary can fight it out..... Connecticut will win again.
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- Odd, what's with the Marxism-Leninism?
- For years, the Republican Party has been on us for "class
warfare," when what they mean is, we've been fighting for the
guy at the bottom, and not the guy on top, as they have. Now
comes the Republican/Lieberman supporter/whatever, who
criticizes Lamont for... being a rich guy! Where did you get the
idea that BEING rich is a crime, according to the Democrats? You
ever heard of FDR? He was from a wealthy family, you know? So
what? It's not important. Lamont spent way less than Lieberman
did, and a lot of that money was in small donations.
Oh, wait. Next, you'll say that the guy who got the most votes is
"the elitist."
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- Dude open your eyes - the Democrats are the new party of the rich
- Let's look at the Democrat supporters:
Billionaire George Soros - DEMOCRAT
Billionaire Warren Buffet - DEMOCRAT
Billionaire Bill Gates - DEMOCRAT
Billionaire Peter Lewis - DEMOCRAT
Now let's add in Ted Kennedy (inherited daddy's rum running money), Theresa Heinz, Ted Turner, Jon Corzine, Martha Stewart, Barbara Streisand, Steven Speilberg, Steven Bing, and on and on.
All limousine liberals.
Of the top 25 contributors to 527 organizations in 2004, *24* were Democrats!
DemocRats - the party of the rich.
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- Some grist for analysis
- As a registered Democrat from Connecticut with full net access who has been immersed in this primary let me fill in how some of this looked from the ground level so that those of you who are interested can understand the how net influence played out in this.
First, let me point out that my first point of contact with politics on the net came back in early 2003 when Moveon.org sent me an email out of the blue about petitioning against Bushes' anticipated war in Iraq. Normally I would have deleted such an email, but at that moment like most rank and file Democrats I was in despair about what I saw about to happen and about the persistent passivity of the Party that had been going on Since Bill Clinton's time. So I let their emails come, and immediately developed a trust for their style and instinct. They were savvy and direct and said exactly what I would say, not all the convoluted trickery of the Clintonites. Over the course of the following 3 years I paid attention to their calls for petition signatures and noted their organized gatherings. I did not trust the Democratic National Committee, but I trusted Moveon.org, so they really focused my efforts throughout the election period.
In the Spring of this year Moveon held a referendum for its members asking us whether we would support Lieberman or Lamont; when the members overwhelmingly chose to go with Lamont, Moveon directed its efforts to announcing gatherings, appearances, and fundraising efforts for Lamont. Democracy was working the way one would hope; this unstructured free association of Connecticut Democrats had a coordinating body to focus our concrete efforts where they needed to go. It turns out that there are 50,000 subscribers to the Moveon.org email in Connecticut, so they were arguably the force behind Ned's ability to get delegates at the State nominating convention that launched him into viability.
As this Moveon.org activity was going on among us middle-aged registered voters, the national media began making a lot of noise about the influence of blogs and websites that most Moveon.org members were not much aware of: the right-wing talking heads at Fox and MSNBC began to claim that the "Daily KOS" was giving marching orders to an army of left-wingers who were tilting the party left, etc. Now I like Marcos Moulitsos in the few times I've seen him on tv, but one of the facts about the "blogosphere" is that it's very fragmented; to this day I've not even logged in to that site once, let alone taken marching orders from it. I read Eric Alterman every day but have only logged in to Salon once; and so it goes. So far as I can tell the influence of the blogs had been in generating a lot of young volunteers who started showing up in some of the campaign headquarters Ned opened up in Connecticut, and that's a good thing; but Connecticut Democrats were getting our "marching orders" from Moveon.org. The role of that organization was more concrete and pivotal in making the campaign, while the role of the blogs was, as Marcos said this week, to "make buzz". When the history of the primary phase of this election is written, the blogs became important after Moveon.org laid the organizing groundwork.
Phase 2 of this campaign, running in front of Connecticut's citizens, is unlikely to be such a smashing success for the net elements. The bulk of the citizenry are still detached from the net and will still have to be extracted house by house and mall by mall and hand to hand. Fundraising is not an issue in this race, with Ned having unlimited resources, but any other candidate would have to make use of the net elements to do that. So we'll see whether the net elements have any unexpected influence on the traditional campaign now that they've taken the primary...
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- Kos not "official"
- He is not an official part of the campaign hierarchy. The Lamont
campaign, though innovative and *ahem* successful in its
appeal to and use of the Internet -- he had a Net consultant who
knew how to run a website, for one thing, while Joe switched to
GoDaddy on election day -- the bloggers are not campaign
workers. Did Rove pay LGF and the bloggers who did their best
to trash Kerry? Did they take orders from him? I presume they
were just of one mind about most things. Right?
I don't know where you people have been, but these were not
leftists. These are mainstream people, expressing themselves
using the Internet, which outflanks the Rep and Dem
establishments which depend on media buys and saturating
bombing runs of crappy and non-informative commercials. This
is better way of getting the message out. Information Age,
Lamont is a centrist. Lieberman went too far to the right, getting
endorsements from Hannity, Coulter et al. On the same night
that Lamont won, voters in Georgia kicked out Cynthia McKinney
-- a leftist -- for a centrist. Meanwhile, in Michigan, the
Republican Club for Growth kicked out a centrist Republican who
dissented on stem cells and other causes so dear to the
wingnuts' hearts. Lincoln Chaffee may be drummed out of the
party for dissenting from the wingnut line. So who's the
All of Lamont's positions, according to the polls, are supported
by a majority of the American people.
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- Lamont can't be a centrist
- ... and win in Connecticut.
Rather, his mantra is: Bash Bush, pull out of Iraq, Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton ...
... or it better be by election day.
Let's face it, the Dems have two goals: Recapture the Senate or the House, and hate Bush for two years.
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- The old story
- The old story, you ask for what you get , and get what you ask for!
Both parties currently, have lost the plot totally, and appear more interested in creating an absolute repressive police state with minimal political freedoms, all in the name of protecting us from the nameless terrorist, whilst simultaneously bankrupting the nation to third world standards with unsustainable government debt levels to pay for very short term gains indeed!
Oh well, since Lieberman, like many in the current existing majority of elected representatives in both houses of Congress facing mid term elections, took their fingers off the pulse, to pander the special interest of a vain greedy minority, only time will tell as to whether the wishes of the voters will be granted!
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- False Analysis
- The article suggests a new medium (the internet) as having a
profound effect on the outcome, but the medium is irrelevant.
Speaking politically for a moment, Lieberman lost favor of his
party, namely the ones that get out and vote in the primaries. If
twice as many had shown up to vote in a less debated election, I
think we'd have something to talk about, but as it is, it was just
another democratic primary shifting the party out of center.
Come election time, Lamont or whatever the challenger's name
is will be forced back to center otherwise he'll end up with
nothing more in the total vote count than those who got off their
duffs and voted in the primary. I know CNet makes it's dough off
of reporting on technology, but this is a stretch because it's just
politics as usual. Story is a no-story I'm afraid.
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- Hijacking the (D) w/ kooks = a (R) netroots victory
- Yeah, I'd say its a win.
Those netroots are a major win for the Republican party. Because they have imposed a Stalinist type purge on the Democrats, now they Dems will be easily crushed by either the Independents (Lieberman) or the Conservatives (Republicans).
I love my net roots... MMMMMMMM
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- A victory for America
- The country is waking up to the disastrous foreign policy thrust
upon the world by the neo-con, right wing fringe. The republicans
have decimated the country over the past 6 years. Lieberman's loss
is just the beginning, and rightfully so. Americans are no longer
going to tolerate self defeating policies of endless war and fear.
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- To all those "stay the course" backers
- It's easy sit back in you warm and cozy homes here while the son, daughters, fathers, and mothers are under threat of death every day in Iraq and Afganastan. While you're counting your money and how much profit you can make with war contracts, it's easy isn't.
For sure if there is another attack here at home, it won't be because we "cut and ran" but because that agency that supposed to be "Homeland defense" didn't do it job. The dept. is just another pork barrel for republicans to get money by supplying the dept. with so called needed office amenities. Your being hood winked into believing that they can protect us against terrorest. between the budget for homeland defence and the civil war in Iraq, it's costing us our schools, highways, and social programs billions and let's not forget the wounded who come home with less of their bodies than when they went to fight them over there. All the families who suffer with the deaths and wounded of our armed forces because a wet nosed president had these great bombs and jets and wanted to see how they worked. He sits in his office and just like those video games, he pushes a button and someone dies.
Cut and Run, and save our young from harm.
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- To many variable here to extract blog power, yet
- All that is clearly certain is that the Democrat party is getting ready for a major upheaval. Then again, so are the Republicans. About the only thing that is truely clear is that both party's core bases are radicalizing. The question becomes, which radicalized party will the average American vote for?
What the election may indicate, in the long run, depends heavily on who the Republicans run, how they interact with Lieberman's independent candidacy, and what the final percentages are.
Do recall, Clinton won his first term with a minority, primarily because the conservative vote split fairly evenly between Bush and Peroit, and was followed by the Republican takeover of congress.
My personal opinion, is if Lamont loses the CT race to Lieberman, the Democrat party is going to fisure into its moderate and extreme elements, with its radical side dieing out of politics. Johnson's significant victory over McKinney would seem to be such and indicator.
By the same token, I see similar indicators on the Republican side, though Republicans are presenting a more unified front, seeing the threat of a Democrat victory as being more important right now.
If the Democrats do split, however, I certainly see the moderate and radical elements of the Republican party separating as well, with a likely merger of the more conservative Democrats and the more liberal Republicans into a new opposition party.
Frankly, I think that's probably the best possibility in the long run. Maybe we could get past the "he/she's an "X" and therefor is evil/incompetent/corrupt/eats babies" we've gotten ourselves into.
One can dream.
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- A Win for 'Netroots'? No Way.
- Lieberman's loss has nothing to do with "tech-savvy" campaigning by the opponent. Plain and simple: Lieberman is boring, his voice sounds like the actor who played the father on the TV series "Alf", and he ran a terrible campaign. You can't get any worse that.
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- Political Parties
- Much of the country have yet to realize the simple truth.
The dems and republicans are opposite sides of the same coin.
If you think we are living in a 2 party state, you are only kidding yourself. They exist for one reason, to divide the country to keep it under control. Conservatives vs Liberals, Pro-life vs Pro-choice, ect. No other reason. Both parties have the exact same financial backers, they argue in public and then agree to destroy our once great nation in private.
Contrary to popular belief the media is not controlled by liberals. Its owners have to look left to see Hitler.Why do you think the mainstream press has given Bush a free ride while he systematically destroys our security, freedom, morals, and credibility? Meanwhile the alleged libral Clinton was hammered for lying about having sex.
Yeah, that is balanced.
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- He gets that emotional associations trump words.
Democrats = pansies
Republicans = fighters
Facts = irrelevant
And always make your opponents strength their liability. Classic
Rove. The Lieberman talking points are an excellent example.
Fvcking mastermind. (Or at least he gets marketing when others
Hey, exactly that worked in the last 3 elections!
Why not do it again?
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Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers won a record 18th term in Kentucky's 5th congressional district, as all of the state's congressional incumbents were returned to Washington. The attorney from Somerset was first elected in 1981 and is the longest serving Republican ever elected to federal office in Kentucky. He is the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, which oversees federal government spending. He won about 78 percent of the vote in the eastern Kentucky district.
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Boyd County Circuit Judge George B. Davis won another eight-year term on the bench by defeating former Judge Marc I. Rosen by more than a 2-to-1 margin in the nonpartisan race, 9,158 to 4,093, according to unofficial results Tuesday night from the Boyd County Courthouse.
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Lawrence County Commissioner Freddie L. Hayes Jr. defeated his Democratic opponent Tim Edwards, in the race for a four-year term on the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners, according to unofficial returns Tuesday night from the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners.
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La Sonora Dinamita
La Sonora Dinamita is a Colombian musical group that plays cumbia, a South and Latin American music genre popular throughout Latin America. As one of the first cumbia groups to reach international success, it is credited with helping to popularize the genre throughout Latin America, and the world.
The original orchestra was formed in 1960 in Cartagena de Indias under the direction of bandleader Lucho Argaín. It disbanded in 1963, but was re-formed in 1975 under the direction of Julio Ernesto Estrada "Fruko" Rincón, the artistic director of the Discos Fuentes record label.[1] In 1981, Mélida Yará, better-known as "La India Meliyará" became the lead vocalist.[2] It was while Yará was the lead singer that the group released its most successful recordings, such as the classic "Mi Cucu." While the group's lineup has changed, it has always featured a strong female vocalist to accompany its ten-piece brass instrumentation, including Mélida Yará, Vilma Díaz, Margarita Vargas, and Susana Velasques.[2]
The group continues to perform worldwide under the umbrella of Apodaca Music Group, one of the largest management and booking companies for Latin talent.
- ^ "La Sonora Dinamita". Hispanic Heritage. Thomson Gale. 2000. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
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Law, initiatives combat concussions in Arizona high school sports
PHOENIX -- Mary Shannon suffered her first concussion during North High School soccer tryouts in 2011, colliding with the goalie and hitting her head on the ground.
Under a state law signed earlier that year, she had to receive written medical clearance to return to the field. That took a month.
After a collision with an opposing player left her with a second concussion earlier this year, Shannon decided that was enough. Having learned about the dangers of concussions and with encouragement from her parents, she quit, deciding to limit her involvement to refereeing and helping the team in other ways.
"Yes it's a big part of my life, and yes, I love it, but I can still participate in it without having to put myself in the danger of getting another concussion or some other injury," she said.
In Arizona, about 7,000 high school athletes suffer concussions each year, according to research by A.T. Still University in Mesa. While football justifiably gets most of the attention, concussions are a threat in any high school sport.
A 2011 state law requires that high school athletes be removed from play if a concussion is even suspected and then receive written clearance to return from a medical professional like a physician or athletic trainer.
The law also called for concussion-education programs for coaches, students and parents. This led to the Arizona Interscholastic Association requiring every high school athlete in Arizona to complete Barrow Brainbook, interactive online training developed in part by Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.
But the effort didn't end with a law. Medical professionals, advocates and others have since offered free baseline cognitive testing, known as ImPACT, that helps measure the effects of concussions and established a network of concussion experts that athletic trainers can consult via telemedicine.
Soon, a voluntary registry created by Barrow and A.T. Still will allow high schools to report concussions to researchers looking to improve the safety of athletes.
Dr. Javier Cardenas, a child neurologist at the Barrow Neurological Institute, said Arizona's approach to concussions is "really the most comprehensive program like it in the country and likely the world."
Sen. Rich Crandall, R-Mesa, who shepherded Arizona's law through the Legislature, said that in the end keeping athletes safe comes down to students, parents and coaches recognizing the symptoms and keeping athletes with concussions off the field.
"If those three are on board, we're going to be able to make a difference in Arizona," he said.
Arizona's law
When the National Football League approached him about following a Washington state law on concussions, Crandall said the time seemed right for Arizona.
"We're a big high school football state," Crandall said. "We're not Texas, but still, it's a big deal."
In the process of creating the legislation, Crandall said, he and advocates found that parents can be a barrier to acting in the best interests of an injured student athlete. As an example, he described a scenario in which a student is being considered for an athletic scholarship.
"The coach is saying, �No, let's pull him out,' and the parent's saying, �No, you don't get it. My boy needs to perform in front of these coaches, these scouts,' " Crandall said.
Signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, the law established a protocol that goes into effect when a high school athlete suffers what's even suspected of being a concussion. The athlete is immediately removed from play by either the coach, a referee or other official, a licensed health care provider or the athlete's parent.
If the athlete is examined by a licensed health care provider and a concussion is ruled out, he or she may return to play the same day. Otherwise, the athlete cannot return before receiving written clearance from a health care provider defined by the law as a physician, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner or an athletic trainer.
The law also requires student athletes and their parents to sign a form acknowledging they have reviewed the risks and symptoms of concussions.
It's modeled on Washington state's 2009 Zackery Lystedt Law, named after a boy who suffered a brain injury in 2006 after returning to a middle school football game following a concussion.
As of late April, 47 states and Washington, D.C., had enacted youth concussion laws, most of them based on the Lystedt Law.
Dr. John Parsons, an associate professor and director of the athletic training program at A.T. Still University, said that the narrow definition of who can clear an athlete to return to competition sets Arizona's law apart. Laws in Washington and other states refer generally to health care providers, he said.
Parsons said the most common criticism of high school concussion laws is that there are no punishments for not following them.
"It's more or less honors policy, and you hope that the law compels them to be compliant," he said.
Crandall said the law doesn't need punishments to be effective.
"The fear for a school district would be somebody filing a suit for breaking the law," he said. "You don't have to have punitive penalties when that's kind of overarching from everybody. A coach puts a kid back in with a concussion and a parent sues -- that's the last thing any school district wants."
The Arizona Interscholastic Association, an independent body that oversees high school athletics, doesn't track whether individual athletes or coaches have completed concussion training. It instead relies on schools, coaches, parents and others to report violations of its bylaws.
Chuck Schmidt, assistant executive director and chief operating officer of the AIA, said that if a complaint comes in the organization will look into it. But anything more than that just isn't feasible, he said.
"We don't have an NCAA budget in order to create that enforcement," he said. "But I think we do a fantastic job of utilizing our resources effectively and efficiently in the cases where we need to look into something and determine if it's a bylaw violation -- be it from concussion to recruiting."
Sanctions vary depending on the nature of the violation, Schmidt said.
For example, he noted, Veritas Prep Academy in Phoenix recently reported a violation involving a boys' basketball player who hadn't completed Brainbook. The AIA accepted the school's decision to forfeit games in which the player appeared and create procedures to guard against such an oversight.
Beyond the law
The day before she sustained her first concussion and pulled herself out of soccer tryouts, Mary Shannon had completed Barrow Brainbook.
"The symptoms were fresh in my mind," she said.
That's precisely what Dr. Javier Cardenas envisioned when he and others at Barrow helped create the online course in collaboration with the AIA, the Arizona Cardinals and A.T. Still. Since 2011, more than 150,000 students have completed it.
Cardenas said that Brainbook, which is designed to resemble a social media site, is unprecedented in the U.S.
"There is not a single state that provides athlete-specific, athlete-directed concussion education," he said. "We developed it because the CDC provides concussion education to coaches, to health care providers, to parents - but nothing directed at the athletes."
August 2012 saw the launch of the Barrow Concussion Network. One of the program's partnerships was with Dick's Sporting Goods and the ImPACT cognitive test to provided free baseline concussion testing for all AIA-member schools that don't offer the ImPACT test on their own. About 2,000 students took part this school year, a number Cardenas said was low because of late attempts at getting the word out.
The goal for next school year is 10,000 to 20,000 students, he said.
Another initiative from the Barrow Concussion Network allows athletic trainers across the state to consult via telemedicine with concussion experts in Phoenix on diagnoses and concussion management.
This fall, the network plans to launch what researchers hope turns into a detailed registry of all concussions in Arizona high school sports.
"The registry project is one that we initially came up with to really try and capture the number of concussions in Arizona and what happens to those student athletes," said Dr. Tamara McLeod, the John P. Wood, D.O., Endowed Chair for Sports Medicine and a professor in the Athletic Training Program at A.T. Still.
The purpose of the registry isn't merely tracking the number of concussions but collecting information on continuity of care and symptoms in concussion patients.
"We want to know more than the raw numbers," Cardenas said. "We want to know how people are actually being treated and how they're recovering."
The research is voluntary; although each event is reported by a particular school, if an athlete opts not to participate, the information will be wiped from the log.
If the athlete chooses to participate, he or she will provide information on their continuing care and symptoms.
Massachusetts is the only state that requires schools to report concussions. The regulations, which apply to public schools and members of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, require an annual accounting of head injuries and suspected concussions.
Paul Wetzel, spokesman for the MIAA, said the requirement is a research tool.
"There is not a lot of clinically gathered or anecdotally gathered data on concussions in high school sports," he said.
When Mary Shannon suffered her second concussion in January, she wasn't knocked out, stumbling around or otherwise displaying symptoms that would have made it immediately obvious that she had a concussion.
"If I hadn't have pulled myself out, nobody would have pulled me out," she said. "It was kind of like, he (the coach) said, �Are you OK?' and I said, �I don't think so.'
"But if I had said I was OK, I probably would have been in the game."
Despite the requirements to remove athletes from play at even the hint of a concussion and to only return those who have received written clearance from a health care provider, medical professionals and others say that those aren't foolproof.
Dr. Ben Bobrow, the medical director for the Arizona Department of Health Services Bureau of EMS and Trauma System, said he suspects that athletes commonly minimize concussion symptoms. While severe concussions result in symptoms such as confusion, memory problems, alack of muscle coordination known as ataxia and loss of consciousness, lesser concussions can result in minor symptoms such as headaches and dizziness that are much easier to hide.
"If you think about kids on the sideline or in a game, they want to play, they want to be in the game, they don't want to let on that they have some kind of problem," he said.
Chris White, head athletic trainer at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, said that coaches play a crucial role because they can make sure athletes who may have suffered concussions don't return to play. But he said that the ultimate responsibility doesn't rest with any one group.
"It's a real team effort, and when you have a deficiency anywhere, it's a problem," White said.
Mattie Cummins, program director and former executive director of the Brain Injury Alliance of Arizona, said that the student and his or her parents can either help or hinder when an athlete has symptoms of a concussion.
"It's the parents and the kid who see behaviors or they feel behaviors after the game ends, when they go home, when they go to school," she said. "It's that parent or kid that has the control."
Many parents have been brought up to consider concussions "a bop on the head," she said, making it vital to make sure they know just how far-reaching the effects can be.
"The message that we're focusing on with parents is this concussion can affect their (the athlete's) world tomorrow," she said. "It can affect their world at 22. It can affect their world at 23, when they're out getting a job, when the sports is over. And really, it's not about today, it's about the rest of their lives."
The future
While concussion research has made strides in recent years, including evidence linking concussions to cognitive and behavioral problems as well as depression and suicide, Bobrow with the Arizona Department of Health Services said that there is still much more that can be done.
"It's actually kind of a black box for us right now, we don't actually know how severe it is," he said. "Or, you know, we know a little about how many head injuries you can have before you have a big problem, and it's likely different for different people."
Schmidt said that the AIA updates its bylaws as often as necessary based on developments in preventing and responding to concussions.
"That's the primary goal of the AIA, to ensure the safety and health of our kids," Schmidt said.
On April 15, the AIA Executive Board approved a rule restricting the amount of time teams can practice full-contact while wearing pads. It's aimed at minimizing the risk of concussions and other injuries.
Crandall said Arizona law likely will remain as is for the foreseeable future but eventually will expand, just as the rules of football have changed over time to keep players safe.
"It's going to evolve, for sure," he said.


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Editorial Staff • West End • 22 Nov 2005
Of course, it's not quite the West End's first such studio space – that honour has long belonged to Jermyn Street Theatre, founded over ten years ago, and it was recently joined by the Sound Theatre in Wardour Street – but as handsomely appointed and with Ambassador Theatre Group's marketing and box office might behind it, this theatre comes with a ready-made management infrastructure.
The other debut is also notable: Paul Arnott's play is produced by the diminutive Mull Little Theatre (seating capacity: 43) from the Scottish Isle of Mull, and this marks their first appearance in London. But it turns out to be somewhat less auspicious. In a psychological political thriller that strives for topicality but feels very much like it is cynically appropriating recent headlines to achieve it, it is probably the West End's first 7/7 play: but instead of capitalising on the intrinsic fear of what brought terrorist bombs to the transport system in London, it has made me mainly fear for what other kind of plays we may have yet to come on this subject.
Here, in a play that begins around July 5 of this year (when the characters wake up the next day, the front page of the copy of The Times has the news that London will host the Olympics blazoned across it), a spy thriller unfolds between two ex-colleagues and the daughter of one of them (who was, it turns out, the one-time lover of the other). The action usefully links where we are sitting now (in Whitehall, where they are reunited in a 'chance' meeting) with Mull (where this play originated), where they are sitting now. "David Kelly killed himself – do you want me to spell it out?", someone says, and of course that's long been spelt out here in the story of the retired government spy who has become an opponent of the war on terror and is now suspected of 'leaking'.
As directed by the playwright, a certain tension is maintained in the interactions between the three participants here, though it's mainly the plot that is leaking. Aladair McCrone (who is artistic director of Mull Theatre) himself plays the improbable one-time protégée of Sandy Neilson's spy Brian Traquair, with Beth Marshall as Traquair's 37-year-old daughter. They work hard, but the play ultimately defeats their efforts.
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As Britain and other countries in Europe continue to change their drug policies away from criminalisation toward a more health-based approach, we in the US can't help but be a little envious (2 February, p44).
European "harm reduction" approaches actually produce far lower rates of illicit substance use than here in America, and you also enjoy far lower rates of property crime and violence associated with criminal drug dealing.
This is despite the fact that we have federal task forces devoted to raiding medical marijuana operations and we arrest over 700,000 citizens every year for marijuana alone. We also have the dubious distinction of incarcerating twice as many of our citizens as does the entire European community, whose population is a third greater than ours. Meanwhile, our government officials wring their hands and lament that current drug treatment is only available on demand in about 15 per cent ...
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Ahead of today's African Cup of Nations (AFCON) final, Senate President David Mark has charged the Supper Eagles not to underrate their Burkina Faso counterparts on the pitch.
He advised them to reignite what he called the indomitable spirit of Nigeria in today's match to win the trophy.
Departing the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 10.20 am yesterday, Mark who led the Federal Government delegation to South Africa, noted that all Nigerians were praying for Eagles' victory, charging the national team to leave nothing to chance.
Mark said: "Our boys should show absolute concentration throughout the duration of the match. They must not underrate their opponents till the last whistle. Our national pride is at stake. Sports, especially soccer, is a unifying factor in Nigeria. I can say with every amount of certainty that all Nigerians are yearning for the victory and they're telling the Eagles to go with the Nigerian spirit and win the trophy."
The Senate president expressed optimism that the Eagles would trounce Burkina Faso as their performances had greatly improved with every match.
On the delegation are Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda, Senators Adamu Gumba, Ayogu Eze and Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, Police Affairs Minister Caleb Olubolade, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Professor Viola Onwuliri, among others.


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"The courtship and engagement periods are usually happy times for a couple as they build a relationship and look toward marriage. However, happiness may fade, circumstances may change, the relationship may end, and the planned engagement may be canceled, repudiated, or frustrated, with no marriage occurring between the parties. When such a situation arises, one party to the courtship or engagement may seek to recover gifts or money or property previously given to the other party, requiring a legal determination of the parties' respective rights in the money or property."


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A military parade was organised on Sunday by the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) to observe 2012 Remembrance Day, during a ceremony held at the July 22nd Square in Banjul.
The day was meant to remember the great services of those who gallantly sacrificed their lives for justice to prevail, during the World War. Many people, including senior government officials and members of the diplomatic and consular corps attended the ceremony, to pay homage to war veterans who participated in the World Wars I and II.
At the start of the ceremony, a two-minute silence was observed for the war veterans who lost their lives in the wars, which was followed by the laying of the wreath on the cenotaph by the speaker of the National Assembly, Honourable Abdoulie Bojang; together with security chiefs; the British High Commissioner to The Gambia, David Morley; and the mayor of Banjul, Samba Faal.
Fajara War Cemetery
Later in the day, a similar occasion was held at the Commonwealth War Cemetery, known as Fajara War Cemetery, along the Kairaba Avenue, where the British High Commission in The Gambia also observedthe day. Prayers were conducted at the cemetery and High Commissioner David Morley together with other dignitaries took turns to lay wreath on the cenotaph.