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Washington, DC — New FBI guidelines governing investigations were released today after being signed by Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The American Civil Liberties Union quickly blasted the Department of Justice and FBI for ignoring calls for more stringent protections of Americans' rights. The guidelines replace existing bureau guidelines for five types of investigations: general criminal, national security, foreign intelligence, civil disorders and demonstrations. The ACLU has been vocal in its disapproval of the overly broad guidelines, citing both the FBI's and DOJ's documented records of internal abuse.
The new guidelines reduce standards for beginning "assessments" (precursors to investigations), conducting surveillance and gathering evidence, meaning the threshold to beginning investigations across the board will be lowered. More troubling still, the guidelines allow a person's race or ethnic background to be used as a factor in opening an investigation, a move the ACLU believes may institute racial profiling as a matter of policy.
"The attorney general today gave the FBI a blank check to open investigations of innocent Americans based on no meaningful suspicion of wrongdoing," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "The new guidelines provide no safeguards against the FBI's improperly using race and religion as grounds for suspicion. They also fail to sufficiently prevent the government from infiltrating groups whose viewpoints it doesn't like. The FBI has shown time and… Continue reading
October 7, 2008
By William Glaberson
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to release 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay by the end of the week, the first such ruling in nearly seven years of legal disputes over the administration's detention policies.
The judge, Ricardo M. Urbina of Federal District Court, ordered that the 17 men be brought to his courtroom on Friday from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where they have been held since 2002. He indicated that he would release the men, members of the restive Uighur Muslim minority in western China, into the care of supporters in the United States, initially in the Washington area.
"I think the moment has arrived for the court to shine the light of constitutionality on the reasons for detention," Judge Urbina said.
Saying the men had never fought the United States and were not a security threat, he tersely rejected Bush administration claims that he lacked the power to order the men set free in the United States and government requests that he stay his order to permit an immediate appeal.
The ruling was a sharp setback for the administration, which has waged a long legal battle to defend its policies of detention at the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, arguing a broad executive power in waging war. Federal courts up to the Supreme Court have waded through detention questions and in several major cases the courts have rejected administration contentions.
The government recently conceded that… Continue reading
Peter Dale Scott
August 17, 2008
Recently I published two articles pointing to suggestive similarities between the recurring deep events in recent American history — those events which, because of their intelligence aspects, are ignored, misrepresented, or covered up in the American media. The first article pointed to overall similarities in many deep events since World War II. The second pointed to surprising points of comparison in the two deep events which were followed shortly by major U.S. wars: the John F. Kennedy assassination and 9/11. In the background of all these events, I suggested, was recurring evidence of the milieu "combining intelligence officials with elements from the drug-trafficking underworld."1
Inthis essay I shall first attempt to lay out the complex geography ornetwork of that milieu, which I call the global drug connection, andits connections to what has been called an "alternative" or "shadow" CIA. I shall then show how this network, of banks, financial agents of influence, and the alternative CIA,contributed to the infrastructure of the Kennedy assassination and aseries of other, superficially unrelated, major deep events.
In this narrative, the names of individuals, their institutions, and their connections arerelatively unimportant. What matters is to see that such a milieu existed; that it was on-going, well-connected, and protected; and that, with increasing independence from governmental restraint, it played a role in major deep events in the last half century.
This of course strengthens the important hypothesis to be investigated,that this on-going milieu may also have contributed to the… Continue reading
by Jon Gold
Latest Update 11/08/08
Thanks to www.historycommons.org, DHS, and simuvac. This is dedicated to the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you're not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren't being given is "sinister" in nature. As Ray McGovern said, "for people to dismiss these questioners as "conspiratorial advocates", or "conspiratorial theorists"… that's completely out of line because the… The questions remain because the President who should be able to answer them, WILL NOT." When you think about everything this Administration has done in almost 8 years, the idea that they might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something "sinister" is not crazy. In fact, it's the most logical conclusion one can come to at this point. After seven plus years of obfuscation, spin, lies, and cover-ups regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why.
That being said, we have not proven it beyond the shadow of doubt. We do not have documentation that shows they planned it. We do not have a signed confession from someone. We have pieces of the puzzle, and to most of us that have been doing this a long time, those pieces point to more than just Osama Bin Laden,… Continue reading
By Randall Mikkelsen
Nov 7, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI tracked about 108,000 potential terrorism threats
or suspicious incidents from mid-2004 to November 2007, but most were found
groundless, a Justice Department review found on Friday.
The department's office of inspector general gave the figure in an audit of
the FBI's terrorism case-tracking system, called Guardian, launched in 2002
after the September 11 attacks.
"The FBI determined that the overwhelming majority of the threat information
documented in Guardian had no nexus to terrorism. However, as a result of information
reported in Guardian the FBI initiated over 600 criminal and terrorism-related
investigations from October 2006 to December 2007," the inspector general's
report said.
The report did not discuss the result of the investigations.
FBI policy requires that each threat or suspicious incident reported by the
public or other government agencies and law enforcement officers be reviewed
to determine whether there is a link to terrorism.
The report expressed concern over delays in the development of a related system,
called E-Guardian, for sharing terrorism-related information with local law
enforcement. It said the automated Guardian system had improved since it was
first implemented, and the number of incidents tracked had grown dramatically.
FBI spokesman John Miller said the agency had implemented steps to resolve
concerns and it accepted recommendations made by the inspector general.
(Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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Privacy Advocates Expect Whistleblowers to Share Warrantless Wiretap Info After
Inauguration Day
By RYAN SINGEL
Nov. 11, 2008
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just
get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's
warrantless domestic wiretapping.
Since The New York Times first revealed in 2005 that the NSA was eavesdropping
on citizens' overseas phone calls and e-mail, few additional details about the
massive "Terrorist Surveillance Program" have emerged. That's because
the Bush administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress,
and subpoenaed the phone records of the investigative reporters.
Now privacy advocates are hopeful that President Obama will be more forthcoming
with information. But for the quickest and most honest account of Bush's illegal
policies, they say don't look to the incoming president. Watch instead for the
hidden army of would-be whistle-blowers who've been waiting for Inauguration
Day to open the spigot on the truth.
"I'd bet there are a lot of career employees in the intelligence agencies
who'll be glad to see Obama take the oath so they can finally speak out against
all this illegal spying and get back to their real mission," says Caroline
Fredrickson, the ACLU's Washington D.C. legislative director.
New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour Hersh already has a slew of sources
waiting to spill the Bush administration's darkest secrets, he said in an interview
last month. "You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them
on January… Continue reading
Monday's New York Times reported that former Deputy A.G. and 9/11
Commissioner Jamie Gorelick was a candidate for Attorney General in the new
Obama Administration. Five-time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance
details a shocking, but little known story about Gorelick involving the loss
of a key al Qaeda operative. This is an excerpt from his 2006 HarperCollins
book TRIPLE CROSS soon to be published in trade paperback.
On December 16th, 1994, agents in the FBI's San Francisco office made
an extraordinary seizure. Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (MJK) Osama bin Laden's
brother-in-law and former roommate, was captured at a Holiday Inn in Morgan
Hill, California. If this arrest had been fully investigated by the FBI and
the Justice Department, it might have led to the seizure of 9/11 "mastermind"
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and stopped "planes as missiles" plot dead
in its tracks. But what followed was series of missteps and bad decisions at
the highest levels of the State and Justice departments that had a catastrophic
impact on America's ability to cut short bin Laden's jihad against
At the center of the decision making at the time, was Deputy Attorney General
Jamie Gorelick.
Even if the Feds were savvy enough to see the value in questioning him, however,
they never got the chance. On January 5, 1995, a decision was made by Secretary
of State Warren Christopher and supported by Deputy A.G. Gorelick, that arguably
ranks as one of the most profound intelligence errors committed by any U.S.…
by Justin A. Martell
Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) took one of the first steps in holding the Bush Administration accountable when he introduced House Resolution 1531 on Thursday.
The official title of HR 1531, which was introduced to the House Judiciary Committee, is "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President of the United States should not issue pardons to senior members of his administration during the final 90 days of his term of office."
The resolution notes, "President George W. Bush may have committed crimes involving the mistreatment of detainees, the extraordinary rendition of individuals to countries known to engage in torture, illegal surveillance of United States citizens, unlawful leaks of classified information, obstruction of justice, political interference with the conduct of the Justice Department, and other illegal acts," and that, "Bush has been urged to grant preemptive pardons to senior administration officials who might face criminal prosecution for actions taken in the course of their official duties."
Rep. Nadler is the current chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties . According to an email sent out by Democrats.com, Nadler's leadership on this issue is crucial because he "can use his credibility and clout to move the resolution forward either during the lame duck session in December or when the next Congress convenes on January 6."
Democrats.com has also urged the public to persuade their representatives to co-sponsor H.R. 1531. You can contact your representative on your… Continue reading
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By Linda Rigas
November 18, 2008
Posted at FireJohnYoo.org
Excerpts from Scott Horton's Justice After Bush: Prosecuting An Outlaw Administration in Harper's Magazine.
This administration did more than commit crimes. It waged war against the law itself. It transformed the Justice Department into a vehicle for voter suppression, and it also summarily dismissed the U.S. attorneys who attempted to investigate its wrongdoing. It issued wartime contracts to substandard vendors with inside connections, and it also defunded efforts to police their performance. It spied on church groups and political protestors, and it also introduced a sweeping
surveillance program that was so clearly illegal that virtually the entire senior echelon of the Justice Department threatened to (but did not in fact) tender their resignations over it. It waged an illegal and disastrous war, and it did so by falsely representing to Congress and to the American public nearly every piece of intelligence it had on Iraq. And through it all, as if to underscore its contempt for any authority but its own, the administration issued more than a hundred carefully crafted "signing statements" that raised pervasive doubt about whether the president would even accede to bills that he himself had signed into law.
No prior administration has been so systematically or so brazenly lawless. […] Indeed, in weighing the enormity of the administration's transgression against the realistic prospect of justice, it is possible to determine not only the crime that calls most clearly for prosecution but also the crime that is most likely to be successfully prosecuted.…Continue reading
November 21, 2008
By William Glaberson
New York Times
A federal judge issued the Bush administration a sharp setback on Thursday, ruling that five Algerian men have been held unlawfully at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp for nearly seven years and ordering their release.
It was the first hearing on the government's evidence for holding detainees at Guantánamo. The judge, Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court in Washington, said the government's secret evidence in the case had been weak: what he described as "a classified document from an unnamed source" for its central claim against the men, with little way to measure credibility.
"To rest on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with this court's obligation," Judge Leon said. He urged the government not to appeal and said the men should be released "forthwith."
The habeas corpus case was an important test of the administration's detention policies, which critics have long argued swept up innocent men and low-level foot soldiers along with hardened fighters and terrorist commanders.
The judge also ruled that a sixth Algerian man was being lawfully detained because he was a facilitator for Al Qaeda, arranging travel for others to fight the United States, and planned to become a fighter himself.
The six men are among a group of Guantánamo inmates who won a 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling in June that the detainees had a constitutional right to seek their release in federal court. The decision said a 2006 law unconstitutionally stripped them of their right to contest their imprisonment in habeas corpus lawsuits.…Continue reading
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 05, 2008
Information Clearinghouse
The US government
does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy, but no other government can match the
hypocrisy of the US government.
It is now well documented and known all over the world that the US government
tortured detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo and that the US government has
had people kidnaped and "rendentioned," that is, transported to
third world countries, such as Egypt, to be tortured.
Also documented and well known is the fact that the US Department of Justice
provided written memos justifying the torture of detainees. One torture advocate
who wrote the DOJ memos that gave the green light to the Bush regime's
use of torture is John Yoo, a Vietnamese immigrant who somehow secured a US
Justice Department appointment and a tenured professorship at the University
of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. John Yoo is the best case
against immigration that I know.
Members of Berkeley's city council believe that Yoo should be charged
with war crimes. The US government has charged lesser offenders than Yoo with
war crimes. Yoo helped the DOJ achieve the Bush regime's goal of finding
a way around the torture prohibitions of both US statutory law and the Geneva
The way around the law that Yoo provided for the sadistic Bush regime was closed
down by the US Supreme Court, which voided Yoo's arguments, and Yoo's
torture memo was rescinded by the Department of Justice. Nevertheless, Yoo's
obvious… Continue reading
Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his single engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron airport. Velvet Revolution ("VR"), a non-profit that has been investigating Mr. Connell's activities for the past two years, can now reveal that a person close to Mr. Connell has recently been discussing with a VR investigator how to tell all about his work for George Bush. Mr. Connell told a close associate that he was afraid that the George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus."
A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside… Continue reading
By Thomas A. Schweich
Sunday, December 21, 2008
We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government. Our Constitution is at risk.
President-elect Barack Obama's selections of James L. Jones, a retired four-star Marine general, to be his national security adviser and, it appears, retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair to be his director of national intelligence present the incoming administration with an important opportunity — and a major risk. These appointments could pave the way for these respected military officers to reverse the current trend of Pentagon encroachment upon civilian government functions, or they could complete the silent military coup d'etat that has been steadily gaining ground below the radar screen of most Americans and the media.
While serving the State Department in several senior capacities over the past four years, I witnessed firsthand the quiet, de facto military takeover of much of the U.S. government. The first assault on civilian government occurred in faraway places — Iraq and Afghanistan — and was, in theory, justified by the exigencies of war.
The White House, which basically let the Defense Department call the budgetary shots, vastly underfunded efforts by the State Department, the Justice Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to train civilian police forces, build… Continue reading
Originally published at The Salt Lake Tribune by Pamela Manson on December 25, 2008
Accusation–Attorney general-nominee led effort to kill investigation into prisoner's death.
A Salt Lake City lawyer who claims his brother was tortured and murdered in a federal prison is alleging that Attorney General nominee Eric Holder played a role in covering up the crime.
In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members, lawyer Jesse Trentadue acknowledges the paper trail on Holder's actions "is scant," but claims he was the "point man" in an effort to persuade Congress to not investigate his brother's death. He is asking that Holder be questioned at his confirmation hearing next year about his alleged attempt to block efforts "to obtain a certain measure of justice for my brother's murder."
The Department of Justice, where Holder served as deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, referred a request for comment to the Presidential Transition Team (PTT). A statement issued by an Obama transition aide denied Trentadue's allegations.
"Multiple independent investigations have found that Kenneth Trentadue's death was a suicide," the statement said. "There is simply no evidence to support the claims in this letter."
The body of Kenneth Trentadue, who had served time for bank robbery and was being held on an alleged parole violation, was found hanging in his cell at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City on Aug. 21, 1995.
Several investigations by state and federal agencies ruled the death a suicide, but his survivors believe Kenneth Trentadue was strangled… Continue reading
Dec. 29, 2008
Associated Press
MIAMI – U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his father's reign.
Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr., is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 9 by U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga. His conviction was the first use of a 1994 law allowing prosecution in the U.S. for acts of torture committed overseas.
A recent Justice Department court filing describes torture — which the U.S. has been accused of in the war on terror — as a "flagrant and pernicious abuse of power and authority" that warrants severe punishment of Taylor.
"It undermines respect for and trust in authority, government and a rule of law," wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline Heck Miller in last week's filing. "The gravity of the offense of torture is beyond dispute."
Remainder of article at msnbc.com…Continue reading
By Paul Elias
Associated Press
January 7, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Six veterans who claim they were exposed to dangerous chemicals, germs and mind-altering drugs during Cold War experiments sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies today.
The vets volunteered for military experiments they say were part of a wide-ranging program started in the 1950s to test nerve agents, biological weapons and mind-control techniques.
They allege in their lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court that they were never properly informed of the nature of the experiments and are in poor health because of their exposure. They are demanding health care and a court ruling that the program was illegal because it failed to obtain their consent.
Marie Harf, a CIA spokeswoman, declined to comment on the lawsuit, which seeks class action status on behalf of all participants allegedly exposed to harmful experiments without their knowledge.
At least 7,800 U.S. military personnel served as volunteers to test experimental drugs such as LSD at the Edgewood Arsenal near Baltimore, Md., during a program that lasted into the 1970s, the lawsuit said. Many others volunteered for similar experiments at other locations, according to the lawsuit.
"In virtually all cases, troops served in the same capacity as laboratory rats or guinea pigs," the lawsuit said.
One notorious CIA project from the 1950s and 1960s, code-named MK-ULTRA, involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was the target of at least three Congressional inquiries in the 1970s,… Continue reading
by Meg White
As Bush gives his final press conference today, lamenting the "mistakes" of his presidency, some are wondering if he and other members of his administration will get a chance to tell such tales to a special prosecutor.
"History will look back," he told reporters, most likely hoping the next administration's Justice Department will solely look forward. Judging from the most recent comments from his successor, that may very well be the case.
It all started when Bob Fertik, progressive writer and co-founder of Democrats.com, posed this question to President-elect Barack Obama:
"Will you appoint a special prosecutor — ideally Patrick Fitzgerald — to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"
Fertik submitted the question to Change.gov, the official transition Web site for the incoming Obama Administration. The site has a forum called "Open for Questions" where people can post items of particular concern for the Obama team to review. Fertik's question got so much attention and approval from other users on the site that it made its way to the top of the Change.gov list and onto the Sunday talk shows, finally garnering this response from Obama when George Stephanopoulos asked the question directly:
"We're still evaluating how we're going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions and so forth. And obviously we're going to be looking at past practices and I don't believe that anybody is above the… Continue reading
By Columbia Journalism Review
January 14, 2009
Advocates for open and transparent government are quick to note that no American
presidential administration has, in practice, been enthusiastic about reducing
secrecy in the executive branch–for some obvious and sometimes quite legitimate
reasons. There are secrets that almost everyone agrees should remain secret.
But secrecy must be balanced with the citizens' right to examine the operations
of their government–to learn, to improve, to enforce, and sometimes to
shame. That's especially true when there are political or bureaucratic
incentives for secrecy that deserve far less respect than true matters of national
security. And despite the bipartisan resistance from those in power, the arc
of history has trended, if unevenly, toward openness. Claims of excessive secrecy
have become a tried and true political battering ram, easily wielded by the
party in opposition. Technological evolution has not only made the dissemination
of information easier and faster, but also has heightened our appetite for disclosure.
The trend isn't confined to the political sphere. Betty Ford's frank
discussion of her struggles with cancer and alcoholism in the 1970s marked a
new era of openness in our personal medical lives, and the invention of the
personal video camera spawned a cottage industry around moments–gaffes,
goofs, tragedies–that were once private.
Against that backdrop, there is wide agreement among journalists and openness
advocates that the administration of George W. Bush was an aberration, at least
in the modern era. Bush and his advisers came into office with a broad vision… Continue reading


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The bath is no longer merely a functional place to wash and groom. People are spending increasingly more time in their bathrooms and want a spa-like experience .
Installing a TV behind a two-way mirror is quite luxurious.
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Returning from Glen Lednock, a little way downhill from the lay-by is the steep path down to the Deil's Cauldron (Devil's Kettle).
In Gaelic it is Slocha'n Donish and legend has it that it was the favourite haunt of a brownie or water elf called Uris-chidh who enticed victims down into the huge natural pothole.
The waterfall that plunges down through the Cauldron is most spectacular and it is easy to see how legend arose.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa City's next fire chief likely will be a longtime member of the Fire Department.
City Manager Tom Markus has appointed Fire Marshal John Grier as the new fire chief, pending City Council approval. The council is expected to OK the hiring at its Aug. 20 meeting.
Grier is a 21-year veteran of the Iowa City Fire Department and has been fire marshal since March 2007. He would succeed Andy Rocca, who retired in May after being fire chief since 1996.
Grier was among five candidates who participated in interviews last month, and one of two finalists who had second interviews.
Markus said he liked Grier's length of service with the department, the different positions he's held, that he is a paramedic, has a master's degree and has a good attitude.
Markus said Grier stood out, "From a lot of perspectives. I think he has both a big picture view of public safety, fire service and also the detail you need to have to operate a department. ... His learning curve is short."
Grier is out of the office until Monday and did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.
Markus said he is proposing a salary of $113,000 annually for Grier. Rocca made $129,584 at his retirement.
The Fire Department has 63 members.
The other candidates who were interviewed were:
Greg Main, district chief, Evansville, Ind., Fire Department
Eric Nurnberg, captain, Iowa City Fire Department
Brian Platz, battalion chief, Iowa City Fire Department
John-Paul Schilling, chief, Cedar Falls Fire Department.
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also to quote the Backstreet Boys
Instead of "Backstreet's back alright!" it's JBW IS BACK ALRIGHT!
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also to quote the Backstreet Boys
Instead of "Backstreet's back alright!" it's JBW IS BACK ALRIGHT!
Well done lads, seems like you're indeed back and I can't wait to get started.
Van: Well that was easy enough. Now that you all know I'm the best rookie in JBW. You should also know that I'm coming to fuck up anyone who gets in my way to the top. No exceptions.
Also, once the main event goes up, if someone from JBW can get me their end of the year noms, I can make the posts and polls before I go into work tomorrow
For those of you who haven't read the show yet (I haven't fully, just scanned thorough, I'll read it properly when I get home tonight):
Is the Underground title going to be an active title. I was told the Supremacy was being retired (so I wrote that promo) but wasn't told anything about the Underground Championship. Was the plan to retire just the HWA Supremacy Championship and then it's predecessor to stay active, or was the idea to keep it?
Either way, thanks for giving me my first world championship. It's an honor, especially as the last one from HWA
yeah it will be an active title. I wasn't aware J hadnt told you the full story. The underground title will have the same value as the TV and intercontinental titles.
As for the thanks, it was actually down to Kash as much as it was J and myself. The main regret I had for HWA was that we never managed to transition Rob Rage to the face of the company as planned so its more than deserved man. Congratulations.
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While no portion of Isaac is expected to make direct impact on the Starkville area, emergency planners are preparing for any adverse conditions the storm brings with it.
Regardless of where the storm travels, projections indicate Starkville and Oktibbeha County will see significant rainfall as well as the potential for straight-line winds and tornadoes.
State Climatologist and Mississippi State University geosciences professor Charles Wax said reports from the National Hurricane Center have changed by the hour, but as of press time it is predicted that the Starkville area will receive anywhere from 5-8 inches of rainfall and winds up to 20 miles per hour for extended periods of time.
NWS reports the eye of the hurricane will likely move west of the Oktibbeha County, a factor Wax says does not play in the area's favor.
"It's very important as to which side of us the hurricane track lies. If the hurricane goes to the west of us the winds will be up out of the Gulf, which will give us tropical air. Therefore it's more humid and you have more rain," Wax said. "If it goes east, the wind will be coming out of the other direction. It would be coming out of the north, so it would be drier and not as fast."
Starkville Fire Chief Rodger Mann said he will have personnel on standby as inclement weather approaches and encourages residents to take necessary precautions in advance.
"Our problem this way is going to be straight-line winds, tornadoes or flooding. You want to make sure you've got some type of radio as a backup to alert you, preferably a weather radio. You want plenty of flashlights on hand. If you use candles, you want to be careful as to how you use them because they're a fire hazard. (Residents with generators) need to be cautious as to what they're doing because there's an electrical hazard," Mann said. "We expect to be dealing with downed power lines and trees in roads. If at all possible, (residents should) stay off the streets and let emergency personnel operate as they need to and not have to worry about extra vehicles on the street."
Oktibbeha County Emergency Management Association Director Jim Britt said crews are working to make sure sewer systems, ditches and culverts are cleaned before the storm hits.
"My concern on this right now is what we saw when (the storm) came across Florida. There were thunderstorms and tornado warnings were well out away from (the eye of the storm)," Britt said. "One thing that is going to work against us in this area is it will be late afternoon into the night when it comes into our area. It's more difficult to work to fix any power outages when it's at night. You're going to have some thunderstorm activity. We could see low-level, short-lived tornadoes. We need to look for these spin-up tornadoes. I think we'll see some of that."
Britt said preparations can be taken to prevent structural damage to houses and to stay safe while conditions are dangerous.
"Residents (who) have storm drains around their house want to make sure it's clear of any leaves or debris," Britt said. "People with lightweight items (such as) lawn chairs secure them so they don't blow around and break windows."
Area hotels are reporting a large increase of rooms being reserved during the days when conditions are predicted to be the most dangerous on the Gulf Coast. Hampton Inn General Manager Gabe Smith said each of the hotel's 67 rooms is completely booked today and Wednesday and there was little vacancy Monday.
"We were actually looking at a slow week before this began. I left the office late Friday and we still had a good bit to work with, but Sunday I saw we had increased our occupancy by about 20 rooms per night from where we were on Friday. It was a huge increase and very last-minute," Smith said.
Starkville Hilton Garden Inn front desk associate Sheri Johnson said calls to reserve rooms at the 105-room hotel started increasing Sunday night.
Local Piggly Wiggly general manager Max Stillman said he's seen a large volume shoppers stocking up on supplies.
"This morning there were a couple of customers here getting batteries and candles. I think there are a few people who have an eye on the storm for sure. I'm sure as people evacuate we can expect an influx in business, and we are prepared," Stillman said. "We've got extra pallets of water and we've bought additional batteries to be in stock. We've also got pallets of extra coolers for ice (storage)."
Representatives from 4-County Electric and Starkville Electric Department have said personnel will be on alert when the storm comes in the event of power outages or other electrical damage.
"We'll have all of our guys on hand. All of our equipment is ready and we'll be watching it starting now all the way through the process," SED General Manager Kemp said. "We'll make a determination at the end of day … and do what we need to do to be prepared. If we have major problems we'll call everyone in and that includes the office staff to assist as needed."
"We'll be prepared in case adverse weather comes our way," 4-County Manager of Engineering Lynn Timbrook said in a release. "We've reviewed everything that we can at this stage in our emergency plan preparations."
Patty Tucker, chapter manager for the Northeast Mississippi Chapter of the American Red Cross, said volunteers are on standby and ready to provide assistance locally and closer to areas expected to absorb the brunt of Isaac's impact.
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Criss Turnipseed said local patrolmen are reporting to the Gulf soon.
"We're sending out a special operations group from across the state and different districts. They're going to stay there and prepare to go out and perform duties asked of them from local governing bodies down there," Turnipseed said.
Mann said eight SFD firefighters have received emergency training related to events such as this and are members of a Mississippi Emergency Management Association response team. They can be placed on standby at any given time in preparation to travel to and assist in areas that are hardest hit, he said.
"We won't know anything up until 12 or 18 hours out (until team leaders) may say something. It depends on what they feel like the hurricane is going to do, where it's going and what resources they feel like they're going to need," Mann said. "There is no set template as to how this goes. The event is what dictates the action that MEMA or (The Department of) Homeland Security will set up, but they are available for activation."
A similar category storm, Hurricane Rita, caused 51 tornadoes in central Mississippi sometime after it made landfall in 2005. Wax said residents need to monitor conditions and be alert in case a similar situation breaks out with this storm system.
"Almost everybody here on the faculty agrees that we're going to get a soaker. When we have the tropical cyclone … that's capable of causing tornadoes; not anything over an F-1 (tornado) but there's the potential for a lot of them," Wax said. "In central Mississippi there were 51 tornadoes that day. The National Weather Service in Jackson did a fantastic job of keeping us posted on it. They'll be right on it this time, too, because they're aware."


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Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile neworks. Directly and through subsidiaries, it also has a major role in mobile devices and cable TV and IPTV systems.
Founded in 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson, it was incorporated on August 18, 1918. Headquartered in Kista, Stockholm Municipality, since 2003, LM Ericsson is considered part of the so-called "Wireless Valley". Since the mid 1990s, Ericsson's extensive presence in Stockholm helped transform the capital into one of Europe's hubs of information technology (IT) research. Ericsson has offices and operations in more than 150 countries, with more than 20000 staff in Sweden, and significant presences also in, for example, China, the UK, the USA, Finland, Ireland, and Brazil.
In the early 20th century, Ericsson dominated the world market for manual telephone exchanges but was late to introduce automatic equipment. The world's largest ever manual telephone exchange, serving 60,000 lines, was installed by Ericsson in Moscow in 1916. Throughout the 1990s, Ericsson held a 35-40% market share of installed cellular telephone systems. Like most of the telecommunications industry, LM Ericsson suffered heavy losses after the telecommunications crash in the early 2000s, and had to fire tens of thousands of staff worldwide in an attempt to manage the financial situation, returning to profit by the mid 2000s.
In 2001 the handsets division formed of a joint venture with Sony called Sony Ericsson. LM Ericsson is now a major provider of handset cores and an infrastructure supplier for all major wireless technologies. It has played an important global role in modernizing existing copper lines to offer broadband services and has actively grown a new line of business in the professional services area.
On 18 February 2008, it was announced that Aastra Technologies would acquire the enterprise PBX division of Ericsson.
Lars Magnus Ericsson began his association with telephones in his youth as an instrument maker. He worked for a firm which made telegraph equipment for Swedish firm Telegrafverket. In 1876, aged 30, he started a telegraph repair shop with help from his friend Carl Johan Andersson. The shop was in central Stockholm (No. 15 on Drottninggatan, the principal shopping street) and repaired foreign-made telephones. In 1878 Ericsson began making and selling his own telephone equipment. His phones were not technically innovative, as most of the inventions had already been made in the US. In 1878, he made an agreement to supply telephones and switchboards to Sweden's first telecom operating company, Stockholms Allmänna Telefonaktiebolag.
Also in 1878, local telephone importer Numa Peterson hired Ericsson to adjust some telephones from the Bell company. This inspired him to buy a number of Siemens telephones and analyze the technology further. (Ericsson had had a scholarship at Siemens a few years earlier.) Through his firm's repair work for Telegrafverket and Swedish Railways, he was familiar with Bell and Siemens Halske telephones. He improved these designs to produce a higher quality instrument. These were used by new telephone companies, such as Rikstelefon, to provide cheaper service than the Bell Group. He had no patent or royalty problems, as Bell had not patented their inventions in Scandinavia. His training as an instrument maker was reflected in the high standard of finish and the ornate design which made Ericsson phones of this period so attractive to collectors. At the end of the year he started to manufacture telephones of his own, much in the image of the Siemens telephones, and the first product was finished in 1879.
With its reputation established, Ericsson became a major supplier of telephone equipment to Scandinavia. Because its factory could not keep up with demand, work such as joinery and metal-plating was contracted out. Much of its raw materials were imported, so in the following decades Ericsson bought into a number of firms to ensure supplies of essentials like brass, wire, ebonite and magnet steel. Much of the walnut used for cabinets was imported from the US.
As Stockholm's telephone network expanded rapidly that year, the company reformed into a telephone manufacturing company. But when Bell bought the biggest telephone network in Stockholm, it only allowed its own telephones to be used with it. So Ericsson's equipment sold mainly to free telephone associations in the Swedish countryside and in the other Nordic countries.
The high prices of Bell equipment and services led Henrik Tore Cedergren to form an independent telephone company in 1883 called Stockholms Allmänna Telefonaktiebolag. As Bell would not deliver equipment to competitors, he formed a pact with Ericsson, which was to supply the equipment for his new telephone network. In 1918 the companies were merged into Allmänna Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
In 1884, a multiple-switchboard manual telephone exchange was more or less copied from a design by C. E. Scribner at Western Electric. This was legal, as the device was not patented in Sweden, although in the US it held patent 529421 since 1879. A single switchboard could handle up to 10,000 lines. The following year, LM Ericsson and Cedergren toured the US, visiting several telephone exchange stations to gather "inspiration". They found that US engineers were well ahead in switchboard design but Ericsson telephones were as good as any available.
In 1884, a technician named Anton Avén at Stockholms Allänna Telefonaktiebolag had combined the earpiece and the mouthpiece of a (by then) standard telephone into a handset. It was used by operators in the exchanges that needed to have one hand free when talking to their customers. Ericsson picked up this invention and incorporated it into Ericsson products, beginning with a telephone named The Dachshund.
Other countries and colonies were exposed to Ericsson products through the influence of their parent countries. These included Australia and New Zealand, which by the late 1890s were Ericssons's largest non-European market. With mass production techniques now firmly established, the phones were losing some of their ornate finish and decoration.
Despite their successes elsewhere, Ericsson did not make significant sales into the United States. The Bell Group and local companies like Kellogg and Automatic Electric had this market tied up. Ericssons eventually sold its US assets. In contrast, sales in Mexico were good and led to further development into South American countries. South Africa and China were also generating significant sales. With his company now multinational, and growing strongly, Lars Ericsson stepped down from the company in 1901.
In a curious oversight, Ericsson ignored the growth of automatic telephony in the US. Instead it concentrated on squeezing the most sales out of manual exchange designs. By 1910, this weakness was becoming seriously apparent, and the company spent the years up to 1920 correcting the situation. Their first dial phone was produced in 1921, although sales of the early automatic switching systems were slow until the equipment had proved itself on the world's markets. Phones of this period were characterised by a simpler design and finish, and many of the early automatic desk phones in Ericsson's catalogues were simply the proven magneto styles with a dial stuck on the front and appropriate changes to the electronics. A concession to style was in the elaborate decals (transfers) that decorated the cases. These phones have been also highly collectable and attractive.
World War I, the subsequent Great Depression, and the loss of its Russian assets after the Revolution slowed the company's development and restricted its sales to countries such as Australia.
In 1928, Ericsson began its long tradition of "A" and "B" shares, where an "A" share has 1000 votes against a "B" share. Wincrantz controlled the company by having only a few "A" shares, not a majority of the shares. By issuing a lot of "B" shares, much more money was fed to the company, while maintaining the status quo of power distribution.
In 1930, a second issue of "B"-shares took place, and Kreuger gained majority control of the company with a mixture of "A" and "B" shares. He bought these shares with money lent by LM Ericsson, with security given in German state bonds. He then took a large loan for his own company Kreuger & Toll from ITT Corporation (administered by Sosthenes Behn), giving large parts of LM Ericsson as security, and used its assets and name in a series of doubtful international financial dealings that had little to do with telephony.
Financially weakened, Ericsson was now being seen as a take over target by ITT, its main international competitor. In 1931 ITT acquired from Kreuger enough shares to have a majority interest in Ericsson. This news was not made public for some time. There was a government imposed limit on foreign shareholdings in Swedish companies, so for the time being the shares were still listed in Kreuger's name. Kreuger in return was to gain shares in ITT. He stood to make a profit of $11 million on the deal. When ITT's Behn wanted to cancel this deal in 1932, he discovered that there was no money left in the company, just a large claim on the same Kreuger & Toll that Kreuger had himself lent money to. Kreuger had effectively bought LM Ericsson with its own money.
With Kreuger no longer in control, the company's shaky financial position became quickly evident. Kreuger had been using the company as security for loans, and despite his profits, was unable to repay these loans. Ericsson found that they had invested in some very doubtful share deals, whose the probable losses were significant. ITT examined the deal and found that it had been misled quite seriously about the Ericsson's value. It summoned Kreuger to New York City for a conference, but Kreuger had a "breakdown". As word of Kreuger's financial position spread, pressure was put on him by the banking institutions to provide security for his loans. ITT cancelled the deal to buy Ericsson shares. Kreuger could not repay the $11 million, and committed suicide in Paris in 1932. ITT owned one third of Ericsson, but was forbidden to exercise this ownership because of a paragraph in the articles of association stating that no foreign investor was allowed to control more than 20% of the votes.
There were a number of negotiations between the major telephone companies aimed at dividing up the world between them, but the sheer size of the ITT empire made it hard to compete with. With its financial problems, Ericsson was forced to reduce its involvement in telephone operating companies and go back to what it did best, manufacturing telephones and switchgear. It could do this easily now, thanks to its overseas manufacturing facilities and its associated supply companies. These had not been involved in the previous shady financial dealings and were generally in a sound position. The Beeston factory in Britain became a very useful asset here. It had been a joint venture between Ericsson and the National Telephone Company. The factory built automatic switching equipment for the BPO under license from Strowger, and exported a large amount of product to former colonies like South Africa and Australia. The British government divided its equipment contracts between competing manufacturers, but Ericsson's presence and manufacturing facilities in Britain allowed it to get most of the contracts. Ericsson equipment maintained its reputation for quality.
Sales drives resumed after the Great Depression, but the company never achieved the market penetration that it had at the turn of the century. Although it still produced a full range of phones, switching equipment was becoming a more important part of its range. The distinctive Ericsson styles soon became subdued by the increasing use of moulded thermoplastic phones (Bakelite, etc).
In 2000, the bursting of the information technology bubble had marked economic implications for Sweden. Ericsson, the world's largest producer of mobile telecommunications equipment, shed thousands of jobs, as did the country's once fast-expanding Internet consulting firms and dot-com start-ups. In 2000, Intel Corp., the world's largest chip manufacturer, signed a $1.5 billion deal to supply flash memory to LM Ericsson over the next three years.
In 2001 Telecommunications companies around the world experienced a year of tumbling stock prices and huge job losses. By September the stock market valuation of the world's telecom carriers and suppliers had declined by $3.8 trillion from a peak of $6.3 trillion in March 2000. More than a quarter of a million jobs were lost globally in the second quarter of 2001 alone. The major equipment manufacturers — Motorola (US), Lucent Technologies (US), and Cisco Systems (US), Marconi (UK), Siemens AG (Germany), Nokia (Finland), as well as Ericsson — all announced job cuts both in their home countries and in subsidiaries around the world. Some of the biggest losses were announced by the Canadian supplier Nortel Networks Ltd., which shed 50% of its workforce (almost 50,000 jobs), while in France equipment manufacturer Alcatel cut 33,000 jobs (almost a third of its employees).
In April 2001, Ericsson and Sony Corp of Japan announced that they were setting up a joint venture, based in London, to combine their cellular handset manufacturing businesses.
Financially, 2002 was even worse for the global Internet and telecommunications industry than the previous year had been due the excesses of the investment bubbles. LM Ericsson, Royal KPN NV, Vodafone Group PLC, and Deutsche Telekom AG experienced the biggest losses in corporate history. The telecommunications sector's problems brought bankruptcies and job losses, and led to changes in the leadership of a number of major companies. The most high-profile victim in 2002 was Ericsson, then the world's largest producer of wireless telecom systems, as it was forced to let go thousands of staff and raise about $3 billion from its shareholders.
In June 2002, Infineon Technologies AG (then the sixth largest semiconductor supplier and a subsidiary of Siemens AG) bought the microelectronics unit of LM Ericsson for €400 million.
In October 2005, LM Ericsson acquired the bulk of the troubled British telecoms manufacturer Marconi, including the Marconi brand name, which dates back to the creation of the original Marconi Company by the "father of radio" Guglielmo Marconi. In September 2006, LM Ericsson sold the greater part of its defense business Ericsson Microwave Systems, which mainly produced sensor and radar systems, to SAAB AB, which renamed the company to Saab Microwave Systems. The sale meant that Saab Ericsson Space, previously a joint venture, is now fully owned by SAAB. Not included in the sale to Saab was the National Security & Public Safety division, which was transferred to Ericsson with the sale. In November 2006, LM Ericsson purchased the UIQ software business for smartphones from Symbian.
In January 2007, LM Ericsson completed the merger of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Maxwell Acquisition Corporation, with and into Redback Networks Inc. (Redback), with Redback surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of LM Ericsson. In February 2007, LM Ericsson acquired Entrisphere, a company providing fiber access technology, based in the United States. In September 2007, LM Ericsson acquired an 84% interest in German software firm, LHS Inc., a stake since raised to 87.5%.
Major competitors today include, in the main business, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Nortel, with Cisco, IBM, EDS, Accenture, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics, NEC, Sharp and most recently Apple Inc, competing with aspects of the business (for more details, see the last template at the end of the page).
In addition, there is a very substantial research and development element, and a range of central functions. Operations locally are coordinated through a structure of regions and Market Units, with some Global and Multi-Country Accounts for large customers.
Other elements of the radio access networks are the controllers for radio base stations and radio access network, which manage the traffic between the radio base stations and core networks. In 2G, base station controllers in conjunction with mobile switching centers, effect call handovers between radio base stations as subscribers move between cell sites while engaged in a voice call or data transmission. Similarly, in 3G networks, a radio network controller effects call handover in conjunction with mobility server nodes within the service layer.
The core network nodes interconnect radio access networks with other parts of the network. Many of the core network switching systems, controllers for base stations and radio networks are built upon common platforms. Like its radio base station products, LM Ericsson's mobile switching products have scalability and capacity. Mobile network equipment and associated network rollout services account for approximately 74% of its sales.


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MAYHEW – Dan Mullen knows there is more to life than coaching football.
The fifth-year Mississippi State coach makes sure he is involved with organizations that are helping people in need.
He took advantage of an opportunity Thursday night to speak to an organization that is geared toward helping.
Mullen addressed the Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle at a charity fundraiser on the Golden Triangle campus of East Mississippi Community College.
"The Boys and Girls Club does a great job impacting people's lives and try to make a difference in young people's lives," Mullen said before he took the stage. "That's why I coach – to make that same impact and have the same impression on a young person that later in life might achieve an awful lot of great things."
Mullen was greeted with a big round of applause when he took the podium to deliver his message.Â
Many board members, children, parents and supporters were in attendance.
Mullen's job is to coach a football team and develop his players football skills, but he takes it upon himself to use his position to help people around him.
"I do a bunch of these different events," Mullen said. "I'm a big believer that if you have the opportunity to impact people in a positive way, you should be obligated to do that. The good Lord has put me in a position to where I can have an impact on people's lives. I feel I want to make sure that I give back and take advantage of that opportunity to help others."
Mullen has compiled a 29-22 record as the Bulldog head coach. He is 13-19 in Southeastern Conference play.Â
While being introduced Dr. Roy Ruby, he made sure to make that point that Mullen "has beaten the University of Mississippi three out of four times."
Mullen talked in his speech how he knew what he wanted to do from a young age. Football was always a part of his life, but he also wanted to help people.
Mullen and his wife Megan have two children. They have a son, Canon, and a daughter, Breelyn Elisabeth.
He wants Canon and Breelyn Elisabeth to follow in his footsteps and help people if they have the means to.
"You're giving people the opportunity to be the best they can become," Mullen said. "I want to set a great example for my family. I want to be a great husband, I want to be a great father and I want to make sure that I give my young kids the values in life that are necessary to be successful and achieve the most they can achieve in this world."
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DATE & TIME: Sunday, January 6, 8 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Moody Coliseum (8,998) -- University Park, Texas. Television: FSN. Home Record: Tulsa 5-1, SMU 5-1. Away Record: Tulsa 1-3, SMU 3-2. Neutral Record: Tulsa 2-2, SMU 2-2. Conference Record: Tulsa 0-0, SMU 2-0. Series Record: Tulsa leads, 29-13.
GAMES NOTES: Conference USA play gets underway for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane and the SMU Mustangs as the two squads collide at Moody Coliseum on Sunday night.
In its final non-conference game of the season Tulsa took down Buffalo, 63-57, at home this past Wednesday. The Golden Hurricane had lost three of their previous four games and are now 8-6 overall on the campaign. In four true road tests Tulsa has just a single win.
After a hot start to the season and Larry Brown's tenure, the Mustangs have begun to stumble with losses in four of their last six games. That includes a 59-56 setback against Wyoming in their final non-conference tilt this year. Overall SMU is 10-5 including a strong 5-1 mark at Moody Coliseum.
A year ago these teams split the season series with the road team actually winning in both instances. Tulsa still has a commanding hold on the all-time series lead, 29-13.
Even though it shot just 39.3 percent from the floor, Tulsa was able to edge out Buffalo by holding the Bulls to 32.2 percent shooting. The game was tied, 51-51, with a little more than three minutes remaining but Tulsa went on a 9-0 run down the stretch to pull away for the win.
The Golden Hurricane are not particularly impressive on either side of the ball in comparison to the rest of C-USA. Tulsa is eighth in scoring (67.1 ppg) and seventh in field goal percentage (.449). What has been hampering Tulsa is its inability to make the extra pass with the team 11th in the conference in assists (10.6 pg). On the defensive side of things the Golden Hurricane are letting up 64.2 points per game on 40.2 percent shooting. James Woodard (13.6 ppg, 6.1 rpg) is the only player scoring in double figures, while leading in rebounding and assists as well. Scottie Haralson (9.8 ppg) has the potential to score at a better rate but has had trouble finding his shot this season, as he nets just 35.6 percent of his field goal attempts.
SMU tied its game with Wyoming at 56-56 with a minute remaining on a Ryan Manuel layup. However in the final minute the Mustangs had two turnovers and failed to get off a shot attempt, as the Cowboys squeaked out the win. SMU really hurt itself with 15 turnovers which resulted in 20 points for Wyoming.
Like Tulsa, SMU doesn't impress with its offensive production. The Mustangs are scoring the 10th most points per game (65.5) in the conference, while netting just 44.6 percent of their shots from the field. The Mustangs also don't move the ball well (11.3 apg), while struggling to attack the boards (34.3 rpg). Brown's squad has excelled on the defensive end where it limits foes to 60.3 points per game on just 38.7 percent shooting, which ranks among the top 50 marks in the nation. A trio of players are scoring in double figures led by Jalen Jones (14.5 ppg, 8.3 rpg), who has also managed to be the team leader in rebounds. Nick Russell (14.2 ppg, 4.2 apg) and Ryan Manuel (12.4 ppg) provide additional scoring depth out of the backcourt.
In a game featuring two teams that play well defensively and sometimes struggle to score, having more options on offense will be a big advantage. SMU will have that edge with the trio of Jones, Russell and Manuel.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: SMU 68, Tulsa 64


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A SOVIET general has warned that the risk of a global nuclear war breaking out accidentally will increase if the USSR honours its recent promise to dismantle a radar system at Krasnoyarsk. The radar has always occupied a controversial position in arms talks.
Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet foreign minister, admitted in 1989 what the US had maintained for many years - that the radar contravened the international Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - and announced the Kremlin's intention to dismantle it.
The Americans had always said that as a missile-watch radar, it contravened the treaty stipulation that such radars should be sited only on the borders of the national territory. The USSR had always protested its innocence by saying that Krasnoyarsk, deep within Soviet territory, served to track satellites only, not missiles.
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At long last, WWE is launching its own TV network. It has been talked about as an upcoming project since 2011, but now it's finally becoming a reality.
The so-called "over the top" network will be available on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, mobile devices and computers starting Feb. 24. Service will come to Xbox One and certain connected TVs in the summer.
The network will consist of a live 24-hour-a-day live stream and an on-demand video library featuring WWE's vast history of wrestling footage. The biggest news is that the service will also include all 12 annual pay-per-views, including "Wrestlemania," at no additional cost.
If you're an avid WWE fan, the service more than pays for itself. It comes with a price tag of $9.99 monthly with a six-month commitment. Compare that to the $675 is costs to purchase all 12 pay-per-view shows in high definition, and that's a big price difference.
The network will also include original programming like "WWE Legends House," which looks a lot like "The Real World" with retired wrestlers like "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan. Who doesn't want to watch that? There will also be live pre- and post-shows for "RAW" and "Smackdown."
The on-demand portion of the programming will include selections from WWE's tape library, including all PPVs from WWE, WCW and ECW, as well as previous episodes of "RAW" and "Smackdown." At launch there is expected to be more than 1,500 hours of content.
The network will officially debut on Feb. 24 at the conclusion of "RAW" at 11:05 ET. You will be able to sign up at the network's official website that morning.
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The annual fund appeal is the cornerstone of the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor development program.
Each year, parents, teachers, trustees, staff, friends, grandparents, and neighbors impact the lives of our students by contributing to the Annual Fund.
Annual Fund contributions are essential to the day to day operations of the school, and are tax-deductible for the donor. These funds help fill the gap in the operating budget — of about $1,000 per student that is not covered by tuition and other fees. They help to pay for everything that facilitates the teaching in the classrooms, like instructional materials and equipment, facilities and utilities, and faculty and staff salaries.
As we continue our work with the wonderful children and young people here at RSSAA, we feel a renewed appreciation for everything that makes this school so vibrant and successful. The ongoing commitment and involvement of numerous people in many roles all contribute to the vitality of our school. Each year we build upon prior efforts as we continue to grow and nurture our children and the school.
Please join with us in ensuring that the Annual Fund Appeal continues to be secure bedrock upon which to build the future of the Waldorf School by making your pledge or contribution today.
The Annual Fund Appeal is a direct appeal to trustees, parents, grandparents, alumni parents, alumni, faculty, staff and friends for financial contributions in support of the school's operating budget.
About 56% of our operating budget is used to fund salaries and benefits for teachers and staff, and about 23% is used for tuition assistance and other discounts. The balance supports programs, utilities, facilities and equipment, maintenance, and insurance.
Tuition and other fees cover about 93% of the annual operating expenses of the school, and the purpose of the Annual Fund is to help bridge this gap. Income from the Holiday Bazaar, Spring Fundraiser, School Store and SCRIP also go toward annual operating expenses. We raise about $200,000 per year from these four initiatives.
No independent school could charge the full cost of educating its students without pricing itself out of the market. That's why every independent school has an Annual Fund Appeal. In addition, tuition is a non-tax-deductible contracted contribution to the school, while gifts to the Annual Fund are fully tax-deductible.
We design our own program and curriculum, operate without financial support from federal or state government agencies, and are self-governed by our Board of Trustees and our College of Teachers. Unlike public schools, which are funded by tax dollars, independent schools rely solely upon tuition revenues and philanthropic gifts to meet their operating and capital expenses.
Yes. In addition to asking everyone in the school to participate in the Annual Fund, we have several events and ongoing projects each year that strive to raise significant funds, such as the Spring Fundraiser, the Holiday Bazaar, the School Store and the scrip program. Each of these helps to raise funds for the operating budget. We are also seeking contributions for the renovation of 3 classrooms for the lower school, audience chairs for the High School, tuition assistance and to build our endowment.
Every segment of the school community supports the Annual Fund. Last year, we had more than 200 contributions from trustees, parents, grandparents & special friends, alumni parents, faculty & staff, businesses and foundations, all of whom helped us to achieve and surpass our goal of $40,000 including a matching gift of $5,000.
Corporations typically contribute to independent schools by offering matching gifts to their employees' contributions. Several families in our school are able to double their personal contributions through their employer's matching gift programs – you may want to check with your employer to see if such a program is in place where you work. Foundations generally give to Annual Fund appeals when there is a direct personal connection to the school. Usually they are much more interested in specific projects that are within their funding guidelines and advance their specific areas of interest.
The school's financial strength is dependent upon the participation of all members of its constituency. Your participation generates enthusiasm and encourages others to join you in supporting the school, and it is a key indicator to foundation and corporate donors that we have consistent support from those we serve, both past and present. Recently, in a grant notification letter from the Waldorf Schools Fund, President Gloria Kemp wrote: "It is indeed a pleasure to support an initiative at schools where the enormous success of the Annual Fund Appeal speaks of the high degree of commitment and support coming from the school community."
You are the only one who knows how much you are able to give, and we ask only that you give to the best of your ability. As a simple rule of thumb, our Annual Fund gifts need to average approximately $180 (or $15 per month through online giving) for each child enrolled to meet our goal. Some parents truly cannot afford to give that much, yet others in the community are more than happy to make up the difference. If you feel you are of average means within the community then please give accordingly. If you are able to give more, please do so.
Yes. This is a great way to make a gift to the school. Giving appreciates securities provides you with a tax deduction for the appreciated value of the stock without incurring capital gains tax. Our Development Staff (734-335-4141 x 32) would be very pleased to provide you with details on how to make stock gifts.


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Bring broth and wine to boil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add chicken, asparagus and peas. Reduce heat and simmer until chicken is almost cooked through and vegetables are crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Add green onions and marjoram. Simmer until chicken is cooked through and flavors blend, about 2 minutes longer. Mix 1/4 cup Parmesan into soup; season with salt and pepper. Ladle soup into bowls. Serve, passing remaining 1/2 cup Parmesan.


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|Criminal Law. Prohibition on Slaughter
of Horses and Sale of Horsemeat for
Human Consumption. Initiative Statute.
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This initiative shows how the ballot process can be abused by the idle rich. A wealthy heiress wants to foist her pet project--outlawing horsemeat for human consumption--on the rest of California.
Get a life! Hardworking Californians don't need to waste their time voting on measures that are of little concern to the average citizen. Only 10,000 California horses are slaughtered for consumption each year.
These champions of horse rights paint a picture of dangerous entities in our midst, ready to dismember Mr. Ed at a moment's notice, then gleefully eat the carcass ala Jeffrey Dahmer.
If the goal of Proposition 6 is to save horses, why would it only address killing them for human consumption? Horses are more often killed to make dog food or for industrial purposes.
If the goal is to change the method of slaughter, then the authors could propose regulations to that effect. Instead, Proposition 6 turns factory workers into felons.
Under Proposition 6, horse owners could not sell their animals as they see fit. Many horses would just be cruelly abandoned and die anyway. If horses are disposed of in landfills, will decomposing carcasses pose a risk of disease or groundwater contamination?
California's Legislative Counsel reviewed Proposition 6 and found that it partially violates the U.S. Constitution. Thus, if passed, it could face expensive legal challenges (to be paid by taxpayers).
Look this "gift horse" in the mouth, and see it for the lame nag it really is. Just say NEIGH to Proposition 6.
Past Chair, Libertarian Party of California
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