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When nature unleashes its power, often all we puny humans can do is run for cover. That has become once again painfully clear in our own country over the past few months, when torrential rains pounded the hills and valleys, killing scores of people and destroying hundreds of buildings. And there was of course superstorm Sandy last week, which swept down on Haiti and the American East Coast, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake.
Obviously, long-term precautions and short-term measures can help a lot in limiting the human and material damage. That is in the first place the responsibility of the government. Only they have the capacity to carry out scientific studies to assess which regions of the country are prone to certain types of natural disasters, and only they have the authority to order and organize the temporary evacuation of certain areas in case of expected calamities, among others.
Yet government decisions will have little effect if citizens do not cooperate. In the case of Sandy, for example, there were reports of numerous people who did not heed the call of the authorities to evacuate their area, and some of them might even have paid for it with their lives.
But when it comes to long-term preparation, too, all of us have a responsibility. Having a house at the beachfront is of course everyone's dream, but you then have to accept that in case of a heavy storm coming in from the sea, you will be the first to be hit. As for Rwanda, many of the victims of the flooding fell in chaotically built settlements on steep hillsides, and in many cases they had been warned by authorities of the risk that involved. When local leaders want to resettle people living in such places, they often meet with stiff resistance.
In one tragic case in Gikondo last week, an entire family was killed when a separation wall fell on their house; yet it was reported that the neighbor who had constructed the wall, had been warned that he shouldn't build it on that spot. He ignored the advice and went ahead, and now four lives have been lost.
Therefore, when it comes to disaster prevention and management, all citizens should take their responsibility, and not just wait for the government to do something. There will still be disasters, and there will still be casualties and material damage, but at least we will be able to say that we have done everything possible to reduce them to the minimum.


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Call us the "Do Nothing Generation."
Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on Newstalk 600 KTBB, Friday, June 27, 2008.
Something I said on June 11 has been working on me since I first wrote it. In the story I did on the 1,400 mile Big Inch pipeline that was built from Longview, Texas to Linden, N.J. during World War II in only 54 weeks I said,
"We Baby Boomers are the children of people who got things done. And we have been living off of those accomplishments ever since (without really having to put ourselves out much)."
The truth of that statement is startling. Our parents and grandparents were doers. We have devolved into a bunch of talkers.
We Baby Boomers began taking the reins about 30 years ago. We inherited a nation that worked. The bridges, the highways, the refineries, the electric generating stations, the electric grid, the natural gas network, the telephone network, the hospitals, the military, the schools, the airports, the seaports, and the water treatment plants were all in place and functioning well. To the extent that we have provided any contribution to any of these things since, our contributions have been incremental.
By the time of our coming of age, our parents had created a world in which prosperity and lack of want had become the norm. Unlike those that went before us, we have never worried about getting enough to eat. In fact, we have to worry about eating too much. When we order something on Amazon, we get it one or two days later with the help of the Interstate Highway System — 46,000 miles of roads that network the entire nation — built by our parents.
We flip a switch and the lights come on. We pick up the phone and we're connected to any phone of our choice out of tens of millions in seconds.
Our parents went from zero to walking on the moon in only ten years. Our parents freely took risks and we've been living off the rewards for the past 30 years.
And curiously, 30 years is a number that keeps coming up.
We all are unhappy with the high price of gasoline. Besides the high price of crude oil, one of the biggest factors in gasoline supplies is the lack of refining capacity. The last refinery built in America was built just over 30 years ago.
Many think we're going to replace gasoline cars with electric cars. Not without more electric generating capacity we're not. And guess when the last nuclear generating plant was licensed. That's right, about 30 years ago.
We Baby Boomers, safely ensconced in the comfort provided by our parents, have refined our ability to talk and analyze and demagogue and litigate as a substitute for actually doing something. Construction on the World Trade Center began in 1966 and was completed in 1973, a total of seven years. It was just announced that the completion of the buildings to replace the World Trade Center has now been pushed back to at least 2013 with every likelihood that it will take even longer and cost even more than the latest revised estimates. Seven years for the originals. Twelve years and counting for the replacements.
We're paying outrageous prices for gasoline because we're not willing to run the risk of spilling some oil on the way from the well to the refinery. Our parents took that risk and gave us mobility – which is another word for freedom. We're now unwilling to assume any of our own risk to keep that freedom.
Speaking of refineries, no one will build one today. Only the plaintiffs' lawyers profit from the attempt to build a refinery. After the lawsuits are defended, there's no profit left for the refiner.
Consider any major undertaking, such as those of our parents, and you are immediately confronted today by the omnipresence of environmentalists and their legion of attorneys.
It's primarily environmentalists that stand in the way of increased oil drilling in the United States. Barack Obama defends that obstruction by saying that such drilling is pointless anyway because it won't bear fruit for ten years. First, I don't believe it will take ten years. Second, the fact that we became proactive would impact oil markets immediately. And third, that was the excuse ten years ago. Democrats talk about far-in-the-future energy technologies as an excuse for doing nothing about energy supplies today.
We're at a tipping point. If we are to hand our kids a functioning, prosperous economy, we need to address our energy supply problem (along with many other problems too numerous for this column) and we need to address them now. We've been talking energy to death for 30 years. It's now past the time to actually get something done.
Tom Brokaw wrote a great book about our parents called The Greatest Generation. If we don't get to work and actually accomplish something before we're too old, the book they write about us will be called, The Do Nothing Generation: How Baby Boomers Squandered Their Inheritance and Left Their Kids with Posturing Politicians, a Mountain of Debt and an Army of Plaintiffs' Lawyers.
I don't buy that Greatest Generation ("gg") stuff, not one bit. Our troubles are political, not generational.
gg gave us Vietnam, Medicare, Social Security, and Jimmy Carter. Can you spell "burdens?"
Speaking of oil, what did gg do about the previous oil bubbles ? Drive 55 ?
Our parents faced serious challenges and met many of them well. Baby boomers face different challenges–some of them created by and benefitting gg–and will meet many of them well.
Future generations will do as well or better, to the extent they adhere to our Constitution.
I completly agree with you Paul. Baby Boomers are still looking thru the haze of thier anti-establishment platitudes of thier so called glory days, much the same as old athletes retell thier stories in bars over and over again. The problem now is the greatest generation isn't out there to overlook them and continue on. The greater problem is now we have these eco-terrorists and anti-everything that would be good for this country beatnics in charge of our government. The majority of this country agrees we can and should claim our natural resources, but because of the "anti-crowd", a very small group I might add, that has been able to get this country into a choke hold of idiotic regulation that enables characters like Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi to blatantly, arogantly, and dangerously thwart the will of the people of this great nation. We all have to stand together with ond very loud voice to make it understood circumstances have come to the near fruition of what the "anti-crowd" wanted to create. When you regulate to do nothing with everything eventually what you have runs out, and poor, uneducated, non-mobile people with nothing to defend themselves, are easy to control. The 'anti-crowd did thier job very well and it's time for those of us who see clearly to get rid of this anti- establishmentaryism of the Purple Haze generation and get this country back to the positve, of which there is plenty.
Sure enough, Senator John Warner, he of that "greatest generation," today said we should again look at the 55mph speed limit. He's worried about climate change too.
If Washington isn't throwing us in the tank on purpose, one sure couldn't tell from the results.
Let the markets work, and DRILL !
"We Baby Boomers, safely ensconced in the comfort provided by our parents"
Sir, perhaps your parents set you up with a trust fund or something similar but many of us who have "made it" did it on our own. Good day to you sir.
My wife and I really like your commentaries regarding the issues around gas prices and drilling. Count us in the number of people who agree with you and would like to see the govt. talk less and do more about drilling

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On July 6, officers were called to a Reeves Street residence for a theft, the call history said. The caller told the dispatcher that his medication and license were stolen from his vehicle on July 4. He said he had a Class A CDL and Clorazapam.


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At the end of business Friday the Scranton Parking Authority officially went into default on a nearly $1 million loan after city council refused to release the money to pay the bill, even though the city is legally obligated to do so.
Council's super majority feels the refusal to make that payment sends a strong signal that the city is serious about cleaning up its finances, but others worry about the long-term ramifications.
Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty fears allowing the parking authority to default on its loan will hurt the city's credit rating and make it harder for the city to get loans it needs.
Members of city council said they made their decision not to pay the parking authority's loan to send a message that the parking authority needs to be more self-sufficient.
City officials said the parking authority's financial situation won't affect the average person who parks in the city, but it could have dire consequences on city finances.
The parking authority turned to city council for the money to pay the loan, since it was included in the city's 2012 budget, but council refused, sending the parking authority in to default.
There is a catch.
Mayor Chris Doherty said the city was a co-signer for the parking authority loan, so the city will end up paying that $1 million anyway, and it could cause problems for the city's finances in the long run.
"This has an impact on the city's credit rating because the city guaranteed the loan, and down the line, you may see it when council's budget is unable to obtain the $16 million in borrowing," Doherty said.
The mayor said this may make it more difficult for the city to get a loan and make interest rates for those loans go up.
So why would city council allow the parking authority to default on its loan?
Council members said to send a message.
Councilman Jack Loscombe said the parking authority asked for money without a plan to increase its revenue in the future
"We can't keep coming and bailing them out. Ironically we found out this isn't the only payment. There's two more payments before the year is out. If they don't have the money now, they don't have the money for those two payments. Where are we going to get it? We have our city to consider," said Loscombe.
He added since the city's credit rating is already so low, he doesn't think the city will have trouble securing a $16 million loan needed to pay the rest of the year's bills.


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DHS says they mailed letters in September to 132,000 households that were deemed eligible by "verified information" on current clients, asking them to sign and return the letters if they wanted coverage.
As a result, 55,440 adults said they wanted to enroll, along with 2,539 children who were identified as uninsured and enrolled in ARKids First health coverage, according to DHS.
Here in NWA 2337 in Benton County, 2762 in Washington County and 313 in Madison County returned letters.
"This in an incredible response to a single letter. People in every county said they wanted to sign up," DHS Director John Selig said in a news release. "This clearly shows there was a need for the unique approach that Arkansas took to help ensure the lowest-income Arkansans have access to quality health insurance."
Those who returned the letters requesting coverage are scheduled to begin receiving letters explaining how to complete the enrollment process this week, DHS says.
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I am a really good shooter with great ball handling, but I've only played basketball for two seasons. I want to make the school team. Any drills to improve game-situation thinking
There's not really any drills. The only way to improve your basketball IQ is to play more games. What also helps me is not watching nba or college games just for fun, but really puting myself in the game and asking what I would do in that situation and really studying what they do and learn from it.
Tons of great drills out there for ya! Yes experience is always great but you can prep with drills that simulate in game situations. One of the drilles I do frequently with players is the "U" Drill. It is a ball handling drill that gives you a chance to put combinations of moves together. You can check out a video here. http://youtu.be/n19ak2ShFco
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Thanks! What is your website? Does it have any other drills that I could use?
What I do is watch as much basketball as possible. While I'm watching the games, I analyze the defensive sets and offensive sets. I also I make up plays to boost my basketball IQ.
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Tomorrow morning then, the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, the atypical, anachronistic antidote to all Bernie's new world circuits kicks off and, almost despite ourselves, we are quite extraordinarily excited. So the cars travel more slowly than anywhere else in the world (30mph around the hairpin); so overtaking is rarer than a shirt buttoned anywhere above the chest; so you'll not find another race where the spectators spend more time looking at each other than at the cars.
None of it matters; the climbs, the drops, the bumps, the barriers — stuff F1 drivers don't see from one year to the next make it the greatest spectacle in racing and unquestionably the greatest challenge of a driver's talent.
And let's face it in a year when races have been won (as we have said more than once this year) on a strategist's laptop on a Saturday evening, it will be good to see the right stuff come once more to the surface.
One hell of an argument has broken out since the Spanish Grand Prix and Fernando Alonso's win of the back of a successful four stop strategy. Seems you either believed that Ferrari gambled on Fernando Alonso being able to go like stink in each of his five stints and that such a move should be applauded because others failed to see the opportunity or didn't have the machinery to make it work.
Or you believed that, just as we have seen before, too many drivers, too many cars were circulating well below what they/it could do. And when that group includes Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel then Alonso's victory was a hollow one.
Martin Brundle (@MBrundleF1), typically, brought the two arguments together with one tweet: "Some people missing the point. Multi-stop F1 strategies used to require banzai qualy style laps and unassisted overtaking to make them work" The point being that it's not just about the capricious nature of this year's tyres (which Pirelli has said it will upgrade from the next race, Canada, onwards).
Ferrari and Alonso's race in Spain would have been audacious if it had asked rather more of Alonso's genius. Sure, he drove brilliantly, but only because he drove to a program. So long as he stuck to it here was little or no jeopardy. If you could hack the teams' laptops of a Sunday morning, you could make a killing at the bookies.
Monaco of course throws a spanner in the software however because even with DRS it is so bloody hard to get past the car in front. It's why some folks are wondering if Mercedes can actually convert Saturday pace to Sunday podium. At the very least it's going to mean every team will need to be as quick as Red Bull in the pits (cramped, crowded pits don't forget) and likely some controversy around the pit exit. It will also mean that the "banzai qualy style laps" of Brundle's tweet will need to be in evidence, if at all possible.
Qualifying on Saturday will be extraordinary. Using the above argument and assuming Hamilton and Rosberg again find themselves going backwards from the front row, third might be good enough for the win, assuming the track is clear once the Mercs have made their first stop and, rather more optimistically, Mercedes doesn't have a obvious team strategy in place where the pole car stops a considerable number of laps before the second placed car. Well, that's one theory.
It will be interesting to hear the take of Gary Anderson — officially now our über-analyst. It will have to be 'hear' since the BBC TV aren't live this weekend, so make sure you can find Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. The two 90min practice sessions are at 0900 and 1300 tomorrow so you might want to plan your day around that. What's happening in F1 right now is complex maybe rather than plain exciting, but that's all the more reason to get in deep. Anderson's your man for that, especially if you don't have Sky/can't possibly think of reason for missing work tomorrow.
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Instead of running again for Herkimer County district attorney, former state Supreme Court justice Michael Daley has decided it is now his time to make the most of his retirement.
The former DA recently said he will not seek the vacant position, which now leaves a two-person race between Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Carpenter, a Republican, and local attorney Mary Iocovozzi, a Democrat. She previously ran for Herkimer County Family Court judge in 2010.
After hinting last November that he might run for district attorney to improve how the office is managed, Daley said Thursday that his concerns have since been addressed during a private meeting with Carpenter, who is currently filling in as DA.
"I have discussed some outstanding issues with Jeff Carpenter and Jeff has assured me there are areas where we are in agreement on, and we have no other matters we are in disagreement on," Daley said. "And as a result of our very professional conversation, I have decided I am not running."
Neither Carpenter nor Daley would discuss the nature of their conversation.
"He and I did have a discussion, and I wish him well in his retirement," Carpenter said.
Daley, now 60, served as district attorney for 10 years until 2002. Daley went on to sit as state Supreme Court justice in Herkimer for nearly 10 years until a lack of interest in the judgeship prompted him to step down last summer.
Although Daley did flirt with the idea of running for DA again and Herkimer County Court judge, he said he ultimately came to realize that he didn't want to be one of those officials who overstay their welcome just for the sake of making more money.
"I'm just reevaluating my entire future," Daley said. "I'm 60 years old, and I didn't want to be a judge that's going to work until I'm 70 or 76 years old. I'm going to enjoy my retirement years, because it ain't about the money. It's about quality of life."
In the meantime, Daley is still handling some criminal cases as a local defense attorney, including former Frankfort village police officer Daniel Herrman against allegations that he possessed a stolen department firearm and a Mid-State correction officer, Michael Wehby, who is accused of beating an inmate.
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PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete will on Wednesday grace the 2012 Development Symposium at Karimjee Hall in Dar es Salaam.
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professorial Chair in Development at the University of Dar es Salaam, Prof Delphin Rwegasira, told journalists in the city that the main objective of the conference is to promote development among key stakeholders.
"This is also an important activity intended to honour Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's efforts towards faster national development and Third World progress," he said.
The two-day meeting under the theme "Enhancing Human Capital and Productivity for Faster Development in Tanzania" is expected to bring together about 200 participants including academicians, civil society, representatives of government and development partners.
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He pointed out that the professional papers prepared by senior academicians and policy analysts were aimed at addressing burning issues revolving around different sectors which would contribute to the national development. "We want to create a simple model of thinking on our economic development for the better life of the general public," he said.
The Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Chair in Development is one of the three university wide chairs located in the UDSM's College of Arts and Social Sciences within Department of the Economics. The chair aims at spearheading basic and applied research in social development from economic perspective.


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Of course, you're thinking, when did Dwight not sing Buck? A fine question, since Yoakam built much of his vocal style around that of the late Bakersfield master, and recorded with him on occasion, the two even collaborating on Owens's own work ("Streets of Bakersfield"). So while this collection of Owens covers seems like a project Yoakam should have tackled in the '90s, it took Owens's 2006 death to spur his acolyte to action. Dwight Sings Buck moves briskly for 15 tracks, since 10 of them run under three minutes--in keeping with the length of singles in Buck's heyday of the '60s--though several of Owens's most notable No. 1s are conspicuously absent ("I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line"). Yoakam, who also produced the album, keeps the production shiny, punchy, and faithful to the golden age of honky-tonk (prominent percussion, weepy pedal steel, and jittery, stuttering electric guitars), and to some extent he replicates Don Rich's use of the guitar as a partner to the lead vocal. Yet at times, Yoakam almost comically attempts to duplicate Owens's elongated and dippy vowels ("I Don't Care"), while he also brings a new interpretation to "Together Again," deviating from the strictness of the melody and letting the instrumental ending play out for roughly 90 seconds. Then there is the odd track or two ("Above and Beyond," "Down on the Corner of Love") where Yoakam inserts inflections of another of his heroes, Elvis Presley, to nearly morph the Bakersfield Boss into the Memphis Flash. If several tracks also seem too studied in their smartness, and "Only You," with its funeral-parlor organ, features an excruciatingly tortured vocal, Yoakam finds his best moments when he just, well, acts naturally, as his old pal might say. "Close Up the Honky Tonks," the most compelling performance here, proves that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but inspiration proves the sweetest gift of all. --Alanna Nash
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2013 Nissan GT-R rockets to 100 km/h in 2.84 seconds [video]
Faster than a Ferrari 599 GTO
We knew the 2013 Nissan GT-R was going to be impressive, but now a video is claiming the car can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in just 2.84 seconds.
If that figure turns out to be correct, the GT-R can outgun the Mercedes SLS AMG, the Ferrari 599 GTO and virtually everything else besides the Bugatti Veyron.
As we have previously reported, the 2013 GT-R features an upgraded 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 engine with 550 PS (405 kW / 542 hp) and 632 Nm (466 lb-ft) of torque. Nissan has declined to release official performance specifications, but this video will hopefully encourage them to step up to the plate.
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this is a trumendous car...but i think the fact that is thrushes and smashes many other supercars which people like..makes it a car which many people want to despise, but ah nissan what a marvel you have built!
Dec 4, 2011 1:27 pm
If Nissan wasted all the R&D on building only 2 Juke-R models with this powertrain, I could only imagine what they could pull off if they started off with the Infiniti Essence Concept AWD coupe chassis and modified it to fit a custom V12 built from joining two GTR motors. The target would be 1000hp, and I could see it outperforming the Veyron even if its only to 60mph. Yeah I know they are worlds apart and the Veyron is a highly respected vehicle, but if Nissan is currently in Veyron territory with half the displacement and 10 less cylinders, imagine what they could do with 2 of those motors in the same vehicle. Hmmmmm
Dec 3, 2011 3:10 pm
Audi's rs4 failed against the e92 m3, rs5? No different.. Some cars you can't beat in terms of excitement and driving pleasure. This car is awesome because it delivers enormous performance for so little money. Looks good imho but you get what you pay for. If I had a car collection, I'd buy this car for track purposes only..
Nov 25, 2011 10:51 am
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The interior of this car just sucks man
Nov 25, 2011 2:09 am
WCF'S President (neva.mynd)
This car represents a challenge to the "established emotions".Its like what audi did with the RS4 challenging the established M3,and M3 having to catch up on the solid RS4.Its a great car from people most of us would have never thot they would come from.
Nov 25, 2011 2:07 am
Awesome machine!!!!
Nov 23, 2011 1:00 am
Didn't they claim it could do it in 2.7 seconds!? Your cheating us Nissan!!!lol
Nov 22, 2011 11:44 pm
2.84 seconds for 0-100km/h AND 2.72 seconds for 0-60mph
Nov 23, 2011 5:03 pm
I don't think anyone would call the driving experience boring, but there is no doubting that the styling and design far from complements the drive of the car.
Nov 22, 2011 8:35 pm
WOW THAT IS FAST!!!....Exact 0-60 time as the Porsche 911 Turbo S. I think we need to see a head to head race between the two to see who is truly faster. Who agrees?
Nov 22, 2011 6:36 pm
The turbo S benifits from being very light and aound 250 kg lighter than the GTR. Actually Nissan supposed to make this car all out of Alluminum to keep it lightweight.
Nov 22, 2011 7:26 pm
great car...and all that. im a bit confused, if this is, as the video sais, the 2012 (us 2013) GTR, the 520 hp version was... what year?
Nov 22, 2011 6:15 pm
the next and last update will be in form of GT-R R-spec after that we can wait for new GT-R, probably with 4.0L V6 engine and around 600hp ...althoug 4.0 V8 could be used!
Nov 22, 2011 5:53 pm
Many people hate this car and call it boring because od the fact that this car smashed and smoked most of their beloved exotics. Will done Nissan and i'm waiting for the.GT-Rs official lap record.
Nov 22, 2011 5:10 pm
I wouldn't call it 'hate' but the truth is, although I admire the car, I don't like it because of its looks. It looks like a custom Japanese car which is not exactly my taste. Other than that, I love it that it can overshadow the luxury supercars. As I said before, Nissan should put all this tech in a 300Z-like chassis to make it a dream machine.
Nov 23, 2011 12:37 am
No it's not hate. Total respect for this car. I've always admired the Skyline GT-R since its inception for being what it is. A hyper car that can be easily tuned to embarrass cars twice to triple its price. And for being a car that fosters a fairly sizable tuning industry of people dedicated to get even more out of it. But...there are more to cars than sheer numbers and performance figures. It's the intrinsic things that the GT-R lacks. Maybe if I was a track junkie I would buy this...but...I'm not...
Nov 24, 2011 3:50 am
I love this car. Just like the Datsun 240Z amazed everyone in the 1970's , Nissan(Datsun) does it again. This is a $200,000 car for half the price. They must not be making much of a profit on the car. Ferrari has a 100% mark up primarily because of the low volume production and the dealer can make another 20% since they do not move volume like Chevy.
Nov 22, 2011 4:52 pm
Ok. This car is starting to get ridicules. I wonder how long the europeans can keep dismissing it. Also, where the heck is the Honda nsx? That is traditionally a better car.
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Janice Kephart, national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., said the latest Pew figures confirm the inadequacies of the current border-security apparatus and the need for more fencing and technology along the nation's borders. She has testified against the current Senate immigration-reform bill, saying its security provisions are inadequate, and questioned the Obama administration's figures on border apprehensions and the unauthorized population.
"The numbers have been increasing all along," Kephart said. "It is just that the numbers have been suppressed by the administration."
A 2010 study by Pew researchers found that about two-thirds of the unauthorized had lived in the U.S. for a decade or more. In 2000, the group said most unauthorized immigrants reported having stayed in this country for five to 10 years. The study issued Monday did not address this element.
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JJ mentioned this at the end of the Steelers Lounge podcast (subscribe now!), but it's worth repeating: if somebody had told you that Pittsburgh would be 1-0 with their third-string quarterback under center and after losing their left tackle and nose tackle, you'd take it.
The preseason post-Ben-suspension news was to suck it up for four weeks, find a way to go 2-2, regroup during the bye and get back into the ass-kicking business in Week 6 against the Browns. But fans are selfish and I'll happily admit that, promptly after Rashard Mendenhall ripped off a 50-yarder to win it in overtime, I thought, "You know, 3-1 or, hell, 4-0 isn't completely impossible now."
In all likelihood, it probably is, but, hey, sports are our distraction from the everyday mundanities. If I want to dream about a Ben-less Steelers team going 4-0, give me that. Expectations and reality will have their head-on collision soon enough (like, say, Sunday afternoon). Especially now that it looks like Max Starks and Casey Hampton will be in their Duce Staley Memorial Game Day sweats against a Titans team that historically gives the Steelers trouble.
Truthfully, I wouldn't feel particularly confident about this game even if Ben were under center because a) it's in Nashville and b) Jeff Fisher's mustache is nearly unstoppable at home. (The insane part of me would love to see Bill Cowher lead the Steelers out of the tunnel Sunday and instead of stopping at the sidelines, he makes a beeline for Fisher and breaks his leg. Again. There's your pregame message.)
Instead, Dennis Dixon will get his second start of the season and barring some Mr. Miyagi magic, Jonathan Scott will replace Starks, and Hoke et al will take over for Hampton. And while losing Ben is a huge deal, I'm less concerned about Starks and Hampton, at least in the short term.
First — and JCRODRIGUEZ made this point in the comments — the offensive line is improved with the additions of Pouncey and Flozell. I've been beating that drum too — the 2008 o-line was an abomination, the '09 version was slightly improved, and this unit has a chance to be even better. (And in case it's not obvious: "even better" means "approaching mediocrity.")
Look, I know that Willie Colon has come a long way since 2006, but remember the weekly calls from fans for the organization to move him to guard? And those conversations were usually after Willie had been flagged three or four times the previous game for not lining up on the line of scrimmage. My point: he's an adequate right tackle, but let's not make him more than that. Flozell, after a rough start in the preseason, has been fine. And when you're talking Steelers o-line fine is more than enough.
Losing Starks, even for just a week, isn't ideal. The question is will it be enough to effect what the Steelers want to do offensively. The last time Pittsburgh was in Tennessee (Week 16 of the 2008 season), Ben took a beating. Haynesworth didn't even play, but then-rookie Jason Jones had 3.5 sacks and forced two fumbles. I suspect the Titans will prepare differently for Dixon than they would Big Ben, and the threat of Dixon breaking off huge runs will factor into their game plan.
But for as bad as Dixon looked in the first half against the Falcons, he pulled it together for the final two quarters. If he can overcome the short-hops to Randle El and line drives to Heath Miller near the sidelines, Week 2 should be better. That said, defensively, the Titans are much more aggressive than the Falcons, but that could be good news for the Steelers. More chances for big plays off misdirections, bootlegs and play action. In fact, I'm all for two or three deep looks to Mike Wallace off play-action. It's been mentioned here a bunch, but you can't overthrow Wallace. Worst case: incompletion.
My biggest concerns stem from a conservative strategy that backfires. A lot of runs and safe passes early are fine, but as soon as a turnover switches field position or puts points on the board for Tennessee, that game plan goes out the window. The problem: the Steelers try to make up a double-digit deficit, the Titans know it and come after Dixon. Unlike Byron or Charlie, Dixon's elusiveness has to be accounted for but every quarterback — even Ben — gets gun shy. Just putting that out there.
Defensively, Hampton's strained ham hock means that Hoke, Nick Eason and Ziggy Hood could see a lot of time. I was talking to my buddy about this after Michael Turner's no-show performance in Week 1: big backs don't worry me. The Steelers regularly handle them, especially when they try to run outside. Chris Johnson, on the other hand, scares the shit out of me. He is a one-man game-changer and he does for Vince Young what we all hope Mendenhall can do for Dennis this month (so far, so good).
I don't know if losing Hampton will have any bearing on how the Titans attack the Pittsburgh run defense, although if the Steelers had to be without one of their defensive stars for this game, Casey's pretty high on the list. Speed is at a premium, and after watching what Juan Timmons did to the Falcons, I'm looking forward to watching him against Tennessee. I think Ed Bouchette pointed it out after the game, but if Polamalu was a linebacker he would have looked like Timmons against Atlanta.
I'll be honest: this post was as much about talking myself into the Steelers' chances against the Titans as it was an examination of the actual game. (I'm guessing you already knew that.) But look at it this way: even down two key players, Pittsburgh is quite capable of heading to Tampa 2-0. It could be worse. We could be Jets fans.


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Saman Rajaee was a salesman for Design Tech Homes. He used his personal iPhone to connect to his employer's Microsoft Exchange Server, which allowed him to access his work-related email, contacts and calendar from his phone. Design Tech did not have a BYOD policy. When Rajaee's employment terminated, Design Tech remotely wiped his phone, which deleted all of his data, including personal emails, texts, photos, personal contacts, etc.
Rajaee sued under the federal Stored Communications ("SCA") and Computer Fraud and Abuse Acts ("CFAA") as well as raising various state law claims. Design Tech moved for summary judgment on the federal claims. On the SCA claim, the court held, based on Fifth Circuit precedent, that information an individual stores to his hard drive or cell phone is not in electronic storage within the meaning of the statute.
Design Tech was successful on the CFAA claim as well, but was forced to take a much riskier path than would have been necessary had it simply had a BYOD policy. Generally speaking, the CFAA prohibits accessing a protected computer without authority or in excess of authority, but requires a showing that the computer owner sustained at least $5000 in losses specifically due to either the cost of investigating and responding to an offense or the costs incurred because of a "service interruption." In Rajaee, …


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Veterans Day, post-script:
We've had presidents who served their country during World War II — Eisenhower, of course, and then Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, and daddy Bush. But never a Vietnam veteran. John McCain was the latest Vietnam vet not to win the presidency. The same fate met John Kerry in 2004. It says something about our country that the last two commanders-in-chief — Clinton and Bush — essentially dodged the draft in the 1960s.
Once upon a time in America, it used to be a badge of honor to have served in the military if you were going to enter the field of politics. Looked good on the resume. But history has changed its tune. Johnny got his gun gave way to Johnny got his guitar. Courage under fire surrendered to celebrity unplugged. McCain tried to win the election on character because he sacrificed for his country — but it was trumped by Barack Obama's superstar status — the reality that the politician as rock star can capture the moment because he had the face of the future. There were no heroes with the depth of an Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. The heroes were the musicians and the poets who protested our envolvement over there. The greatest generation fought and won World War II because the fate of civilization was hanging in the balance. The call to duty then was necessary. It was necessary to avoid trying to save Vietnam. History tells us Vietnam was an unpopular war — as if there's such a thing as a popular war. My father was a WWII veteran, but I never heard him say anything about going to war because he was gung ho.
McCain the patriot did everything by the book to finally get his shot at running for president. But his past was not meant to be prologue. It was not meant to play any role in a country that has since learned to live in the moment.
In the movie "Patton," a biopic about the "maverick" WWII general, his German nemesis Rommel calls him "a magnificent anachronism." Patton was a genius in battle, but he was fighting the time as much as he was the war. That's John McCain. His time was 2000. Consider how he would have acted after 9-11. The Navy veteran wouldn't have gone into Iraq — he didn't have a daddy who was an ex-president whose mess he believed he had to clean up, regardless of the reckless, and fatal, consequences. One could've envisioned McCain following bin Laden to the gates of hell and finishing the job. But in the 2000 GOP primaries, the Bush League succeeded at making McCain's Vietnam experience — his many years as a POW — look like it turned him into a sullen man who was emotionally-challenged. In 2004, the Bush snipers won again against another Vietnam vet. This time it was Democrat John Kerry — who lost the battle in large part because he didn't put up much of a fight. It didn't help that after he served in Vietnam, Kerry became an activist against it. It was a turkey shoot for the GOP — who actually turned Kerry's service to his country into an act of cowardice, with more than a hint of treason.
In 2008, it appeared that many people were patronizing McCain for his heroism. His appearance last night with Jay Leno served as further proof: the audience was intentionally made up of servicemen and women currently serving in the Armed Forces. Granted, it was Veterans Day, but it seemed a bit overboard — a crowd that was his base. On the show, McCain kept repeating how proud he was of his being the GOP standard bearer, how proud he was of our troops, how proud he was of Sarah Palin. As the saying goes, pride comes before a fall.
The man who was always proud to say he puts "Country First" finished a distant second. John McCain was the last best hope for a Vietnam veteran to get elected president. And with that comes the closing of the chapter on the Vietnam experience. To quote the late President Gerald Ford: "Our long national nightmare is over."
The time is right.