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Contracts set for first park to have lakefront access
Two engineering contracts were approved by the Toledo Area Metroparks for Howard Farms, its first park to have access to Lake Erie.
The 1,000 acre park, located on the current Howard Farms property west of Metzger Marsh in Jerusalem Township, will be unlike any other Metropark in that it will be the first located near Lake Erie's coast. It will be the Metroparks largest park in its system, next to Oak Openings.
A manufacturing company that will employ up to 35 people plans to move into a building that will be constructed on Spartan Drive in Oregon.
Ed Harmon, chairman of Spartan Logistics, said it will cost $2.5 million to build the facility. The company, which he can't yet name, is related to automotive manufacturing.
"I can't divulge the name this week, but soon. We're waiting to sign some documents. It will be a long term lease," he said.
"It's a good project. It will keep growing," he added.
Oregon City Council on Monday approved an agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway Company for preliminary engineering services for the Cedar Point Road relocation project.
"It's an agreement with Norfolk Southern for them to proceed with the city's design as well as their costs for engineering," said Oregon Public Service Director Paul Roman.
A rural Oak Harbor man accused of inducing panic with bomb threats to area schools, including two in Oak Harbor, remains in custody on a $250,000 bond.
Charles Tingler, 22, of North Leutz Road, Salem Township was returned to the Ottawa County Detention Facility following his initial appearance Monday in Ottawa County Municipal Court. He will be assigned a court appointed attorney and return for arraignment at 3 p.m. May 5, a court employee said.
For his latest volunteer efforts in Africa, Ron Overmyer was rewarded generously with a live chicken and a bowl full of sweet potatoes.
The gifts were from members of the Samora Machel Farmer Association who primarily grow white corn and soybeans on farms averaging five to eight acres in a highland area at the eastern base of the Bvumba Mountains.
Overmyer, of Oak Harbor, last month completed his third trip to Africa for the Farmer-to-Farmer program administered by the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, working with growers who live near the town of Catandica in west central Mozambique.
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Latarrius Thomas, safety, competes with Coby Fleener, tight end, at the Indianapolis Colts Training Camp, Anderson University, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (Kenneth L. Hawkins Jr./ The Star)
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Sign in, please: QB Andrew Luck routinely spends time after practice signing autographs. Occasionally, someone will surprise him with what he's asked to sign. "The strangest thing I've been asked to sign, I think, (was) an old Vietnam War helmet from the Army, which was pretty cool,'' Luck said. "It had the Colts logo on it.''
Rams? So what: The preseason opener is Sunday against . . . the St. Louis Rams. But the Colts aren't concerned about the opponent. "We will not look at anything St. Louis is doing,'' offensive coordinator Bruce Arians ...

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First Baptist Church of Sweetwater invites the public to join in celebrating the opening of the newly remodeled Education Building. The building will provide safe and functional meeting rooms and multi-purpose rooms for church education and community events.
Motorists in Texas are paying on average $3.30 for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline, a 22 cents hike in one week which represents the biggest one-week increase since September, 2005. Nationally prices also jumped 20 cents to $3.43 a gallon according to AAA Texas.
Between Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, 2005, the days before and after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, prices in Texas increased 40 cents in one week. Nationally during that same period, the average price for gasoline increased 35 cents.


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Column: 'It brings the taste of vomit back.'
Trey Junkin spent nearly every minute of his 19 years in the NFL trying to be invisible, and might have succeeded, if not for his very last snap.
That came at the end of a 2003 NFC playoff game, when a New York Giants team he had joined only four days earlier botched a last-gasp field goal to complete an epic meltdown against the 49ers - and left Junkin to shoulder the blame. Nine years later, he is still toting up the costs and wondering whether even one of those teammates will come forward and share the burden.
"I owned up to it that day and every day since, I've owned every bit of it," Junkin said. "It's how I was brought up. But I think about that ... snap still. Not every day or every night anymore, but every now and then I get jerked out of my sleep and re-live that feeling the second the ball left my hands. And it brings the taste of vomit to the back of my mouth."
Junkin is back home in Winnfield, La., pop. 5,800, helping out with the high school football team on occasion and watching dozens of NFL games every season with a notepad in his lap - always - charting special-teams play. He'll be back in front of TV set Sunday when the Giants and 49ers meet again in the NFC championship, wondering if the game Junkin loved all his life will ever welcome him back.
"I still feel bad for all 53 guys on that team. And the last thing I want," he said, "is people to feel sorry for me. I've got a wonderful wife, two great kids and my parents are still alive. Football gave me the means to enjoy all of it.
"Do I want to get back in? Absolutely. I'd love to be a special-teams coach. I did it for a year in Canada (with Calgary) and loved every minute. I played every facet of special teams and still study it to this day. Interestingly enough, though, I can't get an interview. Everybody knows me, but nobody returns my calls? I mean, c'mon," Junkin said, then paused and drew in a sharp breath.
"I don't want to lay it on that snap," he continued, "but I don't know what it is. I wish I did."
When that fateful January call came from New York, Junkin was 41 and had filed his NFL retirement papers two months earlier after playing for seven different teams as a long snapper and sometimes special-teams player. By his own count, he had messed up five or six snaps in 281 previous games. The Giants, meanwhile, had already lost three other long snappers during a season that began with low expectations, but thanks to a late surge, began to take on a championship feel. They built a 24-point lead at San Francisco and still led 38-22 beginning the final quarter when everything fell apart. Their last shot at redemption came on third down, trailing 39-38 with six seconds left, as kicker Matt Bryant stepped onto the field to attempt a 40-yard field goal.


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Unlike in previous major decisions faced by this Administration, giving Congress their institutional prerogatives seems to be what the White House intends here, and it's helping to sooth some of the egos at the other end of the avenue.
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School districts, under certain circumstances, must reimburse parents for independent educational evaluations of their children with disabilities, a federal court has ruled.
School districts, under certain circumstances, must reimburse parents for independent educational evaluations of their children with disabilities, a federal court has ruled.
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Over the years, a special master had found that some students with disabilities were never picked up or picked up late, missing valuable time in school.
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The centers could serve--and may in many communities--as a powerful link to work, education, and other opportunities and people with disabilities. But sound monitoring is a part of making sure those centers are serving their purpose, the inspector general said.
The Collaboration to Promote Self-Determination today shared a set of recommendations to better prepare students with significant disabilities for the workforce and continue their education after high school.
A new analysis of the cost of special education concludes that by cutting special education personnel in high-spending districts to the national average, the country could save up to $10 billion a year and improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities.
The different agencies only coordinate their activities to an extent and don't ever reflect on how effectively they work together, the Government Accountability Office said.
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At 22lbs/32 inches, DD is by no means super-skinny, but somehow 18 month size pants swim around her waist. This wasn't a problem during shorts season, but I want to get her some jeans for fall - ideally ones that don't droop. We tried Children's Place, but they gave her a weird puffy waist/bum. Anyone have a good long and lean toddler jean recommendation?
are you dealing with a diaper?
we weren't- we had ECed and found all new pants just feel off! we did the old way------ebay or local thrifts, etc------pants/jeans made 80's and older are cut very differently (no room for a bulky diaper) and fit perfectly, older items were also more true to size- 18months really fit an 18 months old- better construction too
I had tried all new companies and they were super big and fell off or fit and didn't in the length -
do we did vintage--worked for us beside with growing it was crazy to pay new prices just to keep getting new things every few months
wth are "long and lean" jeans?
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
I finally just got my DS a belt, so all his jeans and shorts would stop sliding off Now he can wear his 24 month and 2T stuff just fine
Ha I was going to say The Children's Place...IDK I think it may be the best you can do...Did you adjust the waist on them (they have it on the inside)? Maybe try Old Navy?
Young born-again mama and loving wife to DH and SAHP to two crazy girls we and believe !
Old Navy sells toddler jeans that have an adjustable band inside the waist. My DD is so skinny she wears 0-3 months pants as shorts in the summer and those jeans look really nice on her and don't fall down. I highly recommend them.
here is a link to the ones I got, you have to get a toddler size for the adjustable band (baby sizes just have an elastic waist). http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=70145&vid=1&pid=694008&scid=694008002
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear :) I meant jeans for toddler whose on the taller, thinner end of the spectrum.
Children's Place jeans are only adjustable 24m and up. I bet they'll fit a lot better once we get to that point. I'll give Old Navy a shot. Thanks for the suggestion.
Old Navy's are only adjustable in toddler sizes as well.
You mentioned that she's size 18 months. Try the 2T size on her, if they are too long you can roll them up but the waist circumference really doesn't change much from 18mo to 2T. The difference is that infant sizes (up to 24m) are meant to fit over diapers and will almost always have an elastic waistband. If your DD has a narrow frame the elastic waists are always going to look poofy and ill-fitting. Try the 2T.
Ditto the PP - I found that my DS - about the same measurements as your DD - fits way better in many 2T things than 18/24 months. and they tend to have the adjustable waist!
also, if they run a little long, it is way easier to adjust length than waist size.
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Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear :) I meant jeans for toddler whose on the taller, thinner end of the spectrum.
Children's Place jeans are only adjustable 24m and up. I bet they'll fit a lot better once we get to that point. I'll give Old Navy a shot. Thanks for the suggestion.
cool, cause i ended up googling it and getting gap grownup women's jeans and was like...
but if you're looking for the smaller made jeans, and speaking of that brand, we have a relative who LOVES to shop for her dd there and give us hand-me-downs. the jeans never fit our dd, who wears extremely poofy CD's. those are always too tight, even in sizes above what dd normally wears. i notice some of them have the elastic band and button thing in the waists, too, maybe that brand would work well for you guys?
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
Most of Gymboree's bottoms have the adjustable buttons inside the waistband. I think Target does as well for the younger ones. My 9 yr old is having this problem right now.
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Gap and Old Navy are the best for my skinny 3 yr old. I love jeans on kids but he has trouble with holding his pants up so most of his wardrobe are windbreaker pants/sweat pants for this Fall/winter with a few pairs of jeans.
Cassie, mom to Alex(4/7/05), Aidan(7/12/07), and Andrew(8/18/08)
I splurged on a pair of "playdate straight" jeans from baby gap for my tall slim toddler (23 lbs, 34.5 inches) and like them. They're slimmer through the waist and hips but still have a high-enough rise to fit her CDs, and the legs are nice and long. I think I bought 18-24 months size. They have an adjustable waist.
Generally, I've found that boys' jeans fit her better than girls'. I like to buy the carpenter style. The waist is higher and more snug than in girls' (low rise jeans for baby girls, so dumb!) and there's lots of room for the fluffy bum. The wide legs look so cute too.
Other than those few pair of jeans, I mostly make her pants myself. That way I can make them long and slim enough. Oh, and I made her a stretchy elastic belt that she can wear with jeans or shorts that are too loose at the waist. It's pretty easy to make and you wouldn't even need a sewing machine. Just buy some elastic about an inch wide and the narrowest metal closure you can find (I like the ones with the two loops where one fits into the other, so no sharp edges). Stitch the elastic around the ends of the closure. It's not exactly pretty, but it gets the job done. If you like to sew or want to make it nicer, you can stitch a long sleeve of cute fabric and pull the elastic through (making sure to gather the fabric so the elastic will still stretch), then attach that to the closure.
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As most of you know, I'm a multi time Nobel Prize winner. In my off time, I'm an inventor, politician, adventuring Man of Action. As the inventor of the lava lamp and that fake bird drinking water thing, I've brought love and happiness to the masses.
All that is peanuts compared to my latest discovery. After years of research, thousands of interviews, and a lot of fancy coffee I have unlocked the biggest secret of baseball: how do teams score runs?
The paper is under peer review as we speak, but since I really don't have any peers I'm going to go ahead and release my findings to you, the fine folks if RaisorZone.
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How Teams Score Runs: A Modest Paper by Philip Raisor.
1. Avoid Outs. (Represented by the abbreviation OBP)
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Since the Motown sound went silent -- except on oldies stations -- and General Motors and Chrysler (but not Ford) required life support from Washington, there has been little to recommend Detroit, Mich., to visitors, much less its residents.
The recent conviction of Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit, on multiple charges, including racketeering, fraud and extortion, adds another insult to the city's injury, increasing its misery.
During the mid-20th century, Detroit was a vibrant city with a population of almost 2 million. Today, it stands near ruin. The number of residents has now been estimated at just over 700,000. According to the Chicago Tribune, "The city has a crushing debt of $14 billion, and a budget deficit of as much as $327 million. The pay and benefit structure of public employees can't be sustained. ... The city could run out of cash in a matter of weeks." And yet the city's main courthouse reports having $280 million worth of uncollected fines and fees.
The state plans to send in an emergency manager to try and repair Detroit's finances. It might take an exorcist or faith healer.
The initial response to all of this sad news was denial. Some tried to change the subject by playing the race card. The majority of those who live in Detroit are black. Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, is white, as are a majority of the state's residents. But crime, corruption, malfeasance and misfeasance are not exclusive to a single race. Ask New Jersey. The problem for Detroit is something no one wants to address: one-party rule. And that would be the Democratic Party.
While the road to Hell may be paved with good intentions, the road to corruption and municipal failure seems to have been paved by Detroit's Democratic monopoly. Political monopolies invite bribes, kickbacks, misuse of funds, cronyism and a sense of entitlement.
Many businesses have fled Detroit for the usual reasons, including crime. In 2009, Time Magazine reported the city's functional literacy rate was near 50 percent and its unsolved murder rate was nearly 70 percent.
The Detroit News reported last month that nearly half of the city's 305,000 properties failed to pay their 2012 tax bills. "Some $246.5 million in taxes and fees went uncollected," reports the News, "about half of which was due Detroit..." (The other half went to county, schools and other public entities.)
Michigan law provides for an emergency manager with the authority to prevent local elected officials from making financial decisions. That person also would be granted the power to alter labor contracts, shut or privatize departments and, reports The New York Times, "...even recommend that Detroit enter bankruptcy proceedings, a possibility that experts say raises the prospect of the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation's history, at $14 billion worth of long-term obligations."
Altering labor contracts caused quite the controversy in neighboring Wisconsin, but it had to be done. Democrats there (and in Detroit) had given away too much of the store in exchange for votes.
Shrinking government and encouraging personal responsibility can be a win-win and not only for Detroit. "We can't go on like this," is starting, however slowly, to become clear to more and more people.
In contrast to the city government, the private sector in Detroit is doing well. "Booming" is the word used in a March 5 New York Times front-page story. That, too, has accentuated in some minds the city's racial divisions because the young entrepreneurs and artists moving back into the city are mostly white. They have revived parts of downtown, but that revival has not spilled over into blighted black neighborhoods.
Some years back, Detroit leaders announced a "Renaissance" for the city. There's a hotel there by that name, but that's about it. Detroit needs more than a Renaissance. It needs a revival, but that is not likely to happen as long as Democrats maintain their political stranglehold.
Email nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas at firstname.lastname@example.com. For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/calthomas.
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kevin 2 years, 3 months ago
What else could a normal person expect to happen when for over 20+ years, unions and Liberals have run Detroit into the ground. Now that they have all gotten their fat share of all the money they could squander, the city and state are running dry. Let them go bankrupt and start over. This would teach them a "human" lesson going forward. Unions may have been a good thing in the 30s-50s but their days are numbered and are now useless and destroying the country. First they killed private businesses, now its governments. Can't deny those facts.
Why_not 2 years, 3 months ago
Kevin and Cal Thomas both approve of the above political message.


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Comparative advantage is an economic law that demonstrates the ways in which protectionism (mercantilism, at the time it was written) is unnecessary in free trade. Popularized by David Ricardo, comparative advantage argues that free trade works even if one partner in a deal holds absolute advantage in all areas of production - that is, one partner makes products cheaper, better and faster than its trading partner.
The primary fear for nations entering free trade is that they will be out-produced by a country with an absolute advantage in several areas, which would lead to imports, but no exports. Comparative advantage stipulates that countries should specialize in a certain class of products for export, but import the rest - even if the country holds an absolute advantage in all products. (To learn more, read What Is International Trade?)
The essence of this law can be illustrated with a simple example. Imagine that you are a skilled cabinetmaker as well as a gifted painter. It takes you a day to build a cabinet or a day to paint a picture. In the local economy, paintings sell for $400 and cabinets go for $350. Your neighbor also shares the same skill sets, but it takes him a day and a half to build a cabinet and three days to complete a painting. You have an absolute advantage over your neighbor in both areas, so you should try to outproduce him across the board, right? Wrong.
Here's why: If you flip between painting and cabinetmaking over a six-day work week, you would produce three paintings and three cabinets worth $2,250. If your neighbor embarked upon the same work schedule, he would produce one painting and two cabinets worth $1,100. There would be a total of four paintings and five cabinets produced: a total of nine production units. If, however, you were to choose to focus on painting, the area where you have the greatest comparative advantage and the most profit, and leave cabinetmaking to your neighbor, something magical would happen. You would produce six paintings worth $2,400 per week, while your neighbor would produce four cabinets worth $1,400, bringing the total to 10 production units. In real terms, both you and your neighbor would be richer for specializing - and the local economy is one production unit the better for it.
This example rings true on the level of international trade as well. Britain provided support for comparative advantage by essentially outsourcing its food growth (importing grains, meat, cheese, wine, etc.) and focusing on manufacturing goods for export, thus, becoming the workshop of the world during the industrial revolution. comparative advantage urges nations to engage in true free trade and to specialize in areas where they have the highest comparative advantage, instead of looking to bolster weak industries from foreign competition by imposing protective tariffs that otherwise stifle the production that leads to overall gains in wealth.
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In Europe, Migrants Are Deemed Disposable and Left to Die
National borders are often used to keep the "losers" in global capitalism confined to nations that, due to exploitation and neglect, are economic disaster zones for the majority of their citizens. One need look no further than the draconian, militarized wall on the Mexican border, which prevents people from crossing into the US in order to literally survive. In addition, hundreds of thousands of undocumented Mexican and Central Americans are arrested and deported from living within the US each year.
A short time ago, BuzzFlash interviewed Robert Neustadt about how US border policy with Mexico is in part designed to kill desperate migrants by forcing many of them to travel through the deadly gauntlet of the Sonoran desert.
However, a close reading of international news reveals that the deaths of migrants seeking economic survival or fleeing political turmoil is hardly confined to the Mexican border. In fact, the cruel treatment of those who flee poverty and violence is a worldwide reality.
Last week, Reuters posted an article with what would have been a shocking headline were it have been about the loss of life of white people from developed nations, "More than 300 migrants died this week trying to reach Italy: U.N. agency."
The Problem Is Much Bigger Than Brian Williams: Corporate News Is Not Trustworthy
The endless news analysis about the fate of Brian Williams is symptomatic of a larger phenomenon: The so-called television journalists and pundits in this country often eclipse the news that they are supposed to cover. Even more importantly, Williams' "misremembering" itself points to a greater problem: It threatens to expose the facade of corporate television, breaking down the notion that corporate TV truly informs us about real news priorities.
What concerns Comcast (which owns NBC) and the other corporate networks - including, of course, cable TV - is that if the public starts to view Williams as "untrustworthy," that development may topple the delusion that television news is unbiased. NBC - or any network - needs its high-profile anchors to appear untainted in order to deliver the largest possible audience to corporate advertisers.
There is a pivotal and memorable scene in the film "Good Night, and Good Luck," about famed journalist Edward R. Murrow, who after a storied career of speaking truth to power is essentially demoted by CBS Chairman William Paley. Before Paley's action (which occurred more than 50 years ago), Murrow is depicted as one of the last television journalists who saw ferreting out the truth as the touchstone of his profession. Why was he humiliated? Because Paley explained to him that it was a new era – an era when news divisions needed to start making money and be guided by overall corporate television financial considerations.
In short, television news abandoned key journalistic standards to make news reporting part of an advertising strategy - one that ensures profitability. Given that the national television news programs viewed by most people in the US are owned by corporations, that means that the selection and editing of the news cannot upset the status quo.
Trampling on Democracy, NYPD Commissioner Bratton Supports Making Resisting Arrest a Felony
New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton is a danger to the public.
A short time ago, BuzzFlash at Truthout posted a commentary, "NYPD Commissioner Backs Off Idea of Police Patrolling Protests With Machine Guns." In the column, BuzzFlash noted how the NYPD commissioner was well on his way to granting police additional brutal tactics to suppress democracy and physically harm citizens:
Consider a recent news conference given by New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Bill Bratton, in which he proudly announced that a new police unit would prevent terrorist attacks and patrol protests with machine guns. The NYPD commissioner went out of his way to essentially equate terrorists with protesters (implying that the latter group included the recent wave of protesters who publicly condemned the killing of Eric Garner).
Bratton, under pressure from various fronts backed down the next day from his plan to employ a new SEAL type police unit to be employed in protests. This unit - called The Strategic Response Group - will be equipped with machine guns and sniper rifles (what Bratton euphemistically called "long rifles"). A spokesperson did the walk back by "clarifying" that the unit would only be used to oppose "terrorism." That still was not entirely reassuring since Bratton had conflated hypothetical terrorist plots and advocacy protests the day before.
Around the same time last week that he made his initial dismaying announcement about The Strategic Response Group, Bratton was testifying before a New York State Senate committee and did not object to the suggestion that resisting police arrest could be re-classified as a felony.
Brian Williams' Racially Coded Inflammatory Hurricane Katrina Coverage
Brian Williams has taken a hiatus from being an anchor for NBC Nightly News due to the fallout from his embellishing a tale of reporting in Iraq. His evolving story of "stolen valor" was clearly used to enhance the image that he was an intrepid, courageous journalist. Now, he and the NBC brass are waiting to see if Williams can ride out the storm he created by "disappearing him" for a couple of weeks.
As television critic Mary McNamara of The Los Angeles Times writes, Williams represents the contemporary conflation - ironic because that is what Williams claims happened with memories of helicoptering around in Iraq more than a decade ago - of purported journalist anchor and image branding. The two are generally mutually reinforcing in this age of news as both entertainment and revenue source for corporate broadcasting - as long as tall tales are not exposed. McNamara writes:
Williams is stepping aside because this time the news is bad. In telling that story, he chose to bolster the Brian Williams brand at the expense of the "NBC Nightly News."
Modern journalism is beset by many challenges, logistical and fundamental, but none are as potentially dangerous as its growing cultivation of and reliance on personal brand...
Indeed, we now expect our journalists to be personalities, to exist outside the confines of their day jobs in exciting and entertaining ways. It's not enough to deliver the news, star journalists need to tweet humorously and/or with special insight. They need to make cameos in comedies, appear on talk shows and in magazines, to share their style secrets and personal lives, and offer across-the-board commentary.
McNamara's analysis is devastatingly incisive, but BuzzFlash at Truthout would disagree that Williams "chose to bolster the Brian Williams brand at the expense of the 'NBC Nightly News.'" NBC - which is now owned by the predatory Comcast - was delighted that Williams could banter with Letterman or Jon Stewart. When Williams was bolstering his brand with riveting narratives that may have sometimes been at variance with the facts, it helped buttress an audience for the legacy broadcast networks that have been under siege from cable news programs and the internet for years.
Too Many People Can't Break Out of Their Comfort Zones of Routine to Feel Empathy
For most people with means, adult life is a routine that is built to ensure a life that is lived within a comfort zone. For people without economic means - or individuals and groups struggling with issues of survival or discrimantion and political dominance - it's not a question of living in a comfort zone; it's a question of survival.
For years, BuzzFlash at Truthout has posted commentaries on how many people who live comfortable lives of routine - and have economic means - not only want to reduce or eliminate a social safety net for those who are disabled, can't find jobs, are paid less than survival wages, or in dire need of assistance for a variety of factors not of their choosing. In addition, BuzzFlash has noted, even the presence of homeless people or those in need of food in public spaces visually violates the "comfort zone" of those of economic means. As a result, many municipalities are passing laws that limit the feeding of people in public who have no permanent residences.
To some people, compassion comes as part of their behavioral and genetic makeup. To many others, compassion is a nurtured quality, requiring practice and tools to suppress more selfish instincts. For those in comfort zones that are built like defensive bunkers - to ward off any disruption of routine or challenge to a narrative of personal entitlement - empathy and compassion are unwanted, demanding and violations of privilege.
Religion Should Be What Binds Us Together, Not What Justifies Killing Each Other
How many people have died, are dying now and will continue to die in the name of religion?
Extremely few religions can claim bragging rights that other religions have been more brutal. Look at history, even the tamest of religious followings have historically had their benighted moment of barbaric conquest.
Mark Morford of The San Francisco Chronicle recently spoke to how religion, which is revered by most societies (as long as it is the dominant religion of that nation or social order) will, according to Morford, "be the death of us":
The main reason we're on the fun train to self-extermination, and can't/won't get off.
It's not climate change. Not overpopulation. Not war, or disease, or resource abuse. Those are all very real, but they're also merely the consequence, the end result of centuries of blind, dogmatic adherence to, well, to God.
With this book I thee rule and control. Like, forever.
That's right, the biggest problem humanity faces – and has faced for just about ever – is religion. Rabid tribalism, delusory moral laws and aggressive, antagonistic superstition that pits us against each other, against nature, against science, against anyone who might have invented a different god (or gods than ours).
Add race, tribalism and nationality to religion and you've got a historical bloodbath that has left bodies in its wake that could probably be piled to the moon.
US Continues to Condemn Record Numbers of Central American Refugees to Perilous Lives
One day after BuzzFlash at Truthout posted an interview about how the draconian US migration policies across the Mexican border are causing countless deaths in the Sonoran Desert, The Guardian ran an article entitled, "Mexico deports record numbers of women and children in US-driven effort: Tens of thousands fleeing violence and poverty deported to Central America after pressure from the US to prevent migrants reaching American border."
Unfortunately, these two facets of US brutal enforcement of brutal immigration enforcement toward Mexican and Latin Americans who are struggling to survive are only a small part of the bigger picture. It is estimated that more than 800,000 men, women and children have been deported annually in recent years, kept from entering or dying trying to get into the United States during the peak of militarized and kangaroo court deportations and border turnbacks.
What the Obama administration has done is the least of the setbacks for generally poor Latinos fleeing poverty, in large part caused by NAFTA, and violence that has been, in great part, a byproduct of the sham US "war on drugs" and the deportation of violent criminals back to their home countries. In essence, the US policy of cruel rejection of Mexico and Central America migrants in dire need and under threat of violence from gangs, the police and the military is tossing them back into a cage in which barely surviving or violent death are two of the most dire alternatives.
NYPD Commissioner Backs Off Idea of Police Patrolling Protests With Machine Guns
In an age when shows like "The Daily Show" and the late "Colbert Report" use irony to make the horrifying and ludicrous convincingly humorous, sometimes it is hard to believe that reality is not its own parody.
Consider a recent news conference given by New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Bill Bratton, in which he proudly announced that a new police unit would prevent terrorist attacks and patrol protests with machine guns. The NYPD commissioner went out of his way to essentially equate terrorists with protesters (implying that the latter group included the recent wave of protesters who publicly condemned the killing of Eric Garner).
According to the January 29 Gothamist:
Police Commissioner Bratton made the announcement earlier today at an event hosted by the Police Foundation at the Mandarin Oriental. He said that the new 350 cop unit, called The Strategic Response Group, will be dedicated to "disorder control and counterterrorism protection capabilities" against attacks like the hostage situation in Sydney, which the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence John Miller said was an inevitability in NYC.
This new squad will be used to investigate and combat terrorist plots, lone wolf terrorists, and... protests. "It is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris," Bratton said....
Romney Is as Credible as Poverty Fighter as Kochs Are as Advocates of No Campaign Spending
Mitt Romney and some other renowned Republicans are now attempting to rebrand themselves as "anti-poverty" fighters.
This is a bit like the Koch Brothers waking up one day, calling a press conference and announcing that they are beginning a campaign to end personal, corporate, PAC and organizational giving to political candidates and affiliated support groups.
The GOP is great at disseminating and emphasizing top-down Frank Luntz-style memes. That's in large part due to the authoritarian nature of the Republican Party, which is a well-disciplined machine of candidates, media and political stunts. A bit like the military or police, Republicans, in general, follow the chain of command.
That is why the new Republican emphasis on the so-called elimination of poverty extends down from Romney to two local Wisconsin legislators. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
Two influential Republican lawmakers proposed a plan Wednesday to fight poverty in Milwaukee's inner city by pushing big changes in the state's schools, tax code and regulations.
Many of the proposals are controversial, including creating urban zones without corporate taxes, typical union rules and state markup requirements on retail sales, and a plan to convert struggling public schools in Milwaukee into independent charter schools answering to a new board....
"People all over the place are hurting, but particularly in these neighborhoods, people are hurting," Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield) said as he introduced the proposals.
"It's trying to invite new people to the table and try new approaches," Kooyenga said of the agenda he put forward with Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills).
The pattern is clear: Word has come down from the Republican pollsters and sloganeers on high that the GOP must repackage Bill Clinton's "I feel your pain" empathy strategy to position itself for 2016.
Disproportionate Emphasis on European and US Victimhood Is Racist
One can deplore and be appalled by the loss of life that occurred on 9/11, at the ghastly destruction of families and grief that rippled across the nation, as BuzzFlash was and is. One can also feel horror for the staff at Charlie Hebdo who were gunned down in a summary execution, as well as the killings that occurred in the Kosher supermarket in Paris. We at BuzzFlash felt the grief of lives cut short by such appalling premeditated murders.
It is an injustice, however, to confine the outpouring of public mourning for victims of violence to those of white European identity.
It is human nature, in general, to associate with the identity group that an individual feels is most like him or her. That may be one exlanation why so many in the Eurocentric nations and their white colonialized offshoots - including the US and Canada - are aghast at the killings of people like themselves, but hardly appear to notice or grieve for people of other colors and backgrounds who suffer horrible massacres.


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H2 is the lifeblood of 21st century refineries. The application of various technological advancements and core developments has been raising the bar in the design, build, operations and maintenance of H2 facilities.
This shift to lighter feeds for the SC will reduce the future availability of other petrochemical feedstocks—in particular, propylene.
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"A CHPA-sponsored survey conducted by David Binder Research this month* found that almost two-thirds of Mississippi voters surveyed (N=350) feel making common cold and allergy medications containing pseudoephedrine available by prescription only would be a big mistake, placing a heavy and unnecessary new burden on law-abiding people, significantly increasing consumer costs, and hurting the state's own finances at the worst possible time.
"Among other findings:
"This House bill was passed before hearing any testimony or listening to the concerns of constituents. We urge the state legislature to assess the deep burdens of this bill and the proven alternative of e-tracking before placing such serious and costly restriction on law-abiding Mississippians. "
CHPA is the 129-year-old-trade association representing U.S. manufacturers and distributors of over-the- counter medicines and nutritional supplements.
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