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Connie Mack IV says his plan all along was to have 'less government,' but did find it difficult to pass several of his measures. Now, the Fort Myers-based Republican and his wife look toward the future with a possible career in television. / Rik Jesse/ FLORIDA TODAY file
Rep. Connie Mack IV, the Fort Myers Republican who lost a Senate bid in November, is leaving Congress after eight years.He talked recently with the Gannett Washington Bureau about his four terms in Congress and his future plans with his wife, Mary Bono Mack, a congresswoman from California who also lost in November.
Question: Do you think you'll ever run for office again?
Answer: I don't know. I certainly haven't ruled it out but I don't have any designs on a specific run or a date... I'm excited about new opportunities. There are things that I hope that I'll be able to work on down the road that will fulfill the same passions, desires that I had as a member.
Q: You and your wife have been on TV a lot lately. If you were approached about doing a regular television gig, would you consider it?
A: Well, it would be exciting and it would be interesting, and it's certainly something that Mary and I, when this is all is done, would take a look at... What makes us an interesting fit in this is we're both Republicans but we have different voting records and we come to our decisions about policy and politics differently.
Q: Your wife lives in Palm Springs, Calif. You live in Fort Myers. You both have a house in the Washington area. Do you know where you're going to live?
A: We haven't made those decisions but as I have always said, Florida's my home. It's always been my home.
Q: As you leave here, do you have any regrets?
A: I don't. I feel like I have been true to who I am and what I believe in and what I stand for. It's very difficult up here to stay true to who you are. There's a lot of interests that pull you. I'm proud that I'm the same person I was when I ran for the state House from Fort Lauderdale that I am in my last week here in Washington.
Q: You've often disagreed with your leadership.
A: I said to the people when I was asking for their vote, "This is who I am. If you elect me, this is what I will do." I took that very seriously... We need more people running for office who will do that.
Q: Do you think your unwillingness to go along with House Speaker John Boehner made it more difficult for you to pass measures you sponsored?
A: I think there would be a fair argument to that. But at the same time, I didn't come here with a plan to pass a lot of bills. I'm on the platform of less government. Parts of the Penny Plan (Mack's proposal to cut a penny from every federal dollar spent) have been fused into other legislation. If everybody up here said to Boehner, "Yeah, whatever you want," why even have a legislature? I think I helped because a lot of the bills that ultimately went through that I voted against we helped them make better, like fiscal bills.


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All Women Deserve a Sporting Chance by Martha Burk, Director of the Corporate Accountability Project
All Women Deserve a Sporting Chance
The International Olympic Committee should put its money where its mouth is when it comes to women and sports.
Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law prohibiting discrimination in educational programs receiving federal tax dollars, including sports.
Every year, the Secretary of Education and countless women's organizations commemorate the program's success, citing many impressive statistics. Since the law passed in 1972, female participation in sports at NCAA member institutions has increased six-fold. At the high school level it's even better--girls' participation has increased ten-fold.
But we can do better.
This year I want to lay down a challenge to every advocate, every group, and the government itself to go beyond proclamations and statistics. Title IX's 39th anniversary isn't until June, enough time to craft a campaign and celebrate a true victory--one that will make a difference around the globe. Success will send a message of equality to women still under the dominance of religious governments that don't recognize females as full citizens of the world.
As the old saw goes, we need to get the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to women and sports. The Olympic charter states flatly that "the practice of sport is a human right," and "any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic movement."
That's a very clear statement--and the IOC has backed it up before. The Committee banned South Africa from the Olympic movement in 1964 over the country's racial apartheid and maintained the ban until 1992.
But oh my--how times have changed. In response to a New York Times inquiry last November about why Saudi Arabia is still allowed to ban female athletes, spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau exposed the organization's double standard. Underscoring that the IOC doesn't consider gender apartheid in sports on a par with racial apartheid, she said "the IOC does not give ultimatums nor deadlines, but rather believes that a lot can be accomplished through dialogue."
Meanwhile, Saudi women's sports advocates are using the U.S. Title IX example to argue for change--and we need to give them a boost. If the IOC were to adhere to its charter and ban Saudi Arabia from the Olympic Games until it recognizes the human rights of women to participate, it would fast-forward progress and make a statement to the world that females are in fact equal citizens. No country can exclude athletes on the basis of race. It should be the same for gender.
What can the United States do? For starters, our lawmakers can weigh in. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is chartered by Congress, meaning Congress has oversight. Hearings have been held in the past calling leaders on the carpet for poor management, possible corruption, and medal awards. Why not lean on the USOC to make its voice heard regarding the IOC's tolerance of gender apartheid? If we lead the way, other countries are bound to speak out. The IOC doesn't have to listen, but bad publicity and world pressure have worked before.
As the women who got Title IX enacted 39 years ago know, it took pushing every button they could find--legal, political, and moral. What better way to commemorate the anniversary than with Congressional hearings and a media campaign to change the outcomes for Saudi women--and their sisters worldwide in the bargain.
Martha Burk is a political psychologist, women's issues expert, and director of the Corporate Accountability Project for the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO).


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- Cultural formalism and spatial language in Belhara (2010)
- When looking at ethnographies of Himalayan societies, one is impressed by the recurrent relevance and importance of spatial notions in cullural domains from shamanism to architecture, from belief systems to everyday behaviour, from religion to grammar.
- Verb agreement and epistemic marking : a typological journey from the Himalayas to the Caucasus (2008)
- Studies of the epistemic categories expressed in Tibetan auxiliaries and copulas have mostly compared the phenomena with mirativity marking, and this is no doubt the correct comparandum in diachronic research. However, synchronic descriptions are also often tempted to compare the relevant categories with agreement systems or similar reference-related structures, at least for expository purposes when explaining how the system works (e. g. Denwood 1999, Tournadre 1996, Goldstein et al. 1991).
- A general method for the statistical evaluation of typological distributions (2008)
- The distribution of linguistic structures in the world is the joint product of universal principles, inheritance from ancestor languages, language contact, social structures, and random fluctuation. This paper proposes a method for evaluating the relative significance of each factor — and in particular, of universal principles — via regression modeling: statistical evidence for universal principles is found if the odds for families to have skewed responses (e.g. all or most members have postnominal relative clauses) as opposed to having an opposite response skewing or no skewing at all, is significantly higher for some condition (e.g. VO order) than for another condition, independently of other factors.
- On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations (2008)
- In the late seventies, Bernard Comrie was one of the first linguists to explore the effects of the referential hierarchy (RH) on the distribution of grammatical relations (GRs). The referential hierarchy is also known in the literature as the animacy, empathy or indexibability hierarchy and ranks speech act participants (i.e. first and second person) above third persons, animates above inanimates, or more topical referents above less topical referents. Depending on the language, the hierarchy is sometimes extended by analogy to rankings of possessors above possessees, singulars above plurals, or other notions. In his 1981 textbook, Comrie analyzed RH effects as explaining (a) differential case (or adposition) marking of transitive subject ("A") noun phrases in low RH positions (e.g. inanimate or third person) and of object ("P") noun phrases in high RH positions (e.g. animate or first or second person), and (b) hierarchical verb agreement coupled with a direct vs. inverse distinction, as in Algonquian (Comrie 1981: Chapter 6).
- Grammatical relations typology (2007)
- Traditionally, the term "grammatical relation" (GR) refers to the morphosyntactic properties that relate an argument to a clause, as, for example, its subject or its object. Alternative terms are "syntactic function" or "syntactic role", and they highlight the fact that GRs are defined by the way in which arguments are integrated syntactically into a clause, i.e. by functioning as subject, object etc. Whatever terminology one prefers, what is crucial about the traditional notion of GRs is (a) that they are identified by syntactic properties, and (b) that they relate an argument to the clause.
- Absolute and statistical universals (2007)
- Language universals are statements that are true of all languages, for example: "all languages have stop consonants". But beneath this simple definition lurks deep ambiguity, and this triggers misunderstanding in both interdisciplinary discourse and within linguistics itself. A core dimension of the ambiguity is captured by the opposition "absolute vs. statistical universal", although the literature uses these terms in varied ways. Many textbooks draw the boundary between absolute and statistical according to whether a sample of languages contains exceptions to a universal. But the notion of an exception-free sample is not very revealing even if the sample contained all known languages: there is always a chance that an as yet undescribed language, or an unknown language from the past or future, will provide an exception.
- Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages (2006)
- It is well-known that in many if not most Sino-Tibetan languages relative clause and attribute/genitive markers are identical with nominalization devices and that sentences bearing such markers can also function as independent utterances (cf. Matisoff 1972, Kölver 1977, DeLancey 1989, Genetti 1992, Ebert 1994, Bickel 1995, Noonan 1997, etc.). This morphological convergence of syntactic functions, which we may dub the 'Standard Sino-Tibetan Nominalization' (SSTN) pattern, is particularly prominent in some languages spoken in the eastern and southeastern part of the Kirant because these languages not only feature prenominal relative clauses, but also allow, albeit as a minor type, internally headed constructions.
- Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan (2003)
- Sino-Tibetan is a prime example of how strongly a language family can typologically diversify under the pressure of areal spread features (Matisoff 1991, 1999). One of the manifestation of this is the average length of prosodic words. In Southeast Asia, prosodic words tend to average on one or one-and-a-half syllables. In the Himalayas, by contrast, it is not uncommon to encounter prosodic words containing five to ten syllables. The following pair of examples illustrates this.


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With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.
Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change.
When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millenium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too.
Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to become topics for discussion and individual interpretation.
Who Moved My Cheese? takes the fear and anxiety out of managing the future and shows people a simple way to successfully deal with the changing times, providing them with a method for moving ahead with their work and lives safely and effectively.
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Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
Dr. Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: Things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: The cheese runs out. --Lou Schuler
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This well-researched, well-written account of Benedict Arnold's life reads like an adventure novel. A flash-forward at the very beginning vividly describes an execution, but whose execution is it? This trickery adds a wonderful element of suspense to the narrative. Sheinkin then turns back to Arnold's birth and lets the story flow chronologically through his life. It seemed inconceivable at first that the dedicated (albeit hotheaded) patriot who led assaults on Fort Ticonderoga and Montreal would ever turn on his country, but as slights and debts piled up I began to see how a generous offer from the British might sway him.
The cover design makes it look like a novel, which helps it stand out from the majority of YA nonfiction. Other than one portrait of Arnold at the end, the only illustrations are maps by Lazslo Kubinyi. These are very well done, and I referred to them often as I read. The short chapters include date ranges along with the titles, making it easy to place all the events in Arnold's life chronologically.
Sheinkin admits to an Arnold obsession, and his passion shows not just in the writing, but in the extensive source notes and quote notes that are appended. I might have a hard time swallowing the quotes that Sheinkin attributes to the players in Arnold's drama, if he didn't have these sources (including several firsthand accounts) to back him up. I appreciate that the sources are arranged by category and the quote notes by chapter. There's also an index, which is handy for looking up specific people, places, battles and ships.
I knew very little about Benedict Arnold (other than he was a traitor) going into this book, and by the end Sheinkin had succeeded in making me interested in visiting the Revolutionary battlefields where he left his mark.
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Hamid Karzai seems to be doing everything he can to drive the U.S. out of Afghanistan.
He is releasing dozens of dangerous detainees from custody–hardened Taliban who have killed American and Afghan troops and Afghan civilians–in spite of American pleas to keep them imprisoned.
He is also issuing hysterical denunciations of an American airstrike which caused some civilian casualties last week, with Karzai's office exaggerating the number of casualties and not bothering to mention that the air strikes were called in to save Afghan troops who, with their U.S. advisers, were in danger of being overrun by Taliban fighters. Such denunciations are routine for Karzai, of course, but they are made more pernicious by the fact that his office seems to be faking evidence, including claiming that a photo of civilian casualties taken four years ago was actually taken last week.
All of which will only reinforce the tendency among most Americans to say, To hell with it—if the Afghans don't want us there, why don't we just leave?
In the first place, most Afghans do want us there. A continued U.S. presence was strongly endorsed by the Loya Jirga that Karzai convened and it has been endorsed by practically the entire Karzai cabinet. The issue isn't the people of Afghanistan; it's the behavior of Hamid Karzai, who is scheduled to leave office in April.
We can't hold the future of our commitment in Afghanistan hostage to his whims because there are larger issues at stake. As the New York Times notes today, "The risk that President Obama may be forced to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year has set off concerns inside the American intelligence agencies that they could lose their air bases used for drone strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan and for responding to a nuclear crisis in the region." Those are valid concerns because drones such as the Predator and Reaper have relatively short ranges; they need to be based close to the areas where they operate and if the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, it will have no other nearby air base from which to monitor Pakistan's troubled frontier regions.
At this point, we need to simply ignore Karzai and try to develop a better relationship with whoever succeeds him. Because if we don't stay in Afghanistan—and that means more than the 1,000 or 2,000 troops that Joe Biden is said to favor—there is a real danger of the country succumbing once again to the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies.


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skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
salt and pepper to taste
garlic powder to taste
3 tablespoons
olive oil
onion, chopped
2 cloves
garlic, minced
1 1/2 cups
white wine
1 cup
chicken broth
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh rosemary leaves
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh thyme leaves
1/2 cup
lemon juice
2 tablespoons
grated lemon zest
1/2 cup
1/4 cup
sour cream
Like others have said, it has a very strong lemon taste - this may be due to me using bottled lemon juice which is usually *concentrated* in flavor. I left out the lemon zest. After simmering for 45 min, I tasted the sauce and thought it was very tangy, so I added grated parmesan and romano cheese to the sauce and chicken and continued to simmer for 15 more min - this did the trick! It mellowed the lemon in the sauce and helps to thicken it! This reminded me of some kind of Olive Garden dish. Other changes that I made was that I lightly floured my chicken breasts before browning - this helped to lightly thicken the sauce to a nice consistency while simmering. I will definately make this again with 1/2 the lemon juice next time. I would recommend that you give this a try - the dish has a good flavor and smells lovely while simmering!
All the ingredients blended well together to have a nice flavor, but it was WAY to citrusy. I would cut it down to 1/4 cup lemon juice and maybe half the zest. It was just way too much. My tongue is still a bit raw. I would make this again but I would definately tweek it a bit.
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Great taste if you follow the recommendations and only use one lemon. Otherwise, it's far too tangy.
My family really enjoyed this. I followed other reviewer's suggestions and reduced the lemon juice to the juice of 1 fresh lemon, so about 1/4 cup. I also added 1 cup of sour cream instead of the 1/4 cup. It was perfect, not too lemony, but with a definite lemon taste and very creamy. We enjoyed it over penne.
This recipe is good but needs an adjustment to the lemon and sour cream amounts. The recipe calls for 1/2 a cup of lemon juice - as others have recommended I cut that to 1/4 cup and increased the sour cream to 1/2 cup. If you like a nice lemon taste while not overpowering please do this. If you prefer just a hint of lemon in the taste though you're going to want to cut the lemon juice down even further - a good juicy lemon gives you a 1/4 cup so if you prefer just a hint of lemon flavor I'd put in half a lemon's worth of juice which should give you the hint of lemon. I personally liked it with 1/4 cup but I don't think everyone will want the lemon to be that strong in the dish. You won't have to increase the sour cream again if you don't want because the sauce isn't really thick to start with unless you thicken it with cornstarch or flour. I served this with potatoes which was good. If you want to serve with pasta, you'll want to thicken the sauce as it is much too thin even when on the stove for an hour without adding the flour or cornstarch for pasta.
Cut back on the lemon, increase the sour cream
Like some people recommended, I cut the lemon (even though I LOVE lemon), and it turned out wonderful. Still very lemony, but not overpowering. I couldn't get the sauce to thicken on its own, so I added a little cornstarch, and that worked well. I then tossed the sauce with some penne, and served the chicken on top. Very good, everyone loved it!
My 20 yearold daughter is addicted to this chicken, as a matter of fact I'm making it right now
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Rich Herb and Lemon Chicken
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 384
** Calories from Fat: 158
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Football Single Game Home Tickets Now Available
Aug. 7, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. - University of Kentucky single-game football tickets for home games at Commonwealth Stadium went on sale Tuesday. Tickets are priced at $46 for Southeastern Conference games and $41 for non-conference games. Groups of 25 or more should call the UK Ticket Office for group seating and pricing options.
All tickets may be purchased:
Kentucky's seven-game home schedule features a pair of teams which have been in preseason top-10 rankings, South Carolina and Georgia. Here is the home schedule:
Football Mini-Packs Available: Four-game and three-game mini-packs are still available for the 2012 Kentucky football season. Tickets for both packs are located in the lower level end zones of Commonwealth Stadium. And, fans ordering a football mini-pack by August 10 will receive a free Olympic Sports Pass.
The Quarterback 4-Game Pack enables fans to choose:
The four-game pack costs $150, a savings of $24 over single-game prices.
The Touchdown 3-Game Pack enables fans to choose one game from each of these ticket levels:
The three-game pack costs $115, a savings of $18 over single-game prices.
Football Season Ticket Sales Continue for Public and Students: Season ticket packages for all seven home games remain available. The cost is $272 or $237 per seat. Visit www.UKathletics.com/tickets for a season information packet and to check seat locations. UK students can still order season football tickets online through their student ticket account for just $35.
Football Away Game Tickets: Tickets for Kentucky's football away games are also available by calling the UK Ticket Office. Listed below are dates and prices:


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I think the Gluten free diet is in order, but I have never had the energy or motivation to do it. I've had Chronic Fatigue for 20 years, been out of work and sick most of that time. Everytime I think I am getting back on my feet I am hit again. Antidepressants have helped at times. I seem to match all of the symptoms.
Exhaustion - Sleep 15 hours a day when bad
Constipation - Bad
Itchy all over
Food insensivities - corn, diary, sugar
Clinical Depression/Anxiety
Foggy Head
Sugar Cravings
Joint Pain
Is the diet the best way to figure out what is going on? There is "nothing" wrong according to all regular tests that the doctor would give you. I have not been tested for celiacs(or maybe I have but that doesn't matter I don't think. Just go for the diet?


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Jan. 5, 2006
New Mexico Head Coach Don Flanagan
"The start of the game was very important. Getting them (Utah) out of their rhythm for the half court offense is extremely important. They run their offense better than anybody does. They have good personnel. I didn't expect that we could hold (Shona) Thornburn and (Kim) Smith both in single figures. That was just an outstanding job by our defense. I'm not happy with allowing them too many offensive rebounds, we slowed down a little bit in the second half, but still out scored them. So we have to be happy with that. It's a good start to conference play. Every game is extremely important in this conference race."
Utah Head Coach Elaine Elliott
"We just need to put this one behind us and move on. We need to come back tomorrow with the attitude that we're ready to get back to work. They (New Mexico) always play good defense. This just wasn't one of those games our seniors will want to remember."


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Dine out for a cause
Open Door Ministries of High Point, in partnership with West End Ministries, will host the fourth annual Dining Out for Hunger on Tuesday, July 30. The community is encouraged to dine out for breakfast, lunch or dinner in the fight to end hunger. Participating restaurants will donate 10 percent of all sales.
Proceeds allow the ministries to fund the hungry on a daily basis through their food pantries and community meals.
Approximately 2,052 households have received food from the Open Door Ministries food pantry in the past 12 months in addition to the 117,797 meals provided through the Father's Table. The Father's Table at Open Door Ministries provides three meals day, seven days a week to the homeless and low-income in our community.
West End Ministries has provided 1,493 food boxes and served more than 35,000 meals in the past 12 months through their food ministry.
Participating restaurants include Alex's House Alexandria's Biscuit Factory, Capra's Deli, Carter Brothers No. 2, Carter Brothers BBQ, Chop House. Chu's Express No. 2, Emerywood Fine Foods, Fire & Sticks Japanese Steakhouse, Georges Pizza, Giannos, Hampton's at JH Adams Inn, Jimmy's Restaurant, K.C.'s Restaurant Kepley's BBQ, Kozzy's Grille, Liberty Steakhouse & Brewery, Nick's Sub Shop, Oscar's Fine Food, Peppermill Café, Plaza Café, Sammy G's, Shogun Japanese Restaurant, Southern Roots, Sumela Restaurant, Thai Chiang Mai, Thai Herb, Tipsy'z Tavern, Tom's Place, Village Café Express, Zaxby's (N. Main Street).