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State Treasurer Curtis Loftis accepted a rebate check of $197,360.57 on behalf of the State of South Carolina from officials at Wells Fargo. This figure represents the revenue share for the 2013 calendar year from a cash management tool being employed by the State Treasurers Office.
State Treasurer Loftis stated, Each day, the hardworking staff of the State Treasurers Office finds ways to save taxpayer money. This check of almost $200,000 from Wells Fargo is another example of how our office consistently analyzes our business practices and works directly with banks to improve services and savings for the taxpayers of South Carolina.
Wells Fargo and the State Treasurers Office have a common goal of serving the people of South Carolina, and I appreciate their help in streamlining the way our state does business. Any day I can improve our states efficiency, and put $200,000 into our states general fund, is a great day, he continued.
Treasurer Loftis was joined by Mara Holley, Wells Fargo Government and Institutional Banking Regional Vice President; Brent Weaver, Wells Fargo Government and Institutional Banking Relationship Manager and Vice President; and Kristin Cooper, Wells Fargo Treasury Management Sales Consultant.
The South Carolina Office of State Treasurer oversees banking, investment and financial management services for the State of South Carolina. Curtis M. Loftis, Jr. has served as the State Treasurer of South Carolina since 2010. Prior to his election, Treasurer Loftis had a successful career in business. He is also the founder and benefactor of the Saluda Charitable Foundation, a charity that does mission work around the world. For more information on the State Treasurers Office, please visit www.treasurer.sc.gov.
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Philosophic burden of proof
In epistemology, the burden of proof or onus probandi is the obligation on a party in an epistemic dispute to provide sufficient warrant for their position.
Holder of the burden[edit]
When debating any issue, there is an implicit burden of proof on the person asserting a claim.[1] An argument from ignorance occurs when either a proposition is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proved false or a proposition is assumed to be false because it has not yet been proved true.[2][3] This has the effect of shifting the burden of proof to the person criticizing the proposition, but is not valid reasoning.[4]
While certain kinds of arguments, such as logical syllogisms, require mathematical or strictly logical proofs, the standard for evidence to meet the burden of proof is usually determined by context and community standards.[5][6]
In public discourse[edit]
Burden of proof is also an important concept in the public arena of ideas. Once participants in discourse establish common assumptions, the mechanism of burden of proof helps to ensure that all parties contribute productively, using relevant arguments.[7][8][9][10]
Proving a negative[edit]
When the assertion to prove is a negative claim, the burden takes the form of a negative proof, proof of impossibility, or mere evidence of absence. If this negative assertion is in response to a claim made by another party in a debate, asserting the falsehood of the positive claim shifts the burden of proof from the party making the first claim to the one asserting its falsehood, as the position "I do not believe that X is true" is different from the explicit denial "I believe that X is false".[11]
Matt Dillahunty gives the example of a large jar full of gumballs to illustrate the burden of proof.[12][13] It is a fact of reality that the number of gumballs in the jar is either even or odd, but the degree of belief/disbelief a person could hold is more nuanced depending upon the evidence available. We can choose to consider two claims about the situation, given as
- The number of gumballs is even.
- The number of gumballs is odd.
These two claims can be considered independently. Before we have any information about the number of gumballs, we have no means of distinguishing either of the two claims. When we have no evidence favoring either proposition, we must suspend belief in both. This is the default position[citation needed]. The justification for this zero-evidence epistemic position of non-belief is only over the lack of evidence supporting the claim. Instead, the burden of proof, or the responsibility to provide evidence and reasoning for one claim or the other, lies with those seeking to persuade someone holding the default position or the null hypothesis[citation needed].
Alternatively, these two mutually exclusive claims may be interpreted pluralistically[citation needed], in a similar fashion to Schrödinger's cat. The two possible states are both considered true until measurements exclude one of the options. This pluralistic approach eliminates the need for the null hypothesis and sets the default as a superposition of all possible outcomes. Within this paradigm, the burden of proof lies with those seeking to remove consideration for one or more possible truths.[14][15][unreliable source?][16][unreliable source?]
See also[edit]
- Evidentialism
- Legal burden of proof
- Metaphysics
- Parsimony
- Pragma-dialectics
- Scientific consensus
- Scientific method
- Statistical hypothesis testing
- Russell's teapot
- Justificationism
- ^ Cargile, James (January 1997). "On the Burden of Proof". Philosophy (Cambridge University Press) 72 (279): 59 – 83.
- ^ "Argumentum ad Ignorantiam". Philosophy 103: Introduction to Logic. Lander University. 2004. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ^ Dowden, Bradley. "Appeal to Ignorance". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ Michalos, Alex (1969). Principles of Logic. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. p. 370.
usually one who makes an assertion must assume the responsibility of defending it. If this responsibility or burden of proof is shifted to a critic, the fallacy of appealing to ignorance is committed.
- ^ Leite, Adam (2005). "A Localist Solution to the Regress of Justification". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (3): 395–421 [p. 418]. doi:10.1080/00048400500191974.
[t]he point of articulating reasons in defense of one's belief is to establish that one is justified in believing as one does.
- ^ Leite, Adam (2005). "A Localist Solution to the Regress of Justification". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (3): 395–421 [p. 403]. doi:10.1080/00048400500191974.
justificatory conversation...[is]...characterized by a person's sincere attempt to vindicate his or her entitlement to a belief by providing adequate reasons in its defense and responding to objections.
- ^ Goldman, Alvin (1994). "Argumentation and Social Epistemology". Journal of Philosophy 91 (1): 27–49. JSTOR 2940949.
- ^ Eemeren, Frans van; Grootendorst, Rob (2004). A Systematic Theory of Argumentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0521830753.
[t]here is no point in venturing to resolve a difference of opinion through an argumentative exchange of views if there is no mutual commitment to a common starting point.
- ^ Brandom, Robert (1994). Making it Explicit. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 222. ISBN 067454319X.
[t]here are sentence types that would require a great deal of work for one to get into a position to challenge, such as 'Red is a color,' 'There have been black dogs,' 'Lighting frequently precedes thunder,' and similar commonplaces. These are treated as 'free moves' by members of our speech community—they are available to just about anyone any time to use as premises, to assert unchallenged.
- ^ Adler, Jonathan (2002). Belief's Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 164–167. ISBN 0262011921.
- ^ T. Edward Dame (2009). Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments. Cengage Learning. p. 17. ISBN 9780495095064.
- ^ "The Atheist Experience". Episode 808. 7 April 2013. channelAustin 16. Missing or empty
- ^ Matt Dillahunty (2013). Does God Exist? (Debate). Texas State University.
- ^ "Metacognitive Model of Ambivalence: The Role of Multiple Beliefs and Metacognitions in Creating Attitude Ambivalence".
- ^ "Reductionism, emergence, and burden of proof — part I".
- ^ "Reductionism, emergence, and burden of proof — part II".


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Statesville, NC – April 26, 2011
The Historic Sharpe House is pleased to announce its first house concert scheduled for Friday, May 13. Award-winning musicians Al Petteway and Amy White will be the featured performers during this musical evening. "This is a different kind of event for us," says Site Manager Sherry Johnson. "What we have in store for our guests is very intimate and laid-back—a full evening of good friends, good food and great music."
The great music is courtesy of award-winning duo Al Petteway and Amy White. Their original music has been described as Celtic- and Appalachian-influenced acoustic groove. Marie Reid, local musician and guest host for the evening, describes the husband and wife team as musicians' musicians. "This is a terrific opportunity to hear professionals who have been internationally recognized for the quality of their work. Theirs is a fresh way of turning traditional sounds into a very modern body of work that just continues to get better."
Before moving to the mountains of Western North Carolina, Petteway and White won 50 WAMMIE Awards from the Washington Area Music Association. In addition, the couple was awarded five separate grants from the Maryland State Arts Council for both music composition and instrumental performance. They won an INDIE from The Association for Independent Music. Petteway won a GRAMMY from the national Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was voted one of the Top 50 Guitarists of all time by the readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine and in 2008, won the Silver and Bronze medals in the magazine's Players' Choice Awards.
The duo's music was featured throughout the soundtrack of the 2009 Ken Burns EMMY Award-winning documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. In 2010, their album Caledon Wood was counted among the essential albums of the past 20 years in the Acoustic Guitar Magazine 20th anniversary issue. To learn more about Petteway and White or to sample their music, visit their website at www.alandamy.com or www.youtube.com/user/AlPettewayAmyWhite.
Doors will open at 6:30 for a social hour with a cash bar and appetizer buffet available to guests. "This will give everyone an opportunity to relax, visit with the musicians and let the stress of the week fade away," Johnson outlines the evening. "Then at 7:30 we will settle back for two hours of Al and Amy's incredible music."
Tickets for the evening are $25 in advance; seating is very limited. Tickets will be $35 at the door, but availability is not guaranteed. Advance tickets can be purchased in Downtown Statesville at Sir Speedy or Moore Buds & Bows, or by contacting the Historic Sharpe House at firstname.lastname@example.com.
In addition to the concert, Petteway will also present a guitar workshop on "Appalachian Fingerstyle Guitar in DADGAD Tuning" at the Historic Sharpe House on Saturday, May 14 from 9–11 a.m. The workshop is geared for all levels of acoustic guitarists interested in playing the music of the mountains. Reservations are required and seating is very limited. For more information, contact Sherry Johnson at 704-929-3770 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Heirloom Dress Inspires Wedding Exhibit at Historic Sharpe House
Statesville, NC – February 14, 2011
"Mama's Lace Party Dress" was all the only explanation attached to the yellowing pasteboard box. The sheer ivory lace dress and petticoat tucked inside was originally worn by Statesville resident Daisy Potts Barringer back in 1909. An excellent example of the Edwardian style, it is a relic of a period of intense femininity in women's fashion and an era that still impacts many of our wedding traditions. Could this century-old gown inspire modern designers to create an ideal setting for a modern bride?
The Historic Sharpe House is pleased to announce a unique exhibit "Victorian Inspirations: A Wedding for Daisy" on display February 24 – March 5. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, February 20 from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. in conjunction with the Statesville Bridal Expo. Guests of that event are encouraged to step across the street for a visit at the Historic Sharpe House after leaving the Civic Center; the public is also invited to attend. The exhibit features the combined talents of local vendors: Moore Buds & Bows, Sweet Thing Bakery & Cake Studio, Southern Gourmet Catering and Jay White Photography.
"The purpose of this event is two-fold," explains Site Manager Sherry Johnson. "As a design challenge, it showcases the talents of some great local businesses. Secondly, it helps brides-to-be and other visitors visualize how this historic home can be turned into a perfect venue for their special occasion."
The idea for this exhibit came from the donation of several heirloom dresses by local resident Richard Boyd. Boyd has recently placed these family treasures on permanent loan with the Historic Sharpe House. "Historic clothing is a fascinating reflection of past values and ideals, but it is also very difficult to preserve," Johnson comments. "We appreciate Richard's trust in us to take care of these items and to utilize them in future exhibits or educational programs." The dress worn by Daisy Barringer will be on display as part of this exhibit. Barringer, who resided at 512 West End Avenue, was Boyd's paternal great grandmother.
The Historic Sharpe House is located at 402 South Center Street in Statesville. Special days and hours have been set for this exhibit. A complete list is available at www.thesharpehouse.org. For more information on the exhibit, programs, tours or facility rental, contact Sherry Johnson at email@example.com or 704-871-2085.
Victorian Costumes on Display
Statesville, NC – September 8, 2010
For those attending United Way's Victorian Teas at the historic Colonel Silas Alexander Sharpe House, the sight of Victorian ladies in full costume has been a delightful addition to the holiday festivities. Yet few guests understand what it takes to dress in the complex costumes of the Victorian era or what compels modern women to recreate the elaborate ensembles of a bygone era. "I love the fabrics and putting the outfits together—colors, textures and so many possibilities," says modern Victorian lady Eva Fritsch.
The Sharpe House is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibit "Tastefully Superficial: the Art of Victorian Dressing" on display September 17 – October 15. An opening reception will be held on September 17 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. as part of the Downtown Art Crawl. The exhibit features eight reproduction Victorian costumes taken directly from historic fashion plates dating from the 1870s through the end of the nineteenth century. "Fashion in the late Victorian era is incredibly ornamental and very sculptural," says Sherry Johnson, Site Manager of the Sharpe House. "This is a rare opportunity to see these designs step off the printed page."
Historically, nineteenth century women relied on fashion plates in such popular magazines as Godey's Ladies Book and Petersen's for information on current styles. Dressmakers and home seamstresses had to decide how to achieve the look of the fashion plates without the aid of commercially printed patterns. Like fashion magazines today, these plates were idealized. Each seamstress adapted the design according to her budget and level of skill.
For modern artists who recreate the styles, the challenges are almost as great. Many of the fabrics once used freely by the Victorian seamstress are no longer available. Although there are a handful of small specialty companies that market basic patterns for Victorian garments, the modern seamstress must determine how to use contemporary materials to achieve the drape, movement and decorative detail depicted in the original fashion plate. "One can't help feeling beautiful and feminine wearing one of those fabulous costumes," says Kathy Laughlin in explaining why she is willing to take on these challenges. "The reaction is immediate when others come in contact with you. At times it's difficult to step two feet before someone wants to take a picture."
In coordination with the exhibit, the Sharpe House will host a luncheon workshop entitled "Victorian Dressing 101", a behind the scenes look at what it took for Victorian women to dress in the height of fashion. Presenter Kathy Laughlin will dress a live model from chemise to chapeau and explain the evolution of Victorian styles. A fee will be charged for this workshop; reservations are required as seating is limited.
The Historic Sharpe House is located at 402 South Center Street in Statesville. The house is open Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. or by special appointment. Admission is charged with the exception of the opening reception. For more information on the exhibit, programs, tours or facility rental, contact Sherry Johnson at email@example.com or 704-871-2085.
Historic Sharpe House Reopens
Statesville, NC – August 20, 2010
During the decades following the Civil War, the home of Statesville's first mayor Colonel Silas A. Sharpe was a vibrant part of the city's social and political history. But until the recent installation of a historic marker on the lawn at 402 South Center Street, many did not know its name or history. Plans are underway to change that.
The Silas Alexander Sharpe Foundation is reopening the house beginning September 2 for tours on Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. or by special appointment. "We will add more days as interest builds and our list of volunteers grows," adds Sherry Johnson, Site Manager. Admission will be $5.00 and free for children under 12.
"The Sharpe House is a jewel of historic preservation in Statesville," states Dr. Ralph Bentley, Chairman of the Foundation. "Thanks to the foresight and generosity of Katherine Knox and Sarah Nooe, the Foundation is able to make the home of their grandparents available to the public." Bentley encourages area residents to consider the house for future business or social functions. Rental fees were recently lowered to make use of the house more affordable. "It's an ideal location for small club meetings, family events, or bridge parties."
When the Sharpe family moved into their new home in 1866, Statesville was suffering under the devastating impact of the Civil War on the Southern states. "Silas could have given up on Statesville and headed west to start over," Johnson explains. Over the remaining decades of the nineteenth century, a post-war generation rebuilt Statesville into a thriving business and trading center for seventeen counties of western NC. "It's an incredible story and considering our current economy, a lesson we need to hear today."
Johnson anticipates adding programs and events to appeal to a wide range of interests over the coming months. The first will be a costume exhibit scheduled to open September 17 during the Downtown Statesville Art Crawl. No admission will be charged that evening.
A website with complete information, history and upcoming events is currently under development at www.thesharpehouse.org. The house is also available for rent as a unique venue for small meetings or private parties. For more information on programs, tours or rental of the Sharpe House, contact Sherry Johnson at email@example.com or 704-871-2085.


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Mentoring the beginning actor Makoto Aizawa is the famed screenwriter and producer Sanari Jonouchi. His lessons are very simple. Have sex so that you forget your ego and let out the best sounds possible! Lately, as Makoto has started to shine in a spotlight of his own, Sanari has been writing him into his scripts more and more. But a horrible scheme is creeping up on them. Ouchi, Sanari's rival, has taken a liking to Makoto and is determined to tear the two lovebirds apart!
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Published: 2010-11-02
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Young businessman Kuzumi has just returned to his childhood home where he must contend with the memories he left behind and Yuu, the handsome new dog trainer with a troubled past. It's virtually love at first sight, as they immediately connect and know they have to help each other to heal the emotional scars from the past.
Author: Mari Fujii
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: temples, japan, dishes, vegetable, kitchen, fresh, enlightened
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-12-15
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While Japanese cuisine has become popular in the West, far less is known about the traditional fare originating from Japan's Buddhist temples. Natural and healthy, temple food is based on fresh seasonal vegetables, and staples such as grains and tofu. For centuries, these dishes have been a way of life—and a refreshing change of pace—for monks whose days are spent in rigorous self-discipline. Married to a Buddhist monk, author Mari Fujii has taught temple cuisine for over twenty years. In these pages, she presents sixty heartwarming recipes, many adapted for the Western kitchen bu
Authors:Y Fujii, Syuntaro Hiradate,
Publisher: Science Publishers
Keywords: methodology, amp, concepts, new, allelopathy
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2007-01-01
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The principal goal of allelopathy is to foster sustainable agriculture, forestry, and environment. The objective is to minimize the industrial chemicals and to maximize the use of natural resources locally available while improving crop productivity, forestry and the environment. The technological advances made in allelopathy research in recent years have been created, analyzed, and developed by scientific establishments throughout the world. They present exciting and intellectually challenging problems which are solvable using modern techniques. These modern and advanced techniques as describ
Authors:M. Saito, N. Wickramasinghe, M. Fujii, E. Geisler
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Keywords: knowledge, management, role, operation, innovative, healthcare, redesigning
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2009-07-31
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In global environments, healthcare organizations are required to be flexible and resilient in coping with uncertain and complex circumstances. Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management collects a compilation of chapters on how knowledge impacts the layout and design of the medical industry. A cutting-edge reference source within the field, this book provides comprehensive frameworks, constraints, and performances analyzed by experts within the healthcare sector.
Authors:Takashi Fujii, Tetsuo Fukuchi,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: science, engineering, optical, sensing, remote, laser
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2005-06-28
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Information on recent progress in laser remote sensor (LIDAR) technology can be found scattered throughout numerous journal articles and conference proceedings, but until now there has been no work that summarizes recent advancements and achievements in the field in a detailed format.Laser Remote Sensing provides an up-to-date, comprehensive review on LIDAR, focusing mainly on applications to current topics in atmospheric science. The scope of the book includes laser remote sensing of the atmosphere, including measurement of aerosols, water vapor, clouds, winds, trace constituents, and tempera
New Developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Proceedings of the Sixth International Nobeyama Workshop on the New Century of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Nobeyama, Japan, April 21 to 24, 2003 (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary
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Following the lead of the state Legislature, the Johnson City Schools Board of Education trimmed new raises for its employees out of the budget proposal that will go before the City Commission.
The unanimous decision Monday night to trim the salary increases and the resulting rise in insurance costs from the tentative budget document saved the district nearly $900,000, but still left the schools with a $3.6-million deficit.
At a specially convened meeting last month, when board members believed the raises built into Gov. Bill Haslam's budget could be approved, the board approved a 2.5 percent overall raise for the district's employees.
Two weeks ago, citing poor state sales and business tax collections, Haslam announced he would postpone the plan to give raises to teachers and state workers, hoping the cuts would help close a $160 million gap.
The school district, also affected by lower-than-expected sales tax collections, thought it would likewise not be prudent to provide pay increases when facing such a wide deficit.
School Financial Director Pam Cox said Johnson City also decided to remove employee raises from its budget to help alleviate budget pressures.
Approximately 65 percent of the district's employees will still get pay increases under the board's approved step raise plan, the increases of which are included in each year's budget.
Those step increases amount to $500,000 of the system's budget deficit.
Expiring state First to the Top Program grants and what the district calls unfunded mandates are a large portion of the $3.6-million hole in the $60 million budget.
The district also plans for more than $1 million for textbook purchases, of which $773,000 is for new math books and $300,000 is earmarked to purchase middle school social studies materials left out of the previous year's budget.
After using reserve funds to help cover deficits in previous years, the district could be left with $3.1 million in the next budget cycle, more than half of which must remain in reserves as mandated by the state.
In the past two years, Johnson City has increased its funding to the school district by more than 4 percent both years. Transportation, which is governed by the city, has seen about a $125,000 increase over those years, as well.
Cox will present the board-approved budget proposal to the city Wednesday.
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Artists Hawkwind, Boris, Zola Jesus
August 16, 2011
Tracks including Hawkwind, Boris, and Zola Jesus. As colorful as a goth's wardrobe.
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Man, it's been 20 years since I've heard that Hawkwind. SO great!
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Wobbly sounds with love.
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Masks and Candles by GreenEyeRene
Some tracks from albums I recently added to my library.
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On December 8th, we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. However, if you ask people, including many Catholics, what the Immaculate Conception is, there is a good chance that they will tell you that it is the conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary. In fact, the Immaculate Conception is actually the conception of Mary. The Immaculate Conception reveals to us that Mary was freed from the stain of original sin at the moment of her conception, and remained free from sin for her entire life.
It was intrinsic to God's plan of salvation that Mary was created without original sin. In the Book of Genesis chapter 3, we see how sin first entered the world through our first parents Adam and Eve. Since Adam and Eve represented all of the human family, when they fell away from God, all of humanity fell away from him. Original sin was then passed on to their children, and to their children's children, all throughout human history. Thus, when we are conceived and come into existence, we are born into a natural separation from God and an inclination toward sin that is called original sin.
However, God's plan was to have his only Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, assume a human nature so that as both God and man Jesus could accomplish the redemption of the human race. One problem: God is in complete and total opposition to sin. Anything sinful cannot even come into God's presence without being purified. How then would God the Son be able to intimately join himself with a fallen human nature? This is where God's plan for Mary comes in. God chose her to be conceived without original sin so that she would be able to give Jesus a pure and sinless human nature.
Where do we as Catholics get this teaching on the Immaculate Conception of Mary? First, it is in fact revealed implicitly in Scripture as an important part of God's unfolding plan of salvation.
Genesis 3:15: Let us first go to the book of Genesis where God is announcing for the first time his plan of salvation that will be accomplished through Christ:
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel." (Gen 3:15)
It is important that we determine exactly who God is addressing and talking about. God is speaking to the serpent and he says that the offspring of the woman will strike at his head. Who is the only one who will strike at the head of the serpent who is Satan? Jesus is the one who will come and strike at Satan's head and destroy his power. So if the offspring of the woman is Jesus, then the woman must be Mary.
Now God speaks of there being enmity between the serpent and the woman, and the serpent's offspring and the woman's offspring. The offspring of Satan is sin, for it is sin that Satan desires to multiply and fill the earth. So therefore, there is enmity between Mary/Jesus and Satan/sin. What exactly does enmity mean? Enmity means total and complete opposition. If two things are in enmity with each other, they have nothing at all to do with one another; there is no cooperation or communion between the two whatsoever. Consequently, both Jesus and Mary are completely opposed to Satan and sin. They would have no cooperation or communion with Satan and sin whatsoever. Mary is given the same absolute and perpetual opposition to Satan and sin as Jesus.
Therefore, it is necessary that Mary would not have a fallen nature, since any participation is original sin or actual sin would destroy the enmity with Satan and sin. Thus, we see in the very first announcement of God's plan of salvation his plan of Mary being totally free from sin so that Jesus would be able to assume a pure human nature.
Luke 1:28: We see an even more explicit reference to the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Luke's Gospel at the Annunciation when the Angel Gabriel appears to Mary to announce God's plan of having her be the Mother of Jesus. The Angel Gabriel's greeting of Mary reveals her immaculate state. His greeting properly translated is, "Hail, you who have been filled with grace." The Greek word kekaritomene is a perfect participle "have been filled." Mary has already been filled with God's grace, for grace has already been infused into her at the moment of her conception.
Also notice that Mary is filled with grace. Anytime we sin, even the smallest sin, we lose at least some of God's grace. That is the nature of sin. Sin is a choice we make that rejects the grace he offers to us, which is his very life and love. If Mary is filled with grace, then she would have been completely free from sin, as any sin, even the tiniest, would have caused her to be deprived of at least some grace.
Not only do we see the Immaculate Conception in Sacred Scripture, but it has also been constantly and clearly taught throughout Sacred Tradition from the earliest times of the Church:
St. Ambrose (d. 379): Mary is "free from all stain of sin."
St. Severus, Bishop of Antioch (d. 538): "She (Mary) formed part of the human race, and was of the same essence as we, although she was pure from all taint and immaculate…"
St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 638): "You (Mary) have found the grace which no one has received…No one has been pre-purified besides you."
These are only a small sample of teachings that clearly show that the Immaculate Conception was a part of the Church's belief from the very beginning.
Finally in 1854, Pope Pius IX infallibly proclaims the Immaculate Conception as a part of Divine Revelation and a dogma of the Church to be definitively held by all the faithful:
"We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine that holds that the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, at the instant of her conception, was preserved immune from all stain of sin, by a singular grace and privilege of the Omnipotent God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was revealed by God and must be firmly and constantly believed by all the faithful."
How exactly, then, did God preserve Mary from original sin? Mary needed Christ to redeem her just as much as we all do. She was redeemed by her Son's death on the cross, just like all of us. But how could Mary have been redeemed by Jesus' death on the cross before Jesus was even born?
It is because God is eternal and transcendent, and therefore, he is not bound by either space or time. Because he is outside of space and time, God sees all of time past, present, and future, right now. It is like looking at a very long train from a helicopter. The engines are creation, the caboose is the end of the world, and we are somewhere in between the two. God is able to operate outside of time. Therefore, he took the graces and merits of Jesus' death on the cross and applied them backwards in time to the moment of Mary's conception. Thus, Mary was redeemed by Christ as we all are, but through a "singular grace and privilege of the Omnipotent God" she was not only redeemed but also completely preserved from original sin.
Even though Mary was preserved from original sin at the moment of her conception, she could have still chosen to sin because as a human being she had free will. She could have said "no" to the Father at the Annunciation. She could have also said "no" to the Father at the foot of the cross, where she surrendered her Son, and fallen into despair and cursed God. However, Mary perfectly cooperated and surrendered herself to the great gift of grace that God had given her and lived the most extraordinary Christian life. That is why Mary is the Model of Faith and the Model of the Church. We are all called to cooperate with whatever graces God chooses to give us so that we humbly and lovingly walk whatever path he chooses to give to us.
May the Immaculate Heart of Mary continue to inspire us on our journey of faith, especially during this season of Advent, that we may surrender ourselves fully to God through the "obedience of faith" and become Christ's instruments of hope and love.


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As a scholar, Malveaux investigated the status of black women in the work force at the University of California, Berkeley, in the African American studies department. She is also a community activist. She has served as president of the Black Leadership Forum and as vice-president of the San Francisco NAACP. On the national level, she is president of the Business and Professional Women's Club, as well as a board member of the Center for Policy Alternatives. Malveaux has also worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation, the Council of Economic Advisors, NOW, and the Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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Appeal against refusal for new homes rejected
Posted: December 29, 2012|
An appeal over a decision to refuse planning permission for more than 200 new homes in Somerset has been rejected.
The proposal for 244 homes, two shops and a play area at Wellington on land at Milverton Road was dismissed by an independent planning inspector after being originally turned down by Taunton Deane Borough Council.
Inspector David Nicholson said allowing housing on the site would contravene the council's recently adopted planning blueprint and the Government's own national planning policies.
He also decided the development proposed by South Western Property Ltd would be more than a mile from the town centre and present travel difficulties.
Mr Nicholson said: "It would be an isolated housing estate tenuously linked to the north of the town."
Councillor Mark Edwards, executive councillor for planning and transportation, said: "I welcome the inspector's decision. This clearly demonstrates the importance having the core strategy in place.
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Midsomer Norton mother Alison Jukes enjoys Christmas dinner after life-changing operation
Posted: December 25, 2013|
Midsomer Norton mother Alison Jukes has achieved her festive ambition by sitting down and tucking into Christmas dinner around the dining table with her family.
And while the turkey and trimmings might have been chopped into small pieces, the meal represented a major milestone as she battles back to health following a life-changing operation she had to fight health chiefs to get.
She is now learning to eat again and has put on four kilos since undergoing the operation in July.
She said: "Sitting down with the family for Christmas lunch was fantastic and my next aim is to have a meal in a restaurant. It may have been a small amount but at least I was sitting round the table without a feeding tube."
Mrs Jukes, 43, spent nearly three years suffering from gastroparesis, which means her stomach has a delayed rate of emptying and she cannot digest food normally.
The condition saw the former St John's Primary School teaching assistant lose more than 40 per cent of her body weight.
When she was first diagnosed, she was prescribed tablets, but they did not work and she was put on a feeding tube to which she had to be attached for 15 hours a day.
After the old Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust rejected her application to have a gastric pacemaker fitted, the local community rallied round to heed a call from her 17-year-old son George to sign a petition asking for a change of heart.
More than 4,000 people responded to the appeal and the operation to fit the device that has helped to kick-start her stomach so food can get into her digestive system took place in July.
Since then Mrs Jukes has seen a slow improvement in her condition.
She said: "I am eating little but often. I have to go back every so often so the consultant can adjust the pacemaker setting. The consultant says that once I eat that meal in a restaurant he knows the setting will be right. It's learning to eat again and getting used to the different tastes. But it's not just soup or baby food anymore."
But Mrs Jukes said there is still a long road ahead.
She added: "I am building up confidence and feeling positive. I know there is a light at the end of the tunnel and I am getting closer to it. It's little steps but when I look at where I was last year, it's been worth the fight."


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Being a student at the University of Minnesota, I find this post fascinating. I couldn't agree anymore that the trend of e-mail is starting to change. I can speak for myself and many students, e-mail isn't as reliable as it use to be these days. I think the best example is on the first day of classes one of my professors gave out his personal cell phone number. He said, "I've found over the last year a phone number is more reliable than an e-mail address.." Interesting, huh?
I always find this topic slightly odd because how many of us have our e-mail right on our phone? Sending an e-mail on our phone is no different than sending a text, right? They're both done on our phone and sent instantaneously so, what could be the difference? I'm even guilty of ignoring an e-mail and responding to texts. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the logic in this is.
Currently, I am in a course called, Professional Writing for Strategic Communication. Proof there are still writing classes out there and better yet, required for my degree! Although the class may be hard work, I know it can only benefit me in the future. I have always found myself reading e-mails numerous times before I hit send to make sure I didn't miss any grammar or spelling errors, because in my opinion, e-mails represent who you are professionally. If your e-mail is full of grammatical and spelling errors, who ever the recipient of that e-mail is will take note. Sometimes I think an e-mail etiquette or social media lecture would be a huge benefit for college students.
"Millennials may change the way we communicate as a society (in many ways, they already have), but there will always be a time and a place for long-form, quality writing, and the thinking that goes along with that. There's just no way around that fact in my view."
Awesome point. Thank you for reminding me how important my writing class is to my future and career!


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The Buzz: Business news
Business, media, technology and more in the Capital Region and beyond
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
Megabus offering 50,000 one-dollar seats to boost travel
The discount bus company, which operates between the Capital Region and New York City, said this morning it is making 50,000 seats available for $1 each across its route system, including Albany, for travel between Sept. 14 and Nov. 19. The seats will be available on all megabus.com departures, but travelers need to use the […] [Read More]
Wind turbine company joins Greene Accelerator
A company called Catskill Mountain Wind Management Inc. has become the latest tenant of the Greene Accelerator, a business incubator run by the Greene County Industrial Development Agency. But the bigger news is that the company wants to put its worldwide manufacturing headquarters in Greene County where it would make special turbines that operate on […] [Read More]
GE settles SEC accounting probe for $50 million
General Electric Co. announced this morning that it settled a Securities and Exchange Commission accounting fraud probe for $50 million. The settlement came the same day that the SEC filed civil charges against the company. "GE bent the accounting rules beyond the breaking point," said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "Overly […] [Read More]
Albany Med researcher gets $1.6M in NIH funding
Michelle Lennartz, professor in the Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research at Albany Medical College, was awarded two grants totaling $1.6 million by the National Institutes of Health to continue research examining the causes of inflammation and autoimmune diseases, and to use those findings to identify predictors of heart attack and stroke. A four-year, […] [Read More]
UAlbany researchers to tackle hacker attacks
A Silicon Valley software company, Palantir Technologies of Palo Alto, has donated technology to the University at Albany that will help the school conduct cybersecurity researchand identify sources of cyberattacks. The 16 software licenses are worth $2.25 million, according to UAlbany. Sanjay Goel, associate professor of information technology management at UAlbany's School of Business, will […] [Read More]
Capital Region ranks sixth worst for increase in house vacancies
The forbes.com list out this morning, Where Vacancy Rates Are Rising, looked at the increase in both rental vacancies and in homeowner vacancy rates, and ranked metropolitan areas by where the increase in vacancy rates was the greatest. Kansas City ranked number one on the list, with rental vacancy rates climbing to 15 percent from […] [Read More]
Iraq can't pay for massive GE contract
Reuters is reporting that the government of Iraq can't pay for a $3 billion contract it has with General Electric Co. to provide the war-torn country with 65 gas turbines, enough to provide the country with 7,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity. GE Energy, which has its power generating unit headquartered here in Schenectady, made […] [Read More]
Nano education conference in Albany this week
The University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is hosting an educational conference this week in Albany in conjunction with Northwestern University's National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science & Engineering. The event, called the Symposium on Advanced in Higher Education in Nanoscale Science & Engineering will be held Wednesday through […] [Read More]
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Geologists: Experts in the Art of Subduction
Geologists: Experts in the Art of Subduction - $11.95, modeled by Zac.
Ever been seduced by a geologist? No? Well, you can't blame them - though they're not well versed in seduction, they are experts in the art of subduction. Y'know, tectonic plate movements and such. And in case you're going to get it on with a geologist, remember that subduction zones can result in absolutely volcanic ... er, eruptions.
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I know women do but what about guys?
And do women like licking guys nipples?
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I think it depends on the guy. I've noticed more "macho" men don't seem to like it. They seem really uncomfortable with it. I don't know if it feels feminine to them or what. But the men who are more "thinkers" (for lack of a better word), romantic type guys, they seem to really enjoy it. But obviously that isn't true for everyone. Just my experience.
And yes, I do like sucking or licking a guys nipples. I just see it as an erogenous zone. I don't think there is anything weird about doing that. His neck is an erogenous zone too. I have no problem kissing or licking that. So nipples don't bother me.
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I always found this amusing when a girl does this to me. It isn't a androgynous zone on men so if they get excited about it it is purely psychological. I don't but I wouldn't tell a girl to stop either if she finds it entertaining I usually try to give her a finger instead and then my lips. Something to lead away before I get bored.
Lol. androgynous means a hermaphrodite. Think the word you're looking for is erogenous.
Yeah that word lol I fiddled with the spell checker for like 5 minutes trying to find the spelling and gave up.
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A donkey jacket is a short buttoned coat, typically made of unlined black or dark blue woollen material; originally worn as a work jacket in the United Kingdom.
The donkey jacket is derived from the wool sack coat worn by workers in the 19th century, and the Oxford English Dictionary references the term as first used in 1929: "one with leather shoulders and back".[1] There is often a plastic panel covering the shoulder-blade areas. This panel can be plain black or grey, or fluorescent orange or yellow for conspicuousness and for night use. When used as a work jacket, it sometimes bears the name of the company which supplies the jacket, or the name of the company for which the wearer works. The jacket usually has two capacious side pockets, and sometimes an inside "poacher's pocket".
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The donkey jacket is regarded as typical of the British manual labourer and trade unionist as well as members of the political left. It is also favoured by traditionalist skinheads.[2][3] Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot was criticised for supposedly wearing a donkey jacket at a Remembrance Day wreath laying ceremony and he was shown wearing one on several covers of the satirical magazine Private Eye; it was a "very expensive short overcoat" chosen by his wife.[4]
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- ^ Marshall, George (1991). Spirit of '69 - A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing. ISBN 1-898927-10-3
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Monday, September 10, 2001 - 6:00 p.m. EDT
(Interview with Brit Hume and Brian Wilson of Fox News. Also participating: Michele Flournoy from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.)
Hume: Next on Special Report: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld says that a new threat to the Pentagon is the enemy within, the Pentagon itself. And we'll talk to him about that. Republican worries deepen over the economy and the budget and Social Security -- first, though, the other headlines.
Hume: Welcome to Washington. I'm Brit Hume. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has issued a dire warning about a security threat to America, but it's not from the sources you might think. He says the danger is not a foreign government or a terrorist, but, as the comic strip character Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
Fox news correspondent Brian Wilson has the story.
Wilson: There is an enemy lurking within the Pentagon, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, an insidious adversary that quietly diminishes military readiness and siphons money from vital programs.
Rumsfeld: It's the Pentagon bureaucracy, not the people, but the processes, not the civilians, but the systems, not the men and women in uniform, but the uniformity of thought and action that we too often impose on them.
Wilson: In a speech that was broadcast throughout the Pentagon and to uniformed men and women around the world, Rumsfeld came out with all guns blazing. He believes there is too much fat and too much waste in the military.
Rumsfeld: An average American family works an entire year to generate $6,000 in income taxes. Here we spill many times that amount every hour by duplication and by inattention. That's why we're here today, challenging us all to wage an all-out campaign to shift Pentagon's resources from bureaucracy to the battlefield, from tail to the tooth.
Wilson: Even as he continues to ask Congress for more money for programs like the national missile defense system, Rumsfeld is calling on military managers to be efficient and thrifty.
Because the Pentagon budget is so big, he believes even small savings amount to serious money.
Rumsfeld: If we can save just 5 percent of one year's budget -- and I have never seen an organization that couldn't save 5 percent of its budget -- we would free up some $15-$18 billion to be transferred from bureaucracy to the battlefield.
Wilson: But those who have gone before say it won't not be easy, that when you start talking about cutting people, consolidation, outsourcing, you start stepping on political toes.
Flournoy: The easy things have been done. And most of the additional changes that would result in substantial savings are very difficult politically.
And so they will require enormous political will. And it's not clear this administration is willing to spend its capital.
Wilson: And there is one other question: Is Rumsfeld to be taken seriously? After all, there are rumors swirling in Washington that he might soon quit or be asked to quit.
For the record, this past weekend, he said:
Rumsfeld: Not likely.
Wilson: Rumsfeld compares the Pentagon to a big battleship. And just as it takes a lot of time to turn around a battleship at sea, Rumsfeld believes it will take some time to turn around the Pentagon, with its entrenched systems and its entrenched attitudes -- Brit.
Hume: Brian, give me an example of the kind of thing that I heard Michele Flournoy, who is a respected analyst, talking about to you about where you run into trouble trying to do this kind of thing.
Wilson: Well, you don't have to look any further than the concept of base closings. Secretary Rumsfeld believes that we have 20-25 percent more bases than we need. That costs us about $3-$4 billion annually.
Yet when you start talking about which bases you would like to close, the screaming begins on Capitol Hill.
Hume: All right, Brian, thank you very much.
We'll have more on this later in the broadcast, when we talk to Donald Rumsfeld himself.
(Later in the same broadcast.)
Hume: Earlier, as we went into Brian Wilson's report, we noted that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was saying, in effect, what the cartoon character Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy, and it is us."
The secretary said that military modernization, something he is very strongly in favor of, requires a leaner and meaner work force and to channel those savings to the battlefield. To discuss his plans to shake up the bureaucracy at the Pentagon, Secretary Rumsfeld joins me now from the Pentagon.
Welcome, sir.
Rumsfeld: Thank you very much.
Hume: I suspect you are aware that, because you announced this initiative at least as forcefully as you announced it at a time when all the news has been lately has been about how difficult the budgetary situation is and how often you've had to say that you are going to need every nickel, the widespread feeling is, it's going to be: Poor old Rumsfeld, he couldn't get any new money out of Congress or even out of the OMB, the president's budget office, so he is trying to scratch it out of the bureaucracy in savings.
Is that a fair characterization?
Rumsfeld: Well, it's not.
In fact, President Bush's budget represents the largest increase in the defense budget since the mid-Reagan term and the big build-up of the Reagan years. So we have before the Congress an increase of some $28-$30 billion that the president has proposed over the 2001 budget.
And I think we're going to get the bulk of that. And, as you pointed out, we need every nickel of it.
Hume: Where does that figure $18 billion come from that we keep hearing?
Rumsfeld: Well, that's the amendment to the 2000 budget that is currently pending.
Hume: In order to get to 28, you had to add 18?
Rumsfeld: Exactly.
And we think that, quite apart from that increase, which we need badly -- you can't go through five or seven or eight years of starving the department and not funding infrastructure and not funding the force properly and not modernizing and not transforming to the extent that this institution needs it and then expect you are going to fix it one year.
It takes some time.
Hume: All right, let me just ask you a further question about that, based on an article in the new issue of "The Weekly Standard," a publication not at all unsympathetic to your cause or the cause of military modernization.
And Gary Schmitt and Tom Donnelly of the Project for the New American Century say -- quote -- "The price tag for any realistic program to rebuild and reform the U.S. military is well beyond the marginal sums the administration and the Congress are now fighting over."
Now, I realize this is the largest -- you note, correctly, I think, sir, that this is the largest increase since the days of the Reagan build- up. But, in fact, we've had a sharp decline, really, in defense spending. Almost any increase would be the largest since then, wouldn't it?
Rumsfeld: Well no, it wouldn't. It is a sizable amount of money.
On the other hand, as you pointed out in your opening statement, if we can save 5 percent by improved efficiencies and better management --
Hume: How much would that be?
Rumsfeld: It's about $15-18 billion.
Hume: On top of anything else you're asking for.
Rumsfeld: Exactly. And that's why we simply have to go after this bureaucracy and see that this institution adapts to the new circumstances that exist.
The men and women in the armed services need the best training and the best equipment. And I'm determined to see that they get it.
Hume: All right, now, you're talking, obviously -- you indicated today in your remarks you were not talking about the people; you were talking about the systems and the process that have been in place at the Pentagon for procurement and everything else for many, many years.
Hume: Now, how long, Mr. Secretary, would it take you to put new processes in place -- and not only take you but perhaps to some extent cost you before you begin to feel these savings?
Rumsfeld: Well, you are quite right. When you are going to go after savings, sometimes it costs you some money up front.
For example, we have a base closing proposal before the Congress. And the first year or two of that, it probably costs you more to close the bases than you save. But after that, you begin to save $3 billion or $4 billion.
We're toting around 25 percent more base structure than we need. If we get at this, there is no question but that we can save substantial sums.
Hume: Now, when you talk about doing that, of course, you have got to deal with Capitol Hill. I think you told me not too long ago that, since your first tour of duty as secretary of defense under President Ford, that things have changed to the point where Congress is in everything. That kind of change more difficult than it was back then? And if so, how difficult?
Rumsfeld: Well, I think in this case -- certainly, the Congress has to participate in the base closing process. But with respect to the announcements we made today about a 15 percent cut overall through the Pentagon in terms of headquarters -- not the teeth part of our teeth-to- tail ratio, but in fact the tail portion -- we are going to be cutting about 15 percent.
Those are things we can do unilaterally here in the department that don't require a great deal of congressional cooperation.
Hume: And what do they save?
Rumsfeld: They will save a great deal of money. There's just no question about it. We have layer of layer of bureaucracy.
Hume: Yes, but just the headquarters, that can't be more than, what - - by Pentagon standards, that's a relatively small amount, isn't it?
Rumsfeld: Oh, no, no, no. And you'll hear a lot about it as we try to do it.
Hume: Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. That's the way it is, isn't it?
Rumsfeld: Indeed.
Hume: Nothing is -- everybody has got lines to Capitol Hill. Everybody has got allies on Capitol Hill.
Rumsfeld: That's right.
Hume: This is a formidable undertaking.
Now, let me ask you about that remark that was made that I read to you earlier, about the price tag being beyond the sums you're talking about.
Rumsfeld: That's true. There's just no question. You can't deny -- have a procurement holiday for five years and not end up with a big mortgage that has to be paid.
We're going have to invest to modernize this force and to transform it over a good period of years. It will take time.
Let me give you an example. We're currently recapitalizing our infrastructure not at the 67 years that is done in the private sector as an average overall, but at 192 years.
Hume: What does recapitalize mean?
Rumsfeld: Well, it means that we're renewing and replenishing our infrastructure.
Hume: Replacing?
Rumsfeld: Replacing and recapitalizing it -- replacing it -- at a rate that is well in excess of what any responsible organization would do. So we have to get at that and fix it.
Hume: Well, how much money are we talking about over a period of five to 10 years, then?
Rumsfeld: Well, for infrastructure, you're probably at at least $11 billion right there.
Hume: All right, now, let just turn to some other issue that has arisen in the media recently that kind of fascinates me. And that it is -- we saw it reflected most vividly on the cover of Time magazine last week: that Colin Powell is the odd man out in your group and you and the other hard-liners are being mean to that nice man again.
What do you say to that?
Rumsfeld: Oh, my gosh. I tell you, it's just gossip nonsense. Colin Powell is doing a terrific job. He's an enormously talented person. He's the principal adviser on foreign policy. He does a great job for him. And it's the president's foreign policy.
All of us work closely with Colin. I must talk to him two or three times a day. I meet with him three or four times a week. And I do not know where that nonsense comes from. But that's what it is. It's nonsense.
Hume: Mr. Secretary, you are good to come. Thanks. Nice to have you. I hope to have you back.
Rumsfeld: Thank you. Enjoyed it.


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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ditches the World War II motif of the past Call of Duty games to tell a story set in contemporary times, and backs it up with a solid, feature-rich multiplayer mode.
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Letter: Fact is that Fullman hauls a lot of baggage into Republican primary
Bill Summers (Feb. 26 letter) offered me the following unsolicited advice: "In the future, when writing letters to the editor, put all the facts on the table and let the people decide for themselves."
Facts I stated in my Feb. 18 letter that Summers chose to completely ignore:
That the Stuart News refused to endorse either Democrat Tom Fullman or his Democrat opponent in 2008 because, "Neither candidate, at this point, is qualified to hold a position of this magnitude."
That Fullman switched from Republican to Democrat and told the News, he'd "lost interest in the Republican Party."
That Fullman now has the chutzpah to run as a Republican and expects voters to have amnesia.
With the carry-on baggage (including Summers) Fullman drags into this primary, he seems more qualified to work for an airline than to serve as a county commissioner.
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