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Skip to comments.With the options available, why did Obama choose to invoke executive privilege?
Posted on 06/23/2012 6:31:20 PM PDT by marktwain
That, at least to me, is the pregnant question. He had a number of other options but 4 months from a critical election, chose the most controversial and potentially damaging one.
Lets begin with a quote from a former White House counsel from a Powerline post:
Even with his fawning press, [President Obama] will pay a price for this one. He knows this, meaning that the documents now to be withheld must be dynamite. They have to show either that Holder knew what was going on with Fast and Furious and approved it, or that he directly committed perjury in his Congressional testimony, or both. I just cant see any other explanation for such a risky move.
Wasnt the Washington Post just covering big time the 40th anniversary of Watergate? I wonder how much coverage this one will get.
Thats the result of the move speculation that the documents being withheld point to perjury by Holder or the President, or both.
So lets break this down a bit. If it was all about Holder, why would the president risk this sort of a controversial move this close to an election. Its not like hes never thrown anyone under the bus. In fact James Carville is on record advising Obama to dump Holder.
Obama had the option, then, of letting Holder face contempt charges (not much happens as weve seen in the past, to those who are served with contempt of Congress charges) and drag out the document release until after the election.
With the election season gearing up, it is likely that while the controversy would have been an issue, it wouldnt have been a major issue. Now it certainly is.
He could have asked Holder to resign. He could have then used the opportunity to appear as a statesman, a leader and bi-partisan all in one fell swoop. Depending on how he handled that it could actually have been a positive for him heading into an election. In the meantime, an acting AG could continue to delay on providing documents.
But he did neither of those things. For some unknown reason (at least to this point) he chose to do the least likely and most politically damaging thing invoke executive privilege. As the lawyer quoted has said, those documents must be dynamite to have the president make this move.
And, unsaid by the lawyer is the speculation that the documents show the involvement of the White House to a degree that is damaging apparently more damaging than the speculation and attention this move by the President has brought.
David Kopel at Volokh Conspiracy gives you a great history of the controversy. As for the documents Kopel notes:
According to Attorney General Holder, the DOJ has 140,000 documents related to Fast & Furious. Fewer than 8,000 have been provided to Congress pursuant to subpoenas. The contempt vote has been narrowed to 1,300 documents. In refusing to comply with the House subpoenas, the DOJ has refused to create a privilege logwhich would identify withheld documents, and the legal reason for their being withheld.
Matthew Boyle at the DC caller points out that Holder has retracted two previous statements he made to Congress where he gave them inaccurate information in an attempt to blame previous AGs or administrations. It seems thats a standard operating procedure with all parts of this administration. So Holder is left holding the bag all by himself on this one, or so it seemed, at least, to the point that executive privilege was invoked.
That brings us to these 4 point by Todd Gaziano at the Heritage Foundation about the use of executive privilege:
First, the Supreme Court in United States v. Nixon (1974) held that executive privilege cannot be invoked at all if the purpose is to shield wrongdoing. The courts held that Nixons purported invocation of executive privilege was illegitimate, in part, for that reason. There is reason to suspect that this might be the case in the Fast and Furious cover-up and stonewalling effort. Congress needs to get to the bottom of that question to prevent an illegal invocation of executive privilege and further abuses of power. That will require an index of the withheld documents and an explanation of why each of them is covered by executive privilegeand more.
Second, even the deliberative process species of executive privilege, which is reasonably broad, does not shield the ultimate decisions from congressional inquiry. Congress is entitled to at least some documents and other information that indicate who the ultimate decision maker was for this disastrous program and why these decisions were made. That information is among the most important documents that are being withheld.
Third, the Supreme Court in the Nixon case also held that even a proper invocation must yield to other branches need for information in some cases. So even a proper invocation of executive privilege regarding particular documents is not final.
And lastly, the President is required when invoking executive privilege to try to accommodate the other branches legitimate information needs in some other way. For example, it does not harm executive power for the President to selectively waive executive privilege in most instances, even if it hurts him politically by exposing a terrible policy failure or wrongdoing among his staff. The history of executivecongressional relations is filled with accommodations and waivers of privilege. In contrast to voluntary waivers of privilege, Watergate demonstrates that wrongful invocations of privilege can seriously damage the office of the presidency when Congress and the courts impose new constraints on the Presidents discretion or power (some rightful and some not).
The key point, of course, is executive privilege cannot be used to shield wrongdoing. While it is speculative, it appears highly likely given the other options available that executive privilege is being used for precisely that reason in this case.
Additionally, given the choices available to the President, it is not at all out of bounds to speculate that the most transparent administration in history is trying desperately to hide something even more terrible than the political fallout from this choice.
The White House cites internal discussions and ongoing investigations are the reason for its denial and claims the investigations would be jeopardized with the release of the documents. But, as Gaziano points out, accommodations can be made in that regard. The total number of documents requested is 1,300. The White House is simply refusing to cooperate or accommodate.
Were still left with that question.
And the answer, given the actions to date, lead to some logical speculation what is contained in those documents is much more damaging politically than the damage done by the decision. Additionally, Obama cant afford to let Holder go because if he does theres the potential that Holder will then spill the beans.
Oh, and finally, this move has suddenly brought Fast and Furious to page one and the top of the newscast like nothing else could. The majority of the country, which was mostly ignorant of this scandal are now in the loop.
As the cited former White House counsel said, the documents now to be withheld must be dynamite. In fact, they must be so explosive that the White House is desperate enough to try to weather this self-inflicted political storm in lieu of exposing them.
That says a lot.
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Gunwalker / Murdergate ping.
The 'Constitutional Law ' professor in the Oval Office apparently does NOT know how the law works for Executive Priviledge.
He is hanging both himself & Holder, IMO.
Calling out a torpedo to see if it can hole the SS 0bama.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
I think Holder has the goods on Obama. Obama is between a rock and a hard place. He can't afford to diss Holder, and he can't let those documents be seen, either. He fires Holder, and Holder will spill the beans. Executive privilege is not going to work in this case,you are correct. But they had already got themselves in a corner and he decided to gamble.
Holder could end up having a Ron Brown style accident.
Right now, if I was reading Career Builder and saw a position of, "Food Taster wanted, salary 1/2 million $ per anum." And it was anywhere east of the Mississippi? I run like a red-assed ape for the hills!
Hard to believe together they are that stupid.
Think you are absolutely correct. Zero is either directly complicit in something incriminating or is afraid to throw the AG under the bus for fear of what Holder might reveal.
soetoro was not a law professor, he was a add junk lickturer.
Fast and Furious is Obama's Watergate — like Watergate but with 300 dead bodies
Should we call it Obamagate?
Who ever made this decision to push this policy killed 300 lives.
I think it is arrogrance, they don't think they will be held accountable.
My view? Is that there is a distinct lack of "adult supervision" inside the thinking of this administration.
Think about the "Julia" website as my main example. This was pretty clearly done by a cadre of youngsters who work for 0bama in some capacity and were "turned loose" in order to create the thing. It was flashy, snappy, in terms of execution. But the messaging behind it was unsupervised, it produced an impression that this admin doesn't really think that individuals can make it on their own, and wants to sell the lifetime government dependency orientation. And this was the impression that even liberals came away with. This is my point, that there was no adult supervision. They were tasked and let loose and came up with a flashy result, and nobody of what we would call maturity sat down with the final version and pondered what the take-away was going to be by just simply chewing on it for 24-48 hours before unleashing it.
And how about the under-30 amnesty deal? Think about it. OK, so on the surface it's a great thing for the beneficiaries. But forget not that those "kids" are going to have to identify their PARENTS within the application process. The parents don't have the immunity from deportation. And they are going to have to be declared illegal, or, they will have achieved citizenship sometime AFTER the kid applies...but that is going to be the exception IMHO. After all, if they were citizens, the kid would be citizens, so, the very act of applying for this "amnesty" identifies the parents as illegal! In order to take advantage of the program, the kids are in effect going to have to rat out their parents! They gonna do that?
The 0bama admin comes out with this stuff and my take on it is it's just not very well thought out. In fact it's not thought out hardly at all. The slogans are bumper-sticker depth. And frankly, the thinking is, too. It is reflexive and it isn't well thought out. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. Consistent picture?
Same with the F&F executive order. They could not have planned this from the beginning, they thought they could stonewall and obfuscate and get away with the type of misdirection that comes from redacting entire documents until some indefinite time in the future; perhaps after the attention has shifted elsewhere. Yeah, you submitted a document in response to a subpena or a request by Issa, but the whole thing is blacked out! They literally fell into a trap of their own making, now immutably cementing 0bama to the cover-up by asserting excutive privelege. They did not count on a no-let-up pursuit from Issa, which is dumb, because he has proven his relentlessness. But even more ironically, they did not adequately ponder the implication of issuing the executive order. It was done in a hurry, and I'll bet you $5 they did not realize the consequence that because ONLY the prezzy can issue such an order, it thusly must be he who has the stuff to hide.
I believe this is a consistent theme and characteristic within this admin. Very simply, there is no adult supervision, their stuff is ad hoc, it is simply not well thought out. They are so arrogant, yet so amateurish, they think they can get away with misdirection or changing the subject, or war on women or millionaires and billionaires or social justice, or green jobs, or policemen and teachers, anything to change the topic matter. Just pick the next Alinsky tactic on the list and go with it. That well is running dry.
Very good analysis - and I still don't understand why Obama invoked EP over this. Even if the documents pointed directly to him, with his complicit media he would have been given a free pass and the whole thing would have gone down the memory hole.
And as far as Holder goes, as the author points out, being found in contempt of Congress is meaningless, since there are no penalties. Unless the media cares to whip up anger over it, nothing will happen to the person found in contempt, and the media is certainly not likely to get riled up about Obama's lackey Holder.
The only thing I can think is that Obama really does see himself as a special kind of President (the dictator kind) and thinks that any challenge to any of his minions is a challenge to him. Being a very thin-skinned dictator, he can't take any challenge, no matter even if it's only something that he has built in his own head.
The other possibility is that he is so stupid and inept that he really thinks the power-play is the way to go. Come to think of it, he really is stupid and inept...
if the vote is tuesday [and it better be], nbc will start their newscast with "japs bomb pearl harbor".
Obama must have directly approved Fast N Furious...or Holder has got some major compromising photos of Obama beyond being with another woman
Because he's incompetent and more ideologue than intellect.
Excellent comments! I agree that there's a serious lack of direction in the WH, but I think it's not simply lack of supervision, but stupidity on the part of the folks who think they're pulling the strings.
Obama really does think he's special. He's actually nuts, but nutty people often think they're special.
And everybody who works for him came in with the impression that it was going to be the time for the "ajuste de cuentas," the settling of accounts, with the enemies they had fantasized about destroying since 1968.
Obama is part of the post-1968 generation, but he is somebody who was in a radical leftist time-warp, which is why the nearly 70 yr old Bill Ayers still seems to Obama to be on the cutting edge.
Also, the main problem is that Mr. Choom Gang simply isn't very smart.
the dick holder knows about the phony commie obommie background and helped protect him fighting court cases, providing coverups, etc. There was no way holder would be asked to resign and obama had to use his last card since they are in a lot of criminal things together.
To my mind, the analysis in the article misses the point because it doesn't start from the proper understanding of the Obama crowd.
The best starting point in understanding Obama is still "Radical-in-Chief" by Stanley Kurtz.
Obama is a radical masquerading as a conventional politician. Therefore approaching the analysis by trying to find an explanation for his actions in considerations that would be paramount to a conventional politician is not a useful approach.
The same is true of Holder and the radical racists and leftists that operate under his protection in the Justice Department.
If we go back to Alinsky's way of thinking as a touchstone to understand Obama, what would Alinsky advise?
Alinsky would urge a tactic of provoking confrontation and amplifying grievance.
He would use the media to isolate and demonize the Republicans in Congress who are trying to use the traditional Constitutional procedures to keep Obama and his administration in check.
The first step in the media strategy is to cement in the public mind that this is in essence just a partisan squabble.
The next step is to portray the Republican opponents as being oppressive and overreaching and abusive. This helps to delegitimize the constitutional procedures used by the opponents.
In order to break the Constitution, one must maximize the tensions and contradictions inherent in the system in order to reach a breaking point.
Obama is practically begging for Congress to attack him for improperly usurping power beyond that legally permissible for a president.
He has declared that there are laws he will not enforce (DOMA) and recently unilaterally exempted entire classes of persons from Congressional law (Obamnesty).
He has now found an opportunity to challenge the very basis of Congress' power to oversee the executive branch.
I think arrogance and absolutely no respect for the Constitution or American government. I read Holder said way back during the Elian Gonzalez fiasco, the government did not need a warrant. This is how this Administration has operated from day one. We can do what we want. Also, we have learned during Clinton and now Obama that these types will never give an inch. They simply want people to give in to their way of governing and allow them to do what they deem best. We have lots of 'rooting out' to do.
That's true. I had forgotten until I read an earlier post today that Holder was involved in the shameful Elian Gonzalez episode, but obviously that typified his attitude then and does so to this day.
Stauch supporters of this usurper-in-chief will be forced to admit that this was an amateurish, ham-handed, ill-considered reaction out of the Oval Office. The Emperor's Clothes, or lack thereof, are rapidly becoming humiliatingly apparent.
Too bad for Odumbo he has no military experience aside from organizing protests. Even a complete civilian with nothing more than a moderate interest in war movies could have recognized and avoided this Charlie Foxtrot.
Wicked accurate appraisal of the situation.
Spot on.
obama considers himself untouchable...largely because no one has ever really tried.
Thank you. By the way, just because I detailed my view that he (and his admin) are off the cuff, careless, and lazy, doesn't eliminate nor detract in any way from the several other possibilities; that they are flat out evil, or flaming Marxists, or socialists, or generally not that bright. They are at times, all of those. But they are lazy Marxists. They are evil, but they are not remarkably cunningly evil. They have despicable intentions, but they just aren't all that clever when it comes to trying to manifest them. They have what would seem to be brightest-of-the bright Harvard educated idealogues in many positions, but those people apparently are so smug and self-righteous in their elitism that they think their ideas should just be getting over on their own inherent value. And IMO, that's the main reason why we're viewed as stupid Neanderthals for not accepting their crap. Who are we to doubt their global warming theory? How dare we question their child-rearing acumen? Who do we think we are, imagining that we know more than the Paul Krugmans of the world (crap! Is there more than one?!) about how the economy works?
Why not? What's he got to lose? Everything to gain if the Pubbies haven't the stones.
To dead souls like the democrats, who have used the slaughter of tens of millions of alive unborn human children as an empowerment scheme, the slaughter of a few hundred Mexicans/Latinos an a few LEOs is worth the work to institute severe gun controls. There is no one nor any segment of America that these lying criminal bastard commies will not use and sacrifice to work their agenda.
Chicago mafia tactics in their purest form.
Couldn't help but think of this after reading your post——"...there is a distinct lack of adult supervision...
Isaiah 3:4—
"and I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them."
Assuming it goes to the Courts on the EP claim, there will not be a resolution until after November.
They are running out the clock hoping that even if the worst comes to light, they will still be in power.
More kicking the can down the road. Too damn typical of Washington.
Because he could.
For almost four years he has repeatedly lied, cheated, stolen, extorted, broken laws, violated the Constitution, run roughshod over the nation and generally gotten away with acting like a tyrant with almost no repurcusion or complaints.
It seems the more he has defiled the nation, the more most of the media have risen to protect him.
He thinks he is King and up until now most of the nation has treated him as one.
Why does Obama want to challenge and break the Constitution?
Congress could have impeached the clown for Libya. They could have impeached the clown for blocking oil production in the Gulf of Mexico in defiance of a court order. Obama has no authority for his amnesty, he can be impeached for that, it is clearly unconstitutional. He should have been impeached for his GM redistribution to the Unions. There are more examples.
Why is nobody rushing to fight this bozo?
Obama wants a fight, it is part of his fundamental plan. Some FREEPERs think he is arrogant, some think he is stupid, some think he is incompetent but nobody seems to have the correct, obvious answer.
To get the right answer, you have to figure out WHO IS OBAMA WORKING FOR? OBOZO is always on the wrong side of every issue, always. How could he get everything wrong unless it was why he is POTUS? Saying it another way, who put Obozo in power to destroy the USA?
OBOZO himself. My, my, my.
And for good reason. Having the GOP as your opposition is like having the campfire girls against you. The worst that will happen is they will try to hurt your feelings.....really bad.
The Sept. 2008 'run' on the Fed took place 6 weeks out from the election, remember?
0bama was shooting hoops, saying to 'call' him if they 'needed' him. He was unscathed.
At the WH, with W, McCain, Reid and Pelosi, it was 0bama that lost his temper in the meeting.
Someone here spoke of 2008 starting with transactions at the Chicago Exchange. The poster made a rather compelling case, at least for me.
IOW, it was the people who did that which are the people who installed 0bama, and he knew it all along.
He knew he was to bring down the US....oil, finance, and insurance. HE is part and parcel of the Constitutional Crisis—and he knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
I just want to know what Holder has on Obama that forced Obama to cowtow to this miserable little Pr!@k?
Reasonable Speculation:
0bama approved gunwalking knowing it would result in hundreds of dead Mexicans with American supplied guns so he could undermine the Bill of Rights (2nd Amendment) in America.
0bama lied, Federal Agents died.
That's my theory of why this is big enough to require the exercise of Executive Priveledge.
In order to break the Constitution, one must maximize the tensions and contradictions inherent in the system in order to reach a breaking point.
Obama is practically begging for Congress to attack him for improperly usurping power beyond that legally permissible for a president.
He has declared that there are laws he will not enforce (DOMA) and recently unilaterally exempted entire classes of persons from Congressional law (Obamnesty).
He has now found an opportunity to challenge the very basis of Congress power to oversee the executive branch.
I have read the above lines several times and unfortunately I have to agree with it. I do believe however that the strategy is flawed. Yes, we have dumbed down society so that they can't take care of themselves, dumbed them down so that they don't know the laws that govern our republic, but I'm thinking that they will not like someone ignoring their elected representatives in congress. I may be wrong but the next election will tell us if I am. If the people keep the House under Republican rule say goodbye to Mr. Obama and Alinsky. If Republicans take the Senate then Democrats are in a world of hurt.
I do believe that the press will taste the blood in the water and want to be the first to break the story. Yes they want to protect Obama but breaking the story of the century is just too much for a reporter to pass up.
The information Obama is protecting has to be damming. If not for the Executive Privilege Holder would have laughed at any action taken by congress against him. The Executive is a different branch of government, they can't enforce anything against Holder, Holder is the one who executes the laws and Holder should have just laughed at congress at least until after the elections. I don't believe there is enough time before the election to get the Supreme court to rule against Holder. Certainly in an impeachment trial the Democrat controlled Senate would not convict. So why the Executive Privilege? I think it has to be Alinskys rules. The One is trying to create a constitutional crisis the likes of which we haven't seen since Fort Sumter. I don't know what will happen but I do know that a lot depends on the press, that gives me a bad feeling.
No way he did this to protect Holder. 0baMugabe is tied by his tiny nads to F&F or something totally unacceptable for public consumption in these documents.
Here is the best description of fast & furious from the beginning that I've ever seen. It needs updating though because it doesn't go all the way to today. But it is very very good.
"Fast and Furious" scam has Obama and Holder sweating...bullets!
My WAG is that Holder knows too much that could be used against Ø. Long-form Birth certificate anyone? College transcripts?
Stuff like that.
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If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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When Jeff Gordon won two weeks ago at Martinsville Speedway, he became the 16th different Sprint Cup winner this season, one more than last year.
Of the 16 winners, five did not win a race last season. One was a big surprise — David Ragan's upset victory with Front Row Motorsports at Talladega — while the others won after long dry spells. Carl Edwards went winless last season, while Jamie McMurray had not won since 2010. Brian Vickers (2006) and Martin Truex Jr. (2007) both snapped really long winless streaks.
With two races to go, four drivers who won last year — three of them pretty big names — have not been to victory lane yet this season.
Several other drivers were expected to break through with a win this season, or at least given a pretty good shot to reach victory lane.
It hasn't happened so far, and time is running out.
Here's a look at the drivers who looked to have a reasonable shot to win this year but need to get it done at Phoenix or Homestead.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr., other stars have just two more chances to reach victory lanenascar November 8, 2013 12:22pm EST November 8, 2013 11:17am EST After snapping a four-year winless streak last year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was expected to win again this season. So were a handful of other stars who haven't reached victory lane. Time is running out.
When Jeff Gordon won two weeks ago at Martinsville Speedway, he became the 16th different Sprint Cup winner this season, one more than last year.
2 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
His case is well documented — too well documented for Junior Nation. Earnhardt has just one win in the last five seasons. His victory at Michigan last year was expected to get him over the hump and lead to more wins.
It hasn't happened. Though he has run well this year, and really well recently, Earnhardt can't seem to contend often enough or finish the deal when opportunities to win come.
He has five runnerup finishes this season, three of them in the last six races. If he can sustain that momentum, he has the best chance of anyone on this list to win one of the final two races.
If he can pull it off, it will mark the first time since 2006 that he has won in back-to-back seasons.
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3 Clint Bowyer
Bowyer seemed to have a breakout campaign last year when he won three races and finished second in points in his first season with Michael Waltrip Racing. But he hasn't been able to capture the same magic this season.
Though he was second or third in the standings for much of the summer and has nine top-five finishes, Bowyer hasn't been able to break through. His best finishes are second at Martinsville and Richmond in the spring.
Bowyer also has that ugly Richmond incident — when he allegedly spun intentionally to bring out a caution flag — hanging over his head. The Richmond scandal has brought Bowyer, his team and the whole MWR organization much negative publicity and plenty of bad karma, not to mention costing it a sponsor, a driver and a team.
Perhaps no driver and team in the garage need a victory more than Bowyer and MWR. If he can stay out of Jeff Gordon's way, it could happen at Phoenix or Homestead.
4 Denny Hamlin
Only Tony Stewart (broken leg) has had a more painful season than Hamlin, who suffered a broken vertebra in his lower back and missed four races early in the season. The crash at California pretty much derailed the season for Hamlin, who won five races last year and has 22 career victories.
Whether it's his back or the experimenting his team has been doing, Hamlin hasn't run well this season and has a career-low seven top-10 finishes.
Hamlin and his Joe Gibbs Racing team are good enough to get it done, though. He won last spring at Phoenix and has finished in the top three in the last three races there.
5 Kurt Busch
Even after he landing with Furniture Row Racing, winning seemed like a long shot for Kurt Busch this season. After all, Furniture Row has just one career victory and finished 24th in points with Regan Smith last year.
But Busch surprised everyone by running well enough to make the Chase, the first playoff appearance for the small, independent team. Busch has 10 top-five and 15 top-10 finishes and has led 444 laps.
The only thing missing is a victory, which many thought surely would come the way Busch and the team have performed. Busch finished second at Richmond and Kansas and led 102 laps at New Hampshire but has not been able to finish the deal.
He's got two more chances and he's won before at both tracks.
6 Juan Pablo Montoya
No driver in recent history has entered NASCAR with more fanfare and higher expectations than Montoya, the former CART champion, Indy 500 winner and Formula One star.
But Montoya has stumbled through a disappointing seven seasons in NASCAR and apparently will return to IndyCar with barely a whimper.
Montoya's only two NASCAR victories both came on road courses in 2007 and 2010. More victories were expected to follow, but they haven't. He hasn't even been the favorite in the road races the past two years, leading just two laps there.
Montoya has four top-five finishes this season and missed golden opportunities to win at Richmond and Dover. No one doubts his driving ability, but he and his Earnhardt Ganassi team have not been able to produce a winning combination.
He has just two more chances in his season and his NASCAR career.
7 Marcos Ambrose
Ambrose had won at Watkins Glen each of the past two years and threatened to make it three in a row. He dominated the August race there, leading 51 of 90 laps before getting swept into a wreck. He finished just seventh in the other road-course race at Sonoma.
Those missed opportunities pretty much ruined his chances of winning this year since he has yet to win a NASCAR race on an oval. Though he has run well at times on other tracks, he has not been a serious threat.
He doesn't figure to be a factor at Phoenix or Homestead, but will get one more shot with Richard Petty Motorsports next season.
8 Mark Martin
The 54-year-old Martin has not won a race since his spectacular five-win season with Hendrick Motorsports in 2009.
Though he cut back to a part-time schedule last year, it seemed like only a matter of time before he won with Michael Waltrip Racing. He almost won at Pocono last year, finishing second after getting a late shove from Joey Logano, and finished third three times.
But this season has been mostly a disappointment. He has just one top-five and five top-10 finishes and hasn't been a real contender since leading 75 laps in the second race of the season. What's more, teammate Brian Vickers, who shares his No. 55 car, won the July race at New Hampshire, which delighted Martin but also had to leave him a bit envious.
He seemingly got another golden opportunity replacing the injured Tony Stewart at Stewart-Haas Racing, but that has been a big disappointment as well.
At 54, Martin has to be asking himself the same question he seemingly has been asking his whole career: When will he ever win again?
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9 Jeff Burton
With the way he has run the past three years, most didn't expect Burton to win this season. But he does have 21 career wins, so there was hope that he could recapture some of that magic and score one more sentimental victory.
His only real chance came in July at New Hampshire, where he finished third. He has just two top-five finishes and has led just 19 laps all season.
Now he faces an uncertain future after he and Richard Childress agreed to part ways after this season.
It looks like a disappointing end to an outstanding career for Burton, one of the sport's greatest ambassadors and most respected competitors. Here's hoping that he gets at least one more shot at victory, if not this season, then somewhere next year.
10 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
It's become increasingly rare for rookies to burst onto the scene and win Cup races. Except for Trevor Bayne's stunning upset in the 2011 Daytona 500, no rookie has won a race since 2007, and that was by the highly accomplished Juan Pablo Montoya.
Stenhouse, a two-time Nationwide Series champion, was expected to be next in line. With his experience and the backing of Roush Fenway Racing, he was expected to be an immediate contender.
Instead, most of Stenhouse's season highlights have come off the track, where he's dating rival and megastar Danica Patrick.
Stenhouse has shown progress lately and ran well at Phoenix and Homestead during his Nationwide career. An upset win at either track wouldn't be a complete shocker.
11 Danica Patrick
Talk about complete shockers. That's what it would have been had Danica made the right move and won the season-opening Daytona 500.
Prior to the season, it seemed preposterous that Patrick could win a Sprint Cup race in her first season. Then she went out and won the pole for the Daytona 500 and finished eighth after running going into the final turn. That raised unfair expectations, creating hope that she could be a big surprise. The way she ran in NASCAR's biggest race suggested that she at least might be able to could contend in the four restrictor-plate races.
Alas, it was all false hope. Though she did run better at Daytona and Talladega than at most tracks, she has mostly been a big disappointment, scoring just one top-10 and five top-20 finishes.
Patrick has virtually no chance of winning one of the final two races. At least expectations won't be quite so high next season.
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James Murphy: One Minute Alone With a Legend at Wynwood's III Points Festival
Photo by Ian Witlen
After sweating out last night's booze in the oppressive Saturday afternoon sun for about 30 minutes, Bardot opened its doors to let a few handfuls of III Points attendees in to see James Murphy speak.
At first, there was a small crowd, but the room filled and anticipation built as we waited for the former LCD Soundsystem frontman to arrive from the airport. He came straight from a Washington D.C. show the night prior at 9:30 Club that he told us personally was memorable (or something like that) with a look that made us wish we'd been there.
Most of the room was on the floor like little kids waiting for story-time. Murphy sat Indian style on the couch speaking to upturned, smiling faces, some with crazy-eyes filled with love and obsession.
Immediately after the interview, and before the fans swarmed in, we ambushed the DJ and all-around musical hero for one minute and 34 seconds' worth of questions. We found out if he'd be back for Art Basel Miami Beach this year, and what it's like to be James Murphy.
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Crossfade: What's it like to be James Murphy?
James Murphy: It's middling.
It's fine. It's alright. Just some aches and pains, but it's OK.
The times I've seen you speak, you're so nice to your fans afterwards. How do you feel about them? Anyone too intrusive?
I hate them. They're a nightmare. I just don't have security, so I have to play nice. No. I don't know. I feel like people are nice. I just try to be... It's awkward, so I can't pretend it's not, so I'm just awkward. I will point out that it's awkward. I don't like when it's smooth, like when you're like, "Excellent, you're great." But it's friendly, and everyone's nice, so I might as well just be honest.
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Do you prefer to talk about music or wine? [Note: He did a wine talk on the S.S. Coachella.]
I know more about music.
So you prefer music?
No, I just know more about it, so I feel more comfortable.
You said you were in "shitty" bands before. Which was the shittiest, and any shitty band stories?
I wasn't in shitty bands, I just wasn't in great bands. We were just, like, not very successful.
Are you back for Basel this year?
I don't know. I don't think so. I'm not sure what's going on in December. I can only know what's right ahead of me.
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Okay, I didn't go through EVERY page on the "Commuter Bicycle Pics" thread...but, on a cursory glance, I didn't see many pictures of road bikes.
I've been to the Road Cycling sub-forum and have seen some absolutely gorgeous road bikes and say to myself, "Self, these are rolling works-of-art and have the latest/greatest components, etc...and since these are magnificent machines and are meant to be ridden long distances, built like tanks but weigh next to nothing, are effecient, and are the epitome of cutting-edge design...wouldn't they make great commuting machines, too?"
I've seen some spectacular bikes in this Commuting sub-forum (as well as the other sub-forums, for that matter) that are obviously comfortable, light, simple, utilitarian, etc. Commuting bikes seem to be designed by manufacturers and built-up by their owners to be more simple and more comfortable, but I would think that some people would opt for the best of both worlds.
What happens when the two worlds collide? What happens when you take a road bike and make it your daily commuter? Don't folks do this very thing sans the "yellow jersey" or the lycra/spandex shorts and special shoes?
This thread is a bit tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be judgemental in ANY way, but I am curious as to why more folks don't use road bikes as their daily commuter.


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Promoting social and economic empowerment of women through cross-curing policies and programmes, mainstreaming gender concerns, creating awareness about her rights and facilitating institutional and legislative support for enabling them realize their human rights and develop to their full potential.
Ensuring development, care and protection of children through cross-cutting policies and programmes,spreading awareness about their rights and facilitating access to learning,nutrition,institutional and legislative support for enabling them to grow and develop to their full potential.
Empowered women living with dignity and contributing as equal partners in development in an environment free from violence and discrimination. And, well-nurtured children with full opportunities for growth and development in a safe and protective environment.
Ministry of Women & Child Development came into existence as a separate Ministry w.e.f. 30th January 2006
Conferment of Nari Shakti Puruskars to eminent women and institutions in recognition of their service towards the cause of women empowerment.


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The loan they are requesting will benefit all of their small businesses, including Lucila's. She joined Pro Mujer four years ago at the invitation of a friend from the institution who visited her home. She currently has a neighborhood store. She started this business after observing her mother, who has a similar store in another area. With capital borrowed from Pro Mujer, she decided to start her own business.
She is requesting this loan for an increase in capital to purchase rice, sugar, and oil at wholesale. She will purchase the items from distributors in El Alto and later sell them in her store. This type of work allows her to generate income to support her family, since she is married and has two children.
When asked what she likes about Pro Mujer, she responded that she likes the loans that the institution offers.
El crédito que sacaran beneficiara a pequeñas microempresarias donde la señora Lucila es integrante, ella indica que hace cuatro años que integra Pro Mujer, ingresando por la invitación de una compañera de la institución que fue a visitarle a su casa. En la actualidad ella tiene un negocio de tienda de barrio; da a conocer que este negocio lo emprendió al observar a su madre, quien tiene el mismo negocio en otra zona, con un capital prestado de Pro Mujer decide emprender un negocio independiente.
El crédito que ahora sacará es para el aumento de capital (compra de arroz, azúcar, aceite por mayor) que adquirirá de las tiendas distribuidoras de la ciudad de El Alto y posteriormente lo comercializará en su espacio de venta. Esta forma de trabajo le permite generar recursos para apoyar a su familia, ya que ella es casada y tiene dos hijos.
Cuando se le consulta qué le gusta de Pro Mujer, ella responde que le gusta el crédito que ofrece la institución.
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Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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The event lasted for more than 8 hours, produced 28 tornadoes, and scared many families in the east. On the 16th, 77 reports came in regarding tornadoes in the area. Over the past week, the National Weather Service sent teams of meteorologists out to the impacted locations to assess possible tornado damage. Of those reports, the NWS was able to confirm 28 total touchdowns. In these situations, multiple reports can be registered for the same tornado (that's why reports are usually much higher than confirmations).
It has taken over a week to compile, but I will let the data speak for itself. I encourage you to take a look at the video and photos tab at the top of the story.
Lastly I just want to say thank you to the National Weather Service for their hard work during this outbreak. Between them and the WITN weather team, as well as other media outlets, I can only hope it helped to keep you and yours safe.
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It depends on the data you look at, but on average North Carolina is impacted by roughly 16 tornadoes in a given year . Here in eastern North Carolina we average about 6 touchdowns in a year. To put that number in perspective, we had more than four times our yearly average in a span of only 8 hours.
Of these tornadoes, most (80%) are either EF0 or EF1 in strength and 15% are EF2.
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Dinosaur Train Party Ideas
If PBS' Dinosaur Train has captured your child's imagination and Tyrannosaurus and Pteranodon are every day words at your house, then this Dinosaur Train Party is just the ticket you'll need for prehistoric birthday fun!
Begin your Dinosaur Train adventure by planning a birthday party that will take your child's pals and preschoolers' favorite dino, Buddy, on a dinosaur party voyage through swamps and jungles, volcanoes and prehistoric seas. This Dinosaur Train party ideas guide has all the Dinosaur Train games, decorating ideas, and planning tips you'll need to ensure your dino train party will delight your little paleontologist.
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What Do I Need For the Party?
In addition to basic Dinosaur or Train party supplies, like plates, cups, napkins and decorations, you may want to consider purchasing, borrowing or renting the following items for your Dinosaur Train party:
- Dinosaur flash cards
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Dinosaur Train Party Invitation Ideas
Get your guests excited to board your Dinosaur Train party with creative invitations. Here are some ideas you can create yourself or with the help of your child.
- Invite your guests aboard the party train with these personalized dinosaur party invitations.
- Print out enough copies of our Printable Train Tickets for each guest. Paste a photo of the recipient on their ticket and mail it to them with an invitation. You can also include a dinosaur figurine or a dinosaur flash card.
- Put each invitation inside a large plastic egg and label it "dinosaur egg." Place the plastic egg inside a clear cellophane bag with some green Easter grass and a small toy dinosaur. Tie the bag closed with ribbon, and deliver it to your guests.
- Cut out dinosaur footprints from construction paper and write the party details on one side.
- Purchase personalized train lollipops and customize them to read "All aboard for a sweet day!" Attach a slip of paper to the stick of the lollipop that includes the party details written neatly. Mail the lollipops in a padded envelope.
- Ask your child to draw a picture of their favorite dinosaur from Dinosaur Train. Scan in the picture and then type the party details below the picture. You can also include a cute rhyme such as:
All aboard! We're headed towards fun,
We'll meet lots of dinosaurs before the day's done.
Grayson's having a birthday on the Dinosaur Train,
Come eat like a T-Rex and play lots of games!
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Dinosaur Train Party Decoration Ideas
Turn your party table into a prehistoric paradise with the following Dinosaur Train party decorating tips.
- Use construction paper, masking tape or duct tape and create train tracks on the floor. You can have the tracks lead from the doorway to the party table.
- Place plenty of dinosaur figurines around the party table. Label the bottom of each dinosaur's foot with a guest's name. They can be taken home as favors.
- Create a large train out of colorful craft paper to hang behind the party table. Place dinosaur faces inside the windows.
- Play episodes of Dinosaur Train quietly in the background.
- Hide plastic "dinosaur" eggs around the room for your guests to find. If you have a sandbox, you can hide the eggs in the sand as well. Make sure you place small prizes in the eggs! Dinosaur stickers make great prizes!
- Pass out conductor hats for your guests to wear and then take home from the party.
- Create a large arch out of balloons for your guests to walk under. This can symbolize a train tunnel.
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In addition to pizza, chicken fingers, hamburgers or hotdogs, add some Dinosaur Train themed food into the mix. Here are some suggestions.
- Label vegetables and fruit "For Herbivores" and anything with meat (sandwiches, hamburgers, chicken fingers, hotdogs) "For Carnivores."
- You can also create a sign for the table that reads "Please choo-choo your food carefully."
- Bone-Shaped Sandwiches:Use cookie cutters to cut sandwiches, brownies or cookies into bone shapes.
- Serve dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets. You can normally find them at the grocery store.
- Decorate Dinosaur Train party cupcakes with dinosaur party cupcake toppers.
- Dirt Cups:This yummy dessert looks like something a dinosaur would dig!
Dinosaur Train Volcano Cake Idea
- Lay a Bundt cake on top of a 9″ square cake.
- Completely cover the cake with chocolate frosting.
- Make orange frosting by adding 5 drops of red and 3 drops of yellow food coloring to a can of white frosting.
- Then slowly pour the orange frosting around the top to resemble lava flowing out of a volcano.
- Write a happy birthday message with white icing on the front of the volcano.
- Arrange plastic dinosaurs and trees around the bottom of the cake.
- Place a small train around the outside of the volcano.
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Dinosaur Train Party Favor Ideas
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- Party Planning 101: Our useful party planning guide includes cake ideas, party etiquette tips, a printable guest list, and much more.
- Birthday Party Decorating Ideas: This guide will tell you how to decorate for your party theme, what to do with balloons and streamers, how to decorate with food, how to set the table, and how to make your own party decorations.
- Parties Under $100: Use this guide to celebrate in style without breaking the bank!
- Party Budget Estimator: Download this guide to help budget your expenses.
- More Birthday Theme Ideas: Browse our list of over 130 themed party guides to find tips for your child's next birthday! Each guide includes ideas for invitations, decorations, food, favors, games and more.
Games and Activities
Printable Train Ticket
Pass these out to your guests as they arrive to color and decorate.
This game of I Spy has everyone saying "I have a hypothesis!"
Dinosaur Cave
An exciting T-Rex game that younger children will enjoy.
Tyrannosaurus Tail Tag
Guests will love this exciting take on the game of tag.
Dino Egg Hunt
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Hatching Dinosaur Craft
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Skip to comments.Actor Omar Sharif: "The Middle east Will Never Be Democratized"
Posted on 06/09/2008 11:40:19 AM PDT by hoagy62
Egyptian actor Omar Sharif best known for his film roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago reportedly blasted U.S. policy in Iraq and said Americans are ignorant.
According to The Middle East Media Research Institute, Sharif said the "East" will never have a democracy because people like him "prefer to go to the neighborhood sheik." MEMRI a Middle Eastern press monitoring organization posted an interview of Sharif that aired on the Al-Hayat TV network.
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"I said to Bush, even before he entered Iraq: Forget about all that. We, the Arabs... We are not like [regular countries]," said Sharif. "You will drown there.
After being asked what Bush's response was, the actor stated: "He didn't believe me."
"He knew that that well was mine."
I love the media.
"Let's ask a washed-up actor for his opinions on the future of the middle east!"
Even if he is correct, who cares what Omar has to say? Let's ask Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and the creep from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Hmm. He must have overlooked Israel!
The credentials of this bridge player are primarily that He is not a Republican President.
Everyone started out as a tribe of some kind. Look at the German barbarians, or the Celts of France and Britain. Naked tribesmen going off to war, coming back with severed heads. Later on, they produced Goethe, Beethoven and Shakepeare.
The Arabs have spent too long in the 8th century, but they are not condemned to be there forever. They just need to be shown the way forward.
Seems to me he has been proved dead wrong..since a vast majority of the people in Iraq and Afghanistan turned out for the elections. Higher than here. The insurgents and terrorists are still in the vast minority and dying fast.
There is no lack of interest in democracy in these places, but there sure is in Hollywood and DC.
So if you think democracy is a bad deal for you..I'll give you a list of hell holes that operate by your rules.
What's Omar trying to say? That the Arabs are too primitive and barbaric to live like civilized human beings?
Let's nuke from orbit, just to make sure...
And that means what? Abandon the murderous, ideological cult they have embraced for centuries? Good luck with that.
He converted to Islam when he was 23 and changed his name so that his Egyptian celebrity wife would not lose popularity.
He's spent most of his adult life in England and France. He now claims to be an atheist.
"Lets nuke from orbit, just to make sure..."
That would be my first thought as well.
No, he is trying to say that so long as one arab fights another, they will be a small people, greedy, barbarous and cruel. . . or something to that effect.
I'd bet that the USA net work Monk actor would agree with him too. Looks like they have the same last names and same roots.
I don't either. If he is talking about people who hold power, yes. They will always say, "this the ways we have always been. This is the way it will always be."
But I believe the individual, regardless of ethnic background, yearns to be free of domination, to have control to some degree of his future, to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In Iraq, it may take a generation to weed out the old mind-set and allow a new, democracy minded leadership arise.
Sorry, but I'm not gonna take that sh*t from some washed-up, has-been of an actor, who's only achievment in life is making others believe that what is in fact fantasy, real.
Persians, however, not only respected other cultures, but promoted the scientific advances and learning. They knew enough to send three wise guys when Jesus was born from what they had learned through Jews in Persia. Keep in mind, also, that Arabs are not among the great civilizations of the past, Saladin notwithstanding.
I believe he's dead, Jim.
Yeah! Screw that guy even though he might be right! I mean, who's he to disagree with Bush! The nerve!
Actually, I think that arab countries can be democratized. But, it's going to take two generations to get these people thinking on their own.
Muslim and Arab are not the same thing.
The man is right.
The best we can hpe for is to make sure we put Sheiks in power we can trust.
Islam and democracy are incompatible.
So is Islam and civilization.
Too bad Shariff converted from the faith of his ancestors to a murderous cult - but then that's life under Islam.
A great scene. Very telling, as well.
Sharif is saying that Arab's don't want to live under democratic rule. He's got a point.
IMO, I think the entire ME --- minus Israel --- exists in a vacuum more in tune with the 7th century AD, then modern times. Any efforts to bring democracy to the Islamic world is a futile.
I think Sharif is correct. Muslims hate modern western values, and thereby hate Christians and Jews. They would much prefer to wallow in their hateful religion and medieval Sharai law. By the way, there is no such thing as a "moderate Muslim". We here in the U.S. need to get past that notion. Even Muslims who are professionals working for our most progressive corporations and who live here in the most upscale suburban areas hate our guts and covertly support terrorist organizations.
What a bunch of racist crap. If you raise slaves, you get slaves. If you raise free people, you get free people.
What does Omar Sharif know about the concerns and frustrations of young Arabs in some slum in Cairo or Gaza City? No doubt he spends most of his time jetting around Europe or visiting some deposed king's palacial mansion. He probably gets gets his Middle East news from CNN and Rosie O'Donnell just like most other people in the West.
Then we lose.
He's right.
Pretty much sums up what T.E. Lawrence said about the Arabs after WW I.
I find advie from a bridge-playing-professional-story-teller difficult to take.
I also think he is dead wrong.
Famous quotes:
"Man will never fly"
"The earth is flat"
"The sun revolves around the earth"
"Pelosi is an intelligent woman"
gee none of these ended up being true. */scarasm
Remember, Iraqis are not Arabs. They are Persians...
Um, you mean Iranians are Persians.
Iraqis are indeed Arabs.
:-) Loved that movie!
I never said they were. It's the muslims who have the biggest problem with democracy. They didn't even have a word for it until just over 100 years ago.
sharif is a pos racist.
There is a very thin veneer between civilization and barbarism. Arabs are no different from the rest of us in this regard. You show me Egypt, I will show you Dubai.
I've often been told that the Chinese are incapable of even the most modest forms of republican government. The evolution of Taiwan from dictatorship to one of the most democratic society in Asia alone proves this to be wrong.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed"
Every time some CommieLib(TM) bubble head claims some group cannot follow our style of government, we just need to ask them what part of the Declaration of Independence do you not understand ???
Of course the Mideast will never be democratized. As long as it is run by muslims they never will have a legitimate government since they believe government to be evil.
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More Mobiles Than Landlines in Europe
Published on: 27th Aug 2006
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A new report from the European Commission has reported that more European households have mobile phones than have landlines. The report states that 80 percent of households in the EU have a mobile phone compared to 78 percent who have a landline phone.
However, only 19 percent rely totally on mobiles having abandoned the landline completely.
The bigger the city size, the higher the penetration rate of mobile telephony. This is certainly the case in the New Member States but to a lesser extent in the old EU15. Age is an influencing factor regarding the personal possession of a mobile; the older the respondent the more likely they are not to have a mobile. At the EU 25 level, also more men than women (83% versus 76%) responded that they have a personal mobile phone.
The report also found that the bigger the household size, the lower the average number of mobile phones per person.
In more than half of single-person households (61%) the member of the household has one mobile phone or more. This proportion (i.e. each member has their mobile phone) diminishes considerably in 2-person households (37%) and falls down to 27% in 3-person households and to 24% in the largest ones.
At EU25 level, a vast majority of respondents feels that mobile telephony has improved their lives. One-third of EU25 respondents indicated that they have the security of knowing that they can make calls from anywhere if things go wrong. Another third of those polled indicated they have the possibility to be contacted everywhere at any time.
Two in ten also mentioned the possibility of having the freedom to make calls when they are out and about.
Households without any mobile phone access (20% at the EU25 level) cited most often for a reason that no one in the household wants a mobile telephone, that the fixed telephone line is sufficient for their current needs or that they have no mobile phone access due to the cost of the service.
You can download the full report (130 pages, pdf file) from the EU website.
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As the McGill University Health Centre celebrated a $100-million grant to create and equip a medical research centre as part of its new megahospital project at the Glen Campus yesterday, one official expressed fears that politics might inflict more delays on the future hospital.
That's because while the Canada Foundation for Innovation gave McGill $100 million - the largest investment from the CFI to a single institution in a decade - it left
the Université de Montréal teaching hospital in the cold, refusing a similar grant for its megahospital project.
Denis Thérien, McGill's vice-principal of research and international relations, said he was thrilled for McGill, but troubles at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal could adversely affect McGill.
"It's politics," Thérien said. "And the situation is complicated because of that."
The CFI grant will be matched by an additional $100 million in funding from the Quebec government and about $50 million in funds from donors.
McGill and U de M officials have insisted since the beginning that the two projects are independent of one another.
But both projects, to be executed under a private-public partnership, will be overseen by the government-appointed former Bombardier executive Clérmont Gignac and his staff of 14, who are to scrutinize and vet every construction decision, right down to the lightbulbs.
The CHUM will have to get its funding somewhere, Thérien said, because it's inconceivable one hospital will be years ahead of another.
"But you live in Montreal. You know the context. It's impossible to imagine that the McGill hospital will be built years in advance of the U de M hospital.
Suzanne Corbeil, CFI's vice-president of external relations, said it's not exactly clear why the U de M hospital project did not get funding, but that McGill trumped it for the quality of its research, capacity to innovate and what the new space could provide in terms of synergy between departments and researchers.
"There were 28 fabulous proposals from across Canada. We had a fixed pot of money ... decisions had to be made," Corbeil said.
This is not a tale of two hospitals, she noted. "But it's unfortunate that it feels like that."


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Ames Laboratory scientist Cai-Zhuang Wang, a senior scientist at the Ames Laboratory, was named a 2014 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
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OLYMPIA — The cash cushion that Washington lawmakers recently set aside in their budget may not be enough to handle the economic turbulence expected in the months ahead, state forecasters said Thursday.
In a discouraging revenue prediction, economists said they anticipate that the state's $738 million in budgeted reserves will be whittled down to $163 million in the next two-year budget cycle. Forecasters also warned that there's a one-in-five chance that risk factors could trigger additional revenue reductions of more than $2 billion.
Marty Brown, Gov. Chris Gregoire's budget director, said the numbers will take the state into uncomfortable budget territory, but he wouldn't predict whether lawmakers would have to come back for another special session.
"We will be watching expenditures religiously," Brown said.
The Legislature and budget writers will now closely watch the next revenue forecast due out in September.
Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, said he thinks lawmakers should have set more money aside, especially because economic modeling is so challenging during the recession and because the general trend has been downward.
"This just proves the point that I've been trying to make: With so much unpredictability out there and so many downside risks, you need to cushion a little more," Orcutt said.
Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, who played a key role in budget negotiations during the session, said, "This forecast has understandably focused attention on how much money the state has in reserve. Between the unrestricted ending fund balance and the rainy day fund, the new operating budget the governor signed yesterday had a reserve of $735 million; today, on paper, that's down to $163 million.
"I would have been more comfortable leaving an even larger amount in reserve," Zarelli said, "but reaching this new budget agreement required a number of compromises, and the size of the ending fund balance was one. Our side figured the June forecast would be down significantly, just like the March forecast was, which is why we insisted on policy reforms that will save money going forward, and made sure this new budget was the first one since 1997 to spend less than anticipated revenue.
"Now we wait and see what happens in the third and fourth quarters of this year. If our chief economist is correct about a recovery beginning in the second half, we should be able to wait until 2012 to make any corrections necessary through the supplemental budget process.
"The more we do to promote job growth and economic activity without increasing the tax burden, the sooner we will see a return to positive revenue forecasts," Zarelli said.
Arun Raha, the state's chief economist, said downside risks continue to outweigh the chances for an upward deviation. He cited the federal debate over the debt limit that could cause continued economic uncertainty, volatile energy prices, troubled financial markets internationally and questions about economic growth in Asia.
Washington employment has grown less than expected and construction remains in a slump, Raha said. He said the earthquake and tsunami in Japan continues to threaten the state's recovery.
Wednesday Gregoire approved a new operating budget for the 2011-13 cycle that fills a $5 billion shortfall with some $4.5 billion in spending reductions, relying heavily on cuts to education.
With the state's unemployment rate at 9.1 percent, Gregoire said Thursday that she's focused on creating jobs.
"We continue to recover from this recession but not at the rate projected," she said.
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Trying out some things, with textures and stuff, planting a scene with various elements, i love environments and that kind of concepts but i suck a it(for the moment hehehe) i need more practice, since i love this kind of stuff this is first try of something like this!, so please leave comments!
Great work
That rooms reminds me of the office at the end of the first mission in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Very well done scene!!
The Deeph of field effect looks nice!!
The Deeph of field effect looks nice!!
"sorry honey, the pant store was closed today also"
Great picture.
Great picture.
esta increiiblee zulu!!! <3