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I'm pretty sure this is illegal
A tour group to Yellowstone Park was in the midst of their tour when the government shutdown occurred. Apparently, there was some nastiness. They were sent to the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone, and, as near as I can tell, illegally imprisoned.
The seniors quickly filed back onboard and the bus went to the Old Faithful Inn, the park's premier lodge located adjacent to the park's most famous site, Old Faithful geyser. That was as close as they could get to the famous site — barricades were erected around Old Faithful, and the seniors were locked inside the hotel, where armed rangers stayed at the door.
"They looked like Hulk Hogans, armed. They told us you can't go outside," she said. "Some of the Asians who were on the tour said, 'Oh my God, are we under arrest?' They felt like they were criminals."
Well, they certainly seem to have been treated like criminals. They were lawfully present in the Park when the Park Service closed it, they were rounded up and sent to a park facility where they were required to remain indoors under armed guard, for two days. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that constitutes a case of false imprisonment, to wit, the "illegal confinement of one individual against his or her will by another individual in such a manner as to violate the confined individual's right to be free from restraint of movement." If so, since the Park Rangers were acting in their official capacity, this should also constitute the crime of violating civil rights under the color of authority. I suspect that if I had been in that group, I would be in jail right now for openly defying the Park Rangers.
If these people don't launch a massive lawsuit against the government, then they're fools.
Frankly, I'm beginning to suspect the Second Amendment has some other purpose than protecting our right to hunt.
Joe Scarborough is a blooming idiot, and "stand your ground" laws have been around for a long time
I include the former in the title because, as the token "rightie" on MSNBC, it didn't particularly surprise me to see him fold like a cheap paper box to the culture there and utter these moronic thoughts about the Zimmerman/Martin case:
Because there is no defense for shooting down a young black man in a middle class neighborhood with Skittles. Armed with Skittles.
The man works for a news organization, for heaven sake (or one that claims to be a news organization). There is no excuse for he or any other MSNBC employee to be this incredibly ignorant about what happened to the point that they think they're credibly describing reality. Here's a clue, Joe … Martin didn't attack Zimmerman with Skittles. He attacked him with his fists. Oh, and key point – Martin initiated the violence. Got it?
And people are now claiming two other things that have no basis in reality. One, that "stand your ground laws" are new and should be repealed and two, it was the stand your ground law that got Martin killed.
Dealing with the last first, no, what got Martin killed was choosing (notice the word) to attack George Zimmerman by hitting him in the nose and breaking it and then jumping on top of the man and bashing his head into a sidewalk. Grow up people … Martin was the aggressor and it had nothing to do with "Skittles". Pretending otherwise is just willful ignorance.
But to the "stand your ground laws". Andrew Branca over at Legal Insurrection does a little research about the law and provides us with this:
The tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person to flee when assailed, to avoid chastisement or even to save a human life . . . [Therefore,] [t]he weight of modern authority . . establishes the doctrine that when a person, being without fault and in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel force by force, and if, in reasonable exercise of his right of self-defence, his assailant is killed, he is justifiable.
That's from an Indiana case ( Runyon v. State, 57 Ind. 80) in 1877 where the court found that no one is required to "retreat" when faced with what they surmise is a deadly assault.
In fact, the late comer to the game are these so-called "duty to retreat" laws. Branca notes:
Stand-Your-Ground has been around a very long time. Indeed, it has always been the majority doctrine in the United States, with only a minority of states adopting a generalized duty to retreat before using deadly force in self-defense. Even today, only 17 states apply such a duty.
And, as with most stupid laws, common sense tells you the law provides perverse incentive to criminals:
A criminal who knows he can seize physical control of his immediate surroundings with no fear of death or grave bodily harm being visited upon him is emboldened to do exactly that. You get more violent aggression from the criminal element of society, not less, when you force law-abiding citizens to cede control to violent criminals. It's Heinleins', "An armed society is a polite society," turned topsy-turvy.
Check out hot burglary statistics in the UK since guns have been banned. They make the case.
Everyone has a right to self-defense up to and including using the force they feel is necessary to preserve their life. No one has a "duty to retreat". Because doing so only encourages criminals to up the ante. The fact that supposedly bright people are unable to understand that and insist victims further endanger themselves and their lives instead of defending themselves speaks to a cluelessness about human nature that is really difficult to comprehend.
But we all know they're out there — and they look a lot like Joe Scarborough.
IRS scandal cover-up begins to unravel
The IRS scandal took on new impetus today with a interesting revelation:
Top IRS officials in Washington, D.C. planned and oversaw the agency's improper targeting of conservative groups, according to the 72-year old retiring IRS lawyer who will testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee.
Retiring IRS lawyer Carter C. Hull implicated the IRS Chief Counsel's office, headed by Obama appointee William J. Wilkins, and Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the IRS' exempt organizations office, in the IRS targeting scandal and made clear that the targeting started in Washington, according to leaked interviews that Hull granted to the Oversight Committee in advance of Thursday's hearing.
Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George will return to Republican chairman Darrell Issa's committee Thursday along with two central characters in the IRS saga: Hull and Cincinnati-based IRS employee Elizabeth Hofacre, who previously gave Hull's name to congressional investigators, fingering him as her Washington-based supervisor.
Yup, the rats are deserting the sinking ship. They are certainly not willing to go down with it and so they're naming names. And contrary to all the claims previously, it seems that Washington D.C. was indeed involved and not just a "couple of rogue agents in Cincinnati" as we were told in the beginning.
It's usually never the crime itself that hangs politicians, but the attempted (and ham-fisted) cover-up. And that's precisely what this is beginning to look like. As for being "ham-fisted", is there anything this administration does that isn't ham-fisted?
The Zimmerman case in a nutshell
And William Saletan Slate articulates it:
The problem at the core of this case wasn't race or guns. The problem was assumption, misperception, and overreaction. And that cycle hasn't ended with the verdict. It has escalated.
I almost joined the frenzy. Yesterday I was going to write that Zimmerman pursued Martin against police instructions and illustrated the perils of racial profiling. But I hadn't followed the case in detail. So I sat down and watched the closing arguments: nearly seven hours of video in which the prosecution and defense went point by point through the evidence as it had been hashed out at the trial. Based on what I learned from the videos, I did some further reading.
It turned out I had been wrong about many things. The initial portrait of Zimmerman as a racist wasn't just exaggerated. It was completely unsubstantiated. It's a case study in how the same kind of bias that causes racism can cause unwarranted allegations of racism. Some of the people Zimmerman had reported as suspicious were black men, so he was a racist. Members of his family seemed racist, so he was a racist. Everybody knew he was a racist, so his recorded words were misheard as racial slurs, proving again that he was a racist.
His summary is very on point. This entire shameful episode has been both media and politically driven. It has never been about justice. Never. It has been an attempt at a high-tech lynching, based on rumor, innuendo, false reporting, political pressure and misrepresentation.
Shameful doesn't even begin to describe it. And now, as Saletan points out, the same groups who caused this travesty to reach the point of a trial, have now doubled down on getting George Zimmerman in other ways despite an outright acquittal on all charges related to the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Saletan makes the point that the case was more about a series of mistakes leading to a confrontation that should have never happened and, on Martin's side an attack that was unwarranted. As hard as the usual suspects have tried to make it about race and racism, their attempts have failed at every turn. The facts simply don't support the premise at all.
And the overreaction continues as ill-informed groups riot (more to grab a TV at Wal-Mart in some cases than to protest the verdict) egged on by a media who has all but excused rioters for their action by subtly sending the message that the Zimmerman acquittal justifies their actions.
Meanwhile, the overreactive beat goes on:
The grievance industrial complex is pushing the Department of Justice to prosecute Zimmerman for bias-motivated killing, based on evidence that didn't even support a conviction for unpremeditated killing.
Truly amazing but not surprising.
We can only hope that someday sanity will again prevail in this great nation of ours.
Congress? Who needs Congress? And the Constitution? Forget about it
That's preciesly what this administration and president have done. Bypassed Congress and trashed the Constitution:
The employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act contains no provision allowing the president to suspend, delay or repeal it. Section 1513(d) states in no uncertain terms that "The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013." Imagine the outcry if Mitt Romney had been elected president and simply refused to enforce the whole of ObamaCare.
This is not the first time Mr. Obama has suspended the operation of statutes by executive decree, but it is the most barefaced. In June of last year, for example, the administration stopped initiating deportation proceedings against some 800,000 illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before age 16, lived here at least five years, and met a variety of other criteria. This was after Congress refused to enact the Dream Act, which would have allowed these individuals to stay in accordance with these conditions. Earlier in 2012, the president effectively replaced congressional requirements governing state compliance under the No Child Left Behind Act with new ones crafted by his administration.
The president defended his suspension of the immigration laws as an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. He defended his amending of No Child Left Behind as an exercise of authority in the statute to waive certain requirements. The administration has yet to offer a legal justification for last week's suspension of the employer mandate.
There's even talk of impeachment, although you know that will go nowhere (see my last post). No one has the stomach to really enforce any rules up there and that goes for both sides. But, as the Constitutional scholar that wrote the above points out, the Constitution pointedly charges the executive with "the faithful enforcement of the law". In fact it is his or her constitutional duty.
The Supreme Court has been pretty clear on this too.
Of all the stretches of executive power Americans have seen in the past few years, the president's unilateral suspension of statutes may have the most disturbing long-term effects. As the Supreme Court said long ago (Kendall v. United States, 1838), allowing the president to refuse to enforce statutes passed by Congress "would be clothing the president with a power to control the legislation of congress, and paralyze the administration of justice."
And that's pretty much where this is headed. We are being subjected to the arbitrary enforcement of law. The rule of men. In the case of the statutes for ObamaCare, it's because of politics. That's why you hear no outraged voiced by Democrats. They will benefit electorally by not having to face the uproar sure to come with it's implementation should that happen before the 2014 midterms. However, as noted above, if Mitt Romney had been elected and was the one doing this, Democrats would be squealing like stuck Constitutional hogs.
Another recent example of Obama's arrogance is his "recess that wasn't a recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. How can anyone have confidence in the rulings of the NLRB when it appears to have been illegally constituted – another arrogant example of ignoring the lines between executive and legislative power. If a board is illegal, how are its rulings enforceable?
These are important questions that demand an answer. Instead, they're ignored, the corruption and arrogance grows and we're subjected to arbitrary rule with no check.
If I'm not mistaken, we once based a revolution on those sorts of abuses.
Accountability? Not requiring it or enforcing it leads to corruption
It really is that simple. And you don't need a PhD to figure that out. It is a "Human Nature 101" course. If there's no incentive for you to behave correctly and every incentive not to (i.e. no punishment), then why behave correctly?
Now, consider the government we have today and all the various scandals. Who is the last person who blatantly violated the public trust that you've seen frog-marched to jail? Hmmm. But it takes a bunch of academics to again remind us that human nature still rules:
In a new study, Stern School of Business assistant professor of economics Vasiliki Skreta and co-authors, Karthik Reddy of Harvard Law School and Moritz Schularick of the University of Bonn, examine statutory immunity provisions that obstruct or limit the criminal liability of politicians, and which exist throughout much of the modern democratic world.
…The researchers quantified the strength of immunity protection in 74 democracies and verified that immunity is strongly associated with corruption on an aggregate level. They also developed a theoretical model that demonstrated how stronger immunity protection can lead to higher corruption. The model suggested that unaccountable politicians under immunity protection can enhance their chance of re-election by using illegal means, namely supporting interest groups through lax law enforcement, non-collection of taxes, and other forms of favoritism that will go unpunished.
Where's Charley Rangel? Chris Dodd? Barney Frank? Oh, enjoying retirement. Turbo Tax Tim Geithner? Well, not in jail.
And how about Lois Lerner? From what does she want immunity? Well in reality, she wants immunity from accountability. There's no other reason to seek immunity otherwise.
Unfortunately, she'll probably get it and we'll watch the level of corruption within government continue to grow, and grow and grow.
You want to know why people don't trust government?
That's why.
NLRB appointments indicative of Obama's desire for executive rule
Here's a story not getting much attention, but is indicative of how President Obama tends to use executive power when he can't get his way with Congress. Rule by executive fiat.
What am I talking about? As you may recall, Obama made appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during a supposed Congressional recess. Except it wasn't really a recess. Congress was not between sessions (that constitutes a recess), but was instead it was on an intrasession break, one of many Congress takes during any session. Never have those been considered recesses of the type in which recess appointments could be legally made.
That is until this administration. That's precisely how the vacant slots on the NLRB were filled with Obama appointees.
Over the past year, Cablevision has been in the midst of a brutal public battle with the Communication Workers of America over pay for technicians and allegations of union-busting. In May, Cablevision sought the intervention of an appeals court to stay proceedings at the NLRB, and now, the company is hoping that the high court will take up the issue of the NLRB's authority.
The point, of course, isn't particularly about the dispute. It's one in a long line of management and labor disputes. The question is whether or not the NLRB is legally constituted given the way the appointments were made. It's about the rule of law. When citizens see the government flout the law or ignore it, it doesn't set a good precedent. Yet that's precisely what has happened in this case.
And that's what Cablevision is questioning. How is there legitimacy in an illegally appointed board? And why, should their rulings be obeyed, given the circumstances of the board's recent constitution. Here's the point:
"The role of Congress is to ensure a balanced NLRB and the Obama Administration bypassed Congress in order to stack the NLRB in favor of Big Labor. Two different federal courts — the D.C. Circuit and the Third Circuit — have established that the NLRB is illegally constituted and has no authority to take action. The NLRB continues to ignore these rulings, and we ask the Supreme Court to compel the NLRB to immediately halt its unlawful proceedings against Cablevision."
Shades of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela – Chavez kept the institutions of a democracy, but he packed them with his loyal appointees that shared the same ideology and agenda. With what has happened with the IRS and the EPA, etc, that's not as big a stretch as one might imagine.
Is the IRS overstepping its authority in ObamaCare enforcement?
This should be interesting to watch:
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states today are suing the federal government over an IRS regulation imposed under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which will force them to pay exorbitant fines, cut back employees' hours, or severely burden their businesses. Complaint can be viewed here.
The Affordable Care Act authorizes health insurance subsidies to qualifying individuals in states that created their own healthcare exchanges. Those subsidies trigger the employer mandate (a $2,000/employee penalty) and expose more people to the individual mandate. But last spring, without authorization from Congress, the IRS vastly expanded those subsidies to cover states that refused to set up such exchanges. Under the Act, businesses in these nonparticipating states should be free of the employer mandate, and the scope of the individual mandate should be reduced as well. But because of the IRS rule, both mandates will be greatly enlarged in scope, depriving states of the power to protect their residents.
Michael Carvin, partner at Jones Day, who co-argued the Supreme Court Obamacare cases in March, 2012 and who represents the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, stated: "The IRS rule we are challenging is at war with the Act's plain language and completely rewrites the deal that Congress made with the states on running these insurance exchanges."
33 states have refused to set up these exchanges. The IRS, per the complaint, is ignoring that ability given by the states by the law and proceeding as if it didn't exist. The argument is the IRS is overstepping it's authority.
"Agencies are bound by the laws enacted by Congress," said Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). "Obamacare is already an incredibly massive program. For the IRS to expand it even more, without congressional authorization and in a manner aimed at undercutting state choice, is flagrantly illegal." CEI is coordinating the lawsuit.
We'll see. Given the way the law is interpreted anymore, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see the IRS upheld (or the suits be dismissed out of hand). Such is the lack of respect and confidence I hold for our "legal system" anymore.
NY soda ban: You can always find someone to defend the indefensible
In the case of Michael Bloomberg's overreach in banning a specific size of soda drink, the defender is some fellow named Lawrence Gostin. The headline of the article he's written is "Banning large sodas is legal and smart".
Really? Legal and smart? His defense of the indefensible has him channeling Paul Krugman, or at least emulating him.
As I've said before, it's always wise to check the premise on which someone like this operates. In this case, the premise is, as you might expect, flawed and the reasoning thin. It all comes down to a word – "imminent" – and the author's obvious belief that it is the job of government to save us from ourselves. You have to dig through the article a bit, but here's where Gostin's claim of legality comes from:
Admittedly, the soda ban would have been better coming from the city's elected legislature, the City Council. But the Board of Health has authority to act in cases where there is an imminent threat to health. Doesn't the epidemic of obesity count as an imminent threat, with its devastating impact on health, quality of life and mortality? In any event, the Board of Health has authority over the food supply and chronic disease, which is exactly what it has used in this case.
Members of the Board of Health, moreover, are experts in public health, entitled to a degree of deference. The fact that the proposal originated in the mayor's office does not diminish the board's authority and duty to protect the public's health. Many health proposals arise from the executive branch, notably the Affordable Care Act.
Uh, no, obesity doesn't qualify as an "imminent" threat such that a Board of Health can arbitrarily declare something "banned". Why not king size candy bars? Why not New York cheese cake? Why not a whole plethora of sugar soaked products? Well, if you're paying attention, I'm sure you've realized that if this had flown, such bans were likely not far behind.
But back to Gostin. Here's his real argument:
First, the ever-expanding portions (think "supersized") are one of the major causes of obesity. When portion sizes are smaller, individuals eat less but feel full. This works, even if a person can take an additional portion. (Most won't because they are satiated, and it at least makes them think about what they are consuming.) Second, sugar is high in calories, promotes fat storage in the body and is addictive, so people want more. The so-called "war on sugar" is not a culture war, it is a public health imperative backed by science.
So, there is good reason to believe New York's portion control would work. But why does the city have to prove that it works beyond any doubt? Those who cry "nanny state" in response to almost any modern public health measure (think food, alcohol, firearms, distracted driving) demand a standard of proof that lawmakers don't have to meet in any other field.
Because we don't, in his opinion, "demand a standard of proof" from lawmakers in any other field, we shouldn't, apparently, demand that standard in this field. After all it is a "public health imperative" which is "backed by science". Where have we heard that before (*cough* global warming *cough*)?
So we shouldn't ask lawmakers to prove that a) obesity is an imminent threat and b) banning large sodas will defeat that threat? Because that's certainly the premise.
In fact, we should do precisely the opposite of what Gostin says. We should demand "a standard of proof" from out lawmakers that requires they prove whatever bill they're contemplating is in fact necessary. Want to ban "assault weapons". Prove to me that such a ban will "curb gun violence". Stats seem to indicate it will have no effect. The lapse of the previous ban showed no appreciable increase in gun violence and we've seen an overall decrease in violence as a whole.
In this case, the ban Gostin tries to defend and contrary to his headline claims, was neither legal or smart. It was arbitrary and poorly thought out (if it was thought out at all – seems more like it was a capricious act grounded in an inflated belief in the power Mayor Bloomberg thought he had). And according to a NY state judge, it wasn't legal either.
Of course Gostin tries a transparently obvious bit of nonsense by blaming the failure on "Big Food" and a compliant judge buying into their arguments. It is the usual fall back position for someone who has nothing. And his trump card is to compare the food industry to, you guessed it, the tobacco industry. "Big" anything to do with business or industry is a liberal boogyman invoked when arguments are weak. And Gostin's is about as weak as they come. His attempt to fob this off on the "usual suspects" is, frankly, laughable.
I note this particular "defense" by Gostin simply to point out that there are people out there, people others consider to be rational and intelligent (and, apparently, who can get things published on CNN) that can rationalize curbing you freedoms and liberties through the use of force (law and enforcement) because they actually believe they know what is best for you and have the right to act on that on your behalf.
What we need to do, quickly, is find a way to dissuade the nannies of the world from that belief. They need to understand that freedom means they're free to act on what they believe in circumstances like this but they're not free to decide that others must do it too, because they've decided that's the "smart" thing to do. Freedom means the right to fail, get fat, do stupid things (that don't violate the rights of others), etc. We're issued one mother in our lives. And it's not the state.
State court says no to Bloomberg's large soda ban
As it should:
A state judge on Monday stopped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration frombanning the sale of large sugary drinks at New York City restaurants and other venues, a major defeat for a mayor who has made public-health initiatives a cornerstone of his tenure.
The city is "enjoined and permanently restrained from implementing or enforcing the new regulations," wrote New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling, blocking the rules one day before they would have taken effect. The city's chief counsel, Michael Cardozo, pledged to "appeal the ruling as soon as possible."
In halting the drink rules, Judge Tingling noted that the incoming sugary drink regime was "fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences" that would be difficult to enforce with consistency "even within a particular city block, much less the city as a whole."
"The loopholes in this rule effectively defeat the stated purpose of the rule," the judge wrote. (Read the full text of the ruling.)
Under a first-of-its-kind prohibition approved by the city Board of Health last year, establishments from restaurants to mobile food carts would have been prohibited from selling sugary drinks larger than 16 oz. After a three-month grace period, the city would have started fining violators $200 per sale.
So the nanny gets told "no".
Does anyone really believe this will stop him?


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Since the 1960's, Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader. We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read over the last 40 years. To view a list of Art Garfunkel's favorite books, go to Favorites. This book list has been divided into several pages to allow easy downloading. Each page indicates the author, title, date of publication and number of pages (when available)
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At Kentia Holiday Apartments you'll be 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area and 2.7 km (1.7 mi) from Emily Bay Beach. Highlights at this property include free self parking, a free airport shuttle, and in-room kitchens.
Flat-screen TVs with DVD players are featured in all 5 individually decorated accommodations, and you can enjoy washers/dryers, 2 bathrooms, and balconies. In-room dining is easy with kitchens that come equipped with refrigerators, microwaves, and stovetops. Select Comfort beds and premium bedding invite a comfortable night's sleep, and you'll find nice touches like designer toiletries. IPod docks, dining areas, and sitting areas are also available.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
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Kentia Holiday Apartments features tour/ticket assistance, barbecue grills, and a garden. High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available on request). This Norfolk Island cottage also offers a picnic area and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge).
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Playoff Schedule
(Week 14: at Miami, Week 15: vs. Jacksonville, Week 16: at Houston)
A pretty easy final three games for the Ravens with only the Texans' pass rush scaring me.
Coaching Staff
I am not a Gary Kubiak fan. I think his offenses in Houston were highly predictable and he wants to establish the running game to set up play action passes. Joe Flacco has always struck me as a QB who does better when he is mobile. This is a bad fit.
Fantasy Stud
It is rare that a Tight End is considered a Fantasy stud, but I am sold on Dennis Pitta. Joe Flacco looked like a little boy without his favorite security blanket at times last year with Pitta injured. Pitta is his closest friend on the team and most trusted target. He is an ideal pick in the seventh round of your draft.
Baltimore Ravens RB Bernard Pierce
Under the Radar Guy
Here is a Fantasy trick: when everyone chases the bright and shiny new objects (i.e. rookies), check out the old wily veterans who slide under the radar. Steve Smith is exactly that type of player. Smith made Cam Newton look much better than he is, bailing him out with amazing catches in tight coverage. Smith will do the same for Flacco and you can get him as your WR5 late in drafts this season.
Roto Visionary Sleeper
At times last year, Marlon Brown looked like a young stud. He had three TDs in his first four games and then disappeared in the middle of the season until he finished strong in his last four games. If the coaching staff finally gives up on JaCoby Jones and realizes Brown's true potential, he might be a terrific last round WR sleeper in deeper leagues.
Potential Bust
This is a make or break season for Bernard Pierce. Pierce looked good as a rookie only to regress somewhat as a second year RB. Now in his third season (and with Ray Rice missing time due to his suspension), Pierce will have a chance to establish himself in the Ravens' backfield. He will have a short window to prove to the coaching staff that he is worthy of being given carries throughout the season. The team also drafted Lorenzo Taliaferro just in case Pierce cannot get it done. Avoid Pierce at your draft.
Buffalo Bills
Playoff Schedule
(Week 14: at Denver, Week 15: vs. Green Bay, Week 16: at Oakland)
This is a very hard schedule down the stretch. Playing in Denver is never fun and it is easy to see the Bills having to play from behind in this one. Green Bay at home is another potential disaster as the Packers will try to use ball control to run down the clock. Playing in the Black Hole in Oakland is always a problem too for most traveling teams.
Coaching Staff
The jury is still out on Head Coach Doug Marrone. The pieces are in places for the team to take off offensively, but the QB is still a huge question mark. If the coaching staff dinks and dunks their way down the field due to trust issues with Manuel, this could get ugly.
Fantasy Stud
C.J. Spiller is a potential Fantasy stud. In fact, Fantasy owners thought so highly of Spiller that he was picked in the first round of many 2013 drafts. Now, in his contract year, expect Spiller to showcase his skills for the entire NFL. The Bills have said that they want him to get 20 touches per game. If he can get those for 16 weeks, you have a Fantasy stud for sure.
Buffalo Bills RB C.J. Spiller
Under the Radar
The Bills actually have two guys who fall under the radar. The first is third string RB Bryce Brown. Brown is one C.J. Spiller injury away from being a workhorse RB. Many people forget how good Brown was for the Eagles back in 2012, but you should not. Brown is highly explosive and the team has him firmly set into their future plans. Additionally, WR Robert Woods is flying under the radar. Woods, out of USC, is not the fastest receiver around, but he does know how to get open. Woods is getting most of his training camp reps with the second team, but that should not deter you from drafting him. He will end up with the first string much sooner than people think.
Roto Visionary Sleeper
I am not sure that I can call Sammy Watkins Roto a sleeper, but I know he is the newest member of the Roto family. What I like the most about Watkins is not just his world class speed and hands, but his work ethic. It would not shock me to see him get about 80 catches in his rookie season. What makes him a sleeper is that he is falling to rounds six or seven, but he might end up playing like a third round pick.
Potential Bust
My All-Bus Terminal Team is made up of guys who look great coming out of the team bus, but can't put it together on the field. E.J. Manuel is the QB of my All Bus Terminal Team for 2014. He looks the part with his size and stature, but something is amiss for me. I think he makes slow reads and is too inconsistent with his deep throws. It's never a good sign when a college team (Florida State) wins the NCAA Championship after their first round NFL pick QB graduates!
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The first hint Bob Huggins was preparing to do something extraordinary came last fall, when the just-dismissed basketball coach strolled confidently through the front door of a Cincinnati sports bar.
It was Nov. 13, less than three months after Huggins had been forced out as Cincinnati's coach. At 52, with a gleaming scalp of slicked-back hair and penetrating blue-gray eyes, Huggins seemed to those who saw him that night his old self again — bright, funny, irascible, dry and utterly competitive. A born winner.
In about an hour, Huggins would tell 250 fans during a Q&A that he was doing well, that he wanted to coach again, that the future looked bright.
"He was as relaxed, as confident, as open and as honest as he'd ever been in the times I'd talked with him," said Lance McAlister, a Cincinnati sports radio-show host who asked the questions that night. "It was a different side of Huggins."
Huggins was about to turn his dismissal into a rare opportunity to recruit players and build his next basketball program without the burden of NCAA rules — becoming, in effect, a free-agent coach able to deliver a ready-to-order team to whatever school hired him. In interviews with The Kansas City Star, dozens of people — players, former players, parents, scouts, coaches and friends — said Huggins, now coach at Kansas State, spent the next four months recruiting talent with two glaring differences from the coaches he would be competing against.
He would recruit players to play for him, not a particular school. And because Huggins was not affiliated with any school, the rules that govern coaches' interactions with players would not apply to him. The advantage was ingenious.
"He knew he was going to get a job," said Alex Meacham, a former Cincinnati player and a friend of Huggins'. "So he was out there doing what he could do within the rules. And he didn't have a school, so he didn't have any rules."
Laying the foundation
Bob Huggins never left success to chance.
In his 16 years as head coach, Cincinnati won 10 conference titles and earned two Elite Eight appearances and a berth in the Final Four. He was a three-time Conference USA coach of the year.
Though often criticized for recruiting kids with problematic pasts and running a program with one of the country's lowest graduation rates, Huggins produced winning teams. Many saw him as a coach willing to give troubled young people a second chance.
But by August 2005, university president Nancy Zimpher was winning an internal power struggle. Huggins would be gone by month's end.
Before he stepped down on Aug. 23, Huggins had already begun assembling the team he would eventually bring to Kansas State.
For most of his coaching career, Huggins — the son of a basketball coach — had built his own fiefdoms, first in Akron and later in Cincinnati, around relationships with talented high-school players and the coaches, parents, friends, father-figures and scouts on whom they relied to make decisions or get discovered.
That would remain true as Huggins began the process of transplanting his own cabal of Cincinnati recruits.
Making contact
As the pressure mounted at Cincinnati, Huggins picked up the phone to call a trusted contact, old friend and high-school basketball coach Rex Morgan. At the time, Morgan was coaching Jason Bennett, a 7-foot-3 top prospect at center whom Huggins hoped would follow him.
"Before he resigned, he called me and said, 'Look, this thing has turned a different way, and I'm not going to be coaching here,' " Morgan said. " 'I understand if Jason in the meantime wants the second- and third-choice [school], but I'm going to get a job, and I'd like Jason to come with me.' "
The phone call underscored Huggins' recruiting life over the next several months. Huggins would employ at least two recruiting techniques, according to those interviewed by The Star. One was face-to-face contact, from dinners at recruits' homes to trips to see them play to regular calls on their cellphones. The other approach was passing messages to players — through their coaches — that Huggins wanted them to wait and see where he landed before they committed.
"People have a tendency to blow things out of proportion," Huggins said when asked about it. "Did I talk to some kids? Yeah. Did I try to go out and recruit kids that I didn't know? No. These are guys I've been to camps with, that I've known for a long time."
Some of those players, like Bennett, would follow Huggins to K-State. Others, like highly touted forward Bill Walker, appear headed to Manhattan. Some decided to go elsewhere.
The sum of Huggins' efforts could transform K-State into one of the country's best basketball teams within a few years.
No guidelines
News that Huggins was driving a freight train through an NCAA loophole made its way to athletic directors looking for coaches, as well as competing schools, scouts and the NCAA offices in Indianapolis.
Huggins' approach also made its way around coaching circles.
"If there were rules in place to prevent something like that from happening, then it would be a different story," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "But that isn't the case. There aren't any guidelines."
None of what Huggins was doing was or is against the rules. NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn said any member school can ask for a review of the rules, but there are no plans to address the issue of "retired" coaches recruiting players.
Huggins is no stranger to the NCAA rule book, having faced probation and loss of scholarships at Cincinnati in 1998. He was summoned to Indianapolis after getting hired at K-State. School officials said the visit was a "refresher course" for a coach who had been away for only a matter of months.
Asked whether he thinks this recruiting loophole should be closed, Huggins said: "How do you do that? What are they going to tell me, when I retire and I want to go see friends of mine play? What are they going to do, put me on probation?
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Columbia River Crossing planners have cut $100 million from the project cost estimates due to the selection of a simpler bridge design, increased certainty of the construction schedule, and other factors, they announced Friday.
The $100 million cut — less than 3 percent of total costs — brings the cost estimate for the project to $3.1 billion to $3.5 billion, the CRC said in a news bulletin.
The estimate is part of an annual process that helps the project manage risks and reduce cost overruns.
The project said its lowered cost estimates resulted from the selection of a deck truss bridge type; increased knowledge of soil conditions from geotechnical boring; receipt of a biological opinion from the National Marine Fisheries Service; and refinement of interchange designs.
"The direction last spring from Gov. (Chris) Gregoire and Gov. (John) Kitzhaber on bridge type allowed us to move forward on a solid path to meet the current schedule," Oregon Transportation Director Matt Garrett said in the release. "We were also able to realize cost savings from increased certainty on our construction approach and design details as we learned more about soil structure in the corridor."
The announcement of a lower cost comes about a month after Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler released a report saying that tolling on the project will fall short by up to $598 million.
Finding that funding may also be difficult; as The Columbian reported last month, congressional delegates have serious concerns about securing much-debated federal transportation funding, while both Oregon and Washington are expected to come up with $450 million each, likely through new tax and fee packages.
The project is also likely to phase the construction of the seven planned interchanges to lower immediate costs, building as funding becomes available.
Discussions are continuing about the best sequence for the construction, which is expected to begin in 2013 and last for five to seven years, said CRC spokeswoman Mandy Putney.
Putney said the project's schedule has not changed since the treasurer's report.
Already, the CRC's plans include delaying the construction of the flyover ramp from Victory Boulevard to Marine Drive in Portland, as well as the interchange at State Highway 500. That decision, made last year, helped slash $650 million from projected costs, she said.
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National Security Adviser James Jones says he and President Obama will seek other nations' help in Afghanistan when they embark on a trip to Europe for a series of meetings this week.
"We have to rebuild a lot of relationships. We have reached out to everyone that we possibly can," Jones tells Steve Inskeep.
With the question of European troop commitment in Afghanistan still open, Jones says the U.S. focus in conversations with other nations will be on potential civilian aid, such as agricultural planning and judicial reform.
"We're trying to put a three-legged stool together," Jones says. "We have done the security leg pretty well, but we haven't done the other two legs — that is, economic development, and rule-of-law and government."
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Specific team tryout dates and times will be posted in mid-June on our tryout webpage. Private tryouts are available for most teams. If you have questions about a specific team please contact that coach.
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Suburban has developed and supported select / travel teams for both boys and girls for over two decades. Nearly 150 boys and girls represent Suburban through the select program, with many having initiated their playing careers in the Suburban in-house leagues. Suburban teams are very competitive in some of the top leagues in the Omaha area. Many Suburban Stampede players have gone on to play at local area high schools.
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The Omaha Suburban Athletic Association offers a Boys Select Baseball Program for age groups 8-14, the Suburban Stampede and Suburban Young Guns. Tryouts for these teams will be held June 30th - July 10th 2014. These open tryouts are posted in the newspaper, website and on the dugouts at the fields. We encourage any young man who plays in our in-house program to try out.
Starting in the 2012 season we developed a second Stampede team in the 11s and 12s age group. In 2013 we added our Young Guns program to have more of a select lite opportunity for our players. Those teams will advance to next year and we denote the higher strength team with the Blue designation and the developmental team as Green for each age group. We intend for the 2015 season to have a Blue and Green 9's, 10's, 11's, 12's, 13's and 14s. We are also starting the program a year earlier and adding a Blue & Green 9s teams for the 2015 season. We would welcome any other inquiries at other age groups from existing players or coaches.
The 2014 season is currently in progress and we are enjoying a strong season from our teams. You can look at their current standings at www.nebraskausssa.com.
In the 2012 season our 10s team won the AA State Tournament, Congratulations to Coaches Vosik, Vollmer, Bullock & Adkins for that great achievement. Our 12s team won the West Omaha Classic and Holiday Park Double Play Tournament in Des Moines. They were runner up in the Papillion Days and Nate Pullen Tournaments. They finished 6th at AAA State and also competed in the Open State Tournament losing their final game 3-2 in 9 hard played innings!
In the 2011 season the 11 and 12 yr old teams finished strong and competed in the AA Nebraska state tournament with the 12 yr old team winning the State Title! Congrats to Coach Hemphill his staff and players on that outstanding accomplishment!. Our 13yr old team competed in the AAA Nebraska state tournament. The Stampede 11's ended their season winning the consolation bracket in the AA Nebraska state tournament and finishing the tournament w/ a 5-1 record.
If you have any questions regarding the select boys program, please contact Jon Firmature, the Director of Travel Baseball, at 402-880-8989 or Darren Obrecht OSAA President at 402-651-5334.


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By Kris Walker
Solar Energy
The Future of Solar Energy
Solar Energy in Outer Space
Solar energy is an eco-friendly and inexpensive form of energy. This clean, safe and sustainable energy form has been used for centuries in various ways – to heat, to dry and to generate fire. Solar modules used for generating solar energy have long service life and low carbon footprint. Solar technology offers energy security as the use of solar panels reduces the uncertainty associated with carbon-based energy sources.
Lauding the benefits of solar energy, the European Union has set a target of meeting 20% of energy requirements using renewable solar energy by 2020. Several countries have stepped forward now to employ solar-powered clean energy technology for meeting the future demands by initiating large-scale projects such as the Solar Tower in Australia, China's massive Solar Generator, and the CIS tower in Manchester.
Solar power is now being increasingly used for powering TV stations and radio repeater stations in addition to aircraft warning lights, buoys and lighthouses. In many parts of the world, solar energy is used to power off-grid desalination plants and pump water in remote areas. Photovoltaic cells installed in the roof of residential homes provide solar energy for use in heating water and swimming pools. Small gadgets like watches and calculators often make use of solar energy.
The solar energy has a number of advantages over other forms of energy, which are listed below:
The following are some of the drawbacks involved in using solar energy:
Experts state that the future of solar power depends on its efficient application. With the increase in use of solar panels, the average cost of manufacturing these panels is reducing considerably making solar energy the most efficient renewable energy source in near future. While no other renewable energy forms can work in space, solar energy is used to power space vehicles and satellites. Spacecrafts also make use of high efficiency solar cells to power themselves.
As human activities in space increases, it is believed that travel in solar power-driven space ships should be possible in the future. Eco-friendly solar plants can be created to generate solar energy by replacing carbon-producing oil and coal industry. In addition, solar panels can be fitted on the whole building to extract energy from sun. They can be integrated into the windows and walls as well. Upgrading old buildings with solar panels will in turn create more green energy in the future.
On the other hand, solar-powered clothing prototypes are being developed which will have clothes embedded with solar cells capable of generating solar energy to power devices like cell phones.
Collecting solar power from Space for use in Earth has been under research since the 1970s. The solar energy available in space is cleaner and a billion times more than what we use now. Thanks to the filtering effects of atmospheric gases, the solar energy transmission from space is not much. Hence, the collection of solar energy in an orbit is nearly 144% more than maximum amount of energy attainable in the surface of the Earth. Unlike solar panels, the orbiting satellites can be exposed to large amount of solar radiation for a longer time. In addition, the solar power collecting satellites reside outside atmospheric gases which eliminates weather concerns like cloud cover, wind, etc. from interrupting the solar power collection.
The space solar power is used in almost all spacecrafts today. The combination of solar power with wireless power transmission technology can serve all our electrical needs on Earth. Moreover, space solar power can offer the required clean power for electric transportation systems in the future.
Listed below are the infrastructure and technologies required to attain solar power from space:
In addition to the technologies discussed above, a space solar power plant can also be built using materials from space, which will need some investment. The receivers for collecting energy from the power plant can be placed on Earth. With the utilization of materials from near-Earth asteroids and Moon, the solar power plant would be free from environmental impact. With all these promising ideas and increasing demand for clean and eco-friendly energy sources, solar energy will certainly play a major role in the renewable energy sector in the future.
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By Eric John
Amateur Wrestling News has released its annual recruiting class rankings for the incoming class of 2013-14. When looking at a class, AWN factors in a number of things, including rankings, needs and some general intangibles. Addressing a program's needs is one of the top criteria in developing a recruiting class ranking.
AWN Plus Members and Digital Subscribers can read the full breakdown of the top 10 HERE…
1. Michigan Wolverines
2. North Dakota State Bison
3. Virginia Tech Hokies
4. Missouri Tigers
5. Pittsburgh Panthers
6. South Dakota State Jackrabbits
7. N.C. State Wolfpack
8. Penn State Nittany Lions
9. Clarion Golden Eagles
10. Virginia Cavaliers
11. Oklahoma
12. Rutgers
13. Minnesota
14. Iowa
15. Rider
16. North Carolina
17. Stanford
18. Old Dominion
19. Harvard
20. Nebraska
21. Iowa State
22. Princeton
23. Illinois
24. Ohio State
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Albums (Warner)
What we Saw from the Cheap Seats
What we Saw from the Cheap Seats
No Plans
No Plans
Codes and Keys
Codes and Keys
Seasons of My Soul
Seasons of My Soul
Collapse into Now
R.E.M. are on an Olympian high.
Some Kind of Trouble
It wasn't so long ago that this posh, unfailingly earnest former soldier was actually taken seriously. After just two albums, Blunt has become almost a walking punchline.
Passion, Pain and Pleasure
Passion, Pain and Pleasure
Former Killing Heidi members Ella and Jesse Hooper are back with a new band - The Verses - and a new album, Seasons.
Kylie Minogue is back, with her best album in 10 years.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Soundtrack
Almost 400 bands sent in original songs to be considered for the film.
Mousetrap Heart
Thirsty Merc, Mousetrap Heart
The Distance Between Two Truths
This album feels more like home for Mark Sholtez.
PENDULUM's clipped breakbeats promise impossible exertion and massed release, as opposed to oblivion, and their synth parts squeal and squiggle across the top of the rhythms with the same simple...
Wonder - Lisa Mitchell
Sea of Cowards
Sea of Cowards by The Dead Weather.
The Adventures of Bobby Ray
PLEASINGLY, for every Flo Rida that emerges, there has seemingly been a cluster of interesting, musically credible rappers appear to counter them in the past 18 months.
Here Lies Love
David Byrne puts Imelda Marcos's meaty personal dramas to music.


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"Born This Way": Lady Gaga's anthem of acceptance
Lady Gaga's position at the summit of pop culture cannot be denied or overstated.
Progressives prepare for zombie doomsday
Will this weekend bring the rapture or one big zombie apocolypse?
Song and struggle: "Bravely Comrades, In Step"
The struggle for socialism is international and constantly evolving. Socialist music is the same. "Bravely Comrades, In Step" is a good example.
Common and hip hop are as American as apple pie
Conservative media pundits and Republican extremists deliberately used Common's invitation by the White House to condemn the Obama administration.
"Brothers of Bella": vintage music with a red tinge
Musically, "Brothers of Bella" is masterful, with rambunctious piano playing backed by accordion, bass, guitar, and drums. Yet the band doesn't stretch beyond the realm of classic music styles.
Tony Kushner CUNY degree struggle: Symptom of nationwide problem
Tonight the executive board of the trustees of the City University of New York will reportedly meet and reverse a decision to table and potentially deny playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate from John Jay College.
Trapped in history: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
In "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," Herzog adds a sometimes absurd, but always human, touch.
Rage rocker Morello: "This is a union town" (with video)
Tom Morello's solo act saw his return to political activism through music after a year of playing with apolitical rock band Audioslave.
Song and struggle: "Hold the Fort"
With its pro-union and military themes and its emphasis on solidarity, the song reflected the experience of the embattled working class.


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Author: TriEak Parmeshwar Mandali
Date: 09.06.2010
Category: World Faiths, Scripture Engagement, Unreached People Groups
Ours is a Christocentric Satsang in that we seek to magnify and give devotion to Prabhu Sri Yeshu (The Lord Jesus Christ) in all that we do. For this reason, every week we recite Acts 4:12 as a constant reminder to all that salvation can only be found in the Lord Jesus. In our Nepali Satsang, we recite the passage in English, Nepali and Sanskrit. The Sanskrit is chanted in a "call and repeat" style in which the leader reads a line or word and the congregation repeats it.
I have provided below written forms of this mantra in Sanskrit. I have also provided English and Nepali translations in Romanized script.
Romanized Sanskrit:
na cha vidyathenasmin kasminapi pritranam
naapi vastyanyat kimapi naam savarga syadho
manushyebhyo dattam yaddyavrasmabihi
pritranam praptavyam
Romanized Nepali:
Aroo kasaima mukti chaina
Kinaki hamile mukti paunalai
Suurgamunni manisharuma
Arko konainow deako chaina
English Translation:
Salvation is found in no one else
For there is no other name under heaven
Given among men by which
We must be saved
These chants have been taken from the booklet "Christocentric Satsang",compiled by Anil Yesudas. "Christocentric Satsang" contains chants in Sanskrit, with translations in Hindi and English. These booklets are available through the website adhyathmavatika.org.
For the sake of our Nepali and Bhutanese friends, in this blog, I have added translations in Nepali.
Keywords: contextualization, hinduism, hindus, nepalis, bhutanese, refugees
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The pioneering martial arts choreographer and director Lau Kar-leung, who died this week at age 77, was a kung fu purist.
He was a stylish martial acrobat but as a movie director he was not a great stylist. Unlike the other top action film directors who were his colleagues at Hong Kong's Shaw Bothers studio in the 1970s, such as Chang Cheh and Chor Yuen, Lau made violent masculine melodrama or elaborately staged magical conspiracies.
Lau had, however, a vivid imagination and great skill when it came to devising and staging fight sequences, and he was a sincere advocate for the Chinese martial arts themselves and of their cultural context, the traditional values of teacher-student fealty and family and clan loyalty inculcated by his father and first teacher, Lau Charn.
In fact, Lau was a key figure in every phase of Hong Kong martial arts movie making. He became a performer and a martial arts choreographer (or "fighting instructor") in the Wong Fei-hong films in the '50s, and in the 1960s, with collaborator Tang Chia, brought unprecedented martial authenticity to "New Style" Mandarin-language wu xia swordplay films such as "The Jade Bow" (1965).


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Daily food intake of Aushchwitz prisoner, original Schindler's list, names of children on Exodus, blood-curdling account of millions of those murdered – and overwhelming response to deniers. Dor Glick takes trip among shelves of largest archive in world of Nazi horrors, and receives chilling greeting from his grandmother who survived and her brother who didn't
Dor Glick
Published: 05.13.10, 08:11 / Israel Jewish Scene
Dor Glick
BERLIN - Welcome to Grosse Allee 5 in the town of Bad Arolsen. Here you will find just one thing: documents. Fifty million card cabinets containing the names of 17.5 million people who were persecuted during the Third Reich. Gypsies, social democrats, homosexuals, communists, people the Nazis just wanted to have taken care of, and mainly - Jews.
Each name has a card. Bad Arolsen (Photo: Dor Glick)
A tour of one of the rooms with Kathrin Flor, the head of ITS communications, is a lesson in history unlike any other. In the space of mere meters, without the grandiose display of a museum, the most tragically interesting stories of the 20th century can be found.
This is what can be read today on the businesslike document:
The committee operates in support of the following objectives:
1. Creation of families with many biologically and racially pure children
2. Support for single mothers that can bring biologically and racially pure children into the world
3. Support for such children
Signed: Heinrich Himmler Date: 24.12.1937
Jumping seven years ahead in time, the next binder delves the reader deep into the period of the most wide-scale, systematic murder known to humanity. The document is dated October 12, 1944 and listed under the anemic title "List of Names" containing the personal details of 1,000 people - 700 men and 300 women, all Jews. Number 672 on the list: Yitzhak Stern, Profession: Accountant. This is the original Schindler's list. (To view the full list, click here)
At 672, Yitzhak (Isak) Stern. The original Schindler's list (Photo: ITS)
"Speisezettel – Auschwitz" is written on another document randomly pulled from the shelf. It is the list of food the prisoners who passed the selection received in the notorious Auschwitz death camp. For instance, on Monday 7.12.1942, a "hard laborer" in Auschwitz received 450 grams of bread, 30 grams of margarine, and 125 grams of cheese. If you open the "menu" to two years later, this measly ration seems like a dream come true.
Keeping an eye on Konrad Adenauer (Photo: ITS)
On April 22, 1945, the prisoner Rachmin Feingold died in the Dachau concentration camp. The letters Sch-J are listed on his card. The archive staff, fluent in the Nazi bureaucratic language, translated the shorthand – "Prisoner without rights" Reason for being held: "Jewish."
Chilling family records. Dor Glick
Elie Wiesel's record. 'Reason for arrest: Being Jewish' (Photo: ITS)
The Nazi obsession with keeping records spared just one detail. In no list of deaths in all of Bad Arolsen will you find the word "gas."
Those who wish to browse through the archives can visit Bad Arolsen or send inquiries via email. The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, which works in close cooperation with the Bad Arolsen archives, holds several copies of the original document.
Both websites, as well as the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, share an impressive computerized database, but searching through it can be difficult. So, the Bad Arolsen archive offers personal assistance to visitors.
The archive was first opened to the public in 2007. If it were moved to Berlin, it would instantly become a must-see site for tourists visiting the city – certainly for Israelis. But it is located a four-hour drive from the German capital, far from any city of interest. Because of this, far too many people do not even know of its existence.
Flor, who holds a Masters Degree in History, and moved to the city in order to work in the archives, would like to change this. "I lived for one year in Israel, and this period left me with the great desire to help those who suffered under the Nazi regime. The past I can't change, but if I can do anything for the survivors and their families in the present, this is the main reason I am here."
In the meantime, the lack of awareness is notable. In 2009, just nine Israelis visited the archives, which can provide such important information to so many people. The total number of telephone and internet inquiries made from Israel was 528, putting Israel eighth on the list of incoming inquiries. Flor summarized, "Many more requests are received here from Holland than from Israel regarding the fate of those who perished and of survivors."


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.- Officials at the Vatican are preparing to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the largest church in the Christian world--St. Peter's Basilica.
The Holy See announced today that a press conference will be held on April 20th to present plans for official celebrations marking the fifth centenary.
The basilica, which covers an area of 5.7 acres, was completed in 1626. The tomb of St. Peter himself rests underneath the main altar.
Scheduled to be on hand for the press conference are Cardinals Francesco Marchisano, archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, and Albert Vanhoye S.J., rector emeritus of the Pontifical Biblical College.
Also present will be Archbishop Angelo Comastri and Bishop Vittorio Lanzani, respectively president and delegate of the Fabric of St. Peter's; Antonio Paolucci, superintendent of the Florentine Museums and curator of the exhibition, "Petros Eni;" as well as Maria Cristina Carlo-Stella, bureau chief at the Fabric of St. Peter's.


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My husband that won't touch me...
Definitely going to have my dr talk to my hubs at our next appt: July 16... Until then....
I've been frustrated because I haven't even had the opportunity to try to get it on. I usually feel best early in the day, and by night I'm so tired/sore/sick I have no interest at all. But in the mornings, I think "hey I'd really like a little lovin sometime". But hubby works at 4am, and has been going in on weekends to get some overtime cash (which I totally respect & appreciate), so our schedules just don't mesh for a morning delight. Hopefully I'll start getting some energy back soon...
Ferg & Fergette: Married 9/9/06
Ferglet Born: 1/10/13
I wonder if the men who won't touch their wives during pregnancy are the same men who complain that they can't get any after the baby is born.
We haven't done it in almost 2 weeks and I mention it like every other day. I ask him whats the deal, he says there is no deal! Our a/c is broken on top of it, so its about to get NASTY hot in here, which means we really won't be doing it. OH WELL. At least we aren't the only ones...hahaha.
DD Sienna - 1/10/13
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Comment didn't post?!? Oh well.
Get a battery Boyfriend!! DAMN!! I don't get these men that think they will hurt the baby, or "gasp" think it will grab them... It's as if they know nothing about women, its a surprise they got you pregnant in the first place!! LOL
Unless the Dr says no, go for it!!
Married with 4 Fur Babies
1st time daddy to be.


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The XPC factor: An interview with Ken Huang, the man behind the Shuttle XPC
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Although the PC industry has always seen variations of small-form-factor (SFF) PCs, it was only when Shuttle Computer introduced its first XPC about four years ago that the segment really took on a life of its own. Shuttle is now widely recognized as the pioneer of the SFF movement, and Ken Huang, Shuttle vice president of systems development, is considered the chief architect of the SFF concept at Shuttle. DigiTimes recently met with Mr. Huang to talk about the history of the XPC and how the product changed the company, as well as the challenges Shuttle now faces in the SFF market.
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1Get your first picture.
2Then, about 4 inches (10.2 cm) away from the other picture, take another picture.[1]
3Using a GIF creator or an image editing program, create a GIF (animated picture) of the two images at a very high speed.
4If it does not appear 3D then make the GIF slower or faster. If it is still not 3D, it may be because you can detect the 'wiggling', or the images are too far apart.
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- This is called 'wiggle' stereoscopy.
- This method is extremely simple and much easier to 'get' than the cross-eyed effect or other techniques.
- Despite the accessibility of this technique, it is very difficult to appreciate the detail in wiggling pictures and does not actually give true depth perception.
- It may not work on some people if they detect the wiggling.
- It is also the only 3D effect to work for people with partial/no vision in one eye.[2]


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1942 (Game Boy Color)
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SummaryClassic arcade shoot em up
The GoodIt's a classic game, the best of a series (1942, 1941, 1943...). The conversion to the Gameboy color is excellent!
The BadYou cannot run it in Gameboy, only in the Gameboy color!
The Bottom LineFirst of all, I'm a rom translator and I have translated 1942 in greek. I really know almost everything in the game. You can find the greek patch at www.greekroms.net
As for the game itself, there's not much I can say. A classic shoot em up. You control a plane, you go upwards and you can get some bonuses. (3 bullets at a time instead of 2, smart bomb, 2 attached planes) You begin from stage 32 and you end at 1. Luckily, the game has a password system :-)