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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team led by as many as 14 points in the first half, but Sam Houston State's hot second-half shooting, propelled them to a 75-54 victory Saturday afternoon at Johnson Coliseum.
The Islanders (8-15, 4-6) took a 35-29 halftime lead but the Bearkats powered their way back with 45 second-half points to the Islanders 19 to secure the victory. Myeisha Myles led the Islanders with 11 points and six rebounds, Verne'qua Taylor tallied nine points and five assists while Zoe Vega-Vega and Brandi Huff each added eight points apiece. Alisa Roberts also contributed with seven points, two assists, three steals and led the Islanders on the glass with eight boards.
Sam Houston State (13-9, 8-3) was paced by three players in double-figure scoring. Britni Martin and Sequeena Thomas led all scorers with 21 points apiece. Martin went 4-for-6 from behind the arc while Thomas pulled down a game-high 15 rebounds. Chanice Smith added to the scoring with 12 points and eight rebounds while shooting 3-for-6 from three-point land.
The Bearkats shot 62.1 percent (18-29) from the field in the second half and 85.7 (6-of-7) from behind the arc. The Bearkats outrebounded the Islanders 40-34 and scored 34 of their points in the paint, including 10 fast break points.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi traded buckets early with the Bearkats before the Islanders went on a 6-0 run. Myles jumper inside the arc pushed the Islanders ahead 8-6. Huff gave the Islanders a four-point cushion with a layup in the paint before Vega-Vega's jumper extended the Islanders lead to six with 15 minutes left to play in the half.
The Bearkats' Jasmine Johnson answered with a 4-0 run to pull within two. Taylor added two free throws before Sam Houston State put together another 4-0 run to even it at 14-14. The teams traded baskets back-and-forth with the Islanders maintaining the lead. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi went on 14-3 run to take a 13-point lead. Huff hit a layup from Imani Dunn to jumpstart the run. Roberts and Taylor added back-to-back three-pointers and Huff added a free throw during the run. Jammer's put-back gave the Islanders a 31-18 lead with 5:18 to play in the half. Smith added a trey from downtown before Jammer's jumper extended the Islanders run.
Sam Houston State ended the half on a 10-2 run, with eight of them coming from Thomas to bring the Bearkats within six with 1:32 to play. Huff added a layup before Khamra Echols layup cut the Islanders lead to 35-29 at the half.
Huff led the Islanders at the half with eight points and four rebounds, while Roberts, Taylor and Myles each added seven points apiece. Myles also chipped in four rebounds, Taylor tallied three assists and Roberts added three steals. The Islanders shot 44.8 percent (13-29) from the field to the Bearkats 35.5 percent. Sam Houston State notched the advantage on the boards, 21-18. Thomas tallied five rebounds and seven points while Smith added six points and four rebounds for the Bearkats.
The Bearkats gained momentum out of the locker room on an 11-2 run to take their first lead of the game since the 18:04 mark in the first half. Sam Houston State took the 40-37 lead with 16:26 to play. The two teams traded layups back-and-forth until Martin's three-pointer gave the Bearkats a five-point advantage. Myles added a layup to cut the lead to three before Thomas' back-to-back layups and free throw pushed the lead to seven.
Marquesha Anderson-Sparks got on the board with her first trey of the game to bring the Islanders within four, 52-48, with 9:30 left to play. The Bearkats extended the lead to 10 on a 12-2 run to lead, 64-50, with 3:12 to play. During the run Vega-Vega triggered two free throws. Myles hit a layup to stop the six-minute dry spell the Islanders went without a field goal. Smith answered with a three from downtown before Jessica Jammer made two from the charity stripe. The Bearkats responded though with eight straight buckets to win 75-65 on a 22-6 run.
The Islanders return to the Coastal Bend on Wednesday, Feb. 15, to take on Texas State in the Play 4Kay Pink Game at the American Bank Center. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Appeal Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Lord Justice PillTable of Contents
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Section 5 of the 1952 Act
98. The judge acknowledged (13.166) that "there are certain defamatory imputations which I have found to be defamatory of Irving but which have not been proved to be true". With respect to those, the respondents seek to rely on section 5 of the 1952 Act. That provides:
"In an action for libel or slander in respect of words containing two or more distinct charges against the plaintiff, a defence of justification shall not fail by reason only that the truth of every charge is not proved if the words not proved be true do not materially injure the plaintiffs reputation having regard to the truth of the remaining charges".
99 With respect to one charge, Mr Davies strongly submits that the respondents are not entitled to rely on that defence. It is the unproved allegation that "on one occasion [the applicant] agreed to participate in a conference at which representatives of terrorist organisations were due to speak". The conference was (13.166) "an anti-Zionist conference in Sweden in 1992 which was also to be attended by various representatives of terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas". Mr Davies submits that not only is this a very grave allegation but it is of quite a different category from the charges against the applicant's historiography which have been the main issue in the case. Whatever the conclusion upon the applicant's historiography, Mr Davies submits, the applicant's reputation is materially injured by the allegation that he agreed to speak at a conference attended by terrorist organisations.
100. The judge concluded:
"The charges which I have found to be substantially true include the charges that Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-semitic and racist and that he associated with right wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism. In my judgment the charges against Irving which have been proved to be true are of sufficient gravity for it to be clear that the failure to prove the truth of the matters set out in paragraph 13.165 above does not have any material effect on Irving's reputation."
101. We agree with the judge. While the attack on the applicant's historiography was central and fundamental to the case, it was proved in the context described by the judge which involved anti-semitism and racism and association with right-wing extremists. In that context, the allegation that on one occasion he agreed to participate in a conference at which representatives of terrorist organisations were due to speak did not materially injure his reputation having regard to the truth of the charges proved.
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About 450 policy and business leaders met at a summit hosted by Business Leaders for Michigan to talk about the "new Michigan strategy." They say pushing economic growth is about further developing industries like engineering, auto, higher education, and tourism.
"Each one of these is a potential driver for not just more jobs, but dramatically more jobs," said Doug Rothwell, CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan.
In fact, they hope to create 500,000 new jobs and boost personal income by up to $18,000 per person within the next decade. Local leaders at the summit say they feel positive about the state's overall economic growth, but some cities are in desperate shape. Former Lansing Mayor David Hollister is part of Mayor Virg Bernero's financial health team, charged with the task of coming up with ways to fix the city's finances.
"The funding mechanism, the way we finance local government is broken and needs to be fixed," Hollister said.
According to Hollister, if no changes are made, more urban cities in Michigan could face insolvancy and risk getting an emergency manager in the next five to seven years.
"They've got an older infrastructure. They've got population loss, they've got major drop in property tax and housing values," said Hollister.
However, Hollister's team has a plan for addressing the problems and the message at the business summit is that Michigan is showing strong signs of recovery.


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I followed the howto (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=315) and it seems ok but I still have some problems/questions:
+ the option 'enable multi core' is still grayed....so that I m not sure the MT is enabled.
How can I check that it works? I tryed 'top' and I see only 1 thread for mencoder (but it is 130% cpu)... so what???are there other options/modifications to do in the PMS.sh?
+lots of HD mkv (1080/720) that I could read before (vista) now show "corrupted data error" . Any idea on how to fix that?
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There were 71 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,425 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Resisting arrest: A man was apprehended after fleeing on foot during a traffic stop about 11:05 p.m. Wednesday near East Fremont Street and North Wilson Way, police said. The driver was identified and later taken into custody. Gabriel Gomez, 30, was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest and for an outstanding warrant.
Weapon/drug arrest: Officers contacted two occupants of a vehicle due to a Vehicle Code violation shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday in the 1800 block of West Hammer Lane and learned one of the occupants was on searchable probation. Inside the vehicle, officers said they found a handgun and individually packaged containers of narcotics. Larry Gregg Jr., 26, was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of narcotics for sale and other crimes.
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The next live simulcast from the New York Metropolitan Opera will be the new David Alden production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" ("The Masked Ball"), showing at 10:55 a.m. Saturday in the Finkel Auditorium at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge.
On the heels of last week's simulcast of Mozart's "La Clemeza di Tito," the storyline of "Un Ballo in Maschera" also involves a conspiracy to assassinate the King.
In fact, the opera reenacts a true historical event, the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden. On March 16, 1792, King Gustav III was attending a masked ball, at midnight, at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Soon upon entering the ballroom, the king was surrounded by Count Anckarström (the assassin) and his co-conspirators, Count Claes Fredrik Horn and Count Adolf Ludvig Ribbing, and the deadly act committed.
While the assassination is based on a historical event, a love triangle between the king, Amelia (wife of Count Anckarström) and Anckarström is fabricated. Amelia is sung by American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, who exhibits a powerful voice described by the Associated Press as "penetrating the house with radiant sound." Count Anckarström is sung by Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who acts the part with self-centering grace and sings in dark baritone accentuated with subtle phrasing. The part of "the conflicted king" is sung by Argentinean lyric tenor, Marcelo Álvarez.
Of interest to local opera fans, Count Horn is acted and sung by Colorado native athlete and bass-baritone, Keith Miller. His vocal performance has been described as dark and noble in tone. Also in the cast are mezzo soprano, Dolora Zajick, singing the role of Ulrica, the fortune teller, and soprano Kathleen Kim, bedecked with goatee and mustache as the king's page.
"The cast does much conscientious posing, lurching, dancing, prancing and grovelling," wrote reviewer Martin Bernheimer. Each of the choral performances are conducted with superior blend and gusto. The orchestra, under the baton of conductor Fabio Luisi, performs with bright clarity and precision throughout.
The stage settings have received mixed reviews - in particular, the large painting of Greek mythology depicting Icarus plunging to his death after flying too close to the sun as an allegory for Gustav III trying to push himself to achieve the impossible. Whether or not the stage effects fairly represent the story - both visually and allegorically - is subject to debate.
The opera starts at 10:55 a.m., but interested parties can attend a 30-minute preview at CMC at 10 a.m. Snack foods and beverages will be served during intermission.


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I am ready for winter to be over!!!!!!!! And the 2011 North Iowa Tour to get started!!!!!!!!!
Last year was a huge success! We had 29 N.I.T. Members! (4 women) We averaged about 35 players at each Tournament! We have high expections for this year's Tour! We have gone out and gotten more Sponsors this year so we could offer more for the players!!! More Sponsors, more benefits, plus all of the exposure we got last year, this year is definately going to be bigger and better than last year! I hope you all can find a way to be a part of this great Tour!
There is one big change from last year to this year!
All of the Tournaments will be FLIGHTED this year!!!!!!!
Instead of having Divisions for people to sign up to play in.
Men and Women will be seperate of course.
The Men will be Flighted into 3 Flights - Open, Advanced, & Intermediate.
The Women will just be in 1 Flight this year, we will increase each year as we need to with more women participating.
N.I.T. Memberships:
$20 for Men
$15 for Women
*One-Time payment, does not include Tournament Entry Fees.
*You can sign up at any of the Tournaments during Registration.
N.I.T. Membership Package:
Bag Tag**
Custom N.I.T. Shirt**
Custom N.I.T. Disc**
Chance to win a N.I.T. CTP at every Tournament
Earn Points at all Tournaments for the Tour Standings
Chance to earn an invite to the Tour Finals
** = Limited to the first 50 N.I.T. Members!
N.I.T. Schedule:
3/26 - Thornton Open - Thornton, IA
4/17 (Sunday) - Hampton Showdown - Hampton, IA
5/8 (Sunday) - Battle at the Bridge - Forest City, IA
5/22 (Sunday) - Bancroft Bay Open - Albert Lea, MN -----NEW
6/4 - River City Disco - Mason City, IA
7/23 - Northwood Open - Northwood, IA
8/6 - Coulter Challenge - Coulter, IA
9/17 - Battle of Belmond - Belmond, IA
10/29 - Tour Finals - Northwood, IA
Tournament Entry Fees: (Same for all Tournaments except Tour Finals)
All Men - $20
All Women - $10
Ace Fund (Optional) - $2
*Ace Fund will carry forward to next N.I.T. event if there are no Aces.
Flight Payouts:
Trophy for the Winner of each Flight!
Men's Flight Payouts - 40%/30%/25% of total Men's Entry Fees
with 5% (or $1 per entry) going towards N.I.T. Fees
Women's Flight Payout - 90% of total Women's Entry Fees
with 10% (or $1 per entry) going towards N.I.T. Fees
*Cash Payout for Men's Open Flight, Funny Money Payout for all other Flights.
*With this system the Men's Open Flight will actually have "Added-Cash" into thier payout.
*We will payout the Top 40-45% of each Flight.
Check In - 8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Player Meeting - 9:45 a.m.
Tee Off - 10:00 a.m.
1 Hour Lunch Break between rounds
Men will be Flighted after the 1st Round
All Tournaments will play 2 Rounds of either 18 or 21 holes.
Forest City - 1st Round all Men play from White Tees, and Women play from Red Tees. 2nd Round Open Men play Blue Tees, Adv Men play White Tees, and Int Men play Red Tees, and Women play Red Tees.
N.I.T. Points/Standings:
Men and Women will have seperate points, standings, and Tour Finals.
N.I.T. Members will get points for playing and for each N.I.T. Member they beat or tie, regardless of flight, at every Tournament.
Amount of points to be earned for playing and per player beat or tied will equal 100 divided by the number of N.I.T. Members at that Tournament.
N.I.T. Winner at each Tournament would also get bonus points of .1 times the number of N.I.T. Members at that Tournament added onto thier 100 points.
Only the Best 3 Tournaments for each N.I.T. Member will be used to determine Final N.I.T. Points for the Tour Standings.
The N.I.T. Standings will be used to "Seed" players at the Tour Finals.
N.I.T. Men must play at least 3 Tournaments to qualify for the Tour Finals.
All N.I.T. Women automatically qualify for the Tour Finals.
Tour Prizes:
Plaques for 1st Place Man and Woman in the Tour Standings.
Trophies for 1st Place Man and Woman in the Tour Finals.
Cash Payout to the Top 40% of the Men & Women Tour Standings.
Cash Payout to the 5 lowest Bag Tags turned in at the Tour Finals, and 1 Random Bag Tag.
There will also be a Prize Drawing at the Tour Finals.
And other fun Challenges at the Tour Finals for prizes.
I think that is about it! I hope to see all 2010 NIT Members in Thornton along with some new faces hopefully!!!!! You will not want to miss out on this Tour! It will be a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!


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More Charges Filed Against Massachusetts Coach Involved With Local Minors
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 11:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 11:21 p.m.
Tony DeSilva, a 41-year-old youth hockey coach from Massachusetts, is now facing 64 additional charges over an exchange of sexual messages and texts involving minors. After early emails with two local teens were turned over to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, detectives posed as the teens while the Internet relationships continued.
PCSO officials say that in addition to charges filed earlier — 10 counts of using a computer to seduce a child and one count each of transmission and distribution of material harmful to a child — DeSilva now faces two counts of traveling to meet a minor, two counts of encouraging a child to engage in sexual performances, and three counts of using a computer to seduce a child while misrepresenting age, all second-degree felonies. He also is being charged with 57 counts of using a two-way device to facilitate a felony, a third-degree felony.
DeSilva had his first appearance hearing Tuesday and his total bail is set at $182,000. He is being held at the South County Jail in Frostproof.
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- Nov 10:
- Kawakami: San Francisco 49ers look to recover from numbing defeat
- Vernon Davis, Eric Reid suffer concussions in 49ers' loss to Carolina Panthers
- 49ers lose 10-9 to Carolina Panthers
- Purdy: 49ers' report card from loss to Carolina Panthers
- Purdy: 49ers' 'unacceptable' loss difficult to explain
- 49ers lose Eric Reid to second concussion
- 49ers lose Vernon Davis to concussion
- Aldon Smith, Mario Manningham return to action for 49ers
SAN FRANCISCO — Terrell Owens, back at Candlestick Park for the first time in 10 years, spent a long time chatting with 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh before kickoff on Sunday.
What did they talk about?
"Oh, me coming in and working out for the 49ers,'' Owens said, straight-faced.
And then he laughed: "Nah, I'm just kidding."
The prolific, tempestuous Owens was back in San Francisco to be honored for "The Catch II,'' his game-winning touchdown grab against the Green Bay Packers in a playoff game on Jan. 3, 1999. The 25-yarder from Steve Young with 3 seconds left was voted by fans as the No. 4 moment in the team's history at The 'Stick.
Owens joked about a comeback, but it had a grain of truth. The five-time Pro Bowler continues to stay in shape for a possible NFL return and said that he thought the 49ers might call him as recently as May, when top receiver Michael Crabtree sustained a torn Achilles.
That notion never got off the ground, however. The 49ers had no interest.
"Yeah, there was disappointment there,'' Owens acknowledged. "But it is what it is. I can't really be too salty about it. Again, I thought ... I might be a viable option to come in for a workout. But nothing happened.
"I just kept myself in shape. I still keep myself in shape just in case anything out of the woodwork could happen."
Owens, who turns 40 on Dec. 7, last played in the NFL during the 2010 season when he had 72 catches for 983 yards for the Cincinnati Bengals. He has 15,934 career receiving yards, second only to his old 49ers teammate, Jerry Rice (22,895).
These days, Owens said gets his competitive juices going on Sundays like so many others — by fretting over his fantasy football league, paythefan.com. "That's the closest I can get to playing football right now,'' Owens said.
Sounding relaxed and looking lean and fit, Owens was all smiles as he worked his way around his home field from 1996-2003. He chatted with familiar faces on the sidelines, from security guards to photographers, and then sought out Harbaugh during pregame drills for extended conversation.
The 49ers' honorary captain for Sunday's game was clearly happy to be back.
"I never even got to play here (as an opponent),'' Owens said. "When I was looking forward to the free-agent market, there were times when I looked at other teams to see if they were playing the 49ers ... I never got back here."
Owens' career in San Francisco reached its zenith during that wild-card game against the Packers after the 1998 season. On a third-and-3 play in the waning seconds, Young took the snap, stumbled and nearly fell, and launched a pass to the middle of the end zone.
That's where Owens caught the ball amid a sea of Green Bay defenders.
"It was a rough day. I remember dropped balls here and there,'' Owens recalled. "You're just trying to do whatever you can to redeem yourself for those mistakes.
"I remember coming to the sidelines and everybody telling me, 'Keep your head up. You're going to make a big play somewhere to make up for it.' I didn't know it was going to come with 8 seconds left to go in the game."
So will there be a sequel to The Catch II?
"I haven't retired officially,'' Owens said. "My motto is: 'You have to stay ready to so you don't have to get ready.'''
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Were you one of those kids who would always be building stuff with Lego? (Ah, the good old days.) Now there's a way to get all that Lego goodness back in your life as an adult - and best of all, you can't accidentally step on a stray piece and have to hobble around for the next week. Chrome has partnered with Lego to create an online version of the game. Build something awesome.


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Google Donates 15,000 Raspberry Pi Computers to U.K. Schools
Schools in the U.K. are to be receive 15,000 free Raspberry Pi computers, with the aim of creating the next generation of computer scientists.
Google 's executive chairman Eric Schmidt was in the Raspberry Pi's home town of Cambridge, U.K. Tuesday with the co-founder of the Foundation that developed the cut-price computer, Eben Upton, to teach some coding to schoolkids and to make an announcement, reports PC Magazine.
The Web giant's charitable arm, Google Giving, has awarded a grant to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to provide funding for the donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model B computers to schoolchildren around the U.K. who are interested in computer science. The devices will be handed out with the help of six educational institutions to children "who demonstrate an aptitude and passion for computing," Google said in a blog post…
The six educational partners that will be handing out Raspberry Pis include: Codeclub, Computing At School, Generating Genius, Coderdojo, Teach First and OCR. Each device will come with an educational packet created by OCR that was designed to help the children get the most out of their new Pi.
There seemed to be a slight danger that the success of the Raspberry Pi was going to pull it away from its original educational objective. Over a million of the $35 credit card-sized computers have been sold to be used as the programmable brains of anything from media players to microbreweries.
The initial big idea, however, was that the Linux-powered pocket PCs were to be used to encourage kids to take up coding rather than to provide cheap processing power for adult hobbyists.
Mr. Schmidt has been critical of computer science (CS) teaching, or the lack of it, in U.K. schools. Raspberry Pi writes in its blog:
The really good sign is that industry has a visible commitment now to trying to solve the problem of CS education in the UK. Grants like this show us that companies like Google aren't prepared to wait for government or someone else to fix the problems we're all discussing, but want to help tackle them themselves.
Google Giving is the search giant's charitable arm and donates money to a range of projects from disaster relief to helping deprived children.
PC Magazine: Google Donates 15,000 Raspberry Pi PCs to U.K. Schoolchildren


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On a recent damp, dark June day, Kathie Fife was searching through thick layers of green to find tiny spots of blue.
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Imagine alien economists landing from another planet to assess the state of the Irish economy. (Don't laugh, for many Irish that is what the last few years have felt like, as troika economists – highly respected and capable but with very different frames of reference to most Irish people – have visited our shores). What would those alien economists say?
The first thing they'd have difficulty understanding is why an island nation of 6.5 million people on the edge of Europe has been split into two separate tax, currency and legal systems.
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The second thing they'd have difficulty understanding is why one part of the island is – devolution aside – effectively governed from a city in the south of a neighbouring island whose voters don't even share the same political party.
The third thing they'd have difficulty understanding is why after conflicts all over the world have been settled, Ireland remains the only developed country outside Korea to be divided.
Instead of two separate economies, one with 4.6 million (the Republic) and the other with 1.9 million (Northern Ireland) they would recommend that this island merge into a single island entity of 6.5 million – and growing – persons.
Economies of Scale is one obvious reason; bigger markets mean more effective indigenous industries and greater pull in Foreign Investment. Transactions costs and efficiencies are another: Operating two systems on one small island makes no sense at all. Leveraging the souths' access to the Euro zone with the North's access to Britain is a further reason why this merger would be recommended. Finally the north has an economy too dominated by the public sector, but its public sector is cost effective and well run.
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Although smaller relative to the economy, the south's public sector is cost ineffective but its industrial and business sector is vibrant. In short, the north and south of Ireland complement each other wonderfully.
As for religion, let each tradition fly its own flag. In a pluralist world, a United Ireland won't be imposing any religious views on its citizens. Ironically after pointing the finger at the south for being too catholic, the British constitution prevailing in the North is now a far greater candidate for finger pointing in this regard.
Northern Ireland is a legal jurisdiction whose existence is now, thanks to the Good Friday Agreement respected by the governments in Dublin and Westminster. But Northern Irish national identity is an artificial construct that in the long run is doomed.
Like the idea of a national identity for Yorkshire or Cumbria, the idea that one moves from one nationality when moving from Dundalk (in the south) to Newry (a few mile away in the North) is nonsense. Statisticians who try to group those in the North into neat categories of British, Irish or Northern Irish miss the point: The majority of people in the North regard themselves as some sort of Irish.
And those who regard themselves as Northern Irish have far more in common with their neighbours a few miles away in the south than they do with anyone in Yorkshire, London or Cardiff. None of the parties in Wales or England – the Tories, Labour or Liberals – have any representation in Northern Ireland. Nor any real interest or connection with it.
Boost for a united Ireland support in new poll figures from Irish Times
For Westminster, Northern Ireland is a backwater to be funded by subvention, tolerated with sighs and sometimes a convenient place for Prime Ministers to exile their political enemies in cabinet. And that is why in the long run, Irish unity – a unity based on a joint parliament in Belfast and a strong role for Protestants holding the balance of power and with strong safeguards for those of British identity – makes sense: We in the south want a United Ireland while the English have no interest in the place.


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When I was in elementary school I was a bit of a wuss. As I grew older and entered high school, I matured into a full blown nerd. Anyway, as a wuss, I avoided fist fighting, not all fighting, just fist fighting. I was an expert in getting into fights with words and I was highly skilled in using words to beat my opponent. It was primarily because of these playground work fights in third grade that I was able to develop a high skill of using profanity to make my case and win my fight. Most men didn�t develop the skill that I had in elementary school until they were in high school or even the military. I was a master of using profanity to whoop anyone who foolishly engaged me in playground arguments.
I remember one rather feisty playground word fight in particular. The playground supervisor saw a couple of us pushing, shoving, and swearing at each other. She wanted to teach us a lesson so she hauled us to the office and turned us in to the principal who in turn gave us a lecture on the value of friendships, and how swearing was not the way an educated person talked. I thought to myself that being in 3rd grade is probably why we weren�t educated since we hadn�t had the benefit of Algebra, Chemistry, or Biology. Anyway, we listened to her line of Bull (I have cleaned this up since I am now educated) and then she said, �I want you young men to apologize to each other and shake hands.�
Whoa, we weren�t sorry and shaking hands wasn�t going to clear the air. You see, saying you�re sorry when you�re not sorry is lying and even though I used profanity, I was smart enough to know that lying was not something a person should do. Saying you�re sorry when you are not sorry doesn�t mean you�re sorry.
Recently, a Hip-Hop singer from South Korea named Psy who has a big hit titled �Gangnam Style.� It�s the most viewed music video on YouTube and he was a big sensation. However, it was discovered that several years ago he made some very nasty comments in song about the US military and their wives and children. Guess what he did? He said he was sorry but I can�t believe he meant it. He was sorry that his record sales would drop and his income would be hurt. The DIxie Chicks made a poor choice of comments about President Bush several years ago. It was an outrage on Country and Western radio. BUt the Chicks refused to apologize because they were not sorry. I think the stuff they said was in very bad taste and I stopped listening to their CD�s but I respected their integrity for not apologizing for something for which they were not sorry.
There is a long list of apologies from celebrities including Mel Gibson, Tiger Woods, Kristen Stewart, Hugh Grant, David Letterman, and even Brenda Lee. The list goes on and on with people saying they�re sorry but usually it�s for getting caught and not for what they did. If you are truly sorry you should apologize, but once you�re out of elementary school the principal can�t make you say you are sorry and shake hands no matter what kind of language you use.


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The goals of the Human Immunological Diseases Unit (HIDU) are to understand the molecular mechanisms regulating the human immune system and how their derangements cause disease, with the objective of improving diagnosis and treatment. We study patients with a spectrum of poorly characterized, inherited immunodeficiencies and autoimmune diseases, who lack molecular diagnoses. These patients display combinations of 1) lymphocyte accumulation leading to enlarged spleens, lymph nodes, or lymphocyte infiltration into other organs such as the lungs; 2) immunodeficiencies that reflect defective lymphocyte function, with increased susceptibility to viral, fungal, or bacterial infections; and 3) autoimmunity, including hemolytic anemia and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
Besides patients with these features who cannot be easily classified, we are also studying patients who carry clinical diagnoses of DOCK8 deficiency (autosomal recessive hyper-IgE syndrome), caspase-8 deficiency state (CEDS) or autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) variants, X-linked immunodeficiency with Magnesium defect and Epstein-Barr Virus infection and Neoplasia (XMEN) disease, combined immunodeficiency (CID), common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), Evans syndrome, and familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH). We have established close collaborations with several groups at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study these rare diseases, including the Laboratory of Immunology and the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases within NIAID and others outside NIH.
By combining clinical evaluations, assessments of lymphocyte function, biochemical and genetic analyses, and new technologies, we aim to define new clinical entities and discover novel or unappreciated roles of genes that regulate the human immune system. An example of this approach is illustrated by DOCK8 deficiency disease, in which comparative hybridization arrays revealed autosomal recessive mutations in the DOCK8 gene. This combined immunodeficiency disease features increased susceptibility to various infections, but especially viral skin infections, including herpes simplex virus, human papillomavirus, and molluscum contagiosum virus, severe allergic disease, and increased risk of developing skin cancers or lymphomas. Ongoing work in the laboratory is focused on understanding how DOCK8 deficiency impairs immune cell functions to cause this disorder. By applying similar experimental approaches to other unique patients, we hope to gain insights into the molecular regulation of the human immune system in both normal and diseased states.
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Helen Su received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University. She completed training in pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University, and subspecialty training in allergy and immunology at NIAID. After postdoctoral training with Michael Lenardo, M.D., in the Laboratory of Immunology, she joined the Laboratory of Host Defenses in 2007 as a tenure-track clinical investigator.
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Jing H, Zhang Q, Zhang Y, Hill BJ, Dove CG, Gelfand EW, Atkinson TP, Uzel G, Matthews HF, Mustillo PJ, Lewis DB, Kavadas FD, Hanson IC, Kumar AR, Geha RS, Douek DC, Holland SM, Freeman AF, Su HC. Somatic reversion in dedicator of cytokinesis 8 immunodeficiency modulates disease phenotype. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Jun;133(6):1667-75.
Zhang Y, Yu X, Ichikawa M, Lyons JJ, Datta S, Lamborn IT, Jing H, Kim ES, Biancalana M, Wolfe LA, DiMaggio T, Matthews HF, Kranick SM, Stone KD, Holland SM, Reich DS, Hughes JD, Mehmet H, McElwee J, Freeman AF, Freeze HH, Su HC, Milner JD. Autosomal recessive phosphoglucomutase 3 (PGM3) mutations link glycosylation defects to atopy, immune deficiency, autoimmunity, and neurocognitive impairment. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 May;133(5):1400-9.
Chaigne-Delalande B, Li FY, O'Connor GM, Lukacs MJ, Jiang P, Zheng L, Shatzer A, Biancalana M, Pittaluga S, Matthews HF, Jancel TJ, Bleesing JJ, Marsh RA, Kuijpers TW, Nichols KE, Lucas CL, Nagpal S, Mehmet H, Su HC, Cohen JI, Uzel G, Lenardo MJ. Mg2+ regulates cytotoxic functions of NK and CD8 T cells in chronic EBV infection through NKG2D. Science. 2013 Jul 12;341(6142):186-91.
Zhang Y, Su HC. Designs for massively parallel sequencing approaches to identify causal mutations in human immune disorders. Methods Mol Biol. 2013;979:175-87.
Snow AL, Xiao W, Stinson JR, Lu W, Chaigne-Delalande B, Zheng L, Pittaluga S, Matthews HF, Schmitz R, Jhavar S, Kuchen S, Kardava L, Wang W, Lamborn IT, Jing H, Raffeld M, Moir S, Fleisher TA, Staudt LM, Su HC, Lenardo MJ. Congenital B cell lymphocytosis explained by novel germline CARD11 mutations. J Exp Med. 2012 Nov 19;209(12):2247-61.
Li FY, Chaigne-Delalande B, Kanellopoulou C, Davis JC, Matthews HF, Douek DC, Cohen JI, Uzel G, Su HC, Lenardo MJ. Second messenger role for Mg2+ revealed by human T-cell immunodeficiency. Nature. 2011 Jul 27;475(7357):471-6.
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FILE - In this Thursday Feb, 21, 2013 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the presidential headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The removal of Mohammed Morsi by the military was the culmination of nearly a year of acrimonious relations between the armed forces chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Egypt�s first freely elected _ and first civilian _ president. According to a series of interviews by The Associated Press with defense, security, intelligence and Muslim Brotherhood officials, the two clashed over policies toward protests in the streets and over Islamic militants in Sinai, with el-Sissi bristling at Morsi�s orders and at times even ignoring them. Each believed the other was conspiring to remove him. And when an activist group began working toward massive protests to remove Morsi, the military early on lent its help from behind the scenes.(AP Photo/Mohammed Abd El Moaty, Egyptian Presidency, File)
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's interim president selected a team of legal experts Saturday to rewrite controversial portions of the Islamist-drafted constitution, as the military-backed leadership moved quickly to try to capitalize on the coup that ousted the country's first freely elected leader.
While supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi still protest in the streets, Egypt's new prime minister called for consensus and participation of all political groups. But Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group officially has refused to negotiate with the new government, saying they are open for talks only after he is reinstated.
The persistent protest and clashes, however, continue to rock hope for stability in the country.
Moves to amend the constitution are the latest push by the country's new leadership to move ahead with a military-backed timetable for a return to democratic rule to Egypt. The drafting of Egypt's constitution was one of the most divisive issues that came to characterize Morsi's first and only year in office.
In his decree Saturday, interim President Adly Mansour appointed the 10-member committee of judges and law professors that will propose amendments to the constitution. They have 30 days to suggest amendments. A second committee, comprised of 50 public figures including politicians, unionists and religious figures, then will have 60 days to review those amendments.
After that, citizens will vote on the proposed amendments in a referendum, according to the military-backed timetable. Parliamentary elections are to follow.
In an interview with Egyptian state television aired Saturday night, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said it is vital that Islamists take part in the political process, though none of Morsi's supporters are in the new Cabinet he leads.
"We cannot write a constitution when the country is divided. The country needs consensus," he said. "It is important we return to a country of laws."
The Brotherhood say the only legitimate constitution is the one approved in a nationwide vote and ratified by Morsi in December. The military suspended the constitution after the July 3 coup.
El-Beblawi also denied that the country's army chief, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, was pulling the strings from behind the scenes, saying he only spoke to the interim president regarding the formation of Cabinet.
Liberals twice walked out of committees drafting the constitution under Morsi, complaining that the Brotherhood and its allies dominated the process and stifled their suggestions.
Protests over the constitution and the direction of the country turned deadly after Morsi issued temporary decrees in late November that put himself and the drafting committee above judicial oversight. The charter was then finalized in a rushed overnight session and passed in a referendum.
Unlike the previous drafting committee under Morsi, at least 20 percent of the second committee is to be represented by women and young Egyptians who helped galvanize street movements.
Mohammed Abdel-Aziz, a leading figure in the Tamarod petition drive that mobilized the massive street protests that led to Morsi's ouster, said his group has launched a new initiative to collect suggestions from Egyptians on the constitution.
"We want to reach a constitution that is representative of the people's will," Abdel-Aziz told The Associated Press. He declined to comment on which articles the group wants amended.
Meanwhile Saturday, a security official said unidentified assailants threw a bomb at a police station in the governorate of Ismailiya, between Cairo and the volatile northern region of the Sinai Peninsula. Part of the building and a police vehicle were damaged, but no injuries were reported, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
Clashes between protesters and security forces have erupted into violence several times since Morsi's ouster, killing more than 60 people. The most recent incident occurred Friday night in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura when unidentified assailants opened fire at a Brotherhood-led march, sparking a melee that killed three female protesters, authorities said.
The Brotherhood said two were killed by gunshot and one died after suffocating on tear gas. Medical officials said the protesters' bodies were examined Saturday.
The prime minister and Vice President Mohammed ElBaradei condemned the incident in separate posts on Twitter.
The Brotherhood said the killings "shed light on the bloody nature of dictatorship and the police state under a military coup."
Authorities are clamping down on the group, with eight top Islamist figures are under arrest. Prosecutors issued another arrest warrant Saturday for the Brotherhood's top figure, Mohammed Badie, and four others. The latest warrants accused them of inciting violence with police that led to the deaths of seven pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo this week.
Morsi has been held incommunicado at an undisclosed military facility since his ouster. He has not been charged with any crime.
The Brotherhood's television channel and others sympathetic to the group have been taken off the air. On Saturday, security officials said that police raided the Iranian Alalam TV station and arrested its manager. Authorities said the station did not have the proper permits to operate in Egypt. An employee at the station told BBC Arabic that they had applied for permits, but, as has happened with other stations in the past, authorities delayed issuing them licenses to operate.
Rights groups have criticized the clampdown and Morsi's detention, as well as the deaths of dozens of protesters in recent weeks.
In another sign of the interim government's drive to move on with the transition, Jordan's King Abdullah met with the country's president, army chief and other top figures Saturday in the first visit by a head of state to Cairo since the coup. The king's visit highlighted his support of the coup that ousted the Brotherhood from power.
Additionally, Egypt's new foreign minister Nabil Fahmy said Egypt continues to support the Syrian uprising but has no intention of supporting a jihad -- or holy war -- in the nation. Fahmy said that "everything will be re-evaluated" regarding the country's stance toward Syria. Morsi had severed diplomatic ties with Damascus just weeks before his ouster.
Fahmy also said Cairo is also "seriously assessing" its relations with the Syrian regime's key regional backer Iran. Morsi moved to improve diplomatic ties with Tehran.


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New Orleans police are looking for a missing woman who was last seen working in the French Quarter on Saturday.
Police said Nora Ann Miles Walston, 27, went to work at a business in the 400 block of Bourbon Street and left the business about 5 a.m. Saturday.
She was last seen wearing a black tank top shirt, black pants and a brown hooded jacket. She was carrying a pink purse when she left work.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504-822-111 or NOPD Detective Jason Sloan at 504-658-6730.
Crimestoppers: Reward upped in Terrilynn Monette case to $19,600


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POSITION: Defenceman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Edmonton, AB, CAN
DRAFTED: FLA: 2002-3 overall
|WHL East First All-Star Team (2002) NHL All-Rookie Team (2003) Played in NHL All-Star Game (2007, 2009) Loaned to Chicago (AHL) by Florida for cash, March 8, 2005. Traded to Calgary by Florida for Jordan Leopold and Phoenix's 3rd round choice (previously acquired, Florida selected Josh Birkholz) in 2009 Entry Draft, June 27, 2009. Traded to St. Louis by Calgary for Mark Cundari, Reto Berra and St. Louis' 1st round choice (Emile Poirier) in 2013 Entry Draft, April 1, 2013.
2010-11: Currently has the NHL's longest iron man streak (505 games) ... picked up his first point (assist) of the season on Oct.22 ... scored his first goal of the season on Oct.26 ... scored the game winning goal on Nov.29 ... led the team in blocked shots (4) on Dec.5 ... had a season high 34:24 in ice time and led the team in blocked shots (4) on Dec.10 ... led the team in blocked shots (4) on Dec.16 ... led the team in blocked shots (4) on Dec.23 ... scored his fourth goal on Jan.11 ... led the team in blocked shots (5) on Jan.15 ... played in his 600th career game on Jan.19 ... led the team in blocked shots (5) on Feb.3 ... was a team high +4 on Feb.14 ... set the NHL record for consecutive games by a defenseman at 496 on March 15 ... had his first multi-point game of the season (0+2) on Mar.17 ... played his 500th consecutive game on Mar.23 ... leads the Flames in avg. ice time at 25:59 minutes per game
2009-10: Made his Flames debut on Oct.1 …registered his first two points as a Flame with a pair of assists on Oct.3 .... had a two point game (1+1) including his first goal as a Flame on Oct.20 ... had a pair of assists on Nov.21 ... played his 500th career NHL game on Dec.7 ... is the current NHL ironman ... registered two assists and a team high +4 on Jan.30 ... played his 400th consecutive game against his former team (FLA) on Feb.5 ... had a pair of assists on Mar. 23
2008-09: Completed his sixth NHL season, sixth with Florida … Was one of two Panthers to play in all 82 games (Ballard) and is the current NHL's Ironman for most consecutive games played (342), dating to the 2003-04 season … Recorded a NHL career high 9 power play goals … Tied for 9th in the NHL among defensemen in goals (15-McCabe, FLA) and tied for 23rd in the NHL among defenseman in points (42-Zidlicky, MIN) … Ranked first among NHL defenseman and paced Florida for second consecutive season averaging 26:59 in time on ice per game … Represented the Eastern Conference in the 2009 NHL All-Star Game where he recorded the game-tying goal, two assists and was a plus-3 … Named Panthers ADT Defensive Player of the Year ... Played in his 400th career NHL game Nov. 2 at Atlanta … Notched the game-winning goal and an assist Jan. 17 at Tampa Bay … Had a six-game point streak (4-3-7) and a four-game goal scoring streak (4-1-5) snapped Jan. 19 … Scored his 50th career NHL goal Feb. 5 vs. NY Islanders, only the second defenseman in Panthers history to reach this mark (Svehla) … Recorded his 200th point of his career with a goal and added an assist March 28 at Dallas.
2007-08: Completed his fifth NHL season, fifth with Florida … Was one of three Panthers to play in all 82 games (Horton, Jokinen) … Named Panthers ADT Defensive Player of the Year … Recorded an NHL career-high 15 goals … Led the NHL averaging 27:28 of ice time per game … Recorded a goal and an assist four times (Dec. 16 at Chicago, Jan. 16 at Philadelphia, Feb. 2 at Tampa Bay and March 22 vs. Tampa Bay) … 2006-07: Completed his fourth NHL season, fourth with Florida … Recorded a career-high 12 goals … Was one of six Panthers to play in all 82 games (Allen, Gelinas, Horton, Jokinen, Salei) … Selected to his first career NHL All-Star Game … Named ADT Florida Defensive Player of the Year … Was eighth in the NHL among defensemen with three GWG … Led Florida and was 11th among NHL defensemen with a plus-23 rating … Recorded his 100th career assist April 1 vs. Carolina … Scored two goals for the first time in his career and had a career-high four points (2-2-4) Jan. 13 vs. Washington ... Scored a goal, the 100th point of his NHL career, and had two assists Jan. 4 at Calgary ... Scored first goal of the season, the first GWG of his NHL career on the power play Oct. 13 vs. Tampa Bay ... Notched first point of season, an assist, Oct. 6 vs. Boston … 2005-06: Completed his third NHL season, third with Florida, posting career-highs in goals (5), assists (41), points (46) and PIM (79) ... Finished second all-time among Panthers defensemen for assists in one season (41) … Paced the Cats in time on ice (2040:26), averaging a team high 25:29 per game … Recorded a career-high three assists against Columbus Jan. 14 … Skated in his 200th NHL game Feb. 11 at Buffalo … Notched a pair of assists five times (April 1 vs. Tampa Bay, March 29 at Pittsburgh, Feb. 28 at Tampa Bay, Feb. 4 at Atlanta and Dec. 28 at Boston) … One of just three Panthers (Gelinas, Jokinen) to play in all 82 games … 2004-05: Split first complete AHL season between the San Antonio Rampage and the Chicago Wolves ... Appeared in 65 contests with San Antonio, going 4-14-18 with a career-high in PIM (50) ... Loaned to Chicago on March 8 completing the AHL regular season with the Wolves, going 6-3-9 with 12 PIM in 18 games … PLAYOFFS: Debuted in first career postseason, helping Chicago reach the Calder Cup Finals … 2003-04: Completed second NHL season posting two goals and career-highs in assists (18), points (20) and PIM (30) ... Reassigned to San Antonio (AHL) for conditioning Feb. 29, playing in two games and notching one assist, before being recalled March 3 ... Missed 18 games (Jan. 19 - Feb. 25) with a broken foot sustained Jan. 11 at Vancouver ... His injury snapped his streak of 128 straight games played, a franchise record for most consecutive games played from the start of a Panthers career ... Played in 100th career NHL game Nov. 15 at Pittsburgh ... Scored his first goal of the season Oct. 22 at New Jersey … 2002-03: Completed rookie season, going 4-12-16 with 14 PIM in 82 games ... Named to the NHL All-Rookie Team … Set franchise rookie record for games played (82) ... One of only three Panthers (Nilson, Majesky) to play in all 82 games ... Tied club mark for assists by a rookie defenseman (12, set by Jaroslav Spacek in 1998-99) ... Tied for first among NHL rookies in GTG (2) ... Finished fifth among all NHL rookies in power-play assists (8) and tied for fifth in power-play points (10) ... Finished second among all rookie defensemen in average ice time (20:08) ... Scored all four goals at home ... Notched GTG and added an assist Feb. 8 vs. Tampa Bay for first career multiple-point game ... Recorded an assist in 2003 Topps/NHL YoungStars Game Feb. 1 ... Scored his first NHL goal (GTG) Nov. 11 vs. Chicago (Jocelyn Thibault) ... Scored first NHL point with an assist in his NHL debut Oct. 10 vs. Tampa Bay
2008: Represented Team Canada in the World Championship playing in nine games and earning a Bronze Medal … 2006: Represented Team Canada in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics … 2005: Skated with Team Canada, winning the 2004 World Cup of Hockey in September … 2003: Won Gold Medal with Team Canada at the 2003 World Championships in Finland, going 3-4-7 with four PIM … Named to All-Tournament Team and selected as tournament's Best Defenseman … 2002: Won Silver Medal with Canada at 2002 World Junior Championships in the Czech Republic … 2001: Notched two assists in seven games for Bronze Medal-winning Team Canada at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Moscow, Russia … 2000: Became the youngest player ever (16 years, 3 mos.) and fourth player overall to skate with Team Canada at the World Junior Championships as a 16-year old (Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Jason Spezza) ... Won the Bronze Medal with Team Canada in 2000 World Junior Championships in Sweden.
2001-02: Went 11-50-61 with 42 PIM in 61 games with Medicine Hat, finishing third in WHL defenseman scoring and fifth overall in league power-play assists (28) … Named to WHL Eastern Conference First All-Star Team … Named Medicine Hat's Player of the Year and won team award as Top Defenseman … MVP of Team Tiger Williams at CHL Top Prospects Game Feb. 1 at Saskatoon, SK (1-1-2) … Won fastest skater contest at Top Prospects Skills Competition Jan. 31 … Ranked top prospect in 2002 Entry Draft by Central Scouting in both mid-season and final reports … 2000-01: Tallied 14-39-53 with 44 PIM in 61 games with Medicine Hat … 1999-00: Went 13-21-34 with 22 PIM in 64 games in first full WHL season ... Became the youngest player ever (16 years, 3 mos.) and fourth player overall to skate with Team Canada at the World Junior Championships as a 16-year old (Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Jason Spezza) … 1998-99: Played eight games with Medicine Hat (WHL), going 2-1-3 with two PIM.


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djdee2005 wrote: a band-aid is better than nothing.
djdee2005 wrote: I swear you haven't read a single post...
I said that I'm against completely banning guns...recall?
I'm just for heavily regulating them. Why on earth do you have to take a test to prove you can operate a car, but we trust that people should be authorized to operate a gun safely?
Considering the number of kids who "find" guns in their homes every year, I think its pretty damn stupid that we don't..
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Heavily regulating a weapon will convince people the hassle isn't worth it (as it already has in my state) and effectively ban them. This has happened before (hemp - Tax Stamp Act among others).
When I get a chance I'll hunt down numbers and compare Massachusetts (my state, with HEAVY gun regulations) to another state similar in population size with less gun restrictions (a southern state, no doubt). This will be a solid statistic to back up my argument (although still only as reliable as statistics usually are...i.e. not very). If I'm wrong, I'm wrong - but before we start doing something as radical as setting up the building blocks of a police state (what heavily regulating guns will do) we should make sure that the objective that we're trying to acheive will be met. Looking at other countries on a national level, I have found that gun control and murder rates are not directly proportional. In Switzerland, for example, I beleive it is a law that you must own a gun (that may have changed) but they have FAR less gun deaths than our country. How does THAT happen? Of course, using my own argument regarding culture and the disparity between the rich and the poor being the fundamental causes of killings in the first place, I know that what happens THERE is no indication of what will happen HERE - so comparing states is probably the most reliable way to get to the bottom of this sort of thing (and even that wouldn't really make me want to pass any more laws regarding it - but it would certainly substantiate your argument better than it stands on it's own ideological grounds of allowing a centralized beaurocracy to control our individual ownership rights ;-)
I'll look into it. If you're really in it for the long haul, do the same. If the numbers prove me wrong, then I'll concede and I promise to you in advance that I'll vote YES to any referendum's regarding gun control on the 2004 ballot.
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On another note...something you mentioned...about the town which forced everyone to own a gun (which in my opinion is absolutely ridiculous...if you have a right to have a gun, you should certainly have a right NOT to have one...never mind the fact that there are some people I NEVER want to see with guns simply because they are irresponsible idiots).
djdee2005 wrote: Well that site's not biased at all ;)


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MUST 111 Elementary Theory: Sight Singing and Ear Training (1-1-1), fall. Singing in treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs; major and minor modes, elementary melodic and harmonic diction. Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in MUST 131.
MUST 112 Elementary Theory: Sight Singing and Ear Training (1-1-1), spring. Prerequisites: MUST 111, 131; concurrent enrollment in MUST 132.
MUST 120 Music Fundamentals (2-0-2), fall. A review of the fundamentals of music including clefs, key signatures, time signatures, and notation. Designed to prepare students for the music theory sequence.
MUST 131 Elementary Theory I: Analysis and Keyboard (3-0-3), fall. Introduction to analysis, part-writing, figured bass realization, and harmonization using diatonic harmony. Prerequisite: A Music Entrance Exam score of greater than 40 percent or satisfactory completion of MUST 120. Concurrent enrollment in MUST 111 required.
MUST 132 Elementary Theory II: Analysis and Keyboard (3-0-3), spring. Continuation of analysis, part writing, figured bass realization and harmonization covering the harmonic vocabulary of 18th century music including diatonic chords, secondary dominants, and modulation. Prerequisites: MUST 111, 131; concurrent enrollment in MUST 112.
MUST 211 Advanced Theory: Sight Singing and Ear Training (1-1-1), fall. Includes chromaticism and modulations to closely related keys. Prerequisites: MUST 112, 132.
MUST 212 Advanced Theory: Sight Singing and Ear Training (1-1-1), spring. Continuation of MUST 211 with modulations to all keys. Emphasis on development of improvisational skills. Prerequisite: MUST 211.
MUST 231 Advanced Theory I: Analysis and Keyboard (3-0-3), fall. Analysis, part-writing, and figured bass realization and harmonization covering the extended harmonic vocabulary of the nineteenth century including modulation, altered chords, chromatic harmony, and modes. Prerequisites: MUST 112, 132; concurrent enrollment in MUST 211 required.
MUST 232 Advanced Music Theory II: Analysis and Keyboard (3-0-3), spring. Literature, analysis and theoretical concepts of music since 1900. Emphasis will be placed on computer applications in music. This course satisfies the computer literacy requirements for music majors seeking teacher certification. Prerequisite: MUST 231; concurrent enrollment in MUST 212 required.
MUST 233 Jazz Theory and Improvisation (2-0-2), fall, odd years. Introduces the fundamentals of jazz theory and improvisational techniques, emphasizing in-class improvising in various jazz styles and formats. Prerequisite: MUST 231.
MUST 331 Counterpoint (2-0-2), fall, odd years. The study and analysis of late 17th and early 18th century polyphony with emphasis on stylistic composition in two and three parts. Prerequisite: MUST 232.
MUST 332 Forms and Analysis (2-0-2), spring. An analytical study of selected compositions from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. Prerequisite: MUST 232.
MUST 333 Jazz Composition and Arranging (2-0-2), spring, odd years. Explores the technical and creative aspects required to compose and arrange various jazz works ranging from a small combo to a tradition jazz big band. Prerequisite: MUST 233.
MUST 432 Orchestration and Arranging (2-0-2), fall. Ranges, transpositions, timbres, and individual characteristics of band and orchestra instruments, with experience in scoring for small ensembles, full band, and orchestra. Prerequisites: 12 hours of music including MUST 231, 232, or by permission.
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The Optimism Gnome passed on 4th February 2011 suddenly, after a very short illness.
There are few real facts known about the Optimism Gnome. Most of what is known is a mixture of conjecture and fairy-tale. Some say that there have been, like James Bond, or Batman, several Optimism Gnomes, whilst others claim that the Optimism Gnome is a being almost 200 years old. Whatever the case may be, he has been a constant companion of the Welsh rugby fan for a considerable period of time. There have been various periods where he was believed to have passed, the 70's being a notable occasion. But as coaches come and go with considerable and depressing regularity the Optimism Gnome has been a constant.
The Optimism Gnome was born, some say, at the turn of the 19th century. As a small boy he excelled at very little, and, even as a middle aged Gnome lacked a clear idea of his life path. However, life's ups and downs had little effect on the Optimism Gnome, for he was the, well, Optimism Gnome. The inspiration for both Michael Landon's Angel in Highway to Heaven and the Littlest Hobo, the Optimism Gnome would sneak into difficult situations and create hope all around him.
In 1854, he is alleged to have snuck into Lord Cardigan's tent and quietly whispered "You can have 'em bois, go to it." Later in 1879 legend has it that the Optimism Gnome had convinced a sleeping Lieutenant John Chard that, "FFS mun, do 'em mun. Ewe are hard as and those lot need a good slap."
And so it began. But soon, in the late 1880's the Optimism Gnome found his real calling as the one who would create a swelling of, frankly, astonishing belief in the supporters of Welsh rugby. He was there at the best of times, he was there at the worst of times. He sat in the stands at Wembley. He made visits to every home following Canada, Samoa, Fiji, Samoa again, Fiji again. And Fiji again. Never did he tire of making us believe. In 2005 and 2008 the gnome saw his dreams realised, but he did not tire. He continued to work with prid and passion, hwyl, spunk and guts.
The Optimism Gnome never tired of bringing his unique brand of self belief. It defied common sense and rationality but it continued to throb at the very heart of every single Welshman.
But on the 4th February 2011 it all became too much. As Mongo kicked ahead late in the first half the Gnome dropped stone dead. Just prior to his final breath he was heard to say "FFS, I can't even blame CeriG."
And so the legend came to pass, no more will we look for our lucky pants, drink specific drinks in specific halves, crank up Bread of Heaven in the lead up to the match on iTunes. The gnome is dead. Gone forever.
But, perhaps, there is hope. Perhaps the Gnome is not optimism. Perhaps optimism is the gnome. Perhaps, the smallest amount of self belief will see the stone rolled back from the tomb and the casket where the gnome now lies, empty. Perhaps, he will return.
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Avalanche safety is not just about carrying a beacon into the backcountry. Aside from reading backcountry forecasts, knowing the warning signs and picking safe routes, having mastered the use of the beacon, or transceiver, is key to locating and reaching a companion in time should an avalanche occur. It's not something you learn in a day - and like most things, practice increases the chance of success.To that end, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area hosts two days of backcountry and avalanche rescue training and education on Friday and Saturday.
Friday's event is a daylong seminar (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) on search-and-rescue techniques. Facilitated by local experts from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), Arapahoe Basin Ski Patrol and patrollers from neighboring ski areas, the workshop features classroom instruction and on-mountain scenarios, including tutorials on modern search-and-rescue technologies, emergency care and extraction and evacuation. The workshop costs $50 and is limited to 50 participants with previous backcountry experience. Proceeds benefit the CAIC, which provides forecasting and public education surrounding avalanches in Colorado (http://avalanche.state.co.us/index.php). A spaghetti dinner served with New Belgium beer follows the event at 5 p.m.; the dinner costs $15 and is open to the public.
On Saturday, A-Basin hosts its 11th annual Beacon Bowl, in which participants race to find beacons buried in the snow on mountain, simulating an avalanche search and rescue. Activities take place at the base of the Lenawee Mountain Lift, starting with beacon clinics from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by an avalanche dog and snow pit demonstration at 1:15. The contest itself is divided into two divisions - recreational and professional. Registration and check-in start at 8 a.m. in the A-frame lodge. The $25 fee includes entry, a raffle ticket, a slice of pizza and a beer at the aprs ski party and the chance to win prizes from Spyder. The party starts at 3:30 following the on-snow activities. Open to the public, it includes a live auction with items from Black Diamond, BCA, Dakine, SkiLogik and more, with proceeds benefiting the CAIC."Although our daily focus is on our in-bounds terrain, we're aware of the growing popularity of backcountry touring," said Alan Henceroth, A-Basin's chief operating officer. "We want to provide our guests with the resources to ski and ride safely. It is important for people to understand the differences between in-bounds and backcountry skiing."


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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - The man suspected of killing Colorado's prisons chief threatened to kill a guard while he was in prison, according to state records.
It's just one episode in a long history of misconduct behind bars for Evan Spencer Ebel, who died after a shootout with Texas authorities last week.
Within nine months of entering prison in 2005, Ebel misbehaved so badly he was placed in solitary confinement. He spent much time there because of continued threats and attacks against prison workers and other inmates.
The new information comes from Ebel's prison record, which was released to The Associated Press on Thursday after an open records request.


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GM Boss Akerson Says Company Will Keep Opel Unit
FRANKFURT—General Motors Co. Chief Executive Dan Akerson assured staff at its unprofitable European Adam Opel unit that the brand is an integral part of GM's global operations and rejected calls for a sale, adding an alliance with PSA Peugeot-Citroën SA will lead to the economies of scale Opel has so far lacked in Europe.
"Our protracted losses have even prompted some analysts to argue that we should sell Opel or simply close up shop and leave car sales in the region to others. I'm not about to do that," Mr. Akerson told staff at Opel's headquarters outside Frankfurt.
"Recommendations that we 'cut and run' show you that some people simply do not see how important Opel is to our success," he said.
GM's European division is set to lose between $1.5 billion and $1.8 billion this year depending on the level of restructuring in the fourth quarter. Last year it lost $747 million. The region isn't expected to return to break-even on an operating basis until the middle of the decade.
New-car sales in Europe have been shrinking for almost five years amid high unemployment and tough austerity measures in many countries to tackle bloated sovereign debt. Declining demand and chronic overcapacity are causing steep losses in the European mass-market segment, which is forcing car companies to cut thousands of jobs and consider costly plant closures.
GM will cut 2,600 jobs in Europe this year and reduce fixed costs by $300 million. It wants to lower costs by another $500 million between 2013 and 2015 and will continue to reduce head count as well. Opel employed around 40,000 staff across Europe at the end of last year, with Germany accounting for 22,000 staff.
"Like most auto companies, we expect that the weakness in Europe will continue to impact our business and the industry for the next several years," Mr. Akerson said. "But unlike some forecasts, ours is built around conservative volume and revenue assumptions.
"In other words, we're counting on our own hard work—not an economic recovery—to drive the business forward," he said.
GM forged an alliance with France's Peugeot in February to share costs in the fields of vehicle development, purchasing, logistics and potentially other areas as well. However, several media reports published over the last days suggest cooperation talks have come to a grinding halt or collapsed altogether.
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By BookRenter Senior Web Engineer, Corinne Reitter
Corinne has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology. She grew up and attended school in Canada but has lived in the US long enough to lose most of her Canadian accent. When Corinne isn't working, she's either traveling the world, training for her next marathon or triathlon, or just hanging out. She thinks more girls should be web engineers, as it's really a natural fit.
As one of the only few women in our Engineering team here at BookRenter, I often wonder why there aren't more of us. And so for the past two years, I've been given the opportunity to host a mini conference at a much larger Women In Technology International Conference which occurs every October. This mini conference, WITI NextGen, is targeted to girls between the ages of 12 and 17 who have some interest in Science and Technology. I bring in speakers from various fields who spend 15 minutes giving a presentation about what they love about their career, how they got there and what is that they actually do. Last year it was more science oriented and this year it was more tech. Whatever the case, the girls who attend seem to get a lot of it.
This year, the unguided focus landed on learning. And not just learning for the sake of career direction, but learning for the sake of learning. It even inspired me to take up some classes and I'm attending college again for the first time in over 10 years. My presenters range from the incredibly geeky in their field to the most abstract how-did-I-get-here types. They all shared what worked in their lives, what didn't, and how they coped with self-doubt and perseverance. What really works is these girls can relate. Often I'm told how amazing it is that particular speakers remind the girls of themselves and this shows they can too have a career in science and technology. After each speaker has given their presentation, the girls are given the opportunity to ask questions. More often than not (possibly out of being too shy), the girls wrap around the speakers after the main event is done. Questions get answered. Emails are exchanged. And the possibility of new mentorships is in the making.
Why are there not more girls in technology fields? There seems to be an interest for it. I don't think it's because we don't think we're smart nor driven enough. But maybe it's because we set the bar so high, we don't think we can actually reach it ourselves.
Wanna see the speakers from our 2011 summit? Check them out by clicking here. (Included is another one of our very own BookRenter Data Detectives!)
Interested in attending next year? Keep an eye on this link: www.witi.com/summit for updates.
If you are in a technology field, I'd like to hear why you chose it. If you aren't and you wanted to be at one time, why did you decide to not join this elite group? Comment below!
(Pictured above are some of the girls who attended our WITI Summit in 2011.)


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FREMONT -- Like many of the historic buildings it is charged with preserving, the Historic Architectural Review Board has been saved just as it seemed headed for the wrecking ball. City staff had wanted to fold the board into the Planning Commission to save money and staffing resources, but the members of the review panel on Tuesday persuaded the City Council to spare it. The item was defeated by a 3-2 margin, with Mayor Bill Harrison and Councilman Raj Salwan casting the dissenting votes.
The volunteer board, known as HARB, meets monthly and reviews architectural design, landscaping and signs while deciding whether to designate historic resources and buildings.
"I'd like to keep HARB in place to take care some of these review processes," said Councilwoman Anu Natarajan, who joined council members Vinnie Bacon and Sue Chan on the majority vote.
The Fremont Register of Historic Resources lists about 150 properties, city officials said. The register includes Mission San Jose, one of 21 missions that Spanish Catholics founded statewide in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the former Leland Stanford Winery, which was founded in 1869 by the former California governor and Stanford University founder in what is now the Vineyards/Avalon neighborhood. A building on the city's historic resources register is protected from development plans that propose any physical changes to it unless HARB and the City Council approve them.
David Price, a HARB member since 2005, said the board has excelled in identifying specific details essential for a building to qualify for the city register. "Those are the decisions that maintain the historic characteristics of a neighborhood," he said Wednesday. "I don't think the Planning Commission would have the bandwidth to do that."
Besides, preserving a city's history isn't always quantified in terms of dollars and cents, Price said. "It's the value of pointing out to your children what came before them," he said. "It adds a lot of color to an otherwise black-and-white world."
Jeff Schwob, Fremont's community development director, said HARB was recommended for elimination because it met just 10 times since early 2010, and staffing resources -- already thin because of recent layoffs -- were stretched even thinner from sending the required public notices of the board's frequent meeting cancellations. City officials could not provide specific figures regarding what HARB costs the city "because our tracking system lumps all boards and commissions into one billing code," Schwob said. But he said the city pays "costs associated with recording the meetings (and) providing general staff support or legal support."
Some speakers, such as former HARB member Al Minard, told the council that the board's recent inactivity was tied to the economic collapse in 2008. The severe downturn led to a halt in commercial construction, causing developers to cease submitting plans for city review in the past few years. Today's percolating economy means the board's agenda will be increasingly filled, making now the worst time to eliminate it, he said.
"As the economy improves, there will be new development, and many historic structures will have to be reviewed," said Minard, a history aficionado who spoke to the council while dressed as Abraham Lincoln, complete with a chinstrap beard and top hat. "This board should be retained to preserve those important historic resources," he said.
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7 Best Summer Hairstyles of 2012
Rising temperatures mean it's time to get your hair off your neck. See how celebrities are giving summer hairstyles a chic, updo update
How-to: Spritz dry shampoo at the roots of your hair to boost volume. Split your hair from ear to ear, and tie your lower half out of the way. Then, split the top layer of hair into three equal sections: left, center, and right. Clip the middle section out of the way, then French braid the left section of hair, starting from your hairline until you reach the back of your head, where your pony would sit. Pin to secure, then repeat on the other side. "Pull the bottom half of hair into a ponytail at the crown," says Sorbie. "Then braid the three top sections together and wrap the braid around the base of the ponytail, hiding the elastic."
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some of these look good to me
by butterfly11 Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 07:27PM Report as inappropriate
A bit much to have to do on your own
by BeautyBoss Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 07:11AM Report as inappropriate
There were a bit too many braid styles in here for me, but overall I love these hair ideas. It is always challenging to keep your hair off your neck in a creative and pretty way. It's nice to get some inspiration.
by HeathRene Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 04:09PM Report as inappropriate
How do you braid your hair against your head!? I love bang braids, but can't do it!!! UGH!!!
by morgan_ledford Monday, February 25, 2013 at 01:44PM Report as inappropriate
Sock buns don't work on my curly hair:(
by amber.flute Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 11:34PM Report as inappropriate
Totally need to try some of these styles out
by Sele10 Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 12:56PM Report as inappropriate
very nice
by Nicole2814 Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 11:40AM Report as inappropriate
so nice
by EricaF123 Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 01:19PM Report as inappropriate
My hair is so Blondy and puffy ,hope this bun suites on me
by monab Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 02:52AM Report as inappropriate
/i love the crowned braid i'll have to try. ..i'm sure ethnic hair would look crazy beautiful in it
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Builder Quits After Being Forced To Take Down England Flags
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A builder has quit his job after being forced to remove two England flags he put up on a block of flats.
Gordon McGiffen, 46, displayed the flags on scaffolding at a new building in Bermondsey to show his support at the World Cup. But bosses at the site ordered him to remove them.
With patriotism reaching heights ahead of England's World Cup opener, more and more St George's Crosses are appearing across London. So is this patriotic or tacky?
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Gov. Jerry Brown voiced strong support for beleaguered California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey on Friday, following the disclosure of emails indicating a cozy relationship with the utilities Peevey regulates.
Brown, meeting with this newspaper's editorial board, also said he plans to proceed with his twin-tunnel plan for the Delta whether or not the public votes on it, and suggested that comprehensive reform of the California Environmental Quality Act, long one of his top priorities, is all but dead.
In a wide-ranging interview, the governor reviewed with evident pride his third term's accomplishments, such as closing the state's budget deficit, enacting a local control funding formula for schools as well as some pension reform, presiding over the expansion of MediCal and creating a successful health care insurance exchange. Then he took a dig at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was indicted earlier Friday on charges of abuse of power and coercion.
"In the big picture, not only am I not indicted, but I'm doing a hell of a job," Brown quipped, later declining to commit to debate that and other topics with Neel Kashkari, his Republican opponent in the November election.
In some of the CPUC emails, Peevey offered public relations advice to PG&E on handling revelations of the utility's criminal indictment. In another email, PG&E regulatory executive Laura Doll wrote to the chief of staff of Commissioner Peevey, expressing enthusiastic gratitude for advice that the staffer, Carol Brown, provided to PG&E. "Love you. Thanks," Doll wrote. The recent release of those emails stoked Peevey's critics, who have long seen him as too cozy with the state's utilities, to demand his immediate ouster.
"I know there's been a lot of ink poured out on this topic, but I would say he's a very effective leader, he gets things done" especially on promoting renewable energy, Brown said Friday of Peevey.
Brown went on to describe Peevey as "a strong force," the likes of which hasn't held the CPUC's reins since John Bryson did so during Brown's second term, from 1979 to 1982.
Brown also said Friday he will "charge ahead" with his divisive, $23 billion proposal to build two massive tunnels that would make it easier to move water from north to south in California -- with or without a vote of the people.
Although Brown conceded his plan to construct tunnels beneath the San Joaquin River Delta to siphon water south will likely end up on the ballot eventually, he said he's not going to put it there voluntarily because the plan seeks to address a problem -- deteriorating levees and saltwater intrusion -- that can't wait.
"I'm doing this because it's a problem that's presented to me," Brown said. "People think I'm talking about my legacy. No. I do things that show up that I can't avoid, and this is one that I've got to do."
Brown's comments Friday came several days after he helped negotiate a new $7.5 billion state water bond for the November ballot. In order to mitigate opposition from environmentalists, the final version of the bond package prohibits any bond money from being spent directly on the tunnel proposal.
Prior to his Friday comments, Brown had been mostly mum on the project, officially known as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, since his administration released a detailed blueprint more than a year ago, but Capitol observers expect the project will be a top priority of his next term if he wins his gubernatorial bid in November.
Rewriting California's onerous environmental regulations was another topic many had expected Brown to take up next year if he cinches an unprecedented fourth and final term as the state's top leader.
But on Friday, Brown said his hopes to do so have dimmed significantly. He wouldn't say CEQA reform is dead, but he compared hurdles in changing the law to revising the Catholic Church's persistent opposition to birth control.
"Once you start to fiddle with the theology of CEQA, you get into difficulties," Brown said.
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