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You've probably already heard this, but as Winter Patriot reminds us, it seems that some guy in a fake beard claiming to be Osama bin Laden appeared the other day on a videotape obtained in what the Washington Post called "unusual circumstances" by an obscure outfit of D.C.-based jihad-peepers who compile lurid clips of Muslims gone wild. (WP has more here.) This obscure Beltway outfit turned the tape over to anonymous "U.S. intelligence officials" who anonymously told the Post that the tape sure 'nuff looks authentic.
True, the guy in the video has a bulbous honker that little resembles the svelte-bridged schnozz that bin Laden sported for many decades — right up until the day in 2002 when a suddenly portly, suddenly round-nosed figure calling himself bin Laden popped up on a video claiming credit for the the 9/11 attacks for the first time. (As WP continually points out, the FBI still holds that there is "no hard evidence connnecting bin Laden to 9/11.")
And yes, the new rambling rant of the round-nosed guy in a fake beard does seem remarkably tailored to feed talking points to the right-wing media and discredit opposition to George W. Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq. And sure, it is intriguing to note that unlike the old days, when "bin Laden" tapes were kept under heavy wraps by the government, lest they contain secret messages to "sleeper cells" in the Heartland, the entirety of this tape (just like the one conveniently issued before the 2004 election) has been unceasingly flogged by "unnamed Administration officials" and their simpering Osrics in the war-porn media, especially the references to Noam Chomsky — always a nice, juicy slab of red meat to throw to the right-wing faithful, though hardly a name to conjure with to the general American public: the ostensible target of this ostensible message.) Even the Dear Leader himself — who used to tell us he didn't give bin Laden a second thought — was quick to jump on the new video with all the passionate avidity of....well, just about any Republican office-holder in proximity to forbidden sexual fruit.
Yet despite all of these elements conveniently converging to serve the partisan political interests of the White House, we are are told by unnamed "U.S. intelligence officials" that the video is genuine. And to be sure, these unnamed "U.S. intelligence officials" are all honorable men: faithful, credible, to be trusted implicitly.
So I suppose we simply must accept the fact that this bulbous-nosed, black-bearded figure really is the guy who the FBI says has no proven connection to 9/11, and thus be really, really scared that he's still out there, plotting terror on the Homeland, directing the Iraqi insurgency, managing the Democratic Party (well, somebody has to!), and having a high old time chewing the fat with his nice Jewish friend Noam Chomsky.
After all, to think otherwise, you would have to believe that the President of the United States and his officials were capable of deliberate deception, manufactured intelligence and base propaganda in pursuing their factional agenda. And we are certainly too serious here for that kind of pure moonbattery.
[For another strange case of physical mutation involving a much-hyped enemy whose depredations seemed to coincide remarkably with the PR and political needs of the Bush Administration, see Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi. And for more on the long-running symbiosis of bin Laden and Bush, see Brothers in Arms: The Osamic Vision of George W. Bush (2002), and Brothers in Arms Again: Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda to Thwart Iran (2007).]
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Are the 9/11 lawsuits finally going to trial?
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A pretrial hearing to determine potential compensatory damages in six lawsuits brought by 9/11 victims' families, originally scheduled by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein for August 30 at the Southeastern District Federal Court, was changed at the last minute.
"He's on vacation" was the answer from the court clerks. And "always check the court website before coming." Now we know to call first for Federal Court hearings.
That left Ellen Mariani (who had flown in especially to witness the event), attorney (and independent candidate for NY Attorney General) Carl Person, American Free Press Reporter Mark Anderson, myself and other concerned persons high and dry in the marble corridors outside courtroom 14D, where nevertheless we lingered for two hours sharing information and ire.
After a call to court chambers, we found out that the hearing had been rescheduled to September 4, at 10 am, for those remaining 41 families who had chosen to sue rather than take money from the Victims Compensation Fund, which would cancel their right to sue. A day later, the date for the pretrial was moved again, ironically to September 11 at 2:30 pm. One wondered if someone was playing musical chairs with the dates to prevent those concerned from attending.
We have (as of this writing) one day left to see if Judge Hellerstein will keep his appointment with justice. The judge chose to begin with the damages portion of the would-be trials. This would be to determine the victims and their families' pain and suffering in the cases, which include wage, property and business losses, all of which are compounded by the number of dependents. But damages are usually the second phase of a trail. Liability is generally part one, so that a jury can determine if and to what extent the airlines and their security contractors could be held liable.
In this case, the liability phase is to be decided by a single jury later. The defendants include airlines, airline manufacturers (such as Boeing), agencies such as the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey (which owned the World Trade Center) in addition to agencies responsible for security at the WTC and the key airports, Logan and Dulles.
As USA TODAY reported, "Andrew Maloney, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said it is unusual to have a trial on damages before it is decided who might be forced to pay them, but he said it has happened before in airline disaster cases. He also said he agreed with the judge that 'this might break the logjam.'" Another attorney called it "a sterile environment" in which to judge the cases.
The "logjam" refers to the fact that even though 2,880 victims' families (97 percent of all) have been paid some $6 billion, the remaining 41 families that still chose to sue have been waiting several years for courtroom not backroom settlement justice.
NY Times paints a condescending picture of remaining families
In an article, Little-Noticed 9/11 Lawsuits Will Go to Trial, Anemona Hartocollis writes, "By the plaintiffs' own accounts, they have sued with mixed motives, which sometimes even they cannot untangle. They present themselves as heroes fighting for the truth and as families honoring the memory of their loved ones, but they are not apologetic about seeking money. They seem to be an angry, stubborn, sorrowful and stalwart group, who have been little known by most Americans, or perhaps forgotten with the passage of time."
Why should they be apologetic about anything, including financial awards, to sustain themselves after losing their loved ones; and with no explanation but the tome of the 911 Commission of Omission or the CIA's self-serving report on its failures?
In another place, Hartocollis lays on another coat of tar and feathers, "If there is anything that characterizes many of the remaining holdouts in the lawsuits, their lawyers acknowledge, it is that they tend to be people who would not have received high awards from the federal government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund -- children, retirees, single people without dependents."
Again, the implication here is that these families are not really holding out on the basis of principle but to get more money, "angry, stubborn, sorrowful and stalwart" as they have been characterized.
The truth is, I witnessed both plaintiff and airline lawyers bandying about names of cases on June 25, 2007, in Judge Hellerman's courtroom, trying to find those victims with the least amount of dependents' liability, and the most financially and legally expedient jurisdictions. I wrote about it in Choosing 9/11 victim lawsuits for trial? In the first paragraph, I linked my first article from the June 14 court date: The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund: cui bono? This article provides more background on the fund and its players.
Of the six cases chosen from the June 25 meeting, four were single adults, and two were seniors whose adult children were grown and self-supporting. One senior victim, a successful computer engineer, left a wife who shared her husband's comfortable retirement. So, the onus of money-grubbing, quick and easy settlements was on the lawyers and the judge.
What's more, Ellen Mariani, who had spoken out first and ferociously against the government with a RICO suit (subsequently dismissed) and a suit against United Airlines, had her name illegally replaced on that latter suit with her step-daughter's name, Lauren Peters, née Mariani, natural daughter of Louis Neal Mariani. This was done by a variety of skilled if not corrupt lawyers in league with the "judicial system." Mrs. Mariani has now been given the status of non-person, or persona non grata for exercising her right to challenge. It's been left to this patriot widow to fight her way back into her due process and/or award.
In fact, Lauren Peters may have already struck a deal with the powers that be and may be receiving payment from Oasis Legal Finance, based on her final award. It's sort of like getting your tax return early from one of those accounting companies that slice a piece of the action for fronting you your cash. Lauren Peters originally was in full accord with her step-mother about the suits back home in New Hampshire. Also, New Hampshire state law stipulates that any and all awards must be equally shared. But then Peters reportedly has had a history of alcohol, substance and eating abuse. Perhaps her judgment and commitment to her original principles were clouded by those problems and the legal-beagles' lure of big bucks.
Hartocollis' New York Times article also mentions Mary Schiavo, who was a former inspector general for the federal Department of Transportation. After 9/11, Schiavo visited the Washington, DC, African-American family of one of the victims, 11-year old Asia Cottom, lost on Flight 77 on an educational trip with her classmates. Mrs. Cottom says, "She [Schiavo] came to me and convinced me that she could bring justice to the situation, and I trusted what she said." Schiavo, the Times reports, "convinced Mrs. Cottom that her instincts were right, that Asia deserved much more than what the government would offer." The average award was $2 million; the range from $250,000 to $7.1 million. So, who's at fault here, the grieving mother of a bright, beautiful child or a lawyer full of promises, promises?
It is also interesting that Schiavo went on to become a noted authority on TV talk shows on aviation disasters and terrorism. More importantly, she went on to lawyer for the well known South Carolina law firm of Motley Rice. She brought with her 44, count them, 44, 9/11 cases for the Motley roster. Initially, Motley Rice represented some 53 cases, with 30 remaining after 23 settlements. Somewhere along the line, Schiavo dropped Mrs. Mariani as a client, since Mariani caught her in and questioned her about a secret meeting with high officials. Perhaps Mrs. Mariani was too close to something for comfort. Originally, Schiavo said she was "honored to have Mariani as a client." Unfortunately, she wasn't honored to keep her.
Ah, but now the plot takes an interesting turn.
Airlines sue FBI and CIA over 9/11 blame
AP beamed this story to media around the globe, that aviation and related companies were suing the CIA and FBI to force terrorism investigators to tell the whole truth and nothing but to clear the aviation industry from being solely to blame for the 9/11 attacks. In other words, the fly-boys weren't going to eat the tab that could run in the billions for 41 possible lawsuits. The FBI/CIA suits were deposed conveniently in the same Manhattan US District Court to build defenses in those victims' suits for damages from injuries, deaths and property and business losses. Curiously, this was an offbeat clarion call for some in-depth 9/11 truth, though far from what really happened. Check that out at this link.
Also, the airlines said the CIA and FBI had turned down a request to depose two secret agents, including the 2001 head of the CIA's special Osama bin Laden unit, and six FBI agents with key knowledge of al Qaeda and bin Laden. The airlines claimed that they were entitled to present evidence showing that the "terrorist" attacks didn't depend on negligence by any airline defendants and that there were other causes involved.
Now someone was shaking the cage, at least within the larger zoo of the myth that bin Laden and box-cutter brandishing terrorists did it. No demands have been made as to whether they were the patsies or the real culprits, or that the "terrorists" were not even on the planes.
But the airlines and their compatriots want to show that the terrorists were "sophisticated, ideologically driven and well-financed" and would have been successful irrespective of any action by airline entities. Well at least that points a finger in the right direction: towards the government itself as the culprit.
One would hope that the FBI and the CIA would depose the White House and the Pentagon coup-engineers who were pulling the real strings on that awful day. For some more realistic answers, Google or order historian Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror -- Made in the USA or David Ray Griffin's classic, The New Pearl Harbor -- Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11.
Returning to the FBI/CIA case, in this instance the plaintiffs are American Airlines, Inc. AMR Corporation; United Airlines, Inc.; UAL Corp.; US Airways Group, Inc.: US Airways, Inc.; Delta Airlines, Inc.; Continental Airlines, Inc.; Airtran Airways, Inc.; Colgan Air, Inc.; Argenbright Security, Inc.; Globe Aviation Services Corporation; Globe Airport Security Services, inc.; Huntleight USA Corp.; ICTS International NV; The Boeing Company; The Massachusetts Port Authority; and the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority. They represent 5 percent of America's wealth. The Wall Street Journal Online can provide you with a look at the actual suits.
In the CIA lawsuits, the above plaintiffs said they asked to interview the deputy chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit in 2001 and an FBI agent assigned to the unit at that time. Those names remain secret. In the FBI lawsuit, the plaintiffs asked to interview five former and current FBI employees who had taken part in investigations of al Qaeda and al Qaeda operatives before and after the 9/11 attacks.
I would suggest the airlines ask to speak as well to bin Laden's CIA handler who saw him in July 2001 as he entered a hospital in Dubai for kidney dialysis. This is duly noted in former CIA Station Chief Robert Baer's book, Sleeping With the Devil.
Getting to the truth of 9/11
Perhaps if we open the doors to the cages in the myth's zoo and we pull out all the animals inside, we'll get to the real truth about 9/11, that it was an inside false-flag job. And then the government and its leaders will have to pay a lot more than money, and not just to the victims and their families, but to the people of America for the War on Terror that ensued as a result of 9/11 in Afghanistan, and Iraq, and the one which now seems to be brewing in Iran, created as still another cover-up in which to cage the American psyche, its energy, resources and freedoms.
In essence, all who believe 9/11 was anything but an inside job are victims, too. And the justice they seek, unless they investigate and demand it themselves, will not be forthcoming. Instead a $3 billion a week chunk of their tax money will be taken from their treasury just to pay for the first two wars, let alone a third. And their sons and daughters will taken by draft this time. And there will be no turning back, no court of last resort; only the shadows, the emptiness of those fallen Towers that can be seen so clearly from courtroom 14D at 55 Pearl Street. Those are really the larger implications of these trials and the justice sought by its 41 families, whether they know it or not. And perhaps there is no calculable price tag for all these losses. But perhaps the heads of the real perpetrators might do as a start.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Three children from three different counties in the CSRA have gained access to guns over the last five months. In two cases, the children shot and killed someone else.
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When it comes to cocktail names, Corpse Reviver sounds like something that was concocted in a seedy New York bar during the punk heyday of the late 1970s. So it may surprise you to learn that the drink appears in the granddaddy of bar books, Harry Craddock's "The Savoy Cocktail Book," which was first published in 1930.
The drink's name refers to its alleged reputation for dispelling deadly hangovers, though I've never thought to try one on a morning after (not to mention, the recipe may be a bit complicated for anyone in a really sorry state). There are two versions, and the gin-based Corpse Reviver No. 2 is generally more popular.
So I was thrilled to see the Corpse Reviver No. 1 on the menu at Quattro, the upscale bar and restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto. In addition to having a fantastic restaurant, Quattro has a vibrant bar scene, filled with a mixture of hotel guests and nearby tech workers. Here, you'll find fashionable jeans and sneakers, blazers and boots -- but rarely a tie. Ladies will talk business over glasses of Far Niente chardonnay, and co-workers will toast the end of the week with pilsner glasses filled with Lagunitas IPA. Amazingly, I often feel both overdressed and unfashionable at the same time.
The smallish bar -- and its pair of cocktail tables -- was packed when I arrived on a recent weeknight, so I retreated to the adjacent lounge area in the entry. It's a well-lit space with comfortable chairs and couches that encourage conversations among friends or lend themselves to judgment-free alone time with your smartphone or a good book.
I decided to snuggle up with a good Corpse Reviver. Craddock notes in his book that the drink is "to be taken before 11 a.m., or whenever steam and energy are needed," but it's a perfect evening drink. You can enjoy one with one of Quattro's pizzas or bruschettas. I stuck to the small amber tray of marinated olives, spiced nuts and dried cranberries that the server brought.
At Quattro, the Corpse Reviver No. 1 is made with Martel cognac, apple brandy and Carpano vermouth, which is the sweet, Italian variety used in Manhattans. Here, Quattro adds apple-flavored bitters, one of the bar's several varieties of house-made bitters (if you look at the shelf above the bar, you'll see them contained in blue medicine-dropper bottles) and serves it over ice with a thick slice of apple as a garnish.
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The Casablanca Panama 50" has a few blades you can choose from depending on the finish of the fan you want. Once you add the item to your cart it will give you options for what blades are compatible. The Casablanca standard blades-21 is one of your options.
is this the correct blade to choose if i want casablanca 50" panama
A. The Casablanca Panama 50" has a few blades you can choose from depending on the finish of the fan you want. Once you add the item to your cart it will give you options for what blades are compatible. The Casablanca standard blades-21 is one of your options.
The Casablanca Standard Blades - 21 is 6 inches wide
Could you please tell me the width of these blades?
A. The Casablanca Standard Blades - 21 is 6 inches wide
The Casablanca Standard Blades - 21 is a five fan blade kit.
How many blades are included in this kit?
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The Casablanca Standard Blades do not include the blade arms.
Are the arm pieces included with the blades?
The Casablanca Standard Blades do not include the blade arms.
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act 1
verb[no object]
1Take action; do something: they urged Washington to act [with infinitive]: governments must act to reduce pollution
More example sentences
- This body must act now to urge our fellow legislators in the United States Senate to alleviate this crisis.
- In the wake of Silent Spring all industrialised societies acted to reduce pollution.
- We must act before we are punished for moving too slowly.
take action, take steps, take measures, move, react
1.1 (act on) Take action according to or in the light of: I shall certainly act on his suggestion
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- Last but not least, the new Mayor said that he would also be acting on a suggestion by Cllr. Browning.
- We really do welcome your suggestions and try to act on them when possible.
- This was because his role in that came to light too late for the Hutton inquiry to act on it.
follow, act in accordance with, obey, heed, comply with;
fulfill, meet, discharge
1.2 (act for) Take action in order to bring about: one's ability to act for community change
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- His espousal of State action, representing the best collective nature of the whole community, was to act for the benefit of all.
- Napoleon recognized his abilities, promoting him to positions where he could act for the benefit of French science and education.
- I have more faith in the ability of the general public to act for the greater good in the face of a crisis.
1.3 (act for/on behalf of) Represent (someone) on a contractual, legal, or paid basis: he chose an attorney to act for him
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- According to the new regulations, a representative who acts on behalf of visa-seekers must be authorised and could be an immigration consultant with good standing in the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants.
- It is about time the party stopped its pretence of acting on behalf of all the people when the only people it represents are the well off, big business and the privileged.
- The first stages of a High Court hearing will be heard later this month involving a Dublin law firm acting on behalf of up to 12 individual clients.
represent, act on behalf of;
stand in for, fill in for, deputize for, take the place of
1.4 (act from/out of) Be motivated by: you acted from greed
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- That said at the bottom of everything, unless the truth is told, people, no matter how well motivated, have no motivation to act from.
- There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice.
- Whether you agree or disagree with his policies, you cannot doubt that he acts from deep convictions, and that he is prepared to take courageous decisions that fly in the face of public opinion.
2 [with adverbial] Behave in the way specified: they followed the man who was seen acting suspiciously he acts as if he owned the place
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- It seems to me like women have to grin and bear a lot, and still feel pressure to act like saintly selfless birth goddesses.
- Their main function is to act like an annoying salesperson who wouldn't take no for an answer.
- In order to acclimate him to the wild, Dolittle must teach him the ways of nature and how to act like a real bear.
3 (act as) Fulfill the function or serve the purpose of: they need volunteers to act as foster parents
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- Police believe their presence also acts as a deterrent against other crimes.
- Jody acts as a foster mum and he had to hand feed the four every three hours for the first four days.
- The forum is also looking for volunteers to act as rangers along the trail.
operate, work, function, serve
3.1Have the effect of: a five-year sentence will act as a deterrent
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- All anticonvulsants act through their effect on the brain, since seizures arise from the brain.
- Ritalin acts on the nicotinic receptors that smokers have long exploited.
- Although not a benzodiazepine (like Valium, for example), it acts on the same parts of the brain.
4Take effect; have a particular effect: bacteria act on proteins and sugar
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- Thus, the competition between monovalent and divalent cations acts only on the DNA sites and does not act on the mica sites.
- Drug use was pandemic at these shows because drugs act to trigger the transformation into the private self.
- The scientists further found that the crumpled ball displayed a phenomenon known as hysteresis, in which the effect of forces acting upon an object lags behind its cause.
affect, have an effect on, work on;
have an impact on, impact on, influence
5Perform a fictional role in a play, movie, or television production: she acted in her first professional role at the age of six
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- He is still afraid of accepting film roles, despite having acted in more than 300 films over the past 29 years.
- He has also acted in a prominent role in a Telugu film.
- Boorman, son of the director John Boorman, had acted in 24 films since a childhood role in Deliverance in 1972.
perform, play a part, play-act, take part, appear
informal tread the boards, ham it up
5.1 [with object] Perform (a part or role): he acted the role of the dragon he got the chance to act out other people's jobs
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- In the movie the song is sung with much beauty and accurate feeling by Frank Patterson, the great Irish tenor who also acts the role of Bartell D' Arcy.
- The player acts the role of a street thug with 40 different weapons.
- He acts the role of a coward in the face of his own life's work.
5.2 [with complement] Behave so as to appear to be; pretend to be: I acted dumb at first
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- She'd planned to act dumb and pretend she'd never known he was there.
- So the suspicion remains that his main desire is merely to appear to be acting tough - whether or not what he suggests will make any difference.
- He acted shocked then pretended to weep.
5.3 [with object] (act something out) Perform a narrative as if it were a play: encouraging students to act out the stories
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- The premise: during the tail end of a sleep-over, a half-dozen of his child-centered stories are acted out by a quartet of overly wound-up kids stubbornly avoiding sleep.
- He proceeds to dazzle them with a story, acting it out with the help of his dog.
- We played outside, made up stories, acted them out, etc.
5.4 [with object] (act something out) Psychoanalysis Express repressed or unconscious feelings in overt behavior: the impulses of hatred and killing which some human beings act out
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- According to Freud, 'we may say that the patient does not remember anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, but acts it out.'
- If we can stay with it, neither acting it out nor repressing it, it wakes us up.
- Like so many traumatized children, they were acting it out again and again, Elliott explains, until they could see it in a way that made sense to them.
1A thing done; a deed: a criminal act the act of writing down one's thoughts an act of heroism
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- The bombings were the act of criminal extremists.
- Witnesses to the act of criminal genius called police who, so far, have only charged the man with theft.
- Transgression of this boundary was the act of a criminal and a heroic nature.
2 [in singular] A pretense: she was putting on an act and laughing a lot
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- Kazza stared at me blankly in reply, knowing I was putting on an act.
- It would be like putting on an act to get others to advance toward God, when I'm still getting a toe on the starting line.
- It is hoped, for the sake of millions of poor Filipinos, that he is not just putting on an act, good movie actor that he was.
pretense, show, front, facade, masquerade, charade, posture, pose, affectation, sham, fake
informal put-on
2.1 [with adjective or noun modifier] A particular type of behavior or routine: he did his Sir Galahad act
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- In the end, I decided to join in with everyone else and dance - it's hard to keep up the sulky act ALL night.
- The kitchen where Willie did his Jamie Oliver act makes the one he'll have to share at college look in need of a visit from environmental health.
- I've brought home a stack of proofs to read this weekend, so started on them on the train home, but did my worryingly regular falling asleep act not long outside London.
3 Law A written ordinance of Congress, or another legislative body; a statute: the act to abolish slavery
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- First established in 1789 by an Act of Congress, the United States Department of the Treasury is responsible for federal finances.
- It had passed an Act of Parliament to end the proceedings and preclude any appeal.
- Some of these rights and liberties are the results of custom and convention, whereas others are contained in the written Acts of Parliament.
3.1A document attesting a legal transaction.
Example sentences
- A notary draws up the act which is the legal evidence of the pope's death.
- Third, the fact that the act or document is uncommercial, or even artificial, does not mean that it is a sham.
- In my judgment, the law does not require that in every situation every party to the act or document should be a party to the sham.
3.2 (often acts) dated The recorded decisions or proceedings of a committee or an academic body.
Example sentences
- For the Acts and Proceedings of the Convocations, readers are referred to The Chronicle of the Convocation of Canterbury.
4A main division of a play, ballet, or opera.
Example sentences
- The play's careful and logical division into five acts (which would have been marked by Intervals in indoor performance) would support this view.
- With a top ticket price of $110, you had better give me more than a one-act ballet stretched into two acts.
- Giselle a ballet in two acts begins at 7.30 pm on Friday, April 1, at The Sands Centre, Carlisle.
division, section, subsection, part, segment
4.1A set performance: her one-woman poetry act
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- The performances included 5 separate acts by Madame Jim, with full costume changes, which earned mountains of applause.
- The comic had risen through the standup ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision.
- After I'd done my comedy act during the late seventies, I started writing a screenplay for a movie.
4.2A performing group: an act called the Apple Blossom Sisters
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- There will be over thirty DJs and live dance acts performing on the day.
- Both acts performed on the Sunday of the event, Razorlight entertaining on the main stage whilst Babyshambles took to the NME / Radio 1 Stage.
- Bringing pop acts to perform with an orchestra is a good idea, but too often the symphony takes a back seat to the star.
act of God
- An instance of uncontrollable natural forces in operation (often used in insurance claims).Example sentences
- Storms and other natural disasters are just those: natural disasters and not acts of God.
- Both sides should just batten down the hatches, prepare for a very long 2004 and remember that miracles, or even acts of God, do happen.
- Natural calamities are always a tragedy and an act of God.
act of grace
- A privilege or concession that cannot be claimed as a right.Example sentences
- A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
- A presidential pardon is an act of grace or mercy, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from punishment the courts inflict for a crime he or she committed.
- Furthermore, under articles 296 and 297 of the Versailles Treaty all enemy aliens lost their beneficial interests in property held in Britain as of 11 January 1920; some exceptions were made as an act of grace but not as a legal right.
catch someone in the act
- (usually be caught in the act) Surprise someone in the process of doing something wrong: the thieves were caught in the actMore example sentences
- I followed her gaze to see Carter, who looked like he had been caught in the act of doing something wrong.
- They return the next night after Jule realises she has left her mobile somewhere in the house, but Hardenberg surprises them and catches them in the act.
- A German company has sacked one of its employees for smoking at home after hiring a detective to catch him in the act.
clean up one's act
- Behave in a more acceptable manner.Example sentences
- After his release from prison, he took steps to clean up his act and get involved in the community.
- That's why it is so important for all of us to clean up our act and learn how to prevent such pollution.
- Today the Commons has a choice - to clean up our act or to acquiesce with bigotry and prejudice.
get one's act together
- informal Organize oneself in the manner required in order to achieve something.Example sentences
- You need to get a grasp of the evidence, and in effect, get your act together.
- Farming organisations across Europe must get their act together to demand fairer prices from supermarkets for their members.
- That is why we need to get our act together in terms of organisation and resources so people get the best possible treatment.
get (or be) in on the act
- informal Become or be involved in a particular activity, in order to gain profit or advantage.Example sentences
- And libraries have also been getting in on the act with book quizzes and other activities to help youngsters experience the magic of reading.
- One member said: 'He has not got involved at all with this and just wants to get in on the act for publicity purposes to make it look as though he has helped resolve it.'
- He saw that direct banking was the future and he thought it essential that the company was in on the act.
in the act of
- In the process of: they photographed him in the act of reading other people's mailMore example sentences
- His wife smelt something burning and went to investigate, only to find him in the act of now setting the room on fire.
- Police believe he was in the act of transporting the bomb for paramilitary use when it blew up.
- Why should they benefit from the protection of individual rights when they are in the act of violating another's rights?
read someone the Riot Act
- see Riot Act.
a tough (or hard) act to follow
- An achievement or performance that sets a standard regarded as being difficult for others to measure up to.Example sentences
- Stephenson can be justifiably proud of his achievements over the last three seasons and John has a hard act to follow.
- He gave a huge investment of his time and was a tough act to follow.
- And I'm thinking, Broadway, 'Producers,' that's a tough act to follow.
Phrasal verbs
act out
- Misbehave, especially when unhappy or stressed: many children who act out while awaiting placement in a health care facility end up in juvenile detentionMore example sentences
- If it thinks it is the dominant dog, it will also be stressed, and act out very negatively.
- They need to know how to manage someone who is frustrated, who may not be able to communicate, and who will act out if they are unhappy.
- He acts out aggressively as a response to being territorial (wanting to be the only one on a slide - or possessive - wanting a toy train all to himself).
act up
- (Of a thing) fail to function properly: the plane's engine was acting upMore example sentences
malfunction, go wrong, be defective, be faultyinformal be on the blink, be on the fritz
- The laptop computer that we have been using for performing pulmonary function tests had been acting up lately, overheating and shutting itself off.
- Then again, my body did like to pick the wrong times to start acting up.
- I think the service is messed up here, it was acting up before the phone broke.
- 2.1(Of a person) misbehave.Synonymsmisbehave, behave badly, be up to mischief, become unruly
- sense 5 of the verb.Example sentences
- Granville-Barker's 'Preface', of 1927, successfully refutes Lamb's criticism of the play's actability.
- A way to endorse social actability by allowing artists, DJ's and audience to participate in live battles.
- Filmwriting for actability, action, and structure.
actable adjective
- sense 5 of the verb.Example sentences
- By 1825, when his translations of altogether ten plays had been augmented by P. F. Wulff, Denmark and Norway had a partial Shakespeare, heavily weighted towards tragedies and histories but both readable and actable.
- Heaney has not only come up with a superbly actable text; he clearly realises that the play offers a genuinely Hegelian dialectic between the individual and the state.
- Sophocles writes glorious poetry and poetic prose to which Frank McGuinness's translation does splendid, actable justice.
Late Middle English: from Latin actus 'event, thing done', act- 'done', from the verb agere, reinforced by the French noun acte.
Words that rhyme with actabreact, abstract, attract, bract, compact, contract, counteract, diffract, enact, exact, extract, fact, humpbacked, impact, interact, matter-of-fact, pact, protract, redact, refract, retroact, subcontract, subtract, tact, tract, transact, unbacked, underact, untracked
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How do i copy layers from one drawing to another ans is there a way to paste the layer in its original place relative to the absolute zero?
PS. Thanks to everyone that made and/or makes QCAD possible. Its my second attempt at a CAD package on Linux and I found QCAD quite intuitive.


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So for configuring it when it is a service, I should just start the normal app, make my changes, close it, and restart the service?
That's what i do and it works for me.
also dumped a batch file on my desktop that restarts it for ease.
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Police are investigating a New Philadelphia man's report that he was robbed while walking on Fifth Drive at Ashwood Lane NW at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
He reported Thursday about noon that he was stopped by two men in their 20s, one of whom grabbed his shirt and punched him in the stomach.
At about the same time, the other man reached into the victim's pants pocket and took his wallet, containing his passport, his consular identification and $350 cash, the victim said.
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MIS: Introduction to Linux CS: Theoretical concepts of operating systems For us to be able to explore a little more in terms of the operating system
Introduction10 - 11 years ago, this involved creating a little operating system, as part of CS.
Historical background: When MIS started growing, there was a need for the MIS OS to change a bit. Some of the technical background is not present in the MIS course itself. No computer architecture, no assembly language programming..
But CS students were getting shortchanged because teachers were using the same set of slides, and thus didn't go as in-depth.
CS students will finish in March, by schedule. One additional requirement could be a program, (no VB! ;) ) a paper.. basically, an additional project. The course itself will change, and the interaction between CS and MIS here I'd like to highlight. What is that interaction? And this is where I'd like to draw upon the strength of the CS. The strength of the CS is technical. The strength of the MIS is communication.
Helpdesk. In the helpdesk environment environment, you see both technical people and people who communicate with customers. First, there's a concept in IT management called "SLM" - service level management. One of the things that has to be provided for is a helpdesk. That helpdesk can either be telephone, fax, e-mail, chat, whatever. Realtime or offline.
What I'd like the MIS people to do is this. You're going to think of personal problems that you might have had. (No lovelife!) You're going to think of valid problems you've had with any operating system you've used. What I'd like to do is this: depending on the quality of your questions and validity of your questions, I'm going to give a point. CS students get to solve problems and earn points for that.
Later on, the MIS students will be the ones to answer the questions in front. Survivor-type. CS students get to ask questions, hehehe...
MIS: You're going to communicate the problem to the CS people in words they understand.
I'm sooooooooo happy.
Escalation - raising the problem to the next level. That's us.
Second interaction that Sir Olpoc might get to demonstrate is - Linux/NT integration through WebDAV.
Some things to take note of:
- Surprise quizzes
- One quiz a week
- Two long exams
- One of them is going to be during the week of December 7.
Get the course docs from aegis.ateneo.net/jolpoc/ courses->cs161
Textbooks, references
Performance analysis. If the user does not know how to answer your question, you're going to end up asking a set of questions. But you can also install a set of tools to benchmark computer performance in order to find the bottlenecks. (Performance Monitor or System Monitor under Windows 9x.)
One of the projects in the industry is benchmarking. Memory, CPU, disk.
We'll divide the class into 4 groups, and we'll each be responsible for a certain group. Whatever questions they have in their group, we should handle it. Egroups - Sir Olpoc will create the groups and moderate them. When they get stuck, we unstuck them.
If they're pushing their luck, then Sir Olpoc will step in and tell them to go search.
"How to use options in Unix" getopt
Another way to make the pace better is to report on a topic just to keep us moving along. System administration, maybe.
Where's the overlap with CS159? Processes are covered at the same time. They got delayed because of Linux, so if we help them do Linux faster, then we can cover more things. COS - command output sets or something like that. The programs are already online: just download and run.
We might find the class a little bit boring because we're going to follow the pace of the MIS, but if there are any questions, just shoot.
Cracking topics.
At least we're building content.
7 Nov 2001
Let's start off with this QuickTime movie taken during the time when Apple was relaunched.
Putting it into perspectiveMicrosoft on Apple IBM supports Linux Before, Unix systems ran only on proprietary hardware. The only Unices that ran on PCs back then: SCO Unix, FreeBSD. The old registration system was written in pure C, running on SCO Unix. They used automata. How does Microsoft envision their operating system Internet software that listens. In the future, everyone will have a say. Interaction. Simplification.
Traditionally, operating systems have been clunky. The domain of the techies. Microsoft's been trying to make things easier, but there's a flipside to this.
[Dilbert joke about voice recognition] Magazine: MIS 100 - Top 100 IT users Number of screens that the company has. Not a lot of companies would like to give out IT budget details, because competitors would be able to tell what they're planning. In 1997 they conducted a profile of the top 100 IT users in Southeast Asia:
- Massive IT operations with large data centers
- Enormous networks and multiple OSes
- Military precision
- Most innovative of all IT users
Top in Thailand - 27 Philippines - 11
By operating system: IBM MVS IBM OS/400 32 Sun Solaris 29 IBM AIX 24 HP/UX ... no NT! But that's only 1997. In 2001 NT zoomed to the top.
AMA is one of the top 100 power users of IT. So many branches.
The point I'm trying to make here is that companies deal with multiple operating systems. This is the nature of the big companies here in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. What are the issues that we need to address? Integration. What do you need to do to connect? to get them to talk to each other? Can you telnet from an Unix system to an NT system?
Windows adoption
Netware and Unix are getting replaced with NT. As of 1997 we already see a move from other operating systems to NT. That is the reason why if you look at today's MIS 100, somewhere near the top will be NT.
MIS issues:
- maintenance of mainframe systems
- NT vs UNIX
- Migrating UNIX systems to NT systems How do you migrate the data and the applications from Unix? Informix?
- UNIX and NT integration
Where can I find more information about this?
AMA's actually pretty good technically, but non-technical stuff suffers.
What is an operating system?
Computer system components
Abstract view of system components
> operating systems > computer hardwareThink about it. The system software should stay constant and the application software can change, so that you don't have to reboot every time you want to use a new application.
OS jokesneanderthal technology, drag and drop, eunuch programmers, windows 95: 100% recycled macintosh OS... Cathy joke. lots of MS-bashing.
DefinitionThink of the OS as the intermediary between the users and the resources. The users are the end-users or other processes which need a particular resource. Resources are files, memory, anything...
What's the nice thing about the OS? Black box. Just give it what you want to do, and it will do it without exposing the details.
Analogy: party-planner
Layer of abstraction between software and hardware.
The OS: Eases the PainPerforms the interface task with the HW which shoud have been done by the user if the OS did not exist
- high-level interface (GUI vs commandline)
- the OS's capability to use the HW efficiently
Definitioncollection of computer programs that make resources available to the user - productive, timely, efficient access
REMEMBER: Turn-around timeFrom the point of the view of the managers From the moment you initiate a job request until the whole job finishes
REMEMBER: Response timeFrom the point of the view of the users From the moment you click on a button until the computer responds
Another definition
Resource allocator - Manages and allocates resources
Control program - controls the execution of user programs and operations of the I/O devices
Kernel - the one program running at all times, and it's always in memory
Composition of an OS
Resident programs
Loaded in memory when you boot up the system System-critical
Non-resident programs
Loaded only when needed format.com, for example
OE vs OS - operating environment ( operating system ) Users interact with the OE. The OE passes it to the OS. The OS communicates with the hardware.
An example: DOS
Why study OS?
Efficient OS because
consume more resources than any other resources
most complex programs
necessary for any use of the computer
used by many users
Efficiency is measured through the following
functionality, userfriendliness
performance - time and utilization
convenience and costNow to put it into something concrete, we'll go to Unix. I'm going to log into Pusit in order to masure performance. There is a program in Linux called top. Top shows you the resource usage of each program, and after 5 seconds the display changes. There's actually a course "OS Tuning" which makes you watch top for three weeks and plot the memory usage. Why not one day? Because you need a span of a week in order to see typical use - backups, etc. 3 weeks establishes a pattern, and that pattern allows you to do some analysis based on performance.
History of operating systemsTraditionally we are not used to seeing the history of operating systems. History of computing usually deals with the history of hardware. Some of you have looked at the history of some of the programming languages - machine languages to OOP.
[Unix tree]
Spooling and bufferingFrequently-used cards were loaded into a disk. At this point, the OS needed I/O routines - routines which managed the input and output peripherals. The OS also needed to keep track of the data in the storage, so there needed to be file management. Now stacks of cards were called 'jobs'. A job is one or more decks of punch cards. These decks could be either program cards or data cards. Instead of having just one job at a time being executed by the operating system, the OS would now have a 'job pool' from which it could choose the job to execute next. That's where the term 'spool' comes. There is right now the ability for a system to read all of the input ahead of time, and that's where the CPU will choose the netx job. What some companies had was two computers. The satellite computer is responsible for reading all of the data and saving it on tapes, and the main computer is responsible for processing the data and returning the tapes to the satellite computer, which handles printing.
Now the OS manages more than just reading one card and executing it. Now it does file management and I/O.
Trivia: The first operating system was created by General Motors.
Sequential processing, even though spooled.
Multiprogramming (1960s - present)I have a sequence of jobs (job1, job2, job3, job4) all of which are stored in the job pool, having been read previously by the satellite computer. What if a job needs to read data? It waits for data to be read from the tape, and the CPU is idle. So there has to be some way for the operating system to be much more proactive. Instead of the OS being at this point of time very passive, it needs to be active in the sense that if the CPU is idle, the OS must be able to get another job, leaving the data input in the background. So the next step here is multiprogramming. As of this stage the OS has already realized that the CPU is idle, because the card reader is slow and mechanical. Faster to access jobs from the hard disk, but the OS had been single-tasking...
What happens is: a lot of jobs which can be run and executed by the CPU are loaded into memory, and the CPU chooses which job to execute. Jobs are interrupted when the job does disk/tape access.
But still no user interaction... Think about it. User hits a key. Multiprogramming CPU must finish current job or wait for job I/O before processing the key.
Timesharing system (1970s - present)
In a timesharing environment, the OS is mature/specialized enough to monitor each and every activity or task that the user performs. Users feel that they have the whole system to themselves, but actually they're just sharing resources.
Card-playing analogy. Dealing 13 cards at once, or 1 card at a time. Interaction with system.
Before: job pool, but no need to schedule job With timesharing: job scheduling
Cooking pasta, phone, and baby analogy.
A lot of hands-on.
In a time-sharing system, you are not always guaranteed that the response time is immediate. But sometimes you need _real-time_
Real-time operating system
There should always be a physical action after a signal is sent.
Distributed operating system
support communication between parts of a job the OS has features and functionalities that allow the hardware to connect to the network and send/receive information.
Categorizationssingle-user, single-tasking
- DOS single-user, multi-tasking
- UNIX, Windows 95/98 multi-user, multi-tasking
- UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 2000 distributed/network OS
- Novell, Unix, Windows NT, Windows 2000
Desirable features of an OS?
Robustnessaccept all valid input without error, and gracefully handle all invalid parts
Consistencye.g., if "-" means options flags in one place, it means it in another. Key idea: conventions.
Proportionalitysimple, cheap and frequent things are easy. Also, expensive and disastrous things (rm *) are hard
Forgivingerrors can be recovered from. reasonable error messages. ogy for access of each device
Drivers can be added to the OS
Process Control Management
Process is an executing program
Memory management
Keeps track of memory usage
Keeps track of program queues which need to be processed by the CPU
Memory allocation
Allocating CPU time to the processes so that it will be fair and efficient
Secondary Storage
optimizes the completion of I/O tasks by using algorithms that reorder the requests for more efficient disk usage
Security and protectionl0pht, crack
Network services
UnixUnix is case-sensitive and treats each event uniquely. For example, with the passwd command, the same cleartext will be encrypted differently. First 13 characters, generically. relative path, absolute path salt
No class on Friday. Posting later the first question of the week: Give me one irritating feature that you hate/love about Windows.
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Assignment #2:
Download the Laboratory activity/exercise found in the website under Labs and Exercises called "My First UNIX commands" and submit the answers to the questions is the lab activity. This is to be submitted on Monday, class time.
semaphores:spinlocks - busywaiting for a semaphore that never comes blocking - resource starvation, deadlocks counting semaphores
classical problems of synchronizationbounded buffer
resource allocation graph
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It was another banner day for Altoona golfer Gabby Curtis, in Oshkosh she took 1st in the state jr. match play championship, beating Grace Dunn in 19 holes. This just a little more than a week after Curtis competed in the boys state tournament since Altoona doesn't have a girls team. Jenn Chapman has more on the golfing phenom in this weeks Gordy's Athlete of the Week.
Gabby Curtis/Altoona Golfer: "It was kinda like unreal because I didn't think I would actually do that good but then in the second day I just wanted to work even harder to move my spot up and I was glad I finished in fourth."
On the second day of the Division 2 State Golf Tournament, sophomore, Gabby Curtis posted the lowest score of the round, securing 4th place. What was more impressive, she was the only female amongst the field of 54 golfers.
Gabby: It definitely pushes me to hit it further. And make more puts because they can definitely get on the green easier than I can."
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Dick Butler/Grandfather: "We're really proud that she's been able to take advantage of this opportunity and use the practice range and I think if it wasn't for her dad's coaching she wouldn't be where she's at now."
All the hours spent on the range have paid off as Gabby has claimed two straight conference player of the year awards. Playing with the opposite sex has provided motivation to Gabby, her teammates, and her competitors.
Gabby: "I know that I have to step up my game to compete with them but they are probably a little taken back that I can hit it just as far as them.
Erik Weiss/Altoona Golfer: "Because she is a girl, it kind of pushes you and motivates you to do better every day and because she's played for so long. She's so knowledgeable about the sport."
Nick Larson/Altoona Golfer: "Well I think it's added a lot of diversity and other teams like they look up to our team and it's kind of intimidating having a girl first in the conference on our team."
Dalton Herman/Altoona Golfer: "I think her consistency and her confidence has really helped our team because she always has a smile on her face when she's golfing and she's always hitting her shots very consistent."
And with another two years left in high school, Gabby hopes to claim the boys golf state title before she leaves. For Athlete of the Week, Jenn Chapman, SportScene13.


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ABILENE, Texas - The husband of a missing Comanche County woman has been charged with murder.
Michael "Mike" Logan Lowery, the 34-year-old husband of Amber Lowery, was arrested last night in connection with her disappearance, her brother and the Brown County Sheriff's Department has confirmed.
Mike Lowery has been released to Comanche authorities and transported to Comanche County, according to Brown County Jail records. His bond has been set at $1 million.
Ryan Christensen, Amber Lowery's brother, said he received a call from the Comanche County Sheriff's Office late Tuesday night, notifying him that his sister's husband -- who is 6-foot-5 and weighs 240 pounds -- had been taken into custody.
Christiansen said officers told him that they had arrested Mike Lowery on murder charges of Amber Lowery, 34, following the discovery of incriminating evidence. Christiansen was also told a search for Amber's body will begin Wednesday.
The Comanche County Sheriff's Department said a news release will be issued regarding the alleged murder sometime Wednesday.
According to the Brownwood Bulletin, Comanche County Sheriff's investigator Ken Maltby arrested Lowery late Tuesday night "in the hallway of the Brown County Sheriff's Office."
Amber Lowery was reported missing on the night of July 23. Her 2011 Honda CR-V was found abandoned over the weekend.
After her disappearance, Mike Lowery spoke with KTXS and expressed concern.
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At that time, Mike Lowery said he had no idea where his wife was headed when she left, but believed she went to meet friends. No specific information was shared.
Amber Lowery was last seen driving a silver 2011 Honda CRV. The vehicle was found abandoned in Rising Star on Saturday. Her husband said the Comanche County Sheriff's Office searched her car on Monday for evidence that could help with this ongoing investigation.
"Any help we could get to locate her is greatly appreciated," Mike Lowery told KTXS.
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Published: Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 1:52 p.m.
To the editor: Times-News columnist, Canadian Bruce Benson guessed as to my reasons for not voting against education bills passed by McCrorys government. He guessed wrong.
For example, I voted for a budget last year that didnt include pay raises for teachers because we didnt have the money, short of raising taxes.
But when voting for that budget, I got a commitment to making teacher pay a priority in this years budget. That commitment is already being honored in the announcement by Gov. McCrory and legislative leaders that starting pay for teachers would rise to the national average over the next two years. The next step needs to be creating a career path for veteran teachers.
While I can explain the reasons for my votes, his guess that my votes were somehow related to Art Pope or ALEC is just a figment of his imagination.
Bensons reference to McCrorys government shows he doesnt understand our governmental system either. Maybe in Canada under a parliamentary system one has named governments, but we have three separate branches of government. There is no McCrory government.
With his latest column, Im now convinced that Benson uses his new-to-America style as a way to target conservatives, particularly Republicans.
State Rep. Chuck McGrady
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To the editor: I hope the Associated Press story by Mitch Weiss in the March 18 Times-News that claims that the Regulatory Reform Act gutted the states groundwater law, as D.J. Gerkin declared, will have several follow-ups. Some questions the story raises but doesnt answer:
u Where and how many are the some Duke dumps adjacent to Rep. McGradys district: Are all on the shores of Lake Julian?
u What parts of N.C groundwater law does the act gut, and what does the new law do? What kinds of new DENR regulations does Gerkin advocate to ameliorate the harm he alleges?
u What will the court action now being initiated by the McCrory administration require Duke to do, and when?
u How much of the millions donated by Duke Energy and its executives was donated to which political campaigns by the company, and how much by which specific executives? How about the PAC underwritten by Duke employees?
Gerkin surely could provide useful answers to the first two or three of these questions.
The coal ash fiasco on the Dan River highlights how important to the welfare of the state is the protection of groundwater. The Weiss story should lead to in-depth analysis of this issue.
David M. Hudelson
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To the editor: The liberals war on speech continues with a number of recent letters and columns condemning Citizens United.
One example is Carole Repicis assertion that outsiders distort facts to favor their agenda. She is correct, but fails to recognize that insiders, including candidates and parties, also use distortions to favor their agenda. Prime examples were the Lie of the Year Obamacare promises.
Repici specifically condemns outside influence in the current Senate election but ignores the $8.1 million spent by a single outside group on Hagans behalf in the 2008 election.
Is her protest a matter of principle or ideology?
I posit that her protest is ideological based on her statement outside groups spending millions tell us what to think. That statement represents the typical liberal position that voters cannot think for themselves and government must protect them by banning speech.
Repici even agrees that Citizens United provides more information to voters. Despite that, she and others want such speech banned. As a conservative, I apparently hold free speech in much higher regard.
Voters have both the responsibility and ability to discern the validity and agenda of the information they receive. Entrenched power should have no role in banning dissenting opinions.
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To the editor: Concerning the ongoing coverage about missing Malaysian flight 370, which has created a media feeding frenzy to get out the latest theory as to what happened, I have one that no one has apparently or certainly wouldnt publicly consider. And that is that Almighty Jehovah God is once again trying to get our attention to show us that were not as smart as we think we are! There is certainly enough evidence globally to support that fact in our inability to restore any economic prosperity on our own.
It just may be that this airline mystery will never be solved and that we should be focusing on how we have mucked up the world in our arrogance, foolishly thinking we dont need God anymore, who incidentally created a perfect world for us with the mandate that we were to be obedient to him and the Ten Commandments, which codified a perfect template as to how we were to live. As we continue to grieve the Holy Spirit, we can expect more unsolved mysteries in the future. And it just may be that were not as smart as we think we are.
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