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PORTAGEVILLE -- The University of Missouri Delta Center is the recipient of a federal grant, and among its list of things to do with the money is to provide a quicker turnaround time for farmers.
Recently, U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan announced the center, along with the Missouri Corn Growers Association, was the recipient of a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture for rural business development.
"While the economy in the larger, urban areas is showing signs of improvement, rural economies in Missouri and across the country are still feeling the impact of the economic downturn," Carnahan said in a recent statement. "These grants are just two examples of how the federal government is working to strengthen the economic condition of rural America."
A federal grant of $99,999 was awarded to the University of Missouri Delta Center to renovate an existing building for the use as a soil-testing laboratory.
"This grant allows us to improve and expand the capability of our soil-testing lab," said David Dunn, Missouri Delta Center supervisor of soil-testing lab. "It will allow us to serve farmers better."
Before the grant, tests were sent to Columbia for more accurate results, however they would take a couple of days to get back. With the grant-funded improvements, the lab soon can receive something to be tested one day and have the results the very next day, he said.
Plant tissue testing is also on the agenda of goals for the soil-testing lab, Dunn said. "We can take cotton or crop leaves and analyze the nitrogen, potassium or phosphorus in them to determine what needs to be done," he added. "It's quicker and easier, too."
Dunn said he expects farmers, fertilizer dealers and crop consultants to benefit from the results of the grant due to faster service and the expansion of ideas, the working environment and equipment.
"This grant is mainly about high-input crops, such as rice and cotton," Dunn said. "They're a higher level of management in plant testing."
Aside from the help of Carnahan, Dunn said U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, U.S. Sen. Kit Bond and Greg Branum, state director of USDA Rural Development, were also instrumental in the center receiving the grant.
Dunn said construction for the renovation of the Missouri Delta Center's existing building will begin next week and should be finished by the end of the summer.
The Missouri Corn Growers Association, headquartered in Jefferson City, was awarded a federal grant in the amount of $99,500 to help develop an identity-preserved tracking system for Missouri corn farmers. This project is expected to create six new jobs in the area.
Jamey Cline, director of value enhancement for MCGA, said it's always a surprise to receive a federal grant from the USDA. "We appreciate the state's delegation in getting this grant," he said. "We look forward to developing a new system for tracking corn to educate producers and to help develop their management skills as we approach this project." Cline said the grant will aid the entire state, including areas in Southeast Missouri. However, it's too early to specify which cities jobs will be created from the project, he said.
Both grants are part of the Rural Business-Cooperative Service program, which provides grants to public bodies, nonprofit corporations and Indian Tribes, to finance and develop small and emerging private business enterprises located in rural areas.
The funds can be used for technical assistance; feasibility studies; business plans and training; purchasing machinery and equipment; or constructing a building to be used by small and emerging businesses.


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Tiny Cornish Village In Midst Of A 'Crime Wave'
Friday 13th June 2014
One of Britain's safest villages is in the middle of a crime wave - after being crime free for 18 months.
The tiny Cornish seaside village of Porthcurno had had no reported crimes in the whole of 2013, but on the night of 31st May, two cars were broken into.
Neither crime was especially successful. The first target was a van, but despite damaging the back door with a crowbar, the crooks couldn't force their way inside.
They then targeted a old Citroen estate car, smashing a window and tearing out an 15-year-old radio.
Neighbourhood Police Community Support Officer Jeremy Kewn said: "You don't hear about crime in Porthcurno, it's very rare.
"This might not be considered unusual elsewhere but here people just don't expect it.
"There is a serious side to this. It may only be two crimes but it's two too many and I'd be keen to hear from anyone with any information about his."

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employees, for the fourth consecutive year, assisted at the Riverside County Academic Decathlon, with 11 staff members serving as proctors during the "Super Quiz" portion of the event. More than 180 students in teams from 19 high schools competed in the event, which includes writing essays, delivering prepared and impromptu speeches, being interviewed by judges, and participating in the "Super Quiz." Altura CU also established a fund—and donated the first $5,000—to assist the family of San Bernardino County Sheriff Deputy Jeremiah MacKay, who was killed Feb. 12 in a shootout with Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer who at the time made news headlines for his killing spree. Additionally, Altura CU awarded two Riverside, CA residents $500 each for using their Altura Visa Debit Cards to make purchases—part of a promotional effort by the credit union to point out the convenience of using its debit card.
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Don't Worry Too Much About Oil Prices – Yet
The recent jump in oil prices need not derail the U.S. recovery.
That, at least, is the view of James Hamilton, a University of California, San Diego, economist and specialist on energy economics.
In a nutshell, his argument rests on the fact that despite the jump in gasoline prices, they're still below where they were at their peak in 2008. This matters, because historic evidences suggests, "an oil price increase that does no more than reverse an earlier decline has a much more limited effect on the economy than if the price of oil surges to a new all-time high," he wrote in a recent post on his Econbrowser blog.
The oil price spike through early and mid-2008 was instrumental in deepening the U.S. recession generated by the financial crisis. And the collapse in oil prices at the end of the year and early 2009 helped to ensure that the economy bottomed out.
The market seems to concur with Mr. Hamilton's appraisal. Equities have been well supported and the VIX, the measure of market volatility and therefore a proxy for how confident investors are feeling, has tumbled.
The fly in the ointment is how gasoline prices will feed into inflation. Headline inflation will certainly rise, though the Federal Reserve will be happy to ignore this, since its focus is core prices. But with the economy picking up, gasoline prices might well start to feed through into underlying prices as well. This wouldn't be so good because it would tie the Fed's hands on further monetary accommodation.
There's also the small matter of how it influences demand for motor vehicles. Americans have been buying cars again, making up for a couple of years of restraint now that the jobs background is looking better. Vehicle production, meanwhile, has been an important contributor to growth.
But much further appreciation would bring gasoline prices back to record levels at which point demand for cars and trucks could start to weaken again.


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Recently, Facebook announced its new graph search tool, which allows users to search through interests, locations and recommendations of Friends and connections. While some may be heralding this as a threat to Google or a sign that Facebook will soon dominate in search, it is by no means the end-all and be-all. Marketers should think of graph search as a new tool to better reach their audience – one that needs to be employed with existing SEO practices rather than working in competition.
Building Your Audience
As any seasoned SEO marketer can tell you, links are your best friend online. Building quality links is one of the best ways to build your online reputation and increase your search rankings.
In the case of Facebook and graph search, it's not links you need to worry about, but the same principles apply: you want to get Likes. The more Likes your page has, especially within a specific network, the more likely your business is to show up in graph search results. The company with 1,500 Likes is more likely to pop up in a search for "businesses my friends Like" than a company with 50 Likes.
So how do you gain Likes? One of the best ways to gain Likes for Facebook is to tap into your existing audience through other channels such as your company website or email. The advantage of creating a combined Facebook and Google search strategy is that by successfully building up an engaged audience through link-building and Google's search results you can start feeding these through to your Facebook page. Giving your Facebook page a boost of Likes will in turn improve your company's ranking in graph search and it's likely that this will send new visitors and more traffic back to your company website.
If you are successfully implementing best SEO practices for both Google and Facebook, you are effectively creating a self-sufficient marketing loop. Google is bringing in Likes for Facebook, and Facebook fans are driving traffic to your site. Your company is being found on both platforms and circulating your traffic based on individual needs.
Personal Endorsements and Inbound Marketing
Like all online platforms, search is becoming more social. Users want to see people-driven results. It's a well-known fact that one of the most effective forms of advertising is word-of-mouth endorsements from real people. Why would users expect anything different when searching online?
Google has started offering an Author Rank mark-up option to identify the author of your online content, which means that this content will show up in search results with a picture and bio attached. This enhanced search feature gives credibility to your result, which people trust and makes it more likely that they will click on your content.
Facebook already has this feature built-in; as a social network, everything comes recommended by your friends and peers. The beauty of graph search is that your customers will now be able to find your business through their friends who already like you. It's word-of-mouth marketing at its finest.
Now more than ever, it's important to reach your target audience where they live. As graph search rolls out, customers will start finding your company through the one billion members online who are Liking and recommending you on Facebook. But, you still need to show up in Google's results for people searching the old fashioned way.
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It's been a quiet week here at the PTDC. We have some great announcements coming soon but for now they stay a surprise. Next week we'll be back to putting out some great content so if you haven't signed up for our RSS feed or email list you may miss out.
Without further ado. Here's this weeks list:
How to be a beautiful badass 3-part series – Nia Shanks
Bracing – Turn up the volume – Jim 'Smitty' Smith (follow the link to Eric Cressey's page for the article)
Why are you a personal trainer? – Ed Williams (Ed just started blogging but has put out some great information. I encourage you to check out his site)
Are trap bar deadlifts safer than straight bar deadlifts? – Jason Feruggia
The application of elasticity 2 – Sam Leahey (Sam's site has some great lessons in how you can use physiology to your advantage in training!)
My Weekend at Peak Performance – Tony Gentilcore (A great review of the fantastic seminar I was also fortunate enough to attend)
Death by Monotony – Matt Perryman
Rules I always break and why 1
Rules I always break and why 2 – Greg Robins
10 Ways to screw up your metabolism – Eric Falstrault
Once, twice, thrice times a day (how often do you workout?) – Harold Gibbons
Manthropology, and preaching the health – performance continuum – Keith Norris
Lastly, a hilarious post by Rob King where he shares some of the best shake weight videos
The real benefits of the shake weight – Rob King
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Looking for Home Price Bottom in the Rear View Mirror
Many housing pundits predict that home prices will fall steeply again once new waves of (currently pent-up) foreclosures finally wash through the market. Tom Lawler, a housing economist in Leesburg, Va., who is famous for bad puns and bucking the consensus, says it is a "much better than even bet" that we already have seen the low for this cycle in terms of the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite index.
On Tuesday, Standard & Poor's reported that the 20-city index for July was 144.23 (based on a January 2000 level of 100). That was up 1.6% from a month earlier and 3.6% from the low it hit in April.
In his daily commentary Tuesday, Mr. Lawler said the index may decline a bit in the months ahead. But he thinks it is likely to stay above the April low, which marked a plunge of about 32% from the peak in the second quarter of 2006.
True, he says, "rising delinquency rates and rising inventories of loans in foreclosure portend an ultimate increase in 'distressed' home sales" and that could lead to another surge in sales of foreclosed homes next spring.
However, Mr. Lawler says, "consumer confidence has improved, and consumers are more aware of widespread mortgage credit availability to borrowers willing to go the 'full monty' on documentation and underwriting. In addition, home prices in much of the country have fallen back to levels more consistent with historical relationships to area incomes and rents, suggesting the potential for a decent-sized increase in 'normal' housing demand. If early indications that the economy may be bottoming prove to be correct, then it is actually likely that the cyclical lows in many metro home price indexes have already been made."
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HARRISBURG—(AP) — More people said they prefer leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike over putting tollbooths on Interstate 80 to raise money for roads and bridges, an independent poll released Wednesday said.
Asked to choose, 41 percent said the state should lease the turnpike while 36 percent said they would rather see tolls on I-80.
Thirteen percent said neither, and the rest said they didn't know or didn't answer, the poll by Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University shows.
Support for adding tolls to I-80 was strongest in southeastern Pennsylvania, at 51 percent, while support for leasing the turnpike was strongest in northwest Pennsylvania, at 56 percent.
Gov. Ed Rendell first proposed last year to lease the turnpike to a private company as a way to generate more money for highway, bridge and mass transit needs.
However, the idea gained little traction in the Legislature.
In July, legislators approved a funding package to add up to 10 toll booths to I-80 and speed up planned turnpike toll increases as a way to raise the money.
Federal approval is still necessary before Pennsylvania can put tolls on I-80, and the plan has attracted heated opposition from people who live in the I-80 corridor.
The turnpike commission would manage the tolls under a long-term lease with the state Transportation Department.
The telephone survey was conducted from Oct. 30 to Monday. It surveyed 1,019 people and carried a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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a1 MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
a2 Rheinische Kliniken Essen Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Essen, Germany
a3 UZ – Gent De Pintelaan, Gent, Oos-Vlaanderen, Belgium
a4 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany
a5 ADHD Unit, Geha Mental Health Centre, Petach-Tikva, Israel
a6 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
a7 Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mannheim, Germany
Background Reaction time (RT) variability is one of the strongest findings to emerge in cognitive-experimental research of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We set out to confirm the association between ADHD and slow and variable RTs and investigate the degree to which RT performance improves under fast event rate and incentives. Using a group familial correlation approach, we tested the hypothesis that there are shared familial effects on RT performance and ADHD.
Method A total of 144 ADHD combined-type probands, 125 siblings of the ADHD probands and 60 control participants, ages 6–18, performed a four-choice RT task with baseline and fast-incentive conditions.
Results ADHD was associated with slow and variable RTs, and with greater improvement in speed and RT variability from baseline to fast-incentive condition. RT performance showed shared familial influences with ADHD. Under the assumption that the familial effects represent genetic influences, the proportion of the phenotypic correlation due to shared familial influences was estimated as 60–70%.
Conclusions The data are inconsistent with models that consider RT variability as reflecting a stable cognitive deficit in ADHD, but instead emphasize the extent to which energetic or motivational factors can have a greater effect on RT performance in ADHD. The findings support the role of RT variability as an endophenotype mediating the link between genes and ADHD.
(Online publication May 31 2007)
c1 Address for correspondence: J. Kuntsi, Ph.D., MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park (Box P080), London SE5 8AF, UK. (Email: email@example.com)


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Year: 1998
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 25 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 355 grams
Language Requirements: Game components are language-independent. An English translation of the rules is provided.
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Average Rating: 3.8 in 5 reviews
'Honeybears' is one of the lesser-known games in the Knizia canon. Aimed squarely at the children's game market, it still has plenty of depth for adult gamers as well. Other reviewers once again have beaten me to the punch in describing the mechanics, so I will get on to my impressions.
What makes Honeybears so good is the agonizing decisions of which cards to play. Each time you advance a bear, you are reducing your holdings for that bear, and therefore lowering your chance for a good score. Advance a bear too slowly and the players risk having a negative score for that bear. The choices are few but the ramifications of those choices are difficult and tantalizing in equal degrees.
While a hand composed mostly of wild cards will allow a player to dominate a round of play, it is recommended that one round be played per player to even out the luck factor. Each round is refreshingly short, so this suggestion is more of a blessing than a curse.
Highly recommended for children and adults alike. Locate a copy if you can.
HoneyBears is really sort of a silly little game.
I really should play for strategy... but Red Bear MUST WIN! And so, sadly, I lose every time.
Beautiful game components, fast play and high excitement make Honeybears a fun-filled game each time you play! In true Knizia fashion the choice of which card to play is never easy. You never have enough Joker cards and hoarding your potential high scoring pair of '1' cards could leave your favorite bear in negative scoring territory! You need your opponents' help in advancing bears into positive scoring positions before each round ends. This game is agonizing fun as you wait and watch each turn to see which bears your opponents will advance.
Honeybears is recommended for play with 3-5 people, but I've found it just as enjoyable with two players. You simply deal 13 cards to yourself and your opponent (the equivalent deal of a four player game) then alternate drawing cards from the unused deck for two dummy players (you move, draw for a dummy, your opponent moves, draw for a dummy etc.). If a dummy player draws a Joker card, always advance the slowest bear. This allows for a very competitive game for two players.
Honeybears is a gem and the price couldn't be more reasonable. I highly recommend this game for anyone's collection! (By the way, my copy of the game came with beautiful wooden bear figures; not pawns as shown in the graphic.)
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Honeybears is a tidy little game from Austrian company Piatnik, which, before the description by their attentive representative at Essen, looked like a Pigs Trotters clone. That it isn't is entirely down to Reiner Knizia's designing skills, because if I'd been involved, there would be a law suit pending.
Honeybears involves moving four wooden bear dobbers into various scoring zones by means a of a colourful and durable pack of cards. These depict the four bears involved -- red, yellow, blue, green -- plus some neutral cards which permit the advancement of any bear.
So, play a card, move a bear (either one or two spaces, as depicted by the honeypot icons), and prepare to absorb the unique scoring method. Rather than hold secret title to one of the bears, the cards retained when one bear has reached the plus 3 area are matched against the other zones. For example: Yellow has finished, and Jan has one "double honeypot" yellow card. This earns six points. She has two red "single honeypot" cards, which add a further four points, the red bear having finished one space behind yellow. Her other coloured cards score zero (blue and green are in the 0 area), whilst the neutral cards do not score. A bonus of six points is awarded to the player who concludes each heat, which I thought a might excessive.
If I've written this intelligibly, you will have deduced that you need to quickly move the bear in which you have a majority of cards (like Formel Eins), but retain some to secure points. Which leads me to the game's only blemish. If you are blessed with a hand of mostly neutral cards and those of a single colour, you will be firmly in the driving seat. But, played over a few rounds, any imbalance will be washed away.
Interestingly enough, Honeybears is the one game from Essen which my children have requested repeated playings, which, I think, points to its market.


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April, T.S. Elliot famously wrote, is the cruelest month. Like an inconstant lover perhaps, at least in the northern climes, it teases with hints of warm days to come, then retreats to separate quarters, letting the cold slip back again. Even without the early Crocus and Skunk Cabbage, the sweet smell of burning wood and steaming Maple vats mingles with the sour earth's decay that begins its thaw.
So with that lovely imagery, perhaps its good to write about some of the goings on – it feels like years since I've sat to gather my thoughts. But reading through the regular musing of my high school classmate Ben Byerly, I was inspired to sit and muse a while this early day, and so here I offer April's "downdate."
The Onion River Exchange, who I have a fundraising contract with, launches this month. This is a great local initiative to match people's free time and skills with needs in the community. One part volunteer effort and another part social network, ORE will be really interesting to watch: both around the kinds of services that people exchange, any concrete impact(s) it can have in key areas (social capital, poverty reduction [well, alleviate some of the stresses of being poor], and breaking the isolation of aging populations).
- Green Mountain Film Festival wrapped at the end of the month. Despite being able to contribute artwork and volunteering as host for several films, I end this year's festival with a sense of not having contributed very much, and asking myself whether I'll do it again. It's expensive to volunteer these days, and the weekly drive into Montpelier seems wasteful. And ultimately the film selection, while all very intelligent and important works, don't speak to the range of films that I find exciting and enjoyable.
- Writing continues at a bottom-scraping pace, encumbered with all kinds of distractions and side projects. If they say the mind has limited capacity, I'm living proof. So to some extent keeping on top of the deliberative democracy field with the monthly ebulletin I put together. And writing a book chapter with Robert Cavalier of Carnegie Mellon on a book chapter, "Deliberative eDemocracy." Also had the opportunity to wrote some memo's for AmericaSpeaks around ways to improve the current federal strategy to engage the U.S. public around nanotechnology issues.
- The job hunt continues. While I find all kinds of ways to keep busy, they don't necessarily pay the bills – which, fortunately, are not yet mounting (thanks in greater part to my dear wife's stronger income-earning power). Despite a promising round of interviews with Doctors Without Borders, that web development position in New York didn't pan out. My strengths are definitely on the design side, though I enjoy CMS customization. The search continues…
- Peace Tiles remains an exciting area for community involvement. River Arts in Lamoille County has invited me to run a series of workshops with senior citizens. Later this month I'll present Peace Tiles and run a workshop at Ithaca's Greening the Arts symposium. The Vermont Commission on National and Community Service has invited me back to their May national conference to run a session. A group of us will present at the Global Health Council's annual conference in Washington, DC in May. And of course, the Twinfield project continues. This weekend we'll be applying a gloss coat to the surface of the tiles, sorting and mounting them for final mural composition.
- And my own artwork and experiments continue. These days, I'm working to develop the right proportion and cutting techniques to produce "pop out" boxes with textured surfaces that I like to think of as "urban portals" – a window on urban textures one can find when you pass popular places for postering, leafleting and billeting. Those accumulated layers of texture, grime, and color all sanitized and made suitable for white walls. I'm hoping these would appeal to decorators, architects, and others as ways to create vibrant, dynamic surfaces that both please without distracting – that balance of presence without dominance in a functional spaces, though I'm thinking particularly of transitional spaces, for example lobbies, hallways, foyers, etc.
- On the friends update, dear one Karla Yoder sends a link to a Washington Post Op-Ed on her work in Zampia while good Peter sends a long reflection on life in Macedonia and tense relations with Albanians on the eve of Kosovo's independence.
- On my recent reading list, "The Shia Revival" by Vali Nasr, "Caucusus" by Nicholas Griffin, and "In the Rose Garden of the Martyr's" by Christopher de Bellaigue (my personal favorite).
That's about it on the productiveness side of life's accounting. Family continues to be a joy, though it seems our extended circle is so far-flung, as it grows. Much of that is a function of being tucked up here in Vermont, and at the same time its the status quo for us and much of contemporary life in the Western world.


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Colored Denim is one of the hottest trends of the season. Which is why we had to launch these new sizzling styles with a bang! So rather than doing a traditional model shoot, we changed things up a bit. We wanted to show our members that this trend is flattering on anyone, regardless of her size or shape. And what better way to do that than by using real women? So we grabbed a handful of ready and willing JustFab staffers and made them models for a day! Working with these 'real' ladies, instead of trained professionals, definitely had its challenges, but I had so much fun that day that I wanted to share some of the juicy details with you! Sneak behind the scenes with me to see what happens when you take gals used to being in the background and put them in the spotlight!
Angela is a celebrity and editorial fashion stylist whose portfolio of projects ranges from red-carpet looks to on-camera ensembles. Noteworthy clients include Whitney Port, Julianne Hough and Eve. She earned her degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
April is half over, which means it's time to introduce a new collection! This month we wanted to give you FABshionistas plenty of inspiration and style options for all of your big events this spring. Whether you're tying the knot, standing up for your BFF or just showing your support as a guest, we've got a cute and event-appropriate look for you. Girly details, like bows, frills and jewels, will turn your next mid-summer night's dream into a real-life fairy tale. Join me behind the scenes to see how it all came together at our formal collection photo shoot. Hopefully you'll find Something New to call your own.
Wedges! Check out these 4 styles I chose and the outfits I put together for each. They all follow one of spring's key trends: exotic prints, bright colors, rose gold and pastels. Read on to get my tips for how to wear these super trendy shoes!
It's almost the first of the month! And while you've been patiently waiting for February to end, I've been busy preparing for March. One of my duties as JustFab's in-house stylist is building outfits around all of the jewelry pieces – which I love. Styling jewelry is so much fun! It's all about making that piece the focal point of your look. Go behind the scenes with me to find out which trends are hot for spring and how you can style your favorite jewels with your favorite outfits.
I am mad about Mary Janes! These sweet shoes are an update from the classic style you wore when you were little. Not only do they look super fab for work, you can also wear them out to drinks with the girls. New materials, like pearlized metallics, freshen up this silhouette, while killer platforms and rail-thin stilettos make them instantly sexy. Pair your Mary Janes with a pencil skirt and chiffon blouse or slip into dark skinny denim and a leather jacket. To see more must-have styles and my suggestions for the hottest ways to wear them, visit JustFab.com.
Hey, FABshionistas! I spent some time on set last week at a photo shoot that I styled for JustFab's' newest exclusive collection. The line doesn't launch until next Tuesday, but I wanted to give you inside access to my handiwork and a sneak peek at the new styles!


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"Autofac" is a 1955 science fiction short story (part of the collection Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities) by Philip K. Dick that features one of the earliest treatments (and Dick's second) of self-replicating machines. It is set some years after an apocalyptic world war has devastated Earth's civilizations, leaving only a network of hardened robot "autofacs" in operation to supply goods to the human survivors. Once humanity has recovered enough to want to begin reconstruction, the autofacs are immediately targeted for shutdown since they monopolize the planet's resources, but the ability to control them was lost in the war. This leaves the future of humanity, and the planet, in uncertainty as the autofacs consume every resource they can attain to produce what they perceive as needed. The story involves the human survivors as they try to steal the supplies they need and search for a way to take the power of production back into their own hands.[1]
In this story the distinctive catch-phrase, "This milk is pizzled," is used as a first wedge into the system, trying to confuse a robot which keeps delivering unwanted milk. Thus "pizzled" is now taken to mean faulty, in some unspecified—and perhaps unspecifiable—way.
A very similar story, "The Waging of Peace" was published in 1959 by Frederik Pohl.
- ^ Philip K. Dick, Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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- "Autofac" at the Internet Archive


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HYDERABAD: IT company Mahindra Satyam today said the uncertain economic conditions in the US could impact clients' IT budgets in the near-term, but the situation is also likely to present new growth opportunities.
"I can't anticipate exactly what the impact would be. There may be some reactions in the short-term and there could be some budget squeezes. I am a strong optimist and I believe that to some extent, it will be to our advantage in medium term," Mahindra Satyam Chief Executive CP Gurnani said.


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Definition of inconsistent in English:
1Not staying the same throughout: police interpretation of the law was often inconsistent
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- The Cork referee, who was largely to blame for the incident due to inconsistent decisions throughout gave Gallagher the yellow as well.
- The present law is foolish, outdated, inconsistent, and ridiculous.
- Miller's inconsistent thinking comes through in many other ways.
1.1Acting at variance with one's own principles or former conduct: parents can become inconsistent and lacking in control over their children
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- To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable.
- I also know that we fickle, inconsistent humans come equipped with varying abilities to perceive flavors.
- This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition.
erratic, changeable, unpredictable, variable, varying, changing, inconstant, unstable, irregular, fluctuating, unsteady, unsettled, uneven;
self-contradictory, contradictory, paradoxical;
capricious, fickle, flighty, whimsical, unreliable, mercurial, volatile, blowing hot and cold, ever-changing, chameleonlike
technical labile
1.2 (inconsistent with) Not compatible or in keeping with: he had done nothing inconsistent with his morality
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- At this scale, politics has to operate in a way which sometimes is incompatible and inconsistent with micro-scale politics.
- For instance, you might have covert tapes of conversations in which he has said different things inconsistent with his current proposed evidence.
- In my view, their evidence is completely incompatible and inconsistent with such a portrayal.
incompatible with, conflicting with, in conflict with, at odds with, at variance with, differing from, contrary to, in opposition to, (diametrically) opposed to, irreconcilable with, out of keeping with, out of step with;
antithetical to
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RTÉ soccer pundit Eamon Dunphy has labelled as "fools" and "clowns" Premier League owners who panic and sack managers unnecessarily.
Speaking to RTÉ Sport about the sacking of Chris Hughton as Norwich Manager, Dunphy said that Hughton was a good coach who had fallen victim to a fear that affected those in charge of Premier League clubs.
"I think he's a good coach," Dunphy said. "He did a good job at Newcastle, a really good job.
"He's always gonna be a very good coach. He's teams have been well set up and organised. There's nothing stupid or daft. He behaves himself, he's got great dignity.
"It's the nature of the Premier League now. These guys [the owners] panic. They're fools. They know nothing about football. They really don't. They're clowns.
"And they fear losing, y'know, whatever it is you get for staying in the Premier League these days."
"Who do the [protesting fans] think they are? Real Madrid? Norwich is a small club in Norfolk" - Eamon Dunphy
Dunphy also lambasted the behaviour of Norwich fans in the side's loss to West Brom, labelling it as "disgraceful".
At the end of the game, fans threw hundreds of clapper boards - which had been put on the seats to help improve the atmosphere - onto the field, with one even hitting Hughton.
"Who do they think they are?" Dunphy asked. "Real Madrid? Norwich is a small club in Norfolk."
Looking at the new Norwich boss, Neil Adam, Dunphy suggested that his success in winning the FA Youth Cup last season had been an important factor in his getting the job, but questioned whether this alone justified his appointment.
"The story is, that the chief executive was very impressed that they won the Youth Cup, and thought, 'This guy's got a future, and he's 48,' Dunphy said.
"Well, maybe he has got a future, but if you put winning the Youth Cup on your CV at 48, you're not gonna get many jobs in the Premier League."
Dunphy suggested that there were a number of clubs with similar symptoms to Norwich, and that they tended to struggle as a result.
"The clubs that are down in trouble," he said, "I mean, Sunderland, for example, appointed that lunatic Di Canio, and he lasted seven games this season.
"Cardiff have a crazy man there who changed the colours that the club had been wearing for over 100 years, sacked Malky Mackay, who got them promotion last year [and who] is a really good coach [...] well, they're going down. I hope to god they're going down, because these guys should be punished.
"It'll be the fools who go down.
"The Premiership is a soap opera, and it's an entertaining soap opera, but sometimes, on a day like this, for someone like Chris [Hughton], I have considerable sympathy, because I can guarantee you this: Norwich will be in the Championship sooner rather than later."


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Category:Members of Congress under investigation
- 1 Senators
- 2 Representatives
- 2.1 Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York)
- 2.2 Rep. John Doolittle (R-California) - Retiring
- 2.3 Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Florida)
- 2.4 Rep. Bob Filner (D-California)
- 2.5 Rep. Jane Harman (D-California)
- 2.6 Rep. William Jefferson (D-Louisiana) - Indicted
- 2.7 Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-California)
- 2.8 Rep. Gary Miller (R-California)
- 2.9 Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-West Virginia)
- 2.10 Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania)
- 2.11 Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) - Indicted and Retiring
- 2.12 Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
- 3 Former members of Congress
- 3.1 Former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-Colorado)
- 3.2 Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-California) - Convicted
- 3.3 Former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) - Indicted
- 3.4 Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida)
- 3.5 Former Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada)
- 3.6 Former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Florida)
- 3.7 Former Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)
- 3.8 Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) - Convicted
- 3.9 Former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pennsylvania)
- 4 Former investigations regarding members of Congress
- 5 Past investigations into members of Congress
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey)
Bob Menendez is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Newark, N.J. Specifically, investigators are examining whether Menendez had an improper financial relationship with the North Hudson County Action Corp., a non-profit organization in Union City, N.J. Menendez leased a house to the group from 1994-2003. During this period, in which he was a member of the House, Menendez received more than $300,000 from the organization in rent payments. In 1998, Menendez helped the agency win designation as a federally qualified health care center, a title that made it eligible for federal health care grants. In the eight years that followed this designation, the agency collected $9.6 million in federal grants. Menendez has noted that before renting out the house in 1994, he obtained clearance from the House Ethics Committee. He has also stated that there was nothing improper about his actions because he never negotiated directly with agency officials and the organization paid slightly below-market rent for the house. Menendez was elected to his own Senate term in November 2006 when he defeated Republican Tom Kean.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
Ted Stevens was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of "knowingly and willfully" making false statements on his Senate personal financial disclosure forms. Stevens had been charged with making false statements involving gifts and services he received in connection with VECO Inc., an oil services company in Alaska. Prosecutors said the remodeling of Stevens' home in Girdwood, Alaska -- which involved top VECO executives -- was not disclosed on personal financial disclosure forms, as required by federal law. Former VECO chief executive Bill Allen, awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to bribing Alaska lawmakers, spearheaded the remodeling project by hiring the contractors and directing them to send him the same bills that were being sent to Stevens. Stevens faces five years prison time for each count and will be sentenced on February 25, 2009.
Sen. Roland Burris (D-Illinois)
The Senate Ethics Committee has opened a preliminary investigation into Roland Burris' testimony regarding his appointment in December 2008 to the Senate by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Burris has given multiple accounts of his contacts with representatives of the then-Governor, first stating in January 2009 that he had had little contact with anyone close to Blagojevich, but later admitting in February 2009 that he had spoken with the Governor's brother three times in October and November 2008, and that he had even contacted several people about the possibility of holding a fund-raiser for the Governor before abandoning the idea. Illinois State's Attorney John Schmidt is also reviewing Burris' testimony for possible inconsistencies.
*At least one additional member of Congress not mentioned below is closely tied to an ongoing investigation, though not a target himself. A staffer for Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Vicki Siegel Herson, is under FBI investigation for allegedly helping her husband, a lobbyist, secure almost $50 million in Pentagon spending for his clients.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York)
On September 24, 2008, the House Ethics Committee launched an official probe to investigate discrepancies in his finances. The investigate subcommittee is looking into the following charges:
- Using official congressional stationery to solicit contributions for an educational center bearing his name.
- His living in four rent-stabilized apartments in his Harlem district while claiming his Washington, DC home as his primary residence for tax purposes.
- Failure to report $75,000 in rental income or pay taxes on a beach property in the Dominican Republic, which included a interest free loan deal.
- Storing his Mercedes-Benz in the House parking lot, contrary to House rules and tax laws.
It was also reported, that from 2004 to 2007,he funneled almost $80,000 in campaign cash to a company run by his son to build a pair of campaign websites that were riddled with misspellings and so poorly designed, an expert estimated the cost for making and operating the site at $1,000.
Since 1978, Rangel has also failed to report assets 28 times on his financial disclosure forms due to an investigation that revealed sums hundreds of thousands of dollars disappearing and appearing without notice from his disclosures.
Despite Rangel's hope that the investigation would soon clear him, on February 10, 2009, the House Ethics Committee voted to prolong the probe.
Rep. John Doolittle (R-California) - Retiring
John Doolittle is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department's Public Integrity Unit for his ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Doolittle, who calls Abramoff a close friend, has accepted large amounts of campaign money from Abramoff (which he refused to return after the lobbyist's conviction), allegedly helped Abramoff's tribal clients in dealings with the Interior Department, and also helped him win a contract from the Northern Mariana Islands by endorsing a politician on the island. In addition, Doolittle's wife, Julie, was paid a retainer by Abramoff for event planning work from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, Julie Doolittle was subpoenaed for documents in connection with the probe. While John Doolittle paid a lawyer over $38,000 to speak with the Justice Department during 2006, he has denied any wrongdoing or that he is the target of an investigation. In April 2007, the FBI raided his Northern Virginia home, seizing materials related to Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions Inc. (Julie Doolittle's firm). Rep. Doolittle resigned from the House Appropriations Committee shortly thereafter.
Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Florida)
Tom Feeney has been mentioned multiple times in court documents filed by the Justice Department as "Representative #3" in the criminal investigation of Mark Zachares, a former congressional aide to Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and lobbyist who, in April 2007, pleaded guilty to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In April 2007, the FBI asked Feeney for information about his dealings with Jack Abramoff as part of its ongoing investigation into the lobbyist convicted of defrauding clients. Feeney is one of three House members who accompanied Abramoff to Scotland on golfing trips (the others being convicted former Rep. Bob Ney and indicted former Rep. Tom DeLay). In January 2007, the House announced that Feeney had violated chamber rules by letting Abramoff pay for the trip. Feeney has stated that he is not a target of a probe and is "pleased to voluntarily cooperate" with the investigation.
Rep. Bob Filner (D-California)
Bob Filner was charged with assault and battery on August 19, 2007, following an incident at Dulles airport. Filner allegedly "attempted to enter an area authorized for airline employees only" at a United Airlines baggage claim office, and pushed an airport employee trying to stop him. The airport police were called to the scene, where they interviewed Filner, the employee, and witnesses, prior to letting the Congressman leave. Later that night, the airline employee filed charges with a Loudoun County, Virginia magistrate, who issued a summons to Filner to appear in court on October 2 for a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by an up to $2,500 fine and up to 1 year in prison. Filner denied the charges, issuing a statement saying "that the story that has appeared in the press is factually incorrect-and the charges are ridiculous."
Rep. Jane Harman (D-California)
Jane Harman is under investigation by the Justice Department for allegedly (with the help of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) enlisting wealthy donors to lobby then-House Minority Leader (and current House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi to retain her position as the head Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. The investigation into the alleged campaign to support Harman for the leadership post began in mid-2006 after media reports said that Pelosi might name Rep. Alcee Hastings to succeed Harman. In addition to investigating alleged calls made at Harman's behest by wealthy Democratic Party contributors to Pelosi, the probe is also looking into whether, in exchange for help from AIPAC, Harman agreed to try to persuade the Bush Administration to go easy on AIPAC officials involved in a broader investigation. Both Harman and AIPAC have denied the allegations. Harman won reelection in November 2006, but was not chosen by Pelosi to head the Intelligence Committee.
Rep. William Jefferson (D-Louisiana) - Indicted
William Jefferson is currently under federal indictment (as of June 2007) on sixteen criminal counts which include racketeering, soliciting bribes, wire fraud, money-laundering, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The indictment says that Jefferson received more than $500,000 in bribes and sought millions more in separate arrangements in which he used his congressional office to negotiate business deals in Africa. Jefferson had his house in New Orleans and his congressional office raided by the FBI in 2006. He was allegedly caught talking about giving and receiving bribes by a wiretap worn by a woman involved in the deal. According to an FBI affidavit, Jefferson was also videotaped receiving $100,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent. $90,000 of the cash was recovered from the freezer in his New Orleans home. Jefferson is also under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. He won reelection in 2006 after a runoff victory against fellow Democrat Karen Carter.
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-California)
Jerry Lewis is currently under investigation for his use of the "earmarking" process to benefit a lobbyist and friend, Bill Lowery. Of interest to the investigation is the revolving door between Lewis' office and Lowery's – two Lewis staffers have gone to work for Lowery as lobbyists, with one of them coming back to Lewis' office – and Lewis' earmarking of projects for firms that Lowery represents, which has included the Brent Wilkes-owned ADCS. Federal investigators are also looking into a land deal which protected nearly 41 acres in Lewis' neighborhood from developers. The land was given to the city of Redlands by Jack and Laura Dangermond. The couple, who founded and operate Environmental Systems Research, Inc., have received tens of millions of dollars in government contracts from the House Appropriations Committee that Lewis chaired through the 109th Congress. Protecting the land from development keeps property values high, as it is part of a scenic canyon. Furthermore, the Federal Election Commission is reviewing whether Lewis's campaign committee violated election laws by failing to disclose contributions within a 48-hour deadline. The FEC sent Lewis's committee a letter back in January 2007 requesting additional information on items in its post-general filing. Lewis won reelection in November 2006, although he lost his chairmanship as a result of the Democrats winning a majority of seats in the House.
Rep. Gary Miller (R-California)
Gary Miller is under investigation by the FBI for his real estate transactions. Specifically, in 2000, Miller appeared at a Monrovia City Council meeting to lobby city officials to purchase 165 acres of his in order to convert it into a wilderness preserve. In 2002, Miller sold the 165 acres to the city, earning a profit of over $10 million. The money earned from the land deal was then subject to both federal and state taxes, at a 31% rate. Miller, however, told the Internal Revenue Service and the state of California that Monrovia had forced him to sell the property under the threat of eminent domain. This, in his view, allowed him to shelter the profits from capital gains taxes for more than two years before he had to reinvest the money. Miller had previously claimed the same exemption in two subsequent Fontana property transactions. Monrovia officials, however, say that Miller sold the land willingly and that they did not force him to sell. Tax experts believe that Miller will have a difficult time proving that eminent domain was threatened three times by the same municipality.
Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-West Virginia)
Alan Mollohan is under investigation for using the "earmarking" process to direct contracts to non-profit organizations headed by both campaign contributors and business partners. One report notes that Mollohan aided in giving at least $179 million in U.S. government contracts to twenty-one nonprofit groups and companies that gave $225,427 to the Robert H. Mollohan Family Charitable Foundation, for which Mollohan is secretary. In addition, it is alleged that Mollohan helped direct earmarks to a non-profit group headed by his business partner. During the time these earmarks were delivered, public records indicate that Mollohan's personal wealth grew exponentially. Because Mollohan's personal disclosure statements do not reflect this growth, the Justice Department is investigating "whether they were disclosed properly." Mollohan stepped down from his position on the House Ethics Committee in April 2006. In June, he filed two dozen corrections to his past six annual financial disclosure forms, arguing that his accountant had uncovered several unintentional errors. Mollohan won reelection in November 2006.
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania)
Tim Murphy is under federal investigation for allegedly having legislative staff members perform campaign-related activities in his Pennsylvania district office. The investigation was launched after several employees admitted to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that they had been asked to do campaign-related tasks such as distributing literature and mailing greeting cards to financial donors. Such activities are prohibited by both House ethics rules and federal law. Murphy has denied that he instructed his legislative staff to do campaign work.
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) - Indicted and Retiring
Rick Renzi is currently the subject of two Justice Department investigations. First, he is under investigation for his involvement in a federal land swap deal. While officials have not revealed details of the probe, it is widely believed that it surrounds legislation Renzi agreed to introduce in 2005 completing a land swap for a former business partner, James Sandlin. Second, Renzi is being probed for introducing legislation (which became law) exempting the Fort Huachuca Army base in Arizona from maintaining water levels in the nearby San Pedro River. ManTech International, a military contractor who has been one of Renzi's largest contributors and currently employs his father, has over $450 million in contracts at the base. In April 2007, the FBI raided Renzi's wife's Arizona insurance business, prompting him to step down from the House Intelligence, Resources and Financial Services Committees.
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
Don Young, along with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), is under federal investigation for delivering political favors for a company in Alaska. Specifically, officials are probing whether Young or Stevens accepted bribes, illegal gratuities or unreported gifts from VECO Corp., the largest oil-field engineering firm in Alaska. The company has been awarded numerous federal contracts since 2000, including several to provide logistics support for arctic research. Former VECO Chief Executive Bill Allen has held fund-raisers for Young in Anchorage, Alaska, and records show contributions to Young of at least $157,000 from VECO employees and its political-action committee between 1996 and 2006.
Former members of Congress
Former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-Colorado)
Bob Beauprez is currently under investigation by the Justice Department's Wyoming office. The probe is examining whether Beauprez, a candidate in the 2006 gubernatorial election in Colorado, accessed a restricted federal database for information used in a television ad to attack his Democratic challenger, Bill Ritter. State investigators, who began looking into the matter before the Justice Department, have concluded that the information in the ad came from the National Crime Information Center, a federal database for which only law enforcement officials have access. Using the database for any purpose other than law enforcement is a federal crime which carries a punishment of up to one-year in prison. Beauprez ultimately lost the gubernatorial election to Ritter.
Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-California) - Convicted
Randy "Duke" Cunningham was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for securing, through earmarks, defense and intelligence contracts for Mitchell Wade and Brent Wilkes. He is currently serving a sentence of 8 years and 8 months, the longest sentence ever given to a convicted member of Congress. The Justice Department is still investigating others in connection to Cunningham's misdeeds, including probing the House Appropriations Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.
Former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) - Indicted
Tom DeLay was indicted in September 2005 for money laundering and conspiracy in connection with the Texas redistricting scandal. The conspiracy charges were waived, but the former Majority Leader still faces the money laundering charge. DeLay was named as "Representative #2" in the guilty plea of his former chief of staff Tony Rudy, who was convicted in connection to the actions of Jack Abramoff. DeLay's name has also surfaced in the Brent Wilkes-Duke Cunningham scandal and the Justice Department may be looking at his actions in relation to that case. DeLay resigned from the House in 2006.
Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida)
In late September 2006, Foley resigned from the House after the public revelation of "over-friendly" emails and sexually suggestive instant message conversations he had with teenage congressional pages. In early October, the FBI announced that it would be investigating his actions. Soon after, the Department of Justice sent a "preservation letter" to the House counsel ordering the House to preserve all documents and other materials possibly related to Foley's electronic correspondence with House pages. FBI agents also began searching the country for other pages that may have had contact with Foley. Officials indicated that the investigation thus far was into whether Foley had violated laws against crossing state lines or using electronic communications to entice a minor into sexual acts.
Former Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada)
Jim Gibbons, who is currently the governor of Nevada, is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly accepting unreported gifts and/or payments from a company, eTreppid Technologies LLC, in exchange for official acts while he served in Congress (1997-2007). The firm reportedly gave Gibbons airline tickets and a Caribbean cruise, and was later awarded secret military contracts while Gibbons served on the House Intelligence and Armed Services committees. In 2006, Gibbons was investigated by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for allegedly assaulting a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, Chrissy Mazzeo, in a parking garage outside of a bar. Following the initial accusations, Gibbons and his associates were accused of issuing contradicting statements, intimidating and bribing Mazzeo, and attempting to use their connections to the police department and others to obstruct the investigation. Gibbons was endorsed in his gubernatorial race that fall by the local sheriff in charge of the case, and his top political consultant had financial ties to the company that handled surveillance tapes from the garage where the alleged incident took place. Gibbons won the governorship in the November 2006 elections, and the investigation into his actions was dropped later that month after the Metropolitan Police Department found no evidence to support Mazzeo's accusations.
Former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Florida)
Katherine Harris is under investigation by both the Justice Department and Defense Department for her relationship with Mitchell Wade, the former head of a defense company who pleaded guilty to a series of criminal bribery offenses in February 2006. Wade made $32,000 worth of illegal contributions to Harris' House campaign in 2004. In addition, he paid for at least two dinners with her at a Georgetown restaurant in 2004-2005 that totaled roughly $6,000. Later, Wade requested that Harris help secure $10 million in federal money for a company project of his in Sarasota, Fla. Federal officials have subpoenaed records from Harris' U.S. Senate campaign office and interviewed several of her former staffers. Harris was defeated in her Senate bid by Democrat Bill Nelson in the November 2006 elections. Katherine Harris was also mentioned in the best selling book "The Best Democracy Money can Buy" by Greg Palast. As Florida Secretary of State, Harris oversaw the state's vote count in the controversial 2000 presidential election, which was won by George W. Bush, brother of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Former Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)
In May 2006, ABC News cited "high-level official sources" in a report claiming that Hastert was under investigation by the FBI. According to the report, the FBI was looking into a letter Hastert wrote in 2003 urging then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton to block an Indian casino that would have competed with casinos operated by other tribes, which were represented by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Hastert denied the claim, and others suggested that the government leak of an investigation was retaliatory for Hastert's public opposition to the FBI raid of Rep. William Jefferson's congressional office. Days after the report, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty denounced it, stating "With regard to reports suggesting that the Speaker of the House is under investigation or 'in the mix,' as stated by ABC News, I reconfirm, as stated by the Department earlier this evening, that these reports are untrue." ABC News, however, refused to retract its original claim of an ongoing investigation. Hastert's office was also under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for its handling of early complaints about inappropriate contacts with House pages by former Rep. Mark Foley. On December 8, 2006, the committee reported that while Hastert had acted negligently, he had not violated any House rules.
Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) - Convicted
In October 2006, Bob Ney pled guilty to taking money, gifts and favors in return for official actions on behalf of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his clients. Ney also confessed to taking thousands of dollars in gambling chips from an international businessman who sought his help with the State Department. Ney was the eighth person convicted in the continuing federal investigation into Abramoff's activities, and the first member of Congress. The government has recommended that Ney be sentenced to twenty-seven months in prison. He resigned from Congress on November 17, 2006. On January 19, 2007, Ney was sentenced to thirty months in federal prison.
Former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pennsylvania)
Curt Weldon is under investigation by the Justice Department for trading his political influence for lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, Karen Weldon. Specifically, the investigation centers around Weldon's efforts between 2002 and 2004 to aid two Russian companies and two Serbian brothers with ties to Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia. The Russian firms and a Serbian group run by the brothers' family had each hired a lobbying firm co-owned by Karen Weldon for fees totaling nearly $1 million a year. In one instance, Weldon allegedly intervened on the behalf of Itera International Energy Corp, a Russian firm represented by Karen Weldon, when U.S. officials canceled a federal grant to the company. In addition, he allegedly encouraged U.S. firms to do business with Itera at a time when its reputation had been damaged by allegations of corruption. Late in 2006, the FBI formally referred the matter to the department's Public Integrity Section. Weldon was defeated in his 2006 bid for reelection by Democrat Joe Sestak. Following his defeat, the House Ethics Committee released a statement saying that Weldon had failed to repay $23,000 worth of improper travel expenses that he accepted for a trip to Belgrade, Serbia. The committee promised to continue monitoring Weldon's actions with regards to the funds.
Former investigations regarding members of Congress
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) - Retiring
Pete Domenici is the subject of a "preliminary inquiry" by the Senate Ethics Committee for his role in the U.S. attorney firings controversy. In March 2007, Domenici admitted to contacting the U.S. attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, concerning an ongoing investigation into a New Mexico Democrat in late 2006. Iglesias, who was fired weeks later, alleged that Domenici pressured him to accelerate the pace of the probe. Domenici's actions appeared to violate Senate rules. In a discussion of Senate Rule 43, the Senate Ethics Manual states that "[t]he general advice of the Ethics Committee concerning pending court actions is that Senate offices should refrain from intervening in such legal actions...until the matter has reached a resolution in the courts." The manual also indicates that senators should not consult with an agency regarding any enforcement or investigative matter.
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Definición de stocky en inglés:
adjetivo (stockier, stockiest)
Broad and sturdily built: he had a short, stocky body
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- He sat up, revealing broad, stocky shoulders and thickset arms to go along with him.
- Then a stocky built lad appeared and started doing triple summersaults and all manner of spectacular dives.
- He always had a bit of an inferiority complex because he's smaller, but he was very broad and stocky.
thickset, heavily built, sturdy, sturdily built, heavyset, bull-necked, chunky, solid, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, squat;
technical mesomorphic, pyknic
Australian/New Zealand nuggety
informal hulking
British informal fubsy
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- His accomplice, who was also wearing a light blue top, was white, 5ft 7ins tall, stockily built, in his 20s and was wearing sand-coloured casual shoes.
- He was stockily built, about 11 years old, wearing a distinctive bright red tracksuit-like garment and had unusually thick, bushy, fair to gingery hair.
- The robber who threatened the woman was white, 5ft 8in, stockily built and between 25 and 40.
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- My height, and associated stockiness, also meant that I was capable of holding my own in what was the most important of all of Daramalan's peer rituals - Lunch Time Rugby.
- 'I had to put on a lot of stockiness for that role,' he reveals, in a rare moment of frankness.
- A knot of four men enter the room, led by a young, blond man of middle height, tending towards stockiness.
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A junior middleweight clash featuring hard-hitting fighters Alfredo Angulo and James Kirkland is "pretty close in terms of what HBO will pay for the fight," and will likely take place on Nov. 5 in Cancun, Mex., according to a source familiar with the numbers.
The 29-year-old Angulo (20-1, 17 KOs) and the 27-year-old southpaw Kirkland (29-1, 26 KOs) are each handled by Golden Boy Promotions.
"This is a fight that both fighters want, and it's a fight that I believe that the fans will want to see," said Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer.
"But it is not done, and I'm going to talk with [HBO's Senior Vice President of Sports] Kery Davis next week, and we're going to see if we can get that done."
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Beaver Mountain Provincial Park LbNA # 22230
|Placed Date
|Oct 1 2000
|Nova Scotia, CAN
|Antigonish, NVA
|Found By
|Last Found
|Jul 17 2007
|Hike Distance
This box was found after being "lost" for almost 6 years! Clan Jiggs has officially adopted it in the hope that some more local LBers will look for it!
Originally Placed by: Christopher and Heather Van Loon
Length: 5.5 km/3.6 mi
Time: 2 hrs
Type: Pavement, dirt road, walking paths
From Antigonish, take Highway 104 11.5 km (7 miles) west toward New Glasgow. At exit 30, head south (left) and take first right road. Follow for 5 km (3 mi). Park at the end of the pavement.
Beaver Mountain Provincial Park offers recreation opportunities all year long. In the warmer months, there's hiking and in the winter, there's cross-country skiing. As you hike through this park, you will notice signs for ski trails scattered throughout.
The trail is a 'stacked-loop' system (there's a trail map kiosk near where you will park your car). Picture a figure-eight with a vertical line extending from the bottom loop, and you'll get an idea of this trail's shape. This shape allows you to take a shorter hike by cutting across the middle of the figure-eight, or take a longer hike by taking the outside of the eight all the way. The latter route is the one you will take.
The rule of thumb you will adhere to is 'always take the left trail at junctions'. When my wife and I hiked this trail, we were a bit confused by junctions with cross-country ski trails. But if you follow the rule above, you'll be just fine. Now then, on to the trail!
Follow the paved portion of the trail away from the park entrance and around an orange gate until you come to a grassy/dirt path to the left. A trail sign is directly in front of you. The trail is well marked by rectacngular red markers. Keep to the left at the next junction. You should pass under a power line shortly, and the trail then heads into an area of densely packed spruce.
As the trail descends, the road continues right. You will go left (remember the rule). The hiking will be relatively easy here, on a wide, grassy path. When you reach Cameron's Brook you will be at the point at which you could take the shorter loop, or continue left. Go out on the wooden bridge to see if you can spot beaver (depending on the time of year and time of day). There is a bench just accross the bridge where you can stop for a rest. When you are ready to continue, head uphill (left at the bridge). This stretch is demanding, so pace yourself! As you climb, you notice that the trees are now mostly maple and beech. The trail narrows here, but is still obvious. This portion of the trail borders the park boundary, where you will start to notice clear-cut forest to the left, for over a mile of hiking. You are now heading straight for the power line right-of-way. You will not see the lines but you are headed for them. Before you reach the lines, the trail will turn right. You will parallel the power line for a while. You can just see the clearing through the trees.
You should now keep your eyes open for an upcoming junction of trail paths. The junction is like an upside-down capital Y, where you are walking down the left of the two bottom paths. You'll know you're at the right junction when the compass bearing is 100° on the continuation of the path you were traveling on, and 260° on the path that joins to the right of the path you had been on. (Check: you've gone too far if you pass a sign which says "Wrong Way"). At this junction, set your compass to 44°, and walk 45-50 steps (one footfall = one step) in that direction. Find the letterbox behind a tall, straight maple tree with an 18-24 inch trunk.
After stamping up, bear left at the next junction of paths. You will pass the bench, cross the beaver bridge and pass under the power lines again. After walking under the power lines stay to the right and continue on the re-marked trail. When you reach the paved road, turn right and head back to the parking lot.
Have fun, eh?


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