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|Eli PaintedCrow Iraq Veteran, CA
|Stephen Edwards Iraq Vet (Patrick's Friend) CA
|Michael O'Gorman Coalition, Baja & Ca
|Sharon Kufeltd USAF Vet, CA
|Karen Meredith Gold Star Mother, CA
My brief quote on my work and philosophy:
My work is about feeding our spirit by expressing my truth in
language that is from my heart, life experience and my
personal truth. It is my hope that people understand that what
we speak we create, and what we fear most is what we call
into our lives. By fighting for peace, we will inevitably fail
because fighting for something is not a peaceful act. To have
peace, we must become that which we desire. In order to
learn how to stop this nation's cycle of violence, we must
heal our nation's past acts of violence against others, in
order to see how our present actions affect the future.
Eli PaintedCrow
|Nadia McCaffrey was born in Paris and grew-up in the province of Auvergne,
France, she studied the Arts, and nursing. She married an American, Bob
McCaffrey; she immigrated to California, United States in the 60's.
She is the founder of Angelstaff, a group of trained volunteers who bring a caring
presence to terminally ill and their families. Her son, Sgt Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr.,
was killed by Iraqi soldiers in an ambush near Balad, Iraq on June 22, 2004, Nadia
was the first Gold Star Mother to allow the media to welcome Patrick at Sacramento
International Airport.
Since, Nadia has travel internationally including the Middle East, speaking of her
son's life and death, his legacy, his 2 children, Janessa and Patrick Jr, she gives a
face to the war by telling people Patrick's story.
She speak about his patriotism (Patrick enlisted after 9/11), his compassion that
he had for everyone to his last breathe. Patrick was an advocate & helped protect
his fellow soldiers to the end as well as the Iraqi
Nadia McCaffrey has become an international voice for peace, Justice and
responsibility in government. She has been featured world wide in over 30
documentaries, she has appeared in Paula Zhan show, Aaron Brown, Good
MORNING AMERICA with Charles Gibson, TODAY SHOW with Meredith McRay,
MORNING ON CNN, DAN RATHER REPORTS, The CHRIS WALLACE SUNDAY
SHOW on FOX National, Japanese National Public TV, LE POINT TV(Radio-
Canada), FRANCE3, RTL TV and Radio, ARTE TV EU, etc, many radio shows
(BBC, NPR) magazines (including Vanity Fair & NEWSWEEK, Stern (Germany),
many newspapers, Many Books (in 12 languages), etc…
In memory of Patrick, she now has dedicated the rest of her life to helping the
war veterans coming home; she wants to give them a second home where they
can unwind and reclaim their lives, giving them the opportunity to be able to
create a better future for themselves and their families with proper training and
care. The Center will allow them to face tomorrow with PTSD and other unseen
scares and keep it under control.
|Sgt. Stephen L. Edwards, Jr.
Iraq Veteran, Former California National Guardsman
San Jose, CA
Stephen served for 15 years in the California National Guard. He joined the California
National Guard in 1991, participating in construction projects in North and Central
America. He was deployed domestically to guard a chemical weapons facility in 2003.
Within 6 months he received his orders to report to active duty in Iraq. While deployed
overseas, Stephen spent 12 months serving in Iraq. He performed various duties,
including escorting convoys, patrolling military bases and conducting raids.
As a result of enduring the loss of his best friend and other brothers-in-arms, sustaining
injuries in a roadside bomb, and witnessing the death and destruction of war, Stephen
sustained psychological as well as physical injuries. Shortly after returning home in
February, 2005, he was diagnosed with acute PTSD.
Stephen has spent the last two years undergoing treatment and recovering from chronic
PTSD and physical injuries. His life's work is now devoted to helping other veterans by
encouraging them to reach out for the treatment any physical and/or psychological
injuries received as a result of serving our country. He is an advocate for all veterans
and is dedicated to raising public awareness of the lack of resources and support for
veterans returning from overseas deployment.
Stephen holds an Associate of Arts degree in Computer Technology from Heald
College, School of Technology in Milpitas, CA.
|Karen Meredith was born in Heidelberg, Germany.
She spent her childhood living in Europe and the U.S. with her Army father, mother and seven siblings.
A single mother, Karen raised her only child, Ken Ballard, on her own. She was proud to see Ken serve our country by joining the
Army upon graduation from high school in 1995.
1Lt Ken Ballard was a fourth generation Army officer and was stationed in Bosnia, Macedonia and Germany as an enlisted
soldier. He then attended college on an Army scholarship and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army in 2002. After
additional training, he returned to Germany for his first assignment as an officer. Ken was sent to Iraq the day after Mother's Day
2003 – that was Karen's Mother's Day present that year. Ken said he would make it up when he returned home the next year.
They never had that date – Ken was killed in Najaf, Iraq, on May 30, 2004. Thus Karen became a Gold Star Mother, a mom whose
child was killed during war.
Karen has taken a temporary sabbatical from her career as a Purchasing Manager so that she can spend her time speaking out
and working to end the war. She currently works for a wireless networking company in Silicon Valley.
When Ken was killed, the Army told Ken's families that he was killed by small arms fire. In September 2005, 15 months after Ken
was killed, the Army notified Ken's family that the circumstances of his death were different than the initial report.
As an activist in the peace community, Karen has worked with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) on their boots project,
Eyes Wide Open, the Human Cost of War. She has been a featured speaker at many peace events around the country, and in the
course of her work, has met with the Secretary of the Army, the Inspector General of the Army, and numerous legislators and
officials nationwide. Karen's continued activism has brought her to work on the advisory board of Veteran's Village.
She was named the 22nd Assembly District of California "Woman of the Year" for 2006 by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber. Karen
has appeared in various national & local media including PBS Now, Link TV, Air America, NBC Evening News, Current TV, NPR ,
CNN Headline News, Newsweek On Air and CBS The Early Show. Karen & Ken's story is shown in CSNY DejaVu, Crosby, Stills
Nash & Young's 2008 documentary about the group's Freedom of Speech Tour in 2006.
|Welcome to Our Speaker's Bureau
|Christopher Murphy Iraq Veteran (Patrick's Friend)
|Social work within a culturally progressive team atmosphere
2005 – Present North Coast Veterans Resource Center . Eureka, CA.
Transitional Housing Manager
• Coordinate day-to-day operations regarding the Transitional Housing program.
• Responsible for health and safety and compliance with V.A. Grants
and Per Diem criteria.
• Conduct weekly house meetings.
2005 - 2005 Redwood Community Action Agency Eureka, CA
Residential Counselor – Family Services Division
• Provide peer-style counseling and support, for participants in transitional
housing at the Multiple Assistance Center.
• Conduct teen boy and male resident discussion groups.
• Function as instructor of multiple subject life skill classes.
2001 - 2003 North Coast Veterans Resource Center Eureka, CA
Veterans Outreach Specialist-AB2034 S.O.S. (Street Outreach Services)
Contracted through Health and Human Services-Mental Health Branch
• Provided wrap around case management services for homeless/mentally ill•
Developed treatment plan with treatment team
• Street outreach support and referrals
|Michael Murray RA
Architect, CA
|Marc Knipper MA, MSW, Veteran
|Associate Social Worker
• Functioned as a Family Liaison Counselor
• Case managed (ten) teenage boys in a group home
• Coordinated weekly Substance Abuse Groups.
1998 California State University Long Beach, CA
• Masters in Social Work
1989 San Jose State University San Jose, CA
• Bachelors in Fine Art (ceramics)
• Minors in African American History
|I'm running for Delta Trustee because education is something I am
passionate about as a veteran. I believe Delta College is an anchor
of our community and must be saved from its current condition.
Conditions which I am on record as addressing for over three years
now. It is because of people like me who have the courage to speak
up that a Grand Jury investigation was conducted. I believe the
current Board members have become comfortable in their positions
and lost touch with the communities they serve. I believe I can
refocus that lost connection to the community and bring integrity and
accountability to the Board. I am a proud graduate of Delta and
thankful for my education received as it has broadened my horizons
exponentially. I want to see that proud tradition continue for the
community including my own children and our veterans.
Mote is a VeteransVillage.org board member and an veterans'
We realize that agribusiness opposes the vision of holding onto family
farms, and opposes strengthening our rural communities and family
farms that are growing local produce. 90 percent of the fuel spent in
our food production system is the distribution, only ten percent in
actual production. So let's grow the produce closer to home. Let's
grow our own fuels. Let's support the Midwest and get out of the wars
in the Middle East. Let's bring veterans back to work on our farms as a
place to heal and to gain vocational training. As the people who are
taking care of the land and feeding the country, we can help bring our
country back to earth and get it a little more grounded, and offer not
just a protest against the war but a positive alternative of a better way
of living and a more democratic society based on the Jeffersonian
concepts of distribution of land, production, wealth and power.
We talk to vets and they are very excited about the project. All of us
who went into farming as young men and women were attracted to
farming. The military has an attraction for young people. It has to do
with having a sense of purpose. It has to do with having a sense of
camaraderie, and a sense of working for a common good. Also it's a
way of feeling your oats and strength and physicality. We think the
farm is an alternative lifestyle. It's a peaceful alternative for young
people who are drawn to the military. You know, "Be all you can be."
Yes, be all you can be, but leave the guns out of it.
Mary Tillman is the mother of Patrick Daniel Tillman who left an NFL career to
join the Army after September 11th, 2001. He was killed in Afghanistan in April
2004. Due to conflicting information in documents and testimonies, Mary and
her family pushed for a congressional hearing. In April of 2007 the
Congressional Oversight Committee deemed there was a cover up in the death
of Pat Tillman. Mary has written a book about her son and the suspicious
circumstances surrounding his death, Boots On The Ground By Dusk: My Tribute
to Pat Tillman.
Mary worked for San Jose Unified School District for fifteen years.
Eleven of those years she taught emotionally at risk students and students with
mild to moderate learning disabilities.
Teach Peace Foundation
David J. Dionisi is a former military intelligence officer
and published author of American Hiroshima.
American Hiroshima describes the next 9/11 attack in the United States and
what can be done to prevent it.
For information about the book:
|Meeting the Needs of Iraq War Veterans
"When the Troops Come Home: Meeting the Needs of Veterans of the Iraq
and Afghanistan Wars"
Joint ventures with various corporate, interfaith, community, private and government
Knowledge of business/corporate/community /government aid resources.
In-service presentations to corporations, community agencies, and the media.
Marketing /resources/surveys/research/business plans/grants.
Responsible for all reporting and analyzing in the fourth largest county in California.
Supervisory experience. Responsible for hiring staff of twenty.
Excellent communication skills. Fiscal administration for two facilities/programs.
Public relations/event coordination.
Database of over two hundred corporations that donate to seniors and the underserved.
The proposed robust American World Service Corps (AWSC) builds the peaceful, productive 21st century army that we need
to augment our military troops. Building this AWSC reduces the need for combat, and thereby erases hatreds and wounds
combat leaves behind. People's Lobby/s AWSC Congressional Proposals, which Congresswoman Woolsey has agreed to
introduce in this session of Congress, needs your help in obtaining enough cosponsors to pass in this Congress.
If enacted as written in the next Congress, each year for the next seven years approximately 140,000 Americans would
voluntarily choose to serve in their choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors
Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, and other
qualified local non-profits. By the seventh year, one million American World Service Corps volunteers of all ages, or less
than .4th of 1% of those aged 18-70+, would annually serve for a year or two at home or abroad in the aforementioned
existing governmental and non-governmental organizations. Only after 20 years could Congress consider sun-setting the
AWSC legislation.
In order to enter the 22nd century with dignity, we need the robust AWSC to leave life safer and saner for you and yours. The
AWSC will keep us out of future trillion dollars wars, invest in doing good only a fraction of what Iraq has cost us, recycle
most of its investment into the American economy by rewarding volunteers with their choice of four years of college tuition or
equivalent investment in IRA and Medical Savings Accounts, or home down payments. The AWSC will begin rebuilding our
infrastructure, character, world image, and public policy IQ.
The proposed legislation has at least six traditional taxing and six nontraditional non-taxing funding mechanisms. If
visionary leadership pushed the nontraditional revenue streams, they could potentially eliminate any reliance on taxing to
fund the AWSC investment. All funding raised by the nontraditional and voluntary funding streams would go directly into an
escrowed account dedicated to funding only the AWSC. Learn more at www.worldservicecorps.us and read the proposed
legislation at :
|Nadia McCaffrey Gold Star Mother, CA
|William McDonald Vietnam Combat Veteran
Bill McDonald, served with the US Army in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. He was a crew
chief/door-gunner on Huey helicopters (UH-1D). He was with the 128th Assault Helicopter
Company stationed in Phu Loi, South Vietnam. He was awarded numerous medals,
including: The Distinguished Flying Cross, The Bronze Star, 14 Air Medals and the Purple
Heart. McDonald graduated with his BA degree from the University of San Francisco. He also has an AA degree from San
Jose City College. He is now retired from the USPS where he was a Safety Manager. He currently resides in Elk Grove,
California. He went back to Vietnam in 2002, with a small group known as "The Peace Patrol" - to help build a bridge of
peace with his former enemies. That journey was reported on the Sacramento's local NBC TV station KCRA and helped
generated renewed attention for veteran issues.That film premiered at The LBJ Presidential Library on November 8, 2003
in Austin, Texas to a capacity crowd of 1,500 people. The film went on to win "The Houston International Film Festival
Best Film" in 2004. It has been shown dozens of times on Cable TV including The Military Channel. It has also been shown
at numerous film festivals across country including "The Monterey Film Festival" with box office proceeds going to support
various veteran organizations and causes. In 2005 he worked on a short PBS TV documentary in partnership with the VA
and The Pentagon Television Network called "The Art of Healing". The film focused on the use of the art, music and writing
as a means to cope with and heal from the effects of PTSD. He developed a PTSD program for the VA to go along with the
film. His autobiography called "A Spiritual Warrior's Journey" has been a good seller to veterans and their families since it
came out in late 2003. This book reflects on his life experiences, not only in Vietnam, but both before and afterwards. His
poetry book Purple Hearts deals with poems from the Vietnam War and has been
available to organizations to sell for fund raising. His other major book of poetry "Sacred Eye
- Poetry in Search of the Divine" won a $25,000 marketing and promotional award from
Booksurge Publishers (March 2004). He is currently working on two more books (The OM Café publication for 2008 and a
follow-up non-fiction book about his adventures in India called "My Hearts Journey" in 2009.) His feature writing plans are
focused on a book about PTSD that takes in the spiritual issues involved with the healing process. That book is still
evolving. Hopefully it will be ready for publication in 2009.Bill works with several non-profit foundations doing projects for
the people of Vietnam and world peace. He has been assisting PTSD veterans and their families for over 3 decades
through his own personal support network. He is a United Faith Ministries chaplain and gives his services free to
veteran and non-profit
organizations. He has appeared on over 300 radio and TV broadcasts in the last 5 years where he has spoken out about
veteran related issues. He also was a co-host on KDADE web radio (Over 600,000 listeners world wide) for several years
talking about military authors and books.
He is still married to his high school sweetheart and has two grown children and 3
Volunteer Experience
• Carlton County Guardian Ad Litem Program Child Advocate
• Children's Home Society of Minnesota Board of Directors
• Pine County Developmental Achievement Center Board of Directors
• Special Education Mainstream Project Volunteer
• Pine County CARE Council
• Minnesota Mental Health Association Conference Coordinator
• Great Books Instructor
• Parent-Teacher Association Secretary
• Nursery School Organizer
• Sunday School Teacher
• Becky (age 65) and husband, Gene (deceased – Oct 12, 2008), are parents of 12
children, (three deceased). They built their family by both birth and adoption. They have 18
• Recipient of the Governor's Marvelous Minnesota Woman Award, 1989
• Received the prestigious B. Robert Lewis Award from the Minnesota Public Health
• Recipient of Charlotte Striebel Long Distance Runner Award, National Organization of
Women (NOW)
• Recipient of the Lucy Hahn, Burbara Stuhler Political Courage Award
• Voted one of the top five Senators in a reader's survey by the Legal Ledger
• Recipient of the Congressional Award, "Angels in Adoption" 2001
• Voted Page's Favorite Senator 2001, 2002
• Minnesota Women's Press, 2005, selected as one of the "most admired" persons in
• Recipient of the Joan and Walter Mondale Award for Public Service, 2005
• Best Politician by City Pages (Minneapolis/St.Paul) Best of 2007
• Woman of Distinction, Inducted 2009, DFL Women's Hall of Fame
|Minnesota Senate
Three Terms
51752 Oak Leaf Road, Kerrick, Minnesota 55756-9705
Phone: (218) 496-5528
Occupation: Business Owner/Activist/Homemaker
Education: Asbury College, KY; University of Minnesota
• Minnesota State Senate, 1996-2006
• Minnesota House of Representatives, 1991-1996 (served 3 terms)
Ran for DFL endorsement for Governor in 2002 and 2006
Legislative Commission and Committee Experience
• Chair, Health and Family Security
• Health, Human Services and Corrections Budget Division
• Environment and Natural Resources
• Agriculture, General Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• Commerce
• Legislative Commission on the Economic Status of Women
• EMS Regulatory Board, MN Senate Representative
• Health and Human Services Committee of the Midwestern Legislative
Conference of the Council of State Governments.
• Health Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures
Assembly on Federal Issues
• Legislative Commission on Health Care Access
• Indian Affairs Council
• Member, IRRRB Board
Policy Development Experience
• Minnesota Health Care Access Commission Commissioner
• Minnesota Public Health Association Legislative Liaison; Co-Chair, Public
• Rural Health Advisory Committee on Health Care Reform
• Pine County Aids Task Force Member
• Mother's Camp, Mental Health Association Resource Person
• East Central Solid Waste Commission Recycling Task Force Member
• Member of the Northern Lights Tourism Alliance Septic Symposium
• Neighborhood Association Organizer
• Pine County Democratic Farmer-Labor Party Co-Chair, 1984-89
• Minnesota Farmer's Union Member, State Delegate
Work History
• Business Owner, Nemadji Research Corporation
• Farmer, Kerrick, MN, 8 years
• Graphic Artist, Self-Employed
• Instructor, Community Education Program, 6 years
• Administrative Assistant, Northern Lakes Health Care Consortium,
|Licensed Architect, NCARB Certified, San Francisco, CA
Currently Head of Design & Planning at Raker Architects located in Mill Valley, CA. Designed and
currently in Planning approval are a variety of projects including a Baptist Church, a Gas Station,
and several Custom Homes in Marin County, California.
Prior to that, Michael was a Project Architect in the firm of Loving & Campos Architects, Inc, in
Walnut Creek, CA. His primary responsibilities there included managing the production team from
Schematics through Construction Administration on Projects ranging from Condominiums, a Ford
Dealership, to multi-million dollar Custom Homes, detailing of the building systems, coordination &
integration of Consultant work, project scheduling, and selection of product options to maintain
and/or realign the project aesthetic to the established budget.
This involved Michael's involvement with the programming and design of the Master Plan, as well
as layouts, design and producing the book describing and illustrating the project for potential
investors. In addition, the partners met with various government officials in their country of origin.
His experience also incorporated Contract writing and Administration, Client negotiations, along
with Architect-of-Record Construction Supervision.
After dissolving the Partnership, Michael took a year off from management to learn CAD skills in
one of only three firms in the United States specializing in authentic Classical Architecture.
Thanks to his formal education, a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern
California, he has a solid understanding of design fundamentals and appreciation for the value of
aesthetic integrity. He is also NCARB certified. Michael's personal strengths include
organizational expertise regarding project management, strong communication skills, loyalty from
people who work with him, as well as a high reliability and pride in his
|Sharon Lee Kufeldt.
American Legion Post # 315.
United States Air Force Veteran
Offices and Clinics of Health Practitioners, N.E.C.
|Srikanth Rajagopalan and his twin sister Kavitha were born in North Carolina to parents from India. His
mother introduced him to the concept of yogic breathing (as a child in NC) by simply counseling him to
"breath slowly, focused toward your tummy." During Sri's teenage years, in New Jersey, this seed
manifested as an interest in Eastern philosophy and yoga (and their confluence with modern science).
Coming from a large extended family that was filled with scholarly, philosophical (and garrulous) individuals
age 18.
At 22, Sri began learning Hatha Yoga (the practice of posture, breathing and meditation) from P.
Ramanathan, a family friend and mentor who had taught yoga in America for over 30 years. Around the same
time, Sri joined the Marine Corps Reserve, graduating from Parris Island in August, 1999 and joining G Co,
(2nd Bn 25th Regiment), an infantry company in Dover, NJ. Sri's parents strongly objected to his joining the
military, but ultimately supported him when he proceeded. While in the reserves, Sri continued to learn yoga
and began teaching as well.
In September of 2001, Sri attended a month-long yoga teacher's training course at the Sivananda Yoga
Ranch in the Catskills Mountains. This course consisted of spartan living conditions, daily meditation, study,
and work on the ranch. What a precious gift, to experience the external events of those days through such
clear eyes! The transformative power of meditation became clear as truth. This experience was all the more
precious since it was accompanied by an understanding that the life of a yoga teacher might have to be
deferred for a while, or more precisely, take a different path. 2/25 was mobilized in 2001 and spent the year of
2002 on active duty in a supporting role at Camp Lejeune, NC. They deployed to Kosovo as part of a multi-
national peacekeeping force in 2002 and to Iraq in 2003. Although part of the initial invasion, Sri's unit
progressed no further than An Nasiriyah, a predominantly Shia enclave in the south of Iraq. During his tour,
Sri patrolled urban neighborhoods daily, mostly on foot. After leaving active duty at the end of the year, Sri
returned to India to further study yoga, first at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, and later in
Mysore. Since returning to the U.S., Sri has again taught yoga professionally and as a service in the Charlotte,
NC area.
|Srikant Rajagopalan
Former Marine, Iraq Vet, NC


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The Coming Global Savings Famine?
Global markets will increasingly start to feel the effects of China's slowdown. But maybe not quite in the obvious ways or for the obvious reasons.
China's manufacturing sector continued to contract in September, according to the latest HSBC survey of purchasing managers, and has now weakened for 11 months running.
The Chinese economy's weakness has weighed heavily on Chinese equities: the Shanghai Composite Index is now at its lowest level since February 2009, when the world was firmly in the grip of the financial crisis. It has also affected global markets, contributing to a weaker tone in Europe this morning as well as softness in the markets for commodities, particularly oil.
So far, so uncontentious. After all, China is widely considered to have been instrumental in shoring up the global economy in the wake of the financial crisis, thanks to the huge volumes of central bank-driven lending and fiscal stimulus. So a Chinese slowdown is expected to work in reverse.
This bad news might not be so bad, however, if it also represented a Chinese rebalancing away from investment-driven growth, which has been running at an historically unprecedented 50% of GDP. Private consumption is at an equal extreme, albeit in the opposite direction, running at around 36% of GDP.
Consumption is low because China's household savings are so high, at some 30% of GDP. And this extraordinary savings rate was, in turn, credited with driving down global risk premiums in the years before the financial crisis. That's because the shortfall in Chinese household spending was the flip side of China's current account suplus — in not consuming, China was sending its goods abroad. China's surplus was recycled into demand for foreign assets, primarily bonds and largely U.S. Treasury bonds, the global yield benchmark.
China was thus the source of cheap money that kept the global economy bubbling along in the years before the financial crisis and thus contributed heavily to the asset bubbles and leverage excesses in the U.S. and U.K. that eventually went pop.
So if a Chinese slowdown heralds a shift away from Chinese investment-driven growth to more domestic consumption, as Michael Pettis, finance professor at Peking University, thinks, then a Chinese rebalancing will mean smaller Chinese current account surpluses and lower Chinese demand for Treasury bonds.
This will be both good and bad.
Good because smaller Chinese current account surpluses will be good for manufacturers in China's trade partners as long as this readjustment isn't being caused by a collapse in demand in these countries. Meanwhile, a rise in Chinese household demand should boost exporters to China.
But the flip side of this is a fall in Chinese excess savings. Lower Chinese savings should drive up yields on China's preferred assets, like Treasury bonds.
To the extent that Treasury bond yields go up because of a recovery in the U.S. economy thanks to domestic U.S. manufacturers replacing Chinese exports, that's good. To the extent that the rise is because of a reversal in excess global savings, it will act as a brake on not just the U.S. economy but on all economies with bond markets closely linked to the U.S.'s.
Since Treasury bond yields set a risk-free base for other assets, rising T-bond yields imply rising yields on those assets too. And since rising yields imply falling prices, other asset markets, particularly equities, would be bound to suffer.
At the same time, if you believe that booming markets encouraged overconsumption in the go-go years, falling markets and rising yields are likely to stifle consumption in future.
So in a mirror image of the pre-crisis boom, the unwinding of Chinese excess savings could cause financial markets and consumption in other economies to lag considerably. And that wouldn't be so good.

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The recipe originally calls for Greek-style yogurt - but it's incredibly pricey. Instead, I use non-flavored regular yogurt (whole or reduced fat) and strain (instructions below). If you are using Greek-style yogurt, skip the straining section of the recipe.
Ingredients:6 cups of plain flavored yogurt to yield 3 cups strained (see below) or 3 cups Greek-style yogurt
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon coconut extract
1/2 cup sweetened coconut flakes
Ice cream maker (remember to freeze your insert if you have one)
1. Strain the yogurt: If you are using regular yogurt, you'll need to strain the water out. If you are using Greek style yogurt, skip this step. Line your mesh strainer with a double-layer of cheesecloth. Spoon the yogurt in and let it sit propped over a bowl in the refrigerator for 6 hours until all water has drained out.
2. Mix and rest: Mix the strained yogurt with the sugar and coconut extract. Let it chill out in the refrigerator for 1 hour to let the sugar dissolve nicely.
3. Churn, baby, churn: Following instructions (if you can find them) that came with your ice cream maker, churn until it becomes the consistency that you like. My ice cream maker takes 25 minutes.
4. Toast coconut: While the fro-yo is churning, toast coconut. Take a dry medium skillet. Set on medium-high heat and add the coconut flakes. Stir constantly and in a couple of minutes, you'll have beautifully toasted coconut flakes. Remove from heat immediately and set aside. To serve, sprinkle the toasted coconut on top of your frozen concoction.


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Skip to comments.Secret Service agents busted because they refused to pay hooker: source
Posted on 04/14/2012 11:27:09 AM PDT by yoe
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What a bunch of pikers. The GSA would've tipped her a million bucks.
Ya got to love it.
Stale joke.
Stale but accurate
Wait till this blows up. Coke is at issue. Hookers are a sideshow.
The guys are gone and out of 12, you will find a few seekers.
Where's that tin foil?
For instance, the government and CIA would never drug hundreds of unknowing, totally innocent unsuspecting Americans with LSD of all things, just to see what they'd do, while gawking at them through two way mirrors in hotel rooms.
Your government would never do anything that evil...Never.
Probably never. Never close to what it once was. It's just too corrupt from Prez to janitor & all in between & for most this is acceptable as long as I get my piece of the pie.
1. the WH is a "black eye" on our national prestige.
2. In Latin America anything concerning prostitution, mistresses, etc. is (like France) not considered a "black eye." That is only true in the Anglo-Saxon culture.
don't try to equate the Central and South American culture with ours - it is not even close.
I'll bet this is about coke. Hookers are a diversion. They say these guys are gone. Out of 12, you can expect a few to squeek. And wonder who back at the funny farm in dc was expecting some stuff. This is Columbia not Barrington Hills.
Agreed. These S.S. agents saw something or became awhere of something that the Obamanites don't want the public to know.
With obama the best defense is to be offense. Dirty the men so their claims mean nothing.
This SS advance team was trying to line upo some "strage" for The One, and are now taking the full blame for him and/or Mooch-elle
Different reports coming from every direction. Strange.
Cultural cleansing of a native population by the elitists has always been deliberate. It is the way they break down and control the majority of a territory they are trying to enslave to their will.
I don't know about the Austin talk show host's idea of why it is happening. It is just where elitists with no ethical boundries naturally travel. They view themselves as superior to the natives and they want to rule over the labor and resources without uppity disagreement and rebellion. Read history.
I wonder if one of the fired agents is Michelle's rumored boyfriend?
Thanks for the follow-on post.
I requested the Mods to pull my post. I wrote it, picking what I thought were the most descriptive words, but in retrospect decided I probably might have selected the adjective I used to describe the host more carefully in this day and age.
So yeah though, anyway. :D
The rest of us have to pay our hookers, but the Feds skate. I hope they didn't give her/him syphilis.
More likely it is all a lie. As soon as the situation began to get out of control a SS agent would have acted by pulling out uncle sams checkbook and making everything go away.
Something else happened but the feds and the media like filling us with bs 24/7.
No one would ever have heard a word about this had at least one of the agents not paid for services rendered. His failure to pay is what made the hooker go to the press.
Total jerks. Now most if not all will lose their jobs because of this, the federal employee benes, and the high security clearance that goes with the job. Gonna be very difficult to find employment, except maybe as security for some Hollywood or sports celebrity
According to FoxNews, the reason they got busted was that the hooker stayed the night, and the desk attendant at the hotel demanded that he pay for an extra person, which he refused to do.
I guess that proves he's a Democrat.
Excellent analysis.
It doesn't sound like they were the right gender for that.
uh...bamey wouldn't want just any old whore you know...he has specific wants and desires...LOL
uh...bamey wouldn't want just any old whore you know...he has specific wants and desires...LOL
no values...no morals...no character....and these people are top cops?....not a chance...
30 minutes ago CNN reporting that 5 US soldiers were involved. Now that story line is GONE. Very confusing.
Excellent !!!!!!
I just don't believe that line of thinking. Something is wrong with that scenario and I have no clue what.
I could see 2, maybe 3-4, but not 12 all agreeing to something they knew was wrong.
Like the rest of America, U.S. secret service agents find out in the age of Obama, you are going to be screwed royally whether you like it or not.
I'm wondering how many are "Holder's People".
They don't keep it Secret if you don't pay for the Service.
It might have been a language problem because the Secret Service agent didn't understand when the hooker said: "Debe pagar cientos dolares por la shtoop."
According to WH Press Secretary Jay Carney 3 of the hookers involved were named Hilary Rosen.
Was Sandy "Fluke Me" Fluke involved?
Why is the Obama Admin making a media circus of this. They should be discreet. It is foolish for them to make enemies of the SS.
Ever hear of the "Night of the Long Knives"?
LOL! Knowing they're gringos, I promise you they aren't getting the discounted rate.
It's probably either loyalty or cowardice. Like the "thin blue line," where cops stick together no matter what? Or it could be that 3-4 were actually involved, but the entire team got sent back for details to be sorted out. The US just wanted them out of there, period. What follows is internal. At a minimum, I'd expect hose involved, any others who knew what was going on, and the top guy to suffer the consequences.
How many of those Long Knives were circumcised?
I'm waiting for Elliot Spitzer's commentary on this scandal.
This has purposeful discredit written all over it, and I felt it up the back of my nape when the story came out.
Should have offered them cheesburgers. It is the new currency for such transactions.
The tasteless Community Organizer (Takes campaign to summit) with more deals for immigration..........
Yeah, that "shtoop" can be hard to understand...
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For the past few years one of the later live shows of the X Factor has aired at the same time as the Sports Personality of the Year. Both shows have suffered reduced ratings as a result. With 2012 being a landmark year for British sport, SPOTY host Gary Lineker has taken matters into his own hands by tweeting X Factor boss Simon Cowell directly to appeal to him to avoid a schedule clash.
Lineker tweeted: "Be a lovely gesture and mark of respect to our wonderful athletes if X Factor didn't run against SPOTY. What do you think @SimonCowell?"
There was no response from Cowell but Lineker later retweeted a message from Mirror journalist Mark Jefferies which said: "Good news @GaryLineker and sport fans, I've been told by ITV spokesman there's "no chance" X Factor will clash with SPOTY."
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In 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a miner's town, a dusty coal camp in a narrow valley surrounded by high, heavily forested ridges, the sky a narrow swath between them. I still think of the black-helmeted miners who every morning tramped along the path to the Olga Number One shaft, heavy denim pants tucked into steel-capped boots, lunch buckets swinging from calloused hands. Life in Coalwood seemed changeless, its center for me and its 1,200 inhabitants a deep shaft that plunged into a rich seam of bituminous coal. But when I was 14, an event in far-off Kazakhstan profoundly affected everyone in Coalwood: the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. The townspeople went out into the crisp autumn night to watch the first man-made satellite streak overhead. We were mesmerized by the sight; it seemed like some new and wonderful age had begun. Some of us even began to build rockets.
Roy Lee Cooke, Jimmy Carroll, Quentin Wilson, Sherman Siers, Billy Rose, and I had grown up together. We'd been in the same Boy Scout troop and built forts, attended dances, gone to church, and chased the same girls. All our fathers worked in and around the mines, as had their fathers and grandfathers. Before Sputnik, we were headed for the mines too. Now, suddenly, we were looking in a different direction: up.
Up meant rockets, and we wanted to build one. Rocket-building manuals being scarce, our first attempt was based on an illustration in Life magazine. We took a flashlight casing, punched a hole in its base, filled it with powder from 30 cherry bombs, stuck a fuse through the hole/nozzle, and used the top of my backyard fence for a launch pad. It was a cold, clear evening, ideal for tracking a rocket across the night sky. Liftoff was a huge ball of fire. However, it wasn't our rocket that lifted off, but the fence. Mom came out on the back porch and contemplated the smoking ruin. "Somebody's in trouble," she sang out. Dad came out too, and in effect demanded a body count. We replied with quivering voices that we were all still alive.
The failure of our first launch clearly demonstrated that we didn't know enough. Until Sputnik, we had been indifferent to science and math, neither seeming to have much to do with our future. Our chemistry and physics teacher at Big Creek High School, Miss Freda Riley, worked desperately hard, often buying teaching supplies with her own tiny salary. Down the hall, Mr. Lockhart, our math teacher, had long since given up capturing the interest of his students and had taken to giving lectures with his back turned, scrawling equations across the blackboard. Now, suddenly, both teachers had students who were not only interested but intensely interested. Mr. Lockhart had been around too long to be overly impressed, but Miss Riley was enthralled by her suddenly attentive charges. Her classes became ever more inventive. She brought in flatirons and wooden boats to demonstrate Archimedes' principle, balloons and bicycle pumps for Boyle's law, and yo-yos to explain centrifugal force.
Our first 11 rockets failed, which taught us that sometimes things have to be learned the hard way. Dodging aluminum shrapnel, for instance, was an excellent way to discover that the rocket casing would have to retain a certain amount of pressure. It also demonstrated that rocket propellant would have to burn slower than cherry bomb powder. We also learned about rocket nozzle design by discovering that the diameter of the hole in the bottom dictated whether the rocket would blow up or just lay on its side and spew. Somewhere in there was the right nozzle throat diameter, if we could just learn to calculate it. Suddenly, Mr. Lockhart's plane and solid geometry classes had some pertinence, and we astonished him by asking sensible questions.
Despite our new academic interests, our failures in the field were so steady that we named our rockets after the great auk, a bird that could not fly. But we were learning to be methodical, building on what worked, changing what failed.
Auk XII was our first success. A foot-long, inch-wide aluminum tube filled with potassium nitrate and sugar, it flew to the giddy altitude of 100 feet. We'd gotten the idea for the propellant when Miss Riley had used it to demonstrate rapid oxidation. When we saw that hot pink flame, we Coalwood boys shared knowing glances. Rocket fuel!
Potassium nitrate, otherwise known as saltpeter, was available at the company store, and sugar was in the pantry. We mixed it half and half and then went up and down the scale, looking for the best burn rate. After each mix we tossed the results in the coal-fire water heater in my basement. One day Mom was leaning on her new fence, talking to the neighbor, when our best combination went off, sending a spout of flame and smoke up the chimney with an impressive whoosh! Mom poked her head in the basement and informed us that, once again, somebody was in trouble. We sheepishly clanged the heater door shut. Dad later collared me as I headed outside. "Going to burn the house down?" he asked. "No sir," I said. "Attaboy," he replied.
Every weekend we would try our latest design. Our launch pad was a hollow behind the mine. "Is it going to work?" the miners would yell as we went past. When we showed them what we'd built, they'd grin and shake their heads. We were getting attention that had previously been lavished only on the football team.
When one of our rockets ricocheted off a tree and chased us through the woods, we decided we needed a true range and settled on an abandoned slack dump. Situated between mountain ridges, it was nearly a mile long. The coal mine supervisor--my father--okayed our using the dump and a little company lumber to construct a blockhouse, but he made it clear that that would be the extent of Olga Coal Company's assistance. The property was for mining, not for flying off into near-space. Still, anytime we needed something for our rockets, somehow it would just appear on the back porch.


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Gathering Students Views of Teaching and Learning
Greetings from the Australian National University "Wattle Wednesday Seminar" where Salman Durrani is talking about using course entry and exit surveys for the university's Moodle learning management system (locatlly called "Wattle"). Salman described his use of "Gathering Students' Views of Teaching and Learning" and how he used it to select, adapt and interpret questions in student surveys. The idea is to conduct regular surveys within a ", which is a booklet and toolkit by Malcolm G. Pettigrove and Robin Collins. This provides a set of questions to ask students to see how engaged they feel and between courses to see changes. It might be useful to combine this with the approach which Colin Beer (Central Queensland University) has taken with analyis of engagement indicators in the Learning Management System. Also one of the seminar participatnts recommended "Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher" (Stephen Brookfield,
The evaluation of teaching and learning is a critical component of closing the loop in the teaching and learning cycle and for improving the quality of teaching and learning. This presentation will illustrate how Wattle has been used in the second year electronics course (previously ENGN2211 and presently ENGN2218) to collect feedback from students in the form of course entry and course exit surveys. It will discuss the motivation behind the surveys and highlight wattle features that have been utilised. Finally, the case study results from last four years exploring how students evaluated their practical electronic skills will be presented and discussed. ...
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The Taft College Counseling Office's mission is to i) provide a student-centered process geared towards educating and supporting students and their families as they navigate the college search and selection process; and ii) present the student's character and achievements to prospective colleges in an accurate, nuanced and compelling light. Particular emphasis is placed on developing students' analytical skills to discover schools which match their interests well; self-advocacy skills so that they can present themselves effectively and authentically in the process; and understanding of the process so they can maximize those elements which are within their control. In order to best serve our students and the Taft community, we are committed to educating ourselves on the issues of our profession through attendance at conferences, visiting college campuses, constant review of media reports in our field, and careful cultivation of relationships with our colleagues in admissions.
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coming up on Monday's show.....William Ryan sets his latest novel "The Constant Soldier" in a retreat camp for the SS during World War II, star of "Captain Fantastic" Viggo Mortensen, the 50th anniversary of the Bay City Rollers and a preview of new tv crime mini-series "The Night Of"
Daily arts and popular culture show.
Charlene Lydon, Programmer at Dublin's Lighthouse Cinema, on this year's Cannes Film Festival. www.irishfilmboard.ie for details of the Irish films at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
SOAK (AKA Bridie Monds-Watson) performs 'Doorstep' and 'Explosion' live in studio with interview by Seán Rocks. SOAK plays Dublin's Peppercanister Church on June 19th - www.ticketmaster.ie for tickets.
Actor Patrick Cronin on his role in 'Death of a Salesman' at Cork's Everyman Palace Theatre - www.everymancork.com.
Jim Carroll on the new book on the music of Nashville, Tennessee 'Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City' by Craig Havighurst which is published by the University of Illinois Press.
Dan Brown will be in conversation with Seán Rocks on Monday May 20th at Dublin's National Concert Hall as part of this year's Dublin Writer's Festival. For tickets log onto www.nch.ie or www.dublinwritersfestival.com
Sinead Gleeson with a roundup of the latest paperbacks including Mohsin Hamed's 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' (Hamish Hamilton), 'Beautiful Ruins' by Jess Walter (Penguin), 'The Flame Throwers' by Rachel Kushner (Harvill Secker), The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Penguin) and 'Marry Me' by Dan Rhodes (Canongate).
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A former pharmacy technician at an Augusta veterans' hospital has been sentenced to two years of probation for stealing medication while on the job.
Rebecca Hamlin of Winslow was also sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to pay a $4,000 fine.
Authorities say the 61-year-old was working at VA Maine Healthcare Systems-Togus last January when a co-worker spotted her putting an empty pharmacy bottle in her purse.
A subsequent search found additional medication in a tote bag at Hamlin's work station.
The medication included acetaminophen, simvastatin, phrenilin, naproxen and a hydrocodone tablet.
Her lawyer says he Hamlin had no prior criminal record.
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Center for Scientific Review; Amended Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given of a change in the meeting of the Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel, December 28, 2010, 8 a.m. to December 29, 2010, 5 p.m., National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 which was published in the Federal Register on November 29, 2010, 75 FR 73114-73115.
The meeting will be held January 6, 2011 to January 7, 2011. The meeting time and location remain the same. The meeting is closed to the public.
Dated: December 2, 2010.
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Dirt Rag Spring Break 2014: Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing
By Karl Rosengarth and Eric McKeegan. Photos by Justin Steiner and Jon Pratt.
For all of Pittsburgh's endearing qualities, its wet, pre-spring weather sucks. There are weeks on end when the trails are just too wet and muddy for responsible riding. The optimal solution is to load Dirt Rag's "trusty" Ford E-Series van with test bikes and head south, where spring is already busting out all over (or is close enough to permit proper bike testing). This year's spring trip wound its way south and east—to Wilderness Adventure at Eagle's Landing, located in the mountains near Roanoke, Virginia.
Hermosa Tours offers 10-day Colorado Trail adventure
I made an attempt at a Colorado Trail tour last summer, only to be thwarted by rain (and I'm glad I was, seeing how it turned out to be the week of the disastrous Boulder floods).
This summer I know what's at the top of my to-do list: Hermosa Tours' new 10-day self-guided adventure along the CT. What does "self-guided" mean? You're out there on your own, with you and your friends, but Hermosa will take care of logistics, as well as carrying all your gear (food, water, firewood, whatever you bring) from one campsite to another. Forget bikepacking, that means you can full-on shred the 200 miles of trail with more than 75 percent singletrack.
In all it's nine riding days, 10 nights, and one layover day from Salida to Durango, for just $950. Hermosa will even set up some canopies and a deluxe kitchen setup for you each night, so you can focus on chowing down. The ride starts and ends in Durango, and includes a ride to the start in Salida.
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Pressure-mounted baby safety gates provide a stable barrier between two walls or in a doorway without requiring drilling into walls for mounting. Pressure-mounted gates, while generally strong, are not recommended for use at the top of stairs because they are not as stable as hardware-mounted gates. Even though you don't have to drill holes, these gates can pull paint off when removed or tightened, and they may damage drywall.
Hardware-mounted baby safety gates are attached directly into a wall or banister using bolts, providing a strong solution for blocking off the top of a stairwell or other opening where falling is a hazard. While these gates do require permanent mounts, many of the gates can be removed from the wall mounts when not in use.
Child enclosures are usually made up of interlocking panels that create a playpen or can be arranged to enclose specific areas, such as a hearth, media center or Christmas tree. Child enclosures can often be wall mounted, but typically they are used as freestanding barriers.
Not all gates are safe. Safety gates have been used for decades to keep babies and toddlers out of adult-only areas, but some gate styles pose hazards in themselves. Accordion-style gates with diamond shaped spaces between the slates can pose entrapment hazards and provide young adventures with footholds for climbing. Experts don't recommend using this style of gate even, if it meets current ASTM standards. (ASTM was formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials.) Gates with horizontal slats can also provide young climbers with footholds, making them unsafe. Pressure mounted gates, while great for the bottom of a stairway or a doorway, should never be used at the top of stairs.
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Washington, D.C. (January 29, 2014) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) President and CEO John J. Castellani issued the following statement:
"President Obama's address comes at a time when America's biopharmaceutical research companies are bringing pioneering new medicines to patients, supporting high-value American jobs and helping strengthen local communities and our national economy. Continued progress – the kind that President Obama urged for last night – is only possible, however, if we fully embrace innovation.
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The great inventor and businessman Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can, or think you can't – you're right."
When looking at an issue as important and complex as health care costs in the U.S., it's critical that full facts, not select data, lead the discussion. Drew Armstrong's recent article about a Hepatitis C medicine paints an incomplete picture of our health care system and further propels inaccurate information about prescription medicines.
When considering the benefits and risks of medicines, patients provide a unique perspective of unparalleled value. A deep understanding of the patient perspective on benefits and risks throughout the drug development process has the potential to significantly advance the biopharmaceutical industry's efforts to bring to patients new medicines that extend and improve the quality of their lives.
Before the holidays, PhRMA's General Counsel Mit Spears wrote a post in The Catalyst about the need for a new regulatory paradigm to govern how the biopharmaceutical industry communicates with healthcare professionals about the medicines that our companies research and develop.
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Dr. Richard Moscicki, Deputy Center Director for Science Operations at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), noted in his remarks at the FDA public workshop on Complex Issues in Developing Drug and Biological Products for Rare Diseases held earlier this month that more than a third of the novel drugs approved in CY13 treat rare disease.
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Like a complex puzzle, the research and development (R&D) process for new medicines requires many pieces to work concurrently to ensure success. From the patients who inspire us to the experts behind the research, every part is critical to a prosperous pipeline for patients suffering from some of the world's most debilitating diseases.
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Dallas Area Rapid Transit's full board will take its first look Tuesday at finalizing two separate projects to boost mass transportation in downtown Dallas and the city of Arlington.
The first contract before DART's committee-of-the-whole would address two tourist-oriented shuttles linking downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff and the Interstate 35E corridor. The second would outline a commuter bus line between downtown Arlington and the Trinity Railway Express.
Both proposals would be two-year demonstration efforts slated to start in August. And officials have talked about how both projects could spur more permanent mass transit offerings down the road.
"We are trying to prove to ourselves — and others in the city of Arlington — that this is something that will work," Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said of his city's project in February.
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HAZARD Ky. (WYMT) - The Perry Central Commodores are coming off of a district win Friday night after defeating Letcher Central 41-22. Now, they turn their attention to the #4 Harlan County Black Bears.
We all know about the star power of running back Jake Middleton, who is creeping up on 1,500 yards and 25 touchdowns. But the Black Bears have a host of other players who are just as dangerous.
"I don't really want to discount those other guys they have. They have a #2 (Cole Wilson), receiver they get the ball to a little bit", said Commodore head coach Justin Haddix.
"I think he is a guy that can really run on the sweeps, you know Middleton, then they have #28 (Treyvon Long), who also can get on some things. They have some people that can really run. And the kid they moved to quarterback can really run. You know, he played receiver before. They have some weapons too. We are going to have our hands full and our guys are going to have to play 48 minutes."


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Res Judicata will be held on March 19, 2015.
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This year's SBA Athletic's Committee Golf Tournament will be on March 21, 2015 at the stunning Pelican Point Golf Course- located in Gonzalez. The tournament is open to everyone, so make sure you invite your parents, friends, and even your employers! Non-law students pay $100/person but PMH law students pay a discounted price of only $75/person. Food and Drinks will be provided. Complete and submit the attached Registration Form and pay registration fees to Dominique Boykins or Lee LeBouef by March 14th!
See you there! Shotgun starts at 9:00 AM!
Pelican Point Golf Course Address:
6300 Championship Ct. Ste. 201
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The SBA is looking for current students who would like to run for SBA. The positions are for the 2015 – 2016 Executive Board, 3L Class Officers, and 2L Class Officers. A short informational meeting (non-mandatory) will occur on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 at 12:40p.m. in Room 108. For all interested students, the Statement of Intent & Candidacy are due on March 12th, 2015 at 4:00p.m. in Room 202. All interested candidates must read the Spring Election Letter & Election Code attached to this email. Any questions can be directed to the SBA Commissioner of Elections: Quincy Mouton at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to party like it's prohibition? Well then join SBA for a bit of moonshine at the 2015 Barrister's Ball! On Saturday, March 7, 2015, LSU Law will have its own speakeasy at the Lyceum Ballroom in downtown Baton Rouge. Ticket prices include 4 hours of open bar, heavy h'ors d'oeuvres and the Lagniappe Brass Band out of New Orleans. Advance tickets will be on sale for $40 starting Wednesday, February 25th until Friday March 6th in the first floor lobby, and limited amounts of tickets will be sold at the door for $45. The t-shirt proof is attached below and will be on sale along with tickets. So join us for an evening reliving the Roaring 20's, and remember, a little party never killed nobody!
SBA Town Hall
The Student Bar Association will host the semesterly SBA Town Hall Wednesday November 5th, 2014 at 12:40 pm in room 110. We invite all students to come hear from the SBA and allow the SBA to hear from you.
Lunch will be provided.
1L Academic Panel Sessions
The SBA is hosting an Academic Panel Session for each section of the 1L class that will take place on Wednesday, October 29 from 12:40 to 1:30. These panels will consist of multiple 2Ls and 3Ls who have had your same professors and done well. These panels will discuss outlining, professors, exams, and anything else that you would like to discuss. The Academic Sessions have proven to be very successful in the past, and it will be beneficial for all 1Ls to attend their respective Academic Panel Session.
The Academic Session room numbers are as follows:
Section 1: Room 110
Section 2: Room 108
Section 3: Room 212
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Where: Splash!
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Time: 8-11 (doors open to the general public after 11)
Halloween is right around the corner and that means that HalLAWeen 2014 is near. This Year's HalLAWween 2014 will be back at Splash on Saturday, November 1st! In keeping with tradition there will be a costume contest with some great prizes. Prized costume categories include MOST ORIGINAL, SCARIEST, SEXIEST, BEST DUO/GROUP, AND THE "IM WEARING THAT NEXT YEAR!" COSTUME. Wristbands will be available the week of the party. Keep an eye out for more info in future SBA blasts!
Class of 2015,
The 3L class officers are very excited to take part in the annual Hats 'n Canes tradition with you! We have been working hard to put together a fun-filled celebration for you and your loved ones and hope this email provides you with all the information you will need for this weekend.
Friday, October 24th
Event: Cocktail Party
Time: 7:30 – 10:30 pm
Location: Old Governor's Mansion (OGM); 502 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
Attire: Cocktail/Semi-formal
Menu: Dr. Pepper meatballs, seafood kickers, mini meat pies, spinach and artichoke dip, finger sandwiches, fruit & cheese, etc.
Bar: This is an open-bar event (meaning you may have all the alcohol you want for free). There will be two full service bars available, one inside and one outside on the patio. Please remember that you represent the LSU Law center everywhere you go. Drink responsibly!
Tickets: There will be a guest list at the door with the names of everyone who has purchased tickets and the number of tickets purchased – you will not need a physical ticket. If you need additional tickets, you may buy them at the door for $40 each. You will also have an opportunity to order souvenir champagne glasses at the door – each set of glasses is $15. The champagne glasses will be distributed at school the first week in November.
Parking: There is a parking lot adjacent to OGM that guests may park in, free of charge. When you arrive, look for signs to direct you to the parking lot.
After-party: The GIF on October 24th will be at Huey's Bar, conveniently located a few blocks away from the OGM. At the end of the cocktail party, we welcome all guests to join us downtown at Huey's!
Saturday, October 25th
Alumni Tailgate: In addition to our regularly scheduled tailgate on the Parade Grounds, Alumni Relations invites all alumni, graduating seniors and our guests to a catered tailgate, located near the front steps of the law center. The alumni tailgate will begin around 2 pm and will last until the football game starts. Attire for Saturday is casual.
Toast: In the earliest years of Hats 'n Canes, LSU Law seniors carried black canes with curved handles and silver bands engraved with the student's name, year of graduation, and the words, "The LSU Law School." A Reveille article announcing the 1930 event stated, "Walking canes will be carried, flourished, and brandished [as a] badge to distinguish law seniors."
In an effort to continue the 85-year-old tradition, Chancellor Weiss will be delivering a toast to the 3L class, which will begin promptly at 3:30 pm on the front steps of the law center. Champagne and glasses will be provided. You will receive your hat and cane on the day of the event. We will be taking a class photo following the toast.
Game: The LSU v. Ole Miss homecoming football game kicks off at 6:15 pm. Please secure tickets for your guests if you have not done so already. ESPN's College GameDay will be filming on the Parade Grounds all morning so get out there early for your chance to be featured on national television!
All events on Saturday are free of charge for 3Ls/guests and alumni. In addition to the parking lot at the law center, guests may also try parking at the UREC or in the overflow parking lot by U-High.
Here's to 85 years of tradition!
Mary E. Allen
J.D./D.C.L. Candidate, 2015
Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Louisiana State University
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On the Road: Yarn Shops in the Baltimore Region
by Amie Gavin Glasgow
Originally published April 27, 2006—Please note that Knitter's Review no longer reviews yarn stores and this article is here for archival purposes only. Any store details may no longer be accurate. Thanks!
A Good Yarn
If you ever need a moment alone with some yarn, away from the hustle and bustle of your daily life, A Good Yarn is the place to go. Buried in Fell's Point, Baltimore, this lilliputian store is not a place for a large group of people, but it is well worth a trip alone.
The tiny shop has enthusiastic and helpful employees and a classroom in the back—in fact, I'm told they think of themselves sometimes more as a teaching environment than a shop. Recognizing their (did I mention?) small space and therefore stocking limitations, the shop is willing to order any amount of yarn—no minimums—to help you finish a project, and can cheerfully chat about your current purchases and projects while doing it.
While the physical space is not easily accessible to those with disabilities, the team of employees makes all accommodations they can. During one visit, a woman came with a walker, and the employees quickly set her up with a comfortable place to sit while they brought her everything she wanted to see. They did so with broad smiles and complete sincere patience. With customer service like this, A Good Yarn could be where Baltimore earns its proudest nickname, "Charm City."
All About Yarn
Located in Columbia, All About Yarn was started by two working mothers with a vision for the future, a passion for yarn, and a dream of leaving a legacy for their daughters. After meeting at Special Olympics events, where they were both cheering on their daughters, owners Cindy and Karen began working toward a future in which they could retire and play with yarn all day, while their daughters handle the day-to-day business of the store.
They're well on their way. The long space is organized by brand within categories—all sock yarn is together, then broken down into brand in a reasonable manner. This makes it quite easy to see all the Noro, Dale, or Manos, to name just a few of the names they stock substantially, in one sweeping glance.
A large bookshelf holds nearly any book you can imagine, plus a huge selection of needles—the commonly practical and the beautifully decorative ones as well.
A favorite feature for customers is the frequent shopper program. Without asking customers to hang on to (and risk losing) cards of their own, purchase records are kept in the All About Yarn computer system. You earn a $25 store credit with every $250 purchased.
Celtic Knot
If you've got a free afternoon and you're in the mood for a pleasant stroll down a street so packed with ambience you've got to see it to believe it, head down to Historic Main Street in Ellicott City. Lined with antique galleries, quaint shops, and charming restaurants, Main Street has a decidedly bohemian flavor.
The Celtic Knot calls the second floor of a renovated old row house, built into the side of a hill, home. Featuring a cozy classroom tucked unobtrusively out of the way from disruptive foot traffic, the store also sells knitting themed T-shirts, sheep-themed cards, and several other celtic themed notions in addition to yarn, needles, patterns, and bags.
More than good things for a knitter to buy, the shop offers several good things for a knitter to do—from knitting for Katrina victims or joining the shop team in The Race for the Cure walkathon each year to weekly knitting nights in which guests are invited to bring food or wine and join in for a relaxing night out. Celtic Knot's staff includes a long-haired dachshund named (what else?) Purl who is always willing to help you choose a yarn—as long as it's close to the floor!
Cloverhill Yarn Shop
In the heart of "Music City," Maryland—aka Catonsville—is a fiber artist's hidden treasure. The only shop on today's list that also sells spinning supplies (specifically Ashford and Schacht wheels and accessories), Cloverhiill is tucked away in a strip mall that also hosts The Stitching Post and The Seminole Sampler, making it a trifecta of needle arts suppliers.
With a classroom in the back of the store, Cloverhill has hosted several big names in the knitting world (most recently Lucy Neatby and the women from Wool in the Woods), with trunk shows from Manos and One Skein planned for the future.
Very often upon entering the bright and cheery shop, you'll find one of the hospitable and impassioned employees seated at a table with a customer, coaching them through a tricky technique or sorting through the large collection of patterns to help find the perfect one. Be sure to stop in frequently to see Cloverhill's "Yarn of the Month"—it comes with a 10% discount that whole month, and it's sure to be one of your favorite lines.
Ewenique Yarns
Heading North of Baltimore to Bel-Air, Maryland, we have Ewenique Yarns. The pretty, sunny shop is tucked into a small strip mall, so if you're not careful you might miss it. You won't want to do that, though.
In addition to being well stocked in Rowan and Brown Sheep yarns, as well as many other favorites, the shop is decorated with dozens of toy sheep that were given by loyal customers to express their appreciation. The staff earns this appreciation, giving all first-time customers a gift of a retractable tape measure decorated with their logo, as well as an emery board to smooth any yarn-snagging nails.
On one visit, I witnessed a man coming in with a shopping list from his wife. The sales associate helped find several yarns that fit the list requirements, and patiently explained their return policy should anything be not quite right. Later, in my own purchase, I discovered that one of the buttons I'd chosen was scratched. Without hesitation it was given to me at a marked discount. It seems Ewenique Yarns features unique service as well.
Walking into Woolworks feels like walking into your grandfather's study. The warm, dark shop is lined with built-in wood shelving and furniture. Despite its small size, Woolworks has an open feel. The main room is attractive and homey, with all the yarns stored in the walls except for one floor unit in the center. A smaller room in the back holds patterns, notions, and more yarn.
Yarns are organized by color on the general scheme, with a wall of natural sheep colors on one side and a wash of rainbow colors on the other surrounding walls. Unfortunately, yarns within the colors can get a bit shuffled as customers search for the specific ones they want, and you should be wary of picking up similar colored yarns that are actually completely different.
While you'll easily find stitch markers, yarn snips, and row counters in a back corner, needles are hidden in an old armoire (an attractive, if uninviting, storage choice).
Woolstock Knit Shop
Have you taken a class with Leslye Solomon at a Stitches event? Perhaps seen one of her instructional knitting videos, or read her articles in Knit 'n Style magazine? Now's your chance to visit her yarn shop.
Easily the largest of the shops on our list today, Leslye has spent the past seven years grooming Woolstock into something special. The shop has changed location, but only just slightly, as it's now in a larger space in the same strip mall.
Like Woolworks, the shop is arranged mostly by color, but the stock is kept so full that there's very little jumbling and confusion of brands. There are dozens of things you may not find elsewhere, from an expensively lush mohair/silk blend to new glow-in-the-dark yarn. Two walls are stocked with racks and racks of patterns, books, magazines, and knitting bags.
While there is a fairly large clearance section, many of the yarns are higher-end luxury yarns, respective of Leslye's normal clientelle. And it's clear that this clientele appreciates the work Leslye and her staff do, as there are always regulars sitting around knitting, chattering, and laughing like old friends.
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