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Early voting at a brisk pace in very red Denton County
Two days into early voting is probably way too early to draw any conclusions about enthusiasm and turnout, so my personal voting experience today extrapolates nowhere.
Still, I was a little surprised to find such a long line at the Flower Mound Police and Courts Building, the only place in our humble town where a person can vote early. There were about 100 to 150 folks in line when we arrived and more than that when we left around 12:30 or so.
Frank Phillips, Denton County's elections administrator, agrees that it's pretty early to make a call but says early-voting turnout is up over the 2008 election. First-day turnout countywide was 12,300, compared to about 10,005 for the Barack Obama-John McCain election, a 23 percent increase.
Flower Mound, he said, was the busiest county location as of midday today (just my luck), with Denton and Carrollton also seeing significant traffic. Phillips also notes that early voting in his county tends to pick up toward the end (Nov. 2 this year); in 2008, Denton County recorded more than 23,000 early voters on the final day.
My centrist pal, Bill McKenzie, had an interesting post yesterday on the state of the presidential race heading into the final two weeks. Note this passage:
More than 80 percent of Republicans say they are highly interested in this race. By contrast, more than 70 percent of Democrats are highly interested. The percentage of highly-interested voters are down for both parties from 2008. But the drop-off is more severe for Democrats. This suggests an eager Republican turnout. And Democrats better have a good turnout machine, starting now in early voting states.
All I can tell you about Denton County is that it's one of the reddest counties in Texas. In 2008, for instance, McCain carried Texas with 55.45 percent, but Denton County gave him 61.63 percent.
If early voting is up in Denton County — which had 70 percent of its registered voters turn out in 2008 and nearly three in four of them in early voting — that would track the enthusiasm edge Bill mentioned yesterday.


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- What the FISA Debate is Not About
Marty Lederman asks why reverting to the old FISA rules is supposedly such a problem for the intelligence community.
- ISP Plan to Block Child Porn -- Will There Be Chilling Effects?
The New York Attorney General says 3 major ISPs have agreed to block child porn -- but the plan could set a precedent that challenges the Communications Decency Act's protections for online content hosts.
- Movies on Cable Before DVD?
A plan would bring movies to cable faster, but you won't be able to watch on a high-def TV -- and don't even think about TiVo.
Yesterday the New York Times published an article, "Return to Old Spy Rules Is Seen as Deadline Nears," which allowed various Administration official to push their talking points supporting expanding their warrantless wiretapping powers. The main focus of the talking points is to suggest that Congress faces a deadline in August 2008 due to the expiration of the Protect America Act, and must pass surveillance legislation before that deadline.
The talking points have been effective: "Even some Democrats, at odds with the White House for months over the surveillance issue, said they were worried about the summer situation." Yet, contrary to the government's fear mongering, America will have tremendous tools available to monitor terrorist threats in August 2008 and beyond.
Congressional Republicans have new legislation they're pushing as a "compromise" on telecom immunity. One of their central talking points has been that the bill would allow a court to review whether the telcos acted legally when they cooperated with the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. For instance, this morning's New York Times reported:
The Republicans have yielded somewhat on immunity for the companies: The current proposal from Mr. Bond would allow the FISA court to review the administration's requests and determine by a "preponderance of the evidence" whether the requests were valid.
Glenn Greenwald aptly outlines the problems with this claim in his latest post on Uncharted Territory:
Here's a game you can play when reading or watching news about the President's warrantless wiretapping program. There are a few mistakes that the media keeps repeating over and over and over — see if you can spot them.
">Friday night's exchange on PBS News Hour between host Judy Woodruff and New York Times columnist David Brooks is typical:
Thanks to Senators Dodd and Feingold for sending a great letter today to House and Senate leadership decrying the telco immunity "compromise" being offered by Republican negotiators:
As we understand it, the [Republican] proposal would authorize secret proceedings in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance to evaluate the companies' immunity claims, but the court's role would be limited to evaluating precisely the same question laid out in the Senate bill: whether a company received "a written request or directive from the Attorney General or the head of an element of the intelligence community... indicating that the activity was authorized by the President and determined to be lawful." Information declassified in the committee report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the FISA Amendments Act, S. 2248, confirms that the companies received exactly these materials....
The Supreme Court today issued a unanimous opinion in Quanta v. LG Electronics, its first ruling in 66 years addressing the patent exhaustion doctrine. Patent exhaustion is the patent law equivalent to copyright law's first sale doctrine -- once you buy a product, you own it and the patent owner generally can't interfere with your subsequent use. EFF filed an amicus brief on behalf of itself, Consumers Union, and Public Knowledge in the case.
Mere hours after a McCain spokesperson adopted the Bush Administration's flawed legal argument that courts have "recognized the President's constitutional authority to conduct warrant-less surveillance" and that the "courts' findings supported the Bush Administration's efforts in the wake of September 11, 2001," Senator John McCain said that:
"It's ambiguous as to whether the president acted within his authority of not,'' he said, saying courts had ruled different ways on the matter.
(emphasis added). Previously, McCain had said that the president did not have the inherent authority to conduct warrantless surveillance.
ABC News reported today a new statement from McCain campaign spokesperson Tucker Bounds on the Senator's views on the executive power to conduct warrantless wiretaps in defiance of the restrictions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA):
John McCain continues to believe, as he always has, that every President has the obligation to obey and enforce laws passed by Congress and signed by the President. His position has not changed. This is precisely why he believes that existing FISA laws need to be modernized to provide in statute clear guidance for future actions that may need to be taken, therefore making it less likely that any President would need to rely solely on constitutional authority to protect this country.
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Why Not Just Let Abdulmutallab Plead Guilty?
On Monday, the accused Christmas Day bomber, Umar Faroukh Abdulmutallab, told Detroit federal judge Nancy G. Edmunds that he wanted to represent himself.
He also asked Judge Edmunds whom he should talk to if he wanted "to plead guilty to some counts." Click here for the WSJ story; here for the NYT story; here for the Bloomberg story.
But Judge Edmunds didn't just accept Abdulmutallab's request. She peppered Abdulmutallab with questions about his understanding of U.S. law and criminal procedure. She told him it was unwise to move forward without a lawyer, though she said she's ultimately let him do that. She also said she wouldn't accept a guilty plea now.
So why not? Why would a judge put a defendant like Abdulmutallab through the wringer before granting what appear to be reasonable requests?
We did a little reporting in pursuit of this answer yesterday — click here for the sidebar that ran in the WSJ.
The federal court system makes it hard to chuck your lawyers and plead guilty for several reasons. For starters, judges want to make sure defendants are pleading guilty willingly and knowingly — partly to rule out that they made the decision under duress or threat of coercion. There's a practical reason, too. A judge's failure to press the defendant could lead to a plea unraveling down the line if the defendant changes his or her mind.
In recent months, a number of other terrorism suspects have pleaded guilty at least partly out of a seeming desire to protest U.S. foreign policy. Judges in these cases often ask exacting questions of the defendant in order to test the defendant's knowledge of the plea. For instance, in June, New York federal judge Miriam Cedarbaum repeatedly interrupted Faisal Shazad, the mastermind of the attempted Times Square bombing, with questions about the plot during his plea hearing.
But isn't there something wrong with this picture? Isn't the legal system getting in the way of itself? Well, yes, said Wayne State law professor Peter Henning. "The legal system gets in the way of itself all the time, but that's what it's designed to do. If you let this guy plead guilty, he'll likely spend the rest of his life in jail."


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EAST WENATCHEE — Cold weather? Check. Sloped driveway? Check. Warm winter jacket with matching red ear muffs? Check. Brand new, shiny green-and-yellow John Deere X300 mini tractor with snow plow attachment, tire chains and rear weights? Check.
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Resources for Parents
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The College Insider
A step by step guide prepared by the MSU College of Education for high school juniors and seniors. It defines the different types of colleges and provides an overview of financial, academic, and social factors that need to be considered when exploring college options.
MSU's Counseling Center
The Counseling Center has prepared a list of problems that can be experienced by first year students along with suggestions of ways parents can help their students deal with them.
MSU complies fully with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA, also known as the Buckley Amendment, is a U.S. federal law that governs access to, and confidentiality of, a student's records. Such things as grades, enrollment records, schedules and classlists cannot be disclosed to third parties without permission of the student. Unless a student has signed a FERPA release form, MSU faculty and staff may not share information about a student's academic record. The Office of the Ombudsman has a list of frequently asked questions about FERPA. The Registrar's Office also has a pdf list of frequently asked questions about FERPA.
Financial Aid Calculators
The Office of Financial Aid has provided parents and students with a calculator that can be used to estimate the cost of attending Michigan State University. The Office of Admissions also has a cost estimator calculator along with information on ways to finance your student's college costs.
Undergraduate Scholarships and Loans
This MSU website contains a fairly comprehensive list of scholarships and grants that can help you research funding your student's college education.
Experts give tips on financial aid, campus safety and more for back-to-school stories
MSU News article (Aug. 2008) covers a range of topics related to college life in general and at MSU specifically.
Parent's Guide to NCAA Rules Compliance
If your student is an athlete, this document will give you an idea of some of the issues you and your student need to be aware of and possible consequences of rules violations. Contact information is also provided if you need more information about NCAA or Big 10 rules.


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MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE LIVING UNDER THE CRUSHING BURDEN OF COLLEGE DEBT. BUT, HERE IN MAINE, LAWMAKERS ARE EXPLORING SOME CREATIVE WAYS TO TRY TO MAKE HIGHER EDUCATION MORE AFFORDABLE. W-M-T-W NEWS EIGHT POLITICAL REPORTER PAUL MERRILL JOINS US LIVE NOW FROM AUGUSTA WITH DETAILS. WE'RE HERE ON THE CAMPUS OF U-MAINE AUGUSTA. A FULL-TIME STUDENT TAKING FIFTEEN CREDITS IS GOING TO PAY ABOUT $3700 PER SEMESTER AND THIS IS THE CHEAPEST OF THE U-MAINE CAMPUSES. A STUDY OF 2012 COLLEGE GRADUATES SHOWS THAT THE AVERAGE STUDENT WITH DEBT WHO GRADUATES FROM A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE IN MAINE OWES ALMOST $30 THOUSAND. WHAT IF YOU COULD GO TO A PUBLIC COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY FOR FREE IF YOU AGREED TO PAY THE STATE THREE OR FOUR PERCENT OF YOUR SALARY FOR 20 YEARS? IT'S AN IDEA THAT U-MAINE AUGUSTA STUDENT ANDRE VANPOELVOORDE SAYS SOUNDS FAIR. 00:06:08-00:06:13 Andre Vanpoelvoorde/UMaine Augusta: "I think it would be better than people being stuck with so much student debt that they can't get out of it." SENATOR ROGER KATZ IS ASKING HIS FELLOW LAWMAKERS TO STUDY A "PAY IT FORWARD" PROGRAM THAT'S ALREADY IN TO STUDY A "PAY IT FORWARD" PROGRAM THAT'S ALREADY IN THE WORKS IN OREGON AND SEVERAL OTHER STATES. HIS GOAL IS TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS BETWEEN MAINERS AND COLLEGE EDUCATIONS. 00:25:36-00:25:46 Sen. Roger Katz/ Augusta: "Unless we can get them in the door with some sort of creative financing through scholarships through programs like this, it's going to be an impediment to Maine getting where it wants to be." SOME STUDENTS SAY THEY WOULDN'T BE O-K WITH LOCKING INTO A PLAN THAT WOULD HAVE THEM PAYING FOR TWO DECADES. 00:01:28- 00:01:35 Michael Jenks/College of the Atlantic: "I don't think I would take the option mostly because right now I have loans. I can pay those off as quickly as I want." SUSAN HUNTER IS THE VICE CHANCELLOR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM. SHE SAYS THE RISING COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION IS A CRISIS. 00:34:36- 00:34:49 Dr. Susan Hunter/University of Maine System: "That's just unsustainable and students will opt not to get educated because they can't afford to take out the loans and amass the debt but, at the same time, what kind of future do they have in a modern economy without some education?" SENATE PRESIDENT JUSTIN ALFOND IS ALSO ASKING LAWMAKERS TO CONSIDER THE "PAY IT FORWARD" PROGRAM AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER IDEAS INCLUDING FREEZING TUITION. 00:05:30-00:05:35 Sen. Justin Alfond/ Senate President: "That's an immediate thing that we could do tomorrow that would help students with debt." THE "PAY IT FORWARD" PROGRAM ISN'T ACTUALLY UP AND RUNNING ANYWHERE. IT WOULD BE AN ENORMOUS UP-FRONT COST, SO LAWMAKERS WOULD HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO GET THAT MONEY. LIVE IN AUGUSTA,
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Aitutaki Atoll, one of the southern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. Aitutaki Atoll is volcanic in origin and rises to about 450 feet (140 metres). Its 12 offshore islets, however, are low coral formations. A reef encircles the entire island with an enclosed lagoon that widens to the south. Average annual precipitation exceeds 75 inches (1,900 mm), but there are occasional droughts. The first recorded European discovery was by Capt. William Bligh on HMS Bounty. He arrived in 1789, shortly before the famous mutiny occurred, and returned the following year. He is credited with introducing to Aitutaki the papaya, which is now an important export product along with oranges, bananas, tomatoes, and copra. There is a wharf on the west coast at Arutanga, which is the main settlement. Aitutaki has a hospital and an airstrip that was built during World War II. Area (land only) 7.1 square miles (18.3 square km). Pop. (2006 prelim.) 2,194.
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Where Are The Black People?! Here's The List Of The 10 Highest Earning Celebrities
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10 Highest Earning Celebrities
When Forbes releases a list of highest earning celebrities, we'd expect to see the usual names of Beyonce or Jay-Z or the like. However, the actual list is pretty surprising this. And by surprising, we mean pretty White and full of people who rank pretty low on the general likability list.
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Translation of rating in Spanish:
- 1 1.1 countable and uncountable (evaluation) other polls give the party a better ratingotras encuestas dan al partido un mayor nivel de popularidadwhat rating would you give this novel?¿qué opinión te merece esta novela?1.2also: ratings plural(Radio, Television)Example sentences
- Broadcast magazine compared ratings for BBC and ITV bulletins before and after the election was called.
- Week in, week out it is the soaps that dominate the ratings on British television.
- He was working in the media research industry and he was concerned mostly about television and radio ratings.
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clase (feminine)(of fuel) tipo (masculine)octane ratingExample sentences
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- They vary in size and durometer (the hardness rating of the wheel material, polyurethane).
- Any material with a Perm rating of less than 1.0 is considered a vapor retarder.
- Remember, the higher the perm rating of a material, the more moisture can pass through it.
- The Taki-Tooo and the other vessels that left the harbor were 'small passenger vessels,' a higher Coast Guard licensing rating.
- Ride improves the likelihood that prospective Sailors will begin their Navy careers in the right rating for them.
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- When her funeral took place at Leicester Cathedral on May 23, 1997, Royal Navy ratings acted as pall bearers and a Royal Marines bugler sounded the last post.
- Further south, the sight of snow had four junior Royal Navy ratings jumping for joy, because WTR Nekisha Seaman and her friends have never seen the white stuff before.
- Aged 52, Parker was 13 years older than even his Captain, and by far the oldest rating in the Royal Navy still serving afloat.
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Definition of lemon in English:
1A yellow, oval citrus fruit with thick skin and fragrant, acidic juice.
Example sentences
- Fried fish was accompanied by the juice of bitter oranges or lemons or by greensauce.
- Put cherries and orange slices into a kettle and add the lemon juice and sugar.
- Crush the avocado with the lemon juice, salt and pepper, and spread thickly on the bread.
1.1A drink made from or flavored with lemon juice: a port and lemon [as modifier]: lemon tea
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- No one made me hot lemon drinks or brought me books to read, or showed the slightest sign of sympathy.
- I was told to go home and drink hot lemon because all I had was the common cold.
- Although lemon tea is a healthy drink, if your father doesn't like it, of course he will be angry.
2 (also lemon tree) The evergreen citrus tree that produces the lemon, widely cultivated in warm climates.
- Citrus limon, family Rutaceae.
Example sentences
- One is across the pool, next to the lemon tree that looks out over the canyon.
- I keep raving about our magical lemon tree but I keep forgetting to bring any of its produce to her.
- There is a lemon tree just outside our kitchen window that delivers an abundance of big juicy fruit twice a year.
3A pale yellow color: [as modifier]: lemon yellow a lemon T-shirt
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- Behind glazed double doors, the family room is decorated in pale lemon and floored in solid oak.
- A houndstooth wool anchored the season, with touches of dusty rose and pale lemon.
- It's an Australian plant naturalised in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold.
4 informal A person or thing, especially an automobile, regarded as unsatisfactory, disappointing, or feeble.
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- As a result you are stuck holding some real lemons - and the prospect of widespread industrial chaos - as we move into an election year.
defective car;
disappointment, letdown
informal clunker, junker, jalopy, hooptie, Tin Lizzie, bucket of bolts, rustbucket, beater
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- Its sour, lemony flavour meant it was a traditional substitute when lemons were out of season.
- Andrew said his cheesecake was not too tangy but nice and lemony, and the ice-cream was a delicious accompaniment.
- We ate the smoky, lemony vegetables slightly warm, while the basil still had all its peppery, clove-like scent.
Middle English: via Old French limon (in modern French denoting a lime) from Arabic līmūn (a collective term for fruits of this kind); compare with lime2.
The root of lemon and also lime (mid 17th century) is an Arabic word, lim, that was a collective term for citrus fruit. On fruit machines the lemon is the least valuable symbol, and this may be behind the answer is a lemon 'the response or outcome is unsatisfactory'. Especially in the USA, a lemon may be a substandard or defective car, of the type all too often bought from shady used-car dealers.
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Will last winter's Snowy Owl irruption repeat again this year? Looks likely given all the snowy owl reports this week here & here, and expert chatter here. Union Bay Watch has posted a primer on the Snowy Owl and some great photos. While they've been spotted around Portage Bay, there has yet to be a sighting on Union Bay according to UBW — the 520 eagles may have something to do with that.
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The Michigan Department of Human Services said Wednesday that college students won't be able to get the help unless there is a "true need." The state will enforce a policy in line with federal guidelines, meaning college students won't qualify for food stamps except in "very limited circumstances."
Attending college in and of itself won't be reason enough to get the food assistance. Benefits should be based on income, household size and other criteria.
The move comes after some state lawmakers raised concerns about abuse of the state's Bridge card system. The card works like a debit card for people to access benefits.


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I just saw it in 3D in a Bangkok cinema, and I got what I had expected before. So, it's worth the price for anyone paid to see it(As you can see I gave it an 8/10). The phenomenon created by the actual viewing is almost beyond the words. Walking onto Pandora, both the audiences and Jake Sully(Sam Worthington) were awed by a very believable alien world. This is no "Final Fantasy", and this is definitely not a Pixar movie, it's James Cameron's visual ambition realized with 230 million dollars. As we see the complete alien ecosystem on Pandora, the lively details of every character and creature on the screen, one can't help being dragged into the world created by Cameron's team. Many scenes felt so heartfelt and thoughtful that you almost want to be a naturalist yourself. But, one can also start to build up another dimension of expectation as the incredible first act is enough to promote a well-developed mythology.
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Our academy is probably as strong as it has been in 10 years, that might be exagerated slightly by the lack of quality in our 1st team. Would Sterling be making 1st team starts had we a 27yr old Benayoun, Ryan Babel, Kuyt or Garcia? Would Shelvey be nudging Alonso or Mascherano out of the side? I think a resounding no to all.
What we can do this season is find out whether the kids in our academy can constitute the foundation of our squad for a few years to come. I think Kelly, Shelvey and Sterling have all confirmed that they can at least be good quality back up players if not 1st team starters. Can you imagine prefering to spend £200k per week on Koncheskey, Poulsen and Cole instead?! If we can find 2 more over the course of the season then we will have acheived something, i'm looking at Morgan, Suso and Robinson as the best bets.
We arent quite as far away from a good side as is being widely reported, all it will take is 2-3 signings (isnt it always) to balance our squad out and then we will have a very young and fresh squad to play with. Lets hope that the following 3 months allow us to develop a couple of young, exciting players that will be here for years.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Agreed Hobs but weren't United in a similar position all those years ago where Fergy was in a bad position, the side hadn't been doing as well and left with little option to look at the youngsters. It certainly can be argued that the likes of Giggs etc. were always going to make it but they came through at a very young age (Giggs was 17 I believe) and impressed.
If our young players can do the same then it it may lead to brighter things. Sterling has started well while Kelly and Shelvey are there already. Cross fingers one or two more perhaps. Yesil sounds promising and as you say Morgan too. Suso has the air of something different about him too.
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Its not impossible, its happened at other clubs before too but not been capitalised on, imagine if West Ham had kept Ferdinand, Lampard, Joe Cole, Defoe, Ince, Carrick, Glen Johnson, Zamora and John Terry? That would have been a hell of a spine!
Hobs...been posting up this same theme for over a season now to a chorus of boos from dsteer and co. who much prefered to wrap our kids in cotton wool till they hit pensionable age yet the evidence suggests that all the true Greats of the game debuted at an early age...seems the likes of dsteer and co dont want to let em anywhere nr the starting eleven till at least age 25 !??? It doesnt matter what era u choose to check on the Greats all debuted at a young age and in our clubs case if the money aint there anymore what is the alternative is this a case of Necessity being the Mother of Invention ?
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Colin I think this is the second post where you've called me out this issue of player young players, and since you've misrepresented my thoughts here I'll respond here.
Yes there are some great players who have emerged as youngsters, some even as teenagers, and maybe we have one of those few on our hands with Sterling. However the vast majority of footballers don't peak till much later in life, with many not capable of playing first team football until they are in their early 20s (I never said anyone under 25 should not be in the first team that is complete nonsense.)
In my view if a player is good enough to play he should play regardless of age, almost exactly what BR, the man you seem so critical of as of late, has said. That means they are both physically ready, technically ready, as well as mentally ready to run with the big boys. But if they are not good enough then you have to ask why they are being thrown in the deep end, and also ask will the toll of early failure hurt them more than help them.
But lastly just saying "play the kids" seems a silly thing to say in my view, unless you know they are good enough compared with other options. We do seem to have a few right now who are good enough, and a coach with the attitude that he'll play the best 11 regardless of age. But in the past when you've made this blanket statement I'm not sure we have had kids that were good enough. I don't follow the youth team closely, but you have to ask if these kids you've talked up so much in the past were so good why after they've been released or sold on have they not got first team football at a top club?
Where is Nemeth now? A series of loans as he could not get into the Olyimpiacos side, and now with a smaller Dutch club. How about Dalla Valle, one I think you championed? Could not get into the Fulham side, so now on loan at Exeter. There are others who of course have done better, and I'm sure you might bring up Ince. Yes he's doing well at Blackpool but doing well at a Championship side, and being someone who we pin our hopes on to improve LFC are two completely different things.
Needs may necessitate that we play youth in the coming months, and I do hope the likes of Sterling will prove to be that one in a hundred player who as a teenager can stand among men. So far he looks the real deal. I hope the same for young Adam Morgan also, whose drive and determination are hard not to admire. But I'm not sure he's up to the grade yet, and in my view could use some game time where he can develop his technical skills, and so important as a striker, his confidence, rather than risk it being bruised as he finds life playing against the best center backs in the world is not quite the same thing as U17 academy football.
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Maybe Tyler Cowen is right.
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Why a dishwasher, of course.
Mahar -- who watched the drawing at home with her boyfriend -- said she hadn't decided what to do with the money. But she says that she at least wants a dishwasher.
Fortunately for Gabrielle Mahar, we have this video to show. Though it's not a dishwasher, it's similar in its significance.
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Ed Glaeser adds more insight into the problems facing Detroit.
Millions of people throughout the world benefited from inexpensive cars, but there was little reason to keep automobile production in Detroit once unionization pushed up labor costs and access to the Great Lakes became largely irrelevant. The Big Three started moving car production out of greater Detroit long before they started losing market share to Japan.
All of America's older, colder cities faced de-industrialization crises in the '70s. Education proved the best source of urban resurgence. The success of Minneapolis and Boston reflects their high numbers of college graduates—43.3% and 42.9%, respectively—and the links between their universities and pioneering firms like Medtronic, the medical device giant based in Minneapolis. In Detroit, only 12% of adults have college degrees.
I must add that Michigan's Single Business Tax, a value added tax on certain business activities, now replaced by the Michigan Business Tax, put that state at a disadvantage, especially after increased competition from Japanese automakers.
The SBT worked well when domestic automakers did not encounter too much competition from abroad. This meant that the car companies faced a relatively inelastic demand curve for their products and would largely push the tax onto consumers, most of whom lived outside the state. Increased competition from abroad simply put the Michigan companies (all of them) at a competitive disadvantage.
Glaeser's conclusion needs to be repeated over and over again.
Neither Detroit nor the U.S. suffer from any profound transportation problem that can only be fixed with vast federal spending. The country doesn't need more People Movers. It needs unleashed, educated entrepreneurs—and they will only be held back by taxes being funneled into fanciful make-work projects in a futile attempt to fix our economic malaise.
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A hilarious news parody by The Onion on how Facebook is the CIA's number one tool for tracking terrorist activity.
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Apple has removed the controversial Exodus app popularly referred to as the "gay cure" app.
Exodus International says the app was developed to guide users to "freedom from homosexuality." The iPhone and iPad app featured news and information from the organization designed to address "unwanted same-sex attraction" according to the group.
The app has drawn the ire of some 150,000 that signed a petition calling the app hateful and bigoted, and demanding the app be removed.
The app can no longer be found in the app store. Apple has not yet commneted on the removal.
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Laugh all you want, and I'm certainly not stating that I believe prostitution should be legalized, but Lawrence Taylor makes some sense with his comments after being sentenced to 6 years probation for having sex with an underage prostitute.
Taylor blamed the institution of prostitution for the fact that he ended up with an underage girl.
"It's the world of prostitution," he said during the Fox News interview. "You never know what you're gonna get. Is it gonna be a pretty girl, an ugly girl or whatever it's gonna be."
Or a young girl? Smith asked.
"You can only ask," Taylor said. "I don't card them. I don't ask for a birth certificate."
It's not "the world of prostitution" that's at fault here; it's the world of illegal prostitution. Make it legal and you'll see these problems disappear overnight since there will be a profit-seeking entrepreneur responsible for filtering the female (or male) employees on her staff.
You don't see problems like this in Nevada where prostitution is legalized and everything is in the open and there are firms responsible for dealing with their employee prostitutes.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Detroit saw its population drop from 951,270 in 2000 to 713,777 last year -- its lowest since the 1910 census.
And it certainly was not unpredictable given the legacy of Coleman Young.
Young's racial favoritism can be seen in his tax policy and his distribution of city services. A 1982 referendum tripled the commuter tax from 0.5% to 1.5%, and raised the residents' income tax rate from 2% to 3%. This tax, which had no impact on Young's poorer black supporters, strengthened the incentive for the better off to leave Detroit. City governments rarely pass income taxes, pre- sumably because of the adverse migration effects. Young eagerly sought to tax his richer constituents to fund redistribution, arguably to drive them out.
Young initiated large building projects that put his supporters on the payroll. He lobbied for federally supported public housing—an absurdity in a city with huge amounts of housing selling for less than new construction costs (Glaeser and Gyourko, 2002)—to keep his supporters, as opposed to whites, as city residents. At the same time, Young cut back on the basic services that white Detroiters valued, such as police and fire. In 1976 he cut the police force by 20%, which along with his other attacks on the police department, perpetrated lawlessness in Detroit. Trash collection declined by 50% during Young's early years.
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Yesterday was a very sad day for about nine hundred kids and their families in Wake County. Raleigh Charter High School went through its annual ritual of selecting students based on a lottery system. It's demoralizing to sit there listening to the names of the few lucky enough to have their names drawn, knowing that the chance that your child's name will be drawn diminishes with each name called. In the coming weeks, thousands more will do the same across the rest of the state.
To commemorate the occasion, I'm re-posting something I did a few years back, with the first paragraph edited to reflect this year's numbers at Raleigh Charter High School.
Imagine coming upon a bakery where many hundreds of people have gathered at the front door, anxiously waiting. You question some in the crowd and learn that this bakery is preparing eighty-two loaves of delicious bread that it will distribute via lottery to just eighty-two of the one thousand and eighty-two people waiting outside, people desperately hoping they hold one of the lucky tickets.
The parent company of this bakery has a larger bakery down the street that will provide bread to those who don't win, but the bread sold there is not nearly as good even though it costs the same. Consequently, an increasing number of people are rejecting this larger bakery and demanding the higher quality product from the better bakery. Unfortunately, in order to protect the workers at the larger bakery, the parent company is limiting the quantity of bread produced by the good bakery to just eighty-two loaves. Sadly, the vast majority of people waiting will leave disappointed.
As absurd as this scenario sounds, thousands of families across North Carolina experience something similar each year. Eager to get their kids out of low-performing schools, every spring they apply to have their child accepted to one of the hundred charter schools in North Carolina. They then anxiously wait, hoping their child will be one of the lucky few to win access to a charter school and escape the poorly performing public school to which their child has been assigned.
To illustrate the extent of this demand, thirteen charter schools currently operate in Wake County, North Carolina, home to the state's capital. Nearly all are limited to admitting just a fraction of those who apply. For example, in 2009, Franklin Academy in Wake Forest received 1,800 applications for approximately 100 slots from kindergarten through grade 12. Raleigh Charter High School received 649 applications for fewer than one hundred slots, and is expecting more applications this year. Magellan Charter School expects to admit 40 students from the more than 600 applications it received. And Endeavor Charter School received approximately 700 applications for just eight open seats.
To the dismay of most of these parents, despite this increasing demand for charter schools, North Carolina's legislature capped the number of charter schools that can operate in the state at 100. Consequently, these parents will remain disappointed. So much for serving the interests of the customer/taxpayer/voters.
An increasing number of parents are registering their preference for alternatives to traditional public schools every year and charter schools are their most affordable option. For those whose family incomes cannot afford private school tuition, it's their only means of escaping the traditional public school system. And yet, the education bureaucracy refuses to satisfy their demands. To the contrary, it spends time and money lobbying the legislature to maintain the cap on charter schools, thus foreclosing alternatives for these thousands of families who are dissatisfied with the education their children are receiving in traditional public schools.
Why does the education bureaucracy refuse to serve the interests of its customers? To understand why, let's employ another analogy.
Suppose restaurants operated like the public school monopoly. A restaurant bureaucracy assigns you to a restaurant based on their preferences, not yours. You are taxed each year to cover the costs of operating these public restaurants and can only "attend" the public restaurant to which your family has been assigned. You are provided meals not of your choosing, but of that prescribed by the restaurant bureaucracy. Should you desire something better, feel free to patronize any private restaurant of your choice, but don't expect a refund of the taxes you paid to fund the state-run restaurants.
It's easy to see whose interests would be served in this situation. Restaurants would not incur a loss for failing to satisfy its customers' demands and we should therefore not expect them to do so. Moreover, they have every incentive to fight tooth-and-nail to protect their monopoly privilege to serve meals against competition from outsiders.
Our government-run schools operate under the same incentives. They receive funding regardless of their performance and how well or poorly they satisfy the interests of their customers. They therefore have little incentive to serve them well. In fact, by providing poorer quality services, parents complain more, which provides the education bureaucracy better ammunition for lobbying the legislature to increase its budget. Protecting this racket means blocking competition from outsiders despite the overwhelming demand for alternatives such as that provided by charter schools.
The education lobby and union officials routinely argue that teaching our children is not like buying a hamburger or a loaf of bread. I agree; educating our children is indeed far more important than buying a hamburger or a loaf of bread. All the more reason to not leave the education of our children in the hands of a government-run monopoly that has little incentive to serve the interests of its customers. Economic growth and success in the twenty-first century require better-educated students than those graduating from today's public schools. Competition among providers is the only means for successfully realizing this objective.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, Governor Perdue, "tear down this wall."
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Steven Landsburg offers great insight into why the public debt isn't a problem - it's the spending.
If the government borrows an extra $10 trillion dollars tomorrow in order to cut taxes by $10 trillion, it will have to make, say, an extra $300 billion a year in interest payments (for which we are collectively responsible) and at the same time, we'll collectively earn an extra $300 billion on our savings portfolios. No favor to the taxpayers, but no harm done either.
It's important to understand this in order not to be bamboozled by tricksters who try to misdirect every conversation about government spending into a conversation about government debt. It's spending, not debt, that can impoverish us, and that's what we should be talking about.
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Bastiat's "broken window" fallacy is being discussed here and here. A commenter on Coordination Problem believes that critics of Larry Summers are too harsh by not considering the benefits of the disaster in Japan - putting idle resources to work. There is a simple test to determine whether or not residents of an area devastated by a hurricane, earthquake, or other natural or man-made disaster, see the resulting destruction, inlcuding loss of life, as having a silver lining or not.
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina plowed through New Orleans and other Gulf Coast states, causing more than $100 billion in damages. About three weeks later, Hurricane Rita, at the time another category 5 hurricane, was barrelling down on the coast of Galveston, Texas. How many residents of Galveston were thinking two days before the hurricane made landfall, "Hot damn, economic growth is coming our way!"?
There is no silver lining to these natural disasters. Might idle resources be put to work rebuilding the destruction? Certainly. But they could have been put back to work digging, and then refilling, holes with fewer thousands of lives lost and billions of dollars of resources destroyed. I'll pick idle resources and no devastation every time.
UPDATE: It also seems to me that if there really was an economic silver lining to Japan's devastation, the Nikkei average would be rising, not falling.
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Being a princess means never having to eat from tacky cheapo department store bowls, or worse... the floor.
(Never mind the fact that half the time the princess eats by gently picking up a piece of food in her jaws, turns her head, drops it on the floor, picks it up, chews part of it, drops the other half on the floor... repeat as necessary.)
The point is, being a princess means you shouldn't have to if you don't want to. It's all about options, darling.
The princess has never had a dining set so fitting as one custom-made for little ol' her - complete with her name painted both in the bowl and on the treat jar. It made reviewing the dining set from Chowtime Productions even more fun for all of us.
The dog bowl was adorable - holds about 1.5 cups of food or liquid maximum. The design is created by Alyson Whitney Idrees, the designer and creative talent behind Chowtime Productions. Each piece is hand painted and customized (if you wish) with your pet's name. Several adorable designs are available; Merry reviewed the Crunchtime Gone Pink! design (appropriate for the little princess, no?). The design was elegant but still fun - it is, after all, for a pooch! We loved the chocolate brown circles with the pink in the middle. But then, chocolate and pink are still incredibly hot color combinations -- one of Merry's absolute favorites.
Suffice it to say the princess had no problems licking the bowl clean! It's got a nicely wide lip for such a small bowl, which is perfect for a pug (those flat little faces are tough to get into tight places).
The treat jar was a very impressive piece of work - we loved the round design and wide mouth at the top (excellent if your furkid eats larger treats). It would be fun to pick up a few of these and have them lining the kitchen counter with an array of tasty options for your own little prince or princess.
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Analysis: What's Up With the Ending?
There are two endings in Ethan Frome. The first is right after Mattie and Ethan crash into the elm tree, at the end of Chapter 9. The second ending happens at the end of the Epilogue, 24 years later.
It is this second ending that makes the story brilliant, but also earns it a high rating on our creepy-meter. In the pre-accident part of the story, Mattie and Ethan seem to think that the best they can hope for is to be able to continue living together with Zeena, and seeing each other as often as possible. This impractical desire comes true in a hideous way. The second ending reveals that the characters have undergone gruesome and not-so-gruesome transformations, but that they are all three still living together in the poverty stricken Frome home.
The second ending also leaves us with a new mystery. What exactly did Mattie say to Ruth when she woke up after the accident? Why couldn't Ruth bear to repeat it to the narrator? Whatever it was, it, combined with the change (for the worse) in Mattie's personality, leads Ruth to speak the novella's final lines:
There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn't live. Well, I say it's a pity she did. I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me. Only he wasn't with me that morning when she first came to... And I say, if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues. (Epilogue.27)
That's some pretty chilling stuff. We realize there are lots of things going on in this final paragraph, and we want to help break it down. The first shocking thing that Ruth says is that if Mattie had died, Ethan could have lived. At this point we can be pretty sure that living for Ethan would mean escaping Starkfield, Zeena, and finding a place where his educational and social needs could be met. In short, this has to do with the getting away that we hear so much about. Is this what Ruth means? Does she mean that if Mattie had died Ethan could have left Starkfield?
These kinds of questions reveal why "Morality and Ethics" is an important theme in Ethan Frome. Ruth raises the question: is Ethan's life somehow worth more than Mattie's? Even if it was, how could Ruth be so sure that Mattie's death would have given Ethan life? Does Ruth know that Mattie and Ethan were in love? If so, does Ruth consider this a moral or ethical crime because Ethan and Zeena were married? Why does she seem to blame Mattie, but not Ethan? Is this a comment on views toward women living at the turn of the century in America?
We'll leave you to think about these questions. Let's move on to Ruth's statement that everyone in the Frome house would be better off dead. That's harsh. We can see why she would think that these people lead miserable lives, but her reason for why they would be better off dead is really bizarre. Glance at it again. She says it's because dead women "have got to hold their tongues." In other words, if Ethan and those women were dead, he wouldn't have to listen to them talk.
Ruth seems incredibly biased toward Ethan, but she also sounds like somebody who doesn't like women very much. If a man spoke these lines we would call him a misogynist (a woman hater). By placing these lines in the mouth of a woman, Edith Wharton is able to get at the pervasive vision of women as inferior that ran rampant in those days. In fact, this opinion was so commonly held that many women believed it, too. Another way of looking at this quote is to say that Ruth dislikes anyone who speaks abusively – which Mattie apparently does quite vocally, and Zeena does rather quietly.
The second ending is also hideously ironic, and yet another example of how when Ethan gets something he wishes for (which is rare). What Ethan gets will likely be damaged, a twisted mockery of what he had in mind.
One important thing Ethan wishes for is a house without silence. Remember, Ethan went as far as marrying Zeena in order to avoid living in a house of silence. Unfortunately, she stopped talking almost as soon as she moved in. Ethan is always fighting silence, and always yearning for friendly voices. He gets the voices – it's not quiet with both Zeena and Mattie around – but it doesn't sound too friendly. We have to wonder if this is better than being alone, or better than silence? The situation is probably not better than escaping Starkfield.
The ending turns Ethan Frome into a cautionary tale, a warning to the readers that not following your dreams can have serious negative consequences.


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Wot kind of tactics wos Moyes trying against the Reds?
Trying goon tactics on the Reds wont bring any
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yeah, thats why aquaman was on the bench and the RS were diving all over the place......?
put your helmet back on, get on the bus and stop licking the windows.
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Liverpool is an Oak
Everton is a willow.....they bend over....whoops...whoops !!!
Rs got lucky we have been better team in both matches you foul cheat and get lucky you bin dipping s@@m
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