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Dinner with Darwin
This featured "Dinner with…" series builds on the classic thought experiment: "Which 5 historical figures would you invite to dinner, and how would you seat them?" While the field of astrobiology historically rests on many "shoulders of giants" –too many for one dinner party, the Astrobiology Magazine has selected some initial candidates for our dinner party, and then asks them to introduce their area of expertise in a brief question and answer format.
The answers are their own, as gleaned from some of their most famous, controversial, or seminal contributions to science. In many cases, the selection of commentary is driven by the curiousity to understand these great historical figures as one might imagine them as more modern characters, perhaps joining in on table talk or an informal interview.
Tonight's dinner introduces Charles Darwin, voyager on the ship, H.M.S. Beagle, headed towards South America, as he seeks to understand the origin of species.
Astrobiology Magazine [AM]: How did you first undertake your project?
Charles Darwin [CD]: When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species–that mystery of mysteries.
Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? Yet these relations are of the highest importance, for they determine the present welfare, and, as I believe, the future success and modification of every inhabitant of this world.
AM: What have you found out so far?
CD: The view that each species has been independently created–is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
AM: What do you mean, by natural selection?
CD: The theory of natural selection is grounded on the belief that each new variety, and ultimately each new species, is produced and maintained by having some advantage over those with which it comes into competition; and the consequent extinction of less-favoured forms almost inevitably follows.
AM: Nature as a competition? But what about a parasite–something that is very dependent and not competing?
CD: In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
AM: So after studying the classic mammalian debates, which do you favor: "nature or nurture" as the more important to a species chances to succeed?
CD: No breeder doubts how strong is the tendency to inheritance: like produces like…
|Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Perhaps the correct way of viewing the whole subject, would be, to look at the inheritance of every character whatever as the rule, and non-inheritance as the anomaly.
AM: Once you accept variability as a rule, the question of selection, relative fertility and survival comes up. So why did you choose to begin most of your theory of 'natural' selection with the list of challenges to doing 'unnatural' selection, either by breeders or domesticators?
CD: The principle of selection I find distinctly given in an ancient Chinese encyclopedia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the color of domestic animals was at that early period attended to.
When we compare the many breeds of dogs, each good for man in very different ways; when we compare the game birds, so pertinacious in battle, with other breeds so little quarrelsome, with 'everlasting layers' which never desire to sit, and with the bantam so small and elegant; when we compare the host of agricultural, culinary, orchard, and flower-garden races of plants, most useful to man at different seasons and for different purposes, or so beautiful in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to mere variability.
We cannot suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in several cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to make for himself useful breeds.
AM: So humans have given direction to an otherwise directionless evolution?
CD: The great power of this principle of selection is not hypothetical…By a similar process of selection, and by careful training, the whole body of English racehorses have come to surpass in fleetness and size the parent Arab stock. Breeders habitually speak of an animal's organisation as something quite plastic, which they can model almost as they please.
But it is very far from true that the principle is a modern discovery.
|Progression from land to sea, legs to fins, walking to swimming
AM: Such changes are that dramatic, modifying to a new species after only after a few generations?
CD: It has taken centuries or thousands of years to improve or modify most of our plants up to their present standard of usefulness to man. In a vast number of cases we cannot recognise, and therefore do not know, the wild parent-stocks of the plants which have been longest cultivated in our flower and kitchen gardens.
That most skilful breeder, Sir John Sebright, used to say, with respect to pigeons, that 'he would produce any given feather in three years, but it would take him six years to obtain head and beak.'
AM: You have experimented with pigeons yourself, correct?
CD: Believing that it is always best to study some special group, I have, after deliberation, taken up domestic pigeons. I have kept every breed which I could purchase or obtain
Pigeons can be mated for life, and this is a great convenience to the fancier, for thus many races may be kept true, though mingled in the same aviary; and this circumstance must have largely favoured the improvement and formation of new breeds. Pigeons, I may add, can be propagated in great numbers and at a very quick rate.
AM: Doesn't the breeder's art presume a diverse stock of choices to select? This doesn't seem to answer the question of how the diversity originates in the wild, as say the environmental pressures change?
CD: Man can hardly select, or only with much difficulty, any deviation of structure excepting such as is externally visible; and indeed he rarely cares for what is internal. He can never act by selection, excepting on variations which are first given to him in some slight degree by nature.
I think these views further explain what has sometimes been noticed–namely that we know nothing about the origin or history of any of our domestic breeds. But, in fact, a breed, like a dialect of a language, can hardly be said to have had a definite origin.
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AM: So one would have to look for examples in transition, where the history of say an organ or function was undergoing changes that a life of observation or records would reveal? Can you give us another example?
CD: In some of the crabs the foot-stalk for the eye remains, though the eye is gone; the stand for the telescope is there, though the telescope with its glasses has been lost.
AM: So through use and disuse, advantage and disadvantage, all the many diverse species "evolve" towards a more robust variety? A kind of "ascent via family descent with modification" is sometimes referred to here, correct?
CD: Whatever the cause may be of each slight difference in the offspring from their parents–and a cause for each must exist–it is the steady accumulation, through natural selection, of such differences, when beneficial to the individual, that gives rise to all the more important modifications of structure, by which the innumerable beings on the face of this earth are enabled to struggle with each other, and the best adapted to survive.
AM: So one shouldn't be surprised by missing gaps in the fossil record, and apparent jumps in evolution?
CD: Extinction and natural selection will, as we have seen, go hand in hand.
|"Planetary biospheres are complex entities whose histories are fraught with contingency, accident, and luck." -David Grinspoon
Image Credit: NASA
Representative species often meet and interlock; and as the one becomes rarer and rarer, the other becomes more and more frequent, till the one replaces the other.
[But] why do we not now find closely-linking intermediate varieties? This difficulty for a long time quite confounded me.
It has been asked by the opponents of such views as I hold, how, for instance, a land carnivorous animal could have been converted into one with aquatic habits; for how could the animal in its transitional state have subsisted?
AM: What's your theory then?
CD: I think such difficulties have very little weight.
I can see no difficulty, more especially under changing conditions of life…by the accumulated effects of this process of natural selection, a perfect so-called flying squirrel was produced.
AM: A transitional species, the ground and tree dweller, converted in form to its better aerial life, correct?
Or the flying lemur.
AM: Do these same transition play from air to land?
CD: If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed duck; as fins in the water and front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx. They serve, at least, to show what diversified means of transition are possible.
|Tube worms near deep sea vents are just one of the many life forms found in these complex vent communities.
Credit: University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies
When we see any structure highly perfected for any particular habit, as the wings of a bird for flight, we should bear in mind that animals displaying early transitional grades of the structure will seldom continue to exist to the present day, for they will have been supplanted by the very process of perfection through natural selection.
AM: But I thought variation in itself made for highly adapted habits, and so do you think perfection as fewer, better species seems a biological risk in itself?
CD: He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.
Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and for seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing.
It is difficult to tell, and immaterial for us, whether habits generally change first and structure afterwards; or whether slight modifications of structure lead to changed habits; both probably often change almost simultaneously.
AM: That seems like a naturalist view where there is considerable waste?
CD: He who believes in the struggle for existence and in the principle of natural selection, will acknowledge that every organic being is constantly endeavouring to increase in numbers; and that if any one being vary ever so little, either in habits or structure, and thus gain an advantage over some other inhabitant of the country, it will seize on the place of that inhabitant, however different it may be from its own place.
There should be woodpeckers where not a tree grows.


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Jacob Paul Earl Allen of Medford graduated with Bachelor of Science and Associate of Science degrees in exercise science during the May 6, 2012, Union College commencement ceremonies in Lincoln, Nebr. Union College awarded 170 degrees to 156 students.
For more information, visit www.ucollege.edu.
Founded in 1891 by the Seventh-day Adventist church, Union is an accredited, comprehensive college and a member of the Nebraska Independent College Foundation. Union enrolls nearly 900 students from 47 states and 30 countries. The campus, 50 acres of tree-covered property in southeast Lincoln, Neb., is a site in the statewide arboretum system.
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Criterion Collection's 'Shaw on Film' DVD set, 'Beckett on Screen'
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Back from Pandora? Remember when Hollywood made movies with fully-developed plots and characters, before special effects hijacked movie budgets? And playwrights were called in as script doctors? Two of the 20th century's greatest playwrights—Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett—not only refused such lucrative jobs, but frustrated producers, directors and studios to no end with their disdain for adaptations of their work.
"Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays" by Jonathan Bignell (from Manchester University Press in hardcover) is a scholarly analysis of the TV and film adaptations of the author's dramas, and his original plays for television. A discussion of Buster Keaton's influence (and Beckett's short "Film," in which the comedian starred) add value to the study, but it proves a little too esoteric at times.
The Criterion Collection's "George Bernard Shaw on Film" (a 3-DVD set in their Eclipse series) is illuminating, on the other hand, both in the works it handsomely restores to public view–all three on DVD for the first time–and in the lucid annotation that accompanies them. Shaw thwarted most efforts to film his plays with his unyielding insistence the work be transferred to the screen exactly as written, until an odd character named Gabriel Pascal entered the picture. The Irish prince of letters and the expat Hungarian pauper somehow hit it off; Pascal produced four film versions of Shaw's plays. His idea for a musical adaptation of "Pygmalion" (the first of the four films, not included here), came to fruition after his passing as "My Fair Lady."
Wendy Hiller, who starred in "Pygmalion," plays the title role of a Salvation Army worker in "Major Barbara" (1941). Co-starring as her suitor Adolphus Cusins, coincidentally, is Rex Harrison—destined to eventually play Prof. Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady." Robert Morley is Undershaft, the munitions manufacturer; Robert Newton and Deborah Kerr are prominent among the stellar supporting cast. Future directors David Lean (assistant to Pascal) and Ronald Neame (cinematographer) contribute to this elegant, witty film, made in London during the Blitz.
It's happily unapparent that German air raids disrupted not only "Barbara" but "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945), a spectacular Technicolor adaptation of Shaw's 1901 play. This is no faded rose, like so many color films of that era, but a beautifully restored classic—befitting its epic scale and exorbitant cost (at $5 million, it was then the most expensive film ever made in England). Vivien Leigh is as impish as she is beautiful as the Egyptian queen, opposite Claude Rains in perhaps the best role of his career as the Roman ruler; the cast includes Stewart Granger (as a Sicilian soldier), Flora Robson (as Cleopatra's servant), Ernest Thesiger and Francis L. Sulliivan. Jack Cardiff and Freddie Young are but two of the four cinematographers.
"Androcles and the Lion" (1952) was made in Hollywood after the box office failure of "Caesar" all but doomed Pascal's efforts to make another film (he still had the screen rights to Shaw's plays). The producer went around town promising the role of Androcles to one actor after another, including Harpo Marx, Jose Ferrer and Cantinflas; Alan Young, who would later make his fortune playing opposite a talking horse in TV's "Mr. Ed," ended up with the part. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Robert Newton co-star in this entertaining fable, directed by Chester Erskine.
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About the Author: JORDAN R. YOUNG is a playwright, journalist and show business historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. His plays have been presented in Hollywood, New York and Australia, and broadcast on public radio; his books include Spike Jones Off the Record, Acting Solo, and The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age. Visit his blog at http://examiner.com/x-4129-LAOC-Theatre-Examiner


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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi State has promoted Geoff Collins to defensive coordinator the school announced on Friday.
Collins has spent the past two seasons as the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach after coming from Florida International in 2011. Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen let Collins handle the defensive playcalling responsibilities in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 1 after the defense struggled under Chris Wilson in the last half of the regular season.
Wilson remains on Mississippi State's staff. He also coaches the defensive line.
Mississippi State lost five of six games to end the season -- including four of those to nationally-ranked opponents. The defense gave up nearly 34 points per game during that stretch.


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This construct is used to delink Africans from, say, Egypt or Carthage - even though the inhabitants would very well have been called black.
It is also used to reinforce the invasion of South Africa, Zimbabwe etc - if there is a Black Africa, there must be a white one, hence legitimacy. The idea of a Black Africa legitimizes invasion, of both Europeans and Arabs, suggesting that these populations have their "homes" on the continent, when in fact they dont.
Africa is BLACK, period. Of course this is social blackness. To speak of a special corner of Africa are being black, as opposed to the rest is risible. We only do so when we want to legitimize the Arab and European invaders and interlopers.


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Chris Henry and Luke Marshall have been included in a 29-man preliminary Ireland squad ahead of next weekend's game with Scotland in the RBS 6 Nations Championship.
Henry is included despite suffering a knee injury and will undergo a scan on Monday afternoon.
Marshall suffered bruising to his thighs, but the injury was not enough to rule him out of inclusion in a Six Nations squad for the first time after being unavailable for the opening weeks of the championship with a finger injury.
In addition to Marshall, back row James Coughlan and second rows Lewis Stevenson and Devin Toner come into the Irish squad as extra cover, after being involved in the early preparations of the championship.
The panel could have extra players added to it after further medical reports and the final squad will assemble in Carton House on Monday evening.
Preliminary Ireland Six Nations squad:
Rory Best, Darren Cave, Tom Court, Sean Cronin, James Coughlan, Keith Earls, Luke Fitzgerald, Declan Fitzpatrick, Craig Gilroy, Robin Henshaw, Jamie Heaslip, Ian Henderson, Chris Henry, Paddy Jackson, Rob Kearney, David Kilcoyne, Luke Marshall, Fergus McFadden, Conor Murray, Sean O'Brien, Donncha O'Callaghan, Brian O'Driscoll, Ronan O'Gara, Peter O'Mahony, Eoin Reddan, Mike Ross, Donnacha Ryan, Lewis Stevenson, Devin Toner


text: BANGALORE: Narendra Modi may have never heard of Sidhant Pai, but if the young MIT graduate's plans remain on track then the 21-year-old may unwittingly become an ally in the Indian prime minister's push to clean up Indian cities. In the run up to the general election, Modi had made making Indian cities world-class one of his key poll promises. Along with impressive skyscrapers and airports, cleanliness is a common factor of all great cities.


text: Auditions for "The X Factor" are coming to Oakland's Oracle Arena this weekend. Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid will be on hand in search of the next "One Direction" as singers compete for final spots on the upcoming season, slated to premiere in the fall. The show will be filmed twice daily at 1 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. Saturday through Monday. To be part of the studio audience, free tickets are available online at www.TheXFactorTickets.com.


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As I reflect back to the years of medical school and house officer training, several motifs emerge.
I was taught to believe what I was learning and what I would do was very serious and very important and was a awesome responsibility.
Feelings of inadequacy permeated all of the med school years and it was not until well into the residency program that I felt equal to the job at hand and enjoyed some confidence. Medical school was frightening and at times mind numbing and the excitement and sense of satisfaction occurred only in house office years and beyond. Now some forty years later I look back on that and on all the changes in medicine since those formative years.
In this blog I hope to express some of the thoughts that come to mind from my current vantage point about what has changed, what has not changed and what should not change.


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Lights out for about 3,900 customers after Carlsbad crash
CARLSBAD Nearly 3,900 customers lost power in coastal North County on Thursday evening after a car crashed into a pole and sent an electric box sparking, according to authorities.
The 5:05 p.m. collision happened on Melrose Drive and Rancho Santa Fe Road, said Carlsbad police Lt. Bruce May.
He said no injuries were reported after the car, a red Ford Mustang, hit the pole.
But 3,875 customers of San Diego Gas & Electric lost power, according to the utility's website.
The blackout hit parts of Carlsbad, Vista and San Marcos.
As of 10:15 p.m, power had been restored to all but about 340 customers. It was estimated they would have power by 6 a.m. Friday.


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The Indian Wells Valley Water District (IWVWD) and Larry and Elaine Mead, doing business as Circle M Farming, announce escrow closed October 11th through Placer Title Company for an exchange of properties involving the Water District's 434.49 acre Neal Ranch Property. In exchange, IWVWD received 236.87 acres along West Ridgecrest Boulevard, east of Brown Road, and a transfer of cash.
Both parties consider the exchange to be beneficial, not only for themselves but for the entire Indian Wells Valley groundwater basin.
IWVWD acquires property in an area of high quality (low total dissolved solids) water in close proximity to some of the District's existing production wells in exchange for previously disturbed property in an area of lower quality (higher total dissolved solids) water. Neal Ranch is a former alfalfa farm located in the area where new pistachio orchards have been planted.
The acquisition of Neal Ranch gives Circle M Farming the opportunity to incorporate these properties into the company's in‐house conservation programs. The program will reduce the amount of blowing sand and dust in the area during high wind events resulting in improved air quality.
Included in the Purchase Agreement is the stipulation that Larry Mead, Elaine Mead and Rodney T. Stiefvater will not directly or indirectly farm or consult on any farming or water consuming activities in the Indian Wells Valley south of State Highway 178 for a period of twenty‐five (25) years commencing on the Close of Escrow, excluding domestic use.
In exchange, IWVWD agrees that it will not pump groundwater from the Indian Wells Valley within the "triangle" formed by Highway 395 on the west, Brown Road on the east and Highway 178 to the south for a period of twenty‐five (25) years commencing on the Close of Escrow.
Pistachios can tolerate lower quality water and this agreement keeps the pistachio orchards owned by this partnership in an area of generally lower quality water while helping to preserve the higher quality water in the Southwest Well Field for domestic use.
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Apple's new Ipad vs Ipad 2 head to head review
We test whether the new Ipad is worth the upgrade
Apple has included a new chip in the latest model, aimed at powering the high-quality display. The dual-core A5X is a system on a chip with quad-core graphics, upgraded from the A5 processor used in the Ipad 2, although Apple gives out little to no information on either version.
Web browsing on both tablets is responsive and speedy, and video streamed smoothly, although web pages on the Ipad 2 took a split second longer to load up. Games such as the ever-popular Angry Birds and GT Racing loaded up quickly on the new iPad, and the graphics were sharp and all the games we tested gave a smooth performance.
Those little red birds certainly seemed to fly through the air a shade faster on the new model, and apps were also faster to load compared to the Ipad 2, particularly a image-heavy example like the BBC News app.
Once apps are loaded, there's not much difference in the performance but the colour difference is again immediately apparent.
The new Ipad measures 241x186x9.4mm and weighs a very portable 652g for the WiFi-only version and 662g for the 4G model. The case has an aluminium back with a toughened glass display.
The older Ipad 2 is the same height and width but slightly slimmer at 8.8mm and weighs in at a lighter 601g for the WiFi version and 613g for the 3G model.
The 50g difference, which equates to a standard chocolate bar, means that both tablets are light enough to carry around all day. However, the dimensions make it difficult to type while holding either model, and you'll find you need to place it on a surface or lap to comfortably type anything longer than a quick message or search query.
We'd still like to see Apple release a smaller version, but this seems unlikely to do so now it's embroiled in the ongoing patents battle with Samsung over the 7in Galaxy Tab, as that could potentially be used as a weapon in Samsung's favour.
Both models were initially offered in 16, 32 and 64GB versions, but the Ipad 2 is now available only with 16GB, following the launch of its successor.
While there's no removable storage, Apple offers a further 5GB free through Icloud, and you can opt to pay for extra capacity.
Around the Ipad casing, both models feature the same 3.5mm headphone slot, lock button, volume on/off switch and up/down controls, charging port and camera lens.
We tried out the WiFi-only model, and the wireless was easy and quick to set up with auto-detection of networks, the same as was the case for the Ipad 2.
Bluetooth is also on offer, with an upgrade from 2.1 to version 4.0 for the new model. Apple has upgraded its mobile data support from 3G to 4G LTE on the new Ipad, although this is only on offer where operators have upgraded their networks.


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What you need to know about income annuities.
Question: How does an income annuity work?
Answer: If you are in or near retirement, you probably have some money set aside in the form of savings, CDs, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, or IRAs.
An income annuity allows you to convert part of your retirement funds into a stream of guaranteed lifetime income payments using a single lump-sum of money called a "premium," or through flexible premium payments over time, depending on the type of product selected. In return, you receive a check from New York Life on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual basis—guaranteed—for the rest of your life, starting when you choose it to, usually at or after retirement.
Who guarantees my income?
Your income is guaranteed by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (NYLIAC), a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company. An industry leader for nearly 170 years, New York Life has earned the highest ratings for financial strength currently awarded to any life insurer given by all four leading independent rating agencies: A.M. Best (A++), Fitch (AAA), Standard & Poor's (AA+), and Moody's Investors Service (Aaa). (Individual independent rating agency commentary as of 1/10/14).
New York Life Insurance Company is the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S.1 Being mutual means our primary focus is on creating long-term financial safety and stability for our policy owners, rather than the short-term gains favored by Wall Street. When we say New York Life is "The Company You Keep®," that's a promise for life.
How can I benefit from an income annuity?
An income annuity can help protect against the risk of outliving your savings. No matter how long you live, you will always have the security of knowing that you have a regular monthly income. The amount you receive each month is guaranteed, and payments will continue for as long as you live.
What other advantages does an income annuity provide?
An income annuity is not subject to stock market performance. Regardless of the ups and downs of the financial markets, you can be confident that your annuity income is locked in and guaranteed. Additionally, with this product you set aside a part of your assets to help cover future living expenses. Monthly income checks, should you choose this payment option, make it easier for you to stay on budget, and helps to ensure your basic needs such as food, housing, and health care are covered.
What is the rate of return on an income annuity?
An income annuity is not an investment that provides you with a rate of return over a fixed period of time, like a CD.2 Rather, it's an income product that provides you with fixed monthly income that is guaranteed for life—no matter how long you live—and no matter how the markets perform. The total payout you receive from this income annuity will be largely determined by your own longevity. The longer you live, the more income you will receive.
How soon can payments begin?
Depending on the income annuity3 you decide to purchase, income payments can begin now or later. If you purchase a single premium immediate annuity, you'll receive income within 12 months of purchase—beginning one month after purchase (for monthly payouts), one quarter after purchase (for quarterly payouts), and so on. If you purchase a deferred income annuity, your payments will begin at any date of your choosing two to 40 years in the future. Just like a single premium immediate annuity, you can choose to receive your income payments monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.
Are there age or health restrictions?
Issue ages vary depending on the type of annuity you purchase, and the tax qualification of the funds you use to purchase your annuity. Additional age restrictions may exist depending on specific benefits selected at time of purchase. No medical history is required.
What kind of funds can I use to purchase an income annuity?
To fund your annuity, you may want to use a portion of your checking or savings accounts, CDs, mutual funds, or inheritances. You may also be able to transfer certain retirement accounts, such as your IRA, 401(k), or lump-sum pension plan payout. In some cases, you can even combine multiple assets to fund an income annuity; however, tax-qualified and non tax-qualified funds may not be commingled.
How much of my money should I use for an income annuity?
You can purchase an income annuity with any amount of $5,000 or more, though premium payments of $3 million or more require prior New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation approval. (Includes aggregate premiums from multiple policies.) Together with your Agent, you can determine the most appropriate amount of money to use to purchase an income annuity, based on your specific needs and situation.
What happens to my money if I pass away prematurely?
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One of the by-products of a successful season like Ole Miss had in 2008 is the job market for assistant coaches.
Most of the coaches on Houston Nutt's staff have been around the block and had created solid reputations in the business before last season. Throw in last year's turnaround and the fact that they've worked under an experienced head coach, and the stock grows. It will grow even more if the Rebels achieve at the level many predict for them this season.
There's been talk about the future for offensive coordinator Kent Austin, who has already won a championship as a head coach in the CFL. Some around the Ole Miss program would like to see Austin named as a "coach in waiting" for Ole Miss once Nutt retires or leaves.
Another name to watch is Tyrone Nix. The Rebels' defensive coordinator enjoyed a bit of career comeback last season. When Nutt hired Nix away from South Carolina it was unclear if Nix was going to be retained by Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier. Nix has answered the question by saying, "You'll have to ask Spurrier that."
Last year Nix led a defensive turnaround that saw the Rebels rise from 12th in the SEC in total defense, 11th in scoring defense, to fifth in both categories. Ole Miss was playing particularly well at the end of the season, four times holding opponents to 13 points our fewer – twice with shutouts – over the six-game win streak.
Other schools called to guage Nix' interest in leaving. He's not saying what the schools or positions were.
"It's irrelevant at this point," he said.
Nix has the intensity and leadership skills to be a head coach. If hiring a black coach is important to some school, he has that too.
If the Rebels' defensive line – which helped Ole Miss rank second in the SEC and fourth in the nation in run defense – is better than last year, as Nix predicts, the defense has a chance to post even more impressive numbers in 2009.
That would create even more buzz around Nix next December when the coaching carousel begins to spin.
For now, Nix won't even say if he aspires to become a head coach.
"Right now my emphasis is on being the best defensive coordinator and the best coach I can be on this staff. Who knows where we might be in five years? Tomorrow isn't promised to us. I want to try and enjoy every day, every opportunity I have to enjoy the guys I work with. Our defensive staff is outstanding. Kim Dameron, Terry Price, Chris Vaughn … I enjoy them all, and coach Nutt.
"I even like our offensive guys sometimes."
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The participants of the Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting, gathered in Vienna on May 5, 2012, celebrate the shut-down today of the last operating nuclear power reactor, out of 54 reactors previously operating in Japan.
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Trans Fat in NYC: Update!
It's happened. New York City has banned trans fat in restaurants. Corn cobs everywhere are furious, but we think it's pretty cool. Of course, it would be better if restaurants did this of their own accord; legal intervention is never as inspiring. But we'll take it!
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Five people were taken to hospitals after an SUV and Metro bus collided at 16th Street and Holmes Road Friday morning.
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With the determination to accomplish the highest welfare of all sentient beings, who surpass even a wish-granting jewel, I will learn to hold them supremely dear.
Whenever I associate with others, I will learn to think of myself as the lowest amongst all and respectfully hold others to be supreme from the very depths of my heart.
In all actions I will learn to search into my mind and as soon as a disturbing emotion arises endangering myself and others I will firmly face and avert it.
I will learn to cherish ill-natured beings and those oppressed by strong misdeeds and sufferings as if I had found a precious treasure difficult to find.
When others out of envy treat me badly with abuse, slander, and the like I will learn to take all loss and offer the victory to them.
When the one who I have benefited with great hope hurts me very badly for no reason, I will learn to view that person as an excellent spiritual guide.
In short I will learn to offer everyone without exception all help and happiness directly and indirectly and respectfully take upon myself all harm and suffering of my mothers.
I will learn to keep all these practices undefiled by the stains of the eight worldly concerns and by understanding all phenomena as like illusions, be released from the bondage of attachment.
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Laurence Peter (1919 - 1990)
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
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It was two more double-digit wins for UBC men's basketball this past weekend — their 11th and 12th of the season. Ho hum, right? Well, not exactly.
Even though the Thunderbirds' opponents sported less than impressive records — Brandon came into Friday's contest with a 3-9 record while Regina entered Saturday at 5-8 — the T-Birds had to withstand some scrappy play from their prairie foes and use strong fourth quarters to grind out their 90-75 and 75-65 victories. However, the close games weren't necessarily a symptom of poor T-Bird basketball, but rather because of the overall competitiveness of all teams in the Canada West conference.
"The records are no indication of how good these teams are," said UBC head coach Kevin Hanson after Friday's game, in which Brandon trailed by only four in the third quarter. "We watch video tapes, and I can tell how good these guys are, what they do and what they've accomplished.… It's an interesting league in the Canada West, where anything can happen. We don't care what anybody's record is."
The Thunderbirds should remember this notion over the next couple of weeks if they want to remain one of the top teams in the country. Currently ranked No. 2 in the nation and sitting atop the Canada West Pacific division with a 12-2 record, UBC's next six games are against teams with a combined record of 10-33. But that doesn't mean it's time for the 'Birds to take their foot off the gas pedal, especially with the playoffs looming.
"You see videotapes [of the upcoming teams] and they're up on teams, they play everybody tough," said Hanson after Saturday's clash with Regina. "Sometimes you're playing teams that don't have any fear of anything; they're just going out and playing. There's a lot of older guys left on the teams we're playing that have a lot to prove in their senior years.
"We're going to emphasize as coaching staff that the players have to be able to come out [hard], especially on the road. You have to be able to compete hard, and anything can happen in this league."
Hard-fought efforts from the entire roster have gotten the T-Birds to where they are right now. Every player on the 11-person roster has been a contributor this year. Nine different players have started a game so far, and four are averaging over 10 points per game; Tommy Nixon just misses the cut with his 9.9 per contest. It's a roster that few other teams can stack up against, and allows the 'Birds to handle almost everything that's thrown at them; when Brandon threw a zone defence at UBC on Friday night, there was no hesitation to change up the personnel on the floor.
"I think we've got enough weapons, so it's just a matter of having the right personnel at the right time," said Hanson. "As long as the guys are aggressive, it doesn't really matter to us."
"Aggressive" is the key word for the T-Birds this year. Last season, their rebounding was a sore spot and cost them games, but this year it has been vastly improved. Led by the frenzied effort of Brylle Kamen, who leads the Canada West with 11.7 rebounds a game, UBC is by far the best rebounding team in the conference; their rebounding margin of +11.9 dwarfs the +5.4 mark of Victoria, who has the second best margin.
Their power in the paint also extends to offence. When the 'Birds are getting the ball down low and driving to the hoop, they find their most success, but when the settle for jump shots and three-pointers, their offence typically struggles. UBC shoots only 33.2 per cent from three-point land this season, and their habit of settling for those shots was one of the main factors in their loss to Fraser Valley earlier this season. In general, it can allow teams to hang around and go on runs, which is especially dangerous in the Canada West.
As for the play close to the hoop, the 'Birds have been hard to stop. Kamen and second-year David Wagner have been a dynamic duo so far, using their soft touch around the rim to cause fits for the defence. Wagner has been especially solid as of late, and his play has drawn the praise of his coach.
"We needed someone to step up in the post, and he has surprised me with how well he has been playing," said Hanson of Wagner, who is averaging 10.1 points per game on 50.4 per cent shooting from the floor. "You don't really want a go-to guy who's in his second year, but if he can produce for us down there, he's going to keep getting the ball. As long as he keeps improving, he's going to be one heck of a player."
The 'Birds have a fairly young team overall, which is a key reason for their success, but the glue continues to be fifth-year Doug Plumb. The guard seems to quietly go about his business on the court, doing the little things that help the team, but he also leads the team in several key categories: points per game (16.4), field goal percentage (51.9), total assists (49) and total steals (29). Especially with a young team, that is exactly what a team needs from one of their leaders.
Now, it is up to Plumb and company to keep up this aggressive play. It can be tough to stay motivated for the upcoming teams that may not be the cream of the crop, but a single loss can be costly in regards to having home court advantage come playoffs. Now is not the time of the year to be taking steps backwards.
The T-Birds have had their foot on the gas pedal all season, and despite a few moments where they hit the brakes, they were able to keep accelerating this past weekend. But if they want to end up in Ottawa for nationals come March, they can't afford to slow down at all.
Pulling ahead against Brandon
This interactive graph charts the progress in individual scoring during the UBC-Brandon game Friday night.
Drag the slider to move in time through the game. (Time is formatted as years, as opposed to minutes. Ignore that: Google is weird.) Each dot represents a player; the height of the dot represents how many points the player has scored, while they move to the right based on their team's score. Yellow dots are UBC, blue dots are Brandon.
You can see UBC start hot, Brandon try to catch up, and the Thunderbirds eventually pull away. Also, you can select individual players and see how they performed over the course of the game. Infographic by Andrew Bates/The Ubyssey


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NEWBERRY, SC - The Newberry College Wolves used a second-half surge - fueled by a 12-0 free throw disparity - to top the Lady Railsplitters 56-48 in South Atlantic Conference women's basketball action on Saturday in Newberry, South Carolina. Lincoln Memorial University see its four-game winning streak snapped, falling to 4-2 overall and 3-1 in SAC play in the process, while Newberry jolts to 4-2 on the season and 2-2 in the league.
Despite only shooting 32.4 percent (11-for-34) in the opening half, the Lady Railsplitters built a 22-21 behind six points from senior MaRanda Boddie (Springfield, IL) in that frame. The Lady Railsplitters limited the Wolves to only eight buckets and a 32 percent effort from the floor over the first 20 minutes of action.
The second half was a back-and-forth affair as the two teams traded the lead seven times until Newberry put itself on top for good with a three-pointer by Zara Pearson with 7:58 remaining in regulation. The Wolves pulled in front by four on three occasions over the next 2:14, but the Lady Railsplitters never let the deficit build past that mark, cutting the gap to two with 5:16 following a jumper by Aisjah Roan (Louisville, KY).
However, over the final five minutes of action, the Lady Railsplitters were outscored 6-0. All of Newberry's points over that stretch came from the charity stripe, where they went six-for-eight. The Lady Railsplitters, meanwhile, went 0-for-nine from the field and 0-for-three from the free throw line, helping the Wolves escape with a 56-48 victory.
The Lady Railsplitters capped the contest with a 33.8 percent (23-for-68) mark from the field and a two-for-20 (10%) effort from long range, while Newberry finished 18-for-56 (32.1%) from the floor and five-for-nine from deep. The difference came at the charity stripe, where LMU finished 0-for-seven and the Wolves finished with a 15-for-22 clip (68.2%).
Lincoln Memorial turned 20 Newberry miscues into 18 points and carded a 28-20 advantage on points in the paint. The Lady Railsplitters also amassed a monster 16-0 disparity on fast break points.
Junior guard Aisjah Roan paced the Lady Railsplitters with 12 points to go along with three assists and four steals in 36 minutes of action. Roan finished six-for-15 from the field. Both Kalasia Green (Laveen, AZ) and MaRanda Boddie collected eight points on a combined eight-of-18 effort from the floor. Green added five rebounds to her stat ledger, while Boddie propelled LMU's 43 rebound afternoon with 10 boards. Katrina Ottesen (Chandler, AZ) and Kortnay Cox (Murfreesboro, TN) pitched in with five points apiece.
Newberry was carried by preseason All-SAC First Team selection Haylee Lepaio, who amassed a game-high 17 points with 11 rebounds, leading the Wolves to a 45-43 advantage on the glass. Zara Pearson added 11 points on three-of-five shooting from long range and Tasia Holdorf put up 10 points. Ellie Gleeson was also factor with nine points and nine rebounds in 34 minutes of action.
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Dan O'Brien's research and teaching is focused on the psychology and sociology of urban neighborhoods. Dr. O'Brien has used this multidisciplinary approach to further research on "broken windows," or the presence of disorder and deterioration in a neighborhood, in a number of directions. He has published papers on: how people perceive and interpret neighborhood disorder; the patterns of behavior that create or eliminate disorder within a neighborhood; and disorder's relationship with other neighborhood outcomes, like adolescent behavior. He has also done work on how individuals differ in their levels of prosociality (e.g., cooperation, sharing) across neighborhoods. Many of these projects have been done in collaboration with interested city agencies and community groups.
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O'Brien, D.T., Sampson, R.J., Winship, C. Ecometrics in the age of big data: Measuring and assessing "broken windows" using administrative records. In Press at Sociological Methodology. [Working Paper #3]
O'Brien, D.T. 2013. Custodians and custodianship in urban neighborhoods: A methodology using reports of public issues received by a city's 311 hotline. Published online at Environment & Behavior. An earlier version of this article is BARI Working Paper #1.
O'Brien, D.T., Kauffman, R. 2013. Broken windows and low adolescent prosociality: Not cause and consequence, but co-symptoms of low collective efficacy. American Journal of Community Psychology, 51: 359-369. [Journal]
O'Brien, D.T., Norton, C., Cohen, J., Wilson, D.S. 2012. Cultural variation in community perception: Local adaptation and the interpretation of disorder. Published online at Environment and Behavior. [Journal]
O'Brien, D.T. 2012. Getting to know your neighbors: Introducing evolutionary psychology to urban research-policy collaborations. Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, 6: 329-343. [PDF]
O'Brien, D.T. 2012. Managing the urban commons: The relative influence of individual and social incentives on the treatment of public space. Human Nature, 23: 467-489. [Journal]
O'Brien, D.T., Gallup, A.C., Wilson, D.S. 2012. Residential mobility and prosocial development within a single city. American Journal of Community Psychology, 50: 26-36. [Journal]
O'Brien, D.T., Wilson, D.S. 2011. Community Perception: The ability to assess the safety of unfamiliar neighborhoods and respond adaptively. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100: 606-620. [Journal]
Wilson, D.S., O'Brien, D.T., Sesma, A. 2009. Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: Variation and correlations at a city-wide scale. Evolution & Human Behavior, 30: 190-200. [Journal]


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If you want to know how to play and/or gm Dark Sun pick the May issues of Dungeon and Dragon Magazine. Both issues wil be chock full of Athasian roleplaying goodness from cover to cover.
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I am looking forward to seeing what May will bring.
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That won't be necessary - IMC the typical thri-kreen NPC has 4 levels of ranger. They live in a harsh environment, so it's not unusual they would gain levels. They end up with 6 HD (the right number) but are also flexible, just in case you wanted to give them cleric or psion levels instead.Thri-kreen is another race that is problematic to convert, because quite frankly they were overpowered in 2e. Defining traits are: alien mindset, non-humanoid, multi-armed, thick chitin exoskeleton, less need of water. They will either need to be reduced in power, or be given a level adjustment. One solution might be racial levels, as in Arcana Unearthed. That would also explain the differences between a starting PC thri-kreen and a monster thri-kreen the monster is simply one that only has racial levels. Worth thinking about.
When it comes to Metacreativity, I just have to find a "niche" for it. IMC it's most common among J'ez tohr-kreen, and occasionally among poor psions in the city, but otherwise isn't that common. Elves are known to have an affinity for it (no bonuses, just elven shapers are more common than, say, dwarven shapers).
If your D20 Modern PCs don't fear guns, use a bigger battlefield! Smaller battlefields are melee friendly. Cool battlefields in the Forest and Woodlands section of http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/dungeonsunlimited/
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Wayne Gilchrest
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Wayne Thomas Gilchrest, a Republican, represented the 1st district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1991-2009. He lost a primary race to Andy Harris in 2008, and later endorsed Harris's opponent, Frank Kratovil (D) in the general election.
- 1 Record and controversies
- 2 Bio
- 3 Money in politics
- 4 Committees and Affiliations
- 5 More Background Data
- 6 Articles and resources
Record and controversies
Iraq War
Gilchrest voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 that started the Iraq War.[1]
Rep. Gilchrest was one of only two Republicans in the House to vote for the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007 (H.R.1591), the Iraq supplemental spending bill, which included a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq. The measure passed both the House and Senate, but was vetoed by the President.
Following the veto, when the House considered a short-term Iraq funding bill without timetables, Jones again was one of only two Republicans to vote in favor on of the measure. It passed the House on May 10 by a vote of 221-205. It was later passed by the Senate and signed by the President.
- Main article: U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (H.R.2206)
Environmental record
For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal
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|H.AMDT.1045 to H.R. 5818
|May 8, 2008
|To clarify that illegal and undocumented immigrants are ineligible for financial assistance. See more here
|Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (S. 2739)
|April 29, 2008
|To apply federal immigration laws to the Northern Mariana Islands, to provide the Northern Mariana Islands a delegate in the House, to create heritage areas, and to establish wilderness preservation. See more here
|Department of Homeland Security Appropriations (H.R. 2638)
|June 15, 2007
|To allocate $40.19 billion to the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008. See more here
|Immigration Law Enforcement Act of 2006 (H.R. 6095)
|September 21, 2006
|To allow state and local officials inherent authority to assist in the enforcement of immigration laws, to provide for effective prosecution of alien smugglers, and to reform immigration litigation procedures. See more here
|Secure Fence Act of 2006 (H.R. 6061)
|September 14, 2006
|To authorize the construction of an additional 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S and Mexico and to grant the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to take necessary measures to stop illegal entry of immigrants into the U.S. See more here
|REAL ID Act of 2005 (H.R. 418)
|February 10, 2005
|To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and to grant the Secretary of Homeland Security the power to set minimal security standards for state driver licenses and identification cards. See more here
- See Project Vote Smart For more information on his Immigration voting record.
Gilchrest was born in Rahway, New Jersey on April 15, 1946. After graduating high school in 1964, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. His tour of duty saw action during the invasion of the Dominican Republic, and ultimately the Vietnam War. He earned the rank of Sergeant in Vietnam where, as a platoon leader, he was wounded in the chest. Wayne was decorated with the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Navy Commendation Medal. Today he is a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Military Order of the Purple Heart.
In 1969, he studied liberal arts at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, where he received an associate degree. He then spent a semester in Kentucky studying rural poverty in Appalachia. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree in history from Delaware State College in 1973. Since then, he has done some work towards a master's degree at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Congressional career
Gilchrest was elected to the first Congressional district of Maryland in 1991.
According to his House biography, "During his tenure in Congress, Wayne Gilchrest has emerged as a strong voice for fiscal responsibility and environmental protection. His consistent support for reducing federal spending and eliminating the deficit has won him accolades from many taxpayer watchdog groups since his first term in 1991. He also has dedicated his attention to protecting and preserving the delicate environment of the Chesapeake Bay region, and to enhance and encourage economic development within the 1st District of Maryland to improve the quality of life." [1]
2006 elections
In 2006, the Democrats nominated Jim Corwin to face Gilchrest in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006) [2] Gilchrest retained his seat.
2008 elections
After nine terms in office, the incumbent Gilchrest lost the Republican primary to state Senator Andy Harris on February 12, 2008.[2] Gilchrest and fellow Maryland congressman Albert Wynn are the first two incumbents of the 2008 election season to lose their seats in a primary. [3]
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- Personal finance profile for Wayne Gilchrest from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
Committees and Affiliations
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
- Subcommittee on Railroads
- House Committee on Natural Resources
- Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans
Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)
- House Committee on Resources
- Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation Wildlife and Oceans - Chair
- Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health
- House Committee on Science
- Subcommittee on Environment Technology and Standards
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Coalitions and Caucuses
- Republican Main Street Partnership
- Its My Party Too
- The Republican Majority For Choice
- Republicans For Environmental Protection
Boards and other Affiliations
- American Legion
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Military Order of the Purple Heart.
More Background Data
Wikipedia also has an article on Wayne Gilchrest. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.
Articles and resources
- Official website
- Campaign website
- Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database
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Local blogs and discussion sites
- Lyndsey Layton and Jonathan Weisman, "GOP Expects Defections as House Debates Iraq Resolution," Washington Post, February 12, 2007: "'Every time I go to another funeral, every time I go to Walter Reed, people are really gracious, but what do you say? What are we doing over there now?' asked Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.), whose Eastern Shore district has lost 23 service members in the war."
- Anne Flaherty, "Partisan lines drawn in House debate on Iraq. Bush says troops are counting on elected leaders to provide support," Associated Press (Baltimore Sun), February 14, 2007.
- Jonathan Weisman, "Bush losing Republicans over plan for Iraq war," Washington Post (The Seattle Times), February 15, 2007.
- David Espo, "GOP Opposition to Bush Plan Forms," Associated Press (ABC News), February 15, 2007.
- Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman, "Four Clear Voices Rise Above the Din on Iraq," Washington Post, April 23, 2007.
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- ↑ Roll call vote, Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
- ↑ "2008 Primary Results," The Baltimore Sun, February 13, 2008.
- ↑ Kristen Wyatt, [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLL4mUzXAFNE7kd90h8Zq2uRe4-gD8UP8OLG0 "Anti-war Republican Loses Primary in Maryland"], "The Associated Press", February 13, 2008
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