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I agree that Gerrard has made the right decision to stay at Liverpool, especially as he would probably have rotated with Lampard if he had gone to Chelsea, they're so similar in style.If he is to stay, the squad must be strengthened though. I have three names for Rafa - Aimar, Essien & Makaay


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Suddenly there are 2 unknown online charges on my card, the robot-like Asian customer service people could not answer my questions because it was not on their script, they could not tell me where the charges came from and they would not forward me to an American Supervisor and refused to send me to the survey they offer at the end of the call and then disconnected my call. They said they could not tell me who made the first charge and could not block it (it was still pending).
I purchased another card to move my paycheck money into until I could get my direct deposit stopped. I paid $ 3 to open it and I received the permanent card yesterday and I received another monthly fee when I have only had the card 10 days. I called to dispute that and they did remove that second fee HOWEVER they get you coming and going on fees unless it is an automatic deposit and then THAT is WHEN YOUR NIGHTMARE BEGINS.!! Your paycheck is automatically deposited and you expect to get some cash, Right? DREAM ON!!
They have policies that restrict you from getting ANY of your HARD EARNED money in CASH!!!! These people running the Walmart Money Card show that NOW HAVE YOUR CASH are NON-AMERICANS, probably CHINESE because customer support is somewhere in Asia and they are using our funds to support them, because they certainly are not letting US have our money after we have made our deposit. In order to use the money I had on my one compromised card, I had to make an online purchase (even though the unauthorized charge was from an online purchase), I did that and had the card closed.
However when the second unauthorized purchase credited me back (after I called them and said it was unauthorized) I cant get that money and Walmart Money Card refuses to transfer it to my NEW Card I bought because of the unauthorized charges. They said they had to send me a check for the balanceChecks in the mailYea right, we will see if that happens. After I had my auto-deposit transferred to my replacement card, I went to get a money order for my house payment and some cash. Customer Service said they could do the money order but I could not access my payroll deposit and get cash, as it is against their policy.
After all this, my direct deposit finally ended and I had a balance of $24.25 on my card, I wanted nothing more than to clear that balance and close that card. Guess what ??? I COULD NOT!! I went to Walmart and TRIED to make a purchase of $44 and TRIED to use the $24.25 balance against that as a debit and it would not take it, DENIED. I tried to use it as a credit and it wouldnt take it, DENIED. I went to customer service to see if they could make it happen, they could not, DENIED, even though the available balance said $24.25.
They could not give me cash back, DENIED, they couldnt run it as a debit or a credit even though they clearly had printed notice that I had $24.25 available. I called the Asian customer service from their phone in Customer Service and after being told by the Non-American I had a temporary card, as it said on their script (which I did not, they obviously did not know what I was talking about (they are Chinese after all)), to which I asked for an American Supervisor, I was left on hold for 15 minutes until they hung up.
I wanted to call back but the Walmart Customer Service Desk said they could not tie up their only phone line with my calls to the Walmart Money Cards customer service and stated they have no control over any of that because they are Not Affiliated with them in any way, had nothing to do with the WALMART MONEY CARD people and made many apologies to that effect. The only way I was able to spend the $24.25 of my last payroll deposit was to pay it online against a utility bill, which I did and so far they have not denied it. I dont know ANYONE that needs that much hassle to get access to their paycheck!
WALMART is using the American Publics direct deposits to subsidize whatever support they are giving to China. Your deposit on a WALMART Money CARD is Going TO FOREIGNERS TO USE TO COLLECT THE INTEREST AND MAKE INVESTMENTS FROM, with our hard earned money, Overseas!!.. WALMART IS UN-AMERICAN FOR ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN!!!! They dont even support their widely advertised money cards and direct deposits.
Their customer service people, when pushed, say they have nothing to do with the Walmart Money Cards. Your deposits are going directly into Who knows Whos Bank and you will never see them again. Plus the cards dont work everywhere, try buying gas at midnight at Maverickit aint going to happen with this Walmart Money Card. Its a pain and could be life threatening in the dead of a Wyoming winter night with no gas to get you home!
ALL AMERICANS BEWARE of Walmart money cards. Walmart is undermining the financial stability of America with these actions and should be stopped. (This coming from a 12 yr Walmart supporter(when you move from the city to rural Wyoming, driving 60 miles to Walmart is the only place you can get groceries, home improvement, auto supplies and kids clothes all at once)).
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1 June 3038
The Fusiliers combat exercises at the Karakum Basin Proving Grounds had been called off and rescheduled, to no-one's surprise. The duel may have been legal but a man had still died. Enemy or not, only the most callous of individuals could witness such a violent death and brush it off as nothing. Nobody was in the mood for training. They returned to the city and tried to put the day's events behind them.
Everyone had been enormously relieved and grateful and happy that Garadun had survived, not able to fully relax until his Hunchback had marched back into the hangar and powered down. Cera greeted him with a long, tight hug, followed by the rest of their friends. Alexandra hugged him almost as long as Cera did, so relieved was she that he hadn't gotten himself killed. Garadun wasn't proud that he'd killed another human being. But he was content with the fact that one of his enemies was dead and therefore no longer a threat him or those he loved. And as far as he was concerned, to be totally honest, one less mindless bigot in the universe could only be a good thing.
One fact which had struck the rest of the Fusiliers, when they had time to think about it later, was that during the entire duel the Hunchback hadn't been hit even once. Not once. His opponent had been a capable marksman but Garadun had used distance, terrain, cunning and skilled manoeuvring to keep his 'Mech out of harm's way; and then time his assault to bring himself into point-blank range and blow the Awesome to bits. It was the kind of thing that really made a person think.
The rescheduled wargames took place the following week. As previously planned they started with the "hide and seek" scenario. A bit to Alexandra's surprise, Garadun and Cera actually kept to the parameters and didn't try to ambush their hunters. They went to ground and disappeared. Nobody found them. When asked how they evaded the search they simply replied, "You wanted us to hide. We hid."
The lance versus lance drills were exciting and a very good learning experience for everyone. By the end of the day every 'Mech was splattered with the colourful effects of the water-soluble paint rounds from Cera, Garadun, Sayuki and Sun-Lao's autocannons. Cera and Garadun proved to be as dangerous as Ian had warned. They were skilled and aggressive; not stupid but also not afraid of mixing it up. Cera's beloved Shinigami was as dreaded as Garadun's Hunchback (if not more) because it also sported a Tomodzuru Type 20 autocannon instead of the usual KaliYama Class 10 autocannon. And while the right arm of normal Orions ended in the long barrel of an Irian Weapons Works medium laser, Cera had had hers modified. The right arm of Shinigami ended in a proper forearm with an articulated hand. She had a medium laser mounted on the outside of the forearm. The left arm ended in an I.W.W. SRM-4 launcher like other Orions, and a Delta Dart LRM-10 rack in the left torso for long-range firepower. At 75 tons her Orion was the heaviest 'Mech in the unit.
Sun-Lao proved to be a lethal opponent as well. He was a skilled pilot and a good marksman, and his vintage Rifleman was just plain scary. It could fire all its weapons in a single volley (at a nice safe distance) and have virtually no heat build-up thanks to its double heat sinks, and its 11.5 tons of armour kept it in the fight a long time.
Bad Dog No Biscuits was yet another tough 'Mech. Thanks to the weight saved by having an extra-light engine, it also carried 11.5 tons of armour. It was fast, jump capable, and armed with a pair of Federated 10-Shot LRM missile systems. For in-fighting it had two ChisComp 39 medium lasers in each arm, having gotten rid of the two SRM-2 packs the 55-ton Dervish normally came with. Ian was as good as any of his lancemates and was working hard to improve.
Laura was in the same league as Ian and Sun-Lao, equally talented and determined, and her Griffin was a solid, all-around BattleMech. It was the House Steiner model and had undergone even further modification thanks to Jimmy. It now had a CASE system to protect the ammo for its Delta Dart LRM-10 launcher (sacrificing the centre torso jump jet for the added weight) and sported two additional tons of armour. There was a pistol-style Sunglow Type 2 large laser held it its right hand and a Diverse Optics Type 18 medium laser built into the centre torso.
Alexandra, Sayuki and Marie were the least accurate shots in the company, but that would improve in time. They were decent pilots though, and no-one could accuse them of lacking enthusiasm. Sayuki in particular had guts, in contrast to her normally sweet, feminine outward image. You couldn't lack sand if you fought in the arenas of Solaris. She was determined to honour the chance her oyabun and Garadun had given her, and to be a warrior her friends could rely on.
The wargames had been two days ago and it was now the start of June. Alexandra was meeting with a prospective employer at the Schwarzwaldstube, one of the city's most exclusive restaurants; it featured traditional German cuisine. Ian and Sayuki were off on a romantic date, something couples did on a Friday night. The rest of the Fusiliers had gone to the Black Jade Palace for dinner (the dumplings were said to be the best in the city) and they were planning to hit a nightclub afterwards.
That left Cera on her own. She'd had a stomach ache in the afternoon, so she turned down the invitation to join her friends at the Capellan restaurant. As wonderful as her suite at the Galatean Interstellar Hotel was, she was still alone and bored. She watched the vid for a while but it didn't help. Then the room's visphone rang. When she answered it there was no visual, only audio.
"Yes, hello?"
"Hey, Cera, it's me. You feeling any better? "
"Yeah, I'm better now. Thanks," she said, smiling. It was Garadun. He had this thing about never using the holoscreen on a visphone. "I thought you'd gone out with the others to that Capellan place."
"Nah. Food's okay, but I wasn't in the mood for a nightclub. You know me."
"Yeah, I know."
"Up for a bite to eat in the L&D? "
"I could manage something light," she said. "Fifteen minutes?"
"I'll come get you," he said and rang off.
There were a great number of women who required a lot more time than fifteen minutes to get ready for dinner in a posh restaurant, but Cera Kuroda wasn't one of them. Unless she was trying to impress some girl she was on a date with (or some other special occasion) she never bothered getting dolled up. Not to mention it was Garadun she was dining with. He never cared one way or the other; although he always insisted she was beautiful all the time, whatever she wore, and always complimented her when she wore something a bit dressier than usual. She checked the peephole when he knocked to be sure it was him, and then opened the door.
"Hi. Ready?" he asked.
"Let's go."
They got some looks in the elevator ride down from hotel guests who were far better dressed and far richer than either of them. Given that this was a normal day they wore normal clothes; which for them meant comfortable. Their attire was good enough to get them into the restaurant, but only just. Cera knew that Garadun, despite hotel regs, had his holdout pistol hidden on him somewhere. Unless forced not to, he always went armed. Always.
After seven weeks of them living in the hotel, Ellsworth Astor, the maître d' of the Lion and Dragon Steakhouse, knew the pair well. It was his job to be gracious and courteous and get along with the guests, but these two were always a pleasure to deal with. They never made a fuss, were never rude to the staff, were good tippers, and were nice and quiet and polite.
"Good evening, Miss Kuroda, Mr Morr. Your usual table?"
"If it's available, please," said Garadun.
"Right this way," said Astor and led them through the restaurant to a quiet corner that offered a good view of the rest of the room. They sat in their usual chairs with their backs to the wall; the latter was an ingrained habit. He passed them menus.
"Would you care for something to drink?"
"Nice big glass of orange juice for me, please," said Garadun without an ounce of shame. One thing he loved about the Lion and Dragon was that they had classic Terran food, including real orange juice.
"I'll just have some water, please," said Cera. "Wasn't feeling well today."
"I'm very sorry to hear that, Miss," said Astor sincerely and left them to their privacy. A waiter came by a few minutes later with their drinks.
"Any idea what you want?" Garadun asked, looking at the menu. The prices were outrageous. Meals were charged to their rooms and Alexandra was covering everything, but it still irked him that a simple onion soup cost 14 kroner.
"Maybe just a salad," she said with a sigh.
"You sure you're okay, sweetie?"
"I'm fine," she said, smiling gently. "I like it here."
"Yeah, me too." The Lion and Dragon was very old-fashioned with imported real wood furnishings and wall panelling, fine carpets and brass and marble. It was quiet and refined and dignified. When they were finally ready to order, Cera had a green salad and Garadun a beef filet mignon in peppercorn sauce. His steak cost 53 kroner and it was the least expensive one on the menu.
They both left generous tips and then made their way back up to Garadun's suite. As they came in they were greeted by excited miaows when Wasp and Stinger came running out of the bedroom and across the floor, curling around their daddy's legs and pawing at him. He picked them up and they miaowed their high-pitched kitten cries and purred their little hearts out. He stroked and kissed them, then set them down.
"Okay, dinner," he said, smiling, and they kept miaowing as they scampered along at his feet to where their bowls were. He opened a foil packet of kitten chow and filled their food bowl. They dug in hungrily.
"Now that makes me feel better," said Cera adoringly as she flopped onto the sofa and watched the kittens eat.
"A great cure for what ails you," he agreed, smiling.
Garadun went and got a bottle of water and topped off their water bowl. He disappeared into the washroom and Cera could hear him cleaning out their litter box, flushing the contents down the toilet. He came back and sat with her. When the kittens had finally had their fill, they wiped their faces and then climbed onto his and Cera's laps, purring like fusion engines and eager for attention. They got plenty.
"Any idea when we'll find work?" Cera asked.
Garadun shook his head. "Hope it's soon. Having the whole company stay here is costing Alexandra a fortune. Then there's spaceport fees, maintenance, the wargames weren't exactly cheap
I know she wants the best for us, but in all honesty she's got to be more practical."
"I know, but what can we do? She's the commander."
"Yeah, but she's got to learn to be more
economical. Making sure we've got all the parts and equipment we need, that's fine. That makes sense and it's a good investment. But she shouldn't have us staying in luxury hotels and sending you girls on shopping sprees and all the rest of it. We're mercs, not some royal outing."
"Gar, it's her money."
"Which will run out if she keeps on like this," he argued. "And then where will we be? She's rich, okay. But she should be using that money as a cushion to fall back on in case things go sour. Not spending it needlessly."
Cera stroked Wasp and pursed her lips. "I see your point."
"The last thing we want, and I mean the absolute last thing we want, is to wind up on the company store," he said forcefully.
"What's that?"
"The 'company store' is when a mercenary unit gets nailed by high repair costs. They take too much damage and can't afford to fix their 'Mechs. More and more of what should be profit instead goes to paying for maintenance and you get into a downward spiral. Next thing you know your House employer steps in to 'help out', but what's really going on is you getting deeper in debt with them. Before you know it you're in so deep that you gotta do whatever they say just to keep going. Which makes you House troops in all but name. It's happened to a lot of merc units."
Cera looked horrified.
"Yeah, exactly."
"Gar, you've gotta talk to Alexandra. She listens to you."
"I've tried. She won't move us out of the hotel. Since we're already here, she thinks it'll make her look bad if we switch to a less expensive place."
"That's stupid. She's a great leader. She looks out for everybody."
"I know, I told her that. She's afraid of disappointing the unit."
"There's no way she can do that. We're almost like family now."
"Well, then you try talking to her," he suggested. "Maybe if she hears it from you as well, she'll change her mind."
"All right, I will. Tomorrow."
"Good, thanks."
Cera gave him a sidelong glance. "So what about you two?"
"You and Alexandra. When you got back from your duel she was really glad to see you in one piece," Cera observed with a smirk. "She even kissed you."
"On the cheek," he said, giving her one of his looks. "There's nothing there."
"Are you sure?" she said gently, no longer teasing. "Alexandra does like you."
"As a friend, nothing more."
"And you?"
"Alexandra's great, and she's beautiful and everything, and god yes but no. Like all women it's just friends. And she's royalty. At some point she'll wanna continue the family line. You know I don't want nothing to do with kids."
Cera sighed. "What about Marie or Laura?"
"They might not be royals, but like Alexandra they're young and beautiful, and beautiful young women do not want guys like me, especially ones older than they are. I'm fifteen years older than Marie, seven for Laura. They want guys like Ian."
"Cera, please," he said and she could hear the weariness in his voice. The topic was beginning to get to him.
"Sorry," she said, and reached over and gave his hand a squeeze. The subject closed, he looked down and smiled at Stinger who'd rolled onto her back and was playing with his fingers. That level of cuteness helped chase away the blues.
The issue of continuing to stay at the expensive Galatean Interstellar Hotel was brought up by both Cera and Garadun the next day while having breakfast with Alexandra in her suite. The luxurious setting and overpriced room service meals were examples they used to make their arguments.
Alexandra was forced to accept that they had a point. She was also concerned about expenses but had felt trapped by her decision to stay at the Interstellar. They assured her that the Fusiliers wouldn't think any less of her if they moved to more economical accommodations. They were part of a mercenary unit, not tourists holidaying at some tropical resort. Only Ian had grown up with such opulence and he no longer cared, having chosen a different life for himself.
But although Alexandra agreed with them, she said the move might not be needed. The meeting she'd had had been a positive one. The gentleman she'd spoken with was Sir Henry Albern, a representative of Duke Josef Sheridan, ruler of Kolovraty. The world was part of the Lyran Commonwealth and lay on the very edge of the realm's Periphery March, literally the last coreward system in the March. The planet had a small local militia but no other forces to defend it. It was as far from rival Successor States as you could hope for, but sitting as it did on the edge of known space with nothing but the wild Deep Periphery at its back made it a target for pirates.
There were LCAF troops (or mercenaries in House Steiner's employ) based at nearby systems, but by the time help arrived at least a month would have passed (at the earliest) and any raiders would be long gone and the damage done. The Duke wanted BattleMech forces for his world but his many appeals for help had been denied by the LCAF High Command. So he decided to hire some mercenaries himself and sent his aid, Sir Henry Albern, all the way to Galatea to find the support they needed.
Alexandra was very excited. The contract being offered was just the kind of thing she had been looking and hoping for: garrison duty with a good cause behind it. That it was in her own Lyran Commonwealth was a bonus. Yet she was still a businesswoman and hadn't agreed to anything yet. She'd taken a copy of the contract with her for her "legal people" to look over before she signed it.
Those people were of course Cera and Garadun. With their experience on Solaris they were the ones who'd be able to spot unwanted loopholes or provisions. She produced the contract and passed it over for scrutiny. Her friends examined it very carefully and with the guarded wariness acquired on the Game World, where money was everything.
"Pay's not bad," Garadun remarked.
"At least our salaries will finally be coming out of someone's else's pocket instead of Alexandra's," Cera added. "What's the support percentage?"
"Says here
sixty percent. Gotta get that way higher."
Cera pointed. "Battle loss compensation is only twenty percent. No way."
"Yeah, that needs to increase big time," he agreed.
"There's transport compensation," Alexandra supplied and they looked at her. "The Duke is offering to pay twenty-seven percent of our DropShip's value as a flat fee to cover our travel expenses. And thirty percent of JumpShip transport costs. That's fifteen thousand kroner per jump to reach Kolovraty. Since I own our JumpShip, that's money going directly into the Fusiliers' coffers."
"That's not bad at all," said Cera.
Garadun nodded. "But get the DropShip fee bumped to an even thirty."
"And the support and battle loss have to be upped, a lot," Cera added, looking at Alexandra. "We shouldn't have to pay to fix our own 'Mechs while defending them."
Garadun scanned some more pages. "Salvage rights
exchange only?"
"What's that mean?" Cera asked.
"That means whatever we defeat goes to the Duke and not us, and he pays us cash for the estimated value of the salvage."
"That's not so bad."
"Yeah, but if we defeat some choice 'Mech like a Victor or something, he gets it."
"Whaddaya mean, so? That's a sweet prize."
"After we're done with it? Besides, even if it's still fairly intact, you want some drek a pirate's been using? Who knows what might be wrong with it."
"Mmm, yeah, there's a point," he said, rubbing his chin. He flipped another page, his eyes searching. He stopped when he found what he was looking for.
"What's wrong?" Alexandra asked.
"Says here under the section concerning command rights of our mission, the Fusiliers will be assigned a liaison, an observer, who'll be there to assure that our 'employer's interests' are met. That means a bureaucrat in our face."
"Sir Henry assures me that I will have full authority to command the Fusiliers as I see fit," Alexandra explained. "The liaison won't be giving advice, only reporting back."
"Bloody bureaucrats," Garadun muttered.
"Sir Henry says that clause is non-negotiable," she told them. "I can live with it. If I can negotiate an increase in the compensation you mentioned, do you think the contract is a good one? It's for a year's garrison duty with an option to renew if we want."
Garadun took a breath and let it out slowly, then went over the contract again, page by page. He then passed it to Cera who also reviewed it. This took some time.
"I think we should take it," Cera announced at last. "After all, we are a new, untested unit and a small one at that, not even full company size. We can't be too picky. The pay and compensation are pretty fair if we get the increases we want."
Garadun handed over the papers. "Final decision is yours, Alexandra."
Alexandra sighed in relief. "I'll tell Sir Henry we accept."
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Very, very detailed review on contracts and payments! Also like the fact that the hero is no "bedder" - as in "Hey, hot women!"
Contracts ~ the lifeblood of any merc unit
And yeah, Gar is definitely not a ladies' man
And yeah, Gar is definitely not a ladies' man
I do hope that Garudan and Alexandra get together. Or him and Laura or Marie, now that I think about it. Maybe young Marie would develop a crush on Garudan?
Time will tell, so no spoilers
Oh, and it's Garadun, not Garudan
Thanks for the fave
Oh, and it's Garadun, not Garudan
Thanks for the fave
I like the chapter ... was a nice follow-up to the duel


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That would be, "Lice in 6th Grade."
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A Hillary Clinton presidential victory promises to usher in a new age of public misogyny.
Get ready for the era of The Bitch.
If Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November, it will be a historic moment, the smashing of the preeminent glass ceiling in American public life. A mere 240 years after this nation's founding, a woman will occupy its top office. America's daughters will at last have living, breathing, pantsuit-wearing proof that they too can grow up to be president.
A Clinton victory also promises to usher in four-to-eight years of the kind of down-and-dirty public misogyny you might expect from a stag party at Roger Ailes's house.
You know it's coming. As hyperpartisanship, grievance politics, and garden-variety rage shift from America's first black commander-in-chief onto its first female one, so too will the focus of political bigotry. Some of it will be driven by genuine gender grievance or discomfort among some at being led by a woman. But in plenty of other cases, slamming Hillary as a bitch, a c**t (Thanks, Scott Baio!), or a menopausal nut-job (an enduringly popular theme on Twitter) will simply be an easy-peasy shortcut for dismissing her and delegitimizing her presidency.
The talk-radio host claims that he never took Donald Trump seriously on immigration. He neglected to tell his immigration obsessed listeners.
For almost a decade, I've been angrily documenting the way that many right-wing talk-radio hosts betray the rank-and-file conservatives who trust them for information. My late grandmother was one of those people. She deserved better than she got. With huge platforms and massive audiences, successful hosts ought to take more care than the average person to be truthful and avoid misinforming listeners. Yet they are egregiously careless on some days and willfully misleading on others.
And that matters, as we'll come to see.
Rush Limbaugh is easily the most consequential of these hosts. He has an audience of millions. And over the years, parts of the conservative movement that ought to know better, like the Claremont Institute, have treated him like an honorable conservative intellectual rather than an intellectually dishonest entertainer. The full cost of doing so became evident this year, when a faction of populists shaped by years of talk radio, Fox News, and Breitbart.com picked Donald Trump to lead the Republican Party, a choice that makes a Hillary Clinton victory likely and is a catastrophe for movement conservatism regardless of who wins.
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Facebook set a new land-speed record for situational irony this week, as it fired the people who kept up its "Trending Topics" feature and replaced them with an algorithm on Friday, only to find the algorithm promoting completely fake news on Sunday.
Rarely in recent tech history has a downsizing decision come back to bite the company so publicly and so quickly.
Facebook must now decide how best to run the Trending feature, which has been a headache since its human editors faced anti-conservative bias accusations this spring. The company has yet to respond to my multiple inquiries about this incident, but in a blog post on Friday announcing the change, it said: "A more algorithmically driven process allows us to scale Trending to cover more topics and make it available to more people globally over time."
The San Francisco quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner—and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived.
It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois––scholar, activist, and black radical––first noticed The Veil that separated him from his white classmates in the mostly white town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He and his classmates were exchanging "visiting cards," invitations to visit one another's homes, when a white girl refused his.
"Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows," Du Bois wrote in his acclaimed essay collection, The Souls of Black Folk. "That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads."
Practices meant to protect marginalized communities can also ostracize those who disagree with them.
Last week, the University of Chicago's dean of students sent a welcome letter to freshmen decrying trigger warnings and safe spaces—ways for students to be warned about and opt out of exposure to potentially challenging material. While some supported the school's actions, arguing that these practices threaten free speech and the purpose of higher education, the note also led to widespread outrage, and understandably so. Considered in isolation, trigger warnings may seem straightforwardly good. Basic human decency means professors like myself should be aware of students' traumatic experiences, and give them a heads up about course content—photographs of dead bodies, extended accounts of abuse, disordered eating, self-harm—that might trigger an anxiety attack and foreclose intellectual engagement. Similarly, it may seem silly to object to the creation of safe spaces on campus, where members of marginalized groups can count on meeting supportive conversation partners who empathize with their life experiences, and where they feel free to be themselves without the threat of judgment or censure.
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Like a little white Lazarus with red eyes, the paralyzed mouse was walking again.
A few days earlier, the mouse had been sprawled on an operating table while two Chinese graduate students peered through a microscope and operated on its spine. With a tiny pair of scissors, they removed the top half of a fingernail-thin vertebra, exposing a gleaming patch of spinal-cord tissue. It looked like a Rothko, a clean ivory rectangle bisected by a red line. Cautiously—the mouse occasionally twitched—they snipped the red line (an artery) and tied it off. Then one student reached for a $1,000 scalpel with a diamond blade so thin that it was transparent. With a quick slice of the spinal cord, the mouse's back legs were rendered forever useless.
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like. Here's why that's disastrous for education—and mental health.
Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in "that violates the law") lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she'd sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. "I'm a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me," the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan's article in this month's issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can't take a joke.
As pay TV slowly declines, cable news faces a demographic cliff. And nobody has further to fall than the merchant of right-wing outrage.
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October 7, 2016, will be the 20th birthday of the Fox News Channel, and at the moment, the network is experiencing the soap-operatic highs and lows typical of any teenager on television. In many ways, the summer of 2016 may go down in Fox News history as the company's nadir. Its founder and leader Roger Ailes has been dishonorably dispatched, the remaining executives are dealing with a flurry of sexual harassment lawsuits, and one of its most public faces, Sean Hannity, has ignominiously remodeled himself as a gutless Trump whisperer.
And yet Fox News' fortunes are ascendant, at least in the most quantifiable sense. The network's annual profit in 2015 soared by about 20 percent. For the first time ever, Fox News has been the most-watched cable network among both primetime and daytime viewers for several months, with a larger audience than its nominal rivals, CNN and MSNBC, combined. Led by "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News doesn't just have the best-rated news show on cable television; according to The Wrap, it has the 13 best-rated news shows on cable television.
The meaning of HBO's hypnotic miniseries lay in its characters' eyes.
One of the most memorable images of The Night Of, the now-concluded HBO miniseries that seemed only to ever deal in memorable images, was among its simplest. In Sunday's finale, the lawyer John Stone (John Turturro) presented his client Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed) with the difficult decision of whether to report his other lawyer, Chandra (Amara Karan), for kissing Naz. Doing so could result in a mistrial—which could be a good thing for Naz, but would ruin Chandra's career.
Naz said almost nothing as he listened to Stone. But his eyes were steadily focused, glassy, reflecting the white light of a window across the room. "What do you care, you like her like you like Andrea?" Stone asked, referring to Chandra and the woman Naz is accused of killing. He told Naz to think about looking in the mirror, 20 years from now, regretting his choice today.
Bernie Sanders never showed up, and former staffers at Our Revolution believe the organization's 501(c)(4) status hurt Debbie Wasserman Schultz's primary challenger.
The political revolution has let Tim Canova down. Bernie Sanders hasn't shown up to campaign for his chosen primary challenger to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee. Heading into a Florida Democratic primary on Tuesday, Canova is behind by double digits in recent polling and looks likely to lose the race.
But that's only part of the story. Former staffers at Our Revolution, the organization created to act as a successor to the Sanders campaign, believe the group did not do as much as it should have to help Canova in his bid to defeat the veteran Florida congresswoman.
A number of staffers who resigned from Our Revolution in protest over how it has been run say the organization's 501(c)(4) status made it impossible to coordinate strategy with the Canova campaign, leaving the campaign worse off as a result. At least some departing staffers believe the organization should be set up under a different legal structure so that it can coordinate with candidates it endorses in the future and do more to help them win.
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I used the bids to win a $15 Itunes card for $.37. When I tried to pay the 37 cents online I was given the "opportunity" to purchase a "super package" of bids for either; $59, $79 or $99. Their site wouldn't allow me to uncheck all three. You had to select one to continue.
Since I didn't want to buy any more bids, I used their customer support chat line. "Laura" told me to call customer service, they'd be happy to help me. I told her I'd rather take care of it online she again said to call them. I told her that was ridiculous I should be able to pay online.
In again texting me to call customer service "Laura" wrote: " the idea is to find the inconvenient" within the message she sent me. I wrote back: 'Are you try to make this as difficult as possible?' She again replied to call customer service.
I called customer service but they couldn't find my account. He asked my name and email address three or four time. I spelled everything for him, he still couldn't find the account. Tried using my phone number, still couldn't find it.
Customer service told me to go ahead and order for $29 or $39 then request a refund. I refused and asked to speak to a supervisor. I was never able to speak to a supervisor and I eventually hung up.
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After a long and hopeful struggle, many hours of volunteer labor, and many happy interactions with our community, it is with heavy hearts that we announce that ATL must close its storefront.
- We, like most startups, have had ongoing cash-flow problems.
- We have worked hard to reduce our expenses (successfully), and increase our sales revenue (unsuccessfully).
- Not only have sales in our second year not grown, but they continue to fall short of first-year sales, and have not risen as expected since the slower summer months.
- The bottom line is that our sales revenue remains insufficient to meet our expenses — a situation no business can withstand indefinitely.
- These factors together make it impossible to continue storefront operations.
- ATL's last day open is Sunday, October 18.
- Producer members should collect their products from the store during the following week (Oct 19-23):
- Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Wed & Thursday, 6:00-8:00 PM
- This timing may feel abrupt to some, but:
- We have worked openly, through appeals and marketing, long and hard, to prevent and delay this outcome.
- Because we do not own our stock, to remain open for a protracted period (with both cash-flow issues and a known closing date) would do a disservice to our producers.
- Waiting longer would only compound the problem.
- Because our liabilities exceed our assets, unsecured creditors will not be made whole.
While this novel ATL experiment has not proven to be financially sustainable in this place and time, IT'S BEEN A GREAT RUN, and we can celebrate significant positive impacts:
- We have strengthened our community by directly supporting our many producer members, to the tune of $750,000 — our primary mission!
- We have helped to educate our community about the benefits and practical realities of creating local livelihoods.
- We have contributed to the valley-wide growth in interest in re-localization.
Thank you for all your support!
Please continue to support your community of wonderful local producers at:
- Amherst Farmers' Market
- Amherst Winter Farmers' Market
- Your nearest CSA
- Grow Food Amherst
CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture)
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As far as I know, parking is pretty decent unless there is a football game, then you don't want to leave your spot.
There is a plenty of parking space within the campus and its walking distance to the class. Only five minutes. The permit cost also affordable.
The cost of parking on the campus is affordable.
Parking on campus near the class buildings is pretty great normally, though if you are late good spots will most likely be filled. Parking on campus for the dorms is a bit of a toss up. Depending on the specific dorms, parking can be great like in the newer dorms, but if you live in the older dorms, parking can be a nightmare, and you may have to park a little ways from the dorms.
The campus has plenty of parking for every student, teacher, and guest. But if you want to get close to your class you should get there a little early. Parking lots near dorms are always full up, unless it is the weekend, but even then there are a few places to park if you don't mind a bit of a walk.The largest parking area is by the Science building, it's close to the Science building, or the cafeteria, depending on where you park. If you park there though you should consider bringing an umbrella or sunscreen for the walk.
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Marnicq Bervoets
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|Marnicq Bervoets
|21 June 1969 (age 47)
Paal, Belgium
|Motocross career
|Years active
|1990 - 2004
|Suzuki, Yamaha
Marnicq Bervoets (born 21 June 1969 in Paal), is a Belgian former professional motocross racer.
Bervoets was one of the top motocross competitors in the 1990s. Riding for the Suzuki factory team, he finished second to perennial champion Stefan Everts three times in the F.I.M. 250cc motocross world championships from 1995 to 1997. He switched to the Yamaha factory racing team and moved to the 500cc class, finishing in second place in 2000 and third in 2001.[1] Bervoets was a member of three winning Belgian teams at the Motocross des Nations.
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told him I wished he could understand English, that I might give him a book (I meant Chillingworth) where he would see a man of our Church, of great learning and piety, of no interest nor passion, to have changed three times, and giving the reasons every time for so doing. (Singer, 1.597)His acquaintance with such disputes was to stand him in good stead when James II tried to convert him to Catholicism. His ecumenical activities during his embassy included interceding with John Sobieski, on Charles's instructions, on behalf of Polish protestants (when he finally reached the Polish king in October). Subsequently a peace was negotiated between Poland and the Turks in which, according to Robert South, who accompanied Hyde as his chaplain, he had no small share of the management (South, 23).
to introduce him into those kinds of characters and employments; and so advised him to go back to Nijmegen, which he did, and made a part of the Ambassy during a short stay there, but excused himself from entering into the management of any conferences or dispatches. (ibid., 242)Hyde stayed at the conference for two or three weeks and then went to England.
In the previous parliament Hyde had not spoken on the Exclusion Bill, though he had voted against it, but in 1680 he emerged as one of the leading court speakers, contributing no fewer than fourteen speeches to the debates on exclusion. Thus on 21 October he came out in favour of such limitations as may secure the Protestant religion, and on 11 November urged that exclusion could not be made binding, for there was a loyal party which will never obey, but will think themselves bound by their oaths of allegiance and duty, to pay obedience to the Duke, if ever he should come to be King, which must occasion civil war (An Essay, 10, 13). On 7 January 1681 the opposition passed a resolution for his removal from the king's service along with four peers, including his brother Henry, the earl of Clarendon. This incident deeply affected him, reducing him to tears. It apparently led him to resolve to lower his profile, for he did not stand for election to the third Exclusion Parliament, and apparently advised its early dissolution. By then he was in a position to assure Charles II that he could manage without parliamentary supply. Although the royal finances were taking a turn for the better largely because of a growth in overseas trade, which boosted the customs, they were also benefiting from Hyde's measures at the Treasury. Severe pruning of expenses had cut expenditure, while efforts to increase revenue, such as abandoning tax farming, were showing dividends. Every little helped, including the subsidy from Louis XIV which was seen by earlier historians as the worst act of his political life (DNB). Hyde's prudent management of the king's finances presumably account for his being raised to the peerage as Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in April 1681, and earl of Rochester in November 1682. His favour with Charles led Dryden to praise him in Absalom and Achitophel as Hushai, the friend of David in distress, whose frugal care supply'd the wanting throne (part 1, lines 88897).Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory [Hyde's nickname]
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'Twill turn all Politics to jests.(J. P. Kenyon, Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, 1958, 35n.)
I never knew a man that was so soon put into a passion, that was so long before he could bring himself out of it, in which he would say things that were never forgot by any body but himself; therefore he had always more enemies than he thought he had; though he had as many professedly so, as any man of his time. (Bishop Burnet's History, 1.474)At this time they included the marquess of Halifax, who charged Rochester with peculation in the hearth tax to the tune of £40,000, even accusing him of tearing pages out of the accounts to cover his tracks. In August Rochester was removed from the Treasury commission and kicked upstairs to the post of lord president. Shortly afterwards the duke managed to obtain for him the lord lieutenancy of Ireland but Rochester never went to Dublin and early in 1685 the charges of peculation were being pressed so hard that there were rumours he would be sent to the Tower. Rochester himself meditated on the vanity of human wishes in a memoir written on the anniversary of his daughter's death in January 1686. He recorded how he had then contemplated retirement from public life because of his private affliction, not mentioning the accusations he was then facing. In the midst of his distress came the sudden and unexpected news that Charles II had died. By the favour of the duke of York, now James II, Rochester was:
immediately snatched out of these peaceable and quiet intentions and contemplations, to attend him and his service in the entering on the throne, and quickly after was translated in my own person into a more eminent and splendid station in the world than I had seen before. (Singer, 1.174)On the accession of James, Rochester became lord treasurer and in June 1685 was made a knight of the Garter. This was the high point of his career. The defeat of the duke of Monmouth's rebellion that summer, however, marked a change in the king's attitude towards the Anglican church, of which Rochester emerged as one of the chief defenders. Rochester dated the withdrawal of the king's favour from the day of Monmouth's execution in July. Convinced that providence was on his side James demanded concessions from Anglicans to his fellow Catholics. Thus he requested parliament's approval of the continuation of commissions he had given to Catholics in the army raised to suppress the rebels. When parliament refused he prorogued it in November. Rochester's reaction to these developments can only be surmised. He was probably not in favour of the commissions to Catholics, since the earl of Sunderland chose this moment to begin his intrigue at court to undermine him. Thereafter Rochester was involved in a rearguard action to forestall his own fall from the king's grace. He apparently cultivated Catharine Sedley, the king's mistress, who was so much in the ascendant early in 1686 that James had her made countess of Dorchester. This did little to endear Rochester to the queen, who was Sunderland's main ally at court. Something of the strain Rochester was undergoing might be detected behind his extraordinary display of public drunkenness in the company of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys in February 1686, when they stripped into their shirts, and had not an accident prevented had gott upon a sign-post to drinke the King's health (The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ed. A. Browning, 2nd edn, ed. M. Geiter and W. A. Speck, 1991, 411). Although Jeffreys was a notorious drunkard, Rochester, albeit a heavy drinker, was not. In the summer of 1686 he joined the commission for ecclesiastical causes, an action later laid against him by his opponents; even his brother Clarendon criticized his membership, and hoped he would not use it to harm the church. His supporters excused it on the grounds that he sought to use his membership to protect the church from greater damage. James then sought to convert Rochester to Catholicism, for which purpose a disputation was held in December between Anglican divines chosen by Rochester and Catholic priests selected by the king. Rochester professed to have been unconvinced by the arguments of the priests. James had tested his loyalty to the limit, and on 4 January 1687 he was dismissed from the treasurership. The king sweetened the pill with a pension of £4000 a year out of the Post Office and grants of land valued at £20,000. Three months later, Rochester lost his wife: Countess Henrietta died on 12 April and was buried four days later in Westminster Abbey.
in the latter part of King William's reign he had also the chief direction of Scotch affairs. That Prince had a wonderful esteem for his Lordship, and even courted his friendship, giving him frequent visits at his charming seat in Petersham. (An Essay, 24)There is no strictly contemporary evidence to support these claims. On the contrary, Rochester advocated foreign policies diametrically opposed to those of the king, which did not endear him to William. Thus he recommended the acceptance of Carlos II's will, which would have given the whole of the Spanish empire to the Bourbon claimant. Such appeasement of Louis XIV led to Rochester's dismissal from the lord lieutenancy on 25 January 1702. When William died and Anne succeeded on 8 March, however, Rochester retained the post since his commission was never superseded (bishop of Clogher to Bishop King, 12 March 1702, TCD, Lyons collection, 888). By then war had broken out, so that advocacy of appeasement was no longer feasible. Rochester did, however, on one of his rare attendances at the cabinet, promote a tory blue water policy against Marlborough's insistence on continental strategy. He had consistently advocated such a policy since 1692, and enshrined it in the preface to the first volume of his father's History of the Rebellion which he saw through the press in 1702: this Kingdom cannot be useful to the common cause in any other way so much as at sea (p. ix). Rochester developed this argument about strategy to point a finger at Marlborough:
The perpetual jealousy that, some time or other, endeavours may be used by the increase of land forces, to advance another greatness, and another interest, will fix the genius of the nation still to depend on its greatness and its security by sea. (p. x)He even used his influence with tories in the Commons to oppose a grant to Marlborough of £5000 from the Post Office. Rochester was perhaps relying on his relationship with Queen Anne to influence her counsels, but even though he was the queen's uncle, if there is any truth in Lady Marlborough's story that he had taken the side of his other niece, Mary, against Anne a decade earlierand Sarah's tales lost nothing in the tellingthen her decision to stick by the Marlboroughs had been effectively taken then too. At all events Anne took their side on this occasion, and in February 1703 ordered Rochester to go to Ireland. He preferred to resign the lieutenancy rather than obey.
The correspondence of Henry Hyde, earl of Clarendon, and of his brother Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochester, ed. S. W. Singer, 2 vols. (1828) · Bodl. Oxf., MSS Firth b. 1, b. 2 · Bodl. Oxf., Clarendon MSS · E. Hyde, earl of Clarendon, The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, 3 vols. (17024) · The true patriot vindicated (1701) · An essay towards the life of Laurence, earl of Rochester (1711) · C. Hickman, Fourteen sermons preach'd at St James' Church in Westminster (1700) · R. South, Posthumous works (1717) · W. Temple, Memoirs of what passed in Christendom from the war begun in 1672 to the peace concluded in 1679 (1692) · Bishop Burnet's History · HoP, Commons, 166090 · The parliamentary diary of Sir Richard Cocks, 16981702, ed. D. W. Hayton (1996) · GEC, Peerage
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Sometimes we need new eyes. A perspective shift that recalibrates our hearts to the rhythm of God's goodness surrounding us. To tune our hearts to better hear the music of the divine echoing throughout this world. That we might let that goodness seep into our bones and into our hearts so we can remember what it feels like to flourish.
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Celebrating Lavishly: Celebrating breathes life into our days. Could it be that commemorating moments might help us to become more alive, to remember what is good and become masterful at recognizing it? How would life change to regularly invite friends into our stolen moments with uninhibited dancing and the best food, while gathered around the biggest table with the deepest conversations? Lavish celebrations can be sacred markers that help remind us who we are.
Embracing Rest: Perhaps it is time to let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as a measure of worth. What if one of the most life-giving activities that would contribute to our flourishing is welcoming rhythms of rest and play into our lives? Creating healthy rhythms in our life is one way we nourish the weary spots in our soul.
Noticing Goodness: Could it be possible that we don't need new things but rather new eyes to see what we already have? What if we regained our sense of vision, an acute resolve to find hope in the cracks and mire of the mundane? Noticing what is good gives us the gift of perspective and reminds us the sacred is closer than we think.
We become more ourselves when we celebrate, rest and notice, and that looks a lot like flourishing. But this flourishing isn't the precious or exhausting kind. This is a fierce flourishing. It is a deep-in-your-guts experience of gratitude and hope compelling you to raise your hands and dance freer than you ever have before. It is a fierce protection of your most important moments, an invitation to rest and an opportunity to enjoy the people who are right in front of you.
This year at MOPS, may we become a home for found wanderers, redeemed prisoners, explorers at the edge of their comfort – all of us who were one-time captives now celebrating our unearned freedom, because we have regained the eyes to see. May this year unfold into radical expressions of your own unique Fierce Flourishing.
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Reposted from Workday Minnesota WASHINGTON - Unions and their allies, working both through ground troops and over the air, are pushing senators of both parties to approve the giant economic stimulus bill now moving through Congress.
In both a Jan. 29 press conference and a Jan. 30 teleconference, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, Change To Win Chair Anna Burger, Transportation Trades Department President Ed Wytkind and others also blasted House Republicans for their unanimous lockstep party-line vote against the $819 billion-plus plan.
The House approved the bill, 244-188, with all 177 House Republicans opposing it. The Senate vote is expected during the week of Feb. 2. Congressional Democratic leaders want to send a final version to President Barack Obama by Valentine's Day.
But unions and their allies must convince enough Senate Republicans to back it and stop a filibuster threat from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kent., and his Right Wing allies. The GOP needs only 41 votes to keep the talkathon going and kill the bill.
Obama has campaigned hard for the plan, which he says would create or preserve at least 3 million jobs and prevent unemployment, now 7.2%, from rising even more this year than economists forecast. Most forecasters call for jobless rates of 8% or above by the end of the year.
Approximately two-thirds of the bill's cost would be for programs to put people to work, including everything from sending Medicaid money to states – to keep workers on the job helping jobless people who have lost their health care – to rewiring the nation's federal and school buildings to make them more energy efficient. The other third is tax cuts, mostly to individuals to offset the bite payroll taxes take out of their paychecks.
As a result, the bill has drawn a wide range of support. For example, Terry Hatch of the National Electrical Contractors Association his group and the IBEW have a joint training program for hundreds of thousands of union members, preparing them to undertake such 'green' retrofitting.
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee said his members who are stumping for the stimulus are particularly emphasizing the Medicaid money. 'Their message is simple: This is hitting the states, too. Ohio, for example, has a $7 billion budget deficit, and you can just take that scenario all across the country,' he said.
Getting the Medicaid money into the hands of the states 'is the fastest turnaround of all the things in the stimulus package,' McEntee added.
That concern about how quickly the money can be used to create jobs is one argument the GOP is raising. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office calculated that 65% of the bill's funds would be spent by the end of September in 2010.
That's too slow, the GOP says. House Republicans argued – unsuccessfully – for dumping all the spending and approving only $475 billion, all for tax cuts for the rich and for businesses. That drew scorn from the unionists. McEntee called it the 'same old same old.' Burger said 'the Republicans didn't understand what was going on.'
McEntee noted one quarter of his 1.4-million-member union's members are registered Republicans. He said they're calling AFSCME headquarters in Washington, complaining about the House GOP's obstructionism.
Obama's stimulus plan, Burger said, is 'an economic recovery for Main Street, not Wall Street.' She criticized those 'financial barons who ran to the federal government' for aid after their own practices of 'running amok' caused the economic collapse. SEIU members and their colleagues in Change To Win are telling tales of lost jobs as they campaign for the stimulus package, Burger added.
'In New York, if you call a child abuse hotline, you're on hold for half an hour' because its staffers have been let go due to budget cuts. 'In Massachusetts, one-quarter of the personnel in mental health services are on a list to be laid off,' she said. Those jobs would be saved and restored by funding in the bill, Burger explained.
NECA's Hatch disputed the GOP's contention there aren't enough projects ready to employ construction workers. 'In New England alone, we have 12-14 major projects ready to go but they're stopped due to funds unpredictability,' he said. Len Simonson, chief economist for the union-friendly Associated General Contractors, said the bill's $148 billion for infrastructure would create 1.85 million jobs, including 660,000 construc-tion jobs. As of December, there were 1.522 million jobless construction workers.
Other speakers noted that with this recession underway since December 2007 and expected to last at least through this year, not all the infrastructure projects must start now. 'The economic downturn is a lot deeper and steeper than many people predicted just a few months ago,' said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. 'So as we put people back to work, we also want to make investments in the future,' through long-term projects.
They would include information technology in health care, and retrofitting school buildings while preserving teachers' jobs – thus letting them educate future generations.
CORRECTED name Terry Hatch Feb. 23, 2009.
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Walter Walsh, FBI agent and Olympian, dead at 106
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WASHINGTON - Walter R. Walsh, who captured gangsters as an FBI agent in the 1930s and went on to train Marine Corps snipers and become the longest-lived Olympian, has died.
Walsh died Tuesday at his home in Arlington, Virginia, his son Gerald Walsh confirmed Thursday. Walsh, who would have turned 107 on Sunday, had suffered a minor heart attack a few weeks ago and his health deteriorated, Gerald Walsh said.
Walsh, who first honed his shooting skills by picking clothespins off a clothesline with a BB gun as a child, began his FBI career in 1934 and was soon chasing gangsters across the United States. On one day in 1935, he helped capture gangster Arthur "Doc" Barker in Chicago and fatally shot a second gangster, Russell "Rusty" Gibson.
Two years later, Walsh was in Bangor, Maine, on the trail of the Brady Gang. Tipped off that the gang planned to return to a sporting goods store to stock up on weapons, the FBI set up a stakeout. Walsh's role was to pose as a salesman, and when gang member James Dalhover came inside, Walsh arrested him. He then confronted and fatally shot a second gang member, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr., but not before being hit in the chest and hand. Also killed in the shootout was Alfred Brady, the FBI's "Public Enemy number 1."
Walsh joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1938 and became active duty in 1942, training snipers in North Carolina. In 1948 he competed in the London Olympics, placing 12th in the men's 50-meter free pistol event at age 41. Though he didn't medal, Walsh went on to hold an Olympic record.
In 2013, at the age of 105 and 321 days, he set a record for longest-lived Olympian, eclipsing a record set by gymnast Rudolph Schrader. He was also the FBI's oldest retired agent.
Walsh was born May 4, 1907, in New Jersey. He got his first rifle, a .22-caliber Mossberg, when he was about 12 according to a profile in the American Rifleman. By the time he graduated from Rutgers University's law school he had won a series of honors. He continued to shoot until recently, his son said.
"Sunday if you could have got somebody to take him to the range he probably would have gone. The last thing he was shooting was shotgun because the pistol was getting a little hard for him to hold as steady as he used to," Gerald Walsh said.
In addition to his son Gerald, Walsh is survived by another son, Walter Walsh Jr., and three daughters: Kathleen Reams, Linda Walsh and Rosemary Haas. His wife, Kathleen Barber, predeceased him.
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