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Some state lawmakers want to change the rules about about who gets compensated after a meth lab bust.
But we're told that bill may be running out of time.
Senate Bill 204 would end reimbursements for meth lab cleanups through the state's Crime Victims Compensation Fund.
Lawmakers say the state paid more than $700,000 for meth lab claims last year.
That money was never reimbursed by the federal government.
Supporters say with money being tight, landlords should be responsible for cleaning up their property.
But critics think that's not fair.
"There's no other funds set aside just for cleanup. I would feel sorry for that person because insurance will not usually pick that up," says Sen. David Nohe. "Now, I think it would be a crime if somebody has a dilapidated building and they would rent that to someone they know possibly might do a meth lab. I feel they're as guilty as the person doing the lab and shouldn't be reimbursed in any way."
The bill did not reach the Senate floor during Monday morning's session.
It could be presented at the capitol during Monday night's session.
Senator Nohe says if not, the bill will likely die.

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Industry Agrees to 11% Energy Efficiency Improvements
A total of 51 industrial sectors in the UK, including steel, aerospace and farming have agreed to more ambitious energy efficiency improvement targets by 2020 as part of the voluntary Climate Change Agreements scheme.
The new commitments will deliver an overall 11 percent energy efficiency improvement across all industry sectors by the end of the decade against agreed baselines, according to the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change. Sector targets will be reviewed in 2016, the government agency said. The UK's Environment Agency will administer the new scheme.
The Climate Change Agreement scheme, which began earlier this month, provides an extension to the Climate Change Levy rebate for energy intensive industries until 2023 in return for meeting the new targets.
If all 51 industrial sectors meet their targets from 2013 to 2020, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 19 million metric tons and primary energy consumption would fall by about 100 TWh, the UK government agency said.
Eligible sectors can receive up to 90 percent reduction in the Climate Change Levy if they sign up for the voluntary energy efficiency improvement targets. Participants in the program also would save an estimated £300 million ($458 million) each year on the Climate Change Levy. The agency warned the estimated savings doesn't take into account the mineralogical and metallurgical industries' exemption from the Climate Change Levy announced in the budget last month.
The UK's Energy Bill, which went into effect last November, allows energy companies to increase the levy for low-carbon electricity from £2.35 billion in 2012-13 to £7.6 billion in in 2020-21. Thee government is considering exemptions for some energy intensive industries from energy-cost increases arising from new subsidies for wind farms, nuclear power stations and other forms of low-carbon energy. The Energy Bill, intended to move the UK to a "low-carbon economy," will cost £110 billion over 10 years.
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Union leaders had sharp words for the pro-business tilt of two U.S. Supreme Court rulings issued on the final day of the court's year, June 30.
In Harris vs. Quinn, the justices said that "free riders" among home health care workers, if employed by both the state involved and the caregiver, did not have to pay even "fair share" fees to cover the costs the union representing them incurs to negotiate a contract or enforce it.
That ruling could let thousands of "free riders" in more than 20 states nationwide get away with being represented without having to pay for it. Dissenting Justice Elena Kagan predicted there could be a mass exodus of union members, too.
In the Hobby Lobby case, the justices said a closely held private firm's owners could invoke their "freedom of religion" to bar contraceptive coverage for female workers under the Affordable Care Act. That ruling, dissenting justices said, would strip thousands of women of coverage and make them second-class citizens in terms of health care.
And dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned that the ruling is not limited to a contraceptive ban. The justices, she said, opened the way for firms to invoke religious reasons to defy other laws, including minimum wage laws and equal pay laws.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka criticized Harris and said unions would nevertheless continue organizing home health care workers. The Coalition of Labor Union Women blasted Harris, too, and called the Hobby Lobby ruling "discrimination against women and an attack on workers' right to basic health coverage."
Other union leaders offered similar comments:
Teamsters: The court "delivers a bruise to unions, not a KO," the Teamsters said of the Harris case. "A Koch-linked group brought the case before the court in an effort to take away collective bargaining rights for public sector employees. They failed."
Service Employees: Union President Mary Kay Henry, whose union organized and represented the workers in the Harris case, said the ruling wouldn't stop its organizing home health care workers nationwide.
"No court case is going to stand in the way of home care workers coming together to have a strong voice for good jobs and quality home care," she said. "At a time when wages remain stagnant and income inequality is out of control, joining together in a union is the only proven way home care workers have of improving their lives and the lives of the people they care for."
AFL-CIO: "The fate of workers cannot and will not be decided by one Supreme Court decision" in the Harris case, Trumka said. "The court upheld the right of public employees to have strong unions and workers will vigorously build on that foundation."
Communications Workers: The union pointed out that its state-employed home care workers in New Jersey, represented by Local 1037, have gone ahead and bargained a new contract that, among other benefits, provides additional pay for workers caring for children with special needs -- regardless of the court's ruling.
"This decision may affect hundreds of thousands of direct care workers from New York to California. The case was brought by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, whose goal is to eliminate all bargaining rights for U.S working women and men. That's completely out of step with every other global democracy," CWA said.
"It's ironic. Two-thirds of all U.S. public workers currently have no collective bargaining rights. The public policy question we should be considering is 'Why is the U.S. the only democracy in the world that is cutting workers' rights?'
"Direct care workers will continue to work to join together, bargain collectively and improve their lives," CWA concluded.
Teachers: AFT President Randi Weingarten said working women lost in both High Court rulings.
"More and more, it seems that the majority of the court better represents the interests of the Chamber of Commerce than it does the values and aspirations of working Americans," she said of Hobby Lobby.
"Workers' rights should not depend on whether their employer - while buying and selling to everyone regardless of religion - wants to limit their reproductive rights based on privately held religious beliefs. That this decision, which disproportionately affects women, coincides with Harris vs. Quinn, which limits rights of home healthcare workers in Illinois - the vast majority of whom are women - is a throwback to another age. Working families, especially working women, have lost here."
As for the Harris case, Weingarten said her union and others would go back to what brought them strength, despite the court: Organizing and advocacy.
"The Roberts court has consistently ruled in favor of corporate interests, while diminishing the rights of labor," she said. "This court has built a record of weakening the rights of both voters and working families; no one should be surprised by this decision.
"America's workers have gone through the crucible of tough times and adversity. That's why they formed America's labor movement. Workers did not start off with their rights being protected by government. We had to - and still must - organize ourselves, our families and others to secure good jobs, great public schools, prosperous communities and opportunity for all. While disappointed, AFT will do what we have always done: Redouble our efforts to empower and engage our members around the issues they care about and the work they do, and to serve as a strong voice for our communities, our democracy and opportunity for all."
AFSCME: President Lee Saunders said his union, which also includes tens of thousands of state and local home health care workers, would keep fighting for - and organizing - them, despite the Harris decision. Doing so is even more vital, he said, since the number of people needing care will rise sharply as the Baby Boom generation retires.
"Today's decision does not dampen the resolve of home care workers and child care providers to come together to have a strong voice for good jobs and to give care to millions of seniors, people with disabilities and children," Saunders explained.
"The ruling did not hand anti-worker extremists the victory they'd been hoping for because the court did not revoke collective bargaining rights for public service workers or care providers. It did not eliminate existing contracts. That would have been a fundamental gutting of the American Dream, but make no mistake - Justice Alito's opinion made clear that the relentless assault on workers' rights will not abate.
"AFSCME members nationwide will remain steadfast and fight for the simple rights and dignity that every working American deserves. A court ruling doesn't change our obligation as proud union workers and it doesn't negate our obligation to keep fighting to restore the American middle class."
Photo: During a demonstration, a female worker reacts to the Hobby Lobby case, in which the justices said a closely held private firm's owners could invoke their "freedom of religion" to prevent women from getting birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act. AP


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The website promises a free sample, for only shipping cost, but the next day, they charged me $87.13 on that card used for shipping cost. (I don't have a charge for the shipping cost?)(yet)
Tomorrow, I will try calling the cust svc for cancellation of WHATEVER contract they will claim I agreed to.
In the meantime, take fair warning. I will not be buying from this company since they use covert tactics. I have other sources for resveratrol and I understand the chewables are more effective anyway. My husband has been taking the chewables for a week and says he feels more alert and energetic! We did not try the Resveratrol Ultra sample.
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Legal Support for Veterans with Mesothelioma
Throughout most of the twentieth century, asbestos was used in the nation's shipyards and throughout many other military facilities. Veterans, as well as civilian employees, were consistently exposed to asbestos dust while serving their country. As a result, many of these individuals have paid, or are now paying, with their lives.
Exposure to asbestos can result in the development of a myriad of asbestos-related illnesses, including the aggressive asbestos cancer known as mesothelioma. Veterans have one of the highest rates of mesothelioma in the country. Many veterans believe that they have no legal recourse when it comes to collecting compensation for the losses they suffered due to their illness. While it is true that veterans cannot sue the U.S. government for asbestos exposure, they can indeed bring suit against the manufacturers of the asbestos products used aboard navy ships, at naval shipyards, or anywhere else they may have worked while serving in the military.
A mesothelioma attorney can assist veterans who have been diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases. Because mesothelioma cancer is often diagnosed in the later stages, victims can often find themselves in financial difficulty. There are usually large medical bills to be paid, income to replace, and families to provide for. This can be daunting to the ailing veteran and create unnecessary stress making it that much more difficult to deal with the disease.
All mesothelioma cases are different, but filing a lawsuit against the responsible party/parties can help ease this burden. Finding a lawyer who specializes in asbestos-related lawsuits is important to securing a positive outcome. The right attorney can assist the victim in determining whether or not he/she has a viable legal case. In many instances, these attorneys do not take any money "up front". Rather, they are paid when a successful outcome is achieved. This makes it possible for a victim of asbestos exposure to file a suit even in financially difficult situations. The result of a successful lawsuit is long-term peace of mind for the mesothelioma victim during the remainder of their life and the comfort of knowing that their family will be provided for after they are gone.
Because exposure to asbestos often occurs decades before mesothelioma develops and blame can be hard to place, it takes an experienced asbestos attorney to navigate the legal system to help veterans with mesothelioma. Many independent veterans' organizations can assist in locating an experienced attorney and can guide victims and their families towards a variety of other resources that will make their lives easier as they deal with the results of this disease.


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Start the morning off right with the complimentary, hot Be Our Guest Breakfast buffet served daily in the dining area. You can choose from a variety of your favorite breakfast foods, including waffles, biscuits and gravy, French toast and sausage. For lunch or dinner, try a popular nearby restaurant like Pepperjax or Spaghetti Works.
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Tybee Island offers many attractions and activities such as Historic Fort Pulaski, the Tybee Island Lighthouse Station & Museum, inshore and offshore fishing charters, eco-tours, dolphin tours, water sports, seasonal events and festivals, award winning restaurants, and a breathtaking beachfront setting.
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Firstly, thanks to elfin for this GREAT pligin eshop.
And how to display "sku" in my template? thanks.
Firstly, thanks to elfin for this GREAT pligin eshop.
And how to display "sku" in my template? thanks.
That isn't possible at this time. Sorry.
Any tricks to get the sku to show up on the page? Maybe I need to create a Custom Field? Seems redundant though. Maybe there's a custom php query someone has come up with?
I've build a wholesale catalog for retailers and they need the sku to be shown with each product. Hope there's some way to do that.
I'm adding this to my todo list.
I'd first thought of making a shortcode, but on reflection an overall setting to display the sku might be better.
Massively appreciated.
Hope the changes made were ok - let me know if you need any tweaks to it.
I'm trying to figure out a way to let folks search by sku.
For example, sometimes retailers enter the sku number "30170" instead of the product name to search for. Searching by sku doesn't display any results currently though.
Unless you manually add the sku to the content of the page it won't be found by the search, sorry.
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what has this to do with eShop?
Isn't is possible to make eShop store all it's data that is entered in eShop's write panel on the Edit Page-page be stored in a custom field ?
ie. custom-field-key's like "eshop_cf_sku", "eshop_cf_productdescription", "eshop_cf_shiprate", "eshop_cf_featuredproduct", "eshop_cf_stock" , "eshop_cf_imgurl"
That way it's possible to pimp our products pages a little to our imagination.
Currently all I got is a Shop Home that's generateed by a eShop shortcode (with images), but the products page (which is just page.php and the_content()) - doesn't display the asociated image or any data I want on it.
Only thing that differs my product page from a default page is the appended block with Order/Quanty/Add to card-options.
Hey, I found it !!
I was browsing the plugin's php files and saw a file called
It turns out eShop does indeed store it's data in custom fields;
Here's the overview of a few examples:
$sku = get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_Sku' );
$prod=get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_Product Description' );
$shiprate = get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_Shipping Rate' );
$featured = get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_Featured Product' );
$stkav = get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_Stock Available' );
$stkqty = get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_Stock Quantity' );
$optsets = get_post_meta( $_REQUEST[ 'post' ], '_eshoposets' );
So, in
page.php (or
page-product.php if you have a seperate Page Template for it (which I'd recommend))
You can use something like this:
$prodDecr = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_Product Description', true);
if (!empty($prodDecr)) {
echo "" . $prodDecr . "";
Apparently the plugin changes in the past 10 months and/or the Elfin/topic-starter ment something else.
please don't restart out dated threads.
Besides, you add whatever content you want to the page/post of a product, I let WP handle all that.
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Shreya Saran's pranks frightens on-lookers
Now, latest we hear is that Sherya, who is filming Jeeva starrer Rowthiram, has done it again. It is said that a specific scene during the shooting required the actress to apply fake blood on her visage. However, she naughtily ambled into the hotel, where she was lodged devoid of wiping the sham blood, which frightened the guests at the hotel.
Sherya has tweeted that she entered the hotel"s lobby with fake blood on her face, after which some overseas guests were so petrified that they did not know to scream or flee. She has uttered that she enjoys these moments between the shooting schedules.


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Durland Fish, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Microbial Diseases and Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
Babesia; Babesiosis; Borrelia; Chikungunya virus; Climate; Epidemiology; Biological Evolution; Insect Vectors; Lyme Disease; Parasitology; Public Health; Ticks; Global Health; Evolution, Planetary; Climate Change
Public Health Interests
Lyme Disease; Parasitology; Tropical Diseases; Viruses
Research Organizations
School of Public Health: Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases: Vector-borne | Parasitology Program | Vector Ecology Lab | YSPH Global Health Concentration
Research Summary
Professor Fish's area of research interest is the ecology of vector-borne pathogens. Recent emphasis has been on tick-borne pathogens causing Lyme disease, human anaplasmosis and babesiosis, and on mosquito-borne West Nile virus and dengue fever. Current projects include experimental manipulation of natural transmission cycles, vaccination of wildlife reservoirs against vectors and vector-borne pathogens, interactions among multiple pathogens in vectors and hosts, vector competence for viral and bacterial pathogens, and pathogen population genetics. Spatial analysis of pathogen prevalence using satellite imagery and geographic information systems forms the basis for applied studies in landscape epidemiology. His laboratory maintains colonies of ticks and mosquitoes for experimental studies, and a network of field sites is available for ecological studies. Prof. Fish is Director of the Yale Center for EcoEpidemiology, an interdisciplinary center that seeks to integrate environmental science and ecology with medical epidemiology. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute where he coordinates campus wide research on climate and human health.
Specialized Terms: Vector-borne diseases; ecology; evolution; epidemiology; prevention; climate change; borrelia; babesia; ticks; mosquitoes
Extensive Research Description
Professor Fish's research interests are in the areas of ecology and prevention of vector-borne infectious diseases. Recent emphasis has been on tick-borne pathogens causing Lyme disease and human ehrlichiosis in the northeastern U.S. Current projects include natural and artificial regulation of vector populations, vector competence for viral and bacterial pathogens, co-infection and transmissions of multiple pathogens, geographic and spatial analysis of epidemiological data, and the use of satellite imagery to predict vector-borne disease risk.
Selected Publications
- Alfaro-Murillo JA, Parpia AS, Fitzpatrick MC, Tamagnan JA, Medlock J, Ndeffo-Mbah ML, Fish D, Avila-Aguero ML, Marin R, Ko AI, Galvani AP. A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016;10(5):e0004743. Epub 2016/05/21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004743. PubMed PMID: 27205899; PMCID: PMC4874682.
- Ndeffo-Mbah ML, Durham DP, Skrip LA, Nsoesie EO, Brownstein JS, Fish D, Galvani AP. Evaluating the effectiveness of localized control strategies to curtail chikungunya. Sci Rep. 2016;6:23997. Epub 2016/04/06. doi: 10.1038/srep23997. PubMed PMID: 27045523; PMCID: PMC4820747.
- Krause PJ, Fish D, Narasimhan S, Barbour AG. Borrelia miyamotoi infection in nature and in humans. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2015;21(7):631-9. Epub 2015/02/24. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.02.006. PubMed PMID: 25700888; PMCID: PMC4470780.
- Diuk-Wasser MA, Liu Y, Steeves TK, Folsom-O'Keefe C, Dardick KR, Lepore T, Bent SJ, Usmani-Brown S, Telford SR, 3rd, Fish D, Krause PJ. Monitoring human babesiosis emergence through vector surveillance New England, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20(2):225-31. Epub 2014/01/23. doi: 10.3201/eid1302/130644. PubMed PMID: 24447577; PMCID: PMC3901474.
- Diuk-Wasser MA, Hoen AG, Cislo P, Brinkerhoff R, Hamer SA, Rowland M, et al. (2012) Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 86(2): 320-7.
- Hoen AG, Margos G, Bent SJ, Diuk-Wasser MA, Barbour A, Kurtenbach K, Fish D. Phylogeography of Borrelia burgdorferi in the eastern United States reflects multiple independent Lyme disease emergence events. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009;106(35):15013-8. Epub 2009/08/27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0903810106. PubMed PMID: 19706476; PMCID: PMC2727481.
- 2. Brown HE, Childs JE, Diuk-Wasser MA, Fish D. Ecological factors associated with West Nile virus transmission, northeastern United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008;14(10):1539-45. Epub 2008/10/02. doi: 10.3201/eid1410.071396. PubMed PMID: 18826816; PMCID: PMC2609885.
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I'm probably the only WP user who would even vaguely think this would be a useful feature, but I'd love it if WP was able to save a draft copy of a published post, to allow ongoing editing or content addition to the post without those edits or that content appearing live, and then for that version to replace the published version when you are ready to release the new changes / additions. Of course, if your edits and additions are all being done in one session, you just edit and save. But I tend to evolve posts over several different editing sessions, so saving them in WP would end up with incomplete additions being published.
Currently I achieve this by copying, pasting and editing published posts on my local machine, and while that's workable, it would be a nice feature to see in WP.
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DIVISIVE WORDS: THE REPUBLICAN LEADER; Bush Rebukes Lott Over Remarks on Thurmond
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and CARL HULSE
Published: December 13, 2002
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12— President Bush rebuked Senator Trent Lott today for statements that appeared to embrace the segregationist appeals of Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.
Mr. Bush distanced himself from Mr. Lott, the incoming Senate majority leader, by declaring that his statements ''do not reflect the spirit of our country.''
After two days in which a worried White House said it accepted Mr. Lott's apologies for his extemporaneous remarks at Senator Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration last week, Mr. Bush's statement today signaled a sharp shift in tone and strategy by the White House.
The president's stand came as Mr. Lott was engulfed by criticism and a swell of demands, mostly from Democrats, that he step aside as the Republican leader. At a party for Senator Thurmond of South Carolina, Mr. Lott said, ''I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.''
Even Republicans warned that the episode was endangering the party's newly invigorated effort under Mr. Bush to make inroads among Democrats, while jeopardizing Mr. Lott's political future.
''Any suggestion that the segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive, and it is wrong,'' Mr. Bush said as his mostly black audience of religious leaders in Philadelphia rose from their chairs and erupted in shouts of approval and long burst of applause. ''Recent comments by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country. He has apologized, and rightly so.
''Every day our nation was segregated was a day that America was unfaithful to our founding ideals,'' the president continued. ''And the founding ideals of our nation and, in fact, the founding ideals of the political party I represent was, and remains today, the equal dignity and equal rights of every American.''
While Mr. Bush did not address the question of whether Mr. Lott should step aside, the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said in an interview after Mr. Bush's speech that ''emphatically and on the record, the president doesn't think Trent Lott needs to resign.''
But Mr. Bush's remarks distanced the president from a man whom his advisers say he has never particularly liked. The president's words also offered a reminder, as Mr. Bush's aides pointed out today, that he is the first Republican president in a generation to explicitly campaign for black votes.
Mr. Bush's statements may also weaken Mr. Lott because they give cover to Republican senators who until this morning had been reluctant to speak against the powerful leader of their conference. And by the time Mr. Bush had returned to Washington from Philadelphia this afternoon, some Republicans were joining in the criticism. They asserted that Mr. Lott, who has delivered a succession of increasingly conciliatory statements to apologize for his remarks, still had not done enough.
Senator John McCain of Arizona said that Mr. Lott, who has been invisible on Capitol Hill, should emerge to hold a full-scale news conference to explain what he meant. That sentiment was echoed by William J. Bennett, a former cabinet secretary and a leading conservative, and by Senator Olympia J. Snowe, a moderate Maine Republican. Even some of Mr. Lott's allies said that if he wanted to hold on to his post, he needed to return to the public eye and confront the situation.
Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, called Mr. Lott's remarks a ''dumb statement'' that could reflect badly on Republicans. ''It raises questions about his judgment,'' Mr. Hagel said. ''How serious it yet becomes, I don't know.''
Mr. Bush's aides said they expected additional damaging disclosures about Mr. Lott's civil rights records as news organizations and Democrats examine many unexplored corners of Mr. Lott's public life.
Republicans suggested that a barrage of such stories could embolden Republican senators to challenge Mr. Lott, sparing Mr. Bush from a task that might undermine his standing with the powerful conservative wing of the party. ''I just don't know what happens when the next shoe drops,'' said a Republican who advises the White House. ''And the next shoe will drop.''
Time magazine posted a story on its Web site today saying that Mr. Lott, as president of the intrafraternity council at the University of Mississippi in the early 1960's, helped lead the opposition to integration of his fraternity, Sigma Nu, and succeeded in keeping the national fraternity all white.
Tom Johnson, the former CNN president who was then a Sigma Nu member at the University of Georgia, said in an interview tonight that had had voted with Mr. Lott and has long regretted it.
''He was the leader of his chapter and a very strong voice in the national fraternity,'' Mr. Johnson said. ''He certainly took a major role in leading the opposition to integration.''
Mr. Lott's office notedthat the fraternity deliberations took place ''almost 40 years ago when our nation was in a different era.''
Senate Republican staff members said the Senator was given advance notice that Mr. Bush planned to address the controversy. His office quickly issued a statement accepting the presidential reprimand. ''Senator Lott agrees with President Bush that his words were wrong and he is sorry,'' said Ron Bonjean, a Lott spokesman. ''He repudiates segregation because it is immoral.''
Democrats were conflicted about the unfolding events. On the one hand, they eagerly condemned Mr. Lott. But at the same time, party leaders said they relished the idea of Mr. Lott staying precisely where he is, and not resigning. That would present them with a high-profile target to mobilize Democratic voters, particularly blacks, over the next two years.
Two leaders of the all-Democrat Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas and Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, issued a statement tonight saying that the caucus wanted a formal Senate censure of Mr. Lott.
Republicans on Capitol Hill said they were stunned by the uncharacteristically sharp tone of Mr. Bush's remarks. But, echoing Mr. Bush's political advisers, they argued that Mr. Bush's comments were critical to preserve the political standing of Mr. Bush and the Republican Party.
The White House awoke this morning to editorials from across the nation demanding his resignation, including one in Mr. Lott's hometown newspaper, The Mississippi Press. ''Lott is scheduled to become Senate majority leader in January,'' it said. ''That is a position that should not be held by anyone who holds the beliefs that Lott espoused.''
And a number of conservative leaders, including Mr. Bennett, were openly critical of Mr. Lott.
''If Senator Lott can provide a satisfactory explanation for his statement, this entire episode should be forgotten,'' Mr. Bennett said. ''If he cannot, he needs to step down as the Senate majority leader.''
Some members of Mr. Lott's own Republican Senate conference were largely perfunctory in their defense of Mr. Lott.
'' I believe his apology is sincere and that he did the right thing by withdrawing his comments,'' Jim Talent, a new Republican senator from Missouri said in a notably lukewarm statement tonight.
Photo: His door was open yesterday, but Mr. Lott was nowhere to be seen. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)(pg. A36) Chart: ''A CLOSER LOOK -- A Primer of Senator Lott's Quotations'' Following are quotations from Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, the incoming majority leader: 1980 After a speech by Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, at a Mississippi campaign rally for Ronald Reagan: You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today. (Source: The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss.) 1981 In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court on behalf of Bob Jones University, which was trying to retain its federal tax exempt status despite its policy prohibiting interracial dating: To hold that this religious institution is subject to tax because of its interracial dating policies would clearly raise grave First Amendment questions. If racial discrimination in the interest of diversity does not violate public policy, then surely discrimination in the practices of religion is no violation. (Source: The Associated Press) 1992 In remarks to the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group whose leaders have expressed extreme racial views, about pressures to increase government spending: We need more meetings like this across the nation [to offset those pressures]. The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. Let's take it in the right direction, and our children will be the beneficiaries. (Source: Council of Conservative Citizens newsletter) JANUARY 1999 After questioning and scrutiny about his relationship with the Council of Conservative Citizens: I have made my condemnation of the white supremacist and racist view of this group, or any group, clear. Any use of my name to publicize their view is not only unauthorized -- it's wrong. (Source: The New York Times) MARCH 1999 Explaining his opposition to a resolution condemning the Council of Conservative Citizens for racism and bigotry: I think if anybody wants to have a resolution condemning any groups that advocate, you know, white supremacy or racism, you know, we should support that. But when you start naming one group over another group, or this group or that group, the list is going to be pretty long, and that would be the wrong approach. When he was reminded that he was one of 97 senators in 1994 who condemned the speech of an associate of the Rev. Louis Farrakhan as anti-Semitic, racist and divisive: That was one individual. And are we going to start doing that repeatedly, naming individuals and groups? (Source: Transcript of press conference) DECEMBER 2002 At a 100th-birthday party for Senator Thurmond: I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either. (Source: The New York Times)(pg. A36)


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Jan explores online sharing features of Photoshop Elements 11: emailing photos, sharing them on Facebook and Flickr, and uploading video clips on YouTube, Vimeo, and the Adobe Photoshop Showcase service. The course also offers some advanced tips on preparing photos for publishing on the web and for exporting photos in various formats and sizes. The course wraps with a look at printing photos on both Windows and Mac OS computers, and ordering prints through Photoshop Elements 11.
- Creating a contact book
- Emailing photos and PDF slideshows
- Sharing photos on Facebook, Flickr, and SmugMug
- Sharing videos
- Creating interactive albums
- Exporting albums to a drive or disk
- Preparing photos for print
- Watermarking photos
- Printing on Mac and Windows
Skill Level Beginner
Another place online to which you can upload photos directly from your Elements Organizer is SmugMug. SmugMug is a photo sharing service that gives you your own Web site to display and share your photos, and it also offers the possibility of selling your photos at Pro account levels. So a lot of professional photographers like SmugMug, but hobbyists use it too. Let me show you how it works. From here in the Organizer, I'll select some photos to upload to SmugMug. Then I will go to the Share menu, and I'll choose SmugMug Gallery.
Element prepares my files for upload, and it opens this window, where I can log in to my SmugMug account. If you don't yet have a SmugMug account, you can get a free trial account by clicking this green button. I already have an account, so I will just enter my login credentials here, and I'll click Log In.
Now, the way SmugMug works is that it gives you a URL, a Web site, and on that Web site, you can have multiple galleries, or collections of your photos. I don't have any galleries yet, so I will click Create Gallery. I want to make a gallery for just these photos that I took in Belgium, so I am going to title this gallery Belgium, and I'll choose a category for this gallery. As you create more and more galleries, categories just gives you a way to organize them on SmugMug. I am going to scroll down, and I'll choose Travel as the category.
Next I can choose an initial theme for this gallery, and this controls the way the gallery will look. There are lots of choices here, and it doesn't really matter what you choose, because you can change it later, so I'll just go with the basic black. Here you can choose whether your gallery will be available for the public to see, if you would leave Yes selected, or whether you want to make it more private. I'll just leave it Public, and you can see here that you'll be able to access additional security and privacy settings after you create the gallery. To create this gallery with these photos, I'll click Create Gallery, and that begins the process of uploading my photos from Elements Organizer to my SmugMug gallery.
Of course, I need to be online for this process to take place. It may take a while, depending on how many photos you're uploading, and the speed of your Internet connection. When the upload is complete, you see this windowm and if you want to go and see your photos in your SmugMug gallery online, click View Gallery. That launched my Web browser, and takes me right to my SmugMug gallery. Here you can see the path to this gallery.
It's in my Travel category, and up here you can see the URL to my SmugMug Web site. And yours, of course, will be different. With the Basic gallery theme that I chose, viewers can click between the photo thumbnails to see larger versions of the photos over on the right. So you can see that SmugMug is really set up to show your photos off to their best advantage, and it gives you lots of options for displaying your photos.
So here is a menu of styles that you can select. For example, you might select these slideshow style, instead of the SmugMug basic style, and you have options for how fast your slideshow will run. There are a number of tools here that allow you to crop photos, for example, or copy photos here online, and lots of other options in this menu.
I am going to stop that slideshow by hovering over it, and clicking the Pause button here. The Themes menu allows you to switch your theme. You remember that I chose this Basic theme when I created this gallery, but I can choose something else instead. Maybe from the Elegant category, I'll choose something like SmugMug gradient, and that gives me this gradient background. I will go back and change my Style out to the SmugMug default.
In the next menu, you have lots of options for sharing your SmugMug gallery with others. Now, keep in mind that SmugMug is a subscription site, so if you do create a trial account, when your trial ends, you will be given the option to cancel it, or to enroll for various SmugMug subscription levels. Some of those levels even allow you to sell your photos from here on the SmugMug site. I'm done viewing my photos here on SmugMug, so I am going to log out, and I'll close my Web browser, and back in Elements I'll logout again, I will click Done, and I am back to my Elements Organizer.
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The innovation leaders, in order, are: Tokyo, San Jose, New York, Boston, Kanagawa (Japan), Shenzhen (China), Osaka, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Seoul. Rothwell also points out that certain countries are rich in having many innovative metro areas:
"Germany leads with 14 in the top 50, followed by Switzerland with eight. [The United States has is third with five]. Sweden and Israel are tied with four each. Finland has three, and Denmark, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom all have two. Austria, the Netherlands, Iceland, and Korea each contribute one. (The most innovative countries per capita are all small nations: Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Israel, and Denmark).â€
Continuing with the theme of innovation: Will it lead to a triumph of the city? Noting that much of the innovation and economic growth in the developing world is happening as people migrate from rural to urban areas, Ezra Klein from The Washington Post places a domestic lens on the notion. Klein analyzes three recently published books on cities and urbanism by top thinkers on the subject — Ed Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Ryan Avent's The Gated City, and Matt Yglesias' The Rent is Too Damn High — and finds that all three come to a similar consensus: people should have the ability to live in vibrant urban areas and to do so without going broke.
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To The Editor: A June 10 letter by a retired professor attacked columnist Paul Krugman with vitriol quite worthy of Rush Limbaugh. In particular, he accused him of contributing to the housing bubble by being a cheerleader in politicians applying pressure on lending institutions to make risky loans.
Actually, the opposite is true, for Krugman early warned of the consequences of the bubble. He wrote in an Aug. 8, 2005, New York Times column: If housing prices actually started falling, wed be looking at a very nasty scene, in which both construction and consumer spending would plunge, pushing the economy right back into recession. Thats why its so ominous to see signs that Americas housing market, like the stock market at the end of the last decade, is approaching the final, feverish stages of a speculative bubble.
Thus, far from cheering, he showed remarkable prescience, in contrast to most economists of the time. For example, in October 2004, Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan dismissed talk of a bubble: While local economies may experience significant speculative price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely.
The truth is Krugman has been right more often than not. He didnt get a Nobel Prize for nothing.
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Jaime Gracia is president and CEO of Seville Government Consulting, a federal acquisition and program management consulting firm.
An article in the November/December 2010 issue of Defense Acquisition University's Defense AT&L magazine discussed why companies file protests against contract awards and illustrated the realities of the federal contracting environment. Budgets are tightening, competition for those shrinking dollars is ferocious, and protests have seemingly become standard operating procedure. Further exacerbating the issue are poorly trained acquisition workers and poor government communications. So what are we to do in this environment?
The issue hinges on the seemingly endless cycle of protests with no consequences or accountability on the part of government or industry. More protests mean an even higher rate of program disruption, with the result that users and warfighters will continue not getting the products and services they need to perform their missions. Industry often looks at protests in terms of return on investment and might find it worthwhile to fight a contract award that a competitor wins. Given the risk-averse nature of government, that approach can open additional revenue sources or further opportunities for a company to compete.
Nonetheless, the government does make mistakes and should be accountable because the point of a protest is to prevent the government from causing harm to the protesting firm.
There needs to be a measure of accountability on both sides. A protest should not be taken lightly. It is typically a disruptive and costly matter. Although a company expects to win and files its protest accordingly, the number of protests that are upheld remains less than 25 percent. Some firms file just to see what will happen. What if a firm loses repeatedly? We need a measure of financial accountability to recoup the costs borne by the government from repeat offenders. By holding companies accountable for fishing expeditions, agencies could ensure that the protest process is used for its intended purpose: ensuring fair competition.
The government also has gotten into the habit of not wanting to upset firms that have a history of protesting awards. Indeed, some procurement officials automatically award contracts to such companies to avoid the cost of resolving disputes if the company were to protest and the government were to lose. Procurement officials must be held accountable for that behavior. And firms should be reimbursed for protests that are upheld to help put the pressure on the government to award contracts fairly.
Protesting is a right that industry must continue to have. But it must be weighed against the real costs when accountability is finally added into the equation. Furthermore, the government must stop allowing itself to be bullied into awarding contracts to firms with a history of protests. And more importantly, the government must be held accountable for following procedures and executing sound acquisition strategies to ensure that protests don't happen in the first place.
We can accomplish all that if reform actions match the rhetoric coming out of the 112th Congress. However, without some much-needed accountability, we can expect to see a continued rise in protests, to the detriment of all involved.
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@Steve raises some valid points. However, end users who continue to have capabilities and requirements not met through contract protests would disagree that the process works well. Further, corrective actions (15%) occur as a result of sustained protests (the 25% which is from GAO), so adding to that statistic seems like double counting.
Nonetheless, protests are not just for a few bad apples anymore. Protesting contract awards is on the rise, and will continue this trend with budget cuts and freezes espoused by the Obama Administration. End users can expect more delays and frustrations with continuing their respective missions in this environment without a balanced review of the process.
The FAR needs to be changed, that if you protest a contract, or if a group of companies, protest a contract award, they each should have to pay for the protest in full, with no right of recouping the cost, or adding it to the contract later. These are tax payers dollars, that companies are wasting in frivolous protests.
Carlos--I agree that having the Contracting Officer decide a protest is pointless, however, if that is truely happening, there is a bigger problem at that agency than one CO. Agency Protests are to be decided at a level ABOVE the CO. That having been said, you can always decide to go direct to GAO. As for the assertion that COs NEVER are disciplined, while they may not generally get fired, losing a protest that involves any misconduct does result in serious career damage for a CO. There may be individual cases where this may not happen, but most times it does. My 30+ years CO experience has shown me that the Government DOES make some mistakes and protests are an important part of keeping COs (and other Gov. staff) between the lines. My point is that there are a significant number of firms out there that are now protesting EVERYTHING regardless of merit. That practice needs to be curbed by ensuring there is a cost (not necessarily money). I don't think we would risk the industrial base by charging for losses, but I kind of like Mark Boster's idea if there were a good way to implement it.
Mr. Gracia's article suggests that bid protests are the problem, when in fact, it is a few companies abusing the process--typically, incumbents who file frivolous protests simply to gain a few extra months of performance time--that are the real issue. In suggesting that the protest process requires reform, Mr. Gracia makes some key omissions. First, his statement that protests are only successful 25% of the time is misleading. The 25% figure accounts for protests that the GAO sustains on the record. However, in many cases, agencies take corrective action when they realize a meritorious protest has been filed--essentially, ceding victory to the protester. The combination of sustain decisions and corrective actions exceeded 40% last year. That's a lot of meritorious protests. Mr. Gracia also neglects to mention that agencies have a tool available to them--the override--to address the problems caused by the automatic stay when a particular procurement is especially important. Finally, the GAO has a statutory mandate to decide cases in 100 days (and often does it even quicker). That sounds like a long time, but compare it to courts, where cases can drag on for years, and it becomes evident that the government understands the need to resolve protests quickly. By and large, the protest process works well. Of course, it can be frustrating for a contractor to have its award protested, And yes, a few bad apples are out there, and they are the ones that get the attention. But they should not be seen as spoiling the barrel. The protest process may need a tweak or two to ensure it runs smoothly, but it does not require the dramatic overhaul Mr. Gracia seems to suggest is necessary.
I am a small business owner and a govt contractor. I don't agree that losers should protest. However, I do see major problems in the current protest model. First, the initial protest is ruled on by the Contracts Officer. That in itself is a conflict of interest. Recently, I have been dealing with rogue CO who does what he wants. While I have had problems with him in the past, at the end of FY10, he awarded me a $2mil contract. 3 weeks after I started work, the award was protested by a loser. The loser was right to protest since it had been misinformed by his office. And of course the CO rejected the protest and defended its behavior. To me, COs have loo much power, there is not enough oversight of them, and it seems that they are acting with more arrogance each year. COs never get in trouble for their behavion. I've never hear of one being fired, but I can assure you that such behavior, generating lawsuits, would not be tolerated in the private sector.
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Facilitator: Heidi Williamson, Berks County Community Foundation
Scribe: Christine Beddia, Coastal Community Foundation of SC
Quick survey: About half of participants are already deeply involved in funding local media and close to half are planning to get involved.
Session Themes: Sustainability, building revenue, responsibility of the changing media landscape and partnerships
Are community foundations (CF) responsible because they are unbiased brokers of local information or should CFs just serve as silent supporters? If the for-profit business model was broken, why would the nonprofit sector have a better model? Should CFs fund third-party entities or try to offer journalistic guidance?
One answer: CFs can help with the business model because civic engagement is a priority in CF agendas. Also, there are some obvious local community partners that can create opportunities including local universities, county governments and place-based foundations. There is also a layer of local sites ready to do more work to build revenue. They are ready to dive in deeper. Voice of San Diego is doing good work.
Berks County Community Foundation Example:
Facilitator Heidi Williamson with the Berks County Community Foundation (BCCF) partnered with a local news station to offer local news. BCCF saw the lack of local information in the public. The foundation proposed an idea/business plan to the local station but realizes that sustainability is still an issue. Funding, underwriting, memberships are still not enough. But it was in part the competitiveness that added to the quality of the news now being offered. BCCF is supporting the paper but allows the news staff to be the experts in the news thus continuing the generation of quality news content on a local level.
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Once the place-based media landscape is evaluated and the needs properly identified, a mission must be determined - replace local media or help it in its crisis? One foundation determined that funding provided a community asset. People having access to the same information on a daily basis provide a sense of cohesion and a sense of community.
Conducting community indicators projects are one way to get CFs determining what partnerships will be needed to address the information needs. For BCCF, Knight Foundation's Community Information Challenge confirmed the objective and the media landscape in Berks County have changed as a result of the partnership, the in-depth study, and the funding.
How do partners (newspaper, community foundations, third party editorial news site) work together? Most participants commented that they are still exploring different avenues and mostly experimenting.
The group agreed that the primary goal was in line with the Knight perspective: to add to the amount of information available in the community. One way to achieve this was to first identify ways to increase or improve community information flow, e.g. elimination of an education reporter lends an opportunity for CF to support but also to find alternative ways to partner including volunteers, physical space and idea generation. Local universities are good partners to align with because of students, technology and access.
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Oakland Local attracts local journalists that add value that ultimately attract traffic.
Some fluff content can lend value to other more investigative content pieces. Feel good stories offer community pride and optimism that can motivate locals. Strike a balance.
Bluffton Today is a successful local online bulletin that contains information and dialogue.
Should support come from community rather than CF? Should CF build a permanent line item in the budget to support this need because it is critical to civic engagement?
Compare the arts business model with info business model. There isn't one there either.
Possible solution: Start off with an entrepreneurial model rather than business model that struggles to find writers, resources, and readers.
Revenue model to support the electronic news stream has not been figured out, yet younger generation is already using it.
Find donor-advisors who will support information sharing even though pressure is on to use unrestricted funding for basic needs.
Collaborative journalism- citizens and journalists working together to create content. Create layered content that addresses raw data and adds local influence and opinion.
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