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Trying to show that they mean business, House Republicans have released a list of proposed budget cuts -- not specific proposals of course, just a broad laundry list of red meat for their base -- and what's particularly striking about this list is what it says about the so-called "pro-life" party:
- $758 million from WIC (Women, Infants and Children):
WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
- $1.3 billion from Community Health Centers:
To improve the health of the Nation's underserved communities and vulnerable populations by assuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services. Individual health center grant mechanisms include: (1) Community Health Centers; (2) Migrant Health Centers; (3) Health Care for the Homeless; and (4) Public Housing Primary Care Program.
- $210 million from Maternal and Child Health Block Grants:
The Maternal and Child Health Block Grant to States is a public health program that reaches across economic lines to improve the health of all mothers and children ... train providers and support services for children with special healthcare needs, newborn screening and genetic services, lead poisoning and injury prevention, and health and safety promotion in child care settings.
In the few weeks that the GOP has controlled the House, the lion's share of their time has been spent trying to roll-back reproductive rights because, "our members feel very strongly about the sanctity of human life."
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Don't pay the super high prices for popcorn, pop, etc at this theater.
Fountain pop is probably the cheapest way for a business to sell pop. It only costs pennies to make and the cups are cheap too. There is probably less than 25 cents invested in a cup of pop that the theater sells for anywhere from $4 on up to almost $8 for a glass of pop.
Popcorn is cheap too to make. Don't buy any food at any theater as you are overpaying. It would be like paying $20 for a sandwich at a drive thru.
The Dollartree stores sell prepopped popcorn, butter flavor, in bags for just $1 and it is just as good as the overpriced popcorn at theaters.
A two liter bottle of soda can produce up to 8 glasses of pop with ice for just pennies per serving.
The exact same size box of candy that the theaters sell for $4 on up Walmart sells for 79 to 99 cents, same size box, same contents, same company they all buy the theater size boxed candy from. Don't get ripped. Buy some candy at Walmart or the dollar store and take it to the movie with you if you must go out to see a movie.
Eat before you go see a movie or else just wait till the movie comes out on DVD and stay home and make your own food for lots less.
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AbstractA vision system that can assess its own performance and take appropriate actions online to maximize its effectiveness would be a step towards achieving the long-cherished goal of imitating humans. This paper proposes a method for performing an online performance analysis of local feature detectors, the primary stage of many practical vision systems. It advocates the spatial distribution of local image features as a good performance indicator and presents a metric that can be calculated rapidly, concurs with human visual assessments and is complementary to existing offline measures such as repeatability. The metric is shown to provide a measure of complementarity for combinations of detectors, correctly reflecting the underlying principles of individual detectors. Qualitative results on well-established datasets for several state-of-the-art detectors are presented based on the proposed measure. Using a hypothesis testing approach and a newly-acquired, larger image database, statistically-significant performance differences are identified. Different detector pairs and triplets are examined quantitatively and the results provide a useful guideline for combining detectors in applications that require a reasonable spatial distribution of image features. A principled framework for combining feature detectors in these applications is also presented. Timing results reveal the potential of the metric for online applications.
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Nick's 4/2 Top 17 Mock
Here is my new mock.
Perhaps the biggest change is that I've assumed that the Raiders won't do something stupid, as most mocks have them doing -- taking either Campbell or Mays. I have them taking Williams at OT, who is also an athletic specimen but also knows how to play the position. That move changes the draft order considerably.
I also think that Bulaga is going to fall; more teams are realizing that he is not a sure thing to play at LT, and that there is a big drop-off after Okung.
For the 49ers, I assume that Anthony Davis checks out and Singletary believes he can motivate him. If he can, the 49ers get a Top 5 pick at #13.
At #17, I assume that the 49ers are going to take the best player available. And with this draft, that pick is Dez Bryant. Its hard to argue that there's a better player available...Brandon Graham is a reach here (so is Mays). If Kyle Wilson is still here, he could be the pick instead.
1. STL - Bradford - Rams take a franchise QB
2. DET - Okung - Lions make the smart move and protect Stafford instead of going for Suh
3. TB - Suh - biggest need, BPA
4. WAS - Clausen - With Okung gone, they won't reach for Bulaga here. Shanahan takes Jay Cutler II
5. KC - Berry - toughest spot in the top 10; they REALLY need an OT, but Bulaga isn't worth the #5 to them. Berry is BPA
6. SEA - McCoy (DT) - no-brainer BPA
7. CLE - Earl Thomas - Flying up the draft boards; not many have him mocked here, but they have a major need at FS and Berry is gone; They also don't have many other options.
8. OAK - Williams (OT) - Major need at OT, best OT remaining as well. Williams also did very well at the combine, which Al likes.
9. BUF - Bulaga - Major need -- Buffalo gets its OT
10. JAX - Derrick Morgan - They need a pass-rusher, and Morgan is perfect for the 4-3
11. DEN - McClain - Major need AND BPA
12. MIA - Williams (NT) - The Fins need major help at NT, and Williams is perfect
13. SF - Anthony Davis - Singletary checked him out, and his work ethic is not a concern. If Smith can go #6 last year, with much worse problems, Davis is an incredible value here. As long as the 49ers can keep him focused, which I think Singletary can do, he is a steal
14. SEA - Spiller - Best Player available.
15. NYG - Joe Haden - Giants need to beef up the secondary, and Haden is also the best player available.
16. TEN - Kyle Wilson - Major, major playmaker who also fills a big hole; they would love Derrick Morgan, but he's already gone
17. SF - Dez Bryant - Best player available, STEAL OF THE DRAFT. A couple small issues cause this amazing WR to drop all the way to 17.
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Sociedad Argentina de Neuromodulación (SANE) Capítulo Argentino de la International Neuromodulation Society
Read an overview of the event in an article by INS President Simon Thomson, MD in NeuroTarget (in Spanish, followed by a translation in English)
International Neuromodulation ConferenceII Joint Meeting of Argentinian & Polish Neuromodulation SocietiesIII Brazilian-Argentinian Joint Meeting on Neuromodulation
Date: October 13, 2014Venue: Park Hyatt Mendoza Hotel, Casino & Spa, Mendoza City, ArgentinaLanguage of the meeting: English / Spanish (simultaneous translation)Hosted by:International Neuromodulation Society Argentinean Neuromodulation Society Polish Neuromodulation Society Brazilian Neuromodulation Society London Pain ForumFundación CENIT para la Investigación en NeurocienciasScientific Program
Meeting Topics:The Present and Future of Neuromodulation in:Chronic Facial PainComplex Regional Pain SyndromeFailed Back Surgery SyndromeDeep Brain StimulationMotor Cortex StimulationTranscranial Magnetic StimulationPeripheral Neuromodulation For PainExternal NeuromodulationSpinal Cord StimulationHigh Cervical StimulationIntrathecal Drug DeliveryNeuromodulation For Parkinson's DiseaseNeuromodulation For DepressionSacral Nerve Stimulation For Urinary Dysfunction
Faculty:Dr. Juan Carlos Andreani (Argentina)Dr. Arun Bhaskar (United Kingdom)Dr. Fabián Cremaschi (Argentina)Dr. Sam Eldabe (United Kingdom)Dr. Erich Fonoff (Brazil)Dr. Alexandre Novicki Francisco (Brazil)Dr. Tiago Freitas (Brazil)Dr. Teodor Goroszeniuk (UK/Poland)Dr. Robert Levy (USA)Dr. Fabián Piedimonte (Argentina)Dr. Manuel Hernández Salazar (Mexico)Dr. Manoel J. Texeira (Brazil)Dr. Simon Thompson (United Kingdom)Dr. Vladislav Vasilenko (Russia)
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Many Sports Clubs use Cadbury Fundraiser to raise funds
Among our customers are a range of Summer and Winter Sports Clubs, including Football, Netball, Hockey, Basketball, Cricket and Lacrosse Clubs. We also have Ice Skating, Ice Hockey, Skiing and Snowboarding Clubs. Many Sports Club Fundraising ideas and strategies involve Cadbury Fundraiser and our consultants are happy to help you make Cadbury Fundraiser a successful part of your annual fundraising drive. Give your local consultant a call on 1800 809 444 and they'll provide you with order information, tips, advice, sports fundraising ideas.
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Sports fundraisers can be challenging, but Cadbury Fundraiser makes it easy!
Murrumbeena Bowls Club
"Since 2003, the Murrumbeena Bowls Club has raised over $41,000 through Cadbury Fundraiser.
Each drive is a team effort and the money we raise through Cadbury Fundraiser is a tremendous benefit to the general running of our volunteer club."
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"We started Cadbury fundraising four years ago and have not stopped.
The money raised through the year helps us get those little items we need for our club. eg Laptop, printer, PA system and many more items.
We keep our fees down because of fundraising efforts from everyone in the club. So thank you Cadbury Fundraising."
Jo, Colac Ladies Badminton Club
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Somali United Soccer Club has been started by young men of Somali background in the Adelaide community.
"We are really grateful to Cadbury Fundraiser because as we were able to sell chocolates we have now purchased uniforms, paid our fees and become a real soccer team".
Junior Football
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Why Sports Clubs love Cadbury Fundraiser
We asked our community what they liked best about Cadbury Fundraiser. We received many stories from members about their fundraising experiences. Some are inspirational, some are funny and some just touch our hearts. Here is one story we'd like to share with you.
From Abby, why she fundraises:
"The Kerang Football Club held a fundraiser to raise money for a boy in our community with cancer. Every year we hold a club 'family day' but this year we gave back to the community. A ll the money that was raised went towards the family in need. It was a great day to get together and support the cause against cancer."


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The 'Gods' in Asgard know how to drink heartily, and it is they who hath inspired this 16oz Thor Circle Portrait Pint Glass! Marvel's Mighty God of Thunder would be humbled by the retro artwork and bold image of Thor and his logo! The Thor Circle Portrait Pint Glass is so awesome that it will even get Loki to chill out for a little bit. Pretty amazing, eh?
NOT DISHWASHER SAFE: These glasses are works of art. Though durable for normal use, they cannot stand up to the ridiculously high temperatures and harsh detergents in your dishwasher. Your dishwasher will fade and tarnish these highly sought after images, ruining your glass! Instead, HAND WASH these comic, glass artifacts with some soap and common sense, i.e., don't take a friggin' scouring brush to the paint.
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A few months ago I posted with a question about post access/security plugins and got some great responses - thanks again!
I'm back, this time to let you know that the survey I was working on at the time has gone live. I'm doing a research project (my PhD thesis, actually) on changing conceptions of public and private in contemporary society, and I'm using bloggers as a case study. I would really appreciate it if folks would take about 20 minutes to fill out my survey (link at the end of the message) and to pass the link on to anyone else you think might be interested in participating.
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ASUS VivoBook U38N Review
This week we're having a look at the real-deal final release iteration of the ASUS VivoBook U38N with full touchscreen capabilities, Windows 8, and AMD innards. This machine is sleek, keeps with the fantastic ASUS style language we've been loving since the ASUS Transformer Prime stole our hears back in 2011, and provides a rather rare look at this sort of amalgamation of bits with AMD under the hood. It all starts with 5-point capacitive touch on a Full HD 1920 x 1080 panel with a rather nice "frameless" design up front.


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I bought a car from a private seller who had this company as a lien hold and title holder on the 20th of september 2010. My financial company sent an overnight check which they cashed and confirmed that the amount paid off the loan. They in turn promised to send me a clear title within 10 days it has now been 25 days I STILL DO NOT HAVE A TITLE. This company refuses to give any information about title other then they mailed the title and we should have it. They did not send the title certified mail with signature receipt. They confirmed only that they mailed it standard mail to my bank. we never recieved the title!!!!!!!!! I now have a very expensive car which the first payment it due that I am unable to drive or insure. This company clearly does not need to be in business. Their customer service is horrible treating people rudly and unhelpful. I was on hold for 33 minutes they disconnected I called right back and was on hold again another 39 minutes before reaching someone that would not give me any information other then it was send and we should have title.WELL I DO NOT HAVE TITLE MY BANK DOES NOT HAVE TITLE. I AM GETTING A LAWYER!!!
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AN ACTING school with classes across North Yorkshire has been nominated for a national award and now needs public votes to help it win.
Yorkshire Academy of Film and Television Acting (YAFTA) is on the shortlist for a What's On 4 Me Award.
The awards scheme, now in its eighth year, celebrates the best activities from throughout the UK - both for children and adults - as nominated and voted for by the UK public.
YAFTA, which runs professional screen acting classes at after school clubs in York, Selby, Tadcaster and Harrogate is nominated in the best skill or academic-based learning provider category.
A tutor from YAFTA, David Zezulka, is also nominated in the most inspirational coach, instructor or tutor (east) category.
Charlotte Armitage, from YAFTA, said: "We are so delighted to have been nominated. The team here at YAFTA have achieved a great amount in such a short space of time and we couldn't be prouder to be nominated."
The organisation specialises in teaching acting and professionalism skills to prepare students for a career in the film and television industry. Their students have cast for roles on national TV including Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Homeland.
People can vote by logging on to www.whatson4me.co.uk until October 1. The winners will be announced on Thursday, November 20.


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Healthy teeth and gums are essential to a child's overall good health. Without proper dental care tooth decay and gum disease can lead to serious problems such as cavities and gingivitis, swollen and bleeding gums. Regular visits to the dentist, brushing twice each day, and flossing, are ways to help maintain a healthy mouth.
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PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers, normally one of the quietest teams in NFL free agency, suddenly are one of the busiest.
The Steelers made a pair of surprise moves by re-signing safety Ryan Clark and bringing back wide receiver Antwaan Randle El on Tuesday — a day after signing two backups who excel on special teams, safety Will Allen from the Buccaneers and wide receiver Arnaz Battle from the 49ers.
There's more, too: They're also bringing in offensive tackle Jonathan Scott, who played the last two seasons in Buffalo under new Steelers offensive line coach Sean Kugler. Scott started eight games last season but wasn't given even the lowest tender offer to stay with the Bills.
Browns release Anderson
CLEVELAND — Quarterback Derek Anderson's uneven five-year stint with the Cleveland Browns is over. The team released the one-time Pro Bowl quarterback Tuesday, one day after the Browns acquired backup Seneca Wallace in a trade from Seattle. The former Oregon State star made the Pro Bowl in 2007 when he threw 29 touchdown passes and led the club to a 10-6 record. However, his promising career has been in a tailspin ever since. He lost his starting job to Brady Quinn at the start of last season, got it back, lost it again, returned to the starting lineup when Quinn got hurt, and won Cleveland's last two games.
De Niro to play Lombardi
BRISTOL, Conn. — Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie. ESPN announced Tuesday that the Academy Award-winning actor has agreed to play the Hall of Fame coach in the film it is developing with Andell Entertainment and the NFL. "Lombardi" will chronicle the years in which he transformed the Green Bay Packers from the NFL's worst team to league champions. It is tentatively scheduled to be released in 2012 during the weekend between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl.
Schobel ponders next move
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Aaron Schobel is in no rush to collect his $2 million roster bonus because the Buffalo Bills defensive end still hasn't decided on whether he'll come back for a 10th NFL season. The two-time Pro Bowl selection was due to be paid the roster bonus on Tuesday. Schobel remains a member of the Bills, but the payment remains on hold because there's a provision in his contract that he must first pass a physical. That's fine with Schobel, who told The Associated Press by phone on Tuesday that he's not willing to take the physical until he's made up his mind on whether or not to continue playing.
Chiefs sign Jones
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent running back Thomas Jones, who led the New York Jets to the AFC championship game last season and was the NFL's third-leading rusher. The Chiefs announced the deal Tuesday but declined to disclose the terms. Jones had career highs of 1,402 yards and 14 touchdowns last season.
Broncos sign free agent
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos continued beefing up their defensive line with the signing of unrestricted free agent Jarvis Green, who spent his first eight NFL seasons in New England. Last season, Green had 47 tackles in 13 games, including 12 starts.
Giants sign backup QB
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — After six years backing up Peyton Manning in Indianapolis, Jim Sorgi will get a chance to do the same for Peyton's brother Eli. The New York Giants announced Tuesday that they have signed Sorgi to a one-year deal. Terms were not disclosed.
Patriots re-sign Bodden
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have kept another free agent from leaving, re-signing cornerback Leigh Bodden to a four-year deal. Bodden's deal, which was announced by his agent on Twitter, comes on the same day the Patriots confirmed that they re-signed defensive lineman Vince Wilfork. Wilfork and his agent announced the deal on Saturday.
Saints to keep Torrence
METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has agreed to re-sign reserve defensive back Leigh Torrence to a one-year contract. Torrence has been with the Saints since being claimed off waivers in November 2008. He played in five games for New Orleans in 2009 before injuring his shoulder and finishing the year on injured reserve.


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Young lady by the name of Kaitlyn Clark came to my door November 11, 2013 selling magazines to help with college. I purchased 1 magazine for my grandson and the total was $60. I question whether that is even her real name. Today is February 24, 2014. I have seen no magazines. I gave them the benefit of doubt by waiting this long, but I expect my money is gone!
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Ernie Kerrny was not psychic, psionic, telekinetic (or even very smart). His special talent was limited in comparison to his friends. Oswald could control dogs by whistling. Almost any dog would follow him. Angie could move her hands in a confusing manner. Sometimes people even fell over if they watched her long enough. Larry could digest plastic. Once he'd eaten an entire bag of army men. And Lisa could unleash a furious stream of curses that could make almost anyone cry. People on the playground didn't mess with her.
But Ernie, the only thing he could do was fart backwards. It was a disgusting power, and one that usually only activated when he was nervous. For his entire life he'd waited for his power to activate, just like they all did. It usually came around puberty for some reason. The hormones, said the Doctors, forced the mutant genes into play.
Some kids grew spines. Some kids could jump really high. Some kids grew gills and could breath underwater. But most kids got much weaker abilities. Very few of them could do anything cool. Most of them were like Ernie. Or worse…
They didn't have any abilities at all.
Which meant that Ernie should be glad he'd been blessed with a mutant ability. When the doctors had first seen what he could do, they were fascinated. There had been endless speculation about what use his power might be put to. How could it benefit mankind? But, after months of analysis and computation, none of the Doctors had come up with one single use other than allowing Ernie to give himself a rapid and powerful enema.
Therefore today, the day in which they would be assigned to return to regular school or to stay in Xylax's School for Slightly Special Kids, was a day of much anxiety for Ernie. He didn't need to be a genius to know what was going to happen to him. No one needed anybody with the ability to fart backwards. And so he stood in line with his friends that day, against the wall in the schoolyard.
The wall of shame.
It was against this wall that they stood when they were selected for dodge ball teams. It was against this wall that they stood when Professor Xylax threw water balloons at them to see if any of them had any special dodging ability. It was against this wall that they lined up to go back inside from recess. And it was against this wall that today they had gathered to talk amongst themselves about the coming announcements.
"At least we'll all be together," said Oswald. "I mean. They'll move us to the same school right? It wouldn't be fair to split us up. We've been together all our lives."
Ernie's butt made a rude noise as it sucked in a bunch of air. "I don't know," he sighed. "I think they're going to just send us home and you'll go to whichever public school is in the zone for your house. And since we don't live near each other, we'll probably never see each other again."
"I don't care," snapped Lisa, who was obviously in a bad mood. "I never want to see ANYONE from this school ever again."
They all raised their hands and did their best to calm her down before she started cursing. After a few minutes, Lisa assured them that she had her powers under control.
"Well I think they might keep me here," stated Angie. "Unlike the rest of you, my powers are actually useful."
Larry let out a large plastic smelling belch. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out several Tupperware lids, ripping a bite out of one of them. "Look, Angie, sure you can make people confused, but they gotta look at you. It ain't like you're gonna stop any bank robbers or nothin. They'll take one look at you and blow your head clean off." Larry always liked to say "clean off" in conjunction with the "blowing of a head" because he'd seen Clint Eastwood say it in a movie.
"Not if I do this!" Angie declared, starting to move her arms.
Ernie's eyes went wide, and his butt sucked in a huge amount of air. "NO" he cried. But it was too late, Larry started stumbling around. He'd looked dizzy and could fall down at any time. "Quick!" Ernie shouted at Oswald, "whistle up a dog for him to fall on!"
Oswald whistled loud and clear, but the nearest dog was a long way away. Too far for Larry who hit the ground hard and then moaned in pain.
"My stomach!" he cried. "I feel like I'm gonna. Like I'm gonna. Like I'm gonna…"
"He's stuck in repeat mode!" declared Ernie. "Quick, someone slap him in the face several times to snap him out of it."
Angie stopped moving her hands and sighed, rolling her eyes. "He's just confused," she told them all. "This sometimes happens when I expose people to my powers for too long. The more time they are exposed to the motion, the longer they stay confused. Poor Larry was just too stupid to look away."
"NNNNnnnnnnggg," groaned Larry. He clutched his midsection and writhed around in obvious agony. Turning his head to face Angie, he opened his mouth and suddenly unleashed a stream of hot plastic puke that sprayed through the air and nailed the blond girl right in the head. With a great and mighty splash, the polyvinyl bile coated Angie's hair and sent her stumbling backwards, clawing at her face. She tried to scream, but couldn't breath through the goop, and ended up hitting her head against the wall and collapsing to the ground.
The others stood around her, amazed by this. Shocked really. Stunned. Neither of them said anything for several seconds when suddenly a noise came from behind Ernie. Actually it was from the general vicinity of Ernie's butt. "Hey… you dummies gonna DO something about this, or you just gonna let her suffocate there on the asphalt?"
Larry, who had regained his feet, Oswald and Lisa all looked at Ernie.
"Did your butt just ask us a question?" asked Lisa.
"I…" stammered Ernie. "I think maybe it did."
"Hell yes I asked you a question," said Ernie's butt. "Y'all gonna just let that girl die down there? Sure seems like a perfectly good waste of a blond chick."
"Ernie's butt is right," grunted Larry. "We better get that stuff off of her."
A group of barking dogs tore around the corner while Larry and Lisa tried as best they could to tear the plastic vomit from Angie's face. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a man appeared above Angie and fell straight to the ground. Larry and Lisa barely had time to get out of the way. Whomever he was, he was fortunate that Angie broke his fall. If it weren't for the obnoxious gasping plastic-coated blonde, the man might have been injured.
Leaping to his feet, the man declared that he had the power of teleportation, and asked them what was going on.
Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, said the dogs. It was difficult to hear with so many dogs barking all at once. Oswald turned to the dogs and let out a shrill whistle. They all shut up and proceeded to form a pyramid based on size with the largest dogs on the bottom and the smallest on top. "That's better," said Oswald with satisfaction. "It's the most efficient use of space you know."
"Uh… the pyramid?" asked Ernie.
"I'll tell you what's going on!" exclaimed Ernie's butt to the man who had suddenly appeared. "This is Professor Xylax�s School for Slightly Special Kids, and these kids are preparing to be tested for determination of the strength and intensity of their mutant abilities. Yessir, this is IT for these little Keeblers. Ain't NO WAY any of these twerps is gonna be good for a stinking thing. Each and every one of 'em is gonna be sent back to the projects fer reintegration with the rest of society."
"NO!" cried Angie, still huffing and trying to pull the sticky remnants of plastic out of her hair. "Not ME. My powers are WAY powerful. I can make people fall down when I wave my arms. You saw what I did to Larry," she told Oswand and Lisa and Ernie. "All HE can do," she snarled, indicating Larry, "is vomit plastic at people. You sick jerk."
"HEY," protested Larry, "I wouldn't have done ANYTHING if you hadn't made me fall down waving your arms around like that."
"You guys are pissing ME OFF!" warned Lisa. "You KNOW you don't want me up in your face man… But it's coming down. You better consider shutting it in an upward direction or I'm gonna lay such a line of smack on you that you'll wish you were born with earmuffs…"
"Somebody chill that chick out," said Ernie's butt. "She's really freaky."
"Hold on," said Ernie to his butt. "Just when did you start talking? And how come you never said anything before? I don't understand this. Are you a manifestation of my power, or am I, like… hearing things. Does anyone else hear my butt talking?"
Oswald raised an eyebrow. "You know Ernie, I used to think your power was strange, but now it's just…"
"Man, there's no word for it. Your butt talks on its own. That's, like… beyond my ability to insult."
"Alright then dog-boy," said Ernie's butt. "We get it. You're shocked by my massive vocabularization. Just wait until I bust out with a rhyme. Your head is gonna explode with the flavor of my unholy verbiage boi. Now… what's your name Mr. Teleporter Dude?" Ernie's butt demanded of the guy who had just appeared out of nowhere. "Or do we just call you "bad luck?"
Larry narrowed his eyes and rubbed his chin. He suspected that Ernie's butt might be politically incorrect, but he wasn't sure how to prove it.
"My name is Will," said the man.
"Hey dere Will," exclaimed Ernie's butt. "I love you too. K'mere and give me a kiss."
"Uh… " muttered Ernie. "Sorry about that Will. It looks like my butt is something of an ass."
Lisa and Oswald helped Angie climb out of the dog-pile while Larry shook hands with Will's friends and introduced himself. "Hello. My name is Larry. I can digest plastic, and – today for the first time – I just discovered that I can also projectile vomit plastic puke. I'm really excited about testing my new powers. This here is Ernie. We only just discovered he has new powers too – he can talk out of his butt. In fact, it looks like Ernie's butt has a personality all its own. Over there is Oswald, he can make dogs come when he whistles. With Oswald is Lisa, who can swear so bad that it makes most people cry. Between them is Angie, who can wave her hands in a confusing manner and make people dizzy. Sometimes they even fall down. Like today, she nearly knocked me unconscious." He gave Angie a dirty look. "I'm not so sure I'm going to forgive her for that."
"FORGIVE ME!" screamed Angie. "You PUKED in my FACE Larry. If anyone is going to do any forgiving its…"
The loudspeaker outside the gym interrupted with an announcement. "Attention. Agent Smith and Agent Jones will be taking you into the gymnasium for final examinations. Please follow them and do as they ask. If you have a problem with that, then please close your eyes and do your best to pretend that someone cares about your opinions. Thank you for your cooperation."
After this, two men wearing black suits and wearing sunglasses walked side by side from the double doors leading into the gym. They stopped after several feet, both of them putting their hands to their ears and listening to the radio receivers implanted there. Nodding at the same time, they spoke simultaneously, telling the kids to get in line.
"Abernathy Aardvark," said Agent Smith. "You are first to be tested."
"I guess that means we goin in alphaBETICAL order!" said Ernie's butt.
The group watched as Abernathy followed Agent Jones into the gym. He looked nervous, the poor boy. His head was hung low, and he was struggling to keep his composure. He was an incredible martial artist. That was his power, but only when no one was watching him. When in plain sight, he was simply an ordinary kid. A pansy really – or at least that's what his mother always told him. "Goodbye my friends!" he shouted.
"Shut up," snapped Agent Jones, shoving him through the doors. Jones looked at the kids all gathered outside. "I'll be back," he told them slowly.
So one by one the children went through the doors. And one by one they didn't come out. Or, if they were coming out, they were invisible. It seemed far more likely that they were going out the other side of the building though. Either that or they were being vaporised. Ernie and the others all hoped that this wasn't something weird like that. It would be really really upsetting to be vaporised. And it also would seem to be completely out of character for the Professor Xylax. Everyone knew him as a kindly old man who wandered around in a walker and handed out suckers after lunch. Sometimes he fell down and the children had to help him get up. It would be shocking to find out he was vaporising people.
Finally it was Ernie's turn. He waved goodbye to his friends that were remaining and entered the doors of the examination room. Inside he saw Professor Xylax sitting in a chair and typing away on a computer. He waved at Ernie and pointed over to a machine that looked strangely like a black beehive. It was connected via a series of cables to another identical machine on the opposite side of the room.
"Get in the transmutter please," said the Professor. "I need to analyze your genetic makeup."
"But, I'm not wearing any makeup," protested Ernie. "I'm just not that kind of guy."
The Professor gave him a strange look. "You have a multiple personality disorder that manifests itself by communicating through the vibrations released from your anus. Don't tell me what 'kind of guy' you are. Just get in the transmutter. I won't ask again. If you refuse, then Agent Jones will rip your arms off."
"Um… Okay!" chuckled Ernie nervously. "No need to get testy on me. I'm a-goin along right now! Just getting into the transmutter now. Hey, why is there a fly-strip in here? You have a problem keeping the flies out?"
The Professor shrugged. "It was in there when I got it. I suppose the previous owner was having some difficulties with the flies. I'm not sure though. I haven't been able to ask Professor Brundle. No one has seen him. But I did manage to purchase his equipment at auction fairly cheap. And since the fly strip was there, I assume it's probably a good idea. Now just hold still and let me atomize you. You should be converted into energy and re-assembled in the other transmutter on the other side of the room. The process will show me your molecular makeup."
A loud ZAP and a bright flash of light sounded. Ernie smelled something nasty. His underwear were smoking.
"I SAY!" declared Ernie's butt. "That was right-out disturbing. What's going on here?"
"Who are you?" Ernie asked his butt. "You sound different."
"And well I should," replied his butt. "I'm not that disturbing irritating miscreant that was previously talking out of your butt. Oh no. I am Lord Dwindle Neuman the Third. I'm a Climatologist. Go ahead, ask me anything."
"Uh… why's it so warm in here?"
But before Lord Dwindle could answer, the hatch on the transmutter opened up and Agent Jones pulled him out and hauled him forcibly across the room to where the Professor was waiting and looking at his computer screen. The readout was coming through, and the Professor seemed very interested. "Hmm… just as I suspected. Every night when you THOUGHT you were sleeping, you were actually watching television and surfing the internet. The "Ernie" personality is very limited. Just a carrier really. The true personalities lie deep up your… well… your butt. Yes… it seems you are a genius young man. Your power is phenomenal."
Ernie lit up. "A genius. Me?"
"No," the Professor replied with a look of disgust. "Not YOU. Your BUTT. Or rather, those personalities within you whom use your butt for communication. I believe that a session of hypnosis might serve you well and give you some control over which personality is manifesting itself. Then you can pick the right personality to match the need. Yes… I thought you would be worthless Ernie, but as it turns out, your reverse farting was only a technique your alternate personalities were employing in order to gain the ability to speak. Just like a normal person must inhale and exhale air through their lungs and across their vocal cords, your butt must suck in air and then expel it over your anus which then vibrates like a vocal cord to produce speech. It's amazing."
Then the professor snapped his fingers and told Agent Jones to take Ernie to Dr. MacPherson, the Telepathic Hypnotist. "Have her give him the ability to control which personality can manifest itself," he instructed the Agent. Then send in the next child." He checked his roster. "Burt Lancaster. It says he has the ability to touch his eyebrows with his tongue. I'm not sure about this one at all."
After the hypnosis session, Ernie found himself being moved deep underground into an area of the school that he'd never been before. There he was placed in a room with several other people. It was like a gymnasium, except that there were no basketball hoops. There weren't any bleachers either. Nor were their lines on the floor or anything like that, just cement and a big drain. And there were chairs scattered around that had handcuffs bolted to the sides. On the ceiling large metal tubes hung down to point at the chairs. They looked somewhat like cannons.
Actually, thought Ernie, in retrospect, the room didn't seem that much like a gymnasium after all. It was more like that room in that story by Edgar Allen Poe where the big metal blade comes down and cuts that guy in half. Yeah… that's what this room was like. Except that there wasn't a big metal blade in the ceiling. Nor was there a stone table with chains on it. Instead there were just the cannons the chairs with the handcuffs. Not all that different, really. Ernie wondered what it was all for.
Some time went by and a couple of more kids showed up. Then, finally, a big man wearing a skin-tight blue uniform entered the room and told them all to stand up. He was very intimidating. He wore a pink eye patch and had a loud obnoxious voice. The insignia on his arm was that of a yellow smiley face circled in red with a slash through it.
"Greetings you children," he growled. "My name is agent Rage. I work for an organization that has no name. We're called the Nameless Ones."
One of the kids raised his hand to ask a question. Agent Rage stared at him. "Put your hand down you meat-bag. I'll tell you when you can ask questions. Right now I'm in the middle of a big reveal. That's when I tell you a whole bunch of stuff that you were suspecting but never quite sure about. You get to be astonished and have major realizations about your life and what the future has in store for you. Some of you will be given opportunities later to have epiphanies about all this, and maybe even a nice long monologue. So shut up and listen.
Now where was I?"
One of the kids raised his hand to provide an answer.
"That was a rhetorical question twerp. Get your pitt stains out of my face. That means LOWER YOUR ARM!"
The kid lowered his arm fast.
"Alright. Much better. Okay, here's the deal. There's this major bad guy named 'Psycho' who has the ability to control other people's minds telepathically using an insect known as a 'brain flea.' Psycho has been deploying his brain fleas in the major government administrations across the world. As a result he's gained control over a whole lot of stuff. TOO much stuff for us to stop him without making it publicly known that our government has been compromised. That's where you kids come in. A super hero team from any of the known super hero teams would be identified and stopped long before they could do anything. Our only resort was to create a new super hero team composed of heroes who have never been seen before.
That's you, in case you were wondering. You'll each be given really cool code names, and tight fitting uniforms. We'll train you on how to use awesome high tech gadgets and how to use catch phrases properly. You'll learn how to taunt your enemies with witty insults and thrilling dialog. And, of course, you'll be taught how to operate as a team, but still be composed of rogue elements and mavericks who will oppose government control and ignore my instructions.
My job will be to be harsh to you. To give you incorrect information that will put you into situations where you'll have to rely on your instincts and problem solving skills. It's also my job to chew you out when you come back, and to yell at you when you fail to follow the idiotic and unnecessary orders that I give you. If you're successful as a super group, then by your third mission something horrible will happen to me and I'll die a nasty death that will give you motivation to seek revenge upon my killers. Of course, after that one of you will be in charge and will have to deal with my superiors directly. At which point you'll all learn how hard my job is, and come to have respect for me as a person – even though I'll be dead."
He pointed to Ernie. "You there, you're going to be named "Butt-Boy." Your multiple personalities make you the perfect choice for a leader. So from now on, when I'm not screaming at you or giving you incorrect information or stupid redundant commands, it will be Butt-Boy's job to tell you what to do. Of course, I expect most of you to resent him immediately and treat him like crap because he doesn't have any really COOL powers.
Any questions?"
"Yeah," shouted Ernie's butt.
Agent Rage's lips splattered spittle as he spun in Ernie's direction. A wild look was in his eyes. He'd been just looking for an excuse to cut loose on someone, and here it was. That obnoxious little Butt-Boy had been brainless enough to spew some senseless drivel. The maniacal government agent glared at Ernie, anticipating the fear that the boy was soon to feel. Anticipating the suffering and humiliation that was about to emanate from the brat. Rage's sadistic nature would be satisfied by the sorrowful wailing that would fill the chamber.
"Did you ask a question Butt-Boy!?!" he bellowed. And as he blasted out the words "Butt-Boy" he made certain to hyper-pronounce the "Bs" so that with each syllable he powered out a spray of spit that watered every corner of poor Ernie's face.
"Not me…" said Ernie shyly. Okay… maybe it wasn't shyly. Maybe it was in terror. But Ernie was too filled with pride to admit anything like terror. Okay… maybe that's not true either. Ernie was horrified and he knew it. If Agent Rage got in his face any more than this, he was liable to pee his pants and drown whichever personality happened to be speaking out of his butt. It was a problem. Ernie knew he had better switch personalities fast, so he accessed that portion of his mind that he used to control the multiple personalities that controlled his anal verbiage, and selected a new one.
"You pickin on this kid?" said Ernie's butt to Agent Rage.
"Ah," declared the agent. "So it's your BUTT that's doing the talking. Well, that's very wise of you Butt-Boy. Obviously your butt is far more intelligent than you are. So who is it I'm talking to?"
"Name's John Wayne Rambo Eastwood," replied Ernie's butt.
"What's that?" asked Agent Rage. "You some kind of composite personality formed from the assumed engrams that Ernie has encoded during his hours of watching old and unrealistic action films?"
"No," snapped John. "That would be Rock Schwarzenegger Norris. I'm a much nicer guy. I'm only gonna kill you once. Rock would kill yeh five times and then give you to Snipes. Now listen up, cause I'm only a-gonna say this once. The boy don't like the name you picked for him. You better think about pickin another one or things are gonna get rough on yew."
Agent Rage raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. The cannon mounted in the ceiling near Ernie cut loose with a stream of water that sent him rolling across the floor and into the wall. Trapped there by the spray, he sputtered and coughed until Rage snapped his fingers again and the water stopped.
"You SURE you don't like your name?" asked Agent Rage. "Cause… I'm pretty sure an aquatic enema will fix that."
"You ain't even got me started," said Ernie's butt. "Bring it on!"
"NO!" screamed Ernie. "Please!"
His screams were swiftly drown in a blast of water.


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Absent Social Change, Women Will Continue to Suffer in Afghanistan
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Trudy Rubin's column "Helping Women in Afghanistan," Nov. 29, was timely. I lived and worked in Afghanistan for 3½ years as America's senior rule of law adviser assigned to the British mission in Helmand province.
I spent most of my time engaging with Afghans — from urban officials to rural farmers — and participated in the development of programs designed to enhance access to justice for women.
I also watched as those efforts faded away the closer we got to withdrawal.
The American and British people are inundated with "good news" stories pushed out by our governments in an effort to justify the money we have spent there. I can attest that when it comes to gender-mainstreaming programs, most of that money was initially well-spent, but with no discernible exit plan and a hard date on withdrawal. I also watched as many of those programs became irrelevant.
In a country where parliamentarians actually oppose criminalization of domestic violence, how could we ever have expected our own gender-mainstreaming efforts to survive our withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Female police officers we raise on a platform to enhance our own political agenda are murdered by fellow male officers. Girls' schools have had their food supplies poisoned. Victims of domestic violence cannot approach a police officer without a male family member accompanying them.
We routinely cite Afghan polling data to support our claims that women are now better off, forgetting to acknowledge that the polls are conducted of "heads of household," i.e., male Afghans.
I have no doubt that this administration will continue to spoon-feed the American people good-news stories about women in Kabul, but I can assure you that absent social change and Afghan government commitment — particularly security — women outside Kabul will continue to lead the same miserable lives as before.
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My guess is the creatives have been sitting on this idea for a long time, just waiting for a client intelligent enough to agree to it, and they finally got their chance. Good stuff
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This is not a very good mechanism to uncover a great new artist
A questionable concept executed without any inspiration, Bravo's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" may finally be a bridge too far when it comes to the cookie cutter competition shows churned out by the Magical Elves production company.
Your tolerance for "Work of Art" will likely boil down together you think that true art is something best created, appreciated and understood in a competition setting and whether attempting to compare, contrast and rank these hastily conceived and created works has anything to do with the way art has been evaluated over the centuries or a validity for how such work should be evaluated in the future.
For me, every second of "Work of Art" was specious and intellectually insulting, but I guess it comes down to how (or if) you approach art at all.
"My approach to art is purely physical. I normally know in the first split second if it's a great work or not," mentor Simon De Pury tells the camera.
I, myself, do not usually know in the first split second if I'm looking at a great work or not. I find that the art I have the most immediate and visceral reaction to is rarely the art that lingers in my memory and that I find myself seeking out in the future. Or, at the very least, I find that art requires contemplation, especially the art that's most challenging. And if the art is challenging, I don't want to have every little bit of it explained to me by the artist or by a curator, because otherwise, my involvement in the art is completely passive and steered. But maybe my problem is that I'm just not as trained as De Pury and I lack his ability to instantly assimilate and process art, without any required contemplation and deliberation.
If you're as primitive as I must be, you're also going to be annoyed by "Work of Art." If you fall into the De Pury camp, you still probably won't enjoy "Work of Art," unless you also think that the best way to appreciate art is in glossy books or still pictures on the Internet.
[Full review of "Work of Art" after the break...]
Seriously, "Work of Art" is an utter crock, almost a parody of the genre. It's like a producer sat around and said, "Why the heck would anybody enjoy watching a competition cooking show, where viewers at home don't get the aromas, flavors, textures and non-visual sensations central to good food? Why, that's nearly as dumb as doing a reality show to find a great artist!"
It sounds more like a pop art prank than like a search for a real artist. I'd love to see Andy Warhol's version of a Bravo art competition series.
Instead, Magical Elves, the company behind "Top Chef," as well as "Top Chef Masters," "Project Runway" and "Top Design," is in charge, so this parody series didn't require any alteration of formula.
Fourteen artists from a variety of disciplines are placed together in Manhattan. There's no pretense that these were actually the *best* 14 artists the producers were capable of finding, but they were selected for reasons involving diversity, grating antagonism and, in the case of two or three of the women, pure hotness.
Each week, they're given a challenge, given a series of restrictions and time frame complications, and set to work. They're judged in a public forum. Groups are brought in to see the judges. A winner is selected and given immunity, as things usually go in the art world, and a loser is sent home with the ungainly kiss-off "Your work of art didn't work for us... It's time for you to go."
It's the exact same way we've celebrated outstanding chefs, hairdressers, singers, dancers, supermodels, interior designers, entrepreneurs, fashion designers and trained dogs in recent years.
While judging on any competition show of this sort will be subjective, there are still certain empirical traits that are objective within most of the disciplines. On "American Idol," singers miss notes. On "So You Think You Can Dance," dancers lose rhythm or drop steps. On "Top Chef," cooks overcook cuts of meat. With those contexts, even the subjective artistry can be viewed objectively.
"Work of Art" isn't, thankfully, trying to claim that there are ways of evaluating art through which all critics should see eye-to-eye. This isn't one of those art-by-mail scams where you send sketches and a check through the mail and you get a critique letter telling you if you have the goods to become a professional artist (or at least enroll in a for-profit "art school).
So what, then, are the "Work of Art" judges basing their critiques? After one episode, I couldn't tell you, since none of the judges have the time to articulate anything even marginally substantive regarding why they favor one contestant over another.
Jerry Saltz, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Bill Powers come with credentials, but to what end? Powers and Rohatyn, with their gallery backgrounds, seem to have an agenda that involves commercialism or at least sellability, which is both arbitrary and pretty meaningless, since the show would doubtlessly look down its nose at anybody who came across as Thomas Kinkade-ian. There are one or two mentions to artists being very of-the-moment or very able to fit into certain contemporary trends. But, correct me if I'm wrong, if you have an entirely unknown artist whose greatest attribute is that they're very much within the curve of an established movement that that artist had nothing to do with creating, evolving or advancing, that artist isn't especially innovative or "great" are they?
Nobody on the show would dare acknowledge this lack of formal criteria, though. Perhaps that's why host China Chow keeps delivering broad, bland platitudes on the nature of Art. It turns out that ""It's been said that good art is not what it looks like, but how it makes us feel," whatever that means, or however that can be quantified.
In addition, nobody bothers to acknowledge the apples-to-oranges comparisons required by the entrenched structure. The task in the premiere asks contestants to split into pairs and do portraits for one of their rivals. Then, the judges proceed to look at the work turned in by the experimental artist and the abstract artist and tell them that their work was, in fact, too experimental and too abstract. The judges also rave that several of the portraits captured the essence of the subjects represented, artists the judges had never actually met, or met so swiftly in passing that no amount of "essence" possibly could have been conveyed. So again, what the heck are the judges judging on? And how proud should they be for gushing over the winning portrait which is so derivative that I had a hard time pinning down which iconic image it felt most heavily inspired by (I went with this "Rescue Me" promo over dozens of Rolling Stone drawings).
I'm just gonna keep saying it: "Work of Art" is a crock.
That doesn't mean that there aren't contestants who appear to have ideas and gifts. They just happen to be pushed to the background so that we can meet fun characters like clownish Mark, contemptuously described in his on-screen chyron as a "fry cook" (because he has the nerve to have a day job), ridiculously beautiful Nicole and performance artist Nao, who treats being an annoying reality contestant like her latest installation. We spend more time with the artists talking about what they're doing than watching them do it, so by the time the final works are show, they've been drained of even minimal opportunity for discovery. I think I'm interested in Miles' OCD and his quirky artistic ideas, in the inevitability that Jaclyn will make her genitals the focus of several upcoming pieces and in the utter fraud of alleged artistic neophyte Erik who turns out to be aspiring filmmaker as well.
You'd think subject matter like "art" might inspire Magical Elves to mix up the visual language of their formula, but "Work of Art" uses basically the same New York City cutaways, the same non-descript warehouse space and the same pacing as their other shows.
Did I go into "Work of Art" thinking it was a bad idea from the get-go? Yes.
As one of the contestants puts it after being torn to shreds, "I'm not responsible for your experience of my work."
In some senses, she's right. Aspiring artists have the choice between pandering to audiences and working completely in their own worlds. Sometimes pandering is rewarded, while sometimes fierce individualism is rewarded. On "Work of Art," the winner will be the artist who panders most successfully and they'll receive $100,000 and a show at the Brooklyn Museum. Is that the recipe for delivering on the promise of the show's title? It sure doesn't feel that way to me.
[Yes. I'm ignoring the Episode One guest appearance by executive producer Sarah Jessica Parker. She's ridiculous. She's the crock of the crock.]
"Work of Art" premieres at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 9 on Bravo.


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With less than a week to go before the government runs out of money, members of the state's congressional delegation say they are working to avert a shutdown and to implement the president's signature health care law.
"There are few dumber ideas in the world than shutting down the federal government," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Monday. "This would be a disaster for Connecticut and a disaster for the country."
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives set up a showdown over the budget this week by passing a continuing resolution on Friday that extends the current spending rates through Dec. 15 but also defunds the Affordable Care Act and maintains the automatic budget cuts imposed under sequestration.
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Courtney, D-2nd District, voted against the continuing resolution. He said he could possibly envision allowing the short-term continuing resolution to go forward depending on how the Senate tweaks it, "but that's it."
Murphy said he, too, wants Congress to pass a budget and stop sequestration but is willing to compromise and vote for a continuing resolution, as long as the repeal of the health care law is not attached.
Many expect Reid will amend the bill this week to strip out the portion dealing with Obama care and send it back to the House by the weekend.
"The upside of that is we could avoid a shutdown, which would be horrendous for the country and the region," Courtney said Monday. "But it gives the sequester another two and a half months of life, which a lot of us are just really frustrated by because at some point we've got to turn off this arbitrary mechanism of cutting spending that is really, in southeastern Connecticut particularly, going to cause real harm."
The Navy has said it would not be able to buy two Virginia-class submarines in fiscal 2014 as planned, or keep the program to design and build a new class of ballistic-missile submarines on track if sequestration and the continuing resolution continue into 2014.
Murphy said the delegation is "fighting like hell to keep the commitment to build two Virginia-class submarines a year."
Courtney added that sequestration also cuts payments to hospitals, schools and the Head Start school readiness program. The University of Connecticut lost research contracts because of the cuts to the National Institutes of Health, he added.
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The two previous shutdowns occurred in late 1995 and early 1996. Courtney said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has already told the representatives to plan on working this weekend.
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